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		<title>Johns Hopkins Study of 1.9 Million Women Confirms Covid ‘Vaccines’ Depopulate</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img width="300" height="158" src="https://www.hopegirlblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/pregnant-woman-covid-vaccine-birth-defects-300x158.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="pregnant-woman-covid-vaccine-birth-defects" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /><p>A major new study from world-renowned scientists at Johns Hopkins University has confirmed that Covid “vaccines” are reducing human populations by lowering birth rates.</p>
<p>The peer-reviewed study, led by Dr. Kunchok Dorjee, is the most comprehensive evaluation to date of the association between Covid “vaccination” and reproductive disturbances.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img width="300" height="158" src="https://www.hopegirlblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/pregnant-woman-covid-vaccine-birth-defects-300x158.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="pregnant-woman-covid-vaccine-birth-defects" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /><p class="slay-news-content">A major new study from world-renowned scientists at Johns Hopkins University has confirmed that Covid “vaccines” are reducing human populations by lowering birth rates.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The peer-reviewed study, led by <a href="https://publichealth.jhu.edu/faculty/4319/kunchok-dorjee">Dr. Kunchok Dorjee</a>, is the most comprehensive evaluation to date of the association between Covid “vaccination” and reproductive disturbances.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The massive investigation included a staggering 1.9 million women from around the world.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The team of researchers analyzed 17 individual global studies related to birth rates and menstrual cycles among women who had received mRNA injections.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The study warns of “significant risks” to women’s fertility and birth rates following Covid “vaccination,” aligning with previous warnings of “<a href="https://dailyclout.io/wp-content/uploads/Final-OHIP-2015-2022-Diagnostic-Codes-Patient-Counts-Analysis-Pre-COVID-vs.-Vaccine-Years-with-2020-Excluded.pdf">reproductive destruction</a>” caused by the injections.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The findings of the study were <a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320162">published</a> in PLOS ONE journal.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">During the study, the researchers reviewed literature from January 2021 to November 2023, across Medline, Embase, and Web of Science.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">They selected 17 studies meeting stringent inclusion criteria.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">Outcomes assessed included changes in menstrual cycle length, heavier flow, intermenstrual bleeding, and post-menopausal bleeding.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">A fixed-effects meta-analysis was conducted with Shore’s adjusted confidence intervals to account for heterogeneity.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The study included a total of 1,911,755 participants, with 7 prospective cohorts, 4 retrospective cohorts, and 5 cross-sectional.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The “vaccine” brands included were Pfizer, Moderna, Janssen (J&amp;J), and AstraZeneca.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The women included in the study were mostly menstruating, non-pregnant, non-lactating women ages 18–50.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The researcher also included three studies involving post-menopausal women.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The study found a 19% higher relative risk of increased menstrual cycle length following Covid “vaccination” (standardized risk ratio [sRR]: 1.19; 95% CI: 1.11–1.26).</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">On average, the first vaccine dose was associated with a 0.34-day increase in cycle length.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The second dose is with a 0.62-day increase.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">However, this effect was resolved by the second cycle post-vaccination, suggesting the change was temporary.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">When analyzed by vaccine brand, Pfizer and Moderna were associated with a 15% increased risk of cycle lengthening (sRR: 1.15), AstraZeneca with a 27% increase (sRR: 1.27), and Janssen with a 69% increase (sRR: 1.69), though the latter was based on a relatively small sample (n = 751).</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The study also evaluated changes in menstrual bleeding patterns.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">Risk for heavier flow was not statistically significant.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">Post-menopausal bleeding showed a 7% increase (sRR: 1.07) following both doses.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">Intermenstrual bleeding increased by 16% after the first dose and 41% after the second.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">While absolute increases in cycle length were under a day, the relative risk signals are consistent and brand-dependent, with higher risk following Janssen and AstraZeneca vaccines.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">Notably, cycle disruptions appeared dose-responsive—more pronounced after the second dose—and transient, fading by the second menstrual cycle.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">However, these results should not be dismissed as merely anecdotal.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The inclusion of over 1.3 million post-menopausal women and the observed uptick in post-menopausal bleeding, however slight, raises flags about broader immunological or endocrine effects.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">Further, the study hints at a possible cumulative effect—one that doesn’t follow a linear dose-response model but suggests a threshold phenomenon, especially when multiple doses are given in a single cycle.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The news comes amid an explosive warning from Spain after a group of leading researchers confirmed that miscarriages are surging among Covid “vaccinated” women.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">A recent peer-reviewed <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12884-025-07630-z">study</a>, led by Professor Noelia Rodríguez-Blanco of the Universidad Europea de Valencia SLU, has found that Covid-vaccinated women had a higher rate of miscarriage if they had also contracted COVID-19.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">Alarmingly, however, these findings were buried in the data of the study.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The main “Results” section of the study’s paper only chronicled how the “vaccinated” moms had fewer cold-like symptoms.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The researchers retrospectively <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/spanish-study-high-miscarriage-rate-covid-vaccine-women/">examined</a> a sample of 156 pregnant women who tested positive for COVID-19 during pregnancy between 2020 and 2022.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">Of these, 45 women had received at least one Covid “vaccine” dose.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">Among the vaccinated group, six women (13.3%) had miscarriages.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">Five of the miscarriages occurred in women who were vaccinated in the first or second trimester of pregnancy.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">Another five miscarriages were recorded among the larger group (111) of unvaccinated women, resulting in a miscarriage rate of 4.5%.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">While downplaying the increased rate of child deaths, the study championed the Covid injection for successfully reducing the rates of pneumonia, vomiting, and headache.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">However, the unexpectedly high miscarriage risk reported among early-pregnancy infections in “vaccinated” women cannot be dismissed.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">Another recent <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/13/4/345">study</a> documented how Covid “vaccines” are reducing women’s lifelong egg supply, leading to infertility.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">Although that study was compiled using Covid-vaccinated rats, experts warn that the same impact among humans is also likely.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">In the “Conclusions” section, the <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/13/4/345">study</a> said:</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">“Our findings suggest that both mRNA and inactivated COVID-19 vaccines may detrimentally impact ovarian reserve in rats, primarily through accelerated follicular loss and alterations in apoptotic pathways during folliculogenesis.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">“Given these observations in a rat model, further investigations into the vaccines’ effects on human ovarian reserve are needed.”</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">Similar findings, coined “reproductive destruction,” were found in government data and <a href="https://dailyclout.io/wp-content/uploads/Final-OHIP-2015-2022-Diagnostic-Codes-Patient-Counts-Analysis-Pre-COVID-vs.-Vaccine-Years-with-2020-Excluded.pdf">reported</a> on by Naomi Wolf and Amy Kelly of Daily Clout.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">The growing body of evidence continues to show that the mass global “vaccination” campaign has led to reduced birth rates.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">At the same time, global <a href="https://slaynews.com/news/japan-issue-global-alert-excess-deaths-covid-vaxxed/">excess death rates</a> have been <a href="https://slaynews.com/news/renowned-data-analyst-warns-excess-deaths-surging-off-charts/">skyrocketing</a> over the past four years.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">As experts <a href="https://slaynews.com/news/scientists-warn-global-fertility-crisis-threatens-97-world-population/">have been warning</a>, the human race may now be on the verge of a depopulation crisis.</p>
<p class="slay-news-content">In fact, it may have already begun.</p>
<p>Source:  <a href="https://slaynews.com/news/johns-hopkins-study-1-9-million-women-confirms-covid-vaccine-depopulate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://slaynews.com/news/johns-hopkins-study-1-9-million-women-confirms-covid-vaccine-depopulate/</a></p>
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		<title>Ethereum Cryptocurrency Lost $53 Million of Investors Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2016 17:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<div class="m-article__share-buttons">This morning, users of the Ethereum cryptocurrency woke up to <a href="https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/17/critical-update-re-dao-vulnerability/">some very alarming news</a>. Someone was trying out a new attack on one of the currency’s biggest and richest institutions, the Decentralized Autonomous Organization or DAO. The DAO holds immense cash reserves, and someone had figured out a way to drain out $53 million.</div>
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<p id="SNAisL">Because of the nature of Ethereum, developers could still see where the money was and how much had been taken, and it would be impossible to spend for at least 27 days. But the massive and sudden theft created an unprecedented crisis for a project that was once hailed as the future of the blockchain, and a mad dash to keep tens of millions of dollars from slipping permanently out of reach.</p>
<p><q class="right">A MAD DASH TO SAVE $53 MILLION</q></p>
<p id="vsPYuF">To understand how this could have happened, it’s necessary to know a little bit about how Ethereum works. The system is built on the same blockchain idea that powers Bitcoin, a system for holding and spending money based on cryptography rather than traditional intermediaries like banks and credit card companies. Applying that logic to finance has made for a powerful and controversial currency system, but Ethereum pushes it even further. Instead of limiting the blockchain to transactions, Ethereum lets developers build any kind of code on top of a blockchain ledger — that could mean blockchain-based contracts, blockchain-based businesses, or even wilder systems that haven’t been created yet. Like most blockchain proposals, it’s still experimental and more than a little starry-eyed, but it’s managed to raise $15 million and catch the attention of some of the industry’s biggest investors.</p>
<p id="f7gLtX">The DAO is one of the most ambitious systems built on top of Ethereum. It’s designed to function as a kind of decentralized venture capital fund. Ethereum users can purchase tokens that work like stock, entitling them to voting power on projects and investments, as well as a share of any profits. It’s still in the very early stages, but believers hope it could provide a model for a new kind of decentralized corporation.</p>
<p id="h7BVZq">But there was a problem. The contract programs that powered the DAO had a bug that, under the right circumstances, would allow escrow accounts to be emptied out through a balance-check mechanism. Those contracts were built on top of Ethereum, rather than being made a part of its core code, but they were crucial for the day-to-day operation of the DAO. <a href="http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/06/16/scanning-live-ethereum-contracts-for-bugs/">A number of researchers</a> had drawn attention to the bug, most notably <a href="http://vessenes.com/more-ethereum-attacks-race-to-empty-is-the-real-deal/">former Bitcoin Foundation chairman Peter Vessenes</a>, but developers didn&#8217;t seem to realize how devastating the bug could be once exploited. &#8220;This particular bug was not unknown,&#8221; says Vessenes. &#8220;The core developers knew about it.&#8221;</p>
<p id="jnOEh1">In hindsight, it’s easy to blame the developers for not spotting the problem early enough, but the nature of the DAO project put them at a disadvantage. A coder building a web database has decades of code and security standards to draw on, but coding on the blockchain is a completely new field. It’s hard to predict which security problems will turn out to be severe and which protections will turn out to be effective. And with tens of millions of dollars at stake, there were plenty of attackers poring over that code for anything they had overlooked.</p>
<p id="G2UMy4">&#8220;This is the ultimate test of defensive software engineering,&#8221; Vessenes says. &#8220;You have to worry about attacks in four years with code you can’t modify. The tooling is not there, the documentation is not there, and the best practices are still being discovered.&#8221;</p>
<p><q class="center"> &#8220;THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IS THAT TEENAGERS CAN GET RICH REALLY FAST.&#8221;</q></p>
<p id="juwdIC">Ethereum developers have put in heroic efforts to patch the bug, but that still leaves the question of the missing $53 million. The money is still in Ethereum coins, and because of the unique nature of the DAO contracts, it’s stuck in a specific holding account for the next 27 days. If the community doesn’t do anything during that period, the attacker will be able to walk away with it — but given how much is at stake, that’s unlikely to happen.</p>
<p id="JR4Qp5">What’s more likely is that Ethereum’s leaders will figure out a way to take it back, but there&#8217;s still <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4oj7ql/personal_statement_regarding_the_fork/">some debate</a> over exactly how that should take place. <a href="https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/17/critical-update-re-dao-vulnerability/">In a post this morning detailing the attack</a>, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin (pictured above) proposed a voluntary modification to Ethereum’s code that would make it impossible to spend the stolen coins even after the 27-day window expires. The same mechanism could eventually be used to refund the money, although it will require a lot of political consensus to do so. Some members of the community have argued against recovering the money — using some of the same <a href="https://twitter.com/gavinandresen/status/743814043828260866">moral hazard arguments</a> made against the 2008 bank bailouts — but so far they seem unlikely to prevail. (<b>Update:</b> the attacker has since <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/18/11968534/ethereum-hacker-53-million-stolen-legal-right">come forward to claim the coins are legally his</a>, complicating these efforts.)</p>
<p id="YUWYWR">Still, the result leaves the DAO and Ethereum at large with an uncertain future. Theft is <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/7/5386222/a-string-of-thefts-hit-coinbase-bitcoins-most-reputable-wallet-service">a long-standing problem</a> for cryptocurrency, particularly for any institution large enough to make a tempting target. In 2014, the foundational Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox was revealed as massively insolvent in the wake of <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/26/5450206/who-stole-400-million-from-mt-gox">a $400 million theft</a>, an event that resulted in permanent damage to the currency’s reputation.</p>
<p id="oi6dVM">Today’s theft wasn’t nearly as severe as Mt Gox’s collapse, but it’s led to <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4oimok/can_we_please_never_again_put_100m_in_a_contract/">similar concerns</a>from some observers. Cornell cryptographer Emin Gün Sirer, a longtime skeptic of the DAO, <a href="http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/06/17/thoughts-on-the-dao-hack/">wrote in a post today</a> that the incident should mark the end of the organization entirely, calling on organizers to &#8220;dismantle the fund and return the coins back to investors in as orderly a fashion as possible.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/743837500951564288">Others</a> are less pessimistic, seeing the DAO’s problems as a speed bump in Ethereum’s larger expansion.</p>
<p id="Piwz2C">For Vessenes, it’s an even simpler story: a project that grew too fast for its own good. &#8220;The fundamental problem is that teenagers can get rich really fast,&#8221; Vessenes says. &#8220;The developers are sober, responsible people, but the project has kind of taken on a life of its own.&#8221;</p>
<p>Reblogged from<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/17/11965192/ethereum-theft-dao-cryptocurrency-million-stolen-bitcoin"> the verge</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2016 14:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<p id="OwoeuA">This morning, users of the Ethereum cryptocurrency woke up to <a href="https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/17/critical-update-re-dao-vulnerability/">some very alarming news</a>. Someone was trying out a new attack on one of the currency’s biggest and richest institutions, the Decentralized Autonomous Organization or DAO. The DAO holds immense cash reserves, and someone had figured out a way to drain out $53 million.</p>
<p id="SNAisL">Because of the nature of Ethereum, developers could still see where the money was and how much had been taken, and it would be impossible to spend for at least 27 days. But the massive and sudden theft created an unprecedented crisis for a project that was once hailed as the future of the blockchain, and a mad dash to keep tens of millions of dollars from slipping permanently out of reach.</p>
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<p id="vsPYuF">To understand how this could have happened, it’s necessary to know a little bit about how Ethereum works. The system is built on the same blockchain idea that powers Bitcoin, a system for holding and spending money based on cryptography rather than traditional intermediaries like banks and credit card companies. Applying that logic to finance has made for a powerful and controversial currency system, but Ethereum pushes it even further. Instead of limiting the blockchain to transactions, Ethereum lets developers build any kind of code on top of a blockchain ledger — that could mean blockchain-based contracts, blockchain-based businesses, or even wilder systems that haven’t been created yet. Like most blockchain proposals, it’s still experimental and more than a little starry-eyed, but it’s managed to raise $15 million and catch the attention of some of the industry’s biggest investors.</p>
<p id="f7gLtX">The DAO is one of the most ambitious systems built on top of Ethereum. It’s designed to function as a kind of decentralized venture capital fund. Ethereum users can purchase tokens that work like stock, entitling them to voting power on projects and investments, as well as a share of any profits. It’s still in the very early stages, but believers hope it could provide a model for a new kind of decentralized corporation.</p>
<p id="h7BVZq">But there was a problem. The contract programs that powered the DAO had a bug that, under the right circumstances, would allow escrow accounts to be emptied out through a balance-check mechanism. Those contracts were built on top of Ethereum, rather than being made a part of its core code, but they were crucial for the day-to-day operation of the DAO. <a href="http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/06/16/scanning-live-ethereum-contracts-for-bugs/">A number of researchers</a> had drawn attention to the bug, most notably <a href="http://vessenes.com/more-ethereum-attacks-race-to-empty-is-the-real-deal/">former Bitcoin Foundation chairman Peter Vessenes</a>, but developers didn&#8217;t seem to realize how devastating the bug could be once exploited. &#8220;This particular bug was not unknown,&#8221; says Vessenes. &#8220;The core developers knew about it.&#8221;</p>
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<p id="jnOEh1">In hindsight, it’s easy to blame the developers for not spotting the problem early enough, but the nature of the DAO project put them at a disadvantage. A coder building a web database has decades of code and security standards to draw on, but coding on the blockchain is a completely new field. It’s hard to predict which security problems will turn out to be severe and which protections will turn out to be effective. And with tens of millions of dollars at stake, there were plenty of attackers poring over that code for anything they had overlooked.</p>
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<p id="G2UMy4">&#8220;This is the ultimate test of defensive software engineering,&#8221; Vessenes says. &#8220;You have to worry about attacks in four years with code you can’t modify. The tooling is not there, the documentation is not there, and the best practices are still being discovered.&#8221;</p>
<p><q class="center"> &#8220;THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM IS THAT TEENAGERS CAN GET RICH REALLY FAST.&#8221;</q></p>
<p id="juwdIC">Ethereum developers have put in heroic efforts to patch the bug, but that still leaves the question of the missing $53 million. The money is still in Ethereum coins, and because of the unique nature of the DAO contracts, it’s stuck in a specific holding account for the next 27 days. If the community doesn’t do anything during that period, the attacker will be able to walk away with it — but given how much is at stake, that’s unlikely to happen.</p>
<p id="JR4Qp5">What’s more likely is that Ethereum’s leaders will figure out a way to take it back, but there&#8217;s still <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4oj7ql/personal_statement_regarding_the_fork/">some debate</a> over exactly how that should take place. <a href="https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/17/critical-update-re-dao-vulnerability/">In a post this morning detailing the attack</a>, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin (pictured above) proposed a voluntary modification to Ethereum’s code that would make it impossible to spend the stolen coins even after the 27-day window expires. The same mechanism could eventually be used to refund the money, although it will require a lot of political consensus to do so. Some members of the community have argued against recovering the money — using some of the same <a href="https://twitter.com/gavinandresen/status/743814043828260866">moral hazard arguments</a> made against the 2008 bank bailouts — but so far they seem unlikely to prevail. (<b>Update:</b> the attacker has since <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/18/11968534/ethereum-hacker-53-million-stolen-legal-right">come forward to claim the coins are legally his</a>, complicating these efforts.)</p>
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<p id="YUWYWR">Still, the result leaves the DAO and Ethereum at large with an uncertain future. Theft is <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/7/5386222/a-string-of-thefts-hit-coinbase-bitcoins-most-reputable-wallet-service">a long-standing problem</a> for cryptocurrency, particularly for any institution large enough to make a tempting target. In 2014, the foundational Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox was revealed as massively insolvent in the wake of <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/26/5450206/who-stole-400-million-from-mt-gox">a $400 million theft</a>, an event that resulted in permanent damage to the currency’s reputation.</p>
<p id="oi6dVM">Today’s theft wasn’t nearly as severe as Mt Gox’s collapse, but it’s led to <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4oimok/can_we_please_never_again_put_100m_in_a_contract/">similar concerns</a>from some observers. Cornell cryptographer Emin Gün Sirer, a longtime skeptic of the DAO, <a href="http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/06/17/thoughts-on-the-dao-hack/">wrote in a post today</a> that the incident should mark the end of the organization entirely, calling on organizers to &#8220;dismantle the fund and return the coins back to investors in as orderly a fashion as possible.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/743837500951564288">Others</a> are less pessimistic, seeing the DAO’s problems as a speed bump in Ethereum’s larger expansion.</p>
<p id="Piwz2C">For Vessenes, it’s an even simpler story: a project that grew too fast for its own good. &#8220;The fundamental problem is that teenagers can get rich really fast,&#8221; Vessenes says. &#8220;The developers are sober, responsible people, but the project has kind of taken on a life of its own.&#8221;</p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/17/11965192/ethereum-theft-dao-cryptocurrency-million-stolen-bitcoin">http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/17/11965192/ethereum-theft-dao-cryptocurrency-million-stolen-bitcoin</a></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.hopegirlblog.com/2016/07/09/how-ethereum-lost-53-million-of-investors-money/">How Ethereum lost $53 million of investors money</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.hopegirlblog.com">HopeGirl Blog</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img width="300" height="172" src="https://www.hopegirlblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/monsanto-pay-damages-pcb-lymphoma-300x172.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="monsanto pay damages pcb lymphoma" style="display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%;" link_thumbnail="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /><p>The EPA banned PCBs in 1979</p>
<p>Last week, a St. Louis Circuit Court jury awarded $46.5 million to 3 plaintiffs who alleged that PCBs made by Monsanto caused cancer. The plaintiffs alleged in the suit that Monsanto and the other defendants – Solutia, Pharmacia, and Pfizer – were negligent in their handling of PCBs.</p>
<p>PCB stands for polychlorinated biphenyls, a highly toxic and carcinogenic group of chemicals. Decades ago, PCBs were used in many different products, including electrical equipment, surface coatings, inks, adhesives, flame-retardants, and paints. Before morphing into the agritech giant it is today, Monsanto was the sole manufacturer of PCBs from 1935 to 1997.</p>
<p>The EPA banned PCBs in 1979, after the compound was linked to birth defects and cancer in laboratory animals. PCBs can affect the skin and liver in humans. It can also linger in the environment for decades.</p>
<p>The case involved just 3 of nearly 100 plaintiffs who alleged that exposure to PCBs caused them non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Some died and their claims were made by surviving relatives.</p>
<p>Steven Kherkher, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, said:</p>
<p>“The man from Oklahoma died at the age of 58 and had no health problems at all. He wasn’t a smoker or a drinker and he exercised, but his body was filled with Monsanto’s PCBs. He grew up in Michigan and Monsanto polluted the waters of Michigan and he suffered and died.</p>
<p>A lot people just don’t know that Monsanto’s PCBs are in the orange juice you drank this morning and the pizza you’ll eat tonight. The air that you’re breathing has PCBs in it. Monsanto has discounted it, saying it’s only parts per billion or parts per trillion, but it adds up.” [3]</p>
<p>The 3 individuals alleged that Monsanto knew decades ago that PCBs put people’s health at risk, but lied to the public, saying that the compounds were safe, and continued to sell them until the 1970’s.</p>
<p>EcoWatch reports that internal documents have surfaced showing the company knew about the health risks of PCBs years before they were banned by the EPA. One document, dated Sept. 20, 1955, stated:</p>
<p>“We know Aroclors [PCBs] are toxic but the actual limit has not been precisely defined.” [3]</p>
<p>To this day, some rivers, streams, and foods that humans consume still contain levels of PCBs.</p>
<p>Kherkher said the win means that Monsanto can no longer cover its tracks when it comes to the damage it has done to human life and the environment:</p>
<p>“This is the future. People don’t know that PCBs cause cancer and that Monsanto has been suppressing it.” [1]</p>
<p>Kherkher added that the win is a rare one, but only because nobody had the money to fight the massive corporation until his law firm, William Kherkher, and other law firms worked together, combining their resources, to propel the case forward.</p>
<p>He said such wins are “not going to be rare anymore,” noting that his law firm has accumulated about 1,000 plaintiffs with PCB claims.</p>
<p>A Los Angeles jury rejected a claim against Monsanto last month over non-Hodgkin lymphoma. And in July of 2015, a jury in St. Louis County, Missouri, found Monsanto was not liable in deaths and illnesses suffered by people who were exposed to PCBs. Americans began to wonder if Monsanto was untouchable.</p>
<p>A similar lawsuit was filed by the city of Spokane, Washington, last year, and in January, Seattle sued Monsanto over the costs of PCB cleanup. Both cases are pending.</p>
<p><em>To access the full article, use source link below.</em></p>
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<p>By Julie Fidler</p>
<p>Julie is a freelance writer, legal blogger, and the author of Adventures in Holy Matrimony: For Better or the Absolute Worst. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two ridiculously spoiled cats. She occasionally pontificates on her blog.</p>
<p>(Source:  naturalsociety.com; June 1, 2016; http://tinyurl.com/zjsgnwr)</p>
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