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Shakespeare
https://nj1015.com/teachers-want-to-dump-shakespeare-because-of-whiteness-opinion/
I mean— we knew it would come to this. If you can cancel all history by ripping down statues then you can certainly cancel literature, too.
According to an article in The Washington Times, there are teachers who want to do just that. Namely, Shakespeare, whose writings (to them) are all about “white supremacy.” The article goes on to say that teaching Shakespeare is, in effect, promulgating Shakespeare’s problematic world view.
I’m sharing this audio pulled from my dashcam this morning where i heard about it first, one of the talks about how statues abd Shakespeare best at a museum
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=16609805766587089729
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=16609805766587089729
For the audio from this mornings dashcam clip radio station
Clearly, today’s parents are missing in action. I would be fighting them tooth and nail.
Amos Yee arrested for electronically sharing nude photos with a willing fourteen year old.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DLrZ9S5IK7s&feature=emb_title
After his impassioned defence for pedophilia, to protect the sexual rights of a Minority, he has revealed his motivation was not purely an attempt to be academic and playing Devil’s Advocate, but that of self-justification and a skin in the game. That if the narcissism of LGBTQ+ is Nature’s Creation, (as all Religions and Cultures are indelible leading by virtue to death to the apostate), then their protected, Preferential Characteristics must also extend to the pursuers of young flesh. An intellectual argument to savor the least intellectual life.
https://vladtepesblog.com/2021/02/18/readers-links-for-february-18-2021/comment-page-1/#comment-607840
It is hard not to see such as Yee as evil. Yet, the difference between a street smart child of any age and the concept of a child is shattering to those who see children as innocents. I have met a few and I boggled. This whole concept of the innocence of children only came about in the middle class of the Victorian era and gradually spread downwards into the working class as did affluence. Even up to WW1 and probably WW2 the average working class girl in the west had lost her virginity by 10 if not 12 as it was an asset with value. There is a book online somewhere called “My Secret Life” about the exploitation of the poor by a married middle class Englishman. This sexual exploitation of the poor including children has had been normal since man first stood erect (no pun intended).
Innocence we prize but maintaining it, ill prepares a child for the realities of life in a predatory world.
The innocence of a child is well expressed a little earlier:
“But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
For from such, is candor and lack of resentment. That is the innocence of children that you protect. Not create the Tree of Ignorance to protect them from the Tree of Knowledge. That would be setting them up to fail. Just teach them to see what is under every stone.
Wisdom does mean that if you know more about LGBTQ+, Communism and islam than those lost inside them, you will become one. It means you won’t.
Wisdom does not mean…will become one. It means you won’t.
The idealism of JoN is fine but it has rarely helped the common people survive the oppression and exploitation that has always been their lot. Maybe it helped them to endure, which was possibly what was intended but it rarely changed anything.
In all Christian countries such niceties as you quote did NOT apply to them and never has as every nation feeds off its common folk, even now although I do not include addicts, criminals, ergophobics and the psychiatric damaged, but those who have families and actually work; the core of every nation
Nothing wrong with having ideals but pushing them onto others without realizing the realities of life is not only dangerous but insane.
If only the poor had been Christians it would never have succeeded, as it was the middle and upper Roman classes who pulled it into power.
Christianity as a working scenario was dominated by middle class attitudes and has never really looked after the poor despite its pretensions of so doing. The reason why the UK has been so lax over the rape grooming is that, not only was it muslims, but it was what the other classes had been doing to the working class for millennia as in their eyes they deserve no better.
Addendum…I sounded anti-Christian. I am not. I have no time for churches but I have for the man JoN, the concept of a benevolent god and the great works of art that flowed from that belief. Unfortunately when it becomes nasty, pacifism is pointless and self-destructive when facing the ideological evils of islam and communism. Pacifists are loved by the evil as they are so easily killed.
‘We Agree’: Zarif Hails Washington Withdrawing Trump’s Move to Reinstate UN Sanctions on Iran (sputniknews, Feb 19, 2021)
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202102191082126146-we-agree-zarif-hails-washington-withdrawing-trumps-move-to-reinstate-un-sanctions-on-iran/
“On Friday, acting US Ambassador Richard Mills announced that UN Security Council Resolution 2231 pertaining to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal remains in force.
Tehran welcomes Washington’s move to withdraw the Trump administration’s declaration to reinstate all UN sanctions against the Islamic Republic, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif tweeted on Friday.
“The US acknowledged that [former Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo’s claims re Res. 2231 had no legal validity. We agree”, Zarif pointed out.
At the same time, the top Iranian diplomat added that the White House should “unconditionally and effectively lift all sanctions imposed, re-imposed, or re-labeled by [former US President Donald] Trump”.
“We will then immediately reverse all remedial measures”, the foreign minister stressed.
The remarks come after acting US Ambassador Richard Mills writing a letter to the UN, in which he announced Washington’s decision to rescind the Trump administration’s move to re-impose UN sanctions against Iran.
“I write to notify the [UN] Security Council (UNSC), on behalf of my government, that the United States of America hereby withdraws” its three letters to the Security Council dating back to August and September 2020, the letter reportedly reads.
In the letter, Mills stressed that the sanctions measures annulled by UNSC Resolution 2231 endorsing the 2015 Iran deal, but restored by Trump in September 2020 “remain terminated”.
The US moved to re-impose all UN sanctions against Iran after failing to get the UNSC to pass a resolution to indefinitely extend the UN arms embargo on Iran last year.
At the time, the Trump administration tried to invoke a provision in Resolution 2231 allowing the “snapback” of sanctions because Iran allegedly was in “significant non-performance” with its own obligations under the nuclear deal, something that was ignored by the rest of the Security Council.
Iran ‘Long Way’ From Compliance With Nuclear Deal, Psaki Claims
Mills’ letter to the UN followed White House press secretary Jen Psaki asserting that Iran was “a long way from compliance” with the deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The accusations were preceded by Zarif voicing frustration over the Biden administration’s apparent unwillingness to change the Trump-era policy on Iran.
“It has been a month now that the Biden administration has been continuing Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ policy of lawlessness, one-upmanship, and bullying”, he said, adding that further pressure against Iran would not work and that Washington should give up on its “failed” approach.
President Joe Biden repeatedly claimed to be interested in restoring the Iran nuclear deal during his election campaign.
After his inauguration on 20 January, however, the Biden administration insisted that Iran must take the first step by returning to compliance with the JCPOA.
Tehran rejects such a scenario, urging Washington to take the first step, given that it was the US, who unilaterally withdrew from the nuclear accord in May 2018, also reinstating crippling economic sanctions against Iran.The move prompted the Islamic Republic to start scaling down its JCPOA obligations, including those on uranium enrichment, in 2019.”
Channel crossing: Border forces stop 70% of migrant attempts in post-Brexit crackdown (express, Feb 19, 2021)
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1399833/Brexit-news-immigration-channel-crossing-france-asylum-seekers-latest-ont
“BORDER forces have prevented more than 70 percent of Channel crossings this year.
Boris Johnson’s Government has increased a post-Brexit crackdown on asylum claims to the UK. The new figures show a sharp contrast to the Anglo-French border forces efforts to prevent 55 percent of crossings last year. In 2020, a record 8,410 migrants made the treacherous Channel crossing journey by small boats.
This was four times more than the 1,850 who made the journey in 2019.
The Government has poured £28 million into the French authorities to prevent asylum seekers from crossing the Channel.
The money was injected to double the number of police officers on beaches and boost surveillance such as drones and CCTV cameras.
A new post-Brexit law also means immigration officials can reject any asylum applications as “inadmissible” if a migrant has initially travelled through a “safe” European country.
The law came into effect in January when the UK officially left the Brexit transition period.
It replaced the Dublin Regulation agreement which dictated that a migrant’s asylum claim could be turned down on the grounds that they should have sought refuge in the first EU country they entered.
Reports suggest immigration officials are currently processing the first migrants expected to be removed from the UK under the new post-Brexit law.
According to the Telegraph, immigration minister Chris Philip said: “As a result of our improved intelligence-sharing with the French and enhanced surveillance, we have stopped approximately 700 crossings in 2021, despite there being a 50 per cent increase in crossing attempts on last year.
“However, we are not complacent. We will step up our activity into spring and are aware there is much more to do to make this route non-viable, and target the vile organised crime gangs who facilitate these dangerous crossings.
“Now we have left the EU we have changed the law meaning those who have travelled through safe countries will have their asylum cases treated as inadmissible. The Government are working as fast as possible to fix the broken asylum system to make it firm and fair.”
Last year, Britain and France signed the new agreement aimed at curbing the number of migrants crossing the Channel in small boats.
However, humanitarian charities criticised the new agreement as an “extraordinary mark of failure”.
Bella Sankey, director of humanitarian charity Detention Action, claimed the move was like “rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic”.
Amnesty International UK also said it was “profoundly disappointing”.
Speaking inside the Foreign Office in November, home secretary Priti Patel said: “We know that the French authorities have stopped over 5,000 migrants from crossing into the United Kingdom, we’ve had hundreds of arrests and that’s because of the joint intelligence and communications that we share between both our authorities.
“This new package today that I have just signed with my French counterpart, the French interior minister, effectively doubles the number of police on the French beaches, it invests in more technologies and surveillance – more radar technology that support the law enforcement effort – and on top of that we are now sharing in terms of toughening up our border security.”
Ms Patel is reportedly preparing a policy paper to toughen asylum laws in the UK and increase action against smugglers.
She is said to be proposing to place curbs on human rights claimants who seek to prevent their deportation.
Ms Patel wants judges to place more weight on the criminal records of people seeking asylum in the UK who are appealing their deportation.”
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-rubin-report/ayaan-hirsi-ali-radical-islam
Former Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali: ‘Wokeism’ has far more in common with radical Islam than you’d think
Woke culture is actually destroying classical liberalism
On “The Rubin Report” this week, BlazeTV host Dave Rubin spoke with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of “Prey” and host of the “Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast,” about how woke culture is destroying classical liberalism, how elites are finally acknowledging that immigration in Europe is backfiring, and how immigration policies in Europe have negatively impacted women’s rights and made Europe less safe for women.
In this clip, Ayaan and Dave discussed how liberalism is being weakened by the identity politics of the woke left. Ayaan explained how “wokeism” has far more in common with radical Islam than many would think. Both seek to shut down free speech, to censor and destroy those who disagree, to divide societies into subsets, and to deny objective truth.
The only way to defend liberalism is to build alliances with centrist and moderate political opponents and create a “new centrism,” Ayaan suggested. She emphasized that young people should not seek out safe spaces at university, but should actually want to be triggered.
“Former Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali…”
Former victim of islam Ayaan Hirsi Ali…
“Cynical Theories” is the book mentioned in Ayaan’s conversation.
https://cynicaltheories.com
The book authors discuss it, with the Hon John Anderson, former Deputy Australian Prime Minister
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XNx5jnNF1MQ&feature=emb_title
I loved the “social-media dogpiles” comment which aptly sums up all such leftard thought although the stench is far more nocuous and vile.
Le Pen Party Activists Face Down Pro-Migrant Activists at Spanish Border (breitbart, Feb 19, 2021)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/19/le-pen-party-activists-face-down-pro-migrant-activists-spanish-border/
“Activists and members of the populist French National Rally (RN) faced down pro-migrant protestors near the Spanish border as they launched their regional election campaign…”
Half of London Councils Use Chinese Surveillance Equipment Linked to Persecution of Uighurs (breitbart, Feb 19, 2021)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/19/half-london-councils-use-chinese-surveillance-equipment-linked-persecution-uighurs/
“Half of the borough councils in London use surveillance equipment linked to technology used by the Chinese Communist Party in the oppression and persecution of the Uighurs.
Data obtained from a freedom of information request given to the Thomson Reuters Foundation revealed that at least half of London’s 32 local governing bodies were using surveillance systems from two Chinese companies, Hikvision and Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co Ltd, which produce facial recognition technologies. Both firms are currently subject to restrictions in the United States.
Hikvision provides video surveillance systems to police in Xinjiang, home to the Uighurs, where an estimated one to three million of the Muslim minority group are believed to be detained in the province’s more than 1,000 concentration camps.
Digital rights researcher Samuel Woodhams, who handed the data to the news organisation, said of the findings: “We’re getting a clearer picture of just how pervasive these firms’ technology is in the UK — and how frequently public funds are being used to acquire it.”
Hammersmith and Fulham, for example, have 1,790 Hikvision cameras at an estimated cost of £350,000 ($485,000).
Local governments are responsible for purchasing and deploying surveillance equipment on the public streets of Britain. Mr Woodhams sent requests to London’s 32 boroughs and the UK’s 20 largest councils, finding two-thirds, including 16 London boroughs, of the total had purchased surveillance equipment from Dahua or Hikvision. In 2016, Hikvision was found to be the UK’s top provider of CCTV equipment.
Three other national councils and six London boroughs did not respond to the FOI requests or claimed that they did not have the data, meaning that the true proportion of local governments in Britain’s capital which operates technology linked to the suppression of the Uighurs could be higher…”
I think that it is so ironic a communist state using serf labour (typical) to enrich the party members and cronies by undercutting much of the free market on the planet(atypical). Beating the west at their own greed game?
I wonder how the serfs all feel about party members rolling around in luxury and driving Ferraris? Or their spoilt brat kids who get away (literally) with murder?
I wonder if Xi’s obsession with Taiwan etc. is more about internal problems?
Applications for Asylum Fell to Lowest Levels Since 2013, Coronavirus Blamed (breitbart, Feb 19, 2021)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/19/applications-asylum-fell-lowest-levels-since-2013-coronavirus-blamed/
“Applications for asylum in European Union and associated states collapsed to a seven-year low in 2020, with coronavirus-imposed travel restrictions suggesting that some level of border control is, in fact, possible.
Some 461,3000 applications for asylum were lodged across the EU, Norway, and Switzerland in 2020 — a 31 per cent fall from 2019 and taking numbers to levels not seen since 2013, before the migrant crisis in the middle of the last decade.
The European Union blamed the decrease in applications on Covid-related “emergency measures, such as movement restrictions”.
Despite the significant fall, the reduction was not uniform, with arrivals from particular areas and at certain times of the year taking greater hits. Asylum applications from countries like Iran and Georgia fell much faster than the average, going down 61 per cent in 2020.
Syria was more stable, falling just nine per cent — perhaps a feature of the nationality’s 84 per cent asylum success rate, a reflection of Syrians getting preferential asylum treatment in Europe, driving some to lie about their identities to improve their chances — while others actually rose.
Cubans, Brazilians, and Belarussians all saw higher numbers of arrivals last year, even though all three are from countries for whom the vast majority of applicants have their asylum claims rejected by European nations. Not that such figures may worry potential asylum seekers, however. As the European Commissioner for Migration Ylva Johansson admitted last week, just a third of rejected asylum seekers actually go home.
While applications through 2019 ran between 40,000 and 60,000 a month, 2020 was much less uniform. A massive collapse in the first few months of the year saw first-time applications at just 7,500 in April 2020, but they soon rose and levelled off again at around 38,000 a month for the rest of the year as the initial lockdowns wore off around Europe.
The European Asylum Support Office, a body founded in 2010 to ensure “practical cooperation between Member States on matters related to asylum”, put a positive spin on the serious fall in their key metric, noting the fall in applications over the year meant national governments were able to work through some of the considerable backlogs of historical asylum application cases.
Nevertheless, by the end of the year, there were still over 412,000 pending asylum applications Europe-wide, a fall of just 17 per cent from the year before.”
Just tell us when they start returning home permanently and NOT as boastful tourists.
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“VILE: German Carnival Parade Features Dead Trump Float”
by Cassandra Fairbanks – February 18, 2021
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/vile-german-carnival-parade-features-dead-trump-float/
Morocco Proposes Establishment of Parliamentary Friendship Group with Israel
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2021/02/335436/morocco-proposes-establishment-of-parliamentary-friendship-group-with-israel/
“Morocco and Israel agreed to create a “parliamentary friendship group” to boost bilateral cooperation after the recent rapprochement between the two countries.
Members of Morocco’s parliament had their first meeting with Israel’s Knesset representatives on Thursday.
The virtual meeting marked the participation of two members of Morocco’s House of Councillors Mohammed El Bakhouri and Abdelkarim Al Hams.
During the meeting, the Moroccan MPs suggested establishing a parliamentary friendship group…”
Let’s wait and see if the EU or Biden try to torpedo this.
10% of the Israeli Jewish population has Moroccan roots. They’re frequent, enthusiastic tourists to the Old Country.
Yet polls show Muslims there do NOT have warm feelings for the yahood. Maybe there are enough who can say, “Some of my friends are {spit} yahoodim.”
Mordechai Kedar !
The Truth About Financial Aid to the Palestinian Authority
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A dramatic letter written by a former terrorist who is running for president of the Palestinian Authority reveals the extent to which the budgets funneled to the PA from Israel and the world fuel death and terror. The time has come for the world to take notice.
Muhammad Aref Massad, a former terrorist who is now a candidate in the upcoming PA presidential elections, recently wrote about the PA’s misuse of international aid: “I was recruited to the terror organizations when I was 13, and I fought boldly against the Israeli side, but to my sorrow I discovered that the Palestinian leaders do not want freedom and do not want peace because they profit from the war and destruction in which we are engulfed.”
“The greater the number of fatalities among our people, the more attention they get from the free and good people in the world, and the world gives them large quantities of aid each time the pictures of destruction in our land are published worldwide.”
“If you really want the killing, the destruction, and the siege of the Palestinian people to stop, if you really want the injustice and the poverty of the Palestinian people to come to an end, please terminate your support for the Palestinian Authority, which is run by a corrupt and unelected dictator.”
In the past, donor states have at times sought to circumvent the PA, opting instead to finance specific projects. This idea failed because of the mahsubiya method practiced in the PA: a contractor who gets foreign funding for projects transfers part of the money to the “right people” in the PA.
https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/financial-aid-palestinian-authority/
Bassam Tawil:
Palestinians: More Corruption as Biden Resumes Financial Aid
Will Restoring U.S. Aid to the Palestinians Bring Peace?
Ignoring rampant corruption in the Palestinian Authority, the U.S. says it is preparing to resume unconditional financial aid to the Palestinians. Yet the assumption that renewed financial aid would lead the Palestinian leadership to make “concessions” has proven to be completely baseless over the past three decades. Anyone who thinks that the Palestinian leadership would make real “concessions” to Israel in return for hundreds of millions of dollars is living under an illusion.
Since the signing of the Oslo Accord between Israel and the PLO in 1993, the Palestinians have received billions of dollars in international aid. Did the money change the Palestinians’ position on crucial issues? No. Last year, the Palestinians rejected President Trump’s $50 billion Middle East economic plan that would create a global investment fund to improve the Palestinian and Arab state economies.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17042/palestinians-corruption-financial-aid
Khaled Abu Toameh:
Palestinians: What Real Education Means
Will New Palestinian Elections Strengthen the Radical Camp?
The last Palestinian parliamentary election, held in 2006, resulted in a victory for Hamas. Hamas promised to “make Islamic law [sharia] the main source of legislation in Palestine,” and to “use all methods, including armed resistance” against Israel.
Hamas does not recognize Israel’s right to exist. It remains opposed to the Oslo Accords because it does not believe in any peace process with Israel. Because of these positions, Hamas won 74 of the 132 seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Given current anti-Israel sentiments, one wonders whether it is a good idea to proceed with new elections that are certain to strengthen the radical camp among Palestinians even further.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17060/palestinians-election-education
Castles in the Air?
The American Return to the UN Human
RATSRights CouncilThe Biden Administration has decided to bring the U.S. back into the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), first as an observer until the end of the year, and presumably as a member beginning in 2022. Secretary of State Blinken explained: “The best way to improve the Council, so it can achieve its potential, is through robust and principled U.S. leadership.”
Yet the evidence provides little ground for optimism. In 2009, President Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, expressed similar hopes, which were quickly and decisively proven to be unfounded. As a Council member, the U.S. was unable to steer the UN framework into confronting, or even addressing, the horrendous human rights abuses in Syria, Venezuela, China and elsewhere.
In parallel, the anti-Israel demonization exceeded even the previously absurd levels. When the U.S. voted against the latest anti-Israel resolution, it made no difference in the outcome. And when U.S. raised objections after anti-Semitic slurs or the use of the term “Zionist entity” from an Iranian or Syrian official, nothing happened. The structure of the UNHRC is largely impervious to change, reflecting the built-in majority for autocrats and dictatorships.
https://fathomjournal.org/castles-in-the-air-the-american-return-to-the-un-human-rights-council/
The Assad Regime Has Failed to Restore Full Sovereignty Over Syria
The situation on Syria’s borders has hardly changed over the past couple of years. Assad’s forces now control 2/3 of Syria’s territory, including its main cities, as well as 12 million people out of an estimated resident population of 17 million (another 7 million Syrians are living abroad as refugees).
In spring 2013, Assad’s forces controlled only a fifth of the country.
Yet the Syrian army controls only 15% of the country’s international land borders; the rest are divided between foreign actors. Hizbullah and other Iranian-backed Shia militias currently control 20% of the country’s borders.
The Lebanese border is occupied by Hizbullah, which has established bases on the Syrian side. Similarly, Iraqi Shia militias manage both sides of their border.
In addition, several Syrian military airports serve as receptacles for Iranian weapons destined for Hizbullah and the Golan Heights frontline with Israel.
In Deraa province in the south, to quickly tamp down growing resistance in the area, the regime was forced to sign reconciliation agreements brokered by Russia, leaving local rebel factions with temporary autonomy and the right to keep light weapons.
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/assad-regime-has-failed-restore-full-sovereignty-over-syria
Little map in pretty colors to decorate file folder. If you’re into that sort of thing.
Iran’s Missiles: Military Strategy
Ballistic missiles are an aspect of Iran’s indirect warfare strategy. Iran fires over another country’s protective forces and strikes directly at the rear. When a country like Iran lacks an air force and needs range, it needs ballistic missiles. An Iranian missile with a medium range of 2,000 km. (or 1,242 miles) could strike Israel and any of the Gulf states.
Hizbullah has hundreds of rockets that can be fired several hundred kilometers. Hizbullah has modified its longer-range rockets to convert them into precision missiles. Kits add a section to the rocket that includes a navigational unit and rotating fins that corrects a weapon’s course and allows it to maneuver.
https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2021/feb/17/iran’s-missiles-military-strategy
Iran’s Missiles: Infographics and Photos
https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2021/feb/17/iran’s-missiles-infographics-and-photos
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Iran’s Missiles: Transfer to Proxies
https://iranprimer.usip.org/index.php/blog/2021/feb/03/irans-missiles-transfers-proxies
Iron Dome fails under supersaturation as do ALL antimissile systems. A massive strike of dumb and smart missiles would quickly overload any and all systems and they intend to launch en masse as soon as they have the nukes.
They mean what they say just as did Hitler yet no one takes any notice as happened then. Muslims love the concept of most Jews living in one accessible area.
“The Yemeni Maneuver” – Biden Administration Gives a Free Pass to Iran
On February 16, 2021, the Biden administration removed the Houthi rebels in Yemen from the U.S. list of terrorist organizations. Barely mentioned was Iran’s involvement and direct responsibility for continuing the conflict in Yemen and its longstanding support for the Houthi rebels.
Iran has transferred a variety of weapons to the Houthis, as well as manufacturing know-how and instructors. These include GPS-guided armed drones, remote controlled Water-borne Improvised Explosive Devices (RC-WBIED), cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and rockets, which it has fired at Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
https://jcpa.org/the-yemeni-maneuver-biden-administration-gives-a-free-pass-to-iran/
++ cartoon: Iran’s Toolbox ++
– Stock of Alt-Energy Quadrupled during the Pandemic. What’s Up? –
The COVID-19 epidemic and the response to it have devastated the economy. However, the alternative energy stock indexes quadrupled on average, including 150% growth before the US elections.
Alt-energy (alternative energy) market performance can be captured in the performance of the leading alt-energy ETFs (exchange traded funds): QCLN, PBW, and TAN. In addition to alt-energy, these ETFs also hold non-energy manufacturing and service companies, critically dependent on climate alarmism. Thus, the assets of any of these ETFs can be used as a financial index, tracking climate alarmism.
After sustaining no growth and moderate losses for five previous years, alt-energy gained an average of 150%, during the first year of COVID-19 (October 25, 2019 to October 30, 2020; see Fig. 1 below). Even more telling, most of these gains happened in the period of draconian and highly politicized lockdowns; see Fig. 2 below.
There is no economic explanation for this steep increase in alt-energy’s valuation. A society under shutdowns or lockdowns consumes less energy and thus, all energy stocks would consequently suffer. Even alt-energy corporations, mainly producing carbon credits, would suffer, because carbon credits are bought mainly by businesses producing or consuming real energy. Additionally, the significant loss of income due to the sudden downturn of the economy would leave little or no funds for anything other than dealing with the current crisis.
One possible explanation for alt-energy’s growth is the expanding political powers of climate alarmism / global governance.
More: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/02/19/stock-of-alt-energy-quadrupled-during-the-pandemic-whats-up/
New hate-mongering scandals at UN agency that Biden means to send millions
President Biden, in his obsession with reversing every Trump policy, means to reinstate funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency – hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars a year for an agency that teaches Palestinian children to hate “the Enemy” Israel and believe “Jihad is the road of glory.”
UNRWA began producing its own educational material last year to aid at-home learning during the pandemic – and some of its content is more venomous than Palestinian Authority propaganda.
The Jerusalem-based Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education blew the lid off the scandalous teaching materials in November, revealing they glorified terrorism in the cause of destroying Israel. Canada and Australia opened investigations, but UNRWA claimed it had dealt with the matter internally and replaced the “inappropriate” material.
It didn’t. Though UNRWA blocked access to its material, IMPACT-se found it and released a report Wednesday showing the agency still teaches hate and intolerance to more than 320,000 Palestinian children.
A math problem asks students the number of martyrs from the first intifada. A grammar exercise includes the sentences “The Occupier commits all kinds of torture” and “We are an occupied people.”
An Arabic-language lesson has kids write out a text read by a family member that says that “our Arab relatives have sadly recognized our Enemies and began interacting with them,” referring to the Abraham Accords, and insists one day “our Enemies will be banished, God willing, as failing losers.”
https://nypost.com/2021/02/17/new-hate-mongering-scandals-at-un-agency-that-biden-means-to-send-millions/
Rashida Tlaib Speaks at Kashmir Event Featuring Jihad Supporters
A Kashmir Solidarity Day event drew the radicalized son of a prominent jihadist – as well as a sitting member of Congress.
US Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) spoke at the February 5 webinar sponsored by Justice for All, the activist arm of the Chicago-based multimedia company Sound Vision. Sound Vision is an offshoot of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA).
Tlaib discussed a 2019 voiding of a 70-year-old “temporary” provision that divided the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) into two federally-administered territories that are now governed directly by New Delhi.
Tlaib’s comments fit into a broader campaign to misrepresent and exaggerate the situation in J&K. Although India imposed political detentions, Internet and media restrictions, and other measures after the status change to maintain order, many of those restrictions have since been lifted and mainstream political figures released. Local-level elections were successfully conducted in the union territory in December.
Tlaib introduced a resolution in Congress “condemning the human rights violations taking place in Jammu and Kashmir and supporting Kashmiri self-determination.” The resolution has not advanced.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/02/18/rashida-tlaib-speaks-at-kashmir-event-featuring-jihad-supporters/
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Nasty piece of work.
Hibz ut-Tahrir, barbarians love her.
Report outlines new rules: Chinese ‘patriotic’ org., not Vatican, to control Catholic clergy appointments in China – Liberty Unyielding
Daily Caller News Foundation
5-7 minutes
https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/02/19/report-outlines-new-rules-chinese-patriotic-org-not-vatican-to-control-catholic-clergy-appointments-in-china/
New rules from the Chinese government indicate that China will exercise control over the appointment of Catholic clergy without any input from the Vatican.
The “Administrative Measures for Religious Clergy,” which will go into effect May 1, clarified that the state-run Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) will select candidates for clergy who will then be “approved and consecrated by the Chinese Catholic Bishops’ Conference.”
The rules, translated by the religious persecution publication Bitter Winter, make no mention of the Vatican’s role in appointing bishops, despite a deal brokered between Pope Francis and the Chinese government by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin. The 2018 agreement ended a decade-long power struggle between the Chinese government and the Catholic Church on whether the Chinese government has the power to appoint Catholic bishops.
Britain Offers Refuge to Islamic Terrorists, Denies Persecuted Christians Entry
BY RAYMOND IBRAHIM FEB 18, 2021 10:11 PM ET
Once again, the U.K. shows itself to be a safe haven for Islamic terrorists. According to a Feb. 14, 2021 report in the Daily Mail,
A terrorist who claimed asylum in Britain after he was sentenced to death in Egypt for a failed assassination plot is set to win the right to stay in this country.
Yasser Al-Sirri, 58, first claimed asylum in 1994 but was turned down and has taken the issue to court more than eight times at great cost to British taxpayers.
Al-Sirri, who was also charged in the US with assisting someone involved in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing, has appeared in several tribunals since.
And last week a tribunal decided he was entitled to remain in the U.K. as a refugee.
Among al-Sirri’s other jihadi bona fides, he was a member of Egypt’s terrorist organization, Islamic Jihad, and it was for his activities with that group—including a failed assassination attempt on the then-Egyptian prime minister which instead killed a 12-year-old girl—that he was sentenced to death in absentia. One of the founding members of Egypt’s Islamic Jihad—which eventually merged with al-Qaeda—was Ayman al-Zawahiri, the current leader of al-Qaeda. Its original mission was to overthrow and supplant the Egyptian government with an Islamic one—basically the same mission that was for a time realized by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The “Blind Sheikh” who conspired in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings that killed six, including a pregnant woman, and injured thousands, was also a graduate of Egypt’s Islamic Jihad.
Such is the jihadi background and terrorist affiliations and activities of al-Sirri, this man who was just granted “refugee status” in Britain. Of course, granting asylum and visas to “radical” Muslims is nothing new for the U.K.
For example, despite having no papers on him—and despite telling the Home Office that “he had been trained as an ISIS soldier”—Ahmed Hassan was still granted asylum two years before he launched a terrorist attack on a London train station that left 30 injured in September 2017. The Home Office also allowed a foreign Muslim cleric to enter and lecture in London, even though he advocates decapitating, burning, and/or throwing homosexuals from cliffs. According to another report, “British teenagers are being forced to marry abroad and are raped and impregnated while the Home Office ‘turns a blind eye’ by handing visas to their [mostly Muslim] husbands.”
If the U.K. is that lenient when it comes to handing out refugee status and visas, surely those who are truly persecuted are easily granted asylum. Not so. Consider the case of Asia Bibi—a Christian wife and mother of five who spent a decade of her life being abused on death row in Pakistan for challenging the authority of Muhammad; her story perhaps best sheds light on the immigration situation in the U.K. After she was finally acquitted in November 2018, Muslims rioted throughout Pakistan; in one march, more than 11,000 Muslims demanded her instant and public hanging.
As Pakistanis make for the majority of the U.K.’s significant Muslim population—Sajid Javid, then head of the Home Office, is himself Pakistani—when they got wind that the U.K. might offer asylum to Asia Bibi, this innocent woman whose life had been ripped apart, they too rioted. As a result, then Prime Minister Theresa May personally blocked Bibi’s asylum application—“despite U.K. playing host to [Muslim] hijackers, extremists and rapists,” to quote from one headline. In other words, Britain was openly allowing “asylum policy to be dictated to by a Pakistan mob,” reported the Guardian, “after it was confirmed it urged the Home Office not to grant Asia Bibi political asylum in the U.K.…”
Indeed, while denying Asia Bibi, the Home Office allowed a Pakistani cleric who celebrated the slaughter of a politician simply because he had defended Asia Bibi—a cleric deemed so extreme as to be banned from his native Pakistan—to enter and lecture in U.K. mosques.
Incidentally, and as discussed here, the treatment Asia Bibi received from the U.K. seems to be par for the course when it comes to persecuted Christian asylum seekers and even visitors.
Discussing how “visas were granted [by the Home Office] in July [2016] to two Pakistani Islamic leaders who have called for the killing of Christians accused of blasphemy,” Dr. Martin Parsons, a human rights activist, expressed his frustration at this topsy-turvy situation: “It’s unbelievable that these persecuted Christians who come from the cradle of Christianity are being told there is no room at the inn, when the U.K. is offering a welcome to Islamists who persecute Christians.”
In other words, persecuted Christians need not apply for asylum in the U.K., whereas “radical” Muslims that only hate and seek to sabotage Britain are welcomed with open arms.
South China Sea: Biden issued chilling warning as war with Beijing ‘more likely than ever’
Another US Navy destroyer challenged China’s claims in the South China Sea.
The story behind the story of the Ant Group IPO, stalled by Xi
China will not attack Taiwan unless there is a ‘vague chance of success’: Molan
Mark Steyn in for Tucker 18 Feb 21.
https://tinyurl.com/yaycceel
E-commerce giant Amazon dodged Indian regulations | Amazon top news | English News | Jeff Bezos
Supercut: Meet the Highest Paid Federal Employee, Janus-Faced Fauci
SPAIN – Trash containers set ablaze in Barcelona as protests continue over arrest of rapper Pablo Hasel
Thousands have gathered in Barcelona, Spain for a third consecutive night to decry the arrest of Pablo Hasel, blocking roads with dumpsters and setting some of them on fire.
The rapper faces nine months in jail for publishing ‘tweets with videos that incited violence’, according to a court ruling.
SPAIN – Protester falls from the roof of a moving police car as it’s speeding away in Spain
The footage shows the moment a protester in Tarragona, Spain falls to the ground from the roof of a moving police car as it was speeding away from the crowd.
The Tarragona City Council said that the driver was following police protocols to avoid being surrounded by protesters.
Fourth night of protests in Barcelona over jailing of rapper Pablo Hasel
A strong Japan-U.K. alliance needed to counter China.
The word “strong” cannot be applied to anything that Boris approaches. More and more Brits see him as their Trudeau.
Xi Jinping sparks panic: Chinese armed ships enter Japanese waters
Myanmar coup: 20-year-old woman who was shot in head by police during protest dies
French Interior minister heads to south France after reported fatal stabbing (reuters, Feb 19, 2021)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security/french-interior-minister-heads-to-south-france-after-reported-fatal-stabbing-idUSKBN2AJ1OJ
“French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Friday he was heading to an asylum seekers centre in the city of Pau in southwestern France after media reported an immigration official has been stabbed to death.
He said on Twitter he would make the trip, but gave no further details on the assault.
“I extend my sincere condolences to the victim’s family and loved ones”, Darmanin said.”
Texans face water disruptions as state thaws after Arctic temperatures
Texas apartment block collapses as firefighters can’t retrieve water from frozen hydrants
Gravitas: Amazon ‘favoured big sellers’ and ‘undercut small businesses’ in India
Gravitas: Is Big Tech the New East India Company?
Myanmar Protest: LGBTQ community calls for unity & peace | Military Coup | Latest World News | WION
Two policemen shot dead at terror attack in Srinagar, India | CCTV footage showed opening fire| News
Myanmar Update: UK and Canada impose sanctions on leaders | Military coup | Dominic Raab | WION
Gravitas: What killed Jack Ma’s IPO? Political threats
Jack Ma’s Dirty Secret | Power Struggle Rips Ant Financial
a power struggle in the CCP
zero hedge – German State Forbids Drivers From Wearing Masks, Sunglasses & Hats At Same Time
Germany’s Bild newspaper reports that Saxony, a region in Eastern Germany, has became the first region in the country to ban drivers from wearing hats and sunglasses while also being masked.
Anybody driving in a car must be identifiable by traffic cameras, the state is demanding. Wearing all three at the same time can greatly obscure an individual’s appearance, to the point of being unidentifiable.
All of this is important since, starting Monday, people will be required to wear masks in vehicles in Saxony if members of more than two households are traveling together.
“Wearing a hat and sunglasses in addition to a mask that covers the face and mouth makes [the driver] unrecognizable. So that’s not allowed,” Saxony’s Interior Minister Roland Woller was quoted as saying.
“General facial features” of the driver must still be visible to the road safety cameras, Woller added, claiming that officials responsible for handing out fines were advised to handle the new rule on a case-by-case basis.
Meanwhile, Germans were mandated last month to wear medical-grade respirator-type masks on public transport and when going to supermarkets. Simple cloth and/or homemade masks aren’t even allowed in such circumstances.
Germany has been among the most aggressive governments on the European Continent when it comes to imposing restrictive measures to combat COVID cases,
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https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/german-state-forbids-drivers-wearing-masks-sunglasses-hats-same-time
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/german-state-forbids-drivers-wearing-masks-sunglasses-hats-same-time
French ‘Islamophobia’ Targeted for Group Closure by Government will Relocate to Belgium (breitbart, Feb 19, 2021)
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/19/french-islamophobia-targeted-for-group-closure-by-government-will-relocate-to-belgium/
“The Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), a group the French government moved to dissolve in the aftermath of the terrorist murder of Samuel Paty, is to relocate to Brussels under a new name.
The CCIF, which French President Emmanuel Macron targetted for dissolution in the wake of the Islamist-inspired beheading of the history teacher, is expected to relocate to neighbouring Belgium, to become the Collective Against Islamophobia in Europe (CCIE) instead. In dissolving itself and moving abroad in the face of the government pursuing it, the body has effectively jumped before it could be pushed by Macron’s anti-extremism crackdown.
But Belgian MP Denis Ducarme has said he will challenge the justice and interior ministers over the proposal, and intends to ask Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne to look into dissolving the association once it arrives in his country, Belgian magazine Le Vif reports.
“Our country cannot become a zone of retreat for Islamists again,” Ducarme said, likely referring to how Bataclan terrorist Salah Abdeslam was able to hide in Brussels’ notorious Molenbeek immigrant district for months following the November 2015 Paris terror attacks before Belgian police eventually caught him in 2016.
“I consider it extremely dangerous to allow such an organisation to establish itself in Belgium, given the actions of its members in France,” Ducarme added.
The CCIF voluntarily dissolved itself at the end of October last year, prior to the French government decree that accused it of giving legitimacy to “a permanent suspicion of religious persecution likely to stir up hatred, violence or discrimination”, according to newspaper Le Monde.
The paper noted that as early as November, French nationals had filed documents to set up the CCIE in Belgium. Earlier this month, the CCIF told its followers that it would be transferring its assets to other groups, including the CCIE.
Belgian Minister of Justice Vincent Van Quickenborne commented on the issue earlier this week, saying there would be no automatic ban on the group, but the intelligence services would monitor the group if needed.”
VP Harris calling France’s Macron and Canada’s Trudeau
Brad is talking about how Biden will have to be replaced before his term in office is over, the 22nd Amendment limits the President to a total of 10 years in office. If Biden resigns after his second anniversary as President Kamala will be able to serve the rest of Bidens term and if the Dems steal the elections for her be elected twice as President. If Biden is forced out in his first year Kamala will be limited to one term as an elected President.
All of the above is based on the idea that the Dems will trying to appear to be following the Constitution. It also is based on the idea that Michelle Obama won’t decide to become President.
Ten year reign.
Even if the Protender is just a hologram, they’re likely to serve that up to get the ten years.
That they will, Biden will have to have a public melt down for the Dems to remove him before 2 years are up. My prediction is he will “Reign” in early February 2023.
Vaccine acceptance slow amongst U.S. military
U.S. service members have been reluctant to get the COVID-19 vaccine and frustrated commanders have been trying to contain internet rumors and find the right pitch that will persuade troops to get the shot.
FEB 19 2021 – Pandemic will not end until world is vaccinated, Merkel says in Munich speech
Germany? and other wealthy countries may need to give some of their own stock of vaccines to developing countries in addition to money, since only vaccinating the whole world will end the coronavirus pandemic?, Chancellor Angela Merkel? said on Friday. G7
FEB 19 2021 – Coronavirus; Boris Johnson says UK’s surplus vaccines will go to poorer countries | 5 News
FEB 19 2021 – Biden travels to Pfizer’s Covid vaccine production plant
Biden is travelling to Pfizer’s Covid vaccine manufacturing plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to tour the facility and make a statement on the vaccine rollout.
According to the CDC, more than 57 million Americans have received a coronavirus vaccine dose.
Biden Arrives in Kalamazoo, Michigan to Tour Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine Plant
Prince Charles saddened by low vaccine uptake by ethnic minorities in Britain
The prince of wales says he is saddened by the variable uptake of coronavirus vaccines in black and Asian communities across Britain.
A report has found adults in minority ethnic groups are between 10 to 20 per cent less likely to receive a vaccine than those in white groups.
Speaking at a webinar on vaccine safety, Prince Charles said production of the vaccines was the result of a superhuman effort by medical experts and citizens must get vaccinated regardless of race, age, and gender.
Celebrity advert urges ethnic minorities to get Covid-19 vaccine
A video starring high profile stars from different ethnic minority backgrounds has been broadcast on television.
Among the familiar faces were singer Beverly Knight, comedian Romesh Ranganathan, and England cricket player Moeen Ali.
S. Korea’s FDA-approved syringes increase 20% vaccination efficiency
Standard needles make five doses out of it,…leaving some 84 microliters unused.
But this LDV is capable of extracting six doses as it only leaves 4 microliters.
[…]once it is re-capped, it can’t be reopened. This is very important in dealing with infectious diseases like COVID-19, because it prevents the needle from being re-used or being exposed to other object that could potentially spread the virus.”
Vaccine Providers Ask State For Better Communication Amid Moderna Mix-Up
The state department of health is still dealing with the Moderna vaccine mishap where second doses were given as first doses. It said the vaccine mixup will take a few weeks to correct;
Why many in military are refusing the COVID-19 vaccine
Brazil’s Carnival dancers perform to support vaccine
Brazil’s cancelled carnival: Street parties banned over COVID-19 concerns
Body cam: Women dressed as grannies to get vaccine
Ottawa Public Health – What are the side effects of the COVID 19 vaccines ASL
The side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines in American sign language.
Ottawa Public Health – How do mRNA vaccines work ASL
Guterres : Vaccine equity is crucial for saving lives and economies
G7 leaders commit $7.5 billion to vaccine rollout in poor countries
CBC – Feds pledge $75 million to COVAX program
The federal government is pledging another $75 million into the global vaccine-sharing initiative known as COVAX.
Minister of International Development Karina Gould reacts to criticism of Canada being the only G7 country tapping into the program’s supply of vaccines.
(Richard: The Dems are showing just how petty they are and how small their souls are, vindictive acts like this are driving more people away from the Dems and convincing people that Trump is telling the truth about the election.)</em)
Just when you thought that they cannot go down any further, they come back with a sourer move
Bill of Attainder.
Not Constitutional.
But that may no longer matter.You are right, that may no longer matter, the Second Impeachment was Unconstitutional but that didn’t stop the Trump haters. The Gun Control Laws are Unconstitutional but they don’t care. The censorship laws are Unconstitutional but they keep trying. The anti Christianity actions are Unconstitutional but they keep trying.
The Covid Scam has gotten people use to the Government doing things that are Unconstitutional and now they think they have enough power to get away with a whole lot. As JE Dyer said the Old Paradigm is dead and will never come back, we have to learn the new Paradigm and live with it. One thing is we are going to have to get Judges and Politicians who have guts enough to fight to preserve the Constitution. The refusal of State and Federal Judges to even look at the evidence of Vote Fraud doesn’t bode well for a peaceful future or a peaceful decision of what the new paradigm is.
‘ABC forgets’ documentary which ‘absolutely skewers the renewable energy industry’
France sends warships to South China Sea ahead of exercise with US and Japan.
Cuomo’s New York Nursing Home Covid Cover Up | America Uncovered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpLF8Szg7gQ
Joe Biden Actually Just Said This About Chinese Culture…
Update on SARS-CoV-2 events in animals
The OIE [World Organisation for Animal Health] established in January 2020 an ad hoc group on “COVID-19 at the animal-human interface.” The group has been keeping the OIE updated on investigations into the potential role of animals and other matters of relevance by means of periodic consultations.…
USA: The 8-member gorilla troop at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park is recovering well following the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection (B.1.429 lineage) in several troop members earlier in January 2021. Some of animals had presented symptoms including mild coughing, congestion, nasal discharge and intermittent lethargy. These animals would be vaccinated with a recombinant purified spike protein vaccine intended for non-human use.
It was noted that the Wildlife Working Group has a longstanding discussion with the OIE about vaccination of endangered/highly valued animal species. Some countries have CONCERNS about the use of vaccines for diseases that are not present in their farmed/domesticated animal populations because it may have implications for disease freedom in relation to trade….
It is important to acknowledge that having a compatible ACE2 receptor is NOT THE SOLE condition for SARS-CoV-2 to infect a certain animal species; animal-specific factors come into play.
https://www.oie.int/fileadmin/Home/MM/12th_call_AHG_COVID-19.pdf
………
Strategies for animal welfare seem to make more sense than ones that target humans.
Viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in adults during the first and second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Houston, TX: the potential of the super-spreader.
Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a minority of index cases are associated with a majority of secondary cases suggesting that superspreaders could drive the pandemic. We identified a phenotype in individuals with extremely high viral load who could act as superspreaders.
Of the 11 564 samples tested, 1319 (11.4%) were positive for SARS-CoV-2. An increase in weekly median viral load occurred in the second wave of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic.
This population was more likely to be women, outpatients, symptomatic, and have an extremely high or high viral load. In patients with multiple RT-PCR positive tests, the duration of viral shedding was comparable between individuals with asymptomatic/mild and mild/moderate illness severity.
We detected a small group of individuals with extremely high SARS-CoV-2 viral load with mild illness. We believe that these individuals’ characteristics could be consistent with the superspreader phenomenon and that greater awareness of the social dynamics of these individuals is needed to understand the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiab097/6135117
[from above, snips]
Discussion
In a recent report that described the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in two Indian states, approximately 8% and 20% of the index cases were responsible for transmitting approximately 60% and 40%, respectively of the secondary cases [32]. Impressively, no positive cases were detected from contact tracing of approximately 70% of the index cases.
[comparable report from Shenzhen, China]
The overall phenotype seen in the second pandemic wave shifted to women with no reported comorbidity who were overrepresented in the extremely high or high viral load groups.
It is apparent that extremely high and high viral loads do not translate to disease severity. Many were asymptomatic or had mild illness indicating that without appropriate viral detection, social distancing and quarantine, individuals who have extremely high or high viral load will be able to spread SARS-CoV-2 and sustain the current COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to viral load, it is essential to evaluate other mechanisms potentially contributing to efficient viral transmission.…
In summary, we detected a marked increase in the median viral load of SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals during the second wave of the pandemic. The extremely high and high viral load groups in general were asymptomatic or had mild clinical illness.
The duration of the high viral load and the mild nature of the illness suggest many individuals go undiagnosed. Greater awareness of the social dynamics of these individuals is needed to understand their potential to be superspreaders of SARS-CoV-2.
https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiab097/6135117
A comment:
“In what is known as the 20/80 rule, a small percentage of individuals within any population has been observed to contribute most to transmission.
This rule governs inter-individual transmission dynamics for many pathogens in several species, and individuals who infect disproportionately more secondary contacts, as compared to most others, became known as “superspreaders”.