lewrockwell--2020-12-31--The Atheism of the West

The Atheism of the West

Augusto del Noce ( 1910-89 ) is among the least well known of the brilliant political philosophers of the twentieth century .
…Del Noce developed a series of insights into the developing culture of the West beginning in the 1960s that still have not been broadly appropriated .
Atheism : The core of modern Western culture in the thought of Augusto del Noce , by Dr. Thomas R. Rourke Dr. Rourke examines how the West , at the same time , both won the Cold War and lost it .
He notes that by the time the Cold War ended @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a culture in a profound state of decay.
” This , combined with a spiritual malaise , would lead to irrationality on all sides and moral bankruptcy .
Surely the utter collapse of the Christian West in the matter of a generation requires a more compelling explanation than what is generally given .
The Crisis of Modernit ... Lancellotti , Carlo Best Price : $ 29.21 Buy New $ 34.95 And it is through Del Noce ’ s work that Rourke examines this .
He begins by offering that Del Noce does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ won or lost in the Cold War : If Marxism won , then why did it collapse in its central stronghold , and why is it today equally passé in its second stronghold : China .
And if Marxism won , how could we possibly explain the Western economy which is far more dominated by big corporations and finance capital than the world of 1960 could have even imagined ?
If it lost , who undid the Christian West , with the almost complete negation of metaphysics and religion in the academy ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a superficial framework of liberalism vs. conservatism .
This corresponds with my view that the situation in the west today is not described in the traditional left-right framework .
A look at the conversation will find many on both the left and right in search for a metaphysical understanding , while , at the same time , there are many others on both the left and right who despise such thoughts .
Del Noce underlines that the bourgeoisie historically had two enemies to cope with : one was Marxism , but the other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on an immutable morality .
And here , it starts to get interesting .
The bourgeoisie in the West didn ’ t want Marx ’ s Marxism ; they wanted to amass their wealth and increase control throughout .
But the Catholic Church ( and I will add , more broadly , all Christian institutions that stood on a transcendent morality ) stood in the way of their progress .
It is much easier to amass wealth and control if you are at the same time the one who gets to decide the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up with was a Marxist victory , having unleashed relativism and materialism , combined with a Marxist defeat of leaving the bourgeoise intact .
More precisely , it was a victory of one kind of atheism in the West over a different kind of atheism in the East .
Del Noce offers that the Western atheism was a combination of a sexual revolution and ever-advancing consumer products and technology .
What emerged in the West was not the victory of liberty or democracy ( as interpreted ad nauseum by contemporary media ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” along with a new atheism , in a sense more pernicious than those served up by the older atheistic totalitarianism in the East .
Big deal…we get to vote ( well , we see what that ’ s worth ) .
Del Noce wouldn ’ t define totalitarianism via the presence or absence of a ballot box , but in the curtailing of rationality and the ultimate denial of reason .
If there is no transcendent , immutable truth that our reason has access to , then there is no immutable ethics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is in a position to define for itself the right and the wrong .
Ethics and culture become subsumed by politics .
This is Nietzsche ’ s superman , who gets to determine ethics given that man killed God .
On what basis do we challenge this superman , if we do not have the transcendent ethic to which we can appeal ?
Del Noce sees this same problem : The Age of Secularizat ... Del Noce , Augusto Best Price : $ 29.11 Buy New $ 34.95 Under this regime , anyone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the state can not do on any recognizably rational basis .
This is Murray Rothbard writ large .
From Left and Right : The Prospects for Liberty , he writes : …only forms of natural or higher law theory can provide a radical base outside of the existing system from which to challenge the status quo .
In For a New Liberty : The Libertarian Manifesto , he would add : …the natural law provides the only sure ground for a continuing critique of governmental laws and decrees .
Returning to Rourke ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ethic , every criticism will be interpreted along the lines of class , race , and gender .
The state need not even get involved , as the academy has gladly taken this lead ( of course , given the state funding via the state directly and government guaranteed student loans indirectly , the state is plenty involved ) .
Del Noce saw the post-sixties culture in the West as grounded in three pillars : eroticism , positivism , and secularization .
These three are all aspects of the same underlying reality , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the sexual revolution ] is to destroy Christian moral tradition and the family altogether .
[ Wilhelm ] Reich understood that Christian morality was passed on principally through the family and that no real revolution could occur so long as the institution of the family survived intact .
Marx ’ s thought was incomplete because it did not systematically address this reality .
It would be necessary to overthrow the family if one is to overthrow Christian civilization .
In this , I find Antonio Gramsci .
I have to believe , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and came after Gramsci , that somewhere along the line Del Noce would have become familiar with Gramsci ’ s work .
It isn ’ t mentioned in this essay , and it is not terribly important other than noting that two Italian philosophers saw this same path forward – one as a blessing , the other as a curse .
[ Scientific Positivism ] includes a rejection of any assertion of an immutable , transcendent reality .
Marxism was firmly relativistic .
Therefore , all philosophical truths , especially natural law , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as the term is now understood ) could remain , and if it wasn ’ t scientific , it wasn ’ t true .
( Of course , we see today that even the scientific is , we are told , not true – another construct of the patriarchy , or some such ) .
Left & Right : The Pros ... Murray Rothbard Best Price : $ 19.12 Buy New $ 6.00 All else is ideology or mere opinion .
Natural law came to be seen as just a cover for , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , classism , racism and patriarchy .
Positivism would sweep away natural law and , therefore , natural rights derived from natural law .
If we can come to no moral conclusions as to how a human being should be treated simply by knowing that he is a human being , then clearly there is no basis for any form of natural right .
Finally , to the third pillar : secularization , meaning the negation of transcendence .
It is a sneaky one , acting very indirectly and without any desire for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it would automatically lead to the negation of transcendence and of God .
God , in fact , becomes unthinkable .
Again , secularization here does not only mean that society becomes less religious in outlook ; it is the entire realm of the transcendent that is being written out , which includes classical philosophy as well .
No Plato , no Aristotle , no Aquinas .
No purpose for man , no objective , no meaning .
This impacted the Christian faithful as well .
Theology refocused away from the transcendent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which underlined him as the Creator , the Redeemer , the source of all grace and the sole source of our salvation .
Theology ’ s new focus became the world , as Maritain had noted by the late 1960s .
Hence , we are to perfect man in this world – we are able to overcome fallen man .
This being the objective of many of the “ isms ” born out of the Enlightenment .
Transcendent themes came to be largely replaced by political , social , economic , and environmental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ social justice – a perfectly valid theological concept .
But to be a complete theological concept , it had to include the Ten Commandments ( and other transcendent moral truths ) .
We today demand social justice without any baggage , without any responsibility , without any morality .
Social justice without morality is a bottomless pit .
A pit , because it takes us away from truth and reason ; bottomless , because perfection can never be reached solely through man ’ s efforts on this earth – thus ensuring a never-ending @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political violence , the poverty , the breakdown of the family , and all other pathologies without leaning on the transcendent truths of the Commandments and other such truths .
For a New Liberty : The ... Murray Rothbard Best Price : $ 9.51 Buy New $ 10.50 “ God ” is not left out of the discourse , but he is an immanent God of progressive political leanings who makes little of most transgressions of the Ten Commandments .
And it is on this point where I might take my one singular @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do not see what is happening in the West as a triumph of atheism .
It is a Christian civil war .
Only through Christianity can one criticize behaviors that do not meet the standard of transcendent ethics .
When the slave demanded from the Roman citizen his due , he would be raped , then hung – and this was deemed just .
So those who demand social justice are doing so via a Christian lens ; they just happen to be ignoring the transcendent truths of Christianity while doing so .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ truths are fighting against Christians ( and non-Christians who demand the benefits without accepting the cost ) who do not .
But beyond this point , which I don ’ t believe is significantly important in the understanding of our condition , I take no exception .
Continuing with Rourke : … it is in the negation of transcendence where Del Noce finds the key to the entire development of atheism in the West , and this negation is not well accounted for or captured by what passes for conservatism today .
How @ @ @ @ @ @ @ conservatism on any given day has to do with reasserting transcendence in any meaningful sense ?
None .
And Rourke will offer the most telling evidence : Conservative jurists have spoken as harshly against the use of natural law in jurisprudence as anyone .
We have all heard the claims of “ originalism , ” but fail to see how useless it is once the reality of a transcendent law ( natural law ) is taken out of the picture .
“ Originalism ” is a meaningless term unless it is applied to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are also made with a purpose : a life of fulfillment – beatitudo .
Rourke offers two examples for clarification of this point .
Originalism demands that we interpret the Bill of Rights as first intended .
But these rights are reserved for “ men ” the men who are equally created in the Declaration ( yes , women too ) .
But the Constitution simply assumes we know what a man is .
If we evacuate that understanding ( which is what we have done since Roe v. Wade ) and permit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is under the law , then what is ultimately protected ?
What right has been preserved ?
The Social and Politic ... Rourke , Thomas R. Best Price : $ 16.86 Buy New $ 36.40 No one is protected if the most vulnerable of us are not protected .
No rights are preserved if the most fundamental right to life is not preserved .
Similarly , federal law , in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , when it forbade “ sex discrimination , ” simply assumes that people know what “ sex @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are .
But now , after the Bostock case , a “ conservative ” on the court has delivered us of any hope that future laws might reliably be based on common sense understandings of gender .
I think there are now 458 pronouns and counting….and changes are allowed minute by minute .
Originalism is nothing more than a new “ construct ” for relativists to make hay out of .
There is no point to arguing “ originalism ” if we can not hold to transcendent , immutable , objective truths .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ West has nothing to do with political left and right .
We have seen the obviousness of this , with many Republican office holders and appointees just as mad at Trump voters as most Democrats .
At the same time , I am watching and listening to conversations between and among people – most of whom would identify with the political left – who are searching for a return to some objective ethic .
The schism is on the point of natural law – an objective ethic .
Yes , it is discoverable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alike .
But it is best grounded and best defended when built on a foundation untouchable by man : God .
Of course , it is well grounded in the Bible .
If something on this topic makes you allergic to Aristotle or Aquinas , try this .
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Augusto del Noce (1910-89) is among the least well known of the brilliant political philosophers of the twentieth century. …Del Noce developed a series of insights into the developing culture of the West beginning in the 1960s that still have not been broadly appropriated.
Atheism: The core of modern Western culture in the thought of Augusto del Noce, by Dr. Thomas R. Rourke
Dr. Rourke examines how the West, at the same time, both won the Cold War and lost it. He notes that by the time the Cold War ended, “the West was already riddled with a culture in a profound state of decay.” This, combined with a spiritual malaise, would lead to irrationality on all sides and moral bankruptcy.
Surely the utter collapse of the Christian West in the matter of a generation requires a more compelling explanation than what is generally given.
The Crisis of Modernit... Lancellotti, Carlo Best Price: $28.82 Buy New $34.94 (as of 10:47 UTC - Details) And it is through Del Noce’s work that Rourke examines this. He begins by offering that Del Noce does not abide by the simplification that Marxism won or lost in the Cold War:
If Marxism won, then why did it collapse in its central stronghold, and why is it today equally passé in its second stronghold: China. And if Marxism won, how could we possibly explain the Western economy which is far more dominated by big corporations and finance capital than the world of 1960 could have even imagined?
If it lost, who undid the Christian West, with the almost complete negation of metaphysics and religion in the academy? The answers will not be found in a superficial framework of liberalism vs. conservatism.
This corresponds with my view that the situation in the west today is not described in the traditional left-right framework. A look at the conversation will find many on both the left and right in search for a metaphysical understanding, while, at the same time, there are many others on both the left and right who despise such thoughts.
Del Noce underlines that the bourgeoisie historically had two enemies to cope with: one was Marxism, but the other was the Catholic Church, which insisted on an immutable morality.
And here, it starts to get interesting. The bourgeoisie in the West didn’t want Marx’s Marxism; they wanted to amass their wealth and increase control throughout. But the Catholic Church (and I will add, more broadly, all Christian institutions that stood on a transcendent morality) stood in the way of their progress. It is much easier to amass wealth and control if you are at the same time the one who gets to decide the rules.
So, what we ended up with was a Marxist victory, having unleashed relativism and materialism, combined with a Marxist defeat of leaving the bourgeoise intact. More precisely, it was a victory of one kind of atheism in the West over a different kind of atheism in the East. Del Noce offers that the Western atheism was a combination of a sexual revolution and ever-advancing consumer products and technology.
What emerged in the West was not the victory of liberty or democracy (as interpreted ad nauseum by contemporary media), but rather a “new totalitarianism,” along with a new atheism, in a sense more pernicious than those served up by the older atheistic totalitarianism in the East.
Big deal…we get to vote (well, we see what that’s worth). Del Noce wouldn’t define totalitarianism via the presence or absence of a ballot box, but in the curtailing of rationality and the ultimate denial of reason.
If there is no transcendent, immutable truth that our reason has access to, then there is no immutable ethics determined by reason, and political authority is in a position to define for itself the right and the wrong. Ethics and culture become subsumed by politics.
This is Nietzsche’s superman, who gets to determine ethics given that man killed God. On what basis do we challenge this superman, if we do not have the transcendent ethic to which we can appeal? Del Noce sees this same problem: The Age of Secularizat... Del Noce, Augusto Best Price: $32.71 Buy New $34.78 (as of 09:30 UTC - Details)
Under this regime, anyone who attempts to formulate an argument against the state cannot do on any recognizably rational basis.
This is Murray Rothbard writ large. From Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty, he writes:
…only forms of natural or higher law theory can provide a radical base outside of the existing system from which to challenge the status quo.
In For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, he would add:
…the natural law provides the only sure ground for a continuing critique of governmental laws and decrees.
Returning to Rourke’s essay: without this natural law ethic, every criticism will be interpreted along the lines of class, race, and gender. The state need not even get involved, as the academy has gladly taken this lead (of course, given the state funding via the state directly and government guaranteed student loans indirectly, the state is plenty involved).
Del Noce saw the post-sixties culture in the West as grounded in three pillars: eroticism, positivism, and secularization. These three are all aspects of the same underlying reality, which is atheism.
Regarding eroticism:
The purpose [of the sexual revolution] is to destroy Christian moral tradition and the family altogether. [Wilhelm] Reich understood that Christian morality was passed on principally through the family and that no real revolution could occur so long as the institution of the family survived intact.
Marx’s thought was incomplete because it did not systematically address this reality. It would be necessary to overthrow the family if one is to overthrow Christian civilization.
In this, I find Antonio Gramsci. I have to believe, given that Del Noce was also Italian and came after Gramsci, that somewhere along the line Del Noce would have become familiar with Gramsci’s work. It isn’t mentioned in this essay, and it is not terribly important other than noting that two Italian philosophers saw this same path forward – one as a blessing, the other as a curse.
[Scientific Positivism] includes a rejection of any assertion of an immutable, transcendent reality.
Marxism was firmly relativistic. Therefore, all philosophical truths, especially natural law, had to go. Only science (as the term is now understood) could remain, and if it wasn’t scientific, it wasn’t true. (Of course, we see today that even the scientific is, we are told, not true – another construct of the patriarchy, or some such). Left & Right: The Pros... Murray Rothbard Best Price: $4.99 Buy New $6.00 (as of 10:47 UTC - Details)
All else is ideology or mere opinion. Natural law came to be seen as just a cover for, variously, capitalism with its property domination, classism, racism and patriarchy.
Positivism would sweep away natural law and, therefore, natural rights derived from natural law.
If we can come to no moral conclusions as to how a human being should be treated simply by knowing that he is a human being, then clearly there is no basis for any form of natural right.
Finally, to the third pillar: secularization, meaning the negation of transcendence. It is a sneaky one, acting very indirectly and without any desire for attention. Working through the positivist framework, it would automatically lead to the negation of transcendence and of God. God, in fact, becomes unthinkable.
Again, secularization here does not only mean that society becomes less religious in outlook; it is the entire realm of the transcendent that is being written out, which includes classical philosophy as well.
No Plato, no Aristotle, no Aquinas. No purpose for man, no objective, no meaning. This impacted the Christian faithful as well.
Theology refocused away from the transcendent God and the “vertical causality” which underlined him as the Creator, the Redeemer, the source of all grace and the sole source of our salvation. Theology’s new focus became the world, as Maritain had noted by the late 1960s.
Hence, we are to perfect man in this world – we are able to overcome fallen man. This being the objective of many of the “isms” born out of the Enlightenment.
Transcendent themes came to be largely replaced by political, social, economic, and environmental ones.
Rourke offers the example of social justice – a perfectly valid theological concept. But to be a complete theological concept, it had to include the Ten Commandments (and other transcendent moral truths). We today demand social justice without any baggage, without any responsibility, without any morality. Social justice without morality is a bottomless pit. A pit, because it takes us away from truth and reason; bottomless, because perfection can never be reached solely through man’s efforts on this earth – thus ensuring a never-ending quest.
We try to explain the political violence, the poverty, the breakdown of the family, and all other pathologies without leaning on the transcendent truths of the Commandments and other such truths. For a New Liberty: The... Murray Rothbard Best Price: $9.51 Buy New $10.50 (as of 02:10 UTC - Details)
“God” is not left out of the discourse, but he is an immanent God of progressive political leanings who makes little of most transgressions of the Ten Commandments.
And it is on this point where I might take my one singular issue with this entire thesis. I do not see what is happening in the West as a triumph of atheism. It is a Christian civil war. Only through Christianity can one criticize behaviors that do not meet the standard of transcendent ethics. When the slave demanded from the Roman citizen his due, he would be raped, then hung – and this was deemed just.
So those who demand social justice are doing so via a Christian lens; they just happen to be ignoring the transcendent truths of Christianity while doing so. Hence, Christians who recognize these transcendent truths are fighting against Christians (and non-Christians who demand the benefits without accepting the cost) who do not.
But beyond this point, which I don’t believe is significantly important in the understanding of our condition, I take no exception. Continuing with Rourke:
… it is in the negation of transcendence where Del Noce finds the key to the entire development of atheism in the West, and this negation is not well accounted for or captured by what passes for conservatism today. How much of what the newspapers might call conservatism on any given day has to do with reasserting transcendence in any meaningful sense?
None. And Rourke will offer the most telling evidence:
Conservative jurists have spoken as harshly against the use of natural law in jurisprudence as anyone. We have all heard the claims of “originalism,” but fail to see how useless it is once the reality of a transcendent law (natural law) is taken out of the picture.
“Originalism” is a meaningless term unless it is applied to objective human beings with objective characteristics who are also made with a purpose: a life of fulfillment – beatitudo.
Rourke offers two examples for clarification of this point. Originalism demands that we interpret the Bill of Rights as first intended. But these rights are reserved for “men” the men who are equally created in the Declaration (yes, women too).
But the Constitution simply assumes we know what a man is. If we evacuate that understanding (which is what we have done since Roe v. Wade) and permit political authority to define who a man is under the law, then what is ultimately protected? What right has been preserved?
The Social and Politic... Rourke, Thomas R. Best Price: $29.00 Buy New $43.99 (as of 10:47 UTC - Details) No one is protected if the most vulnerable of us are not protected. No rights are preserved if the most fundamental right to life is not preserved.
Similarly, federal law, in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, when it forbade “sex discrimination,” simply assumes that people know what “sex” is, who men and women are. But now, after the Bostock case, a “conservative” on the court has delivered us of any hope that future laws might reliably be based on common sense understandings of gender.
I think there are now 458 pronouns and counting….and changes are allowed minute by minute.
Originalism is nothing more than a new “construct” for relativists to make hay out of.
There is no point to arguing “originalism” if we cannot hold to transcendent, immutable, objective truths.
Conclusion
This is why the schism in the West has nothing to do with political left and right. We have seen the obviousness of this, with many Republican office holders and appointees just as mad at Trump voters as most Democrats. At the same time, I am watching and listening to conversations between and among people – most of whom would identify with the political left – who are searching for a return to some objective ethic.
The schism is on the point of natural law – an objective ethic. Yes, it is discoverable by all men – atheist and Christian alike. But it is best grounded and best defended when built on a foundation untouchable by man: God.
Of course, it is well grounded in the Bible. If something on this topic makes you allergic to Aristotle or Aquinas, try this.
Reprinted with permission from Bionic Mosquito.
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lewrockwell--2020-12-31--Voter Fraud Must Be Disproved To Avoid Suspicions Poisoning US Society Under Biden, Observers Say

The controversy surrounding the 2020 US presidential election will not go anywhere even after the US Congress holds the joint session and has its final say on the voting , notes Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel and former Reagan administration official Dr Paul Craig Roberts .
On 6 January 2021 , the US Congress is due to validate the 2020 election and declare the winner of the presidential race .
Any objections with regard to election certificates will be conserved by the legislative body if at least one member each of the Senate and House of Representatives raises his or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ R-Ala ) told Fox & Friends on 28 December that “ dozens ” of House GOP members will challenge the Electoral College results over uncertainty stemming from the suspected election fraud during the November vote .
It is unclear whether Republican senators will support the initiative of their party fellows in the House .
Previously , Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville ( R-Ala ) and Senator Rand Paul ( R-Ky ) mooted the idea that they might join Brooks .
Nevertheless , neither of them has made a public announcement so far to confirm the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Moreover , although the new Senate will comprise 48 Democrats and 51 Republicans – since Georgia run-offs won ’ t yet be certified – probably giving the GOP an advantage in the upper chamber , Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has already made it clear that he won ’ t pick this fight .
‘ It Appears That Both Political Parties Want Trump Out ’ “ Objections may be raised concerning purported slates of electors and that the Vice-President would then make a final , binding determination as to which electors are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of voters in the 50 states and in Washington , DC ” , says Charles Ortel , a Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist .
“ Then , when the electoral votes are counted the question will be whether Trump or Biden attracts at least 270 votes .
If neither candidate reaches 270 votes , then the House delegations , voting by state and Washington , DC will cast a total of 51 votes and a winner would need 26 votes ” .
# DELETED : Big Tech & rsq ... Bokhari , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Republicans have called upon Vice-President Mike Pence to interfere in the validation process .
Pence ought to “ open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted ” , as the amended Electoral Count Act stipulates .
According to Forbes , he will have to open all “ papers purporting to be certificates , ” which includes “ alternate electors ” who voted for Trump in a number of swing states .
Alternative electors were picked in the swing states where , according to the Trump campaign , election fraud @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s power to throw out electors is disputed , the magazine pointed out .
To remove this obstacle the Republican Representative for Texas , Louie Gohmert , has filed a lawsuit against Pence , urging a federal judge to annul the 1887 Electoral Count Act and grant the vice-president the authority to overturn the election results which are 306-223 in Joe Biden ’ s favour .
However , The Epoch Times reported on 30 December that the vice-president had not backed the idea , citing lawyers familiar with the issue .
Although President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stand up and fight for him , many Republican lawmakers appear to be guided by their own political and financial interests , according to Ortel .
It was previously reported that Senate Majority Leader McConnell persuaded his caucus not to challenge the Electoral College ’ s decision .
“ In the case of Mitch McConnell , a long-lived Senator from Kentucky , his wife is from an extraordinarily rich family whose origins are in Taiwan but now operates on the mainland and internationally , ” says the Wall Street analyst .
“ It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are upset with President Trump ’ s determination , correct in my view , to decouple from China , so long as it remains controlled by their Communist Party ” .
Legal Battles Likely to Continue After 6 January Session Although it appears that – regardless of growing political dissent – the US Congress will seal Joe Biden ’ s victory on 6 January , the controversy surrounding the 2020 election is unlikely to fade any time soon , the Wall Street analyst notes .
On 22 December , Trump legal adviser Jenna @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigating the handling of the 2020 elections after the 6 January Congressional session .
The Permanent Coup : Ho ... Smith , Lee Best Price : $ 19.95 Buy New $ 20.85 ” Unless allegations of voter fraud and corruption are compellingly disproved , Trump supporters and Bernie Sanders supporters are highly unlikely to follow dictates of a Biden-Harris administration , ” the investigative journalist reckons .
Trump ’ s lawyers might take a rework of the Texas lawsuit to the Supreme Court , the former Reagan official suggests .
The lawsuit was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Georgia , Michigan , and Wisconsin , over alleged election irregularities .
It argued that the four states made last-minute changes to voting rules and procedures either through the courts or executive orders , but not through the state legislatures , as mandated .
However , the Supreme Court dismissed the case , explaining that Texas does not have standing to challenge election rules of other states .
In addition to this , clouds may potentially gather on Joe Biden ’ s horizon if the ongoing FBI-IRS probe into Hunter Biden finds @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his son ’ s overseas dealings , according to Ortel .
At present , GOP politicians are calling for appointing a special counsel to probe the President-elect ’ s son to ensure that the investigation will continue and will be conducted impartially .

The controversy surrounding the 2020 US presidential election will not go anywhere even after the US Congress holds the joint session and has its final say on the voting, notes Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel and former Reagan administration official Dr Paul Craig Roberts.
On 6 January 2021, the US Congress is due to validate the 2020 election and declare the winner of the presidential race. Any objections with regard to election certificates will be conserved by the legislative body if at least one member each of the Senate and House of Representatives raises his or her voice.
Representative Mo Brooks (R-Ala) told Fox & Friends on 28 December that “dozens” of House GOP members will challenge the Electoral College results over uncertainty stemming from the suspected election fraud during the November vote. It is unclear whether Republican senators will support the initiative of their party fellows in the House. Previously, Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala) and Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) mooted the idea that they might join Brooks. Nevertheless, neither of them has made a public announcement so far to confirm the actions, according to The Epoch Times. Moreover, although the new Senate will comprise 48 Democrats and 51 Republicans – since Georgia run-offs won’t yet be certified – probably giving the GOP an advantage in the upper chamber, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has already made it clear that he won’t pick this fight.
“The Electoral College has spoken.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulates President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, saying, “our nation needs us to add another bipartisan chapter to this record of achievement.” https://t.co/67VETbbnoE pic.twitter.com/lNhIgdESoc — ABC News (@ABC) December 15, 2020
‘It Appears That Both Political Parties Want Trump Out’
“Objections may be raised concerning purported slates of electors and that the Vice-President would then make a final, binding determination as to which electors are the valid ones casting votes on behalf of voters in the 50 states and in Washington, DC”, says Charles Ortel, a Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist. “Then, when the electoral votes are counted the question will be whether Trump or Biden attracts at least 270 votes. If neither candidate reaches 270 votes, then the House delegations, voting by state and Washington, DC will cast a total of 51 votes and a winner would need 26 votes”.
#DELETED: Big Tech&rsq... Bokhari, Allum Buy New $28.00 (as of 04:48 UTC - Details) A number of Republicans have called upon Vice-President Mike Pence to interfere in the validation process. Pence ought to “open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted”, as the amended Electoral Count Act stipulates. According to Forbes, he will have to open all “papers purporting to be certificates,” which includes “alternate electors” who voted for Trump in a number of swing states. Alternative electors were picked in the swing states where, according to the Trump campaign, election fraud took place. However, Pence’s power to throw out electors is disputed, the magazine pointed out.
To remove this obstacle the Republican Representative for Texas, Louie Gohmert, has filed a lawsuit against Pence, urging a federal judge to annul the 1887 Electoral Count Act and grant the vice-president the authority to overturn the election results which are 306-223 in Joe Biden’s favour. However, The Epoch Times reported on 30 December that the vice-president had not backed the idea, citing lawyers familiar with the issue.
“I think the establishment wants Trump out and that the two political parties have closed rank against Trump,” notes Dr Paul Craig Roberts, an American economist and former assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy under President Ronald Reagan.
Although President Trump is calling upon the GOP to stand up and fight for him, many Republican lawmakers appear to be guided by their own political and financial interests, according to Ortel. It was previously reported that Senate Majority Leader McConnell persuaded his caucus not to challenge the Electoral College’s decision.
“In the case of Mitch McConnell, a long-lived Senator from Kentucky, his wife is from an extraordinarily rich family whose origins are in Taiwan but now operates on the mainland and internationally,” says the Wall Street analyst. “It is certainly possible that establishment Republicans also are upset with President Trump’s determination, correct in my view, to decouple from China, so long as it remains controlled by their Communist Party”.
Legal Battles Likely to Continue After 6 January Session
Although it appears that – regardless of growing political dissent – the US Congress will seal Joe Biden’s victory on 6 January, the controversy surrounding the 2020 election is unlikely to fade any time soon, the Wall Street analyst notes.
On 22 December, Trump legal adviser Jenna Ellis announced that her team would continue investigating the handling of the 2020 elections after the 6 January Congressional session.
The Permanent Coup: Ho... Smith, Lee Best Price: $19.95 Buy New $20.85 (as of 03:52 UTC - Details) ”Unless allegations of voter fraud and corruption are compellingly disproved, Trump supporters and Bernie Sanders supporters are highly unlikely to follow dictates of a Biden-Harris administration,” the investigative journalist reckons.
“I believe that for the evidence to be avoided as it has been and not examined will poison the people, who voted for Trump and believe the election was stolen from Trump, against Biden,” echoes Dr Roberts.
Trump’s lawyers might take a rework of the Texas lawsuit to the Supreme Court, the former Reagan official suggests. The lawsuit was filed against four battleground states, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, over alleged election irregularities. It argued that the four states made last-minute changes to voting rules and procedures either through the courts or executive orders, but not through the state legislatures, as mandated. However, the Supreme Court dismissed the case, explaining that Texas does not have standing to challenge election rules of other states.
In addition to this, clouds may potentially gather on Joe Biden’s horizon if the ongoing FBI-IRS probe into Hunter Biden finds that the former vice-president had known about his son’s overseas dealings, according to Ortel. At present, GOP politicians are calling for appointing a special counsel to probe the President-elect’s son to ensure that the investigation will continue and will be conducted impartially.
“America has reached a point predicted some 238 years ago by Thomas Jefferson where our rights “shall [either] revive or expire in a convulsion”, the Wall Street analyst concludes.
Reprinted from Sputnik News.


lewrockwell--2020-12-31--Arbitrariness and Censorship Are Back in the West

Upon the invention of printing , many authors challenged the preconceptions of their time .
It took four centuries of struggle for the West to finally guarantee freedom of expression .
However , with the invention of the Internet , authorship was democratized and freedom of expression was immediately challenged .
It may take several centuries to absorb this shock and restore freedom of expression .
In the meantime , censorship is back .
When we founded the Voltaire Network in 1994 , our first concern was to defend freedom of expression in France , and then around the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is , in our view , distorted and fought against .
We will therefore try to define this ideal further .
The circulation of ideas experienced a considerable boom with the invention of modern typography at the end of the 15th century .
It was no longer possible to blindly believe authorities ; everyone could make up their own mind .
Before Our Very Eyes , ... Meyssan , Thierry Best Price : $ 29.44 Buy New $ 24.97 It was agreed that although debate was indispensable to the evolution of human thought @ @ @ @ @ @ @ society and should therefore be censored .
The authorities had to determine what was useful and what was harmful .
But the creation of the famous Index librorum prohibitorum ( Index of Forbidden Books ) by Pope Paul IV did not prevent the spread of anti-Papist ideas .
Our view , on the contrary , is that in most cases censorship is more harmful than the ideas it prohibits .
All societies that practice censorship end up being frozen .
That is why all censorship authorities were once overthrown .
At that point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 11 of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ( 1789 ) stipulates that the law must determine and repress abuses of freedom of expression , while the First Amendment to the US Constitution ( 1791 ) states that no law may limit this freedom .
The United States was a nation in formation , newly emancipated from the British monarchy .
It was not yet aware of the difficulties of living in society , but it had already suffered from the abuses of the Power of London @ @ @ @ @ @ @ freedom without limits .
It took nearly a century for the French legislature to determine the limits of freedom of expression : provocation to commit crimes or misdemeanors , insult and defamation .
Compared to the censorship regime , control is no longer exercised before publication , but after .
Latin countries call defamation the act of reporting derogatory elements without being able to produce proof , it being understood that certain facts can not be proven ( for example amnestied facts , prescribed crimes or simply elements of private life ) and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contrary , the Anglo-Saxon countries only call defamation imputations that can be proven false .
In practice , Latin laws require the author to prove what he or she claims , while Anglo-Saxon laws on the contrary state that it is up to the defamed person to prove that the author is telling nonsense .
9/11 : The Big Lie Thierry Meyssan Best Price : $ 3.97 Buy New $ 76.90 In either case , the courts can only protect freedom of expression if they are composed of popular juries ( as in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( as in France ) likely to defend their social class .
This was the great struggle of Georges Clémenceau , which was brought to an end during the Second World War , when governments regained control of proceedings .
The freedom of expression that the West had taken four centuries to develop was totally called into question with the appearance of new computerized techniques of diffusion that broadened the number of authors .
As in the sixteenth century , after a short period of flourishing freedom , it is on the way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ past , the French and Americans spoke of both freedom of expression and freedom of the press ( i.e .
the possibility of exercising freedom of expression in newspapers ) .
Today , however , freedom of the press is often invoked to deny freedom of expression to mere mortals accused of being “ conspiracy seekers ” , that is to say , uncultured , irresponsible and dangerous to society .
Usually the advocates of prior censorship do not invoke their desire to control the political opinions of the masses , but place @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protecting society from heresy ) or morality ( preventing the corruption of youth through pornography ) .
The appearance of “ social networks ” offers a new context for bringing out old arguments .
As established religions are in gradual retreat in the contemporary West , they are being replaced by a new one without God , but with its dogmas ( consensus ) and clerics ( formerly journalists , today the owners of Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , etc. )
.
For example , a referendum should be called @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the following sentence : “ The Republic guarantees ( 1 ) the preservation of biodiversity , ( 2 ) the environment and ( 3 ) the fight against climate change ” .
Three meaningless proposals since biodiversity is not a stage , but a process ; that the environment has never been preserved , but always modified ; and that the climate is not subject to any regulation .
There is already talk of censoring this remark , which disturbs the consensus , first on social networks and then in society in general @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the pornography inflicted on children and would spontaneously wish to protect them from it .
True , but in the past little peasants used to watch farm animals —not always very tender and moral— , today small schoolchildren are convinced that animals only mate to perpetuate their species and watch films —not always very tender and moral— on their smartphone .
Historically , most authoritarian regimes started by censoring pornography before attacking political ideas .
It is therefore much less risky for everyone to implement parental control procedures rather than opening the way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Pentagate Thierry Meyssan Best Price : $ 8.99 Buy New $ 29.99 Last remarks : a big step backwards was taken in 1990 with the European laws repressing “ Holocaust denial ” , then in the 2000s with the privileges granted to social networks , and finally in the 2010s with the rating agencies .
One would have understood that laws repress forms of rehabilitation of the Nazi racialist regime , but not that they set themselves up as guardians of the Truth .
Above all , and this is the most important @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for offenders .
It is therefore possible today in Europe to find oneself in prison for one ’ s ideas .
Internet forums ( including Twitter , Facebook , Instagram or YouTube ) have obtained a staggering privilege in the United States in order to conquer the world .
They are considered both as carriers of information ( like the Post Office ) and as regulators of the information they convey ; as if the Post Office had the right to read what they convey and to censor what they don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ neutral carriers , these forums protect the anonymity of their customers .
As a result , they all carry among their messages some that provoke the commission of crimes and offenses , insulting and defamatory , and they cover up for their perpetrators .
Whereas in the print media , the printer who refuses to reveal the name of his client is considered responsible for the comments he has printed , these “ information carriers ” have set themselves up as “ regulators ” .
They always refuse to reveal the names of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the accounts that they judge contrary to their ideas .
In doing so , they set themselves up as judges , without laws , debates or appeals .
On May 28 , 2020 , President Donald Trump took away this privilege , paving the way for regulation by the judiciary , but it is unlikely that the US Congress will transform this Executive Branch decision into law .
All the more so since the owners of these forums have already set up rating agencies with NATO for websites that are beyond their control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , it is a question of burying bad thinkers in the depths of search engines until they disappear .
Arbitrariness and censorship are back .
The Best of Thierry Meyssan

Upon the invention of printing, many authors challenged the preconceptions of their time. It took four centuries of struggle for the West to finally guarantee freedom of expression. However, with the invention of the Internet, authorship was democratized and freedom of expression was immediately challenged. It may take several centuries to absorb this shock and restore freedom of expression. In the meantime, censorship is back.
When we founded the Voltaire Network in 1994, our first concern was to defend freedom of expression in France, and then around the world.
Today, however, this concept is, in our view, distorted and fought against. We will therefore try to define this ideal further.
The circulation of ideas experienced a considerable boom with the invention of modern typography at the end of the 15th century. It was no longer possible to blindly believe authorities; everyone could make up their own mind. Before Our Very Eyes,... Meyssan, Thierry Best Price: $29.44 Buy New $24.97 (as of 05:40 UTC - Details)
It was agreed that although debate was indispensable to the evolution of human thought, certain ideas would be harmful to society and should therefore be censored. The authorities had to determine what was useful and what was harmful. But the creation of the famous Index librorum prohibitorum (Index of Forbidden Books) by Pope Paul IV did not prevent the spread of anti-Papist ideas.
Our view, on the contrary, is that in most cases censorship is more harmful than the ideas it prohibits. All societies that practice censorship end up being frozen. That is why all censorship authorities were once overthrown.
At that point, two great schools clash. Article 11 of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789) stipulates that the law must determine and repress abuses of freedom of expression, while the First Amendment to the US Constitution (1791) states that no law may limit this freedom.
The United States was a nation in formation, newly emancipated from the British monarchy. It was not yet aware of the difficulties of living in society, but it had already suffered from the abuses of the Power of London. They therefore had a conception of freedom without limits.
It took nearly a century for the French legislature to determine the limits of freedom of expression: provocation to commit crimes or misdemeanors, insult and defamation. Compared to the censorship regime, control is no longer exercised before publication, but after.
Latin countries call defamation the act of reporting derogatory elements without being able to produce proof, it being understood that certain facts cannot be proven (for example amnestied facts, prescribed crimes or simply elements of private life) and therefore are not publishable. On the contrary, the Anglo-Saxon countries only call defamation imputations that can be proven false. In practice, Latin laws require the author to prove what he or she claims, while Anglo-Saxon laws on the contrary state that it is up to the defamed person to prove that the author is telling nonsense. 9/11: The Big Lie Thierry Meyssan Best Price: $3.97 Buy New $76.90 (as of 11:40 UTC - Details)
In either case, the courts can only protect freedom of expression if they are composed of popular juries (as in Belgium) and not of professional magistrates (as in France) likely to defend their social class. This was the great struggle of Georges Clémenceau, which was brought to an end during the Second World War, when governments regained control of proceedings.
The freedom of expression that the West had taken four centuries to develop was totally called into question with the appearance of new computerized techniques of diffusion that broadened the number of authors. As in the sixteenth century, after a short period of flourishing freedom, it is on the way to being completely controlled.
In the past, the French and Americans spoke of both freedom of expression and freedom of the press (i.e. the possibility of exercising freedom of expression in newspapers). Today, however, freedom of the press is often invoked to deny freedom of expression to mere mortals accused of being “conspiracy seekers”, that is to say, uncultured, irresponsible and dangerous to society.
Usually the advocates of prior censorship do not invoke their desire to control the political opinions of the masses, but place themselves in the realm of religion (protecting society from heresy) or morality (preventing the corruption of youth through pornography). The appearance of “social networks” offers a new context for bringing out old arguments.
As established religions are in gradual retreat in the contemporary West, they are being replaced by a new one without God, but with its dogmas (consensus) and clerics (formerly journalists, today the owners of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.). For example, a referendum should be called in France to enshrine in the Constitution the following sentence: “The Republic guarantees (1) the preservation of biodiversity, (2) the environment and (3) the fight against climate change”. Three meaningless proposals since biodiversity is not a stage, but a process; that the environment has never been preserved, but always modified; and that the climate is not subject to any regulation. There is already talk of censoring this remark, which disturbs the consensus, first on social networks and then in society in general.
Each of us is shocked by the pornography inflicted on children and would spontaneously wish to protect them from it. True, but in the past little peasants used to watch farm animals —not always very tender and moral—, today small schoolchildren are convinced that animals only mate to perpetuate their species and watch films —not always very tender and moral— on their smartphone. Historically, most authoritarian regimes started by censoring pornography before attacking political ideas. It is therefore much less risky for everyone to implement parental control procedures rather than opening the way for the loss of our freedoms. Pentagate Thierry Meyssan Best Price: $8.99 Buy New $29.99 (as of 11:40 UTC - Details)
Last remarks: a big step backwards was taken in 1990 with the European laws repressing “Holocaust denial”, then in the 2000s with the privileges granted to social networks, and finally in the 2010s with the rating agencies.
One would have understood that laws repress forms of rehabilitation of the Nazi racialist regime, but not that they set themselves up as guardians of the Truth. Above all, and this is the most important point, they have reinstated prison sentences for offenders. It is therefore possible today in Europe to find oneself in prison for one’s ideas.
Internet forums (including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or YouTube) have obtained a staggering privilege in the United States in order to conquer the world. They are considered both as carriers of information (like the Post Office) and as regulators of the information they convey; as if the Post Office had the right to read what they convey and to censor what they don’t like. Ensuring that they are only neutral carriers, these forums protect the anonymity of their customers. As a result, they all carry among their messages some that provoke the commission of crimes and offenses, insulting and defamatory, and they cover up for their perpetrators. Whereas in the print media, the printer who refuses to reveal the name of his client is considered responsible for the comments he has printed, these “information carriers” have set themselves up as “regulators”. They always refuse to reveal the names of the guilty parties, but sovereignly destroy the accounts that they judge contrary to their ideas. In doing so, they set themselves up as judges, without laws, debates or appeals.
On May 28, 2020, President Donald Trump took away this privilege, paving the way for regulation by the judiciary, but it is unlikely that the US Congress will transform this Executive Branch decision into law. All the more so since the owners of these forums have already set up rating agencies with NATO for websites that are beyond their control (including NewsGuard). For them, it is a question of burying bad thinkers in the depths of search engines until they disappear. Arbitrariness and censorship are back.
The Best of Thierry Meyssan


lewrockwell--2020-12-31--Where Did Covid Come From?

Where Did Covid Come From?

The focus of the worldwide public ’ s attention on masks , lockdowns , infection rates , and vaccines serves to prevent any investigation of Covid ’ s origin .
Did a disease of bats or some other creature mutate so that humans became susceptible ?
If so , why was research on how to make pathogens more infectious going on at the University of North Carolina and allegedly at a US military lab and then transferred to Wuhan where it was financed by Fauci at N.I.H.
?
Is the justification for this research—to prepare for a pandemic—a cover for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ why was Washington working with China on a bioweapon ?
The Tyranny of Good In ... Paul Craig Roberts , La ... Best Price : $ 6.96 Buy New $ 8.95 Did Covid escape from the Wuhan lab , or did Americans take it to Wuhan during the military games there ?
Why were Western countries so slow to stop travel from infected countries ?
Is the rapid worldwide spread of Covid an indication that it was intentionally released everywhere almost simultaneously ?
Are new strains new releases ?
Flu vaccines are specific @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Covid vaccine protect against mutating strains ?
Does vaccination mean a never ending series of vaccinations for each new mutation ?
Licensed to Lie Powell , Sidney Best Price : $ 17.87 Buy New $ 23.93 Is public health the focus of mask mandates , lockdowns , and vaccinations , or are other agendas being served ?
I am sure that there are more questions .
But none are being officially addressed , and the presstitutes have zero interest .
This suggests that the origin of Covid is being kept a secret and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is being served .
Sounds like we are being prepared for more control over our behavior , travel , and livelihood .
A country in which people are easily regimented is not a place to be living .
See this .
As there is money to be made in a “ Covid Passport , ” private business will lobby it through and help build the Total Police State ( TPS ) .
Between the private sector ’ s greed for money and the public sector ’ s greed for power , we can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Registry ” of those who refuse Covid vaccination .
And now the World Health Orgnization ’ s chief scientist tells us that there is “ no evidence Covid vaccine prevents viral transmission.
” The Best of Paul Craig Roberts

The focus of the worldwide public’s attention on masks, lockdowns, infection rates, and vaccines serves to prevent any investigation of Covid’s origin.
Did a disease of bats or some other creature mutate so that humans became susceptible?
If so, why was research on how to make pathogens more infectious going on at the University of North Carolina and allegedly at a US military lab and then transferred to Wuhan where it was financed by Fauci at N.I.H.?
Is the justification for this research—to prepare for a pandemic—a cover for covert bioweapons development? If so, why was Washington working with China on a bioweapon? The Tyranny of Good In... Paul Craig Roberts, La... Best Price: $6.96 Buy New $8.95 (as of 07:10 UTC - Details)
Did Covid escape from the Wuhan lab, or did Americans take it to Wuhan during the military games there?
Why were Western countries so slow to stop travel from infected countries?
Is the rapid worldwide spread of Covid an indication that it was intentionally released everywhere almost simultaneously? Are new strains new releases?
Flu vaccines are specific to a flu. How can a Covid vaccine protect against mutating strains? Does vaccination mean a never ending series of vaccinations for each new mutation? Licensed to Lie Powell, Sidney Best Price: $17.87 Buy New $23.93 (as of 05:55 UTC - Details)
Is public health the focus of mask mandates, lockdowns, and vaccinations, or are other agendas being served?
I am sure that there are more questions.
But none are being officially addressed, and the presstitutes have zero interest. This suggests that the origin of Covid is being kept a secret and that a wider agenda than public health is being served.
Sounds like we are being prepared for more control over our behavior, travel, and livelihood. A country in which people are easily regimented is not a place to be living. See this.
As there is money to be made in a “Covid Passport,” private business will lobby it through and help build the Total Police State (TPS). Between the private sector’s greed for money and the public sector’s greed for power, we can kiss freedom good-bye.
Spain prepares a “Registry” of those who refuse Covid vaccination.
And now the World Health Orgnization’s chief scientist tells us that there is “no evidence Covid vaccine prevents viral transmission.”
The Best of Paul Craig Roberts


lewrockwell--2020-12-31--Why Lockdowns Don’t Work and Hurt the Most Vulnerable

In a December 9 , 2020 , Twitter thread,1 Michael P. Senger , an attorney and author of the September 2020 article,2 “ China ’ s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign , ” reviewed the largely hidden impacts of global lockdowns .
Ivor Cummins ’ video above also reviews data showing just how “ hugely ineffective ” lockdowns have been .
As one would expect , shutting down businesses for extended periods of time leads to businesses going under for impaired cash flow from lack of revenue .
Back in August 2020 , Bloomberg reported3 that more than half of all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t survive .
They were right .
According to a September 2020 economic impact report4 by Yelp , 163,735 U.S. businesses had closed their doors as of August 31 , 2020 , and of those , 60 % — a total of 97,966 businesses — were permanent closures.5 As noted by Senger:6 How does shutting small businesses but allowing big box stores to stay open protect public health ?
There ’ s really no rhyme or reason for such a decision , other than to shift wealth away from small , private @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nutrition Elder ... Buy New $ 19.89 While working-class Americans have been forced to file for unemployment by the tens of millions , the top five richest people in the U.S. increased their wealth by 26 % between March 18 and June 17 , 2020.7 Since the beginning of the pandemic , the collective wealth of 651 billionaires in the U.S. rose by more than 36 % ( $ 1 trillion ) .8 The assets of these 651 billionaires is now nearly double that of the combined wealth of the least wealthy 165 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Clemente , executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness , “ Never before has America seen such an accumulation of wealth in so few hands.
” 9 Far from being the great equalizer , COVID-19 is the greatest wealth transfer scheme in the history of the world .
Indeed , you may as well call it what it is : grand-scale asset theft from the poor and middle class .
A December 14 , 2020 , article10 in The Defender reviews who has benefited from pandemic measures the most , from the finance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ military-intelligence sectors .
According to an August 10 , 2020 , article11 by Forbes , pandemic measures had eliminated nearly half of all Black-owned small businesses in the U.S. by the end of April 2020 .
It cites data from a New York Fed report,12 which found that “ Black-owned businesses were more than twice as likely to shutter as their white counterparts.
” While nationally representative data on small businesses showed active business ownership dropped 22 % between February and April 2020 , the number of businesses owned by Blacks dropped by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ businesses was 32 % ; Asian-owned 26 % ; and White-owned 17 % .
According to Forbes:13 Mere weeks into the pandemic , Americans were lining up at food banks .
An April 12 , 2020 , article14 in The New York Times showed miles-long lines in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , Miami , Florida and elsewhere : The situation is much the same in other countries .
An April 10 , 2020 , report15 by the Financial Times cited survey results showing an estimated 3 million Britons had gone without food at some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ An estimated 1 million people had by then already lost all sources of income .
Immune Support Probiot ... Buy New $ 19.99 ( $ 0.33 / Count ) Anna Taylor , executive director for the Food Foundation in the U.K. , told the Financial Times there ’ s a “ food poverty problem that has not been dealt with ” that is now becoming glaringly apparent — and that was mere weeks into the pandemic .
We ’ re now nine months down the line , and governments around the world are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ holidays .
That forcing people into poverty will have a detrimental effect on their mental health is also not surprising .
A Canadian survey16 in early October 2020 found 22 % of Canadians experienced high anxiety levels — four times higher than the prepandemic rate — and 13 % reported severe depression .
In the U.S. , an August 2020 survey17,18 by the American Psychological Association found Gen-Z ’ ers are among the hardest hit in this regard , with young adults aged 18 to 23 reporting the highest levels of stress and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 10 in this age group reported symptoms of depression in the two weeks before the survey .
Among teens aged 13 to 17 , 51 % said the pandemic makes it impossible to plan for the future .
Sixty-seven percent of college-aged respondents echoed this concern .
With despair comes drug-related problems , and according to the American Medical Association , the drug overdose epidemic has significantly worsened and become more complicated this year .
“ More than 40 states have reported increases in opioid-related mortality as well as ongoing concerns for those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disorder , ” the AMA reported in an Issue Brief19 updated December 9 , 2020 .
A list of national news included in the AMA ’ s brief20 include reports of increases in overdose-related cardiac arrests , surges in street fentanyl leading to deaths in the thousands and a “ dramatic increase ” in illicit opioid fatalities .
Spikes and record numbers of overdose deaths have been reported in Alabama , Arizona , Arkansas , California , Colorado , Delaware , District of Columbia , Illinois , Florida and many other states .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ than good can also be seen in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data21,22 showing that , compared to previous years , excess deaths among 25- to 44-year-olds has increased by a remarkable 26.5 % , even though this age group accounts for fewer than 3 % of COVID-19-related deaths .
To put it bluntly , in our misguided efforts to prevent the elderly and immune compromised from dying from COVID-19 , we ’ re sacrificing people who are in the prime of their lives .
As noted by Senger:23 Best Liver Supplements @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is also reflected in statistics showing dramatic increases in domestic abuse , rape , child sex abuse and suicides .
By July 2020 , Ireland reported a 98 % increase in people seeking counseling for rape and child sex abuse.24 Data from the British group Women ’ s Aid showed 61 % of domestic abuse victims reported abuse had worsened during the lockdown.25 The number of women killed by their domestic partners also doubled during the first three weeks of lockdowns in the U.K.26 In the U.S. , data27 from a Massachusetts hospital @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emergency care after being battered by their domestic partner in the nine weeks between March 11 and May 3 , 2020 , when the state had ordered schools closed .
During this time , 26 patients were treated for domestic abuse injuries that included strangulation , stabbing , burns and gunshot wounds .
That ’ s just one shy of the number of cases seen in the same time period during 2018 and 2019 combined .
In other words , domestic abuse cases were nearly double the annual norm for that hospital .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ secretary-general Antonio Guterres warned28 of a “ horrifying ” surge in global domestic abuse linked to pandemic lockdowns as calls to helplines in some countries had by then already doubled.29 The number of people looking into divorce in the U.S. was also 34 % higher in March through June 2020 compared to the same time frame in 2019.30 Child abuse , meanwhile , is less likely to be detected and reported thanks to virtual schooling .
As noted by Human Rights Watch:31 There are signs of rising child abuse though , including a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % rise in the incidence of abusive head trauma among children during the first month of the lockdown , compared to the same time period in the previous three years .
Sambucus Elderberry Ca ... Buy New $ 15.97 ( $ 0.27 / Count ) Children are also in danger of falling behind socially and developmentally , even if they ’ re not exposed to direct abuse .
In November 2020 , The Guardian reported that many children are regressing mentally and physically as a result of the lockdowns.33 The Washington Post reported34 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. and early literacy among kindergarteners has seen a sharp decline this year .
According to The Economist,35 American children over the age of 10 cut physical activity by half during the lockdown , spending most of their time playing video games and eating junk food .
Indeed , closing parks and beaches right along with small businesses and schools was undoubtedly among the most ignorant and destructive pandemic measures of all .
Preventing healthy people from working and upending everyone ’ s lives has also ( as expected ) resulted in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spikes became apparent within weeks of the initial lockdowns .
As noted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in “ How the Government Uses Fear to Control , ” research from the 1980s found that for every 1-point rise in unemployment there were 37,000 excess deaths , 4,000 excess imprisonments and 3,300 excess admissions into mental institutions .
Kennedy also cites recent data from a hospital in San Francisco that stated they saw one year ’ s-worth of suicides in a single month , a 1,200 % increase .
In September 2020 , Cook @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Texas , admitted a record number of 37 pediatric patients who had tried to commit suicide .
Dr. Kia Carter , medical director of Psychiatry at Cook Children ’ s told CBS:36 In Japan — which didn ’ t even implement lockdowns — government statistics reveal more people died from suicide in the month of October than have died from COVID-19 all year.37 While only 2,087 Japanese had died from COVID-19 as of November 27 , 2020 , the suicide toll in October alone was 2,153 .
Women make up the lion @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hotlines are also reporting that women are confessing thoughts of killing their children out of sheer desperation .
Pureboost Immune Clean ... Buy New $ 34.99 ( $ 1.17 / Count ) As horrible as all of these statistics are , they don ’ t even begin to compare to the tragedies taking place in developing nations .
In India , millions of migrant workers were stranded early on in the pandemic without a way to make a living and unable to leave the cities due to lockdown orders.38 Food lines stretched for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of April 202039 and in Saudi Arabia , “ hundreds if not thousands ” of African migrants — mostly Ethiopian men — have been left to die from lack of food and water in COVID-19 detention centers after a moratorium on deportation was issued in April , according to an August 30 , 2020 , report by The Telegraph.40 The United Nations estimates pandemic responses have “ pushed an additional 150 million children into multidimensional poverty — deprived of education , health , housing , nutrition , sanitation or water , ” 41 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ warned the world was facing “ famine of biblical proportions , with only a limited amount of time to act before starvation claims hundreds of millions of lives.
” 42 Indeed , an ever-growing number of doctors , academics and scientists are now questioning the validity of using PCR tests to diagnose “ cases , ” the usefulness of face masks , the questionable classification of COVID-19 deaths , and the suppression of scientifically verified methods of prevention and treatment , as well as the safety and usefulness of COVID-19 vaccines .
There @ @ @ @ @ @ @ areas , yet questions and logical thinking have been , and continue to be , met with harsh resistance and denial .
Those leading the charge in terms of pandemic responses have not been shy about their censoring of counter-narratives , almost without exception .
When it comes to the disease itself , we now know certain comorbidities significantly raise your risk of complications and deaths .
Among the top ones are obesity , insulin resistance and vitamin D deficiency .
While these conditions are exceptionally common overall , they ’ re particularly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and when combined with inadequate access to health care , these groups also end up being disproportionally affected by COVID-19.44 While the media and political and economic institutions claim the pandemic narrative is based on scientific consensus , this clearly isn ’ t the case .
There ’ s no evidence supporting universal mask use , for example , and there ’ s even less scientific support for lockdowns — a strategy based on a high school project that won third place.45 James Corbett of the Corbett Report discusses this shocking revelation in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many small businesses are failing thanks to months-long shutdowns and employment opportunities look bleak , world leaders are suddenly joining the World Economic Forum in calling for a Great Reset of the economy.46 This is hardly a random coincidence .
This plan , which has been in the works for decades , will further empower and enrich wealthy , unelected powerbrokers while enslaving and impoverishing everyone else .
The fact that the pandemic has been used to shift wealth from the poor and middle class to the ultra-wealthy is clear for anyone to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by IPS News:47 At this point , it should be obvious for anyone paying attention that the pandemic is being prolonged and exaggerated for a reason , and it ’ s not because there ’ s concern for life .
Quite the contrary .
It ’ s a ploy to quite literally enslave the global population within a digital surveillance system49 — a system so unnatural and inhumane that no rational population would ever voluntarily go down that road .
It should also be clear that most if not all pandemic restrictions to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In other words , these past nine months have been a preview of the world the technocratic elite wants to implement as part of the new social and economic order .
If this is the first time you ’ re hearing any of this , be sure to review “ Who Pressed the Great Reset Button ?
” “ The Pressing Dangers of Technocracy , ” “ The Global Takeover Is Underway ” and “ Coronavirus Fraud Scandal — The Biggest Fight Has Just Begun.
” Natureu2019s Way Sambu ... Buy New $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that now ’ s the time to fight back : to resist any and all unconstitutional edicts .
Once the “ new world order ” is in place , you will no longer be able to do a thing about it .
Your life — your health , educational and work opportunities , your finances and your very identity — will be so meshed with the automated technological infrastructure that any attempt to break free will result in you being locked out or erased from the system , leaving you with no ability @ @ @ @ @ @ @ engage in commerce .
It sounds far-fetched , I know , but when you follow the technocratic plan to its inevitable end , that ’ s basically what you end up with .
The warning signs are all around us , if we ’ re willing to see them for what they actually are .
The only question now is whether enough people are willing to resist it to make a difference .
Most important of all is the need to release the fear .
It ’ s a fearful public that allows @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and rip away our personal freedoms .
It ’ s fear that allows tyranny to flourish .
Really look at the data , so you can see for yourself that panic is unwarranted , and that the so-called “ solutions ” to the pandemic are in fact a path of total destruction .
This destruction — both moral and economic — is necessary for the Great Reset to occur .
The technocratic elite need everything and everyone to fall apart in order to justify the implementation of their new system .
Without this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what they have planned .
For practical strategies on how you can respond in light of all the tyrannical interventions that have been imposed on us , check out James Corbett ’ s interview with Howard Lichtman below .
I also recommend reading “ Constitutional Sheriffs Are the Difference Between Freedom and Tyranny.
” Last but not least , now is also the time to take control of your own health .
Make it a point to really take care of yourself .
Remember , insulin resistance , obesity and vitamin D deficiency @ @ @ @ @ @ @ raise your risk complications and death from COVID-19 .
These are also underlying factors in a host of other chronic diseases , including mental health problems , so by addressing them , you ’ ll improve your chances of getting through this challenging time with your health and sanity intact .
You can find tons of information about how to reverse all of these issues by searching my article archives .
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In a December 9, 2020, Twitter thread,1 Michael P. Senger, an attorney and author of the September 2020 article,2 “China’s Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign,” reviewed the largely hidden impacts of global lockdowns. Ivor Cummins’ video above also reviews data showing just how “hugely ineffective” lockdowns have been.
As one would expect, shutting down businesses for extended periods of time leads to businesses going under for impaired cash flow from lack of revenue. Back in August 2020, Bloomberg reported3 that more than half of all small business owners feared their businesses wouldn’t survive. They were right.
According to a September 2020 economic impact report4 by Yelp, 163,735 U.S. businesses had closed their doors as of August 31, 2020, and of those, 60% — a total of 97,966 businesses — were permanent closures.5 As noted by Senger:6
“That ’leaders’ across the world transformed into tyrants, believing they had a right to bankrupt their subjects, is the core evil of lockdown.”
The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History
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While working-class Americans have been forced to file for unemployment by the tens of millions, the top five richest people in the U.S. increased their wealth by 26% between March 18 and June 17, 2020.7 Since the beginning of the pandemic, the collective wealth of 651 billionaires in the U.S. rose by more than 36% ($1 trillion).8 The assets of these 651 billionaires is now nearly double that of the combined wealth of the least wealthy 165 million Americans.
As noted by Frank Clemente, executive director of Americans for Tax Fairness, “Never before has America seen such an accumulation of wealth in so few hands.”9
Far from being the great equalizer, COVID-19 is the greatest wealth transfer scheme in the history of the world. Indeed, you may as well call it what it is: grand-scale asset theft from the poor and middle class. A December 14, 2020, article10 in The Defender reviews who has benefited from pandemic measures the most, from the finance and tech industries to the pharmaceutical and military-intelligence sectors.
Minority-Owned Businesses Have Taken Biggest Hit
According to an August 10, 2020, article11 by Forbes, pandemic measures had eliminated nearly half of all Black-owned small businesses in the U.S. by the end of April 2020. It cites data from a New York Fed report,12 which found that “Black-owned businesses were more than twice as likely to shutter as their white counterparts.”
While nationally representative data on small businesses showed active business ownership dropped 22% between February and April 2020, the number of businesses owned by Blacks dropped by 41%. The decline in Latin-owned businesses was 32%; Asian-owned 26%; and White-owned 17%. According to Forbes:13
“At the same time, Black-owned firms, already smarting from a Great Recession that hurt them badly, already entered the crisis with ‘weaker cash positions, weaker bank relationships, and preexisting funding gaps.’ ‘Even the healthiest Black firms were financially disadvantaged at the onset of COVID-19,’ said the report.”
Food Insecurity at Staggering Levels
Mere weeks into the pandemic, Americans were lining up at food banks. An April 12, 2020, article14 in The New York Times showed miles-long lines in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Miami, Florida and elsewhere:
“In many cities, lines outside food pantries have become glaring symbols of financial precarity, showing how quickly the pandemic has devastated working people’s finances.
In San Antonio, 10,000 families began arriving before dawn on Thursday at a now-shuttered swap meet hall to receive boxes of food. Normally, 200 to 400 families might show up during a normal food distribution.
‘It’s a wave of need,’ said Eric Cooper, president of the San Antonio Food Bank. ‘They were all let go. There’s no savings. There’s no slack in their household budget. The money’s run out. It just shows how desperate people are.’”
The situation is much the same in other countries. An April 10, 2020, report15 by the Financial Times cited survey results showing an estimated 3 million Britons had gone without food at some point in the previous three weeks. An estimated 1 million people had by then already lost all sources of income. Vitamin Bounty Pro-Dai... Buy New $19.99 ($0.33 / Count) (as of 10:47 UTC - Details)
Anna Taylor, executive director for the Food Foundation in the U.K., told the Financial Times there’s a “food poverty problem that has not been dealt with” that is now becoming glaringly apparent — and that was mere weeks into the pandemic. We’re now nine months down the line, and governments around the world are again calling for lockdowns over the winter holidays.
Mental Health Slides as Despair Grows
That forcing people into poverty will have a detrimental effect on their mental health is also not surprising. A Canadian survey16 in early October 2020 found 22% of Canadians experienced high anxiety levels — four times higher than the prepandemic rate — and 13% reported severe depression.
In the U.S., an August 2020 survey17,18 by the American Psychological Association found Gen-Z’ers are among the hardest hit in this regard, with young adults aged 18 to 23 reporting the highest levels of stress and depression.
More than 7 out of 10 in this age group reported symptoms of depression in the two weeks before the survey. Among teens aged 13 to 17, 51% said the pandemic makes it impossible to plan for the future. Sixty-seven percent of college-aged respondents echoed this concern.
With despair comes drug-related problems, and according to the American Medical Association, the drug overdose epidemic has significantly worsened and become more complicated this year. “More than 40 states have reported increases in opioid-related mortality as well as ongoing concerns for those with a mental illness or substance use disorder,” the AMA reported in an Issue Brief19 updated December 9, 2020.
A list of national news included in the AMA’s brief20 include reports of increases in overdose-related cardiac arrests, surges in street fentanyl leading to deaths in the thousands and a “dramatic increase” in illicit opioid fatalities. Spikes and record numbers of overdose deaths have been reported in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Florida and many other states.
Young Adults Dying in Greater Than Normal Numbers
That pandemic measures are doing more harm than good can also be seen in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data21,22 showing that, compared to previous years, excess deaths among 25- to 44-year-olds has increased by a remarkable 26.5%, even though this age group accounts for fewer than 3% of COVID-19-related deaths.
To put it bluntly, in our misguided efforts to prevent the elderly and immune compromised from dying from COVID-19, we’re sacrificing people who are in the prime of their lives. As noted by Senger:23
“Per CDC, despite mass PCR testing and disproportionate false positives, at least 100,947 excess deaths in 2020 were not even linked to COVID-19 AT ALL. In other words, over 100,000 Americans were murdered this year by their OWN GOVERNMENT.”
Lockdowns Dramatically Increase Domestic Abuse
Liver Cleanse Detox & ... Buy New $22.77 ($0.33 / Count) (as of 10:47 UTC - Details) Rising despair is also reflected in statistics showing dramatic increases in domestic abuse, rape, child sex abuse and suicides. By July 2020, Ireland reported a 98% increase in people seeking counseling for rape and child sex abuse.24
Data from the British group Women’s Aid showed 61% of domestic abuse victims reported abuse had worsened during the lockdown.25 The number of women killed by their domestic partners also doubled during the first three weeks of lockdowns in the U.K.26
In the U.S., data27 from a Massachusetts hospital revealed a dramatic jump in patients seeking emergency care after being battered by their domestic partner in the nine weeks between March 11 and May 3, 2020, when the state had ordered schools closed.
During this time, 26 patients were treated for domestic abuse injuries that included strangulation, stabbing, burns and gunshot wounds. That’s just one shy of the number of cases seen in the same time period during 2018 and 2019 combined. In other words, domestic abuse cases were nearly double the annual norm for that hospital.
In early April 2020, United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres warned28 of a “horrifying” surge in global domestic abuse linked to pandemic lockdowns as calls to helplines in some countries had by then already doubled.29 The number of people looking into divorce in the U.S. was also 34% higher in March through June 2020 compared to the same time frame in 2019.30
Children Brought to Suffer in Countless Ways
Child abuse, meanwhile, is less likely to be detected and reported thanks to virtual schooling. As noted by Human Rights Watch:31
“More than 1.5 billion students are out of school. Widespread job and income loss and economic insecurity among families are likely to increase rates of child labor, sexual exploitation, teenage pregnancy, and child marriage.
Stresses on families, particularly those living under quarantines and lockdowns, are increasing the incidence of domestic violence … ‘The risks posed by the COVID-19 crisis to children are enormous,’ said Jo Becker, children’s rights advocacy director at Human Rights Watch …
Child abuse is less likely to be detected during the COVID-19 crisis, as child protection agencies have reduced monitoring to avoid spreading the virus, and teachers are less able to detect signs of ill treatment with schools closed.”
There are signs of rising child abuse though, including a British study32 that found a shocking 1,493% rise in the incidence of abusive head trauma among children during the first month of the lockdown, compared to the same time period in the previous three years. Sambucus Elderberry Ca... Buy New $15.97 ($0.27 / Count) (as of 04:18 UTC - Details)
Children are also in danger of falling behind socially and developmentally, even if they’re not exposed to direct abuse. In November 2020, The Guardian reported that many children are regressing mentally and physically as a result of the lockdowns.33
All this for a virus that caused no above-average mortality in countries without lockdowns … In other words, all for absolutely nothing. ~ Michael P. Senger
The Washington Post reported34 scholastic achievement gaps have widened in the U.S. and early literacy among kindergarteners has seen a sharp decline this year.
According to The Economist,35 American children over the age of 10 cut physical activity by half during the lockdown, spending most of their time playing video games and eating junk food. Indeed, closing parks and beaches right along with small businesses and schools was undoubtedly among the most ignorant and destructive pandemic measures of all.
Suicide Epidemic
Preventing healthy people from working and upending everyone’s lives has also (as expected) resulted in a massive rise in suicide, and abnormal spikes became apparent within weeks of the initial lockdowns.
As noted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in “How the Government Uses Fear to Control,” research from the 1980s found that for every 1-point rise in unemployment there were 37,000 excess deaths, 4,000 excess imprisonments and 3,300 excess admissions into mental institutions. Kennedy also cites recent data from a hospital in San Francisco that stated they saw one year’s-worth of suicides in a single month, a 1,200% increase.
In September 2020, Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, admitted a record number of 37 pediatric patients who had tried to commit suicide. Dr. Kia Carter, medical director of Psychiatry at Cook Children’s told CBS:36
“September of 2020 has been the highest month ever that we’ve seen suicidal patients admitted to our medical center … Suicide has become the second leading cause of death for kids and adolescents in the last year, versus two years ago when it was the third leading cause of death.”
In Japan — which didn’t even implement lockdowns — government statistics reveal more people died from suicide in the month of October than have died from COVID-19 all year.37 While only 2,087 Japanese had died from COVID-19 as of November 27, 2020, the suicide toll in October alone was 2,153. Women make up the lion’s share of suicides, and hotlines are also reporting that women are confessing thoughts of killing their children out of sheer desperation.
Developing World Fares Even Worse
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Food lines stretched for miles in South Africa at the end of April 202039 and in Saudi Arabia, “hundreds if not thousands” of African migrants — mostly Ethiopian men — have been left to die from lack of food and water in COVID-19 detention centers after a moratorium on deportation was issued in April, according to an August 30, 2020, report by The Telegraph.40
The United Nations estimates pandemic responses have “pushed an additional 150 million children into multidimensional poverty — deprived of education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water,”41 and at the end of April 2020 warned the world was facing “famine of biblical proportions, with only a limited amount of time to act before starvation claims hundreds of millions of lives.”42
“All this for a virus that caused no above-average mortality in countries without lockdowns — and which WHO estimates already infected 10% of people worldwide by October. In other words, all for absolutely nothing,” Senger writes.43
Pandemics Highlight Pre-Existing Health Inequalities
Indeed, an ever-growing number of doctors, academics and scientists are now questioning the validity of using PCR tests to diagnose “cases,” the usefulness of face masks, the questionable classification of COVID-19 deaths, and the suppression of scientifically verified methods of prevention and treatment, as well as the safety and usefulness of COVID-19 vaccines.
There are clear problems in all of these areas, yet questions and logical thinking have been, and continue to be, met with harsh resistance and denial. Those leading the charge in terms of pandemic responses have not been shy about their censoring of counter-narratives, almost without exception.
When it comes to the disease itself, we now know certain comorbidities significantly raise your risk of complications and deaths. Among the top ones are obesity, insulin resistance and vitamin D deficiency.
While these conditions are exceptionally common overall, they’re particularly prevalent in Black and indigenous communities, and when combined with inadequate access to health care, these groups also end up being disproportionally affected by COVID-19.44
COVID-19 Is a Class War
While the media and political and economic institutions claim the pandemic narrative is based on scientific consensus, this clearly isn’t the case. There’s no evidence supporting universal mask use, for example, and there’s even less scientific support for lockdowns — a strategy based on a high school project that won third place.45
James Corbett of the Corbett Report discusses this shocking revelation in the video above. Now, as many small businesses are failing thanks to months-long shutdowns and employment opportunities look bleak, world leaders are suddenly joining the World Economic Forum in calling for a Great Reset of the economy.46
This is hardly a random coincidence. This plan, which has been in the works for decades, will further empower and enrich wealthy, unelected powerbrokers while enslaving and impoverishing everyone else. The fact that the pandemic has been used to shift wealth from the poor and middle class to the ultra-wealthy is clear for anyone to see at this point. As noted by IPS News:47
“The COVID pandemic has not been the ‘Great Equalizer’ as suggested by the likes of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and members of the World Economic Forum. Rather, it has exacerbated existing inequalities along gender, race and economic class divides across the world.48”
The Global Restructuring
At this point, it should be obvious for anyone paying attention that the pandemic is being prolonged and exaggerated for a reason, and it’s not because there’s concern for life. Quite the contrary.
It’s a ploy to quite literally enslave the global population within a digital surveillance system49 — a system so unnatural and inhumane that no rational population would ever voluntarily go down that road.
“The ‘Great Reset’ seeks to … expand corporate control of natural resources and state surveillance of individuals,” IPS News writes.50 “In the post-pandemic ‘Great Reset,’ there would not be much life left outside the technological-corporate nexus dominated by monolithic agribusiness, pharmaceutical, communication, defense and other inter-connected corporations, and the governments and media serving them.
The proponents of the ‘Great Reset’51 envisage a Brave New World where, ‘You will own nothing. And you will be happy. Whatever you want, you will rent, and it will be delivered by drones.’
But it is more likely that this elite-led revolution will make the vast majority of humanity a powerless appendage of technology with little consciousness and meaning in their lives.”
It should also be clear that most if not all pandemic restrictions to freedom are meant to become permanent. In other words, these past nine months have been a preview of the world the technocratic elite wants to implement as part of the new social and economic order.
If this is the first time you’re hearing any of this, be sure to review “Who Pressed the Great Reset Button?” “The Pressing Dangers of Technocracy,” “The Global Takeover Is Underway” and “Coronavirus Fraud Scandal — The Biggest Fight Has Just Begun.”
Now’s the Time to Fight Back
Natureu2019s Way Sambu... Buy New $11.19 (as of 02:10 UTC - Details) It’s important to understand that now’s the time to fight back: to resist any and all unconstitutional edicts. Once the “new world order” is in place, you will no longer be able to do a thing about it.
Your life — your health, educational and work opportunities, your finances and your very identity — will be so meshed with the automated technological infrastructure that any attempt to break free will result in you being locked out or erased from the system, leaving you with no ability to learn, work, travel or engage in commerce.
It sounds far-fetched, I know, but when you follow the technocratic plan to its inevitable end, that’s basically what you end up with. The warning signs are all around us, if we’re willing to see them for what they actually are. The only question now is whether enough people are willing to resist it to make a difference.
Most important of all is the need to release the fear. It’s a fearful public that allows the technocratic elite to dictate the future and rip away our personal freedoms. It’s fear that allows tyranny to flourish. Really look at the data, so you can see for yourself that panic is unwarranted, and that the so-called “solutions” to the pandemic are in fact a path of total destruction.
This destruction — both moral and economic — is necessary for the Great Reset to occur. The technocratic elite need everything and everyone to fall apart in order to justify the implementation of their new system. Without this desperation, no one would agree to what they have planned.
For practical strategies on how you can respond in light of all the tyrannical interventions that have been imposed on us, check out James Corbett’s interview with Howard Lichtman below. I also recommend reading “Constitutional Sheriffs Are the Difference Between Freedom and Tyranny.”
Last but not least, now is also the time to take control of your own health. Make it a point to really take care of yourself. Remember, insulin resistance, obesity and vitamin D deficiency top the list of comorbidities that significantly raise your risk complications and death from COVID-19.
These are also underlying factors in a host of other chronic diseases, including mental health problems, so by addressing them, you’ll improve your chances of getting through this challenging time with your health and sanity intact. You can find tons of information about how to reverse all of these issues by searching my article archives.
Sources and References
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