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Tucker Carlson Levels Fauci After FOIA Emails Connect The Dots (ZH)
Fauci’s Upcoming Book Scrubbed On Amazon, Barnes & Noble Amid Backlash (JTN)
Wuhan Lab Chief To NIH Conference: ‘No Regulation’ On Virus Manipulation (NP)
Israel: Likely Link Between Pfizer Vaccine And Myocarditis In Young Males (RT)
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett To Build New Kind Of Nuclear Reactor In Wyoming (R.)
Why The US Isn’t Going To Nuke Anyone From Orbit Anytime Soon (RT)
The New Domestic War on Terror Has Already Begun (Greenwald)
Daniel Ellsberg Wants The US To Prosecute Him Under The Espionage Act (IC)
‘Dying for an iPhone’ (Chris Hedges)
China Rushes To Pull Back The Yuan From A Three-Year High (CNBC)
Olympics Will Go Ahead, Says Tokyo Games Chief (G.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tucker Berenson

 

 

An anagram for Dr Anthony Fauci is China Fraud Tony

 

 

“Fauci supported the grotesque and dangerous experiments that appeared to have made COVID possible.”

Tucker Carlson Levels Fauci After FOIA Emails Connect The Dots (ZH)

Fox News’ Tucker Carlson ripped “the utter fraudulence of Tony Fauci” Wednesday night, after BuzzFeed and the Washington Post obtained thousands of pages of emails through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, revealing that the nation’s top virologist was telling the public one thing, while furiously working on damage control and narrative-shaping as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded. According to Carlson, Americans assumed “that the man in charge of protecting the US from COVID must be rational and impressive,” adding “We also assumed he must be honest. But we were wrong.

“It soon became clear that Tony Fauci was just another sleazy federal bureaucrat – deeply political and often dishonest. More shocking than that we then learned that Fauci himself was implicated in the very pandemic he’d been charged with fighting.” “Fauci supported the grotesque and dangerous experiments that appeared to have made COVID possible.” -Tucker Carlson. Fauci’s emails collectively show that “from the beginning, Tony Fauci was worried that the public might conclude COVID had originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” “Why would he be concerned that Americans would conclude that?” Tucker asked. “Possibly because Tony Fauci knew that he had funded gain-of-function experiments at that very same laboratory.”

“The emails prove that Fauci lied about this under oath,” said Tucker, who highlighted an email from scientist Christian G. Anderson to Fauci, saying that he and his fellow scientists felt the virus looked ‘potentially’ engineered, and that members of his team “all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.” Fauci then sent an urgent email to his deputy – Hugh Auchincloss – with the subject “IMPORTANT,” and which read “Hugh, it is essential that we speak this AM. Keep your cell phone on … You will have tasks today that must be done.”

Tucker Fauci

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Wonder why. Can’t be the negative publicity, there hasn’t been enough of that.

Fauci’s Upcoming Book Scrubbed On Amazon, Barnes & Noble Amid Backlash (JTN)

White House coronavirus adviser and long-time U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci’s upcoming book has been scrubbed from and altered on online listings, amid criticism that he is profiting from the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. The book, “Expect the Unexpected,” was earlier pegged for a November release, according to its Amazon listing. As of Wednesday morning, the book’s listing had been entirely scrubbed from Amazon. However, a cached version of the listing, still displayed the book’s promotional description and preorder status. A cached website also shows the book’s listing on Barnes & Noble’s website, though by Wednesday morning that listing was no longer live anymore. The book appeared to still be available for preorder on some lesser known vendors such as Booktopia.


The scrubbing of the book comes after backlash from critics who accused Fauci of profiting off of the deadly pandemic the U.S. response to which he has overseen. Among those criticizing Fauci is Fox News Channel contributor Joe Concha, who compared him to New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signing a seven-figure book deal about his efforts during the pandemic, which resulted in a high number of death among assisted-living residents. “If you look at the numbers again, you had Cuomo profiting off a pandemic, a government official,” said Concha, also a media reporter for The Hill newspaper. “Now we have Fauci doing it as well. I think this is appalling.”

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Why go to Wuhan? Well…

Wuhan Lab Chief To NIH Conference: ‘No Regulation’ On Virus Manipulation (NP)

The National Institutes of Health hosted Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers at a 2011 conference focusing on scientific research that could pose a “significant threat” to human health – including manipulation of bat coronaviruses. At the event, the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Deputy Director repeatedly asserted that his controversial lab had “no regulation” on this form of risky research, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal. The 2011 event – Continuing the Global Dialogue with the Scientific and Science Policy Community with a Focus on Asia and the Western Pacific – was sponsored by the U.S. government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) and sought to provide participants with a “greater understanding” of Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC).

Defined by the NIH as research “that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety,” DURC encompasses gain-of-function studies, which have come under increased scrutiny due to their role in potentially spawning COVID-19. Among the event participants were Wuhan Institute of Virology Deputy Director Yuan Zhiming, NIH Associate Director for Science Policy Amy Patterson, and top American researchers and scientific advisory board members. The NIH’s unearthed role in hosting the event follows National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci denying his agency’s relationship to the Wuhan lab.

While speaking at the event via telephone, Yuan Zhiming repeatedly emphasized that his lab and China lacked any meaningful regulation of dual-use research. “There’s no regulation in China, there’s no regulation on the identification of some dual-use research, and there’s no regulation on the classification of research or the classification of information,” he explained. “Even China, the biosafety and biosecurity philosophy is regulated by Chinese scientific community, but the dual-use research is not totally regulated. So we need to have some measure or some special program to raise the concern of principal investigators through training.”

Yuan reiterated the sentiment in his closing remarks to the conference, commenting “there’s no regulation on the dual-use identification and classification of some sensitive information, and I think maybe later the Chinese government and the Chinese scientific community will focus on the discussion in this matter.” Since the outbreak of COVID-19, however, Yuan has made rounds on American and Chinese state-run media outlets to discredit the possibility of the virus leaking from his lab.

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“The number of cases reported after the second shot was four times greater than those recorded after the first..”

Israel: Likely Link Between Pfizer Vaccine And Myocarditis In Young Males (RT)

A specially appointed epidemiological team has found “a likelihood of a link” between receiving the second dose of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine and the onset of myocarditis in young men, Israel’s Health Ministry said in a statement. The ministry says the team was set up following reports of cases of heart inflammation, known as myocarditis, among males aged 16 to 30 shortly after the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine was administered. The link was found to be stronger in people aged 16-19 relative to other age groups, and weakens as the age of the recipients increases. Most patients who experienced the problem spent up to four days in the hospital, and 95% of the cases were classified as mild, according to the ministry.

The Health Ministry commissioned the study after 275 cases of myocarditis were reported in Israel between December 2020 and May 2021. Nearly 150 cases were recorded after the vaccine was administered. The number of cases reported after the second shot was four times greater than those recorded after the first, the ministry said. Myocarditis is a condition characterized by chest pain, shortness of breath, or palpitations, and can be caused by Covid-19, according to the ministry. While the type of vaccine in question is not directly mentioned in the statement, Israel relies almost exclusively on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and it’s the only product mentioned on the vaccination information page of the Health Ministry website.

Pfizer said in a statement cited by Reuters that it has not recorded a higher rate of myocarditis than would normally be expected in the general population. The pharma giant added that it was aware of the Israeli observations of myocarditis but has not established a causal link to its vaccine. The Israeli Health Ministry says that given the findings, it will review the 12-15-year-old population’s eligibility for the vaccine. The shot was recently approved in the EU for people aged 12 and older.

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Oh, just lovely.

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett To Build New Kind Of Nuclear Reactor In Wyoming (R.)

Power companies run by billionaire friends Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have chosen Wyoming to launch the first Natrium nuclear reactor project on the site of a retiring coal plant. TerraPower, founded by Gates about 15 years ago, and power company PacifiCorp, owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, said on Wednesday that the exact site of the Natrium reactor demonstration plant was expected to be announced by the end of the year. Small advanced reactors, which run on different fuels to traditional reactors, are regarded by some as a critical carbon-free technology than can supplement intermittent power sources like wind and solar as states strive to cut emissions that cause climate change. “We think Natrium will be a game-changer for the energy industry,” Gates told a media conference to launch the project in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

“This is our fastest and clearest course to becoming carbon negative,” Wyoming’s governor, Mark Gordon, said. “Nuclear power is clearly a part of my all-of-the-above strategy for energy” in Wyoming, the country’s top coal-producing state. The project features a 345 megawatt sodium-cooled fast reactor with molten salt-based energy storage that could boost the system’s power output to 500MW during peak power demand. TerraPower said last year that the plants would cost about $1bn. Late last year the US energy department awarded TerraPower $80m in initial funding to demonstrate Natrium technology, and the department has committed additional funding in coming years subject to congressional appropriations.

Chris Levesque, TerraPower’s president and chief executive, said the demonstration plant would take about seven years to build. “We need this kind of clean energy on the grid in the 2030s,” he told reporters. Nuclear power experts have warned that advanced reactors could have higher risks than conventional ones. Fuel for many advanced reactors would have to be enriched at a much higher rate than conventional fuel, meaning the fuel supply chain could be an attractive target for militants looking to create a crude nuclear weapon, a recent report said. Levesque said that the plants would reduce proliferation risks because they reduce overall nuclear waste.

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Not even the US is that crazy.

Why The US Isn’t Going To Nuke Anyone From Orbit Anytime Soon (RT)

Low-orbit space planes have been named as a possible carrier of American nuclear warheads. While theoretically possible, at current technology levels such weapons would be significantly more trouble than they are worth.
According to the director-general of Russian arms manufacturer Almaz-Antey, Yan Novikov, the US has orbital bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Variants of the Boeing X-37 orbital test vehicle, launched in 2010 and officially used for scientific purposes, can theoretically carry up to six warheads, Novikov claimed during a virtual educational forum in Russia in May. In the words of Kyle Mizokami, who wrote an article on this for Popular Mechanics, “this isn’t even a good idea”.

While Mizokami’s take is titled “Don’t believe Russia”, and its main thrust is apparently that Mr. Novikov is hyping up the US orbital nukes threat to boost the sales of Almaz-Antey’s surface-to-space missiles, he does have some good points that explain why the dangers of orbital bombing are more than a little exaggerated. First off, putting nukes on an X-37 to then launch them from orbit will require extensive modification to the weapons, which will only allow two or, at best, three, to be taken on board – not nearly enough for an effective surprise attack. And to carry an element of surprise, it would have to approach Russia from a very specific direction to avoid the radars of early-warning systems – and even so, it won’t be able to hide from visual detection.

Aside from the lack of surprise, there is a long list of problems associated with space planes carrying nuclear payloads. “The idea of placing strategic nuclear weapons in low Earth orbit isn’t new. It emerged with the first successful launches of the Earth’s artificial satellites,” ex-chief of the General Staff of the Air Defense Forces, Honored Military Pilot, Colonel-General of Aviation Igor Maltsev says. According to him, for a number of reasons, space projects like this never went beyond concept or, at best, preliminary design. Why was that the case? Technically, the goal of putting these weapons in space is achievable, says Igor Maltsev. Anything can be launched to space. But when the idea is to create a strategic weapons system in orbit, there are a number of challenges that have, so far, prevented any significant progress along these lines.

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“..ahead of a weekend in which potentially violent demonstrations were predicted by the FBI — but never materialized.”

The New Domestic War on Terror Has Already Begun (Greenwald)

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday issued a new warning bulletin, alerting Americans that domestic extremists may well use violence on the 100th Anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre. This was at least the fourth such bulletin issued this year by Homeland Security (DHS) warning of the same danger and, thus far, none of the fears it is trying to instill into the American population has materialized. The first was a January 14 warning, from numerous federal agencies including DHS, about violence in Washington, DC and all fifty state capitols that was likely to explode in protest of Inauguration Day (a threat which did not materialize). Then came a January 27 bulletin warning of “a heightened threat environment across the United States that is likely to persist over the coming weeks” from “ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority” (that warning also was not realized).

Then there was a May 14 bulletin warning of right-wing violence “to attack higher-capacity targets,” exacerbated by the lifting of COVID lockdowns (which also never happened). And now we are treated to this new DHS warning about domestic extremists preparing violent attacks over Tulsa (it remains to be seen if a DHS fear is finally realized). Just like the first War on Terror, these threats are issued with virtually no specificity. They are just generalized warnings designed to put people in fear about their fellow citizens and to justify aggressive deployment of military and law enforcement officers in Washington, D.C. and throughout the country. A CNN article which wildly hyped the latest danger bulletin about domestic extremists at Tulsa had to be edited with what the cable network, in an “update,” called “the additional information from the Department of Homeland Security that there is no specific or credible threats at this time.”

And the supposed dangers from domestic extremists on Inauguration Day was such a flop that even The Washington Post — one of the outlets most vocal about lurking national security dangers in general and this one in particular — had to explicitly acknowledge the failure: Thousands [of National Guard troops] had been deployed to capitals across the country late last week, ahead of a weekend in which potentially violent demonstrations were predicted by the FBI — but never materialized. Once again on Wednesday, security officials’ worst fears weren’t borne out: In some states, it was close to business as usual. In others, demonstrations were small and peaceful, with only occasional tense moments.

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“The study shows American generals enthusiastically planning for the use of nuclear weapons against China.”

Daniel Ellsberg Wants The US To Prosecute Him Under The Espionage Act (IC)

“The whole idea is to kill the bastards,” Gen. Thomas Power, commander of America’s nuclear forces from 1957 to 1963, once said about the use of atomic weapons. “At the end of the war, if there are two Americans and one Russian, we win.” The hold this nuclear lunacy had on the top of the U.S. government is terrifyingly illuminated in a top-secret study of U.S. war plans newly publicized by famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. The document, produced by the RAND Corporation and copied by Ellsberg at the same time he exfiltrated the Pentagon Papers from RAND, examines the U.S. response to the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis. The study’s contents were first reported on May 22 by the New York Times.

The crisis, now completely forgotten, began when China attempted to seize several small islands off its coast from Taiwan. The study shows American generals enthusiastically planning for the use of nuclear weapons against China. It is not simply that the officials looked with equanimity on the possibility of killing millions; rather, many seemed frustrated that there were any delays forced upon them by the rest of the government. If China had not changed course, civilization could have ended then and there. Ellsberg is now speaking out about the study, he said in a phone interview, for a straightforward reason: “I got scared.” The issues that led to the 1958 crisis between the U.S. and China have never been resolved; both countries are now ramping up confrontational rhetoric; and most importantly, the strategic rationale that led the U.S. to consider nuclear war then remains exactly the same today.

“You shouldn’t be confident that the current calculations are any less crazy,” Ellsberg said. His apprehension about the potential use of nuclear weapons is intimately linked to another of his key concerns: the Justice Department’s accelerating use of the 1917 Espionage Act to prosecute leakers. Its chilling effect on potential whistleblowers makes it less and less likely that Americans will even know what their government is doing, much less be able to do anything about it. Ellsberg hopes his latest revelation will prompt a cultural and perhaps legal reckoning for the Act.

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“Workers are abused, underpaid and sickened from exposure to chemicals and toxins such as aluminum dust.”

‘Dying for an iPhone’ (Chris Hedges)

Global capitalists have turned back the clock to the early days of the Industrial Revolution. The working class is increasingly bereft of rights, blocked from forming unions, paid starvation wages, subject to wage theft, under constant surveillance, fired for minor infractions, exposed to dangerous carcinogens, forced to work overtime, given punishing quotas and abandoned when they are sick and old. Workers have become, here and abroad, disposable cogs to corporate oligarchs, who wallow in obscene personal wealth that dwarfs the worst excesses of the Robber Barons. In fashionable liberal circles there are, as Noam Chomsky notes, worthy and unworthy victims. Nancy Pelosi has called on global leaders not to attend the Winter Olympics, scheduled to be held in Beijing in February, because of what she called a “genocide” being carried out by the Chinese government against the Uyghur minority.

New York Times columnist Nick Kristof in a column rattled off a list of human rights violations overseen by China’s leader Xi Jinping, writing “[Xi] eviscerates Hong Kong freedoms, jails lawyers and journalists, seizes Canadian hostages, threatens Taiwan and, most horrifying, presides over crimes against humanity in the far western region of Xinjiang that is home to several Muslim minorities.” Not a word about the millions of workers in China who are treated little better than serfs. They live separated from their families, including their children, and housed in overcrowded company dormitories, which sees rent deducted from their paychecks, next to factories that have round-the-clock production, often making products for U.S. corporations. Workers are abused, underpaid and sickened from exposure to chemicals and toxins such as aluminum dust.

The suffering of the working class, within and outside the United States, is as ignored by our corporatized media as the suffering of the Palestinians. And yet, I would argue, it is one of the most important human rights issues of our era, since once workers are empowered, they can fend off other human rights violations. Unless workers can organize, here and in countries such as China, and achieve basic rights and living wages, it will cement into place a global serfdom that will leave workers trapped in the appalling conditions described by Friedrich Engels in his 1845 book “The Conditions of the Working Class in England” or Émile Zola‘s 1885 masterpiece “Germinal.”

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Small moves so far, more like virtue signalling.

China Rushes To Pull Back The Yuan From A Three-Year High (CNBC)

China is trying to rein in the yuan as it surges to three-year highs against the U.S. dollar. A stronger yuan makes Chinese goods relatively more expensive to buyers overseas, and has spurred concerns about the competitiveness of Chinese exports — a major contributor to national economic growth. The Chinese yuan traded little changed against the U.S. dollar Thursday after the People’s Bank of China set the yuan’s daily midpoint at 6.3811 versus the greenback. That marked the second-straight day of weaker fixings, reversing six straight trading days of stronger fixings since May 24, according to data from Wind Information.

The PBOC has tried to allow the market to play a greater role in deter mining the yuan’s exchange rate. But the central bank retains some control through daily midpoint fixings against the dollar, allowing the yuan to move 2% higher or lower from that level. The weaker fix followed the central bank’s announcement late Monday that beginning June 15, financial institutions must increase the ratio of their foreign exchange deposits by 2 percentage points — to 7% from 5% currently. The hike forces banks to retain more of their foreign currency holdings, reducing the amount that could be used to influence foreign exchange rates.

It is the first such hike in 14 years since the previous change in May 2007 — before the financial crisis — economists pointed out. They estimate the move will reduce the amount of foreign currency available for long-term trading by $20 billion. Analysts said the exact dollar amount is less significant than the central bank’s message that the yuan will not move in a single direction of continued strengthening against the U.S. dollar.

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With 80% of Japanese against.

Olympics Will Go Ahead, Says Tokyo Games Chief (G.)

The president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee, Seiko Hashimoto, has said the Games will go ahead as planned, soon after the Japan’s most senior medical adviser said holding the event under current coronavirus conditions was “not normal”. “We cannot postpone again,” Hashimoto said an interview published on Thursday in the Nikkan Sports newspaper. Shigeru Omi, head of a panel of experts that has been advising the Japanese government on its Covid-19 response since the start of the pandemic, issued his strongest warning yet of the potential risks of holding the Games. “It’s not normal to have the Olympics in a situation like this,” Omi told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, adding that organisers should explain to a sceptical public why it was pushing ahead with preparations.

Most Japanese people do not want Tokyo 2020 to be held this summer, according to recent opinion polls. Medical journals have questioned the wisdom of allowing 90,000 athletes, media, sponsors, officials and support staff to enter the country in July, while medical unions say the Games will place additional pressure on health services. The public broadcaster NHK reported that about 10,000 of the 80,000 volunteers who signed up to help during the Games have quit, but organisers said the lower numbers would not be “particularly problematic” since the decision had already been taken to ban spectators from overseas. “There’s no mistake that concerns over the coronavirus could have been a factor,” as well as scheduling conflicts due to last year’s postponement, the Nikkei business paper quoted Tokyo 2020 chief executive Toshiro Muto as saying.

[..] Tokyo and several other regions are under a state of emergency that is due to end on 20 June. While the rate of infections is falling in the capital, there is concern about the risks posed by new variants and Japan’s slow vaccine rollout. The vaccination programme has gathered pace in recent days, but only 2.7% of Japan’s 126 million population has been fully vaccinated. In an attempt to speed up the process with just 50 days to go before the opening ceremony, the government has said large companies and universities will be able to start inoculating staff and students from 21 June. Japan has avoided the large-scale infections suffered by many other countries, but serious cases have risen during the latest outbreak. It has reported more than 750,000 cases since the start of the pandemic, and about 13,200 deaths, a relatively high number among Asian countries.

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  • #76501

    Vincent van Gogh Avenue of Poplars at Sunset 1884   • Tucker Carlson Levels Fauci After FOIA Emails Connect The Dots (ZH) • Fauci’s Upcoming Book
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 3 2021]

    #76502
    Germ
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    #76503
    Germ
    Participant

    The unexpected call from French scientists, including some from the prestigious Institut Pasteur, to urgently investigate ivermectin.

    https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0009446

    #76504
    Germ
    Participant

    Th .. th.. that’s All Folks!

    Gone Fishin’!

    #76506

    gonefishing

    #76507
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    The unexpected call from French scientists, including some from the prestigious Institut Pasteur, to urgently investigate ivermectin.

    Considering the uphill battle we’ve been fighting so far, I would call that progress.

    #76508
    Dave Note
    Participant

    Where things stand

    The competing narratives forming around Gain of Function research

    US decides GoF too dangerous

    China decides GoF not too dangerous

    US subs out GoF to China

    The competing narratives forming around the origin of Covid-19

    Escapes Wuhan lab through negligence

    Escapes Ft Detrick lab through negligence

    Escapes Ft Detrick lab through negligence but made to look like it
    Escapes Wuhan lab through negligence

    #76509
    Django
    Participant

    Those pangins deserve an apology.

    #76510
    Dave Note
    Participant

    Another bizarre twist would be that the US (MIC & Big Pharma the same thing) sub out GoF to China.

    Wuhan successfully creates Frankenvirus and safety send US at Ft Detrick a sample.

    Ft Detrick drops the ball mid-2019 with containment breach.

    Blackmails China into the coverup using the military games in Wuhan

    Us pledges (with fingers crossed behind it’s back) that it will deflect any story about China starting Frankenvirus in Wuhan.

    US will use it’s Mighty Media Whores to spin narrative about bats screwing dwarf armadillos in one night stand to miraculously produce Frankenvirus.

    Narrative goes sideways when actual honest-to-god scientists call bullshite on Kafka Kover story.

    Fauci Faust emails reveal his innermost demons and Control of the Narrative (CoN) goes spinning out of control into interstellar media space like Clooney in Gravity

    #76511
    Django
    Participant

    ….or pangolins even

    #76512
    zerosum
    Participant

    Here is what I conclude
    translation required:

    “ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority”
    Toe the line or else ……..
    demonstrations are domestic extremists
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    Canada, China, And Russia are the sellers of what USA wants. The seller should set the selling price.
    The USA, as the buyer, has monopoly, (pretend value)/fake, dollars
    ——-
    Wrong move.
    China is trying to rein in the yuan as it surges to three-year highs against the U.S. dollar.
    ———
    Right move
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russias-186-billion-sovereign-wealth-fund-dumps-all-dollar-assets
    Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Washington was inadvertently accelerating de-dollarization with its aggressive financial sanctions, which were forcing its geopolitical adversaries to reduce their dependence on the greenback. Just last month, Russia reached a new milestone whereby fewer than 50% of its exports were paid for in dollars.
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    My opinions are irrelevant
    I don’t like fishing

    #76513
    Topcat
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    #76514
    Topcat
    Participant

    Even the comedians are putting a red dot on Fauci Faust’s forehead

    #76515
    Polder Dweller
    Participant

    This is absolutely excellent and well worth reading the whole (long) thing. Canadian Julius Ruechel has dug into the data there and worked out (I would even like to say proved) that the measures put in place protected no one, and certainly not the vulnerable, exarcebated the situation considerably, needlessly shut down the economy and prolonged the pandemic based on either misunderstanding of what was actually happening or wilful malfeasance.

    The Lies Exposed by the Numbers: Fear, Misdirection, & Institutional Deaths

    #76516
    John Day
    Participant

    The recurring meme at close of comments last night was “what’s really going on behind the distractions?”.

    Look, Russia just dumped dollars and dollar assets from their sovereign wealth fund.

    Happy Fishing, Germ!

    #76517
    WES
    Participant

    The big story is the deep state creating and releasing the virus to create a crisis to provide cover to get rid of President Trump by killing the economy, providing cover for joe’s basement campaign, and creating the need for mail in ballots to manipulate the election results.

    Corrupt public health officials did their part by abusing their powers to approve the vaccines under false pretentions, falsely impose masks, social distancing, and lockdowns.

    Ivermectin was suppressed to ensure the virus created a crisis. The media did their part to fan the crisis, falsely mislead the public on the true risks of the virus, and push the “everybody get the vaccine” narrative.

    That a few Americans died is a price the deep state was more than willing to let the American people pay to regain power from the American people. It also sends a message to the American people not to try and take power away from the deep state in the future.

    This also ties together all of the loose ends (lies) we have seen and een told since 2019. It explains Dr. John Day’s in orientation facts too.

    #76518
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Money is root of all Evil is the core narrative here.

    The US ‘government’ is basically a Mafia gang.

    Extortion, drug running, Wall St casino hustling yada-yada

    The other players, Russia, China, Iran and similar junior partners have had enough.

    I read recently from a finance guy I like that if global transactions done in dollars dips below 50% it’s game over, it’s not a global reserve unless at least half the transactions are done in it.

    50% is the Rubicon

    You don’t have to wait for the transaction rate to collapse to let’s say 30%

    Les than half an global confidence in the dollar tanks.

    We are very close to 50% in various critical theaters of operation already.

    He went broke

    https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.ew2LaikLbWvB3-O-ydS1kwHaDf?pid=ImgDet&rs=1

    #76519
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Getting around pretty common belief that Fauci and also Gates are being set up for the fall, sacrificial lambs for the masses so they don’t look any further into the real players. One interesting thing is that it’s so immediate and widespread. Almost to the level of “Epstein didn’t kill himself.” The other is that everyone similarly thinks the same of the UFO releases, not yet happened. Forget that Obama is on MSNBC shilling them, they are daily pumping a non-story that has yet to happen, from the rubes to lifelong UFO watchers, everyone thinks it’s a con. To distract, to divert, to delay. That’s interesting, because the footage is “real”, such as that goes. The release is “official.” Isn’t that what you wanted all these years?

    Again, where the elephant tracks? Somebody force-released FOIA on Fauci, force-released Wuhan, during the Biden administration. Buzzfeed did this? What? WaPo did this? While reporting on the same red-handed incriminating evidence saying they didn’t? Fauci is “stunning and brave”? What? The compliant media dutifully reports this now, instead of hiding, lying, and obfuscating as they have, against all facts, evidence, and sense for 18 months. ORlly? Not possible for a year during a “friendly” administration, but possible now while the arch-defenders of these things have every level of power? Uh-huh.

    Want to tell me what’s really going on?

    Thinking yesterday, China says if we even ASK — that is, unless we accept their belief and outlook rigidly, unwaveringly, for no reason or evidence at all — they will nuke us. Okay, that itself is a lot of talk, of course, but even if they would nuke the earth to a cinder Americans are “not agreement capable” of not making trouble and not asking questions and not calling you Pooh-bear, and pissing you off for pointless amusement and sheer cussedness. If you make them lose their sense of humor in calling you “limp-wristed, butt-hurt snowflake”, they’ll eventually shoot you and DGAF. Don’t make them lose their sense of humor.

    So there’s LITERALLY no point in China saying this. If Joe Biden and all the Saints commanded, it still would not happen. If they sent Comey down with their amphibious SOCOM teams and CNN’s van to every Roger Stone’s house — all 75 million of them — and held them in solitary for misdemeanors, shoot them BEFORE warnings and resisting arrest as they have to the 1/6 crowd, wouldn’t make a lick of difference. It would be like asking the sun not to be hot. They already have nothing to live for and 400 million guns.

    Your point, China? That you already planned to kill us, published the documents, worked the plan since Most-Favored-Nation, so obviously don’t care about the reaction of people you were going to erase anyway?

    Point is, CHINA ALREADY HAS THE NUKES. HERE. That’s why they said it. Not because they’ll maybe-might get them someday.

    Think about it: wouldn’t you? They’re generals in a long-running, much-published war and colonization project. The survival of their nation depends on it. Now these might be similar mass weapons, but why on earth would you ever NOT have a trunk of Fentanyl and Cesium and 20 suitcase nukes in every annoying city, under every Congressman’s house?

    They’re already here, ready to go off if we tangle with them. Of course. It’s impossible for it to be otherwise, in an administration of the mass-shooter in chief, where somehow – magic, I think! – inauguration day accidentally, coincidentally coincides with a 20x increase in mass shootings. Want to explain how that can be possible? Total random chance, I guess? Economy apparently sank, everyone amazingly got fed up and cranky in the 48 hours after Jan 20 and stayed that way for 6 months straight?

    No. I don’t know how it’s done, but that’s not it.

    So China is telling us, knock it off. Take your bioweapon attack like a man and lose, come to heel, be a colony, don’t make waves, or we’ll go next level, all the way up to going nuclear. You know we can, WE know we can, so “Do what you’re told.” And set the narrative. “You’ll own nothing.” Xi will.

    Obviously, that’s not to say we’re innocent, or even that major players in the U.S. didn’t invent, pay for, and release the bioweapon. They did and are. But the competitors aren’t nations. They’re factions within nations. Even the CCP has their own rational faction, I’m sure.

    Speaking of world-wide nuclear war, somebody want to explain to me how Iran loses a warship, a refinery and air force in the same day but nobody says anything? Hey CNN, comments please? Nope. Like everything else. If it’s real, we ignore it. If it’s fake, we print it. Even if it’s an international attack preceding World War III.

    So sleep tight in your major city tonight, knowing there’s a failsafe weapon upwind, ready to go. That is, if these “hacks” don’t cripple the nation adequately, don’t bring us to heel enough. If we don’t “Do what we’re told” and shut up like good little minions.

    And they won’t. They can’t. Biden and all the Saints are helpless before human nature, national character. That’s what the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, exist for: to remind governments of Natural Law, that human nature exists and springs up eternally. I don’t know what Australia may do, but America will fight every day, forever, our people, their people, all people, until even eternal China is exhausted, expended, and fed up, ruined by us. That’s human nature. Human Nature tends toward freedom, to leaving us alone to make our own way. That’s the Tao te Ching. We’re pretty tolerant, we would rather suffer any evil that is sufferable rather than fight, but that only goes so far and the tide has already reversed in a big way.

    Centralization is over. They lost. Nobody cares what they say anymore. Even their own media won’t print it. They can’t keep their own people in line now, much less the public. I feel for China’s situation, but it ain’t gonna happen. That’s what happens when you pave every rice paddy and poison every river for douchebag western billionaires, hope you learned. Don’t drag us into it. Talk to Bezos, Cheney, and Gates. Here, we’ll mail them to you.

    Centralization, belief in the Religion of Science and Appeal to Authority broken?

    Toward the Breaking Point


    UNESCO, the United Nations bureaucracy that promotes international science, … launched a website and a publicity campaign calling on people to take a pledge to trust science.

    I’m intrigued to note that this hasn’t gone over well. When the online edition of Spectrum, the magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, posted a fawning article about the pledge, the response from the engineers was so uniformly hostile and so well argued that the editors shut down comments after only 26 had been posted. More broadly, as I write this, the website at http://www.trust-science.org has gotten only 4438 signatures from pledge signers, despite being splashed all over the scientific end of the internet for well over two weeks. A website for a Partridge Family tribute band or a schismatic offshoot of the Flat Earth Society could probably get better numbers than that.

    May I offer a hint to UNESCO and the other promoters of this bizarre project? You don’t get people to trust science by demanding that they take a loyalty pledge, committing them to believe whatever you tell them to believe. You get people to trust science the way the founders and heirs of the scientific revolution did all those years ago, by doing good science,

    … The reason that so many people don’t trust scientists to tell them the truth, after all, is that so often, scientists haven’t told them the truth.

    … Engineers are not typically noted for their superstitious mistrust of science. The response to the article in Spectrum cited above is a sign that confidence in scientific institutions is very low even among those who have technical training and could be expected to have a favorable opinion of science. Elsewhere, people have even less reason to accept whatever someone in a lab coat happens to say, especially since they have been lied to over and over again”

    You lost. Get over it. Walk away while you still can. Poking the bear now is just a recipe to see what happens when they stop suffering evils and fools like you. Spoiler: you won’t like it. No one will. But there are more important things in life than getting along. Especially when they’re killing everyone and publishing it proudly in the nightly news.

    “The number of cases reported after the second shot was four times greater than those recorded after the first…”

    Sure. The spike protein IS the bioweapon. It turns YOU into a bioweapon factory.

    “This was at least the fourth such bulletin issued this year by Homeland Security (DHS) warning of the same danger and, thus far, none of the fears it is trying to instill into the American population has materialized.”

    Again and again. However, Joe says the top, sole security threat to the U.S. is “white supremacy”. What is “White supremacy”? According to DiAngelo and CRT, all white people are racists, born that way according to color. It is immutable and cannot be changed. Therefore all White people are “White Supremacists.” In fact, Candice Owens and Clarence Thomas are white supremacists. Wish I were kidding. Joe and HRC, who praised the grandmaster of the KKK Senator Byrd, and who wrote, lauded, and violently enforced the crime bill for decades and only this week refused to legalize pot and reaffirmed that attack, are not. So translation, beyond their own, self-described, proudly-issued definitions: the single greatest threat to America according to Joe Biden is anyone who didn’t vote for Joe Biden. They are being tracked and arrested right now. It’s in the news.

    This is the domestic war going on right now. Yeah, I know. They’ve been publishing this stuff for 30 years; how could you NOT know? Bill Ayers said so even in the 80s. Walk one direction long enough and you get where you’re headed. Who knew?

    Oh, P.S. still have no idea who planted the bombs at the Capitol in the nation’s most camera, most secure city, or why if they were planted they didn’t go off. Want to tell me what’s really going on now? Because your every word is bulls—t. Wrey don’t know nothin’. Can’t figure it out. You guys are a joke and we’re laughing at you. We’re re-localizing. Since you’re going to do this, States are retaking soverienty and upholding the Constitution, like gun rights and free elections and free speech against tech oligarchs.

    “Workers are abused, underpaid and sickened from exposure to chemicals and toxins such as aluminum dust.”

    Apple, Amazon, Nike, and their woke progressive customer base all approve of poison, environmental destruction, mass death, and human slavery. Not only if it happens somewhere else – they’re happy to do the same thing here — but the optics are better. The customers applaud! We’re not the baddies, we’re the goodies! Monopolies Billionaires are always on the side of good and love and light, so long as they agree with the CIA and are against free speech and journalists! WOK this way!

    …Can’t stop/won’t stop and can’t make this stuff up. In 30 years no one will believe it. They’ll claim we’re exaggerating, we made it up, it can’t really have been said and done like this. Nope.

    #76520
    Mr. House
    Participant

    yinz guys are over complicating this. They never corrected the problems of 2008 because doing so would have removed them from the levers of power. Another crisis was bound to happen because of this, the financial system started to blow up in the fall of 2019 and they needed an excuse to print and bailout their buddies. Look at the CARES act, what did it fund and who got the money? Were we fighting the plague or were we fighting deflation?

    #76521
    Mr. House
    Participant

    I remember once reading nicole foss saying that the empire was like the body. As it failed the brain would redirect blood from the edges to keep the center alive. The same thing applies to the US national scene. As the corporate state fails, it redirects blood (money) from the edges (small biz) to keep the behemoths alive. That is why target and walmart were allowed to be wide open during the “pandemic” and ma and pop had to go under. Somebody has to get thrown under the bus!

    #76523
    Bill7
    Participant

    “..he [William Blake] created his own mythology in which love, energy, and imagination vie
    with the forces of reductive rationalism and repression..”

    It was tough then, and it’s much tougher now; with Tech as the force of Darkness.
    Blake had it right.

    #76524
    John Day
    Participant

    Trouble posting again. Breaking it up more.
    Pictured in garden after rains, just after dawn this morning…
    https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/06/miscalculations.html

    #76525
    John Day
    Participant

    U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa announced that American B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers accompanied by military aircraft from twenty-one other NATO nations flew over all 30 NATO member states today. Those would include the five that border Russia – Norway, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – of course.
    The B-52s (designed to carry nuclear weapons during the Cold War), like their fellow nuclear-capable long-range bombers the B-1 and B-2, started deployment to Europe in 2018 under the aegis of the Pentagon’s Bomber Task Force…
    https://news.antiwar.com/2021/05/31/memorial-day-us-nuclear-capable-bombers-nato-warplanes-fly-over-all-30-nato-nations-in-one-day/​

    WHY DANIEL ELLSBERG WANTS THE U.S. TO PROSECUTE HIM UNDER THE ESPIONAGE ACT
    Ellsberg explains why he hopes the courts take on the law used to crack down on whistleblowers.
    “The whole idea is to kill the bastards,” Gen. Thomas Power, commander of America’s nuclear forces from 1957 to 1963, once said about the use of atomic weapons. “At the end of the war, if there are two Americans and one Russian, we win.” The hold this nuclear lunacy had on the top of the U.S. government is terrifyingly illuminated in a top-secret study of U.S. war plans newly publicized by famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. The document, produced by the RAND Corporation and copied by Ellsberg at the same time he exfiltrated the Pentagon Papers from RAND, examines the U.S. response to the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis. The study’s contents were first reported on May 22 by the New York Times.
    The crisis, now completely forgotten, began when China attempted to seize several small islands off its coast from Taiwan. The study shows American generals enthusiastically planning for the use of nuclear weapons against China. It is not simply that the officials looked with equanimity on the possibility of killing millions; rather, many seemed frustrated that there were any delays forced upon them by the rest of the government… “You shouldn’t be confident that the current calculations are any less crazy,” Ellsberg said. His apprehension about the potential use of nuclear weapons is intimately linked to another of his key concerns: the Justice Department’s accelerating use of the 1917 Espionage Act to prosecute leakers.​ ​https://theintercept.com/2021/06/01/daniel-ellsberg-china-atomic-nuclear-weapons/

    #76526
    John Day
    Participant

    DON’T LOOK AT THIS!
    Russia may be cut off from SWIFT banking payment system as part of West’s ‘spiral of sanctions,’ warns country’s foreign ministry​ ​
    ​ ​Russian banks may be blocked from using SWIFT, a payment system that enables reliable and secure financial transactions, as part of restrictions against Moscow, in what one official has called a potential “spiral of sanctions.”
    ​ ​“It’s no secret that there are threats, primarily from the United States, to disconnect Russia from the SWIFT system,” said Dmitry Birichevsky, director of the Economic Cooperation Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
    https://www.rt.com/russia/525271-swift-cut-spiral-sanctions/

    Russia’s $186 Billion Sovereign Wealth Fund Dumps All Dollar Assets​ …
    GULP!​ It’s almost time, now…​
    ​ ​Following a series of corporate cyberattacks that American intelligence agencies have blamed on Russian actors, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund (officially the National Wellbeing Fund) has decided to dump all of its dollars and dollar-denominated assets in favor of those denominated in euros, yuan – or simply buying precious metals like gold.
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russias-186-billion-sovereign-wealth-fund-dumps-all-dollar-assets

    #76527
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ ​Chinese researchers have achieved a new world record after scientists developing an “artificial sun” ran the device on Friday at a record-shattering temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius for over 100 seconds.
    ​ ​The experiment was held at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in Hefei, China.
    The exercise is a part of the China’s efforts to develop new clean energy sources through the development of next-generation nuclear fusion reactor technology.
    ​ ​Known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), the “Chinese artificial sun” managed to generate plasma temperatures of 120 million degrees Celsius for 101 seconds before scientists also realized a temperature of 160 million degrees Celsius for an additional 20 seconds.
    ​​T​​he goal of EAST is to create Sun-like energy using deuterium, a hydrogen isotope that is plentiful in the ocean and can provide a steady flow of clean energy.

    China’s “Artificial Sun” Sets World Record Running At 120 MILLION Degrees For 101 Seconds

    Bill and Warren fund a molten-sodium cooled, “clean energy” natrium nuclear reactor project in Wyoming.
    What could go wrong?
    Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to build new kind of nuclear reactor in Wyoming
    ​ ​The project in Wyoming – the country’s top coal-producing state – is a small advanced reactor that runs on different fuels to traditional ones​…
    ​ Chris Levesque, TerraPower’s president and chief executive, said the demonstration plant would take about seven years to build. “We need this kind of clean energy on the grid in the 2030s,” he told reporters. Nuclear power experts have warned that advanced reactors could have higher risks than conventional ones.
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/bill-gates-warren-buffett-new-nuclear-reactor-wyoming-natrium

    ​Highway Cafe Of The Damned, Austin Lounge Lizards (For your brief consideration. What are those “seven vices” again?)
    ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGF1fGipmwg

    #76528
    Dave Note
    Participant

    @ Dr D

    I like your take on the Clusterfu*k

    The global big picture is like the silent ‘Checkmate’ moment in a Sci-fi I read years ago where one side had silently put all the pieces in place in total victory and not a shot was fired because it only took a simple phone call the the leder of the other side and a reveal that they were screwed, blued and tattooed because of X, Y and Z.

    Checkmate

    No shots need be fired, just knock your King over on the board to show you accept defeat.

    https://th.bing.com/th/id/R287456d4304df5c71d086cda342686b0?rik=CKNpQa2v8devAw&pid=ImgRaw

    Defeated

    #76529
    #76530
    Mr. House
    Participant


    Noland comment: Had the boom come to an end in 1927 the financial crash and resulting depression surely would not have been as destabilizing, deep or prolonged. Instead, the “coup de whiskey” threw gas on a raging fire, fueling catastrophic late-cycle “Terminal Phase Excess.” Tremendous systemic damage was inflicted during the ’27 to ’29 speculative mayhem. I have argued Covid’s timing could not have been more pernicious. The unparalleled fiscal and monetary response pushed already historic financial and economic Bubbles to perilous extremes – The Everything Mania. Stock prices, corporate Credit, home prices, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, collectables, etc. Leveraged speculation. Derivatives.”

    http://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/

    #76531
    zerosum
    Participant

    lab-leak theory
    Geee!
    Those Chinese scientist are smarter than the USA scientist!
    The lab-leak could only have come from China, see the proof in “How Amateur Sleuths Broke the Wuhan Lab Story and Embarrassed the Media”
    /sac

    #76532
    Bill7
    Participant

    Greenwald: The New [Democ**t] Domestic War on Terror Has Already Begun — Even Without the New Laws Biden Wants:
    https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-new-domestic-war-on-terror-has

    tried to clean up GG’s link- hope it works.

    Jim Quinn- There are No Solutions, Part 2:
    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/06/01/there-are-no-solutions-part-two/

    Don’t really agree with Mr. Quinn- there *are* solutions- but interesting compilation anyway.

    #76533
    Bill7
    Participant

    I highly recommend this book on Vincent Van Gogh for anyone interested in him- despite
    the poor Goodreads™ (aka Amazon) rating:

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34026466-vincent

    #76534
    Bill7
    Participant

    > ..The unparalleled fiscal and monetary response pushed already historic financial and economic Bubbles to perilous extremes.. <

    Perfect time for a mcCrisis then, or not?

    😉

    #76535
    Bill7
    Participant

    Why is the Corporatist Democ**t Party so intent on stoking Civil Unrest and later, Civil War?

    Cui Bono

    rhetorical..

    #76536
    Bill7
    Participant

    Democ**t Party as sadistic prison guard: “Stop Resisting, Prole!”, as you get sh!t beaten out
    of you for quietly existing..

    #76538
    Bill7
    Participant

    Very good call by the Few (well their minions, really) to have the Democ**t Party do their
    dirty work..

    “where you gonna go?”

    nice

    #76539
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    “An anagram for Dr Anthony Fauci is China Fraud Tony”y

    That’s great. My insults are more juvenile.

    Don’t trust the Dr. Faux-Sci.

    Dr. Foul-Shi# needs to be flushed.

    #76540
    Bill7
    Participant

    > Dr. Foul-Shi# needs to be flushed

    character actor, and easily replaced.

    “Tony *who* ???

    “..He was in a washable house, but he wasn’t sure. Now about those rats, he kept saying to himself. He meant the rats that the Professor had driven crazy by forcing them to deal with problems which were beyond the scope of rats, the insoluble problems. He meant the rats that had been trained to jump at the square card with the circle in the middle, and the card because it was something it wasn’t would give way and let the rat into a place where the food was, but then one day it would be a trick played on the rat, and the card would be changed, and the rat would jump but the card wouldn’t give way, and it was an impossible situation for a rat and the rat would go insane and into its eyes would come the unspeakably bright imploring look of the frustrated, and after the convulsions were over and the frantic racing around, then the passive stage would set in and the willingness to let anything be done to it, even if it was something else..”

    https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/door.html

    #76542
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Karl forgets one very important point in this article, the bailouts

    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=242588

    #76543

    Who needs suitcase nukes when there are many dozens of nuclear power plants using (just a guess) Chinese chips?
    It’s a dark day here at TAE, except for Dr. D’s eternal optimism, and Germ’s happy fishing.
    Many words with flags on them, keeping the hidden scrutinizers busy.

    From the Annenberg Public Policy Center (so you know it’s gotta be awesome), via Suspicious Observers, June 2:
    “News media reports about scientific failures that do not recognize the self-correcting nature of science can damage public perceptions of trust and confidence in scientific work…”

    Hunh. Did I miss some scientific failure reports somewhere?

    #76544
    zerosum
    Participant

    ( You lost the election. Accept it or else)
    Communities are strongest when they are not divided: Strengthen your community by standing together against violence.

    https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-january-27-2021
    Note: The expiration date for this bulletin has been extended to May 15, 2021

    Summary
    The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin due to a heightened threat environment across the United States, which DHS believes will persist in the weeks following the successful Presidential Inauguration. Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence.

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