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Covid-19 Vaccine Resistant Mutations, Ballot Audits Continue, Inflation Tax

Greg Hunter’s Weekly News Wrap-Up for Friday, May 28th, 2021

by Greg Hunter
USA Watchdog

According to the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in medicine, Luc Montagnier, the CV19 vaccines are creating variants or mutations that are resistant to the CV19 vaccine. He also says that he is following the global vaccination push closely and says he is documenting that the “curve of vaccination is followed by the curve of deaths.” Montagnier says he is seeing “patients who have become sick with Corona after being vaccinated.”

The mainstream press is already trying to tamp this down by saying Montagnier is an “anti-vaxer” and was misquoted. I guarantee you he is not misquoted here on USAWatchdog.com. See for yourself.

Election integrity audits are continuing but are also being vigorously resisted by Democrats in several states. The mainstream media (MSM), which has become a propaganda arm of Deep State Democrats, are writing one negative story after another.

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Do We Really Want to Return to “Normal” if “Normal” is Destroying the Planet?

by Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds

Change the incentives, and the outcomes change.

Ecologist Howard Odum provided a profound insight into human expansion, stagnation and collapse. He argued that humans are wired to maximize power output (i.e., consumption) rather than maximize efficiency.

In other words, humans are wired to strip the tree of every ripe fruit and throw a party, have more children and use the surplus food to feed an army of conquest. Efficient use of resources is simply not part of what I term Wetware 1.0, the set of tools that was selected and optimized over the past 200,000 years for small hunter-gatherer tribes roaming an apparently near-infinite world.

We’ve squandered the surpluses enabled by hydrocarbons to maximize energy output (consumption) rather than achieve efficiency. That is finally coming around to haunt the entire “infinite growth on a finite planet” status quo.

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Well Look What We Have Here…

by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org

I’ll be damned.

U.S. House members plan to introduce two bipartisan bills Friday that address the origins of the coronavirus pandemic and would allow victims’ families to sue China.

The first bill, the “Made in America Emergency Preparedness Act,” would establish a 9/11-style bipartisan commission to investigate how the pandemic started. It is being introduced by five Democrats and five Republicans.

The second bill, dubbed the “Never Again International Outbreak Prevention Act,” calls for allowing families of coronavirus victims to sue China by stripping sovereign immunity from it and any other countries “that have intentionally misled the international community on the outbreak.” It will be introduced by U.S. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Conor Lamb, D-Pa.

It’s about damn time.

Along with investigating the origin of the virus, the panel proposed by the first bill would also look into the response by the U.S. government and the private sector and determine precautionary steps to take for the future.

Questions:

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Market Report: Chinese Buying Revealed

by Alasdair MacLeod
Gold Money

Gold and silver continued to rally this week, with gold challenging the $1900 level and silver $28. From last Friday’s close, gold rose a net $12 to trade at $1892 in European trading this morning, and silver by 16 cents at $27.67. Gold hit a high of $1912.70 on Wednesday on very heavy volume, and silver $28.23.

Comex trading in gold was remarkable, with open interest plunged 20,718 contracts on a rising price on Tuesday. Admittedly, by the close of business the price had come back under control, closing down $3 on the day. It is worth making two points. The first is that the squeeze was on some of the Swaps (bullion bank trading desks – more on this below) and the second is tonight’s Commitment of Traders’ report is for the close of play on Tuesday. Could there be an element of window dressing involved?

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National Horror Story Hour

by James Howard Kunstler
Kunstler.com

Questions du jour: Can the US government make itself even more untrustworthy? Has it become an enemy of the people? Just wondering. What would be worse, actually, is if we learn that American culture is untrustworthy, since politics is downstream of culture. It would be the equivalent writ large of a human personality at war with itself, unable to trust its own thoughts and actions.

Which perhaps explains the seeming psychosis raging through our society at the moment. The hallucinatory delusions of the day are exactly what you’d expect in the kind of personality undergoing a psychotic stress fracture, like the character Norman Bates in Hitchcock’s classic horror movie, Psycho. Poor Norman (or “Mister Bates,” as Hitch playfully had the other characters call him), developed the unfortunate habit of dressing up like deceased Mother and slashing to death any other female for whom Mister Bates had impure thoughts. That was the 1960s version of the Transsexual Story Hour. We’ve come a long way, baby, since those innocent days.

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The Cryptoverse – Bastard Son of the Fiat

by David Stockman
LewRockwell.com

Goodness gracious, me! Is this the ultimate case of the pot-calling-the-kettle-black or what?

If there were ever a pure play in the great fraud of fiat, Elon Musk is it. Yet here he is electing to go with crypto instead.

The true battle is between fiat & crypto. On balance, I support the latter.

Actually, there is a seminal picture in these few words and it amounts to this: Crypto currencies are not money, they are the latest boiling hot speculative asset class that, ironically, is just another bastard spawn of the central bank money-printers. They are not an alternative to bad central bank money; they’re are an issue from its own loins.

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U.S. Mint Delays Silver Shipments Due to “Global Silver Shortage”

from Zero Hedge

Interest in silver is soaring (both for industrial use and financial investment), echoing 2013’s crisis, as a recent report from the Silver Institute, silver demand for printed and flexible electronics is forecast to increase 54% over the next 10 years.

Demand for silver in this rapidly developing sector is forecast to come in at 48 million ounces this year. By 2030, the demand is expected to surge to 615 million ounces.

[…] And silver prices are back near recent highs as monetizing debt

[…] And according to the New York Times, the U.S. Mint even upped its coin production in mid-2020 after shortages of coins have been reported in the U.S. as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but demand over the past few months from coin hodlers appears to have overwhelmed the US Mint.

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Health Journalist Tara Haella Blasts Maskless, Says She Does Not Care What the CDC Says

[Ed. Note: Why is it that these people are always horrendous pigs who clearly don’t care about their health in any other context?]

by Penka Arsova
LaCorte News

A Forbes contributor who covers science and health topics recently blasted people who do not wear a mask in public, saying she doesn’t “give a damn” about guidelines from the Center for Disease and Control.

The story: Tara Haelle, a freelance writer and Forbes contributor that focuses on health- and science-related topics, according to her LinkedIn profile, tweeted her remarks on Thursday.

Haelle, who regularly writes for the Association of Health Care Journalists, which describes her as medical studies core topic leader, informed her Twitter followers this week that she is “judging” individuals who opt not to wear face coverings in public, indoors.

The journalists accused them of being “inconsiderate,” arguing they do not care about “others’ peace of mind” or “protecting my family.”

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Hollywood Actor Apologies for Calling Taiwan a Country

by Simon Black
Sovereign Man

Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.

Actor John Cena apologizes for calling Taiwan a country

While promoting the film Fast and Furious 9 to a Taiwanese reporter, pro-wrestler turned actor John Cena said “Taiwan is the first country that can watch the ‘F9’ film.”

Chinese fans (and probably Chinese government online trolling bots) immediately attacked the actor for referring to Taiwan as a country— China insists that Taiwan is part of the People’s Republic of China.

Cena quickly issued a pathetic, groveling video apology, speaking in Mandarin.

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Flip Flop Fauci

by Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
American Thinker

Dr Anthony Fauci has achieved godlike status within the media and administrative state. His words are treated as gospel, to be accepted without question regarding all things COVID. He is a long-established member of the ruling class, first coming to fame in the early days of HIV and AIDS.

As head of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he is also the highest paid employee in the entire US federal government. He earned $417,608 in 2019, more than the US president, at the time Donald Trump, who donated his entire presidential salary to charity. Dr. Fauci undoubtedly has additional income from patents, royalties, and speaking fees, common for those in the upper echelons of the medical establishment.

Revered by the media, in the COVID era he has graced numerous magazine covers, was nominated as one of People’s sexiest men alive, and was a constant guest on television news shows.

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Money Supply Growth + Inflation = Cheap Gold, Silver & Mining Stocks

by Dave Kranzler
GoldSeek

“April 2021 money supply and monetary base growth continued to explode” – John Williams, Shadowstats.com

Williams is referencing the “base” monetary aggregates which are compiled monthly. The Fed’s balance sheet grows by the week, hitting $7.922 trillion as of May 19th. It’s doubled plus another 13% since September 2019, when “QE” was restarted. The Fed has been printing money and buying Treasuries and mortgages at rate than the assumed $120 billion per month. But the mainstream media fails to report that the policy statement reads “at least $120 billion per month.”

The rate of growth in the money supply is unprecedented in history. It showed up first in the financial markets: stocks, bonds and housing prices (yes, because most homes are purchased using a high loan-to-value mortgage, homes can be considered financial assets). Now the devaluation of the dollar is showing up – uncontrollably – as price inflation across goods and services.

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Plexiglass Barriers Are Everywhere, but They’re Probably Useless

There’s a good chance they haven’t been preventing the spread of COVID, and they might even be counterproductive.

by Liz Wolfe
Reason.com

Eateries have adapted to COVID in countless ways. Hostesses take our temperatures upon entry. We scan QR codes instead of reading paper menus. We are served by masked waiters. In some cities, unsightly plexiglass barriers have appeared between tables and bar seats.

Restaurants should be given broad latitude to adapt how they see fit, to best protect their workers and return a degree of confidence to their customers. But some of these adaptations verge on hygiene theater. When those plexiglass barriers are used in classrooms, they “might be making things worse by blocking ventilation,” to quote Zeynep Tufekci, who then points to a new study in Science.

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House Hearing: Only Jamie Dimon’s Microphone Mysteriously Malfunctions During Pivotal Questioning

by Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Wall Street on Parade

CEOs from the six largest banks on Wall Street testified under oath yesterday before the House Financial Services Committee. But only one CEO, Jamie Dimon, had an ear-piercing electronic sound emanate from his microphone, which blocked out the sound of his voice, when he was asked key questions by two separate members of Congress.

The situation was so bizarre that Congressman Juan Vargas, a Democrat from California, said this about the episodes: “It reminded me of the movie ‘Young Frankenstein.’ Every time they said ‘Luther’ the horses would get scared. Every time they said ‘Jamie Dimon,’ the computers would get scared.”

The first episode occurred after Congressman Al Green, a Democrat from Texas, told Dimon that two of the banks previously purchased by JPMorgan Chase had used slaves as loan collateral and at one point, after calling in a loan, the bank actually owned 1,250 slaves. Green asked Dimon: “Will you atone in the form of recompense,” and “what will you do for your banks owning human beings…?”

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Fed Drains $485 Billion in Liquidity From Market via Reverse Repos, Undoing Four Months of QE, Even as QE Continues, Total Assets Near $8 Trillion

by Wolf Richter
Wolf Street

It’s a crazy situation the Fed backed into as tsunami of liquidity goes haywire, banking system strains under $4 trillion in reserves, and General Treasury Account gets drawn down.

This morning, the Fed sold a record $485 billion in Treasury securities via overnight “reverse repos” to 50 counterparties, beating the prior record set on December 31, 2015. These overnight reverse repos will mature and unwind tomorrow morning. Today, yesterday’s $450 billion in overnight reverse repos matured and unwound, and were more than replaced with this new batch of $485 billion in overnight reverse repos.

Reverse repos are liabilities on the Fed’s balance sheet. They’re the opposite of repos, which are assets. With these reverse repos, the Fed is selling Treasury securities to counterparties and is taking their cash, thereby massively draining liquidity from the market – the opposite effect of QE.

Continue Reading at WolfStreet.com…