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truth about the pandemic

friday, june 28th, 2024

A group of Dutch medical researchers are igniting a firestorm by calling for an investigation of the deaths caused by vaccine mandates and lockdowns imposed on the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. What's wrong with that?

Everything, if you're part of the global public health mafia and want to avoid questions about the mistakes you made and the lies you told.

[FULL TITLE: Time for the Truth About the Pandemic.

It was never about anyone's health, it was about power and censorship, and massive vote fraud, and putting a demented potato-head into The White House to corrupt it, and thwarting the will of the people who voted to give Trump a second term.

We all saw Dr. Anthony Fauci squirming last week when he was forced to admit to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee that the social distancing rules — like standing 6 feet apart — on which the lockdowns were based were pulled out of thin air.

The Dutch researchers want answers. They insist "every death needs to be acknowledged and accounted for," including deaths caused by policy mistakes. The collateral damage from heavy-handed public health edicts.

One conclusion is already crystal clear: Don't entrust your life or health to the government.

The Dutch researchers examine data from 47 western countries, including the U.S., and find that many months after the lockdowns began and vaccines were rolled out, the death rates stayed higher than in pre-pandemic years. The lockdowns and vaccines weren't stopping the virus but were apparently causing other deaths. A classic case of the cure being worse than the disease.

Zeroing in on the U.S., they cited double-digit increases in alcohol-caused fatalities and drug overdose fatalities.

Researchers Rob Arnott and Chicago economics professor Casey Mulligan found the same. During the pandemic, deaths from alcoholism, drug addiction, car accidents, hypertension, heart disease and diabetes soared, exceeding by 100,000 a year what would ordinarily occur in the U.S. They pinned those "excess deaths" on government COVID policies that drove people to addiction, overeating and other acts of despair.

EVERYTHING about "COVID" was, is, and always will be, a LIE. And that goes double for the "vaccines".

Even more tragic, those deaths of despair skewed younger, so many more years of potential life were lost than by COVID deaths, which mostly affected older adults. Young and middle-aged adults succumbed to alcoholism or drug addiction as they were laid off or watched their business and their savings disappear because of the lockdowns.

What's worse, even when it became obvious lockdowns were failing, government health officials stayed their deadly course. They put their egos over the public's welfare.

The Dutch researchers' stunning data show that for children the virus posed a miniscule 0.0003% risk of death, probably less risk than crossing the street to get to the playground.

Doctors like the Hoover Institution's Scott Atlas urged policymakers to target the high-risk elderly, but he was demonized for questioning the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention orthodoxy. Had the public-health-industrial complex listened, children would have been in school learning instead of home suffering learning losses.

Even now, as Dr. Joel Zinberg of City Journal points out, children ages 5 to 17 account for less than one-tenth of 1% of COVID deaths, but officials are still recommending vaccines for all schoolchildren. Crazy.

The Dutch researchers touched off a firestorm with their suggestion that more needs to be investigated about whether the vaccines caused some pandemic-era deaths.

In all likelihood, the vaccine is helpful for most adults, especially the elderly. But there are exceptions. Research in Human Vaccine and Immunotherapeutics shows men can incur a higher risk of cardiac-related deaths.

In a hospital setting, common conditions such as ischemic stroke and acute coronary syndrome might not be readily identified and reported as possibly caused by a vaccine.

The Dutch researchers never showed a causal connection between vaccines and higher deaths. But just suggesting further research on that issue provoked a nasty backlash. That's the public-health-industrial complex closing ranks.

No surprise. In Aug. 2023, the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association published an attack smearing 52 physicians for disseminating "misinformation." The offending scientists disagreed with the CDC, which now has been proven wrong on almost every COVID issue.

The global public health establishment, including many journal editors and government advisers — the Faucis and Dr. Deborah Birxes of the world - don't want us to look back.

Kudos to the Dutch researchers for raising questions and challenging public health orthodoxy. That is what scientists are supposed to do.

The status quo be damned.

With bird flu and other threats looming, we need the truth about what saved lives -- and what actually ended up killing our loved ones, friends and neighbors.

A Day In The Life.

Up at 9:30a on Friday, I went thru my finger stick to check my BSL (Blood Sugar Level) and recorded it on my Diabetes 2 chart, made coffee and breakfast, took two 50mg Tramadol and a 300mg Gabapentin for various pains, fired-up the Win-7 Pentium HP desktop to let 32 million lines of code load, had a couple smokes in the HOT garage and checked the leftover errands list. All that is postponed until next week. The forecast is for 98 by 4p, today. I'm staying inside.

It was already a warm 83°/ 50% humidity outside, headed to 98° and probably worse, and very humid. I had some wonderful Kona "Peaberry" Coffee, then scanned the news and weather sites, and missed the entire "Chris Stigall Show LIVE" (CS Show) from 6-9a, also missed part of the "Chris Plante Show LIVE" (CP Show) 9-12noon, and just felt 'wrung out' from last evening's hypo-glycemic event. Meh.

Catholics hate the Protestants, Protestants hate the Catholics, muslims hate the Hindus, Hindus hate the muslims, and everybody hates the Jews.

By 11:30a, I was still feeling Out of Sorts, hadn't even eaten breakfast, but got ready for the day, and Sherry's 1p visit. Meh. After some Sourdough Bread Toast for breakfast -- I have almost zero appetite in this hot/humid weather -- I felt a little better, but still can't eat a good, solid meal. I finished Sherry's Birthday Card before she arrived at 1p -- no, I'm not saying anymore -- and it's tomorrow. I did her B-Day card in MS-Publisher, as I've done for Family and Friends, for the past 20+ years.

Sherry arrived at 1p, Chad stopped by around 2:30, to get some outdoor faucet work rebuilt. I ordered the rebuild kit online from Home Depot, and will pick it up next week, and Chad will stop by either next week's Thu-Fri and get it installed. With temps over 100° on the back patio, I had smokes in he 85° garage. Damn, it's hot everywhere. Sherry and I had a very nice time together, and she left around 5p, to get some food shopping errands done, on her way home. I had a light dinner, watched the news and "Gold Rush" until midnight. Lights out.

Up at 8:15a on Saturday, I made coffee, had a smoke in the open garage, beautiful blue sky, already 81° and headed to 104° with warnings everywhere. No rain in sight. No need to go anywhere today. With a mug of new Kona "Farm Hand" Coffee, I checked the news headlines on several websites, scanned the weather forecast (ugly!) and thought about quitting smoking... NAH. I enjoy a Marlboro with my coffee, and an occasional smoke all day long.

★★★ EXTREME HEAT ADVISORY! ★★★

• WHAT: Deadly heat between 95 and 105 degrees for the next 6 days. Maximum heat index values up to 106.
• WHERE: A portion of central Pennsylvania.
• IMPACTS: Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause an increase in heat-related illnesses.
• The heat wave is expected to continue through next weekend with the hottest temperatures -- 95° to 105°-- of the summer so far. Drink plenty of fluids, stay out of the sun, and stay in an air-conditioned room. Check up on relatives and neighbors, and provide pets with adequate water and shelter from the sun.
• WHEN: From noon Saturday to 8 PM EDT on Sunday/ Monday/ Tuesday/ Wednesday/ Thursday/ Friday 8 PM.
• ADDITIONAL DETAILS: The risk of heat-related impacts is expected to reach its highest level this weekend. The early season heat persisting over multiple days combined with light winds, limited cloud cover, and very warm nights will exacerbate heat stress. Drink plenty of water, even if you don't feel thirsty. Spend time in air conditioning and in the shade. For more information on heat safety, visit weather.gov/safety/heat.

I watched a 20 year old video, which was buried and not entered into evidence at GW Bush's order, of the murderous Saudi muslim(SPIT!) filth plotting the 9-11 attacks. If you haven't seen it, here it is. 102° on he back patio, and 94° in the garage. Nowhere to smoke in cooler temps, today, and worse coming for the next 7 days. 108° Heat Index. I checked the AccuWeather.com's radar maps, and all t-storms were all hitting slightly north of us, though the storm clouds blotted out the sun, and gave us some "relief" from the scorching 101° temps.

Leftists have a habit of taking what you said, changing it to what you didn't say, and then attacking you for what you didn't say.

I had a light dinner, watched the evening news, and History's "Ancient Aliens" and Discovery's "Homestead Rescue" until 1:30a, then unplugged.

Up at 8:30a on Sunday, I made coffee, had a smoke and turned-on the 9a Spanish F-1 Grand Prix, from 9-11, on F1-TV. Already 89°, and forecast to hit 97°+, it was a mere 84° in the garage, which I opened-up and got hit with a blast of furnace-like fresh air. I did the morning's finger stick, took the usual 2 50mg Tramadol for the painful Sciatica R/S lower back/hip/buttock/leg pain. It just won't go away. I scanned the news headlines as the race ran its middle laps -- best are the first 2-3 and last 2-3 laps -- and checked the week ahead on the calendar. Good race with lots of action and many lead changes.

I have a hard time eating in this hot/humid weather, and got around to breakfast at 2:30p. I kept checking AccuWeather.com's radar maps all day, and 99% of the t-storms passed to our north, not giving us the rain we desperately need. I'm just grateful that thew Power Grid is holding-up. If the mentally-ill eco-wacko scumbags had their way, we'd all be dying and dead, from the broken and non-working windmills and failed solar panel crap, and sending us back to the 1500s.

Sunday is another NBC Day (Nothing But Crap) on TV, and except for the morning's F1 race, it was complete dogshit. There was a TRASHCAR race, full of idiots and accidents, and an IndyCar race, usually decent, but also full of accidents. A t-storm blew thru, we got 241 drops of rain (I counted them on my 3 4ft x 9ft office-sunroom windows; heh). OK, enough bitching and whining. I watched the Trump Rally (full speech) in Philly, for a while.

By 11:30, I was fading as a large t-storm hit the area. We got some serious rain for about 15-20mins, and I closed down and headed upstairs.

Up at 6a on Monday, a blue sky, windy, 74° and a low humidity, semi-cool morning... it was nice for a change from the past 5-6 days. I had a smoke in the garage, while waiting for Kona Coffee to finish brewing, and tuned into the "CS Show LIVE". I scanned the news headlines, while listening, and found this article on Easter Island. and"rock farming". Also, while checking email, I found this in the Inbox queue: a friend from TX sent this -- kind of sounds like Babylon Bee material -- about NYC's Fat Beach Day -- "folks with bigger bodies" -- and other than blowing coffee thru my nose from laughing so hard, it's 'typical' New Yawk/ New Joisey, LOL. (H/T Ben).

I left at 12:15p to get my usual 2-3 errands done, in Southern York County, plus 2 up here. I made 5 stops, and was back home by 3p, unloaded a lot ($164) of groceries, and just relaxed the rest of the afternoon. No nap today. By 6, I'd had an Olive Loaf Sandwich & Chips, watched the news and settled-in with History's "Greatest Mysteries" until 12 midnight, and unplugged.

Up at 6:30a on Tuesday, a nicely-cool 62°, sunny, breezy and low humidity start to the morning, and forecast to be 91° this afternoon. I made coffee, opened the garage door and had a couple smokes while the desktop computer loaded its massive code bank. I tuned into the "CS Show LIVE", and scanned the weather and news headlines. I got ready for the day, had the last Apple Fritter for breakfast, and left for my 11:45a Dr's app't, at 11:15. The app't went well. Back home by 12:30p, I had some lunch, grabbed 3hrs on the LR couch, and watched TV -- History's "Secret of SkinWalker Ranch" -- until 11, and quit for the night. JoAnne, my cleaning lady's in at 8:30a, tomorrow.

Up with the alarm at 6a on Wednesday, I made coffee, fired-up the HP desktop, checked the weather and news headlines, and had a smoke in the warm garage. 81° outside already, and forecast to hit a sweltering 97° and worse. I tuned into the "CS Show LIVE", and had a 10a app't at the Jeep Dealer in Red Lion, down south, to get the annual vehicle inspection doe before end-of-month. I moved the Jeep next door, so when JoAnne arrived at 8:30, so I wouldn't be parked-in. I left at 9:30 for Red Lion, 5 miles south, with moderate traffic. 90 mins later, Thornton Jeep's Hunter and Deion had it inspected, oil changed, new wipers and thru the Service Dept. I need a new set of Pirelli 'Scorpion Verde All Season' tires ($1700) at only 17,000 miles, but they're very soft and sticky for traction (racing), low profile shoes, so I'll schedule an app't for replacement tires for mid-July, with Deion. I need to shop around for prices.

After getting home around 12noon, unloading, a bite of lunch, and taking a 90min snooze on the LR couch, I noticed the skies getting cloudy, then grey, then bluish and then black. This Warning was widely-posted around 5:30p ...

★★★ SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ! ★★★

• WHAT: The National Weather Service in State College PA has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning.
• WHERE: Dauphin County in south central Pennsylvania, Northwestern Lancaster County in south central Pennsylvania, Lebanon County in south central Pennsylvania, Schuylkill County in central Pennsylvania, Northwestern York County in south central Pennsylvania, until 9:15 PM. Locations impacted include: Lancaster, York, Lebanon, Pottsville, Hershey, Ephrata, Colonial Park, Weigelstown, Elizabethtown, Columbia, Lititz, and Middletown.
• At 531 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from Lykens to Dehart Dam to Hershey to Dover, moving northeast at 40 mph. This includes the following Interstates: The Pennsylvania Turnpike from mile markers 245 to 281. Interstate 78 from mile markers 0 to 8. Interstate 81 from mile markers 73 to 131. Interstate 83 from mile markers 20 to 36. Interstate 283 from mile markers 0 to 2.
• HAZARD: 60-70 mph wind gusts.
• SOURCE: Radar indicated.
• IMPACTS: Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Move vehicles into garages to avoid damage from 1" hail.
• PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS: Stay inside a well built structure and keep away from windows. If on or near water, get away from the water and move indoors or inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out to 15 miles from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter now! Do not be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.

While checking the interactive radar maps, we could see the violent t-storms just 'kiss North York', and move east, depriving us of any rain or 'excitement'. They were getting blasted up north, but we'd again gotten gypped. Ooooops, I'm wrong. The rain started at 10:30p, and by 11:30, it was steadily POURING! Much, much, much-needed rain. I bagged it for the night and the rain continued.

Up at 7a on Thursday, I made Monarch Coffee Co's "Farm Hand" Kona Coffee, fired-up the HP desktop, had a smoke in the garage with 68° temps, forecast to hit 88°. After tuning into the usual morning's "CS Show LIVE", I scanned the news headlines and found this interesting article. And a judge rules Montana law defining sex as only male or female is unconstitutional. Meh. I tried to switch to the usual WMAL in DC for the "CP Show LIVE", but was blocked by an unusual message for 25-30mins: "Temporarily unavailable for non-payment of services". WMAL didn't pay some bills? Huh?

I shut down everything, rebooted and all was right with the world. Eh, who knows? Sherry stopped by just after 1p, and we left for a nice afternoon "field trip" down south to The Markets at Shrewsbury, just a few miles north of the MD line. The place is AMAZING! (Use that link, and scroll down all the pics on the L/S of their site. The place is AMAZING! I haven't been there in 15-20yrs, and it really changed since the early 2000s. H/T and Kudos to Sherry for planning that trip!

YES, I did watch the "Presidential Debate", which was a pathetic joke. Bidet&Co was a stumbling, bumbling, mumbling senile, incoherent moron, and Trump easily outshined him. But, as is ususal, Trump45 speaks 2-3-4 thoughts at one time, never finishes 1-2, and keeps going on and on and on. That's just his extemporaneous style. Bidet&Co should be a permanent patienmt in "Autumn House", being fed gruel 3x/day and getting his Depends changed 5-6x/day. Yawn. By 11:30p, I was fading and pulled the plug.

Tomorrow starts a new week here in the "Journal" and, for the next 2 weeks, I mercifully have NO medical stuff. Maybe Sherry and I can plan some more "field trips" to other places, too.

Here It Comes.

Did you entertain feelings of doom during last week’s brain-withering heat-wave? The sheer anxious waiting and wishing for it to end was a nice analog to the stifling psycho-political miasma oppressing this nation — alternately known as the republic (for which we stand) and “our democracy,” as “Joe Biden” likes to style his regime of lawfare, warfare, and garish state-sponsored depravity. Well, rejoice and ring them bells! The political weather is breaking. The week ahead looks like an all-you-can-eat, steam-table banquet of consequence. Leftism might actually be noble if their concern for the marginalized wasn’t simply an incidental externality to their seething hatred of the normal and the good.

The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) teased last week with an opening round of lesser decisions on bump stocks for rifles, abortion pills for women inconvenienced by motherhood, and a few other interesting cases. The court’s term draws to a close with the end of June. Pending are several cases liable to rattle the windows and shake down the walls.

One is the question as to whether the government can use private company proxies to censor constitutionally protected free speech (Murthy v. Missouri). The case has been simmering for years, with lower court actions that took a dim view of the intel blob’s coercive intrusions into social media. Probably the most galling part of the story is that virtually every act of censorship and de-platforming was committed against those telling the truth about some vital public issue, whether it was the danger and ineffectiveness of the Covid vaccines, or the probity of the 2020 elections, or the existence of Hunter Biden’s laptop and its dastardly contents. That is, the government’s actions were entirely in the service of lying to the American people.

This raises a greater question that redounds from the courts onto the November election: just why is the US government so deeply invested in all that lying? The answer is obvious: it has been engaged in nefarious activities that it seeks to hide and deny. And all of that has served to wreck the country. Even worse, the government has gaslit half of the public into cheerleading and rolling over for all that dishonesty, so as to keep them “safe” from hobgoblins such as “misinformation.” Considering “Joe Biden’s” cratering poll numbers, it looks like the public is tired of this incessant lying and is fixing to vote his regime out of office.

We begin to see evidence that even some hardcore regime hacks are breaking out of that consensus trance, for instance, the Cuomo brothers denouncing the lies around lawfare and Covid. Andrew, once the New York state AG himself, told the shocked studio audience on Bill Maher’s HBO gabfest, beloved by Wokesters, that the Alvin Bragg case never should have been brought to trial. His brother Chris has been telling his podcast followers that Covid policy was a fiasco and the vaccines were harmful, and he apologized for his prior shifty reporting on all that when he had a CNN show.

Also upcoming at SCOTUS: Fischer v the United States, as to whether the DOJ tortured a federal statute on shredding financial records to overcharge J-6 rioters. In 2015 the court limited the scope of that law (part of the 2002 Sarbannes-Oxley Act), but Attorney General Merrick Garland used it anyway as an all-purpose dragnet to prosecute hundreds of people who merely paraded through the US Capitol — which provided legal footing for the House J-6 committee to color that event dishonestly as “an insurrection.” A decision against the government should lead to the release of many J-6 prisoners and perhaps lawsuits for malicious prosecution under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). It would also toss out the pertinent charges in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s DC case against Donald Trump for supposedly fomenting an “insurrection.”

Another biggie case pending (Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo; Relentless v. Department of Commerce) will determine whether executive agencies of the US Government (e.g., the EPA, CDC, Depts. of Energy, Education, Commerce, etc.) can issue regulations as if they have the force of law — that is, push citizens and businesses around by fiat where the law is ambiguous or nonexistent. A lot has changed since SCOTUS initially sought to define the scope of agency authority in their 1984 decision known as Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council. The federal bureaucracy has become an unaccountable behemoth, issuing sometimes arbitrary and capricious regulations that make it increasingly difficult to accomplish anything in our country. It has also enabled much of the government’s monkey business around Covid. This court appears to lean towards overturning Chevron.

Also pending this week: whether SCOTUS will stay Steve Bannon’s four-month jail sentence scheduled to begin July 1 while he appeals to the SCOTUS. Bannon was convicted for contempt of Congress when he refused to testify to the J-6 committee, basing his refusal on executive privilege. Note that SCOTUS did not keep White House advisor Peter Navarro out of prison for exactly the same charge. The DOJ must reply to SCOTUS’s request for “input” on the matter by Wednesday June 26th at 4:00 p.m. At issue is whether the government is interfering in the election by shutting up Bannon during the climax months of the campaign.

Today, Judge Aileen Cannon will ask Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lawyers to do some ‘splainin’ about how come he got to be Special Counsel without being nominated by a president or confirmed by the Senate, which is the lawful procedure. It’s therefore possible that Judge Cannon can determine that Mr. Smith is not operating lawfully. That’s not the only thing that can deflate the so-called Mar-a-Lago Documents case, but it could lead to a determination that this was a malicious political prosecution, with consequences for AG Merrick Garland.

By the way, you know what this case is really about, don’t you? I’ll tell you: the FBI went into Mar-a-Lago looking for Mr. Trump’s binder containing evidence of FBI and DOJ misconduct in the RussiaGate caper. Whether they found it or not, we don’t know, nor do we know if there are other copies of the materials. But you might surmise that a lot of officials in those agencies are a little nervous about their criminal liability, especially with the presidential election poll numbers looking how they do. In other words, the Mar-a-Lago raid was a cover-up operation.

Biden’s War On American Energy Gets Crazier.

Biden’s obsession with so-called “green” energy policies is thus costing the United States on two fronts. At home, American producers are struggling under a regulatory onslaught and open hostility from the White House – despite literally keeping the country’s lights on this winter. Meanwhile, America’s adversaries are taking full advantage of this weakness abroad, as China in particular seeks to step in and fill the void left by decreased U.S. energy exports.

Amid the cold snap that gripped the nation in early January and sent temperatures plummeting below zero for millions of Americans, the country’s power grid largely held up – barely – thanks to natural gas and other traditional sources of energy. Just after the new year, much of the country saw temperatures that were up to 25 degrees below normal, along with bone-chilling winds that made some places in states such as North Dakota feel like 70 below zero.

In Texas, the cold snap evoked fears of a similar winter storm as the infamous one in 2021 that caused the state’s power grid – largely reliant on wind and solar energy – to collapse, leading to more than 240 deaths. Many tragically froze in their homes.

Following the disaster, energy companies in Texas devoted significant resources to “hardening” the state’s power grid – primarily by ensuring a steady supply of natural gas and other fossil fuels to power stations.

As David Blackmon, a 40-year energy industry veteran, wrote shortly after this year’s deep freeze hit, the added investment in fossil fuels proved crucial for Texas. The morning of the first day of cold temperatures, fossil fuels “were kicking in 84.9 per cent of total [power] generation, with a whopping 67.2 per cent coming from the state’s natural gas industry.”

Although it went largely unremarked on by the corporate media, this was a shining moment for natural gas and the fossil fuels industry. Without them, Texas might well have seen a repeat of 2021.

Joe Biden appears not to have gotten the message either. On January 26, the White House bowed to demands from environmental groups and paused all natural gas exports – a major blow to the U.S. natural gas industry, which has already been hampered by three years of Biden administration policies.

The move is expected to send energy and gas prices in the United States even higher, with Reuters predicting that gas prices may hit their highest level since December 2022.

A German senior energy analyst, Dr. Rolf Werner, who advised Texaco in the 1980s, told me that scarce investment in gas infrastructure means coming price hikes could be here to stay. “They are long term,” he said.

Biden’s decision to stop natural gas exports comes as the latest broadside in his war on American energy, ranking alongside other decisions such as revoking key permits for the Keystone XL pipeline and pausing oil and gas leases on federal lands.

While American companies can make their own decisions, Biden’s regulatory agenda and hostility toward fossil fuels companies have hamstrung the industry and even caused some insurers and banks to withdraw their involvement from fossil fuels projects.

Meanwhile, as Biden continues to target domestic energy suppliers, countries in Africa and Asia – primarily China – are sensing an opportunity.

One of the most prominent petroleum-producing countries in Africa is Uganda, with an estimated 6.5 billion barrels of oil reserves. Chinese companies control about eight percent of all of Uganda’s oil projects, and last month Uganda granted the China National Offshore Oil Corporation a license to construct a new facility in the western part of the country that will ship natural gas to the coast in Tanzania.

Professor Otieno Sekibo, a retired Tanzanian economist who advised the International Energy Agency in the 1990s, told me that China had won a double victory in securing this contract to build a new facility and export natural gas. “It boosted the job market at home [in China] weakened by a high youth unemployment rate,” he said. “It also won jobs for Chinese nationals who would fill all positions from top managers to medium-skilled employees.”

Moreover, as the World Bank reported this month, even as the global economy is headed for its weakest five-year performance in three decades, “Uganda will benefit from infrastructure investment ahead of new oil production,” with growth expected to be relatively strong at six percent this year.

Elsewhere in the world, while Biden was harassing U.S. energy producers, Russian and Chinese companies were engaging with top Iraqi government officials to extract oil and natural gas. On January 1 of this year, Exxon Mobil handed over to PetroChina operations of the world’s largest oil field, West Qurna 1, in southern Iraq, which produces around 550,000 barrels per day.

An Iraqi subsidiary of PetroChina also recently took control over the massive Nahr bin Umar liquid gas field with the capacity to produce 150 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.

It is now clear that, both at home and abroad, Joe Biden’s energy policies are failing. The only questions is if it will take a disaster on an even larger scale than the 2021 Texas blackouts to force a course correction.

Ben Solis is the pen name of an international affairs journalist, historian, and researcher.