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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. TSM’s chips are everywhere, though most consumers don’t know it.
The company makes almost all of the world’s most sophisticated chips, and many of the simpler ones, too. They’re in billions of products with built-in electronics, including iPhones, personal computers and cars—all without any obvious sign they came from TSMC, which does the manufacturing for better-known companies that design them, like Apple Inc. and Qualcomm Inc.
Its technology is so advanced, Capital Economics said, that it now makes around 92% of the world’s most sophisticated chips, which have transistors that are less than one-thousandth the width of a human hair. Samsung Electronics Co. makes the rest. Most of the roughly 1.4 billion smartphone processors world-wide are made by TSMC.
While the U.S. still leads the world in chip design and intellectual property with homegrown giants like Intel Corp. , Nvidia Corp. and Qualcomm, it now accounts for only 12% of the world’s chip manufacturing, down from 37% in 1990, according to Boston Consulting Group.
Other countries would need to spend at least $30 billion a year for a minimum of five years “to have any reasonable chance of success” in catching up with TSMC and Samsung, wrote IC Insights, a research firm, in a recent report.
Dimitris Dotis, the Audi brand specialist at Audi Tysons Corner dealership in Virginia, summed up the situation to customers. “Almost all microchips that go into all new vehicles including Audi come from TSMC in Taiwan,” he wrote. “They expect bottlenecks in the supply chain to last through 2022.”
TSMC Eyes Expansion in Arizona
Trump promised TSMC $3 billion in incentives to build a factory in Arizona, but no funding was allocated.
The newest chip designs will still be made in Taiwan.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd is planning to build several more chipmaking factories in the U.S. state of Arizona beyond the one currently planned, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, announced in May 2020 it would build a $12 billion factory in Arizona, an apparent win by the Trump administration in its push to wrestle global tech supply chains back from China.
TSMC manufactures the bulk of its chips in Taiwan and has older chip facilities in China and the U.S. state of Washington.
The initial fab is relatively modest by industry standards, with a planned output of 20,000 wafers - each of which contains thousands of chips - every month using the company's most sophisticated 5 nanometre semiconductor manufacturing technology.
The Biden administration is preparing to spend tens of billions of dollars to support domestic chip manufacturing. Under existing legislation, foreign firms are eligible for those funds, but whether they will ultimately receive it is an open question.
Virginia is preparing to elect a new governor, and the Democrats are panicking.
The race has become a dead heat, according to a new poll from Emerson College/Nexstar Media. Democrat Terry McAuliffe is polling at 49 percent, and Republican Glenn Youngkin is polling at 48 percent.
McAuliffe was enjoying a four-point lead over Youngkin in September, according to Emerson’s previous poll. McAuliffe was polling at 49 percent last month, and Youngkin was at 45 percent.
Either Youngkin has won four points’ worth of undecided voters since last month, or he’s peeled votes away from the third-party candidates.
Either way, Youngkin has inspired pessimism in the Democrats.
He comes from the private sector, and he served as the CEO of a financial firm.
Meanwhile, McAuliffe has amassed a record as a career politician. He worked as co-chair of the reelection campaign for former President Bill Clinton. Then he chaired both the Democratic National Committee and the first presidential campaign for former State Secretary Hillary Clinton.
He’s even been governor of Virginia before.
McAuliffe won the governor’s race in 2013. He received 47.8 percent of the vote, while the Republican received 45.2 percent.
In 2013, McAuliffe may have benefitted from a Libertarian candidate who received 6.5 percent of the vote and, presumably, peeled some votes away from the Republican.
This time, the Libertarians aren’t running anybody. However, the hard-left Liberation Party is running a candidate this year, much to McAuliffe’s chagrin.
McAuliffe has run into more hurdles this year than in 2013. Back then, he ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination. This year, he ran against four other Democrats.
Virginia holds its state-level elections in odd-numbered years, presumably to lessen the influence of the federal government. After all, more than a third of Virginia’s population lives within the metro area of Washington, D.C.
Like the 2013 election, this year’s election has no incumbent. Virginia forbids its governors from serving more than one term in a row, the only state to do so.
Every governor since 1975 has served only one term. So, the historical odds have been stacked against McAuliffe.
McAuliffe is also underperforming the Democratic candidate from the previous election. In 2017, Democrat Ralph Northam won the governor’s race with 53.9 percent of the vote.
The rest of the polling data looks bleak for McAuliffe… and other Democrats.
President Joe Biden won Virginia by 10 points last year, and he endorsed McAuliffe at a campaign event in July.
However, only 22 percent of voters considered themselves more likely to vote for McAuliffe after seeing Biden’s endorsement. A whopping 39 percent of voters became less likely to vote for McAuliffe.
McAuliffe himself has admitted Biden’s lack of popularity.
“As you know, the president is unpopular today, unfortunately, here in Virginia,” he acknowledged in a video obtained by the Republican National Committee.
The polling took place between Friday and Sunday. The pollsters communicated with respondents via the internet, text messaging, landline phone calls. They asked 620 likely voters, “If this election for governor were held today, for whom would you cast your vote?”
For the aggregate poll, the pollsters calculated the margin of error at 3.9 percent.
In June 2021, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson held a news conference with families who shared stories about the injuries they’d suffered as a result of taking the COVID jab
September 10, 2021, WXYZ-TV Channel 7 posted a request on Facebook, asking people who had lost an unvaccinated loved one to COVID-19 to contact them for a story. The post has received more than 241,000 comments and most are about someone who was injured or died from the COVID shot, or who got severe COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated
Jodi O’Malley, a registered nurse who works for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is blowing the whistle on COVID jab injuries. Suspected vaccine injuries are not being reported, even though it’s required. In fact, few health care workers are familiar with this requirement and they don’t know how and where to file such reports
Brandon Schadt, a Johnson & Johnson regional business lead, has been caught on tape saying children should not get the COVID jab, and media cannot be trusted to tell the truth about the shots
Justin Durrant, a Johnson & Johnson scientist, agrees babies and young children don’t need the COVID shot, and tells the undercover reporter to not get the Johnson & Johnson COVID “vaccine”
At the end of June 2021, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson held a news conference with families who shared stories about the injuries they’d suffered as a result of taking the COVID jab. You can watch the hour-long meeting, which was widely censored and suppressed, above.
While Johnson is diplomatic, stating that most people have no problem after taking the jab, and that the shots have saved many lives, it seems clear that side effects from the COVID injections are FAR more common than anyone is willing to publicly admit.
Case in point: September 10, 2021, WXYZ-TV Channel 7 posted a request on Facebook,1,2 asking people who had lost an unvaccinated loved one to COVID-19 to contact them for a story.
As of September 29, 2021, the post had more than 244,000 comments, and the vast majority are about someone who was injured or died from the COVID shot, or who got severe COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated. You can browse through the hundreds of thousands of comments here. Below are some examples of the comments posted on the site:
“My good friend’s grandpa just passed away due to receiving his booster vaccine.”
“How about doing a story about my uncle who was in fine shape until he got vaccinated. Or my boss's uncle who was healthy and in his 50s, then died suddenly a week after getting vaccinated.”
“My sister-in-law’s father died of a stroke 48H after Moderna vax. He was active and healthy.”
“What about my husband’s boss who had two strokes after her second dose?! Not interested in that story?”
“The shot murdered my friend three weeks after he got it.”
“I have a close friend that now has myocarditis after the shots. High Mortality within 5 years. Perfectly healthy prior to the shots.”
“I know 2 women who had strokes right after their shot.”
“We lost an uncle to heart inflammation 2 days after he received the vaccine.”
“Lost a very dear man after his second dose of the vaccine and he said he regretted getting it and he advised me not to get it. How about reporting on those? He died of a brain aneurysm, and was a very healthy man.”
“My beautiful mother passed away recently, 23 days after having the first AstraZeneca shot (that I didn’t know she was getting). ‘Immunization’ was the ‘cause of death’ on her death certificate.”
“I now know more people injured by the vaccine than people who even had covid.”
“No but I know of two people who died from Covid after being fully vaccinated.”
“My uncle passed away 3 months after his second shot. He was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, had surgery, was released to rehab and then died of a blood clot. Thanks Pfizer.”
“I know two women who had miscarriages within 2 days of taking it.”
These responses are what you would call a major CLUE. As noted by one commenter, “Doesn't sound like you're getting the story you need judging by the vast majority of these comments about vaccine losses and side effects. Since there is such an overwhelming outpouring of vaccine reactions maybe do a story on that? There's lots of people here to pool from it seems.”
We now also have medical insiders blowing the whistle, confirming COVID jab injuries are incredibly commonplace, and most are never reported. In an upcoming article, I will share businessman Steve Kirsch’s analysis that strongly suggests the reports in the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) is underreported by a factor of 41. This means there may actually be more than 200,000 deaths and up to 5 million COVID jab injuries.
HHS Whistleblower: ‘Evil at the Highest Level’
In a stunning Project Veritas report, Jodi O’Malley, a nurse working for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, reveals health officials are ignoring and covering up COVID-19 vaccine injuries.
O’Malley says she’s seen “dozens of people come in with adverse reactions,” including myocarditis, congestive heart failure and deaths, yet the reactions are not being reported. This, despite the fact that both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention require any suspected injury from an emergency use vaccine to be reported.
“If everyone is supposed to gather this data and report it, but no one is reporting it, how will anyone know the vaccine is truly safe? They don’t,” O’Malley says.
One of the reasons O’Malley decided to come forward, knowing she will likely lose her job over it, is because one of her coworkers who was coerced into taking the shot died. “Nobody should have to decide between their livelihood or take the vaccine,” O’Malley says.
She also points out that while there are medications such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine that have been shown to be safe and effective against the virus, the HHS will terminate anyone who uses these drugs. Were these drugs permitted, the COVID jab wouldn’t even qualify for emergency use. When O’Malley asks Gayle Lundberg, a DHHS pharmacist, if ivermectin can be given to a patient if the doctor is willing to prescribe it, Lundberg responds:
“I am stuck. I am told you are absolutely not to use [ivermectin] under any circumstances whatsoever for somebody with COVID, unless you don’t want to have a job. I’m not going to lose my job over this.”
“This is evil at the highest level,” O’Malley says. “You have the FDA, the CDC, that are both supposed to be protecting us, but they are under the government, and everything we’ve done so far is unscientific.”
Another whistleblower, Deborah Conrad, was recently featured in a Highwire exclusive. Conrad, a physician’s assistant, reveals there’s a complete disregard for the requirement to report COVID jab injuries at her hospital too. I will publish that interview this coming Friday, October 8, 2021.
Johnson & Johnson Officials Caught on Tape
In Part 3 of its COVID vaccine investigative series, Project Veritas exposes the true sentiments of two Johnson & Johnson officials: Brandon Schadt, a Johnson & Johnson regional business lead, and Justin Durrant, a Johnson & Johnson scientist.
Speaking to an undercover Project Veritas reporter over a meal, Schadt admits he does not agree with the push to vaccinate children. “Kids shouldn’t get a f*cking [COVID] vaccine,” he says. “It’s terrible … It’s a kid, you just don’t do that, you know? Not something that’s so unknown in terms of repercussions down the road.”
When asked if we really have no idea what the long-term repercussions are, he replies, “I mean, how could you? Right? There’s nobody who’s 30 years in who said, ‘Hey, I had the vaccine and I don’t have a third eyeball.” When asked if we can trust the media when it comes to reporting on the COVID shots, Schadt states, “In no capacity should we ever trust anything that they say.”
Durrant also doesn’t think babies and young children need the jab, saying “It wouldn’t make that much of a difference” if children are unvaccinated for COVID. That said, he does seem to be onboard with the corporate policy to push the injection on adults, regardless of need or personal beliefs.
He admits that what they’re doing is making life so inconvenient for the unvaccinated that they just give up and get it. Despite that, Durrant tells the undercover reporter: “Don’t get the Johnson & Johnson [COVID vaccine]. I didn’t tell you [that] though.”
FDA Warnings Issued for Janssen, Pfizer and Moderna
In late April 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration added a warning label to the Janssen COVID shot about the risk for potentially serious blood clotting in the brain and other sites, including the abdomen and legs, in combination with thrombocytopenia (low platelet count), particularly among women.3,4 In mid-July, Guillain-Barre syndrome and altered immunocompetence were added to the list of warnings.5,6
In June 2021, Pfizer and Moderna both got warning labels added to their COVID shots as the FDA concluded there’s a “likely association” between the mRNA injections and heart inflammation in adolescents and young adults.7
June 24, 2021, Fierce Pharma reported that “heart inflammation has occurred at a rate of 12.6 per million among those aged 12 to 39, according to the CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink.”8
Menstrual Problems Emerging as a Widespread Side Effect
One of the side effects that has yet to register on the FDA’s and CDC’s radar is menstrual irregularities among women. According to a September 16, 2021, editorial in The BMJ,9 more than 30,000 reports of menstrual irregularities and vaginal bleeding had been filed with the British Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) Yellow Card Scheme, which collects and monitors adverse vaccine reactions, as of September 2, 2021.
The editorial was written by Victoria Male, a reproductive immunology specialist at the Imperial College of London. According to Male, the link between these bleeding irregularities and the COVID jabs, irrespective of brand, is a plausible one that warrants further investigation. She writes:10
“Menstrual changes have been reported after both mRNA and adenovirus vectored covid-19 vaccines, suggesting that, if there is a connection, it is likely to be a result of the immune response to vaccination rather than a specific vaccine component.
Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) has also been associated with menstrual changes. Indeed, the menstrual cycle can be affected by immune activation in response to various stimuli, including viral infection: in one study of menstruating women, around a quarter of those infected with SARS-CoV-2 experienced menstrual disruption.
Biologically plausible mechanisms linking immune stimulation with menstrual changes include immunological influences on the hormones driving the menstrual cycle or effects mediated by immune cells in the lining of the uterus, which are involved in the cyclical build-up and breakdown of this tissue.”
Assistant professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Kathryn Clancy, who is researching acute immune activation and menstrual repair mechanisms, told The Defender she’s “dismayed that the research design of [COVID] vaccine trials makes it impossible at this time to actually explore this relationship, and hope drug and vaccine manufacturers in the future take these considerations into account.”11
US Reports of Menstrual Irregularities
In the U.S., the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) had logged a total of 9,589 reports of menstrual disorders following a COVID injection as of September 17, 2021.12 Dr. Lawrence Palevsky, a pediatrician, also weighed in on The BMJ article, telling The Defender:13
“If we were to follow the scientific method, as it was taught in textbooks (knowing full well there is no longer any adherence to the scientific method), we would immediately see this observation of menstrual cycle changes in tens of thousands of women as a signal, for which necessary questions would need to be asked …
A true adherence to the scientific method would allow for answers to be reported without bias or prejudice for a desired outcome of the results … There is a long list of side effects that the manufacturers of the injection sent to the FDA in the fall of 2020.
Essentially, they gathered the data in clinical trials but have kept them completely under wraps.”
Palevsky believes the menstrual irregularities reported by women who have gotten the COVID shot may be related to effects from the spike protein that their bodies are now producing.
NIH Funds Study to Investigate Menstrual Irregularities
In early September 2021, the Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the Office of Research on Women’s Health, both of which are part of the National Institutes of Health, announced they will award $1.67 million in grants to five research institutions to investigate the link between menstrual irregularities and the COVID jabs.14,15
Over the next year, researchers at Boston University, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University and Oregon Health and Science University, will try to determine whether the menstrual changes are directly linked to the COVID shots, how long the changes last, and what the underlying mechanism is.
The five studies are expected to enroll somewhere between 400,000 and 500,000 participants, according to Dr. Diana Bianchi, director of the Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
There’s also an independent group that is collecting data from unvaccinated women who are experiencing abnormal bleeding patterns after coming into close contact with a COVID jabbed individual. Palevsky and Dr. Christiane Northrup are part of this research group, among others. You can find more information about this project on MyCycleStory.com.16
Mounting Data Tell a Horrifying Story
In closing, while authorities insist the COVID shots are “safe and effective,” mounting data tell a different story. Not only are the injections losing effectiveness within months, as demonstrated by Israeli data discussed in the video above, VAERS has also received more than 726,960 adverse events reports following the COVID shot, including 15,386 deaths and 66,642 hospitalizations, as of September 17, 2021.17
These numbers are so staggering, there’s really nothing that can compare. In nine months, these shots have caused more VAERS reports of injury and death in the United States than all available vaccines over the past 30 years. A similar situation can be seen in the U.K., where 30,305 people have died within 21 days of their COVID shot. And that was just within the first six months of the vaccine rollout.18
In August 2021, Japan’s health ministry suspended the use of 1.63 million doses of Moderna’s injection after finding foreign substances that looked like metal particles in some vials. Then, in mid-September, suspected contaminants were discovered in a particular lot of Pfizer’s injection as well.19 Still, we’re told to just roll up our sleeves and ask no questions. Why?
As noted by Schadt, the Johnson & Johnson employee caught on tape by Project Veritas, the mass vaccination campaign isn’t really about public health, it’s about politics and money. Beyond that, I believe it’s about building the control mechanism needed for the Great Reset. Vaccine passports will allow unelected technocrats to control and manipulate the whole world according to their own whims.
As expected, it doesn’t end with two doses. In Israel, a fourth Pfizer shot is already being rolled out, and the year isn’t even over yet. And all those who took the first two doses will now lose all of their freedoms all over again, until they catch up on the recommended boosters. This is precisely what we can expect to happen everywhere else in the world, where vaccine passports are rolled out.
Freedoms are being tied to being up-to-date on your vaccinations, and once COVID-19 disappears, if ever, they’ll just come out with something else that must be injected into you if you want to work, go to school, travel, shop or live a semi-normal life.
This is what the new biosecurity state is built around. The question is, is that any kind of life? Is that how we want to live? Is this the world we want for our children and grandchildren? If not, we must all do our part and resist mandates, vaccine passports and restrictions based on vaccine status. The good news is, together we can win, because there are far more of us than there are of them.
In early August, Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock announced a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. He declared that all city employees, and even some private-sector employees who worked in “high-risk settings,” must be vaccinated by Sept. 30, according to the government’s website.
Jose Manriquez, a seven-year veteran with the Denver Police Department, faced with the prospect of losing his job, opted for the vaccine.
Manriquez and his attorney, Randy Corporon, appeared on Fox & Friends on Friday where he told his story to co-host Ainsley Earhardt.
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Corporon represents nine officers from the Denver Police Department who have had their first dose of the vaccine and, for various reasons, do not wish to take the second dose.
“We’ve got officers who’ve had to retire early. We’ve got Jose, 34, who’s at the beginning of his career. He had trouble getting up here, to his chair,” he said.
Manriquez, a 12-year veteran with the Army National Guard and a father of four, had his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Aug. 22.
“That week, I started developing body ache, pain in my legs,” he told Earhardt. “The next week, August 31, I tried going into work. My legs hurt a lot more.”
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“Ended up getting sent home,” he continued.
“And on my way home, I couldn’t feel my feet anymore. I couldn’t feel the gas pedal or the brake pedal. And pretty much had to call for help to get home. And I barely made it.”
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Asked how he feels, Manriquez replied, “Uncertain.”
“I can’t be outside with my kids,” he said, fighting back tears. “We got soccer season. It’s life-changing, and the doctor says it could get worse before it gets better. And if I do get better, it’s going to be years.”
He explained. “So, I always carry my kids to bed. And they’re like, ‘Daddy, we’ll just walk to bed.'”
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His lawyer shared that he’d been on the phone with Manriquez recently and he broke down. “He had fallen over putting his kids to bed, and you know, his little girls think Daddy’s broken.”
“This is a guy who had serious COVID last year and beat it,” Corporon said. “So, his body was raging with antibodies. And they gave him this jab, and now his hand was shaking like this, this morning when he came up. It’s outrageous.”
His sister, Soila Hurtado, set up a GoFundMe page for Manriquez. She wrote, “He received the mandatory vaccine on August 22, 2021 and immediately started having a bad reaction. Since receiving the vaccine he has not been able to return to work and his future is uncertain as we do not know how long his road to recovery will be.”
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“As the sole income provider for his family of 6. He was very involved with all of his children’s sports and activities. After receiving his vaccine my brother has developed severe tremors, he has trouble sleeping due to the amount of pain in his legs, he can’t walk without the worry of falling due to his legs giving out and has actually fallen a number of times.”
Although many individuals tolerate the vaccine well, the growing number of people who’ve suffered adverse effects after taking it should give the government, on both federal and local levels, pause.
On Sunday, I posted about a happily married woman with two young children, aged 37, who felt that the vaccination posed far more risk to her than the virus itself would. Faced with being unable to visit her children’s classrooms, she took the vaccine and died from a vaccine-induced blood clot.
This can only be called medical tyranny. And it is being thrust on Americans against their will.
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What about the medical privacy that was provided to us under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
People must be allowed to choose what gets injected into their bodies.
This is the most dangerous presidential administration in our nation’s history. I hope that America survives it, and I mean that sincerely.
The Western Journal has published this article in the interest of shedding light on stories about the COVID-19 vaccine that are largely unreported by the establishment media. In that same spirit, according to the most recent statistics from the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Effect Reporting System, 8,164 deaths have been reported among those who received a vaccine, or 21 out of every 1,000,000. By contrast, 694,701 deaths from COVID-19 have been reported by the CDC, or 18,281 out of every 1,000,000. In addition, it must be noted that VAERS reports can be filed by anyone and are unverified by the CDC. Thus, as the agency notes, “Reports of adverse events to VAERS following vaccination, including deaths, do not necessarily mean that a vaccine caused a health problem.” The decision of whether to receive a COVID vaccine is a personal one, but it is important to consider context when making that decision. — Ed. note
