Doctors

Mt. Carmel Doctor Pleads Guilty To Operating A Massive “Pill Mill”

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/mt-carmel-doctor-pleads-guilty-operating-massive-pill-mill

Virginia Doctor Pleads Guilty to $1.8 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/virginia-doctor-pleads-guilty-18-million-health-care-fraud-scheme

United States Files Suit Against Tampa Doctor For Allegedly Taking Kickback Payments In Return For Fraudulent Fentanyl Spray Prescriptions

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/united-states-files-suit-against-tampa-doctor-allegedly-taking-kickback-payments-return

Biden Administration Doles Out $250K to Wuhan Lab-Linked Group

EcoHealth Alliance's founder waged a secret campaign to disprove the lab-leak theory

The Biden administration awarded more than $250,000 to an organization whose founder waged a secret campaign last year to undercut the theory that the coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab.

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency granted $253,279 to EcoHealth Alliance in July to conduct research to thwart the use of viruses as weapons of mass destruction. EcoHealth Alliance worked closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the lab that many U.S. officials believe was ground zero for the coronavirus outbreak. The group's founder, Peter Daszak, secretly organized a group of scientists early in the pandemic to publicly undermine the theory that the pandemic sprung from a leak at the Wuhan lab.

The U.S. intelligence community is divided on whether the virus came from the lab or naturally spilled over from animals to humans. One intelligence agency assessed with moderate confidence that an accident at the Wuhan lab resulted in the first coronavirus infection, according to a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Four other intelligence agencies assessed with only low confidence that the first infection came through natural exposure. Though the lab-leak theory was widely dismissed in 2020, a growing number of scientists now say it is the most likely explanation for the outbreak.

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, which operates within the Defense Department, has awarded $37 million to EcoHealth since 2013, though the July grant was the first given during the Biden administration. The Trump and Biden administrations have investigated whether the Chinese government covered up evidence of a 2019 lab accident at the Wuhan Institute that may have caused the pandemic. Republicans in Congress have called for investigations into EcoHealth Alliance’s relationship with the Wuhan Institute.

Daszak, a British-American zoologist, organized a group of scientists in February 2020 to sign a letter published in the Lancet, the prominent British medical journal, which cast doubt on the lab-leak theory, according to emails released last year. Undisclosed in the letter was that the EcoHealth Alliance had received grants from the U.S. government to conduct research at the Wuhan Institute. The EcoHealth Alliance gave $600,000 in grants to the Wuhan Institute between 2014 and 2019, the Daily Caller reported.

One watchdog group investigating the origins of the virus called on the government to cut its funding for EcoHealth Alliance, citing the group’s refusal to cooperate with congressional documents requests.

"Taking tax dollars appropriated by Congress and thumbing your nose at oversight investigations into the origins of COVID-19 is unacceptable," said Jason Foster, a former investigative counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee and founder of Empower Oversight.

"The government should stop funding those who refuse to be transparent about how they use the money," Foster told the Washington Free Beacon.

Daszak was the only American scientist on the World Health Organization team that investigated the origins of the virus in China earlier this year. While Daszak insisted the virus did not originate from a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute, other scientists on the mission have acknowledged that Chinese authorities withheld information that would have aided the investigation.

Daszak’s opposition to the lab-leak theory has earned him praise from Chinese state-run news outlets. The scientist has appeared for multiple interviews with Beijing-controlled propaganda outlet CGTN.

The Defense Department and EcoHealth Alliance did not respond to requests for comment.

https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/biden-administration-doles-out-250k-to-wuhan-lab-linked-group/

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California Tobacco Executive Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Evade Federal Excise Taxes on Dominican Cigars

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/california-tobacco-executive-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-evade-federal-excise-taxes

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Criminal And Civil Charges Against CEO Of Apparel Company For Engaging In Customs Fraud

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-announces-criminal-and-civil-charges-against-ceo-apparel-compan-0

US, Russia should explore ways to increase military contacts, Gen. Milley says

The top U.S. military officer says the United States should explore ways to expand its military contacts with Russia as a way to increase trust and avoid a miscalculation.

Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said allowing things such as observers at each other’s combat exercises would increase transparency and reduce the risk of conflict.

“We need to put in place policies and procedures to make sure that we increase certainty, to reduce uncertainty, increase trust to reduce distrust, increase stability to reduce instability in order to avoid miscalculation, and reduce the possibility of great power war,” Milley said. “That’s a fundamental thing that we should try to do, and I am going to try to do it.”

Milley made the comments on September 23 after meeting his Russian counterpart, General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the Russian General Staff, in Finland on September 22.

Milley said that military contacts between the two powers currently are largely limited to senior leaders such as the defense secretary, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the supreme allied commander for Europe.

But he said allowing military service chiefs to form stronger relationships with their Russian counterparts and allowing observers at exercises are ideas worth exploring.

Milley, who spoke with an AP reporter and one other reporter traveling with him back to the United States, declined to detail the contents of his talks with Gerasimov, but a statement from the Joint Chiefs of Staff suggested that more open communication was discussed.

“The meeting was a continuation of talks aimed at improving military leadership communication between the two nations for the purposes of risk reduction and operational deconfliction,” the statement said.

Milley said that military-to-military contacts with Russia have worked in the past to de-escalate tense situations. Without being specific, he said there were “a couple of incidents that occurred between us and the Russians over the last two years” that triggered calls between Milley and Gerasimov.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/09/us-russia-should-explore-ways-to-increase-military-contacts-gen-milley-says/

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US Treasury Department authorizes aid transactions with the Taliban

The US Treasury Department has permitted the export of food, medicine, and vital humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. Though the Taliban will be handling this aid, the group remains heavily sanctioned.

“The Treasury is committed to facilitating the flow of humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan and other activities that support their basic human needs,” Andrea Gacki, director of the department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, said in a statement on Friday.

Though US sanctions on the Taliban remain in place, the department released two licenses on Friday, with the first authorizing the US government, UN, and multiple NGOs to deliver humanitarian aid to Afghanistan via the country’s new Taliban government, the members of which the US spent 20 years fighting.

The second license authorizes aid organizations and individuals to export food, animal feed, medicine, and medical devices to Afghanistan, where the US predicts that, by next year, 97% of the population may fall below the poverty line.

While the licenses will allow the flow of aid to resume, the Taliban remains a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group, and several of its ministers are sanctioned by both the US and UN Security Council. One senior official, Acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, the leader of the feared Haqqani network, is wanted by the FBI, which is offering a reward of $5 million for information leading to his capture. The State Department, through its Rewards For Justice Program, is offering $10 million.

The US, along with much of the international community, has not yet formally recognized the Taliban as Afghanistan’s legitimate government. Secretary of State Tony Blinken referred to the militant group as the “de facto government” of Afghanistan when he appeared before Congress last week, but Washington has insisted that official recognition will depend on the Taliban forming a more moderate and inclusive government than in the past.

US sanctions are currently preventing billions of dollars of Afghanistan’s foreign reserves from falling into Taliban hands. The promise of releasing this cash to the Taliban is being touted by the Biden administration as leverage over the militants, but neither Democrat or Republican lawmakers are happy at the prospect of handing it over.

“Releasing money to the Taliban will add insult to injury,” Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) said during Blinken’s Senate appearance, while Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) said it would be “somewhat absurd” to imagine the militants reforming themselves, even if billions of dollars are at stake.

https://www.rt.com/usa/535767-treasury-foreign-aid-taliban-afghanistan/

‘Parent’s worst nightmare’: Brett Callaghan jailed over rape of girl, 12

A man who was jailed today for repeatedly raping a 12-year-old girl during a 9.5 hour ordeal made up an disgraceful lie to police when he was caught.

A man who lured a 12-year-old girl into his car, gave her an ice pipe to smoke and then repeatedly sexually assaulted her will spend at least nine years behind bars.

District Court Judge Robert Sutherland described the girl’s 9.5 hour ordeal as “undoubtedly a parent’s worst nightmare” as he sentenced Brett Callaghan, 39, to prison on Friday afternoon.

The girl was waiting for a friend in Thornleigh about 3.30pm on April 28, 2020, when Callaghan approached and convinced her into his car with the promise of a charger for her phone, which had run out of battery.

She would not be discovered by police until the early hours of the morning, hiding under a blanket at Callaghan’s Dural granny flat after spending several terrifying hours in his grasp.

“I didn’t know she was 13. She looks 19, easy,” Callaghan told police just before he was arrested.

The girl’s mother told the court in August her daughter had fundamentally changed since she was assaulted, her once “happy, free-spirited child” now serious and afraid.

“Although she has good days here and there, the impact has been catastrophic,” the woman said.

Callaghan claimed in a letter to the judge his life took a downward spiral when his teenage dreams of becoming an Olympic swimmer were dashed with a failed drug test.

“I was competing at high levels of national swimming,” the father and former landscaper wrote, explaining he had been set to trial for the Commonwealth Games before testing positive to cannabis and being booted from the team.

“There was pressure to perform … I have gone from an elite athlete to someone with no direction or career prospects,” he wrote.

The girl told Callaghan she was 12 before getting into his car at Thornleigh, Judge Sutherland said.

He then drove her to his parents’ home in Dural, where he lived in the granny flat, and got out a glass pipe and small bag of meth, describing it as “the good stuff” and telling the girl how to smoke it.

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/parents-worst-nightmare-brett-callaghan-jailed-over-rape-of-girl-12/news-story/b3c932779f95f0f6186ff439e1b1ccb7

Victoria Police confirm footage shared to social media of Flinders Street Station arrest will be investigated

A Victoria Police spokeswoman said an investigation is underway by both Transit Safety Division and Professional Standards Command after video circulated on social media of a man being slammed to the ground.

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/victoria-police-confirm-footage-shared-to-social-media-of-flinders-street-station-arrest-will-be-investigated/news-story/5443b75c32de028fdea9b23a10cc742c

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Eric Schmidt Cashes in on Artificial Intelligence Arms Race

As the Pentagon drives a hi-tech arms race to maintain its global military superiority, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the man at the center. Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen investigates how the U.S. empire’s drive to control the world using Silicon Valley technology creates the possibility of a devastating war.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — The United States is leading a new artificial intelligence arms race that could spell the end of humanity.

Back in 2014, a few years before he died, Stephen Hawking warned us about artificial intelligence:

The primitive forms of artificial intelligence we already have, have proved very useful. But I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Once humans develop artificial intelligence, it would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete and would be superseded.”

Today, artificial intelligence, or AI, is the centerpiece of the U.S. empire’s plan to maintain global dominance.

AI is essentially computer super-intelligence that does what human brains can not. Exponential technological advances have rendered our human brains, constrained by the slow process of biological evolution, inferior to modern supercomputers.

Applied in the service of humanity, artificial intelligence has incredible promise. But applied in the service of empire and the permanent war state, it spells disaster.

The Third Offset

The focus on artificial intelligence is part of what is known as the Third Offset, a strategy that seeks to offset advances in military technology by Russia and China in order to maintain U.S. global military superiority, thus ensuring no country can challenge U.S. imperialism.

The Third Offset is the latest iteration of the strategy the U.S. used to dominate the globe throughout the Cold War. A few years after World War II, Washington implemented The First Offset strategy and developed a massive nuclear arsenal. This sparked an arms race with the Soviet Union that nearly led to all-out nuclear war.

The Second Offset began in the 1970s when the Soviet Union had achieved parity in nuclear weapons. The U.S. began developing an arsenal of long-range, precision-guided bombs and stealth technology.

Now Russia and China have caught up to the U.S. in conventional military might. So in 2014, soon after the Obama Administration’s Pivot To Asia began, the U.S. announced the formation of the Third Offset strategy.

“Today I’m announcing a new Defense Innovation Initiative – an initiative that we expect to develop into a game-changing third ‘offset’ strategy,” then-Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel remarked. “This new initiative is an ambitious department-wide effort to identify and invest in innovative ways to sustain and advance America’s military dominance for the 21st century.” Hagel’s speech included the announcement of a Pentagon office in Silicon Valley, called the Defense Innovation Unit. This has since expanded to have offices in military technology hubs in Austin, Texas and Boston, and at the Pentagon itself.

In April 2015, Hagel’s replacement, Ash Carter, gave a landmark speech to Silicon Valley CEOs at Stanford University, urging them to enlist in the new arms race. “This is a serious matter,” Carter explained. “And it requires our collaboration. But in addition to dangers, there are also really great opportunities to be seized through a new level of partnership between the Pentagon and Silicon Valley – opportunities that we can only realize together.” Carter gently reminded his audience that the Silicon Valley giants owe their existence to the Pentagon and CIA:

Consider the historic role that DoD and government investments have played in helping spur ground-up technology innovation – both in this Valley, and on this campus… [M]ost technologies used throughout Silicon Valley – including many that Apple brilliantly integrated into the iPhone – can be traced back to government or DoD research and expenditures. The developers of multi-touch worked together through a fellowship funded by the National Science Foundation and the CIA…

The government helped ignite the spark, but this was the place that nurtured the flame that created incredible applications. I mention this because it speaks to a partnership that has long existed between America’s technology sector and its government and defense institutions,… a relationship that can continue in a way that benefits us both.”

https://www.mintpressnews.com/eric-schmidt-cashes-in-artificial-intelligence-arms-race/278513/

NYC: Thousands of School Staff Unvaccinated, Unions Want Mandate Deadline Delay

With the COVID-19 vaccine mandate about to go into effect, New York City school staff unions have urged the City Hall to delay the deadline lest schools face a staffing crunch.

The city wants all school staff vaccinated, with only a narrow exception for medical and religious exemptions. Yet as of Sept. 24, there are still some 26,000 who haven’t taken the shot, of which more than 10,000 are teachers, based on numbers provided by the city’s Department of Education (DOE). That means about one in five employees would be facing a year of unpaid leave or be forced to take a severance package and leave. The teachers union, United Federation of Teachers (UFT), disputed the DOE numbers, saying 90-95 percent of teachers have received the vaccine. That would leave about 4,000-8,000 unvaccinated teachers.

The city has maintained an upbeat tone.

“The vast majority of employees have been vaccinated and the number will continue to rise over the coming days. We administered 7,000 vaccinations on school campuses across the city last week, hired thousands of new teachers and staff, and have a large reserve of qualified workers who are ready to fill in if needed,” a DOE spokeswoman told The Epoch Times via email.

But the unions still warned of staffing shortages.

“Principals and superintendents have been reaching out consistently to tell us that they are concerned about not having enough staff come Tuesday morning,” said Mark Cannizzaro, president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, the principals union.

“Until there’s a plan to make sure schools are safe, we need to reevaluate what we’re doing going forward.”

It was only on Sept. 23 that schools first heard from the city how it plans to resolve staffing issues, according to UFT President Michael Mulgrew.

“We asked for a plan over and over again about what’s going to happen on Tuesday. And yesterday was the first sign of life,” he said during the conference.

The city provided a digital platform where schools can look up available substitute personnel. The city also made funding available for schools to make those hires.

“That is not a plan,” Mulgrew said.

The city assured schools that there are thousands of teachers in the substitute pool, but that’s always the case, Mulgrew said, noting that many of them hold other jobs and are not actually available when called in.

If schools can’t get enough substitutes, they may be forced to combine classes, he said.

“I’m going to put five classrooms in an auditorium … They don’t want to be put in that situation.”

Based on the DOE data, among non-teacher staff, the vaccination rate is as low as 70 percent. Schools need those personnel, such as custodians, teaching aides, security guards, and cafeteria workers to run, Cannizzaro pointed out. If several cafeteria workers don’t show up, a school may be unable to serve lunch, he said.

Only the day before did principals learn that majority of them will only get one school safety agent per school, he said, noting some large ones normally have as many as 20.

As a solution, Mulgrew and Cannizzaro suggested the city should allow unvaccinated staffers to still come to work for as long as needed to resolve staffing issues at their individual schools.

https://www.ntd.com/nyc-thousands-of-school-staff-unvaccinated-unions-want-mandate-deadline-delay_680457.html

https://www.ntd.com/nyc-thousands-of-school-staff-unvaccinated-unions-want-mandate-deadline-delay_680457.html

Lab Grown Meat To Hit U.S. in 2022, Backed By FDA & USDA, Along with “Smarter Food Safety Blueprint” and Traceability All Underway

Corey’s Digs first reported on cultured lab grown meat back in 2018, alerting people that this would soon become a reality, as the globalists chip away at our food security. Now, Future Meat Technologies, a company out of Israel is nearly set to begin shipping its lab grown meat to the U.S. in 2022. This was a blip in the news, missing everyone’s radar, and yet their connections and the potential repercussions of this is alarming. But they are not the only company involved with this, and the industry is rapidly gaining traction while the FDA and USDA are getting everything lined up, along with their “Smarter Food Safety Blueprint” with food traceability technology. This is their strategy to control the food industry and everyone’s food security, going far beyond the meat industry. Who is backing all of this, what’s really in this “meat,” and how will this impact farmers and ranchers?

In June 2021, it was announced that Future Meat Technologies was in the approval process with regulatory agencies of its production facility in multiple territories and plans to launch its products in the U.S. in 2022, as the “World’s first industrial cultured meat facility,” but their are several others. It is an Israeli start-up founded by Rom Kshuk and Chief Scientific Officer Yaakov Nahmias, with the ability to produce 1100 lbs of meat a day initially, and is currently seeking out locations in the U.S. to expand its facilities. They produce “cultured” chicken, pork, and lamb, with beef coming just around the corner.

Many organizations, agencies, and NGOs that are pushing the 2030 agenda have long been backing this agenda under the guise of climate change and sustainability. The World Economic Forum has informed everyone that “You’ll eat much less meat. An occasional treat, not a staple.” Future Meat Technologies claims that its process will generate 80% less greenhouse emissions, use 99% less land, and 96% less freshwater than traditional meat production. Nahmias has patents pending in the US, China, and Europe for growing cells in vitro.

This isn’t a one-off start-up company, this is a full scale agenda to remove the meat industry entirely. In fact, Bill Gates wants “all rich countries to move to 100% synthetic meat,” and he’s backing nearly all of the companies involved in this industry. The number of companies involved, money being thrown at this, and agencies quick to approve it, is quite staggering.

Timeline of Relevant Events and Key Players

2001: NASA scientists and Dutch universities began developing the technology for lab-grown meat.

2005: The University of Maryland announced working on growing meat in incubators by utilizing stem cells from a biopsy of a live animal.

2009: Beyond Meat was founded by Ethan Brown, and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA. They develop plant-based substitutes for meat, which created quite a trend, to welcome the future of lab grown meat. It takes time to seeds minds. It takes far less time to get the seed money. Beyond Meat is funded by Tyson Foods, Bill Gates, Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, Leonardo DiCaprio, GreatPoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Biz Stone, Obvious Corporation, and others.

2011: Impossible Foods was founded by Patrick O. Brown, and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA. They also develop plant-based meat products, and have also received funding from Bill Gates, as well as the Open Philanthropy Project, Google Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Viking Global Investors, UBS, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s Horizon Ventures, Temasek, and others. In 2020, Burger King rolled out the first “Impossible Croissan’wich” in all of their 7,500 locations, followed by Starbucks “Impossible Breakfast Sandwich in all 15,000 locations.

2011: Eat Just, Inc. (formerly Hampton Creek Foods), which often goes by “JUST,” was founded by Josh Tetrick and Josh Balk, and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. They produce plant-based alternatives to conventionally-produced egg products. The initial seed funding came from Khosla Ventures, owned by Vinod Khosla, one of the co-founders of Sun-Microsystems, who also invested in Impossible Foods, and is a member of Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge. Sales Force CEO Marc Benioff, Facebook co-founded Eduardo Saverin, Hong Kong billionaire Lin Ka-shing, Founders Fund, Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, and Ali Partovi all invested as well. Eat Just’s subsidiary, GOOD Meat, produces lab grown meat.

2013: Bill Gates and Peter Thiel invested in Eat Just Inc.

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https://www.coreysdigs.com/u-s/lab-grown-meat-to-hit-u-s-in-2022-backed-by-fda-usda-along-with-smarter-food-safety-blueprint-traceability/

Australia – Children denied care & discharged from mental health ward to make room for Covid-19 patients; but just 0.01% of the population is currently hospitalised with Covid-19

Young patients receiving critical psychiatric care at a mental health ward in Sydney, Australia have been sent home to make space for “suspected” Covid-19 patients.

A distressed staff member from the USpace ward at St Vincent’s Private Hospital said health workers and patients were told on September 12th that they had until the end of the week to clear out in compliance with a “surge action response” public health order to make way for Covid-19 patients.

The staff member said mental health workers were being reassigned to other duties, and were distressed as their speciality was children’s mental health, and they feared for their patients.

A psychiatrist with the hospital and former USpace director, Associate Professor Elizabeth Scott, said she received notice late on Sunday 12th September that the ward would be claimed for Covid patients. She has had to break the news to a number of her patients and their families.

“It’s unplanned, it’s abrupt and it seems to me like a very crisis-driven plan rather than a well thought-out initiative,” Scott said.

“Last year when there was Covid surge planning, it was certainly on the cards that New South Wales Health would take over some of the facilities including USpace, but we had more notice then.

“But the situation is different this year. Over the last year we have seen a dramatic increase in youth mental health presentations to emergency departments, and these are people with a range of serious mental health disorders. State and federal governments have said that youth mental health is a priority, and that more support, services and funding is needed.”

https://theexpose.uk/2021/09/24/australia-children-denied-care-but-just-0-01-of-the-population-is-currently-hospitalised-with-covid-19/

Huawei CFO Wanzhou Meng Admits to Misleading Global Financial Institution

Meng Enters into Deferred Prosecution Agreement to Resolve Fraud Charges

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/huawei-cfo-wanzhou-meng-admits-misleading-global-financial-institution

15 Defendants Indicted for Drug Conspiracy

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ks/pr/15-defendants-indicted-drug-conspiracy

DHS Secretary Mayorkas Admits the 15,000 Haitian Migrants in Del Rio Were Not Tested for COVID Before They Were Dispersed Across the Country

They’re laughing at you.

DHS Secretary Raphael Mayorkas admitted Friday during a White House press conference that none of the 15,000 illegal Haitian migrants were tested for COVID-19 before they were dispersed across the United States.

But please keep wearing your mask!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/super-spreaders-dhs-secretary-mayorkas-admits-15000-haitian-migrants-del-rio-not-tested-covid-dispersed-across-country/

Trump Staffer Breaks Media Silence: Garrett Ziegler Exposes Biden Crime Family

https://rumble.com/vmxb41-trump-staffer-breaks-media-silence-garrett-ziegler-exposes-biden-crime-fami.html

Inside Scott Morrison's secret plan to RETIRE and hand the leadership over to loyal deputy Josh Frydenberg - but the PM has one final goal to achieve before he gives up power

New book says Prime Minister Scott Morrison has considered stepping down

But he would not make such a decision without winning the 2022 election first

Deputy Liberal leader Josh Frydenberg, 50, would be the obvious replacement

But first Mr Morrison has to beat Labor's Anthony Albanese in gruelling election

Scott Morrison has pondered retiring and handing over leadership to Josh Frydenberg if he wins the next election, according to a new book.

The Prime Minister, 53, took charge in 2018 when Peter Dutton challenged Malcolm Turnbull for Liberal leadership but then lost to Mr Morrison in a party vote.

He earned a further three years in power by surprisingly beating Labor leader Bill Shorten the following year in an election he was widely expected to lose.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10015449/Prime-Minister-Scott-Morrisons-secret-plan-retire-hand-Treasurer-Josh-Frydenberg.html

Anthony Fauci Warns of a ‘Dark, Bad Winter’ if More Don’t Get Vaccinated

Dr. Anthony Fauci warned this week that the U.S. could be in for a “dark, bad winter” if more people do not get vaccinated — an eerily similar sentiment he held last year. At the time, he said he was looking forward to Christmas in 2021.

“You know, if we don’t get people vaccinated who need to be vaccinated, and we get that conflating with an influenza season, we could have a dark, bad winter,” the White House medical adviser said during an appearance on The Takeout podcast, although he previewed a potential way out.

“We could also avoid a dark, bad winter if we get people vaccinated to a very high degree over the next several weeks to a month or two,” Fauci added.

Last November, Fauci held a similar position, warning of a bleak winter and explaining that he planned to forgo his traditional holiday plans because of fears of the virus.

“For my own family, I’m saying we had a really great Thanksgiving and Christmas last year. We’re looking forward to a really great Thanksgiving and Christmas in 2021,” he told USA Today at the time.

Then, President Biden in January warned of a “dark winter” of coronavirus spikes and fatalities.

“We didn’t get into this mess overnight and it’s going to take months for us to turn things around,” he said at the time.

But now, vaccines have been available for months, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 55 percent of the U.S. population is considered fully vaccinated.

But instead of focusing solely on vaccine rollout, the Biden administration is now cutting off the ample supply of lifesaving monoclonal antibody treatments to southeastern states, such as Florida and Alabama, because of concerns of “equitable distribution.”

“There’s going to be a huge disruption and patients are going to suffer as a result of this. And so we’re going to work like hell to make sure we can overcome the obstacles that HHS and the Biden administration are putting on us,” Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) vowed.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/24/anthony-fauci-warns-dark-bad-winter-if-more-dont-get-vaccinated/