Watson Video: The Work of the Devil~Is the Pope Catholic?

BY PAUL JOSEPH WATSON

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Paul Joseph Watson is back with another acerbic, penetrating video commentary, this time on the open-borders, environmental activist, globalist Pope Francis. Is the Pontiff doing the work of the Devil?

Check it out below: (CAUTION: SOME FOUL LANGUAGE)

 

The Left’s Anti-Life Agenda: Maybe it wants us all to die?

BY DON FEDER

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/10/lefts-anti-life-push-don-feder/;

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What if the anti-natalists, the environmental hysterics, and the global warming freaks want us all dead? Increasingly, it looks that way.

Last week, Tracy-Stone Manning was confirmed as Director of the Bureau of Land Management on a straight party-line vote. Every Senate Democrat – including “moderates” like Manchin and Sinema – voted to put Ms. I-Talk-to-the-Trees in charge of 65 million acres of federal forests.

President Barely Conscious called her “extremely well-qualified.” And what qualifications they are! In the 1990s, Stone-Manning almost went to prison for her involvement with Earth First’s tree-spiking project, which could have ended up maiming a lot of loggers.

Times change, Stone-Manning hasn’t.

In 2020, she recommended a commentary by her husband suggesting that houses near a forest fire should be allowed to burn. (They have no business being that close to the sacred oaks and esteemed elms.) She actually managed to find someone crazier than herself to sleep with.

As you might expect, the Director is also anti-child. In her graduate thesis, S-M referred to children as “an environmental hazard.” For the sake of the planet, Americans need to “breed fewer consuming humans,” said she.  She included a picture of a child in a field with the caption, “Can you find the environmental hazard in this photo?” Charming.

Among neo-Malthusians, the clamor is growing.

  • Perennial pest Bill Maher sneers, “I can’t think of a better gift to our planet than pumping out fewer humans to destroy it.”
     
  • The New Yorker ran an article titled, “The Case for Not Being Born.” The New York Times returned the serve with “Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?” Not if it’s confined to the subspecies that inhabits the mainstream media.
     
  • On April 25, the British edition of Vogue published an article that asked rhetorically, “Is Having a Baby in 2021 Pure Environmental Vandalism?”
     
  • As you would expect, Ocasio-Cortez is the leading anti-natalist voice in the Swamp. In 2019, the Neiman-Marxist told her Instagram followers, since “It is basically a scientific consensus that the lives of our children are going to be very difficult…it does lead young people to have a legitimate question: Is it okay to still have children?”
     
  • Since socialists always combine such speculation with action, many favor a tax on procreation – as if they haven’t already made having children hard enough.
     
  • CNN found a silver lining in the COVID contagion, with a story that mused: “There’s an unlikely beneficiary of coronavirus: The planet.” Think how much we owe to the 1917-1918 Influenza epidemic, which killed more people than World War I.

The literal dead end of this deep misogyny is the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. The founder of the group told the UK Daily Mail that there has been a “groundswell of articles about human extinction.” From January to May, more than 2,000 people “liked’ their Facebook page.

They may get their wish sooner than they can possibly imagine, and without lifting a finger.

In the past 70 years, the worldwide fertility rate (the number of children the average woman will have in her lifetime) was cut almost in half – going from 4.7 in 1950 to 2.4 in 2021. In the United States in the same period, fertility went from 3.5 to 1.77.

China’s fertility will never recover from the brutal One Child per family policy of the early 1980s. This not only crushed its birth rate but skewed the ratio of boys to girls (currently 120 to every 100).

When it saw the results, the regime tried desperately to slam on the brakes and put the car in reverse. The One-Child Policy became a Two-Child Policy, then a Three Child Policy. Now, Beijing has announced unspecified restrictions on non-health-related abortions.

This all comes too late. China could lose almost half its population by the end of the century. A country that now has 1.3 billion will have to get by with 732 million. For workers aged 20 to 24, it’s even worse. Here, a 64% decline is forecast.

Since 1984, China has built 100,000 miles of superhighway. But who’s going to use it? The PRC had better conquer something quickly, while it still has an army.

There are many factors contributing to this worldwide phenomenon, including the decline of marriage, the rise of abortion and contraception, loss of faith, and growing urbanization. Thanks to so-called progressives, abortion is now the leading cause of death worldwide.

The Gucci Chicken Little and her confederates have ginned up the propaganda machine. A 2020 study for the journal Climate Change found 60% of respondents ages 27 to 45 were “very” or “extremely concerned about the carbon footprints of procreation.” That’s a swell excuse for people who want to live in perpetual adolescence.

Leftists started by hating their country, then their class, then their race. Now they’ve essentially given up on their species.

Can socialists really be so dense that after 100-plus years of failure (on every continent and in every era), they still expect socialism to work? Maybe that’s no longer the goal.

Perhaps, just perhaps, they are no longer blinded by utopian fantasies. Maybe, for them, breadlines, crop failures, 5-year plans, and mass starvation are the goal – the better to kill you with my dear.

Then, not the meek, but the birds and bees, the rocks, flowers, and trees, will inherit the earth. Yes, the water will be pristine and the vistas breathtaking. But who will be here to enjoy them?

Inside Apartheid NYC: When the ‘unclean’ and non-compliant are excluded from the privileges accorded to the rest.

BY KATIE HOPKINS

SEE: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/10/day-life-apartheid-nyc-katie-hopkins/;

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[See Katie Hopkins' exclusive video report on Apartheid NYC right below this article.]

I’m not quite sure how I thought this trip to New York City would work out. I kind of figured the crazy new rules regarding vaccination passes didn’t apply to me, or somehow that reality would be different to the headlines -- stating that you needed to be vaccinated to go into bars, restaurants, and hotels in the city that never sleeps. I have faith in humanity and no fear. I couldn’t believe for a moment this place I used to call home would actually be enforcing the rules fabricated by de Blasio and the drug-pushers in power.

But I was wrong.

Every hotel, bar, and business is pushing this vaccination apartheid. There are signs on every doorway, and just in case you missed those, there are more signs at eye height in the foyers. You may only be inside, sit inside, or dine inside if you are double-jabbed and have a vaccination card and ID to prove it.

Even in the dodgy backstreet Thai kitchens of 9th street where you can reliably get a Pad Thai for $5 are checking papers and policing documents, fearful of being caught by inspectors and closed down.

Wooden shelters and fabricated huts are hastily thrown up onto the sidewalks outside these places -- crashing into the gutter alongside the trash and the parked cars. Restaurant owners are scrambling to create some kind of outdoor alternative for the unclean and non-compliant who have failed to get their jabs and are excluded from the privileges accorded to the rest.

I plonk myself down outside the Midtown Bar and Grill and order a large glass of Merlot to try and calm myself from the rage I feel.

I am beyond angry that politicians have been able to exert this power level on the people they are supposed to serve. I am raging for these businesses that have been compelled to post these signs at their doors after two brutal years of lockdowns and staff shortages.

But mostly, I want to scream at the legion of smug diners sitting inside these places. Apparently, they see no problem at all with having to show their papers to eat in a restaurant. They’ve had the jab, and now, they are reaping the benefits, perfectly content that others are excluded because of the personal choices they make.

I ask the waitress how the bathroom situation works. Are the people outside allowed to use a bathroom? Are the unclean masses still allowed the privilege of taking a private pee?

She tells me we are. The unvaccinated are allowed to use the facilities as long as they wear a mask. And I watch her telling me these rules as if they make sense, and I politely nod along as she speaks with a smile behind her eyes, encouraging me to understand.

I understand perfectly well. It makes zero sense for the unvaccinated to walk past the vaccinated and share bathroom facilities but be excluded from eating together, but you cannot rationalize with the irrational. It is a fool’s errand, and it is certainly not her fault.

I wander away from restaurants, past bars segregated by vaccine status, and theaters, where performances may only be enjoyed by the injected, and I am still preferring the belief that this is all a dream, and any moment now, I am going to wake up and feel better.

But I don’t.

The city is divided. And yet, because it’s not about race or color, somehow, no one seems to care. Apartheid is acceptable here -- as long as it’s about medical choice or lack thereof. But the signs of yesteryear are clearly back: no Blacks, no Irish, no dogs. Except, this time, it's the non-compliant who are unwanted, and as winter draws in, they will truly feel the effects of being left out in the cold.

78% of young black New Yorkers have resisted the vaccine. Wealthy white Upper East Side types have taken it, and the young white professional couples with two incomes and cash to spare. Spend a moment here on the sidewalk in the city, and you quickly see how unpleasant this all starts to look.

It’s only when I am back amongst the crowds and the chaos of Times Square that my world seems to right itself again. Here, young stunt riders show off their skills to the crowds, dangling and occasionally falling from their bikes. Two women dressed in the briefest of briefs with I ️LOVE NYC on their buttocks draw the attention of every young man in sight. Superman, Minnie Mouse, and The Incredible Hulk are hard at work taking pictures.

The last time I was here, as the city was shuttered in March 2021, this place was deserted. I was the last man standing in this bonkers city. And it is just magical to see it filled to overflowing once more. The familiar smells of pretzels, old urine, and pizza are all about, and it is comforting to be amongst the stickiness of a thousand strangers.

I feel much more at home here. This place is the opposite of segregated. It is humanity, smeared up against each other, sense overloaded, and buzzing from it all. This is how life should be.

Apartheid NYC is not the place for me.

KATIE HOPKINS: EXCLUSIVE FULL VIDEO REPORT:

 

Frances Haugen Isn’t a “Whistleblower”: She’s a Censorship Advocate

BY DANIEL GREENFIELD

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Real whistleblowers blow the whistle on illegal behavior by a company. 

Frances Haugen, the leftist activist being falsely touted as a whistleblower by the media, isn't blowing the whistle on anything. After being sufficiently prepped by a shadowy group with alleged ties to Pierre Omidyar, the sugar daddy of leftist digital media, she's making the same exact arguments that pro-censorship lefties have been making about Facebook forever. And they can be summed up as, "Facebook amplifies the views of conservatives. And the government needs to do something about that."

These arguments tend to be couched in buzzwords and phrases like "echo chambers", "amplifying misinformation", and "undermining democracy". But they're all fancy ways of saying, "We want to censor our conservative political opponents".

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's leadership is relentlessly left-wing but because the platform skews demographically older, the top content on the site tends to be more conservative.

All the Facebook alarmism which began when Hillary Clinton lost and blamed some sort of phantom Russian/Trump/Facebook conspiracy comes down to this.

Haugen has nothing new to say. And the media hype is heavily self-interested because what it wants nothing more is for Facebook to throttle conservative content harder and amplify its left-wing content.

That's not whistleblowing. None of this is. It's censorship wrapped in phony civic concern. 

Pfizer Whistleblower Leaks Executives’ Emails: ‘We Want to Avoid Having Info on Fetal Cells Out There’ from aborted babies

"ON THE OTHER HAND, THE VATICAN DOCTRINAL COMMITTEE HAS CONFIRMED THAT THEY CONSIDER IT ACCEPTABLE FOR PRO-LIFE BELIEVERS TO BE IMMUNIZED"
VANESSA GELMAN, SENIOR DIRECTOR, PFIZER, WASHINGTON, D.C.:
"WE WANT TO AVOID HAVING THE INFORMATION ON THE FETAL CELLS FLOATING OUT THERE"~"WE WOULD LIKE TO AVOID CREATING AN OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE AN ISSUE"~"WE BELIEVE THAT THE RISK OF COMMUNICATING THIS RIGHT NOW OUTWEIGHS ANY POTENTIAL BENEFIT WE COULD SEE___"
"THE FDA IS COMING SO THE WORKERS' WINDOWS HAVE TO BE BLACKED OUT"

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Pfizer ‘Fetal Cell’ Whistleblower Melissa Strickler has been TERMINATED

Corruption? FBI Raids Home of NYPD Sergeants’ Union Head Who Criticized de Blasio and Cuomo

SBA President Ed Mullins Resigns Following FBI Raid Of Union's Headquarters

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/10/05/corruption-fbi-raids-home-of-nypd-sergeants-union-head-who-criticized-de-blasio-and-cuomo-n1521940;

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As Matt Margolis noted in July, the FBI is “corrupt and needs reform.” This reform became all the more urgent last week, when it was revealed that the feds were far more deeply involved in the January 6 insurrection-that-wasn’t-an-insurrection at the Capitol than had been previously known. But instead of moving to restore its shattered reputation and proving it hasn’t become little more than the far-Left’s muscle, the FBI on Tuesday raided the home of Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) President Ed Mullins, a Trump supporter and outspoken critic of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.

According to the New York Daily News, the raid “also targeted the police union’s Lower Manhattan headquarters.” The FBI confirmed that it was “carrying out a law enforcement action in connection with an ongoing investigation” into the 13,000-member SBA. Said de Blasio: “All I have been told is the FBI has raided the SBA HQ and it’s in connection with an ongoing investigation, but we don’t have further details on that at this moment.”

The mayor couldn’t resist, however, kicking Mullins while he was down: “A lot of what he’s done has been really, really destructive — especially in the middle of a crisis where we’re trying to unify and we’re trying to get through together. I think he’s been a divisive voice. … All I hear is the FBI raid. I want to hear the details before I comment further.”

Mullins aroused de Blasio’s ire when he posted the arrest report of Chiara de Blasio, the mayor’s daughter, on Twitter; Chiara de Blasio was arrested in May 2020 during the George Floyd riots in Manhattan. According to the Daily News, Mullins was accused of “violating department rules” in disclosing Chiara’s private information, while his lawyer, Andrew Quinn, noted that the report had already been publicized and stated: “We see this case an attempt to chill Ed Mullins’s First Amendment rights.”

Amid the controversy, Mullins “vowed to continue speaking out whenever he believes cops are vilified or mistreated” and declared: “De Blasio’s City Hall has been at war with cops since his first days in office. Charges against union activism that City Hall doesn’t like — speaking truth to those who claim power — is sadly what we’ve come to expect from this administration.”

Mullins has made other enemies as well. Former mayoral candidate Maya Wiley, who previously had worked for de Blasio, excoriated Mullins for alleged “racism.” And in May 2020, New York’s then-Health Department Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Babot declared “I don’t give two rats’ a**es about your cops” in response to a request for more masks for the police. Mullins tweeted in response: “Truth is this b***h has blood on her hands but why should anyone be surprised the NYPD has suffered under DeBlasio since he became Mayor.”

In May 2021, Mullins wrote that New York’s then-Governor Andrew Cuomo “never met a murderer he did not want to parole,” and that de Blasio “never passes up an opportunity to bash the police.” He also criticized City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, “who along with many cohorts was a strong supporter of bail and police ‘reform’ laws which have rendered the cops all but impotent and turned New York into an urban facsimile of a Wild West frontier town.”

Mullins added: “Words have consequences and, since first taking office in 2014, de Blasio’s incendiary anti-police rhetoric has already resulted in three police officers being executed while sitting in police vehicles, Molotov cocktails being lobbed at officers and into police vehicles, armed assaults on police facilities, cops being pelted with debris, and wholesale damage to police and public property.”

He even called out these Leftist officials’ race hypocrisy: “Despite these officials presenting themselves as beacons of hope for communities of color amid a mushroom cloud of systemic racism, they have all been notably silent despite there being a steady increase in violent crime since the ‘reforms,’ including a 166 percent uptick in shootings from April 2020 to the same month this year. The 2020 ‘reform’ package has done nothing but kneecap the police and increase violent crime to levels not seen since the early 1990s. All the progressive changes meant to even the playing field for minority residents has only resulted in scores of Black and Hispanic becoming victims of crime.”

Now the FBI has raided the home and offices of one of the New York City Leftist establishment’s most high-profile critics. This will only fuel suspicions that the FBI is an institutionally corrupt and compromised agency that does not work impartially but is simply a tool in the hands of the political and media elites. If we had any journalists today, this would be a huge story and there would be urgent calls from people at every point on the political spectrum for a thorough investigation of the FBI. But nothing is less likely than that.

Related: [WATCH] The Babylon Bee’s Side-Splitting Parody of the FBI

Thanks, Joe! Taliban Gives Tajik Jihadis U.S. Made Weaponry and Vehicles

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/10/05/thanks-joe-taliban-gives-tajik-jihadis-u-s-made-weaponry-and-vehicles-n1521963;

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They warned us this would happen. As the Taliban moved into Kabul in August, Taliban commander Muhammed Arif Mustafa told CNN: “It’s our belief that one day, mujahedin will have victory, and Islamic law will come not to just Afghanistan, but all over the world. We are not in a hurry. We believe it will come one day. Jihad will not end until the last day.” Then in early September, another Taliban commander declared: “We are happy that we are victorious. We fought for 20 years. We want Islamic law, and not just in Afghanistan.” Old Joe Biden’s handlers boosted these aspirations by allowing the Taliban to take control of billions of dollars worth of American weaponry and military vehicles, and now the Taliban have begun to share this largesse with other jihadis. They’ve now fitted out Tajik jihadis with the best in American equipment.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported Monday that “the Taliban has provided Tajik militants based along the border with Tajikistan with new military vehicles, weaponry, and other equipment over the past two weeks, security sources in Tajikistan and northeastern Afghanistan say, amid an ongoing military buildup on both sides of the frontier.”

Tajik jihadis “based in Afghanistan’s northern province of Badakhshan have been seen with U.S.-made weaponry and vehicles, including Humvees, with some of them wearing American combat gear, according to an official with Tajikistan’s state border services.”

This is a recent development: “The militants, who were previously seen carrying Kalashnikov rifles and driving old pickup trucks, received the new supplies during the past two weeks, according to the Tajik official, who spoke under condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the media.”

The recipients of this American bounty are “known in Afghanistan as the Tajik Taliban.” They are members of a jihad group known as Jamaat Ansarullah (Assembly of the Helpers of Allah). This group was “established by Tajik nationals a decade ago with the goal of overthrowing the secular government in Dushanbe.”

The Taliban work closely with these Tajik rebels: “In June, Tajik officials raised concern that one of the banned group’s commanders — Muhammad Sharifov (aka Mahdi Arsalon) had been put in charge of security in five border districts in Badakhshan after they were seized by the Taliban. Last month, Tajik security officials said they were reviewing reports that the militants were planning to infiltrate into Tajikistan, an allegation rejected by the Taliban.”

While all this has been happening, the Taliban have also been cozying up to the People’s Republic of China: The jihadis reportedly “‘removed’ ethnic Uyghur fighters from Badakhshan — which also shares a 76-kilometer border with China. The militants from the Turkestan Islamic Movement were relocated to other provinces, including Nangarhar in Afghanistan’s east, the former Afghan military official said. The Al-Qaeda-linked Turkestan Islamic Movement is designated as a terrorist organization by Beijing and the United Nations. Beijing blames the group for unrest in its northwestern Xinjiang region.”

Related: So Much For ‘Amnesty’: Taliban Going Door-to-Door Executing U.S. Allies

Why wouldn’t the Taliban come to the aid of a fellow jihad group? Because there may be larger considerations involved, at least in the short term. Back in July, Taliban spokesmen stated that they considered China a “friend” and would not allow the Uyghur jihadis to operate on Afghan soil. They reiterated this in September. The Taliban likely calculated that Chinese aid was more important than jihadi solidarity and that since Islamic law forbids jihadis to fight against an enemy they have no chance of defeating, there was no point in taking on China anyway.

The Taliban clearly had no such hesitation regarding fighting against the United States, for obvious reasons. And now, after Old Joe and his handlers made them the most sumptuously equipped terror organization in the entire world, they are in a position to share the wealth. The materiel our woke military left behind for the Taliban while our top brass was busy making sure that no one did anything to offend the jihadis on the way out will now be used to destabilize the region even further. Joe Biden’s legacy as president of the United States may not only be the global weakness of the country abroad and the corruption of its governing institutions at home; Dotty Old Joe may also end up being the world’s most successful jihad terror enabler since Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

In any case, thanks to Joe Biden and his woke generals, the Tajik jihadis are now superbly equipped. They’re likely to show their gratitude in ways that will cause even more headaches for the over-generous, appallingly misruled country that inadvertently equipped them.

VACCINE COLLECTIVISM: Fauci now talking like Chairman Mao, says individual rights must be surrendered for the “good of society”

Dr Fauci Wants you to Surrender Your individual rights for the "Greater Good":

Image: VACCINE COLLECTIVISM: Fauci now talking like Chairman Mao, says individual rights must be surrendered for the “good of society”

BY ETHAN HUFF

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-10-06-fauci-chairman-mao-rights-surrendered-greater-good.html;

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(Natural News) Career criminal Tony Fauci is blabbing his annoying mouth again, this time in the promotion of communism.

According to the government troll, who has been on the taxpayer dole for the past nearly 40 years, all Americans must “give up” their constitutional rights by getting “vaccinated” for the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) and wearing a mask – because doing this, he says, is necessary for the “greater good.”

“But you are a member of society,” Fauci whined during a mainstream media appearance. “And as a member of society, reaping all the benefits of being a member of society, you have a responsibility to society.”

Fauci went on to say that he personally feels as though the Constitution should be scrapped because of “a pandemic that’s killing millions of people.” This, he says, is reason enough to suspend all individual rights and force everyone into slavery under his rule.

“You have got to look at it and say, there comes a time when you do have to give up what you consider your individual right of making your own decision for the great good of society,” Fauci added.

Fauci is a threat to freedom

Much like Chairman Mao, Fauci believes that he should be able to decide who gets to do what and when, based on their mask and vaccination status. Only those Americans who obey his commands should be allowed to live.

Even after openly admitting that Chinese Virus injections are causing more disease to spread, Fauci still feels like everyone should be forced to get them in order to stay “safe” against possible infection with Chinese Germs.

Back in August, Fauci appeared, as he often does, on some mainstream media program in which he threatened that “things are going to get worse” if Americans do not fully comply with his demands.

The “pain and suffering” will intensify, Fauci promised, if unvaccinated people continue to rely on their God-given natural immunity as opposed to the fake “immunity” being dispensed by him and his ilk.

“If you look at the acceleration of the number of cases, the seven-day average has gone up substantially,” Fauci stated, rattling off made-up numbers he came up with on the fly.

“You know, what we really need to do, John, and we say it over and over again, it’s the truth, we have a hundred million people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated who are not getting vaccinated.”

No, Fauci, what we really need to do is get rid of you and stop your reign of terror over the American people. You have no right to tell other people what to do with their own bodies, no matter how much you feel as though you do have that right.

What Fauci is effectively telling Americans is that their rights must decrease while his rights must increase. Fauci thinks he has the right to force you to wear a mask and get injected against your will, meaning he is unwilling to sacrifice his own self-perceived “right” to tell other people what to do.

The guy is a nutcase, but a dangerous one with clear psychopathic tendencies. Fauci is a threat to a free and open society, and nobody need pay him any mind – though many Branch Covidians have decided to make him their patron saint.

In the religion of Covidism, Fauci is a type of priest or pope that tells his followers what to do. The problem is that this religion has become mandatory, meaning if you refuse to convert, its members are threatening to punish you with violence and the total deprivation of your rights.

The latest news about psychopath Fauci and his murderous ilk can be found at Fascism.news.

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The world is now witnessing a pandemic of N-STEMI heart attacks caused by blood clots

Image: The world is now witnessing a pandemic of N-STEMI heart attacks caused by blood clots

BY LANCE D. JOHNSON

SEE: https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-10-05-world-witnessing-pandemic-of-nstemi-heart-attacks.html;

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(Natural News) A certain type of heart attack is on the rise around the world. Healthcare professionals in Scotland have seen a sharp uptick in a potentially fatal type of heart attack called an N-STEMI attack. This condition is the result of partially blocked arteries that cut off the blood supply to the heart. It presents less tissue damage than a regular STEMI attack but can be equally fatal. Stents are put into the person’s arteries to save their life. While cases of STEMI attacks have remained stable for years, at about 750 cases per year, cases of N-STEMI have spiked recently. Doctors from Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank recorded a consistent 25 percent rise in N-STEMI heart attacks over the summer. This hospital typically receives 240 N-STEMI patients a month, but during the months of May, June, and July, the number of N-STEMI heart attack patients climbed to over 300 people per month.

Locking populations down and stripping their livelihoods causes severe side effects

Cardiac patients have been pouring into the Golden Jubilee National Hospital from all over the National Health Services grid, from NHS Greater Glasgow to Clyde, Dumfries, and Galloway, to Ayrshire and Arran, Forth Valley, and the Highlands. Over the summer, the hospital had to increase its number of cardiology beds by 44 percent, as front-line healthcare workers dealt with the increased demand of heart attack patients.

Doctors are trying to determine why there is such a sharp uptick for N-STEMI attacks. During the lockdowns, people had less access to health checks and were more likely to stay away from hospitals if they didn’t have respiratory symptoms. Mitchell Lindsay, a lead consultant cardiologist at Golden Jubilee National, said they can’t find “any evidence” that the rise in N-STEMI attacks “is a consequence of any delayed care or missed opportunity.”

There was not a similar rise in heart attacks during the first two waves of lockdown. The doctors believe that people became more sedentary during the past two years of lockdown and were unable to cope with all the new stressors imposed by the lockdowns. They also believe many patients ignored heart attack symptoms during the lockdowns because they did not want to show up at a hospital and risk being infected and separated from their families. “There are probably five to ten causes, all linked,” said Lindsay.

The inflammatory, blood clotting covid vaccines are contributing to the influx of cardiac emergencies

The doctors did not mention the role of covid-19 vaccines in this medical fallout. These vaccines are causing verifiable blood clots and imposing inflammatory conditions on the cardiovascular system of inoculated patients. According to research, the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein disrupts human cardiac pericytes function and contributes to microvascular disease through CD147-receptor-mediated signaling. (Related: Cardiologist warns about covid vaccine fraud and hyper-inflammatory immune responses caused by the shots.)

There has been a surge in seriously ill patients in the summer of 2021, as cardiovascular health plummets across the country, and the globe. This pandemic of heart attack patients has caused a shortage of hospital beds and led to long delays at emergency rooms. Due to all these new, vaccine-induced public health problems, ambulances have reportedly been stuck in Que at the hospital’s front doors. Locking populations down for blood-clotting, spike protein injections comes with serious (intended) consequences.

Due to the psychological stress, physiological stress, and inflammation being imposed on people’s lives, the hospital has had to perform a record number of angioplasty procedures in 2021. Patients are coming in with partially-blocked arteries that require stents. The stents are needed to prop open blood vessels to maintain blood flow to the heart. In the past, many of these patients could recover at a hospital closer to home; however, many patients are now kept at Jubilee because smaller hospitals are already full of cardiac patients who are still trying to recover.

For more on this critical issue, visit VaccineDamage.News.

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Hospital systems PURGE thousands of workers to engineer health care COLLAPSE just as the Dark Winter die-off accelerates

BY MIKE ADAMS

SEE: https://naturalnews.com/2021-10-06-hospital-systems-purge-thousands-of-workers-to-engineer-health-care-collapse-dark-winter-die-off.html;

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(Natural News) The purge of hospital workers with natural immunity is now underway, with The Epoch Times reporting that a large New York health care system has fired 1,400 employees for refusing to be injected with toxic spike protein nanoparticle bioweapons that are mislabeled “vaccines.”

In Michigan, the Henry Ford hospital has seen the resignation of 400 employees who refuse to commit vaccine suicide, prompting the hospital CEO to grin and brag about how his workers are now “nearly 100% vaccinated.”

The Vermont Daily Chronicle reveals that 76% of covid deaths are now occurring among vaccinated individuals. As more time goes by, this number will of course increase, given that Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE) worsens health outcomes in vaccinated individuals over time. This fact was recently revealed in a DoD / JAIC / Project Salus document first publicized by attorney Thomas Renz and covered in this bombshell interview:

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Booster shots – really full doses of spike protein – are sharply increasing deaths

In Israel, where vaccine obedience has reached nearly 88%, deaths began skyrocketing the very day the “booster shots” were launched. As this shows, the vaccine is the pandemic because it keeps the spike protein circulating and spreading, causing more covid “cases” to be diagnosed, since the fraudulent PCR tests merely confirm the existence of spike protein fragments. See this graphic via CitizenFreePress.com:

As Children’s Health Defense recently documented, the covid “breakthrough rate” among vaccinated people was a shocking 96.2% in a carefully studied hospital scenario. Despite nearly everyone being fully vaccinated and dressed up with gloves, gowns and PPE, covid spread throughout the hospital and infected dozens. Five of those who were vaccinated died, while the unvaccinated suffered minor symptoms and quickly recovered.

“The vaccine was virtually useless in preventing transmission,” noted Brian Hooker in analyzing the published study.

MILLIONS of Americans will be injured or killed by covid vaccines over the next six months

PREDICTION: Over the next six months, we are going to witness literally millions of Americans hospitalized, injured, or killed by covid vaccines, even though all such injuries and deaths will of course be blamed on something else.

As this “pandemic of the VACCINATED” accelerates into the Dark Winter of 2021 – 2022, the health care systems are purging the very health care workers who are going to remain living and capable of treating those injured by spike protein nanoparticles. It is natural immunity that provides the best protection, as even Pfizer’s own scientists readily admit on camera (Project Veritas).

Many of the injured and killed will be health care workers themselves, as hospitals and health care systems are coercing their own workers into near-100% compliance with vaccine mandates.

Yet as Jon Rappaport has detailed on NoMoreFakeNews.comthere is no federal mandate to force private companies to push vaccine mandates on their workers. It doesn’t exist, and the whole “mandate” from Biden appears to be nothing more than an elaborate bluff to try to terrorize private companies into pushing vaccine mandates backed by nothing but smoke and mirrors.

There is no vaccine “mandate” in America that carries the force of law. In fact, state legislators have repeatedly shot down proposed new laws mandating vaccine compliance. The only “mandates” in America are made-up Executive Orders by a fake occupier-in-chief Joe Biden who wasn’t even elected. His EOs carry no force of law whatsoever. Just like every other tyranny the Democrats push, it’s all being done via psychological terrorism, the color of law, and pure bluster.

(The private companies pushing vaccine mandates are going to be hit with a tidal wave of class-action lawsuits from their own (injured) employees, by the way.)

It was all planned: Meet “Kovid” the runway model wearing a mask in EARLY 2019

In case you’re wondering whether this plandemic was really engineered from the very start, a video clip from a “Project Runway” episode that reportedly aired in April of 2019 shows a model named “Kovid” who was wearing a mask. Notably, no one else in the video is wearing a mask.

You can watch the short clip here:

https://www.brighteon.com/embed/94d767ee-b0e3-41bc-a9c2-5603133557e7

Folks, you are living in an artificial reality. It’s all a movie being played out in front of your very eyes… and “covid” is nothing more than the common flu virus. What’s real, however, is the spike protein bioweapon which has been aerosolized and dropped on cities in addition to being used in all the covid vaccines.

The engineered collapse will now accelerate into 2022

As we have exhaustively covered in numerous podcasts at the HR Report channel on Brighteon.com, the “Dark Winter” collapse of human civilization is now being rolled out and will consist of engineered events that we’re already beginning to see:

  • Extreme food shortages, price inflation, and empty shelves
  • Energy shortages (now appearing across Europe and China), power grid outages, and energy price instability
  • Currency crisis events involving debt ceilings, money printing, and “debt bomb” repercussions
  • Financial collapse spreading throughout China (Evergrande, already spreading) and the world
  • Health care collapse due to the mass firing of workers with natural immunity
  • A gutting of police and first responders in order to thrust cities into mass chaos
  • Extreme risk of international warfare involving China, which is posturing to go to war with Taiwan, Australia, Japan, India, and the United States (all at once).

The outcome that’s desired by the globalists who are engineering these events is quite clear:

  • Mass starvation leading to an accelerating die-off of humanity
  • Global failures of health care systems in order to accelerate deaths from lack of basic medical care
  • A collapse in fertility due to spike protein attacks on pregnant women (via vaccinations)
  • Mass impoverishment and homelessness, followed by a global real estate collapse
  • Mass arrests and executions of vaccine dissenters by labeling them as “positive” for measles, then kidnapping them at gunpoint and taking them to CDC death camps which are located all across the USA. (See the CDC map, below)
  • At some point, an engineered takedown of the dollar, via the “global reset” strategy which is really planetary-scale looting of the productive members of society
  • The consolidation of all power into the hands of the global elite, including political power, speech controls, mobility, health care, finance, technology, intellectual property, etc.
  • The rolling out of a centrally controlled cryptocurrency system to replace the failed dollar, allowing globalists to spy on all financial transactions in real-time. (Bitcoin was always about prepping the population for a police state electronic monetary system.)
  • The replacement of human beings with robotic automation systems to handle all the labor tasks previously carried out by humans (i.e. agriculture, transportation, warehouse workers, health care, etc.)

See the CDC’s current map of CDC quarantine and isolation camps across America. Sourced via this page at CDC.gov. Read the CDC’s “shielding approach” death camp planning document at this link via CDC.gov. In this document, the CDC promises to meet “minimum humanitarian standards” for their camp prisoners.

The bottom line? This Winter is the “Final Solution” against humanity. By the spring of 2022, likely tens of millions of people (if not far more) will have been exterminated around the world via the methods mentioned here. But this extermination effort will continue for as long as they get away with it. At some point, humanity must either rise up against this genocidal tyranny or be destroyed by it.

The engineered collapse of the medical system is just one small part in the overall global depopulation plan to transform planet Earth for a post-human future. Only the most prepared and well-informed will survive what is coming.

Find full details in today’s info-packed Situation Update podcast:

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See more podcasts and interviews each day at:

https://www.brighteon.com/channels/hrreport

SO LONG MASSACHUSETTS: The Reason Behind firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson’s Tennessee Move TO GREENER PASTURES

BY JIM GRANT 

SEE: https://www.ammoland.com/2021/10/greener-pastures-the-reason-behind-sws-tennessee-move/#axzz78bjFDd6u;

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The decision to move a flagship manufacturer isn’t easy. It’s also not hard when legislators target industry for destruction.

U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- The decision to move a flagship manufacturer isn’t easy. It’s also not hard when legislators target industry for destruction.

That’s the case with Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc., which recently announced it will move its headquarters and a large portion of its manufacturing from Springfield, Mass., to Marysville, Tenn. The company has been rooted in western Massachusetts since it was founded in 1852. In 2023, it will open the doors to its new manufacturing facility and headquarters nearly 900 miles south.

That’s not an easy decision. The company will invest hundreds of millions to build a new production plant. It will consolidate warehousing from Missouri to the Tennessee location. That’s where Smith & Wesson will transition the production of semiautomatic pistols and rifles, while revolvers will continue to be produced in Massachusetts. That move will require transferring 750 jobs.

“This has been an extremely difficult and emotional decision for us, but after an exhaustive and thorough analysis, for the continued health and strength of our iconic company, we feel that we have been left with no other alternative,” explained Mark Smith, Smith & Wesson’s President and CEO in a press release.

Tightening Grip

In other words, it was about corporate survival. Massachusetts has become increasingly hostile to gun owners and gun manufactures. The state has among the strictest gun control laws in the nation. State lawmakers banned Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) in 1998. State Attorney General Maura Healey expanded that crackdown on lawful firearm ownership with a 2016 Enforcement Notice that alleged firearm retailers were violating the state’s law by making small tweaks to certain firearms. The Enforcement Notice warned retailers those so-called “copies” or “duplicates” of the firearms specifically listed in the state law were illegal for sale, but that notice was vague and NSSF, along with two Bay State retailers, challenged the notice in court. Attorney General Healey agreed to clarify the notice after two years of legal wrangling.

This was an example of the hostility state authorities held against firearm industry members, but it was a status quo. Smith & Wesson could manufacturer their popular M&P 15 line of MSRs, but they weren’t available for sale to law-abiding citizens in their own state.

The decision point came when lawmakers directly targeted the firearm manufacturer’s ability to do business. Dual bills were filed in the state legislature (HD 4192/SD 2588) that would prohibit firearm manufacturers from manufacturing MSRs. The proposal includes banning so-called “assault weapons” and magazines capable of holding 10 or more cartridges.

“We are under attack by the state of Massachusetts,” Smith told reporters. The move is anticipated to cost $125 million “that I didn’t want to spend.”

Smith explained in the press release that the proposed Massachusetts legislation would prevent Smith & Wesson from manufacturing MSRs, despite the fact they are lawfully owned by citizens in 43 other states. There, they’re used for lawful purposes by law-abiding owners daily, including uses for recreational target shooting, hunting and self-defense.

That would have also meant Smith & Wesson would have been forced to sacrifice products that comprise 60 percent of their reported $1.1 billion revenue. There are over 20 million MSRs in circulation today and they are the most popular selling centerfire rifle on the market.

Strictly Business

“Honestly, we know we could have defeated it this session,” Smith explained to media. “But it will be back the next session and the session after that. I just can’t operate with that big a risk hanging over the company. We only started this process once the bill was filed. Then and only then.”

Smith & Wesson expects it will be two more years before their firearms bear Tennessee markings, but they’re not the only one to leave. Troy Industries, also a manufacturer of MSRs and parts, announced their own relocation earlier this year. Beretta U.S.A. moved manufacturing from Accokeek, Md., to Gallatin, Tenn., and Barrett Firearms is headquartered in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Other companies left their traditional home states for friendlier business climates when it became clear legislatures became hostile to their industry.

Massachusetts’ lawmaker attacks on Smith & Wesson were purely political. They don’t like firearms and even after they successfully banned their own citizens from owning the MSRs made in their state, they attempted to export their gun control by jeopardizing a leader in the firearm industry. Not so with Tennessee.

“Our pro-business reputation, skilled workforce, and commitment to the Second Amendment make Tennessee an ideal location for firearms manufacturing,” said Republican Gov. Bill Lee in a press statement.  “We welcome Smith & Wesson to The Volunteer State and are proud this U.S.-based brand has chosen to relocate from Massachusetts. Thanks for your significant investment in Blount County and for creating 750 new jobs”

Smith & Wesson’s response isn’t political at all. It’s just good business.


About The National Shooting Sports Foundation

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‘Forced to Lie’: Med Titration Standards Put Critical Care Nurses on Shaky Ground~Survey finds nurses feeling “moral distress” at “profoundly unrealistic” standards

Kristina Christensen, RN.

BY SHANNON FIRTH

SEE: https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/94342;

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Most critical care nurses (CCN) reported that they departed from "profoundly unrealistic" medication management titration standards -- and then later asked for the orders to be revised for compliance, a cross-sectional survey found.

In a cross-sectional survey of 781 CCNs that took place from January to September 2020, 70% of the respondents said they "deviated from orders to meet patient needs," and 84% later asked for revised orders to maintain compliance, according to Judy Davidson, DNP, RN, of the University of California San Diego Health.

Davidson and colleagues also found that 80% said that titration standards were causing delays in patient care, while 33% said they could not comply with titration orders, and 68% said pressure to comply with the standards led to the delivery of "suboptimal" care, they reported in the American Journal of Critical Care.

"One of the most frightening things [from the study] was that [nurses] are being forced to lie in their documentation to get the patient what they need...falsifying the records, which is a huge violation," Davidson told MedPage Today. "If the Joint Commission came in and found that, it could shut the [care center] down."

Nurses found to be lying in their documentation also risk losing their licenses or their jobs, she added.

"We should not be putting nurses into a situation where they feel that they have to falsify records to get what the patient needs," Davidson, a member of the Society for Critical Care Medicine (SCCM), said.

For the survey, Davidson's group found that 93% of AACN respondents reported "moral distress" -- defined as "distress that occurs when you think you're being prevented from doing the right thing" -- from pressure to adhere to the standards instead of applying nurses' own clinical judgment. Davidson and colleagues noted that "suboptimal care and delays in care significantly and strongly... predicted moral distress."

Changing Standards

In January 2018, The Joint Commission (TJC) issued MM 04.01.01, which prevented nurses from independently titrating the increment or the frequency of medication, and required doctors to predict medication titration.

"The problem with that is you can't predict it in advance... no two patients are alike," Davidson explained. Some patients may do well enough with starting on a low dose and titrating up, while others need a higher dose from the outset, she noted. Additionally, many patients are given more than one drug at a time, so predicting how they will respond to such a "drug cocktail," is also a challenge, she said.

TJC updated the titration standards multiple times in 2020 in collaboration with the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN). The changes "softened" the standards and reduced some of the burdens on nurses, Davidson said, for example, by allowing "batch documentation" (also known as "block charting") -- recording multiple incremental doses in one batch rather than immediately after each dose.

As of January 2021, nurses can now decide the order of titration when multiple infusions are required, and "intermittently pause and restart titration infusions" if hospital policy allows it or an order is given to describe the restart dose, Davidson and her colleagues noted in the study.

The survey revealed nurses' major concern was the lack of autonomy over the frequency and the amount of titration.

"It's not like they ignored us, the research wasn't complete yet," Davidson said, of the Joint Commission. "Those changes are great, but they don't actually tackle the issues that are causing harm."

'No-Win Situation'

Davidson and colleagues also conducted a thematic analysis to better understand the "practices and perceptions" around the commission's titration standards, and identified two key themes: Harm, such as concerns for patient safety, and professionalism, including the "erosion of workplace wellness."

The surveyed nurses were often "frustrated by being unable to comply with the standards, unable to provide safe care, and fearful of reprimand for deviating from orders," the authors stated in a separate American Journal of Critical Care article.

And many facilities don't have doctors on their units, which forces nurses to have to wait for a reply before they can intervene, Davidson noted.

More than a year after the standards were announced, Davidson said she was still hearing rumblings about this "no-win situation" in which nurses couldn't adhere to the standards, and middle managers, whose job it is to hold nurses accountable, felt conflicted because they also knew how difficult the standards were to follow.

This titration problem was a hot topic in the SCCM nursing section blog, so Davidson suggested conducting a survey and sharing that data with the commission.

"Somebody's got to say the emperor has no clothes on," Davidson said.

Some of the comments the authors compiled were:

"Due to [T]JC finding, we are forced to lie about what we are doing. [For] example, if [a] patient is crumping and [the] order is to titrate [Levophed] by 1, I am going to titrate how I need to keep [the] patient alive and then fake my documentation."

"The vasoactive drips are the worst. The ordered titration frequency as well as the allowed dose for titration would result in people dying if we didn't take some liberties. Telling us that all we have to do is get the DR. to rewrite the order is an insult. When your patient's BP is in the toilet that is not the time to be chasing after a DR. to ask him to rewrite a drip order."

Comments also described how the current standards contribute to "suboptimal workplace wellness" as a result of "increases in workload, burnout, physical risks, and inefficiencies; and a sense of nursing practice being devalued."

And more than one respondent argued that nurses are often more proficient in titrating infusions than the clinicians giving the orders:

"In my experience, the providers writing the titration amounts and frequency have little or no experience with actually titrating [intravenous] drops at the bedside. These strict titration parameters do not take into account differences between patients (sensitivity to med[ications], pain med[ication] tolerance, other hemodynamic issues, etc.) -- which is why nursing judgment/autonomy should not be limited by these TJC requirements."

Some respondents suggested that the standards, which they said are both stressful and demoralizing to nurses who expected more autonomy, may drive nurses out of the profession:

"The titration parameters recommended by TJC are profoundly unrealistic in an ICU setting. Nurses in an ICU setting have received the training and classes to be able to titrate an infusion without strict parameters. Furthermore, TJC continues to raise the standards to the point of discouraging nurses away from the bedside while preventing CMS from paying hospitals who desperately need their pay."

Not all of those surveyed had negative things to say about the standards, with one respondent stating: "I have found no issue with the change. If anything it's easier because I don't have to go to a separate reference to look up how frequently the med[ication] can be titrated or by how much."

However, that was only one of three positive comments, according to Davidson and colleagues.

Limitations of the survey included its non-experimental design, online sampling, and the fact that it was distributed through a professional organization. Because of the survey's design and sampling methods, it was not possible to estimate a response rate, according to the authors.

Davidson said she hopes the commission will work with her group to "evaluate the situation" through a quality-improvement approach.

Last Updated September 02, 2021

 

Biden Says He and Xi Will Abide by the Nonexistent ‘Taiwan Agreement.’ What Could Go Wrong?

BY RICK MORAN

SEE: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/10/06/biden-says-he-and-xi-will-abide-by-the-nonexistent-taiwan-agreement-what-could-go-wrong-n1522053;

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Joe Biden told reporters when asked about China’s provocations against Taiwan in recent days—more than 150 Chinese warplanes flew uncomfortably close to the island recently—that he and President Xi have agreed to abide by the “Taiwan Agreement.”

That statement caused a lot of reporters to scratch their heads. There is no U.S.-China “Taiwan Agreement” on record.

“We made it clear that I don’t think he should be doing anything other than abiding by the agreement,” Biden told reporters when asked about Chinese-Taiwanese tensions, according to Reuters.

Reuters tried to be helpful in clarifying what the doddering old fool meant.

Biden appeared to be referring to Washington’s long-standing policy under which it officially recognizes Beijing rather than Taipei, and the Taiwan Relations Act, which makes clear that the U.S. decision to establish diplomatic ties with Beijing instead of Taiwan rests upon the expectation that the future of Taiwan will be determined by peaceful means.

While that act binds the United States to provide Taiwan with the means to defend itself, Washington only acknowledges China’s stance that the island belongs to it and that there is “one China”, and takes no position on Taiwan’s sovereignty.

Beijing is not a party to official U.S. policy on Taiwan or the Taiwan Relations Act, so whatever “agreement” Biden was talking about is fantasy.

Even if there were an “agreement” on Taiwan, what difference would that make to China? Recall that Great Britain inked a solemn treaty with Beijing in 1997 guaranteeing the political rights of Chinese citizens in Hong Kong.

Perhaps the president would like to ask how that “agreement” with China is working out today for the people of Hong Kong?

As is usually the case in these matters. the United States issued a “strong statement” warning Beijing.

“The United States is very concerned by the People’s Republic of China’s provocative military activity near Taiwan, which is destabilizing, risks miscalculations, and undermines regional peace and stability,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement on Sunday.

Biden also appeared to be referencing a 90-minute call he held with Xi on Sept. 9, their first talks in seven months, in which they discussed the need to ensure that competition between the world’s two largest economies does not veer into conflict.

While China may not be strong enough to take on the United States in a stand-up fight — although its military power is increasing rapidly — the country is beginning to feel that the balance of forces is tipping its way. When they feel the time is right and the U.S. is powerless to stop them — short of using nuclear weapons — Taiwan will go the way of Hong Kong and be annexed by Communist China.

Taiwan harbors no illusions about its ability to fight off a Chinese invasion alone. President Tsai Ing-wen is one of Taiwan’s most aggressive leaders in decades and she’s been making noises about declaring some kind of independent status for Taiwan.

This is forcing a reaction from Beijing. The violations of Taiwan’s Air Defence Identification Zone have been increasing and, as the BBC points out, anything is possible.

Every time dozens of mainland fighter jets and bombers fly into Taiwan’s air defence zone, Taipei scrambles its own aircraft. It is not hard to imagine a scenario whereby a misunderstood signal or action could lead to a deadly incident.

There is considerable debate amongst analysts as to whether Beijing might be building towards a move to retake Taiwan by force.

Each time a Chinese government official or a senior party member threatens to do this it fuels fears that this could come sooner rather than later.

And such threats have been coming thick and fast recently.

A Chinese invasion is not imminent, but China is forcing the U.S. to move pieces on the board and is gauging the U.S. capabilities and reactions. It’s a very long game the Chinese are playing and they know that time is on their side.