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from Scico by Jeffrey A. Tucker on 18 Nov 2022 via thefreeonline

Why haven’t crypto scammers thought of this earlier? Why fund lengthy arduous research when you can just pay to get «The Science» you actually want with other people’s money?

The Covid/Crypto Connection: Buying off corrupt US system with -funny money- The Grim depraved Saga of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried…

Turbo Covid Science by eeffrey A. Tucker

A series of revealing texts and tweets by Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced CEO of FTX, the once high-flying but now belly-up crypto exchange, had the following to say about his image as a do-gooder: it is a “dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shibboleths and so everyone likes us.” 

Very interesting. He had the whole game going: a vegan worried about climate change, supports every manner of justice (racial, social, environmental) except that which is coming for him, and shells out millions to worthy charities associated with the left.

He also bought plenty of access and protection in D.C., enough to make his shady company the toast of the town. 

As part of the mix, there is this thing called pandemic planning. We should know what that is by now: it means you can’t be in charge of your life because there are bad viruses out there. As bizarre as it seems, and for reasons that are still not entirely clear, favoring lockdowns, masks, and vaccine passports became part of the woke ideological stew. 

This is particularly strange because covid restrictions have been proven, over and over, to harm all the groups about whom woke ideology claims to care so deeply. That includes even animal rights: who can forget the Danish mink slaughter of 2020?

Regardless, it’s just true. Masking became a symbol of being a good person, same as vaccinating... None of this has much if anything to do with science or reality.

It’s all tribal symbolism in the name of group political solidarity. And FTX was pretty good at it, throwing around hundreds of millions to prove the company’s loyalty to all the right causes. 

Among them included the pandemic-planning racket. That’s right: there were deep connections between FTX and Covid that have been cultivated for two years. Let’s have a look. 

Earlier this year, the New York Times trumpeted a study that showed no benefit at all to the use of Ivermectin. It was supposed to be definitive.

The study was funded by FTX. Why? Why was a crypto exchange so interested in the debunking of repurposed drugs in order to drive governments and people into the use of patented pharmaceuticals, even those like Ramdesivir that didn’t actually work? Inquiring minds would like to know. 

Regardless, the study and especially the conclusions turned out to be bogus.

David Henderson and Charles Hooper further point out an interesting fact: “Some of the researchers involved in the TOGETHER trial had performed paid services for Pfizer, Merck, Regeneron, and AstraZeneca, all companies involved in developing COVID-19 therapeutics and vaccines that nominally compete with ivermectin.”

For some reason, SBF just knew that he was supposed to oppose repurposed drugs, though he knew nothing about the subject at all.

He was glad to fund a poor study to make it true and the New York Times played its assigned role in the whole performance. 

It was just the start.

by Paul Cudenec on Nov 18, 2022 by winter oak via thefreeonline

Its big lie – or Great Narrative if you prefer – has always been that the vile world it has manufactured is inevitable, part of the necessary evolution of human history.

The other day, while out spreading the word in the streets, one of my friends handed some of our dissident literature to a passer-by with the explanation that we were countering the lies of the system.

Although the man in question turned out to be warmly sympathetic to our cause, this remark really stumped him.

“The system?” he asked, with an expression of utter bewilderment clouding his face. “What system?”

Although this may have merely been a case of unfamiliarity with a certain terminology, I like to think that his response revealed the greatest triumph of the odious entity that now controls nearly the whole world and is currently trying to impose its Great Reset on us – it has managed to wrap itself in a cloak of invisibility!

This is not even a question of who exactly is behind all this (though there are some useful pointers here, here, here and here): the root problem is that most people do not even realise that the system exists.

For them, we live in a pluralistic world. Within the framework of something known as democracy, they picture a complex interchange of competing forces and interests resolving themselves in a status quo which we are more or less obliged to go along with.

While this misunderstanding is perhaps forgivable for those whose information comes straight from the corporate mainstream, it is also shared by those who give the impression of knowing better.

I have spoken to self-defined “anti-capitalists” whose view of “capitalism” seems very similar to that of the ruling group they claim to oppose: they see it as an agglomeration of social and economic relationships without any overriding direction or control.

To suggest otherwise, in their eyes, is to commit the grave heresy of spreading conspiracy theory.

Their imagined reality of various independent capitalists struggling against one another in a dog-eat-dog world of rugged competition – and thus being incapable of ganging together to cheat and enslave the rest of us – seems to have survived intact since the mid-1800s, when Karl Marx was formulating his theories.

Anyone paying attention today cannot have failed to have noticed the way that multinational businesses and financial interests have converged to the point that their ownership can be traced back to a handful of concerns like BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street – which themselves appear to be part of the same overall operation.

This same corporate/financial über-entity has also become heavily entwined with – and indeed essentially inseparable from – state bodies and international institutions.

The resulting monster is a self-concealing global public-private governance pulling the strings behind all aspects of our contemporary world.

Once you have seen past the cloak of invisibility and understood that there is such a thing as the system, everything else begins to make sense.

by Jenny Splitter November 14, 2022 at Sentient Media via thefreeonline

Entire world’s protein could be produced with Brewing on an area of land smaller than London, say COP27 campaigners.

Reboot Food is a campaign led by the citizen-led green group RePlanet. We want to phase out animal agriculture for new sustainable alternatives, see the farming of plants revolutionised to use less land and fewer chemicals and see our planet rewilded as a result

A new environmental campaign chose this weekend — COP27’s Agriculture Day — to announce an ambitious food system proposal. Stop funding animal agriculture and start investing in alternative proteins and land restoration — to the tune of 2.5 percent of GDP over 10 years.

Rebooting the Food System

As climate scientists have made abundantly clear — the time for urgent action was yesterday, so the Reboot Food manifesto is appropriately ambitious.  

Launched by scientists and environmental advocates, the manifesto proposes that governments pay farmers to rewild lands and invest in technologies that can transition livestock-based economies to plant-rich food systems.

#ReBootFood #RePlanet> Tell me the truth

The Reboot Food proposal doesn’t rest on the meat eaters of the world switching to lentils and pulses. Instead the report calls for major public investment in a technology called “precision fermentation.” As the report points out, it’s technology but it’s also been around for a very long time, used for brewing beer, rennet and even insulin. 

Precision fermentation can also be used to brew yeasts and bacteria into plant-based and animal-free proteins. And it’s already on the market, albeit at a very small scale.

There’s an ice cream company called Brave Robot that uses precision fermentation to brew the milk proteins into animal-free ice cream. Impossible Foods genetically engineered yeast to make its meaty-tasting heme ingredient for its plant-based burgers.

 Several other companies are close to market-ready too — Meati, in Boulder Colorado, is using precision fermentation to make meat from mushrooms and a German-based startup called Formo is making cheese. 

JOIN THE CAMPAIGN 

Scaling — and Selling — Brewed Proteins

The size of the companies that use this technology are just a tiny fraction of the behemoth that is the global animal agriculture industry. Definitions of what constitutes a precision fermentation company vary to some degree but Reboot report author Joel Scott-Halkes figures the “meat industry is over 800 times bigger — or nearly three orders of magnitude.”  

by — Alma Cubana on 18th Nov 2022 via thefreeonline

#DiazCanel #Cuba #IntercambioEconómico #EnergíaSolar Primero lo primero:

Argelia ha recibido a Cuba con los brazos abiertos y los ha cerrado en fraternal gesto, con importantes acuerdos de carácter económico y comercial, anunciados por su presidente, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, al finalizar el encuentro con su homólogo cubano, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez y la delegación ministerial que le acompaña. […

Biden Adds Two New Sanctions On Cuba

Algeria defers debt, will deliver a solar power plant and will supply #Fuel to #Cuba — Alma Cubanita

Algeria has received Cuba with open arms and has closed them in a fraternal gesture, with important economic and commercial agreements, announced by its president, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, at the end of the meeting with his Cuban counterpart, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and the accompanying ministerial delegation. […]

Solidarity cannot be blocked: Whole World opposes US blockade of Cuba.. Eng/Esp May 30, 2022

Actos en España este fin de en apoyo a la III Caravana Mundial contra el bloqueo a Cuba

Reject genocidal U.S. blockade on Cuba.. Protests in 60+ countriesApril 1, 2021

#Argelia aplaza la deuda, entregará una central de energía solar y abastecerá de #Combustible a #Cuba — Alma Cubanita