The Uniparty—and, to be fair, Trump—are trying to ignore the biggest issue in US politics: The Covid Regime of forced injections, forced restriction on movement and freedom of association, forced restrictions on freedom of speech. It was all done by various subterfuges, but that’s what it amounted to—massive coercion, backed up with surveillance powers beyond anything imagined since Orwell wrote 1984. Actually, although the midget presidential candidates and all but a small handful of federal elected officials are trying to ignore the Covid Regime issue and its massively deleterious effects on the life of the country, the Ruling Class is testing the waters with the idea of reinstituting a new version of the Covid Regime in time to prevent a free and fair election in 2024 ('Election Variant' Prompts NYC Mask Advisory). Nevertheless, the truth about the enormity of what was foisted on us continues to come out.
In the news today probably the most important development is the 5th Circuit overturning a lower court dismissal of a lawsuit by prominent physicians who had claimed that the FDA had overstepped its authority in attempting to prevent the use of ivermectin to treat Covid. Red State has an account of this development, with links to additional sources. Here’s the short version of what happened today:
The lawsuit was dismissed in December by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown, who ruled that the complaints didn’t overcome the FDA’s “sovereign immunity,” a concept that protects government entities from many civil lawsuits regarding their responsibilities. The appellate panel said the FDA’s alleged overstepping of its authority opened the door for the lawsuit.
Brown is a Trump judge who has ruled on Covid cases in the past, getting things right:
In January 2022, Brown enjoined enforcement of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees that President Biden's administration had implemented. Noting his belief that people should get vaccinated against COVID-19, Brown explained that the case turned on the question of "whether the President can, with the stroke of a pen and without the input of Congress, require millions of federal employees to undergo a medical procedure as a condition of their employment." In April 2022, two judges on a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated Judge Brown's ruling, but in June a majority of active Fifth Circuit judges voted to rehear the cause en banc, thereby vacating the April panel opinion. In March 2023, the Fifth Circuit, sitting en banc, affirmed Judge Brown's nationwide injunction; Judge Andrew Oldham wrote the opinion for a ten-member majority.
Red State quotes the AP on the outcome of the current case:
The doctors can proceed with their lawsuit contending that the FDA’s campaign [to effectively ban the use of ivermectin in treating Covid] exceeded the agency’s authority under federal law, the ruling said.
“FDA is not a physician. It has authority to inform, announce, and apprise—but not to endorse, denounce, or advise,” Judge Don Willett wrote for a panel that also included Jennifer Walker Elrod and Edith Brown Clement. “The Doctors have plausibly alleged that FDA’s Posts fell on the wrong side of the line between telling about and telling to.”
This means that the doctors can proceed with discovery, which could prove extremely interesting when it comes to unmasking (!) the Covid Regime and those who empowered it—who wanted the FDA to take what actions with regard to invermectin. This comes at a time when the SCOTUS is also on a campaign to rein in our runaway Administrative State. Further, it will certainly open up issues of fact and of science at a time when more and more revelations about the side effects of the experimental mRNA gene therapy injections are coming to light. The more matters of fact and science federal courts take under consideration regarding the Covid Regime the better. This is very good news.
And speaking of revelations, here are two items. The first is a link to Karl Denninger, who cites a study that confirms that in many people the spike protein continues to circulate for months—or indefinitely:
In many people, roughly half, the material does not degrade for a very long time. It is found in the circulation for six months, at least, and quite-possibly longer (I don't think we have an outside edge yet) and given that Salk has pointed out that the spike protein alone, absent the rest of the virus, in fact results in pathology including damage to the endothelium which lines every blood vessel, you now have receipts for how this is screwing people at least on a circulatory (e.g. cardiac, strokes, etc.) basis and quite possibly beyond that in myriad other ways, including cancer.
This study proves that it is not infection that brought that result as the jab material was constructed using pseudouridine which is a man-made substance that "acts" sort of like the natural nucleoside uridine but it isn't and, since it is not naturally occurring, it can't have come from being infected with the virus. It can only happen as a result of vaccination.
The debate over whether you "rapidly process and clear" the materials in the jabs is over folks; the odds are very high that you don't clear it and since we know the spike protein without the rest of the virus is directly harmful here is your smoking gun. The last thing you want is the spike protein circulating in your body for months; if that occurs the odds are extremely high it will produce serious or even fatal consequences over the intermediate and longer term. Its logical (but not proved) that the pseudo-uridine is responsible for this as the entire reason they used it is that without it the mRNA is broken down too quickly in the body to be effective.
This is the kind of stuff that will be showing up in amicus briefs in court. For those interested in more of an overview of what’s going on with mRNA based treatments generally—because the US is investing large amounts of money into this largely untested gene therapy technology—here’s another article:
Here’s a quick, soft transition towards war. You know that the “B” in BRICS stands for Brazil. Brazil is a very important country and has a booming trade relationship with China. So this story caught my eye:
Brazil Displaces US As Corn-Exporter King As Trade Winds Shift
And it’s not just corn:
It appears that a new world order is emerging, with BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization offering trade alternatives to the hegemonic West. The latest example of a multi-polar world is the US being displaced by BRICS country Brazil as the world's top corn supplier.
The US held the crown for fifty years as the world's top corn exporter. …
It's not corn. Brazil has also displaced American farmers in both soybean and wheat exports. …
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The reason for the shift is a rejiggering of China's ag trade away from the US to Brazil. China signed a deal with Brazil last year to increase gain purchases.
Plus, the Chinese are steering clear of US trade because lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been in a frenzy to weaponize the dollar and trade against Beijing.
"The US reminds me of the frog being slowly boiled," Ann Berg, an independent consultant and veteran trader who started her career at Louis Dreyfus Co. in 1974, told Bloomberg.
Berg said, "It's lost its dominance, but it took 40 years."
I’ll keep the war update brief. If you want a deep dive, Big Serge is your guy:
Escaping Attrition: Ukraine Rolls the Dice
The Zaporizhia Summer Blockbuster
This is a lengthy overview of Ukraine’s summer-spring-fall? offensive—and why it’s a bust. The 25 words or so version is this: Ukraine simply doesn’t have the military capability to accomplish its goal—reconquest of large expanses of geographical territory. Their continued attempts to do so play directly into Russia’s overwhelming strengths. Thank you NATO advisers.
Next, an excerpt from a longer article:
Major Overnight Sea Drone Attack On Crimean Bridge Foiled: Kremlin
The Kremlin has announced another attempted Ukrainian attack on the Crimean Bridge, which happened in the overnight and early hours of Saturday. The overnight incident is being described as "multiple attempted attacks" - but which were reportedly thwarted.
A defense ministry statement described, "On September 1, at about 11:15pm Moscow time, the Kiev regime attempted to launch a terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge using a semi-submersible unmanned boat." It added that the attacking vessels were "promptly detected and destroyed" in the Black Sea.
Russian media indicated that the attack was significant enough to stop traffic for for a period of time, but within hours vehicles were allowed to pass again.
And we’ll end with an infographic—it’s relevant because we may be hearing more about warfare in Africa involving the US:
Geostrategic The United States has 34 known military bases of varying size in Africa — by far the most of any country. Among these is the drone base in Niger — the largest on the planet, from which the US dominates the ISR and air-to-surface strike realm in the entire region.
That’s been one of my biggest beefs with Trump is the failure to face his total misjudgment of the Covid situation. I know that he’s a germophobe and some of his reaction could stem from that, but it is abundantly clear by this stage that it was a complete disaster and he needs to address his role in that disaster. I’m still surprised by how he misjudged so many people that he placed in responsible positions. Not sure if it was the fact that he relied on the advice of people he thought he knew or just overconfidence in his own abilities, either way it would be nice if he stepped up and faced the fact.
As related to Ukraine and the concomitant, as well as seemingly infinite, problems it has born, I have a very uneasy feeling that with so many moving parts and so many truly incompetent players involved, things could easily get out of hand and trigger a cataclysmic, albeit unintended, series of events with horrendous consequences.
This foolishness, not to mention dangerous, notion that the neocons have about their being on top of the situation along with their completely unjustified confidence in their own abilities does not bode well for the country.
I’m also not fully convinced that the BRICs development and its affect on the status of the dollar and the overall financial makeup of the world economy is as “far in the future” as some folks might assume. I’m reminded of Hemingway’s characterization of bankruptcy as being “gradually and then all at once”, seems to me that’s where we are right now, somewhere where between gradually and all at once. Not willing to join Tucker on the “hot war with Russia” bench, but I think we are a point where the situation is every bit as perilous as it was during the Cuban Missile crisis. And it’s also abundantly clear that the folks who are running this mess cannot hold a candle to the caliber of people involved in that crisis.
Ketanji is not a biologist. Trump is not a doctor. Trump is alternately guilty of not following expert advice and following expert advice, as the case may be. Why should he even bother explaining. As for the biggest issue in US politics, I recommend an article in the American Mind, "Show Trial, American Style" byTJ Harker. In it he states: "The object of the pending trials of Donald Trump is not to determine if he really believed his election fraud claims, or if he stole office paper, or if he lied about it. Their object is to demonstrate to 80,000,000 Americans that dissent will not be tolerated." Whatever the verdict in the two trials, they will succeed in proving that our regime is illegal, oppressive and indifferent to the wants and needs of the public. Having succeeded in that, massive coercion will result in the public finding ways to avoid compliance, massively.