On Fact-Checkerism and the Mythology of Disinformation
Thoughts on what our discourse police are even trying to do and why they are so stupid.
By Eugyppius
A Plague Chronicle
September 15, 2023

Nobody in our corner of the internet could fail to notice the antics of those yapping bouncing frenetic chihuahuas who call themselves fact-checkers. Mostly they work in obscurity, misunderstanding internet jokes, recycling the vacuities of self-styled experts, debunking weird Twitter posts, and above all churning out prodigious walls of text filled with banalities that nobody reads. Occasionally, though, they manage to entertain us – as recently, when it emerged that BBC “disinformation specialist” and fact-checker-in-chief Marianna Spring had larded her very own CV with disinformation. Almost nothing is more amusing than finding oneself in the crosshairs of the fact-checkers, as has happened to me on at least one occasion.

My favourite checker of facts is the man-bun-sporting dimwit Pascal Siggelkow, who has been appointed top “fact finder” for the state media news service tagesschau. We last encountered Siggelkow when he mistook a noun for a verb in Seymour Hersh’s reporting, ultimately spending four amazing paragraphs debunking the thesis – unique to his own mind – that explosive seaweed destroyed Nord Stream. Before hunting facts at tagesschau, Siggelkow worked for Südwestrundfunk, another state media broadcaster, where he did daring undercover investigative reporting like snitching on “doctors who downplay Corona and issue unfounded mask exemptions.” This is really reporter-of-the-year material. In truth, we have before us here a whole genre of journalism conducted by an aggressively stupid tribe of Siggelkows, distinguished by their total lack of accomplishments, limited vision and minuscule persuasive capacities. That these small men should be entrusted with the project of policing our words is a strange thing indeed, and it suggests there is more going on in the world of fact-checking than we realise. Here, I propose to examine what is is that fact-checkers really do, and whether there is anything to say about them beyond the obvious fact that they are complete and utter idiots.

To explore fact-checking more concretely, I have ventured into the barren wastelands of the tagesschau “Fact Finder” page, where Siggelkow plies his trade and few before me have ever set foot. I’ve selected, mostly at random, a limited corpus of eleven recent discourse-policing items for closer analysis. I offer links to each of them below, in chronological order, providing their headlines and teasers in translation, together with sample quotations to give you an idea. This is a tiresome read indeed, so please skip ahead unless you are of particularly strong constitution.

1. Why is excess mortality so high?
by Pascal Siggelkow and Alexander Steininger
28 November 2022

In 2022, an unusually high number of people have died so far in relation to previous years. October in particular was an outlier. According to experts, this cannot be explained by Corona alone.

    “As a scientist, I want to be open to all possibilities, but I just don’t see the connection [to vaccination],” [said Jonas Schöley, Research Associate in the Department of Population Health at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock]. Additionally, he said, the scientific evidence evaluating vaccines is much stronger than that available in population research. “We don't have to rely on the error-prone search for causes in population data because of the very good body of studies on the efficacy and risks of vaccination.” If the vaccines led to an increased number of deaths, this would have been proven long ago in medical and epidemiological research.

2. A flood of fake videos and pictures
by Carla Reveland and Pascal Siggelkow
3 July 2023

In connection to the riots in France, numerous pictures and videos are being shared on social media. Many of them are not from the current protests, but are disinformation.

    In right-wing extremist and conspiracy-theorist Telegram channels, posts containing the term “France” have seen marked increase since the end of June ... The Austrian right-wing alternative channel AUF1, for example, speaks of “ethno-riots” and a “bloody multicultural illusion.”

    “Whenever there are topics that lend themselves to populist or right-wing extremist instrumentalisation, they are used,” [Pia] Lamberty, [Social Psychologist and Executive Director of the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy] says … This could be current political debates such as the topic of heat pumps, crises such as climate, Corona, economic tensions, or even riots such as in France. “Such attempts at instrumentalisation are not always successful across society as a whole, but for supporters of right-wing extremist ideologies they are often an additional confirmation of their own world views.”

3. Doubts about the significance of the AfD “Einzelfallticker”
by Carla Reveland and Pascal Siggelkow
3 July 2023

With their “isolated case ticker,” the AfD purports to show the alleged “true extent” of crimes committed by migrants. But a random sample shows that in half of the cases, reports do not indicate the origin of the suspect.

    In response to a request from ARD-Factfinder, the AfD writes that it is “interested in transparency regarding the official figures from the police crime statistics in 2022.” Pia Lamberty, social psychologist and managing director of the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy … sees things differently. Launching a ticker with the intention of pointing out the danger posed by people considered to be non-Germans by the AfD by no means accords with the “role of an objective informer.” “This is the opposite of an open investigation and the opposite of objectivity,” says Lamberty.

4. How credible is the information on the [Ukrainian] counter-offensive?
by Pascal Siggelkow
7 July 2023

Ukraine's counteroffensive to liberate territory occupied by Russia has been underway since June. Because Ukraine is keeping a low information profile, and the media often rely on Russian information. Experts are sceptical about this.

    The fact that information on the counter-offensive comes primarily from Russia is due to the fact that Ukraine has mostly imposed a news blackout. The Russian Defence Ministry is trying to exploit this situation, says Julia Smirnova, senior researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in Germany (ISD). “This is a focus of Russian propaganda, and the numbers that are given are often massively exaggerated.” The Russian defence ministry is therefore not credible, she said.

    The Dutch open source intelligence website (OSINT) Oryx wrote on Twitter of a total of six tanks abandoned in Zaporizhia oblast, including one Leopard tank, four Bradleys and one mine-clearing tank. “Left behind” howevewr is not synonymous with “destroyed.” In total, according to Oryx's research, eight of Ukraine’s Leopard tanks have been destroyed or damaged so far since the Russian invasion began.

5. Increased agitation against queer people
by Carla Reveland and Pascal Siggelkow
17 July 2023

Whether it’s about homosexuals, drag queens or trans people: Disinformation about queer people is omnipresent in social networks. Experts believe this can have devastating consequences.

    Trans people are particularly targeted by disinformation, says Kerstin Thost, press officer of the Lesbian and Gay Association in Germany (LSVD). “In the past months around the debate on the Self-Determination Act [which would make it possible for Germans to change their official gender and first names], we have seen an increased attack on trans people in particular, not only in Germany but also internationally. There has been an increased mobilisation of hatred, agitation and “demonisation against LGBTQI*.” LGBTIQ* stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people.

6. Who finances the welfare state?
by Pascal Siggelkow
26 July 2023

It’s said time and again on the internet that 15 million people keep Germany running. The references is to “net taxpayers,” who pay more taxes than they receive in benefits. Experts, however, believe that this figure is wrong.

    The figure of 15 million “net taxpayers” is justified … in this way: Of the approximately 46 million employed people in Germany, 27 million paid more taxes and contributions than they received in state benefits. Of these, however, 12 million are “directly or indirectly dependent on the state,” since they are paid by taxes … for example, as state employees. Thus … 15 million “net taxpayers” keep the system running.

    Stefan Bach, a researcher … the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), believes this calculation is incomplete … “Basically, state taxes and levies are offset by services without which the modern economy cannot function either.” …

    Social contributions such as unemployment insurance or health insurance should also be considered separately … The calculation holds that all pensioners are recipients of benefits [and] ignores the fact that the status of net tax payer and recipient changes … in the course of one’s life. …

7. Local weather phenomena do not refute climate change
by Carla Reveland and Pascal Siggelkow
10 August 2023

The last two weeks of July in Germany were cold and wet. Some use this fact to play down climate change. But experts believe this is wrong.

    … Kevin Sieck from the Climate Service Center … believes that temporary local weather does not support arguments about climate change: “Robust statements about climate trends can only be obtained by looking at several decades,” says Sieck. “A rainy July in Germany doesn’t say anything about long-term trends.” It is therefore the long-term developments that are relevant when assessing trends in the climate.

    Karsten Schwanke, meteorologist and ARD weather presenter, agrees: “There will always be very changeable summers.” But there is a clear tendency towards warmer summers with larger upward swings. “We see a tendency for heat waves to become longer. And we are currently getting heat waves that we definitely didn't see 50 years ago. We're also getting more droughts, especially in the summer.”

8. How China regards the Russian invasion
by Carla Reveland and Pascal Siggelkow
21 August 2023

In the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, China is trying to position itself as a mediator. At the same time, the US and NATO are portrayed as warmongers. Is China neutral?

    “China stands for peace while the US prevents the peace process”, “The actions of US-led NATO have pushed Russia-Ukraine tensions to their peak” or “Ukrainian ‘neo-Nazis’ have opened fire on Chinese students.” These are all statements made by Chinese state media or government officials in relation to the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine.

    Although Beijing claims to be a neutral actor that respects the “sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations,” China has provided “rhetorical backing” to the Kremlin, according to a study by the US-based German Marshal Fund. “Chinese officials and state media have openly supported and promoted Kremlin-friendly accounts of the war.”

9. Why the record debt is not much to write home about
by Pascal Siggelkow
7 September 2023

Germany's national debt is at a record high, many media reported. From a purely nominal point of view, this is true, but from the point of view of experts, this is not very meaningful.

    Martin Beznoska, Senior Economist for Financial and Fiscal Policy at the Institute for the German Economy (IW) points out [that] a more suitable parameter for assessing a country’s debt is … the debt-to-GDP ratio. “The debt-to-GDP ratio is a better indicator because it puts the debt in relation to the potential that the state has in terms of revenue-generating capacity,” Beznoska says.

    The debt-to-GDP ratio relates government debt to nominal gross domestic product. For Germany, the debt-to-GDP ratio was 66.3 per cent in 2022. This means that the total debt was 66.3 per cent of the gross domestic product. Compared to the two previous years, the debt-to-GDP ratio in Germany has thus improved: in 2020 it was 68.7 per cent, in 2021 69.3 per cent. Before the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, however, it was still 59.6 percent.

10. Spahn’s dubious figures
by Pascal Siggelkow
1 September 2023

Vice chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary faction Spahn has criticised the planned increase in unemployment benefits. He said this would mean that a family of four would receive on average as much as an average-income family. But this is not true.

    Planned increases to unemployment benefits next year have caused heated debeated. The CDU/CSU have complained that the changes will raise benefits higher than the wages of many employees. Vice chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary facation Jens Spahn said this sent the wrong signal. Even now, a family of four are entitled to an average of 2,311 Euros a month, which he said is as much as an average-income family in Germany. But this is not quite correct.

    According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), couples with two children had an average net household income of 5,490 euros in 2018. This is significantly more than the 2,311 Euros Spahn claimed. The gross household income was 7,435 Euros.

11. Fake videos and conspiracy claims
by Pascal Siggelkow
11 September 2023

Many false images and videos are circulating on social media about the devastating earthquake in Morocco that killed more than 2,000 people. Some of them are linked to well-known conspiracy narratives.

    A look at the recent past shows that disinformation is often deliberately spread after natural disasters. In the case of the fires in Hawaii in August as well as the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria in February, videos were circulated that were supposed to show evidence of absurd causes.

    In the case of earthquakes, the USA is often portrayed as the alleged cause – with their High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). HAARP is a research programme of the University of Alaska in the USA that has been in existence for decades. The aim is to research the upper atmosphere – the ionosphere – and also the propagation of radio waves. Radio waves are used for this purpose.

Now, as projects go, debunking the debunkers does not appeal to me very much, but we must get some read on Siggelkow’s accuracy and reliability. Remember that he should be almost totally right almost all of the time. After all, he or his managers choose what to debunk, so the very least we can expect of them is the judicious selection of easy targets. Alas, the only clean victory I can grant our Fact Enthusiast is 11), on the Moroccan earthquake. Few will believe this was caused by the American HAARP research programme, but it’s hard to know how many tagesschau fans needed to hear this in the first place.

Remarkably, in various of these pieces, Siggelkow doesn’t seem to be clearly debunking anything; 1) on excess mortality tries to head off the dark conclusions of vaccine sceptics, but can only manage this very weakly, while 4) on the Ukraine offensive and 8) on China’s pro-Russia stance merely offer helpings of reheated NATO propaganda to counter news and opinions from unapproved foreign sources. Also in this category is 5), which swipes at two pieces of allegedly anti-LGTBQ misinformation, but cannot clearly refute either of them, and beyond that offers little more than unsubstantiated hand-wringing about the violence and threats which gender minorities face.

Otherwise, we see a mix of disingenuous approaches, perhaps illustrated best by 7) on the fact that cool and rainy weather doesn’t refute climate change. While this is certainly true, the mainstream media – including tagesschau – have been confusing climate for weather deliberately in service of their environmentalist polemic for years. If hot summer days can indicate climate change, then cool summer days can contraindicate it, and if the press doesn’t like people making the latter argument, they should stop making the former one. Number 6), on the precarious German welfare state, which allegedly depends on a mere 15 million net taxpayers to cover its liabilities, also belongs here. By selectively excluding entitlements – above all, pensions – you can make this figure more favourable, and if you want to count households instead of individuals things might look better too, but these prevarications and qualifications miss the point. As an objective matter, the German pension system faces collapse in the face of the retirement wave and demographic decline. Much the same applies to 9); it’s true that German debt is at a record high only in nominal terms, but even the debt-to-GDP ratio which Siggelkow’s experts prefer paints an uncomfortable picture of government extravagance since the pandemic.

Particularly in these last two cases, we see Siggelkow reaching for a tactic that these complex cases don’t allow him to exercise fully. We might call this The Debunking of the Part to Discredit the Whole. This is the main stock-in-trade of fact checkers in general; indeed, it is baked into the very premise of their profession. It consists in leveraging a quite irrelevant but well-grounded objection for the purposes of casting a pall over broader arguments that the checkers would prefer not to assail, because the rest of the facts to be checked don’t run in their favour. Thus 2) denounces fake French riot videos on social media as a means of playing down, however implicitly, the very real violence which broke out in the wake of Nahel Merzouk’s killing, while 3) on the AfD Einzelfallticker ends up (after no little special pleading) actually confirming that migrants commit crime at higher rates than native Germans, while merely questioning migrant involvement in many of the catalogued cases.
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Also in this category is 10): While Jens Spahn obviously understated the average income of the four-person German household, his broader argument – that in certain circumstances entitlements can exceed wages and are rising at a faster rate than income – appears to be totally correct.

You need read only a few of these exercises in ideological masturbation to find the primary explanation for fact-checker mediocrity. People like Siggelkow can afford to be stupid, because they’re not actually paid to think about anything. As a fact-checker, Siggelkow’s job consists mostly of calling up various “experts” and writing down what they tell him. Even this may overstate his agency, as very often I expect that it is the “experts” who call up Siggelkow and provide him with pre-digested material to print, but of course this is hard to prove. In those cases where Siggelkow interviews primarily midlevel academics not obviously connected to any advocacy groups, we might presume the reporting reflects his own initiative. Quite often, however, his sources hail from highly politicised think-tanks and NGOs, and in these instances I think we’re justified in suspecting he’s acting as a mere conduit.

Three of our eleven articles (2, 3 and 11) draw on the alleged expertise of the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy (CeMAS), a “non-profit extremism monitoring agency founded in 2021.” Their heavy representation in my eleven-article corpus is no accident; CeMAS and other anti-extremism NGOs are a major pillar of Siggelkow’s production. Sometimes they crop up even where you wouldn’t expect them, as in 4) on the Ukrainian counteroffensive, which features a prominent quote on “Russian propaganda” from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue – a “think and do tank” (heavens preserve us) which concerns itself with “digital regulation, disinformation, extremism and digital civic education.”

Siggelkow’s forays into economic matters are rarer, but in our exploratory corpus, the Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) plays an outsized role. This is an old progressive liberal operation that advocates redistributive economic policies. IW experts help Siggelkow defend the welfare state in 6) and play down German national debt in 9). Curiously, when it comes time to defend NATO, Siggelkow’s bench of personal informants runs a bit thinner, perhaps reflecting the fact that the Ukraine war has ceased to be a major focus of state media coverage. Thus for 8), Siggelkow performs no expert interview, and rips instead from a piece published by the German Marshall Fund, an Atlanticist think-tank whose name he misspells. In 4) on the Ukrainian counteroffensive, his major source is somebody with a master’s degree in “East Asian Economy and Society” from the small think-tank-cum-consultancy-operation known as the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy. This is a small den of Atlanticist Europhiles who are still awaiting the day when they will get their own Wikipedia page.

A broader survey of Siggelkow’s output, extending to the beginning of this year, reveals a split focus between the Russian war on the one hand, and identity politics and mass migration on the other. Somewhat surprisingly, climate topics have a mostly supporting role, and he thematises Covid and the vaccines only occasionally. The recent economic pieces are outliers.

The null hypothesis of the fact-checking industry would be something like this: “Threatened by the rise of alternative internet media, the establishment press have cultivated various discourse-policing operations to reclaim objectivity and reliability as their exclusive province.” In Siggelkow’s output, we certainly find much to support this view. It is the reason, for example, that he is so fond of writing about social media “misinformation” and internet “conspiracy theories.” The internet is a dangerous world of lies and disinformation, from which only the friendly tagesschau and their intrepid finders of facts can save you. This is basically his attitude, but as theses go, the null hypothesis is far too broad.

It cannot explain Siggelkow’s great selectivity, for example. There are absolute mountains of absurdity on the internet that he totally ignores, while often venturing into overtly political territory to fact-check the inconvenient arguments of the political opposition, which don’t involve social media at all. At the same time, the governing parties – especially the Greens – attract almost no Siggelkowian scrutiny, despite their long history of absurdly false statements. Fact-checking is clearly an enterprise devoted towards furthering a very specific political programme under the false cover of objectivity. This programme is directed primarily against “right-wing extremism,” particularly in its post-2015 incarnation. Secondary fronts on behalf of NATO, climate change sceptics, and the establishment CDU/CSU opposition emerge as the news cycle lends them relevance. Siggelkow, in other words, is quite plainly a propagandist who finds facts on behalf of the Scholz government, and in this he is funded by mandatory license fees levied from every German household.

That Siggelkow so often strays from his stated mission to correct falsehoods and publishes many pieces not clearly directed against any notional misinformation, merely reveals the tendency of the ideological mission to overwhelm tactical fact-finding entirely. Siggelkow is a conduit via which the preformulated output of regime-adjacent advocacy groups can find their way into the press and talk back to their crticis even in the absence of any specific occasion for them to do so.

Siggelkow also has a broader purpose, independent of his rearguard actions on behalf of the regime. This is the construction of a mythology which binds the political right to internet ‘conspiracy theorising.’ His implicit polemic is not merely that legacy media like tagesschau have a lock on objective and reliable information, but that political views opposed to those which prevail among state media journalists arise from ignorance, disinformation and general internet insanity. The facts are on the side of the progressive liberals who steer the German state, and the only people opposed to them are online idiots who believe that secret US government programmes cause earthquakes.

While Siggelkow’s tricks are both tiresome and transparent, fact checking is anything but easy. His steady stream of but-ackshually-bro bothering depends like all other heavily politicised press reporting on the support of a dense web of NGOs, think tanks and other advocacy groups. Where these are lacking, for example in novel areas like Corona, Siggelkow really struggles. The great algal blooming of pro-Atlanticist “open-source intelligence” posters after the outbreak of war in Ukraine reflects an effort to supply the Siggelkows of the press with recycle-able content. Like everything else in our present, diffuse system of regime power and propaganda, the ideological behemoth moves slowly and struggles to react to new problems.

Ultimately, the significance of the fact-finders is obscure; it’s hard to believe Siggelkow has many readers. The lack of interest his tedious schoolmarmery attracts is probably one reason his ilk are so over-represented in state media operations, where nobody need worry about producing content that is profitable. His writing is dry and unpersuasive; at most, it is a kind of choir-preaching that reassures the tagesschau audience that their views are grounded in facts, logic and science, and anyone who disagrees is a dangerous internet manic, or perhaps even a Russian.

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An “Einzelfall” is an isolated case; the AfD Einzelfall-Ticker alludes to the older project “XY-Einzelfall,” which began documenting migrant crimes in Germany in 2016. The title is an ironic reference to the regime line that migrant infractions are “isolated cases.”

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Because authorities often intentionally withhold the details of migrant perpetrators, whether specific cases actually involve migrants or not requires some surmising on the part of the reader. Probably whoever runs the Einzelfallticker should include only cases where migrant offenders are specifically identified or described (there is no shortage of those), but in my own less-than-casual study of the Einzelfallticker, I find that a) they’re generally clear when there’s uncertainty about the origins of the suspect, and b) in most of the unidentified cases, they’re probably right to suspect migrant perpetrators.

Margaret Anna Alice
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Thank you for taking on their checkered “facts,” eugyppius. I coined the terms “fact-choker” and “fact-choking” in response to an el gato malo challenge (probably a couple of years ago now) and have been using them ever since. I encourage everyone to use those terms whenever encountering these MoT Winston Smiths to expose this fraudulent practice and help propagate that understanding through the power of reframing.

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The Incredible Dumbing Down Of Americans Is Handing Tyrants Tyranny On A Silver Platter As A Crippling Portion Of The Population Can No Longer Exercise Independent Thinking
By Steve Feinstein for All News Pipeline
September 6, 2023

Here it is: the biggest missed story of this century is the incredible dumbing down of the American public, to the point where a cripplingly large portion of the adult population is no longer willing or able to exercise independent critical thinking in order to take decisive action on a wide range of issues that shape the direction of our economy, culture, and personal freedoms.

Indeed, too lazy and unmotivated to analyze readily available, credible data, far too many people have ceded their personal independence to government dictates — dictates clearly designed to increase government control over the population, rather than having been put in place for the genuine good of the people. Let's look at some examples:

Masks
When COVID first hit, we were told to "mask up." The COVID particle was smaller than the weave opening in non-professional masks, yet people went dutifully along anyway, unwilling to look at things logically. Then we were told to double-mask. Then it was the plastic face shield over a mask. Nothing sums up the dumbing down of America better than the image of a person driving alone in his car, all masked up.

Vaccines
The COVID vaccines were — and remain — experimental. First we were told that if you take the vax, you can't get COVID. That was wrong. Then we were told that if you take the vax and a booster, you can't get or transmit COVID. That was wrong. Then we were told that if you get double-boosted, you'll be protected from all future variants. That was wrong. Then we were assured that the inexplicably high number of adverse reactions to the vaccine was totally coincidental, despite earlier vaccines having been pulled from the market for having only a fraction of the adverse reactions of the COVID vaccines. Yet when people were told "no entry unless vaccinated," they went along.

2020 Election fraud
- More votes cast and counted than there were registered voters in the district. No possibility of fraud there.
- Ballot-stuffing in drop boxes caught on camera during the wee hours of the night. No possibility of fraud there.
- Late ballots coming in in a statistically impossible 90+% manner for one candidate. No possibility of fraud there.
- Republican poll observers being kicked out and then an overwhelmingly high proportion of votes suddenly materializing for the Democrat candidate. No possibility of fraud there.
- Mail-in voting procedures being widely implemented because of "COVID concerns," but there were no verifiable chain-of-custody procedures in place and no mechanism to confirm voter signature authenticity. No possibility of fraud there.
- Voting machines proven to be connected to the internet, despite vehement protests to the contrary. No possibility of fraud there.

How can any reasonably intelligent person not question these things? You may still believe that the 2020 election results were valid, but simply raising logical questions does not make someone a criminal.

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Those humorous "man in the street" interviews are fun, and granted, only the most outlandish ones make the cut onto the TV segment. Still, answers like "1924" when asked, "What year did the Civil War begin?" and "Hmmm...Spain?" when asked, "Whom did we win our independence from?" are emblematic of the widespread, deep-rooted "couldn't care less" attitude about knowing about the United States that's evidenced by so many adults today, especially Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z.

This wasn't always true. In WWII, whether from Massachusetts or Kansas, Catholic, Protestant or Jewish, Red Sox fan or Cardinals fan, American G.I.s were fiercely loyal to one another and their country. It mattered.

In the 1950s, the vast majority of ordinary Americans knew all about the "arms race" with the Soviets and knew exactly where the public fallout shelters were in case of attack.

The Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was followed by everyone, eyes and ears glued to the television for hours on end. We as a country pulled for JFK to find a way out. We didn't say it was the Democrats' or Republicans' fault. The country stood as one, calm, concerned, and informed.

In 1969, the Apollo 11 lunar landing was hailed as a unified American triumph, without any thought of conservatives vs. liberals.

In 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, the majority of American adults completely understood the significance, having lived with the Wall as a defining element of foreign relations for most of their adult lives.

But in recent decades, especially after 9/11/2001, the Democrats have made a conscious, concerted effort to divide the country along political and demographic lines for the express purpose of seizing ever-greater power over the electorate. In addition to convincing various groups that they are suddenly victims as a result of Republican policies, Democrats have willingly attempted to make sure that as wide a swath as possible of their potential voting base remains uninformed. Hence the phenomenal, almost criminal, misinformation and outright lies fed to the public about things such as Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. These COVID treatments could've stopped the pandemic in its tracks had they been widely disseminated early on.

Instead, we got highly regarded doctors being banned from Facebook, hospitals succumbing to liberal government pressure and refusing to prescribe these treatments and liberal cable news commentators referring derisively to ivermectin as a "horse de-wormer" — all in service to one overriding fact:

- Great portions of the American public will not seek out the truth if it's the slightest bit inconvenient. These same people are only too willing to accept liberal government lies and being told what to do. A frighteningly high percentage of potential Democrat voters are far more interested in their own personal comfort and convenience and far less interested in doing any kind of hard mental analysis of complicated issues.

The Democrats know this. They know that if they tell their voting base to keep their mask on while in line at Starbucks, they will. They have no interest in weave opening versus particle size. They just want their Grande Iced Caramel Macchiato, and don't bother me with anything else.

There's a funny Facebook meme that's been making the rounds. It goes something like, "Not saying the current generation is dumb, but your grandfather's car owner's manual had a section in it describing how to adjust the valves. Today's cars owner's manuals tell you not to drink the battery fluid."

The high proportion of self-absorbed, convenience-obsessed, unintellectually curious adults in America is the biggest story of the 21st century. This is what is driving the direction of the country and shaping our culture.

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America Has Fully Passed The 'Event Horizon' Towards Self-Destruction, Arriving At The Place Where A 'Boot Stomping Upon A Human Face, Forever' Is Fully Embraced By Braindead Masses
By J.B. Shurk for All News Pipeline
September 7, 2023

It is striking just how much leftists enjoy being dominated by Big Government. Please make us stand six feet apart! Please monitor and police our speech! Please punish us for skirting COVID lockdowns! Please mandate new experimental goop for our veins! Every time the oppressive authoritarians in positions of power abuse that power to make outrageous and unconstitutional demands of the American people, the leftists hop to and beg for even more obnoxious restrictions. Politicians and bureaucrats are just people (often bad people), but to leftists, they're celebrities, (needed) father figures, and the atheist's empty-suited pantheon of false gods.

As Sam J. wrote in a righteous, all-caps, truth-telling rant over at Twitchy, no matter how nonsensical or harmful the government's often-illegal-but-always-idiotic commands, the masochistic left can be heard shrieking, "YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD IDEA. GOVERN ME HARDER, DADDY! MASK ME UP! TAKE SCHOOL FROM MY KIDS! YAAAAS!" Nothing makes the left happier than a system that insists on ruling over leftists in perpetuity. No group is more worthy of the left's hero worship than an army of control freaks who take pleasure in inconveniencing, voyeuristically surveilling, and intimidating the masses. Silence the vaccine skeptics! Force the anti-maskers into hiding! Imprison anyone who still attends church even after the State's Marxist priests banned the unapproved exercise of religion! In this brave new world, the cowards demand cowardice from everyone.

Or, as the Babylon Bee insightfully observes, the reason Democrats are so irrationally offended by the appearance of Revolutionary War–era Gadsden flags is because everything they have been brainwashed to believe screams out, "TREAD ON ME!" Perhaps it is natural for those with crushed souls to plead for crushed spines, too. If leftists didn't snuggle up next to tyranny, after all, there would be little else to keep them warm at night.

It is as O'Brien — the enigmatic Inner Party inquisitor from Orwell's 1984 — tells Winston Smith: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever." Leftists alive today crave that boot stamping on their collective face. They need the threat of that boot's punishment to find any sense of meaning in their otherwise empty, fruitless lives. Receiving and inflicting pain is the only way for them to feel...something.

ANP Emergency Fundraiser: The globalists war on ANP is all part of the globalists 'Big Tech' effort to silence conservative and independent voices, allowing them to maintain a monopoly on the flow of information. As George Orwell made clear to us decades ago, "The further a society drifts from the truth, the more they will hate those who speak it." But, with your amazing help, we at ANP promise to keep 'speaking truth to power' because, as Orwell also reminded us, "If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

Leftists have been conditioned not to think for themselves and to project their fears and inadequacies onto others. It doesn't matter if a person has twenty academic degrees and is hailed as an "expert" by all the "very best people." If that person mutters tripe such as "the science is settled" or resorts to labeling anyone with an opposing point of view a "denier," then that credentialed crouton is still just stale bread in the left's soup of mental midgets. No person in possession of a first-rate mind ever thinks anything is "settled." No person with the capacity for creative thought would resort to an insult as hackneyed as "denier." When has a thinking person ever stopped pushing the boundaries of knowledge? When has a genius confident in his own thoughts not found more to learn from those who disagree? Only the dogmatic insist on censorship. Only those who lack confidence in their beliefs require other people to be punished for their own.

In many ways, leftists are like PTSD viruses infecting others with their own internalized anxieties. Unfortunately, masks are just as ineffective at preventing the Marxist disease from spreading as they have been with COVID. I joke about a lot of things, but I take post-traumatic stress disorder seriously. If you have ever suffered from the condition or know someone who has, then you know how it can leave a person almost frozen in time.

One of the most astute descriptions of PTSD that I have seen comes from an Israeli therapist, Arian Lev, who has treated thousands of civilians and IDF veterans suffering from the traumatic experiences of firefights, building explosions, missile attacks, kidnappings, and imprisonments. Lev isolates subconscious codes that get activated by trauma — "life equals danger" and "I equals delete." PTSD sufferers "actually delete themselves" so that "they do not exist." "We change 'life equals danger' to 'life equals security and safety,'" and "when you change 'I equals delete' to 'I equals exist,' people become alive again. We reprogram them. They exist in their bodies and they are able to focus on the present and the anxiety is released."

If Lev's research is correct, and large numbers of people in society possess these subconscious codes that can be triggered, consider how the leftist worldview plays directly into these mental struggles. Whether it is COVID, "climate change," fear of overpopulation, the threats of racism, whatever — leftists are constantly teaching people of all ages to equate life with danger. Simultaneously, the answer to every "danger" is some totalitarian communist system that requires each individual to "delete" himself. Life = danger. I = delete. Arian Lev has spent a lifetime trying to fix busted (but not broken) minds, and at the same time, the Marxist globalists are building a world that spreads doom-and-gloom fear, while programming people to view their own freedom, wants, and needs as "selfish." In my estimation, leftists are working overtime to give everybody a bout of PTSD, and the skyrocketing rates of suicide and drug overdose in society seem to back that up. Forget about COVID; the most lethal disease today is Marxist globalism.

Wherever totalitarianism spreads, dissenters are imprisoned for "disloyalty" to the State. That means Marxism first attempts to infect its host with equal measures of propaganda, pain, and PTSD and then sends any holdouts straight to prison.

While thinking about these deadly leftist pathogens, the lyrics of a song called "Pets" from the '90s alternative rock band Porno for Pyros run in my head: "Will there be another race / To come along and take over for us? / Maybe Martians could do / Better than we've done / We'll make great pets!" When I watch leftist zombies obsequiously obeying every stupid and harmful governmental edict, all I think now is, "They'll make great pets!"

They do make great pets. Give them a little government money. Promise them that you'll redistribute other people's paychecks directly into their food bowls. Pat them on the head with supercilious compliments such as "we're the ones we've been waiting for." Assure them that they'll "save the world" by gluing themselves to the asphalt of public highways in protest of hydrocarbon fuels, so that wealthy corporate bankers can make windfall profits on otherwise uneconomic "green" energies." Condition them with poor schooling and overt indoctrination to believe that freedom is "dangerous" and that government is "sacred." Encourage them to assume that anybody who cherishes liberty is really a "racist," a "religious extremist," or a Nazi fascist. Give them enough government cookies so that they never think to question how people who do not want Big Government in their private lives could be "fascists" who believe Big Government should control all our lives. Yank them on the collar should they try to walk in a different direction from those who hold their leash. Reward them for barking and biting anyone outside the pack.

Why would leftists need Martians to turn them into pets when the D.C. Uniparty has already spayed and neutered the leftist horde? You can't have babies, after all, if you're obsessed with "shouting your abortion" or castrating yourself on the way to an "authentic gender." As any veterinarian will tell you, this kind of behavior will help decrease the number of animals in need of shelter. And in a future world where you "own nothing" and the government provides your shelter, the pet owners prefer not to have a lot of human pets in need of homes.

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With Globalists Intent On Destroying The Bulk Of Humanity, Leaving Them Feudal Overlords To The Remaining Slaves, We're Witnessing The End Times Destruction Of Our Planet
By Alan Barton - All News PipeLine
September 9, 2023

Absurdity.  Merriam Webster’s definition leaves much to be desired as it is circular in nature.  They say “the quality or state of being absurd” while looking at absurd gives the more expected result; “ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous” and “having no rational or orderly relationship to human life”.  That is more like it, and as a noun they say “the state or condition in which human beings exist in an irrational and meaningless universe and in which human life has no ultimate meaning”.  I think we should play with those bolded phrases keeping in mind the obvious linkages that will be presented today.  Although those items are incongruous in and of themselves, the unmistakably malevolent intent is, as stated, most unequivocally and definitely absurd especially in the harm to human life aspects of the term.

The battle cry is “global warming” or more specifically “man-made global warming” that is the specific predetermined point of all of the irrational claims of that falsehood.  Or is it?  Perhaps it is IN FACT man-made and intentionally misrepresented as to specifically what form that being “man-made” takes.  The excuses they attribute to it all are your driving around in your damned SUV’s and diesel pickups that are causing so much of it with later versions complaining about your air conditioner use, your using gas stoves and other appliance, that interminable abundance of cow farts and buffalo farts before that, the exhalation your very breath contributes and so on and on and on ---.  Yes sir, just too many people in this world creating the abundance of carbon dioxide that they say is a huge poison to our systems and is killing us all, so eliminate those CO2 sources and the few left living can do so in healthful bliss.  The primary point being there is a war on the carbon cycle.

What they refuse to acknowledge is that Earth is filled with an abundance of carbon based life, from the lowest forms of bacteria to the monster groves of quacking aspen and from the deepest oceans strange life forms to the highest mountain climbing mammals; with of course, Man at the pinnacle.  God’s creation is perfect; it is the manipulations of man that has let it down.  There are some fallacies in the current model of carbon cycling such as the fact that petroleum is NOT dead dinosaurs but rather manufactured deep in the earth in what is termed the Abiotic oil formation theory.  While the proofs of this theory are more recent, the idea that the Earth actually forms the carbon forms like natural gas, oil, coal and such is ancient and has been the primary idea in most areas of the world still today, with the United States and closer friends being the primary detractors of natural formation of petroleum and related hydrocarbons in favor of the fault ridden dino theories.  In September of 2009 in Science Daily report states that “Researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm have managed to prove that fossils from animals and plants are not necessary for crude oil and natural gas to be generated. The findings are revolutionary… Together with two research colleagues, Vladimir Kutcherov has simulated the process involving pressure and heat that occurs naturally in the inner layers of the earth, the process that generates hydrocarbon, the primary component in oil and natural gas.”  I will state that it involves an adiabatic process deep within the earth’s mantle as given in the Advancing Earth and Space Sciences article that mentions “The theory of the abyssal abiogenic origin of petroleum is a significant part of the modern scientific theories dealing with the formation of hydrocarbons. These theories include the identification of natural hydrocarbon systems, the physical processes leading to their terrestrial concentration, and the dynamic processes controlling the migration of that material into geological reservoirs of petroleum. The theory of the abyssal abiogenic origin of petroleum recognizes that natural gas and petroleum are primordial materials of deep origin which have migrated into the Earth's crust.”

There is far more to this but that is not the thrust of this column so I will leave it at that with this one last reference; “There is widespread evidence that petroleum originates from biological processes. Whether hydrocarbons can also be produced from abiogenic precursor molecules under the high-pressure, high-temperature conditions characteristic of the upper mantle remains an open question. It has been proposed that hydrocarbons generated in the upper mantle could be transported through deep faults to shallower regions in the Earth’s crust, and contribute to petroleum reserves”.  Personally, I subscribe to this view of hydro-carbon formations.  The primary point of this is to show that the advertised theories are not valid and using them to fabricate harsh social structures around them is, well, absurd.  But they will use any theory to destroy all that is good.

Those recent massive forest fires in Canada, Alaska, and elsewhere are most obviously not just happenstance.  The fact that they start almost together, that they also follow on the boundaries of the earth’s faults as shown in many recent videos by Dutchsinse on his YouTube channel (Thank you Mr. Janitch).  He has also shown proof of DEW weapons (Directed Energy Weapons) being fired, and out of fear or respect for foreign intel activities, has quietly refrained from pointing them out anymore.  That those fires are intentional and arson related is not up for question by anyone that knows how to think, read and analyze data that is presented in so many forums.  DEW weapons consist of electromagnetic energies consisting of frequencies ostensibly in the HF (High Frequency) range of 2.7 to 10 Mhz but there are also reports of from ultra low frequencies to much higher.  Those in the much higher ranges are from alternate transmitters, and they range from VHF, UHV and up thorough microwave into the visible light ranges and much higher as X-rays, Gamma rays and so forth.  Many of these are used already such as the microwave “Havana syndrome” anti-personnel weapons to the weather modification systems that we have covered here before.  Their uses are very widespread and the targets are as well.  What exactly is the reason for those fires?  Theories from filling the sky with smoke to shut out the sun, to hiding widespread satellite access to data, to poisoning our skies in larger quantities than the intentional train wreck chemical attack on East Palestine Ohio.

With disinformation and outright fabrication of “evidences” of DEW weapons being used to start those fires as well as the more recent devastating Lahaina Hawaii fires being published, we must also use our brains and acknowledge that they are, for the most part at least, totally fake.  Using pics of missile launches, of meteor strikes, of oil refinery fires and so forth and claiming they are lasers igniting those fires is absurd on many levels.  Yes we have high powered laser weapons that are active and in operational status, but they do NOT use visible light.  Yes we use HAARP, microwave generators and such to modify the weather, but we also use aircraft dumping toxic aluminum powder and other things in the skies to activate storm fronts by not only the government but many private companies as well.  Flight tracking software has proven they are being used all of the time to seed storms ahead of them reaching dry or other target areas such as the recent Hurricane Idalia and the coming one as well, they are being strengthened and directed to specific targets.  There are many inconsistencies in the fire burn spread in Maui that may be direct evidence of a DEW attack on that island such as the weird lack of blue items not being burned, but that is still not an absolute as other factors may be involved.

Somewhere around 200 MILLION acres have burned in Canada, then add in the US, Alaska, and other nations in the West this year.  That is a lot of smoke generated, but to what end?  I mentioned a few ideas above, but then perhaps this headline speaking of Bill Gates has the more nearly accurate truth in it; “Bill Gates-Funded Group Plans to Strip 70 Million Acres of Forest to Save the Planet”.  We discussed the carbon cycle very early on in this column for a definite purpose, and that is to help understand just how important the flora contributes to the regulation of carbon in the atmosphere.  Burn the trees, cut down on the oxygen in the atmosphere, increase the carbon dioxide, destroy the earth’s ‘lungs’ basically.  That does not affect the same cycles that our oceans provide, but then they may have something up their sleeve for just that.  Another article said the plan is to bury those trees underground all in an attempt to slow down global warming.  Atmospheric CO2 has NO EFFECT on the weather of this planet; it is NOT a “greenhouse gas” as they claim.  Cutting down our trees will have exactly the opposite effect that they claim it will.  It is all a lie, so what are they doing this for?  It destroys not just the forests, but the animal life as well.  But that is of no concern for them as they claim planting solar panels covering once productive farmland and arid lands not good for agriculture, but they are also cutting down forests to plant wind turbines to take out our flying fowl en-mass as they also destroy our off shore sea life by those same turbines mounted at sea.  Save the Whales used to be their call, but they are intentionally killing them off with those wind turbines.  Same with our planets birds including our national emblem, the bald headed eagle, and endangered species like the very rare California condor.  And this is supposed to replace carbon fuels in power generation to save those things.  This is an absurdity of the highest order in my estimation.

Destroy the Environment order to save it is the key takeaway that these idiots are up to.  Destroy our farmlands, our protein production of cattle, chickens and so forth in order to feed the world and make very unreliable energy that fails just when it is required.  Destroy the bulk of mankind to make life more enjoyable as slaves to the new class of feudal overlords is more like what they have in store for us.  But of course, pushing for major world war, with the possibility of wiping us out entirely seems also to be on the table for them.  That would be a true Black Sky event.

Next consider this idea; that the End Time’s destruction of our air, of our life support, of our oceans and planets inhabitants is by some act of God and/or by some massive war but one third of all sea life, one third of all animal life and one third of all mankind will be exterminated.  It may not all be by acts of God, but by acts of insane Satanists out to glorify themselves in their acting out as though they consider themselves gods.  We went over that concept previously, and it appears that those end time disasters are by our own making in many instances as our Creator allows us to destroy ourselves.  This is the reality of our present prospects as we move forward in this age of massive evil, of pure demonic presence.

Absurdity; “the state or condition in which human beings exist in an irrational and meaningless universe and in which human life has no ultimate meaning”.

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There Is No Limit to State Power, and There Never Has Been!
By Gary D. Barnett
September 9, 2023

“Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O’Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O’Brien: You do not exist.”
~ George Orwell, 1984

From the time of birth, Americans have been inundated (indoctrinated — brainwashed) to believe that they live in a free country, and that the reason for this rests on the notion that the United States was ‘founded’ on the principle of a ‘limited government,’ where the State is greatly restricted in its power. Fiction at this level resides only in the most extreme fantasy, and can only be propagated successfully if the entire population is put into a type of mystical trance where critical thinking is completely absent. This did not occur recently, it has always been the case in every government on earth since the beginning of what is falsely referred to as ‘civilization.’

I should preface my remarks for those who still cling to the ridiculous idea that government can be benevolent, restricted, limited, and that any government document called a constitution, has anything whatsoever to do with rights or freedom. It absolutely does not. The State as a political structure is based on fear, force, terror, and power gain, and nothing else. The idea of freedom is based solely on the premise that no man has any right to rule over any other. All government is in direct contradiction of this premise, and therefore it is the antithesis of liberty, not its creator or protector. Every aspect of the falsely claimed ‘founding,’ was and is a lie in my estimation. This statement will anger most, and what that exposes, is that people’s desires (emotions) outweigh reason and logic, and cause total confusion concerning what are the actual rights of man.

The natural rights of man are inherent; they do not come from the sky or heavens, nor any government, as each and every one of us as an unique individual, is born with a right to live, a right to life. All other rights spring from this clear assumption, regardless of those who believe otherwise, or who claim that man has no rights at all. Because each individual has a right to his life, it stands to reason that he has every right to defend his life. In addition, he has every right to sustain his life, which indicates that he has a right to work, to prosper, to supply his every need, which leads to his right to property, and all the fruits of his labor. Every individual has a right to do whatever is necessary in order to sustain, protect, and continue his life, so long as he does not aggress or infringe on the same rights due all other individuals.

This demands the understanding that there is no such thing as a collective right, which is a government scam used to fool the herd in order to control what are falsely referred to as ‘societies.’ Since every man is an unique individual, there are only groups of individuals, not collective ‘societies.’ This leads to the reality that no one has any right to take the property of one to benefit another or any State. Therefore, there is no right to be fed, housed, or supported, no right to medical or health care, no right for State retirement, no right to basic income, no right to universal defense, no right to universal infrastructure, no right to any ‘welfare’ by the State, and on and on. There are no ‘social’ rights whatsoever, there are no paranormal rights; for if these unfounded mystical rights were to exist, the individual would cease to exist, and no right for any man could then exist. In fact, if any so-called ‘social’ rights exist, it would demand the slavery of all in order to sustain by force and violence the lives of those unwilling to be responsible for themselves. This would negate every right of every man.

This is why any constitution created and drafted by government is absolutely worthless if the actual rights of man are considered. In fact, the very idea of constitutions issued by the State is ludicrous, and based on deception. The single concept alone, that government (The State) can give, define, or protect rights, is asinine, for if the State could do so, it could just as easily take all rights away at its whim, which it has done, regardless of the most idiotic notion that government could ever define human rights in the first place. They are natural, and therefore cannot be questioned. This is little understood by this largely dumbed down and indoctrinated population.

The ruling class, and the State, and all governments, have but one agenda, and that is to rule. In order to rule, the State must seek total power, therefore it will never limit itself, or restrict its own ability to garner control over its ‘claimed’ territory, or that of other states and nations. Pieces of parchment cannot limit government, it can only enhance its ability to fool the people into believing a lie, and therefore letting down their guard in the face of extreme tyranny. The permanent goal of all States, is to gain more power, so eliminating all limits and restrictions on its powers is the ultimate goal. This has always been, and always will be, so if real freedom is sought for the individual, the State can never be allowed to have any power over any individual.

This is why all states in existence are structured as single entities, seen to be populated only by collective hordes, all overseen by a political monopoly. This allows for all to be considered as single units, instead of areas populated by individuals. This is only a recipe for mass control. Towns, cities, counties, states, and nations, are a plot to collectivize all individuals, so that the individual is made impotent, and destroyed in favor of the group. This is simply a control mechanism meant to avoid the power of the individual; this because to accept the individual, is to abandon all government.

This short essay is meant to clarify the basic tenets of real freedom of the individual, as opposed to the evil power of the State. It is based upon the ideas of common sense, logic, reason ethics, morality, and reality. The State has no limits, and could not survive if that were not the case. Since all government is based on force and compliance, it is impossible for the existence of any State to coexist with the individual, his natural rights, and freedom.

Quotes by Ayn Rand:
- “A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.”
- “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
- “Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”

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Are Lockdowns Coming Back?
Get Prepped NOW, Just in Case
By Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
September 9, 2023

It’s beginning to look a lot like lockdowns,

Everywhere you go.

Take a look at the grocery store shelves. They’re emptying once again.

With Xs and lines that tell you where to go.

It’s beginning to look a lot like lockdowns.

Masks in every store

But the ugliest sight to see is the media that will be

Lying on every score.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a bad feeling of deja vu right about now. The media is filled with stories about Covid outbreaks and the “new variable.” On every network, serious-looking doctors hope for their five minutes of fame as they discuss why you should wear masks that don’t work and get shots that don’t work.

There are personal stories, too. One of my best friends was shocked when her fiance came home with a positive diagnosis. Another friend told me that half of her grandaughter’s 3rd grade class was out with Covid. My next-door neighbor has it. My daughter’s friend has it.

All that being said, the purpose of this article isn’t to scare you about all the sick people. Sick people happen, and contagious illnesses happen. We all know how to better our chances of not becoming sick and how to take care of ourselves if we’re ill.

But some things are outside of our control.

Things like government mandates, lockdowns, and the ensuing hysteria. Things like being lied to at every turn. (Masks don’t work! Just kidding, you HAVE to wear masks! Two weeks to stop the spread! This shot will protect you!)

If you look at the patterns that preceded the first lockdown, we’re seeing almost identical intensity in the ramp-up of warnings, spreading mask mandates, and other restrictions that led up to it. This article isn’t about whether or not this is right or wrong. It’s about getting prepared before the general public empties the shelves.

I strongly advise you to get prepped right now and make a plan on how you intend to handle it if this comes to pass. This warning is not a prediction – no crystal ball here! It’s a comparative analysis of the circumstances surrounding previous lockdowns. I’m big on patterns. By examining patterns, you can often deduce what’s coming next.

Whether you agree with lockdowns or not, you will most likely be affected by them or by whatever other draconian measures the government takes to “protect” us while simultaneously destroying the economy, the supply chain, and small businesses.

Use what you’ve learned about lockdowns.

This isn’t our first rodeo or even our second. That means we have some experience under our belts that can help us be even better prepared if another round of restrictions comes to pass.

We may not have full-on lockdowns again, but you can bet your bottom dollar we’ll face some type of restrictions in the not-so-distant future. Why would a government give up on something that worked so well to seize power and redistribute wealth the last time around?

Think about what you’ve learned and ask yourself the following questions.

What do you wish you’d done differently?

It’s easy to play quarterback after the game is done, but this exercise isn’t about beating yourself up. It’s about learning from your experience.

    Is there anything you wish you’d done differently?
    What food did you run out of the fastest?
    Were there non-food supplies you didn’t think to buy?
    Was there anything that broke, and you didn’t have the necessary tools or supplies to repair it?
    About what item did you think, “Dang, I wish I had XXXXXX?”
    Were there people who hunkered down with you who made things difficult or unpleasant? How can you make it better with those folks in the future? And will you even want them to come over next time?
    Are there things you could have prepared to keep your kids or other family members more content?

Ask yourself these questions while you’ve got some time to sit and contemplate the lockdown. The things you wish you’d done differently are going to be very important things to address for the future.

What are the things you were satisfied with?

Luckily, we all probably had more successes than failures in this lockdown, so think about the successes. Here are a few examples of some things that may have worked well for you.

    You had enough in your emergency fund to cover any shortfalls.
    You were able to make tasty, nutritious, and filling meals from your supplies.
    You didn’t need to leave the house for X amount of time for groceries.
    You and your family bonded and enjoyed spending this time together.
    You discovered your group worked really well together.
    You did something productive with your time at home.

So, for you, what were the things that worked, and how can you replicate those things in the future?

Make some notes.

Go over the two lists you’ve made and start a third list of the things you either need to buy or need to do before the next time there’s a lockdown. Using the examples above:

    Get more ingredients for your favorite meals.
    Restock your pantry so you can avoid the pitfall of missing ingredients at the store for a couple of months.
    Get a larger quantity of the things you ran out of first.
    Get any needed tools and repair materials.
    Grab multiples of the things you may have forgotten, like shampoo, soap, toothbrushes, etc.
    Get some things to stash away for future entertainment purposes.
    Figure out how to extricate yourself from partnerships that didn’t work.
    For partnerships that did work, make sure they’re on the same page for the next time around.
    Do an inventory of supplies so you can replenish the things you’ve used.

This is something that will take longer than 15-20 minutes at the kitchen table. Really spend some time being thorough with regard to this self-analysis.

Look at your budget.

Millions of Americans saw dramatic changes in their incomes over the past months. This is an important factor in future preparations.

If you’re just barely managing to pay your bills, you may have difficulty stocking up for Round 2. If this is the case, you’ll need to take a close look at your budget.

    Be sure to take advantage of whatever the government is offering in the way of financial assistance.
    Talk to your creditors and see if they’ll work with you.
    Try a month of flat-broke eating. to put aside some cash for stockpiling.
    Add just a few extra things per week. (These are the things I buy nearly every time I go shopping.)
    Don’t spend frivolously. I know it feels like we just got out of prison. However, if you go and spend hundreds of dollars eating at restaurants, you’re going to regret it when the next lockdown rolls around and you don’t have enough supplies.
    See if there are any fixed expenses you can cut.
    Check out this book on flat-broke prepping

This is the time to reduce your output as much as possible so you can replenish your home for the future.

What should you get for the next set of lockdowns and shortages?

Aside from the things you’ve determined above that you need, there are some other things you may want to get for the second wave of lockdowns. Think about the things that ran out first and the things that had purchase limits. when you see them back on shelves, do some stocking up:

    Toilet paper (the gold bars of the coronavirus pandemic!)
    Paper towels
    Lysol wipes
    Paper plates
    Hand sanitizer
    Disinfectant cleaners
    Bleach
    Flour
    Yeast
    Baking powder
    Baking soda
    Meat
    Canned goods
    Dry foods like pasta and rice
    Cough medicine with an expectorant
    Cold and flu medicine
    Ibuprofen
    Tylenol
    Vitamin C

If you store them properly, all of these items will serve you well in the future, even if this article is totally wrong and there is never another lockdown. They’ll help you to be ready for all manner of emergencies, not just mandated self-quarantines.

Make sure you have the following medical items, too so you can monitor yourself and your family:

    Pulse oximeter – these became nearly impossible to acquire for a while
    Touchless thermometer
    N95 masks (if you ever want to leave the house, you may be required to mask up – even if you refuse to wear a mask, if your child is injured or sick, and needs to see a doctor, you’d be forced to abide by the rules there)

Another issue we ran into with shortages was appliances such as chest freezers and refrigerators. They couldn’t be had for love or money after a few months into the last crisis. Parts for repairing central heating and air systems were scarce. There were long waits for many automotive parts, too. If you have a major household or automotive component that needs repair (or will soon) if you can afford it, you may want to be proactive about that. Other shortages included computers, computer cords, tablets, headphones, and other devices for working or schooling from home.

When should you start getting supplies for the second wave?

Think back to when the outbreak began to come to the public eye back in 2020. It only took two days for the shelves to become nearly bare. Here are some pictures as a reminder. It would be pretty foolish to wait until the rest of the country becomes aware, and there’s another run on things, leaving the media to scold preppers for hoarding.

Of course, it wasn’t preppers doing the “hoarding.” We already had our stuff weeks, months, or even years ago.

My advice is to start replenishing your supplies immediately. Take a look at your lists and begin fulfilling them as soon as you can.

You don’t have to buy these things all at once. But start now. Grab a couple of items and put them back. Do this every time you are out. If money isn’t tight, buy one of everything on your list that you might reasonably need when you’re out.

The supply chain never completely bounced back after the last time around. Think about anything you might need to repair or replace, and if you can afford it, get the parts and items you may need.

Mentally preparing for the next lockdown

Something that is potentially even more important than your physical preparations is the mental ones.

Did you find yourself reeling in shock that it happened? Were you depressed or anxious? Lonely or isolated? Understand first that all those feelings are completely normal during a time period of dramatic change. You’re human, and you’re allowed to have feelings. When there’s so much uncertainty, it can be difficult to prepare for the future. It’s the ability to move past these feelings and still accomplish the things that need to be done that is important. A lot of people have suffered problems with their mental health during the past few years, and being a prepper doesn’t exclude you from a normal reaction to prolonged stress.

Think also about the personalities you encountered within your group. Obviously, you’re not going to kick your bratty teen out of the house the next time there’s a quarantine, but the involvement of certain people is optional. Some folks really surprise us (unpleasantly) with the way they behave under pressure.

Other things you may want to do before the next lockdown

The following items are miscellaneous tasks you may want to undertake. Most of them will be effective not only in a lockdown scenario but also during other types of emergencies.

I’ve established care with The Wellness Company. They are a network of doctors who will prescribe the medications you need, regardless of popular media opinion. A membership is only $10 a month and I find it to be very worthwhile. You can also get medical exemptions from the doctors there if you believe that certain mandates may be bad for your health.

You may have also noticed things in your outer circle that were unsettling. I wrote more about the different kinds of people you may have encountered – friends, neighbors, coworkers, etc. – during the lockdown. You should take some of the time you have between now and the next lockdown to assess these folks a little bit more closely. Pay strict attention to the things they say and do once this is over. Do they “joke” about coming to your place? Are they spending frivolously? Did they learn a lesson and decide to get better prepared? This will tell you a lot about them and let you know if you need to begin quietly distancing yourself from them.

If you weren’t happy with where you took shelter during this period of lockdown, examine the reasons why. We were in an apartment that didn’t have a place for a garden, and there were a few issues that would make the house fairly easy to break into if someone was interested in doing so.

When you examine this, you may need to make a major decision – is it time to relocate? Or you may simply need to make some adjustments to the place where you are, like a padlock on the gate, a new fence, security film on the windows, etc. This article has some tips on home security.

If your home needs some repairs, do it while supplies are easy to find and while mandates don’t make it difficult to get someone out to your place. Our dryer died during the first lockdown, but we weren’t crazy about the idea of some repair person stomping through the apartment, potentially seeing our stockpile of canned goods. If you have an appliance giving its last gasp, this might be a good time to replace it. The better maintained your home is, the less likely it is that you’ll have a repair emergency during the lockdown.

Take the opportunity to get any services performed that were needed before or during the lockdown. If there is a medical procedure you require, go ahead and get it done. Many patients saw their treatments delayed for months to prevent them from possibly coming into contact with COVID patients. Get everyone a dental exam and get your pets to the vet if necessary. If you need to have your house sprayed or gutters cleaned, get all of that stuff done as soon as you can.

Work toward greater self-reliance. Get those chickens you’ve been thinking about. Plant a garden and set up cold frames to extend your growing season. Get yourself well-positioned for an uncertain future.

Prepare your family

Your family may want to live in a rosy world in which this was an unpleasant interlude and now it’s over. It’s tempting to let them have that happiness, but it’s a mistake not to add at least a small dose of reality. If it hasn’t crossed their mind that the future could hold more lockdowns, it’s going to be a stunning blow when (or if) it happens again.

You also don’t want to meet pushback when you try to replenish supplies. Consider reminding them, “Remember the toilet paper apocalypse? We don’t want to run into that problem again!” or “Weren’t you happy we had this when we were stuck at home?”

If you see the situation is beginning to look like you might be facing another lockdown soon, casually mention it to family members. Don’t terrify them, but begin gently making them aware that the situation could change quickly.

On the other hand, you may find that family members who previously thought you were a little bit nuts are now far more on board with preparedness. This might be a great time to start teaching them more.

The time to prepare is right now

Here’s a great article written by other preppers who share what they learned during the first lockdown.

I may be wrong. I hope I am. I don’t see how our economy will withstand the restrictions we’ve gone through before. We’re still in terrible shape from the rules that were forced upon us in 2020 and beyond.

But the signs are all there. The urgency is increasing. The fear of those prone to hysteria is palpable. The best thing you can do is be ahead of the crowds. I also think we’re going to see even more stress, increased violence, and complete desperation for many families that are at the ends of their ropes. As well, this time around, we’re going to see a lot more pushback. Many of us do not want to participate in this again, and we’re done being forced to follow pointless rules.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/09/dais...ming-back/

Predictive Programming, Revelation of the Method & COVID-23
July 23, 2022
Author Derrick Broze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suvGRO5M-v4

https://soundcloud.com/user-414392239/97...rick-broze

When major events impact millions, and even billions, of people, there will, inevitably, be a wide range of opinions put forth to explain the crisis. From political explanations to religious testimony, thinkers from all walks of life seek to deconstruct those events which alter the lives of the masses.

When it comes to what I will call the “conspiracy research community”, one theory often proposed as an explanation to the chaos of our world is known as predictive programming. When searching for specific definitions of this theory you find derogatory analyses, true believers, and the curious.

According to a researcher at Ohio University:

    “Predictive Programming is theory that the government or other higher-ups are using fictional movies or books as a mass mind control tool to make the population more accepting of planned future events. This was described by researcher Alan Watt who defines Predictive programming as “Predictive programming is a subtle form of psychological conditioning provided by the media to acquaint the public with planned societal changes to be implemented by our leaders. If and when these changes are put through, the public will already be familiarized with them and will accept them as natural progressions, thus lessening possible public resistance and commotion.”

Essentially, the idea is that operations being conducted by a hidden elite are shown to the public in advance via popular media such as books and films. These clues and references are meant to “soften” the public to the ideas presented. By introducing concepts that seem fantastic and then constantly reintroducing the concepts they appear more likely, or at the least, acceptable.

The belief is that the “predictive programming” in media can speak to the subconscious in a way that causes the public to passively accept the events when they unfold in real life, rather than offering resistance or opposition.

The Ohio University writer states, “I found that most commonly people believe the government creates a problem so the population will look to the government for a solution. However, because the government planned for the crisis the government will offer a solution that has been planned long before the crisis ever happened.” What they are describing is often known as “problem-reaction-solution”.

The TV show The Simpsons is often a source for such predictive programming claims. Various episodes show Donald Trump running for President, and references to September 11, 2001. For example, The Simpsons 1997 episode titled “The City of New York vs Homer Simpson” features the Simpson family visiting Manhattan where the World Trade Center factors heavily into the story. In one often touted scene, Lisa holds a brochure for a $9 bus fare with the World Trade Center shown in the background. Together the $9 and the twin towers make 9/11, a reference to the 9/11 attacks.

In 2010, Bill Oakley, an executive producer on the show at the time, told The New York Observer, “$9 was picked as a comically cheap fare,” he said. “And I will grant that it’s eerie, given that it’s on the only episode of any series ever that had an entire act of World Trade Center jokes.”

Another example of this alleged predictive programming comes from the pilot episode of “The Lone Gunmen,” a short-lived spinoff of the popular “The X-Files”. The pilot for The Lone Gunmen — which aired aired six months before the September 11th attacks — includes a plot where a hijacked plane is aimed at the World Trade Center. The terrorist attack is averted in the end and the towers are not hit.

Here is a sample of the dialogue from one scene of The Lone Gunmen pilot:

    “Your saying our government plans to commit a terrorist act against a domestic airline – “

    “There you go, indicting the entire government as usual. A faction, a small faction. “

    “For what possible gain?”

    “The Cold War is over, John, but with no clear enemy to stockpile against, the arms market is flat. But bring down a fully loaded 727 into the middle of New York City and you’ll find a dozen tin-pot dictators all over the world just clamoring to take responsibility and begging to be smart bombed.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rsMG2hHsLo

The lazy response to claims of predictive programming is to dismiss them as the workings of a paranoid, tinfoil hat wearing, “conspiracy theorist”. Numerous theories have been proposed to explain predictive programming.

Some researchers dismiss the claims as simple coincidences. The Simpsons has been on air for 30 plus years now and some of their thousands of episodes are bound to reflect reality at some point, they say. Others contend that there are some eerie examples of art “predicting” reality, but they believe theorists are suffering from Pareidolia, the phenomenon of seeing patterns in random stimuli. Those who are looking for patterns are more likely to see them because of this, as well as confirmation bias.

Revelation of the Method
Another theory which has been proposed by believers of predictive programming is the idea that these so-called elites must show the public their plans for one reason or another. This theory has come to be known as “Revelation of the Method”. The first person who appears to have popularized the use of this term was researcher James Shelby Downard.

Downard’s claim to infamy came as a result of his writing the controversial essay King-Kill 33, which accuses a network of Freemasons of being involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In subsequent writings, Downard further explored his ideas around revelation of the method. In Sorcery, Sex, Assassination, and the Science of Symbolism, he writes, “acts concerning the assassination are on ice and will be be revealed in the future in the so-called ‘Revelation of the Method.’”

He continues, “this method and process of Masonic machinations is summed up in the principle of the “Making Manifest of All That is Hidden.”

Michael A. Hoffman II, was a student and friend of Downard and continued to write about the concept. Writing in the book Apocalypse Culture, Hoffman says, “We come to the current unfoldment in “Must Be,” an alchemic term Mr. Downard translates as “the Revelation of the Method.” This alludes to the process wherein murderous deeds and hair-raising conspiracies involving wars, revolutions, decapitations and every manner of horror-show are first buried beneath a cloak of secrecy and Harpocrates’ hushed- finger, and then, when finally accomplished and secured, slowly revealed to the un- suspecting populace who watch in deep-frozen apathy as the hidden history is unveiled.”

In an interview with radio program Guns and Butter, Hoffman stated:

    “The Revelation of the Method actually comes from my mentor, James Shelby Downard. I met him in Saint Petersburg, Florida in the mid-1970s and he was a very unusual man. He walked the razor edge between genius and eccentricity, but he had a mind where he was able to see and detect patterns. And also, he had an historian’s mind in terms of the research that he did, and he was the one that set me on this path of the Revelation of the Method. He also called it “Must Be” or “The Making Manifest of All that is Hidden.”

Some researchers of the so-called “Revelation of the Method” also believe there is a spiritual or religious element of the practice. They believe that by sharing clues or foreknowledge of their plans, the elitists somehow absolve themselves of wrong doing in the eyes of their Creator.

COVID-19
This bring us full circle to COVID-19 and claims of predictive programming in various media which foreshadowed the claims of a worldwide pandemic, and the subsequent authoritarian measures.

For example, the 1981 novel “The Eyes of Darkness” by Dean Koontz talks about a deadly virus used as a biological weapon named Wuhan-400. There’s also the 2011 film Contagion with a story of a deadly pandemic involving a virus originating from a bat and social distancing.

In an interview with The Washington Post, screenwriter Scott Z. Burns said, “It is sad, and it is frustrating… It is also surreal to me that people from all over the world write to me asking how I knew it would involve a bat or how I knew the term “social distancing.” I didn’t have a crystal ball — I had access to great expertise. So, if people find the movie to be accurate, it should give them confidence in the public health experts who are out there right now trying to guide us.”

Perhaps the most striking example of potential predictive programming, or a coincidence, if you prefer, is the film Songbird. The film’s IMDB description states:

    “In 2024 a pandemic ravages the world and its cities. Centering on a handful of people as they navigate the obstacles currently hindering society: disease, martial law, quarantine, and vigilantes.”

The wikipedia description further outlines the similarities to what would unfold in 2020 and 2021:

    “By 2024, the COVID-19 Coronavirus has been mutated into COVID-23 and the world is in its fourth Quarantine year. In the United States, the nation’s government is converted into a fascist police state and the people are required to take temperature checks on their cell phones while those infected with COVID-23 are taken from their homes against their will and forced into quarantine camps, also known as “Q-Zones” or concentration camps, where some fight back against the brutal restrictions. In these camps, the infected are left to die or forcibly get better. “

While it’s odd enough that a film came out in 2020 “inspired” by the COVID-19 event, it’s even more unnerving knowing the film included scenes of “immunity passports” using cell phones, forced quarantines and lockdowns of the vast majority of the population, and even a black market for the digital passports.

The timing of the filming is also a bit difficult to understand considering the fact that most of the world was experiencing lockdowns. The film makers claim they had their first call about the project on March 14, 2020, around the time the world was learning about the COVID-19 situation. They claim by June, major actors like Demi Moore had been cast in their roles, with production beginning in Los Angeles on July 8, 2020.

By August 3, 2020, the film wrapped, making it the first film to be shot in L.A. during lockdown. While the public was forced to stay inside, and work from home, Hollywood actors and a crew of 40 people were allowed to continue working on their film. The film was eventually released on December 11, 2020 and has received very poor reviews.

If there is any predictive programming in Songbird, it might relate to events yet to come. For example, the movie takes place in 2024, with a virus known as COVID-23 rampaging the planet.

What does this mean for our future? Should we live in fear of what might come?

In the film’s version of events, things do not end well. While the young couple in love manages to acquire blackmarket passports and escape to somewhere more free, the rest of their family and friends remain prisoners of their governments. The rest of the people shown in the film continue to live in the bio-fascist tyrannical nightmare.

Whether predictive programming is true, or simply a matter of coincidence and confirmation bias, we should not allow ourselves to live in fear. However, we should do everything in our power to make sure these fantasy worlds do not become our reality.

Lance
July 23, 2022 at 1:05 pm
The concept of predictive programming has been evident in mass media for a long time. Old forms of media, mainly books, were used many years before electronic mass media came along to program the masses. The spoken word, written word, and pictures were used in the education system, which existed long before the electronic education system arrived, to program the masses. These spoken, written, and symbolic teachings were based on the seven liberal arts or sciences. These teachings are the foundation upon which the world is built, especially the western world. They were called, and are still called, the “humanities”. The masses are programmed through these arts or sciences via the education system, which today is this electronic education system. This foundation is built on sand, not the rock.

Juliano
July 23, 2022 at 3:41 pm
I was first inspired to look deeper into mythology after reading a book called The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, by John Marco Allegro. he reveals how the ancient SCRIPT writers, composing the Dead Sea Scrolls and Bible etc would use language in a way that was in layers. using various literary techniques they could hide things only the initated knew about. So it was for those privy to the relatviely new technology of writing who could hold this power over others. Of course as well as written language this would involve numbers (though Allegro focuses on writing, and some imagery), like for example the reference to the number ‘666’ etc. “Let him that hath understanding…” That is to fellow initiates. Well, when I found out about all the occutlism surrounding the 9/11 false flag I realize they still are doing it, hidden in plain sight. These people, the cabal, are the ultimate control freaks. Absolutely obsessed with control, and thus are forever doing rituals, and building a matrix around us they hope we are un-aware of. by the way, the film The Matrix is not some benevolent warning to the people. it is freemasonry propaganda also. becoming aware very much undermines their attacks on our un-conscious if we become conscious. So KNOW. This person’s videos are excellent ex-posing the subliminal sht they do in films etc. THE BONE COLLECTOR – 9/11 CODED (Predictive Programming)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUjvKre3yw8&t=5s (in this the main character actually spells out the ‘lesser magick’ of how they tell their victims what is going to happen va their occult codes, and this to them is not accepting responsibility for their crimes because they told you so and you didn’t listen!!)

Jerry
July 23, 2022 at 4:30 pm
Great article, Derrick. I’ve been compiling a mental list as we go along. I would offer The Omega Man (1972) with Charleton Heston as the Liberal hero who fights against anti-science-satanic conspiracy theorist antagonists in a world infected by a bioweapon, blamed on Russia and China. In one scene a sign on a gas station wall reads “COMET 2117” advertising an automobile. Henry Kissinger did sit on Hollywood Board of Directors. The omega Man was produced by Warner Brothers. The omega Man is a remake of a Vincent Price film The Last Man on Earth. This film also includes a scene that denigrates conspiracy theorists. At that time, apparently, it was conspiracy theory to suggest that viruses spread in the air… remarkably similar to what Trump said to Bob Woodward.
And, regarding Contagion, the unscrupulous conspiracy theorist archetype peddling alternative remedies was included as it has been in other films, as it was done in real life with Trump and Q. Sanjay Gupta was also in Contagion.
The Netflix series Orange Is The New Black featured story arcs that included the rise of fascism, conspiracy theory (operation Garden Plot) a pandemic and an inmate who was kneeled on to death.
The series Fargo also included a story arc describing the infiltration of Russian influence and not dissimilar to what Fascists did after WW2. Thanks for all the great work you and TLAV have done.
The series American Horror Story 2017 (Cult) featured a 4chan conspiracy theorist who runs for office by inspiring and agitating a far Right base, creating chaos and dressing like a clown… only to discover he’s been inspired to do so by the radical Left. The season also includes a mass shooting that aired days after the Las Vegas shooting and when Q came into the picture. That episode included dialogue that suggested including occult symbology to troll the conspiracy minded and scare the public more.
There are so many examples. The Avengers and superheros in general (ubermench) deserve a focused analysis.

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/...d-covid23/

IT’S ALL AN IQ TEST: Ten OBVIOUS lessons every intelligent person should have learned from COVID 1.0 (that can save you from what’s coming with COVID 2.0)
08/29/2023 // Mike Adams // 44.9K Views

Truly, you'd have to be an oblivious idiot at this point to think the government's COVID orders are intended to benefit the people. You'd also have to be an idiot to think that N95 masks stop COVID transmission, that social distancing works or that COVID vaccines prevent infections and transmission.

Yet, astonishingly, these are things that oblivious idiots still believe. These people also tend to believe that Joe Biden is the “most popular president ever,” that Big Pharma is run by angels who seek to help humanity and that mainstream doctors are driven by medical science evidence rather than profit motives.

The great IQ test has commenced. COVID 1.0 was the training round, to present lessons in government tyranny and medical science fraud for all to witness. COVID 2.0 is the final exam to see who is stupid enough to still have not learned the lessons from the training round. However, this “final exam” is more like a final solution, and those who fail this round of the global IQ test will find their projected lifespan rapidly shrinking.

The ramp-up to COVID 2.0 tyranny is already apparent. Joe Biden just announced $1+ billion in funding for a new vaccine, and he's publicly stating that all Americans will be urged to get the new jab, even after Biden himself has taken five COVID shots but still managed to get infected twice.

The CDC, meanwhile, now admits that all previous COVID shots no longer work against the new “variant” they've named BA.2.86, which the CDC says infects those who are fully vaccinated.

We have dubbed the new variant BS.24.7 and called it the “Election Variant” because it's obvious this new round of a virus scare is intended to steal the 2024 election via nationwide mail-in voting, mandated by yet another ginned up “emergency” fabricated by the lawless Democrats.

https://www.naturalnews.com/images/Biden...24-550.jpg

In fact, as point #1 reveals below, as long as you comply with tyranny, the government will always find new reasons to act like tyrants. That's why the only way out of this cycle of psyops, plandemics and lockdowns is to stop complying with the insanity. Jolt yourself awake and stop acting like a programmable zombie.

Here are ten obvious lessons that any intelligent person should have already learned from COVID 1.0

1) As long as you comply with tyranny, the government will always find new reasons to act like tyrants
Keep going along with the tyranny and the corrupt, criminal government will keep invoking a new “crisis” to keep you in line. Climate crisis. COVID crisis. Insurrection crisis. Cyber attack crisis. Russia crisis. Aliens. Bigfoot. Sasquatch... you name it. There's always another emergency right out the corner, ready to be played across the theater of your mind. Stop falling for the Truman Show. Think for yourself.

2) Masks don't work. Even the CDC openly admits it
The CDC has been forced to admit that N95 cloth masks – the type commonly push by the government for COVID “protection” – offer no protection against wildfire smoke particles, which are orders of magnitude larger than coronavirus particles. From their own CDC.gov website, “masks that are used to slow the spread of COVID-19 offer little protection against the harmful air pollutants in wildfire smoke.”

But coronavirus particles are only about 0.1 micrometers in diameter, while smoke particles are typically in the range of 10 micrometers. That means the CDC, in pushing masks, is somehow arguing that masks which cannot stop 10 micrometer particles can somehow stop 0.1 micrometer particles. The non-logic makes no sense, of course.

https://www.naturalnews.com/images/CDC-A...ss-550.jpg

On this issue, the CDC is being deliberately dishonest. Across their various pages, they also claim that N95 “respirators” work against COVID and wildfires, while trying to obfuscate the fact that a respirator is not the same thing as a simple cloth mask. A respirator is an air-tight, face-fitting device with no air leaks. N95 cloth masks are not N95 respirators. They do not seal to the face and are therefore useless in stopping both smoke and coronavirus particles.

That's why CDC researchers don't rely on simple N95 masks when touring level-4 biohazard facilities. If they did, they would likely all die. But they tell you to use N95 masks, even when they would never rely on such things themselves.

3) Hospitals were ordered by the federal government to mass murder hundreds of thousands of people... and they gladly complied
We now know with certainty that hospitals across the United States were financially incentivized to generate COVID fatalities en masse, receiving as much as $500,000 in incentives per COVID death. Federal incentives quickly transformed hospitals into murder factories where patients who merely showed flu symptoms were falsely diagnosed with COVID, intubated for a ventilator, isolated from their family members, and routinely “homicided” by the hospital which collected a large payout as a result.

Here's my interview with attorney Thomas Renz who represents a health care worker whistleblower who has audio proof that an entire floor of patients in one hospital was ordered to be terminated so that the hospital could collect huge profits: Understand that under Biden, US hospitals are now assassins-for-hire, and they get a per-death payout, just like contract killers. Medicine has become murder.

4) COVID vaccines don't prevent infections or transmission
It has all been admitted by the CDC and even the corporate media: COVID vaccines don't prevent infections or transmission. The medical establishment no longer even pretends they do. Instead, they say that receiving COVID vaccines will “reduce the symptoms” of a COVID infection. Occupier-in-chief Joe Biden received five COVID shots and boosters, but we are told he still contracted COVID twice (even after promising America that the vaccine would stop infections).

Perhaps this is why multiple Florida counties are now on board with a resolution to outright ban COVID shots. They are biological weapons, after all, which offer no protection against COVID but wildly increase the risk of heart attacks, stroke, neurological problems and death. COVID 2.0 “vaccines” also won't be legitimate vaccines either. They will be engineered to achieve mass death, infertility and depopulation, as those are the real goals of the entire COVID agenda.

Anybody stupid enough to line up and take one of the new COVID shots is only engaging in vaccine-assisted suicide, a kind of euthanasia obedience ritual that often ends in their own death.

5) The government will weaponize COVID to rig elections and destroy economies
We all know that the “election variant” of COVID is being timed to interfere with the 2024 elections where Democrats don't stand a chance against Trump in a fair and free competition. That's why they're trying to criminalize Trump and his speech, hoping to lock him up and deny him the opportunity to even run against Biden (or whatever mindless puppet the Dems replace him with).

Democrats know they will lose all political power if the will of the people is reflected in election outcomes. That's why they oppose paper ballots and voter ID, of course. Cheating is their only pathway to power, which reflects Democrats' total lack of ethics, morality and fairness. With few exceptions, Democrats are destructive, dishonest people who are wholly incompatible with free society, as they almost universally support censorship, child mutilations, cheating in elections and criminalizing their political opponents.

6) PCR tests for infection diagnosis are a complete fraud
PCR “diagnosis” of COVID has always been a quack science fraud from day one. PCR instruments are incapable of quantitation analysis, which means they can't determine the viral load in any given sample. Furthermore, PCR instruments can be easily adjusted to increase their replication cycles so that background noise is magnified to the point where a “positive” outcome is achieved for virtually any desired sample.

The entire narrative surrounding “swabs” and tests and “surveillance” of COVID using PCR is 100% pure fiction with no basis in science or fact. The entire thing is a deliberate lie, pushed by dishonest authorities and operators who are part of the plandemic scheme that's designed to murder people, destroy economies, achieve mass obedience and empower governments to act as lawless tyrants. A PCR machine can no more diagnose a viral infection than a magnifying glass can see the future.

7) Your doctor was BRIBED to push unsafe, unproven COVID mRNA jabs, and he gladly went along with it
If your doctor pressured you to take a COVID jab, he (or she) was financially incentivized to do so. He got paid, in other words, like a pharma whore, to push an experimental injection in gross violation of international war crimes treaties as well as the Hippocratic Oath.

It turns out, there's nothing conventional doctors won't inject into their patients if they get paid a bonus to do it. Even biological weapons, depopulation jabs and experimental spike protein factories. What's especially noteworthy is that these doctors, once paid, also manage to lie to themselves by claiming that COVID vaccines were well tested, clinically validated, safe and effective. They can't cite any real evidence to back up such false claims, but they tell themselves it's all true so that they can internally justify exterminating patients for profit.

Depopulation has never paid as well as it does today, thanks to the government's anti-human COVID policies and financial incentives. Conventional doctors are more than happy to play their front line role in the mass extermination of human populations as long as they maintain power and profits as a result.

8) The WHO is run by globalists with a depopulation agenda
One of the key goals of the United Nations, under which the WHO operates, is to eliminate billions of humans beings living on planet Earth today. This genocidal agenda is the foundation upon which the climate change fraud has been built. The entire “climate” narrative is really about ending human activity by ending humans.

This effort to depopulate planet Earth takes many forms, but vaccines are one of the most effective forms, since they give mad scientists direct access to the tissues and bloodstream of victims. Those same victims, under the false belief that “vaccines are safe and effective,” don't even resist being injected with depopulation bioweapons. The primary purpose of the COVID narrative, of course, was to exploit fear to drive people into voluntary death shots... the easiest way for globalists to dispose of billions of people by making sure they don't fight back.

In plandemic 2.0, now being launched, the WHO will order local jurisdictions to round up people and imprison them in concentration camps – dubbed “quarantine camps” – where they will likely be murdered, then counted as “COVID casualties” to further pump up the dead body count.

In COVID 2.0, if they come to take you to any sort of camp, they most likely intend to murder you. #DoNotComply (or you die).

Recently, WEF advisor Prof. Sarah Harper said the population collapse currently being observed in the UK is “good for the planet.”

“In speaking about the precipitous decline in the number of new births across Great Britain these days, Harper pretty much celebrated this as a great thing that will help to stop global warming and climate change,” reports Natural News.

We've seen many other examples of globalists accidentally letting it slip that they equate global depopulation with planetary benefits.

9) Food supply chain disruptions are not a side effect but a FEATURE of government-enforced lockdowns (i.e. they are trying to starve us all)
One of the ways the western governments of the world are trying to slaughter their own people is by wrecking the food supply chain.

By invoking a fraudulent pandemic emergency, governments can force food production and farming facilities to shut down. Fraudulent PCR swab tests are routinely used across food facilities in order to generate “positive” PCR results that flag an imaginary “COVID case.” This case is then cited by local health authorities to order the shutdown of that facility, causing severe disruption in the food supply chain (leading to food scarcity and food inflation, both deliberately engineered).

When food prices are engineered to rise, it causes a huge increase in food scarcity. More people go hungry, and many people become homeless because the necessary increase in food costs impairs their ability to cover rent or mortgage costs.

With COVID 2.0, watch for extreme food supply disruptions and scarcity, beyond what most of us saw with the original COVID. This time, the globalists are going all-out to achieve mass extermination. We will soon see masses of starving Americans in the streets of Democrat-run cities, begging for food and being offered free hamburgers if they merely agree to be injected with euthanasia shots (labeled "vaccines").

10) Government believes the people will mindlessly obey almost anything... and they're half right
As COVID 2.0 is a global IQ test for humans, the government is counting on the fact that some percentage of human beings are so stupid, they'll go along with anything pushed by an apparent “authority.”

They're not wrong in this assumption, by the way. Perhaps half of those exposed to government lies and medical fraud still fall for it, as they are incapable of independent thinking. They will march themselves right into “kill shot” pharmacies and vaccination extermination zones, happily reminding themselves how smart they think they are to follow exactly what the government tells them to do. (Yes, the brainwashed zombies actually think they are “smarter” for acting like brainwashed zombies.)

Despite all this, the push back against the government's demanded obedience is growing. Recently, both a medical group and a Hollywood studio reversed their mask mandates after customers and employees raised alarm. It's an indication that when people choose to avoid complying with tyranny, they can force changes across corporations and institutions.

Simple rules that will keep you alive while oblivious (gullible) people are culled
In summary, any intelligent person should be able to learn these obvious lessons from COVID plandemic 1.0. The most obvious lesson is that complying with tyranny only rewards the tyrants with power, incentivizing them to keep coming up with emergencies that justify their tyranny.

Fortunately, those of you who are reading this site are well informed enough to avoid falling for any more COVID tricks. Thanks to the rather blatant dishonesty of the establishment during COVID 1.0, we now know the following hard rules:
1) They will lie about the numbers of dead and the cause of death.
2) They will lie about the effectiveness of masks and the vaccine.
3) They will lie about “the science” and will publish fabricated “science” papers in medical journals.
4) They will interfere with treatments that work and try to criminalize those who promote them.
5) They will bully and bludgeon people into compliance via threats and coercion.
6) They will incentivize doctors and hospitals to murder you.
7) They will censor any speech that opposes their death agenda.
8) They will assert wildly unconstitutional powers through sheer audacity, hoping people will just go along with it.
9) If you want to survive all this, you must refuse to believe the lies and refuse to comply with their tyranny.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-08-29-t...covid.html

September 9, 2023

In a March 28, 2023, article titled “A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century,”1,2 Jacob Siegel, senior editor of Tablet magazine’s afternoon news digest, News and The Scroll, discusses the emergence of the “disinformation industrial complex,” which is the topic of his forthcoming book.

The United States has been unique in its dedication to free speech, but that Constitutional right is rapidly eroding in the name of national security and protecting public health.

Siegel traces the early days of the information war to Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who in 1950 claimed to have proof of a communist spy ring within the U.S. State Department. Initially, he claimed to have the names of 205 communist spies. A day later, he revised it to 57. However, the inconsistency is not the point.

“The point was the power of the accusation,” Siegel says. “For more than half a century, McCarthyism stood as a defining chapter in the worldview of American liberals: a warning about the dangerous allure of blacklists, witch hunts, and demagogues.”

Blacklists and Witch Hunts Return
By 2017, American liberals had seemingly forgotten that lesson, as mainstream media pundits accused Donald Trump of being a Manchurian candidate installed by Russia. An organization called Hamilton 68 claimed to have proof showing hundreds of Russian-affiliated Twitter accounts manipulated the U.S. election to get Trump into the White House.

As it turns out, none of these accusations were true and Hamilton 68 turned out to be a “high-level hoax.” Most of the accounts were Americans engaged in organic conversations, which Hamilton 68 arbitrarily described as “Russian scheming.” Twitter’s safety officer, Yoel Roth, even admitted the company had labeled “real people” — again, mostly Americans — as “Russian stooges without evidence or recourse.”

A key difference between the McCarthy and Hamilton 68 episodes was that journalists, U.S. intelligence agencies and Congressional members didn’t swallow McCarthy’s accusations without chewing. When the witch hunt against Trump took off, anyone who questioned the accusations was attacked as a co-conspirator.

Media even refused to report on the evidence proving that Hamilton 68 was a complete scam. The level of disinterest in the truth suggested that American liberalism “had lost faith in the promise of freedom and embraced a new ideal,” Siegel writes.

Propaganda and Censorship — Two Sides of the Same Coin
Propaganda is as old as humanity itself, but the modern version of it can be traced back to 1948, when the CIA’s Office of Special Projects launched Operation Mockingbird, a clandestine CIA media infiltration campaign that involved bribing hundreds of journalists to publish fake stories at the CIA’s request.

The dismissal of conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists as mentally unstable crackpots was one of the tactics invented by the CIA at this time. Its intent was (and still is) to marginalize and demoralize anyone who questions the fabricated narrative.

It’s quite telling that Operation Mockingbird was launched the same year the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act (aka the Smith-Mundt Act) became law, which forbade the U.S. government from pushing propaganda onto the U.S. population.

This anti-propaganda law was repealed in 2013 by then-President Barrack Obama. So, since July 2013, the U.S. government and CIA have been legally permitted to propagandize U.S. citizens. In addition to the simplification of global coordination of news by way of news agencies, this is yet another reason why propaganda has flourished and grown exponentially in recent years.
The undermining of free speech took off at the end of 2016, when Obama signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which opened the door to an offensive information war against the public.

But for propaganda to be truly successful, especially in the long term, you also need censorship — a concept wildly opposed in the U.S. until recently — and censorship, at least in America, requires the undermining of free speech rights.

As noted by Siegel, the effort to undercut free speech really took off at the end of 2016, when Obama signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which opened the door to “an open-ended, offensive information war” against the general public.

Seemingly overnight, “misinformation” and “disinformation” were said to pose an urgent existential threat to national security, freedom, democracy and, later, to public health. We’re now told we must eliminate misinformation to preserve free speech, which is so twisted that no Constitutionally-literate person can make sense of it.

The Acceleration of Free Speech Elimination
By repealing the Smith-Mundt Act, and signing into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, Obama laid the legal groundwork for government control of speech in the U.S. Since then, a sprawling disinformation industrial complex has emerged, which seeks to control the internet and all information in it.

As described by Siegel, the U.S. national security infrastructure has now fused with social media platforms, which is where the information war is being fought. The national mobilization against disinformation has also been expanded from a whole-of-government approach to a whole-of-society approach.

In a 2018 document, the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) calls for “leveraging expertise from across government, tech and marketing sectors, academia, and NGO’s.” “This is how the government-created ‘war against disinformation’ became the great moral crusade of its time,” Siegel writes.

Of course, media have also played a significant role in the “whole-of-society response” to disinformation, but they are “by far the weakest player in the counter-disinformation complex,” Seigel notes, adding:3

“The American press, once the guardian of democracy, was hollowed out to the point that it could be worn like a hand puppet by the U.S. security agencies and party operatives.

It would be nice to call what has taken place a tragedy, but an audience is meant to learn something from a tragedy. As a nation, America not only has learned nothing, it has been deliberately prevented from learning anything while being made to chase after shadows.

This is not because Americans are stupid; it’s because what has taken place is not a tragedy but something closer to a crime. Disinformation is both the name of the crime and the means of covering it up; a weapon that doubles as a disguise.

The crime is the information war itself, which was launched under false pretenses and by its nature destroys the essential boundaries between the public and private and between the foreign and domestic, on which peace and democracy depend.

By conflating the anti-establishment politics of domestic populists with acts of war by foreign enemies, it justified turning weapons of war against American citizens. It turned the public arenas where social and political life take place into surveillance traps and targets for mass psychological operations.

The crime is the routine violation of Americans’ rights by unelected officials who secretly control what individuals can think and say. What we are seeing now, in the revelations exposing the inner workings of the state-corporate censorship regime, is only the end of the beginning.

The United States is still in the earliest stages of a mass mobilization that aims to harness every sector of society under a singular technocratic rule.

The mobilization, which began as a response to the supposedly urgent menace of Russian [election] interference, now evolves into a regime of total information control that has arrogated to itself the mission of eradicating abstract dangers such as error, injustice, and harm — a goal worthy only of leaders who believe themselves to be infallible, or comic-book supervillains.”

Phase 2 of the Information War — Total Control
The COVID pandemic was a significant part of Phase 1 in the information war, although the war on public perception began years earlier. As noted by Siegel, the COVID phase was “marked by distinctively human displays of incompetence and brute-force intimidation.” Phase 2 will undoubtedly be carried out by artificial intelligence, now thoroughly trained to identify the greatest triggers of fear and panic, both on an individual and societal basis.

We can also expect censorship by algorithm. It will no longer be a game of whack-a-mole with humans tagging posts and requesting their removal. Instead, messages containing certain words simply won’t go anywhere and won’t be seen. Spoken and written key words will be automatically flagged and deleted or barred from posting by AI.

AI-based bots and “sock puppets” (fake accounts) can also be launched across platforms and be algorithmically amplified to alter the perceptions of billions in real time. We saw this trend emerging during the first round of COVID, where multiple accounts were posting the same “original” message, verbatim, at the same time.

As noted by Siegel, the end goal of all this information wrangling is control. Not partial control, but total. Over everything and everyone. This is also why we will never see a government authority admit they spread disinformation themselves, even though, technically, they’ve been guilty of such on numerous occasions over the last three years.

They dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation, even though U.S. intelligence had proof that it, and its contents, were real. They claimed the lab leak theory was a racist conspiracy, even though, privately, the scientific consensus was that the virus came from a lab. They told us the COVID jabs would stop transmission, even though that was never tested in the first place. The list goes on.

“Disinformation, now and for all time, is whatever they say it is,” Siegel writes.4 “That is not a sign that the concept is being misused or corrupted; it is the precise functioning of a totalitarian system.”

Partners in Crime
Siegel isn’t the only one calling out the information war as a crime. In another Tablet article titled “Partners in Crime,”5 New Civil Liberties Alliance attorney Jenin Younes reviews evidence from the Missouri legal case6 against the Biden administration showing how government and Big Tech built “a whole-of-system censorship campaign” in clear violation of the First Amendment.

Internal Meta documents obtained by the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government in July 2023 has also fleshed out the story of how state-sponsored censorship came to be the official policy of so many private companies.

The evidence shows that Facebook and other social media companies did not take it upon themselves to become arbiters of truth. Rather, they were aggressively pressured to do so by Biden administration officials, and officials within various federal agencies. Sometimes they did meekly follow the direction given, but even in cases where they tried to push back, they eventually had to fall in line for fear of government retaliation.

“While other lawsuits alleging First Amendment violations based on government involvement in social media censorship have been filed over the past two years, Missouri [v. Biden] has proven uniquely successful,” Younes writes.7

“When the complaint was filed in May of 2022, the main proof the Missouri plaintiffs had were public statements from high-ranking members of the administration, including former White House Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and President Biden himself.

The plaintiffs cited public statements of government officials unabashedly proclaiming they were flagging posts for social media companies to censor; openly criticizing the companies for inadequate removal of content (especially anything that cast doubt on the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines); accusing tech executives of ‘killing people’ for not adequately censoring so-called misinformation; and threatening to hold them accountable should they refuse to comply.

Judge Terrence Doughty ordered discovery at an early stage of litigation … For the first time, the public became aware of the Biden administration’s clandestine censorship operation, which began a mere three days after President Biden’s inauguration …

By February of 2021, then-White House Director of Digital Media Robert Flaherty had intensified the administration’s tactics … He began bullying companies — using expletives, wielding accusations, and making demands — in his efforts to get them to remove content that he claimed might cause people to decline vaccines …

On numerous occasions, Brian Rice and other Meta employees sent the White House detailed lists of agreed-upon policy changes after initial attempts to assuage Mr. Flaherty’s wrath proved unsuccessful.

On July 4 of this year, Judge Doughty granted the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction in Missouri, observing that ‘the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history,’ and describing the administration’s censorship regime as akin to an ‘Orwellian Ministry of Truth.’

Crucial to the outcome was the court’s finding8 that the Biden administration and various federal executive agencies coerced, pressured, and encouraged social media companies to suppress First Amendment protected speech, converting otherwise private action into that of the state.

The core principle at issue, which forbids the government to co-opt private industry to circumvent constitutional prohibitions, is known as ‘state action doctrine.’ Without it, the Bill of Rights would be worthless.

Police could, for instance, hire a private company to search your home despite lacking probable cause, in order to get around the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against warrantless searches and seizures. Or the government could evade the guarantees of Equal Protection in the 14th Amendment by funding racially segregated private schools.

The judge agreed with the plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden that … since the First Amendment prohibits government from abridging freedom of speech, the Constitution cannot be read to permit government to commandeer private companies to accomplish its viewpoint-based censorship aims.”

Direct Evidence of Coercion
While the initial evidence suggested the Biden administration was the driving force behind the media censorship, it was still circumstantial. That changed in late July 2023, when internal Meta documents were obtained by the Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government.

According to Younes, “These documents tie the knot: They unequivocally establish that but for the Biden administration’s strong-arm tactics, certain viewpoints would not have been suppressed.”

For example, in a July 2021 email, Meta’s head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, asked Brian Rice, who was in charge of Facebook’s content policy, why they had removed, rather than flagged or demoted, claims that SARS-CoV-2 was manmade.

Rice replied, “Because we were under pressure from the [Biden] administration and others to do more and it was part of the ‘more’ package.” He ended the email saying, “We shouldn’t have done it.”

“Not only did Rice explicitly state that pressure from the White House caused Meta to remove content endorsing the lab leak theory of COVID’s origins, he also expressed remorse for this decision.

These new documents also prove that the removal of ‘vaccine discouraging content’ occurred because of government pressure,” Younes writes.

Clegg, for example, told Andy Slavitt, former White House senior adviser for the COVID response, that removing humorous memes disparaging the COVID jab — as demanded by Slavitt — “would represent a significant incursion into traditional boundaries of free expression in the U.S.” Slavitt insisted and brushed off Clegg’s concerns as immaterial, and in the end, Clegg acquiesced to avoid potential retaliation.

Quid Pro Quo
Younes continues:9

“The White House’s coercive tactics had the desired effect. Both Clegg and [Meta COO Sheryl] Sandberg urged acquiescence to avoid adverse consequences. In Clegg’s words, ‘Sheryl is keen that we continue to explore some moves that we can make to show that we are trying to be responsive to the WH.’

He explained that the company’s ‘current course … is a recipe for protracted and increased acrimony with the WH as the vaccine roll out continues to stutter through the Fall and Winter. Given the bigger fish we have to fry with the Administration — data flows etc — that doesn’t seem a great place for us to be.’

Thus, ‘given what is at stake here, it would also be a good idea if we could regroup to take stock of where we are in our relations with the WH, and our internal methods too.’ The ‘data flow’ referenced a dispute Meta was having with the European Union at the time over transfer of users’ data. If resolved in favor of the EU, Meta could face significant fines.

As Twitter files journalist Michael Shellenberger and his co-authors recently explained in analyzing this exchange, ‘the series of events suggests a quid pro quo. Facebook would bow to White House requests for censorship in exchange for its help with the European Union.’”

First Amendment Seeks to Prevent Suppression of Dissent
As noted by Younes, President Biden had promised to make mass vaccination against COVID central to his agenda. The problem was, a great many Americans didn’t feel comfortable being injected with an experimental gene therapy that had no long-term safety data.

This was an impediment to Biden’s political agenda, and rather than acknowledging that the mass vaccination campaign was ill received, the White House simply scapegoated social media instead.

It was their fault that Americans weren’t rolling up their sleeves in sufficient numbers. Internal Meta emails attest to the fact that employees felt they were being used as scapegoats whenever the vaccination campaign wasn’t going as hoped.

“A government using its power to suppress dissent is precisely what the First Amendment sought to prevent,” Younes notes.

“‘Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved,’ Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers, famously wrote.

The first president of the United States, George Washington, once said, ‘If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.’

Let us hope that when the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and probably the Supreme Court, consider these cases in the upcoming months, they interpret the First Amendment as the Constitution’s Framers understood it. Otherwise, the future of free speech, and liberty itself, is in grave danger.”

In closing, while Younes recognizes the terrible threat state-sponsored censorship poses, he doesn’t follow the bread crumbs as far as Siegel does. Younes seems to believe the government censorship network came about to protect Biden’s political goals, but it’s way bigger than that.

Like Siegel states, the end goal is global control. To get there, those seeking that control must create a total stranglehold on all information, because that’s how you best control a population.

What’s more, this stranglehold is global. It’s not an American phenomenon that sprung up because Biden wanted to get a jab in every arm. COVID censorship is happening in every country, and every country needs to investigate what role, if any, their governments played in the suppression of truth.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/09/jose...-the-goal/

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As The 'Biden Curtain' Goes Up Around Lahaina, What's Going On With All Of The 'Wildfires' Across America, Canada And Europe? The Deagel Report Warned Us As Our Infrastructure Is Destroyed
By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die
August 31, 2023

If you're anything like me, you're probably wondering WHAT IN THE WORLD is going on with all of these wildfires not only all across the United States but up in Canada as well, as well as in many parts of Europe, especially considering everything we've witnessed in Maui since the absolutely devastating 'fires' hit that area leaving a still unknown number of people dead and thousands of children missing. 

With some of the most recent wildfires striking parts of Louisiana over the last couple of days as reported in this NY Post story, while in Greece, they're fighting a losing battle to save the lungs of Athens as CNN reported in this story, we shouldn't be the least bit surprised that the 'climate change cult' is blaming 'climate change,' while ignoring growing evidence that these fires were somehow intentionally set, quite possibly by 'directed energy weapons,' aka, DEW's.

And with growing signs of some kind of a massive cover-up going on in Maui with the Hawaiian state government carrying out a media blackout, largely refusing the media access to the region, even locals are being harassed by law enforcement for filming in the area as seen in the 1st video at the bottom of this story. And that bizarre strangeness takes another turn towards a cover-up as was reported in this August 25th Natural News story reporting a fully licensed drone operator recently had his drone 'forced down' when trying to take footage of the region, with drone operator Davin Phelps even visited by federal agents soon afterwards. So why would a licensed drone operator be visited by the Feds just for taking pictures/videos, UNLESS his drone was going to see something 'they' didn't want us to see?

And now as we read in this Gateway Pundit story and see for ourselves in the 2nd video at the bottom of this story, they're putting up a huge black fence all around 'Ground Zero' in Lahaina, preventing people from looking in, what's being called the 'Biden Curtain' by locals, and another sure sign that something is being covered up with 'the state' doing everything in their power to keep 'the truth' from getting out to 'the masses.' From this Natural News story before we continue.:

The federal government was not happy when licensed drone operator Davin Phelps tried to film the suspected origin of the so-called "wildfires" that burned down Lahaina and other nearby spots on the Hawaiian island of Maui.

According to Fox News host Will Cain, who relayed the bizarre story, Phelps' drone was grounded by force as it neared the target site. Not long after that, federal agents paid Phelps a visit to have a talk about the matter.

During this meeting, federal agents reportedly told Phelps that he is prohibited from filming the area where the Maui Fire is believed to have started. Phelps was still able to capture some footage before this, though, which he shared with Cain.

That footage shows entire buildings across entire city blocks reduced to gray ash while the trees surrounding them remain intact. This, many believe, serves as evidence that "wildfires" are not to blame, but rather directed energy weapons (DEWs).

Phelps also shared with Cain numerous still images that he captured, which show other strange anomalies that point to this disaster being another false flag incident possibly perpetrated by the government itself.

"I don't want to feed ridiculous conspiracies, but all I can do is tell you the truth," Cain wrote in a series of posts on X, formerly known as Twitter – check out some of the pictures and video footage below. (See the bottom of this story for that video footage.)

"I just spoke to a videographer from Lahaina. Davin Phelps. He's a licensed drone pilot. He's been flying over Lahaina for the past week. And he has stunning and haunting images of Lahaina."

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And with all of these wildfires happening at the very same time as one US food processing plant after another is being somehow destroyed, with the American Plant Food Corporation in Bartlett, Texas recently burning to the ground, and that following a seemingly endless list of food processing plants being destroyed as we've reported in numerous different stories on ANP, is it really out of the question that what we're now witnessing unfolding before our eyes is the intentional 'destruction' of America?

And now we learn that a massive fire recently broke out at one of the largest oil refineries in the US this past Friday, with a fire breaking out at the Marathon Petroleum’s Garyville refinery in Louisiana. And while the fire was extinguished by Monday morning, the refinery remained closed with the shutdown leading to a surge in 'future prices' for both gasoline and diesel fuel.

As Susan Duclos had reported in this March 25th story on ANP titled "The Perfect Storm Hits Our Food Supply Chain - The Odds Of These Listed Events All Happening In This Short Time Frame Are Astronomical.... It Is By Design," the odds of ALL of the different events listed below happening during the same time period, coincidentally, are astronomical.:

Between bird flu killing off tens of millions of chickens and egg laying hens, along with the unbelievable amount of food processing plants, processing plants and factories destroyed by explosions, fires and even a couple of airplanes crashing into them, mixed with plant viruses, drought and a number of other issues all affecting America's food supply, and now see that ports all across the U.S. are reporting unprecedented levels of cargo theft, led by consumables, the past few years have not been good for our food supply chain.

In 2020: The lockdowns upended up the entire food supply chain, with restaurant and school closures causing a lack of demand, forcing farmers and ranchers to dump food, kill crops, and euthanize animals.

In 2021 and 2022, we saw more than a 100 incidents of food facilities, including mass kill offs of chickens.

Also in 2022 and 2023 the war between Russia and Ukraine caused wheat and fertilizer shortages, hiking the price of bread, and forcing farmers into an untenable position of smaller crops.

In 2022 and 2023 we saw plant viruses affecting lettuce, weather events affecting orange crops, drought condition causing farmers and ranchers to yet again destroy crops and sell off cattle before calving.

On top of all that, food inflation has continued to rise with no real end in sight.

What are the odds of all of that happening, in the course of a three year period, coincidentally? While the exact number is unknown, I would say those odds are astronomical.

We'll leave that for readers to discuss in the comment section.

Yet as we've also reported numerous times on ANP over the last 8+ years, for America to reach the 'forecast' by the Deagel Report of us quite literally transformed into a '3rd world nation' by the year 2025, a 'whole lot of destruction' was going to need to take place, all at once. The excerpt below came from this December 18th of 2018 story on ANP titled "If These Numbers From A Deep State Sourced Website Are Correct, America Will Be A 3rd World Nation By 2025 - Deagel's Forecast Suggests The Depopulation End Game Has Arrived."

As we've reported numerous times on ANP, the website Deagel is forecasting the population of the USA to drop from 326+ million in 2017 to only 99,553,100 people in 2025, a drop of more than 226 million people. And we can't help but keep coming back to the horrific economic numbers they're also forecasting for the US by 2025, numbers that make America look like we'll be a 3rd world nation in less than 7 years if Deagel's numbers are somehow correct.

So let's take a look at the bizarre numbers for America being forecast by Deagel. Besides the most startling numbers that jump out for the US population, being forecast to 'shed' 226 million people in less than 7 years, the stunning economic numbers include a forecast of the US's gross domestic product to drop from $19 trillion in 2017 to ONLY $2.4 trillion in 2025. With the GDP per capita expected to drop from $59,274 in 2017 to only $24,561 in 2025 and our 'purchase power parity' (PPP) expected to drop from $59,500 in 2017 to only $16,374 in 2025, America will be a broken nation by then if Deagel is correct. In comparison, the PPP of Venezuela is forecast to be $12,400 in 2025, a jump up from their PPP of only $9,132 in 2017, when the Venezuelan people were starving, eating cats, dogs and zoo animals for their next meals.

And how in the world is Deagel forecasting our 2025 military budget to be only $32 billion in 2025 when it was a whopping $637 billion in 2017? If Deagel is correct, America will be a 3rd world nation by 2025.

And as we have also reported numerous times over the years on ANP, the sources for the Deagel Report's information and forecasts has quite literally been 'the deep state,' with their sources including the US Department of State, the US Department of Defense, the CIA, the World Bank, the European Union as well as the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force and US Marines among them. And as we'd reported in this August 7th story on ANP, Deagel's sources also included the Rockefeller Foundation.

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So while all of this mega-destruction across America and Western Civilization might seem bizarre and out of the ordinary, as Rob Pue of Wisconsin Christian News had reported in this recent story that we republished at ANP, for joe biden and the globalists to 'build back better' as they've labeled their 'plan' to transform America, they'd first have to 'tear things down'.

And with all kinds of reports out from local Hawaiians that they had resisted selling their Lahaina properties in mass numbers to 'the global elite,' and now reports that these 'wildfires' quite precisely burnt out most of those poorer properties while leaving many of the 'high end homes' untouched, would you put it past the globalists carrying out 'directed energy weapon' warfare upon those who wouldn't sell their homes, in order for the globalists to replace them with their '15-minute cities?' Neither would we.

And what in the world has happened to all of those missing children in Maui? With reports of over 2,400 kids MISSING, and what appears to be a HUGE ongoing cover-up at the very highest levels in process, Americans need some very serious answers for us ever to be able to trust 'government' again.

And with reports also that the only paved road out of Lahaina was incredibly suspiciously blocked by a barricade just adding to all of the questions that need very serious answers, along with reports that emergency management services just happened to be attending a 'conference' in Honolulu and NOT ONLY did the fire department NOT respond to the fires, but that fire boats stationed at Pearl Harbor could have saved much of the town, but they never moved, leaving citizens of Lahaina fighting the fires themselves, why did city officials then TURN OFF THE WATER that people could have used at least to try to fight this entire mess? There's no doubt that something stinks to the high heavens about not only what happened to Maui but ALL of these fires across America, Canada and Europe and the destruction of our infrastructure playing out before our eyes over the past 3 years, ever since joe biden got into office.

So while the globalists are still trying to blame all of these wildfires on 'climate change' and 'global warming,' can they also blame all of the food processing plants that have been destroyed over the past 3+ years on the same? And with a very obvious cover up of a grand design being carried out in front of our eyes, will the people of Maui, Hawaii and America EVER get any real answers to all of these conflagrations, or will we still be fed the endless lies that this is all due to 'climate change' and 'global warming'? We certainly wouldn't advise anyone to hold their breaths waiting for any answers.

https://allnewspipeline.com/Biden_Curtai...Hiding.php

Assassination Of Independent Media: The European Union To Control What Americans See Online - 'Illegal Content' Is Any Information Not In 'Compliance With EU Or Member State Law'
By Susan Duclos -  All News Pipeline
September 1, 2023

We've seen articles on the "new" European Union's Digital Services Act, (DSA) but it is not new, although as of August 23, 2023, there are new "obligations" by large online platforms, which will, without a doubt, affect every internet user no matter what country they live in.

Those platforms are; Alibaba AliExpress, Amazon Store, Apple AppStore, Booking.com, Facebook, Google Play, Google Maps, Google Shopping, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, X, formally known as Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, Zalando, Bing, and Google Search.

As always, the devil is in the details.

The Verge describes the DSA in the following manner:

    The overarching goal of the DSA is to foster safer online environments. Under the new rules, online platforms must implement ways to prevent and remove posts containing illegal goods, services, or content while simultaneously giving users the means to report this type of content.

Washington Post (Archive link here):

    Approved by the European Parliament in 2022, the Digital Services Act (DSA) is a regulation meant to keep consumers safe online as they interact with the platforms and marketplaces that make up the modern web.

    How? By forcing the companies behind those platforms and marketplaces to be more transparent about how content or products are algorithmically recommended, and ensuring they “mitigate” the spread of disinformation, offer ways for users to flag “illegal” content and more.

Last but not least, Wikipedia:

    ..The expressed purpose of the DSA is to update the European Union's legal framework for illegal content on intermediaries, in particular by modernizing the e-Commerce Directive adopted in 2000. In doing so, the DSA aims to harmonize different national laws in the European Union that have emerged at national level to address illegal content....

The reason I used multiple different sources and their descriptions is to make it clear that it is not my opinion, nor my terminology, used in describing this law, that makes Orwell's "84" look like a free new world!

The first thing that caught my attention in those descriptions was the use of the term "illegal content," which none of the sources above adequately explained, so off on the hunt I went.

A website highlighted by Bing  called Matheson, explains the terminology in the following manner:

    Trusted Flaggers: Platforms must cooperate with designated 'trusted flaggers' to identify and remove illegal content. Illegal content is defined as including any information that in itself or in relation to an activity, is not in compliance with EU or Member State law. The recitals to the DSA provides some illustrative examples of illegal content, such as the sharing of images depicting child sexual abuse.

What happens to these large platforms if they do not comply? They can be fined "up to 6% on their annual turnover in the European Union.

For Google/YouTube (owned by the same company) this won't be an issue because they have been censoring what Americans to see for years, and still doing it.

HOW DOES THIS AFFECT AMERICANS
Many people that read Independent Media do so in conjunction with the mainstream media, they read it all and then make their own determinations.

What does this mean for Americans, and for Independent Media?

Americans will now have the Europeans controlling what they are able to find when using Google or Bing search engines, because if it is not EU approved, it must be removed or risk that 6% annual turnover in the EU.

Americans will not be able to find anything but the "official narrative" on social media, unless they say the hell with Europe and refuse to allow their content to show in Europe at all.

There is precedent for that option, by way of Facebook, now known as META.

In Canada they passed Bill C-18, the Online News Act, forces tech giants like Meta and Google to pay news outlets for posting their journalism on their platforms.

What this means is if media or users wish Facebook/Meta to host their news, the company would have to pay them for it, so Meta simply said no Canadian news would be hosted, and users could look elsewhere for the news.

I am not going to get into the fairness or unfairness of Canada's Online News Act, because frankly it doesn't affect us and there is enough going on, like the EU's DSA, that does affect Americans.

With that said, META/FB solution is one that can, and should, be used by American large tech platforms to prevent the EU from controlling what news we are able to access through their services.

In other words: Cut off the EU and their member countries, and see how long it takes them to discover who needs who more.

The problem there is, other than Twitter/X, who Elon Musk bought and has erred on the side of free speech rather than censorship, the other companies named, for the most part, are owned and run by liberals, who prefer that only the "official narrative" be shown to Americans.

Which means that most of the large online platforms mentioned up above will be more than happy to let the EU control what Americans are allowed to see.

Independent Media websites that use social media to promote their work, which most of are asking the questions and reporting on the issues the MSM won't, could have their posts removed from the platform if it is "not in compliance with EU or Member State law."

It also means the two search engines named, Google and Bing, would be almost worthless for Independent Media readers to use if they want something other than the "official narrative."

If you haven't found another search engine other than Google and Bing, here are a list of alternatives. Note: Bing is on the list of Alternatives, many written long before it was listed as part of the DSA.

BOTTOM LINE - WORSE THAN ORWELL'S '84'
Since these are American companies that are to be forced to comply with what Europeans, one would hope America's leaders would step up and say "hold on, not so fast," but with Joe Biden occupying the White House, that is not happening, because this will benefit Biden or whoever Democrats choose to run for president in 2024.

The EU and it's member states will now be able to affect American elections, including the 2024 presidential election, by simply "flagging" content that they deem "illegal."

The Dark Web may end up being the final play to guarantee access to Independent Media to their readers.

At this point they are going to force Independent Media to create a "black market" for true news.

https://allnewspipeline.com/Assassinatio..._Media.php

Government and Those Who Control Government, Are the Most Monstrous Terrorists of All Time
Gary Barnett

“The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.”

~ Bernardine Dohrn

Over the past two plus decades, the words terrorist and terrorism, have inundated the ‘news’ cycles, especially beginning profusely after the inside false flag ‘attack’ referred to as ‘9/11.’ Most all reference to terrorism however, has been isolated to what the government and its media claimed were foreign enemies of the state, mainly terror groups and individuals as identified by the State itself, and in most cases, they were created intentionally by that same State in order to use for nefarious purposes. What was missing from this agenda-driven false reporting, was the exposure of the real terrorists among us, who are those who rule and their complicit pawns in government, as well as all government enforcement agencies. The real terrorists, the most brutal, and the most murderous; those who perpetrate terror and cause and allow others to commit acts of horror, are government and those who control government. As to the most prolific of all nation-state terrorism, the U.S. is by far, the worst among all nations on earth, and is the leader of terrorism worldwide.

The term State terrorism, is an accurate description, but instead of State terrorism by outside and foreign ‘enemies,’ it is almost exclusively today in the form of terrorism against the people by one’s own government, and nothing could have proven this fact more than the resent bogus ‘covid’ terroristic fraud foisted on this entire population, as well as every other country on earth. Terrorism and the war of terrorism, has finally been exposed as only a vehicle of power and control, meant to subdue and command dominance over resident populations. Of course, this heinous plot is based on fear, and so long as the collective herd can be made afraid of monsters from afar or within, they can be restricted, restrained, muted, and fooled into mass compliance and voluntary enslavement. The weapons being used by the State are many, from threats of war, manipulated weather and bogus weather reporting, fake ‘climate change,’ intentionally set fires, manufactured ‘pandemics,’ economic destruction, hyper-inflation, lack of food and proper medical care, and on and on. This is the real terror, and the greatest risk to us all.

It is not only appropriate, but imperative, to understand that every single threat and harmful event outlined by government and State-supported media, should first and foremost be considered a purposeful manipulation, and therefore a lie. These threats and heinous events are deliberately constructed and premeditated attempts to gain total control over the people by very unscrupulous means, as performed by evil State actors. This is the world in which we now live. It is a world of insanity and extreme madness, and the slaughter and murder of innocents is regarded by the State as a boon to its desires to advance nefarious agendas.

We are now in the midst of extreme terror by fire, and this is being perpetuated worldwide, without any regard whatsoever for the victims of this attack on humanity. The Maui fires, especially in Lahaina, were it seems, completely staged and intentional. The people there were purposely blocked by police from leaving, and sent in circles in the middle of this deliberate and willful murder of innocents. These fires were targeted, as certain State buildings, large complexes, and multi-million dollar homes were spared, while directly in the line of the fires that magically leapt over these State-protected areas. The anomalies present are many, and of course said to be  ‘unexplainable,’  but coincidences do not happen in huge numbers all at the same time in a manner that is only advantageous to the State’s abominable intentions. The evil governor of Hawaii,  Josh Green, announced immediately, that he intended to capture as much land as possible for State control, while the people with no homes and unfound dead family members were abandoned. The obvious nature of this is so clear and stark, as the State had long ago decided to steal this land for its own use, so murdering likely thousands was the price paid, without any regard from the scum in government and its police partners who allowed this to happen. This was a directed war against Lahaina.

Extremely suspicious fires are being ignited all around the world, and most of those being reported are of a very dubious nature. California has had its share, as has Canada, and many look to be intentional, and are burning at extremely high temperatures with high wind. This is indicative of the effects of many years of spraying metals, chemicals, and poisons in the form of geoengineering via chemical trails. The same is happening still in Canada and many places in the U.S. Maui was just the latest, and of course, the most devastating concerning human life. Greece has been burning for some time now, and all indications are that those fires were intentional as well. Turkey is also engulfed in flames. Multiple fires in Chinese cities are also highly questionable. This is the State’s preferred method of terror currently, and fits in perfectly with their complete scam of ‘climate change,’ which is the impetus at this point for all plans of global takeover.

Arson is a factor in most of these fires, but who are the arsonists, and why is this happening around the world at the same time? There are many signs that lead to the conclusion that these fires have been set in multiple ways, and purposely, including by directed energy. One of the Air Force’s Directed Energy Directorates is actually in Maui, but that should surprise no one. Many of these fires are said even by the State to be intentionally set by individuals, but why would so many people set murderous fires if they were not commissioned to do so? What is the State’s role in these terrorism events? Obviously, pandemics, fires, directed storms, chemical spills, and wars, among many other atrocities, fit into the narrative of global governance, as all these things lead to mass control of populations, and the State stands to take over more people and property at every turn. There are just too many so-called coincidences to ignore, even for those who continually hide from the truth. The State is definitely involved heavily in many areas of terrorism, including domestic terrorism, and is using these homicidal policies to its murderous advantage.

The sad truth of the matter, is that this is just the beginning, and more acts of terror loom in our future. The ruling class and government will continue their quest of intimidation and murder so long as the masses put up with it, and no obvious sign of real dissent has emerged from this hapless population. Yes, there is talk, and some pushback at the extreme margins, but no real majority resistance has ever shown up to date.

Governments of every stripe are nothing more than gangs of terrorists. All government is organized crime, and relies on force and propaganda in order to subdue the human herd. The criminals at the top care nothing about any of you, and will always find the common man to be expendable, especially those who stand in the way of the State’s efforts to achieve totalitarian rule.

It is my opinion that the most dangerous threats to freedom and human kind at this point, are the frauds called ‘climate change,’ and the plotted digital takeover of the monetary system. Fake ‘climate change’ will be the motivating catalyst used to lock down and restrict humanity beyond the imagination of most, and central bank digital currencies will be used to drive the nail in the coffin of all dissent. Once these agenda items are solidified, any hope of liberty will be quashed. This cannot be stressed strongly enough, as the time we have left to alter this deadly course we are on is disappearing quickly. Don’t wait until it is too late!

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/09/gary...-all-time/

https://youtube.com/shorts/pnr_Nn_x6JA?s...cha4WmRF89

There is a trend of Alexa making such predictions. This video predicts ww3 to start 23.11.2023

Another video Alexa predicts no us election due to onset of war.

Curious how this is being allowed to happen by the powers that be. I suspect they are testing the possibility of controlling global destiny with ai.

https://rumble.com/v3dobpw-covid-tyrants...lockd.html

https://rumble.com/v3dlkwq-breaking-trum...rants.html

Donald Trump Reveals Where He Stands on COVID in New Viral Video
“To every COVID tyrant who wants to take away our Freedom, hear these words—WE WILL NOT COMPLY!”
2nd Smartest Guy in the World
Aug 31, 2023

by THE VIGILANT FOX

Former President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, released several video messages on his Truth Social feed Wednesday, but the video that caught the most attention was the one titled, “To every COVID tyrant who wants to take away our Freedom, hear these words—WE WILL NOT COMPLY!”

Here is Donald J. Trump’s message, word for word:

Quote:“The left-wing lunatics are trying very hard to bring back COVID lockdowns and mandates with all of their sudden fear-mongering about the new variants that are coming. Gee whiz. You know what else is coming? An election.

“They want to restart the COVID hysteria so they can justify more lockdowns, more censorship, more illegal dropboxes, more mail-in ballots, and trillions of dollars in payoffs to their political allies heading into the 2024 election. Does that sound familiar? These are bad people. These are sick people we're dealing with.

“But to every COVID tyrant who wants to take away our Freedom, hear these words—WE WILL NOT COMPLY! So don't even think about it. We will not shut down our schools. We will not accept your lockdowns. We will not abide by your mask mandates, and we will not tolerate your vaccine mandates.

“They rigged the 2020 election, and now they're trying to do the same thing all over again by rigging the most important election in the history of our country, the 2024 election, even if it means trying to bring back COVID.

But they will fail because we will not let it happen. When I'm back in the White House, I will use every available authority to cut federal funding to any school, college, airline, or public transportation system that imposes a mask mandate or a vaccine mandate. Thank you very much.”

Do NOT comply.

Dr. Vernon Coleman: The 10 BIGGEST and Most Dangerous Lies
It has been clear since the start of this fraud that everything that is happening is connected...Nothing is happening by accident and there are no coincidences.

https://video.vernoncoleman.org/w/egzmoh...fF5GWvKfzw

It is August 2023 and this is video number 328.

It has been clear since the start of this fraud, particularly since the point when the conspirators got really serious and began to deceive and to oppress in great earnest, that everything that is happening is connected. As I’ve been saying for three and a half years, nothing is happening by accident. Everything is connected. There are no coincidences.

We need to be constantly aware that we are under siege and that the stakes in this war are higher than they have ever been in any previous war ever fought. This isn’t a war for territory or a specific commodity such as oil, gold or wheat. This is a war for our freedom, our independence, our individuality and our humanity.

At the beginning of 2020 I was nervous about the words to use to describe what I believed was happening. I confess I thought long and hard before calling my first video Coronavirus – the Hoax of the Century. I feared that people would probably think me paranoid or insane. I chose the word `hoax’ deliberately because that’s what I felt it was.

A few people did think me insane, of course, but more and more people are waking up and we are no longer quite as alone as we were all those months ago. The conspirators and, more importantly, the collaborators – because there are a good many of them – are now clearly the insane ones. They have created a whole dictionary of bizarre terms such as sustainability, diversity, inclusivity and transparency – none of which they understand - as an excuse for their greed, cruelty, ignorance, selfishness and the absurd sense of personal entitlement and mistaken self-righteousness which, they believe, gives them the right to sit down in front of ambulances and fire engines, to disrupt people’s lives and to damage property in their campaigns for a pseudoscience that is built on laughably inept and crooked theories. The insane members of the cult of eco-terrorism which is causing such chaos seem to have forgotten such basic principles of behaviour as respect, dignity and decency. And they are, of course, too ignorant, too prejudiced, too biased and too naïve to realise that they are playing the roles that were designed for them. There were never going to be enough conspirators to take over the world. The collaborators, the half-witted, mask wearing, vaccinated buffoons who have taken part in the revolution of the woke, are, and always have been, just as much to blame for what has happened, and what is happening, as the insane billionaire bankers and globalists.

Because everything that has happened to us has happened in isolation, and it is sometimes difficult to see how it is all connected, I’ve put together a top ten of the biggest lies the conspirators have told in the last three years – and shown how these are connected together in the greatest and most evil fraud in human history. All these lies were designed to encourage compliance and to lead us into the Great Reset.

I’ll begin my top ten at the bottom of the list – with Number Ten.

And Number Ten on my list is the fake pandemic itself – the coronavirus hoax which hit the world in the early months of 2020 and which was, of course, built upon a huge lie. They told us we were all in great danger when we were not but they wanted to frighten us. The truth is that the covid-19 infection which the incompetent mathematicians told us was going to kill millions was no more than the annual flu – and it was a fairly modest version of the flu, at that. Government statistics show that the flu disappeared when covid-19 was supposedly threatening our existence. And the number of genuine deaths from covid-19 was no more than die in some fairly ordinary flu seasons. Moreover, governments knew in March 2020 that the covid infection was officially no worse than the flu. Before all the fuss started, the covid-19 infection had been officially downgraded to the same level of danger as the standard flu. All that is on record. And mortality rates for 2020 and 2021 show that the number of people dying in those years was no higher than in other years. The covid pandemic was a hoax.

Number Nine on my list is the PCR test which was used to make the official figures for covid look far worse than they were. The PCR test, of course, was never intended to be used as a covid-19 test and it was entirely useless for that purpose. Everyone knew that. Or should have known it. Nevertheless, governments everywhere used the PCR test to falsely label million of patients – and millions of deaths – as being covid related. People who died of heart attacks, cancer, muggers, being run over by buses and heaven knows what else were falsely put down as covid victims. Post mortems weren’t done – very conveniently – because the authorities decided that it was too dangerous to perform examinations on patients who had been labelled as dying of the flu. Treatment programmes which were murderous were introduced en masse and effective treatment regimes were banned. The elderly were killed off in their thousands by a kill shot consisting of morphine and a benzodiazepine tranquilliser. I had warned in March 2020 that killing off the elderly was one of the aims of the covid hoax. The other two aims I’d warned about two and half years ago were a plan to introduce compulsory vaccination programmes and a plan to use the alleged pandemic to get rid of cash. The PCR test, misused and misapplied, was always an integral part of making the pandemic seem real: it was a vital part of the lie.

Number Eight on my list are the lockdowns which, we were told, would protect us. A big, big lie. It was, of course, obvious right from the start that the lockdowns wouldn’t do any good but would do a massive amount of harm. Today, so-called experts everywhere are announcing with apparent surprise that shutting people in their homes, isolating care home patients and closing schools caused massive psychological damage. And closing hospital departments (while nurses were busy making TikTok videos) has resulted in a massive increase in illness and deaths – increases which will continue for decades. Children were particularly badly damaged and thousands are now severely depressed and desperately need help they’ll never get. All this was predictable – take a look at the videos I made when the lockdowns were first suggested. The UK Government has instigated a covid inquiry at which doctors and others are giving evidence – which largely seems to consist of excuses. I submitted evidence proving that I warned about all the problems – and proved that the covid scare was a hoax – right at the beginning. Naturally, however, I have not yet been called to give evidence. I worry that the enquiry will be a farce, deliberately designed to avoid the unfortunate fact that anyone who told the truth was silenced and demonised. Incidentally, it is abundantly clear now that politicians and others in public service knew that the lockdowns were quite unnecessary and could sensibly be ignored.

Number Seven on the list are the masks which were introduced and made more or less compulsory everywhere despite clear evidence that wearing masks did far more harm than good. And in addition, discarded masks do far more damage to wildlife and the environment than plastic bags ever did. Predictably, the morons who wore masks terrified children and delayed the development of babies and infants. Moreover, the mask wearers were more likely to develop chest infections. And, yet again proving the fact checkers wrong, it is clear that masks did accelerate the development and return of cancers because of their effect on blood oxygen levels. Forcing people to wear masks was part of the process of forcing populations to be compliant and was, therefore, an addition to the utterly absurd recycling programme which was long ago proved to be utterly wasteful and pointless, as well as expensive, but which is now regarded as a religion by mad and ignorant cultists – those tragic souls who happily sort their rubbish, wash their old yoghurt cartons with valuable water and then close their eyes to the fact that recycling material is mostly burnt or dumped – usually after being transported half way round the world. The recycling programme has done massive damage to the environment.

Number Six on my list of lies is the war – ostensibly between Russia and Ukraine but in reality, of course, between NATO and Russia. The western media deliberately misrepresents the war and suppresses the fact that the war was created to push up energy prices and food prices. The damage done to Europeans was as nothing to the damage done in Africa where hundreds of millions are starving and will die. This is part of the population control programme which the conspirators regard as essential. Biden and chums blew up the Nord Stream pipeline to maximise the damage done to Europe and Africa and also to maximise American profits. This problem hasn’t gone away and next winter is going to see ten or a hundred times as many deaths as were caused by the well marketed flu of 2020 and 2021. The war has helped push up inflation and interest rates, helping to impoverish millions – remember the phrase ‘You will own nothing’- and enrich the billionaire bankers.

Number Five on my shameful list is the lie that the world is overpopulated and short of food. The truth, of course, is that there is plenty of food but much of it is in the wrong place and is wasted. Those EU food mountains should have made it clear long ago that the world has plenty of food. Moreover, the evidence shows clearly that the earth can easily cope with many more billions of people. There is no overcrowding – that is just one of many myths which the evil, greedy globalists find convenient.

Number Four on the list of lies is the covid-19 vaccine – the most toxic pharmaceutical product ever produced, and also the most over-promoted and dangerously over sold. Any doctor or nurse who gave or promoted the covid-19 should be arrested because they broke just about every ethical code in existence. Patients were not properly consulted, side effects were ignored and suppressed and, of course, the so-called vaccines were mass marketed without being properly tested. We are already seeing the awful short term consequences of the mass vaccination programme and I fear that the long-term consequences will be awful beyond imagination. The medical establishment is still maintaining the lie, of course, and many deaths caused by the vaccine are being misdiagnosed and misattributed. Moreover, the fake disease of long covid is, when the symptoms are real, a result of the vaccination programme. I think it is also necessary to point out that it isn’t just the covid-19 vaccine – or so called vaccine – that has does massive amounts of harm. The seemingly unending number of vaccination programmes being promoted both to children and adults are causing massive damage to immune systems and causing many diseases. The medical establishment and the politicians have prohibited the discussion of vaccines and a year or two ago the BBC, a vile propaganda machine, made it clear that they did not intend to interview anyone questioning vaccines ‘whether they were right or wrong’. Their words. I understand why the establishment is terrified: vaccines have never been adequately tested singly or together and so all discussion and debate is banned. The available evidence suggests they should all be banned. In my view, vaccines do more harm than good. But still the lies keep coming.

We are now into my final three lies of the last three years.

Number Three on my list is the abolition of cash and the introduction of digital currencies. Like all the other items in my top ten, the authorities claim that they are getting rid of cash and introducing digital currencies for our benefit. Sadly the masses have accepted the lie that it’s for our benefit and are enthusiastically downloading apps and paying for everything with their cards, their smart phones, their daft watches and their implants. Abolishing cash will enable the authorities to control everything we do. They can and will decide what we spend our money on and how much money we can save. And if we misbehave they will simply turn off our money supply until we either do behave or we die.

Number Two is the introduction of social credit – what I have called the nightmare on your street –and the digitalisation of every aspect of our lives. These go hand in hand, of course, and neither would be possible without the internet – the most dangerous and awful invention in human history – far worse and far more deadly than the nuclear bomb or the cigarette. Apps are being introduced to help the enemy control everything we do and we must be forever vigilant and cautious about accepting or using new technology. (I have to use the internet to share my videos and articles because I am banned from everywhere else.) And we should avoid smart phones – which are the enemy’s main weapon. As usual, they claim that social credit and digitalisation are being introduced for our benefit. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Number One is the biggest lie of all – man made climate change. There is no controversy about climate change because there was no climate change until malicious, hare brained idiots started spraying powders into the atmosphere to block out the sun and change the weather.

Climate change is a myth created by evil people and perpetuated by bought and paid for media whores – including the entire staff of the world’s most crooked propaganda organisation – the BBC. Climate change is a fraud and net zero is a weapon which is being used to control and destroy. All the scientific evidence proves that there has been no dangerous change in the weather. All of it. The so-called evidence produced by the media consists of lies and super lies – based on pseudoscience. Climate change has become a cult, carefully managed and controlled in order to deceive and to oppress. Please watch ‘The Sequel to the Fall of the Cabal – Part 28, Climate Crisis’ on Bitchute. It’s packed with all the evidence you need. And read Greta’s Homework by Zina Cohen which is entertaining as well as educational.

There is only word to describe climate change and net zero: criminal. And the people who promote it, and sell this huge lie, are all criminals. They’re rabid racists too, mean and nasty and selfish because they are deliberately trying to keep Africa back in the dark ages. Denying developing countries the chance to progress with fossil fuels is beyond wicked.

There have been other lies and deceits but the ten I’ve selected are the ones which are leading us remorselessly into the Great Reset.

The entire establishment is committed to these lies. Anyone who disagrees with the conspirators’ lies, or exposes them in any way, is labelled as discredited, dangerous and a conspiracy theorist and denied access to the media. None of what is happening would have been possible without the cooperation of the mainstream media and the internet companies. The suppression of the truth and the demonization of honest doctors and scientists have been vicious and never ending.

I’ve been banned from all mainstream media and most of the internet for many years. The removal of free speech was a deliberate, cold blooded policy which originated with and is managed by the security services – the CIA, GCHQ and others – which have almost total control of corrupt organisations such as Google, YouTube and Wikipedia.

And the proof of their deceit is that the conspirators and the collaborators will never debate these issues. I have for years offered to debate these topics, live on television, with the chief protagonists and promoters of these lies. But they steadfastly refuse to debate because they are frightened that they will be humiliated and their lies will be exposed. We should repeat the challenge endlessly because it proves that everything they say is a lie and a wider public will recognise that since we will debate and they will not then we must be right and they must be hiding something.

If you want to know more about any of this please look at my books: Coming Apocalypse, Endgame, `Social Credit - Nightmare on your street and They want your money and your life. They’re all listed in the books sections of my websites.

My latest book Their Terrifying Plan provides an overview and explains why, how, when and who is responsible for what is happening to us. I’ve traced the Great Reset back to its roots and the book contains some real surprises and some genuine shocks. For the record, every penny I receive in royalties is spent on buying copies to distribute to politicians and editors.

Please share this video on Facebook, Twitter and everywhere else you can think of. Try it on YouTube to see if they’re awake. Remember I’m banned from all social media, and have been since the start of this fraud. And yet the big players allow fake channels in my name – and won’t take them down.

Thank you for watching an old man in a chair. Please remember that although it may seem like it, you’re not alone. More and more people are waking up and once awake they don’t go back to sleep.

Distrust the government, avoid mass media and fight the lies. Please share this video with everyone you know. You can find my articles on www.vernoncoleman.com and on www.vernoncoleman.org If one doesn’t seem to work, just try the other.

Thank you for watching an old man in a chair. And remember – we have God on our side.

https://vernoncoleman.org/videos/10-bigg...erous-lies

Latest on Lockdowns: The Royal Society is WRONG
30th August 2023

A report published by the Royal Society claims that lockdowns and other social distancing measures, as well as mask wearing, significantly cut the transmission of the coronavirus during the fake pandemic.

Well, of course, they did!

If you lock people in their homes and make them stay away from their loved ones then they are less likely to spread infections. (Note, please, that only the intellectually deprived, aficionados of pseudoscience and people with the IQ of a table believe that germs don’t exist. The people who believe there are no germs probably also believe that the earth is flat and that climate change is real.)

If we had lockdowns and social distancing rules every winter then there would always be fewer cases of the flu.

It’s as sensible as saying that if we killed everyone in November then there would be no cases of flu during the winter.

Infections cannot spread unless people are within coughing distance of one another.

(Masks are something else, of course. As I proved in my book Proof that Face Masks do More Harm than Good, face masks did massive amounts of damage to people’s health. And they don’t work.)

The problem with the Royal Society’s report is that as far as I can see they don’t seem to have bothered to mention that the number of people killed by the lockdowns far, far exceeded the number of people who didn’t get the flu.

(And let’s remember that we are talking about the flu. It was always clear that covid-19 was merely a well marketed brand of the flu. All the evidence – which I’ve previously detailed in my videos and on my websites – now proves this.)

The lockdowns did massive physical and mental harm to the nation.

Early in 2020 I warned that lockdowns would result in several hundred thousand deaths in the UK alone. Around the world they killed millions.

And the mental damage will last for decades.

The Royal Society claims that lockdowns and social distancing rules were effective. And they claim that restricting visitors in care homes – and keeping residents apart – helped restrict the number of people catching the flu.

In my view, this is the sort of research that gives research a bad name.

And gives me a headache.

The lockdowns, the social distancing rules and the locking of old people in care homes did massive, long-term harm.

None of these methods should ever be used again.

And mask wearing did massive physical and mental harm too.

We have to keep sharing the truth.

We have to make sure that no politician ever dare reintroduce these barbaric and dangerous nonsenses.

Lockdowns, social distancing and masks all killed massive numbers of people – and permanently damaged millions of lives.

My first book about covid-19 was published in April 2020 – and warned about the dangers of the lockdowns. The book is called Coming Apocalypse.

Here is what I said in that book (remember, it was published in April 2020).

‘I was the first to suggest that the so-called ‘cure’ (the lockdown policies and the refusal to treat other patients to ‘protect’ them from infection) would kill far more people than the disease. The lockdown policies seem to have been recommended by a panicky World Health Organisation, though Imperial College’s prediction of eight million Britons in hospital and half a million deaths certainly helped to spice up the panic in the UK.’

https://vernoncoleman.org/articles/lates...iety-wrong

https://vernoncoleman.org/videos/collabo...ill-us-all

Catherine Austin Fitts Explains the Cabal's Land and Real Estate Stealing Tactics
We talk about the connections between Lahaina and other devastating fires, and their relationship to the WHO/UN agenda
Sasha Latypova
Aug 30, 2023

https://www.bitchute.com/video/jBn5Zt0tdWcQ/

Catherine Austin Fitts is a legend that needs no introduction. She has an incredible amount of knowledge and experience, both as an investment banker and working in government, and then being prosecuted by the government (former Assistant Secy of Housing) for trying to uncover and fight corruption. She is currently the publisher of the Solari Report.

I set up this conversation because I wanted to learn about the tactics that the criminal mafia posing as US federal and state governments are currently using against the people. We focus on the US, but many of my readers can probably recognize these tactics being applied all over the world. The goal of the criminal cabal is well advertised: “save the planet, reduce carbon” by which they mean “we need all the real assets and resources for ourselves, and fewer of you plebs around”.

While this attitude toward the people has been consistent, they have been very careful in hiding the true intent behind nice sounding slogans. This is easy to do when the times are good, financially speaking. When the bubble is being inflated by the central banking hot air, few people will question it or look too closely at the financial machinations. CAF did and was prosecuted for it.

The times are different now. We are at the end of the financial musical chairs game. All that “leverage” is about to un-lever very rapidly, the fake money will turn out to be, well - fake! The cabal are desperate to grab the real stuff. Attractive land is some of the most “real” of the real stuff. They are quite willing to burn and murder for it, as we have seen in Lahaina, HI, Paradise, CA and elsewhere.

Below is a note from Catherine on the tactics the government typically uses to drive people off the land they want and into the “enclosures” they prepare for them. This approach has been uses consistently, starting with the Native Americans, continuing with the poor black and immigrant neighborhoods, and now into the middle class areas that billionaires desire:

    Moving people to quarantine is good if you want to install things - but if you are stealing real estate it gets pretty obvious pretty quick. Better to scare them out so they pay their own expenses of going elsewhere.  As much as possible, you want "free range" solutions.

    Based on what I saw at HUD and during the pandemic, tactics depend on local jurisdictions (local laws, local resources) as well as the covert operations they choose to use locally at the same time. The success of the operations depend on several lines acting in concert: intelligence/surveillance, government in health area, banks and insurance companies, media, real estate developers and investors. This coordination already exists in the management of places, but it is hard for most people to see or fathom.  The sweet spot is the amount of real estate that can be picked up and the capital gains this translated into for investors, public traded company etc and the political donations that flow to politicians from capital gains.

    Tactics revolve around various options of getting fee title to land and real estate:

    1. Force a sale: Do things that shut down private business and personal income  and or lower the value of the real estate (including by radically increasing costs, like cost of remediation or requiring installation in new sewer systems or equipment etc) and/or permit the cancellation of insurance. A lot of helpful tactics can be applied through lenders, banks and insurance providers who are playing ball.

    2. Condemnation to deal with "pathogens" [this is what WHO Pandemic Treaty aims to do among other enslavement things]

    3. Eminent domain - prices will be much lower presumably after the "pathogens" are found

    4. Emergency money to help - except all the money goes to "insiders" who are moving in or are playing local person helping the insiders move in and take over

    5. Supporting media- very gaslighting - see video here for example https://home.solari.com/deep-state-tacti...tin-fitts/

    6. Poisoning - poisoning of individuals or failures of water systems will cause disability and death which are likely to force sales

    In all cases you want to keep things as complex as possible under the guise of "helping" - you will have heavy surveillance of all parties and your covert operations and media in combination can take care of isolating or compromising individual parties who are slowing you down or stopping you. Covert operations will by and large be done by or through corporate contractors and mob (drug cartels)

    I suspect they have perfected a lot of the tactics using response to weather warfare "natural disasters".

In closing, quoting Catherine, you have to be a wealth builder in your mind. You cannot succumb to the mentality of doom and victimhood, no matter what. I hope we have conveyed this in our discussion.

As always, please share with your friends and family. We discussed several approaches to stay safe and preserve your assets/rights. Do not get into “we are doomed” mindset. We are not doomed. We have solutions, we can work with what we have and build resilient support networks. Most importantly, as you shake the sleepers out of their stupor, the cabal loses more and more of its willing foot soldiers. Do not comply.

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