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2021-08-28 c
POISONED DIAGNOSIS
(Paging Dr. Orwell, ...)


Smoking gun: Fauci states COVID PCR test has fatal flaw; confession from the “beloved” expert of experts
  
The COVID PCR test is a complete fraud

NOTE: I’ve posted this article several times. I post it again because so-called “rising COVID case numbers” are being touted as justification for masking and other restrictions, as well as a reason for taking the destructive COVID vaccine.

This article is part of my series on the COVID PCR test. These articles prove that the test is fatally flawed, gives rise to hugely inflated and false case numbers, which in turn led to the unnecessary and brutal lockdowns.

I’m hoping readers will spread this information far and wide.

OK, here we go. Smoking gun. Jackpot.

Right from the horse’s mouth. Right from the man we’re told is the number-one COVID expert in the nation. What Fauci says is golden truth.

Well, how about THIS?

July 16, 2020, podcast, “This week in virology”: Tony Fauci makes a point of saying the PCR COVID test is useless and misleading when the test is run at “35 cycles or higher.” A positive result, indicating infection, cannot be accepted or believed.

Here, in techno-speak, is an excerpt from Fauci’s key quote (starting at the 4m01s mark through to the 5m45s mark (Fauci begins his first answer to the first quesiotns at the 4m20s mark and begins his second answer to the second question at the 5m26s mark)):

“…If you get [perform the test at] a cycle threshold of 35 or more…the chances of it being replication-competent [aka accurate] are miniscule…you almost never can culture virus [detect a true positive result] from a 37 threshold cycle…even 36…”

Each “cycle” of the test is a quantum leap in amplification and magnification of the test specimen taken from the patient.

Too many cycles, and the test will turn up all sorts of irrelevant material that will be wrongly interpreted as relevant.

That’s called a false positive.

What Fauci failed to say on the video is: the FDA, which authorizes the test for public use, recommends the test should be run up to 40 cycles. Not 35.

Therefore, all labs in the US that follow the FDA guideline are knowingly or unknowingly participating in fraud. Fraud on a monstrous level, because…

Millions of Americans are being told they are infected with the virus on the basis of a false positive result, and…

The total number of COVID cases in America—which is based on the test—is a gross falsity.

The lockdowns and other restraining measures are based on these fraudulent case numbers.

Let me back up and run that by you again. Fauci says the test is useless when it’s run at 35 cycles or higher. The FDA says run the test up to 40 cycles, in order to determine whether the virus is there. This is the crime in a nutshell.

“Hello, America, you’ve been tricked, lied to, conned, and taken for a devastating ride. On the basis of fake science, the country was locked down.”

If anyone in the Congress has a few brain cells operating, pull Fauci into a televised hearing and, in ten minutes, make mincemeat out of the fake science that has driven this whole foul, stench-ridden assault on the global economy and its 8 billion citizens.

All right, here are two chunks of evidence for what I’ve written above. First, we have a CDC quote on the FDA website, in a document titled: “CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel For Emergency Use Only.” See page 35. This document is marked, “Effective: 07/21/2021.” That means, even though the virus is being referred to by its older name, the document is still relevant as of July 2021. “For Emergency Use Only” refers to the fact that the FDA has certified the PCR test under a traditional category called “Emergency Use Authorization.”

FDA: “…a specimen is considered positive for 2019-nCoV [virus] if all 2019-nCoV marker (N1, N2) cycle threshold growth curves cross the threshold line within 40.00 cycles ([less than] 40.00 Ct).”

Naturally, MANY testing labs reading this guideline would conclude, “Well, to see if the virus is there in a patient, we should run the test all the way to 40 cycles. That’s the official advice.”

Then we have a New York Times article (August 29/updated September 17, 2020) headlined: “Your coronavirus test is positive. Maybe it shouldn’t be.” Here are money quotes:

“Most tests set the limit at 40 [cycles]. A few at 37.”

Set-the-limit would mean, We’re going to look all the way to 40 cycles, to see if the virus is there.

The Times: “This number of amplification cycles needed to find the virus, called the cycle threshold, is never included in the results sent to doctors and coronavirus patients.”

Boom. That’s the capper, the grand finale. Labs don’t or won’t reveal their collusion in this crime.

Get the picture?

I hope so.

If a lawyer won’t go to court with all this, or if a judge won’t pay attention and see the light, they should be stripped of their jobs and sent to the Arctic to sell snow.

SOURCES:
(rushed sources list; to be indexed)

https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2021/08/24/gov-ron-desantis-this-is-how-you-win-against-the-wolves/

https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/tag/pcr/

https://youtu.be/a_Vy6fgaBPE?t=241

https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download (document page 35 (pdf page 36), “CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel, For Emergency Use Only, Instructions for Use, Catalog # 2019-nCoVEUA-01, 1000 reactions, For In-vitro Diagnostic (IVD) Use, Rx Only”; CDC-006-00019, Revision: 07 CDC/DDID/NCIRD/ Division of Viral Diseases, Effective: 07/21/2021)

https://nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html

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POISONED MODERNA

Japan Suspects Contaminant In Moderna Vaccines Is Metallic, 'Reacts To Magnets'

The Japanese Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that around 1.6 million doses of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine have been taken out of use due to contamination in some vials that 'reacts to magnets,' according to a ministry official.

Several vaccination centers reported finding
foreign matter in the doses.

"It's a substance that reacts to magnets," the official told Nikkei, adding "It could be metal."

Moderna, meanwhile, has confirmed receiving "several complaints of particulate matter" in vials distributed in Japan, but that "not safety or efficacy issues" were found related to the reports.

"The company is investigating the reports and remains committed to working transparently and expeditiously with its partner, Takeda, and regulators to address any potential concerns," a spokesperson told Nikkei, adding that a "manufacturing issue" at a plant in Spain was to blame.

After the complaints, the vaccine lot in question as well as two adjacent lots have been taken out of circulation "out of an abundance of caution," according to the spokesperson.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told reporters on Thursday afternoon that he had instructed the ministry to look into the case with safety as the top priority, adding he had received reports that the withdrawal "won't have a significant impact on the country's vaccination campaign." -Nikkei

The foreign matter that 'reacts to magnets' is sure to revive speculation over the viral 'Covid-19 vaccine magnet challenge,' in which dozens of people recorded magnets sticking to their vaccine injection sites.

And while several 'fact-checking' websites have taken a crack at what's going on, the two most common explanations are 'they're faking it' or 'their skin was slightly wet.'

Some believe the reported magnetism can be explained by graphene oxide, a magnetic nanoparticle studied for its use as a drug delivery platform and other biomedical applications.

Critics note with the fact that that graphene oxide is not listed as an ingredient in any available Covid-19 vaccine, while skeptics counter with 'so what?' If random batches are tainted with foreign substances, on accident or on purpose, of course they wouldn't be listed in the ingredients.

In any event, Moderna stock isn't too happy today. (read more)

See also: Two die in Japan after shots from suspended Moderna vaccines - Japan govt

TOKYO, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Two people died after receiving Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) COVID-19 vaccine shots that were among lots later suspended following the discovery of contaminants, Japan's health ministry said on Saturday.

The men in their 30s died this month within days of receiving their second Moderna doses, the ministry said in a release. Each had a shot from one of three manufacturing lots suspended on Thursday. The causes of death are being investigated.

Japan halted the use of 1.63 million Moderna doses shipped to 863 vaccination centres nationwide, more than a week after the domestic distributor, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co (4502.T), received reports of contaminants in some vials. read more

"At this time, we do not have any evidence that these deaths are caused by the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine," Moderna and Takeda said in a statement on Saturday. "It is important to conduct a formal investigation to determine whether there is any connection."

The government has also said no safety or efficacy issues had been identified and the suspension of the three Moderna batches was a precaution.

Fumie Sakamoto, the infection control manager at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, cautioned against drawing a connection between the shots and the fatalities reported on Saturday.

"There may only be a temporal relationship between vaccination and death," Sakamoto told Reuters. "There are so many things we still don't know to make any conclusions on these two cases."

The contaminants found in some vials in Japan are believed to be metallic particles, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing health ministry sources.

Japan has administered more than 124 million COVID-19 vaccine shots, with about 44% of the population fully inoculated.

As of Aug. 8, 991 people had died in Japan after receiving shots of Pfizer Inc's vaccine and 11 after receiving Moderna's, but no causality between the injections and the deaths has been established, according to the health ministry. Adverse reactions have been reported at a frequency of 0.01% for the Moderna shot.

In the fatalities reported on Saturday, each man had a fever the day after his second dose and died two days after getting the fever. There has been no evidence that their shots contained contaminants, a health ministry official told reporters.

See also: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/contaminant-moderna-vaccines-suspected-be-metallic-powder-nhk-2021-08-27/

See also: https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/08/7fb949bf9198-urgent-unused-moderna-vaccine-doses-may-contain-foreign-materials-japan.html

See also: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20210826/k10013223821000.html

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-08-28 a
POISONED APPLE
(It's always, for the children. The ambulatory cadavers, the ghouls in legislator's garb, the blood-sucking judiciary and the soul-less automata employed by corporations, will always, to sell their worst laid plans, claim to be benevolent altruists. Nothing they do is for the children. Always expect mischief when they claim to be doing something, for the children.}

The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy

“Under His Eye,” she says. The right farewell. “Under His Eye,” I reply, and she gives a little nod.
by Edward Snowden

By now you've probably heard that Apple plans to push a new and uniquely intrusive surveillance system out to many of the more than one billion iPhones it has sold, which all run the behemoth's proprietary, take-it-or-leave-it software. This new offensive is tentatively slated to begin with the launch of iOS 15⁠—almost certainly in mid-September⁠—with the devices of its US user-base designated as the initial targets. We’re told that other countries will be spared, but not for long.

You might have noticed that I haven’t mentioned which problem it is that Apple is purporting to solve. Why? Because it doesn’t matter.

Having read thousands upon thousands of remarks on this growing scandal, it has become clear to me that many understand it doesn't matter, but few if any have been willing to actually say it. Speaking candidly, if that’s still allowed, that’s the way it always goes when someone of institutional significance launches a campaign to defend an indefensible intrusion into our private spaces. They make a mad dash to the supposed high ground, from which they speak in low, solemn tones about their moral mission before fervently invoking the dread spectre of the
Four Horsemen of the Infopocalypse, warning that only a dubious amulet—or suspicious software update—can save us from the most threatening members of our species.

Suddenly, everybody with a principled objection is forced to preface their concern with apologetic throat-clearing and the establishment of bonafides: I lost a friend when the towers came down, however... As a parent, I understand this is a real problem, but...

As a parent, I’m here to tell you that sometimes it doesn’t matter why the man in the handsome suit is doing something. What matters are the consequences.

Apple’s new system, regardless of how anyone tries to justify it, will permanently redefine what belongs to you, and what belongs to them.

How?

The task Apple intends its new surveillance system to perform—preventing their cloud systems from being used to store digital contraband, in this case unlawful images uploaded by their customers—is traditionally performed by searching their systems. While it’s still problematic for anybody to search through a billion people’s private files, the fact that they can only see the files you gave them is a crucial limitation.

Now, however, that’s all set to change. Under the new design, your phone will now perform these searches on Apple’s behalf before your photos have even reached their iCloud servers, and—yada, yada, yada—if enough "forbidden content" is discovered, law-enforcement will be notified.

I intentionally wave away the technical and procedural details of Apple’s system here, some of which are quite clever, because they, like our man in the handsome suit, merely distract from the most pressing fact—the fact that, in just a few weeks, Apple plans to erase the boundary dividing which devices work for you, and which devices work for them.

Why is this so important? Once the precedent has been set that it is fit and proper for even a "pro-privacy" company like Apple to make products that betray their users and owners, Apple itself will lose all control over how that precedent is applied. ​​​​​​As soon as the public first came to learn of the “spyPhone” plan, experts began investigating its technical weaknesses, and the many ways it could be abused, primarily within the parameters of Apple’s design. Although these valiant vulnerability-research efforts have produced compelling evidence that the system is seriously flawed, they also seriously miss the point: Apple gets to decide whether or not their phones will monitor their owners’ infractions for the government, but it's the government that gets to decide what constitutes an infraction... and how to handle it.

For its part, Apple says their system, in its initial, v1.0 design, has a narrow focus: it only scrutinizes photos intended to be uploaded to iCloud (although for 85% of its customers, that means EVERY photo), and it does not scrutinize them beyond a simple comparison against a database of specific examples of previously-identified child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

If you’re an enterprising pedophile with a basement full of CSAM-tainted iPhones, Apple welcomes you to entirely exempt yourself from these scans by simply flipping the “Disable iCloud Photos” switch, a bypass which reveals that this system was never designed to protect children, as they would have you believe, but rather to protect their brand. As long as you keep that material off their servers, and so keep Apple out of the headlines, Apple doesn’t care.

So what happens when, in a few years at the latest, a politician points that out, and—in order to protect the children—bills are passed in the legislature to prohibit this "Disable" bypass, effectively compelling Apple to scan photos that aren’t backed up to iCloud? What happens when a party in India demands they start scanning for memes associated with a separatist movement? What happens when the UK demands they scan for a library of terrorist imagery? How long do we have left before the iPhone in your pocket begins quietly filing reports about encountering “extremist” political material, or about your presence at a "civil disturbance"? Or simply about your iPhone's possession of a video clip that contains, or maybe-or-maybe-not contains, a blurry image of a passer-by who resembles, according to an algorithm, "a person of interest"?

If Apple demonstrates the capability and willingness to continuously, remotely search every phone for evidence of one particular type of crime, these are questions for which they will have no answer. And yet an answer will come—and it will come from the worst lawmakers of the worst governments.

This is not a slippery slope. It’s a cliff.

One particular frustration for me is that I know some people at Apple, and I even like some people at Apple—bright, principled people who should know better. Actually, who do know better. Every security expert in the world is screaming themselves hoarse now, imploring Apple to stop, even those experts who in more normal circumstances reliably argue in favor of censorship. Even some survivors of child exploitation are against it. And yet, as the OG designer Galileo once said, it moves.

Faced with a blistering torrent of global condemnation, Apple has responded not by addressing any concerns or making any changes, or, more sensibly, by just scrapping the plan altogether, but by deploying their man-in-the-handsome-suit software chief, who resembles the well-moisturized villain from a movie about Wall Street, to give quotes to, yes, the Wall Street Journal about how sorry the company is for the "confusion" it has caused, but how the public shouldn't worry: Apple “feel[s] very good about what they’re doing.”

I would say I’m being unfair to him, but I’m not the one who dismissed universal public opposition to a new and intensely personal form of mass surveillance as “confusion.”

Neither the message nor the messenger was a mistake. Apple dispatched its SVP-for-Software Ken doll to speak with the Journal not to protect the company's users, but to reassure the company's investors. His role was to create the false impression that this is not something that you, or anyone, should be upset about. And, collaterally, his role was to ensure this new "policy" would be associated with the face of an Apple executive other than CEO Tim Cook, just in case the roll-out, or the fall-out, results in a corporate beheading.

Why? Why is Apple risking so much for a CSAM-detection system that has been denounced as “dangerous” and "easily repurposed for surveillance and censorship" by the very computer scientists who've already put it to the test? What could be worth the decisive shattering of the foundational Apple idea that an iPhone belongs to the person who carries it, rather than to the company that made it? 

Apple: "Designed in California, Assembled in China, Purchased by You, Owned by Us."

The one answer to these questions that the optimists keep coming back to is the likelihood that Apple is doing this as a prelude to finally switching over to “end-to-end” encryption for everything its customers store on iCloud—something Apple had previously intended to do before backtracking, in a dismaying display of cowardice, after the FBI secretly complained.

For the unfamiliar, what I’m describing here as end-to-end encryption is a somewhat complex concept, but briefly, it means that only the two endpoints sharing a file—say, two phones on opposite sides of the internet—are able to decrypt it. Even if the file were being stored and served from an iCloud server in Cupertino, as far as Apple (or any other middleman-in-a-handsome-suit) is concerned, that file is just an indecipherable blob of random garbage: the file only becomes a text message, a video, a photo, or whatever it is, when it is paired with a key that’s possessed only by you and by those with whom you choose to share it.

This is the goal of end-to-end encryption: drawing a new and ineradicable line in the digital sand dividing your data and their data. It allows you to trust a service provider to store your data without granting them any ability to understand it. This would mean that even Apple itself could no longer be expected to rummage through your iCloud account with its grabby little raccoon hands—and therefore could not be expected to hand it over to any government that can stamp a sheet of paper, which is precisely why the FBI (again: secretly) complained.

For Apple to realize this original vision would have represented a huge improvement in the privacy of our devices, effectively delivering the final word in a thirty year-long debate over establishing a new industry standard—and, by extension, the new global expectation that parties seeking access to data from a device must obtain it from that device, rather than turning the internet and its ecosystem into a spy machine.

Unfortunately, I am here to report that once again, the optimists are wrong: Apple’s proposal to make their phones inform on and betray their owners marks the dawn of a dark future, one to be written in the blood of the political opposition of a hundred countries that will exploit this system to the hilt. See, the day after this system goes live, it will no longer matter whether or not Apple ever enables end-to-end encryption, because our iPhones will be reporting their contents before our keys are even used

I can’t think of any other company that has so proudly, and so publicly, distributed spyware to its own devices—and I can’t think of a threat more dangerous to a product’s security than the mischief of its own maker. There is no fundamental technological limit to how far the precedent Apple is establishing can be pushed, meaning the only restraint is Apple’s all-too-flexible company policy, something governments understand all too well.

I would say there should be a law, but I fear it would only make things worse.

We are bearing witness to the construction of an all-seeing-i—an Eye of Improvidence—under whose aegis every iPhone will search itself for whatever Apple wants, or for whatever Apple is directed to want. They are inventing a world in which every product you purchase owes its highest loyalty to someone other than its owner.

To put it bluntly, this is not an innovation but a tragedy, a disaster-in-the-making.

Or maybe I'm confused—or maybe I just think different. (read more)

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HOMICIDAL REALITY

The forecast track for Tropical Depression 9, now Hurricane Ida, issued with Advisory #1 at 11 AM on 26 August 2021 showed it reaching hurricane strength before making landfall in Louisiana. Mayor LaToya was not paying attention to Gulf of Mexico surface water temperature.

(If I lived in New Orleans, I'd get in my internal combustion engine vehicle (with family, pets and important papers), fill up the tank at the first open gas station, and head northwest immediately. I would not take IH 10 east or west because everyone else will be doing that. Even with heavy traffic, I'd reach Texas before dawn on Saturday (18 hours before the storm makes landfall) and then keep driving west or northwest to higher ground.)

New Orleans to hunker down for Ida as it's too late for mandatory evacuations, mayor says 

"We do not want to have people on the road, and therefore in greater danger,” Mayor LaToya Cantrell said

Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Friday said that with little time left before Hurricane Ida reaches Louisiana, residents should get ready to hunker down and ride out the storm.

She told a news conference there wasn't enough time to establish the highway contraflow procedures necessary to move all residents out of the city before the storm's expected landfall Sunday afternoon.

"We are not calling for a mandatory evacuation because the time simply is not on our side. We do not want to have people on the road, and therefore in greater danger,” Cantrell said.

She reiterated that New Orleanians inside the city's levee protection system are safe, but said that residents outside of the levees were under a mandatory evacuation order and should get out as soon as possible.

"The situation is much more serious than it was six hours ago," said Cantrell, referring to the increasing intensity forecast of Ida, which is on a path to smash into the central Louisiana coast as a potentially catastrophic Category 4 storm.

Earlier Friday, Cantrell had issued mandatory evacuation orders for Venetian Isles and other parts of New Orleans outside of the hurricane protection system, while issuing a voluntary evacuation for the rest of city that sits inside of the levees.

Residents across southern Louisiana were taking precautions and in many cases leaving the area. Mandatory evacuation orders were in place in LaFourche, Terrebonne, St. Charles parishes and parts of Plaquemines and Jefferson parishes.

Cantrell said a shelter location is being prepared for people who cannot evacuate but who do not want to shelter in their homes. Cantrell said she would share more details on the location of that shelter soon. 

Cantrell said the state had signed contracts with 125 coach buses in the event of a post-storm evacuation, which could be triggered by a combination of infrastructure damage and power outages.

Mindful of the disastrous post-storm evacuations in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, city and state officials are planning for "a very robust, very quick, post-storm evacuation," said Collin Arnold, the city's emergency preparedness director.

“That’s the biggest lesson learned, Katrina,” Arnold said. "That is on everybody's mind." (read more)

*

Time is not on our side,” Mayor Cantrell says contraflow cannot be set up so a mandatory
evacuation cannot be issued, but to shelter-in-place and hunker down.
pic.twitter.com/GCgAtEvKAS

— FOX 8 New Orleans (@FOX8NOLA) August 27, 2021

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GOVERNMENTAL REALITY

Remember, the State Dept (DoS) and CIA are one team.  The White House and Pentagon are another team.

♦ TEAM One – The Department of State is aligned with the CIA.  Their media PR firms are CNN, CNNi and the Washington Post. Their ideology is favorable to the United Nations.  Their internal corruption is generally driven by relationship with foreign actors.  References: Hillary Clinton, Clinton Global Initiative, John McCain, Qatar, Muslim Brotherhood, Samantha Powers, Susan Rice, Cass Sunstein, Brookings Institute, Lawfare, China-centric, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Council on Foreign Relations.

♦ TEAM Two – The White House is aligned with the Pentagon (DoD) and National Security Council (NSC).  Their media PR firms are domestic in nature. New York Times, Politico, etc.  Their internal corruption is generally driven by domestic influence.  References: Barack Obama, George Bush, Wall St, Big Banks, Multinational Corporations, Defense Contractors, FBI (state police), Judicial Branch, and community activists writ large.

Both teams are highly political. However, the State Dept/CIA team consider themselves above political changes; essentially the deeper Deep State.

With the DoS/CIA aligned with CNN/WaPo, when the Pentagon needs to defend their specific interests in crisis management, they must go elsewhere, hence Politico.

Sundance


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IRREPRODUCIBLE REALITY

Never trust a scientist

The latest psychology scandal is a reminder of an old principle

In 2002, a Harvard professor named Marc Hauser made an exciting discovery about monkeys. Cotton-top tamarins, to be specific. The monkeys, just like human infants, were able to generalise rules that they’d learned across different patterns. This was a big deal: if monkeys had this capacity, it would provide key insights into how human language evolved.

Except it was all fake: in the experiment, which relied on the monkeys looking in particular directions when shown certain patterns, Hauser had simply pretended that they were looking in the direction relevant to his language-evolution theory. They hadn’t been. When a research assistant questioned how Hauser himself kept finding the results he wanted when nobody else who looked at the data could, he turned into a browbeating bully: “I am getting a bit pissed here,” he wrote in an email. “There were no inconsistencies!”

It is just a tiny bit ironic, then, that Hauser had also written a book about morality.
Moral Minds: The Nature of Right and Wrong came out in 15 years ago, and described Hauser’s theory that we have an in-built, evolved morality module in our brains. Perhaps his had gone somewhat awry: not only did he fake the data in that monkey-learning paper, but there were also allegations that he’d lifted many of his book’s ideas — most notably, the idea that morality has a “universal grammar”, like language — from another academic, John Mikhail, without crediting him at all.

You might have expected better from an Ivy League university professor. But the Hauser case was a classic reminder of how even the most high-powered intellectuals from the most august institutions should never be given our implicit trust.

Sadly, we now have yet another story that underlines this lesson; something similar might have happened again. Another psychology professor from a top university; another pop-science book; another set of results that aren’t real and were never real to begin with; another set of credible (though, I hasten to add, at this time unproven) allegations of scientific fraud. And another irony, because the potentially dishonest results were in a study about: honesty.

Duke University’s Dan Ariely has written several books that made a big splash in the world of popular psychology and “behavioural economics”. His combination of humour and what appears to be deep psychological insight made them fly off the shelves. In 2008, Predictably Irrational provided an apparently “revolutionary” argument for why economists were wrong to assume rationality on the part of the average consumer. In 2012, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty used some of Ariely’s own research to explain what makes people break the rules. Ariely’s slick, charismatic TED talks have racked up millions of views. One of them, titled “Our Buggy Moral Code”, explains “why we think it’s okay to cheat or steal”.

Unfortunately, it seems someone involved with Ariely’s research thought it was okay to cheat. Last week, an in-depth statistical analysis showed that a dataset from one of his 2012 papers was, essentially beyond doubt, fraudulent. The study had apparently showed that people were more honest about how much mileage their car had done if you made them sign a “I promise this information is true” statement before they reported the mileage, rather than at the bottom of the page. But it hadn’t shown that. In fact, it seems no such study ever happened, and the data was just produced using a random number generator.

Ariely responded to the claims: he said that he’d had a car insurance company collect the data, so someone there must have faked it (impressively, the faker made the results of the study line up perfectly with Ariely’s theory). In other words, his crime was one of sloppiness rather than fraud, since he didn’t double-check the data. He won’t say which insurance company it was — his responses were described by BuzzFeed News’s investigative journalist Stephanie Lee as “vague and conflicting”— nor will Duke University reveal any of the details of the investigation they claim to have made into the matter. The study with the allegedly fraudulent data — which has been cited over 400 times by other scientists — is to be retracted.

Like Hauser’s paper on monkeys (which has been cited more than 175 times), that apparently faked paper on honesty has already done damage to the scientific literature: each of those 400 citations used it, to a greater or lesser extent, to buttress some scientific argument they were making. In every case, they seem to have been misled. This is part of the tragedy of fraud in a cumulative endeavour like science. The least Ariely could do now is provide every possible detail of the provenance of the fake dataset so the scientific community can get to the bottom of it.

But, in the case of Ariely, reticence is something of a pattern. In 2010 he told an interviewer a “fact” about the extent to which dentists agree on whether a tooth has a cavity (he said it was only 50% of the time). His apparent source, Delta Dental insurance, denied this. Ariely claimed someone at Delta Dental had given him the information — but he wouldn’t reveal anything about them, other than the fact they’d definitely not want to talk to anyone else about it.

And just a few months ago, another of his papers (from 2004) was given a special editorial “expression of concern” because of over a dozen statistical impossibilities in the reported numbers. These couldn’t be checked, Ariely said, because he’d lost the original data file.

Maybe it’s worth looking at Ariely’s own theory about cheating and dishonesty. In his TED talk, he described an experiment of his in which the participants had been more likely to cheat on a “dollar-per-correct-answer” maths test if they only had to self-report their number of correct answers, having shredded the answer sheet. That is, when nobody could check the details, dishonesty kicked in. (Someone should probably check the data in that study is legitimate, though.)

Science is supposed to be all about nullius in verba — take nobody’s word for it. Everything, down to the tiniest detail, is supposed to be readily verifiable. Even if a scientist has done everything completely above board, they shouldn’t have to rely on “the dog ate my homework” or “I do have a girlfriend but she goes to a different school so you wouldn’t know her” excuses. The whole idea of having a scientific record is to, well, record things; a literature that’s full not just of fraud but also unverifiable claims is a strange contradiction in terms.

Even if this is the end of the Ariely affair and no other issues with his research are found, it’s still a perfect illustration of so many of the problems with our scientific system. A patchy literature of unclear veracity. Researchers losing track of their data, allowing error, and sometimes fraud, to slip in. Scientists building lucrative careers on a foundation of dodgy research, while the people that clean up their mess — the fraud-busters and data sleuths — go largely unsung. Bestselling popular books spreading untrue and unverifiable claims to thousands of readers.

You need only look at previous massively-successful books on the topics of human biases and the importance of sleep to see how low-quality research and sloppy scientific arguments can reach enormous audiences. At best, the implications of this are that dinner-party conversations will contain even fewer solid facts than usual. At worst, patients (or their doctors) will make decisions about their health on the basis of some unproven, vaguely-reported fact they read in some famous professor’s popular book.

It’s easy to get distracted by the tangles of irony of these cases: the immoral morality expert; the dishonesty expert who (at best) got duped by dishonesty. As amusing as the stories are, they also have rather grim consequences. No matter the subject area, and no matter how impressive the credentials, our trust in the experts keeps being betrayed.

And in some sense, this is a good thing. Scandals like this remind us to take nothing at face value. Nullius in verba, after all. In response to the new fraud revelations, Ariely wrote that he “did not test the data for irregularities, which after this painful lesson, I will start doing regularly”. Whether or not you trust Ariely’s research or his books any more, it’s good advice. (read more)

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IMMUNOLOGICAL REALITY

‘Bombshell’ study finds natural immunity superior to vaccination
 
If the findings are confirmed, the implications for Covid policy will be profound

A major study conducted by Israeli researchers into natural immunity has found that immunity acquired via infection from Covid-19 is superior to immunity from the Pfizer vaccine.

Researchers at Maccabi Healthcare and Tel Aviv University compared the outcomes of over 76,000 Israelis in three groups: the doubly vaccinated (with the Pfizer vaccine), the previously infected but unvaccinated, and the previously infected with only a single vaccine dose.

They found that fully vaccinated but uninfected people were significantly more likely to have a “breakthrough” Covid infection than people who had previously been infected and recovered from the disease.

“This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalisation caused by the Delta variant,” the authors conclude.

The study is only published as a preprint at this stage and has not been peer reviewed. Critics including British immunologist Andrew Croxford have pointed out potential limitations, but it has been described by infectious diseases expert Professor Francois Balloux as a “bombshell” development.

If the findings are confirmed, the implications for global Covid policy will be profound.

[...] However it would weaken the case for vaccinating children, despite the programme being confirmed in the UK today, as they (and the people around them) would get superior future protection from contracting the disease. And it would pose a fundamental challenge to the singular emphasis on vaccine passports for travel and large events, if unvaccinated people who have already had Covid actually pose less of a risk. (read more)

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CYCLONIC REALITY
(Bush the Lesser had his Katrina Moment. Is the Alzheimer in Chief about to have his Ida Moment? Will his illegitimate regime survive after images of bloated black bodies floating in bayous appear in the media? Please don't tell me you expect the shoddy "fixes" by the Army Corps of Engineers and the State of Louisiana to work? If so, I bet you still believe in fairy tales.)

Major Hurricane Ida
(image source)

Major Hurricane Ida forecast to hit Louisiana coast late Sunday.

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PERVERTED REALITY
(Lost soul to lead other lost souls astray.)

The New Chief Chaplain at Harvard? An Atheist.

The Puritan colonists who settled in New England in the 1630s had a nagging concern about the churches they were building: How would they ensure that the clergymen would be literate? Their answer was Harvard University, a school that was established to educate the ministry and adopted the motto “Truth for Christ and the Church.” It was named after a pastor, John Harvard, and it would be more than 70 years before the school had a president who was not a clergyman.

Nearly four centuries later, Harvard’s organization of chaplains has elected as its next president an atheist named Greg Epstein, who takes on the job this week.

Mr. Epstein, 44, author of the book, Good Without God, is a seemingly unusual choice for the role. He will coordinate the activities of more than 40 university chaplains, who lead the Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and other religious communities on campus. Yet many Harvard students — some raised in families of faith, others never quite certain how to label their religious identities — attest to the influence that Mr. Epstein has had on their spiritual lives.

“There is a rising group of people who no longer identify with any religious tradition but still experience a real need for conversation and support around what it means to be a good human and live an ethical life,” said Mr. Epstein, who was raised in a Jewish household and has been Harvard’s humanist chaplain since 2005, teaching students about the progressive movement that centers people’s relationships with one another instead of with God.

To Mr. Epstein’s fellow campus chaplains, at least, the notion of being led by an atheist is not as counterintuitive as it might sound; his election was unanimous.

“Maybe in a more conservative university climate there might be a question like ‘What the heck are they doing at Harvard, having a humanist be the president of the chaplains?’” said Margit Hammerstrom, the Christian Science chaplain at Harvard. “But in this environment it works. Greg is known for wanting to keep lines of communication open between different faiths.”

The dozens of students whom Mr. Epstein mentors have found a source of meaning in the school’s organization of humanists, atheists and agnostics, reflecting a broader trend of young people across the United States who increasingly identify as spiritual but religiously nonaffiliated. That trend might be especially salient at Harvard; a Harvard Crimson survey of the class of 2019 found that those students were two times more likely to identify as atheist or agnostic than 18-year-olds in the general population.

“Greg’s leadership isn’t about theology,” said Charlotte Nickerson, 20, an electrical engineering student. “It’s about cooperation between people of different faiths and bringing together people who wouldn’t normally consider themselves religious.”

The Harvard chaplains play an outsize role on campus, touching hundreds of students’ lives whether through Mass offered by the Catholic Student Center or Shabbat dinners at Harvard Hillel. Its leader reports directly to the office of the university president.

To Mr. Epstein, becoming the organization’s head, especially as it gains more recognition from the university, comes as affirmation of a yearslong effort, started by his predecessor, to teach a campus with traditional religious roots about humanism.

“We don’t look to a god for answers,” Mr. Epstein said. “We are each other’s answers.”

Mr. Epstein’s work includes hosting dinners for undergraduates where conversation goes deep: Does God exist? What is the meaning of life? He previously ran a congregation of Boston-area humanists and atheists who met in Harvard Square for weekly services that centered on secular sermons. In 2018 he closed that down to focus his time on building campus relationships, including at M.I.T., where he is also a chaplain. Mr. Epstein frequently meets individually with students who are struggling with issues both personal and theological, counseling them on managing anxiety about summer jobs, family feuds, the pressures of social media and the turbulence endemic to college life.

“Greg is irreverent and good at diffusing pressure,” Ms. Nickerson said, recalling a time he joked that if her summer internship got too stressful she could always get fired — then she would have a good story to share.

Some of the students drawn to Mr. Epstein’s secular community are religious refugees, people raised in observant households who arrive at college seeking spiritual meaning in a less rigid form.

Adelle Goldenberg, 22, grew up in the Hasidic community in Brooklyn, where she recalls being told that she could not attend college. In preschool, when asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, her answer was simple: a bride. It was the only thing she could envision for a girl like herself. When she turned 19, she applied to Harvard in secret and fled the community.

Once at Harvard, she was wary of assuming any religious label, but she still yearned to find people wrestling with issues deeper than academic achievement. She started attending meetings of the humanist group and discovered in Mr. Epstein a form of mentorship that felt almost like having a secular rabbi, she said.

“When the pandemic [of lies] hit I was like, ‘Greg, do you have time to talk about the meaning of life,’” Ms. Goldenberg recalled. “He showed me that it’s possible to find community outside a traditional religious context, that you can have the value-add religion has provided for centuries, which is that it’s there when things seem chaotic.”

Ms. Goldenberg reflected anew on how unlikely her path had been when her mother asked to see the university yearbook: “I told her, ‘I don’t think you’re going to like it,’” Ms. Goldenberg said. “It says I was co-president of the Harvard Humanists, Atheists and Agnostics. And you can see my shoulders.”

Nonreligiosity is on the rise far beyond the confines of Harvard; it is the fastest growing religious preference in the country, according to the Pew Research Center. More than 20 percent of the country identifies as atheist, agnostic or nonreligious — called the “nones” — including four in 10 millennials.

The reasons that more young Americans are disaffiliating in the world’s most religious developed country are varied. The Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith attributes the trend partly to the growing alliance between the Republican Party and the Christian right, a decline of trust in institutions, growing skepticism of religion in the wake of the Sept. 11 [false flag] terrorist attacks and a shift away from traditional family structures that centered on churchgoing.

Mr. Epstein’s community has tapped into the growing desire for meaning without faith in God. “Being able to find values and rituals but not having to believe in magic, that’s a powerful thing,” said A.J. Kumar, who served as the president of a Harvard humanist graduate student group that Mr. Epstein advised.

Other Harvard chaplains have applauded Mr. Epstein’s efforts to provide a campus home for those who are religiously unattached, skeptical but still searching. Some said his selection to lead the group, following its previous Jewish leader, seemed obvious.

“Greg was the first choice of a committee that was made up of a Lutheran, a Christian Scientist, an evangelical Christian and a Bahá’í,” said the Rev. Kathleen Reed, a Lutheran chaplain who chaired the nominating committee. “We’re presenting to the university a vision of how the world could work when diverse traditions focus on how to be good humans and neighbors.”

And for some members of Harvard’s humanist and atheist community, exploring humanism has brought with it a richer understanding of faith.

Ms. Nickerson grew up in a working-class Catholic household where she struggled to connect with rituals like Mass. But during her freshman year at Harvard, she found herself capable of long, lively conversations with her devout grandmother. Ms. Nickerson realized that her involvement with Harvard humanism had given her the language to understand her grandmother’s theology.

Last spring, the two were tending roses and daylilies in the family garden when they got on the topic of surrender. Ms. Nickerson’s grandmother reflected on the aspects of her life that were in God’s hands; Ms. Nickerson agreed that it was important to recognize all the events beyond human control, though she does not believe there is a deity involved. Ms. Nickerson then shared a Buddhist parable that she had learned from the humanist club, which her grandmother later passed on to her Bible study group.

“We understood the idea of surrender in a similar way even though one of those explanations came with God and the other didn’t,” Ms. Nickerson said. “I find I’m more fluid in my spiritual conversations now.” (read more)

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FACING REALITY

"Afghanistan finally liberated from a regime that imposes mandatory face coverings, destroys statues and promotes the genital mutilation of children."

What If Afghanistan is More Than Just a Failed War?

[...] The collapse of our Afghanistan adventure is supposed to deeply shame us and humiliate us. The vandals in D.C. are chuckling in their version of Collapsitarian.

It has done that.

The media that has been their stenographers and our enemies have been stunned into a rare silence, some even imploring us to self-censor images of their failures.

The anger over this collapse[, its inevitability hidden for twenty years from the American people by thousands of liars,] is just settling in for millions of people now.

But, we have to move past that shame quickly. Now we must take that humility, which used to be the ethos of pre-empire America, and realize who the architects of this were and remove them from the public discourse. They no longer get to speak in hallowed halls and drone incantations of death and destruction, dressing it up as a righteous cause.

They no longer get to bamboozle with prepared talking points which are as pathetic as they are deceitful.

Because if we do that then those who enforce the viceroy’s chaos will also face a stark choice. I ask them openly, “Is this order?”

Is this what you are willing to die to protect?

Change is coming. You can be a part of it or run for the airports with your mask on and your vaccine QR code at the ready. Davos has tried to break our spirit by breaking our families and our tribes.

They have us fighting among ourselves while they try to run the table over the flu shot. We think ourselves superior to those Afghan goat-herders. But they still have their identities.

And now they have their country back.

I’ve herded goats, it’s a tough job. Far tougher than the work most Americans do today. So, stow the exceptionalism, back away from the shadows projected on the cave wall and reconnect with the light of reality.

Two weeks ago I implored law enforcement to see things as they were and remind themselves who it is they protect and serve.

Now is your opportunity to prove to us, in our time of need, that you are our friends and not the enemies of civil society. You have the opportunity to help restore real order. Don’t make the mistakes our soldiers and their families made, sacrificing your lives for people who despise you.

Wars of all forms are rackets.

Because the big reveal in Afghanistan is that what happened there can happen here, quickly. Those goat-herders just showed us how to defeat an Empire abroad. Now it’s time to defeat the empire within[; the rapidly metastasizing empire that is stealing our nation and our unique national identity one misspent dollar, one fraudulent ballot and one illegal alien at a time.]

Fuck war. (read more)


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BLICK INS CHAOS (not by Hermann Karl Hesse)

America right now is trapped in a mass hallucination. Everyone of all political persuasions knows that the president and media are locked in a power struggle, that the military has been thoroughly pillaged by defense contractors, and that distrust and anxiety about the state of the country are at all time highs. Since mid-2016, we have all started to realize how little remains of the public good. But we continue to be trapped in an illusion that we are still a massive power and can simply “pull through” the current state of things, as if it is a little speed bump rather than the beginning of the end.

[...] All that is needed is a single, concrete military failure for that hallucination to be totally shattered. John Michael Greer described precisely how this can happen in his book, Twilight’s Last Gleaming. If the American military were to fail, the illusion of a united country would dissipate before our eyes and the country would be gone within weeks — either in a peaceful breakup or a violent one, depending on how Washington would attempt to respond.


J. L. Seagull (a pseudonym)

See also: Will Afghanistan Turn Out to be US Imperialism’s “Last Gleaming”?

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CALIPH OF CHAOS
(What was a nice Jewish boy doing in a place like that?)

French Report ISIL Leader Mossad Agent

Simon Elliot, a.k.a al-Baghdadi, son of Jewish parents, Mossad agent

In French

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, so-called  “Caliph,”  the head of ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is, according to sources reputed to originate from Edward Snowden, an actor named Elliot Shimon, a Mossad trained operative.

Simon Elliot (Elliot Shimon) a.k.a. al-Baghdadi was born of two Jewish parents and is a Mossad agent.

We offer below three translations that purport to assert that the Caliph al-Baghdadi is a full Mossad agent and that he was born to a Jewish father and mother:

The real name of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is “Simon Elliott.”

The so-called “Elliot” was recruited by the Israeli Mossad  and was trained in espionage and psychological warfare against Arab and Islamic societies.

This information was attributed to Edward Snowden and published by newspapers and other web sites: the head of the “Islamic State” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has cooperated with the U.S. Secret Service, British and Israel to create an organization capable of attracting terrorist extremists from around the world.

Source: Radio ajyal.com

Another source corroborates this statement, the site Egy-press:

With photo support, a Iranian media discovers the true identity of the Emir Daash, a trained Zionist agent.

Iranian intelligence discovered the true and full identity of the Emir Daash, which is known under the name Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi; his real name is Elliot Shimon. Its role in Mossad secret agent in the Zionist espionage. His false name: Ibrahim ibn Awad ibn Ibrahim Al Al Badri Arradoui Hoseini.

The plan: get into the military and civilian heart of the countries that are declared as a threat to Israel in order to destroy to facilitate thereafter, the takeover by the Zionist state on the entire area of the Middle East in order to establish Greater Israel.

Here are the borders of the Zionist project, the “Greater Israel” or “Eretz Israel” for short.

These facts confirm the first that came out a few days ago, confirming that the Caliph Rolex is sent from Israel to sow chaos in countries neighboring the Zionist entity. Please note that EIIL announced it a few days ago that, to want to now take the “barbarians Jews”, a reference to Zionists besiege Gaza.

Practice! Having devastated the area of Israel, it will now allow the Americans and the Israelis to show the fingers as bloody terrorists to shoot at faster to defend the Zionist state, while the same let them proliferate and act with impunity for over two months now. Prepare a project they probably from the famous Arab Spring with the destabilization of Iraq, Sudan, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Mali (among others). Clever!

Listen and listen again Bernard-Henri Lévy on that so-called Arab Spring:


After gathering the most fanatical of the world in one place, a veritable army of the devil is formed, filled with bloodthirsty murderers without mercy for their victims, they murder with a vengeance and in cold blood, filming their atrocities and relaying on social networks. (read more)

See also from 2015:
General Flynn spills beans on decision to let ISIS evolve – DIA report released

[...]

The classified DIA report presented in August 2012, stated that.

“The Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI [Al- Qaeda in Iraq] are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria,” being supported by “the West, Gulf countries and Turkey.”

The document recently declassified through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), analyses the situation in Syria in the summer of 2012 and predicts:

“If the situation unravels, there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in eastern Syria… and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime.”

The report warns of “dire consequences” of this scenario, because it would allow Al-Qaeda to regain its positions in Iraq and unify the jihadist Sunni forces in Iraq, Syria and the rest of the Sunnis in the Arab world against all other Muslim minorities they consider dissenters.

“ISI (the Islamic State of Iraq) could also declare an Islamic State through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria, which will create grave danger in regards of unifying Iraq and the protection of its territory,” the DIA report correctly predicted at the time.

Those groups eventually emerged as Islamic State (IS formerly ISIS/ISIL) and Al-Nusra Front, an Islamic group loyal to Al-Qaeda.

Unlike the US State Department, which rushed to label the declassified DIA memo as unimportant soon after its declassification, the DIA’s former head expressed full trust in the 2012 report, stressing he “paid very close attention” to this document, adding “the intelligence was very clear.”

Al Jazeera notes that Lieutenant General Michael Flynn became “the highest ranking intelligence official to go on record,” saying the US and other states, notably Turkey and the Gulf Arab states, were sponsoring Al-Qaeda-led rebels in Syria with political support and weapons in an attempt to overthrow President Bashar Assad.

When Al Jazeera’s Hasan asked Flynn why he didn’t attempt to stop the US coordinating arms transfers to Islamic extremists, the retired general said:

“I hate to say it’s not my job, but my job was to ensure the accuracy of our intelligence,” said Flynn, who also served as director of intelligence for the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) during the US hunt for Bin Laden.

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CHAOS IN KABUL

Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly Kabul airport attack

CAIRO, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility for a deadly attack outside Kabul airport on Thursday, the group's Amaq News Agency said on its Telegram channel.

A suicide bomber from the Islamist militant group "managed to reach a large gathering of translators and collaborators with the American army at 'Baran Camp' near Kabul Airport and detonated his explosive belt among them, killing about 60 people and wounding more than 100 others, including Taliban fighters," it said. (read more)

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"The Islamic State is not only protected by the US and its allies, it is trained and financed by US-NATO, with the support of Israel and Washington’s Persian Gulf allies."

Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Obama’s “Fake War” against the Islamic State (ISIS). The Islamic State is Protected by the US and its Allies, February 19, 2015


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The US led war against  the Islamic State is a big lie.

Going after ” Islamic terrorists”, carrying out a worldwide pre-emptive war to “Protect the American Homeland” are used to justify a military agenda.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a creation of US intelligence. Washington’s “Counter-terrorism Agenda” in Iraq and Syria consists in Supporting the Terrorists. 

The incursion of the Islamic State (IS) brigades into Iraq starting in June 2014 was part of a carefully planned military-intelligence operation supported covertly by the US, NATO and Israel.

The counter-terrorism mandate is a fiction. America is the Number One “State Sponsor of Terrorism”

The Islamic State is protected by the US and its allies. If they had wanted to eliminate the Islamic State brigades, they could have “carpet” bombed their convoys of Toyota pickup trucks when they crossed the desert from Syria into Iraq in June.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Twenty-six Things About the Islamic State (ISIL) that Obama Does Not Want You to Know About, November 25, 2014

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America, this is what happens when you allow Barack Hussein Obama, George Soros, the U.S. Deep State, the Anglo-Zionists, Davos Globalists, the Chinese Communist Party and treasonous Republicans in Name Only to pick your president, crown him front runner through massive Super Tuesday fraud and coordinate nationwide fraud before, during and after the November 3rd election that was ratified by the highly compromised Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Are you happy now?

Are you happy with the treasonous actions of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman
General Mark Milley and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin?
 
Who ordered Bagram AFB shut down prematurely?


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Dozens of civilians, 10 U.S. troops killed in bloodbath at Kabul airport

Aug 26 (Reuters) - Suicide bombers struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport with at least two explosions on Thursday, causing a bloodbath among civilians and U.S. troops and effectively shutting down the Western airlift of Afghans desperate to flee.

The Pentagon said "a number" of American service members were killed. One U.S. official said according to initial reports at least 10 had died.

There was no complete death toll of Afghan civilians but video images uploaded by Afghan journalists showed dozens of bodies of people killed in packed crowds outside the airport.

A watery ditch by the airport fence was filled with bloodsoaked corpses, some being fished out and laid in heaps on the canal side while wailing civilians searched for loved ones.

Several Western countries said the airlift of civilians was now effectively over, with the United States having sealed the gates of the airport leaving no way out for tens of thousands of Afghans who worked for the West through two decades of war. (read more)

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At least 12 U.S. troops killed in Kabul airport attack, officials say

WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - At least a dozen U.S. troops were killed and several others wounded in Thursday's suicide bombings at Kabul airport, U.S. sources told Reuters, in what the Pentagon said was a "complex attack" during its evacuation mission from Afghanistan.

In a statement, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby confirmed multiple U.S. fatalities but did not give details. The U.S. servicemembers were among those killed when at least two blasts tore through crowds thronging the airport gates.

Two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that at least a dozen U.S. personnel were killed. Officials said that number could change and was expected to increase. Several other U.S. troops were wounded, the officials said.

A Taliban official said at least 13 people including children had been killed in the attack and 52 were wounded, though it was clear from video footage that those figures were far from complete.

Kirby is expected to hold a briefing at 3 p.m. EST (1900 GMT).

U.S. officials have said there are about 5,200 American troops providing security at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport. The suicide bombing attacks came after the United States and allies urged Afghans to leave the area around the airport because of a threat by Islamic State militants. (read more)

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Whoa

US State Department issues alert warning US nationals to avoid traveling to Hamid Karzai Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, asks those waiting outside to leave immediatelyhttps://t.co/g2kSeDov4G

— (@tamer_hadi) August 25, 2021

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DOOCY TIME: “At the tail end of the President’s remarks today about cybersecurity, he was asked about Afghanistan…& he made a joke. So, what’s go funny?

Psaki: “Well, I think the question he was asked…is about when he will provide information about a decision on August 31” pic.twitter.com/tdQvNnqUCr

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 25, 2021

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I asked President Biden what he will do if Americans are still in Afghanistan after the 8/31 deadline.
His response: “You’ll be the first person I call.”
Took no questions. pic.twitter.com/MlyFIayrMZ

— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) August 25, 2021

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Devastating scenes at Kabul airport. Knee deep in sewage, waving their papers, begging to be let in. @ABC #Kabul #Taliban #Afghanistancrisis pic.twitter.com/BZccCe1vu8

— Ian Pannell (@IanPannell) August 25, 2021

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BREAKING: The U.S. military has started withdrawing from Afghanistan reducing troop presence: U.S. officials

— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) August 24, 2021

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US embassy issues last alert for US citizens to leave afghanistan or they’re on their own, then recalls it 30 mins later.

— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) August 24, 2021

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21,000 people were evacuated from Kabul airport in last 24 hours, via 37 US military flights carrying 12,700 evacuees & 57 coalition flights carrying 8,900, per WH. 12,700 is largest number evacuated by US military in 24-hour period to date.

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 24, 2021

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Imagine the Taliban trying to issue Trump a redline. 😂 https://t.co/DKBlFiDQ5p

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) August 23, 2021

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The #Taliban will not extend an Aug. 31 deadline for Western forces to leave #Afghanistan, two sources in the Islamist group told Reuters on Monday. This will complicate things considerably, if it maintains this position.https://t.co/aA4QEbxGyF

— Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) August 23, 2021

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Kamala Harris brags about the “successful drawdown of the embassy” when asked about the situation in Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/OUo0xbd6Rc

— The First (@TheFirstonTV) August 23, 2021

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WH Press Sec. Jen Psaki: “I think it’s irresponsible to say Americans are stranded. They are not.”

NBC News: Thousands of Americans Still Stranded in Afghanistanhttps://t.co/sBBcEJ6V5F pic.twitter.com/1UuPfJgK66

— America Rising (@AmericaRising) August 23, 2021

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If we had a real media in America you’d think they’d make a really big deal about the fact that our greatest ally abroad, Great Britain, literally held our president in contempt over his disastrous and “dishonorable” withdrawal from Afghanistan.

But we don’t have a real media! pic.twitter.com/3u97rmGrI6

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) August 23, 2021

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Incredible stuff. @CBSDavidMartin gave a go at trying to get John Kirby to say how many Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan.

Kirby continues to refuse to say.

What a disaster. pic.twitter.com/KafY0Q3Fn3

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 23, 2021

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Blinken: Leaving Americans to get to the Kabul airport on their own is “the best way to do this.” pic.twitter.com/8Ocom7JsgL

— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) August 22, 2021

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Source sends along this video outside the Kabul airport in Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/Ifetxmgfdv

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) August 21, 2021

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Sky News reports on the “mayhem” at the Kabul airport: “They’re getting crushed…Medics rushing from the next casualty to the next and the next.”

“Is this a stabilized withdrawal from Afghanistan? It looks like death to me.” pic.twitter.com/vQwsbUP7fn

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 22, 2021

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REPORTER: “Do you trust the Taliban?”

BIDEN: “I don’t trust anybody including you. I love you but there’s not a lot of people I trust.” pic.twitter.com/JrKDN1qsNX

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 22, 2021

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Thousands of Americans are trapped behind Taliban lines, and Biden has made the decision to rely on the Taliban to let them through instead of going out and getting them - while our allies are going outside the airport to get their citizens and Afghans.

— Ted Cruz @tedcruz August 22, 2021



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THE COVID-CON III

CDC’s Own Stats Show 1,270 Premature Fetal Deaths Following COVID Shots but Recommend Pregnant Women Get COVID Injections

The U.S. CDC has announced that they have “new data” that they claim shows that the COVID-19 experimental injections are now safe for pregnant women.

Of course they have been recommending all along that pregnant women get the experimental injections, so it appears that this is just a new marketing strategy to get more pregnant women to get the shots.

The CDC admits that this “new study” of nearly 2,500 pregnant women who received an mRNA COVID-19 injection before 20 weeks of pregnancy had 13% of them suffer miscarriages. They concluded that:

the known severe risks of COVID-19 during pregnancy demonstrate that the benefits of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant people outweigh any known or potential risks. (Source.)

A search of the CDC Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) lists 1,270 premature fetal deaths in pregnant women following one of the experimental, non-FDA approved COVID-19 injections. (Source.)
As we have previously reported here at Health Impact News, a pro-life group out of New Mexico has reported that a whistleblower who sits on a COVID-19 task force is claiming that many pregnancy complications, including preterm birth, miscarriage, and spontaneous abortions following COVID vaccines are being concealed from the public. See: Whistleblower Reveals Many Pregnancy Complications following Experimental COVID Injections – “Vaccine Leaving a Trail of Devastated Mothers”

This whistleblower has uncovered documents that Pfizer had supplied to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) that shows their mRNA COVID vaccines did have animal trials that showed serious birth defects occurred in the rat specimens. See: EMA Pfizer Documents on Experimental COVID-19 mRNA Shots Reveal Animal Studies were Conducted during Trials – Risks to Pregnancy being Concealed but Verified by VAERS Data

Also, at the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) last quarterly meeting, on March 4, 2021, the CDC supplied a report on “Maternal vaccination safety summary” for the COVID vaccines that had been granted emergency use authorization.

You can view it here.

The CDC’s own report stated:

Maternal vaccination safety summary

* Pregnant women were not specifically included in pre-authorization clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines
– Post-authorization safety monitoring and research are the primary ways to obtain safety data on COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy
* Larger than expected numbers of self-reported pregnant women have registered in v-safe
* The reactogenicity profile and adverse events observed among pregnant women in v-safe did not indicate any safety problems
* Most reports to VAERS among pregnant women (73%) involved non-pregnancy specific adverse events (e.g., local and systemic reactions)
* Miscarriage was the most frequently reported pregnancy-specific adverse event to VAERS; numbers are within the known background rates based on presumed COVID-19 vaccine doses administered to pregnant women

So even though there were “larger than expected numbers of self-reported pregnant women” reporting adverse reactions to the experimental vaccines, and even though “miscarriage was the most frequently reported pregnancy-specific adverse event,” the CDC concluded that this “did not indicate any safety problems.”

And that is what they are doing with this study, which they admit caused miscarriages in 13% of the women.

They brush all these fetal deaths aside by stating:

the known severe risks of COVID-19 during pregnancy demonstrate that the benefits of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant people outweigh any known or potential risks. (Source.)

But what exactly are these “benefits” of receiving a COVID-19 “vaccine” that “outweigh the risks?” They admit they don’t stop transmission, they admit you can still get COVID-19 after being vaccinated, and they admit that people who are fully vaccinated are still dying. (read more)

2021-08-26 b
THE COVID-CON II
"The powers that be will not admit there is something terribly wrong. They will not acknowledge the clear science that people with natural immunity, and the young and healthy, do not need to take the risks of these injections."

BOMBSHELL UK data destroys entire premise for vaccine push

The media can read just as well as me (maybe), but somehow it is left to me to report this.

This is an absolute game-changer.

The UK government just reported the following data, tucked away in their report on variants of concern:

Less than a third of delta variant deaths are in the unvaccinated.

Let me say that another way - two-thirds of Delta deaths in the UK are in the jabbed.

To be specific:

From the 1st of February to the 2nd of August, the UK recorded 742 Delta deaths (yes, the dreaded Delta has not taken that much life).

Out of the 742 deaths, 402 were fully vaccinated. 79 had received one shot. Only 253 were unvaccinated.

The report is here.
[...]
Again, 402 deaths out of 47 008 cases in vaccinated; 253 deaths out of 151 054 cases in unvaccinated. If you get covid having been vaccinated, according to this data, you are much more likely to die than if you were not vaccinated!

Obviously some allowance must be made for more elderly people being vaccinated, but not enough to change the bottom line: this vaccine is not nearly as effective as advertised.

And with all its unknowns, and a much higher adverse reporting number than all other vaccines combined, a complete recalibration of global policy is the only moral option.

Countries around the world, as months pass since vaccinations, are experiencing a surge in vaccinated deaths and hospitalizations. 60% of hospitalizations in Israel are fully vaccinated patients. (Hence the mad rush for untested boosters.)

The powers that be will not admit there is something terribly wrong. They will not acknowledge the clear science that people with natural immunity, and the young and healthy, do not need to take the risks of these injections. Read this very important piece on natural immunity. Reliable studies showing the superiority of natural immunity are just ignored by our overlords.

Instead they will jab and jab and jab again. The vaccine passports will be renewable every six months. Countries are ordering up to 8 shots per citizen. The masks will not go away. Israel, the pre-eminent vaxxed nation, is in lockdown.

This is NOT a sterilising vaccine that stops diseases like polio or hepatitis using live virus. This is for you alone. Which means, as experts like Martin Kulldorff, biostatistician, epidemiologist and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, have long said, it makes zero sense to vaccinate the young and healthy.

We are dealing with a world-historical error, and in fact a global assault on young bodies.

To be clear, I make no advice to anybody about taking the vaccine or not. I may well have decided to take it if I were in a risk category, or if I knew I did not have to wear a mask or get tested after taking a single shot. Your decision should be guided by consulting with a doctor, informed consent, and your own conscience.

And you should ask yourself why there is no explanation for the hundreds of thousands of women experiencing menstrual changes after the shot, or the way vaccines are being mandated at the same time they are under investigation for unknown risks.

What I will say categorically is that you will have to answer one day, in this life or the next, for where you stood on the issue of mandating medicine for the healthy without informed consent, on giving cover for governments to shove things down kids’ noses, and locking down all that makes life worthwhile. Where were you when kids’ freedoms were stolen from them? I doubt there will be much forgiveness from that generation.

Every time somebody posts a meme mocking vaccine hesitance, not only do they alienate the hesitant, and radicalize them, they implicitly endorse a new police state in which a liberal government like Australia feels empowered to pepper spray kids in the face for not wearing a mask that has not been conclusively shown to prevent viral transmission.

For crying out loud, this what even the World Health Organization admits about masks. (read more)

See also by same author:
Pfizer's own data and leaked contract expose the moral darkness of looming vaccine totalitarianism
They broke their own trial and their big tech allies are removing details of their government contracts from social media.

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-08-26 a
THE COVID-CON I
(Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin want to decimate the U.S. military.)

Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination – A National Security Threat

by CDR Jay Furman, USN*

The forced vaccination of all military personnel with the present COVID-19 vaccines may compromise U.S. national security due to the unknown extent of serious vaccine complications. Further study is needed before committing the Total Force to one irreversible experimental group. Recent reports leave more concern for the COVID-19 vaccinations than the virus itself for the (at present) exceptionally healthy military population, which is not appreciably impacted by the virus without vaccination.

First, SARS-CoV-2 is unlike any other virus. We have yet to completely understand the virology and it is rapidly mutating.  Second, the COVID-19 vaccines are all experimental. The world is simultaneously learning about this new technology amongst the largest vaccine rollout in human history.  The data on both the virus and vaccines are new and not yet scientifically reliable. Basic assumptions are changing with unprecedented levels of breakthrough cases in the vaccinated population.  The U.S. military service member is extremely healthy compared to the general population and is not succumbing to the virus at any significant level, even without the vaccination. According to the CDC, “COVID overall has a 99.74% survival rate. Among young people, that number is even higher. For people aged 18 to 29, the survival rate is 99.97%.” As of August 12, 2021, only 29 (or 0.001%) of the 2.2 mil military population had expired from COVID-19.

To date, the vaccine is more seriously injuring this unique population than the virus itself. A Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study finds 23 U.S. service members experienced post-vaccination moderate to severe myocarditis who were otherwise healthy and non-symptomatic.  There have been many other COVID-19 vaccine harm or death outcomes documented in the U.S. Government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). In fact, COVID-19 vaccine adverse events comprise a full one-third (over 500,000) of the three-decade total for all VAERS reports. Plus, the VAERS system is underreporting COVID-19 vaccine deaths by a factor of five, according to a whistleblower who is described in their court filing as a “[…] subject matter expertise in the healthcare data analytics field, and has access to Medicare and Medicaid data maintain by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).” They attested that the 9,048 reported COVID-19 vaccine-related deaths in VAERS is more like 45,000, after reconciling the various databases.

The UK government agency Public Health England recently published a report showing that, “people who received the COVID-19 shot are more than three times as likely to die than those who have not received the vaccine.” Early signs in Israel indicate the same.  Officials there recently reported that at least 85% of all severe and new COVID-19 hospitalizations are prior vaccinated individuals. The inventor of m-RNA technology, Dr. Robert Malone, recently disclosed that “[…] new data indicates that people who have taken the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are at greater risk of getting Covid than someone who is not vaccinated.” The Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca vaccines also demonstrate significant problems as compared to the negligible military COVID-19 mortality rates.  In the European Union (EU), more than 22,000 vaccination-associated deaths are now documented in the EU drug adverse events database. Which caused Doctors for COVID Ethics (an international doctors group from over 30 countries) to conclude on July 9, 2021 “[…] the benefits of vaccination are highly doubtful. In contrast, the harm the vaccines do is very well substantiated […]” Vaccine-enhanced herd immunity is in question. On August 3, Iceland’s Chief Epidemiologist announced that their 95% nation-wide full vaccination rate, “[…] has not led to the herd immunity that experts hoped for. In the past two to three weeks, the Delta variant has outstripped all others in Iceland and it has become clear that vaccinated people can easily contract it as well as spread it to others,”

There is precedence for vaccine failure in respiratory viruses as noted in the journal Nature Microbiology last September, “Data from the study of SARS-CoV and other respiratory viruses suggest that anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies could exacerbate COVID-19 through antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), resulting in failed vaccine trials.” Evidence suggests ADE could cause viral interference and along with other (influenza) vaccines alter our immune systems non-specifically to increase susceptibility to other infections.  The mRNA vaccines may redirect our cells away from suppressing latent immunity issues from previous infections (e.g., chicken pox). Consider along with what Dr. Malone describes as an “entire population [that] has been trained via a universal vaccination strategy to have the same basic immune response, then once a viral escape mutant is selected, it will rapidly spread through the entire population – whether vaccinated or not.” It could mean massive problems ahead for the global COVID-19 vaccinated as they encounter variations and even simple viruses like the flu, in combination.

Natural immunity already possessed by the military population recovered from COVID-19 is effective against all known variants and also likely durable over time, according to Dr. Peter A. McCullough, who is regarded as one of the most credentialed experts on COVID-19 in the U.S. This past January, the journal Nature published that greater than 95% of COVID-19 recovered people have “[…] durable memories of the virus […]” There is precedence here, as well, with SARS-CoV-1 demonstrating 17 years of natural immunity.  A Cleveland Clinic study concluded, “Individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination […]” Another recent Israeli study questions “[…] the need to vaccinate previously-infected individuals […]” after comparing re-infection rates for the vaccinated and recovered segments of the country’s national health database.” Dr. McCullough strongly asserts that the current vaccination programs have become dangerous and should be shut down immediately – that mass vaccination programs in the middle of a pandemic actually causes the variations, making the entire vaccinated population vulnerable to those same variants.

Currently, about 50% of all active and reserve service members have yet to receive a COVID-19 shot of any type. Based on recent reporting data supported by published research findings, this paper argues that instead of lumping two very large unknowns (COVID-19 virology & vaccine efficacy) into one experimental group — possibly threating U.S. military personnel combat readiness — the DOD should maintain the “unvaccinated-half” as a force protection CONTROL GROUP, thus guarantying a viable fighting force. Similar safeguards should also be considered for the civilian DOD population to support the Warfighter, regardless of the long-term vaccine verdict.

Given the COVID-19 mortality in the military, the U.S. can presently maintain the nation’s defensive manning levels, in all critical fields. Pressing forward against these extremely large unknowns by mandating COVID-19 vaccines could potentially threaten basic military deployment assumptions, to say nothing of the long-term destruction to morale and recruiting. If it is true that the military is, in fact, essential to national survival thereby justifying massive budgets and sweeping measures to protect the Force, then deciding to gamble the entirety of those vital forces on what little is certain, is reckless at best. To do so given such low demonstrated serious outcomes in the unvaccinated Force could prove fratricidal. With a better than 99.74% COVID-19 recovery rate in the military population, the singular act of stopping the present vaccination drive, thus preserving a force protection CONTROL GROUP, could prove existentially critical to the country.  Immediately, cease and desist all coerced COVID-19 vaccination initiatives for service members and civilians (except for any remaining co-morbidity groups). Moreover, the force protection CONTROL GROUP should commence harmless alternative and preventative protocols like I-MASK+ currently used in nations around the world with great efficacy.  According to the American Journal of Therapeutics in their May-June 2021 issue “Multiple, large ‘natural experiments’ occurred in regions that initiated ‘Ivermectin distribution’ campaigns followed by tight, reproducible, temporally associated decreases in case counts and case fatality rates compared with nearby regions without such campaigns.”

Bottom line, the known science does not justify committing the entire U.S. troop strength to one singular experimental group. Given the many unknowns and what we have come to learn most recently, mandatory COVID-19 vaccination may not only be rash, but perhaps become life-threatening to the nation vis-à-vis those dedicated to her defense, against very well-known strategic competitors. Simply, COVID-19 forced-inoculation could prove to be a grave national security threat at a time when the nation can least afford it. We must immediately pause and reevaluate the U.S. defensive strategic assessment of COVID-19 vaccinations for the entire Department. There is absolutely no imperative of ‘benefits outweighing the risks’ to continue with mandating the COVID-19 vaccines to the military population who do not self-elect. Doing so could potentially trigger manning shortfalls brought on by resignations and lost enlistments from this all-volunteer armed force. At this time, there is more than enough justification for a COVID-19 vaccination safety standdown to reconsider how the decision to mass vaccinate will critically impact overall mission effectiveness.

* The views and opinions expressed in this paper do not in any way represent the United States Navy or the Department of Defense. Commander Jay Furman is a career United States naval officer, naval aviator and foreign area officer with extensive experience advising senior military, diplomatic, and international organization leadership. The Commander has spent years serving throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East at sea, ashore, and airborne. He holds a Master of Arts in Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School.

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-08-25 f
GOOD NEWS VI
(The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine HAS NOT BEEN FULLY APPROVED.)

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine used in the U.S.
HAS NOT BEEN FULLY APPROVED.


The FDA issued two letters on Monday. One letter, addressed to BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH granted full approval to a vaccine not available in the U.S. with the proprietary name, COMIRNATY. In fact, the Comirnaty vaccine has not yet been manufactured.

From that letter:

We are issuing Department of Health and Human Services U.S. License No. 2229 to BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH, Mainz, Germany, under the provisions of section 351(a) of the PHS Act controlling the manufacture and sale of biological products. The license authorizes you to introduce or deliver for introduction into interstate commerce, those products for which your company has demonstrated compliance with establishment and product standards.

The second letter extended the Emergency Use Authorization for the Pfizer "vaccine" that is available in the U.S.

Read the second letter yourself.
The FDA merely EXTENDED
the Emergency Use Authorization for the U.S. product.
(How will regime fact checkers deal with this?)


FDA

August 23, 2021  

Pfizer Inc.
Attention: Ms. Elisa Harkins
500 Arcola Road
Collegeville, PA 19426

Dear Ms. Harkins:


On February 4, 2020, pursuant to Section 564(b)(1)(C) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act or the Act), the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) determined that there is a public health emergency that has a significant potential to affect national security or the health and security of United States citizens living abroad, and that involves the virus that causes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).1 On the basis of such determination, the Secretary of HHS on March 27, 2020, declared that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of drugs and biological products during the COVID-19 pandemic, pursuant to Section 564 of the Act (21 U.S.C. 360bbb-3), subject to terms of any authorization issued under that section.2

[...]

Page 2 – Pfizer Inc.

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On August 23, 2021, having concluded that revising this EUA is appropriate to protect the public health or safety under section 564(g)(2) of the Act, FDA is reissuing the August 12, 2021 letter of authorization in its entirety with revisions incorporated to clarify that the EUA will remain in place for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for the previously-authorized indication and uses, and to authorize use of COMIRNATY (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) under this EUA for certain uses that are not included in the approved BLA. In addition, the Fact Sheet for Healthcare Providers Administering Vaccine (Vaccination Providers) was revised to provide updates on expiration dating of the authorized Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine and to update language regarding warnings and precautions related to myocarditis and pericarditis. The Fact Sheet for Recipients and Caregivers was updated as the Vaccine Information Fact Sheet for Recipients and Caregivers, which comprises the Fact Sheet for the authorized Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine and information about the FDA-licensed vaccine, COMIRNATY (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA).
(read PDF of this FDA "approval" letter)

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GOOD NEWS V

The CDC Screwed Up

In their latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, at the bottom of the table on page 3, they tell the world one way they cheat.

They inform us they define "unvaccinated" as being less than 14 days after receipt of the first dose of a 2-dose series or 1 dose of the single-dose vaccine or if there is no vaccination registry data. Is that how you define "unvaccinated"?

Blood clots or heart inflammation caused by the spike protein mRNA shots often kill within a few days after getting a dose of the gene therapy mislabeled as a vaccine.

Thus, their reported spike in "unvaccinated" hospitalizations and deaths could be entirely within the recently "vaccinated" population.

Because the mainstream media selectively follow the CDC "science," I am sure they employ the identical definition.

Whenever you hear media fearmongers talk about the "unvaccinated," remind yourself they refer to
those less than 14 days after receipt of the first dose of a 2-dose series or 1 dose of the single-dose vaccine or if there is no vaccination registry data.

Also, I wonder if Delta variant is their code for a "vaccine" injury, hospitalization or fatality?

Yes, I know the Delta variant (B.1.617.2) exists. It was initially identified in India in early December of 2020.

However, there is no direct test for the Delta variant. It can be identified only through complicated genomic sequencing. I'm told there is not the time, funds, manpower nor laboratory capacity to run 100,000 or even 1,000 sophisticated genomic sequencing tests every day. 99.999% percent of the "cases" attributed to the Delta variant have to be a guess. They can't know because they can't run all those tests.

CDC cheats

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Early Release / Vol. 70
August 24, 2021


SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Hospitalizations Among Persons Aged ≥16 Years, by Vaccination Status — Los Angeles County, California, May 1–July 25, 2021


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page 3

TABLE. Number of SARS-CoV-2 cases among persons aged ≥16 years, by selected characteristics and vaccination status* — Los Angeles County, California,† May 1–July 25, 2021

(read more) We have saved the original version of this PDF. If it is taken down or "corrected," we would be happy to send you a copy of the original version.

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GOOD NEWS IV
(They caught these. How many more are there?)

Up to 100 Afghan evacuees flown out of war-torn Kabul are on intelligence agency watch lists, US official warns, as it's revealed one passenger flown out to Qatar has potential ties to ISIS

• The Afghans are potential candidates for Special Immigration Visas (SIV)
• They were flagged as possible matches to intelligence agency watch lists by the Defense Department's Automated Biometric Identification System
• The Afghan who has potential ties to ISIS was detected by security screeners at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar after they were evacuated from Kabul Airport
• The Afghan evacuees are being screened against law enforcement databases using biometric data including facial recognition, iris scans and fingerprints
• The evacuees are being screened by agents with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol

As many as 100 Afghan evacuees flown out of war-torn Kabul are on intelligence agency watch lists, a United States government official warned on Tuesday as it was revealed one passenger flown out to Qatar has potential ties to ISIS.

The Afghans, potential candidates for Special Immigration Visas (SIV), were flagged as possible matches to intelligence agency watch lists by the Defense Department's Automated Biometric Identification System, an official with the U.S. government told Defense One.

The Afghan who has potential ties to ISIS was detected by security screeners at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar after they were evacuated from Kabul Airport, another official told the outlet. There have been 6,000 Afghans taken to the air base.

'Intelligence, law enforcement, and counterterrorism professionals are conducting screening and security vetting for all SIV applicants and other vulnerable Afghans before they are allowed into the United States,' a State Department spokesperson told DailyMail.com.

'We are surging resources to evaluate each case and process these as efficiently as possible to protect homeland security.'

The State Department declined to confirm to DailyMail.com whether any immigrants have been flagged for having ties to ISIS, and it is unclear if they were processed before or after leaving Kabul.

The Afghan evacuees are being screened against law enforcement databases using biometric data including facial recognition, iris scans and fingerprints by agents with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).

Officials told Defense One there 'certainly' have been some Afghans who triggered alerts - but, in most cases, they have already been cleared after further screening.

However, the CBP agents are facing challenges in screening the incredible number of SIV applicants such as using old vetting systems that 'could not integrate' with the Defense Department's biometric database information, Defense One reported.

'CBP on the ground has old tech and they don't know how to use it, integrate it. And there's not enough people to process' all of the evacuees,' an official said.

The technology can take up to an hour for the system to determine whether someone is a potential security risk - and officials maintained that the system is working, but slowly.

The officials who spoke with Defense One noted that most of the security alerts have been flagged at Al Udeid, but that they 'can't rule it out' that alerts are happening at other temporary bases. (read more)

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GOOD NEWS III

NFL Great Herschel Walker Running for U.S. Senate in Georgia as a Republican

“launched a campaign Tuesday for the U.S. Senate with former President Donald Trump’s support”

Herschel Walker, the Heisman Trophy winning, former NFL player and Trump-supporting conservative, is running for U.S. Senate in Georgia as a Republican.

Walker will face off against far-left Democrat Raphael Warnock [whose improbable victory last January was likely fraudulent].

Greg Bluestein reports at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:


Breaking: Herschel Walker is running for U.S. Senate in Georgia

Former University of Georgia football star Herschel Walker launched a campaign Tuesday for the U.S. Senate with former President Donald Trump’s support, bringing both his celebrity and his untested political background to the premier 2022 contest.

Walker becomes the most prominent Republican to line up against Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock in next year’s race, ending intense speculation that he’ll move from his home in Texas to Georgia to run for the office.

Walker didn’t immediately comment, though a formal announcement is expected within days. He filed paperwork Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission establishing his candidacy, a move that came shortly after he registered to vote in Georgia.

He entered the race after months of pleas from Trump, who predicted the former running back would be as “unstoppable” as a candidate as he was on the field. “Run Herschel, run!” he said in March.

Walker’s lofty name recognition, combined with Trump’s seal of approval, makes the first-time candidate the instant Republican front-runner — and sets up a potential general election between two Black candidates in one of the nation’s top political battlegrounds.

You may recall Walker’s speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention:

The left is already sharpening their claws for Walker, as evidenced by this piece from Politico:

Walker was accused by his ex-wife of being “physically abusive” and displaying “extremely threatening behavior.” According to the Associated Press, Walker has also exaggerated the success of his chicken distribution business, Renaissance Man Food Services, and clashed with business partners. Walker openly discussed his mental health challenges by penning a 2008 book, “Breaking Free,” in which he disclosed he had multiple personalities that he was able to overcome due to therapy and his Christian faith.

“He’s a dynamic guy, really charismatic,” said one Georgia Republican who met with Walker and discussed his potential campaign before deciding it wasn’t the right fit. “There are lots of questions about his past. He doesn’t want to really talk about it, and I’m not sure he knows that he’s going to have to talk about it anyway.”

Meanwhile, state elections officials earlier this month began investigating Walker’s current wife, Julie Blanchard, for voting in Georgia’s 2020 elections even though her residency appeared to be in Texas, where the two have lived for years, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

This is to be expected. Democrats and their media allies are going to pull out every stop to make sure the GOP doesn’t retake control of the Senate. And as we all know, there is no one the left hates more than a black Republican.

I see a few Georgia Trump rallies in his future. (read more)

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GOOD NEWS II
(America cannot afford any more refugees, even Afghan collaborators. It's not just the monetary outlay. Find out what some Afghan "refugees" are doing to teen girls and young women in Austria and Germany.)

We are not in favour of allowing Afghans to leave”

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid adds it would be a “violation” of the agreement to allow evacuations of foreign nationals beyond 31 August

Latest: https://t.co/PgvjrfQUeS pic.twitter.com/bs8TPYooZz

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) August 24, 2021


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GOOD NEWS I

Court won’t block order requiring reinstatement of “remain in Mexico” policy

The Supreme Court on Tuesday night rejected the Biden administration’s plea for a reprieve from a district-court order requiring it to reinstate a Trump-era program known as the “remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while they wait for a hearing in U.S. immigration court. The court was divided on the decision to deny relief, with the court’s three liberal justices – Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan – indicating that they would have granted the government’s request and put the district court’s order on hold.

The decision means that the Biden administration must resume enforcing the policy “in good faith” while litigation continues in the lower courts.

Tuesday night’s order was the second time that the justices have acted on an emergency basis with respect to the “remain in Mexico” policy, formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, which the Trump administration announced in 2018. In March 2020, the court allowed the Trump administration to begin enforcing the policy after a federal district judge in California blocked it. The Supreme Court later agreed to review a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit holding that the policy was likely inconsistent with both federal immigration law and international law, but the justices dismissed the case earlier this summer after the Biden administration ended the policy. Critics of the policy say that it forced people seeking asylum to reside in dangerous and unsanitary camps in Mexican border towns.

After the Biden administration ended the policy, Texas and Missouri went to federal court in Texas to challenge that decision. The states argue that the decision to terminate the policy violated federal immigration law and the federal law governing the procedures that federal agencies must follow. They also contend that, without the policy, large numbers of migrants can enter the United States based on dubious asylum claims, imposing costs on the states.

A federal district judge agreed with the states and ordered the Biden administration to reinstate the policy by Aug. 21. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit declined to put the ruling on hold to give the government time to appeal.

The Biden administration went to the Supreme Court on Friday, asking the justices to step in. Acting Solicitor General Brian Fletcher defended the decision to end the policy as one reached after careful consideration, and he warned that the district court’s order requiring the government to reinstate the policy immediately would both meddle in U.S.-Mexico relations and “threaten chaos at the border.”

Justice Samuel Alito, who handles emergency requests from Texas, briefly paused the district court’s order to allow the justices to consider the request. Alito put the order on hold until 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday and ordered the states to respond by 5 p.m. Tuesday afternoon – signaling that the court would act quickly.

In their filing on Tuesday afternoon, the states downplayed the Biden administration’s complaint that the district court’s order interferes with U.S. foreign policy. The government had expressed only “vague concerns” at trial, the states suggested, and in any event “virtually any significant immigration policy may have collateral consequences for foreign relations.” The states rejected the administration’s argument that requiring it to reinstate the policy would lead to “chaos at the border” as a “strawman”: “[T]he humanitarian emergency at the border is occurring now,” the states wrote, and has only gotten worse since the Biden administration suspended the policy. Indeed, the states noted, news reports have indicated that the Biden administration itself has “privately discussed” reviving the policy because of the problems at the border.  

The states also told the justices that the June 1 memorandum by the Department of Homeland Security that formally ended the policy was neither reasonable nor reasonably explained, as federal law requires. Among other things, the states stressed, the DHS memorandum did not consider the benefits of the policy or the extent to which the states had relied on it.

In a brief unsigned order issued shortly before 8 p.m. on Tuesday night, the court explained that the Biden administration was not likely to succeed – one of the criteria for obtaining this kind of request for emergency relief – in showing that its decision to end the policy was not “arbitrary and capricious” – that is, reasonable and reasonably explained. The order cited the court’s 2020 ruling in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, which rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an Obama-era policy that protected people who were brought as children to the U.S. without authorization. In Regents, the court held that the Trump administration had not properly explained its decision to end DACA.

In Tuesday night’s order, the court added that its decision not to put the district court’s order on hold “should not be read as affecting the construction of that” order by the 5th Circuit, which had emphasized that the district court “did not order the Government to restore MPP’s infrastructure overnight,” but instead only required it to enforce and implement the policy “in good faith.”

The court’s three liberal justices made clear that they would have granted the government’s request, though none of them wrote a formal dissent. There is no way to know if any of their colleagues also voted to grant the government relief; if any justice did, he or she did not note that vote publicly. (read more)

See also: Supreme Court Allows Revival of Trump-Era ‘Remain in Mexico’ Asylum Policy

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The brief shadow-docket order contains minimal reasoning but cites the 2020 case in
which SCOTUS ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it tried to
quickly cancel Obama's DACA program. Now that ruling is hindering Biden from unwinding
Trump immigration policy.


— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) August 25, 2021



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DESPERATE DEMOCRATS CUT CORNERS AT THE FDA

POLITICS TRUMPS SAFETY

Covid-19: FDA set to grant full approval to Pfizer vaccine without public discussion of data
BMJ 2021;374:n2086

Transparency advocates have criticised the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision not to hold a formal advisory committee meeting to discuss Pfizer’s application for full approval of its covid-19 vaccine.

Last year the FDA said it was “committed to use an advisory committee composed of independent experts to ensure deliberations about authorisation or licensure are transparent for the public.” But in a statement, the FDA told The BMJ that it did not believe a meeting was necessary ahead of the expected granting of full approval.

“The FDA has held numerous meetings of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) related to covid-19 vaccines, including a 22 October 2020 meeting to discuss, in general, the development, authorisation, and licensure of covid-19 vaccines,” an FDA spokesperson said.

“The FDA also has held meetings of the VRBPAC on all three covid-19 vaccines authorised for emergency use and does not believe a meeting is needed related to this biologics license application.”

The spokesperson added, “The Pfizer BioNTech covid-19 vaccine was discussed at the VRBPAC meeting on 10 December 2020. If the agency had any questions or concerns that required input from the advisory committee members we would have scheduled a meeting to discuss.”

The vaccine has already been rolled out to millions of Americans through an emergency use authorisation. Companies typically apply for full approval after a longer period has elapsed so that more data are available for review.

But with the US government indicating this week that it plans to start making booster shots widely available next month, experts said the decision not to meet to discuss the data was politically driven.

Data scrutiny

Kim Witczak, a drug safety advocate who serves as a consumer representative on the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, said the decision removed an important mechanism for scrutinising the data.

“These public meetings are imperative in building trust and confidence especially when the vaccines came to market at lightning speed under emergency use authorisation,” she said. “The public deserves a transparent process, especially as the call for boosters and mandates are rapidly increasing. These meetings offer a platform where questions can be raised, problems tackled, and data scrutinised in advance of an approval.”

Witczak is one of the more than 30 signatories of a citizen petition calling on the FDA to refrain from fully approving any covid-19 vaccine this year to gather more data. She warned that without a meeting “we have no idea what the data looks like.”

“It is already concerning that full approval is being based on 6 months’ worth of data despite the clinical trials designed for two years,” she said. “There is no control group after Pfizer offered the product to placebo participants before the trials were completed.

“Full approval of covid-19 vaccines must be done in an open public forum for all to see. It could set a precedent of lowered standards for future vaccine approvals.”

Public discussion

Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Center for Health Research, who has also spoken at recent VRBPAC meetings, told The BMJ, “It’s obvious that the FDA has no intention of hearing anyone else’s opinion. But if you make decisions behind closed doors it can feed into hesitancy. It’s important to have a public discussion about what kind of data are there and what the limitations are. As we think about risk versus benefit, we need to know.”

Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and former FDA deputy commissioner during the Obama administration, said that advisory committee meetings were more than just a way of receiving scientific input from outside experts. “It’s also an opportunity to educate the public about the important work that the FDA has done reviewing an enormous amount of data about a product,” he told The BMJ. “It’s a chance for questions to be asked and answered, building public confidence.

“If there are no advisory committee meetings prior to licensure, the FDA should consider taking extra steps to explain the basis of its decisions to the public.”

On 18 August, before the news that the FDA would not be holding a formal committee meeting, the president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Barbara Alexander, praised the impact of the VRBPAC meetings as “a critical and necessary part” of the process for assessing whether to give booster doses. (read more)

See also: FDA approves Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in record time
"The vaccine has been used under emergency authorisation since December 2020, with Pfizer applying for full approval on 7 May 2021 and approval being granted in under four months, the fastest time in FDA history."
[...]
"In addition, the FDA evaluated safety data relating to myocarditis and pericarditis, which showed an increased risk particularly within seven days after the second vaccine dose. This risk was higher in men under 40 than in women and older men, and it was highest in young men aged 12 to 17. The FDA requires Pfizer to conduct post-marketing studies to further assess the risks, and although not required, Pfizer plans further post-marketing safety studies, including in women who received the vaccine during pregnancy and their infants."

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The FDA: Our rigorous testing means final vaccine approval in 2024!

Also the FDA: We work for Big Pharma so who are we kidding? It’s not like you
can sue us! Let’s just approve it all right now!
https://t.co/5lSnRVPkNw

— Emerald Robinson (@EmeraldRobinson) August 23, 2021

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The FDA’s Pfizer vaccine approval letter contains the dates of when several safety and
efficacy studies (ie. Vaccine exposure during pregnancy and infant outcomes, occurrence
 of myocarditis + pericarditis, etc.) are set to be completed.
pic.twitter.com/zBjfiPMmEa

— Murray (@Rothbard1776) August 23, 2021

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Follow-up studies need to tracked closely, but the even more important issue is whether
or not the initial studies were completed properly.
https://t.co/Vt0ecHC1kV

— Murray (@Rothbard1776) August 23, 2021

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FDA Approves First COVID-19 Vaccine: Why Are they Rushing?
https://t.co/DDITp82s2I

— Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) August 23, 2021

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Got it – this is the actual approval letter. The other letter I posted is an extension for
other populations.
https://t.co/e9ZkAbGnv6

— Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) August 23, 2021


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DESPERATE DEMOCRATS KEEP PANDEMIC OF LIES GOING WITH "VACCINE" SIDE EFFECTS
(This is why at least 50% of Americans have said, "NO VAXX.")


spike protein mRNA gene therapy


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DESPERATE DEMOCRATS AT THE NOT-OK CORRAL

Next in this week’s throwdown parade is the FDA’s imminent approval of Pfizer’s Covid-19 [spike protein mRNAm gene therapy] vaccine, without any of the usual extensive trials. How does that even happen, with an efficacy rate of 39 percent maximum and a runaway train of vicious side effects ranging from brain and heart damage to infertility? The so-called mRNA “vaccines” are also implicated in the ongoing mutation of the disease, producing a cavalcade of variants. Is that, perhaps, on-purpose, to keep the pandemic going, preventing it from burning-out?

Covid-19 is an expedient device for exercising the most severe control over the daily life of Americans, and it is being used liberally once again in the “blue” cities to make ordinary business as difficult as possible even unto shut-down and ruin. FDA approval will further enable the mandatory “vaccination” of school-children, government workers, and corporate employees. About half the country still refuses to get jabbed. You are about to see them go hard-core when the FDA makes its move.

The shadow cabal behind “Joe Biden” will, accordingly, destroy what is left of public education as millions of parents withdraw their kids from the system. You will then see the rapid assembly of home-schooling networks that aggregate informally into small private academies — and, of course, the biggest losers will be the minorities who lack the cultural mojo to home-school. Well done, “Joe Biden” and the FDA!  While you’re at, why not destroy Higher Ed, too? (That sound you’ll hear is plywood getting nailed up on the windows of countless insolvent small colleges.)

The school revolt will only be one part of a greater uproar against the confabulated hysteria of Covid-19. Throwdown will lead to showdown as the alienation of We-the-People from a tyrannical rogue government bangs the crisis gong. Next up: the release of the Arizona election audit’s preliminary findings. Rumor is that they show the grossest possible, and probably criminal, mismanagement of the balloting, pointing to a conclusion that “Joe Biden” did not win that state’s election. Additional rumor has it that the ballots carried hidden, traceable serial numbers, or something like that, showing conclusively how the paper vote was rigged. Rachel Mddow’s nightmare — “They have the ballots!!!” — comes true… a wake-up for the Woked-up.

As predicted here, John Durham is back in the news. The captive news media — that is, the mainstream orgs owned by the Intel Community — put stories out last week that the RussiaGate special prosecutor has actually made some trips to the grand jury. That implies some kind of criminal prosecution. Their spin was that he had only netted a few small-fry, characters mostly outside government such as Igor Danchenko of the Brookings Institution, said to be the chief source for Christopher Steele’s nefarious “dossier.” Don’t believe it. Durham is going for the sharks and whales: Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, John Brennan, Bruce and Nellie Ohr… and, really, how can James Comey be excluded from that gang, since he was running it?

This week marks the beginning of the Deep State’s hard time. Its narratives are shredding. Its mind-control measures are slip-sliding away. Half the country has been onto their game for years, and the other half is about to feel their heads explode as a corrective reality elbows into the scene. That is, the real-and-only reality, not the one confabulated backstage for you by skulking quislings. See how you’ve been played? They have taken your country. Maybe you should start caring about that.

James Howard Kunstler

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DESPERATE DEMOCRATS ABOUT TO DUMP ALZHEIMER IN CHIEF

What?

BIDEN: “She [Kamala] happens to be in Asia for me right now, but that’s why we have a female Vice President of the United States of America, who’s gonna be, we’re gonna have some presidents pretty soon.”

 pic.twitter.com/kQrjY6ZjUc

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 23, 2021


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-08-24 b
DESPERATE DEMOCRATS
(You know you are winning when your enemies resort to desperate tactics. Resistance is not futile. The Great Reset and Green New Deal "infrastructure" scams will fail.)

SUICIDE: How Vaccine Passports Will Cause the Economic Collapse of America

Call this suicide by Democrat.

We have suicide bombers in the White House. We have suicide bombers in our Governor’s mansions. Worst of all, we have suicide bombers directing the US economy.

This is the Titanic. This is the Hindenburg. We are headed for disaster.

Vaccine passports will lead to the destruction of capitalism and the US economy. Goodbye small business. Goodbye middle class.

New York City now demands vaccine passports to go into any restaurant, bar, nightclub, gym, even retail stores. Los Angeles followed suit. So did San Francisco and New Orleans. How many more will follow?

Las Vegas, my home, the entertainment capital of the world, isn’t far behind. You now need proof of vaccination to enter concerts, conventions, even Allegiant Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders. Will restaurants, gyms and retail stores be far behind?

This is madness. Either Democrats are ignorant morons, or this is the final Democrat plan to destroy capitalism by putting every business owner out of business. After all, this is what socialists, Marxists, communists and globalist America-haters have been waiting their whole lives for.

Let me explain what’s about to happen. About 50% of America hasn’t taken the [spike protein mRNA gene therapy being called a] vaccine. That’s no coincidence. Somewhere between 40% and 50% of America is never taking the vaccine. No matter you say or do, the answer is still “NO.” We will not comply.

The reasons are simple.

First, choice. “It’s my body, my choice.” Where have I heard that before?

Second, let me ask the most obvious question in the world. If the vaccines actually worked, why would you care if I get vaccinated? You’re in no danger, right? The only person I can hurt is me, right? If the whole world is vaccinated, except for me (and about 90 million of my close friends), then all the vaccinated liberals are safe, right? What are you worried about?

Third, we know when someone says, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help,” the proper response is to run away as fast and far as you can get. We don’t trust anything Big Brother is selling. Government has never been right about anything in my lifetime. And government NEVER has our best interests at heart.

Fourth, we’ve seen the numbers of dead and injured from the VAERS vaccine injury report. The carnage is unimaginable. Over 13,000 dead and about 600,000 injured in the USA. Another 20,000 dead and about 2 million injured from the vaccine in the EU.

But those are just the reported numbers. History (and a Harvard study in 2010) proves only about 1% of vaccine deaths and injuries are reported. So the real number is anywhere from 10 times to 100 times higher. [This is why the mainstream media tell us hospitals and emergency rooms are full.]

Fifth, we’ve watched the videos of brilliant MDs, virologists, pathologists and scientists explaining how this deadly vaccine causes massive inflammation, resulting in heart inflammation, heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, auto-immune disease and worse- death.

Lastly, and most importantly, we all know scores of friends, family and co-workers who took the jab and wound up dead or badly injured soon thereafter. I’m a national radio host. I’ve heard hundreds of horror stories. Just one- my CPA got shingles in her eyes, almost went blind and her kidneys stopped working. But hey, its all worth it, for the good of society, right? Besides, the government says it’s safe.

So, about 90 million of us are never taking the vaccine. At least not for another few years after we’ve seen the final results (or the final carnage). We don’t trust this shot. “My body, my choice.”

Also, we’re not gullible. We’re not willing to inject a potentially dangerous jab into our bodies because government is handing out lottery tickets, free booze, free pot, or a free trip to a casino.

So, think about what this all means. If government is dumb enough to demand vaccine passports, that means 40% to 50% of us won’t eat at restaurants, or go to bars and nightclubs, or concerts, or conventions, or sports events. We won’t buy anything at your retail stores anymore.

Which means everyone [with a physical location] is out of business. No [brick and mortar] business in America can take a 20% loss of sales, let alone 30%, or 40%, or 50%. They’re all out of business. Which means tens of millions of Americans will lose their jobs. Total economic collapse will soon follow.

Think about New York City, LA, San Fran and New Orleans. No more [politically] conservative [or highly educated] tourists. That’s half the tourists in your city or state – gone.

No more tourists from Texas or Florida, places with millions of unvaccinated citizens, where vaccine mandates are forbidden by law. Just those two states together have 50 million citizens. That’s millions of potential tourists never again coming to NYC, LA, San Fran and New Orleans. Businesses will close. Tax revenues will disappear. Good luck.

Is Vegas the next city to commit economic suicide? It sure looks that way with madman Democrat Governor Steve Sisolak at the helm of the Titanic.

This isn’t just about conservatives. Many doctors and nurses across the country want nothing to do with the jab. That’s why there is a massive nursing shortage.

Large portions of black and Latino citizens don’t want the jab either.

Lots of people don’t want that jab. And if you demand vaccine passports to get into any business, you’ve just sunk your business. Not to mention, most hostesses, waitresses and bartenders don’t have any interest in playing Gestapo or KGB and asking for your papers.

[If Americans submit and comply] few businesses in America will survive. Mass economic devastation is coming. The Greatest Depression of all time could be coming. Could anarchy and civil war be far behind? This country is the most divided and dysfunctional since 1860. Guess what happened after that?

Is this the Democrat plan? Are they really suicidal? Are they doing the bidding of [Davos globalists or] the Chinese Communist Party? Are they trying to destroy the US economy? Are they trying to foment civil war? Or are they just that dumb? (read more)

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We know they are lying. They know they are lying, They know that we know they are lying.
We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie.

– Alexander Solzhenitsyn


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