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Taliban seizes Blackhawk helicopter, US assault rifles – WATCH

As videos emerged of Taliban fighters carrying US-made M4 and M18 assault rifles and M24 sniper weapons, the US conceded it does not have the “complete picture” while adding that “a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban”. “Obviously, we don’t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us,” Jake Sullivan, White House National Security Advisor said. Taliban fighters were seen reportedly climbing on American Black Hawk helicopters as the Afghan troops were pushed back from major areas in Afghanistan.

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There were also reports of the Taliban having taken control of US Humvees which were used extensively by the American troops during the Afghanistan operations.

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S&P 500 to hit the 5,000 level by the end of next year – UBS

US equities have now hit 50 all-time highs in 2021, ending last week up 20% year-to-date. Economists at UBS think strong earnings and supportive policy will push the S&P 500 higher, led by cyclical sectors like energy and financials. “The S&P’s rally has been underpinned by robust earnings growth, and this run of strength should continue. We expect revenues to be supported by robust consumer and business spending. Consumer balance sheets are the strongest in decades after households amassed significant savings over the last year. Meanwhile, businesses are struggling to keep up with demand, suggesting a long pipeline of investment projects and a need to rebuild inventories, both of which are supportive for the growth outlook.” “Top Federal Reserve officials at last week’s Jackson Hole symposium restated that policy will remain supportive, even after bond purchases are scaled back. The Fed’s gradual approach aligns with our view that policymakers are eager to avoid a repeat of the 2013 taper tantrum. Our base case is that the Fed will reduce its asset purchases, currently running at $120bn per month, by $15bn each month starting in December.” “Progress toward economic normalization – though uneven – continues. Globally, the pace of vaccinations accelerated last week to around 38 million daily, below the peak in June of 43 million, but up from around 20 million in May, according to Our World in Data. Meanwhile, studies continued to show that vaccinations are weakening the link between infections, hospitalizations, and deaths.”

“Our S&P 500 targets are 4,800 for June 2022 and 5,000 for end-2022.

At a sector level we prefer financials, which should be well-supported by rising 10-year Treasury yields, and energy, which we expect to benefit from a further rise in oil prices in the second half of the year. We like Japanese stocks as their revenues are highly exposed to the global recovery.” Nick Note: we expect at first a 5% correction and then a 20% to 35% correction or more between September 2021 to March 2022. Yes we could see a further rally. That is why we have stood aside as hard as it is to do… Its called trading discipline. And when we do move (soon come) into the markets we will scale in slowly. The markets are as overvalued as i have ever seen. With the forward looking price to earnings ratio on the NASDAQ 100 over 30…. Holy shit bat man. Add to the overvaluations the set the captives free GDP growth spur is over. And when you consider the MASSIVE embedded inflation and the fact it will force the Feds hand (taper and interest rate rises)  their is nothing good coming down the pike. Now add the fact that covid19 mutations are defeating the 2 dose vaccine, you can easily see disaster comming. Airlines, resorts and restaurants are starting to suck shut again. AND the third booster shot you must have will not be deployed fast enough to save the unvaccinated and undervaccinated. Unvaccinated kids forced to go to schools which are modern day disease camps will spread the deadley mutionas to most every household. The fact vaccines roll out to significant numbers of the population will not come in time to help. And you can see why i see a disaster of biblical proportions. After all the plague has not been called off. Want proof.. The US has record numbers of infections, hospitalizations and now deaths. I guess people are back in lala denial land.

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Israel Data Unvaccinated 10 times more likely to be hospitalized….Amoung people who have gotten 2 shots (Preprint)

A study from Vietnam shows 251x more delta virus load in the nostrils of the vaccinated healthcare workers (2021), compared to the old variants from 2020. In Israel, are there are more vaccinated 60+ individuals hospitalized than the unvaccinated? Nick Note: But that is a factor of the fact their are more vaccinated then unvaccinated.

when you adjust the numbers for the vaccinated populations you find that 19.9 People per 100,000 vaccinated are hospitalized and 265 people per unvaccinated are hospitalized.

And this study does not take into account the people who have had their 3rd vaccine. And get this so far no one who has had their 3rd vaccine has been hospitalized.

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McDonald’s, others consider closing indoor seating amid Delta surge in U.S

NEW YORK, Aug 30 (Reuters) – Some U.S. fast-food restaurants are closing indoor seating areas or limiting hours of operation because of the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19, according to franchisees. McDonald’s Corp (MCD.N) had temporarily closed indoor dining at nearly all U.S. locations in early 2020, but it reopened 70% by last month. The global burger chain said on July 28 that it was on track to open nearly 100% by Labor Day – barring any COVID-19 resurgence. But last week, McDonald’s instructed its franchisees on steps they should take to re-close their dining rooms in areas where the Delta variant is rapidly spreading, according to internal company materials seen by Reuters. “We have a much deeper sense of what actions make a difference for the safety of our restaurant teams and crew,” McDonald’s USA President Joe Erlinger said during a Wednesday meeting, according to the materials. In Wednesday’s conference call, McDonald’s executives recommended franchisees consider closing indoor seating in counties where COVID cases exceed 250 per 100,000 people on a rolling three-week average.The materials did not specify how many locations have shut indoor seating or could soon do so. One McDonald’s franchisee who operates multiple locations told Reuters it had to bar indoor seating at several restaurants. But expected closures are fewer than the number that shuttered in spring of 2020, when the pandemic first hit the United States. “We’re monitoring the impact of the Delta variant closely and recently convened together with our franchisees to underscore existing safety protocols, reinforce our people first approach and provide updates on the rise in cases in the country,” McDonald’s Corp said in a statement on Friday. Nick Note: This is the start of the next round of lock downs….. Enjoy!

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EU to recommend renewed restrictions on US travelers

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S&P, Nasdaq open at record high ahead of data

Major stock markets in the United States opened Monday’s session with gains as the Nasdaq 100 and the S&P 500 reached new record highs.

The National Association of Realtors will release the pending home sales report for July later today, while Zoom Inc. is scheduled to report its earnings results following the closing bell.

The Dow Jones inched up by 0.12% at the open, but turned to red shortly after. The Nasdaq 100 rose 0.18%, with AMD gaining 2.05%. The S&P 500 advanced 0.18%, as Albemarle Corp. soared 2.82%. The euro stood flat against the dollar to sell for 1.17934 at 9:31 am ET. Nick Note: This is the equivalent of free Champaign on the Titanic

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Florida Reports Record Deaths, Judge Bars Mask Ban: Virus Update

Florida reported 1,727 Covid-19 deaths in its newest weekly report, probably the most on file. A decide blocked Florida from imposing Governor Ron DeSantis’s ban on masks mandates in faculties, clearing the best way for educators to require face coverings in school rooms with out the specter of retaliation by the state. The origins of the coronavirus pandemic are nonetheless unsure and an absence of cooperation from China is hampering the hassle to ever know the reality, the U.S. intelligence group mentioned in a report launched Friday. President Joe Biden mentioned his administration is contemplating whether or not to begin booster photographs of the vaccine as quickly as 5 months after folks obtain a second dose. Quickly after Biden made the feedback, a White Home official mentioned there had been no change within the plan to manage boosters after eight months. Apple Inc. is making its strongest push but for workers to get vaccinated, urging all U.S. employees to get photographs as quickly as potential now that the Meals and Drug Administration has began formally approving the injections. International Tracker: Instances prime 215.1 million; deaths cross 4.47 millionVaccine Tracker: Greater than 5.17 billion doses administeredSky might be the restrict for surcharges on unvaccinated workersThe worst locations to beas delta spreads are in southeast AsiaThe hybrid work revolution is already reworking economiesSeptember promised return to regular that continues to elude U.S. Individuals who contract the delta variant of Covid-19 are greater than twice as prone to be hospitalized as these contaminated with the alpha pressure, in accordance with a U.Ok. examine, elevating the prospect of a higher burden on well being providers this winter.  The overview of greater than 43,000 Covid-19 instances in England, most of whom had been unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, was printed in The Lancet Infectious Ailments journal Friday, and highlighted the safety photographs present towards hospitalization from each variants.  The deaths are probably the most since Florida has been issuing the reviews. At a each day common of 247 reported deaths, that will additionally surpass the earlier excessive for the complete pandemic in John Hopkins College information. The info relies on when the dying was reported, not when it occurred. New instances amongst residents rose about 1% to 151,749 within the week ended Aug. 26. General, the instances have been comparatively flat for the previous two weeks. Alabama despatched cell morgue vans to 2 hard-hit counties, for the primary time in pandemic, the state’s prime well being officer mentioned. “There was no room to place the our bodies,” Scott Harris mentioned at a briefing, AL.com reported. In a state with one of many U.S.’s lowest charges of vaccination, Harris mentioned there was a scarcity of 40 beds in intensive care models — and that 5 of 45 youngsters hospitalized statewide had been on ventilators. “A lot of what we’re seeing is preventable,” he mentioned. “All of us have the power to stop it. Go get vaccinated and put on your masks.” Infections Soar Amongst Georgia Kids Infections amongst Georgia youngsters greater than doubled from the earlier excessive since faculties reopened in the beginning of the month, state information present. The seven-day common for infections in that age group surpassed 2,000 on Friday, up from barely greater than 360 on Aug. 2. The earlier file in that age group was nearly 870 in mid-January. The group with the steepest enhance is between 10 and 17, the information present.  Most native faculty districts in Georgia now require masks, the Related Press reported, after a ban on native mandates from Governor Brian Kemp was watered down amid rising instances.

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Proof their is a GOD…Radio host Mr. Anti-Vax dies of covid AND joining him in hell is talk radio host Marc Bernier and Texas anti-mask anti vax  movement leader Caleb Wallace

Anti-vaxx radio host hospitalized with COVID. He “regrets” that now that he’s fighting for his life.
Phil Valentine warned fans about “Nazis” who were forcibly injecting people with “experimental” COVID vaccines and said he wouldn’t get vaccinated. But how many of his listeners have already died?  Phil contracted the Covid virus a little over a week ago & has since been hospitalized & is in very serious condition, suffering from Covid Pneumonia and the attendant side effects,” his brother Mark Valentine said in a statement.  Before his death On Twitter, he retweeted a message that denounced the “Forced inoculation of an experimental vaccine,” saying that “Nazi’s” in “#BidensAmerica” were forcibly injecting people with a COVID-19 vaccines. “It should scare the hell out of everybody,” Valentine wrote.
Ati-vax radio host Marc Bernier has died after being hospitalized for COVID-19

Marc Bernier worked as a broadcast journalist for 46 years. Following his hospitalization on August 10, Bernier fought the coronavirus for three weeks until he passed. Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood, who appeared several times on Bernier’s show, referred to the news as a “death in the family.” “I’m numb,” he said, noting that while he and Bernier didn’t always agree, they remained friends over the years, according to the News-Journal. Bernier’s death comes months after he vowed on the air that he would never get the coronavirus vaccine. “Are you kidding me? he responded when asked in December if he would consider getting the jab, according to News-Journal.

Texas anti-mask anti vax  movement leader dies of covid19

A prominent anti-mask leader in Texas has died from complications caused by Covid-19. Caleb Wallace, 30, spent three weeks in an intensive care unit at Shannon Medical Center in his hometown of San Angelo. His family had said previously that his situation was getting worse after he was admitted to the hospital on 30 July. Mr Wallace was moved to a hospice on 27 August where his family was able to see him before he died. Earlier in July, Mr Wallace had staged a “Freedom Rally” for people who were “sick of the government being in control of our lives.” Mr Wallace had created the San Angelo Freedom Defenders, a group who sought to end what it labelled “Covid-19 tyranny,” according to a YouTube video.“Caleb has peacefully passed on. He will live forever in our hearts and minds,” His wife Jessica Wallace said on the GoFundMe raising money to pay for his medical expenses. Ms Wallace is the mother of Wallace’s three children and is currently pregnant with their fourth child.

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Tens Of Thousands Of School Children Already In Covid Quarantine—20,000 In Mississippi Alone

Just days into the new academic year, tens of thousands of students are under quarantine in school districts across the U.S.—with many states where mask mandates are banned reporting some of the most severe outbreaks—as the delta variant continues to drive skyrocketing infections among children. Thousands of the students in quarantine or isolation are in school districts across Florida, a state sanctioning schools that impose mask mandates even as it leads the country in coronavirus-linked child hospitalizations (admitting an average of 56 children a day). One school district alone has more than 8,000 students and 300 staff quarantining or isolating: Hillsborough County Public Schools, which includes Tampa, has scheduled an emergency meeting Wednesday to consider defying Gov. Ron DeSantis’ state-wide ban on mask mandates.

Tennessee, Texas and South Carolina, states where Republican governors have similarly restricted schools from mandating masks, all have thousands of students quarantining, with the latter two already seeing some districts temporarily close due to outbreaks. 

Texas, where the state Supreme Court this week ruled to allow Gov. Greg Abbott’s order banning masks in schools and temporarily blocked two counties from imposing their own mandates, has seen four different school districts close in recent days as cases surge.  Though they don’t have the same restrictions on mask mandates, a number of states with vaccination rates below the national average also have high numbers of students and school staff quarantining after their return to school, including Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi. Mississippi appears to have more children quarantining for Covid-19 exposure than any other state in the country—about 20,000 (or 4.5% of the entire public school population) as of Tuesday—and had its fifth child die from the virus last week: a 13-year-old eighth grader who died a day after testing positive.One school district in Iowa, where mask mandates are also banned, is not requiring students to quarantine if they have been exposed to a person who has Covid-19. “At this time, our public health authorities have informed us that the district may not quarantine students,” Erick Pruitt, the superintendent of Ankeny, the sixth-largest district in Iowa, wrote in a letter to parents in July.9. That’s how many states have enacted measures that prohibit schools from requiring mask mandates: Tennessee, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and Arizona (though Arizona’s doesn’t go into effect until Sept. 29). Arkansas also imposed a mask mandate ban, but it was halted by a state court while a challenge moves forward and the governor has also said he regrets the action. “We’re living out the nightmare of the Covid pandemic, where so many people in our county, including members of our staff and others, are being impacted,” Rosalind Osgood, the chairwoman of Florida’s Broward County School Board, one of a number of districts defying DeSantis’ executive order, told CBS on Sunday. “We believe that we have a constitutional obligation to protect the lives of our students and staff.” The heated battles over coronavirus safety protocols in schools come as the hyper infectious delta variant drives massive surges in infections among children. Reports from the American Academy of Pediatrics show kids are making up an increasingly large proportion of the U.S.’s total infections, with the 120,000 children who tested positive last week comprising nearly a fifth of all new cases. Weekly Covid-19 cases among kids have jumped more than 200% from mid-June. The number of children hospitalized with the coronavirus is also on the rise, hitting a new pandemic high of 297 admitted each day over the past week, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The trend is the most prevalent in Southern states, many of which have hit new records for child hospitalizations amid the delta surge. Masks mandates in schools are actually broadly popular. An Axios/Ipsos poll published Tuesday found most Americans (69%) support school mask requirements for students, teachers and staff. However, support is much lower among Republicans: only 44% back the mask orders versus 92% of Democrats. A low number of respondents (33%) support the policies imposed in Republican states banning schools and local governments from issuing their own mandates.  Nick Note: Its not the masks or lack thereof. Its the fact that the school year in the south starts earlier. Mama i know you want to go back to “work”. But when your kids come home under guarantee or worse it will be even longer before you “workout” with your fitness instructor again…..

Mamas don’t let your children go back to school. The masks and ha ha social distancing won’t work. If you want to kill them drown them in the bathtub… its a kinder death.
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Fauci supports vaccine mandates in US schools…..12,000 kids hospitalized….. 100,000 infected

 

  • Dr. Anthony Fauci said he’s in support of COVID-19 vaccination mandates for kids going to school.
  • Fauci said vaccine mandates for students aren’t new.
  • Currently, only those above the age of 12 are eligible to be vaccinated.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he thinks it’s a “good idea” to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for kids attending school. “We have mandates in many places in schools, particularly public schools, that if in fact you want a child to come in — we’ve done this for decades and decades requiring (vaccines for) polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis … So this would not be something new, requiring vaccinations for children to come to school,” Fauci said. COVID-19 cases and infections have been rising, including among children, as the more transmissible Delta variant spreads. The Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve any COVID-19 vaccine for use in those under the age of 12. Pfizer’s vaccine recently received full FDA approval for use on those older than 16. Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told NPR that Pfizer is expected to present clinical trial findings for those aged 5 to 11 years old to the FDA next month. However, he says it could take months after that to approve emergency use of the vaccine for kids. “I’ve got to be honest, I don’t see the approval for kids – 5 to 11 – coming much before the end of 2021,” Collins said. Some parents have been so concerned about the spread of Delta that they are asking pediatricians to vaccinate their kids under 12 prior to FDA approval. A Los Angeles pediatrician previously told Insider that until there is FDA approval, they won’t be vaccinating anyone under 12. The Centers for Disease Control has recommended that those over 12 get vaccinated to help stop the spread of the virus. Nick Note: this is some sick shit. The hospitals are filling up with little kids infected by the highly infections Delta mutation. Are we really going to send the kiddies to scroll with masks that do not work even when they are fitted correctly. Talk about child abuse!! call family services….. And we are going to get kids 5 to 11 to wear said do nothing masks as the ONLY line of defense… We are being ruled by a bunch of fucking idiots. The solution is simple, the kids stay home until their is a vaccine. In the olden days kids stayed home until they had their polo, measles and small pocks vaccines…….. And the mothers are just going to have to suck it up and be mothers……. Pretend like your a women in Kabul……… lets pretend like is a deadly plague killing millions of people!!!