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Best of the Web: US Navy ship named after first ever openly homosexual elected official... christened by transgender Navy veteran

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The United States Naval Ship Harvey Milk - named after the assassinated gay rights activist and politician - was christened on Saturday by a transgender veteran, to both praise and cries of "vile nonsense."

The USNS Harvey Milk was christened in San Diego, California in a traditional Navy ceremony, with Milk's nephew, Stuart Milk, in attendance.

Milk, who became an American LGBT icon as the first openly gay official elected in the state of California, served in the US Navy in the 1950s before being discharged over his sexuality. Less than a year after he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Advisers, Milk was assassinated in November 1978 by fellow board member Dan White, who had clashed with Milk over city policy.

A bottle of champagne was smashed on the USNS Harvey Milk on Saturday in the traditional manner by transgender Navy veteran Paula M. Neira, who currently works as a director for the John Hopkins Center for Transgender Health and as an assistant professor for plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Comment: So much Modern Murica!


NPC

Best of the Web: Bill Gates renews warnings over 'small pox terror' threat, FDA approved drug in May for disease that was 'eradicated' in 1980

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© Associated PressMicrosoft founder Bill Gates is calling for investment to fight bioterrorism
Bill Gates has warned governments to prepare for smallpox terror attacks and future pandemics by investing billions into research and development.

Mr Gates made the comments in a Policy Exchange interview with the chair of the health select committee Jeremy Hunt.

He said that countries like the US and the UK must spend "tens of billions" to fund the research adding that while it may be expensive, it could lead to the eradication of the flu and common cold.

Comment: Although Gates has been threatening the planet over the risks of small pox for years now, in May of this year the FDA approved another drug for the disease; a disease which the WHO declared eradicated (in the natural world) back in 1980.

The FDA release, published June 4th 2021:
FDA approves drug to treat smallpox

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Tembexa (brincidofovir) to treat smallpox. Although the World Health Organization declared smallpox, a contagious and sometimes fatal infectious disease, eradicated in 1980, there have been longstanding concerns that the virus that causes smallpox, the variola virus, could be used as a bioweapon.
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Before its eradication in 1980, the variola virus mainly spread by direct contact among people. Symptoms typically began 10 to 14 days after infection and included fever, exhaustion, headache, and backache. A rash consisting of small, pink bumps progressed to pus-filled sores before it crusted over and scarred. Complications of smallpox included encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), corneal ulcerations (an open sore on the clear, front surface of the eye), and blindness.


Bearing in mind the description above, some researchers believe that it's the small pox virus that is responsible for the plague outbreaks reported throughout history, such as the Black Death. From the article New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection by Dr Segura we read:
No known virus existing today is responsible for the Black Death, although the symptoms resemble those of Ebola, Marburg and the viral hemorrhagic fevers - diseases caused by filoviruses. They have a high mortality rate and tend to occur in explosive epidemics driven by person-to-person transmission. Outbreaks occur unpredictably and, as of yet, no animal reservoir is known.

Similar plagues have been described in antiquity, i.e. the devastating epidemic that struck Athens in 430 BC and which Joseph and Wickramasinghe suggest the causative agent of which to be cometary as well.[9] As with the Black Death, the epidemic in Athens was localized geographically, it declined and disappeared as abruptly as it had started, and no known current disease fits its description by the historian Thucydides.

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A scene showing monks, disfigured by the plague, being blessed by a priest. England, 1360–75.
Where did these diseases go? Did the Black Death virus mutate, causing other fearsome diseases? What we do know is that a more virulent form of smallpox came to the fore in the 1630s and, just as the Black Death disappeared from the stage of history, smallpox took its place as the most feared of human diseases. We can only speculate. Smallpox virus, as opposed to the causative agent of the Black death, is very resistant to cold temperatures, making it a more viable virus. According to the data collected by Scott and Duncan which describe the disease process of the Black Death, hemorrhagic smallpox is almost virtually identical to the Black Death.

But were there cometary impacts at the time of the Black Death?

If you read the special feature of The Dot Connector Magazine issue 11, (see also The Golden Age, Psychopathy and the Sixth Extinction) you probably know the answer to be positive. Plague outbreaks often coincided against a background of food shortages, famines, flooding, peasant uprisings and religious wars. In certain countries, there were volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and famines. And not only did the plague outbreaks coincide with cometary impacts, but earthquakes themselves may well have been indications of cometary impacts. Dendrochronologist Mike Baillie of Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland makes this case in his book New Light on the Black Death: The Cosmic Connection. [10]



Although naturally occurring smallpox no longer exists, concerns about potential uses of variola virus as a bioweapon has made smallpox drug development an important component of the U.S. medical countermeasures response.

Because smallpox is eradicated, the effectiveness of Tembexa was studied in animals infected with viruses that are closely related to the variola virus. Effectiveness was determined by measuring animals' survival at the end of the studies. More animals treated with Tembexa survived compared to the animals treated with placebo. FDA approved Tembexa under the agency's Animal Rule, which allows findings from adequate and well-controlled animal efficacy studies to serve as the basis of an approval when it is not feasible or ethical to conduct efficacy trials in humans.


So it's not proven to be effective or safe in humans. Much like the experimental coronavirus injections that were railroaded through using 'emergency' approval powers.


Safety information to support approval of Tembexa was derived from clinical trials of the drug for a non-smallpox indication, primarily from patients who received hematopoietic stem cell transplants. An increased risk of death was seen in another disease (Cytomegalovirus disease - a viral infection) when Tembexa was used for a longer-than-recommended duration (longer than once a week for two weeks on days 1 and 8). Tembexa is only approved for the treatment of smallpox.

The most common side effects when using Tembexa are diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.

Tembexa received priority review, fast track and orphan drug designations. Priority review directs overall attention and resources to the evaluation of applications for drugs that, if approved, would be significant improvements in the safety or effectiveness of the treatment, diagnosis or prevention of serious conditions when compared to standard applications. Fast track is designed to facilitate the development and expedite the review of drugs to treat serious conditions and fill an unmet medical need. Orphan drug designation provides incentives to assist and encourage the development of drugs for rare diseases.

Tembexa was developed in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). FDA granted approval of Tembexa to Chimerix Inc.
Judy Stone MD at WebMD reported on the drug's approval on June 10th 2021:
The FDA has approved a new drug to treat smallpox. Fearful of a possible bioweapon attack, the United States has been steadily preparing a defense through BARDA, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.

Tecovirimat was the first drug for smallpox, approved in 2018. The FDA granted the new drug, brincidofovir, or BCV, fast track status and orphan drug designations in 2018. The new approval came under the FDA's Animal Rule.

Drug testing usually goes through several phases prior to approval. First, there is preclinical testing in test tubes and animal models. Phase I is the "first in human" testing, looking primarily for safety and toxicity. Phase II is where researchers look for the best dose to treat a specific condition. The drug being tested is generally given to people who are relatively healthy otherwise.

Phase III broadens the population that receives the drug, including older people and those with underlying diseases (like diabetes or mild kidney disease). After this, the pharmaceutical company seeks FDA approval. Then phase IV, or post-marketing, studies are done, continuing to monitor for side effects. Rare side effects will often not appear until Phase IV, which is why drugs are sometimes recalled after initial approval.

But that's not how it worked for brincidofovir. The Animal Rule recognizes that some investigational treatments cannot be tested for a specific indication in people. This happens for infections where it is dangerous and unethical to expose people to an agent. Smallpox is one such infection; plague is another. Levaquin and Cipro, two quinolone antibiotics, are approved and often used for various infections but required this specific approval under the FDA's Animal Rule for use against plague.

BCV also received priority review, fast track, and orphan drug designations. The first two mean that the FDA believes the drug is likely to provide a significant advantage over current therapy. This speeds approval. An orphan drug designation is intended to support the development of drugs for rare diseases, but it has been abused by a number of pharmaceutical companies because the status is lucrative.

BCV is neither a new nor unknown drug. It is a version of a drug used to treat certain patients with AIDS.

Smallpox is a deadly disease that kills about 30% of those infected and maims many of its victims. Smallpox also used to be a leading cause of blindness, Gigi Kwik Gronvall, PhD, senior scholar atJohns Hopkins Center for Health Security, says. Natural smallpox was eliminated in the 1979, but both the United States and Russia (and perhaps other countries) have maintained stocks of the virus that could be used as bioterrorism.

Related to BCV's pre-approval studies, Gronvall says that "it was nice to see that some more naturally, relevant poxviruses were used as a standard instead" of using primates. The current studies used rabbitpox and mousepox (ectromelia virus) models, which have, she said, "a lot of relatedness to human smallpox" and are more like a natural infection.

The major defense against smallpox has been an old vaccine (ACAM2000) which has been stockpiled for emergency use. Routine administration of that vaccine was discontinued in the 1970s because it had so many side effects. There is a newer vaccine, modified vaccinia Ankara or MVA, which is less effective but safer.


That's one reason brincidofovir is important, Gronvall says. In the event of a smallpox attack, "if you are not able to give somebody a vaccine within a few days of exposure, they're not going to benefit from the vaccine. So, having a treatment is important."

Gronvall concluded: "It's another success for BARDA that, with not as much resources [due to COVID-19], they were able ... to get this approved. That should be something we think about more in the future, especially with new advances in vaccine technologies and how that could be applied to some of the bioterrorism agents."

In biodefense labs, she added, "There are populations of people who actually do work with some of these agents and some of these vaccines would be very helpful for them. And so maybe I'm hopeful that ... BARDA can take this up."
Considering the US' involvement in bioweapon research, and the well founded suspicions that the coronavirus actually escaped from its Fort Detrick's lab, as well as Bill Gates' & co's use of the current manufactured crisis to roll out the WEF's agenda of the 'Great Reset', one could be forgiven for thinking that any outbreak of smallpox will be equally leveraged for the benefit of the establishment and its nefarious schemes: That said, it's worth bearing in mind that, whilst the establishment like to think that they're on par with God, there are other, greater, forces at work on our planet, and it's thought that the plague outbreaks that cyclically seem to strike our planet, amidst periods of upheaval - much like our planet today - actually have a cosmic origin: Also check out SOTT radio's:




Pirates

Best of the Web: The latest offensive & defensive developments in the US' hybrid war on Ethiopia

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Everything has suddenly intensified in Ethiopia due to the strategically timed convergence of the various components connected to the US' Hybrid War against that country.

Military Offensives

Ethiopia is facing an unprecedented Hybrid War onslaught comprised of military, political, economic, and information components which requires a comprehensive strategy for countering. Everyone is bracing for a large-scale battle sometime in the coming future due to the Tigray People's Liberation Front's (TPLF) advance towards the capital of Addis Ababa over the past few days and the federal government's subsequent promulgation of a state of emergency. This terrorist-designated group is tacitly supported by the US through indirect means via the provisioning of material assistance to it through corrupt UN forces and Washington's equating of the TPLF with the internationally recognized Ethiopian government on the political front. This backing emboldened them to invade the neighboring Afar and Amhara Regions over the summer following the military's withdrawal from the Tigray Region that was carried out in support of the government's unilateral ceasefire declaration at the time, continue committing war crimes with scant international criticism, and thus threaten the very existence of the Ethiopian state.

Comment: Images from a mass rally against TPLF in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, today:





Judging by the mainstream media reports and commentary coming out of the Western establishment, it is indeed looking like regime change efforts are afoot: Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Why You Should Question Media Reports About China 'Causing Covid' And 'Invading Taiwan'




Eye 1

Best of the Web: WaPo provides 'eyebrow-raising details' surrounding Jan. 6th pipe bomb scare

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Several storylines related to the events of January 6 have crumbled under closer scrutiny over the past 10 months: the "fire extinguisher" murder of Officer Brian Sicknick; the notion it was an "armed" insurrection and a grand "conspiracy" concocted by right-wing militias; claims that the building sustained $30 million in damages, and so on.

In the meantime, the Biden regime has attempted to cover up key aspects of that day, including the name of the officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, which was only recently revealed. Justice Department lawyers continue to resist the release of 14,000 hours of surveillance video and the U.S. Capitol Police refuse to publish an 800-page internal investigation on officer misconduct as well as internal communications before and after the Capitol breach.

But a deep dive by the Washington Post, published last weekend, raises new questions about the alleged "pipe bombs" discovered just before Congress met on January 6 to certify the results of the 2020 Electoral College vote. Like so many supporting scenes, the veracity of the pipe bomb tale is in doubt after the Post revealed eyebrow-raising details about those involved.

Stock Up

Best of the Web: 'Unprecedented shock': Bank of England 'very sorry' as cost of living soars

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The Bank of England governor has said he is "very sorry" that UK inflation is rising amid forecasts the cost of living could reach as much as 5%.


Comment: That's the 'official' rate. In real terms, it's at around 30%.


Andrew Bailey told the BBC that households were already feeling the impact of rising prices.

"I'm very sorry that's happening," he said. "None of us want to see that happen."

On Thursday, the Bank surprised financial markets by voting to keep the interest rate unchanged.

Comment: Then what bleeding use are you?

See also: And check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Is The Government Hyping Shortages? And is 'Vaccination Shedding' Really a Thing?




Stop

Best of the Web: Federal court freezes Biden's vaccine mandate for businesses as 27 (TWENTY-SEVEN!) states file lawsuits

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© AP/Susan WalshUS President Joe Biden
A US federal appeals court has issued a stay on President Joe Biden's vaccine mandates for employers, freezing the requirement over constitutional concerns.

Biden's mandate says companies with 100 or more employees must require their workers to either get the Covid-19 vaccine or be tested weekly. Numerous Republican states and companies, such as conservative outlet Daily Wire, have already presented legal challenges to Biden's controversial mandate before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stepped in.

The court put a hold on the mandate on Saturday before its January deadline over "grave statutory and constitutional concerns."


Comment: Perhaps resistance is not futile.

The courts had to respond because more than half of US states are challenging the Feds' vaxx mandate, citing government overreach.


Pirates

Best of the Web: The Great Reset plans of a technocratic elite

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In previous installments, I introduced the Great Reset idea1 and treated it in terms of its economic2 and ideological3 components. In this, the sixth installment, I will discuss what the Great Reset entails in terms of governance and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4-IR), closing with remarks about the overall Great Reset project and its implications.

According to Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chair of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the 4-IR follows the first, second, and third Industrial Revolutions — the mechanical, electrical, and digital, respectively.4 The 4-IR builds on the digital revolution, but Schwab sees the 4-IR as an exponential takeoff and convergence of existing and emerging fields, including Big Data; artificial intelligence; machine learning; quantum computing; and genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics. The consequence is the merging of the physical, digital, and biological worlds. The blurring of these categories ultimately challenges the very ontologies by which we understand ourselves and the world, including "what it means to be human."5

The specific applications that make up the 4-R are too numerous and sundry to treat in full, but they include a ubiquitous internet, the internet of things, the internet of bodies, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, energy storage, and more.

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Best of the Web: Jim Caviezel goes full Bible on Globalists in 'battle cry' speech at Patriots' conference

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Jim Caviezel belted out Mel Gibson's iconic battle cry from "Braveheart" while speaking to a crowd of QAnon supporters in Las Vegas over the weekend.

The conservative actor, 53 — who most famously worked with Gibson on the 2004 film "The Passion of the Christ" — gave a rambling 20-minute address at the "For God & Country: Patriot Double Down" conference, rallying the far-right crowd to fight for their freedom. The moment was captured in footage that's now going viral on social media.

The four-day event featured "a guest lineup of QAnon sympathizers and extremist-right figureheads," according to the Las Vegas Sun. Tickets started at a staggering $650.

Caviezel was among 40 far-right speakers who took to the stage. Others included Jason Sullivan, a former Roger Stone aide best-known for working on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and Dr. Stella Immanuel, who hit headlines after claiming Hydroxychloroquine cured COVID-19.

However, it was Caviezel's appearance that attracted the most attention on social media.

Comment: Here's the full speech. Judge for yourselves:


The movie he's referencing in the first half of his speech is (not Passion of the Christ, the other one, the Sound of Freedom) is a biopic about Tim Ballard, whose Operation Underground Railroad NGO works to bust child sex slave rings and has thus far freed several hundred children. That movie - after many delays and setbacks, is now finally out:





USA

Best of the Web: America changed: The key takeaways from this week's US elections

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© AFP/Brendan SmialowskiUS President Joe Biden
After a fascinating week in America, some important trends are clear - with the most obvious being that voters expect much more from Joe Biden, increasing the need for the Democrats to get their agenda through Congress.

Headlines across America are proclaiming the Tuesday elections as a major setback for President Joe Biden. Even Gayle King of left-leaning CBS called election night "a major victory for Republicans," and CNN's Democratic political commentator, Van Jones, declared it a "five-alarm fire" for Democrats. While the election results have focused the attention of the left-leaning media on Democratic weaknesses, the voters were clearly paying attention to issues, too, because even in an "off, off year," the election had a record turnout.

Left-leaning Virginia casts its vote against the Democrats

Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic governor of Virginia whose last term ended in January 2018, lost to Republican Glenn Youngkin in a state claimed handily by Biden a year ago. With 99% of the vote in, Youngkin won by a 2% margin.

From July 2016 to July 2017, the popular McAuliffe had served as chair of the National Governors Association, and from 2001-2005 he was chair of the Democratic National Committee. The race is being seen as a significant upset because such strong gubernatorial credentials and campaign experience made him the natural go-to guy to be the next governor of a left-leaning state, running against a tycoon-turned-politician like Youngkin.

McAuliffe's strategy of turning Youngkin's Donald-Trump-style credentials against him failed in a mostly blue state, and Trump seized that failure to claim, "The MAGA movement is bigger and stronger than ever before." Youngkin made the cultural issues that energize MAGA voters the core of his campaign and turned the election map of Virginia into a blood-bath of red as a swath of counties voted Republican, except a handful in the most urban areas of the east coast and a single island of blue in the heart of the state, Albemarle County.

One particularly hot-button issue, which Youngkin repeatedly raised, was giving parents much more say in what is taught in the state's public schools. Youngkin had often quoted and criticized McAuliffe for proclaiming,
"I don't think parents should be telling schools what they should teach."
In a CNN exit poll, more than half of voters said parents should have more say in what is taught in schools, indicating that core issue for Youngkin drove the voter turnout. Democrats also appear to have lost their majority in the Virginia House of Delegates with four races not yet officially called.

Comment: Assuming these results are valid (and there are serious grounds for doubt in the New Jersey gubernatorial race), then the Republicans have gained in all these seats either because of popular backlash against the Biden administration's incompetence... or they serve to further highlight that the 2020 presidential election result was rigged.


Syringe

Best of the Web: Through state terror and manipulated shortages, Australian government 'fully vaccinates' 80% of eligible adults


Comment: For now, until they next amend the definition of 'fully vaccinated'...


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Australia has accomplished its goal of fully vaccinating 80% of people aged 16 and older, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said as the country eases Covid-19 restrictions.

"We did it! We have hit the target of 80% of all Australians aged 16+ fully vaccinated, as set out in the National Plan," Morrison announced on Facebook.

"A huge thank you to everyone. This has been a massive Australian national effort, and the work doesn't stop here," the PM said, adding that 36 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered nationwide. He thanked the country's healthcare workers and pharmacies for their efforts during the immunization campaign. Morrison said 99% of Australians aged over 70 have received at least one dose, and 90% of them are fully vaccinated.

Comment: Now it's time to redefine what it means to be "fully vaccinated".

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