You idiots who attend the Vaccine Church have just helped mint 9 new pharma-billionaires

Pandemic sweeps the nation.

Fascist America under Trump mobilizes pharmaceutical industry to rush vaccines into development, investing billions of dollars in the efforts.

Industry resurrects a discredited drug delivery mechanism and calls it a vaccine. Smelling $$$, it prepares for mass vaccination but doesn't run trials proportionate to that effort, and then cuts off the placebo arm prematurely, making a complete hash of it.

Government gives Emergency Use Authorization, not FDA Approval, to permit these corporations to experiment on the US population during an "emergency".

The corporations, and the government, are exempted from liability.

A fearful population whipped into a hysteria by propaganda paid for with borrowed dollars lines up like sheep to take the vaccine under a new administration but the same old fascism.

Presto! 9 new billionaires:

The 9 new vaccine billionaires, in order of their net worth are: 

1. Stéphane Bancel, Moderna’s CEO (worth $4.3 billion)
2. Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of BioNTech (worth $4 billion)
3. Timothy Springer, an immunologist and founding investor of Moderna (worth $2.2bn)
4. Noubar Afeyan, Moderna’s Chairman (worth $1.9 billion)
5. Juan Lopez-Belmonte, Chairman of ROVI, a company with a deal to manufacture and package the Moderna vaccine (worth $1.8 billion)
6. Robert Langer, a scientist and founding investor in Moderna (worth $1.6 billion)
7. Zhu Tao, co-founder and chief scientific officer at CanSino Biologics (worth $1.3 billion)
8. Qiu Dongxu, co-founder and senior vice president at CanSino Biologics (worth $1.2)
9. Mao Huihua, also co-founder and senior vice president at CanSino Biologics (worth $1 billion)

			The 8 vaccine billionaires who saw their wealth increase are: Name Role/description $ billions 2021 $ billions 2020 Jiang Rensheng & family Chair, Zhifei Biological products $ 24.40 $ 7.60 Cyrus Poonawalla Founder, Serum Institute of India $ 12.70 $ 8.20 Tse Ping Sinopharm $ 8.90 $ 7.30 Wu Guanjiang Co-founder, Zhifei Biological products $ 5.10 $ 1.80 Thomas Struengmann & family Portfolio includes Germany's BioNTech and Uruguay's Mega Pharma $ 11.00 $ 9.60 Andreas Struengmann & family Portfolio includes Germany's BioNTech and Uruguay's Mega Pharma $ 11.00 $ 9.60 Pankaj Patel Controls listed company Cadila Healthcare. The company now manufactures drugs to treat Covid-19 such as Remdesivir from Gilead. Its Covid-19 vaccine, ZyCoV-D, is undergoing clinical trials. $ 5.00 $ 2.90 Patrick Soon-Shiong ImmunityBio - selected for the US federal government's "Operation Warp Speed" to help quickly develop a Covid-19 vaccine. $ 7.50 $ 6.40

Why is the US Vaccine Church pushing mandatory jabs instead of celebrating its amazing success?

TL;dr: fascism.

The data are clear.

Deaths from COVID-19 have been in free-fall from the January peak when over 95k perished to just over 10k dead in June, with July poised to come in even lower than that, near 6.5k.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Vaccine Church should be CROWING over this success, especially when it accomplished this feat with just 36% vaccinated with one dose and only 22% fully vaccinated on April 13, the date of peak US vaccination.

 

April's not quite 24k deaths were equivalent to last year's lows in June, September and October.

 

And May, June and July 2021 are coming in even lower than that, now that vaccination levels have reached about 50% of the population.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instead the Vaccine Church is wringing its hands about the Indian variant and preaching, preaching, preaching to the people to get vaccinated, and using borrowed funds by the billion to do it, too.

 

The Vaccine Church knows the vaccines had damn little to do with this decline in deaths, and has too much invested in this fascist scheme to look back now.

 

 

To California oil is like slavery and must be banned everywhere

But Californians see Texas as a mortal threat not merely to their state’s business model and way of life but to humanity itself. Drilling is killing. Texas cannot be allowed to be Texas because if Texans get their way, the planet will superheat, destroying us all. You may think that’s ridiculous hyperbole, and maybe it is, but Californians believe it and will not be talked out of it. Hence peaceful coexistence is, for them, possible only on their terms.

The Golden State is no longer down with living and letting live but must impose its will, against the express wishes of others, in fundamentally transformative ways. There’s a word for that.

But Michael Anton can't see how this is just like Lincoln in the North imposing his will on the South in 1861. A Lincoln worshiper in denial.

California is nothing if not Lincolnesque.

Claremont Review of Books,  here.

FBI had at least a dozen "informants" involved prodding along the Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot

But as it was revealed that the FBI had at least a dozen informants heavily involved in the Watchmen — including that Iraq veteran — critics say the G-Men did as much to prod the plot as they did to prevent it from happening in the first place.

The agents took an active part in the scheme from its inception, according to court filings, evidence and dozens of interviews examined by BuzzFeed. Some members of the Wolverine Watchmen are accusing the feds of entrapment. ...

Since the 9/11 attacks, the FBI has reportedly recruited thousands of informants. Some, according to a recent investigation in The New York Times that centered on the dubious arrest and conviction of the so-called “Herald Square Bomber” by the use of an informant, said they were retaliated against if they refused. ...

Coulson said he and others are “very upset” the FBI hasn’t arrested anti-government and anti-fascist protesters who have been leading violent demonstrations in Portland and Seattle for more than a year — yet are bearing down so hard on those arrested for the insurrection at the Capitol.

Read it all here.

Looks more and more like a replay of the FBI's Michigan Hutaree Militia fiasco from 2010.

 

"Insurrectionists" were on the FBI payroll

The so-called “Proud Boys,” often cited as a “far-Right” organization and said to be somehow responsible for January 6, was led by one Enrique Tarrio, an FBI informant. The so-called Oath Keepers, the group most cited and said by government sources to be most involved in that day’s events, is led by one Stewart Rhodes, another FBI asset.

In fact, the Justice Department lists some 15 participants in the event against whom it brings no charges, either for “insurrection” or even for trespassing, because these individuals are paid infiltrators. They work for the FBI or other U.S. intelligence agencies. The U.S. government refuses to expose what these persons did because they did it on the government’s behalf. 

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The FBI never changes. Its sting operations are legion, without which it would have no successes. It should be abolished. 

Peak vaccination against COVID-19 in mid-April coincided with surges in testing positivity, cases, and hospitalizations in Michigan and nationally

Michigan testing positivity peaked 4/9/21

Michigan second wave cases peaked 4/13/21

Michigan C19 hospitalizations peaked 4/17/21

Michigan vaccinations peaked 4/11/21

Nationally there was a case spike peaking 4/13/21

Peak vaccination nationally occurred on . . .  4/13/21 !

Testing was low but had popped to 5.2% nationally on 4/13

And hospitalizations nationally briefly stopped months of progress by 4/20

Another rotten FBI agent makes the news, this one from Indiana and a little higher up the food chain, and involving the MSU sex abuse scandal

Enjoying a comfortable retirement and a lucrative pension, this is the disgraced FBI chief who is accused of chasing a $400,000 Olympic security job instead of pursuing pedophile doctor Larry Nassar. 

William Jay Abbott, the former Special Agent in Charge of the bureau's Indianapolis field office, was alerted to Nassar's sickening abuse of young athletes in summer 2015. 

But a recent report by the Justice Department's inspector general revealed Abbott failed to take the complaint seriously or warn authorities at Michigan State University, allowing the former USA Gymnastics physician to continue molesting patients for a further 13 months.

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Johns Hopkins: US COVID-19 deaths hit the 610k mark

 

The FBI rank and file are as bad as the leadership: Close the whole thing down

We keep hearing in FBI's defense that all the problems are at the top, but that the rank and file are God's gift to America.

Well, not in Kalamazoo.

An FBI agent at the center of the investigation into the plot to kidnap and kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is accused of smashing his wife's head against a nightstand and choking her after a dispute stemming from their attendance at a swingers' party, according to court records.

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Climate Update for KGRR: June 2021

June 2021 was very warm, and about as wet as it gets. The month was the 12th warmest on record by average temperature, and the second wettest, behind only June 1892 when 13.22 inches of rain fell.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Climate Update for KGRR: June 2021

Max T 90, Mean 91

Min T 41, Mean 43

Av T 70.9, Mean 67.7

 

Rain 8.49, Mean 3.58 (there are now 23 months since 1892 in the record with rain in excess of 8.0 inches-13 months in the range of 8.0, six months in the range of 9.0, one at 10.01, two in the range of 11.0, and the all time record 13.22 inches)

 

Snow 0, Mean T, Season now concludes with 46.1 inches, Mean season 66.6 (21st least snowy season on record)

Heating degree days 26, Mean 53, Season now concludes with 6170, Mean season 6697 (15th warmest on record at 7.9% fewer HDD than the mean)

Cooling degree days 207, Mean 140

 

July is 2/3 in the bank and is already behind the mean to date for both rain and cooling degree days. 

US Treasury securities remain the cleanest dirty clothes in the laundry and steadily command a bid despite paying little

 

The US 10-year is paying but 1.28% this morning.

How the mighty are fallen

Ten masts attach'd make not the altitude

That thou hast perpendicularly fallen.

 

-- William Shakespeare

LOL, Ben Stein, cheerleader for "corporations are people", has decided that America has only just now become a fascist state

Now, in the year 2021, the iron curtain has come down hard. With Big Internet Tech and the White House now admittedly colluding to identify and suppress dissidents, even completely nonviolent dissidents, we no longer have a Constitution.

There is just one big corporate–government–IngSoc superstate running everything. Goodbye, America. The GOP, with 50 senators, does nothing. The state legislatures, by far a majority GOP, and the spineless Supreme Court do nothing. And so goodbye to the greatest experiment in the history of the world.

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Gee, what's the problem, Ben?

“Liberals don’t understand that corporations are people,” columnist Ben Stein wrote back in 1974. “They are the people who work for the corporation, buy its products, and own its stock. There is no mechanical person who is benefited if corporations make a good profit. Real people benefit, just as real people lose when corporations lose money.” True enough. But it is also true that corporations have as much of a vested interest in the political system (if not more) . . ..

Here.

The corporation in America was the creation of the King of England. Virginia was but one example of thirteen. The damn things rebelled. Samuel Johnson tried to explain it to us, but it, shall we say, kinda went over our heads, and where it didn't was met with what they would come to call a generous demonstration of disapprobation.

And so, what goes around comes around. Or as Reverend Wright would put it, "America's chickens . . . have come home . . . to roost!"

Taxation No Tyranny

 

 

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 are up in the US over 8k in three weeks, almost 68%

 I thought mass vaccination was supposed to reduce serious outcomes?

 

The crabbed little view of climate from Worcestershire

Something called the "environment manager" from Worcestershire has circulated these charts on Twitter, as if they say something profound about "how things have changed".

Oh really.

 

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June 1976 vs. June 2021 are compared for temperature anomaly relative to what amounts to a microscopic baseline, 1951-1980. This baseline was doubtlessly cherry-picked because average temperatures were conveniently cooler during this period than both before it and after it.

For my station, KGRR, the June average annual mean temperature during the baseline period is 67.1. But before that it was 67.7, and 68.1 after it.  That little baseline period gives you the maximum anomaly. June 1976 was 2.3 degrees F higher than 67.1, and June 2021 3.8 degrees F higher, but this tells you nothing important.

 

You can't conclude anything significant from this when there were three hotter Junes than June 2021 in 1987, 1991, and 2005. Hot as it was, June 2021 was cooler than those three Junes. Are we cooling?

In fact, for KGRR since 1892, there were 11 Junes HOTTER than June 2021 all told. And while three of those occurred since the end of the chosen baseline period in 1980 as just mentioned, eight occurred before 1951: June 1919, 1933, 1921, 1934, 1923, 1949, 1894, 1931.

 

That's 8 Junes before 1951 all hotter than June 2021, and 3 Junes since 1980 which were hotter.

Nothing's really changed. Hot Junes were more frequent in the distant past.

And keep in mind that those global temperature maps aren't based on measurements. Temperatures all over the place aren't "taken". Most are modeled, and many are "imputed" from measurements taken too far away to pass the smell test.

 

But they are very colorful.

Kamala Harris stands for equity and justice

 

Equity is forcing you to work for the health of the regime. Justice is executing you if you refuse.

Biden was forever the US Senate's resident clown, and as president he has now brought his clown show to immigration policy

Illegal immigration in the first six months of the Biden administration has EXPLODED. The news is out that there have been ONE MILLION apprehensions at the US border with Mexico just in the first six months of 2021, affectionately spelled "boarder" by the MAGA idiots.

What the news reports don't tell you is that most of this is "catch and release". They aren't deported. Biden is presiding over an invasion of his own making. It's intentional.

Meanwhile in Cubar (h/t Rush), the people are fed up with the free medical care under Castroism, which can't seem to cope with COVID-19. Cuba ranks EIGHTH in the world RIGHT NOW for cases per million, two spots below number six United Kingdom, which also has socialized medicine. The difference is the UK has vaccines which don't work vs. Cubar which has no vaccines which don't work.

Anywho, people want out of Cuba, but BIDEN doesn't want them. Only with the Cubans does he get tough on immigration. The reason, obviously, is that Cubans with the good sense to try to get the hell out of there hate communism and make unreliable future Democrat voters.

The DHS Secretary under Biden is the son of a Cuban refugee, but there he is telling the Cubans fleeing the island that they will not reach the US. It reminds one of nothing so much as the infamous case of Elian Gonzalez in 2000, who was forcibly repatriated to Cuba by another Democrat administration.

Biden is a joke alright, but no one is laughing at the punchline.

The dumbest political take of the week comes from Stephen L. Miller aka @redsteeze

DeSantis is the only name mentioned as a future replacement for Trump. He tacks close or higher than Trump in casual polling, his name is the first that comes up, even among the Trumpist base, as a preferred candidate. This is a burden no politician should be saddled with. The country and the GOP is one Ron DeSantis scandal away from returning to Trump’s awkward embrace in 2024.

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Imagine Ronald Reagan in 1975 reading this about himself as he's coming off the governorship of California and preparing to run for the Republican nomination against sitting President Gerald Ford.

"Oh my God. The burden! And I signed that damn abortion legislation in California and if anyone finds out, I'm toast! What oh what should I do?"

If Ronald Reagan were alive today he would laugh out loud at redsteeze. Like any skeleton lurking in DeSantis' closet could possibly hold a candle to the smoldering wreckage left in the wake of the SS Trumptanic. 

Ron DeSantis should definitely run against Trump, the biggest LOSER and biggest PHONY to ever make the big time.

Just win reelection in 2022 in Florida first, Ron. And then do run run.

COVID-19 cases are rising in North America and Europe in the summer as would be expected with a seasonal virus

 Virus gonna virus. And it laughs at the vaccines. 

Africa continues to show that COVID-19 is a seasonal phenomenon with perfect summer-winter oscillation since the onset

Virus gonna virus.