HERE WE GO: CDC Director Walensky Says US May Change Definition of “Fully Vaccinated” as Booster Shots Become Available

A reporter for the Associated Press asked Walensky if the Biden Administration is rethinking the definition what it means to be “fully vaccinated” now that booster shots are recommended.

“Should people who are eligible for a booster now get one by a certain time frame to maintain their fully vaccinated status?” the reporter asked Fauci and Walensky.

“We have not yet changed the definition of ‘fully vaccinated.’ We will continue to look at this. We may need to update our definition of ‘fully vaccinated’ in the future,” Walensky said during a press briefing on Friday.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/go-cdc-director-walensky-says-us-may-change-definition-fully-vaccinated-booster-shots-become-available-video/

AG Garland Gaffes: Missed Leftist 'Insurrection', Admits Unions Steer Policy, Shrugs Off CRT Conflicts

Attorney General Merrick Garland had a bad time on Thursday during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee.

For starters, while the Biden administration, Congressional Democrats and their media support complex have branded January 6th rioters as domestic terrorists - Garland had no clue about leftist Demonstrators who forced their way into the Department of the Interior just one week ago - to protest Biden's approval of fossil fuel energy projects.

"They forced their way into the Department of the Interior. They fought with security and police officers, sending some of those officers to the hospital. The extremists violently pushed their way into a restricted government building in an attempt to thwart the work of the department," Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) told Garland. "Police arrested at least 55 protestors on sight, but others got away. Mr. Garland, do you believe these environmental extremists who forced their way into Interior are also domestic terrorists?"

Garland appeared to have no clue what Steube was talking about.

"This is the first you’ve heard about demonstrators who forced their way into a federal government building right here in D.C.?” Steube asked. “You didn’t hear about this at all?" asked Steube.

To which Garland shot back: "Just because I don’t know about this particular example, it doesn’t mean the Justice Department doesn’t know about it."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ag-garland-gaffes-missed-leftist-insurrection-admits-unions-steer-policy-shrugs-crt

NIH Scrubs 'Gain-Of-Function' Definition From Website After Wuhan Bombshells, Rand Paul Vindicated

Update (1400ET): The situation is becoming even more tenuous for Dr. Fauci as the day wears on. In a detailed tweet thread released this afternoon, Jeremy Redfern exposes the NIH - run by Fauci - for changing the definition of "gain of function" in the last few days as this shitstorm of reality struck.

For those that don't know - this is how the NIH defined “gain-of-function” on their website until at least October 19th, 2021. Just 3 days ago…

Will any of these 'omnipotent' 'scientists' ever be held accountable?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-vindicated-rand-paul-blasts-lying-fauci-over-civilization-ending-experiments

Putin Blasts Pushing Transgenderism On Children As "Simply Monstrous" In Critique Of West's 'Wokism'

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued some typically frank and devastating comments on woke culture afflicting the West and particularly the United States, in particular going after new emerging 'norms' on gender discussions, race relations, as well as 'cancel culture'.

His wide-ranging assessment was given during the annual Valdai Discussion Club event held in the Black Sea city of Sochi on Thursday, during Q&A interactions with the audience. As we previously described, some of his harshest words were in condemnation of NATO's attempts to expand its military infrastructure and presence in Ukraine, which he said is "already underway" and poses a "real threat" - but later he additionally called out the cultural threat to traditional Russian values posed by the modern West.

Some his most interesting commentary in this area focused on transgenderism and so-called gender fluidity pushed by the Left, and accompanying cancelation of any public figure who dares speak against it… "Those who risk saying that men and women still exist, and that this is a biological fact, are virtually ostracized" in the US and West in general, Putin said. He likened what's going on to "a total phantasmagoria" - or dreamlike fantasy - according to a translation of his words featured in Russian media.

Putin perhaps had the ongoing Dave Chappelle/Netflix controversy in mind, given the comedian's widely watched latest act focused on dismantling transgenderism and advocates' attempts to shut him down.

The Russian leader further called the inability of otherwise rational people to recognize simple biological fact of two genders, male and female, and to go so far as push this viewpoint on children a "monstrous" subversion of timeless self-evident truth:

"This is not to mention things that are simply monstrous," he added, "like when children are taught from an early age that a boy can easily become a girl and vice versa. In fact, they are indoctrinating them into the alleged choices that are supposedly available to everyone – removing parents from the equation and forcing the child to make decisions that can ruin their lives."

This is borderline crime against humanity – all under the guise of ‘progress’

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/putin-blasts-pushing-transgenderism-children-simply-monstrous-critique-wests-wokism

Twitter says its algorithm is biased toward RIGHT-WING content, says it will study results of ‘problematic’ review

Twitter has said that its algorithms amplify content from right-wing politicians and news outlets more than others but it does not know why. The platform described the findings, by a recent internal review, as “problematic.”

The study analyzed millions of tweets posted by elected officials in seven countries – Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, the UK, and the US – between April and mid-August 2020. It found that, with the exception of Germany, content posted by the political right received more exposure on the platform than left-wing political entities’ content.

The internal review also examined hundreds of millions of tweets with links to content from news outlets during the same period – but not tweets directly shared by the primarily US media groups themselves. This revealed that conservative news portals benefited from greater algorithmic amplification as well.

Twitter noted that it didn’t categorize news outlets as left-leaning or right-leaning itself, but relied on classifications from “independently curated” third parties.

The study conducted a comparison of the platform’s ‘Home’ timeline, where it says its 200 million users see algorithm-tailored tweets based on their preferences, with a chronological timeline, where only the most recent posts were shown first. One finding was that politicians’ tweets were generally more amplified by the algorithmic timeline, particularly right-wing politicians.

In a blog post on Thursday, Rumman Chowdhury, Twitter’s software engineering director, and Luca Belli, a machine learning researcher, termed the findings “problematic” and indicated that changes might be required to “reduce adverse impacts” of the Home timeline algorithm.

“Algorithmic amplification is problematic if there is preferential treatment as a function of how the algorithm is constructed versus the interactions people have with it,” the post said, noting that the company needed “further root cause analysis” to explain why there was a bias in amplification.

The study conducted a comparison of the platform’s ‘Home’ timeline, where it says its 200 million users see algorithm-tailored tweets based on their preferences, with a chronological timeline, where only the most recent posts were shown first. One finding was that politicians’ tweets were generally more amplified by the algorithmic timeline, particularly right-wing politicians.

In a blog post on Thursday, Rumman Chowdhury, Twitter’s software engineering director, and Luca Belli, a machine learning researcher, termed the findings “problematic” and indicated that changes might be required to “reduce adverse impacts” of the Home timeline algorithm.

“Algorithmic amplification is problematic if there is preferential treatment as a function of how the algorithm is constructed versus the interactions people have with it,” the post said, noting that the company needed “further root cause analysis” to explain why there was a bias in amplification.

https://www.rt.com/usa/538230-twitter-algorithm-bias-right-wing/

Australia education minister raises specter of China & radical Islam during criticism of proposed history curriculum in schools

Australian Education Minister Alan Tudge has been accused of peddling “culture wars rubbish” after he said the country’s draft school curriculum offers a “negative view” of its history that impacts students’ desire to “defend it”.

The minister has waged a months-long campaign against portions of the proposed new curriculum – currently being reviewed by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) – that, he claims, has “ideological misgivings” about the country.

During a speech on Friday, Tudge criticized revisions to the history syllabus as downplaying “matters core to who we are as a nation” and raised concerns that students would not “leave school with a love of country and a sense of optimism and hope”.

Describing a recent poll that showed “40% of young Australians” preferred a non-democratic system of government as a “catastrophe”, Tudge said there had “not been a more important time since the 1940s” to teach students the “origins, values and singular greatness of liberal democracy”.

“If students don’t learn this, they won’t defend it as previous generations did,” Tudge said, referencing the “growing” influence of “authoritarianism and communism” with the “rise of an assertive China”. He also seemingly cited the recent Taliban takeover of Afghanistan as evidence that “fundamentalist Islam remains a dominant force” in many countries.

https://www.rt.com/news/538182-australia-education-minister-school-curriculum-criticism/

Beyond Meat ‘Implodes’ As Consumers Lose Interest Even Amid Supply Chain Hurdles For Real Meat

As real meat becomes harder to find and more expensive, consumers are apparently still unwilling to try fake meat products from Beyond Meat

https://nationalfile.com/beyond-meat-implodes-as-consumers-lose-interest-even-amid-supply-chain-hurdles-for-real-meat/

Give our tax BACK, citizens say as London mayor launches funding scheme for renaming streets in the name of diversity

The mayor of London has unveiled his latest scheme aimed at making the capital more diverse. A £1 million fund will grant community-led organizations up to £25,000 to improve their public places, including changing street names.

In a press release on Thursday, the office of Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, announced the creation of a £1 million Untold Stories fund which aims to “champion diversity and improve representation in the capital’s public spaces.”

The fund will be made available to community-led groups, who can receive up to £25,000, as a grant. The mayor’s office highlights that the money could be used for new ideas such as “murals, street art, street names and other projects to ensure we are told a fuller version of our capital’s story.”

"London’s diversity is its greatest strength but for far too long our capital’s statues, street names and buildings have only shown a limited perspective on our city’s complex history," Khan said in a statement.

The announcement followed a City Hall-funded study into the capital’s 1,500 monuments. It found that only 4% of statues were dedicated to named women, and only three of them depicted women of colour. There are also twice as many statues depicting animals as women.

https://www.rt.com/uk/538165-london-mayor-fund-renaming-streets/

REVEALED: How super-rich, like $60bn Nike founder Phil Knight, avoid billions in taxes by ‘cycling’ their wealth through trusts and gift loved-ones huge chunks of their companies for free

Estate tax loopholes exploited by billionaires allow them to pass their wealth onto their heirs without paying taxes

Nike founder Philip Knight is a prime example of someone who has inflated his son’s wealth over the past decade by taking advantage of a number of loopholes

Since finding Nike in 1964, Knight, 83, has become the 22nd richest man in the world, with a current net worth of $59.8 billion

He has moved at least $9.3 billion in Nike shares and other assets to his descendants, starting in 2009, Bloomberg reported.

House Democrats looking to close them as a means of funding social programs and, most recently, President Biden’s 3.5 trillion spending plan

America’s wealthiest people are able to avoid billions in taxes by passing huge chunks of their companies to their heirs for free.

An analysis by Bloomberg on Knight’s fortune – estimated at $60 billion – discovered that he was able to take advantage of a financial tool called a grantor-retained annuity trust (GRAT). Knight set up nine GRATS, which enabled him to transfer $6.1 billion of Nike shares to loved-ones between 2009 and 2016 – without incurring any tax on them.

Gifts are taxable, but GRATS offer a loophole that allows the person who sets it up to designate others – such as heirs – as beneficiaries.

Assets are then placed into GRATS, which repay their owner an annuity. If the value of a GRAT goes up, those gains can stay in the GRAT, with whatever is left then transferred to its beneficiaries – such as Knight’s heirs – tax-free.

Knight has long-touted his commitment to eventually giving away all of his immense wealth to charity, but what lies beneath that promise is over a decade’s worth of exploiting tax loopholes to inflate his fortune and pass it on to his heirs.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10117499/How-super-rich-avoid-billions-taxes-pass-fortunes-heirs.html

Israel study questions COVID-19 vaccine efficacy, reveals stunning degree of HARM caused by vaccines

A recent study from Israel about the efficacy of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine suggests that these injections are doing more harm than good.

The study, which was published last month in the medical journal Eurosurveillance, detailed a nosocomial outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 at Meir Medical Center in Israel. Nosocomial means originating in a hospital.

It started when a fully vaccinated dialysis patient confined in the hospital tested positive with the virus. An outbreak occurred as the patient infected 42 out of 248 total people exposed. Of the 42 individuals who tested positive for COVID-19, all but three were fully vaccinated.

Twenty-three of the infected were patients while 19 were hospital staff members. The fully vaccinated patients suffered the most, with five dying and nine experiencing severe illnesses. It is worth noting that two of the three unvaccinated patients only experienced mild symptoms.

The authors of the study expressed concern over their findings, saying that it “challenges the assumption that high universal vaccination rates will lead to herd immunity and prevent COVID-19 outbreaks.”

They add: “In the outbreak described here, 96.2 percent of the exposed population was vaccinated. Infection advanced rapidly (many cases became symptomatic within two days of exposure) and viral load was high.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) actually corroborated the Israel study, saying that the COVID vaccines and boosters can’t fully prevent someone from getting infected with the virus. People with natural immunity to the virus – those who have recovered from COVID-19 – appear more protected than fully-vaccinated individuals.

Vaccine does nothing to reduce COVID-19 transmission

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2021/10/israel-study-questions-covid-19-vaccine.html

'She's as smart as the devil': Joe Biden finally reveals Kyrsten Sinema is 'very supportive' of his environmental agenda but refuses to raise a 'single penny' of taxes on the wealthy

President Joe Biden took steps during a prime time town hall Thursday to reveal several of Kyrsten Sinema's policy positions – after the Arizona Senator infuriated liberals by holding back her criticisms of his $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan.

'First of all she’s smart as the devil,' Biden responded when interviewere Anderson Cooper asked her about Sinema, who has been in the spotlight with Biden's plans hanging in the balance.

That is in keeping with a few cryptic tweets Sinema has posted amid negotiations expressing general environmentalist views. That came despite fellow centrist Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia weighing in against a new proposal dealing with power plants.

'She’s supportive of almost all the things I’ve mentioned relating to everything from family care to all those issues,' Biden said, after talking up provisions on universal pre-K, family leave, and extending an expanded child tax credit.

'Where she’s not supportive is she says she will not raise a single penny in taxes on the corporate side and/or on wealthy people, period,' Biden said. 'And so that’s where it sort of breaks down. And there are a few other issues it breaks down on.'

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2021/10/shes-as-smart-as-devil-joe-biden.html

Police IT worker arrested for passing ‘sensitive’ info to a sex trafficker

An IT worker for the Salt Lake City Police Department was arrested and charged for allegedly passing sensitive restricted information to an accused sex trafficker in exchange for sexual acts.

Patrick Kevin Driscoll, 50, who went by the moniker “The Guardian,” was arrested on Wednesday and charged with computer crimes, exploiting prostitution, aiding prostitution, obstructing justice, and theft, according to charging documents.

According to a police booking affidavit, Driscoll is an associate of Michael Ricks, who was charged with multiple felonies including exploitation of prostitution and human trafficking in March.

A victim, identified as a sex worker, met with law enforcement during the investigation and told police that she knew an associate of Ricks who was providing law enforcement data that is not available to the public, according to the affidavit.

She told officers that she was forced to perform “sexual acts” with Driscoll in ==https://www.cracknewz.com/2021/10/police-it-worker-arrested-for-passing.htmlexchange for the information, often arranged by Ricks. She told officers she “was fearful for her safety,” the affidavit says.