wakingtimes--2020-10-27--How COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Are Rigged

How COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Are Rigged

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There ’ s been a lot of talk lately about whether or not the fast-tracked COVID-19 vaccine will in fact be safe and effective .
While vaccine makers insist that any vaccine reaching the market will have undergone rigorous testing , the way trial protocols are designed suggests these vaccines may leave a lot to be desired .
As reported1 by Forbes contributor William Haseltine , a former professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health , while Moderna , Pfizer , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ published their vaccine trial protocols in a rare display of transparency , “ close inspection of the protocols raises surprising concerns.
” In a nutshell , the trial designs are such that the vaccines will get a passing grade even if their efficacy is minimal .
Of course , we must also consider vaccine side effects and I ’ ve also written several articles about mounting safety concerns .
As noted by Haseltine , prevention of infection would typically be a critical endpoint of any vaccine trial .
In other words , you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the vaccine , your risk of infection is significantly reduced .
However , when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine , shockingly , preventing infection is not a criterion for success in any of these trials .
The only criterion for a successful COVID-19 vaccine is a reduction of COVID-19 symptoms , and even then , the reduction required is minimal .
To get a “ passing ” grade in the limited interim analysis , a vaccine must show a 70 % efficacy .
However , again , this does not mean it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people .
As explained by Haseltine:3 The other vaccine makers are basing results on a similar protocol , where only a limited number of vaccinated participants are exposed to the virus to evaluate the extent of their symptoms .
Johnson & Johnson ’ s interim analysis will include results from 77 vaccine recipients who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 , and if fewer than 18 of them develop symptoms of COVID-19 , compared to 59 in the control group , the vaccine will be considered successful .
In AstraZeneca ’ s case , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The vaccine will be a success if 12 or fewer develop symptoms after exposure to SARS-CoV-2 , compared to 19 in the 25-person control group .
Pfizer ’ s interim analysis is the smallest of the bunch , with just 32 vaccine recipients .
Their success margin is seven or fewer vaccine recipients developing symptoms , compared to 25 in the control group .
In the primary analysis , efficacy is set to about 60 % , and at most , 164 volunteers will be included in that analysis .
Especially concerning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these trials are young and healthy individuals who are not really at high risk of dying from COVID-19 .
This makes the results of these trials highly questionable in the far more vulnerable population of the elderly .
Trials Are Merely Testing Reduction of Common Cold Symptoms As if that ’ s not eyebrow-raising enough , the minimum qualification for a “ case of COVID-19 ” amounts to just one positive PCR test and one or two mild symptoms , such as headache , fever , cough or mild nausea .
As noted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from adequate.
” All they ’ re doing is testing to see if this COVID-19 vaccine will minimize common cold symptoms .
They are not actually ensuring the vaccine will prevent serious COVID-19 complications .
Johnson & Johnson ’ s trial is the only one that requires at least five severe COVID-19 cases to be included in the interim analysis .
Severe illness and death are also secondary objectives in these trials , and none of them include failure to prevent hospitalization or death as an important barrier to success .
The increasingly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the vaccine can not reduce infection , hospitalization or death , then it can not end the pandemic , which means everyone who takes the vaccine will be doing so in vain .
Some COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Are Not Using Inert Placebos In addition to all of that , some COVID-19 vaccine trials are using other vaccines as “ placebo ” rather than truly biologically inert substances such as saline , which effectively makes if far easier to hide any vaccine side effects .
While Moderna is using a saline solution placebo,5 AstraZeneca @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a true placebo.6 Another way AstraZeneca is masking potential side effects is by administering the vaccine along with certain drugs .
In one of its study arms , subjects are given acetaminophen every six hours for the first 24 hours after inoculation .
The pain and fever reducer could potentially mask and downplay side effects such as pain , fever , headache or general malaise .
In addition to masking side effects , it is widely recognized among literate natural medicine physicians that using acetaminophen during acute viral infections is not a wise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to fight the infection .
September 6 , 2020 , AstraZeneca paused its Phase 3 vaccine trial due to a “ suspected serious and unexpected adverse reaction ” in a British participant.8,9 The company did not initially divulge the nature of the adverse reaction , but it has since been revealed the volunteer developed severe inflammation of the spinal cord , known as transverse myelitis.10,11 September 12 , 2020 , the British Medicines Health Regulatory Authority gave AstraZeneca the go-ahead to resume its Phase 3 trial in the U.K. , after an independent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so.
” 12,13 According to an AstraZeneca spokesperson , the incident was a case of undiagnosed multiple sclerosis.14 Days later , September 19 , 2020 , The New York Times reported15 a second case of transverse myelitis had occurred in the AstraZeneca trial .
According to one expert consulted by the NYT , the occurrence represented a “ dangerous pattern , ” and that a third incidence might shut down the vaccine trial indefinitely .
AstraZeneca , however , claims the two cases are “ unlikely to be associated with the vaccine , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ insufficient evidence to say for certain that the illnesses were or were not related to the vaccine.
” 16 October 21 , 2020 , it was reported17 that one of the volunteers in AstraZeneca ’ s Brazilian trial had died from COVID-19 complications , but that the trial would continue anyway .
October 12 , 2020 , Johnson & Johnson halted its trial due to “ unexplained illness ” in one of its participants.18,19 Like AstraZeneca , Johnson & Johnson has kept mum about the details of the illness , saying “ it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ facts before we share additional information.
” The fact that more trials have not been halted is surprising considering the rate of side effects20 occurring in perfectly healthy volunteers .
As reported in “ Gates Tries to Justify Side Effects of Fast-Tracked Vaccine , ” after the first of two doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine , 80 % of Phase 1 participants receiving the 100 microgram ( mcg ) dose developed systemic side effects.21 After the second dose , 100 % reported side effects ranging from fatigue ( 80 % ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( 60 % ) and myalgia or muscle pain ( 53 % ) .
Despite that , the 100-mcg dose was ultimately chosen to move on to Phase 3 trials.22 In the highest dosage group , which received 250 mcg , 100 % of participants suffered side effects after both the first and second doses.23 Three of the 14 participants ( 21 % ) in the 250-mcg group suffered “ one or more severe events.
” An October 1 , 2020 , report24 by CNBC reviews the experiences of five participants in Moderna @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccine trials .
One of the participants in Pfizer ’ s vaccine trial “ woke up with chills , shaking so hard he cracked a tooth after taking the second dose.
” Two others reported similar side effects , and a third warned you would need to take a day off after the second shot .
CNBC also noted that “ as companies progressed through clinical trials , several vaccine makers abandoned their highest doses following reports of more severe reactions.
” Might Certain COVID-19 Vaccines Raise Risk of AIDS ?
Disturbingly , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concern that some COVID-19 vaccine candidates might put certain people at a higher risk of acquiring HIV , the virus that causes AIDS.26,27,28 Using the failed attempt to create an HIV vaccine as an example , researchers explain29 that the genetically engineered adenovirus , Ad5 , used in the HIV vaccine trials , is the same one being used now in four COVID-19 candidates being studied in the U.S. , Russia and Pakistan .
At the time of the failed HIV vaccine , scientists were unable to identify the exact reason why Ad5 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; it just inexplicably did .
Interestingly , Dr. Anthony Fauci was the lead author on the HIV study,30 in which he questioned “ whether the problem extends to some or all of the other recombinant vectors currently in development or to other vector-based vaccines.
” Reflecting on that question , the researchers say they decided to go public with this information now , because Ad5 vaccines for COVID-19 might soon be tested in populations with high HIV prevalence , and they believe that informed consent about the HIV/AIDS risk should be part @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to one September 2020 poll,31 only 51 % of Americans said they “ definitely or probably ” would get the COVID-19 vaccine when it comes out .
Another survey32 found only 44 % would take the first-generation vaccine even if they were paid $ 100 .
Mounting vaccine hesitancy was bemoaned in an October 1 , 2020 , article33 in the New England Journal of Medicine , and the answer , the article suggests , is to make it mandatory for all .
And , to entice compliance , the authors recommend implementing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the suspension of employment and/or house arrest .
An October 19 , 2020 , article 34 by Wisconsin Public Radio also warns that if precedents hold , employers may have the right to force workers to get vaccinated .
Potential exceptions might include certain medical issues , bona fide religious objections , and certain union contracts that bar vaccine requirements .
Operation Warp Speed recently selected Walgreens and CVS as nationwide partners in the coming vaccine distribution effort.35 Nursing homes and long-term care facilities around the U.S. can opt in by signing up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and administer the vaccine to its residents and staff , once available .
So-called “ health passports ” are also becoming reality .
Ireland , for example , has already begun its national trial .
The Health Passport Ireland initiative uses an app to track and display results of COVID-19 testing .
Vaccination status will be added once a vaccine becomes available .
Untold amounts of money are also being spent on programs to tag , track and trace the human population in the name of public health and safety .
According to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the estimated cumulative costs of the COVID-19 pandemic related to lost output and health reduction amounts to more than $ 16 trillion in the U.S. alone , or about 90 % of our annual gross domestic product .
“ For this reason , policies that can materially reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 have enormous social value , ” the article claims .
However , testing , tracing and isolation rules , all of which are promoted in this article , also have a price , and it ’ s one that any sensible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of privacy and liberty .
As reported37 by The Last American Vagabond , governments are selling our freedom in the name of public health .
Do we really want to live in a “ biosecurity state ” ?
These freedom-robbing strategies are being sold to us as the path back to normalcy , but the reality will be anything but normal .
As detailed in “ The Global Takeover Is Underway , ” the pandemic and the global response to it is far from accidental .
Overwhelmingly , the evidence points to it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to implement the last stages of a technocratic takeover .
I ’ ve also covered various aspects of this globalists agenda in “ COVID Symptoms of Power : Tech Billionaires Harvest Humanity , ” “ Tech Billionaires Aiming at a Global Currency , ” “ Harvard Professor Exposes Surveillance Capitalism , ” “ How Medical Technocracy Made the Plandemic Possible ” and “ US Surveillance Bill 6666 : The Devil in the Details.
” The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically widened the economic gap between average people and the wealthy elite,38,39 and continuing down @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will only make this disparity worse , not better .
The globalist plan isn ’ t about creating a better world for the average person , it ’ s about enslaving us so that we can not reject or even resist what ’ s ultimately coming .
Forced vaccinations are but one aspect of the plan that must be resisted at all cost .
One of the Most Powerful Videos I ’ ve Ever Seen The following video from Barbara Loe Fisher is one of the most powerful videos that I have ever @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this video will inspire you to take up the cause and join the fight for vaccine freedom and independence .
There is a cultural war and collusion between many industries and federal regulatory agencies that results in a suppression of the truth about vital important health issues .
If this suppression continues we will gradually and progressively erode our private individual rights that our ancestors fought so hard to achieve .
Please take a few minutes to watch this video .
Protect Your Right to Informed Consent and Defend Vaccine Exemptions With all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of vaccines , it ’ s critical to protect your right to make independent health choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to vaccination .
It is urgent that everyone in America stand up and fight to protect and expand vaccine informed consent protections in state public health and employment laws .
The best way to do this is to get personally involved with your state legislators and educate the leaders in your community .
National vaccine policy recommendations are made at the federal level but vaccine laws are made at the state level @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where your action to protect your vaccine choice rights can have the greatest impact .
It is critical for EVERYONE to get involved now in standing up for the legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices in America because those choices are being threatened by lobbyists representing drug companies , medical trade associations and public health officials , who are trying to persuade legislators to strip all vaccine exemptions from public health laws .
Signing up for NVIC ’ s free Advocacy Portal at www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives you immediate , easy access to your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ computer so you can make your voice heard .
You will be kept up to date on the latest state bills threatening your vaccine choice rights and will get practical , useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice advocate in your own community .
Also , when national vaccine issues come up , you will have the up-to-date information and call-to-action items you need at your fingertips .
So , please , as your first step , sign up for the NVIC Advocacy Portal .

How COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Are Rigged
Dr. Mercola, Guest
Waking Times
There’s been a lot of talk lately about whether or not the fast-tracked COVID-19 vaccine will in fact be safe and effective. While vaccine makers insist that any vaccine reaching the market will have undergone rigorous testing, the way trial protocols are designed suggests these vaccines may leave a lot to be desired.
As reported1 by Forbes contributor William Haseltine, a former professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, while Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have all published their vaccine trial protocols in a rare display of transparency, “close inspection of the protocols raises surprising concerns.”
In a nutshell, the trial designs are such that the vaccines will get a passing grade even if their efficacy is minimal. Of course, we must also consider vaccine side effects and I’ve also written several articles about mounting safety concerns.
COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Rigged to Pass Efficacy Test
As noted by Haseltine, prevention of infection would typically be a critical endpoint of any vaccine trial. In other words, you want to ensure that when you take the vaccine, your risk of infection is significantly reduced.
However, when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine, shockingly, preventing infection is not a criterion for success in any of these trials. The only criterion for a successful COVID-19 vaccine is a reduction of COVID-19 symptoms, and even then, the reduction required is minimal.
“We all expect an effective vaccine to prevent serious illness if infected. Three of the vaccine protocols — Moderna, Pfizer, and AstraZeneca — do not require that their vaccine prevent serious disease only that they prevent moderate symptoms which may be as mild as cough, or headache,” Haseltine writes,2 adding:
“The pharmaceutical companies intend to do trials ranging from 30,000 to 60,000 participants. This scale of study would be sufficient for testing vaccine efficacy.
The first surprise found upon a closer reading of the protocols reveals that each study intends to complete interim and primary analyses that at most include 164 participants. These companies likely intend to apply for an emergency use authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with just their limited preliminary results.”
To get a “passing” grade in the limited interim analysis, a vaccine must show a 70% efficacy. However, again, this does not mean it will prevent infection in 7 of 10 people. As explained by Haseltine:3
“For Moderna, the initial interim analysis will be based on the results of infection of only 53 people. The judgment reached in interim analysis is dependent upon the difference in the number of people with symptoms … in the vaccinated group versus the unvaccinated group. Moderna’s success margin is for 13 or less of those 53 to develop symptoms compared to 40 or more in their control group.”
The other vaccine makers are basing results on a similar protocol, where only a limited number of vaccinated participants are exposed to the virus to evaluate the extent of their symptoms.
Johnson & Johnson’s interim analysis will include results from 77 vaccine recipients who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, and if fewer than 18 of them develop symptoms of COVID-19, compared to 59 in the control group, the vaccine will be considered successful.
In AstraZeneca’s case, the interim analysis includes 50 vaccine recipients. The vaccine will be a success if 12 or fewer develop symptoms after exposure to SARS-CoV-2, compared to 19 in the 25-person control group.
Pfizer’s interim analysis is the smallest of the bunch, with just 32 vaccine recipients. Their success margin is seven or fewer vaccine recipients developing symptoms, compared to 25 in the control group. In the primary analysis, efficacy is set to about 60%, and at most, 164 volunteers will be included in that analysis.
Especially concerning are that those receiving the vaccine in these trials are young and healthy individuals who are not really at high risk of dying from COVID-19. This makes the results of these trials highly questionable in the far more vulnerable population of the elderly.
Trials Are Merely Testing Reduction of Common Cold Symptoms
As if that’s not eyebrow-raising enough, the minimum qualification for a “case of COVID-19” amounts to just one positive PCR test and one or two mild symptoms, such as headache, fever, cough or mild nausea. As noted by Haseltine, “This is far from adequate.”
All they’re doing is testing to see if this COVID-19 vaccine will minimize common cold symptoms. They are not actually ensuring the vaccine will prevent serious COVID-19 complications. Johnson & Johnson’s trial is the only one that requires at least five severe COVID-19 cases to be included in the interim analysis.
“One of the more immediate questions a trial needs to answer is whether a vaccine prevents infection. If someone takes this vaccine, are they far less likely to become infected with the virus?
These trials all clearly focus on eliminating symptoms of COVID-19, and not infections themselves. Asymptomatic infection is listed as a secondary objective in these trials when they should be of critical importance.
It appears that all the pharmaceutical companies assume that the vaccine will never prevent infection. Their criteria for approval is the difference in symptoms between an infected control group and an infected vaccine group. They do not measure the difference between infection and noninfection as a primary motivation,” Haseltine writes.4
Severe illness and death are also secondary objectives in these trials, and none of them include failure to prevent hospitalization or death as an important barrier to success. The increasingly disappearing common sense tells us that if the vaccine cannot reduce infection, hospitalization or death, then it cannot end the pandemic, which means everyone who takes the vaccine will be doing so in vain.
Some COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Are Not Using Inert Placebos
In addition to all of that, some COVID-19 vaccine trials are using other vaccines as “placebo” rather than truly biologically inert substances such as saline, which effectively makes if far easier to hide any vaccine side effects. While Moderna is using a saline solution placebo,5 AstraZeneca is using injected meningococcal vaccine rather than a true placebo.6
Another way AstraZeneca is masking potential side effects is by administering the vaccine along with certain drugs. In one of its study arms, subjects are given acetaminophen every six hours for the first 24 hours after inoculation. The pain and fever reducer could potentially mask and downplay side effects such as pain, fever, headache or general malaise.
In addition to masking side effects, it is widely recognized among literate natural medicine physicians that using acetaminophen during acute viral infections is not a wise strategy as it impairs the immune response to fight the infection.
As reported by Wired:7
“The press release for … results from the Oxford vaccine trials described an increased frequency of ‘minor side effects’ among participants. A look at the actual paper, though, reveals this to be a marketing spin …
Yes, mild reactions were far more common than worse ones. But moderate or severe harms — defined as being bad enough to interfere with daily life or needing medical care — were common too.
Around one-third of people vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine without acetaminophen experienced moderate or severe chills, fatigue, headache, malaise, and/or feverishness.
Close to 10 percent had a fever of at least 100.4 degrees, and just over one-fourth developed moderate or severe muscle aches. That’s a lot, in a young and healthy group of people — and the acetaminophen didn’t help much for most of those problems.”
Two Trials Paused Due to Safety Concerns
September 6, 2020, AstraZeneca paused its Phase 3 vaccine trial due to a “suspected serious and unexpected adverse reaction” in a British participant.8,9 The company did not initially divulge the nature of the adverse reaction, but it has since been revealed the volunteer developed severe inflammation of the spinal cord, known as transverse myelitis.10,11
September 12, 2020, the British Medicines Health Regulatory Authority gave AstraZeneca the go-ahead to resume its Phase 3 trial in the U.K., after an independent review found it “safe to do so.”12,13 According to an AstraZeneca spokesperson, the incident was a case of undiagnosed multiple sclerosis.14
Days later, September 19, 2020, The New York Times reported15 a second case of transverse myelitis had occurred in the AstraZeneca trial. According to one expert consulted by the NYT, the occurrence represented a “dangerous pattern,” and that a third incidence might shut down the vaccine trial indefinitely.
AstraZeneca, however, claims the two cases are “unlikely to be associated with the vaccine,” and that there’s “insufficient evidence to say for certain that the illnesses were or were not related to the vaccine.”16 October 21, 2020, it was reported17 that one of the volunteers in AstraZeneca’s Brazilian trial had died from COVID-19 complications, but that the trial would continue anyway.
October 12, 2020, Johnson & Johnson halted its trial due to “unexplained illness” in one of its participants.18,19 Like AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson has kept mum about the details of the illness, saying “it’s important to have all the facts before we share additional information.”
Side Effects Are Commonplace
The fact that more trials have not been halted is surprising considering the rate of side effects20 occurring in perfectly healthy volunteers. As reported in “Gates Tries to Justify Side Effects of Fast-Tracked Vaccine,” after the first of two doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, 80% of Phase 1 participants receiving the 100 microgram (mcg) dose developed systemic side effects.21
After the second dose, 100% reported side effects ranging from fatigue (80%), chills (80%), headache (60%) and myalgia or muscle pain (53%).
Despite that, the 100-mcg dose was ultimately chosen to move on to Phase 3 trials.22 In the highest dosage group, which received 250 mcg, 100% of participants suffered side effects after both the first and second doses.23 Three of the 14 participants (21%) in the 250-mcg group suffered “one or more severe events.”
An October 1, 2020, report24 by CNBC reviews the experiences of five participants in Moderna’s and Pfizer’s SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trials. One of the participants in Pfizer’s vaccine trial “woke up with chills, shaking so hard he cracked a tooth after taking the second dose.”
A Moderna trial participant told CNBC he had a low-grade fever and felt “under the weather” for several days after his first shot. Eight hours after his second shot he was “bed-bound with a fever of over 101, shakes, chills, a pounding headache and shortness of breath. He said the pain in his arm, where he received the shot, felt like a ‘goose egg on my shoulder.’ He hardly slept that night, recording that his temperature was higher than 100 degrees for five hours.”25
Two others reported similar side effects, and a third warned you would need to take a day off after the second shot. CNBC also noted that “as companies progressed through clinical trials, several vaccine makers abandoned their highest doses following reports of more severe reactions.”
Might Certain COVID-19 Vaccines Raise Risk of AIDS?
Disturbingly, a group of researchers are now expressing concern that some COVID-19 vaccine candidates might put certain people at a higher risk of acquiring HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.26,27,28
Using the failed attempt to create an HIV vaccine as an example, researchers explain29 that the genetically engineered adenovirus, Ad5, used in the HIV vaccine trials, is the same one being used now in four COVID-19 candidates being studied in the U.S., Russia and Pakistan.
At the time of the failed HIV vaccine, scientists were unable to identify the exact reason why Ad5 seemed to increase the risk of HIV; it just inexplicably did. Interestingly, Dr. Anthony Fauci was the lead author on the HIV study,30 in which he questioned “whether the problem extends to some or all of the other recombinant vectors currently in development or to other vector-based vaccines.”
Reflecting on that question, the researchers say they decided to go public with this information now, because Ad5 vaccines for COVID-19 might soon be tested in populations with high HIV prevalence, and they believe that informed consent about the HIV/AIDS risk should be part of the COVID-19 clinical studies.
Will COVID-19 Vaccine Be Mandatory?
According to one September 2020 poll,31 only 51% of Americans said they “definitely or probably” would get the COVID-19 vaccine when it comes out. Another survey32 found only 44% would take the first-generation vaccine even if they were paid $100. Mounting vaccine hesitancy was bemoaned in an October 1, 2020, article33 in the New England Journal of Medicine, and the answer, the article suggests, is to make it mandatory for all.
And, to entice compliance, the authors recommend implementing severe penalties for noncompliance, such as the suspension of employment and/or house arrest.
An October 19, 2020, article 34 by Wisconsin Public Radio also warns that if precedents hold, employers may have the right to force workers to get vaccinated. Potential exceptions might include certain medical issues, bona fide religious objections, and certain union contracts that bar vaccine requirements.
Operation Warp Speed recently selected Walgreens and CVS as nationwide partners in the coming vaccine distribution effort.35 Nursing homes and long-term care facilities around the U.S. can opt in by signing up to have either of these companies come and administer the vaccine to its residents and staff, once available.
So-called “health passports” are also becoming reality. Ireland, for example, has already begun its national trial. The Health Passport Ireland initiative uses an app to track and display results of COVID-19 testing. Vaccination status will be added once a vaccine becomes available.
Untold amounts of money are also being spent on programs to tag, track and trace the human population in the name of public health and safety. According to an article36 in the journal JAMA, the estimated cumulative costs of the COVID-19 pandemic related to lost output and health reduction amounts to more than $16 trillion in the U.S. alone, or about 90% of our annual gross domestic product.
“For this reason, policies that can materially reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2 have enormous social value,” the article claims. However, testing, tracing and isolation rules, all of which are promoted in this article, also have a price, and it’s one that any sensible person would reject, namely the loss of privacy and liberty.
As reported37 by The Last American Vagabond, governments are selling our freedom in the name of public health. Do we really want to live in a “biosecurity state”? These freedom-robbing strategies are being sold to us as the path back to normalcy, but the reality will be anything but normal.
As detailed in “The Global Takeover Is Underway,” the pandemic and the global response to it is far from accidental. Overwhelmingly, the evidence points to it being part of a much larger scheme to implement the last stages of a technocratic takeover.
I’ve also covered various aspects of this globalists agenda in “COVID Symptoms of Power: Tech Billionaires Harvest Humanity,” “Tech Billionaires Aiming at a Global Currency,” “Harvard Professor Exposes Surveillance Capitalism,” “How Medical Technocracy Made the Plandemic Possible” and “US Surveillance Bill 6666: The Devil in the Details.”
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically widened the economic gap between average people and the wealthy elite,38,39 and continuing down the path we’re currently on will only make this disparity worse, not better.
The globalist plan isn’t about creating a better world for the average person, it’s about enslaving us so that we cannot reject or even resist what’s ultimately coming. Forced vaccinations are but one aspect of the plan that must be resisted at all cost.
One of the Most Powerful Videos I’ve Ever Seen
The following video from Barbara Loe Fisher is one of the most powerful videos that I have ever seen. I am hopeful that watching this video will inspire you to take up the cause and join the fight for vaccine freedom and independence.
There is a cultural war and collusion between many industries and federal regulatory agencies that results in a suppression of the truth about vital important health issues. If this suppression continues we will gradually and progressively erode our private individual rights that our ancestors fought so hard to achieve. Please take a few minutes to watch this video.
Protect Your Right to Informed Consent and Defend Vaccine Exemptions
With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of vaccines, it’s critical to protect your right to make independent health choices and exercise voluntary informed consent to vaccination. It is urgent that everyone in America stand up and fight to protect and expand vaccine informed consent protections in state public health and employment laws. The best way to do this is to get personally involved with your state legislators and educate the leaders in your community.
Think Globally, Act Locally
National vaccine policy recommendations are made at the federal level but vaccine laws are made at the state level. It is at the state level where your action to protect your vaccine choice rights can have the greatest impact.
It is critical for EVERYONE to get involved now in standing up for the legal right to make voluntary vaccine choices in America because those choices are being threatened by lobbyists representing drug companies, medical trade associations and public health officials, who are trying to persuade legislators to strip all vaccine exemptions from public health laws.
Signing up for NVIC’s free Advocacy Portal at www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives you immediate, easy access to your own state legislators on your smartphone or computer so you can make your voice heard. You will be kept up to date on the latest state bills threatening your vaccine choice rights and will get practical, useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice advocate in your own community.
Also, when national vaccine issues come up, you will have the up-to-date information and call-to-action items you need at your fingertips. So, please, as your first step, sign up for the NVIC Advocacy Portal.


wakingtimes--2020-10-28--What You Need To Know About ‘The Great Reset’

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By now , you ’ ve probably started hearing world leaders speak of “ the Great Reset , ” 1 “ the Fourth Industrial Revolution ” 2 and the call to “ Build Back Better.
” 3 One example among many is this speech by Matt Hancock , British Minister for Digital , Culture , Media & Sport , given during an All-Party Parliamentary Group meeting on the Fourth Industrial Revolution in 2017:4 What @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do the terms “ Great Reset , ” “ Fourth Industrial Revolution ” and “ Build Back Better ” actually mean ?
What do they refer to ?
In the October 16 , 2020 , Corbett Report5 above , journalist James Corbett breaks down the new social contract planned for the world , otherwise known as “ the great reset.
” While the current pandemic is being used as a justification for the movement , the agenda has nothing to do with health and everything to do with a long-term plan to monitor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In other words , the world will be reset to depend on digital technocracy run by self-appointed elitists .
It ’ s a power grab of unprecedented magnitude , and involves the restructuring of social classes to dismantle democracy , erase national borders and allow for the governing of communities from a distance by a group of unelected leaders .
What was in the past referred to as the “ new world order ” is now known as “ the Great Reset.
” This Great Reset not only ties you to it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bank account and health records , but even gives you a “ social credit ” ID that can run every facet of your life .
This isn ’ t a lofty conspiracy theory — it ’ s real .
It ’ s happening now .
And you need to know how to fight it before it ’ s too late .
Ultimately , it ’ s a technocratic agenda that seeks to integrate mankind into a technological surveillance apparatus overseen by powerful artificial intelligence .
Ironically , while the real plan is to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ democratic controls , they speak of this plan as a way to bring us back into harmony with Nature .
If you ’ re unfamiliar with the term “ technocracy , ” be sure to go back and listen to my interview with Patrick Wood , author of “ Technocracy Rising : The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation ” and “ Technocracy : The Hard Road to World Order.
” You can also learn more on Wood ’ s website , Technocracy.news .
In a nutshell , technocracy is an economic system of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in particular artificial intelligence , digital surveillance and Big Data collection — and the digitization of industry ( which includes banking ) and government , which in turn allows for the automation of social engineering and social rule , thereby doing away with the need for elected government leaders .
Your Guide to the Great Reset According to the World Economic Forum,6 the Great Reset “ will address the need for a more fair , sustainable and resilient future , and a new social contract centered on human dignity , social justice and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ economic development.
” And what is the World Economic Forum ?
It ’ s an international organization for public-private cooperation that “ engages the foremost political , business , cultural and other leaders of society to shape global , regional and industry agendas.
” 7 The founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum is professor Klaus Schwab , who , as mentioned by Hancock in his 2017 speech , wrote the book on the Fourth Industrial Revolution .
Schwab announced the World Economic Forum ’ s Great Reset Initiative in June @ @ @ @ @ @ @ summarizes the Great Reset thus : And , as explained by Corbett , for those who forgot about what the New World Order was/is all about , it was all about “ centralization of control into fewer hands , globalization [ and ] transformation of society through Orwellian surveillance technologies.
” In other words , it ’ s technocracy , where we the people know nothing about the ruling elite while every aspect of our lives is surveilled , tracked and manipulated for their gain .
Four key take-aways from Corbett ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1 .
The Great Reset has NOTHING to do with a virus , the COVID-19 pandemic or anything else related to public health .
2 .
The Great Reset is a coordinated agenda that has been years in the making — The pandemic is simply being used as a convenient “ cover ” for an elitist , globalist agenda that has been planned for decades .
3 .
The Great Reset is NOT the end of globalization — On the contrary , it is globalization turbo-charged .
As noted by Schwab in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Great Reset , ” co-written with Thierry Malleret and cited in Corbett ’ s report : “ If no one power can enforce order , our world will suffer from a ‘ global order deficit.
’ Unless individual nations and international organizations succeed in finding solutions to better collaborate at the global level , we risk entering an ‘ age of entropy ’ in which retrenchment , fragmentation , anger and parochialism will increasingly define our global landscape , making it less intelligible and more disorderly.
” In other words , there ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ social order that occurs when people are allowed to freely interact .
Instead , there must be “ one power ” to enforce whatever the desired social-environmental-economic-geopolitical order is .
4 .
This process is not meant to end — The end of the pandemic will not be the end of this totalitarian , digital enslavement agenda .
The plan is not to “ reset ” the world back to some earlier state that will allow us all to start over with a cleaner environment and more equitable social structures .
The plan @ @ @ @ @ @ @ governance into the hands of the few .
As noted by Schwab in “ COVID-19 : The Great Reset ” : “ When confronted with it , some industry leaders and senior executives may be tempted to equate reset with restart , hoping to go back to the old normal and restore what worked in the past : traditions , tested procedures and familiar ways of doing things — in short , a return to business as usual .
This won ’ t happen because it can ’ t happen .
For the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ died from ( or at the very least was infected by ) COVID-19.
” What might the Great Reset transformation look like ?
As noted by Corbett , the following illustration , created and released by the World Economic Forum , shows the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on various aspects of life , and how pandemic responses are transforming these areas .
If you go to the original site for the illustration,8 you ’ ll also find listings of publications , videos and data relating to all of these facets .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ how you can use this map to get a feel for the scope of the transformation being prepared — everything from finance , business and education to health care , human rights and global governance .
Importantly , the pandemic is being used to destroy the local economies around the world , which will then allow the World Economic Forum to come in and “ rescue ” debt-ridden countries .
However , the price for this salvation is your personal freedom and liberty .
The World Economic Forum and the central banks will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be able to effectively control most countries in the world .
And , again , one of the aspects of the technocratic plan is to eliminate nation borders and nationalism in general .
A related term to the Great Reset is “ the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
” This refers to the merging of digital , physical and biological systems .
As noted by Schwab , “ It doesn ’ t change what we are doing , but it changes us.
” 9 What they ’ re talking about is the creation of a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the human body and mind with machines and artificial intelligence .
In other words , technocracy — a resource-based economic system with centralized control by a technocratic elite who have the know-how to program the computer systems will ultimately dictate the lives of everyone .
Of course , it ’ s sold to us as a means to harness and elevate human potential , when in fact it will do the complete opposite .
Ultimately , they ’ re not just trying to change the definition of what it means to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to alter humanity through technological means .
In addition to the sources cited earlier , Corbett also fleshed out the history of technocracy in his December 28 , 2015 , report,10 “ How Big Oil Conquered the World.
” In short , the Fourth Industrial Revolution is nothing but a rebranding of technocracy , melded with the transhumanist movement .
You can also learn more about Schwab , the figurehead of modern technocracy , by reading the June 29 , 2020 , Technocracy.news article11 “ The Elite Technocrats Behind the Global ‘ Great @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 12 , 2020 , Off-Guardian article,12 “ Klaus Schwab & His Great Fascist Reset.
” According to Off-Guardian,13 Schwab ensures us that “ smart ” Big Data technologies will “ ’ deliver new and innovative ways to service citizens and customers ’ and we will have to stop objecting to businesses profiting from harnessing and selling information about every aspect of our personal lives.
” In that article , Schwab is also quoted as saying , “ Establishing trust in the data and algorithms used to make decisions will be vital ” — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of “ government.
” In some parts of the world , a second wave of COVID-19 is reportedly14 emerging , and according to some researchers , the best way to combat it is to implement another round of more stringent lockdown measures — a so-called “ circuit breaker ” strategy to bring the infection rate under control .
Meanwhile , other reports15 warn that while COVID-19 can be deadly for a small minority of people , so are lockdowns , thanks to the poverty , famine and mental health challenges they bring about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2020 , article16 in The Sun , COVID-19 restrictions “ could hurl 90 million into ‘ extreme poverty , ’ ” with the poorest nations bearing the brunt of the economic collapse .
The New York Post also recently reported17 that “ COVID-19 lockdowns were a risky experiment ” that failed , and have proven deadlier than the virus itself .
The Cure That Is Worse Than the Disease We ’ re now also seeing reports19 that “ unexplained excess deaths at home ” are outpacing COVID-19 deaths by nearly 900 % , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ avoiding medical care .
Unfortunately , physicians and scientists continue to butt heads when it comes to the sanest path forward .
As noted in an October 6 , 2020 , article20 in The Conversation , whether or not the coronavirus cure is worse than the disease has become “ the most divisive question of 2020 , ” with dozens of doctors signing on to one side or the other .
A recent Kaiser Health News story21 also highlights the impact of “ pandemic stress ” on public health , as more and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ insomnia and excruciating headaches to hair loss and cracked teeth : As detailed in “ Coronavirus Fraud Scandal — The Biggest Fight Has Just Begun , ” an international network of legal experts and health professionals are preparing to launch the largest class-action lawsuit in history , against all those responsible for the global lockdowns , from local policy makers to the World Health Organization and everyone in between .
According to the four attorneys who founded the German Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee , which is leading the tort case , the COVID-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against humanity ever committed.
” Pandemic measures were intended to sow panic in order to allow for a massive transfer of wealth , and fraudulent testing has been used to keep the ruse going .
In reality , mortality statistics reveal COVID-19 has not led to an excess of deaths above the annual norm , the proposed action says , and there ’ s no evidence lockdowns and economic shutdowns have produced favorable results .
While the Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee hasn ’ t specifically addressed the pandemic as a vehicle for a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been fraudulently used as a means for wealth transfer and elimination of basic human rights .
As noted in the June 29 , 2020 , Technocracy.news article,22 “ The Elite Technocrats Behind the Global ‘ Great Reset ” :23 As I discuss in “ The Global Takeover Is Underway , ” technocracy is inherently a technological society run through social engineering , and Big Tech censorship is part and parcel of this .
In other words , the medical tyranny and censorship of anti-groupthink that has emerged during this pandemic are an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and if you think it ’ s bad now , just wait until the whole system is brought fully online .
The mere idea of dissent will become a thought of the past , because your life — your health , educational and work opportunities , your finances and your very identity — will be so meshed with the automated technological infrastructure that any attempt to break free will result in you being locked out or erased from the system , leaving you with no ability to learn , work , travel or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I know , but when you follow the technocratic plan to its inevitable end , that ’ s basically what you end up with .
The warning signs are all around us , if we ’ re willing to see them for what they actually are .
The only question now is whether enough people are willing to resist it to make a difference .

What You Need To Know About ‘The Great Reset’
Dr. Mercola, Guest
Waking Times
By now, you’ve probably started hearing world leaders speak of “the Great Reset,”1 “the Fourth Industrial Revolution”2 and the call to “Build Back Better.”3 One example among many is this speech by Matt Hancock, British Minister for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, given during an All-Party Parliamentary Group meeting on the Fourth Industrial Revolution in 2017:4
“One of the roles of Parliament is to cast ahead … and tackle the great challenges of our time … The nature of the technologies is materially different to what has come before. In the past, we’ve thought of consumption as a one-off, and capital investment as additive.
Yet put resources into the networks that now connect half the world, or into AI, and the effects are exponential … I’m delighted to speak alongside so many impressive colleagues who really understand this, and alongside Professor Klaus Schwab who literally ‘wrote the book’ on the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Your work, bringing together as you do all the best minds on the planet, has informed what we are doing … Our Digital Strategy, embedded within the wider Industrial Strategy, sets out the seven pillars on which we can build our success.
And inside that fits our 5G strategy, like a set of Russian Dolls. Our Strategy covers infrastructure, skills, rules and ethics of big data use, cyber security, supporting the tech sector, the digitization of industry, and digitization of government.”
What Is the Great Reset?
But what do the terms “Great Reset,” “Fourth Industrial Revolution” and “Build Back Better” actually mean? What do they refer to? In the October 16, 2020, Corbett Report5 above, journalist James Corbett breaks down the new social contract planned for the world, otherwise known as “the great reset.”
“The Great Reset not only ties you to it through an electronic ID linked to your bank account and health records, but even gives you a “social credit” ID that can run every facet of your life.”
While the current pandemic is being used as a justification for the movement, the agenda has nothing to do with health and everything to do with a long-term plan to monitor and control the world through technical surveillance. In other words, the world will be reset to depend on digital technocracy run by self-appointed elitists.
It’s a power grab of unprecedented magnitude, and involves the restructuring of social classes to dismantle democracy, erase national borders and allow for the governing of communities from a distance by a group of unelected leaders. What was in the past referred to as the “new world order” is now known as “the Great Reset.”
This Great Reset not only ties you to it through an electronic ID linked to your bank account and health records, but even gives you a “social credit” ID that can run every facet of your life. This isn’t a lofty conspiracy theory — it’s real. It’s happening now. And you need to know how to fight it before it’s too late.
Ultimately, it’s a technocratic agenda that seeks to integrate mankind into a technological surveillance apparatus overseen by powerful artificial intelligence. Ironically, while the real plan is to usher in a tech-driven dystopia free of democratic controls, they speak of this plan as a way to bring us back into harmony with Nature.
If you’re unfamiliar with the term “technocracy,” be sure to go back and listen to my interview with Patrick Wood, author of “Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation” and “Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order.” You can also learn more on Wood’s website, Technocracy.news.
In a nutshell, technocracy is an economic system of resource allocation that revolves around technology — in particular artificial intelligence, digital surveillance and Big Data collection — and the digitization of industry (which includes banking) and government, which in turn allows for the automation of social engineering and social rule, thereby doing away with the need for elected government leaders.
Your Guide to the Great Reset
According to the World Economic Forum,6 the Great Reset “will address the need for a more fair, sustainable and resilient future, and a new social contract centered on human dignity, social justice and where societal progress does not fall behind economic development.”
And what is the World Economic Forum? It’s an international organization for public-private cooperation that “engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.”7
The founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum is professor Klaus Schwab, who, as mentioned by Hancock in his 2017 speech, wrote the book on the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Schwab announced the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset Initiative in June 2020. In his report, Corbett summarizes the Great Reset thus:
“At base, the Great Reset is nothing more, and nothing less, than a great propaganda, marketing rollout campaign for a new brand that the would-be global elite are trying to shove down the public’s throats … It’s just a fresh coat of lipstick on a very old pig. This is The New World Order, just redefined. It’s just a new label for it.”
And, as explained by Corbett, for those who forgot about what the New World Order was/is all about, it was all about “centralization of control into fewer hands, globalization [and] transformation of society through Orwellian surveillance technologies.”
In other words, it’s technocracy, where we the people know nothing about the ruling elite while every aspect of our lives is surveilled, tracked and manipulated for their gain. Four key take-aways from Corbett’s research into the Great Reset are:
1. The Great Reset has NOTHING to do with a virus, the COVID-19 pandemic or anything else related to public health. 2. The Great Reset is a coordinated agenda that has been years in the making — The pandemic is simply being used as a convenient “cover” for an elitist, globalist agenda that has been planned for decades. 3. The Great Reset is NOT the end of globalization — On the contrary, it is globalization turbo-charged. As noted by Schwab in the policy book, “COVID-19: The Great Reset,” co-written with Thierry Malleret and cited in Corbett’s report: “If no one power can enforce order, our world will suffer from a ‘global order deficit.’ Unless individual nations and international organizations succeed in finding solutions to better collaborate at the global level, we risk entering an ‘age of entropy’ in which retrenchment, fragmentation, anger and parochialism will increasingly define our global landscape, making it less intelligible and more disorderly.” In other words, there’s no room for the spontaneously arising social order that occurs when people are allowed to freely interact. Instead, there must be “one power” to enforce whatever the desired social-environmental-economic-geopolitical order is. 4. This process is not meant to end — The end of the pandemic will not be the end of this totalitarian, digital enslavement agenda. The plan is not to “reset” the world back to some earlier state that will allow us all to start over with a cleaner environment and more equitable social structures. The plan is to circumvent democracy and shift global governance into the hands of the few. As noted by Schwab in “COVID-19: The Great Reset”: “When confronted with it, some industry leaders and senior executives may be tempted to equate reset with restart, hoping to go back to the old normal and restore what worked in the past: traditions, tested procedures and familiar ways of doing things — in short, a return to business as usual. This won’t happen because it can’t happen. For the most part, ‘business as usual’ died from (or at the very least was infected by) COVID-19.”
COVID-19 Transformation Map
What might the Great Reset transformation look like? As noted by Corbett, the following illustration, created and released by the World Economic Forum, shows the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on various aspects of life, and how pandemic responses are transforming these areas.
If you go to the original site for the illustration,8 you’ll also find listings of publications, videos and data relating to all of these facets. Around the 25-minute mark, Corbett explains how you can use this map to get a feel for the scope of the transformation being prepared — everything from finance, business and education to health care, human rights and global governance.
Importantly, the pandemic is being used to destroy the local economies around the world, which will then allow the World Economic Forum to come in and “rescue” debt-ridden countries.
However, the price for this salvation is your personal freedom and liberty. The World Economic Forum and the central banks will, through their facilitated financial bailouts, be able to effectively control most countries in the world. And, again, one of the aspects of the technocratic plan is to eliminate nation borders and nationalism in general.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
A related term to the Great Reset is “the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” This refers to the merging of digital, physical and biological systems. As noted by Schwab, “It doesn’t change what we are doing, but it changes us.”9
What they’re talking about is the creation of a new economic system built around the merger of the human body and mind with machines and artificial intelligence. In other words, technocracy — a resource-based economic system with centralized control by a technocratic elite who have the know-how to program the computer systems will ultimately dictate the lives of everyone.
Of course, it’s sold to us as a means to harness and elevate human potential, when in fact it will do the complete opposite. Ultimately, they’re not just trying to change the definition of what it means to be human — they’re openly conspiring to alter humanity through technological means.
In addition to the sources cited earlier, Corbett also fleshed out the history of technocracy in his December 28, 2015, report,10 “How Big Oil Conquered the World.” In short, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is nothing but a rebranding of technocracy, melded with the transhumanist movement.
You can also learn more about Schwab, the figurehead of modern technocracy, by reading the June 29, 2020, Technocracy.news article11 “The Elite Technocrats Behind the Global ‘Great Reset,’” and the October 12, 2020, Off-Guardian article,12 “Klaus Schwab & His Great Fascist Reset.”
According to Off-Guardian,13 Schwab ensures us that “smart” Big Data technologies will “’deliver new and innovative ways to service citizens and customers’ and we will have to stop objecting to businesses profiting from harnessing and selling information about every aspect of our personal lives.”
In that article, Schwab is also quoted as saying, “Establishing trust in the data and algorithms used to make decisions will be vital” — which about sums up the technocratic view of “government.”
Coronavirus ‘Circuit Breaker’
In some parts of the world, a second wave of COVID-19 is reportedly14 emerging, and according to some researchers, the best way to combat it is to implement another round of more stringent lockdown measures — a so-called “circuit breaker” strategy to bring the infection rate under control.
Meanwhile, other reports15 warn that while COVID-19 can be deadly for a small minority of people, so are lockdowns, thanks to the poverty, famine and mental health challenges they bring about.
Lockdowns Are a Failed Experiment
According to an October 13, 2020, article16 in The Sun, COVID-19 restrictions “could hurl 90 million into ‘extreme poverty,’” with the poorest nations bearing the brunt of the economic collapse. The New York Post also recently reported17 that “COVID-19 lockdowns were a risky experiment” that failed, and have proven deadlier than the virus itself.
“No ethical scientist would conduct such a risky experiment without carefully considering the dangers and monitoring the results, which have turned out to be dismal,” the New York Post writes.18
“While the economic and social harms have been enormous, it isn’t clear that the lockdowns have brought significant health benefits beyond what was achieved by people’s voluntary social distancing and other actions.
In a comparison of 50 countries, a team led by Rabail Chaudhry of the University of Toronto found that COVID-19 was deadlier in places with older populations and higher rates of obesity (like the United States), but the mortality rate was no lower in countries that closed their borders or enforced full lockdowns.
After analyzing 23 countries and 25 U.S. states with widely varying policies, Andrew Atkeson of UCLA and fellow economists found that the mortality trend was similar everywhere once the disease took hold: The number of daily deaths rose rapidly for 20 to 30 days, then fell rapidly …
The cost-benefit rationale becomes even bleaker if you use the standard metric for determining whether a drug or other intervention is worthwhile: How much money will society spend for each year of life being saved?
By that metric, the lockdowns must be the most cost-ineffective intervention in the history of public health, because so many of the intended beneficiaries are near the end of life. In America, nearly 80 percent of COVID-19 victims have been over 65, and more than 40 percent were living in nursing homes, where the median life expectancy after admission is just five months …
No one wants to hasten the demise of the elderly, but they and other vulnerable people can be shielded without shutting down the rest of the society, as Sweden and other countries have demonstrated …
Early in the pandemic, Scott Atlas at the Hoover Institution and researchers at Swansea University independently calculated that the lockdowns would ultimately cost more years of life than COVID-19 in the United States and Britain, and the toll seems certain to be worse in poor countries.
The World Bank estimates that the coronavirus recession could push 60 million people into extreme poverty, which inevitably means more disease and death.”
The Cure That Is Worse Than the Disease
We’re now also seeing reports19 that “unexplained excess deaths at home” are outpacing COVID-19 deaths by nearly 900%, likely due to people with chronic illnesses avoiding medical care. Unfortunately, physicians and scientists continue to butt heads when it comes to the sanest path forward.
As noted in an October 6, 2020, article20 in The Conversation, whether or not the coronavirus cure is worse than the disease has become “the most divisive question of 2020,” with dozens of doctors signing on to one side or the other.
A recent Kaiser Health News story21 also highlights the impact of “pandemic stress” on public health, as more and more people are reporting problems ranging from insomnia and excruciating headaches to hair loss and cracked teeth:
“Throughout the pandemic, people who never had the coronavirus have been reporting a host of seemingly unrelated symptoms: excruciating headaches, episodes of hair loss, upset stomach for weeks on end, sudden outbreaks of shingles and flare-ups of autoimmune disorders.
The disparate symptoms, often in otherwise healthy individuals, have puzzled doctors and patients alike, sometimes resulting in a series of visits to specialists with few answers. But it turns out there’s a common thread among many of these conditions, one that has been months in the making: chronic stress.
Although people often underestimate the influence of the mind on the body, a growing catalog of research shows that high levels of stress over an extended time can drastically alter physical function and affect nearly every organ system.
Now, at least eight months into the pandemic, alongside a divisive election cycle and racial unrest, those effects are showing up in a variety of symptoms. ‘The mental health component of COVID is starting to come like a tsunami,’ said Dr. Jennifer Love, a California-based psychiatrist.”
The Coronavirus Fraud
As detailed in “Coronavirus Fraud Scandal — The Biggest Fight Has Just Begun,” an international network of legal experts and health professionals are preparing to launch the largest class-action lawsuit in history, against all those responsible for the global lockdowns, from local policy makers to the World Health Organization and everyone in between.
According to the four attorneys who founded the German Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee, which is leading the tort case, the COVID-19 pandemic is “probably the greatest crime against humanity ever committed.” Pandemic measures were intended to sow panic in order to allow for a massive transfer of wealth, and fraudulent testing has been used to keep the ruse going.
In reality, mortality statistics reveal COVID-19 has not led to an excess of deaths above the annual norm, the proposed action says, and there’s no evidence lockdowns and economic shutdowns have produced favorable results.
While the Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee hasn’t specifically addressed the pandemic as a vehicle for a technocratic revolution, it highlights that it has been fraudulently used as a means for wealth transfer and elimination of basic human rights.
As noted in the June 29, 2020, Technocracy.news article,22 “The Elite Technocrats Behind the Global ‘Great Reset”:23
“The UN Agenda 2030 with its Sustainable Development Goals is claimed to ‘ensure peace and prosperity for people and the planet.’ The actions are said to tackle poverty and hunger, bring better health and education, reduce inequalities, and save the oceans, forests and the climate. Who can argue against such benevolent goals?
But the promised Utopia comes with a price — it sets shackles on our personal freedom … The leading partners of the United Nations Global Goals project reveal the real technocratic agenda that lies behind the polished feel-good façade — it involves a plan to fully integrate mankind into a technological surveillance apparatus overseen by a powerful AI.
The current pandemic scare has been a perfect trigger to kickstart this nefarious agenda … The current COVID-19 crisis is seen by the World Economic Forum and its chairman Klaus Schwab as the perfect trigger to implement their grandiose technocratic plan. Big Tech will come to ‘rescue’ the world …
This techno-fascist recipe will then, in an utmost non-democratic fashion without any public debate or skeptic inquiry, soon be integrated into the agenda of G20 and the European Union — relabeled as the Great Green Deal …
Unsurprisingly, Klaus Schwab fails to mention his own and his cronies’ role in creating this global economic mess in the first place — as it was ‘foreseen’ with stunning accuracy in World Economic Forum’s and Bill Gate’s Event 201 (October 2019) and in the Rockefeller Foundation report24 Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development (2010).”
As I discuss in “The Global Takeover Is Underway,” technocracy is inherently a technological society run through social engineering, and Big Tech censorship is part and parcel of this. In other words, the medical tyranny and censorship of anti-groupthink that has emerged during this pandemic are an unavoidable element of the Great Reset, and if you think it’s bad now, just wait until the whole system is brought fully online.
The mere idea of dissent will become a thought of the past, because your life — your health, educational and work opportunities, your finances and your very identity — will be so meshed with the automated technological infrastructure that any attempt to break free will result in you being locked out or erased from the system, leaving you with no ability to learn, work, travel or purchase anything.
It sounds far-fetched, I know, but when you follow the technocratic plan to its inevitable end, that’s basically what you end up with. The warning signs are all around us, if we’re willing to see them for what they actually are. The only question now is whether enough people are willing to resist it to make a difference.


wakingtimes--2020-10-28--Something Wicked This Way Comes: Anarchy Is Being Loosed Upon The Nation

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How much longer we can sustain the fiction that we live in a constitutional republic , I can not say , but anarchy is being loosed upon the nation .
We are witnessing the unraveling of the American dream one injustice at a time .
Day after day , the government ’ s crimes against the citizenry grow more egregious , more treacherous and more tragic .
And day after day , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more to the grim realization that they have become captives in a prison of their own making .
No longer a free people , we are now pushed and prodded and watched over by twitchy , hyper-sensitive , easily-spooked armed guards who care little for the rights , humanity or well-being of those in their care .
The public ’ s faith in the government to do its job—which is to protect our freedoms—is deteriorating .
It doesn ’ t take a weatherman to realize when a storm is brewing : clouds gather @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and an almost-palpable tension builds .
It ’ s the same way with freedom .
The warning signs are everywhere .
“ Things fall apart , ” wrote W.B .
Yeats in his dark , forbidding poem “ The Second Coming.
” “ The centre can not hold ; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world , the blood-dimmed tide is loosed , and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned … Surely some revelation is at hand.
” The upcoming election and its aftermath will undoubtedly keep the citizenry divided and at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ busy fighting each other that they never manage to present a unified front against tyranny in any form .
Yet the winner has already been decided .
As American satirist H.L .
Mencken predicted almost a century ago : In other words , nothing will change .
You can not have a republican form of government—nor a democratic one , for that matter—when the government views itself as superior to the citizenry , when it no longer operates for the benefit of the people , when the people are no longer able to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officials cease to act like public servants , when elected officials no longer represent the will of the people , when the government routinely violates the rights of the people and perpetrates more violence against the citizenry than the criminal class , when government spending is unaccountable and unaccounted for , when the judiciary act as courts of order rather than justice , and when the government is no longer bound by the laws of the Constitution .
For too long , the American people have obeyed the government ’ s dictates , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ paid its taxes , penalties and fines , no matter how outrageous .
We have tolerated its indignities , insults and abuses , no matter how egregious .
We have turned a blind eye to its indiscretions and incompetence , no matter how imprudent .
We have held our silence in the face of its lawlessness , licentiousness and corruption , no matter how illicit .
We have suffered .
Oh how we have suffered .
How much longer we will continue to suffer at the hands of a tyrannical police state depends @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to give up for the sake of freedom .
It may well be that Professor Morris Berman is correct : perhaps we are entering into the dark ages that signify the final phase of the American Empire .
“ It seems to me , ” writes Berman , “ that the people do get the government they deserve , and even beyond that , the government who they are , so to speak .
In that regard , we might consider , as an extreme version of this… that Hitler was as much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that point in time as he was a departure from them.
” For the moment , the American people seem content to sit back and watch the reality TV programming that passes for politics today .
It ’ s the modern-day equivalent of bread and circuses , a carefully calibrated exercise in how to manipulate , polarize , propagandize and control a population .
The bait towards slavery .
The price of liberty .
The instruments of tyranny .
Yes , that sounds about right .
“ We the people ” have learned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Worse , we have come to enjoy our voluntary servitude , which masquerades as citizenship .
This presidential election is yet another pacifier to lull us into complacency and blind us to the monsters in our midst .
I refuse to be pacified , patronized or placated .
Here ’ s my plan : rather than staying glued to my TV set , watching politicians and talking heads regurgitate the same soundbites over and over , I ’ m going to keep doing the hard work that needs to be done to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That ’ s why , almost 40 years ago , I founded The Rutherford Institute : as a nonpartisan , apolitical organization committed to the principles enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights that would work tirelessly to reshape the government from the bottom up into one that respects freedom , recognizes our worth as human beings , resists corruption , and abides by the rule of law .
It ’ s a thankless , never-ending job , but someone ’ s got to do it .
And I can promise you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the TV , John Carpenter—not Donald Trump or Joe Biden—will be my pick for escapist entertainment .
Carpenter ’ s films , known primarily for their horror themes , are infused with strong anti-authoritarian , overarching themes that speak to the filmmaker ’ s concerns about the unraveling of our society , particularly our government .
Even among a pantheon of dystopian films such as Minority Report , Nineteen Eighty-Four , The Matrix , V for Vendetta , and Land of the Blind , Carpenter ’ s work stands out for its clarity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ working against its own citizens .
In fact , Carpenter ’ s central characters are always out of step with their times .
Underneath their machismo , they still believe in the ideals of liberty and equal opportunity .
Their beliefs place them in constant opposition with the law and the establishment , but they are nonetheless freedom fighters .
When , for example , John Nada destroys the alien hypno-transmitter in They Live , he restores hope by delivering America a wake-up call for freedom .
Thus , John Carpenter is more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cultural analyst and a keen observer of the unraveling of the American psyche .
“ I ’ m disgusted by what we ’ ve become in America , ” said Carpenter .
“ I truly believe there is brain death in this country .
Everything we see is designed to sell us something .
The only thing they want to do is take our money.
” The following are my favorite Carpenter films .
Assault on Precinct 13 ( 1976 ) : This is essentially a remake of Howard Hawks ’ 1959 classic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A street gang and assorted criminals surround and assault a police station .
Paranoia abounds as the police are attacked from all sides and can see no way out .
Indeed , Carpenter repeatedly has his characters comment , in disbelief , that “ This can ’ t happen , not today !
” or “ We ’ re in the middle of a city … in a police station … someone will drive by eventually !
” Or will they ?
Halloween ( 1978 ) : This low-budget horror masterpiece launched Carpenter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most successful independent motion picture of all time , the story centers on a deranged youth who returns to his hometown to conduct a murderous rampage after fifteen years in an asylum .
This film , which assumes that there is a form of evil so dark that it can ’ t be killed , deconstructs our technological existence while reminding us that in the end , we all may have to experience Orwell ’ s stamping boot on our faces forever .
The Fog ( 1980 ) : This is a disturbing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Alfred Hitchcock ’ s The Birds ( 1963 ) .
Here the menace besieging a small town is not a pack of winged pests but rather a deadly fog bank that cloaks vengeful , faceless , evil spirits from which there may be no escape .
Escape from New York ( 1981 ) : This is the ultimate urban nightmare .
A ruined Manhattan of the future is an anarchic prison for America ’ s worst criminals .
When the U.S. president is captured as a hostage , the government sends a disgraced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what seems to be an impossible rescue mission .
In fact , this film sees fascism as the future of America .
The Thing ( 1982 ) : Considered by many as one of Carpenter ’ s best films , this is a remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic of the same name .
A team of scientists in a remote Antarctic outpost discover a buried spaceship with a ravenous , mutating alien that eventually creates a claustrophobic , paranoid environment within their compound .
The social commentary is obvious as the horrible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ human flesh .
This film presupposes that increasingly we are all becoming dehumanized .
Thus , in the end , we are all potential aliens .
Christine ( 1983 ) : This film adaptation of Stephen King ’ s novel finds a young man with a classic automobile that is demonically possessed .
The car , representing technology with a will and consciousness of its own , goes on a murderous rampage .
Do we now face the same possibility with the predominance of artificial intelligence ?
Starman ( 1984 ) : An @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the guise of a young widow ’ s recently deceased husband .
The couple then takes off on a long drive to rendezvous with the alien spacecraft so he can return home .
Surprisingly , as John Muir recognizes , this film is a Christ allegory with the alien visitor possessing extraordinary powers to heal the sick , resurrect the dead , and perform miracles .
The question posed is whether the only hope for humanity is a visitor from another world .
They Live ( 1988 ) : This film , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , assumes the future has already arrived .
John Nada is a homeless person who stumbles across a resistance movement and finds a pair of sunglasses that enables him to see the real world around him .
What he discovers is a monochrome reality in a world controlled by ominous beings who bombard the citizens with subliminal messages such as “ obey ” and “ conform.
” Carpenter makes an effective political point about the underclass ( everyone except those in power , that is ) : we , the prisoners of our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the entertainment trivia beamed into our brains and attacking each other to start an effective resistance movement .
As the Bearded Man in They Live tells us : In the Mouth of Madness ( 1995 ) : A successful horror novelist ’ s fans become so engrossed in his stories that they slip into dementia and carry out the grisly acts depicted in his books .
When this film was being conceived , politicians were criticizing horror movies for promoting violence .
Carpenter parodied this argument while noting that evil grows when people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ difference between reality and fantasy.
” As we lose ourselves in ever-evolving technology , we are increasingly blurring that distinction .
Does that mean evil will eventually overcome us all ?
Madness .
Delusion .
Denial .
Paranoia .
Inhumanity .
These are some of the monsters of our age .
In the cinematic world of John Carpenter , whenever freedom falls to tyranny , it is because the people allowed it to happen .
It works that way in the real world , too .
The lesson , as I make clear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ War on the American People : they—the tyrants , the bogeymen , the strongmen , the enemies of freedom—live , because “ we the people ” sleep .
Time to wake up , America , and break free of your chains .
Something wicked this way comes .
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute , where this article ( Something Wicked This Way Comes : Anarchy Is Being Loosed Upon The Nation ) was originally published .
He is the author of A Government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ State and The Change Manifesto .

Something Wicked This Way Comes: Anarchy Is Being Loosed Upon The Nation
John W. Whitehead, Rutherford
Waking Times
“Every day I ask myself the same question: How can this be happening in America? How can people like these be in charge of our country? If I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I’d think I was having a hallucination.”—Philip Roth, novelist
Things are falling apart.
How much longer we can sustain the fiction that we live in a constitutional republic, I cannot say, but anarchy is being loosed upon the nation.
We are witnessing the unraveling of the American dream one injustice at a time.
Day after day, the government’s crimes against the citizenry grow more egregious, more treacherous and more tragic. And day after day, the American people wake up a little more to the grim realization that they have become captives in a prison of their own making.
No longer a free people, we are now pushed and prodded and watched over by twitchy, hyper-sensitive, easily-spooked armed guards who care little for the rights, humanity or well-being of those in their care.
The death toll is mounting.
The carnage is heartbreaking.
The public’s faith in the government to do its job—which is to protect our freedoms—is deteriorating.
It doesn’t take a weatherman to realize when a storm is brewing: clouds gather, the wind begins to blow, and an almost-palpable tension builds.
It’s the same way with freedom.
The warning signs are everywhere.
“Things fall apart,” wrote W.B. Yeats in his dark, forbidding poem “The Second Coming.” “The centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned … Surely some revelation is at hand.”
The upcoming election and its aftermath will undoubtedly keep the citizenry divided and at each other’s throats, so busy fighting each other that they never manage to present a unified front against tyranny in any form. Yet the winner has already been decided. As American satirist H.L. Mencken predicted almost a century ago:
“All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
In other words, nothing will change.
You cannot have a republican form of government—nor a democratic one, for that matter—when the government views itself as superior to the citizenry, when it no longer operates for the benefit of the people, when the people are no longer able to peacefully reform their government, when government officials cease to act like public servants, when elected officials no longer represent the will of the people, when the government routinely violates the rights of the people and perpetrates more violence against the citizenry than the criminal class, when government spending is unaccountable and unaccounted for, when the judiciary act as courts of order rather than justice, and when the government is no longer bound by the laws of the Constitution.
For too long, the American people have obeyed the government’s dictates, no matter now unjust.
We have paid its taxes, penalties and fines, no matter how outrageous. We have tolerated its indignities, insults and abuses, no matter how egregious. We have turned a blind eye to its indiscretions and incompetence, no matter how imprudent. We have held our silence in the face of its lawlessness, licentiousness and corruption, no matter how illicit.
We have suffered. Oh how we have suffered.
How much longer we will continue to suffer at the hands of a tyrannical police state depends on how much we’re willing to give up for the sake of freedom.
It may well be that Professor Morris Berman is correct: perhaps we are entering into the dark ages that signify the final phase of the American Empire. “It seems to me,” writes Berman, “that the people do get the government they deserve, and even beyond that, the government who they are, so to speak. In that regard, we might consider, as an extreme version of this… that Hitler was as much an expression of the German people at that point in time as he was a departure from them.”
For the moment, the American people seem content to sit back and watch the reality TV programming that passes for politics today. It’s the modern-day equivalent of bread and circuses, a carefully calibrated exercise in how to manipulate, polarize, propagandize and control a population.
As French philosopher Etienne de La Boétie observed half a millennium ago:
“Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naively, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books.”
The bait towards slavery. The price of liberty. The instruments of tyranny.
Yes, that sounds about right.
“We the people” have learned only too well how to be slaves. Worse, we have come to enjoy our voluntary servitude, which masquerades as citizenship.
This presidential election is yet another pacifier to lull us into complacency and blind us to the monsters in our midst.
I refuse to be pacified, patronized or placated.
Here’s my plan: rather than staying glued to my TV set, watching politicians and talking heads regurgitate the same soundbites over and over, I’m going to keep doing the hard work that needs to be done to keep freedom alive in this country.
That’s why, almost 40 years ago, I founded The Rutherford Institute: as a nonpartisan, apolitical organization committed to the principles enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights that would work tirelessly to reshape the government from the bottom up into one that respects freedom, recognizes our worth as human beings, resists corruption, and abides by the rule of law.
It’s a thankless, never-ending job, but someone’s got to do it. And I can promise you that when I do eventually turn on the TV, John Carpenter—not Donald Trump or Joe Biden—will be my pick for escapist entertainment.
Carpenter’s films, known primarily for their horror themes, are infused with strong anti-authoritarian, overarching themes that speak to the filmmaker’s concerns about the unraveling of our society, particularly our government. Even among a pantheon of dystopian films such as Minority Report, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Matrix, V for Vendetta, and Land of the Blind, Carpenter’s work stands out for its clarity of vision.
Carpenter sees the government working against its own citizens.
Yet while Carpenter is a skeptic and critic, there’s also a strange optimism that runs through his films. “A close view of Carpenter’s work reveals a romantic streak beneath the skepticism,” John Muir writes in his insightful book The Films of John Carpenter, “a belief down deep—far below the anti-establishment hatred—that a single committed and idealistic person can make a difference, even if society does not recognize that person as valuable or good.”
In fact, Carpenter’s central characters are always out of step with their times. Underneath their machismo, they still believe in the ideals of liberty and equal opportunity. Their beliefs place them in constant opposition with the law and the establishment, but they are nonetheless freedom fighters. When, for example, John Nada destroys the alien hypno-transmitter in They Live, he restores hope by delivering America a wake-up call for freedom.
This is the theme that runs throughout Carpenter’s films—the belief in American ideals and in people. “He believes that man can do better,” writes Muir, “and his heroes consistently prove that worthy goals (such as saving the Earth from malevolent shape-shifters) can be accomplished, but only through individuality.”
Thus, John Carpenter is more than a filmmaker. He is a cultural analyst and a keen observer of the unraveling of the American psyche. “I’m disgusted by what we’ve become in America,” said Carpenter. “I truly believe there is brain death in this country. Everything we see is designed to sell us something. The only thing they want to do is take our money.”
The following are my favorite Carpenter films.
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976): This is essentially a remake of Howard Hawks’ 1959 classic western Rio Bravo—much beloved by Carpenter. A street gang and assorted criminals surround and assault a police station. Paranoia abounds as the police are attacked from all sides and can see no way out. Indeed, Carpenter repeatedly has his characters comment, in disbelief, that “This can’t happen, not today!” or “We’re in the middle of a city … in a police station … someone will drive by eventually!” Or will they?
Halloween (1978): This low-budget horror masterpiece launched Carpenter’s career. Acclaimed as the most successful independent motion picture of all time, the story centers on a deranged youth who returns to his hometown to conduct a murderous rampage after fifteen years in an asylum. This film, which assumes that there is a form of evil so dark that it can’t be killed, deconstructs our technological existence while reminding us that in the end, we all may have to experience Orwell’s stamping boot on our faces forever.
The Fog (1980): This is a disturbing ghost story made in the mode of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963). Here the menace besieging a small town is not a pack of winged pests but rather a deadly fog bank that cloaks vengeful, faceless, evil spirits from which there may be no escape.
Escape from New York (1981): This is the ultimate urban nightmare. A ruined Manhattan of the future is an anarchic prison for America’s worst criminals. When the U.S. president is captured as a hostage, the government sends a disgraced, rebellious war hero into Manhattan in what seems to be an impossible rescue mission. In fact, this film sees fascism as the future of America.
The Thing (1982): Considered by many as one of Carpenter’s best films, this is a remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic of the same name. A team of scientists in a remote Antarctic outpost discover a buried spaceship with a ravenous, mutating alien that eventually creates a claustrophobic, paranoid environment within their compound. The social commentary is obvious as the horrible creature literally erupts and bursts out of human flesh. This film presupposes that increasingly we are all becoming dehumanized. Thus, in the end, we are all potential aliens.
Christine (1983): This film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel finds a young man with a classic automobile that is demonically possessed. The car, representing technology with a will and consciousness of its own, goes on a murderous rampage. Do we now face the same possibility with the predominance of artificial intelligence?
Starman (1984): An alien from an advanced civilization takes on the guise of a young widow’s recently deceased husband. The couple then takes off on a long drive to rendezvous with the alien spacecraft so he can return home. Surprisingly, as John Muir recognizes, this film is a Christ allegory with the alien visitor possessing extraordinary powers to heal the sick, resurrect the dead, and perform miracles. The question posed is whether the only hope for humanity is a visitor from another world.
They Live (1988): This film, which I explore in detail in my books, assumes the future has already arrived. John Nada is a homeless person who stumbles across a resistance movement and finds a pair of sunglasses that enables him to see the real world around him. What he discovers is a monochrome reality in a world controlled by ominous beings who bombard the citizens with subliminal messages such as “obey” and “conform.” Carpenter makes an effective political point about the underclass (everyone except those in power, that is): we, the prisoners of our devices, are too busy sucking up the entertainment trivia beamed into our brains and attacking each other to start an effective resistance movement. As the Bearded Man in They Live tells us:
The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are non-existent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices . . . They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery.
In the Mouth of Madness (1995): A successful horror novelist’s fans become so engrossed in his stories that they slip into dementia and carry out the grisly acts depicted in his books. When this film was being conceived, politicians were criticizing horror movies for promoting violence. Carpenter parodied this argument while noting that evil grows when people lose “the ability to know the difference between reality and fantasy.” As we lose ourselves in ever-evolving technology, we are increasingly blurring that distinction. Does that mean evil will eventually overcome us all?
Madness. Delusion. Denial. Paranoia. Inhumanity. These are some of the monsters of our age.
In the cinematic world of John Carpenter, whenever freedom falls to tyranny, it is because the people allowed it to happen.
It works that way in the real world, too.
The lesson, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People: they—the tyrants, the bogeymen, the strongmen, the enemies of freedom—live, because “we the people” sleep.
Time to wake up, America, and break free of your chains.
Something wicked this way comes.
About the Author
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute, where this article (Something Wicked This Way Comes: Anarchy Is Being Loosed Upon The Nation) was originally published. He is the author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State and The Change Manifesto.