Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Drought Conditions Now Affecting Two-Thirds Of US

  Expect a lot of Global Warming talks in the months ahead! Whatever economic catastrophe cannot be pinned on Putin will go strait to the weather!

 But is there ANY truth at all behind this?

 Droughts are real. In Europe, the US, China. No doubt about it. Here in Japan it has been wetter than usual which is exactly what you would expect in a La Nina year. 

 But to understand the weather, you have to look at a much longer timeline and suddenly it all starts to make sense. The current conditions have nothing at all exceptional. Conversely, it is the mild and rather wet conditions of the last two centuries which are the long term outliers. The Egyptian ancient dynasties, The Roman Empire, the High Middle age, the Maya, the Anasazi of New Mexico, all these civilizations prospered during warm and wet intervals followed without exception by much harsher conditions. The famous plagues of Egypt. The terrible 6th century, the cold snap of Bruegel's paintings which left us the now famous "Huger stones" of the Rhine River and the terrible and long lasting drought of the Americas which decimated several civilizations in the 12th Century. 

 The Earth is currently in a long term recurring ice age with short warm intervals. Statistically, we are close to the end of such a warm period which is why people in the 1980s predicted a return to cold conditions. But the weather changes over hundreds or even thousands of years not really decades. 

 The current consensus is that CO2 drives the atmosphere but many scientists disagree, saying that it is the Sun and water vapor which are most important. Likely, historically, it looks like CO2 has been rising AFTER temperatures rose not the other way around. But this of course cannot be proved in the current "climate" of witch hunting. A scientist proposing such a study would be committing "career suicide."

 And so what is likely to happen is that the weather will be taken as another proof that the consensus is right and that even MORE must be invested to combat climate change bankrupting even faster our current social order.      

 This too is nothing new. Our ancestors worshiped harder when times were harsh. And when the gods failed them, as they always did, they destroyed the temples and centuries later prayed to new, different gods!

Drought Conditions Now Affecting Two-Thirds Of US

Human remains discovered at the shores of Lake Mead in May, July and August as its water levels are at historic lows are just the latest consequence of a prolonged drought gripping the United States. One of the bodies found was identified as a homicide victim who died around 40 or 50 years ago, spurring speculation that the person could have been a victim of mob crime that still was prevalent in nearby Las Vegas at that time.

As Statista's Katharina Buchholz notes, since late 2020, the United States has been experiencing unusually hot and dry weather. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, extreme and exceptional drought affects the American West as well as Texas most, but stretches as far as Kansas, Nebraska, Montana and Massachusetts.

The extreme circumstances have spurred demand for water and cooling, leaving reservoirs emptier than usual. With the drought also comes a heightened risk of heat-induced medical emergencies and wildfires.

As of August 16, droughts of different levels of severity affect more than 66 percent of the area of the continental United States. The number has been above the 60-percent mark since October of 2020 with just two short breaks (82 out of 98 weeks).

Infographic: Drought Conditions Affect Two Thirds of U.S. | Statista

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While it has risen this high before, it rarely stayed there for so long. During the drought of 2018, it exceeded the threshold for only five weeks. Between April 2012 and May 2013, droughts had affected more than 60 percent of the United States’ area for 60 weeks in a row and expanded to around 80 percent momentarily.

While fluctuating temperatures and very hot, very dry or very cold days are a normal phenomenon, these extreme weather events are expected to become more frequent and severe due to climate change. Scientist have connected the reoccuring drought in the Western U.S. to a changing climate, for example citing heatwaves that start earlier in the year and have become longer as well as stronger.

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Is The Yen About To Resume Its Path Lower?

  Japan is not China! But like China, Japan will not fall... at least on it's own.

 Like China, Japan has a collectivist culture concerning debt. What this means in real terms is that the country, understand the population, will absorb any financial shock for the good of the "country".  This is what has been going on for over 30 years now. The BOJ (Bank of Japan) reflated the economy, financing the banks and big groups while salaries stayed under control. Huge inflation of the monetary mass with simultaneous deflation of the money. In other words, a huge transfer of wealth from people to corporations. 

 But unlike China, this cannot last forever, at least while keeping the current system alive. Debt is exploding. Not a problem in itself as long as there is no demand for redemption. The argument has always been that since the Japanese owe the money to themselves, there can be no "run to the banks" precipitated by foreign creditors. True in the short term but not forever. All this money is also the "assets" of "someone" and at some stage, that someone may call on these assets. More debt, then? Yes and that is exactly what is going on but there are limits.

 Tokyo is currently experiencing a new bubble. Financial of course but real estate too. Hundreds of very high office and and apartment buildings are being built while "real" demand is nowhere to be seen. It doesn't really matter for now as international money is sloshing around and buying everything that stands!

 But this cannot last and won't. Eventually a black swan will emerge and the whole system will crumble. It is unavoidable. Short of a major earthquake, quite possible in itself and long overdue in the Kanto, it is very likely that this event will be external. Would anything happen in Taiwan, in the US, in the Middle East, in Europe or more or less anywhere where confidence is suddenly crushed, Japan is immediately first in line because of its structural weakness due to excessive debt.

 So the article is correct but the reasons are a little more complex as usual...

Authored by Bruce Wilds via Advancing Time blog,

Much of the recent strength in the yen can be explained in one word and that is China. While I have seen no other currency watchers espouse this theory, I continue to contend the yen has become a major conduit by which wealth is being transferred out of China. This tight relationship can be seen each time trouble surfaces in China's economy. When this happens the yen rises in value as wealth exits China through business back-channels. 

Let's be frank, most economic watchers think the Chinese economy is in big trouble, this makes it logical many people would want to get their wealth out of the country. This, however, is easier said than done. China has very strict rules related to taking money in and out of the country.

These rules regulate the actions of individuals attempting to move money out of China. We can assume, that most people moving large amounts of money would rather go under the radar and avoid running into problems with the Chinese government.

A few other factors feed into the recent bounce in the yen but do not be surprised if this recent strength rapidly fades.

One factor playing into the bounce is the decline in the yen's value over the last several months may have been a bit overdone. Another could be related to the fact energy prices have come down reducing the cost of imports needed to fuel the economy. Still, we are again beginning to see the yen slip down towards its lows and should be repaired to see it again slip into new low territory. 

Japan's basic problems still remain.

As stated in an earlier post, higher interest rates are toxic to the highly indebted nation. Also, unfavorable demographics will continue to haunt the small island nation. Simply put, the fundamentals for Japan are lousy. Much of the risk of who gets hurt in the case of a falling yen or a default has shifted from the private sector to the Japanese public since the BOJ has continued splurging on JGBs.

The Japanese Government Is Heavily In Debt

As Japan continues down this path it is only a matter of time before the credibility of the BOJ is lost and the yen plunges. To support their stock market the BOJ has even gone to buying stock. When investors in Japan's government bonds begin to believe that inflation is about to return it would be logical for owners of  Japanese debt to rush out of the low-yielding securities and buy foreign bonds or equities.

Unlike many other leading economies, Japan has been battling deflation or falling prices for the best part of the past two decades. We may have reached the point where reality has now taken hold. This has been a long time coming. When Japan crumbles it will be felt across the world and add to doubts about the whole fiat currency system.

Monday, August 22, 2022

China is going from bad to worse (but the country won't fall!)

 The bubble in China is imploding but no, neither the Communist Party nor the country will fall as the video bellow makes clear. The pain Chinese people can endure is immense as some of my Chinese friends in Shanghai explained to me recently. 

 But the repercussions for the world will be earth shattering and nobody could tell me if the country will go to war or not. It depends and even the leaders are probably not sure... yet! The risks are immense and so is the pressure.

 My take on this is that the pressure will keep rising and the leadership will resist war for a while... until it's just too much! This analysis is not based on "special" knowledge that at this stage nobody has but on historical precedents. 

 In-between the market will jigsaw between optimist and pessimism, inflation and deflation, more and more violently until something breaks, somewhere. Large countries like Pakistan, a nuclear power, are already on the brink...

 It doesn't take much foresight to understand that 2023 will be a year to behold. Likewise a few nudges in the wrong direction from nature, too hot, too cold, too dry, too wet as is always the case, in such case, will nail our fate. 

 The WEF wanted a reset? It looks like Christmas will be early but they should really think twice what they wish. The outcome may not be the one they expect!

 


By Garfield Reynolds, Bloomberg Markets Live commentator and reporter

The gathering consensus that inflation has peaked is spurring a FOMO moment for bonds, with investors eager to buy and chatter that 10-year Treasury yields could drop all the way back to 2%. That sort of Treasuries rally is unlikely unless China’s slowdown worsens.

While the Fed is willing to risk a recession to quell inflation, China’s economic outlook is going from bad to worse. Most troubling of all, Beijing is turning abruptly back to exactly the sort of stimulus measures they warned of as being counter-productive. It’s a nightmare scenario for global GDP and a boon to bond holders.

This helps explain why deep-pocketed investors from US fund managers to Japanese life insurers and Australian pension giants are lining up to buy bonds despite yields that are way below inflation levels.

Indeed, the average yield of Bloomberg’s global government bond index topped out not much above 2%. While much of that period saw unprecedented central bank stimulus, there’s plenty of evidence that the savings glut remains a powerful restraint on yields.

The China factor feels like it’s been overlooked for too long, with the country’s epic transformation making it hard to imagine that the days of 6%-plus GDP are never coming back. But the reality is that China’s 12-quarter moving average for annual GDP growth is back under 5%.

With this in mind, the bond markets in Australia and New Zealand are worth keeping an eye on. If they outperform versus Treasuries, that would signal China is weighing even more severely on the world economic outlook.

China’s woes are bubbling up while the market has turned decisively sour on the US economy. On top of the dramatic inversion of the classic 2s10s curve, two-year Treasuries are also yielding well above two-year OIS forwards.

This latter measure recently topped a 50-basis-point premium, which was the most since 2019 when the Fed was cutting rates. It adds the short end of the curve to the buy-and-hold menu for bond investors and underscores expectations for recessions in the US and around the world. While bear-steepening is the trend with Jackson Hole approaching, that sets up the potential for strong reversals should growth fears come to the fore after the confab.

With the Fed and most of its developed-market peers clear on their intention to control inflation, China may be the swing factor for bonds.

If the storm brewing in China eases once Xi Jinping secures a third term as leader, a lot of the uncertainty hanging over the global economy will fade away. If the clouds linger, or get even darker, then US 10-year yields could reach 2% very rapidly.

Germany To Prioritize Coal Shipments Across Rail Network Over Passenger Trains Amid Worsening Energy Crisis

  The Germans are insane! Thanks god we have them to sacrifice a country and show the rest of the world what not to do!

 They had the best cars in the world and will soon be obliged to import cheap EV from China. Although they will still manufacture electric Porches that no one will buy.

 And which will stand still for hours waiting for the brown-outs to end under a grey snowy, windless typical German December sky.  

 While "new" Germans from the Middle East riot and factories manufacture munitions for Ukraine in just the right amount to show support to the country while not irritating the bear. Quite a feat of foreign policy!

  Looking nervously as their stock of gas dwindles in the cold and their brand new pipeline which could easily solve the whole conundrum stays empty less politicians with no credibility lose the little that is left showing the spineless cowards they really are.   

 It is a sight to behold indeed! But how long can the Germans go with this nonsense?

Germany To Prioritize Coal Shipments Across Rail Network Over Passenger Trains Amid Worsening Energy Crisis

The latest sign lawmakers in Europe's industrial heartland are preparing for what could be a disastrous winter of reduced natural gas supplies from Russia and record high electricity prices is a new proposal to prioritize Germany's rail network for coal shipments over passenger services, according to Bloomberg, citing local newspaper Welt am Sonntag. 

Even though Germany has promised to eliminate coal-fired power generation in the coming years, the historic energy crisis has made it more dependent on coal than ever as Russian flows of NatGas slump ahead of winter

Economy Minister Robert Habeck recently said increased reliance on coal is bitter but necessary. 

And we must give our readers a spoiler alert: there's no way Germany will eliminate coal as a power source by 2030. If anything, it will be more reliant on it than ever unless it extends the life of its nuclear power plants. 

"Priority is normally given to passenger transport in Germany, and timetables are geared toward it. As a result, there's a risk of chaos on the rails from making the change," Bloomberg said, citing the draft. 

There's a strong possibility the draft will be passed as a way to accelerate coal shipments via rail to power plants ahead of winter to ensure there are adequate supplies. Coal power generation is expected to soar in Europe's largest economy this winter as a move to boost energy security.  

The draft plan comes as German year-ahead power, a European benchmark, skyrocketed last week to a record 570 euros per megawatt-hour, with French prices rising as much as 3% to 720 euros. Coal prices in Europe also hit a record of 310 euros a ton. 

Russia continues to squeeze NatGas flows to Europe as a heat wave limits hydroelectric and nuclear production. Rhine River levels have dropped to dangerously low levels, disrupting commodity cargos on the continent's most important inland waterway. However, the good news this weekend is water levels have risen.  

Germany's increasing coal use this winter will be made possible by the rail system delivering supplies to power plants. 

So much for the Europeans spearheading efforts toward green energy as Putin's energy insecurity strategy appears to be a major success where it has caused stagflation and chaos across Germany.

Saturday, August 20, 2022

Could CO2 be beneficial? Interview w/ Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Studies (Video - 23')

  What if the rise in CO2 is actually beneficial to the world?


 

China's Economic Crisis Is About To Get MUCH Worse (Housing Collapse Explained) (Video - 10')

  A "mild" but complete video on the Chinese Real Estate Bubble which is now imploding.

 It is impossible for a government to stop a bubble bursting except by blowing a bigger one and even that works only at a very early stage. It is of course much too late for China so the process will go on unimpeded. 

 Nobody in his right mind will ever invest money upfront in any of these projects so they must be completed at companies' expenses which is of course impossible. The only solution would be to swamp the banking sector with cheap money, which is what Japan did, but Japan's circumstances were exceptional. Likewise, China is not rich enough to accept the huge reduction in wealth this would imply. 

 China is therefore stuck between an imploding real estate market and a growing trade war. The risk is that eventually, war will look like a good option. It always does in the end. 

But not yet. China is still weak militarily and would probably be crushed in a confrontation. Still, give them another year to prepare and all bets are off. American generals should keep a copy of Sun Tzu book "The Art of War" nearby at all times!


 

Thursday, August 18, 2022

What Made Us So Compliant With Insane, Tyrannical COVID Policies?

  "Safety first" is a great slogan which paradoxically kills. It kills freedom first, then kills social life and finally kills you too, Staying in bed may be safe in the short term but it is not in the long term. Likewise, a society afraid of it's own shadow quickly becomes a dull and dying breed. 

 This social transformation is unfortunately a well known evolution which all societies in History have gone through without exceptions. The accelerating decline of the West is not a bug, it is a feature, deeply entrenched in our social fabric. There may be an exit to our predicament but chaos will come first. The dices are rolling, the horsemen are riding, or is that the Walkyries we hear in the distance? 

Guest Post by Charles Eisenstein

tyrannical covid policies feature

I’m resuming my occasional series discussing the ground conditions that make society susceptible to pandemania. See my last pandemania post if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

I’m moved to resume this series because of some conversations I’ve had over the last few days that reminded me of why I am not letting the issue drop.

A man, I’ll call him Kyle, shared a story with me last weekend. He was a nursing home administrator who, without much question, because it was necessary to keep his job, got the mRNA injections.

Immediately following the second, he had an anaphylactic reaction and was rushed to the emergency room.

He barely survived.

Subsequently, he had to leave his job because it was requiring all staff to receive booster injections. He shared his experience on social media, but his posts were removed for violating community standards.

Months later he looked himself up in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, to see if his case had been reported. It hadn’t.

Kyle didn’t seem angry at what had happened to him, but his trust in the system will probably never be restored.

Others I talked to are not so equanimous.

They are furious, and their fury does not diminish when they are told to forgive and forget, with no accountability for the people who enforced COVID-19 policies and no reason to think such a thing won’t happen again.

This fury can easily be channeled onto innocent or superficial targets. The danger that we blithely return to normal as if pandemania never happened is matched by the danger that the fury will be turned into fuel for hatred of each other.

Indeed, the most shocking aspect of pandemania was the splitting of society, of churches, clubs, schools and even families into warring camps.

Can we survey the debacle without escaping into superficial explanations and false blame?

I am writing this occasional series to do my small part to prevent pandemania from happening again. In my view, it is not enough to remove corrupt officials from power or to reform medical, pharmaceutical and regulatory institutions.

My inquiry is: What makes us as a society so vulnerable to their manipulation, to begin with?

What made us so compliant with COVID-19 insanity, so willing to believe the lies, so ready to acquiesce to degrading, tyrannical and irrational policies?

The first two conditions were the fixation on enemies, and mob morality and mass formation.

On to number three…

As long as the debate around public health policy takes for granted the assumption that its goal is to minimize illness and death, then inevitably, other values will be sacrificed at the altar of safety.

Civil liberties do not keep people safe.

Parties and raves do not keep people safe. Hugs and handshakes, live performances, festivals, singing groups and soccer games do not keep people safe. Children are safer at home than on the playground. They are safer in front of their screens than out of doors. Even without COVID-19, this is all true.

When we debate whether masks or lockdowns actually made any difference in COVID-19 illness or mortality, we tacitly grant the premise that if they did help, then we should do them.

We accept risk minimization as the paramount guiding principle of public policy. Accepting that, it follows that we should mask, distance and lock down forever. Why not — if safety is what we live for?

Does that sound far-fetched?

Various health authorities advise it, notably the new chair of the World Health Organization Technical Advisory Group, Susan Michie. Dr. Anthony Fauci opined in 2020 that we should never shake hands again. If we make everything about safety, they are probably right.

Actually, let me take that back: They are probably wrong.

The irony of the pursuit of safety is that it brings temporary success but, quite often, even more danger in the long run.

Consider the extreme, in which each person lives in an aseptic bubble. No disease vector can enter, so they are perfectly safe from infection.

On the other hand, without challenges their immune system deteriorates, leaving them vulnerable to any normally innocuous germ that gets in. They must maintain constant vigilance. They will never feel truly safe.

Furthermore, even if no germ ever gets in, they will suffer other ailments because beneficial microbiota will not be replenished and modulated through constant interchange with the outside world.

Life does not thrive in isolation.

During COVID-19 pandemania, no one lived in an absolute hermetic bubble, but there are nonetheless indications that the reduced transmission of colds and flus did weaken people’s immune systems.

Lots of people reported catching “the mother of all colds” after lockdowns were relaxed.

Higher rates of mortality post-pandemania might be due not only to vaccine damage but to the general disruption in immunity and well-being stemming from isolation.

In a further irony, it now appears that the shots may not even make people safer from COVID-19 (see here for an entrance to that rabbit hole).

In short, obsession with safety bears perverse fruit.

It is the same with all forms of the security state. Countries with lots of prisons, big armies and foreign wars tend to suffer high levels of crime, domestic violence and violence-to-self (suicide).

If we make everything about safety, the public will be easily manipulated by appeals to whatever threat makes them unsafe.

To immunize ourselves against that, we have to recognize other values, such as fun, exploration of boundaries, adventure, sociality, touch, laughing together, crying together, breathing together and dancing together.

After all, the goal of life cannot be to one day go to your grave having been as safe as possible.

One obvious objection to the foregoing is, “It is fine to take risks oneself, but unethical to do anything that compromises the safety of others. No one has the right to put others at risk.”

Furthermore, since taking risks oneself potentially uses up hospital beds that could go to the severely ill, any risky behavior actually puts others at risk too.

This is a straw-man argument.

The point is not maximum freedom in reckless disregard for others’ well-being. It is that collectively as well as individually, we must affirm other values besides safety.

In the title essay of my new book, “The Coronation,” I asked:

“Would I ask all the nation’s children to forego play for a season if it would reduce my mother’s risk of dying, or for that matter, my own risk? Or I might ask, Would I decree the end of hugging and handshakes, if it would save my own life?”

My point was that collectively, we were decreeing precisely that. We did so because we upheld safety as the paramount virtue. Social contact, civil liberties and the rest were construed as not “essential,” their sacrifice a minor inconvenience.

Collectively, at least in our political consensus, we decided to stay as safe as possible.

Under what circumstance would it actually make sense to pursue a life of risk minimization? Well, it might make sense if you were otherwise immortal; if by avoiding illness and injury you might stay alive forever.

Almost no one actually believes they might live forever, but many of us behave as if we could. That is why near-death experiences are often so transformative.

The same goes for the death of a loved one, or a close brush with death oneself. These unravel the illusion of permanence that modern culture so assiduously seeks to maintain.

I won’t say more about this, as I’ve written about death phobia extensively in “The Coronation” and talked about it a lot on podcasts, and I’m tired of saying the same thing over and over.

It should be obvious — the goal of life cannot be to survive it, and the attempt consigns us to a cramped and fearful half-life.

The mania for safety and the phobia of death are not a sudden, inexplicable madness.

They are part of an encompassing state of human beingness that has reached its extreme in modern civilization. It is the separate self cast away in a spiritless material world that yearns to protect itself above all else.

Those who know themselves to be part of a story bigger than their biography more willingly risk life for its sake.

The best example of that is simply the love story. To love is to include others in the circle of self. It is to expand beyond one’s individuality. Your pain and your joy are inseparable from your beloveds.

Of course, we still want to stay alive, but for the lover, it is not the absolute highest priority.

That is why I have long warned the environmental movement away from the rhetoric of “We must change our ways, or we will not survive.”

The real solution is to fall back in love with the living world, to see it as a beloved, not as a collection of resources, a waste dump, or an engineering project.

Then we will not only survive; we will flourish, as one does when they are partnered with their lover.

Safety mania and death phobia are signs of disconnection from purpose and passion. If you have nothing more important than your own life, then preserving life is left as the only purpose.

Because our civilizational answer to “Why are we here?” has unraveled, many of us individually have trouble answering that question too, for the individual story draws from the collective.

OK, I realize I may have risen to too high an altitude for the practical purpose of preventing the next bout of pandemania.

So I will end with this: We can reduce our general susceptibility to fear-mongering by reducing the levels of fear current in society.

A society ridden with fear will acquiesce to any policy that promises safety. How do we reduce ambient levels of fear?

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Thailand study of young adults post jab showed nearly 30% with cardiovascular injuries

 

  More studies coming out from all over the world outlining the risks of the mRNA vaccines.

Guest Post by Steve Kirsch

It is amazing what you find when the people doing the study are honest.

What is Myocarditis?

Executive summary

A new study on cardiovascular impacts of the COVID vaccines done in Thailand is particularly troubling: 29% of the young adults experience non-trivial changes in their cardiac biomarkers.

It is amazing what you find when scientists doing a study are honest and want to know the truth.

“Why isn’t a study like this being done in the US?” asks UCSF Professor Vinay Prasad.

Heck, we don’t even know the d-dimer of people before vs. after the vax.

This is just more evidence of corruption of the medical community that nobody was calling for any of this data.

These vaccines are a disaster. Every day, the evidence gets worse and worse.

Will this new study stop the vaccines for kids? Of course not!

Look, even if the shots killed every child under 20 who takes it, they’d write off the death to something else and recommend that kids get the shot. The brainwashing is that bad. It’s stunning. Facts do not matter.

Note: This was originally buried in my Fox justification article but it’s important enough to call out in a separate article.

The Thailand study

Consider this Thailand study:

18% of kids had an abnormal EKG post-vaccine?!? That has to be extremely troubling. A vaccine is not supposed to do that. Are doctors telling parents the vaccine causes serious heart issues in 18% of kids? At least let them know.

The paper noted that “Cardiovascular effects were found in 29.24% of patients, ranging from tachycardia, palpitation, and myo/pericarditis.” Wow.

Almost 30% of the cases?!?! That’s not “rare.”

Finally a 3.5% rate of myo/pericarditis (including subclinical) among males 13-18 is not rare either. We were lied to by the CDC. Big time.

Interestingly, this is consistent with the number of myocarditis rates at Monte Vista Christian School in Watsonville, CA which was in excess of 1% but they wouldn’t reveal any of the details beyond that publicly; gotta keep the school safe from lawsuits. Major credit there goes to Head of School Nikki Daniels for making sure that nobody found out that the shots they gave at the school were hurting kids. When adverse reactions started showing up, they did the right thing: they kept their mouths shut.

Report: 44 Percent of Pregnant Women in Pfizer Trial Lost Their Babies; FDA and CDC Recommended Jabs For Expectant Mothers Anyway

 More data on the Vaccines

 Pregnant Women this time.

Update: I noticed that people read this article so I would like to add a caveat. The total sample is only 50 women. This is of course not enough to be relevant. Likewise, I was told that this particular piece of information was probably erroneous as taken out of context since the meaning of adverse event is just that. Not out of a total of 50 normal pregnancies. I could take the article offline but let's not do that as clearly the dramatic fall in the number of pregnancies in almost all developed countries since 2021 indicates that there is indeed a problem related to the vaccine. 

Via American Greatness

More than 40 percent of pregnant women who participated in Pfizer’s mRNA COVID vaccine trial suffered miscarriages, according internal Pfizer documents, recently released under court order. Despite this, Pfizer, and the Biden administration insisted that the vaccines were safe for pregnant women. Out of 50 pregnant women, 22 of them lost their babies, according to an analysis of the documents.

In a January court ruling, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman of the Northern District of Texas, ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to release around 12,000 documents immediately, and then 55,000 pages a month until all documents were released, totaling more than 300,000 pages.

The nonprofit group, Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency, sued the FDA last September, after the agency denied its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to expedite the release of mRNA vaccine review documents. In a November 2021 joint status report, the FDA proposed releasing only 500 pages of the documents a month, which would have taken up to 75 years.

Trial documents released in April revealed that Pfizer had to hire 1,800 additional full-time employees in the first half of 2021 to deal with “the large increase” of adverse reactions to its COVID vaccine.

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine was made available under the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) on Dec. 11, 2020. By February of 2021, the company was seeing so many safety signals, including in pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, it had to immediately hire 600 employees to process the data.

A batch of documents released in late July showed that 44 percent of women who were pregnant during the trial suffered miscarriages, feminist author and journalist Dr. Naomi Wolf revealed on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast. Wolf has been spearheading research and analysis of the Pfizer documents through her website Daily Clout.

In the past, only 10 to 15 percent of known pregnancies ended in miscarriage.

“Pfizer took those deaths of babies—those spontaneous abortions and miscarriages—and recategorized them as recovered/resolved adverse effects,” Wolf told Bannon. “In other words, if you lost your baby, it was categorized by Pfizer as resolved adverse event, like a headache that got better,” she added.

Wolf said adverse event cutoff report showing the miscarriages was March 13, 2021, and the FDA received the report on April 1, 2021.

Therefore, the FDA had this data nearly a year and a half ago, and instead raising an alarm, they, along with the CDC, went ahead and recommended the experimental injections for expectant mothers anyway.

“Over a year ago, the FDA received this report that out of 50 pregnant women, 22 of them lost their babies, and they did not say anything,” Wolf said, choking back tears. “Thus the FDA was aware of the horrifying rate of fetal death by the start of April 2021 and were silent.”

The CDC, as recently as last month, still recommended the experimental mRNA vaccines for pregnant and breastfeeding “people.”

“COVID-19 vaccination is recommended for all people 6 months and older. This includes people who are pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to get pregnant now, or might become pregnant in the future,” the CDC claims in a July 2022 post on its website. “CDC also recommends COVID-19 vaccines for infants 6 months and older who’s mother was vaccinated or had a COVID infection before or while pregnant.”

The FDA and CDC could conceivably claim they were unaware of high rate of miscarriages in the trial because Pfizer attempted to obscure the data.

“Pfizer notes the miscarriages as serious adverse events with moderate or severe toxicity ratings,” Wolf explained. “However, all of them were recategorized, by Pfizer, in the internal documents under the category of adverse events that were ‘recovered’ or ‘resolved.’”

Wolf noted that the Pfizer trial data correlates with the massive increase in miscarriages seen worldwide since the vaccine rollouts.

“If you extrapolate, globally, to all the pregnant women who are injected, it could explain what we’re seeing now of a baby die-off. 200 percent rise in neonatal deaths or spontaneous abortions and miscarriages in Scotland,” she said, adding, “86 babies died in Ontario when they usually have five or six [per quarter], and in Israel, a 34 percent rise of spontaneous abortions and miscarriages to vaccine.”

Back in January, three military doctors who had access to vaccination data in the DoD’s Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) disclosed that miscarriages and cancers among members of the US military had increased by about 300 percent in 2021 over the five year average.

These alarming safety signals were among several others brought to light by Thomas Renz, a member of America’s Frontline Doctors’ legal team, during a panel discussion convened by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) in January.

The CDC, however, still maintains on its website that “evidence continues to build showing that: COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy is safe and effective.”

The agency also claimed “there is currently no evidence that any vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines, cause fertility problems in women or men,” despite recent studies showing otherwise.

Dr. James Thorp, an physician MD board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, as well as maternal-fetal medicine, said in a recent interview that he has seen a massive spike in fetal death and adverse pregnancy outcomes after the mass vaccination campaign began.

Dr. Thorp told Epoch Times he has practiced obstetrics for over 42 years and sees 6,000–7,000 high-risk OB patients a year.

The obstetrician declared that the use of the experimental COVID vaccines on expectant mothers “broke all the rules.”

“We have always been guided by that principle, that longstanding, six millennia principle—the golden rule of pregnancy—you never, ever use an investigational drug, a new substance, a new drug, a new vaccine—even if there’s a potential benefit,” he said. “You don’t ever use a new substance in pregnancy.”

Thorp said that in his practice, he’s seen a “significant increase” in problems, including “extraordinarily abnormal menstrual periods” before pregnancy.

“The vaccine I’m very concerned about and I do believe that in pregnancy, it’s contraindicated,” he said.

He said that his attempts to disclose these adverse events has been hampered by the imposition of gag orders on physicians and nurses that were imposed in September 2021.

In September of 2021, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) put out a statement in support of the Federation of State Medical Boards’ (FSMB) contention that “providing misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine contradicts physicians’ ethical and professional responsibilities.” The ABOG said physicians disseminating “misinformation” would be subject to “disciplinary actions, including suspension or revocation of their medical license.”

The ACOG, like the CDC, recommends the experimental injections for “pregnant people.”

“The fact that ABOG would recommend this “vaccine” in pregnancy is an abomination and may well be the greatest disaster in the history of obstetrics,” Thorp wrote in an article in the Gazette of Medical Sciences (GMS), titled: Patient Betrayal: The Corruption of Healthcare, Informed Consent and the Physician-Patient Relationship.

Study Claims More Kids Are Fat And Unhealthy Because Of Global Warming

  This is nothing but the well known problem with statistics between correlation and causation.

 It is the reason why we need credible sources, not to tell us what science is or is not based on dogma, but to actually build it through tests, arguments and counter-arguments and synthesis of the best explanations that can be found.

 When science becomes corrupted by money and power, we end up with bogus doctrinal beliefs and progress mostly stops. 

 This is not a modern illness, quite the opposite in fact. 300 years of enlightenment have been a ray of light in a rather grey sky. It is human nature to prefer solid beliefs even on shaky foundations that a perpetual search for truth and all the uncertainties that goes with it.  

 It is essential to remember that in spite of their technical prowess, the Romans created almost no science (unlike the Greeks) and likewise the Renaissance Church, the last vestige of Rome in pre-modern Europe did it's very best to stifle progress and curiosity for as long as it could.

 It is customary to present these people as uneducated religious bigot which is as far from the truth as can be. These Popes and Cardinals were highly intelligent people, well educated, speaking fluently several languages. The one thing they didn't want was dissent and dilution of the power that they shared with the nobility at the time. Galileo was crushed not because they thought he was wrong, they already understood that the probability of a heliocentric world was quite high, but because he was dangerous.

 And here we are once again, exactly four centuries later. New dogmas are being created on the fly to protect those who profit most from the current social structure and mold it to their advantage. A cabal of deep state and corporate people who control international and financial institutions and indirectly most countries. But more crucially, all the online and offline Media to shape the social discourse as they see fit.

 This is how you end up with absurdities such as "Kids Are Fat And Unhealthy Because Of Global Warming" 

 The claim is absurd and disingenuous as we all know that kids, and many people, are unhealthy because of unhealthy food. 

 The real problem is that for such nonsense to fly unobstructed requires the connivance of doctors who should know better, of journalists who do little more these days than public relations for conglomerates and of paid politicians elected for and by these groups.  

 The most corrosive in all this is that there is a clear agenda to this madness. To facilitate control, our belief system, the pillars of our society are being undermined one by one so that eventually people will have nothing to refer to. 

     "War is peace" "Freedom is slavery" "Ignorance is strength" 1984

    Indeed: We are almost there!

Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,

A study published in the journal Temperature has claimed that there is a correlation between rising temperatures and children becoming fatter and more unhealthy.

The study claims that climate change is causing more children to stay inside, eat more, and be generally less active.

CBS Mornings covered the “findings” this past weekend, noting that almost a third of kids are less fit than they were a generation ago.

It also notes that fewer children are engaging in physical activity for 60 minutes a day.

The core argument of the study concerns “heat stress assessment” and claims that it is more ‘dangerous’ and less fun for children to be active if it’s warmer outside.

Critics have noted that the study uses stats recorded during the COVID lockdowns, and as such it may be skewed.

It notes “Climate change will not only exert direct effects like higher ambient temperatures in many regions but it will also be responsible for indirect effects that can independently affect child physical activity habits, for example as observed during the Covid-19 global pandemic.”

Perhaps the fact that children are becoming obese and unhealthy is more to do with the fact that their parents increasingly feed them unhealthy (more affordable) food, coupled with the fact that society encouragesprotects and even celebrates unhealthy lifestyles.

This point was recently amplified by Bill Maher, who noted that “It’s Orwellian how often positivity is used to describe what’s not healthy!”

OpenAI o3 Might Just Break the Internet (Video - 8mn)

  A catchy tittle but in fact just a translation of the previous video without the jargon. In other words: AGI is here!