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1. Vaccine Brand Wars?
On Friday, a UK coroner confirmed that BBC presenter Lisa Shaw, who passed away in May, was killed by the AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccine.
The media have, naturally, gone out of their way to remind their public that “vaccines are safe for many people”, and that Covid is “more likely to give you blood clots than the vaccine”. But that’s barely unexpected.
What’s truly intriguing is that the story made headlines at all. If the media were 100% devoted to painting the vaccines as safe, why not just bury it completely?
The AZ brand of speculative Covid treatment has been the appropriate punching bag of the vaccine roll out. From as early as last December, the AZ shot was being described as an “also ran” compared to the products made by pfizer and Moderna.
In the spring of 2021 some nations, including Norway and the Netherlands, stopped utilizing it totally after preliminary concerning reports of blood clots. The United States, still, declines to acknowledge those offered the AZ jab as “vaccinated”. The Indian-made “Covishield” brand of the AZ shot is not acknowledged by the EU’s vaccine passport system.
Why is this?
Well, it might be a basic psy-op created to create, and reinforce, faith in the system. You produce a number of vaccines all in the space of a year (all with equally unknown long-term effects), and after that you repudiate one for “being risky”, and you produce the illusion that a) the others are safe b) the system works and c) you honestly appreciate public health.
It ought to likewise be kept in mind that the AZ shot is not an mRNA vaccine, unlike the Pfizer and Moderna jabs. So there may be an interest in bad-mouthing it, if your objective is to study the impact of mRNA technology on humans.
In June the BBC reported that internet “influencers” were being paid to bad mouth Pfizer’s and prop-up AstraZeneca’s. Journalism blamed “Russian antivaxxers”, but that does not make any sense at all. It was even more likely a marketing firm used by AstraZeneca.
In truth, Facebook has currently banned a UK-based marketing company that has assaulted both the Pfizer AND AZ “vaccines” at different points.
And when the headings about AstraZeneca’s product triggering bloodcluts first struck, it was Pfizer that benefited, as their stock value took a dive.
All together I would say that proof points to a behind-the-scenes catfight in between big pharma business. They’re all fighting each other for the lion’s share of their soon-to-be-mandated market.
It’s most likely also about ‘vaccine wars’ too obviously. Because organizations do that. Pfizer wants to reject Moderna, Moderna wants to reject Astra Zeneca. Everyone wishes to reject the Russian/Chinese. All planting scare stories and buying ‘advertisement space’ in the media.
— OffGuardian (@OffGuardian0) August 27, 2021
It’s amusing that, even in a plan as grand as total worldwide control, they can’t put minor greed aside and in fact co-operate, and it also informs you precisely the kind of short-term thinking psychopathic minds at work here.
2. Amazon spending for palm prints
This is exactly what it seems like.
Amazon is setting up biometric pay points in their in-person shops, and are offering $10 present cards to anybody going to have their unique palm print scanned into the system. They are pushing it as a way to pay with no physical contact, perfect for avoiding ending up being infected by the “pandemic”.
But– shockingly– Amazon may not be completely reliable. They have actually mentioned that the biometric data will be used to keep an eye on shopping activity and target ads, which is bad enough, however there are myriad other applications. None particularly assuring. For one thing, Amazon could offer the data … to anyone.
As a precedent for that, there is the Amazon facial recognition tech, which they currently offered to the US government:
Amazon’s questionable facial acknowledgment innovation, which it historically sold to cops and law enforcement, was the subject of suits that allege the company violated state laws that bar the use of personal biometric data without authorization.
Still however, if you value your personal privacy just 10 dollars, go all out.
(And yes, we know this story is from previously this month, however we didn’t see it ’til now, and it deserves pointing out.)
3. Judge eliminates Adult rights over “vaccination” status
Again, exactly what it sounds like.
According to a story from Fox News local Chicago station, at a digital child support hearing over Zoom, judge James Shapiro asked the mother– Rebecca Firlit– if she had been “vaccinated”.
When Firlit addressed “no”, the judge granted full custody to the father and gave the mom no visitation rights. She is currently not allowed to see her son until she gets “immunized”.
Previous to that hearing the separated couple had shared custody. And the vaccine status of the moms and dads had never been a bone of contention.
PERK: Troubling heading of the Week
Not even a write for this, just an image of the front page of the Toronto Star:
… yeah. It’s not all bad … As you no doubt know, there were more protests today. In Ireland, Australia, New York City, London and lots of others. There was a fantastic demonstration versus Covid passes in Rheims, where people set-up picnic blankets outside cafes:
People in France protest the compulsory domestic vaccine pass that is needed for balconies and restaurants by having big picnics in-front of bars and restaurants.pic.twitter.com/YsunPWGpv5– Marie Oakes(@TheMarieOakes)August 26, 2021 Also, Eric Clapton launched a new song about the vaccine circumstance: All told a quite stressful week for the brand-new normal crowd, and
we didn’t even point out the UK’s media war on adult permission, or the subtle anti-US slant appearing the press following the United States’s withdrawal from Afghanistan(including restored calls for an EU army). There’s a lot of modification in the air, a lot of agendas in the works, if you see a headline, short article, post or interview you believe suggests the times
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