President Biden and his administration’s decision to negotiate a waiver for intellectual property protections on COVID-19 vaccines and other technologies continues to prove illogical and foolhardy. After previously opposing the idea, the Biden administration announced this week that they would engage with the World Trade Organization to recklessly hand over intellectual property developed in response to the Wuhan coronavirus.
Not only is this decision a bad one, it won’t accomplish the feel-good narrative Biden has apparently adopted in search of some kind of moral high ground.
It’s important to understand what information would be made available if the WTO negotiations result in a decision to waive IP protections. As Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), who is the ranking member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, pointed out this week, American innovation is largely responsible for the currently available treatments for COVID-19:
“Nothing better proves the global benefits of strong intellectual property rights than the numerous biopharmaceutical companies who have risen to the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On the heels of record highs in Iron Ore and Steel earlier this week, as commodity demand soars on the back of economies emerging from COVID lockdowns (demand) and various supply chain/operational issues (supply); copper prices surged to an all-time high this morning as Chinese investors unleashed fresh demand following a five-day holiday.
Bloomberg Intelligence strategist Mike McGlone said that “the reaction of copper to $10,000-a-ton resistance may set the inflation vs. deflation tone for years”
As Mining.com reports, the reopening of major industrial economies is sparking a surge across commodities markets from corn to lumber, with tin climbing above $30,000 a tonne for the first time since 2011 also on Thursday.
Copper has gained 28.1% since the end of last year and is up 114.9% from its 2020 low, hit in March of that year amid the global economic fallout as countries locked down their populations to contain the spread of covid-19.
San Diego County has rescinded its plans to build a so-called “tent city” for illegal immigrants amid public outcry. According to reports, the county sent a letter to farmers searching for agricultural land for migrants to live on while being offered California’s “wrap around” services, including mental health, schooling and health care.
UPDATE: WE STOPPED THIS! After just a few hours of public outcry, the County of San Diego just issued a "Rescission Notice" cancelling the RFP for land for a Tent City for illegals. "the State has advised the County they are no longer pursuing a search for agricultural land." https://t.co/upXNZLkIYo
Hours later, the county issued a “rescission notice,” following a warning from county supervisor Jim Desmond who called the plans “outrageous.” The state originally denied plans of a “tent city,” but has now officially canceled the request.
(LifeSite News) The Supreme Court of Pakistan has rejected a challenge to its acquittal of Asia Bibi on blasphemy charges, ensuring the Christian mother can finally join her daughters in Canada.
In 2009, the farm worker and mother of five from the small town of Itan Wali was arrested for blasphemy over an argument with some Muslim co-workers who allegedly claimed they couldn’t drink from a cup she had touched, as her Christian faith contaminated it. She was accused of making offensive comments about the Prophet Muhammad in the ensuing argument, in response to claims she should convert to Islam.
A new report in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, most commonly known for operating the “Doomsday Clock,” suggests the left-dominated media and “Trump derangement syndrome” has led to critical questions about the origins of COVID-19 being avoided, ignored, and ultimately led more to suffer.
Writing this week, former science correspondent for the New York Times Nicholas Wade concluded:
To these serried walls of silence must be added that of the mainstream media. To my knowledge, no major newspaper or television network has yet provided readers with an in-depth news story of the lab escape scenario, such as the one you have just read, although some have run brief editorials or opinion pieces. One might think that any plausible origin of a virus that has killed three million people would merit a serious investigation. Or that the wisdom of continuing gain-of-function research, regardless of the virus’s origin, would be worth some probing. Or that the funding of gain-of-function research by the NIH and NIAID during a moratorium on such research would bear investigation. What accounts for the media’s apparent lack of curiosity?
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley (R) joined the “Steve Deace Show” and addressed the problem with “Big Tech monopoly.”
Sen. Hawley expressed a need to break up the Big Tech monopoly before they gain more power over the American people. “Just look what they have tried to do in the past 6-months,” Hawley said.
When the issue of censorship first emerged, Deace explained how he did not want the government involved with the solution. But, now that the dominant platforms like Google, Apple, and Amazon are suppressing any competition from entering the marketplace, government intervention is required.
Hawley later offered suggestions for how to break up Big Tech monopolies.
Watch the clip for more from the this episode of the Steve Deace Show. Can’t watch? Download the full podcast here.
MSNBC Host Donny Deutsch appeared on the network’s “Morning Joe” program on Friday and predicted that former president Donald Trump would be indicted before he could run for president in 2024.
During his appearance with Host Mika Brzezinski, Deutsch declared Trump as a “losing proposition” for the GOP, who will be “unelectable” by the next presidential election cycle, and hurled the standard insults at Trump supporters.
“Donald Trump is a losing proposition. Those images that we were playing of people storming the Capitol, that’s all you have to say about Donald Trump. So what is so insane about the Republicans, and by the way, he will be indicted between now and the next election, he is unelectable. Donald Trump is unelectable.”
“You are fools. Forget right or wrong, you are losers with Donald Trump, get that in your thick dumb skulls.”
Women – not men – are the real target they want to suppress.
An exam board in England is proposing that a ‘women in literature’ A-level module be replaced by ‘gender in literature.’
But why stop at authors? Why not just go the whole hog? It’s coming anyway, let’s just delete ‘women’.
Resist! Females of the world, it’s time to resist!
Women. Girls. Ladies and lasses. Birds and broads. Chicks and babes. Whatever. All you lovely biological human females. Sorry to have to break the news to you, but you’re on the road to cancellation. This brave new world we seem to be falling face first into can only lead to your disappearance.
It’s a fact, you need to face it. You’re all gonna be blended together into a bland and gender-free nothingness just to placate a tiny – yet hugely vocal – minority.
This minuscule band of people is a truly misogynistic yet hugely powerful force in this world. It is, of course, the transgender lobby. They’re not ‘woke’, they’re not liberal nor progressive. They are, quite simply, fascists. And it’s not me – a biological male – that they want to suppress, not really.
It’s the female gender they’re truly after, because YOU are who they REALLY want to be. But they were denied that treat by nature herself, so they have to find another way.
The latest nonsense, and the list is pretty much endless, comes from one of the UK’s top three exam boards – the Oxford Cambridge and RSA (OCR). Some idiotic OCR managers have asked teachers to vote on improving diversity by choosing new texts for its GCSE and A-level courses. They’ve also been asked whether the title of one A-level module, ‘women in literature’, should be replaced by ‘gender in literature’.
Why? What for? To keep who happy? Yup, you guessed it, it can only be the transgender lobby.
Not all teachers are happy. Oh no. And rightly so. David James, the deputy head of Lady Eleanor Holles, an independent girls’ school in London, told the Times: “Any move to erase ‘women’, and by implication the female voice, and the female identity, from A-level literature should be opposed by all English teachers who value real diversity of thought, and who cherish some of the greatest writers to have ever lived.”
“To subsume ‘women’ into something vague like ‘gender’ is reductive, but also meaningless because all literature is ‘gendered’ because it is written by human beings. We have to protect what is distinctive about the female experience throughout the centuries. Once lost it will be difficult to reclaim.”
Exactly! And it’s not just teachers who have had enough of this trans idiocy, it’s also people within the alphabet soup that make up the LGBTQ community. Females. People like Sam Esther, a lesbian and feminist. She told RT: “Males who identify as transgender or who are referred to as ‘trans women’ are not any kind of woman because ‘women’ are adult human females – a sex, rather than a gender role or set of ‘feminine’ stereotypes that anyone can embrace.”
“The silencing of dissident opinion is frightening, a modern day witch-hunt. A clash of rights has emerged which can only be resolved by free respectful discussion and debate.”
Here’s another voice from the resistance. Lydia Falcon O’Neill was TORTURED by the Franco regime in 1970s Spain for her feminist and leftwing ideals. She thinks the transgender lobby is just as bad as the fascist ideology of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco. She told RT the trans lobby plan is “To make women, effectively, disappear and to insert themselves into public services, sports, monopolise business as well as political, electoral, and cultural quotas [for women]… It is a declared war.”
Resist, resist, resist – it is time to resist!
As for me, next time I meet a transgender woman I refuse to pretend I don’t think she/he looks like a man trying to look like a woman. And I refuse – I simply refuse – to have him/her decide which pronoun comes out of my mouth. Sorry. It’s a form of resistance but it won’t be keeping me very busy – I have only met two transgender women in my entire life (and both of them were lovely people, they would hate this trans gender bully boy bullshit).
Size is important here, and this is my point entirely. All the noise is generated by a tiny – minuscule – number of individuals. There are way more redheads in this world than transsexuals.
The government reckon there are between 200,000 and 500,000 transgender folk in the UK – somewhere around half of 1% of the entire population. The trans lobby will, of course, suggest there are many many more – probably in the millions – there is, after all, strength in numbers. Well, I haven’t seen them and, sorry guys/gals – I don’t mean to be rude – but you’re generally not that hard to spot.
Yes, statistics are hard to come by – I know because I have tried to find them. But within that half of 1%, I am willing to bet that a sizable majority – perhaps three quarters – is biological men who want to become women. It’s male dominated. It’s not biological females making all this noise.
May I suggest these people are manifesting the aggressive and obstinate traits of their – biological – gender? It is, you see, simply in their blood. Written there in their DNA. That Y chromosome is a noisy bugger.
I am not, by nature, an intolerant guy. I am a liberal in the true sense of the word. Live and let live, but you have to live in THIS world – and it’s imperfect. Changing the law and exam module titles or the gender on certificates does not change underlying reality.
But I am utterly intolerant to idiocy and bullying. And, make no mistake, this is bullying.
Get a sex change operation if you wish. Follow up every piece of paper you’ve ever generated in your life and change the gender. Whine like you’ve been stabbed in the chest if some evil sod uses the incorrect pronoun. Okay, okay, okay. I simply don’t care. If you really think this will make you happy. Go ahead. Please. Go ahead and just shut up about it.
But just how much must I and the rest of the world participate in your search for identity? Yes, somewhere around half of one percent of the world identifies as trans sexual – but half of the entire global population is… female.
Ladies, I really think it’s time now to join the resistance – before you all get cancelled.
(The Scoop) The media has been reporting on the claims made by one reporter from The Arizona Republic who “spotted blue pens near ballots,” as reported by NBC News. Test ballots were on the floor when the blue pens were out according to the reporter who first alleged blue pens being used during the audit by counters
Election officials say to use red or green pens to make sure the ink does not spoil or change a vote because of the ballot-counting machine being able to read blue or black ink.
Blue-Ink Pens Rumor
CBS News claimed that election experts are “troubled by the way ballots are being handled during the audit.”
Many have been set up to believe that workers were, “equipped with blue-ink pens, which are prohibited by the Arizona election procedures manual during hand counts because marks on the ballots would be indistinguishable from a voter’s marks.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will report only those breakthrough cases resulting in hospitalization or death. The agency also lowered the testing threshold, but only for the fully vaccinated.
As more reports surface of breakthrough COVID cases, in and outside the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today said it will change how breakthrough cases are reported, effective May 14.
According to a statement on the CDC’s website, the agency said to help “maximize the quality of the data collected on cases of greatest clinical and public health importance” it will stop reporting weekly COVID breakthrough infections unless they result in hospitalization or death.
The news followed another change, announced late last month, in how PCR tests should be administered to the fully vaccinated.
Both changes will result in lower overall numbers of reports of breakthrough cases in the U.S.
In April, the CDC issued new guidance to laboratories recommending reducing the RT-PCR CT value to 28 cycles — but only for those fully vaccinated individuals being tested for COVID.
