offguardian--2020-12-03--7 Things That Used to Be “Crazy Conspiracy Theories”….Until 2020 Happened

Remember back in the old days of , say , 2019 , when anyone who talked about microchip implants , Americans being forced to show travel papers , and re-education camps was thought to be a crazy conspiracy theorist ?
And then 2020 rolled around and voila !
It turns out those conspiracy theories weren ’ t so “ crazy ” after all .
And I ’ m not just talking about the government releasing info about UFOs .
We ’ re living in a time when someone will attempt to beat the crap out of you , burn your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if you voted for the “ wrong ” presidential candidate .
We ’ re being subjected to curfews , our movement is restricted , and our businesses have been forcibly shut down .
One day , people will look back on this as the year that everything changed – or depending on how Americans respond to the mandates – the year we finally said enough .
Here are seven things that were considered crazy conspiracy theories…until now , when they ’ re becoming far too real .
Did you ever really think we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the government would tell private business owners when and how they could operate ?
Where workers would be told , “ You can no longer go to work for your own good ?
” Well , welcome to 2020 .
22 million jobs were lost and only 42 % of those were recovered by last August , when the country began to reopen .
Millions of lost jobs were permanent losses , as businesses across the country fold under the weight of the restrictions that either don ’ t allow them to operate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ customers .
Of the businesses that have closed , many will never reopen .
Most harshly affected were small businesses .
So we have not only people who became unemployed , but we also have business owners who ’ ve lost everything .
As we go into the second round of lockdowns across the United States , it ’ s not a stretch of the imagination to think that some of the small businesses that have thus far managed to stay afloat will succumb to the economic effects of these mandates…taking with them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people into poverty .
Poverty is a vicious cycle and one seemingly small thing can suck those who are struggling into a vortex of fees and penalties from which emerging seems impossible .
I ’ ve written about my own experiences with poverty here .
The concern is that even fewer people will recover financially after this round of government mandates , leaving even more Americans broke , hungry , and homeless .
But don ’ t worry – the government is here to help and I mean that in the President Reagan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a “ stimulus ” check to everyone in America , gave such huge unemployment money to people that they made more staying home than they did going to work , and went so much deeper into debt that the number is simply unfathomable .
In effect , they paid people not to work .
And it isn ’ t the fault of those people in most cases – the government forced their places of employment to close unless it was considered “ essential.
” And that sounds a whole lot like Universal Basic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ call it , modern feudalism .
Quite a few people are ready to give up their freedom so that someone else can take care of them .
They don ’ t think they ’ re giving up freedom .
They ’ re convinced that they are embracing a smart , fair system that eliminates poverty .
The greed , entitlement , and lack of ambition that seems inherent in many people today will have them slipping on the yoke of servitude willingly .
They feel like they deserve a living just for drawing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reads , “ A Universal Basic Income Is the Utopia We Deserve.
” The idea of a universal basic income for all citizens has been catching on all over the world .
Is it too crazy to believe in ?
We spoke to the author of a new book on the ins , outs , and utopian dreams of making basic income a reality .
The basic income movement got a significant boost this week when the charity GiveDirectly announced that it will be pursuing a ten-year , $ 30 million pilot project @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a basic income and studying its effects .
As an anti-poverty solution , universal basic income appeals to impoverished people in Africa , relatively well-off Scandinavians , and Americans automated out of their jobs alike .
Sure , money for nothing sounds great on the surface .
But what would the real result of a Universal Basic Income be ?
UBI would fast-track us back to the feudalism of the Middle Ages .
Sure , we ’ d be living in slick , modern micro-efficiencies instead of shacks .
We ’ d have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ raising sheep for the lord of the manor .
But , in the end , we wouldn ’ t actually own anything because private property would be abolished for all but the ruling class .
We ’ d no longer have the ability to get ahead in life .
Our courses would be set for us and veering off of those courses would be harshly discouraged .
People will be completely dependent on the government and ruling class for every necessity : food , shelter , water , clothing .
What better way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ necessary for survival ?
[ source ] With this second round of lockdowns how many more jobs will go permanently down the tubes ?
What are all those people going to do for food ?
For rent ?
The government is going to give them money .
And we can ’ t even argue , really , because everyone knows someone who has lost a job they had for decades and who can ’ t find other work .
They might call it something else , but Universal Basic Income is coming .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Don ’ t be ridiculous .
We ’ ll never have to show our “ papers ” to travel freely in the United States .
Not until a COVID pandemic with all its subsidiary restrictions occurred .
Back in March , days after I warned about the first lockdown , I wrote : For everyone who thought the article about the Lockdown of America was a “ hysterical overstatement ” and that they could still do whatever they wanted because it wasn ’ t really being enforced , what are you thinking now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ handed out ?
To me , this sounds like the lockdowns I wrote of yesterday were just the first incremental step toward a society that nobody hopes to see .
Yesterday , readers sent me photos of “ travel papers ” provided to them by employers so they could get to and from work .
These are employees who work in industries like healthcare , pharmacies , and foodservice , as well as those who work in the production , transport , and sales of essential supplies .
One reader wrote , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we got stopped on the way to or from work and that if the authorities gave us any trouble , to not argue and just go back home.
” Papers that people sent were from Pennsylvania , New York , Arizona , Michigan , North Carolina , Kansas , New Jersey , West Virginia , Virginia , Oregon , Florida , Louisiana , and Ohio .
Industries mentioned in the papers were trucking , grocery stores , medical clinics , hospitals , nursing homes , city transit workers , railroads , food production @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stores like Target and Walmart , and automotive repair facilities .
Most people were given their papers on Friday or Saturday and told they ’ d need them to get to and from work starting the week ahead .
You can see some of the papers that people sent me here .
“ Don ’ t be silly .
Nobody is actually tracking you with your phone .
You ’ re not Jason Bourne.
” Whoops .
2020 proved that was a lie when they rolled out contact tracing apps to make sure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ air as somebody who got a positive COVID test .
So…if you have a smartphone , rest assured , at some point you ’ re probably going to have an app like this forcibly installed during one of those relentless updates .
Of course , they ’ ll say that the app is just the framework and you have to enable it for it to work .
Oh , wait , they already said that .
After installing “ the framework.
” Somehow , the United States ran out of change .
There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ while .
Bloomberg reported in August : This had a lot of people concerned , especially since Venezuela used COVID to push citizens toward a cashless society .
Here in the United States , the “ change shortage ” was so extensive is caused many stores to give you your change on a store loyalty card or invite you to donate that change to some cause .
A true cashless society would allow significant control over our day to day lives .
See this article for some of the totalitarian ways it would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on , touting it as a way to “ save ” us all from COVID .
Robert Wheeler wrote : But governments aren ’ t having to market the chip as a method to track , trace , and control their populations .
Instead , they are marketing the chip as a way to track and detect COVID and other coronaviruses .
Clearly , this is a much easier sell to a public literally terrorized by their governments and mainstream media outlets for the last six months .
Raul Diego details the creation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in his article , “ A DARPA-Funded Implantable Microchip to Detect COVID-19 Could Hit Markets By 2021 , ” where he writes , The most significant scientific discovery since gravity has been hiding in plain sight for nearly a decade and its destructive potential to humanity is so enormous that the biggest war machine on the planet immediately deployed its vast resources to possess and control it , financing its research and development through agencies like the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) , the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA @ @ @ @ @ @ @ revolutionary breakthrough came to a Canadian scientist named Derek Rossi in 2010 purely by accident .
The now-retired Harvard professor claimed in an interview with the National Post that he found a way to “ reprogram ” the molecules that carry the genetic instructions for cell development in the human body , not to mention all biological lifeforms .
These molecules are called ‘ messenger ribonucleic acid ’ or mRNA and the newfound ability to rewrite those instructions to produce any kind of cell within a biological organism has radically changed the course @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if no one has really noticed yet .
As Rossi , himself , puts it : “ The real important discovery here was you could now use mRNA , and if you got it into the cells , then you could get the mRNA to express any protein in the cells , and this was the big thing.
” The microchip talk died down but the fact it as even a discussion and topic of COVID research should be troubling .
Anyway , after the initial microchip hubbub , the push got redirected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back when nobody thought that adults would ever be forced to take vaccines except for “ crazy conspiracy theorists ?
” Well , that day is coming sooner than many people expect .
A much-heralded COVID vaccine could be rolled out in a matter of days .
Pfizer and BioNTech have both concluded Phase 3 of rushing their jabs to market .
There are still many , many questions .
The return to many of our old familiar ways will take time , and how much time remains unclear .
The answers await @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they can be distributed and how many people are willing to get them .
“ A vaccine won ’ t be available immediately for everybody , ” says Arthur Reingold , a professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health at the University of California , Berkeley… … “ It probably will take four to six months , ” he says .
“ What that says to me is that people will have to keep wearing masks at least until spring .
We won ’ t be in a magically different situation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t see how that can possibly happen.
” Equally important are the unknowns about the vaccines themselves .
Scientists still don ’ t know how long vaccine-induced protection will last , for example , or whether inoculations can block actual infection , or only prevent the onset of disease .
If the latter turns out to be the case , meaning the vaccines keep us from getting sick , but not infected , we still could be infectious to others .
Until we know , don ’ t toss those masks into @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who chairs Mayo Clinic ’ s covid-19 task force , says the return of any normal activities depends on numerous factors , including how many people get vaccinated .
“ The only possibility that life will return to normal by summer is if the majority of the population receives the vaccines by then and the early efficacy data is borne out in ongoing studies , ” he says .
He adds , however : “ I think it is unlikely we will be able to vaccinate the majority of the population by then.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that “ the majority ” of the population gets the vaccines ?
It ’ ll start out easy – there are tons of people who will gladly roll up their sleeves to get a vaccination that was rushed to market with no testing on the long-term effects .
And then , the rest of us will be coerced by being unable to go to work , to a concert , to school , or into a public building without proof we ’ ve been vaccinated .
YOU WALK TOWARD the arena , ready @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hand .
But what you see is a long line wrapping around the corner of the building and a bottleneck at the entrance as people search their pockets and purses for a small piece of paper .
To be cleared to enter , you ’ ll also need that document—proof that you ’ ve received a COVID-19 vaccination .
This is the future as some experts see it : a world in which you ’ ll need to show you ’ ve been inoculated against the novel coronavirus to attend a sports game @ @ @ @ @ @ @ work , or hop on a train .
“ We ’ re not going to get to the point where the vaccine police break down your door to vaccinate you , ” says Arthur Caplan , a bioethicist at New York University ’ s School of Medicine .
But he and several other health policy experts envision vaccine mandates could be instituted and enforced by local governments or employers—similar to the current vaccine requirements for school-age children , military personnel , and hospital workers… …The mandates can be directed toward customers , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bar shoeless and shirtless clients from entering their restaurants , salons , arenas , and stores , they can legally keep people out for any number of reasons , “ as long as they ’ re not running afoul of any antidiscrimination laws , ” says Dorit Rubinstein Reiss , a professor of health and vaccine law at the University of California , Hastings College of the Law .
When a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available , some experts think states will require targeted industries to enforce vaccine mandates for their employees , especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as “ essential workers.
” “ Grocery store workers get exposed to a lot of people , but also have the chance to infect a lot of people because of the nature of their work and the fact that virtually everybody needs to buy food , ” says Carmel Shachar , executive director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy , Biotechnology , and Bioethics at Harvard Law School .
Hospitality industry workers—those who work in restaurants , bars , and coffee shops , for example—could also see similar mandates .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s interest to make sure that their workplace is protected and that you can ’ t infect your colleagues , ” Shachar says .
“ Having a widely accessible vaccine gets a lot of employers out of having to control their clients ’ behavior.
” And with a vaccinated workforce , “ you don ’ t need to worry if the people you ’ re serving at the restaurant have COVID-19.
” Even the general public could be incentivized to get vaccinated .
“ Oddly enough , the best way to impose a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ freedom if they follow that mandate , ” Caplan says .
For example , with proof of inoculation , you would be able to attend a sporting event “ as a reward for doing the right thing , ” he says .
“ And I can imagine people saying , If you want to go to my restaurant , my bowling alley , or my tattoo parlor , then I want to see a vaccine certificate , too.
” Booster shots could also be required , depending on the efficacy of future vaccines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you feel all warm and fuzzy inside how all these experts are planning to force an unwilling populace to accept an untested vaccine ?
It ’ s all for our own good , you know .
Remember how we all used to joke about being put into FEMA camps ?
Well… Finally , for those of us who believed these conspiracy theories were conspiracy facts all along – oh – and for Trump voters – there ’ s the discussion about how to re-educate us so we can rejoin society .
In a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the dark side of some “ well-educated ” Democrats who were sincerely trying to figure out how to redeem those of us who did not vote for Joe Biden .
Of course , he doesn ’ t really mean re-education camps .
Of course not .
And Laura found she bit off a bit more than she intended to chew .
So of course she blamed non-Americans .
( Probably those darned Russians , right ? )
Welcome to my inbox for the past 8 years , Laura .
Every time I have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I ’ ve been barraged with “ creative ” rape threats with a vast variety of implements and violent threats by the “ peaceful ” left .
People have wished my children dead in a school shooting .
So cry me a river , Laura , if your “ thoughtful discussion ” of putting me and people like me into anti-cult deprogramming in a gulag put you in an unpleasant position .
Trust me , you get used to it .
Heck , you might even begin to understand why I ’ m @ @ @ @ @ @ @ theories have been proven true this year ?
Is it just me or has 2020 been like reading every “ crazy conspiracy ” rabbit hole on the internet while dropping acid ?
Except you can ’ t come down from the trip because it ’ s all actually happening .
As the insanity continues , make sure you have this book to help you get prepared .
What other former “ wacky ” theories have become fact this year ?
Share your thoughts in the comments .
Daisy Luther is a blogger who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ frugality , voluntaryism , and the pursuit of liberty on her website , The Organic Prepper .
She is widely republished across alternative media and is the best-selling author of 4 books .
She lives in the mountains of Virginia with her two daughters and an ever-growing menagerie .
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Daisy Luther
Remember back in the old days of, say, 2019, when anyone who talked about microchip implants, Americans being forced to show travel papers, and re-education camps was thought to be a crazy conspiracy theorist? And then 2020 rolled around and voila! It turns out those conspiracy theories weren’t so “crazy” after all.
And I’m not just talking about the government releasing info about UFOs.
We’re living in a time when someone will attempt to beat the crap out of you, burn your house down, or even kill you if you voted for the “wrong” presidential candidate. We’re being subjected to curfews, our movement is restricted, and our businesses have been forcibly shut down. One day, people will look back on this as the year that everything changed – or depending on how Americans respond to the mandates – the year we finally said enough.
Here are seven things that were considered crazy conspiracy theories…until now, when they’re becoming far too real.
1. Universal Basic Income
Did you ever really think we’d live in a country where the government would tell private business owners when and how they could operate? Where workers would be told, “You can no longer go to work for your own good?”
Well, welcome to 2020.
22 million jobs were lost and only 42% of those were recovered by last August, when the country began to reopen. Millions of lost jobs were permanent losses, as businesses across the country fold under the weight of the restrictions that either don’t allow them to operate or the money problems of their former customers.
“It’s clear that the pandemic is doing some fundamental damage to the job market,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody’s Analytics. “A lot of the jobs lost aren’t coming back any time soon. The idea that the economy is going to snap back to where it was before the pandemic is clearly not going to happen.” …More than 10 million Americans are currently categorized as temporarily out of work. But historically, nearly 30% of people who tell the Labor Department that they are temporarily unemployed never get their job back, said Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank. “Even though we don’t know if the historical record will hold in this case, it’s an extremely valid concern that not all of those people are going to get called back,” she said. People who are counting on businesses reopening their doors may be surprised to find that a temporary loss has become permanent one, said Zandi. [source]
Of the businesses that have closed, many will never reopen. Most harshly affected were small businesses.
About 60% of businesses that have closed during the coronavirus pandemic will never reopen, and restaurants have suffered the most, according to new data from Yelp. [source]
So we have not only people who became unemployed, but we also have business owners who’ve lost everything. As we go into the second round of lockdowns across the United States, it’s not a stretch of the imagination to think that some of the small businesses that have thus far managed to stay afloat will succumb to the economic effects of these mandates…taking with them even more jobs and plunging even more people into poverty.
Poverty is a vicious cycle and one seemingly small thing can suck those who are struggling into a vortex of fees and penalties from which emerging seems impossible. I’ve written about my own experiences with poverty here. The concern is that even fewer people will recover financially after this round of government mandates, leaving even more Americans broke, hungry, and homeless.
But don’t worry – the government is here to help and I mean that in the President Reagan threatening kind of way. They provided a “stimulus” check to everyone in America, gave such huge unemployment money to people that they made more staying home than they did going to work, and went so much deeper into debt that the number is simply unfathomable.
In effect, they paid people not to work. And it isn’t the fault of those people in most cases – the government forced their places of employment to close unless it was considered “essential.”
And that sounds a whole lot like Universal Basic Income. Or as I like to call it, modern feudalism.
Quite a few people are ready to give up their freedom so that someone else can take care of them. They don’t think they’re giving up freedom. They’re convinced that they are embracing a smart, fair system that eliminates poverty. The greed, entitlement, and lack of ambition that seems inherent in many people today will have them slipping on the yoke of servitude willingly. They feel like they deserve a living just for drawing breath. As Gawker’s headline reads, “A Universal Basic Income Is the Utopia We Deserve.” The idea of a universal basic income for all citizens has been catching on all over the world. Is it too crazy to believe in? We spoke to the author of a new book on the ins, outs, and utopian dreams of making basic income a reality. The basic income movement got a significant boost this week when the charity GiveDirectly announced that it will be pursuing a ten-year, $30 million pilot project giving a select group of Kenyan villagers a basic income and studying its effects. As an anti-poverty solution, universal basic income appeals to impoverished people in Africa, relatively well-off Scandinavians, and Americans automated out of their jobs alike. Sure, money for nothing sounds great on the surface. But what would the real result of a Universal Basic Income be? Feudalism. Serfdom. Enslavement. UBI would fast-track us back to the feudalism of the Middle Ages. Sure, we’d be living in slick, modern micro-efficiencies instead of shacks. We’d have some kind of modern job instead of raising sheep for the lord of the manor. But, in the end, we wouldn’t actually own anything because private property would be abolished for all but the ruling class. We’d no longer have the ability to get ahead in life. Our courses would be set for us and veering off of those courses would be harshly discouraged. People will be completely dependent on the government and ruling class for every necessity: food, shelter, water, clothing. What better way to assert control than to make compliance necessary for survival? [source]
With this second round of lockdowns how many more jobs will go permanently down the tubes? What are all those people going to do for food? For rent? The government is going to give them money. And we can’t even argue, really, because everyone knows someone who has lost a job they had for decades and who can’t find other work.
They might call it something else, but Universal Basic Income is coming. And it’s coming soon.
2. Travel Papers
Don’t be ridiculous. We’ll never have to show our “papers” to travel freely in the United States.
Doh.
Not until a COVID pandemic with all its subsidiary restrictions occurred. Back in March, days after I warned about the first lockdown, I wrote:
For everyone who thought the article about the Lockdown of America was a “hysterical overstatement” and that they could still do whatever they wanted because it wasn’t really being enforced, what are you thinking now that “travel papers” are being handed out? To me, this sounds like the lockdowns I wrote of yesterday were just the first incremental step toward a society that nobody hopes to see. Yesterday, readers sent me photos of “travel papers” provided to them by employers so they could get to and from work. These are employees who work in industries like healthcare, pharmacies, and foodservice, as well as those who work in the production, transport, and sales of essential supplies. One reader wrote, “We were told to show these if we got stopped on the way to or from work and that if the authorities gave us any trouble, to not argue and just go back home.” Papers that people sent were from Pennsylvania, New York, Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, Kansas, New Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia, Oregon, Florida, Louisiana, and Ohio. Industries mentioned in the papers were trucking, grocery stores, medical clinics, hospitals, nursing homes, city transit workers, railroads, food production plants, pharmacies, gas stations, stores like Target and Walmart, and automotive repair facilities. Most people were given their papers on Friday or Saturday and told they’d need them to get to and from work starting the week ahead. [source]
You can see some of the papers that people sent me here.
3. Mandatory GPS tracking of humans
“Don’t be silly. Nobody is actually tracking you with your phone. You’re not Jason Bourne.”
Whoops. 2020 proved that was a lie when they rolled out contact tracing apps to make sure you didn’t breathe the same air as somebody who got a positive COVID test.
Not only do sick or potentially sick people need to worry about being phoned or questioned by contact tracers, but there’s also a whole new world of dystopian technology being rapidly developed. Apple and Google formed a partnership to develop a phone app with the potential to monitor one-third of the world’s population. The Australian government has developed an app called COVIDSafe to “protect you, your family and friends and save the lives of other Australians. The more Australians connect to the COVIDSafe app, the quicker we can find the virus.” In fact, all sorts of potentially invasive new technology tools are springing up to “fight COVID.” Some use AI to detect signs of COVID and the Department of Defense is deploying thermal imaging to detect signs of COVID. These things won’t just go away when the pandemic is over. If they’re in use for a year or two years – however long this virus is with us – chances are, they’re here to stay. [source]
So…if you have a smartphone, rest assured, at some point you’re probably going to have an app like this forcibly installed during one of those relentless updates. Of course, they’ll say that the app is just the framework and you have to enable it for it to work. Oh, wait, they already said that. After installing “the framework.”
4. Cashless societies
Somehow, the United States ran out of change. There were no coins to be had…anywhere…for a while. Bloomberg reported in August:
As if a deep recession and a never-ending pandemic wasn’t enough, the U.S. now faces another crisis: a coin shortage. Thanks to the lockdowns, fewer coins are in circulation, leaving businesses unable to make change when customers hand over paper money.
[source]
This had a lot of people concerned, especially since Venezuela used COVID to push citizens toward a cashless society. Here in the United States, the “change shortage” was so extensive is caused many stores to give you your change on a store loyalty card or invite you to donate that change to some cause.
A true cashless society would allow significant control over our day to day lives. See this article for some of the totalitarian ways it would affect us.
5. Microchips
Darpa got involved early on, touting it as a way to “save” us all from COVID. Robert Wheeler wrote:
But governments aren’t having to market the chip as a method to track, trace, and control their populations. Instead, they are marketing the chip as a way to track and detect COVID and other coronaviruses. Clearly, this is a much easier sell to a public literally terrorized by their governments and mainstream media outlets for the last six months. Raul Diego details the creation and coming rollout of the new biochip in his article, “A DARPA-Funded Implantable Microchip to Detect COVID-19 Could Hit Markets By 2021,” where he writes, The most significant scientific discovery since gravity has been hiding in plain sight for nearly a decade and its destructive potential to humanity is so enormous that the biggest war machine on the planet immediately deployed its vast resources to possess and control it, financing its research and development through agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and HHS’ BARDA. The revolutionary breakthrough came to a Canadian scientist named Derek Rossi in 2010 purely by accident. The now-retired Harvard professor claimed in an interview with the National Post that he found a way to “reprogram” the molecules that carry the genetic instructions for cell development in the human body, not to mention all biological lifeforms. These molecules are called ‘messenger ribonucleic acid’ or mRNA and the newfound ability to rewrite those instructions to produce any kind of cell within a biological organism has radically changed the course of Western medicine and science, even if no one has really noticed yet. As Rossi, himself, puts it: “The real important discovery here was you could now use mRNA, and if you got it into the cells, then you could get the mRNA to express any protein in the cells, and this was the big thing.” [Source]
The microchip talk died down but the fact it as even a discussion and topic of COVID research should be troubling. Anyway, after the initial microchip hubbub, the push got redirected toward our next conspiracy theory.
6. Mandatory vaccines
Remember back when nobody thought that adults would ever be forced to take vaccines except for “crazy conspiracy theorists?” Well, that day is coming sooner than many people expect.
A much-heralded COVID vaccine could be rolled out in a matter of days. Pfizer and BioNTech have both concluded Phase 3 of rushing their jabs to market. There are still many, many questions.
The return to many of our old familiar ways will take time, and how much time remains unclear. The answers await more research into the vaccines, how they can be distributed and how many people are willing to get them. “A vaccine won’t be available immediately for everybody,” says Arthur Reingold, a professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley… …“It probably will take four to six months,” he says. “What that says to me is that people will have to keep wearing masks at least until spring. We won’t be in a magically different situation by February or March. I don’t see how that can possibly happen.” Equally important are the unknowns about the vaccines themselves. Scientists still don’t know how long vaccine-induced protection will last, for example, or whether inoculations can block actual infection, or only prevent the onset of disease. If the latter turns out to be the case, meaning the vaccines keep us from getting sick, but not infected, we still could be infectious to others. Until we know, don’t toss those masks into the trash… …Andrew Badley, an immunovirologist who chairs Mayo Clinic’s covid-19 task force, says the return of any normal activities depends on numerous factors, including how many people get vaccinated. “The only possibility that life will return to normal by summer is if the majority of the population receives the vaccines by then and the early efficacy data is borne out in ongoing studies,” he says. He adds, however: “I think it is unlikely we will be able to vaccinate the majority of the population by then.” [source]
And how will they make sure that “the majority” of the population gets the vaccines? It’ll start out easy – there are tons of people who will gladly roll up their sleeves to get a vaccination that was rushed to market with no testing on the long-term effects. And then, the rest of us will be coerced by being unable to go to work, to a concert, to school, or into a public building without proof we’ve been vaccinated.
YOU WALK TOWARD the arena, ready for a big game, tickets in hand. But what you see is a long line wrapping around the corner of the building and a bottleneck at the entrance as people search their pockets and purses for a small piece of paper. To be cleared to enter, you’ll also need that document—proof that you’ve received a COVID-19 vaccination. This is the future as some experts see it: a world in which you’ll need to show you’ve been inoculated against the novel coronavirus to attend a sports game, get a manicure, go to work, or hop on a train. “We’re not going to get to the point where the vaccine police break down your door to vaccinate you,” says Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University’s School of Medicine. But he and several other health policy experts envision vaccine mandates could be instituted and enforced by local governments or employers—similar to the current vaccine requirements for school-age children, military personnel, and hospital workers… …The mandates can be directed toward customers, as well. Just as business owners can bar shoeless and shirtless clients from entering their restaurants, salons, arenas, and stores, they can legally keep people out for any number of reasons, “as long as they’re not running afoul of any antidiscrimination laws,” says Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, a professor of health and vaccine law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. When a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available, some experts think states will require targeted industries to enforce vaccine mandates for their employees, especially those we’ve come to know as “essential workers.” “Grocery store workers get exposed to a lot of people, but also have the chance to infect a lot of people because of the nature of their work and the fact that virtually everybody needs to buy food,” says Carmel Shachar, executive director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Hospitality industry workers—those who work in restaurants, bars, and coffee shops, for example—could also see similar mandates. “It’s in an employer’s interest to make sure that their workplace is protected and that you can’t infect your colleagues,” Shachar says. “Having a widely accessible vaccine gets a lot of employers out of having to control their clients’ behavior.” And with a vaccinated workforce, “you don’t need to worry if the people you’re serving at the restaurant have COVID-19.” Even the general public could be incentivized to get vaccinated. “Oddly enough, the best way to impose a mandate is to reward people with more freedom if they follow that mandate,” Caplan says. For example, with proof of inoculation, you would be able to attend a sporting event “as a reward for doing the right thing,” he says. “And I can imagine people saying, If you want to go to my restaurant, my bowling alley, or my tattoo parlor, then I want to see a vaccine certificate, too.” Booster shots could also be required, depending on the efficacy of future vaccines. [source]
Doesn’t it just make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside how all these experts are planning to force an unwilling populace to accept an untested vaccine? It’s all for our own good, you know.
7. Re-education camps
Remember how we all used to joke about being put into FEMA camps? Well…
Finally, for those of us who believed these conspiracy theories were conspiracy facts all along – oh – and for Trump voters – there’s the discussion about how to re-educate us so we can rejoin society.
In a Twitter thread run amok, we saw the dark side of some “well-educated” Democrats who were sincerely trying to figure out how to redeem those of us who did not vote for Joe Biden.
No seriously…how *do* you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook? We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan. Or the failures of Reconstruction in the South. — David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 18, 2020
I know conservatives are upset by some of the responses here. And yeah, many are out of line. But what do you expect people to do in self-preservation? The Right has been running 4 years on “fuck your feelings, my conspiracy theories are valid opinions, and we have more guns.” — David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 19, 2020
Thank you for starting this conversation. Ignoring the propaganda and disinformation problem would be a grave mistake. We should already have a plan to combat it. Simply replacing the President does nothing. We need actual deprogramming efforts, & we should consult cult experts. — Laura Miers (@LauraMiers) November 18, 2020
Of course, he doesn’t really mean re-education camps. Of course not.
And no, of course I’m not advocating “re-education camps” or anything like that. The point is that conservative infotainment is disinformation propaganda indistuinguishable from cult programming, and social media algorithms enable it. — David Atkins (@DavidOAtkins) November 19, 2020
And Laura found she bit off a bit more than she intended to chew. So of course she blamed non-Americans. (Probably those darned Russians, right?)
If anyone is interested in how these attacks work, see the below tweets. Suggesting public health measures or combatting propaganda brings trolls by the hundreds. It’s not organic, it’s organized. Information warfare. It has a chilling effect on speech, which is the point. https://t.co/1rEwPsz8zB — Laura Miers (@LauraMiers) November 19, 2020
I’m not really sure how we go about combatting propaganda, disinformation, & hate when those who speak out on social media are targeted with tsunamis of hate, death & rape threats. I’ve never encountered it at this magnitude. It started after the election. — Laura Miers (@LauraMiers) November 19, 2020
Welcome to my inbox for the past 8 years, Laura. Every time I have posted a pro-gun, pro-self-defense article, I’ve been barraged with “creative” rape threats with a vast variety of implements and violent threats by the “peaceful” left. People have wished my children dead in a school shooting. So cry me a river, Laura, if your “thoughtful discussion” of putting me and people like me into anti-cult deprogramming in a gulag put you in an unpleasant position.
Trust me, you get used to it. Heck, you might even begin to understand why I’m a gun owner.
What other conspiracy theories have been proven true this year?
Is it just me or has 2020 been like reading every “crazy conspiracy” rabbit hole on the internet while dropping acid? Except you can’t come down from the trip because it’s all actually happening. As the insanity continues, make sure you have this book to help you get prepared.
What other former “wacky” theories have become fact this year? Share your thoughts in the comments.
Originally published on The Organic Prepper
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Daisy Luther is a blogger who writes about current events, preparedness, frugality, voluntaryism, and the pursuit of liberty on her website, The Organic Prepper. She is widely republished across alternative media and is the best-selling author of 4 books. She lives in the mountains of Virginia with her two daughters and an ever-growing menagerie. You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter.


offguardian--2020-12-04--WATCH: Trump’s Censored Speech

WATCH: Trump’s Censored Speech

The media refusing to air the President ’ s allegations of vote rigging is an open display of who REALLY runs the country On Wednesday , December 2nd Donald Trump – the sitting President of the United State of America – released a 46 minute recorded speech .
In an alarming display of co-ordinated censorship , much of the media simply refused to air it .
In the speech ( embedded above ) he details all the suspicious behaviour surrounding the November 3rd election , as well as showing charts of evidence of peculiar activity in the vote counts of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ major networks aired it in full .
CNN simply refused to broadcast even clips , instead letting the millionaire son of a political dynasty lecture the viewing public in a bizarre ten-minute long abuse-laden rant .
Twitter and Facebook stuck “ fact-check ” warnings under anyone attempting to share it while papers like the Guardian or Independent post mocking summaries without ever showing – or even linking to – the original .
If you want to actually see the speech in full you have search out smaller youtube channels , or go to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a copy while you can , it is likely to become hard to find .
There ’ s also a transcript here . )
Their defense of this overt censorship is that Trump is “ endangering lives ” and/or “ encouraging violence ” by calling the legitimacy of the vote into question .
Such claims were never made about claims Putin ’ s Russia had rigged the vote for Trump .
In fact , Russiagate nonsense was spouted nightly by every major news outlet in the country , if not the world .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ s no denying the hard truth of it : The mainstream media are actively and openly engaged in the wholesale censorship of an elected head of state .
Deliberately crippling the ability of an elected leader to communicate with the public .
Whether or not the vote was rigged – and there is more than enough reason to think that it was – the behaviour of the media is verging on the kind of co-ordinated gagging you would expect to happen during a palace coup .
Even if you hate Trump and love @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t care about the vote and count all modern democracy a sham , there ’ s a coup going on here that ’ s bigger than just who gets to sit in the Oval office : The billionaire owners of the media are deciding what you can and can not see .
Granting themselves a monopoly on “ truth ” and usurping the power of the ordinary citizen to inform themselves and make a reasoned decision Rigged vote or not , what ’ s left of our crumbling democratic freedoms has never been @ @ @ @

The media refusing to air the President’s allegations of vote rigging is an open display of who REALLY runs the country
On Wednesday, December 2nd Donald Trump – the sitting President of the United State of America – released a 46 minute recorded speech. In an alarming display of co-ordinated censorship, much of the media simply refused to air it.
In the speech (embedded above) he details all the suspicious behaviour surrounding the November 3rd election, as well as showing charts of evidence of peculiar activity in the vote counts of key swing states.
None of the major networks aired it in full. CNN simply refused to broadcast even clips, instead letting the millionaire son of a political dynasty lecture the viewing public in a bizarre ten-minute long abuse-laden rant.
Twitter and Facebook stuck “fact-check” warnings under anyone attempting to share it while papers like the Guardian or Independent post mocking summaries without ever showing – or even linking to – the original.
If you want to actually see the speech in full you have search out smaller youtube channels, or go to C-SPAN. (We would suggest downloading a copy while you can, it is likely to become hard to find. There’s also a transcript here.)
Their defense of this overt censorship is that Trump is “endangering lives” and/or “encouraging violence” by calling the legitimacy of the vote into question. Such claims were never made about claims Putin’s Russia had rigged the vote for Trump. In fact, Russiagate nonsense was spouted nightly by every major news outlet in the country, if not the world.
However they justify to themselves there’s no denying the hard truth of it: The mainstream media are actively and openly engaged in the wholesale censorship of an elected head of state. Deliberately crippling the ability of an elected leader to communicate with the public.
Whether or not the vote was rigged – and there is more than enough reason to think that it was – the behaviour of the media is verging on the kind of co-ordinated gagging you would expect to happen during a palace coup.
Even if you hate Trump and love Biden, even if you don’t care about the vote and count all modern democracy a sham, there’s a coup going on here that’s bigger than just who gets to sit in the Oval office:
The billionaire owners of the media are deciding what you can and cannot see. Granting themselves a monopoly on “truth” and usurping the power of the ordinary citizen to inform themselves and make a reasoned decision
Rigged vote or not, what’s left of our crumbling democratic freedoms has never been in more danger.


offguardian--2020-12-05--WATCH: Your Guide to the Great Monetary Reset

WATCH : Your Guide to the Great Monetary Reset Do you know what it means when the Managing Director of @ @ @ @ @ “ new Bretton Woods moment ?
” How about when the head of the BIS @ @ @ @ @ power that digital currencies will afford the central bankers ?
Well , you ’ re @ @ @ @ @ t miss this info-packed edition of The Corbett Report podcast where James peels back the @ @ @ @ @ reset onion and uncovers the New World ( Monetary ) Order .
For links to @ @ @ @ @ an audio-only version , click here .

WATCH: Your Guide to the Great Monetary Reset
Do you know what it means when the Managing Director of the IMF warns of a “new Bretton Woods moment?”
How about when the head of the BIS revels in the total surveillance power that digital currencies will afford the central bankers?
Well, you’re about to.
Don’t miss this info-packed edition of The Corbett Report podcast where James peels back the layers of the great currency reset onion and uncovers the New World (Monetary) Order.
For links to sources, show notes and an audio-only version, click here.


offguardian--2020-12-05--Together But Falling Apart

Together But Falling Apart

2020 staggers on , each month becoming more bleak , tiresome and increasingly onerous .
In the early winter months we paid scant attention to the Coronavirus story developing in China .
And why should we have ?
After SARS , almost twenty years ago , then minor scares such as Swine Flu , Ebola , Zika Virus , Flesh Eating disease , along with past potential terrors like Avian Flu and Foot and Mouth Disease , there was no reason to think this was anything but another sensationalized false alarm .
Indeed , an honest investigation , not even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have demonstrated that this was the case .
However , the last nine months have been nothing but an absolutely dedicated , well organized and diligent global effort to re-brand the common flu as a devasting pandemic just barely under control .
We have been asked to turn to some of the most trusted people in our civil society , Doctors and Professors , the types of professionals whom we would least expect to lie to us or to deliberately mislead us .
They have sworn an oath to heal , to do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the search for the truth , borne out of diligent research and a rigorous scrutiny of the data .
If they gravely and repeatedly tell us that we are at great risk and that things can and will get much , much worse very quickly then who are we to question their wisdom and their warnings ?
The suddenness and unrelenting persistence of this great Covid lie wears us all down .
We were caught off guard by this deception here in Ontario , Canada .
Just before the annual , week-long March @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Premier Doug Ford ( just think of one of the Pigs from “ Animal Farm ” ) to continue with our travel plans , all will be fine .
Just days later the closures started and the sloganeering began : “ Flatten the curve ” , “ We ’ re all in this together ” , “ The New Normal ” .
All empty , hollow utterances that allowed people to avoid really thinking about what was really happening .
In Ontario , those of us who still dare to question this narrative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It is amazing to see how quickly people have chosen their side on this matter and how unwavering their devotion to their cause can be .
Whether it is a shut down for two weeks , 4 weeks , 3 months , masks all the time , everything closed or even an experimental vaccine , it does not matter .
“ We ’ re all in this together ” .
Anyone who disagrees is either reckless , selfish , stupid or all of the above .
This other ‘ reckless ’ point of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Prominent Scientists and Virologists are ignored in the media for voicing a dissenting opinion , even the most moderate voices of dissent are ridiculed .
The Great Barrington Declaration , with an extremely reasonable and balanced plea for reason in dealing with CV-19 , has been savaged in the press because some journalists were able to add some absurdly fake names to an online form that anyone could sign .
I was impressed enough by the open letter published in September from almost 2,000 Belgian Medical Doctors & Health Professionals that I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very smart and well-educated people , who did not doubt the Covid narrative .
The response , when I enquired of one of them , was that “ it was too long , [ he ] did not read it ” .
His underlying message was clear , he was not going to consider anything beyond the boundaries established by the press .
If the Economist or The Atlantic magazine supported the Covid narrative then it must be so .
If you chose to consider anything outside these boundaries you were either misled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , I was branded a conspiracy theorist a long time ago amongst family and friends because I passionately argue against the official narrative for 9/11 .
These obvious controlled demolitions , along with all of the other evidence of this carefully coordinated operation – the subterfuge , the impossible coincidences , the great effort to cover it up – was irrefutable proof in my mind , if you would just consider it .
The parallels of CV-19 to 9/11 are both terrifying and , I am ashamed to say it , reassuring .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ events of 9/11 became even more difficult to comprehend with the addition of the Anthrax attacks and the Belt-Way sniper that followed .
Covid-19 has been overshadowed in some of the same ways , with the Black Lives Matter riots and the extended , ridiculous spectacle that is the Presidential Illusion of Choice , held sacred by so many Americans .
As a result , it is hard to remain focused on anything ; the world seems to be coming apart at its seams , yet the deliberate rips , the shoddy stitching @ @ @ @ @ @ @ obvious enough , if you bother to look .
Much like the Project for a New American Century , a policy document that detailed the need for an event like 9/11 and the sweeping , imperialist opportunities that would result , we now have ‘ The Great Reset ’ .
A chance to ‘ Build Back Better ’ an equitable and improved society for all , governed by a few .
Trying to connect these plans to CV-19 instantly makes one a conspiracy theorist , even though these strategic plans do exist .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and easy enough to read .
When you point out the obvious benefits that overreaching control and an obscene global theft of power and money will impart to a select few , it doesn ’ t matter .
You are merely someone who sees a conspiracy in everything .
With 9/11 the world had changed for ever , they said , and in many ways it certainly has .
For most of us – complacent , docile Europeans and North Americans – well , we just generally went back to life as it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sheer ignorance ( usually a bit of both ) , we supported new wars of occupation in the middle east , the massive increases in military spending and huge new encumbrances on our personal freedoms .
The worst outcome of 9/11 was that several countries were illegally invaded and brutally occupied with millions upon millions dying and suffering as a result .
For most of “ us ” this did not matter , as daily life was still the same .
We still had our jobs , our holidays and leisure , our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our futures .
After a few years , when I finally made sense of this great 9/11 lie , I still did not do much differently .
I would argue with friends and family about what had really happened on that day , and I lost faith in much of the media and government I had formerly trusted .
But , in the end , I still supported the system and benefited from it .
I feel ashamed of wishing for these same types of selfish outcomes with CV-19 .
Even though the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to fight this re-branded flu , perhaps it will still be ok in the end ?
Money is just a modern faith-based system these days anyways .
If we can believe in Bit-Coin , the vast labyrinth of Derivatives and Credit Default Swaps , then why can ’ t we just add a lot more cash to the mix if we need it ?
Most of us are too young to have ever experienced inflation .
Isn ’ t that economic reality just for mismanaged countries like Zimbabwe and Argentina anyways ?
Perhaps @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t be that intrusive and , after all , our phones violate our privacy every minute they are switched on as it is .
Could this ‘ new normal ’ be any worse ?
Perhaps the covid vaccine is just a cash grab for big Pharma , like the flu vaccine or the HPV vaccine ?
Products we never wanted nor needed , that required a campaign of coercion and fear mongering to produce any real demand .
With the CV-19 disinformation campaign waging on a global stage , they seem to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a double-dose vaccine at $ 39.00 USD per serf .
That is close to 120 Billion dollars… Surely , that might be enough to tide over the pharmaceutical industry for a few years , until Covid-20 ?
Perhaps they will achieve a balance : enough people willing or compliant enough to be vaccinated yearly , and a media/medical establishment willing to proclaim that the covid scourge is over for now ?
I really don ’ t believe this will happen , yet I still selfishly hope that this covid era will end , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without masks , that they will be able to take part in after-school activities and that their future still holds many exciting possibilities and paths .
I hate fearing that the world will suddenly be redefined as a global , technocratic state where diversity becomes equality , families become individuals and the truth , or even just a difference of opinion , becomes a violation of ‘ community guidelines ’ .
It has now been nine months .
The fear , uncertainty and self doubt I have about this situation and my future @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grown extremely weary of sharing relevant articles and interviews that I am certain will alarm and enrage , only to find out they have fallen on deaf ears – unwatched , unread or simply dismissed .
It makes me wonder , who am I to think I am smarter than the majority , more aware and more of a critical thinker than my friends and peers ?
Perhaps I just suffer from a prolonged and acute confirmation bias and I am incapable of separating truth from conjecture , fear from reason and goodwill @ @ @ @ @ @ @ type of persistent pessimism or self-loathing that gives me this particular lens ?
To assuage these doubts , which I encounter almost daily , I remind myself to revisit the tired cliché of cui bono .
Who stands to benefit ?
9/11 was an easy one , they actually published their goals beforehand in the Project for New American Century document and betrayed their nature in many instances of sheer greed , such as obscenely lucrative , barely-months-old insurance policies on the buildings they collapsed .
A casual examination shows us that CV-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , strengthened the stranglehold that the mainstream media and big tech have on creating facts and defining truth , allowed governments to spend without restriction and to restrict their citizens without restraint .
No matter how absurd the response becomes to what an honest virologist would call an inconsequential virus , most citizens are demanding a greater response .
More unscrutinised spending , more closures , more doses of vaccines to be made available as soon as possible , and more public shaming ( and worse ) for those who do not comply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In the end , pharmaceutical giants will be the big winners , earning untold billions for their rushed vaccine , and will be spared any liability for all adverse consequences .
Small businesses and personal autonomy will have disappeared and we will all be that much easier to track , control , monitor , punish and isolate .
Does it have to be this way ?
Last week I went to a local protest in Toronto .
It felt really good to finally step forward and add my voice and my presence amongst @ @ @ @ @ @ @ assault on science , reason and the fabric of our local and national communities .
The protest itself was calm and measured but you could easily sense the frustration and fear of those in attendance .
To be sure , some protesters looked and behaved quite oddly and this made me wonder if I really did belong with this group .
However , I feel much more at odds with “ the new normal ” types : the masked families in parks or the middle-aged women that now walk in the streets to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sidewalks , while glaring at the speeding cars that rush by .
I tend , therefore , to turn to a select few people and publications online instead .
People like my younger sister , Eva , who has been a tireless advocate for truth in Syria , Palestine and Venezuela .
I know her well enough to know she does what she does solely because she knows it is right , certainly not for money or prestige .
As a thanks for her work and sacrifice , she has to live with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ horrendous Wikipedia Page – nothing short of a smear , solely to discredit her in the eyes of anyone vetting her or new to her reporting .
It is people like this that I trust .
Throughout the last nine months , the conflicts of interest and the obvious biases of the media , lobbyists , most levels of government , big Tech , big “ Charitable ” foundations and benevolent trusts make it obvious that this scheme will only work if their propaganda is unwavering and unrelenting .
Why aren ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I am ?
Why does my wife , who has been able to see through much of the fear mongering and distortion , draw the line at protesting or voicing her opinion amongst friends ?
What do I do when I encounter her growing resentment towards me for behaving this way ?
I love her , I understand why she is afraid and what she wants to protect us from , but perhaps it is this sense of self-preservation which ‘ the powers that be ’ are counting on ?
Will this self-preservation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to try to wait this out is still strong , even though the few weeks they initially asked of us has gotten closer to a full year .
The temptation to think we are too far gone to warrant launching resistance is also consistently there .
To combat this , I ignore mainstream media and I have stopped trying to reach others that I know can not be reached .
There still remains , of course , many persistent and unresolved fears and issues .
How far can this possibly go ?
Will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our children and even our fragile elderly ?
How will our economy reconcile the gross expenditures of 2020 ?
What businesses will remain once , IF , this finally grinds to an end ?
How likely is this crisis to be exploited as an opportunity by multi-national capitalism , in the ways leftist gate-keepers like Naomi Klein have written about in the past , yet seem unwilling to recognize in the present ?
I hope for our sakes and for my own that more people grow weary of this non-existent pandemic and realize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reason and individual liberties .
The most hopeful thing I have seen in months has been a compilation video of recent protests around Europe and North America .
When this all started , we were encouraged to stand on our porches and bang pots and pans at a set hour to celebrate our front-line heroes in manufactured displays of solidarity .
It is so encouraging now to see people choosing , on their own , to protest together and banging pots and pans in front of their government buildings instead .
Showing true @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the opposite of big-tech and their non-stop , ever-present propaganda .
It is simple , non-violent and to-the-point .
The message is clear : we are entitled to assemble together and to protect what is most dear to us .
Families together , meals together , forging our livelihoods together , simply being together .
I won ’ t forget this message and I won ’ t miss another protest .
The cost is too great .
I am tired of seeing everything fall apart when we still have the ability to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be together as normal people .

Alex Bartlett
2020 staggers on, each month becoming more bleak, tiresome and increasingly onerous.
In the early winter months we paid scant attention to the Coronavirus story developing in China. And why should we have? After SARS, almost twenty years ago, then minor scares such as Swine Flu, Ebola, Zika Virus, Flesh Eating disease, along with past potential terrors like Avian Flu and Foot and Mouth Disease, there was no reason to think this was anything but another sensationalized false alarm. Indeed, an honest investigation, not even one all that rigorous, could easily have demonstrated that this was the case.
However, the last nine months have been nothing but an absolutely dedicated, well organized and diligent global effort to re-brand the common flu as a devasting pandemic just barely under control.
We have been asked to turn to some of the most trusted people in our civil society, Doctors and Professors, the types of professionals whom we would least expect to lie to us or to deliberately mislead us. They have sworn an oath to heal, to do no harm; they are dedicated to the search for the truth, borne out of diligent research and a rigorous scrutiny of the data. If they gravely and repeatedly tell us that we are at great risk and that things can and will get much, much worse very quickly then who are we to question their wisdom and their warnings?
The suddenness and unrelenting persistence of this great Covid lie wears us all down.
We were caught off guard by this deception here in Ontario, Canada. Just before the annual, week-long March break holiday we were told by our Premier Doug Ford (just think of one of the Pigs from “Animal Farm”) to continue with our travel plans, all will be fine. Just days later the closures started and the sloganeering began: “Flatten the curve”, “We’re all in this together”, “The New Normal”. All empty, hollow utterances that allowed people to avoid really thinking about what was really happening.
In Ontario, those of us who still dare to question this narrative are becoming increasingly isolated and marginalized. It is amazing to see how quickly people have chosen their side on this matter and how unwavering their devotion to their cause can be. Whether it is a shut down for two weeks, 4 weeks, 3 months, masks all the time, everything closed or even an experimental vaccine, it does not matter. “We’re all in this together”. Anyone who disagrees is either reckless, selfish, stupid or all of the above.
This other ‘reckless’ point of view is much smaller and very marginalized. Prominent Scientists and Virologists are ignored in the media for voicing a dissenting opinion, even the most moderate voices of dissent are ridiculed. The Great Barrington Declaration, with an extremely reasonable and balanced plea for reason in dealing with CV-19, has been savaged in the press because some journalists were able to add some absurdly fake names to an online form that anyone could sign.
I was impressed enough by the open letter published in September from almost 2,000 Belgian Medical Doctors & Health Professionals that I sent it to my Belgian friends, very smart and well-educated people, who did not doubt the Covid narrative. The response, when I enquired of one of them, was that “it was too long, [he] did not read it”. His underlying message was clear, he was not going to consider anything beyond the boundaries established by the press. If the Economist or The Atlantic magazine supported the Covid narrative then it must be so. If you chose to consider anything outside these boundaries you were either misled or grossly misinformed.
Unfortunately for me, I was branded a conspiracy theorist a long time ago amongst family and friends because I passionately argue against the official narrative for 9/11. These obvious controlled demolitions, along with all of the other evidence of this carefully coordinated operation – the subterfuge, the impossible coincidences, the great effort to cover it up – was irrefutable proof in my mind, if you would just consider it.
The parallels of CV-19 to 9/11 are both terrifying and, I am ashamed to say it, reassuring.
The aftermath of the shocking, astonishing events of 9/11 became even more difficult to comprehend with the addition of the Anthrax attacks and the Belt-Way sniper that followed.
Covid-19 has been overshadowed in some of the same ways, with the Black Lives Matter riots and the extended, ridiculous spectacle that is the Presidential Illusion of Choice, held sacred by so many Americans. As a result, it is hard to remain focused on anything; the world seems to be coming apart at its seams, yet the deliberate rips, the shoddy stitching and the forces pulling things apart are obvious enough, if you bother to look.
Much like the Project for a New American Century, a policy document that detailed the need for an event like 9/11 and the sweeping, imperialist opportunities that would result, we now have ‘The Great Reset’. A chance to ‘Build Back Better’ an equitable and improved society for all, governed by a few.
Trying to connect these plans to CV-19 instantly makes one a conspiracy theorist, even though these strategic plans do exist. They are well-documented, easy to find and easy enough to read.
When you point out the obvious benefits that overreaching control and an obscene global theft of power and money will impart to a select few, it doesn’t matter. You are merely someone who sees a conspiracy in everything.
With 9/11 the world had changed for ever, they said, and in many ways it certainly has. For most of us – complacent, docile Europeans and North Americans – well, we just generally went back to life as it was before. Either knowingly or through sheer ignorance (usually a bit of both), we supported new wars of occupation in the middle east, the massive increases in military spending and huge new encumbrances on our personal freedoms.
The worst outcome of 9/11 was that several countries were illegally invaded and brutally occupied with millions upon millions dying and suffering as a result. For most of “us” this did not matter, as daily life was still the same. We still had our jobs, our holidays and leisure, our new gadgets, our homes and certainly our futures. After a few years, when I finally made sense of this great 9/11 lie, I still did not do much differently. I would argue with friends and family about what had really happened on that day, and I lost faith in much of the media and government I had formerly trusted. But, in the end, I still supported the system and benefited from it.
I feel ashamed of wishing for these same types of selfish outcomes with CV-19. Even though the world economies have haemorrhaged trillions of dollars to fight this re-branded flu, perhaps it will still be ok in the end? Money is just a modern faith-based system these days anyways. If we can believe in Bit-Coin, the vast labyrinth of Derivatives and Credit Default Swaps, then why can’t we just add a lot more cash to the mix if we need it? Most of us are too young to have ever experienced inflation. Isn’t that economic reality just for mismanaged countries like Zimbabwe and Argentina anyways? Perhaps the track and trace apps won’t be that intrusive and, after all, our phones violate our privacy every minute they are switched on as it is. Could this ‘new normal’ be any worse?
Perhaps the covid vaccine is just a cash grab for big Pharma, like the flu vaccine or the HPV vaccine? Products we never wanted nor needed, that required a campaign of coercion and fear mongering to produce any real demand. With the CV-19 disinformation campaign waging on a global stage, they seem to be positioned to distribute 3 billion servings of a double-dose vaccine at $39.00 USD per serf. That is close to 120 Billion dollars… Surely, that might be enough to tide over the pharmaceutical industry for a few years, until Covid-20? Perhaps they will achieve a balance: enough people willing or compliant enough to be vaccinated yearly, and a media/medical establishment willing to proclaim that the covid scourge is over for now?
I really don’t believe this will happen, yet I still selfishly hope that this covid era will end, that my kids can return to school without masks, that they will be able to take part in after-school activities and that their future still holds many exciting possibilities and paths.
I hate fearing that the world will suddenly be redefined as a global, technocratic state where diversity becomes equality, families become individuals and the truth, or even just a difference of opinion, becomes a violation of ‘community guidelines’.
It has now been nine months. The fear, uncertainty and self doubt I have about this situation and my future are constant and growing. I have grown extremely weary of sharing relevant articles and interviews that I am certain will alarm and enrage, only to find out they have fallen on deaf ears – unwatched, unread or simply dismissed.
It makes me wonder, who am I to think I am smarter than the majority, more aware and more of a critical thinker than my friends and peers? Perhaps I just suffer from a prolonged and acute confirmation bias and I am incapable of separating truth from conjecture, fear from reason and goodwill from ill intent? Is there some type of persistent pessimism or self-loathing that gives me this particular lens?
To assuage these doubts, which I encounter almost daily, I remind myself to revisit the tired cliché of cui bono. Who stands to benefit?
9/11 was an easy one, they actually published their goals beforehand in the Project for New American Century document and betrayed their nature in many instances of sheer greed, such as obscenely lucrative, barely-months-old insurance policies on the buildings they collapsed.
A casual examination shows us that CV-19 has already substantially enriched the Billionaire class, strengthened the stranglehold that the mainstream media and big tech have on creating facts and defining truth, allowed governments to spend without restriction and to restrict their citizens without restraint.
No matter how absurd the response becomes to what an honest virologist would call an inconsequential virus, most citizens are demanding a greater response. More unscrutinised spending, more closures, more doses of vaccines to be made available as soon as possible, and more public shaming (and worse) for those who do not comply with the ‘new normal’.
In the end, pharmaceutical giants will be the big winners, earning untold billions for their rushed vaccine, and will be spared any liability for all adverse consequences. Small businesses and personal autonomy will have disappeared and we will all be that much easier to track, control, monitor, punish and isolate.
Does it have to be this way? Last week I went to a local protest in Toronto. It felt really good to finally step forward and add my voice and my presence amongst those willing to call bullshit on this assault on science, reason and the fabric of our local and national communities. The protest itself was calm and measured but you could easily sense the frustration and fear of those in attendance.
To be sure, some protesters looked and behaved quite oddly and this made me wonder if I really did belong with this group. However, I feel much more at odds with “the new normal” types: the masked families in parks or the middle-aged women that now walk in the streets to avoid the dangers of human proximity on sidewalks, while glaring at the speeding cars that rush by.
I tend, therefore, to turn to a select few people and publications online instead. People like my younger sister, Eva, who has been a tireless advocate for truth in Syria, Palestine and Venezuela. I know her well enough to know she does what she does solely because she knows it is right, certainly not for money or prestige. As a thanks for her work and sacrifice, she has to live with constant attacks and the ignominy of a horrendous Wikipedia Page – nothing short of a smear, solely to discredit her in the eyes of anyone vetting her or new to her reporting.
It is people like this that I trust.
Throughout the last nine months, the conflicts of interest and the obvious biases of the media, lobbyists, most levels of government, big Tech, big “Charitable” foundations and benevolent trusts make it obvious that this scheme will only work if their propaganda is unwavering and unrelenting.
Why aren’t my friends and family as concerned as I am? Why does my wife, who has been able to see through much of the fear mongering and distortion, draw the line at protesting or voicing her opinion amongst friends? What do I do when I encounter her growing resentment towards me for behaving this way? I love her, I understand why she is afraid and what she wants to protect us from, but perhaps it is this sense of self-preservation which ‘the powers that be’ are counting on? Will this self-preservation lead to our undoing?
The temptation to try to wait this out is still strong, even though the few weeks they initially asked of us has gotten closer to a full year. The temptation to think we are too far gone to warrant launching resistance is also consistently there.
To combat this, I ignore mainstream media and I have stopped trying to reach others that I know cannot be reached.
There still remains, of course, many persistent and unresolved fears and issues.
How far can this possibly go? Will we be forced to vaccinate ourselves, our children and even our fragile elderly? How will our economy reconcile the gross expenditures of 2020? What businesses will remain once, IF, this finally grinds to an end? How likely is this crisis to be exploited as an opportunity by multi-national capitalism, in the ways leftist gate-keepers like Naomi Klein have written about in the past, yet seem unwilling to recognize in the present?
I hope for our sakes and for my own that more people grow weary of this non-existent pandemic and realize that they can demand a return to reason and individual liberties.
The most hopeful thing I have seen in months has been a compilation video of recent protests around Europe and North America.
When this all started, we were encouraged to stand on our porches and bang pots and pans at a set hour to celebrate our front-line heroes in manufactured displays of solidarity. It is so encouraging now to see people choosing, on their own, to protest together and banging pots and pans in front of their government buildings instead. Showing true solidarity against this covid nonsense.
This is the opposite of big-tech and their non-stop, ever-present propaganda. It is simple, non-violent and to-the-point. The message is clear: we are entitled to assemble together and to protect what is most dear to us. Families together, meals together, forging our livelihoods together, simply being together.
I won’t forget this message and I won’t miss another protest. The cost is too great. I am tired of seeing everything fall apart when we still have the ability to fight to live, work and simply be together as normal people.
Alex Bartlett lives and works in Toronto Canada.