[American Thinker] Are we in for another ugly surprise from the mRNA COVID vaccine?
We already know about the myocarditis risk and the prospect of blood clots, and hear many reports of previously healthy young people mysteriously dropping dead.
Now according to a new Project Veritas video with a Pfizer official, another may be coming along, too.
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Out of the stuff from the studies that I found most alarming was the miscarriages in the service women. I can see why they never wanted their work to se the light of day. http://www.biotechexpressmag.com/nearly-half-of-pregnant-women-in-pfizer-trial-miscarried/?amp
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Really no point in having the FDA under these circumstances.
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The facts are there. There is no question about it, Pfizer has it in their documents all folded up neatly with the vile. If I was 20 years younger I would invest in fertility clinics.
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Remembering seeing numbers from Canada showing a 1200% increase in stillbirths. Of course, we knew about reproductive issues even before the vaccines were given the EUA, so....
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Given the insistence of a particular class of people who insisted that 'everyone' get the shots and boosters and pestered or harassed those who did not, its seems like this will clean out a good amount of them in one reproductive generation.
Long, human interest. One of the interviews is presented here, dear Reader, the rest await you at the link.
[AfghanistanAnalyts] A large number of Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters have moved to Afghanistan’s cities since the movement’s capture of power, many of them for the first time in their lifetime. These fighters, many of whom are from villages, had lived modest lives, entirely focused on the war. Their circumstances have changed entirely since the Taliban’s victory. Guest author Sabawoon Samim has interviewed five members of the Taliban who have come to live in Kabul, a city they had seen as being at the heart of the ’foreign occupation’ with its ’puppet government’ with a population degraded by Western ways. How have they found the actual Kabul and its people, and what do they think about having to earn a living, keep office hours and live in a city full of traffic and millions of other inhabitants?
In the aftermath of seizing power in Afghanistan in August 2021, a huge number of Taliban foot soldiers rushed to the country’s capital, Kabul. For many, born into rural families and with their adult lives spent primarily on the battlefield, it was the first time they had come to the capital. They had not even been born or were still children when the Taliban’s first emirate fell. Even their seniors, who had experienced life in a major city like Kabul, would find the Afghan capital of 2021 a very different place to when the Taliban had last ruled there — the ruins left by the civil war had long ago been re-built, the city itself had become vastly bigger and the population increased manifold. Some of those newcomers to Kabul have settled in the city and we wanted to find out how they had experienced this sudden shift and what they thought of Kabul — and Kabulis.
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Good read
[AlAhram] The title of this article jars with what we have grown familiar with. In past decades, "globalisation" was the mantra of the post-Cold War world. It signified a shift from an international political system based on sovereign nation states with distinct identities to a borderless world transcending different cultures and civilisations. The term was originally used in an economic way to denote a single global market, free trade and the free movement of capital and labour. There was some sense that humanity shared a common fate, especially in the face of common threats such as global warming, pandemics and other problems that no country could solve on its own. Some international relations experts saw globalisation as a path to world peace. As long as countries depended on each other, pursuing a growing number of common interests, there would be recourse to arms.
Before long, the concept broadened to include value systems and cultures, in part inspired by the desire to develop a single culture in which humanity, in all its linguistic and ethnic diversity, could be bound by the bundle of ideals and "global mood." Technology played a key role in accelerating this process, starting with the third technological revolution based on digitalisation, IT and the proliferation of personal computers, mobile phones and tablets. The subsequent revolutions, whichever way they are numbered, accelerated the process. Multinational companies and organizations discovered that establishing a presence in the global market with the new technologies would open up previously unavailable opportunities. Google, Facebook, Spotify, Netflix and other such companies availed themselves of the advances in computerised translation as a means to cement "global culture." All this was closely associated with the growth of the global economy and the development of such global institutions as the World Trade Organisation and the G-20.
Now, that overwhelming tide of globalisation appears to have exhausted itself. "The most recent era of globalisation seems to have come to an end," writes Raghuram Rajan under the headline "The Gospel of Deglobalization" in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs. As proof, he points to the steady downward trend in the ratio of global exports of goods and services to world GDP since 2008, and cites World Bank figures showing that foreign direct investment fell from 5.3 per cent of world GDP in 2007 to 1.3 per cent by 2020. He adds, "the world’s two largest economies, China and the United States, have become increasingly hostile, trying to reduce their dependence on each other for goods and services." The process entails a "decoupling" - to use the current term - of their markets and means of supply and production. When this fraying happens between the two largest economies in the world, it’s clear that globalisation is in trouble.
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The main purpose is to improve the prospects of growth for each of the member countries.
The premise then is, MORE consumption, should be good. This would seem to be in conflict with the goals of managing climate change, shrinking resources and population growth.
[WND] Echoing the private financing of public elections that critics saw as heavily favoring Democrats in 2020, some of America’s richest foundations are pouring money into a similar effort again, in the face of more organized conservative resistance.
A nonprofit group called the Audacious Project, whose supporters include the Gates and MacArthur foundations and the Bridgespan Group, a consultant whose clients include Planned Parenthood, has committed $80 million to a progressive organization, the Center for Tech and Civic Life, to provide grant funding to run local elections.
As part of its review process, the CTCL is sending operatives to local elections offices, examining practices and equipment, and acquiring the sorts of data coveted by political campaigns. Despite public claims of transparency, the center has refused to provide basic information about its operations.
The CTCL became a focus of controversy in 2020 when it helped direct hundreds of millions of dollars donated by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan to help run elections during the pandemic, which prompted ad hoc changes to rules minimizing in-person voting. Many objected to that as unlawful. While the outside assistance was touted as nonpartisan, post-election analysis found that the so-called "Zuckerbucks" or "Zuck Bucks" were distributed on a partisan basis that favored Democrats.
In response to concerns about the private money, 24 states and 12 counties have prohibited elections offices from accepting it. Democratic governors in three of the states selected to be part of the CTCL’s initial membership group — Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Michigan — overrode legislation banning private funding of elections, stoking more concern that the grants are a ruse for partisan infiltration of elections offices.
The CTCL in April created a consortium called the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, whose six partner groups include the CTCL, and are intertwined to specialize in different aspects of elections. For an annual fee, the consortium offers assistance to elections offices, providing online tutorials, consulting, and other services on an as-needed basis. A basic alliance membership costs a municipality $1,600 a year; a premium membership runs $4,800 annually.
Both subscriptions offer consulting, coaching, and conferencing, and belonging obligates the member to "make non-monetary (but highly significant) contributions to the broader activities of the Alliance."
[IsraelTimes] The last installment of an extraordinary series of animated video interviews — already viewed millions of times worldwide — in which ordinary Gazans tell their harrowing stories.
Produced by the Center for Peace Communications, a New York nonprofit, they are being published by The Times of Israel because they represent a rare opportunity for ordinary, courageous Gazans to tell the world what life is like under the rule of Hamas.
Since the series’ debut, the videos have accrued two million views via CPC’s platforms, and approximately one million more through a combination of partnering outlets with separate platforms, reposts on social media, and WhatsApp and Telegram transmissions. According to analytics, the largest audience resides in the Arab world, followed by English-speaking countries.
There have been several hacking attempts, presumably by Hamas in a failed attempt to block distribution of the material. The unsuccessful hacks included bot assaults on CPC’s distribution mechanism. CPC had previously disclosed one of those attempts. We have also been made aware that Hamas produced counterfeit clips with voiceovers to twist the Gazan testimonies evidently in order to sabotage the reach and audience of “Whispered in Gaza”.
All interviews were conducted over the course of 2022. The speakers all currently reside in Gaza.
Over the first and second installments, Gazan men and women shared their experience of Hamas repression, corruption, brutality, brainwashing, and warmongering. Several also described their participation in a homegrown attempt to confront Hamas rule through street demonstrations in 2019, which Hamas quashed with an iron fist.
This final installment, released amid a new wave of Hamas terror in Israel and Israeli military responses in Gaza, aims to enhance the new discussion of Gaza’s future which this series has now sparked. As CPC president Joseph Braude writes in an accompanying opinion piece, the first 17 clips have already been viewed several million times. Among their audience in the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas, some in the Arab world who had long perceived Hamas as a legitimate “resistance” movement are reacting with dismay at the group’s actual behavior, while some Western policymakers have called for creative thinking about a new approach to the coastal Strip.
The first of this installment’s eight clips narrates the darkest individual tragedy in the entire “Whispered in Gaza” series. Two others relay seldom-heard Gazan perspectives on Israeli citizens and a clash with the IDF. As to the remaining five, they platform Gazans wishing to address an international audience directly. The interviewees respond to questions about their hopes and dreams for Gaza’s future, as well as potential roles for outside powers in supporting their goals.
Videos and transcripts can be seen at the link. Living under a totalitarian regime gets ugly, and Hamas’s Gaza is no exception.
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If Hamas was an organic movement, there might be hope for accountability and improvement. Unfortunately all Palestinian leadership groups have always been controlled by outside interests whose primary aim is Palestinian rage. Hamas functions as an Iranian internal weapon against the state of Israel. Palestinian prosperity would dull the rage which is the primary function of the Palestinian movement to Iranian interests. The prosperity of the Hamas leadership group is thereby based on its ability to subjugate and control its own citizens not on facilitating community interests. Some would argue that the people could just vote out Hamas. Those individuals do not understand totalitarianism.
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Some would argue that the people could just vote out Hamas. Those individuals do not understand totalitarianism.
Truly, Super Hose.
Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, so they’ve been following that playbook. They have lots of community charity outreach efforts, provide schools and summer camps, and got themselves elected in 2007. But the PLO/PA — headed by Mahmoud Abbas — refused to give up power, so here we are, with both groups having taken the train to their station and gotten off.
There is also the jihad thingy, which runs alongside the Will To Power stuff, just like in Egypt, Turkey, and all the rest. Iran happily funds Hamas as the second part of their pincer around Israel despite that little Sunni/Shiite disagreement, with Hezbollah in Lebanon with its 100,00+ rockets and missiles as the other side. Several years ago Israel sprang the trap prematurely, when they blocked Hizbollah’s border crossing tunnels, then Gaza’s, and both spent several weeks vainly shooting rockets and missiles across the border without the possibility of getting their jihadis safely under the border for the planned second pincer of mass attacks wreaking havoc on the populations in Israel’s border communities.
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You can see from the interviews that the result in Gaza is the same as Cuba or East Germany. Hamas is permanently in power, the funding is provided from nefarious external sources, the hearts and minds of the people are controlled by propaganda and/or the education system. They may rise up one day, but it won’t be today.
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[ZERO] The term ’superbug’ conjures images of bacteria with superpowers—able to evade the effects of the antibiotics given to destroy them. The prolific use of antibiotics is thought to be the cause, and bacteria, in a fight for their survival, have adapted—making an increasing number of antibiotics ineffective against a growing number of bacterial infections.
A new study published in PNAS on Jan. 23, 2023, has shown that antidepressants, some of the most widely prescribed medications in the world, cause antibiotic resistance, giving them the potential to become dangerous superbugs.
"Even after a few days exposure, bacteria develop drug resistance, not only against one but multiple antibiotics," Jianhua Guo, one of the study’s authors and a professor at the University of Queensland’s Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology, told Nature. "This is both interesting and scary."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
