One thing that occurs to us as an afterthought - there could be compulsion introduced to force people to take the vaccination. In that case, quite apart from any physical resistance which we would certainly provide - even at 74 (!), all one needs to do is refuse to sign the waiver document. At the moment you are required to sign this waiver where you agree that neither you nor your heirs will take any legal action against the vaccination providers in the event of any adverse reaction - such as death!! The waiver at the moment probably also states that you are taking the vaccination voluntarily, which of course would not be the case if any degree of compulsion is used. More food for thought.
MUNDO - World
Population - 7,864,111,215 - (7,862,553,523) - up 1,557,692 or 0.02%
Active cases - 17,719,172 - (18,509,989) - down 790,817 or 4.3%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,253 - (2,354) - down 101 or 4.3%
Weekly reduction rates increasing week by week.
ARGENTINA
Population -45,553,852 - (45,545,928) - up 7,924 or 1.7%
Active cases - 281,414 - (272,089) - up 9,325 or 3.4%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 6,178 - (5,974) - up 204 or 3.4%
A worryingly turn-around from last week's reduction of 4.0%
AUSTRALIA
Population - 25,755,133 - (25,749,476) - up 5,657 or 0.02%
Active cases - 186 - (271) - down 85 or 31.4%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 7 - (11) - down 4 or 36.4%
On the basis of population, they'll be beating NZ soon!!
BOLIVIA
Population - 11,810,296 - (11,807,250) - up 3,046 or 0.03%
Active cases - 45,842 - (42,971) - up 2,871 or 6.7%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 3,882 - (3,639) - up 243 or 6.7%
A slight reduction in the rate of last week's increase, but still concerning
BRAZIL
Population - 213,864,852 - (213,836,998) - up 27,854 or 0.01%
Active cases - 1,026,902 - (1,000,512) - up 26,390 or 2.6%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 4,802 - (4,679) - up 123 or 2.6%
A concerning turn-around from last week's reduction of 3.7%.
CHILE
Population - 19,257,906 - (19,254,771) - up 3,135 or 0.02%
Active cases - 37,473 - (36,126) - up 1,344 or 3.7%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 1,946 - (1,876) - up 70 or 3.7%
A sudden reversal of previous weeks. Last week was down 7.4%.
COLOMBIA
Population - 51,350,926 - (51,340,559) - up 10,367 or 0.02%
Active cases - 113,463 - (101,467) - up 11,996 or 11.8%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,210 - (1,976) - up 234 or 11.8%
Last week down 14.1%; this week up 11.8%. We don't know what to believe.
COSTA RICA
Population - 5,134,282 - (5,133,393) - up 889 or 0.02%
Active cases - 57,307 - (48,710) - up 8,597 or 17.7%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 11,162 - (9,489) - up 1,673 or 17.6%
Another basket case. Last week up 14.4% - this week up 17.6%. What is happening...............??
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
This is the first week of including this country for the reason that our yachting friends who we met in Thailand are now holed up there to wait out the Chinese Virus and also the Caribbean hurricane season which starts around September. They sailed across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope, up the S Atlantic and now in the Caribbean. We hope that all goes well for them.
There are no comparative figures yet for the previous week.
Population - 10,941,808
Active cases - 38,134
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 3,485
Not good figures - hopefully next week will see an improvement.
ECUADOR
Population - 17,873,899 - (17,868,773) - up 5,126 or 0.03%
Active cases - 43,463 - (46,727) - down 3,264 or 7.0%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,432 - (2,615) - down 183 or 7.0%
A reversal of last week's increase - long may it continue.
JAPAN
Population - 126,140,961 - (126,148,334) - down 7,373 or 0.006%
Active cases - 74,846 - (63,037) - up 11,809 or 18.7%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 593 - (500) - up 93 or 18.6%
Another increase - almost double that of last week. Along with a naturally diminishing population, this should be of great concern.
MALAYSIA
Population - 32,723,609 - (32,715,679) - up 7,930 or 0.02%
Active cases - 41,471 - (34,789) - up 6,682 or 19.2%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 1,267 - (1,063) - up 204 or 19.2%
Kicking foreign yachts, most of whom have been there since well before the Chinese Virus started, out of the country is NOT the answer to their problems. Shades of the lunatic and unprincipled behaviour in New Zealand.
Our friends who were in Malaysia and are now in Thailand have been able to leave the previous bad anchorage at Koh Yao Yai and are now at Koh Naka Noi where we waited for a few frustrating and hot days before being loaded onto the M.V. Annegret when we shipped the old girl (the yacht!) to Turkey in 2018. But it is a good anchorage by comparison and we hope for their sake that the Thai formalities are completed soon..
MEXICO
Population - 130,101,834 - (130,075,942) - up 25,892 or 0.02%
Active cases - 259,731 - (260,945) - down 1,214 or 0.5%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 1,996 - (2,006) - down 10 or 0.5%
Another small decrease almost the same as last week. We look forward to increasing rates of reduction for the future..........
NEW ZEALAND
Population - 5,002,100 - (5,002,100) - no change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't know what goes on down there! Not a lot, obviously!
Active cases - 18 - (26) - down 8 or 30.8%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 4 - (5) - down 1 or 20.0%
PANAMA
Population - 4,373,282 - (4,371,982) - up 1,300 or 0.03%
Active cases - 4,809 - (3,965) - up 844 or 21.3%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 1,100 - (907) - up 193 or 21.3%
A disappointing week where the rate of weekly increase has increased markedly.
PARAGUAY
Population - 7,208,106 - (7,206,431) - up 1,675 or 0.02%
Active cases - 45,670 - (43,617) - up 2,053 or 4.7%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 6,336 - 6,053) - up 283 or 4.7%
Rate of weekly increase has risen again.
PERU
Population - 33,367,789 - (33,359,002) - up 8,787 or 0.03%
Active cases - 87,335 - (48,783) - up 38,552 or 79.0%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 2,617 - (1,462) - up 1,155 or 79.0%
Crazy difference from last week (13.9%). Obviously a matter of great concern.
TAIWAN
Population - 23,854,078 - (23,853,256) - up 822 or 0.003%
Active cases - 171 - (89) - up 82 or 92.1%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 7 - (4) - up 3 or 75%
Much bigger increase over last week, but still very small numbers.
THAILAND
Population - 69,951,611 - (69,948,170) - up 3,441 or 0.005%
Active cases - 33,186 - (29,320) - up 3,866 or 13.2%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 474 - (419) - up 55 or 13.1%
Rate of increase much higher than previous week. Hope this can be reversed soon.
UNITED KINGDOM
Population - 68,194,286 - (68,187,480) - up 6,806 or 0.001%
Active cases - 58,987 - (60,495) - down 1,508 or 2.5%
Active cases per 1 million of total population - 865 - (887) - down 22 or 2.5%
A much lower rate of decrease than last week, but still progressing in the right direction.
In the meantime, incursions of illegal immigrant channel crossings are ever increasing, especially now the summer is almost upon us.
And as a breath of fresh air, apart from Nigel Farage who is straight to the point as usual, if you get a chance please listen to Alex Belfield on Youtube. He has been the subject of a determined effort to destroy his broadcasting, his reputation and indeed his life, by the Nottinghamshire Police in cahoots with the BBC. That these appalling things could take place in the cradle of democracy, Britain, is shocking and just illustrate the depths of authoritarianism that we are sinking into - all the while using the excuse of the Kung Flu!! The Nottinghamshire bobbies even removing their shoulder badges so they could not be identified.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Population - 332,680,263 - (332,643,210) - up 37,053 or 0.01%
Active cases - 6,363,131 - (6,669,775) - down 306,644 or 4.6%
Active cases per 1 million of total population of - 19,127 - (20,051) - down 924 or 4.6%
Double last week's rate of decrease. Much more encouraging.
URUGUAY
Population - 3,484,143 - (3,483,913) - up 230 or 0.007%
Active cases - 27,216 - (25,971) - up 1,245 or 4.8%
Active cases per 1 million of total population of - 7,811 - (7,455) - up 356 or 4.8%
A very disappointing reversal of recent reductions. This very high rate needs to be reversed.
UNITED STATES -
This is happening RIGHT NOW in the USA. And it will spread to the rest of the world unless it is nipped in the bud. Only a few courageous people are currently speaking out. Maybe the only solution, as things have probably now gone too far, is for the "red" states to secede from the Union. The following article from Professor Victor Davis Hanson lays it all out in stark relief.
Victor Davis Hanson is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Center for American Greatness. He is the author of more than two dozen books, ranging in topics from ancient Greece to modern America. He lives in Selma, California.
"Are Americans becoming Sovietised? 10 warning signs about the woke left's radical agenda.
What ultimately ended the nihilist Soviet system?
Was it not that Russians finally tired of the Kremlin's lies and hypocrisies that permeated every facet of their falsified lives?
Here are 10 symptoms of Sovietism. Ask yourself whether we are headed down this same road to perdition.
There was no escape from ideological indoctrination - anywhere.
A job in the bureaucracy or a military assignment hinged not so much on merit, expertise or past achievement. What mattered was loud enthusiasm for the Soviet system.
Wokeness is becoming our new Soviet-like state religion. Careerists assert that America was always and still is a systemically racist country, without ever producing proof or a sustained argument.
The Soviets fused their press with the government
Pravda, or "Truth", was the official megaphone of state-sanctioned lies. Journalists simply regurgitated the talking points of their Communist Party partners.
In 2017, a Harvard study found that over 90% of the major news networks' coverage of the Trump administration's first 100 days was negative.
The Soviet surveillance state enlisted apparatchiks and lackeys to ferret out ideological dissidents.
Recently, we learned that the Department of Defense is reviewing its rosters to spot extremist sentiments. The US Postal Service recently admitted it uses tracking programmes to monitor the social media postings of Americans.
CNN recently alleged that the Biden administration's Department of Homeland Security is considering partnering with private surveillance firms to get around government prohibitions on scrutinising Americans' on-line activity.
The Soviet educational system sought not to enlighten but to indoctrinate young minds in proper government-approved thought.
Currently, cash-strapped universities nationwide are hiring thousands of diversity, equity and inclusion staffers and administrators. Their chief task is to scan the admissions, hiring, curriculum and administration at universities. Like good commissars, our diversity czars oversee compliance with the official narrative that a flawed America must confess, apologise for and renounce its evil foundations.
In America, where and for what reason you riot determines whether you face any legal consequences.
The Soviet Union was run by a pampered elite, exempt from the ramifications of their own radical ideologies.
Now, woke Silicon Valley billionaires talk socialistically but live royally. Coke and Delta Airlines CEO's who hector Americans about their illiberality make millions of dollars a year.
What unites current woke activists such as Oprah Winfrey, LeBron James, Mark Zuckerberg and the Obamas are their huge estates and their multi-million dollar wealth. Just as the select few of the old Soviet nomenklatura had their Black Sea dachas, America's loudest top-down revolutionaries prefer living in Martha's Vineyard, Beverly Hills, Montecito and Malibu.
The Soviets mastered Trotskyisation, or the rewriting and airbrushing away of history to fabricate present reality.
Are Americans any different when they indulge in a frenzy of name-changing, statue-toppling, monument-defacing, book-banning and cancel-culturing?
The Soviets created a climate of fear and rewarded stool pigeons for rooting out all potential enemies of the people.
Since when did Americans encourage co-workers to turn in others for an ill-considered word in a private conversation? Why do thousands now scour the internet to find any past incorrect expression of a rival? Why are there now new thought criminals supposedly guilty of climate racism, immigration racism, or vaccination racism?
Soviet prosecutors and courts were weaponised according to ideology.
In America, where and for what reason you riot determines whether you face any legal consequences. Politically correct sanctuary cities defy the law with impunity. Jury members are terrified of being doxxed and hunted down for an incorrect verdict. The CIA and FBI are becoming as ideological as the old KGB.
The Soviets offered no apologies for extinguishing freedom.
Instead they boasted that they were advocates for equity, champions of the underclass, enemies of privilege - and therefore could terminate anyone or anything they pleased.
Our wokists are similarly defending their thought-control efforts, forced re-education sessions, scripted confessionals, mandatory apologies and cancel culture on the pretense that we need long-overdue "fundamental transformation".
So if they destroy people in the name of equity, their nihilism is justified."
ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW UNDER OUR NOSES IN ALL COUNTRIES THAT HITHERTO IDENTIFIED AS DEMOCRACIES.
As regards the unbelievable border crisis entirely of this incompetent administration's making, 20 state governors on May 11th. have now written to the crook imposter, Biden, to advise that they will not be allowing any of the many illegal immigrants into their states. This sounds like a last-ditch effort as a preliminary move before Secession to us.
The states include Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, Idaho, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.
The text of the letter, written to Biden and his even more appalling Veep, is as follows:
"We call on you to take action on the crisis at the southern border immediately. Contrary to statements from your Administration, the border is neither closed nor secure. In fact the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) reports a staggering surge in recent crossings: 172,000 encounters in March, the highest number in nearly 20 years, as well as 18,890 unaccompanied children, the largest monthly number in history.
The crisis is too big to ignore and is now spilling over the border states into all of our states. Recently, the US Department of Health and Human Services called upon many of our states to identify potential housing locations for migrants. In addition, the Department circumvented our states altogether by asking private organisations and nonprofits to house unaccompanied migrant children. Often these facilities lack adequate security. Allowing the federal government to place a potentially unlimited number of unaccompanied migrant children into our states' facilities for an unspecified length of time with almost zero transparency is unacceptable and unsustainable. We have neither the resources nor the obligation to solve the federal government's problem and foot the bill for the consequences of this Administration's misguided actions.
This Administration has enticed a rush of migrants to our border and incentivised an influx of illegal crossings by using irresponsible rhetoric and reversing a slew of policies - from halting border wall construction to eliminating asylum agreements to refusing to enforce immigration laws. Even officials of our neighbour, Mexico, reportedly conveyed concerns that the shift in US policy is stoking illegal immigration and creating business for orgnised crime. As Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stated, "They see him as the migrant president, and so many feel they're going to reach the United States. We need to work together to regulate the flow, because this business can't be tackled from one day to the next."
The cause of the border crisis is entirely due to feckless federal policy reversals executed within your first 100 days in office. The rhetoric of the Biden Administration and the rollback of critical agreements with our allies have led to the inhumane treatment of tens of thousands of children and undermined a fragile immigration system. While the most direct victims of the policy changes will be the children exploited and trafficked by gangs and cartels, the disastrous impact of your policies on America's recovery will be far-reaching.
Federal, state, and local authorities are overwhelmed, and the situation on the ground is heartbreaking. After a dangerous journey, many children are living in overcrowded conditions with uncertain futures and without parents or loved ones to care for them. Beyond the humanitarian crisis, the lack of border security is a criminal one, threatening the safety of American citizens. The CBP reports a 233% increase in the seizure of Fentanyl compared to January last year, exacerbating the nation's opioid epidemic. Law enforcement officials are recovering drugs, illegal narcotics, and weapons being smuggled across the border by cartels - the same cartels that are also trafficking men, women, and children and jeopardising their lives.
At a time when our country is trying to recover from a once-in-a-generation pandemic, the last thing we need is self-created crisis that exploits families, undermines public safety, and threatens our national security. We urge you to take action to end the humanitarian crisis secure our southern border immediately.
Sincerely............................."
In the meantime, the forensic audit in Maricopa County is moving on with the latest desperate crooked Dim move being to block release of the modems from the vote tabulating machines, despite access to these components being the subject of a legal subpoena. It is important to understand that this audit (and others) is not just a recount. It goes far deeper than that. The efforts to overturn this audit are mind-boggling, unless you realise how high the stakes are. If substantial fraud is revealed and proved, then the floodgates will be opened in many other states to perform the same audits. Already tens of thousands of illegitimate ballots have been identified and the crook Biden's margin was only 10,000.
Antrim County in Michigan and the state of New Hampshire are also commencing their own forensic audits. We have already named the other states. The Arizona audit is unfortunately now on hold for a week because originally the Maricopa Electoral Board, in an effort to make things as difficult as possible for the audit company and the Arizona Senate, refused permission to use their own premises for the audit. So everything had to be moved to a sports stadium which was the only venue able to offer the level of security needed. However, the stadium is booked for a week for school prize-givings - hence the delay.
We firmly believe that this audit which is of necessity below the reporting radar of all news organisations (incl. Fox), will eventually result in proving that President Trump is the legitimate President of the United States of America.
As always there is so much more we could say in respect of political shenanigans on the part of the Socialist crooks, including the hacking of the Colonial Pipeline, which supplies 45% of the entire E Coast fuel supplies, including to the military and air transport. Instead of confronting it head-on and going after the hackers, Biden & Co. simply rolled over with their feet in the air and, through the company that runs the pipeline paid the hackers a ransome of 5 million USD. This is awful because it will absolutely guarantee similar hacks to water treatment and electricity utilities with no doubt devastating results. And what if the CCP decided to immobilise all ATM's in the US. It is within their capabilities.
Anyway, that will do for now.
COLOMBIA -
May 5th. Protests put Colombia's far-right government on brink of collapse
May 6th. Medellin becomes latest stop in Colombia Police's National Terror Tour
May 6th. Colombia's defence minister gives police "standing ovation" after week of terror
May 7th. Colombia continues to terrorise population after promising talks to end protests
May 7th. Almost 380 of Colombia's anti-government protestors "disappeared" in past week
May 10th. Duque orders more troops to Colombia's southwest amid fears of civil war
May 10th. Colombia state terror campaign broadcast live on Twitter
May 10th. Colombia's peace movement throws weight behind anti-government protests
May 10th. Colombia trying to cover up attempted indigenous massacre
May 11th. New strike day in Colombia on Wednesday after fruitless talks
May 12th. Government agrees to negotiate as Colombia embarks on new day of protests
May 12th. Colombia's anti-government protests Part 1: fighting fascism with carnival
May 12th. Colombia's anti-government protests Part 2: fighting hate speech with K-pop
May 13th. Colombia's anti-government protests Part 3: the VP topples herself
May 13th. Colombia's anti-government protests Part4: peaceful anarchy
It's lucky that Jean went to Miami when she did because according to Medellin Expats and Tourism, flights are booked out for May and June by Colombians who can afford it all flying to Florida to get the jab!! Unbelievable the lengths people will go to when they allow themselves to be convinced by a totally false narrative. But there you are.
As another example of the wokeness and cancellation culture that abounds these days, Jean had befriended on social media an American who lives in La Ceja (about an hour's drive from Medellin) and we had future plans to drive up there and meet him and his wife. They are from California, so that should have been a red flag!! Anyway, he said that he had come across a pro-Trump comment that Jean had posted on social media and announced that as a result he was banning her from any media with which he was involved. Another typical narrow-minded Democrat unable or unwilling to accept the truth of alternative arguments. The sooner people like that are ousted from government the better. 2022 can't come soon enough.
.AUSTRALIA -
Once again Australia is standing up to the CCP in stark contrast to NZ. We don't know what the outcome will be, but when, not if, the CCP invades Taiwan the results will be dire indeed. China knows that, if it is to take that action, it needs to do so sooner rather than later. It will take advantage of comparative US - CCP military weakness while that imbalance continues thanks to past Democrat administrations, and a worsening of their own demographics where they are seriously running out of numbers of their fighting age population. These imperatives remain a great threat to Australia and the US as time is running out.
NEW ZEALAND -
Dr. Siousxie Wiles, a controversial and eccentric microbiologist and infectious diseases expert, has written an article in which she denigrates all arguments against the "vaccinations" and says that she won't be "debunking" the anti-vaxx arguments - then proceeds to do exactly that!!
She advances absolutely no arguments to support her point of view except to refer to the "disinformation" campaign being advanced in a nuanced form by people who oppose the "vaccinations" on well researched grounds. It is a typical woke approach of attempted denigration of any argument or opposing point of view and designed to appeal to the believing masses who will simply lap up any authoritarian statements without getting off their backsides to properly examine arguments which are going to have a life and death effect on all of them.
Dr. Wiles was named New Zealander of the Year - no doubt because she espouses all the official government lines in reacting to the Chinese Virus. And New Zealanders, like Lemmings everywhere just lap it up.
Add that to the surreptitious and underhand moves by the Ardern crooks to subvert NZ's parliamentary system on a racial basis and there is a recipe for disaster.
Read Muriel Newman's latest weekly newsletter for further very disturbing information.
At least there are the new Conservative Party, the ACT Party and now belatedly even the hitherto woke National Party who are all starting to speak out against these policies which, if allowed to continue unchecked, will destroy NZ.
And another thing that needs to happen is a statement of solidarity with Australia against the CCP together with an immediate revocation of the recently signed Belt and Road Initiative with the CCP genocidal murderers.
A closing thought for the week -
In Jerusalem, a journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Wailing Wall to pray, twice a day, everyday, for a long, long time.
She went to the Wailing Wall and there he was!
She watched him pray and after about 45 minutes, when he turned to leave, she approached him for an interview.
"Sir, how long have you been coming to the Wall and praying?"
"For about 50 years," said the old man.
"50 years! That's amazing! What do you pray for?"
"Well, I pray for peace. I pray for all the hatred to stop and I pray for all our children to grow up wise, in safety and friendship."
"How do you feel after doing this for 50 years?"
"Like I'm talking to a wall!"
We hope that the coming week is kind to all.
Cheers and lotsaluv from us in the City of Eternal Spring.............
Jim and Jean
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