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By Anthony Murdoch

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre happily welcomed the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro by the United States on Saturday and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney seemed to approve 0as well.

In a statement posted to X over the weekend, Poilievre, whose wife is from Venezuela, thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for the capture of Maduro.

“Congratulations to President Trump on successfully arresting narco-terrorist and socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro, who should live out his days in prison,” Poilievre wrote.

Poilievre said that the “legitimate winner of the most recent Venezuelan elections, Edmundo González,” should take office, along with the courageous hero and voice of the Venezuelan people, María Corina Machado.”

“Down with socialism. Long live freedom,” he added.

As for Carney, in a social media statement Saturday, he noted how Canada had imposed sanctions on Maduro’s “brutally oppressive and criminal regime — unequivocally condemning his grave breaches of international peace and security, gross and systematic human rights violations, and corruption.”

“Canada has not recognized the illegitimate regime of Maduro since it stole the 2018 election,” he wrote.

“The Canadian government therefore welcomes the opportunity for freedom, democracy, peace, and prosperity for the Venezuelan people.”

As reported by LifeSiteNews, on January 3, U.S. special forces captured Maduro and flew him out of Venezuela in a sophisticated military operation. Maduro’s wife, Cilia Flores, was captured as well, and both were taken to New York, where they have been charged with drug trafficking.

While Canada’s two main political parties celebrated Maduro’s capture, the interim leader of the socialist New Democratic Party condemned actions by the Trump administration.

Don Davies said on social media that the “attack on Venezuela is neither an act of self defence nor does it have UN Security Council authorization.”

“It is therefore totally illegal and a breach of the UN covenants the US has agreed to uphold as a Member State,” he claimed.

He also said, “The U.S. can have no credibility upholding international law and the rights of nations when it blatantly violates those principles itself.”

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s indictment of Maduro’s regime accuses it of working to transport “thousands of tons of cocaine to the United States” and says that he “partnered with some of the most violent and prolific drug traffickers and narco-terrorists in the world” to flood the U.S. with the deadly drug.

Trump has said that the United States will now have access to oil that belongs to them, and that the United States will “run” Venezuela temporarily to provide for a “safe transition.”

As for Maduro, he rose to power in 2013 after the death of far-left president Hugo Chávez.

Venezuelan special forces committed more than 5,000 extrajudicial killings in 2018 alone, according to a United Nations report.

The Maduro regime was also responsible for jailing thousands of protesters and other people classified as political opponents and frequently tortured and abused prisoners, human rights groups have attested.

Also, the Maduro regime has engaged in anti-Catholic persecutions. In December, Venezuelan authorities blocked Cardinal Baltazar Porras, the 81-year-old former archbishop of Caracas, from boarding a flight out of the country, detaining him, confiscating his Venezuelan passport, and rejecting his Vatican passport.

Under Maduro’s leadership, Venezuela has suffered a catastrophic economic collapse due to his and Chavez’s socialist policies, including price controls, massive public spending, and the nationalization of major industries.

By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

CDC SHRINKS ROUTINE CHILDHOOD VACCINE SCHEDULE BY ~55 DOSES

Today, the CDC formally adopted a revised childhood and adolescent immunization schedule, following a Presidential Memorandum directing alignment with international best practices.

This marks the largest rollback of routine childhood vaccination in U.S. history.

After reviewing peer-country schedules and the scientific evidence underlying them, federal health leadership acknowledged that we are hyper-vaccinating our children.

The result is a dramatically smaller routine childhood vaccine schedule, cutting approximately 55 routine doses.

This is a major victory — even as serious safety concerns remain for the vaccines that continue to be recommended.

The Key Change: ~55 Routine Doses Eliminated

Previous U.S. routine schedule (2024)

• 84–88 routine vaccine doses
• Targeting 17 diseases
• (18 if RSV monoclonal antibody is included)

New CDC routine schedule (2026)

• ~30 routine doses
• Targeting 10–11 diseases
• Based on international consensus

Net change: approximately 54–58 routine doses removed, commonly summarized as ~55 routine doses.

Importantly, this reduction applies only to vaccines previously labeled “routine for all children.” No vaccines were banned or removed from availability.

What Was Removed from the Routine Schedule

The following vaccines are no longer recommended for all children by default:

• COVID-19
• Influenza
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B (including removal of the universal birth dose if the mother is HBsAg-negative)
• Rotavirus
• Meningococcal ACWY
• Meningococcal B

These vaccines account for nearly the entire ~55-dose reduction.

What Remains Routine

The CDC now limits routine childhood vaccination to the following vaccines:

• Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR)
• Diphtheria
• Tetanus
• Pertussis
• Polio
• Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib)
• Pneumococcal disease
• Varicella (chickenpox)
• Human Papillomavirus (HPV), reduced from two doses to one

This is still not “safe by default”

These vaccines remain:

• Insufficiently studied for long-term outcomes
• Untested in placebo-controlled trials
• Never evaluated as a cumulative schedule
• Inducers of over 20 chronic diseases

Adverse events such as febrile seizures, severe neurological injury including autism, ADHD, tics, autoimmune disease, asthma, allergies, skin and gut disorders, ear infections, and a long list of other chronic diseases have been documented across multiple vaccines on this list:

BREAKING: Peer-Reviewed Reanalysis of the Henry Ford Birth Cohort Study Finds Vaccinated Children Sicker Across All 22 Chronic Disease Categories Nicolas Hulscher, MPH · December 11, 2025 Read full story

Reducing the schedule does not equal proving safety. It simply reduces exposure. Nonetheless, that reduction alone is quite meaningful.

Where Those Vaccines Went

Non-consensus vaccines were reclassified, not banned:

Shared Clinical Decision-Making

• COVID-19
• Influenza
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Rotavirus
• Meningococcal ACWY
• Meningococcal B

High-Risk Groups Only

• RSV monoclonal antibody
• Hepatitis A (travel, outbreaks, liver disease)
• Hepatitis B (HBsAg-positive or unknown maternal status)
• Dengue
• Meningococcal vaccines for defined risk groups

All remain available and fully covered by insurance. However, given entrenched institutional habits and ideological adherence to maximal vaccination, many clinicians are likely to continue promoting shared clinical decision-making vaccines as de facto routine unless families are informed and assertive.

Why This Is Still a Massive Win

For decades, the childhood vaccine schedule expanded without:

• Schedule-level safety trials
• Long-term outcome data
• Meaningful public debate
• Informed consent

This decision reverses that trajectory. It:

• Shrinks routine exposure dramatically
• Restores parental agency
• Forces future decisions to confront risk-benefit reality

Most importantly, it breaks the false premise that “more vaccines is always better.”

Conclusion

The CDC has eliminated every non-consensus vaccine from the routine childhood schedule, cutting routine exposure by approximately 55 doses—an implicit admission that the safety of the expanded schedule was never adequately established.

This decision does not end the problem. The vaccines that remain routinely recommended are still largely untested in long-term, placebo-controlled trials, are administered during critical periods of neurodevelopment, and continue to pose serious safety concerns. As a result, a substantial number of autism cases and other chronic conditions will continue to occur.

However, by sharply reducing cumulative exposure during early childhood, this change marks the first credible step toward reversing the trajectory. The burden of neurodevelopmental injury should begin to decline—not disappear, but diminish.

Even with its limitations, this action represents the most consequential course correction in U.S. pediatric vaccination policy in modern history. It breaks the assumption that an ever-expanding schedule is inherently safe, restores proportionality, and opens the door to long-overdue accountability, transparency, and real safety science.

Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Epidemiologist and Foundation Administrator, McCullough Foundation

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