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The mRNA vaccine's poisonous potions: Medical malpractice or 'slow motion genocide'?

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The British Medical Journal [BMJ] announces that the FDA is set to grant full approval to the Pfizer vaccine without public discussion of data:
"Transparency advocates have criticized the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision not to hold a formal advisory committee meeting to discuss Pfizer's application for full approval of its COVID-19 vaccine."
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The original understanding was to hold a public discussion before approving the experimental mRNA gene therapy, falsely called vaccine, before that inoculation is fully approved as a vaccine.

The approval of the Pfizer mRNA poison is a perfect precedent for approving all other mRNA poisonous potions - thereby making the attempt at reduction of human life ("depopulation") on earth official - the eugenists have officially won the race. Although this was predictable, there was hope that counter-voices and real science, as expressed by hundreds and thousands of scientists, might prevail.

So far, this diabolical agenda is overwhelming. It is overrunning the entire UN system, all 193 UN member countries, and foremost the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN-unit which people hope and trust will defend their interests.

Wrong!

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Pace of US evacuation flights from Afghanistan slowing one day before Biden's deadline

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USAF aircraft queue as part of the evacuation process in Kabul, Afghanistan
U.S. evacuation flights from Kabul are slowing, officials told Fox News Monday, just a day before President Biden's Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and complete the mission to evacuate American citizens and vulnerable Afghans from the country.

The flights, according to officials, are continuing, but at a reduced pace, ahead of Biden's deadline. Those officials, though, add that it is not accurate to say the U.S. evacuation flights "have ended."

The deadline for all U.S. troops and diplomats to be out of Afghanistan is 3:29 p.m. EST Tuesday - 11:59 p.m. local time in Kabul, U.S. defense officials told Fox News. It will mark the first time in nearly 20 years that no U.S. troops will be on the ground in Afghanistan.

According to the White House, on Sunday, a total of approximately 1,200 people were evacuated from Kabul. The White House said that evacuation was the result of 26 U.S. military flights, 26 C-17s, which carried approximately 1,200 evacuees, and two coalition flights, which carried 50 people.


Stop

Sen. Graham: Biden should be impeached for 'dereliction of duty' on Afghanistan

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Senator Lindsey Graham
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation called for President Joe Biden's impeachment for the chaos of U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Partial transcript as follows:

ED O'KEEFE: Sure. In your view, what kind of consequences should the president face for the decisions he made on Afghanistan?

GRAHAM: Well, did he get good advice and turn it down? Did he get bad advice and take it? What the hell happened? Whose decision was it to pull all the troops out? Was it good advice, ignored? I just don't know. I think he should be- be facing a lot of consequences here, because the one thing he wanted to do, and he's a decent man, it's not about him being a decent man, is he wanted to end the war in Afghanistan and make sure we didn't have to deal with it in the future. He's done the exact opposite. General Biden's fingerprints are all over this. He's created the conditions for ISIS to flourish in Afghanistan. They've doubled the number of troops available because of the jailbreak. A terrorist organization called the Taliban is now in charge of the country. The likelihood of an attack on our homeland is through the roof. It was medium a month ago. It's got to be high as hell right now.


Comment: As soon as Biden is no longer a useful idiot he will exit stage left, escorted.


Arrow Down

Biden repeatedly implies he's not in charge of when, where he can take questions from the press

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US President Joe Biden
President Joe Biden has repeatedly implied that his handlers set the rules and determine when and where he's allowed to take questions from the press, leading observers to ponder who is actually calling the shots behind the scenes.

The trend began with Biden's first formal White House press conference as president in January. Following his remarks about his "Made in America" manufacturing initiative, a member of Biden's staff was heard calling on specific reporters to ask their questions to the president, something that was similarly done during the 2020 presidential election and the transition period. However, the president has since escalated the practice and Biden has repeatedly suggested he's not in the driver's seat when it comes to handling the press.

"I'm not supposed to take any questions"

Biden declared Sunday he wasn't "supposed to take any questions" during a visit to the National Response Coordination Center at FEMA headquarters as Hurricane Ida slammed Louisiana. "I'm not supposed to take any questions, but go ahead," Biden said to a reporter before quickly changing his mind when he was asked about Afghanistan.

"I'm not gonna answer Afghanistan now," he said before turning his back to the press and walking away.

Comment: Biden's strong suit is taking the questions; not answering them.


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Palestinian president and Israeli defense minister discuss security issues in a rare meeting

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the security situation in the West Bank and Gaza, the Israeli Defense Ministry informs.

Gantz also told Abbas on Sunday that Israel intends to take measures to strengthen the Palestinian economy, the defense ministry said.

The meeting came just amid the continued unrest on the border of the Gaza Strip, where fires have been set and clashes have occurred between Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers. On Saturday, a Palestinian teenager who was severely injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers on August 21 died, and another Palestinian critically wounded passed away on Thursday, health authorities confirmed.

Comment: The more things change, the more they stay the same.


Nuke

UN atomic watchdog says North Korea appears to have restarted nuclear reactor

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North Korea's main atomic complex in Yongbyon
North Korea appears to have restarted a nuclear reactor that is widely believed to have produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, the UN atomic watchdog has said in an annual report.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has had no access to North Korea since Pyongyang expelled its inspectors in 2009. The country then pressed ahead with its nuclear weapons programme and soon resumed nuclear testing. Its last nuclear test was in 2017.

The IAEA now monitors North Korea from afar, largely through satellite imagery.
"There were no indications of reactor operation from early December 2018 to the beginning of July 2021. However, since early July 2021, there have been indications, including the discharge of cooling water, consistent with the operation of the reactor."
IAEA reported on the 5-megawatt reactor at Yongbyon, a nuclear complex at the heart of North Korea's nuclear programme.

Better Earth

Hungary, Russia agree on long-term gas deal - reports

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Hungary and Russia have agreed on a long-term gas deal, Bloomberg reported on 30 August, citing Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.

Szijjarto and Gazprom Head Alexey Miller discussed gas deliveries to Hungary during a meeting in Saint Petersburg on 30 August.

The Hungarian minister said that Budapest will purchase 4.5 billion cubic metres (158 billion cubic feet) of gas annually, including 3.5 billion via Serbia and one billion via Austria, according to Bloomberg. Supplies under the new contract will begin on 1 October. Szijjarto also said that the contract will be signed in late September.

Comment: Hungary and Russia have quite a few conservative views in common that have drawn ire from the West, but with Hungary being part of the EU it is more vulnerable to the pressure to conform, however it's likely that a significant energy deal with Russia will make it a little more difficult for the establishment to exert that pressure:


Better Earth

What to Do? - The European Dilemma

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According to hoary tradition, there are two obsessive questions in Russian history: who is guilty and what is to be done? This assertion is likely another Russophobic trope in which Russia was, is and always will be a mess populated by supine drunks slurring "Not me" and "Pass the bottle". Nonetheless, good questions they are and ones that Europeans should ponder. Here are some circumstances that call out for doing something different.

"European Union as an emerging superpower" - Wikipedia has a whole article on it. And, on paper, it is: the population, the economic power, the potential military power, the intellectual power and everything else necessary to become a significant independent player on the world scene - fully equal to any other major power. Except... it isn't. Why isn't it? Why did it follow Washington's lead and sanction Russia? The sanctions have certainly cost it more than the USA and probably more than Russia; Washington, on the other hand, never sanctions Russian rocket engines or Russian oil. Why do the Europeans dutifully swallow it down? Many of them followed Washington into Afghanistan and other disastrous military adventures for a reward of failure and crisis. At least they've found the will to stop pretending Guaido is really President of Venezuela but they're piling on Belarus at Washington's command. Why? No kind of "superpower" on the geopolitical stage, the EU pretty well does what it's told by Washington. There's the occasional rebellion - Germany and Nord Stream 2 - but then the obsequious sending of a warship on a FON mission to please Washington. Hoping to cut the cost with a cringing attempt to placate Beijing. Are these the actions of a self-respecting independent country? What is to be done?

Bad Guys

Lockdown-weary Australia plans reopening as Covid-19 death toll tops 1,000

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People out exercising at East Circular Quay on August 29, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. New South Wales recorded a record number of 1218 COVID-19 cases on Sunday and 6 deaths.
As Australia's Covid-19 deaths exceed 1,000, a grim toll but modest by global standards, a country that has used relentless lockdowns now faces perhaps its biggest health policy challenge of the pandemic — how to reopen.

The highly infectious delta variant has breached the country's fortress-style controls and entrenched itself deep enough in Sydney, Australia's biggest city, and with a foothold in Melbourne, that authorities have dispensed with plans to eliminate it.

Instead, they plan to ramp up Australia's lagging vaccination effort and live with Covid-19, an approach that would help struggling businesses but which is opposed by states determined to crush the disease.

Australia reported four fatalities on Monday, taking the total death toll from Covid-19 to 1,003, according to government data. It has logged an average of two to three deaths a day recently, the data shows.

But while deaths are creeping higher, infections are surging to successive record highs above 1,200 a day. With more than half the population in lockdown, even those areas with little or no infections are affected.

The exuberance that accompanied Australia's early suppression success has since been replaced with community frustration at a delayed vaccine program that has only recently picked up pace. Just over 33% of those aged 16 and older have received two vaccine doses, well below most comparable nations, according to a Reuters tracker.

Dollars

An estimated four-fifths of Afghanistan's government budget (foreign aid) has been cut off in the wake of the US retreat

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In this photograph taken on December 29, 2014, an Afghan customer (L) counts his Afghani currency notes at a currency exchange market along the roadside in Kabul
The Taliban* marched into Kabul on 15 August, taking control of the Afghan capital two weeks before the last of US troops were set to leave. The speed of the advance surprised Washington, which has spent over $2 trillion and nearly 20 years trying to build up a functioning Afghan government and military.

As much 80 percent of Afghanistan's budget has vanished now that the Taliban has taken over and Kabul's western patrons have cut funding, data provided by US government officials and agencies suggests.

According to a recent report by the United Nations, prior to the Afghan government's dramatic collapse and the Taliban takeover, the Islamist group collected between $300 million and $1.6 billion from areas it controlled in a series of taxation schemes on crop harvests and wealth (10 percent and 2.5 percent, respectively), as well as mining, trade, and narcotics. For a country of over 38 million, such sums are paltry when it comes to being able to feed the population, pay salaries to officials, and fund various development projects.