WORLD NEWS
Untested Bivalent COVID Jab Being Rolled Out
August 15, 2022, the U.K. became the first country to approve Moderna’s new bivalent COVID booster — Spikevax bivalent — which contains mRNA that codes for the original Wuhan strain spike protein and the Omicron BA.1 subvariant
The approval of the new booster comes on the heels of complaints about lack of demand for the shots. Moderna recently threw away 30 million doses of its original COVID jab, as nobody wanted them, and the U.S., has tossed 82.1 million COVID jab doses in the trash for the same reason
The Spikevax bivalent shot is already out of date, as both strains included are no longer in circulation anywhere in the world
In the U.S., infections are currently caused by the BA.4, BA.5 and BA.2.12.1 variants of Omicron. In Europe, Omicron BA.2, BA.4 and BA.5 are the current “variants of concern.” BA.1 is on the list of “de-escalated variants,” meaning it’s of no concern either because it’s either not in circulation, or because it doesn’t cause severe illness
Coronaviruses mutate very rapidly, and when you vaccinate against a rapidly mutating virus, you encourage it to mutate even faster, and to develop immune-evading properties. This is what we’ve been witnessing since the beginning of the COVID jab campaign, and outdated, leaky bivalent boosters may worsen the situation further
Russian Political Commentator’s Daughter Killed in Suspected Car Bombing Outside Moscow
The daughter of Russian political commentator Alexander Dugin was killed outside Moscow on Aug. 20 when a powerful explosion destroyed the vehicle she was driving, Russian authorities said.
Darya Dugina, 29, died when a suspected explosive device blew up her Toyota Land Cruiser, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Moscow region said in a statement.
“The investigating authorities of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Moscow Region opened a criminal case on the fact of the murder of a girl,” the statement said, adding that as she was driving “at full speed, an explosive device, presumably installed in a Toyota Land Cruiser, went off.”
“The driver … died at the scene,” the committee wrote, according to a translation. “The identity of the deceased has been established. … This is the journalist and political scientist, Daria Dugina.”
Trudeau Imposes Handgun Import Ban Without Waiting for Parliamentary Approval
A ban on importing handguns to Canada passed by the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau without a parliamentary vote came into effect on Friday as part of a broader crackdown on gun rights.
The Trudeau government announced that imports of handguns to Canada would be halted earlier this month, with Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino stating that the current ban is temporary until a permanent ban can be passed in the Canadian parliament.
On Friday the import ban came into effect, ostensibly to limit the number of handguns coming into Canada, the CBC reports.
According to the Canadian government, handguns were the most frequent type of firearm used in shootings between 2009 and 2020, and between 2010 and 2020 the number of registered legal firearms increased by 71 per cent.
For Minister Mendicino, the two figures are related. In an interview, he stated, “The total universe of handguns has exploded,” adding: “And at the same time, we’ve seen handgun violence go through the roof. That is not a coincidence — there is a correlation between those two trends.”
Brazilian Police Seek to Indict President Bolsonaro over Coronavirus ‘Disinformation’
Brazil’s Federal Police requested authorization from the nation’s Federal Supreme Court this week to formally indict President Jair Bolsonaro with a Chinese coronavirus-related crime, accusing Bolsonaro of having disseminated false information about coronavirus vaccines and for discouraging the use of masks.
The charges come as Brazil officially opens its presidential campaign season this week, in which Bolsonaro is campaigning by heavily promoting his opposition to coronavirus lockdowns and emphasis on protecting people’s livelihoods.
The coronavirus crime accusations follow an investigation opened at the request of Brazilian Senator Omar Aziz, who presided over the senate’s “COVID-CPI,” a legislative commission that sought to investigate allegations of irregularities committed by Brazil’s federal government in the handling of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.
The commission was created in April 2021 and concluded its work in October of that year, recommending nine criminal charges against Bolsonaro for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and accusing him of having committed “crimes against humanity.”
Five of the nine charges were shelved by Brazil’s prosecutors on July 27.
Great Reset: French Govt to Recruit 3,000 ‘Green Police’ over Climate Change
A senior minister in France has demanded that the country create 3,000 ‘green police’ posts in the face of global warming.
Gérald Darmanin, who serves as France’s Minister of the Interior, has announced that he aims to create 3,000 posts for new “green police” officials, a move that he has deemed necessary in the face to tackle climate change.
News of the potential creation of these new posts in France follows calls from European Union bigwigs for the creation of a bloc-wide “Civil Protection Force” to fight the effects of climate change under the control of Brussels, a move slammed by some as an attempt by Eurocrats to hoard even more power.
In an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche, Darmanin justified the creation of 3,000 new posts specifically aimed at green-related criminal issues by citing the effects climate change was having on France, especially in regard to forest fires, nine out of ten of which have allegedly been caused by human activity.
“Faced with this, we must improve the work of judicial investigation,” the journal reports the politician as saying.
Polio in U.S., UK, and Israel Reveals Rare Risk of Oral Vaccine
For years, global health officials have used billions of drops of an oral vaccine in a remarkably effective campaign aimed at wiping out polio in its last remaining strongholds – typically, poor, politically unstable corners of the world.
Now, in a surprising twist in the decades-long effort to eradicate the virus, authorities in Jerusalem, New York and London have discovered evidence that polio is spreading there.
Scientists have long known about this extremely rare phenomenon. That is why some countries have switched to other polio vaccines. But these incidental infections from the oral formula are becoming more glaring as the world inches closer to eradication of the disease and the number of polio cases caused by the wild, or naturally circulating, virus plummets.
Since 2017, there have been 396 cases of polio caused by the wild virus, versus more than 2,600 linked to the oral vaccine, according to figures from the World Health Organization and its partners.
“We are basically replacing the wild virus with the virus in the vaccine, which is now leading to new outbreaks,” said Scott Barrett, a Columbia University professor who has studied polio eradication. “I would assume that countries like the U.K. and the U.S. will be able to stop transmission quite quickly, but we also thought that about monkeypox.”
U.S. NEWS, POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
Judge: Government Hasn’t Proven Trump Search Warrant Affidavit Should Remain Sealed
U.S. government officials have not presented sufficient evidence to keep a key document related to the search warrant executed at former President Donald Trump’s home shielded from the public, a federal judge ruled on Aug. 22.
U.S. officials have claimed that an affidavit, which convinced U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart to approve the warrant, needs extensive redactions to protect FBI agents and witnesses, as well as the ongoing investigation into Trump.
The redactions would leave “very little—nothing of substance,” Jay Bratt, chief of the Department of Justice’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section, told Reinhart during a recent hearing.
The government has met its burden of showing its interests outweigh public access to unsealing the entire affidavit, Reinhart said in the new ruling. But the government has not yet sufficiently argued that portions of the document should not be made public.
“I cannot say at this point that partial redactions will be so extensive that they will result in a meaningless disclosure, but I may ultimately reach that conclusion after hearing further from the Government,” he said.
Still, “given the intense public and historical interest in an unprecedented search of a former President’s residence, the Government has not yet shown that these administrative concerns are sufficient to justify sealing,” he added. “I therefore reject the Government’s argument that the present record justifies keeping the entire Affidavit under seal.”
Reinhart ordered the government to file additional evidence supporting keeping the entire document under seal along with proposed redactions to the affidavit, which is a document authored by an FBI agent that outlines why the government believes it needs a warrant. The warrant was served on Aug. 8 at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.
Reinhart will review the proposed redactions. He’ll either reject them while giving the government a chance to appeal to a higher court or agree with them and release the redacted document.
4.9 Million Illegal Aliens Crossed US Border in 18 Months Since Biden Took Office: Report
Nearly 5 million illegal immigrants have crossed U.S. borders in the 18 months since President Joe Biden took office, according to a new report.
A total of 4.9 million illegal aliens, including some 900,000 “gotaways” who evaded apprehension and have since disappeared into American communities, have entered the country by the end of July, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) said in a statement on Aug. 16.
“Roughly the equivalent of the entire population of Ireland has illegally entered the United States in the 18 months President Biden has been in office, with many being released into American communities,” FAIR President Dan Stein said in the press release.
He blamed Biden for putting the unprecedented surge down to external factors, not the administration’s own “sabotage” of immigration laws. After rolling back key Trump-era policies, Biden presided over the largest number of apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the U.S.–Mexico border in a calendar year in history, recording almost 1.9 million arrests last year.
“The endless flow of illegal aliens and the incursion of lethal narcotics pouring across our border will not end until this administration demonstrates a willingness to enforce our laws,” Stein said.
The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Fence Surrounding Biden’s Delaware Beach House Costs About $500,000, Records Show
The price tag of a taxpayer-funded project to build a barrier around President Joe Biden’s Delaware beach house has grown to nearly $500,000, federal spending records suggest.
In September 2021, the Homeland Security Department paid $456,548 to Delaware-based construction company Turnstone Holdings for the purchase and installation of “security fencing” surrounding the president’s Rehoboth Beach property, according to USAspending.gov, an online database operated by the Treasury Department.
The database entry shows two additional payments since then. One bill of $6,844 was paid in late November 2021 to cover expenses resulting from extra “gravel pads” and “crane services.” This was followed by another $26,933 bill in June, described as simply “to add funds to current project.”
The overall cost of the fence now stands at $490,324. Although the project was originally expected to be completed by the end of 2021, its “potential end date” has been pushed back to June 6, 2023, marking a delay of more than 18 months.
The exact reason for the setbacks remains unclear. The Epoch Times has reached out to the Homeland Security Department, listed as the main awarding agency and funding office for the contract, for further information.
Amid a record influx of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border, the costly presidential residence fence has drawn mockery from critics of the president’s border policy.
“So walls work at Joe Biden’s beach house but not the Southern border?” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote on Twitter.
“You’re building $500,000 fence around your perimeter, and I don’t regret you for that—you’re the president, you deserve the security,” Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, a Republican, said on Sunday in an interview with Fox News. “But you can’t have a fence and the rest of us don’t.”
“People at the border need a fence,” she added.
Trump Responds to McConnell After Leader Warns GOP Voters About Midterms
Former President Donald Trump responded to recent comments issued by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) about the GOP possibly not retaking the Senate during the 2022 midterms.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the Kentucky senator is a “broken down political hack” and challenged his loyalty to the Republican Party. “Why do Republicans Senators allow a broken down hack politician, Mitch McConnell, to openly disparage hard working Republican candidates for the United States Senate,” Trump asked on the platform.
He added: “This is such an affront to honor and to leadership. He should spend more time (and money!) helping them get elected, and less time helping his crazy wife and family get rich on China!” Trump was making reference to McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, owning a shipping company that does extensive business in China, according to reports.
Trump’s critical comment came days after McConnell told reporters that the GOP likely won’t retake the Senate because, according to him, there are problems with certain Republican candidates running for office in this election cycle. He didn’t elaborate.
“I think there’s probably a greater likelihood the House flips than the Senate,” McConnell told reporters in Kentucky last week. “Senate races are just different, they’re statewide, candidate quality has a lot to do with the outcome.”
McConnell did not say whether he has a plan or will try to help certain Republican candidates win their races.
Republicans need a net gain of one Senate seat to retake control of the congressional body. The Senate now stands at 50–50, with Vice President Kamala Harris serving as a tie-breaker for the Democrats.
“In the Senate, if you look at where we have to compete in order to get into a majority, there are places that are competitive in the general election,” McConnell also said in April. “So, you can’t nominate somebody who’s just sort of unacceptable to a broader group of people and win. We had that experience in 2010 and 2012.”
Since he left the White House, Trump has often panned the leadership of McConnell, who in 2020 happily touted the former president’s endorsement to win his Senate race.
While McConnell has issued few statements in response to Trump’s criticisms of the senator’s leadership, he believes he will be reelected as GOP leader regardless of whether Republicans or Democrats take over in 2022.
“Well, look at it this way: I have been elected eight times without opposition. If I have an opponent—I don’t own this job, and there’s always an election every two years for leader—if anybody wants to challenge me, have at it,” McConnell told Fox News earlier this month. McConnell then said he is confident about being reelected as GOP leader.
Stimulus Payments and Rebates to Hit Bank Accounts Next Month
Several states are mailing out stimulus checks or tax rebates in September despite near-historic inflation.
Recent data released by the federal government shows that the Consumer Price Index, a key inflation metric, remained relatively elevated at 8.5 percent in July. Although it was down from 9.1 percent in June, the figures represent highs not seen in about four decades.
Pence Says He Didn’t Keep Any Classified Information After Leaving Office
Former Vice President Mike Pence said on Aug. 19 that, when he left office, he didn’t take with him any information that was classified.
Pence made the remarks in an interview with The Associated Press, eleven days after the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence to seize what an inventory list identified as classified and top secret materials. Trump has insisted that all the seized materials had all been declassified.
Pence was asked by an Associated Press reporter whether he had retained any classified materials when he left office, to which he replied, “No, not to my knowledge.”
Asked further about materials labeled “top secret” in the FBI’s list of items recovered from Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Pence said, “I honestly don’t want to prejudge it before until we know all the facts.”
The former vice president made the remarks while on a two-day trip to Iowa, where leadoff Republican presidential causes will be held. While Pence is considering a run for the White House in 2024, his attention was focused on boosting Republican candidates in the upcoming midterm elections.
“In 2022, Americans aren’t just choosing which party controls your government,” Pence said in a statement Friday. “We will decide whether our children and grandchildren stand tall as citizens of the freest nation on earth, or whether they are forced to live in the economic, moral, and spiritual poverty of socialism!”
Arizona Supreme Court Rules Voter Referendums Can’t Repeal Tax Cuts Passed by Legislature
The Supreme Court of Arizona found 5–2 on Aug. 19 that a referendum backed by organized labor aimed at blocking a planned $2 billion per year state-level income tax cut violated the state constitution.
On April 21, the court overturned a lower court ruling allowing the referendum to move forward but hadn’t explained the reasoning behind its decision until now.
A 2020 referendum to hike taxes on high earners and boost education spending was previously struck down by state courts.
The Arizona Constitution allows voters to prevent legislature-approved laws from taking effect by challenging them in a referendum. They have to collect the signatures of at least 5 percent of qualified voters to place the matter on the ballot.
But the state constitution provides that laws “for the support and maintenance of the departments of the state government and state institutions” can’t be put to a referendum. The Supreme Court of Arizona determined that the lower court was wrong when it ruled the tax cut could proceed to referendum because it didn’t appropriate money.
“We conclude the exemption from the referendum power for laws ‘for the support and maintenance of the departments of the state government and state institutions,’ Ariz. Const. art. 4, pt. 1, § 1(3), applies to tax revenue measures,” Justice John Lopez IV wrote in the state Supreme Court’s opinion (pdf).
“A revenue measure is exempt from referendum, regardless of the increase or decrease in revenue, provided it is for the support and maintenance of existing departments of the state government and state institutions.”
Invest in Arizona, a political action committee backed by a teachers’ union, had wanted to place a referendum question on the ballot in the upcoming Nov. 8 election in hopes of repealing an income tax reduction approved in 2021 by the Republican-dominated legislature and signed into law by Republican Gov. Doug Ducey.
DeSantis Stumps for JD Vance in Ohio, Launches Statewide Education Tour During Busy Weekend
Unopposed in the Aug. 23 Florida gubernatorial primary, Gov. Ron DeSantis encouraged a standing-room-only audience to vote for Ohio Republican U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance at a rally in suburban Youngstown on Aug. 19.
The event—which was held in the home area of Vance’s opponent, 10-term U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio)—was one of the multiple appearances DeSantis is making on behalf of conservative Republican candidates and Turning Point Action.
At the “Unite and Win” rally, DeSantis touted his response to the COVID-19 crisis, spoke out against “woke ideology,” and addressed cultural issues like critical race theory and transgender athletes participating in women’s sports.
In Ohio, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine is projected to win reelection in November, although many conservative voters across the state do not approve of his handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
Sen. Graham Gets Temporary Reprieve on Georgia Grand Jury Testimony
A federal appeals court delivered a victory for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Aug. 21 by blocking a subpoena that had ordered him to testify before a Georgia grand jury investigating the 2020 election.
A three-judge panel with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued (pdf) a temporary injunction against the subpoena, sending the case back to a lower court. The district court will now have to determine whether the subpoena should be modified or quashed.
“This case is remanded to the district court for the limited purpose of allowing the district court to determine whether [Graham] is entitled to a partial quashal or modification of the subpoena to appear before the special purpose grand jury based on any protections afforded by the Speech or Debate Clause of the United States Constitution,” the ruling states.
“Following resolution of the partial-quashal issue on limited remand, the matter will be returned to this Court for further consideration,” it added.
U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May ruled several days ago that Graham had to testify before of the Fulton County grand jury in connection with former President Donald Trump’s election-related efforts in Georgia after the 2020 election.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who was criticized by a judge last month over her participation in a fundraiser against an individual she’s investigating, wrote in court filings that the grand jury required testimony from Graham on two calls he allegedly made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff following the 2020 election.
“During the telephone calls, the Witness questioned Secretary Raffensperger and his staff about reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald Trump,” Willis wrote.
Graham’s attorneys previously argued that the senator shouldn’t be forced to testify because his actions were related to his activity as the former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“Senator Graham did not inject himself into Georgia’s electoral process, and never tried to alter the outcome of any election. The conversation was about absentee ballots and Georgia’s procedures,” Graham’s attorneys wrote (pdf) in a filing last month.
Charles Eisenstein is the author of “The Coronation,” a collection of essays that explore the paradigms, dynamics, ideologies, and mythologies that predispose people toward accepting narratives around safety and social control, especially during times of crisis. He argues that governments around the world were able to exploit the need to fit in and feel safe during the pandemic.
“Human beings are exquisitely attuned to reading the mood of the mob. It’s a survival mechanism. In order to fit in, we instinctively adopt the correct opinions and profess those opinions, we signal the appropriate virtues, we respect the appropriate taboos that mark us as part of the in-group and not part of the sacrificial subclass,” Eisenstein said on EpochTV’s American Thought Leaders program.
“This is an ancient, powerful, psychological disposition that fascists and totalitarians exploit in order to control society.”
The conditions for “COVID hysteria” didn’t just start in 2020, Eisenstein noticed that these conditions were well-established by 2017 when the Zika virus popped up, although it was not deadly enough to implement radical public health policies, the “ideological machinery was already in place” for a transition to a “fully medicalized society.”
This approach puts control and safety above all else, said Eisenstein, and puts medical authority above all other authority.
Supreme Court Blocks Elections for Georgia Public Service Commission
The Supreme Court issued an emergency order on Aug. 19 blocking upcoming elections for Georgia’s Public Service Commission, upholding a lower court ruling that found that the election rules currently in place discriminate against black voters.
The order is unusual because, in recent years, the high court has generally been reluctant to side with voters over state officials in disputes over election rules, especially when the court has been asked to act in an emergency posture.
The state’s Public Service Commission (PSC) regulates electric, natural gas, and telecommunications companies. There are five elected commissioners. Since 1906, commissioners have been elected on a statewide at-large basis.
Elections for two of the five seats were scheduled for Nov. 8. If the legal dispute isn’t resolved soon, those elections might not proceed.
On Aug. 5, Judge Steven D. Grimberg of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia issued a 64-page ruling (pdf) finding that statewide at-large elections for the PSC were racially discriminatory because this method of election “unlawfully dilutes the votes of Black citizens under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.”
The system “must change,” according to Grimberg, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump. The challenge to the PSC elections was brought by Georgia voters, one of whom, Richard Rose, is president of the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP.
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act “prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in one of the language minority groups identified” in the statute, according to a U.S. Department of Justice summary.
“Most of the cases arising under Section 2 since its enactment involved challenges to at-large election schemes, but the section’s prohibition against discrimination in voting applies nationwide to any voting standard, practice, or procedure that results in the denial or abridgment of the right of any citizen to vote on account of race, color, or membership in a language minority group,” the summary reads.
US National Institutes of Health Ending Subaward for Lab in Wuhan, China
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has ended a subgrant to the laboratory in China located where the first COVID-19 cases were identified in 2019.
U.S.-based EcoHealth Alliance was granted $3.7 million, starting in 2014, to study bat-related coronaviruses. It conveyed some of the money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), located in China.
The grant was renewed in 2019, but suspended in 2020 because of concerns the grantees were failing to comply with conditions attached to the money.
The NIH’s review of the concerns has concluded, Dr. Michael Lauer, an NIH deputy director, revealed in a letter on Aug. 19. It determined that all of the problems cannot be fixed.
Therefore, the NIH informed EcoHealth Alliance that the subaward to the Wuhan lab is terminated “for failure to meet award terms and conditions requiring provision of records to NIH upon request,” Lauer wrote to Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee.
Trump Hints at Filing ‘Major Motion’ Challenging FBI Raid
Former President Donald Trump announced Aug. 19 that a “major motion” will soon come following the FBI’s raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort.
“A major motion pertaining to the Fourth Amendment will soon be filed concerning the illegal Break-In of my home, Mar-a-Lago, right before the ever important Mid-Term Elections,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, less than two weeks after the FBI raid on his home in Florida in search of official records.
The Constitution’s Fourth Amendment bars unreasonable searches and seizures.
“My rights, together with the rights of all Americans, have been violated at a level rarely seen before in our Country,” Trump continued. “Remember, they even spied on my campaign. The greatest Witch Hunt in USA history has been going on for six years, with no consequences to the scammers. It should not be allowed to continue!”
Under the Fourth Amendment, only search warrants that are “reasonable” are legal. It also requires that search warrants be justified by “probable cause” that is “supported by oath or affirmation.”
The search warrant, unsealed on Aug. 12, showed that the Department of Justice (DOJ) was investigating Trump for potential breaches of three U.S. laws relating to the handling of certain records, including defense information and records relating to federal investigations. An inventory list, also unsealed on Aug. 12, showed that FBI agents took 11 sets of documents variously described as classified, top secret, secret, and confidential.
The affidavit filed in support of the search warrant application, which contains the DOJ’s case for probable cause, is currently sealed. While the government has asked the court to keep it this way, saying its disclosure would jeopardize the integrity of a federal investigation, a federal judge in Florida on Aug. 18 said he’s inclined to unseal portions of the affidavit, and ordered government officials to give him a redacted version of the document for its potential release.
CDC Investigating Fast-Moving E. Coli Outbreak
Federal authorities said they are investigating an E. coli outbreak in Michigan and Ohio that has left approximately 30 people sickened.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said 29 people have become ill due to the E. coli outbreak since late July. Nine of those individuals have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported so far.
“Michigan and Ohio have both reported large increases in the number of E. coli infections in their states. Some of these illnesses have not yet been reported to the PulseNet system, but investigators are working quickly to add them to PulseNet to determine if they may be part of this outbreak,” the CDC said in an update this week.
Those who were sickened are aged 6 to 91 years, according to the CDC. The source of the outbreak has not yet been determined.
“As mentioned above, the true number of sick people in an outbreak is likely higher than the number reported, and the outbreak may not be limited to the states with known illnesses,” the agency said. “This is because some of the recent illnesses have not yet been reported … as it usually takes 3 to 4 weeks to determine if a sick person is part of an outbreak.”
“In addition, some people recover without medical care and are not tested for E. coli. State and local public health officials are interviewing people about the foods they ate in the week before they got sick.”
85 Arrested, $12.8 Million in Drugs and 49 Guns Seized in Central Florida: Polk County Sheriff
A multi-agency investigation resulted in the breakup of an international drug ring, with the arrest of 85 suspects and the seizure of firearms and $12.8 million worth of drugs, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd announced on Aug. 19.
Judd said the drugs—including enough fentanyl to kill 96,000 people—were “smuggled in suitcases” using domestic flights out of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). They would book a flight from California to Orlando, then check the luggage, but “never get on the flight.” The receiver picked up the luggage filled with drugs that were then distributed onto the “streets of Polk County.”
The sheriff picked up a large bag of methamphetamine for all to see.
“On one occasion, on one airline, six suitcases with this drug were smuggled into Orlando,” Judd said.
The investigation began in September 2020 when the sheriff’s office received information about the “Jefferson family” and that one of the family members was smuggling “large amounts of drugs into Florida from Mexico.”
The wiretap investigation began in February 2022, “during which a court-ordered intercept of communications between suspects within the criminal drug trafficking organization was initiated and monitored,” the sheriff told reporters.
Fargo School Board Reinstates the Pledge of Allegiance After National Public Outcry
After criticism from conservative lawmakers and backlash from citizens nationwide, the Fargo Board of Education on Aug. 18 voted to reverse course on its previous week’s decision to stop reciting the Pledge of Allegiance before its meetings.
On Aug. 9, seven of the board’s nine members, including four newcomers who took office in June, voted to cancel a previous board measure that was instituted in March before the election.
Board vice president Seth Holden said at the Aug. 9 meeting that the Pledge of Allegiance was contrary to the district’s diversity, equity, and inclusion priorities.
“Given that the word ‘God’ in the text of the Pledge of Allegiance is capitalized, the text is clearly referring to the Judeo-Christian God, and therefore, it does not include any other faiths such as Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism,” Holden said, adding that this made the pledge of allegiance a “non-inclusionary act.”
Reciting the pledge is a “non-inclusionary act” and there is text within the pledge that is “simply not true,” Holden added.
“The statement that we are ‘one nation under God’ is simply an untrue statement,” Holden said. “We are one nation under many or no gods.”
Tracie Newman, who is board president, recommended that a member recite “a shared statement of purpose that would bring us all together” at the start of the meetings instead of the pledge, adding that it would be “unifying.”
“I’m just not sure that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance is a useful way to begin every one of our board meetings,” Newman said at the Aug. 9 meeting.
North Dakota’s Republican Party called the board’s Aug. 9 vote “laughable” and an “affront to our American values.”
‘In God We Trust’ Signs Going Up in More Texas Schools
The motto “In God We Trust” is being displayed in a growing number of Texas schools, thanks to a law that recently went into effect requiring its display in a prominent location in public schools and institutions of higher education in the state.
Texas state Sen. Bryan Hughes, a Republican, co-authored Senate Bill 797, which was passed last year and requires schools to display the motto as long as the signs featuring it came from private donations and at no cost to taxpayers.
“The national motto, In God We Trust, asserts our collective trust in a sovereign God,” Hughes said in an Aug. 17 statement on Twitter following an appearance for a Northwest Austin Republican Women’s Club event.
Hughes shared a photo of one of the signs, saying he’s encouraged by people “coming forward to donate these framed prints to remind future generations of the national motto.”
Texas Trucker Gets Max Sentence for Smuggling Migrants in Frigid Trailer
A South Texas man will spend five years in prison for smuggling 31 migrants inside a frigid trailer. The smuggler hid the migrants inside a refrigerated trailer behind a load of broccoli bound for Florida.
This week, 37-year-old Eric Mendiola went before U.S. District Judge Drew Barnett Tipton at a federal courthouse in Corpus Christi, Texas. Judge Tipton sentenced the San Benito man to five years in federal prison for transporting migrants in his tractor-trailer across the Sarita Border Patrol checkpoint on U.S. Highway 77. The sentence is the maximum allowed for the charge of human smuggling, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas. Court documents revealed the man was arrested twice before on similar charges.
Actor Gary Busey Charged with Sexual Misconduct in New Jersey
Veteran actor Gary Busey has been charged with sexual misconduct and harassment following allegations stemming from a fan convention in New Jersey.
According to the Cherry Hill police, the 78-year-old former Oscar nominee had been the subject of many complaints at the Monster-Mania convention earlier this month, including allegations of unwanted touching. On Saturday, he was charged with “three counts of sex crimes,” according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Activist actress Patricia Arquette went on the attack against Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon over abortion, suggesting that children should be violently snuffed out if they were conceived in rape.
Arquette took to Twitter on Saturday to blast the Donald Trump-endorsed Dixon for her opposition to abortion and attacked Dixon for recent comments on whether a pregnancy as a result of rape should be aborted.
Catholic Group Criticizes Biden for Inaction Against Attacks in Ad Campaign
A Catholic advocacy group recently launched a $1 million ad campaign with the aim of pressuring President Joe Biden into taking action against violence and attacks against churches and pro-life pregnancy centers.
The 30-second ad compares Biden to America’s first Catholic President, John F. Kennedy, and how the two leaders have reacted differently to “Churches Burning,” which is the title of the advertisement. The ad campaign was launched last week by Wisconsin-based CatholicVote, which expressed hope that “political figures and the Justice Department” would see their message and take action.
“The American people are disgusted by the inaction of our Justice Department,” said CatholicVote spokesperson Joshua Mercer. “This ad sends an important message, calling on our lawmakers to demand action against this vicious campaign of targeted violence against Catholics.”
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Recession Drum Beats Louder as Leading Economic Index Falls for 5th Month Straight
America’s recessionary drumbeat just got louder as a key economic gauge from the Conference Board dropped for the fifth month in a row, weighed down by a slowing job market, weak manufacturing new orders, and deep consumer pessimism.
The Leading Economic Index (LEI) for the United States, which is a forward-looking gauge designed to predict business cycle shifts including recessions, fell by 0.4 percent in July, following a 0.7 percent drop in June, the Conference Board said on Aug. 18.
“The U.S. LEI declined for the fifth consecutive month in July, suggesting recession risks are rising in the near term,” Ataman Ozyildirim, senior director for economics at the Conference Board, said in a statement.
While the U.S. economy met the common rule-of-thumb definition for a recession when gross domestic product (GDP) printed negative for two quarters in a row earlier this year, recessions are formally called by a panel of economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). They use a broader definition than the two-quarter rule, relying on a wide range of indicators, including the labor market, which has remained on a relatively solid footing.
The Biden administration has seized on the NBER’s criteria for declaring a downturn, insisting that the economy isn’t in a recession, with White House officials often citing labor market strength—though there are signs that it’s cooling.
Even though unemployment is at 3.5 percent and the latest non-farm payrolls report showed U.S. employers adding a forecast-beating 528,000 in July, a growing number of U.S. corporations have announced hiring freezes or layoffs, while the number of Americans filing for unemployment insu
Survey: Half of American Companies Set to Cut Jobs After Hiring Surge
Numerous companies across the United States are planning to trim their employee numbers, Fox Business reported Friday.
The outlet continued:
That’s according to a new survey published on Thursday by consultant PwC, which last month polled more than 700 U.S. executives and board members from various industries. About half of respondents said they are preparing to reduce headcount — or already have — while 52% have implemented hiring freezes.
On top of that, roughly 46% of companies are either dropping or reducing signing bonuses, which became commonplace over the past year as businesses tried to lure in new workers amid an increasingly tight labor market. Another 44% are rescinding offers entirely, the survey showed.
Home goods company Wayfair decided to cut approximately 870 workers to help manage operation costs and “realign its investment priorities” following the coronavirus pandemic, the Associated Press (AP) reported this week.
In 2020, the company reported a 55 percent sales growth because people were buying home furnishings.
During an interview aired on Friday’s edition of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” Harvard Professor, economist, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers predicted that we’ll “see significant housing price inflation in the measures of inflation that are used,” along with building slowing and that “there’s considerably more pain with respect to housing ahead.”
Summers said, “What’s true is that, last year, people who were signing new leases or buying new homes, were paying 15 or 20% more than they had a year ago. Nothing like that fed into the consumer price index or the Fed’s preferred measure, the PCE index. All that fed through was the small fraction of people who saw their rents change and a constant rent for everybody else. What that means is that, down the road, like now, you’re seeing inflation, not because new leases are going up so fast, although, they are still going up at a reasonable rate, but just because the people whose leases are coming up are seeing substantial increases. And so, we’re going to see significant housing price inflation in the measures of inflation that are used, probably, for another six to nine months. That’s a different thing than what builders are responding to. Builders aren’t responding to that. Builders are responding to what they think the price of houses will be a year from now. And that [has] come down. And so, we’re seeing a slowing in building. And that’s what happens when interest rates go up. In some ways, it makes sense. If we’re going to have a decline in economic activity, it’s better to have a decline in something where we’ve already got a huge stock of it and it’s only the new flow that’s being affected than in something that we need to consume on a continuous basis, and that doesn’t have any duration to it. But I do think we’re looking towards softness in the future, with respect to housing. … As I say, my best guess is that we will have a meaningful recession some time in the next two years, and, if so, I think there’s considerably more pain with respect to housing ahead.”
Report: Raising a Child Costs over $300,000 Due to Soaring Inflation\
Skyrocketing inflation is increasing the burden on American parents to raise children, according to the Brookings Institution.
The Wall Street Journal published the left-wing institutions’ analysis that found it can cost up to over $310,605 to raise a child in today’s economy, which works out to an average of $18,271 per year to raise a child born after 2015.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
SURVEILLANCE STATE
Millions of iPhone Users Warned by Federal Agency to Change Settings Immediately
Apple Inc. and a top U.S. cybersecurity agency are urging iPhone, iPad, and Macbook users and administrators to update their iOS software amid recently discovered security vulnerabilities.
“Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in macOS Monterey, iOS and iPadOS, and Safari. An attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected device,” the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a statement on Aug. 18.
Users and administrators are urged to review Apple’s security updates page and apply the updates—MacOS Monterey 12.5.1, iOS 15.6.1, iPadOS 15.6.1, or Safari 15.6.1—as soon as possible.
Apple released two security reports about the issue on Wednesday, although they didn’t receive wide attention outside of tech publications.
Apple’s explanation of the vulnerability means a hacker could get “full admin access” to the device.
That would allow intruders to impersonate the device’s owner and subsequently run any software in their name, said Rachel Tobac, CEO of SocialProof Security, in an interview with The Associated Press.
HEALTH
The Antitumor Effects of Quercetin
Quercetin has an apoptotic effect on aging cells that may help prevent or be helpful in the treatment of cancer; years of research have also demonstrated it prevents chemically induced cancer and lung cancer, and inhibits the proliferation of cancer cells
Quercetin has also demonstrated the ability to mitigate some of the effects of sleep deprivation, including mood changes, anxiety, memory performance, hyperactivity and cognitive impairment
The combination of quercetin, bromelain, vitamin C and zinc has emerged in at least two of the successful protocols used to treat COVID-19; historically, data have shown it is effective against influenza, zika, hepatitis B and rhinovirus responsible for the common cold
Quercetin is not water-soluble and is poorly absorbed unless it is paired with bromelain or vitamin C. Quercetin has shown positive benefits for heart disease, high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome, NAFLD and arthritis
Quercetin is found in onions, red grapes and green tea. It could be a useful supplement to stock in your medicine chest to use when you believe you may be getting an upper respiratory infection
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How Leucine in Whey Helps Prevent Muscle Loss
The loss of muscle mass that occurs with age is known as sarcopenia, the most obvious cause of which is inactivity
Your muscles need sufficient amounts of protein. Poor digestion can impede your ability to absorb protein, thereby contributing to sarcopenia
Whey protein has been shown to stimulate muscle protein accretion and stave off sarcopenia the best, in part due to its higher leucine content, which helps regulate the turnover of protein in your muscle
Whey protein also contains the master antioxidant glutathione. Glutathione is thought to play an important role in sarcopenia specifically, as patients with sarcopenia tend to have higher levels of oxidative stress
The type of exercise you do can also make a big difference. Blood flow restriction (BFR) training is one of the best ways to prevent sarcopenia, and is the safest form of strength training for those who are frail and elderly
Transcending Fear — Surgeon General of Florida Speaks Out
Dr. Joe Ladapo, surgeon general of Florida, has released a book, “Transcend Fear: A Blueprint for Mindful Leadership in Public Health”
Ladapo suffered the effects of traumatic events that occurred in his childhood well into adulthood. It wasn’t until just before the COVID pandemic that he experienced a breakthrough and was able to release old fear-based reactions
Releasing old fears allowed him to see through the lies of the pandemic narrative
Stress and trauma have the effect of making it difficult to think straight, see the truth and stand against what you know to be wrong. Healing such psycho-emotional wounds will make you more resistant to brainwashing
In his book, Ladapo reveals his own experiences with trauma-based fear, his journey of recovery, and how you can address challenges in a way that is consistent with who you actually desire to be
The Benefits of Vitamin C in Cancer Treatment
Examples of holistic therapies used for cancer include vitamin C alone and in combination with Artesunate (a malaria medication) and/or hyperthermia, curcumin, melatonin and mistletoe
One key point to be made about holistic oncology is that the earlier you start this kind of treatment, the better. Most patients who seek alternative strategies have already done tremendous damage to their bodies with one or more rounds of chemo, which makes natural remedies less capable of achieving complete healing
Whole food vitamin C and IV vitamin C serve two different functions. Whole food vitamin C is not suitable for the treatment of cancer, but does wonders for general health support, whereas high-dose vitamin C with sodium ascorbate has powerful drug-like effects suitable for acute and severe infections and cancers
Vitamin C has a wide variety of precision effects, which can be generally classified into genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic and immunomodulatomic effects
Vitamin C is typically thought of as an antioxidant, which is true orally and at lower doses, but in high doses, it becomes a pro-oxidant, and that’s actually what allows it to kill cancer cells and gives it its significant antiviral and antibacterial properties
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Psychiatrist Blows the Whistle on Pandemic Fearmongering
There’s an entire school of research within public health on how to frighten people, known as “fear appeal”
Fear appeal is based on the premise that to successfully implement a public health measure, you must first highlight a threat. And, to work, the threat must be made personal, so that people fear for their personal safety
Next, you give people something immediate to do that will set them on the path of cooperating with the plan in its entirety. Examples during the COVID-19 pandemic included not leaving your house, wearing a mask, staying 6 feet apart, closing certain businesses and keeping children home from school
By adding confusion to the mix, you can bring an individual from fear to anxiety — a state of confusion in which you can no longer think logically. In this state, you are more easily manipulated
Eventually, when the fear and anxiety are great enough, desperation sets in, at which point people are willing to do just about anything to get relief
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Judge Permanently Blocks Biden Oil and Gas Leasing Pause in 13 States
A federal judge issued a permanent injunction on Aug. 18 against the Biden administration’s pause of new oil and gas leasing in federal lands.
The injunction applies to the 13 states that sued the Biden administration over the moratorium in March 2021, including Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia.
Terry Doughty, U.S. district judge for the Western District of Louisiana, ruled that the White House overreached with the ban.
President Joe Biden signed Executive Order 14008 on Jan. 27, 2021, banning all new oil and natural gas leases on federal lands and offshore waters. The order didn’t cancel existing leases on federal lands and offshore waters. Leases on private lands also weren’t affected.
Thirteen states, led by Louisiana, sued the Biden administration, saying the lease ban violated the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), which governs offshore oil and gas leases, and the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA), which governs onshore land leases on federal lands.
Doughty issued a temporary injunction in the case in June. The injunction was overthrown by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Aug. 17.
Doughty’s permanent injunction came a day after the circuit court’s ruling (pdf). In the permanent injunction, Doughty ruled that the executive branch has no authority to change both laws.
“Both statutes require Government Defendants’ agencies to sell oil and gas leases. The OCSLA has a Five-Year Plan in effect that requires eligible leases to be sold. Government Defendants’ agencies have no authority to make significant revisions in the OCSLA Five-Year Plan without going through the procedure mandated by Congress. The MLA requires the DOI to hold lease sales, where eligible lands are available at least quarterly,” he wrote in the ruling (pdf). “By stopping the process, the agencies are in effect amending two Congressional statutes. Neither the OCSLA nor the MLA gives the Government Defendants’ agencies the authority to implement a Stop of lease sales.”
Experts Say Biden’s Expanded Lithium Production as Bad for Environment as Fossil Fuels
Increased domestic lithium production plays a crucial role in President Joe Biden’s green energy plan, as 2021 marked the largest rollout of solar, wind, and electric batteries in the history of the United States.
Nevertheless, lithium mining has quietly revealed itself to be a significant contributor to environmental pollution in the frantic rush to abandon fossil fuels.
On May 2, the Biden administration announced the investment of more than $3 billion to make more lithium batteries and their components. It’s a pivotal part of the president’s goal to have at least half of all vehicle sales in the United States be electric by 2030.
Currently, there are two main ways to obtain the sought-after element: Hard rock ore mining and brine extraction.
While much of the carbon emitted from mining depends on the rock it’s extracted from, this technique still produces at least 15 tons of CO2 for every ton of lithium harvested.
Generally speaking, mining is a dirty business. Mineral extractions like lithium and coal—a fossil fuel—both fall under this umbrella. Collectively, the mining industry generates between 1.9 and 5.1 gigatons of carbon emissions annually.
The other approach to accessing lithium involves removing the metal from brine in areas with salt flats. However, this approach requires, on average, 500,000 gallons of water to procure a single ton of lithium. While it’s a less carbon-intensive process, brine extraction still results in tens of thousands of gallons of highly toxic wastewater needing proper storage or disposal.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg of green energy manufacturing behind the scenes.
Elements like cobalt and nickel are also crucial for renewable technologies like electric car batteries, which is another pollution-heavy withdrawal.
GARDENING, FARMING & HOMESTEADING
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COVID RELATED NEWS
Fauci Stepping Down As Biden’s Chief Medical Advisor, NIAID Director
Dr. Anthony Fauci announced Monday that he plans to step down from various government roles in December.
Fauci has made comments about leaving his posts in recent months, telling Politico in July that he planned to retire by the end of President Joe Biden’s term. The 81-year-old made the speculation official on Monday, issuing a press release noting his plans to step down from his current roles as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation and Biden’s Chief Medical Advisor.
Comirnaty, Spikevax Become Available for 1st Time in United States
A small number of Comirnaty and Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine doses have become available in the United States in recent weeks, according to court filings and U.S. health departments.
Vials of vaccines labeled Comirnaty started being available to members of the U.S. military in May and tens of thousands of the vials have since been ordered, according to military officials. Dozens of vials were spotted at a clinic in Alaska in June, according to a Coast Guard officer.
Several states, meanwhile, confirmed to The Epoch Times that providers are now able to order the vials.
Comirnaty is the approved version of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Spikevax is the approved version of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. Approval means drug regulators granted a biologics license application (BLA). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2021 approved Comirnaty for adults 16 and older, and in January approved Spikevax for individuals 18 and up. Before that, the vaccines were available under emergency use authorization (EUA).
The differences matter due to federal law. A biologics license requires a higher threshold of evidence, and certain aspects of emergency clearance don’t apply to approved products.
Even after the approvals were issued, no approved versions were available in the United States, according to the vaccine makers and federal and state officials.
Military members, among others, have cited the unavailability of Comirnaty and Spikevax in legal actions against COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
One lawsuit, for instance, said that “the only currently available COVID-19 vaccines are authorized under EUA only, and therefore cannot be mandated.”
New and Recurrent Cancers After mRNA Vaccines, Studies Suggest Immune Changes
Since receiving Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, Bonnie Eisenberg experienced relapse of her breast cancer 8 years after being in remission.
The 73-year-old was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer in 2012. After successful treatment, she had been in remission since 2014.
Ever since then, her doctor has measured tumor marker levels in her body to monitor for relapse.
Tumor markers are usually proteins that indicate possible tumor or cancer growth. High levels of tumor markers may indicate cancer but it is not definitive.
There are many markers that can be tested, but the one that her doctor particularly focused on was the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), a tumor marker common to cancers of the breast, colon and rectum, prostate, ovary, lung, thyroid, and liver.
Since 2014, Eisenberg dutifully took monthly CEA tests along with others. The tests continuously returned with numbers in the normal range, which her doctor said was from 0 to 4.0 ng/mL.
CANCEL CULTURE
Leftist-Turned-Conservative Podcasters Unapologetically Question Pervading Progressive Ideologies
As the religion of “wokism” continues to grow, censor, and demand sacrifices in the form of shame-induced public apologies at its alter, former leftist-turned-conservative podcasters seek to unapologetically question its pervading narratives.
“We are seeing young people grow up with the mindset that they need to reduce themselves down to race, gender, and their sexuality,” Amala Ekpunobi, host of the podcast “Unapologetic,” told The Epoch Times. “Those three very superficial identities have become so pivotal in how people introduce themselves and whether they are viewed as victims or champions. The more we go down the path of this false narrative, the more we are oppressing them and entertaining a culture of victimhood that is sheerly unsustainable.”
Ekpunobi found herself a voice on PragerU’s (Prager University) conservative media platform with her podcast after her left-leaning worldview began to crumble under the scrutiny of her own critical thinking.
“I think the most hard-hitting issue for me was race,” Ekpunobi said. “I grew up in a white family. I’m biracial. My father is from Nigeria, and my mother, who works with the political left, is white.”
As a child, Ekpunobi aligned herself with her mother’s views, becoming an activist throughout middle and high school, she said, until she became a paid activist after graduating.
Yale Pediatric Program Helps ‘Gender Expansive’ 3-Year-Olds on Their ‘Gender Journeys’
A pediatric program at Yale University has sparked outrage after its director said it helps children as young as 3 years old with their “gender journeys” through “medical intervention.”
Christy Olezeski, a clinical psychologist who cofounded and directs the Yale Pediatric Gender Program, was filmed describing the program as one that works with “gender expansive individuals, 3 to 25, and their families.”
“We help individuals who are questioning their gender identity or who identify as transgender or nonbinary, and we help them with their gender journey,” Olezeski says in a video posted on the Yale School of Medicine’s official YouTube channel. The video has been set to private.
The bloodbath isn’t over at CNN.
CNN’s CEO Chris Licht has reportedly warned his employees to brace for “more changes” that they may not like following this week’s cancellation of Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter.
Chris Licht issued his warning during an editorial call on Friday, according to multiple reports.
“I want to acknowledge that this is a time of significant change, and I know that many of you are unsettled,” Licht said, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “There will be more changes, and you might not understand it or like it.”
During the call, he condemned the leak of Reliable’s cancellation, calling it “gross and inhumane,” and saying the announcement was supposed to happen later in the week.
Trusted News Initiative: Orwellian Global Ministry of Truth
The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) was founded by the BBC in July 2019. While TNI claims to promote democracy and freedom, its purpose for being is global information control
Partners in the initiative include global media outlets such as The Washington Post, Reuters, The Associated Press, AFP, the Financial Times and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), and Big Tech partners such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft
TNI was formed mere weeks after a Reuters Institute report revealed trust in U.S. media had slipped to an all-time low of just 29% — the lowest of the 46 countries included. Clearly, people were going elsewhere for the facts, and that probably had everything to do with the creation of TNI. They have no control over alternative media, so they needed a comprehensive way to shut them all down
By suppressing information about early treatment and the adverse effects suffered from the COVID shots, TNI partners have played a direct role in the destruction of lives. In short, TNI is the converse of “trusted news.” It is the very “fake news” it claims to combat
In addition to TNI, Google also has a similar program going on, called the Google News Initiative, which includes a $300 million funding commitment to the future of the news industry. The Google News Initiative is partnered with advertising agencies in a program called Trusted News for Trusted Advertising (TNTA), to ensure advertisers don’t have their ads associated with “false or misleading news,” thereby allowing them to “regain control of the media on which they publish the advertising”
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