humansarefree--2020-10-06--John Lennon at 80: One Man Against the Deep State ‘Monster’

“ You got ta remember , establishment , it ’ s just a name for evil .
The monster doesn ’ t care whether it kills all the students or whether there ’ s a revolution .
It ’ s not thinking logically , it ’ s out of control.
” — John Lennon ( 1969 ) John Lennon , born 80 years ago on October 9 , 1940 , was a musical genius and pop cultural icon .
He was also a vocal peace protester and anti-war activist , and a high-profile example of the lengths to which the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who dare to challenge its authority .
Long before Julian Assange , Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning were being castigated for blowing the whistle on the government ’ s war crimes and the National Security Agency ’ s abuse of its surveillance powers , it was Lennon who was being singled out for daring to speak truth to power about the government ’ s warmongering , his phone calls monitored and data files illegally collected on his activities and associations .
For a while , at least , Lennon became enemy number one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Years after Lennon ’ s assassination it would be revealed that the FBI had collected 281 pages of files on him , including song lyrics .
J. Edgar Hoover , head of the FBI at the time , directed the agency to spy on the musician .
There were also various written orders calling on government agents to frame Lennon for a drug bust .
“ The FBI ’ s files on Lennon … read like the writings of a paranoid goody-two-shoes , ” observed reporter Jonathan Curiel .
As the New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ today ’ s domestic surveillance object largely on privacy grounds .
They have focused far less on how easily government surveillance can become an instrument for the people in power to try to hold on to power .
‘ The U.S. vs. John Lennon ’ … is the story not only of one man being harassed , but of a democracy being undermined.
” Indeed , all of the many complaints we have about government today — surveillance , militarism , corruption , harassment , SWAT team raids , political persecution , spying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ present in Lennon ’ s day and formed the basis of his call for social justice , peace and a populist revolution .
For all of these reasons , the U.S. government was obsessed with Lennon , who had learned early on that rock music could serve a political end by proclaiming a radical message .
More importantly , Lennon saw that his music could mobilize the public and help to bring about change .
Lennon believed in the power of the people .
“ The trouble with government as it is , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the people .
It controls them.
” However , as Martin Lewis writing for Time notes : “ John Lennon was not God .
But he earned the love and admiration of his generation by creating a huge body of work that inspired and led .
“ The appreciation for him deepened because he then instinctively decided to use his celebrity as a bully pulpit for causes greater than his own enrichment or self-aggrandizement.
” For instance , in December 1971 at a concert in Ann Arbor , Mich. , Lennon took to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ style belted out “ John Sinclair , ” a song he had written about a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for possessing two marijuana cigarettes .
Within days of Lennon ’ s call for action , the Michigan Supreme Court ordered Sinclair released .
What Lennon did not know at the time was that government officials had been keeping strict tabs on the ex-Beatle they referred to as “ Mr .
Lennon.
” Incredibly , FBI agents were in the audience at the Ann Arbor concert , “ taking notes on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the artistic merits of his new song.
” The U.S. government , steeped in paranoia , was spying on Lennon .
By March 1971 , when his “ Power to the People ” single was released , it was clear where Lennon stood .
Having moved to New York City that same year , Lennon was ready to participate in political activism against the U. S. government , the “ monster ” that was financing the war in Vietnam .
The release of Lennon ’ s Sometime in New York City album @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in virtually every song and depicted President Richard Nixon and Chinese Chairman Mao Tse-tung dancing together nude on the cover , only fanned the flames of the conflict to come .
The official U.S. war against Lennon began in earnest in 1972 after rumors surfaced that Lennon planned to embark on a U.S. concert tour that would combine rock music with antiwar organizing and voter registration .
Nixon , fearing Lennon ’ s influence on about 11 million new voters ( 1972 was the first year that 18-year-olds could vote ) , had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in an effort to silence him as a voice of the peace movement.
” Then again , the FBI has had a long history of persecuting , prosecuting and generally harassing activists , politicians , and cultural figures .
Most notably among the latter are such celebrated names as folk singer Pete Seeger , painter Pablo Picasso , comic actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin , comedian Lenny Bruce and poet Allen Ginsberg .
Among those most closely watched by the FBI was Martin Luther King Jr. , a man labeled by the FBI @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Negro leader in the country.
” With wiretaps and electronic bugs planted in his home and office , King was kept under constant surveillance by the FBI with the aim of “ neutralizing ” him .
He even received letters written by FBI agents suggesting that he either commit suicide or the details of his private life would be revealed to the public .
The FBI kept up its pursuit of King until he was felled by a hollow-point bullet to the head in 1968 .
While Lennon was not — as far @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suicide , he was the subject of a four-year campaign of surveillance and harassment by the U.S. government ( spearheaded by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ) , an attempt by President Richard Nixon to have him “ neutralized ” and deported .
As Adam Cohen of the New York Times points out , “ The F.B.I.
’ s surveillance of Lennon is a reminder of how easily domestic spying can become unmoored from any legitimate law enforcement purpose .
What is more surprising , and ultimately more unsettling , is the degree @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been intertwined with electoral politics.
” As Lennon ’ s FBI file shows , memos and reports about the FBI ’ s surveillance of the anti-war activist had been flying back and forth between Hoover , the Nixon White House , various senators , the FBI and the U.S. Immigration Office .
Nixon ’ s pursuit of Lennon was relentless and in large part based on the misperception that Lennon and his comrades were planning to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention .
The government ’ s paranoia , however , was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ government watch lists and who shared an interest in bringing down the Nixon Administration had been congregating at Lennon ’ s New York apartment .
But when they revealed that they were planning to cause a riot , Lennon balked .
As he recounted in a 1980 interview , “ We said , We ain ’ t buying this .
We ’ re not going to draw children into a situation to create violence so you can overthrow what ?
And replace it with what ?
… “ It was all based on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ violence and overthrow what is , and get communism or get some right-wing lunatic or a left-wing lunatic .
They ’ re all lunatics.
” Despite the fact that Lennon was not part of the “ lunatic ” plot , the government persisted in its efforts to have him deported .
Equally determined to resist , Lennon dug in and fought back .
Every time he was ordered out of the country , his lawyers delayed the process by filing an appeal .
Finally , in 1976 , Lennon won the battle to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ granted a green card .
As he said afterwards , “ I have a love for this country… .
This is where the action is .
I think we ’ ll just go home , open a tea bag , and look at each other.
” Lennon ’ s time of repose didn ’ t last long , however .
By 1980 , he had re-emerged with a new album and plans to become politically active again .
The old radical was back and ready to cause trouble .
In his final interview @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mused , “ The whole map ’ s changed and we ’ re going into an unknown future , but we ’ re still all here , and while there ’ s life there ’ s hope.
” The Deep State has a way of dealing with troublemakers , unfortunately .
On Dec. 8 , 1980 , Mark David Chapman was waiting in the shadows when Lennon returned to his New York apartment building .
As Lennon stepped outside the car to greet the fans congregating outside , Chapman , in an eerie @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for Lennon , called out , “ Mr .
Lennon !
” Lennon turned and was met with a barrage of gunfire as Chapman — dropping into a two-handed combat stance — emptied his .38-caliber pistol and pumped four hollow-point bullets into his back and left arm .
Lennon stumbled , staggered forward and , with blood pouring from his mouth and chest , collapsed to the ground .
John Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital .
He had finally been “ neutralized.
” Yet where those who neutralized the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ King Jr. , John F. Kennedy , Malcolm X , Robert Kennedy and others go wrong is in believing that you can murder a movement with a bullet and a madman .
Thankfully , Lennon ’ s legacy lives on in his words , his music and his efforts to speak truth to power .
As Yoko Ono shared in a 2014 letter to the parole board tasked with determining whether Chapman should be released : “ A man of humble origin , [ John Lennon ] brought light and hope to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
He tried to be a good power for the world , and he was .
He gave encouragement , inspiration and dreams to people regardless of their race , creed and gender.
” Sadly , not much has changed for the better in the world since Lennon walked among us .
Peace remains out of reach .
Activism and whistleblowers continue to be prosecuted for challenging the government ’ s authority .
Militarism is on the rise , with local police dressed like the military , all the while the governmental war @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lives across the globe .
For those of us who joined with John Lennon to imagine a world of peace , it ’ s getting harder to reconcile that dream with the reality of the American police state .
Meanwhile , as I point out in my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , those who dare to speak up are labeled dissidents , troublemakers , terrorists , lunatics , or mentally ill and tagged for surveillance , censorship , involuntary detention or , worse , even shot and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ police .
“ I think all our society is run by insane people for insane objectives… I think we ’ re being run by maniacs for maniacal means .
“ If anybody can put on paper what our government and the American government and the Russian… Chinese… what they are actually trying to do , and what they think they ’ re doing , I ’ d be very pleased to know what they think they ’ re doing .
“ I think they ’ re all insane .
But I ’ m @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for expressing that .
That ’ s what ’ s insane about it.
” “ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set , then there ’ d be peace.
” “ War is over if you want it.
” “ Produce your own dream… .
It ’ s quite possible to do anything , but not to put it on the leaders… .
You have to do it yourself .
That ’ s what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began .
“ They can point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says , but the instructions are all there for all to see , have always been and always will be .
“ There ’ s nothing new under the sun .
All the roads lead to Rome .
And people can not provide it for you .
I can ’ t wake you up .
You can wake you up .
I can ’ t cure you .
You can cure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you wish for ; It ’ s something you make , Something you do , Something you are , And something you give away.
” “ If you want peace , you won ’ t get it with violence.
” And my favorite advice of all : “ Say you want a revolution / We better get on right away / Well you get on your feet / And out on the street / Singing power to the people.
” By constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead .
He is the founder and president @ @ @ @ @ @ @ author of Battlefield America : The War on the American People .

“You gotta remember, establishment, it’s just a name for evil. The monster doesn’t care whether it kills all the students or whether there’s a revolution. It’s not thinking logically, it’s out of control.” — John Lennon (1969)
John Lennon, born 80 years ago on October 9, 1940, was a musical genius and pop cultural icon.
He was also a vocal peace protester and anti-war activist, and a high-profile example of the lengths to which the Deep State will go to persecute those who dare to challenge its authority.
Long before Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning were being castigated for blowing the whistle on the government’s war crimes and the National Security Agency’s abuse of its surveillance powers, it was Lennon who was being singled out for daring to speak truth to power about the government’s warmongering, his phone calls monitored and data files illegally collected on his activities and associations.
For a while, at least, Lennon became enemy number one in the eyes of the U.S. government.
Years after Lennon’s assassination it would be revealed that the FBI had collected 281 pages of files on him, including song lyrics. J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI at the time, directed the agency to spy on the musician. There were also various written orders calling on government agents to frame Lennon for a drug bust.
“The FBI’s files on Lennon … read like the writings of a paranoid goody-two-shoes,” observed reporter Jonathan Curiel.
As the New York Times notes, “Critics of today’s domestic surveillance object largely on privacy grounds. They have focused far less on how easily government surveillance can become an instrument for the people in power to try to hold on to power. ‘The U.S. vs. John Lennon’ … is the story not only of one man being harassed, but of a democracy being undermined.”
Indeed, all of the many complaints we have about government today — surveillance, militarism, corruption, harassment, SWAT team raids, political persecution, spying, overcriminalization, etc. — were present in Lennon’s day and formed the basis of his call for social justice, peace and a populist revolution.
For all of these reasons, the U.S. government was obsessed with Lennon, who had learned early on that rock music could serve a political end by proclaiming a radical message.
More importantly, Lennon saw that his music could mobilize the public and help to bring about change. Lennon believed in the power of the people.
Unfortunately, as Lennon recognized:
“The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn’t represent the people. It controls them.”
However, as Martin Lewis writing for Time notes:
“John Lennon was not God. But he earned the love and admiration of his generation by creating a huge body of work that inspired and led.
“The appreciation for him deepened because he then instinctively decided to use his celebrity as a bully pulpit for causes greater than his own enrichment or self-aggrandizement.”
For instance, in December 1971 at a concert in Ann Arbor, Mich., Lennon took to the stage and in his usual confrontational style belted out “John Sinclair,” a song he had written about a man sentenced to 10 years in prison for possessing two marijuana cigarettes.
Within days of Lennon’s call for action, the Michigan Supreme Court ordered Sinclair released.
What Lennon did not know at the time was that government officials had been keeping strict tabs on the ex-Beatle they referred to as “Mr. Lennon.” Incredibly, FBI agents were in the audience at the Ann Arbor concert, “taking notes on everything from the attendance (15,000) to the artistic merits of his new song.”
The U.S. government, steeped in paranoia, was spying on Lennon.
By March 1971, when his “Power to the People” single was released, it was clear where Lennon stood.
Having moved to New York City that same year, Lennon was ready to participate in political activism against the U. S. government, the “monster” that was financing the war in Vietnam.
The release of Lennon’s Sometime in New York City album, which contained a radical anti-government message in virtually every song and depicted President Richard Nixon and Chinese Chairman Mao Tse-tung dancing together nude on the cover, only fanned the flames of the conflict to come.
The official U.S. war against Lennon began in earnest in 1972 after rumors surfaced that Lennon planned to embark on a U.S. concert tour that would combine rock music with antiwar organizing and voter registration.
Nixon, fearing Lennon’s influence on about 11 million new voters (1972 was the first year that 18-year-olds could vote), had the ex-Beatle served with deportation orders “in an effort to silence him as a voice of the peace movement.”
Then again, the FBI has had a long history of persecuting, prosecuting and generally harassing activists, politicians, and cultural figures.
Most notably among the latter are such celebrated names as folk singer Pete Seeger, painter Pablo Picasso, comic actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin, comedian Lenny Bruce and poet Allen Ginsberg.
Among those most closely watched by the FBI was Martin Luther King Jr., a man labeled by the FBI as “the most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country.”
With wiretaps and electronic bugs planted in his home and office, King was kept under constant surveillance by the FBI with the aim of “neutralizing” him.
He even received letters written by FBI agents suggesting that he either commit suicide or the details of his private life would be revealed to the public.
The FBI kept up its pursuit of King until he was felled by a hollow-point bullet to the head in 1968.
While Lennon was not — as far as we know — being blackmailed into suicide, he was the subject of a four-year campaign of surveillance and harassment by the U.S. government (spearheaded by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover), an attempt by President Richard Nixon to have him “neutralized” and deported.
As Adam Cohen of the New York Times points out,
“The F.B.I.’s surveillance of Lennon is a reminder of how easily domestic spying can become unmoored from any legitimate law enforcement purpose. What is more surprising, and ultimately more unsettling, is the degree to which the surveillance turns out to have been intertwined with electoral politics.”
As Lennon’s FBI file shows, memos and reports about the FBI’s surveillance of the anti-war activist had been flying back and forth between Hoover, the Nixon White House, various senators, the FBI and the U.S. Immigration Office.
Nixon’s pursuit of Lennon was relentless and in large part based on the misperception that Lennon and his comrades were planning to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention. The government’s paranoia, however, was misplaced.
Left-wing activists who were on government watch lists and who shared an interest in bringing down the Nixon Administration had been congregating at Lennon’s New York apartment. But when they revealed that they were planning to cause a riot, Lennon balked.
As he recounted in a 1980 interview,
“We said, We ain’t buying this. We’re not going to draw children into a situation to create violence so you can overthrow what? And replace it with what? …
“It was all based on this illusion, that you can create violence and overthrow what is, and get communism or get some right-wing lunatic or a left-wing lunatic. They’re all lunatics.”
Despite the fact that Lennon was not part of the “lunatic” plot, the government persisted in its efforts to have him deported. Equally determined to resist, Lennon dug in and fought back.
Every time he was ordered out of the country, his lawyers delayed the process by filing an appeal.
Finally, in 1976, Lennon won the battle to stay in the country when he was granted a green card. As he said afterwards,
“I have a love for this country…. This is where the action is. I think we’ll just go home, open a tea bag, and look at each other.”
Lennon’s time of repose didn’t last long, however. By 1980, he had re-emerged with a new album and plans to become politically active again.
The old radical was back and ready to cause trouble. In his final interview on Dec. 8, 1980, Lennon mused,
“The whole map’s changed and we’re going into an unknown future, but we’re still all here, and while there’s life there’s hope.”
The Deep State has a way of dealing with troublemakers, unfortunately. On Dec. 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman was waiting in the shadows when Lennon returned to his New York apartment building.
As Lennon stepped outside the car to greet the fans congregating outside, Chapman, in an eerie echo of the FBI’s moniker for Lennon, called out, “Mr. Lennon!”
Lennon turned and was met with a barrage of gunfire as Chapman — dropping into a two-handed combat stance — emptied his .38-caliber pistol and pumped four hollow-point bullets into his back and left arm.
Lennon stumbled, staggered forward and, with blood pouring from his mouth and chest, collapsed to the ground.
John Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. He had finally been “neutralized.”
Yet where those who neutralized the likes of John Lennon, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Robert Kennedy and others go wrong is in believing that you can murder a movement with a bullet and a madman.
Thankfully, Lennon’s legacy lives on in his words, his music and his efforts to speak truth to power.
As Yoko Ono shared in a 2014 letter to the parole board tasked with determining whether Chapman should be released:
“A man of humble origin, [John Lennon] brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music. He tried to be a good power for the world, and he was. He gave encouragement, inspiration and dreams to people regardless of their race, creed and gender.”
Sadly, not much has changed for the better in the world since Lennon walked among us.
Peace remains out of reach. Activism and whistleblowers continue to be prosecuted for challenging the government’s authority.
Militarism is on the rise, with local police dressed like the military, all the while the governmental war machine continues to wreak havoc on innocent lives across the globe.
For those of us who joined with John Lennon to imagine a world of peace, it’s getting harder to reconcile that dream with the reality of the American police state.
Meanwhile, as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, those who dare to speak up are labeled dissidents, troublemakers, terrorists, lunatics, or mentally ill and tagged for surveillance, censorship, involuntary detention or, worse, even shot and killed in their own homes by militarized police.
As Lennon shared in a 1968 interview:
“I think all our society is run by insane people for insane objectives… I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal means.
“If anybody can put on paper what our government and the American government and the Russian… Chinese… what they are actually trying to do, and what they think they’re doing, I’d be very pleased to know what they think they’re doing.
“I think they’re all insane. But I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.”
So what’s the answer?
Lennon had a multitude of suggestions:
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.”
“War is over if you want it.”
“Produce your own dream…. It’s quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders…. You have to do it yourself. That’s what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began.
“They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.
“There’s nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can’t wake you up. You can wake you up. I can’t cure you. You can cure you.”
“Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.”
“If you want peace, you won’t get it with violence.”
And my favorite advice of all:
“Say you want a revolution / We better get on right away / Well you get on your feet / And out on the street / Singing power to the people.”
By constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead. He is the founder and president of The Rutherford Institute, and the author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People.


humansarefree--2020-10-06--The Mysteries of the ‘Devil’s Tower’ and the Constellation of the Pleiades

It ’ s the first declared National Monument of the United States , and it is shrouded in myths , legends , and mysteries .
The so-called Devil ’ s tower is a monolithic igneous structure or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills , near Hulett and Sundance in the county of Crook , northeast of Wyoming , on the Belle Fourche River .
It rises dramatically 386 m above the surrounding terrain , and its summit is located 1,558 m above sea level .
The enigmatic natural wonder happens to be the first declared United States National Monument @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , by President Theodore Roosevelt .
The breathtaking landscape surrounding the Devil ’ s Tower consists mainly of sedimentary rocks .
The oldest rocks visible at the National Monument were located in a shallow sea during the Middle or Late Triassic period , 225 to 195 million years ago .
The first known ascent to the Devil ’ s Tower was made in 1893 by William Rogers and Willard Ripley .
They found a narrow vertical crack that opened in the wall from the ground to the top .
They used wooden planks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could be used until 1927 , and even today you can see remains of it .
The Devil ’ s Tower and the Pleiades According to the legends of the native American tribes of the Kiowa and Sioux Lakhota , in the distant past , young girls went out to play and were seen by giant bears , who began to chase them .
In an effort to escape the bears , the girls climbed on top of a rock , got on their knees and prayed to the Great Spirit to save @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Great Spirit made the rock grow from the Earth towards heaven so that the bears could not reach the girls .
The bears , in their attempt to climb the rock , which had become too steep to climb , left deep claw marks on the sides .
When the girls reached heaven , they became the constellation of the Pleiades .
However , there are other stories and legends about the mysterious rock formation .
A Sioux legend tells that two Sioux boys wandered off far away from their village when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ site of tipi poles started chasing them , wanting to eat them for breakfast .
As the bear approached the boys , and as he was just about the grab them , they prayed to Wakan Tanka — “ the sacred ” or “ the divine , ” the Great Spirit — to save them from the bear .
They climbed a rock while the bear was desperately trying to climb on the rock as well and grab the two boys .
However , the bear didn ’ t manage to climb the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ side .
Mato — as the bear was called — eventually gave up and came to rest in a place now known as Bear Butte .
Wanblee , an eagle , rescued the boys and helped them get off the massive rock , returning them to their village .
In modern times , the Devil ’ s tower was used in the 1977 movie ‘ Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
’ Strangely , just as in many other places in the vicinity , tourists and locals have reported strange lights in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Some even claim that these lights even come to rest on the summit of the massive rock .

It’s the first declared National Monument of the United States, and it is shrouded in myths, legends, and mysteries.
The so-called Devil’s tower is a monolithic igneous structure or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in the county of Crook, northeast of Wyoming, on the Belle Fourche River.
It rises dramatically 386 m above the surrounding terrain, and its summit is located 1,558 m above sea level.
The enigmatic natural wonder happens to be the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt.
The breathtaking landscape surrounding the Devil’s Tower consists mainly of sedimentary rocks.
The oldest rocks visible at the National Monument were located in a shallow sea during the Middle or Late Triassic period, 225 to 195 million years ago.
The first known ascent to the Devil’s Tower was made in 1893 by William Rogers and Willard Ripley.
They found a narrow vertical crack that opened in the wall from the ground to the top. They used wooden planks to build a staircase.
The staircase could be used until 1927, and even today you can see remains of it.
The Devil’s Tower and the Pleiades
According to the legends of the native American tribes of the Kiowa and Sioux Lakhota, in the distant past, young girls went out to play and were seen by giant bears, who began to chase them.
In an effort to escape the bears, the girls climbed on top of a rock, got on their knees and prayed to the Great Spirit to save them.
Upon hearing their prayers, the Great Spirit made the rock grow from the Earth towards heaven so that the bears could not reach the girls.
The bears, in their attempt to climb the rock, which had become too steep to climb, left deep claw marks on the sides.
When the girls reached heaven, they became the constellation of the Pleiades.
However, there are other stories and legends about the mysterious rock formation.
A Sioux legend tells that two Sioux boys wandered off far away from their village when another mighty bear, with claws the site of tipi poles started chasing them, wanting to eat them for breakfast.
As the bear approached the boys, and as he was just about the grab them, they prayed to Wakan Tanka — “the sacred” or “the divine,” the Great Spirit — to save them from the bear.
They climbed a rock while the bear was desperately trying to climb on the rock as well and grab the two boys.
However, the bear didn’t manage to climb the rock and left huge marks on its side.
Mato — as the bear was called — eventually gave up and came to rest in a place now known as Bear Butte.
Wanblee, an eagle, rescued the boys and helped them get off the massive rock, returning them to their village.
In modern times, the Devil’s tower was used in the 1977 movie ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’
Strangely, just as in many other places in the vicinity, tourists and locals have reported strange lights in the sky just above the enigmatic rock formation.
Some even claim that these lights even come to rest on the summit of the massive rock.
Reference: Ancient-Code.com


humansarefree--2020-10-06--Ex-Reddit CEO on Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘We Knew About Her Supplying’ Children for Sex

Earlier this year the former CEO of Reddit , Ellen K. Pao , tweeted that Ghislaine Maxwell “ was at the Kleiner holiday party in 2011 ” but she “ had no desire to meet her much less have a photo taken with her .
We knew about her supplying underage girls for sex , but I guess that was fine with the “ cool ” people who managed the tightly controlled guest list.
” After the tweet , Pao removed it and then made her profile private .
According to the National Pulse , the 2011 list of guests @ @ @ @ @ @ @ profile ” individuals alongside Pao and Maxwell .
This doesn ’ t mean that they are in any way involved in the sex trafficking business .
Today , it ’ s easy to see someone standing next to someone like Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell and assume they are somehow involved , especially if they are figures of great notoriety .
For example , the picture used for this article does shows television personality Piers Morgan next to Maxwell .
This means nothing when it comes to the world of proof and evidence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nothing wrong with speculation .
For those of you who don ’ t know , Maxwell is currently awaiting trial for sex trafficking and abusing children , as well as grooming children to become sex slaves .
She was apparently Jeffrey Epstein ’ s right hand person in the business , often compromising powerful people at the behest of intelligence agencies for blackmail and other purposes , according to multiple “ credible ” people .
Christopher Mason , a TV host and journalist / reporter has gone on record and said he was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with cameras and kept tapes of everyone / everything .
He says Ghislaine Maxwell has access to this footage , and again is one of multiple sources for these types of accusations .
Cindy McCain , the wife of late politician John McCain , stated in an interview that “ we all knew what he was doing ” when asked about Jeffrey Epstein .
The tweet from Pao , which was referring to a party as far back as 2011 also alludes to that .
My questions are , why are/were so many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ silent ?
How many people out there have access to information they ’ d like to share , but do not do so out of fear for their life or career ?
We know that the trafficking of women and children is a reality , one that doesn ’ t seem to get the attention it quite deserves .
We know that this type of activity is quite prevalent in places of high power , and among many who have influential positions in the world like the Vatican , big politics , Royal @ @ @ @

Earlier this year the former CEO of Reddit, Ellen K. Pao, tweeted that Ghislaine Maxwell “was at the Kleiner holiday party in 2011” but she “had no desire to meet her much less have a photo taken with her. We knew about her supplying underage girls for sex, but I guess that was fine with the “cool” people who managed the tightly controlled guest list.”
After the tweet, Pao removed it and then made her profile private.
According to the National Pulse, the 2011 list of guests at that party included many “high profile” individuals alongside Pao and Maxwell. This doesn’t mean that they are in any way involved in the sex trafficking business.
Today, it’s easy to see someone standing next to someone like Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell and assume they are somehow involved, especially if they are figures of great notoriety.
For example, the picture used for this article does shows television personality Piers Morgan next to Maxwell. This means nothing when it comes to the world of proof and evidence. That being said, there is nothing wrong with speculation.
For those of you who don’t know, Maxwell is currently awaiting trial for sex trafficking and abusing children, as well as grooming children to become sex slaves.
She was apparently Jeffrey Epstein’s right hand person in the business, often compromising powerful people at the behest of intelligence agencies for blackmail and other purposes, according to multiple “credible” people.
Christopher Mason, a TV host and journalist / reporter has gone on record and said he was told that Epstein rigged his multiple homes with cameras and kept tapes of everyone / everything.
He says Ghislaine Maxwell has access to this footage, and again is one of multiple sources for these types of accusations.
Cindy McCain, the wife of late politician John McCain, stated in an interview that “we all knew what he was doing” when asked about Jeffrey Epstein.
The tweet from Pao, which was referring to a party as far back as 2011 also alludes to that.
My questions are, why are/were so many people who apparently “knew” remaining silent?
How many people out there have access to information they’d like to share, but do not do so out of fear for their life or career?
We know that the trafficking of women and children is a reality, one that doesn’t seem to get the attention it quite deserves.
We know that this type of activity is quite prevalent in places of high power, and among many who have influential positions in the world like the Vatican, big politics, Royal Families and more.
Source: Collective-Evolution.com (excerpt)


humansarefree--2020-10-06--New Technology Refuses Entrance to Shops if You’re Not Wearing a Face Mask

A new technology being used in shops in Thailand and other countries to enforce coronavirus restrictions conducts a face scan to check if the customer is wearing a mask and refuses entry if they don ’ t have one .
“ My local shops in Thailand .
In 2 seconds scans my temperature and to see if wearing mask .
Doors don ’ t open if not .
3 cases in 100+ days here .
Removes awkward mask arguments for staff as well , ” tweeted Niall Harbison .
The system resembles something you ’ d see as part of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a screen which displays the words ‘ Face Detector ’ .
The system then scans to check if the customer is wearing a mask before allowing them to pass through a barrier .
Many of the respondents in the Twitter thread supported the idea , but others warned that this was another example of how people are being forced to accept the “ new normal.
” “ I wish people would stop championing and normalising this nonsense , ” commented one user .
“ We will never get back to 2019 Normal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A global over-reaction of epic proportions – we ’ ve been utterly played by the Chinese over this one .
I bet they can ’ t believe it themselves.
” Another respondent pointed out that a similar system was also being used in Scotland .
With the world increasingly heading towards a Chinese-style social credit score system , it ’ s possible that in the longer term , the technology will be used beyond masks to refuse entry to people whose faces have been entered into a database .
It could also be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ restrictions , such as forcing people to face scan before they use the Internet ( already being introduced in China ) and refusing access if their social credit score has dropped .
China has already combined its COVID-19 track and trace system with the Communist country ’ s social credit score program .
In August 2019 , the Communist state bragged about how it had prevented 2.5 million “ discredited entities ” from purchasing plane tickets and 90,000 people from buying high speed train tickets in the month of July alone .

A new technology being used in shops in Thailand and other countries to enforce coronavirus restrictions conducts a face scan to check if the customer is wearing a mask and refuses entry if they don’t have one.
“My local shops in Thailand. In 2 seconds scans my temperature and to see if wearing mask. Doors don’t open if not. 3 cases in 100+ days here. Removes awkward mask arguments for staff as well,” tweeted Niall Harbison.
The system resembles something you’d see as part of airport security. The customer walks up to a screen which displays the words ‘Face Detector’.
The system then scans to check if the customer is wearing a mask before allowing them to pass through a barrier.
My local shops in Thailand. In 2 seconds scans my temperature and to see if wearing mask. Doors don’t open if not. 3 cases in 100+ days here. Removes awkward mask arguments for staff as well. pic.twitter.com/4Eac5fMsLR — Niall Harbison (@NiallHarbison) October 4, 2020
Many of the respondents in the Twitter thread supported the idea, but others warned that this was another example of how people are being forced to accept the “new normal.”
“I wish people would stop championing and normalising this nonsense,” commented one user.
“We will never get back to 2019 Normal if we continue down this road. A global over-reaction of epic proportions – we’ve been utterly played by the Chinese over this one. I bet they can’t believe it themselves.”
Another respondent pointed out that a similar system was also being used in Scotland.
Some schools have them here in Scotland pic.twitter.com/iurh5Q80wr — Gav Gordon (@GavGordonToGo) October 4, 2020
With the world increasingly heading towards a Chinese-style social credit score system, it’s possible that in the longer term, the technology will be used beyond masks to refuse entry to people whose faces have been entered into a database.
It could also be used to enforce a myriad of other restrictions, such as forcing people to face scan before they use the Internet (already being introduced in China) and refusing access if their social credit score has dropped.
China has already combined its COVID-19 track and trace system with the Communist country’s social credit score program.
In August 2019, the Communist state bragged about how it had prevented 2.5 million “discredited entities” from purchasing plane tickets and 90,000 people from buying high speed train tickets in the month of July alone.
Reference: Summit.news


humansarefree--2020-10-06--Thousands Protest Against German COVID-19 Restrictions

Thousands of demonstrators in southern Germany protested the federal government ’ s new social distancing restrictions over the weekend , reported Reuters .
Demonstrators were seen in Konstanz , a city on Lake Constance , in southern Germany , on Saturday and Sunday , were displeased by Chancellor Angela Merkel ’ s new restrictions to limit the size of gatherings .
“ We want to act regionally , specifically and purposefully , rather than shutting down the whole country again – this must be prevented at all costs , ” Merkel told a virtual news conference on Tuesday .
Merkel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ national lockdown as infection numbers are rising again in Europe ’ s largest economy .
The lockdown from earlier this year crushed Germany ’ s economy into the worst recession on record , decimating small and medium-sized businesses .
Police said counter-demonstrators were also seen in Konstanz .
These folks showed their support for the government ’ s virus response efforts to mitigate further spreading .
Between both groups , police said upwards of tens thousand demonstrators hit the streets over the weekend .
By Sunday afternoon , the situation remained calm in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the situation is calm , ” a police spokesman said .
Reuters said , “ civil rights activists , anti-vaxxers , neo-Nazis and members of far-right groups , including the opposition party Alternative for Germany ( AfD ) , were in attendance ” this weekend .
Germany ’ s total cases surpassed 300,000 on Sunday as the reproduction value rose above 1.0 for the first time in about a week .
Health Minister Jens Spahn recently announced new plans for rapid tests in critical areas , such as hospitals and nursing homes .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ been challenging for Germany to reopen its economy , resulting in a waning economic recovery .
Germany is not alone in rising cases .
France , the UK , and Spain face a similar threat in rising infections , crushing virus-induced recessions , and increasing resistance to tougher social distancing measures .
Approval of virus strategies to mitigate the spread is severely waning in the UK , France , and Spain .
The longer the virus persists , and the more tougher governments become , the increasing chance social unrest could spark up @ @ @ @

Thousands of demonstrators in southern Germany protested the federal government’s new social distancing restrictions over the weekend, reported Reuters.
by Tyler Durden
Demonstrators were seen in Konstanz, a city on Lake Constance, in southern Germany, on Saturday and Sunday, were displeased by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s new restrictions to limit the size of gatherings.
“We want to act regionally, specifically and purposefully, rather than shutting down the whole country again – this must be prevented at all costs,” Merkel told a virtual news conference on Tuesday.
Merkel said she wants to avoid a full national lockdown as infection numbers are rising again in Europe’s largest economy.
The lockdown from earlier this year crushed Germany’s economy into the worst recession on record, decimating small and medium-sized businesses.
Police said counter-demonstrators were also seen in Konstanz. These folks showed their support for the government’s virus response efforts to mitigate further spreading.
Between both groups, police said upwards of tens thousand demonstrators hit the streets over the weekend. By Sunday afternoon, the situation remained calm in southern Germany.
“So far, the situation is calm,” a police spokesman said.
Reuters said, “civil rights activists, anti-vaxxers, neo-Nazis and members of far-right groups, including the opposition party Alternative for Germany (AfD), were in attendance” this weekend.
Germany’s total cases surpassed 300,000 on Sunday as the reproduction value rose above 1.0 for the first time in about a week.
Health Minister Jens Spahn recently announced new plans for rapid tests in critical areas, such as hospitals and nursing homes.
The latest resurgence in virus cases has been challenging for Germany to reopen its economy, resulting in a waning economic recovery.
Germany is not alone in rising cases. France, the UK, and Spain face a similar threat in rising infections, crushing virus-induced recessions, and increasing resistance to tougher social distancing measures.
Approval of virus strategies to mitigate the spread is severely waning in the UK, France, and Spain.
The longer the virus persists, and the more tougher governments become, the increasing chance social unrest could spark up again this fall.


humansarefree--2020-10-06--Social Media Censors Hungary Days Before an Online Event Exposing Soros-Backed Color Revolution Coup

Social Media Censors Hungary Days Before an Online Event Exposing Soros-Backed Color Revolution Coup Against Trump

Big Tech is aggressively censoring social media accounts connected to the right-wing nationalist government of Hungary just days before an online event is scheduled with a Hungarian official to expose the ongoing color revolution coup to oust President Trump .
The event titled , “ Lessons From Hungary Regarding the Color Revolution Against Trump ” is scheduled to take place with journalist Jack Posobiec of One America News on Saturday afternoon .
The event is hosted by the Republicans for National Renewal and will feature Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto to speak about the Soros-backed regime change operation against President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hungarian social media accounts were targeted shortly before the scheduled event .
Their official Twitter account was suspended on Wednesday without so much as a warning .
“ We have taken the necessary steps and are awaiting an official explanation from Twitter , ” government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said on his own Twitter account in response to the censorship .
“ The beautiful new world has finally arrived , in which tech giants are silencing those who hold different opinions , ” Kovacs added .
While Twitter may have passed this off as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was eventually restored , they doubled down on their censorship a couple days later .
On Friday , Twitter suspended the account of a pro-Hungarian media organization to supposedly stop spam and network manipulation .
Big League Politics has reported on the color revolution that is underway to oust Trump from the White House , regardless of how the American people decide to vote in November : Political advisor and former Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie appeared on “ Tucker Carlson Tonight ” on Tuesday to explain what is happening to President Donald Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elites are fomenting a “ color revolution ” to remove Trump from office regardless of the election results in November .
This is something the deep state does to foment regime change , usually in Eastern Europe , but this time they are running the familiar model in America against Trump .
“ Many have described the actions taken against Trump as a coup , and this is certainly correct , but it ’ s a little bit general and vague .
What ’ s unfolding before our eyes if a very specific @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” Beattie explained .
“ It has several characteristics but the chief characteristics of it is the combination of an engineered contested election scenario combined with massive mobilized protests , ” he added .
Beattle explained to Carlson that there are actors in the state department who are experts in color revolution working against Trump .
These individuals have not been purged despite extremely disloyal behavior against the president .
He pointed to Brookings Institution senior fellow Norm Eisen , who Beattie claims serves as a ” nexus point between lawfare and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been behind over 180 lawsuits against Trump .
He authored 10 articles of impeachment before the president ’ s phone call [ with Ukraine ] was even made .
“ He was special counsel for Democrats for the impeachment process .
He was literally involved in every aspect of this color revolution against Trump , ” Beattle said , explaining that Eisen is going “ to use lawfare in order to overturn the 2020 election.
” … While the Democrats have already crippled American life with the scamdemic and laid waste to American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ uprising , that all may just be pretext for a vote steal in November that will tear the nation apart for good .
Despite the censorship attempts , the event organizers believe that the event will be well-attended due to intense interest in protecting electoral integrity from this brazen globalist coup against Trump .
“ The fact that Twitter is now censoring entire governments that dissent from the globalist liberal status quo shows how dangerous big tech censorship has become , ” Republicans for National Renewal political director Mark Ivanyo told Big League @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Foreign Minister Szijjarto further exposing color revolutions against elected conservative governments tomorrow , ” Ivanyo added .
The event took place on Saturday , Oct. 3 .

Big Tech is aggressively censoring social media accounts connected to the right-wing nationalist government of Hungary just days before an online event is scheduled with a Hungarian official to expose the ongoing color revolution coup to oust President Trump.
by Shane Trejo
The event titled, “Lessons From Hungary Regarding the Color Revolution Against Trump” is scheduled to take place with journalist Jack Posobiec of One America News on Saturday afternoon.
The event is hosted by the Republicans for National Renewal and will feature Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto to speak about the Soros-backed regime change operation against President Trump.
In very suspicious fashion, Hungarian social media accounts were targeted shortly before the scheduled event. Their official Twitter account was suspended on Wednesday without so much as a warning.
“We have taken the necessary steps and are awaiting an official explanation from Twitter,” government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said on his own Twitter account in response to the censorship.
“The beautiful new world has finally arrived, in which tech giants are silencing those who hold different opinions,” Kovacs added.
While Twitter may have passed this off as a mistake and the Hungarian government account was eventually restored, they doubled down on their censorship a couple days later.
On Friday, Twitter suspended the account of a pro-Hungarian media organization to supposedly stop spam and network manipulation.
Big League Politics has reported on the color revolution that is underway to oust Trump from the White House, regardless of how the American people decide to vote in November:
Political advisor and former Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Tuesday to explain what is happening to President Donald Trump.
Beattie told Carlson that the globalist elites are fomenting a “color revolution” to remove Trump from office regardless of the election results in November.
This is something the deep state does to foment regime change, usually in Eastern Europe, but this time they are running the familiar model in America against Trump.
“Many have described the actions taken against Trump as a coup, and this is certainly correct, but it’s a little bit general and vague. What’s unfolding before our eyes if a very specific type of coup called the color revolution,” Beattie explained.
“It has several characteristics but the chief characteristics of it is the combination of an engineered contested election scenario combined with massive mobilized protests,” he added.
Beattle explained to Carlson that there are actors in the state department who are experts in color revolution working against Trump.
These individuals have not been purged despite extremely disloyal behavior against the president. He pointed to Brookings Institution senior fellow Norm Eisen, who Beattie claims serves as a ”nexus point between lawfare and mass mobilization.”
“He’s been behind over 180 lawsuits against Trump. He authored 10 articles of impeachment before the president’s phone call [with Ukraine] was even made.
“He was special counsel for Democrats for the impeachment process. He was literally involved in every aspect of this color revolution against Trump,” Beattle said, explaining that Eisen is going “to use lawfare in order to overturn the 2020 election.” …
While the Democrats have already crippled American life with the scamdemic and laid waste to American cities with the black lives matter terror uprising, that all may just be pretext for a vote steal in November that will tear the nation apart for good.
Despite the censorship attempts, the event organizers believe that the event will be well-attended due to intense interest in protecting electoral integrity from this brazen globalist coup against Trump.
“The fact that Twitter is now censoring entire governments that dissent from the globalist liberal status quo shows how dangerous big tech censorship has become,” Republicans for National Renewal political director Mark Ivanyo told Big League Politics.
“We look forward to Foreign Minister Szijjarto further exposing color revolutions against elected conservative governments tomorrow,” Ivanyo added.
The event took place on Saturday, Oct. 3.


humansarefree--2020-10-07--Archbishop Warns of Collusion Between Deep State and Deep Church to Overthrow Trump and Bring in New

Archbishop Warns of Collusion Between Deep State and Deep Church to Overthrow Trump and Bring in New World Order

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano is warning that the “ Deep Church ” is working with the Deep State to make the Catholic Church the spiritual arm of a new world order , calling the upcoming U.S. presidential election a biblical challenge .
The Catholic archbishop , who has served as the ambassador for the Vatican to the United States in the past , made the sensational claim in an open letter that can be read in full at LifeSiteNews .
He said that some elements of the Catholic hierarchy are operating as a Deep Church and criticized Pope Francis , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In the letter , he said that the Deep Church is using the Catholic Church as a whole to advance global neoliberal authoritarianism .
To support his claims , he points to some prominent Catholic bishops in the U.S. endorsing presidential candidate Joe Biden , at least implicitly , despite his pro-abortion stance .
[ Donald Trump , on the other hand , promised to ‘ Fully Defund ’ Planned Parenthood if he wins re-election . ]
“ The Deep State , Trump ’ s sworn enemy , is joined by a Deep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against the incumbent President while winking indecorously with Biden and BLM , slavishly following the narration imposed by the mainstream , ” he wrote .
“ It matters little that Trump is openly pro-life and defends the non-negotiable principles that the Democrats have renounced – the important thing is to transform the Catholic Church into the spiritual arm of the New World Order , so as to have an imprimatur from the highest moral authority in the world , something that was impossible with Benedict XVI.
” One American Catholic leader coming out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tobin , the archbishop of Newark .
When asked if Catholics can vote for Biden in good conscience , Cardinal Tobin said that he personally found voting for Trump to be more problematic .
“ I think that a person in good conscience could vote for Mr. Biden , ” Tobin said .
“ I , frankly , in my own way of thinking have a more difficult time with the other option.
” Vigano also called out several Italian and American politicians on the left who are Catholic in name only for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beliefs , calling Biden , Nancy Pelosi and Andrew Cuomo “ so-called Catholic personalities ” and saying that “ all of them proudly support abortion and gender indoctrination , and all of them are proudly in favor of the Antifa and Black Lives Matter movements that are setting entire American cities on fire.
” Also read : BLM Co-Founder Admits Praying To Dark Entities ( Satanism ) – They Burn Churches And Chant ‘ Hail Satan ’ And ‘ F**K Your Jesus ’ Vigano is known for calling attention to church injustices Vigano @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to injustices within the Catholic church .
He has publicly accused Pope Francis and other high-ranking Vatican officials of not acting after learning about credible accusations of sexual abuse against former American cardinal Theodore McCarrick .
He also wrote an open letter in June urging Trump to fight against the Deep Church and Deep State mainstream media , saying Washington , D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory and other leaders aligned with him are serving the New World Order and trying to drive God out of courts , schools , families and perhaps even churches @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” defending the right to life and not being afraid to denounce Christian persecution around the world .
He also commended him for speaking about Jesus and people ’ s right to freedom of worship .
Vigano also called out the mainstream media on that occasion , saying that Americans “ have now understood how much the mainstream media does not want to spread the truth but seeks to silence and distort it , spreading the lie that is useful for the purposes of their masters.
” Trump tweeted that letter out to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was honored by it and hoped everyone would read it .
Ultimate Proof : Covid-19 Was Planned To Usher In The New World Order

by Cassie B.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano is warning that the “Deep Church” is working with the Deep State to make the Catholic Church the spiritual arm of a new world order, calling the upcoming U.S. presidential election a biblical challenge.
The Catholic archbishop, who has served as the ambassador for the Vatican to the United States in the past, made the sensational claim in an open letter that can be read in full at LifeSiteNews.
He said that some elements of the Catholic hierarchy are operating as a Deep Church and criticized Pope Francis, a rare move for Catholic archbishops.
In the letter, he said that the Deep Church is using the Catholic Church as a whole to advance global neoliberal authoritarianism.
To support his claims, he points to some prominent Catholic bishops in the U.S. endorsing presidential candidate Joe Biden, at least implicitly, despite his pro-abortion stance.
[Donald Trump, on the other hand, promised to ‘Fully Defund’ Planned Parenthood if he wins re-election.]
“The Deep State, Trump’s sworn enemy, is joined by a Deep Church that spares no criticisms and accusations against the incumbent President while winking indecorously with Biden and BLM, slavishly following the narration imposed by the mainstream,” he wrote.
“It matters little that Trump is openly pro-life and defends the non-negotiable principles that the Democrats have renounced – the important thing is to transform the Catholic Church into the spiritual arm of the New World Order, so as to have an imprimatur from the highest moral authority in the world, something that was impossible with Benedict XVI.”
One American Catholic leader coming out in favor of Biden is Cardinal Joseph Tobin, the archbishop of Newark.
When asked if Catholics can vote for Biden in good conscience, Cardinal Tobin said that he personally found voting for Trump to be more problematic.
“I think that a person in good conscience could vote for Mr. Biden,” Tobin said. “I, frankly, in my own way of thinking have a more difficult time with the other option.”
Vigano also called out several Italian and American politicians on the left who are Catholic in name only for supporting political causes that go against Christian beliefs, calling Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Andrew Cuomo “so-called Catholic personalities” and saying that “all of them proudly support abortion and gender indoctrination, and all of them are proudly in favor of the Antifa and Black Lives Matter movements that are setting entire American cities on fire.”
Also read: BLM Co-Founder Admits Praying To Dark Entities (Satanism) – They Burn Churches And Chant ‘Hail Satan’ And ‘F**K Your Jesus’
Vigano is known for calling attention to church injustices
Vigano has never been shy about drawing attention to injustices within the Catholic church.
He has publicly accused Pope Francis and other high-ranking Vatican officials of not acting after learning about credible accusations of sexual abuse against former American cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
He also wrote an open letter in June urging Trump to fight against the Deep Church and Deep State mainstream media, saying Washington, D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory and other leaders aligned with him are serving the New World Order and trying to drive God out of courts, schools, families and perhaps even churches.
He praised Trump for “courageously” defending the right to life and not being afraid to denounce Christian persecution around the world.
He also commended him for speaking about Jesus and people’s right to freedom of worship.
Vigano also called out the mainstream media on that occasion, saying that Americans “have now understood how much the mainstream media does not want to spread the truth but seeks to silence and distort it, spreading the lie that is useful for the purposes of their masters.”
Trump tweeted that letter out to his 82 million followers, saying he was honored by it and hoped everyone would read it.
Ultimate Proof: Covid-19 Was Planned To Usher In The New World Order


humansarefree--2020-10-07--Canadian Doctors & Professors of Medicine Come Together to Oppose a 2nd Lockdown

A group of Canadian doctors in the province of Ontario have come together and written an open letter to Ontario premier Doug Ford .
The letter is signed by 20 doctors and professors of medicine from faculties at the University of Toronto , McMaster University and the University of Ottawa and from hospitals such as Sick Kids .
The letter was sent to ford on September 27th , and it argues against a return to lockdown measures as a way to tackle rising COVID-19 cases .
The letter reads as follows : We are writing this letter in support of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a tactical localized approach , rather than sweeping new lockdown measures , to deal with the increasing COVID case numbers in Ontario .
Lockdowns have been shown not to eliminate the virus .
While they slow the spread of the virus , this only lasts as long as the lockdown lasts .
This creates a situation where there is no way to end the lockdown , and society can not move forward in vitally important ways including in the health sector , the economy and other critically important instrumental goods including education , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In Ontario the increase in cases at this time are in people under 60 years of age who are unlikely to become very ill. At the peak of the pandemic in Ontario in mid-April , 56 per cent of cases were in ≥60 year olds , now in Sept only 14 per cent of cases are in ≥60 year olds .
In Ontario and other parts of the world , such as the European Union , increasing case loads are not necessarily translating into unmanageable levels of hospitalizations and ICU admissions .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ lag in reporting of severe and fatal cases .
While we understand the concerns that these cases could spill into vulnerable communities , we also need to balance the actual risk .
As the virus circulates at manageable levels within the community , we need to continue the gains we have made in the protection of the vulnerable in long-term care and retirement institutions , and continue to educate other people about their individual risk , so that they can observe appropriate protective measures .
Lockdowns have costs that have , to this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consideration of further measures .
A full accounting of the implications on health and well-being must be included in the models , and be brought forward for public debate .
Hard data now exist showing the significant negative health effects shutting down society has caused .
Overdoses have risen 40 per cent in some jurisdictions .
Extensive morbidity has been experienced by those whose surgery has been cancelled , and the ramifications for cancer patients whose diagnostic testing was delayed has yet to be determined .
A huge concern is the implication of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reluctance we have seen in the large urban centres of sending children back to the classroom due to safety concerns .
Global data clearly now show that children have an extremely low risk of serious illness , but they are disproportionately harmed by precautions .
Children ’ s rights to societal care , mental health support and education must be protected .
This can not be achieved with ongoing or rotating lockdown .
The invitation and involvement of other health experts to advise the government ’ s response beside individuals in Public Health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the business , securities and arts communities is essential .
We also call for increased open debate , in the public forum , that hears voices from outside the medical and public health communities , in order to consider all points of view from society .
This is a fundamental principle upon which democratic societies are built .
All stakeholders should have an equal right to participation in public discourse when it comes to setting such fundamental and sweeping societal interventions .
All have the right to feel their voices have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ credible data is openly debated , in contrast to the personal and political slants that have had apparent significant impacts on the management of the virus to date .
Our society has borne enormous pain over the past six months .
It ’ s time to do something different .
To view a list of the doctors and professors who signed the letter , you can click here .
Doctors , scientists and infectious disease experts all over the world have been opposing the measures that ’ ve been recommended by the World @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic .
There are thousands of them , yet the narrative they share often seems to be criticized by big media , and their thoughts , research and opinions have been heavily censored .
Michael Levitt , Nobel Laureate for Science and Biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University criticized the WHO as well as Facebook for censoring different information and informed perspectives regarding the Coronavirus .
He stated his opinion that “ the level of stupidity going on here is amazing ” when it comes to COVID lockdown measures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Waterloo has distributed a course outline to students , saying his in-class exams aren ’ t mandatory “ because of the COVID fake emergency.
” Palmer is not the only academic from the prestigious university to make noise regarding this issue .
Ronald B .
Brown , Ph.D. , from the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo recently stated that the COVID-19 fatality rate is the “ worst miscalculation in the history of humanity.
” Brown is currently completing his second doctorate degree , this time @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Not long ago , Brown published a paper in Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , titled “ Public health lessons learned from biases in coronavirus mortality overestimation.
” A report published in the British Medical Journal has suggested that quarantine measures in the United Kingdom as a result of the new coronavirus may have already killed more UK seniors than the coronavirus has during the peak of the virus .
More than 500 doctors and scientists in Germany have signed on as representatives of an organization called the “ Corona Extra-Parliamentary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s happening on our planet with regards to COVID-19 .
They oppose the measures that have been taken by governments .
At the beginning of the pandemic , multiple professors from Stanford criticized the World Health Organization for creating unnecessary fear and hysteria .
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi , a specialist in microbiology and one of the most cited research scientists in German history is also part of Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee mentioned above and has also expressed the same thing , multiple times early on in the pandemic all the way up to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ measures that are so extremely restrict fundamental rights can only be justified if there is reason to fear that a truly , exceptionally dangerous virus is threatening us .
Do any scientifically sound data exist to support this contention for COVID-19 ?
I assert that the answer is simply , no .
– Bhakdi .
You can read more about him here .
The Physicians For Informed Consent ( PIC ) recently published a report titled “ Physicians for Informed Consent ( PIC ) Compares COVID-19 to Previous Seasonal and Pandemic Flu Periods.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ rate of COVID-19 is 0.26 % .
You can read more about that and access their resources and reasoning here .
The CDC also released new infection/ fatality estimates that also has many people and experts calling into question the severity of the virus , this was well after John P. A. Ioannidis , a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Stanford University has said that the infection fatality rate is close to 0 percent for people under the age of 45 years old .
It turns out he was right .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many .

A group of Canadian doctors in the province of Ontario have come together and written an open letter to Ontario premier Doug Ford.
The letter is signed by 20 doctors and professors of medicine from faculties at the University of Toronto, McMaster University and the University of Ottawa and from hospitals such as Sick Kids.
The letter was sent to ford on September 27th, and it argues against a return to lockdown measures as a way to tackle rising COVID-19 cases.
The letter reads as follows:
We are writing this letter in support of the government’s plan to use a tactical localized approach, rather than sweeping new lockdown measures, to deal with the increasing COVID case numbers in Ontario.
Lockdowns have been shown not to eliminate the virus. While they slow the spread of the virus, this only lasts as long as the lockdown lasts.
This creates a situation where there is no way to end the lockdown, and society cannot move forward in vitally important ways including in the health sector, the economy and other critically important instrumental goods including education, recreation, and healthy human social interactions.
In Ontario the increase in cases at this time are in people under 60 years of age who are unlikely to become very ill. At the peak of the pandemic in Ontario in mid-April, 56 per cent of cases were in ≥60 year olds, now in Sept only 14 per cent of cases are in ≥60 year olds.
In Ontario and other parts of the world, such as the European Union, increasing case loads are not necessarily translating into unmanageable levels of hospitalizations and ICU admissions.
This is not a result of a lag in reporting of severe and fatal cases. While we understand the concerns that these cases could spill into vulnerable communities, we also need to balance the actual risk.
As the virus circulates at manageable levels within the community, we need to continue the gains we have made in the protection of the vulnerable in long-term care and retirement institutions, and continue to educate other people about their individual risk, so that they can observe appropriate protective measures.
Lockdowns have costs that have, to this point, not been included in the consideration of further measures.
A full accounting of the implications on health and well-being must be included in the models, and be brought forward for public debate. Hard data now exist showing the significant negative health effects shutting down society has caused. Overdoses have risen 40 per cent in some jurisdictions.
Extensive morbidity has been experienced by those whose surgery has been cancelled, and the ramifications for cancer patients whose diagnostic testing was delayed has yet to be determined.
A huge concern is the implication of closure of schools, and the ongoing reluctance we have seen in the large urban centres of sending children back to the classroom due to safety concerns.
Global data clearly now show that children have an extremely low risk of serious illness, but they are disproportionately harmed by precautions.
Children’s rights to societal care, mental health support and education must be protected. This cannot be achieved with ongoing or rotating lockdown.
The invitation and involvement of other health experts to advise the government’s response beside individuals in Public Health and Infectious Diseases in addition to leaders in the business, securities and arts communities is essential.
We also call for increased open debate, in the public forum, that hears voices from outside the medical and public health communities, in order to consider all points of view from society.
This is a fundamental principle upon which democratic societies are built. All stakeholders should have an equal right to participation in public discourse when it comes to setting such fundamental and sweeping societal interventions.
All have the right to feel their voices have been heard, and moreover to ensure factual credible data is openly debated, in contrast to the personal and political slants that have had apparent significant impacts on the management of the virus to date.
Our society has borne enormous pain over the past six months. It’s time to do something different.
To view a list of the doctors and professors who signed the letter, you can click here.
Doctors, scientists and infectious disease experts all over the world have been opposing the measures that’ve been recommended by the World Health Organization since the beginning of this pandemic.
There are thousands of them, yet the narrative they share often seems to be criticized by big media, and their thoughts, research and opinions have been heavily censored.
Michael Levitt, Nobel Laureate for Science and Biophysicist and a professor of structural biology at Stanford University criticized the WHO as well as Facebook for censoring different information and informed perspectives regarding the Coronavirus. He stated his opinion that “the level of stupidity going on here is amazing” when it comes to COVID lockdown measures.
A chemistry professor at the University of Waterloo has distributed a course outline to students, saying his in-class exams aren’t mandatory “because of the COVID fake emergency.” Palmer is not the only academic from the prestigious university to make noise regarding this issue.
Ronald B. Brown, Ph.D., from the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo recently stated that the COVID-19 fatality rate is the “worst miscalculation in the history of humanity.”
Brown is currently completing his second doctorate degree, this time in epidemiology at the University of Waterloo. Not long ago, Brown published a paper in Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, titled “Public health lessons learned from biases in coronavirus mortality overestimation.”
A report published in the British Medical Journal has suggested that quarantine measures in the United Kingdom as a result of the new coronavirus may have already killed more UK seniors than the coronavirus has during the peak of the virus.
More than 500 doctors and scientists in Germany have signed on as representatives of an organization called the “Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee” to investigate what’s happening on our planet with regards to COVID-19. They oppose the measures that have been taken by governments.
At the beginning of the pandemic, multiple professors from Stanford criticized the World Health Organization for creating unnecessary fear and hysteria.
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, a specialist in microbiology and one of the most cited research scientists in German history is also part of Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee mentioned above and has also expressed the same thing, multiple times early on in the pandemic all the way up to today.
Implementation of the current draconian measures that are so extremely restrict fundamental rights can only be justified if there is reason to fear that a truly, exceptionally dangerous virus is threatening us. Do any scientifically sound data exist to support this contention for COVID-19? I assert that the answer is simply, no. – Bhakdi. You can read more about him here.
The Physicians For Informed Consent (PIC) recently published a report titled “Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) Compares COVID-19 to Previous Seasonal and Pandemic Flu Periods.” According to them, the infection/fatality rate of COVID-19 is 0.26%. You can read more about that and access their resources and reasoning here.
The CDC also released new infection/ fatality estimates that also has many people and experts calling into question the severity of the virus, this was well after John P. A. Ioannidis, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Stanford University has said that the infection fatality rate is close to 0 percent for people under the age of 45 years old. It turns out he was right.
The examples above are a few out of many.


humansarefree--2020-10-07--COVID Passport Trials On United Airlines In UK – And So It Begins…

The pressure to comply with COVID mandates and fraudulent science will come primarily through non-government operations , like airlines and other modes transportation .
If you don ’ t take and pass the COVID test , you don ’ t travel .
The sheer mental disconnect of this program will require a traveler to be tested again and again , for sickness could strike at any time after a successful test .
If a test is negative , then you are grounded wherever you happen to be at the time .
– Technocracy News & Trends Editor Patrick Wood Coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this week to test technology to let people travel the globe without risk of being quarantined .
Passengers on United Airlines and Cathay Pacific are trying out an app called the CommonPass .
The phone software is a digital health pass which can hold a certified COVID-19 test status or show someone has been vaccinated in future in a way designed to satisfy various governments ’ different regulations .
It has been launched by non-profit trust Commons Project Foundation , part of the World Economic Forum , in the hope of it will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of paper , often in different languages .
The tech is very much at the trial stage using volunteers on flights between London , New York , Hong Kong and Singapore under government observation .
But it is seen as a longer-term measure to allow air travel to return to something like pre-coronavirus levels .
However , it is reliant on Governments around the world accepting test results from ‘ certified ’ laboratories in other countries and allowing those with negative results to enter freely on their say-so .
Dr Bradley Perkins , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , said : ‘ Without the ability to trust COVID-19 tests – and eventually vaccine records – across international borders , many countries will feel compelled to retain full travel bans and mandatory quarantines for as long as the pandemic persists .
‘ With trusted individual health data , countries can implement more nuanced health screening requirements for entry.
’ It comes as hopes for a UK airport testing breakthrough this week look set to be dashed after ministers decided to launch another review of the issue .
The aviation industry had hoped @ @ @ @ @ @ @ travel quarantine times could begin as soon as tomorrow .
But Government sources said ministers were instead poised to launch a ‘ taskforce ’ to study the subject , delaying hopes of action for weeks .
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said today : ‘ I will be making the announcement later today to Parliament but it involves a taskforce .
‘ So looking at the systems which would enable us to have testing.
’ The pass works by passengers taking a test at a certified lab before uploading it to their phone .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ be scanned by airline staff and border officials .
– Continue reading .

The pressure to comply with COVID mandates and fraudulent science will come primarily through non-government operations, like airlines and other modes transportation. If you don’t take and pass the COVID test, you don’t travel.
The sheer mental disconnect of this program will require a traveler to be tested again and again, for sickness could strike at any time after a successful test. If a test is negative, then you are grounded wherever you happen to be at the time. – Technocracy News & Trends Editor Patrick Wood
Posted by Dan Sales via DailyMail (UK)
Coronavirus passport trials are taking place at Heathrow this week to test technology to let people travel the globe without risk of being quarantined.
Passengers on United Airlines and Cathay Pacific are trying out an app called the CommonPass.
The phone software is a digital health pass which can hold a certified COVID-19 test status or show someone has been vaccinated in future in a way designed to satisfy various governments’ different regulations.
It has been launched by non-profit trust Commons Project Foundation, part of the World Economic Forum, in the hope of it will end the days of flyers producing bits of paper, often in different languages.
The tech is very much at the trial stage using volunteers on flights between London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore under government observation.
But it is seen as a longer-term measure to allow air travel to return to something like pre-coronavirus levels.
However, it is reliant on Governments around the world accepting test results from ‘certified’ laboratories in other countries and allowing those with negative results to enter freely on their say-so.
Dr Bradley Perkins, chief medical officer of The Commons Project, said: ‘Without the ability to trust COVID-19 tests – and eventually jjab records – across international borders, many countries will feel compelled to retain full travel bans and mandatory quarantines for as long as the pandemic persists.
‘With trusted individual health data, countries can implement more nuanced health screening requirements for entry.’
It comes as hopes for a UK airport testing breakthrough this week look set to be dashed after ministers decided to launch another review of the issue.
The aviation industry had hoped trials of new systems designed to cut travel quarantine times could begin as soon as tomorrow.
But Government sources said ministers were instead poised to launch a ‘taskforce’ to study the subject, delaying hopes of action for weeks.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said today: ‘I will be making the announcement later today to Parliament but it involves a taskforce.
‘So looking at the systems which would enable us to have testing.’
The pass works by passengers taking a test at a certified lab before uploading it to their phone. It generates a QR code that can be scanned by airline staff and border officials. – Continue reading.


humansarefree--2020-10-07--DNA Tests On Bone Fragment Cast Doubt on Adolf Hitler Suicide Story: Skull With Bullet Hole Came fro

DNA Tests On Bone Fragment Cast Doubt on Adolf Hitler Suicide Story: Skull With Bullet Hole Came from Unknown Woman, Not the German Leader

In countless biographies of Adolf Hitler the story of his final hours is recounted in the traditional version : committing suicide with Eva Braun , he took a cyanide pill and then shot himself on 30 April 1945 , as the Russians bombarded Berlin .
Some historians expressed doubt that the Führer had shot himself , speculating that accounts of Hitler ’ s death had been embellished to present his suicide in a suitably heroic light .
But a fragment of skull , complete with bullet hole , which was taken from the bunker by the Russians and displayed in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the argument .
Until now .
In the wake of new revelations , the histories of Hitler ’ s death may need to be rewritten – and left open-ended .
American researchers claim to have demonstrated that the skull fragment , secretly preserved for decades by Soviet intelligence , belonged to a woman under 40 , whose identity is unknown .
DNA analyses performed on the bone , now held by the Russian State Archive in Moscow , have been processed at the genetics lab of the University of Connecticut .
The results @ @ @ @ @ @ @ History Channel documentary , Hitler ’ s Escape , astonished scientists .
According to Connecticut archaeologist and bone specialist Nick Bellantoni , it was clear from the outset that something was amiss .
“ The bone seemed very thin ; male bone tends to be more robust , ” he said .
“ And the sutures where the skull plates come together seemed to correspond to someone under 40.
” In April 1945 Hitler turned 56 .
N.r .
: Recently declassified files from the CIA and the FBI ( more here ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ face to face with Adolf Hitler after the fall of Berlin , and the US secret services though informed of his wearabouts , kept quite .
They did nothing to further investigate the claims and attempt to bring him to justice .
One would be forgiven for suspecting a cover-up .

In countless biographies of Adolf Hitler the story of his final hours is recounted in the traditional version: committing suicide with Eva Braun, he took a cyanide pill and then shot himself on 30 April 1945, as the Russians bombarded Berlin.
Some historians expressed doubt that the Führer had shot himself, speculating that accounts of Hitler’s death had been embellished to present his suicide in a suitably heroic light.
But a fragment of skull, complete with bullet hole, which was taken from the bunker by the Russians and displayed in Moscow in 2000, appeared to settle the argument.
Until now. In the wake of new revelations, the histories of Hitler’s death may need to be rewritten – and left open-ended.
American researchers claim to have demonstrated that the skull fragment, secretly preserved for decades by Soviet intelligence, belonged to a woman under 40, whose identity is unknown.
DNA analyses performed on the bone, now held by the Russian State Archive in Moscow, have been processed at the genetics lab of the University of Connecticut.
The results, broadcast in the US by a History Channel documentary, Hitler’s Escape, astonished scientists.
According to Connecticut archaeologist and bone specialist Nick Bellantoni, it was clear from the outset that something was amiss.
“The bone seemed very thin; male bone tends to be more robust,” he said.
“And the sutures where the skull plates come together seemed to correspond to someone under 40.” In April 1945 Hitler turned 56.
Source: TheGuardian.com (excerpt)
N.r.: Recently declassified files from the CIA and the FBI (more here) bring further evidence that many people came face to face with Adolf Hitler after the fall of Berlin, and the US secret services though informed of his wearabouts, kept quite. They did nothing to further investigate the claims and attempt to bring him to justice. One would be forgiven for suspecting a cover-up.


humansarefree--2020-10-07--U.S. Professors Say Lockdowns ‘Had Little Effect on the Spread of the Coronavirus’

A recently published book explains in detail that there is no ‘ decisive drop ’ in cases due to stay-at-home mandates .
( LifeSiteNews ) – Three U.S. professors argue that government- “ mandated lockdowns ” in the name of stopping COVID-19 had “ little effect on the spread of the coronavirus.
” “ If lockdowns really altered the course of this pandemic , then coronavirus case counts should have clearly dropped whenever and wherever lockdowns took place .
“ The effect should have been obvious , though with a time lag , ” wrote professors Jay W. Richards , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in an October 4 report published in the National Review .
“ It takes time for new coronavirus infections to be officially counted , so we would expect the numbers to plummet as soon as the waiting time was over … “ To judge from the evidence , the answer is clear : Mandated lockdowns had little effect on the spread of the coronavirus.
” In the National Review report , the professors asked , “ Did the lockdowns make a difference ?
” They provided evidence through charts for 13 U.S. states @ @ @ @ @ @ @ charts … show the daily case curves for the United States as a whole and for 13 U.S. states .
As in almost every country , we consistently see a steep climb as the virus spreads , followed by a transition to a flatter curve .
“ At some point , the curves always slope downward , though this wasn ’ t obvious for all states until the summer , ” the professors wrote .
“ The lockdowns can ’ t be the cause of these transitions .
In the first place , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lockdown orders ( see Iowa and Arkansas ) .
“ And where there were lockdowns , the transitions tended to occur well before the lockdowns could have had any serious effect.
” The professors explained the only exception could be California and Connecticut , which were the first states to lock down .
“ Even in these places ( California and Connecticut ) , though , the downward transitions probably started before the lockdowns could have altered the curves .
“ The reason is that a one-day turnaround for COVID-19 test results probably @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” the professors wrote .
The professors also pointed out that there is no “ decisive drop on the dates ” whereby the lockdowns would have affected the course of the curve .
They also claim that if one is shown the curves in the charts without markings , they would not be able to tell when lockdowns took effect .
“ Instead , the curves gradually bend downward for reasons that predate the lockdowns , with no clear changes 10 days later , ” they wrote .
“ Lockdown partisans might @ @ @ @ @ @ @ higher after the 10-day mark without the lockdown .
“ While we can ’ t redo history to prove them wrong , the point is that the sudden and dramatic changes we should see if they were right aren ’ t there .
“ If we showed people these curves without any markings , they would not be able to discern when or even if lockdowns went into effect.
” The professors ’ charts are cited from a book they recently published titled The Price of Panic : How the Tyranny of Experts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Their National Review report concluded with them saying the scenario in the viruses ’ decline is “ likely attributable ” to changing seasons or herd immunity .
“ Something caused this overall decline .
It couldn ’ t have been lockdowns , which weren ’ t maintained ( or heeded ) in full force through June .
At the moment , we can only speculate , ” the professors wrote .
“ But if this virus is like others , its decline is likely attributable to some mix of changing seasons and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ factor , of course , could be the widespread use of masks as the year progressed.
” The professors ’ book , The Price of Panic , goes over the COVID-19 crisis , asking questions such as “ How did politicians , who know nothing of the science , decide whom to trust ?
” The book also asks , “ What role have national and global health organizations such as WHO played in this ?
To whom are they accountable ?
” along with “ How did science bureaucrats , relying on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gain the power to shut down the global economy ?
” In summary , The Price of Panic asked , “ We need to know what and how it happened , to keep it from ever happening again.
” Richards is an assistant research professor in the School of Business and Economics at The Catholic University of America , a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute , executive editor of The Stream and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute .
Axe is the Maxwell Professor of Molecular Biology at Biola University and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Briggs ’ website lists him as a previous professor at the Cornell Medical School and former statistician at DoubleClick .
His website also says he is a “ wholly independent vagabond writer , statistician , scientist and consultant .
”

A recently published book explains in detail that there is no ‘decisive drop’ in cases due to stay-at-home mandates.
(LifeSiteNews) – Three U.S. professors argue that government-“mandated lockdowns” in the name of stopping COVID-19 had “little effect on the spread of the coronavirus.”
“If lockdowns really altered the course of this pandemic, then coronavirus case counts should have clearly dropped whenever and wherever lockdowns took place.
“The effect should have been obvious, though with a time lag,” wrote professors Jay W. Richards, William M. Briggs, and Douglas Axe in an October 4 report published in the National Review.
“It takes time for new coronavirus infections to be officially counted, so we would expect the numbers to plummet as soon as the waiting time was over …
“To judge from the evidence, the answer is clear: Mandated lockdowns had little effect on the spread of the coronavirus.”
In the National Review report, the professors asked, “Did the lockdowns make a difference?”
They provided evidence through charts for 13 U.S. states with and without lockdowns.
“The charts … show the daily case curves for the United States as a whole and for 13 U.S. states. As in almost every country, we consistently see a steep climb as the virus spreads, followed by a transition to a flatter curve.
“At some point, the curves always slope downward, though this wasn’t obvious for all states until the summer,” the professors wrote.
“The lockdowns can’t be the cause of these transitions. In the first place, the transition happened even in places without lockdown orders (see Iowa and Arkansas).
“And where there were lockdowns, the transitions tended to occur well before the lockdowns could have had any serious effect.”
The professors explained the only exception could be California and Connecticut, which were the first states to lock down.
“Even in these places (California and Connecticut), though, the downward transitions probably started before the lockdowns could have altered the curves.
“The reason is that a one-day turnaround for COVID-19 test results probably wasn’t met in either state,” the professors wrote.
The professors also pointed out that there is no “decisive drop on the dates” whereby the lockdowns would have affected the course of the curve.
They also claim that if one is shown the curves in the charts without markings, they would not be able to tell when lockdowns took effect.
“Instead, the curves gradually bend downward for reasons that predate the lockdowns, with no clear changes 10 days later,” they wrote.
“Lockdown partisans might say that the curves would have been higher after the 10-day mark without the lockdown.
“While we can’t redo history to prove them wrong, the point is that the sudden and dramatic changes we should see if they were right aren’t there.
“If we showed people these curves without any markings, they would not be able to discern when or even if lockdowns went into effect.”
The professors’ charts are cited from a book they recently published titled The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe.
Their National Review report concluded with them saying the scenario in the viruses’ decline is “likely attributable” to changing seasons or herd immunity.
“Something caused this overall decline. It couldn’t have been lockdowns, which weren’t maintained (or heeded) in full force through June. At the moment, we can only speculate,” the professors wrote.
“But if this virus is like others, its decline is likely attributable to some mix of changing seasons and the gradual onset of herd immunity. Another factor, of course, could be the widespread use of masks as the year progressed.”
The professors’ book, The Price of Panic, goes over the COVID-19 crisis, asking questions such as “How did politicians, who know nothing of the science, decide whom to trust?”
The book also asks, “What role have national and global health organizations such as WHO played in this? To whom are they accountable?” along with “How did science bureaucrats, relying on murky data and speculative computer models, gain the power to shut down the global economy?”
In summary, The Price of Panic asked, “We need to know what and how it happened, to keep it from ever happening again.”
Richards is an assistant research professor in the School of Business and Economics at The Catholic University of America, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, executive editor of The Stream and a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute.
Axe is the Maxwell Professor of Molecular Biology at Biola University and the founding director of Biologic Institute.
Briggs’ website lists him as a previous professor at the Cornell Medical School and former statistician at DoubleClick.
His website also says he is a “wholly independent vagabond writer, statistician, scientist and consultant.”