MONDAY’S post may be delayed or not done at all due to other time requirements. Sorry in advance.
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Wuhan virus -
Europe’s latest COVID wave appears to be slowing already, despite all this chatter about omicron overtaking delta by Christmas, as at least one British scientist has suggested it will. And in South Africa, scientists say the omicron variant isn’t causing any deaths or severe infections, in keeping with the view that the variant will likely cause more mild infections than delta.
In the US, the situation is even more subdued. While cases have seen a slight uptick over the past week, the number of deaths has remained near its lows.
According to WHO - still no deaths attributed to Omicron.
In the “Lancet” - “COVID-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified”
“In the USA and Germany, high-level officials have used the term pandemic of the unvaccinated, suggesting that people who have been vaccinated are not relevant in the epidemiology of COVID-19. Officials’ use of this phrase might have encouraged one scientist to claim that “the unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated for COVID-19”.1 But this view is far too simple.
There is increasing evidence that vaccinated individuals continue to have a relevant role in transmission. In Massachusetts, USA, a total of 469 new COVID-19 cases were detected during various events in July, 2021, and 346 (74%) of these cases were in people who were fully or partly vaccinated, 274 (79%) of whom were symptomatic.”
“It is therefore wrong and dangerous to speak of a pandemic of the unvaccinated. “
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02243-1/fulltext
Though lost in the news, protests continue against tyrannical lockdowns.
Tens of thousands took to the streets of Vienna today to protest against mandatory Covid vaccines and home confinement orders, with unvaccinated Austrians set to be fined and restricted in the coming months.
Police said an estimated 44,000 people attended the demonstration which saw ‘no to vaccine fascism’ signs held aloft, the latest in a string of huge weekend protests since Austria last month became the first EU country to say it would make Covid vaccinations mandatory.
A partial confinement since last month ends on Sunday for the fully vaccinated, but those who have not received the required doses will have to remain at home.
A two-shot course of Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine has just 22.5% efficacy against symptomatic infection with the omicron variant, but can thwart severe disease, according to laboratory experiments in South Africa. this is based on a very small study.
OVERALL OBSERVATIONS - The narrative has taken a hit due to some components jumping the gun on Omicron.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
See wuhan above as the shine has quickly come off Omicron and they cannot generate enough fear over this relatively benign variant.
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Economy -
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg TV’s “Wall Street Week,” economist Larry Summers stated that “we’re going to entrench inflation way above 2%, perhaps in the 4% or even higher range, unless something happens to break the current mood,” and the Build Back Better reconciliation bill will increase inflation over the next two years, but it could be offset by the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy. Summers said, “We’re having it confirmed that it’s not transitory.”
The prices of new cars and trucks jumped a seasonally adjusted 1.4 percent in October and another 1.2 percent in November, data from the Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index showed Friday. Compared with a year ago, prices are up 11.1 percent. That’s the fastest annual pace of inflation for vehicles since 1975.
Elements of the MSM are beginning to turn against the BBB, asking/saying if such spending is prudent with inflation at 40 year highs. A key component of that inflation is excessive govt spending. This swing in opinion will likely give Sen Manchin ever more bacd bone in his standoff against democrat leaders on this bill
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Biden watch -
Biden, was widely mocked over the weekend after he posted a tweet in which he bragged about how the United States pays its bills on time by taking on more debt.
“The United States pays its debts when they are due,” Biden wrote in a tweet that also featured a video. “That’s why today, I signed a bill to fast-track the process to raise our debt limit.”
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CW2/Domestic violence -
Kalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom said he plans to use a controversial U.S. Supreme Court ruling on strict abortion curbs in Texas to design a law that would allow private citizens to sue some gun manufacturers, distributors and sellers. Newsom, a Democrat, said on Saturday his team will work with state Attorney General Rob Bonta and the legislature to draft a proposal in line with the Texas law that would let citizens sue manufacturers, sellers or distributors of assault weapons or ghost gun kits for at least $10,000 per violation.
OBSERVATION - I think Newscum is trying to make an apple to apple comparison here but will fail. Congress has already preempted lawsuits of this sort and the target is a very clearly state one in the constitution. T None of the USSC judges could say the same about abortion. That won’t stop him (and other leftists in west coast blue state from trying this judicial trick). But of course kalifornia will try.
BLM/Antifa and other leftist activity continues at a relatively low and relatively peaceful level . No prospects for significant violence in the near or long term.
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China -
China’s Belt and Road Initiative has resulted in debt traps for a number of countries. Laos may have just joined the list with the opening of the China-Laos railway on Dec. 3. This “trap’ consists on loans issued to cash strapped countries for major infrastructure projects. These loans are supported by the collateral from the construction, and are usually far above what the country can afford - essentially dooming the project to default (in many cases default on the loan is accelerated by corrupt goats.) It appears that China now controls this new, strategically significant rail road due to loan default. Within the last month China also took control over a major airport in Uganda.
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Japan -
The Exercise Resolute Dragon, which runs through December 17 at locations from Okinawa in the far south of Japan to Hokkaido in the north, involves 2,600 US Marines and some 1,400 Japanese military personnel participating in a wide range of military scenarios on land, sea and in the air.
Analysts say the drills – which come shortly after bilateral sea-air exercises in the South China Sea and in waters off Okinawa prefecture, as well as a series of maneuvers with military units from Britain, Australia, France, the Netherlands and Germany – underline Tokyo’s desire to deepen its security and military cooperation with its allies.
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Russia -
INCREASED WARNING - OSINT and other analysts are noting the continued build up of military assets that go far beyond those necessary for a military ‘exercise’. Putin has seriously deployed for combat.
Major red flag - Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and cancelled a middle eastern trip that includes Israel.
In a strongly worded statement, G7 warns of ‘massive consequences’ if Russia invades Ukraine.
NATO’s Stoltenberg says every Russian aggression against Ukraine would come at a high price
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Ukraine -
Several observers are noting that Russian equipment staging areas are emptying out and where they’ve gone is undetermined. But they definitely haven’t reloaded onto trains for redeployment.
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Israel -
Over 200,000 Palestinians cast ballots in rare West Bank municipal elections. Vote limited to rural areas after Mahmoud Abbas delays voting in cities, amid simmering anger toward the Fatah-controlled PA. Saturday’s elections were also boycotted by the terror group Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas’s spokesman, Abdulatif al-Qanou, told the Associated Press that the group wants parliamentary and presidential elections and considers holding the municipal vote alone a violation of previous agreements. Abbas’ popularity waned after he canceled the long-awaited legislative and parliamentary elections in April. No legislative or presidential election has been held in the Palestinian territories for 15 years.
OBSERVATION - Abbas is running out of time and the prolonged effect of his own govt corruption is falling to more radical islamic idealism. The West Bank has had pretty good prosperity - relatively compared to Gaza. However, with wuhan health and economic impacts and Israel/Hamas conflicts, the seeds of discord are sprouting.
Gantz has reportedly delivered an Iranian attack plan to the US. It is to be noted that Israel is not anticipating or needing US approval.
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Iran -
Germany’s new foreign minister today said there was no progress in sight for nuclear talks with Iran, and Iranian government negotiations have been thrown back six months.
OBSERVATION - this is exactly what Iran wanted to begin with.
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Black Swans -
the big earthquake swarm along transform faults associated with the Blanco Fracture Zone appear to be dying down.
Abbreviated report today.
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Wuhan virus -
Omicron reportedly in UK has been doubling at a rate of every 2-3 days. Delta by comparison doubled every 7. British authorities still uncertain on the severity of the mutant.
OBSERVATION - We have several weeks of info on the ‘severity’ and they all point to being very mild. But can’t let the fear narrative die.
Rumors that the first Omicron related death has happened in the UK.
As time moves on, more and more of the after affects of the wuhan mRNA jabs become evident. this one was noted VERY early on and is being reinforced unfortunately with real world data. In Waterloo, Ontario there have been 86 cases of stillbirths in the past in the past six months, compared to typically five to six per year. These are focused on ‘fully’ vaccinated women. Last month, Scotland reported that 21 babies had died within 28 days of birth in September. The spike in deaths was so noticeable that it triggered an investigation.
The city of Itajai, Brazil offered Ivermectin to its citizens during the COVID pandemic. In the study by a team of researchers spanning several Brazilian institutes, the University of Toronto, and Columbia’s EAFIT concluded in a December pre-print study that hospitalization and mortality rates were cut in half over the seven-month period among the Ivermectin group.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356962821_Ivermectin_prophylaxis_used_for_COVID-19_reduces_COVID-19_infection_and_mortality_rates_A_220517-subject_populational-level_retrospective_citywide
Results supported by another study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8088823/
Two-dose COVID-19 vaccine regimens do not induce enough neutralizing antibodies against the omicron coronavirus variant, British scientists found, indicating that increased infections in those previously infected or vaccinated may be likely. Researchers from the University of Oxford published results on Monday from a study yet to be peer-reviewed, where they analyzed blood samples from participants who were given doses from AstraZeneca-Oxford or Pfizer-BioNTech in a large study looking into mixing of vaccines.
OBSERVATION - If I understand virus mutations, they will adapt to weak or ineffective ‘vaccines’ to increase their ability to infect their host. I’ve read many reports by immunologists that this could and is happing with the existing ‘vaccines’.
Israeli Health Ministry vaccination advisory committee member and deputy chief of Israel’s biggest hospital Professor Arnon Afek is telling the public to prepare not only to take their fourth “booster” shot but also their fifth, sixth and seventh.
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Globalism / Great Reset -
CVS is reportedly in the process of tuning over medical data to Microsoft. According to reports, Microsoft Azure will help CVS “enhance its omnichannel pharmacy capabilities and deliver customized, omnichannel health recommendations,” which is likely only possible if patients’ medical histories are laid bare for Microsoft, and possibly Gates, to view and analyze. Action has raised suspicion that the data will get into the hands of others for eventual profiling and creation of a wuhan data base.
Attempts at vaccination segregation are running into issues given that more and more data are coming out documenting that it is the vaccinated that are the greatest spreaders of the current Delta wave, not the unvaccinated. The dreaded Omicron variant – which causes common cold-like symptoms – has been spread round the world largely by the vaccinated. And more and more regions are now finding that COVID-positive vaccinated patients are filling up death tallies. Unless something more deadly shows up, the globalists will have to continue to push their controls via Australian, Canadian and Austrian styles of tyranny. _____________________________
Economy -
The House passed what it calls a “fee” on methane that amounts to a stealth tax on natural gas and everyone who uses it. According to a WSJ evaluation, this could add and additional 17% increase next winter to natural gas prices. This is on top of already higher natural gas prices.
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CW2/Domestic violence -
A gunman opened fire Sunday night on a crowd that had gathered at a Celebration of Life ceremony in Baytown, Texas.
A motorist drove by the location and opened fire striking a number of people. The injured were rushed to area hospitals. At least one person was killed. A child is also believed to have been injured. Shooter(s) still being sought.
OBSERVATION - Anti-life proponents have attacked Pro-life supporters in the past. However, I think this attack may reflect on the USSC refusal to place a stay on current Texas law protecting the unborn after a heart beat is detected. Combined with the likely overturning/severely limiting Roe v Way, pro-aborts are tuning to leftist violence means to strike back. Could be a start of another line of deadly leftist violence.
MSNBC and The Atlantic are pushing a story that essentially says that there are between between 20 and 30 million people ready to take up arms and forcibly place Trump back into the WH. The claim is based on a survey conducted by the University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST). Of course the media is tossing in ample amounts of demonization of Trump supporters as “white supremacists”.
OBSERVATION - This is just another aspect of the media trying to shape the argument against Trump and his supporters in the lead up to the 2022 midterms. MSNBC and the Alantic cater to the extremists fringe of the left, calling the base ‘to arms’ so to speak and rally the base. However, this kind of rhetoric also serves to legitimize leftist actions to arm up and commit violence actions.
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Russia -
INCREASED WARNING - OSINT and other analysts are noting the continued build up of military assets that go far beyond those necessary for a military ‘exercise’. Putin has seriously deployed for combat.
Major red flag - Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and cancelled a middle eastern trip that includes Israel.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov: If NATO and the United States do not respond to Russia’s demand for security guarantees, a military response will follow, there will be a new round of confrontation
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Ukraine -
Germany blocks Ukraine from purchasing defensive weapons via NATO support and procurement agency, according to Defense Minister Reznikov. Earlier yesterday, biden stopped over 200 million in military aid from being sent to Ukraine
OBSERVATION - This appears to be an attempt to appease Russia by showing a lessening of support for Ukraine. Questionable tactic, but one that reflects weakness and loss of international narrative.
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Iran -
Iran appears to be preparing for a space launch as negotiations continue in Vienna over its tattered nuclear deal with world powers, according to satellite images.
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