Venezuela to Slash Six Zeroes from Currency
August 5th, 2021Via: AFP:
Venezuela will slash six zeroes off its inflation-battered currency the bolivar to make it easier to use, the central bank said on Thursday.
The change will take effect on October 1 with the issuance of new currency notes, called the digital bolivar.
“All monetary amounts expressed in national currency will be divided by one million,” the central bank of President Nicolas Maduro’s beleaguered leftist government said.
It said the goal of the change is to “facilitate” the use of the bolivar.
It is the third time in 13 years that Venezuela — suffering the worst economic crisis in its modern era — has used such a measure.
In August 2018, the government lopped five zeros off its bank notes, having taken off three in 2008.
In 2018, the government replaced the ironically named strong bolivar with the sovereign bolivar.
The once-wealthy oil producer is enduring its fourth year of hyperinflation and its eighth year of recession.
From January through to May prices rose 265 percent.
Inflation was almost 3,000 percent in 2020 and more than 9,500 percent the year before, according to central bank figures.
‘For $1/Day’… Double-Blind Ivermectin Study Reveals COVID Patients Recover More Quickly, Are Less Infectious
August 4th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge:
A double-blind Israeli study has concluded that Ivermectin, an inexpensive anti-parasitic widely used since 1981, reduces both the duration and infectiousness of Covid-19, according to the Jerusalem Post.
The study, conducted by Prof. Eli Schwartz, founder of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Disease at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, looked at some 89 eligible volunteers over the age of 18 who had tested positive for coronavirus, and were living in state-run Covid-19 hotels. After being divided into two groups, 50% received ivermectin, and 50% received a placebo. Each patient was given the drug for three days in a row, an hour before eating.
83% of participants were symptomatic at recruitment. 13.5% of patients had comorbidities of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, hypertension or cancer. The median age of the patients was 35, ranging from 20 to 71-years-old.
Results
Treatment was discontinued on the third day, and patients were monitored every two days thereafter. By day six, 72% of those treated with ivermectin tested negative for the virus, vs. 50% of those who received the placebo. Meanwhile, just 13% of ivermectin patients were able to infect others after six days compared to 50% of the placebo group – nearly four times as many.
Hospitalizations
Three patients in the placebo group were admitted to hospitals for respiratory symptoms, while one ivermectin patient was hospitalized for shortness of breath the day the study began – only to be discharged a day later and “sent back to the hotel in good condition,” according to the study.
“Our study shows first and foremost that ivermectin has antiviral activity,” said Schwartz, adding “It also shows that there is almost a 100% chance that a person will be noninfectious in four to six days, which could lead to shortening isolation time for these people. This could have a huge economic and social impact.”
The study, which appeared on the MedRxiv preprint server and has not yet been peer-reviewed. That said, Schwartz pointed out that similar studies – ‘though not all of them conducted to the same double-blind and placebo standards as his’ – also showed favorable results for the drug.
Editor-in-Chief of Germany’s Top Newspaper Apologizes For Fear-Driven COVID Coverage
August 4th, 2021Via: Summit News:
The editor-in-chief of Germany’s top newspaper Bild has apologized for the news outlet’s fear-driven coverage of COVID, specifically to children who were told “that they were going to murder their grandma.”
In a speech delivered to camera, Julian Reichelt said sorry for Bild’s coverage which was “like poison” and “made you feel like you were a mortal danger to society.”
Reichelt directed his main sentiment towards children who have been terrorized by fearmongering media coverage which has caused child depression and suicides to soar across the world.
“To the millions of children in this country for whom our society is responsible, I want to express here what neither our government nor our Chancellor dares to tell you. We ask you to forgive us,” he said.
“Forgive us for this policy which, for a year and a half, has made you victims of violence, neglect, isolation, and loneliness.”
“We persuaded our children that they were going to murder their grandma if they dared to be what they are, children. Or if they met their friends. None of this has been scientifically proven.”
Vanguard Offers $1,000 To Vaccine Holdout Employees To Get Jabbed
August 3rd, 2021Via: ZeroHedge:
According to Bloomberg, Vanguard is now offering $1,000 to employees who get vaccinated by October. The giant asset manager is extending the payments to all workers who can prove they’ve gotten a Covid-19 vaccine, even if they were inoculated before the firm extended the offer. A Vanguard spokeswoman confirmed the company is offering an incentive.
Biden: “There’s No Wall High Enough or Ocean Wide Enough to Keep Us Safe from the Vaccine” *TILT* *Malfunction* *Contact Administrator*
August 3rd, 2021His malfunctions are spectacular. Keep ’em coming, Joe.
Update: Another One
Pres. Biden catches himself after mistakenly referring to $100 vaccine incentive as a $100,000 incentive.
"That'd be really good! I'd go back and get vaccinated three times." https://t.co/AQqbivncMH pic.twitter.com/FpF399gtpk
— ABC News (@ABC) August 3, 2021
Via: PBS News Hour:
What’s Really Behind the War on Home Ownership?
August 3rd, 2021Via: Off-Guardian:
The incipient “Great Reset” is a multi-faceted beast. We talk a lot about vaccine passports and lockdowns and the Covid-realated aspects – and we should – but there’s more to it than that.
Remember, they want you to “own nothing and be happy”. And right at the top of the list of things you definitely shouldn’t own, is your own home.
Billionaires Segregate Themselves on Luxury Private Islands as Ordinary People Told They Can’t Travel
August 2nd, 2021Via: Summit News:
News that billionaire Google co-founder Larry Page has been hiding out on and buying isolated private islands in Fiji to avoid tourists who aren’t allowed in once again underscores how the elite is using the fallout from the pandemic to segregate themselves from the general public.
Page has been living off grid for over a year and forced a state-owned news website to remove an article about his activities that was also de-listed by Google in an apparent effort to conceal his location.
“He has spent months in Fiji during the coronavirus pandemic – mostly on the island of Tavarua – and it has been rumored the billionaire has bought at least one island in the country’s Mamanuca archipelago,” reports the Daily Mail.
Californians Sign Hoax Petition to Arrest and Jail People Who Refuse COVID “Vaccinations”
August 2nd, 2021Via: Mark Dice:
In a shocking experiment, random beachgoers in San Diego, California are asked if they’ll sign a petition supporting the arrest and detention of all unvaccinated adults until they agree to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Pentagon Is Experimenting With Using Artificial Intelligence To “See Days In Advance”
August 2nd, 2021“Remember the one about better broadband Internet options for rural customers? haha”
And now…
Global Information Dominance Experiments (GIDE) use Starlink.
I went looking for how they are using Starlink and couldn’t find much, except this gibberish on an Air Force press release. I bolded the parts that might relate to Starlink:
In addition to these overarching objectives, the Chief Architect Office also conducted experiments of key enabling technology: (1) applying artificial intelligence to enable decision advantage through software at the strategic, operational and tactical level in partnership with the Joint AI Center, (2) augmenting Pacific Air Forces deployed communications teams with commercial-off-the-shelf networking technologies and commercial communications pathways to boost bandwidth, stabilize connectivity and increase network resiliency, (3) pushing the flexibility of commercial and government edge computing and store capabilities to help warfighters gain access to mission applications during distributed operations, (4) enabling mobile, disrupted and distributed operations at the classified level through the use of mobile devices as computing platforms to run classified applications over commercial satellite and terrestrial cellular networks, and (5) integrating the capabilities of automated data feed translation and threat track fusion in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Programs Agency (DARPA) through STITCHES (System-of-systems Technology Integration Tool Chain for Heterogeneous Electronic Systems). ADE5 also initiated the transition of STITCHES from DARPA to the Department of the Air Force.
At the Air Force link above, click through the slideshow. The juxtaposition of the Starlink dish (slide 1) with the Cell On Light Truck (COLT) (slide 5) is very interesting. Maybe they’re looking at establishing fake or alternate mobile networks and using Starlink for backhaul.
Via: The Warzone:
U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) recently conducted a series of tests known as the Global Information Dominance Experiments, or GIDE, which combined global sensor networks, artificial intelligence (AI) systems, and cloud computing resources in an attempt to “achieve information dominance” and “decision-making superiority.” According to NORTHCOM leadership, the AI and machine learning tools tested in the experiments could someday offer the Pentagon a robust “ability to see days in advance,” meaning it could predict the future with some reliability based on evaluating patterns, anomalies, and trends in massive data sets. While the concept sounds like something out of Minority Report, the commander of NORTHCOM says this capability is already enabled by tools readily available to the Pentagon.
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August 2nd, 2021This is hilarious.
Via: The Corbett Report:
