- ‘Buy It or Else’: Inside Monsanto and BASF’s Strategy to Force Farmers to Buy GMO Seeds and Pesticides by Johnathan Hettinger from Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting.
- Palantir’s Tiberius, Race, and the Public Health Panopticon [part 2 of 3] by Jeremy Loffredo and Whitney Webb from Unlimited Hangout. This is a best post.
Part 1 of this series on Operation Warp Speed and Race, “The Johns Hopkins, CDC Plan to Mask Medical Experimentation on Minorities as ‘Racial Justice,’” explored Warp Speed’s vaccine allocation plan in depth. That plan utilizes a phased approach aimed at “populations of focus” that had been identified in advance by various government organizations, including the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
The main focus of this allocation strategy is to deliver vaccines first to racial minorities and in such a way as to make them feel “at ease” and not like “guinea pigs.” This is particularly glaring given that these minorities will be receiving an experimental vaccine that allocation-strategy documents admit is likely to cause “certain adverse effects . . . more frequently in certain population subgroups,” with research showing that those “subgroups” most at risk of experiencing adverse effects are these same racial minorities.
- Florida Department of Health Quietly Requires Labs to Report Cycle Threshold of Troubled PCR Test by Derrick Broze from The Last American Vagabond.
The fact that the Florida Department of Health is taking this step is a sign that an increasing number of health professionals and regulators are questioning the accuracy of the PCR test. The PCR is the most common lab test being used to detect COVID-19. This incredibly sensitive technique was developed by Berkeley scientist Kary Mullis, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993. The test is designed to detect the presence of a virus by amplifying the virus’ genetic material so it can be detected by scientists. The test is viewed as the gold standard, however, it is not without problems.
- US Media, Pols Rage After Venezuelans Defy US Empire to Re-elect Socialists by Alan Macleod from Mint Press News.
- Who will Biden bomb first? The President-elect's 'global leadership' is a return to the failed policies of Obama and Clinton by Patrick Lawrence from Unherd (a British-based website).
But now as then [Obama administration], it is diversity of identity that is supposed to count, not diversity of thought, of which one finds none among Biden’s newly-named people. This is a sales job, just as Barack Obama was a salesman — window dressing for an un-pretty foreign policy regime. [my insertion]
- After the Deep State Sabotaged His Presidential Bid, Bernie Sanders Mocks Those Who Believe it Exists by Glen Greenwald from Substack. My reaction: Sanders has simply learned the lesson that to advance materially in a capitalist nation, one does not offend the powerful (who are the rich).
- The ECB has quietly adopted a “cash strategy” – my interpretation by Norbert Häring, a German economist, from his weblog Money and More.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has quietly published a “cash strategy“ of the Eurosystem that the Governing Council had adopted already in early September. The commitment to cash seems half-hearted at best and suggests an internal struggle.
