There was an increase of 8.6 percent fetal deaths during the Flint Water Crisis.

July 16, 2021
By Steve Carmody

A new study finds (click here) there was not a significant increase in fetal deaths in Flint during the city’s drinking water crisis.

Many in Flint have wondered if stillbirths between 2014 and 2016 were due to increased lead levels in the city’s drinking water. A 2017 report suggested Flint had seen a 58% increase in fetal deaths. But the report was criticized by academics and the state health department.

But Virginia Tech researcher Siddhartha Roy says comparing records before, during and after the water crisis shows no evidence of increased fetal deaths or negative fertility rates.

“We have tried to look every which ever way that available models and available data sets could give us signals of possible increase in fetal deaths,” said Roy. “And we found nothing.”...

The study points to other statistics to state there was no increase in fetal deaths less than 20 weeks. That is possible when looking over longer periods of time, but, this increase happened during the poisoning of the water, there is on doubt why the increase occured. Some spontaneous abortions may have happened anyway but not an increase.

A couple of things happen in pregnancy that mitigates the lead in a pregnant woman's body. First there is information from "The March of Dimes." The focus is on the woman because she would have ingested the lead in the water and it would cross the placenta.

...Can lead poisoning affect pregnancy? (click here)

Yes. You can pass lead to your baby through the placenta. The placenta grows in your uterus (womb) and supplies your baby with food and oxygen through the umbilical cord. 

Exposure to high levels of lead before and during pregnancy can cause:

• - Fertility problems, like reduced sperm count or abnormal sperm. Sperm in a man’s semen fertilizes a woman's egg to get her pregnant. Sperm count is the number of sperm in a man’s semen when he ejaculates.
• - High blood pressure (also called hypertension). This is when the force of blood against the walls of your blood vessels is too high. High blood pressure can cause problems during pregnancy.
• - Problems with the development of your baby’s brain and nervous system. The nervous system includes your brain, spinal cord and nerves. Your nervous system helps you move, think and feel. Babies exposed to lead before birth are likely to have learning problems and slow growth.
• - Premature birth. This is birth that happens too early, before 37 weeks of pregnancy.
• - Low birthweight. This is when your baby weighs less than 5 pounds, 8 ounces at birth.
• - Miscarriage. This is when a baby dies in the womb before 20 weeks of pregnancy....

The thing about pregnancy is that women can mitigate the potency of the lead in their bodies by taking vitamins. All pregnant women receiving prenatal vitamins cause competition with lead by those vitamins and the possibility of a woman passing lead to her in utero infant is diminished, but, not completely stopped.

Zinc, selenium and iron are only three of the minerals that will mitigate toxicity of lead to the mother and the baby.

January 14, 2014

By Qixiao Zhai,  Arjan Narbad, and Wei Chen

...In summary, (click here) these essential metals decrease intestinal Cd and Pb absorption, recover the essential metal homeostasis and alleviate the oxidative stress caused by Cd and Pb toxicity. Diet associated essential metal supplementation should be regarded as important for essential metal-deficient people, such as children and pregnant women. Because without sufficient essential metal stores to prevent heavy metal absorption, these people are especially susceptible to heavy metal toxicity [16,21,50,51]. It should also be noted that Cd and Pb exposure cause the loss of essential metals, which leads to complications such as iron-deficiency anaemia and osteoporosis [52,53]. Appropriate concentrations of essential metal supplementation is therefore also beneficial for preventing these complications....

The article goes on to explain that a vitamin-deprived mother is more susceptible to lead poisoning. 

The author of the study at the top openly admits while when looking through the looking glass of statistics this could simply be a cycle of increase over time, but, he cannot conclude through their analysis that the increase was not due to lead in the drinking water. Of course, it was due to the water. It is ridiculous to think otherwise.

The infants conceived and born during the lead poisoning in Flint need to be followed along with their mothers. Any man attempting to conceive a family in Flint but couldn't was due to Flint Water and it's lead content. Lead ingested by men leads to low sperm counts.

Erik Prince was involved in training the Columbian mercenaries.

There is a chance that Trump, though Prince, could have his own assassins. Who paid the Columbian mercenaries and why? This is a year before the 2016 elections were decided and while the campaigns were still raging. Erik Prince and his mercenary army have been working at killing, not security, since the Iraq War.

The assassins are basically hit - men willing to kill national leaders at will. 

May 14, 2015
By Mark Mazetti and Emily B. Hager

Erik Prince’s (click here) residency visa for the UAE, showing that he was, at the time, employed by Assurance Management Consultancy. Some personal information has been redacted for privacy.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November, (click here) a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked through customs by an Emirati intelligence officer, the group boarded an unmarked bus and drove roughly 20 miles to a windswept military complex in the desert sand.

The Colombians had entered the United Arab Emirates posing as construction workers. In fact, they were soldiers for a secret American-led mercenary army being built by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of Blackwater Worldwide, with $529 million from the oil-soaked sheikdom.

Mr. Prince, who resettled here last year after his security business faced mounting legal problems in the United States, was hired by the crown prince of Abu Dhabi to put together an 800-member battalion of foreign troops for the U.A.E., according to former employees on the project, American officials and corporate documents obtained by The New York Times.

The force is intended to conduct special operations missions inside and outside the country, defend oil pipelines and skyscrapers from terrorist attacks and put down internal revolts, the documents show. Such troops could be deployed if the Emirates faced unrest in their crowded labor camps or were challenged by pro-democracy protests like those sweeping the Arab world this year....

November 25, 2015

By Emily B. Hager and Mark Mazetti

Washington — The United Arab Emirates (click here) has secretly dispatched hundreds of Colombian mercenaries to Yemen to fight in that country’s raging conflict, adding a volatile new element in a complex proxy war that has drawn in the United States and Iran.

It is the first combat deployment for a foreign army that the Emirates has quietly built in the desert over the past five years, according to several people currently or formerly involved with the project. The program was once managed by a private company connected to Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater Worldwide, but the people involved in the effort said that his role ended several years ago and that it has since been run by the Emirati military.

The arrival in Yemen of 450 Latin American troops — among them are also Panamanian, Salvadoran and Chilean soldiers — adds to the chaotic stew of government armies, armed tribes, terrorist networks and Yemeni militias currently at war in the country. Earlier this year, a coalition of countries led by Saudi Arabia, including the United States, began a military campaign in Yemen against Houthi rebels who have pushed the Yemeni government out of the capital, Sana.

It is also a glimpse into the future of war. Wealthy Arab nations, particularly Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Emirates, have in recent years embraced a more aggressive military strategy throughout the Middle East, trying to rein in the chaos unleashed by the Arab revolutions that began in late 2010. But these countries wade into the new conflicts — whether in Yemen, Syria or Libya — with militaries that are unused to sustained warfare and populations with generally little interest in military service....

July 12, 2021
By Kelly Beaucar

Suspects in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, who was shot dead early Wednesday at his home, are shown to the media, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 8, 2021.

This weekend we found out that the Colombian men (click here) arrested in connection with the assassination of Haitian president Jovenal Moïse may have been hired by a Florida private security company with Venezuelan connections. Furthermore, they might have been deployed on behalf of an Haitian ex-pat in Miami who wanted to replace Moïse as president.

Why does this sound so familiar?

Maybe because it was only last year that 13 men led an unsuccessful coup attempt — known cheekily as the “Bay of Piglets” — against Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. Their alleged leader was a former Navy Seal, who also runs a security company in Florida. Jordan Goudreau was allegedly working with ex-Venezuelan military exiles who wanted to help overthrow Maduro for opposition leader Juan Guaido (he has denied any involvement). They led an elaborate plan to train fellow ex-Venezuelan military soldiers at a training camp in Colombia. Goudreau wasn’t on the boat that day when the May 2020 plot was foiled, but two former Green Berets (ages 34 and 41) were, and they are doing 20 years in a Venezuelan jail right now, convicted on charges of conspiracy, illicit trafficking of weapons, and terrorism....