For the first time since 2003, there are cases of Malaria in the United States.  All five known cases were acquired through local transmission.

According to a health alert issued Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were four cases detected in Florida and one in Texas.

The Associated Press reported that Malaria is caused by a parasite that spreads through mosquito bites. Infected people can suffer fever, chills, and flu-like illness. If it goes untreated, infected people can develop severe complications and die. The largest death toll in recent years has been seen in children in sub-Saharan Africa.

Malaria can be prevented by avoiding mosquito bites. Drain and Cover is a method currently being used in Sarasota and Manatee counties. Basically, you should drain standing water to keep mosquitoes from multiplying and you should cover your skin with clothing or bug repellent and cover doors and windows:

• Drain water from garbage cans, gutters, pool covers, toys, flower pots, or anywhere else where sprinklers and rainwater have been collected
• Discard old tires, bottles, cans, pots, pans, broken appliances and other items not being used
• Empty and clean birdbaths and pet water bowls at least once or twice a week
• Protect boats and vehicles from rain with tarps
• Maintain swimming pools and keep them appropriately chlorinated
• Wear socks, shoes, and long pants with long sleeves (especially when working in areas where mosquitoes are present)
• Apply mosquito repellent to bare skin and clothing
• Cover doors and windows with screens to keep mosquitoes out of your house

Malaria is not transmitted from person to person.  Infected Anopheles mosquitoes can transmit malaria to humans and they must have been infected through a previous blood meal taken from an infected person, the CDC said.

Bill Gates-Backed BioTe...

This article was originally published by Olivia Cook at Natural News. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has noted in a study that nearly one in five Americans have been diagnosed with depression  and the prevalence varies on where they live.

CDC researchers looked at the agencys Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to analyze how adults answered a 2020 survey about whether theyve been diagnosed with a depressive disorder by a health professional and nearly 400,000 respondents in all 50 states and Washington D.C. responded to the question on depression.

The study published in the CDCs June 16 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) noted that in 2020, 18.4 percent of U.S. adults reported having been diagnosed with depression in their lifetime by a healthcare provider. Higher rates of depression were found in women, young adults aged between 18 and 24, and adults with lower education levels.

It also found that depression rates vary substantially by state, with those in the Appalachian and southern Mississippi Valley regions registering high rates. Of all the areas surveyed, Hawaii registered the lowest depression rate at 12.7 percent.

West Virginia took the top spot, with 27.5 percent of residents being diagnosed with depression. It was followed by Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Vermont, Alabama, Louisiana, Washington, Missouri, and Montana.

Researchers from the public health agency noted that the variation in depression might also reflect the influence of social determinants of health in counties and states, including economic status and differences in access to health care. They wrote: For example, adults in the Appalachian region tend to have lower incomes, higher poverty rates, and lower education levels, all of which can negatively affect health and well-being.

Incidentally, the period of the CDCs study coincided with the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and lockdowns to curb the spread of the disease. The draconian health measures confined many to the four corners of their homes.

The fact that Americans are more depressed and struggling after this time of incredible stress and isolation is perhaps not surprising, said American Psychiatric Association President Dr. Rebecca Brendel back in May 2023.

There are lingering effects on our health, especially our mental health, from the past three years that disrupted everything we knew.

COVID-19 pandemic contributed to rise in depression

A July 2011 study pub...

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog. 

Despite so much evidence to the contrary, the Biden administration continues to insist that the U.S. economy is on the right track.  But is that really true?  Thanks to the Federal Reserve, interest rates are now much higher and the money supply has been contracting at the fastest pace since the Great Depression.

As a result, large companies have been conducting mass layoffs, the housing bubble is imploding, and economic activity is rapidly slowing down all over the nation.  But if you ask Joe Biden and his minions, what we are witnessing is all part of the plan.  In fact, they continue to speak of Bidenomics as if it is a good thing

Mondays announcement is part of Bidens greater push for his economic plan dubbed Bidenomics, which is rooted in the simple idea that we need to grow the economy from the middle out and the bottom up not the top down, Dunn and Donilon wrote.

The presidents economic proposal includes plans to hike taxes on the uber-wealthy and corporations in order to subsidize social, climate and health programs.

Give me a break.

Im not buying what they are selling, and most other Americans arent either.  According to one recent survey, well over half of all Americans disapprove of how Biden has been handling the economy

More than half 54% of Americans disapprove of how Biden is handing his job, while just 35% of respondents approved of his stewardship of the economy, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted earlier this month.

Those figures are a bad sign for Biden and his fellow Democrats.

Of course Biden is not responsible for the stunning reversal in money supply growth that we have been witnessing.

The money supply has been steadily shrinking since late last year, and during the month of April, it actually contracted at the fastest pace that we have seen since the Great Depression

During April 2023, the downturn accelerated even more as YOY growth in the money supply was at 12.0 percent. Thats down from Marchs rate of 9.75 percent, and was far below Aprils...

Washington claims it is watching the radiation levels at Europes largest nuclear facility very closely. It additionally claims that there is no imminent threat to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear power Plant.

The United States ruling class is monitoring the situation at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which sits close to the frontline between Russian and Ukrainian troops, but sees no signs of an imminent threat to the facility, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Monday at a White House press briefing, according to a report by RT. 

This news comes as Zelensky makes claims that Russia is planning a nuclear attack on the plant. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow wanted to cause a radiation leakage at the plant, citing Ukrainian intelligence assessments. According to his aide Mikhail Podoliak, Russia had mined the cooling pond at the facility and was preparing to carry out a large-scale terrorist attack in order to stop the Ukrainian counteroffensive and create a depopulated sanitary gray zone.

Zelensky Claims Russia Is Planning A Nuclear Attack At Zaporizhzhia Plant

Russia claims the U.S. or Ukraine will make a false flag attack and blame Moscow.

Russia: The U.S. Is Planning False Flag Chemical Attacks In Ukraine

Im not going to get into specific intelligence, Kirby said when asked about Kyivs accusations that Russia was preparing to blow up the plant.  We have the ability near the plant to monitor radioactivity, he added. We just havent seen any indication that that threat is imminent, but were watching it very, very closely.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has called the claims by Zelensky and Podoliak yet another lie coming from Kiev, noting that Moscow was fully cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The UN watchdogs head, Rafael Mariano Grossi, visited the facility last week and contradicted Ukraines allegations. -RT

The IAEA is aware of reports of mines having been placed near the cooling pond. No mines were observed at the site during the director generals visit, including the cooling pond, Grossi said in a report.

Russia and Ukraine have each blamed the other for attacks or future attacks on the plant.

The United States is at fault for pushing the globe toward other currencies as countries continue to ditch the dollar. Aleksey Mozhin, Russias representative at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) told RIA Novosti on Monday that the U.S. is creating conditions that make the dollar undesirable.

The U.S. dollar has been on a downslide for quite some time.

De-Dollarization Ramps Up As China Receives First Yuan-Settle LNG Shipment

U.S. Downfall: De-Dollarization Efforts Ramping Up

According to Mozhin, more states are boosting the use of alternative currencies in cross-border transactions, in particular the Chinese yuan.  We can see that Iranians, Brazilians, and Saudis are already switching to trade in yuan, not only with China, but also with third countries, Mozhin noted.

As of right not, the dollar still accounts for most international settlements and deposits worldwide.    However, American officials are already sounding the alarm over the greenbacks fate, Mozhin claimed, due to what he described as the abandonment of the US currency.   Its clear that it will not happen at once, but the process has begun, he said.

As the dollar continues to fail, the rulers will continue to push hard to convince the masses to take up their CBDC (central bank digital currency) and submit to the digital totalitarian slave state thats been building up around humanity for decades.

The Endgame: Central Bank Digital Currency

The US uses the dollar for the purposes of national interests, [and] the economic and financial obligations of one country, therefore it is wrong that it is so widely used elsewhere, Mozhin concluded.

According to a report by RT, the share of the dollar and euro in Russias international settlements fell from 90% in early 2022 to less than 50% by the end of last year a trend that will continue, according to Russian Deputy Minister of Economic Development Vladimir Ilyichev.

Mainstream media has been warning the public about the next pandemic since the onslaught of the COVID-19 scam. It could be anything at this point; another new COVID variant, a bird flu mutation, or the Langya virus.

Scientists are attempting to identify which pathogen will pose the next large-scale threat to humanity.  In fact, Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci funded research that claims itll be the bird flu:

Research Funded By Fauci And Gates Could See Bird Flu Become The Next Deadly Pandemic

However, others claim itll be the Langya virus. Ariel Isaacs, a researcher at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences at the University of Queensland in Australia, said humanity is at an important juncture with this genus of viruses and can expect more spillover events from animals to people.

Almost a year ago, there were reports of humans being infected with the Langya virus, which had spread from shrews to people in China.

Another Outbreak: New Virus Called Langya Spread From Shrews In China

As with COVID initially, the virus causes fever and severe respiratory symptoms and can lead to fatal pneumonia, according to a report by Fortune. Also like COVID, it was first identified among humans in China. Last year, it infected 35 farmers and other residents, likely due to contact with some shrews.

Theres a New COVID Variant, But The Masses Seem Over It Already

Langya is a henipavirus and researchers warn others will jump to humans. Its important we understand the inner workings of these emerging viruses, Isaacs said in a news release about the research.

Henipaviruses are the most lethal of paramyxoviruses, killing around 70% of those who contract them. The first two henipaviruses identified in humans were the Nipah virus, first seen...

This article was originally published by Charles Hugh Smith at Of Two Minds Blog.

Until we reach that point of social transformation, were passengers on a ship of state doomed by rampant, systemic corruption and the collapse of moral standards and the rule of law.

Political corruption isnt hard to define: confidentially leveraging the power of ones position in the State for private gain. This covers the spectrum of using State power for personal gain from freebies, bribes, sweetheart deals, obtaining insider information, revolving doors between the private sector and state positions, influence-peddling, selling tax breaks, subsidies, permits, etc., bloated speaking fees and so on, in a nearly limitless profusion of private financial gains generated solely by ones position of power within the Statethe legislative and regulatory government, central bank, military and judiciarygains that are cloaked from public disclosure and scrutiny.

One example is employees in building-planning departments taking bribes from applicants to bypass lengthy permit reviews. Money changes hands privately to gain some state-issued benefit.

Public trust in institutions, the rule of law and basic fairness are all undermined by corruption. This is why even the hint of impropriety must be promptly investigated and the results made public.

But there is more to corruption than just investigating improprieties. The larger questions are:

1. Is corruption a rare occurrence or has it become business as usual, i.e. endemic, embedded, taken for granted as the way things work?

2. Is there any sense of sincere shame or wrongdoing when those reaping private gains from their positions in the State are publicly exposed? Or do the guilty disclaim any notions of sin or shame for betraying the Public Trust?

3. Are there two completely different Standards of Justice, Criminality and Punishment, one applied ferociously to the general public and another applied with the lightest of feathers to insiders, financial elites and the politically influential?

I submit that all three conditions are true: corruption is now BAU, business as usual; there is no sense of shame or wrongdoing when the corrupt are exposed, and there are two judicial standards, one for the bottom 99.9% and another for insiders, the well-connected, the influential, the politically protected and the super-wealthy, what I call Americas Aristocracy or Royalty.

Consider the cover-ups and obstruction of justice swirling around the family of POTUS the President of the United States:...

This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge. 

The recent emergence of Hong Kong as a major crypto hub  quite an about-face for Beijing from its previous ban accelerated again over the weekend as three crypto ETFs listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong are now reportedly available for trading at Hong Kongs largest bank.

CoinTelegraphs Helen Partz reports that Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) the biggest bank in Hong Kong has reportedly introduced its first local cryptocurrency services.

HSBC has enabled its customers to buy and sell Bitcoin- and Ether-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs), local journalist Colin Wu reported in a tweet on June 26.

According to the report, HSBC will specifically offer cryptocurrency ETFs listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. At the time of writing, the exchange lists three crypto ETFs, including CSOP Bitcoin Futures ETF, CSOP Ethereum Futures ETF, and Samsung Bitcoin Futures Active ETF.

SCOOP: HSBC, the largest bank in Hong Kong, today allows its customers to buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs listed on the Hong Kong exchange, and is also the first bank in Hong Kong to allow it. The move will expand local users exposure to cryptocurrencies in Hong Kong. pic.twitter.com/vH0LieSVGw

Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain)...

Dr. Denis Rancourt has a Ph.D. in physics and has held post-doctoral research positions at prestigious institutions in France and The Netherlands, before being a physics professor and lead scientist at the University of Ottawa for 23 years. He says that the COVID-19 vaccines have so far killed 13 million worldwide.

COVID-19 mRNA Shots Are Legally Not Vaccines

According to the Daily Expos UK, Dr. Rancourt has written over 30 scientific reports relevant to COVID, starting 18 April 18th, 2020 for the Ontario Civil Liberties Association and for a new non-profit organization called Correlation. Presently, all his work and interviews about COVID are documented on his website which he created to circumvent the barrage of censorship. He also testified at the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) held in Ontario, Canada on May 17th about Canadas COVID-19 response.

He is claiming that governments around the world have killed 13 million people with COVID vaccines in one of the most brutal democidal actions in human history.

In a Twitter thread with video clips attached, citizen researcher and journalist Ben M., who is maintaining data through projects such as Mortality Watch,  highlighted the following statements made by Dr. Rancourt during his testimony.

Dr. Rancourt says that the excess deaths are not related to a virus because there is no age correlation.

Of course, the only reason there was an age correlation with the virus of which there is no evidence even exists, is because doctors were instructed to euthanize patients to make it look like something was going on.

Dr. Rancourt PhD:...

The bird flu is taking out domestic cats in Poland now. The H5N1 strain has killed at least nine pet cats as scientists continue to investigate an unusual cluster of illnesses affecting dozens of cats across the country.

The General Veterinary Inspectorate said in a statement that, out of 11 samples tested,  nine have come back positive for H5N1 bird flu. The cats lived in Pozna, Lublin, and the Tri-City area, all in different parts of the country, according to a report by BNONews.

Bird Flu Mutation Shows Signs of Adaptation To Mammals

But the mainstream media still says there is no reason to panic. According to the Washington Examiner, despite the fact that H5N1 now shows an ability to infect mammals, with cases found in foxes, seals, dolphins, otters, and wild dogs, the number of human cases remains extremely small. In part, thats because several mutations would have to occur before bird flu could spread from human to human.

Further detailed testing of the genetic material of the viruses is underway, the Polish agency said of the infected cats. Preliminary tests rule out the influenza virus which has caused illness in seagulls in recent weeks.

Work is underway to establish a protocol for monitoring the disease in cats to collect more detailed data on its course and occurrence, the agency said. The source of infection has not yet been identified.

USDA Reports More Mammals Infected With Bird Flu

To limit the risk of infection, Polands chief veterinary officer has advised owners to keep cats indoors, to prevent contact with wild animals, including birds, and to only feed them with food from known sources. At least 70 suspected cases are being investigated across Poland, according to figures released last week. In Gdask, which is part of the Tri-City region, officials reported at least 28 cases of unusual illnesses, including 25 deaths.

In December, a cat living near a duck farm in southern France was euthanized after becoming severely ill with H5N1 bird flu. This marked the first time that a cat was infected with the new strain of H5N1, which emerged in late 2021 and has spread around the world. Since then,...

Even the most fearful among us seem to be unnerved by the new COVID variant. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claims its tracking a new COVID variant called EU.1.1.

EU.1.1 is a subvariant of the omicron strain and according to the ruling class, currently accounts for about 1.7% of all U.S. cases.  According to the latest CDC figures, in six states, (Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming) it now accounts for 8.7% of cases. Utah accounts for the greatest number of infections with nearly 100 cases of EU. 1.1 reported by the states labs, reported AL.com. 

The largest COVID strain in the United States remains XBB.1.5, which accounts for about 27% of infections. XBB.1.9.2 and XBB.1.9.1 combine for about 24.4% of cases. There does not appear to be a large uptick in hospital admissions or emergency room visits in Utah due to EU.1.1 and reported nursing home cases there also remain low, according to a report by CBS News.

The Food and Drug Administration has also already instructed big pharma to make injections that target the XBB variant this fall.

Big Pharma Is Getting Ready For The Fall Vaccine Rollout

Meanwhile, the CDC is still attempting to panic people.

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is constantly changing and new variants of the virus are expected to occur. Sometimes new variants emerge and disappear. Other times, new variants persist. Numerous variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 are being tracked in the United States and globally during this pandemic, the agency said on its website.

The experts also want to stress that a separate variant called FU.1 is spreading in Asia and is likely to hit Australia. No, this is not a joke. They named a variant FU.1 Are we being mocked? The experts claim its not a joke, however.

The bird flu is continuing to mutate as well, and all of these warrants us watching. Who knows when they will pull off another scam or actually release something thatll do major damage to human beings, as opposed to the empty hospitals during the COVID scam?