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Anti-Vaccination Choice in Texas Soon May Kill Hundreds of Newborn Children

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The recent measles outbreak in western Texas reveals quickly how an anti-vaccination choice directly threatens our most vulnerable population: newborns.

Two days after initially downplaying the outbreak as “not unusual,” the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, on Friday said he recognizes the serious impact of the ongoing measles epidemic in Texas – in which a child died recently…

Texas is in its worst measles outbreak in many decades, as if going backwards. With over 130 confirmed cases, 18 hospitalizations, and the first measles fatality in the United States in nearly a decade, public health officials are rightfully concerned.

The outbreak began in Gaines County, where kindergarten vaccination rates sit at just 82%—well below the 95% threshold that is required for proper herd immunity.

Let’s dig down into some basic math to illustrate what this policy failure means for newborns. Approximately 348,000 babies are born in Texas annually (29,000 monthly). They cannot receive measles vaccines until 12 months of age, so they depend on everyone else being vaccinated.

Meanwhile the measles transmission rate (R₀) is 12-18 (meaning each infected person typically infects 12-18 others in an unvaccinated population). The fatality is 1-2 per 1,000 cases (in developed countries, which Trump may violate already) and the infant case fatality rate is 5-10 times higher than the general population (approximately 5-10 per 1,000 cases).

Those calculations mean, as the current outbreak spreads into broader areas due to insufficient vaccination rates, the following is now a likely scenario:

  1. Even if just 10% of Texas newborns were exposed over the coming months that’s ~35,000 babies in danger
  2. An elevated infant mortality rate (5-10 per 1,000 cases) is a huge tragedy.
  3. Simple math: 35,000 × (5-10/1,000) = 175-350 potential infant deaths

This isn’t hard to figure out. It’s grade school arithmetic telling us a disaster is looming.

And yet, Texas politicians seem to not understand the problem, which highlights a striking paradox.

The state has pumped its fists into the sky for “pro-life”, demanding babies be born. And yet some communities within the state maintain anti-vaccination rates that mean unborn and newborn will most certainly die. A pregnant woman infected with measles faces dangerously increased risks of premature birth and fetal death.

Behind every number is a real child. Behind every anti-vaccine crusader is a body count of preventable deaths – ironically including the very infants they claim to champion.

The six-year-old who recently died in Lubbock was a preventable tragedy. Parents in Texas like Kyle Rable, featured in recent reporting, now face the terrifying prospect of bringing a newborn into a state where official vaccine resistance of anti-life platforms mean preventable disease threatens their child’s life.

If we truly value life—especially the lives of the most vulnerable among us—then the mathematics of public health demand consistent policy. Pro-life must mean without exception:

  • Vaccination is a community obligation and not a personal choice.
  • Vaccination choice directly translates to fatality for those who cannot protect themselves
  • The same moral framework that values unborn life must extend to protecting newborns from preventable diseases

The pro-life solution to prevent these potential newborn deaths is straightforward, take away the choice to be unvaccinated because it kills babies: immediately increase community vaccination rates to achieve the 95% threshold required for herd immunity.

This single, simple action to reduce vaccination choice would virtually eliminate the risk to newborns.

Public health demands scientific rigor and ethical clarity, not political posturing. The numbers tell an undeniable story: anti-vaccine campaigns have framed a “personal choice” that, by epidemiological calculation, produces deadly consequences. It’s a cruel and tragic irony that hundreds of infants now face preventable death in a state that claimed it couldn’t tolerate a single baby dying—criminalizing one form of individual choice while celebrating another with far, far greater collective harm. Even women who want to have children are about to have the state put them in grave danger.

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Seldon Lycurgus: 14th Child of Elon Musk is Named for Dangerous Militant Pseudo-Science

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Many extremist ideologies throughout history have combined elements of scientific or pseudo-scientific planning with rigid social control and militarism. These combinations are abused to falsely justify extreme measures by claiming they’re necessary for some (typically racist) idealized future state or preservation of a particular (caste based) social order.

The merger of two names (Seldon and Lycurgus) fits this pattern.

This social media announcement exposes ideological fusion tactics of white supremacists – combination of force/power with claims of benevolence used to justify racist authoritarian systems. The language reinforces a troubling duality where raw power (‘juggernaut’) is legitimized through claims of inherent goodness (‘heart of gold’) – a classic authoritarian rhetorical tactic.

Seldon refers to fictional Hari Seldon from Asimov’s Foundation series. The name represents central control and planning for society’s future, using mathematical modeling of human behavior. It’s like Bentham’s utilitarian social engineering, but without his modesty or intelligent ethical constraints.

Lycurgus is a name from ancient Greek history and mythology, associated with Sparta. Legend has it that the mythical Lycurgus created their ruthless (e.g. cruelly “efficient”) militaristic social system around 9th century BCE.

Seldon’s fictional psychohistory (using mathematics to control societal outcomes) with Lycurgus’s mythical austere militaristic social engineering contains obvious troubling authoritarianism fantasy. Both names invoke significant control over populations and limitation of individual freedoms in service of a perceived “good” in militant tyranny.

The combination of pseudo-scientific justification with militaristic enforcement, as symbolized by combining these two historically loaded names, would create particularly dangerous systems that rapidly lead to human rights abuses, as demonstrated by 20th century fascist regimes that employed similar ideological fusions.

  • Technical experts have absolute authority to implement their vision
  • Society rigidly structured into pseudo-science principles
  • Individual freedom subordinated to “efficient” outcomes
  • Secret militarized police enforcement of compliance with technical directives
  • Values preserved or discarded arbitrarily, based only on utility to the tyrant’s whims

History has repeatedly shown that when mathematical or scientific authority merges with militaristic discipline, the result is not enhanced human flourishing but rather dehumanizing systems of control. The symbolism embedded in this naming choice evokes precisely this troubling ideological legacy.

Musk with Zilis, and two of his 14 known children, exemplifying a concerning pattern where wealthy white men financially incentivize birthing arrangements with targeted women. This reproductive strategy mirrors racist eugenics movements such as “Nazi Lebensborn” that emphasized controlling female reproduction while claiming to advance civilization through selective breeding – ideologies that frequently intertwined with white supremacist concepts of racial “improvement” through controlled reproduction.
Many commentators fail to realize all the horrible, inhumane things they read about Sparta are in fact exactly what Elon Musk likes and wants. He gives Hitler salutes for the same reasons, to promote the absolute worst chapters in history as his preferred future state.
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44 Tesla Wheels Removed in Texas Parking Lot. Good Samaritan?

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Is it a good Samaritan act to protect a neighborhood in Texas from the highly dangerous Tesla? Asking for a friend who was killed by one of these Swasticars.

The League City Police Department is investigating the theft of tires from 11 Tesla vehicles at 2455 Tuscan Lakes Blvd. League City police say 44 tires were stolen on Valentine’s Day, with an attempt made on a 12th vehicle. On February 15, another attempt to steal tires from a Tesla was reported. Both cases have been inactivated due to lack of leads.

Someone without the proper Tesla app credentials managed to physically reduce these vehicles’ operational capacity to zero? But the app! The app! Software is the future!

Elon’s engineers surely are frantically coding a software update that will make wheels optional. That magical “push” strategy working yet?

Mars doesn’t needs wheels does it? Maybe Tesla can charge extra and call this an upgrade to their future of never actually achieving space travel.

I wonder if the 12th set was abandoned because Tesla’s new security feature activated: does the car alarm shout Heil Hitler yet?

Alleged scene of the parking lot where wheels are being removed.

Security experts recommend Tesla owners implement a new defensive protocol: buy a different brand.

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Trump Replaces American Media in White House With Russian State Agents

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The White House is apparently reporting directly to Moscow.

A staffer from TASS, a Russian outlet that often promotes glorified coverage of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, was briefly in the room for President Donald Trump’s bilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. American media mainstays Reuters and the Associated Press were not granted access.

For a reporter from TASS (a Russian state media outlet known to have close ties to the Kremlin) to gain access to the Oval Office during a sensitive meeting with the Ukrainian president suggests a serious security lapse was deliberate.

Trump recently has taken direct control over which journalists are granted access the Oval Office. His centralization of media access, under strict Goebbels-like control, creates a system where honest news outlets can be excluded while dangerous ones (in this case, foreign state media) are sold entry.

In related news, Russia now is an insider threat:

…analysts at [the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency] were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency. “People are saying Russia is winning. Putin is on the inside now.”

A very cynical twist to this great replacement strategy, moving Russian assets inside the federal government to replace citizens that Trump tries to outrage, is the trap being set.

…mass firings could offer a rich recruitment opportunity for foreign intelligence services that might seek to exploit financially vulnerable or resentful former employees.

Here’s the story: restrict American information flow, remove American focus on Russian threats, and create the most toxic environment possible to push disgruntled former employees into Russian recruitment.

Taken together, these systematic changes compromise national security interests in ways that benefit Russia, as well as other adversaries. This pattern isn’t novel, as it parallels several historical precedents where governments became compromised by foreign influence:

  • The Vichy regime in France during WWII represents one of the most stark examples. After France fell to Nazi Germany, the Vichy government under Marshal Pétain actively collaborated with German authorities, restricting press freedom, purging civil servants deemed disloyal, and essentially functioning as a proxy administration that served foreign interests while maintaining a façade of independence.
  • The situation in Czechoslovakia before and during the 1948 Communist coup offers another parallel. Soviet-aligned officials gradually gained control of key ministries, particularly interior and information ministries, allowing them to control security forces and media access. This culminated in the complete communist takeover, with opposition voices silenced and government functions increasingly serving Soviet rather than Czech interests.
  • In more recent history, Viktor Yanukovych’s administration in Ukraine (2010-2014) showed similar patterns. His government increasingly aligned with Russian interests, restricted press freedom, and made policy decisions that benefited Moscow while undermining Ukraine’s relationship with Western democracies – ultimately leading to the Euromaidan protests and his ousting.

Is Trump the new Yanukovych?

What makes these historical examples particularly troubling is how they began with seemingly isolated incidents such as changes to press access, selective enforcement of security protocols, and personnel changes in key positions, before evolving into comprehensive systems of foreign compromise and control.