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René Magritte Mysteries of the horizon (a.k.a. The Masterpiece) 1955

 

Debate Erupts Between Trusted Medical Doctor And Dr. Fauci (Bbee)
Fauci Loses It With Sen. Rand Paul Over Wuhan Lab Funding Accusations (RT)
Pfizer Granted Priority Review for FDA Vaccine Approval (Claus)
Over Half Of Australia’s Population Now Under Stay-at-Home Orders (RT)
NSW Health Official Tells Australians To Refrain From Talking To People (RT)
More Than 200 Facebook Groups Actively Circulating Vaccine Misinformation (F.)
World Champion Boxer To Retire Due To Introduction Of Covid Passports (Mir.)
Statins for Cancer and COVID; Beyond Ivermectin
Biden Regime Jails a ‘Domestic Terrorist’ (Julie Kelly)
The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada (WS)
Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over China Purchases Of US Farmland (ZH)
Oliver Stone’s New JFK Assassination Doc Is Being Ignored By The MSM (RT)

 

 

 

 

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Might as well give it a Babylon Bee overdo. Fauci hides behind semantics.

Debate Erupts Between Trusted Medical Doctor And Dr. Fauci (Bbee)

During an explosive Senate hearing this week, Senator and trusted medical doctor Rand Paul argued with Anthony Fauci—a dangerous conspiracy theorist who thinks vaccines don’t work and that the government is not funding the creation of medical abominations in secret labs. “You are a LIAR!” said Rand Paul, pointing gravely at Dr. Fauci. “You are a LYING LIAR who LIES!” Fauci, who was initially taken aback by the accusation, immediately recovered and said: “NO! It is YOU who is the LIAR, you LIAR!” Fauci then bobbed his head back and forth in a very sassy way and snapped his fingers in a zig-zag pattern.


“OOOOooo! Rand Paul got OWNED!” said CNN. “OOOOooo! Fauci got DESTROYED!” said Fox News. The C-SPAN segment immediately went viral, leading to more requests for the two men to face off in another confrontation. C-SPAN then announced they would be organizing a pay-per-view rematch, in which the trusted medical doctor and Dr. Fauci would call each other liars in an octagon-shaped cage. Unfortunately, Fauci backed out at the last minute after C-SPAN instituted a strict “no bioweapons” policy for the face-off.

Full exchange between Sen. Rand Paul and Dr. Fauci.

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“You take an animal virus and you increase its transmissibility to humans, you’re saying that’s not gain-of-function?” Paul asked. “That is correct..”

Fauci Loses It With Sen. Rand Paul Over Wuhan Lab Funding Accusations (RT)

White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci has told Kentucky Senator Rand Paul “You don’t know what you’re talking about,” after Paul accused him of lying about his alleged role in controversial virus research in China. Questioning Fauci during a Senate Health Committee hearing on Tuesday about the government’s coronavirus response, Sen. Paul (R) implied that Fauci lied to Congress in May when he said that the National Institute of Health (NIH) did not fund so-called ‘gain-of-function’ research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, believed by many to be the source of the coronavirus pandemic. “I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement,” Fauci replied. Paul presented a 2015 academic paper that asserts such research did take place at the Wuhan lab, and was partly funded by the NIH.


One US scientist has reviewed the paper and concluded that the research within “seemed to meet the definition of gain-of-function,” — but that it did not lead to the creation of the novel coronavirus. The term ‘gain-of-function’ refers to modifying and increasing the transmissibility of animal viruses to better study their effect on humans. “This paper that you’re referring to was judged … up and down the chain as not being gain-of-function,” Fauci responded, before Paul interjected. “You take an animal virus and you increase its transmissibility to humans, you’re saying that’s not gain-of-function?” Paul asked. “That is correct, and Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially,” Fauci snapped back.

Despite the paper’s own definition of gain-of-function research seemingly being the same as Paul’s, the White House scientist still insisted that the research outlined in the 2015 paper “is not” the same thing. The paper itself does not prove that the Covid-19 coronavirus was created in the Wuhan lab, but it does imply that similar research on bat-borne coronaviruses was carried out there, with the NIH’s financial support. Such research used to be done in the US, but was paused by the Obama administration in 2014 and subsequently outsourced to China. Between 2015 and 2019, the Wuhan lab received, albeit indirectly, more than $800,000 in grants from the NIH. $600,000 in grant payments were given to the institute via EcoHealth Alliance, a private research firm, and $216,000 via the University of California, Irvine.

Fauci GoF
https://twitter.com/i/status/1401891543322185728

Letter to Do: criminal referral

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As the vaccines are very clearly failing, now is of course the time to speed up the process, because that is what people are not yet allowed to know.

Pfizer Granted Priority Review for FDA Vaccine Approval (Claus)

Last Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration granted pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech priority review designation for their coronavirus vaccine for those who are age 16 and older. This step marks the last hurdle that must be cleared in order for the vaccine — the very first to come onto the world scene, being approved for emergency use back in December of 2020 — to be distributed and marketed like any other inoculation. Until now, the products, like the other two coronavirus vaccines used in the US, have had emergency use authorization (EUA) only — a legal sticking point that has led to some questioning their efficacy and safety and adding to the vaccine hesitancy that continues to plague some areas of the country and the world.

Anti-vaccine proponents argue that they refuse to accept a product that has not been fully cleared by the FDA, and many corporate entities along with the federal government, will not require coronavirus inoculations while they are still under EUA-only status. This status allows for vaccine doses to be shipped to hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and other organizations to be administered to the general public — but not distributed and marketed. Although the vaccine came out in a little more than 300 days since the genome of the virus was determined — an amazing feat of modern medical technology — the perceived delay in the granting of full authorization has led many to speculate that this feeds into an anti-vaccination narrative which may be partly responsible for the spike in infections in the last month worldwide.

As the Delta variant, first detected in India, continues to sweep across the world, the lack of formal approval of the vaccines has sparked concern that a window of opportunity may have been lost, as people for the most part are allowed to gather together without restrictions across the US while sizable pockets of vaccine resistance remain. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday that the number of new coronavirus cases were up by nearly 70% in just one week, while hospitalizations are up by nearly 36%, after weeks of steeply declining numbers all over the US. The Delta variant appears to be approximately 225% more transmissible than the original strains of the coronavirus. NPR reports that one recent study from China found that those who are infected with Delta have on average about 1,000 times more copies of the virus in their respiratory tracts than those who were infected with the original strain.

Not only that but they also become infectious earlier in the course of their illness, leading to much more transmission since many do not realize they have become infected. The emergency use authorization vaccines that are currently on the market, however, are strikingly effective against the Delta variant. [..] At this point, experts say the picture looks fairly rosy. “The level of antibodies seem to be holding up pretty well, so we have to watch and see what happens over the course of the coming months,” stated National Institutes of Health’s Francis Collins, in an interview with NPR. The New York-based pharma giant must now go through a rigorous review process that experts believe will be completed in January of 2022. Even with expedited handling of the approval process, speeded up from its usual 10 months, the lightning-fast spread of the Delta variant, which is so many more times as transmissible as the original coronavirus, is rushing past that timeline.

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Australia is done. Pull the plug and let it pour down the drain. The only things people there think are “wrong” in their isolation campaign are in not building quarantine accomodation, and in not ordering vaccines fast enough. Blind as bats.

Over Half Of Australia’s Population Now Under Stay-at-Home Orders (RT)

South Australia has entered a snap lockdown of seven days, joining neighboring Victoria and New South Wales as the third state to implement stay-at-home orders, with half of the country’s population now under restrictions. South Australia entered a week-long lockdown to quell a spike in coronavirus cases at 6pm local time on Tuesday. Premier Steven Marshall defended the decision to impose harsh measures, stating that “we hate to put these restrictions in place, but we have just one chance to get this right” to avoid an extended lockdown period and cases spiraling out of control. Under the new rules, all South Australian citizens are required to stay at home unless they are essential workers or need to purchase necessary produce or attend medical appointments.


They are allowed outside to exercise for a maximum of 90 minutes and within a 2.5km (1.5 mile) radius of their home. All educational institutions will be shut and transition to online learning. The decision to impose a strict snap lockdown comes after five coronavirus cases were reported, with the fifth being an isolated incident from the other four cases. All of the cases have been confirmed to be the Delta variant, which is 60% more transmissible than other variants, according to Public Health England. As of Tuesday, some 13 million Australians, over half of the country’s population, are under a stay-at-home mandate. Neighboring Victoria extended its lockdown until July 27. It was intended to last only five days, however, new Covid-19 cases are still being recorded there.

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How crazy can one get and still be taken serious? “She was named New South Wales ‘Woman of the Year’ for 2021..”

NSW Health Official Tells Australians To Refrain From Talking To People (RT)

With Sydney still in lockdown amid a handful of new Covid-19 cases, the top health official for New South Wales has called for a new level of social-distancing inhumanity: not having conversations with other people. After reporting a whopping 78 new Covid-19 cases and one death in the state, Chief Health Officer Dr. Kerry Chant told reporters on Tuesday that Australians shouldn’t engage in conversations, even if both parties were wearing masks, and regardless of vaccination status. “Whilst it’s human nature to engage in conversation with others, to be friendly, unfortunately, this is not the time to do that,” Chant said. So, even if you run into your next-door neighbor in the shopping center … don’t start up a conversation. Now is the time for minimizing your interactions with others.

Masks don’t afford “total protection,” Chant added, so residents must avoid talking to each other and “be absolutely sure that, as we go about our daily lives, we do not come into contact with anyone else that would pose a risk.” Since the pandemic began, Australia has repeatedly staved off the spread of Covid-19 with some of the world’s most draconian lockdown measures, in pursuit of driving new cases down to zero even at the expense of civil liberties. Lockdowns have been reimposed recently, as infections flared up again. In Melbourne, for instance, just about everything other than grocery stores and hospitals was shuttered for nearly four months, and the city entered its fifth lockdown last week. Alice Springs ordered a new lockdown in June after just one new infection was reported.

Much like the White House’s chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, in the US, Chant has been championed by mainstream media outlets as a pandemic-fighting hero. The Guardian referred to the doctor as “unflappable” and a “secret weapon.” She was named New South Wales ‘Woman of the Year’ for 2021. Social media critics weren’t charmed by her advice against having conversations, however. “Unbelievable,” TV presenter and author Tonia Buxton said. “Don’t behave like a human, forget humanity, just do as you are told.”

DON’T ACT LIKE A HUMAN. DON’T TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS

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Start reading, hoping to find what this misinformation is. Nothing until the last paragraph -apparently you’re supposed to know(?!) but I don’t, where someone says “I truly believe that they are out to kill people with this shot..” Now I still don’t know what misinformation they talk about. Pretty sure that’s on purpose.

More Than 200 Facebook Groups Actively Circulating Vaccine Misinformation (F.)

After President Biden came down hard on Facebook last week over coronavirus vaccine misinformation, the company responded with almost equal force, insisting in no uncertain terms that it wasn’t responsible for how that type of content has spread on the web. But new research released Tuesday suggests Facebook does indeed remain a place where such misinformation is circulating: Media Matters for America, a liberal tech watchdog organization, says it has found 284 active private and public Facebook Groups currently distributing vaccine misinformation, more than double the amount the researchers found in April. Over a half million users belong to these groups. Media Matters identified six groups with more than 15,000 members, and most of those half-dozen groups are private, underscoring an on-going problem for the social network.

These groups are invite only, making them harder to track and a more fertile ground for misinformation to spread than public ones, which invite more immediate scrutiny. The discussion around Facebook’s role in handling vaccine misinformation was heightened on Friday when President Biden made stark comments about his views on the company’s culpability. “They’re killing people,” he said. The White House has since tried to soften its stance on the matter, and Facebook raced to point to efforts to combat vaccine misinformation. In a blog post released a day after President Biden’s comments, Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president of intregrity, said the platform had removed more than 18 million pieces of Covid-19 information since the pandemic started and limited the spread of 167 million pieces its fact checkers judged as inaccurate.

More broadly, Facebook has introduced new tools for users who control Groups, though those features are only as effective as those group leaders want them to be. Groups represent an enormous avenue of growth for Facebook—and an unending source of problems for it. Over the last few years, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has clearly emphasized Groups’ place within the app, and the company launched a redesign in 2019 to encourage their use. Even public Groups tend to encourage more intimate and more engaged conversations than on Facebook’s core Newsfeed, exactly what the company has sought to foster. But Groups have proven to be problematic hotbeds, used to do things such as spread Qanon content and white supremacy posts.

The largest group identified by Media Matters is one called “Canadian Deaths and Adverse Reaction,” which numbers almost 95,000 users. The researchers unearthed a number of posts containing conspiracy theories, including one falsely stating that the vaccines are part of a secret ongoing experimental trial. One user in another large group, Covid19 Vaccine Victims & Families, which has 46,4000 members, wrote this: “I truly believe that they are out to kill people with this shot…I think it causes people who have health issues to have [sic] make it worse and those with no health issues I think this jab is also giving people illnesses they never had. People need to wake up and say no to the jab.”

Tucker VAERS

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He won’t be alone.

World Champion Boxer To Retire Due To Introduction Of Covid Passports (Mir.)

World champion boxer Sunny Edwards has vowed to retire if Covid-19 vaccine passports are introduced in September. Boris Johnson announced yesterday that Covid-19 passports will be required for nightclubs and venues with large crowds, which could signal a passport being required at sporting events such as boxing later on in the year. And newly crowned British world champion Edwards has claimed he could hang up his gloves in protest. “Looks like I’m retiring from the game in September.” Edwards posted on Twitter in response to the announcement. The announcement could signal an increase in the uptake of vaccinations across the UK, in particular amongst sports stars who could be required to take the vaccine in order to compete in the future unless they are given immunity from the policy that will be introduced.

Several boxing stars have been caught up with vaccine debates during the pandemic, including undisputed super-lightweight champion Josh Taylor who recently defeated Jose Ramirez in Las Vegas to claim the belts and remain undefeated. He has also posted on Twitter against the idea of vaccine passports, slamming the rules as a ‘dictatorship’ which could signal his stance to any future rules that are introduced into boxing. “Do as [sic] your told or be excluded from society! #Dictatorship ” Taylor posted on his Twitter page today after the announcement. He also responded to a fan who questioned his stance on the passport and whether his choice to do so was an example of freedom.

“The fact you’re being told to take something in order to live life, simply isn’t freedom! It’s oppression.” Taylor said. The pandemic has had a damaging effect on boxing in recent weeks with Tyson Fury’s outbreak in camp causing the third face-off in the ring against Deontay Wilder to be rescheduled for October 9. Despite reports of the ‘Gypsy King’ testing positive himself for the virus, he was pictured greeting fans in Las Vegas amid rumours that he may soon be returning to the UK after the trilogy fight broke down. The lineal heavyweight champion also refused his second vaccine ahead of the fight, after he relayed fears to his team of suffering with ill-effects ahead of his attempt to defeat Wilder for the second time in two years.

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Interesting, but statins?

Statins for Cancer and COVID; Beyond Ivermectin

When my friend contracted Glioblastoma, I reacted by researching what else could be done for him – scientifically. I went through PubMed, and I read the latest studies. I read accounts of medical professionals who survived their terminal cancers. And I found patterns. One concept that arose was the use of repurposed drugs IN ADDITION to the standard of care. Another was that Cancer Stem Cells, CSCs, were very real and could reseed cancer. These roots of cancer were stimulated to spread and regrow with cutting into the tumor [Surgery], poisoning it [Chemotherapy], and radiating it [Radiation Therapy]. I realized, to my horror, our own best treatment was making cancers resistant and causing them to return, often fatally. So why was this information hidden? Everyone should know this.

When I found that Dr. Ben Williams, a Harvard-educated professor, had cured his Glioblastoma using a cocktail of repurposed drugs, I knew my friend had a chance to do the same. And it was up to me to get him this information. I found that a combination of four common drugs, Atorvastatin, Mebendazole, Metformin, and Doxycycline, could almost double the expected GBM survival time when added to the standard of care based upon a study by Dr. Agrawal published in a peer-reviewed medical journal. In addition, these four drugs had been used safely, for decades, to treat other diseases. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6610246/ As I dug deeper, I realized that instead of using this cocktail as a last-ditch effort to save a person from cancer after it has already developed, WHAT IF ONE USED IT TO PREVENT CANCER from ever developing?

I searched Amazon. I found no physicians had written about this to the general public except for Dr. Raymond Chang in 2014. He wrote a book, “Beyond the Magic Bullet.” Dr. Ben Williams, a PhD, had written about his personal experience in beating his GBM with repurposed drugs in “Surviving Terminal Cancer.” These books, unfortunately, had very thin readerships. Finally, a magnificent documentary was made that interviews both of these men, “Surviving Terminal Cancer.” However, very few people have watched this. Most who do, have Glioblastoma, a disease which afflicts about 10,000 Americans each year – people like Beau Biden, people like John McCain, and now my friend Evan.

Only 25 % survive longer than one year. Less than 5% make it past five years. And Ben Williams has now survived 26 years. His friend Professor Richard Gerber has now survived 13 years and uses repurposed drugs. Richard followed Ben Williams’ strategy.

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“And therein lies the real crime: Paul Hodgkins, a working-class American who took a bus on the 900-mile journey to the nation’s capital to support his president and protest a clearly rigged election, defiled the ruling class’ palace with a Trump flag.”

Biden Regime Jails a ‘Domestic Terrorist’ (Julie Kelly)

“Paul Hodgkins is not my enemy.” Fighting back tears, Patrick Leduc, an attorney representing a man charged in connection with the January 6 protest at the Capitol, made that statement in a dramatic court hearing Monday morning. Leduc, by the way, is no snowflake. On Tuesday, the 33-year-old U.S. Army reservist will be deployed to the Middle East for his third tour. Leduc cited his military oath—to protect the country from “against all enemies, foreign and domestic”—to refute the government’s accusation that Paul Hodgkins, 38, is a domestic terrorist. “Words have meaning,” Leduc told U.S. District Court Judge Randoph Moss. “I have been shot at by real terrorists. If we’re going to label this as domestic terrorism, where do we draw that line?”

Sadly, after listening to Monday’s proceedings, I must conclude there is no line. Americans on the political Right are considered an enemy no less lethal than al-Qaeda and minus the civil libertarians to defend them. It’s clear the Biden regime, in cooperation with federal judges, will stop at nothing to destroy the lives of people who protested the 2020 presidential election. This includes people like Paul Hodgkins, who was sentenced to eight months in prison for denouncing what his government was about to do on January 6—certify a rigged, corrupt presidential election—and for supporting Donald Trump. Hodgkins, who lives in a working-class neighborhood in Tampa, took a bus alone from his home in central Florida to Washington, D.C. to attend Donald Trump’s January 6 speech.

After the speech, he walked to Capitol Hill. He later said he had no intention of going inside the building but got caught up in the moment. Like many pro-Trump protesters, Hodgkins did not bring a weapon. He did not assault a police officer or damage any property. He was inside the building for roughly 22 minutes, entered the Senate chamber, hoisted a “Trump 2020” flag, took some selfies, and left. Nonetheless, law enforcement arrested Hodgkins in Tampa on February 16 and charged him with four misdemeanors and one felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding. Joe Biden’s Justice Department has added the obstruction charge to roughly 200 misdemeanor cases so federal prosecutors can get jail time for Capitol defendants.

[..] Paul Hodgkins, who had nothing much to start with, will now lose everything. He will live the rest of his life as a convicted felon. A broken man railroaded by a broken country. But it was clear on social media that the bloodlust of the Left still is unsatiated. Destroying him isn’t enough; they want heads to roll. “We are a country ruled by cancel culture now,” Leduc told me. “There is no compassion or grace.”

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You better look good than feel good.

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada (WS)

At least the Bank of Canada is officially acknowledging the craziness of the Canadian housing market, which has been deemed to be the second biggest housing bubble in the world, behind New Zealand, whose central bank also officially acknowledged its housing bubble, and stopped QE cold turkey, unlike the Fed, which has refused to officially acknowledge anything. Starting last October, the Bank of Canada began the process of ending its asset purchases. Since then, it stopped buying mortgage-backed securities, unwound its holdings of repos and Treasury bills, and cut the amount of its weekly purchases of Government of Canada bonds for the third time, from C$5 billion per week last year to C$2 billion per week now. The assets on its balance sheet dropped from C$575 billion in March to C$487 billion as of last week. And in its pronouncements, the housing bubble looms large.

[..] The Teranet-National Bank House Price Index tracks prices of single-family houses through “sales pairs,” similar to the Case-Shiller Home Price Index in the US, comparing the price of a house that sold in the current month to the price of the same house when it sold previously. Since it tracks how many more Canadian dollars it takes to buy the same house over time, it is a measure of house price inflation. In the Greater Toronto Area, the house price spike “decelerated”: In June, the index jumped by 2.7% from May, but that crazy increase (annualized 32%!) was the slowest increase since March. Year-over-year, the index jumped by 15.9%. Note the decline in house prices in 2017, and the wavering that followed, until the BoC opened its vault:

All charts here are on the same scale as the chart for Vancouver, with more white space appearing at the top as we go down the list, indicating the slower price increases over the past 20 years, compared to Vancouver. In Hamilton, Ontario, house prices spiked by 3.8% in June from May, and by a mind-boggling 28.0% year-over-year, thank you Bank of Canada hallelujah. But now the BoC, with an eye on this exponential increase in house price inflation, is pulling back its radical monetary policies. Here too, the housing market had started to decline and waver in 2017, and it was the BoC’s pandemic policies that triggered this spike:

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1/3 for China, 1/3 for Bill Gates, 1/3 for Monsanto.

Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over China Purchases Of US Farmland (ZH)

A group of bipartisan lawmakers are sounding the alarm over foreign purchases of prime US agricultural real estate, in an effort to lessen China’s influence on the US economy. Recent legislation advanced by House lawmakers warns that China’s presence in the American food supply poses a national security risk, while key Senators have expressed interest in keeping American farms in American hands, according to Politico. The debate over farm ownership comes amid broader efforts by Congress and the Biden administration to curb the nation’s economic reliance on China, especially in key industries like food, semiconductors and minerals deemed crucial to the supply chain. The call for tighter limits on who owns America’s farms has come from a wide range of political leaders, from former Vice President Mike Pence to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), after gaining momentum seeded in farm states.

“America cannot allow China to control our food supply,” said Pence during a Wednesday speech at the Heritage Foundation in which he urged President Biden and Congress to “end all farm subsidies for land owned by foreign nationals.” By the beginning of 2020, Chinese owners controlled approximately 192,000 agricultural acres in the US, worth around $1.9 billion – including land used for farming, ranching and forestry, according to the Department of Agriculture. It’s a small but growing percentage of the nearly 900 million acres of total US farmland – with the USDA reporting in 2018 that China’s agricultural investments have grown more than tenfold since 2009.

“The Communist Party has actively supported investments in foreign agriculture as part of its “One Belt One Road” economic development plans, aiming to control a greater piece of China’s food supply chain. “The current trend in the U.S. is leading us toward the creation of a Chinese-owned agricultural land monopoly,” Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) warned during a recent House Appropriations hearing.= The committee unexpectedly adopted Newhouse’s amendment to the Agriculture-FDA spending bill (H.R. 4356 (117)) that would block any new agricultural purchases by companies that are wholly or partly controlled by the Chinese government and bar Chinese-owned farms from tapping federal support programs. -Politico

Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) warned that the new law would “perpetuate already rising anti-Asian hate,” however she and committee leaders have indicated a willingness to find a solution as the legislation works its way through Congress, according to the report. It’s expected to reach the House floor before the end of this month as part of a broader appropriations package, however the Senate has yet to draft their own version of the spending bill.

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Nobody cares who shot JFK anymore. We now have the Insurrection. Much bigger threat.

Oliver Stone’s New JFK Assassination Doc Is Being Ignored By The MSM (RT)

When ‘JFK: Revisited’ premiered on Monday, July 12, the mainstream media didn’t praise it or pan it. They pretended it didn’t exist. The New York Times’ vast coverage of Cannes consisted of 11 articles, most focusing on the more salacious content, such as ‘Benedetta’, a steamy story about lesbian nuns, ‘Annette’, a musical where Adam Driver sings while performing oral sex on Marion Cotillard, and ‘Titane’, where a woman has sex with a car and lactates oil. But not once has ‘JFK Revisited’ been mentioned in the supposed ‘paper of record’. The same is true of the Washington Post, Boston Globe, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, the Guardian, the Atlantic, the New Yorker and every mainstream outlet I searched, as none of them acknowledge ‘JFK Revisited’exists at all.

The only media mentions I found were in trade papers likeVariety and the Hollywood Reporter, and in the British press, in the Times and Daily Telegraph. Their reaction to the film was split, with Variety and The Times giving negative reviews and THR and the Daily Telegraph praising it. Considering that Cuba, intelligence agency nefariousness, and conspiracy theories are making headlines, and that the small critical assessment of the documentary is split, it’s curious that the media is maintaining the status quo by endorsing sexual depravity at Cannes instead of pursuing truth by debating ‘JFK Revisited’. I’m kidding, of course. It’s no surprise that the American myth-making media who bequeath to us the official narrative from which ‘respectable’ people will never deviate, are tossing ‘JFK Revisited’ down the memory hole and lavishing praise on horny nuns and coital Cadillacs.

You see, the establishment loves to distract the masses and hate conspiracies – except for the ones they love. JFK assassination conspiracies are rejected outright as unserious, despite a plethora of damning evidence, because they indict the establishment itself. Half of the talking heads on cable news are former (wink-wink) intelligence community members, and the vast majority of journalists are lapdogs for the intel agencies, so they’re not going to bite the hand that feeds them in service to the truth about the JFK assassination. This same anti-conspiratorial press spent four years breathlessly belching up every half-assed Russia conspiracy story they could conjure – including Russiagate, claims of Russia using microwave weapons or hacking into power grids and voting machines – and shouted them from the rooftops 24/7 until they become presumed true despite a complete lack of evidence.

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    madamski cafone
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    Ukraine seems determined to start WWIII.

    It seems to like starting world wars with odd numbers.

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    Mister Roboto
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    I predict that once pandemic-hysteria “gets old” with the voting public and the Democrats and the urban PMC, of course, try to force it down everybody’s throat that much harder, the 2022 elections will be a lock for the Republicans. And there’s also the domestic situation described in this “TL;DR” video:

    I don’t think I have ever been as embarrassed by any vote I have ever cast than I have been by my vote for Biden/ Harris. Hence my nickname for them, “Hide/ Embarrass”.

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    Dr. D
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    CNN Today:
    “How to Watch the Olympics.” Turn on the TV?

    ” Ex-Army Ranger Weaponized Military Training” Do they not know what military training is? Is there some type that’s not dangerous?

    Speaking of new-favorite word ‘Weaponizing’: ” It’s Time for Americans to un-Weaponize ‘Laziness’”

    If only we’d fought the Nazis by ignoring them from our couches.

    Worried About Anxiety Interfering with your Sex Life?” Yes, I always worry about anxiety. Then I have anxiety about my worry. Very helpful. And over a sex life? Hahahahaha. Wow, yeah, top priority for real adults, not you know, being God-spirits in a material world.

    Other top problems for the planet’s most pampered, butt-hurt, unserious people: Paraolympian can’t bring her mother to work and is now a worthless human being. I guess being an Olympian doesn’t train you to deal with adversity minor setbacks after all. Young Pre-med finds out she’s Doooooomed. Cancer? Car accident? Whole family killed in Yemen? Nope, she’d have to be pre-med in the nation of her citizenship. A nation that really, really wants and needs doctors. An actress almost fell! But didn’t! A Team wore different bikinis than other teams. Aaaand top news story, front page? Swim caps. Wut? Huh? Why? Because, yes, you knew it: “Scientists Warn That Within 6 Months Humanity Will Run Out Of Things To Call Racist” –BBee https://babylonbee.com/news/scientists-warn-that-in-the-next-decade-well-run-out-of-things-to-call-racist Swim caps = the Patriarchy.

    Thankfully, they also included this: “The Idiocracy of America”. It’s not only by Jeffery Sachs, poster child for ‘Idiocracy’, but he’s from Columbia too! What’s the article about?

    Well in ‘Idiocracy,’ everyone is about to die because the population are such morons they don’t know how food is grown and have a famine in “burrito wrappers n stuff.” Thankfully an average guy with a modicum of common sense talks them out of killing everyone.

    Jeff Sachs follows this chain of reasoning by arguing we must immediately shut down 100% of all fossil fuels that make nearly all food on the planet possible. Including his.

    …But like I said, “Columbia”. And “U.N.” And “CNN” too. Pretty average day for them, actually. Almost smart.

    #80421
    Noirette
    Participant

    Here we are reminded that the media that lies to us lies to us. Reality on the ground is rarely in fidelity with its media reportage. – madamski

    The border between Switz. and France is open as usual. (Where I live.)

    There are no controls for ppl travelling by foot, by bike, by personal motor vehicle, by public transport, bus, train and boat. All explicitly stated on Gvmt. sites.

    No sanitary pass, no ‘super’ ID, or even any ID at all, is required.

    Controls are the same as they were in 2018, i.e. a ‘reg’ fine for travelling in public transport without a ticket, if for the first time. A nasty fine for ‘bad’ contraband (drugs..), undeclared goods at the border (by car only.) (There are some xtra conditions but I can’t go into minuscle detail.)

    Within the Schengen Area border controls are now impossible to set up.

    The infrastructure that has been built, or mostly Not, doesn’t allow for controls. E.g. lines of cars, trucks, waiting to cross have to move fast to get thru, to destination. The staff to enforce controls doesn’t exist, was never planned for. Plus, maybe trivial, the controls would be a violation of treaties, agreements.

    On the ground, even a 5m. delay for one truck may lead to massive ‘unrest’ to put it mildly. The borders make no sense, 200 to 300K workers enter Switz. each day, the goods entering, transiting, another story, can’t be halted, and nobody wants to hinder this.

    The COV-19 controls / rules, etc. simply can’t be implemented. (Suddenly horribly ! stiff in France, whoo-hoo, low-key is CH.) So they are ignored. Which means.. many people experience the fact that Gvmt. hoo-ha and pronoucements are empty posturing, can blithely be ignored, don’t affect their daily lives.

    For now.

    #80423
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “I don’t think I have ever been as embarrassed by any vote I have ever cast than I have been by my vote for Biden/ Harris. Hence my nickname for them, “Hide/ Embarrass”.”

    I voted for what’s-his-face… Kerry in 2004. I share Mister Roboto’s shame.

    #80425
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “If only we’d fought the Nazis by ignoring them from our couches.”

    The world would’ve been better off if we had.

    #80428
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @HerrWerner: your story was interesting and enjoyable. Thank you for sharing it. Also, I hadn’t considered that QC is expensive and not worth doing for many products these days (I can be a bit slow on the uptake!). Good point, and quite obvious … now that you’ve mentioned it. 😉

    @Mister: “Hence my nickname for them, “Hide/ Embarrass”. Never heard that one before. Hilarious!!!

    I’m embarrassed I voted for Obama (first term ). Was long past falling for his BS by the second term.

    #80430

    Percent vs numbers.
    This is likely the most utilized way to obfuscate- 100,000 going to 110,000 is a 10% rise, but a “10%” rise doesn’t sound so bad, while 10,000 is a large number of almost anything, so a fear-monger will say “there are ten thousand new cases!”
    But 3 new cases this week over one case last week will be reported as “a 300% rise in cases!” because 4 cases in two weeks is hardly a cause for concern, but 300% sounds huuuge.
    It’s been disheartening to see how decades of lousy education bears its fruit.

    #80434
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @my parents: YUP!!!

    Also, Magritte’s work doesn’t do a thing for me. I must be missing something? Maybe V Arnold or an art lover on here can explain what they’re seeing that I’m not …

    #80437
    Bill7
    Participant

    From Teodrose Fikremariam- ‘Direct Action for Freedom: Going Low-Tech to Defeat Biden’s Fascist and Social Media’s High-Tech Censorship’

    “..Leveraging an almost certainly man-made virus, our government has turned America into a surveillance state in the mold of China. In the past three months alone, I’ve had my Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Reddit accounts permanently deleted for daring to do my job as a journalist and question authority. Just two days ago, our YouTube channel was deleted after I posted this video below where I extolled the virtues of unity and forgiveness. While there are countless numbers of people, including politicians like Maxine Waters, advocating violence, the ones who are singing the virtues of love are the ones who are getting torpedoed..”

    Especially that last bit.. TF was another of the early ones to see thrrough the BS.

    Decentralized Campaign for Freedom: Going Low-Tech to Defeat Biden’s Fascism and Social Media’s High-Tech Censorship

    A counter-view on Vitamin D supplementation- seems well argued and documented:

    Why I don’t take vitamin D supplements

    #80443
    TAE Summary
    Participant

    * Covid Daily
    – Australia has kablooied the curve
    – FDA presentation showed the vaxx kills and maims but luckily the data is subject to change
    – Delta is more transmissible
    – Don’t talk to people; CDC now classifies Covid as an STD (Speechually Transmitted Disease); When you talk with someone it’s like talking with everyone they ever talked with
    – J&J less effective against Delta in Holland
    – US causus belli: Vaccination without representation

    * Bits and Pieces
    – Media is unfaithful; We’ve been had; The galoots have one
    – Gates funds lies
    – Big Pharma Patents Genocide, sues US Military for infringement
    – Voters will elect Republicans in 2022 and Trump will be elected Ranter of the House
    – Taco Bell ingredient shortage results in Naked Chicken Chalupa
    – All power is solar power
    – WW 3 is coming but future historian will find that World Wars were like Star Trek movies: The even numbered ones were great but the odd numbered ones sucked

    * Mathematical proof that Covid is almost over : Let f(u) be a gain-of-function. Then the limit of f(u) equals zero if for every epsilon variant there is some delta variant such that if u < delta, then f(u) < epsilon

    * The Venn of Covid Vaccines
    – BE DE-AD, BC, DE ADE

    * Embarrassing Presidential votes you might have cast:
    – Goldwater or Johnson in 1964
    – Nixon or Humphrey in 1968
    – Nixon of McGovern in 1972
    – Ford or Carter in 1976
    – Reagan or Carter in 1980
    – Reagan or Mondale in 1984
    – Bush or Dukakis in 1988
    – Bush or Clinton in 1992
    – Clinton or Dole in 1996
    – Bush or Gore in 2000
    – Bush or Kerry in 2004
    – Obama or McCain in 2008
    – Obama or Romney in 2012
    – Clinton or Trump in 2016
    – Trump or Biden in 2020

    * When I use a word, Fauci said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.
    – The question is, said Senator Paul, whether you can make words mean so many different things.
    – The question is, said Fauci, which is to be master, that’s all.

    #80444
    Bill7
    Participant

    upstate: I do like Magriite, actually find his paintings fascinating. Lots of levels.. and little visual after around 1550 trips my hammer.

    #80446
    greco
    Participant

    Re problems with wordpress, easily fixable by any competent coder. The fact that they’re not fixed makes them look like a feature. Makes the user blame bad code rather than censors for their posts not posting or links disappearing.

    #80447
    greco
    Participant

    On the other hand. WordPress may just be a shitty product

    #80449
    greco
    Participant

    Reading TAE Summary makes me think that we might be entering late state CCCP like state propaganda fatigue where state propaganda inspires jokes rather than outrage.

    #80460
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “I’m embarrassed I voted for Obama (first term ). Was long past falling for his BS by the second term.”

    I am a little emnbarrassed but not much. Obama was smooth. Super-bright and articulate. But I willfully looked away when he cast his Senator vote for warrantless surveillance and gave the telcos a pass.

    ‘He has to go along to get along’, I told myself. ‘He’ll fix it once he’s in office.’

    Ah, magical thinnking. Great stuff but don’t try to fix your car with it.

    #80461
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    The counter vitamin-D, per a VERY quick skim, seems to say that vitamin-D can be counterproductive if you don’t take otherwise adequate care of yourself. Therefore the question is taking care of oneself: decent food, reasonable exercise, mucho agua, feeding your mind/heart with good input not media trash, somebody to love you if available…

    …further scanning suggests that one is wise to balance vit D intake with other factors. Huh. Waddya know, Vit D isn’t a magic pill. I am SO surprised.

    “Rather than taking hormone and vitamin supplements, it is more effective to stimulate your body to strengthen its own defense and detoxification systems. I’m not against all supplementation — for example, I believe that ingestion of phytochemical-rich vegetables and herbs is useful as a hormetic stimulus. But I think we have to overcome the simplistic notion that if X is a good thing, we should consume more of X.”

    Is reasonable. It’s the headline that’s so awful. Almost like standard old school mainstream journalistic story distortion: lead with the “bled” (sensational headline), then bury the body in the fine print near the end.

    He mentions rich in phytochemicals. Same principle he posits tregarding D applies here. Broccoli, for example is rich in phytochemicals and considered a major health food:

    8 Health Foods That Are Harmful If You Eat Too Much

    “ruciferous vegetables are a family of greens that include broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, cabbage and collard greens.

    These veggies have been linked with many health benefits, such as a reduced risk of cancer and heart disease (38Trusted Source, 39Trusted Source, 40Trusted Source).
    Cruciferous vegetables make up a large part of people’s daily vegetable intake. They have also become very popular as ingredients in various green smoothies and fresh vegetable juices.

    However, compounds in these vegetables called thiocyanates can interfere with the body’s ability to absorb iodine. This may contribute to a condition called hypothyroidism (41Trusted Source, 42Trusted Source).

    Hypothyroidism is characterized by an underactive thyroid gland. Symptoms include an enlarged thyroid gland, weight gain, constipation, dry skin and reduced energy levels (43Trusted Source, 44Trusted Source).

    Although cruciferous vegetables like broccoli are very healthy, adding high amounts to smoothies or green juices can contribute to a massive intake of these compounds.

    People who are sensitive to thyroid problems should avoid consuming these veggies in very large amounts.”

    This happened to someone I know who is otherwise in very good shape.

    Nonetheless, the headline warns against taking vitamin D. JOurnalism is Sanskrit for irresponsible or malicious gossip. 😉

    #80462
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    C”ruciferous”. With a c.

    #80463
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    Magritte’s art is mostly visual metaphors for philosphical/existential dilemmae or other mysterious or confusing or vexing situations. This one seems to commenting on individual perspective, maybe with a joke relating to how the moon seems to follow us through the trees: each man his own indivudal moon.

    In terms of visual aesthetics, he’s rather dry.

    #80464
    slimyalligator
    Participant

    Dr Fauci on NPR today on ‘All things Considered’ How can you not love this guy?

    https://www.npr.org/2021/07/21/1018882667/as-covid-19-cases-surge-fauci-says-more-americans-need-to-get-vaccinated

    #80468
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Hm-mm….Seems like my post about Emergency Powers was too derp for TAE, or maybe since ALL U$ children are raised to love the velvet lined gauntlet, respect da authority & brainwashed to believe that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia (or was it Eastasia) ~ Even TAE readers accept & love the Empire?!?

    In one of my former lives I was part of the scenery in a powerful branch of the central committee of the district of criminals, where the apparatchiks are wrapped in black robes of authority & I often spoke of such rebellious topics as Natural Law, one specific party puppet in particular had an interesting opinion:

    Me: How does Emergency Powers & the Statutes therein affect the federale jurisprudence?

    Her: Well, since the executive can create law (E.O.s), and arrest combatants through extrajudicial action, we have to treat all civil action & prisoners based on what is politically expedient, that is now the law of land.

    When this liar-for-hire was appointed to the prime palais de justice, even the hackette clan in the pompous presstitude area was flabbergasted at the choice of the low IQ comrade when the bench was loaded more erudite effeminate fellow travelers, but she was the model CRT statist marionette for the enterprise…

    Since Natural Law implies strict responsibility + liability, I’ve come to understand that Nanny State progeny are re-educated to worship their masters.

    Please continue on with the rants about the tyranny not delivering your every wish & dream, I’m sure that’s one way to group commiserate about all those inequities bestowed upon the Sheeple by your empowered tyrants 😉

    P.S. Dr. Fauccist, if you can’t be a cute child EGO, and your illusions of being a cool member of the apparatchik in-crowd fail, NEVER throw a temper tantrum ~ It scares the other rotten child EGOs…

    #80470
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @madam: regarding Obama. I used to be solid democrat (actually independent, but NYS is closed primaries and I hated being shut out of primaries when registered independent). When I first heard his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, in advance of the dem primaries I thought, “no way can someone with that name win this soon after 911.” I was wrong. He did. I believe the push to elect Obama was a test. You can figure out the results of the test yourself.

    #80473
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, Bush screamed back. It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!

    It is a perversion of terms to say that a charter gives rights. It operates by a contrary effect — that of taking rights away. Rights are inherently in all the inhabitants; but charters, by annulling those rights, in the majority, leave the right, by exclusion, in the hands of a few. … They…consequently are instruments of injustice. ~ Thomas Paine

    FWFS

    #80475
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @greco: state propaganda has always inspired jokes. We’ve begun censoring our comedians in the US. Very unfortunate. Comedians are needed to help us acknowledge our, um, stupidity.

    #80480
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @Veracious: “Since Natural Law implies strict responsibility + liability …”

    The vast majority of “western” societies (what’s the PC term these days?) doesn’t live in a natural world dictated by natural law and we haven’t for a long time. If we did, when granny got too sick to contribute she would go curl up under a bush and die from dehydration or get eaten by predators. We live in the social system that’s here and now. Natural law isn’t a big part of it. Even our so-called pets don’t live in a world of “natural law” since we don’t let them go die under a bush when they’re old either.

    “Please continue on with the rants about the tyranny not delivering your every wish & dream, I’m sure that’s one way …”

    Specific suggestions for another way?

    I’m getting more than a bit cranky with people preaching that “it’s your fault, you idiot sheeple” but not really saying much more than that.

    #80482
    russellnblbs
    Participant

    Mm as others have mentioned reality on the ground in Aus is different from what the media portray. I think in the cities there is much more belief in the whole narrative and they all seem to be suffering from Stockholm syndrome. Amongst the boomers who spend all day watching the ABC it is also jab me as quick as possible, but in the regional areas of the most locked down states there is a simmering current of anger at the government, especially anyone under 50 as the suicide rate is climbing rapidly from all the lockdowns. I personally know three people who killed themselves this week while no one died of covid. The Eureka flag is starting to fly from buildings. There is already a level of anger with the government because of issues regarding the privatisation of iriigation water and it feels like a bubbling powderkeg. So please don’t take the urban insanity as representative of us. Urban Australians are some of the most rabid believers in globalism, cosmopolitanism and progress, so be kind because their belief system is crashing down around them. Many of them are more intimate with the streets of Paris and London than the songs of our native bird life.

    #80488
    DarkMatter
    Participant

    This from The Hill

    An Alabama doctor is opening up about her experience treating those hospitalized for the coronavirus amid a resurgence of cases, saying dying patients are asking her to vaccinate them.

    “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late,” Brytney Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, wrote on Facebook this week.

    “A few days later when I call time of death, I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same,” Cobia added.

    So someone is conscious and able to beg but they still get intubated which apparently always leads to death. Is this really how it goes?

    #80491
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Dr. D: But who cares? Since the Federal level is about to go bankrupt and default, lose their money, power, and influence this year anyway.

    Strike 1: Once the Ag/Au backing was removed the U$ Dollar (i.e. Da Feds Power) became backed by the people, properties, possessions & chattel of the United States of Amerika Corp., of which you are a minority shareholder ~ Which part of Amerika do you want to sell to pay off the Japs & CCP?

    Dr. D: But unlike China, THAT’S OUR SYSTEM. State and Federal governments are not SUPPOSED to be doing anything, paying anybody. They exist solely to defend the coastlines and to prosecute murderers, keep track of land deeds. There’s nothing IN controlling the economy, medicine, education, communication, research, entertainment, sports…

    Au contraire mon petit mouton:

    WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (See John Locke 1690) — That to secure these Rights (i.e. Natural Rights for those that are clueless), Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the (Natural) Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

    Dr. D: NOW do you see why the Federal and State levels have to C O L L A P S E ? Cease to be? Become no more? Bereft of life? Rest in peace? We can’t have a REAL Justice Department until the fake one is wiped from the face of time-space reality and, as Kennedy said, “Is strewn to the winds,” for which he and Eisenhower agreed.

    Be careful what you wish for, We might get it & lose EVERYTHING…

    Actually, if the U$ofA-holes wasn’t a multicultural nightmare & the electorate wasn’t dumbed-down-to-succumb and/or enthralled with being subjects of a murderous empire, a new party could be created by AMERICANS to restore what the Sons of Liberty fought, bled & died for:

    The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions ~ Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience. ~ John Locke 1690

    With that said, it’s more likely the U$ofA Corp. will probably be broken in pieces & sold to the highest bidder, or has that happened already?!?

    #80494
    Archie
    Participant

    In a future life, I want to be TAE Summary. You’re getting your mojo back man.

    #80495
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @Veracious, responding to your response to Dr D.

    AND?? Lots of talk. What are YOU actually doing? Do you live in the US? If yes, why didn’t you leave when you realized we are ” the U$ofA-holes”?

    #80496
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @Archie: agreed. TAE Summary is … simply the best. (wait, wasn’t there a song …?)

    #80497
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @Dark Matter: that’s simply sick. They’re grasping at straws. Sounds like a Sunday afternoon make-believe movie.

    #80498
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    @russel: seems similar to the US. Good to hear a different Aussie perspective.Thank you.

    Although, in the US when I see people wearing masks they are usually younger? From the beginning, at least where I live, older people didn’t seem to be into the narrative all that much.

    #80501
    zerosum
    Participant

    problem
    no water
    no crops

    ​​​​​​​Record Droughts Plague Argentina As Parana River Hits 77-Year Low
    At Least 2 Iranian Protesters Shot As Water Crisis Grows: “Worst Drought In 50 Years”

    result

    Watch: California Shoplifters Stroll Out Of TJ Maxx With Arms Full Of Merchandise

    #80503
    russellnblbs
    Participant

    @upstae nyorker alot of the oldies here watch the state news channel religiously and would jump off a cliff if it told them too. It basically is coming down to who watches legacy television or not. A lot of the younger people don’t watch it and get their news from internet sources or don’t watch it at all so a far less likely to follow the official line. And as I mentioned the city/country divide. Young urbanites are all masking and lining up for the shot but not so in the country. It is probably the same dynamic as America but the urban population massively outnumbers the rural population here. However, as rural folk are the only people that the government allows to be heavily armed it probably evens out. What a lot of Australians probably don’t realise is that one of our only constitutional guarantees is that of preventing civil conscription of medical services which basically translates into government can’t force medicine on anyone because treatment is always and forever a private contract between doctor and patient (pesky ancient common law strikes again). Hence the insane push for people to voluntarily get the shot and to pressure employees to encourage it. Plus you can always indemnify your employee re any side affects up to and including death.

    #80506
    Huskynut
    Participant

    Interesting article on the conspicuous failure of the “Zero Covid” strategy across a variety of countries: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/zero-covid-catastrophe-participating-nations-see-new-records-across-board
    It was always transparently magical thinking, which makes it so extraordinary the majority here in NZ seem unable to see through it.

    #80508
    Bill7
    Participant

    >Interesting article on the conspicuous failure of the “Zero Covid” strategy across a variety of countries: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/zero-covid-catastrophe-participating-nations-see-new-records-across-board
    It was always transparently magical thinking, which makes it so extraordinary the majority here in NZ seem unable to see through it. <

    “We’ll stay locked/masked/vaxxed/boostered-down ’til we’re dead, for our Security and Protection.”

    #80509
    Bill7
    Participant

    > “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late,” Brytney Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, wrote on Facebook this week. <

    sure

    they’re laughing their a**es off writing this stuff

    “..said on FaceBorg..”

    #80510
    WES
    Participant

    Huskynut:

    In a way NZ is merely delaying the covid spread. Sweden sort of had the right idea. Maybe NZ will luckout and get a less deadly version. Only time will tell who was right.

    #80513
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    than the songs of our native bird life

    Sorry, I just couldn’t resist. 😉

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