lewrockwell--2020-05-08--Criminal Big-Pharma Put in Charge of Covid-19 ‘Vaccine’

Big-Pharma – guilty of lying , cheating , stealing , bribery , and a history of exposing the public to dangerous and even deadly drugs – is being given billions to develop a Covid-19 “ vaccine.
” Would you trust your health to these criminals ?
Coronavirus Disease 2019 or “ Covid-19″ hysteria is sweeping the globe – with mass media-induced public panic paralyzing entire nations , gutting economies of billions as workplaces are shutdown and the public shuttered indoors all while exposed to 24 hour news cycles deliberately fanning the flames of fear .
The West ’ s healthcare @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in terms of artificial credibility as a panicked public turn to it for answers and safety.Waiting to cash in on offering “ cures ” and “ vaccines ” for a virus is the immensely corrupt Western pharmaceutical industry in particular – notorious corporations like GlaxoSmithKline ( GSK ) , Novartis , Bayer , Merck , Johnson and Johnson , Pfizer , Lilly , and Gilead .
Corporate Conspiracies ... Wayne , David Best Price : $ 1.95 Buy New $ 19.99 All corporations – without exception – pursuing government-funded vaccines and therapies for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in courts of law around the globe of crimes including falsifying research , safety , and efficacy studies , bribing researchers , doctors , regulators , and even law enforcement officials , and marketing drugs that were either entirely ineffective or even dangerous .
Government funding from taxpayers across the Western World are being funneled into supposedly non-profit organizations like the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation ( CEPI ) which are in actuality fronts created and chaired by big-pharma to avoid investing their own money into costly research and development and simply profit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CEPI – for example – is receiving billions in government funds from various nations that will be used for R & D that results in products sold by and profited from big-pharma .
Novartis – Plumbing the Depths of the Despicable A particularly shocking and appalling example comes from Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis – who is currently attempting to ram through approval of its drug Jakafi as a therapy for severe Covid-19 patients .
A University of Pennsylvania team headed by Dr. Carl June and funded entirely by charity had developed a gene @ @ @ @ @ @ @ patients who had otherwise failed to respond to more traditional treatments like bone marrow transplants .
During early trials in 2010-2012 , one patient – a 6 year old named Emily Whitehead – was literally on her death bed before receiving the revolutionary gene therapy.Today she is alive and well , in permanent remission .
What is more astounding about the therapy is that it is administered only one time .
That is because after administration the patient ’ s cells are rewired permanently to fight off cancer .
Old cells pass the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they divide and multiply .
Deadly Medicines and O ... Peter Gotzsche Best Price : $ 38.43 Buy New $ 33.29 The therapy developed by Dr. June ’ s team is not only a one-time therapy , it is also incredibly cost effective .
Under experimental conditions the procedure cost under 20,000 USD .
Dr. June at a 2013 talk at The Society for Translational Oncology would state : The charity that funded Dr. June ’ s team – Leukemia & Lymphoma Society ( LLS ) – would see its work sold off @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 2017 and marketed as Kymriah .
What was noted by Dr. June himself as costing 15,000 USD to produce under experimental conditions was marked up by Novartis to an astronomical half-million dollars .
The New York Times article that reported the drug ’ s cost never mentions the actual cost of the drug and instead defers to Novartis ’ own explanation as to why the drug was so expensive .
The NYT had previously reported on the therapy ’ s progress before its acquisition by Novartis , yet NYT writers failed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the actual cost of the therapy and expose price gouging by Novartis .
This helps illustrate the mass media ’ s role in enabling and covering up for big-pharma ’ s corruption .
Upon closer examination – and no thanks to publications like NYT – it turns out LLS was and still is in partnership with Novartis and while it denied Novartis had anything to do with the gene therapy funded by LLS and ultimately sold to Novartis – the glaring conflict of interest remains and fits in perfectly with the wider pharmaceutical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , abuse , and placing profits before human life .
The Novartis example is a microcosm of how the entire industry operates and indeed – precisely how it already is exploiting and profiting from Covid-19 hysteria where hard-working researchers have their work funded by shady “ charities ” only to be bought up by big-pharma and dangled over the heads of the desperate for movie-villain ransoms – all in cooperation with a complicit government and mass media .
Fauci : The Bernie Mado ... Ortleb , Charles Buy New $ 5.99 Another pharmaceutical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ GlaxoSmithKline .
What those who may be exposed to whatever products GSK markets in response to the virus should know is that GSK has been convicted on every inhabited continent of the planet for operating a global bribery racket aimed at doctors , researchers , regulators , politicians , and even law enforcement officials .
GSK has been convicted in Asia .
The New York Times in its article , “ Drug Giant Faced a Reckoning as China Took Aim at Bribery , ” would claim : GSK has also been convicted in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ report in its article GlaxoSmithKline fined $ 3bn after bribing doctors to increase drugs sales that : GSK corruption also takes place in Europe .
In early 2014 , the London Telegraph would report in its article , “ GlaxoSmithKline ‘ bribed ’ doctors to promote drugs in Europe , former worker claims , ” that : Collateral Carnage : Mo ... Saper , Chris Best Price : $ 9.25 Buy New $ 13.99 And this is only scratching the surface of GSK ’ s bribery racket and associated impropriety – saying nothing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and corruption .
GSK is currently poised to develop and deploy a Covid-19 vaccine with Innovax .
Will GSK ’ s history of bribery and corruption influence the development of a Covid-19 vaccine and its approval for public use ?
There is already a convincing answer to that question .
Big-Pharma Already Caught Faking Pandemics to Fill Their Coffers The last wave of hysteria regarding a pandemic came in the form of the 2009 H1N1 outbreak or the “ swine flu.
” If one vaguely remembers H1N1 and needs to look it up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s probably because it was not the pandemic it was promoted as at the time by corrupt public health officials and a complicit mass media.Among these corrupt public health officials were World Health Organization ( WHO ) “ experts ” who were in the pay of big-pharma and used their positions to declare the appearance of H1N1 as a “ pandemic ” justifying likewise paid-off governments to stockpile big-pharma medication for patients that never ended up needing them .
The BBC in their article , “ WHO swine flu experts ‘ linked ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : The BBC mentions GSK by name , noting ( emphasis added ) : Roche – also mentioned – currently produces Covid-19 test kits and is obviously making massive profits by selling them amid sustained hysteria over the “ pandemic.
” It also profited when WHO officials it was paying off declared H1N1 a “ pandemic ” in 2009 .
It sold testing kits and anti-viral medication that made their way into entirely unnecessary government stockpiles .
Reuters in a 2014 article titled , “ Stockpiles of Roche Tamiflu drug are waste of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ note : Are we really going to allow these same corporations and the corrupt officials they are in league with among national and international bodies take the reins again amid Covid-19 ?
The same WHO – in partnership with the same serial offenders among the pharmaceutical industry – are now leading the response to Covid-19 – and the same complicit mass media that enabled the corruption and abuse of both in the past is helping fuel Covid-19 hysteria today to hand over unprecedented profits and power to these same interests that have repeatedly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only be untrustworthy but also obstacles to – rather than the underwriters of – human health .
Soon , syringes will be filled with “ vaccines ” produced by this conglomerate of corruption and abuse , and the public told to roll up their sleeves and have themselves injected by substances created by literal criminals or else .
Under the illusion of legitimacy , science , and medicine , people will be pressured to submit to big-pharma and their co-conspirators within regulatory bodies , advisory organizations , the government , and the media @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fill these syringes with – whether it protects the public from Covid-19 or not – and whether such a vaccine is truly necessary or not .
While Covid-19 might be an actual pathogen , evidence suggests it does not warrant the overreaction we have seen worldwide .
“ Covid-19 hysteria ” is – by far – having a much more devastating impact on humanity than the actual virus itself .
Amid this hysteria , the biggest genuine threat to human health – a corrupt pharmaceutical industry and their partners in the government – @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the expense of the public , and their power over the public .
The views of the authors do not necessarily coincide with the opinion of the editorial board .

Big-Pharma – guilty of lying, cheating, stealing, bribery, and a history of exposing the public to dangerous and even deadly drugs – is being given billions to develop a Covid-19 “vaccine.” Would you trust your health to these criminals?
Coronavirus Disease 2019 or “Covid-19″ hysteria is sweeping the globe – with mass media-induced public panic paralyzing entire nations, gutting economies of billions as workplaces are shutdown and the public shuttered indoors all while exposed to 24 hour news cycles deliberately fanning the flames of fear.
The West’s healthcare industry is already profiting both monetarily and in terms of artificial credibility as a panicked public turn to it for answers and safety.Waiting to cash in on offering “cures” and “vaccines” for a virus is the immensely corrupt Western pharmaceutical industry in particular – notorious corporations like GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Novartis, Bayer, Merck, Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, Lilly, and Gilead. Corporate Conspiracies... Wayne, David Best Price: $1.95 Buy New $19.99 (as of 02:28 UTC - Details)
All corporations – without exception – pursuing government-funded vaccines and therapies for Covid-19 are corporations guilty and repeatedly convicted in courts of law around the globe of crimes including falsifying research, safety, and efficacy studies, bribing researchers, doctors, regulators, and even law enforcement officials, and marketing drugs that were either entirely ineffective or even dangerous.
Government funding from taxpayers across the Western World are being funneled into supposedly non-profit organizations like the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI) which are in actuality fronts created and chaired by big-pharma to avoid investing their own money into costly research and development and simply profit from whatever emerges from state-funded research.
CEPI – for example – is receiving billions in government funds from various nations that will be used for R&D that results in products sold by and profited from big-pharma.
Novartis – Plumbing the Depths of the Despicable
A particularly shocking and appalling example comes from Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis – who is currently attempting to ram through approval of its drug Jakafi as a therapy for severe Covid-19 patients.
A University of Pennsylvania team headed by Dr. Carl June and funded entirely by charity had developed a gene therapy that fully and permanently cured leukemia patients who had otherwise failed to respond to more traditional treatments like bone marrow transplants. During early trials in 2010-2012, one patient – a 6 year old named Emily Whitehead – was literally on her death bed before receiving the revolutionary gene therapy.Today she is alive and well, in permanent remission.
What is more astounding about the therapy is that it is administered only one time. That is because after administration the patient’s cells are rewired permanently to fight off cancer. Old cells pass the cancer-fighting information off to new cells as they divide and multiply. Deadly Medicines and O... Peter Gotzsche Best Price: $38.43 Buy New $33.29 (as of 07:20 UTC - Details)
The therapy developed by Dr. June’s team is not only a one-time therapy, it is also incredibly cost effective. Under experimental conditions the procedure cost under 20,000 USD. Dr. June at a 2013 talk at The Society for Translational Oncology would state:
So the cost of goods, it’s interesting. The major cost here is gamma globulin. So the t-cells themselves, with us, for our in-house costs of an apheresis and so on is 15,000 dollars to manufacture the t-cells.
The charity that funded Dr. June’s team – Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) – would see its work sold off to Novartis, approved by the FDA in 2017 and marketed as Kymriah. What was noted by Dr. June himself as costing 15,000 USD to produce under experimental conditions was marked up by Novartis to an astronomical half-million dollars. The New York Times article that reported the drug’s cost never mentions the actual cost of the drug and instead defers to Novartis’ own explanation as to why the drug was so expensive.
The NYT had previously reported on the therapy’s progress before its acquisition by Novartis, yet NYT writers failed to hold Novartis accountable or inform readers of the actual cost of the therapy and expose price gouging by Novartis. This helps illustrate the mass media’s role in enabling and covering up for big-pharma’s corruption.
Upon closer examination – and no thanks to publications like NYT – it turns out LLS was and still is in partnership with Novartis and while it denied Novartis had anything to do with the gene therapy funded by LLS and ultimately sold to Novartis – the glaring conflict of interest remains and fits in perfectly with the wider pharmaceutical industry’s track record of corruption, abuse, and placing profits before human life.
The Novartis example is a microcosm of how the entire industry operates and indeed – precisely how it already is exploiting and profiting from Covid-19 hysteria where hard-working researchers have their work funded by shady “charities” only to be bought up by big-pharma and dangled over the heads of the desperate for movie-villain ransoms – all in cooperation with a complicit government and mass media. Fauci: The Bernie Mado... Ortleb, Charles Buy New $5.99 (as of 02:55 UTC - Details)
GSK: A Bribery Racket that Rings the Globe
Another pharmaceutical corporation seeking to profit from Covid-19 is GlaxoSmithKline. What those who may be exposed to whatever products GSK markets in response to the virus should know is that GSK has been convicted on every inhabited continent of the planet for operating a global bribery racket aimed at doctors, researchers, regulators, politicians, and even law enforcement officials.
GSK has been convicted in Asia. The New York Times in its article, “Drug Giant Faced a Reckoning as China Took Aim at Bribery,” would claim:
The Glaxo case, which resulted in record penalties of nearly $500 million and a string of guilty pleas by executives, upended the power dynamic in China, unveiling an increasingly assertive government determined to tighten its grip over multinationals. In the three years since the arrests, the Chinese government, under President Xi Jinping, has unleashed the full force of the country’s authoritarian system, as part of a broader agenda of economic nationalism.
GSK has also been convicted in North America. The London Guardian would report in its article GlaxoSmithKline fined $3bn after bribing doctors to increase drugs sales that:
The pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline has been fined $3bn (£1.9bn) after admitting bribing doctors and encouraging the prescription of unsuitable antidepressants to children. Glaxo is also expected to admit failing to report safety problems with the diabetes drug Avandia in a district court in Boston on Thursday. The company encouraged sales reps in the US to mis-sell three drugs to doctors and lavished hospitality and kickbacks on those who agreed to write extra prescriptions, including trips to resorts in Bermuda, Jamaica and California.
GSK corruption also takes place in Europe. In early 2014, the London Telegraph would report in its article, “GlaxoSmithKline ‘bribed’ doctors to promote drugs in Europe, former worker claims,” that: Collateral Carnage: Mo... Saper, Chris Best Price: $9.25 Buy New $13.99 (as of 02:28 UTC - Details)
GlaxoSmithKline, Britain’s largest drug company, has been accused of bribing doctors to prescribe their medicines in Europe. Doctors in Poland were allegedly paid to promote its asthma drug, Seretide, under the guise of funding for education programme, a former sales rep has claimed.
Medics were also said to have been paid for lectures in the country which did not take place.
And this is only scratching the surface of GSK’s bribery racket and associated impropriety – saying nothing of the wider industry’s abuse and corruption.
GSK is currently poised to develop and deploy a Covid-19 vaccine with Innovax. Will GSK’s history of bribery and corruption influence the development of a Covid-19 vaccine and its approval for public use?
There is already a convincing answer to that question.
Big-Pharma Already Caught Faking Pandemics to Fill Their Coffers
The last wave of hysteria regarding a pandemic came in the form of the 2009 H1N1 outbreak or the “swine flu.”
If one vaguely remembers H1N1 and needs to look it up to refresh their memory – it’s probably because it was not the pandemic it was promoted as at the time by corrupt public health officials and a complicit mass media.Among these corrupt public health officials were World Health Organization (WHO) “experts” who were in the pay of big-pharma and used their positions to declare the appearance of H1N1 as a “pandemic” justifying likewise paid-off governments to stockpile big-pharma medication for patients that never ended up needing them.
The BBC in their article, “WHO swine flu experts ‘linked’ with drug companies,” would admit:
Key scientists behind World Health Organization advice on stockpiling of pandemic flu drugs had financial ties with companies which stood to profit, an investigation has found.
The British Medical Journal says the scientists had openly declared these interests in other publications yet WHO made no mention of the links.
The BBC mentions GSK by name, noting (emphasis added):
…three scientists involved in putting together the 2004 guidance had previously been paid by Roche or GSK for lecturing and consultancy work as well as being involved in research for the companies.
Roche – also mentioned – currently produces Covid-19 test kits and is obviously making massive profits by selling them amid sustained hysteria over the “pandemic.” It also profited when WHO officials it was paying off declared H1N1 a “pandemic” in 2009. It sold testing kits and anti-viral medication that made their way into entirely unnecessary government stockpiles.
Reuters in a 2014 article titled, “Stockpiles of Roche Tamiflu drug are waste of money, review finds,” would note:
Researchers who have fought for years to get full data on Roche’s flu medicine Tamiflu said on Thursday that governments who stockpile it are wasting billions of dollars on a drug whose effectiveness is in doubt.
The article also noted:
Tamiflu sales hit almost $3 billion in 2009 – mostly due to its use in the H1N1 flu pandemic – but they have since declined.
Are we really going to allow these same corporations and the corrupt officials they are in league with among national and international bodies take the reins again amid Covid-19?
Serial Offenders Drive Covid-19 Hysteria
The same WHO – in partnership with the same serial offenders among the pharmaceutical industry – are now leading the response to Covid-19 – and the same complicit mass media that enabled the corruption and abuse of both in the past is helping fuel Covid-19 hysteria today to hand over unprecedented profits and power to these same interests that have repeatedly proven themselves in the past to not only be untrustworthy but also obstacles to – rather than the underwriters of – human health.
Soon, syringes will be filled with “vaccines” produced by this conglomerate of corruption and abuse, and the public told to roll up their sleeves and have themselves injected by substances created by literal criminals or else.
Under the illusion of legitimacy, science, and medicine, people will be pressured to submit to big-pharma and their co-conspirators within regulatory bodies, advisory organizations, the government, and the media, and whatever it is they actually fill these syringes with – whether it protects the public from Covid-19 or not – and whether such a vaccine is truly necessary or not.
While Covid-19 might be an actual pathogen, evidence suggests it does not warrant the overreaction we have seen worldwide. “Covid-19 hysteria” is – by far – having a much more devastating impact on humanity than the actual virus itself. Amid this hysteria, the biggest genuine threat to human health – a corrupt pharmaceutical industry and their partners in the government – are poised to expand both their profits at the expense of the public, and their power over the public.
The views of the authors do not necessarily coincide with the opinion of the editorial board.


lewrockwell--2020-05-08--Italy: The Scars of Lockdown Will Long Outlast the Virus

Italy began its long road out of lockdown this week .
But as the immediate health crisis recedes , the scars of the lockdown are becoming ever clearer .
The economic toll has been particularly acute in the south , and it is starting to push one of Europe ’ s regions over the precipice .
Though Italy ’ s coronavirus outbreak was among the worst in the world – resulting in over 29,000 deaths at the time of writing – the epidemic was overwhelmingly confined to the more prosperous north .
According to Italy ’ s statistical agency , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ regions were 95 per cent higher than the average of the past five years .
In contrast , in the southern regions , excess deaths rose by just two per cent .
Nevertheless , the south was subjected to the same nationwide lockdown – one of the longest and strictest in the world .
Psychological Effects ... Ledward , Robert Buy New $ 14.50 When it came to the south , the Italian government was faced with an impossible choice .
The healthcare system is far less developed in the south .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it would have struggled to cope with anything like the health disaster the north experienced .
Whether the lockdown was the right decision or not .
it has hit the south like a perfect storm .
Southern Italy – the six regions and two islands south of Rome – has been struggling economically for a long time .
Pre-coronavirus unemployment was at 18 per cent – three times that in the north .
Meanwhile , youth unemployment was 50 per cent .
As the mayor of Messina in Sicily recently put it : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ zero .
We start from less than zero.
’ Tourism and hospitality are major employers in the mezzogiorno .
And they have been hit particularly hard by the lockdown – not just by Italy ’ s own restrictions but by travel bans across the world .
Revenue from tourism fell by 95 per cent in March .
UBS forecasts that tourist spending will fall by €20 billion this year .
While in the north factories have started reopening as the lockdown eases , the tourist trade , bars and restaurants will take much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Nothing : Res ... Odell , Jenny Buy New $ 16.19 Museums and retailers are due to open on 18 May , bars and restaurants on the 1 June .
But the footfall will not be the same without international visitors .
Sicily ’ s regional government is planning to spend €75million on luring international and domestic tourists back to the island .
This is set to include offering one night of accommodation in a three-day trip for free .
Reports suggest the state could pay 50 per cent of tourists ’ flight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ revive a semblance of normality .
Another factor which has hit the south hard is the prevalence of the informal economy .
Italy is estimated to have 3.5million ‘ invisible ’ workers , representing around 12 per cent of GDP .
Most of these off-the-books workers live in the south .
This meant that when the crisis came , millions were ineligible for government relief packages aimed at salaried workers .
The Italian government has pledged €400 billion to help businesses and people through the crisis .
But the money has been slow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to support .
‘ The state was absent here ’ , one resident of Naples told the BBC .
He set up a socially distant food bank , lowering baskets from his balcony to collect and distribute donated food .
‘ State bureaucracy doesn ’ t allow aid to come directly to the people ’ , he said .
‘ If everything goes well , we might recover in a year .
But in the meantime , how do we live ?
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Italy began its long road out of lockdown this week. But as the immediate health crisis recedes, the scars of the lockdown are becoming ever clearer. The economic toll has been particularly acute in the south, and it is starting to push one of Europe’s regions over the precipice.
Though Italy’s coronavirus outbreak was among the worst in the world – resulting in over 29,000 deaths at the time of writing – the epidemic was overwhelmingly confined to the more prosperous north.
According to Italy’s statistical agency, ISTAT, excess deaths in the northern regions were 95 per cent higher than the average of the past five years. In contrast, in the southern regions, excess deaths rose by just two per cent. Nevertheless, the south was subjected to the same nationwide lockdown – one of the longest and strictest in the world. Psychological Effects ... Ledward, Robert Buy New $14.50 (as of 02:29 UTC - Details)
When it came to the south, the Italian government was faced with an impossible choice. The healthcare system is far less developed in the south. The national and regional politicians were terrified that it would have struggled to cope with anything like the health disaster the north experienced. Whether the lockdown was the right decision or not. it has hit the south like a perfect storm.
Southern Italy – the six regions and two islands south of Rome – has been struggling economically for a long time. Pre-coronavirus unemployment was at 18 per cent – three times that in the north. Meanwhile, youth unemployment was 50 per cent. As the mayor of Messina in Sicily recently put it: ‘We don’t start from zero. We start from less than zero.’
Tourism and hospitality are major employers in the mezzogiorno. And they have been hit particularly hard by the lockdown – not just by Italy’s own restrictions but by travel bans across the world. Revenue from tourism fell by 95 per cent in March. UBS forecasts that tourist spending will fall by €20 billion this year. While in the north factories have started reopening as the lockdown eases, the tourist trade, bars and restaurants will take much longer to recover.
How to Do Nothing: Res... Odell, Jenny Buy New $16.19 (as of 02:29 UTC - Details) Museums and retailers are due to open on 18 May, bars and restaurants on the 1 June. But the footfall will not be the same without international visitors. Sicily’s regional government is planning to spend €75million on luring international and domestic tourists back to the island. This is set to include offering one night of accommodation in a three-day trip for free. Reports suggest the state could pay 50 per cent of tourists’ flight costs, such is the desperation to revive a semblance of normality.
Another factor which has hit the south hard is the prevalence of the informal economy. Italy is estimated to have 3.5million ‘invisible’ workers, representing around 12 per cent of GDP. Most of these off-the-books workers live in the south. This meant that when the crisis came, millions were ineligible for government relief packages aimed at salaried workers.
The Italian government has pledged €400 billion to help businesses and people through the crisis. But the money has been slow to reach even those who are entitled to support. ‘The state was absent here’, one resident of Naples told the BBC. He set up a socially distant food bank, lowering baskets from his balcony to collect and distribute donated food. ‘State bureaucracy doesn’t allow aid to come directly to the people’, he said. ‘If everything goes well, we might recover in a year. But in the meantime, how do we live?’
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lewrockwell--2020-05-08--Bill Gates and His ‘War Against Cash’ Are a Threat to Our Liberty

A consortium of powerful interests that include Visa and Mastercard , the International Monetary Fund , billionaire Bill Gates and the US Treasury have been slowly lobbying for cash to be abolished worldwide and replaced with digital only currencies .
Norbert Haering holds a PhD in economics and is co-founder and co-director of the World Economics Association , the second largest association of economists worldwide .
Dr Häring is a financial journalist , blogger and author of popular books on economics .
His two most recent books covered the campaign to abolish cash .
The latest “ Schönes neues Geld @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in German in 2018 just came out in Chinese .
Dr Häring initiated a lawsuit in 2015 for the right to pay his fees to public broadcasters in cash , which has since made its way to the European Court of Justice ( CJEU ) .
The date for the oral hearing at the CJEU is set for 15 June 2020 .
Digital Electronic Cas ... Buy New $ 55.99 Sputnik : Please explain – for those who know nothing about the subject – what the campaign to abolish cash is all about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Norbert Häring : Starting about 2005 the “ war on cash ” , as they were calling it , was just a declared business strategy of Visa and Mastercard to push back [ against ] the use of cash , because they see it as the main competitor for their credit cards .
From about 2011 this kind of talk stopped completely .
Instead they entered into a coalition with the US-government , the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Citibank and formed the Better Than Cash Alliance to pursue the elimination of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it under the pretended goal of helping the poor by financially including them .
There are very many academic institutes , standard-setting institutions and governments that have been enlisted in this fight against cash , either with the money of Gates and the other members of the Better Than Cash Alliance or with the diplomatic muscle of the US-government , or both .
Sputnik : Why are they doing this ?
Norbert Häring : The interest of the financial sector in selling their own products instead of cash is obvious .
The IT-companies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with digitalisation [ of cash ] and the US-government wants the surveillance and sanctioning power that goes with digitalisation of payments .
The other countries that co-operate also like the aspect of gaining more surveillance power over their populations .
Sputnik : You ’ ve written about how India was used as a large-scale “ guinea pig ” in eliminating cash .
Can you briefly describe what happened there and who was behind it ?
Norbert Häring : In November 2016 , Prime Minister Narendra Modi went on TV declaring all but the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only 4 hours ’ notice .
This meant you could not pay with them anymore .
You had to bring them to the bank .
This led to days of chaos and months of extreme dearth of cash in a country where half the population does not even have a bank account and 90 percent of payments are done in cash .
The pretended goal was to hurt those who hoarded [ money from the black market ] .
That failed completely .
Within weeks the government switched to the declared goal of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ financial system .
They planted stories in the media to make it seem that it was a small group of Indians around Modi who thought of this .
Hanger Diversion Safe ... Best Price : $ 15.01 Buy New $ 15.80 However , on my blog and in my book , I pointed to a host of very close “ financial inclusion ” cooperation of the Indian central bank with the Gates Foundation , the US-government and other US-anti-cash institutions .
Sputnik : The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation appears to be one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for a cashless world .
Do we know why they seem so committed to this project ?
Norbert Häring : If you think of Gates as a Microsoft person , there is the interest of Microsoft , and other US-IT-companies that are involved , in digitalising everything to do more business and to get more data .
Financial data is among the most valuable data .
Bill Gates is also a prominent participant in many national security groups and gatherings .
He clearly is a patriot , who holds US national security interests @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these are understood to be furthered by more data and more control about what the rest of the world is doing .
Sputnik : Are COVID-19 and ‘ The Great Lockdown ’ being used to further push the “ war on cash ” ?
Norbert Häring : Yes , of course , it is used very much in this respect .
Banks are running mailing and internet campaigns , telling their customers that cash is dirty and cards or mobile payment solutions are not .
They do so despite the lack of any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ via cash .
Most health experts say that [ cash ] is not a relevant channel [ for the virus ] .
Sputnik : What are your concerns about the world shifting away from cash .
Isn ’ t it more convenient if we can all hold and make use of our currency digitally ?
Norbert Häring : Sure , it is convenient .
Nobody is keeping anybody from using digital money .
I use it too .
Only some businesses , who consider the fees of the financial institutions to high , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s one reason , why these financial intermediaries want to do away with cash .
So that they can raise their prices , which is not in our interest .
More importantly : everything that we pay [ for ] digitally is recorded , seen and stored by various service providers and ends up in our bank account information .
If there is no possibility of using cash any more , our bank account information will be a near-complete log of our life .
Anybody with the power to look into it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at any time , can see where we have been and what we did for every day and hour , decades into the past .
Kyodoled Book Safe wit ... Buy New $ 11.50 Many people correctly think that nobody with the power to do this will ever develop enough of an interest in them .
However , they have to realise that it means something for them , too , if they have to live in a society , in which every person of any importance is totally transparent for the powerful @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by them at will .
This is inconsistent with democracy and a free society .
Sputnik : You are directly involved in a legal challenge over the ability to pay for the obligatory fee to the public broadcasters in Germany by using cash .
The case will soon be heard by the European Court of Justice ’ s Grand Chamber .
Can you briefly explain the significance of this case and why you have taken it to the EU ’ s highest court ?
Norbert Häring : I did not quite take it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ went up to the highest administrative court in Germany , the Bundesverwaltungsgericht .
They agreed with me as regards German law , but were unsure about how German law conforms with European law and thus put the case in front of the highest EU court .
I am doing this because I want to defend the right to use cash and I found that many of the measures that are taken to make cash inconvenient and hard to use are in violation of the status of euro banknotes and coins as legal tender @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will have it harder .
Government agencies and offices – including the tax authority – will not be allowed any more to refuse to take cash , or to charge an extra fee for it , as they are increasingly doing .
Measures like upper limits on cash payments will become quite questionable , legally , if I win .
It might not be possible to introduce new ones , in this case .
Sputnik : How successful has the drive to go cashless been so far , is there resistance to it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from ?
wishacc Real Pages Por ... Buy New $ 19.99 Norbert Häring : It is a successful but slow process in most rich countries with functioning democracies , because people care a lot about their right to use cash .
Because of this resistance of the population they can only use indirect measures , like regulations for banks that make cash more inconvenient and expensive for them , a cost , which they pass on to customers .
There has even been a paper by the IMF that recommends such indirect measures @ @ @ @ @ @ @ population .
Because the enemies of cash tread carefully , and politicians always protest that nobody wants to take away our cash , organised political resistance is not a big factor , yet .
On the Right , where people are more suspicious of government , there is some [ resistance ] , because they see the threat to civil liberties .
The Left , unfortunately , is totally naive in this regard .
The views and opinions expressed in the article do not necessarily reflect those of Sputnik .

A consortium of powerful interests that include Visa and Mastercard, the International Monetary Fund, billionaire Bill Gates and the US Treasury have been slowly lobbying for cash to be abolished worldwide and replaced with digital only currencies.
Norbert Haering holds a PhD in economics and is co-founder and co-director of the World Economics Association, the second largest association of economists worldwide. Dr Häring is a financial journalist, blogger and author of popular books on economics.
His two most recent books covered the campaign to abolish cash. The latest “Schönes neues Geld” (Brave new money) published in German in 2018 just came out in Chinese.
Dr Häring initiated a lawsuit in 2015 for the right to pay his fees to public broadcasters in cash, which has since made its way to the European Court of Justice (CJEU). The date for the oral hearing at the CJEU is set for 15 June 2020. Digital Electronic Cas... Buy New $55.99 (as of 02:44 UTC - Details)
Sputnik: Please explain – for those who know nothing about the subject – what the campaign to abolish cash is all about and who the main players are.
Norbert Häring: Starting about 2005 the “war on cash”, as they were calling it, was just a declared business strategy of Visa and Mastercard to push back [against] the use of cash, because they see it as the main competitor for their credit cards. From about 2011 this kind of talk stopped completely.
Instead they entered into a coalition with the US-government, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Citibank and formed the Better Than Cash Alliance to pursue the elimination of cash. But now, they do it under the pretended goal of helping the poor by financially including them.
There are very many academic institutes, standard-setting institutions and governments that have been enlisted in this fight against cash, either with the money of Gates and the other members of the Better Than Cash Alliance or with the diplomatic muscle of the US-government, or both.
Sputnik: Why are they doing this?
Norbert Häring: The interest of the financial sector in selling their own products instead of cash is obvious. The IT-companies want the data that [goes] with digitalisation [of cash] and the US-government wants the surveillance and sanctioning power that goes with digitalisation of payments. The other countries that co-operate also like the aspect of gaining more surveillance power over their populations.
Sputnik: You’ve written about how India was used as a large-scale “guinea pig” in eliminating cash. Can you briefly describe what happened there and who was behind it?
Norbert Häring: In November 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi went on TV declaring all but the smallest denomination banknotes “demonetised” with only 4 hours’ notice. This meant you could not pay with them anymore. You had to bring them to the bank. This led to days of chaos and months of extreme dearth of cash in a country where half the population does not even have a bank account and 90 percent of payments are done in cash.
The pretended goal was to hurt those who hoarded [money from the black market]. That failed completely. Within weeks the government switched to the declared goal of “financial inclusion” and modernising the financial system. They planted stories in the media to make it seem that it was a small group of Indians around Modi who thought of this. Hanger Diversion Safe ... Best Price: $15.01 Buy New $15.80 (as of 03:09 UTC - Details)
However, on my blog and in my book, I pointed to a host of very close “financial inclusion” cooperation of the Indian central bank with the Gates Foundation, the US-government and other US-anti-cash institutions.
Sputnik: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation appears to be one of the key actors in this push for a cashless world. Do we know why they seem so committed to this project?
Norbert Häring: If you think of Gates as a Microsoft person, there is the interest of Microsoft, and other US-IT-companies that are involved, in digitalising everything to do more business and to get more data. Financial data is among the most valuable data.
Bill Gates is also a prominent participant in many national security groups and gatherings. He clearly is a patriot, who holds US national security interests very close to his heart. And these are understood to be furthered by more data and more control about what the rest of the world is doing.
Sputnik: Are COVID-19 and ‘The Great Lockdown’ being used to further push the “war on cash”?
Norbert Häring: Yes, of course, it is used very much in this respect. Banks are running mailing and internet campaigns, telling their customers that cash is dirty and cards or mobile payment solutions are not. They do so despite the lack of any evidence that the virus can be transmitted via cash. Most health experts say that [cash] is not a relevant channel [for the virus].
Sputnik: What are your concerns about the world shifting away from cash. Isn’t it more convenient if we can all hold and make use of our currency digitally?
Norbert Häring: Sure, it is convenient. Nobody is keeping anybody from using digital money. I use it too. Only some businesses, who consider the fees of the financial institutions to high, will not accept digital money. That’s one reason, why these financial intermediaries want to do away with cash. So that they can raise their prices, which is not in our interest.
More importantly: everything that we pay [for] digitally is recorded, seen and stored by various service providers and ends up in our bank account information. If there is no possibility of using cash any more, our bank account information will be a near-complete log of our life. Anybody with the power to look into it, who develops an interest in us at any time, can see where we have been and what we did for every day and hour, decades into the past.
Kyodoled Book Safe wit... Buy New $11.50 (as of 02:30 UTC - Details) Many people correctly think that nobody with the power to do this will ever develop enough of an interest in them. However, they have to realise that it means something for them, too, if they have to live in a society, in which every person of any importance is totally transparent for the powerful and can thus be blackmailed or destroyed by them at will. This is inconsistent with democracy and a free society.
Sputnik: You are directly involved in a legal challenge over the ability to pay for the obligatory fee to the public broadcasters in Germany by using cash. The case will soon be heard by the European Court of Justice’s Grand Chamber. Can you briefly explain the significance of this case and why you have taken it to the EU’s highest court?
Norbert Häring: I did not quite take it to the ECJ myself. The case went up to the highest administrative court in Germany, the Bundesverwaltungsgericht. They agreed with me as regards German law, but were unsure about how German law conforms with European law and thus put the case in front of the highest EU court.
I am doing this because I want to defend the right to use cash and I found that many of the measures that are taken to make cash inconvenient and hard to use are in violation of the status of euro banknotes and coins as legal tender.
If I win, the anti-cash-campaigners will have it harder. Government agencies and offices – including the tax authority – will not be allowed any more to refuse to take cash, or to charge an extra fee for it, as they are increasingly doing. Measures like upper limits on cash payments will become quite questionable, legally, if I win. It might not be possible to introduce new ones, in this case.
Sputnik: How successful has the drive to go cashless been so far, is there resistance to it and if so where is it coming from?
wishacc Real Pages Por... Buy New $19.99 (as of 02:30 UTC - Details) Norbert Häring: It is a successful but slow process in most rich countries with functioning democracies, because people care a lot about their right to use cash. Because of this resistance of the population they can only use indirect measures, like regulations for banks that make cash more inconvenient and expensive for them, a cost, which they pass on to customers. There has even been a paper by the IMF that recommends such indirect measures to get around the resistance of the population.
Because the enemies of cash tread carefully, and politicians always protest that nobody wants to take away our cash, organised political resistance is not a big factor, yet.
On the Right, where people are more suspicious of government, there is some [resistance], because they see the threat to civil liberties. The Left, unfortunately, is totally naive in this regard.
The views and opinions expressed in the article do not necessarily reflect those of Sputnik.


lewrockwell--2020-05-08--Welcome to the Post-Covid Future

Welcome to the Post-Covid Future

The question as to what our future will look like post-Covid is becoming a frightful thing to contemplate .
And this goes beyond health fears .
Will humanity emerge from the current emergency with its honorable customs intact ?
Dr David Nabarro , a professor at Imperial College London and special envoy to the World Health Organization ( WHO ) , has made a startling announcement : There is no guarantee that a vaccine against the coronavirus will “ appear at all , ” he said , and even if it does , it may not pass all the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ comment should give us more than just pause ; it should give us outright alarm .
Currently , there are highly influential individuals , not least of all Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates , who argue that we ’ ll only get back to some semblance of normalcy when everyone has had their vaccine shot .
Gates – who is heavily invested in pharmaceutical companies – went so far as to say that “ mass gatherings , ” which could mean anything from a funeral to a football match , may not return “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Now we ’ re being duly informed that such a day may never arrive .
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There is no way we can continue proclaiming , at least with a straight face , that we ’ re members of a healthy and robust society if , at the same time , we ’ re forced to endure endless lockdowns @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some short-term social distancing may be a reasonable method of defeating Covid-19 , such a strategy can not last forever .
In defense of custom and common sense In mankind ’ s past battles against a long line of enemies , an unspoken rule took precedence , which is that people continued with their regular customs and traditions for as long as humanly possible .
To halt the normal flow of life when confronted by an adversary was considered an admission of defeat .
In our present fight against an invisible virus , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have been rewritten .
Unity and solidarity are no longer looked upon as invaluable assets ; in fact , they ’ ve become potentially deadly liabilities .
We would be foolish to think this attitude , borne out of understandable fear , will not have long-term repercussions .
Already there is evidence of great social and cultural upheaval in the air , and not of the positive sort .
A recent survey by YouGov reported that 31 percent of Americans will no longer honor the ancient tradition of shaking hands , even after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ percent said they were undecided .
It looks as though the ‘ elbow bump ’ or Asian-style bow is here to stay .
However , instead of ditching the handshake , that time-honored gesture of trust and integrity ( and risking getting shamed for ‘ cultural appropriation ’ to boot ! )
, why not keep the tradition while maintaining the habit of frequent hand-washing and not touching our face ?
Surely we don ’ t have to toss out the proverbial baby with the bath water .
Hanger Diversion Safe ... Best @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 15.80 On the question of wearing a mask in public , it looks as though that sad fashion statement , once reserved for the more criminal-minded , will also become a permanent feature of modern living .
As Dr Nabarro told the BBC : “ Some form of facial protection , I ’ m sure , is going to become the norm , not least to give people reassurance.
” Personally speaking , the sight of a person wearing a mask gives me absolutely no sense of assurance , but rather a sense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
But that ’ s just me .
I take my cue from the World Health Organization , which states , “ If you are healthy , you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with COVID-19.
” Meanwhile , to add to the overall feeling of anxiety now permeating society , there are people who are actively snitching on the rule breakers .
Incredibly , this is happening at the encouragement of certain political leaders , as witnessed in Los Angeles , New York City @ @ @ @ @ @ @ throwback to more authoritarian times that have no place in modern democracies .
The goals of our leaders should be to encourage an atmosphere of trust , rather than promoting fear and paranoia during times of crisis .
Why not encourage citizens instead to report those individuals who are in dire financial straits and in desperate need of assistance ?
Or maybe reward those citizens who donate their time and money to charities with a tax rebate ?
These seemingly insignificant steps are critical now that humanity is gazing into the great unknown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our control .
Every aspect of our lives that we once took for granted has been demolished overnight .
And now it seems millions of people , angry and frustrated at their circumstances , are starting to reject lockdown orders .
And , as to be expected , there is an app to gauge that .
Sofia + Sam Memory Foa ... Buy New $ 42.98 According to Apple ’ s Mobility Trends , which monitors the movement of iPhone users , people in the US , Italy , Germany and the UK @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mid-April .
Although still far below pre-coronavirus levels , it suggests the herd is getting restless .
“ People are feeling the itch to get back to the real world , ” the payments company Foursquare said in a blog post .
Anybody who doubts that assertion needs only consider the spate of protests that have been growing in the US .
Last week , hundreds of demonstrators , some armed with assault-style rifles , converged at Michigan ’ s state capitol in Lansing to protest the government ’ s request to extend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Californians are demanding access to their public beaches .
It is not hard to imagine such demonstrations rolling across the country in a sudden explosion of anger mixed with desperation .
So , what is the solution , especially if the much-hyped ‘ second wave ’ of Covid-19 makes landfall ?
First , it ’ s necessary to understand what we can no longer do , unless we want civil strife .
Although some form of social-distancing rules can be established , it ’ ll be only a matter of time before @ @ @ @ @ @ @ regardless of the risks .
The same goes for businesses .
There will naturally come a time when the majority will come to the conclusion that they would rather take their chances against a lethal virus on the streets than sit at home and starve .
At that time , the sick and elderly can quarantine themselves until the worst has passed , while the young and healthy can get on with the task of making a living and keeping the global economy from capsizing , albeit it in a safe and sensible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be any other way , unless a miracle vaccine or drug is available tomorrow .
The statements , views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT .

The question as to what our future will look like post-Covid is becoming a frightful thing to contemplate. And this goes beyond health fears. Will humanity emerge from the current emergency with its honorable customs intact?
Dr David Nabarro, a professor at Imperial College London and special envoy to the World Health Organization (WHO), has made a startling announcement: There is no guarantee that a vaccine against the coronavirus will “appear at all,” he said, and even if it does, it may not pass all the “tests of efficacy and safety.” That comment should give us more than just pause; it should give us outright alarm.
Currently, there are highly influential individuals, not least of all Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who argue that we’ll only get back to some semblance of normalcy when everyone has had their vaccine shot. Gates – who is heavily invested in pharmaceutical companies – went so far as to say that “mass gatherings,” which could mean anything from a funeral to a football match, may not return “at all” without a universal vaccine. Now we’re being duly informed that such a day may never arrive.
AUKEY Car Phone Mount ... Best Price: $17.59 Buy New $19.99 (as of 02:45 UTC - Details) Before we convert our homes into bunkers and our communities into no-go zones, we desperately need a Plan B. There is no way we can continue proclaiming, at least with a straight face, that we’re members of a healthy and robust society if, at the same time, we’re forced to endure endless lockdowns and quarantines behind surgical masks. Although some short-term social distancing may be a reasonable method of defeating Covid-19, such a strategy cannot last forever.
In defense of custom and common sense
In mankind’s past battles against a long line of enemies, an unspoken rule took precedence, which is that people continued with their regular customs and traditions for as long as humanly possible. To halt the normal flow of life when confronted by an adversary was considered an admission of defeat. In our present fight against an invisible virus, however, the old rules of engagement have been rewritten. Unity and solidarity are no longer looked upon as invaluable assets; in fact, they’ve become potentially deadly liabilities. We would be foolish to think this attitude, borne out of understandable fear, will not have long-term repercussions.
Already there is evidence of great social and cultural upheaval in the air, and not of the positive sort. A recent survey by YouGov reported that 31 percent of Americans will no longer honor the ancient tradition of shaking hands, even after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, while 26 percent said they were undecided. It looks as though the ‘elbow bump’ or Asian-style bow is here to stay. However, instead of ditching the handshake, that time-honored gesture of trust and integrity (and risking getting shamed for ‘cultural appropriation’ to boot!), why not keep the tradition while maintaining the habit of frequent hand-washing and not touching our face? Surely we don’t have to toss out the proverbial baby with the bath water.
Hanger Diversion Safe ... Best Price: $15.01 Buy New $15.80 (as of 03:09 UTC - Details) On the question of wearing a mask in public, it looks as though that sad fashion statement, once reserved for the more criminal-minded, will also become a permanent feature of modern living. As Dr Nabarro told the BBC: “Some form of facial protection, I’m sure, is going to become the norm, not least to give people reassurance.”
Personally speaking, the sight of a person wearing a mask gives me absolutely no sense of assurance, but rather a sense of separation, insecurity and general anxiety. But that’s just me. I take my cue from the World Health Organization, which states, “If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with COVID-19.”
Meanwhile, to add to the overall feeling of anxiety now permeating society, there are people who are actively snitching on the rule breakers. Incredibly, this is happening at the encouragement of certain political leaders, as witnessed in Los Angeles, New York City and elsewhere. That is a regrettable throwback to more authoritarian times that have no place in modern democracies. The goals of our leaders should be to encourage an atmosphere of trust, rather than promoting fear and paranoia during times of crisis. Why not encourage citizens instead to report those individuals who are in dire financial straits and in desperate need of assistance? Or maybe reward those citizens who donate their time and money to charities with a tax rebate?
These seemingly insignificant steps are critical now that humanity is gazing into the great unknown – a future that seems utterly beyond our control. Every aspect of our lives that we once took for granted has been demolished overnight. And now it seems millions of people, angry and frustrated at their circumstances, are starting to reject lockdown orders. And, as to be expected, there is an app to gauge that. Sofia + Sam Memory Foa... Buy New $42.98 (as of 02:32 UTC - Details)
According to Apple’s Mobility Trends, which monitors the movement of iPhone users, people in the US, Italy, Germany and the UK began to deviate from stay-at-home orders around mid-April. Although still far below pre-coronavirus levels, it suggests the herd is getting restless.
“People are feeling the itch to get back to the real world,” the payments company Foursquare said in a blog post.
Anybody who doubts that assertion needs only consider the spate of protests that have been growing in the US. Last week, hundreds of demonstrators, some armed with assault-style rifles, converged at Michigan’s state capitol in Lansing to protest the government’s request to extend emergency powers. On the West Coast, Californians are demanding access to their public beaches. It is not hard to imagine such demonstrations rolling across the country in a sudden explosion of anger mixed with desperation.
‘GOVERNOR, OPEN OUR ECONOMY ON MAY 1 AND RESPECT OUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS.’ Wild scene in Lansing, Michigan as hundreds of people protest the state’s stay-at-home order. Team coverage from @WOODTV‘s @_HeatherWalker and @LeonHendrix. pic.twitter.com/CySg9Y6Nx8 — Austin Kellerman (@AustinKellerman) April 15, 2020
So, what is the solution, especially if the much-hyped ‘second wave’ of Covid-19 makes landfall? First, it’s necessary to understand what we can no longer do, unless we want civil strife. Although some form of social-distancing rules can be established, it’ll be only a matter of time before people will refuse to stay indoors, regardless of the risks. The same goes for businesses. There will naturally come a time when the majority will come to the conclusion that they would rather take their chances against a lethal virus on the streets than sit at home and starve.
At that time, the sick and elderly can quarantine themselves until the worst has passed, while the young and healthy can get on with the task of making a living and keeping the global economy from capsizing, albeit it in a safe and sensible way. There doesn’t seem to be any other way, unless a miracle vaccine or drug is available tomorrow.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.


lewrockwell--2020-05-08--Prone Position in Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Lying in the prone ( face down ) position , in which your chest is down and your back is up , could be a simple way to improve outcomes in cases of severe respiratory distress .
This topic has received renewed attention during the COVID-19 pandemic , as invasive mechanical ventilation is conventionally delivered with the patient in the supine ( face up ) position , which refers to lying on your back .
“ Mechanical ventilation is the main supportive treatment for critically ill patients ” infected with novel coronavirus 2019 ( COVID-19 ) , according to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Respiratory Medicine.1 However , reports suggest that many COVID-19 patients put on ventilators don ’ t make it .
In a JAMA study that included 5,700 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the New York City area between March 1 , 2020 , and April 4 , 2020 , mortality rates for those who received mechanical ventilation ranged from 76.4 % to 97.2 % , depending on age.2 There are many reasons why those on ventilators have a high risk of mortality , including being more severely ill to begin with .
However , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are now trying to keep patients off ventilators as much as possible by using alternative measures , including having patients lie on their stomachs ( prone ) to allow for better lung aeration.3 It ’ s also possible that prone ventilation , which is ventilation delivered with the patient lying in the prone position , may help patients who aren ’ t responding to conventional ventilation in the supine position,4 as well as reduce mortality in those with acute respiratory distress syndrome ( ARDS ) .5 Prone Positioning Lowers Death Rate in Those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that causes low blood oxygen and fluid buildup in the lungs .
As fluid builds up in the lungs and surfactant , which helps the lungs fully expand , breaks down , the lungs are unable to properly fill with air.6 A person with ARDS will have shortness of breath , which can progress to low blood oxygen , rapid breathing and rattling sounds in the lungs when breathing .
Chattanooga Pron Pillo ... Buy New $ 85.41 ARDS is a common complication among seriously ill COVID-19 patients , with one study suggesting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ died in one study were suffering from ARDS.7 In 2013 , a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that early application of prone positioning may improve outcomes in people with severe ARDS.8 During the study , 466 patients with severe ARDS were randomly assigned to receive prone-positioning sessions of at least 16 hours or to stay in the supine position .
After 28 days , 32.8 % in the supine group had died , compared to 16 % in the prone group .
After 90 days , the supine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % , compared to 23.6 % in the prone group , with researchers concluding , “ In patients with severe ARDS , early application of prolonged prone-positioning sessions significantly decreased 28-day and 90-day mortality.
” 9 Not only have previous studies found that oxygenation is significantly better among patients in the prone position compared to the supine position , but prone positioning may also prevent ventilator-induced lung injury.10 In the video above , Jonathan Downham , an advanced critical care practitioner in the U.K. , explains why prone positioning can be so beneficial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ simple example of a sponge filled with fluid , he shows how the direction of drainage changes depending on the sponge ’ s position .
In ARDS , the lung ’ s air sacs , or alveoli , become damaged .
Fluid leaks through the air sacs ’ damaged walls and collects.11 Fluid in the lung will increase its weight , which then squeezes out the gas from the dependent regions .
If the sponge represents a fluid-filled lung , in the supine position the dependent regions are at the back of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ARDS patient ’ s lung is more evenly distributed than the sponge model suggests , it helps to show how the increased lung mass squeezes out the gas of the gravity-dependent lung regions , and why the lung densities shift when moving from the supine to the prone position .
According to Downham , this shift can occur in a matter of minutes after changing a person ’ s position .
Differences in shape of the lungs and chest wall also come into play .
Lungs are normally conical , with the dependent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ side being the apex .
When supine , your lung is in this configuration .
The chest wall , however , has a cylindrical shape , and because of this difference the lung must expand its upper regions more than the lower regions , which leads to a greater expansion of the nondependent alveoli and a lesser expansion of the dependent alveoli .
Imagining that the lung is like a slinky , Downham then shows how , when a patient is in the prone position , the weight becomes much more evenly distributed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ together , when in the supine position , gravitational forces , increased pressure from the wet lung and shape-matching issues all combine to act in the same direction to have a detrimental effect on the dependent alveoli .
The prone patient , however , suffers less from these effects .
Other benefits also occur with prone positioning , including : • Removing some of the weight of the heart from the dependent lung • Rapid , significant and persistent improvement in oxygenation in the ARDS patient with heart failure • Removing some of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the better ventilated posterior aspect of the lung Master Massage Patente ... Buy New $ 39.99 Prone positioning can also help with stress and strain on the lung , with stress referring to the tension in the fibrous skeleton when distending force is applied and strain being the volume increase caused by the applied force relative to the resting volume of the lungs .
It also reduces lung inflammation in ARDS patients14 and may reduce the severity and the extent of lung injury caused by mechanical ventilation.15 Support for Early Use of Prone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should be used “ systematically ” in the early management of severe ARDS , and not reserved as a “ rescue maneuver or a last-ditch effort.
” 16 As noted by a pathophysiology-based review published in the World Journal of Critical Care Medicine : The researchers suggested that prone positioning seemed to be beneficial in most cases of ARDS and recommended that “ early use of prolonged prone positioning in conjunction with lung-protective strategies decreases mortality significantly.
” 18 For best results , other researchers have suggested that prone ventilation sessions should last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should be begun early , within 36 hours of diagnosis.19 A small study of patients with severe COVID-19-related ARDS who required mechanical ventilation in Wuhan , China also revealed that lying in the prone position for 24-hour periods was better for the lungs.20,21 Unfortunately , despite the many potential benefits , prone positioning remains an underused technique .
One study suggested that only 13.7 % of patients with ARDS , and 32.9 % of patients with severe ARDS , were placed in the prone position.22 Much of the research into prone positioning for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ during mechanical ventilation .
However , at least one study has been planned to determine whether the use of prone positioning in awake self-ventilating patients with COVID-19-induced ARDS could improve gas exchange and reduce the need for invasive mechanical ventilation.23 Previous research also suggests that awake , spontaneously breathing patients who are not intubated can also benefit from prone positioning , which leads to improved oxygenation.24 Another study of care involving critically ill COVID-19 patients in China ’ s Jiangsu Province recommended the use of awake prone positioning , which , the researchers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ improving oxygenation and pulmonary heterogeneity.
” 25 It ’ s also been suggested that the physiological changes that occur with prone positioning may be even more favorable in spontaneously breathing patients than in those who are intubated .
A 2003 study found , in fact , that the prone position led to a rapid increase in partial pressure of oxygen , or PaO2 , which is a measure of how well oxygen moves from the lungs to the blood , among patients with respiratory failure.26 All of the patients in the study were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Silicone Face ...
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In the case of COVID-19 , some experts suggest that all patients who are awake and able to adjust their own position should use the prone position for two- to four-hour sessions , two to four times a day .
Massachusetts General Hospital also released a prone positioning protocol for nonintubated COVID-19 patients , which states:27 How to Use Prone Positioning at Home Some hospitals have also released instructions for self-proning , which can be used at home for people with cough or trouble breathing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ breathe , you should seek emergency medical care .
However , in cases of cough or mild shortness of breath being treated at home , guidelines from Elmhurst Hospital recommend not spending a lot of time lying flat on your back.28,29 Instead , it suggests “ laying [ sic ] on your stomach and in different positions will help your body to get air into all areas of your lung.
” The guidelines recommend changing your position every 30 minutes to two hours , including : • Lying on your right side This @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ease breathing difficulties at home and , if you or a loved one is hospitalized , can be used there too .
If your health care providers don ’ t suggest it , ask whether prone positioning could help .
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Lying in the prone (face down) position, in which your chest is down and your back is up, could be a simple way to improve outcomes in cases of severe respiratory distress. This topic has received renewed attention during the COVID-19 pandemic, as invasive mechanical ventilation is conventionally delivered with the patient in the supine (face up) position, which refers to lying on your back.
“Mechanical ventilation is the main supportive treatment for critically ill patients” infected with novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), according to a February 2020 study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.1 However, reports suggest that many COVID-19 patients put on ventilators don’t make it.
In a JAMA study that included 5,700 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in the New York City area between March 1, 2020, and April 4, 2020, mortality rates for those who received mechanical ventilation ranged from 76.4% to 97.2%, depending on age.2 There are many reasons why those on ventilators have a high risk of mortality, including being more severely ill to begin with.
However, given the poor outcomes, some physicians are now trying to keep patients off ventilators as much as possible by using alternative measures, including having patients lie on their stomachs (prone) to allow for better lung aeration.3
It’s also possible that prone ventilation, which is ventilation delivered with the patient lying in the prone position, may help patients who aren’t responding to conventional ventilation in the supine position,4 as well as reduce mortality in those with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).5

Prone Positioning Lowers Death Rate in Those With ARDS
ARDS is a lung condition that causes low blood oxygen and fluid buildup in the lungs. As fluid builds up in the lungs and surfactant, which helps the lungs fully expand, breaks down, the lungs are unable to properly fill with air.6 A person with ARDS will have shortness of breath, which can progress to low blood oxygen, rapid breathing and rattling sounds in the lungs when breathing. Chattanooga Pron Pillo... Buy New $85.41 (as of 02:33 UTC - Details)
ARDS is a common complication among seriously ill COVID-19 patients, with one study suggesting that 100% of COVID-19 patients who died in one study were suffering from ARDS.7
In 2013, a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that early application of prone positioning may improve outcomes in people with severe ARDS.8 During the study, 466 patients with severe ARDS were randomly assigned to receive prone-positioning sessions of at least 16 hours or to stay in the supine position.
After 28 days, 32.8% in the supine group had died, compared to 16% in the prone group. After 90 days, the supine group had a mortality rate of 41%, compared to 23.6% in the prone group, with researchers concluding, “In patients with severe ARDS, early application of prolonged prone-positioning sessions significantly decreased 28-day and 90-day mortality.”9
Not only have previous studies found that oxygenation is significantly better among patients in the prone position compared to the supine position, but prone positioning may also prevent ventilator-induced lung injury.10
Why Prone Positioning Benefits ARDS Patients
In the video above, Jonathan Downham, an advanced critical care practitioner in the U.K., explains why prone positioning can be so beneficial for those with ARDS. Using a simple example of a sponge filled with fluid, he shows how the direction of drainage changes depending on the sponge’s position.
In ARDS, the lung’s air sacs, or alveoli, become damaged. Fluid leaks through the air sacs’ damaged walls and collects.11 Fluid in the lung will increase its weight, which then squeezes out the gas from the dependent regions. If the sponge represents a fluid-filled lung, in the supine position the dependent regions are at the back of the lung.
While the fluid in an ARDS patient’s lung is more evenly distributed than the sponge model suggests, it helps to show how the increased lung mass squeezes out the gas of the gravity-dependent lung regions, and why the lung densities shift when moving from the supine to the prone position.
According to Downham, this shift can occur in a matter of minutes after changing a person’s position. Differences in shape of the lungs and chest wall also come into play. Lungs are normally conical, with the dependent side being the base and the non-dependent side being the apex. When supine, your lung is in this configuration.
The chest wall, however, has a cylindrical shape, and because of this difference the lung must expand its upper regions more than the lower regions, which leads to a greater expansion of the nondependent alveoli and a lesser expansion of the dependent alveoli.
Imagining that the lung is like a slinky, Downham then shows how, when a patient is in the prone position, the weight becomes much more evenly distributed, allowing for better ventilation.
Taken together, when in the supine position, gravitational forces, increased pressure from the wet lung and shape-matching issues all combine to act in the same direction to have a detrimental effect on the dependent alveoli. The prone patient, however, suffers less from these effects. Other benefits also occur with prone positioning, including:
Removing some of the weight of the heart from the dependent lung 12
Rapid, significant and persistent improvement in oxygenation in the ARDS patient with heart failure
Removing some of the weight of the abdominal contents from the better ventilated posterior aspect of the lung 13
Master Massage Patente... Buy New $39.99 (as of 02:33 UTC - Details) Prone positioning can also help with stress and strain on the lung, with stress referring to the tension in the fibrous skeleton when distending force is applied and strain being the volume increase caused by the applied force relative to the resting volume of the lungs. It also reduces lung inflammation in ARDS patients14 and may reduce the severity and the extent of lung injury caused by mechanical ventilation.15
Support for Early Use of Prone Positioning
Increasing research suggests that prone positioning should be used “systematically” in the early management of severe ARDS, and not reserved as a “rescue maneuver or a last-ditch effort.”16 As noted by a pathophysiology-based review published in the World Journal of Critical Care Medicine:
“Current evidence strongly supports that prone positioning has beneficial effects on gas exchange, respiratory mechanics, lung protection and hemodynamics as it redistributes transpulmonary pressure, stress and strain throughout the lung and unloads the right ventricle.”17
The researchers suggested that prone positioning seemed to be beneficial in most cases of ARDS and recommended that “early use of prolonged prone positioning in conjunction with lung-protective strategies decreases mortality significantly.”18 For best results, other researchers have suggested that prone ventilation sessions should last 12 to 18 hours per session and should be begun early, within 36 hours of diagnosis.19
A small study of patients with severe COVID-19-related ARDS who required mechanical ventilation in Wuhan, China also revealed that lying in the prone position for 24-hour periods was better for the lungs.20,21 Unfortunately, despite the many potential benefits, prone positioning remains an underused technique. One study suggested that only 13.7% of patients with ARDS, and 32.9% of patients with severe ARDS, were placed in the prone position.22
Awake Proning Is Also Beneficial
Much of the research into prone positioning for respiratory distress has focused on its use during mechanical ventilation. However, at least one study has been planned to determine whether the use of prone positioning in awake self-ventilating patients with COVID-19-induced ARDS could improve gas exchange and reduce the need for invasive mechanical ventilation.23
Previous research also suggests that awake, spontaneously breathing patients who are not intubated can also benefit from prone positioning, which leads to improved oxygenation.24 Another study of care involving critically ill COVID-19 patients in China’s Jiangsu Province recommended the use of awake prone positioning, which, the researchers noted, “showed significant effects in improving oxygenation and pulmonary heterogeneity.”25
It’s also been suggested that the physiological changes that occur with prone positioning may be even more favorable in spontaneously breathing patients than in those who are intubated.
A 2003 study found, in fact, that the prone position led to a rapid increase in partial pressure of oxygen, or PaO2, which is a measure of how well oxygen moves from the lungs to the blood, among patients with respiratory failure.26 All of the patients in the study were able to avoid mechanical ventilation. Lurrose Silicone Face ... Check Amazon for Pricing.
In the case of COVID-19, some experts suggest that all patients who are awake and able to adjust their own position should use the prone position for two- to four-hour sessions, two to four times a day. Massachusetts General Hospital also released a prone positioning protocol for nonintubated COVID-19 patients, which states:27
“… [P]atients admitted with hypoxemia should be encouraged to adopt the prone position where practical and prone positioning may be used as a rescue therapy in patients with escalating oxygen needs.”
How to Use Prone Positioning at Home
Some hospitals have also released instructions for self-proning, which can be used at home for people with cough or trouble breathing. If you’re struggling to breathe, you should seek emergency medical care. However, in cases of cough or mild shortness of breath being treated at home, guidelines from Elmhurst Hospital recommend not spending a lot of time lying flat on your back.28,29
Instead, it suggests “laying [sic] on your stomach and in different positions will help your body to get air into all areas of your lung.” The guidelines recommend changing your position every 30 minutes to two hours, including:
Lying on your belly
Lying on your right side
Sitting up
Lying on your left side
This is a simple way to potentially help ease breathing difficulties at home and, if you or a loved one is hospitalized, can be used there too. If your health care providers don’t suggest it, ask whether prone positioning could help.
Sources and References
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lewrockwell--2020-05-09--The Coronavirus Response: The Goal Is Control of All Humanity

“ The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society .
Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
” ~ Edward L. Bernays ( 1930 ) .
“ Propaganda ” Propaganda is the most useful tool of those that desire to hold power over others , and for the global ruling class , this equates to power over all .
It is first necessary to create some sort of broad chaos or crisis in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to initiate fear .
This will immediately trigger the herd mentality in the masses , and an escape toward safety will be sought .
The next step once the herd is gathered is to first offer protection , and then to offer a solution to guarantee future safety .
Once the herd accepts this premise , control by small outside forces becomes possible .
As long as the propaganda continues and is accepted by the herd , which requires a continuance of fear , the more control that will evident .
Propaganda Bernays @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buy New $ 9.91 This is exactly what has happened as of late due to a false pandemic called Covid-19 , which in effect is simply a normal flu-like sickness blown completely out of proportion by design .
The only way that this fraud could have advanced to this current level , is if the propaganda campaign not only fooled large numbers of people , but the entire world ’ s populations .
This has never happened before in history , and that is part of the reason it has been such a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the lie , the more people that are captured due to that lie , and this lie has been the biggest deception of all time .
No dictator , king , or murdering tyrant in the past could have ever conceived of such a world takeover as this , and would stand in awe at its scope .
We are now facing things that have never occurred , and this alone will help to keep the common hordes dazed and confused while the criminal manipulators continue their assault on all of us , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the way .
As freedom disappears , resistance will lessen , regardless whether the loss of individual freedom is accomplished by voluntary reaction or by force .
This might seem contrary to what would normally be expected , but the more the people give up their freedom to seek safety for what is falsely claimed as being for the common good , the more the individual will be shunned and shamed .
Without acceptance of individual intellect and truth , dissent will fade and any control by the people will eventually be lost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a loss of freedom .
Those that are responsible for this massive coup are few , but those involved in its implementation include many .
The many are made up of all the enforcers , including the entire political class from bottom to top , the police , the military , and even much of the compliant citizenry ; those that are the eyes of the state that voluntarily monitor their neighbors due to false fear .
These are pathetic ignoramuses , for they are directly responsible for causing their own enslavement by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ masters .
Most of them have no concept of this contradiction , for they are not able mentally to grasp the reality of their actions .
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This is temporary , for most all economies are already finished , and a new global system is desired in order to sustain the appearance of legitimate economies and markets .
The collapse will be blamed conveniently on this coronavirus , but that is just a cover for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money , tracking of everything and every transaction , social scoring , internal passports ( papers ) , and centralized control of all essential goods , services , and natural resources .
Most of the major wealth in this country is controlled by about 1 % of the population , but with this reaction to the pandemic scare , especially the purposeful economic destruction that has happened , things will continue to get much worse as time goes by .
Because of this manufactured pandemic , the wealth shift that was planned all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ asset prices , the top 1 % will end up doubling their wealth at the expense of us all .
With 50 million people or more soon to be out of work , many for good , businesses shutting down nationwide , food shortages , enhanced health risks , and mass poverty , control by the state will be easier to achieve , especially as technocratic systems continue to be advanced .
One of the major agendas sought by those running this country is population control .
This control includes not only physical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but also includes controlling population numbers .
What is happening and being planned is a eugenicist ’ s dream .
Those like Bill Gates , Tony Fauci , the WHO , the CDC , the major pharmaceutical companies , and the heads of the “ healthcare ” systems are of course all involved , and this may be the most sinister aspect of this entire fraud .
I believe the most major agenda item at this time is mandatory global vaccination , and the goal is to vaccinate all 8 billion people on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with this heinous plan now widely accepted by not only the controlling elite , but by the political system as well .
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This is not science fiction , but has already been planned by Bill Gates , as he has major control of most all government and private “ healthcare ” organizations and NGOs worldwide .
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He owns many vaccine companies , and all associated companies to accomplish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ population control .
His agendas can not be allowed to go forward .
So what does our future hold if mass resistance is not forthcoming ?
This new SARS-related virus called Covid-19 was almost certainly created in a U.S. lab , and although not nearly as deadly as propagated by government and media , and in fact , most likely less dangerous than the common flu , it was the catalyst necessary to fool the people so as to gain control over large populations .
This government has the ability to produce very @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at will any multitude of viruses that would be much more deadly than this one , and could do so without detection .
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“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.” ~ Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”
Propaganda is the most useful tool of those that desire to hold power over others, and for the global ruling class, this equates to power over all. It is first necessary to create some sort of broad chaos or crisis in order to present a particular scenario meant to initiate fear. This will immediately trigger the herd mentality in the masses, and an escape toward safety will be sought. The next step once the herd is gathered is to first offer protection, and then to offer a solution to guarantee future safety. Once the herd accepts this premise, control by small outside forces becomes possible. As long as the propaganda continues and is accepted by the herd, which requires a continuance of fear, the more control that will evident.
Propaganda Bernays, Edward Best Price: $14.83 Buy New $9.91 (as of 03:56 UTC - Details) This is exactly what has happened as of late due to a false pandemic called Covid-19, which in effect is simply a normal flu-like sickness blown completely out of proportion by design. The only way that this fraud could have advanced to this current level, is if the propaganda campaign not only fooled large numbers of people, but the entire world’s populations. This has never happened before in history, and that is part of the reason it has been such a successful takeover of humanity. The larger the lie, the more people that are captured due to that lie, and this lie has been the biggest deception of all time. No dictator, king, or murdering tyrant in the past could have ever conceived of such a world takeover as this, and would stand in awe at its scope.
We are now facing things that have never occurred, and this alone will help to keep the common hordes dazed and confused while the criminal manipulators continue their assault on all of us, eliminating as much freedom as possible along the way. As freedom disappears, resistance will lessen, regardless whether the loss of individual freedom is accomplished by voluntary reaction or by force. This might seem contrary to what would normally be expected, but the more the people give up their freedom to seek safety for what is falsely claimed as being for the common good, the more the individual will be shunned and shamed. Without acceptance of individual intellect and truth, dissent will fade and any control by the people will eventually be lost. With that loss of control comes a loss of freedom.
Those that are responsible for this massive coup are few, but those involved in its implementation include many. The many are made up of all the enforcers, including the entire political class from bottom to top, the police, the military, and even much of the compliant citizenry; those that are the eyes of the state that voluntarily monitor their neighbors due to false fear. These are pathetic ignoramuses, for they are directly responsible for causing their own enslavement by helping to advance the agenda of their masters. Most of them have no concept of this contradiction, for they are not able mentally to grasp the reality of their actions.
So what is the goal sought by the perpetrators of this massive pandemic fraud? The ultimate goal is total control of all humanity, but once the general populace is mostly subdued, the many agendas desired by those in power can be more easily achieved. Those agendas cover a lot of territory, so this is a complicated strategy, but the basic plan has several very important mandates that are necessary for the future. Crosman SNR357 .177-Ca... Buy New $56.69 (as of 03:56 UTC - Details)
The U.S. economy, and most large economic systems worldwide, have failed, and are being artificially supported in order to keep the people at bay during this global debacle. This is temporary, for most all economies are already finished, and a new global system is desired in order to sustain the appearance of legitimate economies and markets. The collapse will be blamed conveniently on this coronavirus, but that is just a cover for creating a new monetary system with digital money, tracking of everything and every transaction, social scoring, internal passports (papers), and centralized control of all essential goods, services, and natural resources.
Most of the major wealth in this country is controlled by about 1% of the population, but with this reaction to the pandemic scare, especially the purposeful economic destruction that has happened, things will continue to get much worse as time goes by. Because of this manufactured pandemic, the wealth shift that was planned all along due to a structured depression in asset prices, the top 1% will end up doubling their wealth at the expense of us all. With 50 million people or more soon to be out of work, many for good, businesses shutting down nationwide, food shortages, enhanced health risks, and mass poverty, control by the state will be easier to achieve, especially as technocratic systems continue to be advanced.
One of the major agendas sought by those running this country is population control. This control includes not only physical and mental control of entire populations, but also includes controlling population numbers. What is happening and being planned is a eugenicist’s dream. Those like Bill Gates, Tony Fauci, the WHO, the CDC, the major pharmaceutical companies, and the heads of the “healthcare” systems are of course all involved, and this may be the most sinister aspect of this entire fraud. I believe the most major agenda item at this time is mandatory global vaccination, and the goal is to vaccinate all 8 billion people on earth. Many agendas will be accomplished with this heinous plan now widely accepted by not only the controlling elite, but by the political system as well. awesafe Gun Safe with ... Buy New $159.00 (as of 03:56 UTC - Details)
This vaccination plan has been in place for decades, and the manner in which to accomplish this goal has been in place for very many years under the guise of “health safety.” Nothing could be more ludicrous. Vaccination of everyone leaves open the possibility to massively reduce the world’s population though death, weakened immune systems, permanent DNA alteration, sterilization of mass populations, and microchip implanting through vaccination that would allow for 100% monitoring and control of everyone. This is not science fiction, but has already been planned by Bill Gates, as he has major control of most all government and private “healthcare” organizations and NGOs worldwide. His connections are from the White House, to most major country’s governments, and to most all “health” related systems globally. He owns many vaccine companies, and all associated companies to accomplish his and other’s mission of population control. His agendas cannot be allowed to go forward.
So what does our future hold if mass resistance is not forthcoming? This new SARS-related virus called Covid-19 was almost certainly created in a U.S. lab, and although not nearly as deadly as propagated by government and media, and in fact, most likely less dangerous than the common flu, it was the catalyst necessary to fool the people so as to gain control over large populations. This government has the ability to produce very dangerous biological weapons, and can produce at will any multitude of viruses that would be much more deadly than this one, and could do so without detection. With a second wave certainly coming, and if necessary, a third and fourth wave, what will be next? Will it be Covid, or something much worse? Will it kill just enough to continue the lockdowns, or will it be much more devastating the next time around? It is coming, and it is this writer’s opinion that this is leading to the end game, and will not go away, or be temporary, but will be taken as far as is necessary and possible in order for the ruling class to gain total control. There is little time left.
The Best of Gary D. Barnett