Reader’s links for June 29, 2021

Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

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  1. https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/6/26/22550981/carl-bergstrom-joe-bak-coleman-biologists-ecologists-social-media-risk-humanity-research-academics

    M. sounds wonderful. Until you read the trash and see what these indoctrinated fools call “misinformation.

    A group of 17 researchers across disciplines from biology to philosophy published a paper arguing that the impacts of social media should be treated as a “crisis discipline.” |Thamrongpat Theerathammakorn/EyeEm via Getty Images

    Recode

    Social media has drastically restructured the way we communicate in an incredibly short period of time. We can discover, “Like,” click on, and share information faster than ever before, guided by algorithms most of us don’t quite understand.

    And while some social scientists, journalists, and activists have been raising concerns about how this is affecting our democracy, mental health, and relationships, we haven’t seen biologists and ecologists weighing in as much.

    That’s changed with a new paper published in the prestigious science journal PNAS earlier this month, titled “Stewardship of global collective behavior.”

    Seventeen researchers who specialize in widely different fields, from climate science to philosophy, make the case that academics should treat the study of technology’s large-scale impact on society as a “crisis discipline.” A crisis discipline is a field in which scientists across different fields work quickly to address an urgent societal problem — like how conservation biology tries to protect endangered species or climate science research aims to stop global warming.

    The paper argues that our lack of understanding about the collective behavioral effects of new technology is a danger to democracy and scientific progress. For example, the paper says that tech companies have “fumbled their way through the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, unable to stem the ‘infodemic’ of misinformation” that has hindered widespread acceptance of masks and vaccines. The authors warn that if left misunderstood and unchecked, we could see unintended consequences of new technology contributing to phenomena such as “election tampering, disease, violent extremism, famine, racism, and war.”

    It’s a grave warning and call to action by an unusually diverse swath of scholars across disciplines — and their collaboration indicates how concerned they are.

    Recode spoke with the lead author of the paper, Joe Bak-Coleman, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public?, as well as co-author Carl Bergstrom, a biology professor at the University of Washington, to better understand this call for a paradigm shift in how scientists study the technology we use every day.

    Do read onsite and boggle.

  2. https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-discussed-making-bioweapons-to-target-races-covertly-launching-attack-with-asymptomatic-spread-report

    A new report from an investigative reporter who has been at the forefront of reporting on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) alleges that China discussed the threat that man-made viruses pose to mankind and how they might be weaponized to target certain groups of people.

    David Asher, a top investigator who led the State Department’s investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, an investigation that the Biden administration shut down, said that what China wrote in its declaration to the United Nations “essentially laid out a road map of developments in biotechnology pertinent to the biological weapons convention that the Chinese indicated as particularly salient.”

    “It wasn’t clear from their declaration whether this was for potential offensive use of synthetic biology and other techniques … but it certainly appears to lay out what they felt were going to be the drivers of a more potent offense in the future decade related to biotechnology,” he said. “This is probably the most disturbing thing to note that there could be a type of population-targeting or ethnic targeting using biology, according to the Chinese. That doesn’t mean they did it in the case of Covid-19 or anything else but it definitely implied that they were fully aware that this is feasible and possible.”

    When asked by Australian investigative reporter Sharri Markson about how to interpret what China wrote, Asher said, “They lay out the cookbook and they say ‘What’s the impact of the cookbook?’”

    “They say (it’s the) increased threat of biological weapons using advanced technology,” he said. “They talk about increased difficulty complying with the convention.”
    China made the statements in a submission several years ago to the Seventh Review Conference of the State Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, and Stockpiling of Biological and Toxin Weapons.

    The submission warned that “new kinds of biotechnology” could be used “for hostile purposes, posing a latent threat to human society,” and that the threat was “growing.” The submission said that the new technologies were making it harder to maintain “full and strict compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention.”

    The following are some excerpts from China’s submission:

    “Advances in synthetic biology are turning the synthesis and transformation of life into reality and mean that the basic regulation of biological research, the preparation of new drugs and the promotion of new sources of energy are groundbreaking endeavours, but they also have the potential to be used for evil ends. Theoretically speaking, synthetic biotechnology poses a huge latent threat to mankind, as it could be used in the future to create pathogens of even greater toxicity and infectiousness than those currently known, and which are resistant to traditional vaccines and drugs as well as hard to isolate and identify with present day technology.”
    “The sequencing of pathogen DNA has opened the way to the development of new diagnostic methods, drugs and vaccines. But the same data can also be used to synthesize new pathogens and modify pathogen antigenicity, infection specificity, toxicity and resistance to drugs, causing traditional means of dealing with infectious disease to fail and rendering the prevention and control of such disease even harder.”
    “Thorough study of systems biology in the body can systematically analyze differences in genes and susceptibility to disease in the population and lay the theoretical foundations for an across the board improvement in levels of human health, but it can also create the potential for biological weapons based on genetic differences between races. Once hostile elements grasp that different ethnic groups harbor intrinsically different genetic susceptibilities to particular pathogens, they can put that knowledge into practice and create genetic weapons targeted at a racial group with a particular susceptibility.”
    “The rapid development of biological sciences and technologies may significantly increase the destructiveness of biological weapons. One way it may do so is by increasing the virulence of pathogenic micro-organisms. Microbial genomic research can enhance the virulence or pathogenicity of a pathogen by modifying its antigenic properties. Another way is by rendering traditional medicines and vaccines ineffective. Supergenes conferring resistance to antibiotics can be synthesized by DNA recombination technology, making pathogens highly drug-resistant. Pathogens with detoxifying genes can also be produced, as can pathogens that can evade recognition and attack by the immune system, rendering vaccines and medicines useless. A third way is by making the target population more susceptible to pathogenic microbes. RNA interference can inactivate specific genes in the body, inhibit expression of important bodily proteins, disrupt physiological function and heighten the effects of a bioweapon attack. And a fourth way is by making biological attacks more stealthy. Foreign genes or viruses can be introduced into the target population asymptomatically by means of gene-therapy vectors, enabling a biological weapon attack to be mounted covertly.”
    “Developments in biotechnology have created many new problems and challenges for biological arms control and treaty monitoring, making it harder to monitor compliance with the Convention in the biological sphere. One way this occurs is through the synthesis of new agents of biological warfare. Theoretically speaking, synthetic biology can create microbes possessing any special attributes people may wish – new varieties of virus and bacteria more virulent, more infectious and more drug resistant than any known to mankind today. Gene sequencing is getting steadily faster and the costs are coming down; industrial applications of sequencing technology are already appearing and can be used to synthesize new pathogens. Another way is through making it easier to create biological weapons. Modern genetic technology can be used to bring about genetic modifications in traditional agents of biological warfare, making their production more efficient and increasing their stability. A third way is through the gestation of a new generation of biological weapons. Research into genetic differences and susceptibility to pathogens among different populations and species can lead to the creation of racial bioweapons based on genetic differences between races.”
    “The science and technology of synthetic biology are spreading rapidly and synthetic DNA technology has already become a basic tool of biological research; the related reagents and equipment are becoming ever easier to obtain. Accidental mistakes in biotech laboratories can place mankind in great danger. Synthetic biology in some civilian biotechnology research and applications may unintentionally give rise to new, highly hazardous man-made pathogens with unforeseeable consequences.”
    Miles Yu, a top adviser to then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, told The Australian that he had discovered a Chinese research paper that contained the research fields that China mentioned in its submission.

    “It sent chills up my spine when I saw the PLA submissions and the type of research China’s biological weapons experts had been working on, as China proudly announced to a world biological weapons convention, right there in black and white,” Yu said about the document. “It bore macabre significance because anything China’s bio-labs do might well be connected to the PLA’s biological weapons of mass destruction of the most lethal and sophisticated kind.”

  3. https://youtu.be/Lvx468uI-0s

    “…In the face of excessive credit expansion, consumers’ inflation expectations accelerate to the point that money becomes worthless and the economic system crashes. The term was coined by Ludwig von Mises, a noted member of the Austrian School of Economics and personal witness to the damages of hyperinflation.”

  4. Video: “Why Children Should Not Receive the COVID Shot”
    Mercola – June 29, 2021
    https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/06/29/children-covid-vaccine.aspx

    “FDA ADVISOR DR. PETER DOSHI EXPLAINS WHY CHILDREN SHOULD NOT RECEIVE THE COVID SHOT”
    Posted by Dr. Joseph Mercola – June 29, 2021

    Excerpt:
    DO YOU HAVE VACCINE REGRET?

    If you’ve already had one or two COVID shots and are now having second thoughts, first, be sure to never have another vaccination again, with any vaccine of any kind. Even if you’re not having discernible symptoms as of yet, you’d be wise to start building your innate immune system. To do that, you need to become metabolically flexible and optimize your diet.

    I interviewed Dr. Vladimir Zelenko June 23, 2021, and that interview should go live July 4, 2021….
    https://clarion.causeaction.com/2021/06/29/fda-advisor-dr-peter-doshi-explains-why-children-should-not-receive-the-covid-shot/

    • Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee – 6/10/2021
      U.S. Food and Drug Administration
      Timestamp – 4:08:39 – Peter Doshi, PhD

  5. (Richard: JE is explaining the details of what is happening with Tucker)

    Tucker Carlson: ‘Whistleblower’ advised him NSA monitoring his comms, admin seeks to take him off air – Liberty Unyielding
    J.E. Dyer
    6-7 minutes

    Tucker Carlson: ‘Whistleblower’ advised him NSA monitoring his comms, admin seeks to take him off air

    Fox News video, YouTube

    Fox News host Tucker Carlson broke a story Monday evening which is now bombshelling on social media. Carlson claims a “whistleblower” has advised him that the NSA is monitoring his show’s communications, and the intent is to get him taken off-air.

    The video clip of the segment is below.

    According to Carlson: “Yesterday we heard from a whistleblower within the U.S. government who reached out to warn us that the NSA, the National Security Agency, is monitoring our electronic communications, and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air.”

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/06/28/tucker-carlson-whistleblower-advised-him-nsa-monitoring-his-comms-admin-seeks-to-take-him-off-air/

      • Summary

        Russia’s strategy in the Mediterranean is an integral part of its strategy for the wider European theater, which has long been the principal arena of its foreign policy triumphs and setbacks. Europe’s dominant position on Russia’s foreign policy agenda is a product of its strategic culture, which is in turn shaped by geography, historical legacy, and an elite worldview that considers the West a threat to the domestic political order….

        Contrary to a widespread perception, Moscow’s ambitions in the Mediterranean are more than a matter of its vague pursuit to regain great power status – they are a product of enduring Russian national security requirements. The principal rationale for Russia’s return to the region has been the prospect of a military confrontation in the European theater and concerns about the vulnerability of its southern flank in a conflict with NATO.

        The Kremlin may aspire to dominate the Mediterranean one day, but for now its aim is to deny this option to NATO. Russia is in the Mediterranean to stay, and its push for a greater naval, air, and land presence and increased political influence will continue as long as it remains locked in a tense standoff with NATO in Europe. This warrants heightened vigilance but not, as has often been the case, fears that Russia has replaced the United States/NATO as the key power broker in the region.

      • A realistic view, unlike Nato mouthpieces like the Atlantic Council. The AC is dominated by 0-types, like Susan Rice and others who rotate in and out of demonrat administrations. They want OUR money – defense against the big, bad Russian bear – while ensuring she’s fed NordStream-2 lucre.

        There seems to be no limit on Nato’s efforts to encircle Russia. Color revolutions should have warned us about the fiendish cabal. PTrump certainly could’ve reached an understanding with Putin. Cold warriors are not our allies.

        Remember this one?
        Britain’s man in the US says Trump is ‘inept’: Leaked secret cables from ambassador say the President is ‘uniquely dysfunctional and his career could end in disgrace’

        https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7220335/Britains-man-says-Trump-inept-Cables-ambassador-say-dysfunctional.html

      • RT – Russian Navy and aviation drills in Mediterranean Sea

        Russia’s Defense Ministry published the footage of joint Navy and aviation drill exercises in the eastern part of the Mediterranean sea.

        These were the first flights of the upgraded planes after the runway was extended.

        The navy vessels that took part in the drills practiced the air base defense.

        • I’m trying to understand the bone-deep animosity between the UK and Russia.
          I’ve asked around, been given a clue: read histories of the Crimean War.
          Do a deep dive, then come back with questions.

          That’s my assignment for summer.

      • Thank you very much, I will spend several days going through that.

        Candy indeed.

      • Russia Threatens UK ‘The Bombs Will Hit The Target Next Time’

        The Russian Federation warned the Royal Navy that next time it treads in waters off Crimea, ‘our bombs will hit the target and not be a warning shot’
        […]
        “It is impossible to hide the indignation over the UK Ministry of Defense’s statement that the mentioned destroyer allegedly ‘conducted an innocent passage through Ukrainian territorial waters.’ I have to warn the ex-‘ruler of the waves,’ that next time, such a decision is taken, bombs will be dropped not ahead of the target, but on the target…”

        https://tsarizm.com/news/eastern-europe/2021/06/25/russia-threatens-uk-the-bombs-will-hit-the-target-next-time/

  6. No longer the Canada I grew up in. LOCKDOWNS

    Pastor Artur Pawlowski
    A Calgary judge found him guilty on 2 contempt of court charges. He is expected back in court on July 27, when the court will hear arguments on sanctions against him for breaking the court orders. Those sanctions may even include another term of imprisonment.

    How dare them!

  7. How Underground Fiber Optics Spy on Humans Moving Above
    Vibrations from cars and pedestrians create unique signals in cables. Now scientists have used the trick to show how Covid-19 brought life to a halt.
    fibers
    Photograph: Lawrence Manning/Getty Images

    When last spring’s lockdown quieted the Penn State campus and surrounding town of State College, a jury-rigged instrument was “listening.” A team of researchers from the university had tapped into an underground telecom fiber optic cable, which runs two and half miles across campus, and turned it into a kind of scientific surveillance device.

    By shining a laser through the fiber optics, the scientists could detect vibrations from above ground thanks to the way the cable ever so slightly deformed. As a car rolled across the subterranean cable or a person walked by, the ground would transmit their unique seismic signature. So without visually surveilling the surface, the scientists could paint a detailed portrait of how a once-bustling community ground to a halt, and slowly came back to life as the lockdown eased.

    https://www.wired.com/story/how-underground-fiber-optics-spy-on-humans-moving-above/

    • All towns are using fiber optics for landline phones and internet, now the scientists have turned this network of cables into another tool for Big Brother.

  8. Canada to Make Online Hate Speech a Crime Punishable by $16,000 Fine

    The proposed law would likely run afoul of the First Amendment in the U.S., but despite popular misconceptions Canada is actually its own country.

    Canada’s ruling Liberal government announced on Wednesday that it plans to make online hate speech a crime punishable by as much as $20,000 (roughly $16,250 US) for the first offense and $50,000 ($40,600 US) for the second. The proposal would punish social media users who broke the law but exempt social media companies that host such content from fines.

    The news, first reported by Canada’s public broadcaster, comes after a 20-year-old man recently rammed his truck into a family of five in Ontario, killing everyone but a 9-year-old, in what Canadian police say was an anti-Muslim terror attack.

    Canada’s Attorney General David Lametti assured Canadians that the proposed law would not target “simple expressions of dislike or disdain” during a virtual press conference on Wednesday that was livestreamed on YouTube.

    Instead, Lametti said, the law is only designed to punish the most extreme forms of hatred that “expresses detestation or vilification of a person or group on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.”

    “Hate speech directly contradicts the values underlying freedom of expression and our Charter of Rights,” Lametti said. “It threatens the safety and well-being of its targets. It silences and intimidates, especially when the target is a vulnerable person or community. When hate speech spreads, its victims lose their freedom to participate in civil society online.”

    The government, headed by Prime Minsiter Justin Trudeau, released a statement on Wednesday outlining the goals of the proposed legislation, known as Bill C-36, as well as other steps being taken to defend against online racial abuse:

    – amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to define a new discriminatory practice of communicating hate speech online, and to provide individuals with additional remedies to address hate speech;
    – add a definition of “hatred” to section 319 of the Criminal Code based on Supreme Court of Canada decisions; and
    – create a new peace bond in the Criminal Code designed to prevent hate propaganda offences and hate crimes from being committed, and make related amendments to the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

    The government also notes that it will released a “detailed technical discussion paper” in the coming weeks to inform Canadians about the nitty gritty of this proposed law.

    “Online platforms are central to participation in public life and have enormous power over online speech and Canadians’ everyday lives. While they allow us as Canadians to stay in touch with loved ones, learn and debate, they can also be used to discriminate, harm and silence,” Steven Guilbeault, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, said in a statement published online.

    “In consultation with Canadians, the Government of Canada is committed to taking action to put in place a robust, fair and consistent legislative and regulatory framework on the most egregious and reprehensible types of harmful content,” Giullbeault continued. “This is why we will engage Canadians in the coming weeks to ask for feedback on specific, concrete proposals that will form the basis of legislation.”

    It’s not yet clear how images would be treated under this new law as opposed to text. As just one example, would blackface be considered hate speech? If so, Canada’s Prime Minister could be in a bit of trouble.

    https://gizmodo.com/canada-to-make-online-hate-speech-a-crime-punishable-by-1847163213

    • the rebel -Justin Trudeau introduces worst censorship law of any western democracy

  9. Spain takes first step to legalize gender self-determination

    MADRID (AP) — The Spanish Cabinet on Tuesday passed a draft bill on LGBTI rights that will seek parliamentary approval to allow transgender people over 16 to freely change their gender and name without doctors or witnesses intervening in the process.

    The proposal could still change during a lengthy parliamentary debate of the legal draft. But if its essence prevails, Spain would join a handful of countries around the world enshrining gender self-determination without a diagnosis of gender dysphoria or requiring that a person’s physical appearance conform with traditional male or female expressions.

    It would also make the changes in the official registry faster than in most countries: up to four months from the first application to the change finally appearing in official documents. The process would be easily reversible for half a year, but it would require going to court after that.

    The legal proposal has been controversial from the start, pitting against each other transgender rights activists and some feminists who believe that the law blurs the concept of biological sex.

    It had also opened an internal battle within the left-wing ruling coalition, with the leading Socialists initially opposing self-determination in line with historical feminist activists while the junior partner of the governing alliance, the far-left United We Can party, strongly pushed for the free, unsupervised right to choose one’s gender.

    Negotiations within the Cabinet were “long and difficult,” Irene Montero, Equality Minister and a prominent leader of United We Can said Tuesday. But the final draft, she added, was “a giant’s step” in guaranteeing the rights of the transgender community.

    Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the leader of the Socialist, said that the draft law put Spain “at the international forefront” in rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities.

    The law also bans so-called conversion therapies to suppress sexual orientation or gender identity, establishes fines and punishment for attacks on LGBTI people and overturns a ban that prevented lesbian couples from registering their children under both parents’ names.

    “We recognize the right of everyone to be whoever they want to be,” he wrote.

    The Spanish government’s move comes amid deep divisions in the European Union on the issue, and with a backlash against LGBTI rights playing out in Hungary and Poland, two countries led by illiberal populist governments who have used the issue in an apparent attempt to energize their conservative voters.

    According to the Spanish draft, all nationals above 16 will be able to change their gender and name by simply stating twice their desire to do so. Previously, applicants needed a diagnosis by several doctors of gender dysphoria, which is the psychological condition of feeling a mismatch between one’s biological sex and gender identity. In some cases, they also needed proof they had been living for two years as the gender they identified with — or even records showing they had taken hormones.

    Teenagers between 14 and 16 can also apply with parental permission or by going to a judge if there is disagreement among them. A court is involved in applications for those between 12 and 14, and children under 12 are only allowed to register a new name but not to switch their gender.

    Transgender rights groups had put pressure for months on the government by holding hunger strikes, proposing more ambitious drafts to Parliament and urging organizers of the country’s biggest Pride celebration, in Madrid, to exclude the Socialists from the annual march.

    Mar Cambrollé, from Plataforma Trans, said Tuesday that while the proposal accepts their demand for self-determination, it falls short in protecting transgender children under 14 or guaranteeing the rights of non-binary people and transgender migrants.

    “It’s a brutal trim from of what we had demanded for decades,” the veteran activist told The Associated Press. “It does not develop specific policies to deal with unemployment of trans people, it does not delve into protocols for preventing harassment in educational centers, it does not speak of a health care model for us and it does not touch on sports.”

    Natalia Aventín, head of the Euforia group of families with transgender members, said that transgender rights had been watered-down because the government included them as part of broader legislation in favor of lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer communities.

    “The government’s marketing campaign has been better than the law itself,” Aventín said.

    Some feminist opponents say they fear that some men could use gender self-determination to invade women’s safe spaces, that it puts pressure on young women who see it as easier to succeed in today’s world as men or that it would skew quotas and national statistics, making everything from jobs to sports more difficult for women.

    A manifesto signed by about 50 women’s groups making the rounds on social media accused the government of “betraying” women.

    One of the groups said that Sánchez’s administration should instead pay attention to the gender wage gap and other issues in the feminist agenda. One “that has nothing to do with feelings but rather pay attention to the reality of half of the population in this country,” the Forum of Feminist Politics said in a statement.

    https://apnews.com/article/europe-spain-government-and-politics-def982c1538ea445982bbf42d397e86c

    • CBC – What it’s like to be non-binary

      ( 8 min 12 )

      Three non-binary people talk about their gender identities, society’s binary understanding of the spectrum, and how they found themselves outside of it.

    • CNN – Outrage at EU country’s homosexuality education bill

      ( 7 min 53 )

      Hungary‘s parliament passed legislation which bans all educational materials and programs for children which are considered to promote homosexuality, gender reassignment and the concept of sexuality deviating from the one assigned to a person at birth.

      The move prompted intense criticism from human rights groups and opposition parties.

      CNN’s Isa Soares reports and Lynda Kinkade speaks with Klara Dobrev, a Hungarian politician and European Union Parliament Vice-President.

    • RT – Demonstrators take to the streets of Madrid to rally in support of ‘trans law’

      Demonstrators took to the streets of the Spanish capital of Madrid in the wake of a parliament vote on the so-called ‘trans’ law which, if adopted, would allow people over 16 to change their name and gender by simply making a statement.

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  10. (Richard: This is much more dangerous then it sounds, this is the opening moves to install political officers in the Military. In the Soviet Union the political officers held more authority then the commanding officers.)

    US Generals Get ANTIFA to Help Purge “White Extremists” from the Military


  11. IRAQ – Symbolic funeral held in Baghdad for paramilitaries killed by US air raid

  12. ctv news – Canadian woman released from ISIS detention camp in Syria

    Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon discusses the need to repatriate Canadian nationals held in an ISIS detainment camp in Syria.

    • CBC – Canadian woman released from ISIS detention camp

      A Canadian woman being held in an ISIS detention camp in northeast Syria has been released with the help of the former U.S. diplomat who helped get her four-year-old daughter out of the camp and to relatives in Canada earlier this year.

  13. CBC – Expert breaks down the latest on COVID-19 vaccine mixing and matching

    A new study led by Oxford University researchers suggests mixing and matching COVID-19 vaccines generates good protection from the coronavirus.

    Infectious diseases specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch explains what this might mean for Canadians.

    • AUSTRALIA – GPs swamped by younger adults wanting AstraZeneca vaccine

      GPs have been swamped by younger Australians lining up for the AstraZeneca vaccine after the Federal Government changed to the vaccine rollout to allow AstraZeneca to under 40s.

    • AUSTRALIA – Young people turned away from vaccine clinics after AstraZeneca announcement

      The government has also announced doctors will receive indemnity, meaning they can’t be held legally responsible for any adverse reactions to the AstraZeneca vaccine.

      • sky news australia – AMA advises under 40s to wait for Pfizer

        The Australian Medical Association says it was blindsided by Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement to allow under 40s to get the AstraZeneca jab and is advising them to wait for the Pfizer vaccine.

        On Monday Mr Morrison announced GPs will be given no-fault indemnity for AstraZeneca shots given to under 60s in a bid to boost vaccination rates.

        However, it has been revealed the medical advice has not actually changed and the AstraZeneca vaccine is only recommended to those aged over 60 due to the extremely rare blood clotting side effect.

        The AMA has said it is still backing the advice provided by the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI).

        AMA President Dr Omar Khorshid said,” now of course if we had a really big outbreak then the risk benefit changes, and AstraZeneca becomes an excellent vaccine for everybody”.

        “That’s where the disagreement, that’s where the confusion has been around this vaccine.

        “It is safe, it is effective, but for those under 60 there is a better vaccine and that is Pfizer.”

    • ABC News – Study: Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccine protection COULD last years

      Health experts are urging people to get vaccinated as the highly contagious delta variant spreads.

    • FORBES – The Quiet Scientist Behind The Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA Vaccine

      Katalin Karikó is an unsung hero. For decades, she has quietly devoted her career to studying and promoting mRNA technology—technology that is now the basis of the Covid vaccines being distributed across the globe.

      Karikó was born in Hungary and began her scientific career there, but immigrated to Philadelphia in 1985 with her husband, daughter, and the equivalent of $1200 stuffed in her daughter’s teddy bear for safe keeping. Her first ten years in the U.S. were not smooth; her idea that mRNA could be used to fight disease was, at the time, considered too radical and risky. She was demoted from her job at a Penn lab and was diagnosed with cancer shortly thereafter. But she didn’t give up on her mRNA thesis; in 2006 she cofounded a firm to develop mRNA drugs, and in 2013 joined BioNTech as a senior vice president. She is also now the head of its RNA protein replacement therapies.

      “I never doubted it would work,” she told the Guardian shortly before the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine got emergency use authorization from the federal government. “I always wished that I would live long enough to see something that I’ve worked on be approved.”

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      COVID-19 vaccine scientist Katalin Kariko was listed as Communist-era police informant

      A biochemist whose work was integral to the development of vaccines for COVID-19 has admitted that she was an asset for the security services during Hungary’s Communist era.

      [...]Kariko’s role as a listed informant has been in the public domain since her name was listed in a book in 2017. But it was highlighted this weekend by a right-wing media outlet when she returned to Hungary to receive an honour for her work on COVID-19.

      https://www.euronews.com/2021/05/24/covid-19-vaccine-scientist-katalin-kariko-was-listed-as-communist-era-police-informant

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    • AUSTRALIA – Young people should get COVID vaccine priority, says Epidemiologist Mary-Louise McLaws

      Speaking on the ABC, she said the rollout shoud ‘go where you get most juice for your squeeze’ – and ‘if the young ones don’t get it they can’t spread it’.

    • COVID-19 vaccine reactions: Families describe adverse responses to shot

      ( 12 min )

      Sen. Ron Johnson holds a news conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with families from across the country who share their experiences regarding adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines.

      The state’s governor, Tony Evers, called Johnson’s roundtable “reckless and irresponsible.”

    • Study: Third AstraZeneca shot gives strong immunity

      A third “booster” shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine produces a strong immune response, researchers said on Monday (June 28), adding there was not evidence that such shots were necessary in light of shortages in some countries.

    • Creator of mRNA Tech Questions Vaccine Safety, Ethics of Rollout

      ( 8 min 47 )

      While politicians and public health professionals continue to push for maximum vaccination, there’s still debate happening around the safety and risks of the shots.

      Regardless of your opinion about that, at least we can agree that we’re talking about a science that’s quite complex; Moderna and Pfizer are using mRNA technology that’s never before been used in humans, to fight a virus that’s also never been seen before.

      Add to that, the fact that almost any discussion on the topic immediately becomes politicized and sometimes even censored.

      Yet, people are legitimately curious, concerned, and confused, since we’re talking about injecting something new into our own bodies.

      Dr. Robert Malone is one person who definitely has the expertise to speak about this—he invented the mRNA technology—but he was recently censored.

      He had appeared in the Darkhorse podcast with Bret Weinstein, an evolutionary biologist himself, for a 3-hour deep dive discussion into the topic.

      We don’t have that long here, but there are some important questions we can ask Dr. Malone about safety, risks, and the ethics of this vaccine rollout.

    • New York Post – Prove you’re vaccinated with this ImmunaBand bracelet

      The COVID-19 pandemic has reached a stage where infections can now be controlled and prevented by vaccinations.

      Whether it’s Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson, more and more New Yorkers are getting vaccinated so that we can protect each other, and especially protect vulnerable populations. It’s also becoming more apparent that being able to prove your vaccination status will be a useful thing going forward. Being able to prove that you’re fully vaccinated could become an essential way of living and being able to live a life of normality, like before the pandemic.

      The ImmunaBand Vaccination Band is a useful tool that can help in this situation, and it’s currently on sale for $17.95, a small price to pay in order to be able to prove your vaccinated status wherever you go.

      Wearing this band can indicate to everyone around you that you’ve had your COVID-19 vaccination – and that you’re fully vaccinated. The seamless bracelet from ImmunaBand helps to ease the uncertainty everyone is still feeling about the pandemic, and also offers a hopeful symbol of society’s eventual defeat of the virus. The bracelet is comfortable and easy to put on, and is made from durable silicone and stainless steel. It’s available in one size that will fit everyone and weighs a slight .75 ounces.

      The bracelet also features a unique QR code that can show your COVID-19 vaccination card. Simply use the camera app on any smartphone to scan the QR code, enter the PIN you set up, and you can view your CDC vaccination card on the device.

      The ImmunaBand Vaccination Band is now on sale for just $17.95 and could allow you to more quickly get back to the pre-pandemic life we’ve been missing.

      https://nypost.com/2021/06/28/prove-youre-vaccinated-with-this-immunaband-bracelet/

    • Hydroxychloroquine and its friends

      ( 51 min 44 )

      Dr. Harvey Risch, MD, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology Yale University.

    • Deutsche Pravda – Drugs research update: Will we get a cure for COVID-19?

      Finding effective drugs to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic is the top goal for medical researchers around the world.

      We have already developed several effective vaccines, but a cure has not yet been found.

      Why is this so difficult?

      So far, doctors have tried drugs that have already been used for other viral diseases like HIV, Ebola, SARS, and influenza.

      Sometimes they can help, but they are not the breakthrough medical experts are hoping for.

      What we do know is that how well a drug works depends above all on when it is administered.

      In the early stage when the virus enters the body and multiplies.

      Or a later phase when the body reacts with inflammation and immune defenses.

      Hospitals around the world are gaining experience with COVID-19.

      And they’re gathering data in the hope that it will soon be possible to do more than just protect healthy people with a vaccination.

  14. CBC – Expert hopeful Parliament will compromise over documents about fired scientists

    Associate professor of international affairs at Carleton University Philippe Lagassé says he’s still hoping the House of Commons can reach a compromise over the release of documents containing information about the firing of two scientists from Canada’s highest-security laboratory.

  15. After Trump’s exit, China is back to its agenda of debt-trapping impoverished nations

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    India shifts 50,000 troops to China border

  17. Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh warns China | India | Latest World English News | WION News

  18. CNN – Tucker Carlson calls America’s top general a stupid pig

    CNN analyst Max Boot reacts to Fox News host Tucker Carlson referring to Gen. Mark Milley as a stupid pig after Milley’s forceful rebuke of renewed efforts from Republican members of Congress to question the Defense Department’s diversity efforts and alleged embrace of “critical race theory.”

  19. US Generals Get ANTIFA to Help Purge “White Extremists” from the Military

  20. Dad shoots ‘peeping Tom’ after allegedly catching creep staring at his young daughter through her bedroom window
    Phil Shiver
    3-4 minutes

    A Texas father took action with his licensed firearm over the weekend after allegedly catching a man peeping at his young daughter through her bedroom window and fondling himself.
    What happened?

    The father, along with his wife, reportedly confronted an intoxicated man who was inappropriately touching himself outside their 10-year-old daughter’s window late Sunday night, according to KTRK-TV.

    The child spotted the man first and screamed, alerting her parents to the situation.

    When they came running into the bedroom, the couple said they saw the man looking into their child’s window. The parents, both armed with handguns, then ran into the front yard and attempted to detain the “peeping Tom.”

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/texas-dad-shoots-peeping-tom?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210629Trending-Dadshoots&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News

  21. The Feds Can’t Compel States to Enforce Restrictions on Guns or Immigrants
    The anti-commandeering principle serves causes favored by both the right and the left.

    Jacob Sullum | 6.23.2021 12:01 AM
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    Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (Bill Greenblatt/UPI/Newscom)

    When state and local officials decline to help enforce federal firearm rules they view as unconstitutional, The New York Times says, they are adopting “a legally shaky but politically potent strategy” with racist roots. But when state and local officials decline to help enforce federal immigration rules they view as “unjust, self-defeating and harmful to public safety,” the Times says, they should be “proud” of “choos[ing] not to participate in deportation crackdowns.”

    That blatant double standard illustrates how policy preferences and partisan allegiances color people’s views of federalism, which they tend to endorse when it serves their purposes and reject when it doesn’t. But as Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and Attorney General Eric Schmitt recently observed while defending that state’s Second Amendment Preservation Act, “you cannot have it both ways.”

    Missouri’s law, which Parson signed last week, is part of a broader movement to resist federal gun control. It declares that some federal firearm policies—including bans, registration requirements, and taxes that have “a chilling effect” on purchases—”shall be considered infringements on the people’s right to keep and bear arms,” which is guaranteed by the Second Amendment and the state constitution.

    https://reason.com/2021/06/23/the-feds-cant-compel-states-to-enforce-restrictions-on-guns-or-immigrants/

  22. An Open Letter to America’s Veterans and Veterans Organizations – Frontpagemag
    Paul Gardiner
    4-5 minutes

    An urgent call.

    This letter is an urgent call for America’s 20 million military veterans and veterans organizations to actively speak out against the “forces” wanting to change America into a Marxist, communist-like state. As explained below, this is a significant national security issue in which America’s veterans need to become very actively involved.

    The “forces” are nothing less than domestic enemies of America’s cherished Constitution and individual liberties such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the Second Amendment. If the forces are left undefeated, future recruitments of young Americans into the nation’s Armed Forces will undoubtedly suffer, perhaps greatly suffer.

    Today, the weapon of choice of the forces is Critical Race Theory (CRT). Simply stated, CRT is nothing more than a derivation of Marxist, communist ideology wherein a person’s race rather than a person’s class — i. e., working class versus managerial/owner class — is the basis for struggle and conflict. Rather than unite Americans of all races into a strong, vibrant nation, CRT strives to divide Americans and keep them divided into different racial groups in conflict with one another.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/open-letter-americas-veterans-and-veterans-paul-gardiner/

  23. Israel Has Seen Just One Death From COVID-19 in Past Two Weeks Despite Rise in Cases

    Israel’s vaccination program appears to be working in preventing hospitalizations and deaths during the latest outbreak of COVID-19 that saw a rise in daily cases due to the highly contagious Delta variant being brought into the country.

    During the past two weeks, there has been just one COVID-19 death in Israel and the number of serious illnesses stands at just 22 nationwide.

    The number of new confirmed cases topped 100 on June 21, staying above the century mark for consecutive days for the first time since April and prompting the government to reimpose the indoor mask mandate that was lifted on June 15 along with other new restrictions.

    A total of 114 new cases were identified in the last 24 hours and the positivity rate for screening tests is around 0.4%.

    The low hospitalization and death rate could be the result of more people being vaccinated and the local outbreaks affecting young people, although Prof. Nadav Katz, a coronavirus statistician at the Hebrew University, which advises the government, said that there is a 10-day window between a rise in cases and an increase in hospitalized patients.

    https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/06/28/israel-has-seen-just-one-death-from-covid-19-in-past-two-weeks-despite-rise-in-cases/

  24. General Milley Leads the Enemy Within – Frontpagemag
    Daniel Greenfield
    10-12 minutes

    Championing critical race theory, undermining the military.

    [Editors’ note: To sign the Freedom Center’s petitions to remove Admiral Michael Gilday and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin from their positions, CLICK HERE and HERE.]

    Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

    As the Black Lives Matter riots torched the country, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, insisted that the violent assaults threatening the nation’s capital were merely protests, and berated Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller who warned, “These cities are burning”.

    After the White House came under attack and a BLM mob set fire to the gatehouse, Trump aides, at the request of the president, drafted a document invoking the Insurrection Act that would have ended the nationwide reign of Democrat terror by putting troops on the street.

    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/06/general-milley-leads-enemy-within-daniel-greenfield/

  25. Transgender contestant, a biological male, wins Miss Nevada USA?
    Phil Shiver
    3 minutes

    For the first time ever, a transgender contestant will compete to become Miss USA.

    On Sunday, 27-year-old Kataluna Enriquez, a biological male, beat out 21 female contestants to be crowned Miss Nevada USA. Enriquez will now move on to the Miss USA pageant, scheduled on Nov. 29.

    With a victory there, Enriquez would become only the second transgender contestant ever to compete for the Miss Universe title.

    During the competition, Enriquez wore a homemade rainbow-colored gown to celebrate Pride Month and “honor all of those who don’t get a chance to spread their colors,” KVVU-TV reported.

    The news outlet boasted that by winning the pageant crown, Enriquez “is redefining what it means to be a woman and what it means to be beautiful.”

    https://www.theblaze.com/news/transgender-contestant-biological-male-miss-nevada-usa?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210629Trending-MissNevada&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News

  26. Cut Off the Blood Supply to China’s Communist Party: End Trade
    Gordon G. Chang
    7-9 minutes

    (Image source: iStock)

    “I want to be clear on this, our goal is not to hold China back,” said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a June 25 interview with Anne Claire Coudray of TF1. “It is not to establish a policy against China.”

    Really? The Chinese regime spread a disease that has at last count killed 604,000 Americans; last year it urged the violent overthrow of the American government; it is killing tens of thousands of Americans annually with fentanyl and related opioids; and it steals half a trillion dollars of American intellectual property every 12 months. It has even declared a “people’s war” on America.

    To defend itself, the United States should declare that its policy is to end the rule of China’s Communist Party.

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17512/end-china-trade

  27. 13yo girl found strangled in Vienna, police arrest 16yo and 18yo afghan. According to police, sexual crimes against her person have been committed.
    The 18yo had previous convictions for drug offences and had therefore been stripped of subsidiary protected status. The 16yo had requested asylum this year.

    In German:
    https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/chronik/wien-chronik/2110365-Totes-Maedchen-zwei-Festnahmen.html

    “This year, 14 women have already been (presumably) murdered by an (ex-)partner in Austria. In two cases, couples committed murder and suicide. The accumulation of femicides had triggered a debate on the protection against violence. After a round table with victim protection facilities in May, the government announced as an immediate measure that it would raise an additional 24.6 million euros for the protection against violence. Violence protection institutions had demanded 228 million.”

  28. Our revered Elder picks up on Twisted Raghead paranoia as a result of the many recent incidents of sabotage. While they try to downplay them, or ascribe them to devil-jooo-magic, they KNOW their own people have turned against them.

    Former Iranian security official says Mossad has thoroughly infiltrated Iran

    A former Iranian intelligence minister has said all Iranian officials are at risk of being killed by the Mossad.

    Ali Younesi, who served under reformist President Mohammad Khatami from December 2000 to August 2005, blamed Iranian intelligence for negligence.

    Speaking in an interview with reformist Jamaran news website published on Tuesday, Younesi said rivalries between the Intelligence Ministry, the Intelligence Organization of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), and other security services had led to weaknesses. “Parallel organizations are busy fighting insiders rather than monitoring and confronting infiltrators,” Younesi argued.

    He explained that “the Israeli Mossad was able to launch several strikes in Iran, to the extent that it has become a clear and explicit threat to Iranian officials.”

    He pointed out that the priority of the Iranian security services today is to “fight critics at home, not the Israeli security incursion.”
    https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2021/06/former-iranian-security-official-says.html
    ……
    Elder’s source:
    Ex-Intelligence Minister Says Iran Officials Should Fear Mossad
    https://iranintl.com/en/world/ex-intelligence-minister-says-iran-officials-should-fear-mossad

    • The source link is hot on farrr rrright wing, Zionist social media – that includes INDIANS for Israel.
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  29. Double Speak: New White House Talking Point Claims Republicans Are The Defund The Police Party
    True Daily Staff June 29, 2021 America No Comments

    Chad Davis via (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) Flickr

    George Orwell’s 1984 invoked the term double-speak, this term is used to describe when someone says one thing but really means another.

    The White House is engaging in what can only be described as double-speak when it comes to their new talking points revolving around which political party is all about defunding the police.

    White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed that the Republican party is in fact the party that is looking to defund the police.

    https://truedaily.news/2021/06/29/double-speak-new-white-house-talking-point-claims-republicans-are-the-defund-the-police-party/

  30. BREAKING: Former Republican Supreme Court Justice Has Been Selected to Oversee the Election Review Process in Wisconsin
    Written by Martin Walsh
    3-4 minutes

    OPINION: This article contains commentary which reflects the author’s opinion

    A former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice is being tapped by state Republicans to review the 2020 election results.

    GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos announced that he is hiring former justice Michael Gableman to oversee the speaker’s review of the results of the election in the state.

    “What we’re after is fairness and honesty,” he said.

    Gableman, who retired from the state Supreme Court back in 2018, previously expressed concern about the Nov. 3 election.

    “I don’t think anyone here can think of anything more systematically unjust than a stolen election,” Gableman told a crowd at a pro-Trump rally on Nov. 7 in Milwaukee.

    https://conservativebrief.com/former-supreme-justice-43795/

    • This makes three states doing an audit, Arizona, Georgia and now Wisconsin, if there is enough evidence to prove that the election was stolen the Repubs (if they take control of the House and Senate) are going to have to impeach the Biden Administration even if they don’t have enough votes to kick them out of office. A full Senate Trial presenting all of the evidence on CSPAN may be the only way to get the evidence before the public. This will make the voters wonder why the Dems didn’t vote to convict and who knows we may get enough Dems to vote for convention to throw the Crooks out.

      This is not the time to play safe, we know that a civil war is coming and we need to gamble with winning the trial to show public what the Dems are.

  31. Former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Tweets That ‘Zionists’ Did 9/11
    avatar by Benjamin Kerstein

    Then-representative Cynthia McKinney speaks at a news conference after an altercation with a Capitol Hill police officer earlier in the week in Washington, March 31, 2006. Photo: REUTERS/Joshua Roberts.

    Former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who has long been noted for antisemitic and conspiratorial statements, tweeted on Monday that “Zionists” committed the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

    McKinney — who served in Congress from 1993-2003 and 2005-2007 as a Democratic Representative from Georgia — posted an image to Twitter on Monday showing the twin towers of the World Trade Center ablaze on 9/11, presented as a jigsaw puzzle.

    Over the words “the final piece of the puzzle,” a hand inserts the last piece, forming the words “Zionists did it.”

    https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/06/28/former-us-congresswoman-cynthia-mckinney-tweets-that-zionists-did-9-11/