thewakingtimes--2020-05-05--Green Energy Surges as Demand for Fossil Fuel Collapses — and It Could Be Here to Stay

Green Energy Surges as Demand for Fossil Fuel Collapses — and It Could Be Here to Stay As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic , economies across the world have seemingly slammed on the brakes .
As a result , the world has witnessed a vast reduction in driving , flying , maritime shipping , industrial activity , and international commerce in general .
The meltdown of the global economy has been absolutely devastating for fossil fuel commodities such as coal , gas and oil , due to a precipitous drop in energy usage unparalleled since the Great Depression of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Energy Agency ( IEA ) , fossil fuel demand has fallen seven times more than it did during the 2008 global financial crisis—and could be wiped out for decades to come , even after the pandemic subsides .
However , the crisis unleashed by COVID-19 could open the door to a broad transition to renewable energy , especially as new projects including lower-cost wind turbines and solar panels are increasingly rolled out , Science magazine reports .
And in a bit of good news for our suddenly cleaner skies and waterways , clean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even help roll back increased global carbon emissions over the past years .
According to the IEA , the world ’ s CO2 emissions could fall by as much as 8 percent this year , or roughly 2.6 gigatons , as a result of the pandemic—the largest drop ever recorded .
Global energy demand is already expected to drop by a massive 6 percent in 2020—an amount the agency described as “ unprecedented , ” and “ the equivalent of losing the entire energy demand of India.
” Meanwhile , demand for gas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a decade of uninterrupted growth , the sharpest fall ever since gas became widely used as a source of energy in the second half of the twentieth century .
Coal demand will also fall by 8 percent compared to 2019 , the largest decline since the end of the Second World War .
In the meantime , demand for renewable energy is expected to grow by 1 percent this year , thanks in part to a 5 percent increase in the use of renewables owing to the low fuel cost of electricity generated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dams .
The crisis has also shown the pitfalls of relying on fossil fuels , which require costly storage systems and extensive supply chains to move fuel from its source , noted energy policy expert Daniel Kammen .
He added : However , Birol and the IEA are confident that the growth in renewables should signal a shift from fossil fuel companies toward generating clean energy .
However , this transition to clean energy should be incentivized by governments who can ensure that any economic stimulus packages include provisions for a green economy @

Green Energy Surges as Demand for Fossil Fuel Collapses — and It Could Be Here to Stay
Elias Marat, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, economies across the world have seemingly slammed on the brakes. As a result, the world has witnessed a vast reduction in driving, flying, maritime shipping, industrial activity, and international commerce in general.
The meltdown of the global economy has been absolutely devastating for fossil fuel commodities such as coal, gas and oil, due to a precipitous drop in energy usage unparalleled since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), fossil fuel demand has fallen seven times more than it did during the 2008 global financial crisis—and could be wiped out for decades to come, even after the pandemic subsides.
However, the crisis unleashed by COVID-19 could open the door to a broad transition to renewable energy, especially as new projects including lower-cost wind turbines and solar panels are increasingly rolled out, Science magazine reports.
Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director, said:
“The plunge in demand for nearly all major fuels is staggering, especially for coal, oil and gas. Only renewables are holding up during the previously unheard of slump in electricity use.”
Last year, low-carbon technologies overtook coal as the leading source of electricity worldwide for the first time in 50 years. They are set to extend their lead in 2020 to reach 40% of global electricity generation. pic.twitter.com/DTUsJLzAUg — Fatih Birol (@fbirol) April 30, 2020
And in a bit of good news for our suddenly cleaner skies and waterways, clean electricity could be here to stay—and could even help roll back increased global carbon emissions over the past years.
According to the IEA, the world’s CO2 emissions could fall by as much as 8 percent this year, or roughly 2.6 gigatons, as a result of the pandemic—the largest drop ever recorded.
Global energy demand is already expected to drop by a massive 6 percent in 2020—an amount the agency described as “unprecedented,” and “the equivalent of losing the entire energy demand of India.”
Meanwhile, demand for gas will likely fall by 5 percent following a decade of uninterrupted growth, the sharpest fall ever since gas became widely used as a source of energy in the second half of the twentieth century. Coal demand will also fall by 8 percent compared to 2019, the largest decline since the end of the Second World War.
In the meantime, demand for renewable energy is expected to grow by 1 percent this year, thanks in part to a 5 percent increase in the use of renewables owing to the low fuel cost of electricity generated by sunlight, wind, and hydroelectric dams.
"#Coal is set for the largest decline since WWII, alongside sharp reductions for gas & oil. Nuclear power is less affected by lockdown measures, while renewables are the only energy source on the rise in 2020." 👇From @Laura_Cozzi's presentation to press on @IEA's new GER report pic.twitter.com/nGSepXhMd6 — Merve Erdil (@merveerdill) April 30, 2020
The crisis has also shown the pitfalls of relying on fossil fuels, which require costly storage systems and extensive supply chains to move fuel from its source, noted energy policy expert Daniel Kammen. He added:
“Those costs are always there. But when there’s so little demand for fossil fuel, what you’re seeing is the infrastructure to move it around has been overwhelmed.”
However, Birol and the IEA are confident that the growth in renewables should signal a shift from fossil fuel companies toward generating clean energy. However, this transition to clean energy should be incentivized by governments who can ensure that any economic stimulus packages include provisions for a green economy.
Birol explained:
“It is still too early to determine the longer-term impacts. “But the energy industry that emerges from this crisis will be significantly different from the one that came before.”
By Elias Marat | Creative Commons | TheMindUnleashed.com


thewakingtimes--2020-05-05--Battered Souls #006 – Transcendence, Presence and Peace with Ricky Tran

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Battered Souls #006 – Transcendence, Presence and Peace with Ricky Tran
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thewakingtimes--2020-05-05--Technofascism: Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age

We are fast becoming a nation—nay , a world—of book burners .
While on paper , we are technically free to speak—at least according to the U.S. Constitution—in reality , however , we are only as free to speak as the government and its corporate partners such as Facebook , Google or YouTube may allow .
That ’ s not a whole lot of freedom .
Especially if you ’ re inclined to voice opinions that may be construed as conspiratorial or dangerous .
Take David Icke , for example .
Icke , a popular commentator and author often labeled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recently had his Facebook page and YouTube channel ( owned by Google ) deleted for violating site policies by “ spreading coronavirus disinformation.
” The Centre for Countering Digital Hate , which has been vocal about calling for Icke ’ s de-platforming , is also pushing for the removal of all other sites and individuals who promote Icke ’ s content in an effort to supposedly “ save lives.
” Translation : the CCDH evidently believes the public is too dumb to think for itself and must be protected from dangerous ideas .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to protect us from ourselves .
In the long run , this “ safety ” control ( the censorship and shadowbanning of anyone who challenges a mainstream narrative ) will be far worse than merely allowing people to think for themselves .
Journalist Matt Taibbi gets its : “ The people who want to add a censorship regime to a health crisis are more dangerous and more stupid by leaps and bounds than a president who tells people to inject disinfectant.
” These internet censors are not acting in our best interests to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about COVID-19 , a virus whose source and behavior continue to elude medical officials .
They ’ re laying the groundwork now , with Icke as an easy target , to preempt any “ dangerous ” ideas that might challenge the power elite ’ s stranglehold over our lives .
This is how freedom dies .
It doesn ’ t matter what disinformation Icke may or may not have been spreading about COVID-19 .
That ’ s not the issue .
As commentator Caitlin Johnstone recognizes , the censorship of David Icke by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do with Icke : “ What matters is that we ’ re seeing a consistent and accelerating pattern of powerful plutocratic institutions collaborating with the US-centralized empire to control what ideas people around the world are permitted to share with each other , and it ’ s a very unsafe trajectory.
” Welcome to the age of technofascism .
Technofascism , clothed in tyrannical self-righteousness , is powered by technological behemoths ( both corporate and governmental ) working in tandem .
As journalist Chet Bowers explains , “ Technofascism ’ s level of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to repressive systems that will not tolerate dissent.
” Eventually , as George Orwell predicted , telling the truth will become a revolutionary act .
We ’ re almost at that point now .
What you are witnessing is the modern-day equivalent of book burning which involves doing away with dangerous ideas—legitimate or not—and the people who espouse them .
Today , the forces of political correctness , working in conjunction with corporate and government agencies , have managed to replace actual book burning with intellectual book burning .
“ Free speech for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ how my good friend and free speech purist Nat Hentoff used to sum up this double standard .
This is about much more than free speech , however .
This is about repression and control .
With every passing day , we ’ re being moved further down the road towards a totalitarian society characterized by government censorship , violence , corruption , hypocrisy and intolerance , all packaged for our supposed benefit in the Orwellian doublespeak of national security , tolerance and so-called “ government speech.
” The reasons for such censorship @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concerns and bullying to national security and hate crimes but the end result remains the same : the complete eradication of what Benjamin Franklin referred to as the “ principal pillar of a free government.
” The upshot of all of this editing , parsing , banning and silencing is the emergence of a new language , what George Orwell referred to as Newspeak , which places the power to control language in the hands of the totalitarian state .
Under such a system , language becomes a weapon to change the way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use .
In totalitarian regimes—a.k.a .
police states—where conformity and compliance are enforced at the end of a loaded gun , the government dictates what words can and can not be used .
In countries where the police state hides behind a benevolent mask and disguises itself as tolerance , the citizens censor themselves , policing their words and thoughts to conform to the dictates of the mass mind lest they find themselves ostracized or placed under surveillance .
Even when the motives behind this rigidly calibrated reorientation of societal language appear well-intentioned—discouraging @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and hatred—inevitably , the end result is the same : intolerance , indoctrination and infantilism .
It ’ s political correctness disguised as tolerance , civility and love , but what it really amounts to is the chilling of free speech and the demonizing of viewpoints that run counter to the cultural elite .
The police state could not ask for a better citizenry than one that carries out its own censorship , spying and policing : this is how you turn a nation of free people into extensions of the omniscient , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the process turn a citizenry against each other .
Tread cautiously : Orwell ’ s 1984 , which depicts the ominous rise of ubiquitous technology , fascism and totalitarianism , has become an operation manual for the omnipresent , modern-day surveillance state .
1984 portrays a global society of total control in which people are not allowed to have thoughts that in any way disagree with the corporate state .
There is no personal freedom , and advanced technology has become the driving force behind a surveillance-driven society .
Snitches and cameras @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Thought Police , who deal with anyone guilty of thought crimes .
The government , or “ Party , ” is headed by Big Brother who appears on posters everywhere with the words : “ Big Brother is watching you.
” We have arrived , way ahead of schedule , into the dystopian future dreamed up by not only Orwell but also such fiction writers as Aldous Huxley , Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick .
And in keeping with Philip K. Dick ’ s darkly prophetic vision of a dystopian police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s futuristic thriller Minority Report—we are now trapped in a world in which the government is all-seeing , all-knowing and all-powerful , and if you dare to step out of line , dark-clad police SWAT teams and pre-crime units will crack a few skulls to bring the populace under control .
What once seemed futuristic no longer occupies the realm of science fiction .
Incredibly , as the various nascent technologies employed and shared by the government and corporations alike—facial recognition , iris scanners , massive databases , behavior prediction software , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , interwoven cyber network aimed at tracking our movements , predicting our thoughts and controlling our behavior , the dystopian visions of past writers is fast becoming our reality .
In fact , our world is characterized by widespread surveillance , behavior prediction technologies , data mining , fusion centers , driverless cars , voice-controlled homes , facial recognition systems , cybugs and drones , and predictive policing ( pre-crime ) aimed at capturing would-be criminals before they can do any damage .
Surveillance cameras are everywhere .
Government agents listen in on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And privacy and bodily integrity have been utterly eviscerated .
We are increasingly ruled by multi-corporations wedded to the police state .
What many fail to realize is that the government is not operating alone .
It can not .
Thus , the increasingly complex security needs of the massive federal government , especially in the areas of defense , surveillance and data management , have been met within the corporate sector , which has shown itself to be a powerful ally that both depends on and feeds the growth of governmental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wedded to Big Government has become Big Brother , and we are now ruled by the Corporate Elite whose tentacles have spread worldwide .
The government now has at its disposal technological arsenals so sophisticated and invasive as to render any constitutional protections null and void .
Spearheaded by the NSA , which has shown itself to care little to nothing for constitutional limits or privacy , the “ security/industrial complex ” —a marriage of government , military and corporate interests aimed at keeping Americans under constant surveillance—has come to dominate the government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shortage of motives fueling the convergence of mega-corporations and government .
But who is paying the price ?
“ We the people , ” of course .
Not just we Americans , but people the world over .
We have entered into a global state of tyranny .
Where we stand now is at the juncture of OldSpeak ( where words have meanings , and ideas can be dangerous ) and Newspeak ( where only that which is “ safe ” and “ accepted ” by the majority is permitted ) .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : they will pursue and prosecute any and all words , thoughts and expressions that challenge their authority .
This is the final link in the police state chain .
Americans have been conditioned to accept routine incursions on their privacy rights .
In fact , the addiction to screen devices—especially cell phones—has created a hive effect where the populace not only watched but is controlled by AI bots .
However , at one time , the idea of a total surveillance state tracking one ’ s every move would have been abhorrent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the 9/11 attacks .
As professor Jeffrey Rosen observes , “ Before Sept. 11 , the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras , peering at them in government buildings , shopping malls , subways and stadiums , would have seemed unthinkable , a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.
” Having been reduced to a cowering citizenry—mute in the face of elected officials who refuse to represent us , helpless in the face @ @ @ @ @ @ @ face of militarized tactics and technology that treat us like enemy combatants on a battlefield , and naked in the face of government surveillance that sees and hears all—we have nowhere left to go .
We have , so to speak , gone from being a nation where privacy is king to one where nothing is safe from the prying eyes of government .
In search of so-called terrorists and extremists hiding amongst us—the proverbial “ needle in a haystack , ” as one official termed it—the Corporate State has taken to monitoring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cell phone calls and emails to Internet activity and credit card transactions .
This data is being fed through fusion centers across the country , which work with the Department of Homeland Security to make threat assessments on every citizen , including school children .
Wherever you go and whatever you do , you are now being watched , especially if you leave behind an electronic footprint .
When you use your cell phone , you leave a record of when the call was placed , who you called , how long it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the time .
When you use your ATM card , you leave a record of where and when you used the card .
There is even a video camera at most locations equipped with facial recognition software .
When you use a cell phone or drive a car enabled with GPS , you can be tracked by satellite .
Such information is shared with government agents , including local police .
And all of this once-private information about your consumer habits , your whereabouts and your activities is now being fed to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inexhaustible resources when it comes to tracking our movements , from electronic wiretapping devices , traffic cameras and biometrics to radio-frequency identification cards , satellites and Internet surveillance .
Speech recognition technology now makes it possible for the government to carry out massive eavesdropping by way of sophisticated computer systems .
Phone calls can be monitored , the audio converted to text files and stored in computer databases indefinitely .
And if any “ threatening ” words are detected—no matter how inane or silly—the record can be flagged and assigned to a government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state governments , again working with private corporations , monitor your Internet content .
Users are profiled and tracked in order to identify , target and even prosecute them .
In such a climate , everyone is a suspect .
And you ’ re guilty until you can prove yourself innocent .
Here ’ s what a lot of people fail to understand , however : it ’ s not just what you say or do that is being monitored , but how you think that is being tracked and targeted .
We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the state and federal level with hate crime legislation that cracks down on so-called “ hateful ” thoughts and expression , encourages self-censoring and reduces free debate on various subject matter .
Say hello to the new Thought Police .
Total Internet surveillance by the Corporate State , as omnipresent as God , is used by the government to predict and , more importantly , control the populace , and it ’ s not as far-fetched as you might think .
For example , the NSA has designed an artificial intelligence system @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In a nutshell , the NSA feeds vast amounts of the information it collects to a computer system known as Aquaint ( the acronym stands for Advanced QUestion Answering for INTelligence ) , which the computer then uses to detect patterns and predict behavior .
No information is sacred or spared .
Everything from cell phone recordings and logs , to emails , to text messages , to personal information posted on social networking sites , to credit card statements , to library circulation records , to credit card histories , etc.
, @ @ @ @ @ @ @ freely with its agents .
Thus , what we are witnessing , in the so-called name of security and efficiency , is the creation of a new class system comprised of the watched ( average Americans such as you and me ) and the watchers ( government bureaucrats , technicians and private corporations ) .
Clearly , the age of privacy is at an end .
So where does that leave us ?
We now find ourselves in the unenviable position of being monitored , managed and controlled by our technology , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government and corporate rulers .
This is the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction lesson that is being pounded into us on a daily basis .
It won ’ t be long before we find ourselves looking back on the past with longing , back to an age where we could speak to whom we wanted , buy what we wanted , think what we wanted without those thoughts , words and activities being tracked , processed and stored by corporate giants such as Google , sold to government agencies such as the NSA and CIA , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their army of futuristic technologies .
To be an individual today , to not conform , to have even a shred of privacy , and to live beyond the reach of the government ’ s roaming eyes and technological spies , one must not only be a rebel but rebel .
Even when you rebel and take your stand , there is rarely a happy ending awaiting you .
You are rendered an outlaw .
So how do you survive this global surveillance state ?
As I make clear in my book Battlefield @ @ @ @ @ @ @ People , we ’ re running out of options .
We ’ ll soon have to choose between self-indulgence ( the bread-and-circus distractions offered up by the news media , politicians , sports conglomerates , entertainment industry , etc . )
and self-preservation in the form of renewed vigilance about threats to our freedoms and active engagement in self-governance .
Yet as Aldous Huxley acknowledged in Brave New World Revisited : “ Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties , and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
A society , most of whose members spend a great part of their time , not on the spot , not here and now and in their calculable future , but somewhere else , in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera , of mythology and metaphysical fantasy , will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those would manipulate and control it.
” Which brings me back to this technofascist tyranny being meted out on David Icke and all those like him who dare to voice ideas that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corporate controllers deem to be acceptable .
The problem as I see it is that we ’ ve allowed ourselves to be persuaded that we need someone else to think and speak for us .
And we ’ ve allowed ourselves to become so timid in the face of offensive words and ideas that we ’ ve bought into the idea that we need the government to shield us from that which is ugly or upsetting or mean .
The result is a society in which we ’ ve stopped debating among ourselves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stopped believing that we can fix our own problems and resolve our own differences .
In short , we have reduced ourselves to a largely silent , passive , polarized populace incapable of working through our own problems and reliant on the government to protect us from our fears .
In this way , we have become our worst enemy .
You want to reclaim some of the ground we ’ re fast losing to the techno-tyrants ?
Start by thinking for yourself .
If that means reading the “ dangerous ” ideas @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ickes of the world—or the John Whiteheads for that matter—and then deciding for yourself what is true , so be it .
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute , where this article ( Technofascism : Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age ) was originally published .
He is the author of A Government of Wolves : The Emerging American Police State and The Change Manifesto .

Technofascism: Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age
John W. Whitehead, Rutherford
Waking Times
“Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices—taking advantage of our freedom of speech—who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.”—Nat Hentoff
We are fast becoming a nation—nay, a world—of book burners.
While on paper, we are technically free to speak—at least according to the U.S. Constitution—in reality, however, we are only as free to speak as the government and its corporate partners such as Facebook, Google or YouTube may allow.
That’s not a whole lot of freedom. Especially if you’re inclined to voice opinions that may be construed as conspiratorial or dangerous.
Take David Icke, for example.
Icke, a popular commentator and author often labeled a conspiracy theorist by his detractors, recently had his Facebook page and YouTube channel (owned by Google) deleted for violating site policies by “spreading coronavirus disinformation.”
The Centre for Countering Digital Hate, which has been vocal about calling for Icke’s de-platforming, is also pushing for the removal of all other sites and individuals who promote Icke’s content in an effort to supposedly “save lives.”
Translation: the CCDH evidently believes the public is too dumb to think for itself and must be protected from dangerous ideas.
This is the goosestepping Nanny State trying to protect us from ourselves.
In the long run, this “safety” control (the censorship and shadowbanning of anyone who challenges a mainstream narrative) will be far worse than merely allowing people to think for themselves.
Journalist Matt Taibbi gets its: “The people who want to add a censorship regime to a health crisis are more dangerous and more stupid by leaps and bounds than a president who tells people to inject disinfectant.”
Don’t fall for the propaganda.
These internet censors are not acting in our best interests to protect us from dangerous, disinformation campaigns about COVID-19, a virus whose source and behavior continue to elude medical officials. They’re laying the groundwork now, with Icke as an easy target, to preempt any “dangerous” ideas that might challenge the power elite’s stranglehold over our lives.
This is how freedom dies.
It doesn’t matter what disinformation Icke may or may not have been spreading about COVID-19. That’s not the issue.
As commentator Caitlin Johnstone recognizes, the censorship of David Icke by these internet media giants has nothing to do with Icke: “What matters is that we’re seeing a consistent and accelerating pattern of powerful plutocratic institutions collaborating with the US-centralized empire to control what ideas people around the world are permitted to share with each other, and it’s a very unsafe trajectory.”
Welcome to the age of technofascism.
Technofascism, clothed in tyrannical self-righteousness, is powered by technological behemoths (both corporate and governmental) working in tandem. As journalist Chet Bowers explains, “Technofascism’s level of efficiency and totalitarian potential can easily lead to repressive systems that will not tolerate dissent.”
The internet, hailed as a super-information highway, is increasingly becoming the police state’s secret weapon. This “policing of the mind: is exactly the danger author Jim Keith warned about when he predicted that “information and communication sources are gradually being linked together into a single computerized network, providing an opportunity for unheralded control of hat will be broadcast, what will be said, and ultimately what will be thought.”
It’s a slippery slope from censoring so-called illegitimate ideas to silencing truth.
Eventually, as George Orwell predicted, telling the truth will become a revolutionary act.
We’re almost at that point now.
What you are witnessing is the modern-day equivalent of book burning which involves doing away with dangerous ideas—legitimate or not—and the people who espouse them.
Today, the forces of political correctness, working in conjunction with corporate and government agencies, have managed to replace actual book burning with intellectual book burning.
“Free speech for me but not for thee” is how my good friend and free speech purist Nat Hentoff used to sum up this double standard.
This is about much more than free speech, however. This is about repression and control.
With every passing day, we’re being moved further down the road towards a totalitarian society characterized by government censorship, violence, corruption, hypocrisy and intolerance, all packaged for our supposed benefit in the Orwellian doublespeak of national security, tolerance and so-called “government speech.”
The reasons for such censorship vary widely from political correctness, safety concerns and bullying to national security and hate crimes but the end result remains the same: the complete eradication of what Benjamin Franklin referred to as the “principal pillar of a free government.”
The upshot of all of this editing, parsing, banning and silencing is the emergence of a new language, what George Orwell referred to as Newspeak, which places the power to control language in the hands of the totalitarian state.
Under such a system, language becomes a weapon to change the way people think by changing the words they use.
The end result is control.
In totalitarian regimes—a.k.a. police states—where conformity and compliance are enforced at the end of a loaded gun, the government dictates what words can and cannot be used.
In countries where the police state hides behind a benevolent mask and disguises itself as tolerance, the citizens censor themselves, policing their words and thoughts to conform to the dictates of the mass mind lest they find themselves ostracized or placed under surveillance.
Even when the motives behind this rigidly calibrated reorientation of societal language appear well-intentioned—discouraging racism, condemning violence, denouncing discrimination and hatred—inevitably, the end result is the same: intolerance, indoctrination and infantilism.
It’s political correctness disguised as tolerance, civility and love, but what it really amounts to is the chilling of free speech and the demonizing of viewpoints that run counter to the cultural elite.
The police state could not ask for a better citizenry than one that carries out its own censorship, spying and policing: this is how you turn a nation of free people into extensions of the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent police state, and in the process turn a citizenry against each other.
Tread cautiously: Orwell’s 1984, which depicts the ominous rise of ubiquitous technology, fascism and totalitarianism, has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state.
1984 portrays a global society of total control in which people are not allowed to have thoughts that in any way disagree with the corporate state. There is no personal freedom, and advanced technology has become the driving force behind a surveillance-driven society. Snitches and cameras are everywhere. People are subject to the Thought Police, who deal with anyone guilty of thought crimes. The government, or “Party,” is headed by Big Brother who appears on posters everywhere with the words: “Big Brother is watching you.”
We have arrived, way ahead of schedule, into the dystopian future dreamed up by not only Orwell but also such fiction writers as Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick.
Much like Orwell’s Big Brother in 1984, the government and its corporate spies now watch our every move. Much like Huxley’s A Brave New World, we are churning out a society of watchers who “have their liberties taken away from them, but … rather enjoy it, because they [are] distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing.” Much like Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the populace is now taught to “know their place and their duties, to understand that they have no real rights but will be protected up to a point if they conform, and to think so poorly of themselves that they will accept their assigned fate and not rebel or run away.”
And in keeping with Philip K. Dick’s darkly prophetic vision of a dystopian police state—which became the basis for Steven Spielberg’s futuristic thriller Minority Report—we are now trapped in a world in which the government is all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful, and if you dare to step out of line, dark-clad police SWAT teams and pre-crime units will crack a few skulls to bring the populace under control.
What once seemed futuristic no longer occupies the realm of science fiction.
Incredibly, as the various nascent technologies employed and shared by the government and corporations alike—facial recognition, iris scanners, massive databases, behavior prediction software, and so on—are incorporated into a complex, interwoven cyber network aimed at tracking our movements, predicting our thoughts and controlling our behavior, the dystopian visions of past writers is fast becoming our reality.
In fact, our world is characterized by widespread surveillance, behavior prediction technologies, data mining, fusion centers, driverless cars, voice-controlled homes, facial recognition systems, cybugs and drones, and predictive policing (pre-crime) aimed at capturing would-be criminals before they can do any damage. Surveillance cameras are everywhere. Government agents listen in on our telephone calls and read our emails. And privacy and bodily integrity have been utterly eviscerated.
We are increasingly ruled by multi-corporations wedded to the police state.
What many fail to realize is that the government is not operating alone. It cannot.
The government requires an accomplice.
Thus, the increasingly complex security needs of the massive federal government, especially in the areas of defense, surveillance and data management, have been met within the corporate sector, which has shown itself to be a powerful ally that both depends on and feeds the growth of governmental overreach.
In fact, Big Tech wedded to Big Government has become Big Brother, and we are now ruled by the Corporate Elite whose tentacles have spread worldwide.
The government now has at its disposal technological arsenals so sophisticated and invasive as to render any constitutional protections null and void. Spearheaded by the NSA, which has shown itself to care little to nothing for constitutional limits or privacy, the “security/industrial complex”—a marriage of government, military and corporate interests aimed at keeping Americans under constant surveillance—has come to dominate the government and our lives.
Money, power, control.
There is no shortage of motives fueling the convergence of mega-corporations and government. But who is paying the price?
“We the people,” of course. Not just we Americans, but people the world over.
We have entered into a global state of tyranny.
Where we stand now is at the juncture of OldSpeak (where words have meanings, and ideas can be dangerous) and Newspeak (where only that which is “safe” and “accepted” by the majority is permitted). The power elite has made their intentions clear: they will pursue and prosecute any and all words, thoughts and expressions that challenge their authority.
This is the final link in the police state chain.
Americans have been conditioned to accept routine incursions on their privacy rights. In fact, the addiction to screen devices—especially cell phones—has created a hive effect where the populace not only watched but is controlled by AI bots. However, at one time, the idea of a total surveillance state tracking one’s every move would have been abhorrent to most Americans. That all changed with the 9/11 attacks. As professor Jeffrey Rosen observes, “Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.”
Having been reduced to a cowering citizenry—mute in the face of elected officials who refuse to represent us, helpless in the face of police brutality, powerless in the face of militarized tactics and technology that treat us like enemy combatants on a battlefield, and naked in the face of government surveillance that sees and hears all—we have nowhere left to go.
We have, so to speak, gone from being a nation where privacy is king to one where nothing is safe from the prying eyes of government.
In search of so-called terrorists and extremists hiding amongst us—the proverbial “needle in a haystack,” as one official termed it—the Corporate State has taken to monitoring all aspects of our lives, from cell phone calls and emails to Internet activity and credit card transactions. This data is being fed through fusion centers across the country, which work with the Department of Homeland Security to make threat assessments on every citizen, including school children.
Wherever you go and whatever you do, you are now being watched, especially if you leave behind an electronic footprint.
When you use your cell phone, you leave a record of when the call was placed, who you called, how long it lasted and even where you were at the time. When you use your ATM card, you leave a record of where and when you used the card. There is even a video camera at most locations equipped with facial recognition software. When you use a cell phone or drive a car enabled with GPS, you can be tracked by satellite. Such information is shared with government agents, including local police. And all of this once-private information about your consumer habits, your whereabouts and your activities is now being fed to the U.S. government.
The government has nearly inexhaustible resources when it comes to tracking our movements, from electronic wiretapping devices, traffic cameras and biometrics to radio-frequency identification cards, satellites and Internet surveillance.
Speech recognition technology now makes it possible for the government to carry out massive eavesdropping by way of sophisticated computer systems. Phone calls can be monitored, the audio converted to text files and stored in computer databases indefinitely. And if any “threatening” words are detected—no matter how inane or silly—the record can be flagged and assigned to a government agent for further investigation. Federal and state governments, again working with private corporations, monitor your Internet content. Users are profiled and tracked in order to identify, target and even prosecute them.
In such a climate, everyone is a suspect. And you’re guilty until you can prove yourself innocent.
Here’s what a lot of people fail to understand, however: it’s not just what you say or do that is being monitored, but how you think that is being tracked and targeted.
We’ve already seen this play out on the state and federal level with hate crime legislation that cracks down on so-called “hateful” thoughts and expression, encourages self-censoring and reduces free debate on various subject matter.
Say hello to the new Thought Police.
Total Internet surveillance by the Corporate State, as omnipresent as God, is used by the government to predict and, more importantly, control the populace, and it’s not as far-fetched as you might think. For example, the NSA has designed an artificial intelligence system that can anticipate your every move. In a nutshell, the NSA feeds vast amounts of the information it collects to a computer system known as Aquaint (the acronym stands for Advanced QUestion Answering for INTelligence), which the computer then uses to detect patterns and predict behavior.
No information is sacred or spared.
Everything from cell phone recordings and logs, to emails, to text messages, to personal information posted on social networking sites, to credit card statements, to library circulation records, to credit card histories, etc., is collected by the NSA and shared freely with its agents.
Thus, what we are witnessing, in the so-called name of security and efficiency, is the creation of a new class system comprised of the watched (average Americans such as you and me) and the watchers (government bureaucrats, technicians and private corporations).
Clearly, the age of privacy is at an end.
So where does that leave us?
We now find ourselves in the unenviable position of being monitored, managed and controlled by our technology, which answers not to us but to our government and corporate rulers. This is the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction lesson that is being pounded into us on a daily basis.
It won’t be long before we find ourselves looking back on the past with longing, back to an age where we could speak to whom we wanted, buy what we wanted, think what we wanted without those thoughts, words and activities being tracked, processed and stored by corporate giants such as Google, sold to government agencies such as the NSA and CIA, and used against us by militarized police with their army of futuristic technologies.
To be an individual today, to not conform, to have even a shred of privacy, and to live beyond the reach of the government’s roaming eyes and technological spies, one must not only be a rebel but rebel.
Even when you rebel and take your stand, there is rarely a happy ending awaiting you. You are rendered an outlaw.
So how do you survive this global surveillance state?
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, we’re running out of options.
We’ll soon have to choose between self-indulgence (the bread-and-circus distractions offered up by the news media, politicians, sports conglomerates, entertainment industry, etc.) and self-preservation in the form of renewed vigilance about threats to our freedoms and active engagement in self-governance.
Yet as Aldous Huxley acknowledged in Brave New World Revisited: “Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures. A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in their calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those would manipulate and control it.”
Which brings me back to this technofascist tyranny being meted out on David Icke and all those like him who dare to voice ideas that diverge from what the government and its corporate controllers deem to be acceptable.
The problem as I see it is that we’ve allowed ourselves to be persuaded that we need someone else to think and speak for us. And we’ve allowed ourselves to become so timid in the face of offensive words and ideas that we’ve bought into the idea that we need the government to shield us from that which is ugly or upsetting or mean.
The result is a society in which we’ve stopped debating among ourselves, stopped thinking for ourselves, and stopped believing that we can fix our own problems and resolve our own differences.
In short, we have reduced ourselves to a largely silent, passive, polarized populace incapable of working through our own problems and reliant on the government to protect us from our fears.
In this way, we have become our worst enemy.
You want to reclaim some of the ground we’re fast losing to the techno-tyrants?
Start by thinking for yourself. If that means reading the “dangerous” ideas being floated out there by the David Ickes of the world—or the John Whiteheads for that matter—and then deciding for yourself what is true, so be it.
As Orwell concluded, “Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four.”
About the Author
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute, where this article (Technofascism: Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age) was originally published. He is the author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State and The Change Manifesto.


thewakingtimes--2020-05-05--Instead of Dumping Out Their Milk, Dairy Farmers Bottle It Themselves—Sell Out in Hours

Instead of Dumping Out Their Milk , Dairy Farmers Bottle It Themselves—Sell Out in Hours The American spirit lives on at a 300-year-old , cream-line dairy farm , where a farmer is working around the clock to bottle his own milk after his processor told him to dump it .
Locals are lining up to support him.When Ben Brown ’ s dairy processor told him they could no longer buy his milk , he got to work bottling it himself .
Brown ’ s Whoa Nellie Dairy farm has been providing high-quality , cream-line milk since the 1700s .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ farm store , but a large portion of it used to be sold to a dairy processor who pasteurized and bottled it for local restaurants and markets .
When he realized he would have to dump hundreds of gallons of milk each week until his 70 milking cows dried up , he couldn ’ t bear it .
In a post on Facebook , the dairy announced their new hours to make sure they didn ’ t waste the milk .
As many of you know , all the excess milk we do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ S in Pittsburgh PA .
They have just contacted us and told us they WILL NOT be picking up our milk on Wednesday or Friday .
( They pick up our milk every other day ) that means they are asking us to DUMP DOWN THE DRAIN a total of… We are totally disgusted by this kind of waste .
( We also do not get paid for the dumped milk obviously ) We can only pasteurize and bottle 30 gallons at a time , but we are going to work around the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as we can this week .
We are REALLY going to try to not waste a drop !
OPEN UP OUR FARM STORE on Wednesday now too !
So he got to work , literally around the clock , pasteurizing it in small batches in his 30-gallon vat and bottling it up .
He posted on Facebook that they ’ d open up the farm store for additional hours to sell the milk directly to consumers , and the response was overwhelming : The line to get in the store was at least @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the local news reported .
They sold out within hours and have sold out almost every day since .
On days they don ’ t sell out , they donate their fresh , non-homogenized milk to local charities .
Brown and his wife Mary Beth purchased the farm four years ago from Ben ’ s parents .
He admitted to a local newspaper that his family has “ barely been scraping by ” in recent years , and that at first , he was afraid the lockdown would be the end of them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was able to purchase a second 45-gallon pasteurization vat , so Brown won ’ t have to stay up all night processing it anymore .

Instead of Dumping Out Their Milk, Dairy Farmers Bottle It Themselves—Sell Out in Hours
The Free Thought Project
Waking Times
The American spirit lives on at a 300-year-old, cream-line dairy farm, where a farmer is working around the clock to bottle his own milk after his processor told him to dump it. Locals are lining up to support him.When Ben Brown’s dairy processor told him they could no longer buy his milk, he got to work bottling it himself.
Brown’s Whoa Nellie Dairy farm has been providing high-quality, cream-line milk since the 1700s.
He sells some of it at his on-site farm store, but a large portion of it used to be sold to a dairy processor who pasteurized and bottled it for local restaurants and markets.
When he realized he would have to dump hundreds of gallons of milk each week until his 70 milking cows dried up, he couldn’t bear it.
In a post on Facebook, the dairy announced their new hours to make sure they didn’t waste the milk.
As many of you know, all the excess milk we do not bottle is shipped to SCHNEIDER’S in Pittsburgh PA. They have just contacted us and told us they WILL NOT be picking up our milk on Wednesday or Friday. (They pick up our milk every other day) that means they are asking us to DUMP DOWN THE DRAIN a total of… …..12 MILKINGS !!!!!! We are totally disgusted by this kind of waste.
(We also do not get paid for the dumped milk obviously) We can only pasteurize and bottle 30 gallons at a time, but we are going to work around the clock to try and bottle as much as we can this week. We are REALLY going to try to not waste a drop! So, we are going to….. OPEN UP OUR FARM STORE on Wednesday now too!
So he got to work, literally around the clock, pasteurizing it in small batches in his 30-gallon vat and bottling it up.
He posted on Facebook that they’d open up the farm store for additional hours to sell the milk directly to consumers, and the response was overwhelming:
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2617906328536522&id=1762832260710604
The line to get in the store was at least 20 customers deep for several hours, the local news reported.
“I know their uncle, Larry Basinger, and we want to help the Brown family through this,” one customer said. “We’re going to buy 10 gallons. I have orders from our whole family.”
They sold out within hours and have sold out almost every day since. On days they don’t sell out, they donate their fresh, non-homogenized milk to local charities.
“I hate waste, and I don’t want to dump milk. People can use it, and I still have to pay my bills,” Brown said.
Brown and his wife Mary Beth purchased the farm four years ago from Ben’s parents. He admitted to a local newspaper that his family has “barely been scraping by” in recent years, and that at first, he was afraid the lockdown would be the end of them.
“I don’t want us to go under. This farm has been in the Brown family since the 1700s,” he said.
Two weeks ago, the farm was able to purchase a second 45-gallon pasteurization vat, so Brown won’t have to stay up all night processing it anymore.


thewakingtimes--2020-05-05--52 Years Ago, a Pandemic Flu Killed 100,000 in the US and Nothing Shut Down—Not Even Woodstock

52 Years Ago , a Pandemic Flu Killed 100,000 in the US and Nothing Shut Down—Not Even Woodstock Mainstream media across the planet continue to refer to the COVID-19 outbreak as the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918 .
We are told that the economy shut down during the Spanish flu and people were ordered into quarantine , but it couldn ’ t stop the death toll from reaching 650,000 Americans .
Now , the government has made harsh and sweeping regulations , shut down entire sections of the US economy , largely based on a model from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( IHME ) , which says roughly 72,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 .
No one here is claiming that this virus is not serious and should not be taken serious .
However , it is our duty as a free people to question the nature of the government ’ s reaction , especially when the economic ramifications could be far deadlier than the virus itself — with experts predicting a famine of biblical proportion that could kill millions .
When the virus passes and the suffering continues to persist , a lot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , “ was all of this worth it ?
” Rest assured that governments across the world will be patting themselves on the back for their draconian reactions , police state , and mass surveillance programs that nearly all of them rolled out during this pandemic .
But we may really never know if the lockdown helped to stop the spread or merely suppressed it .
As mentioned above , the mainstream media has referred to COVID-19 repeatedly as the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu .
However , if the models are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decline , this will not be the case .
As of Monday , there are 248,000 confirmed deaths world wide , with 67,710 of those deaths in the United States .
According to the current rate of new cases and hospitalizations as documented by IHME , experts are predicting a death toll of 72,000 .
Just 52 , years , ago , however , another flu , ( H3N2 ) , known as the Hong Kong flu , killed roughly 100,000 Americans and over 1,000,000 people world wide .
What makes this flu @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media outlets are not reporting on it and the fact that absolutely nothing was shut down .
In fact , Woodstock — that was attended by an estimated 500,000 people — took place smack dab in the middle of the H3N2 flu pandemic .
As the American Institute for Economic Research points out : Nothing closed .
Schools stayed open .
All businesses did too .
You could go to the movies .
You could go to bars and restaurants .
John Fund has a friend who reports having attended a Grateful Dead @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no memory or awareness that the famous Woodstock concert of August 1969 – planned in January during the worse period of death – actually occurred during a deadly American flu pandemic that only peaked globally six months later .
There was no thought given to the virus which , like ours today , was dangerous mainly for a non-concert-going demographic .
Stock markets didn ’ t crash .
Congress passed no legislation .
The Federal Reserve did nothing .
Not a single governor acted to enforce social distancing , curve flattening ( even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hospitalized ) , or banning of crowds .
No mothers were arrested for taking their kids to other homes .
No surfers were arrested .
No daycares were shut even though there were more infant deaths with this virus than the one we are experiencing now .
There were no suicides , no unemployment , no drug overdoses .
Media covered the pandemic but it never became a big issue .
This was not because the government was some bastion of liberty in the 60 ’ s .
These were the days of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , rampant civil rights violations , and even college students were gunned down by National Guard troops for protesting the spread of war .
The means to enforce such draconian measures were in place and ready to roll , yet nothing was implemented .
The only action taken by the government at the time was to collect data .
The medical community , not the state , was credited with successfully mitigating the disease — as they were the ones qualified to do so — not blowhard politicians .
As AIER notes , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this different ?
This is a question we will be trying to figure out for decades to come .
Was the difference that we have mass media invading our lives with endless notifications blowing up in our pockets ?
Was there some change in philosophy such that we now think politics is responsible for all existing aspects of life ?
Was there a political element here in that the media blew this wildly out of proportion as revenge against Trump and his deplorables ?
Or did our excessive adoration of predictive modelling get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we let a physicist with ridiculous models frighten the world ’ s governments into violating the human rights of billions of people ?
Maybe all of these were factors .
Or maybe there is something darker and nefarious at work , as the conspiracy theorists would have it .
Regardless , they all have some explaining to do .
As more countries across the world continue to look to Sweden ’ s approach — not shutting down the economy — to quash the spread of the virus , some governments are beginning to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ however , the 30 million unemployed citizens currently out of work due to the shutdown present a massive hurdle to regaining anything close to normal .
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA .
This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state .
Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world .
Agorist is also the Editor at Large @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ MattAgorist on Twitter , Steemit , and now on Minds .

52 Years Ago, a Pandemic Flu Killed 100,000 in the US and Nothing Shut Down—Not Even Woodstock
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project
Waking Times
Mainstream media across the planet continue to refer to the COVID-19 outbreak as the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918. We are told that the economy shut down during the Spanish flu and people were ordered into quarantine, but it couldn’t stop the death toll from reaching 650,000 Americans. Now, the government has made harsh and sweeping regulations, shut down entire sections of the US economy, largely based on a model from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), which says roughly 72,000 Americans will die from COVID-19.
No one here is claiming that this virus is not serious and should not be taken serious. However, it is our duty as a free people to question the nature of the government’s reaction, especially when the economic ramifications could be far deadlier than the virus itself — with experts predicting a famine of biblical proportion that could kill millions.
When the virus passes and the suffering continues to persist, a lot of people will be asking the question, “was all of this worth it?”
Rest assured that governments across the world will be patting themselves on the back for their draconian reactions, police state, and mass surveillance programs that nearly all of them rolled out during this pandemic. But we may really never know if the lockdown helped to stop the spread or merely suppressed it.
As mentioned above, the mainstream media has referred to COVID-19 repeatedly as the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu. However, if the models are correct and the death rate stays in decline, this will not be the case. As of Monday, there are 248,000 confirmed deaths world wide, with 67,710 of those deaths in the United States. According to the current rate of new cases and hospitalizations as documented by IHME, experts are predicting a death toll of 72,000.
“In 1968,” says Nathaniel L. Moir in National Interest, “the H3N2 pandemic killed more individuals in the U.S. than the combined total number of American fatalities during both the Vietnam and Korean Wars.”
Just 52, years, ago, however, another flu, (H3N2), known as the Hong Kong flu, killed roughly 100,000 Americans and over 1,000,000 people world wide. What makes this flu particularly notable is the fact that most media outlets are not reporting on it and the fact that absolutely nothing was shut down. In fact, Woodstock — that was attended by an estimated 500,000 people — took place smack dab in the middle of the H3N2 flu pandemic.
As the American Institute for Economic Research points out:
Nothing closed. Schools stayed open. All businesses did too. You could go to the movies. You could go to bars and restaurants. John Fund has a friend who reports having attended a Grateful Dead concert. In fact, people have no memory or awareness that the famous Woodstock concert of August 1969 – planned in January during the worse period of death – actually occurred during a deadly American flu pandemic that only peaked globally six months later. There was no thought given to the virus which, like ours today, was dangerous mainly for a non-concert-going demographic. Stock markets didn’t crash. Congress passed no legislation. The Federal Reserve did nothing. Not a single governor acted to enforce social distancing, curve flattening (even though hundreds of thousands of people were hospitalized), or banning of crowds. No mothers were arrested for taking their kids to other homes. No surfers were arrested. No daycares were shut even though there were more infant deaths with this virus than the one we are experiencing now. There were no suicides, no unemployment, no drug overdoses. Media covered the pandemic but it never became a big issue.
Imagine that.
This was not because the government was some bastion of liberty in the 60’s. These were the days of the draft, a senseless Vietnam war, rampant civil rights violations, and even college students were gunned down by National Guard troops for protesting the spread of war. The means to enforce such draconian measures were in place and ready to roll, yet nothing was implemented.
The only action taken by the government at the time was to collect data. The medical community, not the state, was credited with successfully mitigating the disease — as they were the ones qualified to do so — not blowhard politicians.
As AIER notes, this raises the question, why was this different? This is a question we will be trying to figure out for decades to come.
Was the difference that we have mass media invading our lives with endless notifications blowing up in our pockets? Was there some change in philosophy such that we now think politics is responsible for all existing aspects of life? Was there a political element here in that the media blew this wildly out of proportion as revenge against Trump and his deplorables? Or did our excessive adoration of predictive modelling get out of control to the point that we let a physicist with ridiculous models frighten the world’s governments into violating the human rights of billions of people? Maybe all of these were factors. Or maybe there is something darker and nefarious at work, as the conspiracy theorists would have it. Regardless, they all have some explaining to do.
As more countries across the world continue to look to Sweden’s approach — not shutting down the economy — to quash the spread of the virus, some governments are beginning to follow their lead. In America, however, the 30 million unemployed citizens currently out of work due to the shutdown present a massive hurdle to regaining anything close to normal.
About the Author
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Minds.


thewakingtimes--2020-05-05--YouTube CEO Vows to Censor Anyone Speaking Against WHO

YouTube CEO Vows to Censor Anyone Speaking Against WHO Draconian censorship is in full swing again , this time around the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 .
Just about anything that questions or contradicts the biased edicts of the World Health Organization is now being blocked , taken down or tagged as fake news on social media platforms .
For example , April 26 , 2020 , Twitter suspended the account of the publicly traded biotech company AYTU BioScience .
Its crime ?
Sharing information about its novel UV light therapy for COVID-19 , which it is developing in collaboration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Drug Administration approval is being sought for the technology , which involves administering “ intermittent ultraviolet ( UV-A ) light inside a patient ’ s trachea.
” Shortly before Twitter suspended the company ’ s account , YouTube also removed a video demonstrating how the technology works .
Both YouTube and Twitter claim AYTU violated terms of service — which now apparently include sharing factual and truthful information that might jeopardize the surveillance capitalists ’ agenda to control and vaccinate the entire world against SARS-CoV-2 .
Similarly , NewsGuard recently classified mercola.com @ @ @ @ @ @ @ SARS-CoV-2 virus as potentially having been leaked from the biosafety level 4 laboratory in Wuhan City , China , the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak .
NewsGuard intern Nina Zweig ( edited by deputy editor John Gregory ) referred to my February 4 , 2020 , article , “ Novel Coronavirus — The Latest Pandemic Scare , ” in which I stated : According to NewsGuard , “ There is no evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the source of the outbreak , and genomic evidence has found that the virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whole-genome level to a bat coronavirus . '
” Clearly , NewsGuard doesn ’ t understand or adhere to the definition of fake news , considering multiple government sources are reportedly looking into the virus ’ origin , including Gen. Mark Milley , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , whom Fox News quotes saying : According to an April 5 , 2020 , article in Daily Mail , British government officials are also considering the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from the Wuhan facility , stating the possibility of this “ is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an April 16 , 2020 , report by CNN reveals the censorship of articles mentioning the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 may have leaked from the Wuhan BSL4 facility appears to come from China , which means NewsGuard , Facebook and others are functionally protecting Chinese interests and inhibiting scientific inquiry .
Questioning the origins of SARS-CoV-2 will also land you in “ Fakebook jail.
” As reported in investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson ’ s news analysis , “ Facebook ’ s Dangerously Fake ‘ Fact Checking ' ” : Would it surprise you in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact check ” basis for this censorship is an article written by a researcher who works with the Wuhan lab ?
Me neither .
Like NewsGuard , Facebook has placed itself as judge and jury over what lines of thinking people are allowed to engage in , and this tactic simply has no place in a free and democratic society .
So , what does that tell you about these organizations and platforms ?
In an April 23 , 2020 , article , Business Insider reported statements made by YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Troper .
She too spits in the proverbial face of Americas freedom of speech : Among the censored YouTube videos is a viral video by Drs .
Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi , co-owners of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield , California , in which they questioned the logic behind California ’ s stay-at-home order .
The video had garnered 5 million views by the time it was taken down .
In the video , Erickson pointed out that there ’ s : Erickson also criticized the fact that mortality statistics are being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other conditions as COVID-19 deaths .
By banning anything that contradicts the World Health Organization ’ s recommendations , Wojcicki asserts that the WHO is infallible , which it clearly is not .
There ’ s no shortage of examples proving WHO has been wrong on many occasions , and should not be relied upon as the premier , let alone sole , source of information and medical instruction .
The WHO is beyond conflicted , and because of its existing funding fails to complete its initial mandate to promote the attainment of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” by all peoples .
The WHO Has Long Been Criticized for Its Bias For example , June 11 , 2009 , the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic of novel influenza A ( H1N1 ) .
A vaccine was rapidly unveiled , and within months , cases of disability and death from the H1N1 vaccine were reported in various parts of the world .
In the aftermath , the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly ( PACE ) questioned the WHO ’ s handling of the pandemic .
In June 2010 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) , EU health agencies and national governments led to a ‘ waste of large sums of public money , and unjustified scares and fears about the health risks faced by the European public . '
” Specifically , PACE concluded that the drug industry had influenced the organization ’ s decision-making .
Another example is presented in the 2019 report “ Corrupting Influence : Purdue & the WHO , ” produced by U.S. Reps. Katherine Clark ( D-Mass . )
and Hal Rogers ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had influenced WHO ’ s opioid guidelines .
The WHO was also heavily criticized for its lack of leadership during the 2013 through 2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa .
Two separate reports published in 2015 highlighted the WHO ’ s failures , one issued by a panel of independent experts commissioned by WHO itself , and one by an independent group of 19 international experts convened by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ( LSHTM ) and the Harvard Global Health Institute .
The LSHTM and Harvard Global Health Institute @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lost so much trust that radical reforms will be required before it will be able to assume an authoritative role .
US Suspends Funding to the WHO Pending Investigation Considering the fact that nothing has actually changed within the organization since then , it ’ s not inconceivable that the WHO ’ s COVID-19 pandemic response is questionable .
The drug industry has no lesser influence over WHO today than it did in 2009 , and the Gates Foundation ’ s influence has only grown since then too .
April 7 , House @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and 20 additional co-sponsors introduced a resolution calling for the U.S. to defund the WHO “ until its embattled Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus resigns and the United Nations-backed organization is investigated over its treatment of China during the coronavirus pandemic , ” Fox News reported .
Republican Sen. Rick Scott , Florida , is also calling for a congressional committee to investigate the WHO .
According to Scott : A week later , President Trump announced the U.S. will temporarily suspend its funding to the WHO while the White House investigates the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Mark Lynas ?
Lynas is a Monsanto ambassador and well-established shill for the GMO industry who in recent years has started defending vaccines as well , suggesting that anti-GMO and anti-vaccine groups are closely linked .
I wrote about this evolving trend in my 2018 article , “ Strange Bedfellows : GMO and Vaccine Partnerships.
” In an April 20 , 2020 , article for Cornell Alliance for Science , Lynas tries to debunk the “ Top 10 current conspiracy theories ” on COVID-19 .
The second conspiracy theory on his lists is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ convenient , considering Cornell Alliance for Science is funded by the Gates Foundation .
Third on the list is the claim that “ The virus escaped form a Chinese lab.
” As discussed above , government officials in the U.S. and U.K. are not discounting this possibility , so why is Lynas ?
Could it be because the Gates Foundation funds the WHO , which in turn protects China ?
Also on his list is the claim that “ COVID death rates are inflated , ” which he says “ has no basis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The CDC no longer requires doctors to do testing in order to confirm that a patient is in fact infected with SARS-CoV-2 or died from COVID-19 .
The numbers now include “ suspected ” and “ assumed ” cases .
How could this not result in an overestimation of the problem ?
Censorship inevitably leads to public distrust .
There ’ s no need for censorship when you have nothing to hide and are willing to address shortcomings .
Ninety percent of news media is controlled by six corporations .
As a result @ @ @ @ @ @ @ read , see and hear is already part of a carefully orchestrated narrative created and controlled by special interest groups .
When you tack on censorship by internet platforms such as Twitter , YouTube and Facebook , your chances of being grossly underinformed or misinformed are exponentially magnified .
The end result is a Truman-esque fictitious reality where most of what you believe to be true is in fact false .

YouTube CEO Vows to Censor Anyone Speaking Against WHO
Dr. Mercola, Guest
Waking Times
Draconian censorship is in full swing again, this time around the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Just about anything that questions or contradicts the biased edicts of the World Health Organization is now being blocked, taken down or tagged as fake news on social media platforms.
Twitter Suspends Biotech Company
For example, April 26, 2020, Twitter suspended the account of the publicly traded biotech company AYTU BioScience. Its crime? Sharing information about its novel UV light therapy for COVID-19, which it is developing in collaboration with Cedars-Sinai medical center.
Expedited Food and Drug Administration approval is being sought for the technology, which involves administering “intermittent ultraviolet (UV-A) light inside a patient’s trachea.”
Shortly before Twitter suspended the company’s account, YouTube also removed a video demonstrating how the technology works. Both YouTube and Twitter claim AYTU violated terms of service — which now apparently include sharing factual and truthful information that might jeopardize the surveillance capitalists’ agenda to control and vaccinate the entire world against SARS-CoV-2.
NewsGuard Is a True News Blocker
Similarly, NewsGuard recently classified mercola.com as fake news because we reported the SARS-CoV-2 virus as potentially having been leaked from the biosafety level 4 laboratory in Wuhan City, China, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak.
NewsGuard intern Nina Zweig (edited by deputy editor John Gregory) referred to my February 4, 2020, article, “Novel Coronavirus — The Latest Pandemic Scare,” in which I stated:
“In January 2018, China’s first maximum security virology laboratory (biosecurity level 4) designed for the study of the world’s most dangerous pathogens opened its doors — in Wuhan. Is it pure coincidence that Wuhan City is now the epicenter of this novel coronavirus infection?
The year before, Tim Trevan, a Maryland biosafety consultant, expressed concern about viral threats potentially escaping the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory,5 which happens to be located just 20 miles from the Wuhan market identified as ground zero for the current NCIP outbreak.”
According to NewsGuard, “There is no evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the source of the outbreak, and genomic evidence has found that the virus is ‘96% identical at the whole-genome level to a bat coronavirus.'”
Clearly, NewsGuard doesn’t understand or adhere to the definition of fake news, considering multiple government sources are reportedly looking into the virus’ origin, including Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, whom Fox News quotes saying:
“It should be no surprise to you that we have taken a keen interest in that and we’ve had a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that. I would just say at this point, it’s inconclusive, although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural, but we don’t know for certain.”
According to an April 5, 2020, article in Daily Mail, British government officials are also considering the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from the Wuhan facility, stating the possibility of this “is no longer being discounted.”
Interestingly, an April 16, 2020, report by CNN reveals the censorship of articles mentioning the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 may have leaked from the Wuhan BSL4 facility appears to come from China, which means NewsGuard, Facebook and others are functionally protecting Chinese interests and inhibiting scientific inquiry.
Facebook’s Fake Fact-Checking
Questioning the origins of SARS-CoV-2 will also land you in “Fakebook jail.” As reported in investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson’s news analysis, “Facebook’s Dangerously Fake ‘Fact Checking'”:
“I have often spoken of disingenuous ‘fact checking’ efforts conducted by conflicted third parties who are actually trying to shape public opinion and control the information the public can access …
A recent example is a popular documentary by Epoch Times about the possible link between Covid-19 and a research lab in Wuhan, China. The documentary formed no conclusions and the theories it discussed had not been disproven.
However, Facebook intervened to punish me and others who dared to share this factually accurate documentary on Facebook. Without warning, the social media company notified us that our pages were being throttled or shown to fewer people … Facebook also said that people visiting our pages would be told we share fake news.”
Would it surprise you in the least to learn that the “fact check” basis for this censorship is an article written by a researcher who works with the Wuhan lab? Me neither. Like NewsGuard, Facebook has placed itself as judge and jury over what lines of thinking people are allowed to engage in, and this tactic simply has no place in a free and democratic society. So, what does that tell you about these organizations and platforms?
YouTube CEO Vows to Ban Content Contradicting WHO
In an April 23, 2020, article, Business Insider reported statements made by YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, wife of Google product director Dennis Troper. She too spits in the proverbial face of Americas freedom of speech:
“Wojcicki says the platform will ban content peddling fake or unproven coronavirus remedies. In an interview with CNN, she also suggested that video that ‘goes against’ WHO guidance on the pandemic will be blocked …
For example, she said, content that claimed vitamin C or turmeric would cure people of COVID-19 would be ‘a violation of our policy’ and removed accordingly. She continued: ‘Anything that goes against WHO recommendations would be a violation of our policy …'”
Among the censored YouTube videos is a viral video by Drs. Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi, co-owners of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield, California, in which they questioned the logic behind California’s stay-at-home order. The video had garnered 5 million views by the time it was taken down. In the video, Erickson pointed out that there’s:
“… a 0.03 chance of dying from COVID in the state of California. Does that necessitate sheltering in place? Does that necessitate shutting down medical systems? Does that necessitate people being out of work?”
Erickson also criticized the fact that mortality statistics are being skewed by counting people who die from other conditions as COVID-19 deaths.
“When someone dies in this country right now, they’re not talking about the high blood pressure, the diabetes, the stroke. They’re saying ‘Did they die from COVID?’” Erickson said in the video.
“We’ve been to hundreds of autopsies. You don’t talk about one thing, you talk about comorbidities. ER doctors now [say] ‘It’s interesting when I’m writing about my death report, I’m being pressured to add COVID. Why is that?”
By banning anything that contradicts the World Health Organization’s recommendations, Wojcicki asserts that the WHO is infallible, which it clearly is not. There’s no shortage of examples proving WHO has been wrong on many occasions, and should not be relied upon as the premier, let alone sole, source of information and medical instruction.
The WHO is beyond conflicted, and because of its existing funding fails to complete its initial mandate to promote the attainment of “the highest possible level of health” by all peoples.
The WHO Has Long Been Criticized for Its Bias
For example, June 11, 2009, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic of novel influenza A (H1N1). A vaccine was rapidly unveiled, and within months, cases of disability and death from the H1N1 vaccine were reported in various parts of the world.
In the aftermath, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) questioned the WHO’s handling of the pandemic. In June 2010, PACE concluded “the handling of the pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), EU health agencies and national governments led to a ‘waste of large sums of public money, and unjustified scares and fears about the health risks faced by the European public.'”
Specifically, PACE concluded that the drug industry had influenced the organization’s decision-making. Another example is presented in the 2019 report “Corrupting Influence: Purdue & the WHO,” produced by U.S. Reps. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) and Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), which concluded Purdue Pharma had influenced WHO’s opioid guidelines.
The WHO was also heavily criticized for its lack of leadership during the 2013 through 2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Two separate reports published in 2015 highlighted the WHO’s failures, one issued by a panel of independent experts commissioned by WHO itself, and one by an independent group of 19 international experts convened by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Harvard Global Health Institute.
The LSHTM and Harvard Global Health Institute experts pointed out that the WHO has lost so much trust that radical reforms will be required before it will be able to assume an authoritative role.
US Suspends Funding to the WHO Pending Investigation
Considering the fact that nothing has actually changed within the organization since then, it’s not inconceivable that the WHO’s COVID-19 pandemic response is questionable. The drug industry has no lesser influence over WHO today than it did in 2009, and the Gates Foundation’s influence has only grown since then too.
April 7, House Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., and 20 additional co-sponsors introduced a resolution calling for the U.S. to defund the WHO “until its embattled Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus resigns and the United Nations-backed organization is investigated over its treatment of China during the coronavirus pandemic,” Fox News reported.
Republican Sen. Rick Scott, Florida, is also calling for a congressional committee to investigate the WHO. According to Scott:
“When it comes to coronavirus, the WHO failed. They need to be held accountable for their role in promoting misinformation and helping Communist China cover up a global pandemic. We know Communist China is lying about how many cases and deaths they have, what they knew and when they knew it — and the WHO never bothered to investigate further.”
A week later, President Trump announced the U.S. will temporarily suspend its funding to the WHO while the White House investigates the organizations handling of the pandemic.
Gates Funds Not-So-Independent Defense
Remember Mark Lynas? Lynas is a Monsanto ambassador and well-established shill for the GMO industry who in recent years has started defending vaccines as well, suggesting that anti-GMO and anti-vaccine groups are closely linked. I wrote about this evolving trend in my 2018 article, “Strange Bedfellows: GMO and Vaccine Partnerships.”
In an April 20, 2020, article for Cornell Alliance for Science, Lynas tries to debunk the “Top 10 current conspiracy theories” on COVID-19. The second conspiracy theory on his lists is “Bill Gates as scapegoat.” How convenient, considering Cornell Alliance for Science is funded by the Gates Foundation.
Third on the list is the claim that “The virus escaped form a Chinese lab.” As discussed above, government officials in the U.S. and U.K. are not discounting this possibility, so why is Lynas? Could it be because the Gates Foundation funds the WHO, which in turn protects China?
Also on his list is the claim that “COVID death rates are inflated,” which he says “has no basis in fact.” Is that so? The CDC no longer requires doctors to do testing in order to confirm that a patient is in fact infected with SARS-CoV-2 or died from COVID-19. The numbers now include “suspected” and “assumed” cases. How could this not result in an overestimation of the problem?
Censorship Breeds Distrust
Censorship inevitably leads to public distrust. There’s no need for censorship when you have nothing to hide and are willing to address shortcomings. Ninety percent of news media is controlled by six corporations. As a result, the vast majority of what you read, see and hear is already part of a carefully orchestrated narrative created and controlled by special interest groups.
When you tack on censorship by internet platforms such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, your chances of being grossly underinformed or misinformed are exponentially magnified. The end result is a Truman-esque fictitious reality where most of what you believe to be true is in fact false.


thewakingtimes--2020-05-06--In Tearful Post, Frontline Nurse Explains How Covid-19 Patients are Being ‘Murdered’ in NYC Hospital

In Tearful Post , Frontline Nurse Explains How Covid-19 Patients are Being ‘ Murdered ’ in NYC Hospitals Here ’ s something you ’ re not going to see on the nightly news .
With all of their pundits , experts , politicians , and feel good human interest stories , and all of their charts , graphs , predictions , models and projections , they won ’ t dare present testimony from front line hospital workers who don ’ t toe the official line .
In a recent social media post , 37-year-old Nicole Sirotek , a frontline ICU @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of working with Covid-19 patients , claiming that people in the hospitals are literally being murdered in order to inflate Covid-19 death numbers , and that no one really cares about the truth because it is happening in minority communities .
“ She told of one patient who died while waiting for an X-ray because her warning that the anesthesiologist had misplaced a ventilator tube was ignored .
She said , ‘ Literally only one side of his chest is inflating .
He dies.
’ She described how a resident doctor defibrillated a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ She recalled , ‘ The resident starts doing chest compressions which is not what you do .
I run to stop him .
He f***ing defibrillates him and kills him .
I was literally saying , ” Can you stop him he ’ s going to kill that patient ?
” And the director of nursing just shook his head and I turned around and he killed the dude.
’ Among other horrific incidents she listed are a nurse who placed a feeding tube into a patient ’ s lungs , a nurse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ acting insulin when she confused it for long acting and another who fell asleep at her station while a patient ’ s blood pressure dropped without notice causing permanent mental impairment .
She told of one patient who choked to death on his own blood when the anesthesiologist ruptured his esophagus trying to intubate him and another whose lungs were ‘ blown out ’ by a wrongly set ventilator .
Several medics working with COVID-19 patients have raised concerns over the efficacy and potential dangers of ventilators.
” [ Source ] Her post @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she presents is not being refuted in any significant way .
In fact , it echoes what other frontline workers are saying , that ventilators are actually harming patients .
Is she right ?
Do people care ?
And are the Covid-19 numbers being inflated or tampered with ?
And why is NYC experiencing such an astronomically higher death count than any other place in America ?
Vic Bishop is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com .
He is an observer of people , animals , nature , and he loves to ponder the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A believer in always striving to becoming self-sufficient and free from the matrix , please track him down on Facebook .
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In Tearful Post, Frontline Nurse Explains How Covid-19 Patients are Being ‘Murdered’ in NYC Hospitals
Vic Bishop, Staff Writer
Waking Times
Here’s something you’re not going to see on the nightly news. With all of their pundits, experts, politicians, and feel good human interest stories, and all of their charts, graphs, predictions, models and projections, they won’t dare present testimony from front line hospital workers who don’t toe the official line.
In a recent social media post, 37-year-old Nicole Sirotek, a frontline ICU nurse in NYC, shares her story of working with Covid-19 patients, claiming that people in the hospitals are literally being murdered in order to inflate Covid-19 death numbers, and that no one really cares about the truth because it is happening in minority communities.
“She told of one patient who died while waiting for an X-ray because her warning that the anesthesiologist had misplaced a ventilator tube was ignored. She said, ‘Literally only one side of his chest is inflating. He dies.’ She described how a resident doctor defibrillated a patient with an already beating heart. She recalled, ‘The resident starts doing chest compressions which is not what you do. I run to stop him. He f***ing defibrillates him and kills him. I was literally saying, ”Can you stop him he’s going to kill that patient?” And the director of nursing just shook his head and I turned around and he killed the dude.’ Among other horrific incidents she listed are a nurse who placed a feeding tube into a patient’s lungs, a nurse who administered a lethal dose of short acting insulin when she confused it for long acting and another who fell asleep at her station while a patient’s blood pressure dropped without notice causing permanent mental impairment. She told of one patient who choked to death on his own blood when the anesthesiologist ruptured his esophagus trying to intubate him and another whose lungs were ‘blown out’ by a wrongly set ventilator. Several medics working with COVID-19 patients have raised concerns over the efficacy and potential dangers of ventilators.” [Source]
Her post is going viral, and the information she presents is not being refuted in any significant way. In fact, it echoes what other frontline workers are saying, that ventilators are actually harming patients.
Here is Sirotek’s post:
Is she right? Do people care? And are the Covid-19 numbers being inflated or tampered with? And why is NYC experiencing such an astronomically higher death count than any other place in America?
About the Author
Vic Bishop is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com. He is an observer of people, animals, nature, and he loves to ponder the connection and relationship between them all. A believer in always striving to becoming self-sufficient and free from the matrix, please track him down on Facebook.
This article (In Tearful Post, Frontline Nurse Explains How Covid-19 Patients are Being ‘Murdered’ in NYC Hospitals) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Vic Bishop and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio and internal links.