[John Day]

I’m up to yesterday, now.
Thanks Michael Reid for the short video of the ICU doc with natural immunity from catching COVID at work last year, who is suddenly excluded from all her hospitals for being an unvaccinated-pariah-former-heroine.

[John Day]

Thursday Night Follow-up:
Thanks for the kind, thoughtful and helpful words brothers and sisters. Friday was a big day at work.
For all of the personal stresses, and judgment I can feel coming in from some at work (not those I see every day, who have kind eyes) the week went OK for patient care; no crises.

Phoenixvoice: Thanks for understanding. I have so many flows of projects, spirit work, professional work, seeing, understanding, merging, colliding, loving and forgiving, not to mention keeping the garden in time with the seasons. I cannot drop it to engage in an attack. I would use my resources, and I do not have the upper hand, and I still care for these people. We are on different sides of “history” right now.

Sumac.Carol: Thanks. I am doing what I can do each day. I am getting back to the homestead projects in Yoakum today. Jenny and I are shelling dry beans, black-eyed peas, and cleaning out the bad bits.
Beans are cooking on the stove. I’m trying a new shelling/cleaning technique on blackeyed peas. It worked well on black beans. My one-legged friend, Dan and I worked it out last weekend. It involves an axe, head down, in a 5 gallon bucket, to gently crush the dry beans, hand cleaning the chaff off the top, then pouring the bucket into a clean wheelbarrow, through the wind of a strong fan.

Formerly T-Bear: “That which can be spoken is not the Tao.” I’m working on it, brother, really, inwardly, outwardly, daily, haltingly, flowingly, growingly.

CitizenX: 🙂

@ Veracious Poet: I have appreciated your stories and insights (demo-charges placed long ago in WTC Bldgs, for instance). They are rare down here at ground level. Avoid the urge to inaction. Do something constructive, and see where it leads. Despair and nihilism don’t prepare for what is coming, don’t create, don’t reduce suffering.
You may know EVEN MORE right now, but don’t let it stop you. You are alive.

[John Day]

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.

[John Day]

@”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.)

[John Day]

@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…

[John Day]

“Self Identification” is up: https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/09/self-identification.html

World Council for Health has this:
Maintain a healthy immune system with good nutrition, fresh air, and simple supplements like Vitamin D, C, Zinc, and Quercetin.
Use the medicines and supplements that are available to you.
Be prepared! Keep a good supply of healthy food, supplements, and medicines so you will be ready if you become infected.
Treat Covid-19 early if you become symptomatic or receive a positive test. Early treatment helps reduce the severity and duration of Covid-19 infection.
Treat Covid-19 using a combination of therapies that address the complex nature of the illness:
Antiviral/antimicrobial therapies such as ivermectin
Anti-inflammatory medicines such as ibuprofen and N-acetylcysteine
Immune-balancing medicines and supplements such as Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Zinc, Quercetin, and Melatonin
Anticoagulant medicines such as aspirin
Symptom support such as cough mixtures, acetaminophen, nasal sprays, and mouthwashes
Seek advice from your doctor if you are concerned about Covid-19 symptoms or for early treatment options.
GO TO THE HOSPITAL if you are short of breath, have difficulty breathing, or are experiencing chest heaviness or pain.

Early Covid-19 treatment guidelines: A practical approach to home-based care for healthy families

The Market Crash Nobody Thinks Is Possible Is Coming​ Charles Hugh Smith (but exactly when, sir?)​
The banquet of consequences is being served, and risk-off crashes are, like revenge, best served cold.
​ ​T​he ideal setup for a crash is a consensus that a crash is impossible–in other words, just like the present: sure, there are carefully measured murmurings about a “correction” but nobody with anything to lose in the way of public credibility is calling for an honest-to-goodness crash, a real crash, not a wimpy, limp-wristed dip that will immediately be bought.
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-market-crash-nobody-thinks-is.html

Tomorrow marks the start of my last month of work at the clinic, since I am COVID-unvaccinated.
It was announced in an email that I would be leaving, but not why, so I added that it was involuntary, and explained my moral position of “standing naked with the Jews”, likening this to WW-2 Germany. I’ve been judged pretty harshly, by people I have known for years, for “being hurtful”, and probably 20:1 judged me and did not reply. I have been respectful, explained our family tour with bikes and backpacks visited the Anne Frank House, Dachau and Tuol Sleng torture museum, in Cambodia. I take this very seriously, and I bear the responsibility for my actions and my statements. One younger black man, working at the clinic, came to me yesterday, asking about my decision, and explaining that he had made the same choice, because he distrusts what is being forced upon people.
We agree.
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..

[John Day]

Are We Really So “Rich”? A New Way of Defining Wealth​ Charles Hugh Smith​
What if our commoditized, financialized definition of wealth reflects a staggering poverty of culture, spirit, wisdom, practicality and common sense?
​ ​The conventional definition of wealth is solely financial: ownership of money and assets. The assumption is that money can buy anything the owner desires: power, access, land, shelter, energy, transport and if not love, then a facsimile of caring.
​ ​The flaw in this reductionist definition is obvious: not everything of value can be purchased at any price–for example, health, once lost, cannot be purchased for $1 million, $10 million or even $100 million.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogsept21/what-is-wealth9-21.html

[John Day]

P​epe Escobar, A New World Order Takes Shape, Part 2 – Eurasian Consolidation Ends The US Unipolar Moment
​ ​With very little potential to contain China now that it’s been all but expelled from the Eurasia heartland, the fallback position had to be a classic maritime power play: the “free and open Indo-Pacific”, complete with Quad and AUKUS, the whole set up spun to death as an “effort” attempting to preserve dwindling American supremacy.​..​
​ ​The Global South is not impressed. Addressing the forum in Dushanbe, President Putin remarked that the portfolio of nations knocking on the SCO’s door was huge, and that was not surprising at all. Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia are now SCO dialogue partners, on the same level with Afghanistan and Turkey. It’s quite feasible they may be joined next year by Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Serbia and a cast of dozens.​..
It’s no wonder the process irks the Empire immensely, because Greater Eurasia, led by Russia-China, is a mortal attack against the geoeconomic architecture of Atlanticism. And that leads us to the nest of vipers debate around the EU concept of “strategic autonomy” from the US; that would be essential to establish true European sovereignty – and eventually, closer integration within Eurasia.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-eurasia-takes-shape-part-2-eurasian-consolidation-ends-us-unipolar-moment

​ Taiwan makes the chips and systems that the world needs. Taiwan has to keep making them, but China would like to control them, and so would the US.
Nobody wants to destroy that capacity, but to own it. Taiwan can probably buy whatever missiles it wants, but not from China.
​ Taiwan’s Defense Minister Demands Long-Range Missiles For The Island To Repel China
​ ​”The development of equipment must be long-range, precise, and mobile, so that the enemy can sense that we are prepared as soon as they dispatch their troops,” Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng told parliament in Taipei on Monday
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/taiwans-defense-minister-urges-long-range-missiles-island-repel-china

The AUKUS preparing a nuclear war to sustain Taiwan​ ​by Thierry Meyssan​ Thanks Eleni.
​ ​The AUKUS Pact seems to be designed to come to Taiwan’s aid if China tried to take it back by force. General Sir James Hockenhull, commander of Her Majesty’s Military Intelligence, confirmed that British armies were recruiting Asian agents.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article214159.html

All of Central Asia is re-setting towards the SCO, EAEU, Russia and China. The former is now ‘lost’ to the U.S., Alastair Crooke writes.
​ ​In a very real sense, Washington was the hub: and states – particularly Gulf States defined themselves more in relation to the hub – than to each other. Now those relationships, and associated policies, many of which were geared to pleasing and being favoured by the hub, are up for radical review.​..
…​if there was doubt about where the U.S. ‘is’, consider this: The stunning betrayal of France by America over the eleventh hour surprise provision of nuclear submarine technology for Australia signals a huge geopolitical shift in U.S. strategy. In its growing confrontation with China, a ruthless Washington has demonstrated that what matters to it now is not Europe, but the Indo-Pacific region. This is wthe new Cold War is to be fought.here

That ‘Other’ Reset Unfolding Across West & Central Asia

For Israel, the problem is more acute as former Ambassador, Michael Oren, has outlined:
​”​The new Israeli government is facing this doomsday nuclear threat [from Iran]. In five years’ time, it will be worse: Iran’s programme will be further along. [This conflict] is going to happen eventually, of that I am absolutely certain, so I prefer it happens now, rather than in 5 years’ time – when it will be more difficult for Israel to respond​”​ …
“With the U.S. focusing its efforts on preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, Iran is liable to reach the conclusion that as a nuclear threshold state, it will not be the target of a military retaliation. And if sanctions are imposed on it – it can look to other world powers for help, such as China and Russia. If Iran reaches the conclusion that there is no point in developing real nuclear weapons because this could produce a frontal clash with the U.S. and the West; yet still become a nuclear threshold state, the challenge to Israel is liable to be particularly difficult”.

That ‘Other’ Reset Unfolding Across West & Central Asia

[John Day]

The Great Game Moves On (The western goal is now to contain China, to allow island nations to maintain independence from China.)
Following NATO’s defeat in the heart of Asia, and with Afghanistan now under the Taliban’s rule, the Chinese/Russian axis now controls the Asian continental mass. Asian nations not directly related to its joint hegemony (not being members, associates, or dialog partners of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) are increasingly dependent upon it for trade and technology. Sub-Saharan Africa is in its sphere of influence. The reality for America is that the total population in or associated with the SCO is 57% of the world population. And America’s grip on its European allies is slipping.
NATO itself has become less relevant, with Turkey drawn towards the rival Asian axis, and its EU members are compromised through trading and energy links with Russia and China. Furthermore, France is pushing the EU towards establishing its own army independent of US-led NATO — quite what its role will be, other than political puffery for France is a mystery.
It is against this background that three of the Five Eyes intelligence partnership have formed AUKUS – standing for Australia, UK, and US — and its first agreement is to give Australia a nuclear submarine capability to strengthen the partnership’s naval power in the Pacific. Other capabilities, chiefly aimed at containing the Chinese threat to Taiwan and other allies in the Pacific Ocean, will surely emerge in due course. The other two Five Eyes, Canada and New Zealand, appear to be less keen to confront China…
But gathering intelligence and building naval power in the Pacific won’t defeat the Chinese. All simulations show that the US, with or without AUKUS, cannot win a military conflict against China. But AUKUS is not a formal model on NATO lines which commits its members by treaty to aggression against a common enemy. While Taiwan remains a specific problem, the objective is almost certainly to discourage China from territorial expansion and protect and give other Pacific nations on the Asian periphery the security to be independent from the SCO behemoth.​..
…​While the US may not like it, if RCEP goes ahead, freer trade will almost certainly undermine a belligerent stance in due course. Despite hiccups, the progression of trade dealing in the Pacific region promises to prove Mackinder right about the prospect of a more balanced world. All being well and guaranteed by a balance of naval capabilities between AUKUS and China, a free-trading Pacific region will render the European and American trade protectionist policies an anachronism.​..
…​Having failed in their land-based military objectives, America’s undeclared tariff and financial wars against China are also coming to an end, to be replaced by a policy of maritime containment through the AUKUS partnership. Attempts to stem strategic losses in Asia have now ended with the withdrawal from Afghanistan and from other interventions. ​
​ The change in geopolitical policy is not yet widely appreciated. But the parlous state of US finances, dollar market bubbles, persistent and increasing price inflation and the inevitability of interest rate increases will make a policy backstop of maritime containment the only geostrategic option left to America.
https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/the-great-game-moves-on

John Ward has some insights. China is the largest coal user in the world, by far. China is the largest coal producer, but has low reserves. Chinese imports of American coal (at low import duty) just increased ninefold, after Australian coal imports were halted for a trade dispute.
China is having rolling blackouts from lack of coal-power recently, and expects them to last, “new normal”. Coal choke-hold?​
& NOW, HERE IS SOME NEWS
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At least 20 Chinese provinces and regions making up more than 66% of the country’s GDP have announced some form of power cuts. Guangdong province, the southern industrial hub, is cutting ~10% of its peak power demand.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/china-provincial-governor-pleas-more-coal-imports-resolve-power-crunch

[John Day]

Biden’s Vax Mandate To Be Enforced By Fining Companies $70,000 To $700,000?​ Wait, did I vote for THAT?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-vax-mandate-be-enforced-fining-companies-70000-700000

Democrats provide much higher vaccine efficacy estimates than Republicans (88% vs. 50%), and unvaccinated Republicans have a median vaccine efficacy of 0%, compared with 73% for vaccinated Republicans.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-adults-estimates-covid-hospitalization-risk-depends-party-vaccination-status-gallup

Only 45% of respondents said they trust the president to provide accurate information about the virus, down from 58% in January. The result of this poll is exemplified in Biden’s outlandish comment on Monday about pre-pandemic life can only return if 97% of Americans are vaccinated.
Compared with rating earlier this year, Biden is losing trust among Democrats (an 11-percentage point decline to 81% trust a great deal or fair amount) and Republicans (a 10-point drop to 11%). He has experienced the most significant decline in confidence among independents (a 17-point decline to 42%).
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/americans-trust-president-biden-provide-accurate-covid-info-tumbles

​Lt. Colonel Theresa Long MD, and Air Force Flight surgeon​ files a Military Whistleblower affidavit seeking a court injunction, on the basis of the fact, presented in evidence, that current COVID-19 vaccines produce heart damage in pilots and flight crews, and that all of those vaccinated need to be grounded until medical studies can be carried out, at least MRI, because the majority of myocarditis and lesser damage is not overtly symptomatic. The pilots and crew members that have died within 2 days of vaccination, so far, did not die flying.
This is a courageous and principled stand, and the end of her military career, no matter what the court may ultimately find.

AFFIDAVIT OF LTC. THERESA LONG M.D. IN SUPPORT OF A MOTION FOR A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION ORDER

[John Day]

“Oh Canada…”
​ ​Canadian military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public, a newly released Canadian Forces report concludes. The federal government never asked for the so-called information operations campaign, nor did cabinet authorize the initiative developed during the COVID-19 pandemic by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, then headed by Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau. But military commanders believed they didn’t need to get approval from higher authorities to develop and proceed with their plan, retired Maj.-Gen. Daniel Gosselin, who was brought in to investigate the scheme, concluded in his report.
https://nationalpost.com/news/national/defence-watch/military-leaders-saw-pandemic-as-unique-opportunity-to-test-propaganda-techniques-on-canadians-forces-report-says/

Victoria, Australia: ​Health Minister Foley announced 867 new COVID cases recorded yesterday. During the statistical outline Foley identifies 375 people as hospitalized, 81 people in intensive care and 61 people on a ventilator. Then comes the statistic everyone in government and media ignore. Amid the recorded cases “78% of the hospital cases are fully vaccinated, and 17% are partially vaccinated (1 dose)”….
That means 95% of the COVID patients in Victoria hospitals are vaccinated.
356 people out of 375 patients are vaccinated, yet 81 people are still in intensive care with 61 on a ventilator…
78% of the hospital patients are fully vaccinated, that’s actually a higher percentage than the population vaccinated as a whole.

Truth Being Ignored – Victoria Australia Records 867 New COVID Cases, 375 in Hospital and 95% of Those Hospitalized are Vaccinated

[John Day]

Self Help is up. Lots comes from here, and I’ll try not to re-post, except when I do re-post, making some kind of point, perhaps. https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/09/self-help.html

​COVID-19 mortality risk correlates inversely with vitamin D3 status, and a mortality rate close to zero could theoretically be achieved at 50 ng/ml 25(OH)D3: Results of a systematic review and meta-analysis
Conclusions The two datasets provide strong evidence that low D3 is a predictor rather than a side effect of the infection. Despite ongoing vaccinations, we recommend raising serum 25(OH)D levels to above 50 ng/ml to prevent or mitigate new outbreaks due to escape mutations or decreasing antibody activity.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.22.21263977v1

​A “pangolin lineage” SARS-CoV-2 variant, with multiple vaccine-escape mutations popped up in Moscow early this year. It’s hard to tell how that might have happened. No link between distant pangolins and the circulating virus has been found. It’s getting around pretty well in the world. I wonder where it came from.​
A new SARS-CoV-2 variant (B.1.1.523) capable of escaping immune protections
​ ​The authors of this study have reported that the B.1.1.523 variant harbors a new combination of concerning spike mutations that are present in many currently circulating VoCs. Many of these mutations are concerning and are associated with the evasion of immune protection. This is critical, as these developments could challenge the effectiveness of available vaccines
https://www.news-medical.net/amp/news/20210927/A-new-SARS-CoV-2-variant-(B11523)-capable-of-escaping-immune-protections.aspx

[John Day]

Thanks for the kind Mention, TAE Summary.
Strange as it may seem, Texas is NORTH of Australia.
Seems like it should be more like next door, most of the time.
Strange days, lately…
Here is a courageous Air Force Flight Surgeon, Theresa Long MD, who has filed an affidavit.
Her research shows damage to the hearts of military aviators from spike protein in vaccines, so the vaccinated ones need MRIs before they can fly. Grounded. The aviators who died of blood clots and heart attacks within 2 days of vaccination were not flying at the time. https://www.deepcapture.com/2021/09/affidavit-of-ltc-theresa-long-m-d-in-support-of-a-motion-for-a-preliminary-injunction-order/

[John Day]

COVID v. Spartacus https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/09/covid-v-spartacus.html
Sunday picture @ homestead with Jenny, too (Y’all already have the Spartacus part 🙂

Thanks to a commenter on the blog for this:
A Self Fulfilling Prophecy: Systemic Collapse and Pandemic Simulation
​ ​The mainstream narrative should therefore be reversed: the stock market did not collapse (in March 2020) because lockdowns had to be imposed; rather, lockdowns had to be imposed because financial markets were collapsing. With lockdowns came the suspension of business transactions, which drained the demand for credit and stopped the contagion. In other words, restructuring the financial architecture through extraordinary monetary policy was contingent on the economy’s engine being turned off. Had the enormous mass of liquidity pumped into the financial sector reached transactions on the ground, a monetary tsunami with catastrophic consequences would have been unleashed.
​ ​As claimed by economist Ellen Brown, it was “another bailout”, but this time “under cover of a virus.” Similarly, John Titus and Catherine Austin Fitts noted that the Covid-19 “magic wand” allowed the Fed to execute BlackRock’s “going direct” plan, literally: it carried out an unprecedented purchase of government bonds, while, on an infinitesimally smaller scale, also issuing government backed ‘COVID loans’ to businesses. In brief, only an induced economic coma would provide the Fed with the room to defuse the time-bomb ticking away in the financial sector. Screened by mass-hysteria, the US central bank plugged the holes in the interbank lending market, dodging hyperinflation as well as the ‘Financial Stability Oversight Council’ (the federal agency for monitoring financial risk created after the 2008 collapse), as discussed here. However, the “going direct” blueprint should also be framed as a desperate measure, for it can only prolong the agony of a global economy increasingly hostage to money printing and the artificial inflation of financial assets.
​ ​At the heart of our predicament lies an insurmountable structural impasse. Debt-leveraged financialization is contemporary capitalism’s only line of flight, the inevitable forward-escape route for a reproductive model that has reached its historical limit. Capitals head for financial markets because the labour-based economy is increasingly unprofitable. How did we get to this?
​ ​The answer can be summarised as follows: 1. The economy’s mission to generate surplus-value is both the drive to exploit the workforce and to expel it from production. This is what Marx called capitalism’s “moving contradiction”.[1] While it constitutes the essence of our mode of production, this contradiction today backfires, turning political economy into a mode of permanent devastation. 2. The reason for this change of fortune is the objective failure of the labour-capital dialectic: the unprecedented acceleration in technological automation since the 1980s causes more labour-power to be ejected from production than (re)absorbed. The contraction of the volume of wages means that the purchasing power of a growing part of the world population is falling, with debt and immiseration as inevitable consequences. 3. As less surplus-value is produced, capital seeks immediate returns in the debt-leveraged financial sector rather than in the real economy or by investing in socially constructive sectors like education, research, and public services.
​ ​The bottom line is that the paradigm shift underway is the necessary condition for the (dystopian) survival of capitalism, which is no longer able to reproduce itself through mass wage-labour and the attendant consumerist utopia. The pandemic agenda was dictated, ultimately, by systemic implosion: the profitability downturn of a mode of production which rampant automation is making obsolete. For this immanent reason, capitalism is increasingly dependent on public debt, low wages, centralisation of wealth and power, a permanent state of emergency, and financial acrobatics.

A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Systemic Collapse and Pandemic Simulation

​ Thanks Marjorie, for this long, informative resource, very well researched and formatted:
The Snake-Oil Salesmen and the COVID-Zero Con: A Classic Bait-And-Switch for a Lifetime of Booster Shots (Immunity as a Service)
​…​But this essay demonstrates that never-ending boosters were the initial motive for this global social-engineering shell game ― the subscription-based business model, adapted for the pharmaceutical industry. “Immunity as a service”.​..
Don’t…​ ​Compliance is the glue that holds tyranny together. Non-compliance breaks it apart. One person alone cannot stop this. But if millions find the courage to raise their voices and the courage to refuse to participate in the system on these tyrannical medical terms, it will throw the system into such a crisis and create such a tension that the community will be forced to confront the issue. Without enough truckers, no-one eats. Without enough medical staff, hospitals close. Without enough workers, supply chains break. Without enough policemen, laws cannot be enforced. Without enough garbage collectors, cities grind to a halt. Without enough cashiers, box stores cannot stay open. Without enough administrators, institutions cease to function. Without enough staff, corporations lose profits. Without enough servers, restaurants cannot serve their customers. And without enough customers, businesses are brought to their knees.
https://www.juliusruechel.com/2021/09/the-snake-oil-salesmen-and-covid-zero.html#Novel

[John Day]

Thanks All, I have been catching up. There has been a lot for me to do recently, which isn’t sleeping.
The Spartacus post getting such high numbers is great. I’m gonna’ help it a little bit. just a little bit.
🙂

[John Day]

The medical facts are all spot-on, and the presentation is so clear and original in some instances that I am convinced it is drawn from the mind of a person who has a complete internal working model of this, a working expert in the field. The citations support that premise.
What is known and what is more speculative are clearly demarcated in scientific style.

It also lines up so well with my own synthesis, including what I “know” and what I surmise, that I don’t think “Spartacus” and I would be able to find anything, about which to argue.

[John Day]

@Phoenix Voice: “SCIENCE” means COMPLIANCE

[John Day]

@Saul Goodman: ‘s all good, man!
Couldn’t resist.

It’s a moral and spiritual test.
Request guidance.

[John Day]

Nordstream-2 pipeline update. The pipeline is complete, but political red tape prevents any gas transport across it, as elites play chicken with electrical blackouts and winter freezes coming to EU citizens.​
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Is-Gazprom-About-To-Lose-Its-Natural-Gas-Export-Monopoly.html

​It looks like a step to get rid of retail banking, cash, and anything but central bank digital currency by 2025.​
Banks Oppose Biden’s New ‘Total Financial Surveillance’ Proposal On IRS Reporting
​ ​The proposal, which is being pushed by the Biden administration, would require banks and other financial institutions to report to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) any deposits or withdrawals totaling more than $600 annually to or from all business and personal accounts.
​ ​The American Bankers Association (ABA), along with over 40 business and financial groups, sent a letter on Sept. 17 to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) objecting to the “ill-advised” reporting proposal.
​ ​“While the stated goal of this vast data collection is to uncover tax dodging by the wealthy, this proposal is not remotely targeted to that purpose or that population,” the letter stated.
​ ​“In addition to the significant privacy concerns, it would create tremendous liability for all affected parties by requiring the collection of financial information for nearly every American without proper explanation of how the IRS will store, protect, and use this enormous trove of personal financial information.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/banks-oppose-bidens-new-total-financial-surveillance-proposal-irs-reporting

[John Day]

This is exactly the kind of technology that a government, any government, might employ to inoculate crowds of mourners at a mass funeral, like that of US-drone-Assassinated Iranian General Soleimani on January 6, 2020, following which there was suddenly a lot of COVID in Iran, notably among top government officials, who attended.
​ ​Wuhan Scientists Planned To Release ‘Chimeric Covid Spike Proteins’ Into Bat Populations Using ‘Skin-Penetrating Nanoparticles’
​ ​18 months before the pandemic, scientists in Wuhan, China submitted a proposal to release enhanced airborne coronaviruses into the wild in an effort to inoculate them against diseases that could have otherwise jumped to humans, according to The Telegraph, citing leaked grant proposals from 2018.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/wuhan-scientists-planned-release-chimeric-covid-spike-proteins-bat-populations-using-skin

mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination and Development of CMR-confirmed Myopericarditis​ (It’s funny, nobody without the shots showed up with myocarditis.)
Results 32 patients were identified over the period of interest. Eighteen patients were diagnosed with myocarditis; 12 with myopericarditis; and 2 with pericarditis alone. The median age was 33 years (18-65 years). The sex ratio was 2 females to 29 males. In 5 cases, symptoms developed after only a single dose of mRNA vaccine. In 27 patients, symptoms developed after their second dose of. Median time between vaccine dose and symptoms was 1.5 days (1-26 days).
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.13.21262182v1.full

The CDC experts would like to wait a bit for more information, but that’s politically impossible.​ There’s $10 billion of Pfizer vaccine that needs to be administered.
On Wednesday, “the CDC panelists heard a series of presentations Wednesday outlining the knotty state of science on boosters. On one hand, the COVID-19 vaccines continue to offer strong protection against severe illness, hospitalization and death. On the other hand, there are signs of more low-grade infections among the vaccinated as immunity wanes.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/cdc-panel-considers-delaying-booster-jabs-decision-1-month-wait-more-evidence

[John Day]

I’ve already put up several of these stories this morning (in Texas) https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/09/street-level-experience.html

The Collapse of Complex Societies, an interview with Joseph Tainter
​ ​“It’s a classic case”, says Tainter, “of taking short-term gains at the price of long-term fragility. What’s generally not understood”, adds Tainter, “is that complex societies have what we might call a metabolic cost which, today, is paid for through fossil fuels. But when there is a situation where the economic flows begin to break down or become disrupted, particularly when it comes to something like the supplies of petroleum, then prices go up, costs go up, and the economy is harmed. And we see that happening now, at least in the United States.”​ …
​ ​“One problem that I see, is how do you rapidly increase energy production in, let’s say, a solar energy economy or a hydrogen energy economy if there’s an immediate crisis? Our energy return on investment is decreasing and that trend is irreversible. This has been one of my major concerns about the future of our society.”​ …​
​ ​“I used to think that innovation was the key to seeing us through this. I’m no longer sure that it is. I like to say that we are a species that muddles through. That’s all we’ve ever done and I think all we ever will do. I’m not sure that we can actually plan the future in any precise way.”
https://medium.com/@renegadeinc/the-collapse-of-complex-societies-e8ad2921e063

Out of sight, out of mind… ​Biden To Stick Haitian Immigrants In Gitmo, Seeks Contractor With ‘Creole-Speaking Guards’
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-stick-haitian-immigrants-gitmo-seeks-contractor-creole-speaking-guards

​Front and Center!
Biden Pushing For Dishonourable Discharges, Court Martials For Troops Who Refuse Vaccines
White House claims anything but dishonourable discharge for refusing vaccines would “detract from readiness and limit a commander’s options for enforcing good order and discipline.”

Biden Pushing For Dishonourable Discharges, Court Martials For Troops Who Refuse Vaccines

New York’s New Gov Threatens To Replace Unvaccinated Hospital Workers With ‘Foreigners’
During a press briefing with reporters in Rochester Wednesday, Hochul told a group of reporters that she hoped all unvaccinated workers would meet Monday’s deadline to get the jab, or lose their jobs.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/new-yorks-new-gov-threatens-replace-unvaccinated-hospital-workers-foreigners

[John Day]

That should read “200,000 – 300,000 units of vitamin-D”

[John Day]

@Saul Goodman:
If you have those 3 choices you should take the J&J, after pre-loading with vitamin-D, aspirin and antihistamine, like Zyrtec/cetirizine.
If you have been taking 5000 units/d of vitamin-D long term, you are good on that count.
If you have not been taking vitamin-D at that dose (or with a known blood level), then take 200,00 – 300,000 units once, 3 days before the vaccination. You will have a normal blood level on that day. That is #40-#60 pills of 5000 units. Take it with a meal. You might take the higher dose if you have more than enough body fat.
10 mg cetirizine and 325 mg aspirin for 10 days, starting 3 days before vaccination, should reduce your risk of adverse reactions. 1000 mg of vitamin-C twice per day on those days would not hurt, but I see it as less important.
You can find other opinions, I am sure.

[John Day]

Betadine nasal spray, the new “horse paste”?
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-move-over-ivermectin-the-media-is-now-attacking-effective-nasal-sprays-used-against-covid

[John Day]

@Ilargi:
Twitter suspended the account of the new Surgeon General of Florida.
You are in ok company, I guess.
@Mr. House: reporting all $600 transactions effectively makes all transactions over $600 “electronic”, doesn’t it?
It will put retail gold-bullion dealers out of business, I suspect.
Most of their transactions are under the $10k limit.
It’s what their customers prefer.

[John Day]

My friend of 50 years, Larry, in rural Australia, sends this 4 minute video from Rebel News, of Australian police firing rubber bullets and tear gas at a few peaceful and fairly dispersed construction workers on the streets of Melbourne. They are very rough to a skinny lady after knocking her to the ground, and really ple on a man they have shot in the head with a rubber bullet, who is lying pretty still and saying he can’t breathe. There is a big “anti-terrorist” vehicle that they move down the street with as they shoot at people with rubber bullets and tear gas canisters.

[John Day]

Earthquake damages buildings in Melbourne.
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/very-rare-earthquake-rocks-melbourne-buildings-shake-across-australia

Wait 2 more weeks to slow the spread of COVID before getting any construction crews to work…

[John Day]

This is interesting, and definitely a form of “weaponization”.
Wuhan Scientists Planned To Release ‘Chimeric Covid Spike Proteins’ Into Bat Populations Using ‘Skin-Penetrating Nanoparticles’ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/wuhan-scientists-planned-release-chimeric-covid-spike-proteins-bat-populations-using-skin

[John Day]

On that JP Morgan assessment that “Delta is half as infectious as assumed”…
I’m not sure what the vaccination rate was in those countries, but it was apparently low, “unprotected”.

Delta is spreading quite effectively and rapidly in countries with high vaccination rates.
Delta appears to have a much higher Re in more vaccinated countries, doesn’t it?

Vanden Bossche explains how that can happen, at least partly, but it looks like ADE to me, that the enhancement of infectiousness by the antibodies to January 2020 spike protein is driving Re and Ro higher..

[John Day]

We’ve seen how that maneuver works, already.​
Victorian construction industry forced into two week ‘rest’ to slow COVID-19 transmission
The Victorian Government will shut the construction industry for two weeks because of “non compliance” at work sites and “appalling behaviour” from the protest on Monday that saw union members, tradies and police in violent clashes on Melbourne streets.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/coronavirus/victorian-construction-industry-forced-into-two-week-rest-to-slow-covid19-transmission/news-story/2f1771c828d412bcc6e7fb2ec42b43b8

(Australia will get the same nuclear umbrella it now gets from the US, make Perth a target for nuclear attack, and pay for the privilege.​)
​ ​The AUKUS deal allowed Australia to cancel an order for diesel driven submarines from France by taking up a U.S. and British offer to eventually acquire nuclear driven submarines.
​ ​It is not clear at all that Australia will find the money to actually pay for nuclear submarines. These are 50-100% more expensive that conventional ones. Australia also wants to make sure that at least 60% of the price flows back to Australian manufacturing. But there are no companies in Australia who have experience with work on nuclear technology. It is also unlikely that the U.S. or UK would let Australia gain such capacity.
​ ​There is also little chance that any of the envisioned new boats will be ready before 2040. By then Taiwan will likely be under Beijing’s control and the naval primacy of China in the South China Sea will only have grown. The so far declared time frame and purpose of those boats is thereby questionable…​
That may well be because the real plan is a different one:
​ ​The short-term leasing of nuclear-powered submarines from the UK or the US is being considered by the Morrison government but the Coalition insists nuclear weapons won’t be based in Australia.
​ ​The finance minister, Simon Birmingham, and the defence minister, Peter Dutton, confirmed in seperate interviews on Sunday that leasing submarines from the Aukus allies could be a stop-gap solution until Australia takes delivery of its own – potentially in the 2040s.
​ ​“The short answer is yes,” Dutton said when asked on Sky News about leasing vessels.
​ ​Birmingham said leasing arrangements would not necessarily “increase the number of submarines and the capability across all of the partner nations” but would help with training and information sharing.
“Doing so may provide opportunities for us to train our sailors, provide the skills and knowledge in terms of how we operate,” he told the ABC.
[It would help] provide the platforms for us to upgrade the infrastructure in Perth, that will be necessary for the operation of these submarines. I expect we will see … lease arrangements or greater joint operations between our navies in the future that sees our sailors working more closely and indeed, potentially on UK and US vessels to get that skills and training and knowledge.”
​ ​Perth will thereby be build up into a base that is compatible with the likely permanent stationing of U.S. nuclear submarines. These carry nuclear weapons.
The ‘leased’ boats, or at least their propulsion parts, would of course be still manned by U.S. or British sailors. The Australians already have problems retaining crews for their existing submarines. The few that will be available for the ‘leased’ boats will not be enough to run them. The Australians would pay largely for the privilege of being guests on board of doubtlessly U.S. commanded submarines.​ (And building the nice nuclear sub port for them.​)​​
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/09/the-fallout-from-the-aukus-deal.html#more

​ ​New Zealand police arrest pair trying to enter Auckland with ‘large amount’ of KFC​
(If they had any ivermectin, the cops probably pocketed it.)
Two men tried to reach city – where Covid restrictions banned takeaways – with $100,000, three buckets of chicken and an undisclosed quantity of fries, police say
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/coronavirus/victorian-construction-industry-forced-into-two-week-rest-to-slow-covid19-transmission/news-story/2f1771c828d412bcc6e7fb2ec42b43b8

[John Day]

Vitamin-D is smart-food for the cells of the human immune system (rich and poor alike).
​Association Between Vitamin D Deficiency and COVID-19 Incidence, Complications, and Mortality in 46 Countries: An Ecological Study
The results of the present study suggest an association at the population level between the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and the risk of being infected with COVID-19, severity of the disease, and risk of dying from it. These associations were consistent in both correlation analyses and Poisson regression models adjusted for GDP
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/hs.2020.0137?_se=YW5kcmV3Lnlhc2hjaHVrQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D

​ ​Alabama Hospital Defies Biden Administration, Ends COVID Vaccine Requirement for Staff​ (Hardly “defiant”)
​ ​Bowing to the threat of legal action against it, one Alabama hospital has rescinded its requirement that all staff be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
UAB Hospital in Birmingham said it will wait to learn how the federal vaccine mandates announced by President Joe Biden play out before imposing any requirement, according to WBRC-TV.
​ ​Last week, the Alabama Center for Law and Liberty said the hospital was violating state law, according to Al.com
The letter said the state’s ban on vaccine passports means government entities cannot require anyone to disclose vaccine information.
“As the Supreme Court of Alabama has recognized, UAB Hospital is a state-run hospital,” ​ ​“Consequently, UAB Hospital may not require its employees to disclose whether they have been vaccinated or not. Likewise, the Alabama Attorney General has examined the law and concluded that ‘no government, school, or business in Alabama may demand that a constituent, or customer, respectively, be vaccinated for COVID-19 or show proof of his or her vaccination for COVID-19,’” the letter said.

Alabama Hospital Defies Biden Administration, Ends COVID Vaccine Requirement for Staff

​ ​Sidelined? Hundreds of Navy SEALS told they won’t be deployed if they refuse COVID vaccine
With deadline looming, SEALs in limbo after seeking religious exemption to shot. Lawyer seeks 90-day reprieve to avoid military readiness crisis.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/hundreds-navy-seals-face-being-blocked-deployment-refusing-covid-vaccine

[John Day]

​ ​‘This Is Evil at the Highest Level,’ Says HHS Whistleblower
​ ​In a video released Monday by Project Veritas, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services insider, Jodi O’Malley, a registered nurse, shares recorded conversations between herself and colleagues about the government’s failure to acknowledge COVID vaccine risks and lack of efficacy
​ ​O’Malley: “At the end of the day, it’s about your health, and you can never get that back — and about your freedom, and about living in a peaceful society, and I’m like, ‘no.’ No. This is the hill that I will die on.”

‘This Is Evil at the Highest Level,’ Says HHS Whistleblower

​ ​Baylor Gets Restraining Order Against COVID Vaccine Skeptic Doc
​…​Some Facebook posts with McCullough’s pronouncements have been labeled as misinformation or removed. Some of his videos remain on YouTube, where they are posted by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a group that believes McCullough is “under fierce attack for speaking out about COVID-19 early treatment and vaccine safety.”
​ ​McCullough’s March 2021 testimony to the Texas Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee — in which he claimed that COVID-19 patients are being denied what he called proven treatments like hydroxychloroquine — has been viewed more than 3.7 million times on YouTube. The appearance has also been tweeted repeatedly.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/958916?uac=39128CV&faf=1&sso=true&impID=3651905&src=WNL_infoc_210920_MSCPEDIT_Baylor_McC#vp_2

​ ​In 2005, Drs. Weissman and Kariko discovered a way to protect foreign mRNA from the body’s immune system. That scientific milestone would be key to the advancement of the mRNA vaccines in 2020…
The fundamental change discovered by Weissman and Kariko was that nucleoside modification could protect mRNA from the body’s immune defences (OOPS!)​…
​ ​Their key discovery, that by modifying the RNA code (modifying the nucleoside uridine), resulted in ablating the innate immune response, involved toll-like receptors (TLR).​ ​This discovery was adopted in the mRNA technology used in Covid vaccines, in order that the foreign vaccine mRNA could enter cells without being destroyed.​..
​ By modifying the Uridine in the Pfizer vaccine mRNA code, the foreign mRNA is able to bypass part of the body’s first line of defence — the Innate Immune System.​..
​ ​At that point in the original experiments to discover how to turn off toll-like receptors (and subsequently in the design of the vaccines), the question should have been asked: but what would be the consequences of switching off that important early warning system?
​https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/stabilising-the-code

[John Day]

​ ​Experts Tell FDA Vaccines ‘Harm More People Than They Save,’ But NIH Director Believes Boosters Will Be Approved in Coming Weeks
​ ​During the Sept. 17 meeting of the FDA advisory panel to recommend whether to approve a third dose of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine, physicians pointed to data they said confirm the ​benefits​ of Pfizer’s COVID vaccine don’t outweigh the ​risks​.​..​
​ ​Steve Kirsch, founder of the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund, said he was going to focus on the elephant in the room that “nobody wants to talk about” — that COVID vaccines kill more people than they save.“We were led to believe that vaccines are perfectly safe, but this is simply not true. For example, there were four times as many heart attacks in the treatment group in the Pfizer 6-month trial report. That wasn’t bad luck, the VAERS shows heart attacks happen 71 times more often following these vaccines compared to any other vaccine. In all, 20 people died who got the drug — 14 died who got the placebo.”​ …
​ Kirsch said four experts did analyses using completely different non-U.S. data sources, and all of them came up with approximately the same number of excess vaccine-related deaths — about 411 deaths per million doses. “That translates into 150,000 people who have died [from COVID vaccines],” he explained.
​ ​Kirsch ended his presentation by discussing Maddie de Garay’s case. De Garay participated in Pfizer’s clinical trial when she was 12 years old and became paralyzed following her first COVID vaccine dose. Kirsch asked the panel why Pfizer didn’t report her injury in their results and wanted to know “why this fraud was not investigated.”

Experts Tell FDA Vaccines ‘Harm More People Than They Save,’ But NIH Director Believes Boosters Will Be Approved in Coming Weeks

​ ​Results of Johns Hopkins Study Are All but Conclusive: People Pushing for Forced COVID Measures on Kids Are Fighting Against the Science
Johns Hopkins faculty member Marty Makary.​ In an Op-Ed last week for The Wall Street Journal, Makary wrote that he and a research team reviewed about 48,000 cases of children under 18 reported to have COVID between April and August of last year​. ​“Our report found a mortality rate of zero among children without a pre-existing medical condition such as leukemia,”​ …
​ Overall, the CDC has reported that 335 children with a COVID diagnosis have died. “Yet the CDC, which has 21,000 employees, hasn’t researched each death to find out whether Covid caused it or if it involved a pre-existing medical condition,” wrote Makary, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health and Carey Business School. “I’ve written hundreds of peer-reviewed medical studies,” he said, “and I can think of no journal editor who would accept the claim that 335 deaths resulted from a virus without data to indicate if the virus was incidental or causal, and without an analysis of relevant risk factors such as obesity.”

Results of Johns Hopkins Study Are All but Conclusive: People Pushing for Forced COVID Measures on Kids Are Fighting Against the Science

​Babylon Bee tries to keep up: ​Pfizer Assures That Vaccine Is Almost As Safe For Kids As COVID
Experts confirmed that even though there is a statistically 0% chance of kids dying from COVID, parents should still require kids to get the vaccine immediately, to make up for Pfizer’s financial loss from the FDA not approving booster shots right away.
https://babylonbee.com/news/fda-assures-vaccine-is-almost-as-safe-for-kids-as-covid

[John Day]

Same Old Ideas is posted, and with a picture of myself and Jenny at the homestead
https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/09/same-old-ideas.html

​ ​The Great Reset: How a ‘Managerial Revolution’ Was Plotted 80 Years Ago by a Trotskyist-turned-CIA Neocon​ by Cynthia Chung​
​ ​The roots of the Great Reset agenda can very clearly be traced back to 80 years ago, when James Burnham, wrote a book on his vision for “The Managerial Revolution​.​”
​ ​Klaus Schwab, the architect of the World Economic Forum (f. 1971), a leading, if not the leading, influencer and funder for what will set the course for world economic policy outside of government, has been the cause of much concern and suspicion since his announcement of “The Great Reset” agenda at the 50th annual meeting of the WEF in June 2020…
​ ​In the late 1960s, Schwab attended Harvard and among his teachers was Sir Henry Kissinger, whom he has described as among the top figures who have most influenced his thinking over the course of his life.​..
​ To get a better idea of the kinds of influences Sir Henry Kissinger had on young Klaus Schwab, we should take a look at Kissinger’s infamous NSSM-200 report: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for US Security and Overseas Interests, otherwise known as “The Kissinger Report,” published in 1974. This report, declassified in 1989, was instrumental in transforming US foreign policy from pro-development/pro-industry to the promotion of under-development through totalitarian methods in support of population control. Kissinger states in the report:
“… if future numbers are to be kept within reasonable bounds, it is urgent that measures to reduce fertility be started and made effective in the 1970s and 1980s …[Financial] assistance will be given to other countries, considering such factors as population growth … Food and agricultural assistance is vital for any population sensitive development strategy … Allocation of scarce resources should take account of what steps a country is taking in population control … There is an alternative view that mandatory programs may be needed ..”​ (It’s ​ok​ to starve people to death, Henry?)
​ ​For Kissinger, the US foreign policy orientation was mistaken on its emphasis of ending hunger by providing the means of industrial and scientific development to poor nations, according to Kissinger, such an initiative would only lead to further global disequilibrium as the new middle classes would consume more, and waste strategic resources​…
…the roots of the Great Reset agenda can very clearly be traced back to 80 years ago, when an American, former Trotskyist who later joined the OSS, followed by the CIA, and went on to become the founding father of neo-conservatism, James Burnham, wrote a book on his vision for “The Managerial Revolution.”
​ ​In fact, it was the ideologies of Burnham’s “The Managerial Revolution” that triggered Orwell to write his “1984”.

The Great Reset: How a ‘Managerial Revolution’ Was Plotted 80 Years Ago by a Trotskyist-turned-CIA Neocon

[John Day]

Yesterday I spent a total of about 3 hours getting a homebound patient on oxygen to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, in my wife’s car, which she needed dropped off at work after that.
This patient had her Texas ID stolen. She is nobody without it. She has pretty severe anxiety.
We got it done, and I rode my bike home from Jenny’s school with the sort of reserve necessary when it is 100F and sunny in Texas. The patient has her temporary ID and the real one should come in the mail and be good until 2029.
It was nobody’s job in the world to do that. bureaucracy/technocracy does not really meet human needs. The nice lady ehlped wheel the oxygen tank to the curb as I wheeled the wheelchair. She was very helpful, and saw the level of stress and anxiety. She’s a human. I can tell.
I’m reposting that link Mr. House found, yet again. Also: Watch Bolsonaro and the UN this week.

The Great Reset: How a ‘Managerial Revolution’ Was Plotted 80 Years Ago by a Trotskyist-turned-CIA Neocon

[John Day]

@Citizenx : Bide your time, brother. You see how terribly wrong this is. Wait for something like the Tet Offensive to wake people up.

@Chooch: You and everybody else are welcome.

@Doc Robinson: Thanks for the excellent research and the service of answering people’s questions as if you were getting paid very well to do so.

@Germ: POW, ZAP, OOF, ZOWIE! Go Boy Wonder!

@Ilargi: I noticed with interest the other day when you said your viewpoint has shifted in the last 6 years. I have also noticed that.
I will ask you if you find Eleni’s perspective more realistic now, than you did at that time.
You have become a Champion, Amigo.
Howzit feel?

[John Day]

Mr. House: Thanks for the Cynthia Chung article:

The Great Reset: How a ‘Managerial Revolution’ Was Plotted 80 Years Ago by a Trotskyist-turned-CIA Neocon

It is, indeed very reveling of the historical context of flows of elite thought narrative to the present.
“The Kissinger Report” was a milestone, but it was not the “fountainhead”.

[John Day]

Covid-19: An issue at UNGA in more ways than one​ (In the capital of “The Empire State”)
​ ​The General Assembly has not exactly gotten off to a unified start.
​ ​Despite a letter from the US encouraging member states to call in virtually and help avoid creating “a super spreader event,” the speaker schedule for the General Debate — which begins on Tuesday — shows more than 100 heads of state and government coming in person, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and US President Joe Biden…
​ ​New York City requires proof of Covid-19 vaccination for indoor gatherings — a rule local authorities have asked the UN to follow. To facilitate compliance, a one-shot vaccination station will even be set up on-site. But visiting dignitaries are not proving entirely cooperative.
(Brazil’s Bolsonaro ​already ​had COVID and has natural immunity. Russia’s Putin had Sputni​k​ vaccine, not on New York’s approved list.​ Who pokes whom?)​
​ ​Brazil and Russia are already giving their local hosts a poke in the eye, vocally rejecting the health requirement. “We strongly object that only people with a proof of vaccination should be admitted to the GA hall,” wrote Russia’s UN representative Vassily Nebenzia in a letter to the organization, according to state news agency TASS. Nebenzia also noted that not all countries use the vaccines approved in New York.
​ ​Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro threw down the gauntlet on social media, declaring point-blank on Thursday that he would not get vaccinated before the General Debate. He is due to address the assembly in person on Tuesday morning, in Brazil’s traditional role as the first speaker.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/18/world/unga-what-to-know-intl/index.html

Brazil’s Main COVID Strategy Is A Cocktail Of Unproven Drugs
…In Brazil, where more than 488,000 people have already died due to COVID-19 — second only to the United States — pseudoscience has become government policy. Bolsonaro regularly promotes repurposing unproven and cheap drugs to his nearly 40 million social media followers as he continues to minimize the gravity of the pandemic and dismiss its victims. Meanwhile, his administration has spent millions of dollars to produce, purchase and promote pills such as the lice medication ivermectin, the antimalarial chloroquine and popular antibiotic azithromycin as well as anticoagulants, painkillers and a set of vitamins. The Ministry of Health and numerous doctors endorsed using a combination of these medications to treat COVID-19, even though there is no solid evidence that it works.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/06/15/1006198151/covid-pseudoscience-is-choking-brazil

​So Brasil’s Bolsonaro is opening for this classier act.
Biden to Convene Virtual COVID Summit at U.N.General Assembly
The meeting will center around four key themes:
Vaccinate the World: Leaders will discuss increasing equitable access to vaccines to up shots-in-arms around the world.
Save Lives Now: Leaders will discuss how to solve the oxygen crisis in struggling nations by making life-saving therapeutics more widely available.
Build Back Better: A reference to Biden’s domestic agenda, leaders will discuss partnerships to address emerging threats and the creation of a “sustainable health security financing mechanism,” per the White House.
Calling the World to Account: Leaders will align on targets and discuss benchmarks to meet common goals.
I’m sure Joe Biden will be a commanding presence on the world stage and get 70% of Africans vaccinated by the end of the year.​
Still, there’s always the chance, the off chance, that all these world leaders might take some other tack.
This would be the place and time to do it. The US just lost face pretty badly.
Non-US Heads of State might feel emboldened, especially Putin, Bolsonaro, Xi, Duterte, and some of those other guys.
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2021/09/17/joe-biden-covid-united-nations-general-assembly

[John Day]

As time goes by, bad turns to worse for disappointed vaccine recipients.
Israeli Doctor Kobi Haviv: ‘Fully vaccinated account for 85-90% of hospitalizations’​ (Yeah, but it would be worse if they weren’t vaccinated!)
https://rumble.com/vlbddq-israeli-doctor-kobi-haviv-fully-vaccinated-account-for-85-90-of-hospitaliza.html

​ ​Two-thirds of the San Antonio Independent School District employees who tested positive for the coronavirus in August were fully vaccinated. Out of the 285 cases staff members reported to SAISD, 197 were breakthrough cases, according to district records…
​ ​“Fortunately, the vast majority of these individuals do not experience the extreme symptoms that those who are not fully vaccinated are experiencing when they are positive,” Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Toni Thompson told trustees.
​ ​“But it also shows you that for those who have been vaccinated for around six months, that they’re the ones that are most often showing up as positive again, which says something about the need to have access to boosters,” Thompson said.
District officials estimate 90% of employees are vaccinated. More than half of the employees with breakthrough cases were vaccinated in January, February or March.​ ​​ Thanks Steve
https://www.tpr.org/education/2021-09-14/197-vaccinated-san-antonio-isd-employees-got-covid-in-august​ ​

​If only there were some alternative early treatment to keep people out of hospitals, now that Republican Governors are getting punished for their impudence!​
Florida & Texas fume as Biden seizes and RATIONS supply of life-saving Covid treatments
​ ​“The manufacturer has confirmed supplies are ample but due to the Defense Production Act, the White House and it’s agencies are the only entities who can purchase and distribute this treatment,” Keough added.
​ ​“So, less than a week after the president tells us his patience is wearing thin and he is mandating vaccines to millions of Americans, his administration limits and all but removes a non-controversial and highly successful treatment from our war chest of combating this virus,” he said.
https://www.rt.com/usa/535052-biden-rations-monoclonal-treatments/

The Indian state of Kerala has 3% of India’s population, and 67% of its inhabitants have at least one vaccination. One would expect Kerala’s COVID cases to be so low as to be invisible in a chart of India’s very low overall cases. Yet this state of just 33 million people accounted for 65% of all of India’s cases on Thursday, and even more in recent weeks. It has essentially been the only state experiencing a surge in recent months. It also happens to be the Indian state that has rejected ivermectin.
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-heavily-vaccinated-state-accounts-for-65-of-indias-covid-cases-after-rejecting-ivermectin

​The Plot Against Ivermectin: (Complete timeline)
​HOW THE MEDIA FULLY FAILED US IN REPORTING THE STORY OF IVERMECTIN, COLLECTIVELY LABELING A NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING, SAFE AND FDA-APPROVED HUMAN DRUG THAT’S BEEN SAVING COVID PATIENTS AS A TOXIC “HORSE DEWORMER” ​ ​ BY LINDA BONVIE

The Plot Against Ivermectin

[John Day]

The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is poised to acquire complete resistance to wild-type spike vaccines
Abstract: mRNA-based vaccines provide effective protection against most common SARS-CoV-2 variants. However, identifying likely breakthrough variants is critical for future vaccine development. Here, we found that the Delta variant completely escaped from anti-N-terminal domain (NTD) neutralizing antibodies, while increasing responsiveness to anti-NTD infectivity-enhancing antibodies. Although Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2-immune sera neutralized the Delta variant, when four common mutations were introduced into the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the Delta variant (Delta 4+), some BNT162b2-immune sera lost neutralizing activity and enhanced the infectivity. Unique mutations in the Delta NTD were involved in the enhanced infectivity by the BNT162b2-immune sera …
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.22.457114v1.full.pdf

Infection-enhancing anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies recognize both the original Wuhan/D614G strain and Delta variants. A potential risk for mass vaccination?
Abstract​:​
​ ​Antibody dependent enhancement (ADE) of infection is a safety concern for vaccine strategies. In a recent publication, Li et al. (Cell 184 :4203–4219, 2021) have reported that infection-enhancing antibodies directed against the N-terminal domain (NTD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein facilitate virus infection in vitro, but not in vivo. However, this study was performed with the original Wuhan/D614G strain. Since the Covid-19 pandemic is now dominated with Delta variants, we analyzed the interaction of facilitating antibodies with the NTD of these variants. Using molecular modeling approaches, we show that enhancing antibodies have a higher affinity for Delta variants than for Wuhan/D614G NTDs. We show that enhancing antibodies reinforce the binding of the spike trimer to the host cell membrane by clamping the NTD to lipid raft microdomains. This stabilizing mechanism may facilitate the conformational change that induces the demasking of the receptor binding domain. As the NTD is also targeted by neutralizing antibodies, our data suggest that the balance between neutralizing and facilitating antibodies in vaccinated individuals is in favor of neutralization for the original Wuhan/D614G strain. However, in the case of the Delta variant, neutralizing antibodies have a decreased affinity for the spike protein, whereas facilitating antibodies display a strikingly increased affinity. Thus, ADE may be a concern for people receiving vaccines based on the original Wuhan strain spike sequence (either mRNA or viral vectors).
https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00392-3/fulltext

​ ​An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration on Friday recommended against approving a booster shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to most Americans.
The scientific advisory committee voted 16-to-3 against recommending the additional shots, thwarting the Biden administration’s hopes that the FDA would approve the third shot in time to begin rolling out the extra dose for Pfizer recipients next week.
However, the panel voted 18-0 in favor of recommending a booster shot for anyone over 65 or anyone who is at high risk of severe disease from COVID-19…​ ​Jonathan Sterne, a professor of medical statistics and epidemiology in the U.K., said his analysis of 76 different studies on the vaccines’ real world effectiveness found that a number of factors can skew the results, including how many unvaccinated people in a study have natural immunity from earlier COVID-19 disease. He cautioned against drawing conclusions from short-term results from booster shots, such as data from Israel which shows that a booster can strengthen protection for a few weeks in older adults.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fda-advisory-panel-rejects-covid-booster-shot-for-most-americans/amp/

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