Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Rounding the Earth, our Rounding the News weekly news roundup. That was a lot of words all at once.  In any case, my name is Liam Sturgess and I am your host for Rounding the News. And we're gonna jump right into it. Go ahead right now, if you haven't yet, please subscribe to Rounding the Earth's YouTube channel or rumble channel.

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Last week we talked about Shinzo, Abe, the former prime minister of Japan who was tragically assassinated during a campaign stop. And. We alluded briefly to the fact that he was not the only world leader who had gone through a form of change though. Of course his was particularly notable, but now we're gonna go back.

The episode today is called crises assemble. And the first crisis we're gonna talk about is a crisis of leadership, UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, resigns. This is true. So what happened is it looks as though it comes as the wave of resignations from Johnson's government and party since Tuesday evening, which was more than a week ago now approached 60 with one conservative party member after another publicly voicing their lack of confidence in the prime minister.

So basically he's announced he'll be stepping down and there will be a leadership race coming I think in the fall. So he's technically still there right now, but he's indicated he will not be the leader of the British government for some time, but he's, once again, not the only leader. There seems to be a line of world leaders who are.

In one case, unfortunately, dead. And in the other cases, stepping down, we've got here. Italy's president rejects prime minister Mario Draghi's offer to resign. So. Mario Draghi which - who is Italy's prime minister. They have both a prime minister and a president. So lesson for the day, the words, president and prime minister and how they're used in a nation's government system vary from country to country.

Here in Canada, for example, we have a prime minister and no president. The United States has a president, but no prime minister. So Italian premier, Mario Draghi offered to step down on Thursday after a populist coalition, ally refused to support a key government bill, but the nation's president rejected the resignation telling Draghi to see if he can still find a majority in parliament, willing to support him.

Which is interesting because if he's already said I've looked and there's no coalition to support me and the president's like, yes, but please try again. It sort of suggests maybe you know, the disconnected, lack of unity in the government that Draghi is referring to maybe manifesting in the president's own misunderstanding of how much support he has, but I'm no expert on Italian politics.

I'm just reporting the fact that. Once again, world leaders, resigning Estonian prime minister resigns, prepares to form new government Kaya or Kaja callus already has new coalition partners. Okay. Now I, I, this one went way under my radar and we're not gonna spend too much time on it, but this is to show.

Yikes governments around the world are finding themselves not overly popular. And I could, I could pull up statistics for and news reports for Canada. Speaking of Mr. Trudeau I could pull up way too many news reports discussing president Biden's performance and how, how he's being viewed right now across the political spectrum.

But politics aside, we have a crisis in leadership globally, it would seem, and the risk here potentially is to simply destabilize governance as a whole. If, if, if you have a single government leader, step down, then you have. You know you, you have the rest of the world to look to for temporary leadership, but just hypothetically, if all of the major world powers, you know, if the entirety of Europe or, or, or, or several major European nations, as well as the Americas are all in a political crisis at the same time in combination with the the, the, the Russia and Ukraine situation and with China's own internal problems.

These are major superpowers, major governments that are under stress. So it's significant. And why is it significant? Why would a country as our next story shows like Sri Lanka enter an economic crisis and why the more important thing is why would the government of Sri Lanka essentially fall at the hand of protesters.

What happened is there was a, a bunch of protesters outside of the I believe it's the presidential palace last week who were protesting let's well, let's see. What were they protesting? Oof. Struggling with daily power cuts and shortages of basics, such as fuel food and medicines. Inflation is running at more than 50%.

As you can see there, that's a, that's a sharp jump. I'm not an economic expert. But I think we all know that inflation is not something people seek out usually. And we find here that between basically March. Through June, it's just been a strong, upward trend in in, in prices, the consumer price index.

So that's what customers are paying for goods. So that's what you and I would see that that would be the sign in our day to day lives. You and I that something is. Happening economically. The country doesn't have enough fuel for essential services like buses, trains, and medical vehicles. And officials say it doesn't have enough foreign currency to import more.

This lack of fuel has caused petrol and diesel prices to rise dramatically. In late June. The government banned the sale of petrol and diesel for non-essential vehicles for two weeks. What is a non-essential vehicle? Anyway, sales of fuel remain. Severely restricted schools have closed and people have been asked to work from home to help conserve supplies.

So fuel in particular, that's a major. Like lynchpin in, in every aspect of how our lives work. In fact, without fuel to power, the boats and the, and the, the, the the trucks that carry the fuel from place to place. You can't even if the fuel exists, if you don't have the right fuel uh, that's probably nonsensical.

But the point is it, it, it, when this, this flow of, of fuel is interrupted, then you also. An interruption in the flow of goods like medicine and food, and then schools shut down. I need not belabor. The point. What I'm saying is Sri Lanka is an example of how this can go very bad, very quickly when lack of lack of solutions presented by government result in the government, essentially being forcibly oustered.

And that's not a scenario that anybody wants to have happen, but it's inevitable if governments. Well, if people aren't satisfied with their governments oh, this is a little bit out of order. We're gonna move this down. Let's hit the Washington post. So moving back over into more familiar territory here in north America, the Washington post reports inflation is even worse.

If you measure it the proper way. Now that's interesting. As you may have heard the us inflation rate. This is true is now 9.1%. That is the consumer price index for all items as estimated for June by the bureau of labor statistics was 9.1% than it was a year earlier. Just remember a year earlier, that was July, 2021.

That was six months into the supposed in earnest. Economic reopening the recovery, the coming out of COVID, the mass vaccination campaign had been a success at that point. Vaccines had been available which in theory reduces the need for economic closures, social distancing limited capacity in business.

So how is it that now a year later? Well, over two years, Into this vaccination program or more broadly into the, into the, that, well, three years into the COVID response. This is not where everyone thought this was gonna wind up is the point I'm trying to make. Just continuing here. Other economic indicators generally aren't measured this way with retail sales.

It's the percentage change from one month to the next that gets the headlines with employment. It's the monthly change in the number of jobs with gross domestic product. In the us, at least it's the annualized quarterly change. Anyway, go, go look through here. The, the Washington post article it, it gives a fairly a decent overview.

I think, of, of how basically introducing the concept that inflation alone measured the way we tend to hear it. This 9.1%. Isn't the be all end, all and likely is a very mild. Representation of, of, of the true economic woes underpinning everything. Here's an example. Producer prices jump 11.3% in June.

Another sign that inflation is hot. It's not just consumers who are feeling the pinch from rising inflation. Businesses are getting squeezed as well as wholesale prices surged more than expected in June. Now I, I pose the question more than expected by who, because all I know is I've certainly had conversations with more than a few people who definitely expected this

So I wonder what leads to such a institutional surprise when more independent thinkers seem to. A better idea of what's coming. So we had the consumer price index in the previous article right here. This refers to the producer price index or PPI, which rose 1.1% last month above forecasts for an increase of 0.8% on a year over year basis.

The index jumped 11.3% in June. The largest increase since March's record 11.6% rise and above forecast for 10.7%. So this is what it's been basically every single month for a while. Now it's been oh economic growth is, is looking good. We're gonna hit this. And then, oh no, we came under by this amount who could have seen this coming First time, unemployment claims are much higher than expected.

And of course everyone's favorite inflation is transitory. Oops. So we, we got some trouble. So the producer price index, being what producers have to pay for raw goods to then create the product, which people then buy. So there's a buy step here and there's a buy step here and they're two separate market indicators and they're both.

All right. But now moving into alternative economical thinking. So, you know, we, we we often hear about gold as being you know, we have the gold standard that unfortunately went away, but referring now to the idea that gold is a store of value, precious metals. These are real. These are, these are real that's money.

That's real assets. Whereas the dollar is sort of a representation of a hypothetical value that now is sort of disappearing. So then with gold in the modern time, we also talk about cryptocurrency more specifically, the one that underpins it all Bitcoin. So this article is from FX street, headline two Bitcoin price prediction, polls, same outcome, $10,000.

Bitcoin is coming. Bitcoin investors in China plan to buy the dip despite an ongoing market correction and a nationwide crypto ban, a new survey shows. So obviously that's specific to China, but there's these two different ways of evaluating possible price. Well predicting price from here and they're both pegging it at 10,000 now.

Next. On Tuesday, we are having a round table where we're gonna specifically be discussing Bitcoin, including one of, with one of the core developers of Bitcoin. Now I, I, I don't know what that means. It sounds pretty cool to me and this gentleman whose name I, I don't have in front of me right now, but I will post that in the description.

Sounds like he'll be able to answer the questions I still have about. But just keeping an eye there and then referring of course, to the Rounding the Earth newsletter. Bitcoin is something that Mathew does write about quite a bit. And I did not know this, but he recently expanded his Bitcoin education chat group where he plans to write more about Bitcoin.

Now in this article, he doesn't focus on a price prediction. So. He tries to or succeeds at explaining a bit deeper. What, what the, the actual concept of Bitcoin being an alternative economic system means, and again, this is. Very novel to me, the Bitcoin I have I, I, I pursued as a kind of fun investment, but the more I talk to Mathew about Bitcoin, the clearer to me, it is that it's, it's less of an item, less of a thing to have and more of a a culture shift that I can't properly articulate right now, but I recommend you go to RoundingtheEarth.Substack.com and read The Mature Future of Bitcoin Economics.

Moving right along crisis. Number two.  I'm gonna lose count very quick. Why we don't have a Pivariant yet even after so much Omicron. So there's a lot of concern right now about these new Omicron subvariants. And this appears to be addressing why we're sticking with Omicron. When we had been going.

Sequentially with this Greek nomenclature in May, 2021, the world health organization announced the key variance of SARS-CoV-2 would be assigned names from the Greek alphabet, yada, yada, yada. But now we've got look at this BA.2, BA2.12.1. A palindrome. I don't think it is. BA 4 and BA.5, which we discussed last week, but now we've also got this BA 2.75.

Why all these complex names when there's still no variant known as Pinow I brought it up cuz it's a good question, but it's oh, Hm. Once again, I've moved things all out of. In any case, I brought this up to show that even in the Bitcoin discussion I'm gonna get better at flowing these through nice and smooth.

But anyway basically to introduce the point of we've got some issues with this oil situation. So this COVID is meant to be later my mistake, but so Market Realist reports, gas prices are. But are they falling too fast, whether to worry or celebrate, they point out that in June they hit the $5 per gallon mark, as an average across the United States.

I can attest in Canada. We essentially in Vancouver where I live, we had the equivalent of $8 per gallon. We had $8 per gallon. I think we beat California, which at one point I think had crossed $9 a gallon. So they went way up and now allegedly they're coming down. So they asked the question, should we celebrate the fall in gas prices?

Or should we be concerned? They point out that gas prices are high in most countries around the world. And that makes sense because gas is in international market countries. Don't largely make their own even in Canada and the United States, for some reason, there's this notion that we shouldn't be relying on our own domestic natural resources.

In any case. So there's an issue that is being brought up Fox news, anchor, Sandra Smith pointed out that these steep fall in gas prices is certainly not good news for small gas station owners. Woo don't mind me. My my little light just fell and this is what we call guerilla journalism anyway, the risks and benefits of live streaming the news.

Okay. She pointed to a story from the wall street journal that talked about how volatile gas prices are making life tougher for mom and pop gas station owners. Now this as I'm reading this, I'm, I'm, I'm trying not to think of, of this information in a vacuum. I'm trying to. What else in my world or in my scope of understanding, does this remind me of, and this reminds me a lot of COVID because who, who was, who was hurt?

By the last two years of lockdown type measures, it wasn't Walmart. It was the mom and pop shops that were able to not, not able to stay open with all their customers, then being by default, moved to the shops that are open, which were the Walmart superstores and the targets, and frankly, online as well with Amazon.

So I'm not saying there's a direct connection here, but the result is the. So I'm gonna go ahead and say that's concerning to me. If we have yet another mom and pop industry, that's under a lot of pressure here. Now there's some skepticism. Brian Tyler Cohen on Twitter. Fox news is now saying that gas prices are falling too fast with a host saying that this decline is historically faster than usual, which is causing independently owned mom and po- mom and pop gas stations who struggle.

In any case then moving over into it's interesting. There's the news. There's the public square, you know, the, the Twitter sphere, the, the the news opinion discussions, and then you get into the think tanks.  I like the think tanks a lot, because nobody reads them, except for people who are already kind of in the think tank circle.

Uh, Except me.  not just me except nerds like me. So Carnegie endowment for international. Back in June, in fact, they had written an article titled a big bang, anticipating the impact of Europe's sanctions on Russian energy. Now I brought this up as a reminder that the news were getting on a bunch of issues, but specifically on oil is heavily biased in a way.

Seems to want to paint the governments of the United States, Canada, the majority of Europe the Western world as being guilt free. This isn't their issue. The problem is Russia.

Let me put it this way. The Western nations put sanctions on Russian. They said we're not going to buy. We're gonna boycot Russian crude. Okay. Now a full embargo is not on the table, but the point is

we understand the need for oil and let's move aside the political and humanitarian discussion about, you know, putting economic pressure on Russia. What if by reducing the amount of oil from Russia, that's been brought into these countries, what if that doesn't impact Russia? The way that was hoped for?

What if, as this says here, Russia has diverted a large share of exports to India and China,

which are big buyers. So if their economy let's say is fine. So European buyers have increased purchases from west Africa and Latin America. Hmm. I wonder how much they're able to export. I wonder how much they're able to replace the lost intake of Russian fuel. The point is this is not a blameless situation for any given side.

This is a multi multipolar. A conflict that has decision making on both sides, resulting in the consequences that each side is now trying to blame the other four. Okay. Into foreign policy. Europe's tiny steps. Won't solve its energy emergency. The bad policies that created the crisis are still in place.

This is from two days ago, the European union and its 27 member states have invested more money, effort and political capital and energy policy than any other region in the world. Until this year, Europe was admired globally as the gold standard for energy and climate policy. And they specifically mentioned Germany leading the pack there.

But now we have a problem because Germany in fact is the country that is starting to feel the most pressure. And there's talk of rationing energy rationing  and I don't wanna speculate cuz I don't have it pulled up, but the message from this last couple articles is a reminder that the messaging coming from one's own domestic government, isn't likely to take responsibility for actions that they've taken that then subsequently harm their own people.

I suppose I'll leave that there for now, but now we move in. To this interesting American military news item, because we are talking about a context of war Russia did invade Ukraine. There is active, armed conflict there. And despite NATO, the north Atlantic treaty organization, not directly engaging because that would result in world war, they certainly are engaged indirectly.

I managed to be born after the cold war had essentially ended. So I I've never had a fear of nuclear weapons really well. There was a brief period in 2018 where I thought North Korea might be coming to get us, but regardless Russia, activates Doomsday submarine armed with torpedoes. An advanced doomsday submarine capable of launching massive nuclear torpedoes entered service with the Russian Navy on Friday.

So that was one week ago. The move comes after Russian figures have repeated, have made repeated threats of nuclear war to opponents of Russia's war in Ukraine. Now I'm not, I'm not interested in fear mongering, so I'm not gonna dwell on this, but I do bring it up to introduce the following.

So there's been a nuclear attack. Don't ask me how or why. Just know that the big one has hit. Okay. So what do we do? There are three important steps that I want you to remember. Step one, get inside fast. You, your friends, your. Get inside and no staying in the car is not an option. You need to get into a building and move away from the windows. Step two, stay inside. Shut all doors and windows. Have a basement? Head there. If you don't have one, get as far into the middle of the building as possible. If you were outside after the blast, get clean, immediately remove and bag all outer clothing to keep radioactive dust or ash away from your body. Step three, stay tuned, follow media for more information, don't forget to sign up for notify NYC for official alerts and updates. And don't go outside until officials say it's safe. All right, you've got this.

So needless to say that has left some folks feeling rather concerned and confused alarmed would probably be a good word. Now the official word is that is that it's, it's just a tool in the toolkit for the modern day. There's no specific threat, but it, I, I, I have heard people point out. It's interesting that the, the advice in this nuclear context.

A bomb has just gone off presumably nearby. The advice is get inside and stay inside and have a shower. Leave your comments on that down below. Okay. I gotta rush through the rest here. Basically new to BA 2.75. Hey, get outta here. Oh, I have to share my screen again. Uh, Where'd it go one sec.

Do do do, do come on now. All right, there we go. A dark horse in the COVID pandemic far from concluding the COVID pandemic seems to be picking up speed with new variants, the BA 0.5 area to spreading rapidly in Europe and north America potentially infecting as many or more. Or more people as the original Omicron virus from which it is derived a second variant B a 0.2 0.75 has been detected in India and is rising quickly.

We've previously described blah, blah. It's interesting. We're at a point where this, this crisis has gone on for so long. They've stopped referring to it as. SARS-CoV-2 in a lot of cases, it's the Omicron virus. Now we must not lose sight that we are allegedly by their you know, by the, the set of information they're working with and presenting.

This is still a variant of SARS-CoV-2. Now Mathew Crawford has argued. It's essentially a different virus, but they're not arguing the same thing he is. And I'll leave that there for now, but they're basically saying this isn't over guys. Hey, look at that is paxlovid miracle drug we thought it was? No. Okay.

Moving forward, CBS, ABC, CNN sound the alarm on coronavirus, BA.5 and call for masking. Quote: "the worst variant is here." And I just posit, that every variant that's come out, as far as I know, as far as I remember have been described as the worst variant yet. And I don't know, white house medical advisor, Fauci called for the virus to still be taken seriously and warned that Americans who want to put the pandemic in the past must realize it's not gone yet.

Okay. Oh, just a reminder, Dr. Fauci COVID 19 vaccines. Don't protect overly well against infection says shots can still stave off bad outcome citing himself. As an example, as a ba- as an example of a bad outcome. I don't think that's what he meant. This is from the Washington times. And he's basically reiterating what he said last week.

The Boston globe, we're all. Oh, we're all tired of COVID, but it's not done with us. Omicron's subvariants are surging yet. The masks are largely off and public officials are unwilling to reimpose restrictions. We're on our own. I'll just leave this article with a, with, with a thought of,

or a question, a, a question for the audience, this presumes. This, this heavily implies that masks and restrictions of various kinds worked. Did they leave your comments down below? They refer in this article interestingly to a recent Columbia study, which gives reason for alarm the BA.4 and B.5 Omicron subvariants that have surged to become the dominant strains are finding their way around vaccinations.

And immunities from previous infections. Okay. So I thought that was interesting. I wanna see this study, this study, interestingly enough, this is on nature. Okay. Antibody evasion by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants, BA2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5. I saw this almost immediately. "We are providing an unedited..." an unedited!

...version of this manuscript to give early access to its findings. Before final publication, the manuscript will undergo further editing. Please note, there may be errors present, which affect the content and all legal disclaimers apply." In other words, we would call this a pre-print usually. Usually in the news reporting, it would refer to it as a recent pre-print study, which has not yet undergone peer review.

And then, you know, to put that filter over your thinking, as you, as you read it, it's just a lens. It's, it's a way of framing your interpretation, your initial reading of the material. And it matters. But they don't say that here, they refer to it as a recent study from Columbia University. So here is the lesson for today.

If you take one thing from today, there's a lot of us like me who are lay people who are not educated specifically in science or in a field that generally involves scientific or academic publications, such as these I've had to learn myself in my work with the Canadian COVID care Alliance to identify.

Where I need to go within the framework of a study like this, to, to evaluate where it's at, who paid for it? How likely is this to be credible? How, how literally should I take it? So this is thing. Number one. Is, is this a pre-print or is this published peer reviewed? And even then the published and peer reviewed thing is not a be all end all, but it's an important thing to understand.

So then. I'm like, okay. Oops. That's not it. So I open up and I find - when it loads... this beautiful PDF. Antibody evasion yada yada. It's an accelerated article preview. I'm just gonna jump right to the bottom. I thought it would be interesting to find out who funds this bad boy, who, who paid for this study, which is not yet published. Well, technically it is. There is a page hidden near the bottom. Acknowledgements: this study was supported by funding from the Gates Foundation and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. Very interesting. And the National Institutes of Health SARS-CoV-2 assessment of viral evolution program. Okay. I mean, it's notable, it's notable for a reason I'll show in a minute beyond the obvious, but then we get competing interests.

So these 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 authors are inventors on patent applications. This guy, right. W O 2 0 2 1 2 3 6 9 9 8 or provisional patent applications filed by Columbia university for a number of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies described in this manuscript time. Ed biologics and Ren bio, Wushi, biologics, and Breed Biosciences, and a board director for vicar surgical.

So looping back to this article in my estimation. This opinion piece by the Boston globe amounts to a pharmaceutical advertisement. And that's concerning because it does not read like that. It reads as, Hey, I'm a smart person. This is my opinion. Based on this scientific study we're not done yet. What's the implication of we're not done yet.

Let's see.

Well, it appears to be mostly a matter of putting masks back on,

but I don't see anything in this article itself noting the origin of the money for this study, but you know, you know, who else is funded by the. Bill Melinda Gates Foundation. Speaking of masks, by the way, statement on the 12th meeting of the international health regulations, yada yada bottom line. We're just gonna go down here real quick.

There's some recommendations, strengthen national response to COVID pandemic by updating plans, yada yada okay. Address risk communications and community engagement, challenges, and the need to address divergent perceptions in risk between scientific communities, political leaders, and the general public proactive, proactively counter misinformation and disinformation, and include communities in decision making the wording proactively.

Proactively counter misinformation and disinformation. That sounds like pre-crime, that sounds like, you know, there's a difference between making sure you're providing accurate information and making sure you're preventing someone else from providing other information that they happen to label MIS- and disinformation.

I just, I find that very interesting achieve national COVID 19 vaccination targets with updated roadmap for the u- for prioritization. Okay. And then Yeah, continue to promote, promote the use of effective individual level protective measures to reduce transmission. So just as a reminder, The funding behind a lot of these things seems to come. As we alluded to in our very first round table with Dr. Jessica Rose and Chris master, John, there are some names that keep popping up. The gates foundation is a tremendous contributor, which is to say they got a hand in the pot over here.

They got a hand in the pot over, over who and it's, it's, it's, it's vital to put that once again, filter in front of. As we're coming, as we're bringing the information into our little noggins. The WHO to reconvene monkeypox emergency panel on July 21st. So they had already gotten together on June 23rd.

And they said, yeah, no, we're not yet declaring monkeypox to be a public health emergency of international concern. I'll have you sound out that word just cuz it's kind of. But they said it wasn't ready, but now they're coming back because oops. It might be now. I mean, there's so much to go through and I'll just rush through these.

People took issue with Dr. Kieran Moore of Ontario, the public health officer of Ontario saying that one in 5,000 young people developed myocarditis after the shot. They're basically like no way it's, it's much, much lower than that. It's it's like, let's see, where are the numbers? One in 16,000. And those are just reports.

They're not even all real. And then. In a reply to the tweet from that journalist another journalist up here in Canada, Anthony fury replies, public health, Ontario actually disclosed in a more in depth report that the adverse event following immunization one, that Richard deciding, oh, then that as of last November, there had been 400 people sent to the ER for vaccine related health, heart issues.

And 20 of them were placed in the ICU that was nine months ago. So it's an outdated set of data. Oh, health Canada authorizes use of Moderna COVID 19 vaccine in children six months to five years of age. That was yesterday. Moderna's Spikevax they're giving it to kids six months old on what data referred to last week.

And here's a reminder that this very same product. Was recommended against

for the 18 to 24 year old group because of myocarditis and pericarditis, I guess that's changed, but just to summarize, okay. In September of last year,

Ontario says this is too dangerous. Please use Pfizer instead. Okay. It's now July 15 and yesterday, that same product is now being given to babies as young as six months old.

Just a reminder, the argument has been that. COVID 19 itself can can cause myocarditis. And while that is true in, in theory, just wanna point out this study from Israel, which did not observe an increased incidence in either pericarditis or myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID 19 infection.

Now it may be that there's studies on kids that say differently. In fact, I know there are, I just wanted to point out in passing. This will be in the show notes and. The other argument about reports. I'm gonna pass through this just for the sake of time. Same thing here. Basically, Hong Kong found the same.

Now this is big. Mathew. At EDU engineer tweets, Dr. George Fareed who has posted many patient testimonials after he and Dr. Brian Tyson successfully treated over 11,000 COVID 19 patients together with zero deaths. For those treated during the first week of illness has been permanently suspended from Twitter.

After careful review, we determined your account broke the Twitter rules. That significant. That is the voice of a practicing physician who has successfully saved 11,000 lives,

which brings us into the final topic I wanna talk about today, which is the stop, the shots campaign, the Canadian Covid Care Alliance has just launched a a campaign called stop the shots just in time, just the day before on Wednesday, the day before. Health Canada declared that the Moderna product should be used for kids as young as six months old.

I'm not gonna play this for you. Go to CanadianCovidCareAlliance.org and watch this 15 minute video. I'll play just a very brief. Oh, actually, this is a slide show. So, so there is a video version, but there's also the slides used in it without the voiceover. And it's, it's got all of the vital information in here and we want this to go.

Big. We want this to go viral because this is all stuff we all already know yet. For some reason, some people still have decided to ignore it. And this is a notice of liability. This is you cannot continue doing this after you've watched this video, you know what you're doing? And that's not okay. Yada yada conflicts of interest.

And just to share something that I worked on, this is a report that outlines the, all of the conflicts of interest that I was able to find. For the people who approved these shots back in December, 2020, and there's a lot of Pfizer money. There's a lot of Pfizer money, so that'll be available in the chat as well.

Okay. And that's. Gonna be it for now. I've once again, gone over time. And I hope I hope if anything, this shows how much crazy stuff happens in the span of a week. And it's, it's, it's very interesting to watch as all of these unrelated crises between the the economic crisis, the crisis in leadership The crisis resulting from the challenges with fuel and food and medicine.

And then coming into this health crisis combined, you know, combining the impacts of these shots versus the impacts of COVID, it's all cumulative. And we have to be careful not to be too afraid because fear will lead us to make decisions that aren't rational. So if, if you're looking at the world and seeing.

Chaos and seeing a lack of clarity or a lack of a way forward. Step one is to find. Step two is to revisit the information with a clear head and see if you can put together your best understanding of what's going on and then seek solutions. Now there's just one more thing I want to share here, which is rumble, rants, ladies and gentlemen.

This is a video Viva fry announcing the new rumble rants feature which I'm not gonna be able to hang on. I'm actually going to show you over. Oh, I know what I'm gonna do. Basically. We want to continue making content of all kinds that is specifically not just taking up space. We want to take up we want to create content that is educational informative and more than anything, gives the tools to people to think more critically, to have access to a broader set of information, to be able to make their own decisions.

And. We've we want to do that in a way that is sustainable and unbiased and not brought to you by Pfizer. We're, we are not brought to you by Pfizer. We want to be brought to you by you. So I want to introduce you to rumble rants. Now on YouTube, there is a. Feature called super chats, but that is only available to channels that have a certain number of subscribers and we intend to get there.

But in the meantime, a frankly, much better platform is rumble. And we are streaming right now on rumble. And if you look on the side here, you have this section called rumble rants, and it's essentially a way to sponsor a comment. And as we've done in the round tables, we want to engage with you both during the show and after the show.

So you can come in here, you can write your comment. You can, if you'd like add a dollar amount to contribute to the show if you can afford to do that, if you're in a position to do so, please support the show, send us a rumble rant and we will bring it up. I think we can bring it up on screen and we'll find every way possible to show our thanks, but the primary way we're gonna do that is continue to make content like this.

Ladies and gentlemen, let's wrap that up for. Once again, this has gone longer than I anticipated. Thank you for participating in this weekly news Roundup with me go to www.RoundingtheEarth.Substack.com become a paid member as another way to support the show. And we will see you on Tuesday for a round table on the topic of Bitcoin.

I have been Liam Sturgess www.LiamSturgess.com. Thank you so much, and we will see you on Tuesday.