thelibertybeacon--2020-10-28--Under Guise of ‘Helping’ Schools, Big Tech Collects & Profits From … Kids’ Data

The COVID-19 outbreak has led to more than 90 % of the world ’ s students not physically attending schools .
As a result , schools worldwide are turning to online learning service providers , or education technology commonly known as EdTech .
Market analysts expect the emerging “ smart education ” market to be worth about $ 680 billion by 2027 .
But the EdTech industry ’ s ability to collect massive amounts of data on students and its potential to transform curricula has groups like the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) concerned .
“ Now that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opportunity for EdTech companies to make the use of their privacy-violating educational products nearly universal , there is a real risk that these companies , under the guise of a generous act , will use this opportunity to create personal information dossiers on an entire generation of young Americans.
” A look at some existing EdTech projects offers insights into what ’ s ahead .
For example , one nonprofit , Enlearn , provides an online platform where students interact with materials that adapt to their progress , and teachers get real-time data @ @ @ @ @ @ @ artificial intelligence ( AI ) software “ continuously learns and improves itself over time.
” Enlearn ’ s privacy policy is vague , allowing the nonprofit to share personal data with third parties to enforce its own terms or service , to prevent fraud , to prevent technical issues , to protect its own legal rights or to carry out the requests of its users .
Another EdTech player , KidAptive , offers insights and analytics to companies that build education-related apps on its cloud-based adaptive learning platform ( ALP ) .
KidAptive @ @ @ @ @ @ @ identify when children are guessing answers , working too quickly or too slowly and not re-checking their answers .
Both Enlearn and KidAptive gain insights into the behavioral and psychological patterns of children and turn those insights into valuable data , which can then be turned into algorithms to refine their other products .
Independent researcher Alison McDowell thinks we ’ re witnessing the commodification of children as data .
“ By collecting our children ’ s data through these programs , these private companies get to train their AI systems with public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Some EdTech companies are collecting biometric data , including data about children ’ s educational , social and emotional skills , and using the data to train and improve their AI .
For example , Affectiva created facial recognition software that can be used to detect the cognitive and social behaviors of children by analyzing how they react to stimuli during an “ educational ” game .
In 2018 , Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) researchers conducted classroom trials of a teaching aid to monitor students ’ attentiveness , using @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the student ’ s corneal pulse .
MIT also tested sensor-equipped glasses on students .
The glasses were capable of analyzing students ’ interpersonal skills and reactions .
When combined with an AI program , the data collected by the sensors could determine if the child belonged in gifted classes , or maybe needed special help .
The money for much of these EdTech programs comes from behemoths like the Gates Foundation , which had a hand in funding both Enlearn and KidAdaptive .
Enlearn was launched with $ 9 million in Gates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was provided by the NewSchools Venture Fund , to which Gates Foundation has given at least $ 50 million .
The Gates Foundation started shaping EdTech in the U.S. in 2011 , when the foundation teamed up with the Carnegie Corporation to fund , to the tune of $ 100 million , an EdTech initiative called inBloom .
inBloom aimed to create a centralized platform for data sharing and curricula .
The initiative collected information from public school students , including test scores , attendance , health records , race and ethnicity data @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stored the information on Amazon servers , then analyzed and distributed the data to specified for-profit third parties .
inBloom ’ s privacy policy originally stated that it “ can not guarantee the security of the information stored in inBloom or that the information will not be intercepted when it is being transmitted.
” The 2013 launch of inBloom , which was met with strong public backlash about privacy concerns , coincided with Edward Snowden ’ s revelations about the National Security Agency ( NSA ) collecting data on U.S. civilians .
After @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against inBloom , the initiative was shut down in 2014 .
In May , during the height of the COVID outbreak , New York Gov .
Andrew Cuomo announced that his state would work with the Gates Foundation to “ reimagine ” New York ’ s education system through a public-private partnership , InnovateEDU .
InnovateEDU and the Gates Foundation plan to create the “ next generation learning models and tools.
” LandingZone , an InnovateEDU project , aggregates , collects and mines every student ’ s data from Google Classrooms .
McDowell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ EdTech companies might do with students ’ data .
There are also concerns about what the national surveillance apparatus might do with EdTech ’ s predictive behavior modeling .
According to McDowell : InnovateEDU is a member of the National Defense Industrial Association ( NDIA ) , a trade group established in 1919 to help the defense industry scale up the war effort during World War I .
According to its website , the NDIA believes in “ investing in the professional growth of the defense industry ” and in “ promoting national @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the forefront of EdTech , Clever , was funded by Peter Thiel ’ s venture capital firm .
Thiel is co-founder of Palantir , the big data company instrumental in NSA surveillance and whose seed funding came from the Central Intelligence Agency .
Clever helps school districts aggregate hundreds of school-related AI apps , like Vmath , TypingClub and SpringBoard , into a single portal .
One of the apps hosted by Clever , the “ e-hallpass , ” even tracks how much time students spend in the bathroom .
According to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 60 % of the U.S. K–12 schools use Clever learning games and applications .
That adds up to about about 15 million students per month , a number that will likely grow given that Clever provides the service to school districts for free .
While the development of much of this EdTech was already underway , the pandemic has disrupted traditional schooling and created a surge in the use of this technology and the data collected from students each day .
McDowell said this surge raises questions regarding surveillance and the control of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Institute , federal , state and local governments spent more than $ 30 billion in 2018 to implement social-emotional-learning monitoring in K–12 public schools , prioritizing predatory learn-for-data digital schemes over the typical student-human teacher relationships .
This is the first in a series of articles examining Big Tech ’ s impact on children in schools .

EdTech firms collect biometric data about children’s educational, social and emotional skills, and use the data to train and improve their artificial intelligence (AI) software.
By: Jeremy Loffredo
The COVID-19 outbreak has led to more than 90% of the world’s students not physically attending schools. As a result, schools worldwide are turning to online learning service providers, or education technology commonly known as EdTech.
Market analysts expect the emerging “smart education” market to be worth about $680 billion by 2027. But the EdTech industry’s ability to collect massive amounts of data on students and its potential to transform curricula has groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) concerned.
In March, the ACLU warned:
“Now that the COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented opportunity for EdTech companies to make the use of their privacy-violating educational products nearly universal, there is a real risk that these companies, under the guise of a generous act, will use this opportunity to create personal information dossiers on an entire generation of young Americans.”
There is a real risk that EdTech companies will use the COVID-19 pandemic to create personal information dossiers on an entire generation of young Americans.https://t.co/RIndTYwT1o — ACLU 🗳 (@ACLU) April 5, 2020
A look at some existing EdTech projects offers insights into what’s ahead. For example, one nonprofit, Enlearn, provides an online platform where students interact with materials that adapt to their progress, and teachers get real-time data about individual students.
Enlearn’s artificial intelligence (AI) software “continuously learns and improves itself over time.” Enlearn’s privacy policy is vague, allowing the nonprofit to share personal data with third parties to enforce its own terms or service, to prevent fraud, to prevent technical issues, to protect its own legal rights or to carry out the requests of its users.
Another EdTech player, KidAptive, offers insights and analytics to companies that build education-related apps on its cloud-based adaptive learning platform (ALP). KidAptive’s ALP has the ability to identify when children are guessing answers, working too quickly or too slowly and not re-checking their answers.
Both Enlearn and KidAptive gain insights into the behavioral and psychological patterns of children and turn those insights into valuable data, which can then be turned into algorithms to refine their other products.
Independent researcher Alison McDowell thinks we’re witnessing the commodification of children as data. “By collecting our children’s data through these programs, these private companies get to train their AI systems with public assets,” McDowell told The Defender.
Some EdTech companies are collecting biometric data, including data about children’s educational, social and emotional skills, and using the data to train and improve their AI.
For example, Affectiva created facial recognition software that can be used to detect the cognitive and social behaviors of children by analyzing how they react to stimuli during an “educational” game.
In 2018, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers conducted classroom trials of a teaching aid to monitor students’ attentiveness, using infrared beams that were able to read the student’s corneal pulse. MIT also tested sensor-equipped glasses on students. The glasses were capable of analyzing students’ interpersonal skills and reactions. When combined with an AI program, the data collected by the sensors could determine if the child belonged in gifted classes, or maybe needed special help.
The money for much of these EdTech programs comes from behemoths like the Gates Foundation, which had a hand in funding both Enlearn and KidAdaptive. Enlearn was launched with $9 million in Gates Foundation grant funds. KidAptive seed money was provided by the NewSchools Venture Fund, to which Gates Foundation has given at least $50 million.
The Gates Foundation started shaping EdTech in the U.S. in 2011, when the foundation teamed up with the Carnegie Corporation to fund, to the tune of $100 million, an EdTech initiative called inBloom. inBloom aimed to create a centralized platform for data sharing and curricula. The initiative collected information from public school students,including test scores, attendance, health records, race and ethnicity data and economic and disability status. inBloom stored the information on Amazon servers, then analyzed and distributed the data to specified for-profit third parties.
inBloom’s privacy policy originally stated that it “cannot guarantee the security of the information stored in inBloom or that the information will not be intercepted when it is being transmitted.”
The 2013 launch of inBloom, which was met with strong public backlash about privacy concerns, coincided with Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency (NSA) collecting data on U.S. civilians. After parents in several U.S. states brought lawsuits against inBloom, the initiative was shut down in 2014.
In May, during the height of the COVID outbreak, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that his state would work with the Gates Foundation to “reimagine” New York’s education system through a public-private partnership, InnovateEDU. InnovateEDU and the Gates Foundation plan to create the “next generation learning models and tools.”
LandingZone, an InnovateEDU project, aggregates, collects and mines every student’s data from Google Classrooms.
McDowell said privacy concerns extend beyond just what EdTech companies might do with students’ data. There are also concerns about what the national surveillance apparatus might do with EdTech’s predictive behavior modeling. According to McDowell:
“Through AI engineering platforms, some of which are tied to the defense industry, they can essentially mold children.We don’t want these people teaching our children.”
InnovateEDU is a member of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), a trade group established in 1919 to help the defense industry scale up the war effort during World War I. According to its website, the NDIA believes in “investing in the professional growth of the defense industry” and in “promoting national security and defense.”
One software company at the forefront of EdTech, Clever, was funded by Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm. Thiel is co-founder of Palantir, the big data company instrumental in NSA surveillance and whose seed funding came from the Central Intelligence Agency.
Clever helps school districts aggregate hundreds of school-related AI apps, like Vmath, TypingClub and SpringBoard, into a single portal. One of the apps hosted by Clever, the “e-hallpass,” even tracks how much time students spend in the bathroom.
According to Clever’s website, more than 60% of the U.S. K–12 schools use Clever learning games and applications. That adds up to about about 15 million students per month, a number that will likely grow given that Clever provides the service to school districts for free.
“It’s a consumption model of education — where students simply consume content, and this content is connected to artificial intelligence and predictive behavior modeling,” McDowell said.
While the development of much of this EdTech was already underway, the pandemic has disrupted traditional schooling and created a surge in the use of this technology and the data collected from students each day. McDowell said this surge raises questions regarding surveillance and the control of dissent:
“If a highschooler writes a paper on a certain controversial topic and takes a certain political stance, the AI, depending on who it belongs to, might profile the student in such a way and discourage such behavior with future assignments.”
According to the The Pioneer Institute, federal, state and local governments spent more than $30 billion in 2018 to implement social-emotional-learning monitoring in K–12 public schools, prioritizing predatory learn-for-data digital schemes over the typical student-human teacher relationships.
This is the first in a series of articles examining Big Tech’s impact on children in schools.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-29--On the Economy: Durable-Goods Orders Rose Again in September

New orders for durable goods posted a fifth consecutive gain in September , rising 1.9 percent following a gain of 0.4 percent in August , 11.8 percent in July , 7.7 percent in June , and 15.0 percent in May .
The gains followed drops of 18.3 percent in April and 16.7 percent in March .
Durable-goods orders excluding aircraft and parts rose 0.5 percent for the month following a dip of 0.5 percent in August and three monthly gains from May through July .
That puts the level of orders at $ 233.1 billion , just 0.6 percent below @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in July and just the fourth time orders have exceeded $ 233 billion ( see first chart below ) .
New orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft , a proxy for business equipment investment , rose 1.0 percent in September after gaining 2.1 percent in August , putting the level at $ 68.7 billion , the highest since September 2014 .
This important category had been in the peak $ 65 to $ 70 billion range for several periods over the past 15 years before dropping to $ 61.3 billion in April @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was the slowest since September 2017 ( see first chart above ) .
Despite the positive performance of overall durable-goods orders , the major categories of durable goods shown in the report had mixed results in the latest month .
Among the individual categories , primary metals rose 4.0 percent , fabricated metal products gained 1.2 percent , machinery orders were off 0.3 percent , computers and electronic products increased 0.6 percent , electrical equipment and appliances declined 2.0 percent , transportation equipment orders rose 4.1 percent , and the catch-all “ other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Furthermore , while all the categories fell sharply in March and April , only four categories are above their February 2020 level as of September : nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft , computers and electronic products , motor vehicles and parts , and all other durables ( see second chart above ) .
Nondefense aircraft orders were positive in September , totaling $ 1.8 billion after suffering net negative orders in five of the past six months ( see third chart ) .
Net negative new orders represent cancellation of previously placed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the period .
Significant cancellations over the past few months have left unfilled orders for nondefense aircraft at $ 481.3 billion , the lowest total since May 2013 ( see third chart above ) .
The report on durable-goods orders reflects the continued positive effects of the easing of government shutdown policies implemented in reaction to the outbreak of Covid-19 .
Extraordinary damage has been caused , but as government restrictions are eased , signs of recovery are emerging .
However , the recovery is very uneven across the economy and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ raising concern about the durability of the recovery .
About the Author : Robert Hughes joined AIER in 2013 following more than 25 years in economic and financial markets research on Wall Street .
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Prior to BBH , Bob was a Senior Equity Strategist for State Street Global Markets , Senior Economic Strategist with Prudential Equity Group and Senior Economist and Financial Markets Analyst for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ MA in economics from Fordham University and a BS in business from Lehigh University .
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Durable-Goods Orders Rose Again in September
By: Robert Hughes
New orders for durable goods posted a fifth consecutive gain in September, rising 1.9 percent following a gain of 0.4 percent in August, 11.8 percent in July, 7.7 percent in June, and 15.0 percent in May. The gains followed drops of 18.3 percent in April and 16.7 percent in March. Durable-goods orders excluding aircraft and parts rose 0.5 percent for the month following a dip of 0.5 percent in August and three monthly gains from May through July. That puts the level of orders at $233.1 billion, just 0.6 percent below the all-time high of $233.3 billion in July and just the fourth time orders have exceeded $233 billion (see first chart below).
New orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft, a proxy for business equipment investment, rose 1.0 percent in September after gaining 2.1 percent in August, putting the level at $68.7 billion, the highest since September 2014. This important category had been in the peak $65 to $70 billion range for several periods over the past 15 years before dropping to $61.3 billion in April 2020. The $61.3 billion pace was the slowest since September 2017 (see first chart above).
Despite the positive performance of overall durable-goods orders, the major categories of durable goods shown in the report had mixed results in the latest month. Among the individual categories, primary metals rose 4.0 percent, fabricated metal products gained 1.2 percent, machinery orders were off 0.3 percent, computers and electronic products increased 0.6 percent, electrical equipment and appliances declined 2.0 percent, transportation equipment orders rose 4.1 percent, and the catch-all “other durables” category was up 0.9 percent. Furthermore, while all the categories fell sharply in March and April, only four categories are above their February 2020 level as of September: nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft, computers and electronic products, motor vehicles and parts, and all other durables (see second chart above).
Nondefense aircraft orders were positive in September, totaling $1.8 billion after suffering net negative orders in five of the past six months (see third chart). Net negative new orders represent cancellation of previously placed orders totaling more than total new orders for the period. Significant cancellations over the past few months have left unfilled orders for nondefense aircraft at $481.3 billion, the lowest total since May 2013 (see third chart above).
The report on durable-goods orders reflects the continued positive effects of the easing of government shutdown policies implemented in reaction to the outbreak of Covid-19. Extraordinary damage has been caused, but as government restrictions are eased, signs of recovery are emerging. However, the recovery is very uneven across the economy and the pace has slackened in some areas, raising concern about the durability of the recovery.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-29--The Endless Epidemic: Macron’s Strategy to Avoid Impeachment and Trial for High Treason

ER Editor : See also this piece we published by Thierry Meyssan today titled Covid : a Curfew in France , To What End ?
Alexandre Gerbi usefully reminds us that it is the entire political class ( as well as the media , of course ) , including notables such as Le Pen and Melenchon , who are complicit in this treasonous deception of the people .
When will the people wake up ?
The Endless Epidemic : Macron ’ s Strategy to Avoid Impeachment and Trial for High Treason “ The epidemic that never ends ” : this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ storytelling ” that Macron , his government and their media intermediaries have been serving us tirelessly for months .
And like rabbits in the headlights of a car that is about to crush them , a good part of the French still swallow all these lies over and over again .
Some minds , believing themselves to be sagacious , whisper that the President of the Republic is incompetent , that he is under the yoke of his administration , that he has lost his way , even gone mad .
Naïve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , apparent ‘ whatever ’ , behind this true-false policy of Gribouille , a gigantic smokescreen is being woven for the French people .
Back to the ins and outs of the giant swindle of which the country is a victim .
But also on the no less colossal sword of Damocles , which hovers over the head of Emmanuel Macron .
The latter intends to save his own skin .
By all means .
A growing number of French people are wondering : why does the government and its media servants continue @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when it is clearly established that its lethality rate varies , according to studies , between 0.1 % and 0.6 % ?
Emmanuel Macron himself , during his interview on October 14 , 2020 , acknowledged that the lethality rate was of the order of 0.6 % .
Of course , neither Anne-Sophie Lapix nor Gilles Bouleau , disciplined journalists , had the idea of questioning the Head of State on the relevance of general confinement and curfews in view of such a low mortality rate… ?
Yet this question should have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many others .
For example , it should have been asked : • Why , when the government decided and justified the general confinement from March to May 2020 by the lack of hospital beds , and the same government has been announcing the “ second wave ” ever since , why has the government not created any until today ?
• Why has it closed schools , colleges , universities when the under-thirty year olds are almost all unaffected by this disease , and the circulation of the virus among young people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immunization and , therefore , for the disappearance of the epidemic ?
• Why this accumulation of absurd and incoherent measures , up to the wearing of masks , first declared useless by the government , then imposed on the entire population , including in the open air , when , as many epidemiologists assert , this serves no purpose , except to disfigure the streets of France to make the spectre of the virus omnipresent ?
• Why , as many have denounced , was it decreed in September 2020 the closure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cities , of bars , restaurants , sports halls , all establishments already seriously weakened by months of lockdown , while public transport remains active and crowded in the most perfect legality ?
• Worse still , the latest fantasy of the Macronian government : why impose a 9 p.m. curfew in nine French metropolises , which , in addition to the sectors mentioned above , devastates the entertainment sector and tramples on fundamental civil liberties , which were once considered sacred ?
This list of questions is not , of course , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people have the impression of living in a scenario where the ubuesque disputes it with the Kafkaesque , against a backdrop of the triumph of the absurd… It is almost amusing that the absurd is so surprising today , when the absurd seemed perfectly normal and was even applauded by most people for so long .
“ I stay at home , I save lives , ” repeated the suckers , awarding themselves a certificate of heroism in the process , as if the lives in question could not have saved themselves by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In fact , almost everything has been absurd since the beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic .
Starting with the general lockdown itself .
We know the joke : “ Which organ does the coronavirus destroy the most ?
The brain… ” Like a few others at the time , I wrote it as early as March in the columns of AgoraVox , at the beginning of the said general lockdown : since Covid-19 only kills the elderly or very elderly or suffering from heavy pathologies , and since it spares almost totally the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ youngest , it was necessary to limit itself to confining the people at risk .
It was , however , simple to understand : targeted containment would have made it possible , just as much as general lockdown , to limit the spread of the virus among vulnerable people , to limit the overcrowding of intensive care units ( since this was the main argument… ) , without damaging the economy .
Better still , this strategy would have resulted in mass immunization , and therefore the rapid disappearance of the disease .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ strangely , Macron , Philippe and their government chose to impose lockdown , … during the trifle of two months ( from March 17 to May 11 ) !
And to facilitate the consent of the crowds , our kind leaders made believe , with the help of the media repeating all day long the same alarmist propaganda , eminently anxiety-provoking and especially eminently false , according to which all the population of the country was threatened , and that a devastating hecatomb awaited all the age groups .
No one denies it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Reminder : lethality rate of Covid-19 , according to Macron ’ s own admission in his interview of October 14 , 2020 : 0.6 % .
This figure being a maximum , some studies , taking into account even undetected cases , speak of a level rather in the order of 0.1 to 0.3 % .
That is to say , hardly higher than a big flu ( ER : No .
According to our research , the ‘ pandemic ’ is in line with a moderate flu season , which is an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ severe flu seasons can see much higher rates of mortality ) .
With this difference , influenza can kill at any age , including children .
( ER : Which is true .
Flu , unlike ‘ covid ’ , can kill the young . )
Let us specify that the information making it possible to know that this coronavirus essentially killed only the elderly , very elderly and/or very fragile people , was perfectly available as of this famous month of March 2020 , at the very moment when Macron and Philippe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said it , with others , as early as March 23rd , in the columns of AgoraVox… Let us also recall this other obvious fact : the consequence of the lockdown of tens of millions of French people , total quarantine for nearly two months and then prolonged in various ways and more or less strict until today , is the endangerment , even the destruction of entire sections of the economy .
Not to mention the countless instances of collateral damage – suicides , old people dying of grief at no longer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other serious pathologies undetected or untreated , ruined shopkeepers or laid-off employees , some of whom , once again , will commit suicide… All of this leads to a culmination , a lack of collective immunization ( we can never say it enough ) making the epidemic itself possible for a rebound in the epidemic !
This list of calamities , of course and once again , is not exhaustive… At this stage of reflection , unless one takes Macron for a complete fool , which he obviously is not , a question @ @ @ @ @ @ @ manifestly inappropriate , absurd and in many ways even harmful and counterproductive measure , what then is its real purpose ?
Of course , demolishing the public hospitals in the wake of his predecessors , Macron could hope , with the general quarantine , a draconian measure , to give the illusion that he was taking the bull by the horns and seeking to repair his own damage .
Skillful countermove of the pyromaniac fireman… But the magnitude of the cost of the operation , for the finances of the State as well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , allows us to doubt this explanation .
In reality , an examination of the facts indicates that the general confinement had another , much broader and deeper objective : to allow Macron to do everything that was impossible for it in normal times .
In fact , the blockade of the country and its programmed ruin suddenly made feasible , and will make it even more so in the future , what had been unthinkable until then : to muzzle the people and establish a form of dictatorship .
Thus , from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the wave of a magic wand , the Yellow Vests were neutralized .
At the same time , as of March 25 , barely ten days after the start of the general lockdown , essential aspects of the Labor Code were suspended until further notice ( the 25 ordinances ) .
Subsequently , Social Security was bled dry , notably by the multiplication of tests during the summer and in September , billions of euros squandered for nothing , if not to give the illusion of a resumption of the epidemic , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of absurdity … with the effect of creating thousands of false positives , as explained by Professor Christian Perronne and Professor Jean-François Toussaint .
Giant icing on the cake : the State ’ s debt exploded as never before : at least 500 billion euros , and this is only the beginning… Destroying France to reshape it on the ultra-liberal model Thus , through the inept general lockdown and its aftermath still in progress , including the curfew , Macron has devastated , and is still devastating , France as never before .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ rebuild it to his fantasy , Jupiter will thus be able to reshape France to his taste , or rather to the taste of his masters , the ultra-liberal Plutocrats .
Only a few hopelessly naive still ignore it : in the wake of his predecessors , this was Macron ’ s mission from the outset , which is why , at the price of unprecedented media propaganda and a series of media-judicial plots , he was placed in 2017 in the Elysée Palace by the plutocrats : namely , the extension of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the liquidation of social gains and privatization on all fronts .
Notably that of the Social Security for the benefit of private mutual insurance companies , i.e .
for the benefit of pension funds , like the giant Black Rock of which Macron is a friend , and which do not know what to do with their thousands of billions of dollars .
The privatization of the Social Security , which was in the pipes long before the crisis generated by the general lockdown , is only one example of what this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , his servants and his dupes , will make possible .
Macron shares this strategy with many of his international counterparts , especially in Europe , because it is clear that Macron is not the only puppet of the plutocrats throughout the world , who are pulling the strings of many heads of government .
Just as Big Pharma does not limit itself to corrupting only French leaders and other learned societies , as explained by Pr Didier Raoult , pointing in particular to the American laboratory Gilead , before the parliamentary commission @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contrary to what is regularly repeated , Covid-19 is not the cause of the economic and social disaster .
The real cause of this disaster is the general lockdown and its consequences , which nothing required , since , let us repeat , a targeted lockdown of people at risk would have done just as well .
In other words , and here again we must hammer it home : the coronavirus is not the cause of this general lockdown , but its pretext .
Which is obviously very different .
In the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be even more so in the months and years to come : the economy being devastated , the State will see tax revenues and other taxes melt like snow in the sun .
A very practical ruin , as we will see … Privatize at all costs and annihilate the French social model : extension of the lucrative sector In 2021 , 2022 and in the following years , with its finances collapsing , the country crushed by a vertiginous public debt , the government , corrupted by Macron or his successor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with an air of regret , the privatization of public services .
“ My dear compatriots , the State is ruined , we no longer have the means , we no longer have the choice , and believe me , my heart bleeds , etc.
” .
Once privatized , the old public services will become cash cows for private interests , including foreigners , who will be happy to take them over .
We all have in mind , among countless examples , the precedent of highways .
Let it be said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ everything will be in line : hospitals , airports , roads , hydroelectric dams , railways , but also national education and universities , even the police ( the management of radars , which beat up French motorists , have already been partly entrusted to the private sector ) and finally , one day , why not , let ’ s be crazy , the army .
Without forgetting the family jewels , national buildings , various holdings in large industrial groups , etc..
Some even suggest selling the Mona Lisa for a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , in the form of a blockchain… like a vulgar Bitcoin !
While waiting for the Louvre and other museums with precious treasures , an almost inexhaustible source of juicy mortgages .
Thus the general lockdown and its more or less creeping consequences appear for what they really are : a tool , a means , an icebreaker making general liquidation possible .
And above all , the extension of the field of profit .
At the expense of the people – need we say more ?
Beyond demolition , maintaining the torpor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ why , now that the damage is largely done , between vertiginously plummeted public finances and a torpedoed economy , why Macron and his gun carriers , Véran , Castex and others , are prolonging the illusion of a devastating epidemic .
Here again , the case is sewn with white thread .
First of all , of course , because as long as the confinement lasts in a more or less drastic form , the economy will be further laminated [ sic ] , and we have seen that this operation serves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his plutocratic masters .
Secondly , and above all , because continuing to make people believe that the virus is killing en masse , that the “ second wave ” threatens to cause a hecatomb , allows us to justify again and again , in retrospect , the absurd general lockdown that was imposed , against all reason , from March to May 2020 .
In other words : by keeping the country under pressure , by keeping it in fear , we prevent it from thinking and opening its eyes to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if the terror suddenly stopped , if the psychosis came to an end , any citizen would suddenly be likely to question in retrospect the relevance of the government ’ s choices , starting with the blockade of the entire country , which led to the impoverishment of millions of French people , devastating the economy and ruining public finances… under the pretext of countering a virus whose lethality , let ’ s insist , has reached a ceiling of 0.6 % and two-thirds of whose victims are over 80 years old !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ : if , by any chance , people ’ s minds were to regain their ability to think and examine the data of the problem with a rested mind , if the illusion of Covid-19 presented as a disease endangering the entire population finally vanished , the ineptitude of placing tens of millions of people under house arrest for months at a time , who risked virtually nothing , would appear for what it is : at best an aberrant error , at worst a deliberate crime against the Nation .
And since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ complete fool , it would gradually become obvious to many that the error was deliberate , that is , that it was not a mistake .
Soon it would become obvious that Covid-19 was used as a pretext to subjugate the population and demolish the economy , with a deleterious and even monstrous goal : to betray the higher interests of the country and the people , to the benefit of a small oligarchy to which the head of state owes his power and of which he is the zealous servant .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ side-effects , notably the prohibition of hydroxychloroquine and consequently of the “ Raoult Protocol ” ( hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin ) , would appear for what they are : one of the most gigantic betrayals of statehood coupled with one of the most vertiginous corruption scandals in the history of France .
Or , to use Professor Christian Perronne ’ s conclusions , a crime against the people , since the toll of this ban , which nothing justified , amounted to thousands of deaths .
A Machiavellian machination with the President of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Instead of being the protector of the Nation , as the Constitution provides , he has made himself the accomplice and artisan of his betrayal .
This is obviously extremely serious and , as it is high treason , makes him liable to the most severe sanctions .
Blinding the people to prevent Macron ’ s impeachment and trial We can see the extent of the danger hanging over the Élysée Palace .
If this salutary realization , made possible by the end of the epidemic , were to take place , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but also and above all brought to justice for high treason .
For , it is worth recalling , in case of high treason , the immunity of the President of the Republic may be constitutionally waived .
In the aftermath , Macron ’ s many accomplices would in turn be brought to justice .
A cyclopean political earthquake , from which a good part of the collaborators of the System that reigns over France could well come out crushed .
But this awareness , so perilous for him as Macron himself knows @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And only from the people .
Indeed , all political leaders , from Marine Le Pen to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and all the others , have approved the general lockdown .
Most of them even often played the game of outbidding .
Therefore , they can not today denounce the general lockdown in retrospect , since they were more or less willing accomplices .
Likewise , almost all the media , especially the subsidized media , and the domesticated journalists , behaved throughout the lockdown as auxiliaries of terror .
Not to mention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fell , so to speak , without exception , into the trap .
Even the rare discordant voices , from Michel Onfray to André Comte-Sponville , have never seriously questioned the relevance of the general lockdown that paralyzed the country from March to May 2020 .
On the contrary , all have more or less subscribed to it .
As we pointed out at the time , those who , in the media and the intellectual world , denounced the general lockdown can be counted on the fingers of one hand [ 1 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also the bankruptcy of the political class and the journalistic corporation , and the bankruptcy of French intellectuals , who , it is true , were part of a long and lamentable tradition .
Beyond the general confinement , the curfew and all the disastrous measures attached to it , it is the imposture of Emmanuel Macron that must finally be understood and denounced .
An imposture that consisted and still consists of using the pretext of a disease whose lethality rate varies according to studies between 0.1 % and 0.6 % , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entire country , with the unavowed but obvious goal of bringing France to its knees and finally applying a policy that a majority of French people absolutely reject .
In other words , what should be called the “ Covid-19 affair ” is a vast conspiracy , a Machiavellian machination with anti-democratic and anti-republican aims fomented by the highest authorities of the State , in particular by the President of the Republic .
Now , let us repeat , the denunciation of this crime against France , which the criminal was confined to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if it is to come , can only come from the people .
A people still paralyzed and rendered incapable of thinking , at this hour , by the fear of disease .
It is understandable , from this point on , that the Covid-19 epidemic is not about to end , at least officially… 1 ] Among the journalists , we have only noted Marc Menant and , to a lesser extent , Éric Zemmour , on CNews , then much later Jean Quatremer , on his Libération blog , as well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the Delépine couple on Sud Radio .
Among the intellectuals , only the Italian Giorgio Agamben and the Frenchman Alain Damasio unreservedly condemned the scandal of the general lockdown .
Published to The Liberty Beacon from EuropeReloaded.com

ER Editor: See also this piece we published by Thierry Meyssan today titled Covid: a Curfew in France, To What End?
Alexandre Gerbi usefully reminds us that it is the entire political class (as well as the media, of course), including notables such as Le Pen and Melenchon, who are complicit in this treasonous deception of the people.
When will the people wake up?
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The Endless Epidemic: Macron’s Strategy to Avoid Impeachment and Trial for High Treason
ALEXANDRE GERBI
“The epidemic that never ends”: this is the delirious scenario, the surrealist “storytelling” that Macron, his government and their media intermediaries have been serving us tirelessly for months.
And like rabbits in the headlights of a car that is about to crush them, a good part of the French still swallow all these lies over and over again. Some minds, believing themselves to be sagacious, whisper that the President of the Republic is incompetent, that he is under the yoke of his administration, that he has lost his way, even gone mad. Naïve explanations. Because behind the very big, apparent ‘whatever’, behind this true-false policy of Gribouille, a gigantic smokescreen is being woven for the French people. Back to the ins and outs of the giant swindle of which the country is a victim. But also on the no less colossal sword of Damocles, which hovers over the head of Emmanuel Macron. The latter intends to save his own skin. By all means.
A growing number of French people are wondering: why does the government and its media servants continue to sound the alarm on Covid-19, when it is clearly established that its lethality rate varies, according to studies, between 0.1% and 0.6%? Emmanuel Macron himself, during his interview on October 14, 2020, acknowledged that the lethality rate was of the order of 0.6%. Of course, neither Anne-Sophie Lapix nor Gilles Bouleau, disciplined journalists, had the idea of questioning the Head of State on the relevance of general confinement and curfews in view of such a low mortality rate…?
Yet this question should have been asked of Macron. As well as many others.
For example, it should have been asked:
Why, when the government decided and justified the general confinement from March to May 2020 by the lack of hospital beds, and the same government has been announcing the “second wave” ever since, why has the government not created any until today?
and the same government has been announcing the “second wave” ever since, why has the government not created any until today? Why has it closed schools, colleges, universities when the under-thirty year olds are almost all unaffected by this disease , and the circulation of the virus among young people is one of the conditions for collective immunization and, therefore, for the disappearance of the epidemic?
, and the circulation of the virus among young people is and, therefore, for the disappearance of the epidemic? Why this accumulation of absurd and incoherent measures , up to the wearing of masks, first declared useless by the government, then imposed on the entire population, including in the open air, when, as many epidemiologists assert, this serves no purpose, except to disfigure the streets of France to make the spectre of the virus omnipresent ?
, up to the wearing of masks, first declared useless by the government, then imposed on the entire population, including in the open air, when, as many epidemiologists assert, this serves no purpose, except to disfigure the streets of France to ? Why, as many have denounced, was it decreed in September 2020 the closure, in Marseille and then in other cities, of bars, restaurants, sports halls, all establishments already seriously weakened by months of lockdown, while public transport remains active and crowded in the most perfect legality ?
? Worse still, the latest fantasy of the Macronian government: why impose a 9 p.m. curfew in nine French metropolises, which, in addition to the sectors mentioned above, devastates the entertainment sector and tramples on fundamental civil liberties, which were once considered sacred?
This list of questions is not, of course, exhaustive. And more and more French people have the impression of living in a scenario where the ubuesque disputes it with the Kafkaesque, against a backdrop of the triumph of the absurd…
The limits of absurdity
It is almost amusing that the absurd is so surprising today, when the absurd seemed perfectly normal and was even applauded by most people for so long. “I stay at home, I save lives,” repeated the suckers, awarding themselves a certificate of heroism in the process, as if the lives in question could not have saved themselves by applying the ad hoc precautionary measures?
In fact, almost everything has been absurd since the beginning of the Covid-19 epidemic. Starting with the general lockdown itself. We know the joke:
“Which organ does the coronavirus destroy the most? The brain…”
Like a few others at the time, I wrote it as early as March in the columns of AgoraVox, at the beginning of the said general lockdown: since Covid-19 only kills the elderly or very elderly or suffering from heavy pathologies, and since it spares almost totally the rest of the population, especially the youngest, it was necessary to limit itself to confining the people at risk. It was, however, simple to understand: targeted containment would have made it possible, just as much as general lockdown, to limit the spread of the virus among vulnerable people, to limit the overcrowding of intensive care units (since this was the main argument…), without damaging the economy.
Better still, this strategy would have resulted in mass immunization, and therefore the rapid disappearance of the disease. This point is obviously essential.
But strangely, Macron, Philippe and their government chose to impose lockdown,… during the trifle of two months (from March 17 to May 11)! And to facilitate the consent of the crowds, our kind leaders made believe, with the help of the media repeating all day long the same alarmist propaganda, eminently anxiety-provoking and especially eminently false, according to which all the population of the country was threatened, and that a devastating hecatomb awaited all the age groups.
No one denies it today: this was completely false...
Reminder: lethality rate of Covid-19, according to Macron’s own admission in his interview of October 14, 2020: 0.6%. This figure being a maximum, some studies, taking into account even undetected cases, speak of a level rather in the order of 0.1 to 0.3%. That is to say, hardly higher than a big flu (ER: No. According to our research, the ‘pandemic’ is in line with a moderate flu season, which is an important point to make since the occasional severe flu seasons can see much higher rates of mortality). With this difference, influenza can kill at any age, including children. (ER: Which is true. Flu, unlike ‘covid’, can kill the young.)
Let us specify that the information making it possible to know that this coronavirus essentially killed only the elderly, very elderly and/or very fragile people, was perfectly available as of this famous month of March 2020, at the very moment when Macron and Philippe triggered the general lockdown. We had said it, with others, as early as March 23rd, in the columns of AgoraVox…
Let us also recall this other obvious fact: the consequence of the lockdown of tens of millions of French people, total quarantine for nearly two months and then prolonged in various ways and more or less strict until today, is the endangerment, even the destruction of entire sections of the economy. Not to mention the countless instances of collateral damage – suicides, old people dying of grief at no longer seeing their loved ones, cancers and other serious pathologies undetected or untreated, ruined shopkeepers or laid-off employees, some of whom, once again, will commit suicide… All of this leads to a culmination, a lack of collective immunization (we can never say it enough) making the epidemic itself possible for a rebound in the epidemic! This list of calamities, of course and once again, is not exhaustive…
At this stage of reflection, unless one takes Macron for a complete fool, which he obviously is not, a question arises: since general lockdown was a manifestly inappropriate, absurd and in many ways even harmful and counterproductive measure, what then is its real purpose?
The “virtues” of general lockdown
Of course, demolishing the public hospitals in the wake of his predecessors, Macron could hope, with the general quarantine, a draconian measure, to give the illusion that he was taking the bull by the horns and seeking to repair his own damage. Skillful countermove of the pyromaniac fireman…
But the magnitude of the cost of the operation, for the finances of the State as well as for the economy of the country, allows us to doubt this explanation.
In reality, an examination of the facts indicates that the general confinement had another, much broader and deeper objective: to allow Macron to do everything that was impossible for it in normal times.
In fact, the blockade of the country and its programmed ruin suddenly made feasible, and will make it even more so in the future, what had been unthinkable until then: to muzzle the people and establish a form of dictatorship.
Thus, from one day to the next, with the wave of a magic wand, the Yellow Vests were neutralized.
At the same time, as of March 25, barely ten days after the start of the general lockdown, essential aspects of the Labor Code were suspended until further notice (the 25 ordinances).
Subsequently, Social Security was bled dry, notably by the multiplication of tests during the summer and in September, billions of euros squandered for nothing, if not to give the illusion of a resumption of the epidemic, the tests being made hypersensitive to the point of absurdity … with the effect of creating thousands of false positives, as explained by Professor Christian Perronne and Professor Jean-François Toussaint.
Giant icing on the cake: the State’s debt exploded as never before: at least 500 billion euros, and this is only the beginning…
Destroying France to reshape it on the ultra-liberal model
Thus, through the inept general lockdown and its aftermath still in progress, including the curfew, Macron has devastated, and is still devastating, France as never before.
Like the emperor Nero burning Rome to rebuild it to his fantasy, Jupiter will thus be able to reshape France to his taste, or rather to the taste of his masters, the ultra-liberal Plutocrats.
Only a few hopelessly naive still ignore it: in the wake of his predecessors, this was Macron’s mission from the outset, which is why, at the price of unprecedented media propaganda and a series of media-judicial plots, he was placed in 2017 in the Elysée Palace by the plutocrats: namely, the extension of the domain of ultraliberal capitalism, thanks to the liquidation of social gains and privatization on all fronts. Notably that of the Social Security for the benefit of private mutual insurance companies, i.e. for the benefit of pension funds, like the giant Black Rock of which Macron is a friend, and which do not know what to do with their thousands of billions of dollars.
The privatization of the Social Security, which was in the pipes long before the crisis generated by the general lockdown, is only one example of what this crisis, fabricated from scratch by Macron, his servants and his dupes, will make possible.
Macron shares this strategy with many of his international counterparts, especially in Europe, because it is clear that Macron is not the only puppet of the plutocrats throughout the world, who are pulling the strings of many heads of government. Just as Big Pharma does not limit itself to corrupting only French leaders and other learned societies, as explained by Pr Didier Raoult, pointing in particular to the American laboratory Gilead, before the parliamentary commission.
Let us also emphasize this: contrary to what is regularly repeated, Covid-19 is not the cause of the economic and social disaster. The real cause of this disaster is the general lockdown and its consequences, which nothing required, since, let us repeat, a targeted lockdown of people at risk would have done just as well. In other words, and here again we must hammer it home: the coronavirus is not the cause of this general lockdown, but its pretext. Which is obviously very different.
In the meantime, the result is there and will be even more so in the months and years to come: the economy being devastated, the State will see tax revenues and other taxes melt like snow in the sun. A very practical ruin, as we will see …
Privatize at all costs and annihilate the French social model: extension of the lucrative sector
In 2021, 2022 and in the following years, with its finances collapsing, the country crushed by a vertiginous public debt, the government, corrupted by Macron or his successor, will be able to justify, with an air of regret, the privatization of public services. “My dear compatriots, the State is ruined, we no longer have the means, we no longer have the choice, and believe me, my heart bleeds, etc.”. Once privatized, the old public services will become cash cows for private interests, including foreigners, who will be happy to take them over.
We all have in mind, among countless examples, the precedent of highways. Let it be said, the process is already underway, everything will be in line: hospitals, airports, roads, hydroelectric dams, railways, but also national education and universities, even the police (the management of radars, which beat up French motorists, have already been partly entrusted to the private sector) and finally, one day, why not, let’s be crazy, the army. Without forgetting the family jewels, national buildings, various holdings in large industrial groups, etc.. Some even suggest selling the Mona Lisa for a few billion euros in bits and pieces, in the form of a blockchain… like a vulgar Bitcoin! While waiting for the Louvre and other museums with precious treasures, an almost inexhaustible source of juicy mortgages.
Thus the general lockdown and its more or less creeping consequences appear for what they really are: a tool, a means, an icebreaker making general liquidation possible. And above all, the extension of the field of profit. At the expense of the people – need we say more?
Beyond demolition, maintaining the torpor of spirits
It remains to be clarified why, now that the damage is largely done, between vertiginously plummeted public finances and a torpedoed economy, why Macron and his gun carriers, Véran, Castex and others, are prolonging the illusion of a devastating epidemic.
Here again, the case is sewn with white thread.
First of all, of course, because as long as the confinement lasts in a more or less drastic form, the economy will be further laminated [sic], and we have seen that this operation serves Macron’s ultraliberal projects to please his plutocratic masters.
Secondly, and above all, because continuing to make people believe that the virus is killing en masse, that the “second wave” threatens to cause a hecatomb, allows us to justify again and again, in retrospect, the absurd general lockdown that was imposed, against all reason, from March to May 2020. In other words: by keeping the country under pressure, by keeping it in fear, we prevent it from thinking and opening its eyes to the initial scandal.
Because, conversely, if the terror suddenly stopped, if the psychosis came to an end, any citizen would suddenly be likely to question in retrospect the relevance of the government’s choices, starting with the blockade of the entire country, which led to the impoverishment of millions of French people, devastating the economy and ruining public finances… under the pretext of countering a virus whose lethality, let’s insist, has reached a ceiling of 0.6% and two-thirds of whose victims are over 80 years old!
Such is Macron’s haunting thought: if, by any chance, people’s minds were to regain their ability to think and examine the data of the problem with a rested mind, if the illusion of Covid-19 presented as a disease endangering the entire population finally vanished, the ineptitude of placing tens of millions of people under house arrest for months at a time, who risked virtually nothing, would appear for what it is: at best an aberrant error, at worst a deliberate crime against the Nation.
And since Macron could not be taken for a complete fool, it would gradually become obvious to many that the error was deliberate, that is, that it was not a mistake.
Soon it would become obvious that Covid-19 was used as a pretext to subjugate the population and demolish the economy, with a deleterious and even monstrous goal: to betray the higher interests of the country and the people, to the benefit of a small oligarchy to which the head of state owes his power and of which he is the zealous servant.
In short, the general confinement and its side-effects, notably the prohibition of hydroxychloroquine and consequently of the “Raoult Protocol” (hydroxychloroquine + azithromycin), would appear for what they are: one of the most gigantic betrayals of statehood coupled with one of the most vertiginous corruption scandals in the history of France. Or, to use Professor Christian Perronne’s conclusions, a crime against the people, since the toll of this ban, which nothing justified, amounted to thousands of deaths.
A Machiavellian machination with the President of the Republic himself as the first person responsible. Instead of being the protector of the Nation, as the Constitution provides, he has made himself the accomplice and artisan of his betrayal. This is obviously extremely serious and, as it is high treason, makes him liable to the most severe sanctions.
Blinding the people to prevent Macron’s impeachment and trial
We can see the extent of the danger hanging over the Élysée Palace.
If this salutary realization, made possible by the end of the epidemic, were to take place, Macron would not only be deposed, but also and above all brought to justice for high treason. For, it is worth recalling, in case of high treason, the immunity of the President of the Republic may be constitutionally waived. In the aftermath, Macron’s many accomplices would in turn be brought to justice. A cyclopean political earthquake, from which a good part of the collaborators of the System that reigns over France could well come out crushed.
But this awareness, so perilous for him as Macron himself knows, can only come from the people. And only from the people.
Indeed, all political leaders, from Marine Le Pen to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and all the others, have approved the general lockdown. Most of them even often played the game of outbidding. Therefore, they cannot today denounce the general lockdown in retrospect, since they were more or less willing accomplices.
Likewise, almost all the media, especially the subsidized media, and the domesticated journalists, behaved throughout the lockdown as auxiliaries of terror.
Not to mention our brilliant French intellectuals, who all fell, so to speak, without exception, into the trap. Even the rare discordant voices, from Michel Onfray to André Comte-Sponville, have never seriously questioned the relevance of the general lockdown that paralyzed the country from March to May 2020. On the contrary, all have more or less subscribed to it. As we pointed out at the time, those who, in the media and the intellectual world, denounced the general lockdown can be counted on the fingers of one hand [1].
The scandal of lockdown was also the bankruptcy of the political class and the journalistic corporation, and the bankruptcy of French intellectuals, who, it is true, were part of a long and lamentable tradition.
Let us summarize
Beyond the general confinement, the curfew and all the disastrous measures attached to it, it is the imposture of Emmanuel Macron that must finally be understood and denounced. An imposture that consisted and still consists of using the pretext of a disease whose lethality rate varies according to studies between 0.1% and 0.6%, to justify measures that have ruined the entire country, with the unavowed but obvious goal of bringing France to its knees and finally applying a policy that a majority of French people absolutely reject.
In other words, what should be called the “Covid-19 affair” is a vast conspiracy, a Machiavellian machination with anti-democratic and anti-republican aims fomented by the highest authorities of the State, in particular by the President of the Republic.
Now, let us repeat, the denunciation of this crime against France, which the criminal was confined to his astounding metamorphoses, this denunciation, if it is to come, can only come from the people. A people still paralyzed and rendered incapable of thinking, at this hour, by the fear of disease.
It is understandable, from this point on, that the Covid-19 epidemic is not about to end, at least officially…
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1] Among the journalists, we have only noted Marc Menant and, to a lesser extent, Éric Zemmour, on CNews, then much later Jean Quatremer, on his Libération blog, as well as André Bercoff who gave the floor to the Delépine couple on Sud Radio. Among the intellectuals, only the Italian Giorgio Agamben and the Frenchman Alain Damasio unreservedly condemned the scandal of the general lockdown.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-10-29--59 People Dead After Taking The Flu Vaccine in South Korea

As of Monday , at least 59 people , mostly in their 70s and 80s , have died in South Korea following flu vaccination , up from 46 Saturday .
That ’ s among more than 14.7 million people who have been inoculated this season .
Last year , more than 1,500 elderly people died within seven days of taking flu vaccines—deaths that were not linked to immunization , the government said , according to Reuters .
Old people and young children in South Korea are eligible for free inoculations under a national scheme .
Singapore has temporarily halted the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ precaution after some people who received them in South Korea died , becoming among the first countries to publicly announce a halt of the vaccines ’ usage .
South Korea reported that , as of Saturday , 48 people had died after getting flu shots , but said it would carry on with the state-run vaccination programme because it found no direct link between the deaths and the shots .
No deaths associated with influenza vaccination have been reported in Singapore to date , but the decision to halt the use of SKYCellflu @ @ @ @ @ @ @ health ministry and the Health Sciences Authority ( HAS ) said in a statement on Sunday .
The HSA is in touch with the South Korean authorities for further information as it investigates to determine whether the deaths are related to flu vaccinations .
SKYCellflu Quadrivalent is manufactured by South Korea ’ s SK Bioscience and locally distributed by AJ Biologics , while VaxigripTetra is manufactured by Sanofi and locally distributed by Sanofi Aventis .
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ER Editor: UPDATE — This piece by Fierce Pharma, a pharma industry site, has updated the total to 59, from 48 as widely reported, which still may not be the final tally of deaths (See Sanofi, SK flu shots halted in Singapore as South Korea post-vaccination deaths climb to 59):
As of Monday, at least 59 people, mostly in their 70s and 80s, have died in South Korea following flu vaccination, up from 46 Saturday. That’s among more than 14.7 million people who have been inoculated this season. Last year, more than 1,500 elderly people died within seven days of taking flu vaccines—deaths that were not linked to immunization, the government said, according to Reuters. Old people and young children in South Korea are eligible for free inoculations under a national scheme.
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The piece below by Need to Know News links to two reports by Britain’s Telegraph. An earlier report from Oct. 22 claims that 25 people have died; the second, from Oct 26, reports 48 deaths in total. Four Korean vaccine manufacturing labs are involved, as well as those from France’s Sanofi. The Sanofi flu vaccine is called VaxigripTetra.
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South Korean health authorities are denying the link between the deaths and the vaccines. However, this isn’t the first time they’ve had to deny such links. According to this Oct.26 report from the South China Morning Post:
Last year, more than 1,500 elderly people died within seven days of receiving flu vaccines , but those deaths were not linked to the vaccinations, the government said.
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******** 48 People Dead After Taking Flu Vaccine in South Korea NEED TO KNOW NEWS South Korea reports that 48 people recently have died after getting flu shots, but said it would carry on with the state-run vaccination program anyway because it found no direct link between the deaths and the shots. South Korea ordered a fifth more flu vaccines this year to ward off what it calls a “twindemic”, or the prospect that people with flu develop coronavirus complications and overburden hospitals in winter. The Korean Medical Association, an influential group of doctors, urged the government to halt all inoculation programs for now, to ensure the vaccines were safe, but the government has refused. Singapore is the first country to temporarily halt the use of the two influenza vaccines as a precaution while their health agency is investigating. -GEG
******** Singapore has temporarily halted the use of two influenza vaccines as a precaution after some people who received them in South Korea died, becoming among the first countries to publicly announce a halt of the vaccines’ usage. South Korea reported that, as of Saturday, 48 people had died after getting flu shots, but said it would carry on with the state-run vaccination programme because it found no direct link between the deaths and the shots. No deaths associated with influenza vaccination have been reported in Singapore to date, but the decision to halt the use of SKYCellflu Quadrivalent and VaxigripTetra was precautionary, the health ministry and the Health Sciences Authority (HAS) said in a statement on Sunday. The HSA is in touch with the South Korean authorities for further information as it investigates to determine whether the deaths are related to flu vaccinations. SKYCellflu Quadrivalent is manufactured by South Korea’s SK Bioscience and locally distributed by AJ Biologics, while VaxigripTetra is manufactured by Sanofi and locally distributed by Sanofi Aventis. Read full article here… Additional source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/22/south-korea-sticks-flu-vaccine-plan-despite-safety-fears-25/ ************ Source Published to The Liberty Beacon from EuropeReloaded.com
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What’s our “thing”?

Take a person who is obsessed about their aches and pains or who has some illness or other that is their “ thing ” .
The “ thing ” dominates and shapes their life , restricts their activity and movement , consumes and introverts their attention and occupies almost their every waking thought .
And boy do they really hang into it and make a game of wrestling with it .
Relatively mild societies with relatively mild environmental challenges are prone to having people with “ things ” .
In their conversation with you , the first thing you hear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gets thus fixated on a “ thing ” , his or her life can get pretty dismal and they can become hobbled or hamstrung in their efforts to play the game of life .
They forget to live to the degree they become obsessed with surviving their “ thing ” .
But at least while they are introverted on their thing , they are not paying much attention to what else is going on , so governments love them .
And so do pharmaceutical companies for obvious reasons .
But society too can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the same way .
We should probably reject all efforts to fixate us on it , flourish , prosper and create among ourselves and for ourselves a better game , a better set of problems to solve , more befitting a race of highly able beings .
Such as designing building right now a government that truly works for all the people .
There ’ s a first time for everything .
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by Steve Cook
Take a person who is obsessed about their aches and pains or who has some illness or other that is their “thing”.
The “thing” dominates and shapes their life, restricts their activity and movement, consumes and introverts their attention and occupies almost their every waking thought.
And boy do they really hang into it and make a game of wrestling with it.
Relatively mild societies with relatively mild environmental challenges are prone to having people with “things”.
In their conversation with you, the first thing you hear about is their ailment
When a person gets thus fixated on a “thing”, his or her life can get pretty dismal and they can become hobbled or hamstrung in their efforts to play the game of life.
They forget to live to the degree they become obsessed with surviving their “thing”.
But at least while they are introverted on their thing, they are not paying much attention to what else is going on, so governments love them.
And so do pharmaceutical companies for obvious reasons.
But society too can have a “thing” in much the same way.
Ours, presently, is called COVID.
We should probably reject all efforts to fixate us on it, flourish, prosper and create among ourselves and for ourselves a better game, a better set of problems to solve, more befitting a race of highly able beings.
Such as designing building right now a government that truly works for all the people.
There’s a first time for everything.
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