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Serbian farmers set up road blocks, warn of protests on the capital if demands not met

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Farmers from Vojvodina, Mačva, Stig and other parts of Serbia are organizing a protest ride today in order to draw attention to the pressing problems of agricultural producers that the state does not want to solve. Farmers who gathered at the pump on the road between Stara Pazova and Indjija started a protest drive towards Batajnica.

"Until now, farmers have not entered Belgrade with tractors and protested in the capital, every government has so far managed to avoid and prevent that." We are one step closer to that. If the Government of Serbia does not fulfill the demands of the farmers, the next destination is Belgrade - the Parliament", said Aleksandra Jovanović Ćuta, deputy of the coalition "Moramo Zajedno" and co-president of the Zajedno party.

By the way, earlier, the farmers started a protest drive in a convoy of tractors from the pump on the road between Stara Pazova and Inđija to Batajnica.

Comment: See also: Not just the Dutch: Farmers everywhere fight for survival against climate change activism


Arrow Up

Africa's sole Covid vaccine plant shuts down due to lack of orders, less than a fifth of people have been injected

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© Emmanuel Croset/AFP via Getty ImagesA man in Johannesburg administers doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 8, 2021, in South Africa. Demand for vaccines in South Africa is extremely low, leading to the country's Aspen Pharmacare halting vaccine manufacturing.
South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare will stop making COVID-19 vaccines from the end of this month due to a lack of orders, a senior executive said, further undermining Africa's already meager capacity to produce doses.

Aspen currently produces vaccines for Johnson & Johnson. In March, it struck a deal to produce, price and sell its own-brand version of the shot for African markets.

That deal was considered a game-changer for a continent frustrated by sluggish Western handouts. But while only a fifth of adults in Africa are fully vaccinated, according to the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, demand for shots have failed to materialize.


Comment: Evidently Covid isn't considered a problem that necessitates getting an experimental injection for, and this has probably become even clearer now that 2 years have passed, and tens of thousands of deadly side effects have been reported.


Comment: Even in the heavily propagandised and injection-mandated West, from Australia to the US, large numbers of stock were dumped due to low uptake; it's also highly likely that hysteria, mismanagement, and outright fraud, contributed to vast amounts being trashed:




No Entry

Top NYC health official claims 'retaliation' after monkeypox messaging dispute

Dr. Don Weiss
© Benjamin Norman for The New York TimesDr. Don Weiss
A veteran top infectious diseases expert at the New York City Health Department says he was reassigned in "retaliation" for butting heads with higher-ups regarding the city's monkeypox messaging.

Dr. Don Weiss, director of surveillance, was transferred to another unit after he publicly criticized the department's advice that gay men should simply 'avoid kissing' and 'cover up their sores' - as opposed to Weiss' advice that gay men abstain from or reduce sex for a period of time, the NY Post reports.


"Monkeypox in NYC is a sexually transmitted infection. Not communicating this clearly and often is a public health failure," Weiss said in a July 18 letter to Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan, which he posted on his website.

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Snakes in Suits

It's not hypocrisy, you're just powerless: A quick Public Service Announcement for Class B

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Hello Friend,

I saw your post on the interweb the other day about that nasty thing Team A did, even though they always completely lose their collective mind with moralistic outrage if Team B (which I understand is your team) even thoughtcrimes about doing something similar. In fact Team A seems to blatantly do things all the time that no one on Team B could ever get away with doing without being universally condemned as the absolute worst sort of immoral criminal/being openly threatened with mob violence/losing their livelihood/having their assets frozen/being rounded up by the state and shipped to a black site somewhere for some extended TLC.

Maybe the latest thing was breaking some very important public health rules, or pillaging and burning down government buildings for fun, or mean tweets, or polluting the planet with a private jet, or using allegedly neutral public institutions against political opponents, or just engaging in a little tax-dodging or corruption while doing, like, a ton of blow in a hotel room with some capital city hookers - I forget the specifics. In fact I forget what country you're even living in now days.

Pistol

Florida man with concealed firearm kills gunman who threatened to "shoot up the crowd"

West Palm Beach Police
© West Palm Beach Police Department
Instead of waiting for the police, a law-abiding citizen with a concealed carry license (also known as a 'good guy with a gun') took matters into his own hands and acted quickly, drawing his weapon and killing a gunman who was about to "shoot up the crowd" at a party in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday night.

Local news CBS12 said a fight broke out between 20 people at a family gathering on Division Avenue and 4th Street in West Palm Beach. At that moment, a 22-year-old male retrieved a short-barreled shotgun from his car and threatened to "shoot up the crowd."

West Palm Beach Police said the man refused to drop the weapon after yelling out mass shooting threats, and that was when a 32-year-old man with a concealed weapon license fired his pistol, hitting the armed suspect.

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Eye 1

Dozens of Whole Foods stores allow customers to pay with palm print biometric data

Amazon's palm-reading payment technology
Amazon's palm-reading payment technology will expand to dozens of Whole Foods locations across California. Shoppers will be able to pay for groceries by scanning the palm of their hand at checkout devices instead of using cash or card, as this is more evidence of the emergence of a cashless society.

The Verge reported that 65 Whole Foods stores in California would soon get the new payment technology. This is the most extensive rollout by the e-commerce giant since announcing the payment system in 2020.

Comment: It looks that the cashless society is closer as every day passes. As the economy is crumbling down and prices are skyrocketing, it is a time to think why they are forcing the cashless paying system so much?

Only the big corporations like Amazon will decide if someone can be "suitable" for that kind of transactions. That will for sure lead to even more crime and black-market transactions. The psychopathic authorities answer will be more restrictive laws and even more totalitarian rule. It is an infinite loop that will lead to slavery that we can't even imagine.

The sci-fi movies and books on this subject will became a kids story before bed.
That is the new normal they want to create.

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Eye 1

Experts warn ArriveCAN app could be violating constitutionally protected rights

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A recent glitch in the controversial ArriveCAN app that sent fully vaccinated travellers erroneous messages saying they needed to quarantine affected more than 10,000 people, according to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).

The extent of the glitch, which was revealed in a statement sent to Global News by the CBSA, represents 0.7 per cent of the typical number of cross-border travellers each week.

Global News has also learned it took the government 12 days to notify travellers of the error.

This is troubling to some data and privacy experts who say the app may be violating the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which protects the right to move freely.

There's also a debate among experts about whether ordering people to remain in their homes for two weeks without justification is a form of unlawful detention.

Comment: While the 'error' might be argued, what's clear is that forcing Canadian citizens to use the app to re-enter the country under threat of fines/arrest is an infringement of civil liberties.


Snowflake Cold

"Millions will freeze this winter; or fall into debt to avoid doing so"

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Yes, today is finally inflation day! Not high unit labor cost inflation day - that was yesterday in the US, which is why markets sold off. Not house price inflation day - that's every day. I mean actual headline and core US CPI day, where increases in the price of just about everything are likely to be offset by temporary declines in gasoline prices. Yet that still opens the door for a new pre-US mid-terms phase of "sic transitory gloria mundi" back-patting in markets and politics.

We also get inflation in China (CPI and PPI), which will show it is firmly under control. That's largely because they are pumping out coal and have over-supply and under-demand. However, also note this is an economy where Bloomberg notes that the huge headline trade data are NOT matched by the trade-related money flows recorded by SAFE. There are technical reasons why the two differ, but now the simple message is: "China "bought" lots of goods from abroad, but they have never arrived." It could be supply-chain related, or it could be capital flight. Either way, don't trust the simple headline numbers on your screen.

Bug

UK to reverse 'accidental' ban on edible insect farming

Propaganda push is selling eating bugs as usual, and suggests the UK is just going back to normal.
Bugs Bugger
© Off-Guardian
Good news guys, UK companies will soon be free to start producing and selling several species of "edible insects" again.

Apparently, one effect of Brexit is that the UK no longer belonged to the European Union's "novel foods" programme, which approved many varieties of insects for human consumption.

Because of this the farming and selling of insects as food has been essentially banned in the UK for years.

The BBC had a report about this a few days ago, bemoaning the impact on the UK's edible insect industry, and headlined:
Has Brexit squashed our edible insect industry?
The blurb goes on to repeat the all-too-familiar pro-bug eating propaganda, and suggests there could a "revival":
Bugs - the superfood that doesn't cost the earth. They're higher in protein than meat and release far lower CO2 emissions than livestock farming. So experts tell us that, if we want to save the planet, we should eat more insects. However, selling insects as food in the UK was essentially banned following Brexit, leaving the insect industry in limbo. But could there now be a revival?
The "revival" has been in the works for at least a few weeks. Last month the UK government launched a "consultation" on the legal status of edible insects, according to the Food Standard's Agency website:
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has set out plans to allow edible insects to remain on the market while they go through the Novel Foods authorisation process to assess their safety.
This means you can now legally farm and sell edible insects in the UK, despite there being no formal legal approval or even an "assessment of their safety".

Roses

UK mom dies in her sleep on flight with husband and two kids

Helen Rhodes
© GoFundMeHelen Rhodes was flying with her husband and two children when she died in her sleep.
A mother of two traveling back to the UK to see her parents died in her sleep on a flight with her husband and two children, according to a grieving friend.

Helen Rhodes and her family were flying from Hong Kong to the UK on Aug. 5 when she "passed away in her sleep," friends said.

"We are still in disbelief and shock about the sudden passing of our dearest friend whose life has touched many people in Hong Kong and the UK," wrote friend Jayne Jeje on a GoFundMe post.

"Helen was found unresponsive a few hours into the flight. Despite all efforts, Helen was not able to be resuscitated."

Jeje added: "This all unfolded in front of her children. For the remaining 8 hours of the flight, Helen lay in a breathless

Comment: Add this to a long and sad list of individuals and people from all ages and walks of life who have had their lives tragically cut short by cardiac arrest and a host of other ailments that have come on suddenly and fatally: And: The year of collapsing athletes