Regular Fare:
One in two people globally lost income due to the
pandemic - Gallup
Poverty soared
to a pandemic high last month
Births in U.S.
Drop to Levels Not Seen Since 1979
The Dynamics
Behind the Ugly Amount of Empty Office Space
Companies are not massively defaulting on their office leases, and that’s
the good thing. But they have put a historic amount of vacant office space on
the sublease market, while continuing to pay rent to the landlord. They decided
they no longer need that much space, now that some form of flexible work, or
hybrid work-from-home, or even permanent work-from-anywhere is being integrated
into office real estate plans, cost cutting efforts, and footprint-reduction
strategies. Now, 14 months into the Pandemic, office occupancy – workers
actually showing up at the office – is still dreadfully low. As of the end of
April, office occupancy in the 10 largest metros averaged only 26.5% of where
it had been just before the Pandemic, according to Kastle Systems today, whose
electronic access systems secure thousands of office buildings around the
country
The Business Class Has Been Fearmongering About Worker Shortages for Centuries
Instead, business owners seem to mean that they can’t find people who’ll
work for what the owners want to pay them. This is a “shortage” in the same
sense that there is a shortage of new Lamborghinis available for $1,000.
Steve Keen: Reducing Debt
Via A Modern Debt Jubilee - Upgraded Graphics
Deflation Is
Coming Hard And Fast
Quotes of the Week:
Jim Reid: “at this stage it’s hard
to see what gets us out of this perpetual high debt, high intervention, low
default, low productivity loop.”
“We do not have a shortage of willing
workers in this country. We have a shortage of employers who are willing to pay
workers enough to live.”
Bubble Fare:
(not just) for the ESG crowd:
Canada’s Mining
Industry Is Spreading Havoc Around the World — With Justin Trudeau’s Support
Siberia Is on
Fire—and It’s Only May
Climate change:
how bad could the future be if we do nothing?
Action must
replace talk on climate change
Humanity Must Act Now To ‘Reinvent Relationship With Planet’, Urge Nobel Laureates
IEA: The Role of
Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions
Beijing’s
Elusive Bid for Pricing Power on Rare Earths
Are We Building
Back Better? Evidence from 2020 and Pathways for Inclusive Green Recovery
Spending
Pesticides
Threaten the 'Foundations of the Web of Life,' New Soil Study Warns
More: Repairing the
Soil Carbon Rift
COVID Fare:
Covid Lockdown
Cost/Benefits: A Critical Assessment of the Literature
COVID-19 isn’t going away. Increasingly, that’s the consensus among
experts, many of whom believe that between the proliferation of variants and a
reluctance on the part of many Americans to be vaccinated, herd immunity simply
isn’t a realistic goal in the US.
A New Wave of
Vaccines Is Coming, and They’re Not All Also-Rans
Graph/Pics of the Week:
Climate Wars:
IEA Warns Governments To Stockpile Battery Metals
EXTRA [controversial or non-market-related] FARE:
Regular Fare:
Johnstone: Capitalism is a misanthropic, dystopian religion
Capitalism is a misanthropic, dystopian religion. By
“capitalism” I mean this or any other possible system wherein mass-scale human
behavior is driven by the pursuit of capital. By “religion” I mean organized
collective faith-based belief system.
In times past the dominant religions had names like
“Christianity” or “Islam”, which were used to promote doctrines that shaped
societies, dominated civilizations, and built entire empires. Theocratic
institutions labored on behalf of the powerful to bend entire continents to
their will, using narratives about beneficent invisible deities as cover.
Nowadays the dominant religion is called capitalism, and the theocratic
institutions are called governments, and the beneficent deity is called the
invisible hand of the market.
MMT Fare:
Bill Mitchell: The macroeconomic narrative continues to (MMT) evolve but the games not over yet
I think the general population are starting to get the message that my profession and the political class that uses it as an authority has been leading them down the garden path for decades now to cover up policies that have deliberately undermined our socio-economic prospects and allows a massive transfer of national income to the top-end-of-town. I am also watching, on a daily basis, the almost ludicrous way the mainstream economists and the politicians weave and duck as they change their story about fiscal deficits, public debt and unemployment. The paradigm shift that has been in play for a while now has accelerated in recent weeks, from a ‘6 in front of it’, to a ‘5 in front of it’, then last week a ‘4’ with some players urging a 3. That fancy talk the policy class use to talk about when the fiscal stimulus that has had capitalism on life support will start to be withdrawn and the numbers refer to the official unemployment rate that will tell the politicians the economy has recovered. Yes, I jest. And I shouldn’t because human tragedy is involved. But after years of being told I was crazy, it makes me laugh to watch the machinations unfold as the uncomfortable truth sets in that this lot had no authoritative model – it was hocus pocus all along designed to make us think they were on top of it and that TINA (prevails).
ESG Fare:
Why the Green New Deal Has Failed — So Far
... But we’ve seen this movie before. When it comes to the climate crisis, offensive Republican environmental destruction is only slightly worse than enlightened Democratic Party environmental destruction. After eight years of a pro–fossil fuel George W. Bush administration, President Barack Obama announced in a victory speech: “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” Yet, if anything, the age of American energy dominance was not a Trump creation but a product of the Obama era. Beyond rhetoric, fossil fuel extraction expanded much more under Obama than under Trump. The climate change believer even bragged about this in a 2018 public event: “Suddenly America is the largest oil producer . . . that was me, people . . . say thank you.”
We are entering a kind of hamster-wheel cycle of environmental politics where new horizons of hope appear simply by removing a Republican from office. Today, as in 2008, a new set of deadlines are being discussed (2035 and 2050) that are far enough away to stall dramatic action and close enough to appear scientifically credible. Yet this cycle always delays what is obviously needed: confrontation with the powerful industries responsible.
Court: EPA Delay “Exposed A Generation Of US Children”
To Chlorpyrifos
After 14 years of legal battles, a federal court
ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to take actions that will likely
force the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos off the market. The federal agency
has for years been considering mounting evidence that links the pesticide to
brain damage in children — including loss of IQ, learning difficulties, ADHD,
and autism — but, as the court acknowledged, has repeatedly delayed taking
action. “Rather than ban the pesticide or reduce the tolerances to levels that
the EPA could find were reasonably certain to cause no harm, the EPA sought to
evade through delay tactics its plain statutory duty,” Judge Jed S. Rakoff
wrote in his decision, which was released today by the 9th Circuit Court of
Appeals.
COVID Fare:
The Grandest Human Experiment In History
Let’s not beat around the bush any longer, but call
things for what they are: we are in the middle of the grandest medical and
genetic experiment in the history of mankind, by a mile and a half. The
experiment is already so advanced that we can only wait and see its
consequences. We don’t know what these will be, and that is exactly the problem
with it: we normally run elaborate tests in advance of such experiments to
minimize their potential negative effects and their adverse outcomes for our
species. This time around, we did not.
There are well-established procedures to test novel
substances before they are used in human experiments, which take years – for
good reason. We have decided to almost entirely neglect these procedures in the
case of Covid “vaccines”, in the same way that we have neglected to look for
alternative ways to defend ourselves from the virus. And these two things are
closely connected: in case ivermectin or Budesonide or even just vitamin D had
shown efficacy in Covid trials, the vaccines could not have received emergency
authorization.
Moreover, you will now be punished – in access to
travel, work, other activities- for NOT having received a dose of never
approved chemicals. The world is upside down, but after months upon months of
lockdowns, people think upside down is just how they like it. Anything is
better than being locked up/down. Stockholm syndrome writ large.
Senior NHS Board Member Warns: Stop The Genocide Or
Our Children Are Next
The senior NHS Board member warns that the government
is now controlling the NHS, and it is the government that is actually dictating
what the NHS should do during Covid emergency measures. She states that the
result of the government's enforced Covid and vaccination policies can be
described as genocide. Government messaging to her senior NHS colleagues is
removing their capacity for rational thought, and they are effectively being
mind controlled to implement policies which, in more rational moments, they
would challenge as wrong. Fear prevails,
and she and her board colleagues are being expected to toe an unwritten policy
line, set predominantly in conference calls with no written record.
…
And, I mean, you can’t call it a vaccine, because it
doesn’t meet the definition, so I’m going to refer to it as an injection, but
I’m just making sure that everyone’s on the same page with me.
So, it became kind of clear to myself, and a few other
colleagues that I know on other NHS Boards, in November that we were going to
be asked to completely roll this out — and also that there really were some
long-term safety issues, and stuff that we just didn’t know. And so it really
took us by surprise, the scope and speed at which they were moving.
And at the time, we had a lot of discussions, as a
Board, as to our concerns around this — and remember that when the NHS is in
emergency measures, which it is and has been, then the Government is able to
tightly control what the NHS does, and is able to dictate a lot more what the
NHS does than it would be able to if it wasn’t in emergency measures.
So, our Chief Executive had discussions about our
concerns, and I can say other Boards had the same discussions, and in a
nutshell, what we were told in December was, “If you refuse to co-operate in
rolling this out, then we’ll remove you.”
OFFS: COVID-19: B.C. Centre for Disease Control now accepts
virus can linger in the air
3,544 deaths and 12,619
serious injuries reported between Dec. 14, 2020 and April 23, 2021.
Dr. McCullough describes
‘whitewash of historic proportions‘
“So I think this was
effectively a scrubbing, like we’ve seen elsewhere. There is a Trusted News
Initiative, which is very important for Americans to understand, this was
announced Dec. 10, and this is a coalition of all the major media and
government stakeholders in vaccination, where they are not going to allow any
negative information about vaccines to get into the popular media because
they’re concerned about vaccine hesitancy, that if Americans got any type of
fair, balanced coverage on safety events then they simply would not come
forward and get the vaccine.”
Crimes of Covid
Vaccine Maker Pfizer Documented
Here’s a brief glimpse of
Pfizer’s track record for safety and ethics. This is a short list, by no means
inclusive of the company’s entire rap sheet.
There Are THREE Studies; All Showing Serious Harms
We show here that S protein alone can damage vascular endothelial cells
(ECs) in vitro and in vivo, manifested by impaired mitochondrial function,
decreased ACE2 expression and eNOS activity, and increased glycolysis.
Endothelial cells line every single blood-transporting element of the
body and are essential for them.
Intentionally producing them via injecting a substance into the muscle, which
is highly vascularized and thus results in immediate transport through the
body, is thus expected to cause serious and immediate harm.
That wild reaction your body mounts when you get said shot is "your
immune system" all right -- it is trying to fight off the intentionally
introduced harm you foolishly took. Some
of this damage may be permanent and involve both the lungs and heart, along
with the brain and other organs.
…
In other words by natural infection among healthy people it is very rare
for there to be systemic involvement.
But among those who take said shots 100% of them have systemic
involvement intentionally because unlike an infection that starts in the upper
respiratory tract an injection deliberately and systemically involves the
entire body.
…
As I have repeatedly pointed out I am not "anti-vaccine." I am anti-stupid and the process and speed by
which these were developed and rolled out without taking the time to understand
potential pathology, quantifying that risk and halting the process when
indications of potential trouble were found is stupid.
Not only blood
clots? EMA ‘assessing reports’ of AstraZeneca jab link to rare IMMUNE DISORDER
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is investigating reports of
AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine causing Guillain-Barre syndrome, as the
pharmaceutical company remains embroiled in controversy over the jab’s link to
blood clotting. In a meeting this week, the European Medicines Agency’s
Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) revealed that it was
“assessing reports” of the rare immune system disorder being found in people
following vaccination.
Abstract
Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, the race for testing new platforms designed to confer immunity against SARS-CoV-2, has been rampant and unprecedented, leading to emergency authorization of various vaccines. Despite progress on early multidrug therapy for COVID-19 patients, the current mandate is to immunize the world population as quickly as possible. The lack of thorough testing in animals prior to clinical trials, and authorization based on safety data generated during trials that lasted less than 3.5 months, raise questions regarding the safety of these vaccines. The recently identified role of SARS-CoV-2 glycoprotein Spike for inducing endothelial damage characteristic of COVID-19, even in absence of infection, is extremely relevant given that most of the authorized vaccines induce the production of Spike glycoprotein in the recipients. Given the high rate of occurrence of adverse effects, and the wide range of types of adverse effects that have been reported to date, as well as the potential for vaccine-driven disease enhancement, Th2-immunopathology, autoimmunity, and immune evasion, there is a need for a better understanding of the benefits and risks of mass vaccination, particularly in the groups that were excluded in the clinical trials. Despite calls for caution, the risks of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination have been minimized or ignored by health organizations and government authorities. We appeal to the need for a pluralistic dialogue in the context of health policies, emphasizing critical questions that require urgent answers if we wish to avoid a global erosion of public confidence in science and public health.
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The CDC, VUMC, Johns Hopkins Are All *DONE*
…The ghouls involved did not give a crap about the law from the start.
The EUAs were flatly illegal because we knew by summer of 2020 that there were
decades-old proved safe and believed effective treatments. We didn’t use them,
on purpose, for the explicit reason that doing so would prevent these EUAs from
being issued. By deliberately lying the FDA, CDC and dozens of other
organizations and individuals along with the corporate physician and hospital
networks directly caused the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans who
should not have died, and caused deliberate harm to hundreds of thousands more
who are now left with what may well be a lifelong debilitating impact as a
result of the scream-fest for “everyone” to go get these unproved and
now-known-dangerous injections.
Nobody knows how bad, or for how long, those future disabilities and risk
of death will be or for how long they will continue but that there is severe
impact is now known; we are now down to trying to figure out how horrid. The
CDC still claims the spike protein in the shots is “harmless” despite three
scientific papers dating to December stating otherwise, one of which is peer
reviewed and another from Salk, with the first known published evidence of a
problem dating back to September of 2020. All were deliberately ignored and
still are being ignored. “COVID-19 mRNA vaccines give instructions for our
cells to make a harmless piece of what is called the “spike protein.” The spike
protein is found on the surface of the virus that causes COVID-19.”
The science says it’s not harmless; it is in fact pathogenic. The CDC is
lying and as a result people are dying. If you think this can remain “under
wraps” and not get into the public consciousness you’re wrong.
SARS-CoV-2 Spike
Protein Impairs Endothelial Function via Downregulation of ACE 2
McCullough noted ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine have been shown to be safe while vaccines developed in record-time are being distributed under emergency use authorization.
McCullough clarified that he’s not against vaccines, noting the COVID-19 vaccines can complement the treatments he recommends.
“But this idea of scrubbing early treatment in favor of keeping the population in fear in order to potentially accept mass vaccination, I think has done a disservice,” he said.
“The pressure to suppress any hope of treatment is extraordinary.”
McCullough said the “great gamble of the COVID vaccine program is “putting all of our eggs in one basket.”
CDC Chooses to
Fly Blind on Vaccine Breakthrough Cases
Do Stupid Things, Win Stupid Prizes
By the CDCs VAERS numbers and the number of delivered shots into arms the
risk of the shot killing you is approximately 1/45,000 and if you take the shot
the hazard is 100% probable to be undertaken, obviously. So if you’re not
specifically morbid the shot is one hundred times more dangerous than the
disease. Oh, and we know the VAERS reports are wildly understated.
66 Studies found
for: Ivermectin | Covid19
Over 200 Scientists & Doctors Call For Increased
Vitamin D Use To Combat COVID-19
How science has
been corrupted: The pandemic has revealed
a darkly authoritarian side to expertise
The phrase “follow the science” has a false ring to it.
…
Increasingly, science is pressed into duty as authority.
…
Now, science is primarily organised around “knowledge monopolies” that
exclude dissident views. They do so not as a matter of piecemeal failures of open-mindedness
by individuals jealous of their turf, but systemically.
…
But it cannot be assumed that “the bottom line” exerts a disciplining
function on scientific research that automatically aligns it with the truth
motive.
Hidden Truths:
Dr. Pierre Kory on the Frontlines of Powerful Knowledge
Dr. Kory introduces the
concept of “disinformation,” first described by the Union of Concerned
Scientists in association with the suppression of data from dozens of
ivermectin-based clinical trials. When considering why so much positive data
isn’t even considered by prominent health authorities such as the World Health
Organization (WHO), the U.S.-based doctor declared, “I had to start asking
myself, why are people not recognizing that Ivermectin is one of the most
effective medicines in any disease model in history?” He continued, “I thought
the world had gone mad, until I figured it out…” Through the help of some
supporters, the physician/researcher had to come to terms with the intersection
of drugs, power and money—and the concept of disinformation associated with
such a confluence of forces. Dr. Kory shared with the world what he learned
regarding what’s called “A Disinformation Playbook,” which has been used for
decades by powerful corporations to delay government action on matters that
would adversely affect their income or profit. Essentially, as described by
Kory, this is where corporations attack science that is inconvenient to their
interests. The doctor suggests that the lack of interest or more comprehensive
embrace of even the data associated with ivermectin to date has nothing to do
with actual science and everything to do with money and power.
CO-VID of the Week:
DarkHorse Podcast with Geert Vanden Bossche & Bret Weinstein
COVID Quotes of the Week:
Ashley Bloomfield: “Influenza was first recorded in 1172 in
Europe. These viruses don’t die out. They change over time. What we are seeing
with these new variants with the covid-19 virus is that they become more
transmissible and less deadly over time.”
Ilargi: The vaccination rollout is becoming
tiresome, because it breaks too many laws to keep track of. There’s the
Nuremberg code, and the Helsinki Declaration, and Unesco’s Universal
Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights. They all say the same thing: people
can not be coerced, let alone mandated, into being part of a medical experiment.
It’s highly illegal. Yet that is what’s happening with the so-called vaccines.
And no, it’s not about the level of risk involved, it’s simply illegal. These
codes and declarations were written to counter the acts of totalitarian
regimes, remember that.
It’s as if a circuit has
been fused. While caution and
restrictive behavior can be justified by a conscience informed by the risks,
the human mind can also make calculations based on superstition. And one
frighteningly common one is the equation of science with truth, fear with
realism, and caution with virtue. .. We lost the capacity to acknowledge the
provisional nature of our judgments.
COVID Conspiracy Fare:
Hopkins: The
Criminalization of Dissent
… Or whatever. It’s not like
the truth actually matters, not when you are whipping up mass hysteria over
imaginary “Russian assets,” “white-supremacist militias,” “Covid-denying
extremists,” “anti-vax terrorists,” and “apocalyptic plagues.” When you’re
rolling out a new official ideology — a pathologized-totalitarian ideology —
and criminalizing all dissent, the point is not to appear to be factual. The
point is just to terrorize the shit out of people.
Dr Mike Yeadon: Halt Vaccine
Passports!
It’s illegal, medical
apartheid
Chinese Military
Discussed Weaponizing COVID In 2015 'To Cause Enemy's Medical System To
Collapse'
The origin of
COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan? Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists.
This essay is inspired by Dr Mercola’s announcement last week that (reading between the lines) his life and his family’s have been threatened if he doesn’t remove from his web site a peer-reviewed study demonstrating the benefits of vitamin D and zinc in prevention of the worst COVID outcomes. In the present Orwellian era, where propaganda and deception are ubiquitous, one of the signposts of truth that I have learned to respect is that the most important truths are the most heavily censored.
This is not what I enjoy writing about, but as I find dark thoughts creeping into my consciousness, perhaps it is better to put them on paper with supporting logic and invite my readers to help me clarify the reasoning and, perhaps, to point a way out of the darkness.
The confluence of these two themes suggests the dark logic that I take for my topic today: Those who knew in advance, not only that there would be a pandemic but that it would be a Coronavirus, were actually responsible for engineering this pandemic.
Immediately, I think: How could people capable of such sociopathic enormities be occupying the most powerful circles of the world’s elite? And what would be their motivation? I don’t have answers to these questions, and I will leave speculation to others. But there’s one attractive answer that I find less compelling: that it’s a money-maker for the large and criminal pharmaceutical industry. The new mRNA vaccines are already the most profitable drugs in history, but I think that shutdown of world economies, assassinations of world leaders, deep corruption of science, and full-spectrum control of the mainstream narrative imply a larger power base than can plausibly be commanded by the pharma industry.
Instead, I’ll try to follow the scientific and medical implications of the hypothesis that COVID is a bioweapon.
...
The most compelling evidence for a laboratory origin of COVID is that coronaviruses don’t have furin cleavage sites, and until last year, this trick has never evolved naturally.
COVID Tweets of the Week:
Zeynep Tufecki: I just want to keep highlighting that there
are very few confirmed outdoor transmission cases at all, and they are mostly
in the context of prolonged *and* really close contact AND that the science of
aerosol transmission makes it very clear why outdoors is so so much safer.
WHAT THE FUCK DID SHE JUST
SAY
Other Tweets of the Week:
DOJ threatened two MIT researchers after they published a statistical analysis (based on publicly available information) debunking the claims of electoral fraud in Bolivia. These claims were used to facilitate a coup.
Geo-Political Fare:
Hedges: Don’t Be Fooled
By Joe Biden
Don’t be fooled by Joe
Biden. He knows his infrastructure and education bills have as much chance at
becoming law as the $15-dollar minimum wage or the $2,000 stimulus checks he
promised us as a candidate. He knows his American Jobs Plan will never create
“millions of good paying jobs – jobs Americans can raise their families on” any
more than NAFTA, which he supported, would, as was also promised, create
millions of good paying jobs. His mantra of “buy American” is worthless. He
knows the vast majority of our consumer electronics, apparel, furniture and
industrial supplies are made in China by workers who earn an average of one or
two dollars an hour and lack unions and basic labor rights.
He knows his call to lower
deductibles and prescription drug costs in the Affordable Care Act will never
be permitted by the corporations that profit from health care. He knows the corporate
donors that fund the Democratic Party will ensure their lobbyists will continue
to write the laws that guarantee they pay little or no taxes. He knows the
corporate subsidies and tax incentives he proposes as a solution to the climate
crisis will do nothing to halt oil and gas fracking, shut down coal-fired
plants or halt the construction of new pipelines for gas-fired power plants.
His promises of reform have no more weight than those peddled by Bill Clinton
and Barack Obama, who Biden slavishly served and who also promised social
equality while betraying working men and women.
Biden is the epitome of the
empty, amoral creature produced by our system of legalized bribery. His long
political career in Congress was defined by representing the interests of big
business, especially the credit card companies based in Delaware. He was
nicknamed Senator Credit Card. He has always glibly told the public what it
wants to hear and then sold them out. He was a prominent promoter and architect
of a generation of federal “tough on crime” laws that helped militarize the
nation’s police and more than doubled the population of the world’s largest
prison system with harsh mandatory sentencing guidelines and laws that put
people in prison for life for nonviolent drug crimes, even as his son struggled
with addiction. He was a principal author of the Patriot Act, which began the
stripping away of our most basic civil liberties. And there has never been a
weapons system, or a war, he did not support.
“The Russia
question.” Diplomacy must not die. James W. Carden, Marshall Auerback, and Patrick
Lawrence
Orwellian Fare:
Astore: America Is
Programmed for War
Greenwald: Antony Blinken
Continues to Lecture the World on Values His Administration Aggressively
Violates
Propaganda and
the Media: Part 1 – Introduction
Orwellian Tweets of the Week:
I have a story of air-strikes in Afghanistan
killing/injuring over 1,500 children - and largely US led airstrikes. So far I have not been able to get the NYT,
WaPo, BBC, Guardian, Mirror, Times to bite.
If anyone wants it as a story, please DM me and I can send details.
The BBC hadn’t prepared for this moment and it was beautiful.
New-ish Section – CaitOz Quotes of the Week:
Inept sociopaths go to prison. Mediocre sociopaths become
cops. Effective sociopaths become CEOs. Clever sociopaths join the CIA.
Les Overton, a senior fellow at the Washington-based
think tank American-Israeli Center for Strategic Genocide, says both sides have
been equally affected by this latest wave of violence, with Palestinians
sustaining numerous fatalities and serious injuries and Israeli law enforcement
suffering emotional discomfort and great inconvenience.
Other Fare:
John Michael Greer: Conversation as Commons
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