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Anthony Fauci’s Continued Prominence Proves ‘The Great Reset’ Architects Have Absolute Control

Via NOQ Report

Joe Biden was installed. Covid-19 is shrouded in multiple layers of lies. Just about everyone in power is in on it. I was never a “conspiracy theorist” until the last 18-months proved they were right.

The phrase “perfect storm” is often inaccurately used to demonstrate disparate circumstances playing a role in a forming a larger event or agenda. In reality, a “perfect storm” is defined as “a critical or disastrous situation created by a powerful concurrence of factors.” We cannot say there has been a “perfect storm” in the recent past because the situations were not disastrous. We’ve seen bad things happen as the result of multiple circumstances contributing to the overall effect, but we haven’t seen anything truly “disastrous” come from any of it…

…until now.

The last 18-months have been a perfect storm. Politically, culturally, and medically, we are seeing every facet of life in American turning towards a very dark end. At the center of these events is one man. It isn’t Joe Biden or Donald Trump. It isn’t Bill Gates or George Soros. It isn’t any one group like the Chinese Communist Party or even the World Economic Forum. All of these people and groups, plus many others, have played major roles in it, but at the center of all things bad in America today is Anthony Fauci, a bureaucrat who has been used as a tool for destruction on all possible fronts.

Most do not see Fauci as anything other than an advisor. He isn’t usually associated with the 2020 election in which election fraud culminated in the political disarray we’re seeing today. He is never associated with Critical Race Theory or any of the Cultural Marxist agendas currently in play in America. He has clear associations with Covid-19, but again he is seen as an advisor rather than a decision-maker. However, when we dig deeper we see that he’s at the center of all three phenomena.

What makes it worse is that he shouldn’t be there. He has gone through enough scandals and been exposed in enough lies that someone “low level” like he supposedly is on the American political hierarchy charts should have been eliminated or drawn down from prominence many times over. The fact that he hasn’t been drawn down but is actually more influential today than he ever was in the past tells us that the powers-that-be want him there. They need him there. We need to ask why.

Who are the “powers-that-be”? For now, we’ll simply call them the architects of “The Great Reset” since that seems to be at the very least the next step in the Neo-Marxist revolution they’re initiating across the globe. Whether that’s the end goal or not is unclear, but we know it’s what they’re shooting for now, so we’ll roll with it as the primary goal of the globalist cabal.

With Anthony Fauci, we know that he was leading the way for gain-of-function research that almost certainly yielded Covid-19. For accuracy sake, we cannot claim it as 100% fact yet because there is not enough information coming out of the Chinese Communist Party’s data black hole. But we can be 99% sure based on all of the evidence that we’ve seen. We can also be nearly certain Fauci was not only aware of the research but contributed to it in much more direct ways than anyone is letting on.

We also know that he was the driving force behind the White House’s “Operation Warp Speed.” Donald Trump may take credit for it, but he should actually be running away from it because every piece of data that we’re seeing shows the “vaccines” created through the program do not deliver what was promised. They are not effective at reducing the spread of Covid-19 nor are they effective at reducing how contagious someone is after they’re infected. MORE.

Vice Magazine: Those 13 US Soldiers Who Died In Afghanistan Were Probably White Supremacists

Via Revolver News

In the wake of the terrible Afghanistan suicide bombing that ripped through the Abbey Gate of the Kabul Airport killing 13 heroic US soldiers, one brave liberal magazine was asking all of the right questions.

Now, obviously Vice Magazine had this piece ready to publish before the suicide bombs hit Kabul. After all, a piece of investigative journalism this riveting and ground-breaking is many months, if not years, in the making.

How many neo-Nazis did Vice report were found to be serving in the US Marines? Vice reported that sixteen currently serving Marines over the past three years were allegedly either neo-Nazis or vaguely labeled as “extremists”. A further seven former Marines over the past three years, Vice reported, identified with either neo-Nazism or the so-called “extreme right” — another vague charge Vice likes to slap on people it doesn’t like.

Vice:

Over the past three years, at least seven former Marines have openly avowed or been identified with neo-Nazism or the extreme right, with some alleged to have been involved in planned terrorist acts. The Corps reported to NPR in April that it had, in ​​the past three years alone, found 16 cases of extremism within its ranks. Though these numbers account for only a tiny fraction of those Marines who enlist and serve [ed. note: lol], the problem is worth noting, especially given the USMC’s past.

That’s right folks. More than five “neo-Nazis” or “extremists” per year. And more than two former Marines per year. Over a three year period. Out of 186,000 active duty Marines, and 102,000 reserves. In other words, Vice’s intrepid journalism revealed that 0.00860215% of active duty Marines were reportedly tagged as either neo-Nazis or “extremists.” And given that there are millions and millions of former Marines, an even more infinitesimal percentage of ex-Marines were reportedly neo-Nazis or “extremists”.

This is why the world needs Vice News. Without Vice News, how would we know that one out of every 12,000 active duty Marines is an “extremist”?

But Vice News doesn’t just do groundbreaking, expensive, longform investigative journalism. Vice News also provides America with the steaming hot liberal takes it needs in the wake of terrible tragedies.

Vice’s latest headline after the Kabul suicide bombing really made us at Revolver think. Naturally, we were all ready to mourn our brave fallen heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice while bravely manning their posts trying to evacuate the vulnerable and innocent, but sometimes our natural instincts are not the correct, woke instincts we should be having. Here’s what Vice News had to say after Kabul:

Those 13 US Soldiers Who Died In Afghanistan Were Probably White Supremacists*

Headlines like these are why we’re grateful for the work and emotional labor that Vice does to educate us on our ignorant, bigoted ways, and raise awareness of our own prejudices, biases, and implicit racism, sexism, white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia, and BIPOCphobia. MORE.
https://twitter.com/Thomas1774Paine/status/1431493000622919681?s=20

Taliban Secures World’s Largest Lithium Deposits After US Withdrawal From Afghanistan

Via Zero Hedge
It’s been more than a decade since we penned The US “Discovers” Nearly $1 Trillion In Mineral Deposits In Afghanistan” in which we highlighted the colossal untapped mineral deposits that reside in Afghanistan. 

President Joe Biden’s decision to rapidly and completely withdraw from Afghanistan makes even less strategic sense if readers go back to our 2010 post where we quoted “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: Part 2, the 21st Century paradigm”? Which said,

“Yet the American officials also recognize that the mineral discoveries will almost certainly have a double-edged impact. Instead of bringing peace, the newfound mineral wealth could lead the Taliban to battle even more fiercely to regain control of the country.”

We continued:

“Which is why it will be best to have the US military not only stay in Afghanistan indefinitely but to get a million man reinforcement surge.”

Readers have known for a while Afghanistan was never about the opium trade or the war on terror but rather the massive deposit of minerals essential for renewable energies.

So in the Economic Hit Man context, why would the Biden administration suddenly pull out of Afghanistan after 20 years if the play all along was about securing rare earth metals?

We don’t want to speculate the Biden administration’s intentions, nor do we have any idea. Still, one thing is sure is that the Taliban now control the world’s largest lithium deposits is becoming friendly with China. 

Conservative media outlet Free West Media says new relations between the Taliban and China could increase its global dominance in green energies, such as the lithium-ion battery supply chain market.

Unbeknownst to many, the blog points China and Afghanistan share a 130-mile stretch border. For more on this, here’s Free West Media’s latest piece titled “Taliban now control one of the world’s largest lithium deposits.”

A Bloomberg New Energy Finance Limited report in 2020 highlighted China’s global dominance in the lithium-ion battery supply chain market, due to its grip on raw material mining and refining. In 2019, the US imported 80 percent of its rare earth minerals from China, while the EU states imported 98 percent of these materials from China.

China incidentally also shares a small border with Afghanistan called the Wakhan Corridor – 210km long. While the length of the border may appear insignificant, its location is crucial. Afghanistan is believed to have large deposits of gold, iron, copper, zinc, lithium and other rare-earth metals, valued at over $1 trillion. “Afghanistan may hold 60 million metric tons of copper, 2,2 billion tons of iron ore, 1,4 million tons of rare earth elements (REEs) such as lanthanum, cerium, neodymium, and veins of aluminium, gold, silver, zinc, mercury…” according to a 2020 report in The Diplomat.

But the Wakhan Corridor has been used by Islamic Uighur militants opposed to Chinese rule in Xinjiang. Chinese officials meeting with the newly installed Taliban are certainly aware of the risk that radical Islamists pose: “We hope the Afghan Taliban will make a clean break with all terrorist organisations including ETIM (East Turkestan Islamic Movement) and resolutely and effectively combat them to remove obstacles, play a positive role and create enabling conditions for security, stability, development and cooperation in the region,” said a high-ranking Chinese official.

Why is this important?

Global demand for lithium is projected to increase 40-fold by 2040, according to the International Energy Agency, along with rare earth elements, copper, cobalt, and other minerals also abundant in Afghanistan. And these minerals happen to be concentrated in only a small number of pockets around the world.

The Bolivian Andes may contain 70 percent of the planet’s lithium, and many analysts argue that extracting lithium from brine as in Bolivia is more environmentally friendly than extracting it from rock.

Interestingly, metallic lithium and its complex hydrides are used as high-energy additives to rocket propellants, thermonuclear weapons, or even as a solid fuel.

In 2010, the US Department of Defense called Afghanistan “Saudi Arabia of lithium” after American geologists then discovered that the country’s deposits amounted to at least a trillion dollars. Lithium is an essential ingredient to produce long-lasting batteries used in electric cars in particular. The battery of a Tesla Model S, for example, has about 12 kilograms of lithium in it.

Ten years later, these metals have not yet been extracted. The Taliban is unlikely to sell the metal to Americans, and the United States views China, the world’s largest lithium producer, as its main rival. And the US wants at least 40 percent of its cars to be electric by 2030. Thus the previous US-led government in Kabul had hoped that the promise of mineral wealth would entice President Trump into making a commitment to stay in the country.

“Afghanistan can be an appropriate place for US industry, and specifically the mining sector, to look at opportunities for investment,” Mohammad Humayon Qayoumi, the former chief adviser to Afghan President on infrastructure, human capital, and technology, once opined.

But Tom Benson, a PhD in the Department of Geological Sciences at Stanford University, has focused his research on a 16,3 million-year-old supervolcano on the Oregon-Nevada border which contains the largest lithium deposit in the United States. A number of other active volcanoes may hold the same deposits, and there is a particularly “exciting” one, called Bogoslof, in Alaska. That may be why the US has lost interest in Afghanistan.

“The Taliban are now sitting on a stockpile of one of the most strategic minerals in the world,” said Rob Schoonover, an ecology expert at the US think tank Center for Strategic Risks, in an interview with Quartz. “The question of whether they will be able to play this role will be important in the future.”

Could the Taliban benefit from this resource?

The exploitation of these rare earth metals could undoubtedly give the Taliban an economic advantage. Before the US retreat, the Afghan government had considered selling lucrative mining contracts to American companies. But such agreements were always discussed with the view of keeping the US military in the country and sharing the spoils. With the Taliban now leading the government, the option of involving American mining concerns is of course out of the question.

“As long as there are safer and more reliable sources (of metals, note) elsewhere, the use of Afghan minerals will remain low,” said Schoonover. However, the Taliban already have experience in extracting rare stones. By mining lapis lazuli, the Taliban earns at least $300 million per year.

Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan president now in exile, thought that the abundance of mineral deposits were a curse for his country. Indeed, many economists are aware of the fact that such rich deposits in developing countries generally become a source of corruption and violence, to the detriment of the locals.

The Taliban will have to find a way to participate in the global lithium trade, much larger than their lapis lazuli trade. Access to Afghan central bank reserves has been denied to the Taliban by the US. The new Afghan leadership could also have trouble in convincing Chinese investors who once lost $3 billion in 2007 in a Taliban copper mine that could not be exploited due to persistent administration blunders.

However, good reason for China to become involved in the extraction of lithium in Afghanistan may not only be the wealth it could generate, but also to avoid more ecological damage caused by lithium mining on its own soil and to limit the scope of Islamic infiltration. The extraction of this metal leads to water shortages and air pollution, but the rewards could coax Taliban leaders into addressing the Uighur headache.

So the question we ask readers: Did the Biden administration just give away Afghanistan’s rare earth minerals to China? There’s no way in hell that the Taliban will let Western countries mine the land. This would suggest China could soon secure mining deals and start extracting lithium, putting the country ahead of the US in the green energy space. MORE.

All-electric future comes at a huge cost

Via RT

The electrification of homes is touted as one way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the residential sector as the US Administration aims for a net-zero economy by 2050. But going all-electric will not be as easy as it seems.

The “electrify everything” drive comes with higher upfront and—in some cases—higher maintenance costs for consumers, higher costs for homebuilding contractors, and higher intangible costs for politicians who may prematurely call the end of gas furnaces and boilers and saddle voters with higher energy bills.

In addition, all-electric homes with electric vehicle (EV) chargers are expected to raise peak power demand, which some electric grids cannot handle as-is and would need billions of dollars of upgrades.

Emissions from the commercial and residential sectors accounted for 13% of US greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, as per Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data. These emissions are generated primarily from fossil fuels burned for heat, the use of certain products that contain greenhouse gases, and the handling of waste.

All-electric homes have the potential to cut those emissions, but switching from natural gas and fuel oil to electric appliances and heat pumps will be more challenging than it looks for both consumers and governments.

Higher Costs Of Electrification

The first and most obvious obstacle to all-electric homes is the cost.

Opponents of planned gas hookup bans in new homes cite higher energy bills and grid overload, as well as taking away consumers’ right to choose the energy supply in their homes. Many consumers, especially in colder climates, are wary that going all-electric would add a lot to their utility bills. Moreover, higher costs for homes not using any fossil fuels for heating or cooking could be a big hurdle for lower-income households, opponents of the all-electric buildings say.

Total added construction costs for all-electric homes range from around $11,000 to $15,000 for cities in colder climates such as Denver and Minneapolis, a study prepared for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) showed earlier this year. In warm climates such as in Houston, the total added construction costs range from $3,988 to $11,196.

Overall, the study found that all-electric homes cost more upfront in comparison to gas homes. Electric homes in cold climates were also found to have higher ongoing utility costs, NAHB said.

With the higher electric demand, an upgrade in the electric service on the utility side may be needed. Depending on the local utility tariffs, these costs may be significant and need further evaluation,” the study noted.

“It’s easy to write a paper and say switch A for B, but once you dig in you realize it’s not so simple,” Vladimir Kochkin, director of codes and standards at the NAHB told Houston Chronicle’s James Osborne.

“Our members have to build these houses and ultimately sell them,” Kochkin said.

Many consumers are not sold on the all-electric home idea.

NAHB’s What Home Buyers Really Want, 2021 Edition survey showed that consumers generally prefer electricity (51%) to gas (33%) for their air heating and cooling systems but prefer gas (51%) to electricity (39%) for cooking. The biggest factors contributing to respondents’ preferences, regardless of region or system, are money savings and reliability, the study found. MORE.

Taliban Opens Chain Of U.S. Army Surplus Stores

Via The Babylon Bee

KABUL—Now that Allah has seen fit to bless the Taliban with bountiful weapons and equipment from the U.S. Military, terrorists around Afghanistan have built an already thriving chain of U.S. Army Surplus stores.

“We need weapons to kill and subjugate the Afghan people under Sharia Law, but there’s just too much gear here!” said local Taliban leader Bob Muhammed. “There’s, like, billions of dollars and 20 years worth of weaponry around here, and now I can build a thriving business out of selling my wares to other terrorist folk who happen to pass through! Allah be praised!”

Although the merchandise will not be available to the general public (for obvious reasons), Muhammed’s Army Surplus will feature a full selection of deadly weaponry, ammunition, combat boots, MREs, helmets, hashish, and whatever else a soldier of Allah may need.

If successful, Bob Muhammed hopes to open more stores in Iraq and Syria.

The U.S. Government has taken note as new store locations open up for future drone pilot target practice.

Check out all of the Bee’s takes on a world gone mad HERE.

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