Stating the the effectiveness of Pfizer’s vaccine in preventing a Covid-19 infection fell from 95% to 64%, Israel’s Ministry of Health also said it was 93% effective at preventing serious illness or hospitalization, in a Tweet in July 5, 2021.
The “delta variant” is spreading in Israel which, despite 57.3% of the population being fullt vsccinated, Israel is seeing a spike in cases, an average of 372 per day as of July 7th, but nothing near the average of over 6,000 per day in January of 2021. However, vaccinated people are still getting sick with the delta variant and while hospitalizations are not jumping, there is some sense the promised immunity has not materialized.
Still, while there has been an uptic in cases, there has yet to be a corresponding uptic in deaths, with one death on July 5th.
Haiti’s President, Jovenel Moise, was killed on July 7th by a cammando of foreign mercenaries who portrayed themselves as US DEA agents prior to storming his home. The question is, why was he killed and by whom?
Moise was alleged to have ties to Haiti’s criminal gangs whose violence has been plaguing the nation’s populace. The fact the mercenary force claimed to be DEA agents, and were captured on video yelling “stand down, stand down” in an American accent, may be itself a statement as to the motive of the actual shot-caller who ordered the hit.
Another possibility is that one of the gangs had a beef for the President and thus ordered s hit.
Prime Minister Claud Joseph has now assumed the authority to succeed the President and while direct accusations of his complicity have not surfaced, anyonen investigating this assassination is likely to consider this possibility.
According to AP, in a report on Yahoo News, Jospeh said, “We need every single one to move the country forward.” Referencing enemies of the president, Joseph called the President ‘’a man of courage” who had opposed ‘’some oligarchs in the country, and we believe those things are not without consequences.”
At one point the commandos held three Haitian police hostage in a house they were occupying but they later surrendered. Four commandos were killed and two were captured. But running gun battles with the commandos continued as the acting successor claimed Haitian police would hunt them all down and kill or capture them.
There had been a series of protests, some violent, against his rule, which was becoming more authoritarian, and his inept handling of the economy and the security situation. His death, while shocking, has not been universally mourned inside Haiti.
He has been ruling by decree after failing to hold elections and an upcoming national election in September was the cause of tensions and violence within the country as of late.
During the attack his wife, Martine, was wounded seriously and is now in Miami, Florida, where she is in stable but critical condition. No doubt her survival was not planned by the assassins.
The attack was condemned by the opposition even as the acting successor declared a state of siege but also promised upcoming elections would still occur as planned.
Meanwhile the interim Prime Minister who claims power, was actually replaced the day prior by Joseph, who appointed Ariel Henry. Henry had not yet been sworn in to office and claims to be the Prime Minister while Jospeh, the replaced interim Prime Minister, claims that as the newly appointed Henry hadn’t taken office, he is not the Prime Minister.
Regardless, the US government is clearly backing Jospeh and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called him, assuring him of US assistance.
After the deaths of over 100,000 people, costing the US over $2 trillion, America’s two decade “war on terror” has resolved little and achieved virtually nothing. Fighting for the freedom of people who refuse to fight for themselves has never been a fruitful proposition.
In Afghanistan, the US has never enjoyed popular support for its “nation-building” mission and the Afghan people seem more desirous of Islamic extremist rule than anything approaching freedom. Contrary to the claims of politicians, freedom isn’t sought universally.
As the US has exited the scene, the Afghanistan government is crumbling and the Taliban are marching in, seizing the very weapons meant to fight against them. Regardless of peace talks, it is probable the Taliban will be back in Kabul, back in charge, in a matters of weeks or months. The reset to the previous status-quo may even see a rebirth of Afghanistan as the nexus and safe-haven for Islamic terrorism.
Pictured above, Kabul, target of the Taliban
But aside from the effort to punish Al Qaeda for the attack on 911, the last almost 20 years fighting a “war on terror” have caused some 15,000 US deaths (military and contractors), over 50,000 were injured, but tens of thousands more suffer psychological trauma, such as PTSD, from the failed conflicts. The damage to American prestige and our economy had been immense.
Another casualty has been civil liberty, thanks to The Patriot Act, by which illegal spying Americans and serious undermining of our values for freedom has occurred. Presently, as the failure of a “war on terror” is being whitewashed, the full power of apparatus erected to fight that war is being turned on Americans at home by a Biden administration who deems anyone who is woke to their authoritarianism as a potential domestic terrorist.
As the Taliban marches toward Kabul in US vehicles, they are bound to make ISIS look trifling and soon enough some US politicians looking to burnish their street cred will begin banging the drums of “nation building” again in Afghanistan.
China’s lying down movement is quietly resisting the new Chicom rat-race mandates, but could it become something serious?
China demands productivity while the top 1% in China earn what the lower 50% earn and the authoritarian dictate of long hours without real pay is simply breaking the younger workers.
The “lying down campaign” is all about exiting the rate race. The truth is, no matter how hard you work, the cost of housing is so high, you will not be able to afford a decent place to live. While TFO Global paints this as a political movement, it may not be that simple.
Today’s workers almost all come from one-child families thanks to China’s unforgiving totalitarian “one-child” policy. They are used to pretty much having their own way, being spoiled, and not being asked to make sacrifices. They usually had two sets of grandparents and a mother and father doting on them.
But just as China needs to grow its own consumer economy and increase productivity as its population becomes older, with every one person now being responsible for two retirees, the cost of raising a family and buying a home have also risen dramatically, artificially. China now has a three-child policy and is pushing young people to reproduce as a patriotic duty, but these young people simply have no stomach for it.
Hence the lying down campaign. The idea is that just working real hard and getting married to have three children, all very expensive, is too much of a sacrifice and is materially impossible. Chinese housing prices in its cities is well in excess of the earnings of its workers, by a factor of 10-20 times in most cases. So lying down, putting the breaks on the mad rush to meet unrealistic quotas and exiting the rate race, is the only logical step.
This is not necessarily a political movement. Nobody is screaming “down with communism!” But the potential for this movement to become political, and dangerous, is not lost on the Communist dictatorship, which is actively shunning the lying down campaign as barbaric, unpatriotic, and criminal. Que the calls for rounding up the ringleaders.
These younger workers, all one-child policy victims who never had to learn to get along with other siblings or to hear a word of discipline from their parents and grandparents (who often lived with them), simply don’t feel any need for or see any benefit in working harder, much less having three children!
It’s hard to predict that this will be China’s undoing. The range of possibilities is large, the government is likely to find new ways to push conformity, to dramatically increase the birthrate and present productivity, and to even use robotics and automation, to assist. Moreover, the potential for forced euthanasia targeting infirm people and efforts to force older people to do some kind of work are also not off the table.
But this could become political, the countermeasures could not only fail but backfire, and what is now just a rebellion against a rat-race mentality could become rage against the entire system. A heavy-handed response could actually engender something deeper and more dangerous than people not wanting to work so hard or have so many children.
Bill Collier- Canada has a long and ongoing history of the government dictating sociocultural norms at the end of a gun barrel. Today Canada is grappling with a horrendous “discovery” that doesn’t surprise anyone in the Native community: potentially thousands (over 1000 so far) of unmarked graves of Native children who died while in residential schools meant to brutally obliterate their culture, language, and way of life.
The Bible say of the Disciples that people will oppress them and think they are doing a service to God (see John 16:12), thus revealing the depths of evil and hypocrisy human beings are capable of. And with the cultural genocide waged by Canada from 1874 until 1996, tearing children from their parents and assaulting their Native culture at its core, this was the case. The oppression and abuse were done in the name of Christ, who most certainly did not author such evil.
What happened was children of Native parents were forcefully taken from their homes and placed into residential shcools where they could not speak their language, were forced to convert to “Christianity”, and were treated generally very harshly, especially if they showed any of their Native culture like language, religion, or dress.
Invariably, and perhaps owing to harsh conditions, some children died. They were then buried, never sent home, and often in unmarked graves or in graves where markers were later removed.
This wasn’t the government alone. The state did force these chidlren into these schools, but the schools were run mostly by Catholic and Anglican churches, with 70% being Catholic. Thus, the institutions affiliated with Christ, and in His Name, actively conducted this cultural genocide in a brutal manner. This let to many premature deaths and the traumatic experiences scarred generations of Native children.
Those who would oppress others need only the slightest pretense. The pretense here was an alleged need to assimilate Native children into the broader Canadian society. The people doing this may have convinced themselves they were helping these kids and, worse, doing a service to God.
As Canadians grapple with this brutal history, the question remains, has the spirit of oppression in the very name of things like God, or Christ, or Justice, or whatever, been exorcized from the heart of the country? With tables turned, it is now Christians in Canada who face “forced assimilation” through the “human rights commission” that forces acceptance of practices condemned in the Bible.
The same churches that went along with the religious persecution of non-Christians are now being oppressed and having what they say over the pulpit dictated by the government. That they may garner little sympathy for their fate is owing to their own history of being an instrument of oppression.
Canada has no “Bill of Rights”, and whether it is locking up Native children or Christian pastors, all in the name of forced assimilation to what sociocultural milieu the state favors, the long tradition seems to be a gross disrespect for human rights and human dignity.
The use of Christ as a banner of oppression is certainly baneful to the Native peoples of Canada and it is morally repugnant to any true follower of Christ, first because of the victims and also because it is a abominable taking of the Lord’s Name in vain.
Canada must search its very soul and ask why whatever its government decides the sociocultural norm must be always becomes something one either submits to or is brutalized for refusing to conform thereto.
Chinese President Xi Jinping made a 100th anniversary speech on July 1 that set a new, more strident tone at home and abroad. Xi demanded loyalty, called for more militarism, threatened to return to a more Marxist economic system, threatened China’s neighbors, and called for the advancement of China’s totalitarian system around the world.
In essence, China is becoming as much an existential threat as the USSR, perhaps moreso because our country is so entangled with them economically and because our ruling class essentially want to be China, albeit with the corporate monopolies using the state and not the other way around.
Lest we forget, China’s Marxism is brutality at home and imperialism abroad, the aim being a global communist empire.
Missing from the festivities, as if celebrating totalitarian wokeness ala Mao Zedong is even possible, was the military parade. This may be a sign of growing disconent in the military ranks as, while being missing, the PLA was urged to show loyalty and devotion, which many mean this is a problem.
At home, Xi has been burnishing his image as a successor to Mao and has begun rolling back China’s liberalization of the economy and of any semblance of freedom. Arrests and a social credit system that suppresses dissent are all part of the Chinese system or absolute control. Many Americans of the woke communist variety can only envy Xi.
By this speech, Xi, in his effort to gain the support of the 95 million Party members who lord it over the rest of society, is signaling a fresh and open aggressiveness against internal and foreign foes on par with the worse days of the USSR.
Stocks in China and Hong Kong tumbled as news of the extreme language of the speech got out. Xi warned that anyone who tries to bully China “will face broken heads and bloodshed.”
It is often forgotten that China’s system is totalitarian Marxism. His own words confirm this view:
We must continue to adapt Marxism to the Chinese context. Marxism is the fundamental guiding ideology upon which our Party and country are founded; it is the very soul of our Party and the banner under which it strives. The Communist Party of China upholds the basic tenets of Marxism and the principle of seeking truth from facts. Based on China’s realities, we have developed keen insights into the trends of the day, seized the initiative in history, and made painstaking explorations.
We have thus been able to keep adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of our times, and to guide the Chinese people in advancing our great social revolution. At the fundamental level, the capability of our Party and the strengths of socialism with Chinese characteristics are attributable to the fact that Marxism works.
Of course there is nothing factual about Marxism and Marxism doesn’t work. China’s success is almost entirely to the credit of Western sycophants who traded short-term material gain for economic arrangements that benefited China at the expense of the American people. The “new model” for Marxism is not to just use the state but to proactively control and use the corporation.
China’s totalitarian vision with the triple threat of woke authoritarian platforms and their social credit system, the corporate and financial sector monopolism that serves the Party, and a ruthless state that labels dissent “domestic terrorism”, is envied by America’s ruling class.
But China is also announcing by this speech a drive for global empire, an international neocomm order controlled by Beijing, although puppets in “allied states” may be given autonomy. China seeks world domination, of that there cannot be any mistake.
China is returning to a more brutal totalitarianism and is moving outward toward a new communist imperialism aimed straight at the United States of America.
The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, which our publisher has a joint venture agreement with, published the top 10 “crises” being used to increase total control over our lives by the ruling class.
The crises include things like immigration, the pandemic, and other “crises” that threaten a world on fire from destroying all life, or something that dire. From bogeymen to scapegoats, each crises is a way to turn the screws and increase pressure and confusion.
Some of these crises may be wholly real but exploited, partially real but somewhat manufactured, or completely manufactured. All seem overwhelming and cry out for some sort of massive, centralized response at the national to global scale.
The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor details each and explains their use. (You will need to subscribe to the free starter kit to see the details.) Other items in this issue are equally informative and will fortify you with a more predictive analysis of future and emerging trends.
From a Freedomist perspective, in general, when we start hearing the drums beat in harmony from all sources about a “crisis”, we tend to become very wary and suspicious of what is happening. Even if the crisis is real, the proposed solutions are always meant to transfer more wealth and power from those who create it through work to those who do nothing but lord it over society.
If it always seems the world is on fire, this doesn’t mean it is. It may also just mean the ruling class have found a new way to scare and bully people into surrendering more of their agency and spiritual sovereignty as people made in God’s image to human rulers.
Prescriptions for overcoming these crises and finding gaps for freedom are the focus of much of our content. The way these crises are manufactured or hyped through massive indoctrination is a real cause of concern as, manufactured or not, each crisis tends to hurt real and innocent people.
Preparedness for the things the McAlvany Intelligence Advisor predicts, and they have a good track record of accuracy for over 45 years, is about more than stockpiles of supplies. Having good connections and relationships to people who have each other’s back and pursuing a path of independency through mutual self-reliance and personal financial and material sustainability, outside systems of influence and control, is vital.
The top 10 crises whereby the ruling class seek to control us need not become crises that harm ourselves and our families.
