activistpost--2020-11-30--Globalists Poised for a “Great Reset” — Any Role for Gold?

Although the apparent results of the 2020 election are still being contested , members of the global ruling elite are already looking forward to a post-Trump era in American politics – and a post-vaccine world economy .
They have encapsulated their policy agenda for 2021 and beyond into two words : “ Great Reset.
” The notion of a Great Reset comes directly from the World Economic Forum .
The globalist organization has been actively pushing it for months via a series of policy articles on its web site .
The Great Reset agenda entails “ harnessing the fourth industrial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ map of the world ” in pursuit of an “ energy transition ” that makes “ economies more sustainable ” while advancing “ equity , inclusion and social justice in the workplace ” so that the global economy can “ build back better.
” In essence , the Great Reset is every longstanding globalist priority rolled into one and put on an accelerated path to full implementation .
Earlier this month , Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau , speaking to a United Nations video conference , said , “ This pandemic has provided @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty , inequality and climate change.
” As both Winston Churchill and Rahm Emanuel said , “ never let a good crisis go to waste.
” So what would a Great Reset mean for the monetary system ?
It certainly wouldn ’ t mean a resetting of the U.S. dollar or any other national or regional fiat currencies to a gold standard .
Instead , the Great Reset that globalists have in mind would give @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and draconian environmental and social justice objectives that have traditionally been outside the scope of their mandates .
The Federal Reserve recently signaled its participation in the Great Reset by joining the Network for Greening the Financial System ( NGFS ) , a global group of central banks and regulatory bodies dedicated to implementing the Paris climate agreement and other “ green ” priorities .
The Fed ’ s “ dual mandate ” of stable prices and full employment is now effectively an unlimited mandate .
It includes raising price levels to impose @ @ @ @ @ @ @ savers .
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Some gold bugs imagine a scenario where the Fed abuses its currency creating powers to the point where the public loses confidence in the U.S. dollar , forcing the authorities to back it with gold at some extraordinarily elevated price .
The coming great monetary reset is unlikely to play out that way , however .
Central bankers and Keynesian economists dogmatically believe their theories are superior to a sound money system .
They are more likely to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( perhaps merged with a global currency regime ) that is delinked from anything tangible , including coins and paper bills .
Gold ’ s role in the monetary system post-Great Reset will be to reflect its excesses and failures .
In fact , the precious metal has been playing such a role ever since the U.S. moved to a purely fiat Federal Reserve note .
When the last vestiges of the classical gold standard were rescinded in 1971 , gold prices traded in the low $ 40s per ounce .
Earlier this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to record high prices above $ 2,000 .
Gold prices have risen 50x over the past 50 years as a reflection of the loss of the dollar ’ s purchasing power .
Thus , a de facto gold standard is still in force – and will continue to be regardless of what the Great Reset brings .
Those who own precious metals are effectively making a Great Escape from the global fiat regime entirely and resetting their purchasing power in sound money .
It will more reliably preserve purchasing power in the years @ @ @ @ @ @ @ banker-issued paper or digits .
Stefan Gleason is President of Money Metals Exchange , a precious metals dealer recently named “ Best in the USA ” by an independent global ratings group .
A graduate of the University of Florida , Gleason is a seasoned business leader , investor , political strategist , and grassroots activist .
Gleason has frequently appeared on national television networks such as CNN , FoxNews , and CNBC and in hundreds of publications such as the Wall Street Journal , The Street , and Seeking Alpha .
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By Stefan Gleason
Although the apparent results of the 2020 election are still being contested, members of the global ruling elite are already looking forward to a post-Trump era in American politics – and a post-vaccine world economy.
They have encapsulated their policy agenda for 2021 and beyond into two words: “Great Reset.”
The notion of a Great Reset comes directly from the World Economic Forum.
The globalist organization has been actively pushing it for months via a series of policy articles on its web site.
The Great Reset agenda entails “harnessing the fourth industrial revolution” and “redrawing the geo-political map of the world” in pursuit of an “energy transition” that makes “economies more sustainable” while advancing “equity, inclusion and social justice in the workplace” so that the global economy can “build back better.”
In essence, the Great Reset is every longstanding globalist priority rolled into one and put on an accelerated path to full implementation.
Earlier this month, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaking to a United Nations video conference, said, “This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset… This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to reimagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.”
As both Winston Churchill and Rahm Emanuel said, “never let a good crisis go to waste.”
So what would a Great Reset mean for the monetary system?
It certainly wouldn’t mean a resetting of the U.S. dollar or any other national or regional fiat currencies to a gold standard.
Instead, the Great Reset that globalists have in mind would give central bankers more power to pursue costly and draconian environmental and social justice objectives that have traditionally been outside the scope of their mandates.
The Federal Reserve recently signaled its participation in the Great Reset by joining the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a global group of central banks and regulatory bodies dedicated to implementing the Paris climate agreement and other “green” priorities.
The Fed’s “dual mandate” of stable prices and full employment is now effectively an unlimited mandate. It includes raising price levels to impose higher rates of inflation on workers and savers.
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Some gold bugs imagine a scenario where the Fed abuses its currency creating powers to the point where the public loses confidence in the U.S. dollar, forcing the authorities to back it with gold at some extraordinarily elevated price.
The coming great monetary reset is unlikely to play out that way, however.
Central bankers and Keynesian economists dogmatically believe their theories are superior to a sound money system. They are more likely to double down – implementing a digital dollar (perhaps merged with a global currency regime) that is delinked from anything tangible, including coins and paper bills.
Gold’s role in the monetary system post-Great Reset will be to reflect its excesses and failures. In fact, the precious metal has been playing such a role ever since the U.S. moved to a purely fiat Federal Reserve note.
When the last vestiges of the classical gold standard were rescinded in 1971, gold prices traded in the low $40s per ounce. Earlier this year, the monetary metal traded up to record high prices above $2,000.
Gold prices have risen 50x over the past 50 years as a reflection of the loss of the dollar’s purchasing power.
Thus, a de facto gold standard is still in force – and will continue to be regardless of what the Great Reset brings.
Those who own precious metals are effectively making a Great Escape from the global fiat regime entirely and resetting their purchasing power in sound money. It will more reliably preserve purchasing power in the years and decades to come than any central banker-issued paper or digits.
Stefan Gleason is President of Money Metals Exchange, a precious metals dealer recently named “Best in the USA” by an independent global ratings group. A graduate of the University of Florida, Gleason is a seasoned business leader, investor, political strategist, and grassroots activist. Gleason has frequently appeared on national television networks such as CNN, FoxNews, and CNBC and in hundreds of publications such as the Wall Street Journal, The Street, and Seeking Alpha.
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activistpost--2020-11-30--Baltimore County Schools Closed Monday, Tuesday Due To Ransomware Attack

Well , it ’ s becoming evident in Baltimore , Maryland , that teaching remotely in the pandemic is not sustainable as hackers have hit Baltimore County Public Schools ( BCPS ) with a ransomware attack , forcing the school system to close schools for Monday and Tuesday , reported CBS Baltimore .
“ Due to the recent ransomware attack , Baltimore County Public Schools will be closed for students on Monday , November 30 , and Tuesday , December 1 .
BCPS offices will be open and staff will receive additional information about Monday and Tuesday , ” BCPS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said , “ this provides much-needed time for our staff to continue working on setting up the instructional platform and to communicate next steps regarding devices .
On Mon .
and Wed. , free student meals will be available at 300+ locations as usual , including all middle and high schools.
” The school system ended the statement by saying , “ We understand how challenging this situation is for families and staff , and we thank you for your patience as we work through this crisis .
Please note that future daily @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” On Friday , the 11 News I-Team reported that Maryland state auditors found significant risks within the BCPS network .
Days before the ransomware attack was discovered , early last week , findings from the Office of Legislative Audits showed BCPS did not properly secure sensitive personal information .
At the moment , there ’ s still no source behind the ransomware attack or how much money hackers want to restore computer network systems .
Last month , the public school system in Yazoo County , Mississippi , revealed that it paid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its network that was overrun by a ransomware incident .
There have been major US hospital systems hit with “ paralyzing ” ransomware attacks this fall .
So the real consequence of a school system going offline because of a ransomware attack is that children may not be able to learn for as long as the systems are down – as seen in Baltimore this week .
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By Tyler Durden
Well, it’s becoming evident in Baltimore, Maryland, that teaching remotely in the pandemic is not sustainable as hackers have hit Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) with a ransomware attack, forcing the school system to close schools for Monday and Tuesday, reported CBS Baltimore.
“Due to the recent ransomware attack, Baltimore County Public Schools will be closed for students on Monday, November 30, and Tuesday, December 1. BCPS offices will be open and staff will receive additional information about Monday and Tuesday,” BCPS tweeted.
In another post, BCPS said, “this provides much-needed time for our staff to continue working on setting up the instructional platform and to communicate next steps regarding devices. On Mon. and Wed., free student meals will be available at 300+ locations as usual, including all middle and high schools.”
The school system ended the statement by saying, “We understand how challenging this situation is for families and staff, and we thank you for your patience as we work through this crisis. Please note that future daily updates will be available at 5 pm.”
On Friday, the 11 News I-Team reported that Maryland state auditors found significant risks within the BCPS network.
Days before the ransomware attack was discovered, early last week, findings from the Office of Legislative Audits showed BCPS did not properly secure sensitive personal information.
At the moment, there’s still no source behind the ransomware attack or how much money hackers want to restore computer network systems.
Last month, the public school system in Yazoo County, Mississippi, revealed that it paid upwards of $300k to help recover its network that was overrun by a ransomware incident.
There have been major US hospital systems hit with “paralyzing” ransomware attacks this fall.
So the real consequence of a school system going offline because of a ransomware attack is that children may not be able to learn for as long as the systems are down – as seen in Baltimore this week.
Source: Zero Hedge
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activistpost--2020-11-30--NYC Pub Declares Itself “Autonomous Zone” After Government Tries To Shut It Down

In what is a hilarious bit of irony for Democrat politicians in New York , a pub that had its liquor license yanked due to Covid rules has now declared itself an “ Autonomous Zone ” and is continuing to do business .
The bar , called Mac ’ s Public House in Staten Island , said publicly : They also painted “ AUTONOMOUS ZONE ” on the sidewalk outside the bar and put signs in the windows claiming , “ As of November 20 , 2020 , we hereby declare this establishment an AUTONOMOUS ZONE ” .
The pub @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state and was slapped with thousands of dollars in fines after defying New York ’ s latest move to “ orange zone status ” ( whatever that means ) thanks to the very huge brain of “ Emmy nominated ” Governor Andrew Cuomo .
We ’ re not backing down .
You think you scared me by .
.
.
saying I don ’ t have a license now to serve liquor now ?
Well guess what ?
That liquor license is on the wall .
If that liquor license is gon na @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s gon na be done by Cuomo .
You wan na come down here and pull that license off the wall ?
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De Bozo – you want to come down here and pull the license off the wall ?
Feel free to end up comin ’ down , and we ’ ll end up having a conversation before you even think about stepping foot on my property .
I will not back down .
On Saturday , the bar was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for free to a small group of customers .
The move is try and exploit a loophole in Cuomo ’ s bill by not actually charging customers .
One customer said : “ He ’ s alright , he ’ s doing the right thing.
” Another customer – who didn ’ t pay for his drink and left a $ 100 tip on a glass of water – said : “ I totally support what he is doing .
I don ’ t support the tyrannical nonsense they have in place.
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By Tyler Durden
In what is a hilarious bit of irony for Democrat politicians in New York, a pub that had its liquor license yanked due to Covid rules has now declared itself an “Autonomous Zone” and is continuing to do business.
The bar, called Mac’s Public House in Staten Island, said publicly:
We refuse to abide by any rules and regulations put forth by the Mayor of NYC and Governor of NY State.
They also painted “AUTONOMOUS ZONE” on the sidewalk outside the bar and put signs in the windows claiming, “As of November 20, 2020, we hereby declare this establishment an AUTONOMOUS ZONE”.
The pub had its liquor license revoked by the state and was slapped with thousands of dollars in fines after defying New York’s latest move to “orange zone status” (whatever that means) thanks to the very huge brain of “Emmy nominated” Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Co-owner Danny Presti told The Post:
At this point, we’re OK with it, because we’re not paying it. [The Sheriff’s Department] is issuing us $1,000 fines, so they keep coming back. We’re still here. We’re not letting them in.
Co-owner Keith McAlarney said in a recent YouTube video:
We’re not backing down. You think you scared me by . . . saying I don’t have a license now to serve liquor now? Well guess what? That liquor license is on the wall. If that liquor license is gonna come off the wall, it’s gonna be done by Cuomo. You wanna come down here and pull that license off the wall?
He continued:
De Bozo – you want to come down here and pull the license off the wall? Feel free to end up comin’ down, and we’ll end up having a conversation before you even think about stepping foot on my property. I will not back down.
On Saturday, the bar was operating without a license, offering booze for free to a small group of customers. The move is try and exploit a loophole in Cuomo’s bill by not actually charging customers.
One customer said: “He’s alright, he’s doing the right thing.”
Another customer – who didn’t pay for his drink and left a $100 tip on a glass of water – said: “I totally support what he is doing. I don’t support the tyrannical nonsense they have in place.”
Here is a video update on the bar from the weekend:
Source: Zero Hedge
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activistpost--2020-11-30--Assassination of Iranian Scientist Brings US-Israel Closer to War with Iran

Reports on the death of senior Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh signals another dangerous turn in Washington ’ s systematic attempts to undermine and overthrow the current government of Iran .
The Western media is framing the assassination as a unilateral operation carried out by Israel with The New York Times in an article titled , “ Assassination in Iran Could Limit Biden ’ s Options .
Was That the Goal ?
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The New York Times assumes that Biden genuinely wanted to return @ @ @ @ @ @ @ known as the The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action ( JCPOA ) – and insists that it is up to Iran whether or not that possibility still remains .
If Iran holds off on significant retaliation , then the bold move to take out the chief of the nuclear program will have paid off , even if the assassination drives the program further underground .
And if the Iranians retaliate , giving Mr. Trump a pretext to launch a return strike before he leaves office in January , Mr. Biden will be inheriting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a five-year-old diplomatic document .
But there is a third option – if the US or Israel – or both – stage an event meant to look like an Iranian retaliation to help ensure the nuclear deal is permanently buried and only a path toward escalation lies ahead for Washington .
And this third option is the most likely .
More than mere speculation – this conclusion is drawn from US policy papers produced by corporate-funded policy think tank – the Brookings Institution .
Their 2009 paper ( PDF ) titled , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a New American Strategy toward Iran , ” had not only called for the US to disingenuously offer Iran an opportunity to escape from under US sanctions , but admitted that the offer would be deliberately sabotaged by the US and used as a pretext toward further escalation .
Thus the JCPOA was doomed before it was even signed in 2015 – with US policymakers fully determined to scrap it at the most opportune time and then incrementally ratchet up pressure on Iran .
And while the US posed as “ peacemaker ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same time it waged proxy war on Iran ’ s closest ally in the region – Syria – aiming to overthrow the Syrian government and thus further isolating and encircling Iran itself .
Two quotes in particular from the 2009 Brookings document are revealing in regards to the ill-fated JCPOA and what is most likely to follow this most recent assassination as well as the prospects for Biden ’ s “ desire ” to restart the deal after taking office next year .
…it would be far more preferable if the United States @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the airstrikes before launching them .
Clearly , the more outrageous , the more deadly , and the more unprovoked the Iranian action , the better off the United States would be .
Of course , it would be very difficult for the United States to goad Iran into such a provocation without the rest of the world recognizing this game , which would then undermine it .
( One method that would have some possibility of success would be to ratchet up covert regime change efforts in the hope that Tehran @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which could then be portrayed as an unprovoked act of Iranian aggression . )
In a similar vein , any military operation against Iran will likely be very unpopular around the world and require the proper international context—both to ensure the logistical support the operation would require and to minimize the blowback from it .
The best way to minimize international opprobrium and maximize support ( however , grudging or covert ) is to strike only when there is a widespread conviction that the Iranians were given but then rejected —one so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ acquire nuclear weapons and acquire them for the wrong reasons would turn it down .
Under those circumstances , the United States ( or Israel ) could portray its operations as taken in sorrow , not anger , and at least some in the international community would conclude that the Iranians “ brought it on themselves ” by refusing .
Creating the deal , sabotaging it , and using it as a pretext to pursue military aggression against Iran was always the plan – long before the JCPOA was ever signed .
With @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unlikely – and more so with this recent escalation – the only path left and just as Brookings in their 2009 paper planned years ago , is toward wider conflict between the US and Iran .
Whether this conflict unfolds as American policymakers envisioned over a decade ago or US power in the Middle East evaporates before this plan is fully realized – only time will tell – and depends widely on not only Iran ’ s patience and skill – but also on that of its allies in Moscow and even Beijing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the illusion of leading a “ rules based international order ” – assassinating scientists half-way across the planet either directly or through its Israeli proxies – is only further evidence of just how desperately the world needs to move on with such an order left far behind .
Brian Berletic is an independent geopolitical analyst based in Bangkok , Thailand and a regular contributor to New Eastern Outlook .
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By Brian Berletic
Reports on the death of senior Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh signals another dangerous turn in Washington’s systematic attempts to undermine and overthrow the current government of Iran.
The Western media is framing the assassination as a unilateral operation carried out by Israel with The New York Times in an article titled, “Assassination in Iran Could Limit Biden’s Options. Was That the Goal?,” claiming:
Intelligence officials say there is little doubt that Israel was behind the killing — it had all the hallmarks of a precisely timed operation by Mossad, the country’s spy agency. And the Israelis have done nothing to dispel that view.
The article also claimed:
But Mr. Netanyahu also has a second agenda. “There must be no return to the previous nuclear agreement,” he declared shortly after it became clear that Mr. Biden — who has proposed exactly that — would be the next president.
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The New York Times assumes that Biden genuinely wanted to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement – officially known as the The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – and insists that it is up to Iran whether or not that possibility still remains.
The article claims:
If Iran holds off on significant retaliation, then the bold move to take out the chief of the nuclear program will have paid off, even if the assassination drives the program further underground. And if the Iranians retaliate, giving Mr. Trump a pretext to launch a return strike before he leaves office in January, Mr. Biden will be inheriting bigger problems than just the wreckage of a five-year-old diplomatic document.
But there is a third option – if the US or Israel – or both – stage an event meant to look like an Iranian retaliation to help ensure the nuclear deal is permanently buried and only a path toward escalation lies ahead for Washington.
And this third option is the most likely. More than mere speculation – this conclusion is drawn from US policy papers produced by corporate-funded policy think tank – the Brookings Institution.
Their 2009 paper (PDF) titled, “Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran,” had not only called for the US to disingenuously offer Iran an opportunity to escape from under US sanctions, but admitted that the offer would be deliberately sabotaged by the US and used as a pretext toward further escalation.
Thus the JCPOA was doomed before it was even signed in 2015 – with US policymakers fully determined to scrap it at the most opportune time and then incrementally ratchet up pressure on Iran.
And while the US posed as “peacemaker” with Iran in 2015 – at the same time it waged proxy war on Iran’s closest ally in the region – Syria – aiming to overthrow the Syrian government and thus further isolating and encircling Iran itself.
Two quotes in particular from the 2009 Brookings document are revealing in regards to the ill-fated JCPOA and what is most likely to follow this most recent assassination as well as the prospects for Biden’s “desire” to restart the deal after taking office next year.
First the document claims (emphasis added):
…it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would be. Of course, it would be very difficult for the United States to goad Iran into such a provocation without the rest of the world recognizing this game, which would then undermine it. (One method that would have some possibility of success would be to ratchet up covert regime change efforts in the hope that Tehran would retaliate overtly, or even semi-overtly, which could then be portrayed as an unprovoked act of Iranian aggression.)
Next, the document claims:
In a similar vein, any military operation against Iran will likely be very unpopular around the world and require the proper international context—both to ensure the logistical support the operation would require and to minimize the blowback from it. The best way to minimize international opprobrium and maximize support (however, grudging or covert) is to strike only when there is a widespread conviction that the Iranians were given but then rejected a superb offer —one so good that only a regime determined to acquire nuclear weapons and acquire them for the wrong reasons would turn it down. Under those circumstances, the United States (or Israel) could portray its operations as taken in sorrow, not anger, and at least some in the international community would conclude that the Iranians “brought it on themselves” by refusing a very good deal .
Creating the deal, sabotaging it, and using it as a pretext to pursue military aggression against Iran was always the plan – long before the JCPOA was ever signed.
With prospects of the plan being revived already unlikely – and more so with this recent escalation – the only path left and just as Brookings in their 2009 paper planned years ago, is toward wider conflict between the US and Iran.
Whether this conflict unfolds as American policymakers envisioned over a decade ago or US power in the Middle East evaporates before this plan is fully realized – only time will tell – and depends widely on not only Iran’s patience and skill – but also on that of its allies in Moscow and even Beijing.
For the US who still clings to the illusion of leading a “rules based international order” – assassinating scientists half-way across the planet either directly or through its Israeli proxies – is only further evidence of just how desperately the world needs to move on with such an order left far behind.
Source: Land Destroyer
Brian Berletic is an independent geopolitical analyst based in Bangkok, Thailand and a regular contributor to New Eastern Outlook. You can support him and his work at Land Destroyer via Patreon here.
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activistpost--2020-11-30--COVID-19 Lockdowns: Liberty and Science

COVID-19 Lockdowns: Liberty and Science

The Chinese Coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) hit American shores — officially , anyway , there is significant evidence that it arrived earlier — in late January 2020 .
The American public was then told that a two-week shutdown of the economy would “ flatten the curve , ” relieving the pressure on hospital intensive care units and saving lives in the long run .
The average American , including conservatives , being people of good faith , complied , thinking that this was a common-sense measure that would save lives in the wake of a new and mysterious pandemic .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the goalposts moved .
No longer was it enough to “ flatten the curve.
” Now we were to be locked down until there was a cure .
Even the cure was not enough for some figures like the lionized-by-liberals Dr. Anthony Fauci — we would continue to be locked down even after a vaccine had been rammed through the approvals process with limited testing .
When would we be allowed out by our masters ?
No one could answer this .
Second , there was an intensification of the authoritarian measures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tech , introduced “ contact tracing ” where people had to sign in with extensive personal information if they wanted to , for example , eat out at a restaurant .
This was so that , in the event of infection with COVID-19 , the state health department would be able to track and trace everyone you had contact with .
We should add that a third thing didn ’ t so much “ happen ” but was discovered : As it turns out unless you are old ( over the age of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from a complicating disorder ( such as diabetes or asthma ) , COVID-19 was little more than a bad cold or the flu .
What ’ s more , there was a financial incentive from the government to mark deaths as COVID-19 deaths when they were not .
George Floyd , the man who died while being arrested by the Minneapolis Police Department , sparking riots over the summer of 2020 , is officially a COVID-19 death because he died with COVID-19 , despite not dying of COVID-19 .
By the fall of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ While COVID-19 was dangerous for select populations , it had an extremely low death rate among the young and healthy .
The generous or naive might say that the COVID-19 health measures are misguided attempts to protect the population .
A more hard-nosed or cynical person likely thinks that these measures are a deliberate attempt to enact totalitarian measures leveraging public panic .
This , of course , would not be the first time the government and its toadies took advantage of such a panic , with the 9/11 attacks presenting a recent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 measures are little more than a cynical power grab .
We also believe that they have no basis in “ the science ” often breathlessly invoked by the toadies of this power grab .
In this article , we will make a compelling case that there is nothing scientific about this attack on the individual civil liberties of Americans .
As Canadian Dr. Roger Hodkinson , a top pathologist , virologist , and CEO of a biotech company manufacturing COVID tests said , “ this ( COVID-19 ) is the greatest hoax @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Who Is Hurt By Lockdowns… And Who Isn ’ t ?
Before launching into specifics about “ the science ” of lockdowns , it is worth discussing who was impacted by lockdowns and who wasn ’ t .
Despite the rhetoric from the political and media class about how “ we are all in this together , ” there is clearly no “ we ” and there are different impacts on different people .
First , let ’ s discuss the American and international media elites .
These jobs are largely done remotely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ performed so , can easily be transitioned to be done remotely .
Then there is the small matter of the political class of bureaucrats who receive their paychecks whether they perform any ostensible “ work ” — to say nothing of obtaining results — or not .
Unsurprisingly , these are two groups heavily invested in both lockdowns and in policing the behavior of ordinary citizens .
Compare with the working- and middle-class Americans who do not see a dime unless they actually show up to work , work which often can not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rules of the lockdowns .
While one can write clickbait articles about how anti-mask and anti-lockdown protesters are agents of white supremacy from the comfort of one ’ s own home , the same can not be said for tasks like construction , manufacturing , many forms of retail sales or hospitality .
This isn ’ t just a matter of a few people missing out on a few weeks of work .
CNBC host Jim Cramer has noted that the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic led to one of the biggest wealth transfers in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cleaned up at the expense of Main Street .
Small businesses shuttered at an astonishing rate with restaurants and retailers hardest hit .
All told , 60 percent of business closures were expected to be permanent , for a total of over 100,000 businesses .
While Main Street businesses were locked down , Amazon was making a killing — all while Jeff Bezos ’ vanity blog , the Washington Post was pushing lockdown policies .
Walmart , Lowe ’ s , and Target were likewise seeing booming profits .
This is emblematic of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Main Street businesses to Big Tech and the financial sector .
Indeed , the tale of the Chinese coronavirus in total might well be described as a massive upward consolidation of power .
The point of all this is to point out that there is a massive social and economic cost to the lockdowns that is borne entirely by the plebeians and not at all by the political and media elites who push the lockdowns hard .
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People ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And while the projected increase in suicide rates has thus far failed to materialize , why does someone have to kill themselves for us to be concerned about how COVID-19 has impacted their lives ?
Further , we have evidence that people die of “ despair ” — effectively giving up on life and failing to perform adequate self-care , overdosing on drugs or other similar types of deaths — at an alarming rate during the pandemic lockdowns .
Indeed , there is even a mathematical formula for this , whereby there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for every 1 percent of unemployment .
Unemployment during COVID lockdowns peaked at 14.7 percent , which would be an expected excess death total of between 77,910 and 147,000 .
The COVID lockdowns of spring 2020 saw an uptick in a number of other serious conditions .
Increased suicide was one , but also drug overdoses , alcohol-related illness , tuberculosis infections and on the non-lethal side of things , increased alcohol abuse generally as well as increased spousal and child abuse .
Delayed cancer screenings were another problem during the lockdowns .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ medicine , believes that there are tens of thousands of deaths related to delayed treatment because of COVID alone .
Conservative news and opinion website Revolver has conducted an extensive study of just how impacted American quality of life has been by COVID lockdowns , in terms of actual months of life lost .
They concluded that over 10 times as much life has been lost due to COVID lockdowns than due to the disease itself .
The Revolver study is largely based on “ back of the envelope ” type calculations , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a sense of the scope of how COVID-19 lockdowns have negatively impacted the lives of Americans significantly more than the disease itself .
The Great Barrington Declaration , signed by over 7,000 scientists , virologists , and infectious disease experts believes that lockdowns are destroying “ at least seven times as much life ” as the disease itself and that in the United States and the United Kingdom , there is “ irreparable damage ” being done .
The declaration notes clearly that “ seven times as much damage ” is the absolute @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at 90 times .
There is another metric worth mentioning in our quest to quantify how bad the lockdown has been for non-sick people .
Global debt has ballooned , growing by $ 20 trillion since the lockdowns began , according to the Institute of International Finance .
This is thought to be the biggest increase in debt in the world ’ s history Perhaps worst of all , none of this is ever explained to the public as being necessary .
It is simply not acknowledged at all .
It is an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that any measure that will prevent even a single death is worth it no matter what the social or economic consequences .
How Dangerous Is COVID ?
Not Very .
On the flip side of this are the large number of “ COVID deaths ” which are actually attributable to some other cause .
We ’ re not talking about an elderly person with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder pushed over the edge by the Chinese Coronavirus .
We ’ re talking about people who died of gunshot wounds , got into motorcycle accidents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a drug-related heart attack while a police officer kneeled on their neck who were counted as COVID deaths .
With fat government subsidies for COVID cases , it ’ s unsurprising that hospitals and other healthcare facilities would diagnose people as having COVID who actually did not .
We know very little about COVID and how it is spread , but here are a few things we do know : First , we know that there are a number of comorbidities that make it far more dangerous , one of which is obesity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death by a whopping 48 percent .
But even that might not be as dangerous as it first sounds : In California where they have had 18,000 deaths , a scant two of these were people under the age of 18 , one with underlying health conditions .
A much more important factor is age .
A large study conducted on data from cases in South Korea , Italy , China , and Spain , three of the early breeding grounds for the virus , found a 0 percent death rate for those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death rate didn ’ t climb above 1 percent until the age of 50-59 — and then only in China and Italy and then only just barely , at 1.3 and 1 percent respectively .
It climbed slightly above 1 percent for all four countries in the 60-69 age bracket , staying below 2 percent in South Korea and Spain , but below 4 percent for Italy and China .
Death rates then spike dramatically over the age of 70 .
This tracks with flu deaths over the 2017-18 “ flu season ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deaths under the age of 18 ( a little over 600 ) , slightly more for 18-49 ( 2803 ) , another modest jump between 50 and 64 ( 6,751 ) and then a huge spike over the age of 65 ( over 50,000 ) .
Of course , there are more cases of the flu , which has a lower death rate overall : The overall death rate for COVID-19 is 1.5 percent , regardless of age , with an average season ’ s flu killing about .1 percent of everyone who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we ’ re finding that there ’ s absolutely nothing to be concerned about for most healthy people .
The COVID survival rates according to the CDC are 99.997 percent for those under the age of 20 , 99.98 percent for those between the ages of 20 and 49 , 99.5 percent for those between the age of 50 and 69 and even 94.6 percent for those over the age of 70 .
These numbers include people with comorbidities such as respiratory diseases .
And even these numbers are likely off , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are attributed to COVID alone .
The rest had , on average , at least two comorbidities .
The average death rate annually for the flu is about .1 percent .
It ’ s worth noting that this data all comes from the early stages of the pandemic when medical professionals had little way of treating the disease other than ventilating — and thus , probably killing — severe cases .
Now we know quite a bit more about therapeutics that aid in recovery .
President Donald Trump , a clinically obese 74-year-old @ @ @ @ @ @ @ less than a week .
There is ample evidence that the disease is becoming less deadly , not more .
Death rates fall because of increased testing , but the median age of infection has likewise gone down .
Do Lockdowns And Masks Even Work ?
All of this raises an important central question : Why do the elderly , those with underlying health conditions and the obese simply sequester themselves or take reasonable precautions rather than shutting down the world economy ?
Indeed , there is mounting evidence that government intervention has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ things worse .
As of November 18 , 2020 , there have been 34,058 COVID deaths in the state of New York .
Of these , over 6,500 ( or approximately one in seven total deaths ) were nursing home deaths that were a direct result of Governor Andrew Cuomo ’ s policy of forcing nursing homes to accept COVID patients and lock them down with the vulnerable and uninfected .
This is a concrete example of government lockdown measures killing people .
But you won ’ t hear about it in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ masks that we are now seeing everywhere to the point where someone without a mask is seen as the strange one .
They must work , of course !
But there is scant evidence that masks prevent the transmission of COVID or any other respiratory infection .
In every randomized clinical trial ever conducted , there have been inconclusive findings that mask wearing aided in suppressing transmission of respiratory diseases .
Studies generally rely upon fitted N95 respirators that must be sterilized after every use or surgical masks that should be thrown away @ @ @ @ @ @ @ masks cause headaches than that they prevent against COVID .
Compare this to what you see on your average trip to the grocery store : People wearing unfitted cloth masks that get occasionally cleaned — maybe .
Many people don ’ t even bother to pull them up over their noses .
Thus , most mask wearing is useless and little more than a form of social control or forced act of “ solidarity.
” There ’ s magical thinking involved in the current mask mandates : If cases go up , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good little boys and girls and didn ’ t wear their masks .
If they go down , everyone has been well behaved and gets to pat themselves on the back for wearing their face diaper .
Some evidence suggests that masks make people feel magically protected from the virus and thus they do not take common-sense precautions against all disease , such as handwashing , keeping fingers off the face , covering their nose when they sneeze and the like .
What this means at its root is that people are trading @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reuse likewise increases infection rates and who among us isn ’ t guilty of that ?
What ’ s more , studies suggest that people who wear the cloth masks , that are now virtually required to do anything outside one ’ s home , lead to an increase of flu-like symptoms — and thus create lots of COVID paranoia where there ought not to be any .
It was only in March that many experts were urging people not to wear masks at all , with this article from April likewise urging @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are also the “ soft ” effects of mask wearing .
There is significant evidence to suggest that children living under COVID will have their emotional and psychological development severely stunted and warped thanks to mask orders .
As if you needed another reason to pull your kids out of public school .
Indeed , we have a mountain of troubling data about the social effects of mass mask wearing that go back decades .
Put simply , masks make people stupid , pliant and anti-social .
Examples of findings from mask studies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people were more likely and required less pay to carry a sign reading “ masturbation is fun ” if they were masked .
• A 1979 study found children were more likely to take more than their allotted amount of Halloween candy if they were masked .
• A 1989 study found that masking led people to abandon defense mechanism and revert to more primitive psychological states .
• Studies conducted in 2005 and 2017 found neurological evidence inhibit both impulse control and identity formation , decreasing prefrontal cortex activity .
• Repeated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flow to the brain .
A number of public figures have backed off of masking as a panacea , instead pushing it as an act of “ social solidarity.
” Sure , masks might not actually do anything — but what about feelings ?
British politicians Michael Gove and Nicole Sturgeon are indicative of this trend .
Your Social Betters Are Not Actually Afraid of COVID But perhaps the best evidence that this is all just a bit of political theater is seeing how our media and political class actually behave when they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cuomo , brother of Governor Andrew Cuomo , often referred to as “ Fredo ” due to paling in comparison with his brother , was quarantined for two weeks , not for abstract reasons , but because he was actually exposed to COVID .
This didn ’ t stop him from leaving his house unmasked after he got tired of lifting fake weights on camera .
Bill De Blasio , the Mayor of New York with questionable connections to Communist organizations and a daughter in Antifa , was caught at the gym and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of shame about it , explaining that he needs to go to the gym , but you do not .
Lori Lightfoot , Mayor of Chicago , told Chicagoans to stay home for Thanksgiving .
This didn ’ t stop her from taking to the streets following Joe Biden ’ s ersatz “ victory ” in the 2020 Presidential election to celebrate .
Gavin Newsome , Governor of California has presided over some of the harshest lockdowns in the nation , going so far as to shut off power and water to people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ somehow finds time to dine out at the three Michelin star restaurant French Laundry with some of the top medical bureaucrats in the state .
He ’ s not the only governor who believes in “ lockdowns for thee , but not for me.
” Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan went as far as to threaten lockdown protesters with further lockdowns because of their protests .
She is a bit of a poster child for the mediocre people who have appointed themselves COVID cops .
Whitmer put in some of the most restrictive lockdowns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ use them to blackmail Michiganders into voting for Joe Biden .
In November , she began threatening jail time for businesses who did not record personal details of their customers for her personal perusal .
Her husband attempted to throw his weight around to get his boat moved into place for vacation early in violation of state orders .
Nancy Pelosi ’ s lockdown-violating haircut is well known .
Less known is that she planned to carry on with the reception dinner for new members of Congress until her plan was exposed and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and other political elites were telling average Americans to skip Thanksgiving and Christmas .
The elephant in the room , of course , were the BLM riots of the summer of 2020 .
In cities such as New York , Portland ( where riots literally went on every night for months ) , and Seattle ( where insurrectionists took over several blocks of the capitol district and demanded ethnic cleansing of whites from the area ) , there were leftist riots growing out of a media manufactured panic centered around the death of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a drug overdose while resisting arrest and whose death is officially listed as COVID .
These riots were fine , indeed necessary and it wasn ’ t just politicians who were saying so .
The medical profession also chimed in , predictably declaring that “ racism ” was the “ real pandemic.
” Compare with the reaction to anti-lockdown protests .
Those seeking a consolidation of power upward in the form of breaking police unions and disbanding local police departments , who terrorized small businesses and local communities , not just in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ places like Kenosha , Wisconsin and Lancaster , Pennsylvania — the latter of these sensibly held rioters on $ 1 million bail .
The message is simple and clear : Freedom fighters are superspreaders .
The freelance goons of government repression and Big Tech labor discipline enforcement are free to do as they will .
Their “ protests ” aren ’ t just safe , but vitally important .
There is no other term for the COVID regime than a nascent police state .
Governors and bureaucrats , without any legislative authority have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at their personal whim for a disease with a 99.9 % survival rate .
Australia is an example of a country that has moved very firmly and decisively into police state territory .
Zoe Buhler , a 28-year-old pregnant mother was arrested , handcuffed and had her electronic devices confiscated for the crime of posting about an anti-lockdown protest on Facebook in a town with four active cases .
The name of the crime ?
“ The planning and encouragement of protest activity.
” The punishment ?
Mrs. Buhler is looking at 15 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the video of Mrs. Buhler ’ s arrest here .
It should make your stomach turn .
The Premier of Victoria ( equivalent to the governor of this Australian state ) allowed and encouraged BLM protests of up to 10,000 that summer .
In Victoria , as elsewhere in Australia , as well as in many American states , people are not allowed to leave their houses except for reasons deemed “ essential ” by their government , then only for so long and between certain hours and you might need a hall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ going and why you are going there .
Among people harassed for the crime of sitting down on park benches include a law professor with cerebral palsy and her 70-year-old mother and a heavily pregnant woman while a young tradesman was harassed and fined for not having his papers filled out properly .
With new lockdowns rolling out that involve requirements to wear masks in your own home and a prohibition on all visitors , it is clear that some are attempting to bring back the bad old days of Spring 2020 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Thinking about protesting ?
Forget about being arrested and manhandled by police .
If your protests get too large , as they have done in Germany , the police will turn fire hoses on you like you ’ re in Alabama in 1956 .
And then there ’ s the prospect of the vaccine , two versions of which will soon be available , if not mandatory .
Could the coronavirus vaccine be “ the Mark of the Beast ?
” One doesn ’ t have to be religious to see it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ already boasting that no one will be able to work , travel or go to school without this vaccine that was rushed through approvals for political theater .
Former Vice President Joe Biden hasn ’ t ruled out making the vaccine mandatory , though the federal government will likely just punt enforcement to large corporations , similar to how they use Big Tech to manage information on the Internet and Big Finance to take banking services away from dissidents .
Bill Gates has called not only for mandatory vaccines , but also mandatory @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It ’ s worth noting that “ asymptomatic transmission , ” the notion that people who don ’ t know they ’ re sick are passing the disease around and thus , the entire basis of mask mandates and lockdowns , is patently false .
Are our elites deliberately conspiring to instill fear or are they just idiotic dupes ?
Probably a little from Column A and a little from Column B .
But one thing is clear — the economic , political , academic , and media elites in this country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % survival rate to transform the country into a police state .
Patriots and freedom lovers must resist this by any means necessary .
One way to do this is by patronizing local businesses who are openly defying mask mandates .
But in many cases you can circumvent these laws — particularly at big box stores — by saying : “ I have a health concern.
” The law prevents them from asking anything further and risk-averse large companies generally won ’ t for fear of a lawsuit or an Americans with Disabilities @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Disclaimer : This article is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice , diagnosis , or treatment provided by a qualified healthcare provider .
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By Sam Jacobs, Libertas Bella
The Chinese Coronavirus (COVID-19) hit American shores — officially, anyway, there is significant evidence that it arrived earlier — in late January 2020. The American public was then told that a two-week shutdown of the economy would “flatten the curve,” relieving the pressure on hospital intensive care units and saving lives in the long run.
The average American, including conservatives, being people of good faith, complied, thinking that this was a common-sense measure that would save lives in the wake of a new and mysterious pandemic.
But two things quickly happened: First, the goalposts moved. No longer was it enough to “flatten the curve.” Now we were to be locked down until there was a cure.
Even the cure was not enough for some figures like the lionized-by-liberals Dr. Anthony Fauci — we would continue to be locked down even after a vaccine had been rammed through the approvals process with limited testing. When would we be allowed out by our masters? No one could answer this.
Second, there was an intensification of the authoritarian measures. Some states, aided by Big Tech, introduced “contact tracing” where people had to sign in with extensive personal information if they wanted to, for example, eat out at a restaurant. This was so that, in the event of infection with COVID-19, the state health department would be able to track and trace everyone you had contact with.
We should add that a third thing didn’t so much “happen” but was discovered: As it turns out unless you are old (over the age of 65), morbidly obese or suffer from a complicating disorder (such as diabetes or asthma), COVID-19 was little more than a bad cold or the flu.
What’s more, there was a financial incentive from the government to mark deaths as COVID-19 deaths when they were not. George Floyd, the man who died while being arrested by the Minneapolis Police Department, sparking riots over the summer of 2020, is officially a COVID-19 death because he died with COVID-19, despite not dying of COVID-19.
By the fall of 2020, the facts became clear: While COVID-19 was dangerous for select populations, it had an extremely low death rate among the young and healthy.
The generous or naive might say that the COVID-19 health measures are misguided attempts to protect the population. A more hard-nosed or cynical person likely thinks that these measures are a deliberate attempt to enact totalitarian measures leveraging public panic.
This, of course, would not be the first time the government and its toadies took advantage of such a panic, with the 9/11 attacks presenting a recent example of such.
We believe that COVID-19 measures are little more than a cynical power grab. We also believe that they have no basis in “the science” often breathlessly invoked by the toadies of this power grab.
In this article, we will make a compelling case that there is nothing scientific about this attack on the individual civil liberties of Americans. As Canadian Dr. Roger Hodkinson, a top pathologist, virologist, and CEO of a biotech company manufacturing COVID tests said, “this (COVID-19) is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.”
Who Is Hurt By Lockdowns… And Who Isn’t?
Before launching into specifics about “the science” of lockdowns, it is worth discussing who was impacted by lockdowns and who wasn’t. Despite the rhetoric from the political and media class about how “we are all in this together,” there is clearly no “we” and there are different impacts on different people.
First, let’s discuss the American and international media elites. These jobs are largely done remotely and, where they are not customarily performed so, can easily be transitioned to be done remotely. Then there is the small matter of the political class of bureaucrats who receive their paychecks whether they perform any ostensible “work” — to say nothing of obtaining results — or not.
Unsurprisingly, these are two groups heavily invested in both lockdowns and in policing the behavior of ordinary citizens. Compare with the working- and middle-class Americans who do not see a dime unless they actually show up to work, work which often cannot be done under the restrictive and arbitrary rules of the lockdowns.
While one can write clickbait articles about how anti-mask and anti-lockdown protesters are agents of white supremacy from the comfort of one’s own home, the same cannot be said for tasks like construction, manufacturing, many forms of retail sales or hospitality.
This isn’t just a matter of a few people missing out on a few weeks of work. CNBC host Jim Cramer has noted that the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic led to one of the biggest wealth transfers in all of American history. Wall Street cleaned up at the expense of Main Street.
Small businesses shuttered at an astonishing rate with restaurants and retailers hardest hit. All told, 60 percent of business closures were expected to be permanent, for a total of over 100,000 businesses.
While Main Street businesses were locked down, Amazon was making a killing — all while Jeff Bezos’ vanity blog, the Washington Post was pushing lockdown policies. Walmart, Lowe’s, and Target were likewise seeing booming profits.
This is emblematic of the massive transfer of wealth from small Main Street businesses to Big Tech and the financial sector. Indeed, the tale of the Chinese coronavirus in total might well be described as a massive upward consolidation of power.
The point of all this is to point out that there is a massive social and economic cost to the lockdowns that is borne entirely by the plebeians and not at all by the political and media elites who push the lockdowns hard.
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People’s lives have been ruined by the lockdown. And while the projected increase in suicide rates has thus far failed to materialize, why does someone have to kill themselves for us to be concerned about how COVID-19 has impacted their lives?
Further, we have evidence that people die of “despair” — effectively giving up on life and failing to perform adequate self-care, overdosing on drugs or other similar types of deaths — at an alarming rate during the pandemic lockdowns.
Indeed, there is even a mathematical formula for this, whereby there is an expected 5,300 to 10,000 deaths for every 1 percent of unemployment. Unemployment during COVID lockdowns peaked at 14.7 percent, which would be an expected excess death total of between 77,910 and 147,000.
The COVID lockdowns of spring 2020 saw an uptick in a number of other serious conditions. Increased suicide was one, but also drug overdoses, alcohol-related illness, tuberculosis infections and on the non-lethal side of things, increased alcohol abuse generally as well as increased spousal and child abuse.
Delayed cancer screenings were another problem during the lockdowns. The United Kingdom, which has socialized medicine, believes that there are tens of thousands of deaths related to delayed treatment because of COVID alone.
Conservative news and opinion website Revolver has conducted an extensive study of just how impacted American quality of life has been by COVID lockdowns, in terms of actual months of life lost. They concluded that over 10 times as much life has been lost due to COVID lockdowns than due to the disease itself.
The Revolver study is largely based on “back of the envelope” type calculations, but is still worth reading to get a sense of the scope of how COVID-19 lockdowns have negatively impacted the lives of Americans significantly more than the disease itself.
The Great Barrington Declaration, signed by over 7,000 scientists, virologists, and infectious disease experts believes that lockdowns are destroying “at least seven times as much life” as the disease itself and that in the United States and the United Kingdom, there is “irreparable damage” being done.
The declaration notes clearly that “seven times as much damage” is the absolute minimum, putting a more realistic figure at 90 times.
There is another metric worth mentioning in our quest to quantify how bad the lockdown has been for non-sick people. Global debt has ballooned, growing by $20 trillion since the lockdowns began, according to the Institute of International Finance. This is thought to be the biggest increase in debt in the world’s history
Perhaps worst of all, none of this is ever explained to the public as being necessary. It is simply not acknowledged at all. It is an article of faith in the COVID cult that any measure that will prevent even a single death is worth it no matter what the social or economic consequences.
How Dangerous Is COVID? Not Very.
On the flip side of this are the large number of “COVID deaths” which are actually attributable to some other cause. We’re not talking about an elderly person with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder pushed over the edge by the Chinese Coronavirus. We’re talking about people who died of gunshot wounds, got into motorcycle accidents, fell off a ladder or had a drug-related heart attack while a police officer kneeled on their neck who were counted as COVID deaths.
With fat government subsidies for COVID cases, it’s unsurprising that hospitals and other healthcare facilities would diagnose people as having COVID who actually did not.
We know very little about COVID and how it is spread, but here are a few things we do know: First, we know that there are a number of comorbidities that make it far more dangerous, one of which is obesity, which increases the risk of COVID death by a whopping 48 percent. But even that might not be as dangerous as it first sounds: In California where they have had 18,000 deaths, a scant two of these were people under the age of 18, one with underlying health conditions.
A much more important factor is age. A large study conducted on data from cases in South Korea, Italy, China, and Spain, three of the early breeding grounds for the virus, found a 0 percent death rate for those under the age of 9, The death rate didn’t climb above 1 percent until the age of 50-59 — and then only in China and Italy and then only just barely, at 1.3 and 1 percent respectively.
It climbed slightly above 1 percent for all four countries in the 60-69 age bracket, staying below 2 percent in South Korea and Spain, but below 4 percent for Italy and China. Death rates then spike dramatically over the age of 70.
This tracks with flu deaths over the 2017-18 “flu season” in the United States: Very few deaths under the age of 18 (a little over 600), slightly more for 18-49 (2803), another modest jump between 50 and 64 (6,751) and then a huge spike over the age of 65 (over 50,000). Of course, there are more cases of the flu, which has a lower death rate overall: The overall death rate for COVID-19 is 1.5 percent, regardless of age, with an average season’s flu killing about .1 percent of everyone who gets it.
Closer to home, we’re finding that there’s absolutely nothing to be concerned about for most healthy people. The COVID survival rates according to the CDC are 99.997 percent for those under the age of 20, 99.98 percent for those between the ages of 20 and 49, 99.5 percent for those between the age of 50 and 69 and even 94.6 percent for those over the age of 70.
These numbers include people with comorbidities such as respiratory diseases. And even these numbers are likely off, as only 6 percent of all COVID deaths are attributed to COVID alone. The rest had, on average, at least two comorbidities.
The average death rate annually for the flu is about .1 percent.
It’s worth noting that this data all comes from the early stages of the pandemic when medical professionals had little way of treating the disease other than ventilating — and thus, probably killing — severe cases.
Now we know quite a bit more about therapeutics that aid in recovery. President Donald Trump, a clinically obese 74-year-old man, recovered from the disease in less than a week. There is ample evidence that the disease is becoming less deadly, not more. Death rates fall because of increased testing, but the median age of infection has likewise gone down.
Do Lockdowns And Masks Even Work?
All of this raises an important central question: Why do the elderly, those with underlying health conditions and the obese simply sequester themselves or take reasonable precautions rather than shutting down the world economy?
Indeed, there is mounting evidence that government intervention has, surprise of surprises, actually made things worse. As of November 18, 2020, there have been 34,058 COVID deaths in the state of New York. Of these, over 6,500 (or approximately one in seven total deaths) were nursing home deaths that were a direct result of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s policy of forcing nursing homes to accept COVID patients and lock them down with the vulnerable and uninfected.
This is a concrete example of government lockdown measures killing people. But you won’t hear about it in the controlled media.
What about the omnipresent masks that we are now seeing everywhere to the point where someone without a mask is seen as the strange one. They must work, of course!
But there is scant evidence that masks prevent the transmission of COVID or any other respiratory infection. In every randomized clinical trial ever conducted, there have been inconclusive findings that mask wearing aided in suppressing transmission of respiratory diseases. Studies generally rely upon fitted N95 respirators that must be sterilized after every use or surgical masks that should be thrown away. We have more evidence that typical masks cause headaches than that they prevent against COVID.
Compare this to what you see on your average trip to the grocery store: People wearing unfitted cloth masks that get occasionally cleaned — maybe. Many people don’t even bother to pull them up over their noses. Thus, most mask wearing is useless and little more than a form of social control or forced act of “solidarity.”
There’s magical thinking involved in the current mask mandates: If cases go up, it’s because people weren’t good little boys and girls and didn’t wear their masks. If they go down, everyone has been well behaved and gets to pat themselves on the back for wearing their face diaper.
Some evidence suggests that masks make people feel magically protected from the virus and thus they do not take common-sense precautions against all disease, such as handwashing, keeping fingers off the face, covering their nose when they sneeze and the like.
What this means at its root is that people are trading effective measures for ineffective theater. Mask reuse likewise increases infection rates and who among us isn’t guilty of that?
What’s more, studies suggest that people who wear the cloth masks, that are now virtually required to do anything outside one’s home, lead to an increase of flu-like symptoms — and thus create lots of COVID paranoia where there ought not to be any.
It was only in March that many experts were urging people not to wear masks at all, with this article from April likewise urging people to not wear masks.
There are also the “soft” effects of mask wearing. There is significant evidence to suggest that children living under COVID will have their emotional and psychological development severely stunted and warped thanks to mask orders. As if you needed another reason to pull your kids out of public school.
Indeed, we have a mountain of troubling data about the social effects of mass mask wearing that go back decades. Put simply, masks make people stupid, pliant and anti-social. Examples of findings from mask studies include:
A 1976 study where people were more likely and required less pay to carry a sign reading “masturbation is fun” if they were masked.
A 1979 study found children were more likely to take more than their allotted amount of Halloween candy if they were masked.
A 1989 study found that masking led people to abandon defense mechanism and revert to more primitive psychological states.
Studies conducted in 2005 and 2017 found neurological evidence inhibit both impulse control and identity formation, decreasing prefrontal cortex activity.
Repeated studies have found that masking reduces blood flow to the brain.
A number of public figures have backed off of masking as a panacea, instead pushing it as an act of “social solidarity.” Sure, masks might not actually do anything — but what about feelings? British politicians Michael Gove and Nicole Sturgeon are indicative of this trend.
Your Social Betters Are Not Actually Afraid of COVID
But perhaps the best evidence that this is all just a bit of political theater is seeing how our media and political class actually behave when they think no one is watching.
Chris Cuomo, brother of Governor Andrew Cuomo, often referred to as “Fredo” due to paling in comparison with his brother, was quarantined for two weeks, not for abstract reasons, but because he was actually exposed to COVID. This didn’t stop him from leaving his house unmasked after he got tired of lifting fake weights on camera.
Bill De Blasio, the Mayor of New York with questionable connections to Communist organizations and a daughter in Antifa, was caught at the gym and didn’t feel even a twinge of shame about it, explaining that he needs to go to the gym, but you do not.
Lori Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago, told Chicagoans to stay home for Thanksgiving. This didn’t stop her from taking to the streets following Joe Biden’s ersatz “victory” in the 2020 Presidential election to celebrate.
Gavin Newsome, Governor of California has presided over some of the harshest lockdowns in the nation, going so far as to shut off power and water to people who defy his lockdown diktats. He somehow finds time to dine out at the three Michelin star restaurant French Laundry with some of the top medical bureaucrats in the state.
He’s not the only governor who believes in “lockdowns for thee, but not for me.” Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan went as far as to threaten lockdown protesters with further lockdowns because of their protests. She is a bit of a poster child for the mediocre people who have appointed themselves COVID cops.
Whitmer put in some of the most restrictive lockdowns in the country, then attempted to use them to blackmail Michiganders into voting for Joe Biden. In November, she began threatening jail time for businesses who did not record personal details of their customers for her personal perusal. Her husband attempted to throw his weight around to get his boat moved into place for vacation early in violation of state orders.
Nancy Pelosi’s lockdown-violating haircut is well known. Less known is that she planned to carry on with the reception dinner for new members of Congress until her plan was exposed and widely mocked at a time when she and other political elites were telling average Americans to skip Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The elephant in the room, of course, were the BLM riots of the summer of 2020. In cities such as New York, Portland (where riots literally went on every night for months), and Seattle (where insurrectionists took over several blocks of the capitol district and demanded ethnic cleansing of whites from the area), there were leftist riots growing out of a media manufactured panic centered around the death of George Floyd, a criminal who died of a drug overdose while resisting arrest and whose death is officially listed as COVID.
These riots were fine, indeed necessary and it wasn’t just politicians who were saying so. The medical profession also chimed in, predictably declaring that “racism” was the “real pandemic.”
Compare with the reaction to anti-lockdown protests. Those seeking a consolidation of power upward in the form of breaking police unions and disbanding local police departments, who terrorized small businesses and local communities, not just in big blue cities, but also in places like Kenosha, Wisconsin and Lancaster, Pennsylvania — the latter of these sensibly held rioters on $1 million bail.
The message is simple and clear: Freedom fighters are superspreaders. The freelance goons of government repression and Big Tech labor discipline enforcement are free to do as they will. Their “protests” aren’t just safe, but vitally important.
The Coming COVID Police State
There is no other term for the COVID regime than a nascent police state. Governors and bureaucrats, without any legislative authority have demanded that people remain in the homes at their personal whim for a disease with a 99.9% survival rate.
Australia is an example of a country that has moved very firmly and decisively into police state territory. Zoe Buhler, a 28-year-old pregnant mother was arrested, handcuffed and had her electronic devices confiscated for the crime of posting about an anti-lockdown protest on Facebook in a town with four active cases. The name of the crime? “The planning and encouragement of protest activity.” The punishment? Mrs. Buhler is looking at 15 years in prison.
You can watch the video of Mrs. Buhler’s arrest here. It should make your stomach turn. The Premier of Victoria (equivalent to the governor of this Australian state) allowed and encouraged BLM protests of up to 10,000 that summer.
In Victoria, as elsewhere in Australia, as well as in many American states, people are not allowed to leave their houses except for reasons deemed “essential” by their government, then only for so long and between certain hours and you might need a hall pass explaining to officers where you are going and why you are going there.
Among people harassed for the crime of sitting down on park benches include a law professor with cerebral palsy and her 70-year-old mother and a heavily pregnant woman while a young tradesman was harassed and fined for not having his papers filled out properly.
With new lockdowns rolling out that involve requirements to wear masks in your own home and a prohibition on all visitors, it is clear that some are attempting to bring back the bad old days of Spring 2020, but with even more restriction and enforcement.
Thinking about protesting? Forget about being arrested and manhandled by police. If your protests get too large, as they have done in Germany, the police will turn fire hoses on you like you’re in Alabama in 1956.
And then there’s the prospect of the vaccine, two versions of which will soon be available, if not mandatory.
Could the coronavirus vaccine be “the Mark of the Beast?” One doesn’t have to be religious to see it as such. Public health officials are already boasting that no one will be able to work, travel or go to school without this vaccine that was rushed through approvals for political theater.
Former Vice President Joe Biden hasn’t ruled out making the vaccine mandatory, though the federal government will likely just punt enforcement to large corporations, similar to how they use Big Tech to manage information on the Internet and Big Finance to take banking services away from dissidents.
Bill Gates has called not only for mandatory vaccines, but also mandatory tracking of people who have received them.
It’s worth noting that “asymptomatic transmission,” the notion that people who don’t know they’re sick are passing the disease around and thus, the entire basis of mask mandates and lockdowns, is patently false.
Are our elites deliberately conspiring to instill fear or are they just idiotic dupes? Probably a little from Column A and a little from Column B. But one thing is clear — the economic, political, academic, and media elites in this country are using a disease with a 99.9% survival rate to transform the country into a police state. Patriots and freedom lovers must resist this by any means necessary.
One way to do this is by patronizing local businesses who are openly defying mask mandates. But in many cases you can circumvent these laws — particularly at big box stores — by saying : “I have a health concern.” The law prevents them from asking anything further and risk-averse large companies generally won’t for fear of a lawsuit or an Americans with Disabilities Act or HIPAA complaint.
Activist Post Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment provided by a qualified healthcare provider.
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Is your pesky Independent Spirit of not wanting to just do what you’re told getting the way of just doing what you’re told?
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Melissa Dykes — Co-founder of Truthstream Media, I’m an investigative journalist who digs into mainstream narratives and hidden history to uncover and bring to light the real story we haven’t been told about the world around us.
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activistpost--2020-11-30--There is Hope After All! Congresswoman-elect Declares “Taxation is Theft”

Editor ’ s Note : Activist Post does not endorse any candidate for president or any other political office .
With Congressman Justin Amash announcing that he will not seek re-election in July , those who advocate for limited government and individual liberty were dealt a blow to their thoughts for the future .
Without radical pro-peace and anti-statist representatives inside Congress , there is no one to oppose endless wars and massive debt spending .
While the outlook was bleak , those who hold dear personal liberty and freedom were given a little optimism recently from Colorado ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lauren Boebert — who took to Twitter to declare that “ Taxation is Theft.
” Earlier this year , Boebert took out the 5-term Congressman Scott Tipton in the Republican primary and went on to win a seat in Congress on November 3 .
She owns a restaurant in Rifle , Colorado called Shooters Grill in which the waitresses and waiters open carry their pistols while at work .
You won ’ t see any mass shootings taking place in there .
But most notably , Boebert took to Twitter last week to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ taxation is theft.
” “ Joe Biden said on his first day in office he will move to repeal President Trump ’ s tax cuts .
We need to LOWER taxes and to SIMPLIFY the tax code… not raise taxes !
In the end , taxation is theft , ” wrote the Congresswoman-elect .
Looking at her other tweets , it appears that Boebert is far from Ron Paul , Justin Amash or Thomas Massie , but making declarations like these certainly add a sliver of hope to the future .
Naturally , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ responses such as , “ Taxation is theft ?
How do you think we pay for roads ?
” Sadly , this is the argument by confused souls across the planet who think they need to be extorted by government — that often pays 1000 times more for labor and materials — to have things like roads .
The answer to those questions are simple , however .
Government does not build roads , private companies do .
The government simply steals money from you and then pays private contractors to do the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of civilization , humans can figure out how to build roads without stealing from one another , right ?
What ’ s more , the income tax didn ’ t exist originally in this county .
In less than a century , however , people went from keeping the entire product of their labor to being threatened with government force if they don ’ t offer up a certain percentage .
This is slavery .
What percentage of the product of your labor can be stolen that makes it not theft and slavery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not know they are slaves .
Of course , this notion sounds insane on the surface .
However , try to keep 100 % of the product of your labor and see if you do not get punished by the state , thrown in prison and forced into labor .
No , the masters of today don ’ t use whips and chains to keep us oppressed ; they use the law and the money .
In her years as an activist , Harriet Tubman risked her life to rescue around 70 people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same power to flee their captors as Harriet Tubman did .
However , they needed her to incite the wildfire of liberty inside them before they realized they had the ability to resist and escape .
While she only freed 70 people , her actions led to the eventual abolition of slavery .
Because of her work , Harriet crossed paths with Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglas , who pushed together to rid their land of the vile acceptance of slavery .
In the meantime , however , those who refused to go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , plotted in the background and as the world gradually became freer , they waited for their time to strike .
The wars of American history were not fought with sticks and stones — they require weapons .
All wars cost money , and all governments borrow that money to fund them .
The banks love this tendency of governments to wage war as it enriches them for decades to come .
Every few decades , the greedy politicians , working from buildings built by slaves , would propose plans to tax the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ free ’ labor diminished and debts on the costs of war increased , their attempts become more overt and more frequent .
In July 1861 , the Congress passed a 3 % tax on all net income above $ 600 a year , but no one paid it .
Then , in 1864 , for the first time , Americans had to swear to the veracity of their taxes , and government assessors could challenge that credibility — the seeds of what would eventually become the IRS were spawning their wicked roots @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1865 , income tax was increased to pay the government ’ s gigantic war debt to the bankers , but the people resisted .
As the people resisted , the penalties for non-payment grew .
In 1895 , President Grover Cleveland opposed the income tax , but let the law pass without his signature , with faith that the Supreme Court would finally strike it down as unconstitutional — and they did , in a 5-4 ruling , noting that the income tax ’ s provisions amounted to a direct tax , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Article I , Section 8 and 9 declares that direct taxes must be apportioned amongst the states according to the census .
But the bankers needed their debt payments on all the funds they lent to both sides during the civil war , and they weren ’ t about to let a little piece of paper like the Constitution get in their way .
In 1910 , Richard E. Byrd , speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates , predicted the leviathan that was on the horizon , “ a hand from Washington @ @ @ @ @ @ @ every man ’ s business .
.
.
.
Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer .
An army of Federal officials , spies and detectives will descend upon the state .
.
.
.
” Sounds like the IRS of today , doesn ’ t it ?
The sole duty of the IRS is to make sure Americans pay “ their fair share.
” But what is fair ?
If they took 100 % of our income , this would be de facto slavery , right @ @ @ @ @ @ @ does the theft of our labor not become slavery ?
Unfortunately , all the warnings throughout the years fell on deaf ears .
As Adam Young writes for the Mises Institute , the income tax returned as the product of an unholy combine between statist intellectuals with visions of state-sponsored utopias , envious demagogues and the desire by established , wealthy interests to prevent any competition to their place and to offload business costs to an expanding regulatory welfare state .
At first , the revenue raised by the new income tax was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1914 .
But then it accelerated .
$ 41 million the next year , when the top rate was 7 % , and nearly $ 68 million in 1916 , when it was raised to 15 % .
Eventually , more than $ 1 billion would be pulled in by the income tax during the whole of World War I , when the rates were raised to 67 % in 1917 and 77 % in 1918 , and make the hated tax the permanent feature it has become today .
Since 1913 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ slavery has been facilitated , largely by the group responsible for printing America ’ s currency — the infamous privately owned , Federal Reserve Bank .
We hope that Boebert may bring this knowledge to her constituents who voted her in , as well as the rest of the country during her time in Congress .
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA .
This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world .
Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project .
Follow @ MattAgorist on Twitter , Steemit , and now on Minds .
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By Matt Agorist
Editor’s Note: Activist Post does not endorse any candidate for president or any other political office.
With Congressman Justin Amash announcing that he will not seek re-election in July, those who advocate for limited government and individual liberty were dealt a blow to their thoughts for the future. Without radical pro-peace and anti-statist representatives inside Congress, there is no one to oppose endless wars and massive debt spending. While the outlook was bleak, those who hold dear personal liberty and freedom were given a little optimism recently from Colorado’s newest Congresswoman from the 3rd district, Lauren Boebert — who took to Twitter to declare that “Taxation is Theft.”
Earlier this year, Boebert took out the 5-term Congressman Scott Tipton in the Republican primary and went on to win a seat in Congress on November 3. She owns a restaurant in Rifle, Colorado called Shooters Grill in which the waitresses and waiters open carry their pistols while at work. You won’t see any mass shootings taking place in there.
But most notably, Boebert took to Twitter last week to declare that “In the end, taxation is theft.”
“Joe Biden said on his first day in office he will move to repeal President Trump’s tax cuts. We need to LOWER taxes and to SIMPLIFY the tax code… not raise taxes! In the end, taxation is theft,” wrote the Congresswoman-elect.
Joe Biden said on his first day in office he will move to repeal President Trump’s tax cuts. We need to LOWER taxes and to SIMPLIFY the tax code… not raise taxes! In the end, taxation is theft. — Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) November 25, 2020
Looking at her other tweets, it appears that Boebert is far from Ron Paul, Justin Amash or Thomas Massie, but making declarations like these certainly add a sliver of hope to the future.
Naturally, she was hit with the predictable statist responses such as, “Taxation is theft? How do you think we pay for roads?”
Sadly, this is the argument by confused souls across the planet who think they need to be extorted by government — that often pays 1000 times more for labor and materials — to have things like roads.
The answer to those questions are simple, however. Government does not build roads, private companies do. The government simply steals money from you and then pays private contractors to do the work. Certainly after thousands of years of civilization, humans can figure out how to build roads without stealing from one another, right?
What’s more, the income tax didn’t exist originally in this county. In less than a century, however, people went from keeping the entire product of their labor to being threatened with government force if they don’t offer up a certain percentage. This is slavery.
What percentage of the product of your labor can be stolen that makes it not theft and slavery?
Sadly, most Americans today do not know they are slaves. Of course, this notion sounds insane on the surface. However, try to keep 100% of the product of your labor and see if you do not get punished by the state, thrown in prison and forced into labor. No, the masters of today don’t use whips and chains to keep us oppressed; they use the law and the money.
In her years as an activist, Harriet Tubman risked her life to rescue around 70 people. These 70 people all had the same power to flee their captors as Harriet Tubman did. However, they needed her to incite the wildfire of liberty inside them before they realized they had the ability to resist and escape.
While she only freed 70 people, her actions led to the eventual abolition of slavery. Because of her work, Harriet crossed paths with Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglas, who pushed together to rid their land of the vile acceptance of slavery.
In the meantime, however, those who refused to go along with the freeing of the slaves, plotted in the background and as the world gradually became freer, they waited for their time to strike.
The wars of American history were not fought with sticks and stones — they require weapons. All wars cost money, and all governments borrow that money to fund them. The banks love this tendency of governments to wage war as it enriches them for decades to come.
Every few decades, the greedy politicians, working from buildings built by slaves, would propose plans to tax the income of the citizens. As their ‘free’ labor diminished and debts on the costs of war increased, their attempts become more overt and more frequent.
In July 1861, the Congress passed a 3% tax on all net income above $600 a year, but no one paid it. Then, in 1864, for the first time, Americans had to swear to the veracity of their taxes, and government assessors could challenge that credibility — the seeds of what would eventually become the IRS were spawning their wicked roots.
After the war had ended in 1865, income tax was increased to pay the government’s gigantic war debt to the bankers, but the people resisted. As the people resisted, the penalties for non-payment grew.
In 1895, President Grover Cleveland opposed the income tax, but let the law pass without his signature, with faith that the Supreme Court would finally strike it down as unconstitutional — and they did, in a 5-4 ruling, noting that the income tax’s provisions amounted to a direct tax, which was prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.
Article I, Section 8 and 9 declares that direct taxes must be apportioned amongst the states according to the census.
But the bankers needed their debt payments on all the funds they lent to both sides during the civil war, and they weren’t about to let a little piece of paper like the Constitution get in their way.
In 1910, Richard E. Byrd, speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, predicted the leviathan that was on the horizon, “a hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business. . . . Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of Federal officials, spies and detectives will descend upon the state. . . .”
Sounds like the IRS of today, doesn’t it? The sole duty of the IRS is to make sure Americans pay “their fair share.” But what is fair? If they took 100% of our income, this would be de facto slavery, right? So then, at what percentage does the theft of our labor not become slavery?
Unfortunately, all the warnings throughout the years fell on deaf ears.
As Adam Young writes for the Mises Institute, the income tax returned as the product of an unholy combine between statist intellectuals with visions of state-sponsored utopias, envious demagogues and the desire by established, wealthy interests to prevent any competition to their place and to offload business costs to an expanding regulatory welfare state.
At first, the revenue raised by the new income tax was disappointing: only $28 million in 1914. But then it accelerated. $41 million the next year, when the top rate was 7%, and nearly $68 million in 1916, when it was raised to 15%. Eventually, more than $1 billion would be pulled in by the income tax during the whole of World War I, when the rates were raised to 67% in 1917 and 77% in 1918, and make the hated tax the permanent feature it has become today.
Since 1913, all of this taxation and new modern slavery has been facilitated, largely by the group responsible for printing America’s currency — the infamous privately owned, Federal Reserve Bank.
We hope that Boebert may bring this knowledge to her constituents who voted her in, as well as the rest of the country during her time in Congress.
Source: The Free Thought Project
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Minds.
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