offguardian--2020-08-01--How to Take Back Control of Your Mind

How to Take Back Control of Your Mind

It is rather ironic that in this “ age of information ” , we are more confused than ever… It had been commonly thought in the past , and not without basis , that tyranny could only exist on the condition that the people were kept illiterate and ignorant of their oppression .
To recognise that one was “ oppressed ” meant they must first have an idea of what was “ freedom ” , and if one were allowed the “ privilege ” to learn how to read , this discovery was inevitable .
If education of the masses @ @ @ @ @ @ @ literate , it was thought that the higher ideas , the sort of “ dangerous ideas ” that Mustapha Mond for instance expresses in “ The Brave New World ” , would quickly organise the masses and revolution against their “ controllers ” would be inevitable .
In other words , knowledge is freedom , and you can not enslave those who learn how to “ think ” .
However , it hasn ’ t exactly played out that way has it ?
The greater majority of us are free to read whatever @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the once “ forbidden books ” , such as those listed by The Index Librorum Prohibitorum* .
We can read any of the writings that were banned in “ The Brave New World ” , notably the works of Shakespeare which were named as absolutely dangerous forms of “ knowledge ” .
We are now very much free to “ educate ” ourselves on the very “ ideas ” that were recognised by tyrants of the past as the “ antidote ” to a life of slavery .
And yet , today , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ recognised , albeit superficially , that who controls the past , controls the present and thereby the future .
George Orwell ’ s book “ 1984 ” , hammers this as the essential feature that allows the Big Brother apparatus to maintain absolute control over fear , perception and loyalty to the Party cause , and yet despite its popularity , there still remains a lack of interest in actually informing oneself about the past .
What does it matter anyway , if the past is controlled and rewritten to suit the present @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ Brien states to Winston , “ We , the Party , control all records , and we control all memories .
Then we control the past , do we not ?
[ And thus , are free to rewrite it as we choose… ] ” Of course , we are not in the same situation as Winston…we are much better off .
We can study and learn about the “ past ” if we so desire , unfortunately , it is a choice that many take for granted .
In fact , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presently there is a battle waging for who will “ control the past ” in a manner that is closely resembling a form of “ memory wipe ” .
There is an especial focus to rewrite the history of WWII at this very moment .
These revisionists are attempting to rewrite this history since there lies the root from which today ’ s fascism stems .
Whoever understands this period of history understands today ’ s fascism .
The “ experts ” say that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 23rd 1939 is supposedly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s fascist agenda , and thus the veneer of the Soviet Union being the greatest defender against fascism during WWII is a sham .
However , what is left out of this discussion every time , is that in the previous year , the UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed an appeasement deal with Hitler on September 30th 1938 , known as the Munich Agreement ( aka the Munich Betrayal ) , where Hitler demanded and promptly received the annexation of Czech border areas , known as the Sudetenland annexation .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allow Hitler ’ s expansion of German territory relatively unchecked as part of the “ appeasement ” .
The “ logic ” behind it was that Britain would give what Hitler demanded in hopes of “ appeasing ” his imperial “ appetites ” and thus avoid further conflict .
That is , by giving Hitler more power , it would somehow or other , convince him not to desire more…at least the plan apparently looked good on paper .
Then there is the whole embarrassing affair with the Bank of England and Bank @ @ @ @ @ @ @ BoE Governor Montague Norman allowed for the direct transfer of money to Hitler , however , not with England ’ s own money but rather 5.6 million pounds worth of gold owned by the National Bank of Czechoslovakia !
Well , you certainly didn ’ t think that England would use her own money ?
And let us not forget , the Union Banking Corporation , with founding member and director Prescott Bush also caught in the funding of Hitler before and during WWII , and on Oct 20th , 1942 its bank @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Trading with the Enemy Act ” and “ Executive Order 9095 ” .
Of course , you can imagine that being aware of such dealings made Stalin uneasy as it was becoming apparent that Hitler ’ s vision was shared by others of “ high society ” stalk .
Why should we expect Stalin to have stood alone with no support and risk being immediately cut down , when his supposed “ allies ” were signing “ appeasements ” and handing over money to what was supposed to be the biggest threat @ @ @ @ @ @ @ high society ” men are used to pulling on strings , they muse themselves as chess masters , yet one never quite knows which side they are playing… And thus , we find ourselves increasingly in the unsettling position of a Winston .
In Orwell ’ s “ 1984 ” , there are three main super states in the world : Oceania , Eurasia and Eastasia that are in one combination or another constantly at war with each other and have been so for the last 25 years .
In the case of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( the British commonwealths and U.S. ) , he knows essentially nothing of either Eurasia or Eastasia , except that sometimes Oceania is at war with Eurasia and sometimes it is at war with Eastasia .
In fact , even this memory , that the enemy is not constant , is not something Winston is supposed to recollect or acknowledge .
Just by doing this very thing , he is committing a “ thoughtcrime ” .
Winston ’ s experience begs the questions , if one were born into a fascist , totalitarian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course , the state itself would not describe itself as such .
How would you be able to compare your “ freedom ” with the “ oppression ” of the enemy , when all you were given was what the state chose to give to you ?
How do you know that what has come to shape your convictions , your beliefs , your fears really belong to you , and were not placed there by another ?
We are all very sensitive to this unsettling question because ironically , that has also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what started this whole business of “ mind control ” , you see , it had to be done…for our “ protection ” .
The Battle for Your Mind William Sargant was a British psychiatrist and , one could say , effectively the Father of “ mind control ” in the West , with connections to British Intelligence and the Tavistock Institute , which would influence the CIA and American military via the program MK Ultra .
Sargant was also an advisor for Ewen Cameron ’ s LSD “ blank slate ” work @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CIA .
Sargant accounts for his reason in studying and using forms of “ mind control ” on his patients , which were primarily British soldiers that were sent back from the battlefield during WWII with various forms of “ psychosis ” , as the only way to rehabilitate extreme forms of PTSD .
The other reason , was because the Soviets had apparently become “ experts ” in the field , and out of a need for national security , the British would thus in turn have to become experts as well…as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The work of Ivan Pavlov , a Russian physiologist , had succeeded in producing some disturbingly interesting insights into four primary forms of nervous systems in dogs , that were combinations of inhibitory and excitatory temperaments ; “ strong excitatory ” , “ balanced ” , “ passive ” and “ calm imperturbable ” .
Pavlov found that depending on the category of nervous system temperament the dog had , this in turn would dictate the form of “ conditioning ” that would work best to “ reprogram behaviour ” .
The relevance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lost on anyone .
It was feared in the West , that such techniques would not only be used against their soldiers to invoke free-flowing uninhibited confessions to the enemy but that these soldiers could be sent back to their home countries , as zombified assassins and spies that could be set off with a simple code word .
At least , these were the thriller stories and movies that were pumped into the population .
How horrific indeed !
That the enemy could apparently enter what was thought the only sacred ground @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” !
However , for those who were actually leading the field in mind control research , such as William Sargant , it was understood that this was not exactly how mind control worked .
For one thing , the issue of “ free will ” was getting in the way .
No matter the length or degree of electro-shock , insulin “ therapy ” , tranquilizer cocktails , induced comas , sleep deprivation , starvation etc induced , it was discovered that if the subject had a “ strong conviction ” and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this could not be simply erased , it could not be written over with any arbitrary thing .
Rather , the subject would have to have the illusion that their “ conditioning ” was in fact a “ choice ” .
This was an extremely challenging task , and long term conversions ( months to years ) were rare .
However , Sargant saw an opening .
It was understood that one could not create a new individual from scratch , however , with the right conditioning that was meant to lead to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effectively a reboot of the nervous system ) , one could increase the “ suggestibility ” markedly in their subjects .
Sargant wrote in his “ Battle of the Mind ” : “ Pavlov ’ s clinical descriptions of the ‘ experimental neuroses ’ which he could induce in dogs proved , in fact , to have a close correspondence with those war-neuroses which we were investigating at the time.
” In addition , Sargant found that a falsely implanted memory could help induce abnormal stress leading to emotional exhaustion and physical breakdown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is , one didn ’ t even need to have a “ real stress ” but an “ imagined stress ” would work just as effectively .
Sargant goes on to state in his book : “ It is not surprising that the ordinary person , in general , is much more easily indoctrinated than the abnormal…A person is considered ‘ ordinary ’ or ‘ normal ’ by the community simply because he accepts most of its social standards and behavioural patterns ; which means , in fact , that he is susceptible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ go with the majority on most ordinary or extraordinary occasions.
” Sargant then goes over the phenomenon of the London Blitz , which was an eight month period of heavy bombing of London during WWII .
During this period , in order to cope and stay “ sane ” , people rapidly became accustomed to the idea that their neighbours could be and were buried alive in bombed houses around them .
The thought was “ If I can ’ t do anything about it what use is it that I trouble myself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coping ” was thus found to be those who accepted the new “ environment ” and just focused on “ surviving ” , and did not try to resist it .
Sargant remarks that it is this “ adaptability ” to a changing environment which is part of the “ survival ” instinct and is very strong in the “ healthy ” and “ normal ” individual who can learn to cope and thus continues to be “ functional ” despite an ever changing environment .
It was thus our deeply programmed “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be the key to the suggestibility of our minds .
That the best “ survivors ” made for the best “ brain-washing ” in a sense .
Sargant quotes Hecker ’ s work , who was studying the dancing mania phenomenon that occurred during the Black Death , where Hecker observed that heightened suggestibility had the capability to cause a person to “ embrace with equal force , reason and folly , good and evil , diminish the praise of virtue as well as the criminality of vice.
” And that such a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first efforts of the infant mind “ this instinct of imitation when it exists in its highest degree , is also united a loss of all power over the will , which occurs as soon as the impression on the senses has become firmly established , producing a condition like that of small animals when they are fascinated by the look of a serpent.
” I wonder if Sargant imagined himself the serpent… Sargant does finally admit : “ This does not mean that all persons can be genuinely indoctrinated by such means @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the demands made on them , and fight again when strength of body and mind returns .
Others are saved by the supervention of madness .
Or the will to resist may give way , but not the intellect itself.
” But he comforts himself as a response to this stubborn resistance that “ As mentioned in a previous context , the stake , the gallows , the firing squad , the prison , or the madhouse , are usually available for the failures.
” Thus what Sargant found , and what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most reliable form of mind control was found to be in the art of “ doublethink ” , that is , the ability to accept two contradictory thoughts in your mind without acknowledging that they are in fact opposites .
Orwell identifies this under two forms of “ doublethink ” , which are “ crimestop ” and “ blackwhite ” .
“ Crimestop ” meaning the faculty of stopping short , as though by instinct , at the threshold of a dangerous thought .
“ Blackwhite ” , is the act of contradiction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ opponent .
And when applied to the Party , it is the willingness to say black is white when the Party discipline demands it so .
That is , it is the Inner Party members who are the most indoctrinated , the best at inducing “ mind control ” or “ doublethink ” on themselves , and at the same time believe that it is the best and right thing to do .
Through the Rabbit Hole and Out Again What many fail to grasp when reading “ 1984 ” is that Orwell @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he is also the character O ’ Brien .
He is the Outer Party member-turned-revolutionary , and he is the Inner Party disciplinarian .
He is simultaneously the tormentor-programmer as well as the tormented-programmed .
Winston eventually breaks and releases the one thing that kept him human , his love and loyalty to Julia .
In the end , an announcement is made that Oceania is ever nearer to winning the war and Winston looks up at a large poster of Big Brother and cries gin-filled tears of joy and relief , for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brother .
He had become O ’ Brien .
Orwell ’ s is a tragic story of a product of the British Empire .
Stationed as a senior police officer in Burma , he had first-hand experience in the “ programmer ” techniques O ’ Brien was using .
Refer to Martin Sieff ’ s excellent article for more of this story .
I think it is safe to say that Orwell intended Big Brother to symbolise the British Empire , the largest empire that has ever existed in world history .
Today @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eastward .
9500 U.S. troops are being removed from Germany with the plan of entering into Eastern Europe near the Russian border and into the Indo-Pacific region , a potential new hot-spot between the U.S. and China .
The justification for this move relies on the WWII and Cold War narrative that Russia and China have always been the enemies of the “ free world ” … that Russia and China have never left their fascist “ ideologies ” that have thrown the entire world into conflict and war for almost a century @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you dear reader , to fill in the rest .

Cynthia Chung
“Politicians, Priests, and psychiatrists often face the same problem: how to find the most rapid and permanent means of changing a man’s belief…The problem of the doctor and his nervously ill patient, and that of the religious leader who sets out to gain and hold new converts, has now become the problem of whole groups of nations, who wish not only to confirm certain political beliefs within their boundaries, but to proselytize the outside world.” William Sargant, “Battle of the Mind”
It is rather ironic that in this “age of information”, we are more confused than ever…
It had been commonly thought in the past, and not without basis, that tyranny could only exist on the condition that the people were kept illiterate and ignorant of their oppression. To recognise that one was “oppressed” meant they must first have an idea of what was “freedom”, and if one were allowed the “privilege” to learn how to read, this discovery was inevitable.
If education of the masses could turn the majority of a population literate, it was thought that the higher ideas, the sort of “dangerous ideas” that Mustapha Mond for instance expresses in “The Brave New World”, would quickly organise the masses and revolution against their “controllers” would be inevitable. In other words, knowledge is freedom, and you cannot enslave those who learn how to “think”.
However, it hasn’t exactly played out that way has it?
The greater majority of us are free to read whatever we wish to, in terms of the once “forbidden books”, such as those listed by The Index Librorum Prohibitorum*. We can read any of the writings that were banned in “The Brave New World”, notably the works of Shakespeare which were named as absolutely dangerous forms of “knowledge”.
We are now very much free to “educate” ourselves on the very “ideas” that were recognised by tyrants of the past as the “antidote” to a life of slavery. And yet, today, the majority choose not to…
It is recognised, albeit superficially, that who controls the past, controls the present and thereby the future. George Orwell’s book “1984”, hammers this as the essential feature that allows the Big Brother apparatus to maintain absolute control over fear, perception and loyalty to the Party cause, and yet despite its popularity, there still remains a lack of interest in actually informing oneself about the past.
What does it matter anyway, if the past is controlled and rewritten to suit the present? As the Big Brother interrogator O’Brien states to Winston, “We, the Party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not? [And thus, are free to rewrite it as we choose…]”
Of course, we are not in the same situation as Winston…we are much better off. We can study and learn about the “past” if we so desire, unfortunately, it is a choice that many take for granted.
In fact, many are probably not fully aware that presently there is a battle waging for who will “control the past” in a manner that is closely resembling a form of “memory wipe”.
There is an especial focus to rewrite the history of WWII at this very moment. These revisionists are attempting to rewrite this history since there lies the root from which today’s fascism stems.
Whoever understands this period of history understands today’s fascism.
The “experts” say that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 23rd 1939 is supposedly “proof” that Stalin supported Hitler’s fascist agenda, and thus the veneer of the Soviet Union being the greatest defender against fascism during WWII is a sham.
However, what is left out of this discussion every time, is that in the previous year, the UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed an appeasement deal with Hitler on September 30th 1938, known as the Munich Agreement (aka the Munich Betrayal), where Hitler demanded and promptly received the annexation of Czech border areas, known as the Sudetenland annexation. It had thus become official British policy to allow Hitler’s expansion of German territory relatively unchecked as part of the “appeasement”.
The “logic” behind it was that Britain would give what Hitler demanded in hopes of “appeasing” his imperial “appetites” and thus avoid further conflict. That is, by giving Hitler more power, it would somehow or other, convince him not to desire more…at least the plan apparently looked good on paper.
Then there is the whole embarrassing affair with the Bank of England and Bank of International Settlements, to which the BoE Governor Montague Norman allowed for the direct transfer of money to Hitler, however, not with England’s own money but rather 5.6 million pounds worth of gold owned by the National Bank of Czechoslovakia! Well, you certainly didn’t think that England would use her own money?
And let us not forget, the Union Banking Corporation, with founding member and director Prescott Bush also caught in the funding of Hitler before and during WWII, and on Oct 20th, 1942 its bank assets were seized under the “U.S. Trading with the Enemy Act” and “Executive Order 9095”.
Of course, you can imagine that being aware of such dealings made Stalin uneasy as it was becoming apparent that Hitler’s vision was shared by others of “high society” stalk.
Why should we expect Stalin to have stood alone with no support and risk being immediately cut down, when his supposed “allies” were signing “appeasements” and handing over money to what was supposed to be the biggest threat to the free world?
Such “high society” men are used to pulling on strings, they muse themselves as chess masters, yet one never quite knows which side they are playing…
And thus, we find ourselves increasingly in the unsettling position of a Winston. In Orwell’s “1984”, there are three main super states in the world: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia that are in one combination or another constantly at war with each other and have been so for the last 25 years.
In the case of Winston, he has only known Oceania (the British commonwealths and U.S.), he knows essentially nothing of either Eurasia or Eastasia, except that sometimes Oceania is at war with Eurasia and sometimes it is at war with Eastasia. In fact, even this memory, that the enemy is not constant, is not something Winston is supposed to recollect or acknowledge. Just by doing this very thing, he is committing a “thoughtcrime”.
Winston’s experience begs the questions, if one were born into a fascist, totalitarian state would they know it? Of course, the state itself would not describe itself as such. How would you be able to compare your “freedom” with the “oppression” of the enemy, when all you were given was what the state chose to give to you?
How do you know that what has come to shape your convictions, your beliefs, your fears really belong to you, and were not placed there by another?
We are all very sensitive to this unsettling question because ironically, that has also been placed in us. It was what started this whole business of “mind control”, you see, it had to be done…for our “protection”.
The Battle for Your Mind
“He whom the gods wish to destroy, they first of all drive mad.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Masque of Pandora”
William Sargant was a British psychiatrist and, one could say, effectively the Father of “mind control” in the West, with connections to British Intelligence and the Tavistock Institute, which would influence the CIA and American military via the program MK Ultra. Sargant was also an advisor for Ewen Cameron’s LSD “blank slate” work at McGill University, funded by the CIA.
Sargant accounts for his reason in studying and using forms of “mind control” on his patients, which were primarily British soldiers that were sent back from the battlefield during WWII with various forms of “psychosis”, as the only way to rehabilitate extreme forms of PTSD.
The other reason, was because the Soviets had apparently become “experts” in the field, and out of a need for national security, the British would thus in turn have to become experts as well…as a matter of self-defence of course.
The work of Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist, had succeeded in producing some disturbingly interesting insights into four primary forms of nervous systems in dogs, that were combinations of inhibitory and excitatory temperaments; “strong excitatory”, “balanced”, “passive” and “calm imperturbable”.
Pavlov found that depending on the category of nervous system temperament the dog had, this in turn would dictate the form of “conditioning” that would work best to “reprogram behaviour”. The relevance to “human conditioning” was not lost on anyone.
It was feared in the West, that such techniques would not only be used against their soldiers to invoke free-flowing uninhibited confessions to the enemy but that these soldiers could be sent back to their home countries, as zombified assassins and spies that could be set off with a simple code word.
At least, these were the thriller stories and movies that were pumped into the population. How horrific indeed! That the enemy could apparently enter what was thought the only sacred ground to be our own…our very “minds”!
However, for those who were actually leading the field in mind control research, such as William Sargant, it was understood that this was not exactly how mind control worked.
For one thing, the issue of “free will” was getting in the way.
No matter the length or degree of electro-shock, insulin “therapy”, tranquilizer cocktails, induced comas, sleep deprivation, starvation etc induced, it was discovered that if the subject had a “strong conviction” and “strong belief” in something, this could not be simply erased, it could not be written over with any arbitrary thing.
Rather, the subject would have to have the illusion that their “conditioning” was in fact a “choice”. This was an extremely challenging task, and long term conversions (months to years) were rare.
However, Sargant saw an opening. It was understood that one could not create a new individual from scratch, however, with the right conditioning that was meant to lead to a physical breakdown using abnormal stress (effectively a reboot of the nervous system), one could increase the “suggestibility” markedly in their subjects.
Sargant wrote in his “Battle of the Mind”: “Pavlov’s clinical descriptions of the ‘experimental neuroses’ which he could induce in dogs proved, in fact, to have a close correspondence with those war-neuroses which we were investigating at the time.”
In addition, Sargant found that a falsely implanted memory could help induce abnormal stress leading to emotional exhaustion and physical breakdown to invoke “suggestibility”. That is, one didn’t even need to have a “real stress” but an “imagined stress” would work just as effectively.
Sargant goes on to state in his book: “It is not surprising that the ordinary person, in general, is much more easily indoctrinated than the abnormal…A person is considered ‘ordinary’ or ‘normal’ by the community simply because he accepts most of its social standards and behavioural patterns; which means, in fact, that he is susceptible to suggestion and has been persuaded to go with the majority on most ordinary or extraordinary occasions.”
Sargant then goes over the phenomenon of the London Blitz, which was an eight month period of heavy bombing of London during WWII. During this period, in order to cope and stay “sane”, people rapidly became accustomed to the idea that their neighbours could be and were buried alive in bombed houses around them.
The thought was “If I can’t do anything about it what use is it that I trouble myself over it?” The best “coping” was thus found to be those who accepted the new “environment” and just focused on “surviving”, and did not try to resist it.
Sargant remarks that it is this “adaptability” to a changing environment which is part of the “survival” instinct and is very strong in the “healthy” and “normal” individual who can learn to cope and thus continues to be “functional” despite an ever changing environment.
It was thus our deeply programmed “survival instinct” that was found to be the key to the suggestibility of our minds. That the best “survivors” made for the best “brain-washing” in a sense.
Sargant quotes Hecker’s work, who was studying the dancing mania phenomenon that occurred during the Black Death, where Hecker observed that heightened suggestibility had the capability to cause a person to “embrace with equal force, reason and folly, good and evil, diminish the praise of virtue as well as the criminality of vice.”
And that such a state of mind was likened to the first efforts of the infant mind “this instinct of imitation when it exists in its highest degree, is also united a loss of all power over the will, which occurs as soon as the impression on the senses has become firmly established, producing a condition like that of small animals when they are fascinated by the look of a serpent.”
I wonder if Sargant imagined himself the serpent…
Sargant does finally admit: “This does not mean that all persons can be genuinely indoctrinated by such means. Some will give only temporary submission to the demands made on them, and fight again when strength of body and mind returns. Others are saved by the supervention of madness. Or the will to resist may give way, but not the intellect itself.”
But he comforts himself as a response to this stubborn resistance that “As mentioned in a previous context, the stake, the gallows, the firing squad, the prison, or the madhouse, are usually available for the failures.”
The Art of Doublethink
“WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”
George Orwell’s “1984” (Big Brother Mantra)
Thus what Sargant found, and what Orwell astutely identified, was that the most reliable form of mind control was found to be in the art of “doublethink”, that is, the ability to accept two contradictory thoughts in your mind without acknowledging that they are in fact opposites.
Orwell identifies this under two forms of “doublethink”, which are “crimestop” and “blackwhite”. “Crimestop” meaning the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of a dangerous thought.
Orwell further states:
It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments…and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop in short, means protective stupidity.”
“Blackwhite”, is the act of contradiction of plain facts, applied to an opponent. And when applied to the Party, it is the willingness to say black is white when the Party discipline demands it so.
As Orwell describes it:
it means the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past…The alteration of the past is necessary for two reasons […] The subsidiary reason is that…he must be cut off from the past, just as he must be cut off from foreign countries, because it is necessary for him to believe that he is better off… [the precautionary reason] by far the more important reason for the readjustment of the past is the need to safeguard the infallibility of the Party.
[…]
The splitting of the intelligence which the Party requires of its members, and which is more easily achieved in an atmosphere of war, is now almost universal, but the higher up the ranks one goes, the more marked it becomes. It is precisely in the Inner Party that war hysteria and hatred of the enemy are strongest.
That is, it is the Inner Party members who are the most indoctrinated, the best at inducing “mind control” or “doublethink” on themselves, and at the same time believe that it is the best and right thing to do.
Orwell describes “doublethink” thus:
The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence guilt…To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink.
Through the Rabbit Hole and Out Again
What many fail to grasp when reading “1984” is that Orwell is not only the character Winston, he is also the character O’Brien. He is the Outer Party member-turned-revolutionary, and he is the Inner Party disciplinarian.
He is simultaneously the tormentor-programmer as well as the tormented-programmed.
Winston eventually breaks and releases the one thing that kept him human, his love and loyalty to Julia. In the end, an announcement is made that Oceania is ever nearer to winning the war and Winston looks up at a large poster of Big Brother and cries gin-filled tears of joy and relief, for he had finally come to love Big Brother.
He had become O’Brien.
Orwell’s is a tragic story of a product of the British Empire. Stationed as a senior police officer in Burma, he had first-hand experience in the “programmer” techniques O’Brien was using. Refer to Martin Sieff’s excellent article for more of this story.
I think it is safe to say that Orwell intended Big Brother to symbolise the British Empire, the largest empire that has ever existed in world history.
Today, NATO is planning on moving further eastward. 9500 U.S. troops are being removed from Germany with the plan of entering into Eastern Europe near the Russian border and into the Indo-Pacific region, a potential new hot-spot between the U.S. and China.
The justification for this move relies on the WWII and Cold War narrative that Russia and China have always been the enemies of the “free world”… that Russia and China have never left their fascist “ideologies” that have thrown the entire world into conflict and war for almost a century.
I will leave it up to you dear reader, to fill in the rest.
Originally published by Strategic Culture
*The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was a list of forbidden books, which were judged to be dangerous to the faith and morals of Roman Catholics, and had a suspicious gravitation towards works by platonic humanists. Among the banned works would include those of Dante, Erasmus and all of Machiavelli’s books. For more refer to my paper on this subject.^


offguardian--2020-08-01--The UK’s “excess deaths” are by far the youngest in Europe. Why?

Unprecedented spike in deaths of 15-44 year olds unlikely to be due to Covid19 The UK ’ s “ excess deaths ” are by far the youngest in Europe .
Why ?
An in-depth look at the mortality statistics in England shows something puzzling : Their reported “ excess deaths ” are much , much younger than the rest of the world , the rest of Europe , and even the rest of the United Kingdom .
Covid19 – like many common respiratory viruses – affects the elderly at a far greater rate than the young .
Worldwide the average @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 80 years old ( in many countries such as Canada and Sweden it is substantially more ) .
When you look at the EuroMomo graphs on mortality you see that the vast majority of “ excess deaths ” fall in the 65+ category .
No countries anywhere show increased mortality in people under 45 .
The five European countries most affected by Covid19 so far are Italy , Spain , Belgium France and the UK .
And here ’ s how mortality for those aged between 15 and 44 was affected in those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
So big it totally shifts the scale on the Y-axis .
It ’ s also unique , not one other European country has a spike in the mortality of 15-44 year olds .
What ’ s absolutely bizarre , is that it ’ s not even ALL the UK .
The other home nations are not affected at all : So what is going on in England ?
Is it entirely due to Covid19 ?
If so , why does it stop so sharply at the borders ?
And why is it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ average age of a British “ covid death ” is over 80 , the same as everywhere else in Europe ?
That implies these “ excess deaths ” may not be being caused by Covid19 at all .
The bottom line is : We have an unprecedented spike in the deaths of 15-44 year olds in England , one that seems to be unique around the world .
Why ?

Unprecedented spike in deaths of 15-44 year olds unlikely to be due to Covid19
The UK’s “excess deaths” are by far the youngest in Europe. Why?
Kit Knightly
An in-depth look at the mortality statistics in England shows something puzzling: Their reported “excess deaths” are much, much younger than the rest of the world, the rest of Europe, and even the rest of the United Kingdom.
Covid19 – like many common respiratory viruses – affects the elderly at a far greater rate than the young. Worldwide the average age of a covid19 death is over 80 years old (in many countries such as Canada and Sweden it is substantially more).
When you look at the EuroMomo graphs on mortality you see that the vast majority of “excess deaths” fall in the 65+ category. No countries anywhere show increased mortality in people under 45.
Except England.
The five European countries most affected by Covid19 so far are Italy, Spain, Belgium France and the UK. And here’s how mortality for those aged between 15 and 44 was affected in those countries…
Belgium:
France:
Italy:
Spain:
….and the UK:
That’s a huge spike. So big it totally shifts the scale on the Y-axis. It’s also unique, not one other European country has a spike in the mortality of 15-44 year olds. What’s absolutely bizarre, is that it’s not even ALL the UK. The other home nations are not affected at all:
So what is going on in England? Is it entirely due to Covid19? If so, why does it stop so sharply at the borders?
And why is it that, despite this spike, the average age of a British “covid death” is over 80, the same as everywhere else in Europe?
That implies these “excess deaths” may not be being caused by Covid19 at all.
The bottom line is: We have an unprecedented spike in the deaths of 15-44 year olds in England, one that seems to be unique around the world. Why?


offguardian--2020-08-02--WATCH: Progressive Hero Margaret Sanger Was a Racist Eugenicist

Cancel Culture is gunning for more statues – this time of Margaret Sanger , the founder of Planned Parenthood .
She is a person who , you could say , deserves it more than most .
Being a eugenicist and a racist who wanted to remove “ diseased and defective ” and other “ weeds ” from the American bloodline .
The news here , rather than someone else being “ cancelled ” , is the U-turn being conducted by the liberal media , who were defending Sanger from accusations of being a eugenicist and racist only four short years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her reputation in 2016 , and Snopes have “ fact-checked ” many claims in their corrupt fashion .
PolitiFact , which we at OffG have recently tangled with , ran a long piece proclaiming assertions Sanger was a racist “ false ” .
Will these people acknowledge the about-face ?
No .
Sanger is a racist now , and has always been a racist .
Just as we have always been at war with East Asia .
Will the people they called “ conspiracy theorists ” get an apology or a re-evaluation ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ racist and eugenicist roots of Planned Parenthood get any kind of examination ?
Don ’ t hold your breath .
Will anyone even DARE to mention that Bill Gate ’ s dad ran Planned Parenthood ?
Never in a million years .
James Corbett ’ s video covers it all , in his usual rational and well-researched approach .
For an audio-only version , plus sources and show-notes , click here .

Cancel Culture is gunning for more statues – this time of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. She is a person who, you could say, deserves it more than most. Being a eugenicist and a racist who wanted to remove “diseased and defective” and other “weeds” from the American bloodline.
The news here, rather than someone else being “cancelled”, is the U-turn being conducted by the liberal media, who were defending Sanger from accusations of being a eugenicist and racist only four short years ago. Time ran an article defending her reputation in 2016, and Snopes have “fact-checked” many claims in their corrupt fashion. PolitiFact, which we at OffG have recently tangled with, ran a long piece proclaiming assertions Sanger was a racist “false”.
Will these people acknowledge the about-face? No. Sanger is a racist now, and has always been a racist. Just as we have always been at war with East Asia.
Will the people they called “conspiracy theorists” get an apology or a re-evaluation? Of course not.
Will the possible racist and eugenicist roots of Planned Parenthood get any kind of examination? Don’t hold your breath.
Will anyone even DARE to mention that Bill Gate’s dad ran Planned Parenthood? Never in a million years.
James Corbett’s video covers it all, in his usual rational and well-researched approach.
For an audio-only version, plus sources and show-notes, click here.


offguardian--2020-08-02--This Week in the Guardian #11

This Week in the Guardian #11

Every week ( or , rather , most weeks , since the coronavirus torpedoed our schedule ) , we like to highlight three or four stories that go full-Guardian , but don ’ t require an entire article of refutation .
We encourage reader-participation here , so if you come across something you feel should be included in the next edition either post a link below , or send us an e-mail .
Wearing a mask is simple , easy and unselfish .
So why wouldn ’ t you ?
The Guardian ’ s resident book critic-slash-blogger wants you to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not to , and someone she apparently knows in Hong Kong wears one all the time , so why shouldn ’ t we all ?
Don ’ t muddy your heads up with the science , or the hard questions of civil rights and individual sovereignty , just wear the damn mask .
Apparently it ’ s really important .
Who will choose the next US president – the American people , or Facebook ?
Jonathan Freedland is the Guardian ’ s worst of the worst .
Everything every other Guardian columnist does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He is unendingly smug , belligerently dishonest and incredibly hypocritical .
Happy to cheer on war one week , and then mournfully chide warmongers the next .
To attack “ tyrants ” who are an enemy to democracy in one breath , and call for massive restrictions of civil liberties without a pause .
This week his problem is with tech giants , most specifically Facebook .
He thinks they have too much power…and they aren ’ t using it .
I didn ’ t completely understand it either .
Basically , he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he doesn ’ t say that ’ s what he ’ s doing , but he ’ s doing it nonetheless .
Freedland thinks Facebook is giving a platform to people who don ’ t deserve it , and in turn exposing too many people to “ misinformation ” and “ hate ” ( the two terms are very much interchangeable apparently ) .
If Facebook don ’ t use the power they shouldn ’ t have to stop people saying things Jonathan doesn ’ t like , well then World governments should @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being a dangerous monopoly : Of course , if social media companies refuse to “ give a platform to hate ” , well then they aren ’ t a dangerous monopoly , and the government can leave them alone .
You ’ d be forgiven for thinking it ’ s a threat .
Because that ’ s exactly what it is .
The four types of climate denier , and why you should ignore them all This is what we ’ ve come to in the Western press .
Long screeds of smug @ @ @ @ @ @ @ huge swaths of the population who have done nothing but disagree with you…and then , without a shred of irony , accusing them of being unreasonable .
It ’ s not everyone who ’ d be ballsy enough to try the “ Everyone who disagrees with me is wrong , but proving that is a waste of my time !
” line of argument , but the Graun ’ s Environmental editor is here to cast hubris to the wind and give it the old-fashioned college try .
Undeniably certain to get you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( from people who are likewise absolutely positive they ’ re correct but just don ’ t have the time to actually prove it ) , this line of argument is not without drawbacks .
Not least of which is perhaps the smallest danger of seeming to come over as a little smug or arrogant to some of the “ shills , egomaniacs and fools ” who are inclined to disagree with you .
A real cynic might go so far as to suggest bluster and abuse is a cover for a weak @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the subject matter .
This is about the destruction of ethical debate .
The complete disregard for honest discussion , and the attack on the right to disagree .
It is through this undermining of the idea of civilised discourse that propagandists generate a fake “ consensus ” .
Anybody who steps outside this “ consensus ” is summarily “ othered ” , de-humanised and dismissed .
It happens all the time .
It happens with climate change , it happened with the Ukrainian coup in 2014 , it happened with the Skripal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it happening live with the “ pandemic ” .
Even those people who should know better , who work in independent media , are not immune .
We at OffG have been black-balled by erstwhile colleagues for daring to host articles on both sides of certain issues , and blocked and abused by others for our editorial line on Covid19 .
These are anti-rational positions , ones which – right or wrong – poison the fabric of society by eating away at some of the core ideas behind human civilisation : Free expression @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Whatever the subject – whether its climate change , or racism , or Russia or Covid19 – there is NEVER an excuse to exclude people from the debate , to use abuse in place of argument , or to refuse to engage in civilised discourse .
…and we ’ re back to masks again .
Man , they really want people to wear these .
Even if you have to make your own out of a handkerchief and an elastic band ( both famous for their anti-microbial properties ) .
Appearing first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ updated since , the “ What kind of mask do I need ?
” page of the Guardian is a contradictory delight .
For starters , never once do they question whether you even need to wear a mask , despite substantial scientific evidence that they do nothing at all .
Indeed , until very recently , the WHO was recommending only symptomatic people should wear them .
Other papers have basically found they do nothing to halt the spread of the flu .
You can ignore all that , the Guardian sure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of your old t-shirts or strap a kleenex to your face with some hair ties , and – BINGO – you ’ re virus proof .
Just make sure you wash your hands before AND after you cut up that t-shirt that ’ s been sitting in your dresser for years , with all your other clothes , and tie it to your face .
All told , a busy week for The Guardian .
And we didn ’ t even cover that Papua New Guinea ’ s Covid cases have DOUBLED IN @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or the now-routine sexism in the name of anti-sexism .
Did we miss anything ?
Tell us about it in the comments below , and keep an eye out for articles that should go in the next issue .

Every week (or, rather, most weeks, since the coronavirus torpedoed our schedule), we like to highlight three or four stories that go full-Guardian, but don’t require an entire article of refutation.
We encourage reader-participation here, so if you come across something you feel should be included in the next edition either post a link below, or send us an e-mail.
The Guardian’s resident book critic-slash-blogger wants you to wear masks. It’s selfish not to, and someone she apparently knows in Hong Kong wears one all the time, so why shouldn’t we all?
Don’t muddy your heads up with the science, or the hard questions of civil rights and individual sovereignty, just wear the damn mask. Apparently it’s really important.
Jonathan Freedland is the Guardian’s worst of the worst. Everything every other Guardian columnist does, Freedland does more and worse. He is unendingly smug, belligerently dishonest and incredibly hypocritical. Happy to cheer on war one week, and then mournfully chide warmongers the next. To attack “tyrants” who are an enemy to democracy in one breath, and call for massive restrictions of civil liberties without a pause.
This week his problem is with tech giants, most specifically Facebook. He thinks they have too much power…and they aren’t using it. I didn’t completely understand it either.
Basically, he’s attacking free speech. Obviously he doesn’t say that’s what he’s doing, but he’s doing it nonetheless.
Freedland thinks Facebook is giving a platform to people who don’t deserve it, and in turn exposing too many people to “misinformation” and “hate” (the two terms are very much interchangeable apparently).
If Facebook don’t use the power they shouldn’t have to stop people saying things Jonathan doesn’t like, well then World governments should step in and break them up for being a dangerous monopoly:
At the moment, the social media giants enjoy legal protection from such liability in the US. Politicians could change that […] and break the big companies’ “monopolisation of information” by legislating a citizens’ right to donate their own data to smaller organisations […] elected representatives are not powerful enough to do that alone. They’d have to work together, governments across the globe. They’d need the backing of advertisers, withdrawing their pounds and dollars from companies that give a platform to hate.
Of course, if social media companies refuse to “give a platform to hate”, well then they aren’t a dangerous monopoly, and the government can leave them alone.
You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a threat. Because that’s exactly what it is.
This is what we’ve come to in the Western press. Long screeds of smug prose making offensive and malignant generalisations about huge swaths of the population who have done nothing but disagree with you…and then, without a shred of irony, accusing them of being unreasonable.
It’s not everyone who’d be ballsy enough to try the “Everyone who disagrees with me is wrong, but proving that is a waste of my time!” line of argument, but the Graun’s Environmental editor is here to cast hubris to the wind and give it the old-fashioned college try.
Undeniably certain to get you lots of Twitter shares and Facebook likes (from people who are likewise absolutely positive they’re correct but just don’t have the time to actually prove it), this line of argument is not without drawbacks. Not least of which is perhaps the smallest danger of seeming to come over as a little smug or arrogant to some of the “shills, egomaniacs and fools” who are inclined to disagree with you.
A real cynic might go so far as to suggest bluster and abuse is a cover for a weak argument.
This isn’t about the subject matter. This is about the destruction of ethical debate. The complete disregard for honest discussion, and the attack on the right to disagree.
It is through this undermining of the idea of civilised discourse that propagandists generate a fake “consensus”. Anybody who steps outside this “consensus” is summarily “othered”, de-humanised and dismissed.
It happens all the time.
It happens with climate change, it happened with the Ukrainian coup in 2014, it happened with the Skripal “poisoning” and you can see it happening live with the “pandemic”.
Even those people who should know better, who work in independent media, are not immune. We at OffG have been black-balled by erstwhile colleagues for daring to host articles on both sides of certain issues, and blocked and abused by others for our editorial line on Covid19.
These are anti-rational positions, ones which – right or wrong – poison the fabric of society by eating away at some of the core ideas behind human civilisation: Free expression, mutual respect, and honest argument.
Whatever the subject – whether its climate change, or racism, or Russia or Covid19 – there is NEVER an excuse to exclude people from the debate, to use abuse in place of argument, or to refuse to engage in civilised discourse.
…and we’re back to masks again. Man, they really want people to wear these. Even if you have to make your own out of a handkerchief and an elastic band (both famous for their anti-microbial properties).
Appearing first back in May, and being regularly updated since, the “What kind of mask do I need?” page of the Guardian is a contradictory delight. For starters, never once do they question whether you even need to wear a mask, despite substantial scientific evidence that they do nothing at all. Indeed, until very recently, the WHO was recommending only symptomatic people should wear them. Other papers have basically found they do nothing to halt the spread of the flu.
You can ignore all that, the Guardian sure does. Instead just cut up some of your old t-shirts or strap a kleenex to your face with some hair ties, and – BINGO – you’re virus proof. Just make sure you wash your hands before AND after you cut up that t-shirt that’s been sitting in your dresser for years, with all your other clothes, and tie it to your face.
* * *
All told, a busy week for The Guardian. And we didn’t even cover that Papua New Guinea’s Covid cases have DOUBLED IN A WEEK!…from 30 to 60, or the now-routine sexism in the name of anti-sexism .
Did we miss anything? Tell us about it in the comments below, and keep an eye out for articles that should go in the next issue.


offguardian--2020-08-03--America’s Frontline Doctors’ website removed after viral video censored

As Global Research reported , America ’ s Frontline Doctors held a press conference on Capitol Hill on Monday .
Over 17 million people watched the video ( above ) before YouTube , Twitter and Facebook gave it the “ misinformation ” stamp of disapproval and deleted it .
Yet another censored video exposing the COVID charade .
No big surprise… But then I tried to visit the organization ’ s website and was met with the following message : “ Website expired.
” Their site is ( was ) hosted by SquareSpace .
I have not yet found any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ companies Acceptable Use Policy seems pretty reasonable .
Nonetheless , point 3.1 is wide open for any sort of censorship , forbidding : Public health authorities would likely deem the main message of America ’ s Frontline Doctors as “ false.
” In their press conference they state that hydroxychloroquine ( when combined with zinc ) is a safe and effective drug in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 .
This anti-malaria drug has been used for decades to treat auto-immune conditions .
Personally , I haven ’ t had much interest in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ halo that COVID-19 has been an exceptionally deadly virus ( rather than no worse than a bad flu season ) .
I also think that lifestyle choices offer more protection – such as getting sufficient sleep ( e.g .
don ’ t drink coffee ) , proper diet , fresh air , exercise and intermittent fasting .
That said , this drug may offer the extra boost elderly and immune-compromised people need in surviving any respiratory illness .
Also , most people don ’ t live a healthy lifestyle and would rather rely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And I ’ d much rather see people having the option to voluntary take a moderate dose of hydroxychloroquine every few days ; rather than all of us being forced to take a rushed and improperly tested COVID-19 vaccine every few months .
“ I have personally treated over 350 patients with COVID-19 from all ages and with all kinds of pre-existing medical conditions , ” Dr. Stella Immanuel said at the conference .
“ I have put them on hydroxychloroquine , zinc and Zithromax and they are all well .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as a preventative measure and none of us has gotten sick .
It works !
One pill of hydroxychloroquine every other week would be sufficient as a preventative measure against COVID .
No lockdowns , social distancing or masks are needed.
” “ There is plenty of published data which shows that hydroxychloroquine could have saved 70,000 to 100,000 lives , ” said Dr. Simone Gold .
“ The mainstream media has not mentioned even one of these studies.
” “ Hydroxychloroquine is a very safe and effective drug when taken at the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Urso .
“ The test trials that reported harmful reactions were done at extremely high doses which is why they didn ’ t work or even caused the symptoms to worsen.
” According to various sources the drug is available over-the-counter in Iran and South America .
While in New York state , considered the epicentre of COVID deaths in the USA , the governor is reported to have placed an “ executive order prohibiting pharmacists from dispensing the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine outside a hospital or inpatient setting to treat the novel coronavirus.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ not recommend , nor discourage , the use of hydroxychloroquine , I ’ m all for doctors and patients having the freedom to use this drug if they see fit .
If it is as effective as America ’ s Frontline Doctors claim , I assume its presence would certainly help dissipate the hysteria used to justify mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations .
And , while it may seem a step backwards that their website was taken down , the opposite may be true .
As Fast Company says : John C. A. Manley has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doctors , as well as naturopaths , chiropractors and Ayurvedic physicians .
He publishes the COVID-19 ( 84 ) Red Pill Daily Briefs – an email-based newsletter dedicated to preventing the governments of the world from using an exaggerated pandemic as an excuse to violate our freedom , health , privacy , livelihood and humanity .
He is also writing a novella , COVID-27 : A Dystopian Love Story .
Visit his website at : MuchAdoAboutCorona.ca

John C. A. Manley
As Global Research reported, America’s Frontline Doctors held a press conference on Capitol Hill on Monday. Over 17 million people watched the video (above) before YouTube, Twitter and Facebook gave it the “misinformation” stamp of disapproval and deleted it.
Yet another censored video exposing the COVID charade. No big surprise… But then I tried to visit the organization’s website and was met with the following message: “Website expired.”
Their site is (was) hosted by SquareSpace. I have not yet found any explanation for the take-down. The hosting companies Acceptable Use Policy seems pretty reasonable. Nonetheless, point 3.1 is wide open for any sort of censorship, forbidding:
anything that’s false, fraudulent, inaccurate or deceiving.”
Public health authorities would likely deem the main message of America’s Frontline Doctors as “false.” In their press conference they state that hydroxychloroquine (when combined with zinc) is a safe and effective drug in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. This anti-malaria drug has been used for decades to treat auto-immune conditions.
Personally, I haven’t had much interest in the drug. It lends to the halo that COVID-19 has been an exceptionally deadly virus (rather than no worse than a bad flu season). I also think that lifestyle choices offer more protection – such as getting sufficient sleep (e.g. don’t drink coffee), proper diet, fresh air, exercise and intermittent fasting.
That said, this drug may offer the extra boost elderly and immune-compromised people need in surviving any respiratory illness. Also, most people don’t live a healthy lifestyle and would rather rely on a drug to keep them well. And I’d much rather see people having the option to voluntary take a moderate dose of hydroxychloroquine every few days; rather than all of us being forced to take a rushed and improperly tested COVID-19 vaccine every few months.
“I have personally treated over 350 patients with COVID-19 from all ages and with all kinds of pre-existing medical conditions,” Dr. Stella Immanuel said at the conference. “I have put them on hydroxychloroquine, zinc and Zithromax and they are all well. I and many other doctors have taken hydroxychloroquine as a preventative measure and none of us has gotten sick. It works! One pill of hydroxychloroquine every other week would be sufficient as a preventative measure against COVID. No lockdowns, social distancing or masks are needed.”
“There is plenty of published data which shows that hydroxychloroquine could have saved 70,000 to 100,000 lives,” said Dr. Simone Gold. “The mainstream media has not mentioned even one of these studies.”
“Hydroxychloroquine is a very safe and effective drug when taken at the right dosages,” said Dr Richard Urso. “The test trials that reported harmful reactions were done at extremely high doses which is why they didn’t work or even caused the symptoms to worsen.”
Dr. James Todaro agreed:
“If it seems like there is an orchestrated attack against hdroxychloroquine it’s because there is. A 65-year-old medication that has been on the WHO’s safe essential list for years […] A Google document that I co-authored on the safety and effectiveness of hdroxychloroquine has been taken down by Google. A lot of misinformation out there that has reached the highest orders of medicine.”
According to various sources the drug is available over-the-counter in Iran and South America. While in New York state, considered the epicentre of COVID deaths in the USA, the governor is reported to have placed an “executive order prohibiting pharmacists from dispensing the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine outside a hospital or inpatient setting to treat the novel coronavirus.”
So while I’d personally not recommend, nor discourage, the use of hydroxychloroquine, I’m all for doctors and patients having the freedom to use this drug if they see fit.
If it is as effective as America’s Frontline Doctors claim, I assume its presence would certainly help dissipate the hysteria used to justify mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.
And, while it may seem a step backwards that their website was taken down, the opposite may be true. As Fast Company says:
…such moves could backfire by feeding into a common narrative among conspiracy theorists that they are being silenced.”
John C. A. Manley has spent over a decade ghostwriting for medical doctors, as well as naturopaths, chiropractors and Ayurvedic physicians. He publishes the COVID-19(84) Red Pill Daily Briefs – an email-based newsletter dedicated to preventing the governments of the world from using an exaggerated pandemic as an excuse to violate our freedom, health, privacy, livelihood and humanity. He is also writing a novella, COVID-27: A Dystopian Love Story. Visit his website at: MuchAdoAboutCorona.ca


offguardian--2020-08-04--Discuss: Huge Explosion Shakes Beirut

Discuss: Huge Explosion Shakes Beirut

A massive explosion has taken place in Beirut , Lebanon , destroying buildings and sending up huge clouds of smoke @ @ @ @ @ flooded with eye-witness videos and cell-phone footage : Some early reports have suggested the blast @ @ @ @ @ in a shipment of fireworks , which then spread to a nitrate warehouse : However @ @ @ @ @ called it a “ national disaster ” and likened it to the nuclear bombings of @ @ @ @ @ seem to suggest a greater impact than a simple industrial accident .
Some have speculated @ @ @ @ @ , but no one has claimed responsibility and there is no confirmed political target .
@ @ @ @ @ but they have not admitted it and – again – there doesn ’ t seem @ @ @ @ @ strategic target in place .
Both Hezbollah and Israel have denied any involvement .
We @ @ @ @ @ as news emerges .
Discuss freely below .

A massive explosion has taken place in Beirut, Lebanon, destroying buildings and sending up huge clouds of smoke.
Social media has been flooded with eye-witness videos and cell-phone footage:
Some early reports have suggested the blast was result of a fire in a shipment of fireworks, which then spread to a nitrate warehouse:
Lebanese Army source just told me no cause confirmed yet for explosions in Beirut but possibly a "container of fireworks was burning and the fire spread to reach a nitrate warehouse that led to this massive explosions." — Abby Sewell (@sewella) August 4, 2020
However, the governer of Beirut called it a “national disaster” and likened it to the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima Nagasaki:
#Beirut governor calls the explosion a national disaster and compares it to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks. pic.twitter.com/Dayo0938w9 — Sarah Abdallah (@sahouraxo) August 4, 2020
…which would seem to suggest a greater impact than a simple industrial accident.
Some have speculated it was a terrorist attack, but no one has claimed responsibility and there is no confirmed political target.
Others have suggested Israel, but they have not admitted it and – again – there doesn’t seem to be a political or strategic target in place.
Let's not beat around the bush on the #beirut bombing. The Israelis have been attacked Syria multiple times this week. It's possible they had false intel that there was something more than fireworks in that warehouse. They won't admit to the attack too many civilian casualties. pic.twitter.com/52edUT5u0u — Syrian Girl (@Partisangirl) August 4, 2020
Both Hezbollah and Israel have denied any involvement.
We’ll update this thread as news emerges. Discuss freely below.


offguardian--2020-08-05--5 Ways “The New Normal” is Getting Worse and Worse

From mandatory masks to mandatory tests to mandatory track-and-trace , the roll-out is on .
It ’ s been a big few days for the New Normal narrative and , through the deliberately cultivated haze of confusion , it ’ s not hard to see the world they want to build is taking shape .
The state of Victoria , and the city of Melbourne , have declared a “ state of disaster ” and instituted a lockdown and curfew .
The state ’ s 6.3 million inhabitants , nearly 5 million in the city , have to follow these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are not deemed essential will close or reduce their hours from Wednesday midnight but services such as supermarkets , petrol stations and doctors will remain open .
• “ Permitted ” or essential workers will have to carry a special permit to work outside the home .
• There is a nightly curfew in force : between the hours of 8pm and 5am you can not leave home except for work or to get or provide urgent care .
• You must stay within five kilometres of your home to shop or exercise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to exercise , it should be for only one hour each day .
• While up to two people can still exercise together , people should shop on their own – groups in public , even from the same household , are no longer allowed .
• Schools will shift to remote learning except for vulnerable students and children of permitted workers .
• Childcare centres will close to all but vulnerable children and those of essential workers .
• Funerals can continue with a maximum of 10 people but weddings are off @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Since march , Australia has had 247 Covid19 deaths , across the entire country .
The median age of these deaths is over 80 .
2 .
UK Dcotor : “ Men should take female hormones to prevent Covid19 infection ” Dr Amir Khan appeared on ITV ’ s Good Morning Britain today , suggesting men – who are notionally at increased risk of coronavirus infection – should take a contraceptive pill filled with oestrogen .
His theory , which he did not support with research , is that the oestrogen will boost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a big deal , potentially dangerous and seriously life-changing .
To suggest its use to treat a disease which is harmless in over 95 % of cases is borderline insanity , especially with no research to back it up .
We tweeted about at the time , but GMB ’ s twitter account has since deleted the video .
At a time when doctors are named-and-shamed ( and even fired ) for suggesting a known safe medicine like HCQ , or sites like ours are branded “ misinformation ” for pointing out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a man should appear on national television making such ridiculous claims boggles the mind .
Dr Deborah Birx recently announced that people in high-risk areas or multi-generational homes should consider wearing masks at home as well .
Elsewhere , The Guardian ran an article titled “ You ’ re already wearing a mask – now consider a face shield and goggles ” , which echoes Dr Fauci claiming that “ perfect ” virus protection would involve wearing visors or googles over your eyes .
It has since been confirmed genuine .
In the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ going door-to-door to test people .
The mayor of Leicester said on the Leicester council website : That ’ s not all the testing news either , new 90 minute tests are set to be used in schools as soon as possible , with a DNA based test set to be rolled out nation wide in September which will “ eliminate false negatives ” .
There is not one word in the article about “ eliminating ” false positives , which are very common in all PCR-based testing .
So prepare for a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when these tests enter wide circulation .
If you don ’ t like being forced to wear masks ( and/or visors ) , or being placed under house arrest or ( for some reason ) under a curfew , or indeed , having to take hormone treatments…well don ’ t worry .
Because the World Economic Forum has the solution – immunity passports .
This is not a new idea , it ’ s been floating around for months , but now the WEF is actually pushing an app that… It goes on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ app is the only solution to getting everything back to ( the old ) normal : If you think this all sounds like something from a dystopian novel , well you ’ re right .
But there ’ s a silver lining .
The app which uses your medical history to decide if you ’ re allowed to travel will be real environmentally friendly : So there ’ s that , at least .
It ’ s not hard to see the pattern taking shape here .
Increasingly strict social controls on what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ go , when you can go there and so on and so on…and then the proposed solution .
A brief test and a little app that tracks your movement , or labels you nice and clean , a brand new vaccination for anybody who wants it ( and most of the people who don ’ t ) and then we can get back to normal .
It is manipulative blackmail of the worst kind , and it appears to be working .

From mandatory masks to mandatory tests to mandatory track-and-trace, the roll-out is on.
Kit Knightly
It’s been a big few days for the New Normal narrative and, through the deliberately cultivated haze of confusion, it’s not hard to see the world they want to build is taking shape.
1. Australia’s Curfew
The state of Victoria, and the city of Melbourne, have declared a “state of disaster” and instituted a lockdown and curfew. The state’s 6.3 million inhabitants, nearly 5 million in the city, have to follow these restrictions:
Workplaces and shops that are not deemed essential will close or reduce their hours from Wednesday midnight but services such as supermarkets, petrol stations and doctors will remain open.
“Permitted” or essential workers will have to carry a special permit to work outside the home.
There is a nightly curfew in force: between the hours of 8pm and 5am you cannot leave home except for work or to get or provide urgent care.
You must stay within five kilometres of your home to shop or exercise.
If you leave the house to exercise, it should be for only one hour each day.
While up to two people can still exercise together, people should shop on their own – groups in public, even from the same household, are no longer allowed.
Schools will shift to remote learning except for vulnerable students and children of permitted workers.
Childcare centres will close to all but vulnerable children and those of essential workers.
Funerals can continue with a maximum of 10 people but weddings are off except for rare, compassionate reasons.
Since march, Australia has had 247 Covid19 deaths, across the entire country. The median age of these deaths is over 80.
2. UK Dcotor: “Men should take female hormones to prevent Covid19 infection”
Dr Amir Khan appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain today, suggesting men – who are notionally at increased risk of coronavirus infection – should take a contraceptive pill filled with oestrogen. His theory, which he did not support with research, is that the oestrogen will boost the male immune system.
Hormone treatment is a big deal, potentially dangerous and seriously life-changing. To suggest its use to treat a disease which is harmless in over 95% of cases is borderline insanity, especially with no research to back it up. We tweeted about at the time, but GMB’s twitter account has since deleted the video.
At a time when doctors are named-and-shamed (and even fired) for suggesting a known safe medicine like HCQ, or sites like ours are branded “misinformation” for pointing out that PCR tests are unreliable, that a man should appear on national television making such ridiculous claims boggles the mind.
3. Mandatory Masks Weren’t Enough
Dr Deborah Birx recently announced that people in high-risk areas or multi-generational homes should consider wearing masks at home as well.
Elsewhere, The Guardian ran an article titled “You’re already wearing a mask – now consider a face shield and goggles”, which echoes Dr Fauci claiming that “perfect” virus protection would involve wearing visors or googles over your eyes.
4. Door to Doors tests in Leicester
Independent Journalist Anna Brees recently posted this image to twitter:
It has since been confirmed genuine. In the UK city of Leicester they are literally going door-to-door to test people. The mayor of Leicester said on the Leicester council website:
Testing is vitally important as it provides us with the information we need to track the virus […] That’s why we’re helping to run the biggest testing operation in the country, mobilising around 500 volunteers to support door-to-door testing, particularly in areas of the city where positive test results have been higher.
That’s not all the testing news either, new 90 minute tests are set to be used in schools as soon as possible, with a DNA based test set to be rolled out nation wide in September which will “eliminate false negatives”.
There is not one word in the article about “eliminating” false positives, which are very common in all PCR-based testing. So prepare for a huge wave of “new cases” when these tests enter wide circulation.
5. World Economic Forum pushing “immunity passports”
If you don’t like being forced to wear masks (and/or visors), or being placed under house arrest or (for some reason) under a curfew, or indeed, having to take hormone treatments…well don’t worry. Because the World Economic Forum has the solution – immunity passports.
This is not a new idea, it’s been floating around for months, but now the WEF is actually pushing an app that…
uses blockchain technology to store encrypted data from individual blood tests, allowing users to prove that they have tested negative for COVID-19.
It goes on to say that using this kind of app is the only solution to getting everything back to (the old) normal:
CovidPass could also allow hotels, cinemas, theatres, sporting and concert venues to reopen safely.
If you think this all sounds like something from a dystopian novel, well you’re right. But there’s a silver lining. The app which uses your medical history to decide if you’re allowed to travel will be real environmentally friendly:
CovidPass commits to mandatory carbon offsetting for each flight passenger, to preserve the environmental benefits of reduced air travel during the crisis.
So there’s that, at least.
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It’s not hard to see the pattern taking shape here. Increasingly strict social controls on what you can wear, where you can go, when you can go there and so on and so on…and then the proposed solution.
A brief test and a little app that tracks your movement, or labels you nice and clean, a brand new vaccination for anybody who wants it (and most of the people who don’t) and then we can get back to normal.
It is manipulative blackmail of the worst kind, and it appears to be working.