thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-08--Google & Oracle To Monitor Americans Who Get Warp Speed’s Covid-19 Vaccine For Up To Two Years

Moncef Slaoui , the official head of Operation Warp Speed , told the Wall Street Journal last week that all Warp Speed vaccine recipients in the US will be monitored by “ incredibly precise .
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tracking systems ” for up to two years and that tech giants Google and Oracle would be involved .
Last week , a rare media interview given by the Trump administration ’ s “ Vaccine Czar ” offered a brief glimpse into the inner workings of the extremely secretive Operation Warp Speed ( OWS ) , the Trump administration ’ s “ public-private @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to 300 million Americans by next January .
What was revealed should deeply unsettle all Americans .
During an interview with the Wall Street Journal published last Friday , the “ captain ” of Operation Warp Speed , career Big Pharma executive Moncef Slaoui , confirmed that the millions of Americans who are set to receive the project ’ s Covid-19 vaccine will be monitored via “ incredibly precise .
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tracking systems ” that will “ ensure that patients each get two doses of the same vaccine and to monitor them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ noted that tech giants Google and Oracle have been contracted as part of this “ tracking system ” but did not specify their exact roles beyond helping to “ collect and track vaccine data.
” The day before the Wall Street Journal interview was published , the New York Times published a separate interview with Slaoui where he referred to this “ tracking system ” as a “ very active pharmacovigilance surveillance system.
” During a previous interview with the journal Science in early September , Slaoui had referred to this system only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” that would “ make sure that when the vaccines are introduced that we ’ ll absolutely continue to assess their safety.
” Slaoui has only recently tacked on the words “ tracking ” and “ surveillance ” to his description of this system during his relatively rare media interviews .
While Slaoui himself was short on specifics regarding this “ pharmacovigilance surveillance system , ” the few official documents from Operation Warp Speed that have been publicly released offer some details about what this system may look like and how long it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vital signs and whereabouts of Americans who receive a Warp Speed vaccine .
Two official OWS documents released in mid-September state that vaccine recipients—expected to include a majority of the US population—would be monitored for twenty-four months after the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine is administered and that this would be done by a “ pharmacovigilance system.
” In the OWS document entitled “ From the Factory to the Frontlines , ” the Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS ) and the Department of Defense ( DOD ) stated that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new unlicensed vaccine production methods that “ have limited previous data on safety in humans .
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the long-term safety of these vaccines will be carefully assessed using pharmacovigilance surveillance and Phase 4 ( post-licensure ) clinical trials.
” In addition , Moncef Slaoui and OWS ’ s vaccine coordinator , Matt Hepburn , formerly a program manager at the Pentagon ’ s controversial Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) , had previously published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that stated that “ because some technologies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ humans , the long-term safety of these vaccines will be carefully assessed using pharmacovigilance surveillance strategies.
” The use of pharmacovigilance on those who receive the vaccine is also mentioned in the official Warp Speed “ infographic , ” which states that monitoring will be done in cooperation with the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) and the Centers for Disease Control and Protection ( CDC ) and will involve “ 24 month post-trial monitoring for adverse effects.
” In a separate part of that same document , OWS describes one of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ traceability , ” which has three goals : to “ confirm which of the approved vaccines were administered regardless of location ( private/public ) ” ; to send a “ reminder to return for second dose ” ; and to “ administer the correct second dose.
” Regarding a Covid-19 vaccine requiring more than one dose , a CDC document associated with Operation Warp Speed states : For most Covid-19 vaccine products , two doses of vaccine , separated by 21 or 28 days , will be needed .
Because different Covid-19 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a vaccine recipient ’ s second dose must be from the same manufacturer as their first dose .
Second-dose reminders for vaccine recipients will be critical to ensure compliance with vaccine dosing intervals and achieve optimal vaccine effectiveness .
The CDC document also references a document published in August by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security , associated with the Event 201 and Dark Winter simulations , as informing its Covid-19 vaccination strategy .
The Johns Hopkins paper , which counts Dark Winter co-organizer Thomas Inglesby as one of its authors , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ systems managed by the CDC and FDA should be retooled to create “ an active safety surveillance system directed by the CDC that monitors all [ Covid-19 ] vaccine recipients—perhaps by short message service or other electronic mechanisms.
” Despite the claims in these documents that the “ pharmacovigilance surveillance system ” would intimately involve the FDA , top FDA officials stated in September that they were barred from attending OWS meetings and told reporters they could not explain the operation ’ s organization or when or with what frequency its leadership meets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ however , that they “ are still allowed to interact with companies developing products for OWS , ” STAT news reported .
In addition , the FDA has apparently “ set up a firewall between the vast majority of staff and the initiative [ Operation Warp Speed ] ” that appears to drastically limit the number of FDA officials with any knowledge of or involvement in Warp Speed .
The FDA ’ s director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research , Janet Woodcock , is the only FDA official listed as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appears to be personally managing this “ firewall ” at the FDA .
Woodcock describes herself as a long-time advocate for the use of “ big data ” in the evaluation of drug and vaccine safety and has been intimately involved in FDA precursors to the coming Warp Speed “ pharmacovigilance surveillance system ” known as Sentinel and PRISM , both of which are discussed later in this report .
Woodcock is currently on a temporary leave of absence from her role as the director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research @ @ @ @ @ @ @ complete attention on overseeing aspects of Operation Warp Speed on behalf of the FDA ’ s Office of the Commissioner .
Her temporary replacement at the FDA , Patrizia Cavazzoni , is “ very aligned with Janet and where the agency is going , ” according to media reports .
Cavazzoni is a former executive at Pfizer , one of the companies producing a vaccine for OWS .
That vaccine is set to begin testing in children as young as 12 years old .
The extreme secrecy of Operation Warp Speed has affected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CDC , as a CDC expert panel normally involved in developing the government ’ s vaccine distribution strategies was “ stonewalled ” by Matt Hepburn , OWS ’ s vaccine coordinator , who bluntly refused to answer several of the panel ’ s “ pointed questions ” about the highly secretive operation .
While Moncef Slaoui and Warp Speed documents provide few details regarding what this “ tracking system ” would entail , Slaoui did note in his recent interview with the Wall Street Journal that tech giants Google and Oracle had been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ data ” as part of this system .
Neither Google nor Oracle , however , has announced receipt of a contract related to Operation Warp Speed , and the DOD and HHS , similarly , have yet to announce the awarding of any Warp Speed contract to either Google or Oracle .
In addition , searches on the US government ’ s Federal Register and on the official website for federally awarded contracts came up empty for any contract awarded to Google or Oracle that would apply to any such “ pharmacovigilance ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Warp Speed .
Given my previous reporting on the use of a nongovernment intermediary for awarding OWS contracts to vaccine companies , it seems likely that Warp Speed contracts awarded to Google and Oracle were made using a similar mechanism .
In an October 6 , 2020 , report for The Last American Vagabond , I noted that $ 6 billion in Warp Speed contracts awarded to vaccine companies were made through Advanced Technology International ( ATI ) , a government contractor that works mainly with the military and surveillance technology companies and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the CIA and the 2001 Dark Winter simulation .
HHS , which is supposedly overseeing Operation Warp Speed , claimed to have “ no record ” of at least one of those contracts .
Only one Warp Speed vaccine contract , which did not involve ATI and was awarded directly by HHS ’ s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority , was recently obtained by KEI Online .
Major parts of the contract , however , including the section on intellectual property rights , were redacted in their entirety .
If the Warp @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Google and Oracle are anything like the Warp Speed contracts awarded to most of its participating vaccine companies , then those contracts grant those companies diminished federal oversight and exemptions from federal laws and regulations designed to protect taxpayer interests in the pursuit of the work stipulated in the contract .
It also makes them essentially immune to Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA ) requests .
Yet , in contrast to the unacknowledged Google and Oracle contracts , vaccine companies have publicly disclosed that they received OWS contracts , just not the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This suggests that the Google and Oracle contracts are even more secretive .
A major conflict of interest worth noting is Google ’ s ownership of YouTube , which recently banned on its massive multimedia platform all “ misinformation ” related to concerns about a future Covid-19 vaccine .
With Google now formally part of Operation Warp Speed , it seems likely that any concerns about OWS ’ s extreme secrecy and the conflicts of interest of many of its members ( particularly Moncef Slaoui and Matt Hepburn ) as well as any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allocation and/or distribution may be labeled “ Covid-19 vaccine misinformation ” and removed from YouTube .
From the NSA to the FDA : The New PRISM Though the nature of this coming surveillance system for Covid-19 vaccine recipients has yet to be fully detailed by Warp Speed or the tech companies the operation has contracted , OWS documents and existing infrastructure at the FDA offer a clue as to what this system could entail .
For instance , the Warp Speed document “ From the Factory to the Frontlines ” notes that the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ created exclusively for OWS that will be “ buil [ t ] off of existing IT [ information technology ] infrastructure ” and will fill any “ gaps with new IT solutions.
” It then notes that “ the Covid-19 vaccination program requires significant enhancement of the IT that will support enhancements and data exchange that are critical for a multi-dose candidate to ensure proper administration of a potential second dose.
” The document also states that all data related to the OWS vaccine distribution effort “ will be reported into a common @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reporting , ” adding that this “ IT infrastructure will support partners with a broad range of tools for record-keeping , data on who is being vaccinated , and reminders for second doses.
” Though some Warp Speed documents hint as to the existing IT systems that will serve as the foundation for this new tracking system , arguably the most likely candidate is the FDA-managed Sentinel Initiative , which was established in 2009 during the H1N1 Swine flu pandemic .
Like Operation Warp Speed itself , Sentinel is a public-private partnership and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and academia .
According to its website , Sentinel ’ s “ main goal is to improve how FDA evaluates the safety and performance of medical products ” through big data , with an additional focus on “ learning more about potential side effects.
” Media reports describe Sentinel as “ an electronic surveillance system that aggregates data from electronic medical records , claims and registries that voluntarily participate and allows the agency to track the safety of marketed drugs , biologics and medical devices.
” One of Sentinel ’ s main proponent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who has aggressively worked to expand the program as director of the FDA ’ s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research , with a focus on Sentinel ’ s use in “ post-market effectiveness studies.
” As previously mentioned , Woodcock is the only FDA official listed among the ninety or so “ leaders ” of OWS , most of whom are part of the US military and lack any health-care or vaccine-production experience .
Woodcock ’ s temporary replacement at the FDA , Patrizia Cavazzoni , is also very active in efforts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ earlier this year that Cavazzoni previously “ served on the sterling committee of I-MEDS , an FDA-industry partnership which allows drug makers to pay for use of the FDA ’ s real-world data system known as Sentinel to complete certain safety studies more quickly.
” Sentinel has a series of “ collaborating partners ” that “ provide healthcare data and scientific , technical , and organizational expertise ” to the initiative .
These collaborating partners include intelligence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton , tech giant IBM , and major US health insurance companies such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , among many others .
In addition , Sentinel ’ s Innovation Center , which it describes as the program ’ s “ test bed to identify , develop , and evaluate innovative methods , ” is partnered with Amazon , General Dynamics , and Microsoft .
Sentinel also has a Community Building and Outreach Center , which is managed by Deloitte consulting , one of the largest consultancy firms in the world that is known for seeking to fill its ranks with former CIA officials .
The Sentinel system ’ s specific @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is known as the Post-licensure Rapid Immunization Safety Monitoring Program , better known as PRISM .
Sentinel ’ s PRISM was “ developed to monitor vaccine safety , but [ to date ] has never been used to assess vaccine effectiveness.
” PRISM was initially launched alongside the Sentinel Initiative itself in 2009 “ in response to the need to monitor the safety of the H1N1 influenza vaccine ” after it was licensed , marketed , and administered .
Yet , as previously mentioned , PRISM has yet to be used to assess @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expanding for nearly a decade , which implies that the stakeholders in the Sentinel Initiative have a plan to implement this “ safety surveillance system ” at some point .
The name PRISM may remind readers of the National Security Agency ( NSA ) program of the same name that became well known throughout the United States following the Edward Snowden revelations .
Given this association , it is worth noting that the NSA , as well as the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) , are now officially part of Operation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a role in the development of Warp Speed ’ s “ pharmacovigilance surveillance system.
” The addition of the NSA and the DHS to the initiative , of course , greatly increases the involvement of US intelligence agencies in the operation , which itself is “ dominated ” by the military and sorely lacking in civilian public health officials .
CyberScoop first reported in early September that members of the NSA ’ s Cybersecurity Directorate were involved in Operation Warp Speed , with their role—as well as that of DHS—being framed mainly as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ initiative .
However , the NSA and DHS are also offering “ guidance ” and “ services ” to both the other federal agencies involved in Warp Speed as well as OWS contractors , which now include Google and Oracle .
Google is well known for its cozy relationship with the NSA , including its PRISM program , and they have also backed NSA-supported legislation that would make it easier to surveil Americans without a warrant .
Similarly , Oracle is a longtime NSA contractor and also has ties to the CIA dating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ company , not unlike Google .
Notably , Oracle and Google remain locked in a major legal battle over copyright issues that is set to be heard by the Supreme Court in the coming weeks and is expected to have major ramifications for the tech industry .
In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks , the US military attempted to institute a surveillance program so invasive that Congress defunded it just months after its creation due to public outrage .
Known as Total Information Awareness ( TIA ) , the program sought @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the Pentagon ’ s DARPA and officially argued that invasive surveillance of the entire US population was necessary to prevent terrorist attacks , bioterrorism events , and even naturally occurring disease outbreaks before they could take place .
Before it was disbanded , TIA sought to collect Americans ’ medical records ; fingerprints ; gait , facial , and iris biometric data ; drug prescriptions ; and even DNA in addition to citizens ’ financial , travel , and media-consumption habits .
TIA , not unlike Operation Warp Speed , was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ DOD and partnered with the NSA , the CIA , and other intelligence agencies as well as the private sector and academia .
Also like Warp Speed , TIA officially justified its invasive surveillance goals by claiming that its initiatives would rescue Americans from the “ invisible enemy ” of faceless terrorists abroad and ensure citizens ’ safety , security , and health .
Today , Warp Speed officially takes aim at a new type of “ invisible enemy ” —a microbe invisible to the naked human eye .
In the years after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was fierce .
The American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) claimed at the time that the surveillance effort would “ kill privacy in America ” because “ every aspect of our lives would be catalogued , ” while mainstream media outlets warned that TIA was “ fighting terror by terrifying U.S. citizens.
” Despite Congress officially defunding the program , it later emerged that TIA was never actually shut down , with its various programs having been covertly divided among the web of military and intelligence agencies that comprise the US national @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , TIA ’ s apparent successor , Operation Warp Speed , has received no pushback from mainstream media outlets or advocacy organizations , with many of these same entities now placing blind faith in the secretive initiative and lionizing it as the “ only way ” to resolve the Covid-19 pandemic crisis .
The national security state has carefully learned from and studied its past failures , while many Americans , in contrast , continue to place their trust in the very agencies and government entities that have lied the country into multiple @ @ @ @ @ @ @ abroad , produced a series of failed states in order to plunder their resources , and are currently facilitating the pillaging of the American economy by Wall Street and the Federal Reserve under the guise of “ relief.
” Allowing these same entities to surveil and track a majority of Americans and to use the country ’ s population as guinea pigs for unlicensed , understudied , and experimental vaccine technologies is a clear recipe for disaster .
At the same time , it would also enable a surveillance panopticon so dystopian and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not only their few remaining civil liberties but even sovereignty over their own bodies .
The total-surveillance agenda that began with TIA and that has been resurrected through Warp Speed predated Covid-19 by decades .
Its architects and proponents have worked to justify these extreme and invasive surveillance programs by marketing this agenda as the “ solution ” to whatever Americans are most afraid of at any given time .
It has very little to do with “ public health ” and everything to do with total control .

Moncef Slaoui, the official head of Operation Warp Speed, told the Wall Street Journal last week that all Warp Speed vaccine recipients in the US will be monitored by “incredibly precise . . . tracking systems” for up to two years and that tech giants Google and Oracle would be involved.
Last week, a rare media interview given by the Trump administration’s “Vaccine Czar” offered a brief glimpse into the inner workings of the extremely secretive Operation Warp Speed (OWS), the Trump administration’s “public-private partnership” for delivering a Covid-19 vaccine to 300 million Americans by next January. What was revealed should deeply unsettle all Americans.
During an interview with the Wall Street Journal published last Friday, the “captain” of Operation Warp Speed, career Big Pharma executive Moncef Slaoui, confirmed that the millions of Americans who are set to receive the project’s Covid-19 vaccine will be monitored via “incredibly precise . . . tracking systems” that will “ensure that patients each get two doses of the same vaccine and to monitor them for adverse health effects.” Slaoui also noted that tech giants Google and Oracle have been contracted as part of this “tracking system” but did not specify their exact roles beyond helping to “collect and track vaccine data.”
The day before the Wall Street Journal interview was published, the New York Times published a separate interview with Slaoui where he referred to this “tracking system” as a “very active pharmacovigilance surveillance system.” During a previous interview with the journal Science in early September, Slaoui had referred to this system only as “a very active pharmacovigilance system” that would “make sure that when the vaccines are introduced that we’ll absolutely continue to assess their safety.” Slaoui has only recently tacked on the words “tracking” and “surveillance” to his description of this system during his relatively rare media interviews.
While Slaoui himself was short on specifics regarding this “pharmacovigilance surveillance system,” the few official documents from Operation Warp Speed that have been publicly released offer some details about what this system may look like and how long it is expected to “track” the vital signs and whereabouts of Americans who receive a Warp Speed vaccine.
The Pharmacovigilantes
Two official OWS documents released in mid-September state that vaccine recipients—expected to include a majority of the US population—would be monitored for twenty-four months after the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine is administered and that this would be done by a “pharmacovigilance system.”
In the OWS document entitled “From the Factory to the Frontlines,” the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense (DOD) stated that, because Warp Speed vaccine candidates use new unlicensed vaccine production methods that “have limited previous data on safety in humans . . . the long-term safety of these vaccines will be carefully assessed using pharmacovigilance surveillance and Phase 4 (post-licensure) clinical trials.”
It continues:
The key objective of pharmacovigilance is to determine each vaccine’s performance in real-life scenarios, to study efficacy, and to discover any infrequent and rare side effects not identified in clinical trials. OWS will also use pharmacovigilance analytics, which serves as one of the instruments for the continuous monitoring of pharmacovigilance data. Robust analytical tools will be used to leverage large amounts of data and the benefits of using such data across the value chain, including regulatory obligations.
In addition, Moncef Slaoui and OWS’s vaccine coordinator, Matt Hepburn, formerly a program manager at the Pentagon’s controversial Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), had previously published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that stated that “because some technologies have limited previous data on safety in humans, the long-term safety of these vaccines will be carefully assessed using pharmacovigilance surveillance strategies.”
The use of pharmacovigilance on those who receive the vaccine is also mentioned in the official Warp Speed “infographic,” which states that monitoring will be done in cooperation with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) and will involve “24 month post-trial monitoring for adverse effects.”
In a separate part of that same document, OWS describes one of its “four key tenets” as “traceability,” which has three goals: to “confirm which of the approved vaccines were administered regardless of location (private/public)”; to send a “reminder to return for second dose”; and to “administer the correct second dose.”
Regarding a Covid-19 vaccine requiring more than one dose, a CDC document associated with Operation Warp Speed states:
For most Covid-19 vaccine products, two doses of vaccine, separated by 21 or 28 days, will be needed. Because different Covid-19 vaccine products will not be interchangeable, a vaccine recipient’s second dose must be from the same manufacturer as their first dose. Second-dose reminders for vaccine recipients will be critical to ensure compliance with vaccine dosing intervals and achieve optimal vaccine effectiveness.
The CDC document also references a document published in August by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, associated with the Event 201 and Dark Winter simulations, as informing its Covid-19 vaccination strategy. The Johns Hopkins paper, which counts Dark Winter co-organizer Thomas Inglesby as one of its authors, argues that existing “passive reporting” systems managed by the CDC and FDA should be retooled to create “an active safety surveillance system directed by the CDC that monitors all [Covid-19] vaccine recipients—perhaps by short message service or other electronic mechanisms.”
Despite the claims in these documents that the “pharmacovigilance surveillance system” would intimately involve the FDA, top FDA officials stated in September that they were barred from attending OWS meetings and told reporters they could not explain the operation’s organization or when or with what frequency its leadership meets. The FDA officials did state, however, that they “are still allowed to interact with companies developing products for OWS,” STAT news reported.
In addition, the FDA has apparently “set up a firewall between the vast majority of staff and the initiative [Operation Warp Speed]” that appears to drastically limit the number of FDA officials with any knowledge of or involvement in Warp Speed. The FDA’s director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Janet Woodcock, is the only FDA official listed as having any direct involvement in OWS and appears to be personally managing this “firewall” at the FDA. Woodcock describes herself as a long-time advocate for the use of “big data” in the evaluation of drug and vaccine safety and has been intimately involved in FDA precursors to the coming Warp Speed “pharmacovigilance surveillance system” known as Sentinel and PRISM, both of which are discussed later in this report.
Woodcock is currently on a temporary leave of absence from her role as the director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, which allows her to focus her complete attention on overseeing aspects of Operation Warp Speed on behalf of the FDA’s Office of the Commissioner. Her temporary replacement at the FDA, Patrizia Cavazzoni, is “very aligned with Janet and where the agency is going,” according to media reports. Cavazzoni is a former executive at Pfizer, one of the companies producing a vaccine for OWS. That vaccine is set to begin testing in children as young as 12 years old.
The extreme secrecy of Operation Warp Speed has affected not only the FDA but also the CDC, as a CDC expert panel normally involved in developing the government’s vaccine distribution strategies was “stonewalled” by Matt Hepburn, OWS’s vaccine coordinator, who bluntly refused to answer several of the panel’s “pointed questions” about the highly secretive operation.
More Secret Contracts
While Moncef Slaoui and Warp Speed documents provide few details regarding what this “tracking system” would entail, Slaoui did note in his recent interview with the Wall Street Journal that tech giants Google and Oracle had been contracted to “collect and track vaccine data” as part of this system. Neither Google nor Oracle, however, has announced receipt of a contract related to Operation Warp Speed, and the DOD and HHS, similarly, have yet to announce the awarding of any Warp Speed contract to either Google or Oracle. In addition, searches on the US government’s Federal Register and on the official website for federally awarded contracts came up empty for any contract awarded to Google or Oracle that would apply to any such “pharmacovigilance” system or any other aspect of Operation Warp Speed.
Given my previous reporting on the use of a nongovernment intermediary for awarding OWS contracts to vaccine companies, it seems likely that Warp Speed contracts awarded to Google and Oracle were made using a similar mechanism. In an October 6, 2020, report for The Last American Vagabond, I noted that $6 billion in Warp Speed contracts awarded to vaccine companies were made through Advanced Technology International (ATI), a government contractor that works mainly with the military and surveillance technology companies and whose parent company has strong ties to the CIA and the 2001 Dark Winter simulation. HHS, which is supposedly overseeing Operation Warp Speed, claimed to have “no record” of at least one of those contracts. Only one Warp Speed vaccine contract, which did not involve ATI and was awarded directly by HHS’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, was recently obtained by KEI Online. Major parts of the contract, however, including the section on intellectual property rights, were redacted in their entirety.
If the Warp Speed contracts that have been awarded to Google and Oracle are anything like the Warp Speed contracts awarded to most of its participating vaccine companies, then those contracts grant those companies diminished federal oversight and exemptions from federal laws and regulations designed to protect taxpayer interests in the pursuit of the work stipulated in the contract. It also makes them essentially immune to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Yet, in contrast to the unacknowledged Google and Oracle contracts, vaccine companies have publicly disclosed that they received OWS contracts, just not the terms or details of those contracts. This suggests that the Google and Oracle contracts are even more secretive.
A major conflict of interest worth noting is Google’s ownership of YouTube, which recently banned on its massive multimedia platform all “misinformation” related to concerns about a future Covid-19 vaccine. With Google now formally part of Operation Warp Speed, it seems likely that any concerns about OWS’s extreme secrecy and the conflicts of interest of many of its members (particularly Moncef Slaoui and Matt Hepburn) as well as any concerns about Warp Speed vaccine safety, allocation and/or distribution may be labeled “Covid-19 vaccine misinformation” and removed from YouTube.
From the NSA to the FDA: The New PRISM
Though the nature of this coming surveillance system for Covid-19 vaccine recipients has yet to be fully detailed by Warp Speed or the tech companies the operation has contracted, OWS documents and existing infrastructure at the FDA offer a clue as to what this system could entail.
For instance, the Warp Speed document “From the Factory to the Frontlines” notes that the pharmacovigilance system will be a new system created exclusively for OWS that will be “buil[t] off of existing IT [information technology] infrastructure” and will fill any “gaps with new IT solutions.” It then notes that “the Covid-19 vaccination program requires significant enhancement of the IT that will support enhancements and data exchange that are critical for a multi-dose candidate to ensure proper administration of a potential second dose.” The document also states that all data related to the OWS vaccine distribution effort “will be reported into a common IT infrastructure that will support analysis and reporting,” adding that this “IT infrastructure will support partners with a broad range of tools for record-keeping, data on who is being vaccinated, and reminders for second doses.”
Though some Warp Speed documents hint as to the existing IT systems that will serve as the foundation for this new tracking system, arguably the most likely candidate is the FDA-managed Sentinel Initiative, which was established in 2009 during the H1N1 Swine flu pandemic. Like Operation Warp Speed itself, Sentinel is a public-private partnership and involves the FDA, private business, and academia.
According to its website, Sentinel’s “main goal is to improve how FDA evaluates the safety and performance of medical products” through big data, with an additional focus on “learning more about potential side effects.” Media reports describe Sentinel as “an electronic surveillance system that aggregates data from electronic medical records, claims and registries that voluntarily participate and allows the agency to track the safety of marketed drugs, biologics and medical devices.”
One of Sentinel’s main proponent at the FDA is Janet Woodcock, who has aggressively worked to expand the program as director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, with a focus on Sentinel’s use in “post-market effectiveness studies.” As previously mentioned, Woodcock is the only FDA official listed among the ninety or so “leaders” of OWS, most of whom are part of the US military and lack any health-care or vaccine-production experience.
Woodcock’s temporary replacement at the FDA, Patrizia Cavazzoni, is also very active in efforts to expand Sentinel. STAT news reported earlier this year that Cavazzoni previously “served on the sterling committee of I-MEDS, an FDA-industry partnership which allows drug makers to pay for use of the FDA’s real-world data system known as Sentinel to complete certain safety studies more quickly.”
Sentinel has a series of “collaborating partners” that “provide healthcare data and scientific, technical, and organizational expertise” to the initiative. These collaborating partners include intelligence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, tech giant IBM, and major US health insurance companies such as Aetna and Blue Cross Blue Shield, among many others. In addition, Sentinel’s Innovation Center, which it describes as the program’s “test bed to identify, develop, and evaluate innovative methods,” is partnered with Amazon, General Dynamics, and Microsoft. Sentinel also has a Community Building and Outreach Center, which is managed by Deloitte consulting, one of the largest consultancy firms in the world that is known for seeking to fill its ranks with former CIA officials.
The Sentinel system’s specific surveillance program aimed at monitoring vaccine effectiveness is known as the Post-licensure Rapid Immunization Safety Monitoring Program, better known as PRISM. Sentinel’s PRISM was “developed to monitor vaccine safety, but [to date] has never been used to assess vaccine effectiveness.” PRISM was initially launched alongside the Sentinel Initiative itself in 2009 “in response to the need to monitor the safety of the H1N1 influenza vaccine” after it was licensed, marketed, and administered. Yet, as previously mentioned, PRISM has yet to be used to assess the effectiveness of any vaccine while quietly expanding for nearly a decade, which implies that the stakeholders in the Sentinel Initiative have a plan to implement this “safety surveillance system” at some point.
The name PRISM may remind readers of the National Security Agency (NSA) program of the same name that became well known throughout the United States following the Edward Snowden revelations. Given this association, it is worth noting that the NSA, as well as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), are now officially part of Operation Warp Speed and appear to be playing a role in the development of Warp Speed’s “pharmacovigilance surveillance system.” The addition of the NSA and the DHS to the initiative, of course, greatly increases the involvement of US intelligence agencies in the operation, which itself is “dominated” by the military and sorely lacking in civilian public health officials.
CyberScoop first reported in early September that members of the NSA’s Cybersecurity Directorate were involved in Operation Warp Speed, with their role—as well as that of DHS—being framed mainly as offering “cybersecurity advice” to the initiative. However, the NSA and DHS are also offering “guidance” and “services” to both the other federal agencies involved in Warp Speed as well as OWS contractors, which now include Google and Oracle.
Google is well known for its cozy relationship with the NSA, including its PRISM program, and they have also backed NSA-supported legislation that would make it easier to surveil Americans without a warrant. Similarly, Oracle is a longtime NSA contractor and also has ties to the CIA dating back to its earliest days as a company, not unlike Google. Notably, Oracle and Google remain locked in a major legal battle over copyright issues that is set to be heard by the Supreme Court in the coming weeks and is expected to have major ramifications for the tech industry.
The Public Health Panopticon
In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the US military attempted to institute a surveillance program so invasive that Congress defunded it just months after its creation due to public outrage. Known as Total Information Awareness (TIA), the program sought to develop an all-seeing surveillance apparatus managed by the Pentagon’s DARPA and officially argued that invasive surveillance of the entire US population was necessary to prevent terrorist attacks, bioterrorism events, and even naturally occurring disease outbreaks before they could take place.
Before it was disbanded, TIA sought to collect Americans’ medical records; fingerprints; gait, facial, and iris biometric data; drug prescriptions; and even DNA in addition to citizens’ financial, travel, and media-consumption habits. TIA, not unlike Operation Warp Speed, was a “public-private partnership” managed by the DOD and partnered with the NSA, the CIA, and other intelligence agencies as well as the private sector and academia.
Also like Warp Speed, TIA officially justified its invasive surveillance goals by claiming that its initiatives would rescue Americans from the “invisible enemy” of faceless terrorists abroad and ensure citizens’ safety, security, and health. Today, Warp Speed officially takes aim at a new type of “invisible enemy”—a microbe invisible to the naked human eye.
In the years after 9/11, the public pushback against TIA was fierce. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) claimed at the time that the surveillance effort would “kill privacy in America” because “every aspect of our lives would be catalogued,” while mainstream media outlets warned that TIA was “fighting terror by terrifying U.S. citizens.” Despite Congress officially defunding the program, it later emerged that TIA was never actually shut down, with its various programs having been covertly divided among the web of military and intelligence agencies that comprise the US national security state.
Unlike in years past, TIA’s apparent successor, Operation Warp Speed, has received no pushback from mainstream media outlets or advocacy organizations, with many of these same entities now placing blind faith in the secretive initiative and lionizing it as the “only way” to resolve the Covid-19 pandemic crisis.
The national security state has carefully learned from and studied its past failures, while many Americans, in contrast, continue to place their trust in the very agencies and government entities that have lied the country into multiple wars, tortured and maimed countless civilians abroad, produced a series of failed states in order to plunder their resources, and are currently facilitating the pillaging of the American economy by Wall Street and the Federal Reserve under the guise of “relief.”
Allowing these same entities to surveil and track a majority of Americans and to use the country’s population as guinea pigs for unlicensed, understudied, and experimental vaccine technologies is a clear recipe for disaster. At the same time, it would also enable a surveillance panopticon so dystopian and far reaching that Americans stand to lose not only their few remaining civil liberties but even sovereignty over their own bodies.
The total-surveillance agenda that began with TIA and that has been resurrected through Warp Speed predated Covid-19 by decades. Its architects and proponents have worked to justify these extreme and invasive surveillance programs by marketing this agenda as the “solution” to whatever Americans are most afraid of at any given time. It has very little to do with “public health” and everything to do with total control.
Article posted with permission from Whitney Webb


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-07--A Biden Presidency: Coffee Break’s Over, Back on Your Heads

The possibility that the Democrats could get away with this grand theft and install Joe Biden ’ s handlers in the Oval Office reminds me of an old joke : a man dies and goes to hell .
Satan greets him at the gates and says , “ You know , we get such bad media coverage .
Hell really isn ’ t as bad as you ’ ve probably heard .
In fact , you get to choose the eternal torment you prefer.
” The miscreant was taken aback , and said , “ All right , show me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ showed him a room in which people were being tortured in fire , and another where they were encased in ice , and a third where they were sitting at tables drinking coffee and chatting pleasantly , although knee-deep in excrement .
“ This room doesn ’ t seem as bad as the others , ” the man tells Satan .
“ I ’ ll take this room.
” But as soon as the man enters , sits down , and orders his coffee , he hears : “ Coffee break ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That ’ s Joe Biden ’ s presidency in a nutshell .
After a four-year coffee break , the Biden victory would mean that it ’ s time to get back on our heads .
It would signal a return to the failed policies of the past : high taxes , crushing regulations , and the managed decline of the American economy as American jobs and industries are steadily outsourced to Joe ’ s pals in China and to other countries where workers are willing or forced to work more cheaply .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , with the repeal on the new administration ’ s first day ( if old Joe and/or Kamala keep their promises ) of what they call Trump ’ s “ Muslim ban , ” that is , his prohibition of entry from thirteen countries , Muslim and non-Muslim , that can not or will not provide adequate information about those wishing to enter .
So who will be coming in ?
Who knows ?
And who cares , as long as their names can be entered on a ballot if our new masters @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allowing us to vote again ?
President Biden would also return the U.S. to the self-defeating accords that impinge upon American sovereignty and weaken our nation in the face of international foes and competitors , such as the Paris Climate Accord .
His victory would herald the restoration of the disastrous Iran nuclear deal , which emboldened and empowered the Islamic Republic of Iran to develop nuclear weapons at home and engage in jihad adventurism abroad .
Biden ’ s victory would , of course , also be a victory for The Squad @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the candidate repudiated while advertising on his website ; it would be a victory for the Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups that Biden repeatedly signaled he would empower .
It would be a victory for the Antifa and Black Lives Matter goons who have made Portland unlivable and rioted in other cities as well against an imagined “ systemic racism , ” but more precisely against a President who was not a Marxist or Marxist enabler .
Also rejoicing at Biden/Harris/Rice/Rhodes in the White House would be Palestinian jihadis , as the Biden camp has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Palestinian Authority that President Trump stopped because of Palestinian leaders ’ manifest lack of interest in sincerely working toward peace with Israel .
Money is fungible : “ humanitarian aid ” for the Palestinians would mean more money freed up for rockets to lob into Israel : your taxpayer dollars will finance the Palestinian jihad .
The First and Second Amendments will be dead letters after Biden packs the Supreme Court so as to ensure that his destruction of the freedom of speech and right to bear arms will not be contested .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ victory for political corruption , as the massive evidence that Joe and Hunter Biden sold access to the U.S. government to foreign powers will not be investigated , and will likely resume .
And the nationwide evidence that fraud propelled their man into the White House ?
Don ’ t count on the Democrats to look into it ; it ’ s a slim enough possibility that the Republicans will .
Biden ’ s victory would mean , in short , the victory of the globalist elites who control the social media giants @ @ @ @ @ @ @ system , the entertainment industry , and pretty much everything else .
After a severe challenge from Trump and his America-First supporters , the elites will have reasserted their hegemony , and they would resume total control while being in no mood to bind up the nation ’ s wounds , with malice toward none and charity for all .
Remember that on October 17 , Bill Clinton ’ s Labor Secretary Robert B .
“ Third ” Reich tweeted : “ When this nightmare is over , we need a Truth and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s lies , comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness , and name every official , politician , executive , and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.
” A Truth and Reconciliation Commission to shame and vilify Trump ’ s supporters !
And what will this Commission decide to do with them , Mr. Reich ?
Reeducation camps ?
Worse ?
Reich may be a doctrinaire authoritarian fanatic , but there has been no chorus of condemnation from Democrat leaders for his ugly little threat , either @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be President-elect of the United States today , with the far more radical Kamala Harris ready in the wings when dotty old Joe is 25th-Amendmented off the national stage , is an indication that the massive forces arrayed against President Trump were just too powerful for American patriots to defeat .
The coffee break is over .
This time .
But the game is not over .
It is never over .
The fight for freedom continues .
The forces that President Trump awakened and inspired have not gone away , and will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s Truth and Reconciliation camps .
A Biden presidency could mean that freedom will go into eclipse in America .
But it burns too brightly in the hearts of too many Americans for its light to be extinguished completely .
The elites would be sipping champagne on January 20 , but they ’ d be in for a tough time to come .

The possibility that the Democrats could get away with this grand theft and install Joe Biden’s handlers in the Oval Office reminds me of an old joke: a man dies and goes to hell. Satan greets him at the gates and says, “You know, we get such bad media coverage. Hell really isn’t as bad as you’ve probably heard. In fact, you get to choose the eternal torment you prefer.” The miscreant was taken aback, and said, “All right, show me what you’ve got.” Satan showed him a room in which people were being tortured in fire, and another where they were encased in ice, and a third where they were sitting at tables drinking coffee and chatting pleasantly, although knee-deep in excrement. “This room doesn’t seem as bad as the others,” the man tells Satan. “I’ll take this room.” But as soon as the man enters, sits down, and orders his coffee, he hears: “Coffee break’s over. Back on your heads.” That’s Joe Biden’s presidency in a nutshell.
After a four-year coffee break, the Biden victory would mean that it’s time to get back on our heads. It would signal a return to the failed policies of the past: high taxes, crushing regulations, and the managed decline of the American economy as American jobs and industries are steadily outsourced to Joe’s pals in China and to other countries where workers are willing or forced to work more cheaply. It would mean a return to open-borders internationalism, with the repeal on the new administration’s first day (if old Joe and/or Kamala keep their promises) of what they call Trump’s “Muslim ban,” that is, his prohibition of entry from thirteen countries, Muslim and non-Muslim, that cannot or will not provide adequate information about those wishing to enter. So who will be coming in? Who knows? And who cares, as long as their names can be entered on a ballot if our new masters deign to go through the charade of allowing us to vote again?
President Biden would also return the U.S. to the self-defeating accords that impinge upon American sovereignty and weaken our nation in the face of international foes and competitors, such as the Paris Climate Accord. His victory would herald the restoration of the disastrous Iran nuclear deal, which emboldened and empowered the Islamic Republic of Iran to develop nuclear weapons at home and engage in jihad adventurism abroad.
Biden’s victory would, of course, also be a victory for The Squad and their Green New Deal, which the candidate repudiated while advertising on his website; it would be a victory for the Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups that Biden repeatedly signaled he would empower. It would be a victory for the Antifa and Black Lives Matter goons who have made Portland unlivable and rioted in other cities as well against an imagined “systemic racism,” but more precisely against a President who was not a Marxist or Marxist enabler.
Also rejoicing at Biden/Harris/Rice/Rhodes in the White House would be Palestinian jihadis, as the Biden camp has pledged to restore the aid to the Palestinian Authority that President Trump stopped because of Palestinian leaders’ manifest lack of interest in sincerely working toward peace with Israel. Money is fungible: “humanitarian aid” for the Palestinians would mean more money freed up for rockets to lob into Israel: your taxpayer dollars will finance the Palestinian jihad.
The First and Second Amendments will be dead letters after Biden packs the Supreme Court so as to ensure that his destruction of the freedom of speech and right to bear arms will not be contested.
A Biden victory would also be a victory for political corruption, as the massive evidence that Joe and Hunter Biden sold access to the U.S. government to foreign powers will not be investigated, and will likely resume. And the nationwide evidence that fraud propelled their man into the White House? Don’t count on the Democrats to look into it; it’s a slim enough possibility that the Republicans will.
Biden’s victory would mean, in short, the victory of the globalist elites who control the social media giants, the establishment media, the educational system, the entertainment industry, and pretty much everything else. After a severe challenge from Trump and his America-First supporters, the elites will have reasserted their hegemony, and they would resume total control while being in no mood to bind up the nation’s wounds, with malice toward none and charity for all. Remember that on October 17, Bill Clinton’s Labor Secretary Robert B. “Third” Reich tweeted: “When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.”
A Truth and Reconciliation Commission to shame and vilify Trump’s supporters! And what will this Commission decide to do with them, Mr. Reich? Reeducation camps? Worse? Reich may be a doctrinaire authoritarian fanatic, but there has been no chorus of condemnation from Democrat leaders for his ugly little threat, either.
That Joe Biden could very soon be President-elect of the United States today, with the far more radical Kamala Harris ready in the wings when dotty old Joe is 25th-Amendmented off the national stage, is an indication that the massive forces arrayed against President Trump were just too powerful for American patriots to defeat. The coffee break is over.
This time. But the game is not over. It is never over. The fight for freedom continues. The forces that President Trump awakened and inspired have not gone away, and will not go quietly into Mr. Reich’s Truth and Reconciliation camps.
A Biden presidency could mean that freedom will go into eclipse in America. But it burns too brightly in the hearts of too many Americans for its light to be extinguished completely. The elites would be sipping champagne on January 20, but they’d be in for a tough time to come.
Article posted with permission from Robert Spencer


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-07--Evil Criminal Politicians Call for Truth & Reconciliation Commission Against Political Opposition

If you think voting “ R ” at all costs to stop Democrats from taking power , you should know that you have been “ conditioned ” into the R/D , left/right paradigm , instead of lawfulness versus lawlessness .
Regardless of the political designation of “ R ” or “ D ” , both unconstitutional parties do not have the law as their focus – God ’ s or the Constitution .
This is no more clear than some Democrats and Republicans calling for compiling lists of “ Trump supporters ” in order to hold those voting for Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Left-wing Democrats and Never Trump Republicans appealed Friday for assistance in compiling lists of Trump supporters to they could be held “ accountable ” for supporting President Donald Trump after the election .
“ Democratic socialist ” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ( D-NY ) tweeted : “ Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future ?
I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets , writings , photos in the future.
” Former staff member in the Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Soebarkah @ @ @ @ @ @ @ support of AOC ’ s comment , calling it the “ Trump Accountability Project ” .
Yes , we are .
Every Administration staffer , campaign staffer , bundler , lawyer who represented them — everyone .
https : //t.co/PHx8v8GxOp The database at the site includes a list of federal judges appointed by the president .
Others also tweeted to announce the project : We ’ re launching the Trump Accountability Project to make sure anyone who took a paycheck to help Trump undermine America is held responsible for what they did .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ : //t.co/wtVxGIlYOK Do you see what ’ s going on here ?
In a move reminiscent of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin , these lawless individuals and groups are calling for a list of political supporters and employees of Donald Trump in order to exact punishment against those for engaging in freedom of speech and other freedoms protected by the Ninth Amendment .
These haters of everything related to freedom and liberty want anyone challenging election results , aka exposing fraud and criminality , to be barred from employment and relegated to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Washington Post columnist and Never Trumper , tweeted that anyone challenging the 2020 election results should not only be disqualified from holding public office , but ostracized from society .
“ Any R now promoting rejection of an election or calling to not to follow the will of voters or making baseless allegations of fraud should never serve in office , join a corporate board , find a faculty position or be accepted into ‘ polite ’ society , ” she tweeted .
“ We have a list.
” Prior to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a South Africa-style “ Truth and Reconciliation Commission ” for Trump supporters .
The original Truth and Reconciliation Commission death [ sic ] with gross abuses of human rights , primarily by the apartheid regime , which imposed racial segregation and tortured and murdered political dissidents in custody .
If you know anything about the original South Africa “ Truth and Reconciliation Commission ” formed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela , its goal was to expose the human rights violations that occurred during the apartheid regime from 1960 to 1994 while @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through amnesty and restitution .
But , was it successful ?
Looking at the climate in South Africa today with the government looking to expropriate land without compensating the individual owners , who happen to be white farmers , and the history of the murder of farmers and human rights abuses against while men , women and children , the “ Truth and Reconciliation Commission ” failed , leading to the ANC government turning a blind eye to human rights abuses – human rights abuses that government sought to reconcile between the former @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but it wasn ’ t perpetrators of crimes that were targeted .
The targets were individuals who lived under the same regime who happened to be white and landowners .
Interesting that these individuals calling for “ Trump sycophants ” to be held accountable would recommend the same name for their project as a failed South African commission that has ultimately led to further atrocities .
“ You better believe it .
We just launched the Trump Accountability Project to make sure anyone who took a paycheck to help Trump undermine America @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
https : //trumpaccountability.net ” Of the above , Sevugan and Abrams are both former staffers for Pete Buttigieg ’ s presidential campaign .
Buttigieg is a member of Joe Biden ’ s presidential transition team , in the event Biden is ultimately certified as the winner of Tuesday ’ s election .
If you can ’ t read between the lines , this is not about any type of crime – it is about being political opposition .
It is about being “ punished ” for exercising the right to freedom of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to choose whom to represent you .
In other words , fail to follow these criminals ’ wishes and you will find yourself targeted as opposition with the potential for punishment to be exacted upon you from both unconstitutional parties – Democrats and Republicans .
Still think Republicans will save you ?
If so , there is no hope for you .
Ever thought about how this group of criminals are going to get those names ?
It doesn ’ t take a rocket scientist to figure it out .
If you need @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thinking .
Remember who is calling for all of this .
It is the same people that promoted a fake dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton .
It is the same people who brought you Obamacare .
It is the same people who support Antifa , Black Lives Matter , and lawlessness in the streets .
It is the same people who are promoting the virus and selling you the vaccine .
It is the same people who are part and parcel of the “ dog and pony ” shows called “ congressional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the same people who are openly engaging in fraud and criminality .
Don ’ t blame just one party .
Both are complicit and guilty .
Of course , anyone with open eyes could see this was going to happen .
It is the next logical step when the people fail to hold accountable their servants , bring justice to those who commit crimes – mainly , failure to follow the law , the Constitution , and cheer for ones wearing the jersey of their “ favorite team ” , whether lawful or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ football , basketball , baseball or hockey , where the winner gets a trophy and the losers go home to contemplate their strategy for the next matchup against the trophy holder .
No , in this game , the “ winners ” are the criminals who exert their power against the people .
It is both unconstitutional parties who win to continue to inflict harm among the American people they have so brilliantly blinded through rhetoric and propaganda .
And , it is both political parties that will squelch freedoms .
If Republicans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ why has that party continued to allow lawbreakers to go unpunished ?
Ask the same of the Democrats .
Neither party is good or constitutional ; both exist only to grow government , enrich themselves , and subjugate the people .
While many have heard this and can see it , there are too many Americans who can ’ t see the forest for the trees .
In fact , there are many Americans who refuse to see who the true enemy is .
Hint : it isn ’ t their fellow Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ you can lead a horse to water , but you can ’ t make it drink ” .
Too many have drunk the propaganda Kool-Aid and become brain dead to the truth .
Unfortunately , it is many self-professed Christians .
Don ’ t think if you didn ’ t support either unconstitutional party that you will be left out .
Nope .
If you don ’ t go along with the criminals , you are considered “ political opposition ” as well .
Remember what happened in Nazi Germany and Stalin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nature started .
It always precedes atrocity .
This is what you voted into office America – a group of people so evil they would call upon actions committed by some of the world ’ s worst dictators and perpetrators of crimes against humanity to inflict upon their fellow citizens whose non-crime is exercising their freedoms .
Congratulations for being party to possible upcoming atrocities the world , after World War II , had to invent a name for it .
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media

If you think voting “R” at all costs to stop Democrats from taking power, you should know that you have been “conditioned” into the R/D, left/right paradigm, instead of lawfulness versus lawlessness. Regardless of the political designation of “R” or “D”, both unconstitutional parties do not have the law as their focus – God’s or the Constitution. This is no more clear than some Democrats and Republicans calling for compiling lists of “Trump supporters” in order to hold those voting for Trump accountable for the future of this country.
Breitbart.com reported:
Left-wing Democrats and Never Trump Republicans appealed Friday for assistance in compiling lists of Trump supporters to they could be held “accountable” for supporting President Donald Trump after the election.
“Democratic socialist” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tweeted: “Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future.”
Former staff member in the Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Soebarkah administration, Michael Simon, replied in support of AOC’s comment, calling it the “Trump Accountability Project”.
Yes, we are.
The Trump Accountability Project (@trumpaccproject)
Every Administration staffer, campaign staffer, bundler, lawyer who represented them — everyone. https://t.co/PHx8v8GxOp
— Michael Simon (@mbsimon) November 6, 2020
The database at the site includes a list of federal judges appointed by the president.
Others also tweeted to announce the project:
We’re launching the Trump Accountability Project to make sure anyone who took a paycheck to help Trump undermine America is held responsible for what they did.
Join us and help spread the word.https://t.co/wtVxGIlYOK
— Emily Abrams (@emabrams) November 6, 2020
Do you see what’s going on here? In a move reminiscent of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, these lawless individuals and groups are calling for a list of political supporters and employees of Donald Trump in order to exact punishment against those for engaging in freedom of speech and other freedoms protected by the Ninth Amendment. These haters of everything related to freedom and liberty want anyone challenging election results, aka exposing fraud and criminality, to be barred from employment and relegated to the fringes of society.
Jennifer Rubin, a Washington Post columnist and Never Trumper, tweeted that anyone challenging the 2020 election results should not only be disqualified from holding public office, but ostracized from society.
“Any R now promoting rejection of an election or calling to not to follow the will of voters or making baseless allegations of fraud should never serve in office, join a corporate board, find a faculty position or be accepted into ‘polite’ society,” she tweeted. “We have a list.”
Prior to the election, some left-wing commentators called for a South Africa-style “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” for Trump supporters.
The original Truth and Reconciliation Commission death [sic] with gross abuses of human rights, primarily by the apartheid regime, which imposed racial segregation and tortured and murdered political dissidents in custody.
If you know anything about the original South Africa “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” formed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela, its goal was to expose the human rights violations that occurred during the apartheid regime from 1960 to 1994 while focusing on reconciliation of victims and perpetrators through amnesty and restitution. But, was it successful? Looking at the climate in South Africa today with the government looking to expropriate land without compensating the individual owners, who happen to be white farmers, and the history of the murder of farmers and human rights abuses against while men, women and children, the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” failed, leading to the ANC government turning a blind eye to human rights abuses – human rights abuses that government sought to reconcile between the former perpetrators and victims. The situation reversed, but it wasn’t perpetrators of crimes that were targeted. The targets were individuals who lived under the same regime who happened to be white and landowners.
Interesting that these individuals calling for “Trump sycophants” to be held accountable would recommend the same name for their project as a failed South African commission that has ultimately led to further atrocities.
Breitbart.com concluded:
Hari Savugen tweeted:
“You better believe it. We just launched the Trump Accountability Project to make sure anyone who took a paycheck to help Trump undermine America is held responsible for what they did. https://trumpaccountability.net”
Of the above, Sevugan and Abrams are both former staffers for Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign. Buttigieg is a member of Joe Biden’s presidential transition team, in the event Biden is ultimately certified as the winner of Tuesday’s election.
If you can’t read between the lines, this is not about any type of crime – it is about being political opposition. It is about being “punished” for exercising the right to freedom of speech, political speech, and ability to choose whom to represent you. In other words, fail to follow these criminals’ wishes and you will find yourself targeted as opposition with the potential for punishment to be exacted upon you from both unconstitutional parties – Democrats and Republicans. Still think Republicans will save you? If so, there is no hope for you.
Ever thought about how this group of criminals are going to get those names? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure it out. If you need a hint, you clearly are not thinking.
Remember who is calling for all of this. It is the same people that promoted a fake dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton. It is the same people who brought you Obamacare. It is the same people who support Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and lawlessness in the streets. It is the same people who are promoting the virus and selling you the vaccine. It is the same people who are part and parcel of the “dog and pony” shows called “congressional hearings”. And, these are the same people who are openly engaging in fraud and criminality. Don’t blame just one party. Both are complicit and guilty.
Of course, anyone with open eyes could see this was going to happen. It is the next logical step when the people fail to hold accountable their servants, bring justice to those who commit crimes – mainly, failure to follow the law, the Constitution, and cheer for ones wearing the jersey of their “favorite team”, whether lawful or lawless. But, this is not football, basketball, baseball or hockey, where the winner gets a trophy and the losers go home to contemplate their strategy for the next matchup against the trophy holder. No, in this game, the “winners” are the criminals who exert their power against the people. It is both unconstitutional parties who win to continue to inflict harm among the American people they have so brilliantly blinded through rhetoric and propaganda. And, it is both political parties that will squelch freedoms.
If Republicans were the “good guys”, why has that party continued to allow lawbreakers to go unpunished? Ask the same of the Democrats. Neither party is good or constitutional; both exist only to grow government, enrich themselves, and subjugate the people.
While many have heard this and can see it, there are too many Americans who can’t see the forest for the trees. In fact, there are many Americans who refuse to see who the true enemy is. Hint: it isn’t their fellow Americans. As the old saying goes, “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink”. Too many have drunk the propaganda Kool-Aid and become brain dead to the truth. Unfortunately, it is many self-professed Christians.
Don’t think if you didn’t support either unconstitutional party that you will be left out. Nope. If you don’t go along with the criminals, you are considered “political opposition” as well.
Remember what happened in Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Russia before anything of this nature started. It always precedes atrocity. This is what you voted into office America – a group of people so evil they would call upon actions committed by some of the world’s worst dictators and perpetrators of crimes against humanity to inflict upon their fellow citizens whose non-crime is exercising their freedoms. Congratulations for being party to possible upcoming atrocities the world, after World War II, had to invent a name for it.
Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-07--Purdue Pharma – I Don’t Answer Your Questions – You Answer Mine!

On September 29 , 2020 I wrote an article for Salem-News.com entitled “ Janel R. Miller , Deceased Will Not Be Another Statistic in the Opioid Epidemic !
It was also published in The Washington Standard and Sons of Liberty Media .
My article dealt with a lawsuit that was filed by attorneys Richard J. Hollawell and Mark C. Dewland representing the family of Janel R. Miller .
The civil action was filed on September 11 and is a Medical Malpractice lawsuit filed in Mercer County , Pennsylvania on behalf of the Estate of Janel R. Miller , deceased , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deceased ) , Olivia E. Razzak , Executrix of the Estate of Ashraf Razzak , MD , Christina L. Cole , FNP-BC , and Pain , Spine , Aesthetic & Wellness Center , PC .
The lawsuit alleges that Janel was given 164 narcotic prescriptions while under treatment at the Pain , Spine , Aesthetic & Wellness Center , PC aka “ The Pain Center.
” ( A copy of the filed complaint is shown in this article ) .
Janel ’ s family reached out to Mr. Hollawell to seek justice for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ banging on doors of law enforcement and legal counsel to investigate a pain center that had Janel as a patient from May 2012 until August 2018 and had allegedly addicted her to dangerous opioids without medical assessment , screening or standard of care being applied .
The lawsuit also states that after Janel ’ s death , the treating physician at the “ Pain Clinic ” , Ashraf Razzak , MD and Christina L. Cole , FNP-BC allegedly backdated treatment records and had not completed office notes after each medical visit , but @ @ @ @ @ @ @ apart — after Janel ’ s death .
My editor at Salem-News.com received an email from the criminally convicted pharmaceutical company , Purdue Pharma , maker of OxyContin but rather than an individual name , it read “ from DrugSafetyandPharmacovigilance @ pharma.com .
The subject of the email was “ Follow-up question regarding your media article.
” This is the email sent to my editor : Purdue Pharma has become aware of information regarding an adverse experience associated with the use of one of our products .
Should you have additional questions or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or contact the Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance Department at ( 888 ) 726-7535 , prompt # 2 .
Please reference your case number ( s ) when contacting Purdue .
Thank you for assisting us in gathering valuable quality and safety information about our products .
As insulting as this email is from Purdue Pharma who has lawsuits throughout the country against them and a bogus bankruptcy filing , I will take the above as a form of intimidation directed toward me .
They are well aware of “ the reporter name , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been exposing their criminal marketing of OxyContin resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths and addictions for over 18 years .
The remainder of their questions in their email is too ludicrous for me to respond .
For Purdue Pharma to have the audacity to say “ Thank you for assisting us in gathering valuable quality and safety information about our products ” is outrageous .
My first question to them is “ how do you sleep at night knowing hundreds of thousands of families have lost loved ones to your lies in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you ’ re curious about Janel R. Miller ’ s death , I suggest you contact “ The Pain Center ” in Hermitage , PA and obtain copies of their medical records for Janel Miller .
I don ’ t answer your questions — you answer my questions !
Family of Janel R. Miller lawsuit by Tim Brown on Scribd Marianne Skolek-Perez , Salem-News.com Investigative Reporter , is an Activist for Victims of OxyContin and Purdue Pharma throughout the United States and Canada .
In July 2007 , she testified against Purdue Pharma @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sentencing of their three CEO 's - Michael Friedman , Howard Udell and Paul Goldenheim - who pleaded guilty to charges of marketing OxyContin as less likely to be addictive or abused to physicians and patients .
She also testified against Purdue Pharma at a Judiciary Hearing of the U.S. Senate in July 2007 .
Marianne works with government agencies and private attorneys in having a voice for her daughter Jill , who died in 2002 after being prescribed OxyContin , as well as the voice for scores of victims of OxyContin .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that exposes Purdue Pharma for their continued criminal marketing of OxyContin .
Marianne is a nurse , graduated in 1991 as president of her class , and also has a Paralegal certification .
Marianne served on a Community Service Board for the Courier News , a Gannet newspaper in NJ , writing articles predominantly regarding AIDS patients and their emotional issues .
She was awarded a Community Service Award in 1993 by the Hunterdon County , NJ HIV/AIDS Task Force in recognition of and appreciation for the donated time , energy and love @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with HIV/AIDS .

On September 29, 2020 I wrote an article for Salem-News.com entitled “Janel R. Miller, Deceased Will Not Be Another Statistic in the Opioid Epidemic! It was also published in The Washington Standard and Sons of Liberty Media.
My article dealt with a lawsuit that was filed by attorneys Richard J. Hollawell and Mark C. Dewland representing the family of Janel R. Miller. The civil action was filed on September 11 and is a Medical Malpractice lawsuit filed in Mercer County, Pennsylvania on behalf of the Estate of Janel R. Miller, deceased, against Ashraf Razzak, MD (also deceased), Olivia E. Razzak, Executrix of the Estate of Ashraf Razzak, MD, Christina L. Cole, FNP-BC, and Pain, Spine, Aesthetic & Wellness Center, PC.
The lawsuit alleges that Janel was given 164 narcotic prescriptions while under treatment at the Pain, Spine, Aesthetic & Wellness Center, PC aka “The Pain Center.” (A copy of the filed complaint is shown in this article).
Janel’s family reached out to Mr. Hollawell to seek justice for Janel after a futile two years of banging on doors of law enforcement and legal counsel to investigate a pain center that had Janel as a patient from May 2012 until August 2018 and had allegedly addicted her to dangerous opioids without medical assessment, screening or standard of care being applied.
The lawsuit also states that after Janel’s death, the treating physician at the “Pain Clinic”, Ashraf Razzak, MD and Christina L. Cole, FNP-BC allegedly backdated treatment records and had not completed office notes after each medical visit, but rather, electronically signed notes within minutes apart — after Janel’s death.
My editor at Salem-News.com received an email from the criminally convicted pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin but rather than an individual name, it read “from DrugSafetyandPharmacovigilance @pharma.com. The subject of the email was “Follow-up question regarding your media article.”
This is the email sent to my editor:
Dear Marianne Skolek-perez, Purdue Pharma has become aware of information regarding an adverse experience associated with the use of one of our products. Should you have additional questions or details, please respond to this email or contact the Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance Department at (888) 726-7535, prompt #2. Please reference your case number(s) when contacting Purdue. Thank you for assisting us in gathering valuable quality and safety information about our products. Sincerely, Purdue Pharma Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance
As insulting as this email is from Purdue Pharma who has lawsuits throughout the country against them and a bogus bankruptcy filing, I will take the above as a form of intimidation directed toward me. They are well aware of “the reporter name, address and telephone number.” I have been exposing their criminal marketing of OxyContin resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths and addictions for over 18 years. The remainder of their questions in their email is too ludicrous for me to respond.
For Purdue Pharma to have the audacity to say “Thank you for assisting us in gathering valuable quality and safety information about our products” is outrageous.
My first question to them is “how do you sleep at night knowing hundreds of thousands of families have lost loved ones to your lies in the marketing of OxyContin?”
If you’re curious about Janel R. Miller’s death, I suggest you contact “The Pain Center” in Hermitage, PA and obtain copies of their medical records for Janel Miller.
I don’t answer your questions — you answer my questions!
Family of Janel R. Miller lawsuit by Tim Brown on Scribd


thewashingtonstandard--2020-11-08--Your Marxist Revolutionary Sons & Daughters

The violent riots , looting , arson , and even public execution of Trump supporters over the past six months has been primarily the work of the self-described communist revolutionaries associated with “ Antifa ” and Black Lives Matter ( BLM ) .
Mug shots of some of the Antifa/BLM criminals that have appeared in the news and online show that some of them are seriously mentally deranged ; some are hardened criminals with long criminal records ; there seems to be a preponderance of convicted sex offenders and pedophiles among them ; and what seems to be hundreds of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mobs of rather ordinary , run-of-the-mill , urban underclass looters , the products of the state ’ s life-destroying and crime-infested inner-city government schools , its family- and work-incentive-destroying welfare state , and its war on drugs .
Then there is the large army of useful idiots – the thousands of mostly white college-age or slightly-older kids .
They don ’ t seem to dominate the criminal mug shots published by urban police departments , but they appear to have comprised at least half of many of the mob scenes broadcast on American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I lost count how many times I watched the boob tube as a chubby white girl dressed like a masked homeless person screamed in the faces of black police officers about “ white supremacy ” and racism , as though these mostly middle-aged black men were unaware of racial discrimination .
Then there ’ s that Ivy League co-ed whose parents own several multi-million dollar homes who was arrested for setting fire to police cars during one of the riots in New York City .
One suspects that she was not the only @ @ @ @ @ @ @ criminals and the underclass looters are in it ( rioting ) for fun and profit , but the white college kids are there because they think they are being good Marxist revolutionaries by associating themselves with BLM , whose founders have proudly proclaimed that “ we are trained Marxists ” ( and who also advocate the abolition of the family , as did Karl Marx himself ) .
How on earth , one may ask , have so many college students and graduates been convinced that totalitarian communism , of all things , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
I am not speaking of all college students and recent graduates , of course , but a very large and vocal segment of that population – the so-called social justice snowflakes .
The answer to this question is obvious : They have been thoroughly indoctrinated by the socialist indoctrination academies known as “ American colleges and universities , ” and also by their middle-school and high school teachers who themselves were indoctrinated there first .
They have been indoctrinated in textbook Marxism , in techniques and ideologies that were pioneered by Marx @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and carried forward first by the “ 60s Marxist radicals ” and then by the radicals ’ students who now dominate nearly every university .
Ludwig von Mises wrote in his 1922 classic , Socialism , that “ the socialist idea is nothing but a grandiose rationalization of petty resentments ” and “ destruction is the essence of it , ” the “ spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created.
” Private property , free enterprise , the rule of law , the civil society , constitutionalism , religion , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are all today routinely denounced and destroyed by the useful idiots rioting in American streets .
What else would one call the riots , looting , arson and mayhem in certain American cities but Marxist destructionism ?
Everything Mises said about the “ revolutionary Marxists ” of the early twentieth century applies to the American Left today .
“ Instead of refuting ” his critics , Mises said of Marx and Marxists , “ his disciples have faithfully imitated the master ’ s example , reviling their opponents but never attempting to refute @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Marxist creed that today ’ s college students are very well schooled in indeed .
It is now almost routine that if a student group invites a conservative or libertarian speaker to campus he will be met with a loud mob shouting insults at him , prohibiting him from speaking , and , in the case of the University of California at Berkeley , home of “ the free speech movement , ” setting campus buildings on fire .
Consequently , very few dissenting voices are ever invited to campus in the first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ classes deserve the right of free speech , today ’ s college students are taught from the writings of twentieth-century Marxist academic crank , Herbert Marcuse .
Everyone else is to be smeared , libeled , and slandered as a “ racist , “ sexist , ” “ fascist , ” etc.
, etc .
The “ oppressed ” classes are defined by today ’ s academic Marxists as everyone except white heterosexual males who are not outspoken Leftists .
All white people are assumed to be inherent racists according to today ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ campus commie earns one a get-out-of-jail card .
The “ socialist parties ” of Mises ’ time perfected “ the technique of agitation , the cadging for votes and for souls , the stirring up of electoral excitement , the street demonstrations , and terrorism.
” There is nothing new under the sun when it comes to being a Marxist revolutionary , in other words .
The purpose of “ revolutionary socialism , ” wrote Mises , “ is primarily concerned to clear the ground for building up a new civilization by liquidating @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the whole history of Marxist revolutions is that the older civilization , which may have evolved over centuries , is in fact destroyed and then replaced with nothing but totalitarian thuggery , corruption , violence , and mass killing .
Today ’ s college students learn little or nothing about this – the real history of socialism – but are well schooled in utopian pipe dreams such as The Communist Manifesto .
I once used the Manifesto in a class called “ Capitalism and its Critics ” where I treated it as an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was the fourth time he was assigned to read it during his college career , but the first time it was not portrayed as a roadmap for the future .
Many Americans were not surprised when the revolutionary Marxist rioters , looters and arsonists ( RMRLA ) began toppling statues of Confederate soldiers and said nothing .
Many mocked President Trump when he predicted that the mob will move on to Thomas Jefferson and other founders .
They were ( and are ) befuddled , however , when the same gang began @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Lincoln , Thomas Jefferson , Teddy Roosevelt , New England abolitionists , and just about every other kind of statue commemorating America ’ s past .
They have chopped off the heads of Virgin Mary statues at Catholic churches and spray painted vulgar graffiti on countless churches .
Once again , this is all textbook Marxism as taught to your sons and daughters in the institutions of “ higher education.
” Tradition is merely “ a tool of the bourgeoisie , ” said Marx .
“ In bourgeois society the past dominates the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ present dominates the past.
” Marxists will have none of that business about learning from the mistakes of history for they – and only they – know all the answers .
Marx and Engels called for the “ Abolition of Religion ” in The Communist Manifesto along with a plea to “ abolish the present state of things.
” “ The forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions ” was their goal .
“ Communists everywhere support the revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things , ” they said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ times over in American university classrooms in the past year .
“ Ruthless criticism of all that exists ” was also called for by Marx , who bloviated that “ the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
” Communism “ abolishes eternal truths , ” Marx boasted , and “ acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.
” As F.A .
Hayek wrote in The Road to Serfdom , in a totalitarian society truth is not determined by research , investigation , discussion , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ down by the state in the form of statist platitudes .
Today this is called “ critical theory ” in the academic world and is quite prevalent .
When a business school professor ( actually a lawyer hired to preach left-wing politics to business students ) initiated a new course called “ Critical Thinking ” at my former university I asked her what academic discipline she would be drawing on – philosophy , logic , political philosophy , economics , etc .
Her answer was “ Oh none of that ; we will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with many of her students over the years I have learned that they were taught nothing about how to structure a criticism by using logic , facts , and theory .
Instead , they are taught to condemn , slander , libel , denounce , and smear anyone who voices disagreements with any of the standard leftist platitudes that all college students are bombarded with and have been since elementary school .
Ruthless criticism , in other words , just as Marx himself advocated .
“ Communism begins where atheism begins , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ communism is incompatible with religious faith.
” Marx would be proud indeed of his contemporary American minions .
A June 1 Catholic News Agency article reported that “ churches in 6 states were damaged by violent protests.
” Cathedrals were defaced and damaged and spray painted with “ God is Dead ” and “ There is No God.
” In Europe , some 3,000 Christian churches and other buildings were vandalized , looted and defaced in 2019 .
While American parents slept , university Leftists have turned millions of their children into uneducated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the most despicable political tyrants and would-be dictators on the planet .
Way to go , American parents .

The violent riots, looting, arson, and even public execution of Trump supporters over the past six months has been primarily the work of the self-described communist revolutionaries associated with “Antifa” and Black Lives Matter (BLM). Mug shots of some of the Antifa/BLM criminals that have appeared in the news and online show that some of them are seriously mentally deranged; some are hardened criminals with long criminal records; there seems to be a preponderance of convicted sex offenders and pedophiles among them; and what seems to be hundreds of pyromaniacs. They are always accompanied by mobs of rather ordinary, run-of-the-mill, urban underclass looters, the products of the state’s life-destroying and crime-infested inner-city government schools, its family- and work-incentive-destroying welfare state, and its war on drugs.
Then there is the large army of useful idiots – the thousands of mostly white college-age or slightly-older kids. They don’t seem to dominate the criminal mug shots published by urban police departments, but they appear to have comprised at least half of many of the mob scenes broadcast on American television over the past several months. I lost count how many times I watched the boob tube as a chubby white girl dressed like a masked homeless person screamed in the faces of black police officers about “white supremacy” and racism, as though these mostly middle-aged black men were unaware of racial discrimination. Then there’s that Ivy League co-ed whose parents own several multi-million dollar homes who was arrested for setting fire to police cars during one of the riots in New York City. One suspects that she was not the only one who fit that description.
The criminals and the underclass looters are in it (rioting) for fun and profit, but the white college kids are there because they think they are being good Marxist revolutionaries by associating themselves with BLM, whose founders have proudly proclaimed that “we are trained Marxists” (and who also advocate the abolition of the family, as did Karl Marx himself). How on earth, one may ask, have so many college students and graduates been convinced that totalitarian communism, of all things, is what they want for their future?
I am not speaking of all college students and recent graduates, of course, but a very large and vocal segment of that population – the so-called social justice snowflakes. The answer to this question is obvious: They have been thoroughly indoctrinated by the socialist indoctrination academies known as “American colleges and universities,” and also by their middle-school and high school teachers who themselves were indoctrinated there first. They have been indoctrinated in textbook Marxism, in techniques and ideologies that were pioneered by Marx, Engels, Lenin and others, and carried forward first by the “60s Marxist radicals” and then by the radicals’ students who now dominate nearly every university.
Socialism Means Destructionism
Ludwig von Mises wrote in his 1922 classic, Socialism, that “the socialist idea is nothing but a grandiose rationalization of petty resentments” and “destruction is the essence of it,” the “spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created.” Private property, free enterprise, the rule of law, the civil society, constitutionalism, religion, the family, tradition, history, are all today routinely denounced and destroyed by the useful idiots rioting in American streets. What else would one call the riots, looting, arson and mayhem in certain American cities but Marxist destructionism?
Everything Mises said about the “revolutionary Marxists” of the early twentieth century applies to the American Left today. “Instead of refuting” his critics, Mises said of Marx and Marxists, “his disciples have faithfully imitated the master’s example, reviling their opponents but never attempting to refute them by argument.” This is one Marxist creed that today’s college students are very well schooled in indeed. It is now almost routine that if a student group invites a conservative or libertarian speaker to campus he will be met with a loud mob shouting insults at him, prohibiting him from speaking, and, in the case of the University of California at Berkeley, home of “the free speech movement,” setting campus buildings on fire. Consequently, very few dissenting voices are ever invited to campus in the first place. Only the “oppressed” classes deserve the right of free speech, today’s college students are taught from the writings of twentieth-century Marxist academic crank, Herbert Marcuse. Everyone else is to be smeared, libeled, and slandered as a “racist, “sexist,” “fascist,” etc., etc. The “oppressed” classes are defined by today’s academic Marxists as everyone except white heterosexual males who are not outspoken Leftists. All white people are assumed to be inherent racists according to today’s Left, but being an outspoken campus commie earns one a get-out-of-jail card.
The “socialist parties” of Mises’ time perfected “the technique of agitation, the cadging for votes and for souls, the stirring up of electoral excitement, the street demonstrations, and terrorism.” There is nothing new under the sun when it comes to being a Marxist revolutionary, in other words. The purpose of “revolutionary socialism,” wrote Mises, “is primarily concerned to clear the ground for building up a new civilization by liquidating the older one.” Of course, the whole history of Marxist revolutions is that the older civilization, which may have evolved over centuries, is in fact destroyed and then replaced with nothing but totalitarian thuggery, corruption, violence, and mass killing. Today’s college students learn little or nothing about this – the real history of socialism – but are well schooled in utopian pipe dreams such as The Communist Manifesto. I once used the Manifesto in a class called “Capitalism and its Critics” where I treated it as an historical artifact. One student complained that it was the fourth time he was assigned to read it during his college career, but the first time it was not portrayed as a roadmap for the future.
Many Americans were not surprised when the revolutionary Marxist rioters, looters and arsonists (RMRLA) began toppling statues of Confederate soldiers and said nothing. Many mocked President Trump when he predicted that the mob will move on to Thomas Jefferson and other founders. They were (and are) befuddled, however, when the same gang began destroying statues of Christopher Columbus, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, New England abolitionists, and just about every other kind of statue commemorating America’s past. They have chopped off the heads of Virgin Mary statues at Catholic churches and spray painted vulgar graffiti on countless churches. Once again, this is all textbook Marxism as taught to your sons and daughters in the institutions of “higher education.” Tradition is merely “a tool of the bourgeoisie,” said Marx. “In bourgeois society the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past.” Marxists will have none of that business about learning from the mistakes of history for they – and only they – know all the answers.
Marx and Engels called for the “Abolition of Religion” in The Communist Manifesto along with a plea to “abolish the present state of things.” “The forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions” was their goal. “Communists everywhere support the revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things,” they said, something that was probably said many times over in American university classrooms in the past year.
“Ruthless criticism of all that exists” was also called for by Marx, who bloviated that “the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.” Communism “abolishes eternal truths,” Marx boasted, and “acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.” As F.A. Hayek wrote in The Road to Serfdom, in a totalitarian society truth is not determined by research, investigation, discussion, debate, and education but is handed down by the state in the form of statist platitudes.
Today this is called “critical theory” in the academic world and is quite prevalent. When a business school professor (actually a lawyer hired to preach left-wing politics to business students) initiated a new course called “Critical Thinking” at my former university I asked her what academic discipline she would be drawing on – philosophy, logic, political philosophy, economics, etc. Her answer was “Oh none of that; we will just criticize people like you.”
Talking with many of her students over the years I have learned that they were taught nothing about how to structure a criticism by using logic, facts, and theory. Instead, they are taught to condemn, slander, libel, denounce, and smear anyone who voices disagreements with any of the standard leftist platitudes that all college students are bombarded with and have been since elementary school. Ruthless criticism, in other words, just as Marx himself advocated.
“Communism begins where atheism begins,” wrote Marx and Engels, and “communism is incompatible with religious faith.” Marx would be proud indeed of his contemporary American minions. A June 1 Catholic News Agency article reported that “churches in 6 states were damaged by violent protests.” Cathedrals were defaced and damaged and spray painted with “God is Dead” and “There is No God.” In Europe, some 3,000 Christian churches and other buildings were vandalized, looted and defaced in 2019.
While American parents slept, university Leftists have turned millions of their children into uneducated, empty-headed, slogan-chanting useful idiots for the most despicable political tyrants and would-be dictators on the planet. Way to go, American parents.
Article posted with permission from Lew Rockwell.