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Sunday, October 6, 2024


Thank you to Tom Woods @ the Tom Woods Show.  In Episode 2552, "The Bankers Are Divided, and What That Means for You," on October 3, 2024, Tom interviews the incomparable, Tom Luongo.

2:25. In This Moment In Time there's a very interesting moment in time where we may even as austrians it may not behoove us to look at the FED as only the villain and to look at them in a storytelling sense in a different role if we do that I think we have a very unique opportunity to level up as markets commentators and all that I think it's very interesting Moment In Time.

4:11. The best thing to remember is that when everybody's winning when everybody is on the same page and they are Marching towards their perfect technocratic union everybody's winning hey we are all on board right it's kind of like the hockey metaphor there's no complaints in the room when everybody's winning the minute you start losing then everybody starts pointing fingers and you find out who slept with whose wife and you know all that and eventually you have to fire the coach that's the hockey joke.  Because I can't fire the players in the central Bank world or in the globalist world you have to think of it in terms of when they're interests diverge or when one group turns predatory this is a classic cartel analysis.  The cartel analysis is probably the best way to frame it.  There's always going to be an incentive at some point for one member of the cartel to break with whatever it is the cartel thinks they're going to do next.  In the case of central banks, and the commercial banks that they represent, or at least in the United States, what the World Economic Forum, WEF, the European Union, the IMF, and the UN, what they're proposing doesn't jive with what Wall Street wants.  Because what they want, simply put, is the end of Commercial Banking.  They want the end of private formation of capital in every fundamental way all the things that the Austrians argue for and cherish.  But in our current environment, we have a two-tiered monetary system, two channels two cycle monetary systems: the Central Bank prints the money, and lends it to the commercial Banks.  The commercial Banks then turn around and lend it to you, and those are two circles, two chains, and they intersect at the commercial Banks.  

6:13.  Central Bank digital currencies programmable Central Bank digital currencies where everybody has some digital dollars on their phone or digital euros or Pounds have no need for commercial Banks because you just get your money directly from the central bank.  So if the central bank doesn't want to lend you money then you don't get the money this is what the big worry about Central Bank and Central currencies cbdc's is all about its programmable money where they can automatically de-platform you through an AI script.  Where does JP Morgan fit into that?  Where does Goldman Sachs fit into that?  Where does Nomura fit into that?  They don't.  That's the joke, and that's why I'm saying to myself that Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve, especially Jerome Powell, who came out of the private sector as opposed to Bernanke and Yellen,  and all the rest of them were all academics.  Powell's friends were all on Wall Street.  They call him "Private Equity Powell," so the Federal Reserve ultimately works for Wall Street, and if Wall Street is going to get cut out of the future, then what incentive is it for them to stay in the central bank cartel?  That's the question I've been asking for 3 years. 

7:50. Unless they abolish the dollar and we have no choice what happens if people just don't adopt the Central Bank digital currency.

8:00. Well they tried that in Nigeria, and it didn't work.  They tried force-feeding it into Nigeria, and it didn't work.  The Chinese have been trying to enforce the digital yuan on their people, and it isn't working.  And so what are they going to do here in the United States?  I don't know.  I don't think they're going to ever get it. Like I've talked to Daniel de Martino Booth.  I've talked to a bunch of people about this, and they're like "CBDCs over Powell's dead body."  Why do you think they're trying to get rid of him?  Or why do you think they blocked his second term so hard.  How do we see it in the real world?  We see it simply by the fact that Powell raised interest rates to 5 1/2% over the screams, howls, and squeals of the European Central Bank, everyone.  Everybody.  The classic vulture capitalist coming out of the private equity world, . . . I mean, Powell torched relationships and friendships with his private Equity friends for 2 years now.  But Wall Street, and I'll specifically say, I think, Jamie Dimon over at JP Morgan has said, "No, no, no.  We have to do this."  From our perspective, these people look like vultures and vandals and evil rent-seeking. . . Evil rent Seekers.  From their perspective, the way they see themselves they never see themselves as a villain.  I think Jamie Dimon sees himself as a patriot.  If you listen to him talk and you think about things from Jamie Dimon's perspective, when I listen to Jamie Dimon talk I see a guy who sees himself as a patriot.  So I don't ever see him really selling out fundamentally U.S. interests.  Whereas and it's very clear, he said he was talking about this literally last week, saying, "All of my very liberal friends don't understand what's about to happen. They're all finally starting to get it in New York that Kamala Harris can't be president."  This is Jamie Dimon coming out and literally telling everybody you need to vote for Donald Trump.  And during the primary when he came out for Nikki Haley, I had a bunch of people say, well, look, he came out for Nikki Haley, the neocon. I'm like, yeah, I know.  What he really did was legitimize Republican voting in the Republican primaries to his liberal Wall Street friends.  And it's like a baby step.  Let's move toward Nikki Haley, and then when Haley falls out of the race and then Dimon is clearly backing Trump he's not just like angling to be Treasury Secretary or anything, you know, it's nothing like that.  To look for the stuff, you have to see what policy happened.  Faster than anybody in history coming out of COVID-19 and you could argue that he did so for Keynesian reasons.  Let's bring, you know, let's bring down aggregate demand.  The economy wasn't, I mean, it wasn't stunning or anything.  It was just, you know, year-over-year baseline numbers looked great because they were so terrible during COVID-19.  So Powell understood that they printed trillions of dollars, and he needed to get rid of it all.  And even when he was a junior member of the Fed, Powell was always the hawk at the doves' table.  So while Bernanke and Yellen were destroying, literally destroying the country with zero bound interest rates in QE, Powell was sitting there going, "What are we doing?" the entire time.  But he was, of course, in the minority at the Fed

Thursday, September 12, 2024

TOM LUONGO: The debt issue can be easily solved. Gold just needs to be at a higher price

Saturday, August 3, 2024

MARTIN ARMSTRONG: The U.S. Constitution, read it, said that they were going to honor all the debts of the previous [government]. They never did

Yes that's exactly why and at this stage they think that the plan is that the United Nations will step up and appear to be the Peacemaker and therefore that will elevate them to this one- world level of government. --Martin Armstrong

06:20. We are in a phase where the confidence in government is absolutely collapsing and I believe it began with COVID and this is on a worldwide scale for example look at the elections that have taken place you have the EU that has moved to the right you have Britain France our computer does not look at poles.

07:22. People vote according to their economic situation and what's happening globally here is that no matter who is in power they're throwing them out so it's not a left, right sort of thing our computers have been showing that Trump should win I understand Washington very well I've been down there since Reagan's time in office I warned that they would probably even try to assassinate him because that's just their playbook they did the same thing to JFK anybody that threatens the Deep States agenda they try to take out one way or another and most people don't realize but you can Google it you'll see there is going to be a documentary coming out on Richard Nixon there was a tape at the head of the CIA present and Nixon said I know who killed JFK after that they made sure they got rid of him a couple of guys in the Watergate thing where CIA and they just bungled to get caught when Nixon left office he's entitled to Secret Service protection in perpetuity.   He dismissed them and hired his own people.  He did not trust the Secret Service to protect him.  I think that says it all.  You can look throughout history even in the Roman Empire where 13 Emperors were assassinated by their own bodyguards.  So this is a common thing but what we are looking at here is a major global debt crisis.  Since World War II, they've been borrowing year after year with no intention of paying anything back, and this is reaching a point of a climax. This is why they need war.  The main reason they wanted Biden there is because 40% of the time he is in Delaware.  He was basically a placeholder.  And then you have the Secretary of State, Blinkin threatening China, "If you go into Taiwan we'll wage war." China was the number one holder of US debt.  They dumped $53 billion in the first quarter of this year.  Janet Yellen has to hop on a plane and run over there and beg them to keep buying our debt, please.  And they ask, "Why? You want us to buy $100 billion of debt so you can shoot missiles at us?"  Washington is in total chaos because there is not a president doing his job.  At these cabinet meetings, the president is supposed to be the referee.  Every agency--they're like 2-year-old children--they all want their own way.  So you have the EPA outlawing gas stoves.  Then you have Lindsey Graham saying that there is $10 to $12 trillion worth of gas reserves under Crimea, and we can't allow Russia and China to get that.  There's no coherent strategy or common theme even. 

WHY DOES EUROPE WANT WAR?  
I just got back from Europe, spoke to a number of different governments there, and they are all preparing for war.  Why do they want war?  Basically, that's their exit strategy with this debt crisis.  A lot of people say "Oh $30, $40 to trillion in debt . . . ." The level of debt really does not matter.  What's critical is when people stop buying it.  As long as there is a next guy in line who continues to buy it, then they can keep rolling it and rolling it.  But now when you're threatening China and things of this nature . . .  the BRICs, people don't really understand what the BRICS is about.  It's a geopolitical issue.  Once they put sanctions on Russia, they have all these other countries beginning to realize "Hey, wait a minute.  If we don't do what the US tells us to do, they can remove us from SWIFT."  That's what the BRICS is really about. 

WHAT HAPPENS WITH WAR?  
12:10. They intend to actually you know they want to wage war, and what happens with war?  You can go on eBay and buy all of the bonds you want from all these different countries.  Basically a new government forms, and they default on the last government.  You can go on eBay and buy U.S. Continental currency from all the states as well.

12:38.  You can buy Confederate Currency so exactly they always bring it to war when the economic system is coming to an end.

12:45. Yes.  Because they get to default and a new government comes in and it does not have to honor the debts of the last.  As I said, you can go on eBay and you can buy Continental currency.  The Constitution, read it, said that they were going to honor all the debts of the previous [government].  They never did.  Spain has defaulted 7 times.  France is on its 5th Republic.  Just go down the list.  China, you can buy all these bonds from World War II.  They all defaulted.  So if they create a war, they get two objectives out of it.   One, they get to default.  Two, that's what this whole digital currency issue is about.  I've met with governments for a long time as you know.  And they all think on average that Europe and the United States that 35% of the economy is underground and not paying taxes.  So how to get that tax is to eliminate physical money.  That's what this is all about.  They move to the digital currency side, and then you hire that 16-year-old girl next door to watch the kids while you and your wife go out.  Oh, my God, you gave her $50 and she didn't pay taxes.  That's our profit that's the way they look at it and 

14:11.  So their answer is a cashless society monitoring every facet of our lives.  I'm no economist like you, or an expert expert like you, but that's going to create an incredible destruction of the economy, incredible pressure and civil unrest, an angrier world.

14:23. Yeah, just look at Nigeria where they pulled that off and had all kinds of riots and burning banks and things.  Also behind that which doesn't appear to be out in the press very much is that the IMF has already created their digital coin.  And the whole scheme here is that the IMF digital currency which will replace the dollar and this will raise the world, everything you're talking about with the UN wants this one-world government stuff.  And it's not a conspiracy theory.  You can look on my site.  I've got a video there just Google "Holland and the former president of France [Sarkozy?] I have a video put on there with him standing up there with Merkel in the European Parliament, saying the very purpose of the EU was one government for Europe to eliminate European war.  This theory has been around for a long time.  It's not a conspiracy theory . . . 

15:37.  No that's why they they claim they formed the EU.

15:41.  Yes that's exactly why and at this stage they think that the plan is that the United Nations will step up and appear to be The Peacemaker and therefore that will elevate them to this one World level of government.

16:00.  Just like Herbert Walker Bush said in 1990 and '91.  He said out of this un war will bring in a one world government.

16:09.  This has been a theory around for a long time that if there is one government then you end war.  I've argued with him and I said obviously you don't know your history.  The Roman Empire was one government, and how many civil wars did they have?  

16:23.  Even Elon Musk said at the World Government Summit last year, he said One-World Government will create nothing but civil war.

16:30.  Exactly.  I see it in Europe.  When they were forming the Euro they came to me I sat down with him and I warned them that this is not going to work they were selling it to everybody that like the United States will have a single currency and everybody will pay the same interest rate.  And I can tell you what happened Chancellor Cole of Germany did not allow the German people to vote for the Euro he unilaterally took Germany in because he said if the German people voted he would have lost 7 to 1.  So what he did he took Germany into the EU, and that created the euro.  And basically to do that he said you cannot consolidate the debt.  So every country still has its own debt.  There isn't a single national debt.  And I warned him that all you're going to do is transfer the volatility in trading foreign exchange from the Foreign Exchange Market to the bond market, and that's what's happened. They don't understand trading.  They don't understand markets.  They don't understand anything.

17:43.  They think they can always raise more taxes.  Let me ask you this.  Back to your main point.  The globalists, the big banks, they're all shutting down fertilizer, food production, paying farmers not to grow crops.  If they're actually trying to prop up a bubble, or bring in a new bubble, why would you attack energy and food production when that's the basis of everything?  Well because they want to consolidate control but don't they get by consolidating control, they get even more volatility and they thought they could blame climate change, but most people aren't blaming climate change. They know it's globalist policy, so why are they at war with the real economy?  What's the plan there?

18:20. This is how they get power. They basically do wanted to decline and say come to me I'll save it.  Basically change something unless it's broken. 

18:35.  Exactly.  They're the saviors they said we're going to save you from climate change that causes Mass starvation while they open the borders and cut the food off but people aren't buying that BS don't they get that they are now the villains that Bill Gates, that Klaus Schwab, and the UN are the most hated groups out there?

18:52. I can tell you Klaus Schwab resigned from CEO and just moved to chairman.  He's still there.  But he did so because of all the negative publicity against him.  These people think that we are stupid, and I've been dealing with governments honestly for 50 years.  I can tell you that I was down there when Reagan was in, and they were all upset when Reagan was elected.  And I asked, "What's the problem?"  They said well you don't understand.  I said well explain it to me, and they said look he's a governor.  We are going to have to train him.  They don't like anybody from outside of Washington; that's why they don't like Trump, and they also don't like RFK, Jr.  You're coming in and playing in our sandbox and that's basically the real problem what they told Reagan when he wanted to meet with Gorbachev I can tell you absolutely the Neocons told him, okay fine, he's no longer a communist, but you can never trust a Russian.  Trump is Right NATO is an absolute terrorist organization they should have been shut down the whole purpose of it was basically to defend Europe against communism that was it that was when cruise ship said that we will bury you those days are gone.  As you know I was in the middle of the Russian thing back in 1999 they were basically interfering in the Russian elections for 2000 they blackmailed Yeltsin to try and get him to step down and they wanted to stick in their puppet to run Russia who is Berezovsky.  They wanted me to put in $10 billion dollars into this Hermitage capital and I refused.  They rigged that election when Yeltsin realized he was getting blackmailed and he was getting attacked on the opposite side the old neocon rush and the communist they had filed a motion for impeachment so he was getting it from the US trying to interfere and the other side that's why he turned to Putin because Putin was not an oligarch and he wasn't a communist.  And that's why they hate Putin so much he basically did that in Hillary was involved in this and he doesn't fit the stereotype I got the declassified documents from the Clinton administration and what Putin said in that interview with Tucker was correct.  I have the documents showing that the Clinton administration there was a proposal for Russia to join NATO.  That is why the Communists there staged the coup against Gorbachev because they felt that that would be a surrender to the United States.  That's what that coup was all about, and then you had Yeltsin standing on the tank, etc.  

from the Amazon book blurb for The Plot to Seize Russia: The Untold History, 2023,

"Take care of Russia," Boris Yeltsin said as he departed his presidency in August 1999. These words were directed at current Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Yeltsin specifically picked Putin as his predecessor to prevent the takeover of Russia.

So, who was Yeltsin warning against? Newly declassified documents from the Clinton Administration prove that there was a plot to rig the Russian election of 2000. These never-before-seen documents confirm numerous attempts to implement pro-Western policies using the Russian oligarchy headed by Boris Berezovsky.

On the other side were the communists who desired a return to the glory days of the Soviet Union. As one of the largest international hedge fund managers, author Martin Armstrong found himself in the middle of perhaps the greatest espionage, or attempt at a regime change for Russia, in modern history.

And all of that people have to understand, you know, why did Hillary suddenly say that Putin interfered with the 2016 election?  She said oh because I had said one of his elections was rigged.  Now that wasn't it.  It was basically the US under the Clinton administration and the bankers were trying to interfere in the Russian 2000 election.  They were trying to take it over then.

Thursday, May 23, 2024

 
106:18. If they introduce CBDC and relied strictly on cash and they subjected us to some control by a Draconian system of control, where you're allowed so much red meat per week or gas per month, you know, they conditioned all of our transactions with whatever rules they invent, people would 100% opt out and go transact in the black market.  And then you can simply just leave your smart device at home and go about your business without it, and they wouldn't have any idea where you are, what you're doing or if you're using some alternative local, regional currency.  They would have no way to track what you buy, so they lose control, in fact, by trying to get complete control.  The only way that they could have complete control is if we accepted the chips under our skin, because then there's no getting away from it.  That was their idea.  They have a 5G Network everywhere, so everywhere you go it registers.  So they know where every person is, and if you buy or sell something they instantly know it in the real time, and they have rules that allow you to buy certain things but you can't buy other things.  

107:55. That's their fantasy of control.  It will never happen.  It will never happen because people will not comply.  And another reason it will never happen is because implement that they already launch their first attempt in Nigeria and it failed miserably in 2021.

Friday, August 4, 2023

PFIZER, WHICH DENIES ALL WRONG-DOING, EVEN THOUGH IT'S AGREED TO PAY OUT $75 MILLION DOLLARS, SAYS THE DNA TEST IS DESIGNED TO GUARD AGAINST FRAUDULANT CLAIMS.

This is from the 1996 meningitis outbreak in Kano, Nigeria, which means that a lot of the adults seen in this 2009 news clip were children in 1996.  I covered this last December 2022.

Oh, so Pfizer has your back.  Whew, for a minute there I think Pfizer was using the DNA tests as a kind of indemnity.  Thank God, we're working with such an ethical company.  Funny that Pfizer invents "outbreaks," "pandemics," and "epidemics."  That's their business model.  In this case here in Nigeria, the "outbreak" was meningitis.  Oh, wait, we've got a vaccine for that!  We even have one for hangnails!  Got a hangnail?  We got you.

I don't know how anybody can trust any of these vaccine manufacturers.  

From African Arguments,

In 2007, the Nigerian federal government and Kano State government filed criminal and civil suits against Pfizer and eight other defendants, asking for $7 billion in damages. The suit charged that the company had tested an unapproved and experimental drug on children with neither informed consent from parents nor approval from the Nigerian government. Pfizer countered that such approval wasn’t necessary. In 2001, an investigation by the Washington Post had uncovered that a document Pfizer claimed to prove ethical approval by Nigerian authorities for the trial appeared to be falsified and back-dated. 

11/200 children died, others had organ failure, brain damage, and paralysis 🙁.

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

America had a COVID death rate of about 3,000 per million; Nigeria had a death rate of 14 people per million.

Interesting.  Dr. Bryan Ardis said that death totals in the U.S. were higher than 16%, that they were actually 24% of all COVID deaths.   

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Pfizer Declares an Epidemic in a Region, then Takes It Upon Itself to Test the Efficacy of an Experimental Drug? By whose authority? They Act Like a Government

After learning of the meningitis epidemic, Pfizer decided to use it as an opportunity to test the efficacy of Trovan in pediatric settings. So they just took it upon themselves?  By whose authority?

Kids and adults in Nigeria have to take a DNA test to prove they were injured by a failed drug trial by pharmaceutical company named Pfizer 15 years ago in Kano state, Nigeria.  

Why have we come to accept pharmaceutical vaccines and their drug trials on human beings as just a matter of course?  Where's the questioning, the conversation, the debate? 

11 people were killed and several more were injured when Pfizer tested an antibiotic drug called Trovan in 1996.  Now, 26 years ago.  Pfizer tested out the drug on 200 children, supposed to treat [what does 'treat' mean, you know, in the vaccine maker's dictionary?  For clearly, the everyday person does not operate on the same meanings of words that vaccine makers operate on and yet we're supposed to abide by their definitions and meanings.  Oh, what fun.] a deadly regional outbreak [so it's confined?] of meningitis.  [what do they mean by 'outbreak'?  These terms refer to specific amounts of people with the disease, so what is the amount for an outbreak, 3% of the population, 5%, 7%?  The media fails to inform; dare it say it, they misinform?]  Pfizer agreed to pay $75 million dollars in compensation in 2009 but they introduced DNA testing as part of the process for qualifying for the payment.  

The reporter continues, 

Back at home, survivors like Shamsu who was crippled and their families feel the DNA test was designed to deny them of the compensation money.  Many say they've already provided Pfizer with documents proving their children were part of the trial.  Shamsu's father explained that "In the claim that we filled, it stated clearly 'that only when we undergo the DNA test, they will pay the compensation.'" 

The Pfizer rep explained it this way, Pfizer, which denies all wrong-doing even though it's agreed to pay out $75 million dollars, said the DNA test is to guard against fraudulent claims.  Wow, Pfizer really mistrusts the very people they've promised to serve.  Some conflict of interest right there, I'd say.  

David Odiwo, of Pfizer's Victims Trust Fund, explains that 

As we're talking, we have about . . . we've collected samples from 547 people, and only 200 people participated in this study, so what do we do?

[BBC REPORTER, YVONNE NDEGE] But many of the victims are poor and illiterate.  They don't understand what DNA testing is and fear it's another attempt by Pfizer to make them guinea pigs in a new drug trial.  Some victims abandoned their claims when DNA testing was introduced as a condition of receiving payment.  Some of the compensation money released by Pfizer has gone into building this $25 million dollar medical research and disease control center.  The hope is that one day locals will be able to deal with things like outbreaks of disease and medical epidemics themselves.  

Wait, isn't that exactly what they were doing before Pfizer showed up and started injecting kids with Trovan? 

It may go someway to healing the wounds of Pfizer's and benefit the survivors who are simply too afraid to go for DNA testing.  

If the victims of Pfizer's drug trials got $75 million in damages, how much did the governments of the african nations get paid from Pfizer to agree to have their citizens DNA tested where the device for the test could make them sick and the test is designed to collect DNA and biological dara for future drug creation by Pfizer?  

From the Brookings Education

Vaccinations are essential to responding to epidemics, and the current COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. 

No, they're not.  Where's the proof of that, that vaccinations are essential to responding to epidemics?  Even the suggestion that some corporate body has to respond to a natural event to suddenly stop seeing people as individuals to overnight seeing people as a mass of insects that need to be dealt with through a biological agent en masse should tell you something about the ethics of that organization and to brace yourself, meaning protect yourself, against their self-imposed authority and their self-anointed expertise.  

Yet, globally, many choose not to get vaccinated for reasons that have, only recently, gained attention among researchers, policymakers, and the wider public. 

Yeah, people don't want them. They choose not to get vaccinated because public vaccination programs are abysmal failures.  People die.  People get injured.  This information isn't quickly or soon forgotten.  Death has a way of lodging in one's mind.  Plus, with the advantage of the internet and videos, like this one, we get reminders of how horrific vaccines can be.  And you wonder why people don't want to be gifted with poison?  Huh.  And without skipping an unethical beat, the author writes,

In 1996, Nigeria experienced one of the worst meningitis epidemics in its history with 109,580 cases and 11,717 deaths.  Bacterial meningitis is an infection of the lining of the brain that is especially virulent in children.  Northern Nigeria is also a majority-Muslim region, with around 99% of residents in Kano state identifying as Muslim.  At a hospital in Kano, Doctors Without Borders treated children with chloramphenicol, a well-known antibiotic endorsed by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) to treat bacterial meningitis.   

So Doctors Without Borders was working with Pfizer?  Good to know.  

Over the same period, Pfizer, a U.S. pharmaceutical company, tried to launched a new antibiotic drug, Trovan. While Pfizer had tested the drug on adults, it had not yet been tested on children. 

So, wait.  Pfizer tested a drug on kids out in the field without having tested the drug on kids in a trial?  Pfizer and the rest of the pharmaceutical companies see you and your kids as lab rats.  They have no limiting principle. 

Additionally, early testing on adults had shown some serious side effects of the drug, including liver problems and cartilage abnormalities.  After learning of the meningitis epidemic, Pfizer decided to use it as an opportunity to test the efficacy of Trovan in pediatric settings.  

So they just took it upon themselves?  By whose authority?

Pfizer set up a site beside the Doctors Without Borders testing area and over two weeks, selected a sample of 200 children between 3 months and 18 years old to participate.  A month later, 11 of the children that had participated were dead.  Additionally, numerous parents of children involved in the trials reported disabilities among their children, including paralysis and liver damage.  

Friday, June 3, 2022

RE MONKEYPOX: Ignore mortality rates of 1%, 10% and all the other numbers plucked from thin air.

From Dr. Meryl Nass.

So much for the scary death rates. Ignore mortality rates of 1%, 10% and all the other numbers plucked from thin air.  From Stat:

Pressed yesterday, a WHO official said she didn’t think the outbreak outside Africa would lead to a pandemic, Reuters reported.
“We don’t know but we don’t think so,” Rosamund Lewis said. “At the
moment, we are not concerned of a global pandemic.” The WHO said that 23
countries have reported 257 confirmed cases and roughly 120 suspected
cases — a rapid accumulation in an unprecedented outbreak first detected
earlier this month. Monkeypox is considered endemic in roughly 12
countries in West and Central Africa.

Nigeria, population 206 million, has experienced a money pox outbreak since 2017.  Nigeria reported the first death this year from money pox yesterday, the Associated Press says.

Monday, April 25, 2022

VACCINE ROLLOUT NOT QUITE GLOBAL. MOSTLY THE WEST: Australia 95% Double Vaxx'd . . . Niger ~ 8% Double Vaxx'd