21stcenturywire--2020-12-24--From Rapture to Woke: A White House Shuffle

The year 2020 is now slowly coming to an end .
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and it has been a crisis-filled time , as worded by the American Journal of Managed Care ( AJMC ) : the “ entire year has been dominated by the coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19 ) .
” Election Infection in the U.S .
Presently , the consensus is that by the end of this year , COVID-19 will have led to more than 300,000 individual casualties in the United States .
And many U.S. citizens directly blame President Trump for this seemingly high death toll .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ set up a “ Trump Death Clock [ that ] started as a website , [ and then took a ] billboard form in Times Square , displaying a claim to the number of deaths attributable to U.S. President Donald Trump ’ s inaction during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
” Jarecki basically accuses the President of homicide due to negligence , as a result of his “ failed response to the coronavirus outbreak.
” This Death Clock is but an emblem of the extreme polarizartion of U.S. society ever since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The Independent ‘ s Colin Drury recently wrote that “ [ s ] ome 52 per cent of people questioned disapprove of the job that Mr Trump has done.
” Somewhat surprisingly , Drury relies on a poll conducted by Fox News , a poll indicating that some “ 42 percent .
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of voters ” appear to say that Trump was “ one of the worst ” presidents in the country ’ s history .
Unsurprisingly , Fox News ‘ Dana Blanton adds that “ [ m ] ost Democrats @ @ @ @ @ @ @ remember Trump as one of the worst presidents , up from 58 percent in 2016.
” Already prior to the election , Fox founder Rupert Murdoch was reported to have been distancing himself from his one-time favourite , which clearly resulted in Fox News becoming “ the first to call Arizona in Joe Biden ’ s favour.
” Subsequently , even India ‘ s Narendra Modi and Israel ’ s Benjamin Netanyahu ( aka Bibi ) , two international allies of the U.S. Presdient , were among the first to “ congratulate the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Still , the President has his supporters too .
And one should not forget that the 2016 election outcome was actually pretty close , or “ far more normal than coverage of the campaign would suggest , ” as expressed by the journalist Ezra Klein .
In fact , if not for the Electoral Colege , Hillary Clinton would have moved back to the White House in 2016 – Clinton receiving 65,853,625 votes ( 48.0 % ) and Trump , 62,985,106 votes ( 45.9 % ) , leading to the latter ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ electoral votes .
The real meaning of this odd numbers ’ configuration is that Donald Trump was able to appeal to more individual states ’ populations than his rival , which means that his message clearly had a wider geographic reach and appeal .
MAGA : The Return of the American Dream In the aftermath of the Trump victory , the book Identity Crisis : The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America tried to make sense of the upset .
The three political scientist who had penned the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ administration was not only eight years of a Democratic president .
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but also eight years of a black president.
” There are those who reason that the mere fact that a black man occupied the White House stoked racial sensitivities and animosities .
One could point to numerous incidents which show that Obama ’ s presence in Washington , D.C. had clearly led to a re-awakening of apparently dormant racial and racist tensions in the land .
And arguably , these re-awakened atavistic feelings of race hatred constitute one of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was able to emerge on the political scene and capture the Electoral College .
Recently , the American writer , professor , and social commentator Roxane Gay tweeted that “ Trump is not a normal political opponent .
He is a white nationalist [ who ] openly encourage [ s ] racial enmity.
” Gay ’ s tweet reflects a widely held verdict on the political Left and mainstream media regarding the the persona of the 45th U.S. President .
And one could reason that this perceived undertow of racism appeals to wide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ swathes across a wide geographical spectrum of the United States .
According to popular vote numbers , Clinton had clearly been victorious , but Trump ’ s lower figures represented a wider geographic reach , thereby arguably reflecting more accurately the will of the people in the whole of the nation , rather than expressing the volition of the inhabitants of a number of certain more populous ( and Clinton-leaning ) states .
The real-estate-developer-turned-political-leader ’ s journey to the White House started in the summer of 2015 .
On 16 June 2015 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Donald Trump ’ s road to the White House started on an escalator ” in the Trump Tower , going down to make this announcement to the world : And that was how The Donald ( as he was called by his first wife Ivana ) or the Drumpf ( in reference to his grandfather Friedrich Drumpf who came to the United States in 1885 ) started his long and arduous trek to Pennsylvania Avenue , a journey many thought impossible or merely counter-intuitive .
At first sight , it might seem @ @ @ @ @ @ @ confirms that the issues of race and racism are really at the heart of political and public life in the U.S. , as seems to be the message of such popular movements like Black Lives Matter and its now all-encompassing ideology of Critical Race Theory .
But Trump has clearly also tapped into the wider population ’ s belief systems and mythological vocabulary , as exemplified in the phrase of the American Dream .
This ubiquitous phrase stems from the pen of the popular historian James Truslow Adams ( 1878-1949 ) and his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The candidate Trump promised to revive that defunct ideal , which primarily found expression in the advertising phrase ‘ Make America Great Again ’ or MAGA , emblazoned upon innumerable hats on top of numerous Americans ’ heads – arguably leading to profitable sales figures of ‘ official MAGA hats .
The only place you can buy the official hat is at the Trump Store.
’ The mere fact that Trump ’ s running mate-turned-vice president was clearly chosen to appeal to the religious right seems to underline the importance of Trump ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ narratives .
The sociologist Dr Philip Gorski , for instance , quite self-assuredly posits that “ Trump ’ s most loyal supporters were and are white evangelicals.
” Religion in the Trump Era : Speeding up the Rapture The past four years have seen a sudden resurgence of religion in the United States on a political level .
In his ‘ folksy Midwestern drawl , ’ Trump ’ s Vice President , Mike Pence makes no bones about his personal bond with the good lord up above and his son , Jesus .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the town of Anderson , in his home state Indiana , the VP finished his pep talk in this way : “ It ’ s a good time to pray for America .
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If His people who are called by His name will humble themselves and pray , He ’ ll hear from heaven , and He ’ ll heal this land !
” Born into a Catholic family , Pence discovered his personal Jesus when he was in college , attending a “ contemporary Christian music festival.
” Sitting on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 2017 , Pence told the crowd his personal conversion story : From that day forward , the one-time Catholic boy became a fervent Evangelical Christian , eager to please his Lord and keen to convert his fellow man .
It thus seems safe to say that Pence ’ s example persuaded “ fully eight-in-ten self-identified white , born-again/evangelical Christians ” to cast their vote for Trump in 2016 , as indicated by the Pew Research Center .
But not just the Vice President is eager to profess his faith , Trump ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ equally keen .
In October 2019 , Pompeo addressed the American Association of Christian Counselors in Nashville , Tennessee , with a speech insightfully entitled “ Being a Christian Leader.
” Trump ’ s close ties to Bibi , in combination with these two Christian leaders under his wing , have already made the White House move the U.S. Embassy to Israel to Jerusalem , in a theologically significant manner that Trump ’ s Evangelical base likely regards as the first step towards fulfilling God ’ s plan , as I explained in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the now U.S. Secretary of State adheres to even more outrageous points of faith .
In June 2015 , when Pompeo was but a Kansas congressman , he headlined a so-called ‘ God and Country Rally ’ at Wichita ’ s Summit Church and there and then , Pompeo made this profession of faith : In fact , for Christian believers like Pence and Pompeo , “ returning Jerusalem to the Jewish people is a key to the second coming of Christ , ” which is also a prerequisite for the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the above quotation .
The pastor , Dr Richard Mayhue elucidates that the “ English noun/verb ‘ rapture ’ comes from the Latin noun raptura/verb rapio that is used 14 times in the ” New Testament .
And though the noun and verb have different meanings and connotations , it is the “ perfect word to describe God suddenly taking up the church from earth to heaven as the first part of Christ ’ s second coming , ” adds Mayhue .
Believers like Pompeo , sometimes known as millenarianists , adhere @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the world to be imminent and the return of Jesus within reach .
That return will be followed by the establishment of a Divine Kingdom on earth , but before “ He establishes His kingdom on earth , Jesus will come for His Church , an event commonly referred to as the ‘ Rapture.
’ At that time the dead in Christ will be raised and living Christians will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air and be with Him forever , ” as explained on a website emanating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chicago-based fundamentalist Christian institution of higher education established in 1886 .
These admittedly rather outlandish beliefs rely on the Bible , or rather on a literalist interpretation of scripture , as a reflection of the inerrancy of the Bible .
As expressed by the one-time Rapture enthusiast Harold Camping ( 1921-2013 ) , the “ Bible is God ’ s word .
In the original languages of the Bible , mainly Hebrew and Greek , every word , and every letter of every word , is from the mouth of God.
” This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back to an article published in the Princeton Review on 11 April 1881 .
The piece is called “ Inspiration ” and was written by Archibald A. Hodge ( 1823-86 ) and Benjamin Warfield ( 1851-1921 ) .
Hodge and Warfield claim that the “ scriptures not only contain , but ARE THE WORD OF GOD , and hence that all their elements and all their affirmations are absolutely errorless , and binding the faith and obedience of men.
” They thus put forward that “ God [ had been ] coöperating with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Holy Scripture.
” And that really means that the Trump White House has been conducting important parts of its foreign policy in accordance with very specific interpretations of particular Biblical precepts and judgements .
Or , otherwise put , the real-estate-developer-turned-political-leader that is Trump has supervised Christian leaders to enact policy decisions they deem to be a direct reflection of the word of God .
When Trump controversially visited St. John ’ s Church across the park from the White House on 2 June 2020 , using “ the federal force ” to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the resultant photo-op had him not coincidentally pose with a Bible in his hand .
The picture was clearly aimed at his Evangelical base , showing them that his guidance came from the inerrant Holy Scripture , defying Black Lives Matter protesters .
A shocked world has now lived through four years of a Trump White House and is presently breathing a collective sigh of relief : “ World leaders have acknowledged — and even celebrated — the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the 2020 United @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unabashedly anti-Trump public-yet-corporate-sponsored American broadcaster NPR on 7 November 2020 .
This year ’ s election outcome had Biden gather no less than 81,283,098 votes ( 51.3 % or 306 electoral votes ) and Trump , 74,222,957 ( 46.8 % or 232 electoral votes ) .
As a result of this year ’ s special circumstances , many , supposedly Democratic leaning , voters opted for postal ballots , rather than casting their votes in person .
Hence the delayed outcome , victorious Democrats say .
But , Trump and his supporters are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
instead , they are crying foul loudly and have urged recount upon recount .
The news broadcaster CNN , exquisite purveyor of Fake News , in Trump ’ s words , “ reports that Trump not only insists he actually won the 2020 election but has maintained at times that he will not vacate the premises on January 20 , when his term ends.
” In contract , the U.S. media and a good part of the American population hold that Joe Biden won this year ’ s electoral contest and that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the White House .
And that means that his VP will join him , a black woman of mixed Indian-Jamaican-American descent , Kamala Harris .
But that is still for next year , following the inauguration and the peaceful handover .
The fact that the Biden team picked a non-white woman for the job was a deliberate decision , a decision reflecting the prevailing mood in the country .
The United States , ( and parts of the rest of the world as well , ) are currently totally in the grip of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an ideology most people currently call ‘ Social Justice ’ and its derivative popular outgrowth known as Woke culture .
President-elect Biden is getting ready to replace Bible-beholden Trump and become a Woke president adhering to current ideological fashions and catch phrases .
Going back to 1977 and the publication of The Combahee River Collective Statement , the concept of identity politics is ubiquitous these days , which means that now “ everything is about race , ” as claimed by Ted G. Waechter in 2016 .
Acting accordingly , the President-elect is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of ethnic and/or sexual minorities to fill the spots : “ We ’ ll have more people of color than any Cabinet ever .
We ’ ll have more women than any Cabinet ever .
We ’ ll have a Cabinet of barrier-breakers .
A Cabinet of firsts ” ( 16 December 2020 ) .
Under Biden , America ’ s war machine will be operated by a black man , Lloyd Austin , while U.S. trade representation will be handled by the “ first woman of color and first Asian American to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The position of Secretary of the Interior will be filled by Deb Haaland , a New Mexico native and member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe .
And , “ Joe Biden will [ also ] nominate Pete Buttigieg to be his transportation secretary , ” turning his erstwhile presidential rival into the “ first Senate-confirmed LGBTQ Cabinet secretary.
” In this way , it is apparently expected that the appearance of the rulers of United States will more or less coincide with the actual make up of the bulk of the population @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a large extent dominated by the Christian Bible and various resultant outlandish beliefs , the next four years seem set to be adhering to a secular religion of sorts , namely to the ideological construct usually referred to as Critical Social Justice – which is a concept that “ recognizes inequality as deeply embedded in the fabric of society ( i.e.
, as structural ) , and actively seeks to change this , ” as postulated by Özlem Şensoy and Robin DiAngelo in their seminal 2012 book , Is Everyone Really Equal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ holding up the Bible , Biden is now clearly paying lip service to Black Lives Matter protesters and their many sympathizers in society at large – in this way .
showing himself to be Woke-in-Chief in spite of his advanced years .
As such , Şensoy and DiAngelo ’ s seminal text and the whole Critical Social Justice ideology have proven that ostentatiously secular constructs can also lead the way towards espousing blatantly outlandish beliefs .
Taking the whole race discourse to its logical conclusion two black women , the real estate agent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Renee Walters have founded the Freedom Georgia Initiative , as a means to fulfill a mission of ‘ Healing From Racial Trauma.
’ The project consists of 19 Black families who have collectively purchased 96.71 acres of rural land in Toomsboro , Georgia .
The aim is to develop a ‘ self-contained Black community , ’ as a town of a few hundred people .
In other words , in order to overcome racism , this Initiative has effectively set up a segregated community where whites are not welcome as a way of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black families.
” Whereas , the world of academia these days is in thrall of the unholy trinity of diversity , equity , and inclusion ( DEI ) and an academic like Dr Ibram X. Kendi propagates the idea that the “ opposite of ‘ racist ’ isn ’ t ‘ not racist.
’ It is ‘ anti-racist ’ , ” which sounds as logical and counter-intuitive as instituting segregation to combat racism and discrimination .
Biden clearly won ’ t be holding a Bible in his hand , but will instead have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ chose from in order to be able to put the right words in his mouth while addressing his voters and their expectations .
At the same time , many people also express the hope that the Bidens in the White House will restore a sense of normality to the U.S. and its political life .
Iran ’ s President Rouhani , for his part , seemed to give voice to such an opinion when he said that “ [ w ] e are not overjoyed about Mr. Biden ’ s arrival , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” as reported by EHA News .
But Biden ’ s first task will be to tackle COVID-19 .
The Presdent-elect himself has come out saying that “ [ d ] ealing with the coronavirus pandemic is one of the most important battles our administration will face.
” Yet remaining realistic , also declaring that the “ end of the battle against COVID-19 is still months away.
” In his published plans to combat the health crisis , Biden recognizes the need to bring an end to the economic fallout produced by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been put in place .
The Biden Plan calls for a “ decisive economic response that starts with emergency paid leave for all those affected by the outbreak and gives all necessary help to workers , families , and small businesses that are hit hard by this crisis.
” Many blame Trump for the Covid fatalities in the U.S. and Biden wants to show himself as the leader who beat the virus and restored the nation to health .
But more than anything else , a Biden presidency aims to be a return @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that means continuity and not change , whatever the colour may be .
President Obama continued George W. Bush ’ s war policies , with the former overseeing more drone strikes in his first year in the White House than the latter carried out during his entire 8-year presidency .
And , Trump , in turn , did his best to outdo his predecessor as well .
And now , it will be up to Joe Biden to continue this grand tradition after he has shuffled into the White House , all the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 21WIRE special contributor Dr. Can Erimtan is an independent historian and geo-political analyst who used to live in Istanbul .
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The year 2020 is now slowly coming to an end . . . and it has been a crisis-filled time, as worded by the American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC): the “entire year has been dominated by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).”
Dr Can Erimtan
21st Century Wire
Election Infection in the U.S.
Presently, the consensus is that by the end of this year, COVID-19 will have led to more than 300,000 individual casualties in the United States. And many U.S. citizens directly blame President Trump for this seemingly high death toll. For instance, the filmmaker Eugene Jarecki set up a “Trump Death Clock [that] started as a website, [and then took a] billboard form in Times Square, displaying a claim to the number of deaths attributable to U.S. President Donald Trump’s inaction during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.” Jarecki basically accuses the President of homicide due to negligence, as a result of his “failed response to the coronavirus outbreak.” This Death Clock is but an emblem of the extreme polarizartion of U.S. society ever since Trump’s election victory in 2016. The Independent‘s Colin Drury recently wrote that “[s]ome 52 per cent of people questioned disapprove of the job that Mr Trump has done.” Somewhat surprisingly, Drury relies on a poll conducted by Fox News, a poll indicating that some “42 percent . . . of voters” appear to say that Trump was “one of the worst” presidents in the country’s history. Unsurprisingly, Fox News‘ Dana Blanton adds that “[m]ost Democrats, 69 percent, say history will remember Trump as one of the worst presidents, up from 58 percent in 2016.”
Already prior to the election, Fox founder Rupert Murdoch was reported to have been distancing himself from his one-time favourite, which clearly resulted in Fox News becoming “the first to call Arizona in Joe Biden’s favour.” Subsequently, even India‘s Narendra Modi and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu (aka Bibi), two international allies of the U.S. Presdient, were among the first to “congratulate the Democrat on his White House victory.”
Still, the President has his supporters too. And one should not forget that the 2016 election outcome was actually pretty close, or “far more normal than coverage of the campaign would suggest,” as expressed by the journalist Ezra Klein. In fact, if not for the Electoral Colege, Hillary Clinton would have moved back to the White House in 2016 – Clinton receiving 65,853,625 votes (48.0%) and Trump, 62,985,106 votes (45.9%), leading to the latter’s 306 and the former’s 232 electoral votes. The real meaning of this odd numbers’ configuration is that Donald Trump was able to appeal to more individual states’ populations than his rival, which means that his message clearly had a wider geographic reach and appeal.
MAGA: The Return of the American Dream
In the aftermath of the Trump victory, the book Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America tried to make sense of the upset. The three political scientist who had penned the timely book posited that the “Obama administration was not only eight years of a Democratic president. . . but also eight years of a black president.” There are those who reason that the mere fact that a black man occupied the White House stoked racial sensitivities and animosities.
One could point to numerous incidents which show that Obama’s presence in Washington, D.C. had clearly led to a re-awakening of apparently dormant racial and racist tensions in the land. And arguably, these re-awakened atavistic feelings of race hatred constitute one of the manifold reasons why a figure like Trump was able to emerge on the political scene and capture the Electoral College. Recently, the American writer, professor, and social commentator Roxane Gay tweeted that “Trump is not a normal political opponent. He is a white nationalist [who] openly encourage[s] racial enmity.” Gay’s tweet reflects a widely held verdict on the political Left and mainstream media regarding the the persona of the 45th U.S. President. And one could reason that this perceived undertow of racism appeals to wide swathes of the American population, wide swathes across a wide geographical spectrum of the United States. According to popular vote numbers, Clinton had clearly been victorious, but Trump’s lower figures represented a wider geographic reach, thereby arguably reflecting more accurately the will of the people in the whole of the nation, rather than expressing the volition of the inhabitants of a number of certain more populous (and Clinton-leaning) states.
The real-estate-developer-turned-political-leader’s journey to the White House started in the summer of 2015. On 16 June 2015, the journalist Michael Falcone posited that “Donald Trump’s road to the White House started on an escalator” in the Trump Tower, going down to make this announcement to the world:
Sadly the American dream is dead. But if I get elected president I will bring it back, bigger, and better, and stronger than ever before.
And that was how The Donald (as he was called by his first wife Ivana) or the Drumpf (in reference to his grandfather Friedrich Drumpf who came to the United States in 1885) started his long and arduous trek to Pennsylvania Avenue, a journey many thought impossible or merely counter-intuitive. At first sight, it might seem that Trump’s presidency all but confirms that the issues of race and racism are really at the heart of political and public life in the U.S., as seems to be the message of such popular movements like Black Lives Matter and its now all-encompassing ideology of Critical Race Theory. But Trump has clearly also tapped into the wider population’s belief systems and mythological vocabulary, as exemplified in the phrase of the American Dream. This ubiquitous phrase stems from the pen of the popular historian James Truslow Adams (1878-1949) and his 1931 book, The American Epic. The candidate Trump promised to revive that defunct ideal, which primarily found expression in the advertising phrase ‘Make America Great Again’ or MAGA, emblazoned upon innumerable hats on top of numerous Americans’ heads – arguably leading to profitable sales figures of ‘official MAGA hats.
The only place you can buy the official hat is at the Trump Store.’ The mere fact that Trump’s running mate-turned-vice president was clearly chosen to appeal to the religious right seems to underline the importance of Trump’s mobilization of largely intangible values and narratives. The sociologist Dr Philip Gorski, for instance, quite self-assuredly posits that “Trump’s most loyal supporters were and are white evangelicals.”
Religion in the Trump Era: Speeding up the Rapture
The past four years have seen a sudden resurgence of religion in the United States on a political level. In his ‘folksy Midwestern drawl,’ Trump’s Vice President, Mike Pence makes no bones about his personal bond with the good lord up above and his son, Jesus. As in September 2017, while visiting the town of Anderson, in his home state Indiana, the VP finished his pep talk in this way: “It’s a good time to pray for America . . . If His people who are called by His name will humble themselves and pray, He’ll hear from heaven, and He’ll heal this land!” Born into a Catholic family, Pence discovered his personal Jesus when he was in college, attending a “contemporary Christian music festival.” Sitting on a stage speaking to Pastor David Hughes in 2017, Pence told the crowd his personal conversion story:
My heart really, finally broke with a deep realization that what had happened on the cross in some infinitesimal way had happened for me. And I gave my life and made a personal decision to accept Jesus Christ as my saviour.
From that day forward, the one-time Catholic boy became a fervent Evangelical Christian, eager to please his Lord and keen to convert his fellow man. It thus seems safe to say that Pence’s example persuaded “fully eight-in-ten self-identified white, born-again/evangelical Christians” to cast their vote for Trump in 2016, as indicated by the Pew Research Center. But not just the Vice President is eager to profess his faith, Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo seems equally keen. In October 2019, Pompeo addressed the American Association of Christian Counselors in Nashville, Tennessee, with a speech insightfully entitled “Being a Christian Leader.” Trump’s close ties to Bibi, in combination with these two Christian leaders under his wing, have already made the White House move the U.S. Embassy to Israel to Jerusalem, in a theologically significant manner that Trump’s Evangelical base likely regards as the first step towards fulfilling God’s plan, as I explained in 2018. On a more personal level, the now U.S. Secretary of State adheres to even more outrageous points of faith. In June 2015, when Pompeo was but a Kansas congressman, he headlined a so-called ‘God and Country Rally’ at Wichita’s Summit Church and there and then, Pompeo made this profession of faith:
[E]vil is all around us. We will continue to fight these battles. It is a never-ending struggle. Until that moment . . . until the Rapture, be part of it, be in the fight. Ask for forgiveness seek His wisdom, and heed your pastor’s call to actions, and great things will be bestowed upon our nation and our world.
In fact, for Christian believers like Pence and Pompeo, “returning Jerusalem to the Jewish people is a key to the second coming of Christ,” which is also a prerequisite for the “Rapture,” alluded to by Pompeo in the above quotation. The pastor, Dr Richard Mayhue elucidates that the “English noun/verb ‘rapture’ comes from the Latin noun raptura/verb rapio that is used 14 times in the” New Testament. And though the noun and verb have different meanings and connotations, it is the “perfect word to describe God suddenly taking up the church from earth to heaven as the first part of Christ’s second coming,” adds Mayhue. Believers like Pompeo, sometimes known as millenarianists, adhere to eschatological teachings that hold the end of the world to be imminent and the return of Jesus within reach. That return will be followed by the establishment of a Divine Kingdom on earth, but before “He establishes His kingdom on earth, Jesus will come for His Church, an event commonly referred to as the ‘Rapture.’ At that time the dead in Christ will be raised and living Christians will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air and be with Him forever,” as explained on a website emanating from the Moody Bible Institute, a Chicago-based fundamentalist Christian institution of higher education established in 1886. These admittedly rather outlandish beliefs rely on the Bible, or rather on a literalist interpretation of scripture, as a reflection of the inerrancy of the Bible. As expressed by the one-time Rapture enthusiast Harold Camping (1921-2013), the “Bible is God’s word. In the original languages of the Bible, mainly Hebrew and Greek, every word, and every letter of every word, is from the mouth of God.” This peculiarly American view of Christian scripture goes back to an article published in the Princeton Review on 11 April 1881. The piece is called “Inspiration” and was written by Archibald A. Hodge (1823-86) and Benjamin Warfield (1851-1921). Hodge and Warfield claim that the “scriptures not only contain, but ARE THE WORD OF GOD, and hence that all their elements and all their affirmations are absolutely errorless, and binding the faith and obedience of men.” They thus put forward that “God [had been] coöperating with its human authors in the genesis of Holy Scripture.” And that really means that the Trump White House has been conducting important parts of its foreign policy in accordance with very specific interpretations of particular Biblical precepts and judgements. Or, otherwise put, the real-estate-developer-turned-political-leader that is Trump has supervised Christian leaders to enact policy decisions they deem to be a direct reflection of the word of God. When Trump controversially visited St. John’s Church across the park from the White House on 2 June 2020, using “the federal force” to break up protests outside the White House, the resultant photo-op had him not coincidentally pose with a Bible in his hand. The picture was clearly aimed at his Evangelical base, showing them that his guidance came from the inerrant Holy Scripture, defying Black Lives Matter protesters.
A New Hope: A Woke President in 2021
A shocked world has now lived through four years of a Trump White House and is presently breathing a collective sigh of relief: “World leaders have acknowledged — and even celebrated — the victory of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the 2020 United States presidential election,” reported the unabashedly anti-Trump public-yet-corporate-sponsored American broadcaster NPR on 7 November 2020. This year’s election outcome had Biden gather no less than 81,283,098 votes (51.3% or 306 electoral votes) and Trump, 74,222,957 (46.8% or 232 electoral votes). As a result of this year’s special circumstances, many, supposedly Democratic leaning, voters opted for postal ballots, rather than casting their votes in person. Hence the delayed outcome, victorious Democrats say. But, Trump and his supporters are not having any of that . . . instead, they are crying foul loudly and have urged recount upon recount. The news broadcaster CNN, exquisite purveyor of Fake News, in Trump’s words, “reports that Trump not only insists he actually won the 2020 election but has maintained at times that he will not vacate the premises on January 20, when his term ends.” In contract, the U.S. media and a good part of the American population hold that Joe Biden won this year’s electoral contest and that he will thus take up residency in the White House. And that means that his VP will join him, a black woman of mixed Indian-Jamaican-American descent, Kamala Harris. But that is still for next year, following the inauguration and the peaceful handover.
The fact that the Biden team picked a non-white woman for the job was a deliberate decision, a decision reflecting the prevailing mood in the country. The United States, (and parts of the rest of the world as well,) are currently totally in the grip of identity politics, in the grip of an ideology most people currently call ‘Social Justice’ and its derivative popular outgrowth known as Woke culture. President-elect Biden is getting ready to replace Bible-beholden Trump and become a Woke president adhering to current ideological fashions and catch phrases. Going back to 1977 and the publication of The Combahee River Collective Statement, the concept of identity politics is ubiquitous these days, which means that now “everything is about race,” as claimed by Ted G. Waechter in 2016. Acting accordingly, the President-elect is now preparing his new administration painfully cognizant of ethnic and/or sexual minorities to fill the spots: “We’ll have more people of color than any Cabinet ever. We’ll have more women than any Cabinet ever. We’ll have a Cabinet of barrier-breakers. A Cabinet of firsts” (16 December 2020). Under Biden, America’s war machine will be operated by a black man, Lloyd Austin, while U.S. trade representation will be handled by the “first woman of color and first Asian American to hold the role,” Katherine Tai. The position of Secretary of the Interior will be filled by Deb Haaland, a New Mexico native and member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe. And, “Joe Biden will [also] nominate Pete Buttigieg to be his transportation secretary,” turning his erstwhile presidential rival into the “first Senate-confirmed LGBTQ Cabinet secretary.” In this way, it is apparently expected that the appearance of the rulers of United States will more or less coincide with the actual make up of the bulk of the population.
Whereas the previous four years were to a large extent dominated by the Christian Bible and various resultant outlandish beliefs, the next four years seem set to be adhering to a secular religion of sorts, namely to the ideological construct usually referred to as Critical Social Justice – which is a concept that “recognizes inequality as deeply embedded in the fabric of society (i.e., as structural), and actively seeks to change this,” as postulated by Özlem Şensoy and Robin DiAngelo in their seminal 2012 book, Is Everyone Really Equal?. Whereas Trump showed himself ostentatiously holding up the Bible, Biden is now clearly paying lip service to Black Lives Matter protesters and their many sympathizers in society at large – in this way. showing himself to be Woke-in-Chief in spite of his advanced years. As such, Şensoy and DiAngelo’s seminal text and the whole Critical Social Justice ideology have proven that ostentatiously secular constructs can also lead the way towards espousing blatantly outlandish beliefs. Taking the whole race discourse to its logical conclusion two black women, the real estate agent Ashley Scott and the investor and entrepreneur Renee Walters have founded the Freedom Georgia Initiative, as a means to fulfill a mission of ‘Healing From Racial Trauma.’
The project consists of 19 Black families who have collectively purchased 96.71 acres of rural land in Toomsboro, Georgia. The aim is to develop a ‘self-contained Black community,’ as a town of a few hundred people. In other words, in order to overcome racism, this Initiative has effectively set up a segregated community where whites are not welcome as a way of creating a “thriving safe haven for black families.” Whereas, the world of academia these days is in thrall of the unholy trinity of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and an academic like Dr Ibram X. Kendi propagates the idea that the “opposite of ‘racist’ isn’t ‘not racist.’ It is ‘anti-racist’,” which sounds as logical and counter-intuitive as instituting segregation to combat racism and discrimination. Biden clearly won’t be holding a Bible in his hand, but will instead have lots of other hallowed anti-racists books to chose from in order to be able to put the right words in his mouth while addressing his voters and their expectations.
2021: Ending the Pandemic Pandemonium
At the same time, many people also express the hope that the Bidens in the White House will restore a sense of normality to the U.S. and its political life. Iran’s President Rouhani, for his part, seemed to give voice to such an opinion when he said that “[w]e are not overjoyed about Mr. Biden’s arrival, but we are happy about Trump leaving,” as reported by EHA News. But Biden’s first task will be to tackle COVID-19. The Presdent-elect himself has come out saying that “[d]ealing with the coronavirus pandemic is one of the most important battles our administration will face.” Yet remaining realistic, also declaring that the “end of the battle against COVID-19 is still months away.” In his published plans to combat the health crisis, Biden recognizes the need to bring an end to the economic fallout produced by the large-scale experiments in social control that have been put in place. The Biden Plan calls for a “decisive economic response that starts with emergency paid leave for all those affected by the outbreak and gives all necessary help to workers, families, and small businesses that are hit hard by this crisis.” Many blame Trump for the Covid fatalities in the U.S. and Biden wants to show himself as the leader who beat the virus and restored the nation to health.
But more than anything else, a Biden presidency aims to be a return to business-as-usual. And above all, that means continuity and not change, whatever the colour may be. President Obama continued George W. Bush’s war policies, with the former overseeing more drone strikes in his first year in the White House than the latter carried out during his entire 8-year presidency. And, Trump, in turn, did his best to outdo his predecessor as well. And now, it will be up to Joe Biden to continue this grand tradition after he has shuffled into the White House, all the while appearing to be Woke-in-Chief.
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21WIRE special contributor Dr. Can Erimtan is an independent historian and geo-political analyst who used to live in Istanbul. At present, he is in self-imposed exile from Turkey. He has a wide interest in the politics, history and culture of the Balkans. the greater Middle East, and the world beyond.. He attended the VUB in Brussels and did his graduate work at the universities of Essex and Oxford. In Oxford, Erimtan was a member of Lady Margaret Hall and he obtained his doctorate in Modern History in 2002. His publications include the revisionist monograph “Ottomans Looking West?” as well as numerous scholarly articles. In Istanbul, Erimtan started publishing in the English language Turkish press, culminating in him becoming the Turkey Editor of the İstanbul Gazette. Subsequently, he commenced writing for RT Op-Edge, NEO, and finally, the 21st Century Wire. You can find him on Twitter at @TheErimtanAngle. Read Can’s archive here.
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-25--How the Concept of the ‘Greater Good’ is Used as a Tool for Social Control

It ’ s a question which has become more critical in 2020 , especially in the wake of the COVID-19 ‘ pandemic , ’ and also due to the insistence of globalists to elevate of the issue of man-made ‘ climate change ’ as the central existential of this generation on Earth .
According to these dialectics , the interests of the individual should always be subservient to that of the ‘ greater good ’ as defined by consensus makers .
More importantly : who decides what constitutes or defines the ‘ greater good ’ ?
Could the special interests @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or oligarchs end-up formulating the ‘ greater good ’ consensus ?
“ The greater good argument- claiming that the benefits to a group of people outweigh the harm done to another group is always flawed because it always reduces the freedom and morality of all people when a large group uses a small group as a means to their ends , no matter how noble the ends .
The resort to the greater good argument is in fact evidence of a failure of government to plan appropriately and work things out among the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any nation is inextricably linked to the degree of freedom and rights given to each and every citizen in equal measure.
” This short video presentation by Academy of Ideas explores this argument and tests the idea of collectivism against foundational post-enlightenment concepts such as liberty and individual rights .
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It’s a question which has become more critical in 2020, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 ‘pandemic,’ and also due to the insistence of globalists to elevate of the issue of man-made ‘climate change’ as the central existential of this generation on Earth. According to these dialectics, the interests of the individual should always be subservient to that of the ‘greater good’ as defined by consensus makers.
More importantly: who decides what constitutes or defines the ‘greater good’?
Could the special interests of a small cadre of political elites or oligarchs end-up formulating the ‘greater good’ consensus?
Scott Van Gaaasbeck writes:
“The greater good argument – claiming that the benefits to a group of people outweigh the harm done to another group is always flawed because it always reduces the freedom and morality of all people when a large group uses a small group as a means to their ends, no matter how noble the ends. The resort to the greater good argument is in fact evidence of a failure of government to plan appropriately and work things out among the parties. The true greater good in any nation is inextricably linked to the degree of freedom and rights given to each and every citizen in equal measure.”
This short video presentation by Academy of Ideas explores this argument and tests the idea of collectivism against foundational post-enlightenment concepts such as liberty and individual rights. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-25--A Big Christmas Thank You from JP

A Big Christmas Thank You from JP

In this Christmas video you ’ ll learn how you can enjoy a communist Christmas .
It ’ s the @ @ @ @ @ plans should include no plans , wearing a mask , staying in your home , @ @ @ @ @ .
Have a very merry communist Christmas !
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Merry Christmas and happy holidays!
In this Christmas video you’ll learn how you can enjoy a communist Christmas. It’s the new normal! Your holiday plans should include no plans, wearing a mask, staying in your home, social distancing, and poverty. Have a very merry communist Christmas! Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-26--Deepfake Queen: What Their ‘Alternative Christmas Message’ Was Really About

Yesterday , the UK ’ s other quasi state-funded broadcaster , Channel 4 , decided it would be a good idea to do a high-tech spoof of one of Britain ’ s most sacred annual events , the Queen ’ s Speech , normally aired by the BBC on Christmas Day .
Their bizarre segment included off-colour jokes about estranged royals Harry and Meghan , the disgraced Prince Andrew and Jeff Epstein , and ended with the Queen breaking out into an unsightly TikTok dance .
All in all , it wasn ’ t a very pleasant piece of holiday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cheeky skit has not gone down well in the public discourse , with many finding it cheap and offensive – and especially at a time when the public are under a direct assault by the state in the form of highly unpopular ‘ pandemic ’ lockdowns and other restrictions on freedoms over the holiday period .
This only begs the question : why did they do it ?
Channel 4 billed this as a “ 2020 Alternative Christmas Message.
” They claimed this was some sort of altruistic warning to the people of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dangers of Deepfake technology , ’ where computer-generated replica faces can be superimposed on an image and made to look completely ‘ real.
’ Considering all of the calamities in the world right now , not to mention the impending economic collapse due to economically destructive government and media-driven lockdowns , you ’ d think there were more important issues to address at this moment in time .
Are they signalling that there is going to be a torrent of Deepfake video forgeries coming in the new year ?
Aside from the channel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unclear why they ’ ve done it .
Channel 4 ’ s director of programming , Ian Katz , claims the video is a “ a powerful reminder that we can no longer trust our own eyes.
” As if that ’ s some sort of epiphany when considering the general skullduggery of the mainstream media – collectively , they are by far the biggest source of popular illusion – the rank deception of state and corporate propaganda and fake news .
“ Official sources say , ” brought to you by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ call and dutifully carrying water for government and the intelligence services , especially if there ’ s a new war to promote , or a crisis to over-hype .
That has become their main role in the 21st century , although they ’ ve been at it for many decades in fact .
So if anything , it will be mainstream media who will harness and deploy the power of digital fakery going forward .
The further we journey down this rabbit hole of digital and AI technology , the more the word @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elastic .
Inevitably , the publicity garnered by this highly disingenuous exercise really amounts to a massive promotional exercise for Deepfakes .
They must have known this .
Herein lies the really motivation by this broadcaster and its state funders ; in the end , rather than warn of the potential scourge of digital fakery as an unavoidable byproduct of the liberal intelligensia ’ s much-celebrated “ post truth world , ” this Channel 4 folly will have been a massive showcase for the use of Deepfakes .
There is also the argument @ @ @ @ @ @ @ banal and detached from reality , and populated with media operatives with over-inflated egos who are running out of ways to amuse themselves on their six figure salaries .
In C4 ’ s Deepfake Queen , the first thing to notice is that the female actor who delivered the voice didn ’ t do a very good job , and the jokes were trite , shallow , and not very funny at all .
Not surprisingly , as with most of the ‘ comedy ’ on mainstream TV , it was trying too @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which is why their ratings continue to tank .
Perhaps they did it as a desperate attempt to regain some of those lost ratings by seeming to appear more ‘ edgy ’ or ‘ shocking ’ to an ever more discerning and aloof audience .
If anything , it may have cultivated more sympathy for the royals than the disdain that it appeared to intend .
Aside from elevating the use of digital deception , this was also an opportunity to embed other psychological attacks , not least of all , some additional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ holiday season .
If you look closely , you ’ ll see things like red coronavirus ornaments on the Christmas tree behind the Queen , as well as disturbing-looking masked angels , and also an interesting selection of broach by Her Virtual Majesty .
Red coronavirus ornaments on the Christmas tree .
A masked ( or muzzled ) angel .
Interesting broach choice by Her Virtual Majesty .
Of course , the great and the good in mainstream media and the ‘ expert ’ class – will be looking at this monstrosity and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can help to “ deliver Deepfakes more responsibly , ” through some kind of official practice and protocols , such as a watermarking system etc .
As if you can put this wild technological genie back in a bottle .
We forget that technology is really unknowable , at least in terms of how society will use it , confer value or currency upon it .
What is predictable is how the Establishment creates a ‘ crisis ’ and then uses it to try and regulate freedoms .
In the end , it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Establishment to further regulate video content online .
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Yesterday, the UK’s other quasi state-funded broadcaster, Channel 4, decided it would be a good idea to do a high-tech spoof of one of Britain’s most sacred annual events, the Queen’s Speech, normally aired by the BBC on Christmas Day. Their bizarre segment included off-colour jokes about estranged royals Harry and Meghan, the disgraced Prince Andrew and Jeff Epstein, and ended with the Queen breaking out into an unsightly TikTok dance. All in all, it wasn’t a very pleasant piece of holiday TV fayre.
Not surprisingly, their cheeky skit has not gone down well in the public discourse, with many finding it cheap and offensive – and especially at a time when the public are under a direct assault by the state in the form of highly unpopular ‘pandemic’ lockdowns and other restrictions on freedoms over the holiday period.
This only begs the question: why did they do it?
Channel 4 billed this as a “2020 Alternative Christmas Message.” They claimed this was some sort of altruistic warning to the people of Britain, supposedly to ‘highlight the dangers of Deepfake technology,’ where computer-generated replica faces can be superimposed on an image and made to look completely ‘real.’ Considering all of the calamities in the world right now, not to mention the impending economic collapse due to economically destructive government and media-driven lockdowns, you’d think there were more important issues to address at this moment in time. Are they signalling that there is going to be a torrent of Deepfake video forgeries coming in the new year? Aside from the channel’s half-baked explanation, it is unclear why they’ve done it. Channel 4’s director of programming, Ian Katz, claims the video is, “a powerful reminder that we can no longer trust our own eyes.” As if that’s some sort of epiphany when considering the general skullduggery of the mainstream media – collectively, they are by far the biggest source of popular illusion – the rank deception of state and corporate propaganda and fake news. “Official sources say,” brought to you by the MSM. These people are always on call and dutifully carrying water for government and the intelligence services, especially if there’s a new war to promote, or a crisis to over-hype. That has become their main role in the 21st century, although they’ve been at it for many decades in fact. So if anything, it will be mainstream media who will harness and deploy the power of digital fakery going forward. The further we journey down this rabbit hole of digital and AI technology, the more the word ‘reality’ becomes more relative and elastic. Inevitably, the publicity garnered by this highly disingenuous exercise really amounts to a massive promotional exercise for Deepfakes. They must have known this. Herein lies the really motivation by this broadcaster and its state funders; in the end, rather than warn of the potential scourge of digital fakery as an unavoidable byproduct of the liberal intelligensia’s much-celebrated “post truth world,” this Channel 4 folly will have been a massive showcase for the use of Deepfakes. There is also the argument here that mainstream media is becoming so banal and detached from reality, and populated with media operatives with over-inflated egos who are running out of ways to amuse themselves on their six figure salaries. In C4’s Deepfake Queen, the first thing to notice is that the female actor who delivered the voice didn’t do a very good job, and the jokes were trite, shallow, and not very funny at all. Not surprisingly, as with most of the ‘comedy’ on mainstream TV, it was trying too hard to be ‘cool’, which is why their ratings continue to tank. Perhaps they did it as a desperate attempt to regain some of those lost ratings by seeming to appear more ‘edgy’ or ‘shocking’ to an ever more discerning and aloof audience. If anything, it may have cultivated more sympathy for the royals than the disdain that it appeared to intend.
Aside from elevating the use of digital deception, this was also an opportunity to embed other psychological attacks, not least of all, some additional COVID propaganda and subliminal messaging for the holiday season. If you look closely, you’ll see things like red coronavirus ornaments on the Christmas tree behind the Queen, as well as disturbing-looking masked angels, and also a themed selection of broach by Her Virtual Majesty.
Red coronavirus ornaments on the Christmas tree.
A masked (or muzzled) angel.
Interesting broach choice by Her Virtual Majesty.
Of course, the great and the good in mainstream media and the ‘expert’ class – will be looking at this monstrosity and calling for ways in which we all can help to “deliver Deepfakes more responsibly,” through some kind of official practice and protocols, such as a watermarking system etc. As if you can put this wild technological genie back in a bottle.
We forget that technology is really unknowable, at least in terms of how society will use it, confer value or currency upon it. What is predictable is how the Establishment creates a ‘crisis’ and then uses it to try and regulate freedoms. In the end, it may be used a Trojan horse by the Establishment to further regulate video content online.
We’ll wait and see.
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-27--SUNDAY SCREENING: ‘The Tragedy of Droids’ (2020)

Our weekly documentary film curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE .
In modern depictions of science fiction epic narratives @ @ @ @ @ complete without a lovable or memorable robot , or ‘ droid ’ as a central @ @ @ @ @ Upon closer examination , there ’ s also something profoundly tragic about the role which @ @ @ @ @ literature , cinema , and specifically within the Star Wars universe .
Hollywood social engineers @ @ @ @ @ leftwing politicized theme of ‘ social justice ’ on to cinema ’ s droids and @ @ @ @ @ is an effort by entertainment to humanize AI robotic forms onscreen , which prompts a @ @ @ @ @ , and how it relates to transhumanism , and more importantly – how droid narratives @ @ @ @ @ human condition .
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Our weekly documentary film curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE.
In modern depictions of science fiction epic narratives, a story is never complete without a lovable or memorable robot, or ‘droid’ as a central character stealing the spotlight. Upon closer examination, there’s also something profoundly tragic about the role which these artificial lifeforms play across literature, cinema, and specifically within the Star Wars universe. Hollywood social engineers have also projected the contemporary leftwing politicized theme of ‘social justice’ on to cinema’s droids and robots. Clearly, there is an effort by entertainment to humanize AI robotic forms onscreen, which prompts a discussion as to this means, and how it relates to transhumanism, and more importantly – how droid narratives are meant to reflect the human condition. Watch:
Run time: 35 min
Production: Pop Culture Detective (2020)
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-27--Our Obsession with  Symptom Relief: ‘Death By Medicine’ with Dr. Gary Null

Traditional medicine has become “ symptom relief ” as opposed to reversing disease and aging and patients have increasingly become @ @ @ @ @ .
The pathology of medicine is “ what do I do when I ’ m @ @ @ @ @ “ what can I do to stay healthy ?
” In fact , one of @ @ @ @ @ in the United States is iatrogenic medicine – which is illness caused by medical treatments @ @ @ @ @ even vaccines .
Join Dr. Hotze and his guest Gary Null , PhD .
as @ @ @ @ @ Death by Medicine ” and numerous other topics including the overuse of prescription drugs and @ @ @ @ @ Listen : For more information about Dr. Null visit www.prn.fm or www.garynull.com .
His books @ @ @ @ @ .
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Traditional medicine has become “symptom relief” as opposed to reversing disease and aging and patients have increasingly become profit centers for mainstream doctors. The pathology of medicine is “what do I do when I’m sick?” instead of “what can I do to stay healthy?” In fact, one of the leading causes of death in the United States is iatrogenic medicine – which is illness caused by medical treatments, pharmaceutical drugs, and even vaccines.
Join Dr. Hotze and his guest Gary Null, PhD. as they discuss his book “Death by Medicine” and numerous other topics including the overuse of prescription drugs and the neurotoxicity of vaccines. Listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2o5S6eizAE
For more information about Dr. Null visit www.prn.fm or www.garynull.com. His books are also available on Amazon.
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-27--Episode #355 – ‘New Year Harbingers’ with host Patrick Henningsen

Episode # 355 of SUNDAY WIRE SHOW resumes on this week , December 27 , 2020 with host Patrick Henningsen , broadcasting LIVE on the Alternate Current Radio Network ( ACR ) … 5pm-8pm UK Time | 12pm-3pm EST ( US ) | 9am-12pm PST ( US ) This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE on ACR this week with host Patrick Henningsen , covering the top stories in the US , Europe and internationally .
As Christmas passes , and New Year ’ s Eve approaches , we take a brief look back in 2020 and discuss what it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lying ahead in 2021 .
By now , there should be little doubt that we live in an age of great deception , but be under no illusion – one thing should be crystal clear : governments and the technocrats who have seized control of them are very determined to further implode the economy , compartmentalize society and take away liberties .
Hence , cognitive dissonance is not an option .
People may no longer be able to take their rights for granted , and will now have to take responsibility for their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they are taking in , and sharing .
Now more than ever .
All this and much , more .
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Episode #355 of SUNDAY WIRE SHOW resumes on this week, December 27, 2020 with host Patrick Henningsen, broadcasting LIVE on the Alternate Current Radio Network (ACR)…
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This week the SUNDAY WIRE broadcasts LIVE on ACR this week with host Patrick Henningsen, covering the top stories in the US, Europe and internationally. As Christmas passes, and New Year’s Eve approaches, we take a brief look back in 2020 and discuss what it means, and what we can expect lying ahead in 2021. By now, there should be little doubt that we live in an age of great deception, but be under no illusion – one thing should be crystal clear: governments and the technocrats who have seized control of them are very determined to further implode the economy, compartmentalize society and take away liberties. Hence, cognitive dissonance is not an option. People may no longer be able to take their rights for granted, and will now have to take responsibility for their health, as well as the information they are taking in, and sharing. Now more than ever. All this and much, more. Enjoy the show…
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-29--Mysterious Disappearance of Flu in San Diego Prompted Call for Audit of COVID Records

One of the most bizarre features of the alleged COVID-19 ‘ global pandemic ’ has been the mysterious disappearance of the seasonal flu in medical and public health record keeping .
It ’ s as if the Flu just vanished into thin after after being the most common perennial seasonal respiratory virus .
As it turns out , recorded seasonal influenza cases have in fact nosedived by 98 % across the globe .
This improbable phenomenon has led a number of experts to ask , “ Has Covid killed off the flu ?
” “ The disappearing act began as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our flu season in March .
And just how swiftly rates have plummeted can be observed in ‘ surveillance ’ data collected by the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) , ” reported the UK ’ s Daily Mail .
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Dr Sylvie Briand claimed during a recent press conference that “ literally there was nearly no flu in the Southern hemisphere ” of the planet Earth in 2020 , but gave no real explanation as to why .
She then went on to extend this magical thinking saying that , “ We @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same in the Northern Hemisphere.
” Earlier in December , Southern California news outlet KUSI raised the alarm which prompted an audit of COVID statistics in their region… SAN DIEGO ( KUSI ) – COVID-19 cases continue to increase across California , and here in San Diego County , but flu cases remain extremely low in comparison to this time in previous years .
We are well into flu season , but San Diego County ’ s data for flu infections only shows 36 reported cases so far this year .
Carl DeMaio @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it to this time in other years saying , “ In a typical year we get over 17,073 on average !
” DeMaio explained , “ if you are going to use a set of numbers like COVID stats to shut down the economy , to take people ’ s livelihoods away , then we have to really look closely at what those numbers really mean , and whether those numbers are giving us the right picture.
” Continuing , “ my concern has been from the get go , that we are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that may have a different agenda at stake .
We would benefit from having a different set of eyes looking at them , such as an auditor or a citizens review committee .
Because again , the decisions being made on these data sets are sweeping , the lockdowns are far reaching in terms of their impact.
” DeMaio then said San Diego County has refused to have any look over or vet our local COVID-19 numbers .
Chairman of Reform California , Carl DeMaio , joined KUSI ’ s Jason Austell on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he is calling for a “ full audit of the COVID-19 data we are seeing reported from our public health system.
” As different pressure groups and journalists begin to demand answers from the various health authorities , it ’ s becoming clear now that there has likely been some degree of widespread , systemic administrative fraud designed to over-inflate COVID-19 numbers to the detriment of every other normal seasonal illness or disease .
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One of the most bizarre features of the alleged COVID-19 ‘global pandemic’ has been the mysterious disappearance of the seasonal flu in medical and public health record keeping. It’s as if the Flu just vanished into thin air after being the most common perennial seasonal respiratory virus.
As it turns out, recorded seasonal influenza cases have literally nosedived by 98% across the globe.
This improbable phenomenon has led a number of experts to ask, “Has Covid killed off the flu?”
“The disappearing act began as Covid-19 rolled in towards the end of our flu season in March. And just how swiftly rates have plummeted can be observed in ‘surveillance’ data collected by the World Health Organisation (WHO),” reported the UK’s Daily Mail.
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WHO spokesperson, Dr Sylvie Briand, recently claimed during a press briefing that “literally there was nearly no flu in the Southern hemisphere” of the planet Earth in 2020, but gave no real explanation as to why. She then went on to extend this magical thinking saying that, “We hope that the situation will be the same in the Northern Hemisphere.”
Truly extraordinary science by the health experts at the WHO.
BREAKING: COVID-19: The Emergence of the Pandemic Industrial Complex
Earlier in December, Southern California news outlet KUSI raised the alarm which prompted an audit of COVID statistics in their region…
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – COVID-19 cases continue to increase across California, and here in San Diego County, but flu cases remain extremely low in comparison to this time in previous years.
We are well into flu season, but San Diego County’s data for flu infections only shows 36 reported cases so far this year. Carl DeMaio tweeted out this shocking revelation, comparing it to this time in other years saying, “In a typical year we get over 17,073 on average!”
DeMaio explained, “if you are going to use a set of numbers like COVID stats to shut down the economy, to take people’s livelihoods away, then we have to really look closely at what those numbers really mean, and whether those numbers are giving us the right picture.” Continuing, “my concern has been from the get go, that we are relying on numbers from government agencies, that may have a different agenda at stake. We would benefit from having a different set of eyes looking at them, such as an auditor or a citizens review committee. Because again, the decisions being made on these data sets are sweeping, the lockdowns are far reaching in terms of their impact.”
DeMaio then said San Diego County has refused to have any look over or vet our local COVID-19 numbers.
Chairman of Reform California, Carl DeMaio, joined KUSI’s Jason Austell on Good Morning San Diego to explain why he is calling for a “full audit of the COVID-19 data we are seeing reported from our public health system.”
BREAKING – San Diego County data for FLU infections shows **only 36 cases** so far this year. In a typical year we get over 17,073 on average! Once again, I'm calling for a full audit of the Covid-19 data we are seeing reported from our public health system. — Carl DeMaio (@carldemaio) December 7, 2020
As different pressure groups and journalists begin to demand answers from the various health authorities, it’s becoming clear now that there has likely been some degree of widespread, systemic administrative fraud designed to over-inflate COVID-19 numbers to the detriment of every other normal seasonal illness or disease.
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-29--Epstein Case: Federal Judge Denies $28.5 million Bail for Ghislaine Maxwell

IMAGE : Maxwell pictured here with Epstein circa 2000 , the two were former partners and close business associates .
U.S. federal judge has once again denied bail to long-time Jeffrey Epstein associate , Ghislaine Maxwell , saying that she poses a major flight risk .
This was Ms. Maxwell ’ s second unsuccessful pre-trial bail application , after the British socialite and international sex trafficking suspect pleaded not guilty to several charges this past July , including conspiracy entice a minor , as well as perjury .
According to a report by the New York Times , Maxwell , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Brooklyn jail cell “ oppressive , ” while federal prosecutors say she ’ s actually getting the ‘ country club ’ treatment often afforded to high-profile white collar Wall Street and organized crime figures .
A spokesperson from the prosecutor ’ s office said that Ms. Maxwell is released from her cell for 13 hours a day will amble time and space to move and remain active , as well as having her own private shower , her own TV , exclusive use of two computers , and even her own phone .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a flashlight in her cell every hour to ensure she ‘ hasn ’ t committed suicide.
’ “ Those conditions set her far apart from general population inmates , not to mention other inmates in protective custody , ” said a new court filing rejecting Ms. Maxwell ’ s most recent request for bail — set at an unusually high $ 28.5 million bond .
Previously , back in July her defense team had proposed a $ 5 million bail bond which was summarily rejected , and then returned with a much higher @ @ @ @ @ @ @ provided by Ms. Maxwell and her husband ( whom the court will not identify ) .
According to her lawyers , this latest proposed bail package totaling $ 28.5 million is said to represent all the money and property including “ her and her spouse ’ s assets , her family ’ s livelihood , and the financial security of her closest friends and family.
” This latest news comes on the heels of the arrest in France of another high-profile Epstein associate and alleged co-conspirator , former modelling agency impresario Jean-Luc Brunel @ @ @ @ @ @ @ near Paris by French law enforcement as part of a larger investigation into international sex crimes and trafficking committed by Jeffrey Epstein and his criminal cohort .
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IMAGE: Maxwell pictured here with Epstein circa 2000, the two were former partners and close business associates.
U.S. federal judge has once again denied bail to long-time Jeffrey Epstein associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, saying that she poses a major flight risk.
This was Ms. Maxwell’s second unsuccessful pre-trial bail application, after the British socialite and international sex trafficking suspect pleaded not guilty to several charges this past July, including conspiracy entice a minor, as well as perjury.
According to a report by the New York Times, Maxwell, 58, has called life in her Brooklyn jail cell “oppressive,” while federal prosecutors say she’s actually getting the ‘country club’ treatment often afforded to high-profile white collar Wall Street and organized crime figures. A spokesperson from the prosecutor’s office said that Ms. Maxwell is released from her cell for 13 hours a day will amble time and space to move and remain active, as well as having her own private shower, her own TV, exclusive use of two computers, and even her own phone.
Maxwell has complained that guards were poking a flashlight in her cell every hour to ensure she ‘hasn’t committed suicide.’
“Those conditions set her far apart from general population inmates, not to mention other inmates in protective custody,” said a new court filing rejecting Ms. Maxwell’s most recent request for bail — set at an unusually high $28.5 million bond.
Previously, back in July her defense team had proposed a $5 million bail bond which was summarily rejected, and then returned with a much higher offer of $22.5 million to be provided by Ms. Maxwell and her husband (whom the court will not identify). According to her lawyers, this latest proposed bail package totaling $28.5 million is said to represent all the money and property including “her and her spouse’s assets, her family’s livelihood, and the financial security of her closest friends and family.”
This latest news comes on the heels of the arrest in France of another high-profile Epstein associate and alleged co-conspirator, former modelling agency impresario Jean-Luc Brunel, who was arrested at an airport near Paris by French law enforcement as part of a larger investigation into international sex crimes and trafficking committed by Jeffrey Epstein and his criminal cohort.
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-28--France: New Law Would Ban COVID Vaccine Refusers from Using Law Public Transport

How far would governments in the West go in order to force a medical or pharmaceutical intervention on its population ?
This scenario is no longer confined to the realms of conspiracy theory , as a number of governments have either tried , or are currently preparing to implement this unprecedented policy .
A recent attempt by the Danish government to rush through an emergency “ Epidemic Bill ” calling for forced vaccinations triggered a national uprising , as intelligent members of the public got wind of the government ’ s attempt to slip draconian vaccine regulations past the public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in France , as the government in Paris attempts to push through new crisis legislation that would ban citizens from using public transport unless they submit to a dubious testing regime or refuse to take the latest experimental COVID-19 vaccine .
It ’ s important to note then that a recent Ipsos poll for the World Economic Forum ( WEF ) revealed that only 59 % of French respondents said they would accept the new experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccine , compared with up to 67 % in the US and even as high @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s debatable how accurate this poll really and as it ’ s sponsored by the WEF it should be assumed to bias towards the transnational pharmaceutical industry , so the number of opt-outs in these country will constitute a significant portion of the population .
Hence , the potential for disenfranchisement and collective punishment here would he of historic proportions .
People in France who refuse to get a coronavirus test or vaccine could be restricted from using public transportation , according to a proposed bill backed by Prime Minister Jean Castex @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bill , which will be submitted for review in Parliament , is designed to provide the French government with a legal framework for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and future public health crises .
According to its text , a negative COVID test or proof of a “ preventative treatment , including the administration of a vaccine ” could be required for people to be granted “ access to transport or to some locations , as well as certain activities , ” Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) reported .
President Emmanuel Macron said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be mandatory throughout France , but the new bill has sparked outrage from opposing political leaders who believe the language is too severe .
Marine Le Pen , leader of France ’ s far-right RN party called the law “ essentially totalitarian , ” and said that “ in a backhanded way , this bill does not aim to make vaccinations mandatory , but will prevent anybody who doesn ’ t comply from having a social life , ” according to AFP .
Sebastien Chenu , an RN party spokesperson , said the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dictatorship , ” while Centrist Senator Nathalie Goulet called the bill “ an attack on public freedoms.
” Others said the bill gives the government sweeping powers to create a system of “ vaccine blackmail.
” “ How incompetent can [ the government ] be when it presents on the sly … three days before Christmas , a bill with restrictive sanitary measures that would give it powers of vaccine blackmail ?
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How far would governments in the West go in order to force a medical or pharmaceutical intervention on its population? This scenario is no longer confined to the realms of conspiracy theory, as a number of governments have either tried, or are currently preparing to implement this unprecedented policy.
A recent attempt by the Danish government to rush through an emergency “Epidemic Bill” calling for forced vaccinations triggered a national uprising, as intelligent members of the public got wind of the government’s attempt to slip draconian vaccine regulations past the public. A similar situation could be building in France, as the government in Paris attempts to push through new crisis legislation that would ban citizens from using public transport unless they submit to a dubious testing regime or refuse to take the latest experimental COVID-19 vaccine.
It’s important to note then that a recent Ipsos poll for the World Economic Forum (WEF) revealed that only 59% of French respondents said they would accept the new experimental mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, compared with up to 67% in the US and even as high as 85% in Britain. It’s debatable how accurate this poll really and as it’s sponsored by the WEF it should be assumed to bias towards the transnational pharmaceutical industry, so the number of opt-outs in these country will constitute a significant portion of the population.
Hence, the potential for disenfranchisement and collective punishment here would he of historic proportions.
Newsweek reports…
People in France who refuse to get a coronavirus test or vaccine could be restricted from using public transportation, according to a proposed bill backed by Prime Minister Jean Castex’s cabinet.
The newly introduced bill, which will be submitted for review in Parliament, is designed to provide the French government with a legal framework for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and future public health crises.
According to its text, a negative COVID test or proof of a “preventative treatment, including the administration of a vaccine” could be required for people to be granted “access to transport or to some locations, as well as certain activities,” Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
President Emmanuel Macron said in November that coronavirus vaccinations will not be mandatory throughout France, but the new bill has sparked outrage from opposing political leaders who believe the language is too severe.
Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right RN party called the law “essentially totalitarian,” and said that “in a backhanded way, this bill does not aim to make vaccinations mandatory, but will prevent anybody who doesn’t comply from having a social life,” according to AFP.
Sebastien Chenu, an RN party spokesperson, said the French government was planning “a health dictatorship,” while Centrist Senator Nathalie Goulet called the bill “an attack on public freedoms.”
Others said the bill gives the government sweeping powers to create a system of “vaccine blackmail.”
“How incompetent can [the government] be when it presents on the sly … three days before Christmas, a bill with restrictive sanitary measures that would give it powers of vaccine blackmail?” asked conservative MP Fabien Di Filippo on Twitter, as translated by Politico…
Continue this story at Newsweek
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-28--Keri Smith: ‘How I Left the Social Justice Cult’

Are the culture wars destroying American education ?
By now , we ’ re all familiar with the pitched battle waged between radical left-wing ideologues and moderate traditionalists and religious conservatives .
This war has been building since the 1960s , but in recent years the country has witnessed how the Left – which previously sung the virtues of free speech and tolerance – has now suddenly become the driving force for intolerance , as Cosmopolitan-dominated leftwing “ progressive ” students , administrators and teachers – now demand more censorship , deplatforming and the general silencing of any opinions or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ politically incorrect , or simply disagrees with .
Social justice activists claim they are merely ‘ fighting racism and gender discrimination , ’ but is there something else brewing below the surface ?
Recently , defectors and whistleblowers from political Left have been speaking out against what they describe a kind of radicalized religious cult which , thanks to generous funding and political backing , has been allowed to fester and takeover educational institutions across America .
In this episode of Triggernometry , hosts Konstantine and Francis talk with former SJW and co-host @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about her journey from the radical left back to saner ground .
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Are the culture wars destroying American education? By now, we’re all familiar with the pitched battle waged between radical left-wing ideologues and moderate traditionalists and religious conservatives. This war has been building since the 1960s, but in recent years the country has witnessed how the Left – which previously sung the virtues of free speech and tolerance – has now suddenly become the driving force for intolerance, as Cosmopolitan-dominated leftwing “progressive” students, administrators and teachers – now demand more censorship, deplatforming and the general silencing of any opinions or voices which the mob deems to be politically incorrect, or simply disagrees with. Social justice activists claim they are merely ‘fighting racism and gender discrimination,’ but is there something else brewing below the surface? Recently, defectors and whistleblowers from political Left have been speaking out against what they describe a kind of radicalized religious cult which, thanks to generous funding and political backing, has been allowed to fester and takeover educational institutions across America.
In this episode of Triggernometry, hosts Konstantine and Francis talk with former SJW and co-host of the Unsafe Space podcast Keri Smith about her journey from the radical left back to saner ground. Watch:
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-29--France Accused of ‘Hysteria Over COVID Variant’ After Nearly 15,000 Truckers Tested Negative

Before Christmas , sensational reports of a new COVID “ variant ” in the UK prompted European neighbors France , Netherlands and Belgium – to close their international borders for fear of a dangerous new viral wave .
As a result , ferries were unable to leave the Port of Dover until Christmas morning , with some 6,000 hauliers remaining in Kent over the subsequent days , and with many spending Christmas Day and Boxing Day parked , waiting to cross the English Channel .
What was all the fuss about ?
Is there really a new “ mutant strain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ claims is still ravaging through the British Isles ?
As part of this bio-security theatre , military personnel were then deployed to Kent , including a massive cohort of 1100 British troops , 30 French firefighters , and 60 Polish soldiers – all to supposedly to provide aid and services to the drivers , and to “ speed up testing to 600 per hour ” carried out at nearby Manston airfield .
As it turns out , all of this was completely unnecessary .
UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted : “ Update @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Coronavirus tests now carried out .
Just 36 positive results , which are being verified ( 0.23 % ) .
Manston now empty and lorries should no longer head there please.
” What the Government and Mainstream Media will not tell the public is that if the highly dubious PCR Testing was used , then that tiny reported number of 36 ‘ positive cases ’ could have easily fallen within the margin of false positive errors – meaning all 15,000 plus drivers may have been ‘ COVID free ’ – an incredible but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proving that the virus is likely to be severely over-hyped right now in the UK .
Certainly , not “ 70 % more transmissible ” as the government and media so recklessly claimed it was .
As 21WIRE already reported last week , Hancock ’ s claims of a new ‘ more dangerous and more transmissible ’ virus were totally unfounded and based on sloppy science from the UK government ’ s NERVTAG science advisory committee .
Because of the near nonexistent COVID cases within this giant trucker sample , critics are now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for panicking and closing their borders based on irrational fear of an non-existent “ mutant strain ” of COVID-19 .
But the UK authorities have no business pointing the finger at anyone… .
The French authorities slapped restrictions on hauliers crossing the Channel following the [ alleged ] emergence of the VUi202012/01 coronavirus mutation which is believed to spread faster than other strains .
The UK and France agreed to a testing regime to allow trucks to start flowing again on the Dover-Calais link .
The Standard has been told that out of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ positive .
SEE MORE : UK ‘ Variant Fears ’ Are Over-Hyped Says Leading US Microbiologist A Whitehall source criticised the “ over hasty ” action by the French authorities , adding : “ All of this trouble – there have been 1,500 tests – no positives.
” The EU ’ s Transport Commissioner Adina VÄlean criticised Emmanuel Macron ’ s government over the weekend ’ s freight ban .
She tweeted : “ I am pleased that at this moment , we have trucks slowly crossing the Channel , and I want @ @ @ @ @ @ @ testing the drivers at a capacity of 300 tests per hour .
“ I deplore that France went against our recommendations and brought us back to the situation we were in in March when the supply chains were interrupted.
” Mind you , that ’ s more than a bit rich for anyone in the UK Government-Media Complex to accuse France of over-reacting – when it was Matt Hancock and the fawning mainstream press who for weeks shamelessly pumped-out incessant fear-based claims of an allege COVID “ mutant strain ” – absent of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ assertions .
Lesson learned ?
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Before Christmas, sensational reports of a new COVID “variant” in the UK prompted European neighbors France, Netherlands and Belgium – to close their international borders for fear of a dangerous new viral wave. As a result, ferries were unable to leave the Port of Dover until Christmas morning, with some 6,000 hauliers remaining in Kent over the subsequent days, and with many spending Christmas Day and Boxing Day parked, waiting to cross the English Channel. What was all the fuss about? Is there really a new “mutant strain” which UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock claims is still ravaging through the British Isles?
As part of this bio-security theatre, military personnel were then deployed to Kent, including a massive cohort of 1100 British troops, 30 French firefighters, and 60 Polish soldiers – all to supposedly to provide aid and services to the drivers, and to “speed up testing to 600 per hour” carried out at nearby Manston airfield.
As it turns out, all of this was completely unnecessary.
UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted: “Update on Kent lorry situation: 15,526 #Coronavirus tests now carried out. Just 36 positive results, which are being verified (0.23%). Manston now empty and lorries should no longer head there please.”
Update on Kent lorry situation: 15,526 #Coronavirus tests now carried out. Just 36 positive results, which are being verified (0.23%). Manston now empty and lorries should no longer head there please. pic.twitter.com/RPBC5Rsd2C — Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (@grantshapps) December 26, 2020
What the Government and Mainstream Media will not tell the public is that if the highly dubious PCR Testing was used, then that tiny reported number of 36 ‘positive cases’ could have easily fallen within the margin of false positive errors – meaning all 15,000 plus drivers may have been ‘COVID free’ – an incredible but very telling data point – all but proving that the virus is likely to be severely over-hyped right now in the UK. Certainly, not “70% more transmissible” as the government and media so recklessly claimed it was.
As 21WIRE already reported last week, Hancock’s claims of a new ‘more dangerous and more transmissible’ virus were totally unfounded and based on sloppy science from the UK government’s NERVTAG science advisory committee.
Because of the near nonexistent COVID cases within this giant trucker sample, critics are now railing against France and other European countries for panicking and closing their borders based on irrational fear of an non-existent “mutant strain” of COVID-19. But the UK authorities have no business pointing the finger at anyone….
MSN reported on Dec 25th…
The French authorities slapped restrictions on hauliers crossing the Channel following the [alleged] emergence of the VUi202012/01 coronavirus mutation which is believed to spread faster than other strains.
The UK and France agreed to a testing regime to allow trucks to start flowing again on the Dover-Calais link.
The Standard has been told that out of the first 1,500 tests none came back positive.
SEE MORE: UK ‘Variant Fears’ Are Over-Hyped Says Leading US Microbiologist
A Whitehall source criticised the “over hasty” action by the French authorities, adding: “All of this trouble – there have been 1,500 tests – no positives.”
The EU’s Transport Commissioner Adina VÄlean criticised Emmanuel Macron’s government over the weekend’s freight ban.
She tweeted: “I am pleased that at this moment, we have trucks slowly crossing the Channel, and I want to thank UK authorities that they started testing the drivers at a capacity of 300 tests per hour.
“I deplore that France went against our recommendations and brought us back to the situation we were in in March when the supply chains were interrupted.”
Mind you, that’s more than a bit rich for anyone in the UK Government-Media Complex to accuse France of over-reacting – when it was Matt Hancock and the fawning mainstream press who for weeks shamelessly pumped-out incessant fear-based claims of an allege COVID “mutant strain” – absent of any actual evidence to back-up their wild assertions. Lesson learned?
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21stcenturywire--2020-12-30--2020 YEAR IN REVIEW: CrossTalking the Pandemic and The Great Reset

Few will argue that 2020 has been a tumultuous year for most people , caught in the spiral of a @ @ @ @ @ globalist agenda coming out of the WHO , Davos and Silicon Valley .
Indeed , @ @ @ @ @ norm , but normality was illusive .
Many have reflected on what has been lost @ @ @ @ @ should be on what may never return ?
Host Peter Lavelle is CrossTalking with guests @ @ @ @ @ .
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Few will argue that 2020 has been a tumultuous year for most people, caught in the spiral of a contrived global pandemic and a globalist agenda coming out of the WHO, Davos and Silicon Valley.
Indeed, during 2020 change was the norm, but normality was illusive. Many have reflected on what has been lost. But maybe the focus should be on what may never return? Host Peter Lavelle is CrossTalking with guests Patrick Henningsen and John Laughland. Watch:
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