Disclosure documents reveal that the spectacle of Fed officials personally trading stocks extended to the chair himself.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock from his personal account on October 1, 2020, according to disclosure forms reviewed by the Prospect. Powell's sale of shares from a Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund has not been previously reported. This sale occurred right before the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered a significant drop.

A Fed media relations spokesperson was not available for comment. We will report on any Fed statement on Powell's trades.

Three other senior Fed officials have faced serious criticism for making stock trades during the pandemic. Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan and Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren were compelled to take early retirements as a result of the disclosure of their trades. Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida also came under fire for stock trading. The other trades are now the subject of investigations by the Fed's own inspector general and the SEC.

As we approach a winter of discontent and Global food systems go from bad to worse, there's trouble in paradise.

At the root of these problems, Government responses to COVID-19 have contributed to a six-fold increase in famine-like conditions as global supply chains collapse, and field trials for gene-edited crops and farm animals begin in the UK.

Against this perfect storm, the UN's World Food Systems Summit convened last month, with Member States joining the private sector, civil society groups and researchers, to bring about "tangible, positive changes" to the world's food systems, and as the story goes, "drive recovery from COVID-19."

But even if we could solve our problems using the same logic that created them, there are deeper, institutional problems undermining the integrity of the Summit.

Specifically, its corporate capture by one man, whose vision of the future of food security places the interests of civil society and farming communities in a different universe to the corporations he is beholden to.

A household name on the world stage of disaster-capitalism, there is more to Bill Gates than doomsayer-general terrorising the world's population into a permanent state of suspended animation, and it typically involves the future of food security.

Mass fake vaccinations have been taking place in dozens of vaccination centers throughout Greece, media reported on Sunday. The bribe fee for doctors and nurses is apparently 400 euros. the fee is paid is by those who do not want to receive the vaccines against Covid-19 but want to gain access to several activities or simply avoid the twice per week rapid tests for professional and other reasons.

But then a hilarious thing happened: Doctors pocketed the bribe but administered real vaccine and not "water" in order to avoid getting into trouble should the fake vaccination come out, according to a report by Mega TV.

According to newspaper tovima, some 100 to 200 vaccination centers out of 2,000 in total and the participation of some 200-300 doctors and nurses have been involved in such fake vaccinations and/or in efforts to alter the vaccination data. It estimated that over 100,000 citizens have obtained fake vaccination certificates through illegal methods.

Think of Glasgow as a costume party for the Uber rich and it all makes sense.

Everyone gets to hobnob, dress up in a Superhero prophet-of-doom outfit and pretend to save the world.

When the richest people in the world turn up, with PM's and Presidents, and even the Royals do live photo tweets — you know the dry UN science conference has turned into the unmissable Olympics of Social Events. Just being there is the fashion statement of the year.

The deals (or spin, such it is) is mostly done. The party is the reward. The World Stage beckons for politicians seeking to look important. While the offer of another glorious junket keeps the minor minions working hard all year.

And any fence-sitting politicians might be awed and swept away in the spur of the moment to offer more than they might have in the cold light of day. (Send them your barbs!)

Iran has confirmed that its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has foiled an attempt by American forces to intercept an oil tanker, and that the vessel is now back in Iranian waters.

Iran has confirmed reports that the US had seized its tanker and transferred oil to another vessel, which was then taken to an "unknown place."

The government said the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) had taken control of the Iranian tanker in an operation using helicopters. It was then returned to Iranian waters.

The Minister for Health has accused Independent TD Verona Murphy of spreading anti-vax information in the Dáil.

During a debate on the extension of Covid-19 emergency powers, the Wexford TD said that recent studies had shown that a vaccinated person "is every bit as likely to transmit this virus as a non-vaccinated person".

Ms Murphy accused the Government of scapegoating the unvaccinated and dividing society unnecessarily.

The race for the governorship of the Old Dominion state was supposed to be a shoo-in for the Democrats, but it's now neck-and-neck, with some predicting a Republican victory which would have huge ramifications for Joe Biden.

Virginia's six million voters will go to the polls tomorrow to elect a new governor. This local election has taken on national importance, however, as it is seen as the first real test of President Joe Biden and his administration's agenda. In normal times, this election should have been a comfortable victory for the Democrats.

Virginia is traditionally a solidly Democratic state. In last year's presidential election, Virginians voted for Joe Biden by 54% to Donald Trump's 44%. The state even voted in favour of Hillary Clinton in 2016. The state assembly is controlled by the Democrats, the majority of its House representatives are Democrats, as are its two senators, and the party has held the governorship since 2014.

Ronald Reagan once said, "Don't be afraid to see what you see."

He made the statement in his farewell address on Jan. 11, 1989. He was giving advice on how U.S. foreign policy should view the former Soviet Union as it tried to shed its image as a brutal totalitarian society.

What Reagan was trying to say is that if it still looks like communism, then it probably is. Don't pay attention to what they call it. Pay attention to how it looks, how it feels to those living under the regime.

Freedom-loving citizens of America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Israel and Canada would do well to heed Reagan's advice and apply it today.

The label on the political party in power may say "Democrat" or "Republican" but what's happening all around you? If you see friends and relatives in what's supposed to be a free society being fired from their jobs - critical jobs like nurses, doctors, firefighters, cops, soldiers and truck drivers - because they won't concede to having an unknown experimental substance injected into their bodies, then you should not hesitate to take this at face value.

Don't brush it aside as some temporary anomaly.

The FDA briefing document is preposterous junk science and it must be withdrawn immediately

Where to even begin with the FDA's preposterous risk-benefit analysis of Pfizer's mRNA COVID-19 "vaccine" in children ages 5 to 11?

Let's start with my bona fides. I have a year of undergraduate statistics at one of the best liberal arts colleges in America (Swarthmore). I have a year of graduate statistics at the masters program rated #1 for policy analysis (UC Berkeley). And I have a Ph.D. in political economy from one of the top universities in the world (University of Sydney). My research focus is on corruption in the pharmaceutical industry so I've read scientific studies in connection with vaccines nearly every day for 5 years. Earlier in my career I worked professionally tearing apart shoddy cost-benefit analyses prepared by corporations that were trying to get tax breaks, contracts, and other concessions from local government. Suffice it to say I've thought a lot about risk-benefit analysis and I'm better equipped than most to read one of these documents.

The FDA's risk-benefit analysis in connection with Pfizer's Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) application to inject children ages 5 to 11 with their COVID-19 vaccine is one of the shoddiest documents I've ever seen.

Let's take it from the top:

COVID-19 rates in children ages 5 to 11 are so low that there were ZERO cases of severe COVID-19 and ZERO cases of death from COVID in either the treatment (n= 1,518) or control group (n= 750). So any claims you see in the press about the Pfizer vaccine being "90% effective" in children are meaningless because they are referring to mild cases from which children usually recover quickly (and then have robust broad spectrum immunity). So there is literally no emergency in this population for which one could apply for Emergency Use Authorization. Pfizer's application should be dead on arrival if the FDA actually followed the science and their own rules. We will return to this topic below.

Billionaire CIA-linked "overt operative" George Soros teams up on a shady media venture with tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, who financed a Facebook disinfo operation that framed Russia for meddling in US elections.

On Tuesday, billionaires Reid Hoffman and George Soros launched Good Information Inc., a "public benefit corporation" to serve as a conduit of funds to newsrooms that "cut through the echo chambers with fact-based information." On its website, Good Information further describes itself as a "civic incubator" aimed at fostering and financially backing projects that "counter disinformation where it spreads by increasing the flow of good information online."

But more than merely providing an alternative to bad information through their own reporting, the company suggests that censorship is also on the menu: "We believe there is an urgent need for regulation of social media platforms," their website states.

And what exactly is "good information?" The company provides another clue; that the "good information" resides exclusively on the pages established media outlets with billion-dollar budgets, lamenting on its website that "185 million Americans don't trust traditional media."