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Everything keeps getting weirder and weirder

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Former US President Barack Obama
Back in 2019 I wrote an article titled "Things Are Only Going To Get Weirder", and from Covid to the 2020 election to the steadily increasing regularity with which UFOs are now mentioned in the mainstream media, that has indeed proved to be the case.

Our ongoing slide into the abyss of infinite weirdness may have eclipsed this from your memory by now, but there was once a time not too long ago when frequent mainstream news stories about the possibility of extraterrestrial aircraft in our skies would not have sounded like something from real life. Lately it's been a daily occurrence, and the president of the United States is now being asked about it at news conferences.

A reporter asked Biden near the end of a joint press conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday":
"President Obama says there is footage and records of objects in the skies — these unidentified aerial phenomena — and he says we don't know exactly what they are. What do you think that it is?"
Biden brushed off the question in his trademark almost-but-not-quite-lucid way with the comment "I would ask him again," and hustled off the stage.


Comment: Perhaps distraction, rather than admission, is the game afoot, thus a high level diversion is of critical importance.


See also:
Biden jokes about Obama comment that UFOs are out there: 'I would ask him again'


Cell Phone

Oxford secretly used cell phone data to track millions as part of government-ordered vaccination study

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The UK government has admitted it used phone data to analyse people's movement patterns without their knowledge as part of a vaccination study, a new report claims. Officials are said to have preserved the subjects' anonymity.

The Telegraph cited a report by the Independent Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (SPI-B) which said researchers from the University of Oxford discretely used data from mobile phones as part of their study into how vaccination affects people's lifestyles.

SPI-B advises the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), which in turn advises the government. The University of Oxford, which developed the Covid-19 vaccine along with the British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, conducted the study on SPI-B's behalf.

The scientists were said to have dug through the "cell phone mobility data for 10 per cent of the British population" in February and singled out 4,254 people that were vaccinated. They then monitored the group's movement patterns for the week before and the week after vaccination.

Comment: How do we know - how do we really know what information was accessed or if the door to that information has been closed and locked? We don't. What we do know is collected information doesn't evaporate and one study leads to the next.


Mr. Potato

Senator Tom Cotton: Fauci is 'playing word games; trying to cover tracks'

Tom Cotton
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Senator Tom Cotton accused Anthony Fauci of 'playing word games' regarding his involvement with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and attempting to cover his tracks where the origins of COVID are concerned.

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Cotton said that Fauci could be involved in a "genuine scandal".
"It is imperative that the NIH come clean and tell us exactly what happened. Well, I think that a lot of these so-called experts and scientific bureaucrats are trying to cover their tracks."
Speaking of the 'gain of function' research at the Wuhan lab, which was in part funded by the NIH, Cotton said:
"This could be public health bureaucrats violating explicit direction from the Obama White House to continue research that is highly, highly dangerous and particularly susceptible to escape from a laboratory. Especially a laboratory in China."

Comment: Here's Fauci covering his bases for plausible wiggle room:

Why are we still listening to this guy? See some of Fauci's best:


Arrow Up

"The Fed has lost control": Implosion and hyperinflation in 2022

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Economist John Williams, founder of ShadowStats.com, says the Federal Reserve has painted itself into such a tight corner with the economy it really has only two choices. Williams says it comes down to "Inflation or Implosion." What would happen to the financial system if the Fed stopped printing massive amounts of money for stimulus and debt service?

Williams explains,
"You could see financial implosion by preventing liquidity being put into the system. The system needs liquidity (freshly created dollars) to function. Without that liquidity, you would see more of an economic implosion than you have already seen. In fact, I will contend that the headline pandemic numbers have actually been a lot worse than they have been reporting. It also means we are not recovering quite as quickly. The Fed needs to keep the banking system afloat. They want to keep the economy afloat. All that requires a tremendous influx of liquidity in these difficult times."

Passport

Vaccine passports, WHO, and globalization of China's standards

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On March 8, China launched its domestic vaccine passport, which shows a Chinese citizen's vaccination status and virus test results via a program on Chinese social media platform WeChat.

The following day on March 9, China urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to allow Beijing to build and run a global database for "vaccine passports", prompting fears over privacy and expansion of government surveillance.

The WeChat program and other Chinese smartphone apps include an encrypted QR code that allows authorities to obtain a traveler's health information. The apps track a user's location and produces a color code of green, yellow or red to indicate the likelihood of their having the virus, and whether or not the person can walk around freely. These "QR health codes" are already required to gain entry to domestic transport and many public spaces in China.

However, according to a New York Times article, using software to dictate quarantines and send personal data to police may set a dangerous precedent for automated social control, and further erodes the thin line separating China's tech titans from the Chinese Communist Party.

Info

Israel teaches hate, and the "Sword of Jerusalem" became the Guardian of Palestine

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The battle of Gaza is over, for now, following an unconditional cease-fire unilaterally declared by Israel and approved by the Palestinian group resistance. At 02:00 local time this morning Friday the 21st of May, and following intensive negotiation where the US, Egypt and Qatar were involved, the Israeli army stopped the indiscriminate killing by "wiping out entire Palestinian families on purpose" and destroying Gaza's infrastructures and homes. Moreover, Israel agreed to stop expelling the inhabitants of Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem. The Palestinian resistance groups agreed on the cease-fire but vowed to keep missiles ready if Israel breaks the deal. The most important result of this battle comes from Syria, whose president Bashar al-Assad reopened its doors to Hamas that contributed to the killing of Syrian citizens and army when many of its members were engaged alongside the Takfiri during the last ten years of war.

The Israeli bombing of Gaza civilians and infrastructure has reached a war crime level that the world has, so far, not condemned. This is not the first time Israel carried out wars and battles against Lebanon, Syria and Gaza. Hating or killing Arabs is part of its doctrine.

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Light Saber

Sen. Tom Cotton rips Fauci, Wuhan gain of function research funding

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Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Dr. Tony Fauci
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures this AM.

Cotton is famously the first politician to suggest back in February 2020 that the COVID-19 virus originated in a Wuhan, China lab.

Comment:


Magnify

Belarus accused of 'hijacking' Ryanair flight after bomb threat forces landing in Belarus, EU claims blogger is arrested

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© Sergei Grits/APAndrew Roth in Moscow
Belarusian police detain Roman Protasevich in 2017.
Belarus has been accused of hijacking a European jetliner and engaging in an act of state terrorism when it forced a Ryanair flight to perform an emergency landing in Minsk after a bomb threat and arrested an opposition blogger critical of authoritarian president Alexander Lukashenko.

Roman Protasevich, a former editor of the influential Telegram channels Nexta and Nexta Live, was detained by police after his flight was diverted to Minsk national airport. Minsk confirmed that Lukashenko ordered his military to scramble a Mig-29 fighter to escort the plane.

The Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, said the plane had been "hijacked" and accused Lukashenko of a "reprehensible act of state terrorism". He said he would demand new sanctions against Belarus at a European Council meeting scheduled for Monday.

Comment: With so much hysteria and propaganda being deployed by EU politicians and the Guaridan that reported the above, it's difficult to make out what exactly happened. Although what is more clear is that the West is seizing this opportunity to attack President Lukashenko and Belarus; and, in turn, also Russia:


Attention

Covid skeptics champion science

COVID Skeptics
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So you know how anyone who points out any problems with the rush to inject everyone on the planet with an experimental form of gene therapy is portrayed as a stupid, scientifically illiterate, COVID denying, grandma killing anti-vaxxer by the dinosaur media?

And you know how any of your attempts to articulate these problems to your (former) friends will get you labeled as an anti-science loony and castigated from society?

Well, imagine if a team of researchers from a prestigious scientific institution infiltrated the COVID skeptic community to expose their scientific ignorance . . . and instead ended up discovering that the skeptics by and large care more about science — and are more knowledgeable about the scientific process — than their critics?

Guess what? You can stop imagining, because that's exactly what just happened.

In this case, the researchers are from MIT, and their paper, "Viral Visualizations: How Coronavirus Skeptics Use Orthodox Data Practices to Promote Unorthodox Science Online," was published with little fanfare this past January.

It's not hard to see why this paper was overlooked. If one merely skims through the paper's abstract, it seems relatively innocuous. The researchers aim, we are informed, is to better understand how COVID skeptics use data visualizations to spread "[c]ontroversial understandings of the coronavirus pandemic" on social media. To do this, they used "a quantitative analysis of how visualizations spread on Twitter and an ethnographic approach to analyzing conversations about COVID data on Facebook."

So far, so uninteresting. It's the researchers conclusions about these visualizations where the real fireworks go off.

Star of David

Years of silence over Netanyahu's inflammatory politics have brought Gaza to its current crisis

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
The sound of Israelis chanting "Death to Arabs" while Israel flattens entire residential buildings in the Gaza Strip has made my home in Haifa a frightening place. Across the country, my friends are witnessing similar incidents, leaving many pundits to wonder about what broke the "calm," even after the Thursday announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. But this question ignores the years of Israeli government decisions - specifically, by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - that led to this moment.

Mr. Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving Prime Minister, has been unable to form a stable government, leading to four elections over the past two years. His inability to form government, however, has nothing to do with his policies, and much to do with his personality and the corruption charges he currently faces. Before the latest violence began, there was finally a glimmer of hope that Mr. Netanyahu would not continue as Prime Minister; talks had begun with Opposition party leaders to form a new government. It is in this context - of Mr. Netanyahu's desire to remain in office - that the latest Israeli attacks are taking place.