thelibertybeacon--2020-07-06--78% of Russians vote to break away from western neoliberal dogma (Video)

The Duran ’ s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the results of the Russian vote on constitutional amendments .
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated on Thursday that the result was a clear sign of the Russian people ’ s trust in president Putin .
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Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Russians on Thursday for taking part in the vote on constitutional amendments .
“ I want to express my gratitude to the Russian citizens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very much for your support and trust , ” Putin said at a meeting of the Pobeda ( Victory ) organising committee .
Russia ’ s political system and the economy are still at the formative stage since not so much time has passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union , “ by historical standards , ” the president added , stressing that time is needed to strengthen the national stability .
According to Russia ’ s Central Election Commission , 77.92 percent of Russians supported the amendments , 21.27 percent voted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 67.97 percent .
The nationwide vote on constitutional amendments was originally planned for April 22 but had to be postponed over the threat of COVID-19 .
It was later officially scheduled for July 1 with six additional voting days to avoid the spread of the disease .
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered important changes to the constitution in his address to the parliament in mid-January .
After both chambers of the Russian parliament passed the bill , an all-Russian vote on the amendments had to take place .
The nationwide vote on constitutional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but had to be postponed due to the threat of COVID-19 .
It took place 1 July , with six additional voting days to avoid the spread of the disease .
The amendments are a sweeping set of changes to Russia ’ s basic law , which include protecting the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman , setting children as a priority of Russia ’ s domestic policy , and many others .
The previous version of the constitution was adopted by nationwide voting on 12 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Soviet Union .
Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin imposed the 1993 constitution literally at gunpoint , after he sent tanks to shell the parliament .
One of the most longed-for amendments among the Russian population was the one that would “ match minimum wage with the minimum standard cost of living ” , which in Russia is calculated by the sum of baseline monthly utility bills , as well as grocery and essential non-food expenses .
With regard to pensions , the amendments provide for an annual indexation to keep payments compatible with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be applied to social benefit payments .
The new constitution includes an amendment about protecting the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman , setting children as a priority in the country ’ s domestic policy , and an obligation to support and protect the culture as the unique heritage of Russia ’ s multi-ethnic people .
” The Russian Federation honours the memory of defenders of the Fatherland and protects historical truth .
Diminishing the significance of the people ’ s heroism in defending the Fatherland is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the new law says .
The proposed changes also aim to protect Russia ’ s sovereignty and territorial integrity , prohibiting any attempts or calls to alienate part of its territory .
Another amendment establishes the status of the Russian language as the language of a nation-forming nation .
The amendments envision a limit of two six-year terms for the president of the Russian Federation , regardless of whether they were served back-to-back .
The amendment also specifies its non-applicability to the incumbent president ’ s previous terms and , therefore , allows @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , should he choose to do so .
The State Duma now has the right to approve a candidate for prime minister of the Russian Federation proposed by the president .
The president will then appoint the approved candidate .
According to another amendment , lawmakers , cabinet ministers , judges , and other federal-level officials are banned from holding dual citizenship or permanent residency abroad .

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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the results of the Russian vote on constitutional amendments.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated on Thursday that the result was a clear sign of the Russian people’s trust in president Putin.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Russians on Thursday for taking part in the vote on constitutional amendments.
“I want to express my gratitude to the Russian citizens, I want to say thank you very much for your support and trust,” Putin said at a meeting of the Pobeda (Victory) organising committee.
Russia’s political system and the economy are still at the formative stage since not so much time has passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, “by historical standards,” the president added, stressing that time is needed to strengthen the national stability.
“I understand the citizens who have voted against. Many problems remain unsolved, this is true. People often face injustice, unkindness and indifference. Many people face hardships, and we, the government, often think we are doing everything possible, while this is not exactly so … We often fall short of our targets, we should more quickly, precisely and efficiently,” Putin said.
According to Russia’s Central Election Commission, 77.92 percent of Russians supported the amendments, 21.27 percent voted against them, and the turnout totalled 67.97 percent.
The nationwide vote on constitutional amendments was originally planned for April 22 but had to be postponed over the threat of COVID-19. It was later officially scheduled for July 1 with six additional voting days to avoid the spread of the disease.
Russia’s Constitutional Changes
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered important changes to the constitution in his address to the parliament in mid-January. After both chambers of the Russian parliament passed the bill, an all-Russian vote on the amendments had to take place.
The nationwide vote on constitutional amendments was originally planned for 22 April, but had to be postponed due to the threat of COVID-19. It took place 1 July, with six additional voting days to avoid the spread of the disease.
The amendments are a sweeping set of changes to Russia’s basic law, which include protecting the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman, setting children as a priority of Russia’s domestic policy, and many others. The previous version of the constitution was adopted by nationwide voting on 12 December 1993 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin imposed the 1993 constitution literally at gunpoint, after he sent tanks to shell the parliament.
The proposed changes include:
Social and Economic Reform
One of the most longed-for amendments among the Russian population was the one that would “match minimum wage with the minimum standard cost of living”, which in Russia is calculated by the sum of baseline monthly utility bills, as well as grocery and essential non-food expenses.
With regard to pensions, the amendments provide for an annual indexation to keep payments compatible with inflation rates. The indexation will also be applied to social benefit payments.
The new constitution includes an amendment about protecting the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman, setting children as a priority in the country’s domestic policy, and an obligation to support and protect the culture as the unique heritage of Russia’s multi-ethnic people.
National Identity Reform
”The Russian Federation honours the memory of defenders of the Fatherland and protects historical truth. Diminishing the significance of the people’s heroism in defending the Fatherland is not permitted”, the text of the new law says.
The proposed changes also aim to protect Russia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, prohibiting any attempts or calls to alienate part of its territory.
Another amendment establishes the status of the Russian language as the language of a nation-forming nation.
Power Reform
The amendments envision a limit of two six-year terms for the president of the Russian Federation, regardless of whether they were served back-to-back.
The amendment also specifies its non-applicability to the incumbent president’s previous terms and, therefore, allows him to run for another two terms, should he choose to do so.
The State Duma now has the right to approve a candidate for prime minister of the Russian Federation proposed by the president. The president will then appoint the approved candidate.
According to another amendment, lawmakers, cabinet ministers, judges, and other federal-level officials are banned from holding dual citizenship or permanent residency abroad.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-07-06--Coronavirus: Why everyone was wrong

Coronavirus: Why everyone was wrong

The immune response to the virus is stronger than everyone thought The original article was published in the Swiss magazine Weltwoche ( World Week ) on June 10th .
The author , Beda M Stadler , is the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern , a biologist and professor emeritus .
Stadler is an important medical professional in Switzerland ; he also likes to use provoking language , which should not deter you from the extremely important points he makes .
This article is about Switzerland and it does not suggest that the situation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ am advocating for local measures according to locale situations .
And I advocate for looking at real data rather than abstract models .
I also suggest to read to the end , because Stadler makes crucial points about testing for Sars-CoV-2 .
Why everyone was wrong The coronavirus is slowly retreating .
What actually happened in the past few weeks ?
The experts have missed basic connections .
The immune response against the virus is much stronger than we thought .
This is not an accusation , but a ruthless taking stock [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could slap myself because I looked at Sars-CoV2- way too long with panic .
I am also somewhat annoyed with many of my immunology colleagues who so far have left the discussion about Covid-19 to virologists and epidemiologists .
I feel it is time to criticise some of the main and completely wrong public statements about this virus .
Firstly , it was wrong to claim that this virus was novel .
Secondly , It was even more wrong to claim that the population would not already have some immunity against this virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of stupidity to claim that someone could have Covid-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever .
But let ’ s look at this one by one .
At the end of 2019 a coronavirus , which was considered novel , was detected in China .
When the gene sequence , i.e .
the blueprint of this virus , was identified and was given a similar name to the 2002 identified Sars , i.e .
Sars-CoV-2 , we should have already asked ourselves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is related to other coronaviri , which can make human beings sick .
But no , instead we discussed from which animal as part of a Chinese menu the virus might have sprung .
In the meantime , however , many more people believe the Chinese were so stupid as to release this virus upon themselves in their own country .
Now that we ’ re talking about developing a vaccine against the virus , we suddenly see studies which show that this so-called novel virus is very strongly related to Sars-1 as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suffer every year in the form of a colds .
Apart from the pure homologies in the sequence between the various coronaviri which can make people sick , [ scientists ] currently work on identifying a number of areas on the virus in the same way as human immune cells identify them .
This is no longer about the genetic relationship , but about how our immune system sees this virus , i.e .
which parts of other coronaviri could potentially be used in a vaccine .
So : Sars-Cov-2 isn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seasonal cold virus that mutated and disappears in summer , as all cold viri do — which is what we ’ re observing globally right now .
Flu viri mutate significantly more , by the way , and nobody would ever claim that a new flu virus strain was completely novel .
Many veterinary doctors were therefore annoyed by this claim of novelty , as they have been vaccinating cats , dogs , pigs , and cows for years against coronaviri .
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The fairy tale of no immunity From the World @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Facebook-virologist , everyone claimed this virus was particularly dangerous because there was no immunity against it , because it was a novel virus .
Even Anthony Fauci , the most important advisor to the Trump administration , noted at the beginning at every public appearance that the danger of the virus lay in the fact that there was no immunity against it .
Tony and I often sat next to each other at immunology seminars at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda in the US , because we worked in related fields @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I was pretty uncritical of his statements , since he was a respectable colleague of mine .
The penny dropped only when I realised that the first commercially available antibody test [ for Sars-CoV-2 ] was put together from an old antibody test that was meant to detect Sars-1 .
This kind of test evaluates if there are antibodies in someone ’ s blood and if they came about through an early fight against the virus .
[ Scientists ] even extracted antibodies from a Lama that would detect Sars-1 , Sars-CoV-2 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also became known that Sars-CoV-2 had a less significant impact in areas in China where Sars-1 had previously raged .
This is clear evidence urgently suggesting that our immune system considers Sars-1 and Sars-Cov-2 at least partially identical and that one virus could probably protect us from the other .
That ’ s when I realised that the entire world simply claimed that there was no immunity , but in reality , nobody had a test ready to prove such a statement .
That wasn ’ t science , but pure speculation based @ @ @ @ @ @ @ parroted by everyone .
To this day there isn ’ t a single antibody test that can describe all possible immunological situations , such as : if someone is immune , since when , what the neutralising antibodies are targeting and how many structures exist on other coronaviri that can equally lead to immunity .
In mid-April work was published by the group of Andreas Thiel at the Charité Berlin .
A paper with 30 authors , amongst them the virologist Christian Drosten .
It showed that 34 % of people in Berlin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Sars-CoV-2 virus showed nonetheless T-cell immunity against it ( T-cell immunity is a different kind of immune reaction , see below ) .
This means that our T-cells , i.e .
white blood cells , detect common structures appearing on Sars-CoV-2 and regular cold viri and therefore combat both of them .
A study by John P A Ioannidis of Stanford University — according to the Einstein Foundation in Berlin , one of the world ’ s ten most cited scientists — showed that immunity against Sars-Cov-2 , measured in the form @ @ @ @ @ @ @ previously thought .
Ioannidis is certainly not a conspiracy theorist who just wants to swim against the stream ; nonetheless , he is now being criticised because the antibody tests used were not extremely precise .
With that , his critics admit that they do not have such tests yet .
And aside , John P A Ioannidis is such a scientific heavy-weight that all German virologists combined are a light-weight in comparison .
Epidemiologist also fell for the myth that there was no immunity in the population .
They also didn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seasonal cold viri that would disappear in summer .
Otherwise their curve models would have looked differently .
When the initial worst case scenarios didn ’ t come true anywhere , some now still cling to models predicting a second wave .
Let ’ s leave them their hopes — I ’ ve never seen a scientific branch that manoeuvred itself so much into the offside .
I have also not yet understood why epidemiologists were so much more interested in the number of deaths , rather than in the numbers that could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trust a biological model , namely that of the human organism , which has built a tried and tested adaptive immune system .
At the end of February , driving home from the recording of [ a Swiss political TV debate show ] , I mentioned to Daniel Koch [ former head of the Swiss federal section “ Communicable Diseases ” of the Federal Office of Public Health ] that I suspected there was a general immunity in the population against Sars-Cov-2 .
He argued against my view .
I later defended him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were not a driving factor in the spread of the pandemic .
He suspected that children didn ’ t have a receptor for the virus , which is of course nonsense .
Still , we had to admit that his observations were correct .
But the fact that every scientist attacked him afterwards and asked for studies to prove his point was somewhat ironic .
Nobody asked for studies to prove that people in certain at-risk groups were dying .
When the first statistics from China and later worldwide data showed the same @ @ @ @ @ @ @ almost no children under ten years old got sick , everyone should have made the argument that children clearly have to be immune .
For every other disease that doesn ’ t afflict a certain group of people , we would come to the conclusion that that group is immune .
When people are sadly dying in a retirement home , but in the same place other pensioners with the same risk factors are left entirely unharmed , we should also conclude that they were presumably immune .
But this common sense seems @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s call them “ immunity deniers ” just for fun .
This new breed of deniers had to observe that the majority of people who tested positive for this virus , i.e .
the virus was present in their throats , did not get sick .
The term “ silent carriers ” was conjured out of a hat and it was claimed that one could be sick without having symptoms .
Wouldn ’ t that be something !
If this principle from now on gets naturalised into the realm of medicine , health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but also teachers whose students could now claim to have whatever disease to skip school , if at the end of the day one didn ’ t need symptoms anymore to be sick .
The next joke that some virologists shared was the claim that those who were sick , without symptoms , could still spread the virus to other people .
The “ healthy ” sick would have so much of the virus in their throats that a normal conversation between two people would be enough for the “ healthy one ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ At this point we have to dissect what is happening here : If a virus is growing anywhere in the body , also in the throat , it means that human cells decease .
When [ human ] cells decease , the immune system is alerted immediately and an infection is caused .
One of five cardinal symptoms of an infection is pain .
It is understandable that those afflicted by Covid-19 might not remember that initial scratchy throat and then go on to claim that they didn ’ t have any symptoms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for doctors and virologists to twist this into a story of “ healthy ” sick people , which stokes panic and was often given as a reason for stricter lockdown measures , just shows how bad the joke really is .
At least the WHO didn ’ t accept the claim of asymptomatic infections and even challenges this claim on its website .
Here ’ s a succinct and brief summary , especially for the immunity deniers , of how humans are attacked by germs and how we react to them : If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , then all humans — whether immune or not — are attacked by this virus .
If someone is immune , the battle with the virus begins .
First we try to prevent the virus from binding to our own cells with the help of antibodies .
This normally works only partially , not all are blocked and some viri will attach to the appropriate cells .
That doesn ’ t need to lead to symptoms , but it ’ s also not a disease .
Because the second guard of the immune @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That ’ s the above mentioned T-cells , white blood cells , which can determine from the outside in which other cells the virus is now hiding to multiply .
These cells , which are now incubating the virus , are searched throughout the entire body and killed by the T-cells until the last virus is dead .
So if we do a PCR corona test on an immune person , it is not a virus that is detected , but a small shattered part of the viral genome .
The test comes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are tiny shattered parts of the virus left .
Correct : Even if the infectious viri are long dead , a corona test can come back positive , because the PCR method multiplies even a tiny fraction of the viral genetic material enough [ to be detected ] .
That ’ s exactly what happened , when there was the global news , even shared by the WHO , that 200 Koreans who already went through Covid-19 were infected a second time and that there was therefore probably no immunity against this virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and an apology came only later , when it was clear that the immune Koreans were perfectly healthy and only had a short battle with the virus .
The crux was that the virus debris registered with the overly sensitive test and therefore came back as “ positive ” .
It is likely that a large number of the daily reported infection numbers are purely due to viral debris .
The PCR test with its extreme sensitivity was initially perfect to find out where the virus could be .
But this test can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alive , i.e .
still infectious .
Unfortunately , this also led some virologists to equate the strength of a test result with viral load , i.e .
the amount of virus someone can breathe out .
Luckily , our day care centres stayed open nonetheless .
Since German virologists missed that part because , out of principle , they do not look at what other countries are doing , even if other countries ’ case numbers are falling more rapidly .
What does this all mean in real life ?
The extremely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days — and reports of 22 to 27 days — should wake up any immunologist .
As well as the claim that most patients would no longer secrete the virus after five days .
Both [ claims ] in turn actually lead to the conclusion that there is — sort of in the background — a base immunity that contorts the events , compared to an expected cycle [ of a viral infection ] — i.e .
leads to a long incubation period and quick immunity .
This immunity also seems to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course of the disease .
Our antibody titre , i.e .
the accuracy of our defence system , is reduced the older we get .
But also people with a bad diet or who are malnourished may have a weakened immune system , which is why this virus does not only reveal the medical problems of a country , but also social issues .
If an infected person does not have enough antibodies , i.e .
a weak immune response , the virus slowly spreads out across the entire body .
Now that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is only the second , supporting leg of our immune response left : The T-cells begin to attack the virus-infested cells all over the body .
This can lead to an exaggerated immune response , basically to a massive slaughter ; this is called a Cytokine Storm .
Very rarely this can also happen in small children , in that case called Kawasaki Syndrome .
This very rare occurrence in children was also used in our country to stoke panic .
It ’ s interesting , however , that this syndrome is very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ children get antibodies from healthy blood donors , i.e .
people who went through coronavirus colds .
This means that the hushed-up [ supposedly non-existent ] immunity in the population is in fact used therapeutically .
The virus is gone for now .
It will probably come back in winter , but it won ’ t be a second wave , but just a cold .
Those young and healthy people who currently walk around with a mask on their faces would be better off wearing a helmet instead , because the risk @ @ @ @ @ @ @ greater than that of getting a serious case of Covid-19 .
If we observe a significant rise in infections in 14 days [ after the Swiss relaxed the lockdown ] , we ’ d at least know that one of the measures was useful .
Other than that , I recommend reading John P A Ioannidis ’ latest work in which he describes the global situation based on data on May 1st 2020 : People below 65 years old make up only 0.6 to 2.6 % of all fatal Covid cases .
To @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we need a strategy merely concentrating on the protection of at-risk people over 65 .
If that ’ s the opinion of a top expert , a second lockdown is simply a no-go .
On our way back to normal , it would be good for us citizens if a few scaremongers apologised .
Such as doctors who wanted a triage of over 80 year old Covid patients in order to stop ventilating them .
Also media that kept showing alarmist videos of Italian hospitals to illustrate a situation that as such didn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for “ testing , testing , testing ” without even knowing what the test actually measures .
And the federal government for an app they ’ ll never get to work and will warn me if someone near me is positive , even if they ’ re not infectious .
In winter , when the flu and other colds make the rounds again , we can then go back to kissing each other a little less , and we should wash our hands even without a virus present .
And people who ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their masks to show others what they have learned from this pandemic .
And if we still haven ’ t learned to protect our at-risk groups , we ’ ll have to wait for a vaccine that will hopefully also be effective in at-risk people .
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ER Editor: Readers may also be interested in this illuminating, reality-based Youtube interview with Swiss professor Dr. Beda Stadler from the end of June 2020 in English: The tragic failure of science and the immunology behind Covid19. Prof. Beda Stadler and Ramon Bril. ******** Coronavirus: Why everyone was wrong
The immune response to the virus is stronger than everyone thought
Back to Reason
The original article was published in the Swiss magazine Weltwoche (World Week) on June 10th. The author, Beda M Stadler, is the former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, a biologist and professor emeritus. Stadler is an important medical professional in Switzerland; he also likes to use provoking language, which should not deter you from the extremely important points he makes.
This article is about Switzerland and it does not suggest that the situation is exactly the same globally. I am advocating for local measures according to locale situations. And I advocate for looking at real data rather than abstract models. I also suggest to read to the end, because Stadler makes crucial points about testing for Sars-CoV-2.
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Warum alle falsch lagen Das Coronavirus verzieht sich allmählich. Was hat sich in den vergangenen Wochen eigentlich abgespielt? Die… www.weltwoche.ch *******
Why everyone was wrong
The coronavirus is slowly retreating. What actually happened in the past few weeks? The experts have missed basic connections.
The immune response against the virus is much stronger than we thought.
BEDA M. STADLER
This is not an accusation, but a ruthless taking stock [of the current situation]. I could slap myself because I looked at Sars-CoV2- way too long with panic. I am also somewhat annoyed with many of my immunology colleagues who so far have left the discussion about Covid-19 to virologists and epidemiologists. I feel it is time to criticise some of the main and completely wrong public statements about this virus.
Firstly, it was wrong to claim that this virus was novel.
Secondly, It was even more wrong to claim that the population would not already have some immunity against this virus.
Thirdly, it was the crowning of stupidity to claim that someone could have Covid-19 without any symptoms at all or even to pass the disease along without showing any symptoms whatsoever.
But let’s look at this one by one.
1. A new virus?
At the end of 2019 a coronavirus, which was considered novel, was detected in China. When the gene sequence, i.e. the blueprint of this virus, was identified and was given a similar name to the 2002 identified Sars, i.e. Sars-CoV-2, we should have already asked ourselves then how far [this virus] is related to other coronaviri, which can make human beings sick. But no, instead we discussed from which animal as part of a Chinese menu the virus might have sprung. In the meantime, however, many more people believe the Chinese were so stupid as to release this virus upon themselves in their own country. Now that we’re talking about developing a vaccine against the virus, we suddenly see studies which show that this so-called novel virus is very strongly related to Sars-1 as well as other beta-coronaviri which make us suffer every year in the form of a colds. Apart from the pure homologies in the sequence between the various coronaviri which can make people sick, [scientists] currently work on identifying a number of areas on the virus in the same way as human immune cells identify them. This is no longer about the genetic relationship, but about how our immune system sees this virus, i.e. which parts of other coronaviri could potentially be used in a vaccine.
So: Sars-Cov-2 isn’t all that new, but merely a seasonal cold virus that mutated and disappears in summer, as all cold viri do — which is what we’re observing globally right now. Flu viri mutate significantly more, by the way, and nobody would ever claim that a new flu virus strain was completely novel. Many veterinary doctors were therefore annoyed by this claim of novelty, as they have been vaccinating cats, dogs, pigs, and cows for years against coronaviri.
2. The fairy tale of no immunity
From the World Health Organisation (WHO) to every Facebook-virologist, everyone claimed this virus was particularly dangerous because there was no immunity against it, because it was a novel virus. Even Anthony Fauci, the most important advisor to the Trump administration, noted at the beginning at every public appearance that the danger of the virus lay in the fact that there was no immunity against it. Tony and I often sat next to each other at immunology seminars at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda in the US, because we worked in related fields back then. So for a while I was pretty uncritical of his statements, since he was a respectable colleague of mine. The penny dropped only when I realised that the first commercially available antibody test [for Sars-CoV-2] was put together from an old antibody test that was meant to detect Sars-1. This kind of test evaluates if there are antibodies in someone’s blood and if they came about through an early fight against the virus. [Scientists] even extracted antibodies from a Lama that would detect Sars-1, Sars-CoV-2, and even the Mers virus. It also became known that Sars-CoV-2 had a less significant impact in areas in China where Sars-1 had previously raged. This is clear evidence urgently suggesting that our immune system considers Sars-1 and Sars-Cov-2 at least partially identical and that one virus could probably protect us from the other.
That’s when I realised that the entire world simply claimed that there was no immunity, but in reality, nobody had a test ready to prove such a statement. That wasn’t science, but pure speculation based on a gut feeling that was then parroted by everyone. To this day there isn’t a single antibody test that can describe all possible immunological situations, such as: if someone is immune, since when, what the neutralising antibodies are targeting and how many structures exist on other coronaviri that can equally lead to immunity.
In mid-April work was published by the group of Andreas Thiel at the Charité Berlin. A paper with 30 authors, amongst them the virologist Christian Drosten. It showed that 34 % of people in Berlin who had never been in contact with the Sars-CoV-2 virus showed nonetheless T-cell immunity against it (T-cell immunity is a different kind of immune reaction, see below). This means that our T-cells, i.e. white blood cells, detect common structures appearing on Sars-CoV-2 and regular cold viri and therefore combat both of them.
A study by John P A Ioannidis of Stanford University — according to the Einstein Foundation in Berlin, one of the world’s ten most cited scientists — showed that immunity against Sars-Cov-2, measured in the form of antibodies, is much higher than previously thought. Ioannidis is certainly not a conspiracy theorist who just wants to swim against the stream; nonetheless, he is now being criticised because the antibody tests used were not extremely precise. With that, his critics admit that they do not have such tests yet. And aside, John P A Ioannidis is such a scientific heavy-weight that all German virologists combined are a light-weight in comparison.
3. The failure of modellers
Epidemiologist also fell for the myth that there was no immunity in the population. They also didn’t want to believe that coronaviri were seasonal cold viri that would disappear in summer. Otherwise their curve models would have looked differently. When the initial worst case scenarios didn’t come true anywhere, some now still cling to models predicting a second wave. Let’s leave them their hopes — I’ve never seen a scientific branch that manoeuvred itself so much into the offside. I have also not yet understood why epidemiologists were so much more interested in the number of deaths, rather than in the numbers that could be saved.
4. Immunology of common sense
As an immunologist I trust a biological model, namely that of the human organism, which has built a tried and tested adaptive immune system. At the end of February, driving home from the recording of [a Swiss political TV debate show], I mentioned to Daniel Koch [former head of the Swiss federal section “Communicable Diseases” of the Federal Office of Public Health] that I suspected there was a general immunity in the population against Sars-Cov-2. He argued against my view. I later defended him anyway, when he said that children were not a driving factor in the spread of the pandemic. He suspected that children didn’t have a receptor for the virus, which is of course nonsense. Still, we had to admit that his observations were correct. But the fact that every scientist attacked him afterwards and asked for studies to prove his point was somewhat ironic. Nobody asked for studies to prove that people in certain at-risk groups were dying. When the first statistics from China and later worldwide data showed the same trend, that is to say that almost no children under ten years old got sick, everyone should have made the argument that children clearly have to be immune. For every other disease that doesn’t afflict a certain group of people, we would come to the conclusion that that group is immune. When people are sadly dying in a retirement home, but in the same place other pensioners with the same risk factors are left entirely unharmed, we should also conclude that they were presumably immune.
But this common sense seems to have eluded many, let’s call them “immunity deniers” just for fun. This new breed of deniers had to observe that the majority of people who tested positive for this virus, i.e. the virus was present in their throats, did not get sick. The term “silent carriers” was conjured out of a hat and it was claimed that one could be sick without having symptoms. Wouldn’t that be something! If this principle from now on gets naturalised into the realm of medicine, health insurers would really have a problem, but also teachers whose students could now claim to have whatever disease to skip school, if at the end of the day one didn’t need symptoms anymore to be sick.
The next joke that some virologists shared was the claim that those who were sick, without symptoms, could still spread the virus to other people. The “healthy” sick would have so much of the virus in their throats that a normal conversation between two people would be enough for the “healthy one” to infect the other healthy one. At this point we have to dissect what is happening here: If a virus is growing anywhere in the body, also in the throat, it means that human cells decease. When [human] cells decease, the immune system is alerted immediately and an infection is caused. One of five cardinal symptoms of an infection is pain. It is understandable that those afflicted by Covid-19 might not remember that initial scratchy throat and then go on to claim that they didn’t have any symptoms just a few days ago. But for doctors and virologists to twist this into a story of “healthy” sick people, which stokes panic and was often given as a reason for stricter lockdown measures, just shows how bad the joke really is. At least the WHO didn’t accept the claim of asymptomatic infections and even challenges this claim on its website.
Here’s a succinct and brief summary, especially for the immunity deniers, of how humans are attacked by germs and how we react to them: If there are pathogenic viri in our environment, then all humans — whether immune or not — are attacked by this virus. If someone is immune, the battle with the virus begins. First we try to prevent the virus from binding to our own cells with the help of antibodies. This normally works only partially, not all are blocked and some viri will attach to the appropriate cells. That doesn’t need to lead to symptoms, but it’s also not a disease. Because the second guard of the immune system is now called into action. That’s the above mentioned T-cells, white blood cells, which can determine from the outside in which other cells the virus is now hiding to multiply. These cells, which are now incubating the virus, are searched throughout the entire body and killed by the T-cells until the last virus is dead.
So if we do a PCR corona test on an immune person, it is not a virus that is detected, but a small shattered part of the viral genome. The test comes back positive for as long as there are tiny shattered parts of the virus left. Correct: Even if the infectious viri are long dead, a corona test can come back positive, because the PCR method multiplies even a tiny fraction of the viral genetic material enough [to be detected]. That’s exactly what happened, when there was the global news, even shared by the WHO, that 200 Koreans who already went through Covid-19 were infected a second time and that there was therefore probably no immunity against this virus. The explanation of what really happened and an apology came only later, when it was clear that the immune Koreans were perfectly healthy and only had a short battle with the virus. The crux was that the virus debris registered with the overly sensitive test and therefore came back as “positive”. It is likely that a large number of the daily reported infection numbers are purely due to viral debris.
The PCR test with its extreme sensitivity was initially perfect to find out where the virus could be. But this test can not identify whether the virus is still alive, i.e. still infectious. Unfortunately, this also led some virologists to equate the strength of a test result with viral load, i.e. the amount of virus someone can breathe out. Luckily, our day care centres stayed open nonetheless. Since German virologists missed that part because, out of principle, they do not look at what other countries are doing, even if other countries’ case numbers are falling more rapidly.
5. The problem with corona immunity
What does this all mean in real life? The extremely long incubation time of two to 14 days — and reports of 22 to 27 days — should wake up any immunologist. As well as the claim that most patients would no longer secrete the virus after five days. Both [claims] in turn actually lead to the conclusion that there is — sort of in the background — a base immunity that contorts the events, compared to an expected cycle [of a viral infection] — i.e. leads to a long incubation period and quick immunity. This immunity also seems to be the problem for patients with a severe course of the disease. Our antibody titre, i.e. the accuracy of our defence system, is reduced the older we get. But also people with a bad diet or who are malnourished may have a weakened immune system, which is why this virus does not only reveal the medical problems of a country, but also social issues.
If an infected person does not have enough antibodies, i.e. a weak immune response, the virus slowly spreads out across the entire body. Now that there are not enough antibodies, there is only the second, supporting leg of our immune response left: The T-cells begin to attack the virus-infested cells all over the body. This can lead to an exaggerated immune response, basically to a massive slaughter; this is called a Cytokine Storm. Very rarely this can also happen in small children, in that case called Kawasaki Syndrome. This very rare occurrence in children was also used in our country to stoke panic. It’s interesting, however, that this syndrome is very easily cured. The [affected] children get antibodies from healthy blood donors, i.e. people who went through coronavirus colds. This means that the hushed-up [supposedly non-existent] immunity in the population is in fact used therapeutically.
What now?
The virus is gone for now. It will probably come back in winter, but it won’t be a second wave, but just a cold. Those young and healthy people who currently walk around with a mask on their faces would be better off wearing a helmet instead, because the risk of something falling on their head is greater than that of getting a serious case of Covid-19.
If we observe a significant rise in infections in 14 days [after the Swiss relaxed the lockdown], we’d at least know that one of the measures was useful. Other than that, I recommend reading John P A Ioannidis’ latest work in which he describes the global situation based on data on May 1st 2020: People below 65 years old make up only 0.6 to 2.6 % of all fatal Covid cases. To get on top of the pandemic, we need a strategy merely concentrating on the protection of at-risk people over 65. If that’s the opinion of a top expert, a second lockdown is simply a no-go.
On our way back to normal, it would be good for us citizens if a few scaremongers apologised. Such as doctors who wanted a triage of over 80 year old Covid patients in order to stop ventilating them. Also media that kept showing alarmist videos of Italian hospitals to illustrate a situation that as such didn’t exist. All politicians calling for “testing, testing, testing” without even knowing what the test actually measures. And the federal government for an app they’ll never get to work and will warn me if someone near me is positive, even if they’re not infectious.
In winter, when the flu and other colds make the rounds again, we can then go back to kissing each other a little less, and we should wash our hands even without a virus present. And people who’ll get sick nonetheless can then don their masks to show others what they have learned from this pandemic. And if we still haven’t learned to protect our at-risk groups, we’ll have to wait for a vaccine that will hopefully also be effective in at-risk people.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-07-06--Debunking the Coronavirus psyop narrative

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The Camelot TV Network is an independent TV station owned and run by one of the UK’s foremost freedom fighters, John Mappin. It is based in Tintagel in Cornwall, the seat of power of the legendary King Arthur and his Knights of the Round table.
The interview featured here is with Professor Dolores Cahill and strikes an important blow for freedom by bringing the light of truth to bear upon the “Coronavirus” psychological warfare attack on our civilisation.
Originally broadcast live, the interview is from the Camelot TV YouTube Channel, which you can visit and subscribe to here.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-07-06--‘Keep this s**t IN f**king New York’: California woman Paints over BLM mural [Video]

Martinez , California police have asked the public to help them identify a woman filmed covering a Black Lives Matter mural ( which was greenlit by the city ) while her partner argued that the “ narrative of racism ” is a liberal lie .
The incident took place on July 4th in front of the local courthouse , where a giant yellow-lettered ‘ Black Lives Matter ’ mural popped up earlier that day .
The mural in support of the ongoing protests against police brutality was approved by the city .
However , it was in urgent need of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its existence after a woman , armed with cans of paint and a roller , began slathering black paint over the artwork in broad daylight .
The stunt drew the attention of passersby , who tried to confront the woman and her companion – sporting a red T-shirt emblazoned with one of US President Donald Trump ’ s campaign slogans , ‘ Four More Years ’ .
“ We ’ re sick of this narrative… The narrative of police brutality , the narrative of oppression , the narrative of racism – it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lie from the media , from the liberal left , ” the man can be heard saying in the viral video .
He then goes on to exchange verbal blows with a female protester , who can not be seen in the footage .
“ You can ’ t be that stupid , can you ?
” the protester says , to which the man responds : “ No , but you can be.
” The female activist then takes another jab at the apparent Trump supporter , saying : “ No , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ You are the idiot in this scenario.
” The man ’ s female companion , who continues to smear paint over the letters , then interjects , telling the protester : “ Keep this s**t IN f**king New York .
This is not happening in my town.
” In a statement on Sunday , the police said that it “ appeared that the couple came to the mural with cans of paint and a roller with the specific purpose of vandalizing over the mural , ” asking the public to help them locate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vandalism ” investigation .
“ The community spent a considerable amount of time putting the mural together only to have it painted over in a hateful and senseless manner , ” they said .
The July 4th celebrations this year have been largely overshadowed by Black Lives Matter protests , which saw activists marking Independence Day by burning an American flag outside of the White House and toppling a statue of Christopher Columbus in Baltimore .
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Martinez, California police have asked the public to help them identify a woman filmed covering a Black Lives Matter mural (which was greenlit by the city) while her partner argued that the “narrative of racism” is a liberal lie.
The incident took place on July 4th in front of the local courthouse, where a giant yellow-lettered ‘Black Lives Matter’ mural popped up earlier that day.
The mural in support of the ongoing protests against police brutality was approved by the city. However, it was in urgent need of restoration only a couple of hours into its existence after a woman, armed with cans of paint and a roller, began slathering black paint over the artwork in broad daylight.
The stunt drew the attention of passersby, who tried to confront the woman and her companion – sporting a red T-shirt emblazoned with one of US President Donald Trump’s campaign slogans, ‘Four More Years’.
“We’re sick of this narrative… The narrative of police brutality, the narrative of oppression, the narrative of racism – it’s a lie… It’s a lie from the media, from the liberal left,” the man can be heard saying in the viral video.
Yooo!!! This Karen and Chad are defacing a #BlackLivesMatter mural in Martinez, CA. Twitter do your thing. pic.twitter.com/mtuTqtMT8A — Suave (@SuaveLlave) July 5, 2020
He then goes on to exchange verbal blows with a female protester, who cannot be seen in the footage.
“You can’t be that stupid, can you?” the protester says, to which the man responds: “No, but you can be.”
The female activist then takes another jab at the apparent Trump supporter, saying: “No, I’m not, actually. You are the idiot in this scenario.”
The man’s female companion, who continues to smear paint over the letters, then interjects, telling the protester: “Keep this s**t IN f**king New York. This is not happening in my town.”
In a statement on Sunday, the police said that it “appeared that the couple came to the mural with cans of paint and a roller with the specific purpose of vandalizing over the mural,” asking the public to help them locate the suspects in connection with a “vandalism” investigation.
“The community spent a considerable amount of time putting the mural together only to have it painted over in a hateful and senseless manner,” they said.
The July 4th celebrations this year have been largely overshadowed by Black Lives Matter protests, which saw activists marking Independence Day by burning an American flag outside of the White House and toppling a statue of Christopher Columbus in Baltimore.
Featured image credit: YouTube / Kerry Leidich
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thelibertybeacon--2020-07-06--COVID-19 is close to losing its epidemic status in the U.S. – CDC

COVID-19 is close to losing its epidemic status in the U.S. , according to the CDC Coronavirus deaths in the country have nearly reached a level where the virus will cease to qualify as an epidemic under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rules , the federal agency reported on Friday .
The CDC qualifies a disease outbreak as an “ epidemic ” if the number of deaths attributable to the disease exceeds a certain percentage of total deaths per week .
That threshold for pneumonia , influenza and COVID-19 fluctuates slightly depending on the time of year , ranging @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of flu season to around 5 % during less virulent months .
CDC data indicate that deaths from those ailments began skyrocketing in the country around the second week of March , hitting a peak around early May and then plummeting quickly after that .
The latest data show that the percentage of deaths in the country attributable to those factors had as of the last week in June reached its lowest point since the end of last year , becoming “ equal to the [ current ] epidemic threshold of 5.9 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agency notes that the official tally of deaths “ will likely change as more death certificates are processed , particularly for recent weeks.
” Yet the number of deaths attributable to COVID-19 , pneumonia and influenza have been declining for 10 straight weeks , the agency said on its website , suggesting COVID-19 may cease to qualify as an epidemic in the next few weeks .
The welcome news comes as fear over a “ second wave ” of the virus has gripped the U.S. , with some states experiencing fresh surges of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ infections are significantly up in some places , deaths throughout the country have remained flat , due likely to several factors including a younger cohort of infections as well as improved treatment methods .
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COVID-19 is close to losing its epidemic status in the U.S., according to the CDC
The percentage of coronavirus deaths in the country has been declining for ten straight weeks.
By Daniel Payne
Coronavirus deaths in the country have nearly reached a level where the virus will cease to qualify as an epidemic under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rules, the federal agency reported on Friday.
The CDC qualifies a disease outbreak as an “epidemic” if the number of deaths attributable to the disease exceeds a certain percentage of total deaths per week. That threshold for pneumonia, influenza and COVID-19 fluctuates slightly depending on the time of year, ranging from around 7% at the height of flu season to around 5% during less virulent months.
CDC data indicate that deaths from those ailments began skyrocketing in the country around the second week of March, hitting a peak around early May and then plummeting quickly after that.
The latest data show that the percentage of deaths in the country attributable to those factors had as of the last week in June reached its lowest point since the end of last year, becoming “equal to the [current] epidemic threshold of 5.9%,” the CDC said.
The agency notes that the official tally of deaths “will likely change as more death certificates are processed, particularly for recent weeks.” Yet the number of deaths attributable to COVID-19, pneumonia and influenza have been declining for 10 straight weeks, the agency said on its website, suggesting COVID-19 may cease to qualify as an epidemic in the next few weeks.
The welcome news comes as fear over a “second wave” of the virus has gripped the U.S., with some states experiencing fresh surges of COVID-19 along with increased hospitalizations.
Though infections are significantly up in some places, deaths throughout the country have remained flat, due likely to several factors including a younger cohort of infections as well as improved treatment methods.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-07-06--Seriously, Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan  [Caitlin Johnstone]     -Video

Seriously , Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan With overwhelming bipartisan support , the House Armed Services Committee has added a Liz Cheney-spearheaded amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act ( NDAA ) which throws severe roadblocks in the Trump administration ’ s proposed scale-down of US military presence in Afghanistan and Germany .
As The Intercept ’ s Glenn Greenwald notes , both parties advancing the amendment cited in their arguments the completely unsubstantiated intelligence leak that was recently published by credulous mass media reporters alleging that Russia has paid bounties to Taliban fighters for killing the occupying forces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agenda once again facilitated by unforgivably egregious journalistic malpractice in the mass media .
Every aspect of this development is enraging .
The mass media have continued to add to their mountain of Gish gallop fallacies promoting this narrative with a new Daily Beast report citing former senior Taliban figure Mullah Manan Niazi who asserts that “ The Taliban have been paid by Russian intelligence for attacks on U.S. forces — and on ISIS forces — in Afghanistan from 2014 up to the present.
” The Beast ’ s own article admits that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and is believed to be a CIA asset by Taliban leadership , and that Niazi provided no evidence of any kind for his claim or any further details whatsoever .
These flimsy , poorly-sourced allegations are being hammered into mainstream liberal consciousness on a daily basis now in the exact same way the discredited Russiagate psyop was , and just like with Russiagate the narrative they are being used to shape helps advance military expansionism and new cold war escalations which just so happen to fit perfectly into pre-existing geostrategic agendas of planetary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consistently refuse to account for a fact so obvious and indisputable as intelligence agencies being known liars should by itself be enough to discredit the entire institution of mass news reporting .
Yet here we are with these reports being treated as established fact throughout the entire political/media class and down through the entire population of propagandized rank-and-file citizenry .
The Afghanistan Papers established conclusively that the occupation has been unwinnable and without a clear picture of what winning would even look like from the very beginning , and that this fact has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deceit for two decades .
The revelation was in the news for a day and then quickly memory holed without having any meaningful impact on the dominant narrative about Afghanistan , and now the mainstream consensus is that even trying to reduce the number of troops there is a hazardous and outlandish notion .
This is because the mainstream consensus is shaped not by facts , but by narrative .
We see this in the way the fact-filled Afghanistan Papers have played no role in shaping the dominant narrative about what should be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we see it in the way the fact-free “ bounty ” narrative is shaping public opinion and determining US foreign policy .
The propagandists who manufacture consent for imperialist agendas understand that truth and facts play far less of a role in what the propagandized consider important than does mindless repetition and emotion .
The Empire Files has an absolutely phenomenal mini-documentary on the Afghanistan occupation which came out the other day , and everyone should watch it .
Abby Martin quickly breaks down the geostrategic , resource control , and military-industrial complex @ @ @ @ @ @ @ war , the deceit and depravity which went into initiating and maintaining it , and the devastating toll it has taken on the Afghan people .
I strongly encourage my readers to give it a view when you get the chance .
The continued Afghanistan occupation is like if the police stormed a house , shot a bunch of people , realized they got the wrong house and they ’ d never find the guy they were looking for by staying there , stayed anyway , moved in , and then years later @ @ @ @ @ @ @ because they heard a rumor that the neighbors are trying to make them leave .
In a sane world it would be the violent invasion and occupation of sovereign nations which elicits outrage and opposition from elected officials and intense skepticism and critical reporting from prominent journalists .
In today ’ s propaganda-maddened society we get the exact opposite : the invasions and occupations are treated as the normal default position and any attempt to end them is regarded as outlandish .
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Trump runs head-long into Deep State and The Military Industrial Complex. ~(TLB)
Caitlin Johnstone
With overwhelming bipartisan support, the House Armed Services Committee has added a Liz Cheney-spearheaded amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which throws severe roadblocks in the Trump administration’s proposed scale-down of US military presence in Afghanistan and Germany.
As The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald notes, both parties advancing the amendment cited in their arguments the completely unsubstantiated intelligence leak that was recently published by credulous mass media reporters alleging that Russia has paid bounties to Taliban fighters for killing the occupying forces in Afghanistan. Yet another western imperialist agenda once again facilitated by unforgivably egregious journalistic malpractice in the mass media.
House Democrats, working with Liz Cheney, restrict Trump’s planned withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and Germany https://t.co/WZEjALgJHH — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 2, 2020
Every aspect of this development is enraging.
The mass media have continued to add to their mountain of Gish gallop fallacies promoting this narrative with a new Daily Beast report citing former senior Taliban figure Mullah Manan Niazi who asserts that “The Taliban have been paid by Russian intelligence for attacks on U.S. forces — and on ISIS forces — in Afghanistan from 2014 up to the present.” The Beast’s own article admits that its source has severe conflicts of interest and is believed to be a CIA asset by Taliban leadership, and that Niazi provided no evidence of any kind for his claim or any further details whatsoever.
These flimsy, poorly-sourced allegations are being hammered into mainstream liberal consciousness on a daily basis now in the exact same way the discredited Russiagate psyop was, and just like with Russiagate the narrative they are being used to shape helps advance military expansionism and new cold war escalations which just so happen to fit perfectly into pre-existing geostrategic agendas of planetary domination.
The way mainstream news outlets consistently refuse to account for a fact so obvious and indisputable as intelligence agencies being known liars should by itself be enough to discredit the entire institution of mass news reporting. Yet here we are with these reports being treated as established fact throughout the entire political/media class and down through the entire population of propagandized rank-and-file citizenry.
The Afghanistan Papers established conclusively that the occupation has been unwinnable and without a clear picture of what winning would even look like from the very beginning, and that this fact has been hidden from the world by systematic deceit for two decades. The revelation was in the news for a day and then quickly memory holed without having any meaningful impact on the dominant narrative about Afghanistan, and now the mainstream consensus is that even trying to reduce the number of troops there is a hazardous and outlandish notion.
This is because the mainstream consensus is shaped not by facts, but by narrative. We see this in the way the fact-filled Afghanistan Papers have played no role in shaping the dominant narrative about what should be done about the nineteen-year occupation, and we see it in the way the fact-free “bounty” narrative is shaping public opinion and determining US foreign policy. The propagandists who manufacture consent for imperialist agendas understand that truth and facts play far less of a role in what the propagandized consider important than does mindless repetition and emotion.
The Empire Files has an absolutely phenomenal mini-documentary on the Afghanistan occupation which came out the other day, and everyone should watch it. Abby Martin quickly breaks down the geostrategic, resource control, and military-industrial complex agendas which are advanced by this interminable war, the deceit and depravity which went into initiating and maintaining it, and the devastating toll it has taken on the Afghan people. I strongly encourage my readers to give it a view when you get the chance.
The continued Afghanistan occupation is like if the police stormed a house, shot a bunch of people, realized they got the wrong house and they’d never find the guy they were looking for by staying there, stayed anyway, moved in, and then years later said they can’t move out because they heard a rumor that the neighbors are trying to make them leave.
In a sane world it would be the violent invasion and occupation of sovereign nations which elicits outrage and opposition from elected officials and intense skepticism and critical reporting from prominent journalists. In today’s propaganda-maddened society we get the exact opposite: the invasions and occupations are treated as the normal default position and any attempt to end them is regarded as outlandish.
This cannot continue. We must find a way to awaken from the brainwashing and force it to end. Anyone who works to prevent this from happening is an enemy of human progress.
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