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Today's News: July 21, 2020

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TESTING WILL BEGIN IN AFRICA FOR BIOMETRIC ID, “VACCINE RECORDS,” & “PAYMENT SYSTEMS”

SHFT Plan – Testing will soon begin in poverty-stricken parts of Africa for a biometric ID which will also be your payment system and vaccine record. The biometric digital identity platform that “evolves just as you evolve” is backed by none other than the Bill Gates-backed GAVI vaccine alliance, Mastercard, and the AI-powered “identity authentication” company, Trust Stamp.
The GAVI Alliance, which is largely funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations, as well as allied governments and the vaccine industry, is principally concerned with improving “the health of markets for vaccines and other immunization products,” rather than the health of individuals, according to its own website. Similarly, Mastercard’s GAVI partnership is directly linked to its “World Beyond Cash” effort, which mainly bolsters its business model that has long depended on a reduction in the use of physical cash.
Reducing the use of cash is needed. Cash is impossible to track, but if you use centralized digital currency, the ruling class has complete control over what you can spend.
The program, which was first launched in late 2018, will see Trust Stamp’s digital identity platform integrated into the GAVI-Mastercard “Wellness Pass,” a digital vaccination record and identity system that is also linked to Mastercard’s click-to-play system that powered by its AI and machine learning technology called NuData. Mastercard, in addition to professing its commitment to promoting “centralized record keeping of childhood immunization” also describes itself as a leader toward a “World Beyond Cash,” and its partnership with GAVI marks a novel approach towards linking a biometric digital identity system, vaccination records, and a payment system into a single cohesive platform. The effort, since its launch nearly two years ago, has been funded via $3.8 million in GAVI donor funds in addition to a matched donation of the same amount by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. –Activist Post
In early June, GAVI reported that Mastercard’s Wellness Pass program would be adapted in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Around a month later, Mastercard announced that Trust Stamp’s biometric identity platform would be integrated into Wellness Pass as Trust Stamp’s system is capable of providing biometric identity in areas of the world lacking internet access or cellular connectivity and also does not require knowledge of an individual’s legal name or identity to function. The Wellness Program involving GAVI, Mastercard, and Trust Stamp will soon be launched in West Africa and will be coupled with a COVID-19 vaccination program once a vaccine becomes available.
What is perhaps most alarming about this new “Wellness Pass” initiative, is that it links these “dual use” digital solutions to cashless payment solutions that could soon become mandated as anything over than touchless, cashless, methods of payment have been treated as potential modes for contagion by GAVI-aligned groups like the World Health Organization, among others, since the pandemic was first declared earlier this year. –Activist Post
Do you get it yet? It’s all tied into the same thing, and the plandemic is an excuse to roll this out. Wake up. They are not coming to save you, quite the opposite, actually.

China Orders Christians to Take Down Images of Jesus from Their Homes

Breitbart – Chinese communist authorities have ordered poor Christian villagers to remove Christian images from their homes and replace them with portraits of Chairman Mao and President Xi Jinping or risk losing their welfare benefits.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has continued its program of “Sinicization” of religion by channeling religious fervor in the country toward the Party rather than God, the Christian Post reported this weekend.
In May, an official in the eastern province of Shandong raided the home of a local Christian and hung pictures of Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping on the wall in place of Christian images.
“These are the greatest gods. If you want to worship somebody, they are the ones,” the official told them.
This year, China’s “social credit system” was scheduled to become fully functional, assigning points to each individual based on how much the Communist Party approves of them and using their rating to control their behavior and access to certain benefits..
“There are fears that China’s new ‘social credit system’ – designed to reward good citizenship and punish bad – will be used to discriminate against Christians,” wrote the Catholic charity organization Aid to the Church in Need in a 2019 report.
The fears are tied to “cash rewards for those who inform on underground churches and other ‘unofficial’ places of worship,” indicating that the government might also reward the persecution of Christians with high “social credit” scores.
According to the religious liberty magazine Bitter Winter, the CCP is now using state welfare benefits as leverage to coerce people into worshiping the Party rather than Jesus.
In April, for instance, party officials visited the homes of Christians in Linfen, in the northern province of Shanxi, ordering those who receive welfare payments from the government to remove crosses, Christian symbols, and images in their homes and replace them with portraits of China’s communist leaders.
The officials threatened the Christians that non-compliance with the order would result in suspension of their welfare subsidies.
“All impoverished households in the town were told to display Mao Zedong images,” a local house church preacher said. “The government is trying to eliminate our belief and wants to become God instead of Jesus.”
Officials have often made good on their threats, ruthlessly suspending benefits to Christians who fail to give up their devotions.
Communist authorities cancelled the government subsidies of one elderly Christian woman from Shangqiu city in Henan after they found an image of a cross posted on the door of her home.
“They tore it down immediately,” she said. “Afterward, both my minimum living allowance and poverty alleviation subsidy were canceled. I am being driven to a dead end. I have diabetes and need injections regularly.”
Something similar occurred in Xinyu city in the southeastern province of Jiangxi, when officials canceled the minimum living subsidy and a monthly disability allowance of 100 RMB (about $14) to a disabled Christian who disobeyed government orders and continued to attend worship services.
Another Christian living in Jiangxi’s Poyang county — a woman in her 80s — reportedly stopped receiving government aid after she said “Thank God” after receiving her monthly 200 RMB (about $28) subsidy in mid-January.
“They expected me to praise the kindness of the Communist Party instead,” she said.
In another case, local officials entered the home of a member of a state-sponsored Three-Self church and tore down all Christian images, including a calendar with an image of Jesus, and posted a portrait of Mao Zedong instead.
“Impoverished religious households can’t receive money from the state for nothing — they must obey the Communist Party for the money they receive,” the official declared.

‘Very positive’: UK vaccine prompts immune response in trials

Early results indicate Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine is safe and triggers immune response.
Al Jazeera – Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine prompted a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot in early trials.
The vaccine, called AZD1222 and being developed by AstraZeneca and scientists at the United Kingdom’s University of Oxford, did not lead to any serious side effects, and elicited antibody and T-cell immune responses, according to trial results published in The Lancet medical journal on Monday.
In the research, scientists said they found their experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced a dual immune response in people aged 18 to 55 that lasted at least two months after they were immunised.
“We are seeing good immune response in almost everybody,” said Dr Adrian Hill, director of the Jenner Institute at Oxford University.
“What this vaccine does particularly well is trigger both arms of the immune system,” he said.
Hill said neutralising antibodies are produced – molecules that are key to blocking infection.
He said larger trials evaluating the vaccine’s effectiveness, involving about 10,000 people in the UK as well as participants in South Africa and Brazil are still under way. Another big trial is slated to start in the US soon, aiming to enrol about 30,000 people.
Head of emergencies at the World Health Organization praised the “good news” from the results shown in early trials, but warned “there’s a long way to go”.
“We now need to move into larger-scale real-world trials,” Dr Michael Ryan told reporters at a news conference in Geneva. “But it is good to see more data and more products moving into this very important phase of vaccine discovery.”

U.S. News, Politics & Government

Hawley calls for probe of St. Louis prosecutor for charges against armed couple: ‘Textbook’ abuse of power

Hawley says the charges against the Missouri couple are a ‘terrible miscarriage of justice’
Fox – The case against a St. Louis couple who went viral after brandishing guns at a crowd of protesters marching to the mayor’s home last month is a “textbook” abuse of power, Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said Tuesday.
In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” Hawley told host Steve Doocy that Mark and Patricia McCloskey – both personal injury attorneys in their 60s – had “the right to do what they did.”
“Let’s just review the facts: they’re on their own property, they were carrying lawful firearms that they lawfully possessed, and there were trespassers who had broken down a gate and were coming onto their property, and [the] couple said, ‘Get off our property! I mean, don’t hurt us. Get off of our area!'” he said. “And, they had every right to do that.”
On Monday, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner announced she would charge the couple with felony unlawful use of a weapon
“It is illegal to wave weapons in a threatening manner — that is unlawful in the city of St. Louis,” Gardner said in a statement. She added that she was recommending a diversion program as an alternative to jail if the McCloskeys are convicted.
However, within hours of the ruling, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a brief seeking to dismiss Gardner’s charges on the grounds that the couple’s Second Amendment rights are being violated.
“The right to keep and bear arms is given the highest level of protection in our Constitution and our laws, including the Castle Doctrine, which provides broad rights to Missourians who are protecting their property and lives from those who wish to do them harm,” Schmitt said in a prepared statement provided to Fox News.

SHOWDOWN IN CHICAGO: Violence sparks war of words between president, mayor

AP – The war of words between Chicago’s mayor and President Donald Trump escalated after a weekend when 12 were killed in the city and dozens injured by gunfire, with Lori Lightfoot rejecting any suggestion federal law enforcement officers should be dispatched to the city and Trump all but promising to send them.
In a letter sent to the president on Monday, Lightfoot said the deployment of secret, federal agents who “arrest, and detain residents without any cause” is a bad idea and urged the president not to do it.
Lightfoot, a frequent Trump critic, slammed the president in the letter for “unhelpful” rhetoric and detailed ways the federal government could help the city to reduce violence, including gun safety reform, public safety support, community outreach and community investment.

Fauci responds to Trump: I’m realist, not alarmist

Fauci also said he had not received “official word” about the White House restarting its coronavirus task force briefings.
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday evening rejected President Donald Trump’s recent criticism of him of being “an alarmist,” saying he considered himself “a realist” but also “an optimist.”
Asked if Trump’s characterization was unfair, Fauci, in an interview on Instagram Live with Maria Shriver, said, “I believe so, but then again, others have different opinions.”
“I’m a realist but I’m also an optimist,” added Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Fauci warned last week that the coronavirus pandemic could be as bad as the 1918 flu pandemic, which is estimated to have killed at least 50 million people worldwide. He also warned late last month that the number of COVID-19 cases could top 100,000 a day.
Fauci’s comments Monday on Instagram came after the president said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday” that Fauci is “a little bit of an alarmist.”
“Dr. Fauci, at the beginning, said this will pass, don’t worry about it, this will pass,” Trump said. “He was wrong. Dr. Fauci said don’t ban China. I did, he then admitted that I was right”
Trump said that this administration is not involved in a campaign to discredit Fauci, but then questioned why the infectious disease expert had said at the beginning of the outbreak that people shouldn’t wear a mask.
“Dr. Fauci told me not to ban China, it would be a big mistake. I did it over and above his reservation,” Trump said. “Dr. Fauci then said, ‘You saved tens of thousands of lives, more than that.’ Dr. Fauci’s made some mistakes, but I have a very good — I spoke to him yesterday at length — I have a very good relationship with Dr. Fauci.”
In her interview with Fauci, Shriver asked if he’ll be joining Trump at the coronavirus briefing that the president is restarting Tuesday, but Fauci appeared to be unaware that it was happening, saying he had not gotten the “official word” yet for when the next one is scheduled. Trump told reporters on Monday that he would hold a new briefing on Tuesday, which is scheduled for 5 p.m. ET.

LA Mayor Warns City Is ‘On The Brink’ Of Issuing New Stay-At-Home Order

Forbes – Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti warned the city is “on the brink” of issuing a fresh stay-at-home order and and called on President Trump to “stand up and do something” during an interview with CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday.

Economy & Business

Essential Workers Are on Strike Today to Support Black Lives

The protest is also demanding protections for workers most at risk of exposure to COVID-19.
Food and Wine – Essential workers from across the country are on strike today amid ongoing protests related to the Black Lives Matter movement. Members of various unions and supporters spanning the hospitality, janitorial, elder care, and restaurant industries are expected to walk off the job as part of the Strike for Black Lives in order to make a statement about protections for Black citizens and also the safety of service industry workers. An exact count of striking workers isn’t yet known, but the number is expected to be in the tens of thousands across dozens of U.S. cities, per NBC 4 New York. In some cases, the workday may not be interrupted, however, and employees may opt to picket or protest during lunch breaks or observe moments of silence.
The strike is led by the Service Employee International Union (SEIU), which has a history of organizing unionization efforts among fast food workers. That group is being joined by other labor unions, including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, United Food and Commercial Workers, and United Farm Workers, among over 50 organizations listed on the event website.
Key demands of the strike (per the same website) include wage increases (to $15 per hour), healthcare benefits, and recognizing the right to unionize—all longstanding criticisms of industries including businesses like restaurants, fast food chains, and grocery stores, which have come under increased scrutiny as such work has been deemed “essential” during the COVID-19 pandemic, putting those employees at further and increased risk of infection. To that point, the demands also include provisions requiring employers to provide adequate PPE gear and support or relief for employees who have lost their jobs due to illness or economic downturn during the pandemic.

Judd Gregg: When the dollar is worth 60 cents

The Hill – In just the last two months of this federal fiscal year, the deficit run up by our government has exceeded $1.3 trillion.
This is in two months.
To give some context to the gigantic size of this spending, these two months of deficits exceed by a factor of three the largest annual deficit generated during the term of President George W. Bush, and blow past the largest annual deficit run up by President Obama.
Obviously, fighting the economic impact of the coronavirus has driven much of this explosion in debt.
But recall that Bush had to deal with the cataclysmic impact of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and Obama had to deal with the staggering effects of the financial crisis.
These were not small-time fiscal events.
Now we have an almost incomprehensible explosion, not only of the deficit spending of the federal government but of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet (a euphemistic phrase for how the Federal Reserve accounts for its printing of money).
Even without further spending, your government is headed toward almost $4 trillion in deficit spending, accompanied by somewhere near $10 trillion of financial infusion by the Federal Reserve.
President Trump has suggested another $1 trillion in spending before the election, which Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has said is not enough. “$3 trillion more is necessary,” is the Democratic demand.
It is likely that the deficit for this year, when all the spending dust is finished being sprinkled around, will be over $5 trillion.
These numbers are mind-numbing.

Science & Technology

SPACE RACE: First Arab space mission to Mars launches from Japan

AP – A United Arab Emirates spacecraft rocketed into blue skies from a Japanese launch center Monday at the start of a seven-month journey to Mars on the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission.
The liftoff of the Mars orbiter named Amal, or Hope, starts a rush to fly to Earth’s neighbor that is scheduled to be followed in the next few days by China and the United States.
At the space center in Dubai, people watching were transfixed by the liftoff, then cheered and clapped, with one woman offering a celebratory cry common for weddings.
Amal blasted off from the Tanegashima Space Center aboard a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ H-IIA rocket on time at 6:58 a.m. (2158 GMT Sunday) after being delayed five days by bad weather.
Mitsubishi later said the probe successfully separated from the rocket and was now on its solo journey to Mars.
The probe was sending signals that would be analyzed later but everything appeared good for now, Omran Sharaf, the UAE Mars mission director told journalists in Dubai about an hour and a half after liftoff.
Amal is set to reach Mars in February 2021, the year the UAE celebrates 50 years since the country’s formation. In September that year, Amal will start transmitting Martian atmospheric data, which will be made available to the international scientific community, Sharaf said.

Health

Nobel Laureate Calls COVID-19 Manmade

Mercola – The explanations of COVID-19’s origins by mainstream media simply do not add up and scientists are increasingly speaking out about this. Many experts theorize that the virus is manmade and was synthesized in a laboratory because the peculiarities of the virus’ genome that make it so transmittable could not have occurred in nature.
Experts who suspect COVID-19 has lab origins have strong evidence on their side. Research between the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to increase the infectivity and deadliness of a SARS-like coronavirus has indeed been conducted.1
The coronavirus experimental collaborations, called “gain-of-function” (GOF) research, were curtailed by the U.S. between 2014 and 2018 because of their obvious risks, but in 2017 the NIH announced the research would be resumed.2
Scientists willing to challenge the mainstream explanations of COVID-19’s origin face a backlash from their colleagues and scientific associations and have even been dismissed as “conspiracy theorists.” However, a new voice has been added to the body of scientific dissenters that will likely add to the credibility of their COVID-19 viewpoints.
French virologist Luc Antoine Montagnier, who was awarded a Nobel prize in Physiology in 2008 along with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen for discovering of the HIV virus,3 has now spoken out. Montagnier was a researcher at the prestigious Pasteur Institute in Paris.4
COVID-19 Was Manmade, Says Nobel Laureate
Many in the scientific community were shocked when the acclaimed Luc Antoine Montagnier appeared on the French cable TV show, CNews, on April 17, 20205 to say that the virus that causes COVID-19 is manmade and that elements of HIV and Plasmodium falciparum, a parasite that causes malaria, are found in the coronavirus’s genome.6 Montagnier said:7
“We were not the first since a group of Indian researchers tried to publish a study which showed that the complete genome of this coronavirus [has] sequences of another virus, which is HIV.”
The research that Montagnier refers to was posted on the science website Biorxiv January 31, 2020, and has since been withdrawn. The researchers wrote:8
“We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses. Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those in the HIV-1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag …
The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature.”

Olive Leaf Extract Benefits: Brain, Heart, Immune System, and More

Dr. Leonard Coldwell – Any time you pass along the proverbial olive branch — a sign of peace and forgiveness — you’re metaphorically passing along an ancient plant, Olea europaea. From this plant, we get olives — and olive oil. But did you know that the humble olive leaf provides many of the same health benefits as world-renowned olive oil — and more? Olive leaf extract benefits include boosting heart, digestive, and brain health, soothing joints, and supporting a healthy immune system.[1, 2, 3] It may even increase longevity and reduce signs of aging!
Throughout history, the olive branch — and its leaves — have been a sign of peace and forgiveness. Scholars note that doves brought an olive leaf back to Noah’s ark to show the flood was over. The olive tree is even referred to in Ezekiel 47:12 (NIV): “The fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.” Later on, olive leaves made an appearance at the first Olympics in Greece. Winners received an olive wreath to represent peace, victory, honor, and unity.[4]
What Is Olive Leaf Extract?
Unlike olive oil, which is made from pressed olives, olive leaf extract is made by condensing all the beneficial parts of the olive leaf itself into a liquid, or by creating a raw herbal extract by soaking finely ground leaves into a mixture of triple distilled water and glycerin, then gently extracting them into a concentrated liquid. This extract can be used by itself or combined with other herbs.
Olive leaves are packed full of polyphenols, notably oleuropein and hydroxytyrosol, as well as caffeic acid, which you’ll also find in green coffee beans. Polyphenols are “reducing agents,” which means they counter oxidative stress from free radicals and other cell damage.
The two main polyphenols (oleuropein and hydroxytyrosol) in olive leaves are beneficial for your heart, brain, and immune system. Further, they promote normal blood sugar and blood pressure and deter harmful organisms. What’s not to love?
8 Benefits of Olive Leaf Extract
Here are a few of the benefits you’ll find in olive leaf extract.

  1. Supports Immune Health
  2. Acts as an Antioxidant
  3. Promotes Heart Health
  4. Deters Harmful Organisms
  5. Protects Brain Health
  6. Promotes Normal Blood Sugar
  7. Reduces Signs of Aging

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