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https://youtu.be/Xx9sqR7ruYY

Interesting information about Biden's swearing in

Islamic Resistance In Iraq Blew Up Two US Supply Convoys In Al-Diwaniyah & Al-Muthanna

On September 12, the pro-Iranian Islamic Resistance in Iraq – ‘Ashab al-Kahf attacked two convoys carrying logistic supplies and equipment for the US-led coalition in southern Iraq.

The first supply convoy came under attack in the province of al-Diwaniyah, while the second was targeted as it was passing in the province of al-Muthanna.

‘Ashab al-Kahf emerged in August of 2019. The group was among the first to launch attacks against US forces after the assassination of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Deputy-Commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units, and Iranian Quds Force Leader Maj. Gen. Qassim Soleimani.

In the last few week, ‘Ashab al-Kahf and other pro-Iranian groups in Iraq stepped up their attacks on US-led coalition supply convoys. On September 4, two supply convoys came under attack in al-Diwaniyah and the central province of Babylon. On September 6, another convoy was attacked in Babylon. A video of the attack was released.

The US-led coalition denies any links to the supply convoy being attacked in Iraq. The coalition claims that all recent attacks hit convoys moving military aid for Iraqi government forces. However, footage released by pro-Iranian groups confirms that equipment of the US military were targeted in some of the recent attacks.

Pro-Iranian groups campaign against the US-led coalition is not limited to attacks on supply convoys. Coalition bases in Iraq are also being targeted on a regular basis.

Late on September 11, two “explosive-laden” drones targeted coalition troops in the Erbil International Airport in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.

https://southfront.org/islamic-resistance-in-iraq-blew-up-two-us-supply-convoys-in-al-diwaniyah-al-muthanna/

Syrian Military Source Says Ground Operation In Greater Idlib Could Start At ‘Any Minute’

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies may kick off a ground operation in the northwestern region of Greater Idlib “at any minute,” a Syrian military source told Sputnik on September 12.

The source told the Russian news agency, that al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the de-facto ruler of Greater Idlib, and its Turkish-backed allies escalated their attacks in the last two weeks.

“The fronts of the southern Idlib countryside and northern countryside of Hama witnessed an exceptional escalation during the last two weeks,” the source said. “The armed groups shelled towns and villages located near the frontlines, at the same time, exceptional human, equipment and logistical crowds were monitored, sent by these groups to the axes of Jabal al-Zawiya in the southern countryside of Idlib and al-Ghab Plain in the northwestern Hama countryside.”

According to the source, the recent Russian airstrikes on Greater Idlib were a response to these provocations. The source claimed that Russian warplanes destroyed more than 60 positions of HTS and killed more than 150 militants over the last few days.

A few hours after the release of Sputnik’s reports, Russian warplanes carried out a new wave of airstriks on Greater Idlib.

The airstrikes targeted several positions located near the towns of Darat Izza and Sheikh Salman in the western Aleppo countryside and the town of Kansafra in the southern countryside of Idlib.

The ceasefire agreement in Greater Idlib, which was brokered by Russia and Turkey on 5 March 2020, is barely holding up.

A new ground operation in Greater Idlib by the SAA and its allies may lead to a dangerous confrontation with the Turkish military that maintains more than 60 posts, bases and camps across the region.

https://southfront.org/syrian-military-source-says-ground-operation-in-greater-idlib-could-start-at-any-minute/

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Calls out Israeli Mossad, Saudi's and Bush/Cheney and co for 911

Documentation.

Material Safety Data Sheets for:

Moderna C-19, Section 13 lists ingredients

https://www.modernatx.com/covid19vaccine-eua/eua-fact-sheet-providers.pdf

Pfizer C-19, Section 3 lists ingredients.

https://safetydatasheets.pfizer.com/DirectDocumentDownloader/Document?prd=PF00092~~PDF~~MTR~~PFEM~~EN

AstraZeneca C-19, Sections 5.1 & 6.1 lists ingredients

https://www.tga.gov.au/sites/default/files/auspar-chadox1-s-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca-210215-pi.pdf

Johnson & Johnson C-19, Section 13 lists ingredients.

https://www.janssenlabels.com/emergency-use-authorization

Trump says Afghanistan withdrawal opens door to China, Russia reverse-engineering US military equipment

Trump also expressed doubt whether the war in Afghanistan is over

Former President Donald Trump blasted the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan and speculated that China and Russia could already be reverse-engineering U.S. military equipment left behind.

Speaking with host Sharyl Attkisson during an interview that aired Sunday on "Full Measure," Trump excoriated the withdrawal as "incompetent" and warned it will likely endanger the United States and benefit its enemies.

Trump also expressed doubt regarding whether the war in Afghanistan is over, noting how many unvetted Afghan refugees are being resettled in the United States and around the world.

"I don't know because you have people going all over the world and being dropped all over the world right now, and nobody knows who the hell they are, Sharyl," Trump said. "These aren't the interpreters that we took. These were people that rushed into the planes, and they were so interested in trying to make it sound like 'Oh, they're doing a good job.' These people, many of these people are going to be terrorists. Okay? They're going to be terrorists. They were very powerful. They were very energetic in getting onto the aircraft."

Trump went on to suggest the nation's adversaries are already taking advantage of the stockpile of weapons, armored vehicles, and aircraft that left U.S. forces left behind.

"Now I'm saying, ‘How can they take this equipment?’ And I guarantee that China and Russia already have our Apache helicopters and they're taking them apart to find out exactly how they're made. They're the best in the world by far. And they're taking them apart so they can make the exact same equipment. They're very good at that. It's a disgrace."

The U.S. offered approximately $83 billion worth of training and equipment to Afghan security forces since 2001.

The military left behind 73 aircraft in Afghanistan, some of which were disabled, according to USA Today. Pentagon officials said that soldiers operated Apache attack helicopters at the airport. Afghan pilots reportedly flew some of the advanced aircraft to foreign countries and abandoned much of the rest.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-speculates-u-s-military-equipment-left-in-afghanistan-being-reverse-engineered-by-china-russia

Electrical Device that “gives DNA vaccines the boost they need to work in humans” Receives $71M from U.S. Dept of Defense

NOVIO’S ELECTRICAL DEVICE ZAPS A COVID-19 VACCINE INTO THE BODY

Can a handheld gadget usher in a new era of vaccines?

It took a global pandemic to accomplish one of the most significant advances in the history of vaccinology: widespread, commercial deployment of vaccines derived from nucleic acids. As of this writing, hundreds of millions of people have been vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. And most of those shots have been the Pfizer–BioNTech and Moderna offerings, which are both of a type known as an mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccine.

Conceived decades ago but released to the public for the first time during the pandemic, mRNA vaccines so far are living up to their promise. Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have proven to be about 95 percent effective against the novel coronavirus. In addition, this kind of vaccine can be tweaked with relative ease to target new variants of a virus, and its production does not rely on items that can be difficult to produce quickly in enormous quantities. And yet, a couple of drawbacks of mRNA vaccines have also been widely noted over the past six months: They depend on deep-freeze supply chains and storage, and they can produce significant side effects such as fever, chills, and muscle aches.

So hopes remain high for another kind of nucleic-acid vaccine, one that makes use of DNA rather than mRNA. DNA-based vaccines have most of the advantages of mRNA vaccines, yet they produce no significant side effects—and, crucially, they don’t need to be refrigerated. These attributes could make these vaccines a boon to rural and low-resource regions. “If we really have to vaccinate 7 billion people, we might just need every possible technology,” says Margaret Liu, chairman of the board of the International Society for Vaccines.

Inovio’s device uses a technique called electroporation to sneak a DNA vaccine into cells. Kate Broderick, Inovio’s senior vice president of R&D, has been working on this technique for years, but the pandemic provided both motivation and funding to accelerate development. Spencer Lowell

DNA vaccines come with a major challenge, however. When administered with an ordinary hypodermic needle, they’ve conferred only weak immunity, at best, in many human studies. But if a small, ambitious Pennsylvania company backed by the U.S. Department of Defense succeeds in its clinical trials, DNA vaccines—enabled by a new delivery technology—could soon join the fight against COVID-19, and a host of other viral illnesses.

The company, Inovio Pharmaceuticals, is using a technique known as electroporation, in which an electrical pulse applied to the skin briefly opens channels in cells to allow the vaccine to enter. After a standard vaccine injection, Inovio’s electroporation device, which looks like an electric toothbrush, is held against the skin. At the press of a button, a weak electric field pulses into the arm, opening channels into the cells. The tool gives DNA vaccines the boost they need to work in humans—or so the company says. It’s an engineering solution to a biological problem.

With its overseas warfighters in mind, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has backed Inovio’s approach with a US $71 million contract to scale up the manufacturing of its electroporation device, and an undisclosed sum to cover phase 2 and 3 studies of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine. And the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave the company $5 million as part of an effort to increase equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.

https://www.activistpost.com/2021/09/electrical-device-that-gives-dna-vaccines-the-boost-they-need-to-work-in-humans-receives-71m-from-u-s-dept-of-defense.html

Biden's Total Financial Surveillance

What if every one of your noncash financial transactions was automatically reported to a beefed-up, audit-hungry IRS?

Imagine living in a world where every one of your noncash financial transactions—a restaurant meal, a Venmo transfer to a friend, maybe some bitcoin bought on the dips—was automatically reported to a beefed-up, audit-hungry IRS.

That dystopia will become a reality if President Joe Biden gets his way. Biden, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and key Capitol Hill allies such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) are pushing a vast, intrusive financial surveillance system in the name of closing the "tax gap."

But don't worry: There's no need to fear if you've got nothing to hide.

"For already compliant taxpayers, the only effect of this regime is to provide easy access to summary information on financial accounts and to decrease the likelihood of costly 'no fault' examinations," the Treasury Department said this May in a nakedly authoritarian document called "The American Families Plan Tax Compliance Agenda." But "for noncompliant taxpayers," the department continues, "this regime would encourage voluntary compliance as evaders realize that the risk of evasion being detected has risen noticeably."

The administration's proposed "comprehensive financial account reporting regime" would dramatically increase the types of financial institutions and transactions exposed to the feds' prying eyes. "All business and personal accounts from financial institutions, including bank, loan, and investment accounts," would be forced to "report gross inflows and outflows" to the IRS. And not just bank accounts: The dragnet would now include PayPal, settlement companies, and "crypto asset exchanges," for starters.

The new domestic surveillance program, which requires congressional approval, is one prong of a tripartite strategy for transforming the entire global financial system into a harmonious, haven-free collection funnel to the IRS. The second part, which has taken up the bulk of Biden's multilateral diplomacy thus far, is getting the industrialized world to agree on a global minimum corporate tax of 15 percent, while setting up a system to prevent multinational companies from registering their profits in the lowest-tax jurisdictions.

Cutting corporate taxes is "a self-defeating competition," Yellen said in April, "and neither President Biden nor I are interested in participating in it anymore. We want to change the game."

In July, representatives from 130 countries, including finance ministers from the G-20 representing the world's richest democracies, agreed in principle to a worldwide minimum corporate tax. "We have a chance now to build a global and domestic tax system," Yellen crowed. "The race to the bottom is one step closer to coming to an end."

The agreement still has a significant obstacle to overcome—namely, the legislatures of 130 countries, including the U.S. Congress. But Yellen has some cause to be cocky, because the third prong of Washington's strategy has already been constructed.

In 2009, President Barack Obama promised to generate $210 billion in new tax revenue over 10 years by cracking down on "overseas tax loopholes." While the corporate-tax element of the plan was quickly killed by lobbyists, the individual component remained in the form of the 2010 Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). Built on a foundation of American exceptionalism (the U.S. is one of only two countries that tax citizens living abroad), FATCA imposed onerous new annual reporting requirements on Americans with more than $10,000 in overseas financial institutions. The law brazenly threatened international banks if they didn't rat out their U.S. clients to the IRS.

The results were predictable: Expats were locked out of banking services, record numbers of mostly middle-class Americans renounced their U.S. citizenship, and IRS collections went essentially unchanged. But for a very small political price (no one much cares about the estimated 9 million Americans living abroad), Washington was able to bend an entire global financial system to its will.

An IRS with the ability to compel global transaction data sounds like something out of a Philip K. Dick novel. Yet here we are—unless we consciously cover our tracks.

https://reason.com/2021/09/08/bidens-total-financial-surveillance/

NSW Premier says unvaccinated may not enjoy freedoms at 80% double-dose

The NSW premier warned the unvaccinated they should not "expect to do everything that vaccinated people do even when we hit 80 per cent” coverage later in the year.

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/coronavirus/berejiklian-warns-unvaccinated-there-is-no-guarantee-of-freedoms-at-80-per-cent-doubledose/news-story/dfcfc392c5bcbb480f55baa584b0c7a7

Gucci Handbag: Josh Frydenberg’s JobKeeper gifts to Gucci and Prada

Gucci and Prada owe Josh Frydenberg a debt of gratitude. Louis Vuitton is not alone. The Italian high fashion houses got JobKeeper too. Michael West and Callum Foote report as evidence emerges the Treasurer opted to ignore advice regarding a claw-back mechanism to get the money back from profitable companies.

At Gucci’s headquarters in picturesque Tuscany, chief executive Marco Bizzari really owes Australia’s treasurer Josh Frydenberg un grande abbraccio, or at least a token of gratitude.

Here they were over on the Via Tornabuoni in Florence fretting about a 30% drop in revenues in the Italian fashion sector last year when Australian taxpayers strode valiantly to their rescue with Josh’s JobKeeper scheme.

If he has the slightest skerrick of decency, Marco Bizzari must at least consider giving Josh something nice in return, perhaps the latest $2,680 GG embossed shoulder bag from Gucci’s Ouverture range.

Deep in the latest set of financial statements for Gucci Australia, you will find this footnote: “The company qualified for the Job Keeper wage subsidy program in Australia and received throughout 2020 a total amount of $4,756,500”.

Not that Marco and his ragazzi dell’industria della moda particularly needed the cash. Gucci’s cash receipts soared from $415m to $582m last year. Thanks to JobKeeper, their profits rose too. Even a modest $435 Gucci Ophidia Airpods case would do the trick, just something thoughtful.

Likewise, down in Milan, Prada’s billionaire proprietor, Miuccia Prada, really ought to pop a little $3,900 Prada Saffiano leather handbag in the mail for Josh, just a token of her appreciation for Josh’s $2m in JobKeeper. Or maybe something more fragrant might be suitable, a little bottle of L’Homme Prada Eau de Toilette, “mixing classic and unexpected ingredients to reflect duality of the masculine identity”.

For, the sheer extravagance of the JobKeeper scheme has certainly aroused the olfactory nerves of ordinary Australians.

Like Gucci, Prada’s Australian operations also enjoyed rising sales, and profits, and both had more cash sitting in the bank at the end of the year than they did at the start: Prada $7.7m and Gucci $135m.

A familiar aromatic name appears on the accounts of both: Deloitte. Yes, not only did the Big Four auditor Deloitte append its signature to both these sets of financial statements but, as it emerged late on Friday at a parliamentary hearing into JobKeeper, Deloitte is the mysterious government consultant which advised Treasury on the JobKeeper scheme, on its “risk and integrity”.

What value for money that is.

As revealed previously, the French scions of haute couture at Louis Vuitton also got their slice of the action d’Australie, although we can report that Hermes, whose Birkin Tanaka bag retails at $US1.9m, appears to have failed to avail themselves of this grand gift from Australian taxpayers.

Perhaps they might capitalise on this fiscal valour by launching a new range of fragrances called L’eau de Conscience.

In any case, Josh must surely be under consideration to join Air Chief Marshal Sir Angus Houston wearing France’s highest insignia the Chevalier of Légion d’Honneur.

And if the Italians don’t at least shortlist our Treasurer for their highest honour, the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, for services to Italy’s alta moda they surely are ungrateful swine. For never has there been a greater gift to foreign multinational fashion houses on behalf of ordinary working Australians than JobKeeper.

Excuse? … no excuse

The Treasurer was busy last week trying to derail rising anger over the biggest transfer of wealth in Australian history from working Australians to large and profitable corporations, taking his normal space in that verdant garden of government propaganda, the editorial pages of The Australian newspaper, to explain away his government’s exhilarating incompetence.

On Friday evening, Treasury and Tax Office chiefs were doing their darndest to avert responsibility while ducking tricky questions from senators Rex Patrick and Nick McKim.

https://www.michaelwest.com.au/gucci-handbag-josh-frydenbergs-jobkeeper-gifts-to-gucci-and-prada/

Biden Plans to Attack Filibuster in Last-Ditch Effort to Pass Massive Voting Bill

The Senate is set to reconvene this week — one of their top priorities being the so called “For the People Act,” which Democrats claim fights “racism” and “suppression,” but would instead effectively nationalize elections and enable voter fraud.

Republicans previously blocked the bill by using the filibuster and preventing “tyranny of the majority.” Top Democrats are now calling on President Biden to lobby for “filibuster reform” in order to ram through the legislation this time around without the need for Republican votes, Rolling Stone reported Sunday.

“According to three people briefed on the White House’s position and its recent communications with outside groups, Biden assured Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that he was ready to push for filibuster reform,” the report states.

A source briefed on the White House’s position said Biden told Schumer, “Chuck, you tell me when you need me to start making phone calls.”

During a late-July meeting, Biden reportedly made a pledge to Schumer and Pelosi saying he would “get involved himself and lobby the handful of moderate Democrats to convince them to weaken the filibuster so that the For the People Act could pass without any Republican votes” if they “tried every option they had” first to pass the bill. Multiple sources since then reportedly told Rolling Stone that the White House has “devoted more staff to the issue.”

Two centrist Democrats, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), have publicly denounced changing or abolishing the filibuster. However, their votes are much needed if any substantial changes are to be made to pass the “For the People Act.”

The report continues:

In April, Manchin wrote in an op-ed that he would not support tweaking or abolishing the filibuster, which he described as a “critical tool” to protect the interests of small and rural states like his. Sinema, for her part, likes to point out how often Democrats used the filibuster when they were in the minority during Donald Trump’s presidency. The filibuster, she wrote in June, “compels moderation and helps protect the country from wild swings between opposing policy poles.”

A group of senators is set to release a compromise version of the bill “intended to satisfy Manchin’s concerns” about the initial bill. Regardless, Schumer will “not only need to prevent a single defection on the bill itself but also convince — with Biden’s help — all 50 Democrats to create a carveout in the filibuster for voting-rights-related legislation,” according to the report.

Sources told Rolling Stone both senators will be “likely targets” when the president begins to lobby in favor of changing the filibuster.

The Biden administration has been notoriously unclear about its opinion of the filibuster. In March, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden did not support changing the filibuster. Biden told ABC News a few weeks later that he supported bringing back the so-called talking filibuster.

“The filibuster is a legislative process tool, an important one, that warrants debate,” Psaki said a few months later, declining to answer if Biden supported creating a carve-out to the filibuster for “voting rights” legislation. “But determination about making changes will be made by members of the Senate, not by this president or any president, frankly, moving forward.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/12/biden-plans-to-attack-filibuster-in-last-ditch-effort-to-pass-massive-voting-bill/

Jon Voight Endorses Larry Elder: ‘Let Us Rid this Horror’

Actor and Trump supporter Jon Voight has proudly endorsed Larry Elder in the election to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).

In a video posted Sunday evening, Voight urged his fellow Americans to rid California of the “horror” that is Gavin Newsom, ushering in a new era of the once Golden State.

Our freedom @larryelder pic.twitter.com/ZnQN85lx1B

— Jon Voight (@jonvoight) September 13, 2021

Voight stated:

My fellow Americans, we are in a disgusting war of left-wing mentality. How can we live with our children being exposed to this left, our governor Newsom, and his demands for shots? How can we be taken down by such wrongdoing against our freedom, our rights as humans, as Americans?

Let us vote for Elder, Larry Elder. Let our states be saved with truths, with a force of God’s rules, not leftist rules that will destroy our young. I will stand for Elder. I will ask all to vote for this man of dignity, of truths, not of power, not of lies.

We the people deserve a chance to bloom with our greatest gifts. Our children of God, we must save them from this deceit. Let us bring Elder in to reconstruct our state with integrity, with honor, with truths. Let us rid this horror, Newsom, and let our nation be lifted from this darkness.

We the people must understand and see these lies. And I want you all to remember our God-given gifts, our forefathers’ fight for our freedom of choice – not for mandatory or to force to control one’s beliefs – but to honor one’s will, one’s free will without control. For freedom, for our American dream, the dream all came from all over the world to be a part of. Freedom. And now it’s being destroyed, but I’ll pray and I will say that man is powerful and God’s love is here and we can all take our freedom back.

Because we are God’s true heroes, his children, his creation of free will, of love. And we all must not forget the truth. And we all must not fear, for God is here. And my fellow Americans, lies will die and truth will stay alive. Don’t allow our state to crumble any longer. Let us bring the California country to her best yet. Elder will help us save her.

Voight’s endorsement of Larry Elder came shortly after that of actress and #MeToo activist Rose McGowan, who alleged that Gavin Newsom’s wife tried to bribe her into staying silent about convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/12/jon-voight-endorses-larry-elder-rid-horror/