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WHO Warns That PCR COVID Tests Are More Likely To Give False Positives (PM)
No Decline In Very High COVID Rates During 1st Week Of UK’s 3rd Lockdown (ITV)
France Issues Warning Over Use Of Homemade Masks Against New Variants (G.)
Biden To Sign 53 Executive Orders In First 10 Days (Hill)
Inaugural Display Symbolizing 56 US States, Territories (JTN)
Globalist “Manifesto” For Post-Trump Economic “Reset” (ZH)
Biden Will Recognize Guaido As Venezuela’s Leader – Blinken (R.)
US To Keep Embassy In Jerusalem – Blinken (AlJ)
John Brennan’s ‘List’ Of Ideologies Biden Intel Community Should Go After (ZH)
Call For New “Secret Police” Force to Spy on Trump Supporters (SN)
Silicon Valley CEOs Can’t Decide Laws And Rules – EU Commission President (RT)
Germany Enacts Major Overhaul of Its Competition Regime for the Digital Era (WSGR)
The Fed’s Inconvenient Truth: Inflation Is “M.I.A.” (RIA)

 

 

We went from 24/7 negative about Trump to 24/7 positive about Joe Biden. And then they’ll find out that 24/7 positive does not induce clickbait. And then what happens after that?

And really? J-Lo singing Woody Guthrie to celebrate the DC culture?

 

 

Here’s the state of your media for the next 4 years:

 

 

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They’re actually going to do it, they’re going to lower the PCR cycle threshold as soon as Biden comes in? That would be hilarious.

“The notice was released only one hour after President Joe Biden was sworn into office..”

WHO Warns That PCR COVID Tests Are More Likely To Give False Positives (PM)

The World Health Organization issued a notice on Wednesday warning medical professionals to follow instructions of PCR tests for coronavirus to avoid getting false positive results. The notice was released only one hour after President Joe Biden was sworn into office, leading some observers to question the timing of the release. If the PCR tests are resulting in false-positives, and that information is now used to mitigate the large positivity numbers, the number of case counts will begin to drop. The optics of a decreasing COVID-case count would be a boon for the launch of the Biden administration. The new guidance states that the “WHO reminds IVD users that disease prevalence alters the predictive value of test results; as disease prevalence decreases, the risk of false positive increases (2).”


The notice reads: “This means that the probability that a person who has a positive result (SARS-CoV-2 detected) is truly infected with SARS-CoV-2 decreases as prevalence decreases, irrespective of the claimed specificity.” Former President Donald Trump has been heavily criticized for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with the United States leading the world in both total cases and total deaths, although not per capita, according to official statistics. A big problem for Trump had been the continuous increase in COVID-case counts. If many of those cases were established as extant with the help of PCR tests that were resulting in false-positives, that would mean that the case count for which Trump was criticized was not a factual number.

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In the UK, this will be a bitter fight.

No Decline In Very High COVID Rates During 1st Week Of UK’s 3rd Lockdown (ITV)

The spread of coronavirus did not decline during the first week of England’s third lockdown, a study has shown. The latest React study, from Imperial College London and Ipsos Mori, states that during the initial 10 days of the third Covid-19 lockdown in England, “prevalence of coronavirus was very high with no evidence of decline”. Researchers also found that the prevalence of Covid-19 across England increased by 50% between early December and the second week of January. After testing more than 142,900 volunteers in England between January 6 and 15, they found that one in 63 people were infected. The report, which researchers said does not yet reflect the impact of the national lockdown, also showed there were “worrying suggestions of a recent uptick in infections”.


National prevalence of the virus increased by half, from 0.91% in early December to 1.58%, the latest React study showed. While there was a rise in prevalence across all adult age groups, it was highest in 18- to 24-year-olds, and more than doubled in the over 65s age group. London saw the highest regional prevalence, jumping from 1.21% to 2.8%, while there were also rises in the south east, east of England, West Midlands, south west and north west. The only region to see a decrease was Yorkshire and the Humber, and prevalence remained stable in the East Midlands and north east, but the researchers warned infection numbers are still high even in these areas. Additionally, they found large household sizes, living in a deprived neighbourhood, and areas with higher numbers of black and Asian individuals were associated with increased prevalence.

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Better masks only make sense when a virus is more easily transmitted? None of the below makes sense.

France Issues Warning Over Use Of Homemade Masks Against New Variants (G.)

French health officials have advised people against wearing home-made fabric masks as they offer less protection against highly contagious new Covid-19 variants. The scientific committee, which reports back to the French government, says category 2 masks are unlikely to halt the spread of the “English variant” or new coronavirus strains from Brazil and South Africa. The experts’ advice, presented to ministers on Monday but not published, also suggested France double its social distancing rule from 1m to 2m. France’s Haut Conseil de Santé Publique (high council for public health – HCSP) decided over the weekend that many cloth masks, often preferred because they can be washed and reused, did not guarantee protection against the new variants. “Category 2 or material masks only filter 70%, while category 1 masks, like surgical masks, can go as high as 95% if worn properly.


As the variant is more easily transmitted, it is logical to use masks with the highest filtering power,” Daniel Camus, of the Pasteur Institute in Lille and a HCSP member told France Info. “We are not questioning the masks used up to now … but as we have no new weapons against them (new strains) the only thing we can do is to improve the weapons we already have,” Camus added. Home-made barrier masks made under Europe-wide established specifications are consider category 1. However, even though they are subject to making them more efficient filters, the HSPC said they may not guarantee the correct level of protection. Didier Lepelletier, the co-president of the committee’s Covid-19 working group, said everyone should now choose category 1 masks adding that home-made masks “have not been tested in terms of their performance”.

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“Restoring America’s Place in the World”

-Rejoin Paris accord
-Fortify DACA
-Undo Muslim ban
-Stop border wall
-Order unified Covid response
-Eviction/foreclosure freeze —> 3/31
-Extend student loan pause —> 9/30
-Rescind Trump’s 1776 commish
-Undo Trump EO on Census

Biden To Sign 53 Executive Orders In First 10 Days (Hill)

President Biden is poised to take action on 53 executive items over the next 10 days as he seeks to rapidly reverse some Trump administration policies and implement his own, according to a document outlining the schedule for Biden’s first two weeks in office. The document, which was circulated to individuals close to the administration and obtained by The Hill, shows that Biden will take executive action each weekday through the end of January, with each day centered around specific themes such as climate, economic relief, health care and immigration. The timetable lays out which days Biden is expected to act on anticipated items such as reversing the Mexico City policy, creating a task force to reunite separated migrant families and establishing a policing commission.

The schedule notes that the specifics of certain executive actions are to be determined, reflecting how the Biden team is still hashing out details as it takes office following delays in the transition after the November election. The themes are expected to extend into February, which has been designated around the idea of “Restoring America’s Place in the World,” according to the document. This week, Wednesday’s theme is focused on the inauguration and addressing “four crises” — the coronavirus pandemic, climate, the economy and equity. Among the items Biden will sign are an order mandating masks be worn on federal lands, an extension of eviction moratoriums, a repeal of Trump’s travel ban and a proclamation halting border wall construction.

Thursday’s theme will focus on the pandemic, according to the document. Biden is expected to sign off on executive orders to review the supply chain ahead of any use of the Defense Production Act and to implement public health measures on public transportation, airplanes and trains. Friday’s theme is economic relief, with two executive orders expected to be signed, according to the document. One will direct agencies to take action on Medicaid, Pell grants and unemployment insurance, while the other will restore collective bargaining rights to federal employees and initiate a rollback of a Trump administration rule on Schedule F. The theme for Monday is “Buy American,” and Biden will sign one executive order seeking to ensure agencies use U.S. suppliers.

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Or it may be nothing.

Inaugural Display Symbolizing 56 US States, Territories (JTN)

President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration decor touting 56 U.S. states and territories provokes new questions about whether Biden will push for new statehood for six U.S. territories, which could aid the Democratic Party in the Electoral College. Under the U.S. Constitution, statehood requires only a simple majority in Congress, which could be achieved if Democrats decide to remove the 60-vote filibuster threshold currently in place in the Senate. As part of the “Field of Flags” display at the National Mall ahead of Biden’s inauguration, the Presidential Inaugural Committee planted nearly 200,000 state and territory flags on Monday night, meant to represent the American people unable to travel to Washington, D.C., for Inauguration Day due to the COVID-19 pandemic and security threats.

Fifty-six pillars of neon blue light, representing the U.S. states and territories, were also lit up for 46 seconds to mark the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden. The prominent light beams were reminiscent of the grounds of the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan. Biden has said he supports statehood for Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. Other U.S. territories with permanent civilian populations include Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

[..] Historian Jason Steinhauer told Just the News on Tuesday that the National World War II Memorial “serves as a useful reference point for the Field of Flags display” because it contains 56 pillars representing each state and territory from its period, including the District of Columbia. Those 56 pillars represented a different assortment of states and territories from that time period: 48 states, plus the territories of Alaska and Hawaii, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Steinhauer noted that memorial opened in 2004, during the George W. Bush administration.

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In case you wondered who won.

Globalist “Manifesto” For Post-Trump Economic “Reset” (ZH)

Proponents of the QAnon “conspiracy theory,” which the NYT can’t seem to stop writing about, are going to love seeing this. A memo that has reportedly been circulating among policymakers on both sides of the aisle for weeks was finally released to the press on Tuesday when Dealbook editor and CNBC “Squawk Box” host Andrew Ross Sorkin got the scoop: a memo penned by a group of senior-level bureaucrats, including – who else? – Henry Kissinger and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has provided a kind of “blueprint” for the Biden Administration to undo all of President Trump’s trade-war tactics and other policies that didn’t exactly help promote free trade.

As Trump recounted in his farewell video published earlier Tuesday afternoon, his administration dramatically altered the American trade landscape, pulling the US out of the TPP, renegotiating Nafta into the USMCA, and – most consequentially, at things would turn out – the trade war with China, which inspired waves of hysterical lobbying by the Chamber of Commerce and special-interest groups from Big Tech to Wal-Mart and other major retailers, and others. So, as Biden prepares his first 100-day blitz of policy directives, many of the architects of the globalist system created by groups like the Trilateral Commission are joining with a gaggle of former cabinet-level officials (both Dems and GOP) along with the CEO of one of America’s largest banks, former British Labour Party Prime Minister Tony Blair and – who else? – Henry Kissinger, have essentially penned a manifesto that is being circulated among lawmakers, along with top-level officials in the cabinet and the West Wing, to help restore the globalist system that Trump helped to disrupt.

Who better to leak the story to than Andrew Sorkin, who first brought up the existence of the memo during an interview during Tuesday morning’s episode of “Squawk Box” on CNBC during a conversation with Harvard economist Austan Goolsbee. According to Sorkin’s column, “the memo comes from an under-the-radar group of global boldfaced names that act as a private advisory committee to JPMorgan Chase. They include Tony Blair, the former British prime minister; Condoleezza Rice and Henry Kissinger, two former secretaries of state; Robert Gates, the former secretary of defense; Alex Gorsky, chief executive of Johnson & Johnson; Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH; and Joseph C. Tsai, executive vice chairman of Alibaba, among others.” The group, which even Sorkin concedes is exclusively staffed with members of the “globalist part of the globalist establishment that fell out of favor during the Trump years, typically meets once a year in a far-flung location with JPMorgan’s chief, Jamie Dimon.”

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But we’ll keep the craziest stuff.

Biden Will Recognize Guaido As Venezuela’s Leader – Blinken (R.)

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s administration will continue to recognize Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the South American country’s president, Anthony Blinken, Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, said on Tuesday. Blinken told members of the U.S. Senate that Biden would seek to “more effectively target” sanctions on the country, which aim to oust President Nicolas Maduro – who retains control of the country. Blinken said the new administration would look at more humanitarian assistance to the country. The United States, along with dozens of other countries, recognized Guaido – the leader of Venezuela’s opposition-held National Assembly – as the country’s president in January 2019, arguing Maduro’s 2018 re-election was rigged.


“We need an effective policy that can restore Venezuela to democracy, starting with free and fair elections,” Blinken said. Guaido’s push to oust Maduro – who has overseen a collapse in the once-prosperous OPEC nation’s economy and stands accused of corruption and human rights violations – has stalled. Maduro calls Guaido a U.S.-puppet seeking to oust him in a coup. His allies have expressed a desire to engage in negotiations with the Biden administration after years of tensions and escalating U.S. sanctions.

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Remember the loud protests?

US To Keep Embassy In Jerusalem – Blinken (AlJ)

The incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden will keep the US embassy in Israel in Jerusalem, his nominee for secretary of state affirmed at his Senate confirmation hearing. “Do you agree that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and do you commit that the United States will keep our embassy in Jerusalem?” asked Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. “Yes and Yes,” said Antony Blinken in testimony on Tuesday. Outgoing President Donald Trump announced the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December 2017. The US moved its embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in May of the following year.


Jerusalem remains at the heart of the decades-long Middle East conflict, with the Palestinian Authority (PA) insisting that East Jerusalem – illegally occupied by Israel since 1967 – should serve as the capital of a Palestinian state. “The only way to ensure Israel’s future as a Jewish, democratic state and to give the Palestinians a state to which they are entitled is through the so-called two-state solution,” Blinken said. “I think realistically, it’s hard to see near-term prospects for moving forward on that. What would be important is to make sure that neither party takes steps that make the already difficult process even more challenging,” he added.

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The scariest face of them all. And that’s saying something.

John Brennan’s ‘List’ Of Ideologies Biden Intel Community Should Go After (ZH)

Well this is alarming and ominous to say the least… Former CIA Director John Brennan told MSNBC in an interview on inauguration day that the intelligence community under newly sworn in President Biden is “moving in laser-like fashion” to try and uncover dangerous plots against the country. Naturally, there’s been much of this worrisome commentary about what political ideologies should be targeted and monitored coming out of NatSec hawks in the wake of the Capitol Hill mayhem of January 6. But this is the first time such a broad array of groups have been so bluntly lumped into a Pro-Trump “insurgency” by an influential media pundit and former spook. Brennan expressly said they are “violent” and remain a domestic threat.


He said in the MSNBC interview without the least concern for violation of Americans’ rights that intelligence agencies should look into “religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians…”. He said these belief systems have come together under the umbrella of a supposed pro-Trump movement capable of committing violence. Ah yes, “even libertarians”… “I had white knuckles because of the nature of the threats,” he began by recalling his days as CIA Director. We’ve seen “the growth of this polarization in the United States and domestic violence and White supremacist groups,” he continued. Comparing this “threat” to a foreign insurgency which the US has lately battled overseas, he said it— “brings together an unholy alliance of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.”

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“Neither the FBI nor the NSA has the culture of brutal hostility toward their own country’s population needed to efficiently repress dissidents in the unfolding police state.”

Call For New “Secret Police” Force to Spy on Trump Supporters (SN)

Perhaps channeling the spirit of the Soviet NKVD, leftists are now literally calling for a new “secret police” unit to be created at the federal level to spy on Trump supporters. In an article published by the Daily Beast, Jeff Stein argues that existing federal agencies like the FBI are ill-equipped to stop “white terror” because they missed signs of the the pre-planning of the Capitol building siege. The solution is to create a new “secret police” (yes, he literally uses those words) in order to “infiltrate and neutralize armed domestic extremists,” which according to the media’s latest narrative potentially includes 70 million Trump voters.

Stein even compares the Capitol breach to 9/11, an attack that killed nearly 3,000 people, and argues that a similar response to that should be directly inwardly against American citizens directed by a new “domestic spy agency.” “One response to the 9/11 tragedy may well get renewed attention after the Capitol assault—especially if armed white nationalists are successful in carrying out more attacks in the coming days and weeks: The call for a secret police,” he writes. The existence of a “secret police” force that subverts constitutional norms to repress the population is of course a hallmark of all dictatorial regimes, but that doesn’t appear to bother self-proclaimed “progressives.”

“Hundreds of Black Lives Matter/Antifa riots, some of which entailed firing mortars at, firebombing, or burning down police stations, did not qualify as domestic terrorism. But the Capitol Riot was terrorism, due to the usual double standard,” points out Dave Blount. He also hits the nail on the head about the real reason why the creation of a new secret police unit would be necessary. “Neither the FBI nor the NSA has the culture of brutal hostility toward their own country’s population needed to efficiently repress dissidents in the unfolding police state.”

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Told, you, they will regret the Trump ban. Genie’s out of the bottle.

Mind you, she also said: “After four long years, Europe has a friend in the White House.”

Silicon Valley CEOs Can’t Decide Laws And Rules – EU Commission President (RT)

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has sent a message to US tech companies ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, warning that Silicon Valley CEOs can’t decide their own laws and rules.
During a speech delivered in the European Parliament, von der Leyen laid out a series of areas in which the European Union (EU) is hoping to work with the incoming Biden administration, including climate change and the regulation of American-based tech companies that have an international reach. The EU has been working to introduce global standards for digital companies that provide a clear set of rules and responsibilities for the way they operate and the content that is distributed via their sites. However, rebuffing suggestions from tech giants to allow them to moderate themselves, von der Leyen was clear that governments must now intervene.


“This kind of decision must be taken in accordance with laws and rules…not by an arbitrary decision in the power of Silicon Valley CEOs.” Citing the recent attack on the US Capitol and linking the behavior of those President Donald Trump supporters to division and disinformation that appeared online, von der Leyen said in a tweet that regulation must be imposed on social media sites to “ensure that hate & fake news can no longer spread unchecked.” This is not the first time that the EU has sought to control the power of social media companies and tech giants. Google has been a target of the EU’s antitrust body in recent years, with the search engine having been hit with over $9 billion of fines, and further investigations are underway.

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Germany does it “gründlich”.

Germany Enacts Major Overhaul of Its Competition Regime for the Digital Era (WSGR)

On January 18, 2021, the 10th amendment of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (ARC) entered into force. The so-called “ARC Digitization Act,” designed to modernize German competition law enforcement for the era of big-data, i) creates sweeping new powers for the Federal Cartel Office (FCO) to regulate digital platform companies; ii) expands prohibitions on abuses of market power by firms with “relative market power” and firms that refuse access to data, networks, or infrastructure; and iii) raises the thresholds for German merger control. Because of the potential that large technology companies could be required to make dramatic changes to their current business practices, the FCO is poised to become one of the most consequential competition agencies for large technology companies.

Indeed, FCO President Mundt has repeatedly emphasized the willingness and readiness of his authority “not to squander the head start” and to apply the new rules soon after their entry into force. Under the new Section 19a of the ARC, the FCO gains novel powers to designate certain companies as having “paramount significance for competition across markets.” Upon making such a designation, the FCO can then order such companies to cease engaging in prohibited types of conduct, such as self-preferencing. The ARC Digitization Act also introduces changes to the burden of proof and the appeals process, designed to enhance the FCO’s ability to take swift action. The FCO may issue a decision declaring an undertaking to be of paramount significance for competition across markets.

The factors the FCO may consider in making this determination include:
• its dominant position in one or more markets;
• its financial strength or its access to other resources;
• its vertical integration and its activities on otherwise related markets;
• its access to data relevant for competition; and
• the importance of its activities for third parties’ access to supply and sales markets and its related influence on third parties’ business activities.

The qualitative nature of these factors provides the FCO with considerable discretion in making Section 19a declarations. As clarified by the German legislators’ explanatory memo, only a small number of (digital) “ecosystems” is likely to fulfill the threshold of having such “paramount significance.”2 The intended targets of the new rules are large and “often dominant” digital platform companies “with the resources and strategic position to significantly influence the commercial activities of third parties or expand their own activities to new markets and sectors.”3 We expect that the FCO will initially target “GAFA” and a few other (mostly U.S.-based) digital platforms.

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An old favorite theme of mine: What if money doesn’t move?

The Fed’s Inconvenient Truth: Inflation Is “M.I.A.” (RIA)

“The amount of money in the US economy is 25% higher than it was at the start of 2020, eclipsing any pace of money growth seen since the Federal Reserve was established (1913)” RB Advisors Deputy CIO Dan Suzuki. In recent weeks we have seen a non-stop flow of ominous statements like the one above. The author is 100% factual and it should be a cause for deep concern. Historically, such surges in the money supply were often met with significant inflation. While the sharp increase in the money supply provides context to the depth of our economic problems, our inflation warning bells are not ringing, at least not yet. Here is why.


Inflation, or aggregate price increases, results from economic activity, along with the amount of money and its velocity. A famous economic formula called the Monetary Exchange Equation uses those factors to create a mathematical identity that precisely determines the inflation rate. We co-authored an article with Brett Freeze entitled Stoking The Embers of Inflation. The article went into great detail about the monetary exchange equation. We summarize a few key points here: Per the inflation identity, the rate of inflation or deflation (%P) is equal to the rate of money growth (%M), plus the change in velocity (%V), less the rate of output growth (%Q).

• %M – As noted earlier, the change in the monetary base is a direct function of the Fed’s monetary policy actions. To increase or decrease the monetary base, the Fed buys and sells securities, typically U.S. Treasuries and more recently Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS). • %V – Velocity is nominal GDP divided by the monetary base (Q/M). Velocity measures people’s willingness to hold cash or how often cash turns over. Lower velocity means that people are hoarding cash, which usually happens during periods of economic weakness, credit stress, and fear for banking institutions’ going-concern.

So if we exclude GDP, inflation is dependent on money supply and velocity changes. Money supply data is published weekly and easily forecastable with the Fed’s QE schedule. Velocity, on the other hand, is posted once a quarter and much more challenging to forecast. As such, let’s dive into velocity. Velocity is a measure of how fast cash circulates in an economy. We consider two extreme examples of money printing and monetary velocity to appreciate the interaction of money supply and velocity. • The Fed prints $10 trillion and buries it in a hole. • The Fed prints $10 trillion, sends each American a $30,000 check, and tells them they have five days to spend it or lose it The two examples have polar opposite effects on prices, despite the same massive increase in the money supply.

In example 1, the Fed does not affect inflation. The $10 trillion is not fungible as long as it stays buried. In example 2, hyperinflation would result as the new money rapidly circulates through the economy and dwarfs the economic system’s production capacity. Essentially, the demand for goods and services outstrips the supply. The amount of money greatly matters, but equally important is how it moves through the economy. The graph below compares the money supply chart above with the velocity of money and inflation.

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    Jackson Pollock Man with knife 1938-40   • WHO Warns That PCR COVID Tests Are More Likely To Give False Positives (PM) • No Decline In Very High
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle January 21 2021]

    #68653
    V. Arnold
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    Jackson Pollock Man with knife 1938-40

    My first impression was; it’s a pile of worms. After a second look I saw the knife; so now; it’s looking like a pile of worms with a knife… 😉

    The last few days have been a mish-mash of thoughts and emotions; fuck it!
    It just no longer matters…
    The only ones that can change it, don’t know they can actually change “it”…
    May the gods help us………………………………….

    #68654
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    …but, of course it matters; else why would I rail so much and so often?
    I can never completely acquiesce to the powers; my self exile is certainly better than living in the hellscape of the U.S….
    ……….there is nothing perfect out there; but tolerable can be found; and does suffice…

    #68655
    Dr. D
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    Mostly from yesterday:

    Ah, Madamski, it’s the Left-Right problem again. The GOP cannot create a populist dictator ever. It’s not a risk.

    Two reasons: one, if you’re “Populist” you’re not going to be a dictator. Because you can just be freely elected, and that’s called “Democracy.” So it’s a contradiction in terms. Second, you can’t be a Dictator if your Conservative/GOP platform is to have a “government so small it can be drowned in a bathtub.” And a heavily-armed populace, which openly and willingly includes arms for Leftists. So the GOP is going to have tiny government, a strong, armed population of individual citizens, with free speech and free arms to their opposition, and they’re going to be “Dictators” of what, exactly? Who would they dictate to? Nor is this theoretical. The Right has been delighted to see the Left prepping and on gun ranges. Particularly Black and Brown, although it’s offensive to say, apparently when dealing with race-diving race-fascinated they only hear sentences if you inject race into them.

    Don’t worry: this is the single most common political misunderstanding, injected with the first lie that Germany was a “Right-wing” government. When it’s clearly, by name and definition and heritage and outlook and premise, the “Socialist Worker’s Party.” Only Communists, Socialists…and Kings I suppose now gone these 200 years…want total authoritarian power. Which includes in or outside of government, complete control over corporate power as well.

    So from our side, anyone who proposes larger government, or even larger military, is a RINO by definition, and not a Conservative but a sellout to be driven out. Which they’ve been doing all along, and just did again a minute ago finally driving out Fox news, Lindsay Graham and McConnell, all of whom sided with government and war. Yay.

    But on this subject, like I said, the DNC is not a party. BOTH AntiFa, and the Progressives have opened artillery on them in just hours. AntiFa now says they hate Joe and got him in a weak leader they can overthrow in the glorious people’s revolution. Of murder and arson. Not talk but proven these 200 days in 60 deaths, 20x Jan 6, as the news refuses to report the “deadly event” is counting two heart attacks. Heck, AntiFa’s NYC riot yesterday hurt more people. Not reported. Having shown true colors, all true Democrats are now going to split the Party by moving to the People’s Party that might, maybe, actually HAVE a vote, winning or losing, on M4A, during a deadly, bankrupting pandemic with maybe more than $600/year in support payments.

    #68656
    Dr. D
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    Benton, looking for a pattern for the pieces? Don’t know how to communicate my meaning but, do we not know how bureaucracies work?

    Okay, what newly incredible events are we coming up to now? Cheeto, asking for 50,000 things, being denied at every level, for all time, by the government-state protecting itself by grinding and enslaving, killing the people. No method of law, no request of any sort, no direct order was obeyed, anywhere, ever. Huh. Somehow this was a shock to 80 million of the population and totally denied with hysterical shrieking by the other 80 million, no matter how many times a day it was reported as (nothing was) happening.

    Okay, up to the election. Totally predictable, and was predicted, by John Podesta and the TIP, reported by USA Today in July. Apparently that’s too much for people to read or understand. It’s a “Conspiracy Theory”, like all things openly reported by the NY Times (election fraud), Politico, and heads of the NAACP in New Jersey. So everybody knows it would be rigged. You’d have the “Red mirage” he promised, as their vote-rigging kicked in. Podesta said Trump will refuse to concede, this is our plan, and we’re going to call on the military to expel him…which they wouldn’t.

    But how’s the narrative for those 160 million people who clearly haven’t a clue what’s going on? Okay, the election’s stolen and it was. The lower levels from the county chair to the Chief of the Supreme court know for a fact that it was the safest, most legit election ever because everyone refused to look, to recount, or to move any evidence into a courtroom. Any courtroom.

    And this is a surprise how? Okay, like most I expected less of it, less rigging and less cover-up, as this is epic, but here we are with daughter’s boyfriends and husbands-of-judges getting shot in the face in Jersey on a Tuesday afternoon as a reg’lar point of business. But the basis is the same, and people with a) embedded agents b) the ability to read all FBI/CIA/NSA files at a high level and c) open, legit FISA warrants know this. They might not know Kemp or McConnell will flip but when you can count how many, everywhere, are by their own texts and meetings back-stabbing moles even by D.C. standards you can’t really pin all hopes on politicians doing the right thing.

    Halt: erase all that. Just say “you can’t really pin all hopes on politicians doing the right thing.” All that needs to be said.

    So what’s a guy put in and run by military intel to do? Military Intel just says, “Oh well, you got us, every Trump family member will shortly be killed. Here’s the country. MilIntel will immediately be purged by Congress and the CIA and we soldiers are too gosh-darned honest and law-abiding to do anything about it”?

    I don’t think so.

    Back to the problem. Yes, we would LIKE law to be followed, we PREFER in a big way that happen, but it’s not certain enough and it’s not realistic. So we go through all the legal measures, count heads…and then?

    Original question: do we not know how bureaucracies work?

    Suppose Trump says – and he did – legally and publicly “the election was clearly rigged, here is the evidence.” Yeah, so? WTF is going to receive your complaint? Who will care and do anything about it? Not Congress. Not the Supreme Court. And although the people WILL bloody well do something about it, then you lose and China wins in a civil war that could kill 100,000 people an hour. I mean, the people WILL do it and they WILL win, but is that really winning? Ask Syria.

    So he sends Rudy’s info to Wray at the FBI. Sorry — all their agents are busy with garage pull straps and now national billboards asking for snitches-for-selfies from Jan 6th. Toddle over to Barr, who says, “Oh Mr. President, yes, yes, we have wonderful cases, wonderful. We just need another thousand days to lick the stamp.” Over to the AG, Federal Courts, who say, “You know, shucks, these cases are just too durn hard for us. Sensitive stuff, don’t ya know. Top Secret. National Security. Redact. No living juror on earth can safely hear(what is so obvious they already know).” The press then? No. For one, the “Press” doesn’t arrest people and if the people do…and they will…Civil War.

    Okay, no shock. We’ve had 1,460 days in a row of this. But no nuttin’ the whole Pentagon and 10 quantum supercomputers can’t figure it out. Why?

    Because Trump can, and should, and DID, send all this self-same information over to the Pentagon. And you know what they said, what they have to say? Sounds like a civilian matter to me. Why do they say that, even out of MilIntel, with foreign nations involved in the transparent, on-camera rigging of an election, mostly by the British? (as always) Because it’s true. Elections, policing, objections, all that is completely the civilian side. You do not WANT the military involved in shoving courts, vetting all candidates because if they do, they’ll do it good and hard and as the military ought and should, they’ll level and wreck everything in sight. If they get done, there won’t BE a civilian side. …And down goes America by another means. It is really a Coup.

    So…MilIntel knows the Pentagon and MilIntel. The Generals are all well aware and have been for years, those that are in the Club, and those outside, that is, the Globalists, let’s-take-over-the-world, and the Nationalists, Let’s-Be-America-and-Stay-Home. Just said the other day it looks like the Nationalists keep winning.

    Okay, suppose the military gets involved, follows Podesta’s plan for them? Military jumps in, hands the nation to Trump…and what? “It’s a Coooooooouuuuuppppp!!!!” say people who have never seen a coup, or a dictionary, in their lives. Trump and the Pentagon hold trials, present evidence…presented to the people by CNN and Rachael Maddow on MSNBC. “The evidence is fake! He told them to do it because he lost! Because he’s going to jail! It’s the end of Democracy! They’re Putin puppets! It’s a coup, illegitimate government, RussiaRussiaRussia We’re under attack, burn the other 20 cities, Democrats!!!! Kill every one Right of AOC!!!”

    It’s obvious, but the first rule of winning is not losing. That sounds stupid but it’s not: the Viet Cong showed that well, and doing that is #NotWinning. If I had 10 quantum supercomputers in the White House basement, and only one chance that’s what I would ask them too. Maybe DON’T do what your enemy tells you to do? You need a break, as much daylight as possible between Trump and events? You need to follow all, and I mean ALL civilian processes?

    So when DOES this problem STOP being a civilian government problem, and START becoming a Military problem?

    When the country is in danger. When is that? Well, foreign governments would have to attack us, obvoulsly. What does that mean, though? Suppose they did, suppose they created an “insurrection”, a “coup”? Well, if it’s in South Carolina, it’s a couple loose nuts, it’s the FBI’s jurisdiction. It’s domestic. And if they took a State? The courts still, many levels distant.

    AND IF THEY TOOK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?

    Yes, what if you had foreign nationals conspire and install an illegitimate government, backed entirely by foreigners, in tight coordination with plausible existing officials? …And this is how all coups are. Do they air-drop a Trotsky in from New York with a train full of gold out of Morgan? …Well not usually. You grab some random Guido, and claim he’s legit even though nobody voted for him and all him money and direction arises from foreign intel services. THAT would be a coup. …Or rather, that would still be the FBI’s problem. It would be the Pentagon’s problem, only IF THEY WERE INSTALLED AS THE OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT. That’s a threat to the military.

    Doesn’t matter that most of the people involved are Americans. Doesn’t matter that they are existing political officeholders. That’s how these things always are. Even if China attacked, occupied Maryland with a 10-million-man army, they would OF COURSE hire the nearest Governor as their puppet and “elect” him into office using slightly-altered rules under a plausible cause.

    So…that’s the Red Line. That’s when the Pentagon has jurisdiction and is activated. Not before.

    What would the “Military” do? What is their proper authority once activated? To install Presidents? H-ll no! Their job, having identified an illegitimate, foreign-installed government would be to ARREST the INDIVIDUALS involved. Not shell Capitol Square, for instance. Then? Try them in a military court for treason and insurrection. Where? Just FangFang? Just Sir Stefan Helper? No. If there is evidence of treason, bribery, sellouts, in Congress, they can arrest it. If there is are foreign agents and moles in the FBI, CIA, DoJ, they can arrest it. They can arrest everyone involved for every crime involved and be home for lunch. Legally. Do they reinstall Trump? NO. That is not their jurisdiction. But what if the Pres, Vice, Speaker of House and Senate are all indicted? Well, the Civilian side would just have to make other arrangements, wouldn’t they? If you ran a re-election, you’d just have to re-propose candidates, new or old, and re-vote without the now militarily-indicted fraudsters.

    Big picture. Where are we?

    Well, there’s only one question, and there was only ever one question: Will the U.S. Military hand over control of the world’s most powerful nation to a guy who took a BILLION dollars from China? And incidentally a couple million from Moscow? Or won’t they?

    That question is going on right now, and they’ve only had 24 official hours to look at it. All the dossiers and evidence have been distributed to the DNI down to all the officers. All the legal proof is sitting on their desks. Their Courts are not the Federal courts, their Prosecutors are not the Federal Prosecutors. What will they do? Side with China, which is feverishly gloating across the ocean? Or not? What do you think?

    #68657
    John Day
    Participant

    D. Benton Smith said: “Good Conspiracy Theory Wanted
    I could really use one right now. Hell, I’d settle for a half-baked hypothesis or lame explanation. Whatever it takes to make any kind of sense out of the events of the past few years , and especially the past couple of months.”

    Hokay; mine is simpler. The Limits To Growth graph was right and we hit peak industrial production around late 2014, with little bumps against the top until late 2017 or early 2018, when no amount of financial chicanery could make the wells and machines put out more. They didn’t
    My post “Reset in Progress”, March 9.2020 dealt with that, graph and all:
    https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/03/reset-in-progress.html

    The Club of Rome paid for all the work and computation that went into Limits To Growth. It was conventional wisdom in the 1970s. The elites always knew, but they saw the advantage to sprinting to the front before the fuel ran out. Reagan saw it. Deng Xiaopeng saw it. Bush, Clinton, Rockefellers, Rothschilds, etc. It’s all right there.
    It’s happening now. They are ready, and we are Wile-E-Coyote, already in fall.
    We looked down LAST YEAR.
    We can’t do anything when we are already falling. this is their moment.
    2020: MASKS
    2021: MASKS OFF http://www.theblogmire.com/the-masks-are-coming-off/

    #68658
    John Day
    Participant

    @anninvancouver: I don’t know if you saw this a few nights ago, the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance website is here:

    Home

    #68659
    kultsommer
    Participant

    With Trump, that was that. Unfunded hate toward him, at least compared to ‘the 3’ from last night congratulatory speech who rather walked away scorn free. Democracy is telling us that is perfectly OK – that’s is exactly how people had wanted all along and that is something to celebrate for no other reason but “just-because”. I can see Kamala practicing her maniacal laugh in the WH hallways.

    Young Pollock in his 20’s and, naturally, under the influence of Picasso. Penchant for swirls, indeed.

    #68660
    zerosum
    Participant

    The future master plan …. will be good for ????

    • Biden To Sign 53 Executive Orders In First 10 Days (Hill)

    Name names

    • Globalist “Manifesto” For Post-Trump Economic “Reset” (ZH)

    the Trilateral Commission are joining with a gaggle of former cabinet-level officials (both Dems and GOP) along with the CEO of one of America’s largest banks, former British Labour Party Prime Minister Tony Blair and – who else? – Henry Kissinger, have essentially penned a manifesto that is being circulated among lawmakers, along with top-level officials in the cabinet and the West Wing, to help restore the globalist system that Trump helped to disrupt.

    Who better to leak the story to than Andrew Sorkin, who first brought up the existence of the memo during an interview during Tuesday morning’s episode of “Squawk Box” on CNBC during a conversation with Harvard economist Austan Goolsbee. According to Sorkin’s column, “the memo comes from an under-the-radar group of global boldfaced names that act as a private advisory committee to JPMorgan Chase. They include Tony Blair, the former British prime minister; Condoleezza Rice and Henry Kissinger, two former secretaries of state; Robert Gates, the former secretary of defense; Alex Gorsky, chief executive of Johnson & Johnson; Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH; and Joseph C. Tsai, executive vice chairman of Alibaba, among others.” The group, which even Sorkin concedes is exclusively staffed with members of the “globalist part of the globalist establishment that fell out of favor during the Trump years, typically meets once a year in a far-flung location with JPMorgan’s chief, Jamie Dimon.”

    Who is the boss during nap time? Blinken

    • Biden Will Recognize Guaido As Venezuela’s Leader – Blinken (R.)

    U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s administration will continue to recognize Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the South American country’s president, Anthony Blinken, Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, said on Tuesday.

    • US To Keep Embassy In Jerusalem – Blinken (AlJ)
    ———
    Why?
    Michael Lebowitz Avoided telling the truth


    The Fed’s Inconvenient Truth: Inflation Is “M.I.A.”

    “The amount of money in the US economy is 25% higher than it was at the start of 2020, eclipsing any pace of money growth seen since the Federal Reserve was established (1913)” RB Advisors Deputy CIO Dan Suzuki.

    In recent weeks we have seen a non-stop flow of ominous statements like the one above.

    The author is 100% factual and it should be a cause for deep concern. Historically, such surges in the money supply were often met with significant inflation. Here is why.

    No inflation because the printed money is being use to purchase junk, and keep the elites in power. Just like in Japan.
    ———
    Is it too late?
    What will happen to all the contract that have been signed for “vaccines”?
    No proof of wrong doing.
    Laughing all the way to the bank.

    https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FLCCC-PressRelease-NIH-Ivermectin-in-C19-Recommendation-Change-Jan15.2021-final.pdf

    Ivermectin is Now a Therapeutic Option for
    Doctors & Prescribers
    NEW YORK, N.Y. — JANUARY 15, 2021
    “ Ivermectin is one of the world’s safest, cheapest and most widely available drugs,” noted Dr. Kory,
    President of the FLCCC Alliance. “The studies we presented to the NIH revealed high levels of
    statistical significance showing large magnitude benefit in transmission rates, need for hospitalization, and death. What’s more, the totality of trials data supporting ivermectin is without
    precedent.”

    #68661
    zerosum
    Participant

    Senator Ran Paul is not taking a nap

    Sen. Rand Paul challenges new Sec. of State over regime change in Syria: video


    Sen. Rand Paul challenges new Sec. of State over regime change in Syria (Blinken)

    U.S. Senator (Kentucky) Rand Paul recently challenged the new Secretary of State nominee Anthony Blinken on his history of pushing regime change in the Middle East and North Africa.

    Sen. Paul began his argument by questioning Blinken’s role in the NATO intervention of Libya in 2001 and his support for the U.S. military invasion of Iraq in 2003, which the Kentucky congressman said was a major disaster that paved the way for a stronger Iran.

    The congressman argued that Blinken continued to push regime change in Syria, which he said was a significant blunder, especially with the amount of money spent training “moderate rebel forces”.

    #68662
    Mr. House
    Participant

    So is the conspiracy fact yet?

    #68663
    zerosum
    Participant

    Laughing all the way to the bank

    https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/israels-dr-fauci-warns-pfizers-covid-vaccine-only-half-effective-advertised

    Because on Wednesday, Dr. Nachman Ash, better known to some as “Israel’s Dr. Fauci”, said the first batch of COVID jabs didn’t increase immunity as much as they had hoped.

    He told local media Army Radio that “many people have been infected between the first and second injections of the vaccine,” adding that It can take 10 days or more for the immunity to kick in.

    Of course, none of this is particularly unexpected. As we first reported three weeks ago, local media in Israel reported that hundreds of patients had been infected after receiving their first dose.

    Israel also saw its fair share of patients with “adverse” health reactions, with one doctor even passing away shortly after receiving the first dose, as the country rushed to vaccinate its citizens with jabs that are still very much untested.

    Meanwhile, in the US, Joe Biden and his administration are invoking wartime powers to secure supplies of critical raw materials needed for vaccine production, as a recent logistical slip-up ruined 21 shipments of the Moderna vaccine, forcing NYC to delay more than 20K jab appointments.

    #68664
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    Dear Dr. D,
    Superb!
    We had our coup.
    The most important elements were present.
    1. The military occupied Washington DC the capital of the nation notwithstanding the absence of violence by the military. The regular military failed to participate as a non-participatory act of ‘aggressive passivity’.
    2. The means of communications were seized; seized away from the sitting head of government by silencing President Trump, but nevertheless seized.
    3. The president of the United States was silenced, ignored and alternately threatened by the victorious coup faction over the past two weeks of HIS presidency while Joe Biden, coup victor, publicly encouraged the coup plotters.

    #68665
    John Day
    Participant

    I updated the update that I started here this morning with the best graphs I could find, that only show at the links. You Are Probably Here https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/01/you-are-probably-here.html

    The 1972 Limits to Growth graph, the projection if society did nothing to change, is here in my blog post from March 9, 2020 , “Reset In Progress”
    https://www.johndayblog.com/2020/03/reset-in-progress.html

    It is hard to find graphic updates to that original, but here is one that shows it tracking quite well to the year 2000. It’s from the 30 year update by the original authors. It’s a good book.
    One thing is different. They updated the computer program with further observed data.
    Look; the population peak moved from 2050 to 2030.
    Industrial output per capita would already be falling in 2020. Check. Services per capita would be falling in 2021. Check. {Image won’t transfer to blog. Second image in scroll at link]
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/looking-back-on-the-limits-of-growth-125269840/

    Here is absolutely the most recent update I have been able to find, and I look several times per year. It tracks observed world data and overlays it on the 2002 graphics.
    Yep, food, industrial stuff and services per capita all peak by 2020, and population peaks by 2030.
    Testable hypothesis? How are we looking these days?
    [Darn! This one won’t transfer, either]

    Updates on Limits to Growth, finally!

    Tom Luongo: Epitaph for a Post Trump America
    Everyone’s eyes are now open. A fungus is president.
    Absent the false hope of Trump people are now free to conclude what I always have — politics got us into this, politics will not get us out.
    We can finally put the childish Red vs. Blue behind us.

    Epitaph for a Post-Trump America

    Babylon Bee, Thanks Eleni in Athens
    Most Popular President In History To Be Inaugurated In Secret Behind Giant Wall Guarded By Thousands Of Soldiers
    https://babylonbee.com/news/most-popular-president-in-history-to-be-inaugurated-in-secret-guarded-by-army-behind-12-foot-fence

    #68666
    Bill7
    Participant

    Rob Slane: The Masks are Coming Off’:

    “..Yet despite 2020 craziness, it doesn’t seem like it will hold a candle to 2021. If the first week or so is any barometer, it may be that 2020 was just the trailer or the warm-up act for the real thing. We’ve already seen the Chief Medical Adviser telling people who don’t have an illness to act as if they do have an illness. We’ve already seen the rollout of a vaccine, the study for which is not due to be completed until on 27th January 2023. And we’ve already seen international organisations telling us that restrictions are likely to continue for the foreseeable future, Salvation by Vaccine notwithstanding – although those of us who have followed things carefully knew this anyway.

    Yet the real story of 2021 — if anyone is allowed to tell it — is likely to be mass censorship. What we are already seeing is, ironically, an unmasking. If 2020 was the year in which people put their Masks on, 2021 is already shaping up to be the year when the Globalists and Global Pravda really take theirs off. They are really going for it, blatantly censoring dissent, brazenly de-platforming alternative views, and shamelessly using technology to ensure that reasoned, fact-based challenges to establishment narratives are silenced.

    It is ugly, its sinister and its menacing. And unless you are someone who longs to live in a more totalitarian state, you need to get wise to it now, you need to pray against it now, and you need to fight against it now. The masks are coming off and freedom is being crushed. Choose which side you want to stand on.”

    The Masks Are Coming Off

    #68667
    zerosum
    Participant

    What is the truth
    The Biden Dream

    https://joebiden.com/covid-plan/
    1. GLOBAL HEALTH THREATS
    THE BIDEN PLAN TO COMBAT CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19) AND PREPARE FOR FUTURE GLOBAL HEALTH THREATS
    ——-
    https://www.whitehouse.gov/priorities/covid-19/
    2. COVID-19
    The Biden-Harris plan to beat COVID-19
    ——
    https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/National-Strategy-for-the-COVID-19-Response-and-Pandemic-Preparedness.pdf
    3. National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response
    and Pandemic Preparedness
    January 21, 2021
    ——
    Yesterday
    1. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/who-decides-who-gets-the-covid-19-vaccine-first
    Trump Administration Plans to Provide Free COVID-19 Vaccine: What to Know

    The Trump administration announced their plan to release a COVID-19 vaccine for free.
    The CDC oversees the vaccine distribution process, as it’s the organization providing guidance to states and will be responsible for shipping out the vaccines.
    States will then partner with their local health departments and refer to the guidance as they develop their own vaccine distribution process
    The Trump administration released a 57-page playbook .Trusted Source on Wednesday detailing how the government plans to provide free vaccines for all U.S. citizens.

    The CDC has released three documents to help states develop strategies to store, administer, and track vaccines.

    The documents include a planning checklist, potential scenarios for vaccine availability, and considerations for storing and allocating vaccine doses.

    Though the CDC will provide guidance, it will ultimately be up to each state to figure out how they will handle the vaccination process
    ——–
    https://www.healthline.com/health-news/coronavirus-live-updates
    COVID-19 Updates
    Written by Gillian Mohney and George Citroner on January 20, 2021 — Fact checked by Dana K. Cassell

    India begins exporting their vaccine
    India has begun exporting its COVID-19 vaccine to neighboring countries with the first batches shipping out to Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, and Seychelles on Jan. 20, reported ABC News.

    According to ABC News, the world’s largest vaccine producer by volume is the Serum Institute of India (SII), based in Pune.

    The Institute is producing a vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca under brand-name COVISHIELD, and will distribute it within India, its neighboring countries, and other low and middle income countries.

    “In an ongoing effort, India will continue to supply countries all over the world with vaccines,” said the Indian Ministry of External Affairs in a statement. “This will be calibrated against domestic requirements and international demand and obligations, including under GAVI’s Covax facility to developing countries.”
    ——
    https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/serum-institute-of-india-fire-five-charred-bodies-recovered-from-building-says-pune-mayor-covishield-facility-not-affected/ar-BB1cXKVj
    Serum Institute of India fire: Five charred bodies recovered from building, says Pune mayor; Covishield facility not affected
    ——–

    #68668
    Mr. House
    Participant

    interesting

    #68669
    Noirette
    Participant

    Expectin’ the Covid crisis to let up, in the sense of shifting from hyped-up to damped-down (see WHO directive on tests, > Ilargi post) now that the:

    New Era of O-Biden ushers in Better Life!

    Europe tends to follow the US lead, so the “W” MSM hasten to adopt the same spin.

    Yet, manipulations of info even on the complex topic of Covid are being increasingly questioned / contested…difficult to maintain. (EU, …)

    For some years now, the comfortable classes in today’s America have lost track of the fact that control over the public narrative does not equal control over the facts underlying the narrative. (…) Convince yourself that something is true, and the universe has to play along:  that’s the mentality of a frighteningly large share of the privileged in America these days. John Michael Greer, 30 Dec. 2020

    Into the Unknown Region

    Interesting that the Rovian ‘reality’ was directed to outside rivals, competitors, enemies (“We construct the reality.. etc.” Karl Rove.) Now, with various dismaying constraints and downgraded conditions set to persist and increase (energy, water, climate, finance, agri, oligarchs, inequality rising, etc.) the recycled version applied at home is set to be difficult to enforce.

    Then there is “Nature bats last” – spin about viruses is not a good idea. Competition between MegaCorps about who can cash in on the virus is not a good idea. Pols posturing about masks-100-days or No-Masks – not a good idea…

    #68670
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Honestly, after witnessing the last five years. I think the goal is to get the “left” and the “right” to fight. Covid will stay around until that happens, just my opinion. The “media” is trying to stoke divisions and has been for quite some time. Academia is doing the same, in my opinion a big push has been made to unpeople the otherside for quite some time. If they can get some sort of civil conflict going, who needs covid to lockdown? The pie has been shrinking for most people since 2008, if we’ve reached peak oil and the total amount will begin to shrink from here on out, then economic depression is guaranteed until we come up with a new system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels so much. It is also apparent that those who “rule” us are only interested in their own power and keeping as much as possible in a shrinking GDP situation. Look at the #forcethevote situation that occurred recently. Can’t vote for everyone to have healthcare during a pandemic where we’ve screwed up every other aspect of society, but can have an impeachment proceeding after the reichstag fire? Again, just my opinion, not trying to anger anyone.

    #68671
    Rototillerman
    Participant

    It’s unfortunate that the twitter link to the Richard Medhurst rant at the end was not a live link – you have to copy and paste into a URL address bar. The last sentence really says it all: “They got rid of Trump, and now they’re giving you the architect of the system that gave you Trump!”

    If you want an unvarnished look back at Biden’s history, I recommend the last free episode of the “Death Is Just Around the Corner” podcast, “#113: The Old Man’s Back Again:”

    https://podtail.com/en/podcast/death-is-just-around-the-corner/

    D. Benton Smith: I also subscribe to the hypothesis that what we’re witnessing is the controlled demolition of society, to adjust the middle and lower classes to the new realities of energy depletion and financial overshoot. FWIW.

    #68672
    WES
    Participant

    So the media are gushing about obiden’s press conferences minus joe!

    The media are not commenting on obiden’s deterioration just like they covered for FDR.

    #68673
    WES
    Participant

    Inflation isn’t M.I.A.!

    The media refuses to report it!

    The Fed refuses to see it!

    You can refuse to look too!

    #68674
    WES
    Participant

    Zerosum:

    So obiden’s dr Fucsi CDC is shocked to discover the Trump’s dr Fucsi CDC had no vaccine roll out plan?

    #68675
    zerosum
    Participant

    ” I Have a Dream “ is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
    Author: Martin Luther King

    Biden -Paraphrasing
    civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.

    Avoiding Plagiarism using Paraphrasing Tool Plagiarism is copying someone else’s work (in this case, a quotation, sentence, article, review, essay, etc.) and assigning it to yourself, thus concealing the real author. We divide plagiarisms into explicit, hidden, total, partial and autoplagic.

    #68676
    WES
    Participant

    I finally saw a picture of obiden and his small deep state crowd.

    I would say the guards out numbered the crowd by at least 25 to 1!

    #68677
    zerosum
    Participant

    WES
    “Trump’s dr Fucsi CDC had no vaccine roll out plan?”
    The new political figure heads are learning to use their forked tongues.

    In Canada, Trudeau is getting criticized for the same thing and forgetting that health is a Provincial responsibility.
    (Everyone is using code words. They are all asking for more money)

    #68678
    WES
    Participant

    John Day:

    The ironic thing about so called green energy technology (putting in more energy in than you get out) such as solar and wind (disclosure: my son is a GE wind tech) is that it requires using increasingly scarce fossil fuels to just to keep these green energy operations running!

    #68679
    WES
    Participant

    Zerosum:

    No worries for little potato! He has broad shoulders! He also has a printing press!

    No mention in the media about half the people not wanting the vaccine shot!

    Israel is now revealing vaccine less than 95% effective! They should know as they have vaccinated over 20% of their population!

    #68680
    WES
    Participant

    Pfizer demanding Canadian tax breaks from Sparkle Socks!

    Not to mention no side order of vaccine!

    Pfizer also pissed off with Sparkle Sock’s demanding lowest price for vaccine!

    #68681
    WES
    Participant

    I have been studying the sudden fall of the 3rd French Republic and the quick rise of the Vichy government in 1940, after Germany invaded France.

    If you see any parallels, you are definately paranoid!

    #68682
    WES
    Participant

    Very few people realize that it wasn’t the Panzers tanks that destroyed France and the rest of conquered Europe!

    It was the German bankers and their control of the money that truely laid waste to France and Europe!

    #68683
    WES
    Participant

    I see among obiden’s first EOs, to provide gender equality, by letting transgender men to legally compete against women in sports. This should help women feel “gender equality” for the first time.

    #68684
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    I see among obiden’s first EOs, to provide gender equality, by letting transgender men to legally compete against women in sports.

    Yet once again women get the ass end of a woke society…
    Usians dismantling the mores and norms that have been the glue of their society…rip…not!

    #68685
    VietnamVet
    Participant

    There is no getting around the fact that 25,000 troops and turning DC into a Green Zone were necessary for the peaceful transfer of power back to the new/old Obama Administration. PR won’t hide overflowing for-profit hospitals or an economic depression. When nothing changes, the same old same old, geriatric Democrats will blame the 75 million Trump voters led by the Russians.

    Former middle-class Americans will not continue the fall into poverty, homeless, addiction, illness and death peacefully. The Obama’s response to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis of PR (propaganda) while bailing out Wall Street with no reforms or jail time and making millions of Americans homeless (which elected Donald Trump in the first place) will not work the second time around in this existential Pandemic/Depression. The 10% multi-cultural global bi-coastal elite cannot continue the financial bloodletting of the heartland, there is nothing left. Indeed, the Biden/Harris Administration has a perilous challenge ahead. They must actually end the pandemic, provide family supporting jobs, and halt climate change, all of which require taxes and competence. Good luck with that.

    #68686
    John Day
    Participant

    @WES: Local solar cells can be really energy efficient if you have demand that matches the photoelectric production. Pumping a well to a tank is great. Running an AC unit in Texas summer is good, too, but it might still be 90 degrees some nights.
    Cornahol is a boondoggle and always was. Wind turbine blades are not recycleable, nor do they repurpose to anything I know of.
    “Renewables” are more like “replaceables”. Don’t even get into battery technology yet if you need electricity on demand, or those looong transmission lines from wind and solar farms to cities. Suddenly, it’s not cost effective. It’s the energy dump you just said.

    #68687
    WES
    Participant

    I once saw a pretty picture of a whole bunch of wind turbines blades being buried by a D9 CAT in a Wyoming landfill!

    I think turbine blades need to be replaced every 7 to 10 years.

    Have noticed nobody wants to recycle used Tesla cars.

    #68688
    WES
    Participant

    VietnamVet:

    Actually obiden plans to stay in power forever by increasing the dependency of more Americans on the government and by adding 6 more states to the union. The number of SCOTUS judges is also going to be increased.

    The border is being opened to create more competition for jobs to decrease the size of the middle class..

    They are also weaponizing the virus to gain more control of the domestic population. More selective enforcement of virus regulations will help reduce the # of small and medium businesses so large companies face less competition.

    Once poorer, Americans will be happier!

    I saw all of this in Siberia in 1983! The Russians were so happy they drank vodka 24/7!

    #68705
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    “ Okay, the election’s stolen and it was. The lower levels from the county chair to the Chief of the Supreme court know for a fact that it was the safest, most legit election ever because everyone refused to look, to recount, or to move any evidence into a courtroom. Any courtroom.”

    Exactly.

    Well said, Dr D

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