DOJ Allows Foreign Law Firm Representing Burisma To File Paperwork Retroactively From 2016

Former Burisma lawyer registers retroactively as foreign lobbyist after Biden investigations – MSN/Washington Examiner, 2024/01/05

A lawyer who, years ago, represented the embattled chairman of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that employed Hunter Biden, appeared to register retroactively as a foreign agent for Burisma on Thursday.

John Buretta disclosed the work he did for Mykola Zlochevsky, the former head of Burisma, in 2016 in documents filed with the Justice Department this week under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires Americans representing certain foreign interests in the U.S. to disclose their work to the DOJ.

Coming more than seven years after the fact, the late filing raises questions about why Hunter Biden, who also performed work for Burisma and Zlochevsky at that time, has not registered under FARA.

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Buretta met with three Obama administration officials in March 2016 and wrote a letter to another in September 2016, according to the document.

March 2016 is the same month that Ukraine’s then-prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, was fired at the behest of then-Vice President Joe Biden.

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A spokesperson for Buretta’s law firm, Cravath, Swaine, & Moore, said the decision to file a disclosure this week came after a discussion with the DOJ.

Shady stuff here… the article mentions Paul Manafort was in the same boat, but was not allowed to file retroactively. Tony Podesta did the same thing as Manafort on the Democrat side. I wonder if he filed. The paperwork for Buretta is below.

Cravath, Swaine, & Moore LLP – FARA Registration – U.S. Department of Justice, 2024/01/04

Gas Pipeline Between Finland and Estonia Damaged By External Activity

Undersea gas line, telecom cable connecting Finland, Estonia damaged by ‘external activity’ – Fox News, 2023/10/10

Damage to an undersea gas pipeline and telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia appears to have been caused by “external activity,” Finnish officials said Tuesday, adding that authorities were investigating.</p

Finnish and Estonian gas system operators on Sunday said they noted an unusual drop in pressure in the Balticconnector pipeline after which they shut down the gas flow.</p

The Finnish government on Tuesday said there was damage both to the gas pipeline and to a telecommunications cable between the two NATO countries.

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Elering said Estonian consumers were receiving gas from Latvia after the shutdown of the pipeline.</p

While Europe currently has filled 97% of its gas storage capacity for the winter, security of supply still depends on deliveries of pipeline gas and LNG.

Sounds like the consumers will be OK for now – but this is like Nordstream all over again.

Officials In Scotland Admit Nearly 17 Million Trees Cut Down For Wind Power

SNP admits to felling 16 million trees to develop wind farms – MSN/UK Telegraph, 2023/07/23

Almost 16 million trees have been chopped down on publicly owned land in Scotland to make way for wind farms, an SNP minister had admitted amid a major drive to erect more turbines.

Mairi Gougeon, the Rural Affairs Secretary, estimated that 15.7 million trees had been felled since 2000 in land that is currently managed by agency Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) – the equivalent of more than 1,700 per day.

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FLS said it had planted more than 500 million trees since 2000 and the quantity felled for wind farms equated roughly to its annual harvesting programme.

A spokesman said: “Renewable energy generated from wind farms is a key element in Scotland’s response to the climate emergency and the shift towards net zero and the infrastructure on land that we manage generates enough power for 600,000 homes.”

Morag Watson, director of policy at trade body Scottish Renewables said: “The volatile price of imported gas has left energy consumers suffering some of the highest prices in living memory, alongside a climate emergency which means cutting the amount of carbon we emit as quickly as possible.

“Building new wind farms – the cheapest form of power generation – tackles both problems at once.”

These people are going to mess up the earth’s ecosystem at the end of the day and cause their own demise.

Amidst Chaos – France Passes Bill For Police To Remotely Surveil Cell Phones

France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people – Peoples Gazette, 2023/07/06

A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.

The bill allows the geolocation of crime suspects, covering other devices like laptops, cars and connected devices, just as it could be remotely activated to record sound and images of people suspected of terror offences, as well as delinquency and organised crime.

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During the debate on Wednesday, the members of parliament in the camp of President Emmanuel Macron inserted an amendment limiting the use of remote spying to “when justified by the nature and seriousness of the crime” and “for a strictly proportional duration.” They noted that a judge must approve any use of the provision, while the total duration of the surveillance cannot exceed six months.

They said sensitive professions, including doctors, journalists, lawyers, judges and MPs, would not be legitimate targets.

So amidst the George Floyd-like riots taking place in France, the French government increase their surveillance powers.

And in case you are wondering, the U.S. has this. This article is from 2006.

ROVING BUGS: Wiretap law can turn cell phone – RCR Wireless News, 2006/12/16

While lawmakers and civil libertarians aggressively scrutinize privacy implications of the Bush administration’s domestic surveillance initiative and other anti-terrorist programs in the post-9/11 world, the FBI is using wiretap law to eavesdrop on conversations by remotely firing up microphones on idle cell phones of unwitting criminal suspects.

The government’s application of “roving bugs” came to light in a recent court ruling in connection with a three-year investigation of an organized crime family. Ten of the 34 defendants facing criminal charges wanted the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to suppress conversations intercepted by law enforcement through “roving bugs” in mobile phones.

“Roving bugs” pick up room audio as opposed to traditional wiretaps in which wireless phone conversations and other electronic communications are monitored-subject to court order-by the FBI. Both forms of electronic surveillance are covered by a 1986 law authorizing roving wiretaps, which gives law enforcement flexibility to eavesdrop continuously on suspects who often change locations and use different phones to avoid detection.

Five Years Of Greta Thunberg… Deletes Tweet About Humanity Ending

Greta Thunberg nixes tweet warning end of humanity if climate not fixed by 2023 – Washington Examiner, 2023/06/14

Greta Thunberg is facing backlash for deleting a 2018 tweet on the fate of humanity and climate change.

The tweet in question featured a link and quote from an article warning that humanity would meet its end if fossil fuel use did not cease by 2023.

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The Associated Press fact-checked several reports on the tweet’s deletion, claiming they are “missing context.”

As it explains, neither the scientist paraphrased in the article nor Thunberg herself claimed that humanity would end by 2023.

Harvard University professor of atmospheric chemistry James Anderson, who is paraphrased in the article, claimed in 2018 that recovery from climate change will be impossible if drastic action isn’t taken by 2023.

Thunberg then quoted the article and its embellished lead paragraph, claiming that humanity would be “wiped out” if fossil fuels weren’t stopped by 2023.

Here’s the archive of the report quoted in Thunberg’s Tweet.

Top Climate Scientist: Humans Will Go Extinct if We Don’t Fix Climate Change by 2023 – Gritpost, 2018/02/19

GOOD GRETA Who is Greta Thunberg and what’s her net worth? – The Sun, 2022/10/19

Greta Thunberg’s net worth is estimated to be $1million.

In July 2020, Greta Thunberg was awarded $1.15million for her humanitarian work when she won the inaugural Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity.

However, the young activist said she would be donating the prize money to sustainability charities.

She has profited nicely from just talking and having an audience. Whether she is correct or not doesn’t seem to matter.

UK Sausage Maker Retreats On Vegan Substitutes

Sausage Maker Gets Rid of Fake Meat After Damning Results: ‘We Believed What Was Being Written in the Press’ – The Western Journal, 2023/05/23

British vegan meat maker Heck — yes, that’s their name — has announced it’s cutting out nearly all of its animal-free sausages after finding out the hype didn’t translate into sales.

According to a report in the U.K. Telegraph earlier this month, Yorkshire-based Heck said it was reducing its range of vegan sausages (or “bangers” if you’re a Britisher) from 15 to two after the company co-founder said the public “wasn’t quite ready” to buy into them.

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“We had a huge range of vegan products, because like everyone else, we believed what was being written in the press,” Keeble said. “If you look at the massive sort of Silicon Valley valuations out there, people were investing in vegan brands, and they didn’t want to miss the next Google.”

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Long before the fortunes of Heck went to hell — and as Beyond Meat’s troubles were just becoming clear — the Telegraph asked what had gone with the meat-substitute bubble in a piece last June. There were a few significant issues: cost and the problems of scaling production being just two of the issues plaguing the industry, particularly as food inflation was a major issue.

One, however, seemed to stick out above all the others: “Finally, it didn’t deliver any real benefits. Most vegetarians are perfectly happy to stop eating meat, and don’t need faux burgers to placate them. The carnivores might have tried it once or twice but quickly lost interest especially as it became more expensive. Meanwhile, there was no real evidence that plant burgers and fake chicken were healthier or had fewer calories. Apart from a vague appeal to a consumer’s morality, it does not have a lot going for it.”

Yeah… not a fan of the meat substitutes…

Scottish Farmers Address Vegetable Shortages In Grocery Stores

Scottish farmers warn that vegetable shortages will get worse and the UK could lose the ‘ability to feed’ country – Scottish Daily Express, 2023/02/22

Scottish farmers have warned that the vegetable shortages will get worse and the UK could lose the ‘ability to feed’ the country.

The National Farmers Unions Scotland (NFUS) claimed that the UK and Scottish Governments took their “eye off the ball with energy” and allowed it to be produced by others at a cheaper price, which has fuelled the shortages along with other global issues.

The NFUS’s president Martin Kennedy warned that if retailers failed to offer fair-pricing contracts to farmers the forthcoming season will see farmers plant the value of the contract causing future shortages in fruit and vegetables.

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Mr Kennedy argued that if both governments fail to seek “true fairness in the supply chain back to the primary producers” it will risk choices being limited as it called for retailers to maintain the “long-term continuity” by implementing fair pricing for seasonal home-grown producers.

More food supply issues…

Military Industrial Complex The Only Clear Winner in Ukraine War

As the war rages on and military spending booms, the US arms industry is a big winner in Ukraine – Radio New Zealand, 2023/01/20

As the war in Ukraine heads towards the one-year mark, so far there has been only one clear winner – the US arms industry.

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as the conflict rages on, there have been accusations from some EU officials that the US is profiting from the war through weapons sales and gas prices.

Meanwhile, analysts have warned of excessive spending and the US military-industrial complex (MIC) expanding beyond what is needed in response to Ukraine.

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Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing and Northrop Grumman – all from the US – are among the top contractors.

They also produce some of the most in-demand and expensive weapons being sent to Ukraine.

The conflict has sent their stocks surging, with the share price of Northrop Grumman increasing 40 percent by the end of 2022, while Lockheed Martin’s was up by 37 percent.

In October, the Pentagon announced $US1.2 billion in contracts were underway to replenish US military stocks for weapons sent to the battlefield.

This is something you will NEVER see in mainstream U.S. news reports.

They are making up for lost earnings during the Trump years and no new wars.

If you are not familiar with how it all works, this is a good article to read.

Another Biden, Ukraine Coincidence… $50,000 per month

Lindsey Graham Wants Justice Department To Look into Biden’s Ukraine Dealings – Western Journal, 2019/09/23

In an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday, as reported by The Hill, Graham, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, said the phone call uproar gives a good opportunity to revisit dealings between Ukraine and former Vice President Joe Biden. According to a May report in The New York Times, Biden pushed Ukraine in 2016 to oust a prosecutor who was closing in on an energy company called Burisma Holdings, for which Biden’s son, Hunter, was a board member pulling down a salary of about $50,000 a month.

$50,000 a month…

Document: Hunter Listed $49,910 Monthly Rent Payments While Living at Joe Biden’s Residence – Breitbart, 2023/01/15

On a document titled “background screening request,” it appears Hunter paid $49,910 in monthly rent for one year while living at Joe Biden’s Delaware residence, where the president kept classified documents alongside his Corvette in the garage.

Hunter listed his rental tenancy from March 2017 to February 2018, the document shows. The document is signed July 2018.

Nothing to see here… (sarcasm)

Penn Biden Center and the Ukraine

Saving for future use… pretty coincidental that the amounts are the same.

Burisma paid Joe Biden $900,000 for lobbying – Ukrainian MP – Interfax-Ukraine, 2019/10/09

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 for lobbying activities from Burisma Group, Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada member Andriy Derkach said citing investigation materials.

Derkach publicized documents which, as he said, “describe the mechanism of getting money by Biden Sr.” at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine’s press center in Kyiv on Wednesday.

“This was the transfer of Burisma Group’s funds for lobbying activities, as investigators believe, personally to Joe Biden through a lobbying company. Funds in the amount of $900,000 were transferred to the U.S.-based company Rosemont Seneca Partners, which according to open sources, in particular, the New York Times, is affiliated with Biden. The payment reference was payment for consultative services,” Derkach said.

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Penn has paid Joe Biden more than $900K since he left the White House. What did he do to earn the money? – The Philadelphia Inquirer, 2019/07/12

What did the University of Pennsylvania get for the more than $900,000 it has paid Joe Biden?

The former vice president collected $371,159 in 2017 plus $540,484 in 2018 and early 2019 for a vaguely defined role that involved no regular classes and around a dozen public appearances on campus, mostly in big, ticketed events.

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Vice President Joe Biden to lead the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement – Penn Today, 2017/02/01

University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann today announced that Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. has been named the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he will lead the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a new center focused principally on diplomacy, foreign policy, and national security. The Center will be located in Washington, D.C. Biden will also have an office on the Penn campus in Philadelphia.

UK, France Health Care Systems Are Struggling… Leaders Meet To Solve The Crisis

UK Leader Calls Crisis Meeting Over Struggling Health System – U.S. News & World Reports, 2023/01/07

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gathered government ministers, medics and health service managers in 10 Downing St. on Saturday for talks aimed at fixing a health care crisis that has seen thousands of patients stranded outside overflowing hospitals.

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Britain’s health system faces an inferno of pressures, including rising demand for care after pandemic restrictions were eased; a surge in flu and other winter viruses after two lockdown years; and staff shortages from pandemic burnout and a post-Brexit drought of European workers in the U.K.

Thousands of hospital beds are occupied by people who are fit to be discharged but have nowhere to go because of a dearth of places for long-term care. Official figures show that last week only a third of patients ready to be released from a hospital in England actually left.

That has led to ambulances stuck outside hospitals with patients who can’t be admitted, and in turn to people with health emergencies waiting hours for ambulances to arrive. Health leaders say the delays have likely led to hundreds of deaths.

Macron to overhaul France’s struggling health care system – Associated Press, 2023/01/06

French President Emmanuel Macron announced an overhaul of France’s struggling health system Friday, including new funding methods for doctors and hospitals, more hiring and other organizational changes.

Macron’s speech came as many hospitals in France have reported major difficulties in recent weeks, with emergency units overwhelmed by patients with flu, COVID-19 and bronchiolitis infections.

Family doctors also went on strike during the end-of-year holiday to call for an increase in their consultation fees — currently set to 25 euros ($26) — and better working conditions.

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Considered one of the best in the world, the French health care system has for many years years suffered from a shortage of doctors and other professionals, a situation aggravated by the COVID-19 crisis.

If you have a shortage of doctors and professionals – maybe it’s not the best in the world. A good system should benefit everybody. Doctors profit… people get good care.

Dutch Government Looking To Shut Down 3,000 Farms To Comply With EU Mandate

Netherlands reportedly set to forcibly close 3,000 farms to comply with EU mandate – Fox News, 2022/11/30

The Dutch government is planning to purchase and then close down up to 3,000 farms in an effort to comply with a European Union environmental mandate to slash emissions, according to reports.

Farmers in the Netherlands will be offered “well over” the worth of their farm in an effort to take up the offer voluntarily, The Telegraph reported. The country is attempting to reduce its nitrogen pollution and will make the purchases if not enough farmers accept buyouts.

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In 2019, the Dutch Council of State ruled that every new activity that emits nitrogen, including farming and building, is required to obtain a permit. That has prevented the expansion of dairy, pig and poultry farms, which are major sources of nitrogen, the Telegraph report said.

Some farmers have voiced opposition to the new rules. In October, thousands of tractors jammed up traffic by up to 700 miles during rush hour in protest.

Many feel their livelihoods are at stake and their industry is being unfairly targeted while other sectors like aviation are not.

This will obviously affect food supply down the road. The authoritarians will get theirs. They don’t care about anything or anyone else. This used to be done in secret. Now it’s all out in the open.

The overall issue is countries and companies subjecting themselves to these international edicts – which makes an end run around the citizens. That should be issue #1 on any political campaign that is interested in serving its constituents.

EU Passes Law Mandating USB-C Ports On All Phones And Laptops

New EU Law Will Mandate All Phones Include a USB-C Port – Including iPhones – IGN, 2022/10/04

The EU parliament has now formally passed the new law, which will require all wired chargers for smartphones, tablets, and cameras to utilize USB-C by 2024. Laptops will need to switch to the enw standard by 2026.

Per RFI, the EU expects the move to save at least €200 million ($195 million USD) and up to 1,000 tons of e-waste per year.

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The move has been made to lower electronic waste and make life easier for EU-based consumers, who will only need one cable type to charge all small and medium-sized devices.

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The legislation will impact Apple in particular. Apple does have products that use USB-C ports, such as the iPad Air (Gen 4 and Gen 5) but, since 2012, iPhones have been using the tech giant’s proprietary Lightning cable to charge through a wired connection. Apple is the only major smartphone maker to still use a proprietary port instead of USB-C.

I’m not for governments telling companies how to run their business, but this seems reasonable at least. I wonder if they gave Apple a chance to freely adopt the USB-C connection.

Europe Is Burning Trees For Renewable Energy Production And Increasing Its Carbon Footprint

Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy – World News Era, 2022/09/07

Burning wood was never supposed to be the cornerstone of the European Union’s green energy strategy.

When the bloc began subsidizing wood burning over a decade ago, it was seen as a quick boost for renewable fuel and an incentive to move homes and power plants away from coal and gas. Chips and pellets were marketed as a way to turn sawdust waste into green power.

Those subsidies gave rise to a booming market, to the point that wood is now Europe’s largest renewable energy source, far ahead of wind and solar.

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Forests in Finland and Estonia, for example, once seen as key assets for reducing carbon from the air, are now the source of so much logging that government scientists consider them carbon emitters. In Hungary, the government waived conservation rules last month to allow increased logging in old-growth forests.

And while European nations can count wood power toward their clean-energy targets, the E.U. scientific research agency said last year that burning wood released more carbon dioxide than would have been emitted had that energy come from fossil fuels.

Do you believe this? Do they understand that trees soak up a large portion of atmospheric carbon dioxide? They are cutting down trees and burning wood so they can pretend that wind and solar (renewables) could keep up with demand. In the end they are in fact increasing the carbon dioxide emissions – while they are removing the trees that can absorb it. You can’t make this up.

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Scientists have calculated that, per unit of energy, burning wood actually releases more greenhouse gas emissions than burning gas, oil, or even coal.

How long have we heard the mantra about saving paper and recycling so that we can save the rain forests? Not much stuns me anymore – but this did it. And now they are in a crisis because of Russia is cutting off the oil supply to western Europe – and they are agonizing over the climate and heating homes and making money. Wow

Liz Truss Is The New UK Prime Minister

Liz Truss set to become new UK Conservative prime minister amid inflation crisis – PBS, 2022/09/05

Liz Truss has been elected as the Conservative Party’s new leader, the party announced Monday, and she thus will become Britain’s new prime minister as the country faces an acute cost-of-living crisis.

The 47-year-old Truss, who is currently foreign secretary, beat former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak after a leadership contest in which only about 170,000 dues-paying members of the Conservative Party were allowed to vote. Truss received 81,326 votes, compared with Sunak’s 60,399.

I’m not sure what that means… only a certain number of people were allowed to vote. I don’t know how their system works. On it’s face, it sounds squirrelly to me.

What’s her main platform?

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“I will deliver a bold plan to cut taxes and grow our economy. I will deliver on the energy crisis, dealing with people’s energy bills, but also dealing with the long term issues we have on energy supply,” Truss told party members after she was elected.

“I know that our beliefs resonate with the British people: Our beliefs in freedom, in the ability to control your own life, in low taxes, in personal responsibility,” she added. “I know that’s why people voted for us in such numbers in 2019 and as your party leader I intend to deliver what we promised those voters right across our great country.”

Sounds great. One problem… she is compromised to the global agenda.

Liz Truss – World Economic Forum – World Economic Forum

If you are not familiar with the World Economic Forum, they are a major driver in shaping the global direction towards their idea of everyone being accountable to all parts of society… except that they usually exempt themselves from the principles they put upon people. Solving the energy crisis could have a totally different meaning with her than what normal people believe it means. We will watch and see.

Carbon Offset Company Warms The Planet By Accidentally Starting Forest Fires

Corporate Carbon Offset Company Accidentally Starts Devastating Wildfire – Vice, 2022/07/21

On Monday, Dutch reforestation company Land Life started what has become a 35,000 acre forest fire in Spain.

The fire started in Bubierca, a province of Zaragoza, the capital of autonomous community Aragon, when a Land Life contractor planting trees accidentally set off sparks that ignited nearby plant life.

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Land Life is a carbon offsetting firm, which means that it plants trees to, in theory, make up for the carbon emissions of polluting industries.

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This forest fire has not likely wiped out the lion’s share of Land Life’s work, but it is also not the first forest fire caused by Land Life—on June 20, it sparked another inferno that wiped out 20 hectares.

What in the world are they doing to set off two fires from planting trees?

UK: Data Shows That There Is No Difference Between The Rate Of Deaths Of The Vaxxed and Unvaxxed

Two links here… The first one is for the actual data…

Deaths by vaccination status, England – UK Office Of National Statistics, 2022/07/06

The second link describes the data…

Whilst you were distracted by Boris resigning, the UK Gov. quietly published a report confirming the Vaccinated account for 94% of all COVID-19 Deaths since April, 90% of which were Triple/Quadruple Jabbed – Truth Undercover, 2022/07/11

Back in March 2022, the UK Health Security Agency announced that from April 1st 2022, they would no longer publish the vaccination status of Covid-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths in England.

At the time, the UKHSA claimed this was because the UK Government had ended free universal Covid-19 testing and this therefore affected their “ability to robustly monitor Covid-19 cases by vaccination status”.

However, this was a lie.

The UK Health Security Agency had been looking for an excuse for months to stop publishing the data because it clearly showed the vaccinated population were suffering immense immune system damage, with case, hospitalisation, and death rates per 100,000 highest among the fully vaccinated population.

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.. the Office for National Statistics (ONS), has just published data on deaths by vaccination status.

So what they did is change which agency publishes the statistics.

The second link makes the point that 94% of COVID deaths for April and May are from the vaxxed. Now it would have been easy to just take that headline and run with it – but the truth is often beyond the headlines.

I dug into the data at the first link and looked thru the data. I went back to the beginning of 2022 and got these numbers from the downloadable Excel spreadsheet.

• Jan 2022 COVID deaths: 693 unvaxxed… 3914 vaxxed… 2519 triple vaxxed
• Feb 2022 COVID deaths: 264 unvaxxed… 2447 vaxxed… 1990 triple vaxxed
• Mar 2022 COVID deaths: 202 unvaxxed… 2658 vaxxed… 2330 triple vaxxed
• Apr 2022 COVID deaths: 206 unvaxxed… 3365 vaxxed… 3057 triple vaxxed
• May 2022 COVID deaths: 82 unvaxxed… 1282 vaxxed… 1155 triple vaxxed
• Total 2022 COVID deaths: 1447 unvaxxed… 13666 vaxxed… 11051 triple vaxxed

That’s about a 90-10 ratio of vaxxed deaths to the unvaxxed deaths. Also note that 90% of the people in the UK have had a least one shot of the COVID jab. Also notice that most of the deaths among the vaccinated are from those who have been boosted three times or more.

That means currently, 90% of the people in the UK have had a COVID shot, and 90% of the deaths attributed to COVID in the UK are from people who have had a COVID shot.

Is the shot really making a difference? How many times was it said that the unvaccinated were going to die of COVID while the vaccinated would be safe?

UK Health Screening Asks If Men Are Pregnant

NHS trusts ask men if they are pregnant before having scans – UK Telegraph, 2022/03/28

Men are being asked if they are pregnant before undergoing scans at NHS trusts in England, it has emerged.

Male cancer patients and those having X-Rays and MRI scans are being asked if they could be expecting after the Government removed the word “female” from the law governing the medical procedures and replaced it with “individuals”.

The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, in Liverpool, now asks “ALL patients under the age of 60, regardless of how you may identify your gender”.

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It comes amid anger at the NHS for prioritising gender over sex in order to be inclusive of trans people, including on single-sex wards.

One woman whose husband has cancer says that the question before a scan had caused “unnecessary confusion and agitation” and was “unfair” as a combination of steroids and brain surgery had made him emotional.

She added: “This was very confusing for him in his post-surgical daze, his vulnerability and needs completely ignored.”

This is no longer unbelievable as more people stop using their brains.

UK: Schools Testing Kids On Feeding Them Insects

Scientists hope to feed primary school children edible insects to make the UK greener – iNews UK, 2022/05/31

Edible insects are highly nutritious and have a much smaller carbon footprint than conventional meat, scientists says.

Children are to be fed bugs as part of a plan to get a new generation to switch from meat to insects – and potentially persuade their parents to follow their lead.

Pupils at four primary schools in Wales are to be offered insects to eat as part of a project to gauge children’s appetite for “alternative protein” such as crickets, grasshoppers, and mealworms.

Researchers hope their findings will give clues as to how best educate children on the environmental and nutritional benefits of edible insects across the UK, and potentially overseas – and, in turn, their parents, as the world looks to help the environment by cutting meat consumption.

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The researchers have teamed up with teachers and hope many of the five to 11 year old’s in the study will be willing to taste some edible insects to see how they find them.

“We want the children to think about alternative proteins as real things for now, rather than just as foods for the future, so trying some of these foods is central to the research,” said Christopher Bear, of Cardiff University.

“Although edible insects are – for now – not sold widely in the UK, they form part of the diet of around 2 billion people worldwide. Much of this is in parts of the world where they are part of long-standing culinary traditions. And they are increasingly popular elsewhere,” he said.

You know – if researchers are so gung ho about this feeding program, they would do it themselves instead of using children. I wonder if parents are being given the option to do this.

The other thing to note is that they say 2 billion people worldwide have a long standing culinary tradition of eating insects. Really?? Are they really promoting this as a good thing? Have any of them chosen to partake of these traditions? Give me a break.

Hundreds Of Kids Acquiring Sudden Liver Disease

What’s known about sudden liver disease in kids – Associated Press, 2022/04/26

A puzzling outbreak of sudden liver disease in nearly 200 children has health authorities in Europe and the U.S. racing to find answers.

The illnesses have no known connection, although a possible link with a virus that can cause colds is being investigated. At least one child died and several others have required liver transplants.

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Previously healthy children are suddenly developing hepatitis, or liver inflammation often caused by viruses. Jaundice, diarrhea and abdominal pain are among reported symptoms. Children aged 1 month to 16 years have been affected.

Most cases have occurred in Europe. The first U.K. cases were recorded in January. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a nationwide health alert last week that the first U.S. cases were identified in October in Alabama.

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Authorities are uncertain what is causing the outbreak. Nine children in the Alabama cluster tested positive for adenovirus.

It would seem like a reasoned response to ask if all of these kids have been vaccinated. Anything sudden like this that happens to a bulk of people, the vaccine should be one of the first things to consider.

Phil Collins Performs Last Live Concert Performance

‘After tonight, we’ll all have to get real jobs’: Frail Phil Collins, 71, stands with Genesis bandmates Mike Rutherford, 71, and Tony Banks, 72, as iconic band bid farewell to fans at FINAL ever concert in London – UK Daily Mail, 2022/03/27

Phil Collins bade an emotional farewell to Genesis fans alongside bandmates Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks in London on Saturday – as the iconic band played their final ever concert.

London’s 02 provided the backdrop for the band’s last show on their The Last Domino? Tour – with frail frontman Phil, 71, telling the crowd he will now have to get a real job.

Phil, who performed the show sitting down due to suffering from a number of different health conditions in recent years, later joined Mike, 71, and Tony, 72 for a standing ovation.

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The three London concerts were set to take place at the end of last year but had to be rescheduled due to positive Covid 19 tests within the band, which has been touring for the first time in 14 years,

Collins, who has a history with back problems, has been sitting down for all the concerts on the tour and his son, Nic Collins, 20, has stepped in for him on drums.

One of the videos at the link showed Collins stating that he can barely hold a drumstick in one of his hands. While it is sad to see him like this – he has performed into his 70s doing what he loves to do.

A Woman Let This Persist For Four Years

Umm… what??

Woman’s ‘UTI’ turns out to be GLASS TUMBLER lodged in her bladder for 4 years – UK Sun, 2022/03/16

The 45-year-old had come to hospital complaining of typical lower UTI (urinary tract infection) symptoms, such as leaking.

But doctors were left stunned when scans revealed there was a glass inside her bladder.

It was incased by an 8cm-wide bladder stone, which are normally so small they are hard to see with the naked eye.

The woman, from Tunisia, revealed she had used the drinking glass as a sex toy a number of years before.

If you want to read the rest, go for it. Someone needs to explain to me how she let that persist for 4 years.

Ukraine: Two U.S. Journalists Shot… One Killed

U.S. Journalist Brent Renaud Killed in Ukraine – Wall Street Journal, 2022/03/13

An American journalist was shot and killed near the front line of the war in Ukraine, foreign press and local police said Sunday, drawing condemnation from the White House and tributes from his former colleagues.

The journalist was identified as Brent Renaud, 50 years old, an award-winning documentary filmmaker from Arkansas. Andrey Nebitov, a police official in the Kyiv region, posted photos on Facebook of Mr. Renaud’s body and identification documents, including a passport and New York Times press badge, though a Times spokeswoman said he wasn’t currently on assignment for the newspaper. In accompanying posts, Mr. Nebitov blamed the killing on Russian troops and said two other correspondents were injured and taken to a hospital in the Ukrainian capital for treatment.

Will there be more than condemnation for this?

VISA Suspends All Russia Operations

Visa Suspends All Russia Operations – VISA Corporate, 2022/03/05

Effective immediately, Visa will work with its clients and partners within Russia to cease all Visa transactions over the coming days. Once complete, all transactions initiated with Visa cards issued in Russia will no longer work outside the country and any Visa cards issued by financial institutions outside of Russia will no longer work within the Russian Federation.

Hopefully people realize what’s up with this. This is more than some appearance of a protest.

Supersize corporations like this seem to all be in cahoots with each other in groups like the World Economic Forum – who are likely in cahoots with governments around the world.

We have got companies becoming a means of enforcement, and a means of controlling the flow of currency. The precedent is being set were certain behaviors can merit a company taking action that effects regular folks and their ability to buy goods for themselves.

Getting rid of cash as they are slowly doing and moving to cards and other digital currency schemes rom supersize corporations means they can control the flow of money at any time. I have been seeing more and more at stores and restaurants… “either exact cash or card only”.

Also – VISA doing this with Russia doesn’t help the dollar maintain reserve currency status – because it now gives Russia an excuse to do business in other currency systems.

Why Is Putin Attacking Ukraine? Follow The Money And Natural Resources

We are not getting the whole story from the propaganda press outlets. Putin is not just some madman attacking Ukraine simply to bolster his ego. These are strategic maneuvers to be sure. Here are some resources that explain why Ukraine is very valuable.

As Russian Forces Roll into Eastern Ukraine, Putin Grabs Yet Another Prize: Ores And Energy – Forbes, 2022/02/23

When Russian military forces began moving into the areas of Donetsk and Luhansk following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s orders Monday night, they began to regain a long-missed prize: Donbas.

“Donbas” is short for the Donets Coal Basin — one of the largest mining regions in Europe. Coal reserves under its rolling plains cover approximately 9,000 square miles (23,300 square km) south of the Donets River and deposits also extend westward to the Dnieper River.

Contemporary estimates of the amount of coal within Donbas are difficult to come by. Production output peaked in the 1970s at around 200 million tons. Reserves of class A, B, and C coal were put at 57.5 billion tons in 2000. That coal and the area’s coal mines will be welcomed by Russia, likely contributing to the country’s just announced deal to provide China with 100 million tons of the black rock in coming years.

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Donbas’ coal deposits are joined by significant methane gas reserves estimated in excess of 59 trillion cubic feet and 1.6 billion barrels of oil, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

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Iron ores are also present in major quantities. By 1990, Ukrainian steel production represented 17 percent of the USSR’s vast output. The Donbas steel and iron industry declined through the 1990s and early 2000s but rebounded to producing 40% of Ukraine’s steel (13.3 million tons) in 2013. USGS ranks Ukraine as the world’s fifth-largest holder of crude iron ore reserves (18 billion tons).

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PUTIN WANTS UKRAINE’S RICH RESOURCES – Education News, 2022/02/25

This article details the resources – coal, oil and natural gas, iron ore, manganese ore, and the largest titanium reserve in Europe, and the largest uranium deposit in Europe.

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The Forgotten Potential of Ukraine’s Energy Reserves – Harvard International Review, 2020/10/20

Over the last several years, the future of the European energy supply has become an increasingly geopolitical topic. It has become more and more linked to the questions of security, competing gas transportation routes, and continuously tense Ukrainian-Russian relations.

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Excluding Russia’s gas reserves in Asia, Ukraine today holds the second biggest known gas reserves in Europe. As of late 2019, known Ukrainian reserves amounted to 1.09 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, second only to Norway’s known resources of 1.53 trillion cubic meters. Yet, these enormous reserves of energy remain largely untapped. Today, Ukraine has a low annual reserve usage rate of about 2 percent. Moreover, more active exploration may yield previously undiscovered gas fields, which would further increase the overall volume of Ukraine’s deposits.

If you read through the article, it explains the lack of funds and investment to utilize the natural resources for Ukraine’s benefit. Putin is obviously aware of the untapped potential.