FDA orders Dr. Mercola to stop writing about health benefits of vitamin D… because knowledge is the enemy of every totalitarian regime
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-04-06-fda-orders-mercola-stop-writing-benefits-vitamin-d.html
Government Study Confirms 147 Corporations ‘Run The World’
A study by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has found that a mere 147 corporations control the world – orchestrating events and controlling governments.
The analysis, which looked at the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations, identified that only a tiny handful of mega-corporations, mostly banks, had a disproportionate amount of power over world events.
Previous studies have found that a few TNCs own large chunks of the world’s economy, but they included only a limited number of companies and omitted indirect ownerships, so could not say how this affected the global economy – whether it made it more or less stable, for instance.
The Zurich team can. From Orbis 2007, a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide, they pulled out all 43,060 TNCs and the share ownerships linking them. Then they constructed a model of which companies controlled others through shareholding networks, coupled with each company’s operating revenues, to map the structure of economic power.
The work, to be published in PLoS One, revealed a core of 1318 companies with interlocking ownerships (see image). Each of the 1318 had ties to two or more other companies, and on average they were connected to 20. What’s more, although they represented 20 per cent of global operating revenues, the 1318 appeared to collectively own through their shares the majority of the world’s large blue chip and manufacturing firms – the “real” economy – representing a further 60 per cent of global revenues.
When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a “super-entity” of 147 even more tightly knit companies – all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity – that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. “In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network,” says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.
https://newspunch.com/147-corporations-run-world/
Another day closer to America's death. All part of that "plan" the Alphabet Bandit spewed. Just a bunch of riddles and empty promises of transparency, accountability, and justice. You played right along with the pacification op…and your payoff will be watching the final nail be driven in the coffin of the USA.
Congratulations, you did it.
The Epoch Times (TET) https://www.theepochtimes.com/fresh-african-swine-fever-outbreak-hits-chinas-xinjiang_3765100.html
Fresh African Swine Fever Outbreak Hits China’s Xinjiang
BY EVA FU April 6, 2021 Updated: April 6, 2021biggersmaller Print
China’s agriculture ministry on April 5 reported an outbreak of African swine fever in the Xinjiang region, marking the third occasion the region spotted cases since February.
The outbreak occurred on a farm with 599 pigs under Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a state-owned economic and paramilitary entity under U.S. sanctions over human rights abuses in the region.
Thirty-three pigs were infected and six died, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said in a statement. Local authorities have culled the remaining live pigs in the affected zone and halted transports of hog or related products in and out of the area.
African swine fever has plagued China since it emerged in the country in August 2018. The deadly disease forced China to cull millions of hogs and wiped out about 40 percent of the country’s pig stock, leading to widespread pork shortages and sending prices to skyrocket.
The virus has made multiple appearances in China’s mainland this year, including in southern Guangdong Province, southwestern provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan Province, and the central province of Hubei.
The recent rounds of swine fever outbreaks in China have slashed the hog population in northern China by at least 20 percent, various industry estimates found.
New Hope Liuhe, China’s fourth-largest producer, also found two new virus strains in January that had infected more than 1,000 hogs on their farms. As the virus could remain contagious for months and even years in some products, the discovery raised concerns of the new strains spreading to other parts of the world through contaminated meat.
GM Biotech, a privately-owned biotechnology firm based in Hunan that develops testing kits for the disease, said the new strains are “very difficult to detect at the initial stage of infection and have a longer incubation period after infection,” Reuters reported at the time.
Taiwan, which has so far remained intact from the disease, recently reported a dead pig infected with the African swine fever on the coast, prompting a round of herd testing around the area. The pig was washed ashore over the weekend and had the same virus strain matching the one circulating in China.
In late March, Chinese media also reported dozens of pig carcasses were found near Inner Mongolia. The cause of the deaths remains unknown.
In February, Hong Kong culled 3,000 herds in a farm after eight pigs tested positive for the African swine fever virus. Most of the infected pigs came from mainland China, according to Hong Kong officials.
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The Epoch Times (TET) https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-military-cites-rising-risk-of-chinese-move-against-taiwan_3765902.html
US Military Cites Rising Risk of Chinese Move Against Taiwan
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS April 7, 2021 Updated: April 7, 2021biggersmaller Print
WASHINGTON—The American military is warning that China is probably accelerating its timetable for capturing control of Taiwan, the island democracy that has been the chief source of tension between Washington and Beijing for decades and is widely seen as the most likely trigger for a potentially catastrophic U.S.-China war.
The worry about Taiwan comes as China wields new strength from years of military buildup. It has become more aggressive with Taiwan and more assertive in sovereignty disputes in the South China Sea. Beijing also has become more confrontational with Washington; senior Chinese officials traded sharp and unusually public barbs with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in talks in Alaska last month.
A military move against Taiwan, however, would be a test of U.S. support for the island that Beijing views as a breakaway province. For the Biden administration, it could present the choice of abandoning a friendly, democratic entity or risking what could become an all-out war over a cause that is not on the radar of most Americans. The United States has long pledged to help Taiwan defend itself, but it has deliberately left unclear how far it would go in response to a Chinese attack.
This accumulation of concerns meshes with the administration’s view that China is a frontline challenge for the United States and that more must be done soon—militarily, diplomatically, and by other means—to deter Beijing as it seeks to supplant the United States as the predominant power in Asia. Some American military leaders see Taiwan as potentially the most immediate flashpoint.
TET https://www.theepochtimes.com/taiwan-says-it-will-fight-to-the-end-if-chinese-regime-attacks_3765860.html
Taiwan Says It Will Fight to the End If Chinese Regime Attacks
BY REUTERS April 7, 2021 Updated: April 7, 2021biggersmaller Print
The Chinese regime sent more fighter jets into Taiwan’s air defence zone on April 7 in a stepped-up show of force around the island Beijing claims as its own, and Taiwan’s foreign minister said it would fight to the end if the communist regime attacks.
The democratic self-governed island has complained of repeated military activities by Beijing in recent months, with China’s air force making almost daily forays in Taiwan’s air defence identification zone. On Monday, the Chinese regime said an aircraft carrier group was exercising close to the island.
Taiwan’s Defence Ministry said 15 Chinese aircraft including 12 fighters entered its air defence identification zone, with an anti-submarine aircraft flying to the south through the Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Philippines.
Taiwan’s air force sent up aircraft to intercept and warn the Chinese away, the ministry added.
Speaking earlier in the day, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said the United States was concerned about the risk of conflict.
“From my limited understanding of American decision makers watching developments in this region, they clearly see the danger of the possibility of China launching an attack against Taiwan,” he told reporters at his ministry.
“We are willing to defend ourselves without any questions and we will fight the war if we need to fight the war. And if we need to defend ourselves to the very last day we will defend ourselves to the very last day.”
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office and the U.S. State Department did not respond to requests for comment on Wu’s remarks. China has said its activities around Taiwan are aimed at protecting China’s sovereignty. The United States has expressed concern about China’s movements, and said its commitment to Taiwan is “rock solid”.
Adding to the stepped-up military action near Taiwan, the U.S. Navy said the guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain conducted a “routine” transit of the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday.
‘Porcupine’ Taiwan
Neither Taiwan nor Beijing has said precisely where the Chinese carrier group is, or whether it is heading towards the disputed South China Sea, where a U.S. carrier group is currently operating.
Speaking in parliament, Taiwan’s Deputy Defence Minister Chang Che-ping said the Chinese carrier’s movements were being closely followed, and described its drills as routine.
A person familiar with Taiwan’s security planning told Reuters the carrier group is still “near the Japanese islands”, though declined to disclose the exact location.
Japan had said on Sunday that the Chinese carrier group had entered the Pacific after sailing through the Miyako Strait, through Japan’s southern Ryukyu island chain northeast of Taiwan.
Washington, Taiwan’s most important international backer and arms supplier, has been pushing Taipei to modernize its military so it can become a “porcupine”, hard for China to attack.
Wu said Taiwan was determined to improve its military capabilities and spend more on defence.
“The defence of Taiwan is our responsibility. We will try every way we can to improve our defence capability.”
Taiwan’s Defence Ministry said it will run eight days of computer-aided war games this month, simulating a Chinese attack. A second phase of exercises, including live-fire drills and anti-landing drills, will take place in July, when hospitals would also practice handling mass casualties.
“The drills are designed based on the toughest enemy threats, simulating all possible scenarios on an enemy invasion on Taiwan,” Major General Liu Yu-Ping told reporters.
Asked if Washington’s de facto embassy, the American Institute in Taiwan, would send representatives to the drills, Liu said such a plan was “discussed” but “will not be implemented”, citing military sensitivity.
By Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee
With all these famous people sick and dying…I wonder how many are fake and are really trying to make a run for it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwa03QaJNeM
Add this to the list, she dead.
https://twitter.com/2LarryJohnson7/status/1379848494031249412
Can't post on clear net. Any body else?
Passed catcha. Wooo hooo