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To: null and void; aragorn; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; BusterDog; bgill; bitt; Black Agnes; ..

A ton of stuff to wade through today. Please note again, the nature of a lot of items are prompting my posting in Globalism/Reset section versus other areas. This reflects a major change in the trends of those items.
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Wuhan virus -
More discussion on the death rate of jabbed individuals who became infected with wuhan anyway. Going back to CDC/Fauci announcements that 99% of wuhan deaths were unjabbed and 0.5% were ‘vaccinated” now follow-on data (from May) shows that 15% of the dead were jabbed. This continues the trend of highly jabbed (I don’t want to use the term “vaccinate” since the CDC/MSM usage has perverted the definition) states and nations having high ‘breakthrough’ rates.

Along similar lines, in March, the CDC declared that it was impossible for people who have been “vaccinated” for Wuhan to spread it to others. Then on July 27, the CDC flip-flopped by deciding that pseudo vaccine recipients are, in fact, actively spreading disease. This is but one factor in the disintegrating credibility of the CDC and been pointed out a lot lately. But this trend needs to be kept in focus as the MSM spins the narrative.
Why? Now with the approach of school, the discussion of forcing masks on students has reared its head. Lets summarize the changing narrative.
- Biden said Tuesday that his administration is examining whether he can order universal masking in public schools, overriding Republican governors in states like Florida and Texas. This after saying they weren’t going to interject.
- Latest is that the CDC recommends that everyone in K-12 schools wear a mask indoors, including teachers, staff, students and visitors, regardless of vaccination status. (also brings the question - what good is the ‘vaccine’ then) This is a change from earlier recommendations that said children do not need to wear masks inside classrooms this fall if they are fully vaccinated.
- WH / biden is unconcerned about any effects of reinstitution masks on children (physical or mental)
- Pediatricians are warning that masking and social distancing impacting child development.
- CDC effective concludes masks do little to stop the spread of the original wuhan, and probably less with this more spreadable ‘delta’ variant.
- Throughout the pandemic, children have accounted for a small subset of cases and just a sliver of deaths. As of Aug. 5, almost 4.3 million children had tested positive for Covid-19, or roughly 14.3% of total cases, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. Out of that less than 700 died as a result (CDC). This is a smaller percentage than many other common childhood diseases.
OBSERVATION - Buried in all the news is that the risk to those 17 and younger is virtually nil. So far the ‘delta’ variant has not shown any increased lethality across all age groups, just increased infection rates. Note that the emphasis in the media is on infection rates, not death rates as before.

Israeli Prof. Retsef Levi released a study that indicates increased in Cardiac arrests (25% increase) & Heart attacks (83.6% ) (ages 16-29) and this increase was correlated with Mass vaccination.

The hospital system in Houston, Texas, is building tents in order to prepare for a possible patient overflow, as the latest increase in coronavirus cases is pushing its hospitals to capacity, The New York Post reports.

Media narrative wobbles again. According to a new paper by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, researchers analyzed more than 5 million survey responses by a range of different demographic details, and classed those people who would “probably” or “definitely” not choose to get vaccinated as “vaccine hesitant.”
In some respects the findings are as predicted — for example the paper finds that there is a strong correlation between counties with higher Trump support in the 2020 presidential election and higher hesitancy in the period January 2021 — May 2021.
But more surprising is the breakdown in vaccine hesitancy by level of education. It finds that the association between hesitancy and education level follows a U-shaped curve with the highest hesitancy among those least and most educated. People with a master’s degree had the least hesitancy, and the highest hesitancy was among those holding a Ph.D.

The SecDef announced that all active duty military will be required to be jabbed by Sep 15, if not sooner (pending approval of Phizer concoction). The Pentagon on Tuesday released guidelines for how service members could request a religious exemption in lieu of getting the wuhan “vaccine”. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said military service members who wish to seek an exemption will be required to be counseled by a medical professional and a commander over the risks posed by not receiving the vaccine.
In addition, they will discuss how the decision could affect their deployability, travel, or even assignments – though the request processes will differ in each branch.
OBSERVATION - This will severely impact military readiness. Already there are rumblings that many may leave the service if pressed to be jabbed. Even if granted the religious exception the service member will be faced with essentially career terminating restrictions, resulting in decrease retention rates and discharges. While being counseled about risks posed by not taking the jab, they apparently will not be counseled about risks posed by RECEIVING the jab.

Finally for today, Speaking at a UK parliamentary meeting on Tuesday, Sir Andrew Pollard, a professor of pediatric infection and immunity at the University of Oxford, said that achieving herd immunity is “not a possibility” now that the Delta variant is circulating.
“We know very clearly with coronavirus that this current variant, the Delta variant, will still infect people who have been vaccinated and that does mean that anyone who’s still unvaccinated, at some point, will meet the virus,” Pollard said.
He said it was unlikely that herd immunity will ever be reached, saying the next variant of the novel coronavirus will be “perhaps even better at transmitting in vaccinated populations.”

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Globalism / Great Reset -
Democrats announced a $3.5 trillion 2022 spending bill yesterday. The bill is focused on addressing climate change and is structured to use the reconciliation process for passage. The instructions to Democrats is to enact the “Build Back Better” agenda by funding several progressive items like a Civilian Climate Corps, rural clean energy, all-electric federal vehicle fleet, and lawful permanent status for immigrants, among other initiatives.

Equating it to the tobacco use surcharge, employers in the United States are considering making the unvaccinated financially pay for their decision to refuse the experimental gene therapy shot. The $50 fee docked from each check would be considered a “health insurance surcharge,” similar to that of a tobacco user.
NOTE - Remember, the govt won’t mandate but the marxist left wants to make life very ‘uncomfortable’ for the unjabbed.

Paris police are going through cafes checking everyone’s “papers” and issuing fines for not having a wuhan passport in their possession. Initial fines are 135 euros going up to 9,000 euros in the event of a repeat offense.

Kalifornia legislature is trying to pass SB 742, which creates a jail sentence and fines for anyone that tries to protest at vaccination sites. The bill was in response to a January event where protestors shut down a COVID vaccination clinic at the Los Angeles Dodgers stadium. The event was only closed for a short time, but the occasion gave lawmakers an opportunity to take more control over free speech.
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Economy -
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen issued another letter to Congress asking to increase the debt ceiling. “In recent years Congress has addressed the debt limit through regular order, with broad bipartisan support,” she pointed out. Yellen further noted the bicameral body came together three times during President Trump’s administration. Senate Minority Leader McConnell (R-KY) said, “They [Democrats] won’t get our help with the debt limit increase that these reckless plans will require. I could not be more clear. They have the ability. They control the White House, they control the House, they control the Senate.”

Bloomberg reports a labor strike at a Quebec pork-processing plant may have resulted in more than 130,000 culled pigs in eastern Canada.

Tyson Foods finally announced price hikes in September, and that input costs are rising faster than they can hike their prices. Tyson supplies about 15% of the total U.S. chicken market.
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Invasion of Illegals -
$3.5 trillion spending package will provide $107 billion for the Senate Judiciary Committee to determine the fastest route for providing blanket amnesty, with a deadline of September 15th to come up with such a solution.
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Biden watch -
After having called Cuomo the ‘gold standard’ for democrats, following his resignation announcement biden said he “a hell of a job.”
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Strategic Developments /Deployments -
FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission, will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) today. The national test will consist of two portions, testing WEA and EAS capabilities. Both tests will begin at 2:20 p.m. ET.
OPTIUM ANNOUNCERMENT -
On August 11, 2021 at 2:20pm, FEMA and the FCC are planning a Nationwide Emergency Alert Test. Test messages will be sent to TVs and radios, as well as cell phones that have opted-in to receive test messages.
The emergency alert signal will last about five minutes. At that point, your TV channels will be temporarily interrupted.
Once the test is complete, you may need to reboot your equipment to resume watching TV. To do this, unplug the power, wait 5-10 seconds, then plug the power back in.
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China -
The Defense Security and Cooperation Agency cleared the sale of 40x 155mm Paladin self-propelled howitzers and 1,698 GPS guidance kits to Taiwan. The sale totals around $750 million and supports the Defense Department’s strategy to harden Taiwan in traditional and unconventional capabilities. According to Taiwan, the capability expansion allows them “to maintain a rock-solid self-defense and regional peace and stability.” China’s foreign ministry denounced the sale and said the actions undermine China’s sovereignty.
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North Korea -
On Tuesday, North Korea threatened to increase its “deterrent of absolute capacity” and build up its arsenal of “preemptive strike” capabilities in response to new joint military training between the U.S. and South Korea.
Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said in a statement reported by KCNA Watch that the U.S. and South Korea had begun “dangerous war games” which she claimed is “accelerating the instable situation” on the Korean Peninsula. She added that the U.S. continuing such actions “will surely make them face more serious security threat[s].”
OBSERVATION - Famine and other turmoil in NK should act as a brake on any actions in the near term. Desperation by the regime may cause an incident in the longer term in order to deflect from internal crises and unify against a common enemy.
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Russia -
As Russian diplomats discussed the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons with their counterparts from the United States, the heads of the Russian and Chinese armed forces forged closer ties in a separate meeting that marked yet another sign of alignment between Washington’s top two rivals. Discussions were described as “professional and substantive,” and the two sides have agreed to meet again in September for a plenary meeting.
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Iran -
Israeli intelligence reportedly indicating major progress in Iran’s nuclear project, according to Haaretz. Tehran has 10 kg of uranium enriched to 60% level, 140 kg of material at 20%; and using hundreds of advanced centrifuges.

See Syria below re: Iranian ship explosion.
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Iraq -
Iranian backed militias reiterated their threat to attack US and coalitions forces in country.
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Syria -
In a possible retaliatory attack, an explosion took place today on an Iranian ship in the Port of Latakia in Syria according to Arab reports. According to reports, the explosion caused the ship to catch fire and several crewmen were injured. No word on the cause a this time.
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Afghanistan -
With the total collapse of the Afghani govt in progress, biden states he has no regrets ordering the accelerated withdrawal of US forces.

Afghan officials say 3 more provincial capitals fall to Taliban amid US withdrawal; insurgents now hold 9 out of 34. The gains they’ve made have allowed them to capture equipment & free prisoners, which is having an effect on expanding their military power. Taliban using substantial numbers of car bomb attacks on key installations and facilities. Information coming out that the Taliban have started a fierce battle in Kandahar city and have captured most of the city. Some intelligence analysts are indicating that at the present rate, the Taliban could have Kabul isolated within 30 days.

According to US officials, US military is using AC130 gunships, MQ9 Reaper drones as well as B52 bombers & F18s to strike Taliban and boost Afghanistan security forces. AC-130s & MQ-9s are reportedly carrying out the majority of the strikes.

OBSERVATION - The Afghan military is falling apart even quicker than many expected. Panic among the civilian population is growing into a major humanitarian crisis.
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Misc of Note -
A massive heat dome over the Mediterranean Sea is set to bring another long-lasting, intense heatwave across parts of southern Europe this week. High temperatures are expected to spread into central Europe and continue through August 22.
Already apocalyptic fires have / are burning through Greece and Turkey, this heat wave could create more catastrophic conditions and fires.
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Black Swans -
For the first time ever, Marburg virus disease has been confirmed in West Africa. The case was reported by health authorities in Guinea’s southern Gueckedou prefecture, where the country’s latest Ebola outbreak was declared over less than two months ago.


548 posted on 08/11/2021 7:46:53 AM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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To: Godzilla
Paris police are going through cafes checking everyone’s “papers” and issuing fines for not having a wuhan passport in their possession. Initial fines are 135 euros going up to 9,000 euros in the event of a repeat offense.

Mon passeport vaccinal a été perdu dans un petit incendie!

549 posted on 08/11/2021 7:59:21 AM PDT by null and void ("Fact Checkers" Didn't Need To Exist Until The Truth Started Getting Out)
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To: Godzilla

“So far the ‘delta’ variant has not shown any increased lethality across all age groups, just increased infection rates. Note that the emphasis in the media is on infection rates, not death rates as before.”

This means the virus is behaving like other virii, less deadly, but spreads more.


551 posted on 08/11/2021 12:44:02 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000) )
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Wuhan virus -
OBSERVATION - Yes, starting off with an observations because CONTEXT is everything and all the craziness needs to be put into that context. In the realm of these ‘vaccines’ (Pfizer and Modna) and their effectiveness to prevent infections lets remember, they were designed to reduce SYMPTOMS and reduce the severity of the infection - not stop it. Here are a couple links to remind us of that. The first from about 10 months ago -

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/20201027/early-vaccines-wil-prevent-symptoms-not-virus

Fauci then ““The primary thing you want to do is that if people get infected, prevent them from getting sick, and if you prevent them from getting sick, you will ultimately prevent them from getting seriously ill,” he said.”

Another from Oct 2020 -

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fauci-vaccines-will-only-prevent-symptoms-not-block-the-virus-195051568.html

Another Fauci quote - “Early COVID-19 vaccines will only prevent symptoms, not block the virus”

FOLKS - if they only prevent symptoms - THEY ARE NOT A VACCINE.

That noted - it is being reported by NBC News and CNN that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is hoping to announce approval of booster shots for immunocompromised people within the next 48 hours.

Hawaii Gov. David Ige (D) on Wednesday announced that he would be signing an executive order bringing back some coronavirus restrictions in light of the surge of new delta variant cases. As per his executive order, social gatherings will be limited to 10 people indoors and 25 people outdoors. When at restaurants, groups must be seated at least 6 feet apart, and professionally sponsored events must be reviewed by counties to ensure they are using safe practices.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged all pregnant women Wednesday to get the COVID-19 vaccine as hospitals in hot spots around the U.S. see disturbing numbers of unvaccinated mothers-to-be seriously ill with the virus.
Expectant women run a higher risk of severe illness and pregnancy complications from the coronavirus, including perhaps miscarriages and stillbirths. But their vaccination rates are low, with only about 23% having received at least one dose, according to CDC data.
VERY IMPORTANT OBSERVATION - Related studies demonstrated that women in their first and second trimester suffered spontaneous miscarriages. It is the vaccine and not the disease that causes this. Once again from the historical and yet to be deleted scientific reports.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8117969/
https://principia-scientific.com/dozens-of-spontaneous-miscarriages-stillbirths-after-covid-19-jabs/
https://web.archive.org/web/20210630220532/https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/huge-red-flag-medical-researchers-bury-data-showing-82-miscarriage-rate-in-vaccinated-women
https://dreddymd.com/2021/07/09/82-percent-pregnant-women-vaccinated-covid-miscarriage/

Review of CDC claims that the “delta” variant is more transmissible than chicken pox shows that the claims are at best - way over stated. Another instance of fear mongering.

Festivals, conventions and concerts across the country are now being cancelled due to the ‘delta’ fear.

The Australian capital Canberra is going into a snap one-week lockdown after recording its first case of Covid-19 in more than a year. The lockdown was called for the whole of the Australian Capital Territory - home to around 400,000 people - because authorities do not know how the infected person caught the virus. Residents will only be able to leave home for essential reasons.

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Globalism / Great Reset -

NOTE - Strongly trending push towards vaccine ‘passports’ and even more radical efforts to force compliance to be jabbed or lose rights/privileges. Growing numbers of examples.

Quebec, announced that in order to stave off a fourth wave they say is inevitable, are instituting a vaccine passport system in the province starting September 1. This new law will require proof of immunization from anyone wishing to attend all public spaces, such as festivals, bars, training facilities, restaurants and gyms, and other organized large gatherings.

Police in Switzerland have threatened to stop enforcing COVID-19 rules over fears that the measures are disproportionately undermining the fundamental rights of citizens. While the letter was received favorably by lockdown skeptics, the FSFP attempted to dismiss it by claiming it only represented a small number of police officers.

Reuters reporting that in Paris, cafe and restaurant refused to run the health pass checks. Meanwhile French President Macron is telling the French that they must give up freedoms for freedom.
NOTE - These businesses are struggling to stay afloat after the initial lockdowns. These vaccine paper requirements for service is just another form o lockdown, denying them customers and workers. Watch out here in the US as similar dictates will do the same to US businesses. It’s about control.

Speaking of control, leftists in congress are pushing H.R. 4980, purpose of which is “To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that any individual traveling on a flight that departs from or arrives to an airport inside the United States or a territory of the United States is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and for other purposes.” This echos a recent Atlantic article stating that the unjabbed should be on a no-fly list. Some airline officials are commenting that they don’t think there will be a domestic vaccination requirement for airline passengers, at this time because “it’s very difficult for us to come in and mandate a vaccine that isn’t even federally approved yet” but that “we’re continuing to encourage as much as we can amongst our own people and our customers to get vaccinated.” (CNBC)

Los Angeles City Council voted 13-0 To create vaccination passports requirement for indoor public spaces such as restaurants, movie theaters, concert venues. City Attorney Mike Feuer has already endorsed the idea he calls “No shots, no admission.” In an article on Medium this week he wrote, “Those who reject that responsibility should temporarily lose some of society’s privileges until their reckless behavior no longer endangers the rest of us.”
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Economy -
Still scratching my head regarding the drop in gold and silver this week. Some think it was a global conspiracy to deflect gold/silver’s effect to be a canary in a coal mine towards inflation. Other, more quantifiable reasons may be a sudden strengthening of the dollar and US bond prices.
NOTE - These prices were fixed on PAPER gold and silver, a fiat system at best. Physical gold/silver are still drawing a lot more per ounce than the paper system.

U.S. consumer prices increases slowed in July even as they remained at a 13-year high on a yearly basis and there were tentative signs inflation has peaked as supply-chain disruptions caused by the pandemic work their way through the economy.
NOTE - a dose of hopium, supply chain disruptions continue to grow as I’ve noted. Yes, they are playing the numbers game, by excluding the volatile food and energy components.

The White House urges OPEC+ to pump more oil (above and beyond the current 400,000 b/d monthly hikes the cartel is already implementing)
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Invasion of Illegals -
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly using a small regional airport in central Texas to disperse large groups of illegal immigrants throughout the U.S. after releasing them from detention facilities in other parts of the state, city and federal sources confirm. Local authorities in the city where this is occurring, Abilene, are being kept in the dark and a federal lawmaker is demanding an end to the “reckless and irresponsible practice” as well as answers from DHS after a series of local news reports exposed the covert operation. (JW)
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Steve Cox, candidate running as an independent to represent California’s 39th Congressional District said that “we” (pro-jab) should be “allowed to shoot” those who are refusing to live a life in fear.
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China -
Taiwan announced Tuesday that it will stage its largest annual war games in mid-September, simulating a Chinese attack as tensions are soaring in the region. The live-fire drills, known as the Han Kuang military exercise, will involve all branches of Taiwan’s military. The war games will be held on the island of Taiwan and offshore with simultaneous land, sea, and air exercises.
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North Korea -
Country is still struggling to recover from massive flooding that hit last week. Govt deployed its military to assist in the recovery but is still struggling to get roads and other infrastructure fixed.
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Russia -
With much fanfare, Russia recently revealed a new single engine stealth fighter called Checkmate. This was done outside Moscow at the MAKS 2021 aviation show. Sukhoi, the developer and manufacturer of the most successful current Russian fighters, displayed a mockup of the new single-engine Checkmate stealth fighter, which is apparently the Russian answer to the similar American F-35. Checkmate is being developed by the same team that designed the Su-57, the Russian answer to the American F-22. The Su-57 proved to be a failure as an F-22 clone and few are being built, and those only for the Russian Air Force. Export customers cancelled orders and accused Sukhoi and the Russian government of fraud and trying to sell an aircraft that does not work. Checkmate appears to be a desperate move to salvage something from all the money spent on developing the Su-57.
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Afghanistan -
The Taliban have taken the strategically important city of Ghazni, the 10th provincial capital to fall to the militants in less than a week. Ghazni is on the major Kabul-Kandahar motorway, linking militant strongholds in the south to the capital, Kabul.
Taking Ghazni is thought to increase the likelihood that the Taliban could eventually aim to take Kabul itself.
Almost a third of the country’s 34 provincial capitals are now under Taliban control.
NOTE - Recent reports are that the Afghan govt has called on the Taliban to stop its offense in exchange for a power sharing arrangement. Um, at this stage wy would the Taliban want to ‘share’ something that they are so close to obtaining on their own.
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553 posted on 08/12/2021 7:51:17 AM PDT by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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