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Early Covid-19 Therapy Significantly Improved Covid-19 Outcomes (SD)
Up To 100 May Already Be Infected In New Zealand Covid Outbreak (G.)
Jabbed Adults Infected With Delta ‘Can Match Virus Levels Of Unvaccinated’ (G.)
Get Ready for a Nationwide Eldercare Shortage (CTH)
Former Purdue Pharma Chair Denies Responsibility For US Opioid Crisis (AP)
How Americans View Government Restriction Of False Information (Pew)
New US Air Force Secretary Wants To “Scare” China (Antiwar)
Fire The Military And Intelligence Bigs Who Bungled Afghanistan – Now (NYP)
We Failed Afghanistan, Not the Other Way Around (Taibbi)
IMF Suspends Afghanistan’s Access To Resources (Hill)
Taliban To Reap $1 Trillion Mineral Wealth (DW)

 

 

 

 

Polysaccharides may work. I think I like the illustration.

 

 

Science Direct is an Elsevier publication. We’re getting serious. The shift is slow but real.

Early Covid-19 Therapy Significantly Improved Covid-19 Outcomes (SD)

In a prospective observational study (pre-AndroCoV Trial), the use of nitazoxanide, ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine demonstrated unexpected improvements in COVID-19 outcomes when compared to untreated patients. The apparent yet likely positive results raised ethical concerns on the employment of further full placebo controlled studies in early-stage COVID-19. The present analysis aimed to elucidate, through a comparative analysis with two control groups, whether full placebo-control randomized clinical trials (RCTs) on early-stage COVID-19 are still ethically acceptable. The Active group (AG) consisted of patients enrolled in the Pre-AndroCoV-Trial (n = 585). Control Group 1 (CG1) consisted of a retrospectively obtained group of untreated patients of the same population (n = 137), and Control Group 2 (CG2) resulted from a precise prediction of clinical outcomes based on a thorough and structured review of indexed articles and official statements.


Patients were matched for sex, age, comorbidities and disease severity at baseline. Compared to CG1 and CG2, AG showed reduction of 31.5–36.5% in viral shedding (p < 0.0001), 70–85% in disease duration (p < 0.0001), and 100% in respiratory complications, hospitalization, mechanical ventilation, deaths and post-COVID manifestations (p < 0.0001 for all). For every 1000 confirmed cases for COVID-19, at least 70 hospitalizations, 50 mechanical ventilations and five deaths were prevented. Benefits from the combination of early COVID-19 detection and early pharmacological approaches were consistent and overwhelming when compared to untreated groups, which, together with the well-established safety profile of the drug combinations tested in the Pre-AndroCoV Trial, precluded our study from continuing employing full placebo in early COVID-19.

[..] Drugs offered included azithromycin 500mg daily for five days for all patients, in association with one of the following: hydroxychloroquine 400mg daily for five days, nitazoxanide 500mg twice a day for six days, or ivermectin 0.2mg/kg/day in a single daily dose for three days, In addition, repurposed drugs, including dutasteride 0.5mg/day for 15 days and spironolactone 100mg twice a day for 15 days, were optionally offered. Vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, apibaxan, rivaroxaban, enoxaparin and glucocorticoids were added according to clinical judgement, the risk for thrombosis and progression of the disease to the inflammatory stage. Patients that decided to adhere to any treatment were included in the AG. All patients of AG and CG1 groups were followed longitudinally for 90 days for the occurrence of a new-onset or persistence of physical or mental manifestations.

Of the 585 subjects, all patients used azithromycin. A total of 357 patients used NIT, 159 used HCQ and 110 patients used IVE, alone with azithromycin or in combination with other drugs. Of the 357 patients that used NIT, 69 used the same in combination with HCQ, 46 used in combination with IVE, 146 used in combination with SPIRO, and 27 males used in combination with DUTA. Of the 110 patients that used IVE, 22 used in combination with HCQ, 82 used in combination with NIT, 66 used in combination with SPIRO and four males used in combination with DUTA. Of the 159 patients that used HCQ, 21 used in combination with IVE, 113 used in combination with NIT, 86 used in combination with SPIRO and seven males used in combination with DUTA.

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Not one word on how severe their cases are. Typical.

Up To 100 May Already Be Infected In New Zealand Covid Outbreak (G.)

New Zealand’s coronavirus cluster has grown to 21, with a strong link discovered to a case at the border, as the country began day two of a national lockdown. On Thursday, New Zealand reported another 11 cases of the Delta variant in the community, all in Auckland. The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, also announced that children between the ages of 12-15 would now also be eligible for the vaccine, from 1 September. “My message to parents who will need to of course provide consent for the children, is that I would not have been a part of a process and approving this, unless I believed it was safe, because around that table, we are parents too, all affected by these decisions, so we take them very seriously,” she said. The first case, a 58-year-old man from Auckland, emerged on Tuesday, prompting the government to put the entire country into a level 4 lockdown – the highest level of restrictions.

Ardern said genome sequencing has linked the cluster to a returnee from Australia. A New Zealander returned from Sydney on a managed red-zone flight and tested positive for the Delta variant on 7 August before being moved to quarantine the next day. After becoming unwell, they were transferred to Middlemore hospital, on 16 August. “This is a significant development and means now we can be fairly certain how, and when, the virus entered the country, and that based on timelines, there are minimal, possibly only one, or maybe two, missing links between this returnee and cases in our current outbreak,” Ardern said. The period in which cases were in the community is relatively short, she said, adding that it was unlikely the virus was spread at the hospital because the case was transferred there just one day prior to the first positive local case being discovered.

Ardern thanked the 58-year-old man for getting tested when he did. “If it wasn’t for you getting tested when you did, this could be a much, much more difficult situation. Having said that, I know we’re all prepared for cases to get worse before they get better. There is always a pattern with these outbreaks.” The prime minister cautioned that the country would need to remain open to other possibilities, but that the new information gives officials the confidence to focus on how the virus was transmitted, with a particular focus on the isolation and quarantine facilities. “Today we believe we have uncovered the piece of the puzzle we were looking for, and that means our ability to circle the virus, lock it down and stamp it out generally has greatly improved.”

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In real life, we’ve seen levels of 4-5 times higher (get me a booster!). But the Guardian brings it to you gently.

And stupidly: “But the fact that they can have high levels of virus suggests that people who aren’t yet vaccinated may not be as protected from the Delta variant as we hoped.”

Jabbed Adults Infected With Delta ‘Can Match Virus Levels Of Unvaccinated’ (G.)

Fully vaccinated adults can harbour virus levels as high as unvaccinated people if infected with the Delta variant, according to a sweeping analysis of UK data, which supports the idea that hitting the threshold for herd immunity is unlikely. There is abundant evidence that Covid vaccines in the UK continue to offer significant protection against hospitalisations and death. But this new analysis shows that although being fully vaccinated means the risk of getting infected is lower, once infected by Delta a person can carry similar virus levels as unvaccinated people. The implications of this on transmission remain unclear, the researchers have cautioned.

“We don’t yet know how much transmission can happen from people who get Covid-19 after being vaccinated – for example, they may have high levels of virus for shorter periods of time,” said Sarah Walker, a professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at the University of Oxford. “But the fact that they can have high levels of virus suggests that people who aren’t yet vaccinated may not be as protected from the Delta variant as we hoped.” Positive tests, hospitalisations and deaths linked to Covid have been rising slowly in the UK recently. In the week to 18 August, 211,238 people had a confirmed positive test result, an increase of 7.6% compared with the previous seven days. Over the same period, there have been 655 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, a rise of 7.9% versus the previous seven days.

Hospitalisations have also risen slightly, with 5,623 going into hospital with coronavirus between 8 August 2021 and 14 August 2021, a rise of 4.3% compared with the previous seven days. The study, which is yet to be peer-reviewed, found vaccine performance has waned against Delta versus the previously dominant Alpha variant. The analysis did not directly investigate whether the lower level of vaccine protection against Delta affected jabs’ ability to prevent severe disease. However, Dr Penny Ward, a visiting professor in pharmaceutical medicine at King’s College London, noted: “The low incidence of hospitalisation seen to date suggests that in this respect at least the vaccines are protecting individuals from developing severe Covid.”

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“.. as Biden Forces Mandatory Vaccines For Any Worker Paid by Medicare and Medicaid Money..”

Get Ready for a Nationwide Eldercare Shortage (CTH)

…As predicted, and the ‘next step’ will be colleges, universities, students and anyone receiving federal education funding, loans or grants. Today, the White House occupant announced a federal regulatory requirement that all nurses and healthcare workers who work in facilities funded by Medicaid and/or Medicare will be required to be vaccinated. Ironically Joe Biden noted that nurses, those professionally trained in healthcare systems – who understand the issues of vaccination, are at a lower vaccination rate than the less trained and educated population. “Vaccination rates among nursing home staff significantly trail the rest of the country“, Biden said; while never questioning ‘why’. As pointed out recently, a large subset of the vaccine resistant population are the most educated.


[Speech Transcript] – […] “Today, I’m announcing a new step. If you work in a nursing home and serve people on Medicare or Medicaid, you will also be required to get vaccinated. More than 130,000 residents in nursing homes have sa- — have sadly, over the period of this virus, passed away. At the same time, vaccination rates among nursing home staff significantly trail the rest of the country.” The downstream consequence from this action will be a shortage of healthcare providers in nursing homes. This has already become an issue for hospitals coast to coast who require vaccinations of their staff. CTH has been warning about the Chicago network behind Biden and their objective. We have accurately predicted their moves, but what we cannot determine is how the larger American electorate will respond to these encroachments.

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As go the Sacklers, so goes Pfizer.

Former Purdue Pharma Chair Denies Responsibility For US Opioid Crisis (AP)

The former president and board chair of Purdue Pharma told a court Wednesday that he, his family and the company are not responsible for the opioid crisis in the United States. Richard Sackler, a member of the family who owns the company, was asked whether each bears responsibility during a federal bankruptcy hearing in White Plains, New York, over whether a judge should accept the OxyContin maker’s plan to settle thousands of lawsuits. For each, he gave a one-word answer: “No.” Richard Sackler’s denial of responsibility for the opioid crisis comes a day after another Sackler family member said the group wouldn’t accept a settlement without guarantees of immunity from further legal action.

The previous words of Richard Sackler, now 76, are at the heart of lawsuits accusing the Stamford, Connecticut-based company of an outsized role in sparking a nationwide opioid epidemic. In the 1996 event to launch sales of OxyContin, he told the company’s sales force that there would be “a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition”. Five years later, as it was apparent that the powerful prescription pain drug was being misused in some cases, he said in an email that Purdue would have to “hammer on the abusers in every way possible”, describing them as “the culprits and the problem”. For those reasons, the activists crusading against companies involved in selling opioids often see Richard Sackler – who was president of the company from 1999 to 2003, chair of its board from 2004 through 2007, and a board member from 1990 until 2018 – as a prime villain.

[..] Sackler, whose father was one of three brothers who nearly 70 years ago bought the company that later became Purdue Pharma, didn’t recall emails he wrote a decade or more ago; whether Purdue’s board approved certain sales strategies; whether a company owned by Sackler family members sold opioids in Argentina; or whether he paid any of his own money as part of a settlement with Oklahoma to which the Sackler family contributed $75m. Often, he answered questions with more questions, asking for precision. When Edmunds asked him if he knew how many people in the US had died from using opioids, Sackler asked him to specify over which time period. Edmunds did: 2005 to 2017. “I don’t know,” Sackler said. He said that he had looked at some data on deaths in the past, though. (The US Centers for Disease Control has tallied more than 500,000 deaths in the US to opioid overdose, including both prescription drugs and illicit ones such as heroin and illegally produced fentanyl, since 2000.)

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How did that country get so scary so fast?

And how can a government or Big Tech restrict false information when they are the biggest source of it? You know, just in theory …..

How Americans View Government Restriction Of False Information (Pew)

Amid rising concerns over misinformation online – including surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, especially vaccines – Americans are now a bit more open to the idea of the U.S. government taking steps to restrict false information online. And a majority of the public continues to favor technology companies taking such action, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Roughly half of U.S. adults (48%) now say the government should take steps to restrict false information, even if it means losing some freedom to access and publish content, according to the survey of 11,178 adults conducted July 26-Aug. 8, 2021. That is up from 39% in 2018. At the same time, the share of adults who say freedom of information should be protected – even if it means some misinformation is published online – has decreased from 58% to 50%.

When it comes to whether technology companies should take steps to address misinformation online, more are in agreement. A majority of adults (59%) continue to say technology companies should take steps to restrict misinformation online, even if it puts some restrictions on Americans’ ability to access and publish content. Around four-in-ten (39%) take the opposite view that protecting freedom of information should take precedence, even if it means false claims can spread. The balance of opinion on this question has changed little since 2018. Partisan divisions on the role of government in addressing online misinformation have emerged since 2018. Three years ago, around six-in-ten in each partisan coalition – 60% of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents and 57% of Democrats and Democratic leaners – agreed that freedom of information should be prioritized over the government taking steps to restrict false information online.


Today, 70% of Republicans say those freedoms should be protected, even it if means some false information is published. Nearly as many Democrats (65%) instead say the government should take steps to restrict false information, even if it means limiting freedom of information. Partisan views on whether technology companies should take such steps have also grown further apart. Roughly three-quarters of Democrats (76%) now say tech companies should take steps to restrict false information online, even at the risk of limiting information freedoms. A majority of Republicans (61%) express the opposite view – that those freedoms should be protected, even if it means false information can be published online. In 2018, the parties were closer together on this question, though most Democrats still supported action by tech firms.

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Washington hasn’t processed its defeat yet.

New US Air Force Secretary Wants To “Scare” China (Antiwar)

Researching and developing new weapons technologies is a key part of the Pentagon’s strategy to counter China. In an interview with Defense News, President Biden’s new Air Force secretary said he’d like to see the US military field the type of new technologies that “scare China.” Frank Kendall, who was sworn in as Air Force secretary on July 28th, made it clear in the interview that he is focused on China. “I’ve been obsessed, if you will, with China for quite a long time now — and its military modernization, what that implies for the US and for security,” he said. Hyping up the threat of China’s military serves the Pentagon to justify more spending, and Kendall hinted that he believes the Air Force doesn’t have a sufficient budget. “The Air Force has been overly constrained,” he said.


“I think we’ve not been allowed to do things we really need to do to free up resources for things that are higher priority. We’ve had a very hard time getting the Congress to allow us to retire older aircraft.” One project that Kendall discussed is the B-21 bomber, which is currently being developed. “I think that’s going to be something that will be intimidating, it’s going to be very capable. And there are a few others like that that are coming down the pipeline. … But I think we have to be continuously thinking about other things that will be intimidating to our future enemies.” The Pentagon budget requested by President Biden prioritized spending on new weapons technology. The budget request asked for over $112 billion for research, development, testing, and evaluation, known as RDT&E. Besides new long-range bombers, US military leaders are calling for investment in technology like artificial intelligence, robotics, space and cyber capabilities, and hypersonic missiles.

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And then you will have what?

Fire The Military And Intelligence Bigs Who Bungled Afghanistan – Now (NYP)

This is the biggest foreign failure in most Americans’ lifetimes, and there needs to be an accounting. The normal course of business after government bungling nowadays is that everyone involved tut-tuts a bit, then gets a raise and a promotion, while the government goes back to business as usual. But in a sane nation, failure would be punished. To begin with, Milley must resign or be fired. And the same for our triple-masking defense secretary, Lloyd Austin. This was a failure that happened on their watch, and it happened through bad management. We could have pulled out without nearly the level of chaos, confusion and terror.

But Milley and Austin weren’t on top of their jobs. They may feel that firing is unfair, but they’d be getting off light by the standards of military history: In the 18th century, the British executed an admiral, John Byng, for failing to “do his utmost” in combat. It was harsh, but the Royal Navy became more aggressive. Likewise, the intel agencies and officers who provided the bad, er, intelligence need to go. Many others who failed, from contractors to lower-level officers and bureaucrats, need to go, too. You punish a bureaucracy by shrinking its staff and cutting its budget. That needs to happen here. The brass and agencies will complain that it was Biden who ultimately made the call. Indeed, they are already furiously leaking to that effect to the press.

Maybe they’re right. But it’s up to voters to fire the president at the ballot box. If they thought what Biden planned was disastrous, they should have resigned in protest. But they didn’t. Meanwhile, we also need a probe, with independent investigators with strong powers. That should be followed by deep structural changes in a military that hasn’t really won a war since well before I was born. Bottom line: Our military must be disciplined to win wars, rather than promote gender ideology and postmodern race theories (at home or abroad). None of this will transpire, of course. Our society is run by a technocratic-managerial class that never pays a price for failure. Democracy is a glossy finish over an unelected administrative state that isn’t really accountable to anyone and measures success or failure in terms of budgets, p.r. and power, not results.

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$300 million per day for 20 years.

We Failed Afghanistan, Not the Other Way Around (Taibbi)

On MSNBC the other night, Rachel Maddow told a story about visiting Afghanistan a decade ago. She described being taken on a tour of a new neighborhood in Kabul of “narco-palaces,” what she called, “big garish, gigantic, rococo, strange-looking places” that hadn’t existed before the Americans arrived. This was said to be symbolic of the “fantastically corrupt elites” among the Afghan political class who put themselves into position to siphon off big chunks of the “billions of dollars per month” we sent into the country. Noting that, “the U.S. effort and expenditure in that country did build some stuff, roads and waterways and schools,” Maddow decried the fact that “so much of what we put in by the boatload was shoveled off by a fantastically corrupt elite.”

She showed video of Taliban conquerors lounging around in the tackily furnished homes of former Afghan officials in Kabul, pointing out that, “dictator chic is the same the world over.” In a not-so-subtle dig at Donald Trump, she added, “And they really like gold fixtures.” From Vietnam to Iraq to Afghanistan, the pattern of American officials showering questionable political allies abroad with armfuls of cash is a long-established practice. However, the idea that this is the reason the “missions” fail in such places is just a continuation of the original propaganda lines that get us into these messes. It’s a way of saying the subject populations are to blame for undermining our noble efforts, when the missions themselves are often preposterous and, moreover, the lion’s share of the looting is usually done by our own marauding contracting community.

It’s bad enough that Maddow/MSNBC played a big part in delaying the withdrawal last year with hype of the bogus Bountygate story, which gave one last (false) dying breath to the war rationale. This latest criticism of theirs ignores the massive amounts of corruption that were endemic to the American side of the mission. Contractors made fortunes monstrously overcharging the taxpayer for everything from private security, to dysfunctional or unnecessary construction projects, to social programs that either had no chance for success, or for which metrics for measuring success didn’t exist. The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR) some years ago identified “$15.5 billion of waste, fraud, and abuse… in our published reports and closed investigations between SIGAR’s inception in 2008 and December 31, 2017,” and added an additional $3.4 billion in a subsequent review.

All told, “SIGAR reviewed approximately $63 billion and concluded that a total of approximately $19 billion or 30 percent of the amount reviewed was lost to waste, fraud, and abuse.” Thirty percent! If the overall cost of the war was, as reported, $2 trillion (about $300 million per day for 20 years), a crude back of the envelope calculation for the amount lost to fraud during the entire period might be $600 billion, an awesome sum. It could even be worse than that. SIGAR for instance also looked at a $7.8 billion sum spent on buildings and vehicles from 2008 on, and reported that of that, only $343.2 million worth “were maintained in good condition.” They added that just $1.2 billion of the original expenditure was used as intended. By that metric, the majority of the monies spent in Afghanistan might simply have gone up in smoke in bogus or ineffectual contracting schemes.

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Either the IMF distances itself from the US, or it becomes irrelevant.

IMF Suspends Afghanistan’s Access To Resources (Hill)

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday announced it was suspending Afghanistan’s access to its resources due to what it called a “lack of clarity” surrounding the recognition of the country’s government after the Taliban took control of the capital city of Kabul. “As is always the case, the IMF is guided by the views of the international community,” a spokesperson for the IMF said in a statement, according to Reuters. “There is currently a lack of clarity within the international community regarding recognition of a government in Afghanistan, as a consequence of which the country cannot access SDRs or other IMF resources.” This move by the IMF comes after the Biden administration reportedly froze Afghan government reserves held in U.S. banks, blocking the Taliban from accessing billions in funds.

“Any Central Bank assets the Afghan government have in the United States will not be made available to the Taliban,” one administration official told The Washington Post. It is currently unclear whether the Taliban will be recognized by the international community, though China has indicated that it is open to establishing formal relations, being one of the few countries that did not evacuate its embassy when the Afghan government fell. Shortly after the Taliban entered Kabul on Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken was asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if the U.S. would ever recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government. “A future Afghan government that upholds the basic rights of its people and that doesn’t harbor terrorists is a government we can work with and recognize,” Blinken said.

“Conversely, a government that doesn’t do that, that doesn’t uphold the basic rights of its people, including women and girls, that harbors terrorist groups that have designs on the United States, our allies and partners, certainly, that’s not going to happen,” he added.

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No boycott possible. There will always be customers.

Taliban To Reap $1 Trillion Mineral Wealth (DW)

The Taliban have been handed a huge financial and geopolitical edge in relations with the world’s biggest powers as the militant group seizes control of Afghanistan for a second time. In 2010, a report by US military experts and geologists estimated that Afghanistan, one of the world’s poorest countries, was sitting on nearly $1 trillion (€850 billion) in mineral wealth, thanks to huge iron, copper, lithium, cobalt and rare-earth deposits. In the subsequent decade, most of those resources remained untouched due to ongoing violence in the country. Meanwhile, the value of many of those minerals has skyrocketed, sparked by the global transition to green energy. A follow-up report by the Afghan government in 2017 estimated that Kabul’s new mineral wealth may be as high as $3 trillion, including fossil fuels.


Lithium, which is used in batteries for electric cars, smartphones and laptops, is facing unprecedented demand, with annual growth of 20% compared to just 5-6% a few years ago. The Pentagon memo called Afghanistan the Saudi Arabia of lithium and projected that the country’s lithium deposits could equal Bolivia’s — one of the world’s largest. Copper, too, is benefiting from the post-COVID global economic recovery — up 43% over the past year. More than a quarter of Afghanistan’s future mineral wealth could be realized by expanding copper mining activities. While the West has threatened not to work with the Taliban after it effectively seized control of Kabul over the weekend, China, Russia and Pakistan are lining up to do business with the militant group — further adding to the US and Europe’s humiliation over the fall of the country.

As the manufacturer of almost half of the world’s industrial goods, China is stoking much of the global demand for commodities. Beijing — already Afghanistan’s largest foreign investor — is seen as likely to lead the race to help the country build an efficient mining system to meet its insatiable needs for minerals. “Taliban control comes at a time when there is a supply crunch for these minerals for the foreseeable future and China needs them,” Michael Tanchum, a senior fellow at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy, told DW. “China is already in position in Afghanistan to mine these minerals.”


One of the Asian powerhouse’s mining giants, the Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC), already has a 30-year lease to mine copper in Afghanistan’s barren Logar province. Some analysts, however, question whether the Taliban have the competence and willingness to exploit the country’s natural resources given the income they generate from the drug trade. “These resources were in the ground in the 90s too and they [the Taliban] weren’t able to extract them,” Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, told DW. “One has to remain very skeptical of their ability to grow the Afghan economy or even their interest in doing so.”

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    The Taliban has just renounced the poppy trade again.

    #84588
    John Day
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    Go Taliban!
    This will be good for Russia, good for China, good for Iran, and BAD for CIA!
    I’m sure the first 3 can fil in where the last one cuts out.
    Opioids shuffled into Russia, China and Iran by the CIA have been a steady push of assymetric-warfare upon those countries, by getting little-people in the countries addicted with expensive habits that involve theft and hospitalizations and make them unfit for work and untrustworthy.
    This can be win-win-win-win-win and… lose for the aforementioned parties.
    Other local neighbors can also benefit.

    #84589
    expatkiwi
    Participant

    Delta Variants, PCR Tests and Cognitive Dissonance
    https://journal-neo.org/2021/08/11/delta-variants-pcr-tests-and-cognitive-dissonance/

    Can’t post any tweets with NEO links because you know…. Russia

    #84590
    John Day
    Participant

    Deflationista’s Simpson’s Paradox remark may have referred to this:
    https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-efficacy-vs-severe-disease-be-strong-when-60-of-hospitalized-are-vaccinated

    Here is analysis from (ID scrubbed) C19D list:
    I checked out the guy’s arithmetic because it seemed so illogical and sure enough.
    The basic arithmetic on this page is incorrect beginning at the very top of the page. His statement is FALSE that “out of 515 patients currently hospitalized with severe cases in Israel, 301 (58.4%) of these cases were fully vaccinated” because if the given numbers (by the Israeli Health Dept) are 214/100000 hospitalized are not vax’d and 301/100000 of the hospitalized are fully vax’d, then the hospitalized rate of vax’d per person is 0.00301 and of non-vax’d is 0.00214, so out of 515 persons 1.1021 would be not vax’d and 1.55015 would be vax’d. Multiplying that rate times the total populations of not vax’d is 2,788.23 and of fully vax’d is 16,960.25. It is very clear that the ABSOLUTE risk protection from hospitalization from being vax’d is NEGATIVE -0.00087 or -0.87% GREATER Risk of being seriously hospitalized for the fully vax’d than for the non-vax’d. This whole page is manipulated incorrect arithmetic to fool people into getting booster shots. Highly unethical nonsense!

    #84592
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    Between 7 fires…and ready to break.

    Hazardous air quality for three weeks on end has driven most of us crazy. Monday night was the crescendo as skies were so black and putrid red/orange at 2 PM, headlights came on and it was impossible to see 40 feet ahead and or be outside. Many left Tuesday when Weaverville got the “prepare to evacuate” notice. The winds shifted on Wednesday and things are holding for the moment. Managing the fires is a painful process but with extreme conditions and limited resources that is the only choice. That means you have to LET IT BURN until it gets to where you are waiting, and are set up to defend it. It’s an ugly job and I am grateful to the firefighters from around the State/Western states who are here.

    It is this slow form of dying that I have been “practicing” for months without end. The May/June heat dome and numerous 100 degree days really got things rolling. Living in it/living with it – is like being in a LIVING MEDITATION. No need to sit on a cushion for this! One can practice BEing positive and Peaceful in the Present by being present. It is a battle.

    In the middle of this, I came down with what I believe is COVID. At first I thought I was reacting to the smoke because I was out in it with no mask over several days. On Sunday morning upon rising I felt like I had hit a brick wall. Temperature 102, nose running, dizzy, nauseous, diarrhea, zero energy, massive headache, sore throat, chest tension at breastbone. I could barely move. I went to bed. By Tuesday AM I “knew” intuitively it was more than smoke so I started IVM @ 2mg level. Followed up with the second dose @ 4mg level on Wednesday AM. Was also using nano-silver spray in throat, eyes, mouth + vitamins, zinc, aspirin, etc. Am so much better today. Will do my third dose here shortly – with one set aside for day seven.

    Am grateful for the protocol and the support received here – thankfully I had an OPTION.

    #84594
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Temperature, nauseous, diarrhea, zero energy, chest tension at breastbone” That was me starting Aug 2nd. Fever only broke this past sunday. I didn’t do IVM, just vitamins and fluids. The ticker guy also got it at the beginning of august. His was triggered by stings from yellowjackets, mine just by wearing down my body with too many late nights. Yours could have been in the smoke. Its strange, its like you already have it, its dormant, but it needs a trigger to overwhelm the immune system.

    #84595
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Also lost taste and smell friday the 6th. Still not back yet.

    #84596
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Also no appetite for about two weeks. Only started eating regularly again when the fever broke.

    #84597
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    Side note: On the Thursday, 4 days before “it” hit me, I was out at the Trinity County Fair/Fairgrounds all day and evening – running the annual logging show. All though I was outdoors, there were at least 80 contestants (mostly guys under 30), piles of kids, all kinds of people all around me. Not a mask on a single soul. One thing I did observe was how many had runny noses because I heard folks sniffing/snarfing. My guess is that this was a mostly unvaxed crowd, just like me.

    #84598
    Mr. House
    Participant

    After getting it, i still wouldn’t get the jab. Just me though

    #84599
    Dr. D
    Participant

    MoneyCircus sounds right on to me. And it’s not so simple, yes they sacrifice one thing to leave, but balanced against other things they want or push forward. Only by seeing it as an open battlefield, divorced from “governments” and mostly run by corporations and families can you get a picture. One critical picture is that the plan – pushed and achieved in China – is to install a “Technocracy”, that is, Plato’s “Scientific Dictatorship” as coined by Bernays. They did this in the USSR, but their full-plan didn’t work, and the rival plan of Soviet-lite, the West loves was a success. Same now. China’s plan is doing what they like, so they pay everybody from the dogcatcher to the textbook writer, the NYT editor, Halliburton, TikTok, and Joel Osten to promote and import it. Easy as signing a check. Apparently there is more resistance than expected, and they are attempting to deal with that, but if you don’t de-fund them, they will. They print it every day, is this a shock? NYT: “North Korea’s Media is much to be admired and emulated.” No joke.

    Media turns on Biden. Hahahhaha. No that never happened ever. There’s no lie they won’t tell. So turning on Biden is planned, probably for the 25th. That puts the literal slave-catcher, slave-seller in, but people may have other plans, since she’s CLEARLY sidelined, and clearly hated, as if that matters. Ol’ Nancy? Why not? But all these motions make them, the U.S. Federales, look like a clown car with no driver. Which they are. And so goes “Full faith and Confidence” of a nation with no leader, no replacement leader, and no military leader. De-volve. Last time the Federal shut down I never met a single person who noticed or cared. The Federales have been shut down since Covid — all home, lights out D.C., no one can tell or cares. But they’re super-important mister, better do everything they say! Whatever would we do without them except everything.

    We’d beat the Dynamic Drones 50 ways to Sunday. Maybe not even in the field. More like the expense, fragility, supply-chain, run-time, they’re hollow, hollow people with hollow, hollow heads. Bullfrog puffed up, trying to look strong. Mohammed’s goat just f—d you and you think you want West Virginia? Okay, man, don’t say I didn’t warn you, just like I told you about Iraq, F-Stan… I will laugh the hearty laugh as I do now.

    Article did have some important clues though: One, they can let F-Stan go because the CIA has replaced their Dark Money with Wuhan Fentanyl. As seen with no longer trunkloads, which is enough to kill 3 cities, but TONS. The West desired and set up the oil pipeline, and therefore runs the Silk Road, or one thread on it, and we know for decades they back China to destroy the U.S. – That’s no different. They destroy the U.S. to erase law and buy us up too. As “devolving” “let’s divorce” “Civil war” would say: we’d love the U.S. to regionalize like the British promoted via the War between the States. Then you re-re-re-regionalize until each county is their own nation, like the Balkans are. Then China is the only large nation on the planet, and what they say goes. Don’t do this, and there’s no need since for mutual defense we already signed a “Constitution” that nobody follows. Dust it off, lightly used, seldom read, and make it the law again. 80 million people voted for that, it might work.

    But yeah, Biden “surprise”, media “notices”. Hahahahaha! Never.

    #84600
    those darned kids
    Participant

    mr house: my wife had an initial bout of the ook last year march/april. i had a series of essential oils for her to sniff at during the day. although she has many other lingering symptoms, her sniffer is back at 100% if the salsa she makes is any indication.

    the oils i used were: lavender, tea tree, eucalyptus, peppermint, cedar, oregano, citronella, and patchouli. i used these because they are cheaper. some nice florals would have been helpful, too.

    oh, and lotsa, with a capital lotsa,sunshine. most seriously.

    #84601
    those darned kids
    Participant

    i wonder how many other “flu” epidemics were caused by greed-driven flück ups.

    sometimes swine walk on two legs.

    #84602
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Reiner Fuellmich interviewed by Mike Adams

    up to date summary

    https://www.brighteon.com/8e82dfca-5401-41f1-be3f-a2a07ded38f7

    #84603
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Are you ready to be debunked? This article is by a university professor (“a UNLV communication studies professor who specializes in strategies for countering misinformation about science”) so she must know more than you.

    Be prepared for false assurances based on partial understanding and oversimplification, to say the least.

    3 Common COVID Vaccination Objections & How to Debunk Them

    1. Some people believe that natural immunity is just as good as vaccine immunity... natural immunity protection is mostly limited to the same strain, not mutations or variants. On the other hand, vaccine immunity has been shown to be effective against mutations of the virus. This is due to the way the mRNA teaches the body to respond to the crown/spike protein shape of the coronavirus…

    2. The vaccine is “experimental” and not proven scientifically… the mRNA within the vaccine “breaks down and is flushed out of your system within hours,” so monitoring past a few months is not necessary to identify and measure reactions. Think about taking Advil: It also doesn’t stay in your system long, so any negative reactions are likely to happen immediately…

    3. Some people believe that the vaccine will have serious side effects… There are people who have died after taking the vaccine, but there is no causal link established between vaccination and dying.

    https://www.newswise.com/coronavirus/3-common-covid-vaccination-objections-how-to-debunk-them

    #84604
    those darned kids
    Participant

    that should read “newswine.com”

    #84605
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Bomb threats in NYC and DC today, false flags me think. Nancy P is probable running around with burner phones placing calls and giggling.

    #84606
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “It is this slow form of dying that I have been “practicing” for months without end. The May/June heat dome and numerous 100 degree days really got things rolling. Living in it/living with it – is like being in a LIVING MEDITATION. No need to sit on a cushion for this! One can practice BEing positive and Peaceful in the Present by being present. It is a battle.”

    The hardest battle to win, it seems, is the battle to surrender to the reality before one. YOu always liuft me up, Susmarie.

    #84607
    laffin_boy
    Participant

    @ Raul:

    you said:
    “you look at Afghanistan and you STILL think they’re capable of executing some grand plan?”

    You’re Whistling in the Dark, Sir.

    Their incompetence is not going to save us just because their plans that won’t ultimately work. Yes, The People in Charge are, in many ways, inept because they’re clinically insane and in total denial of the reality of Life on Earth in the 21st century. (As we all are) But, they ARE still in complete charge. Their minions still turn the screws tighter every day and every day we meekly allow them to nudge us towards our assigned fate as disposable serfs. Because they have the power to do so and we’re too spoiled and pampered and weak to do the only thing that could save our sorry asses – which is to physically resist.

    I respect what you’ve done here. I’ve learned most of what I know about C-19 and the Plandemic here and i’d like to see the expose continue. BUT……..in a very real sense what you’re ALSO doing here is arguing with “them” AS IF they were not very bright people who simply hadn’t done their homework correctly and that once shown the Truth™ would come to their senses and lift all these pointless restrictions, etc. But it’s not they who don’t understand – it’s you. They know very well what they’re doing. They know they lie 24/7/365 with a straight face. Their job is to keep you distracted – to keep you worked up – to keep you trying to get them to be “reasonable”. Because they know that if they keep you spinning your wheels that they’ll keep you from doing the ONLY thing that can work – which is to say NO! – and mean it.

    Back when people lived in actual (instead of virtual) communities when a revolt became necessary we checked with our friends & neighbors for consensus before grabbing our pitchforks and lighting our torches. But over the course of my lifetime “they” have successfully destroyed the nuclear family, making us “individuals” who’ve become completely dependent on to corporate state. We can’t check for a consensus on any response to these injustices because “they” now own the entire means of public discourse. The tiny minority that has seized power owns and controls 100% of the public conversation. We’re left wringing our hands and gnashing our teeth with our imaginary online friends.

    I understand that you can’t accept what i’ve said here because it implies a level of Evil that’s monstrous in scope. And normal, decent human beings like yourself simply can’t allow themselves to believe that they’re surrounded by monsters. But, as P K Dick pointed out some time ago, the fact that you won’t accept our current reality doesn’t mean that it goes away. In fact the cruel irony is that it’s only the refusal of 98% of the normal, decent human beings to accept the reality of our times that prevents us from overturning it!

    Which is why a few thousand “monsters” are able to destroy what’s left of Western Civilization as we “disbelievers” stand by like impotent ghosts at our own funeral.

    #84608
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    Incidentally, Yogi brand herbal tea’s Breathe Deep blend really works. Powerful stuff. Tastes good too.

    #84609
    WES
    Participant

    So you want to kill a robot? Let me count the ways!

    On second thought why bother when the “not so dumb” homeless in San Francisco already have “killing robots” down pat!

    They just peeeeeed on the robots and smeared shit over the robot’s sensors!

    Score: Homeless 1. Robot 0.

    #84610
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “I understand that you can’t accept what i’ve said here because it implies a level of Evil that’s monstrous in scope. “

    Raul’s a big boy who can defend himself blah blah but I have to say: the above is laughable. A man who posts images of infants drowned by bureaucratic decree surely has some idea of evil.

    The Shadow Knows

    #84611

    Propaganda

    And what it leads to:

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1428278715532726273

    #84612
    Nomanisanisland
    Participant

    Re severity of outbreak in NZ. 3 out of 22 cases on hospital. One was in before testing positive, none are serious.

    These lock downs will become as endemic as ‘the new flu’

    #84613
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @laffin_boy

    ref: ” “I understand that you can’t accept what i’ve said here because it implies a level of Evil that’s monstrous in scope. “

    It’s not just the evil that is monstrous in scope, but the sheer magnitude of data that must be sifted through before the picture gradually comes into focus. To make a long story short, I very much do accept what you say, but I also understand fairly precisely why your observation falls so often on closed ears. Even smart people reject what they are emotionally incapable of experiencing.

    Keep trying anyway. It won’t make anyone worse off than they are, and who knows . . . it might actually help a little bit.

    #84614
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Excellent comment Laffinboy. You see what i see. This isn’t just the plandemic, its been building for decades. Most americans have short term memories though, they can’t even remember 08 let alone 2001.

    #84615
    Mr. House
    Participant

    A question to the people here: What has .gov done correctly in the last 20 years? I can’t think of a single thing. Anybody have any suggestions?

    #84616
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    “ because it implies a level of Evil that’s monstrous in scope”

    and I second this assessment. Most cannot accept the monstrous evil that will crush us unless we say “no”

    #84617
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    #84618
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #84619
    TDub
    Participant

    @Mr House: I think your use of the word “correctly” could depend on your point of view. Everyone in congress is a millionaire several times over, so they’re doing something right, even if it isnt what we think we are electing them for…

    #84620
    those darned kids
    Participant

    mr. house: “What has .gov done correctly in the last 20 years?”

    ask the kind folks at monsanto, the makers of white phosphorus for the u.s. military. it’s been great.

    [the article actually says, “at least the past 20 years”..]

    #84621
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    @ Germ

    Yes, regarding Lincoln woman, looks more like a vax injury than “bad Covid case.” Perhaps if the vax injury was sub clinical, infection could bring it out?

    “130,000 residents in nursing homes have sa- — have sadly, over the period of this virus, passed away.” –Biden
    At the local retirement community my friend cited the number lost from “assisted living” to Covid…I immediately wanted to ask: okay, what was the total number that passed last year, and the total number who passed the year before? Because…the number that died from Covid is only relevant in perspective with the total deaths. I didn’t ask, because I knew that she didn’t have the answers.

    ~~~~~~

    Mpsk
    “Or how about a handful of marbles?”

    The marbles would be nice. Banana peel? Missing manhole cover?

    ~~~~~~

    Salon article parody:
    “It is the saddest thing to have somebody come in and say, ‘but I GOT VACCINATED.’ And have to admit them to a hospital, put them on a breathing machine, when we have great prevention [t]hat is REPURPOSED DRUGS,”

    Seriously? What is the point?
    It means nothing.

    #84622
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    I am wondering when food stamps and Medicaid will be withheld from myself and the children because we are not vaccinated.

    #84623
    Formerly T-Bear
    Participant

    How closely related do ‘The Great Reset’ and ‘The Great Cull’ appear to be?

    Again, the world’s first trillion-airs will be the law partners in the firm handling a class action suit. The respondents myriad; governments, pharmaceutical industry, medical establishment, academia, media being the prime subjects but these do not exhaust the deep pockets involved. Invest in popcorn!

    #84624
    Rototillerman
    Participant

    @laffin_boy: I also ratify your assessment, in the main. Yes, it is monstrous. Yes, it is far, far and away above most people’s rational ability to process, absent a long period of development and education. And that is what we, Raul, you are doing. We’re not aiming at the top, we’re trying to reach out to the sides, to find the chinks in the narrative and expose them.

    #84625
    those darned kids
    Participant

    wow, even politicians are gonna lose their jobs for not getting <echo>THE JAB</echo>.

    #84628
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Ah, the banality of pure evil.

    .

    https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.ANr7-ddAXw3dRTCfUBdM3AHaFa?pid=ImgDet&rs=1

    ~ Josef Mengele

    “The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”

    #84629
    Oroboros
    Participant

    https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.ANr7-ddAXw3dRTCfUBdM3AHaFa?pid=ImgDet&rs=1 ~ Josef Mengele “The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”” alt=”.” />

    #84631
    Oroboros
    Participant

    From a survivor of the medical experiments in the camps in WWII:

    “I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Dr Mengele and Dr. Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr. Mengele said, laughingly, “Too bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live…”

    A little back story to the Nuremberg Code

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