Worthy Of Note

From Catherine Clifford for CNBC:

It is true that Moderna’s mRNA vaccine was ready remarkably fast, as was Pfizer’s.

Chinese scientists put the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus online on Jan. 11. Over the next two days, the NIH and Moderna used it to plot out a vaccine.

Afeyan remembers getting a key call about the development of the Covid-19 vaccine. "January 21st, my daughter’s birthday ... I got a call from Davos [during The World Economic Forum] from the CEO of Moderna," he says. Bancel had been approached by a number of public health groups at the conference "urging" him to work on a vaccine.

Source - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/03/how-moderna-made-its-mrna-covid-vaccine-so-quickly-noubar-afeyan.html

It is worth noting the vaccines were created in response to a genetic sequence provided by the Chinese - NOT the virus itself. And if the impetus for the vaccine came from the WEF, then the entire thing may indeed be a "plot".

By the way, here is the author's resume:

Catherine Clifford is the senior entrepreneurship writer at CNBC. She was formerly a senior writer at Entrepreneur.com, the small business reporter at CNNMoney and an assistant in the New York bureau for CNN. Clifford attended Columbia University where she earned a bachelor’s degree. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and is an avid yogi.

How any of that qualifies her to write knowledgeably about vaccines is a mystery to me. Same goes for the advice of movie stars, sports figures, and/or comics. Any vaccine advice they give seems WAY out of their lane.

Yes, the above report does contain tweets from people claiming to have PhDs, but that's hardly scientific "proof". And no scientist is going to keep their job if they try to tell you these "vaccines" are bad for you.

The Real Rumsfeld ???

Here is Scott Ritter's evaluation of the late Donald Rumsfeld:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56623.htm

Although it may never be proven, Rumsfeld's suspected role in 9/11 overshadows anything in Ritter's op-ed/obit. It's difficult to believe he and Cheney were NOT at the heart of what happened that day, but whatever the case they were among the chief architects of the US response to it ... and that alone assures their place in the Nine Circles of Hell.

And here's a few additional thoughts about Rumsfeld by Edward Curtin:

Then as I sit here my brief peace is roiled by the memory of reading Tacitus, the Roman historian, and his famous quote of Calgacus, an enemy of Rome:

"These plunderers of the world [the Romans], after exhausting the land by their devastations, are rifling the ocean: stimulated by avarice, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor; unsatiated by the East and by the West: the only people who behold wealth and indigence with equal avidity. To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace."

I think of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on his recent deathbed.  Here was a man whose entire life was dedicated to the American Empire.  He spent all his allotted time making war or making money from the spoils of war.  He was a desert maker, a slaughterer for the Empire.  No doubt he died very rich in gold.

Source - https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/07/drinking-coffee-in-the-early-morning-rain-and-thinking-of-donald-rumsfeld/

Held For Ransom

Here is some perspective on a recent ransomware attack:

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/05/1013117515/scale-details-of-massive-kaseya-ransomware-attack-emerge

There is NO WAY the Internet will EVER be secure. If we continue to construct an Internet of Everything, this is only going to get worse.

Humanity's capacity for evil ALWAYS overcomes any obstacles put in its way.

How To Provoke A War

One has to wonder whether ANYONE in DC is still among the sane. Certainly the people who authorized this are not:

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/07/04/black-sea-nato-drill-practiced-strafing-russian-ships/

If this blows up in our faces, which it almost certainly will, what will happen when the Russians sink one (or more) of our aircraft carriers?

Yes, nuclear winter may cool down the planet, but at what cost to humanity?

Promoting Division ???

Here we go again:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/vanessa-williams-sings-black-national-011944138.html

I cannot speak for Vanessa's motives, but it seems clear to me that PBS is promoting national division. Them vs. us - everyone pick a side, and the more sides the better.

If our tax dollars are being used to fund PBS, I'd like them to be cut off. How about you?

How do you hold this kind of mess together? Or do they even care?

Say Goodbye To A/C

Our home air conditioners will be sacrificed to save the planet. You can read about it here:

https://humansarefree.com/2021/07/far-left-climate-change-fascists-air-conditioning-systems-must-be-sacrificed.html

In spite of how the subject is portrayed in the report, this is not a new initiative. The so-called Club of Rome discussed a version of it in their 1972 book The Limits to Growth. It is a bit surprising it took so long to move it to the front burner, so to speak.

By the way, this dovetails nicely into the federal takeover of zoning regulations, as discussed here:

https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-devils-in-details.html

Remember the scene in Dr. Zhivago where he comes home to discover a mob of poor people living in his family's former apartment? Something like that will be an essential feature of the "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy" economy.

The rich of course will continue to own their own homes. And probably your former home, too.

Are you happy now, or are you waiting until they steal all your property?

Dumb question - Tell me again why we fought the Cold War? Was it to defeat communism, or to embrace it?

The Horror Of Indian Residential Schools

If you've been noticing reports about graveyards at Indian residential schools in Canada, I suggest you read these words from Kevin Annett:

For in truth, there is not now, nor has there ever been, an “Indian problem” in Canada. Rather, the problem is a “white” one. The problem is with us.

I won’t point to collapsing eco-systems or troops in Afghanistan to prove this point. Nor need I pose the paradox of how educated men and women, with families of their own and a professed “Christian morality”, could drive needles through infants’ tongues at Indian residential schools, throw three year olds down stairs, sterilize healthy kids, and deliberately allow children to cough their lives away from tuberculosis, and then bury them in secret graves.

The evidence of the problem is more immediate, and far closer to home, in our continued segregation of aboriginal people into a lower standard of humanity that allows them to die at a rate fifteen times greater than other people of this country.

After all, if we Canadians are who we imagine ourselves to be – an enlightened society that “assimilated” native people into our ranks, and made them our equals – then why has not a single person ever been brought to trial for the death of a residential school child? Why is the disappearance of tens of thousands of native children in these schools not the subject of a major criminal investigation? And why is there an Indian Act, and not an Irish or an Italian Act?

Being, in reality, an unofficially apartheid society that operates, in practice, with two standards of justice – one for native people, and one for the rest of us – Canada can no more cure the legacy of the residential schools than it can stop chewing up the earth for short-term comfort and profit. At least, not this side of a fundamental moral and social revolution.

You can find the rest @

https://www.globalresearch.ca/first-nations-why-an-apology-is-wrong-and-deceptive-bringing-humanity-to-bear-on-the-residential-school-atrocity/9066

Unknown to many, we have a similar situation here in the US. Yes, our ancestors neglected, tortured, and killed Indian children, too. And just like our northern neighbors, we have been sweeping the problem under the rug for centuries.

By the way, a while back I read one of Kevin's books. It was a real eye-opener. Search him on the Internet; you'll find both good and bad. In my view he is more credible than any official in any of the Five Eyes countries, all of whom have abysmal records WRT their indigenous populations.