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Politicians have no right demanding 'vaccine passports' when the vaccines themselves are fraught with risk

Robert Bridge
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
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If it were possible to say with absolute scientific authority that vaccinations are the best way for the planet to escape from the Covid-19 death grip, then it might seem plausible - albeit still highly arguable - for governments to demand proof of 'the mark' for participating in the global economy. As things stand, however, nothing to date indicates that there are not more effective and reliable means of moving forward.

The relentless push for vaccine passports by opportunistic authoritarians around the globe took a broadside this week as Israeli researchers discovered what had been suspected by many all along: natural immunity acquired via infection, as opposed to vaccinations, provides the best defense against Covid-19 and its seemingly endless array of Greek-coded variants.

The study, which examined up to 32,000 individuals, found that the risk of developing Covid-19 was 27 times higher among the vaccinated (with the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine), and the risk of hospitalization eight times higher, as compared to those individuals who had acquired natural immunity.

Equally shocking, individuals who were administered two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were almost six-times more likely to contract the Delta variation and seven-times more likely to have symptomatic disease than those who recovered from the disease naturally, according to the study, which is up for peer review.
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Cuba confronting US-led subversion

Arnold August
New Cold War
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
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There is abundant evidence of direct foreign influence on the July 11 demonstrations. Yet a month later there is still a healthy debate going on, including opposing views among Cuban revolutionaries and Communist Party of Cuba members about its significance and how to interpret these unprecedented demonstrators. The controversy to be found in an online discussion in Cuban pro-government media has been building up since July 11 to now.

Anti-Cuban Government Cyber Warfare Originating in Spain, Argentina and the US

Expert cyber analyst in Spain Julián Macías Tovar points out that the operation made intensive use of bots and new accounts recently created for the occasion, intending to make a chorus for #SOSCuba. The bot is a software application that runs automated scripts over the Internet. Typically, bot tasks are simple and repetitive, much faster than a person could type text. More than 1,500 of the accounts that participated in the operation with the hashtag #SOSCuba were created between July 10 and 11. The first account that used the hashtag #SOSCuba was one located in Spain. It posted more than a thousand tweets on July 10 and 11, with an automation of five retweets per second.

Tovar analyzed the more than two million tweets using the hashtag #SOSCuba that started asking for "humanitarian aid" given the increasing COVID-19 deaths. This campaign was spurred on by the participation of artists and thousands of newly created accounts and bots that produced mobilizations in the streets. Tovar points out that the campaign was carried out for artists to participate with the HT #SOSCuba.
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Banksters celebrate fiat's 50th! . . . By introducing CBDC nightmare

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 03:00 UTC
Fiat's Birthday!
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Happy Birthday, fiat currency!

What, you didn't know that the fiat dollar is 50 years old this month? Well, according to the bankster class and their media lapdogs it is, anyway. Observe:
On 15 August, the United States marked the 50th anniversary of the birth of fiat currency, or a currency that depends on faith in the Federal Reserve and not in the gold standard. Like most 50th anniversaries, this one shows the celebrant worse for wear.
That little gem comes from an article entitled (get this), "The US Fed Can Actually Boost Equality With a Digital Currency."

Right off the bat, if the idea that the fiat dollar is indeed only 50 years old sets off your BS meter, then congratulations! Your BS meter is working. The actual story of the fiat dollar is a much longer and more complex one. Long story short: the fiat dollar was not born in 1971. That was the year of the so-called "Nixon shock," when President Nixon officially severed the gold/dollar link by closing the gold window and thus preventing foreign governments from knocking on the US Treasury's door and asking it to convert their piles of dollars into stacks of gold. That story, too is a much longer and complex one (enjoy some light bedtime reading on De Gaulle vs. the Dollar and The London Gold Pool if you're interested), but the gist is that the Nixon shock was just the final nail in the gold-backed dollar's coffin, not a magical moment in which the dollar suddenly became fiat.

Now, if only the worst piece of propaganda being flouted by the propagandists right now was a misleading headline about the birth date of the fiat dollar, then I could just invite you to explore the links above and we could call it a day. But it's not going to be that easy, is it? No, sadly, this article contains some much more dangerous propaganda: propaganda that touts not just the "benefits" but the inevitability of the coming central bank digital currency (CBDC). And as you should all know by now, the central bank digital currency is the birth of the cashless society control grid that the independent media has been warning about for decades now.

So, let's roll up our sleeves and deconstruct this propaganda, shall we?
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NewsReal: Kabul Airport Atrocity - What Actually Happened?


Sott.net
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
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The mass evacuation operation of several tens of thousands of Westerners and Afghans was brutally interrupted this week by what the media reported was a 'double-suicide bombing'. 13 US soldiers, an unconfirmed number of Taliban, and dozens of Afghan civilians were killed.

A group of dubious origin named 'ISIS-K', Western media reported, claimed responsibility for the attack. But the US military has since clarified that just one, not two, explosions took place, while some local eyewitness reports claim the majority of civilian casualties were in fact shot dead by US soldiers.

On this NewsReal, Joe and Niall take a closer look at what happened in Kabul Airport, and discuss what the atrocity portends for Afghanistan.


Running Time: 01:33:18

Download: MP3 — 64.1 MB


Comment: If The Google censors it at YT, watch this podcast on Rumble or Odysee.

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Carney's Green Bonds vs Hamiltonian Greenbacks

Matthew Ehret
matthewehret.substack.com
Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
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In my last article, I discussed the new Post-COVID task force which is being spearheaded by Canada's New Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and her fellow Oxford technocrat Mark Carney in preparation for the upcoming COP26 Summit in the UK where it is hoped a Green New Deal may be unveiled as part of a Great Global Reset. In that location, it was made clear that Green Bonds play an important role in the financing of green energy grids which some technocrats hope will straddle the globe in order to reduce Carbon dioxide output to pre-industrial levels in an effort to reduce global climate by 1.5 degrees by 2050.

Echoing this agenda, creepy population control guru once known for his software-stealing savvy named Bill Gates stated:
"Some governments and private investors are committing the funding and the policies that will help us get to zero emissions, but we need even more to join in. And we need to act with the same sense of urgency that we have for COVID-19."
The Devil in the Details

The problem with this reset isn't that the orchestrators of this pending reform desire a new system of value beyond the "monetarist/anything goes" standards of free markets which have dominated our world under decades of globalization. We obviously need that since worshiping money on the unregulated markets just created a massive volatile bubble underlying a $1.5 quadrillion financial weapon of mass destruction called derivatives waiting to blow up.

The problem isn't found in moving the nexus of economic regulation and planning back to governments which the Green New Dealers wish to guide the new world economic order. We obviously need that too, and the fact that the greatest rises in wealth and living standards historically occurred during periods when this sort of dirigiste approach was active should not be lost on anyone. If you have any doubts of this claim, then I refer you to Martin Sieff's excellent analysis of Bismarck and the Failure of the UK's NIS.

The problem is that the standards of value which proponents of the New Green New Deal believe we must re-align our behavior to, have the peculiar characteristic of undoing human activity entirely under the guise of "monetizing the rate of reduction" of humanity's carbon footprints.

Comment: Without an industry standard, anyone can issue a bond and call it green or sustainable.

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Israel strikes Gaza following violent riots, incendiary balloons

Anna Ahronheim
The Jerusalem Post
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 20:12 UTC
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Palestinian protest August 28, 2021
Israel Air Force jets struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday in retaliation to the launch of incendiary balloons that caused fires and violent demonstrations along the border fence at the weekend.

The IDF Spokesperson's Unit said that a Hamas military compound used for training and weapon production and a shaft for a terror tunnel near Jabalya were struck. "The IDF will continue to respond forcefully against Hamas's terror attempts," the army said in a statement following the strikes.

The Palestinian Wafa News Agency said that one site at Shuhada Street south of Gaza City was hit by four missiles and another near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip was also hit. There were no injuries.

On the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said before boarding his flight home from Washington that he holds Hamas responsible for what happens in Gaza.

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum, meanwhile, warned that
"the Zionist occupation bears all the repercussions and consequences of tightening the siege on Gaza and the escalation of the humanitarian crisis among its residents. These extremist policies will lead to an atmosphere of escalation and explosion."
Earlier in the evening, hundreds of rioters gathered at the border fence, burning tires and throwing explosive devices.

IDF forces who had been deployed to the area responded with riot control munitions and Ruger riot-control rifles, according to the IDF Spokesperson Unit. The troops were reinforced by special forces and tank units that had been deployed to the Gaza Division earlier in the week.
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Washington war hawk John Bolton calls for pressure on Pakistan amid Afghanistan disaster


RT
Fri, 27 Aug 2021 21:38 UTC
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Former National Security Advisor John Bolton
Ex-National Security Advisor John Bolton is eyeing up Pakistan, viewing the end of war with Afghanistan as a chance to start another, this time with its nuclear-armed neighbor - a "dramatic change" to "wake people up," he hinted.

Invited onto the Washington Post's 'Please Go On' podcast on Friday to expand on his proposed "solutions" to the "problem" of Afghan withdrawal as set out in an op-ed for the paper earlier this week, Bolton began by sneeringly dismissing the idea that the US could ever truly leave Afghanistan in the first place.
"All of Central Asia is like a big pile of pickup sticks, and they say, 'Hey, we're going to take that American stick out of Afghanistan and nothing else will happen anywhere else.' Completely wrong, and we're seeing the consequences of it now. I think there are things that are going to happen that we can't even foresee at the moment that aren't going to be good."
The mustachioed warmonger continued threateningly warning of the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan - something that had been anticipated and even planned for months, yet somehow in his view the equivalent of an unconscionable sneak attack - could lead to the sudden radicalization of Pakistan's government, which, given its stockpile of nuclear weapons, would clearly be unacceptable. Some of those weapons could fall into the hands of terrorists, he suggested, who could carry them anywhere - even across the Mexican border. Any inkling that Islamabad "appears ready to transfer nuclear capabilities to terrorists" should result in "preventive action.

Comment: Why is anyone still listening to one-trick John?

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Bolsonaro says he'll be 'arrested, killed or re-elected'

Leonie Chao-Fong
Independent
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
Bolsonaro
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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro and military
'No man on Earth will threaten me,' the Brazilian far-right president declares...

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has said he sees only three alternatives for his future: victory in the 2022 presidential elections, prison or death.

Speaking at a meeting of evangelical leaders on Saturday, Mr Bolsonaro said: "I have three alternatives for my future: being arrested, killed or victory." He later added the first option - being arrested - was out of question. "No man on Earth will threaten me," he said.

His remarks come as most polls show the far-right president trailing former leftist president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. Brazil's huge Christian evangelical voting bloc was crucial to the president's election victory in 2018.

Tensions have been building between the country's judiciary and election authorities, and the president, who is hoping to run for a second term next year.
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Terror attacks in Kabul suspiciously on cue... Who gains?

Finninan Cunningham
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 28 Aug 2021 00:00 UTC
Taliban
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Could an atrocity have been arranged by some of Baradar's men at the request of the CIA?

Three days before the bloody carnage at Kabul airport, CIA director William Burns held a secret meeting with a top Taliban commander in the Afghan capital. That is only one of several suspicious events this week in the countdown to the dramatic U.S. evacuation.

At least 13 U.S. troops guarding an entrance to Kabul airport were killed in an apparent suicide bomb attack. Dozens of Afghans waiting in line for evacuation by military cargo planes were also killed. A second blast hit a nearby hotel used by British officials to process immigration documents.

It was not the main ranks of the Taliban who carried out the atrocities. The militant group which swept into power on August 15 after taking over Kabul has ring-fenced the capital with checkpoints. The explosions occurred in airport districts under the control of the U.S. and British military.

A little-known terror group, Islamic State in Khorasan (IS-K), claimed responsibility for the bombings. IS-K was barely reported before until this week when the U.S. and British intelligence services issued high-profile warnings of imminent terror attacks by this group at Kabul airport. Those warnings came only hours before the actual attacks. President Joe Biden even mentioned this new terror organization earlier this week and pointedly claimed they were "sworn enemies" of the Taliban.
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Taliban condemn US drone attack, prepare to set up new Afghan government - US carries out another strike on vehicle posing 'imminent threat'

Reuben James Barrete
South China Morning Post
Sun, 29 Aug 2021 16:53 UTC
Zabihullah Mujahid
© Los Angeles Times / TNS
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
The Taliban said on Saturday they would announce a new government for Afghanistan in the coming week and expected the economic turbulence and sharp currency falls that followed their takeover of the city two weeks ago to subside quickly.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the movement's main spokesman, made the comments to Reuters as the US military winds down its mission to evacuate US citizens and vulnerable Afghans and withdraw troops from Kabul airport ahead of the August 31 deadline set by President Joe Biden.

Mujahid condemned an overnight US drone strike against Islamic State militants following Thursday's suicide attack near the airport as a "clear attack on Afghan territory".

But he appealed to the United States and other Western nations to maintain diplomatic relations after their withdrawal, which he expected would be completed "very soon".

There is mounting frustration in Kabul at the severe economic hardship caused by a plummeting currency and rising food prices, with banks still closed two weeks after the fall of the city to the Taliban.

Comment: A day after this statement, the U.S. launched another drone strike destroying what the military called a car bomb posing an 'imminent threat' - allegedly the vehicle contained 'multiple suicide bombers'.
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© AP Photo/Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi
A destroyed vehicle is seen inside a house after a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. A U.S. drone strike destroyed a vehicle carrying "multiple suicide bombers" from Afghanistan's Islamic State affiliate on Sunday before they could attack the ongoing military evacuation at Kabul's international airport, American officials said.
At the same time, a 'rocket attack' was blamed for another explosion killing a young child:
The Taliban described the drone strike and the rocket attack as separate incidents, but residents of the Afghan capital heard only one large blast.

Two American military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations, called the airstrike successful and said the vehicle carried multiple bombers.

U.S. Navy Capt. Bill Urban, a military spokesman, said the strike was carried out in "self-defense." He said the military was investigating whether there were civilian casualties but that "we have no indications at this time."

"We are confident we successfully hit the target," Urban said. "Significant secondary explosions from the vehicle indicated the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material."
RT reports:
The explosion was caused by a rocket striking a house near the airport, BBC journalist Secunder Kermani reported, citing a source in the Afghan Health Ministry. A police chief told the AP news agency that a child was killed in the blast, and unconfirmed reports claim that at least one other person is dead and at least three are injured.

Reporting from Kabul, RT's Khaled al-Jaburi said that the "violent" explosion was followed by the launch of five rockets from an unknown area. The explosion took place on al-Shaheed Street, which leads to the airport.


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