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Another Reason Not To Jab The Children: Omicron (Malone)
Will Omicron Kill Christmas? (O.)
UK Booster Rollout To Increase To 1m A Day To Battle Omicron ‘Tidal Wave’ (G.)
Pfizer Jab Is Only 22.5% Effective Against Omicron (ZH)
Fauci: Americans May ‘Just Have To Deal With’ More Covid Boosters (Fox)
Hospitalizations, Mortality Cut In Half With Ivermectin In Brazilian City (ZH)
2022 Trends, Predictions, Collapse, Covid & Wars – Gerald Celente (USAW)
Four States Enlist National Guard To Battle Health Care Staffing Crisis (JTN)
A $40 Million Gates Foundation Grant vs A Half Million Human Lives (WT)
Twitter To Ban Users Who Repeatly Claim Vaxxed People Can Spread Covid (RTN)
China Banking Assets Are $52 Trillion, Up By $40 Trillion Since 2008 (Peters)

 

 

It is scary to see that the only thing that holds our societies together at this point is fear.
People can no longer think.

• In the entire world there are still no deaths reported from Omicron
• US: 110 total Omicron infections (UK has more)
• 1 person in US infected with Omicron hospitalized (may well be for something different)

But: UK prediction from scientists at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine:
• Best case: 175,000 hospital admissions and 24,700 deaths from Omicron by the end of April.
• Worst case: 74,800 deaths and 492,000 hospital admissions

“Pfizer Jab Is Only 22.5% Effective Against Omicron”: South Africa study.
So obviously the UK wants 1 million jabs per day. And Fauci wants more.

 

 

 

 

Two top soccer players, Napoli midfielder Piotr Zielinski and Man United defender Viktor Lindelof both left their game Sunday due to chest pain/breathing problems.

 

 

Ardern fund

 

 

The media: Omicron is vaccine resistant.
Also the media: We may need to lock down again because of all the unvaccinated.

 

 

“This is madness promoted by frightened psychotic chickens and Globalists with a pro-totalitarian bias. Just stop. Now.”

Another Reason Not To Jab The Children: Omicron (Malone)

The data are clear. Officials have reported110 Omicron cases as of Saturday in the USA. Of the 66 people for whom vaccination status has been reported, 52 were fully vaccinated and many of those had been boosted. What we don’t know is whether or not those people who have already had COVID-19 actually caught Omicron, but it was so mild that they weren’t aware of it or if prior infection conferred complete immunity. What we do know is that 78% of the people in the USA/CDC report who have contracted Omicron were vaccinated. These data also directly contradict the public relations “data” press release from Pfizer that the third jab would protect against Omicron. Clinical data ALWAYS trumps lab test data.


This appears to be yet another case illustrating that Fauci/Biden parrot the Big Pharma narrative whenever possible rather than doing the job that we are paying them to do – independently analyze “The Science” and act with integrity and objectivity to protect American citizens rather than American Big Business and Big Investment firms. There have been NO DEATHS reported anywhere in the world with Omicron, including in the USA. Now there will be, because older people, people with high co-morbidities will catch Omicron and will die. People die from the common cold too. We can expect this – do not be swayed by the fear-porn that is sure to come when these deaths happen. Hospital rates in areas with a high percent of the Omicron variant are experiencing a drop off in hospitalizations. Due to low vaccination rates in some countries, this strongly implies that vaccination status is irrelevant with Omicron. Omicron is a more mild disease, more similar in symptoms to the common cold. [..] Assuming that Omicron is now the dominant variant in Botswana, lets look at the death rate in that country: It has literally gone to zero over the past month.

Omicron is 10 times more infectious than the original variant and two times more infectious than Delta. Omicron will become the predominant strain in the USA very shortly. So, whether vaccinated or not, Omicron is more mild and will spread throughout the land. Let me write that again, all evidence shows that Omicron is much more mild and vaccinated or unvaccinated will catch this variant. Now, let’s talk children. For all the reasons listed above, it is clear that vaccinating children now is a very bad idea. 146 million people in the USA have had SARS-CoV-2 , that is about 45% of the total population. This means 45% of children have had SARS-CoV-2, that is the virus – because children rarely get severe disease from the virus. It is the severe disease that is COVID-19. COVID-19 is the severe disease caused by the virus. Historically, children get infected by the virus.

Now that Omicron will become dominant very quickly and we know that there is a very good chance that natural infection confers better protection against Omicron and that for everyone this new variant is mild, why would we want to mandate vaccination for our healthy children? Remember, this is what we know already before Omicron emerged: • 1 in 2700 male adolescents will get pericarditis/myocarditis from the Pfizer vaccine and the event rate appears to be even higher for Moderna. • 1 in 2200 will get some sort of neurological event from the vaccine (based on the curious case of Pfizer clinical trial participant Maddie de Gary). • That the adverse events in children are much higher than originally reported in the phase 3 clinical trials. • That the long term sides effects for this vaccine are unknown. • That after vaccination, there is a 3-4 week period of immunosuppression, where children (and adults) are susceptible to latent viral infections and other viruses.

Now smash these facts together with what we know about Omicron. The evidence becomes overwhelming. Not only are mandates a bad idea, but vaccinating children and young adults is too. This is madness promoted by frightened psychotic chickens and Globalists with a pro-totalitarian bias. Just stop. Now.

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No, but the fear of it will.

Will Omicron Kill Christmas? (O.)

Two competing forces will determine Omicron’s impact on the nation over the next few weeks. The power of booster jabs to give last-minute protection against Covid-19 will be pitted against the new variant’s ability to elude existing immunity. The outcome will decide whether our festive season is going to be muted or miserable. If enough arms are jabbed with booster vaccines, while Omicron turns out to have poor powers to evade immunity, then there is hope hospital cases will be contained and the NHS will be protected. Severe restrictions in the new year – including the prospect of lockdowns – could be avoided. But if Omicron is found to evade existing immunity quite easily, while booster campaigns provide poor overall protection, then the country faces a very grim winter with strict restrictions needed for some time.

According to a study by scientists at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the first scenario – poor Omicron escape from immunity matched by effective booster jab protection – would trigger a wave of infection that could lead to 175,000 hospital admissions and 24,700 deaths by the end of April. Closure of some entertainment venues and restrictions on indoor hospitality would be enough to control case numbers. By contrast, the most pessimistic scenario – high immune escape from vaccines and low effectiveness of booster jabs – would see 74,800 deaths while there would be 492,000 hospital admissions, a figure twice as high as the peak seen in January 2021. Far stricter restrictions, including lockdowns, would then have to be considered.

“These results suggest that Omicron has the potential to cause substantial surges in cases, hospital admissions and deaths in populations with high levels of immunity, including England,” the team state in their paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed. Nicholas Davies, co-leader of the study team, described Omicron’s threat to the UK as “worrying”. Presented with evidence like this, many scientists have warned that urgent action should now be taken to hold back infections while booster campaigns are accelerated and given time to take effect. “Cases are doubling every two to three days which means there is a real risk the curve is going to get very steep around Christmas and New Year,” said the vaccine expert Peter English.

“That means panic measures could be brought in at the last minute and disrupt people’s festive plans. I am also desperately sad for my colleagues in clinical practice who face a January that is going to be worse than anything we’ve seen so far and at a time when they are now exhausted.”

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“Boris Johnson is gambling..”

UK Booster Rollout To Increase To 1m A Day To Battle Omicron ‘Tidal Wave’ (G.)

Boris Johnson is gambling on an unprecedented ramping up of vaccinations, rolling out 1m booster jabs a day to stem an incoming “tidal wave of Omicron” and avoid imposing further restrictions. The army will be deployed across the country to help rapidly accelerate the vaccine programme and GPs will be told to cancel appointments to dedicate resources to offering vaccines to every UK adult by the end of December. In a televised address to the nation on Sunday night, the prime minister said he was “afraid we are now facing an emergency in our battle with the new variant, Omicron, and we must urgently reinforce our wall of vaccine protection to keep our friends and loved ones safe.”

Johnson, who is facing a major test of his authority this week as MPs rebel against new Covid restrictions, called the target “a national mission unlike anything we have done before in the vaccination programme”. It means vaccinating around 1 million people a day, up from 530,000 on Saturday. The UK record is 844,000 in March. All over-18s will be eligible from Monday, and NHS booking will open to that age group from Wednesday. Until now eligibility has been limited to over-40s. Jabs will be available on Christmas Day, though demand is expected to be low.

On Sunday the Covid alert level was raised from 3 to 4, indicating substantial pressure on the NHS, after a further 1,239 UK cases of Omicron were confirmed, nearly double the number reported the previous day. Omicron is expected to become Britain’s dominant variant within days, and Johnson warned it could “overwhelm the NHS and lead to very many deaths”. Announcing the booster offensive, Johnson said: “We know from bitter experience how these exponential curves develop. No one should be in any doubt: there is a tidal wave of Omicron coming.” He said two doses of vaccine were not enough, but scientists were confident that three would make a huge difference. On Friday UK data suggested that three jabs provide 70-75% protection against infection with Omicron, while two doses given three or more months ago give 30% to 40% or less.

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Throw it away.

Pfizer Jab Is Only 22.5% Effective Against Omicron (ZH)

A few days ago, researchers in South Africa shared data from a preliminary study showing that the Pfizer vaccine is less effective at blocking the omicron variant than earlier variants like beta and delta. Now, the team is telling us exactly how much less effective the vaccine is. According to the same data gleaned from the blood plasma taken from 12 patients who tested positive for omicron, the team found that a two-shot course of Pfizer’s vaccine has just 22.5% efficacy against symptomatic infection with the omicron variant, though it can thwart severe disease, according to laboratory experiments in South Africa, according to Bloomberg.

The data comes courtesy of a team of researchers at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban. Though data has been pouring out about omicron, and sometimes individual studies reach opposing findings, the general consensus is that omicron will be able to more easily evade protection afforded from the first generation of vaccines – however, the scientists say that people will still be protected against severe disease and death. But it matters less anyway, since any patient – even an unvaccinated one – has less to fear from omicron. The reason being is that it’s believed to cause a more mild, “flu-like” infection. As we’ve said before, when you hear politicians like Joe Biden talking about an omicron takeover as if it were already a certainty (only a couple thousand cases have been confirmed around the world, if that), it’s because they wish it were true.

The same is true for the CEOs of Moderna and Pfizer, who have been out sharing FUD about omicron with the news media on an almost non-stop rotation. They say their companies can have a new batch of vaccines available in 90-100 days. It’s almost as if they’ve been waiting for the opportunity, and if you look back at their comments, it’s clear that they have. Still, in the US, the CDC has confirmed that only 1 of 43 patients infected with the variant has been hospitalized.

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Tony Fauci is more deadly than Tony Soprano.

Fauci: Americans May ‘Just Have To Deal With’ More Covid Boosters (Fox)

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said that Americans will “just have to deal with” the prospect of getting more coronavirus booster shots. Fauci made the statement on Sunday morning and said that the level of protection that the current coronavirus booster shots give to individuals will have to be monitored closely over the next several months. “If it becomes necessary to get yet another boost, then we’ll just have to deal with it when that occurs,” Fauci said. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director also said that he’s “hoping” that a third mRNA shot will give longer-lasting protection. “


I’m hoping from an immunological standpoint that that third shot of an mRNA and the second shot of a J&J will give a much greater durability of protection than just the six months or so that we’re seeing right now,” Dr. Fauci said. He added that it’s possible that the booster shot could “dramatically” increase the level of protection. “It’s tough to tell because the third shot of an mRNA could not only do what we absolutely know it does, is it dramatically increased the level of protection. But from an immunological standpoint, it could very well increase the durability of protection by things that you can’t readily measure by the level of antibodies that you might have a maturation of the immune system that would prolong the durability,” Dr. Fauci said.

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“..it was found effective 70% of the time as an early treatment, and just 39% of the time as a late treatment.”

Better than the vaccines with Omicron.

Hospitalizations, Mortality Cut In Half With Ivermectin In Brazilian City (ZH)

Early on in the pandemic, before the vaccines were available, the Southern Brazilian city of Itajai offered Ivermectin as a prophylaxis against the disease. Between July and December of 2020, roughly 220,000 people were offered a dose of 0.2mg/kg/day (roughly 18mg for a 200lb person) as an optional treatment for 2 days, once every two weeks. 133,051 people took them up on it, while 87,466 did not. After analyzing the data, a team of researchers spanning several Brazilian institutes, the University of Toronto, and Columbia’s EAFIT concluded in a December pre-print study that hospitalization and mortality rates were cut in half over the seven month period among the Ivermectin group.

The authors adjusted for relevant confounding variables, including age, sex, medical history, previous diseases, and other conditions. The analysis contradicts an October report by Business Insider which claims, based on a Brazilian ICU doctor’s anecdotal evidence, that the experiment was a failure. Study limitations: The authors note, “Being a retrospective observational analysis, it is uncertain whether results would be reproducible in a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial, but likely, since groups of ivermectin users and non-users had similar demographic characteristics, and rates were adjusted for the relevant confounding variables.”


We’re sure the ‘fact checkers’ are already hard at work trying to debunk the pre-print, however they may also want to take a look at ivmmeta.com – a real-time meta analysis of 70 studies which found that Ivermectin works as a prophylaxis 83% of the time. In peer-reviewed studies, it was found effective 70% of the time as an early treatment, and just 39% of the time as a late treatment. As we noted during the whole ‘horse paste’ controversy: Ivermectin This widely prescribed anti-parasitic which is also used in horses has shown meaningful efficacy worldwide in the treatment of mild and moderate cases of Covid-19, plus as a prophylactic. India’s Uttar Pradesh province, with a population of over 200 million, says that widespread early use of Ivermectin ‘helped keep positivity [and] deaths low.’

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“The only way this war will be won is if people unify under one umbrella and don’t leave.”

2022 Trends, Predictions, Collapse, Covid & Wars – Gerald Celente (USAW)

Gerald Celente, a renowned trends researcher, is back this time to talk about what he is sees coming in 2022. There is the never ending Covid, Vax Wars, military wars, economic upheaval, and even new predictions on the future of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Ron DeSantis. We start with what needs to be done to defeat the tyranny of the vax war on the global population. Celente says, “Vax War,’ look at the protests going on in Austria. Look at the protests going on in Germany, Italy, in France and the UK. . . . The only way this war will be won is if people unify under one umbrella and don’t leave.”

On the economy, Celente warns, “How about that bankster, that Fed Head Powell? He said inflation was going to be ‘temporary.’ Oh no, it’s going to be ‘transitory.’ They were shooting out that BS one after another, and we said from the beginning, inflation is real and it’s going to keep going. Guess what? It’s not the supply chains–it’s all the cheap money they keep dumping into the system to artificially prop it up.” Celente predicts, “The Fed is going to have to raise interest rates,” to stop what he is calling 1980’s style inflation. And he warns, “The higher interest rates go up, the further the economy is going to go down, and that’s what they are not talking about.”

Celente says get ready for what he is calling “Dragflation.” Meaning, the economy is going to drag lower as inflation surges higher. Celente also predicts that if the Fed Funds Interest Rate, which is now at .25%, “goes to 1.5%, the entire economy could collapse.” Celente is predicting new political parties that are anti-immigration and anti-establishment to form next year. Celente also gives what his assessment of Donald J. Trump, Hillary Clinton and Ron DeSantis are for the year 2022 and beyond. Celente also makes a bold prediction on the so-called CV19 mandates that should make the unvaxed feel more secure. The negative effects of vaccines are going to stay in the news, but Celente expects the mainstream media (MSM) to do everything possible to cover up the deaths and injuries caused by the CV19 injections. Will the numbers be overpowering to the MSM?

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Mandate fall-out.

Four States Enlist National Guard To Battle Health Care Staffing Crisis (JTN)

Four states – Indiana, Maine, New Hampshire and New York – are deploying the National Guard to battle the COVID-19 healthcare staffing shortage. The staffing shortage rose sharply following the implementation of a vaccine mandate. Vaccination rates in New York, New Hampshire and Maine are some of the highest in the nation. More than 80% of people in these states have received at least one dose. In New York, thousands of healthcare workers were placed on unpaid leave after refusing to get the shot. The Guard, under the direction of Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) will send about 120 medical workers to 12 long-term care facilities, according to the Epoch Times. About 75 Guard members from Maine were deployed by Gov. Janet Mills (D). Over the past week, the largest hospital in Maine has not had any available critical care beds.


The New York Times reports that cases in Maine reached their pandemic peak recently. In New Hampshire, about 70 National Guard members are providing medical support across the state. “If unfortunately during the winter months, the hospitalization rates continue to increase, we’ll be more than happy to provide additional resources,” National Guard Maj. Gen. David Mikolaities said according to Epoch Times. Indiana called in the Guard last week to 13 facilities throughout the state following a request from Indiana University Health. The facility fired about 125 people who refused to comply with the school’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The Hoosier State has a vaccination rate of 56.7 percent of residents having received at least one dose.

Maine

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Someone needs to sue him.

A $40 Million Gates Foundation Grant vs A Half Million Human Lives (WT)

In a stunning admission, virologist Dr. Andrew Hill acknowledged in a zoom call that publication of his study could lead to the deaths of at least a half million people. In defending his reversal on the effectiveness of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19, he discussed his “difficult situation” and said, “I’ve got this role where I’m supposed to produce this paper and we’re in a very difficult, delicate balance.” The incident is recounted in Robert Kennedy Jr’s New York Times Bestseller, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the global war on Democracy and Public Health. Andrew Hill, PhD, is a senior visiting Research Fellow in Pharmacology at Liverpool University. He is also an advisor for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Clinton Foundation.

As a researcher for the WHO evaluating ivermectin, Hill wielded enormous influence over international guidance for the drug’s use. Hill had previously authored a analysis of ivermectin as a treatment for COVID-19 that found the drug overwhelmingly effective. On Jan. 6 of 2021, Hill testified enthusiastically before the NIH COVID-19 Treatment Guidlelines Panel in support of ivermectin’s use. Within a month, however, Hill found himself in what he describes as a “tricky situation.” Under pressure from his funding sponsors, Hill then published an unfavorable study. Ironically, he used the same sources as in the original study. Only the conclusions had changed.

Shortly before he published, Dr. Tess Lawrie, Director of the Evidence-based Medicine Consultancy in Bath, England, and one of the world’s leading medical research analysts, contacted Hill via Zoom and recorded the call (transcript below). Lawrie had learned of his new position and reached out to try to rectify the situation. In a remarkable exchange, Hill admitted his manipulated study would likely delay the uptake of ivermectin in the UK and United States, but said he hoped his doing so would only set the lifesaving drug’s acceptance back by about “six weeks,” after which he was willing to give his support for its use. Hill affirmed that the rate of death at that time was 15,000 people per day. At the 80 percent recovery rate using the drug, which Hill and Lawrie discussed earlier in the call, the number of preventable deaths incurred by such a delay would be staggering — as many as 504,000.

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But that’s what the science says?!

Twitter To Ban Users Who Repeatly Claim Vaxxed People Can Spread Covid (RTN)

Twitter has quietly updated its “COVID-19 misleading information policy” to impose new sanctions on tweets about vaccines, PCR tests, and health authorities. These sanctions include removing and labeling tweets. Both types of sanctions also result in Twitter users accruing strikes on their account which can lead to a permanent suspension. While the top of Twitter’s COVID-19 misleading information policy page currently states “Overview November 2021,” a December 2 archive of the page shows that the page was updated and the “Overview November 2021” text was added after December 2. One of the most notable changes to this “COVID-19 misleading information policy” we noticed is related to claims about whether vaccinated people can spread the coronavirus.

The policy now states that Twitter will label tweets with “corrective information” and give users a strike if they: • Claim that “the vaccines will cause you to be sick, spread the virus, or would be more harmful than getting COVID-19”. • Post what Twitter describes as “false or misleading claims that people who have received the vaccine can spread or shed the virus (or symptoms, or immunity) to unvaccinated people”. This means Twitter users could now be sanctioned for sharing or discussing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) admission that “vaccinated people can still become infected and have the potential to spread the virus to others.”

Another change is that Twitter will start giving a strike to and labeling the tweets of users that use research and statistical findings to “make claims contrary to health authorities,” if it decides that their claims “misrepresent research or statistical findings pertaining to the severity of the disease, prevalence of the virus, or effectiveness of widely accepted preventative measures, treatments, or vaccines.” Previously, Twitter would sanction what it deemed to be “false or misleading” information about research findings but there was no provision about contradicting health authorities.

In addition to this, Twitter will give users two strikes and remove their tweets if they claim that “vaccines approved by health agencies (such as Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine in the United States) did not actually receive full approval/authorization, and therefore that the vaccines are untested, ‘experimental’ or somehow unsafe.” This appears to be a reference to criticism of a footnote in the Federal Drug Administration (FDA’s) “full authorization” documents for the Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty) vaccine which revealed that the FDA had extended the emergency-use authorization for the same vaccine. Furthermore, users that claim that vaccines are part of a “global surveillance” effort will have their tweets removed and be given two strikes. The introduction of this provision follows vaccine-related surveillance tech, such as vaccine passports, being introduced in many countries.

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The Refrigeration Mode.

China Banking Assets Are $52 Trillion, Up By $40 Trillion Since 2008 (Peters)

“China’s rapid industrialization and hunger for global market share kept deflationary pressure on durable goods prices for thirty years, helping to keep consumer price inflation and interest rates lower in the West. And the beauty of the Magic Money Tree was that China could insulate its highly cyclical industry from any default cycle. It monetized bad debt and preserved unprotected, deflationary capacity. The stock of money ballooned. Banking assets are now around $52 trillion. They’ve grown by about $40 trillion since 2008. They’re now twice the size of the US banking system and China’s banks have added the equivalent of the US banking systems in just eight years. This is what hyper MMT looks like.”

“The net result is that western monetary policy and China’s mercantile model fed off one another to give us this Alice in Wonderland ‘through-the-looking-glass’ transformation of massive monetary growth into a deflationary mechanism: The Refrigeration Mode. Both sides got what they wanted: China leapfrogging industrial development, and the US got low inflation in the great moderation. But it had side effects. A massive monetary overhang in China, hyper financialization in the US. These extremes are now biting back on the system through the political economy.” “The Deflationary D’s may still be with us (debt, demographics, disruption, digitization), but the system dynamic is becoming inflationary and there are some new supply side shocks that aren’t deflationary for a change.

“Both sides are in (re)flux. On the macro policy side, we are seeing powerful social reactions to the extremes produced by The Refrigeration Mode. These extremes are feeding into the political economy. Whether it’s the ‘Tax the Rich’ dress at the Met Gala, politicians and celebrities at climate change marches around the world, or bipartisan support for China containment, the challenge to the status quo is clear and present. The COVID crisis merely poured petrol on it.” “It means fiscal policy is back in the driver’s seat – just as central banks put an inflationary bias into their reaction functions. Future bailouts are coming via Main Street, as much as Wall Street. And when monetary and fiscal policy combine, policy becomes more directly inflationary in CPI terms, not simply in asset price terms.”

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    Germ
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    Doc Robinson
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    Craig Murray is out of prison and back at his blog, with new details of the case against Julian Assange:

    The effect of the judgement is that the case is now returned to Judge Baraitser with the instruction to reverse her decision and order Assange’s extradition. In doing so she passes the papers up to the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, with whom the final decision on all extraditions lies. Julian has until 23 December to submit an appeal against this High Court decision to the Supreme Court, something he is minded to do.

    Now read this very carefully. The United States Government’s appeal to the High Court was only on those points on which Baraitser had ruled against extradition – Assange’s mental health and the effect upon it of extradition and US prisoner conditions. Assange’s appeal now to the Supreme Court will also be restricted to those subjects. The points on which Baraitser originally ruled in favour of the United States, including Assange’s First Amendment protections and the right of freedom of speech, the bar on political extradition and the inapplicability of espionage charges to journalism – will only be heard later, if he loses at the Supreme Court on what is still the US appeal.

    If the Supreme Court decides for the US on the basis of diplomatic assurances, and the case returns to Baraitser to exercise the extradition warrant, at that time we finally have the cross appeal on all the issues this case is really about. If the High Court then accepts the cross-appeal as arguable (and Holroyde stated specifically that Assange’s wider points of appeal “would be heard at a later stage in proceedings”), then Patel’s trigger itching hand will be stayed while we restart the appeals process, quite possibly back to Holroyde and Burnett.

    This benefits the Machiavellian state in two ways. For up to another year the legal argument will continue to be about Julian’s mental health, where the self-disparagement required by his defence suits the state political narrative. Nobody inside court is currently permitted to be talking about freedom of speech or the exposure of US war crimes, and that of course feeds in to the MSM reporting.

    The state also is happy that this convoluted Supreme Court and then cross-appeal process will last for years not months, even before we look at the European Court of Human Rights, and all that time Julian Assange is stuck in high security in Belmarsh jail, treated as a terrorist, and his mental and physical health are visibly deteriorating in a way that is simply horrible. It is not hyperbole to state we may well be watching his slow murder by the state.

    Your Man Back in the Public Gallery: Assange Extradition, US Appeal Result
    https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/12/your-man-back-in-the-public-gallery-assange-extradition-us-appeal-result/

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    Susmarie108 wrote: If we can RECLAIM our HUMANITY, in ways large and small, we will go through the process GRACEFULLY.

    Absolutely. Just because nobody is in charge–not even Elon Musk!–does not mean our individual actions are not “important” (whatever exactly that means to the universe). I find it interesting that Tucker Carlson has had Tulsi Gabbard on his show fairly regularly recently. She strikes me as a voice of reason, which of course means she is doomed. I do find it interesting that she wears her belief in God on her sleeve. In the times ahead, more people will be looking for spiritual guidance. I hope she runs again. I’m of the belief that politicians at that level are basically useless, but can sometimes affect the tenor of public life in some way. (Note that this does not mean they are in charge!)

    Meanwhile, I went to the farmer’s market right in town yesterday and bought a pair of locally grown and made wool socks, a small flask of fire cider, and a bowl of soup. The day before I rode my bike to the top of the local mountain in the fog. Today I am working from home and the winter sun is coming through the windows of my little rental cottage by the side of the creek. My son, who got a fever yesterday from his second shot, is on the couch reading. If I look at him, and past him, out the window where the recently bared branches are swaying noiselessly in the light wind, it’s all good.

    My son was saying his shoe size is now 10 mens (he just turned 12) and his foot is now bigger than his mom’s head and on a whim I wanted to show him a clip of Ed Sullivan saying Really Big Shew. I came upon this, which is kinda special. Even has a line about the Asian Flu. Serendipity. There ya go.

    https://youtu.be/gHXu51MzTVQ?t=2

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    Germ
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    “Everyone aged three and above will need to show a vaccine passport to see the San Jose Sharks playing at home. The NHL team announced the new passport requirements for all games going forward.”

    https://www.nhl.com/sharks/news/updates-to-covid-19-health–safety-protocols-at-sap-center/c-328705194

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    Germ
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    Germ
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    #95114
    DarkMatter
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    A possible new narrative:
    1) The vaxxed took the risk, sacrificed and got the jab that slowed Covid down and kept society functioning until a benign variant (omicron) arrived
    2) The unvaxxed freeloaded but now enjoy the benefits
    3) The vaxxed, like wounded soldiers, are now suffering the consequences of their sacrifice for the unvaxxed
    4) The vaxxed are like veterans and are owed support for the rest of their lives from the unvaxxed

    #95115
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    “Fortunately, here in good-old USA, we have the example, lessons learned and wisdom of a little guerrilla revolution from a few centuries ago that threw off another form of Global Tyranny driven by the madness of King George. There are many parallels. And much to be remembered and re-learned from the revolutionary citizen-politician leaders of those days. And we also have the truth as our armor and shield.” …

    … “Don’t forget. Integrity, Dignity, Community. These are what we are missing, the absence of which is making us socially sick, and these are what we need to rebuild. And the children are what we are fighting for. Their tomorrows are job one.”

    Wow! A scientist who actually has a grasp of history, philosophy, and ethics, with a horse farm to boot – being grounded in the abstract as well as the concrete. You couldn’t ask for better leadership in this battle.

    Dr. Robert Malone is a rare individual: one who doesn’t fit the typical modern scientist mold of coke-bottle-spectacled, over-educated, mentally-lopsided, narrowly-focused, corporate/academic minions, who are easily pushed around by the stupid men who rule over them. God bless him!

    #95116
    deflationista
    Participant

    #95117
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-12-13-vaccines-shown-induce-lower-levels-neutralising-antibodies-against-omicron-0
    Vaccines shown to induce lower levels of neutralising antibodies against Omicron coronavirus variant

    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.10.21267534v1
    Reduced neutralisation of SARS-COV-2 Omicron-B.1.1.529 variant by post-immunisation serum

    Abstract
    In this report, we present live neutralisation titres against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, compared with neutralisation against Victoria, Beta and Delta variants. Sera from day-28 post second-dose were obtained from participants in the Com-COV2 study who had received a two-dose COVID-19 vaccination schedule with either AstraZeneca (AZD1222) or Pfizer (BNT162b2) vaccines. There was a substantial fall in neutralisation titres in recipients of both AZD1222 and BNT162b2 primary courses, with evidence of some recipients failing to neutralise at all. This will likely lead to increased breakthrough infections in previously infected or double vaccinated individuals, which could drive a further wave of infection, although there is currently no evidence of increased potential to cause severe disease, hospitalisation or death.

    #95118
    deflationista
    Participant

    #95119
    deflationista
    Participant

    #95120
    deflationista
    Participant

    Since you are all so enamored with science and studies:

    #95121
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    “…typical modern “physician” mold of coke-bottle-spectacled, over-educated, mentally-lopsided, narrowly-focused, corporate/academic minions, who are easily pushed around by the stupid men who rule over them. ”

    Truer words were never spoken.

    #95122
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    Monday humor:

    #95123
    uranian
    Participant

    @Henry

    “Mother nature is a harsh mistress, but a wonderful lover. If you love your land it will love you back.”

    that’s the first time i’ve added a new quote to my list since:

    “Nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know. Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.”

    as a co-creator with an acre of the purest clay i’ve ever seen misnomered as soil for 3 years now, i echo your beatifully expressed sentiment. there’s that line about how we owe our existence to a few centimeters of top soil and the fact that it rains, too.

    #95124
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “Nobody is in control?”

    Nobody, except maybe God if you believe in that stuff. Belief that there is a master plan is similar to belief in God, well, really, a belief in Satan. Upon learning that our authorities are neither godly nor benevolent, we turn to viewing them as demonic malignancies with godly powers.

    We need, after all, to believe in SOME thing. It’s not like we can believe in everything. Everything, after all, is so very real, and what fun is it to believe in the inescapably obvious? Belief in the obvious doesn’t provide the escapist satisfaction that we crave, living as creatures who believe they are somehow apart from nature, why, even God’s Chosen Species. We so special; at least one of us must know how to drive this thing.

    The Contemplative: Answer, Please

    The Executive: Louder, Please

    #95125
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Just cuz

    I mean: dancing/singing dinosaur!

    #95126
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Glimpse into Russians frustration with the U.S.:

    “ There is one-sided negative predictability, in fact. As for any prospects for improvement, everything is completely unpredictable. This is a sad conclusion based on the results of the long journey that we have travelled with the current US administration, with Donald Trump, and with Barack Obama. These problems did not emerge yesterday. They have to do with the US tendency, by and large, to deny Russia the role of a major independent player in international relations while trying to impose its own approaches to a whole range of issues, including how we should live in our own country.

    All of the above certainly limits our prospects for straightening out relations – at least at the present stage, I would not risk giving any optimistic forecasts. We can definitely say there is predictability in that we will have to continue to deal with just this kind of America and this kind of American policy. And we are ready for this.”

    Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov’s interview with Izvestia, December 13, 2021
    https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/4992391

    F.S.

    #95127
    ctbarnum
    Participant

    I think I figured out why deflatulence comes here so much.

    #95128
    those darned kids
    Participant
    #95129
    bill of rights
    Participant

    Austria is a Catholic country. Austria experienced Hitler. Isn’t there some constitutional limit on imprisonment there such as we have in the U.S. Constitution (8th Amendment forbids excessive punishments)?

    #95130
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    Well, I’m pretty sure that every forum on the Internet that is not heavily moderated has to have a deflationista of its own, whether they’re a bot, a paid agent, or just a neurotic trainwreck.

    #95131
    chooch
    Participant

    There are many ways today that we can assist those whom society rejects. We can offer them comfort or compassion. Or we can add to this list people who are seriously ill.

    Deflationista, the wrap up verse should bring a smile to your face.

    #95132
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    Finally took the time to view the Gerald Celente video. He’s super frisky – and doing more yelling than ever! Kinda makes me want to renew my Trends Journal subscription. (Note: GC also has an IVM stash). One favorite “trend” prediction from this discussion: it’s over for Trump and Hillary, DeSantis will win if he decides to run. Bonus trend: Anger is good.

    #95133

    NYT headline response: actuarial tables.
    Dark Matter- Taxes will rise to pay health costs for those who drank the kool-aid. (And continue to drink it!)
    We’ll treat them better than veterans!

    #95134
    deflationista
    Participant

    Well, I’m pretty sure that every forum on the Internet that is not heavily moderated has to have a deflationista of its own

    How dangerous it is to have to ponder a counter perspective! What an open mind you have! You poor babies can’t handle four posts to a blog forum without having your panties twist into knots. And your brains seem to follow. What twisted logic it must take to view the world through conspiratorial lenses! It must be so tiring. Oh, and whoever is sending the checks for my troll/CIA/infiltrator work, please stop putting my name on them and make a donation to Raul. He deserves it.

    #95135

    actuarial tables. Dark Matter- Taxes will rise as we all pay to help those who drank the kool-aid. Insurance premiums will then follow the hype hikes. Otherwise….” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>Insurance.
    “Health Plan Cost Increases for 2022 Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels”

    Just thought it was interesting.

    #95136
    deflationista
    Participant

    The grammar doesn’t seem indigenous to western civ, the over use of name calling + derogatory words seems like a desperate person reaching for dramatic effect in lieu of their ability to properly support the narrative they espouse.

    At first I thought we had a mental on our hands, but my perception is now that of a low grade “professional” troll…

    Seen them before, mostly on ZH where they’re laughed off and/or banned eventually, really hope this one goes away soon 😉

    Oh my god. You are so fucking crazy.

    #95137

    Oops. That was weird.

    #95138
    deflationista
    Participant

    I have concluded , our troll, defeatist, is being paid by someone for each post placed on TAE.

    I have concluded, our dummy, WES, really is batshit crazy.

    #95139
    deflationista
    Participant

    Kiddies …just to reiterate…”you see what you look at”. Lots of OTHER stuff to look at in my *view*.

    Am I really perceiving this?? Are there cracks in grand-guru-genius Taleb’s castle foundation? Just watching the twitter chitter..could just be me confirming my bias against the arrogant prick.? Hahahahha. @ Dr. D?

    @defaltionista, what do you think? Your good with this sorta stuff…..F’ing Asshole.

    I don’t even know what this post means. But let me comment on Taleb. He has some very interesting books and thoughts. His problem is that he can’t explain things in a simple way. And he then berates people when they ask questions. In fact, I would almost bet that he says things in such convoluted and stilted ways as to make himself appear smarter than he really is. Jay Hanson was the same exact way. They say shit that is barely comprehensible, and their groupies lavish praise and tell them how smart they are. There are many posters here that do the same thing. Almost every post from zerosum or boscohorrorshitz is read twice, three, even four times. And I can hardly ever understand what the fuck they are talking about. I’m dumb though. My handlers don’t tell me to think. They just sign the checks and tell me to post material that provides balance to a community that has clearly lost its way on the road called reality. So, don’t take my word for it. Carl Sagan thought it was our responsibility to explain very difficult concepts in ways that a 5 year old could understand. Taleb, Hanson, Orlov, etc. They apparently didn’t get that memo. Neither did you, apparently.

    #95140
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    TPTB have long supported Think Tanks & Institutions that have developed broad national policy to get ahead of national/global management of sheeple + opposing sovereign (often artificially) interests…

    “The Narrative” established by these “watchers” is a CULT of wealth, power & prestige that looks at humanity as produce to be harvested while establishing fertile ground for the “enlightened” to be safe, secure & protected in their covetous, unscrupulous lifestyles derived from twisting private gains with government tyranny.

    This has been TPTB CULT’s ever expanding modus operandi + mission since America lost control of its central bank in 1913 to the robber barons, their money + Rule of Law to Emergency Powers in 1933, + the CULT learning from Bernays & others how to expand manipulation/control of the sheeple through artifices of false pride, lust of the eyes, willful ignorance & vanity ~ Every generation of illicit gluttony building on the prior…

    Beginning with WWII + the Cold War new penchants were added to CULTs formula for mass exploitation: Primarily the FUD Factor + Cognitive Dissonance, which has been channeled into all manner of distractions from questioning the legitimacy of “The Narrative”.

    It’s actually not even a hidden phenom any longer, as powerless masses scramble to receive scraps from their masters’ tables, including those that aspire to be part of the “special” people ~ This is why celebrities, “news” reporters et al. succumb to “The Narrative”, becoming willing participants in the tyranny to assure their place at the table, not on or under it…

    Then you have a small portion of humanity that can’t look away from the darkness, who spend much mental/emotional effort explaining the conspiracy away or ignoring new information that conflicts with their to maintain their benign ILLUSION belief system(s).

    Western civilization is in a battle for survival, because the CULT is hobbled by the remnants of Natural Law + Democratic Republics, witness the illegal totalitarian misdeeds of current “leadership” that is warping normalcy into blatant tyranny…

    COVID19/mRNA Vax = WWIII…

    No amount of namby pamby good thinking and/or feelings will change “real reality”, it’s too late for that…

    Moreover, once TPTB CULT achieves control of western civ there are further impediments to their “Reset”, primarily Russia, China & cultures (CULTS) that are by their nature not compatible with modernity.

    While setbacks occur with “The Narrative” from time-to-time, the TPTB CULT victories can only be ignored by those unwilling to acknowledge them…

    BTW, there is no -0- imminent threat to humanity due to scarcity or poisoning the planet, those are illusions created as part of “The Narrative”, We have the abundant means to live in balance with ourselves & the biosphere, but not with the ravenous overlords that live so, so far beyond their means.

    #95141
    those darned kids
    Participant

    deflationista: for a small fee, i will be pleased to edit your posts before you hit “submit”. on some occasions we have to “dumb down”, but on others, we have to “dumb up”.

    just sayin’…

    #95142
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    it’s over for Trump and Hillary

    Yeah, I think they both have serious health problems that will make it unlikely that either one will be able to run for president in 2024. As long as we’re all “so fucking crazy”, here’s my prediction for the 2024 election: It will a clusterfuck on every possible level that will culminate in violence in the street in many major cities across the country. The military will probably have to step in so that US society doesn’t collapse completely, and that will be the effective end of the civil-libertarian constitutional republic, though it will continue as a very superficial veneer that only the most credulous will continue to believe.

    #95143
    chooch
    Participant

    Scratch sense of humor.

    #95144
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Wow, it’s The Troll Strikes Back today 😉

    I feel sorry for anyone in close proximity to such an obviously toxic personality, the level of gaslighting spewed forth is very twisted, demented & sad.

    THEIR fight to hide “real reality” is truly historic in its scope, dark times are getting darker…

    Love those in your inner circle, create your own local light, but beware of psychopaths that hate you for it.

    May the Infinite have mercy upon his children…

    #95145
    ezlxa1949
    Participant

    Could we PLEASE stop slanging off at each other? Surely this is not the TAE way. We might not like what deflationista says, but I find that what he/she/it posts to be quite challenging, with claims that need to be addressed. The claims may have substance, they may be exaggerations, but we should regard them and deal with them as a normal part of a “robust” debate.

    We don’t have all the truth and neither does anyone else. The more I read TAE and the comments stream, the more I realise how complicated the situation is and how little I know.

    #95146
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    How dangerous it is to have to ponder….

    {snip}

    Whatevs yo, everybody who has been on teh Internets for more than a decade knows that what I said is nearly universally true. {/shrug}

    #95147
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “The more I read TAE and the comments stream, the more I realise how complicated the situation is and how little I know.”

    Do explain that to our dear def-bot, would you? We don’t want to prevent him from enjoying the danger of pandering pondering a counter-perspective, even if he thinks Jay Hanson talks funny. I’d explain it to him but he can’t ever understand what the fuck I’m talking about… other than to tell me that I’m wrong and he’s right.

    This is logical, isn’t it? Asking for a friend, not a bot.

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