Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is a surgeon who made billions inventing cancer drugs. He says that Covid, and the vaccines that didn’t stop it, are likely causing a global epidemic of terrifyingly aggressive cancers.

“We’ve never seen an 8 year old with colon cancer before… this is a real phenomenon: a rise of cancer in young people”

Watch the March 26, 2025 interview by Tucker Carlson below!

Belmont Center businesses are very worried about the Planning Board’s overlay zoning project being rushed to completion by May. They think it’s delusional and dangerous. We do too. 

They are worried they won’t survive the disruption and construction over years. Stores are already super challenged, customers would be deterred by 3-year construction, and it doesn’t take much to push a small store out of business.

They are particularly distressed that the new zoning plans will take away critical parking in the Claflin Lot, and replace it with a 4 story overshadowing building, as per the current plan.

They are unhappy the Planning Board hasn’t engaged with them sufficiently or consistently, to create a plan more sensitive to their life-or-death concerns, and more sensitive to preserving the character and charm of the Center itself. 

And they, like neighbors, abutters, and Town Meeting members, are disillusioned with the Planning Board’s lack of transparency and disclosure, its failure to do due diligence, its irresponsible denial of potential negative impacts, and its pie-in-the-sky decisions, which make a mockery of their talk about “consider the neighbors” (by destroying their businesses?)

Deran Muckjian, owner of The Toy Shop of Belmont, has lived here for 63 years, and is passionately opposed to the current plan. As he put it: 

“Why aren’t we focusing on other parts of Belmont like Purecoat or Pleasant Street, which could take a commercial build up?

We need to focus on what we HAVE, not take away the character of the Center, and we need to realize we are not Arsenal Mall.

Why don’t we fix the train station instead, which we can revive with state funds?

This zoning plan not only WON’T succeed in expanding commercial tax revenue, it WILL kill the small businesses which make the Center what it is.”

You can hear Deran commenting at the Feb 12 public meeting above.

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WHY isn’t the Planning Board actively studying impacts on area businesses, lives, and traffic? 

The Board hasn’t done its homework, or even basic due diligence on impacts. At the public meeting on February 25, Chris Ryan said he would do fiscal impact analysis ONLY focusing on revenue – but with no analysis of costs! 

You and I can’t manage a household budget without costs. And we’d be fired from jobs where we had to manage budgets and ignored costs. It’s delusional.

Planning without any information on costs is lazy, deceptive, and a recipe for a disaster which we and our children will have to live with for decades. 

Or is it not just laziness, but active deception, because they KNOW the costs on the town and the strain on services and schools, and fiscal impacts, will be huge? 

The Town Planner’s contention that they can’t do a cost analysis because it’s too expensive is bogus and laughable. In 5 minutes, any of us can download apps and spreadsheets which model impact scenarios, after plugging in the numbers. 

As an example of negative impacts, one Belmont Ctr business owner points out that if rents go up to the level of neighboring towns, after the buildout, to $65/sq foot, small businesses which can’t pay would quickly be driven out of town.

Yet that is exactly what the Planning Board is inviting. 

How would you like a Center with a CVS, but no Belmont Bookstore, no Toy Shop of Belmont, no Didriks, Revolve, Helena’s, Chocolate Dream, or Champions, no Wellington, Patou, Butternut Bakery, Qebrada, Stone Hearth Pizza or Rancatores? 

Trust in the Planning Board, after months of manipulated meetings, is already broken for many of us, and is steadily breaking for others. 

The PB can start to repair this trust, if it wishes, by doing the following:

1. Walk your own talk about “consider the neighbors”. 

Translation: HONOR the community’s and the consultant’s advice. Return to Map Option 1 – lower building heights, under 3 stories – on West Leonard Street.

2. LISTEN to business owners. Remove the pending seizure of the Claflin Lot.

3. Put taller-than-3-story buildings ONLY on Concord Ave, where neither abutters nor small businesses’ lives and livelihoods are endangered.

4. Plan creatively for available spaces in Belmont Ctr – eg the railway station.

5. Do a responsible fiscal analysis with costs as well as revenues projected under different scenarios. 

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Trust must be earned. This Planning Board and Town Planner are losing it fast. 

BELMONT DESERVES BETTER. OUR LIVES, HOMES AND BUSINESSES ARE ON THE LINE. 

– A Group of Concerned Belmont Center Residents.

On Wednesday, December 4, 2024, at 10:30am, the Select Subcommittee submitted a “Lessons Learned and a Path Forward” on the COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

The full, 520-page final report can be found here. A summary of the information can be found below:

The Origins of the Coronavirus Pandemic, 

COVID-19 ORIGIN: COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. The FIVE strongest arguments in favor of the “lab leak” theory include:

1. The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
2. Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.
3. Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research at inadequate biosafety levels.
4. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with a COVID-like virus in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.
5. By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced.

PROXIMAL ORIGIN PUBLICATION: “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated in nature.

GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH: A lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is most likely the origin of COVID-19. Current government mechanisms for overseeing this dangerous gain-of-function research are incomplete, severely convoluted, and lack global applicability.

The Implementation or Effectiveness of Any Federal Law or Regulation

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO): The WHO’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was an abject failure because it caved to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party and placed China’s political interests ahead of its international duties. Further, the WHO’s newest effort to solve the problems exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic — via a “Pandemic Treaty” — may harm the United States.

SOCIAL DISTANCING: The “6 feet apart” social distancing recommendation — which shut down schools and small business across the country — was arbitrary and not based on science. During closed door testimony, Dr. Fauci testified that the guidance, “sort of just appeared.”

MASK MANDATES: There was no conclusive evidence that masks effectively protected Americans from COVID-19. Public health officials flipped-flopped on the efficacy of masks without providing Americans scientific data — causing a massive uptick in public distrust.

LOCKDOWNS: Prolonged lockdowns caused immeasurable harm to not only the American economy, but also to the mental and physical health of Americans, with a particularly negative effect on younger citizens. Rather than prioritizing the protection of the most vulnerable populations, federal and state government policies forced millions of Americans to forgo crucial elements of a healthy and financially sound life.

NEW YORK PANDEMIC FAILURES: Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s March 25 Order — which forced nursing homes to accept COVID-19 positive patients — was medical malpractice. Evidence shows that Mr. Cuomo and his Administration worked to cover up the tragic aftermath of their policy decisions in an apparent effort to shield themselves from accountability.

• Evidence suggests Mr. Cuomo knowingly and willfully made false statements to the Select Subcommittee on numerous occasions about material aspects of New York’s COVID-19 nursing home disaster and the ensuing cover-up. The Select Subcommittee referred Mr. Cuomo to the DOJ for criminal prosecution.

TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS: President Trump’s rapidly implemented travel restrictions saved lives. During Dr. Fauci’s transcribed interview, he unequivocally agreed with every travel restriction issued by the Trump Administration. This testimony runs counter to the public narrative that the Trump Administration’s travel restrictions were xenophobic.

COVID-19 MISINFORMATION: Public health officials often spread misinformation through conflicting messaging, kneejerk reactions, and a lack of transparency. In the most egregious examples of pervasive misinformation campaigns, off-label drug use and the lab leak theory were unjustly demonized by the federal government.

• The Biden Administration even employed undemocratic and likely unconstitutional methods — including pressuring social media companies to censor certain COVID-19 content — to fight what it deemed misinformation.

The Development of Vaccines and Treatments

COVID-19 VACCINE: Contrary to what was promised, the COVID-19 vaccine did not stop the spread or transmission of the virus.

RUSHED COVID-19 VACCINE APPROVAL: The FDA rushed approval of the COVID-19 vaccine in order to meet the Biden Administration’s arbitrary mandate timeline. Two leading FDA scientists warned their colleagues about the dangers of rushing the vaccine approval process and the likelihood of adverse events. They were ignored, and days later, the Biden Administration mandated the vaccine.

VACCINE MANDATES: Vaccine mandates were not supported by science and caused more harm than good. The Biden Administration coerced healthy Americans into compliance with COVID-19 vaccine mandates that trampled individual freedoms, harmed military readiness, and disregarded medical freedom to force a novel vaccine on millions of Americans without sufficient evidence to support their policy decisions.

NATURAL IMMUNITY: Public health officials engaged in a coordinated effort to ignore natural immunity — which is acquired through previous COVID-19 infection — when developing vaccine guidance and mandates.

VACCINE INJURY REPORTING SYSTEM: Vaccine injury reporting systems created confusion, failed to properly inform the American public about vaccine injuries, and deteriorated public trust in vaccine safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.

VACCINE INJURY COMPENSATION: The government is failing to efficiently, fairly, and transparently adjudicate claims for the COVID-19 vaccine injured.

The Societal Impact of Decisions to Close Schools

COVID-19 SCHOOL CLOSURES: The “science” never justified prolonged school closures. Children were unlikely to contribute to the spread of COVID-19 or suffer severe illness or mortality. Instead, as a result of school closures, children experienced historic learning loss, higher rates of psychological distress, and decreased physical well-being.

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC) INFLUENCE: The Biden Administration’s CDC broke precedent and provided a political teachers organization with access to its scientific school reopening guidance. Former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky asked the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) to provide specific language for the guidance and even went so far as to accept numerous edits made by AFT.

AFT INFLUENCE: Schools remained closed longer than necessary because of AFT’s political interference in the CDC’s school reopening guidance. AFT is a political union, not a scientific organization, that advocated for mitigation efforts that prolonged school closures — including an automatic closure “trigger.”

• Testimony revealed that AFT President Weingarten had a direct telephone line to contact former CDC Director Walensky.

LONGTERM IMPACTS: Standardized test scores show that children lost decades worth of academic progress as a result of COVID-19 school closures. Mental and physical health concerns also skyrocketed — with suicide attempts by 12-17 year-aged girls rising 51%.

Credit: Belmont Media Center

Curtesy of Belmont Media.

The individual they were looking for is alleged to be involved in a gang murder in Fall River. Police did not locate the individual as no one was home.

video credit: Paul Coradeschi

Dionne: “We can tell citizens who don’t have students in the schools if the next override rails, it will be… a bloodbath” https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxeqpUOmMPk_WjhHcjktmgS2l1rMhpBk4k

Doyle: “I’m talking about actual cuts. Like for example… we should be cutting the hours of the library so that people in the general public can see this is the result of not passing an override. We should not be having all the yard waste collection that we have so that people can see, that’s the result of a failed override.” https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxPLgPDEF33I3YlUqdUS_Q5cdvagOaHiun

Dionne nodding in agreement.

Dionne: “I also wholeheartedly agree.”

Credit: Belmont Media Center

Full March 20, 2023 Select Board Meeting can be found here: https://videoplayer.telvue.com/player/uClcIN88BHKHJoveFoaVN_8_5Tg72P0o/media/787432

And here is selectman Dash’s insensitive response to her testimony.