British Army to Begin Testing and Bar-coding Children at School This Week Without Parental Consent

As thousands of people in the UK this past weekend protested new COVID lockdowns, the British Army is planning on rolling out a massive new COVID testing initiative in the city of Liverpool this week, seeking to test a half million people in a program that will be rolled out to the entire nation if successful. As part of that initiative, a letter was sent out to the parents of children attending Broadgreen International School, letting them know that their child would be tested by the military even without their consent. Each student will be assigned a “unique barcode,” and those testing positive will be be “Isolated” and “secured.” Will parents and citizens comply with this? The U.S. military is also preparing to distribute new COVID vaccines in the U.S. as part of funding from "Operation Warp Speed," so you can be sure the U.S. government and governments around the world are closely watching Liverpool (home of the Beatles) this week to see just how compliant the public will be to surrender their liberties to medical tyrants.

U.K. REBELLION! Students, Medical Professionals, and Public Resist Lockdowns!

While the U.S. Presidential elections continue to dominate the media in the U.S., citizens all across the U.K. protested the nation's new lockdowns this week. At Manchester University, students woke up on the first day of lockdowns to find fences had been erected around their dormitories, penning them in like a prison. They had apparently had enough, and by that evening, the fences were tore down, and the University backed down. In Cornwall, an NHS nurse turned whistleblower publicly resigned while wearing her uniform before releasing the real numbers of COVID patients in her hospital and denouncing the government’s disastrous lockdown policy, stating that other doctors and nurses were trying to speak out. It was recorded, but quickly removed from YouTube and Twitter. We found a copy. Breitbart News, which has correspondents in London, is reporting that police in London arrested 190 anti-lockdown protesters at the so-called ‘Million Mask March’ against the second national lockdown in England. They have exclusive video coverage.

Face Masks: A Danger to Our Planet, Our Children & Ourselves

It seems like only yesterday that a massive campaign against single-use plastic straws was trending. The much forgotten anti-straw trend was based on astronomical numbers; a suggested 500 million straws used each day in the US alone, with more than half a billion plastic straws being consumed and discarded, every day around the entire globe. An estimated 8.3 billion plastic straws had come to pollute the planet’s beautiful beaches. The backlash against the straws appeared to be drive by the horrific impacts on the marine environment in particular. Personal protective equipment (PPE) in 2020, in particular face masks, have become a new genre of pollution. The majority of face masks being purchase and disposed of are single-use surgical masks made of melt-blown fabric manufactured from polypropylene, a type of thermoplastic. The vast majority of all disposable face masks being consumed have two outer layers with a filter between them (polypropylene), made from nonwoven plastic fibres. The paper COVID-19 Pandemic Repercussions on the Use and Management of Plastics published June 20, 2020 warns that a “monthly estimated use of 129 billion face masks and 65 billion gloves globally, is resulting in widespread environmental contamination.” 194 billion face masks and gloves equates to well over 6 billion face masks being consumed and discarded each and every day. Based on the aforementioned paper, six months of face masks alone – equates to seven hundred seventy-four billion, while 12 months of consumption, equates to a stunning one trillion five hundred forty-eight billion face masks. Meanwhile, “Canada alone has ordered more than 153 million N95 respirators, almost 400 million surgical masks and 18 million non-medical face masks. That doesn’t include demand from the private sector.” As a new emerging market, trees (biological communities invisible to the humancentric eye) cannot only be sacrificed on the altar of “green energy”, we can also pulverize them into face “ecofriendly” masks. What happened to all those who cared about our environmental crises? That of climate change, biodiversity and ocean pollution?

As DOJ Probes Big Tech Monopoly, They Also Use Big Tech to Remove Dozens of Websites Squelching Free Speech on Foreign Policy

Big Tech's censorship and squashing of free speech has been a hot topic during this 2020 election year, and as the public in the United States continues to be fixated on the current corporate news media's non-stop coverage on the elections, election fraud, and Big Tech censorship, the DOJ is quietly shutting down websites right and left in their own censorship purge, shutting down websites that dare to publish a different narrative about Iran than the U.S. and Israeli narrative. And they are teaming together with Google, Facebook, and Twitter to do it, according to the FBI: FBI Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair. “Thanks to our ongoing collaboration with Google, Facebook, and Twitter, the FBI was able to disrupt this Iranian propaganda campaign and we will continue to pursue any attempts by foreign actors to spread disinformation in our country." Global Research, an independent news organization out of Canada, reports that one of the websites seized and shut down was another independent news site in Canada, the American Herald Tribune (AHT). Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, President and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), and Editor of GlobalResearch.ca, wrote: "We stand in firm support of The American Herald Tribune and Professor Anthony Hall, who has the courage to confront the US corporate media. The tendency is towards online media censorship in derogation of the Rights to Free Speech. Google and Facebook are collaborating with the FBI in this endeavor."

Everyone’s Life is at Stake Now: Don’t Get Distracted by Politics

As Americans are fixated on the U.S. elections, which it appears will dominate the corporate news cycle for days on end now, the truly big story is not what is happening here in the U.S., but across the pond in the U.K. where the medical tyrants try to force a second lockdown on its citizens today (November 5th). The second lockdowns are scheduled for here in the U.S. as well, by the tyrannical medical oligarchy, and no matter who is crowned President of the U.S., all these political medical authorities will keep their jobs which many of them have had for decades, as they watch presidents come and go. And please make no mistake about this: the results of these lockdowns will be death and destruction, unless a large enough percentage of the public wakes up and figures out that their enemy is not a politician, but the evil forces behind the Globalists and their agenda of using medical tyranny to bring in their New World Order.

In Unprecedented Move CDC Stops Tracking Influenza for 2020-21 Flu Season

I have been covering the fraud that happens every year with how the CDC tracks incidents and deaths due to the annual influenza for almost a decade now. The numbers used each year to scare the public into getting the flu vaccine are based not on actual data, but estimates of number of people who die from the flu according to the CDC. Basically, anyone dying from "influenza-like" symptoms are all lumped together into supposed flu deaths each year. Autopsies are seldom performed to prove cause of death. The CDC has admitted publicly in the past that these numbers are just "estimates." If the real number of those infected with the influenza virus, and resulting deaths, were vastly lower than what the CDC reports based on their "estimates," the public would have no way of knowing it. So this has presented quite a dilemma for the CDC for the first couple of weeks of the 2020-21 flu season, which have just passed. Because "flu-like" symptoms could also be attributed to COVID-19, and they have the now widely known ineffective COVID PCR test to back up these claims, which also kicks in federal funding for hospitals to treat COVID patients. As one might expect, with the media widely reporting that cases of COVID are now increasing just as flu season starts, reports of flu cases have dropped dramatically during the same time period last year. Across the globe, it has been reported that incidents of influenza have dropped by about 100%. Whoops! How did the CDC allow these numbers to be published? In an apparent response to media reports about the fast declining flu cases here at the beginning of the 2020-21 flu season, the CDC did what any corrupt agency would do which doesn't want the public to know the truth: They decided to "suspend data collection for the 2020-21 influenza season." To my knowledge, this is unprecedented, and has never happened before.

CDC Admits Few Deaths are Caused by COVID – Even Death by Heart Attack Attributed to COVID in Stats

The latest numbers from the CDC reveal hospitals have been counting patients who died from serious preexisting conditions as COVID-19 deaths. One America’s Pearson Sharp has more, as the CDC counts over 51-thousand patients who actually died from heart attacks, as opposed to the coronavirus.

Science Uprising: Take Off the Mask

In our culture, the old have failed the young. Hate-driven shootings in schools and houses of worship, rising suicide and addiction rates — these are the most dramatic indications. But a quieter sense of numbness and despair, concealed in mindless social media and the omnipresent screens, is far more widespread. What Lies Behind It All? Questions about biological origins are NOT of merely scientific importance. These questions go to the heart of how we think about the value of individual human beings. Increasingly evident is the relationship between noxious racial theories, devaluing or demonizing whole classes of men and women, and the philosophy of scientific materialism. As the news hammers home to us, young people are especially vulnerable to poisonous, Internet-mediated messages. That’s one reason Discovery Institute has teamed up with a gifted cinematographer who wanted to create a new video series, Science Uprising, that would be relevant to viewers in their thirties and younger. Science Uprising is premised on the idea that a majority of us share a skepticism about the claims of materialism — the claims that people are just “robots made of meat, with a really sophisticated onboard guidance system,” lacking souls, lacking free will or moral responsibility, having emerged from the ancient mud without purpose or guidance. And yet, however skeptical we may be, the media labor intensively to correct our skepticism. Popular science spokesmen like Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson insist that people are anything but designed children of a loving, intelligent creator. Each episode features a masked narrator. Why? Because much of the burden of resisting materialism falls to scientists and others in the universities who have been made to fear speaking out in favor of the design hypothesis. Scientists and scholars who have spoken out, pulling the mask off materialist mythology, share the truth with viewers. From episode to episode, they include chemist James Tour, philosopher Jay Richards, neuroscientist Michael Egnor, biochemist Michael Behe, philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, psychiatrist Jeffrey Schwartz, physicist Frank Tipler, and others.

Which “Great Reset” Will You Choose?

We are now entering into the final phase before the "Great Reset." The "Great Reset" is a concept defined primarily by the World Economic Forum, but also endorsed by the goals of other Globalist organizations, such as the United Nations, and the Rockefeller Foundation. It has already been documented that we have just seen the greatest transfer of wealth in human history, all in the name of COVID. The "Great Reset" is not a new concept, but one that has been in the works for decades. What has now empowered the Globalists to finally implement the "Great Reset" is COVID. Now the Wall Street Billionaires and the Central Bankers who control the world's financial system, through cleverly advertising just how "deadly" COVID allegedly is to produce panic and fear, have made their move to transfer the economies of the world to their control, and now the big push in their advertising is to convince the public that the "Great Reset" is next, and that it will solve all the world's problems. If you have not yet taken time to understand just how they are defining this "Great Reset," and the "Fourth Industrial Age," it is time you do so. The next big event in this march towards the Great Reset is the U.S. political elections this week. The "Great Reset" is coming. It cannot be stopped at this point. The only question left is which version of the "Great Reset" will finally be implemented? Fortunately, we are NOT without hope! The time has come for each one of us to contemplate our own personal "Great Reset."

Why is the Corporate Media Predicting a “Dark Winter”?

Earlier this week I reported how a mere 6 companies control almost everything we see in the corporate media. On the corporate news networks, it is common to use "doctors" to get a specific message across to the public, by using their "appeal to authority," where facts and real science are not even needed to convince the masses. This is true beyond just the corporate media news broadcasts, which are controlled by the Billionaires on Wall Street, primarily the pharmaceutical industry today. But it goes beyond just news broadcasts, as their propaganda can be even more effective in the entertainment industry, where critical thinking skills are relaxed all in the name of "entertainment." Earlier this year the film "Out of Shadows" was released online by Hollywood insiders, and it was viewed by over 15 million people on YouTube before they took it down. This is a must watch for anyone who has not seen it yet. One of the new buzz words being used in the corporate media recently is the mention of a "Dark Winter" for 2020. Joe Biden mentioned it also in the last debate. This is a term that has a previous history, and Derrick Broze, who was recently banned on YouTube and had his popular channel removed, has created a new 12 and half minute documentary on the history of this term, and what it means. This is not a conspiracy "theory" documentary that is full of speculation, as you will see. And remember, back in July this year we published the comments of CDC director Robert Redfield that showed they were already planning and expecting "massive deaths" this fall, giving further evidence that this is all a big plan that is in place, perhaps to coincide with the National Elections coming next week. If you have not yet viewed the documentary PLANDEMIC produced by Mikki Willis, which gives solid historical evidence that this kind of "pandemic" has been planned for years now, this too is a must viewing, if you want to be fully informed and not be subject to the mind control efforts of the corporate media. Here is The Darkest Winter, by Derrick Broze.

North Carolina Citizens Defy Proposed Mandatory Mask Law – City Council Stunned by Turn Out Backs Down

Some good news this week as apparently there is still a pulse among liberty-minded citizens in one small North Carolina town that turned out in mass to defy the City's attempt to mandate mask requirements. When told they had to wear a mask to participate in the meeting, they refused, and the City Council and local police backed down in front of the angry crowd. This is the kind of action it is going to take across the country to stop medical tyranny.

Brainwashing the Masses: 6 Companies Own Almost ALL of the Media in the U.S. – Using Medical “Doctors” to Sell Their Message

The current "war against the Coronavirus" is primarily an information war, with the corporate media putting forth a unified message they want the public to believe, and any efforts to present alternative information is vigorously opposed and ridiculed. Six major companies own almost all of the media outlets in the U.S., including TV, print, and Internet, which includes video games. As I reported recently (Doctors vs. Doctors: Who's Telling the Truth?), there is a huge difference between medical doctors out on the frontlines actually treating patients, and political or TV doctors who do not actually treat patients, but use their American-accepted status symbol of authority to try and convince the masses to believe what the Corporate Media companies, and their sponsors, want you to believe. Today, the main sponsors of the six largest media corporations are pharmaceutical companies. But some 60 years ago, those sponsors were mainly the tobacco industry. Here are some "blasts from the past" that most of our readers are probably too young to remember. (Doctors recommending which brand of cigarettes they smoked.) I previously published an article showing how one can beat Internet Censorship and develop your own newsfeed. As Editor of Health Impact News, I am going to update this article and publish my own current newsfeed, with the following list of RSS links. Please note this is a constant developing newsfeed, and the presence of a publication in my newsfeed does NOT mean I endorse that publication. As an editor, I want to be informed about ALL sides of an issue, even those I do not agree with, or maybe only partially agree with, etc. So you will see some "left-leaning," some "right-leaning," and some "libertarian-leaning" sources, along with some that do not fit any particular category and just practice good journalism. Many of these sources have been banned by Big Tech in places like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

Anthony Fauci: 40 Years of Lies From AZT to Remdesivir

Last week, US president Donald Trump committed a kind of blasphemy by attacking Anthony Fauci, his pandemic consultant and practically the spokesperson for the White House regarding COVID-19, saying that: "People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots. He’s been here for 500 years.  Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him, we’d have 500,000 deaths." A remarkable statement of historical dimension, since Trump is the first American head of state to cast doubt on Fauci, who has acted as the virus tsar for no less than six presidencies: Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama and Trump. To make it clear, the logic behind Trump’s attack is scientifically unfounded. He refers to a statement of Fauci he made some months ago, according to which people should “not wear face masks.”. But even if all Americans had followed this advice, it would not have lead to a single extra death. The simple reason is that the COVID-19 death rate data show unambiguously that a viral cause for the excess mortality seen in some countries, including the US, is virtually impossible — and that instead the massive experimental use of highly toxic drugs is the key factor in this context, as I recently outlined together with Claus Köhnlein MD, in an in-depth analysis for Real News Australia. But on one point Trump hits the nail on the head: Fauci is simply a disaster, because he has been telling the world one lie after another for decades, while his presence actually feels almost as if he has been there for 500 years. And tragically, the mass media sell them to their audience of billions as a kind of gospel.

Is that Mask Giving You Lung Cancer? It’s Criminal to Force Children to Wear Masks all Day

I happen to know a thing or two about masks and safety. Why? Because for 25 years I was the editor of an award-winning trade magazine called HazMat Management that covered such topics as pollution prevention and compliance with health & safety laws. We routinely published articles on masks, gloves, respirators and other forms of personal protective equipment (PPE). Now let me tell you a few things about that mask you’re wearing. The blue typical mask depicted in the photograph contain Teflon and other chemicals. A Facebook friend reminds us: 1. Masks are “sterilized” with Ethylene Oxide — a known carcinogen. Many teachers in various school boards have been experiencing significant symptoms as a direct result of the effects of this chemical. 2. The masks contain (not sprayed with) PTFE which makes up Teflon along with other chemicals. I found and have posted the US patent to allow manufacturers to use PTFE as a filter in commercial masks… “breathing these for extended periods can lead to lung cancer.” Don’t agree? Argue with the experts at OSHA, which is the main US agency, i.e., its Occupational Health & Safety Agency. You may hear people saying that surgeons and nurses wear masks like this all day. Um, no. No they don’t. They’re trained in the proper use of masks, which is to wear them in the OR, then dispose of the mask when they leave that room. Are you aware that operating rooms are actually supplied extra oxygen, to compensate for the reduction in oxygen flow from mask wearing? To my mind, it’s criminal (not hyperbole) to force children to wear masks all day. Setting aside the very real psychological effects, we’re going to have a generation of brain damaged children. This is a very serious matter. And related to that, let me just state this doesn’t end for me when the lockdown ends or the masking ends. No, this ends for me when every politician and bureaucrat who inflicted this travesty, this crime against humanity, on the population of Canada (and other affected countries) is in the dock, and faces their misdeeds in a court of law. And as for those of you who have put masks on young children, I will have a long memory on that score. A very long memory.

Washington D.C. Bill Allows Children 11 Years and Older to be Vaccinated Without Parental Knowledge

On Oct. 7, 2020, during a hastily scheduled virtual meeting, four District of Columbia Council members making up the Health Committee amended and unanimously passed a minor consent bill, B23-0171.3 The bill would not only permit children aged 11 years and older to give consent for doctors and other vaccine administrators to give them vaccines without their parents’ knowledge or consent, but would also require insurance companies, vaccine administrators and schools to conceal from parents that the child has been vaccinated. On Oct. 20, 2020,4 the entire DC Council voted in favor of the bill 12:15 on the first reading in yet another virtual online meeting with no public testimony. It was announced that the second reading, which will be the final vote, will take place on Nov. 10, 2020. In a revealing statement Vincent C. Gray (D-Ward 7), the chair of the DC Health Committee which passed the bill, explained why the bill was all suddenly being revived and pushed through so quickly. Gray was quoted in The Washington Post as saying, “the hope of an imminent corona­virus vaccine gave the bill new urgency.” Primary sponsor of this bill, DC Council Member Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3), emphasized that coronavirus vaccines were her the main reason why she wants to remove parents from the process of vaccinating children.

The Path of Resistance is a Lonely One – Whom do you Fear?

In the opening chapter of the second book of the Bible, the book of Exodus, we have a record of the actions of two women who changed the course of human history, by defying their King's orders. "The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do." (Exodus 1:17) The result of the midwives' resistance and refusal to obey the King's edict, was that one of the baby boys who was spared was named "Moses" and went on to become a prophet of God and the leader of the Hebrews, delivering them from their bondage and slavery, and the one who met with God on Mt. Sinai where the Ten Commandments and related laws were given for a new society. Two African women, Shiphrah and Puah, feared God more than they feared their king. And the course of human history was forever changed. To resist tyranny and go against the crowd is not easy. But for the one who fears God more than man, that's what we are called to do, even if it means giving up everything here on earth that we cherish and value, including our own family members who may choose to go their own way in a different direction. Take special note of these word spoken by Jesus: "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— a man's enemies will be the members of his own household. Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." (Matthew 10:34-39)

FDA Shows Their Depth of Corruption by Approving Remdesivir for COVID with No Solid Proof the Drug Works

It was announced today that the FDA has now fully approved remdesivir (now called "VEKLURY" which already has a registered trademark, something that takes years to obtain generally) as a treatment for COVID. The path of getting remdesivir approved for use is one littered with corruption, and a process that has probably caused millions of deaths worldwide. (See our previous coverage.) One of the interesting side shows to watch during COVID is Big Pharma fighting each other as they compete for a bigger slice of the pie in COVID Government funding which is currently around 6-7 TRILLION dollars. We saw this earlier during the plandemic as many companies rushed to get COVID tests into the market. There are currently over 100 COVID tests that have been fast-tracked by the FDA, and these companies have attacked each other regarding the validity of their tests to the point where the CEO of one Big Pharma firm stated about one of his competitor's tests: “Not Worth Anything – Two of us could do it Overnight in the Garage.” So with remdesivir being the first COVID treatment receiving full approval by the FDA today, as opposed to merely "fast track" approval for emergency use, others in the Pharmaceutical Industry who are also rushing to get COVID drugs to market were quick to point out the lack of science backing up any evidence of effectiveness of remdesivir. Remdesivir, of course, was one of two experimental drugs that President Trump allegedly took that led to his "miraculous" cure from COVID, causing its stock to soar just when sales had slowed down.

Doctors vs. Doctors: Who’s Telling the Truth?

There's a civil war raging across the U.S. today, pitting medical doctors against other medical doctors. And it's not because they are on opposite sides of the political spectrum. It's because they are on opposite sides of the truth. This is not a new war, of course, as those of us in the Alternative Health media have covered these medical topics for many years now. The Wall Street Billionaires, many of them part of the Pharmaceutical Industry, control the corporate media giants to put forth a unified message they want the public to believe, that benefits the goals and purposes of Wall Street, not the general public. They fund most all of the top medical schools, and hire those with medical degrees from these schools and then parade them in front of the cameras to read the script that they write to determine public health policy. Doctors who actually care about the health of their patients and follow the truth no matter where it leads, and are on the front lines every day treating their patients, are quickly silenced, or labeled as "quacks" and censored. This is purely a business issue for the medical industry, and in recent years they are not even hiding the fact that a medical system that actually cures people is bad for business. See: "Investment Report Reveals Medical Cures not Profitable for Big Pharma – Sick People Needed to Sustain Drug Sales." The current COVID situation is now an all-out war between the Wall Street Big Pharma funded political doctors and their control over the corporate media, and the doctors on the front lines who are actually treating real patients. Many of these REAL doctors are now, sadly, having to take time away from what they do best, which is treat their patients, and form groups to try and get the truth out about what they have actually learned about COVID in a clinical setting, as opposed to government-funded political "doctors" who make the rounds on TV and try to get studies published. These practicing physicians are now forming their own groups to try and fight censorship as their numbers swell across the globe.

South Korean’s Medical Association Urges Government to Suspend Flu Shot Program After 25 People Die

One of the interesting side effects of the COVID Plandemic, and the rush to bring to market a new, untested COVID vaccine, is that many people around the world have become more skeptical of vaccines, and for good reason. However, the problems associated with vaccines have been around for decades, and as we have documented frequently here at Health Impact News on our VaccineImpact.com website, the annual flu vaccine is, by far, the most dangerous vaccine in the world, causing more injuries and deaths than all other vaccines put together. This is not a conspiracy theory, but a fact based on the sheer volume of settlements that the U.S. Government makes every year in the Vaccine Court for injuries and deaths due to the flu shot. We publish these reports every quarter, and past reports can be found here, where you can view the data yourselves. Every year people are harmed and killed by the flu shot, but this information is censored in the U.S. So it is highly unlikely that the death of 24 people in South Korea just after receiving the flu shot would have even made the news at all in the years pre-COVID. Because this pretty much happens every year when the flu season starts and mass vaccination of the public for influenza begins. With literally hundreds of millions of doses of the flu vaccine being manufactured every year, a few hundred, or even a few thousand deaths, is generally not noticeable as doctors are not trained to look for vaccine injuries, and the vaccine will never be blamed. But with the attention of the public on the upcoming COVID vaccine and a newfound interest in actually looking into the politics and science of vaccines, all of a sudden people are starting to sit up and take notice.

Was the Recent YouTube Purging Related to Child Trafficking? Corporate Media Suddenly Wants to Discredit QAnon Movement

The corporate-funded "mainstream" media works hard every day attempting to control the narrative of what they want Americans and people around the world to believe are the most serious issues facing us today, which according to the Wall Street-funded media is the Coronavirus "pandemic" and the U.S. Presidential elections. Any attempts outside of their control to publish truth about other issues are being censored and squashed, primarily through their accomplices in Big Tech and the major social media networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google's YouTube. Interestingly, in recent days the corporate media has focused hard on trying to discredit the QAnon movement, which has pretty much been a part of the American scene for the past 4 years, just shortly after Donald Trump was elected as President of the United States. Not only are they apparently feeding the major news networks propaganda to spread about what they want the public to believe about QAnon, it seems that the recent purge of hundreds of popular YouTube channels representing millions of viewers also had one common theme: they were exposing child trafficking, the main topic of the QAnon movement. So after ignoring the QAnon movement for the most part during the past 4 years, what has changed now? Whatever it is, it must be serious.