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We will not mince words. America is indeed suffering from a dangerous plague – a plague of misanthropic fear-mongering from the likes of Dr. Fauci, the Scarf Lady and the Biden’s new CDC director, among countless others of the self-designated Virus Patrol.
All three took to the mainstream media in recent days, with new CDC director Rochelle Walensky getting positively teary-eyed as she allegedly veered off-script to sound yet another Covid Alarm:
“I’m going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom,” Walensky said, appearing to hold back tears.
“We do not have the luxury of inaction. For the health of our country, we must work together now to prevent a fourth surge.”
What? Where? Wait!
Here’s the source of Doom. Well, if you have your magnifying glass handy you might possibly spot it – the squiggle down there in the yellow box below!
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lrc-cdn/ass...last-price.jpg
Actually, she was not nearly done. When it comes to paint by the numbers exaggeration and hysteria the following is hard to top.
It seems that the reason for Walensky’s alarm is that from the winter-flu season peak on January 13th, when the 7-day moving average reported 251,912 so-called “new cases”, the 7-day rate had plummeted by 77.8% to 55,840 on March 15th, but as of March 28 it was down by only, um, 75.3%!
The nation is recording a seven-day average of about 57,000 new Covid-19 cases per day, a 7% jump over the last week, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a White House news briefing on the pandemic.
You can’t make up this kind of calculated mendacity, including, presumably, the off-script scripted tears.
That’s especially because it’s now an established fact that upwards of 60-80% of these “new cases” are not medical cases at all: They are asymptomatic individuals who got swabbed and had their nasal secretions run to at 35-40+ CTs on the PCR test, which immense magnification systematically generates false positives based on harmless RNA fragments and dead viral debris.
Yet with only 15,000 to 20,000 actual infected cases per day at best, of which 95% will not result in serious illness, hospitalization or death, the head of the CDC is out yelling fire in the theater still another time.
“I remain deeply concerned about this trajectory,” Walensky said. “We have seen cases and hospital admissions move from historic declines to stagnations and increases. We know from prior surges that if we don’t control things now, there is a real potential for the epidemic curve to soar again.”
Walensky urged the public to “take this moment very seriously,” adding people should continue to wear masks, stay 6 feet apart and avoid crowds or traveling. “We can turn this around, but it will take all of us working together,” she added.
We have bolded the last sentence because that’s what the political class is really all about. They are forever searching out societal ills–some real, mostly imagined – that require state-orchestrated collective action to remedy. After all, that is how they gain power and pelf in the arena of politics and governance, and on that score the Covid-Hysteria was made to order.
By contrast, under a regime of spontaneous markets and social order, tens of millions of uninfected or asymptomatic people would never be getting Covid tests in the first place, and they certainly would not have been quarantining or shutting-down their normal economic and social lives.
All of that flowed from the misbegotten predicate that the coronavirus was some kind of modern Black Plague equivalent, but with a hideously perverted twist: Namely, that to stop its spread the healthy and well should be isolated at home or via distancing and masks on the infinitesimal chance that they might unknowingly have a sufficient viral load to transmit the pathogen in the community.
The fact is, back in the more benighted times of earlier centuries, they quarantined the sick, not the well; and when people got sick from seriously dangerous pathogens, they stayed home because they were too sick to wander around the community.
Stated differently, in the face of serious general contagions, society didn’t need officialdom constantly beating the tom-toms to induce fear-based changes in behavior that were not warranted by the facts at hand.
To the contrary, in the midst of real pandemics, communities quickly apprehended the dangers and organized themselves to cope. And when the sick stayed home or were committed to treatment or isolation facilities, real contagions and viruses eventually burned themselves out.
Not this time. There was no spontaneous community defense because the Covid is lethal to only a small subset of the population, consisting of the very elderly with weak immune systems and the co-morbid already suffering from other life-threatening conditions.
Beyond that, the”science” provides no basis at all for the notion that healthy or asymptomatic people transmit the virus. The political class’ false project of “stopping the spread”, in fact, buried the real science which overwhelmingly ixnays the whacko theory that healthy people going about their ordinary business are stealthy vessels of disease and death.
Instead, Fauci et. al. have seized upon the prosaic mechanics of human activity centered around social congregation, which inherently generates the probability that a respiratory virus–whether relatively benign or deathly – will spread through the community, and called it “the science”.
But that is not the science of Covid at all, which actually says that for 95% of the population it is not a lethal pathogen, as we will amplify below.
Instead, “community spread” is just an obvious mechanical fact of social life that got peddled as the “science” of lockdowns and became the basis for the whole regime of economic-martial law that has been stood-up since March 2020.
In any event, the sheer destructive absurdity of the matter was crystallized this weekend by the 55-year government lifer and windbag, Anthony Fauci, who has single-handedly made a mockery of “the science” and the U.S. Constitution during the past 14 months.
Said the sainted Dr. Fauci on the weekend CBS show:
“When the children go out into the community, you want them to continue to wear masks when they’re interacting with groups or multiple households,” Fauci proclaimed during an appearance on CBS News.
Fauci added that “children can clearly wind up getting infected” even if other kids they play with have been vaccinated against coronavirus.
With respect to the bolded phrase, what in the world is this dope talking about?
Of course, kids get infected with all kinds of germs which pass-around the classrooms and playgrounds, but in the case of the Covid, few of them get sick, virtually none are hospitalized and, thankfully, a nearly invisible fraction become fatalities.
Indeed, after a full year of this full-on Covid-Hysteria, here is what we know about the “kids”. To wit, there are 73.2 million of them in America (17-years and under), yet only 238 of them are reported by the CDC itself as being among “all deaths involving Covid-19″.
As a statistical matter that represents just 0.3 mortalities per 100,000 population. The tip-off that this is ultra-thin gruel by any standard can be illustrated many different ways, but here are three of them:
We will not mince words. America is indeed suffering from a dangerous plague – a plague of misanthropic fear-mongering from the likes of Dr. Fauci, the Scarf Lady and the Biden’s new CDC director, among countless others of the self-designated Virus Patrol.
All three took to the mainstream media in recent days, with new CDC director Rochelle Walensky getting positively teary-eyed as she allegedly veered off-script to sound yet another Covid Alarm:
“I’m going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom,” Walensky said, appearing to hold back tears.
“We do not have the luxury of inaction. For the health of our country, we must work together now to prevent a fourth surge.”
What? Where? Wait!
Here’s the source of Doom. Well, if you have your magnifying glass handy you might possibly spot it – the squiggle down there in the yellow box below!
https://s3.amazonaws.com/lrc-cdn/ass...last-price.jpg
Actually, she was not nearly done. When it comes to paint by the numbers exaggeration and hysteria the following is hard to top.
It seems that the reason for Walensky’s alarm is that from the winter-flu season peak on January 13th, when the 7-day moving average reported 251,912 so-called “new cases”, the 7-day rate had plummeted by 77.8% to 55,840 on March 15th, but as of March 28 it was down by only, um, 75.3%!
The nation is recording a seven-day average of about 57,000 new Covid-19 cases per day, a 7% jump over the last week, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a White House news briefing on the pandemic.
You can’t make up this kind of calculated mendacity, including, presumably, the off-script scripted tears.
That’s especially because it’s now an established fact that upwards of 60-80% of these “new cases” are not medical cases at all: They are asymptomatic individuals who got swabbed and had their nasal secretions run to at 35-40+ CTs on the PCR test, which immense magnification systematically generates false positives based on harmless RNA fragments and dead viral debris.
Yet with only 15,000 to 20,000 actual infected cases per day at best, of which 95% will not result in serious illness, hospitalization or death, the head of the CDC is out yelling fire in the theater still another time.
“I remain deeply concerned about this trajectory,” Walensky said. “We have seen cases and hospital admissions move from historic declines to stagnations and increases. We know from prior surges that if we don’t control things now, there is a real potential for the epidemic curve to soar again.”
Walensky urged the public to “take this moment very seriously,” adding people should continue to wear masks, stay 6 feet apart and avoid crowds or traveling. “We can turn this around, but it will take all of us working together,” she added.
We have bolded the last sentence because that’s what the political class is really all about. They are forever searching out societal ills–some real, mostly imagined – that require state-orchestrated collective action to remedy. After all, that is how they gain power and pelf in the arena of politics and governance, and on that score the Covid-Hysteria was made to order.
By contrast, under a regime of spontaneous markets and social order, tens of millions of uninfected or asymptomatic people would never be getting Covid tests in the first place, and they certainly would not have been quarantining or shutting-down their normal economic and social lives.
All of that flowed from the misbegotten predicate that the coronavirus was some kind of modern Black Plague equivalent, but with a hideously perverted twist: Namely, that to stop its spread the healthy and well should be isolated at home or via distancing and masks on the infinitesimal chance that they might unknowingly have a sufficient viral load to transmit the pathogen in the community.
The fact is, back in the more benighted times of earlier centuries, they quarantined the sick, not the well; and when people got sick from seriously dangerous pathogens, they stayed home because they were too sick to wander around the community.
Stated differently, in the face of serious general contagions, society didn’t need officialdom constantly beating the tom-toms to induce fear-based changes in behavior that were not warranted by the facts at hand.
To the contrary, in the midst of real pandemics, communities quickly apprehended the dangers and organized themselves to cope. And when the sick stayed home or were committed to treatment or isolation facilities, real contagions and viruses eventually burned themselves out.
Not this time. There was no spontaneous community defense because the Covid is lethal to only a small subset of the population, consisting of the very elderly with weak immune systems and the co-morbid already suffering from other life-threatening conditions.
Beyond that, the”science” provides no basis at all for the notion that healthy or asymptomatic people transmit the virus. The political class’ false project of “stopping the spread”, in fact, buried the real science which overwhelmingly ixnays the whacko theory that healthy people going about their ordinary business are stealthy vessels of disease and death.
Instead, Fauci et. al. have seized upon the prosaic mechanics of human activity centered around social congregation, which inherently generates the probability that a respiratory virus–whether relatively benign or deathly – will spread through the community, and called it “the science”.
But that is not the science of Covid at all, which actually says that for 95% of the population it is not a lethal pathogen, as we will amplify below.
Instead, “community spread” is just an obvious mechanical fact of social life that got peddled as the “science” of lockdowns and became the basis for the whole regime of economic-martial law that has been stood-up since March 2020.
In any event, the sheer destructive absurdity of the matter was crystallized this weekend by the 55-year government lifer and windbag, Anthony Fauci, who has single-handedly made a mockery of “the science” and the U.S. Constitution during the past 14 months.
Said the sainted Dr. Fauci on the weekend CBS show:
“When the children go out into the community, you want them to continue to wear masks when they’re interacting with groups or multiple households,” Fauci proclaimed during an appearance on CBS News.
Fauci added that “children can clearly wind up getting infected” even if other kids they play with have been vaccinated against coronavirus.
With respect to the bolded phrase, what in the world is this dope talking about?
Of course, kids get infected with all kinds of germs which pass-around the classrooms and playgrounds, but in the case of the Covid, few of them get sick, virtually none are hospitalized and, thankfully, a nearly invisible fraction become fatalities.
Indeed, after a full year of this full-on Covid-Hysteria, here is what we know about the “kids”. To wit, there are 73.2 million of them in America (17-years and under), yet only 238 of them are reported by the CDC itself as being among “all deaths involving Covid-19″.
As a statistical matter that represents just 0.3 mortalities per 100,000 population. The tip-off that this is ultra-thin gruel by any standard can be illustrated many different ways, but here are three of them:
- For the same 17 years and younger population during the same period (weeks of February 1, 2020 to March 24, 2021), the mortality rate from all causes other that WITH-Covid was 51.9 per 100,000 or 160X higher;
- The WITH-Covid mortality rate for the truly vulnerable population 85-years and older was 2,460 per 100,000 or 7,500X higher.
- The pediatrics association estimates that kids account for 13% of Covid “cases”, but have accounted for only 0.05% of deaths – meaning that the survival rate is 99.993%.
Nor is that all. Even the CDC tables show that nearly 20% of the WITH-Covid deaths in this age cohort also included pneumonia; and that there were also 602 deaths from pneumonia that did not include a positive Covid test or physician’s diagnosis.
Stated differently, among the entire youthful population of 73.2 million, there were 194 deaths from pure Covid versus 602 cases from pure pneumonia and another 179 deaths attributable to influenza.
So why in the world is Dr. Fauci worried about children being “infected”?
The answer is simple: He isn’t.
His game is stopping the spread for its own sake, and taking 73 million children hostage to the dictates of the Virus Patrol is all in a day’s work.
In fact, when it comes to the science of picking statistical pepper out of what is self-evidently numeric fly-shit, Dr. Fauci has few peers.
Thus, he told his fawning CBS host on Sunday that 10,000 additional, mostly false positive, cases are a new reminder that normalization is still a grave danger. In fact, he allowed that maybe by mid-summer people can go back to baseball parks, but only if they sit far apart and wear a mask!
ANTHONY FAUCI: …I’ve said many times to you that when you’re coming down from a big peak and you reach a point and start to plateau, once you stay at that plateau, you’re really in danger of a surge coming up. And unfortunately, that’s what we’re starting to see. We got stuck at around 50,000 new cases per day, went up to 60,000 the other day, and that’s really a risk.
…What we’re likely seeing is because of things like spring break and pulling back on the mitigation methods that you’ve seen. Now, several states have done that. I believe it’s premature,” Fauci said.
“I would expect that as we get through the summer – late spring, early summer – there’s going to be a relaxation where you’re going to have more and more people who will be allowed into baseball parks, very likely separated with seating, very likely continuing to wear masks.”
We undercover the real motivation behind this blithering crackpottery below, but for want of doubt consider this data. The on age-adjusted deaths from all sources during the 2020 Year of the Covid is now in, and the thin green bar on the far right margin speaks for itself.
The age-adjusted death rate in the US was only a tad above its recent level, and actually much lower than it was during the entirety of the 105 years between 1900 and 2005. Yet we are still being told about Impending Doom and Sleepy Joe is calling upon governors of some of the Red States who have finally come to their senses to reimpose the mandatory mask requirement.
And that’s the Spoiler Alert. This whole Covid enchilada has not been about public health all along.
Its an excuse for increased social control and aggrandizement of the state that the political classes have opportunistically seized upon, and are now determined to perpetuate indefinitely with new variants, new pretexts and new assaults on constitutional liberty, fiscal sanity and free market prosperity.
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Notwithstanding the above, we actually can imagine a pathogen which would be as deadly as Ebola, as transmissible as the worst strain of SARS-2 and a Grim Reaper of one and all, regardless of age, health status or prophylactic measures taken.
While that might justify a sweeping economic Lockdown and government campaign to stop the spread on the grounds that society was being literally invaded by an army of fatal pathogens, the crucial point is this: The Covid has now proven itself in spades to be just the opposite of that theoretical deathly contagion.
And for want of doubt, we don’t mean modestly dissimilar. We are talking about upside-down, black and white, opposite-end-of-the-earth different.
Truly, the data below tells you all you need to know as to why the Virus Patrol is and has been dead-wrong all alone. Sweeping nonparmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been unjustified from the get-go, as has the relentless blunderbuss campaign by the arms of the state to stop the spread of the coronavirus dead-in-its-tracks.
The reason is simple. The Covid is a pathogenic bully that hones in with malice aforethought on the very most vulnerable segments of the population. That is, those exhibiting the immunological frailties of old age, life-threatening comorbidities or rare genetic predispositions for immune system overreaction to this viral interloper, especially in the form of cytokine storms where the human body essentially attacks and kills itself.
On the one hand, the proof that the Covid is not a universally deadly pathogen is in the aggregate pudding. Based on the overwhelming findings of serological studies (i.e. blood serum tests for antibodies), upwards of 125 million Americans have been infected to date, albeit most of this number have not been symptomatic or confirmed via the wholly unreliable PCR test.
Even among the 30 million who have tested positive – including many individuals who have tested positive multiple times in order to get free of government or employer restrictions – less than 10 million have been seriously ill, fewer than one million have been hospitalized, and even by the CDC’s expansive counting system, about 525,000 have died.
That computes to a 0.4% IFR (infection fatality rate), which ain’t no Black Plague or Ebola equivalent. Full stop.
Indeed, even at this most aggregated level, the Covid does not present as a marauding army of death. In no way shape or form does it merit the “deathly” prefix that has become embedded in the vocabulary and word processors of the mainstream narrative.
In fact, even when you use age as a crude proxy for health status, there are virtually no community-spread illnesses that have the kind of extreme skew to the least healthy as shown in the table below.
This is the mortality rate per 100,000 for the period from February 1, 2020 through March 24, 2021, and the mortality figures are extracted from the CDC’s own expansive count of WITH-Covid deaths.
Population/ WITH-Covid deaths/ rate per 100,000 by Age Cohort:
- 0-17 Years: 73.2 million persons/ 238 deaths/ 0.33 per 100k;
- 18-29 years: 53.6 million persons/ 1,916 deaths/ 3.6 per 100k;
- 30-49 years: 84.5 million persons/ 20,717 deaths/ 24.5 per 100k;
- 50-64 years: 62.9 million persons/78,883 deaths/ 125.4 per 100k;
- 65-74 years: 31.5 million persons/ 115,381 deaths/ 366.4 per 100k;
- 75-84 years: 16.0 million persons/ 146,310 deaths/ 916.2 per 100k;
- 85+ years: 6.6 million persons/ 162,583 deaths/ 2,460.0 per 100k;
- All ages: 328.2 million persons/ 526,028 deaths/ 160.3 per 100k.
In round terms, the above shows that 81% of all WITH-Covid deaths have been among the 16% of the population (54.1 million) 65 years and older. By contrast, the the 64.4% of the population under 50 years (211.4 million) accounted for just 22,900 or 4.4% of the WITH-Covid deaths tallied by the CDC.
Yet it is the under 50 years population – the Kids, the socially congregating 20-30 year olds and the core working age population 30-50 years – that has borne the brunt of the Lockdowns and NPIs. Self-evidently, these measures were not imposed for their own protection since their risks of death from Covid were infinitesimal compared to the ordinary risks of life.
As shown in the table below, for instance, the risk of death from all causes other than WITH-Covid during the last 14 months for the 18-29 years cohort was 183.1 per 100,000. That’s 51X greater than the 3.6 per 100,000 risk of dying from Covid during the same period for the 53.6 million members of this most socially active and interactive cohort of the US population.
Even in the case of the core working age population age 30-49, the all causes (other than Covid) risk of death was 283.3 per 100,000 or 12X greater than the incidence of WITH-Covid deaths (24.5 per 100k).
Of course, the Virus Patrol might argue that the WITH-Covid deaths were preventable by stern Lockdowns and other NPIs, while deaths from, say, heart disease or respiratory illnesses were not. In fact, that’s exactly what the Scarf Lady argued on a weekend show this past Sunday.
Had the Donald not been such a obstinate dolt, Dr. Birx essentially claimed, and strictly followed the advice of herself and Fauci et. Al, most of the WITH-Covid deaths would not have happened.
The “vast majority” of the almost 550,000 coronavirus deaths in the US could have been prevented if Donald Trump’s administration had acted earlier and with greater conviction…. “There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge. All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially.”
If we were Sleepy Joe, we’d probably risk a chauvinism charge and say, c’mon woman!
Here is the seven-day moving average of deaths WITH-Covid for two of the most open states (Texas and Florida) compared to the the nation’s Lockdown capital of California. For the past 370 days, the curves have risen and fallen pretty much in tandem with the normal flu seasonality, and in recent months California has taken a turn for the worse relative to Texas and Florida.
Indeed, since Governor Abbott belatedly saw the light and opened Texas completely in early March, the data are so compelling as to make a complete fool of the Scarf Lady, as shown below:
Texas: 7-day new cases average:
- March 2 (before): 6,663
- March 28 (after): 3,320
Texas: 7-day new deaths average:
- March 2 (before): 231;
- March 28 (after): 107
The fact is, there is now overwhelming proof among both the states and among different countries that the vast disparities in Covid-control regimes didn’t make any difference in mortality and other health outcomes. Dr. Birx was not talking science, she was spouting political cant.
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Internationally, the case of Sweden should finally tell Dr. Fauci, the Scarf Lady and the rest of the Virus Patrol to shut-up and go home. After 14 months of firmly resisting the Wuhan Lockdown Model that was foolishly adopted in the US, the UK and throughout much of Western Europe, half of Sweden should be dead by now if the egregious fear-mongering of the Virus Patrol was even remotely correct.
In fact, based on preliminary data from EU statistics agency Eurostat, Sweden had 7.7% more deaths in 2020 than its average for the preceding four years. By contrast, countries that opted for several periods of strict lockdowns, such as Spain and Belgium, had so-called excess mortality of 18.1% and 16.2% respectively.
In all, twenty-one of the 30 countries with available statistics had higher excess mortality outcomes than Sweden.
Here’s the thing. The misbegotten one-size fits all regime adopted by the Donald’s advisors in March 2020 didn’t happen because America’s admittedly lumbering Federal and local governments weren’t capable of targeting protective measures on the nation’s 54 million or so population of the most vulnerable Americans.
For crying out loud, the Federal government (via Medicare/Medicaid) actually knows the social security numbers, preferred physicians and health facilities and medical conditions of damn near every single American over 65 years.
It could have put on a full court press of notifications, advisories about health risks, prophylactics and treatments and provided financial support and protective services wherever warranted at a tiny fraction of the fiscal and economic costs that have been incurred by the NPI strategies.
So why wasn’t this targeted approach taken?
There is a very simple and deeply disturbing answer. To wit, there was nothing in this targeted approach for publicity-hounds and wanna be power players like Dr. Fauci and the Scarf Lady, who would have otherwise soldiered on in relative obscurity in the backwaters of the Federal public health apparatus.
Worse still, once these wanna be Federal power players bamboozled the Donald (easy enough to do) and basically redefined a targeted medical challenge as a sweeping, across-the-board public health crisis, the governors, mayors and other petty officials throughout the land were unleashed to impose economic martial law, and they did so on the basis of dubious and rubbery local statues.
Needless to say, this unconstitutional, unplanned, disorganized blunderbuss of interventions turned into a totalitarian nightmare within a matter of weeks.
Even then, there was no excuse. The data from the Covid-struck cruise ship called the Diamond Princess was already in, and it showed that among even a senior citizen-aged population of about 3,711 guests and crew, of which 712 (19%) were confirmed cases or became symptomatic or ill, only a tiny fraction needed hospital care and just 14 died.
That made for a IFR of just 0.4%, assuming all passengers were infected owing to close quarters at sea. At worst, the IFR was 2.0% if you assume the improbability that only the 712 passengers who were tested and diagnosed as Covid-positive had been infected.
Moreover, among the ship’s crew of 1,045 with a median age of 36 years, there were 145 positive cases, but zero deaths.
By contrast, among the 2,666 passengers on board with a median age of 69 years, there were 567 positive cases. Yet all of the fatalities were among these far older passengers, and virtually all of those who succumbed were in their 70s and 80s.
In short, when the 14th passenger, who was in his late 70s, died on April 14th, the entire profile of the Covid had been live fire tested and demarcated: It wasn’t a deathly pathogen for society as a whole, and it was fatal for just a small subset of the elderly population over 70 years.
Needless to say, the Diamond Princess lessons never got the time of day once the White House Coronavirus Task Force was up and running, and conducting it nightly reality TV show.
Then-and-there, the public health apparatchiks turned the Federal government’s Covid response into an all-of-society political crusade to accomplish the impossible: Namely, extinguish a novel respiratory virus that by its very nature was destined to spread to most of the population, and could have been permitted to do so had it been accompanied with protective measures targeted on the vulnerable.
Under that kind of regime, real medical science would have been the driver. We are referring to hundreds of thousands of trained physicians and health care institutions providing one-patient-at-a-time care and treatments. That is, the real science would have been brought to bear on sick patients – including the kind of ad hoc improvisations and off-label treatments that quickly emerge from the decentralized medical community when a novel medical threat arises.
As it happened, by contrast, we got a clumsy, sometimes brutal social control regime targeted mainly on the healthy from the public officials who were not remotely competent to manage anything as stunningly complex and interdependent as the American economy and social order. And whatever their ad hocery and constantly changing advice, rules and orders were based upon, it wasn’t “the science”.
Worse still, the pseudo-science behind the NPI regime quickly got hyper-politicized once the Donald discovered that he had been bamboozled and began to let loose with randomized doubts about the undertaking that he had authorized and sanctioned.
Accordingly, within a few weeks the most extreme form of Faucist public health nonsense became the sanctioned orthodoxy among the anti-Trump political class and media organs. And wearing a mask became the very badge of honor in a purported war on the Covid that actually amounted to a political war on the Trumpian Right.
If there were any doubts, Biden removed them this week when he called upon Red State governors to reinstate their mandatory mask orders, and adopted the same misbegotten language that was used in the state-aggrandizing War on Poverty by LBJ, War On Drugs by Nixon and War on Energy by Carter, among others.
“We still are in a war with this deadly virus,” he said. “And we’re bolstering our defenses, but this war is far from won.”
Of course, in these phony wars what amounts to statistical noise is transposed into heavy duty warnings, such as CDC Director Walensky’s cry of doom Monday morning that we are facing an impending 4th wave breakout owing to some tiny squiggles in the incoming case and mortality data.
Then again, if you can spot this incipient breakout in the chart below, your eyes are surely better than ours.
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In fact, there is no uptick in the overwhelming majority of states, if such upticks of positive PCR tests results were meaningful, which they are not. Just six states, which are shown in color below, account for most of the national uptick, and these are the six most consistent and heavy duty Blue State Lockdown regimes!
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Notwithstanding the meaningless statistical noise shown above, the establishment media has now been house-trained to replicate and amplify the false alarms issued by officialdom.
Here is the nonsense that the media megaphones at POLITICO were quick to issue upon Walensky’s doom pronouncement. Self-evidently, what is really transmissible is the mainstream party line, not the disease:
Covid strikes back – Pardon this interruption to the “everything is awesome” narrative. Because Covid-19 is surging again, leaving the CDC director with a sense of “impending doom” regarding a fourth wave in the pandemic.
Debbie Lai, chief operating officer of Covid Act Now, told POLITICO Nightly’s Renuka Rayasam that the country’s Covid trajectory is deteriorating: “There may be a fourth surge underway, with cases now growing in two-thirds of states versus half before the weekend.”
The numbers: New cases jumped by 11 percent over the past week to a seven-day average of about 60,000 daily cases, according to an interagency memo dated March 29 and obtained by POLITICO.
Likewise, a WSJ paint-by-the-numbers story obsessed on the same trivia.
The US reported 507 deaths for Sunday, down from a day-earlier 741 but up from 447 a week earlier.
Well, here’s the fact of the matter. Every day about 8,200 American die on average, and more in the winter-early spring months. So the Sunday-to-Sunday difference cited by the WSJ amounts to 0.7% of the daily mortality average; it’s a statistical fluctuation, not news or information.
Needless to say, these statistical noise emissions – even though they are heralded with bated breath in the MSM – are still just plain noise. And they are also a testament to the utter lack of context in which Sleepy Joe’s war on this ostensibly “deadly virus” is being waged.
As indicated earlier, here is the mortality rates for the same seven age cohorts shown above – but this time for all causes of death except WITH-Covid. What it shows is the obvious point that mortality rates are a function of age, but that compared to the all-causes curve depicted below, the Covid skew to the very elderly is in a class all by itself.
To wit, the ratio of deaths from all causes other than Covid for the 85 and older population is 164X higher than for the 0-17 years cohort. And that’s not even in the same ballpark as the 7,455X ratio for the incidence of Covid deaths as between the oldest and youngest Americans.
Medical science and targeted help versus a blunderbuss non-science based political power grab is what the so-called Covid crisis has been about since the very beginning. It was another false crisis defined by the political class and their media subalterns to facilitate a further aggrandizement of the state.
All Causes Mortality Except Covid: # of deaths/rate per 100k, February 2020-March 2021:
- 0-17 years: 70,731 deaths/96.6 per 100k;
- 18-29 years: 98,083 deaths/183.1 per 100k;
- 30-49 years: 239,400 deaths/283.3 per 100k;
- 50-64 years: 581,170 deaths/923.8 per 100k;
- 65-74 years: 694,765 deaths/2,206 per 100k;
- 75-84 years: 840,052 deaths/5,260 per 100k;
- 85 years & older: 1,045,660 deaths/ 15,819 per 100k;
- All age groups: 3,509,979 deaths/ 1,069 per 100k
Nor are these data unique to the US. Covid is an elderly-assaulting bully the world over.
But rather than protection of the bottom two classes of the population, the Covid became an excuse for house arrest and economic and social disenfranchisement of the bulk of the population that was never in serious danger, as the chart below makes so stunningly clear.
Yet the apparatchiks who falsely seized power are not about to give it up – vaccinations, herd immunity and plunging cases notwithstanding.
That’s the real impending doom.
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This is a public health warning to the US population and elsewhere, as it appears that our public health agencies and television medical experts seem unable to address key health messages that could have a dramatic effect in reducing risk of severe sequelae in higher-risk populations such as the minority and African-American population to the scourge of SARS-CoV-2. This is now clear. They have squandered many an opportunity to inform the public on simple yet very effective messaging that could reduce morbidity and save lives. Not just for Covid-19, but our focus here is on Covid-19.
For example, obesity has emerged as a potent human target for the SARS-CoV-2 in most studies, in addition to being elderly, frail and having comorbid conditions. It would behoove our agencies to address these risks in a large-scale education program for the populace and especially by calling for a reduction in body weight and particularly for the minority sub-groups (African-Americans). In a similar light, studies have shown that vitamin D supplementation for African-Americans has been associated with a lowered risk of severe disease and mortality from the SARS-CoV-2.
Early ambulatory outpatient treatment with successful combination and sequenced antiviral agents, corticosteroids, and anti-clotting therapeutics should be used widely to help the people at risk. The African-American community is aware that, “Covid (is) a killer for the obese: like pouring gasoline on top of a fire.” Unfortunately, more than a year into the pandemic, the manifest issue of public health education and sound policy decisions remain aloof, given the erratic and confusing responses from the health and governing officials. We are calling for an aggressive focus on our minority populations (and all of our population), as they are usually overlooked and disregarded by public health leaders and agencies. We plead for effective and needed public health messaging.
With that clarion call, we pivot and refer here to another looming concern and this is the potential danger of the chlorine, polyester, and microplastic components of the face masks (surgical principally but any of the mass-produced masks) that have become part of our daily lives due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We hope those with persuasive power in the government will listen to this plea. We hope that the necessary decisions will be made to reduce the risk to our populations.
Emergent reports, albeit nascent and anecdotal but nevertheless vitally important (and will be clarified and defined in time) regarding the manufacture of masks, where, “many of them (face masks) are made of polyester, so you have a microplastic problem…many of the face masks would contain polyester with chlorine compounds…if I have the mask in front of my face, then of course I inhale the microplastic directly and these substances are much more toxic than if you swallow them, as they get directly into the nervous system.”
There are also reports of toxic mould, fungi, and bacteria that can pose a significant threat to the immune system by potentially weakening it. Of particular concern to us is the recent report of breathing in synthetic fibers in the face masks. This is of serious concern. “Loose particulate was seen on each type of mask. Also, tight and loose fibers were seen on each type of mask. If every foreign particle and every fiber in every facemask is always secure and not detachable by airflow, then there should be no risk of inhalation of such particles and fibers. However, if even a small portion of mask fibers is detachable by inspiratory airflow, or if there is debris in mask manufacture or packaging or handling, then there is the possibility of not only entry of foreign material to the airways, but also entry to deep lung tissue, and potential pathological consequences of foreign bodies in the lungs.”
Reports are that “Graphene is a strong, very thin material that is used in fabrication, but it can be harmful to lungs when inhaled and can cause long-term health problems.” We argue that there is a risk of potential ‘future’ inflammatory/fibrotic lung diseases because we are inhaling these materials in the masks now for over one year with more duration to come and no end in sight. These substances might also be highly carcinogenic. Not just for us as adults but we must be very concerned about the risks especially to our children since they depend on us as mentors and guides for their decision-making. It is our children that we are very concerned for.
These blue surgical masks pervade our lives. “Health Canada has issued a warning about blue and gray disposable face masks, which contain an asbestos-like substance associated with “early pulmonary toxicity.” The warning is specific to potentially toxic masks distributed within schools and daycares across Quebec. Health Canada (and full praise to them)….“discovered during a preliminary risk assessment that the masks contain microscopic graphene particles that, when inhaled, could cause severe lung damage.”
Reports are that “for a while now, some daycare educators had expressed suspicion about the masks, which were causing children to feel as though they were swallowing cat hair while wearing them. We now know that instead of cat hair, children were inhaling the equivalent of asbestos all day long.”.It appears to be a substance known as graphene. What is indeed alarming is that “the SNN200642 masks that were being used all across Canada in school classrooms had never been tested for safety or effectiveness.” This is indeed a catastrophic failure by the regulators as these surgical face masks are linked to early pulmonary toxicity.
What is indeed frightening is that all of these blue and similar surgical face masks cause plastic fiber inhalation and the outcomes could be devastating, especially to our children. These plastics will degrade very slowly over time and as such, in the lungs it may remain and just build up to dangerous levels. We do not even know what is an ‘acceptable’ level, for there should be none, zero! There is debate that the immune system can attack such foreign objects, thus driving prolonged inflammation which may lead to diseases such as cancer. And reused masks which pervade our daily lives, and based on our personal experiences, do produce more loosened fibers. Dr. Richard Urso showed us just how dangerous these are by putting them under a microscope, revealing the melt-blown polypropylene plastic. Some masks even contain fiberglass and this is very dangerous as we know to inhale. We as parents make these decisions, we have to step back and question many of these decisions we are making that seem suboptimal. If it does not seem right, then you have to push back and question and demand the science, demand the data from these seemingly untethered experts.
We certainly are not getting the due diligence and protection from public health experts, the relevant health agencies, and policy makers that we need. They are failing us! Covid-19 has crystallized this. The government leaders are quick to tell us that they are relying on the advice of these experts in their advisory groups who seem incapable of reading the science or are just blinded to it. It is an academic sloppiness and cognitive dissonance that is terrifying by these experts should they come upon anything that differs from their beliefs or views, even when they are clearly wrong!
Moreover, the mass media seems incapable of doing the investigative type of journalism to fully inform the populace on what the public needs to know. We close by reiterating the warning in the JAMA publication that “Face masks should not be worn by healthy individuals to protect themselves from acquiring respiratory infection because there is no evidence to suggest that face masks worn by healthy individuals are effective in preventing people from becoming ill.” We raise this issue of potential harm due to synthetic fibres, chlorine, and chemicals from Covid masks as a public health warning and call on the public to make its own relevant risk-management decisions, weighing the benefits versus the harms (downsides) of such a course of action. Especially with the surgical masks (blue) or similar that quickly get moisture laden with use, fibers tend to get loose and may enter the mouth and nose.
Every act has a consequence, and there is always risk. It is therefore imperative to weigh the consequences before embarking on a specific course of action. These are risk management decisions especially for parents and not because a Dr. Fauci type tells you to do something means that it is accurate or necessary. Just consider the nonsense we heard about double masking where he said use them one day only to then retract on another day.
We just saw the bizarre and troubling change by the CDC that social distancing for kids no longer required 6 feet and now can be 3 feet but not when in the company of teachers. Outrageous is the fact that the 6-feet rule was arbitrary and based on no underpinning science in the first place. It’s as if the virus floats around and makes these distance adjustments.
What about when one day the CDC Director says vaccinated persons do not carry the virus to then reverse the next day? Even Dr. Fauci went against the CDC. So who is telling the nation the truth on any given matter? What are we to believe? We are told you should vaccinate with a vaccine that does not have the requisite safety assessment (another serious matter that is being swept aside), and then you still must wear a mask and socially distance. It makes no sense.
It is all nonsensical, illogical, specious, and patently absurd some of what these agencies and experts spew to us all day long. Many of it is just plain wrong. We urge you to think this through carefully. Any available evidence must be considered when the health of the citizenry is at stake. Minor risks can turn into major disasters, like cracks in a dam.
We caution you on the safety of these face masks especially since the science also has revealed the ineffectiveness of mask mandates and the masks themselves, as currently used. We are parents and citizens alike, and you and we only seek to inform, share, prognosticate. You must be informed fully for informed decision-making. We also cannot discount the possible harms on our immune systems and general health from such constant and prolonged use of masks, given that we have never done this before.
We are in uncharted territory and especially so with the possible implications for our children. Their immune systems are still being developed and we are forcing lockdowns, school closures, and masking on a developing child and we have no prior experience on the subsequent outcomes pertaining to children’s development, health, and well-being. These are matters too important to nonchalantly disregard. The consequences could be catastrophic and lifelong, especially for our children.
Contributing Authors
This is a public health warning to the US population and elsewhere, as it appears that our public health agencies and television medical experts seem unable to address key health messages that could have a dramatic effect in reducing risk of severe sequelae in higher-risk populations such as the minority and African-American population to the scourge of SARS-CoV-2. This is now clear. They have squandered many an opportunity to inform the public on simple yet very effective messaging that could reduce morbidity and save lives. Not just for Covid-19, but our focus here is on Covid-19.
For example, obesity has emerged as a potent human target for the SARS-CoV-2 in most studies, in addition to being elderly, frail and having comorbid conditions. It would behoove our agencies to address these risks in a large-scale education program for the populace and especially by calling for a reduction in body weight and particularly for the minority sub-groups (African-Americans). In a similar light, studies have shown that vitamin D supplementation for African-Americans has been associated with a lowered risk of severe disease and mortality from the SARS-CoV-2.
Early ambulatory outpatient treatment with successful combination and sequenced antiviral agents, corticosteroids, and anti-clotting therapeutics should be used widely to help the people at risk. The African-American community is aware that, “Covid (is) a killer for the obese: like pouring gasoline on top of a fire.” Unfortunately, more than a year into the pandemic, the manifest issue of public health education and sound policy decisions remain aloof, given the erratic and confusing responses from the health and governing officials. We are calling for an aggressive focus on our minority populations (and all of our population), as they are usually overlooked and disregarded by public health leaders and agencies. We plead for effective and needed public health messaging.
With that clarion call, we pivot and refer here to another looming concern and this is the potential danger of the chlorine, polyester, and microplastic components of the face masks (surgical principally but any of the mass-produced masks) that have become part of our daily lives due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We hope those with persuasive power in the government will listen to this plea. We hope that the necessary decisions will be made to reduce the risk to our populations.
Emergent reports, albeit nascent and anecdotal but nevertheless vitally important (and will be clarified and defined in time) regarding the manufacture of masks, where, “many of them (face masks) are made of polyester, so you have a microplastic problem…many of the face masks would contain polyester with chlorine compounds…if I have the mask in front of my face, then of course I inhale the microplastic directly and these substances are much more toxic than if you swallow them, as they get directly into the nervous system.”
There are also reports of toxic mould, fungi, and bacteria that can pose a significant threat to the immune system by potentially weakening it. Of particular concern to us is the recent report of breathing in synthetic fibers in the face masks. This is of serious concern. “Loose particulate was seen on each type of mask. Also, tight and loose fibers were seen on each type of mask. If every foreign particle and every fiber in every facemask is always secure and not detachable by airflow, then there should be no risk of inhalation of such particles and fibers. However, if even a small portion of mask fibers is detachable by inspiratory airflow, or if there is debris in mask manufacture or packaging or handling, then there is the possibility of not only entry of foreign material to the airways, but also entry to deep lung tissue, and potential pathological consequences of foreign bodies in the lungs.”
Reports are that “Graphene is a strong, very thin material that is used in fabrication, but it can be harmful to lungs when inhaled and can cause long-term health problems.” We argue that there is a risk of potential ‘future’ inflammatory/fibrotic lung diseases because we are inhaling these materials in the masks now for over one year with more duration to come and no end in sight. These substances might also be highly carcinogenic. Not just for us as adults but we must be very concerned about the risks especially to our children since they depend on us as mentors and guides for their decision-making. It is our children that we are very concerned for.
These blue surgical masks pervade our lives. “Health Canada has issued a warning about blue and gray disposable face masks, which contain an asbestos-like substance associated with “early pulmonary toxicity.” The warning is specific to potentially toxic masks distributed within schools and daycares across Quebec. Health Canada (and full praise to them)….“discovered during a preliminary risk assessment that the masks contain microscopic graphene particles that, when inhaled, could cause severe lung damage.”
Reports are that “for a while now, some daycare educators had expressed suspicion about the masks, which were causing children to feel as though they were swallowing cat hair while wearing them. We now know that instead of cat hair, children were inhaling the equivalent of asbestos all day long.”.It appears to be a substance known as graphene. What is indeed alarming is that “the SNN200642 masks that were being used all across Canada in school classrooms had never been tested for safety or effectiveness.” This is indeed a catastrophic failure by the regulators as these surgical face masks are linked to early pulmonary toxicity.
What is indeed frightening is that all of these blue and similar surgical face masks cause plastic fiber inhalation and the outcomes could be devastating, especially to our children. These plastics will degrade very slowly over time and as such, in the lungs it may remain and just build up to dangerous levels. We do not even know what is an ‘acceptable’ level, for there should be none, zero! There is debate that the immune system can attack such foreign objects, thus driving prolonged inflammation which may lead to diseases such as cancer. And reused masks which pervade our daily lives, and based on our personal experiences, do produce more loosened fibers. Dr. Richard Urso showed us just how dangerous these are by putting them under a microscope, revealing the melt-blown polypropylene plastic. Some masks even contain fiberglass and this is very dangerous as we know to inhale. We as parents make these decisions, we have to step back and question many of these decisions we are making that seem suboptimal. If it does not seem right, then you have to push back and question and demand the science, demand the data from these seemingly untethered experts.
We certainly are not getting the due diligence and protection from public health experts, the relevant health agencies, and policy makers that we need. They are failing us! Covid-19 has crystallized this. The government leaders are quick to tell us that they are relying on the advice of these experts in their advisory groups who seem incapable of reading the science or are just blinded to it. It is an academic sloppiness and cognitive dissonance that is terrifying by these experts should they come upon anything that differs from their beliefs or views, even when they are clearly wrong!
Moreover, the mass media seems incapable of doing the investigative type of journalism to fully inform the populace on what the public needs to know. We close by reiterating the warning in the JAMA publication that “Face masks should not be worn by healthy individuals to protect themselves from acquiring respiratory infection because there is no evidence to suggest that face masks worn by healthy individuals are effective in preventing people from becoming ill.” We raise this issue of potential harm due to synthetic fibres, chlorine, and chemicals from Covid masks as a public health warning and call on the public to make its own relevant risk-management decisions, weighing the benefits versus the harms (downsides) of such a course of action. Especially with the surgical masks (blue) or similar that quickly get moisture laden with use, fibers tend to get loose and may enter the mouth and nose.
Every act has a consequence, and there is always risk. It is therefore imperative to weigh the consequences before embarking on a specific course of action. These are risk management decisions especially for parents and not because a Dr. Fauci type tells you to do something means that it is accurate or necessary. Just consider the nonsense we heard about double masking where he said use them one day only to then retract on another day.
We just saw the bizarre and troubling change by the CDC that social distancing for kids no longer required 6 feet and now can be 3 feet but not when in the company of teachers. Outrageous is the fact that the 6-feet rule was arbitrary and based on no underpinning science in the first place. It’s as if the virus floats around and makes these distance adjustments.
What about when one day the CDC Director says vaccinated persons do not carry the virus to then reverse the next day? Even Dr. Fauci went against the CDC. So who is telling the nation the truth on any given matter? What are we to believe? We are told you should vaccinate with a vaccine that does not have the requisite safety assessment (another serious matter that is being swept aside), and then you still must wear a mask and socially distance. It makes no sense.
It is all nonsensical, illogical, specious, and patently absurd some of what these agencies and experts spew to us all day long. Many of it is just plain wrong. We urge you to think this through carefully. Any available evidence must be considered when the health of the citizenry is at stake. Minor risks can turn into major disasters, like cracks in a dam.
We caution you on the safety of these face masks especially since the science also has revealed the ineffectiveness of mask mandates and the masks themselves, as currently used. We are parents and citizens alike, and you and we only seek to inform, share, prognosticate. You must be informed fully for informed decision-making. We also cannot discount the possible harms on our immune systems and general health from such constant and prolonged use of masks, given that we have never done this before.
We are in uncharted territory and especially so with the possible implications for our children. Their immune systems are still being developed and we are forcing lockdowns, school closures, and masking on a developing child and we have no prior experience on the subsequent outcomes pertaining to children’s development, health, and well-being. These are matters too important to nonchalantly disregard. The consequences could be catastrophic and lifelong, especially for our children.
Contributing Authors
- Paul E Alexander MSc PhD, McMaster University and GUIDE Research Methods Group, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada [email protected]
- Howard C. Tenenbaum DDS, Dip. Perio., PhD, FRCD(C) Centre for Advanced Dental Research and Care, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada [email protected]
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Ukraine, Taiwan... Two-Pronged US Aggression Toward Russia, China Escalates
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BY TYLER DURDEN
SUNDAY, APR 11, 2021 - 07:00 AM
Via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
All people of the world should hope that a multipolar world vision prevails and the destructive American ideology fails – definitively.
https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b...?itok=toKGDlm1
There is a close parallel in the way the Biden administration is riling up dangerous tensions with Russia and China. The proxy in both cases are the Ukraine and Taiwan, respectively.
Washington is citing claims that Russia and China are threatening its allies which, in turn, provides a pretext for the United States to step up its own provocative actions. It’s a vicious cycle that is at grave risk of spinning out of control into an all-out war between nuclear powers.
In just three months after his inauguration as the 46th U.S. president, Joe Biden’s administration has embarked on a reckless course of belligerence toward Russia and China. This dynamic was predicted by Strategic Culture Foundation in several of our commentaries and interviews before Biden was inaugurated on January 20.
However, this systematic hostility from the United States has been underway from several past administrations, including the previous Trump White House and before that the Obama administrations in which Biden served as vice president. Now as president, Biden is taking up a continuous policy of aggression with even more gusto. This invariable direction of belligerence tends to prove the real nature of U.S. politics. Presidents come and go, elections take place periodically, but the power and policymaking resides with deep state planners whose loyalty is not to any particular party but rather to the furtherance of imperial objectives regarding America’s presumed global position and privileges.
The current president and his top aides, like before, bring a certain stylistic image to the underlying thrust of power. Team Biden have sharpened the rhetoric of adversity, repeatedly labelling Moscow and China as “existential threats”. Practical acts of hostility have followed, including imposing sanctions on Russia over its Nord Stream 2 gas project with Europe; and on China over baseless claims of “genocide” against its Uyghur ethnic population in Xinjiang.
The Biden administration is turning reality on its head, either through cynical deception or from its own cognitive dissonance regarding the real world. (Most certainly the former for the deep state planners, maybe the latter for the politician puppets.)
It accuses Russia of aggression by building up military forces on the border with Ukraine. This is while the U.S.-backed regime in Kiev has been serially violating a shaky ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine, shelling civilian centers and escalating a humanitarian crisis. Russia has every right to deploy military forces wherever it deems within its borders. Moscow has rejected claims that it is posing a threat to any other country. Nonetheless, this week the Kremlin said the deteriorating security conditions in Eastern Ukraine (the Donbass) may oblige it to defend ethnic Russians facing a criminal offensive. That offensive is being waged by the Kiev regime which has the full support of the United States and the NATO military alliance. Only last month, the Biden administration released a further $125 million in lethal weaponry to the Ukraine. That can be seen as a green light for the regime in Kiev to reject the 2015 Minsk peace accord and to push for more conflict in what has already been a seven-year war, causing more than 13,000 deaths. (The war was instigated after the U.S., EU and NATO backed a coup d’état in Kiev in February 2014 which brought to power an anti-Russian regime with historic links to Nazi Germany.)
Yet in the Alice-in-Wonderland view of Washington, as well as the European Union and NATO, the aggression is being instigated by Russia.
As for China and Taiwan: Biden is advancing the same policy under the previous Trump and Obama administrations of military buildup near China’s territory.
This week saw the fourth U.S. guided-missile destroyer passing through the Taiwan Strait since Biden took office. That narrow sea separates the breakaway island from China’s mainland. Beijing has sovereign territorial claim to Taiwan which is recognized by the vast majority of nations, including up until recently the United States under its so-called “One China” policy. Biden, like his predecessor Donald Trump, is deliberately eroding the One China policy by sending delegates to the island on official visits, increasing weapons sales and most provocatively making public declarations that the U.S. will “defend” Taiwan in the event of “an invasion” by Chinese forces.
Similar to the Ukraine, the Biden administration’s rhetoric and conduct is serving to fuel an ever-more provocative stance by the Taiwanese leaders. This week, a senior official warned that the island’s forces would shoot down Chinese aircraft that approach the territory. This is nothing but a flagrant challenge to China’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. As in the case of the Ukraine and Russia, it is Washington’s words and actions that are inflaming the tensions between Taiwan and China. Yet the Americans accuse others of “aggression” and claim to be providing “defense”.
The bigger picture for all of this is, of course, the geopolitical great game which Washington sees as a zero-sum challenge. Strategists in Washington have made it abundantly clear that the American imperative for pursuing its ambitions for global power and dominance is to prevent the rise of Russia and China and a multipolar world order. Moscow and Beijing have repeatedly called for a peaceful coexistence among nations based on partnership, mutual respect and above all adherence to international law. In short, the manifestation of the United Nations Charter.
Such a multipolar world of equals is anathema to the United States and its imperialist pursuit of unipolar dominance. The latter configuration is essential for maintaining the dollar as the world’s reserve currency which, in turn, is vital for propping up the U.S. economy. For historical reasons, American capitalism is waning from its previous formidable prowess as the world’s engine for growth. The tide is shifting to China and Eurasia which offer an alternative model of socialistic planned economies, based on a mix of public and private ownership, which are directed at progressing societal development. China’s success in lifting millions of its people out of poverty while millions of Americans fall into poverty indicates the end of an “America Century”. The United States, under its prevailing corporate capitalist system, cannot compete with the emerging multipolar order. By way of trying to reverse the historic decline, the U.S. is compelled to resort to increasing militarism against what it perceives as its nemesis – Russia and China – the two main proponents of a multipolar vision.
It is therefore logical, if not execrable, that Washington appears to be accelerating on a collision course against Russia and China. The speed and recklessness is correlated with the growing sense that the American Empire is in terminal demise. The Ukraine and Taiwan are providing the U.S. with a two-prong attack against Russia and China and what Washington views as its last chance to grasp on to a world that is disappearing before its eyes. America’s reckless and delusional gambling is placing the world in an extremely dangerous situation. Its rulers and their political flunkies are flicking matches at a powder-keg.
All people of the world should hope that a multipolar world vision prevails and the destructive American ideology fails – definitively.
Ukraine, Taiwan... Two-Pronged US Aggression Toward Russia, China Escalates
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BY TYLER DURDEN
SUNDAY, APR 11, 2021 - 07:00 AM
Via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
All people of the world should hope that a multipolar world vision prevails and the destructive American ideology fails – definitively.
https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b...?itok=toKGDlm1
There is a close parallel in the way the Biden administration is riling up dangerous tensions with Russia and China. The proxy in both cases are the Ukraine and Taiwan, respectively.
Washington is citing claims that Russia and China are threatening its allies which, in turn, provides a pretext for the United States to step up its own provocative actions. It’s a vicious cycle that is at grave risk of spinning out of control into an all-out war between nuclear powers.
In just three months after his inauguration as the 46th U.S. president, Joe Biden’s administration has embarked on a reckless course of belligerence toward Russia and China. This dynamic was predicted by Strategic Culture Foundation in several of our commentaries and interviews before Biden was inaugurated on January 20.
However, this systematic hostility from the United States has been underway from several past administrations, including the previous Trump White House and before that the Obama administrations in which Biden served as vice president. Now as president, Biden is taking up a continuous policy of aggression with even more gusto. This invariable direction of belligerence tends to prove the real nature of U.S. politics. Presidents come and go, elections take place periodically, but the power and policymaking resides with deep state planners whose loyalty is not to any particular party but rather to the furtherance of imperial objectives regarding America’s presumed global position and privileges.
The current president and his top aides, like before, bring a certain stylistic image to the underlying thrust of power. Team Biden have sharpened the rhetoric of adversity, repeatedly labelling Moscow and China as “existential threats”. Practical acts of hostility have followed, including imposing sanctions on Russia over its Nord Stream 2 gas project with Europe; and on China over baseless claims of “genocide” against its Uyghur ethnic population in Xinjiang.
The Biden administration is turning reality on its head, either through cynical deception or from its own cognitive dissonance regarding the real world. (Most certainly the former for the deep state planners, maybe the latter for the politician puppets.)
It accuses Russia of aggression by building up military forces on the border with Ukraine. This is while the U.S.-backed regime in Kiev has been serially violating a shaky ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine, shelling civilian centers and escalating a humanitarian crisis. Russia has every right to deploy military forces wherever it deems within its borders. Moscow has rejected claims that it is posing a threat to any other country. Nonetheless, this week the Kremlin said the deteriorating security conditions in Eastern Ukraine (the Donbass) may oblige it to defend ethnic Russians facing a criminal offensive. That offensive is being waged by the Kiev regime which has the full support of the United States and the NATO military alliance. Only last month, the Biden administration released a further $125 million in lethal weaponry to the Ukraine. That can be seen as a green light for the regime in Kiev to reject the 2015 Minsk peace accord and to push for more conflict in what has already been a seven-year war, causing more than 13,000 deaths. (The war was instigated after the U.S., EU and NATO backed a coup d’état in Kiev in February 2014 which brought to power an anti-Russian regime with historic links to Nazi Germany.)
Yet in the Alice-in-Wonderland view of Washington, as well as the European Union and NATO, the aggression is being instigated by Russia.
As for China and Taiwan: Biden is advancing the same policy under the previous Trump and Obama administrations of military buildup near China’s territory.
This week saw the fourth U.S. guided-missile destroyer passing through the Taiwan Strait since Biden took office. That narrow sea separates the breakaway island from China’s mainland. Beijing has sovereign territorial claim to Taiwan which is recognized by the vast majority of nations, including up until recently the United States under its so-called “One China” policy. Biden, like his predecessor Donald Trump, is deliberately eroding the One China policy by sending delegates to the island on official visits, increasing weapons sales and most provocatively making public declarations that the U.S. will “defend” Taiwan in the event of “an invasion” by Chinese forces.
Similar to the Ukraine, the Biden administration’s rhetoric and conduct is serving to fuel an ever-more provocative stance by the Taiwanese leaders. This week, a senior official warned that the island’s forces would shoot down Chinese aircraft that approach the territory. This is nothing but a flagrant challenge to China’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. As in the case of the Ukraine and Russia, it is Washington’s words and actions that are inflaming the tensions between Taiwan and China. Yet the Americans accuse others of “aggression” and claim to be providing “defense”.
The bigger picture for all of this is, of course, the geopolitical great game which Washington sees as a zero-sum challenge. Strategists in Washington have made it abundantly clear that the American imperative for pursuing its ambitions for global power and dominance is to prevent the rise of Russia and China and a multipolar world order. Moscow and Beijing have repeatedly called for a peaceful coexistence among nations based on partnership, mutual respect and above all adherence to international law. In short, the manifestation of the United Nations Charter.
Such a multipolar world of equals is anathema to the United States and its imperialist pursuit of unipolar dominance. The latter configuration is essential for maintaining the dollar as the world’s reserve currency which, in turn, is vital for propping up the U.S. economy. For historical reasons, American capitalism is waning from its previous formidable prowess as the world’s engine for growth. The tide is shifting to China and Eurasia which offer an alternative model of socialistic planned economies, based on a mix of public and private ownership, which are directed at progressing societal development. China’s success in lifting millions of its people out of poverty while millions of Americans fall into poverty indicates the end of an “America Century”. The United States, under its prevailing corporate capitalist system, cannot compete with the emerging multipolar order. By way of trying to reverse the historic decline, the U.S. is compelled to resort to increasing militarism against what it perceives as its nemesis – Russia and China – the two main proponents of a multipolar vision.
It is therefore logical, if not execrable, that Washington appears to be accelerating on a collision course against Russia and China. The speed and recklessness is correlated with the growing sense that the American Empire is in terminal demise. The Ukraine and Taiwan are providing the U.S. with a two-prong attack against Russia and China and what Washington views as its last chance to grasp on to a world that is disappearing before its eyes. America’s reckless and delusional gambling is placing the world in an extremely dangerous situation. Its rulers and their political flunkies are flicking matches at a powder-keg.
All people of the world should hope that a multipolar world vision prevails and the destructive American ideology fails – definitively.
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April 12, 2021
Biden Holds “Unscheduled” War Council While Destroying America And Enraging China
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A compelling new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today says that for the first time since seizing power, Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden held an “unscheduled war council” on Sunday with his senior advisors— that was joined by his Secretary of State Anthony Blinken warning that “it would be a serious mistake” for the Chinese regime to attack Taiwan—both of which were preceded by China’s official state newspaper becoming enraged and writing: “The West's depiction of China's direct diplomacy as being “Wolf Warrior” is clearly racist…Why?...Because such a mentality assumes that we have no right to respond to bullying and unilateralism by Western countries that hurt China's national interests…Can one imagine a certain group of people in Western society, like the US, not being allowed to speak up and stand up to defend their own legitimate interests?...Isn't that purely racism, and a kind of white supremacy?”.
Notable about this ratcheting up of tensions between the United States and China is it occurring while US and Chinese warships have massed and are facing off against each other in the South China Sea—comes during a week that the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released its quadrennial “Global Trends” document assessment of what the world will be in the year 2040—a document whose socialist-globalist views begin with such woke gibberish like: “First, we examine structural forces in demographics, environment, economics, and technology that shape the contours of our future world…Second, we analyze how these structural forces and other factors—combined with human responses—affect emerging dynamics in societies, states, and the international system…Third, we envision five plausible scenarios for the distant future in 2040”—and in whose final analysis states: “In A World Adrift, the international system is directionless, chaotic, and volatile as international rules and institutions are largely ignored by major powers like China, regional players, and nonstate actors”.
Most notably absent in this DNI document, though, is an assessment of what the world will be like in 2040 without a free and democratic United States—which is a subject needing to be examined as socialist leader Biden is doing everything possible to destroy his country, and as evidenced in articles now appearing like “Why Biden Is Breaking America”, wherein it factually observes:
He’s attempting to undo American accountability in elections through his support of HR1.
He’s attempting to undo our economic foundations with massive printing (read that: devaluing) of our currency.
He’s attempting to destroy free enterprise and job growth with coming massive tax increases.
He’s attempting to take away individual liberties with proposed mask mandates, and desired lockdowns.
He supports any attempt to end the Senate filibuster—in order to push through horrific laws by the thinnest margins ever attempted.
He’s attempting to overwhelm our security at our borders by encouraging 100’s of 1000’s of unverifiable persons of unknown origins to cross our borders without scrutiny nor penalty.
He wants the police weakened.
He is pledging to take guns away from law abiding owners.
He wants to pervert the justice system so dramatically that the Constitution becomes unrecognizable.
Biden and Democrats are trying any and all political maneuvers now to consolidate their power and block out Republicans in the future, and that’s what this is all about.
[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
According to this report, shortly after he seized power it was noted: “Biden signals US return to full-on globalism and foreign meddling by picking interventionist Anthony Blinken as Secretary of State”—the reality of which was put on full display this past week when Secretary of State Blinken defended Biden calling President Putin a “killer”, with his calling this vile affront “political pragmatism”—though to how pragmatic it is to insult the leader of the country possessing the most nuclear weapons in the world neither Biden nor Blinken have yet to explain.
With Biden having placed the United States on the brink of war with both Russia and China in just three months time, this report details, it was no surprise this past week when he submitted a new budget for the Pentagon costing a staggering $715-billion—as opposed to Russia, that keeps cutting its defense budget and has dropped out of the top 5 list of military spenders in the world, and China, that spent $178-billion on its military budget last year.
As to why Russia only spends $41-billion on its military, this report explains, is because like China it’s not an expansionist military power seeking global hegemony, thus meaning that these monies are for defense—unlike the United States, that in reality doesn’t really have a Department of Defense, as its most correct name is Department of Offense.
Though the United States spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined, this report continues, not being understood by the American people is that the US military is incapable of winning a great power war against nations like Russia and China—and whose reason for is due to the US military having turned itself into a nation building organization comprised of small fighting units and socialist do-gooders supported by air and sea power—and whose list of failures (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, etc.) over the past 50-years far exceed their successes, of which there are none.
In understanding what the US military really is, this report notes, it makes understandable why the Ministry of Defense (MoD) is becoming increasingly alarmed over the Pentagon conducting witch hunts in its ranks to root out those not obeying socialist ideology—and are witch hunts being joined by US Army cadets at West Point now being forced to learn and adopt socialist ideology.
To understand the concerns being raised in the MoD about what is happening to these US military forces, this report explains, one needs to remember the epic and grueling 62-day road trip taken across the United States by US Army Lieutenant Dwight Eisenhower in 1919—a road trip proving to Lieutenant Eisenhower how gravely vulnerable the US was to invasion, as to move troops to coastal regions to repel an invasion would end in failure because of the amount of time it would take—and also saw Lieutenant Eisenhower watching with fear what was happening in Nazi Germany, where it was fast building the massive Autobahn highway system to rapidly deploy its military forces.
The key components of the Autobahn highway system, this report notes, were its reinforced highways able to sustain the weight of heavy armored vehicles, the sections of the highways having a dual purpose use as runways for fighter planes and bombers, and the sections of these highways encircling major German cities that enabled small numbers of military and/or police forces to control entry and exit points.
In 1952, this report further notes, Eisenhower became President of the United States after his leading the Allied Forces to defeat the Nazi Germans in World War II—then saw him creating America’s own Autobahn system of highways to defend his nation from invasion, that’s officially designated as the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, and commonly known as the Interstate Highway System—a highway system that’s protected America from invasion for nearly 70-years—and for reasons defying all common sense and military logic now sees socialist idiot Biden planning to destroy it—and as confirmed by his Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who this past week declared they must be destroyed because “Racism Is Physically Built Into The US Interstate System”.
Joining Biden’s call to destroy America’s defense highway system, this report continues, are his leftist propaganda media allies publishing such deceitful articles like “A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways” and “Racist Impacts of Highways, Past and Present”—and are deceitful because even though they do truthfully state that poor inner city neighborhoods saw this defense highway system being built through them, they fail to state the fact this was because the land had to be paid for, and governments being responsible for taxpayer money most frequently choose the least expensive option.
The concerns being raised by the MoD about the destruction of this defensive highway system, however, this report notes, is due to Biden and his socialist forces specifically targeting its portions surrounding iron grip controlled socialist Democrat Party cities—and if destroyed, would allow unfettered access into surrounding areas of radical socialist forces that would normally be able to be contained in these volatile cities with minimal military force.
With these radical socialist forces this weekend having set fire to an ICE facility in Portland-Oregon while US federal agents were trapped inside, this report details, this grave threat to the American people was further exampled last evening in Minneapolis-Minnesota when BLM terrorists went a spree of rioting and mass looting—BLM terrorists under the command of their organization’s Marxist co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors—who while her terrorist forces are destroying American cities, has amassed for herself a multi-million-dollar empire of 4 luxury mansions with airplane hangers in rich white guarded compounds—and when black conservative icon Jason Whitlock posted this true fact, saw leftist tech giant Twitter immediately locking out his account—an act of censorship so shocking it alarmed Professor Jonathon Turley of Georgetown University, who stated: “Indeed, the greatest irony may not be the home purchase by the corporate support…A professed Marxist, Cullors has not only been paid handsomely by corporations like Warner but is being actively protected by corporations like Twitter”.
With over 100 of the top corporate leaders in America having gathered together this weekend in a first-of-its-kind meeting to plot how to keep socialist leader Biden in power, this report concludes, ordinary and sane Americans seem perplexed as to why their nation’s corporations have turned against them and are giving BLM terrorists tens-of-millions of dollars—a perplexity made explainable when they understand that tyrannically socialist lockdown policies and vile actions have increased the wealth of global billionaires by $4-trillion this past year—most particularly in the United States, where the number of billionaires has absolutely exploded during the pandemic—all of whom owe their fortunes to Biden and his socialist forces, and most certainly not the American people they’ve never cared about and look down upon with disdain.
April 12, 2021 EU and US all rights reserved. Permission to use this report in its entirety is granted under the condition it is linked to its original source at WhatDoesItMean.Com. Freebase content licensed under CC-BY and GFDL.
[Note: Many governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagree with in believing that it is every human being’s right to know the truth. Due to our mission’s conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit us, and others like us, that is exampled in numerous places, including HERE.]
[Note: The WhatDoesItMean.com website was created for and donated to the Sisters of Sorcha Faal in 2003 by a small group of American computer experts led by the late global technology guru Wayne Green (1922-2013) to counter the propaganda being used by the West to promote their illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq.]
[Note: The word Kremlin (fortress inside a city) as used in this report refers to Russian citadels, including in Moscow, having cathedrals wherein female Schema monks (Orthodox nuns) reside, many of whom are devoted to the mission of the Sisters of Sorcha Faal.]
The Watchers Have Arrived—And America Will Never Be The Same
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How The “Conspiracy Theory” Label Was Conceived To Derail The Truth Movement
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April 12, 2021
Biden Holds “Unscheduled” War Council While Destroying America And Enraging China
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
A compelling new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today says that for the first time since seizing power, Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden held an “unscheduled war council” on Sunday with his senior advisors— that was joined by his Secretary of State Anthony Blinken warning that “it would be a serious mistake” for the Chinese regime to attack Taiwan—both of which were preceded by China’s official state newspaper becoming enraged and writing: “The West's depiction of China's direct diplomacy as being “Wolf Warrior” is clearly racist…Why?...Because such a mentality assumes that we have no right to respond to bullying and unilateralism by Western countries that hurt China's national interests…Can one imagine a certain group of people in Western society, like the US, not being allowed to speak up and stand up to defend their own legitimate interests?...Isn't that purely racism, and a kind of white supremacy?”.
Notable about this ratcheting up of tensions between the United States and China is it occurring while US and Chinese warships have massed and are facing off against each other in the South China Sea—comes during a week that the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released its quadrennial “Global Trends” document assessment of what the world will be in the year 2040—a document whose socialist-globalist views begin with such woke gibberish like: “First, we examine structural forces in demographics, environment, economics, and technology that shape the contours of our future world…Second, we analyze how these structural forces and other factors—combined with human responses—affect emerging dynamics in societies, states, and the international system…Third, we envision five plausible scenarios for the distant future in 2040”—and in whose final analysis states: “In A World Adrift, the international system is directionless, chaotic, and volatile as international rules and institutions are largely ignored by major powers like China, regional players, and nonstate actors”.
Most notably absent in this DNI document, though, is an assessment of what the world will be like in 2040 without a free and democratic United States—which is a subject needing to be examined as socialist leader Biden is doing everything possible to destroy his country, and as evidenced in articles now appearing like “Why Biden Is Breaking America”, wherein it factually observes:
He’s attempting to undo American accountability in elections through his support of HR1.
He’s attempting to undo our economic foundations with massive printing (read that: devaluing) of our currency.
He’s attempting to destroy free enterprise and job growth with coming massive tax increases.
He’s attempting to take away individual liberties with proposed mask mandates, and desired lockdowns.
He supports any attempt to end the Senate filibuster—in order to push through horrific laws by the thinnest margins ever attempted.
He’s attempting to overwhelm our security at our borders by encouraging 100’s of 1000’s of unverifiable persons of unknown origins to cross our borders without scrutiny nor penalty.
He wants the police weakened.
He is pledging to take guns away from law abiding owners.
He wants to pervert the justice system so dramatically that the Constitution becomes unrecognizable.
Biden and Democrats are trying any and all political maneuvers now to consolidate their power and block out Republicans in the future, and that’s what this is all about.
[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/blm22.jpg
According to this report, shortly after he seized power it was noted: “Biden signals US return to full-on globalism and foreign meddling by picking interventionist Anthony Blinken as Secretary of State”—the reality of which was put on full display this past week when Secretary of State Blinken defended Biden calling President Putin a “killer”, with his calling this vile affront “political pragmatism”—though to how pragmatic it is to insult the leader of the country possessing the most nuclear weapons in the world neither Biden nor Blinken have yet to explain.
With Biden having placed the United States on the brink of war with both Russia and China in just three months time, this report details, it was no surprise this past week when he submitted a new budget for the Pentagon costing a staggering $715-billion—as opposed to Russia, that keeps cutting its defense budget and has dropped out of the top 5 list of military spenders in the world, and China, that spent $178-billion on its military budget last year.
As to why Russia only spends $41-billion on its military, this report explains, is because like China it’s not an expansionist military power seeking global hegemony, thus meaning that these monies are for defense—unlike the United States, that in reality doesn’t really have a Department of Defense, as its most correct name is Department of Offense.
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/blm23.jpg
Though the United States spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined, this report continues, not being understood by the American people is that the US military is incapable of winning a great power war against nations like Russia and China—and whose reason for is due to the US military having turned itself into a nation building organization comprised of small fighting units and socialist do-gooders supported by air and sea power—and whose list of failures (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, etc.) over the past 50-years far exceed their successes, of which there are none.
In understanding what the US military really is, this report notes, it makes understandable why the Ministry of Defense (MoD) is becoming increasingly alarmed over the Pentagon conducting witch hunts in its ranks to root out those not obeying socialist ideology—and are witch hunts being joined by US Army cadets at West Point now being forced to learn and adopt socialist ideology.
To understand the concerns being raised in the MoD about what is happening to these US military forces, this report explains, one needs to remember the epic and grueling 62-day road trip taken across the United States by US Army Lieutenant Dwight Eisenhower in 1919—a road trip proving to Lieutenant Eisenhower how gravely vulnerable the US was to invasion, as to move troops to coastal regions to repel an invasion would end in failure because of the amount of time it would take—and also saw Lieutenant Eisenhower watching with fear what was happening in Nazi Germany, where it was fast building the massive Autobahn highway system to rapidly deploy its military forces.
The key components of the Autobahn highway system, this report notes, were its reinforced highways able to sustain the weight of heavy armored vehicles, the sections of the highways having a dual purpose use as runways for fighter planes and bombers, and the sections of these highways encircling major German cities that enabled small numbers of military and/or police forces to control entry and exit points.
In 1952, this report further notes, Eisenhower became President of the United States after his leading the Allied Forces to defeat the Nazi Germans in World War II—then saw him creating America’s own Autobahn system of highways to defend his nation from invasion, that’s officially designated as the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, and commonly known as the Interstate Highway System—a highway system that’s protected America from invasion for nearly 70-years—and for reasons defying all common sense and military logic now sees socialist idiot Biden planning to destroy it—and as confirmed by his Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who this past week declared they must be destroyed because “Racism Is Physically Built Into The US Interstate System”.
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/blm24.jpg
Joining Biden’s call to destroy America’s defense highway system, this report continues, are his leftist propaganda media allies publishing such deceitful articles like “A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways” and “Racist Impacts of Highways, Past and Present”—and are deceitful because even though they do truthfully state that poor inner city neighborhoods saw this defense highway system being built through them, they fail to state the fact this was because the land had to be paid for, and governments being responsible for taxpayer money most frequently choose the least expensive option.
The concerns being raised by the MoD about the destruction of this defensive highway system, however, this report notes, is due to Biden and his socialist forces specifically targeting its portions surrounding iron grip controlled socialist Democrat Party cities—and if destroyed, would allow unfettered access into surrounding areas of radical socialist forces that would normally be able to be contained in these volatile cities with minimal military force.
With these radical socialist forces this weekend having set fire to an ICE facility in Portland-Oregon while US federal agents were trapped inside, this report details, this grave threat to the American people was further exampled last evening in Minneapolis-Minnesota when BLM terrorists went a spree of rioting and mass looting—BLM terrorists under the command of their organization’s Marxist co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors—who while her terrorist forces are destroying American cities, has amassed for herself a multi-million-dollar empire of 4 luxury mansions with airplane hangers in rich white guarded compounds—and when black conservative icon Jason Whitlock posted this true fact, saw leftist tech giant Twitter immediately locking out his account—an act of censorship so shocking it alarmed Professor Jonathon Turley of Georgetown University, who stated: “Indeed, the greatest irony may not be the home purchase by the corporate support…A professed Marxist, Cullors has not only been paid handsomely by corporations like Warner but is being actively protected by corporations like Twitter”.
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/blm21.jpg
With over 100 of the top corporate leaders in America having gathered together this weekend in a first-of-its-kind meeting to plot how to keep socialist leader Biden in power, this report concludes, ordinary and sane Americans seem perplexed as to why their nation’s corporations have turned against them and are giving BLM terrorists tens-of-millions of dollars—a perplexity made explainable when they understand that tyrannically socialist lockdown policies and vile actions have increased the wealth of global billionaires by $4-trillion this past year—most particularly in the United States, where the number of billionaires has absolutely exploded during the pandemic—all of whom owe their fortunes to Biden and his socialist forces, and most certainly not the American people they’ve never cared about and look down upon with disdain.
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/blm25.jpg
April 12, 2021 EU and US all rights reserved. Permission to use this report in its entirety is granted under the condition it is linked to its original source at WhatDoesItMean.Com. Freebase content licensed under CC-BY and GFDL.
[Note: Many governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagree with in believing that it is every human being’s right to know the truth. Due to our mission’s conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit us, and others like us, that is exampled in numerous places, including HERE.]
[Note: The WhatDoesItMean.com website was created for and donated to the Sisters of Sorcha Faal in 2003 by a small group of American computer experts led by the late global technology guru Wayne Green (1922-2013) to counter the propaganda being used by the West to promote their illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq.]
[Note: The word Kremlin (fortress inside a city) as used in this report refers to Russian citadels, including in Moscow, having cathedrals wherein female Schema monks (Orthodox nuns) reside, many of whom are devoted to the mission of the Sisters of Sorcha Faal.]
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I seriously doubt that people understand the true implications of how these governments have handled this pretend pandemic which has a kill ratio of a minimal 0.028%. This has been a grab for power and it will not end with everyone getting vaccinated. Even after the deluge of vaccines, they may allow the reopening of theatres, cinemas, hotels, and restaurants. People may return to commuting to work (unlikely), but the idea that this pandemic is nothing but a bad memory and they will put this all behind us, well, no such thing will take place.
This pandemic has been orchestrated right from the start. The United Nations sold pandemic bonds, and if they declared there was a pandemic, they did not have to repay. They fleeced all those investors and now only a mindless idiot would dare buy another. There have been countless after-effects from bankruptcies, job losses, countless fake studies with predetermined conclusions, and teenage suicides because their dreams of a future vocation were erased. All the pension funds and unions have been destroyed during this fake pandemic. There is no hope of returning to normal.
From here on out, every time society sneezes, governments will exert this newfound power. In their goal of wiping out the next disease, they can lock down the people and revert the world into a communistic prison camp. There will be endless emergences of new variants resistant to the current vaccines, for viruses are a form of life that will adapt to carry out their objective — to reduce the population whenever possible. There will be new lockdowns while waiting to produce billions of doses of new vaccines that will once more get emergency approval without long-term testing. Where governments were once there to protect society from untested drugs, today they are in league with the pharmaceutical industry because it justifies their power.
The discussion of climate change and overpopulation continues behind the curtain and this is no different from mass genocide to save the planet. We will have to endure this treatment every year, for decades to come; for this disease and no doubt for many others are now the source of political power. We will then have to decide if life is worth living in an internment camp, which is what they are transforming society into while simultaneously pushing the cancel culture and this woke movement designed to keep society divided to prevent a revolution.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/w...nd-conquer.jpg
Even Amazon’s internal documents exposed that the company rates their stores using a “diversity index,” and determined the threat of unionization is “higher” at stores with “lower diversity.” This is what the WOKE movement is all about — DIVIDE & CONQUER! Julius Caesar was able to conquer Gaul despite being outnumbered more than 10 to 1 because the Gauls never united until it was too late. Even in the final battle during September 52 BC, Julius Caesar sealed his fate as a legendary military commander at the Battle of Alesia where his army of 50,000 Romans defeated 200,000 Gauls in what is now modern-day Burgundy, France. The Celtic tribes were never united. Caesar defeated the Belgae tribes as well as the Helvetia. Had they all united, Caesar surely would not have conquered Europe. Hence, keep your opponents divided and you will win. This is the entire object of the woke movement — divide and created hatred between the groups.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/w...te-Conquer.jpg
The solution is clear — Unite & Conquer
Categories: Politics, Revolution
Tags: lockdowns, pandemic bonds, woke culture
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/w...de-Conquer.png
I seriously doubt that people understand the true implications of how these governments have handled this pretend pandemic which has a kill ratio of a minimal 0.028%. This has been a grab for power and it will not end with everyone getting vaccinated. Even after the deluge of vaccines, they may allow the reopening of theatres, cinemas, hotels, and restaurants. People may return to commuting to work (unlikely), but the idea that this pandemic is nothing but a bad memory and they will put this all behind us, well, no such thing will take place.
This pandemic has been orchestrated right from the start. The United Nations sold pandemic bonds, and if they declared there was a pandemic, they did not have to repay. They fleeced all those investors and now only a mindless idiot would dare buy another. There have been countless after-effects from bankruptcies, job losses, countless fake studies with predetermined conclusions, and teenage suicides because their dreams of a future vocation were erased. All the pension funds and unions have been destroyed during this fake pandemic. There is no hope of returning to normal.
From here on out, every time society sneezes, governments will exert this newfound power. In their goal of wiping out the next disease, they can lock down the people and revert the world into a communistic prison camp. There will be endless emergences of new variants resistant to the current vaccines, for viruses are a form of life that will adapt to carry out their objective — to reduce the population whenever possible. There will be new lockdowns while waiting to produce billions of doses of new vaccines that will once more get emergency approval without long-term testing. Where governments were once there to protect society from untested drugs, today they are in league with the pharmaceutical industry because it justifies their power.
The discussion of climate change and overpopulation continues behind the curtain and this is no different from mass genocide to save the planet. We will have to endure this treatment every year, for decades to come; for this disease and no doubt for many others are now the source of political power. We will then have to decide if life is worth living in an internment camp, which is what they are transforming society into while simultaneously pushing the cancel culture and this woke movement designed to keep society divided to prevent a revolution.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/w...nd-conquer.jpg
Even Amazon’s internal documents exposed that the company rates their stores using a “diversity index,” and determined the threat of unionization is “higher” at stores with “lower diversity.” This is what the WOKE movement is all about — DIVIDE & CONQUER! Julius Caesar was able to conquer Gaul despite being outnumbered more than 10 to 1 because the Gauls never united until it was too late. Even in the final battle during September 52 BC, Julius Caesar sealed his fate as a legendary military commander at the Battle of Alesia where his army of 50,000 Romans defeated 200,000 Gauls in what is now modern-day Burgundy, France. The Celtic tribes were never united. Caesar defeated the Belgae tribes as well as the Helvetia. Had they all united, Caesar surely would not have conquered Europe. Hence, keep your opponents divided and you will win. This is the entire object of the woke movement — divide and created hatred between the groups.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/w...te-Conquer.jpg
The solution is clear — Unite & Conquer
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One of the most remarkable articles written about the growth of government during the twentieth-century is “War is the Health of the State” by Randolph Bourne.
Published in 1918, Bourne’s essay explained how it is human nature to mostly ignore the state because the state during peacetime has “almost no trappings to appeal to the common man’s emotions.” War, however, is the all-purpose tool of the state to stir up the public’s emotions in a way that motivates it to hand over to the state virtually unlimited powers, abandoning all constitutional constraints – and to subsequently relinquish most of their supposedly cherished freedoms.
But the state has other tricks up its sleeves in its never-ending quest for totalitarian control of society. And do not delude yourself: All states aspire to become totalitarian by nature – it’s only a matter of time.
Wars are very expensive; they generate antiwar movements, fierce political opposition, and sometimes assassinations. And they can go very, very badly. As both Napoleon and Hitler learned when they foolishly invaded Russia.
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Other kinds of less risky (to the state) “emergencies” will often suffice as totalitarianism’s propaganda/brainwashing strategies. As the world has learned in the past year, a “public health emergency” (or the perception of a fabricated and phony one) can do the job just fine without the messiness and expenses of war. The reasons for this can be understood by reading the following passages from Randolph Bourne’s famous essay where I have substituted the words “pandemic” or “public health” (in brackets) for the word “war”:
“The republican state has almost no trappings to appeal to the common man’s emotions . . . . The moment a [pandemic] is declared, however, the mass of the people . . . with the exception of a few malcontents, proceed to allow themselves to be regimented, coerced, deranged in all the environments of their lives . . . . The citizen throws off his contempt and indifference to government, identifies himself with its purposes . . . and the state once more walks . . .”
Every single word of this is a perfectly accurate description of how Americans have behaved ever since the “public health” bureaucrats declared a pandemic. It was shocking how immediate millions of people so immediately agreed to be regimented, coerced, and deranged in all aspects of their lives. Of course, the fact that all of the dictates by the local government mini-Mussolinies were enforced by armed police also helped to “convince” Boobus Americanus that he must genuflect to the state.
Bourne continues:
“[Public health] is the health of the state. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government coercing into obedience the [numerical] minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense. The machinery of government sets and enforces the drastic penalties; the minorities are either intimidated into silence . . . . Minorities are rendered sullen . . .”
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Those Americans who “lack the herd sense” regarding the Hitlerian dictates of Anthony Fauci and his ilk have been fired from their jobs, canceled from Facebook, Twitter, etc., and generally demonized as enemies of human civilization. “Minorities” have been literally silenced by the “Tech giants” with no “persuasion” at all involved. Well-known drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine that could have saved untold numbers of lives were effectively banned, and the common sense approach of boosting one’s immunity with vitamins D and C and zinc (and a half hour of vitamin D-generating sunshine a day) were either ignored or denounced as snake oil by the state, the television networks, the laughingly-called “media” in general, and many others who have prostituted themselves to the pharmaceutical industry.
Once the “public health” bureaucracy declared a pandemic, millions of Americans instantly turned into mental infants, eager for the D.C. bureaucracy to become their real mommies and daddies and protect them from the big bad coronavirus wolf. As Bourne explained:
“There is . . . in the feeling toward the state a large element of pure filial mysticism. The sense of insecurity, the desire for protection, sends ones desire back to father and mother . . . . It is not for nothing that one’s state is still thought of as Father or Motherland. The [pandemic] has shown that nowhere under the shock of danger have these primitive childlike attitudes failed to assert themselves . . .”
Anthony Fauci, who went to medical school sixty years ago; never actually practiced medicine himself; who has been a tenured federal bureaucrat for more than half a century; and who parades around in public wearing two masks despite having been vaccinated, became every American’s all-knowing, protective “father.” His Stepford wife-ish, half-body scarf-wearing sidekick, Dr. Deborah Birx, became everyone’s stand-in for “mother.” Every state and local government in America did exactly what these two bureaucratic weasels demanded that they do. “Listen to Dr. Fauci,” Joe Biden has repeatedly demanded. Anyone asking for a second opinion was either ignored or smeared as an enemy of society. There are myriad stories of doctors who did offer second opinions who were fired or punished in other ways. (For giving a speech in which she argued that the CDC death count numbers were not reliable since they conflated death with COVID and death from COVID, a physician friend of yours truly was banned from referring her patients to the hospital she had been associated with. Today, the CDC admits that only 6 percent of the half million or so “COVID” deaths in the U.S. can be legitimately called death from COVID).
As with war, the state attempts to crush all dissent when it comes to its “public health” emergencies. As Bourne further wrote:https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51J33ej8KTL.jpghttps://www.lewrockwell.com/wp-conte...y-from-tan.gif
“[D]issent is like sand in the bearings. Any difference with ‘unity’ turns the whole vast impulse toward crushing it . . . . the herd becomes divided into the hunters and the hunted, and the [pandemic] becomes not only a technical game but a sport as well.”
Ah, “unity,” the new mating call of the Party of Biden. Dissent from Unity’s Official Truth, and you will in fact be hunted down, possibly lose your job, or have your life destroyed.
Now, for any readers who still believe the government lie that “we are the government” and, therefore, the government would never manipulate us in these ways, I recommend another online essay, this one by economic historian Robert Higgs entitled “The Song that is irresistible.” In that essay Higgs states the truism that:
“States, by their very nature, are perpetually at war – not always against foreign foes, of course, but always against their own subjects. The state’s most fundamental purpose, the activity without which it cannot exist, is robbery . . . which it pretties up ideologically by giving it a different name (taxation) and by striving to sanctify its intrinsic crime as permissible and socially necessary” (emphasis added).
Or as yours truly has written on numerous occasions: The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not.
The state also “sanctifies” mass murder, by the way, thinly disguised by calling it “war” and by enlisting legions of intellectual prostitutes to dream up myriad excuses and rationales for its mass murdering sprees. Mainstream “Lincoln scholarship” would be the most egregious example of this kind of intellectual whoremongering (and warmongering).
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Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. His latest book is The Problem with Lincoln.
One of the most remarkable articles written about the growth of government during the twentieth-century is “War is the Health of the State” by Randolph Bourne.
Published in 1918, Bourne’s essay explained how it is human nature to mostly ignore the state because the state during peacetime has “almost no trappings to appeal to the common man’s emotions.” War, however, is the all-purpose tool of the state to stir up the public’s emotions in a way that motivates it to hand over to the state virtually unlimited powers, abandoning all constitutional constraints – and to subsequently relinquish most of their supposedly cherished freedoms.
But the state has other tricks up its sleeves in its never-ending quest for totalitarian control of society. And do not delude yourself: All states aspire to become totalitarian by nature – it’s only a matter of time.
Wars are very expensive; they generate antiwar movements, fierce political opposition, and sometimes assassinations. And they can go very, very badly. As both Napoleon and Hitler learned when they foolishly invaded Russia.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41KqQHK5+vL.jpghttps://www.lewrockwell.com/wp-conte...y-from-tan.gif
Other kinds of less risky (to the state) “emergencies” will often suffice as totalitarianism’s propaganda/brainwashing strategies. As the world has learned in the past year, a “public health emergency” (or the perception of a fabricated and phony one) can do the job just fine without the messiness and expenses of war. The reasons for this can be understood by reading the following passages from Randolph Bourne’s famous essay where I have substituted the words “pandemic” or “public health” (in brackets) for the word “war”:
“The republican state has almost no trappings to appeal to the common man’s emotions . . . . The moment a [pandemic] is declared, however, the mass of the people . . . with the exception of a few malcontents, proceed to allow themselves to be regimented, coerced, deranged in all the environments of their lives . . . . The citizen throws off his contempt and indifference to government, identifies himself with its purposes . . . and the state once more walks . . .”
Every single word of this is a perfectly accurate description of how Americans have behaved ever since the “public health” bureaucrats declared a pandemic. It was shocking how immediate millions of people so immediately agreed to be regimented, coerced, and deranged in all aspects of their lives. Of course, the fact that all of the dictates by the local government mini-Mussolinies were enforced by armed police also helped to “convince” Boobus Americanus that he must genuflect to the state.
Bourne continues:
“[Public health] is the health of the state. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistible forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the government coercing into obedience the [numerical] minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense. The machinery of government sets and enforces the drastic penalties; the minorities are either intimidated into silence . . . . Minorities are rendered sullen . . .”
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Those Americans who “lack the herd sense” regarding the Hitlerian dictates of Anthony Fauci and his ilk have been fired from their jobs, canceled from Facebook, Twitter, etc., and generally demonized as enemies of human civilization. “Minorities” have been literally silenced by the “Tech giants” with no “persuasion” at all involved. Well-known drugs like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine that could have saved untold numbers of lives were effectively banned, and the common sense approach of boosting one’s immunity with vitamins D and C and zinc (and a half hour of vitamin D-generating sunshine a day) were either ignored or denounced as snake oil by the state, the television networks, the laughingly-called “media” in general, and many others who have prostituted themselves to the pharmaceutical industry.
Once the “public health” bureaucracy declared a pandemic, millions of Americans instantly turned into mental infants, eager for the D.C. bureaucracy to become their real mommies and daddies and protect them from the big bad coronavirus wolf. As Bourne explained:
“There is . . . in the feeling toward the state a large element of pure filial mysticism. The sense of insecurity, the desire for protection, sends ones desire back to father and mother . . . . It is not for nothing that one’s state is still thought of as Father or Motherland. The [pandemic] has shown that nowhere under the shock of danger have these primitive childlike attitudes failed to assert themselves . . .”
Anthony Fauci, who went to medical school sixty years ago; never actually practiced medicine himself; who has been a tenured federal bureaucrat for more than half a century; and who parades around in public wearing two masks despite having been vaccinated, became every American’s all-knowing, protective “father.” His Stepford wife-ish, half-body scarf-wearing sidekick, Dr. Deborah Birx, became everyone’s stand-in for “mother.” Every state and local government in America did exactly what these two bureaucratic weasels demanded that they do. “Listen to Dr. Fauci,” Joe Biden has repeatedly demanded. Anyone asking for a second opinion was either ignored or smeared as an enemy of society. There are myriad stories of doctors who did offer second opinions who were fired or punished in other ways. (For giving a speech in which she argued that the CDC death count numbers were not reliable since they conflated death with COVID and death from COVID, a physician friend of yours truly was banned from referring her patients to the hospital she had been associated with. Today, the CDC admits that only 6 percent of the half million or so “COVID” deaths in the U.S. can be legitimately called death from COVID).
As with war, the state attempts to crush all dissent when it comes to its “public health” emergencies. As Bourne further wrote:https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51J33ej8KTL.jpghttps://www.lewrockwell.com/wp-conte...y-from-tan.gif
“[D]issent is like sand in the bearings. Any difference with ‘unity’ turns the whole vast impulse toward crushing it . . . . the herd becomes divided into the hunters and the hunted, and the [pandemic] becomes not only a technical game but a sport as well.”
Ah, “unity,” the new mating call of the Party of Biden. Dissent from Unity’s Official Truth, and you will in fact be hunted down, possibly lose your job, or have your life destroyed.
Now, for any readers who still believe the government lie that “we are the government” and, therefore, the government would never manipulate us in these ways, I recommend another online essay, this one by economic historian Robert Higgs entitled “The Song that is irresistible.” In that essay Higgs states the truism that:
“States, by their very nature, are perpetually at war – not always against foreign foes, of course, but always against their own subjects. The state’s most fundamental purpose, the activity without which it cannot exist, is robbery . . . which it pretties up ideologically by giving it a different name (taxation) and by striving to sanctify its intrinsic crime as permissible and socially necessary” (emphasis added).
Or as yours truly has written on numerous occasions: The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not.
The state also “sanctifies” mass murder, by the way, thinly disguised by calling it “war” and by enlisting legions of intellectual prostitutes to dream up myriad excuses and rationales for its mass murdering sprees. Mainstream “Lincoln scholarship” would be the most egregious example of this kind of intellectual whoremongering (and warmongering).
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Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. His latest book is The Problem with Lincoln.
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April 14, 2021
Russia Prepares For “Doomsday Sanctions” After Putin Phone Call With Biden—Then US Navy Blinks First
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
An interesting new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting that both Russia and China this past week have had to warn Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden that he’s “playing with fire” due to his actions against both Crimea and Taiwan, says the dangerous insanity being displayed by the United States that’s pushing the world ever closer to war by the hour has now been further added to—insanity on full display when it was announced yesterday that Biden was tearing up the peace agreement President Donald Trump signed with the Taliban to end America’s longest war in Afghanistan by removing all US troops by 1 May—and in true Orwellian “double think” (a process of indoctrination whereby a person is expected to simultaneously accept two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, often in contravention to one's own memories or sense of reality), it astonishingly saw Biden calling his decision to keep US troops in Afghanistan past 1 May a “withdrawal” he might do in an “orderly fashion” at a later date—and as expected, with the Taliban not knowing “double think”, as they have relied on the exact words written in the peace agreement, it was no surprise seeing them respond with the warning: “Until all foreign forces completely withdraw from our homeland, we will not participate in any conference that shall make decisions about Afghanistan”.
With the Taliban now controlling up to 54% of Afghanistan, and gaining more ground by the day, their resumption of offensive military operations in response to Biden’s betrayal will soon lead to more needless deaths of US-NATO troops in that war torn country—is occurring at the same time American troops are now redeploying from continental North America to join NATO in concentrating over 40,000 troops near the Russian border—and following Biden’s “double think” example, yesterday it saw NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg actually telling Russia to move its troops that have responded to the declaration of war against the Russian Federation signed by Ukraine on 24 March.
War events that were joined yesterday by President Putin accepting an unscheduled phone call from socialist leader Biden—that was "businesslike and of considerable duration”—a call wherein Biden didn’t even mention to President Putin anything about Alexei Navalny, who is the imprisoned convicted criminal Biden used as an excuse to slam Russian with unjust sanctions—then saw Biden warning President Putin about the Russian troop buildup near Ukraine—when this phone call ended saw the White House talking about an in person meeting planned between Biden and President Putin—though the truth about shows the Kremlin only agreeing to allow this issue to be discussed “through diplomatic channels”, and who stated: “It is premature yet to speak about any details of this meeting…This is a new proposal and it will be studied and analyzed”.
A process needing to be followed because White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced at a briefing on 13 April that the US in its relations with Russia sought predictability rather than trust—the sheer hypocrisy of which was quickly responded to by Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova firing back: “The key point of what was said yesterday at the White House briefing was that they want Russia to become a predictable state that would carry out a predictable policy…Who do we hear that from?...Over the past 10 years, the United States has become the most unpredictable state”—a factual assessment about the unpredictability of the United States that was then joined by the China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) releasing their damning report exposing the long, grim death toll from America’s 201 military conflicts since 1945 that reveals the world’s real bad guy, which states: “US conflicts have often caused total destruction of countries and claimed millions of civilian lives…Among 248 armed conflicts from 1945 to the present day, America had initiated 201 of them (81%)”.
In visiting the front lines yesterday, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu revealed that his forces buildup is “in response to the military activity of the alliance that threatens Russia”, and then stated about his forces: “The troops have shown full readiness and ability to fulfill the tasks of ensuring the country’s military security”—after which Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov officially declared the United States to be an enemy of and threat to the Russian Federation, with his stating: “The United States is our adversary and does everything it can to undermine Russia's position on the world stage...We do not see any other elements in their approach...Those are our conclusions”—that was followed by Russia warning US warships to stay well away from Crimea "for their own good”.
An unmistakable warming to socialist leader Biden that Russia fully intends to destroy any and all US warships entering the Black Sea to threaten Russia—and if happens, would see the United States slamming Russia with “doomsday sanctions” to cut it off from the world banking system—sees Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying that Russia can cope with a disconnection from the Western payment systems—who was joined by Chairman of the Association of Electronic Money and Money Transfer Market Participants Viktor Dostov stating: “If we are disconnected from Visa and MasterCard, then, under this scenario, roughly speaking, all payments within Russia go to the Mir card…This is a rather painful process, but within Russia it will be possible to adjust to this situation…It is clear that we will not be able to travel abroad with the Mir card, because, most likely, it will not be accepted there under the sanctions regime”.
In this international stare-down where Russia stated its intention to destroy US warships and accept whatever consequences such a catastrophe might bring, the US Navy appears to have come to its senses and blinked first—and came a few hours ago when the Pentagon denied that its two warships are headed for the Black Sea and claimed that Russia is using false reports to justify military deployments on the border with Ukraine—a claim of Russia using “false reports” about US warships entering the Black Sea that’s provably false, as it was America’s own NATO ally Turkey that issued a Montreux Convention notification to Russia that the US Navy planned to sail two warships into the Black Sea on 15 April—but to notice are Biden lies the American people will never be told about by their leftist corporate propaganda media—and as further confirmed by the shocking secret video just released showing a CNN executive admitting that his news network used propaganda to destroy President Trump and keep the truth about Biden hidden. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
April 14, 2021 EU and US all rights reserved. Permission to use this report in its entirety is granted under the condition it is linked to its original source at WhatDoesItMean.Com. Freebase content licensed under CC-BY and GFDL.
[Note: Many governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagree with in believing that it is every human being’s right to know the truth. Due to our mission’s conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit us, and others like us, that is exampled in numerous places, including HERE.]
[Note: The WhatDoesItMean.com website was created for and donated to the Sisters of Sorcha Faal in 2003 by a small group of American computer experts led by the late global technology guru Wayne Green (1922-2013) to counter the propaganda being used by the West to promote their illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq.]
[Note: The word Kremlin (fortress inside a city) as used in this report refers to Russian citadels, including in Moscow, having cathedrals wherein female Schema monks (Orthodox nuns) reside, many of whom are devoted to the mission of the Sisters of Sorcha Faal.]
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Russia Prepares For “Doomsday Sanctions” After Putin Phone Call With Biden—Then US Navy Blinks First
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
An interesting new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting that both Russia and China this past week have had to warn Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden that he’s “playing with fire” due to his actions against both Crimea and Taiwan, says the dangerous insanity being displayed by the United States that’s pushing the world ever closer to war by the hour has now been further added to—insanity on full display when it was announced yesterday that Biden was tearing up the peace agreement President Donald Trump signed with the Taliban to end America’s longest war in Afghanistan by removing all US troops by 1 May—and in true Orwellian “double think” (a process of indoctrination whereby a person is expected to simultaneously accept two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, often in contravention to one's own memories or sense of reality), it astonishingly saw Biden calling his decision to keep US troops in Afghanistan past 1 May a “withdrawal” he might do in an “orderly fashion” at a later date—and as expected, with the Taliban not knowing “double think”, as they have relied on the exact words written in the peace agreement, it was no surprise seeing them respond with the warning: “Until all foreign forces completely withdraw from our homeland, we will not participate in any conference that shall make decisions about Afghanistan”.
With the Taliban now controlling up to 54% of Afghanistan, and gaining more ground by the day, their resumption of offensive military operations in response to Biden’s betrayal will soon lead to more needless deaths of US-NATO troops in that war torn country—is occurring at the same time American troops are now redeploying from continental North America to join NATO in concentrating over 40,000 troops near the Russian border—and following Biden’s “double think” example, yesterday it saw NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg actually telling Russia to move its troops that have responded to the declaration of war against the Russian Federation signed by Ukraine on 24 March.
War events that were joined yesterday by President Putin accepting an unscheduled phone call from socialist leader Biden—that was "businesslike and of considerable duration”—a call wherein Biden didn’t even mention to President Putin anything about Alexei Navalny, who is the imprisoned convicted criminal Biden used as an excuse to slam Russian with unjust sanctions—then saw Biden warning President Putin about the Russian troop buildup near Ukraine—when this phone call ended saw the White House talking about an in person meeting planned between Biden and President Putin—though the truth about shows the Kremlin only agreeing to allow this issue to be discussed “through diplomatic channels”, and who stated: “It is premature yet to speak about any details of this meeting…This is a new proposal and it will be studied and analyzed”.
A process needing to be followed because White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced at a briefing on 13 April that the US in its relations with Russia sought predictability rather than trust—the sheer hypocrisy of which was quickly responded to by Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova firing back: “The key point of what was said yesterday at the White House briefing was that they want Russia to become a predictable state that would carry out a predictable policy…Who do we hear that from?...Over the past 10 years, the United States has become the most unpredictable state”—a factual assessment about the unpredictability of the United States that was then joined by the China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) releasing their damning report exposing the long, grim death toll from America’s 201 military conflicts since 1945 that reveals the world’s real bad guy, which states: “US conflicts have often caused total destruction of countries and claimed millions of civilian lives…Among 248 armed conflicts from 1945 to the present day, America had initiated 201 of them (81%)”.
In visiting the front lines yesterday, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu revealed that his forces buildup is “in response to the military activity of the alliance that threatens Russia”, and then stated about his forces: “The troops have shown full readiness and ability to fulfill the tasks of ensuring the country’s military security”—after which Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov officially declared the United States to be an enemy of and threat to the Russian Federation, with his stating: “The United States is our adversary and does everything it can to undermine Russia's position on the world stage...We do not see any other elements in their approach...Those are our conclusions”—that was followed by Russia warning US warships to stay well away from Crimea "for their own good”.
An unmistakable warming to socialist leader Biden that Russia fully intends to destroy any and all US warships entering the Black Sea to threaten Russia—and if happens, would see the United States slamming Russia with “doomsday sanctions” to cut it off from the world banking system—sees Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying that Russia can cope with a disconnection from the Western payment systems—who was joined by Chairman of the Association of Electronic Money and Money Transfer Market Participants Viktor Dostov stating: “If we are disconnected from Visa and MasterCard, then, under this scenario, roughly speaking, all payments within Russia go to the Mir card…This is a rather painful process, but within Russia it will be possible to adjust to this situation…It is clear that we will not be able to travel abroad with the Mir card, because, most likely, it will not be accepted there under the sanctions regime”.
In this international stare-down where Russia stated its intention to destroy US warships and accept whatever consequences such a catastrophe might bring, the US Navy appears to have come to its senses and blinked first—and came a few hours ago when the Pentagon denied that its two warships are headed for the Black Sea and claimed that Russia is using false reports to justify military deployments on the border with Ukraine—a claim of Russia using “false reports” about US warships entering the Black Sea that’s provably false, as it was America’s own NATO ally Turkey that issued a Montreux Convention notification to Russia that the US Navy planned to sail two warships into the Black Sea on 15 April—but to notice are Biden lies the American people will never be told about by their leftist corporate propaganda media—and as further confirmed by the shocking secret video just released showing a CNN executive admitting that his news network used propaganda to destroy President Trump and keep the truth about Biden hidden. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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April 14, 2021 EU and US all rights reserved. Permission to use this report in its entirety is granted under the condition it is linked to its original source at WhatDoesItMean.Com. Freebase content licensed under CC-BY and GFDL.
[Note: Many governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagree with in believing that it is every human being’s right to know the truth. Due to our mission’s conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit us, and others like us, that is exampled in numerous places, including HERE.]
[Note: The WhatDoesItMean.com website was created for and donated to the Sisters of Sorcha Faal in 2003 by a small group of American computer experts led by the late global technology guru Wayne Green (1922-2013) to counter the propaganda being used by the West to promote their illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq.]
[Note: The word Kremlin (fortress inside a city) as used in this report refers to Russian citadels, including in Moscow, having cathedrals wherein female Schema monks (Orthodox nuns) reside, many of whom are devoted to the mission of the Sisters of Sorcha Faal.]
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As expected, the Democrats will introduce a bill to change the Supreme Court turning into the first WOKE institution to permanently change the face of the United States once and for all. Biden pretended to create a commission to study changing the Supreme Court and within a matter of days, they proposed stacking the Supreme Court adding four Justices to ensure the Court will be WOKE.
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The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, frequently called the “court-packing plan”, was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to obtain favorable rulings regarding the New Deal legislation. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) was trying to take the United States as close as possible to Communism thanks to the New York Times and their star journalist Walter Duranty (1884-1957) who convinced FDR to recognize the Communist government of Russia (see film Mr. Jones).
The New York Times journalist Walter Duranty on March 31, 1933, denounced reports of a famine. They were so pro-Communism for they saw Marxism as the way to a new future. It was Duranty who met with Roosevelt to convince him that Communism was working and to encourage his New Deal. The mainstream press in the 1930s was very much touting Communism as the solution to the Great Depression and once more that are all touting “equality” once more to alter the United States once and for all into the new European style socialist state.
On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt announced a plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. Critics instantly charged that Roosevelt was trying to “pack” the court and thus neutralize Supreme Court justices hostile to his New Deal. The Supreme Court over the first two years of the Roosevelt Administration had struck down several key pieces of New Deal legislation on the grounds that the laws delegated an unconstitutional amount of authority to the executive branch and the federal government.
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Roosevelt won in 1932 and his reelection in 1936 was a landslide, the highest win for the Democrats in American history post-Civil War when they were the Southern Democrats championing slavery. FDR issued his proposal in February 1937 to provide retirement at full pay for all members of the court over 70. If a justice refused to retire, an “assistant” with full voting rights was to be appointed, thus ensuring Roosevelt a liberal majority. Most Republicans and many Democrats in Congress opposed the so-called “court-packing” plan. The Constitution ensured that judges were there for life.
Article III Section 1
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
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Actually, it was Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) who argued for the right of re-election with respect to presidents. The people, he said, were the rulers of a republic. And presidents were the servants of the people. If the people wanted to elect the same president, again and again, they had the right to do this. However, when it came to appointing judges, Franklin argued for the Scottish legal system where lawyers appointed judges – not politicians. The notes are available from the framing of the Constitution. They are a great insight into the thinking process that created the United States.
James Wilson (1742–1798) who eventually became a Supreme Court Justice, argued in support of having one person appoint judges. He said experience showed that large bodies could not make appointments fairly or openly.
John Rutledge (1739–1800) who also became a Supreme Court justice, disagreed saying that by no means should the president appoint judges. He said that method looked too much like a monarchy. Interestingly, it was Benjamin Franklin who argued that in Scotland judges were appointed by lawyers. They always chose the very best lawyer to be a judge to remove the competition in their own self-interest.
The delegates voted on the issue. They agreed that the legislature would decide how many judges would sit on the Supreme Court. The president would appoint the judges. The legislature could establish lower courts from time to time. The president would appoint those judges as well. The Constitution, therefore, requires the president to submit nominations to the Senate for its advice and consent. Since the Supreme Court was established in 1789, presidents have submitted 164 nominations for the Court, including those for chief justice. Of this total, 127 were confirmed (7 declined to serve). While politicians continue to think if they appoint a justice they will always vote in their favor, as I have reported before, that has never been the case. It was Chief Justice Roberts, appointed by President Bush Jr., who upheld Obamacare as a tax and has refused to accept any case regarding the 2020 election.
In April 1937, before FDR’s bill came to a vote in Congress, two Supreme Court justices panicked and were intimidated switching sides to support FDR’s New Deal. They switched sides creating a narrow majority to uphold as constitutional the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act. The majority opinion acknowledged that the national economy had grown to such a degree that federal regulation and control was now warranted. That became the justification for socialism. Instead of simply requiring people to save a portion of their earnings, the government seized their funds and then invested them into government bonds. Roosevelt’s reorganization plan was thus unnecessary, and in July the Senate struck it down by a vote of 70 to 22. Soon after, Roosevelt had the opportunity to nominate his first Supreme Court justice, and by 1942 all but two of the justices were his appointees.
The Democrats are toying with changing the entire face of the nation. With Biden stacking the court, everything from the Second Amendment to Abortion and taxes will be altered forever. They will be hurling the United States ever closer and closer to Revolution. Ah – how history repeats for the LEFT always seek totalitarianism. Had we only listened to Ben Franklin. Categories: Rule of Law
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As expected, the Democrats will introduce a bill to change the Supreme Court turning into the first WOKE institution to permanently change the face of the United States once and for all. Biden pretended to create a commission to study changing the Supreme Court and within a matter of days, they proposed stacking the Supreme Court adding four Justices to ensure the Court will be WOKE.
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The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, frequently called the “court-packing plan”, was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to obtain favorable rulings regarding the New Deal legislation. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) was trying to take the United States as close as possible to Communism thanks to the New York Times and their star journalist Walter Duranty (1884-1957) who convinced FDR to recognize the Communist government of Russia (see film Mr. Jones).
The New York Times journalist Walter Duranty on March 31, 1933, denounced reports of a famine. They were so pro-Communism for they saw Marxism as the way to a new future. It was Duranty who met with Roosevelt to convince him that Communism was working and to encourage his New Deal. The mainstream press in the 1930s was very much touting Communism as the solution to the Great Depression and once more that are all touting “equality” once more to alter the United States once and for all into the new European style socialist state.
On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt announced a plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. Critics instantly charged that Roosevelt was trying to “pack” the court and thus neutralize Supreme Court justices hostile to his New Deal. The Supreme Court over the first two years of the Roosevelt Administration had struck down several key pieces of New Deal legislation on the grounds that the laws delegated an unconstitutional amount of authority to the executive branch and the federal government.
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Roosevelt won in 1932 and his reelection in 1936 was a landslide, the highest win for the Democrats in American history post-Civil War when they were the Southern Democrats championing slavery. FDR issued his proposal in February 1937 to provide retirement at full pay for all members of the court over 70. If a justice refused to retire, an “assistant” with full voting rights was to be appointed, thus ensuring Roosevelt a liberal majority. Most Republicans and many Democrats in Congress opposed the so-called “court-packing” plan. The Constitution ensured that judges were there for life.
Article III Section 1
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/w...franklin-2.jpg
Actually, it was Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) who argued for the right of re-election with respect to presidents. The people, he said, were the rulers of a republic. And presidents were the servants of the people. If the people wanted to elect the same president, again and again, they had the right to do this. However, when it came to appointing judges, Franklin argued for the Scottish legal system where lawyers appointed judges – not politicians. The notes are available from the framing of the Constitution. They are a great insight into the thinking process that created the United States.
James Wilson (1742–1798) who eventually became a Supreme Court Justice, argued in support of having one person appoint judges. He said experience showed that large bodies could not make appointments fairly or openly.
John Rutledge (1739–1800) who also became a Supreme Court justice, disagreed saying that by no means should the president appoint judges. He said that method looked too much like a monarchy. Interestingly, it was Benjamin Franklin who argued that in Scotland judges were appointed by lawyers. They always chose the very best lawyer to be a judge to remove the competition in their own self-interest.
The delegates voted on the issue. They agreed that the legislature would decide how many judges would sit on the Supreme Court. The president would appoint the judges. The legislature could establish lower courts from time to time. The president would appoint those judges as well. The Constitution, therefore, requires the president to submit nominations to the Senate for its advice and consent. Since the Supreme Court was established in 1789, presidents have submitted 164 nominations for the Court, including those for chief justice. Of this total, 127 were confirmed (7 declined to serve). While politicians continue to think if they appoint a justice they will always vote in their favor, as I have reported before, that has never been the case. It was Chief Justice Roberts, appointed by President Bush Jr., who upheld Obamacare as a tax and has refused to accept any case regarding the 2020 election.
In April 1937, before FDR’s bill came to a vote in Congress, two Supreme Court justices panicked and were intimidated switching sides to support FDR’s New Deal. They switched sides creating a narrow majority to uphold as constitutional the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act. The majority opinion acknowledged that the national economy had grown to such a degree that federal regulation and control was now warranted. That became the justification for socialism. Instead of simply requiring people to save a portion of their earnings, the government seized their funds and then invested them into government bonds. Roosevelt’s reorganization plan was thus unnecessary, and in July the Senate struck it down by a vote of 70 to 22. Soon after, Roosevelt had the opportunity to nominate his first Supreme Court justice, and by 1942 all but two of the justices were his appointees.
The Democrats are toying with changing the entire face of the nation. With Biden stacking the court, everything from the Second Amendment to Abortion and taxes will be altered forever. They will be hurling the United States ever closer and closer to Revolution. Ah – how history repeats for the LEFT always seek totalitarianism. Had we only listened to Ben Franklin. Categories: Rule of Law
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The unique symptoms emanating from COVID-19, unlike any other coronavirus, speaks legions for this virus as a man-made weapon, or is it just a coronavirus pandemic made worse by modern medicines reluctance to adopt nutritional medicine?
Here are the news headlines:
Coronavirus blood-clot mystery intensifies – Nature Magazine
COVID might be linked to more blood clots than we thought. – Popular Science
Clots, Strokes And Rashes. Is COVID-19 A Disease Of The Blood Vessels? – National Public Radio
How Could The Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Cause Blood Clots? – Los Angeles Times
Calling reported blood clots among hospitalized COVID-19 patients “a mystery,” an anxiety-raising report in Nature Magazine says blood clots arise in 20-30% of critically ill COVID-19 patients, blood thinners don’t reliably prevent these clots, and many hospitalized patients exhibit elevated levels of a protein fragment called D-dimer produced when clots dissolve, which is a “powerful predictor of mortality.”
Blood coagulation (clotting) in patients with COVID-19 is significantly deranged compared with healthy people, states a March 2020 report published in Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine. So modern medicine was aware of this problem over a year ago but it is only now gaining attention.
Hematologists have issued bulletins sounding the alarm over “severe abnormal blood clotting, leading to many micro-clots within the lungs” of COVID-19 patients. The alarm was issued when a report published in the British Journal of Haematology involving 83 patients, with 13 deaths, confirmed the problem.
A puzzling part of this problem is that blood platelet counts were normal. Increased fragments of clots (D-dimer) were observed only among patients admitted to the intensive care unit. Placing patients on heparin blood thinner prophylactically sometimes prevents the problem. But to add to the confusion, heparin did not significantly reduce D-dimer levels.
Antiplatelet and anticoagulant (blood thinning) drugs administered pre-admission to hospital do not seem to protect.
Another unnerving report published in E Clinical Medicine notes that 31% of COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit have blood clots in their veins, but also 20% of non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients also were found to have venous clots.
By comparison, doctors observe arterial blood clots among patients with the flu are extremely rare. Blood clotting can occur among patients with the flu, but only in veins. For patients with COVID-19, blood clots can appear in either veins or arteries.
But maybe these cases of unexplained blood clotting that arise spontaneously are actually what is called pseudo-thrombotic microangiopathy, a recognized disorder that emanates from a vitamin B12 deficiency (often misdiagnosed as thrombotic thrombocytopenia purpura). Purpura refers to purplish bruises on the skin or in the mouth.
Sally M. Pacholok RN, BSN and emergency room nurse, and author of , says a B12 deficiency “may unknowingly increase the death rate of this pandemic, especially in older adults.”
She says the consequences can be fatal. A shortage of B12 may hamper the ability to produce antibodies. She says 1 in 6 Americans are deficient.
COVID-19 And Homocysteine
One hypothesis is that COVID-19 coronavirus interferes with vitamin B12 metabolism which results in high levels of an undesirable blood protein called homocysteine.
A consequence of B12 deficiency is elevation of homocysteine, an undesirable blood protein that causes inflammation. Elevated homocysteine is associated with progression of lung disease among COVID-19 patients.
A B9 deficiency (folate, folic acid) may mask a B12 deficiency. A deficiency of B9 also raises homocysteine levels.
Other Ways B12 Inhibits COVID-19
Vitamin B12 is needed to inhibit polymerase, the enzyme that facilitates replication of the COVID-19 virus, which can reduce the severity of the infection.
Unreliable B12 Tests
Normal blood levels of vitamin B12 does not mean there is no vitamin B12 deficiency. So-called normal B12 blood levels are simply what is the “normal range” for the masses. But normal means normally occurring range, not healthy range. Many people with a normal blood level of B12 report improvements in sleep, fatigue, and disappearance of other symptoms with B12 supplementation.
B12 deficiency symptoms
B12 deficiency symptoms look like a list of COVID-19 symptoms: extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, rapid heart rate, numbness, tingling, or burning in either the hands, legs, or feet, and developing ulcers or sores in the mouth. Add short-term memory loss, sore tongue, backache, cough.
Harvard Health Letter describes symptoms of B12 deficiency:
The Covid Propaganda Continues, Even in the Face of Vaccination Murder
The unique symptoms emanating from COVID-19, unlike any other coronavirus, speaks legions for this virus as a man-made weapon, or is it just a coronavirus pandemic made worse by modern medicines reluctance to adopt nutritional medicine?
Here are the news headlines:
Coronavirus blood-clot mystery intensifies – Nature Magazine
COVID might be linked to more blood clots than we thought. – Popular Science
Clots, Strokes And Rashes. Is COVID-19 A Disease Of The Blood Vessels? – National Public Radio
How Could The Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Cause Blood Clots? – Los Angeles Times
Calling reported blood clots among hospitalized COVID-19 patients “a mystery,” an anxiety-raising report in Nature Magazine says blood clots arise in 20-30% of critically ill COVID-19 patients, blood thinners don’t reliably prevent these clots, and many hospitalized patients exhibit elevated levels of a protein fragment called D-dimer produced when clots dissolve, which is a “powerful predictor of mortality.”
Blood coagulation (clotting) in patients with COVID-19 is significantly deranged compared with healthy people, states a March 2020 report published in Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine. So modern medicine was aware of this problem over a year ago but it is only now gaining attention.
Hematologists have issued bulletins sounding the alarm over “severe abnormal blood clotting, leading to many micro-clots within the lungs” of COVID-19 patients. The alarm was issued when a report published in the British Journal of Haematology involving 83 patients, with 13 deaths, confirmed the problem.
A puzzling part of this problem is that blood platelet counts were normal. Increased fragments of clots (D-dimer) were observed only among patients admitted to the intensive care unit. Placing patients on heparin blood thinner prophylactically sometimes prevents the problem. But to add to the confusion, heparin did not significantly reduce D-dimer levels.
Antiplatelet and anticoagulant (blood thinning) drugs administered pre-admission to hospital do not seem to protect.
Another unnerving report published in E Clinical Medicine notes that 31% of COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit have blood clots in their veins, but also 20% of non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients also were found to have venous clots.
By comparison, doctors observe arterial blood clots among patients with the flu are extremely rare. Blood clotting can occur among patients with the flu, but only in veins. For patients with COVID-19, blood clots can appear in either veins or arteries.
But maybe these cases of unexplained blood clotting that arise spontaneously are actually what is called pseudo-thrombotic microangiopathy, a recognized disorder that emanates from a vitamin B12 deficiency (often misdiagnosed as thrombotic thrombocytopenia purpura). Purpura refers to purplish bruises on the skin or in the mouth.
Sally M. Pacholok RN, BSN and emergency room nurse, and author of , says a B12 deficiency “may unknowingly increase the death rate of this pandemic, especially in older adults.”
She says the consequences can be fatal. A shortage of B12 may hamper the ability to produce antibodies. She says 1 in 6 Americans are deficient.
COVID-19 And Homocysteine
One hypothesis is that COVID-19 coronavirus interferes with vitamin B12 metabolism which results in high levels of an undesirable blood protein called homocysteine.
A consequence of B12 deficiency is elevation of homocysteine, an undesirable blood protein that causes inflammation. Elevated homocysteine is associated with progression of lung disease among COVID-19 patients.
A B9 deficiency (folate, folic acid) may mask a B12 deficiency. A deficiency of B9 also raises homocysteine levels.
Other Ways B12 Inhibits COVID-19
Vitamin B12 is needed to inhibit polymerase, the enzyme that facilitates replication of the COVID-19 virus, which can reduce the severity of the infection.
Unreliable B12 Tests
Normal blood levels of vitamin B12 does not mean there is no vitamin B12 deficiency. So-called normal B12 blood levels are simply what is the “normal range” for the masses. But normal means normally occurring range, not healthy range. Many people with a normal blood level of B12 report improvements in sleep, fatigue, and disappearance of other symptoms with B12 supplementation.
B12 deficiency symptoms
B12 deficiency symptoms look like a list of COVID-19 symptoms: extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, rapid heart rate, numbness, tingling, or burning in either the hands, legs, or feet, and developing ulcers or sores in the mouth. Add short-term memory loss, sore tongue, backache, cough.
Harvard Health Letter describes symptoms of B12 deficiency:
- strange sensations, numbness, or tingling in the hands, legs, or feet
- difficulty walking (staggering, balance problems)
- anemia
- a swollen, inflamed tongue
- difficulty thinking and reasoning (cognitive difficulties), or memory loss
- weakness
- fatigue
B12 And Fatigue
Severe fatigue is a very prevalent symptom of COVID-19 infection that is independent of the severity of infection. Vitamin B12 deficiency results in unremitting fatigue. More than half of surveyed COVID-19 patients report persistent and incapacitating fatigue long after they recovered from their infection.
B12/Inflammation/Diabetes
Vitamin B12 reduces inflammation, reduces breathing difficulty, gastrointestinal problems, prevents blood clotting in the hospital for COVID-19 patients.
A report entitled: COVID-19’s Toll On The Elderly And Those With Diabetes Mellitus – Is Vitamin B12 Deficiency An Accomplice? published in Medical Hypotheses in January of 2021, is shocking.
Metformin, the most commonly-prescribed anti-diabetic drug, depletes vitamin B12. Even healthy non-diabetic patients experience increase immunity with B12 supplementation.
The fatality rate for COVID-19-infected patients varies widely, from 0.07% to 9.6%.
Malnutrition may explain these wide variances in death rates. B12 shortages are more common among diabetics – up to 43% in one study.
It was well known, long before the COVID-19 pandemic, that a vitamin B12 deficiency may lead to pseudo-thrombotic microangiopathy (clots in small blood vessels). Cases of thrombosis (clotting) are resolved with B12 supplementation.
A B12 shortage can impair the ability of the body to produce red blood cells in bone marrow and result in shortness of breath and anemia with severe symptoms of fatigue.
B12 Supplements
Surprisingly, a recent report indicates that methylcobalamin B12csupplements have the potential to reduce COVID-19-related organ damage and symptoms.
Another report reveals 500 micrograms of B12 combined with 1000 units of vitamin D and 150 milligrams of magnesium reduced the need for oxygen therapy in the intensive care unit.
The methylcobalamin form of B12 is preferred. Cyanocobalamin (with a cyanide component) is sold in retail stores.
Sublingual (under the tongue) B12 is the most efficient way to take oral B12 due to the fact stomach acid needed to absorb B12 is lacking.
Other Dietary supplements
The relationship between immunity and nutrition is well known and its role in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is also being given great attention.
A report published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases reveals vitamin and mineral levels of hospitalized COVID-19 patients: 76% of the patients were vitamin D deficient and 42% were selenium deficient. Among patients with respiratory distress, 11 (91.7%) were deficient in at least one nutrient. Selenium facilitates the availability of zinc that is required to produce T-cells and also halts viral mutations.
While supplemental nutrients are suggested to protect against viral infection, recommended doses are almost useless in dealing with fast replicating and mutating viruses like COVID-19.
Resveratrol
A natural molecule that deserves special attention is the herbal extract resveratrol, a red wine molecule known for its anti-clotting properties. A recent report says: “By virtue of its anti-thrombotic and anti-inflammatory properties, resveratrol would be expected to lower COVID-19-associated mortality, which is well known to be increased by thrombosis and inflammation.”
Steep Price To Pay
One study reveals 52.7% of COVID-19 patients are malnourished. This is a massive oversight of modern medicine.
COVID-19 patients are paying a steep price for modern medicine’s despisal and disdain for vitamin therapy. After decades of casting a blind eye at vitamin therapy, can vitamin therapy be ignored any longer?
Vaccine makers have reportedly signed a pledge to ensure safety and effectiveness of their shots before seeking government approval “to roll them out on a mass scale,” a report in The Wall Street Journal claims. Yet these experimental vaccines have already been rolled out to millions of people and the current studies aren’t even testing for safety or efficacy.
Afterthought
A troubling thought is that the other seven varieties of coronaviruses do not produce these deadly symptoms. Coronavirus are known as common cold viruses
It was reported in 2015 there were “gain of function” experiments conducted under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health. Those experiments increased the virility and transmission of the man-made mutated virus. The conclusion of that study said: “we synthetically re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo. Our work suggests a potential risk of SARS-CoV re-emergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations.”
The FDA closed down the laboratory where those experiments where being performed. The NIH then jobbed out these “gain of function” experiments to a laboratory in Wuhan in China.
These experiments weaponized a coronavirus found in fruit bats. This suggests a diabolical agenda.
It appears for the want of a B vitamin, thousands of lives are being lost.
Copyright Bill Sardi, writing from La Verne, California. This article has been written exclusively for www.LewRockwell.com and other parties who wish to refer to it should link rather than post at other URLs.
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Russian “Honey Trap” Captures Ukraine Diplomat Receiving “Top Secret” Joe Biden Pee Tape
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
An informative new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Putin discussing with Security Council Members responses to the worthless sanctions slammed on Russia by Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden, says most important to notice about his “Executive Order on Blocking Property with Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation” national emergency declaration comically accusing the Russian Federation of “malicious cyber-enabled activities” in regards to the so-called “worst nightmare” hacking of SolarWinds, is that it immediately made more than 100 special provisions available to Biden—one of which his US Department of Justice quickly used to allow the FBI to infiltrate hundreds of American computer systems said affected by an exploit of Microsoft Exchange email servers so they can supposedly delete malicious software—and while doing will allow the FBI to read the private emails belonging to tens-of-millions of unsuspecting Americans.
An unprecedented spying operation against the American people by their socialist police state overlords coming at the same time White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Biden is “proud” of UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield after she trashed the United States at the United Nations calling America’s founding documents and principles racist—that was followed by socialist leader Kamala Harris spending more than a full minute yesterday trashing the United States as a violent place as Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga stood next to her waiting to be introduced—and beyond all belief, then saw Biden calling the winner of the Master’s Golf Tournament a “Japanese Boy” during his press conference with Japan’s Prime Minister Suga—after which then saw top President Putin aide Yuri Ushakov strongly suggesting that US Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan immediately go back to his capital city Washington D.C. for thorough and serious consultations.
In response to Biden’s socialist insanities Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov assessed: “Sectoral sanctions were imposed on Russia’s sovereign debt and the handling of this debt…For some clear reasons we have no comparable leverage to influence the United States on such a scale, although our specialists believe our economy is capable of enduring it…I believe this will be so…We managed to find a way out of any situations in the past and we will find it again”—an assessment then followed by Finance Minister Anton Siluanov reporting: “The rhetoric of sanctions has been in place for several years already, and we know how to act amid various restrictions…This applies to restrictions imposed on various sectors of the economy…This applies to the financial market sector, too…We faced restrictions imposed on external debt and dollar loans before...Today we saw the market’s reaction...It was quite calm…Initially, we could see certain volatility on the market of securities, which was reflected in the ruble-dollar rate, and in the ruble’s rate against other currencies...At the same time, we can see now that the situation is back to normal, and the volatility observed in the first hours that followed the announcement has been reduced to minimum as of now...Market positions have returned to levels that preceded the announcement of sanctions”.
Added to this assessment Foreign Minister Lavrov officially informed the United States: “Ten diplomats were on a list the US side handed over to us asking to ensure their leaving the United States…We will give a tit-for-tat response to that…We will also ask ten US diplomats to leave our country”—an expulsion from Russia of these ten American diplomats that was joined by the Foreign Ministry announcing: “In response to the sanctions imposed by the US administration against Russian officials, the following incumbent and former US high-ranking officials and figures, who have been involved in implementing the anti-Russian policy, are denied entry into the Russian Federation…Russia has barred entry for US Attorney General Merrick Garland and Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Christopher Wray…Among the others are Director of the US Federal Bureau of Prisons Michael Carvajal; US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas; former National Security Advisor and US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan Rice; and Director of US National Intelligence Avril Haines…Entry is also barred for John Bolton, former US National Security Adviser and Permanent Representative to the UN, and to Robert Woolsey, the former CIA director”.
Swiftly slamming Biden and his socialist warmongers for attacking Russia it saw Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian stating: “To wantonly resort to unilateral sanctions or the threat of sanctions in international relations constitute power politics and hegemonic bullying…Such behavior is being rejected more and more by the international community”—a sentiment agreed with by a high-ranking official with the European Union External Action Service (EEAS), who stated: “EU foreign ministers will not approve sanctions against Russia during a video conference on 19 April, the EU does not plan any new restrictions so far”.
This transcript then shows Security Council Members examining a highly-classified “Of Special Importance” document prepared by the Federal Security Service (FSB)—the very limited portions of which permitted to be openly discussed among various ministries is the very definition of a “Honey Trapping” counterintelligence spying operation—and sees this document revealing that a female FSB officer employed “bait-decoy” [Russian word: приманивать] tactics to entice a willing Ukrainian operative to purchase a classified ОВ [Russian word Особой важности] (equivalent to US classification “Top Secret”) video recording from the archive of the now defunct Committee for State Security (KGB) showing then US Senator Joe Biden urinating on a prostitute while in a state of drunkenness at a Moscow hotel when he visited the Soviet Union in 1979—and after examining this document, the Security Council authorized the FSB to issue a restricted press release, that says: “On 16 April, the Federal Security Service apprehended a Ukrainian diplomat…The consul of the Ukrainian General Consulate in St. Petersburg Alexander Sosonyuk was caught red-handed upon receiving classified data from the databases of Russian law-enforcement agencies and the FSB...This activity is incompatible with the status of this diplomatic employee and is of clearly hostile nature towards the Russian Federation”.
In knowing that the FSB was going to issue a restricted press release about this “Honey Trapping” operation, it caused the United States to issue an immediate cryptic warning stating: “Attention U.S. Citizens...The Embassy of the United States of America in Ukraine continues to monitor the situation with Russia in occupied Crimea, and along Ukraine’s borders, where security conditions may change with little or no notice”—a warning quickly followed by the Ukraine navy threatening to shoot FSB boats guarding the Kerch Strait—then saw an enraged and quickly going insane Ukraine threatening to build nuclear weapons if the West doesn’t immediately destroy President Putin and Russia—and in knowing what’s soon come, saw former US Congresswoman and Democrat Party presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard warning anyone left sane in America: “Are we prepared to see our loved ones burn alive in a nuclear holocaust in a war with Russia over Ukraine?...If not, cut out the macho saber rattling and deescalate before it's too late”. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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[Note: Many governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagree with in believing that it is every human being’s right to know the truth. Due to our mission’s conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit us, and others like us, that is exampled in numerous places, including HERE.]
[Note: The WhatDoesItMean.com website was created for and donated to the Sisters of Sorcha Faal in 2003 by a small group of American computer experts led by the late global technology guru Wayne Green (1922-2013) to counter the propaganda being used by the West to promote their illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq.]
[Note: The word Kremlin (fortress inside a city) as used in this report refers to Russian citadels, including in Moscow, having cathedrals wherein female Schema monks (Orthodox nuns) reside, many of whom are devoted to the mission of the Sisters of Sorcha Faal.]
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By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
An informative new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Putin discussing with Security Council Members responses to the worthless sanctions slammed on Russia by Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden, says most important to notice about his “Executive Order on Blocking Property with Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation” national emergency declaration comically accusing the Russian Federation of “malicious cyber-enabled activities” in regards to the so-called “worst nightmare” hacking of SolarWinds, is that it immediately made more than 100 special provisions available to Biden—one of which his US Department of Justice quickly used to allow the FBI to infiltrate hundreds of American computer systems said affected by an exploit of Microsoft Exchange email servers so they can supposedly delete malicious software—and while doing will allow the FBI to read the private emails belonging to tens-of-millions of unsuspecting Americans.
An unprecedented spying operation against the American people by their socialist police state overlords coming at the same time White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Biden is “proud” of UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield after she trashed the United States at the United Nations calling America’s founding documents and principles racist—that was followed by socialist leader Kamala Harris spending more than a full minute yesterday trashing the United States as a violent place as Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga stood next to her waiting to be introduced—and beyond all belief, then saw Biden calling the winner of the Master’s Golf Tournament a “Japanese Boy” during his press conference with Japan’s Prime Minister Suga—after which then saw top President Putin aide Yuri Ushakov strongly suggesting that US Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan immediately go back to his capital city Washington D.C. for thorough and serious consultations.
In response to Biden’s socialist insanities Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov assessed: “Sectoral sanctions were imposed on Russia’s sovereign debt and the handling of this debt…For some clear reasons we have no comparable leverage to influence the United States on such a scale, although our specialists believe our economy is capable of enduring it…I believe this will be so…We managed to find a way out of any situations in the past and we will find it again”—an assessment then followed by Finance Minister Anton Siluanov reporting: “The rhetoric of sanctions has been in place for several years already, and we know how to act amid various restrictions…This applies to restrictions imposed on various sectors of the economy…This applies to the financial market sector, too…We faced restrictions imposed on external debt and dollar loans before...Today we saw the market’s reaction...It was quite calm…Initially, we could see certain volatility on the market of securities, which was reflected in the ruble-dollar rate, and in the ruble’s rate against other currencies...At the same time, we can see now that the situation is back to normal, and the volatility observed in the first hours that followed the announcement has been reduced to minimum as of now...Market positions have returned to levels that preceded the announcement of sanctions”.
Added to this assessment Foreign Minister Lavrov officially informed the United States: “Ten diplomats were on a list the US side handed over to us asking to ensure their leaving the United States…We will give a tit-for-tat response to that…We will also ask ten US diplomats to leave our country”—an expulsion from Russia of these ten American diplomats that was joined by the Foreign Ministry announcing: “In response to the sanctions imposed by the US administration against Russian officials, the following incumbent and former US high-ranking officials and figures, who have been involved in implementing the anti-Russian policy, are denied entry into the Russian Federation…Russia has barred entry for US Attorney General Merrick Garland and Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Christopher Wray…Among the others are Director of the US Federal Bureau of Prisons Michael Carvajal; US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas; former National Security Advisor and US Permanent Representative to the United Nations Susan Rice; and Director of US National Intelligence Avril Haines…Entry is also barred for John Bolton, former US National Security Adviser and Permanent Representative to the UN, and to Robert Woolsey, the former CIA director”.
Swiftly slamming Biden and his socialist warmongers for attacking Russia it saw Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian stating: “To wantonly resort to unilateral sanctions or the threat of sanctions in international relations constitute power politics and hegemonic bullying…Such behavior is being rejected more and more by the international community”—a sentiment agreed with by a high-ranking official with the European Union External Action Service (EEAS), who stated: “EU foreign ministers will not approve sanctions against Russia during a video conference on 19 April, the EU does not plan any new restrictions so far”.
This transcript then shows Security Council Members examining a highly-classified “Of Special Importance” document prepared by the Federal Security Service (FSB)—the very limited portions of which permitted to be openly discussed among various ministries is the very definition of a “Honey Trapping” counterintelligence spying operation—and sees this document revealing that a female FSB officer employed “bait-decoy” [Russian word: приманивать] tactics to entice a willing Ukrainian operative to purchase a classified ОВ [Russian word Особой важности] (equivalent to US classification “Top Secret”) video recording from the archive of the now defunct Committee for State Security (KGB) showing then US Senator Joe Biden urinating on a prostitute while in a state of drunkenness at a Moscow hotel when he visited the Soviet Union in 1979—and after examining this document, the Security Council authorized the FSB to issue a restricted press release, that says: “On 16 April, the Federal Security Service apprehended a Ukrainian diplomat…The consul of the Ukrainian General Consulate in St. Petersburg Alexander Sosonyuk was caught red-handed upon receiving classified data from the databases of Russian law-enforcement agencies and the FSB...This activity is incompatible with the status of this diplomatic employee and is of clearly hostile nature towards the Russian Federation”.
In knowing that the FSB was going to issue a restricted press release about this “Honey Trapping” operation, it caused the United States to issue an immediate cryptic warning stating: “Attention U.S. Citizens...The Embassy of the United States of America in Ukraine continues to monitor the situation with Russia in occupied Crimea, and along Ukraine’s borders, where security conditions may change with little or no notice”—a warning quickly followed by the Ukraine navy threatening to shoot FSB boats guarding the Kerch Strait—then saw an enraged and quickly going insane Ukraine threatening to build nuclear weapons if the West doesn’t immediately destroy President Putin and Russia—and in knowing what’s soon come, saw former US Congresswoman and Democrat Party presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard warning anyone left sane in America: “Are we prepared to see our loved ones burn alive in a nuclear holocaust in a war with Russia over Ukraine?...If not, cut out the macho saber rattling and deescalate before it's too late”. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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The KGB blackmail video of a drunk US Senator Joe Biden peeing on a prostitute at a Moscow hotel when he visited the Soviet Union 1979 has been an “open secret” in Russia for decades—and it was no surprise to anyone in Russia when the socialist Democrats and leftist media demonically projected it onto President Donald Trump, because this is what they do—after all, when you’re a member of a Democratic Party that defended slavery, started the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynchings, and fought against the civil rights acts of the 1950’s and 1960’s, and have opposing you a Republican Party that actually freed black slaves, what else are you going to do?
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[Note: Many governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagree with in believing that it is every human being’s right to know the truth. Due to our mission’s conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit us, and others like us, that is exampled in numerous places, including HERE.]
[Note: The WhatDoesItMean.com website was created for and donated to the Sisters of Sorcha Faal in 2003 by a small group of American computer experts led by the late global technology guru Wayne Green (1922-2013) to counter the propaganda being used by the West to promote their illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq.]
[Note: The word Kremlin (fortress inside a city) as used in this report refers to Russian citadels, including in Moscow, having cathedrals wherein female Schema monks (Orthodox nuns) reside, many of whom are devoted to the mission of the Sisters of Sorcha Faal.]
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The Covid Propaganda Continues Even in the Face of Vaccination Murder
By Gary D. Barnett
April 17, 2021
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17 ″There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.”
~ Aldous Huxley – “The Ultimate Revolution”. Aldous Huxley’s speech at Berkeley Language Center, www.informationclearinghouse.info. March 20, 1962.
Dystopian reality has now taken on a whole new meaning, as the people have become slaves, but they continue in a time of extreme misery, squalor, and oppression, to accept this state of tyranny voluntarily. Many are even excited about this turn of events because they have been given the illegal capability to become completely irresponsible, while collecting extortion money at the expense of their neighbors and countrymen. This of course is a government-designed outcome, as the masses have been fooled over time into believing that they deserve something for nothing. Now that they are ripe for takeover, the plot will thicken, and given the implications of what is possible, we are facing a time of terror.
The now dreaded flu season, which has been turned into the fake ‘Covid’ pandemic season, is over for the year, but no one would realize this by reading or watching the criminal mainstream media’s nefarious narration of current events. As reported, the WHO ‘chief’ liar, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said:
“The number of new COVID-19 cases per week has nearly doubled globally over the past two months, approaching the highest rate seen so far during the pandemic.”
“Cases and deaths are continuing to increase at worrying rates,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a briefing focused on Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the western Pacific region.
He said he was very worried about the potential for a much larger epidemic in PNG, and it was vital the country received more COVID-19 vaccines as soon as possible.
What is so stark and revealing about these statements, other than that they are outright falsehoods, is the concentration on Papua New Guinea and the western Pacific region. Nothing could be more obvious than this ploy to attack a region that had much lower ‘case’ and death ‘reporting’ than much of the rest of the world. Once mass vaccination occurs there, as is being demanded by the head of the evil Bill Gates run WHO, there will be plenty of sickness and death due to this poisonous injection.
Of course, the horrible governments of Australia, the U.S., and Germany, have sent emergency ‘medical’ teams (contract killers) to this region to facilitate spreading toxic and deadly jabs into as much of the population as possible. This is not spreading democracy; it is spreading death. I am very surprised that Tedros and his ilk have not gone after Tanzania in the same manner, after the likely murder of their president John Magufuli. He realized early on that this was all a fraud, and proved that the testing was completely phony, and then suspiciously died only to be replaced by an insider for Klaus Schwab’s heinous World Economic Forum, the home of the “Great Reset.”
While in the midst of leaving the season of most sickness, the mainstream headlines continue to claim that the infection rate nears ‘pandemic’ highs. If these sensationalist headlines do not cause the “proper” amount of panic among the herd, then stronger and more direct measures will be used in order to stoke and perpetuate the fear until later this year when the next flu season begins. The tactics most certainly already planned are not totally clear as of yet, but they will be as this year progresses.
If the powerful and their organized crime accomplices in government can carry the fear into the fall, all hell will break loose. By that time, and after nearly two years of lockdowns, a constantly masked populace, and psychological and economic destruction, the death rates coming will be exponential in nature. With that high level of stress among the masses, completely destroyed immune systems, and a much higher injection rate of deadly pathogens, the state will revel in its ability to take over once and for all.
As so-called ‘vaccines’ of all approved companies are being shut down in the U.S. and around the world due to horrible side effects and death, the state, the media, and the illegitimate ‘health’ organizations are continually recommending more ‘vaccinations’ of poisons be given. This obviously defies logic and sanity, but it should make evident to many more that this is a plot meant only to control and kill, and has never been meant to stop or cure any ‘virus.’ The only goals of this deception called ‘Covid’ are to cause sickness and death in order to accomplish depopulation and set the stage for technocratic control over all of humanity.
As people are confronted with blood clots, auto-immune disease, stroke, heart attack, horrible allergic reactions and anaphylactic shock, and many other dilapidating effects from these virulent and even fatal ‘Covid’ injections, including immediate death, Pfizer is already calling for a third vaccine within the year.
The push for all to be injected is going forward, even as many claim they will not take these shots. What will the government and its handlers do to attempt to get a high percentage of Americans to accept the unacceptable? What is coming to enhance the numbers of people willing to accept this jab? What possible set of events will be forthcoming to frighten the public into running to get this shot of poisonous, mind and body controlling, RNA/DNA altering inoculation? Will it be a variant lie, claimed mutations, or other reasons, and will this government purposely release toxins on the public to cause mass panic? As I have stated in the past, nothing will be off the table when it comes to gaining total control over this country’s citizens.
The adverse reaction rate is supposedly calculated by a front organization for the CDC and FDA called the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
This is akin to having the fox guard the henhouse, as the government desires all to be ‘vaccinated,’ regardless of the consequences, and then also is in charge of monitoring these events, and deciding what they want to report or not report. Less than 10%, possibly much less, of all adverse reactions and death due to ‘vaccines,’ are being reported, and the state through this VAERS system decides on its own which cases to report. Given the history of government monitoring and policing itself, these numbers are certainly only a tiny fraction of reality, and are manipulated by the promoters of this fraud. In fact, the CDC is basically a vaccine company, and gets most of its revenue from vaccines, and has many patents on the toxic concoctions. What a scam!
According to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.:
“The CDC is a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical industry. The agency owns more than 20 vaccine patents and purchases and sells $4.1 billion in vaccines annually. Congressman Dave Weldon has pointed out that the primary metric for success across the CDC is how many vaccines the agency sells and how successfully the agency expands its vaccine program—regardless of any negative effects on human health.”
Actually, the number of vaccine patents held by the CDC is much higher, as noted in the source links below, this regardless of the lies put out by the state and media sponsored “fact checkers.”
The truth about the deadly nature of the U.S vaccination programs, and especially this ‘Covid’ scam injection, is becoming abundantly clear, but more need to shun not only this lethal shot, but others as well. This is especially true concerning the very young, and all children that are subject to any public school system. They are the targeted ones, because if all are injected over their lives, they will be little more than state-controlled robots in the future. With that accomplished over the next generation or two, there will be no freedom whatsoever left to consider in this land called America.
“Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.”
~ Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Source links:
WHO Chief and ‘Covid’ propaganda
Tanzanian president winds up dead
Guide to the Great Reset
Covid ‘vaccine’ genocide
Several states shut down J&J Covid ‘vaccine’
Pfizer CEO recommending third ‘Covid’ doze within year
CDC owns more than 50 vaccination patents
Vaccine patents assigned to CDC
Gary D. Barnett [send him mail] is a retired investment professional that has been writing about freedom and liberty matters, politics, and history for two decades. He is against all war and aggression, and against the state. He recently finished a collaboration with former U.S. Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, and was a contributor to her new book, “When China Sneezes” From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Political-Economic Crisis.” Currently, he lives in Montana with his wife and son. Visit his website.
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By Gary D. Barnett
April 17, 2021
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17 ″There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.”
~ Aldous Huxley – “The Ultimate Revolution”. Aldous Huxley’s speech at Berkeley Language Center, www.informationclearinghouse.info. March 20, 1962.
Dystopian reality has now taken on a whole new meaning, as the people have become slaves, but they continue in a time of extreme misery, squalor, and oppression, to accept this state of tyranny voluntarily. Many are even excited about this turn of events because they have been given the illegal capability to become completely irresponsible, while collecting extortion money at the expense of their neighbors and countrymen. This of course is a government-designed outcome, as the masses have been fooled over time into believing that they deserve something for nothing. Now that they are ripe for takeover, the plot will thicken, and given the implications of what is possible, we are facing a time of terror.
The now dreaded flu season, which has been turned into the fake ‘Covid’ pandemic season, is over for the year, but no one would realize this by reading or watching the criminal mainstream media’s nefarious narration of current events. As reported, the WHO ‘chief’ liar, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said:
“The number of new COVID-19 cases per week has nearly doubled globally over the past two months, approaching the highest rate seen so far during the pandemic.”
“Cases and deaths are continuing to increase at worrying rates,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a briefing focused on Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the western Pacific region.
He said he was very worried about the potential for a much larger epidemic in PNG, and it was vital the country received more COVID-19 vaccines as soon as possible.
What is so stark and revealing about these statements, other than that they are outright falsehoods, is the concentration on Papua New Guinea and the western Pacific region. Nothing could be more obvious than this ploy to attack a region that had much lower ‘case’ and death ‘reporting’ than much of the rest of the world. Once mass vaccination occurs there, as is being demanded by the head of the evil Bill Gates run WHO, there will be plenty of sickness and death due to this poisonous injection.
Of course, the horrible governments of Australia, the U.S., and Germany, have sent emergency ‘medical’ teams (contract killers) to this region to facilitate spreading toxic and deadly jabs into as much of the population as possible. This is not spreading democracy; it is spreading death. I am very surprised that Tedros and his ilk have not gone after Tanzania in the same manner, after the likely murder of their president John Magufuli. He realized early on that this was all a fraud, and proved that the testing was completely phony, and then suspiciously died only to be replaced by an insider for Klaus Schwab’s heinous World Economic Forum, the home of the “Great Reset.”
While in the midst of leaving the season of most sickness, the mainstream headlines continue to claim that the infection rate nears ‘pandemic’ highs. If these sensationalist headlines do not cause the “proper” amount of panic among the herd, then stronger and more direct measures will be used in order to stoke and perpetuate the fear until later this year when the next flu season begins. The tactics most certainly already planned are not totally clear as of yet, but they will be as this year progresses.
If the powerful and their organized crime accomplices in government can carry the fear into the fall, all hell will break loose. By that time, and after nearly two years of lockdowns, a constantly masked populace, and psychological and economic destruction, the death rates coming will be exponential in nature. With that high level of stress among the masses, completely destroyed immune systems, and a much higher injection rate of deadly pathogens, the state will revel in its ability to take over once and for all.
As so-called ‘vaccines’ of all approved companies are being shut down in the U.S. and around the world due to horrible side effects and death, the state, the media, and the illegitimate ‘health’ organizations are continually recommending more ‘vaccinations’ of poisons be given. This obviously defies logic and sanity, but it should make evident to many more that this is a plot meant only to control and kill, and has never been meant to stop or cure any ‘virus.’ The only goals of this deception called ‘Covid’ are to cause sickness and death in order to accomplish depopulation and set the stage for technocratic control over all of humanity.
As people are confronted with blood clots, auto-immune disease, stroke, heart attack, horrible allergic reactions and anaphylactic shock, and many other dilapidating effects from these virulent and even fatal ‘Covid’ injections, including immediate death, Pfizer is already calling for a third vaccine within the year.
The push for all to be injected is going forward, even as many claim they will not take these shots. What will the government and its handlers do to attempt to get a high percentage of Americans to accept the unacceptable? What is coming to enhance the numbers of people willing to accept this jab? What possible set of events will be forthcoming to frighten the public into running to get this shot of poisonous, mind and body controlling, RNA/DNA altering inoculation? Will it be a variant lie, claimed mutations, or other reasons, and will this government purposely release toxins on the public to cause mass panic? As I have stated in the past, nothing will be off the table when it comes to gaining total control over this country’s citizens.
The adverse reaction rate is supposedly calculated by a front organization for the CDC and FDA called the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
This is akin to having the fox guard the henhouse, as the government desires all to be ‘vaccinated,’ regardless of the consequences, and then also is in charge of monitoring these events, and deciding what they want to report or not report. Less than 10%, possibly much less, of all adverse reactions and death due to ‘vaccines,’ are being reported, and the state through this VAERS system decides on its own which cases to report. Given the history of government monitoring and policing itself, these numbers are certainly only a tiny fraction of reality, and are manipulated by the promoters of this fraud. In fact, the CDC is basically a vaccine company, and gets most of its revenue from vaccines, and has many patents on the toxic concoctions. What a scam!
According to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.:
“The CDC is a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical industry. The agency owns more than 20 vaccine patents and purchases and sells $4.1 billion in vaccines annually. Congressman Dave Weldon has pointed out that the primary metric for success across the CDC is how many vaccines the agency sells and how successfully the agency expands its vaccine program—regardless of any negative effects on human health.”
Actually, the number of vaccine patents held by the CDC is much higher, as noted in the source links below, this regardless of the lies put out by the state and media sponsored “fact checkers.”
The truth about the deadly nature of the U.S vaccination programs, and especially this ‘Covid’ scam injection, is becoming abundantly clear, but more need to shun not only this lethal shot, but others as well. This is especially true concerning the very young, and all children that are subject to any public school system. They are the targeted ones, because if all are injected over their lives, they will be little more than state-controlled robots in the future. With that accomplished over the next generation or two, there will be no freedom whatsoever left to consider in this land called America.
“Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.”
~ Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Source links:
WHO Chief and ‘Covid’ propaganda
Tanzanian president winds up dead
Guide to the Great Reset
Covid ‘vaccine’ genocide
Several states shut down J&J Covid ‘vaccine’
Pfizer CEO recommending third ‘Covid’ doze within year
CDC owns more than 50 vaccination patents
Vaccine patents assigned to CDC
Gary D. Barnett [send him mail] is a retired investment professional that has been writing about freedom and liberty matters, politics, and history for two decades. He is against all war and aggression, and against the state. He recently finished a collaboration with former U.S. Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, and was a contributor to her new book, “When China Sneezes” From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Political-Economic Crisis.” Currently, he lives in Montana with his wife and son. Visit his website.
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Authored by Egon von Greyerz via GoldSwitzerland.com,
Credit Suisse is hours from collapse and the consequences could be a systemic failure of the financial system...
Disappointingly, my dream last night stopped there. So unfortunately I didn’t experience what actually happened.
As I warned in last week’s article on Archegos and Credit Suisse, investment banks have created a timebomb with the $1.5 quadrillion derivatives monster.
A few years ago, the BIS (Bank of International Settlement) in Basel reduced the $1.5 quadrillion to $600 trillion with a pen stroke. But the real gross figure was still $1.5q at the time. According to my sources, the real figure today is probably over $2 quadrillion.
A major part of the outstanding derivatives are OTC (over the counter) and hidden in off balance sheet special purpose vehicles.
LEVERAGED ASSETS JUST GO UP IN SMOKE
The $30 billion in Archegos derivatives that went up in smoke over a weekend is just the tip of the iceberg. The hedge fund Archegos lost everything and the normal uber-leveraged players Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Nomura etc lost at least $30 billion.
These investment banks are making casino bets that they can’t afford to lose. What their boards and top management don’t realise or understand is that the traders, supported by easily manipulated risk managers, are betting the bank on a daily basis.
Most of these ludicrously high bets are in the derivatives market. The management doesn’t understand how they work or what the risks are and the account managers and traders can bet billions on a daily basis with no skin in the game but massive potential upside if nothing goes wrong.
DEUTSCHE BANK – DERIVATIVES 600X EQUITY
But we are now entering an era when things will go wrong. The leverage is just too high and the bets totally out of proportion to the equity.
Just take the notorious Deutsche Bank (DB) that has outstanding derivatives of €37 trillion against total equity of €62 billion. Thus the derivatives position is 600X the equity.
Or to put it in a different way, the equity is 0.17% of the outstanding derivatives. So a loss of 0.2% on the derivatives will wipe the share capital and the bank out!
Now the DB risk managers will argue that the net derivatives position is just a fraction of the €37 trillion at €20 billion. That is of course nonsense as we saw with Archegos when a few banks let $30 billion over a weekend.
Derivatives can only be netted down on the basis that counterparties pay up. But in a real systemic crisis, counterparties will disappear and gross exposure will remain gross.
So all that netting doesn’t stand up to real scrutiny. But it is typical for today’s casino banking world when depositors, shareholders and governments take all the downside risk and the management all the upside.
So let us look at the global risk picture in the financial system:
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=FyuFsEco
The $2.3 quadrillion above is what the world is exposed to when this timebomb explodes.
That is the total sum of global debt, derivatives and unfunded liabilities. When all the dominos start falling, and no one can meet their obligations, this is what governments are left to finance.
Yes, they will print this money and much more as deficits mount exponentially due to collapsing currencies. But the MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) clowns will then find out that printed money rightfully has ZERO value.
If these clowns studied history they would learn that MMT has never worked. Just check the Roman Empire 180-280 AD, France in the early 18th century, or the Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, Argentina and Venezuela in the 19th and 20th centuries.
So when Fiat money dies, how much gold is required to repair the damage?
If we look at the cube below with all the gold ever produced in history, we see that it is 198,000 tonnes valued at $11 trillion.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=O8JlFbmM
Below the cube the total central bank and investment gold is shown. This amounts to 77,000 tonnes or $4.3 trillion. That sum represents 0.2% of the total debt and liabilities of $2.3 quadrillion as shown in the Timebomb.
The $4.3 trillion gold value is at a gold price of $1,750 per ounce. This minuscule 0.2% of liabilities obviously is far too small to support global debt. A 20% gold backing of total liabilities would be a minimum.
That would be 100X the current 0.2% or a gold price of $175,000.
I am not forecasting this level or saying that it is likely to happen. All I am doing is looking at the total risk that the world is facing and relating it to the only money that will survive.
Also, measuring the gold price in dollars serves no purpose because when/if this scenario happens, the dollar will be worthless and the gold price measured in worthless dollars at infinity.
FOCUS ON WEALTH PRESERVATION
Rather than focusing on a potential gold price measured in dollars, investors should worry about preserving their wealth in real assets held outside a bankrupt financial system.
Regardless of what price gold and silver reach, history proves that it is the ultimate form of wealth preservation.
It will not be different this time. Therefore, in the coming crisis, precious metals will be the best insurance to hold as protection against unprecedented global risk.
Gold’s rise since 2000 in no way reflects the massive money printing we have seen in this century.
Still as the graph below shows, gold is at the beginning of a very strong uptrend that has very far to go in both time and price.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=ho-bDte6
Investors have the following choice:
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The $2.3 Quadrillion Global Timebomb
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BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, APR 19, 2021 - 05:00 AM
Authored by Egon von Greyerz via GoldSwitzerland.com,
Credit Suisse is hours from collapse and the consequences could be a systemic failure of the financial system...
Disappointingly, my dream last night stopped there. So unfortunately I didn’t experience what actually happened.
As I warned in last week’s article on Archegos and Credit Suisse, investment banks have created a timebomb with the $1.5 quadrillion derivatives monster.
A few years ago, the BIS (Bank of International Settlement) in Basel reduced the $1.5 quadrillion to $600 trillion with a pen stroke. But the real gross figure was still $1.5q at the time. According to my sources, the real figure today is probably over $2 quadrillion.
A major part of the outstanding derivatives are OTC (over the counter) and hidden in off balance sheet special purpose vehicles.
LEVERAGED ASSETS JUST GO UP IN SMOKE
The $30 billion in Archegos derivatives that went up in smoke over a weekend is just the tip of the iceberg. The hedge fund Archegos lost everything and the normal uber-leveraged players Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Nomura etc lost at least $30 billion.
These investment banks are making casino bets that they can’t afford to lose. What their boards and top management don’t realise or understand is that the traders, supported by easily manipulated risk managers, are betting the bank on a daily basis.
Most of these ludicrously high bets are in the derivatives market. The management doesn’t understand how they work or what the risks are and the account managers and traders can bet billions on a daily basis with no skin in the game but massive potential upside if nothing goes wrong.
DEUTSCHE BANK – DERIVATIVES 600X EQUITY
But we are now entering an era when things will go wrong. The leverage is just too high and the bets totally out of proportion to the equity.
Just take the notorious Deutsche Bank (DB) that has outstanding derivatives of €37 trillion against total equity of €62 billion. Thus the derivatives position is 600X the equity.
Or to put it in a different way, the equity is 0.17% of the outstanding derivatives. So a loss of 0.2% on the derivatives will wipe the share capital and the bank out!
Now the DB risk managers will argue that the net derivatives position is just a fraction of the €37 trillion at €20 billion. That is of course nonsense as we saw with Archegos when a few banks let $30 billion over a weekend.
Derivatives can only be netted down on the basis that counterparties pay up. But in a real systemic crisis, counterparties will disappear and gross exposure will remain gross.
So all that netting doesn’t stand up to real scrutiny. But it is typical for today’s casino banking world when depositors, shareholders and governments take all the downside risk and the management all the upside.
So let us look at the global risk picture in the financial system:
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=FyuFsEco
The $2.3 quadrillion above is what the world is exposed to when this timebomb explodes.
That is the total sum of global debt, derivatives and unfunded liabilities. When all the dominos start falling, and no one can meet their obligations, this is what governments are left to finance.
Yes, they will print this money and much more as deficits mount exponentially due to collapsing currencies. But the MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) clowns will then find out that printed money rightfully has ZERO value.
If these clowns studied history they would learn that MMT has never worked. Just check the Roman Empire 180-280 AD, France in the early 18th century, or the Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, Argentina and Venezuela in the 19th and 20th centuries.
So when Fiat money dies, how much gold is required to repair the damage?
If we look at the cube below with all the gold ever produced in history, we see that it is 198,000 tonnes valued at $11 trillion.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=O8JlFbmM
Below the cube the total central bank and investment gold is shown. This amounts to 77,000 tonnes or $4.3 trillion. That sum represents 0.2% of the total debt and liabilities of $2.3 quadrillion as shown in the Timebomb.
The $4.3 trillion gold value is at a gold price of $1,750 per ounce. This minuscule 0.2% of liabilities obviously is far too small to support global debt. A 20% gold backing of total liabilities would be a minimum.
That would be 100X the current 0.2% or a gold price of $175,000.
I am not forecasting this level or saying that it is likely to happen. All I am doing is looking at the total risk that the world is facing and relating it to the only money that will survive.
Also, measuring the gold price in dollars serves no purpose because when/if this scenario happens, the dollar will be worthless and the gold price measured in worthless dollars at infinity.
FOCUS ON WEALTH PRESERVATION
Rather than focusing on a potential gold price measured in dollars, investors should worry about preserving their wealth in real assets held outside a bankrupt financial system.
Regardless of what price gold and silver reach, history proves that it is the ultimate form of wealth preservation.
It will not be different this time. Therefore, in the coming crisis, precious metals will be the best insurance to hold as protection against unprecedented global risk.
Gold’s rise since 2000 in no way reflects the massive money printing we have seen in this century.
Still as the graph below shows, gold is at the beginning of a very strong uptrend that has very far to go in both time and price.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=ho-bDte6
Investors have the following choice:
- Either they follow the coming crash in bubble assets like stocks, property and bonds all the way to the bottom which is likely to be 75-95% lower in real terms (measured in gold).
- Or they protect their wealth in physical precious metals, stored outside a fractured financial system.
As always, history gives the answer as to which path to take.
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Major Alert/ All US Businesses Threatened
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By Bill Sardi
April 19, 2021
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The World Economic Forum, which was a co-sponsor to EVENT 201 at Johns Hopkins Center For Health Security along with Bill Gates in October of 2019, just prior to the onset of COVID-19 in January of 2020 and announcement of a mutated coronavirus pandemic in March of 2020, is now announcing CYBER POLYGON, a war cyber warfare game that will be blamed on overseas “enemies.” CYBER POLYGON is a drill scheduled for July of 2021.
Should such an event occur, it would paralyze every business, church, hospital, even security and police forces. It appears prudent to make plans for a major online cyber business disruption given public authorities appear to be clueless or even complicit in this event as they have been in COVID-19. Consumer-related businesses would be wise to advise their customers to stock up on necessities, particularly food, toiletries, vitamins, medicines and alternate sources of power if possible. Doctors should schedule patients accordingly.
Please be aware the death rate from COVID-19 is only 0.26% (quarter of one-percent — Annals Internal Medicine January 2021), which is less than seasonal flu when nursing home deaths are are removed from mortality data. That means 99.7% of lives are not threatened by this infectious disease and the lockdowns, social distancing and face mask wearing are baseless attempts to curb the spread or delay infection and therefore keep people from developing natural immunity and make them totally dependent upon emergency-use experimental vaccines.
The anxiety induced by COVID-19 (CNN admits it fear-mongered the population to maintain high television ratings) has resulted in a 500% increase in alcohol consumption and an increase in sleeplessness that has resulted in an increase in coffee and tea consumption, with all three of these factors blocking a key nutrient (vitamin B1 thiamine) that controls the autonomic nervous system that controls breathing, heartbeat and digestion. Loss of smell and taste are also a consequence of this vitamin shortage. This explains long-term COVID symptoms. This is the 2nd underlying pandemic that is ongoing as the pandemic measures continue.
Click through to the links below to validate this warning. This is not a sensationalist report.
Cyber Polygon is a war game being held by the World Economic Forum (WEF) this July/2021 which is meant to simulate a major cyber attack on the global supply chain and the economic system. There has been endless discussion int the media the past year building up fears of cyber attacks by Russia, China, Iran and even North Korea.
See this.
The Political Economy of Fear
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/04/...es-threatened/
By Bill Sardi
April 19, 2021
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The World Economic Forum, which was a co-sponsor to EVENT 201 at Johns Hopkins Center For Health Security along with Bill Gates in October of 2019, just prior to the onset of COVID-19 in January of 2020 and announcement of a mutated coronavirus pandemic in March of 2020, is now announcing CYBER POLYGON, a war cyber warfare game that will be blamed on overseas “enemies.” CYBER POLYGON is a drill scheduled for July of 2021.
Should such an event occur, it would paralyze every business, church, hospital, even security and police forces. It appears prudent to make plans for a major online cyber business disruption given public authorities appear to be clueless or even complicit in this event as they have been in COVID-19. Consumer-related businesses would be wise to advise their customers to stock up on necessities, particularly food, toiletries, vitamins, medicines and alternate sources of power if possible. Doctors should schedule patients accordingly.
Please be aware the death rate from COVID-19 is only 0.26% (quarter of one-percent — Annals Internal Medicine January 2021), which is less than seasonal flu when nursing home deaths are are removed from mortality data. That means 99.7% of lives are not threatened by this infectious disease and the lockdowns, social distancing and face mask wearing are baseless attempts to curb the spread or delay infection and therefore keep people from developing natural immunity and make them totally dependent upon emergency-use experimental vaccines.
The anxiety induced by COVID-19 (CNN admits it fear-mongered the population to maintain high television ratings) has resulted in a 500% increase in alcohol consumption and an increase in sleeplessness that has resulted in an increase in coffee and tea consumption, with all three of these factors blocking a key nutrient (vitamin B1 thiamine) that controls the autonomic nervous system that controls breathing, heartbeat and digestion. Loss of smell and taste are also a consequence of this vitamin shortage. This explains long-term COVID symptoms. This is the 2nd underlying pandemic that is ongoing as the pandemic measures continue.
Click through to the links below to validate this warning. This is not a sensationalist report.
Cyber Polygon is a war game being held by the World Economic Forum (WEF) this July/2021 which is meant to simulate a major cyber attack on the global supply chain and the economic system. There has been endless discussion int the media the past year building up fears of cyber attacks by Russia, China, Iran and even North Korea.
See this.
Copyright Bill Sardi, writing from La Verne, California. This article has been written exclusively for www.LewRockwell.com and other parties who wish to refer to it should link rather than post at other URLs.
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"Stunning Divergence": Latest Bank Data Reveals Something Is Terminally Broken In The Financial System
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BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, APR 19, 2021 - 05:33 AM
There was a remarkable disclosure in the latest JPMorgan earnings report: the largest US bank - an entity that historically has best been known for making loans to the broader population - reported that in Q1 its total deposits rose by a whopping 24% Y/Y and up 6% from Q4, to $2.278 trillion, while the total amount of loans issued by the bank was virtually flat sequentially at $1.011 trillion, and down 4% from a year ago.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=5VpR5PZk
In other words, for the first time in its history, JPM had 100% more deposits than loans, or inversely, the ratio of loans to deposits dropped below 50% for the third quarter in a row after plunging in the aftermath of the covid pandemic:
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=xrmd0rxT
An even more stunning divergence between total deposits and loans, emerges at Bank of America where deposits similarly hit a new all time high of $1.88 trillion, even as the bank's loans have continued to shrink at an alarming, deleveraging (and deflationary) pace and are now at $911 billion, below their level during the great financial crisis: in other words, there has been 12 years with zero loan growth at Bank of America!
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=Hn--XmYE
It's not any better at either Citigroup...
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=rtWkEBVn
... or even Wells Fargo (which while having been limited by the Fed in how much loans it can issue, apparently has had no limit on how many deposits it can collect):
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=ADm69rG6
Summarizing the above data, we get the following picture breaking down total loans by Big-4 bank:
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=oqDgc4jS
And total deposits.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=I4JY2ye5
Finally, aggregating the data across the big 4 banks shows something striking: there has been no loan growth since the global financial crisis, while total deposits have doubled!
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=hcvQUtos
There are two major implications one should draw from the collapsing loan-to-deposit ratio. The first, more superficial one is that this ratio is a closely watched metric that measures how much lending a bank is doing when compared to its capacity to lend.
The second, and far more profound implication, is arguably the most fundamental question in modern fractional reserve banking: what comes first, loans or deposits, in other words do private, commercial banks create the money in circulation (by first lending it out) or is the central bank responsible for money creation?
One thing that is now beyond debate: there are now far more deposits than there are loans in the US banking system.
This is a problem because most conventional monetarists will argue that loans always come first, and only then do banks receive deposits.
It gets worse: as everyone now knows, we live in an MMT world where the Fed and Treasury have merged and where one basically monetizes what the other has to sell. And since the rainbows and unicorns world of MMT says that there is nothing to worry about from such debt monetization, even respected economists have been swept into this absolute idiocy and are urging the US to issue as much debt as it possibly can (with the Biden administration glad to oblige).
There is just one problem: as of this moment, the core tenet of MMT is no longer applicable. As a reminder, according to MMT loans create deposits not the other way around, and this socialist crackpot theory further claims that Reserve balances have nothing to do with this – they are part of the banking system that ensure financial stability. Don't believe us? Watch the following clip from one of the priests of MMT, Warrn Mosler who explains how "loans create deposits."
Only... clearly that's no longer the case, and the empirical data shown above makes patently obvious that the core, anchor theory of MMT on which all its other laughable theories are built is false, with huge consequences for a world that has thrown its future into a world prescribed by said crackpot theory.
The recent loan and deposit data also means that the conventional process of deposit creation via loans is terminally broken.
Indeed, that's precisely the case with the missing link being - drumroll - the Fed, as we explained all the way back, in 2014. Here is the punchline of what we said then, when we did a similar analysis observing what was already a record amount of excess deposits over loans:
... how does the record mismatch between deposits and loans look like? Well, for the Big 4 US banks, JPM, Wells, BofA and Citi it looks as follows.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=ZRyfLl8g
What the above chart simply shows is the breakdown in the Excess Deposit over Loan series, which is shown in the chart below, which tracks the historical change in commercial bank loans and deposits. What is immediately obvious is that while loans and deposits moved hand in hand for most of history, starting with the collapse of Lehman loan creation has been virtually non-existent (total loans are now at levels seen at the time of Lehman's collapse) while deposits have risen to just about $10 trillion. It is here that the Fed's excess reserves have gone - the delta between the two is almost precisely the total amount of reserves injected by the Fed since the Lehman crisis.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=6zVMI2No
So what does all of this mean? In a nutshell, with the Fed now tapering QE and deposit formation slowing, banks will have no choice but to issue loans to offset the lack of outside money injection by the Fed. In other words, while bank "deposits" have already experienced the benefit of "future inflation", and have manifested it in the stock market, it is now the turn of the matching asset to catch up. Which also means that while "deposit" growth (i.e., parked reserves) in the future will slow to a trickle, banks will have no choice but to flood the country with $2.5 trillion in loans, or a third of the currently outstanding loans, just to catch up to the head start provided by the Fed!
It is this loan creation that will jump start inside money and the flow through to the economy, resulting in the long-overdue growth. It is also this loan creation that means banks will no longer speculate as prop traders with the excess liquidity but go back to their roots as lenders. Most importantly, once banks launch this wholesale lending effort, it is then and only then that the true pernicious inflation from what the Fed has done in the past 5 years will finally rear its ugly head.
It will also come as no surprise to anyone, that updating the chart we first showed in 2014 correctly explains today's reality, something which MMT is completely incapable of doing: as shown below the excess deposits over loans is entirely driven by the trillions in reserves pumped by the Fed!
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=_oP9M2St
The above also explains why even as the Fed has pumped trillions in reserves into banks, which by transformation have ended up as deposits on bank balance sheets, the velocity of M2 money has plunged to an all time low (and will soon drop below the fractional reserve system singularity of 1.0x), as loan demand is nowhere near enough to offset the Fed's forced deposit creation which incidentally ends up not in the economy but in capital markets, resulting in broad deflation offset by asset price hyperinflation.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=7FCkELzT
One final reason why this data is absolutely critical: in a world where the dominant daily argument is whether the US is facing deflation or inflation, and where many have become convinced that we are facing a surge in higher prices, continued loan destruction is about the most deflationary thing possible. But don't take our word for it - here is an excerpt from the latest "Flows and Liquidity" report from JPMorgan strategist Nick Panigirtzoglou titled "The challenge from weak bank lending" in which he confirms all of the above observations, and writes that "a common feature of this week's US bank earnings reports has been the weakness in loan growth. Indeed, weekly data from the Fed's H8 release shows that the pace of US bank lending remains in negative territory, exhibiting persistent weakness since last summer"
This persistent weakness, Panigirtzoglou writes, "followed a temporary spike in bank lending during Q2 2020, immediately after the virus crisis erupted, and is reminiscent of the US bank lending trajectory after the Lehman crisis. After a temporary spike immediately after the Lehman crisis, driven by companies and consumers tapping bank credit lines, the pace of US bank lending had remained largely in negative territory up until the middle of 2011. Although it entered positive territory after 2011, the pace of US bank lending had stayed significantly below pre -Lehman crisis levels, an important feature of the secular stagnation thesis."
The JPM quant then concedes that it remains to be seen "whether the protracted post Lehman period weakness in bank lending would be repeated in the current post virus cycle" although what is likely to be the case "is that the future trajectory for bank lending would be important in determining both the inflation and liquidity picture over the longer term."
And the JPM punchline:
"A repeat of the post Lehman period protracted weakness in bank lending would cast doubt to the idea of a sustained inflation impulse over the coming years. It would also act as a drag for money supply and liquidity creation going forward, reducing a key driver of asset prices."
Indeed, the next chart shows that money creation has been already normalizing from the torrid pace of the first half of 2020.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=FkFfk8QH
Looking ahead, central bank tapering in 2022 - or whenever it arrives...
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=Trdl3ovO
.. would likely induce further slowing in money creation over the coming years according to JPM, unless bank lending improves avoiding the protracted weakness of the post Lehman period.
JPMorgan's ominous concludes, "whether the protracted post Lehman period weakness in bank lending is repeated in the current post virus cycle will be critical in determining both the inflation and liquidity picture over the longer term. So far the trajectory for bank lending shows more similarities than differences to the post Lehman crisis period."
"Stunning Divergence": Latest Bank Data Reveals Something Is Terminally Broken In The Financial System
https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b.../picture-5.jpg
BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, APR 19, 2021 - 05:33 AM
There was a remarkable disclosure in the latest JPMorgan earnings report: the largest US bank - an entity that historically has best been known for making loans to the broader population - reported that in Q1 its total deposits rose by a whopping 24% Y/Y and up 6% from Q4, to $2.278 trillion, while the total amount of loans issued by the bank was virtually flat sequentially at $1.011 trillion, and down 4% from a year ago.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=5VpR5PZk
In other words, for the first time in its history, JPM had 100% more deposits than loans, or inversely, the ratio of loans to deposits dropped below 50% for the third quarter in a row after plunging in the aftermath of the covid pandemic:
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=xrmd0rxT
An even more stunning divergence between total deposits and loans, emerges at Bank of America where deposits similarly hit a new all time high of $1.88 trillion, even as the bank's loans have continued to shrink at an alarming, deleveraging (and deflationary) pace and are now at $911 billion, below their level during the great financial crisis: in other words, there has been 12 years with zero loan growth at Bank of America!
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=Hn--XmYE
It's not any better at either Citigroup...
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=rtWkEBVn
... or even Wells Fargo (which while having been limited by the Fed in how much loans it can issue, apparently has had no limit on how many deposits it can collect):
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=ADm69rG6
Summarizing the above data, we get the following picture breaking down total loans by Big-4 bank:
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=oqDgc4jS
And total deposits.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=I4JY2ye5
Finally, aggregating the data across the big 4 banks shows something striking: there has been no loan growth since the global financial crisis, while total deposits have doubled!
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=hcvQUtos
There are two major implications one should draw from the collapsing loan-to-deposit ratio. The first, more superficial one is that this ratio is a closely watched metric that measures how much lending a bank is doing when compared to its capacity to lend.
The second, and far more profound implication, is arguably the most fundamental question in modern fractional reserve banking: what comes first, loans or deposits, in other words do private, commercial banks create the money in circulation (by first lending it out) or is the central bank responsible for money creation?
One thing that is now beyond debate: there are now far more deposits than there are loans in the US banking system.
This is a problem because most conventional monetarists will argue that loans always come first, and only then do banks receive deposits.
It gets worse: as everyone now knows, we live in an MMT world where the Fed and Treasury have merged and where one basically monetizes what the other has to sell. And since the rainbows and unicorns world of MMT says that there is nothing to worry about from such debt monetization, even respected economists have been swept into this absolute idiocy and are urging the US to issue as much debt as it possibly can (with the Biden administration glad to oblige).
There is just one problem: as of this moment, the core tenet of MMT is no longer applicable. As a reminder, according to MMT loans create deposits not the other way around, and this socialist crackpot theory further claims that Reserve balances have nothing to do with this – they are part of the banking system that ensure financial stability. Don't believe us? Watch the following clip from one of the priests of MMT, Warrn Mosler who explains how "loans create deposits."
Only... clearly that's no longer the case, and the empirical data shown above makes patently obvious that the core, anchor theory of MMT on which all its other laughable theories are built is false, with huge consequences for a world that has thrown its future into a world prescribed by said crackpot theory.
The recent loan and deposit data also means that the conventional process of deposit creation via loans is terminally broken.
Indeed, that's precisely the case with the missing link being - drumroll - the Fed, as we explained all the way back, in 2014. Here is the punchline of what we said then, when we did a similar analysis observing what was already a record amount of excess deposits over loans:
... how does the record mismatch between deposits and loans look like? Well, for the Big 4 US banks, JPM, Wells, BofA and Citi it looks as follows.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=ZRyfLl8g
What the above chart simply shows is the breakdown in the Excess Deposit over Loan series, which is shown in the chart below, which tracks the historical change in commercial bank loans and deposits. What is immediately obvious is that while loans and deposits moved hand in hand for most of history, starting with the collapse of Lehman loan creation has been virtually non-existent (total loans are now at levels seen at the time of Lehman's collapse) while deposits have risen to just about $10 trillion. It is here that the Fed's excess reserves have gone - the delta between the two is almost precisely the total amount of reserves injected by the Fed since the Lehman crisis.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=6zVMI2No
So what does all of this mean? In a nutshell, with the Fed now tapering QE and deposit formation slowing, banks will have no choice but to issue loans to offset the lack of outside money injection by the Fed. In other words, while bank "deposits" have already experienced the benefit of "future inflation", and have manifested it in the stock market, it is now the turn of the matching asset to catch up. Which also means that while "deposit" growth (i.e., parked reserves) in the future will slow to a trickle, banks will have no choice but to flood the country with $2.5 trillion in loans, or a third of the currently outstanding loans, just to catch up to the head start provided by the Fed!
It is this loan creation that will jump start inside money and the flow through to the economy, resulting in the long-overdue growth. It is also this loan creation that means banks will no longer speculate as prop traders with the excess liquidity but go back to their roots as lenders. Most importantly, once banks launch this wholesale lending effort, it is then and only then that the true pernicious inflation from what the Fed has done in the past 5 years will finally rear its ugly head.
It will also come as no surprise to anyone, that updating the chart we first showed in 2014 correctly explains today's reality, something which MMT is completely incapable of doing: as shown below the excess deposits over loans is entirely driven by the trillions in reserves pumped by the Fed!
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=_oP9M2St
The above also explains why even as the Fed has pumped trillions in reserves into banks, which by transformation have ended up as deposits on bank balance sheets, the velocity of M2 money has plunged to an all time low (and will soon drop below the fractional reserve system singularity of 1.0x), as loan demand is nowhere near enough to offset the Fed's forced deposit creation which incidentally ends up not in the economy but in capital markets, resulting in broad deflation offset by asset price hyperinflation.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=7FCkELzT
One final reason why this data is absolutely critical: in a world where the dominant daily argument is whether the US is facing deflation or inflation, and where many have become convinced that we are facing a surge in higher prices, continued loan destruction is about the most deflationary thing possible. But don't take our word for it - here is an excerpt from the latest "Flows and Liquidity" report from JPMorgan strategist Nick Panigirtzoglou titled "The challenge from weak bank lending" in which he confirms all of the above observations, and writes that "a common feature of this week's US bank earnings reports has been the weakness in loan growth. Indeed, weekly data from the Fed's H8 release shows that the pace of US bank lending remains in negative territory, exhibiting persistent weakness since last summer"
This persistent weakness, Panigirtzoglou writes, "followed a temporary spike in bank lending during Q2 2020, immediately after the virus crisis erupted, and is reminiscent of the US bank lending trajectory after the Lehman crisis. After a temporary spike immediately after the Lehman crisis, driven by companies and consumers tapping bank credit lines, the pace of US bank lending had remained largely in negative territory up until the middle of 2011. Although it entered positive territory after 2011, the pace of US bank lending had stayed significantly below pre -Lehman crisis levels, an important feature of the secular stagnation thesis."
The JPM quant then concedes that it remains to be seen "whether the protracted post Lehman period weakness in bank lending would be repeated in the current post virus cycle" although what is likely to be the case "is that the future trajectory for bank lending would be important in determining both the inflation and liquidity picture over the longer term."
And the JPM punchline:
"A repeat of the post Lehman period protracted weakness in bank lending would cast doubt to the idea of a sustained inflation impulse over the coming years. It would also act as a drag for money supply and liquidity creation going forward, reducing a key driver of asset prices."
Indeed, the next chart shows that money creation has been already normalizing from the torrid pace of the first half of 2020.
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=FkFfk8QH
Looking ahead, central bank tapering in 2022 - or whenever it arrives...
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=Trdl3ovO
.. would likely induce further slowing in money creation over the coming years according to JPM, unless bank lending improves avoiding the protracted weakness of the post Lehman period.
JPMorgan's ominous concludes, "whether the protracted post Lehman period weakness in bank lending is repeated in the current post virus cycle will be critical in determining both the inflation and liquidity picture over the longer term. So far the trajectory for bank lending shows more similarities than differences to the post Lehman crisis period."
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By Greg Hunter On April 17, 2021 In Political Analysis 240 Comments
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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Saturday Night Post 4.17.2021)
Investment advisor and former Assistant Secretary of Housing Catherine Austin Fitts contends CV19 and the vaccines to cure it are more about control than depopulation. Fitts explains, “I think the bankers are trying to chip us. Moderna describes their injection, gene therapy as an ‘operating system.’ I agree with them. I think they are trying to download an operating system into our bodies. I don’t think it was an accident . . . the man President Trump appointed as head of ‘Operation Warp Speed’ was an expert at Brain-Machine interface. . . . Just like Bill Gates downloaded an operating system into your computer and made you update it regularly because of the threat of another virus, I think they are trying to play the same game with human bodies. It’s hard for people to fathom if they have not been following the advancements in biotech and to fathom how much money the bankers can make if they can achieve this. We just saw the Chairman of the Federal Reserve talking about the economy was getting better because the vaccination rate was going up.
I think that’s code for the bank stocks are going up because we are downloading operating systems in more and more people, and our stock reflects that. We get a pop on our stock for every person we can remotely control with our operating system. . . . If you look at the deaths and adverse events, and the failure to provide true informed consent, we are talking about the greatest violations of the Nuremberg Code in history—now.”
Fitts says don’t believe the hype on the number of CV19 vaccines being given. Fitts explains, “One of the things I have seen and gotten feedback on is that the resistance is much greater than anything they are indicating in any kind of official statistics. There are also indications that the deaths and adverse events (from the vaccines) are much worse, and that has to be spreading virally. If you look at the people most resistant, including healthcare workers and nursing staff, they are seeing the adverse events, and they are seeing the deaths. So, I don’t trust the statistics. . . . The top doctors I trust essentially say this is an experiment, and it’s true. These vaccines are not approved by the FDA. These are authorized under experimental use. So, this is a trial, a human trial. The doctors I trust say we won’t know for 4, 6, 12 or 18 months what the real impact is.
These are not vaccines. It is gene therapy and downloading an operating system. I would argue that they are not vaccinations, but whatever they are, if it follows the history of vaccinations, what you are going to see is a tremendous diminution of people’s immune systems and a whole world of autoimmune diseases that can be explained away by other things. I would guess that the leadership’s goal is not necessarily to depopulate, and I could be wrong, but their goal is to install an operating system. To get that done, they don’t care how many people they kill.”
In closing, Fitts says, “Naomi Wolf was giving an interview about the vaccine passports, and she said this is the end of human liberty in the west, and that’s right. If those things are allowed, along with the operating system, it is the end of liberty. We are talking about a slavery system. . . . The greatest navigation tool ever created is prayer.”
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After the Interview:
Catherine Austin Fitts also said, “It’s against the law to lie about bio-hazards (CV19 and vaccines), and that is exactly what they are doing in my mind.
There is much free information on Solari.com, including the free report called “Family Financial Disclosure form for Covid-19 Injection”
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By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Saturday Night Post 4.17.2021)
Investment advisor and former Assistant Secretary of Housing Catherine Austin Fitts contends CV19 and the vaccines to cure it are more about control than depopulation. Fitts explains, “I think the bankers are trying to chip us. Moderna describes their injection, gene therapy as an ‘operating system.’ I agree with them. I think they are trying to download an operating system into our bodies. I don’t think it was an accident . . . the man President Trump appointed as head of ‘Operation Warp Speed’ was an expert at Brain-Machine interface. . . . Just like Bill Gates downloaded an operating system into your computer and made you update it regularly because of the threat of another virus, I think they are trying to play the same game with human bodies. It’s hard for people to fathom if they have not been following the advancements in biotech and to fathom how much money the bankers can make if they can achieve this. We just saw the Chairman of the Federal Reserve talking about the economy was getting better because the vaccination rate was going up.
I think that’s code for the bank stocks are going up because we are downloading operating systems in more and more people, and our stock reflects that. We get a pop on our stock for every person we can remotely control with our operating system. . . . If you look at the deaths and adverse events, and the failure to provide true informed consent, we are talking about the greatest violations of the Nuremberg Code in history—now.”
Fitts says don’t believe the hype on the number of CV19 vaccines being given. Fitts explains, “One of the things I have seen and gotten feedback on is that the resistance is much greater than anything they are indicating in any kind of official statistics. There are also indications that the deaths and adverse events (from the vaccines) are much worse, and that has to be spreading virally. If you look at the people most resistant, including healthcare workers and nursing staff, they are seeing the adverse events, and they are seeing the deaths. So, I don’t trust the statistics. . . . The top doctors I trust essentially say this is an experiment, and it’s true. These vaccines are not approved by the FDA. These are authorized under experimental use. So, this is a trial, a human trial. The doctors I trust say we won’t know for 4, 6, 12 or 18 months what the real impact is.
These are not vaccines. It is gene therapy and downloading an operating system. I would argue that they are not vaccinations, but whatever they are, if it follows the history of vaccinations, what you are going to see is a tremendous diminution of people’s immune systems and a whole world of autoimmune diseases that can be explained away by other things. I would guess that the leadership’s goal is not necessarily to depopulate, and I could be wrong, but their goal is to install an operating system. To get that done, they don’t care how many people they kill.”
In closing, Fitts says, “Naomi Wolf was giving an interview about the vaccine passports, and she said this is the end of human liberty in the west, and that’s right. If those things are allowed, along with the operating system, it is the end of liberty. We are talking about a slavery system. . . . The greatest navigation tool ever created is prayer.”
Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with Catherine Austin Fitts, publisher of The Solari Report.
(To Donate to USAWatchdog.com Click Here)
After the Interview:
Catherine Austin Fitts also said, “It’s against the law to lie about bio-hazards (CV19 and vaccines), and that is exactly what they are doing in my mind.
There is much free information on Solari.com, including the free report called “Family Financial Disclosure form for Covid-19 Injection”
You can get way more cutting edge analysis from Catherine Austin Fitts and “The Solari Report” by becoming a subscriber.
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