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Narrative collapse

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Remember when Australia was touted in the MSM as a shining example of successful Covid policy which had wrestled the virus to the ground thereby allowing life to continue normally? You don’t read stories like that anymore, mostly because much has changed Down Under in the last eight months!

Australia now averages more than 100,000 new Covid cases per day – equal to about 1.5 million in the United States. One fine day last week, it reported 175,000, the equivalent of about 2.5 million, maybe the highest per-capita total any country has ever reported.

Deaths are still relatively low by American standards. But they have risen sixfold in the last two weeks and are now at their highest level ever, equal to almost 700 deaths in the United States a day.

Coming to Canada?

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The mass vaccination program may not be so great at preventing transmission and infection, but at least it’s successful at preventing hospitalization and death, right?

If trends in the UK are anything to go by, even that narrative seems to be taking on a lot of water.

The latest figures published by the UK Health Security Agency show that despite the elderly and vulnerable receiving a booster shot in September and October, …. the triple/double vaccinated population still accounted for 4 in every 5 Covid-19 deaths throughout December 2021.

With the vaccinated population accounting for 7 in every 10 Covid-19 cases, 6 in every 10 Covid-19 hospitalisations, and 8 in every 10 Covid-19 deaths, is there really any justification for turning the NHS into the National Booster Service and the introduction of vaccine passports in which an unvaccinated person must take a test to be permitted entry but a vaccinated person does not?

The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire

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Russia and China will develop shared financial structures to enable them to deepen economic ties in a way that foreign states will be unable to influence, the Kremlin has announced following talks between the countries’ leaders. The move appears to be a response to a series of warnings that Western nations could push to disconnect Russia from the Brussels-based SWIFT financial system as a form of sanctions. This type of insulation would decouple both economies from the West and provide IMMENSE leverage.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping called for increasing the share of national currencies in mutual settlements and expanding cooperation to provide Russian and Chinese investors with access to stock markets. Without being forced to use the SWIFT financial system the sanctions Western nations typically attempt to implement will be toothless. Much of this is result of the US Admin pushing Russia into the hands of the Chinese. Xi is making a powerful move here that will likely succeed.

Russian govt stated “particular attention was paid to the need to intensify efforts to form an independent financial infrastructure to service trade operations between Russia and China. We mean creating an infrastructure that cannot be influenced by third countries.”

Both Russia and China are said to be increasingly looking to move away from using the US dollar as the main currency of international trade, instead using their own denominations to underpin the booming volume of Moscow-Beijing trade.

Last week, US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said that the White House, along with a number of Western European nations, was mulling completely isolating Moscow from the global financial system should Russian troops dare to invade Ukraine. This new agreement and system will subvert any such attempts by the US or NATO nations. This comes on the heels of Chinese President Xi Jinping backing Vladimir Putin’s demand for Nato to halt eastwards expansion.

Inexperienced Drivers Wanted

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Real Agriculture- Thousands of truckers prepared to walk due to vaccine mandates, warn Canadian trucking groups

The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) says it estimates that up to 22 thousand Canadian drivers will decide to leave the Canada-U.S. market when the Canadian government’s planned cross-border vaccination mandate takes effect on January 15, 2022. Based on a recent survey of its members, the CTA says many trucking companies are preparing to lose 10 to 20 per cent of their drivers, and potentially more than 20 per cent in regions of the country with lower vaccination rates.

If you read the article you’ll see it could be even worse.

Let Them Drink Scotch

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Financial Post- Beer shortage is a nightmare before Christmas for Australians

The nation’s two biggest brewers — Lion and Carlton & United Breweries — have flagged protracted delays and lower production of some of the beer-loving country’s most popular brews due to supply chain problems. That’s sparked fears major retail chains might start imposing limits on booze purchases at the worst possible time, with millions of Australians only recently emerging from a series of bleak lockdowns and hoping for a summer holiday season resembling some kind of normality.

Another domino

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Over-leveraged Chinese property developer Evergrande slides formally into default.

Fitch Ratings cut Evergrande to “restricted default” over its failure to make two coupon payments by the end of a grace period on Monday, a move that may trigger cross defaults on the developer’s $19.2 billion of dollar debt. 

China appears to have adopted the standard Keynesian “remedy” when faced with the implosion of large enterprises: make it even easier for other borrowers to take on debts that they cannot repay.

Policy makers have in recent weeks cut lenders’ reserve requirements, signaled an easing of real estate curbs and rolled out measures to ensure higher-rated developers retain access to funding.

Super spreaders

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The standard narrative of the pandemic of the unvaccinated is starting to look more like the Titanic after it hit the iceberg these days.

The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit will on Friday reinstate capacity limits for bars and restaurants, and cap social gatherings, to curb soaring COVID infections in the region. Sunday’s announcement follows a superspreader event at a Kingsville restaurant that has infected at least 42 people…

All patrons had been checked for their vaxx passport prior to entry, so safeguarding the narrative required some inventive journalism:

However, at least one of the party-goers is said to have faked their status, he added. He wouldn’t say where he heard that.

I know, I know. The vaccines work….they work so well that we have to return to pre-vaccine lockdowns and capacity limits.

“Bad Trip”

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Doesn’t really seem to be an accurate description here.

Evening Standard- ‘Bad weed trip’ killer cleared of murder after admitting manslaughter

Jake Notman inflicted more than 30 stab wounds on 25-year-old university student Lauren Bloomer after eating a cannabis brownie at their home in Bingley Avenue, Tamworth Staffordshire in the early hours of Friday November 20 last year.

The 27-year-old car factory worker denied murdering Miss Bloomer, claiming he did not form the necessary intent due to his mental state.

Only 80 Years Later

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WSJ- ‘Meet a Jew’ Program Aims to Tackle Rising Anti-Semitism in Germany

With anti-Semitic incidents on the rise, the Central Council of Jews in Germany helped launch Meet a Jew to acquaint the public with the country’s small but growing community.

German police reported more anti-Semitic incidents in 2020 than in any year since they began recording them in 2001, the latest development in a trend that started in 2015 across Europe.

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