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The IMF (US controlled, unelected) offered governments $650 billion in Special Drawing Rights, to buffer losses caused by economic suicide policies, which read like hostage notes in every country.

The Belarusian primo, the Haitian and Burundian and ? Ugandan prime ministers refused the SDR deal, the last three are dead within months of each other. So carrot (SDRs) and stick (assassination).

Meanwhile digital SDRs slowly take over from accountable national currencies, they are utterly disconnected from real economies, will probably end up in the elites’ pockets, and buy some time before Blackrock Vanguard and State Street, the mega investment funds, own all media, pharma, banking, the US Treasury, superannuation, tech and armaments. So much vested interest!

Poverty and hunger is increasing everywhere. Elites get richer, including in those fancy new SDRs. Debt will be the main product of all this cascade of nonsense. If we can bail out business and citizens for a moderate virus, why not fix climate change or poverty? Bailouts inflate stockmarkets so richer people think things are ‘okay’ when fundamentals (ecology, manufacturing, soil and water) are going backwards.

CDC (vested interest capitol of non regulators) recently changed the reportage of SARS-cov-2 to not include the vaccinated, so naturally new cases are the unvaccinated. This is being prosecuted around the US media like a witch hunt beginning. 50 per cent of US people are wary of COVID vaccines. The vaccines are proving ineffective and promoting variants. At least 480 are dead in Oz from vaccines, more than the disease this year. This does not include the longer-term effects which, if the vaccine is anything like the SARS-COV-1 vaccines, will be serious. Early good treatments for the vulnerable is the sensible alternative to unproven vaccines.

The right wing are leading the pushback. The Greens have failed us, like the Democrats.

Love is all. 

Dr Liz Elliott, Billinudgel

♦ Ed: Because so many people die each day in Australia from various (including natural) causes, and so many people have been recently vaccinated, the number of deaths ‘following’ vaccination reported is around 500. But after investigating each death the Therapeutic Goods Administration has found nine deaths in Australia (not 480) have beeen caused by vaccination (eight from blood clots TTS following AZ vaccine, and one from immune thrombocytopenia following AZ vaccine). See Australian Vaccine Death Claims

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