O, CANADA! PRIME MINISTER TRUDEAU FLEES TO SECRET LOCATION AS MONSTER 50,000 TRUCK CONVOY PROTESTING VACCINATION MANDATES ROLLS IN TO TOWN

by Geoffrey Grinder, Now The End Begins: Amid security concerns, Trudeau and his family have been moved from their home to an undisclosed location in the nation’s capital, sources said. A convoy of thousands of truckers and other protesters converged on Parliament Hill Saturday to call for an end to COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other […]
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The Fake Donald Trump Silver Coin Scam

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Democrats Finally Reach Out To Manchin, Is It Too Late?

Democrats Finally Reach Out To Manchin, Is It Too Late? Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Control of Build Back Better was always in Senator Joe Manchin's hands. Stewing Progressives finally admit that. But what's next? Ball in Manchin's Court The Wall Street Journal reports Democrats Put Build Back Better in Joe Manchin’s Court, emphasis mine. Democrats are increasingly willing to accept whatever child-care, healthcare and climate package that Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) would support as they return to Washington this week, hoping to salvage elements of the party’s economic agenda after months of failed negotiations. Party lawmakers have started to change their attitude toward the package as they grapple with the possibility of failing to convert their narrow control of Congress into progress on major party goals. Some have moved away from insisting that the package include particular priorities, instead advocating for the party to notch a result with Mr. Manchin ahead of the midterm elections. “Democrats can’t let our disappointment get in the way of progress on something we’ve worked hard to achieve,” said Rep. Peter Welch (D., Vt.), who is running for Senate. Many Democrats are eager to start piecing together legislation after Mr. Manchin’s rejection of the House-passed Build Back Better bill put talks on ice for weeks. In a West Virginia broadcast interview, Mr. Manchin said talks had restarted on the bill, adding that he was primarily focused on a separate effort on bipartisan elections legislation. “There’s a lot of conversations going on, they’ve been reaching out. We haven’t sat down physically and started any negotiations,” Mr. Manchin said on Thursday. “I think taking care of our voting and protecting our right to vote and protecting the ballot box is the most important, urgent thing we have right now.” Reasons Time May Have Passed    * Senator Bernie Sanders is calling for up or down votes on every idea. “The current direction that we have followed for the past five months has failed. We’ve got to move in a new direction,” Mr. Sanders said. * Senator Manchin has other priorities, especially voting. * The House Progressive Caucus will be loathe to accept some of Manchin's requirements.  * Another potential government shutdown is in the works. The 2021 settlement extended government funding through February 18. That will be the top priority for the next two weeks.  * Biden pledged to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court but has of yet selected anyone. The Senate confirmation hearings will  take a while.  * Some Democrats still insist on removing the $10,000 cap on the state and local tax deductions and the expanded child tax credit. A group of Senate Democrats wrote a letter to Mr. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris last week calling on them to continue an expansion of the child tax credit in the legislation. 2022 Congressional Calendar 2022 Congressional calendar from Rational360.Com Deal Still Possible  Whatever gets done will likely have to get done by the end of July.  In August and October the House is not in session although Speaker Nancy Pelosi could call them back.  There is still time, but the best shots are March, May, June, and July. There is too much other business in February.  Bipartisan Group Targets Election Reform Please note Senators Seek Changes to Electoral Count Act to Firm Up Presidential Elections Republicans in recent weeks have started talking about making changes to the Electoral Count Act in an effort to stop a repeat of what happened following the 2020 election. Then-President Donald Trump, a Republican, had urged then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject the Electoral College votes from some states, which he declined to do. That same day, the Capitol was overrun by a pro-Trump mob seeking to stop the certification of the election victory of President Biden, a Democrat. Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine), who is leading the bipartisan effort, said Thursday she was encouraged by the interest from colleagues from both parties in overhauling the law. Sen. Susan Collins (R., Maine), who is leading the bipartisan effort, said Thursday she was encouraged by the interest from colleagues from both parties in overhauling the law. Overturning the Next Election If the concern is stealing the Presidency, then fix the Electoral Count Act said the WSJ in Overturning the Next Election on January 4, 2022. The anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is Washington’s theme of the week, and waves of righteous anger will roll across the Mall. We agree the riot was disgraceful, but then why not rewrite the law that encouraged Donald Trump’s supporters to think Congress could overturn the 2020 election? We’re referring to the Electoral Count Act, the ambiguous 19th-century statute that purports to allow for a majority of Congress to disqualify a state’s electors after the Electoral College has voted. Congress’s certification of presidential election results should be a technicality, but Mr. Trump misled supporters into believing Vice President Mike Pence and Congress could overturn Joe Biden’s victory, leading to the Jan. 6 march on the Capitol. The effort wasn’t close to succeeding, with only eight Senators objecting to the results in any states, though 139 Republicans did in the House. No Senators voted to object to enough states to deprive President Biden of the 270 electoral votes he needed to win. Presiding over the Senate, Mr. Pence properly understood his limited constitutional role and resisted Mr. Trump’s pressure to intervene. He was one of the heroes of that day. Still, Jan. 6 was the most significant abuse of the law to date and part of a growing trend. A smaller number of congressional Democrats used the Electoral Count Act to object to both of George W. Bush’s victories as well as Donald Trump’s in 2016. The Electoral Count Act was an attempt to avoid the mess that followed the contested 1876 Hayes-Tilden election, but its ambiguous language has made it open to abuse. In these polarized times, both parties could use the law in the future as an excuse to attempt to overturn an election in the House and Senate. Congress shouldn’t have even the appearance of this power. The Framers didn’t want the executive branch beholden to Congress, which is why they designed an Electoral College to elect the President. They gave state legislatures the power to certify electoral votes, as they do according to the popular vote count in each state. Though the Electoral Count Act has never been tested in court, in our view it is unconstitutional. That's what needs to be fixed, but what Progressives demand is far removed.  And it's unclear what Manchin is actually referring to when he says “I think taking care of our voting and protecting our right to vote and protecting the ballot box is the most important, urgent thing we have right now.” Fixing the Voting Rights Act should be a simple process. But somehow these things never are. Look for Elizabeth Warren and the Senate Progressives to possibly demand more than Senators Manchin and Krysten Sinema are willing to go along with.  This could be done in a week, or two months.  Meanwhile, Senator Sanders wants to try something new. The House is torn on the environment, on child care, and on on removing the $10,000 cap on the state and local tax deductions. Has Time Realistically Expired? If the bickering and demands continue, yes it has. Will Democrats salvage something? This is what it comes down to. Whether they pass anything at all depends on two things. 1: How long they continue bickering 2: Whether they would rather bitch at Republicans and Manchin for blocking everything than pass something. It's possible #2 is more important and it only takes a handful in the House — Mike "Mish" Shedlock (@MishGEA) January 30, 2022 I still think "something" is likely, but depending on what that something is, I'd rather see nothing. *  *  * Please Subscribe to MishTalk Email Alerts. Tyler Durden Mon, 01/31/2022 - 19:00
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Did Justin Trudeau Pick the Wrong Fight With Canadian Truckers?

by Robert Bridge, Strategic Culture: It’s not a good sign that Justin Trudeau has removed himself from the public spotlight at possibly the most pivotal point in his political career. The Canadian Prime Minister, who recently described the trucker convoy as a “small fringe minority” who hold “unacceptable views” against Covid mantes, may have unwittingly […]
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Is It Time For The US To Engage With The Taliban?

Is It Time For The US To Engage With The Taliban? Authored by James Dorso, Afghanistan’s Taliban recently proposed it take a role in aid distribution via the creation of a joint mechanism with international aid organizations to coordinate the distribution of food aid to the country. According to the Taliban, “The goal of this committee is coordination on a higher level for facilitating humanitarian aid of the international community and to distribute aid for needy people.” Taliban representatives recently met with Western government officials and Afghan women’s rights and human rights activists in Norway. The U.S. delegation addressed “the formation of a representative political system; responses to the urgent humanitarian and economic crises; security and counterterrorism concerns; and human rights, especially education for girls and women.” Afghanistan’s neighbors Central Asia and India aren’t dallying. They recently met and agreed to create working groups to address Afghanistan’s food emergency, recognition of the Taliban, and the development of the Iranian port of Chabahar. The U.S. and Europe can help by holding their fire as the neighbors of heavily-sanctioned Iran and Afghanistan attempt to stabilize the region and create economic opportunity that will allow them to distance themselves from China’s thrust into the region. The West needs to get a move on as the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)  have declared that 19 million people in Afghanistan are experiencing “high levels of acute food insecurity” and that that number will climb to 22.8 million this winter unless action is taken. Washington’s priorities of a satisfactory (to the U.S.)  representative government, and its desires for Afghan women girls should take a back seat to averting a humanitarian catastrophe this winter. Afghans are being forced to sell their children for food, so more public engagement along will U.S. food aid will rebound to Washington’s benefit. U.S. policymakers no doubt feel anger and humiliation at the public failure of their two-decade project to reform Pashtun culture. But refusing practical steps to engage now with the new government in Kabul as disaster looms will show the U.S. and its confederates to be both incompetent and spiteful, a massive in-kind donation to the Taliban’s PR campaign internally and aimed at the wider Muslim world. Recent visitors to Kabul report the Taliban want Americans to return to the country (“Even Erik Prince can come here!”), one reason being to counter Chinese expansion in the region. A good start would be visits by U.S. officials to Kabul, as limiting their contacts to the Taliban political office in Doha, Qatar may also be interpreted as a lack of physical courage, which won’t inspire confidence in Kabul’s new chiefs. It will also give U.S. officials an opportunity to meet the Taliban out of earshot of Qatari officials who, while they have been helpful to the U.S., have their own agenda. According to the visitors, the roads are open, free of roadblocks, and repair crews are at work. As the country was historically a trading crossroads, now is the time to again make it the connector between Central and South Asia, and a trade partner with Iran’s 80 million people. Fortunately, leaders from Central Asia and South Asia — Uzbekistan and Pakistan — previously acted to connect the regions to increase trade and opportunity. In July, Uzbek president Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan met in Tashkent where they signed agreements to upgrade their countries’ economic relations. The leaders may have been racing the clock, but their project requires an Afghan crossroads where their businesses can trade with without fear of the U.S. The U.S. attempt to export identity politics to Afghanistan (via demands for a “representative government”) may be obliged by the Taliban if they introduce the world to the Afghan Margot Honecker, which will cause wails of “We didn’t mean a woman like that!” The Taliban aren’t neglecting girls’ education as private schools – for boys and girls – are open, and the government  promised public schools will all be open after the Afghan New Year in late March. After the Taliban’s August victory, there were few revenge killings and no one has been sent to a reeducation camp. If the Taliban deliver on their promise to open girls’ schools in March, the way should be open to consider releasing some Afghan funds seized by the U.S. or waiving sanctions against Taliban leaders so foreign businessmen can start to explore just how ready the Taliban are to engage with them and meet their demands for security and transparency. The U.S. will have concerns about what the Taliban is doing to repress the Pakistan Taliban (the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)), Al-Qaeda, and the Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K). If the Taliban follow through on the girls’ schools, the U.S. should grant concessions that will facilitate regional trade, then ask Kabul to take action against the three extremist groups. The Taliban may then be likely to move against Al-Qaeda and IS-K, but not against the TTP, and the U.S. will know this if it is clear-eyed, though it should call for action against the TTP, at least to keep Pakistan on-side when Islamabad goes into a funk over the latest American “abandonment.”. Pakistan’s army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, described the Afghan Taliban and the TTP as “two sides of the same coin.” The Afghan Taliban see the TTP as their Pashtun allies in a conflict with Pakistan over the nominal border, the contested Durand Line. It is a scrap the U.S. will be wise to otherwise avoid, and instead focus on strengthening local economies as a counter to Beijing’s designs for Central and South Asia. The Taliban aren’t the baddest actors America ever dealt with. After World War II, the U.S. quickly hired German scientists and former Nazi officials. The U.S. also gave a pass to leaders of Unit 731, Japan’s germ warfare unit that experimented on Allied POWs. The difference between then and now is that then the U.S. was the victor, so it was easy to be generous, especially as the West was rapidly retooling to confront Communism. The question for America now is, as it faces a Communist regime in Beijing instead of Moscow, can it be magnanimous in defeat? Tyler Durden Mon, 01/31/2022 - 02:00
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Meteorologists Warn Of "High Impact Snow And Ice Event" Around Groundhog Day

Meteorologists Warn Of "High Impact Snow And Ice Event" Around Groundhog Day While millions of people along the North East recover from the "bomb cyclone" that dumped feet of snow in several coastal cities, there's a new storm that readers should be monitoring that could unleash disruptive weather ranging from snow, ice, and severe thunderstorms next week.  Meteorologists at private weather forecaster BAMWX are warning about a potential "high impact snow and ice event" that may occur around Groundhog Day on Wednesday across the central Rockies to the Eastern Seaboard.  Kirk Hinz, the meteorologist with BAMWX, outlined the highest threat areas for winter weather, including parts of Northeast Oklahoma; St. Louis, Missouri; Indianapolis, Indiana; Detroit, Michigan, and Northern Maine.  Hinz said the impending storm would have "cold air in place," and there will be heavy bands of snow for specific areas that could receive north of one foot of snow. He said the timing and exact snow amounts on a metro by metro basis are still unknown.  The potential storm is projected to occur around the anniversary of the Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011, a powerful and historic winter storm that affected large swaths of the US and Canada. The Chicago metro area was buried in 21 inches of snow and had blizzard conditions for days.  Here are some of the latest snowfall totals from this weekend's bomb cyclone.  Final snowfall reports from the January 28-29, 2022 blizzard. Highest totals by state: MA-Stoughton 30.9" NY-Islip 24.7" RI-Warren 24.6" CT-Norwick 22" ME-Veazie 22" NJ-Bayville 21" DE- Lewes 14.2" MD-Ocean Pines 14" NH-Rye 13.5" VA-Wallops Island 9.5" PA-Lower Makefield 9" pic.twitter.com/qIzPHUM4pD — NWS Eastern Region (@NWSEastern) January 30, 2022 Forecasts are not locked in and will most likely change in the next 24 hours. There could be widespread flight cancellations and delays if the winter storm materializes -- continuing the chaos from this weekend. Tyler Durden Sun, 01/30/2022 - 22:00
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CDC “Pivoting its language” on vaccination status

by Kit Knightly, Off Guardian: Moving forward people will need regular boosters to be “up to date”, & they won’t be using the term “fully vaccinated” anymore. Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Center for Disease Control, told the media on Friday that the CDC is intending to “pivot the language” regarding the Covid19 […]
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SUPER SPONSOR OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY GEORGE SOROS GIVES $125 MILLION TO HELP SWAY THE 2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS IN FAVOR OF DEMOCRATS

by Geoffrey Grinder, Now The End Begins: Dubbed as a “long-term investment,” the money is one of the largest political donations in recent years, Politico reported, noting political donations of nine figures are exceedingly rare. The donation will also likely be one of the largest political donations heading into the midterms. Soros told the publication the […]
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PEOPLE ON TWITTER ARE SAYING THEY REGRET TAKING THE COVID-19 VACCINES

by Mary Villareal, SHTF Plan: More and more people are going on Twitter to express their regrets about taking the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines, many as far back as July 2021. A simple search on the microblogging platform would lead to thousands of results from people who wished they had never taken the experimental jabs. “I […]
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The Globalist Reset Agenda Has Failed – Is Ukraine Plan B?

by Brandon Smith, Alt Market: There are people in the liberty movement that attribute FAR too much intelligence to the global power elites, to the point that they seem to think the globalists are always planning “ten steps ahead.” The funny thing about planning ten steps ahead though is that if anything goes wrong with […]
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Globalist Billionaire George Soros Makes $125 Million PAC Donation to Save Democrats in Midterm Elections

by Shane Trejo, Big League Politics: Progressive oligarch George Soros is donating $125 million to a super PAC in order to help Democrats retain power as the country collapses under their rule. Soros has announced that he is giving the money to Democracy PAC, an organization that has been affiliated with the globalist overlord since 2019. The […]
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COVID-19 early treatment: real-time analysis of 1,358 studies

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Fed’s Taper Struggle: Central Bank Adds Another $100 Billion to Balance Sheet

by Peter Schiff, Schiff Gold: The Fed is talking taper. But it seems to be having a hard time actually tapering. The central bank added another $100 billion to its balance sheet in January. Last month, we discussed the potential issue with the Fed leaving the treasury market, showing that international buyers had really stepped […]
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Parents Lawsuit Claims 12-Year-Old’s Suicide Attempts Occurred After Secret Gender Identity Meetings with School Staff

by Dr Susan Berry, Breitbart: Florida parents have filed a lawsuit against Clay County Schools, claiming their 12-year-old daughter attempted suicide after having weekly meetings for months with a school counselor who affirmed her identity as a boy without the parents’ knowledge. In a press release sent to Breitbart News Tuesday, Child & Parental Rights Campaign, […]
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Market Report: PMs sell off with financial markets

by Alasdair Macleod, GoldMoney: Gold and silver fell sharply this week in the wake of the release of the FOMC minutes, which were a wakeup call for financial markets. Gold fell $45 from last Friday’s close to trade at $1789 in Europe this morning, after touching $1854. Silver fell $1.80 over the same period to […]
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“Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New Paradigm”

by Robert W Malone MD, MS, RW Malone MD substack: The report: “Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New Paradigm. A strategic implications project” was published jointly by the UK Ministry of Defense, and German Federal Ministry of Defense in 2021. Reading this document is frankly chilling as the the idea of using human augmentation for […]
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New Harvard, Yale & Stanford Data Show 4 Out of 5 Americans Have Covid ‘Natural Immunity’

by Kyle Becker, Becker News: In the United States, the media barely mention Covid prior infections or the existence of natural immunity. But a CDC-sponsored database in partnership with Yale, Harvard, and Stanford universities shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans have natural immunity from prior infections, Becker News can exclusively report. The covidestim database is supported by a […]
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Consequences, Consequences, Who Would Have Guessed...

Consequences, Consequences, Who Would Have Guessed... Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “The downright bleeding obvious is often a surprise!” Markets are great at reacting to a single stimulus but are like a frog in a pan of warming water when it comes to consequential events. Forget “Black Swans” or “no-see-ums”, but figure out how the increasingly complex picture of unfolding events and consequences are driving markets! This morning I am struggling to find a single topic for my usual Friday rant. There are literally so many separate threads driving markets, from recession/recovery indicators, company earnings reports, domestic politics, geopolitics, and rising dissent, that it’s difficult to focus on any one point and paint it as the dominant factor. But, one month in, I’ve formed a pretty unshakable view on the year ahead: 2022 is going to be very different. That does not necessarily mean very bad. Different and Bad are not mutually reinforcing unless you let them be… Whatever happens in coming months, this will be a year of tremendous opportunity… but also danger. When we think about volatility, we tend to think about steep lines on a price and volume chart, and the Vix fear index. Fast moving prices mean opportunities to extract extra value from the market – or lose more. However, we need to think more about event volatility – if that is the right expression. Events generate consequences, which are often unforeseen and unpredictable. We tend to think of events in binary terms of “no-see-ems”, or Black Swans as they’re now called – things that come out of no-where to shock markets. Markets are far less unsettled by consequential effects – where small events occur, follow and reinforce each other. The cumulative negative effects from a cascade of small events, each of which will have spawned consequences of their own – can suddenly result in catastrophe. They can become slow moving train-wrecks, but are often retrospectively completely predictable – meaning they fail the black swan test. In many ways markets can be a bit like the proverbial frog in a pan of water. It seems utterly unconcerned and unaware as the heat is turned up. But, threaten a frog with a sudden sharp pointy knife, and you won’t see it for slippery dust… Or maybe markets are like kids stretching a rubber band, knowing it’s going to snap, but still excitedly pulling it. The way which markets suddenly break down is a branch of chaos theory. In a stable market the amplitude of prices moves within an apparently predictable band (to which analysts assign standard deviation, sigma, risk labels). The point where markets suddenly break out is usually unexpected. Suddenly the price will pass the chaos point. What triggers these chaotic break outs? Market over-exuberance and/or the multiplying consequences of events on prices. What never ceases to surprise me about markets is how quickly prices can rise and fall on a single piece of company news, a single line on the annual report, a single word from a central banker, or a single (one of many) mistake by a politician. Yet, show markets a series of unfolding events and there is a stubborn reluctance to put them together in the bigger jigsaw of the economy. We understand single events better than a complex series of events – because that’s the way we’re programmed; survive the immediate fight or flight threat and face the next set of consequences. Looking at the markets this morning and trying to figure out where its all going, I can’t think when I’ve ever seen the picture look so complex. We’ve got so many “events” happening, each of which will trigger ripples and consequences across markets – that the possibility of chaotic break-out seems very high. Let me try to explain with a snapshot: (I could probably spend hours writing pages on each of these, and others, but I’ve a got a day-job to do): * Over the past few days we’ve seen various firms, including Apple and Tesla, post stronger earnings despite supply chain problems. Yet the world’s second largest economy, China, remains in effective lockdown and supply chains multiply. Successful firms are finding new ways to operate – which has massive consequences for those that don’t. * We’ve seen analysts predicting stronger US and UK recovery in months ahead (although the IMF recently knocked back estimates for both countries). House prices remain unaffordable. Inflation, increased taxes, energy bills are all set to eliminate discretionary consumer spending. * While the UK economy slides into a backchannel in terms of trade treaties – the prime concern of the political classes is to not let Boris have his cake or eat it. The US has failed to pass critical infrastructure development funding due to political gridlock. Political failure has massive forward consequences – which will magnify ahead of this year’s mid-terms. * We’ve got the Bank of England and the Fed both expected to tighten. After 12 years of over-easy money and cheap capital, the consequences on markets are obvious in terms of inflated financial assets – but there are equally dangerous consequences from unwinding over-abundant capital in the ways companies have reacted to it – most visibly in profitless tech sectors and speculative bubbles like crypto. * We’ve got a real or imagined threat of war in Ukraine from which a billion potential consequences will flow.. Even if nothing happens (my call) the growing tension in Ukraine, rising tension on Taiwan, while Russia and China apparently come together, could spell distraction disaster for US policy, Biden and the dollar. * Marcelo Claure of Softbank walking out after he didn’t get a $1 bln bonus from Masayoshi-Son. Curiously, I have suspicion it’s all going to go badly wrong in the UK first as we approach a political chaotic break. Nothing surprises me in the news anymore. How did we ever get here? Let me explain. Later today I will pay taxes to HMRC. Worst day of the year. If you are a large supranational you might decide to make a token payment, and instruct your Panama based lawyers to come to an arrangement with your tame tax inspector. You might suggest you cover the inconvenience with, say £1 in ever £1000 the HRMC has assessed your taxes due from UK earnings. The HMRC will be pragmatic – and accept the deal, even give you a certificate of tax compliance or some such paper you can wave at protesters to conclusively demonstrate you are not a tax dodger. The HMRC doesn’t have the time or money to waste chasing down expensively lawyered-up corporates. They chase the low hanging fruit instead. If you are a barely solvent middle class family juggling escalating bills and fees, it’s about this time you get hit with an additional surcharge or payment, or a demand for money on account. There is no appeal – pay or expect to suffer. Young professionals working in London (I am de-facto banker to two of them), have been surviving on stale bread since last Wednesday, wondering how they are going to pay next month’s gas bill, and how they can afford their flat after their earnings are slashed when taxes and national insurance hikes kick in. They are living anything but “Their Best Lives” the glossy mags and social media show everyone else is having… And if you are a struggling single parent trying eke out any kind of life on your wholly inadequate benefits, it’s about this time of year the HRMC sends you a letter saying a clerical error means you’ve been overpaid £100 per month for the last 18 months, and you have 3 days to repay the entire £1800 with interest – if not the bailiffs will attend and throw you and your brood out into the snow. There is no appeal and even though the bulk of such demands that taken up by MPs are subsequently dropped, the HMRC follow a proud tradition of tax-gatherers through history – pick on the weak. And then you might pick up the papers and read how the much the PPE companies that secured Fast-track VIP government contracts (because they were friends of Tory MPs), have made from the pandemic. Or maybe you will read about how the bounce-back loan programme became a fraudsters dream – £47 bln of credit given to 1.6mm applicants – of which £20 bln is never going to be repaid. We’re all familiar with stories like the small businessman next door who suddenly bought a Porsche, or the family that got the new holiday home in Rock. Lord Agnew, the counter-fraud minister, resigned, citing “desperately inadequate” efforts to stop tax-payers money being effectively stolen. Or maybe it will be the news well fancied Tory Leadership contender Nadhim Zahawi was apparently instrumental in speeding Greensill loans to the crooked Sanjeev Gupta’s steel businesses last summer, after former PM David Cameron had trousered millions working for Greensill? Or that Lynn Truss spent £500k flying herself to Australia or back..? Or maybe it will be the local authority officers on the Isle of Wight taking bungs from Big Pharma to push drugs on the Island? And, I haven’t even mentioned Party Gate. The point is that news is cumulative. I suspect the Tory strategists are betting we don’t see that. I’m betting the Brits are approaching that chaotic breaking point when it comes to political patience. If there was an election tomorrow, I have some pretty harsh questions for my Tory MP… and I won’t be making the mistake of voting for Boris again – back to Labour for me. I suspect many more of my neighbours will just vote Liberal instead. And I can’t think of anything worse…. Tyler Durden Fri, 01/28/2022 - 08:50
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Today’s Two Biggest Challenges to Your Retirement Savings

from Birch Gold Group: It looks as though the next few years will be a bumpy ride for retirement savers. Not welcome news, considering the fact that today’s “stubbornly, persistently high” inflation looks like it will stick around. Even worse, some projections we’ve seen forecast a negative annual return on stocks for the next decade. With news like […]
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The next stock market crash is already on its way, and America could lose $35 trillion in the collapse

(Natural News) Financial experts, including some who accurately predicted previous crashes, see the current tumult in the stock market as a sign of a coming massive crash, the likes of which history has never seen before and could result in America losing $35 trillion in wealth. One of the people predicting the coming crash is author and...
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“Bastille 2022”: Building a Worldwide Movement Against “Corona Tyranny”

by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research: What is presented in this article is a preliminary draft: suggested concepts and ideas pertaining to the formulation of a Worldwide People’s Movement. *** The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris on the afternoon of July 14, 1789. The Bastille was a medieval armory, fortress, and political prison. It was the […]
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US Navy Races To Recover Crashed F-35 Stealth Jet In South China Sea Before Beijing Does

US Navy Races To Recover Crashed F-35 Stealth Jet In South China Sea Before Beijing Does The race is on to recover in a speedy fashion an advanced US F-35C stealth jet which crashed off the USS Vinson aircraft carrier and landed in the South China Sea on Monday. The US Navy is reportedly working on the daunting task of recovering the aircraft after the "landing mishap" which injured seven in total, including the pilot who had successfully ejected and six sailors who were presumably injured while on the flight deck. 🇺🇲⚡ Unconfirmed: Photo of the F-35 jet that crashed in the South China Sea a few days back#USA #Military pic.twitter.com/fIvsKkBMmU — The RAGE X (@theragex) January 27, 2022 "The $100 million warplane impacted the flight deck of the 100,000-ton aircraft carrier and then fell into the sea as its pilot ejected, Navy officials said," according to CNN. A spokesman for the Navy's 7th Fleet confirmed that "The US Navy is making recovery operations arrangements for the F-35C aircraft involved in the mishap aboard USS Carl Vinson." The Navy has not disclosed the precise location or area of the South China Sea where the accident happened, also on fears that the Chinese would be eager to recover the plane, which has closely guarded secretive stealth technology.  US military sources were quoted as saying it remains vital that "no one else can get their hands on the plane" - without doubt an indirect reference to China, which has a heavy military presence in the region. According to a US military quote:  The US presently faces the challenge of pulling the wreckage out of the contested waters of the South China Sea to recover US technology, as well as make sure no one else can get their hands on the plane. "The planning efforts are ongoing for the recovery of the F-35," a 7th Fleet spokesman told Insider. Experts say China would almost certainly want to get ahold of the F-35, a highly-capable fifth-generation fighter jet that has taken many years and significant funding to research and develop.  Below: simulation of fighter jet crash landing aboard aircraft carrier and debris blowback impacting flight crew... A $100mln F-35 missed the landing and falls off deck into the South China Sea today, 7 injured. #f35 #southchinasea #scs pic.twitter.com/SqrwaNA02L — Sk Boz, PhD 💙 (@skbozphd) January 25, 2022 One defense analyst at the Hudson Institute, former US Navy submarine warfare officer Bryan Clark, explained that "There's a huge opportunity for the Chinese if they were able to get a copy of an actual F-35 to reverse engineer its features, which they can't do just based on the intelligence gathering they've conducted." He added: "Maybe the bigger concern is if they got ahold of an actual F-35, it would help them to figure out how to better counter it." The F-35 stealth manufacturer Lockheed Martin had announced last August when the USS Vinson had departed San Diego: "This deployment marks the first time in U.S. naval aviation history that a stealth strike fighter has been deployed operationally on an aircraft carrier," it said. This is the F-35's second crash in a matter of months at sea. Last November, a British F-35 stealth jet has crashed into the Mediterranean Sea during what was described at the time as routine flying operations from the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth. F-35 fighters are an estimated 135 million dollars, with cutting-edge stealth technology and radar. Tyler Durden Thu, 01/27/2022 - 19:20
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Jobless Claims Improved Last Week For First Time In 2022

Jobless Claims Improved Last Week For First Time In 2022 After jumping to the highest since October, initial jobless claims were expected to drop last week and did so, falling to 260k (from a revised higher 290k the previous week). Non-seasonally adjusted claims crashed back down as perhaps signs of Omicron anxiety are fading. Source: Bloomberg This is the first improvement in jobless claims since the start of the year. All except two states registered declines in unadjusted claims, with Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey posting the biggest decreases. The total number of Americans on some form of government dole continues to hover around pre-COVID-lockdown levels... Source: Bloomberg Is this as good as it gets? For Main Street and Wall Street? Source: Bloomberg Or will Powell fold again? Tyler Durden Thu, 01/27/2022 - 08:42
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NEW – Dr. Fauci suggests that children under 4 years of age be vaccinated with 3 injections in the United States.

NEW – Dr. Fauci suggests that children under 4 years of age be vaccinated with 3 injections in the United States.pic.twitter.com/Q4Id1rj4aT — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 27, 2022
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The News that Doesn’t make it to “Mainstream”

by ****, RWMalone MD Substack: Please watch this video. It is ten minutes long, and may be the best time you spend today. This is what we are up against. TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/ Covid-19 vaccines and treatments: we must have raw data, now BMJ 2022 (Published 19 January 2022) We are left with publications but no […]
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Flying Car Certified To Fly, Paving Way For Mass Production Of "Very Efficient Flying Cars"

Flying Car Certified To Fly, Paving Way For Mass Production Of "Very Efficient Flying Cars" Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A hybrid car-airplane known as “AirCar” has been issued a certificate of airworthiness by the Slovakian civil aviation authority, potentially paving the way for the future of flying vehicles. Klein Vision's AirCar completes world's first inter-city flight. Pictured here in an undated file photo. (Courtesy of Klein Vision) The dual-mode car-aircraft vehicle, which looks like a sports car, was created by a team of eight highly-skilled specialists at the Slovakian company Klein Vision, which was founded by Professor Stefan Klein. Klein has devoted the last 20 years to making the flying car a reality. It was awarded the certificate by the Slovak Transport Authority after successfully completing 70 hours of “rigorous flight testing compatible with European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) standards,” Klein Vision said in a statement (pdf). Flight tests included over 200 takeoffs and landings and a full range of various flight and performance maneuvers that Klein Vision says demonstrated “astonishing static and dynamic stability in the aircraft mode.” The takeoff and landing procedures were achieved even without the pilot having to touch the flight controls, the company said. It took the team of specialists over 100,000 man hours to convert design drawings of the air vehicle into mathematical models and to then create the final two-seater 1,000-kilogram (2,200-pound) vehicle that is powered by a 1.6-liter BMW engine. “AirCar certification opens the door for mass production of very efficient flying cars. It is official and the final confirmation of our ability to change mid-distance travel forever,” said Klein, who is also responsible for research projects in cooperation with brands such as Audi, Volkswagen, and BMW. “Transportation Authority carefully monitored all stages of unique AirCar development from its start in 2017. The transportation safety is our highest priority. AirCar combines top innovations with safety measures in line with EASA standards. It defines a new category of a sports car and a reliable aircraft. Its certification was both a challenging and fascinating task,” said René Molnár, the director of the Civil Aviation Division (Transport Authority of Slovakia). The company told CNN that it hopes to have the AirCar commercially available within 12 months, but a pilot’s license is required to drive the hybrid vehicle, meaning we won’t be seeing many of the flying cars anytime soon. Anton Zajac, co-founder of Klein Vision, said that the vehicle can fly at a maximum operating altitude of 18,000 feet, and runs on “fuel that is sold at any gas station.” AirCar successfully completed its first 35-minute inter-city flight last June between airports in Nitra and the capital Bratislava in Slovakia. After landing, it took the car less than three minutes to transform back into a sports car, which can reduce travel time by a factor of two. Klein Vision has also completed tests of a powerful and lightweight “ADEPT” Airmotive aviation engine and finalized drawings and technical calculations for the upcoming monocoque model, which will have a variable pitch propeller that could reach speeds over 300 kph (186 mph) and a range of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles). Tyler Durden Wed, 01/26/2022 - 21:25
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Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital Refuses Critical Heart Patient for Being ‘Unvaccinated’

from 21st Century Wire: The Blaze reports… The family of a patient who is fighting for his life is speaking out after a Boston hospital removed him from its heart transplant list because he is unvaccinated against COVID-19. David Ferguson told WBZ-TV this week that his 31-year-old son DJ Ferguson’s heart has deteriorated to the point that it […]
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CIA Reportedly Creates Plan to Slap Russian Raw Materials, Arms Exports With Sanctions Worth $50 Bln

from Sputnik News: Last week, President Biden warned that Russia would face sanctions unlike any ever seen before if it invaded Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly denied any intention of doing so, accusing the West of hyping up the ‘Russian threat’ to justify NATO’s expansion, and calling the claims a cover for Kiev’s own plans to […]
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Ford Stops Orders For $20,000 Pickup Until Summer 2023 Due To Overwhelming Demand

Ford Stops Orders For $20,000 Pickup Until Summer 2023 Due To Overwhelming Demand When demand is so overwhelming that you have to stop taking pre-orders, that's usually a good sign - even when you're battling a supply chain crisis. This was the case with Ford's new Maverick pickup truck which, priced at $20,000, has attracted so much demand that the automaker has been forced to stop taking orders until 2023.  With auto prices skyrocketing over the last 18 months, the Wall Street Journal reports that the demand is a surefire sign that customers are "hungry for more-affordable options" in the auto market.  On Monday of this week, dealers were told that Ford is "suspending customer orders" because it is "already straining to fill a backlog". The company will resume taking orders this summer. Dean Stoneley, general manager of Ford trucks told the WSJ: “We didn’t want to take more orders than we could build. We’re getting customers who would have perhaps bought a used car and are now buying the Maverick because it is so affordable." Chris Lemley, president of Sentry Auto Group in Boston called the move "unusual", but also said that it's "appropriate under the circumstances to avoid customer disappointment.” “We desperately needed something in that price range,” he said of the Maverick's $20,000 tag.  Recall, in late December we noted that used car prices had smashed through yet another record high. The Manheim Index, the most recognized wholesale used-vehicle price index by financial and economic analysts, reported that the wholesale used car index rose 3.1% in the first 15 days of December compared to November. The overall index has jumped a mindboggling 48.9% from December 2020.  "On a year-over-year basis, all major market segments saw seasonally adjusted price gains through the first 15 days of December. Pickups had the smallest year-over-year gains, vans had the largest at 63.3%, and both non-luxury car segments outpaced the overall industry in seasonally adjusted price growth. Compared to November, SUVs and vans had the smallest growth in the first half of December, while compact cars had the largest gain," the report said.  Heading into the new year, Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius provided clients with an outlook on the automobile market. He expects "further increases in new and used car prices during the first quarter of 2022, but outlines "new car prices peak in Q2 (vs. Q1 previously) and used car prices peak in Q1 (vs. December 2021 previously)."   Hopefully, for those looking to get their hands on a Ford Maverick this summer, price rises offer a slight respite.  Tyler Durden Wed, 01/26/2022 - 07:00
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Victor Davis Hanson: What Are Republicans "For" In 2022?

Victor Davis Hanson: What Are Republicans "For" In 2022? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Can Republicans move beyond just completing the original, necessary Trump agenda on closing the border, legal-only immigration, deterrence against China, energy production, immunity from optional military engagements in the Middle East, industrial and manufacturing resurgence in the Rust Belt and conservative judicial appointments? What would such a new Contract with America entail, if it were indeed wise before the midterms to advertise such a confident Newt Gingrich-like strategy for regaining the House? And should a menu be more rather than less detailed? What about the follow-up for a later Republican presidency? Here are the Ten Commandments worth running on, some new, some old. Not all are official policy positions. Some are recommendations for action even when the federal government is not directly involved. 1) A Safe and Law-Abiding America. Crime prevention and punishment is mostly a local and state affair. But the federal government promises to prosecute fully any criminal who crosses state lines or uses interstate communications to commit arson, public destruction, smash-and-grab looting or general attacks on any federal property within the states. 2) Affordable Energy for an Energy-Independent America. Restoration of gas and oil energy independence; reopening of federal lands for new energy leases; fast-tracking natural gas and oil pipelines; encouragement and incentives to mine rare and precious metals inside the United States needed for batteries and new sources of energy. 3) A Secure Border. Immediate completion of the border wall. Deportation of all those who crossed illegally between 2017 and 2024 and all criminals convicted of felonies or serious misdemeanors; employer sanctions; an end to catch-and-release; all refugee seekers apply outside the United States; a tax on remittances sent south of the border on those here illegally and on public assistance; the end of the primacy of family considerations in fast-tracking immigration requests, replaced by meritocratic considerations of English facility, skill sets and education. All immigration would be predicated on legality, diversity, meritocracy and measured and manageable numbers necessary for assimilation and integration. 4) A Sacrosanct Constitution and Preservation of Long-Held Traditions. On record for no changes to the Constitution; no dismantling of the Electoral College; no federalization of states’ voting laws; no increase in a nine-justice Supreme Court; no statehood for Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico; no end to the Senate filibuster. 5) The Restoration of Election Day. Encouragement to the states to limit mail-in balloting, return to the old notion of absentee balloting as an exception rather than the norm and cut back on extended/early balloting — with the goal that 60 to 70% of ballots cast are done so on Election Day. 6) A “Don’t Tread on Me” Foreign Policy. Strong support for the sanctity of allied nations. Deterrence against Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and other belligerents. A realist foreign policy of “No better friend, no worse enemy.” An end to optional large, on-the-ground military engagements in the Middle East. A return of Pentagon emphasis on battle readiness rather than social justice and woke agendas, with budgets redirected to missile defense and naval and air deterrence. 7) Towards a Balanced Budget. Expenditures must match revenues. An update of the Simpson-Bowles National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform or enactment of its recommendations, with the aim of achieving a balanced budget in four years. 8) Anti-Trust, Anti-Monopoly Legislation. An end to Silicon Valley’s vast monopolies, cartels and immunity from public-utility regulations. 9) Strict Enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Prohibition of the use of racial bias/advantage/preference in the operations of public local, state and federal agencies. No federal funds allotted for critical-race-theory indoctrination. 10) No Federal Funds for Lawbreakers. An end to federal support of state agencies and private institutions that violate federal statutes and the Bill of Rights, whether sanctuary-city jurisdictions or campuses whose speech and trial codes violate the First, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments. Loss of tax-free status on income from university endowments of more than $10 billion. Lots more might be included in any such agenda (e.g., moving agencies like the FBI out of Washington), but God limited his commandments to 10, and humble Republicans should keep that consideration in mind. Tyler Durden Tue, 01/25/2022 - 23:55
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Ukraine Crisis: How Deep State Created Biden-Putin Rift?

Ukraine Crisis: How Deep State Created Biden-Putin Rift? Submitted by Nauman Sadiq, Days before Biden’s inauguration as president on January 20 last year, instigating Russian dissident and Putin’s longtime foe Alexei Navalny to return to Russia on January 17 from his sojourn in Germany for no apparent political advantage, after being allegedly poisoned in August 2020, was clearly the job of the US deep state that wanted to sabotage newly inaugurated Biden administration’s relations with Russia and forestall the likelihood of rapprochement between the arch-rivals. It’s pertinent to note that as a goodwill gesture before the Biden-Putin summit at Geneva in June, Russia significantly drewdown its troop build-up along Ukraine’s border. Reciprocating the courtesy, however, the ambience and body language of the summit, clearly choreographed by the US national security establishment, were kept as austere as possible. No joint press conferences were held, as is customary after such momentous meetings. The organizers of the farcical show strictly ordered “no breaking the bread” or refreshments during hours-long strenuous discussions. All blame games and tough talk. Even Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was held in a more cordial atmosphere than the bitter encounter between the leaders of the two global powers. The civilian administrations of the United States, whether Trump or Biden, want to have friendly relations with other major powers, including Russia and China, and want to focus on national economy to provide much-needed financial relief to the American electorate. But the mindset and institutional logic of the US deep state has been frozen in the Cold War era, and it perceives any threat to its global military domination agenda with utmost suspicion and hostility. The current brinkmanship on the Ukraine crisis is a manifestation of this global power belligerence where the hands of civilian presidents are tied behind their backs and the Pentagon’s top brass determines the national security agenda pursued by the United States. It’s worth noting that it wasn’t the first time the deep state scuttled peace negotiations between the civilian administration of the United States and its global rivals. Following their first-ever rendezvous in Singapore in June 2018 and a “bromance” lasting over a period of several months, a much-anticipated two-day summit meeting between capricious North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump was held at the Metropole Hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 27–28, 2019. On the last day of the Hanoi Summit, however, the White House abruptly announced that the summit was cut short and that no agreement was reached. Trump later clarified that it was due to North Korea's insistence on ending all sanctions. The real reason of the foundering of the much-hyped North Korea nuclear negotiations, however, can be discovered in hardly noticed news headlines weeks after the summit. In March 2019, Adam Taylor and Min Joo Kim reported for the Washington Post: “In broad daylight in late February, just days before President Trump met with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, a group of masked men forced their way into the North Korean Embassy in Madrid. The intruders tied up staff and took computers and mobile phones before fleeing. “The raid was initially a mystery, but the culprit was soon revealed: Free Joseon, an organization that calls for the overthrow of Kim’s dynasty. More details emerged this week as a Spanish judge lifted a secrecy order on the embassy raid case and claimed one of the perpetrators had later shared stolen material from the raid with the FBI. “More startling still to North Korea watchers, however, was one of the names of the suspects Spain would reportedly seek to extradite from the United States: a Mexican citizen by the name of Adrian Hong Chang. To many, that name rang a bell. “Adrian Hong had been a prominent figure in the tightknit world of defectors and activists in Washington and Seoul a decade earlier. Hong had spent some of his childhood in Mexico and later studied at Yale University, where he formed a now well-known NGO that campaigned for change in North Korea. He was a regular at government events and in newspaper op-eds. “Some said the statements by Free Joseon fit in with the man they knew. For years, Hong has sought to establish a government-in-exile for North Korea. Lee Wolosky, a lawyer with Boies Schiller Flexner and a former State Department official, issued a statement on the group’s behalf Wednesday that said ‘the United States and its allies should support’ groups that oppose the North Korean government. “Hong later formed Pegasus Strategies, an advisory firm, and was listed as president of a North Korea-focused group called the Joseon Institute. He appears to have broadened his interests to include the Middle East, traveling to Libya in 2011. ‘I consider the Arab Spring a dress rehearsal for North Korea,’ he said in an interview with the National that year. “Park Sang Hak, a prominent North Korean defector, said he had last seen Hong in Washington in June 2018, when they both attended a meeting at the Director of National Intelligence. There has been widespread speculation in both the Spanish and South Korean media that the group has ties to the CIA. South Korea’s Munhwa Ilbo, the country’s main evening conservative newspaper, published an editorial Thursday that said the ‘US seems to be unofficially involved and providing support’ to Free Joseon. “State Department spokesman Robert J. Palladino said Tuesday that the U.S. government ‘had nothing to do’ with the embassy incident. Kim Jung-bong, a former NIS official, said while he thought the Free Joseon movement was probably in contact with the CIA, he doubted the U.S. intelligence community would have supported the embassy raid. ‘Their moves were too sloppy,’ Kim Jung-bong said. “It was not immediately clear how the group could have afforded to carry out raids in a foreign country or hire a prestigious law firm such as Boies Schiller Flexner.” After reading the excerpts, it becomes abundantly clear that Adrian Hong was a CIA asset and the brazen tactics of raiding North Korea’s embassy in Madrid were deliberately made to look “sloppy” because the raid’s purpose was nothing more than sending a clear message to the North Korean leader before the Hanoi Summit. Although Trump was eager to get a coveted feather in his diplomatic cap by making Kim Jong-un agree to discard North Korea’s nuclear program, the US national security establishment was staunchly against the negotiations since the beginning. While Trump was holding a summit with the North Korean leader in Singapore in June 2018, the deep state shills in the mainstream media were publishing fabricated satellite images and speculating that Trump was being duped by Kim and that North Korea had shifted its nuclear arsenal at a secret location in the mountainous region bordering China. Coming back to Ukraine’s aspirations for joining NATO and the alliance’s eastward expansion along Russia’s western borders, the ostensible cause of the current standoff, it’s pertinent to mention that the trans-Atlantic military alliance NATO and its auxiliary economic alliance European Union were conceived during the Cold War to offset the influence of the former Soviet Union which was geographically adjacent to Europe. Historically, the NATO military alliance, at least ostensibly, was conceived as a defensive alliance in 1949 during the Cold War in order to offset conventional warfare superiority of the former Soviet Union. The US forged collective defense pact with the Western European nations after the Soviet Union reached the threshold to build its first atomic bomb in 1949 and achieved nuclear parity with the US. But the trans-Atlantic military alliance has outlived its purpose following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and is now being used as an aggressive and expansionist military alliance meant to browbeat and coerce the former Soviet allies, the Central and Eastern European states, to join NATO and its corollary economic alliance, the European Union, or risk international economic isolation. It was not a coincidence that the Soviet Union was dissolved in December 1991 and the Maastricht Treaty that consolidated the European Community and laid the groundwork for the European Union was signed in February 1992. The basic purpose of the EU has been nothing more than to entice the former communist states of the Eastern and Central Europe into the folds of the Western capitalist bloc by offering financial incentives and inducements, particularly in the form of agreements to abolish internal border checks between the EU member states, thus allowing the free movement of workers from the impoverished Eastern Europe to the prosperous countries of the Western Europe. Regarding the global footprint of the American forces, according to a January 2017 infographic by the New York Times, 210,000 US military personnel were deployed across the world, including 79,000 in Europe, 45,000 in Japan, 28,500 in South Korea and 36,000 in the Middle East. In Europe, 400,000 US forces were deployed during the height of the Cold War in the sixties, though the number has since been significantly brought down after European powers developed their own military capacity following the devastation of the Second World War. The number of American troops deployed in Europe now stands at 47,000 in Germany, 15,000 in Italy and 8,000 in the United Kingdom. Thus, Europe is nothing more than a client of corporate America. Not surprisingly, the Western political establishments, and particularly the deep states of the US and EU, were as freaked out over the outcome of Brexit as they were during the Ukrainian Crisis in November 2013 when Viktor Yanukovych suspended the preparations for the implementation of an association agreement with the European Union and threatened to take Ukraine back into the folds of the Russian sphere of influence by accepting billions of dollars of loan package offered by Vladimir Putin. In this regard, the founding of the EU has been similar to the precedent of Japan and South Korea in the Far East where 45,000 and 28,500 US troops have currently been deployed, respectively. After the Second World War, when Japan was about to fall in the hands of geographically adjacent Soviet Union, the Truman administration authorized the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to subjugate Japan and send a signal to the leaders of the former Soviet Union, which had not developed its nuclear program at the time, to desist from encroaching upon Japan in the east and West Germany in Europe. Then, during the Cold War, American entrepreneurs invested heavily in the economies of Japan and South Korea and made them model industrialized nations to forestall the expansion of communism in the Far East. Similarly, after the Second World War, Washington embarked on the Marshall Plan to rebuild Western Europe with an economic assistance of $13 billion, equivalent to hundreds of billions of dollars in the current dollar value. Since then, Washington has maintained military and economic dominance over Western Europe. Thus, all the grandstanding and moral posturing of unity and equality aside, the hopelessly neoliberal institution, the EU, in effect, is nothing more than the civilian counterpart of the Western military alliance against the former Soviet Union, the NATO, that employs a much more subtle and insidious tactic of economic warfare to win over political allies and to isolate adversaries that dare to sidestep from the global trade and economic policies as laid down by the Western capitalist bloc. *  *  * Nauman Sadiq is an Islamabad-based attorney, columnist and geopolitical analyst focused on the politics of Af-Pak and Middle East regions, neocolonialism and petro-imperialism. Tyler Durden Tue, 01/25/2022 - 21:15
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Pfizer Board Member Suggests End To Mask, Vaccine Mandates

Pfizer Board Member Suggests End To Mask, Vaccine Mandates Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former director of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and current board member at Pfizer, said that declining COVID-19 cases should signal to policymakers that it is time to lift more pandemic-related restrictions. “I think certainly on the east coast where you see cases declining dramatically we need to be willing to lean in and do that very soon I think as conditions improve we have to be willing to relax some of these measures with the same speed that we put them in place,” he told “The Squawk Box” in a Monday interview when asked about whether mask mandates should be dropped. Scott Gottlieb testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 5, 2017. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images) Gottlieb said that “a lot of the acrimony” in the United States stems from a lack of “clear goalposts” about when some of the measures will end. The former FDA commissioner also cited the Connecticut government’s recent decision to rescind vaccine mandates for state workers as a policy that other policymakers should adopt in the near future as COVID-19 cases decline nationwide. “The only way to get compliance from people and get accommodation [is] if we demonstrate the ability to withdraw these [mandates] in the same manner in which we put them in,” Gottlieb added. The call for COVID-19 restrictions to be dropped comes as the overall infection rate in the United States has sharply declined in recent days. Data from the Johns Hopkins-run Our World in Data shows that 4,110 out of every one million Americans recorded infections on Jan. 10, but that rate was 2,643 as late as Friday and dropped to 615 per one million as of Sunday. Outside the United States, more and more European countries have moved to rescind certain COVID-19-related rules, including vaccine passports and mask mandates. For example, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that starting Jan. 27, people in England won’t have to wear masks in public or show proof that they’ve been vaccinated to enter some venues. But on Monday, World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned that more COVID-19 variants may emerge and alleged that it’s dangerous to assume Omicron is the last one or that “we are in the endgame.” “There are different scenarios for how the pandemic could play out and how the acute phase could end. But it’s dangerous to assume that omicron will be the last variant or that we are in the endgame,” Tedros told a WHO board meeting. “On the contrary, globally, the conditions are ideal for more variants to emerge.” He didn’t provide evidence or data to back up his claim. Tyler Durden Tue, 01/25/2022 - 19:15
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NY Gov Slams State Supreme Court Ruling Abolishing Mask Mandate, Pledges To "Reverse It Immediately"

NY Gov Slams State Supreme Court Ruling Abolishing Mask Mandate, Pledges To "Reverse It Immediately" In a decision that will likely be welcomed by many New York parents and schoolchildren, along with the countless workers, consumers and tourists in the Empire State, the Supreme Court of New York struck down Gov. Kathy Hochul's statewide mask mandate. In its ruling, the court declared the mask mandate "unconstitutional" and "null, void and unenforceable". New York State Supreme Court Justice Thomas Rademaker of Nassau County wrote in his opinion explaining the decision that the governor doesn't have the authority to impose the mandate since the "emergency powers" once wielded by her predecessor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, are no longer in place. Without the assent of the legislature, the Court determined that the governor doesn't have the ability to order masks mandates, although the circumstances would be different if emergency powers granted by lawmakers were still in effect. Gov. Hochul The ruling goes: "While the intentions of Commissioner Bassett and Governor Hochul appear to be well-aimed squarely at doing what they believe is right to protect the citizens of New York State, they must take their case to the State Legislature." Gov. Hochul ordered the mandate last month amid a flurry of new restrictions ordered by various states. President Biden has seen SCOTUS and another federal judge overrule his vaccination mandates. In response to the ruling, Gov. Hochul said the following: "My responsibility as Governor is to protect New Yorkers throughout this public health crisis, and these measures help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and save lives. We strongly disagree with this ruling, and we are pursuing every option to reverse this immediately." Put another way, Gov. Hochul says she doesn't care about the legal precedent, and will do everything in her power to continue enforcing the mandate. State Supreme Court decision. Response from the Governor…. We don’t care and we will break the law to get our way. Leave New York as fast as you can…. — Wolfie (@Ligma32) January 25, 2022 We wonder how the Empire State's business community feels about the governor's pledge to find a way around the ruling? Tyler Durden Tue, 01/25/2022 - 08:16
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They Got Too Cocky Bros!

from Junius Maltby: TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/
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CHINA LAUCHES ITS MOST DARING RAIDS INTO TAIWAN AIRSPACE

by Harvey Organ, Harvey Organ Blog: GOLD CLOSED UP $10.15 TO $1841.55//SILVER CLOSED DOWN 48 CENTS TO $23.77//COMEX GOLD STANDING FOR JANUARY RISES TO 17.620 TONNES//SILVER OZ STANDING 14.48 MILLION OZ//COVID UPDATES//VACCINE MANDATE UPDATES//VACCINE IMPACT: BRUSSELS ON SUNDAY HAD A HUGE PROTEST AGAINST THE VACCINE MANDATES//CANADA STARTS ITS TRUCKING PROTESTS WITH TRUCK DRIVER CLOGGING THE […]
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Thank This Mystery Put Seller For Today's Historic Market Reversal

Thank This Mystery Put Seller For Today's Historic Market Reversal Heading into today's rollercoaster session, we were - perhaps naively - confident that Friday's massive $3.1 trillion opex would also mark the bottom for stocks (an option expiration which we correctly said would be surrounded by massive volatility, as explained last Tuesday). $3.1 TN opex tomorrow. Massive gamma expiration (with dealers deep negative). Stocks bottom — zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 20, 2022 And - in a roundabout way - it did, because after plunging more than 4%, stocks staged a furious rally the likes of which have been seen only on a handful of occasions, before closing green. Putting today's historic reversal in context, this was only the sixth time since 1988 that the Nasdaq reversed a 4%+ intraday drop to close higher. The other days were 10/28/97, 10/26/00, 7/15/02, 10/10/08, and 11/13/08. As for the S&P, this was the biggest intraday comeback since November 2008 when the US was in the middle of the biggest financial crisis in recent history. To be fair, while we did expect the market to bottom, we did not anticipate an early plunge as furious as the one that took place today (before it was replaced with an even more furious bounce). We did however expect the market to recover from the post op-ex "hangover", because as SpotGamma notes, the lows in the market during the December 2018 and March 2020 crashes both took place the day after options expirations. And while this time it was a January opex, what was remarkable about this particular event, is that we had a record amount of puts selling heading into Friday's event, some of which expired, some of which did not. We bring this up because as SpotGamma explains in its post-mortem, it was the previously discussed massive negative gamma expiration that was responsible for today's unprecedented volatility, but also it was a burst in option-linked activity that emerged around noon - just after the European close - that catalyzed the historic market reversal. As shown in the chart below, which in addition to the S&P in black also shows put (blue) and call (orange) deltas, a massive put seller suddenly appeared (which via the negative gamma feedback loop also means dealers suddenly reverse from selling S&P futures to buying) just around noon, that was responsible for the slowdown in dealer selling and subsequent reversal, as a huge short squeeze kicked in and sent stocks sharply higher for the rest of the day. Then from 12pm until roughly 3pm, the deltas in put options became increasingly positive dragging the market with them, as dealers scrambled to cover their long put hedges. At that point the reflexive pathway of put selling that also sent the VIX sharply lower (the VIX collapsed from 39 at the highs to 29 at the lows a few hours later driven in big part by this acceleration in put selling during the afternoon) had activated and prompted countless vol-targeting funds to join the buying frenzy. Who was the put seller? Was it some contrarian dealer who had finally had enough of the waterfall selling, or was it some major hedge fund with little to lose, or perhaps it was the infamous plunge protection team? We don't know, but we do know the mechanism by which the reversal happened, and courtesy of SpotGamma you too can keep track of such major market inflation points as they explain in the video below. Tyler Durden Mon, 01/24/2022 - 19:31
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Why Russia? What Damage Can Russia Do To The [DS], Think Mirror – Ep. 2685

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"Dark Outlook": Dismal NBC Poll Reveals Most Americans Think Country Going "Downhill" And Is "Lost"

"Dark Outlook": Dismal NBC Poll Reveals Most Americans Think Country Going "Downhill" And Is "Lost" Pessimism in America has gone mainstream, according to a new NBC News poll. Between a senile teleprompter president who recently admitted he can't in fact 'shut down' Covid as promised, rampant inflation causing real wages to stagnate, and ongoing division over everything from election integrity to pandemic mandates to what's being taught in schools, Americans have become extremely sour on the future - less than 10 months before midterm elections. It's so obviously bad that even legacy media mouthpieces aren't carrying water for Biden anymore, and all White House spox Jen Psaki can do is offer mean-girl quips to honest questions. Jen Psaki snaps at a reporter for asking who from the Administration attended meetings on distributing tests to Americans before Christmas to prevent a winter surge and if Biden was aware. “How can President Biden shut down the virus if he’s not being briefed on these ideas?” pic.twitter.com/dU4ez08hyo — Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 18, 2022 Jen Psaki: "My advice to everyone out there who's frustrated, sad, angry, pissed off, feel those emotions, go to a kickboxing class, have a margarita..." UNREAL. How is this the "advice" that is now coming from the White House?pic.twitter.com/ENphGJCryZ — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) January 21, 2022 "Downhill, divided, doubting democracy, falling behind, and tuning out — this is how Americans are feeling as they're heading into 2022," said Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, who conducted the survey with conservative pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies. The poll has "President Joe Biden's approval ratings remaining in the low 40s, Republicans holding a double-digit edge in enthusiasm and key Democratic groups losing interest in the upcoming election." On the economy, while job creation is up and the unemployment rate is down, 61 percent of respondents in the poll say their family’s income is falling behind the cost of living. That’s compared with 30 percent who say they’re staying about even and 7 percent who say their income is going up faster than the cost of living. -NBC News When it comes to national policies - 70% say America is so polarized that it can no longer solve major issues - and that the division will only continue to grow. 27% on the other hand feel that America always overcomes its differences to solve the greatest challenges. In 2010, 50% of those polled said America 'always comes together,' and 45% said political differences would continue to grow. "In the three instances when this sustained dark outlook coincided with an election year, it foreshadowed bad news for the party in power — 1992, 2008 and 2016," said Horwitt. Midterms, Dead Ahead The timing couldn't be worse for Democrats - who have fewer than 300 days until the November midterm elections. While 47% of those polled by NBC say they prefer a Democratic-controlled congress, one should keep in mind that 47% of those polled voted also voted for Biden, while 44% voted for Trump. Republicans enjoy a double-digit advance on enthusiasm ahead of November’s elections, with 61 percent of Republicans saying they are very interested in the upcoming midterms — registering their interest either as a 9 or 10 on a 10-point scale — compared with 47 percent of Democrats who say the same. In previous midterm cycles — whether 2006, 2010, 2014 or 2018 — the party that held a double-digit advantage in enthusiasm ended up making substantial gains. Additionally, overall enthusiasm for the upcoming midterms is down from 59 percent who indicated a high level of interest in October, to 51 percent in this most recent poll. And some of the biggest drops have come from key segments of the Democratic base, including Black voters, young voters and urban voters. -NBC News Meanwhile, a January Gallup poll found a major swing in the GOP's favor that occurred throughout 2021. "There is nothing but flashing red flights and warning signs for Democrats," said McInturff, the conservative pollster. What are the top issues facing the country? " jobs and the economy (a combined 42 percent), the coronavirus (29 percent), voting rights and election integrity (25 percent), the cost of living (23 percent) and border security and immigration (22 percent)." Democrats cared most about Covid, voting rights / election integrity, social and racial justice, jobs/economy, and climate change. Republican top issues were jobs/economy, border security/immigration, taxes and spending, and the cost of living. "Jen they're saying the margaritas aren't working..." Tyler Durden Mon, 01/24/2022 - 08:08
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Pfizer CEO Says Annual COVID Jabs Would Be An "Ideal Situation"

Pfizer CEO Says Annual COVID Jabs Would Be An "Ideal Situation" Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla's global media tour continued this week with a series of interviews with the Israeli press. Of course, Israel has become an extremely important market for Pfizer. After all, they buy massive quantities of their vaccines. A few weeks ago, Bourla was speaking with the French press, telling them he expected everything to "return to normal" by the Spring. France is of course another important customer for Pfizer's vaccines. And with so much money at stake, it's critical that a CEO must tend to propagate their preferred narrative with a carefully calculated global media strategy. In Israel, the first country in the world to start doling out a fourth COVID jab to those deemed most vulnerable to infection via omicron, Bourla told an Israeli TV station that he hopes people will ultimately only need boosters once a year, rather than every few months. Bourla said it would "not be a good scenario" if people were to get boosters every four to five months. "What I'm hoping [is] that we will have a vaccine that you will have to do once a year," he told Channel 12 news on Saturday. Instead, Bourla argued it would be easier to sell the idea and "easier for people to remember" if a vaccine is required only once per year, calling it "an ideal situation" from "a public health perspective." As far as Pfizer's bottom line is concerned, it might not be an "ideal situation" - but it might just be the best the company can hope for given how their vaccines have performed over the last year. It's almost comical to watch Pfizer play catch up with public opinion, since it's becoming increasingly clear that a growing number of people are getting 'vaccine fatigue'. Just ask Bill Maher. Bourla acknowledged in a separate interview with an Israel's Channel 13 News that a "sizable minority" of people are reluctant to take even a single dose of his vaccines. Mimicking the increasingly harsh condemnations of European leaders like Mario Draghi and Emmanuel Macron and singled out "a tiny minority of people who profit from circulating misinformation" fiercely attacking them as "criminals." While Israel has used more vaccines per capita than any other country, the WHO has repeatedly warned that Pfizer and the other vaccinemakers would do better to prioritize shipping vaccines to countries with lower vaccination rates before selling multiple rounds of boosters to the world's wealthiest nations. Tyler Durden Mon, 01/24/2022 - 07:00
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Croatian 🇭🇷 MEP Mislav Kolakušić addressing the French 🇫🇷 president Emmanuel Macron in the European Parliament:

Croatian 🇭🇷 MEP Mislav Kolakušić addressing the French 🇫🇷 president Emmanuel Macron in the European Parliament: pic.twitter.com/pkb3beC1RK — Based Croatia (@Based_Croatia) January 21, 2022
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Do Not Ignore What’s Happening Right Now

from The Money GPS: TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/
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German Government "Concerned" About Massive Anti-COVID Restriction Protests

German Government "Concerned" About Massive Anti-COVID Restriction Protests Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, The German government is seriously “concerned” over the sheer number of protests against COVID restrictions in recent weeks, which are the most widespread in the country’s history. Influential German broadsheet Die Welt reveals that on the same day, protests took place in over 1,000 locations across the country. “The government is concerned about the decentralized actions,” reports the newspaper, with one source labeling the “immensity” of the demonstrations “depressing.” “Never before in the history of the Federal Republic have there been demonstrations that are more widespread than in the last few weeks,” states the report, with the government counting 1,046 separate protests involving around 188,000 participants. Instead of describing such developments as “depressing,” you’d think authorities in Germany would maybe considering listening to the will of their people. A scandal in Hamburg where the Mayor falsely claimed that the unvaccinated represented 95% of COVID cases didn’t do anything to restore trust. A Senate investigation reported the actual number to be 14.3%. Germany is still pushing ahead with plans to make the COVID vaccine mandatory, with a parliamentary debate on the issue planned for next week. Las year, the editor-in-chief of Germany’s top newspaper Bild apologized for the news outlet’s fear-driven coverage of COVID, specifically to children who were told “that they were going to murder their grandma.” As we highlighted earlier, the Czech Republic has abandoned plans to make the COVID vaccine mandatory for some groups after numerous large protests took place in Prague. The general picture across the continent is one of restrictions being gradually rolled back in response to Omicron proving mild, although countries like Austria are still planning to make the jab compulsory. *  *  * Brand new merch now available! Get it at https://www.pjwshop.com/ In the age of mass Silicon Valley censorship It is crucial that we stay in touch. I need you to sign up for my free newsletter here. Support my sponsor – Turbo Force – a supercharged boost of clean energy without the comedown. Get early access, exclusive content and behinds the scenes stuff by following me on Locals. Tyler Durden Sun, 01/23/2022 - 09:20
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How The Shale Revolution Saved Europe From A Great Blackout

How The Shale Revolution Saved Europe From A Great Blackout Authored by Daniel Lacalle, In October, the governments of Austria and The Netherlands warned of the risk of a “great blackout”. Soaring natural gas prices, lack of security of supply and a challenging outlook of pipeline deliveries from Russia made the governments exceedingly nervous about the chances of providing cheap and reliable energy for homes in winter. However, an unexpected ally has prevented an energy crisis in Europe and, ironically, it is an ally that was banned in most European nations: Shale gas.   About half of the record U.S. Liquefied Natural Gas volumes shipped in December 2021 went to Europe, up from 37% earlier in 2021, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. While most European nations banned the exploration and development of domestic natural gas resources many years ago, the United States has plenty and competitive supplies thanks to the shale oil and gas revolution, which has made the country almost energy independent. Domestic natural gas production has exceeded U.S. demand by about 10%, according to Reuters. There is a lesson for the U.S. here. Many European energy policies have been ideologically directed, and massive energy subsidies and political intervention have not strengthened the competitiveness of the economy, secured energy supply, or even reduced significantly carbon emissions. The German Economy Minister, Robert Habeck recently mentioned that “we will probably miss our (CO2 emissions) targets for 2021, also for 2022, even for 2023 it will be hard enough” according to Zeit. Germany will miss its climate targets for 2021 as the use of coal increased dramatically while the use of renewable energies remained almost stagnant. After hundreds of billions in renewable subsidies, household bills are 65% higher than in 2006 according to the BDEW and Energy Ministry. What has been the European policy mistake? To eliminate or ban baseload, cheap and reliable energy (nuclear and development of domestic natural gas) and offset it with intermittent and volatile sources of energy -wind and solar- too early into a technology transition. This, when demand rises or solar and wind output decline, puts security of supply and competitiveness at risk because prices rise to all-time highs. European power prices have also risen to record-highs because the cost of CO2 emissions -a hidden tax- has soared from 20 euros per metric tonne to more than 80. Due to this hidden tax, European governments are collecting tens of billions of euros in tax receipts, but the burden falls on businesses and families. Residential electricity prices in the European Union between 2010 and 2014 averaged near $240/MWh, whereas the U.S. averaged nearly $120/MWh, or less than half of EU prices. Gasoline and gasoil prices were also twice as expensive in the average of the European Union compared with the United States. This trend has not improved at all. In 2021, wholesale electricity prices in Europe reached a record high. Europe must understand that technology and competition achieve more in terms of reducing carbon emissions while improving competitiveness than implementing rigid and expensive political mandates. The energy sector is key in the decarbonization but will not achieve it through constant intervention. To decarbonize, the best technological tool is a combination of natural gas, nuclear, hydro, and renewable energy. But renewables are intermittent, while consumption is continuous. While technology develops, Europe must ensure security of supply and affordable energy making the most of all the possible options, incentivising green energy and reducing costs for consumers. Now that renewable technologies are competitive, the solution cannot come from central planning, restricted markets, subsidies, and regulatory patches. It must come, as in the US, from tax credits that are gradually phased out, and competition in an open market, with transparent bilateral contracts. Europe can develop its domestic resources and accelerate clean energy investment with rapid technology innovation. The word to achieve it is competition. It was a mistake to ban the development of natural gas resources but an even bigger mistake to blame global gas producers for not selling cheaply a product that some governments have rejected. European nations cannot say to global oil and gas producers that they will not use their resources in ten years but, in the meantime, producers must invest billions in development and export cheap and abundant energy.  Europe can promote competitiveness, lower bills, and advance in clean energy. All it must do is allow industries to find realistic and durable solutions and let markets work. Tyler Durden Sun, 01/23/2022 - 08:10
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US Doctors Targeted And Rounded Up: Biden Regime Will Force Life-Saving Doctors Into Asylums

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Adele: Las Vegas concert residency cancelled after half of her fully-vaccinated crew comes down with COVID-19

(Natural News) LAS VEGAS — A global pop star has postponed her much-anticipated Las Vegas concert debut tonight, in yet another blow to the COVID-19 and “vaccine” narratives. (Article republished from TheCOVIDBlog.com) For the record, this blogger knows very little about Adele (full name Adele Laurie Blue Adkins), her music and/or her career. She is the...
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Majority Of Millennials, Gen Zers Want Limits On Abortion; New Poll Finds

Majority Of Millennials, Gen Zers Want Limits On Abortion; New Poll Finds  Authored by Kristan Hawkins via RealClear Politics (emphasis ours), By the time the midterm elections take place, targeted campaign ads and outreach will have littered the virtual American landscape, as politicians attempt to persuade voters that they have something to offer. In today’s partisan setting, abortion will be one of the issues raised. While the pro-life position once encompassed people of all political persuasions, the two parties today generally stand as polar opposites, making a new poll on the views of almost one-third of the electorate important news for the army of campaign consultants gearing up to make their pitch. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Far from being pro-abortion/straight-ticket voters without nuance, Millennials and Gen Zers share concerns about the extremes of abortion. They also desire to have a voice and a vote on life, and thoroughly reject the reckless and deadly policy pursued by the Biden administration and its corporate abortion allies on chemical abortion pills, according to a poll taken in early January and reported by Students for Life of America’s Demetree Institute for Pro-Life Advancement. Consider Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that almost 50 years ago stripped abortion policy away from the states, setting up almost limitless abortion and making ordinary political engagement almost impossible. An extraordinary 8 in 10 Millennials and Gen Zers want to vote on abortion policy, up from 66% in 2021, while 3 out of 4 want limits on abortion and 4 in 10 want either no abortion or abortion only for the traditional exceptions – in cases of rape, incest, or when the mother’s life is in danger. On taxpayer-funded abortion, a top policy position of the Democrat-controlled White House, Senate and House, 55% opposed using those resources to pay for abortions worldwide, and 54% support Hyde Amendment protections that limit taxpayer funding of abortion to the exceptions. Education is key in working with these voters, which is the central mission of SFLA’s in-person, 50-state operation. A 10-percentage point shift in Millennial and Gen Z views on Roe, from positive to negative, took place after respondents learned more about its impact. For example, almost 6 in 10 opposed Roe after learning that it allows for abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. All of this means that if Roe becomes a historical footnote and the issue of abortion is returned to the states – possibly through the Dobbs v. Jackson case under consideration now – that’s a positive for most voters. In fact, the poll found that 65% of Millennials and Gen Zers oppose people in power deciding who is fully human and deserving of legal rights. But the biggest news comes from Millennial and Gen Z’s response to cutting-edge policy being discussed at the state level, from chemical abortion pill limits to “heartbeat” legislation. In fact, more than half of Millennials and Gen Zers would support a limit on abortion after a preborn baby’s heartbeat is detected. The poll also shows that the real losers in the abortion policy debate of our day are those pushing no-test, online sale of chemical pills, which can lead to injury, infertility and even death for the women taking them, as well as the obvious termination of the baby’s life. Recently, Biden’s FDA drastically reduced health and safety standards for chemical abortion pills, and the president nominated Dr. Robert Califf to be commissioner of the agency, a role he held during the Obama administration – when he also weakened standards. This appointment will further expose women to the drugs’ risks. Califf joins HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, who took legal action against the FDA during the Trump administration, forcing it to drop health and safety standards for the pills. This is leading to a state-by-state push for health and safety standards. The new poll examined Millennial and Gen Z views on the separate harms women are now exposed to as a result of this deadly shift in policy. The Biden administration supports none of these protections in its new FDA-approved protocols. More than 6 in 10 opposed no-test, online distribution of chemical abortion pills, with strong support for each of the screenings and protocols once in place. More than 6 in 10 support screening for a mother’s blood type, as Rh-negative women (15% of the population) can become sterile if not treated properly; 59% supported an ultrasound exam before selling the pills to prevent death from complication from an ectopic or late-term pregnancy; and 62% supported required follow-up exams so women didn't die from infection. Concern for women in dangerous situations motivated Millennial and Gen Z voters: 65% supported in-person purchase to prevent abusers or sex traffickers from using the drugs against women without their knowledge and consent, while almost 6 in 10 opposed young girls being left alone with an abortion sales team or coercive sexual partner without adult engagement from a judge, parent or guardian. And for politicians looking for a winning issue, consider this: Almost 7 in 10 Millennials and Gen Zers said they are more likely to vote for a politician who supports health and safety standards for chemical abortion. There is common ground to be found on the abortion issue for people of all parties, beginning with putting the opinions and needs of “We the People” over a handful of judges. Once Roe is gone, a long overdue debate will truly begin. Kristan Hawkins is president of Students for Life of America, with more than 1,225 chapters on college and high school  campuses in all 50 states. Follow her @KristanHawkins or subscribe to her podcast, "Explicitly Pro-Life." Tyler Durden Sat, 01/22/2022 - 21:00
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