Switching Sides: Harris Reveals She Doesn’t See Eye to Eye With Biden Regarding Key Issue

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Vice President Kamala Harris refused to blame the unvaccinated for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a noticeably different stance than has been taken by President Biden.

“I don’t think this is a moment to talk about fault,” Harris said during an interview with CBS when pressed on the matter. “It is no one’s fault that this virus hit our shores or hit the world. … It is more about individual power and responsibility and the decisions that everyone has the choice to make.”

Biden has taken a less forgiving stance toward unvaccinated Americans.

“This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Biden said in a September address to the nation. “And it’s caused by the fact that despite America having an unprecedented and successful vaccination program, despite the fact that for almost five months free vaccines have been available in 80,000 different locations, we still have nearly 80 million Americans who have failed to get the shot.”

While Harris may not be willing to blame the unvaccinated for the continued spread of the virus, she did make clear that the best thing people can do to protect themselves is to get their vaccine or a booster. (Read more from “Switching Sides: Harris Reveals She Doesn’t See Eye to Eye With Biden Regarding Key Issue” HERE)

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Amazon Deleted Reviews of Chinese President’s Book on Government’s Orders: Report

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Didn’t like Chinese President Xi Jinping’s book? Keep your mouth shut.

That’s what China told Amazon, according to a new report, when the country pushed the bookseller to delete all comments and reviews related to “The Governance of China,” a compendium of Xi’s speeches and writings.

Amazon complied. It’s another example of a US company bending to Chinese pressure in order to keep doing business in the huge and growing economy.

The government edict was delivered two years ago, according to the Reuters report citing two people familiar with the matter, but had never before been disclosed.

Now, on Amazon sites accessed within China, there are no reviews or star ratings for the book. (Read more from “Amazon Deleted Reviews of Chinese President’s Book on Government’s Orders: Report” HERE)

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Likes, Shares and Posts Now Prohibited in Pentagon’s New Anti-Extremism Policy

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Membership in extremist groups is still not prohibited by the Defense Department, but an updated instruction released Monday seeks to prohibit pretty much everything that one might do in association with an extremist group.

The project of defining extremism for the purpose of punishing those who engage it is like “threading a very fine needle, when we’re engaging in prohibiting conduct that may be protected by the First Amendment,” a defense official told reporters Monday, as the Countering Extremism Working group released its final report.

“We wanted to push forward with the same standard that we had in our previous iterations of this policy, which is that active participation,” an official said. “So it was really important to us that we preserve First Amendment rights to the extent that we could, and that we focus on an individual’s actions, regardless of whether they did that on their own or as part of an organization.”

Instead, the new policy expands the previous definition of prohibited activity, for the first time explicitly including online interactions that might promote terrorism or the overthrow of the U.S. government, as well as attending rallies, fundraising or organizing in support of those ideologies.

In practice, online activity could already be prosecuted by the services. In 2019, the Army began investigating Maj. Jeff Poole, an Army Reserve infantry officer at Fort Benning, Georgia, with a prolific Reddit presence advocating for violent anti-government and anti-military insurrection. (Read more from “Likes, Shares and Posts Now Prohibited in Pentagon’s New Anti-Extremism Policy” HERE)

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Triple Vaccinated MSNBC Host Announces He Has COVID

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CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday he’s tested positive for Covid and isolating at home with a mild case.

“I have Covid. I came down with Covid on Thursday night,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” He added he’s been triple vaccinated: two shots of Moderna and a Moderna booster.

“I know exactly how I got it,” he said. “I was at an event where you had to have PCR [tests].”

“I got it that night from someone who was tested that day,” he said. “The problem is it works so fast. You can’t stop it.

Cramer said his wife is sicker than he is. “She had J&J and Moderna,” he revealed, referring to the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine and a Moderna booster shot. (Read more from “Triple Vaccinated MSNBC Host Announces He Has COVID” HERE)

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State Lawmakers Asked to Approve Concentration Camps for the Sick

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When American mayors, governors and others wanted their populations to submit to COVID-19 lockdown and other orders, they were faced with what they perceived as an obstacle: those individuals who simply would not follow orders.

Now, in the state of New York, a proposal is being prepared for lawmakers to consider that would resolve that dispute.

A plan prefiled for the coming legislature would allow authorities to simply determine who they wanted locked up – and then lock them up.

The idea, cast as a “public health law,” is being prepared for the 2021-2022 legislature.

It would allow the governor or his appointee to decide that anyone who is sick and “may” pose a danger to another, “shall be detained in a medical facility or other appropriate facility or premises designated by the governor or his or her delegee…” (Read more from “State Lawmakers Asked to Approve Concentration Camps for the Sick” HERE)

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One Rare Mineral May Spell Doom for Electric Vehicle Market

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Lithium — a mineral that is key for electric car batteries — continues to rise in price, jeopardizing the ongoing transition to renewable energy outlined by Western governments.

The cost of lithium has skyrocketed more than 250% over the last 12 months, hitting its highest level ever, according to an industry index from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. While the cost of manufacturing a lithium-ion battery for an electric vehicle (EV) has fallen sharply over the last decade, the decline has slowed in recent months due to rising lithium costs.

The average cost of an EV battery pack fell to $157 per kilowatt hour, a measure of energy capacity, in 2021, the Department of Energy said in October. That means a typical EV battery is between $6,000 and $7,000, a BloombergNEF analysis showed.

Battery costs would need to come down to $100 per kilowatt hour for overall EV prices to compete with traditional internal combustion engine cars, according to Bloomberg. The price of lithium will play a large role in achieving that goal. (Read more from “One Rare Mineral May Spell Doom for Electric Vehicle Market” HERE)

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Report: Mild Omicron Variant Now a Majority of U.S. COVID Cases

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The omicron variant now makes up a majority of COVID-19 cases in the United States, at 73.2 percent, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in updated figures released on Monday.

The statistics are for the week ending Dec. 18 and show the rapid spread of the variant in the U.S. That spike is a significant increase from just 12.6 percent of cases one week earlier.

The omicron variant is highly transmissible, and officials are bracing for a large wave of infections in the coming weeks. However, people who are vaccinated, and especially those with booster shots, are well protected against severe disease from the variant, experts say, meaning the greatest risk is for the unvaccinated. (Read more from “Report: Mild Omicron Variant Now a Majority of U.S. COVID Cases” HERE)

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Will The UK Mandate COVID Vaccines And Become A Two-Tier Society?

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Americans may wonder how their Revolutionary nemesis across the pond is faring in the battle between COVID restrictions and civil liberties. Well, the world is being drowned in a rising tide of two-tier medical apartheid — and Britain is no longer exempt.

It began with retired doctor David Lloyd endorsing the United Kingdom following Austria, Germany, and Greece in imposing indefinite lockdowns and punitive fines on people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19. Then “Good Morning Britain”ran a Twitter poll asking viewers if the government should make vaccination mandatory. The poll registered 89 percent of 42,663 votes against and was deleted.

Then Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced at a press conference that vaccine passports would be introduced in response to the Omicron variant (which the U.K. reported its first death with this week). Despite promises that COVID certification will only apply to nightclubs, we’ve seen the scheme expanded to other venues in neighboring nations Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, across Europe, and in New York. . .

Afterwards, academics, journalists, and Baroness Karen Brady appropriated the Soviet’s antisemitic term “refuseniks” to condemn those unwilling to take a COVID vaccine. The apparatuses of state, media, and academia moved in lockstep to normalize the punishment, ostracism, and confiscation of bodily autonomy from the unvaccinated.

As somebody who cannot take any of the offered booster jabs, it terrifies me that health-care workers — whom the British public venerated every Thursday evening during the pandemic — and so-called “libertarian” politicians now support making me a second-class citizen due to my medical condition. (Read more from “Will the UK Mandate COVID Vaccines and Become a Two-Tier Society?” HERE)

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Biden Vowed a Return to Normalcy — Instead, We Got a Year of Chaos

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. . .I’m not saying Joe Biden is his own worst enemy. It’s more like he’s his own worst best friend, a man who gives himself absolutely terrible advice and is deeply grateful to himself both for offering and listening to such sage counsel. . .

Those totals were consonant with the relatively modest set of promises he made to the American people — to restore a sense of normalcy to the nation’s public life, to get a handle on COVID and to lower the national temperature. . .

Instead, he overpromised and, even when he had a chance to deliver, he actively tried to slash the tires on his own delivery truck. That’s what happened when the politically feasible parts of his gigantic domestic-spending bill — the so-called “hard infrastructure” elements — were split apart from the left-liberal wish-list items and sailed through the Senate with 69 votes.

This was the most significant display of bipartisanship (outside an emergency situation, like the financial meltdown or COVID) in a generation. And Biden himself nearly torpedoed it.

He announced he supported an effort to hold the Senate bill hostage until Congress agreed to the left-liberal wish-list bill — now named “Build Back Better.” So for three months Democrats argued amongst themselves about this until finally it occurred to enough of them that they were being insane to surrender a victory on a major piece of legislation. (Read more from “Biden Vowed a Return to Normalcy — Instead, We Got a Year of Chaos” HERE)

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Why This New Cybersecurity Flaw Is the ‘Most Serious’ in Decades

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A newly discovered cybersecurity flaw is affecting vast swaths the internet from Google and Amazon to the systems used to run militaries and hospitals, with US Homeland Security’s top cybersecurity official calling it the most serious vulnerability in decades.

The flaw is present within a popular piece of software called Log4j, which is part of the ubiquitous programming language Java. Log4j is used by millions of websites and apps — and the software’s flaw potentially allows hackers to take control of systems by typing a simple line of code, according to cybersecurity experts.

“The log4j vulnerability is the most serious vulnerability I have seen in my decades-long career,” Jen Easterly, the director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said Thursday on CNBC.

Most hacking attempts using Log4j so far have involved attackers trying to install cryptocurrency “mining” software on victims’ computers. However, an Iranian hacking group called “Charming Kitten” has also tried to use the vulnerability to breach government agencies and businesses in Israel, according to the cybersecurity company Check Point.

The Log4j flaw is more serious than other cybersecurity flaws because of its “ubiquity, simplicity and complexity,” according to Easterly.

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