lewrockwell--2020-12-03--Why Covid-19 Vaccines Won’t Save the World

• When 95 % Vaccine Effectiveness Is Really Less Than 1 % .
• If you want to pass your COVID-19 test , you should know that garlic , zinc and resveratrol inhibit the polymerase enzyme upon which the test is based .
• And Why I Might Opt For A Garlic Clove Over Vaccination The news headline is that COVID-19 vaccines are 95 % effective against COVID-19 coronavirus .
However , vaccines for other infectious diseases only have a 33.4 % success rate .
What gives ?
The effectiveness of a vaccine can not exceed the infection rate of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million people and 1 million will become infected , a vaccine can not possibly benefit more than 1 in 100 , or 1 % .
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Maybe only 6 % of these deaths were attributed to COVID-19 infection alone , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ per 10,000 people .
The effectiveness of a vaccine in regard to mortality can not exceed that number .
In regard to effectiveness to prevent infection , using the data above , a COVID-19 vaccine could not exceed 7 % effectiveness because that is all that were infected .
Yet COVID-19 vaccines now entering preliminary clinical studies are now being touted as 95+ % effective at quelling symptoms , at least temporarily .
Using the above figures , if you vaccinate the entire population of Americans , 325,000,000 , about 1,950,000 ( 6 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would totally avert severe symptoms should they be infected with COVID-19 in the immediate period following inoculation with Moderna ’ s COVID-19 RNA vaccine .
But it remains unknown whether the vaccine prevents infection altogether or whether it even saves lives .
1 out of 166 Americans would still get infected but not experience severe symptoms .
But confoundingly , a good fever is needed to produce long-lasting antibodies .
For me , I might opt for a clove of garlic .
Let me tell you why .
The COVID-19 vaccine I ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s new RNA COVID-19 vaccine that attempts to genetically produce the very antigen that triggers the production of viral-specific antibodies .
But antibodies are not long lasting and what is really protecting against infection are T-cells , and in particular T-memory cells that produce long-lasting immunity .
Garlicin OdorFree Garl ... Buy New $ 16.74 ( $ 16.74 / Count ) Within a short period following inoculation with MODERNA ’ s RNA vaccine , 5 of 15,000 people experienced symptoms ( none severe ) versus 90 of 15,000 people who exhibited symptoms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after being given an inactive placebo .
So , you have to vaccinate all 325,000,000 million Americans to calm or eliminate symptoms of COVID-19 in 1-in-166 people .
That is a pretty low-bar for vaccine manufacturers to hurdle to gain FDA licensure .
Since only a few people will be infected with COVID-19 at any given time , mass vaccination programs represent over-vaccination .
It would be more appropriate , and safer , to treat the few people who do develop COVID-19-related symptoms than expose an entire population to an unproven vaccine that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disease itself .
Just a 1 % vaccine side effect rate would put 3,250,000 million Americans in sick bay versus an estimated 1,950,00 COVID-19 infected Americans who would just avert severe side effects .
Vaccine vs. placebo is not real world But comparing vaccines next to nothing ( inactive placebo ) is not a real-world test .
People try to prevent from having to deal with a week-long bout of the flu or a cold by taking preventive action ( vitamins , minerals , herbs ) , or at least take something once @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which ironically is necessary for adequate antibodies to be produced .
Inexplicably , modern medicine has nothing outside of vaccines to prevent infectious disease .
Vaccines not the only route to immunity I want you to think that exposure to anything that is mildly noxious will cause your immune system to be activated .
Emergen-C Immune+ 1000 ... Buy New $ 21.00 ( $ 2.26 / Ounce ) For example , probiotics like acidophilus are non-pathogenic bacteria that provoke the immune system to produce armies of white blood cells ( neutrophils , macrophages @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) to seek and destroy any incoming pathogenic bacteria , viruses or fungi in the digestive tract .
Or , as another example , a crushed garlic clove , which contains a very pungent molecule called allicin , alerts the immune system to be activated .
( The trick is the clove must be crushed prior to consumption or stomach acid will negate the enzymatic conversion of alliin to allicin .
Or an alkalinized garlic capsule negates stomach acid and facilitates conversion of alliin to allicin , the primary active ingredient in garlic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vitamin D pills as a mimic of sunburn , activate squads of white blood cells – -neutrophils and macrophages – to optimize the immune system ( but also advantageously calms down the ratio of neutrophils to other white blood cells that produce inflammation .
In other words , vitamin D remarkably normalizes the immune response instead of producing autoimmunity – – body against itself ) .
So , there is prevention of COVID-19 from natural remedies .
These natural remedies also serve as back-up when and should vaccines fail .
So now you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ toxins ) such as aluminum or squalene to provoke an immune response , and who knows if the adjuvant is producing all the immediate benefits ( and side effects ) of the vaccine rather than the attenuated virus in the vaccine ?
Beware : Aluminum adjuvants can potentially induce autoimmunity , long-term brain inflammation , and can produce long-term complications .
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The COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic has revealed antibodies only produce short-term immunity ( last only about a year ) whereas zinc-dependent T-cells selectively kill virally-infected cells .
For comparison , anti-coronavirus T-cells have been found 17 years after infection .
( Modern medicine fails to even recognize the importance of zinc in making vaccines work . )
Antibody production depends upon the severity of the infection .
COVID-19 antibodies are detected up to 7 months following infection .
This is WITHOUT vaccination .
“ Most people infected with COVID-19 will have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ months after initial infection , ” says an authoritative report .
Which means , infection produces a health benefit .
The more people who get infected , the fewer who will need vaccination .
So , why all the quarantines once a person is infected ?
If they are super-spreaders they will unintentionally assist others in achieving immunity against COVID-19 .
Quarantines simply slow the development of herd immunity .
Lockdowns and quarantines are just to slow the spread of the disease and not overwhelm hospitals , rather than prevent disease .
How @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inhibits COVID-19 polymerase and therefore its replication capacity .
Recall the PCR ( polymerase chain reaction ) test is the standard for diagnosis of COVID-19 .
If you want to be COVID-19-negative when health authorities force you to be tested at work or school , zinc would be a way to pass that test and avoid quarantine .
While vaccines may produce short-term antibodies , zinc activates long-term T-cell immunity .
Also , a well-fashioned garlic capsule would afford some level of prevention and , like zinc , inhibit viral RNA polymerase , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 in its tracks .
Doctor ’ s Best , T ... Buy New $ 17.39 ( $ 0.29 / Count ) If anyone wants to splash around ninety-percent effectiveness numbers , the red wine molecule resveratrol ( rez-vair-ah-trol ) inhibits replication of COVID-19 by 98 % at a modest concentration in a lab dish .
And resveratrol inhibits DNA polymerase , the enzyme that controls COVID-19 rate of replication .
But vaccine entrepreneur Bill Gates is not invested in resveratrol , or garlic , or zinc .
There are seven approaches to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ DNA , RNA , inactivated virus , live attenuated virus , nonreplicating viral vectors , replicating viral vectors and protein subunits .
It goes unexplained whether the public will have their choice of vaccines .
One report claims the public “ should be prepared that they might not prevent infection but rather reduce symptoms.
” One expert said “ many , and possibly all ” of the vaccines… could fail.
” Which one will you get ?
Let ’ s not get too excited about COVID-19 vaccines .
After years of research , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Even licensed vaccines may be recalled after they are licensed .
Eight vaccines have been recalled over concerns about safety .
You may be stuck with a vaccine side effect for life One of the potential problems with a RNA vaccine like Moderna ’ s is that humanity would be entering the unknown .
The Moderna vaccine attempts to alter your genetic makeup to create an antigen ( something that generates an immune response ) forever .
However , if you experience a side effect , that may be forever also , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jr .
Fearful of vaccination ?
What about vaccine consent forms ?
The website www.covid19consent.com offers a comprehensive 18-page consent/refusal form for COVID-19 that describes your rights to refuse vaccination under federal law ; how to hold any health professional liable for any vaccine side effects ; why you should record the production lot number of the vaccine as a permanent record , and learn your chances of benefiting from vaccination .

When 95% Vaccine Effectiveness Is Really Less Than 1%.
If you want to pass your COVID-19 test, you should know that garlic, zinc and resveratrol inhibit the polymerase enzyme upon which the test is based.
And Why I Might Opt For A Garlic Clove Over Vaccination
The 95% effectiveness number is questioned
The news headline is that COVID-19 vaccines are 95% effective against COVID-19 coronavirus. However, vaccines for other infectious diseases only have a 33.4% success rate. What gives?
The effectiveness of a vaccine cannot exceed the infection rate of the population. If there are 100 million people and 1 million will become infected, a vaccine cannot possibly benefit more than 1 in 100, or 1%. Sundown Odorless Garli... Buy New $12.95 ($0.05 / Count) (as of 06:07 UTC - Details)
In the District of Columbia as of November 29, 2020, 306,447 DC residents have been tested and 21,552 (7%) tested positive; 680 deaths were attributed to COVID-19 (2/10ths of one-percent). Maybe only 6% of these deaths were attributed to COVID-19 infection alone, or 41 deaths which is 1.3 deaths per 10,000 people. The effectiveness of a vaccine in regard to mortality cannot exceed that number. In regard to effectiveness to prevent infection, using the data above, a COVID-19 vaccine could not exceed 7% effectiveness because that is all that were infected.
Yet COVID-19 vaccines now entering preliminary clinical studies are now being touted as 95+% effective at quelling symptoms, at least temporarily.
Examination of an RNA vaccine
Using the above figures, if you vaccinate the entire population of Americans, 325,000,000, about 1,950,000 (6 in 1000 or 6/10ths of one-percent) would totally avert severe symptoms should they be infected with COVID-19 in the immediate period following inoculation with Moderna’s COVID-19 RNA vaccine. But it remains unknown whether the vaccine prevents infection altogether or whether it even saves lives. 1 out of 166 Americans would still get infected but not experience severe symptoms.
But confoundingly, a good fever is needed to produce long-lasting antibodies. For me, I might opt for a clove of garlic. Let me tell you why.
The Moderna RNA vaccine
The COVID-19 vaccine I’m using as an example is MODERNA’s new RNA COVID-19 vaccine that attempts to genetically produce the very antigen that triggers the production of viral-specific antibodies. But antibodies are not long lasting and what is really protecting against infection are T-cells, and in particular T-memory cells that produce long-lasting immunity. Garlicin OdorFree Garl... Check Amazon for Pricing.
Within a short period following inoculation with MODERNA’s RNA vaccine, 5 of 15,000 people experienced symptoms (none severe) versus 90 of 15,000 people who exhibited symptoms of COVID-19 (15 severe cases) after being given an inactive placebo. So, you have to vaccinate all 325,000,000 million Americans to calm or eliminate symptoms of COVID-19 in 1-in-166 people. That is a pretty low-bar for vaccine manufacturers to hurdle to gain FDA licensure.
Mass vaccination represents overvaccination
Since only a few people will be infected with COVID-19 at any given time, mass vaccination programs represent over-vaccination. It would be more appropriate, and safer, to treat the few people who do develop COVID-19-related symptoms than expose an entire population to an unproven vaccine that could produce more side effects than the disease itself.
Just a 1% vaccine side effect rate would put 3,250,000 million Americans in sick bay versus an estimated 1,950,00 COVID-19 infected Americans who would just avert severe side effects.
Vaccine vs. placebo is not real world
But comparing vaccines next to nothing (inactive placebo) is not a real-world test. People try to prevent from having to deal with a week-long bout of the flu or a cold by taking preventive action (vitamins, minerals, herbs), or at least take something once symptoms arise, to quell a fever which ironically is necessary for adequate antibodies to be produced. Inexplicably, modern medicine has nothing outside of vaccines to prevent infectious disease.
Vaccines not the only route to immunity
I want you to think that exposure to anything that is mildly noxious will cause your immune system to be activated. Emergen-C Immune+ Vita... Check Amazon for Pricing.
For example, probiotics like acidophilus are non-pathogenic bacteria that provoke the immune system to produce armies of white blood cells (neutrophils, macrophages, natural killer cells, etc.) to seek and destroy any incoming pathogenic bacteria, viruses or fungi in the digestive tract.
Or, as another example, a crushed garlic clove, which contains a very pungent molecule called allicin, alerts the immune system to be activated. (The trick is the clove must be crushed prior to consumption or stomach acid will negate the enzymatic conversion of alliin to allicin. Or an alkalinized garlic capsule negates stomach acid and facilitates conversion of alliin to allicin, the primary active ingredient in garlic.)
Or as another example, vitamin D pills as a mimic of sunburn, activate squads of white blood cells – -neutrophils and macrophages – to optimize the immune system (but also advantageously calms down the ratio of neutrophils to other white blood cells that produce inflammation. In other words, vitamin D remarkably normalizes the immune response instead of producing autoimmunity – – body against itself).
So, there is prevention of COVID-19 from natural remedies. These natural remedies also serve as back-up when and should vaccines fail.
Beware: heavy-metal vaccine adjuvants
So now you take a vaccine loaded with adjuvants (toxins) such as aluminum or squalene to provoke an immune response, and who knows if the adjuvant is producing all the immediate benefits (and side effects) of the vaccine rather than the attenuated virus in the vaccine?
Beware: Aluminum adjuvants can potentially induce autoimmunity, long-term brain inflammation, and can produce long-term complications.
Long-term memory T-cells versus transient antibodies
NOW Foods Natural Resv... Check Amazon for Pricing. An attenuated virus in a vaccine with the aid of fever would provoke specific antigens and more importantly, memory T-cells, to produce long-lasting immunity. The COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic has revealed antibodies only produce short-term immunity (last only about a year) whereas zinc-dependent T-cells selectively kill virally-infected cells. For comparison, anti-coronavirus T-cells have been found 17 years after infection. (Modern medicine fails to even recognize the importance of zinc in making vaccines work.)
Infection produces a health benefit
Antibody production depends upon the severity of the infection. COVID-19 antibodies are detected up to 7 months following infection. This is WITHOUT vaccination.
“Most people infected with COVID-19 will have protective immunity against circulating viruses for many months after initial infection,” says an authoritative report. Which means, infection produces a health benefit. The more people who get infected, the fewer who will need vaccination.
So, why all the quarantines once a person is infected? If they are super-spreaders they will unintentionally assist others in achieving immunity against COVID-19. Quarantines simply slow the development of herd immunity. Lockdowns and quarantines are just to slow the spread of the disease and not overwhelm hospitals, rather than prevent disease.
How to pass your COVID-19 test
Zinc actually inhibits COVID-19 polymerase and therefore its replication capacity. Recall the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test is the standard for diagnosis of COVID-19. If you want to be COVID-19-negative when health authorities force you to be tested at work or school, zinc would be a way to pass that test and avoid quarantine. While vaccines may produce short-term antibodies, zinc activates long-term T-cell immunity.
Also, a well-fashioned garlic capsule would afford some level of prevention and, like zinc, inhibit viral RNA polymerase, that is, halt the reproduction of COVID-19 in its tracks. Doctor’s Best, T... Buy New $20.16 ($0.34 / Count) (as of 05:13 UTC - Details)
If anyone wants to splash around ninety-percent effectiveness numbers, the red wine molecule resveratrol (rez-vair-ah-trol) inhibits replication of COVID-19 by 98% at a modest concentration in a lab dish. And resveratrol inhibits DNA polymerase, the enzyme that controls COVID-19 rate of replication. But vaccine entrepreneur Bill Gates is not invested in resveratrol, or garlic, or zinc.
Smorgasbord of vaccines for guinea-pig Americans
There are seven approaches to the development of a COVID-19 vaccine: DNA, RNA, inactivated virus, live attenuated virus, nonreplicating viral vectors, replicating viral vectors and protein subunits. It goes unexplained whether the public will have their choice of vaccines.
One report claims the public “should be prepared that they might not prevent infection but rather reduce symptoms.” One expert said “many, and possibly all” of the vaccines… could fail.” Which one will you get?
Let’s not get too excited about COVID-19 vaccines. After years of research, there are no vaccines against any coronavirus. Even licensed vaccines may be recalled after they are licensed. Eight vaccines have been recalled over concerns about safety.
You may be stuck with a vaccine side effect for life
One of the potential problems with a RNA vaccine like Moderna’s is that humanity would be entering the unknown. The Moderna vaccine attempts to alter your genetic makeup to create an antigen (something that generates an immune response) forever. However, if you experience a side effect, that may be forever also, says leading vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Fearful of vaccination? What about vaccine consent forms?
The website www.covid19consent.com offers a comprehensive 18-page consent/refusal form for COVID-19 that describes your rights to refuse vaccination under federal law; how to hold any health professional liable for any vaccine side effects; why you should record the production lot number of the vaccine as a permanent record, and learn your chances of benefiting from vaccination.
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lewrockwell--2020-12-03--How the Election Was Stolen in Michigan

How the Election Was Stolen in Michigan

This is an extremely important explanation of the Computer Algorithm used in Michigan to commit election fraud , which is organized fraud committed by election officials , not fraud committed by voters .
Experts give a clear explanation in the video below , but it is often helpful to have an overview before the lesson begins .
I will have a shot at providing one : Experts show that the higher the percentage of Republicans in a voting precinct , the lower the percent of the vote that went to Trump .
The lower the percentage of Republicans in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the vote to Trump .
Trump starts off doing well in non-Republican precincts , but as the precincts become more Republican , he does less and less well .
Trump ’ s vote goes from doing 7 % to 12 % better than the Republican vote in heavy Democrat precincts to 25 % worse than the Republican vote in heavy Republican precincts .
The only explanation for the decline in Trump ’ s vote as the precincts become more heavily Republican is vote-weighting in which votes are allocated not by how they are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the false statements by Dominion and the presstitutes , the voting machines have a feature described in the Dominion manual itself that permits the vote to be weighted in order to favor one candidate over the other .
For example , 0.7 % of a vote can be allocated to one candidate and 0.3 % of the vote to another regardless of how it was cast .
There is conclusive proof that this was done in the November 3 , 2020 , election .
Notice that it is a person of Indian descent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our democracy from the white liberal-left .
The enemy of Americans are not blacks or Russians or Chinese or Iranians .
Our enemies are the White Liberals and the leftwing Identity Politics facists .
These self-hating whites hate white people who they demonize as racists .
These self-hating whites are dupes of the Establishment who use them to destroy democracy and accountable government , which the Establishment regards as being in the way of the Establishment ’ s agendas .
The white liberal-left are enabling the elite ’ s destruction of American democracy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will completely understand how the election was stolen .
You will be able to explain the election theft clearly to others .
Some people , of course , want the election to be stolen , because they are willing to sacrifice democracy to getting rid of Trump .
Ideologues are not touched by fact or evidence .
Ideologues are irrational emotional people secure in their hatreds .
It is these people who are our enemies .
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This is an extremely important explanation of the Computer Algorithm used in Michigan to commit election fraud, which is organized fraud committed by election officials, not fraud committed by voters. Experts give a clear explanation in the video below, but it is often helpful to have an overview before the lesson begins. I will have a shot at providing one: Experts show that the higher the percentage of Republicans in a voting precinct, the lower the percent of the vote that went to Trump. The lower the percentage of Republicans in a precinct, the higher the percent of the vote to Trump. Trump starts off doing well in non-Republican precincts, but as the precincts become more Republican, he does less and less well. Trump’s vote goes from doing 7% to 12% better than the Republican vote in heavy Democrat precincts to 25% worse than the Republican vote in heavy Republican precincts. The only explanation for the decline in Trump’s vote as the precincts become more heavily Republican is vote-weighting in which votes are allocated not by how they are cast but by computer algorithm.
Despite the false statements by Dominion and the presstitutes, the voting machines have a feature described in the Dominion manual itself that permits the vote to be weighted in order to favor one candidate over the other. For example, 0.7% of a vote can be allocated to one candidate and 0.3% of the vote to another regardless of how it was cast. There is conclusive proof that this was done in the November 3, 2020, election.
Notice that it is a person of Indian descent and a black American who are defending our democracy from the white liberal-left. The enemy of Americans are not blacks or Russians or Chinese or Iranians. Our enemies are the White Liberals and the leftwing Identity Politics facists. These self-hating whites hate white people who they demonize as racists. These self-hating whites are dupes of the Establishment who use them to destroy democracy and accountable government, which the Establishment regards as being in the way of the Establishment’s agendas. The white liberal-left are enabling the elite’s destruction of American democracy.
Watch this video presentation and you will completely understand how the election was stolen. You will be able to explain the election theft clearly to others. Some people, of course, want the election to be stolen, because they are willing to sacrifice democracy to getting rid of Trump. Ideologues are not touched by fact or evidence. Ideologues are irrational emotional people secure in their hatreds. It is these people who are our enemies.
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The First Freedom

“ But even in a pandemic , the Constitution can not be put away and forgotten.
” — Supreme Court of the United States , November 25 , 2020 When teaching law students about the Bill of Rights , professors often ask on the first day of class which is the first freedom protected by the First Amendment .
The students invariably answer , “ freedom of speech.
” It is not .
If the framers were trying to tell us which freedom is the first among equals , they did so by listing the religion clauses ahead of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prohibit the government from respecting the establishment of religion and from interfering with its free exercise .
Men ’ s Belt Perso ... Buy New $ 34.95 This is not an academic issue .
Recent events have demonstrated that the free exercise of religion is as threatened today as it was in 1791 when the First Amendment was ratified .
Numerous state governors have targeted the free exercise of religion in their multifaceted assaults on personal liberty in the name of public safety .
Last week , the Supreme Court put a stop @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the backstory .
Andrew M. Cuomo is the governor of New York .
He has been foremost among his gubernatorial colleagues in his ubiquitous television explanations of his various executive orders restricting personal liberty during the COVID–19 pandemic .
He even won an Emmy for his hundreds of television appearances during which he educated the viewing public on his understanding of the science behind the pandemic .
He attempted to educate the public , as well , on his understanding of the Constitution .
That understanding is wanting .
Cuomo established a color-coded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ COVID-19 infection rate by ZIP code .
Red is the most severe and calls for limiting worship to 10 people per indoor venue .
Orange is the next level , and it limits worshippers to 25 .
Since the governor did not deem the right to worship as “ essential , ” even though he deemed campgrounds and bicycle , food and liquor shops to be essential , he imposed his 10- or 25-person limit on all houses of worship , irrespective of the size of the venue .
He imposed no numerical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wool M ... Buy New $ 93.00 Thus , a small mom and pop liquor store could be packed to the gills with customers , but a 400-seat synagogue or a 1,200-seat cathedral would still be limited to 10 or 25 people .
This was such an interference with the free exercise of religion that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn , New York , and three Jewish congregations in New York City collectively sued the governor in federal court in Brooklyn .
They lost .
Last week , the Supreme Court interceded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that defended religious liberty in the face of government efforts to sweep it aside .
The court recognized that the right to worship is fundamental — and has been the law of the land for many generations .
Yet , its characterization as “ fundamental ” was a shot across the governor ’ s bow because , whatever he considers the freedom to worship to be , he ordered that it was not essential .
The court held that by failing to characterize it as essential , while characterizing other choices as essential @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Stated differently , if having more than 10 or 25 people in a large synagogue or church is likely to harm public health , then why is having 500 people in a Walmart or folks packed like sardines in a liquor store not likely to impair public health ?
Because the religion clauses are articulated in the First Amendment — and because the freedom to worship is a natural right — the government can only interfere with them by meeting a demanding jurisprudential test called strict scrutiny .
This mandates that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it is attempting to serve by the least-restrictive means .
Leather belt with belt ... Buy New $ 64.00 It also means that a fundamental right can not be targeted when other rights that may or may not be fundamental are left to individual choices .
The Supreme Court ’ s ruling , which was released at 2:12 a.m. , was a response to an emergency application .
After the plaintiffs lost at the trial court , they asked the trial judge to enjoin the governor during the pendency of their appeal so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ holidays .
The court declined .
Then the plaintiffs asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for a temporary injunction until that court could hear their appeal .
It declined .
Then the plaintiffs threw their Hail Mary pass and asked the Supreme Court to enjoin Cuomo during the pendency of their appeal .
That pass ended up being a touchdown with no time left on the clock .
The Supreme Court not only issued an injunction preventing the governor from limiting the number of worshippers at the religious venues that sued , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ liberty-embracing language that will surely apply to all religious venues in the land .
Reading the court ’ s decision , and particularly the thoughtful and brilliant concurrence by Justice Neil Gorsuch — who wrote that “ government is not free to disregard the First Amendment in times of crisis ” — one can see that Cuomo lost this case because while he may understand the science , he does not understand the jurisprudence .
Freedom of religion is not the first freedom by mistake .
It was the judgment of the framers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ human fulfillment as are any other free choices that free people make .
By failing to recognize that natural , historic and jurisprudential truism , Cuomo doomed his executive order to the ash bin of history .
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“But even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten.”
— Supreme Court of the United States, November 25, 2020
When teaching law students about the Bill of Rights, professors often ask on the first day of class which is the first freedom protected by the First Amendment. The students invariably answer, “freedom of speech.” It is not. If the framers were trying to tell us which freedom is the first among equals, they did so by listing the religion clauses ahead of the freedom of speech.
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This is not an academic issue. Recent events have demonstrated that the free exercise of religion is as threatened today as it was in 1791 when the First Amendment was ratified. Numerous state governors have targeted the free exercise of religion in their multifaceted assaults on personal liberty in the name of public safety. Last week, the Supreme Court put a stop to one of them.
Here is the backstory.
Andrew M. Cuomo is the governor of New York. He has been foremost among his gubernatorial colleagues in his ubiquitous television explanations of his various executive orders restricting personal liberty during the COVID–19 pandemic. He even won an Emmy for his hundreds of television appearances during which he educated the viewing public on his understanding of the science behind the pandemic.
He attempted to educate the public, as well, on his understanding of the Constitution. That understanding is wanting.
Cuomo established a color-coded system to indicate the severity of the COVID-19 infection rate by ZIP code. Red is the most severe and calls for limiting worship to 10 people per indoor venue. Orange is the next level, and it limits worshippers to 25.
Since the governor did not deem the right to worship as “essential,” even though he deemed campgrounds and bicycle, food and liquor shops to be essential, he imposed his 10- or 25-person limit on all houses of worship, irrespective of the size of the venue. He imposed no numerical limitations on essential venues. BureBure Felted Wool M... Buy New $93.00 (as of 04:43 UTC - Details)
Thus, a small mom and pop liquor store could be packed to the gills with customers, but a 400-seat synagogue or a 1,200-seat cathedral would still be limited to 10 or 25 people. This was such an interference with the free exercise of religion that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York, and three Jewish congregations in New York City collectively sued the governor in federal court in Brooklyn. They lost. Last week, the Supreme Court interceded in a splendid 5 to 4 decision that defended religious liberty in the face of government efforts to sweep it aside.
The court recognized that the right to worship is fundamental — and has been the law of the land for many generations. Yet, its characterization as “fundamental” was a shot across the governor’s bow because, whatever he considers the freedom to worship to be, he ordered that it was not essential. The court held that by failing to characterize it as essential, while characterizing other choices as essential, Cuomo demonstrated a hostility to religion.
Stated differently, if having more than 10 or 25 people in a large synagogue or church is likely to harm public health, then why is having 500 people in a Walmart or folks packed like sardines in a liquor store not likely to impair public health?
Because the religion clauses are articulated in the First Amendment — and because the freedom to worship is a natural right — the government can only interfere with them by meeting a demanding jurisprudential test called strict scrutiny. This mandates that the government must have a compelling state interest it is attempting to serve by the least-restrictive means. Leather belt with belt... Buy New $76.00 (as of 06:07 UTC - Details)
It also means that a fundamental right cannot be targeted when other rights that may or may not be fundamental are left to individual choices.
The Supreme Court’s ruling, which was released at 2:12 a.m., was a response to an emergency application. After the plaintiffs lost at the trial court, they asked the trial judge to enjoin the governor during the pendency of their appeal so their congregants could worship during the coming holidays. The court declined. Then the plaintiffs asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for a temporary injunction until that court could hear their appeal. It declined.
Then the plaintiffs threw their Hail Mary pass and asked the Supreme Court to enjoin Cuomo during the pendency of their appeal.
That pass ended up being a touchdown with no time left on the clock. The Supreme Court not only issued an injunction preventing the governor from limiting the number of worshippers at the religious venues that sued, but it did so in such sweeping, liberty-embracing language that will surely apply to all religious venues in the land.
Reading the court’s decision, and particularly the thoughtful and brilliant concurrence by Justice Neil Gorsuch — who wrote that “government is not free to disregard the First Amendment in times of crisis” — one can see that Cuomo lost this case because while he may understand the science, he does not understand the jurisprudence.
Freedom of religion is not the first freedom by mistake. It was the judgment of the framers that this freedom is as essential to human fulfillment as are any other free choices that free people make.
By failing to recognize that natural, historic and jurisprudential truism, Cuomo doomed his executive order to the ash bin of history.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.
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lewrockwell--2020-12-03--How To Avoid Mask Mandates & Vaccine Mandates at Work

I was a recent guest on the Tom Woods Show speaking about the importance of not wearing a face mask .
“ This whole comment section so far is ‘ I don ’ t like masks .
But I won ’ t do anything about it that might inconvenience me.
’ “ The day before the mandatory mask order went into effect for my state , I told my boss I was not going to wear one and I would understand if they had to let me go .
He had a shocked look on his face and said he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ talked with upper management and told me to just keep coming to work as normal for the time being .
That was months ago and now we only have ONE person in the whole office ( 100ish people ) that even bothers to wear one now .
You think any of them would have stood up in the same situation ?
Probably not , but I took the risk because my rights and the direction this is going , I see as a far bigger threat than the possibility of me losing my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and soft .
We have gone from ‘ I do this FOR my children ’ to ‘ I can ’ t do anything because I have children.
’ Freedom has a cost , we used to understand this.
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Life is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be in the presence of the best as much as possible .
I don ’ t know this commenter , yet I believe that he would have walked right out the door of his job and never turned back , like many good and brave men and women .
They are the 1 % of courageous people .
Be Ready To Walk Away The negotiation that you refuse to walk away from is a negotiation that you are the inferior party to .
No one owes you anything .
Not a second more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
You must always ask yourself every morning before work if you are heading the direction that you want , if this 8 or 10 or 12 hours you spend a day is helping you become the person you want to be ?
For me , like for this commenter , a mask requirement is a dealbreaker .
A vaccine requirement is a dealbreaker .
There are plenty of places that my services could be used and if my services mean so little to the person running the show that I need a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the door to stay unmasked .
If you won ’ t , tell me what I need to do to convince you otherwise , because if you will become that person who will just walk away , it will change your life for the better , and it will ripple through to those around you for the better .
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I don ’ t know what the future holds , but the maskholes of the planet , eager to see 100 % mask compliance , don ’ t seem ready to call it all a big gag , let bygones by bygones , and back down from their vainglorious year of steering the world into a pit of ruin .
If demands are made of you that you don ’ t agree with , now — this very moment — is the time to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ slippery slope , with your dignity and values fully intact .
Medicine Always Has Been & Always Will Be About The Individual Patient There is little there for you in a place that you can ’ t be respected to make your own health decisions , which is 100 % what a face mask is : a health decision .
Medicine works that way : you make your own health decisions , I make mine .
If you say “ Well , it affects others , ” you aren ’ t dealing with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the concept of the individual doctor and his individual patient together against the world — no you are instead dealing with the field of public health , which is a political and sociological field that does not concern itself with health or medicine in all but the most shallow ways , but instead concerns itself almost entirely with control and compliance .
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If the canard is true and it all affects others so badly , why doesn ’ t the public health profession come up with policies that are good for others ?
Why don ’ t they come up with policies that work ?
Why are they so set on the sickest , most contorted , most destructive , and thoroughly disproven means ?
Why do they then go so far as to silence those who point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It doesn ’ t communicate intent or intention .
The public health profession doesn ’ t care about data or evidence , unless it allows them to have a more compliant populous .
They use that canard , because it ’ s an effective way to sucker good people .
There ’ s little other reason than that .
As such , “ Well it affects others ” is a canard that no thinking person should allow spoken unchallenged in his presence .
It is meant to pull at the heart strings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , because it can ’ t possibly be used to make sense of the policies that follow .
It is the excuse for brute force regulation and blunt object central planning .
It must be laughed at and the user of the phrase pitied for their intellectual impoverishment .
There is no excuse for such unthinking intellectual impoverishment in the age of the Internet .
Willful ignorance does not give one a free pass .
The non sequitur of the canard is never questioned : “ Well it affects others , ” and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” therefore I will fully engage the anti-social tools of radicals in the public health profession and burn society to the ground .
Sorry .
Thinking people don ’ t fall for this nonsense .
Free Association : Why We Aren ’ t In Anything Together We aren ’ t in anything together .
I have myself , my God , my family , and my tribe — individuals every one .
You can imagine yourself as collectively as you want .
That has no bearing on my ability to freely associate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ freely associate with are the technocrats actively trying to burn down society .
Their insistence that I am one of them is of no meaning to me .
Beautiful Handmade SEA ... Buy New $ 28.99 Just as rape is sex absent the ability of free association , and slavery is employment absent the ability of free association , public health is medicine , absent the ability of free association .
No free man deserves rape , slavery , or public health in his life .
No free man allows rape , slavery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Rape , slavery , and public health might not sound like equivalents to you , but that ’ s only because you ’ ve been convinced to not pierce the surface of the fallacious term public health and their “ We have the best of intentions , ” exterior .
Public health used to go by another name , “ utilitarianism , ” until they got wise to the fact that no one liked that far-too-honest name , and they worked on their public relations .
The field remains utilitarian , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2 utils to society dead and 1 util to society alive then it ’ s time for Mrs. Jones to be dead — is the basic math of the public health professional .
This math and its sociopathic influence was something that society was protected from until about March 2020 , when these utilitarians took control of the levers of power globally , and publicly proclaimed that they would be denying the right of free association to all humans who found themselves under their control .
At The Heart Of The Utilitarianism That @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Any view of public health that does not get down to its utilitarian underpinnings and place them front and center , instead of speaking jeremiads about clean water ( thank you capitalism ) or indoor plumbing ( thank you capitalism ) is sorely mistaken .
“ Well it affects others , ” is a parroted defense and veil of the most awful of anti-human behaviors that leaves Mrs. Jones a mere ledger entry rather than a human made in the likeness of God .
Please never find yourself saying or thinking such a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those who you choose to walk through life with as distinguished from all others .
Such boundaries are healthy .
Free association is the territory of the free man who identifies his boundaries , communicates his boundaries , and defends his boundaries .
The rest of society choosing to willingly do something else is willingly making themselves into something less .
They are most certainly not free men .
Declare your freedom to the world .
Accept no less .
Day-by-day be the freest man you can be .
The world will quickly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you want , and self-select around you .
Plenty will be unable to stand you .
The fearful and the faithful simply do not mix .
The courageous and the cowardly do not mix .
You will begin to repel exactly the fools who you will be least interested in suffering .
It may not be easy .
But it will be great .
That I promise you .
And that greatness will radiate from you and encourage others .
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I was a recent guest on the Tom Woods Show speaking about the importance of not wearing a face mask.
The appearance garnered this feedback:
“This whole comment section so far is ‘I don’t like masks. But I won’t do anything about it that might inconvenience me.’
“The day before the mandatory mask order went into effect for my state, I told my boss I was not going to wear one and I would understand if they had to let me go. He had a shocked look on his face and said he would get back with me. He talked with upper management and told me to just keep coming to work as normal for the time being. That was months ago and now we only have ONE person in the whole office (100ish people) that even bothers to wear one now. You think any of them would have stood up in the same situation? Probably not, but I took the risk because my rights and the direction this is going, I see as a far bigger threat than the possibility of me losing my job.
“Americans have become fearful and soft. We have gone from ‘I do this FOR my children’ to ‘I can’t do anything because I have children.’ Freedom has a cost, we used to understand this.”
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Life is too short to do otherwise than to be in the presence of the best as much as possible.
I don’t know this commenter, yet I believe that he would have walked right out the door of his job and never turned back, like many good and brave men and women. They are the 1% of courageous people.
Be Ready To Walk Away
The negotiation that you refuse to walk away from is a negotiation that you are the inferior party to. No one owes you anything. Not a second more on this earth is promised to you.
You must always ask yourself every morning before work if you are heading the direction that you want, if this 8 or 10 or 12 hours you spend a day is helping you become the person you want to be?
For me, like for this commenter, a mask requirement is a dealbreaker. A vaccine requirement is a dealbreaker.
There are plenty of places that my services could be used and if my services mean so little to the person running the show that I need a mask, I will happily walk out the door to stay unmasked.
Will you?
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Society & Individual Lives Teeter On A Slippery Slope In 2020
If you can’t say that about the mask, or otherwise negotiate the scenario, you won’t be able to negotiate around a vaccine, and you won’t be able to negotiate around much worse.
I don’t know what the future holds, but the maskholes of the planet, eager to see 100% mask compliance, don’t seem ready to call it all a big gag, let bygones by bygones, and back down from their vainglorious year of steering the world into a pit of ruin.
If demands are made of you that you don’t agree with, now — this very moment — is the time to be ready to back away from the slippery slope, with your dignity and values fully intact.
Medicine Always Has Been & Always Will Be About The Individual Patient
There is little there for you in a place that you can’t be respected to make your own health decisions, which is 100% what a face mask is: a health decision.
Medicine works that way: you make your own health decisions, I make mine.
If you say “Well, it affects others,” you aren’t dealing with the field of medicine — rooted in the concept of the individual doctor and his individual patient together against the world — no you are instead dealing with the field of public health, which is a political and sociological field that does not concern itself with health or medicine in all but the most shallow ways, but instead concerns itself almost entirely with control and compliance.
Stop Falling For Their Canard
Orgone Chakra Healing ... Buy New $20.95 (as of 06:07 UTC - Details) “Well it affects others,” is the public health canard that was used to dose three generations with mercury containing vaccines, bringing about all manner of ills, to lockdown thriving economies and lives, and to mask vast parts of the globe.
If the canard is true and it all affects others so badly, why doesn’t the public health profession come up with policies that are good for others? Why don’t they come up with policies that work? Why are they so set on the sickest, most contorted, most destructive, and thoroughly disproven means? Why do they then go so far as to silence those who point that out?
The canard means nothing. It doesn’t communicate intent or intention. The public health profession doesn’t care about data or evidence, unless it allows them to have a more compliant populous. They use that canard, because it’s an effective way to sucker good people. There’s little other reason than that.
As such, “Well it affects others” is a canard that no thinking person should allow spoken unchallenged in his presence. It is meant to pull at the heart strings. It needs to assault the emotions, because it can’t possibly be used to make sense of the policies that follow. It is the excuse for brute force regulation and blunt object central planning. It must be laughed at and the user of the phrase pitied for their intellectual impoverishment. There is no excuse for such unthinking intellectual impoverishment in the age of the Internet. Willful ignorance does not give one a free pass.
The non sequitur of the canard is never questioned: “Well it affects others,” and “We are all in it together,” therefore I will fully engage the anti-social tools of radicals in the public health profession and burn society to the ground. Sorry. Thinking people don’t fall for this nonsense.
Free Association: Why We Aren’t In Anything Together
We aren’t in anything together. I have myself, my God, my family, and my tribe — individuals every one. You can imagine yourself as collectively as you want. That has no bearing on my ability to freely associate.
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Just as rape is sex absent the ability of free association, and slavery is employment absent the ability of free association, public health is medicine, absent the ability of free association.
No free man deserves rape, slavery, or public health in his life. No free man allows rape, slavery, or public health in his life.
Rape, slavery, and public health might not sound like equivalents to you, but that’s only because you’ve been convinced to not pierce the surface of the fallacious term public health and their “We have the best of intentions,” exterior.
Public health used to go by another name, “utilitarianism,” until they got wise to the fact that no one liked that far-too-honest name, and they worked on their public relations.
The field remains utilitarian, which means this — if Mrs. Jones provides 2 utils to society dead and 1 util to society alive then it’s time for Mrs. Jones to be dead — is the basic math of the public health professional.
This math and its sociopathic influence was something that society was protected from until about March 2020, when these utilitarians took control of the levers of power globally, and publicly proclaimed that they would be denying the right of free association to all humans who found themselves under their control.
At The Heart Of The Utilitarianism That Is Deceitfully Called “Public Health”
Any view of public health that does not get down to its utilitarian underpinnings and place them front and center, instead of speaking jeremiads about clean water (thank you capitalism) or indoor plumbing (thank you capitalism) is sorely mistaken.
“Well it affects others,” is a parroted defense and veil of the most awful of anti-human behaviors that leaves Mrs. Jones a mere ledger entry rather than a human made in the likeness of God.
The Free Man Has Impenetrable Boundaries
Please never find yourself saying or thinking such a thing again. Draw clear lines between those who you choose to walk through life with as distinguished from all others. Such boundaries are healthy.
Free association is the territory of the free man who identifies his boundaries, communicates his boundaries, and defends his boundaries. The rest of society choosing to willingly do something else is willingly making themselves into something less. They are most certainly not free men.
Declare your freedom to the world. Accept no less. Day-by-day be the freest man you can be. The world will quickly fall in line, give you what you want, and self-select around you. Plenty will be unable to stand you. The fearful and the faithful simply do not mix. The courageous and the cowardly do not mix. You will begin to repel exactly the fools who you will be least interested in suffering.
It may not be easy. But it will be great.
That I promise you. And that greatness will radiate from you and encourage others.
The newly released bestselling “Face Masks in One Lesson” by Allan Stevo, is a method tested and proven by thousands, to avoid face mask mandates, vaccine mandates, and many other mandates that the outside world seems intent to impose upon the free individual.
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lewrockwell--2020-12-03--Politics, Positivism, and the Science of Tyranny

There is nothing worse than the politicization of science .
If there is one thing that 2020 has taught us it is that we live within this basic framework .
Science is nothing today if not political .
But it ’ s beyond even that .
This is a framework of experts in all major intellectual arenas , be it economics , psychology , diet or health .
And they have all been tied in some basic way to public safety and the role of government in administering that goal , supposedly for the betterment of all of us .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the scientific method is perfectly applicable when illuminating underlying physical laws of the universe .
But it is a means to an end , not an end unto itself .
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The problem , however , is that positivism , of which the scientific method is the implementation of said philosophy , ultimately has limited application in the real world .
This is because it rejects the illumination of truth through the use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on experience .
Because positivism can not create hypotheses , only test them .
The process of generating hypotheses is known as a priori — the deriving of knowledge from that which has come before , some but not all of which derived from the results of positivist methodology , i.e .
experiment and experience .
A priori arguments rely on intellectual rigor and logic to produce hypotheses based on what is known .
Experimentation , via positivism , i.e .
the scientific method , is then used to ‘ prove ’ or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ give an example .
The Gibbs Free Energy equation was derived from an a priori set of postulates built on the proven theorems through which mathematics were derived .
In short , we built math through logic and reason , a priori , and men like Gibbs used those mathematical tools to derive their equations which govern the way matter interacts .
Where positivism comes in is in testing Gibbs ’ equation to see if it , indeed , holds up to scrutiny .
And under very specific boundary conditions it does .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ thing that needs to be interjected back into our political discourse .
Hell , I ’ d like it to come back into our scientific discourse , c.f .
the nonsense about dark matter , global warming etc .
The problem we have today with modern liberalism , especially those in the sciences , is this misapplication of positivism to subjects where variables are explicitly beyond its ability to control for .
This is why appeals to ‘ believe all scientists ’ and ‘ science has spoken ’ are , at best , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ veneer of truth to them .
Because when you set up an experiment without proper controls none of the conclusions you draw from it are defensible .
They may point you to inquire further , certainly , and that is an unqualified good thing in the search for truth .
But it can not be a bludgeon by which that search for truth ends simply because someone got their intellectual cookie either .
In the down and dirty world of politics hastily drawn conclusions from poorly-controlled ‘ science ’ can be used to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ public opinion .
Again , I point you to both theories about dark matter and global warming .
Because we live in an age of experts it is easy to do this and create both mass hysteria as well as arm marginally if not wholly untrained people with bad arguments about how to craft policy .
Worse , now we ’ ve unleashed them on Twitter to ensure no real conversation is possible .
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Because using positivism in the social sciences is just inappropriate .
In medicine it ’ s the great frontier and by definition is difficult to get any kind of definitive answer from .
Once you ’ ve done real science , like I have , and have had your ass kicked by simple systems like an electroplating bath or a groundwater sample you realize that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ human beings is at best , hubris .
So , undergirding any policy discussion with “ what the science says ” isn ’ t just dishonest it ’ s dangerous .
Because , in essence , it ’ s all a giant appeal to authority logical fallacy .
My argument is right because He said so .
The whole of ‘ science as policy ’ industry is nothing more than that .
And when you factor in the corrupting nature of government funding of science picking winners and losers for grant money , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is you think you know about just about everything you ’ ve ever been told .
Now , I ’ m not being reductionist here in saying we shouldn ’ t use ‘ science ’ no matter how specious to inform policy .
Quite the contrary .
I accept that politics has to deal with time pressures after all , certainly in a fluid situation like a pandemic .
But , at the same time , we have to be cognizant of its limitations and use it only to support basic human rights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ explicitly don ’ t use them as an excuse to trample human rights out of fear , ignorance or good ol ’ fashioned opportunity .
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For more than 100 years Progressives and ‘ leftists ’ of various stripes have appealed to science to engineer a better society through the misapplication of the scientific method to build their arguments .
They have pursued this to the exclusion of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the world that the community as a whole is always bettered by the suppression of the individual through shared policy goals and ill-defined/ever expanding definitions of human rights .
And because they are driven ideologically and not intellectually they ignore any and all failures of the policies adopted in the name of their stated goals .
The former U.S.S.R. was the original ‘ technocracy ’ built on these ideas .
Today ’ s leftists still think it got a bad rap .
It ’ s pathetic .
But they can ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that if they run just one more experiment with slightly different rules , controlling these variables this time , the outcome will be different .
Welcome to the arguments of the Great Reset and the Fourth Industrial Revolution .
It ’ s no different than the Cultural one or the Bolshevik one or the French one .
This is a fundamental misapplication of positivist thinking : asserting your hypothesis is correct when the ‘ data ’ tells you it ’ s wrong .
You don ’ t get to keep back-fitting the data @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proof .
And even then , the data is clear .
Communism doesn ’ t work .
But I know that because Mises rigorously deconstructed all forms of collectivism a priori in his seminal work , Socialism : An Economic and Sociological Analysis published in 1922 .
The 20th century experiments in communism and other flavors of socialism all support Mises ’ conclusions , again derived a priori from first principles of human behavior .
Do we really need another one ?
Communism — and all forms of collectivism — destroys capital , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in their quest to find the perfect system .
But they are chasing their own tails begging a question that was already answered a priori .
There really was a black swan on the horizon .
If not for the vast mineral wealth in the form of oil and gas the U.S.S.R. wouldn ’ t have lasted half as long as it did .
And even then all it took was an oil price war in the 1980 ’ s to bring it down .
FYI , there ’ s a lesson in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ including those enlightened ones in Scandinavia .
When the oil runs out Norwegians I hope you have something else to export other than lutefisk .
While here in the U.S. a similar technocracy was built slowly through the corruption of the institutions of education , politics and culture , all using the same positivist arguments .
Modern leftists pride themselves on believing in the rationality of science .
Many going so far as to discount all religion and culture as nothing more than quaint customs of the mouth-breathing rubes in flyover country .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the height of this practice of imbuing scientists with a god-like knowledge of what we should do given any thorny political problem .
That ’ s why pseudo-intellectuals and midwits in white suburbia bought into the lies of Anthony Fauci , while ignoring the flip-flopping of him , the CDC , the WHO , and every other ‘ expert.
’ This science worship neatly bypasses politicians you don ’ t like to support whatever argument you want to believe .
It doesn ’ t matter that it ’ s now just as much @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If the high priest of ‘ science ’ says masks are necessary on Tuesdays but not Thursdays then they simply go along with it because the alternative is admitting that your priests are just hucksters with fancy government titles .
It also absolves people of the responsibility of making the hard decisions .
The experts have all that worked out .
Which brings me to what actually started this blog post .
One of these true high priests of ‘ scientism , ’ the straight-out-of-central-casting Neil Degrasse Tyson opined recently on RT about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not coming together over COVID-19 .
At this late date for a guy like Mr. Tyson to go on thinking COVID-19 was such an existential threat to humanity as an alien invasion is really stunning .
I thought this guy was supposed to be smart ?
Like really smart ?
It ’ s like he ’ s forgotten that Alan Moore ’ s Watchmen , which I ’ m sure he read , wasn ’ t an operating manual for society but rather a warning of where this fetishization of official smart people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ deplorable ’ boob living in the sticks of N. Florida , but last I checked more people are alive today than there were at the beginning of this pandemic .
Or maybe my understanding of math isn ’ t sufficient to handle a number as big as 7.7 billion .
Or that , according to the U.S. government ’ s population clock , a baby is born every 8 seconds on this planet and a person dies every 10 .
Now , with my admittedly only 3 years of college level calculus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as Mr. Tyson to judge the validity of 10 being greater than 8 , so forgive my arrogance in thinking this .
But this seems like pretty strong evidence that COVID-19 isn ’ t a threat to humanity as a whole .
Further , I ’ m just a lowly degreed chemist and not an ‘ astrophysicist ’ like Mr. Tyson so maybe there ’ s something else I ’ m missing here .
This false equivalence of an alien invasion we would all willingly fight is not the same as a virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ versus the annual flu .
This is the very definition of ‘ not intellectually rigorous.
’ In fact it ’ s the opposite .
It is purposefully deceptive and manipulative emotional blackmail that should be beneath the contempt of a ‘ scientist ’ of Mr. Tyson ’ s stature .
He goes on further : Now this I agree somewhat with , which is why I consider this more like Coronapocalypse : The Movie and not a true existential threat to humanity which required any kind of policy decision which sparked this political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over .
Because , and I ’ m sure Mr. Tyson would agree with this if he were a scientist , there is little “ …scientific research that has been objectively shown to be true in peer-reviewed journals… ” about COVID-19 which has been properly discussed in the public sphere .
And yet very polarizing policies are in place depriving people of not only their rights , which he seems cavalier to , but also their future prosperity .
Since the ‘ science ’ has been used by governments assume a level of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beyond the scope of what the ‘ science ’ has shown .
And since when the science isn ’ t settled shouldn ’ t we settle back on first principles to minimize human suffering along all vectors , not just the one variable , virus transmission , we think we ’ re controlling , especially for most people the survival rate is greater than 99.9 % ?
And even this position undermines the basic framework of human rights by placing some cost/benefit analytic overlay on society giving the social engineers more credit than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days in the simplest physical systems , getting objectively true data from any experiment is a painstakingly difficult work .
Reviewing it and assessing its validity in relation to known physical laws of the universe is even harder work .
Thinking that somehow we can use this to craft global policy is frankly , prima facia evidence of psychosis devoid of empathy .
At best , this is the role commentators like Mr. Tyson are supposed to fill to keep us grounded in the humility of our ignorance .
But it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ forgotten that basic point .
But what should I have expected from someone who continues to support scientifically unproven junk like dark matter , which we ’ ve never found any evidence of , and CO2-induced global warming , which openly denies the magnetic and electrical interplay between the earth and the sun on our climate .
And these are his chosen fields of study .
But this is what comes when one school of thought , positivism , corrupts both the science and the politics in a feedback loop of granted favors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arguments .
Because that ’ s where we are today and it will get worse before it improves .
Our society has become post-rational .
By that line of reasoning I was wrong in my opening thesis statement .
There is something worse than the politicization of science , the denial that it ’ s even possible .
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There is nothing worse than the politicization of science. If there is one thing that 2020 has taught us it is that we live within this basic framework.
Science is nothing today if not political.
But it’s beyond even that. This is a framework of experts in all major intellectual arenas, be it economics, psychology, diet or health. And they have all been tied in some basic way to public safety and the role of government in administering that goal, supposedly for the betterment of all of us.
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And politics is nothing if not obsessed with ends rather than means.
The problem, however, is that positivism, of which the scientific method is the implementation of said philosophy, ultimately has limited application in the real world.
This is because it rejects the illumination of truth through the use of intellect and logic, relying solely on experience.
Because positivism cannot create hypotheses, only test them. The process of generating hypotheses is known as a priori — the deriving of knowledge from that which has come before, some but not all of which derived from the results of positivist methodology, i.e. experiment and experience.
A priori arguments rely on intellectual rigor and logic to produce hypotheses based on what is known. Experimentation, via positivism, i.e. the scientific method, is then used to ‘prove’ or ‘disprove’ said hypothesis.
From Theory to Theorem
To give an example. The Gibbs Free Energy equation was derived from an a priori set of postulates built on the proven theorems through which mathematics were derived.
In short, we built math through logic and reason, a priori, and men like Gibbs used those mathematical tools to derive their equations which govern the way matter interacts.
Where positivism comes in is in testing Gibbs’ equation to see if it, indeed, holds up to scrutiny. And under very specific boundary conditions it does.
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This distinction is truly the most important thing that needs to be interjected back into our political discourse. Hell, I’d like it to come back into our scientific discourse, c.f. the nonsense about dark matter, global warming etc.
The problem we have today with modern liberalism, especially those in the sciences, is this misapplication of positivism to subjects where variables are explicitly beyond its ability to control for.
This is why appeals to ‘believe all scientists’ and ‘science has spoken’ are, at best, specious, even if they have the veneer of truth to them. Because when you set up an experiment without proper controls none of the conclusions you draw from it are defensible.
They may point you to inquire further, certainly, and that is an unqualified good thing in the search for truth. But it cannot be a bludgeon by which that search for truth ends simply because someone got their intellectual cookie either.
In the down and dirty world of politics hastily drawn conclusions from poorly-controlled ‘science’ can be used to write really provocative headlines capable of swaying public opinion.
Again, I point you to both theories about dark matter and global warming.
Because we live in an age of experts it is easy to do this and create both mass hysteria as well as arm marginally if not wholly untrained people with bad arguments about how to craft policy.
Worse, now we’ve unleashed them on Twitter to ensure no real conversation is possible.
Manufacturing Consent
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Because using positivism in the social sciences is just inappropriate. In medicine it’s the great frontier and by definition is difficult to get any kind of definitive answer from.
Once you’ve done real science, like I have, and have had your ass kicked by simple systems like an electroplating bath or a groundwater sample you realize that our knowledge of the subtle chemistry of human beings is at best, hubris.
So, undergirding any policy discussion with “what the science says” isn’t just dishonest it’s dangerous.
Because, in essence, it’s all a giant appeal to authority logical fallacy. My argument is right because He said so. The whole of ‘science as policy’ industry is nothing more than that.
And when you factor in the corrupting nature of government funding of science picking winners and losers for grant money, you really have to question what it is you think you know about just about everything you’ve ever been told.
Now, I’m not being reductionist here in saying we shouldn’t use ‘science’ no matter how specious to inform policy.
Quite the contrary. I accept that politics has to deal with time pressures after all, certainly in a fluid situation like a pandemic. But, at the same time, we have to be cognizant of its limitations and use it only to support basic human rights principles.
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Politics is where the philosophy and science meet and, at times, explode.
For more than 100 years Progressives and ‘leftists’ of various stripes have appealed to science to engineer a better society through the misapplication of the scientific method to build their arguments.
They have pursued this to the exclusion of all other considerations to ‘prove’ to the world that the community as a whole is always bettered by the suppression of the individual through shared policy goals and ill-defined/ever expanding definitions of human rights.
And because they are driven ideologically and not intellectually they ignore any and all failures of the policies adopted in the name of their stated goals.
Black Communist Swans
The former U.S.S.R. was the original ‘technocracy’ built on these ideas. Today’s leftists still think it got a bad rap. It’s pathetic.
But they can’t give it up because they just know that if they run just one more experiment with slightly different rules, controlling these variables this time, the outcome will be different.
Welcome to the arguments of the Great Reset and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It’s no different than the Cultural one or the Bolshevik one or the French one.
This is a fundamental misapplication of positivist thinking: asserting your hypothesis is correct when the ‘data’ tells you it’s wrong. You don’t get to keep back-fitting the data to fit the hypothesis and call that proof.
That’s the absolute antithesis of ‘science.’
And even then, the data is clear. Communism doesn’t work.
But I know that because Mises rigorously deconstructed all forms of collectivism a priori in his seminal work, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis published in 1922.
The 20th century experiments in communism and other flavors of socialism all support Mises’ conclusions, again derived a priori from first principles of human behavior. Do we really need another one?
Communism — and all forms of collectivism — destroys capital, wastes time and its adherents kill millions in their quest to find the perfect system. But they are chasing their own tails begging a question that was already answered a priori.
There really was a black swan on the horizon.
If not for the vast mineral wealth in the form of oil and gas the U.S.S.R. wouldn’t have lasted half as long as it did. And even then all it took was an oil price war in the 1980’s to bring it down.
FYI, there’s a lesson in there for other nakedly tyrannical petrostates, including those enlightened ones in Scandinavia. When the oil runs out Norwegians I hope you have something else to export other than lutefisk.
While here in the U.S. a similar technocracy was built slowly through the corruption of the institutions of education, politics and culture, all using the same positivist arguments.
But ‘Science’ Says…
Modern leftists pride themselves on believing in the rationality of science. Many going so far as to discount all religion and culture as nothing more than quaint customs of the mouth-breathing rubes in flyover country.
And with COVID-19 we’ve reached the height of this practice of imbuing scientists with a god-like knowledge of what we should do given any thorny political problem.
That’s why pseudo-intellectuals and midwits in white suburbia bought into the lies of Anthony Fauci, while ignoring the flip-flopping of him, the CDC, the WHO, and every other ‘expert.’
This science worship neatly bypasses politicians you don’t like to support whatever argument you want to believe. It doesn’t matter that it’s now just as much a religion as Christianity or Islam.
If the high priest of ‘science’ says masks are necessary on Tuesdays but not Thursdays then they simply go along with it because the alternative is admitting that your priests are just hucksters with fancy government titles.
It also absolves people of the responsibility of making the hard decisions. The experts have all that worked out.
Which brings me to what actually started this blog post.
One of these true high priests of ‘scientism,’ the straight-out-of-central-casting Neil Degrasse Tyson opined recently on RT about how disappointed he was with humanity over not coming together over COVID-19.
“I thought that when the coronavirus landed that we would’ve all banded together and say: ‘We’re all human and that’s a common enemy, like an alien invasion. We’ve all seen it in the movies. We got to be together on this one.’ But it didn’t happen to my great disappointment in our species.”
At this late date for a guy like Mr. Tyson to go on thinking COVID-19 was such an existential threat to humanity as an alien invasion is really stunning.
I thought this guy was supposed to be smart? Like really smart?
It’s like he’s forgotten that Alan Moore’s Watchmen, which I’m sure he read, wasn’t an operating manual for society but rather a warning of where this fetishization of official smart people leads.
I may just be some ‘deplorable’ boob living in the sticks of N. Florida, but last I checked more people are alive today than there were at the beginning of this pandemic.
Or maybe my understanding of math isn’t sufficient to handle a number as big as 7.7 billion.
Or that, according to the U.S. government’s population clock, a baby is born every 8 seconds on this planet and a person dies every 10. Now, with my admittedly only 3 years of college level calculus, I may not be as qualified as Mr. Tyson to judge the validity of 10 being greater than 8, so forgive my arrogance in thinking this.
But this seems like pretty strong evidence that COVID-19 isn’t a threat to humanity as a whole.
Further, I’m just a lowly degreed chemist and not an ‘astrophysicist’ like Mr. Tyson so maybe there’s something else I’m missing here.
The Reality Bomb
This false equivalence of an alien invasion we would all willingly fight is not the same as a virus with a slightly elevated risk of death versus the annual flu. This is the very definition of ‘not intellectually rigorous.’
In fact it’s the opposite. It is purposefully deceptive and manipulative emotional blackmail that should be beneath the contempt of a ‘scientist’ of Mr. Tyson’s stature.
He goes on further:
“I don’t mind political fights. Political fights are fine when you’re talking about policy and legislation. But you should never have a political fight about…scientific research that has been objectively shown to be true in peer-reviewed journals,” Tyson said, adding that doing so is a “recipe for disaster.”
Now this I agree somewhat with, which is why I consider this more like Coronapocalypse: The Movie and not a true existential threat to humanity which required any kind of policy decision which sparked this political fight he’s crying crocodile tears over.
Because, and I’m sure Mr. Tyson would agree with this if he were a scientist, there is little “…scientific research that has been objectively shown to be true in peer-reviewed journals…” about COVID-19 which has been properly discussed in the public sphere.
And yet very polarizing policies are in place depriving people of not only their rights, which he seems cavalier to, but also their future prosperity.
Since the ‘science’ has been used by governments assume a level of control over our movements and activities far beyond the scope of what the ‘science’ has shown. And since when the science isn’t settled shouldn’t we settle back on first principles to minimize human suffering along all vectors, not just the one variable, virus transmission, we think we’re controlling, especially for most people the survival rate is greater than 99.9%?
And even this position undermines the basic framework of human rights by placing some cost/benefit analytic overlay on society giving the social engineers more credit than they deserve.
On the best of days in the simplest physical systems, getting objectively true data from any experiment is a painstakingly difficult work. Reviewing it and assessing its validity in relation to known physical laws of the universe is even harder work. Thinking that somehow we can use this to craft global policy is frankly, prima facia evidence of psychosis devoid of empathy.
At best, this is the role commentators like Mr. Tyson are supposed to fill to keep us grounded in the humility of our ignorance.
But it’s clear from his positions Mr. Tyson has forgotten that basic point.
But what should I have expected from someone who continues to support scientifically unproven junk like dark matter, which we’ve never found any evidence of, and CO2-induced global warming, which openly denies the magnetic and electrical interplay between the earth and the sun on our climate.
And these are his chosen fields of study.
But this is what comes when one school of thought, positivism, corrupts both the science and the politics in a feedback loop of granted favors and the open suppression of a priori arguments.
Because that’s where we are today and it will get worse before it improves. Our society has become post-rational.
By that line of reasoning I was wrong in my opening thesis statement. There is something worse than the politicization of science, the denial that it’s even possible.
Reprinted with permission from Gold Goats ‘n Guns.
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lewrockwell--2020-12-03--Covert Op: ‘The Virus’ As Cover Story

Covert Op: ‘The Virus’ As Cover Story

For months , I ’ ve been demonstrating that no one has proved SARS-CoV-2 exists ( start here ) .
Instead , elite planners have been selling A STORY ABOUT A VIRUS .
In covert intelligence operations , this would be called a cover story .
It obscures true goals .
It justifies crimes that would otherwise be nakedly exposed .
In a really large covert op , the cover story hides a number of goals and justifies a number of crimes .
For example , in my 1988 book , AIDS INC. , I showed how the cover story @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Strangelands V1 The Be ... Buy New $ 125.00 For a very long time , the true causes of illness and death in areas of Africa were : hunger ; protein-calorie malnutrition ; starvation ; poverty ; war ; good farm land stolen from the people ; corporate pollution ; toxic medicines and vaccines ; toxic pesticides ; overcrowding in cities ; lack of basic sanitation .
Most if not all of these causes could have been eliminated .
But local governments did not want healthy people .
Sick and dying people were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and paying off , local government leaders , transnational corporations set up shop in these African countries and used the healthier people to work on their giant commercial farms and in their factories .
But in 1984 , suddenly , there was a new ( cover ) story broadcast and sold to the world : what was really decimating Africa was HIV .
THIS explained all the illness and dying .
The true causes , listed above , were shoved into the background .
Those true crimes were hidden , were permitted to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the HIV cover story paved the way for pharmaceutical companies to rack up profits by selling extremely toxic AIDS drugs ( e.g.
, AZT ) to Africa .
The HIV test , which turned out false positives like Niagara Falls , made these drugs seem necessary—as fake case numbers soared .
People dying from the toxic medical treatments were , of course , listed as AIDS deaths .
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Therefore , a new Chinese strategy : universal lockdowns .
The short-term goal is wrecking economies .
The long-term goal is taking the population into a new world of technocratic control .
Selling this as necessary all comes back to THE VIRUS COVER STORY .
“ We ’ re not forcing technocracy down the throats of the people .
Certainly not .
We ’ re simply doing what we must , because of the danger of the virus… ” There is another routine element in covert operations : FALSE TRAILS @ @ @ @ @ @ @ story , promoted to hide the fact that the cover story is a lie .
The aim in 2020 is : get people arguing about the nature and origin and composition of the virus .
Why ?
Because as long as people are arguing about these issues , they are re-enforcing the idea that the virus exists and is dangerous .
Thus , the basic cover story is strengthened .
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@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and the myriad accusations that have been flung between independent researchers , each of whom has a different explanation for the murder of the president .
This past spring , there was a period when such accusations were breaking out among independent COVID investigators .
As a result , there was no unanimity about the tyrannical nature of the lockdowns .
Thankfully , that moment of ill-will seems to have passed .
Always identify and return to the cover story .
Walk around it .
Look at it from all sides .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ exit from the other .
Test it .
The vital clues are there .
Another classic example : 2009 , La Gloria , Mexico .
Smithfield Foods , the largest pork producer in the world , operates a giant pig farm .
950,000 pigs .
The urine and feces from these 950,000 pigs run out into the open air and forms what are called lagoons .
They ’ re so large , you can see them from outer space .
Workers , and people in the surrounding neighborhood , are getting sick and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in to spray the lagoons with yet another toxic chemical .
Out of nowhere , guess who shows up ?
The CDC .
Guess what they conclude ?
It ’ s not the urine and feces lagoons or the toxic chemicals causing illness and death .
No .
Of course not .
And voila , we have a new cover story and a new epidemic , called Swine Flu .
The cover story serves a number of purposes , as time passes .
But the most obvious one is : Smithfield Foods is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
And to cap it all off , four years later , in 2013 , Smithfield , still protected , sells itself to a Chinese company , Shuanghui International Holdings , for $ 4.72 billion .
Makes you wonder .
I can imagine a few Chinese intelligence professionals sitting in a room in Beijing , in 2013 , expressing astonishment .
“ Can you believe the CDC ?
They sold a cover story about a virus that was so ridiculous…but it worked .
Suppose we followed suit , but on a grand scale @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in one of our cities .
We invite the CDC and the World Health Organization to come in and help .
There is no virus , but we know they ’ ll ‘ find a new one.
’ They always do .
Then , boom .
We do something no one has ever done before .
We lock down 50 million people overnight and provide a model to the rest of the world .
Other countries line up and lock down their populations , wrecking their economies .
Meanwhile , we announce China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our lockdowns and put everybody back to work .
It ’ s a war with no shots fired , and we win .
Do you think we could pull it off ?
Do you think we could sell it ?
Maybe we should talk to Bill Gates .
He ’ s a smart guy .
He always has interesting ideas… ” The Best of Jon Rappoport

For months, I’ve been demonstrating that no one has proved SARS-CoV-2 exists (start here).
Instead, elite planners have been selling A STORY ABOUT A VIRUS.
In covert intelligence operations, this would be called a cover story. It obscures true goals. It justifies crimes that would otherwise be nakedly exposed.
In a really large covert op, the cover story hides a number of goals and justifies a number of crimes.
For example, in my 1988 book, AIDS INC., I showed how the cover story about HIV was used in Africa. Strangelands V1 The Be... Check Amazon for Pricing.
For a very long time, the true causes of illness and death in areas of Africa were: hunger; protein-calorie malnutrition; starvation; poverty; war; good farm land stolen from the people; corporate pollution; toxic medicines and vaccines; toxic pesticides; overcrowding in cities; lack of basic sanitation.
Most if not all of these causes could have been eliminated. But local governments did not want healthy people. Sick and dying people were easier to control.
Colluding with, and paying off, local government leaders, transnational corporations set up shop in these African countries and used the healthier people to work on their giant commercial farms and in their factories.
But in 1984, suddenly, there was a new (cover) story broadcast and sold to the world: what was really decimating Africa was HIV. THIS explained all the illness and dying.
The true causes, listed above, were shoved into the background.
Those true crimes were hidden, were permitted to continue unabated.
Not only that, the HIV cover story paved the way for pharmaceutical companies to rack up profits by selling extremely toxic AIDS drugs (e.g., AZT) to Africa.
The HIV test, which turned out false positives like Niagara Falls, made these drugs seem necessary—as fake case numbers soared.
People dying from the toxic medical treatments were, of course, listed as AIDS deaths. Edison Desk Lamp, Indu... Buy New $79.00 (as of 06:07 UTC - Details)
Sound familiar?
These days, the coronavirus cover story obscures crimes according to the same general pattern.
EVERYONE is considered an agent of potential infection. Therefore, a new Chinese strategy: universal lockdowns.
COVID-19 is essentially an intelligence-agency type covert op.
The short-term goal is wrecking economies. The long-term goal is taking the population into a new world of technocratic control.
Selling this as necessary all comes back to THE VIRUS COVER STORY.
“We’re not forcing technocracy down the throats of the people. Certainly not. We’re simply doing what we must, because of the danger of the virus…”
There is another routine element in covert operations: FALSE TRAILS.
These are embellishments on the basic story, promoted to hide the fact that the cover story is a lie. The aim in 2020 is: get people arguing about the nature and origin and composition of the virus.
Why? Because as long as people are arguing about these issues, they are re-enforcing the idea that the virus exists and is dangerous. Thus, the basic cover story is strengthened. A Bohemian Enigma | Go... Check Amazon for Pricing.
“Sowing dissension in the ranks” is another aspect of false trails. A classic example is the JFK assassination, and the myriad accusations that have been flung between independent researchers, each of whom has a different explanation for the murder of the president.
This past spring, there was a period when such accusations were breaking out among independent COVID investigators. As a result, there was no unanimity about the tyrannical nature of the lockdowns. Thankfully, that moment of ill-will seems to have passed.
Always identify and return to the cover story. Walk around it. Look at it from all sides. Walk into it from one side and exit from the other. Test it. The vital clues are there.
Another classic example: 2009, La Gloria, Mexico. Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the world, operates a giant pig farm. 950,000 pigs.
The urine and feces from these 950,000 pigs run out into the open air and forms what are called lagoons. They’re so large, you can see them from outer space.
Workers spray the toxic lagoons with a toxic foam. It’s routine.
Workers, and people in the surrounding neighborhood, are getting sick and dying. So new contractors are brought in to spray the lagoons with yet another toxic chemical.
Out of nowhere, guess who shows up? The CDC.
Guess what they conclude? It’s not the urine and feces lagoons or the toxic chemicals causing illness and death. No. Of course not.
It’s a new mysterious virus. H1N1.
And voila, we have a new cover story and a new epidemic, called Swine Flu.
The cover story serves a number of purposes, as time passes. But the most obvious one is: Smithfield Foods is protected. They get away with murder.
And to cap it all off, four years later, in 2013, Smithfield, still protected, sells itself to a Chinese company, Shuanghui International Holdings, for $4.72 billion.
Makes you wonder. I can imagine a few Chinese intelligence professionals sitting in a room in Beijing, in 2013, expressing astonishment. “Can you believe the CDC? They sold a cover story about a virus that was so ridiculous…but it worked. Suppose we followed suit, but on a grand scale? We claim an outbreak is occurring in one of our cities. We invite the CDC and the World Health Organization to come in and help. There is no virus, but we know they’ll ‘find a new one.’ They always do. Then, boom. We do something no one has ever done before. We lock down 50 million people overnight and provide a model to the rest of the world. Other countries line up and lock down their populations, wrecking their economies. Meanwhile, we announce China has ‘recovered,’ we cancel our lockdowns and put everybody back to work. It’s a war with no shots fired, and we win. Do you think we could pull it off? Do you think we could sell it? Maybe we should talk to Bill Gates. He’s a smart guy. He always has interesting ideas…”
Reprinted with permission from Jon Rappoport’s blog.
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