shtfplan--2020-12-14--Bill Gates: Bars & Restaurants Should Be Closed For 4-6 Months

Bill Gates will not give up the elitists ’ dreams of devastating and permanently eliminating all small businesses .
He ’ s now saying bars and restaurants should be closed for four to six months and that there will be no “ return to normal ” until 2022 .
If , however , you ’ ve been paying attention , you know this is not about a virus and health .
This is about the Great Reset and the total permanent enslavement of humanity by the very few .
They will not stop until we are so impoverished we give @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the system they set up in order to get their vaccine and agree to life as a slave .
It ’ s become too obvious to ignore at this point .
According to a report by RT , the billionaire told CNN on Sunday that “ unless we help other countries get rid of this disease ” and see “ high vaccination rates ” within the United States , the “ risk of reintroduction ” will be possible .
“ Big public gatherings ” should continue to be banned and most bars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sadly ” be closed to curb infection rates , according to Gates .
A real return to normal , he theorized , is possible only after 12 to 18 months “ if we manage it well.
” Gates is one of those elitist tyrants who needs the population to willingly accept the vaccine .
People can expect to start receiving the newly approved Pfizer vaccine as early as today , according to CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield .
But even these tyrants are concerned that people won ’ t take this rushed unnecessary @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Or Wear The Submission Muzzle Forever Bill Gates : The U.S. Should “ Brainstorm ” Ways To Reduce “ Vaccine Hesitancy ” Army General In Charge Of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Fears The Public Won ’ t Take It The ruling class fears only one thing : The bulk of humanity finally standing up and saying “ no .
You have no power over me .
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Bill Gates will not give up the elitists’ dreams of devastating and permanently eliminating all small businesses. He’s now saying bars and restaurants should be closed for four to six months and that there will be no “return to normal” until 2022.
If, however, you’ve been paying attention, you know this is not about a virus and health. This is about the Great Reset and the total permanent enslavement of humanity by the very few.
James Corbett Breaks Down The Great Reset
They will not stop until we are so impoverished we give up everything we’ve worked for in the system they set up in order to get their vaccine and agree to life as a slave. It’s become too obvious to ignore at this point.
.@BillGates on Covid: "Even through 2022” we should be prepared for life to not return to “normal” Says “sadly" it’s "appropriate” for bars and restaurants to close over the next "four to six months" pic.twitter.com/cmDD8pv3XR — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 13, 2020
According to a report by RT, the billionaire told CNN on Sunday that “unless we help other countries get rid of this disease” and see “high vaccination rates” within the United States, the “risk of reintroduction” will be possible. “Big public gatherings” should continue to be banned and most bars and restaurants around the country should “sadly” be closed to curb infection rates, according to Gates. A real return to normal, he theorized, is possible only after 12 to 18 months “if we manage it well.”
Gates is one of those elitist tyrants who needs the population to willingly accept the vaccine. People can expect to start receiving the newly approved Pfizer vaccine as early as today, according to CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield. But even these tyrants are concerned that people won’t take this rushed unnecessary vaccine.
Fauci: Take The Vaccine, Or Wear The Submission Muzzle Forever
Bill Gates: The U.S. Should “Brainstorm” Ways To Reduce “Vaccine Hesitancy”
Army General In Charge Of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Fears The Public Won’t Take It
The ruling class fears only one thing: The bulk of humanity finally standing up and saying “no. You have no power over me.”


PAIN COMETH!

This article was contributed by Portfolio Wealth Global .
No , we don ’ t think hyperinflation is coming !
How can inflation bazooka higher , when half of young adults live with their parents in 2020 and 38 % of Americans are consumed with thoughts about how to make ends meet ?
This doesn ’ t mean that gold and silver can ’ t or won ’ t rally in 2021 ( inflation has been below 2 % for over a decade ) , since gold responds to real yields , which are measured by 10-yr yield , subtracted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at current levels ( disinflation ) , as long as rates go down , that negative real yield helps gold .
Silver is an even stranger cat since it responds best to dollar weakness and , boy , do we have plenty of that… Why are we focusing on pain , though , if vaccines are approved and if the beginning of the end for this unique period is ahead of us ?
Well , the price that most small businesses paid to indirectly help , by supposedly slowing the spread of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dying of Covid-19 has been huge .
One day you woke up and the government told you that your baby – your source of income , your pride and joy , the business you took time , effort , thought , sweat , and sacrifice to bring to the marketplace – had to remain closed .
Small businesses received minimal assistance and we ’ ll only learn just how horrible the situation is in 2021 .
This is because the dust will settle , restrictions will ease and we ’ ll see who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as you can see , bet on technology advancements and on disinflation .
No one buys a negative-yielding bond for the income , of course .
The only way to profit from this – and there ’ s a large incentive to capture gains – is to sell the bond for more than you paid for it .
Appreciation occurs when yields fall .
The price of the underlying asset ( the bond ) shoots up .
Obviously , QE does not create inflation , as was previously assumed , since we ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the FED keeps missing its target .
The FED has little control over inflation , but we , the people , do .
What are the implications of so many Americans in this poverty-stricken position ?
• With 36 % of voters believing in fraud and with roughly 80 % of Republicans believing foul play , any hardship will serve as a catalyst for more division .
• Government will play an even bigger role in the lives of most Americans , who stand to become even more dependent upon it .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ issue , once and for all .
We do not see how the unsustainable bullish stance in the stock market , coupled with the genuine distress of most Americans , continues to remain decoupled for another year .
The fundamental problems in the U.S. economy are bigger than what a central bank can address and , frankly , they ’ re not only more serious than what the government has to offer to “ solve ” them , but they ’ re being addressed with all of the wrong tools .
Nanny state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ need to be inspired to get up and figure it out !

This article was contributed by Portfolio Wealth Global.
No, we don’t think hyperinflation is coming!
How can inflation bazooka higher, when half of young adults live with their parents in 2020 and 38% of Americans are consumed with thoughts about how to make ends meet?
This doesn’t mean that gold and silver can’t or won’t rally in 2021 (inflation has been below 2% for over a decade), since gold responds to real yields, which are measured by 10-yr yield, subtracted by CPI. So even with CPI at current levels (disinflation), as long as rates go down, that negative real yield helps gold.
Silver is an even stranger cat since it responds best to dollar weakness and, boy, do we have plenty of that…
Why are we focusing on pain, though, if vaccines are approved and if the beginning of the end for this unique period is ahead of us? Well, the price that most small businesses paid to indirectly help, by supposedly slowing the spread of the virus to the people at risk of dying of Covid-19 has been huge.
One day you woke up and the government told you that your baby – your source of income, your pride and joy, the business you took time, effort, thought, sweat, and sacrifice to bring to the marketplace – had to remain closed.
Small businesses received minimal assistance and we’ll only learn just how horrible the situation is in 2021.
This is because the dust will settle, restrictions will ease and we’ll see who is left standing.
Bond investors, as you can see, bet on technology advancements and on disinflation. No one buys a negative-yielding bond for the income, of course. The only way to profit from this – and there’s a large incentive to capture gains – is to sell the bond for more than you paid for it.
Appreciation occurs when yields fall. The price of the underlying asset (the bond) shoots up.
Obviously, QE does not create inflation, as was previously assumed, since we’ve had over a decade of it and the FED keeps missing its target. The FED has little control over inflation, but we, the people, do.
What are the implications of so many Americans in this poverty-stricken position?
With 36% of voters believing in fraud and with roughly 80% of Republicans believing foul play, any hardship will serve as a catalyst for more division. Government will play an even bigger role in the lives of most Americans, who stand to become even more dependent upon it.
It’s time to address this issue, once and for all.
We do not see how the unsustainable bullish stance in the stock market, coupled with the genuine distress of most Americans, continues to remain decoupled for another year.
The fundamental problems in the U.S. economy are bigger than what a central bank can address and, frankly, they’re not only more serious than what the government has to offer to “solve” them, but they’re being addressed with all of the wrong tools.
Nanny state capitalism is not a plan; Americans need to be inspired to get up and figure it out!
Pain cometh in 2021.


shtfplan--2020-12-15--CAN SILVER HIT $50/Ounce, SHOCKING EVERYONE?

This article was contributed by Future Money Trends .
Silver ’ s price is tied with inflation much more than gold ’ s is .
In the 1970s , as inflation raged in the United States , silver rose to $ 50/ounce , having started the decade at under $ 2 .
It was a sensational decade for the white metal .
However , in the 1980s and 1990s , as deflationary forces brought interest rates down rapidly , the metal ’ s price languished .
Today , its price is HALF of what it was in 1980 !
Obviously @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to investing in gold , which does enjoy a long-term appreciation under both deflationary and inflationary environments .
The question , then , is whether or not there ’ s a potentially interesting trade setting up in silver now that it has doubled from its March lows .
The answer depends on inflationary pressures and inflationary expectations .
• We are seeing that the dollar is dramatically weakening , which is the first sign that silver is likely to enjoy the momentum .
Here ’ s the dollar chart as it stands today @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the trend is swinging , either .
This seems to be a long-term structural decline .
Even the price of oil is back over $ 50/barrel .
• Silver ’ s price has already tested $ 30 this year and has shown that in the first stages of a recovery , however weak it may be , it can surge by triple-digits .
In 2009 , for instance , it appreciated from $ 9 to $ 49 in two short years .
Again , this is a trade that could be capitalized upon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The price of silver has directly correlated with the price of oil over the years .
With oil surging , this could be a critical bullish catalyst for silver .
In the end , silver is an ideal way of betting on inflation .
The Federal Reserve has done the heavy lifting for us .
It arbitrarily mandated 2 % inflation as some magical number .
This means that the street will be bracing for inflation if the FED measures it as such .
Therefore , the smartest move is to watch that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ buddies .
In our world , we ’ re reaching a point that we call the DEBT LIMIT , which is the moment when deflating the currency supply by simply adding more debt is not productive .
This moment will change how investors view inflation .
Be prepared for it and study the topic thoroughly in the meantime .

This article was contributed by Future Money Trends.
Silver’s price is tied with inflation much more than gold’s is. In the 1970s, as inflation raged in the United States, silver rose to $50/ounce, having started the decade at under $2. It was a sensational decade for the white metal.
However, in the 1980s and 1990s, as deflationary forces brought interest rates down rapidly, the metal’s price languished. Today, its price is HALF of what it was in 1980!
Obviously, investing in silver is NOT similar to investing in gold, which does enjoy a long-term appreciation under both deflationary and inflationary environments.
The question, then, is whether or not there’s a potentially interesting trade setting up in silver now that it has doubled from its March lows.
The answer depends on inflationary pressures and inflationary expectations.
We are seeing that the dollar is dramatically weakening, which is the first sign that silver is likely to enjoy the momentum.
Here’s the dollar chart as it stands today:
It doesn’t feel like the trend is swinging, either. This seems to be a long-term structural decline. Even the price of oil is back over $50/barrel.
Silver’s price has already tested $30 this year and has shown that in the first stages of a recovery, however weak it may be, it can surge by triple-digits.
In 2009, for instance, it appreciated from $9 to $49 in two short years.
Again, this is a trade that could be capitalized upon, not a buy-and-hold idea.
The price of silver has directly correlated with the price of oil over the years. With oil surging, this could be a critical bullish catalyst for silver.
In the end, silver is an ideal way of betting on inflation.
The Federal Reserve has done the heavy lifting for us. It arbitrarily mandated 2% inflation as some magical number. This means that the street will be bracing for inflation if the FED measures it as such.
Therefore, the smartest move is to watch that 2% gauge from Powell and his buddies.
In our world, we’re reaching a point that we call the DEBT LIMIT, which is the moment when deflating the currency supply by simply adding more debt is not productive.
This moment will change how investors view inflation.
Be prepared for it and study the topic thoroughly in the meantime.


shtfplan--2020-12-15--NY Tyrants Warn: Prepare For Full Lockdown

Tyrants in New York , Andrew Cuomo , and Bill de Blasio are warning those they rule over to prepare for another full lockdown .
Pretending that the coronavirus is still somehow relevant , the ruling class is going to make some dictates that are about to destroy the lives of many .
New York City is being primed for a “ full shutdown ” as the tyrants make it clear that the city needs to “ get ready ” for such an event .
“ The governor said in a New York Times interview over the weekend that we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ full shutdown , ” de Blasio said .
“ I agree with that , we need to recognize that that may be coming and we ’ ve got to get ready for that now because we can not let this virus keep growing especially at a moment we are finally getting the vaccine and can turn the corner.
” They Moved The Goalposts…AGAIN !
: “ It ’ s Not Over When The Vaccine Arrives ” De Blasio also spoke as a new shutdown of indoor dining in the city , announced by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mayor , went into effect , according to a Fox News report .
Restaurants had been permitted to resume indoor dining at 25 % capacity on September 30 after months of being shut down , but that was ended on Monday with no indication they would reopen any time soon .
These tyrants are also hoping they can get this vaccine in everyone .
They are banking on it .
Of the vaccine ’ s release for public injection , de Blasio said : “ We are not done yet with the coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Let ’ s be hopeful .
It is a shot of hope .
Let ’ s be clear .
It ’ s not just a shot in the medical sense .
It ’ s a shot of hope , ” he said .
“ But we have to keep fighting this virus in the meantime .
So we remain vigilant .
We ’ re going to have a tough December , a tough January.
” These new lockdowns will finish off what ’ s left of small businesses leaving corporations to run @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and it ’ s been amplified in recent months .
In the coming year , there will be no illusion left .
The fascist totalitarian takeover will be obvious to even those fast asleep right now .

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Tyrants in New York, Andrew Cuomo, and Bill de Blasio are warning those they rule over to prepare for another full lockdown. Pretending that the coronavirus is still somehow relevant, the ruling class is going to make some dictates that are about to destroy the lives of many.
New York City is being primed for a “full shutdown” as the tyrants make it clear that the city needs to “get ready” for such an event.
“The governor said in a New York Times interview over the weekend that we should prepare for the possibility of a full shutdown,” de Blasio said. “I agree with that, we need to recognize that that may be coming and we’ve got to get ready for that now because we cannot let this virus keep growing especially at a moment we are finally getting the vaccine and can turn the corner.”
They Moved The Goalposts…AGAIN!: “It’s Not Over When The Vaccine Arrives”
De Blasio also spoke as a new shutdown of indoor dining in the city, announced by Cuomo last week and backed by the mayor, went into effect, according to a Fox News report. Restaurants had been permitted to resume indoor dining at 25% capacity on September 30 after months of being shut down, but that was ended on Monday with no indication they would reopen any time soon.
Commie De Blasio’s Snitch Hotline FLOODED With Obscenities
Commie De Blasio on Full Tyrannical Display
These tyrants are also hoping they can get this vaccine in everyone. They are banking on it. Of the vaccine’s release for public injection, de Blasio said: “We are not done yet with the coronavirus. So let’s celebrate today. Let’s be hopeful. It is a shot of hope. Let’s be clear. It’s not just a shot in the medical sense. It’s a shot of hope,” he said. “But we have to keep fighting this virus in the meantime. So we remain vigilant. We’re going to have a tough December, a tough January.”
These new lockdowns will finish off what’s left of small businesses leaving corporations to run the show. Fascism is already here, and it’s been amplified in recent months. In the coming year, there will be no illusion left. The fascist totalitarian takeover will be obvious to even those fast asleep right now.


shtfplan--2020-12-15--Court-Ordered Audit: Dominion Voting Machines Were DESIGNED For FRAUD

The American public has largely already lost all sense of the illusion of choice in the aftermath of this fraudulent and phony election .
It is not getting any better either .
A court-ordered audit of voting machines in Michigan has determined that the Dominion machines were specifically designed for fraud .
The court-ordered forensic audit , carried out by Allied Security Operations Group ( ASOG ) , found that Dominion systems in Antrim County , Michigan recorded a shocking 68 percent error rate while tabulating votes .
The report noted that the faulty software far exceeds the “ allowable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ set by the Federal Election Commission , according to RT .
Shockingly , the auditors claimed that the widespread errors were a feature , not a bug , stating that the voting system “ intentionally ” generates a high number of ballot errors which can then be used to manipulate the vote tally .
“ We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.
” The preliminary report also found that there were attempts to “ tamper with evidence.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 21 , an “ unauthorized user unsuccessfully attempted to zero out election results , ” the auditors said .
The report also found that all security logs from Election Day , and the days prior to and after November 3 , had mysteriously vanished .
State officials ( the ruling class ) viewed the audit differently .
In a statement , Michigan ’ s Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson slammed the report as “ another in a long stream of misguided , vague and dubious assertions designed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ election.
” The officials also described ASOG , which has participated in other lawsuits challenging the election results , as “ partisan , ” and said the group lacks the expertise to audit the voting software , reported RT .
The mainstream media and social media giants are still trying to use censorship and “ fact-checkers ” to propagate the public into somehow believing that Joe Biden won this election fairly .
The Electoral College formally designated Biden the winner of the 2020 selection race on Monday , but Trump has not yet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the election was rife with fraud .
There are still ongoing investigations as well .

The American public has largely already lost all sense of the illusion of choice in the aftermath of this fraudulent and phony election. It is not getting any better either. A court-ordered audit of voting machines in Michigan has determined that the Dominion machines were specifically designed for fraud.
The court-ordered forensic audit, carried out by Allied Security Operations Group (ASOG), found that Dominion systems in Antrim County, Michigan recorded a shocking 68 percent error rate while tabulating votes. The report noted that the faulty software far exceeds the “allowable election error rate” of 0.0008 percent set by the Federal Election Commission, according to RT.
Shockingly, the auditors claimed that the widespread errors were a feature, not a bug, stating that the voting system “intentionally” generates a high number of ballot errors which can then be used to manipulate the vote tally. “We conclude that the Dominion Voting System is intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.”
The preliminary report also found that there were attempts to “tamper with evidence.” The analysis revealed that on November 21, an “unauthorized user unsuccessfully attempted to zero out election results,” the auditors said. The report also found that all security logs from Election Day, and the days prior to and after November 3, had mysteriously vanished.
State officials (the ruling class) viewed the audit differently. In a statement, Michigan’s Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson slammed the report as “another in a long stream of misguided, vague and dubious assertions designed to erode public confidence in the November presidential election.” The officials also described ASOG, which has participated in other lawsuits challenging the election results, as “partisan,” and said the group lacks the expertise to audit the voting software, reported RT.
The mainstream media and social media giants are still trying to use censorship and “fact-checkers” to propagate the public into somehow believing that Joe Biden won this election fairly.
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The Electoral College formally designated Biden the winner of the 2020 selection race on Monday, but Trump has not yet conceded and continues to make the case that the election was rife with fraud. There are still ongoing investigations as well.


shtfplan--2020-12-15--Shoplifting In Grocery Stores On The Rise In The U.S.

As businesses and families struggle to get by in the aftermath of the government ’ s massive overreaction to the coronavirus scamdemic hoax , shoplifting in grocery stores has been spiking .
This is a case where people are stealing food , not overpriced luxury goods .
America is well on its way to becoming a third world country thanks to people ’ s continual obedience to the state ’ s disastrous orders .
As of right now , the statistics are bad , but they are expected to get a whole lot worse as the entire economy collapses in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans currently on some form of unemployment assistance.
, and some 54 million Americans are projected to struggle with hunger this year .
This is an increase of 45 % from the year prior , as noted by the USDA .
And according to The Washington Post , more Americans are shoplifting for basic necessities at the grocery store more than ever before .
more than 20 million Americans currently on some form of unemployment assistance .
As income disappears and families begin to experience hunger , the prevalence of shoplifting heightens , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ re seeing an increase in low-impact crimes , ” Jeff Zisner , chief executive of workplace security firm Aegis , told The Washington Post .
“ It ’ s not a whole lot of people going in , grabbing TVs and running out the front door .
It ’ s a very different kind of crime—it ’ s people stealing consumables and items associated with children and babies.
” The Census Bureau also told The Washington Post that nearly 26 million adults reported not having enough food to eat as of mid-November @ @ @ @ @ @ @ food assistance programs are becoming sparse for those in need as well , which is another reason why Americans are turning to shoplifting .
Meal shortages are on the horizon at major food banks across the country too , as federal funding is set to expire at the end of the month .
In addition , food aid programs such as SNAP and WIC are being reduced .
–Yahoo News It won ’ t take many more restrictions or lockdown rules to plunge what used to be the world ’ s most abundant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ ve never seen .
Get prepared now , if you aren ’ t already .
2021 is not going to be much easier for so many .

As businesses and families struggle to get by in the aftermath of the government’s massive overreaction to the coronavirus scamdemic hoax, shoplifting in grocery stores has been spiking. This is a case where people are stealing food, not overpriced luxury goods.
America is well on its way to becoming a third world country thanks to people’s continual obedience to the state’s disastrous orders. As of right now, the statistics are bad, but they are expected to get a whole lot worse as the entire economy collapses in a heap. More than 20 million Americans currently on some form of unemployment assistance., and some 54 million Americans are projected to struggle with hunger this year. This is an increase of 45% from the year prior, as noted by the USDA. And according to The Washington Post, more Americans are shoplifting for basic necessities at the grocery store more than ever before.
more than 20 million Americans currently on some form of unemployment assistance. As income disappears and families begin to experience hunger, the prevalence of shoplifting heightens, says a new report.
“We’re seeing an increase in low-impact crimes,” Jeff Zisner, chief executive of workplace security firm Aegis, told The Washington Post. “It’s not a whole lot of people going in, grabbing TVs and running out the front door. It’s a very different kind of crime—it’s people stealing consumables and items associated with children and babies.”
The Census Bureau also told The Washington Post that nearly 26 million adults reported not having enough food to eat as of mid-November, a record high. Resources for food assistance programs are becoming sparse for those in need as well, which is another reason why Americans are turning to shoplifting. Meal shortages are on the horizon at major food banks across the country too, as federal funding is set to expire at the end of the month. In addition, food aid programs such as SNAP and WIC are being reduced. –Yahoo News
It won’t take many more restrictions or lockdown rules to plunge what used to be the world’s most abundant economy into a massive crash that we’ve never seen. Get prepared now, if you aren’t already. 2021 is not going to be much easier for so many.


shtfplan--2020-12-16--A Nation Divided Shall Surely Fall

A Nation Divided Shall Surely Fall

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog .
It is often said that a house divided will surely fall , and the same thing can now be said for the United States as a whole .
If there is anything that this election has made clear , it is the fact that there is little hope of healing the very deep divisions that exist in our country .
Most of those on the political left absolutely hate those on the political right , and most of those on the political right absolutely hate those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ isn ’ t as if the two opposing sides are even united .
The radical left is absolutely disgusted with “ moderate Democrats ” such as Joe Biden and is very much looking forward to the day when their “ progressive revolution ” finally triumphs in America .
Meanwhile , the right is hopelessly divided into countless political , religious , and economic factions , and there is endless conflict between “ conservatives ” that are pro-Trump and those that are anti-Trump .
Over the past 30 years , not much has actually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ little has been accomplished has almost always involved more spending , more debt , and more socialism .
One of the reasons why the United States became such a great nation is because originally we were united by a core set of values and principles .
In the beginning , everything was about faith , family , and freedom .
Our notions of right and wrong were defined by the Christian faith , the family was the most important institution in our society , and early Americans were desperate for freedom after experiencing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now we have completely abandoned all of that .
The Christian faith has been relentlessly pushed to the fringes of public life , the traditional family unit is mocked while rampant sexual immorality is celebrated all over America , and with each passing day , our freedoms are being eroded even more .
At this point , our Constitution has essentially been relegated to being “ just a piece of paper ” that sits in the National Archives .
It has been trampled on over and over again in recent years , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In fact , much of the time it is the courts that are doing the trampling .
We have now gotten to a point where our nation is almost ungovernable .
When Barack Obama first entered the White House , millions upon millions of Americans did not consider him to be a legitimate president .
Then when Donald Trump won the election in 2016 , even more Americans did not recognize the legitimacy of his presidency .
Of course , that trend is only going to intensify now that Biden is being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ brand new survey , a whopping 82 percent of all Trump supporters do not believe that Biden is the “ legitimate winner of the 2020 election ” … Of course , if the election results were reversed and Donald Trump was given another four years , a similar percentage of Democrats would almost certainly not be willing to recognize the legitimacy of Trump ’ s victory .
No matter who is in the White House from now on , tens of millions of Americans are not going to accept that individual as being @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the past several weeks , the election fraud that has been going on for decades in this country has now been exposed for everyone to see .
From this point forward , a very high percentage of Americans will not have any faith that our elections are fair .
If people don ’ t believe in the system , it is just a matter of time before it completely fails .
John Adams once made the following statement… Today , the American people are neither moral nor religious .
Instead , we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that is dominated by power-hungry control freaks .
If you go back and read the extremely eloquent things that our founders had to say in their time , you will quickly realize that the way that we speak and write today is completely different .
If they could have traveled to our time and interacted with us , we would have seemed like cavemen to them .
Most of us can barely hold conversations with others , and when we do it is mostly just a bunch of unintelligible gibberish .
But even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down ” over the decades , if we could at least try to get along with one another we could still have a functional society .
Sadly , I have never seen more hatred in our country than I am seeing now , and it just keeps on growing .
You would think that Democrats would have an interest in at least trying to pull the country together , but instead , they just keep rubbing their “ victory ” in the faces of their enemies .
For example , just consider something @ @ @ @ @ @ @ feel the love in those words ?
Yes , let the healing begin .
More blood was spilled on the streets of D.C. over the weekend , and the left and the right will continue to go after one another in the weeks and months ahead .
We have now entered a period of semi-permanent civil unrest in this country , and what we have experienced so far is just the beginning .
If we would return to the values and principles that our nation was founded upon , our future could be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what the American people seem to want .
So we will continue to steamroll toward oblivion , and there is no future for our nation if we stay on the road that we are currently on .
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It is often said that a house divided will surely fall, and the same thing can now be said for the United States as a whole. If there is anything that this election has made clear, it is the fact that there is little hope of healing the very deep divisions that exist in our country.
Most of those on the political left absolutely hate those on the political right, and most of those on the political right absolutely hate those on the political left. But it isn’t as if the two opposing sides are even united. The radical left is absolutely disgusted with “moderate Democrats” such as Joe Biden and is very much looking forward to the day when their “progressive revolution” finally triumphs in America. Meanwhile, the right is hopelessly divided into countless political, religious, and economic factions, and there is endless conflict between “conservatives” that are pro-Trump and those that are anti-Trump. Over the past 30 years, not much has actually gotten done in D.C., but what little has been accomplished has almost always involved more spending, more debt, and more socialism.
One of the reasons why the United States became such a great nation is because originally we were united by a core set of values and principles. In the beginning, everything was about faith, family, and freedom. Our notions of right and wrong were defined by the Christian faith, the family was the most important institution in our society, and early Americans were desperate for freedom after experiencing deep oppression over in Europe.
But now we have completely abandoned all of that. The Christian faith has been relentlessly pushed to the fringes of public life, the traditional family unit is mocked while rampant sexual immorality is celebrated all over America, and with each passing day, our freedoms are being eroded even more.
At this point, our Constitution has essentially been relegated to being “just a piece of paper” that sits in the National Archives. It has been trampled on over and over again in recent years, and the courts do not seem to care.
In fact, much of the time it is the courts that are doing the trampling.
We have now gotten to a point where our nation is almost ungovernable. When Barack Obama first entered the White House, millions upon millions of Americans did not consider him to be a legitimate president. Then when Donald Trump won the election in 2016, even more Americans did not recognize the legitimacy of his presidency. Of course, that trend is only going to intensify now that Biden is being installed as president. According to one brand new survey, a whopping 82 percent of all Trump supporters do not believe that Biden is the “legitimate winner of the 2020 election”…
A strong majority of Donald Trump supporters reject the legitimacy of Joe Biden as President-elect, with many citing election irregularities and the most pervasive censorship campaign in American history in support of Biden on the part of Big Tech companies. A poll released Sunday by CBS News reveals that 82% of self-identifying Trump supporters do not recognize Biden as the “legitimate winner of the 2020 election.”
Of course, if the election results were reversed and Donald Trump was given another four years, a similar percentage of Democrats would almost certainly not be willing to recognize the legitimacy of Trump’s victory.
No matter who is in the White House from now on, tens of millions of Americans are not going to accept that individual as being legitimate.
And thanks to the events of the past several weeks, the election fraud that has been going on for decades in this country has now been exposed for everyone to see. From this point forward, a very high percentage of Americans will not have any faith that our elections are fair.
If people don’t believe in the system, it is just a matter of time before it completely fails.
John Adams once made the following statement…
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Today, the American people are neither moral nor religious. Instead, we have evolved into an “idiocracy” that is dominated by power-hungry control freaks.
If you go back and read the extremely eloquent things that our founders had to say in their time, you will quickly realize that the way that we speak and write today is completely different. If they could have traveled to our time and interacted with us, we would have seemed like cavemen to them. Most of us can barely hold conversations with others, and when we do it is mostly just a bunch of unintelligible gibberish.
But even though we have been dramatically “dumbed down” over the decades, if we could at least try to get along with one another we could still have a functional society.
Sadly, I have never seen more hatred in our country than I am seeing now, and it just keeps on growing.
You would think that Democrats would have an interest in at least trying to pull the country together, but instead, they just keep rubbing their “victory” in the faces of their enemies. For example, just consider something that Debra Messing just said…
The “Will & Grace” star — one of Hollywood’s most vocal Trump critics — expressed a desire for the president to “live a long life in prison” in a tweet to her more than 677,000 followers last week. She called Trump “a weak, scared, stupid, inept, negligent, vindictive, narcissistic, criminal” before writing she hoped he became “the most popular boyfriend to the all inmates.”
Can you feel the love in those words?
Yes, let the healing begin.
More blood was spilled on the streets of D.C. over the weekend, and the left and the right will continue to go after one another in the weeks and months ahead. We have now entered a period of semi-permanent civil unrest in this country, and what we have experienced so far is just the beginning.
If we would return to the values and principles that our nation was founded upon, our future could be very different.
But that is not what the American people seem to want.
So we will continue to steamroll toward oblivion, and there is no future for our nation if we stay on the road that we are currently on.
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shtfplan--2020-12-16--Congress ‘Close’ On Stimulus; Will Include New Round Of Direct Checks, Nix State And Local Funding,

Congress ‘Close’ On Stimulus; Will Include New Round Of Direct Checks, Nix State And Local Funding, Liability Protections

This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge .
Congress is ‘ close ’ on a coronavirus deal , which is expected to remain below the $ 1 trillion upper boundary set by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ( R-KY ) and GOP leadership earlier this year , according to The Hill .
The current iteration of the deal will include direct stimulus payments to individuals but excludes liability protections and direct aid for state and local governments .
The new round of stimulus checks will come in “ at an amount lower than the checks of up @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 500 per child included in the CARES act , ” according to The Hill ‘ s Scott Wong , who adds that it will “ leave out $ 160B in funding for state and local governments , which was originally included in a $ 908 billion compromise proposal that Democratic leaders endorsed in early December , as well as liability protection for businesses , a top priority of GOP leadership.
” Looks like Goldman was right this time : one day after the bank ’ s chief political economist Alec Phillips flipped his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that think “ it is more likely than not that Congress will pass this week a package similar to the recent $ 748bn bipartisan proposals , which would be close to our standing assumption of a $ 700bn ( 3.3 % of GDP ) package ” moments ago Politico ’ s Jake Sherman confirmed what was already widely expected when he tweeted that negotiators “ are on the brink of a $ 900bn coronavirus rescue package that would include a new round of direct payments , but would leave out state and local @ @ @ @ @ @ @ More importantly , he added that “ a deal could come as early as early this morning.
” The news immediately spiked the EMini , pushing it briefly above 3,700 before the gains fizzled as traders realized that much of this was already priced in .
The news also pushed 10Y yields to session highs above 0.94 % .
For those who missed it , yesterday Goldman said that congressional leaders appear slightly more likely than not to include most of the other aspects of the bipartisan $ 748bn proposal ( summarized below @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be another round of loans through the Paycheck Protection Program ( PPP ) for hard-hit businesses , payments to states to cover COVID-related education costs and public health funds for activities like testing and vaccine distribution .
A $ 300/week UI top-up payment through March also looks likely .
As an aside , Goldman ’ s base case for additional stimulus remains $ 700bn ( 3.3 % of GDP ) : At this point , the discussions appear to be shaping up similar to our own expectations regarding the size of the additional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ believed that Congress would provide around $ 200bn to state and local governments , it looks likely that if Congress acts this month , it would include only around $ 100bn for state and local governments , directed to schools .
And as we wait for details on the full stimulus package , something ominous : according to Goldman , “ if Congress acts this month , it could be the last major installment of fiscal relief .
If Congress passes fiscal legislation this month , it will likely create a new set @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2021 , which could pressure lawmakers to pass additional fiscal relief.
” This means that another round of payments to individuals and aid to state and local governments could pass in early 2021 only if Democrats win both Senate seats in Georgia .
Prediction markets currently put the odds that Democrats win both seats at around one in three .
If they win both seats , Democrats will likely pass additional measures to provide state and local relief as well as payments to individuals , along with some other fiscal priorities that Congress @ @ @ @ @ @ @ legislation it passes this month .
That could add an incremental $ 300bn to $ 800bn to the total fiscal relief we expect under a divided government scenario .

This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge.
Congress is ‘close’ on a coronavirus deal, which is expected to remain below the $1 trillion upper boundary set by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and GOP leadership earlier this year, according to The Hill. The current iteration of the deal will include direct stimulus payments to individuals but excludes liability protections and direct aid for state and local governments.
The new round of stimulus checks will come in “at an amount lower than the checks of up to $1,200 per adult and $500 per child included in the CARES act,” according to The Hill‘s Scott Wong, who adds that it will “leave out $160B in funding for state and local governments, which was originally included in a $908 billion compromise proposal that Democratic leaders endorsed in early December, as well as liability protection for businesses, a top priority of GOP leadership.”
According to Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer (NY), the “finish line is in sight,” while McConnell says lawmakers have made “major headway.” Lots of words but it sounds like we’re nearly there.
* * *
Looks like Goldman was right this time: one day after the bank’s chief political economist Alec Phillips flipped his stimulus position again, and said yesterday that think “it is more likely than not that Congress will pass this week a package similar to the recent $748bn bipartisan proposals, which would be close to our standing assumption of a $700bn (3.3% of GDP) package” moments ago Politico’s Jake Sherman confirmed what was already widely expected when he tweeted that negotiators “are on the brink of a $900bn coronavirus rescue package that would include a new round of direct payments, but would leave out state and local aid, and a liability shield.”
More importantly, he added that “a deal could come as early as early this morning.”
The news immediately spiked the EMini, pushing it briefly above 3,700 before the gains fizzled as traders realized that much of this was already priced in.
The news also pushed 10Y yields to session highs above 0.94%.
For those who missed it, yesterday Goldman said that congressional leaders appear slightly more likely than not to include most of the other aspects of the bipartisan $748bn proposal (summarized below).
The largest of these would be another round of loans through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for hard-hit businesses, payments to states to cover COVID-related education costs and public health funds for activities like testing and vaccine distribution. A $300/week UI top-up payment through March also looks likely.
As an aside, Goldman’s base case for additional stimulus remains $700bn (3.3% of GDP):
At this point, the discussions appear to be shaping up similar to our own expectations regarding the size of the additional fiscal measures. However, while we believed that Congress would provide around $200bn to state and local governments, it looks likely that if Congress acts this month, it would include only around $100bn for state and local governments, directed to schools.
And as we wait for details on the full stimulus package, something ominous: according to Goldman, “if Congress acts this month, it could be the last major installment of fiscal relief. If Congress passes fiscal legislation this month, it will likely create a new set of expiring policies in March or April 2021, which could pressure lawmakers to pass additional fiscal relief.”
While this might create some upside risk to our fiscal assumptions, we would expect the amount of additional fiscal measures Congress passes next year to be modest. With warming weather and vaccine distribution well underway by that point, another package worth several hundred billion dollars seems unlikely.
This means that another round of payments to individuals and aid to state and local governments could pass in early 2021 only if Democrats win both Senate seats in Georgia. Prediction markets currently put the odds that Democrats win both seats at around one in three. If they win both seats, Democrats will likely pass additional measures to provide state and local relief as well as payments to individuals, along with some other fiscal priorities that Congress is likely to omit from any fiscal legislation it passes this month. That could add an incremental $300bn to $800bn to the total fiscal relief we expect under a divided government scenario.


shtfplan--2020-12-16--Arizona Senate Orders AUDIT Of Dominion Voting Machines in Arizona

The Arizona Senate has ordered an audit of the Dominion voting machines that were “ designed for fraud.
” The election battle is not over yet .
The board of supervisors must respond to the audit orders by December 18 .
A spokesperson for the Maricopa Board of Directors told the Washington Examiner that the board is consulting with legal advisers about the subpoenas .
Maricopa County officials said they were already planning to carry out a forensic audit of voting machines , as well as a hand recount of all 2.1 million ballots cast , but were prevented from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ challenges to the election results .
The subpoenas coincide with the release of a preliminary audit report , ordered by a Michigan judge , which claimed that Dominion systems are “ intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.
” The ruling class and mainstream media are still alleging that there was no voter fraud , even though the evidence is becoming abundantly clear that that is not nor has it ever been the case .
Eddie Farnsworth , the Republican chairman of the State Senate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sobpeona , held a six-hour-long hearing on Monday to probe allegations of irregularities surrounding the presidential contest .
He announced afterward that he intended to issue subpoenas to inspect and audit voting machines in Maricopa County , claiming that “ there is evidence of tampering , there is evidence of fraud , ” local media reported .
However , officials who testified before his committee insisted that there were no indicators that Democrat Joe Biden ’ s narrow victory in the state was illegitimate .
Farnsworth argued that the subpoenas would “ ensure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ process in place ” to vet the “ veracity ” of the electoral contest .
–RT These findings back up Donald Trump ’ s allegations that this election was wrought with fraud .
Even though the fraud is obvious , Biden was certified as president-elect by the Electoral College on Monday , leading some Republicans , including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , to formally recognize the Democrats ’ victory .
Trump has insisted that it ’ s “ too early ” to give up and has urged the Republican Party to “ @ @ @ @ @

The Arizona Senate has ordered an audit of the Dominion voting machines that were “designed for fraud.” The election battle is not over yet.
The board of supervisors must respond to the audit orders by December 18. A spokesperson for the Maricopa Board of Directors told the Washington Examiner that the board is consulting with legal advisers about the subpoenas. Maricopa County officials said they were already planning to carry out a forensic audit of voting machines, as well as a hand recount of all 2.1 million ballots cast, but were prevented from doing so due to ongoing litigation involving challenges to the election results.
The subpoenas coincide with the release of a preliminary audit report, ordered by a Michigan judge, which claimed that Dominion systems are “intentionally and purposefully designed with inherent errors to create systemic fraud and influence election results.”
Court-Ordered Audit: Dominion Voting Machines Were DESIGNED For FRAUD
The ruling class and mainstream media are still alleging that there was no voter fraud, even though the evidence is becoming abundantly clear that that is not nor has it ever been the case.
Eddie Farnsworth, the Republican chairman of the State Senate’s Judiciary Committee who issued the sobpeona, held a six-hour-long hearing on Monday to probe allegations of irregularities surrounding the presidential contest. He announced afterward that he intended to issue subpoenas to inspect and audit voting machines in Maricopa County, claiming that “there is evidence of tampering, there is evidence of fraud,” local media reported. However, officials who testified before his committee insisted that there were no indicators that Democrat Joe Biden’s narrow victory in the state was illegitimate. Farnsworth argued that the subpoenas would “ensure that at least the legislature has a process in place” to vet the “veracity” of the electoral contest. –RT
These findings back up Donald Trump’s allegations that this election was wrought with fraud.
Even though the fraud is obvious, Biden was certified as president-elect by the Electoral College on Monday, leading some Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to formally recognize the Democrats’ victory. Trump has insisted that it’s “too early” to give up and has urged the Republican Party to “learn to fight.”


shtfplan--2020-12-16--Trump: “It’s Too Soon To Give Up” The Election Fight

Donald Trump has expressed his irritation at politicians such as Mitch McConnell who congratulated Joe Biden after the electoral college voted to further cement the Democrats ’ win .
But Trump has not thrown in the towel , and says it ’ s “ too soon to give up !
” Trump took to his social media of choice , Twitter , on Wednesday , venting his anger at the top Republican senator ’ s words , according to a report by RT .
“ Mitch , 75,000,000 VOTES , a record for a sitting President ( by a lot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Republican Party must finally learn to fight .
People are angry !
” he wrote .
The remark from Trump came in response to a statement made by McConnell on Tuesday in which he acknowledged Biden ’ s win after the electoral college vote , congratulating him and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris .
“ The Electoral College has spoken , ” McConnell said , noting that “ as of this morning , our country has a president-elect and a vice president-elect ” even though “ many millions of us had hoped the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” McConnell has reportedly privately warned fellow Republican senators against challenging the election results , urging them to not dispute the Electoral College decision during the upcoming joint session of Congress to confirm the results .
The session is scheduled to take place on January 6 .
The words of the Senate majority leader have angered Trump ’ s supporters , with the most hardcore going so far as to accuse McConnell of being a “ traitor.
” “ McConnell just wants power , influence , & money .
He is willing to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
McConnell is a traitor to American Patriots , ” Trump campaign attorney Lin Wood said .
The Trump campaign appears poised to stick this out for the next month as things continue to unravel .
At this point , though , the division between the left and right has never been wider .
No republican will accept a Biden presidency and not democrat will accept another four years of Trump .
The time to wake up to this division is now .
Be aware of what ’ s happening but don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ course , stay prepared , and know the real-world ramifications of either one of these two being inaugurated next month .
Either way , there will be consequences .

Donald Trump has expressed his irritation at politicians such as Mitch McConnell who congratulated Joe Biden after the electoral college voted to further cement the Democrats’ win. But Trump has not thrown in the towel, and says it’s “too soon to give up!”
Trump took to his social media of choice, Twitter, on Wednesday, venting his anger at the top Republican senator’s words, according to a report by RT. “Mitch, 75,000,000 VOTES, a record for a sitting President (by a lot). Too soon to give up. Republican Party must finally learn to fight. People are angry!” he wrote.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1339083004216532993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1339083004216532993%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F509811-trump-mcconnell-biden-win%2F
The remark from Trump came in response to a statement made by McConnell on Tuesday in which he acknowledged Biden’s win after the electoral college vote, congratulating him and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. “The Electoral College has spoken,” McConnell said, noting that “as of this morning, our country has a president-elect and a vice president-elect” even though “many millions of us had hoped the presidential election would yield a different result.”
McConnell has reportedly privately warned fellow Republican senators against challenging the election results, urging them to not dispute the Electoral College decision during the upcoming joint session of Congress to confirm the results. The session is scheduled to take place on January 6. The words of the Senate majority leader have angered Trump’s supporters, with the most hardcore going so far as to accuse McConnell of being a “traitor.”
https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1338914009660133378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1338914009660133378%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F509811-trump-mcconnell-biden-win%2F
“McConnell just wants power, influence, & money. He is willing to sell America to get what he wants. McConnell is a traitor to American Patriots,” Trump campaign attorney Lin Wood said.
The Trump campaign appears poised to stick this out for the next month as things continue to unravel. At this point, though, the division between the left and right has never been wider. No republican will accept a Biden presidency and not democrat will accept another four years of Trump.
The time to wake up to this division is now. Be aware of what’s happening but don’t get sucked in. Stay the course, stay prepared, and know the real-world ramifications of either one of these two being inaugurated next month. Either way, there will be consequences.


shtfplan--2020-12-16--Just In Time For The Vaccine: A New COVID Strain Has Been Found

As the COVID-19 vaccine rolls out everywhere , a new strain of COVID-19 has been identified in the United Kingdom as a mutation .
Normally , when viruses mutate , they become less deadly and more infectious to continue infecting as many hosts as possible .
And what does that mean for the rushed toxic and side effect-laden vaccine they want to jab us all with ?
It ’ ll mean nothing .
We ’ ll all be expected to take the shot no matter how many mutations pop up , and like the flu , even with the vaccine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ eradicate the coronavirus .
According to The Washington Post , the new strain spreading in the UK has unknown significance as of yet .
But the Post also noted : There is no evidence that these changes are making the virus deadlier , but new research has provided evidence that the virus is not a static target of vaccines and will need to be watched closely to see how it responds to therapeutic interventions and the human immune system .
–The Washington Post So are we about to get another mandatory rushed concoction @ @ @ @ @ @ @ take ?
Likely .
There is an obvious push to get the public on board with this vaccine and to think it won ’ t be forced or you won ’ t be coerced into taking it is pure delusion at this point .
Medical Journal : Get The COVID-19 Vaccine , Or Be Punished HARSHLY Vaccine Update : The Military Has A HEAVY-HANDED Involvement In Operation Warp Speed The issue of the covid mutation sparked headlines across the United Kingdom after a top government official , Health Secretary Matt Hancock , stood @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and announced that more than 1,000 confirmed coronavirus infections in southeast England show a suite of genetic mutations that might be driving the surge in that region .
The mainstream media has jumped on board and used this new information to propagate fear .
That news was quickly followed by a striking statement from Jeremy Farrar , the head of the Wellcome Trust biomedical research foundation , saying “ there is evidence to indicate a new variant of the Covid-19 virus ” and calling this development “ potentially serious.
” He said it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the spike in infections in parts of the U.K. or what this may or may not mean for transmission of the virus and the efficacy of vaccines .
–The Washington Post The pressure on the virus to evolve is increased by the fact that so many millions of people have now been infected .
If that ’ s the case , we are building herd immunity anyway and a vaccine is unnecessary .
“ Most of the mutations will not be significant or cause for concern , but some may give the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lead to higher transmission or mean it is more harmful , ” Farrar said .

As the COVID-19 vaccine rolls out everywhere, a new strain of COVID-19 has been identified in the United Kingdom as a mutation. Normally, when viruses mutate, they become less deadly and more infectious to continue infecting as many hosts as possible.
And what does that mean for the rushed toxic and side effect-laden vaccine they want to jab us all with? It’ll mean nothing. We’ll all be expected to take the shot no matter how many mutations pop up, and like the flu, even with the vaccine, won’t be able to eradicate the coronavirus.
According to The Washington Post, the new strain spreading in the UK has unknown significance as of yet. But the Post also noted:
There is no evidence that these changes are making the virus deadlier, but new research has provided evidence that the virus is not a static target of vaccines and will need to be watched closely to see how it responds to therapeutic interventions and the human immune system. –The Washington Post
So are we about to get another mandatory rushed concoction we’ll all be expected to take? Likely. There is an obvious push to get the public on board with this vaccine and to think it won’t be forced or you won’t be coerced into taking it is pure delusion at this point.
Medical Journal: Get The COVID-19 Vaccine, Or Be Punished HARSHLY
Vaccine Update: The Military Has A HEAVY-HANDED Involvement In Operation Warp Speed
The issue of the covid mutation sparked headlines across the United Kingdom after a top government official, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, stood in the House of Commons on Monday and announced that more than 1,000 confirmed coronavirus infections in southeast England show a suite of genetic mutations that might be driving the surge in that region. The mainstream media has jumped on board and used this new information to propagate fear.
That news was quickly followed by a striking statement from Jeremy Farrar, the head of the Wellcome Trust biomedical research foundation, saying “there is evidence to indicate a new variant of the Covid-19 virus” and calling this development “potentially serious.” He said it is unclear whether the variant is responsible for the spike in infections in parts of the U.K. or what this may or may not mean for transmission of the virus and the efficacy of vaccines. –The Washington Post
The pressure on the virus to evolve is increased by the fact that so many millions of people have now been infected. If that’s the case, we are building herd immunity anyway and a vaccine is unnecessary. “Most of the mutations will not be significant or cause for concern, but some may give the virus an evolutionary advantage, which may lead to higher transmission or mean it is more harmful,” Farrar said.


shtfplan--2020-12-17--Big Brother in Disguise: The Rise of a New, Technological World Order

This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead at The Rutherford Institute .
It had the potential for disaster .
Early in the morning of Monday , December 15 , 2020 , Google suffered a major worldwide outage in which all of its internet-connected services crashed , including Nest , Google Calendar , Gmail , Docs , Hangouts , Maps , Meet , and YouTube .
The outage only lasted an hour , but it was a chilling reminder of how reliant the world has become on internet-connected technologies to do everything from unlocking doors and turning up the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emails , and making phone calls .
A year earlier , a Google outage resulted in Nest users being unable to access their Nest thermostats , Nest smart locks , and Nest cameras .
As Fast Company reports , “ This essentially meant that because of a cloud storage outage , people were prevented from getting inside their homes , using their AC , and monitoring their babies.
” Welcome to the Matrix .
Twenty-some years after the Wachowskis ’ iconic film , The Matrix introduced us to a futuristic world in which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by authoritarian machines—a world where the choice between existing in a denial-ridden virtual dream-state or facing up to the harsh , difficult realities of life comes down to a blue pill or a red pill—we stand at the precipice of a technologically-dominated matrix of our own making .
We are living the prequel to The Matrix with each passing day , falling further under the spell of technologically-driven virtual communities , virtual realities , and virtual conveniences managed by artificially intelligent machines that are on a fast track to replacing human beings and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In The Matrix , computer programmer Thomas Anderson a.k.a .
hacker Neo is wakened from a virtual slumber by Morpheus , a freedom fighter seeking to liberate humanity from a lifelong hibernation state imposed by hyper-advanced artificial intelligence machines that rely on humans as an organic power source .
With their minds plugged into a perfectly crafted virtual reality , few humans ever realize they are living in an artificial dream world .
Neo is given a choice : to take the red pill , wake up and join the resistance , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ asleep and serve as fodder for the powers-that-be .
Most people opt for the blue pill .
In our case , the blue pill—a one-way ticket to a life sentence in an electronic concentration camp—has been honey-coated to hide the bitter aftertaste , sold to us in the name of expediency and delivered by way of blazingly fast Internet , cell phone signals that never drop a call , thermostats that keep us at the perfect temperature without our having to raise a finger , and entertainment that can be simultaneously streamed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Yet we are not merely in thrall with these technologies that were intended to make our lives easier .
We have become enslaved by them .
Look around you .
Everywhere you turn , people are so addicted to their internet-connected screen devices—smartphones , tablets , computers , televisions—that they can go for hours at a time submerged in a virtual world where human interaction is filtered through the medium of technology .
This is not freedom .
This is not even progress .
This is technological tyranny and iron-fisted control delivered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corporate giants such as Google and Facebook , and government spy agencies such as the National Security Agency .
So consumed are we with availing ourselves of all the latest technologies that we have spared barely a thought for the ramifications of our heedless , headlong stumble towards a world in which our abject reliance on internet-connected gadgets and gizmos is grooming us for a future in which freedom is an illusion .
Yet it ’ s not just freedom that hangs in the balance .
Humanity itself is on the line .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to technological tyrants , we will have only ourselves to blame for having forged the chains through our own lassitude , laziness , and abject reliance on internet-connected gadgets and gizmos that render us wholly irrelevant .
Indeed , we ’ re fast approaching Philip K. Dick ’ s vision of the future as depicted in the film Minority Report .
There , police agencies apprehend criminals before they can commit a crime , driverless cars populate the highways , and a person ’ s biometrics are constantly scanned and used to track @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and keep them under perpetual surveillance .
Cue the dawning of the Age of the Internet of Things ( IoT ) , in which internet-connected “ things ” monitor your home , your health , and your habits in order to keep your pantry stocked , your utilities regulated , and your life under control and relatively worry-free .
The keyword here , however , is control .
In the not-too-distant future , “ just about every device you have — and even products like chairs , that you don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be connected and talking to each other.
” By the end of 2018 , “ there were an estimated 22 billion internet of things connected devices in use around the world… Forecasts suggest that by 2030 around 50 billion of these IoT devices will be in use around the world , creating a massive web of interconnected devices spanning everything from smartphones to kitchen appliances.
” As the technologies powering these devices have become increasingly sophisticated , they have also become increasingly widespread , encompassing everything from toothbrushes and lightbulbs to cars @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It is estimated that 127 new IoT devices are connected to the web every second .
This “ connected ” industry has become the next big societal transformation , right up there with the Industrial Revolution , a watershed moment in technology and culture .
Between driverless cars that completely lacking a steering wheel , accelerator , or brake pedal and smart pills embedded with computer chips , sensors , cameras , and robots , we are poised to outpace the imaginations of science fiction writers such as Philip K. Dick and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , there is no such thing as a driverless car .
Someone or something will be driving , but it won ’ t be you . )
These Internet-connected techno-gadgets include smart light bulbs that discourage burglars by making your house look occupied , smart thermostats that regulate the temperature of your home based on your activities , and smart doorbells that let you see who is at your front door without leaving the comfort of your couch .
Nest , Google ’ s suite of smart home products , has been at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ industry , with such technologically savvy conveniences as a smart lock that tells your thermostat who is home , what temperatures they like , and when your home is unoccupied ; a home phone service system that interacts with your connected devices to “ learn when you come and go ” and alert you if your kids don ’ t come home ; and a sleep system that will monitor when you fall asleep when you wake up , and keep the house noises and temperature in a sleep-conducive state .
The aim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ proclaims , is to make “ your house a more thoughtful and conscious home.
” For example , your car can signal ahead that you ’ re on your way home , while Hue lights can flash on and off to get your attention if Nest Protect senses something ’ s wrong .
Your coffeemaker , relying on data from fitness and sleep sensors , will brew a stronger pot of coffee for you if you ’ ve had a restless night .
Yet given the speed and trajectory at which these technologies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be long before these devices are operating entirely independent of their human creators , which poses a whole new set of worries .
As technology expert Nicholas Carr notes , “ As soon as you allow robots , or software programs , to act freely in the world , they ’ re going to run up against ethically fraught situations and face hard choices that can ’ t be resolved through statistical models .
That will be true of self-driving cars , self-flying drones , and battlefield robots , just as it ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scale , with automated vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers.
” For instance , just as the robotic vacuum , Roomba , “ makes no distinction between a dust bunny and an insect , ” weaponized drones—poised to take to the skies en masse this year—will be incapable of distinguishing between a fleeing criminal and someone merely jogging down a street .
For that matter , how do you defend yourself against a robotic cop—such as the Atlas android being developed by the Pentagon—that has been programmed to respond to any perceived threat with violence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just our homes and personal devices that are being reordered and reimagined in this connected age : it ’ s our workplaces , our health systems , our government , our bodies , and our innermost thoughts that are being plugged into a matrix over which we have no real control .
Indeed , it is expected that by 2030 , we will all experience The Internet of Senses ( IoS ) , enabled by Artificial Intelligence ( AI ) , Virtual Reality ( VR ) , Augmented Reality ( AR ) , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Senses relies on connected technology interacting with our senses of sight , sound , taste , smell , and touch by way of the brain as the user interface .
As journalist Susan Fourtane explains : In other words , the IoS will rely on the technology being able to access and act on your thoughts .
Fourtane outlines several trends related to the IoS that are expected to become a reality by 2030 : Unfortunately , in our race to the future , we have failed to consider what such dependence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , not to mention our freedoms .
Ingestible or implantable chips are a good example of how unprepared we are , morally and otherwise , to navigate this uncharted terrain .
Hailed as revolutionary for their ability to access , analyze and manipulate your body from the inside , these smart pills can remind you to take your medication , search for cancer , and even send an alert to your doctor warning of an impending heart attack .
Sure , the technology could save lives , but is that all we need @ @ @ @ @ @ @ due diligence in asking all the questions that need to be asked before unleashing such awesome technology on an unsuspecting populace ?
Let me put it another way .
If you were shocked by Edward Snowden ’ s revelations about how NSA agents have used surveillance to spy on Americans ’ phone calls , emails , and text messages , can you imagine what unscrupulous government agents could do with access to your internet-connected car , home , and medications ?
Imagine what a SWAT team could do with the ability to access @ @ @ @ @ @ @ home—locking you in , turning off the lights , activating alarms , etc .
While President Trump signed the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act into law on Dec. 4 , 2020 , in order to establish a baseline for security protection for the billions of IoT devices flooding homes and businesses , the law does little to protect the American people against corporate and governmental surveillance .
In fact , the public response to concerns about government surveillance has amounted to a collective shrug .
After all , who cares if the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ GPS-enabled device so long as it helps you find the fastest route from Point A to Point B ?
Who cares if the NSA is listening in on your phone calls and downloading your emails so long as you can get your phone calls and emails on the go and get lightning-fast Internet on the fly ?
Who cares if the government can monitor your activities in your home by tapping into your internet-connected devices—thermostat , water , lights—so long as you can control those things with the flick of a finger , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or across the country ?
Control is the key here .
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , total control over every aspect of our lives , right down to our inner thoughts , is the objective of any totalitarian regime .
Orwell ’ s masterpiece , 1984 , portrays a global society of total control in which people are not allowed to have thoughts that in any way disagree with the corporate state .
There is no personal freedom , and advanced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a surveillance-driven society .
Snitches and cameras are everywhere .
And people are subject to the Thought Police , who deal with anyone guilty of thought crimes .
The government , or “ Party , ” is headed by Big Brother , who appears on posters everywhere with the words : “ Big Brother is watching you.
” Make no mistake : the Internet of Things and its twin , the Internet of Senses , is just Big Brother in disguise .

This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead at The Rutherford Institute.
You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984
It had the potential for disaster.
Early in the morning of Monday, December 15, 2020, Google suffered a major worldwide outage in which all of its internet-connected services crashed, including Nest, Google Calendar, Gmail, Docs, Hangouts, Maps, Meet, and YouTube.
The outage only lasted an hour, but it was a chilling reminder of how reliant the world has become on internet-connected technologies to do everything from unlocking doors and turning up the heat to accessing work files, sending emails, and making phone calls.
A year earlier, a Google outage resulted in Nest users being unable to access their Nest thermostats, Nest smart locks, and Nest cameras. As Fast Company reports, “This essentially meant that because of a cloud storage outage, people were prevented from getting inside their homes, using their AC, and monitoring their babies.”
Welcome to the Matrix.
Twenty-some years after the Wachowskis’ iconic film, The Matrix introduced us to a futuristic world in which humans exist in a computer-simulated non-reality powered by authoritarian machines—a world where the choice between existing in a denial-ridden virtual dream-state or facing up to the harsh, difficult realities of life comes down to a blue pill or a red pill—we stand at the precipice of a technologically-dominated matrix of our own making.
We are living the prequel to The Matrix with each passing day, falling further under the spell of technologically-driven virtual communities, virtual realities, and virtual conveniences managed by artificially intelligent machines that are on a fast track to replacing human beings and eventually dominating every aspect of our lives.
Science fiction has become fact.
In The Matrix, computer programmer Thomas Anderson a.k.a. hacker Neo is wakened from a virtual slumber by Morpheus, a freedom fighter seeking to liberate humanity from a lifelong hibernation state imposed by hyper-advanced artificial intelligence machines that rely on humans as an organic power source. With their minds plugged into a perfectly crafted virtual reality, few humans ever realize they are living in an artificial dream world.
Neo is given a choice: to take the red pill, wake up and join the resistance, or take the blue pill, remain asleep and serve as fodder for the powers-that-be.
Most people opt for the blue pill.
In our case, the blue pill—a one-way ticket to a life sentence in an electronic concentration camp—has been honey-coated to hide the bitter aftertaste, sold to us in the name of expediency and delivered by way of blazingly fast Internet, cell phone signals that never drop a call, thermostats that keep us at the perfect temperature without our having to raise a finger, and entertainment that can be simultaneously streamed to our TVs, tablets and cell phones.
Yet we are not merely in thrall with these technologies that were intended to make our lives easier. We have become enslaved by them.
Look around you. Everywhere you turn, people are so addicted to their internet-connected screen devices—smartphones, tablets, computers, televisions—that they can go for hours at a time submerged in a virtual world where human interaction is filtered through the medium of technology.
This is not freedom.
This is not even progress.
This is technological tyranny and iron-fisted control delivered by way of the surveillance state, corporate giants such as Google and Facebook, and government spy agencies such as the National Security Agency.
So consumed are we with availing ourselves of all the latest technologies that we have spared barely a thought for the ramifications of our heedless, headlong stumble towards a world in which our abject reliance on internet-connected gadgets and gizmos is grooming us for a future in which freedom is an illusion.
Yet it’s not just freedom that hangs in the balance. Humanity itself is on the line.
If ever Americans find themselves in bondage to technological tyrants, we will have only ourselves to blame for having forged the chains through our own lassitude, laziness, and abject reliance on internet-connected gadgets and gizmos that render us wholly irrelevant.
Indeed, we’re fast approaching Philip K. Dick’s vision of the future as depicted in the film Minority Report. There, police agencies apprehend criminals before they can commit a crime, driverless cars populate the highways, and a person’s biometrics are constantly scanned and used to track their movements, target them for advertising, and keep them under perpetual surveillance.
Cue the dawning of the Age of the Internet of Things (IoT), in which internet-connected “things” monitor your home, your health, and your habits in order to keep your pantry stocked, your utilities regulated, and your life under control and relatively worry-free.
The keyword here, however, is control.
In the not-too-distant future, “just about every device you have — and even products like chairs, that you don’t normally expect to see technology in — will be connected and talking to each other.”
By the end of 2018, “there were an estimated 22 billion internet of things connected devices in use around the world… Forecasts suggest that by 2030 around 50 billion of these IoT devices will be in use around the world, creating a massive web of interconnected devices spanning everything from smartphones to kitchen appliances.”
As the technologies powering these devices have become increasingly sophisticated, they have also become increasingly widespread, encompassing everything from toothbrushes and lightbulbs to cars, smart meters, and medical equipment.
It is estimated that 127 new IoT devices are connected to the web every second.
This “connected” industry has become the next big societal transformation, right up there with the Industrial Revolution, a watershed moment in technology and culture.
Between driverless cars that completely lacking a steering wheel, accelerator, or brake pedal and smart pills embedded with computer chips, sensors, cameras, and robots, we are poised to outpace the imaginations of science fiction writers such as Philip K. Dick and Isaac Asimov. (By the way, there is no such thing as a driverless car. Someone or something will be driving, but it won’t be you.)
These Internet-connected techno-gadgets include smart light bulbs that discourage burglars by making your house look occupied, smart thermostats that regulate the temperature of your home based on your activities, and smart doorbells that let you see who is at your front door without leaving the comfort of your couch.
Nest, Google’s suite of smart home products, has been at the forefront of the “connected” industry, with such technologically savvy conveniences as a smart lock that tells your thermostat who is home, what temperatures they like, and when your home is unoccupied; a home phone service system that interacts with your connected devices to “learn when you come and go” and alert you if your kids don’t come home; and a sleep system that will monitor when you fall asleep when you wake up, and keep the house noises and temperature in a sleep-conducive state.
The aim of these internet-connected devices, as Nest proclaims, is to make “your house a more thoughtful and conscious home.” For example, your car can signal ahead that you’re on your way home, while Hue lights can flash on and off to get your attention if Nest Protect senses something’s wrong. Your coffeemaker, relying on data from fitness and sleep sensors, will brew a stronger pot of coffee for you if you’ve had a restless night.
Yet given the speed and trajectory at which these technologies are developing, it won’t be long before these devices are operating entirely independent of their human creators, which poses a whole new set of worries. As technology expert Nicholas Carr notes, “As soon as you allow robots, or software programs, to act freely in the world, they’re going to run up against ethically fraught situations and face hard choices that can’t be resolved through statistical models. That will be true of self-driving cars, self-flying drones, and battlefield robots, just as it’s already true, on a lesser scale, with automated vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers.”
For instance, just as the robotic vacuum, Roomba, “makes no distinction between a dust bunny and an insect,” weaponized drones—poised to take to the skies en masse this year—will be incapable of distinguishing between a fleeing criminal and someone merely jogging down a street. For that matter, how do you defend yourself against a robotic cop—such as the Atlas android being developed by the Pentagon—that has been programmed to respond to any perceived threat with violence?
Moreover, it’s not just our homes and personal devices that are being reordered and reimagined in this connected age: it’s our workplaces, our health systems, our government, our bodies, and our innermost thoughts that are being plugged into a matrix over which we have no real control.
Indeed, it is expected that by 2030, we will all experience The Internet of Senses (IoS), enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), 5G, and automation. The Internet of Senses relies on connected technology interacting with our senses of sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch by way of the brain as the user interface. As journalist Susan Fourtane explains:
Many predict that by 2030, the lines between thinking and doing will blur. Fifty-nine percent of consumers believe that we will be able to see map routes on VR glasses by simply thinking of a destination… By 2030, technology is set to respond to our thoughts, and even share them with others… Using the brain as an interface could mean the end of keyboards, mice, game controllers, and ultimately user interfaces for any digital device. The user needs to only think about the commands, and they will just happen. Smartphones could even function without touch screens.
In other words, the IoS will rely on the technology being able to access and act on your thoughts.
Fourtane outlines several trends related to the IoS that are expected to become a reality by 2030:
1: Thoughts become action: using the brain as the interface, for example, users will be able to see map routes on VR glasses by simply thinking of a destination. 2: Sounds will become an extension of the devised virtual reality: users could mimic anyone’s voice realistically enough to fool even family members. 3: Real food will become secondary to imagined tastes. A sensory device for your mouth could digitally enhance anything you eat, so that any food can taste like your favorite treat. 4: Smells will become a projection of this virtual reality so that virtual visits, to forests or the countryside for instance, would include experiencing all the natural smells of those places. 5: Total touch: Smartphones with screens will convey the shape and texture of the digital icons and buttons they are pressing. 6: Merged reality: VR game worlds will become indistinguishable from physical reality by 2030.
Unfortunately, in our race to the future, we have failed to consider what such dependence on technology might mean for our humanity, not to mention our freedoms.
Ingestible or implantable chips are a good example of how unprepared we are, morally and otherwise, to navigate this uncharted terrain. Hailed as revolutionary for their ability to access, analyze and manipulate your body from the inside, these smart pills can remind you to take your medication, search for cancer, and even send an alert to your doctor warning of an impending heart attack.
Sure, the technology could save lives, but is that all we need to know?
Have we done our due diligence in asking all the questions that need to be asked before unleashing such awesome technology on an unsuspecting populace?
For example, asks Washington Post reporter Ariana Eunjung Cha:
What kind of warnings should users receive about the risks of implanting chip technology inside a body, for instance? How will patients be assured that the technology won’t be used to compel them to take medications they don’t really want to take? Could law enforcement obtain data that would reveal which individuals abuse drugs or sell them on the black market? Could what started as a voluntary experiment be turned into a compulsory government identification program that could erode civil liberties?
Let me put it another way.
If you were shocked by Edward Snowden’s revelations about how NSA agents have used surveillance to spy on Americans’ phone calls, emails, and text messages, can you imagine what unscrupulous government agents could do with access to your internet-connected car, home, and medications? Imagine what a SWAT team could do with the ability to access, monitor, and control your internet-connected home—locking you in, turning off the lights, activating alarms, etc.
While President Trump signed the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act into law on Dec. 4, 2020, in order to establish a baseline for security protection for the billions of IoT devices flooding homes and businesses, the law does little to protect the American people against corporate and governmental surveillance.
In fact, the public response to concerns about government surveillance has amounted to a collective shrug.
After all, who cares if the government can track your whereabouts on your GPS-enabled device so long as it helps you find the fastest route from Point A to Point B? Who cares if the NSA is listening in on your phone calls and downloading your emails so long as you can get your phone calls and emails on the go and get lightning-fast Internet on the fly? Who cares if the government can monitor your activities in your home by tapping into your internet-connected devices—thermostat, water, lights—so long as you can control those things with the flick of a finger, whether you’re across the house or across the country?
Control is the key here.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, total control over every aspect of our lives, right down to our inner thoughts, is the objective of any totalitarian regime.
George Orwell understood this.
Orwell’s masterpiece, 1984, portrays a global society of total control in which people are not allowed to have thoughts that in any way disagree with the corporate state. There is no personal freedom, and advanced technology has become the driving force behind a surveillance-driven society. Snitches and cameras are everywhere. And people are subject to the Thought Police, who deal with anyone guilty of thought crimes. The government, or “Party,” is headed by Big Brother, who appears on posters everywhere with the words: “Big Brother is watching you.”
Make no mistake: the Internet of Things and its twin, the Internet of Senses, is just Big Brother in disguise.