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Homelessness has risen 70% in California’s capital. Inside the staggering emergency

Sitting on the edge of a collection of about 60 tents pitched alongside the American River, Twana James is doing her best to comfort a friend at the end of her wits.

Dani Anguiano in Sacramento | 3 Nov. 2022 at | The Guardian via thefreeonline

Twana James lives on the Island, an encampment in Sacramento. Photograph: Dani Anguiano/The Guardian

All day, the woman says, she had been waiting for a caseworker from a Sacramento non-profit to come pick her up and put her on a list for housing. “You wait all day for somebody to come and get you and they don’t come,” she cries in despair.

James offers her a ride to a shelter that provides food, showers and counseling. She makes a cheeky comment about her friend’s hair, eliciting a laugh.

It’s the sort of thing James, 53, does often. She’s a longtime resident of this encampment in California’s capital, and a caretaker for many of the elderly people who call it their home.

On the midterm ballot is Measure O, which would direct the city manager to establish a minimum number of shelter spaces

Dubbed the Island, the tents stretch out on a picturesque plot of land along the American River. The camp is a quick walk from a busy road, but feels like a world away from the nearby office buildings and Mexican chain restaurant. The secluded community has been there for decades, forming a tight group over the years. But it has expanded in recent years, as homelessness in the city and county has climbed to record levels.

A homeless tent is seen on a flooded sidewalk in Skidrow on Thanksgiving day in Los Angeles. — At least 14 unhoused people froze to death in LA last year, records reveal

During the pandemic, the unhoused population has soared all over California, but the increase in Sacramento has been particularly stunning.

The region has seen an almost 70% rise in homelessness since 2019, now counting more unhoused people than San Francisco. At least 9,278 people are estimated to be without a home, the majority of whomsleep outdoors or in vehicles. Encampments can be seen on levees, near schools and next to busy roads.

The primary force behind the dramatic rise, according to the 2022 point-in-time count, is the high cost of housing. The median home pricein the county has surpassed $500,000 and the median monthly rent is $2,774, up more than 5% from last year. Some studios downtown rent for $2,000 a month, said Crystal Sanchez, the president of the Sacramento Homeless Union, while thousands of people sleep outside.

Sudden Covid Vaccine Excess DEATH.. plague continues to grow.. “up to 12 million of us DEAD”

Steve Kirsch estimates between 5M and 12M people have been killed by COVID clot shots worldwide (so far)

from Steve Kirsch and vaccinedeaths.com By Ramon Tomey via thefreeonline

SADS: “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” Explodes as Young and Healthy …

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Several commenters on Kirsch’s Substack page provided the breakdown of this figure, which the investigador attested to. They quoted Our World in Data’s finding that 12.46 billion COVID-19 vaccines had been injected into people’s arms worldwide.

“In my opinion, a reasonable estimate is to divide the number of doses by 1,000. A more conservative number is to divide the number of doses by 2,500,” said Kirsch, who is also a vaccine safety advocate.

🚨 These figures are insane, yet no TV coverage.

24,440 NON-COVID UK excess deaths since May 2022

We are now seeing more excess deaths a week than in 2020 or 2021.

Dr John Campbell goes through the government data👇pic.twitter.com/EQNPfAaxFX
— Lange (@djlange) November 3, 2022

Dividing the 12.46 billion doses by the reasonable estimate of 2,500 yielded almost five million fatalities, while dividing that total by the conservative estimate of 1,000 yielded 12.46 million deaths. (Related: COVID vaccines are 7,402% deadlier than all other vaccines combined, warns UK Medicine Regulator.)

“That conservative estimate gets you to five million killed, only 16 times the number of Americans killed in World War II,” Kirsch remarked.

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“We are approaching the number of six million Jews killed in the Holocaust over 12 years worldwide, at a rate at least six times faster than the Germans did. We are killing close to 10,000 people every single day; the latest rate was roughly 8.46 million doses a day.”

The entrepreneur lamented this vaccine holocaust: “We are killing an awful lot of people, but world leaders are looking the other way and saying nothing while all of us watch the high number of death reports in the media of people who died ‘unexpectedly’ and hear no explanation.”

“The vaccine is never mentioned in any of these unexplained death reports, yet people all over the world have noticed that these unexpected deaths are only happening to the vaccinated.”

According to Kirsch, hundreds of people at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – both currently employed and retired – remain silent over the matter. Even former President Donald Trump refuses to speak out, he added.

“This is why we have no debates, only censorship – so the killing continues unabated.”

UK entering the next stage of vaccine holocaust with omicron-specific vaccine

According to Kirsch, the first COVID-19 vaccine was injected on Dec. 8, 2020 in the United Kingdom – marking the start of a historic mass vaccination program. France followed suit 19 days later on Dec. 27, 2020 when the country’s first COVID-19 vaccine dose was injected there. Since then, the mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 has been ongoing for 23 months.

The U.K. also opened the next phase of the vaccine holocaust on Aug. 15, 2022 when it approved Moderna’s next generation COVID-19 vaccine. The new vaccine – dubbed mRNA-1273.214 or Spikevax Bivalent – was tailored for the original SARS-CoV-2 strain and the B11529 omicron variant.

Spikevax Side Effects: Common, Severe, Long Term – Drugs.com.. Aug 10, 2022Bleeding, blistering, burning, coldness, discoloration of the skin, feeling of pressure, hives, infection, inflammation, itching, lumps, numbness, pain, rash, redness, scarring, soreness, stinging, swelling, tenderness, tingling, ulceration, or warmth at the injection site More about Spikevax (sars-cov-2 (covid-19) mrna-1273 vaccine)

If you recall, on August 31, the FDA announced that they had amended the original Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 mRNA vaccine EUA’s to include their new bivalent boosters.

Complete safety trials still do not exist for either of the mixed vaccines which have killed millions and often cumilatively destroy our immune systems, while offering no more than 5 months theoretical protection to a virus no worse than a bad cold and gifting another $multi billion bonanza for Big Pharma and investors.

Judge dismisses charges against 5 of #ShellRiverSeven Water Protectors! / but #Line3 began operating last month

A Minnesota judge on Tuesday dismissed all charges against five water protectors arrested last year for protesting Canadian oil giant Enbridge’s plans for its tar sands pipeline to cross the the state’s Shell River in several places.

By Jessica Corbett at Common Dreams from The Defender shared with thanks via thefreeonline

Image credit: Felton Davis/Flickr

Opponents of Line 3 on Tuesday welcomed a Minnesota judge’s dismissal of all charges against five water protectors arrested last year for protesting plans to have the tar sands pipeline cross the Shell River in several places.

Framed as a replacement project by Canadian oil giant Enbridge, the new pipeline runs partly along a different route and roughly doubled the capacity of the initial Line 3. It began operating last month after years of construction and Indigenous-led protests.

Enbridge is paying $11M, more than $2M of which will go to the state. https://t.co/dvK5G5u3I3
— Mike Ethen (@RealMikeEthen) October 18, 2022

Minnesota District Judge Doug Clark on Monday dismissed the cases of Cheryl Barnds, Mary Klein, Kelly Maracle, Trish Weber and Barbara With “on grounds that the state had failed to demonstrate probable cause to sustain all charges,” according to Honor the Earth and the legal groups representing the water protectors.

“In doing so, Judge Clark did not reach the Shell River defendants’ treaty-based claims.”

US cyber agency keeps sinister US ‘Ministry of Truth’ alive and kicking – leak shows

3 Nov, 2022 by rachelmarsden via thefreeonline

Remember, for example, when Western officials, including US President Joe Biden, were saying that the jab would prevent infection and transmission – Or when the US government spent the better part of two decades repeating that the US was winning in Afghanistan – Or how about the claim that the US wasn’t directly involved in the conflict with Russia in Ukraine

A little-known agency inside the US Department of Homeland Security is on a mighty slippery censorship slope

Rachel Marsden is a columnist, political strategist, and host of independently produced talk-shows in French and English.

Partially-censored meeting minutes of the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee advising the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency of the US Department of Homeland Security, have been obtained by The Intercept.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen stands alongside President Donald Trump as he speaks prior to signing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 16, 2018.Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images© Alex Wong / Getty Images

Key Takeaways

** Though the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) shuttered its controversial Disinformation Governance Board, a strategic document reveals the underlying work is ongoing.

** DHS plans to target inaccurate information on “the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, racial justice, U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the nature of U.S. support to Ukraine.”

** Facebook created a special portal for DHS and government partners to report disinformation directly.

The documents reveal attempts to conflate the need to protect American “critical infrastructure” from what the committee repeatedly describes as threats of “disinformation” – or rather, “mis-, dis-, and mal-information (MDM).”

The meeting notes describe telecommunications infrastructure (which would include the internet) and public healthcare infrastructure as in need of protection from wrong-speak.

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In essence, it keeps up the work of the short-lived and controversial Disinformation Governance Board, which earned the unenviable nickname of the ‘Ministry of Truth’.