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René Magritte Companions of fear 1942

 

Warning of Worldwide Supply-chain Collapse Due To Pandemic Restrictions (ET)
Australia’s Corporations Rebel Against Draconian COVID Lockdowns (ZH)
Unvaccinated Believe Boosters Prove Vaccines Are Ineffective (NM)
Fauci Changes Definition Of ‘Fully Vaccinated’ To Include Booster Shots (PM)
CDC Beclowns All Mandates (Denninger)
YouTube Bans Channels Airing Criticism of Vaccines (Turley)
YouTube Could Face Total Ban In Russia (RT)
Red States Should Offer Sanctuary To Businesses, Military, Medics (Smith)
The COVID Caste System (D’Souza)
Wisconsin Senator Sponsors Bill That Would Ban Vaccine Mandates (JTN)
Biden Admin Denies Entry To Chartered Rescue Flight From Afghanistan (ZH)
Pompeo: Sources for Yahoo News WikiLeaks Report ‘Should All Be Prosecuted’ (Y!)
Improper Pressure From CIA Led To Charges Agaist Assange (Gosztola)
Australia Reveals It Raised Case Of Julian Assange With US (G.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“..governments need to restore freedom of movement to transportation workers amid persistent COVID-19 restrictions and quarantines..”

Warning of Worldwide Supply-chain Collapse Due To Pandemic Restrictions (ET)

Several industry groups have warned world leaders of a worldwide supply-chain “system collapse” due to pandemic restrictions, coming as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested that the current period of higher inflation will last until 2022. The International Chamber of Shipping, a coalition of truck drivers, seafarers, and airline workers, has warned in a letter to heads of state attending the United Nations General Assembly that governments need to restore freedom of movement to transportation workers amid persistent COVID-19 restrictions and quarantines. If nothing is done, they warned of a “global transport system collapse” and suggested that “global supply chains are beginning to buckle as two years’ worth of strain on transport workers take their toll,” according to the letter.

It was signed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the International Road Transport Union (IRU), and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), which represent some 65 million transport workers around the world. “All transport sectors are also seeing a shortage of workers, and expect more to leave as a result of the poor treatment millions have faced during the pandemic, putting the supply chain under greater threat,” the letter said. “We also ask that WHO and the ILO raise this at the U.N. General Assembly and call on heads of government to take meaningful and swift action to resolve this crisis now,” they wrote. Meanwhile, retailer Costco said it’s chartering its own container ships between Asia and North America amid supply chain issues worldwide, Chief Financial Officer Richard Galanti said in a recent conference call.

Costco, he said, is dealing with “port delays, container shortages, COVID disruptions, shortages on various components, raw materials and ingredients, labor cost pressures” along with “trucks and driver shortages,” Fox News reported. Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, attempted to shed some light on the problem during a recent ABC News interview, noting that there’s a significant backup of container ships off the coast of major ports of entry. “We’re witnessing a pandemic-induced buying surge by the American consumer, the likes of which we’ve never seen,” he told the network on Sept. 29. In remarks on Sept. 29, Powell said that the current spike in inflation is a “consequence of supply constraints meeting very strong demand,” saying it’s “associated with the reopening of the economy, which is a process that will have a beginning, middle and an end.”

Neil Oliver

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“It is time for courage and honesty. Not politics.”

Australia’s Corporations Rebel Against Draconian COVID Lockdowns (ZH)

Australia’s corporate sector has finally had enough of the ongoing lockdowns that have left the country’s economy hobbled and its people cut off from the rest of the world for months. Increasingly frustrated by a slow vaccine rollout and the ongoing lockdowns, the leaders of many of Australia’s biggest companies, including BHP, Macquarie and Qantas have signed a letter demanding that the government acknowledge it’s time to “learn to live with the virus,” as many other countries have done, since “COVIDZero” has finally been exposed as an impossible dream. In the letter – which was reported on by the FT – the signatories allege that Australia is making “big mistakes” in failing to reopen to the world.

By making the lockdowns so severe (and so unceasingly long), the Australian government is putting politics before the well-being of the Australian people ahead of the federal elections that must be held by the end of May – when the Senate’s present term is slated to expire. The companies that signed the letter “…employ almost one million Australians” and warned that lockdowns were having “long-lasting” effects on the economy. However, this shouldn’t be news to Australia’s political elite: Economists at Australia’s central bank, the RBA, already lowered their growth projections after a stronger-than-expected Q2 GDP print.

But all the incremental data seen so far suggests that Q3 could be a disaster – well that, coupled with the intensifying economic pressure from Beijing, which is trying to win a geopolitical stare-down contest with the Australian government by blocking a growing number of imports. As for Australia’s infamous “drawbridge” border policy, the letter’s signatories insisted that the decision to close Australia’s borders was a colossal mistake. “The borders should have never been closed,” Graham Turner, chief executive of travel company Flight Centre, told the Financial Times. “We’re making some very big mistakes here.” “It’s time for corporate Australia to turn its disquiet and rumblings into a roar,” said Greg O’Neill, the chief executive of Melbourne fund manager La Trobe Financial, one of the signatories to the open letter sent by the Business Council of Australia. “It is time for courage and honesty. Not politics.”

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Prove them wrong.

Unvaccinated Believe Boosters Prove Vaccines Are Ineffective (NM)

A survey released Sunday indicates 71% of unvaccinated Americans believe boosters prove COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective. While 78% of Americans who have received some form of COVID-19 vaccine say boosters show how “scientists are continuing to find ways to make vaccines more effective,” according to Newsweek. The survey, conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, also found 33% of all respondents agreed the need for boosters proves COVID-19 vaccines are not working as well as promised. The survey contacted 1,519 randomly selected adults from Sept. 13-22. But Kaiser survey was conducted before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory panel recommended adults 65 and older and those at high risk get a booster. Among Democrats who responded, 90% say they received at least one dose of vaccine, compared to only 58% of Republicans. Democrats were twice as likely to say they would get a booster if the CDC or FDA recommended one.

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“Dr. Fauci said that he encourages vaccination regardless if it fails to provide quality protection.”

Fauci Changes Definition Of ‘Fully Vaccinated’ To Include Booster Shots (PM)

In an exclusive interview with The Atlantic, Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci revealed that COVID-19 booster shots don’t keep people alive but can allegedly prevent severe effects from the virus. According to Dr. Fauci, booster shots add crucial temporary protection against the virus and will become a standard regimen in the future. “It is likely, for a real complete regimen, that you would need at least a third dose,” Fauci said. When pressed by The Atlantic’s Ed Yong and the criticism surrounding the lack of long-term protection from the mRNA booster shots, Dr. Fauci said that he encourages vaccination regardless if it fails to provide quality protection.

“I think we should be preventing people from getting sick from COVID even if they don’t wind up in the hospital,” Dr. Fauci said at The Atlantic Festival on Tuesday. Skeptics of the COVID-19 booster shots believe that boosters won’t provide significant protection and will only act as a temporary shield to the virus, contrary to the vaccines that were designed to prevent hospitalization and death. However, Fauci said that he “rejects” skeptics’ notions and insisted it’s beneficial to have temporary protection than no protection; despite the fact that the mRNA COVID vaccine was allegedly designed prevent the virus. During the interview, Fauci explained it’s highly likely that individuals won’t be considered fully-vaccinated unless they get booster shots.

The chief medical adviser explained that the Delta Variant shifted control of the pandemic which led to vaccinations becoming less preventative, thus requiring the need for boosters. Dr. Fauci’s comments regarding the need for boosters to be considered fully-vaccinated comes as states across the country impose strict vaccination mandates, even threatening city and federal employees termination if they aren’t “fully-vaccinated.” However, full vaccination status mandated by cities remains at two doses. It’s unclear if Fauci’s comments will result in the requirement of a third shot.

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“By the CDC’s own data the vaccines are worthless to protect others after four months.”

CDC Beclowns All Mandates (Denninger)

It’s over folks. Seriously, there are now two — and only two — possible paths. Sue, on the basis below. You will win if the judiciary is competent and so is your counsel. Competence is not in my wheelhouse; that is up to you. If you file bull**** you will lose, and should. But if your counsel is competent and your argument clear and concise you win because the CDC has documented that your position is correct — the vaccines are in fact worthless from a public health perspective beyond a period of about four months and you win on the balance of harms in that circumstance for reasons I will explain below. If the judiciary is no longer an arbiter of fact then you have to choose between slavery and revolt. That’s all that’s left if you are in a position that this is impacting your ability to earn a living or otherwise do something necessary. Yes, that gets ugly fast. I would hope the judiciary understands exactly how ugly, and how fast and thus does its job. The bottom line is right here, in this study:

A prison is highly analogous to a hospital or other health-care setting. Both are “conjugal” living arrangements. Both have a locked in component (the patients in one, the prisoners in the other) and a working and mingling in society component (the doctors, nurses, orderlies, janitors, etc. in one, the guards, cooks, janitors and similar in the other.) In both cases the locked-in persons are not really free to leave; in both they typically leave only when allowed by the working component (yes, you can sign yourself out against medical advice in a hospital, but few actually do.) Both confine people, typically two to a room but sometimes one, among the conjugal and locked-in persons. Both therefore are highly-effective places to spread disease — especially airborne pathogens. But — in the prison it is now documented that after four months the vaccine’s effective rate of protection was statistically zero.


The argument for forcing vaccinations in these highly-confined environments, say much less those which have fewer constraints, such as colleges, secondary and primary schools and other workplaces is that people are put at “unreasonable” risk by unvaccinated individuals. Yet the data is that four months post-vaccination there is no statistical difference between vaccinated and not when it comes to attack rates. By the CDC’s own data the vaccines are worthless to protect others after four months. We now know why the JAMA study, which found 83% population immunity as of May which is sufficient to suppress Covid-19 given its experimentally-determined R0, failed to do so. 63% of population was not immune by former infection; they were immune by vaccination and by June and July enough of those vaccinated people had their protection age off sufficiently to be worthless against infection and transmission. This is why, on the facts, the summer surge happened.

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Rumble.

YouTube Bans Channels Airing Criticism of Vaccines (Turley)

YouTube continued the expansion of corporate censorship on the Internet with the encouragement of leading Democratic leaders. The company has banned channels associated with anti-vaccine activists like Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Once again, rather than rebutting or refuting claims made by others, many sought to silence those with opposing views. YouTube will not allow people to hear views that do not comport with an approved range of opinions. The move magnifies concerns that we are seeing the emergence of a new type of state media as private companies conduct censorship operations barred by the Constitution for the government to conduct directly. This move comes days after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) asked Amazon to steer customers to “true” books on subjects like climate change to avoid their exposure to “disinformation.”

It also follows YouTube censoring videos of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny before Russia’s parliamentary elections. The move helped Putin and his authoritarian government crack down on pro-Democracy forces. The Google-owned site is now openly engaged in viewpoint regulation to force users to view only those sources that are consistent with the corporate agenda. Facebook banned misinformation on all vaccines seven months ago and Twitter regularly bans those questioning vaccines. These companies are being encouraged by many on the left to expand censorship. Faculty and editors are now actively supporting modern versions of book-burning with blacklists and bans for those with opposing political views.

Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll has denounced the “weaponization” of free speech, which appears to be the use of free speech by those on the right. So the dean of one of the premier journalism schools now supports censorship. Free speech advocates are facing a generational shift that is now being reflected in our law schools, where free speech principles were once a touchstone of the rule of law. As millions of students are taught that free speech is a threat and that “China is right” about censorship, these figures are shaping a new society in their own intolerant images. In one critical hearing, tech CEOs appeared before the Senate to discuss censorship programs. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologized for censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story, but then pledged to censor more people in defense of “electoral integrity.”


Dr. Joseph Mercola’s response to YouTube on the shutdown of his channel on the platform.

Sagan
https://twitter.com/i/status/1443214285774147586

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“..for such actions, an internet resource can be designated as breaching fundamental human rights and freedoms..”

YouTube Could Face Total Ban In Russia (RT)

Officials in Moscow have issued a sternly-worded ultimatum to YouTube’s parent company, Google, saying the video streaming site could face restrictions after it took down two channels run by RT’s German-language service. In the statement, released on Wednesday morning, the country’s national media regulator, Roskomnadzor, said that it “demands all restrictions be lifted from the YouTube channels RT DE and Der Fehlende Part (DFP), run by the news outlet RT, as soon as possible.” According to the authorities, failure to do so would be a violation of Russian law and, “for such actions, an internet resource can be designated as breaching fundamental human rights and freedoms,” and can face a formal warning.

“In the event that the owner of the platform doesn’t comply with the warning, legislation allows us to take measures including completely or partially blocking access to it,” Roskomnadzor added. On Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry had hit out at the decision to remove the two channels as “an act of unprecedented information aggression” and an “obvious manifestation of censorship and suppression of freedom of expression.” According to the diplomats, YouTube acted with the “obvious connivance, if not at the insistence,” of German authorities. Both RT DE and DFP were removed earlier that day, reportedly with no prospect of appeal. YouTube claims that they broke the service’s rules by attempting to circumvent a ‘community guidelines’ strike, handed down for ‘medical misinformation’ in four videos.

The details of the purported breach are not yet clear, but RT’s editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, has said that it amounts to “a declaration of media war against Russia by Germany.” The Russian Foreign Ministry has also warned that it could take steps against German news outlets in retaliation over the decision. “Adopting reciprocal measures against the German media in Russia which, by the way, has been repeatedly shown to have interfered in our country’s internal affairs, seems not only appropriate but necessary,” it said in a statement.

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Not a bad idea.

Red States Should Offer Sanctuary To Businesses, Military, Medics (Smith)

I continue to suspect that the reason for this sudden dive into totalitarianism is because there is something wrong with the vaccines themselves and if there are tens of millions or hundreds of millions of unvaccinated people left, then these people will act as a control group. That is to say, they will act as proof that the vaccines are not safe if things go awry. The establishment can’t allow that. As I have noted in past articles, the average vaccine is tested for 10-15 YEARS before it is released for use on human beings. This is to ensure that there are no damaging health side effects that might not become visible until months or years after the initial jab. A particular danger is the development of autoimmune disorders and infertility associated with mRNA and spike protein technology.

These debilitating ailments might not be noticed for a couple of years after a population has been given the experimental vax. It has already been about a year since the covid vaccines were introduced by emergency authorization, so time is running short for the globalists. The bottom line is, there has been ZERO long term testing of the covid mRNA vaccines. At least none that has ever been revealed to the public. There is NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE that the covid vaccines are safe in the long term, they were developed and released within months of the covid outbreak. Yet, the establishment seems hell bent on forcing 100% of people to take these untested vaccines against their better judgment. It has been almost a century since we last saw government tyranny on this level, but this time it is almost all governments around the world acting in unison to implement mass controls on the public, instead of just a handful of nations.

The Biden Administration and its corporate partners are now implementing a blitzkrieg against the American citizenry. Biden’s vaccine executive orders are creating a culture of “paper’s please” fascism among larger businesses and Big Box retailers. He has recently announced that part of the mandates will include fines against businesses that refuse to enforce proof of vaccination on their employees. These fines will range from $70,000 to $700,000, which could destroy a medium sized company if they actually had to pay.

Medical personnel, primarily in leftist blue states, are now being fired from their positions because they have refused to comply with the vax. This is leaving massive gaps in medical response in places like New York. The unelected governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, claims she has the right to give herself dictatorial powers through executive order, and that these powers include deploying National Guard troops to take over medical duties. If you are familiar with the sordid history of VA hospitals, then you know that you do not want around 90% of military doctors operating on you in any capacity.

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Untouchables. Unclean.

The COVID Caste System (D’Souza)

To understand what’s going on in its widest significance, consider the true meaning of the famous phrase in the Declaration of Independence: “All men are created equal.” What does this phrase mean? At one level, certainly, it means that we enjoy equality of rights. The Constitution goes on to specify not merely equality of rights but also equal treatment under the law. This concept of equality of rights shouldn’t, as Abraham Lincoln emphasized, be confused with equality of outcomes. Human beings are obviously unequal in height, in speed, in beauty, in intelligence, even in moral character. An equal start in the race doesn’t mean, obviously, that all individuals or even all groups must hit the finishing tape at the same time.

Yet at the same time, there’s a broader meaning to the equality provision that goes beyond rights. We aren’t merely equal as human beings, we are “created” equal. This means that we are equally the children of God, and it follows from this that God loves us equally and therefore there’s an equal dignity in persons that derives, ultimately, from the fact that they’re created by a transcendent God. How does this equal dignity play out in American life? It simply means that someone—say Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates—might have more money than you or me, but they aren’t better than you or me. In America, we have maids but not servants, and in many restaurants, we call even the waiter “sir,” as if he were a knight. The political philosopher Irving Kristol once said there’s no restaurant in America to which a CEO could go in the absolute assurance that he wouldn’t also find his secretary dining there.

So the Declaration of Independence affirms a social equality that is the very antithesis of a caste system. Yet precisely what our founding documents reject, the progressive elite, mostly made up of Democrats, is attempting to create for the first time in America a society divided into an elite upper caste and a mass lower caste, with separate rules applying to each group, in accordance with their caste status. It’s unlovely. It’s downright ugly. It’s also immoral. And it’s certainly un-American.

They are lying about the evidence base

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“Prevent Unconstitutional Vaccine Mandates for Interstate Commerce Act.”

Wisconsin Senator Sponsors Bill That Would Ban Vaccine Mandates (JTN)

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson unveiled new legislation Wednesday that would block federal vaccine mandates by utilizing the Interstate Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Johnson was joined by some of his colleagues from the House and Senate who wish to co-sponsor the bill. In a statement, Johnson explained why he sponsored this bill, and what impacts it may have on the nation. “The Biden administration’s decision to mandate vaccines for working Americans is an outrageous trampling of civil liberties and a dangerous precedent for what a U.S. president can unilaterally impose on the American public,” Johnson said in a statement. “The American people deserve transparency and as much information as possible from the federal government so they may make an informed choice about their own health,” he continued. The bill is titled “Prevent Unconstitutional Vaccine Mandates for Interstate Commerce Act.”

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“..held up in Abu Dhabi after arriving from Kabul with 117 people including 59 children.”

Biden Admin Denies Entry To Chartered Rescue Flight From Afghanistan (ZH)

A nonprofit organized by a loose network of veterans and current service members to help evacuate vulnerable Americans and Afghans from Kabul is seeing a chartered flight with more than 100 Americans and green-card holders being denied entry to the US by the Department of Homeland Security, according to a Reuters report. Bryan Stern, a founder of non-profit group Project Dynamo, which organized the flight, told Reuters during a call from the plan that they are being held up in Abu Dhabi after arriving from Kabul with 117 people including 59 children. The flight includes a mix of American citizens, green card holders and SIV holders. “They will not allow a charter on an international flight into a U.S. port of entry,” Stern said of the Custom’s and Border Patrol, which is part of DHS.


Stern spoke to journalists from aboard the chartered plane, leased from Kam Air, a private Afghan airline. Stern said the group had been sitting for 14 hours already with no clear resolution in sight. Stern’s Project Dynamo is one of several groups working on organizing these types of flights, aimed at getting those who have been approved for entry into the US out of Afghanistan. It’s not clear why the Biden Administration would bar entry to the flights. A DHS official hasn’t commented on the situation to the press. An official who spoke off the record to Reuters said they weren’t familiar with the situation, but that the US sometimes takes time to review flight manifests before allowing chartered flights into the country. After all, Biden has repeatedly said that repatriating Americans and Afghans in danger is a top American priority.

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We all know who should be prosecuted.

Pompeo: Sources for Yahoo News WikiLeaks Report ‘Should All Be Prosecuted’ (Y!)

Former CIA Director and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday called for the criminal prosecution of sources who spoke to Yahoo News for a story detailing proposals by the intelligence agency in 2017 to abduct WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and discussions within the Trump administration and CIA to possibly even assassinate him. Pompeo, appearing on Megyn Kelly’s podcast, was asked to respond to the Yahoo News story, which was based on interviews with 30 former U.S. intelligence and national security officials with knowledge of the U.S. government’s efforts against WikiLeaks. “I can’t say much about this other than whoever those 30 people who allegedly spoke to one of these [Yahoo News] reporters — they should all be prosecuted for speaking about classified activity inside the Central Intelligence Agency,” Pompeo said.

At the same time, Pompeo declined to respond to many of the details in the Yahoo News account and confirmed that “pieces of it are true,” including the existence of an aggressive CIA campaign to target WikiLeaks in the aftermath of the organization’s publication of highly sensitive so-called Vault 7 documents revealing some of the CIA’s hacking tools and methods. “When bad guys steal those secrets we have a responsibility to go after them, to prevent [that] from happening,” Pompeo said. “We absolutely have a responsibility to respond. … We desperately wanted to hold accountable those individuals that had violated U.S. law, that had violated requirements to protect information and had tried to steal it. There is a deep legal framework to do that. And we took actions consistent with U.S. law to try to achieve that.”

Pompeo’s comments came as some human rights activists, civil liberties groups and supporters of Assange said the revelations by Yahoo News should be investigated and were grounds to drop the Justice Department’s efforts to extradite Assange from a British prison in order to face criminal charges in the U.S. for publishing classified government secrets in violation of the World War I-era Espionage Act as well for allegedly conspiring to hack into a classified U.S. government network. “We now know that this unprecedented criminal case was launched in part because of the genuinely dangerous plans that the CIA was considering,” said Ben Wizner, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project. “This provides all the more reason for the Biden Justice Department to find a quiet way to end this case.”

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“Pompeo [was] advocating things that are not likely to be legal..”

Improper Pressure From CIA Led To Charges Agaist Assange (Gosztola)

CIA Director Mike Pompeo obsessed over Assange and WikiLeaks, and sought revenge after the publication of “Vault 7” materials, redefining the media organization as a “hostile entity.” (His successor, Gina Haspel, shared his zeal for retaliation.) Pompeo proposed kidnapping Assange in the summer of 2017. His obsession led several CIA officials to draw up plans for assassinating the publisher. “Some National Security Council officials” in President Donald Trump’s administration “worried that the CIA’s proposals to kidnap Assange would not only be illegal but also might jeopardize the prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder,” according to the report. “Concerned the CIA’s plans would derail a potential criminal case, the Justice Department expedited the drafting of charges against Assange to ensure that they were in place if he were brought to the United States.”

Discussions about putting Assange on a rendition flight alarmed senior administration officials, like John Eisenberg, who was the top lawyer for the National Security Council, and his deputy, Michael Ellis. “Pompeo [was] advocating things that are not likely to be legal,” including “rendition-type activity,” one former national security official told Yahoo! News reporters. The Justice Department had yet to indict Assange, “even under seal.” If the CIA kidnapped Assange from the Ecuador embassy, they would be doing so without any “legal basis to try him in the United States.” Meetings involving the CIA, where plans for kidnapping or killing Assange were raised, put pressure on prosecutors at the Justice Department.

“Eisenberg urged Justice Department officials to accelerate their drafting of charges against Assange, in case the CIA’s rendition plans moved forward, according to former officials. The White House told Attorney General Jeff Sessions that if prosecutors had grounds to indict Assange they should hurry up and do so, according to a former senior administration official.”

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The Guardian continues to play its bizarro double role.

Australia Reveals It Raised Case Of Julian Assange With US (G.)

Australia’s foreign minister, Marise Payne, raised the case of the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange with the US secretary of state during her visit to Washington DC this month, the government has revealed. But Australian parliamentarians who support Assange say the government should demand his immediate release, after a US news report this week claimed CIA officials during the Trump administration had discussed abducting and even assassinating the Australian citizen. Assange remains in Belmarsh prison in London as the US government appeals against an earlier court ruling that blocked his extradition to face charges, including allegedly obtaining and publishing classified documents in violation of the US Espionage Act.

In response to questions, a spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told Guardian Australia: “Minister Payne has raised the situation of Mr Assange with her US and UK counterparts, most recently with US Secretary of State [Antony] Blinken on 15 September.” The spokesperson said the Australian government conveyed its “expectations that Mr Assange is entitled to due process, humane and fair treatment, access to proper medical and other care, and access to his legal team”. But it is unknown what assurances, if any, Payne secured from those conversations with American and British counterparts.

The case is back in the spotlight after Yahoo News published a detailed account of how the CIA had allegedly discussed kidnapping Assange in 2017, when the fugitive Australian activist was entering his fifth year sheltering in the Ecuadorian embassy. Those deliberations reportedly sparked heated debate among Trump administration officials over the legality and practicality of such an operation. Yahoo News reported that some senior officials inside the CIA and the Trump administration went as far as to request “sketches” or “options” for killing Assange. “There seemed to be no boundaries,” a former senior counterterrorist official was quoted as saying.

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  • #88880
    teri
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    @ those darned kids:

    “i’m getting ‘website unsafe’ warnings in various browsers. certificate stuff, it says.”

    This morning, I got that on a couple of websites I read every day, including TAE. It happened on both Safari and Google Chrome (yuck) browsers. I talked to my son, who is a techie dude, and it turns out that the problem is 1) my old computer plus 2) the aging out of the website’s original certificate holder.

    So, 1) – my Mac Mini is pretty old and uses an operating system that cannot accept some of the new updates (I think my op system is an OS 11?). So while it might have, in the past, routinely accepted an update to certain certifications of websites, it cannot do so now.

    And 2) – One of the biggest certifying groups (not sure you call them “groups”; maybe “companies” is a better word) apparently allowed the websites’ certificates to expire on Sept 30 this year. I.e., today. They certify a HUGE number of websites. The websites may or may not be aware of this and may need to seek a new company to handle their certification. My son is not sure if the individual websites were contacted to pick a new certifying company, but that is irrelevant to me, because of:

    2a) – I can bypass the warning message if I want to and doing so allows me access to the website in question…with a caveat. My son warned me to ONLY do this bypass if I am positive that the website is not actually a fake and that it has never actually tried to install malware/bad stuff/hinky shit in my computer.

    On the warning box, you can click on ‘details’ then within the paragraph that open up, you can click on the underlined ‘visit this website’. It will ask you to give your computer password, because you are over-riding the part of your system that checks and updates these certifications. This is why you don’t want to bypass the warning for a website you have never used before.

    Obviously, you figured this out, because you are posting here today. However, I did want to write this to you just to warn you about handling it this way for every single website you get the message for. Sometimes the warning box really IS because a website is trying to get into your system to harvest stuff. Having an invalid certification is giveaway to that sort of activity as far as your computer warning system goes. I got the message today on TAE, Kunstler, and Turley. They must all use the same big company whose certifications expired today.

    Anyway, that’s why you are getting the message – and do be careful about bypassing it for an unknown site.

    #88882
    Germ
    Participant

    @ teri et al

    Use a good VPN. Trawling the internet without one is pure folly.
    “Safe and Effective!” LOL !!

    https://www.techradar.com/uk/vpn/best-vpn

    I use CyberGhost.

    #88883
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    @Polder Dweller #88866
    “My colleagues have no idea what is about to hit them, and these are really intelligent people working in a demanding high-tech area.”

    The so-called intelligentsia are mostly unreachable because they are bewitched by their own ‘intelligence’. Those with intellectual humility, common sense and intuition are the only ones with clear vision to see what is obvious.

    Thanks again to Raoul and all contributors on this valuable truth-telling website.

    #88884
    deflationista
    Participant

    #88885
    Germ
    Participant

    It’s a fucking miracle drug!

    “Ivermectin has New Application in Inhibiting Colorectal Cancer Cell Growth”

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2021.717529/full

    ” …suggesting that ivermectin might be a new potential anticancer drug therapy for human colorectal cancer and other cancers.” !!!

    #88886
    deflationista
    Participant

    #88888
    Germ
    Participant

    @ deflationista

    23 Vitamin D in Covid studies with mortality results.
    The vast majority of them point to a material positive treatment effect.

    https://vdmeta.com/

    Whatever you do, avoid all vitamin supplements.

    “The smart man does at the beginning, what the idiot does at the end.”

    #88889
    Germ
    Participant

    #88890
    Germ
    Participant

    Take your Vitamin D!

    The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
    Volume 211, July 2021, 105883

    “Therapeutic and prognostic role of vitamin D for COVID-19 infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 43 observational studies”

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960076021000765

    #88891
    Germ
    Participant

    Oh dear.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-90189-4

    “Vitamin D is a potential immunomodulator and its adjunctive role in the treatment of COVID-19 is established by this study. Improvement of serum vit.D level to 80–100 ng/ml has significantly reduced the inflammatory markers without any side effects. Hence, adjunctive Pulse D therapy can be added safely to the existing treatment protocols of COVID-19.”

    #88892
    Germ
    Participant

    Oops.

    The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

    https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article/doi/10.1210/clinem/dgab439/6303537

    “Vitamin D deficiency is associated with higher risk of COVID-19 hospitalization. Widespread measurement of serum 25(OH)D and treatment of insufficiency or deficiency may reduce this risk.”

    #88893
    deflationista
    Participant

    Maybe you should read the thread and quit making assumptions about everything you pretend to read.

    Or are you just the village idiot?

    #88894
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    @deflationista

    Where is your evidence?

    #88895
    ezlxa1949
    Participant

    Good on the Australian corporations for taking a stand at last. A big problem here is that the feds are desperate to re-open the economy but the states are scared silly that the plague will swamp their healthcare systems (each state runs its own) if they don’t take extraordinary precautionary measures. So we have two diametrically opposed viewpoints.

    This makes me wonder that if covid is just a stalking horse for the Big Reset, then why aren’t the Australian feds supporting indefinite restrictions and economic paralysis by agreeing with the states that the plague is too dangerous to deal with carelessly? Or are they playing some kind of clever double game, pretending to oppose the states while underneath supporting them?

    Because the medical community here has by and large accepted the doctrine that covid has no treatment other than vaccines, they see no alternative path out of the morass. Because Australia has lagged far behind the likes of Israel in jabbing its people, we still don’t see much if any empirical evidence that vaccine effectiveness wears off after just a few months — while, paradoxically, there appears to be growing public awareness that this will happen. Until vaccine failure becomes impossible to ignore, the juggernaut will roll on and over us. What happens later I cannot guess.

    I was zooming the other day with some people widely scattered around the country, and we got onto the topic of vaccines (well off-agenda). I was pleasantly surprised at how they viewed the situation, seeing it as a loss of democracy and covering up some other agenda. I don’t know if any of them reads TAE (fairly sure they don’t read PP), so it was good to see this high level of knowledge and disapproval displayed. We also agreed that the juggernaut is very large and will be very hard to deal with as it gains yet more momentum.

    Youtube deleting and re-instating Ron Paul’s account is just a warning shot to everyone. “We can take you out of existence at any time we choose.” Why we’ve let Youtube achieve the quasi-monopoly position is has is sad. In other areas I find Youtube a hugely useful source of knowledge in practical matters such as home maintenance.

    #88896
    deflationista
    Participant

    Hey PTBarnum:

    Maybe you should ask a virologist. Or read a book. Or “do your own research”.

    Now I know why you are so confused about so many things.

    #88897
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    @ Michael Reid
    Participant
    Wow Germ. That video has just about freaked me out of my mind.

    Fascinating; once they have a formula (fear) that works; double down and keep it churning…
    We’ll see…

    #88898
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    Maybe you should validate your claim with a source, like most informed people do. Otherwise, your ad hominems only come across as projection.

    #88899
    deflationista
    Participant

    I posted a twitter thread from Jeremy Kamil. It was his thread. Not mine. I found it interesting, because I never thought about it. And neither did you.

    His credentials can be found here:

    https://www.lsuhs.edu/departments/school-of-graduate-studies/microbiology-and-immunology/research/kamil-lab

    Do you need me to do any more simple tasks that you could easily do on your own?

    #88900
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    That “credentialed” person never provided evidence for the claim, thus, it’s on you, good sir.

    #88901
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    Well, there’s one that shows the exact OPPOSITE of what you and the “virologist” say:

    1,25(OH)2D suppresses Th-1 cell proliferation leading to lowered production of interferon gamma and interleukin-2.27,35,36 Lower levels of circulating cytokines leads to less antigen presentation by dendritic cells, in addition to less T lymphocyte recruitment and proliferation.36 Expression of Th-2 associated cytokines, including interleukin-4 are increased by 1,25(OH).37 Overall, vitamin D polarizes the adaptive immune system away from Th-1 and toward Th-2 responses.

    Vitamin D also plays a role in innate immune response modulation. The toll-like receptors (TLRs) in macrophages, polymorphonuclear cells, monocytes, and epithelial cells are central to the innate immune response.38,39 TLRs recognize pathogen associated molecular patterns associated with infectious agents.39 For example, TLR2 recognizes the lipopolysaccharides of bacteria. TLRs have also been shown to recognize viral proteins and nucleic acids.40 Upon recognition, activated TLRs release cytokines that induce expression of antimicrobial peptides and reactive oxygen species.”

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3308600/

    #88902
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    @ T-Bear

    I second Ilargi on your post to Dr. John Day…excellent…

    #88903
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Dr. D:

    I hope you’re correct about the potential of the citizenry’s ability, albeit future tense, to stand up to TPTB…

    Cheeto was a fluke, a TV personality, that rose to quash the most hated candidate in my lifetime, but in the end he was an ill-prepared poseur, who I will always be grateful to for saving us from Hitllery…

    Resident Xiden, his minions & the #DERPSTATE made sure THAT never happens again, no matter how many of “those voted Cheeto”, followed up with the psyop to end all DC false flags on JAN. 6, 2021.

    Maybe I missed it? Have thousands of “patriots” rose to protest those blatant crimes perped by the #DERPSTATE against the nation & jurisprudence?

    Guess I’ll be waiting a bit, won’t I?

    Anyways, good luck with the “huddled masses” rising to restore the Republic ~ I have been in 43 states, on-the-ground, face-to-face, I’ve barely even encountered ” Summer patriots” 😐

    At worst I saw a psychologically bent, violent & self-obsessed culture of childish deviants devoid of the humanity to inherit the SPIRITUAL principals of the Sons of Liberty.

    My grandfather, who grew up on during the depression on a tenant farm in Battle Creek MI, started driving box trucks @ 15 during WWII, when most “children” today are busy playing video games, watching porn and/or other soul killing media.

    In the mid 60s he was one of the first “Special Products” van line owner-operators that hauled everything from massive computer systems to nuclear missiles ~ He was rated #1 in his trade for almost a decade running ~ He was a “man’s man” that made WAY more than a typical trucker, supporting three families & his mother without a second thought.

    He was my defacto father & I spent every summer from 12-18 traveling/working with him, reaching 38 states by the time I was 17 ~ Pickup/delivery locations were computer manufacturers, hi-tech end-users, .GOV/.MIL complexes ~ Several times as on young man (I could do the work of a man from 13 on) I pushed computers around the Pentagon, one time unescorted into the war room computer room.

    Traveling the USofA in the 70s-1980 I was able to witness a world that no longer exists, before the advent of strip malls from sea-to-shining sea.

    As great a man as my grandfather was, a hard-working professional trucker for 60 years, he had no real comprehension of the “IDEA” ~ His grandparents were Irish immigrants, his family were citizens of the Empire, he was not a descendant of the Sons of Liberty.

    He was my step-grandpa through my grandma’s third marriage (his second). He never allowed me to entertain a trucking career, as my heritage derived mental capacity would have been wasted & he made sure I knew that, supporting me through college.

    In my 60+ years of life within this nation state, I almost never meet anyone that has an accurate, or even a complimentary, concept of what the “IDEA” is, was or will be. Most minds are polluted with apparatchik politik combined with emotionally-based fictitious concepts spouted by academia & hollyweird.

    The unified culture that laid it ALL on the line to establish the “IDEA” ended with the 618,222 men laid to waste in the Lincoln’s War.

    We are entering dark territory now, about to go pitch black, I wish all of you the best of luck.

    I no longer care, I just prepare…

    #88904
    zerosum
    Participant

    ” Until vaccine failure becomes impossible to ignore, the juggernaut will roll on and over us. What happens later I cannot guess.”

    All of those studies are using language that is not meant for for blue collar workers.
    Can someone simplify ….
    what would work to neutralize the vaccine covi etc.?

    #88905
    zerosum
    Participant

    ” I was able to witness a world that no longer exists….”
    I know the feeling.
    Pictures of NOW compared to my memories are a shock. The past, the locations, those possibilities, those events, only exist in my memories.

    #88906
    ₿oogaloo
    Participant

    I do not share the optimism of some here that the “narrative” is turning around.

    A lot has changed. They have stopped talking about herd immunity from the vaccines. That is a huge step forward. Yet there is still great faith that booster shots will turn out to be the answer. That will take some time to play out.

    If booster shots end up conferring some form of long-lasting protection, then vaccine passports are here to stay.

    If it turns out that booster shots wear off in a few weeks, then maybe the vaccine passport plan gets scrapped before the end of the year.

    If it turns out that booster shots extend protection for six months each time, then vaccine passports are here to stay for at least another year. It will take time to see whether the cumulative detrimental costs of repeated vaccination with S-protein vaccines outweighs the benefit. The costs may come in the form of increased rates of short term side effects, increased long term side effects, or ADE (or some other form of enhanced disease).

    Here in Korea things are better than Western countries in some respects, but worse in others. There is no vaccine mandate, and I have not heard of employers imposing vaccine mandates, but the rules say that evening meetings in public places can only have two adults, or up to four as long as two are vaccinated (doesn’t matter which two) . When things are relaxed, there can be gatherings of up to six, as long as four are vaccinated. This is a way to put indirect pressure on people, as this is very much a group oriented society.

    Now there is discussion about a vaccine pass to enter public places like sporting events. The bizarre thing is that there is a recognition and admission that this will not stop the spread of the virus, or even prevent severe disease in the long run. The officials admit that the purpose is to create incentives to get vaccinated by intentionally making it more “inconvenient” if you are not. That is the purpose: To increase the vaccination rate as an end in itself. There is a bit of mass psychosis here that many Koreans see increasing the vaccination rate compared to other countries as some source of pride — as if there is a competition.

    Another bizarre thing: The officials are quite open that they will just follow the lead of other countries, especially the US and UK. If the trend is vaccine passports, they will be rolled out here too. If the US and UK accept the Pfizer, Moderna, AZ and J&J vaccines, then those same vaccines will be recognized here too. If the trend is to ignore Ivermectin, they will ignore it here too. There is no original thought, no leadership. Which is really disappointing because there are a lot of smart people in this country who should know better.

    #88907
    John Day
    Participant

    @Formerly T-Bear: Thanks for the helpful advice, but I’m doing this because it is a spiritual and moral test for me. No lawyers required. Doing this right opens the next layer of the mystery.
    Stay tuned…

    #88908
    John Day
    Participant

    @”Deflationista”: What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?
    (I know you can answer that correctly. Google can.)

    What does that answer mean? (I think “Madamski” would know.)

    #88909
    citizenx
    Participant

    Tomorrow marks the start of my last month of work at the clinic, since I am COVID-unvaccinated.

    Perhaps people who see what is going down in this suck-out before the next tsunami-of-history should hold hands and walk to higher ground..

    Here’s to you and taking the Higher Ground…

    “Higher Ground”

    People keep on learnin’
    Soldiers keep on warrin’
    World keep on turnin’
    Cause it won’t be too long

    Powers keep on lyin’
    While your people keep on dyin’
    World keep on turnin’
    Cause it won’t be too long

    I’m so darn glad he let me try it again
    Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
    I’m so glad that I know more than I knew then
    Gonna keep on tryin’
    Till I reach my highest ground

    Teachers keep on teachin’
    Preachers keep on preachin’
    World keep on turnin’
    Cause it won’t be too long
    Oh no

    Lovers keep on lovin’
    Believers keep on believin’
    Sleepers just stop sleepin’
    Cause it won’t be too long
    Oh no

    I’m so glad that he let me try it again
    Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
    I’m so glad that I know more than I knew then
    Gonna keep on tryin’
    Till I reach my highest ground…Whew!

    Till I reach my highest ground
    No one’s gonna bring me down
    Oh no
    Till I reach my highest ground
    Don’t let nobody bring you down (they’ll sho ’nuff try)

    #88910
    Archie
    Participant

    I no longer care, I just prepare…

    Fair enough. Why do you pontificate so much? Are you related to deflationshitstorm?

    #88911
    Archie
    Participant

    @John Day

    I’ve loved you from afar for many years now, man. We know who you ARE. But you are in a unique situation compared to most, if not, all of us. Please reconsider taking the moral high ground as a personal test. These (to quote Khun V) galoots need to be lampooned with their own legal conceit. I agree with T-bear.

    #88912
    vlad
    Participant

    re. Berejiklian “You’ll be going backwards” – today she’s under investigation by the Independent Commission Against Corruption. Karma.

    #88913
    John Day
    Participant

    Thanks CitixenX and Archie (and Jughead, and Hot Dog, too!)
    I appreciate the support.
    I am doing a lot of spiritual work. I am feeling a heavy sorrow, but I feel it is just what I must do, and I don’t see around the next corner.
    I pray for guidance and I pray “thy will be done” to the compassionate and wise universe.

    #88914
    zerosum
    Participant

    “I don’t see around the next corner.”
    Hummm
    Is it possible that there is an antidote to the vaccine?

    #88915
    ₿oogaloo
    Participant

    John Day, I appreciate that you are taking the moral high ground, but at the same time I wish that more would fight this evil menace in the courts, advancing legal arguments supported by real science.

    Any chance you might open your own practice? Or has the medical establishment now made that too expensive, too complicated, too risky?

    #88916
    ₿oogaloo
    Participant

    @absolute galore

    Another issue to think about is just how much is on the line regarding vaccination in general.

    If, in a years time, the data clearly indicates that the risks of these vaccines clearly outweigh the benefits, this will further embolden the “opposed to all vaccines” crowd. That would be unfortunate — because a science-based approach should consider each vaccine on its own merits, its own risk-benefit analysis. Good luck with that if these Spike protein vaccines turn out to be the long term disaster that we fear. How could the establishment admit that they were wrong about these vaccines without destroying their credibility? Hard to imagine at this point.

    #88917
    sumac.carol
    Participant

    I am incredibly sad for all of you having to make terrible tough choices in this madness. My own situation is insulated fir a number of reasons (income generation, remote location, connected with other small organic farmers and back-to-the landers who have no use fir the vaccine). Why am I saying this? Because I still find the situation incredibly stressful with the propaganda etc. I really can’t imagine the stress some of you are enduring and you are in my thoughts.
    Re antidote for the vaccine: I believe some synch info has already been provided. However I listened to a very authoritative interview conducted by Mercola speaking to an MIT scientist and they were discussing one of the key impacts of the vaccine on the body (I don’t recall the technical jargon) but it was along the lines of reducing the body’s ability to get rid of dead or damaged immune system cells. One of the recommendations to help the body get rid of these old cells is time-limited eating. This consists of only eating within sn 8 hour window. This gives the body 16 hours each day in which to cleanse itself. Something for the involuntarily backed to try.
    On the broken supply chains: we desperately need to relocalize if only to reduce the energy consumed unmoving stuff massive distances just to enable the oligarchs to maximize profits. Maybe this is going to give us a push to take relocalization more seriously.

    #88918
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Fair enough. Why do you pontificate so much? Are you related to deflationshitstorm?

    You’re right, I’m wasting my time…

    No, I’m not related to that train wreck.

    I’m done.

    I’ll just drop by occasionally to see if there’s anything new…

    #88919
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    @ John Day
    I understand why you choose not to fight it.
    There are multiple ways to face what is going on and work to undermine the totalitarianism.
    We need legal battles…we also need other means to address it as well.
    I trust that spirituality will find the best way for you to respond.
    Sometimes fighting becomes a wasteful end to itself, that serves no purpose.
    Sometimes we fight, because we must and it is the only viable option open to us.

    #88920
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    @ boogaloo – I’ve thought the same about the public losing faith in all vaccines as a result of this botched Covid vax rollout.

    #88921
    Formerly T-Bear
    Participant

    John Day at #88907
    Appreciated your reply. After sleeping on the matter, I would have addended to my comment that your action would have given the opportunity for the others similarly effected a basis for a class action, multiplying the enormity of damages to the life investments involved. It too would help reestablish a balance between labour and management; a level, equitable playing field for future relations, something that no longer exists.

    I would also advise great caution concerning ‘morality’ and one’s relationship with such. It was the illusion of morality that has led to the delusional ‘morality’ warping the world today if you recall the ‘moral majority’ that put St. Ronnie of the Ray-gun into power. It seems you are trying to define the tao in your quest for morality, striving is like defining and if done becomes not tao. Tao will come of its own accord, like fog, creeping silently into your being silently as a cat and you will find it there when you are ready. Be careful about hiding behind your desire and lose the opportunity before you.

    I began my comment by trying to avoid any appearance of authority and shall close by disavowing authority, this is only a heart speaking, nothing more.

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