GOV/MIL Main "Great Reset" Thread

marsh · Nov 11, 2021

Part 2 of 2

Ernst Wolff

Wolff points out that very few graduates of the Global Leaders school list it on their CVs. He says that he has only seen it listed on one: namely, that of the German economist Richard Werner, who is a known critic of the establishment.

Wolff suggests that the school seems to like to include even critics of the system among its ranks, as another name among its graduates is Gregor Hackmack, the German chief of Change.org, who was in its 2010 class. Wolff believes this is because the organization wants to present itself as being fair and balanced, although it also wants to ensure that its critics are controlled opposition.

Another thing that the Global Leaders graduates have in common is that most of them have very sparse CVs apart from their participation in the program prior to being elevated to positions of power, which may indicate that it is their connection to Schwab’s institutions that is the decisive factor in launching their careers. This is most evident when the school’s alumni are publicly questioned about issues that they have not been instructed to talk about in advance, and their struggles to come up with answers are often quite evident. Wolff contends that their roles are only to act as mouthpieces for the talking points that those in the shadows behind them want discussed in public debate.

Schwab’s Yes Men in Action
Given the growing discontent with the anti-Covid measures put into practice by the school’s graduates who are now national leaders, Wolff believes it is possible that these people were selected due to their willingness to do whatever they are told, and that they are being set up to fail so that the subsequent backlash can be exploited to justify the creation of a new global form of government. Indeed, Wolff notes that politicians with unique personalities and strong, original views have become rare, and that the distinguishing character of the national leaders of the past 30 years has been their meekness and adherence to a strict globalist line dictated from above. This has been especially evident in most countries’ response to the pandemic, where politicians who knew nothing about viruses two years ago suddenly proclaimed that Covid was a severe health crisis that justified locking people up in their homes, shutting down their businesses, and wrecking entire economies.

Determining exactly how the school operates is difficult, but Wolff has managed to learn something about it. In the school’s early years, it involved the members of each class meeting several times over the course of a year, including a ten-day “executive training” session at the Harvard Business School. Wolff believes that, through meeting their classmates and becoming part of a wider network, the graduates then establish contacts who they rely on in their later careers. Today, the school’s program includes courses offered over the course of five years at irregular intervals, which in some cases may overlap with the beginnings of some of its participants’ political or professional careers – meaning they will be making regular visits to Davos. Emmanuel Macron and Peter Buttigieg, for example, were selected for the school less than five years ago, which means it is possible they have been regularly attending Young Global Leaders-related programs while in political office and may in fact still be attending them today.

A Worldwide Network of Wealth & Influence
Graduates from the Young Global Leaders school, and Global Leaders for Tomorrow before them, find themselves very well-situated given that they then have access to the WEF’s network of contacts. The WEF’s current Board of Trustees includes such luminaries as Christine Lagarde, former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and current President of the European Central Bank; Queen Rania of Jordan, who has been ranked by Forbes as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world; and Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the largest investment management corporation internationally and which handles approximately $9 trillion annually. By tracing the connections between the school’s graduates, Wolff claims that you can see that they continue to rely on each other for support for their initiatives long after they participated in the Global Leaders programs.

Wolff believes that many elite universities play a role in the process determined by the WEF, and that they should no longer be seen as operating outside of the fields of politics and economics. He cites the example of the Harvard Business School, which receives millions of dollars from donors each year, as well as the Harvard School of Public Health, which was renamed the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health after it received $350 million from the Hong Kong-born billionaire Gerald Chan. The same is true of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, which became the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health after media mogul Michael Bloomberg donated $1.8 billion to the school in 2018.

Wolff states that the WEF’s influence goes far beyond those who have passed through the Global Leaders and Global Shapers programs, however, as the number of people who participate in the annual Davos conferences is much larger than many suspect; he mentions being informed that approximately 1,500 private jets bring attendees to the event each year, overloading Switzerland’s airports.

The Alliance of Big Business & Government
The main goal of the WEF’s activities, Wolff believes, is to facilitate and further high-level cooperation between big business and national governments, something which we are already seeing take place. Viviane Fischer, another participant in the Corona Committee podcast, points out that the British-based company Serco processes migrants for the British government and also manages prisons around the world, among its many other activities. The pharmaceutical industry’s international reach is also considerable: Wolff mentions that Global Leaders alumnus Bill Gates, for example, had long been doing business with Pfizer, one of the main producers of the controversial mRNA anti-Covid vaccines, through his Foundation’s public health initiatives in Africa since long before the pandemic began. Perhaps not coincidentally, Gates has become one of the foremost champions of lockdowns and the Covid vaccines since they became available, and The Wall Street Journal has reported that his Foundation had made approximately $200 billion in “social benefits” from distributing vaccines before the pandemic had even begun. One can only imagine what its vaccine profits are today.

Digital technology, which is now all-pervasive, is also playing a prominent role in the elite’s global designs. Wolff highlights that BlackRock, run by Global Leaders alumnus Larry Fink, is presently the largest advisor to the world’s central banks and has been collecting data on the world financial system for more than 30 years now, and undoubtedly has a greater understanding of how the system works than the central banks themselves.

One of the goals of the current policies being pursued by many governments, Wolff believes, is to destroy the businesses of small- and medium-sized entrepreneurs so that multinational corporations based in the United States and China can monopolize business everywhere. Amazon, which was led until recently by Global Leaders alumnus Jeff Bezos, in particular has made enormous profits as a result of the lockdown measures that have devastated the middle class.

Wolff contends that the ultimate goal of this domination by large platforms is to see the introduction of digital bank currency. Just in the past few months, China’s International Finance Forum, which is similar to the WEF, proposed the introduction of the digital yuan, which could in turn be internationalized by the Diem blockchain-based currency network. Interestingly, Diem is the successor to Libra, a cryptocurrency that was first announced by Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, indicating that a global currency that will transcend the power of either the dollar or the yuan, and managed through the cooperation of Chinese, European, and American business networks, is currently being discussed. The International Finance Forum’s supervisory board includes such names as the WEF’s Christine Lagarde; Jean-Claude Trichet, the former President of the European Central Bank; and Horst Köhler, the former Head of the International Monetary Fund.

Wolff further explains that the lockdowns and subsequent bailouts that were seen around the world over the past two years left many nations on the verge of bankruptcy. In order to avoid an economic catastrophe, the governments of the world resorted to drawing on 650 billion special drawing rights, or SDRs, which are supplementary foreign exchange reserve assets managed by the International Monetary Fund. When these eventually come due, it will leave these same governments in dire straits, which is why it may be that the introduction of digital currency has become a sudden priority – and this may have been the hidden purpose of the lockdowns all along.

Wolff says that two European countries are already prepared to begin using digital currency: Sweden and Switzerland. Perhaps not coincidentally, Sweden has had virtually no lockdown restrictions due to the pandemic, and Switzerland has taken only very light measures. Wolff believes that the reason for this may be that the two countries did not need to crash their economies through lockdown measures because they were already prepared to begin using digital currency before the pandemic began. He contends that a new round of lockdowns may be being prepared that will finish off the world’s economies for good, leading to massive unemployment and in turn the introduction of Universal Basic Income and the use of a digital currency managed by a central bank. This currency might be restricted, both in terms of what individuals can spend it on as well as in the time frame that one has to spend it in.

Further, Wolff indicates that the inflation currently being seen around the world is an inevitable consequence of the fact that national governments, after taking loans from the central banks, have introduced approximately $20 trillion into the global economy in less than two years. Whereas previous bailouts were directed into the markets, this latest round has gone to ordinary people, and as a result, this is driving up the prices of products that ordinary people spend their money on, such as food.

Democracy Has Been Cancelled
The ultimate conclusion one must draw from all of this, according to Wolff, is that democracy as we knew it has been silently cancelled, and that although the appearance of democratic processes is being maintained in our countries, the fact is that an examination of how governance around the world works today shows that an elite of super-wealthy and powerful individuals effectively control everything that goes on in politics, as has been especially evident in relation to the pandemic response.

The best way to combat their designs, Wolff says, is simply to educate people about what is happening, and for them to realize that the narrative of the “super-dangerous virus” is a lie that has been designed to manipulate them into accepting things that run contrary to their own interests. If even 10% of ordinary citizens become aware of this and decide to take action, it could thwart the elite’s plans and perhaps open a window for ordinary citizens to take back control over their own destinies.

Video Interview
Ernst Wolff is interviewed in this series of videos by Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, a German lawyer and politician who hosts a podcast called Corona Ausschuss (Corona Committee), which critically examines the German government’s response to the pandemic. These videos are taken from one of their podcasts.

Also on the group chat are Viviane Fischer, a business attorney and economist based in Berlin who is a regular participant on the Corona Committee; and Wolfgang Wodarg, a former German Member of Parliament for the Social Democratic Party who has been vocal in opposing the German government’s lockdown and vaccination measures.

Part I
Exposed: Klaus Schwab's School For Covid Dictators, Plan for 'Great Reset' (Part 1) 16:04 min

Part II

Exposed: Klaus Schwab's School For Covid Dictators, Plan for 'Great Reset' (Part 2) 16:36 min

Part III

Exposed: Klaus Schwab's School For Covid Dictators, Plan for 'Great Reset' (Part 3) 19:38 min

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marsh · Nov 11, 2021

The Great Reset Is Real, and It Is Taking No Prisoners · Caldron Pool

"The naked individual against an all-powerful state is the dream of every tyrant and the nightmare of every freedom-loving citizen. That is why there is always the pressing need to have something that stands between the individual and the state."

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The Great Reset Is Real, and It Is Taking No Prisoners
"The naked individual against an all-powerful state is the dream of every tyrant and the nightmare of every freedom-loving citizen. That is why there is always the pressing need to have something that stands between the individual and the state."

BY BILL MUEHLENBERGNOVEMBER 12, 2021

With the astounding new power-grab being attempted by Dan Andrews in Victoria, making him and the health minister effectively dictator for life while trashing democracy and human rights, we need to once again learn from the past. Philosophers and political theorists from Aristotle on up have spoken about ways in which despotism can be resisted and kept in check.

The need for organisations and groups which offset the power of the ever-increasing state is a major part of this. The naked individual against an all-powerful state is the dream of every tyrant and the nightmare of every freedom-loving citizen. That is why there is always the pressing need to have something that stands between the individual and the state.

These include the family, neighbourhood, churches, labour groups, voluntary associations, local communities, and so on. These have been referred to as mediating structures or intermediary institutions. Political thinkers have long stressed the importance of these.

Alexis de Tocqueville for example spoke about “the spirit of association” which he found throughout North America as he travelled there, and as he wrote about in his two-volume Democracy in America (1835-1840). And Edmund Burke wrote briefly about the “little platoons” in his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790).

More recent writers have run with this theme. They include, to name but a few:

Robert Nisbet, The Quest for Community. OUP, 1953.
Peter L. Berger, To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Policy. AEI Press, 1977.
Michael Novak, ed., Democracy and Mediating Structures. AEI Press, 1980.
Charles Murray, In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government. Simon and Schuster, 1988.

As mentioned, with Victoria looking to strip all citizens of their basic rights, and effectively bypassing parliament, the need to once again affirm the vital importance of these little platoons is crucial. All power-hungry despots want nothing but them and the naked individual. The masses are so much easier to control this way.

But Dictator Dan is not alone in all this. Consider the Great Reset mob who I have spoken about before. See here for example.

Folks like Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum have been happily using the Covid crisis to further push their nefarious agenda, and are also using ‘climate change’ as another ‘crisis’ to exploit and bring in their dystopian future. And it is all about increasing the power of the state while reducing the power of the individual.

The only mediating structures the WEF want to run with are things like woke capitalist institutions – big corporations that can be harnessed to push leftist causes. One website that thinks there is too much conspiracy theorising on the Great Reset nonetheless has some very real concerns. It says this in part:

The idea of stakeholder capitalism and multi-stakeholder partnerships might sound warm and fuzzy, until we dig deeper and realise that this actually means giving corporations more power over society, and democratic institutions less.

The plan from which the Great Reset originated was called the Global Redesign Initiative. Drafted by the WEF after the 2008 economic crisis, the initiative contains a 600-page report on transforming global governance. In the WEF’s vision, “the government voice would be one among many, without always being the final arbiter.” Governments would be just one stakeholder in a multi-stakeholder model of global governance. Harris Gleckman, senior fellow at the University of Massachusetts, describes the report as “the most comprehensive proposal for re-designing global governance since the formulation of the United Nations during World War II.”

Who are these other, non-governmental stakeholders? The WEF, best known for its annual meeting of high-net-worth individuals in Davos, Switzerland, describes itself as an international organization for public-private cooperation. WEF partners include some of the biggest companies in oil (Saudi Aramco, Shell, Chevron, BP), food (Unilever, The Coca-Cola Company, Nestlé), technology (Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple) and pharmaceuticals (AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna).

Instead of corporations serving many stakeholders, in the multi-stakeholder model of global governance, corporations are promoted to being official stakeholders in global decision-making, while governments are relegated to being one of many stakeholders. In practice, corporations become the main stakeholders, while governments take a backseat role, and civil society is mainly window dressing.

Thankfully some folks have been warning about this here in Australia. On Sky News, two voices at least can be heard sounding the alarm: Rowan Dean and Cory Bernardi. The former has often spoken out on this. In one of his discussions, he said there is no “secret agenda” about the WEF’s Great Reset – they are shouting it from the rafters:

“This is the plan by the World Economic Forum to encourage governments to use all the levers they use during lockdown, enforced business closures, 23 hour lockdowns, restricting how far you can go from your home and ridiculously aggressive policing tactics, in order to tackle climate change.”

And a recent post featuring Bernardi said this:

Sky News host Cory Bernardi has slammed the ‘Great Reset’ movement, a plan involving “dramatically increasing the power of the government” endorsed by the World Economic Forum. Mr Bernardi says the plan, termed as a ‘Great Reset of capitalism’, would use “vast regulatory schemes to coerce corporations into supporting left-wing causes”. “It’s not surprising that the likes of the hard-left Biden administration like replacing capitalism for crony capitalism,” Mr Bernardi said. “That way only the ‘special’ people get to make a profit for themselves. The rest of us just become government economic units.”

Finally, two politicians who often appear on Sky, Matt Canavan and George Christensen, have also been warning about all this. Canavan for example was featured here:

Nationals Senator Matt Canavan says the World Economic Forum’s plan for the Great Reset is “crazy, kooky stuff”. Mr Canavan said the Forum recently released a video clip outlining that by 2030, “they don’t want anyone to own property”. “You’ll own no property and you’ll be happier apparently,” he said. “This stuff is crazy, kooky stuff.”

“The real battle line – in my view – in politics, is between those who want to allow people to take control of their own lives and communities and run their own countries, their own states, their own local councils … the way they’d like to see them run, and those who are pushing for one, unified, global order that takes away agency or sovereignty from any individual.”

“Because if we have one global order, you’re one of about 8 billion people and you can’t control your local environment. When we invest in smaller communities and give power to local governments, to state governments and to national governments, you can have a lot more influence. I think we’ve seen a push back against the globalisation order in the last few years. The more we give power back to local and small governments, the better communities we’ll have, the more investment, the more vested interest people will have in their local community and therefore the better decisions will be made.”

And on his own site Christensen recently said this about the Great Reset:

The WEF is a group of wealthy and powerful world leaders from politics, big business, and NGOs including Klaus Schwab, George Soros, the Chairman of the International Business Council, the CEO of the Bank of America, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Prince Charles, Al Gore, and even Greta Thunberg.

For years they have been trying to sell and market their agenda for change by influencing the policies of national governments. The great policy reset! In other words, an unelected global elite operating outside the law deciding for ordinary citizens how they will live, work, communicate and do business in the future….

Some of the WEF’s dangerous ideas include having a universal basic wage; “reforming” our democracy, giving away certain legal rights and property rights; and giving more power to unelected and unchecked global bureaucrats.

The now deleted WEF video had stated:
– “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.”
– “Whatever you want, you will rent.”
– “You’ll eat much less meat, an occasional treat, not a staple.”
– “Western values will have been tested to the breaking point.”

Remember whenever you hear terms such as ‘building back better’, ‘servitisation’, ‘stronger cities’, ‘smarter cities’ – that is the jargon used to persuade you to get on board with The Great Reset. And if you don’t, it will be done by force and centralised power.

In the light of all this, I hope you can see why the concept – and reality – of ‘little platoons’ is so vital. Individuals need protection from the ever-expanding state.

These mediating institutions help in this regard. This is why all would-be tyrants want to see them eliminated or rendered ineffective. Beware!

marsh · Nov 11, 2021

Your Money Is Now Losing Close to 1 Percent of Its Value Every 30 Days, According to Labor Bureau Data

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Your Money Is Now Losing Close to 1 Percent of Its Value Every 30 Days, According to Labor Bureau Data

By Katabella Roberts
November 11, 2021 Updated: November 11, 2021

The U.S. dollar is now losing close to 1 percent of its value every 30 days, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Wednesday.

Currently, inflation of the U.S. dollar is at its highest level since 1990. The Consumer Price Index (CPI), a measure of the average monthly change in the price for goods and services paid by urban consumers, increased 0.9 percent last month, more than doubling September’s 0.4 percent increase.

Overall, prices rose 6.2 percent from one year ago, representing the largest year-on-year increase in more than 30 years as inflation persists across sectors, according to the Bureau.

The cost of food also increased by 5.3 percent during the month of October, riding on the back of unprecedented supply chain issues.

Increases were seen in the cost of energy, shelter, food, used cars and trucks, and new vehicles, with gasoline prices increasing 6.1 percent from 1.2 percent in September.

These increased prices have been driven partly by an intentional effort by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to decrease their oil production.

At the same time, the United States has cut its own oil production significantly in line with President Joe Biden’s promise to transition away from fossil fuels.

Used vehicle prices also shot up 2.5 percent this month from 0.7 percent in September, while new vehicle prices rose 1.4 percent from 1.3 percent in September.

“We expected inflation would get worse before it got better, but not this much worse. Particularly painful is the increase in food prices as we approach the holidays, and the rise in energy prices as we plan to travel more to family get-togethers,” Robert Frick, corporate economist with Navy Federal Credit Union, wrote in a research note, Axios reported.

“However, both those increases are likely to be temporary, and the forecasts that inflation overall will drop early-to-mid-next year still seems credible,” he added.
Biden told reporters on Wednesday that he’s directed the National Economic Council to focus on reducing energy costs for U.S. consumers following the Department of Labor report.

“Today’s report shows an increase over last month. Inflation hurts Americans pocketbooks [sic], and reversing this trend is a top priority for me,” Biden said in a statement. “The largest share of the increase in prices in this report is due to rising energy costs.”

The president said he directed his top economic aides to attempt to “further reduce these costs,” regarding energy prices. He also asked the Federal Trade Commission to deal with “market manipulation or price gouging in this sector.”

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) took a swipe at the Biden administration and “corporate america” earlier this week for its role in “runaway inflation,” following reports that corporations are warming to the GOP after Republicans defeated the Democrats in the 2021 off-year elections, and may start giving campaign money to party lawmakers.

“If Corporate America thinks jumping on the bandwagon after Tuesday’s election and before the impending red wave will make conservatives forget the role they played in subjecting the U.S. to open borders and runaway inflation, they are sorely mistaken,” McCarthy wrote on Twitter.

The Federal Reserve and White House have long-maintained that inflation will abate as supply chain bottlenecks are fixed.

Jack Phillips contributed to this report.

marsh · Nov 11, 2021

UN chief says global warming goal on 'life support' - Breitbart

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 F) is “on life support”

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UN chief says global warming goal on ‘life support’

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 F) is “on life support” in the final days of the U.N.’s climate talks in Glasgow

UN chief says global warming goal on ‘life support’By SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANSAssociated PressThe Associated PressGLASGOW, Scotland
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday warned that a key temperature goal in climate talks is “on life support” but he still hopes that world governments will step up their pledges to slash emissions of greenhouse gases.

In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Guterres said the negotiations set to end Friday in Glasgow, Scotland, will “very probably” not yield the carbon-cutting pledges he has said are needed to keep the planet from warming beyond the 1.5-degree threshold.

Still, the U.N. chief wouldn’t say at what point he thinks that goal would have to be abandoned.

“When you are on the verge of the abyss,” it’s not important to think too far into the future, he said. “What’s important to discuss is what will be your first step.

Because if your first step is the wrong step, you will not have the chance to … make a second or third one.”

So far, the talks have not come close to achieving any of the U.N.’s three announced priorities for the annual conference, called COP26. One is cutting carbon emissions by about half by 2030 to reach the goal Guterres alluded to.
The other two are getting rich countries to fulfill a 12-year-old pledge of providing $100 billion a year in financial climate aid to poor nations and ensuring that half of that amount goes to helping them adapt to the worst effects of climate change.

Guterres said the Glasgow talks “are in a crucial moment” and need to accomplish more than securing a weak deal that participating nations agree to support.

“The worst thing would be to reach an agreement at all costs by a minimum common denominator that would not respond to the huge challenges we face,” Guterres said.

That’s because the overarching goal of limiting warming since pre-industrial times to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 F) by the end of the century “is still in reach but on life support,” Guterres said. The world has already warmed 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit).

Less than 36 hours from the scheduled close of the negotiations, Guterres said that if negotiators can’t reach ambitious carbon-cutting goals — “and very probably it will not happen” — then national leaders would need to come up with new pledges next year and in 2023 during high-level meetings.

Guterres later told climate negotiators that “promises ring hollow when the fossil fuels industry still receives trillions in subsidies … or when countries are still building coal plants.”

In a separate interview late Thursday, former Irish president Mary Robinson accused Saudi Arabia and Russia of trying to cut out or water down language in a draft agreement that would call for a phase-out of coal and an end to fossil fuel subsidies.

She also blasted British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the host of the climate talks, for not taking them seriously enough, not being in “crisis mode” and sticking around — unlike his French counterpart in 2015.

Guterres said he agreed with youth climate activists — who have been a daily presence protesting in large numbers outside the climate talks, and at times inside — who called for the U.N. to term global warming a “climate emergency” of a high level.

“For me, it is clear it is a climate emergency,” Guterres said.

As terrible and tragic as the COVID-19 pandemic is, there’s a way climate change is more of an emergency, Guterres said.

“The pandemic is reversible. We have the tools and the instruments to stop it,” he said. “Climate change is a global threat to the planet and to humankind. And for the moment, we have not yet all the tools and the instruments that we need to defeat it.”

And much of that comes down to money.

The lack of movement on financial aid to poorer countries troubles Guterres, who later told negotiators the gap was a “glaring injustice.” He said if he were the leader of a vulnerable small island or other endangered country he would be upset with what’s not happening in Glasgow.

Peter Liese, a senior member of the European Parliament, said on Thursday he and fellow lawmakers would push for the $100 billion to be delivered “definitely next year.”

And that rich-poor split kept cropping up Thursday.

Talks are now at the point where two pathways were possible: one that was good for people and the planet, and the other that led to “carbon colonialism,” said Bolivia’s chief negotiator, Diego Pacheco Balanz. “We need to fight the developed countries against the carbon colonialism.”

Balanz was speaking on behalf of the negotiating block of developing nations that include countries from Africa, Latin America and Asia — with China and India among the latter.

Guterres praised a Wednesday evening agreement between the United States and China to cut emissions this decade as a reason why he still hopes for some semblance of success in Glasgow.

“This agreement paves the way for other agreements,” Guterres said in a 25-minute AP interview.

The U.N. chief said he hoped that two sticky issues that defied resolution for six years can be solved in Glasgow: creating workable markets for trading carbon credits and transparency that shows that promised pollution-reducing actions are real.

Fresh drafts of the documents on regulating international cooperation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including the carbon markets section, were released overnight, as were new proposals containing various options for assessing and tracking financial aid for developing countries.

The chair of this year’s U.N. climate meeting called on negotiators from almost 200 countries to engage in “another gear shift” as they try to reach agreement on outstanding issues a day before the talks are scheduled to end.

British official Alok Sharma said he was “under no illusion” that the texts being considered would wholly satisfy all countries at this stage, adding “we are not there yet.”
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marsh · Nov 12, 2021

Biden's Marxist Pick for Comptroller of the Currency Was Filmed in Documentary Called 'Aholes,' Calling Capitalists "Aholes" (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

Biden’s pick for Comptroller of the Currency is known for her pro-Communist comments. Recently she was filmed in a documentary calling capitalists a**holes. Is she really the best pick to run the US banking systems?

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Biden’s Marxist Pick for Comptroller of the Currency Was Filmed in Documentary Called A**holes, Calling Capitalists “A**holes” (VIDEO)

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Published November 12, 2021 at 11:23am

Biden’s pick for Comptroller of the Currency is known for her pro-Communist comments. Recently she was filmed in a documentary calling capitalists a**holes. Is she really the best pick to run the US banking systems?

We already reported on Biden’s pick for Comptroller of the Currency. She was born in the USSR and is known for her pro-Communist ideals.

Biden's Pick for Comptroller of the Currency, Saule Omarova, Born In the USSR Is Known for Her Pro-Communist Remarks | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

Creepy Joe Biden picked Saule Omarova to be his Comptroller of the Currency. Her pro-communist remarks put the US Dollar in immediate peril if nominated.

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We’ve recently come across a video labeled, A**holes a Theory, where Amarova shares her thoughts on a**hole capitalists.

Here is a segment from the documentary where Omarova shares her thoughts about A**hole capitalists:

Rumble video on website 1:29 min

This person should never have a position in our government.
Hat tip Bob Bishop

marsh · Nov 12, 2021

John Kerry Casually Pledges to Kill Tens of Thousands of Jobs: "By 2030 in the United States, We Will NOT Have Coal Plants" (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

Joe Biden’s ‘Climate Envoy’ John Kerry on Friday casually pledged to kill tens of thousands of jobs.

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John Kerry Casually Pledges to Kill Tens of Thousands of Jobs: “By 2030 in the United States, We Will NOT Have Coal Plants” (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published November 12, 2021 at 2:13pm

Joe Biden’s ‘Climate Envoy’ John Kerry on Friday casually pledged to kill tens of thousands of jobs.

“By 2030 in the United States, we will not have coal plants,” Kerry said at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland.

Globalist elitist John Kerry owns a mega yacht, travels on private jets and owns several mansions.

But the peasants will be forced to live in a pod, eat bugs and ride bicycles everywhere.

VIDEO:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1459163631229276177

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marsh · Nov 12, 2021

Psaki Says Rise in Gas Prices Makes a Stronger Case For "Doubling Down on" Radical Green Energy Policies (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday said the rise in gas prices makes a stronger case for “doubling down on” radical green energy policies.

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Psaki Says Rise in Gas Prices Makes a Stronger Case For “Doubling Down on” Radical Green Energy Policies (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published November 12, 2021 at 3:09pm

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday said the rise in gas prices makes a stronger case for “doubling down on” radical green energy policies.

Joe Biden’s first order of business was to kill the Keystone XL Pipeline and beg OPEC for oil.

Gas prices are through the roof.

This is all by design.

Gas is over $5 per gallon in some parts of California.

Instead of ramping up oil production in the US to help alleviate rising gas prices, Biden is currently contemplating closing down another pipeline.

The Biden Regime wants to punish Americans at the pump in order to force their Marxist “Green New Deal” agenda.

“Our view is that the rise in gas prices over the long term makes an even stronger case for doubling down our investment and focus on clean energy options,” Psaki said.

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Joe Biden said the same thing a couple weeks ago during his disastrous speech at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

Biden’s speech on the virtues of green energy and globalism was frightening.

“And as we see current volatility in energy prices, rather than cast it as a reason to back off our clean energy goals, we must view it as a call to action,” said Biden. “Higher energy prices only reinforce the urgent need to diversify sources, double down on clean energy development….[unintelligible]”

marsh · Nov 12, 2021

Excess Deaths point to Depopulation Agenda

'I think it's highly likely that the next phase will involve death on a scale which will dwarf the claims of 'covid-19 deaths' to date.' Dr. Mike Yeadon, former Pfizer Vice President Question-- Why is mortality in Scotland higher in 2021 than 2020? Answer-- Because more people are dying. And...

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Excess Deaths Point to Depopulation Agenda
MIKE WHITNEY• NOVEMBER 5, 2021

“I think it’s highly likely that the next phase will involve death on a scale which will dwarf the claims of “covid-19 deaths” to date.” Dr. Mike Yeadon, former Pfizer Vice President

Question– Why is mortality in Scotland higher in 2021 than 2020?

Answer– Because more people are dying. And the reason more people are dying is because more people have been vaccinated. In other words, there’s a link between rising mortality and the Covid-19 vaccine.

Question– You can’t prove that.

Answer– You’re right, I can’t. The evidence is all circumstantial. But it is compelling, all the same. For example, rising mortality isn’t just happening in Scotland. It’s happening in many of the countries that launched mass vaccination campaigns earlier in the year. They’re all seeing a significant uptick in all-cause mortality. Why is that? What are they doing differently in 2021 than they did in the years before?

Question– I can see what you’re getting at, but I still don’t think you have enough evidence to make your case.

Answer– Okay, then you tell me: Why are more people dying in 2021 than 2020? And, keep in mind, all-cause mortality isn’t just up a bit; it’s smashing the five-year average. Check out this recent post from Alex Berenson at Substack:

Scotland is 87% adult vaccinated; weekly deaths are now 30% above normal
Oct 14, This is from the Public Health Scotland’s Covid-19 Daily Dashboard:

“The 315 excess deaths logged last week represents a 30% increase on the five-year pre-pandemic average for this time of year. This marks the 20th consecutive week with excess deaths above the five-year average and the highest since the week ending January 10, 2021.”

Even excluding Covid deaths they were almost 20% above normal for the most recent week, and the trend is rising.” (“Scotland is 87% adult vaccinated; weekly deaths are now 30% above normal”, Alex Berenson Substack)

Question– But how can you build a case on data from just one country? It’s ridiculous.

Answer– But it’s not just Scotland. The same rule applies to many of the countries that launched vaccination campaigns earlier in the year. Here’s more from Berenson:

Add Germany – Europe’s most populous nation – to the countries seeing unusually high all-cause mortality that is NOT Covid-related.

In September, Germany reported almost 78,000 deaths, more than 10 percent higher than the expected figure, German government demographers said earlier this week.

Press: “Mortality figures (in Germany) in September, 2021: 10% above the median of previous years.” (“It’s not just the UK; all-cause deaths are also now running well above normal in Germany (80% adults fully vaccinated)”, Alex Berenson Substack)

And then there’s this is from Data Analyst’s Twitter account (check out the charts):

Data Analysis @Data_is_Louder
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Oct 26
COVID mystery Denmark, Finland and Norway excess deaths are higher than in their worst Covid outbreak. These mysterious excess deaths happened in time conjunction with vaccination rollout.

Denmark ––“5 months is a row 2021 has broken the 10-year record of people dying from all causes…..Covid-19 deaths close to zero during the same period.”

The same is true in Ireland, UK and Israel. Take a look at England (Ages 10 to 59 years old.)

What’s so disturbing about this chart is that it shows how the vaccines target the young. “While the COVID death toll has been largely confined to the elderly… it’s the young who are bearing the brunt of vaccine injury. According to VigiAccess, the adverse event database for the World Health Organization, 41% of the more than 2.4 million vaccine injuries reported so far are among those under age 44, and just six percent are among people over age 75.”

(“The real pandemic has just begun, and it’s COVID shot-induced heart attacks in the young”, Lifesite News)

That’s something you’re not going to read in the media, and for good reason, too. Because it would undermine their lethal objective to continue hyping the vaccine.

Here’s more from quantitative analyst Joel Smalley:
Joel@RealJoelSmalley

Weekly deaths update from the CDC. “Despite” being over 80% fully vaccinated, since 24-Jul, over 65s deaths in Florida are 14% higher than same period last year. “Despite” at least 50% full vaccination in the under 65s, deaths are up 46% and will rise as reporting catches up.

The examples are everywhere across the Internet. You don’t have to look very far.

Wherever mass vaccinations took place, there, too, morality has risen. And–once again–these are not Covid deaths. These are mainly heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, circulatory diseases and neurological issues; the same vaccine-induced ailments we were warned about by the physicians and scientists who’ve been telling us the truth from the start. Turns out they were right after all.

Simply put, the vaccines are increasing fatalities, not reducing them. They are making matters worse not better. They are perpetuating the crisis not ending it. And that is why the red line in the chart is pointing upward. It’s an indication that the death toll will continue to rise as long as we continue to do what we are doing now, inoculating millions of people with a cytotoxic pathogen that triggers blood clots, inflammation and autoimmunity. Here’s another chart of Scotland with a short comment from The Daily Skeptic:

“…. the presence of a Covid epidemic was not seen in summer 2020, but is seen in summer 2021. What differs between the two years? The glaringly obvious answer is the rollout of COVID-19 vaccination. There was no COVID-19 vaccination programme in 2020, but there was rollout of Covid vaccinations in a sequential way to increasingly younger age groups in 2021, a pattern that we see in the manifestation of excess deaths. …. The Yellow Card adverse events reporting system,…. has already recorded over 1,700 deaths in the U.K. population associated with the COVID-19 vaccines. There is therefore a prima facie case for COVID-19 vaccination being a contributing factor to the dramatic rise in summer excess deaths in Scotland in 2021.”

(“Are Vaccines Driving Excess Deaths in Scotland, a Professor of Biology Asks”, The Daily Skeptic)

Part 1 of 3

marsh · Nov 12, 2021

Part 2 of 3

Have you noticed how the media is trying to cover-up the sudden surge in mortality? Here’s a good example from an article at the UK Telegraph:

“While focus remains firmly fixed on Covid-19, a second health crisis is quietly emerging in Britain. Since the beginning of July, there have been thousands of excess deaths that were not caused by coronavirus. According to health experts, this is highly unusual for the summer. Although excess deaths are expected during the winter months, when cold weather and seasonal infections combine to place pressure on the NHS, summer generally sees a lull.

This year is a worrying outlier.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), since July 2 there have been 9,619 excess deaths in England and Wales, of which 48 per cent (4,635) were not caused by Covid-19.

So if all these extra people are not dying from coronavirus, what is killing them?

Data from Public Health England (PHE) shows that during that period there were 2,103 extra death registrations with ischemic heart disease, 1,552 with heart failure, as well as an extra 760 deaths with cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke and aneurysm and 3,915 with other circulatory diseases.” (“Thousands more people than usual are dying … but it’s not from Covid“, Telegraph)[/QUOTE]
So, according to the article, there were:

24% more heart failure deaths than baseline
19% ischaemic heart disease
16% cerebrovascular disease (strokes)
18% other circulatory diseases

All of these cerebrovascular, cardiac and circulatory ailments didn’t suddenly drop from the sky in 2021. They are vaccine-generated injuries. Can you see that?

And they are all linked to the spike protein which is the “biological mechanism of action” that “damages blood vessels, organs, and causes blood clots, and that can kill a human being?” (Quote: Dr Peter McCullough)

Have you wondered why more people died this year of Covid than in all of 2020?

According to Johns Hopkins, Covid killed 353, 000 people in the United States in 2020. But in just 10 months in 2021, 390,000 people have died. How can that be? After all:

Many of the extremely vulnerable have already died
The experts say Delta is not as lethal as the original Wuhan infection
100 million people (according to the CDC) have already survived Covid and now have natural immunity
And 190 million people have been double-vaxxed

These are four reasons why deaths should be decreasing. But they’re not decreasing, they’re increasing.

Why?

The vaccine, that’s why.

And why are the countries with the highest Covid-19 death rates, also the most vaccinated countries?

It’s because “there is a massive positive correlation between vaccination percentage and deaths.”

But don’t take my word for it. Check it out for yourself. Do your own research.''

Just recently, Professor Norman Fenton at Queen Mary London University sifted through the government’s statistics (ONS) to see if he could “determine the overall risk-benefit of Covid-19 vaccines” by comparing “the all-cause mortality rates between the vaccinated and unvaccinated in each age category.”

His thinking on the matter was simple:

“If Covid is as dangerous as claimed – and if the vaccine is as effective as claimed – we should by now have seen many more Covid related deaths among the unvaccinated than the vaccinated….(and) If the vaccine is as safe as claimed, then there should have been very few more deaths from causes unrelated to Covid among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated (in each age group).

So, the count of all-cause deaths should be higher among the unvaccinated than the vaccinated (in each age group), confirming that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks.” (Discrepancies and inconsistencies in UK Government datasets compromise accuracy of mortality rate comparisons between vaccinated and unvaccinated”)

Simple, right? In other words, if the vaccine is so great, then it should be clear from the data. But that’s not what Fenton found. What he found was the opposite. He found that all-cause mortality is higher among vaccinated people than the unvaccinated. (And depending how you interpret the data, it could be significantly higher.) Fenton hoped that his analysis would impact the debate on the ongoing vaccination program, but instead, he’s been viciously denounced as a right-wing extremist, which is what happens to anyone who dares to to challenge the official narrative. Here’s more from NPR:

“Inside the emergency department at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Mich., staff members are struggling to care for patients who are showing up much sicker than they’ve ever seen. Tiffani Dusang, the emergency room’s nursing director, practically vibrates with pent-up anxiety, looking at all the patients lying on a long line of stretchers pushed up against the beige walls of the hospital’s hallways. “It’s hard to watch,” she says in her warm Texan twang.

But there’s nothing she can do. The ER’s 72 rooms are already filled.

“I always feel very, very bad when I walk down the hallway and see that people are in pain or needing to sleep or needing quiet.”

Even in parts of the country where COVID-19 isn’t overwhelming the health system, patients are showing up to the ER sicker than they were before the pandemic, their diseases more advanced and in need of more complicated care.'

Months of treatment delays have exacerbated chronic conditions and worsened symptoms. Doctors and nurses say the severity of illness ranges widely and includes abdominal pain, respiratory problems, blood clots, heart conditions and suicide attempts, among others.” (“ERs are now swamped with seriously ill patients — but many don’t even have COVID”, NPR)

Repeat: “abdominal pain, respiratory problems, blood clots, heart conditions.” In other words, the overcrowding in Emergency Rooms could as easily be linked to vaccine-induced injuries as they could to “delayed treatments”. And notice how the author seems genuinely concerned about the burgeoning ERs but never once mentions the elephant in the room; the vaccine.

Was that just a slip-up on his part or was his real intention to bamboozle his readers from the start?

Then, there’s this gem in the New York Post that tries to prepare the public for the onslaught of “thromboembolic” disorders we’ll be facing in the very near future. The article is appropriately titled “The little-known heart attack that’s striking ‘fit and healthy’ women as young as 22.” Here’s a clip from the article:

“When you think of a heart attack, you immediately picture someone who is older and might already have underlying health issues. But experts have warned that women as young as 22 could be struck down by a little-known condition.

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) happens when a tear forms in a blood vessel in the heart, the New York Post reports. It can slow or block blood flow to the heart, causing a heart attack, abnormalities in heart rhythm or sudden death, experts at the Mayo Clinic say.

In general, it’s an uncommon condition, but doctors are urging women to push for a diagnosis and care when it comes to the symptoms. The condition is most common in women ages 30 to 60 – but experts have warned that it is reaching fit and healthy women as young as 22.” (The little-known heart attack that’s striking ‘fit and healthy’ women as young as 22, New York Post)

Got that? So –according to the Post– it’s perfectly normal for a fit 22 year-old to be struck-dead by a heart attack. Do you think, perhaps, the author is trying to soften attitudes towards vaccine-induced injuries before they hit us like a ton of bricks? Indeed, he is, just like the article in the Times of India about celebrity superstar and fitness nut, Puneeth Rajkumar, who died just days ago from cardiac arrest. He was 46. According to The Times of India:

Rajkumar’s sudden death has once again highlighted the perils many in their 30s and 40s are facing today, which is the increasing risk of heart ailments and cardiac arrests….(Rajkumar) suffered from a massive cardiac ailment while he was exercising in the gym. Known to be overtly fit and healthy, Rajkumar used to workout often…

There’s been a shocking rise in the number of cardiac arrests being observed amongst those in their early ages, or even their 20s. While heart ailments and cardiac arrests were generally taken to be an ‘old people’s condition’, that’s no longer the case, and now a warning sign doctors urge people to be critically aware of. …

Because of the pandemic, doctors have also stressed that the concern for matters related to heart health have been pushed off, and it’s now more likely than before for people to suffer from silent heart attacks and cardiac arrests.”

(“Kannada actor Puneeth Rajkumar dies at 46, suffered from a serious cardiac arrest while working out”, Times of India)

Does it seem like the media has accepted its role as accomplice to mass extermination or is that an exaggeration?

In any event, we can expect to see a deluge of similar articles popping up everywhere in the near future. Articles like this:

“Physical activity may increase heart attack risk, study suggests– New findings do not outweigh health benefits of exercise, researchers emphasize”, The Irish Times

Or this:

“Heart attacks among youngsters on the rise” The Hindu

Or this:

“Heart attack instances rose in 2021 with age no bar; here’s what led to it“, cnbctv18

marsh · Nov 12, 2021

Part 3 of 3

Can you see what’s going on? These cookie cutter articles were all concocted with the same goal in mind, to hoodwink the public into believing that the extraordinary wave of deaths among healthy young people is completely normal.

(“Nothing to see here. Move along.”) But, of course, none of this is normal. It’s all appallingly weird and shocking which is why we are so focused on excess deaths and all-cause mortality. Because, we think, these will provide the evidence we need to show that the vaccine is a critical part of the elite’s depopulation agenda aimed at slashing global population by billions of people. We still believe that’s what’s really going on. The big money guys have decided to eradicate a few billion of us cockroaches so they have more room to park their Learjets.

As it happens, they settled on the vaccine as a “less messy” alternative to mowing us down in the streets with machine guns. Not that they’d lose any sleep over it.

So, how’s the plan going, you ask? Check it out:

“According to all-cause mortality statistics, the number of Americans who have died between January 2021 and August 2021 is 18% higher than the average death rate between 2015 and 2019.”

And here’s a clip from an article that extracted its data from more divers reseach.

Take a look:

“Is the COVID Jab Responsible for Excess Deaths?…

Matthew Crawford of the Rounding the Earth Newsletter, examined mortality statistics before and after the rollout of the COVID shots… Crawford goes on to look at data from countries that have substantial vaccine uptake while simultaneously having very low rates of COVID-19. This way, you can get a better idea as to whether the COVID jabs might be responsible for the excess deaths, as opposed to the infection itself.

He identified 23 countries that fit this criteria, accounting for 1.88 billion individuals, roughly one-quarter of the global population….. Crawford goes through a number of adjustments to remove outliers that might skew the data sets,(but) after removing nations with more than 100 COVID deaths per million before their vaccination program, he came up with 13 countries with a combined population of 354 million.…

Remarkably, though, the number of COVID deaths in these 13 countries is 11.61 times higher post-vaccination, compared to before the jabs were rolled out. In five of the 13 countries, a whopping 90% of their COVID-19 fatalities have been logged after their vaccination campaigns began.

“On face, these results reinforce the case that the experimental vaccines are killing people,” Crawford writes. “At the very least, this is one more dramatic safety signal that should spur authorities who care about our health to come to the table for a discussion about how to refine the data they’re not analyzing to anyone’s knowledge …” (“Are The COVID Jabs Responsible For Rising Mortality Trends?” Mercola.com)

Interesting, eh? So, if you take the countries where there’s not much virus, and inoculate a ton of people anyway, then you can really see how many people are being killed by the vaccine. At least 10-times as many!

In contrast– in countries where there’s alot of viral spread– the damaging effects of the vaccine are much less visible. But no matter how you cut it, the spike protein erodes the body’s vital infrastructure weakening the vascular system, killing healthy cells and mitochondria, depleting the killer lymphocytes, and short-circuiting the immune system. The knock-on effects of this ferocious attack can be any of the myriad ailments that inevitably evolve from a pathogen-ravaged circulatory system, including cardiac arrest, stroke, pulmonary embolism, autoimmunity and a host of others. At present, heart attacks appear to top the list. Check out this brief post by Dr Peter McCullough:

The world is now witnessing a pandemic of N-STEMI heart attacks caused by blood clots

A certain type of heart attack is on the rise around the world. Healthcare professionals in Scotland have seen a sharp uptick in a potentially fatal type of heart attack called an N-STEMI attack. This condition is the result of partially blocked arteries that cut off the blood supply to the heart. It presents less tissue damage than a regular STEMI attack but can be equally fatal…. Cases of STEMI attacks have remained stable for years, (but) have recently spiked… Over the summer, the hospital had to increase its number of cardiology beds by 44 percent, as front line healthcare workers dealt with an increased demand of heart attack patients….

A pandemic of heart attacks that is brought on by a cytotoxic injection that inflicts damage on its victims whether they die or not. Is that an accurate summary of the Covid-19 vaccine?

It is. Here’s more from The Expose:

“Data available from the Centre for Disease Control in the USA shows that since the Covid-19 vaccination programme got underway in the US, deaths due to ‘abnormal clinical findings not elsewhere classified’ have increased exponentially compared to pre-Covid-19 vaccination levels…

Deaths in this category include cases for which no more specific diagnosis could be made…or symptoms were hard to determine… or cases were referred elsewhere.)

“…the number of deaths due to abnormal clinical findings … maintained a steady average of just over 1,000 a week since February 2020, and was also at these levels prior to the alleged pandemic hitting the USA. However, around the end of March / early April 2021 there was a sudden uptick in the number of abnormal deaths registered per week, suddenly climbing … to over 7,000 a week by the middle of September, representing a 600% increase on the average seen every week prior to the start of the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out.

The question of course is, why?

…The one thing that millions of people have in common since abnormal deaths began to rise against the expected average, is that millions of people have been given an experimental injection, for which there is no long term safety data to know what the consequences of that will be.

The official CDC data suggests that the consequences of a mass experimental vaccination roll-out are a shockingly steep rise in the number of deaths due to abnormal unidentified causes…” (“Investigation: Official CDC data shows a shockingly large increase of deaths due to abnormal mystery causes since Covid-19 Vaccinations began”, The Expose)

The article is consistent with the many stories we have heard from nurses reporting on patients presenting with unusual ‘oddball’ symptoms that elude traditional diagnosis. This should not be surprising given the unique properties of the spike protein whose stealthy attack on the vascular system has already touched off a tsunami of cardiovascular, neurological and immunological diseases unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. All of these deaths can be traced back to a “poison-death shot” that is relentlessly pushing all-cause mortality higher while killing people that are younger and younger. If you doubt this, then take a look at how many athletes are dropping dead shortly after they’ve been injected. It’s a story that’s bound to depress the hell out of any normal human being.

See here– “SURGE OF SPORTS PEOPLE WORLDWIDE SUFFERING UNEXPECTED ILL HEALTH”, Not The Beeb.com

Also, check out this illuminating 2-minute video dealing with cardiac arrest and our phony vaccine injury reporting system. (VAERS)

Dr. Mike Yeadon summarized recent developments in a comment he posted on the Morningstar Channel just last week. He said:

“There’s no logical end game … but totalitarian tyranny… and mass depopulation… Some colleagues agree with the tyranny part, but balk at depopulation. (But) The evidence points firmly to it.”

Indeed, it does.

marsh · Nov 12, 2021

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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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Empty Promises, Softened Language, And Demands For Climate Reparations: COP26 Ends In Hypocritical Whimper

FRIDAY, NOV 12, 2021 - 02:40 PM
Negotiations at the UN climate conference in Glasgow are expected to bleed over into the weekend, as countries craft a new draft agreement which - so far, includes softened language 'requesting' (but not 'urging') that nations come back to the drawing board in one year with better climate-action plans for 2030. Bloomberg describes the softened language as a "get-out clause."

Activists are sure to be pissed.

Good luck with that
Other changes include a closely watched line on fossil fuels and coal - which was changed to phasing out "unabated coal" instead of "consigning coal to history" after China and other countries voiced their displeasure.

Next, negotiations hit an impasse over the global carbon market Thursday, with countries disagreeing on how to account for emissions credits sold around the world.

...the risk is that a weak deal would enshrine in the system rules so loose that they could end up allowing for emissions to rise rather than fall.

Talks on carbon trading collapsed in 2019 at the last round of climate talks in Madrid, with Brazil and the European Union at loggerheads on topics including how to avoid counting the same emissions reductions twice. Those accounting issues remain a stumbling block, and other obstacles have also emerged during talks in Glasgow. -Bloomberg

Meanwhile, 'vulnerable countries' have railed against Friday's proposed draft - saying they need a more ambitious deal on climate reparations from rich nations responsible for global warming, in order to handle costs from 'worsening storms, droughts and rising sea levels.'

The new draft balances the demands of smaller nations and the world's biggest polluters whose economies rely on fossil fuels. As Reuters notes, some countries say the draft would just barely maintain the Paris Agreement's cap on global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the limit at which climate scientists claim the most severe impacts would be averted, however the draft asks countries to 'upgrade' their climate targets in 2022 in order to reach the goal.

The COP26 conference has so far not delivered enough emissions-cutting pledges to nail down the 1.5C goal, so the draft asked countries to upgrade their climate targets in 2022.

However, it couched that request in weaker language than a previous draft, and failed to offer the rolling annual review of climate pledges that some developing countries have pushed for.

It said the upgrade of climate pledges should take into account "different national circumstances", a phrase likely to please some developing countries, which say the demands on them to quit fossil fuels and cut emissions should be lower than on developed economies. -Reuters

"If the text that is currently on the table withstands the battering that it may get - yes, we are holding on by our fingernails," said Grenada climate minister Simon Stiell after being asked if the latest proposal maintained the temperature target.

According to the draft, the world must cut carbon dioxide emissions from oil, gas and coal by 45% by 2030, and to net zero by 2050, in order to hit the 1.5C target.

Bitch better have my money (or else?)

Poorer COP26 attendees are reportedly 'furious' that wealthy nations have yet to fulfill a 12-year-old pledge to give $100 billion per year by 2020 to help them ~~line their elites' pockets~~ cut emissions and adapt to climate impacts. The draft expressed "deep regret" at the missed target which rich nations now expect to meet in 2023, but offered no solutions to make sure the money materializes - just that rich nations should double the funding they currently set aside for poor countries.

"Loss and damage is too central for us to settle for workshops. We must strengthen action on loss and damage," according to Marshall Islands climate envoy Tina Stege.

In addition to the softened language on fossil fuels, the draft calls on nations to pledge to phase out "inefficient" subsidies for fossil fuels in general - changes in language which Arab nations had lobbied for, much to the chagrin of climate activists.

"The key line on phasing out coal and fossil fuel subsidies has been critically weakened," said Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International.

The United States and China - the world's two largest polluters, unveiled a deal on Wednesday that would see China strengthen its emissions-cutting targets.

Beijing has committed to "work jointly and with other parties to ensure a successful COP26 and to facilitate an outcome that is both ambitious and balanced."

Climate hypocrites
In a hilarious final note, a UK government report reveals that the carbon footprint for COP26 itself is expected to reach the equivalent of 102,500 tons of carbon dioxide - roughly equivalent to the amount of CO2 emitted annually by 10,000 UK households.

The document, compiled by sustainability consultant Arup, notes that some 60% of the emissions are related to international air travel of some 39,000 delegates who have taken part in the environmental crisis talks.

Other major sources of pollution are cited as accommodation for the delegates, ferrying of guests to and from the summit, and venue catering.
...
The last UN climate change summit in Madrid welcomed some 27,000 people and produced some 51,101 tonnes of carbon dioxide. Data suggest the COP summits have been gradually getting more polluting, with the 2009 COP15 in Copenhagen producing around 26,000. -RT

In short, nobody's going to be happy and that was a giant waste of time.

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marsh · Nov 12, 2021

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Pre-2020 Prices Are Gone Forever

FRIDAY, NOV 12, 2021 - 03:00 PM
Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com,

Price inflation is completely out of hand. You know this. Your dog knows it too.

Still, President Joe Biden wants you to believe he’s got it all under control. Last month, for example, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki insisted inflation is decreasing. What a crock!

That was about the time White House chief of staff Ron Klain – an absolute goober – endorsed Jason Furman’s claim that America’s inflation and supply chain problems only affect a small part of the U.S. population. Furman, a former Obama administration economist and economics professor at Harvard University, also tweeted that “most of the economic problems we’re facing … are high class problems.”

Ivory tower thinking like this has turned Washington into a land of idiots.

The elites are completely detached from reality. And their policies are wreaking havoc on working class and middle class Americans. We can’t change this. But we can revel in what it represents…

You see, one of the unspoken delights of the 21st century American experience is zeroing in on the precise moments when reality can no longer be covered up with lies. Like when America invaded Iraq and didn’t find weapons of mass destruction. Or when Fed Chair Ben S. Bernanke said impacts from problems in the subprime market were likely to be contained and then Lehman Brothers went belly-up.

This week price inflation attained this special status. Reports fabricated by government bean counters could no longer bury the truth.

On Tuesday, the Labor Department reported the producer price index (PPI), which measures wholesale prices, increased in October at an annual rate of 8.6 percent. Then, on Wednesday, the Labor Department reported the consumer price index (CPI) increased 6.2 percent in the last 12 months.

In truth, the CPI is rising at more than double the rate of what’s officially reported. Nonetheless, the fact that the official CPI was reported at 6.2 percent documents a moment when reality could no longer be covered up with lies.

Mark it on your calendar.

And what’s this…

Transitory for Longer
Is the Fed now changing its message on inflation?

Not quite. But in an effort to get ahead of this week’s disastrous PPI and CPI reports, the Fed did modify its inflation storyline. According to Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida, inflation is still transitory…only it’s transitory for longer.

“[T]he baseline outlook for inflation over the three-year projection window reflects the judgment, shared with many outside forecasters, that under appropriate monetary policy, most of the inflation overshoot relative to the longer-run goal of 2 percent will, in the end, prove to be transitory.”

This remark was made in a November 8 speech at the Symposium on Monetary Policy Frameworks. There, Clarida also provided his inflation forecast with the confidence of a weatherman predicting next week’s ambient temperatures…

The Fed prefers to use something called core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) inflation to the CPI. Clarida projects core PCE inflation to reach 3.7 percent in 2021 before dropping back to 2.3 percent in 2022, 2.2 percent in 2023, and 2.1 percent in 2024.

So, by 2025, core PCE inflation will be back in line with the Fed’s holy grail inflation rate of 2 percent. Thus inflation will be transitory for roughly three years. Clarida also followed up his forecast with two clarifications…

“Let me be clear on two points. First, realized PCE inflation so far this year represents, to me, much more than a ‘moderate’ overshoot of our 2 percent longer-run inflation objective, and I would not consider a repeat performance next year a policy success. Second, as always, there are risks to any outlook, and I and 12 of my colleagues believe that the risks to the outlook for inflation are to the upside.”

Indeed, the inflation barreling down the turnpike will be much greater and much more intense than the Fed anticipates. Here’s why…

Pre-2020 Prices are Gone Forever
Before 1965, U.S. quarters were made of 90 percent silver. But by the mid-1960s deficit spending had debased the dollar to the point where the silver content in the quarter was worth more than $0.25. Faced with the choice of tightening its belt or doing the expedient, Washington did what it always does…it did the expedient.

On July 23, 1965, President Johnson approved the Coinage Act of 1965, which removed silver from circulating coins. Reality could no longer be covered up with lies; a quarter dollar had been debased well beyond the value of its silver content.

After 1964, the quarter has been made of nickel and copper; these alloy tokens can be debased along with the debasement of the dollar. They are worth $0.25…and $0.25 progressively becomes worth less and less.
At the time of this writing, silver is priced at $25.23 per ounce. Based purely on its silver content – 6.25 grams or almost 1/5 an ounce – a pre-1965 quarter is currently worth about $5. In other words, pre-1965 quarters are now worth 2,000 percent more than today’s quarters.

Like the pre-1965 quarter, most other goods and services have been repriced relative to the dollar’s declining value. Moreover, pre-1965 prices are gone forever. They’re never coming back.

Make no mistake, the price inflation that’s underway is not transitory at all. Rather, it’s permanent. In fact, we believe a long-term mass repricing of materials, goods, and services, is now taking place.

Pre-2020 prices, much like pre-1965 prices, are gone forever. Deficits of $5.9 trillion over the 24 months ending September 30, 2021, and a Fed balance sheet expansion of nearly $5 trillion over the same period, have irrevocably damaged the entire pricing structure of the financial system and the economy.

Price inflation is on the move. Reality can no longer be covered up with Washington’s lies. We expect this episode of inflation will be one for the history books.

marsh · Nov 12, 2021

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White House Debates Immediate, 'Radical' Action To Lower US Energy Prices

FRIDAY, NOV 12, 2021 - 09:25 AM

The Biden administration is actively debating whether to immediately intervene to lower US energy prices, rather than letting markets ride and hope they settle, as the 'most popular president in history' grapples with soaring inflation amid trade and foreign policy matters, according to Bloomberg.

A pipeline carries oil at the US strategic petroleum reserve facility known as Big Hill near Beaumont, TX
While White House aides have reportedly been lobbying to release the nation's Strategic Petroleum reserve - or even halting oil exports, several Energy Department officials have pushed back.

For several weeks, a small group of top Biden aides has discussed measures to bring down the cost of gasoline, according to people familiar with the matter. Consensus has so far been elusive, with some Energy Department officials pushing back against tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve while White House aides lobby for a release, or the even more radical step of halting oil exports, the people said.

With gasoline at a seven-year high and the US consumer price index hitting a multi-decade high this week, the Biden administration is stuck between trying to boost fuel production to bring down costs, while showing the world how 'green' his administration is while the UN climate conference in Glasgow winds down.

"It’s decision time for the Biden administration," according to Bob McNally, president of consultant Rapidan Energy Group and a former White House official under President George W. Bush.

Those running the show include White House Chief of Staff 'President' Ron Klain, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, head of the National Economic Council Brian Deese, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and her deputy, David Turk, and finally, energy expert Amos Hochstein who was hired earlier this year to work at the State Department.

Earlier this week, Biden directed the National Economic Council to 'pursue means to try to further reduce' energy costs, while asking the FTC to 'strike back at any market manipulation or price gouging in this sector.'

According to Bloomberg's anonymous source, Deese and others are worried more about the economic impact of high inflation and want to deploy extreme measures. Turk, however, has argued against tapping into the strategic reserves, pointing to US forecasts which point to an oil surplus in early 2022.

The State Department is also reportedly against banning exports because it could damage international relationships with countries it's trying to mend fences with following several years of trade disputes under the Trump administration.

The discussion comes after failed efforts to convince the Saudis, Russia, and other influential OPEC+ members to pump more oil. OPEC+ instead told America to pound sand, after which the Biden administration began debating other options.

Administration officials hope to design a “mechanism” in the next few days that Biden can use to bring oil prices down, according to people familiar with the talks. They cautioned that the president has yet to make a final decision and could still decide against any intervention.

But if he does act, the mechanism is likely to include the simultaneous use of several tools and allow a response that would be calibrated according to the reaction of the oil market. -Bloomberg

The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve - the most obvious option, is an underground store of more than 600 million barrels of oil. According to the report, oil traders believe the Biden administration needs to release a minimum of 30 million barrels from the SPR, which would equal roughly one month's worth of oil imports from OPEC+ nations.

"The U..S could arrange a total effective SPR release of 45-60 million barrels by bringing forward next year’s 20 million barrels of mandated SPR sales, coupled with additional barrels on an exchange basis," said Citigroup oil analyst Ed Morse, an energy official during the 1970s oil crisis.

White House officials are also looking at how to ease regulatory burdens on US refiners in order to boost production, such as relaxing mandates to mix gasoline with biofuels - a move which would be sure to roil the farming lobby over the reduction in biofuels such as ethanol, which is derived from corn.

"Altering biofuels regulations is a foolproof approach to lowering pump prices, but perhaps less effective from a splashy public relations angle," said RBC Capital Markets commodities strategist, Helima Croft, a former CIA analyst.

Export restrictions would apply to either crude oil or gasoline - an option floated by Democratic Senators including Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey of Massachusetts.

In recent months, the US has exported nearly 3 million barrels per day, more than Kuwait produces. To halt or restrict shipments now would cause chaos in the global energy markets, vs. tapping into the strategic reserve.

"SPR release and export bans are less effective policies for tackling high gasoline prices, but highly effective from a publicity perspective," said Croft.

Whatever happens, Greta will not be happy.

marsh · Nov 12, 2021

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World's Largest Meat Company Warns Labor Shortages "Holding Back Production"

FRIDAY, NOV 12, 2021 - 07:42 AM

The latest CPI figures from the U.S. this week showed meat prices are rocketing higher. Consumers are wondering when will rapid food inflation end. The world's largest meat processor warned that labor shortages are crimping production growth, pushing prices higher, according to Bloomberg.

Brazilian company JBS S.A. has meat processing plants worldwide. One of its challenges is labor shortages in every developed country, resulting in limited production and increasing costs.

On Thursday, Andre Nogueira, head of JBS SA's U.S. division, said the problem is most severe Stateside as labor shortages are expected to persist into the new year. He said the lack of workers also impacts operations in Europe, Canada, and Australia.

"Labor shortages are holding back production growth," Nogueira said. "This is a key issue for the industry." He added the shortages weren't cutting into current production capacity, but the lack of workers inhibits the company's ability to expand output if needed.

"JBS USA has a full team in pork and beef operations, though that doesn't mean his division is delivering the same level of production using a similar number of employees as in the past," Nogueira said, adding that workers are opting out of weekend shifts.

Earlier this week, JBS reported earnings and posted third-quarter net income that topped analysts' expectations due to the strengthening U.S. meat market and increasing exports to China. However, the company harped on the issue of rising operation costs due to labor woes and higher commodity prices.

Elsewhere, Nogueira said JBS controlled companies in the U.K. faced a shortage of workers and truck drivers. "It's a structural adjustment in the meat industry," he explained.

News that meat prices are rising comes as global food inflation hits fresh decade highs. Simultaneously, U.S. Consumer prices increase at the fastest rate in 40 years, partially due to soaring food prices.

In return, soaring inflation, if that's food, energy, shelter, and vehicles, fuels a period of discontent among Americans that are showing up in presidential polling data.

For now, meat prices are likely to stay elevated as the world's largest processor has no wiggle room to increase output due to labor woes. So much for "transitory" inflation. Expect to pay some of the highest food costs in more than a decade this holiday season.

[COMMENT: See, you won't eat meat because it is too expensive. Heat will be scarce and property costs high, so you will live in rented tiny multi-person housing. It is just like the WEF promised. You will like living this way because the new virtual tech will create a world you can realistically pretend to live in, which is better -sort of like the Matrix, or the opium dens of yore.]

marsh · Nov 12, 2021

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COP-Out? Global Climate Plans Fall Short

FRIDAY, NOV 12, 2021 - 04:15 AM
Greta's gonna be really mad...

Despite many national governments apparently recognising the urgency of the climate situation at the COP26 summit, Statista's Martin Armstrong points out that new estimates from Climate Action Tracker suggest that the 2030 pledges made will still result in a global mean temperature increase of 2.4°C by 2100 - which is reportedly 'dangerously higher' than the 1.5°C target formalized by the Paris Agreement.

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Even in the best-case scenario, a temperature of 1.8°C is forecast (with lower and upper estimates of 1.5 and 2,4, respectively). As detailed in the report:

"Policy implementation on the ground is advancing at a snail’s pace. Under current policies, we estimate end-of-century warming to be 2.7°C. While this temperature estimate has fallen since our September 2020 assessment, major new policy developments are not the driving factor. We need to see a profound effort in in all sectors, in this decade, to decarbonise the world to be in line with 1.5°C".

As the climate summit draws to close in Scotland, Climate Action Tracker warns that:

"2030 actions and targets are more often than not inconsistent with net zero goals, so that the gap between current policies and net zero goals is now 0.9°C. This, we consider, is the credibility gap that Glasgow needs to address."

Well, it appears, they didn't! But hey, there's always the next Climate Summit (if humanity still exists then).

marsh · Nov 12, 2021

[COMMENT: Yep, see! - the Matrix]

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The Metaverse Is Big Brother In Disguise: Freedom Meted Out By Technological Tyrants

THURSDAY, NOV 11, 2021 - 11:40 PM
Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

“The term metaverse, like the term meritocracy, was coined in a sci fi dystopia novel written as cautionary tale. Then techies took metaverse, and technocrats took meritocracy, and enthusiastically adopted what was meant to inspire horror.”
- Antonio García Martínez

Welcome to the Matrix (i.e. the metaverse), where reality is virtual, freedom is only as free as one’s technological overlords allow, and artificial intelligence is slowly rendering humanity unnecessary, inferior and obsolete.

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, sees this digital universe—the metaverse—as the next step in our evolutionary transformation from a human-driven society to a technological one.

Yet while Zuckerberg’s vision for this digital frontier has been met with a certain degree of skepticism, the truth—as journalist Antonio García Martínez concludes—is that we’re already living in the metaverse.

The metaverse is, in turn, a dystopian meritocracy, where freedom is a conditional construct based on one’s worthiness and compliance.

In a meritocracy, rights are privileges, afforded to those who have earned them.

There can be no tolerance for independence or individuality in a meritocracy, where political correctness is formalized, legalized and institutionalized. Likewise, there can be no true freedom when the ability to express oneself, move about, engage in commerce and function in society is predicated on the extent to which you’re willing to “fit in.”

We are almost at that stage now.

Consider that in our present virtue-signaling world where fascism disguises itself as tolerance, the only way to enjoy even a semblance of freedom is by opting to voluntarily censor yourself, comply, conform and march in lockstep with whatever prevailing views dominate.

Fail to do so—by daring to espouse “dangerous” ideas or support unpopular political movements—and you will find yourself shut out of commerce, employment, and society: Facebook will ban you, Twitter will shut you down, Instagram will de-platform you, and your employer will issue ultimatums that force you to choose between your so-called freedoms and economic survival.

This is exactly how Corporate America plans to groom us for a world in which “we the people” are unthinking, unresistant, slavishly obedient automatons in bondage to a Deep State policed by computer algorithms.

Science fiction has become fact.
Twenty-some years after the Wachowskis’ iconic film, The Matrix, introduced us to a futuristic world in which humans exist in a computer-simulated non-reality powered by authoritarian machines—a world where the choice between existing in a denial-ridden virtual dream-state or facing up to the harsh, difficult realities of life comes down to a blue pill or a red pill—we stand at the precipice of a technologically-dominated matrix of our own making.

We are living the prequel to The Matrix with each passing day, falling further under the spell of technologically-driven virtual communities, virtual realities and virtual conveniences managed by artificially intelligent machines that are on a fast track to replacing human beings and eventually dominating every aspect of our lives.

In The Matrix, computer programmer Thomas Anderson a.k.a. hacker Neo is wakened from a virtual slumber by Morpheus, a freedom fighter seeking to liberate humanity from a lifelong hibernation state imposed by hyper-advanced artificial intelligence machines that rely on humans as an organic power source.

With their minds plugged into a perfectly crafted virtual reality, few humans ever realize they are living in an artificial dream world.

Neo is given a choice: to take the red pill, wake up and join the resistance, or take the blue pill, remain asleep and serve as fodder for the powers-that-be.

Most people opt for the blue pill.

In our case, the blue pill—a one-way ticket to a life sentence in an electronic concentration camp—has been honey-coated to hide the bitter aftertaste, sold to us in the name of expediency and delivered by way of blazingly fast Internet, cell phone signals that never drop a call, thermostats that keep us at the perfect temperature without our having to raise a finger, and entertainment that can be simultaneously streamed to our TVs, tablets and cell phones.

Yet we are not merely in thrall with these technologies that were intended to make our lives easier. We have become enslaved by them.

Look around you. Everywhere you turn, people are so addicted to their internet-connected screen devices—smart phones, tablets, computers, televisions—that they can go for hours at a time submerged in a virtual world where human interaction is filtered through the medium of technology.

This is not freedom. This is not even progress.

This is technological tyranny and iron-fisted control delivered by way of the surveillance state, corporate giants such as Google and Facebook, and government spy agencies such as the National Security Agency.

So consumed are we with availing ourselves of all the latest technologies that we have spared barely a thought for the ramifications of our heedless, headlong stumble towards a world in which our abject reliance on internet-connected gadgets and gizmos is grooming us for a future in which freedom is an illusion.

Yet it’s not just freedom that hangs in the balance. Humanity itself is on the line.
If ever Americans find themselves in bondage to technological tyrants, we will have only ourselves to blame for having forged the chains through our own lassitude, laziness and abject reliance on internet-connected gadgets and gizmos that render us wholly irrelevant.

Indeed, we’re fast approaching Philip K. Dick’s vision of the future as depicted in the film Minority Report. There, police agencies apprehend criminals before they can commit a crime, driverless cars populate the highways, and a person’s biometrics are constantly scanned and used to track their movements, target them for advertising, and keep them under perpetual surveillance.

Cue the dawning of the Age of the Internet of Things (IoT), in which internet-connected “things” monitor your home, your health and your habits in order to keep your pantry stocked, your utilities regulated and your life under control and relatively worry-free.

The key word here, however, is control.

In the not-too-distant future, “just about every device you have—and even products like chairs, that you don’t normally expect to see technology in—will be connected and talking to each other.”

By the end of 2018, “there were an estimated 22 billion internet of things connected devices in use around the world… Forecasts suggest that by 2030 around 50 billion of these IoT devices will be in use around the world, creating a massive web of interconnected devices spanning everything from smartphones to kitchen appliances.”

As the technologies powering these devices have become increasingly sophisticated, they have also become increasingly widespread, encompassing everything from toothbrushes and lightbulbs to cars, smart meters and medical equipment.

It is estimated that 127 new IoT devices are connected to the web every second.

This “connected” industry has become the next big societal transformation, right up there with the Industrial Revolution, a watershed moment in technology and culture.

Between driverless cars that completely lacking a steering wheel, accelerator, or brake pedal, and smart pills embedded with computer chips, sensors, cameras and robots, we are poised to outpace the imaginations of science fiction writers such as Philip K. Dick and Isaac Asimov. (By the way, there is no such thing as a driverless car. Someone or something will be driving, but it won’t be you.)

These Internet-connected techno gadgets include smart light bulbs that discourage burglars by making your house look occupied, smart thermostats that regulate the temperature of your home based on your activities, and smart doorbells that let you see who is at your front door without leaving the comfort of your couch.

Nest, Google’s suite of smart home products, has been at the forefront of the “connected” industry, with such technologically savvy conveniences as a smart lock that tells your thermostat who is home, what temperatures they like, and when your home is unoccupied; a home phone service system that interacts with your connected devices to “learn when you come and go” and alert you if your kids don’t come home; and a sleep system that will monitor when you fall asleep, when you wake up, and keep the house noises and temperature in a sleep-conducive state.

The aim of these internet-connected devices, as Nest proclaims, is to make “your house a more thoughtful and conscious home.” For example, your car can signal ahead that you’re on your way home, while Hue lights can flash on and off to get your attention if Nest Protect senses something’s wrong. Your coffeemaker, relying on data from fitness and sleep sensors, will brew a stronger pot of coffee for you if you’ve had a restless night.

Yet given the speed and trajectory at which these technologies are developing, it won’t be long before these devices are operating entirely independent of their human creators, which poses a whole new set of worries. As technology expert Nicholas Carr notes, “As soon as you allow robots, or software programs, to act freely in the world, they’re going to run up against ethically fraught situations and face hard choices that can’t be resolved through statistical models. That will be true of self-driving cars, self-flying drones, and battlefield robots, just as it’s already true, on a lesser scale, with automated vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers.”

For instance, just as the robotic vacuum, Roomba, “makes no distinction between a dust bunny and an insect,” weaponized drones will be incapable of distinguishing between a fleeing criminal and someone merely jogging down a street. For that matter, how do you defend yourself against a robotic cop—such as the Atlas android being developed by the Pentagon—that has been programmed to respond to any perceived threat with violence?

Moreover, it’s not just our homes and personal devices that are being reordered and reimagined in this connected age: it’s our workplaces, our health systems, our government, our bodies and our innermost thoughts that are being plugged into a matrix over which we have no real control.

It is expected that by 2030, we will all experience The Internet of Senses (IoS), enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), 5G, and automation. The Internet of Senses relies on connected technology interacting with our senses of sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch by way of the brain as the user interface. As journalist Susan Fourtane explains:

Many predict that by 2030, the lines between thinking and doing will blur. Fifty-nine percent of consumers believe that we will be able to see map routes on VR glasses by simply thinking of a destination… By 2030, technology is set to respond to our thoughts, and even share them with others… Using the brain as an interface could mean the end of keyboards, mice, game controllers, and ultimately user interfaces for any digital device. The user needs to only think about the commands, and they will just happen. Smartphones could even function without touch screens.

In other words, the IoS will rely on technology being able to access and act on your thoughts.

Fourtane outlines several trends related to the IoS that are expected to become a reality by 2030:

1: Thoughts become action: using the brain as the interface, for example, users will be able to see map routes on VR glasses by simply thinking of a destination.
2: Sounds will become an extension of the devised virtual reality: users could mimic anyone's voice realistically enough to fool even family members.
3: Real food will become secondary to imagined tastes. A sensory device for your mouth could digitally enhance anything you eat, so that any food can taste like your favorite treat.
4: Smells will become a projection of this virtual reality so that virtual visits, to forests or the countryside for instance, would include experiencing all the natural smells of those places.
5: Total touch: Smartphones with screens will convey the shape and texture of the digital icons and buttons they are pressing.
6: Merged reality: VR game worlds will become indistinguishable from physical reality by 2030.

This is the metaverse, wrapped up in the siren-song of convenience and sold to us as the secret to success, entertainment and happiness.

It’s a false promise, a wicked trap to snare us, with a single objective: total control.

George Orwell understood this.
Orwell’s masterpiece, 1984, portrays a global society of total control in which people are not allowed to have thoughts that in any way disagree with the corporate state. There is no personal freedom, and advanced technology has become the driving force behind a surveillance-driven society. Snitches and cameras are everywhere. And people are subject to the Thought Police, who deal with anyone guilty of thought crimes. The government, or “Party,” is headed by Big Brother, who appears on posters everywhere with the words: “Big Brother is watching you.”

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, total control over every aspect of our lives, right down to our inner thoughts, is the objective of any totalitarian regime.

The Metaverse is just Big Brother in disguise.

marsh · Nov 12, 2021

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CLUSTER**** NATION – BLOGNovember 12, 2021

The Recognition

The climate change agitation is based on a central grandiose fallacy of our wobbling technocratic age: the idea that if you can measure enough stuff, you can control it. The master-wish in this case is what, exactly? To control the weather? (Which we might define as the day-to-day expression of the planet’s climate?) That ain’t gonna happen. In case you haven’t noticed, the business model of industrial civilization is already broken, and many of its dazzling tricks with it. And, anyway, the earth’s climate is forever and always changing, as is the adaptive response to it by human populations over the centuries, sometimes slowly and sometimes fast.

So, the net result of this year’s Glasgow Climate Summit is to pledge gobs of money from the “rich” nations to protect the poor nations, while mandating the reduction of oil, natgas, and coal in all nations, i.e., the global economy. Apropos of those “rich” nations, guess what: all of our modern money rests on promises to deliver future volumes of energy (and products of value made from it) and those promises are without basis in reality, so the money itself is increasingly worthless. Thus, the cost of getting that future energy exceeds the promises embedded in the money based on the energy. How’s that for a paradox? We’re the proverbial snake eating its own tail and now we’ve bitten off more than we can swallow.

We’re going to use less energy whether Klaus Schwab (and the Persian cat in his lap) likes it or not because our money is increasingly no good, which translates into a general loss of mojo for this round of civilization. The massive matrix of mutually self-reinforcing activities is seizing up — the mining, making, harvesting, and transport of stuff. That’s exactly what the “supply chain” melodrama is about. Of course, the Glasgow Summit did allow a bunch of people to feel self-important, to bethink themselves morally superior, which is the status currency of our time — the brownie-point having more actual value than the dollar these days. It certifies the “good” people and validates their persecution of the “bad” people, which is the central political drama of our time. The reward is power for its own sake, which is — let’s face it — the essence of evil.

The collapse of the global economy is underway and working itself out as it will, and the fear associated with that epic loss of resources, goods, comforts, and conveniences is driving Western Civ batshit crazy. Hence, the lunacies around the Covid-19 virus, another measure-and-control mania. Except that most of the official measurements about Covid-19 are untrue, gamed, fudged, juggled, misrepresented, and weaponized for political purposes. In fact, despite all the obsessive-compulsive statistical measuring, everything that the public health officialdom and the medical establishment did to control the disease after January 2020, only made the pandemic worse and prolonged it.

And so now all those authorities are bent on “vaccinating” every last human — which is absolutely the last thing you would rationally do in the midst of the pandemic event, since it only provokes new iterations of the virus that are immune to the “vaccines.” What’s more, the “vaccines” are so ineffective in the first place, and so toxic in the second place, that the damage they cause is arguably worse than the disease. But that quandary affords another opportunity for the self-designated “good” people (the vaxxed) to distinguish themselves from the “bad” people (the unvaxxed), and hence another way to persecute them. (Do you suppose it’s a mere coincidence that the people who refuse to get agitated by the climate change panic are often the very same people skeptical of the “vaccines”?)

Another interesting paradox in this panorama of mind****ery is that the self-designated “good” people have behaved with uniform bad-faith and dishonesty throughout the long crisis — at least from RussiaGate through the current crusade to vax-up all the children — and that is what will change the game, probably soon. It happens that the leadership of the “good” people includes most of the figures in authority over the whole country: those public health officials like Dr. Fauci, the hospital directors who outlawed early treatment protocols, the pharma executives who buried their failed drug trials, the scientific journal publishers who killed reports that don’t support the “vaccine” narrative, the news-media editors and producers who can’t stop spinning lies, the Social Media totalitarian censors and cancellers, the tyrant mayors of New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, the “blue” state governors who destroyed small business with lockdowns and “passports,” the Woked-up state and federal bureaucrats ever preoccupied with covering their asses, the skulking managers behind the ectoplasmic “President Joe Biden” (and their handmaidens in Congress) — that Satanic host of coercion-meisters, inquisitionists, corporate despots, reputational executioners, moneygrubbers, political whores, and credentialed sadists trying to run your life — are headed for a fall.

They will fall because dishonesty undermines the entire scaffold of their “narrative.” All that’s required is for a crucial truth to assert itself unequivocally in the zeitgeist for the whole armature to fold. For instance, the truth that the “vaccines” are killing and maiming a lot of people. Or the truth that firing unvaxxed people from their jobs will drive them to hardship and revolt — even while it destroys the critical services that all people, “good” and “bad,” depend on, from the EMTs to the army. Or the truth that the crashing economy will disorder all the touchstones of daily life and require us to make big changes to remain civilized. That moment of recognition of how things have gone and where things are going is here. We’re in it. Yeats’s gyre has widened. We’re close to escape velocity. And then maybe we will begin again, walking in sunlight rather than darkness.

marsh · Nov 12, 2021

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Glenn: World Economic Forum’s 'Great Narrative’ is 'FREAKING TERRIFYING' (what tomorrow is going to look like)

Nov 12, 2021

Glenn Beck

The World Economic Forum just held a ‘Great Narrative’ meeting in Dubai, led by WEF founder Klaus Schwab. And this ‘Great Narrative’ could give world elites even more power to further their ‘Great Reset’ agenda. During the meeting, they called for the creation of a ‘story for the future’ to lead ‘humankind.’ Not only is this ‘freaking terrifying,’ Glenn says, but it’s the ‘SCARIEST thing he’s seen.’ You can find out more about the ‘Great Narrative’ — straight from the source — here: https://www.weforum.org/events/the-gr...

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The Great Narrative: A call to action

Speakers: Klaus Schwab, Freeke Heijman, Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Dambisa Moyo, Ngaire Woods
November 12, 202113:15 - 14:00CET
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Michigan pipeline shutdown could double gas prices: State Sen. Theis

Nov 12, 2021

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Michigan state Sen. Lana Theis discusses how the pipeline in her district would affect her constituents at the pump should it be shut down.

marsh · Nov 13, 2021

Psaki suggests Biden using high gas prices to push for ‘clean energy’

Apparently Biden and his White House team loves these high gas prices. According to Psaki today, the rise in gas prices helps make the case for clean energy or something: Psaki on skyrocketing gas …

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Apparently Biden and his White House team loves these high gas prices. According to Psaki today, the rise in gas prices helps make the case for clean energy or something:

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With an answer like that, it’s pretty clear why Joe Biden and his administration hasn’t really done a damn thing to help counter these high gas prices. They are enjoying it too much. They want them to be higher. They need them to be higher so they can push their anti-fossil fuel agenda.

Meanwhile, struggling Americans are getting buried under higher gas and food prices. But this administration doesn’t care about that. They just care about pushing their clean energy agenda. It’s disgusting.

marsh · Nov 13, 2021

Peter Thiel: Artificial General Intelligence Isn’t Happening

There’s no road to computers that think like people that wouldn’t take us through 24/7 computer surveillance first. Thiel says. Is that what we want?

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That whole transhumanist movement is slowing down, he told COSM 2021. But, he adds, What IS happening should sober us up a lotNEWS NOVEMBER 11, 2021
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In his talk yesterday at COSM 2021, venture capitalist and philanthropist Peter Thiel — the ultimate Silicon Valley insider, prophet, and sometimes needed gadfly — offered a cold shower for transhumanism, The Singularity, the computers we will supposedly merge with by 2030, and all that.

Peter Thiel at COSM 2021 on Artificial General Intelligence

Those things, he thinks, are uncertain. We should worry about what’s happening now in everyday time, to which, in his view, too few are paying heed: The growth of total AI-based surveillance and the disappearance of privacy.

Thiel considers arguments about whether computers that think like people will ever be developed to be “above his pay grade.” Given that he is reputed to be worth $3.7B dollars, that’s a polite way of saying that such arguments are a pleasant waste of time.

Always skeptical of buzzwords, he went on to say he hates the word “AI” (artificial intelligence):

AI is the worst buzzword out there. And one of the reasons it’s such a terrible buzzword is it can mean just about anything. So it can mean something about futuristic computer technology, the next generation of computers, the last generation of computers, and anything in between.

Or whatever. He pointed instead to today’s concerns: Specifically, surveillance AI, which involves “fairly dumb computers” whose real potency is that they “monitor us in all places and all times.” That will shift the balance of society away from civil liberties toward centralization, he warned:

You can think of the crackdown in China or Hong Kong, where you have facial recognition software. This is not futuristic, super, super smart AI, but it is sort of a next generation technology.

He told the gathering that he had been involved in the debate over artificial general intelligence for 20 years in Silicon Valley and “One of the things that I’m struck by [when] we talk about AGI in 2021 is how much less intense it’s become than it was six or seven years ago.”

He offered an anecdote: His venture capital firm had invested in DeepMind, best known for Deep Blue and AlphaGo, whose founder was Demis Hassabis. He asked Hassabis to speak at an investors’ meeting in 2012:

And it was, it was a very powerful speech. And, you know, one of the, one of the investors came up to me afterwards and said, “Wow, that was really incredible. I thought I had to shoot the speaker. This was the last chance to save the human race.

accurate facial recognition software detection technology. blur people with facial scan showing digital personal data and social credit

Facial recognition technology for surveillance

Waste of time. Not too long afterward, DeepMind was acquired by Google. Whether or not Google is running the world has been offered for debate but the machines aren’t. Or, for sure, not all by themselves.

Thiel offered another anecdote, this time featuring Elon Musk in, maybe, the fall of 2013:

One of my colleagues introduced Elon and Demis to each other and the conversation went something like this:

Demis: I’m working on the most important problem in the world. I’m working on superhuman intelligence.

Elon: Well, I’m working on the most important problem in the world. I’m working, making our species interplanetary. I’m going to Mars!

Then, Demis responded, Well, you know, my, my AI will be able to follow you to Mars.

And, and at that point, Elon was a little quiet.

Thiel thinks the acquisition of DeepMind by Google helped Google see itself as a futuristic company building the future. But apart from conquering games, he noted, “The energy has, you know, deintensified a great deal, where, you know, Elon doesn’t talk about it very much anymore”:

Elon doesn’t talk much about it anymore? That matters, in Thiel’s view:

And I think of him as — I don’t know, a hundred million or however many Twitter followers he has — like a weathervane for the zeitgeist. And he knows nobody cares. And so he doesn’t talk about it anymore.

And Larry Page?

You know, who was driving it at Google, sort of retired to Fiji or something like that at the end of 2019. And, as far as we can tell, doesn’t seem to care about it that much anymore.

He summed up: “Almost all the paths that lead to AGI, as it is currently conceived, go through giant organizations with giant databases, looking at people, modeling people, doing machine learning on people to build the AGI.

You need this sort of surveillance to get to the AGI. And of course the surveillance a AI has a sort of a creepy totalitarian undercurrent.”

Indeed. Before the computer does our thinking for us, if ever, we may have long since become afraid to think for ourselves.

You may also wish to read: Facebook (Meta) is strengthening, not dumping, facial recognition. They’re getting rid of the annoying parts but read the fine print. We are to be informed in due course what DeepFace is going to be used for in Zuckerberg’s new, admittedly sci-fi, Metaverse.

marsh · Nov 13, 2021

"No More Private Bank Deposits" - Biden's Radical Currency Nominee Wants All Bank Accounts To Be Controlled By The Fed | The Gateway Pundit | by ProTrumpNews Staff

Biden’s radical nominees continue to show their true colors.

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“No More Private Bank Deposits” – Biden’s Radical Currency Nominee Wants All Bank Accounts To Be Controlled By The Fed

By ProTrumpNews Staff
Published November 13, 2021 at 10:40am

Biden’s radical nominees continue to show their true colors.

Biden’s Marxist currency nominee Saule Omarova said that all private bank accounts should be taken over and controlled by the Federal Reserve.

Saule Omaraova is the most radical and extreme nominee ever pushed forward by a US president.

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Townhall reported:

In September President Joe Biden nominated Saule Omarova to become comptroller of the currency at the Department of Treasury. If confirmed, Omarova would be in charge of overseeing banking in the United States.

Omarova believes private bank accounts should be taken over and controlled by the Federal Reserve.

“Imagine what it would be like instead of just a public option for deposit banking, this would be actually the full transition. In other words, there would be no more private bank deposit accounts and all of the deposit accounts will be held directly at the fed,” Omarova said during recent remarks. “How is it politically feasible for the central bank to take money away from people’s accounts.”

Saule Omarova has come under fire for her prior comments praising the Soviet economy.

Fox News reported:

President Biden’s pick for Comptroller of the Currency has provoked sharp criticism for past and recent comments that praised the Soviet economy.

Biden on Sept. 23 nominated Saul Omarova, a law school professor at Cornell University, for the office responsible with the regulation and supervision of all national banks. Omarova’s nomination drew immediate pushback from powerful voices who criticized her background and past comments that indicated a favor for the policies of the USSR.

Omarova was born in the Soviet Union in what is now called Kazakhstan and graduated from Moscow State University in 1989. She has pointed to the USSR’s practices as recently as 2019, when she tweeted about the gender pay gap, citing the USSR as a better model.

Omarova was born in the Soviet Union in what is now called Kazakhstan and graduated from Moscow State University in 1989. She has pointed to the USSR’s practices as recently as 2019, when she tweeted about the gender pay gap, citing the USSR as a better model.
“Until I came to the US, I couldn’t imagine that things like gender pay gap still existed in today’s world,” Omarova wrote. “Say what you will about old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there. Market doesn’t always ‘know best.’”

She also refuses to hand over her thesis on Marxism she wrote.

Biden's Pick for Comptroller of the Currency, Born and Raised in Communist USSR, Won't Hand Over Her Thesis on Marxism Written When She Was in the USSR | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

Biden’s pick for Comptroller of the Currency was born and raised in communist USSR. Now she won’t hand over her university thesis on Marxism.

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vestige · Nov 13, 2021

I have to give Biden credit.

He has the homliest bastards working for him I have ever seen

marsh · Nov 13, 2021

Work from home is going permanent…

Mr. Wonderful Kevin O’Leary with Bill Maher last night — ‘They’re not coming back’ 72 percent of office workers have left Manhattan… …

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Mr. Wonderful Kevin O’Leary with Bill Maher last night — ‘They’re not coming back’

72 percent of office workers have left Manhattan…

marsh · Nov 13, 2021

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Glasgow Climate Summit Ends In Tears, Failure, And Kicking-The-Can On Commitments

SATURDAY, NOV 13, 2021 - 04:20 PM
The least-green climate summit in history ended in a huge win for coal - after India and China forced last minute language changes into the final text of the Glasgow Climate Pact to "Phase down" instead of "phase out" unabated coal power.

The language changes were introduced on Saturday night during the last half-hour of the final session, when India swooped with the demand, as well as adding a clause which reads "while providing targeted support to the poorest and the most vulnerable."

Specifically, the 197-nation pact would see parties commit to "escalating efforts to phase down unabated coal power and phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies while providing targeted support to the poorest and the most vulnerable in line with national circumstances and recognising the need for support towards a just transition."

Previously, the text read: "including accelerating efforts towards the phaseout of unabated coal power and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, recognising the need for support towards a just transition."

So - India and China just kicked the door back open on what was already going to be a near-impossible task to eliminate coal, and Western nations are now committed to 'targeted support' in the form of taxpayer dollars for poorer nations.

Bamboozled...
And while the beneficiaries of said changes took a victory lap, India said (with a straight face) that it would "call upon parties to escalate development and deployment" of green technologies and a transition towards lower energy use - while China issued an even less specific support for the call "according to what India, China, South Africa and Bolivia delegates, and like-minded countries and other developing countries, expressed [as] concerns."

If ever Greta should be pissed over 'empty words,' now's the time!

Tears of failure

In response to the last minute changes, COP26 president Alok Sharma offered his apologies, saying he was "deeply sorry" for how the event wrapped up.

"May I just say to all delegates I apologise for the way this process has unfolded and I am deeply sorry," he told the crowd, adding "I also understand the deep disappointment but I think as you have noted, it’s also vital that we protect this package."

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Switzerland was pissed - expressing its "profound disappointment as a result of intransparent process," adding "We do not need to phase down coal but to phase out coal."

The Swiss representative said the last-minute change to the wording on phasing out fossil fuel use would make it harder to reach the COP26 goal.

“This will not bring us closer to 1.5 but make it more difficult to reach it.”

Frans Timmermans, the EU envoy, said he was disappointed with the new phrasing: “The longer you take to phase out coal, the more burden you put on the natural environment and the more burden you put on your economy.” -FT

US climate envoy John Kerry simply 'had to go along with it.'

Commitment to signal maximum virtue

Aside from fancy pens, we're guessing, COP26 attendees return to their countries with a most serious task - kick the can down the road for now, then come back next year with plans to strengthen their 2030 emissions reductions targets.

Rich nations have the added bonus to "at least double" the amount of money they give developing countries in exchange for adapting to climate change.

As always, there are no specifics underpinning a commitment to transfer gobs of money from rich nations to poor.

marsh · Nov 13, 2021

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"What A Circus!" COP26 Climate Summit To Conclude With Plethora Of Hogwash Statements

SATURDAY, NOV 13, 2021 - 10:30 AM
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

Another climate summit is poised to end in comic failure. The final task is producing a meaningless set of statements every nation can agree with but not follow.

Deal Still Elusive
As COP26 enters its final day, a Deal is Still Elusive. Of course, a deal will be reached, but it will be as meaningless as the preceding 25.

Negotiators said a big gap remained between developed and developing countries over climate financing. Rich countries have committed to funneling money to poorer countries to help them move toward lower-emissions energy sources and protect themselves from the worst effects of climate change. Negotiators said gaps over the amount are still wide.

New Goal Put Off Until 2024

A draft text on climate finance circulated Thursday included a goal to channel $1.3 trillion annually, but a new draft released Friday deleted that language because of opposition, negotiators said, from the U.S., the European Union and other wealthy nations. Governments have agreed to hold a series of meetings to decide on a new goal in 2024, the new text says.

A well-known saying covers this.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can ~~do today~~ put off for many years.

Math Problem
Meanwhile, we have a math problem. Math is racist. Oh wait, I mean in addition to math being racist.

Officials have faced a fundamental math problem on emissions reductions. Ahead of the summit, called COP26, most of the world’s countries committed to emissions cuts, but they weren’t steep enough, scientists say, to limit temperature rises to well under 2 degrees Celsius—and preferably to 1.5 degrees—above preindustrial-era temperatures. Countries committed to this ambition at a similar summit in Paris in 2015, and a big goal for the Glasgow gathering is reaffirming and hardening that pledge.

Indecision, In or Out
Officials fixed the math problem the same way they fixed the issue with goals. Well, sort of, but not even that demanding.

To bridge the emissions gap, negotiators have inserted language in a draft text that requests [not requires] countries to update their commitments by the end of next year to encourage more cuts in the near future.

It is unclear whether such a move has enough support among key players to make it part of any final deal.

Good Lord, they are struggling to get text inserted that requests but does not even require any action.

Spotlight on Wordsmithing and Backtracking

At this stage in the summit’s final negotiations, talks are centered on often-technical wording or sensitivities over language by sometimes-small blocs of countries. An earlier draft circulated this week, for instance, called on the world to end subsidies for fossil fuel.

Negotiators who fought for that language hailed it as a success.

By Friday, the working draft called on winding down “inefficient” fossil-fuel subsidies, and one official involved in the talks said it is widely viewed by negotiators that any reference to a phaseout would ultimately drop out of the final text.

Support But No Commitment
The summit also provided a venue for a series of more limited moves, including a U.S.-led coalition that agreed to cut methane emissions.

In its joint statement with the U.S., China also promised to reduce methane emissions but stopped short of joining the coalition.

Bear in mind, commitments to developing nations made in 2009 are still not met.

And Trump pulled the US out of the highly touted Paris Accord Agreement of 2015 (COP21).

What a Circus
The final statement is sure to be a hoot. It will tout all the progress that it expects but does not require by 2024.

This was even more amusing than I expected.

marsh · Nov 13, 2021

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Iceland Unveils Meta-Challenging '-Verse' Where "Everything Is Real"

SATURDAY, NOV 13, 2021 - 07:35 AM
Inspired by Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse launch, Iceland has unveiled its own 'Icelandverse'...

The Icelandverse is unlike any other open-world experience with “-verse” in its name, because it’s real.

Plus, you don’t need a funny-looking VR headset.

'Chief Visionary Officer' Zack Mossbergsson...

also mirrors much of Mark Zuckerberg's often awkward unnatural on-camera performances.

Watch the pitch for 'Icelandverse' here...

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marsh · Nov 13, 2021

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Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism - The Grayzone

The titans of global capitalism are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems across the West. The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might have passed without notice had it not been part of...

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Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism

JEREMY LOFFREDO AND MAX BLUMENTHAL·OCTOBER 19, 2021

The titans of global capitalism are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems across the West.

The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might have passed without notice had it not been part of a more widespread trend.

Like 1.3 billion of her fellow Indians, Devi had been pushed to enroll in a biometric digital ID system called Aadhaar in order to access public services, including her monthly allotment of 25kg of rice. When her fingerprint failed to register with the shoddy system, Devi was denied her food ration. Throughout the course of the following three months in 2017, she was repeatedly refused food until she succumbed to hunger, alone in her home.

Premani Kumar, a 64-year-old woman also from Jharkhand, met the same demise as Devi, dying of hunger and exhaustion the same year after the Aadhaar system transferred her pension payments to another person without her permission, while cutting off her monthly food rations.

A similarly cruel fate was reserved for Santoshi Kumari, an 11-year-old girl, also from Jharkhand, who reportedly died begging for rice after her family’s ration card was canceled because it had not been linked to their Aadhaar digital ID.

These three heart-rending casualties were among a spate of deaths in rural India in 2017 which came as a direct result of the Aadhaar digital ID system.

With over one billion Indians in its database, Aadhaar is the largest biometric digital ID program ever constructed. Besides serving as a portal to government services, it tracks users’ movements between cities, their employment status, and purchasing records. It is a de facto social credit system that serves as the key entry point for accessing services in India.

Having branded Aadhaar’s creator, fellow billionaire Nandan Nilekani, as a “hero,” initiatives backed by tech oligarch Bill Gates have long sought to bring the “Aadhaar approach to other countries.” With the onset of the Covid-19 crisis, Gates and other mavens of the digital ID industry have an unprecedented opportunity to introduce their programs into the wealthy countries of the Global North.

For those yearning for an end to pandemic-related restrictions, credential programs certifying their vaccination against Covid-19 have been marketed as the key to reopening the economy and restoring their personal freedom. But the implementation of immunity passports is also accelerating the establishment of a global digital identity infrastructure.

As the military surveillance firm and NATO contractor Thales recently put it, vaccine passports “are a precursor to digital ID wallets.”

And as the CEO of iProove, a biometric ID company and Homeland Security contractor, emphasized to Forbes, “The evolution of vaccine certificates will actually drive the whole field of digital ID in the future. So, therefore, this is not just about Covid, this is about something even bigger.”

For the national security state, digital immunity passports promise unprecedented control over populations wherever such systems are implemented. Ann Cavoukian, the former privacy commissioner of Ontario, Canada has described the vaccine passport system already active in her province as “a new, inescapable web of surveillance with geolocation data being tracked everywhere.”

For tech oligarchs such Bill Gates and neoliberal institutions such as the World Economic Forum, digital ID and digital currency systems have already enabled the extraction of unbelievable profits in the Global South, where hundreds of millions of people remain “unbanked” and therefore outside the sphere of electronic payments systems.

Now, with grassroots protest building against an exclusionary regime of vaccine passports, the captains of global capitalism are campaigning with more urgency than ever to bring digital ID to the West.

For these elite interests, the digitization of immunity passports represent a critical tool in a long-planned economic and political transformation.

“With no Covid Pass, my wife and I are banished from society”
Across the globe, the certification of vaccination against COVID-19 is already a requirement to participate in daily life.

In Indonesia, COVID-19 vaccines are mandatory, and those who refuse may face fines or be refused access to public services. In Greece, residents must present immunity to work in or enter bars, theaters, and other indoor public spaces.

France has similarly required residents to carry a health pass for access to all restaurants, bars, trains, and any venue accommodating more than 50 people, a decision that has stoked widespread protests throughout the country. The socialist French former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon has blasted the new restrictions as “absurd, unfair and authoritarian.”

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Italy has mandated its Green Pass for all workers, threatening them with termination from jobs and suspension of pay. Italy also requires the pass to use Italian public transit. Scenes of private security over-enforcement of the Green Pass and the exclusion of Italy’s elderly from vital services have already begun to go viral on social media.

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Restrictions for Lithuanians who are not double vaccinated or unable to demonstrate recent prior infection from Covid-19 represent some of the harshest in the world. They are banned from restaurants, all non-essential stores, shopping centers, beauty services, libraries, banks or insurance agencies, universities, inpatient medical care, and train travel.

Gluboco Lietuva, a self-described “Lithuanian father” who has refused vaccination, stated on Twitter: “With no Covid Pass, my wife and I are banished from society. We have no income. Banned from most shopping. Can barely exist.”

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Four out of ten Canadian provinces currently require citizens to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 to enter indoor public venues like restaurants and theaters. All federal public servants and some other workers must be vaccinated to keep their jobs.

The government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also requires all air travelers and interprovincial train travelers to be vaccinated. Canada’s Alberta province took the measures a step further this September when it announced that those who cannot prove full COVID vaccination will no longer be allowed to socialize indoors in groups of more than 12.

In Israel, meanwhile, only those who have received three doses can work or shop indoors and go to restaurants; citizens who received two shots over six months ago are now considered unvaccinated. This rule has consolidated what even the New York Times has deemed a “two-tier system for the vaccinated and unvaccinated … raising legal, moral and ethical questions.”

In the US, President Joe Biden is “moving forward with vaccination requirements wherever [he] can.” Biden, who declared that his “patience is wearing thin” with unvaccinated Americans, recently announced new federal requirements mandating that about 80 million Americans – including all those who work at companies with more than 100 employees – must either be vaccinated or get tested for COVID-19 weekly.

Biden has also mandated that those working at facilities which receive Medicare or Medicaid must show proof of immunity to keep their jobs. According to AP, President Biden is considering proof of immunity for interstate travel, a restriction his former public health advisor, Ezekiel Emanuel, has clamored for.

In the state of Colorado, the UCHealth hospital system has announced that it will not allow organ transplants to be performed on unvaccinated patients, prompting some to travel to Texas for life-saving procedures.

New York City offers a glimpse of the program in store for the rest of the country. The city’s “Key to NYC” requirement, which went into effect September 13, requires proof of vaccination to work at or attend indoor dining, indoor fitness, and entertainment venues like museums, stadiums, arcades, and theaters.

“If you want to participate in our society fully, you’ve got to get vaccinated,” Mayor De Blasio stated. “[New York City] is a miraculous place literally full of wonders … if you’re un-vaccinated, unfortunately, you will not be able to participate.”

COVID-related mandates could be permanent
While outlets like CNN have referred to vaccine passports as a “useful, temporary measure,” it is increasingly evident that the proof of immunity restrictions imposed on Western populations may not go away any time soon.

Australia’s New South Wales Ministry of Health Dr. Kerry Chant has stated that citizens “need to get used to being vaccinated with COVID vaccines for the future… it will be a regular cycle of vaccination and revaccination.”

Albert Bourla, CEO of the Pfizer corporation that has seen its stock skyrocket during the pandemic, remarked that the “most likely scenario” is coronavirus vaccine shots mandated on an annual basis.

As a February Nature headline read, “the coronavirus is here to stay.” Or, as Dr. Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Health Emergency Program, put it: it is “very, very, unlikely” that COVID-19 will ever go away.

“Eradicating this virus right now from the world is a lot like trying to plan the construction of a stepping-stone pathway to the Moon,” said Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. “It’s unrealistic.”

“This is our life from now, in waves,” Israel’s Coronavirus Czar, Salman Zarka, acknowledged.

Already, Zarka has prepared plans to mandate a fourth dose for Israelis.

COVID mandates to be digitally enforced
While a state-mandated treadmill of boosters may seem unappealing to many, if not outright hellish, for others the nightmare presents the opportunity of a lifetime. As early as May 2020, only seven weeks after the pandemic was declared, US tech billionaire Bill Gates predicted that “eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it.”

Now, over a year later, a growing number of local and national governments require some form of digital proof of vaccination or natural immunity against COVID-19.

Those who want to travel to Canada, for example, are required to download an app that verifies the vaccination status of incoming travelers. The government also plans to introduce a federal, Canada-wide digital vaccine passport in the coming months.

When the European Union (EU) opened up to foreign tourists this summer, it introduced a “Digital COVID Certificate” which granted entry to those vaccinated against COVID-19, those who have had a negative test, or those who recently recovered from an infection. Its proposed “Digital Green Certificate” has been branded as a means to facilitate safe free movement inside the EU during the pandemic.

The government of France is partnering with a biometric technology company called IDEMIA to “make it easier for its citizens to prove their identity and complete online transactions using a smartphone.” The new app will “enable French citizens to place their national electronic identification cards [introduced to France as a COVID-19 response in August 2021] … on the back of their smartphones and have their identity instantly confirmed.” IDEMIA is also helping France certify travelers immunity data with their Health Travel Pass suite.

The US is still accepting paper vaccination records, and President Biden has insisted no national app is in the works. However, seven U.S. states (California, New York, Louisiana, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, and Hawaii) have already implemented apps certifying vaccination against COVID-19 and have various degrees of COVID-19 vaccine mandates in place.

ImmunaBand, a wearable wristband, whose company mission is “to bring the world a little closer in a time of the COVID-19 pandemic and for you to demonstrate to the world your vaccination status,” has also been approved by New York City as proof of vaccination.

“In typical American fashion, the US government is relegating the creation of digital vaccination certifications to the private sector,” stated the non-profit Data & Society.

Indeed, behind the push for digital vaccine passports is a coterie of supra-national neoliberal institutions guided by oligarchic tech industry donors.

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Part 2 of 2

Elite corporate interests behind digital COVID passports
Mega-corporations, international finance institutions, and billionaire-backed private foundations have played a vital role in lobbying for and implementing digital immunity passports.

The burgeoning global health passport system has been coordinated under the umbrella of the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO). However, this institution is so intertwined with wealthy private interests it can hardly be characterized as a “public” health body.

As former WHO director Margaret Chan told filmmaker Lilian Franck, “only 30 percent of my budget is predictable funds. The other 70 percent, I have to take a hat and go around the world to beg for money. And when they give us the money, [it] is highly linked to their preferences, what they like.”

Chief among those private funders is the second wealthiest man in the world, Bill Gates, and his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which happens to be the second largest donor to the WHO.

Bill Gates with World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom
The Gates Foundation recently helped fund a WHO paper providing “implementation guidance” for proof of vaccination certifications across the world. The authors crafted the paper alongside the Rockefeller Foundation and with guidance from several high-level representatives of the World Bank.

According to Foreign Affairs, “few policy initiatives or normative standards set by the WHO are announced before they have been casually, unofficially vetted by Gates Foundation staff.” Or, as other sources told Politico in 2017, “Gates’ priorities have become the WHO’s.”

Also at the forefront of the shift to digital credentials is the World Economic Forum (WEF). “The Forum is involved in the WHO task force to reflect on those [vaccine credential requirements] standards and think about how they would be used,” reads a May WEF article.

On paper, the WEF (also known as the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation) is an NGO and think tank “committed to improving the state of the world.” In reality, it is an international network of some of the wealthiest and most influential people on the planet. The Forum positions itself as the thought leader of global capitalism.

The organization is best known for its annual gathering of the global ruling class. Each year, hedge fund managers, bankers, CEOs, media representatives, and heads of state gather in Davos to “shape global, regional and industry agendas.”

As Foreign Affairs put it, “the WEF has no formal authority, but it has become the major forum for elites to discuss policy ideas and priorities.”

In 2017, German economist and WEF founder Klaus Schwab introduced the concept of “The Fourth Industrial Revolution” with the title of the book he published that year. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) denotes the current “technological revolution” that is changing the way people “live, work, and relate to one another,” and with implications “unlike anything humankind has experienced,” according to Schwab.

For him, the 4IR is the “merging of the physical, digital and biological worlds.”

Schwab has even said that the 4IR will inevitably veer into trans-humanism, or human genome editing.

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In January 2021, several WEF partners, including Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, and several other “heavyweights,” announced a partnership to launch the Vaccine Credential Initiative (VCI) to develop digital immunization authentication tools, according to Forbes.

Aiming to institute a single “SMART Health Card” for the world, the VCI intends for its SMART Health Cards to be recognized “across organizational and jurisdictional boundaries.”

In the US, some states are already deploying the SMART Health Cards developed by the VCI. These SMART Health Cards have laid the basis for a de-facto national standard for vaccine credentials.

“If enough states embrace the technology, it could become a de facto nationwide standard and relieve the Biden administration of having to lay out federal requirements for domestic purposes,” Politico noted.

The latest version of Apple’s iOS, iOS 15, even includes SMART Health Card support.

As of today, those who received a vaccine in California, Hawaii, Louisiana, New York, Virginia, or certain counties in Maryland can obtain a SMART Health Card from the state.

In most other states, a SMART Health Card is available to those who were vaccinated at one of more than 17,100 CVS, Walgreen’s, or Rite Aid pharmacy chains nationwide.

“More states, pharmacies, and health systems will begin issuing SMART Health Cards very soon,” promises the site of the Commons Project, one of the founders of the VCI initiative.

Commons Project CEO Paul Meyer happens to be a WEF “young leader.”

Commons Project CEO and World Economic Forum Young Leader Paul MeyerIn India, tech oligarchs use digital ID to force social credit on rural poor, spawning exclusion and even death

In 2015, The Gates Foundation provided seed money to a Yale School of Public Health project that would become known as Khushi Baby. Now a non-profit, Khushi Baby makes microchip-equipped necklaces for a child to wear at all times to track their vaccination status and establish continuous monitoring from their first immunizations through adulthood. The non-profit says it is now using data from over 35,000 villages in India to create algorithms that “predict health outcomes for mothers and children.”

marsh · Nov 13, 2021

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Federal Reserve Has Stolen Our Future

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In this video Dr Martenson breaks down the immense personal and institutional failures of the US Federal Reserve, connecting them broadly to the failures of the FDA, the CDC, NIH, Fauci and the mainstream media.

Why should you care? Because the imminent economic crisis that’s coming will be extremely damaging. It will have the same root as the many Covid policy failures; entrenched greed & corruption leading to extremely poor decisions that will cause a lot of pain for the most vulnerable in society. There’s no practical difference between Fauci’s “No treatments for you!” policies and Jerome Powell’s “No money for you (only the uber wealthy)!” policies. Both grievously harm the majority while benefiting the very few.

The wealthy will skate by, but mainly because they have feathered their own nests at the expense of everyone else. The extraordinarily regressive inflation tax combined with what can only be described as a purposeful decimation of the middle and lower socioeconomic classes is both a looming tragedy as well as indicative of a profound moral and ethical failure by Federal reserve staff and leadership.

Growing corruption is fingered as a principal contributor to the downfall of empires all throughout history and this time assuredly is not different.

This all connects to the probability that the current inflationary impulses and growling supply shocks will be handled equally poorly by si8mialrly conflicted and entrenched bureaucrats across the Americas and Europe. In Part I2 this connection is covered extensively.

Unbelievably Obvious Corruption https://www.wsj.com/articles/dallas-f... Federal Reserve Corrupt Through and Through https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl... Unhappy at Getting Caught, That Is https://news.yahoo.com/a-timeline-of-... Billionaires get 62% richer https://ips-dc.org/u-s-billionaires-6... The Middle Class & Minorities Were Crushed https://fortune.com/2020/09/28/covid-... Powell: Zero Integrity https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsev... Anatomy of an Obvious Fraud https://www.npr.org/templates/story/s... Fed Plan: Print more for Billionaires, Make You Pay More https://www.illinoispolicy.org/propos... How Many Cold Showers to Offset one Nautical Mile? https://www.boatinternational.com/bus...

marsh · Nov 14, 2021

Enemy of the People: Bloomberg Hack Tells Americans to Live More Like Europeans: Empty Shelves and Supply Chain Crisis 'Might Not be a Bad Thing' | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

Bloomberg ran an opinion piece this week running cover for the corrupt and incompetent Biden Regime’s supply chain crisis.

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Enemy of the People: Bloomberg Hack Tells Americans to Live More Like Europeans: Empty Shelves and Supply Chain Crisis ‘Might Not be a Bad Thing’

By Cristina Laila
Published November 13, 2021 at 10:20pm

Bloomberg ran an opinion piece this week running cover for the corrupt and incompetent Biden Regime’s supply chain crisis.

“Suddenly, Americans can’t spend like they used to. Store shelves are emptying, and it can take months to find a car, refrigerator or sofa.” Bloomberg said.

“If this continues, we may need to — gasp! — live more like the Europeans. That actually might not be a bad thing.”

“It’s become the conventional wisdom that the U.S. economy is built on Americans’ endless appetite to buy lots and lots of stuff. Household consumption makes up about 67% of GDP. When the economy falters, we’re told spending is our patriotic duty. But suddenly, Americans can’t spend like they used to. Store shelves are emptying, and it can take months to find a car, refrigerator or sofa. If this continues, we may need to learn to do without — and, horrors, live more like the Europeans. That actually might not be a bad thing, because the U.S. economy could be healthier if it were less reliant on consumption.” Bloomberg opinion writer Allison Schrager wrote.

Nearly 160 cargo ships are currently anchored off the coast of Southern California waiting for workers to unload and ship inventory.

The Biden Regime’s answer to a supply chain crisis is to reduce the workforce by imposing unconstitutional vaccine mandates.

The Biden White House has also resorted to blaming Americans for the supply chain crisis.

Psaki said Americans purchasing too many goods online is the “root cause” of the supply chain crisis thanks to a labor shortage created by Joe Biden.

The message from the Biden-Regime-media-complex is clear: Lower your expectations and settle for mediocrity.

marsh · Nov 14, 2021

Black Conservatives Warn of ‘Energy Poverty’ if Biden Closes Pipeline | Headline USA

(The Center Square) – Citing the potential threat of energy poverty, a national organization of Black activist groups has appealed to President Joe Biden’s administration to allow the Line 5 pipeline to remain open. Project 21 is an initiative sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy...

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Black Conservatives Warn of ‘Energy Poverty’ if Biden Closes Pipeline

'Why would President Biden want to increase the misery of people already trying to keep up with the inflation he caused?'

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November 13, 2021

Joe Biden's energy policy gives Americans the cold shoulder. / PHOTO: Associated Press

(The Center Square) – Citing the potential threat of energy poverty, a national organization of Black activist groups has appealed to President Joe Biden’s administration to allow the Line 5 pipeline to remain open.

Project 21 is an initiative sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C. The initiative includes members and organizations aimed at providing conservative solutions to problems facing African-American communities.

Project 21 and its affiliate groups and members are responding to the revelation this week from the Biden administration that it is exploring whether to support Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s efforts to close the five-mile stretch of pipeline spanning the Straits of Mackinac. Whitmer and Attorney General Dana Nessel are also seeking to prevent the building of a $500 million tunnel to house the pipeline. Costs of the tunnel would be shouldered completely by Enbridge Inc., the Canadian company that owns and operates the Line 5 pipeline, which has been in operation since 1953.

Among the problems Project 21 seeks to address is energy poverty, which Project 21 member and Reaching America President Derrick Hollie told The Center Square is exacerbated by government policies that result in higher heating fuel and gasoline costs. Those higher costs force lower-income families to sometimes choose between food and other amenities such as gasoline to drive to work and keeping their homes warm in the winter and cooler during the summer.

“Why would President Biden want to increase the misery of people already trying to keep up with the inflation he caused? It’s absurd that he wants to increase their misery by reducing the flow of oil into the Great Lakes region at the onset of winter,” Project 21 member Emery McClendon said in a statement. “America needs this vital pipeline to remain open. Americans must not be denied the ability to stay warm during the harsh winter ahead. Closing down the Line 5 pipeline will unduly affect Americans’ standard of living – especially those living in black communities who are already struggling to make ends meet.”

Research conducted by Jason Hayes, environmental director at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and Isaac Orr, policy fellow at the Center for the American Experience, and published in September 2020, concluded even the temporary closure of Line 5 could result in the following consequences:

Leave Michigan’s Upper Peninsula vulnerable to heating fuel price spikes and supply shortages.
Government-implemented price controls designed to limit price increases will likely prolong shortages.
Alternative home heating options will result in a two- to three-fold increase in heating costs; switching from propane to electric heat could increase home heating costs by $3,400 to $3,900 per year, for example.
Transition from propane to electric appliances, water heaters and furnaces could cost more than $25,000 per household.
Upgrading each propane-heated home to meet energy efficiency standards and reduce energy consumption might cost between $15 million and $470 million, depending on how strict a standard is used.

Hollie contrasted the energy independence enjoyed by the United States in 2019, compared with projections for price increases for the upcoming winter months.

Citing U.S. Energy Information Administration data as quoted by the New York Times, he said electricity heating costs could rise 15% per household; increase 50% for households heated by natural gas; and 59% for households relying on heating oil. Houses heated by propane could experience an astronomical jump of 94%.

Hollie contrasted the energy independence enjoyed by the United States in 2019, compared with projections for price increases for the upcoming winter months.

Citing U.S. Energy Information Administration data as quoted by the New York Times, he said electricity heating costs could rise 15% per household; increase 50% for households heated by natural gas; and 59% for households relying on heating oil. Houses heated by propane could experience an astronomical jump of 94%.

“By 2019, not only were we energy independent,” Hollie said. “We had also surpassed Saudi Arabia and Russia as the Number One oil production net exporter.”

Hollie said he thinks climate change is a reality, but does not consider it as much of a crisis as the energy policies that drive up costs for not just persons of color but every family struggling from paycheck to paycheck.

“Environmental Justice is ridiculous as energy policy,” Hollie said. “I haven’t read any white paper or read any research or polling data that says climate change is the number one problem facing the nation. It’s certainly not the first thing on the mind of Black communities.”

marsh · Nov 14, 2021

Surprised? Biden’s New Climate Plan Helps Rich, Hurts Everyone Else

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Surprised? Biden’s New Climate Plan Helps Rich, Hurts Everyone Else

BY A.J. KAUFMAN NOV 13, 2021 1:24 PM ET

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The COP26 climate summit — held without the worst offenders — is finally over. And at the end of two long weeks, some of the plans reward elites.

A conglomeration of nearly 500 financial firms pledged to fund $130 trillion toward the transition to “net-zero“ emissions during the conference.

The massive pledge is over 135% of the world’s gross domestic product for this year, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. But it hurts middle-class communities and Americans already struggling with inflation and surging gas prices.

The demand for renewable energy has grown with government-backed mandates pushing the switch to so-called clean energy; however, private financial groups funding the switch will ultimately reap the financial rewards.

Meanwhile, the rapid change to renewable energy will raise labor costs and utility prices for everyday Americans and their businesses, in part because the power grid will become less stable during the transition.

OPEC’s monthly report released this week expects global demand for oil to grow by almost 6 million barrels a day this year. The WSJ reported that OPEC also believes that demand for oil in 2022 will exceed pre-pandemic levels, with demand projected to jump to 100 barrels per day, up roughly a half-million barrels compared to 2019.

The Biden administration already announced new regulations that aim to “reduce emissions” in the U.S. They claim that these regulations can reduce the country’s methane emissions by 41 million tons between 2023 and 2035. Many of these predictions have been wrong for a half-century, but now they’re truly hurting people, leading to $5 per gallon gas, and messing with energy, the backbone of all production and supply in America.

The draft agreement created at the “COP26 summit” has already come under fire from never-happy environmental groups — encouraged to be angry by a plutocrat named Barack Obama — who claim, among many grievances, that nations won’t be accountable for their promises. Of course, they won’t; they never are.

Kevin D. Williamson, who attended the endless symposium, explained that “the climate movement has never been able to deal directly with the fact — or even to admit that it is a fact — that its agenda enjoys widespread popular support almost nowhere, being rejected by all but a vanishingly small handful of electorates when costs are included. That is true of the United States, it is true of India, it is true of much of Europe, and it is true of most of the rest of the world.”

Climate lunacy and policy have long been a cultish obsession of the secular and affluent. They can afford it. But maybe they should stop scaring children and focus on real, proven threats.

marsh · Nov 14, 2021

NBC's Stephanie Ruhle Says Americans Should Stop Complaining About Inflation Because They Can Easily Afford to Pay More (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

NBC’s Stephanie Ruhle said Americans should stop complaining about inflation because they can easily afford to pay more for food and fuel to heat homes.

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NBC’s Stephanie Ruhle Says Americans Should Stop Complaining About Inflation Because They Can Easily Afford to Pay More (VIDEO)

By Cristina Laila
Published November 14, 2021 at 12:20pm

NBC’s Stephanie Ruhle said Americans should stop complaining about inflation because they can easily afford to pay more for food and fuel to heat homes.

“And the dirty little secret here, Willie, while nobody likes to pay more, on average we have the money to do so,” Ruhle said.

According Stephanie Ruhle, “Household savings hit a record high over the pandemic. We didn’t have anywhere to go out and spend. And as we said a moment ago, we’re expecting retail sales this holiday season to break records.”

What about all the people who lost their jobs due to the unconstitutional lockdowns?

VIDEO:

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The fake news media is out in full force running cover for the Biden Regime.

Bloomberg ran an opinion piece on Friday running cover for the corrupt and incompetent Biden Regime’s supply chain crisis.

“Suddenly, Americans can’t spend like they used to. Store shelves are emptying, and it can take months to find a car, refrigerator or sofa.” Bloomberg said.

“If this continues, we may need to — gasp! — live more like the Europeans. That actually might not be a bad thing.”

These DC media elitists are so out of touch with the common American.

A new ABC poll released Sunday shows Republicans hold their largest lead in midterm election preferences among registered voters.

marsh · Nov 14, 2021

Freaking Hilarious… COP26 deal to eliminate coal plants all comes crashing down to Earth…

The Chairman has so much hope 30 minutes later it’s dead Chairman offers apology for last-minute changes to climate deal Britain’s president of the COP26 cl…

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Freaking Hilarious… COP26 deal to eliminate coal plants all comes crashing down to Earth…
Posted by Kane on November 13, 2021 11:40 pm

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The Chairman has so much hope

30 minutes later it’s dead

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Chairman offers apology for last-minute changes to climate deal

Britain’s president of the COP26 climate conference, Alok Sharma, said on Saturday he was “deeply sorry” for how the gathering concluded with last minute changes on the wording about coal.

Switzerland Expresses ‘Profound Disappointment’

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Switzerland’s envoy Simonetta Sommaruga received a long ovation when she expressed their “profound disappointment” at last-minute changes to the Glasgow Climate Pact. The final version of the broad document kept contentious proposals despite last-minute pushback from China and India — two of the world’s biggest emitters.

That included language on reducing coal and fossil-fuel subsidies and coming back by next year with new climate targets. Most notably, India proposed shifting language from a commitment toward “accelerating efforts towards the phase-out of unabated coal power” to instead supporting a “phase down unabated coal power.”

India’s last minute objection

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marsh · Nov 14, 2021

Exclusive — Tom Cotton: Gas Price Hikes ‘Intended Effect' of Biden Policy

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News exclusively he believes Biden and other Democrats are deliberately causing gas prices to hike.

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Exclusive— Tom Cotton: High Gas Prices ‘Intended Effect of Joe Biden’s Energy Policy,’ It Is Not ‘Some Accident’

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U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) speaks during U.S. Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland's confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on February 22, 2021 in Washington, DC. Garland was previously the Chief Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and former President Barack …

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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News exclusively he believes President Joe Biden and other Democrats are deliberately causing gas prices to hike to record highs on purpose to push their leftist environmentalist agenda on unsuspecting Americans.

Cotton, who campaigned last week for Republicans in Iowa ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, told Breitbart News in a phone interview between events that he believes the high gas prices are on purpose.

“Most notably, more and more people tell me that they’re not even able to fill their pickup truck tank up for the entire week,” Cotton said. “They’ve got to fill up half a tank and hope that the price comes down by the end of the week. That, in particular, is the intended effect of Joe Biden’s energy policy. It’s not unintended or some accident. They want gas to cost $4 a gallon because they want all of us to get out of pickup trucks and SUVs and get into small electric compacts or bicycles or scooters or whatever else Pete Buttigieg takes to work.”

This is a significant development that sitting GOP U.S. senators are calling out Biden and his administration for, alleging that they are causing this phenomenon on purpose to push their agenda. Biden last week expressed shock about gas price hikes while selling his “infrastructure” plan after the U.S. House passed the so-called “Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework,” 87 days after the U.S. Senate passed the bill. The president is expected to sign the plan, which contains billions of dollars in spending on a push toward electric vehicles away from cars and trucks that run on gasoline.

SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 05: Gas prices approaching $5 a gallon are displayed in front of a Shell gas station on October 05, 2021 in San Rafael, California. Gas prices in the U.S. are continuing to rise to the highest level since 2014. According to AAA, the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline inched up to $3.20 over the last month, over $1 per gallon more than one year ago. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Gas prices approaching $5 a gallon are displayed in front of a Shell gas station on October 05, 2021, in San Rafael, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Cotton argues that the Democrats’ high-spending agenda—which was even backed by some Republicans in both the House and Senate—is only going to cause more inflation across the board.

“You cannot print trillions of dollars in money on the one hand and also pay people not to work and not to produce the stuff that we need to buy and on the other hand not expect the price to increase as fast as it has in 30 years,” Cotton said. “At this rate, people are losing a penny on every dollar of their savings every month. So in three months, if you had $100 in your savings account, it’ll be worth only $97 in just three months. That is going to continue to worsen as long as the Democrats pursue their reckless inflationary policies. I heard it today; I hear it all across Arkansas. People can’t find the turkeys and the fixings for Thanksgiving. If they can, they can barely afford it. They can’t find Christmas gifts for the kids. If they can, they have to cut back the number of presents they buy.”

Cotton said, “yes,” when asked if the inflation and energy price crises will get worse before they get better.

Cotton also said that the Democrats took “the exact wrong message” away from last Tuesday’s elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and elsewhere across America where Republicans won nearly everywhere and Democrats were roundly rejected at the polls in the biggest election since the November 2020 vote and before the upcoming 2022 congressional midterm elections.

“The message that voters sent all across the country—not just in Virginia, but all across the country—was: stop the madness,” Cotton said. “Stop it with the shutdowns and the lockdowns, stop indoctrination of kids, stop the madness at the border, and stop the trillion-dollar spending plans that are just going to make inflation and supply chain problems even worse.

The Democrats are doing the exact opposite. They are going for broke. Perhaps they know that it’s too far gone for them, and they’re going to lose power next year no matter what. So as Nancy Pelosi has long said about Obamacare, she was willing to lose the House to pass this.

Maybe she’s willing to lose the House to pass this big spending bill as well. But I think that it’s a lot easier for the Nancy Pelosis of the world to say that than it is for these vulnerable Democrats who don’t want to walk the plank on it.”

In this Oct. 1, 2021, photo, President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) walk in a basement hallway of the Capitol after meeting with House Democrats, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Cotton is hopeful that the Republicans will retake the U.S. House and U.S. Senate next year in the midterm elections. To retake the House, the GOP needs to win at least a net five seats back from Democrats, and to retake the Senate, Republicans need to win one net seat back. The map on the Senate side is tougher, as Republicans are defending a number of battleground state seats and only have a handful of target pickup opportunities. The House, though, is looking a lot stronger with wide-scale Democrat retirements and rising energetic Republican challengers.

“I think the simple act of winning back Congress will help deter the radical left in charge of the Biden administration and a lot of their interest groups from their dumbest and most dangerous idea,” Cotton said. “Look, for instance, how quickly you had the National School Board Association climb down from their efforts to sic the feds on parents going to school boards.

Now, unfortunately, Merrick Garland still refuses to do so. But the prospect of subpoenas from a Republican-led committee in January of 2023 might concentrate his mind and the minds of a lot of other bureaucrats in the administration before they take these wholehearted steps.”

Iowa, where Cotton was campaigning for Republicans last week, will have a U.S. Senate race where longtime Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) will run for reelection. It will also have several battleground U.S. House races, with Rep. Cindy Axne (D-IA)—the state’s lone remaining Democrat in nationally elected office—trying to hold back a red wave and Reps. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) trying to defend the seats they won in November 2020.

“We’re doing these things to continue the momentum that you saw in last week’s election. Iowa is obviously going to be ground zero again next year with the Senate race and three competitive House races that will go a long way to determine control of the House,” Cotton said. “I wanted to make sure that we’re building on the momentum we had this week. It’s interesting that the issues and the perspectives I hear here, where it’s just historically been very Democratic—farm country and manufacturing counties that went strongly for Trump in both elections.”

More from Cotton’s latest exclusive interview is forthcoming.

marsh · Nov 15, 2021

National Economic Council Director Brian Deese Claims Inflation Working Perfectly - As Designed, a Collapsing U.S. Economy Demands More Congressional Spending - The Last Refuge

JoeBama’s National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, the twenty-something central planner in charge of all White House economic policy, tells a curiously skeptical Jake Tapper that things are working swimmingly, exactly according to plan. According to the Biden-Deese theory on sustainable...

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National Economic Council Director Brian Deese Claims Inflation Working Perfectly – As Designed, a Collapsing U.S. Economy Demands More Congressional Spending

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JoeBama’s National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, the twenty-something central planner in charge of all White House economic policy, tells a curiously skeptical Jake Tapper that things are working swimmingly, exactly according to plan.

According to the Biden-Deese theory on sustainable economic policy, massive spending creates massive inflation; which creates an increased demand for government subsidy to afford basic products; which creates a growing dependency on the government; which creates a need for massive spending. Wash-Rinse-Repeat.

This is exactly the expanding economic dependency model sold by socialists around the world for generations, which Barack Obama and his Biden administration promise they have now perfected in order to remove the pesky inequities always associated with unbridled capitalism.

Smile everyone, government cheese aplenty….

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In a rather ironic note, the parseltongue White House explanation is so disconnected from common sense, that furrowed brow’s brain is having an out of body issue, seemingly he is watching himself participate. The producers shift the camera angles quickly to compensate.

It would appear that somewhere in the recesses of Tapper’s frontal cortex, there remains a glowing ember of the common sense particle. Unfortunately for the CNN host, the synapse for the common sense particle is pinched between the ‘Smarter than thou tumor‘ and the expanding grey brain matter of moral relativity needed to sit silently and listen to bulls**t.

Within this cognitive conflict, you can visibly see Tapper’s guilt hypothalamus trying to make him uncomfortable… he sighs heavily as the infrequently exercised guilt glands attempt to trigger him to react. Alas, the party groupthink microchip in his ear warns him to stay quiet.

marsh · Nov 15, 2021

BREAKING: Biden Chief Of Staff Widely Mocked For Lie That 'Things Are A Lot Better In This Country Than They Were A Year Ago'

Biden officials' false statement about state of the economy draws widespread mockery

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BREAKING: Biden Chief Of Staff Widely Mocked For Lie That ‘Things Are A Lot Better In This Country Than They Were A Year Ago’

Biden officials' false statement about state of the economy draws widespread mockery

by GABRIEL KEANE
November 14, 2021

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain was widely mocked on social media this Sunday after video circulated of him making false claims about the U.S. economy during an interview with left-wing CNN’s Jake Tapper.

“Well, look, I do think, as I said Jake, things are a lot better in this country than they were a year ago, with regard to COVID, with regard to the economy, but we have a lot of work left to do,” Klain stated. “And I think voters are in show me don’t tell me mode, i don’t think they really care as much about what I’m saying on TV, or what you’re saying on TV as much as putting results into their lives.”

“Things are a lot better in this country than they were a year ago.”

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In reality, prices for consumer goods are soaring under the Biden regime, and the President’s already anemic approval ratings have plummeted to new abysmal lows in recent weeks. Klain’s remarks faced mockery from social media users.

marsh · Nov 15, 2021

CBS Presses Secretary Yellen to Fix Inflation Before the 2022 Midterms

The rich liberal elites of CBS News made it clear that their concerns about inflation didn’t have to do with the painful cost it was inflicting upon average Americans, but that it could cost Democrats the midterm elections in 2022.

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CBS Presses Secretary Yellen to Fix Inflation Before the 2022 Midterms

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November 14th, 2021 3:07 PM

The rich liberal elites of CBS News made it clear that their concerns about inflation didn’t have to do with the painful cost it was inflicting upon average Americans, but that it could cost Democrats the midterm elections in 2022. This fact was evident during Sunday’s Face the Nation when moderator Margaret Brennan pressed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to get inflation under control and specifically mentioned the elections next year and the potential “political cost to this.”

It was clear that election results were Brennan’s chief concern from the get-go. It was the first thing highlighted when she cut to the video of their interview, which was filmed on Friday:

BRENNAN: You have said that inflation is likely to be with us until the second half of next year. Are you confident that prices for the average American will be down by the time we head into next November and Election Day?

YELLEN: The pandemic has been calling the shots for the economy and for inflation. And if we want to get inflation down, I think continuing to make progress against the pandemic is the most important thing we can do. I think it's important to realize that the cause of this inflation is the pandemic.

After noting that used car prices were up 26 percent and “gasoline up 50 percent, eggs 12 percent, milk six percent, coffee six percent,” Brennan wondered: “When does it get better?

When do those spikes abate,” and followed up by reminding Yellen “there could be a political cost to this.”

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Yellen initially agreed there could be a political cost but caught herself, shifting concern to the public. “Yes. Well, there's an economic cost, and Americans feel it, and when gas rises – average is now over three dollars-a-gallon, and some places quite a bit higher – Americans notice it, and it makes a difference,” she said.

Good save, Janet.

And in an attempt to protect the Biden administration, Brennan tried to divert blame to former President Trump and the tariffs on China. “China's leaders have repeatedly asked for the Trump-era tariffs to be lifted. If the Biden administration did that, would it make things cheaper,” she asked.

The media and the left never let a crisis go to waste, so Brennan used the opportunity to play up President Biden’s loose immigration policies and the so-called, Build Back Better agenda:

BRENNAN: Are we at a place where we need to increase immigration in order to meet this challenge?

YELLEN: Well, you know, there are a lot of issues involved in immigration, but I believe that is one reason that we do face supply shortages-- shortages of certain kinds of workers.

BRENNAN: What does the economic recovery look like without paid leave?

At least the concern about losing the midterms was predicated on average Americans feeling the hurt and pushing back. That’s a bit better than NBC’s Stephanie Ruhle who earlier that day suggested the “dirty little secret” was that the public could afford to live with inflation.

This show of concern for election results over the welfare of the American people was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Google and Facebook.

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