The McAlvany Daily Update – December 8, 2020

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• McAlvany  Intelbrief
  

The McAlvany Intelbrief is a round-up of the day’s important news from a multitude of sectors that can and do impact the financial markets.

ECONOMIC

• American expands preflight testing to all U.S. destinations with travel restrictions

• Another Airline Announces ‘COVID Passports’ Will Be “Essential” For Travel

• House Expected To Vote Wednesday On Stopgap Bill To Avoid Govt Shutdown

• Schumer says Biden ‘considering’ forgiving $50K in student loan borrowers

• Central Banking’s Green Mission

• A Monetary Mind at the Treasury

• The Pandemic Public-Debt Dilemma

• Entrapment: Globalists Plan Great Reset!

• Former Maryland Legislator Wants to Hold Stimulus Checks Hostage in Exchange for Taking the COVID-19 Vaccine

• Eviction looms for struggling US renters as stimulus talks drag

• How the Covid Response Has Destroyed the Personal Finances of Americans

• Consumers finally getting smart? Credit card balances plunge

• The “Great Reset” and Plans for a Global War on Savings

• ‘No Vaccine, No Work’: Employers Discuss Making Immunity Mandatory for Workers
  

 

EDUCATION(AL)

•  COVID lockdowns compared to coercion & torture methods to break the will of prisoners of war

• A Brief History of Soviet Propaganda

• All-Remote Learning Failing Many Students

• Fear and loathing as colleges face another season of red ink

• Indian village teacher wins Global Teacher Prize

• High-school wrestlers allowed to grapple, but shaking opponent’s hand now forbidden
  

 

ELECTION

•  Texas Sues Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania And Wisconsin At US Supreme Court Over Election

• Why ‘safe harbor’ day spells trouble for Trump’s legal bid to overturn election defeat

• Atheists, Humanists Release ‘Secular Agenda for Congress, Biden Administration’

• Master cyber forensic specialist joins Team Sidney Powell, says physically impossible to scan votes into machines as fast as they were added

• Pentagon blocks Team Biden from meeting with military intel agencies

 

ENVIRONMENT / CLIMATE

•  Biden calls climate change an ’emergency.’ Now he’s under pressure to officially declare it one – Urged to ‘invoke the National Emergencies Act’

  

FOOD

•  Famine Is “Knocking On The Door”

• Food Banks Warn A MASSIVE Food Shortage Is Coming

• Millions of hungry Americans turn to food banks for 1st time

• How Much Plastic Are You Eating
  

 

GEO-POLITICAL

•  UK Announces That Passports Will Soon Include Vaccine Stamps

• Philippines receives $29 million of military equipment from U.S. to boost defenses

• Russian ‘doomsday’ plane’s radio equipment stolen by thieves

• Japan to fund AI matchmaking to boost birth rate

• Venezuela: Despite Threats of Starvation and Extortion, 81 Percent of Citizens Still Didn’t Vote in Legislative Election

  

GLOBALIZATION

•  World Economic Forum Delayed Until May, Will Take Place In Singapore, Not Davos
  

 

IMMIGRATION 

• Clinton-appointed Judge Orders Trump Administration to Expand DACA, Ignoring Constitution
  

 

LEGAL 

• Ted Cruz Says He’ll Present Arguments Before SCOTUS If They Take Up Pennsylvania Case

• California Sheriff Says He Won’t Enforce Gov. Newsom’s COVID Restrictions, ‘Compliance is Not a Matter of Law Enforcement’

• ‘It’s Time to Cancel Everything’: Los Angeles Mayor Bans All Travel, Orders Residents to Stay Home

• NYC sends mask squad to enforce rules

• NJ ‘Rate Of Noncooperation With Contact Tracers Now Up To 74% Of Cases’
  

 

MEDIA 

• Rashida Jones To Succeed Phil Griffin As MSNBC President – She will be the first Black executive to lead one of the major cable news networks.

• Facebook Fact-Checker Has Not Fact-Checked Its Own COVID Misinformation

• What the Media Refuses to Tell You About COVID Vaccines

• Breakdancing confirmed as Olympic sport

• Only 40% Of Those Polled Think Mainstream Media Has Made a Serious Effort to Determine if Election Fraud Occurred

  

MEDICAL 

• A new “mystery disease” that causes “burning eyes” has already spread to hundreds of people in India

• Oregon Doctor Who Refused To Wear Mask Has License Suspended

• Another 400,000 chickens and ducks culled, this time it’s South Korea who is reporting a bird flu outbreak bringing growing concerns of a new pandemic of a highly pathogenic avian influenza following new outbreaks in China and Japan

• Pandemic has created perfect storm for plastic surgery boom

• Mental health plummets to 20-year low under influence of pandemic
  

 

Coronavirus-19 

• Pfizer CEO “Not Certain” Vaccine Will Stop People From Spreading COVID-19

• FDA Confirms Pfizer Vaccine 95% Effective, Warns Of ‘Severe Adverse Reactions’ After Dose 2

• AstraZeneca Vaccine Only 62% Effective; Impact On Elderly Unclear As More Data Needed

• The covid-19 vaccine; is the goal immunity or depopulation?

• 90-Year-Old Woman in U.K. Becomes First Person to Receive Pfizer Vaccine

• Ready for your jab, America? 100 million Covid-19 “vaccine kits” with “immunity cards” await distribution

• Demand for Covid vaccines expected to get heated — and fast

• USA Turned Down Offer To Buy More Doses

• UK trial to mix and match Covid vaccines to try to improve potency

 

NATIONAL SECURITY 

• 14 fired or suspended following Fort Hood investigation into Vanessa Guillén’s death

• FBI and Army investigating death of Fort Bragg soldier whose decapitated head washed up on N.C. beach

• Here’s Why We Need a New ICBM

 

 POLITICAL 

• NY AG Predicts: Trump Will Resign, Pence Will Pardon Him!

• Virginia County Rebels Against Gov. Northam’s Lockdown Restrictions – Declares Itself “First Amendment Sanctuary”

• The Energy Crisis During the Panic of 1873

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Psychological Warfare Disguised as a Pandemic Threat

• Victims of Communism Museum to Open in D.C. Next Year
  

 

PREPAREDNESS 

• Are you preparing for the wrong disaster?

• Rabobank: Prepare For The Roaring 20s? Let’s Consider What Was Actually Going On In The 1920s

• 8 Tips to Stay Warm in the Woods

• The Ultimate Truck Camping Guide For 2020

• 45 Things Homesteaders Do During the Winter

• How To Prepare Your Car In Case You Have To Live In It
  

 

PRIVACY 

• CDC Call for Data on Recipients Raises Alarm Over Privacy
  

 

SOCIAL / CULTURE 

• Why pandemic is causing spikes in break-ups, divorces

• Dems Claim the Trans Community Is Suffering an ‘Epidemic of Violence’; Here’s What’s Really Going On

• STUDY: 1 In 3 Americans Binge Drinking

• COVID NOMAD: New Era of Full-Time Travel
  

 

SPACE 

• SPACEX capsules parked side-by-side at station for 1st time

• Musk’s SpaceX to stage key high-altitude Starship test
  

 

TECHNOLOGY 

• NSA warns Russians exploiting flaw in virtual workspaces during pandemic
  

 

TERRORISM

• The Taliban are megarich – here’s where they get the money they use to wage war in Afghanistan

• Crime cartels turn to crypto to clean up cash