thewakingtimes--2020-08-12--Brazilian Amazon Protected Areas ‘In Flames’ as Land-Grabbers Invade

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In a remote slice of Triunfo do Xingu , deep in Brazil ’ s northern Pará state , swaths of lush forest have been engulfed by flames in recent days .
In another stretch to the north , a patch of untouched jungle has been almost entirely cleared this year .
In countless other parts of this vast protected region , the Amazon is being cut down and burned at a dizzying speed .
The Área de Proteção Ambiental ( APA ) Triunfo do Xingu @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million acres ) across the municipalities of São Félix do Xingu and Altamira , long strongholds of Brazilian cattle ranching .
It encompasses thousands of hectares of dense jungle and boasts a rich diversity of plant and animal species .
It is also home to Indigenous groups and traditional peoples , who rely on the forest to survive .
Under federal protection since 2006 , the territory is supposed to be used only for sustainable development , with landowners required to keep some 80 % of the forest intact .
When it was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Triunfo do Xingu was intended as a buffer that would protect vulnerable areas beyond its boundaries , like the Apyterewa Indigenous Territory and the Terra do Meio Ecological Station .
The ecologically-rich Xingu Basin – within which it is nestled – is made up of some 28 conservation areas and 18 Indigenous territories .
But the area has come under pressure , becoming one of the most deforested regions in the Amazon in recent years .
It lost some 436,000 hectares of forest between 2006 and 2019 , with some 5 % cleared @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data from the University of Maryland ( UMD ) .
Overall , the territory has lost nearly 30 % of its forest cover , according to Francisco Fonseca , who works for The Nature Conservancy ( TNC ) , a nonprofit focused on environmental conservation .
The incursion into Triunfo do Xingu has only intensified this year , amid a wider surge in deforestation and burning across the Brazilian Amazon .
In May and June , some 6,973 hectares of forest were cleared in APA – accounting for two-thirds of deforestation in protected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to data from Rede Xingu+ , a network of environmental and Indigenous groups working in the region .
With Triunfo do Xingu under attack , the surrounding territories it was meant to protect have also come under pressure .
To the northeast , the deforestation is now chipping away at the Apyterewa Indigenous Territory , local sources say .
To the southeast , the clearing is edging into the Kayapo Indigenous Territory – “ something we had never seen before , ” Fonseca said .
In the Trincheira Bacajá Indigenous Territory , further @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and June , according to Rede Xingu+ .
The destruction in Triunfo do Xingu is emblematic of a wider assault on the Amazon that is picking up speed this year .
While large-scale burning captured international headlines in 2019 , there are already signs it could worsen this year : in July , fires surged 28 % over the same period last year , according to data from INPE , Brazil ’ s National Institute for Space Research .
The number of fires has soared in Triunfo do Xingu too .
Over the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up 3,842 fire alerts in the territory .
August and September – when Brazil ’ s fire season is normally at its peak – are expected to bring even more intense burning .
In some cases , perpetrators had previously invested in deforesting the land and are now back to finish clearing it by setting it ablaze , according to Ane Alencar , director of science at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute ( IPAM ) .
The bulk of the deforestation and burning across the Amazon is taking place on public lands that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government , ” Alencar said .
She added that many of the areas under attack have not yet been demarcated or are shielded by weak environmental protection .
Like in much of the Amazon , the drivers of deforestation in Triunfo do Xingu are diverse and complex .
About two-thirds of the protected area lies within São Félix do Xingu , Brazil ’ s largest cattle-producing municipality and home to nearly 20 times more livestock than people .
Up until recently , the biggest threat to the conservation area was cattle ranching , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gave way to sprawling pastures .
But environmentalists warn that new threats are gaining ground .
More recently , the area has emerged as an epicenter of land-grabbing and illegal mining , amid a surge in invaders who are betting that protections on the land they are occupying will eventually be loosened or scrapped altogether .
Environmentalists say invaders have been emboldened by President Jair Bolsonaro , who has been a vocal opponent of environmental protections and has repeatedly threatened to open up protected areas to wildcat mining .
He blamed the current @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Indigenous and traditional peoples .
Under Bolsonaro ’ s leadership , environmental enforcement has also taken a hit .
The far-right president has repeatedly slashed budgets for environmental enforcement agencies like Ibama and ICMBio , while also attempting to stop their agents from destroying equipment found during raids on illegal operations in the Amazon .
The government has also been mulling a law allowing squatters to self-declare as the rightful owners of land , although the process was put on hold following an international outcry over the message it would send to landgrabbers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , came under fire in May after urging the government to take advantage of the “ distraction ” of the coronavirus crisis to quietly weaken protections of the Amazon .
In the Xingu Basin , speculators have become bolder , feeling that the government is on their side , local sources said .
Invaders have increasingly been razing small lots of land in patterns “ typical of land-grabbing , ” the advocacy source noted , in the hopes that this activity will eventually be legalized .
Local sources say weaker enforcement is already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Basin .
Earlier this year , Ibama agents carried out a mass crackdown on illegal mines in several Indigenous territories including Apyterewa and Trincheira Bacajá , setting the equipment they seized on fire .
Just weeks later , three high-ranking Ibama officials were fired .
Emboldened , the miners have resumed operations in both of these territories recently , according to local sources .
Faced with mounting pressure to respond to the latest wave of deforestation , the government launched a highly-publicized military operation in early May aimed at cracking down on deforestation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meant to last a month , Operation Brasil Verde 2 was recently extended until November .
In July , the federal government also imposed a moratorium on burning across the Amazon and Pantanal for 120 days , in a bid to curb illegal fires that have been spreading out of control .
Across the Amazon , ranchers often burn degraded pastures to renew them and small producers prepare their plots for planting agricultural crops by setting them ablaze .
Oftentimes , these blazes spread further than intended and add more pressure on forests @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have had little impact on deterring illegal deforestation and criminal burning .
In June – when the federal government ’ s crackdown on forest clearing was in full swing – Brazil registered its highest level of deforestation in 13 years for that month .
Meanwhile , satellites recorded some 1,314 fire alerts across the Amazon between July 15 and July 21 , even though the moratorium on burning had already been in place for two weeks .
Some 46 % of these alerts were registered in the state of Pará , according to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Indigenous lands carries even more risk now , as the COVID-19 pandemic ravages Brazil .
Because of their relative isolation , Indigenous peoples tend to be more vulnerable to even common diseases .
With a highly infectious virus like COVID-19 , the risks are even greater for these communities , which have a history of being decimated by disease brought in from the outside .
There have already been 22,021 confirmed cases and 625 deaths among Indigenous people due to the novel coronavirus , with 148 communities affected across Brazil .
The Kayapo @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by illegal miners , has the highest number of COVID-19 cases of any Indigenous territory , according to Rede Xingu+ .
Meanwhile , as the pandemic spreads into rural parts of Brazil , worries are also mounting that underfunded health networks that are already struggling to cope with COVID-19 may be further strained by patients sickened by ash and smoke .
Last year , the plumes of smoke darkened the skies of Sao Paulo , thousands of kilometers away from the Amazon .

Brazilian Amazon Protected Areas ‘In Flames’ as Land-Grabbers Invade
Ana Ionova, Mongabay
Waking Times
In a remote slice of Triunfo do Xingu, deep in Brazil’s northern Pará state, swaths of lush forest have been engulfed by flames in recent days. In another stretch to the north, a patch of untouched jungle has been almost entirely cleared this year. In countless other parts of this vast protected region, the Amazon is being cut down and burned at a dizzying speed.
The Área de Proteção Ambiental (APA) Triunfo do Xingu spans some 1.7 million hectares (4.2 million acres) across the municipalities of São Félix do Xingu and Altamira, long strongholds of Brazilian cattle ranching. It encompasses thousands of hectares of dense jungle and boasts a rich diversity of plant and animal species. It is also home to Indigenous groups and traditional peoples, who rely on the forest to survive.
Under federal protection since 2006, the territory is supposed to be used only for sustainable development, with landowners required to keep some 80% of the forest intact. When it was created more than a decade ago, Triunfo do Xingu was intended as a buffer that would protect vulnerable areas beyond its boundaries, like the Apyterewa Indigenous Territory and the Terra do Meio Ecological Station. The ecologically-rich Xingu Basin – within which it is nestled – is made up of some 28 conservation areas and 18 Indigenous territories.
But the area has come under pressure, becoming one of the most deforested regions in the Amazon in recent years. It lost some 436,000 hectares of forest between 2006 and 2019, with some 5% cleared last year alone, according to satellite data from the University of Maryland (UMD). Overall, the territory has lost nearly 30% of its forest cover, according to Francisco Fonseca, who works for The Nature Conservancy (TNC), a nonprofit focused on environmental conservation.
“The problem is that a lack of land oversight led to this area being more and more occupied, more and more threatened,” Fonseca said in an interview in late July. “And this will now only worsen going forward.”
The incursion into Triunfo do Xingu has only intensified this year, amid a wider surge in deforestation and burning across the Brazilian Amazon. In May and June, some 6,973 hectares of forest were cleared in APA – accounting for two-thirds of deforestation in protected areas within the Xingu Basin, according to data from Rede Xingu+, a network of environmental and Indigenous groups working in the region.
“These are areas where there definitely should not be any burning,” said one advocacy source who asked to remain anonymous due to security concerns. “And they are in flames.”
With Triunfo do Xingu under attack, the surrounding territories it was meant to protect have also come under pressure. To the northeast, the deforestation is now chipping away at the Apyterewa Indigenous Territory, local sources say. To the southeast, the clearing is edging into the Kayapo Indigenous Territory – “something we had never seen before,” Fonseca said. In the Trincheira Bacajá Indigenous Territory, further north, deforestation rose tenfold in May and June, according to Rede Xingu+.
“With this weakening of APA, it has become easier to reach conservation parks, indigenous territories beyond,” Fonseca said. “It ultimately didn’t end up becoming the buffer it was supposed to become.”
Changing profile
The destruction in Triunfo do Xingu is emblematic of a wider assault on the Amazon that is picking up speed this year. While large-scale burning captured international headlines in 2019, there are already signs it could worsen this year: in July, fires surged 28% over the same period last year, according to data from INPE, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research.
The number of fires has soared in Triunfo do Xingu too. Over the last two months, NASA satellites picked up 3,842 fire alerts in the territory. August and September – when Brazil’s fire season is normally at its peak – are expected to bring even more intense burning.
In some cases, perpetrators had previously invested in deforesting the land and are now back to finish clearing it by setting it ablaze, according to Ane Alencar, director of science at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM). The bulk of the deforestation and burning across the Amazon is taking place on public lands that are “directly the responsibility of the government,” Alencar said. She added that many of the areas under attack have not yet been demarcated or are shielded by weak environmental protection.
“We’re seeing a huge volume of deforestation, it signals there are people investing in deforesting the Amazon,” she said during a press briefing in late July.
Like in much of the Amazon, the drivers of deforestation in Triunfo do Xingu are diverse and complex. About two-thirds of the protected area lies within São Félix do Xingu, Brazil’s largest cattle-producing municipality and home to nearly 20 times more livestock than people. Up until recently, the biggest threat to the conservation area was cattle ranching, as more and more of its forests gave way to sprawling pastures.
But environmentalists warn that new threats are gaining ground. More recently, the area has emerged as an epicenter of land-grabbing and illegal mining, amid a surge in invaders who are betting that protections on the land they are occupying will eventually be loosened or scrapped altogether.
“We have seen a wave of land-grabbing,” Fonseca said. “The pattern has changed – many of these openings are now for speculation only, not for planting or pastures.”
Environmentalists say invaders have been emboldened by President Jair Bolsonaro, who has been a vocal opponent of environmental protections and has repeatedly threatened to open up protected areas to wildcat mining. He blamed the current wave of fires engulfing the Amazon on Indigenous and traditional peoples.
“The main driver is the total lack of environmental policy from this government,” said Romulo Batista, Greenpeace Brazil’s Amazon campaigner. “People who are disposed to invading are feeling emboldened.”
Under Bolsonaro’s leadership, environmental enforcement has also taken a hit. The far-right president has repeatedly slashed budgets for environmental enforcement agencies like Ibama and ICMBio, while also attempting to stop their agents from destroying equipment found during raids on illegal operations in the Amazon.
The government has also been mulling a law allowing squatters to self-declare as the rightful owners of land, although the process was put on hold following an international outcry over the message it would send to landgrabbers. Environment minister Ricardo Salles, meanwhile, came under fire in May after urging the government to take advantage of the “distraction” of the coronavirus crisis to quietly weaken protections of the Amazon.
In the Xingu Basin, speculators have become bolder, feeling that the government is on their side, local sources said. Invaders have increasingly been razing small lots of land in patterns “typical of land-grabbing,” the advocacy source noted, in the hopes that this activity will eventually be legalized.
“They arrive there and start clearing – it’s completely illegal,” the source said. “And there is, behind this, a rejection of these indigenous territories and an expectation that the land they claim will eventually be legalized, that it will become theirs.”
Failing enforcement
Local sources say weaker enforcement is already having a tangible impact in the Xingu Basin. Earlier this year, Ibama agents carried out a mass crackdown on illegal mines in several Indigenous territories including Apyterewa and Trincheira Bacajá, setting the equipment they seized on fire. Just weeks later, three high-ranking Ibama officials were fired. Emboldened, the miners have resumed operations in both of these territories recently, according to local sources.
“People see this as an incentive to begin invading again,” the advocacy source said. “They feel a certain degree of security, they return knowing that nothing will happen to them.”
Faced with mounting pressure to respond to the latest wave of deforestation, the government launched a highly-publicized military operation in early May aimed at cracking down on deforestation and burning in the Amazon. Initially meant to last a month, Operation Brasil Verde 2 was recently extended until November.
In July, the federal government also imposed a moratorium on burning across the Amazon and Pantanal for 120 days, in a bid to curb illegal fires that have been spreading out of control. Across the Amazon, ranchers often burn degraded pastures to renew them and small producers prepare their plots for planting agricultural crops by setting them ablaze. Oftentimes, these blazes spread further than intended and add more pressure on forests.
But these government measures appear to have had little impact on deterring illegal deforestation and criminal burning. In June – when the federal government’s crackdown on forest clearing was in full swing – Brazil registered its highest level of deforestation in 13 years for that month. Meanwhile, satellites recorded some 1,314 fire alerts across the Amazon between July 15 and July 21, even though the moratorium on burning had already been in place for two weeks. Some 46% of these alerts were registered in the state of Pará, according to Batista.
“Combating deforestation has to be done year-round,” Batista said. “Combatting burning doesn’t happen only in the moment when the forest is already on fire.”
Meanwhile, the invasion of Indigenous lands carries even more risk now, as the COVID-19 pandemic ravages Brazil. Because of their relative isolation, Indigenous peoples tend to be more vulnerable to even common diseases. With a highly infectious virus like COVID-19, the risks are even greater for these communities, which have a history of being decimated by disease brought in from the outside.
There have already been 22,021 confirmed cases and 625 deaths among Indigenous people due to the novel coronavirus, with 148 communities affected across Brazil. The Kayapo Indigenous Territory, which is being invaded by illegal miners, has the highest number of COVID-19 cases of any Indigenous territory, according to Rede Xingu+.
Meanwhile, as the pandemic spreads into rural parts of Brazil, worries are also mounting that underfunded health networks that are already struggling to cope with COVID-19 may be further strained by patients sickened by ash and smoke. Last year, the plumes of smoke darkened the skies of Sao Paulo, thousands of kilometers away from the Amazon.


thewakingtimes--2020-08-13--Testing the Most Effective Method to Manipulate Minds

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By the looks of it , we are about to face one of the most aggressive vaccine campaigns ever created .
According to Reuters,1 the U.S. government is planning to launch an “ overwhelming ” COVID-19 vaccine campaign come November , provided the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gives one or more vaccine candidates the green light .
Considering former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb2 is now on Pfizer ’ s board of directors,3 and Pfizer ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lead candidates , jaded minds might assume the FDA isn ’ t going to put up any significant roadblocks .
According to Reuters , the COVID-19 vaccine campaign “ will likely be compressed into a short period of time , around four to six weeks , to eliminate any lag between when Americans are alerted to the vaccine and then they can get vaccinated.
” An unnamed “ senior White House administration official ” is quoted saying:4 It ’ s still unclear exactly when a vaccine will be available , but it could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as late as January 2021 .
According to the administration official , the advertising campaign for the vaccine will be tailored to specific subsets of the population , depending on the people the vaccine is likely to benefit the most .
Such details are expected to be teased out during ongoing clinical trials .
The idea that the vaccine promotion might be more “ overwhelming ” than what we ’ re used to is further supported by a clinical study5 on ClinicalTrials.gov , the aim of which is to identify the most “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The study , conducted by Yale University , will test “ different messages about vaccinating against COVID-19 once the vaccine becomes available.
” A total of 4,000 participants will be randomized to receive one of 12 different messages ( 10 messaging variations , one control message and one baseline message ) , after which they will “ compare the reported willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine at three and six months of it becoming available.
” The messaging slants under investigation include:6 While the study was completed July 8 , 2020 , results @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Clearly , this is not the first time researchers have investigated the most effective propaganda angles , but the types of messages listed above really demonstrate just how insidious these types of campaigns can be .
It ’ s really all about manipulation — pushing the right mental and emotional hot-buttons to fire up a desired response , all while overriding more logical thought processes .
The propaganda push has already started , it seems , with USA Today publishing an article7 titled “ Defeat COVID-19 by Requiring Vaccination for All .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s Patriotic.
” This is precisely the kind of PR we can expect more of in the months to come .
The manipulation aspect is equally if not more evident in the listed secondary outcome measures , which include : • Participants ’ confidence in the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine • Participants ’ willingness to persuade others to get vaccinated • Their fear of those who have not been vaccinated • The social judgment of those who choose not to vaccinate A quote from Aldous Huxley ’ s dystopian 1932 book @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reads : Huxley ’ s quote starts off a thought-provoking article8 on The Burning Platform that reviews the rise of totalitarianism and parallels presented in popular works of fiction .
The author notes Huxley ’ s book came on the heels of Edward Bernays ’ 1928 book , “ Propaganda ” — a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the historical foundations of modern public relations .
The article points out that , in his book , Bernays:9 A contemporary to Huxley and Bernays was George Orwell , who wrote the cult classic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reportedly wrote to Orwell , stating he believed the world ’ s rulers would soon “ discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient as instruments of government than clubs and prisons , and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.
” 10 Huxley believed the nightmarish existence presented in “ 1984 ” was “ destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that this transition would be the result of “ a felt need for increased efficiency.
” While Huxley did not use the word “ technocracy , ” that ’ s essentially what he was talking about .
Technocracy is an economic and social engineering system that got started in the 1930s during the height of the Great Depression , when scientists and engineers got together to solve the nation ’ s economic problems .
The Trilateral Commission ’ s co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski , a Columbia University professor , brought the concept of technocracy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the financial support of David Rockefeller .
Technocrats have silently and relentlessly pushed forward ever since , and their agenda is now becoming increasingly visible .
At its heart , technocracy is an economic system , not a political one .
It actually calls for , indeed demands , the total dismantling of the political system , which includes the U.S. Constitution .
In fact , the Constitution is the only thing that has kept technocracy at bay this long in the U.S .
The system also hinges on the skillful implementation of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people won ’ t have the ability to effectively fight it , but until then , through peaceful civil disobedience , the sharing of information and the exercise of political power , we still have a chance to prevent it .
Time is running short , however .
As noted by The Burning Platform,11 “ Since 9/11 , the United States has unequivocally moved in the direction of Orwell ’ s 1984 vision , ” and “ We are now experiencing a dystopian amalgamation of the worst of both novels , ” referring @ @ @ @ @ @ @ New World.
” Unfortunately , many still can not see the full picture , nor understand the ultimate real-world danger of unquestioning compliance with ever-more illogical and freedom-quenching recommendations and mandates .
Under technocratic rule , nations are to be led by unelected leaders who decide which resources companies can use to make certain products , and which products consumers are ultimately allowed to buy .
Technocracy is essentially a resource-based economic system in which energy and social engineering run the economy rather than pricing mechanisms such as supply and demand .
Patrick @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and American constitutionalist — has devoted a lifetime to uncovering the mystery of what is controlling most of the craziness we ’ re currently seeing , and which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic .
I go into more details on technocracy in my interview with Patrick Wood .
His two books , “ Technocracy Rising : The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation ” and “ Technocracy : The Hard Road to World Order ” delve into this new world order in greater depth .
You can listen to our interview below @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Importantly , science is a primary tool used to manipulate society and keep the economic engine running under the technocratic system .
As explained by Wood , technocracy uses science to issue suggestions , to start .
But those suggestions rapidly turn into mandates , which is precisely what we ’ ve been seeing during this pandemic .
We ’ ve also seen this with vaccines in general .
But the COVID-19 pandemic has also revealed there ’ s a much larger plan that includes implantable digital identifications , medical records and vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all of which will ultimately be tied together so that algorithms and automation will be able to keep everyone in line , everywhere , all the time .
An important tool used to drive the technocratic agenda forward is what Huxley pointed out , namely efficiency .
In the name of efficiency and convenience , we are being inundated with an ever-increasing amount of “ smart ” technology that tracks everything everyone says and does , and artificial intelligence that sorts , interprets and spits out recommendations based on all that data .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ technocracy , as the ultimate goal is to essentially automate slavery .
The idea is that society will be ruled by automated algorithms , thus rendering a political structure irrelevant .
Everyone will be automatically kept in line by technology .
For example , you might be told via text message that it ’ s time to get your annual vaccination .
You go there , get the shot , and receive a digital vaccine certificate .
Should you get the bright idea to refuse , your bank accounts get automatically frozen , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ won ’ t work , and you won ’ t be allowed to pass through the electronic check point at the grocery store .
No human authority is required in that system .
There won ’ t be anyone to complain to or debate with .
You ’ re herded into compliance by the fact that you have to do certain things in order to be allowed to participate in society .
It sounds crazy , but if you look around , you ’ ll see clear evidence that this system has been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decades .
And , when you look at the statements from people like Bill Gates , in conjunction with the technologies he and others are implementing in various parts of the world ( such as digital identification , currency , vaccine certificates and medical records , along with implantable chips to track employee attendance , smart appliances and entire smart cities , just to name a few ) , you can begin to see how the control loop is closing in around us .
In her book , “ The Age of Surveillance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the stunning capacities currently available to surveil , analyze and manipulate our behavior .
It ’ s crucial to realize that as bad as it is today , the predictive power of technology is advancing at an exponential rate , which means their ability to manipulate behavior is increasing at a pace we can not fully comprehend .
Importantly , technocrats are currently making an end run around national sovereignty .
Rather than a frontal assault on the system , which has never been successful , they ’ ve simply eroded national sovereignty @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can do to thwart the steady march of technocracy ?
As explained by Wood , the most effective way is through local activism .
The technocratic system was built from the bottom up , so we can not tear it down from the top down .
They ’ re already far too powerful for that .
So , to begin the dismantling process , we must regain control of our local governments , and work our way up from there .
One of the most important elected local officials that you should concern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are responsible for enforcing tyrannical edicts from local , state and federal government , and if they choose not to , government has no power .
City councils also have a lot of power .
They can pass binding resolutions to protect citizens against the technocratic agenda .
1 Person in 40 Is Injured by Vaccines Getting back to the issue of the COVID-19 vaccine , I urge you to keep a cool head once the PR machine gains speed .
Read through the propaganda messages again ( above ) and familiarize yourself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ buttons they ’ re trying to push .
Remember , the COVID-19 vaccines currently leading in development have never before been licensed for human use , and there ’ s no possible way to ascertain what the long-term ramifications might be when you turn your body into a viral protein factory .
I ’ ve discussed the theory behind mRNA vaccines in several previous articles , including “ Gates Tries to Justify Side Effects of Fast-Tracked Vaccine.
” Coronavirus vaccine efforts gained speed in early 2002 , following three SARS epidemics .
However @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as coronavirus vaccines have a stubborn tendency to trigger paradoxical immune responses .
In my interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , who chairs the board of directors of the Children ’ s Health Defense,12 he reviewed some of the failed efforts to produce a viable coronavirus vaccine and highlighted the dangers of vaccine exaggeration of the immune response : So please , review ALL the vaccine studies BEFORE you get the COVID vaccine because as far as I have read , this essential part of the study — ensuring that no paradoxical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ yet been done .
Even with conventionally manufactured vaccines , data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research Quality suggests vaccine damage occurs in 2.6 % of all vaccinations .
This means 1 in 40 people — not 1 in 1 million , which is what we ’ ve been repeatedly told — is injured by vaccines .
Kennedy Jr. reviewed this data in a recent online vaccine debate13 with attorney and legal scholar Alan Dershowitz .
The U.S .
Vaccine Court has also paid out $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ killed by vaccines , and that ’ s just a small portion of all the cases filed .
According to Kennedy , less than 1 % of people who are injured ever get to court , due to the high bar set for proving causation .
Will the novel mRNA COVID-19 vaccines be more dangerous than conventional vaccines , or will they be safer ?
Considering these vaccines are being fast-tracked and are forgoing all traditional animal testing and long-term evaluation , I suspect they may end up having far more unanticipated complications @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rolls out , remember to weigh whatever potential risks and benefits that might apply in your particular situation , and avoid falling for emotional triggers .
Regardless of what you decide , also try to accept the personal decisions of others .
The PR campaign will clearly try to manipulate you into fearing those who chose not to vaccinate , and trigger you into condemning them .
Hopefully , knowing that you are being manipulated will help ease these tendencies .

Testing the Most Effective Method to Manipulate Minds
Dr. Mercola, Guest
Waking Times
By the looks of it, we are about to face one of the most aggressive vaccine campaigns ever created. According to Reuters,1 the U.S. government is planning to launch an “overwhelming” COVID-19 vaccine campaign come November, provided the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gives one or more vaccine candidates the green light.
Considering former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb2 is now on Pfizer’s board of directors,3 and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is one of the lead candidates, jaded minds might assume the FDA isn’t going to put up any significant roadblocks.
According to Reuters, the COVID-19 vaccine campaign “will likely be compressed into a short period of time, around four to six weeks, to eliminate any lag between when Americans are alerted to the vaccine and then they can get vaccinated.” An unnamed “senior White House administration official” is quoted saying:4
“The fine line we are walking is getting the American people very excited about vaccines and missing expectations versus having a bunch of vaccines in the warehouse and not as many people want to get it. You may not hear a lot about promoting vaccines over the airwaves in August and September but you’ll be overwhelmed by it come November.”
It’s still unclear exactly when a vaccine will be available, but it could be as early as October, or as late as January 2021. According to the administration official, the advertising campaign for the vaccine will be tailored to specific subsets of the population, depending on the people the vaccine is likely to benefit the most. Such details are expected to be teased out during ongoing clinical trials.
Study Underway to Identify Most Effective Messaging
The idea that the vaccine promotion might be more “overwhelming” than what we’re used to is further supported by a clinical study5 on ClinicalTrials.gov, the aim of which is to identify the most “persuasive messages for COVID-19 vaccine uptake.”
The study, conducted by Yale University, will test “different messages about vaccinating against COVID-19 once the vaccine becomes available.”
A total of 4,000 participants will be randomized to receive one of 12 different messages (10 messaging variations, one control message and one baseline message), after which they will “compare the reported willingness to get a COVID-19 vaccine at three and six months of it becoming available.” The messaging slants under investigation include:6
Personal freedom message — A message about how COVID-19 is limiting people’s personal freedom, and how society, by working together to get enough people vaccinated, can preserve its personal freedom. Economic freedom message — A message about how COVID-19 is limiting people’s economic freedom, and how society, by working together to get enough people vaccinated, can preserve its economic freedom. Self-interest message — A message that COVID-19 presents a real danger to one’s health, even if one is young and healthy, and how getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is the best way to prevent oneself from getting sick. Community interest message — A message about the dangers of COVID-19 to the health of loved ones: The more people who get vaccinated against COVID-19, the lower the risk that one’s loved ones will get sick. Society must work together and all get vaccinated. Economic benefit message — A message about how COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on the economy and the only way to strengthen the economy is to work together to get enough people vaccinated. Guilt message — A message is about the danger that COVID-19 presents to the health of one’s family and community. Therefore, the best way to protect them is not only by getting vaccinated, but to get society to work together to get enough people vaccinated. Then a test question asks the participant to imagine the guilt they will feel if they don’t get vaccinated and then spread the disease. Embarrassment message — A message is about the danger that COVID-19 presents to the health of one’s family and community: The best way to protect them is by getting vaccinated and by working together to make sure that enough people get vaccinated. Then it asks the participant to imagine the embarrassment they will feel if they don’t get vaccinated and spread the disease. Anger message — The message is about the danger that COVID-19 presents to the health of one’s family and community. The best way to protect them is by getting vaccinated and by working together to make sure that enough people get vaccinated. It then asks the participant to imagine the anger they will feel if they don’t get vaccinated and spread the disease. Trust in science message — A message about how getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is the most effective way of protecting one’s community, that vaccination is backed by science: If one doesn’t get vaccinated that means that one doesn’t understand how infections are spread or you are one who ignores science. Not brave message — A message which describes how firefighters, doctors and front line medical workers are brave: Those who choose not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 are not brave.
While the study was completed July 8, 2020, results have yet to be publicly posted. Clearly, this is not the first time researchers have investigated the most effective propaganda angles, but the types of messages listed above really demonstrate just how insidious these types of campaigns can be.
It’s really all about manipulation — pushing the right mental and emotional hot-buttons to fire up a desired response, all while overriding more logical thought processes.
The propaganda push has already started, it seems, with USA Today publishing an article7 titled “Defeat COVID-19 by Requiring Vaccination for All. It’s Not Un-American, It’s Patriotic.” This is precisely the kind of PR we can expect more of in the months to come.
The manipulation aspect is equally if not more evident in the listed secondary outcome measures, which include:
Participants’ confidence in the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine
Participants’ willingness to persuade others to get vaccinated
Their fear of those who have not been vaccinated
The social judgment of those who choose not to vaccinate
Effective Totalitarianism Relies on You Enjoying Servitude
A quote from Aldous Huxley’s dystopian 1932 book, “Brave New World,” reads:
“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”
Huxley’s quote starts off a thought-provoking article8 on The Burning Platform that reviews the rise of totalitarianism and parallels presented in popular works of fiction. The author notes Huxley’s book came on the heels of Edward Bernays’ 1928 book, “Propaganda” — a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the historical foundations of modern public relations. The article points out that, in his book, Bernays:9
“… revealed the existence of an invisible government who used propaganda to manipulate the minds of the public to insure those controlling the levers of power were able to engineer their desired outcomes.”
A contemporary to Huxley and Bernays was George Orwell, who wrote the cult classic “1984.” In 1949, Huxley reportedly wrote to Orwell, stating he believed the world’s rulers would soon “discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient as instruments of government than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.”10
At its heart, technocracy is an economic system, not a political one. The system also hinges on the skillful implementation of social engineering.
Huxley believed the nightmarish existence presented in “1984” was “destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblance to that which I imagined in ‘Brave New World'” and that this transition would be the result of “a felt need for increased efficiency.” While Huxley did not use the word “technocracy,” that’s essentially what he was talking about.
Technocracy 101
Technocracy is an economic and social engineering system that got started in the 1930s during the height of the Great Depression, when scientists and engineers got together to solve the nation’s economic problems.
The Trilateral Commission’s co-founder Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Columbia University professor, brought the concept of technocracy into the Commission in 1973, with the financial support of David Rockefeller. Technocrats have silently and relentlessly pushed forward ever since, and their agenda is now becoming increasingly visible.
At its heart, technocracy is an economic system, not a political one. It actually calls for, indeed demands, the total dismantling of the political system, which includes the U.S. Constitution. In fact, the Constitution is the only thing that has kept technocracy at bay this long in the U.S.
The system also hinges on the skillful implementation of social engineering. Once fully implemented, people won’t have the ability to effectively fight it, but until then, through peaceful civil disobedience, the sharing of information and the exercise of political power, we still have a chance to prevent it.
Time is running short, however. As noted by The Burning Platform,11 “Since 9/11, the United States has unequivocally moved in the direction of Orwell’s 1984 vision,” and “We are now experiencing a dystopian amalgamation of the worst of both novels,” referring to “1984” and “Brave New World.”
Unfortunately, many still cannot see the full picture, nor understand the ultimate real-world danger of unquestioning compliance with ever-more illogical and freedom-quenching recommendations and mandates.
Technocracy Demands the Abolishment of Political Systems
Under technocratic rule, nations are to be led by unelected leaders who decide which resources companies can use to make certain products, and which products consumers are ultimately allowed to buy. Technocracy is essentially a resource-based economic system in which energy and social engineering run the economy rather than pricing mechanisms such as supply and demand.
Patrick Wood — an economist, financial analyst and American constitutionalist — has devoted a lifetime to uncovering the mystery of what is controlling most of the craziness we’re currently seeing, and which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. I go into more details on technocracy in my interview with Patrick Wood.
His two books, “Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation” and “Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order” delve into this new world order in greater depth. You can listen to our interview below.
Science Has Been Misused for Decades
Importantly, science is a primary tool used to manipulate society and keep the economic engine running under the technocratic system. As explained by Wood, technocracy uses science to issue suggestions, to start. But those suggestions rapidly turn into mandates, which is precisely what we’ve been seeing during this pandemic. We’ve also seen this with vaccines in general.
But the COVID-19 pandemic has also revealed there’s a much larger plan that includes implantable digital identifications, medical records and vaccine passports, digital currency and banking — all of which will ultimately be tied together so that algorithms and automation will be able to keep everyone in line, everywhere, all the time.
Rule by Algorithm
An important tool used to drive the technocratic agenda forward is what Huxley pointed out, namely efficiency. In the name of efficiency and convenience, we are being inundated with an ever-increasing amount of “smart” technology that tracks everything everyone says and does, and artificial intelligence that sorts, interprets and spits out recommendations based on all that data.
This technological infrastructure is crucial for the technocracy, as the ultimate goal is to essentially automate slavery. The idea is that society will be ruled by automated algorithms, thus rendering a political structure irrelevant. Everyone will be automatically kept in line by technology.
For example, you might be told via text message that it’s time to get your annual vaccination. You go there, get the shot, and receive a digital vaccine certificate. Should you get the bright idea to refuse, your bank accounts get automatically frozen, the electronic door pass to your office won’t work, and you won’t be allowed to pass through the electronic check point at the grocery store.
No human authority is required in that system. There won’t be anyone to complain to or debate with. You’re herded into compliance by the fact that you have to do certain things in order to be allowed to participate in society. It sounds crazy, but if you look around, you’ll see clear evidence that this system has been slowly implemented all around us, for decades.
And, when you look at the statements from people like Bill Gates, in conjunction with the technologies he and others are implementing in various parts of the world (such as digital identification, currency, vaccine certificates and medical records, along with implantable chips to track employee attendance, smart appliances and entire smart cities, just to name a few), you can begin to see how the control loop is closing in around us.
In her book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” professor Shoshana Zuboff exposes the stunning capacities currently available to surveil, analyze and manipulate our behavior. It’s crucial to realize that as bad as it is today, the predictive power of technology is advancing at an exponential rate, which means their ability to manipulate behavior is increasing at a pace we cannot fully comprehend.
Regaining Control of Local Government Is Key
Importantly, technocrats are currently making an end run around national sovereignty. Rather than a frontal assault on the system, which has never been successful, they’ve simply eroded national sovereignty piece by piece. What can we can do to thwart the steady march of technocracy?
As explained by Wood, the most effective way is through local activism. The technocratic system was built from the bottom up, so we cannot tear it down from the top down. They’re already far too powerful for that. So, to begin the dismantling process, we must regain control of our local governments, and work our way up from there.
One of the most important elected local officials that you should concern yourself with is your sheriff. Sheriffs are responsible for enforcing tyrannical edicts from local, state and federal government, and if they choose not to, government has no power. City councils also have a lot of power. They can pass binding resolutions to protect citizens against the technocratic agenda.
1 Person in 40 Is Injured by Vaccines
Getting back to the issue of the COVID-19 vaccine, I urge you to keep a cool head once the PR machine gains speed. Read through the propaganda messages again (above) and familiarize yourself with them so you can identify the buttons they’re trying to push.
Remember, the COVID-19 vaccines currently leading in development have never before been licensed for human use, and there’s no possible way to ascertain what the long-term ramifications might be when you turn your body into a viral protein factory. I’ve discussed the theory behind mRNA vaccines in several previous articles, including “Gates Tries to Justify Side Effects of Fast-Tracked Vaccine.”
Coronavirus vaccine efforts gained speed in early 2002, following three SARS epidemics. However, such efforts have proven highly problematic as coronavirus vaccines have a stubborn tendency to trigger paradoxical immune responses.
In my interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who chairs the board of directors of the Children’s Health Defense,12 he reviewed some of the failed efforts to produce a viable coronavirus vaccine and highlighted the dangers of vaccine exaggeration of the immune response:
“The Chinese, the Americans, the Europeans all got together and said, ‘We need to develop a vaccine against coronavirus.’ Around 2012, they had about 30 vaccines that looked promising. They took the four best of those and … gave those vaccines to ferrets, which are the closest analogy when you’re looking at lung infections in human beings.
The ferrets had an extraordinarily good antibody response, and that is the metric by which FDA licenses vaccines … The ferrets developed very strong antibodies, so they thought, ‘We hit the jackpot.’ All four of these vaccines … worked like a charm.
Then something terrible happened. Those ferrets were then exposed to the wild virus, and they all died. [They developed] inflammation in all their organs, their lungs stopped functioning and they died.”
So please, review ALL the vaccine studies BEFORE you get the COVID vaccine because as far as I have read, this essential part of the study — ensuring that no paradoxical immune enhancement will occur — has not yet been done.
Even with conventionally manufactured vaccines, data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research Quality suggests vaccine damage occurs in 2.6% of all vaccinations. This means 1 in 40 people — not 1 in 1 million, which is what we’ve been repeatedly told — is injured by vaccines. Kennedy Jr. reviewed this data in a recent online vaccine debate13 with attorney and legal scholar Alan Dershowitz.
The U.S. Vaccine Court has also paid out $4 billion to patients permanently damaged or killed by vaccines, and that’s just a small portion of all the cases filed. According to Kennedy, less than 1% of people who are injured ever get to court, due to the high bar set for proving causation.
Will the novel mRNA COVID-19 vaccines be more dangerous than conventional vaccines, or will they be safer? Considering these vaccines are being fast-tracked and are forgoing all traditional animal testing and long-term evaluation, I suspect they may end up having far more unanticipated complications.
So, as the vaccine campaign rolls out, remember to weigh whatever potential risks and benefits that might apply in your particular situation, and avoid falling for emotional triggers.
Regardless of what you decide, also try to accept the personal decisions of others. The PR campaign will clearly try to manipulate you into fearing those who chose not to vaccinate, and trigger you into condemning them. Hopefully, knowing that you are being manipulated will help ease these tendencies.


thewakingtimes--2020-08-13--The Pandemic Pattern – How the Illusion is Built

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This article is based on my study and investigation of so-called epidemics over the past 30 years .
In the case of COVID-19 , I ’ ve written at least one piece covering , in detail , each main element of the illusion .
Here , I ’ m laying out the pattern .
It is the same for each fake epidemic .
ONE : Through many meetings , exercises , planning sessions , a structure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ launch the IDEA of an epidemic .
World Health Organization , CDC , influential public health officials attached to governments around the world , etc .
TWO : There is a purported incident .
An outbreak .
The most obvious cause is intentionally overlooked .
For example , horrendous air pollution , or the grotesque feces and urine pollution on a giant commercial pig factory-farm .
Instead , the world is told a new virus has been found .
Local researchers , if any , are augmented by researchers from CDC , WHO @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chain of evidence explaining exactly how the purported new virus was discovered .
From details released , there is NO proof of discovery by convincing methods , no proper unified study of MANY supposed epidemic patients .
FOUR : But WHO/CDC tells the world this is an epidemic in the making , caused by the new virus .
The promotion and propaganda/media apparatus moves into high gear .
Ominous pronouncements .
FIVE : Diagnostic tests for the unproven new virus are rolled out .
They spit out false “ proof ” of “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ slot machine .
These false-positives are an inherent feature of the tests .
SIX : Thus , all case numbers and death numbers , which are based on the tests , are rendered meaningless .
And…they were already meaningless , because the supposed new virus “ being tested for ” was never properly discovered in the first place .
SEVEN : Nevertheless , these tests ( plus useless eyeball diagnosis ) are used to build official reports on case numbers .
For the duration of the “ epidemic , ” reports keep coming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Within the basically meaningless structure of these reports , there is fiddling with totals , to make them more impressive and frightening .
EIGHT : Real people are really getting sick and dying , but for the most part , they are people who are dying from traditional and long-standing conditions—flu-like illness , pneumonia , other lung infections , etc .
These people are “ re-packaged ” under the new epidemic label—e.g.
, “ COVID ” .
The official description of the “ new epidemic disease ” —the clinical symptoms—is sufficiently general to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If there is new illness , it can be explained by causes having nothing to do with the purported new virus .
For example , a toxic vaccine campaign .
A highly destructive drug .
Highly toxic pesticides .
TEN : Over time , the definition of the epidemic is arbitrarily widened to include more symptoms and clinical features , in order to inflate case numbers .
ELEVEN : Control of information about the “ epidemic ” is hardened at the top .
The talking heads , from the press and public health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ science as rabbits know about drone strikes .
But they are “ in charge.
” Dissident information is attacked and censored .
TWELVE : Medical drugs and procedures ( e.g.
, ventilators ) used to treat patients are quite harmful .
If a vaccine is rolled out , it , too , is toxic .
Illness and death resulting from these and other medical attacks are counted as “ epidemic cases caused by the virus.
” THIRTEEN : ABOVE ALL OTHER ILLUSIONS , the main deception is : “ the epidemic is one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” This is sold with unceasing propaganda .
Most people fall for it .
They will even argue among themselves about which “ it ” is the single cause of the “ it ” disease .
There is no “ it ” cause or disease .
FOURTEEN : The public is sold lie after lie about contagion and the “ spread ” of the “ it.
” FIFTEEN : The public chants ( as if no one has ever died before ) , “ People are dying , it must be the virus.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ always functions as a cover story for government or corporate or medical crimes .
It obscures and hides these crimes .
For example , a large factory is spewing horrendous pollution into the ground and water of an area , and people are getting sick and dying ?
Wait , the researchers say , the cause is actually a new virus no one has ever seen before .
As I wrote at the outset of the COVID illusion , the only difference this time , in 2020 , is the weight of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the economic devastation .
This is West Nile , SARS , Swine Flu , Zika , writ large .
Needless to say , the persons and groups responsible for launching these illusion-operations must hide their crimes .
The criminals have their weapons , of course .
Among their most powerful : control of the press , and arcane technical language which pretends to relevance .
This language is so dense , the uninitiated stand no chance of penetrating it .
For instance , researchers can babble for hours about their vaunted diagnostic test @ @ @ @ @ @ @ simple truth is , the test has never been vetted .
The test has never been tested in the real world outside the lab .
I have written about this extensively .
Using a little guideline called SCIENCE , you would “ test the test ” by lining up , say , a thousand patients , some healthy , some sick from a supposed virus .
Any virus .
Tissue samples would be taken from each patient .
PCR mavens would run these samples through their equipment , reporting which patients show what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This means : these particular patients have millions and millions of virus actively replicating in their bodies , and they will be unmistakably and visibly sick .
The PCR princes would then announce , “ Patients 3,45,65,76,132…are all definitely sick.
” Now we un-blind the study and see what ’ s what and who ’ s who .
Are these designated patients ill or are they running marathons ?
That ’ s called simple scientific method .
Not technical gobbledygook .
This chunk of research has never been done .
It never will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ real .
Too naked .
Proponents of the PCR would have too much to lose , if their assessments of who are healthy and who are sick turned out to be absurdly wrong , and their arcane technical rhetoric about the PCR ended up being useless gibberish .
I include this illustration to indicate there are , indeed , ways of exposing professional liars , if you change the venue on them , if you use common sense , if you stand outside their self-appointed temples of mystical pretense and observe what their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down to human terms… Here is another study of the PCR test that has never been done and never will be done , in the real world : line up a thousand patients , take tissues samples from them and send the samples to 40 different labs .
Have the labs run their PCRs and announce their specific findings .
Compare the results .
You can bet the farm the labs will come up with contrary results .
This is part of a pattern : keep “ scientific details ” close to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; don ’ t permit large-scale independent studies that will either confirm or deny basic tenets of official research .
COVID is a fraud from top to bottom .
From beginning to end .
Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections , THE MATRIX REVEALED , EXIT FROM THE MATRIX , and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX , Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29thDistrict of California .
He maintains a consulting practice for private clients , the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years , writing articles on politics , medicine , and health for CBS Healthwatch , LA Weekly , Spin Magazine , Stern , and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe .
Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics , health , logic , and creative power to audiences around the world .
You can sign up for his free emails at NoMoreFakeNews.com or OutsideTheRealityMachine .
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The Pandemic Pattern – How the Illusion is Built
Jon Rappoport, Guest
Waking Times
This article is based on my study and investigation of so-called epidemics over the past 30 years.
In the case of COVID-19, I’ve written at least one piece covering, in detail, each main element of the illusion. Here, I’m laying out the pattern. It is the same for each fake epidemic.
ONE: Through many meetings, exercises, planning sessions, a structure is welded in place to promote and launch the IDEA of an epidemic. World Health Organization, CDC, influential public health officials attached to governments around the world, etc.
TWO: There is a purported incident. An outbreak. The most obvious cause is intentionally overlooked. For example, horrendous air pollution, or the grotesque feces and urine pollution on a giant commercial pig factory-farm. Instead, the world is told a new virus has been found. Local researchers, if any, are augmented by researchers from CDC, WHO.
THREE: There is no air-tight chain of evidence explaining exactly how the purported new virus was discovered. From details released, there is NO proof of discovery by convincing methods, no proper unified study of MANY supposed epidemic patients.
FOUR: But WHO/CDC tells the world this is an epidemic in the making, caused by the new virus. The promotion and propaganda/media apparatus moves into high gear. Ominous pronouncements.
FIVE: Diagnostic tests for the unproven new virus are rolled out. They spit out false “proof” of “infection” like coins from a jackpot slot machine. These false-positives are an inherent feature of the tests.
SIX: Thus, all case numbers and death numbers, which are based on the tests, are rendered meaningless. And…they were already meaningless, because the supposed new virus “being tested for” was never properly discovered in the first place.
SEVEN: Nevertheless, these tests (plus useless eyeball diagnosis) are used to build official reports on case numbers. For the duration of the “epidemic,” reports keep coming, and escalating numbers are trumpeted. Within the basically meaningless structure of these reports, there is fiddling with totals, to make them more impressive and frightening.
EIGHT: Real people are really getting sick and dying, but for the most part, they are people who are dying from traditional and long-standing conditions—flu-like illness, pneumonia, other lung infections, etc. These people are “re-packaged” under the new epidemic label—e.g., “COVID”. The official description of the “new epidemic disease”—the clinical symptoms—is sufficiently general to easily allow this re-packaging.
NINE: If there is new illness, it can be explained by causes having nothing to do with the purported new virus. For example, a toxic vaccine campaign. A highly destructive drug. Highly toxic pesticides.
TEN: Over time, the definition of the epidemic is arbitrarily widened to include more symptoms and clinical features, in order to inflate case numbers.
ELEVEN: Control of information about the “epidemic” is hardened at the top. The talking heads, from the press and public health agencies, know as much about actual science as rabbits know about drone strikes. But they are “in charge.” Dissident information is attacked and censored.
TWELVE: Medical drugs and procedures (e.g., ventilators) used to treat patients are quite harmful. If a vaccine is rolled out, it, too, is toxic. Illness and death resulting from these and other medical attacks are counted as “epidemic cases caused by the virus.”
THIRTEEN: ABOVE ALL OTHER ILLUSIONS, the main deception is: “the epidemic is one disease or syndrome caused by one germ.” This is sold with unceasing propaganda. Most people fall for it. They will even argue among themselves about which “it” is the single cause of the “it” disease. There is no “it” cause or disease.
FOURTEEN: The public is sold lie after lie about contagion and the “spread” of the “it.”
FIFTEEN: The public chants (as if no one has ever died before), “People are dying, it must be the virus.”
SIXTEEN: The virus fairy tale always functions as a cover story for government or corporate or medical crimes. It obscures and hides these crimes. For example, a large factory is spewing horrendous pollution into the ground and water of an area, and people are getting sick and dying? Wait, the researchers say, the cause is actually a new virus no one has ever seen before.
As I wrote at the outset of the COVID illusion, the only difference this time, in 2020, is the weight of the lies—because they led to the lockdowns and the economic devastation. This is West Nile, SARS, Swine Flu, Zika, writ large.
Needless to say, the persons and groups responsible for launching these illusion-operations must hide their crimes.
The criminals have their weapons, of course. Among their most powerful: control of the press, and arcane technical language which pretends to relevance. This language is so dense, the uninitiated stand no chance of penetrating it.
For instance, researchers can babble for hours about their vaunted diagnostic test, the PCR. However, the simple truth is, the test has never been vetted. The test has never been tested in the real world outside the lab.
I have written about this extensively. Using a little guideline called SCIENCE, you would “test the test” by lining up, say, a thousand patients, some healthy, some sick from a supposed virus. Any virus. Tissue samples would be taken from each patient.
PCR mavens would run these samples through their equipment, reporting which patients show what they call high “viral load.”
This means: these particular patients have millions and millions of virus actively replicating in their bodies, and they will be unmistakably and visibly sick.
The PCR princes would then announce, “Patients 3,45,65,76,132…are all definitely sick.”
Now we un-blind the study and see what’s what and who’s who. Are these designated patients ill or are they running marathons? That’s called simple scientific method. Not technical gobbledygook.
This chunk of research has never been done. It never will be done. It’s too real. Too naked. Proponents of the PCR would have too much to lose, if their assessments of who are healthy and who are sick turned out to be absurdly wrong, and their arcane technical rhetoric about the PCR ended up being useless gibberish.
I include this illustration to indicate there are, indeed, ways of exposing professional liars, if you change the venue on them, if you use common sense, if you stand outside their self-appointed temples of mystical pretense and observe what their lies look like when you boil them down to human terms…
Here is another study of the PCR test that has never been done and never will be done, in the real world: line up a thousand patients, take tissues samples from them and send the samples to 40 different labs. Have the labs run their PCRs and announce their specific findings. Compare the results. You can bet the farm the labs will come up with contrary results.
This is part of a pattern: keep “scientific details” close to the vest; keep them “in-house”; don’t permit large-scale independent studies that will either confirm or deny basic tenets of official research.
COVID is a fraud from top to bottom. From beginning to end.
About the Author
Jon Rappoport is the author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29thDistrict of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at NoMoreFakeNews.com or OutsideTheRealityMachine.
(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)
This article (The pandemic pattern—how the illusion is built ) was originally created and published by Jon Rappaport’s Blog and is re-posted here with permission.


thewakingtimes--2020-08-13--Groundbreaking Study Shows Organic Diets Drastically Lower Glyphosate Levels in the Body

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An environmental organization focused on achieving a healthier and more just world is celebrating the publication Tuesday of a groundbreaking study that found an organic diet radically decreases levels of the toxic herbicide glyphosate in the body .
The study—titled Organic Diet Intervention Significantly Reduces Urinary Glyphosate Levels in U.S. Children and Adults—was published in the journal Environmental Research and co-authored by Kendra Klein , a senior staff scientist at Friends of the Earth .
In what FOE described as an unprecedented study to examine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Klein and her co-authors looked at glyphosate levels in urine samples from four different families .
The individuals studied spent six days on a non-organic diet and six days on an organic diet .
In this time period , glyphosate levels in participants ’ bodies decreased an average of 70 % .
Glyphosate is the main ingredient in Roundup , an herbicide used as on wheat , corn , soy , canola , cotton , oats , beans , and in gardening and landscaping .
It was introduced in the 1990s and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Protection Agency has allowed the dietary limit of residue exposure to glyphosate to be increased up to 300 times more than previous foods , despite previous research showing its harmful effects .
The chemical was flagged as a possible cause of cancer as early as the 1980s and was classified as a likely human carcinogen by the World Health Organization in 2015 .
Over time , it has been linked to human health conditions like kidney disease , hormone disruption , and shortened pregnancy .
About 280 million pounds of glyphosate is sprayed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ court cases in 2019 linked plaintiffs ’ cancer with exposure to the use of Roundup , leading to an $ 180 million payout in damages from Bayer , the company that now owns Roundup after merging with Monsanto in 2018 .
According to Friends of the Earth , Bayer negotiated another settlement of $ 10 billion in the summer of 2020 and still has 30,000 more similar cases pending .
In July , the Environmental Working Group ( EWG ) released an analysis of lab testing that showed glyphosate in 90 % of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reports from the group found the chemical in popular breakfast cereals .
In animal studies , glyphosate has been shown to cause DNA damage , decreased sperm function , and fatty liver disease .
It is also considered to be one of the causes of monarch butterfly and bee populations declining .
In a statement Wednesday about Klein ’ s study , EWG Toxicologist Alexis Temkin noted that the “ often-repeated claims by chemical agriculture and big food companies that there isn ’ t much difference between conventional and organic foods is wildly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proof of it.
” Another important aspect of the new study : Children have significantly higher levels of exposure to glyphosate—about five times higher than the average level in adults .

Groundbreaking Study Shows Organic Diets Drastically Lower Glyphosate Levels in the Body
Krissy Waite, Common Dreams
Waking Times
An environmental organization focused on achieving a healthier and more just world is celebrating the publication Tuesday of a groundbreaking study that found an organic diet radically decreases levels of the toxic herbicide glyphosate in the body.
The study—titled Organic Diet Intervention Significantly Reduces Urinary Glyphosate Levels in U.S. Children and Adults—was published in the journal Environmental Research and co-authored by Kendra Klein, a senior staff scientist at Friends of the Earth.
In what FOE described as an unprecedented study to examine how an organic diet affects glyphosate intake, Klein and her co-authors looked at glyphosate levels in urine samples from four different families. The individuals studied spent six days on a non-organic diet and six days on an organic diet. In this time period, glyphosate levels in participants’ bodies decreased an average of 70%.
“We all have the right to food that is free of toxic pesticides,” said Klein, “but our federal regulatory system is broken and is not protecting us. We urgently need our elected leaders to make healthy organic food the norm for everyone by passing policies that support farmers to shift from pesticide-intensive to organic farming.”
Glyphosate is the main ingredient in Roundup, an herbicide used as on wheat, corn, soy, canola, cotton, oats, beans, and in gardening and landscaping. It was introduced in the 1990s and, since then, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has allowed the dietary limit of residue exposure to glyphosate to be increased up to 300 times more than previous foods, despite previous research showing its harmful effects.
The chemical was flagged as a possible cause of cancer as early as the 1980s and was classified as a likely human carcinogen by the World Health Organization in 2015. Over time, it has been linked to human health conditions like kidney disease, hormone disruption, and shortened pregnancy. About 280 million pounds of glyphosate is sprayed annually in the U.S.
“The government has turned a blind eye for decades when it comes to monitoring glyphosate—failing to test for it on food and in our bodies,” Klein and Anna Lappé, co-director of Real Food Media, wrote Tuesday in an op-ed for The Guardian.
A string of court cases in 2019 linked plaintiffs’ cancer with exposure to the use of Roundup, leading to an $180 million payout in damages from Bayer, the company that now owns Roundup after merging with Monsanto in 2018. According to Friends of the Earth, Bayer negotiated another settlement of $10 billion in the summer of 2020 and still has 30,000 more similar cases pending.
In July, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released an analysis of lab testing that showed glyphosate in 90% of non-organic hummus and chickpea samples. Similar reports from the group found the chemical in popular breakfast cereals.
In animal studies, glyphosate has been shown to cause DNA damage, decreased sperm function, and fatty liver disease. It is also considered to be one of the causes of monarch butterfly and bee populations declining.
In a statement Wednesday about Klein’s study, EWG Toxicologist Alexis Temkin noted that the “often-repeated claims by chemical agriculture and big food companies that there isn’t much difference between conventional and organic foods is wildly inaccurate, and this study is further proof of it.”
“The levels of toxic crop chemicals like glyphosate that contaminate a wide swath of conventional foods are a main pathway of exposure for most adults and children,” said Temkin. “The only way to dramatically reduce all Americans’ exposure to this toxic weedkiller is for the Environmental Protection Agency to ban uses of the herbicide that lead to high levels in foods people eat.”
Another important aspect of the new study: Children have significantly higher levels of exposure to glyphosate—about five times higher than the average level in adults.


thewakingtimes--2020-08-13--Government Furious After Red Light Cameras Across City Covered in Paint

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Colorado Springs , CO — Take away the political corruption , bribery scandals , increased accidents , and police state issues with Red Light Cameras and we are still left with a system that is rooted in the removal of due process .
The good news is that after the corporatist red light camera industry spread through the nation like a cancer for more than a decade , people are finally beginning to realize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ result , people have been fighting back .
In Colorado Springs , a Red Light Bandit has infuriated police and government revenue generators by painting over the cameras all across the city .
In April of last year , as cities across the country were ending their Red Light profiteering scams , Colorado Springs began theirs .
Since then , they have continued to increase the number of cameras on a regular basis , driving some folks to retaliate .
Over the weekend , several drivers took pictures of vandalism and various intersections @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has the most run red lights in the city .
Colorado Springs police say they ’ re looking into the issue , but didn ’ t have other information readily available .
Lieutenant Steve Noblitt told KRDO over the phone the department hopes the perpetrator was caught on camera during the incident .
He says the cameras are always recording , and could have captured when they were spray-painted .
According to the report , a total of four intersections were all vandalized sometime over the weekend .
The third party company who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Verra Mobility , claimed that it is going to cost over $ 30,000 for their single employee to remove the paint from the cameras .
We highly doubt that it will cost even 1 percent of that , which goes to show just how corrupt these companies are .
If you are one of those people who couldn ’ t care less about the removal of due process , perhaps the sheer corruption of these companies would be enough to deter your support .
After being found guilty of bribing politicians to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Finley , former CEO of the red light company Redflex , was sentenced to 14 months in prison .
Her crimes spanned across multiple states and are so extensive that she is still facing future trials .
Previously , the Free Thought Project conducted an exclusive interview with New York resident Stephen Ruth — aka Red Light Robin Hood .
Ruth has recently become targeted by local politicians in his community who are ‘ addicted ’ to the funds from these red light cameras .
Unwilling to sacrifice innocent lives for millions of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the person in Colorado Springs , this nonviolent vigilante admittedly sabotaged traffic cameras in order to call attention to drastically shortened yellow lights endangering lives in his community .
As a result he faced arrest , threats , break-ins , and more .
While Ruth is not a politician , his sentiment toward unconstitutional red light cameras represents a growing resistance in this country — just as the case in Colorado Springs illustrates .
As with any tyrannical or fascist regime , these private red light camera companies rely on your compliance for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ refuse to comply , these companies , who rely on corrupt and greedy politicians willing to sell out their citizens for a buck , will begin to fail .
And , when they lose — freedom wins .
As the Newspaper reported , a group of three lawyers had filed suit in 2013 , arguing that New Miami , Ohio ’ s automated ticketing ordinance gave vehicle owners no realistic opportunity to defend themselves against the demand for a payment of up to $ 180 that arrived in the mail .
Optotraffic , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to motorists passing through the less-than-one-square-mile town on US 127 , a major highway that links Cincinnati with points north .
During that period of Optotraffic extortion , the city robbed drivers of $ 3,066,523.00 .
After Butler County Court of Common Pleas Judge Michael A. Oster Jr. ’ s ruling , the city was forced to pay back all of it in 2017 .
On top of the unconstitutional nature of Red Light Cameras is the safety factor .
These companies and the corrupt and greedy politicians who accept them know that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ safety — as these cameras increase the likelihood of an accident or death .
In February , TFTP talked to Stephen Ruth , who , as mentioned above , risked his very freedom to expose this madness.. Ruth was arrested and was facing years in prison for exposing the deaths of several people , including children who were killed as a result of these shortened yellow lights , through disabling the cameras .
In May 2015 , sixteen-year-old John Luke was killed crossing the street when an SUV hit him .
Less than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blind man named Warren Karstendick was killed in a hit-and-run when an SUV struck him .
After visiting the scenes of their deaths and several others , Ruth concluded that these innocent pedestrians were losing their lives due to cars speeding up to avoid red light tickets .
Although the New York City ’ s Department of Transportation claims that all of its traffic signals provide a minimum of three seconds per yellow light , the AAA of New York released a 2012 report that found every tested traffic camera had a yellow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the fact that governments claim red light cameras are solely used to prevent accidents while modifying driver behavior , the revenue generated from traffic cameras can grow exponentially if yellow lights are shortened .
As a result of the government ’ s greed for red light revenue , the safety of the driver took second priority .
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 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 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 .

Government Furious After Red Light Cameras Across City Covered in Paint
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project
Waking Times
Colorado Springs, CO — Take away the political corruption, bribery scandals, increased accidents, and police state issues with Red Light Cameras and we are still left with a system that is rooted in the removal of due process. The good news is that after the corporatist red light camera industry spread through the nation like a cancer for more than a decade, people are finally beginning to realize their inherently despotic nature.
As a result, people have been fighting back. In Colorado Springs, a Red Light Bandit has infuriated police and government revenue generators by painting over the cameras all across the city.
In April of last year, as cities across the country were ending their Red Light profiteering scams, Colorado Springs began theirs. Since then, they have continued to increase the number of cameras on a regular basis, driving some folks to retaliate.
As KRDO reports:
Over the weekend, several drivers took pictures of vandalism and various intersections, including Platte and Chelton that historically has the most run red lights in the city. Colorado Springs police say they’re looking into the issue, but didn’t have other information readily available. Lieutenant Steve Noblitt told KRDO over the phone the department hopes the perpetrator was caught on camera during the incident. He says the cameras are always recording, and could have captured when they were spray-painted.
According to the report, a total of four intersections were all vandalized sometime over the weekend.
The third party company who partnered with the government to extort citizens, Verra Mobility, claimed that it is going to cost over $30,000 for their single employee to remove the paint from the cameras. We highly doubt that it will cost even 1 percent of that, which goes to show just how corrupt these companies are.
If you are one of those people who couldn’t care less about the removal of due process, perhaps the sheer corruption of these companies would be enough to deter your support.
After being found guilty of bribing politicians to implement her due process-removing products, Karen Finley, former CEO of the red light company Redflex, was sentenced to 14 months in prison. Her crimes spanned across multiple states and are so extensive that she is still facing future trials.
Previously, the Free Thought Project conducted an exclusive interview with New York resident Stephen Ruth — aka Red Light Robin Hood.
Ruth has recently become targeted by local politicians in his community who are ‘addicted’ to the funds from these red light cameras.
Unwilling to sacrifice innocent lives for millions of dollars in gross revenue, just like the person in Colorado Springs, this nonviolent vigilante admittedly sabotaged traffic cameras in order to call attention to drastically shortened yellow lights endangering lives in his community. As a result he faced arrest, threats, break-ins, and more.
While Ruth is not a politician, his sentiment toward unconstitutional red light cameras represents a growing resistance in this country — just as the case in Colorado Springs illustrates. As with any tyrannical or fascist regime, these private red light camera companies rely on your compliance for their very existence.
As more people refuse to comply, these companies, who rely on corrupt and greedy politicians willing to sell out their citizens for a buck, will begin to fail. And, when they lose — freedom wins.
As the Newspaper reported, a group of three lawyers had filed suit in 2013, arguing that New Miami, Ohio’s automated ticketing ordinance gave vehicle owners no realistic opportunity to defend themselves against the demand for a payment of up to $180 that arrived in the mail. Optotraffic, a private vendor, sent the tickets to motorists passing through the less-than-one-square-mile town on US 127, a major highway that links Cincinnati with points north.
During that period of Optotraffic extortion, the city robbed drivers of $3,066,523.00. After Butler County Court of Common Pleas Judge Michael A. Oster Jr.’s ruling, the city was forced to pay back all of it in 2017.
On top of the unconstitutional nature of Red Light Cameras is the safety factor. These companies and the corrupt and greedy politicians who accept them know that they are about revenue generation — not safety — as these cameras increase the likelihood of an accident or death.
In February, TFTP talked to Stephen Ruth, who, as mentioned above, risked his very freedom to expose this madness..
Ruth was arrested and was facing years in prison for exposing the deaths of several people, including children who were killed as a result of these shortened yellow lights, through disabling the cameras.
In May 2015, sixteen-year-old John Luke was killed crossing the street when an SUV hit him. Less than a year later, a 64-year-old legally blind man named Warren Karstendick was killed in a hit-and-run when an SUV struck him. After visiting the scenes of their deaths and several others, Ruth concluded that these innocent pedestrians were losing their lives due to cars speeding up to avoid red light tickets.
Although the New York City’s Department of Transportation claims that all of its traffic signals provide a minimum of three seconds per yellow light, the AAA of New York released a 2012 report that found every tested traffic camera had a yellow light shorter than three seconds. Despite the fact that governments claim red light cameras are solely used to prevent accidents while modifying driver behavior, the revenue generated from traffic cameras can grow exponentially if yellow lights are shortened. As a result of the government’s greed for red light revenue, the safety of the driver took second priority.
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.