Everyone's Blog Posts - THE GREAT AWAKENING2024-03-19T08:02:52Zhttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?xn_auth=noFrom Tyler Durden Ray Epps Dodges Prison Sentence - Gets Probation, Community Service For Telling J6ers To Go "Into The Capitol"tag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2024-01-11:5235400:BlogPost:1563802024-01-11T15:26:57.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<h1 class="ArticleFull_title__FDrpw">Ray Epps Dodges Prison Sentence - Gets Probation, Community Service For Telling J6ers To Go "Into The Capitol"</h1>
<br />
<div class="ArticleFull_headerFooter__authorInfo__rqsBA"><img alt="Tyler Durden's Photo" class="ArticleFull_headerFooter__authorPhoto__l6O7i" src="https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/thumbnail/public/pictures/picture-5.jpg"></img><div class="ArticleFull_headerFooter__author__pC2tR">BY TYLER DURDEN</div>
</div>
<div class="ArticleFull_headerFooter__date__UFCbS">WEDNESDAY, JAN 10, 2024 - 02:44 AM…</div>
<br />
<div class="NodeContent_mainContent__2jyAd"></div>
<h1 class="ArticleFull_title__FDrpw">Ray Epps Dodges Prison Sentence - Gets Probation, Community Service For Telling J6ers To Go "Into The Capitol"</h1>
<br />
<div class="ArticleFull_headerFooter__authorInfo__rqsBA"><img class="ArticleFull_headerFooter__authorPhoto__l6O7i" alt="Tyler Durden's Photo" src="https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/thumbnail/public/pictures/picture-5.jpg"/><div class="ArticleFull_headerFooter__author__pC2tR">BY TYLER DURDEN</div>
</div>
<div class="ArticleFull_headerFooter__date__UFCbS">WEDNESDAY, JAN 10, 2024 - 02:44 AM</div>
<br />
<div class="NodeContent_mainContent__2jyAd"><div class="NodeContent_body__HBEFs NodeBody_container__eeFKv"><p>Ray Epps, the man caught multiple times telling January 6th protesters to escalate their demonstration and go "into the Capitol" on January 6th, 2021,<span> </span><strong>will spend no time in prison for his role that day</strong>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/ray-epps_jpg1.jpg?itok=S5yQziJd"><img height="250" width="500" class="inline-images image-style-inline-images" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/ray-epps_jpg1.jpg?itok=S5yQziJd" alt=""/></a></p>
<p>Instead, Epps has been given<span> </span><strong>12 months probation</strong>, $500 in restitution, and 100 hours of community service.</p>
<div class="AdvertisingSlot_desktop__eL99N AdvertisingSlot_tablet__3SxtX AdvertisingSlot_placement__udF_V AdvertisingSlot_inContentParent__PbvHE">
<div class="acw ac-widget-placeholder ac-reset"><div id="ac-lre-player-ph-ext-EI3APtWidEUm86FUrkeZznA0gNW9TQvI" class="ac-lre-player-ph-ext ac-lre-ph-playlist-hide-scroll-bar"><div class="h0011r00002RYAhn_1419 d0011r00002RYAhn_1419" id="ac-lre-player-ph-EI3APtWidEUm86FUrkeZznA0gNW9TQvI"><div class="w0011r00002RYAhn_1419 luminous-theme is-floated-outer-title"><div class="ac-player-ph"><div class="ac-player-wrapper ac-floated-player"><div class="ac-lre-player"><div class="video-js vjs-default-skin ac-lre-vjs-EI3APtWidEUm86FUrkeZznA0gNW9TQvI-dimensions vjs-fluid vjs-controls-enabled vjs-touch-enabled vjs-workinghover vjs-v7 live-set-max-cc-rows vjs-has-started vjs-user-inactive cc-hidden vjs-layout-x-small ac-lre-small-player lx-visible lx-size-0 lx-range-0 ac-show-lumi-x show-dockets vjs-playing" id="ac-lre-vjs-EI3APtWidEUm86FUrkeZznA0gNW9TQvI" lang="en-us"><div class="vjs-control-bar" dir="ltr"><div class="vjs-volume-panel vjs-control vjs-volume-panel-horizontal"><div class="vjs-volume-control vjs-control vjs-volume-horizontal"><div class="vjs-volume-bar vjs-slider-bar vjs-slider vjs-slider-horizontal"><div class="vjs-volume-level"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Ray Epps, the man who took credit for “orchestrating” January 6th by encouraging people to raid the Capitol, has been sentenced to 12 MONTHS PROBATION.</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
</div>
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><br/>He will receive ZERO jail time.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, there are truly peaceful protestors ROTTING in prison simply for…<span> </span><a href="https://t.co/3cd0RdrrD3">pic.twitter.com/3cd0RdrrD3</a></p>
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor)<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1744765837704040735?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2024</a><br />
<p></p>
<div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
<div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
<p>According to Epps'<span> </span><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.259850/gov.uscourts.dcd.259850.16.0.pdf">sentencing memorandum</a>, Epps should have served<span> </span><strong>6 months in jail</strong>.</p>
<p>"Although Epps engaged in felonious conduct during the riot on January 6, his case includes a variety of distinctive and compelling mitigating factors, which led the government to exercise its prosecutorial discretion and offer Epps a pre-indictment misdemeanor plea resolution," wrote DOJ senior trial counsel Michael Gordon in the sentencing memo. </p>
<div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
<div class="AdvertisingSlot_tablet__3SxtX AdvertisingSlot_mobile__f___z AdvertisingSlot_placement__udF_V AdvertisingSlot_align__A2hYo">
<div id="google_ads_iframe_/21841313772,21778456762/zerohedge/in_content_2_0__container__"><strong>Epps' attorney, Edward Ungvarsky, argued that Epps should serve <em>no </em>jail time,</strong> and that "right-wing political dramaturges" resulted in Epps being "attacked, defamed, and vilified."</div>
<br />
</div>
<p>According to the sentencing memorandum, Gordon asserted that Epps "has been the target of a false and widespread conspiracy theory that he was an undercover government agent on January 6."</p>
<p>Other mitigating factors included<span> </span><strong>Epps calling the FBI on Jan. 8, 2021</strong><span> </span>to explain his actions two days prior. Further, Gordon listed his cooperation with both the FBI and the now-defunct House Jan. 6 Select Committee (which<span> </span><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jan-6-committee-tapes-have-disappeared-says-house-republican?commentId=656c2f7e9cbdd3001b3d8ffc">lost video evidence</a><span> </span>of their witness interviews), and what the DOJ describes as his efforts to de-escalate tensions between protesters and the police.</p>
<p>"Epps only acted in furtherance of his own misguided belief in the 'lie' that the 2020 presidential election had been 'stolen,'" reads the memorandum. "However,<span> </span><strong>due to the outrage directed at Epps as a result of that false conspiracy theory, he has been forced to sell his business, move to a different state, and live reclusively.</strong>"</p>
<p>As the<span> </span><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/doj-seeks-to-jail-ray-epps-for-six-months-for-jan-6-disorderly-conduct-5557280?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge"><em>Epoch Times</em></a><span> </span>reports further, Epps' photo was<span> </span><strong>removed from the FBI's Jan. 6 most-wanted page without explanation</strong>.</p>
<p>On Sept. 18, 2023, prosecutors<span> </span><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/ray-epps-charged-with-federal-disorderly-conduct-misdemeanor-for-jan-6-actions-5494355">charged</a><span> </span>Mr. Epps with one count of disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, a petty misdemeanor with a maximum six-month jail term.</p>
<p>On Sept. 21, 2023, Mr. Epps<span> </span><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/ray-epps-pleads-guilty-to-single-petty-misdemeanor-count-5495739">pleaded guilty</a><span> </span>to the charge. In mere days, the high-profile case was dispatched, a stark contrast to many Jan. 6 prosecutions that have stretched across nearly three years.</p>
<div class="AdvertisingSlot_tablet__3SxtX AdvertisingSlot_mobile__f___z AdvertisingSlot_placement__udF_V AdvertisingSlot_align__A2hYo">
<div id="google_ads_iframe_/21841313772,21778456762/zerohedge/in_content_3_0__container__">Sentencing in the case had been scheduled for Dec. 20, 2023, but Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg granted a continuance until 10 a.m. Jan. 9 at the federal courthouse in Washington D.C.</div>
<br />
</div>
<p>In his sentencing memo, Mr.<strong><span> </span>Ungvarsky said Mr. Epps’ intention all along was for peaceful protests at the Capitol on Jan. 6.</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/image-281234-29_0_jpg.jpg?itok=b-n1aDTL"><img height="300" width="500" class="inline-images image-style-inline-images" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/image-281234-29_0_jpg.jpg?itok=b-n1aDTL" alt=""/></a></strong></p>
<p>“Ray Epps understands the serious mistake he made when he joined others to attend the Stop the Steal Rally on January 6, 2021, and to encourage others to walk to the U.S. Capitol to continue to protest,” Mr. Ungvarsky wrote.</p>
<p>“At all times, Mr. Epps’ intent was that the protest would be peaceful and would be done peacefully,” Mr. Ungvarsky said. “Those were his words on January 5, and that was his intent on January 6.”</p>
<p><strong>Late on Jan. 2, Mr. Ungvarsky filed a<span> </span><a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24252334/ray-epps-motion-to-file-portions-of-sentencing-exhibits-under-court-seal.pdf">motion</a><span> </span>asking to shield under court seal the identifying information of persons mentioned in Mr. Epps’ forthcoming sentencing exhibits.</strong></p>
<p>“For safety concerns, counsel has redacted the names and identifying information of persons who authored or are discussed in exhibits of sentencing letters and memoranda,” Mr. Ungvarsky wrote. “Documented prior harassment and threats provide a specific basis for this request in this case.”</p>
</div>
</div>FROM MERCOLA How Many Secrets Is the President Hiding?tag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-12-12:5235400:BlogPost:1542862023-12-12T14:35:51.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">How Many Secrets Is the President Hiding?</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">December 12, 2023…</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">How Many Secrets Is the President Hiding?</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">December 12, 2023</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<p></p>
</div>
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton4"><div id="bcr_pnlbtnPrev"><div class="previous-article"><div class="article-thumb"><img id="bcr_btnPrevImg" class=" mlazyloaded" alt="Natural Cold Remedies: What Works, What Doesn't" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/December/Nonlead/natural-cold-remedies.jpg" name="bcr_btnPrevImg"/></div>
<div class="article-title"><span id="bcr_lblPrevTitle">Natural Cold Remedies: What Works, What Doesn't</span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="bcr_pnlbtnNext"><div class="next-article"><div class="article-thumb"><img id="bcr_btnNextImg" class=" mlazyloaded" alt="FTC Sends a Warning to Online Health Influencers" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/December/Nonlead/ftc-warning-letters-thumb.jpg" name="bcr_btnNextImg"/></div>
<div class="article-title"><span id="bcr_lblNextTitle">FTC Sends a Warning to Online Health Influencers</span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div class="video-container"><div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v3yt1wg-hearing-on-the-weaponization-of-the-federal-government.html">Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v3yt1wg-hearing-on-the-weaponization-of-the-federal-government.html">Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v3yt1wg-hearing-on-the-weaponization-of-the-federal-government.html">Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v3yt1wg-hearing-on-the-weaponization-of-the-federal-government.html">Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v3yt1wg-hearing-on-the-weaponization-of-the-federal-government.html">Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;">MUST WATCH ABOVE</span></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div id="bcr_OuterpnlVideo" class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</span></div>
</div>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">Over the past year, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has released several reports detailing how the government is a) harassing and intimidating citizens to shut down undesirable viewpoints b) using misinformation and propaganda to drive false narratives and c) censoring protected speech using third parties</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">November 30, 2023, House Judiciary Committee held another hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger testified and shared evidence about the existence of a group called the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL), which consists of military contractors that are censoring Americans and using sophisticated psychological operations against us</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">The CTIL was founded by a group of former Israeli and British intelligence agents who initially volunteered their cybersecurity services FOR FREE to multibillion-dollar hospital and health care organizations in the U.S.</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">CTIL also offers physical security and “cognitive” security, which are volunteered by U.S. and British military contractors</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">The CTIL’s plan to control the information landscape also includes using debanking as financial leverage, pressuring social media platforms to change their terms of service to facilitate censorship and deplatforming under the guise of “terms of service violations,” and more</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>The video above features the November 30, 2023, House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup></p>
<p>Over the past year, the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has released several reports detailing how the government is a) harassing and intimidating citizens to shut down undesirable viewpoints, b) using misinformation and propaganda to drive false narratives and c) censoring protected speech using third parties. Here’s a list of those reports that you can peruse at your convenience.</p>
<table class="generic-table left-align">
<tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p>“<a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Weaponization_Select_Subcommittee_Report_on_FTC_Harrassment_of_Twitter_3.7.2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Weaponization of the Federal Trade Commission: An Agency’s Overreach to Harass Elon Musk’s Twitter</a>,” March 7, 2023</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p><a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-03-21-school-board-documents-interim-report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Interim Report on AG Garland’s Anti-Parent Memo</a>, March 21, 2021</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>“<a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-05-10_the_hunter_biden_statement_how_senior_intelligence_community_officials_and_the_biden_campaign_worked_to_mislead_american_voters-sm.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hunter Biden Statement: How Senior Senior Intelligence Community Officials and the Biden Campaign Worked to Mislead American Voters</a>,” May 10, 2023</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>“<a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-05-17-fbi-whistleblower-testimony-highlights-government-abuse-misallocation-of-resources-and-retaliation-sm.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Report on FBI Whistleblower Testimony Highlights Government Abuse, Misallocation of Resources, and Retaliation</a>,” May 18, 2023</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>“<a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/cisa-staff-report6-26-23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Weaponization of CISA: How a ‘Cybersecurity’ Agency Colluded with Big Tech and ‘Disinformation’ Partners to Censor Americans</a>,” June 26, 2023</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>“<a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/fbi-sbu-staff-report-7.10.23-sm.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The FBI's Collaboration with a Compromised Ukrainian Intelligence Agency to Censor American Speech</a>,” July 10, 2023</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>“<a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-10-27-fighting-the-weaponization-of-the-internal-revenue-service-the-end-of-abusive-unannounced-field-visits.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fighting the Weaponization of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS): The End of Abusive Unannounced Field Visits</a>,” October 27, 2023</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>“<a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/EIP_Jira-Ticket-Staff-Report-11-7-23-Clean.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Weaponization of 'Disinformation' Pseudo-experts and Bureaucrats: How the Federal Government Partnered with Universities to Censor Americans' Free Speech</a>,” November 6, 2023</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSbP06KE51ds51-Ha6MXkuyoWuCLW168Wz9CMBbhe1BV1IVLxG660eDBUpaVw_Hs5KdhvTvOLS7BUit/pubhtml?widget=true&headers=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jira Ticket Data</a>, which prove government was mass censoring vaccine information</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>“<a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-12-04-the-fbis-breach-of-religious-freedom-the-weaponization-of-law-enforcement-against-catholic-americans.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The FBI's Breach of Religious Freedom: The Weaponization of Law Enforcement Against Catholic Americans</a>,” December 4, 2023</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>“<a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/judiciary.house.gov/files/2023-12-05-The-Justice-Department-s-Deviations-from-Standard-Processes-in-its-Investigation-of-Hunter-Biden.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Justice Department's Deviations from Standard Processes in its Investigation of Hunter Biden</a>,” December 5, 2023</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The Subcommittee also filed an<span> </span><a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/ab.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amicus brief</a><span> </span>on Missouri v. Biden in early August 2023.</p>
<h2>Rep. Thomas Massie Censored</h2>
<div align="center"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
<p class="center-align"><a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1730295661810061522?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Video Link</a></p>
</div>
<p>Around the one-hour mark in the featured video, Rep. Thomas Massie questions Olivia Troye — a former intelligence official at the Department of Homeland Security under President Obama and a national security and counterterrorism adviser to vice president Mike Pence — about the U.S. government’s use of third party organizations to censor protected speech.</p>
<p>The relevant clip is included above. In her opening statement, Troye accused the Committee of “indulging in fantasy detached from reality.” “Members of this committee and their witnesses make grand and vague accusations about government censorship,” she said. She also claimed the members were “spreading conspiracy theories about government censorship.”</p>
<p>Massie went on to point to a tweet he posted May 19, 2021, under his official congressional account, in which he had linked to a peer-reviewed study that found the effectiveness of natural immunity was identical to that of the Pfizer COVID shot.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Here’s a comprehensive study that tracked reinfections and COVID complications for 187,549 people with prior SARS-CoV2 infection,”</em><span> </span>he wrote in his tweet.<span> </span><em>“Conclusion: Effectiveness of immunity due to prior infection is the same as for the Pfizer vaccine.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>This tweet was censored by Twitter after the Stanford Internet Observatory’s<span> </span><a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/how-virality-project-threatens-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virality Project</a><span> </span>flagged it as “misinformation.” As detailed in previous articles, the Virality Project is partnered with CISA and funded by the U.S. government to perform censorship activities the government cannot legally perform.</p>
<p>When asked if she thought there was a reason to flag Massey’s tweet, Troye answered, “Depends on whether you’re spreading inaccurate information.” But who determines its “accuracy”?</p>
<p>It was a peer-reviewed, published study, which means several scientists who were not part of the study reviewed it. Is the Virality Project qualified to judge the accuracy of published research? This is a very dangerous slippery slope. If we cannot share peer-reviewed science, which is the epitome of “reputable source,” then what, exactly, is acceptable to share?</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Are you going to sit here and maintain that it is a conspiracy theory that this occurred?”</em><span> </span>Massey asked Troye.<span> </span><em>“We have the documents ... that showed this [censorship] occurred.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>“Well, then it [Massey’s tweet] must have been flagged for a reason,”</em><span> </span>Troye replied.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>“What reason?”</em><span> </span>said Massey.<span> </span><em>“Is there ever a good reason to censor a member of Congress? ... I bring this up, No. 1 to show that your testimony is false. But No. 2, if they can do this to a member of Congress’ official account, they can do it to anybody.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="productad"></div>
<h2>Whistleblower Reveals Military Contractors’ Secret Plan for Censorship</h2>
<div class="video-rwd"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YfGrAiZbE9s?si=9runHZshrIN7rMtj&wmode=opaque&rel=0"></iframe>
</div>
<p>Investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger testified at this meeting for the second time. Nine months ago, he testified and shared evidence with the Subcommittee about the existence of a “<a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/media-ruled-by-robust-psyop-alliance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Censorship Industrial Complex</a>, a network of government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, government contractors, and Big Tech media platforms that conspired to censor ordinary Americans and elected officials alike for holding disfavored views.”<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup></p>
<p>All of that was wild enough, but there’s more. At the November 30 hearing, Shellenberger exposed a group called the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL), which consists of military contractors that are not only censoring Americans, but also using sophisticated psychological operations against us.</p>
<p>According to Shellenberger, the CTIL was founded by a group of former Israeli and British intelligence agents who initially volunteered their cybersecurity services FOR FREE to multi-billion-dollar hospital and health care organizations in the U.S.</p>
<p>CTIL also offers physical security and “cognitive” security, i.e., protection against misinformation, and these services are volunteered by U.S. and British military contractors. According to a whistleblower who shared internal CTIL documents with Shellenberger, a number of CTIL “volunteers” are currently in government employ.</p>
<br />
<p>The CTIL’s plan to control the information landscape includes using debanking as financial leverage, pressuring social media platforms to change their terms of service to facilitate censorship and deplatforming under the guise of ‘terms of service violations,’ and more.</p>
<br />
<p>They also used formal government letter head (FBI, CISA, U.S. Navy and so on) when communicating with each other. As noted by Massey, that “makes it hard for folks to claim that these weren’t agents of the government or acting in coordination with the government ...”</p>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/December/PDF/ctil-files-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>CTIL Files Show Censorship Plot Is Bigger Than Imagined</h2>
<p>Now, the CTIL’s plan to control the information landscape goes further than those of CISA, the Virality Project and other government-led censorship activities. CTIL’s plan also includes using debanking as financial leverage to shut people up, and pressuring social media platforms to change their terms of service to facilitate censorship and deplatforming under the guise of “terms of service violations” — and more.</p>
<p>In a December 4, 2023, Substack article, Shellenberger’s colleague, Alex Gutentag wrote about this new cache of documents, referred to as the CTIL Files:<sup><span id="edn3">3</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“During last Thursday’s [November 30, 2023] Congressional hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Democratic members of Congress insisted<sup><span id="edn4">4</span></sup><span> </span>that censorship efforts of groups like the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL),<sup><span id="edn5">5</span></sup><span> </span>the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP),<sup><span id="edn6">6</span></sup><span> </span>and the Virality Project (VP)<sup><span id="edn7">7</span></sup><span> </span>were benign and not a violation of the First Amendment.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>‘It's not the First Amendment!’ said Rep. Dan Goldman, ‘It's the [social media platforms’] Terms of Service ... And they are flagging it for the social media companies to make their own decisions. That is not the First Amendment. That is the Terms of Service.’</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>But the CTIL Files, a trove of documents that a whistleblower provided to Public and Racket, reveal that US and UK military contractors developed and used advanced tactics — including demanding that social media platforms change their Terms of Service — to shape public opinion about Covid-19, and that getting content removed was just one strategy used by the Censorship Industrial Complex.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques</h2>
<p>As explained by Gutentag,<sup><span id="edn8">8</span></sup><span> </span>the CTIL partnered with the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to implement a framework called “AMITT,” which stands for “Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques.”</p>
<p>The predecessor to this program was the DISARM framework — described as an “open-source, community-led<sup><span id="edn9">9</span></sup><span> </span>... master framework for fighting disinformation through sharing data and analysis, and coordinating effective action<sup><span id="edn10">10</span></sup>” — created by the DISARM Foundation in 2017.</p>
<p>According to the DISARM Foundation, AMITT was launched with the financial support of the Craig Newmark Philanthropies in 2019.<sup><span id="edn11">11</span>,</sup><sup><span id="edn12">12</span></sup><span> </span>The AMITT framework includes a variety of “offensive actions,” including:<sup><span id="edn13">13</span></sup></p>
<ul>
<li>Influencing government policy</li>
<li>Discrediting alternative media</li>
<li>Using bots and sock puppets to manipulate and direct public discussion</li>
<li>Pre-bunking</li>
<li>Counter-messaging</li>
</ul>
<p>More specific AMITT strategies include but are not limited to:</p>
<table class="generic-table left-align">
<tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p>Creating policy that forces social media to police mis- and disinformation</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Creating “strong dialogue” between the federal government and private sector to improve reporting</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Marginalizing and discrediting “extremists”</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Naming and shaming “influencers” who share unsanctioned information</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Simulating misinformation and disinformation campaigns, and responses to them, beforehand</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Debanking offenders and cutting off their access to financial services<sup><span id="edn14">14</span></sup></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>“Inoculating” populations against “misinformation” using “media literacy training”</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>A Full-Fledged Military-Led Influence Operation</h2>
<p>Gutentag continues:<sup><span id="edn15">15</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Far from simply protecting the public from falsehoods, both government and non-profit actors within Censorship Industrial Complex have followed CTIL’s exact playbook and have waged a full-fledged influence operation against Americans.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>This influence operation has deep ties to security and intelligence agencies, as is evidenced through many examples of collaboration. In one instance of such collaboration, supposedly independent “disinformation researchers” like Renée DiResta coordinated<sup><span id="edn16">16</span></sup><span> </span>a 2020 election tabletop exercise with military officials.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Defense and intelligence funding supports much of the Censorship Industrial Complex. For instance, Graphika, which was involved in both EIP and VP, receives grants from the Department of Defense, DARPA, and the Navy.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Pentagon-affiliated entities are heavily involved in ‘anti-disinformation’ work. Mitre, a major defense contractor, received funding to tackle ‘disinformation’ about elections and COVID.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The US government paid Mitre, an organization staffed by former intelligence and military personnel, to monitor and report<sup><span id="edn17">17</span></sup><span> </span>what Americans said about the virus online, and to develop vaccine confidence messaging.<sup><span id="edn18">18</span></sup></em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>This government-backed military research group, Public discovered, was present in the EIP and VP misinformation reporting system, and in election disinformation report emails to CISA ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Why are agencies that are supposed to combat foreign threats using military-grade psychological tools to wage influence operations against the domestic population?”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Anti-Democratic Ideology Is Driving the Censorship</h2>
<p>As noted by Gutentag, these efforts appear to be partly driven by the need to manufacture perceived threats to justify the existence of the counter-terror bureaucracy.” But there are also clear ideological factors at play. He writes:<sup><span id="edn19">19</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Both [federal law enforcement and the intelligence community] now essentially treat Americans as an enemy population, with enormous support from the Democratic party and the legacy media.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The result has been large-scale information warfare against US citizens, with sophisticated tactics being employed to develop propaganda narratives about Trump, COVID, and the 2020 election in the name of combatting ‘disinformation.’ We are now uncovering the clear evidence that military contractors appear to have been at the forefront of this effort ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>What was once considered a ‘conspiracy theory’ that military and intelligence forces were manipulating public opinion through inorganic interventions, has now been confirmed.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Our study of the Censorship Industrial Complex has exposed a far-reaching plan to subvert the democratic process and engage in activities that have a basis in military techniques and which are tantamount to attempts at thought or mind control.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>The Plan to Get Censorship Back on Twitter</h2>
<div align="center"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
<p class="center-align"><a href="https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1731730699047018586?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Video Link</a></p>
</div>
<p>The short clip above features Alex Stamos, head of the Stanford Internet Observatory, which runs the government’s censorship apparatus via its Virality Project.</p>
<p>In it, he’s taunting Elon Musk, saying he “bought himself into a hellish existence” by making moderating Twitter his personal responsibility. In so doing, Musk is placing his net worth, most of which is invested in Tesla, as well as all other Tesla shareholders, “in jeopardy.”</p>
<p>The reason? Four words: The Digital Services Act.<sup><span id="edn20">20</span></sup><span> </span>This European Union law, which took effect August 25, 2023, requires online companies to actively police their platforms for “illegal” content or face huge fines — up to 6% of their global revenue. Repeated refusal to comply with rules or requests for action can result in suspension of the platform within the EU altogether.</p>
<p>What Stamos appears to be insinuating is that by Musk insisting on keeping X a free speech platform, he risks losing it all, and this kind of financial extortion leverage is precisely what the CTIL plan calls for.</p>
<h2>Another Surveillance Program Revealed</h2>
<p>In related news, Wired magazine recently reported<sup><span id="edn21">21</span></sup><span> </span>on leaked documents that verify the existence of a “secretive government program” that allows law enforcement to access trillions of phone records of Americans without a warrant.</p>
<p>In a recent letter to the Department of Justice, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden challenged the legality of the program, which has been up and running for more than a decade. According to Wired:<sup><span id="edn22">22</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“... a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade allowed federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to mine the details of Americans’ calls, analyzing the phone records of countless people who are not suspected of any crime, including victims.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Using a technique known as chain analysis, the program targets not only those in direct phone contact with a criminal suspect but anyone with whom those individuals have been in contact as well.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>DAS started out as a program called Hemisphere, run by the White House in coordination with AT&T. It was renamed DAS in 2013. It captures phone calls made using the AT&T infrastructure on behalf of U.S. law enforcement agencies, including local police, sheriffs’ departments, U.S. customs and postal inspectors.</p>
<p>DAS is managed under an anti-drug trafficking program called HIDTA, which stands for “high-intensity drug trafficking area,” but leaked files from the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) shows the system is also being used in cases that are unrelated to drug trafficking. According to Wired, the DAS data does not include recordings of conversations.</p>
<p>The data do, however, include identifying information such as the names of the caller and recipient, their phone numbers, dates and times of calls, spanning at least 10 years or more into the past. Together, these data can be used to determine the exact locations of people, “a practice deemed unconstitutional without a warrant in 2018,” Wired notes.</p>
<p>According to Wyden, “The scale of the data available to and routinely searched for the benefit of law enforcement under the Hemisphere Project is stunning in its scope.” Moreover, it’s not under congressional oversight, and because it’s run out of the White House, it’s exempt from privacy impact assessment rules and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.</p>
<p>Protections afforded by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act are also circumvented because AT&T’s call record collection occurs along a telecommunications “backbone.”</p>
<p>In early November 2023, Wyden and other lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced the Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023,<sup><span id="edn23">23</span></sup><span> </span>which aims to patch the loopholes DAS is currently exploiting.</p>
<p>If passed, the DAS program would become explicitly illegal and would likely be forced to shut down. So, I encourage you to contact your representatives and ask them to support this legislation.</p>
</div>FROM DEFENDER CHD BILL GATES GLOBALIST UN Launches Gates-s Warn of ‘Totalitarian Nightmare awakentag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-12-03:5235400:BlogPost:1539822023-12-03T15:53:36.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="date-and-breadcrumb"><div class="date">11/30/23</div>
<span class="bullet">•</span><br></br>
<div class="breadcrumb"><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender_category/big-tech">BIG TECH</a></div>
<div class="breadcrumb"><span class="seperator"> ›</span><span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender-news">NEWS</a></div>
</div>
<h1 class="post-title">UN Launches Gates-Funded Global Digital ID Program as Experts Warn of ‘Totalitarian Nightmare’…</h1>
<div class="date-and-breadcrumb"><div class="date">11/30/23</div>
<span class="bullet">•</span><br/>
<div class="breadcrumb"><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender_category/big-tech">BIG TECH</a></div>
<div class="breadcrumb"><span class="seperator"> ›</span><span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender-news">NEWS</a></div>
</div>
<h1 class="post-title">UN Launches Gates-Funded Global Digital ID Program as Experts Warn of ‘Totalitarian Nightmare’</h1>
<p class="post-excerpt">With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Nations this month launched its “50-in-5” campaign to promote and accelerate the development of a global digital public infrastructure. One critic called the campaign “a totalitarian nightmare” designed to “onboard” small countries with “digital ID, digital wallets, digital lawmaking, digital voting and more.”</p>
<div class="share-section"><div class="post-authors"><span class="by-by">By </span><div class="author-list"><span class="author-name"><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/authors/michael-nevradakis-ph-d/">Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.</a></span></div>
</div>
<div class="share-area noprint"><div class="comment-counter"></div>
<div class="copied-tool-tip"><p>Link copied</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="featured noprint"><img width="800" height="417" src="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/un-gates-global-digital-id-feature-800x417.jpg" class="attachment-featured-large size-featured-large wp-post-image" alt="un gates global digital id feature"/>https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//un-gates-global-digital-id-feature-300x156.jpg 300w, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//un-gates-global-digital-id-feature-1024x534.jpg">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//un-gates-global-digital-id-feature-1024x534.jpg</a> 1024w, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//un-gates-global-digital-id-feature-1536x801.jpg">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//un-gates-global-digital-id-feature-1536x801.jpg</a> 1536w, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//un-gates-global-digital-id-feature-196x102.jpg">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//un-gates-global-digital-id-feature-196x102.jpg</a> 196w, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//un-gates-global-digital-id-feature-600x313.jpg">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//un-gates-global-digital-id-feature-600x313.jpg</a> 600w, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//un-gates-global-digital-id-feature.jpg">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//un-gates-global-digital-id-feature.jpg</a> 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></div>
<div class="post-content"><p><em><strong>Miss a day, miss a lot.</strong><span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/about-us/sign-up/?utm_source=top_of_article&utm_medium=the_defender&utm_campaign=sign_ups">Subscribe to The Defender's Top News of the Day</a>.<span> </span><strong>It's free.</strong></em></p>
<p>With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Nations (U.N.) this month launched an “<a href="https://www.undp.org/news/11-first-mover-countries-launch-50-5-campaign-accelerate-digital-public-infrastructure-adoption-around-world">ambitious-country-led campaign</a>” to promote and accelerate the development of a global digital public infrastructure (DPI).</p>
<p>The<span> </span><a href="https://www.undp.org/news/11-first-mover-countries-launch-50-5-campaign-accelerate-digital-public-infrastructure-adoption-around-world">United Nations Development Programme</a><span> </span>(UNDP) said its “<a href="https://50in5.net/">50-in-5</a>” campaign will spur the construction of “an underlying network of components” that includes “digital payments, ID, and data exchange system,” which will serve as “a critical accelerator of the<span> </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals">Sustainable Development Goals</a><span> </span>(SDGs).”</p>
<p>“The goal of the campaign is for 50 countries to have designed, implemented, and scaled at least one DPI component in a safe, inclusive, and interoperable manner in five years,” the UNDP stated.</p>
<p>Critics of the campaign include<span> </span><a href="https://sociable.co/author/timmy/">Tim Hinchliffe</a>, editor of The Sociable, who told The Defender he believes DPI “is a mechanism for surveillance and control that combines digital ID,<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/central-bank-digital-currencies-what-they-are/">central bank digital currencies</a><span> </span>[CBDC],<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-podcast-vaccine-passport-blackrock-vanguard-profiting-pandemic/">vaccine passports</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/personal-carbon-allowances-surveillance-capitalism/">carbon footprint tracking data</a>, paving the way for<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/15-minute-city-climate-solution-control/">15-minute smart cities</a>, future lockdowns and systems of<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/great-reset-power-grab-social-credit-cola/">social credit</a>.”</p>
<p>The UNDP is leading the “50-in-5” campaign along with the<span> </span><a href="https://cdpi.dev/">Center for Digital Public Infrastructure</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://www.codevelop.fund/">Co-Develop</a>, the<span> </span><a href="https://digitalpublicgoods.net/">Digital Public Goods Alliance</a>. Supporters include<span> </span><a href="https://www.govstack.global/">GovStack</a>, the<span> </span><a href="https://www.iadb.org/en">Inter-American Development Bank</a><span> </span>and UNICEF, in addition to the<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/chelsea-clinton-gates-foundation-who-global-vaccine-initiative/">Gates Foundation</a>.</p>
<p>In September 2022, the<span> </span><a href="https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases/2022/09/gates-foundation-unga-global-fund-replenishment-commitment">Gates Foundation allocated $200 million</a><span> </span>“to expand global Digital Public Infrastructure,” as part of a broader plan to fund $1.27 billion in “health and development commitments” toward the goal of achieving the SDGs by 2030.</p>
<p>The Gates Foundation stated at the time that the funding was intended to promote the expansion of “infrastructure that low- and middle-income countries can use to become more resilient to crises such as food shortages, public health threats, and climate change, as well as to aid in pandemic and economic recovery.”</p>
<p><span>https://www.amazon.com/Wuhan-Cover-Up-Officials-Conspired-Childrens/dp/1510773983"; data-gtm="1" data-section-count="" data-section-name="Take Action Banner 2" data-section-position="" data-section-text="" data-section-type="Banner" data-element-count="1" data-element-cta="Order Now" data-element-name="Banner 1" data-element-position="1" data-element-text="“The Wuhan Cover-Up” by Robert F. Kennedy Jr." data-element-type="Banner" > <div class="chd-shortcode__banner chd-shortcode__banner--take-action-2" style="background-color:#015066"> <span class="cotb-container"> <img width="543" height="1018" src="<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/rfk-jr-cropped.png"">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/rfk-jr-cropped.png"</a>; class="chd-shortcode__take-action-2-secondary-image" alt="RFK Jr." loading="lazy" srcset="<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//rfk-jr-cropped.png">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//rfk-jr-cropped.png</a> 543w, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//rfk-jr-cropped-160x300.png">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//rfk-jr-cropped-160x300.png</a> 160w, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//rfk-jr-cropped-156x293.png">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//rfk-jr-cropped-156x293.png</a> 156w, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//rfk-jr-cropped-160x300@2x.png">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//rfk-jr-cropped-160x300@2x.png</a> 320w" sizes="(max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px" /> <img width="119" height="163" src="<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/wuhan-cover-up-cover.png"">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/wuhan-cover-up-cover.png"</a>; class="chd-shortcode__take-action-2-image" alt="Wuhan Cover Up Cover" loading="lazy" /> <div class="chd-shortcode__take-action-2-text-button"> <div class="chd-shortcode__take-action-2-text">“The Wuhan Cover-Up” by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</div> <div class="chd-shortcode__take-action-2-button" style="background:#ed3125">Order Now</div> </div> </span> <img width="358" height="182" src="<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/syring-and-vials.png"">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/syring-and-vials.png"</a>; class="chd-shortcode__background-image--take-action-2" alt="Syring into Vials" loading="lazy" srcset="<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//syring-and-vials.png">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//syring-and-vials.png</a> 358w, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//syring-and-vials-300x153.png">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//syring-and-vials-300x153.png</a> 300w, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//syring-and-vials-196x100.png">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//syring-and-vials-196x100.png</a> 196w, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//syring-and-vials-145x73.png">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//syring-and-vials-145x73.png</a> 145w" sizes="(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px" /> <div class="chd-shortcode__background--take-action-2--mobile" style="background: linear-gradient(-79deg, #015066 24.58%, rgba(1, 80, 102, 0.00) 117.17%);"></div> <div class="chd-shortcode__background--take-action-2--desktop" style="background: linear-gradient(90deg, #015066 50.84%, rgba(1, 80, 102, 0.00) 74.39%);"></div> </div> </a> </div> "}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":14915,"3":{"1":0},"4":{"1":2,"2":65280},"9":0,"12":0,"14":{"1":2,"2":1907741},"15":"Arial","16":11}" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p>
<div class="chd-shortcode-wrap"><div class="chd-shortcode__banner chd-shortcode__banner--take-action-2"><span class="cotb-container"><img width="543" height="1018" src="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/rfk-jr-cropped.png" class="chd-shortcode__take-action-2-secondary-image" alt="RFK Jr."/>https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//rfk-jr-cropped-160x300.png 160w, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//rfk-jr-cropped-156x293.png">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//rfk-jr-cropped-156x293.png</a> 156w, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//rfk-jr-cropped-160x300@2x.png">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//rfk-jr-cropped-160x300@2x.png</a> 320w" sizes="(max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px" /><img width="119" height="163" src="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/wuhan-cover-up-cover.png" class="chd-shortcode__take-action-2-image" alt="Wuhan Cover Up Cover"/></span><div class="chd-shortcode__take-action-2-text-button"><div class="chd-shortcode__take-action-2-text">“The Wuhan Cover-Up” by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</div>
<div class="chd-shortcode__take-action-2-button">ORDER NOW</div>
</div>
<img width="358" height="182" src="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/syring-and-vials.png" class="chd-shortcode__background-image--take-action-2" alt="Syring into Vials"/>https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//syring-and-vials-300x153.png 300w, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//syring-and-vials-196x100.png">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//syring-and-vials-196x100.png</a> 196w, <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//syring-and-vials-145x73.png">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads//syring-and-vials-145x73.png</a> 145w" sizes="(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px" /><br/>
<div class="chd-shortcode__background--take-action-2--mobile"></div>
</div>
</div>
<p></p>
<p>California-based privacy attorney<span> </span><a href="https://www.gregglaser.com/">Greg Glaser</a><span> </span>described the “50-in-5” campaign as “a totalitarian nightmare” and a “dystopian” initiative targeting small countries “to onboard them with digital ID, digital wallets, digital lawmaking, digital voting and more.”</p>
<p>“For political reasons, U.N. types like Gates cannot openly plan ‘one world government,’ so they use different phrases like ‘global partnership’ and ‘Agenda 2030,’” Glaser told The Defender. “People can add ‘50-in-5’ to that growing list of dystopian phrases.”</p>
<p>Another California-based privacy attorney, Richard Jaffe, expressed similar sentiments, telling The Defender the “50-in-5” initiative “point[s] to the much bigger issue of the globalization, centralization and digitalization of the world’s personal data.”</p>
<p>“My short-term concern is bad actors, and that would be individuals and small groups, as well as state mal-actors, who will now have a big fat new target or tool to threaten the normal operation of less technologically sophisticated countries,” he said.</p>
<p>Jaffe said Gates’ involvement “scares the hell out of him.”<span> </span><a href="https://theconsciousresistance.com/author/derrick/">Derrick Broze</a>, editor-in-chief of<span> </span><a href="https://theconsciousresistance.com/">The Conscious Resistance Network</a>, told The Defender that it is “another sign that this renewed push for digital ID infrastructure will not benefit the average person.”</p>
<p>“Projects like these only benefit governments who want to track their populations, and corporations who want to study our daily habits and movements to sell us products,” Broze said.</p>
<p>Initiatives to promote DPI globally also enjoy the support of the G20. According to The Economist, at September’s<span> </span><a href="https://www.g20.org/content/dam/gtwenty/gtwenty_new/document/G20-New-Delhi-Leaders-Declaration.pdf">G20 Summit in New Delhi</a><span> </span>— held under the slogan “One Earth, One Family, One Future” — India garnered support from the Gates Foundation, UNDP and the<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/who-global-pandemic-treaty-world-bank-vaccine-passports/">World Bank</a><span> </span>for a plan to develop a global repository of DPI technologies.</p>
<p><strong>‘World doesn’t need 50-in-5’</strong></p>
<p>The<span> </span><a href="https://www.undp.org/news/11-first-mover-countries-launch-50-5-campaign-accelerate-digital-public-infrastructure-adoption-around-world">11 “First-Mover” countries</a><span> </span>launching “50-in-5” are Bangladesh,<span> </span><a href="https://e-estonia.com/">Estonia</a>, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Moldova, Norway, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Togo.</p>
<p>“Countries, regardless of income level, geography, or where they are in their digital transformation journey, can benefit from being part of 50-in-5,” the campaign states, adding that “with steadfast and collective efforts, the world can build a future where digital transformation is not only a vision but a tangible reality.”</p>
<p>According to Glaser, the 11 initial countries were chosen not because they are “digital leaders” but because the U.N. sees smaller nations as a “unique threat” because their leaders are occasionally accountable to the people.</p>
<p>“We have seen what happens to leaders of small nations who reject international intelligence agencies’ favorite products, such as<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender_category/covid/">COVID-19</a><span> </span>vaccines, GMOs [genetically modified organisms] and petrodollars,” Glaser said. “U.N. programs like ‘50-in-5’ are a way for smaller countries to sell out early to<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender_category/big-tech/">Big Tech</a><span> </span>and preemptively avoid ‘<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/an-economic-hit-man-speaks-out-john-perkins-on-how-greece-has-fallen-victim-to-economic-hit-men/">economic hitmen</a>,’” he added.</p>
<p>Speaking at the “50-in-5” launch event, Dumitru Alaiba, Moldova’s deputy prime minister and minister of Economic Development and Digitalization said, “The source of our biggest excitement is our work on our government’s super app. It’s modeled after the very successful<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ukraine-government-converting-digital-id-system-wartime-tool/">Ukrainian Diia app</a><span> </span>[and] will be launched in the coming few months.”</p>
<div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
<p></p>
<p>At the same event, Cina Lawson, Togo’s minister of Digital Economy and Transformation, said, “We created a digital COVID certificate. All of a sudden, the fight against the pandemic became really about using digital tools to be more effective.”</p>
<p>According to Hinchliffe,<span> </span><a href="https://www.togofirst.com/en/public-management/0904-5306-covid-19-government-to-pay-a-universal-minimum-income-to-most-vulnerable-households">Togo’s DPI system</a><span> </span>had seemingly benign origins, launching as a<span> </span><a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/basic-income.asp">universal basic income</a><span> </span>scheme for the country’s citizens, “but shortly after that, they expanded the system to implement vaccine passports.”</p>
<div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
<p></p>
<p>Togo’s vaccine passport was interoperable with the European Union’s (EU) digital health certificate. In 2021, the EU was one of the first governmental entities globally to<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/greece-covid-vaccine-mandate-senior-citizens/">introduce such passports</a>. In June, the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/who-eu-global-vaccine-passport-initiative/"><span> </span>EU’s digital health certificate standards</a><span> </span>on a global basis.</p>
<p>Speaking at the G20 Summit in September, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said, “The trick is to build<span> </span><a href="https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-parliament-agrees-on-digital-id-introduction-and-pro-censorship-chief-suggests-cbdc-integration">public digital infrastructure</a><span> </span>that is interoperable, open to all and trusted,” citing the EU’s COVID-19 digital certificate as an example.</p>
<div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
<p></p>
<p>Four of the “First-Mover” countries are African. Shabnam Palesa Mohamed, executive director of Children’s Health Defense<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.co.za/">(CHD) Africa Chapter</a>, told The Defender the “50-in-5” campaign will be used as a geo-political tool. “<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/gates-foundation-digital-id-newborns-kenya-surveillance/">Africa is always a prime target</a><span> </span>because it is comparatively untapped digitally,” she said.</p>
<p>“Africa needs respect, food, water and peace,” she said. “It does not need DPI.”</p>
<p>Along similar lines, Hinchliffe said, “The world doesn’t need ‘50-in-5.’ The people never asked for it. It came from the top down. What the people want is for their governments to do their actual jobs — to serve the people.”</p>
<p>A 2022<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/davos-gates-schwab-master-the-future-wef-agenda/">World Economic Forum</a><span> </span>(WEF) report, “<a href="https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Advancing_towards_Digital_Agency_2022.pdf">Advancing Digital Agency</a>: The Power of Data Intermediaries,” said vaccine passports “serve as a form of digital identity.”</p>
<p>In 2020, WEF founder Klaus Schwab said, “What the<span> </span><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-what-it-means-and-how-to-respond/">Fourth Industrial Revolution</a><span> </span>will lead to is a<span> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVIy3rjuKGY">fusion of our physical, our digital and our biological identities</a>.”</p>
<p><strong>Digital ID intended to be ‘securely accessed’ by government, private stakeholders</strong></p>
<p>According to The Economist,<span> </span><a href="https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2023/11/13/india-has-big-plans-to-export-its-e-government-technology">India is heavily promoting</a><span> </span>its digital ID technologies, first deployed domestically, for global implementation in “poor countries.” These technologies have garnered support and funding from Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation.</p>
<p>For instance, Lawson said Togo was issuing biometric digital ID “for all our citizens using MOSIP” —<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/gates-funded-biometric-digital-id-system/">Modular Open Source Identity Platform</a><span> </span>— a system developed at India’s International Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore.</p>
<p>MOSIP, backed by the Gates Foundation, the World Bank and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, is modeled after<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bill-gates-indian-government-lawsuit-astrazeneca-vaccine-killed-shri-hitesh-kadve/">Aadhaar</a>, India’s national digital ID platform — the largest in the world — which has been beset by controversy.</p>
<p>Launched in 2009, Aadhaar enrolled<span> </span><a href="https://www.oecd.org/gov/innovative-government/India-case-study-UAE-report-2018.pdf">over 99% of all Indian adults</a>, linking them with many<span> </span><a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/the-long-list-of-aadhaar-linked-schemes/article17641068.ece">public and private services</a>. But according to<span> </span><a href="https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/06/04/how-india-is-using-digital-technology-to-project-power">The Economist</a>, Aadhaar “suffers security breaches,” and though it “was supposed to be optional, it is hard to function without it.”</p>
<p><span>https://www.amazon.com/Vax-Unvax-Childrens-Health-Defense-Kennedy/dp/1510766960/"; data-gtm="1" data-section-count="" data-section-name="Take Action Banner 1" data-section-position="" data-section-text="" data-section-type="Banner" data-element-count="1" data-element-cta="Order Now" data-element-name="Banner 1" data-element-position="1" data-element-text="RFK Jr. and Brian Hooker’s New Book: “Vax-Unvax”" data-element-type="Banner" > <div class="chd-shortcode__banner chd-shortcode__banner--take-action" style="background: linear-gradient(267deg, #004d35 -3.4%, #ffdf00 131.4%);"> <span> <img class="chd-shortcode__take-action-image" src="<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/vax-unvax-rfk-hooker-cropped.png"">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/vax-unvax-rfk-hooker-cropped.png"</a>; alt="RFK Jr. and Brian Hooker Vax-Unvax"> <div class="chd-shortcode__take-action-text">RFK Jr. and Brian Hooker’s <span>New</span> Book: “Vax-Unvax”</div> <div class="chd-shortcode__take-action-button" style="color:#537826">Order Now</div> </span> </div> </a> </div> "}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":14915,"3":{"1":0},"4":{"1":2,"2":65280},"9":0,"12":0,"14":{"1":2,"2":1907741},"15":"Arial","16":11}" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p>
<div class="chd-shortcode-wrap"><div class="chd-shortcode__banner chd-shortcode__banner--take-action"><span><img class="chd-shortcode__take-action-image" src="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/vax-unvax-rfk-hooker-cropped.png" alt="RFK Jr. and Brian Hooker Vax-Unvax"/></span><div class="chd-shortcode__take-action-text">RFK Jr. and Brian Hooker’s<span> </span><span>New</span><span> </span>Book: “Vax-Unvax”</div>
<div class="chd-shortcode__take-action-button">ORDER NOW</div>
</div>
</div>
<p></p>
<p>Glaser said Aadhaar “has been a nightmare for Indians. It is constantly hacked, including, for example the<span> </span><a href="https://www.business-standard.com/india-news/aadhaar-data-of-millions-of-indians-put-on-sale-on-the-dark-web-reports-123103000993_1.html">largest personal information hack in world history</a><span> </span>earlier this month, with personal information sold on the dark web.”</p>
<p>“Aadhaar is openly mocked in India,” Glaser said. “The only reason it is still used by the citizenry is because people have no practical choice. To participate meaningfully in Indian society, you need the digital ID,” he added.</p>
<p>Nevertheless,<span> </span><a href="https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Heroes-in-the-Field-Nandan-Nilekani">Gates has praised Aadhaar</a><span> </span>— describing it on his blog as “a valuable platform for delivering social welfare programs and other government services.” In October 2021, the Gates Foundation issued a<span> </span><a href="https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2021/10/inv038338">$350,690 grant</a><span> </span>for the rollout of India’s<span> </span><a href="https://abdm.gov.in/">Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission</a>, a<span> </span><a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-what-is-the-national-health-id-announced-by-pm-modi-6556155/">digital health ID</a><span> </span>system<span> </span><a href="https://www.medianama.com/2021/11/223-health-id-abdm-webinar-mission-director/">linked with Aadhaar</a>.</p>
<p>A<span> </span><a href="https://api.b20india2023.org/b20docs/5a809e2b-09aa-4693-bf50-f870fcd49262.pdf">Business 20 (B20) communique</a><span> </span>issued following this year’s G20 summit called on “G20 nations to develop guidelines for unique single digital identification … that can be securely accessed (based on consent) by different government and private stakeholders for identity verification and information access within three years.”</p>
<p>In April, Nandan Nilekani, former chair of the<span> </span><a href="https://uidai.gov.in/en/">Unique Identification Authority of India</a>, told an<span> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgnEg4MJvZI&t=2281s">International Monetary Fund panel on DPI</a><span> </span>that digital ID, digital bank accounts and smartphones are the “tools of the new world.” He added that if this is achieved, “Then, anything can be done. Everything else is built on that.”</p>
<p>“The lesson of course for the rest of the world is to never let digital ID take root in your society,” Glaser said. “Once a nation’s consumer class adopts digital ID with global partners, as in India, it is basically checkmate for that nation.”</p>
<p><strong>‘When they say inclusive, they really mean exclusive’</strong></p>
<p>According to<span> </span><a href="https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/50-in-5-dpi-launches-digital-id-payments-data-sharing/">The Sociable</a>, DPI “promises to bring about financial inclusion, convenience, improved healthcare, and green progress.”</p>
<p>According to the “50-in-5” campaign, DPI “is essential for participation in markets and society in a digital era [and] is<span> </span><a href="https://50in5.net/">needed for all countries</a><span> </span>to build resilient and innovative economies, and for the well-being of people.”</p>
<p>But Hinchliffe refuted that assertion. “You don’t need digital ID and digital governance to provide better services to more people,” he said. “The tools are already available. It’s about incentives. Businesses, governments, and private citizens all have the power to come up with better solutions now, but why don’t we?”</p>
<p>Still, “inclusivity” is one of the key narratives employed to promote DPI. The “50-in-5” campaign states, “Countries building safe and inclusive DPI … can foster strong economies and equitable societies” and that DPI “promotes innovation, bolsters local entrepreneurship, and ensures access to services and opportunities for underserved groups, including women and youth.”</p>
<p>Experts who spoke with The Defender warned DPI has the potential to be exclusionary.</p>
<p>“While the United Nations, the Gates Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation promote DPI as necessary for an ‘equitable’ world, the reality is that these tools have the potential for furthering exclusion of political activists, whistleblowers, and other individuals who hold controversial opinions,” Broze said.</p>
<p>Similarly, CHD Africa’s Mohamed claimed, “People, groups and organizations that pose a threat to the establishment will be targeted for digital surveillance and socio-economic isolation” via DPI. “This … is an easier way to control critical thinkers.”</p>
<p>Hinchliffe said DPI will “accelerate technocratic control through digital ID, CBDC and massive data sharing, paving the way for an interoperable system of social credit.”</p>
<p>Similarly, Glaser said, “With DPI, the U.N.’s plan is to issue everyone a social credit score in line with U.N. SDGs (Agenda 2030) … Your digital ID will become the new you. And from the perspective of governments and corporations, your digital ID will be more real than your flesh … required in various measures to travel, work, buy/sell, and vote.”</p>
<p>“When they say inclusive, they really mean exclusive, because the system is set up to exclude people who don’t go along with unelected globalist policies,” Hinchliffe said. “What they really want is for everybody to be under their digital control.”</p>
<p>Notably, a June 2023 WEF report titled “<a href="https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Reimagining_Digital_ID_2023.pdf">Reimagining Digital ID</a>” concedes that “Digital ID may weaken democracy and civil society” and that the “greatest risks arising from digital ID are exclusion, marginalization and oppression.”</p>
<p>Making ID — digital or otherwise — mandatory may exacerbate “fundamental social, political and economic challenges as conditional access of any kind always creates the possibility of discrimination and exclusion,” the report adds.</p>
<p>Experts who spoke with The Defender said people must be given the choice to opt out.</p>
<p>“If the U.N. and its member states push the digital ID agenda, they must ensure that their respective populations have a simple way to opt out without being punished or denied services,” Bronze said. “Otherwise, the digital ID creep will eventually become mandatory to exist in society and we will see the end of privacy, and, in the long-term, liberty,” Broze said.</p>
<p>Jaffe said that while he does not oppose digital payment systems, he “would be vehemently opposed to the elimination of non-digital payment, like fiat paper currency,” calling this an issue of “freedom and privacy.”</p>
<p>Similarly, Hinchliffe said, “There should be non-digital alternatives available at all times and this should be a right of every citizen. Systems can fail. Databases can be breached. Governments can become tyrannical. Corporations can become greedy.”</p>
<p><span>https://childrenshealthdefense.org/about-us/legal-donation/?itm_term=legal-donation"; data-gtm="1" data-section-count="" data-section-name="Litigation Donation Banner" data-section-text="" data-section-type="Banner" data-section-position="" data-element-count="1" data-element-cta="Donate Now" data-element-name="Banner 1" data-element-position="1" data-element-text="Your support helps fund this work, and CHD’s related advocacy, education and scientific research." data-element-type="Banner" > <div class="chd-shortcode__banner chd-shortcode__banner--litigation-donation"> <img loading="lazy" src="<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/themes/chd-shop-theme/images/legal-justice/legal-justice-shortcode-img.jpeg"">https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/themes/chd-shop-theme/images/legal-justice/legal-justice-shortcode-img.jpeg"</a>; alt="scales of justice"> <span class="cotb-container"> <div class="chd-shortcode__litigation-donation-text"> Your support helps fund this work, and CHD’s related advocacy, education and scientific research. </div> <div class="chd-shortcode__litigation-donation-button"> Donate Now </div> </span> </div> </a> </div> "}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":14915,"3":{"1":0},"4":{"1":2,"2":65280},"9":0,"12":0,"14":{"1":2,"2":1907741},"15":"Slack-Lato, Slack-Fractions, appleLogo, sans-serif","16":11}" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p>
<div class="chd-shortcode-wrap"><div class="chd-shortcode__banner chd-shortcode__banner--litigation-donation"><img src="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/themes/chd-shop-theme/images/legal-justice/legal-justice-shortcode-img.jpeg" alt="scales of justice"/><div class="chd-shortcode__litigation-donation-text">Your support helps fund this work, and CHD’s related advocacy, education and scientific research.</div>
<div class="chd-shortcode__litigation-donation-button">DONATE NOW</div>
</div>
</div>
<p></p>
<p><strong>‘The endgame is sovereignty by transhumanists’</strong></p>
<p>Many of the initiatives that are backing “50-in-5” are themselves interlinked — in addition to their connections to entities such as the Gates Foundation.</p>
<p>For instance, the Omidyar Network, one of the supporters of “50-in-5,” has provided<span> </span><a href="https://www.omidyarnetwork.in/investees/modular-open-source-identity-platform">funding to MOSIP</a><span> </span>— as has the Gates Foundation.</p>
<p>The Gates Foundation, the<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rockefeller-foundation-nonprofits-behavioral-psychology-covid-vaccines/">Rockefeller Foundation</a>, the UNDP and UNICEF participate in the Digital Public Good Alliance’s “<a href="https://digitalpublicgoods.net/roadmap/">roadmap</a>” of entities that “strengthen the DPG [digital public goods] ecosystem.”</p>
<p>Earlier this year,<span> </span><a href="https://www.codevelop.fund/centre-investment-announcement">Co-Develop invested</a><span> </span>in the establishment of the Center for Digital Public Infrastructure, which is headquartered at the International Institute of Information Technology in Bangalore, and is also home to MOSIP.<span> </span><a href="https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/case-study/co-develop-spearheads-a-global-opportunity-for-dpi-adoption/">Co-Develop was co-founded</a><span> </span>by the Rockefeller Foundation, along with the Gates Foundation and the Omidyar Network.</p>
<p>And “endorsing organizations” of the World Bank’s “Principles on Identification for Sustainable Development” report include the Gates Foundation, the Omidyar Network, UNDP,<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/us-developing-vaccine-passport-system/">Mastercard</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/gates-funded-biometric-digital-id-system/">ID2020</a><span> </span>and the<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/wef-meeting-davos-klaus-gates/">Tony Blair Institute for Global Change</a>.</p>
<p>Glaser said that Gates attained wealth by “monopolizing his operating system into every home and business worldwide” and “is doing the same now at the U.N. level with<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bill-gates-who-vaccine-patch-vmap/">vaccines</a><span> </span>and DPI applications.”</p>
<p>“DPI platforms essentially outsource sovereignty to international governing bodies that do the bidding of financial entities like<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/corporate-vaccine-mandates-passports-blackrock-vanguard/">Vanguard, BlackRock</a><span> </span>and State Street,” he said.</p>
<p>“Companies with that much information on citizens hold enormous power to sabotage infrastructure [with] very few ethics to stop them,” Mohamed said.</p>
<p>“The endgame is sovereignty by transhumanists,” Glaser added. “The reason digital ID is an existential threat to society is because it separates people from their local governments, who have always worked cooperatively to prevent tyranny.”</p>
<p>“DPI is being sold to authorities on the grounds that it will include them in the worldwide economy, when in reality it will commodify their people and remove the ability of local authorities to ever govern meaningfully again,” he said.</p>
<p>Hinchliffe also connected DPI to policies that purport to combat climate change.</p>
<p>“With<span> </span><a href="https://www.wemeanbusinesscoalition.org/g20-path-to-net-zero-by-2050/">G20 nations committing to net-zero</a><span> </span>carbon emissions policies by around 2050 … restrictions will be placed on what we can consume, what we can purchase, and where we can go thanks to the widespread implementation of digital ID and CBDC to track, trace, and control our every move in … 15-minute smart cities,” he said.</p>
<p>“They openly talk about using DPI for ‘digital health certificates’ … and I believe that next will come carbon footprint tracking to monitor and control how you travel and what you consume,” Hinchliffe added, calling it “a future of constant surveillance and control.”</p>
<p>“If we can legislate and litigate to retain the right to traditional identification, then this categorically protects all of our rights,” Glaser added. “As long as the consumer classes of large nations like the United States resist digital ID, there is hope.”</p>
<p>“These schemes do little to nothing for the prosperity of the majority of Africans, but rather, they further the interests of a small economic and political class,” Mohamed said. “With growing economic disparity and anger, the attempt to waste more African resources on digital ID may lead to widespread revolt.”</p>
<p>“Generally, once Africans know what Bill Gates is about, they refuse to get involved in or support his activities,” she added.</p>
<p><strong>Watch this Kitco News segment on the ‘50-in-5’ campaign:</strong></p>
<p><strong><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OHKlt-ik95Q?si=q-ON7-s_n4jKodAJ&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
</strong></p>
<p></p>
</div>FROM MERCOLA Is the Financial Theft of the Ukraine War Over?tag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-11-14:5235400:BlogPost:1530402023-11-14T14:17:03.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Is the Financial Theft of the Ukraine War Over?</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dr. Joseph Mercola…</a></span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><p></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Is the Financial Theft of the Ukraine War Over?</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><p><a name="Facebook Page" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Farticles.mercola.com%2Fsites%2Farticles%2Farchive%2F2023%2F11%2F14%2Ffinancial-theft-ukraine-war.aspx"></a></p>
<p><a href="mailto:?subject=Is%20the%20Financial%20Theft%20of%20the%20Ukraine%20War%20Over%3F&body=%2476.8%20billion%20of%20taxpayer%20money%20has%20now%20been%20sent%20to%20Ukraine%2C%20one%20of%20the%20most%20corrupt%20nations%20in%20Europe.%20With%20these%20Blackrock%20and%20FTX%20red%20flags%2C%20is%20it%20really%20a%20money%20laundering%20scheme%20paving%20the%20way%20to%20rebuild%20Ukraine%20into%20a%20%27smart%20country%27%20model%20for%20the%20rest%20of%20the%20world%3F%0A%0AACCESS%20NOW%3A%20https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/11/14/financial-theft-ukraine-war.aspx%3Fcid_medium=etaf%26cid_source=etaf%26cid=share%0A%0AABOUT%20DR.%20MERCOLA%3A%20Dr.%20Joseph%20Mercola%20is%20the%20founder%20of%20Mercola.com.%20An%20osteopathic%20physician%2C%20best-selling%20author%20and%20recipient%20of%20multiple%20awards%20in%20the%20field%20of%20natural%20health%2C%20his%20primary%20vision%20is%20to%20change%20the%20modern%20health%20paradigm%20by%20providing%20people%20with%20a%20valuable%20resource%20to%20help%20them%20take%20control%20of%20their%20health.%20His%20latest%20book%20%E2%80%9CThe%20Truth%20About%20COVID-19%E2%80%9D%20was%20an%20instant%20best-seller%20and%20the%20%231%20book%20sold%20on%20Amazon.%0A%0A" class="mailtolink" name=" Mailto"></a></p>
<p><a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/11/14/financial-theft-ukraine-war.aspx#" name="Print" id="Print"></a></p>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">November 14, 2023</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<p></p>
</div>
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton4"><div id="bcr_pnlbtnPrev"><div class="previous-article"><div class="article-thumb"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div class="video-container"><div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VaJCUDOE6UA?si=iK2JhgJ5-Otrdc4l&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
</span></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div id="bcr_OuterpnlVideo" class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</span></div>
</div>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">For years, Ukraine was recognized as one of the most, if not “the” most, corrupt nation in Europe. The country is now struggling to rein in corruption as that is becoming a key hurdle to obtain more financial support</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">According to official aid trackers, the U.S. had sent $76.8 billion in military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine as of the end of July 2023. The European Union contributed another $85.1 billion in that same timeframe. In mid-October 2023, Biden proposed yet another $105 billion foreign aid package, $61 billion of which will go to Ukraine</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">According to U.S. officials, at least 70,000 of Ukraine’s 500,000 troops had been killed by mid-August 2023, and another 100,000 to 120,000 wounded. Another 9,614 Ukrainian civilians had also been killed as of September 10, 2023</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">The supply of cannon fodder is running so low that Ukraine recently updated its conscription law to include women. Women between the ages of 18 and 60 with medical backgrounds must register for military service as of October 1, 2023</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">Corruption may be a primary driver of this war. The American public being robbed and Ukraine drained of its youths while a relatively small number of corrupt individuals stuff their pockets with cash. American and European taxpayers are paying for the destruction of Ukraine and the elimination of huge numbers of its inhabitants, so that technocrat globalists and central bankers can then profit from the privatization and rebuilding of Ukraine into a “smart country” model for the rest of the world</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>For years, Ukraine was recognized as one of the most, if not "the" most, corrupt nation in Europe. It held on to that reputation all the way up to the day Russia invaded in late February 2022, at which point media worldwide suddenly started rewriting history.</p>
<p>As noted by Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, in a sober and clear-eyed article, published in April 2022:<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>"Statements from U.S. and other Western officials, as well as pervasive accounts in the news media, have created a stunningly misleading image of Ukraine. There has been a concerted effort to portray the country... as a plucky and noble bulwark of freedom and democracy ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The notion that Ukraine was such an appealing democratic model in Eastern Europe that the country’s mere existence terrified Putin ... is a myth ... Even before the war erupted, there were ugly examples of authoritarianism in Ukraine’s political governance ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The neo-Nazi Azov Battalion was an integral part of President Petro Poroshenko’s military and security apparatus, and it has retained that role during Zelensky’s presidency ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The country is not a symbol of freedom and liberal democracy, and the war is not an existential struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. At best, Ukraine is a corrupt, quasi‐democratic entity with troubling repressive policies.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Given that sobering reality, calls for Americans to ‘stand with Ukraine’ are misplaced. Preserving Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity most certainly are not worth the United States risking war with a nuclear-armed Russia."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>Indeed, while President Biden kept sending tens of billions of American taxpayer dollars to Ukraine in the name of "defending democracy," Zelensky banned all opposition parties in the country and blacklisted American politicians and journalists who questioned the U.S. involvement in the conflict.<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup><span> </span>So much for democracy and democratic values.</p>
<h2>Is Ukraine Aid Part of a Money Laundering Scheme?</h2>
<p>According to the Panama Papers<sup><span id="edn3">3</span>,</sup><sup><span id="edn4">4</span></sup><span> </span>released in 2016, which have been described as "a giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records [which] exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing," Zelensky is likely just as corrupt as his predecessors, as he, his wife and several associates all own "hidden offshore assets."</p>
<p>With that in mind, why is the U.S. sending billions of dollars to Ukraine without requiring any kind of accounting for where all this money is going? According to official aid trackers, the U.S. had sent $76.8 billion in military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine as of the end of July 2023.<sup><span id="edn5">5</span>,</sup><sup><span id="edn6">6</span></sup></p>
<p>The European Union contributed another $85.1 billion in that same timeframe.<sup><span id="edn7">7</span></sup><span> </span>And, in mid-October 2023, Biden proposed yet another $105 billion foreign aid package, $61 billion of which will go to Ukraine.<sup><span id="edn8">8</span>,</sup><sup><span id="edn9">9</span></sup></p>
<p>The lack of oversight combined with the lack of Ukrainian progress in the conflict and the refusal to enter into peace negotiations raises suspicions that these aid packages may simply be another<span> </span><a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/ukraine-war-money-laundering" target="_blank" rel="noopener">money laundering scheme like we saw with FTX</a>.<sup><span id="edn10">10</span>,</sup><sup><span id="edn11">11</span></sup><span> </span>At least $178 million sent to Ukraine through the now-defunct FTX crypto exchange may have been laundered back to the Democratic Party in the U.S.<sup><span id="edn12">12</span></sup></p>
<div class="productad"></div>
<h2>Ukraine Still Rife With Corruption</h2>
<p>Lately, mainstream media have started to revisit the issue of corruption in Ukraine, probably because public perception of corruption may undermine the entire operation.</p>
<p>For example, October 2, 2023, Politico reported receiving a "sensitive but unclassified" strategy paper in which Biden administration officials warn that "Perceptions of high-level corruption" could "undermine the Ukrainian public’s and foreign leaders’ confidence in the war-time government." According to Politico:<sup><span id="edn13">13</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>"The administration wants to press Ukraine to cut graft ... But being too loud about the issue could embolden opponents of U.S. aid to Ukraine, many of them Republican lawmakers who are trying to block such assistance. Any perception of weakened American support for Kyiv also could cause more European countries to think twice about their role.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Ukrainian graft has long been a concern of U.S. officials ... But the topic was deemphasized in the wake of Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>More than a year into the full-scale war, U.S. officials are pressing the matter more in public and private. National security adviser Jake Sullivan, for instance, met in early September with a delegation from Ukrainian anti-corruption institutions.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>A second U.S. official familiar with the discussions confirmed to POLITICO reports that the Biden administration is talking to Ukrainian leaders about potentially conditioning future economic aid on ‘reforms to tackle corruption and make Ukraine a more attractive place for private investment.’"</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>No such conditions have been proposed for military aid, however, which makes up the bulk of the money spent on Ukraine. Similarly, in mid-September 2023, Reuters reported<sup><span id="edn14">14</span></sup><span> </span>that "billions of dollars of aid earmarked for Zelensky's government as well as ambitions to join the European Union ride on Ukraine proving that it is serious about fighting corruption and embracing good governance."</p>
<p>Zelensky, for his part, has increasingly tried to portray himself as a staunch corruption fighter, firing more than a dozen senior officials on corruption charges in January 2023.</p>
<p>In August he also fired all the heads of the draft offices across the country, after it became known that men were bribing their way out of military service by paying for medical exemptions.<sup><span id="edn15">15</span></sup><span> </span>In September he also fired his minister of defense over allegations of corruption within the ministry. A Ukrainian Supreme Court justice was also arrested this past summer for taking bribes.<sup><span id="edn16">16</span></sup></p>
<p>Yet, such mass firings and arrests of high-level individuals have done little to quell rumors and accusations that Zelensky still tolerates corruption within his inner circle,<sup><span id="edn17">17</span></sup><span> </span>perhaps because it’s true. According to a top adviser to Zelensky, who spoke to a Time journalist off the record, "People are stealing like there’s no tomorrow."<sup><span id="edn18">18</span></sup></p>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/November/PDF/financial-theft-ukraine-war-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>An Expensive Unwinnable War</h2>
<p>In a September 2023 meeting with U.S. senators, Zelensky pleaded for more funds saying "You’re giving money. We’re giving our lives."<sup><span id="edn19">19</span></sup><span> </span>Indeed, according to U.S. officials, at least 70,000 of Ukraine’s 500,000 troops had been killed by mid-August 2023, and another 100,000 to 120,000 wounded.<sup><span id="edn20">20</span></sup></p>
<p>Another 9,614 Ukrainian civilians had also been killed as of September 10, 2023.<sup><span id="edn21">21</span></sup><span> </span>So many Ukrainian youths have been thrown into the meat grinder that the average age of Ukrainian soldiers is now 43. Men up to the age of 60 face the risk of being drafted at any time.</p>
<p>The supply of cannon fodder is running so low that Ukraine recently updated its conscription law to include women.<sup><span id="edn22">22</span></sup><span> </span>Women between the ages of 18 and 60 with medical backgrounds, including doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists and pharmacists, must register for military service as of October 1, 2023.</p>
<p>However, unlike their male counterparts, women are not barred from leaving the country unless they’re called in for active duty.<sup><span id="edn23">23</span>,</sup><sup><span id="edn24">24</span></sup><span> </span>Ukraine is also trying to get as many Ukrainians back from other countries as well. To that end, Norway recently announced it will pay EUR 1,500 in cash to any Ukrainian willing to go home.<sup><span id="edn25">25</span></sup></p>
<p>Yet despite the enormous sums of money being poured into Ukraine, the weapons sent, the conscription of women and aged civilians, Ukraine is making no headway and have no conceivable way of winning. Even some of Zelensky’s closest aides are now saying he’s "deluding himself" thinking he can still somehow win.<sup><span id="edn26">26</span></sup></p>
<p>NATO countries are running out of ammunition and warn of shortages,<sup><span id="edn27">27</span></sup><span> </span>while Russia has ramped up its military hardware production more than tenfold.<sup><span id="edn28">28</span></sup><span> </span>And, even if we continue to supply the weapons, Ukraine is running out of able-bodied fighters to use them.<sup><span id="edn29">29</span></sup></p>
<h2>Preplanned Post-War Profiteering</h2>
<p>In the final analysis, one wonders whether corruption might actually be a primary driver of this war. Is the American public being robbed and Ukraine drained of its youths while a relatively small number of corrupt individuals stuff their pockets with cash?</p>
<p>It looks that way, especially in light of the news that<span> </span><a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/blackrock-vanguard-own-the-world" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BlackRock</a>, which already owns most of the private assets in the world, is positioning itself to profit from a post-war Ukraine. As reported by Business Today in early May 2023:<sup><span id="edn30">30</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>"President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, recently met with the management team of BlackRock, the world's largest asset management company, to discuss the creation of an investment fund aimed at restoring the country's economy through public and private capital. Netzines have not taken well to the news with many criticizing Zelensky over the meeting.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>A Twitter user said, ‘Taxpayers pay the war bills, private firms get the profits.’ ‘Ukraine being privatized and sold off to companies like Blackrock,’ another said.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>According to the press service of the Office of the President, the parties discussed the details of the investment fund's creation and implementation of large-scale business projects in Ukraine."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>The U.S. is also keen on Ukraine privatizing its banks,<sup><span id="edn31">31</span></sup><span> </span>which will open the door for<span> </span><a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/all-wars-are-bankers-wars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">central bankers to take over</a>. And let’s not forget that the big picture plan for Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction is to turn the whole country into smart cities with "smart governments" run by artificial intelligence.<sup><span id="edn32">32</span>,</sup><sup><span id="edn33">33</span></sup></p>
<p>It’s also a testing ground for warfare-related AI technologies<sup><span id="edn34">34</span>,</sup><sup><span id="edn35">35</span></sup><span> </span>said to be "paving the way for AI warfare in the future,"<sup><span id="edn36">36</span></sup><span> </span>although it doesn’t appear to provide them with much advantage at the moment.</p>
<p>In short, it appears American and European taxpayers are paying for the destruction of Ukraine and the elimination of huge numbers of its inhabitants, so that technocrat globalists and central bankers can then profit from the privatization and rebuilding of Ukraine into a "smart country" model for the rest of the world.</p>
</div>FROM MERCOLA All Wars Are Bankers Warstag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-10-21:5235400:BlogPost:1520592023-10-21T14:38:55.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<p></p>
<p></p>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">All Wars Are Bankers Wars</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">October 21, 2023…</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<br />
</div>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">All Wars Are Bankers Wars</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">October 21, 2023</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton"><div class="previous-article"><br/></div>
</div>
<br />
<p></p>
</div>
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton4"><div id="bcr_pnlbtnPrev"><div class="previous-article"><div class="article-thumb"><img id="bcr_btnPrevImg" class=" mlazyloaded" alt="Likely the Filthiest Food on Earth, yet Seen as Wholesome" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/October/Nonlead/fecal-bacteria-on-chicken-saag.jpg" name="bcr_btnPrevImg"/></div>
<div class="article-title"><span id="bcr_lblPrevTitle">Likely the Filthiest Food on Earth, yet Seen as Wholesome</span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="bcr_pnlbtnNext"><div class="next-article"><div class="article-thumb"><img id="bcr_btnNextImg" class=" mlazyloaded" alt="When Industry Values Profits Over Human Life" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/October/Nonlead/profits-over-human-life-thumbnail.jpg" name="bcr_btnNextImg"/></div>
<div class="article-title"><span id="bcr_lblNextTitle">When Industry Values Profits Over Human Life</span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div class="video-container"><div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v3jj4nw-documentary-all-wars-are-bankers-wars.html">Documentary: All Wars Are Bankers Wars (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v3jj4nw-documentary-all-wars-are-bankers-wars.html">Documentary: All Wars Are Bankers Wars (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v3jj4nw-documentary-all-wars-are-bankers-wars.html">Documentary: All Wars Are Bankers Wars (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v3jj4nw-documentary-all-wars-are-bankers-wars.html">Documentary: All Wars Are Bankers Wars (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v3jj4nw-documentary-all-wars-are-bankers-wars.html">Documentary: All Wars Are Bankers Wars (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v3jj4nw-documentary-all-wars-are-bankers-wars.html">Documentary: All Wars Are Bankers Wars (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v3jj4nw-documentary-all-wars-are-bankers-wars.html">Documentary: All Wars Are Bankers Wars (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v3jj4nw-documentary-all-wars-are-bankers-wars.html">Documentary: All Wars Are Bankers Wars (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v3jj4nw-documentary-all-wars-are-bankers-wars.html">Documentary: All Wars Are Bankers Wars (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div id="bcr_OuterpnlVideo" class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</span></div>
</div>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">All wars can be traced back to the private central bankers. American soldiers have fought and died in wars initiated for no other purpose than to force private central banking on nations that didn’t want them</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">Central banks make money out of thin air by lending money at interest, and in the process, they drain a nation of its wealth</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">The American Revolution was instigated by the King George III Currency Act, which forced the North American colonists to conduct business using Bank of England banknotes borrowed at interest</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">The agenda of the central bankers is a simple one: It’s to rob people of their wealth and enslave them to this predatory system</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">As long as private central banks are allowed to exist, there will be poverty and endless wars. The path to world peace lies in the abolishment of all private central banking everywhere, and a return to state-issued, value-based currencies that allow nations and people to become prosperous through their own labor and development and efforts</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>The video above features a 2013 documentary, "All Wars Are Bankers Wars," written and narrated by Michael Rivero,<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup><span> </span>founder of whatreallyhappened.com. As explained by Rivero, all wars can be traced back to the private central bankers.</p>
<p>"The more you study this, the more you’ll realize that ALL wars are wars for the private central bankers," he says. American soldiers have fought and died in wars initiated for no other purpose than to force private central banking on nations that didn’t want them.</p>
<h2>Usury — The Birth of Money From Money</h2>
<p>The philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC) once said:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"The most hated sort [of moneymaking], and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural use of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And this term ‘usury,’ which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money, because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of making money this is the most unnatural."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>What Aristotle described is the business model of all central banks. They make money out of thin air by lending money at interest, and in the process, they drain a nation of its wealth. The first bankers war example illustrated in the film is that of the American Revolution, fought between 1775 and 1783.</p>
<p>Thirteen of Great Britain’s North American colonies revolted against British rule and established the sovereign United States of America, founded with the Declaration of Independence in 1776.</p>
<h2>American Revolution Was Fought to Prevent Central Banking</h2>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>However, as explained by Rivero, the American Revolution was instigated by the King George III Currency Act, which forced the North American colonists to conduct business using Bank of England banknotes borrowed at interest:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"If you go back to the writings of Ben Franklin ... [here’s] a direct quote: ‘The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, was probably the prime cause of the revolution.’</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>That's Ben Franklin. Our public schools don't teach that because you're not supposed to know that the bankers were really behind the American Revolution.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>After the revolution, the United States adopted a revolutionary radically different economic system in which the government issued its own value-based currency, so that private banks couldn't skim the wealth of the people through interest bearing banknotes. So the American Revolution was fought primarily to free the American people from King George the third's Currency Act ..."<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup></em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/October/PDF/all-wars-are-bankers-wars-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>When Corruption Fails, Threats Are Made</h2>
<p>Unfortunately, it’s easy to corrupt people, and the central bankers know that better than most. Just one year after Mayer Amschel Rothschild uttered the now-infamous quote, "Let me issue and control the nation's money and I care not who makes the laws," private bankers succeeded in setting up a private central bank, called The First Bank of the United States.</p>
<p>This bank was founded in 1791, and within 20 years, it had gutted the U.S. economy while enriching the bank owners. As a result of its obvious failures, Congress refused to renew the bank’s charter. The intention was to return to a state-issued, value-based currency, for which Americans would not have to pay any interest. In response, Nathan Mayer Rothschild issued the following threat:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"Either the application for renewal of the charter is granted, or the United States will find itself involved in a most disastrous war."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Despite that threat, Congress held firm and refused to renew the bank’s charter. Nathan Mayer Rothschild railed against the decision, stating:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"Teach those impudent Americans a lesson! Bring them back to colonial status!"</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>And that’s exactly what Great Britain did — or tried to do. The Rothschild-controlled Bank of England financed Britain’s War of 1812, the aim of which was to either a) recolonize the United States and force Americans to use Bank of England banknotes, or b) plunge the nation into so much debt, they’d have no choice but to accept a new private central bank.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"And the plan worked,"</em><span> </span>Rivero says.<span> </span><em>"Even though the United States won the war of 1812, Congress was forced to grant a new charter for yet another private bank, issuing the public currency as loans at interest.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Once again, private bankers were in control of the nation's money supply and cared not who made the laws or how many British or American soldiers had to die for it. And once again, the nation was plunged into debt, unemployment and poverty by the predations of the private central bank.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In 1832, Andrew Jackson successfully campaigned for his second term as President under the slogan, ‘Jackson and No Bank.’ True to his word, Jackson succeeded in blocking the renewal of the charter for the Second Bank of the United States of America ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Shortly after the charter for the Second Bank of the United States expired, there was an assassination attempt on Andrew Jackson. It failed when both pistols used by the assassin, Richard Lawrence, failed to fire.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Later on, Lawrence explained the motive for the assassination by saying that, with President Jackson dead, money would be more plenty. So, it was an assassination motivated by the interests of the bankers."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="productad"></div>
<h2>Debt Is an Enslavement System</h2>
<p>The reason you never learned this in school is because the public school system is subservient to the bankers, who want certain history to remain hidden. When the Confederacy seceded from the United States, the bankers offered to fund Lincoln's efforts to bring them back into the union — at 30% interest.</p>
<p>Lincoln replied that he would "not free the black man by enslaving the white man to the bankers," and instead issued a new government currency, the greenback. The following quote from the London Times is a telling one:<sup><span id="edn3">3</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>"If this mischievous financial policy, which has its origin in North America, shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that government will furnish its own money without cost.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed, or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>France and Britain considered invading the United States in support of the Confederacy, but were held at bay by Russia, which came to the aid of Lincoln’s Union.<sup><span id="edn4">4</span></sup><span> </span>The Union won the war, but Lincoln was assassinated in 1865. The interest-free greenbacks were pulled from circulation, and America was again forced into banknotes borrowed at interest from private central bankers.</p>
<p>In 1913, the private central bankers of Europe met with their American collaborators on Jekyll Island, Georgia, where they formed a new American banking cartel. Rivero explains:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"Owing to hostility over the previous banks of the United States, the name of this third bank was changed to the Federal Reserve, in order to grant the new bank a quasi governmental image. But in fact, it is a privately owned bank. It's no more federal than Federal Express ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So 1913 proved to be a transformative year for the nation's economy. First with Congress’ passage of the 16th income tax amendment, and the false claim it had been ratified. Here's another direct quote [from U.S. District Court Judge James C. Fox, in Sullivan v. United States 2003]:</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>‘I think if you were to go back and try and find and review the ratification for the 16th amendment, which was the Internal Revenue, the income tax ... you would find that a sufficient number of states never ratified that amendment.’"</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Later that year (1913), President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act, in exchange for campaign contributions — a decision he later regretted. In 1919, Wilson wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country, a great industrial nation is now controlled by a system of credit. We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>World War I and II Were Bankers Wars</h2>
<p>According to Rivero, the real reason behind World War I — which began as a squabble between Austria, Hungary and Serbia and only later shifted to focus on Germany — was Germany’s industrial capacity, which posed an economic threat to Great Britain, the currency of which was in decline due to its lack of focus on industrial development.</p>
<p>After Germany’s defeat, the private bankers seized control of Germany’s economy, which resulted in hyperinflation. After the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the National Socialist party came into power and issued a new state currency not borrowed from central banks.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"It was based on a unit of value, not a unit of debt. Freed from having to pay interest on the money in circulation, Germany blossomed and quickly began to rebuild its industry. It was an amazing transformation to see. The media called it the German Miracle.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Time Magazine lionized Hitler for the amazing improvement of life for the German people and the explosion of German industry. They even named him Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1938.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And then, once again, Germany's prosperity and freedom from a private Central Bank loaning the public currency at interest became a threat to other nations and other powers ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Germany's state-issued value-based currency was also a direct threat to the wealth and power of the private central banks around the world, and as early as 1933, they started to organize a global boycott against Germany to strangle this upstart ruler who thought he could run his nation without a private central bank."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>World War II was basically a repeat of World War I, in that quashing Germany’s economic and industrial power was the chief goal. In a March 1946 note from Winston Churchill to Harry Truman, the reason for World War II was made clear:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"The war wasn't only about abolishing fascism, but to conquer sales markets. We could have if we had intended so prevented this war from breaking out without doing one shot, but we didn't want to."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>According to Rivero, Churchill also made the following statement in his book series "The Second World War":</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"Germany's unforgivable crime before World War II was its attempt to loosen its economy out of the world trade system, and to build up an independent exchange system from which the world finance couldn't profit anymore. We butchered the wrong pig."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Our Military Are ‘Muscle’ for the Bankers</h2>
<p>Rivero goes on to tell the story of how, in 1933, Wall Street bankers recruited Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a coup against the U.S. government, with the intent of installing a a fascist dictatorship. At the time, President Roosevelt’s "New Deal" threatened to redistribute wealth to the working middle class, which they were intent on preventing.</p>
<p>The idea was to get rid of the U.S. government in its entirety, and install a Secretary of General Affairs who would answer to Wall Street alone, and not the people. Butler pretended to go along with the plot, and then exposed it to Congress before it could be carried out.</p>
<p>Roosevelt tried to have the plotters arrested, but was told that if any of the central bankers were sent to prison, their remaining Wall Street buddies would deliberately collapse the economy and blame Roosevelt for it. Butler, in his 1935 book "War Is a Racket" also confessed the following:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service as a member of our country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major General, and during that period, I spent more of my time being a high class muscle man for big business, for Wall Street and for the bankers.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I'm sure of it. Like all members of the military profession, I never had an original thought until after I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>This is typical with everyone in the military service. Thus, I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909 through 1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China in 1927, I helped see to it that the Standard Oil wound its way unmolested.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>During those years I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals and promotions. Looking back on it, I feel I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was operate his racket in three city districts. I operated on three continents."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>The Why Behind the Kennedy Assassination</h2>
<p>In 1963, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who understood the predatory nature of private central banking, signed executive order 11110, which ordered the U.S. Treasury to issue a new public currency called the United States note. These banknotes would not be borrowed from the Federal Reserve but rather created by the U.S. government and backed by silver.</p>
<p>This represented a return to the system of economics the United States had been founded on. "All told, some $4.5 billion went into the public circulation, which eroded interest payments to the Federal Reserve and loosened their control over the nation," Rivero says. Five months later, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, and the United States notes were pulled from circulation and destroyed. Rivero continues:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"Following Kennedy's assassination, John J. McCloy, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank and president of the World Bank, was named to the Warren Commission. Now, I don't care how good a banker he is, he's not qualified to be investigating a murder, which is what we were told the Warren Commission was all about ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>We all know that the Warren Commission was there to cover up what was going on. And, obviously, we can safely presume that John J. McCloy's presence on the Warren Commission was to make sure the American public never got even a hint of the financial dimensions behind the assassination."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>The Rise and Fall of Bretton Woods</h2>
<p>In July 1944, at the end of World War II, once it became obvious that the allied forces were winning and would be able to dictate the post-war political environment, the world economic powers met at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire to hammer out what became known as the Bretton Woods agreement for international finance, which was ratified the following year.</p>
<p>Under this new agreement, the U.S. dollar replaced the British pound as the global trade and reserve currency, and signatory nations were obligated to tie their national currencies to the dollar. As explained by Rivero:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"The nations that ratified Bretton Woods did so on two conditions. The first was that the Federal Reserve would refrain from over-printing the dollar as a means to loot real products ... from other nations, in exchange for ink and paper.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>It was basically an imperial tax imposed by the U.S. economic system on the rest of the world. That assurance of no over-printing was supposedly backed up by the second requirement, which was that the U.S. dollar would always be convertible back to gold by the U.S. government at $35 an ounce.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Now, of course, the Federal Reserve, being a private bank and not answerable to the U.S. government did in fact start over-printing paper dollars, which were sent to other nations around the world, and under Bretton Woods, they had to send back products and produce and raw materials at full value.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Much of the perceived American prosperity in the 1950s and ‘60s was the result of these foreign nations having to send real raw materials, goods, produce back to the United States in exchange for the these little pieces of paper ... because they were forced to accept these paper notes as being worth $35 per ounce of gold.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Then, in 1970, France started looking at this huge pile of printed paper notes sitting in their bank vaults, for which real French product like wine and cheese had been traded, and it notified the United States government that they would exercise their option under Bretton Woods to return all those paper notes for gold at the agreed upon $35 per ounce exchange rate.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The problem was, the United States had nowhere near the gold to redeem all those paper notes. So, on August 15, 1971, Richard Nixon temporarily — nudge, nudge, wink, wink — suspended gold convertibility of the U.S. Federal Reserve notes. This ... effectively ended Bretton Woods and many global currencies started to delink from the U.S. dollar."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Land Grabs and the Birth of the Petro Dollar</h2>
<p>Nixon’s suspension of Bretton Woods also created another problem. Rivero explains:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"The United States had been collateralizing their loans — money borrowed from other governments and foreign investors — with the American nation's gold reserves, and with the awareness that there wasn't enough gold to redeem all the Federal Reserve notes, lenders to the U.S. were starting to wonder: Did the U.S. government have enough gold to cover ... their outstanding debts?</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Foreign nations began to get very nervous about the loans to the United States and they were understandably reluctant to loan any additional money without some form of collateral.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So what Richard Nixon did is he founded the environmental movement, with the EPA and its various programs, like wilderness zones and roadless areas, inherited rivers, wetlands, and all these other programs, which all took vast areas of public lands and made them off limits to the American people who are technically the owners of all those lands.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>But Nixon had no concern for the environment. The real purpose of this land grab under the guise of the environment was to pledge those pristine lands and their vast mineral resources as collateral on the outstanding national debt.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The multitude of all these different programs was simply to conceal the scale of the land grabbing, the collateralization of the American people's heritage ... Almost 25% of the entire nation is now locked up by these EPA programs and pledged as collateral on government borrowing.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Now, with available lands for collateralization already in short supply, the U.S. government embarked on a new program to shore up sagging international demand for the dollar. The United States approached the world's oil producing nations, mostly in the Middle East, and offered them a deal in exchange for only selling their oil for dollars.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The United States would guarantee the military safety of those oil-rich nations, and the oil rich nations would agree to spend and invest their U.S. paper dollars inside the United States, particularly in U.S. Treasury bonds, which would be redeemable through future generations of US taxpayers.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The concept was labeled the petro dollar. In effect, the United States, no longer able to back the dollar with gold, was now backing it with other people's oil, and that necessity to keep control over those oil nations to prop up the dollar has dominated America's foreign policy in the region ever since."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Wars and Murders to Prop Up the Petro Dollar</h2>
<p>Over time, America’s focus on finance over manufacturing led to a situation in which oil-producing countries were flush with U.S. cash, but the U.S. wasn’t manufacturing or selling anything that these nations wanted to buy. Europe made better cars and aircraft, and didn’t allow genetically engineered foods.</p>
<p>In 2000, Iraq demanded the right to sell their oil for euros, and in 2002, the United Nations agreed they could do so under the oil for food program. A year later, the United States re-invaded Iraq, Saddam Hussein was publicly lynched and Iraq's oil could once again only be sold for U.S. dollars.</p>
<p>A similar scenario took place in Libya. In 2000, Muammar Gadhafi proposed the adoption of a new gold-backed currency, the gold dinar. He then announced that Libya’s oil would only be sold for gold dinars. As noted by Rivero:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"This move had the potential to seriously undermine the global hegemony of the dollar. French President Nicolas Sarkozy reportedly went so far as to call Libya a threat to the financial security of the world. So, the United States invaded Libya under the the guise of supporting a popular rebellion.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>They brutally murdered Gadhafi — apparently because the object lesson of Saddam's lynching had not been enough of a message — imposed a private central bank and returned Libya's oil output to dollars.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>According to General Wesley Clark, the master plan for the dollarization of the world's oil nations included seven targets: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran and Venezuela ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>What is notable about those original seven nations targeted by the U.S. is that none of them are members of the Bank of International Settlements. This is the private central bankers private central bank located in Switzerland.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>That meant that those seven targeted nations were deciding for themselves how to run their nation's economies, rather than submitting to the international private central bankers.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Now ... the bankers gunsights are on Iran, which dares to have a government central bank and sell their oil for whatever currency they choose. The war agenda for Iran is ... to force Iran's oil to be sold only for dollars, and to force them to accept a privately owned central bank.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>You have been raised by a public school system and a media that constantly assures you that the reasons for all these wars and assassinations are many and varied. ‘We're bringing democracy to the conquered lands.’ We hear that a lot, when actually the U.S. hasn't. The usual result of a U.S. overthrow is the imposition of a pro-business, pro-Wall Street, pro-U.S.-dictatorship."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>The Real Agenda of the Bankers</h2>
<p>In closing, the real agenda of the central bankers is a simple one. It’s to rob people of their wealth and enslave them to this predatory system by creating a false sense of obligation.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"That obligation is false because the private central banking system, by design, creates more debt than money with which to pay the debt,"<span> </span></em>Rivero explains.<em><span> </span>"There is no way out, the way it's set up. It's impossible to escape as long as you're playing by their rules. And you need to understand, private central banking is not science. It is a religion.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>It's a set of arbitrary rules created to benefit the priesthood, meaning the bankers, and is supported only because people believe this is the way it's supposed to be. The fraud persists with often lethal results only because the people are brainwashed into believing that this is the way life is supposed to be and no alternative exists or should even be dreamt of."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>The Path to Freedom — Abolish Central Banks</h2>
<p>The reality is, we do not "need" central banks. Not in the slightest. A country, or even individual states, can create their own currency and run their own banks, either without usury, or with very low interest rates. That’s the path to freedom, and all that is required is the decision to do so, and the guts to carry it though.</p>
<p>Ideally, captured nations around the world would break free all at once, as this would best guarantee everyone’s safety. As noted by Rivero:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"Private central banks do not exist to serve the people, the community or the nation. Private central banks exist to serve their owners to make them rich beyond the dreams of Midas, and all for the cost of ink, paper, the right bribe to the right official and the occasional assassination.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Behind all these wars and all these assassinations ... lies a single policy of financial dictatorship. The private central bankers only allow rulers to rule on the promise that the people of a nation be enslaved to the private central banks.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Rulers who do not go along with that will be killed and their nation invaded by those other nations still enslaved to the private central banks. The bankers themselves don't fight these wars. Their children are not in these wars.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>This so-called ‘clash of civilizations’ you are being told about by the corporate media is really a war between banking systems, with the private central bankers forcing themselves on to the rest of the world, no matter how many millions must die for it ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Now we're going into the third [world war] in the nuclear, bioweapon age. That is very dangerous. We have to ask ourselves. Are the private central bankers willing to risk incinerating the whole planet to feed their greed? Apparently.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So, you, as parents, as siblings, as spouses, need to ask yourself, ‘Do you really want to see your loved ones in uniform killed and crippled, all for a bank balance sheet? ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>As long as private central banks are allowed to exist ... there will be poverty, hopelessness, millions of deaths in endless world wars ... The path to true world peace lies in the abolishment of all private central banking everywhere, and to return to state-issued, value-based currencies that allow nations and people to become prosperous through their own labor and development and efforts."</em></p>
</blockquote>
</div>FROM MERCOLA The Information Wartag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-09-28:5235400:BlogPost:1516132023-09-28T13:37:19.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<p></p>
<p></p>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">The Information War</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span class="fact-check" id="bcr_factCheck"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked…</span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><ul class="social-icons dontprint social-button-round">
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">The Information War</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span id="bcr_factCheck" class="fact-check"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked</span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><ul class="social-icons dontprint social-button-round">
<li style="list-style-type: none"><ul class="social-icons dontprint social-button-round">
<li class="social-btn"><a name="Facebook Page" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Farticles.mercola.com%2Fsites%2Farticles%2Farchive%2F2023%2F09%2F28%2Fthe-information-war.aspx%3Fui%3De04e91c57597f04c2f55a300f8aa96bd650b34036fe1dd58519ce6e195306265%26sd%3D20210115%26cid_source%3Ddnl%26cid_medium%3Demail%26cid_content%3Dart2ReadMore%26cid%3D20230925%26foDate%3Dfalse%26mid%3DDM1468618%26rid%3D1920989511"></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="mailto:?subject=The%20Information%20War&body=Many%20people%20still%20haven%27t%20woken%20up%20to%20the%20fact%20that%20we%20are%20in%20the%20fight%20of%20our%20lives%2C%20mainly%20because%20the%20aggressors%20are%20agencies%20that%20we%27ve%20long%20trusted.%20But%20make%20no%20mistake%2C%20they%27ve%20turned%20against%20us%20and%20soon%20life%20as%20you%20know%20it%20will%20become%20unrecognizable.%20The%20worst%20part%3F%20They%20won%27t%20care%20if%20you%20live%20or%20die.%0A%0AACCESS%20NOW%3A%20https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/09/28/the-information-war.aspx%3Fcid_medium=etaf%26cid_source=etaf%26cid=share%0A%0AABOUT%20DR.%20MERCOLA%3A%20Dr.%20Joseph%20Mercola%20is%20the%20founder%20of%20Mercola.com.%20An%20osteopathic%20physician%2C%20best-selling%20author%20and%20recipient%20of%20multiple%20awards%20in%20the%20field%20of%20natural%20health%2C%20his%20primary%20vision%20is%20to%20change%20the%20modern%20health%20paradigm%20by%20providing%20people%20with%20a%20valuable%20resource%20to%20help%20them%20take%20control%20of%20their%20health.%20His%20latest%20book%20%E2%80%9CThe%20Truth%20About%20COVID-19%E2%80%9D%20was%20an%20instant%20best-seller%20and%20the%20%231%20book%20sold%20on%20Amazon.%0A%0A" class="mailtolink" name=" Mailto"></a></p>
<p><a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/09/28/the-information-war.aspx?ui=e04e91c57597f04c2f55a300f8aa96bd650b34036fe1dd58519ce6e195306265&sd=20210115&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art2ReadMore&cid=20230925&foDate=false&mid=DM1468618&rid=1920989511#" name="Print" id="Print"></a></p>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">September 28, 2023</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton"><div class="previous-article"><br/></div>
</div>
<br />
<div id="menu"><div id="profile-menu"></div>
</div>
<p></p>
</div>
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton4"><div id="bcr_pnlbtnPrev"><div class="previous-article"><div class="article-thumb"><img id="bcr_btnPrevImg" class=" mlazyloaded" alt="Blue Light Is Causing Blindness" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/September/Nonlead/blue-light-blindness-study.jpg" name="bcr_btnPrevImg"/></div>
<div class="article-title"><span id="bcr_lblPrevTitle">Blue Light Is Causing Blindness</span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="bcr_pnlbtnNext"><div class="next-article"><div class="article-thumb"><img id="bcr_btnNextImg" class=" mlazyloaded" alt="The Wicked Carnival They Started in 2020: It's Exit Time" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/September/Nonlead/the-wicked-carnival-they-started-in-2020-thumbnail.jpg" name="bcr_btnNextImg"/></div>
<div class="article-title"><span id="bcr_lblNextTitle">The Wicked Carnival They Started in 2020: It's Exit Time</span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div class="video-container"><div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/op0HMkcQhew?si=-TpD4FlOmWHFbyJt&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
</span></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div id="bcr_OuterpnlVideo" class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</span></div>
</div>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">In 1967, the CIA’s covert use of the National Student Association to spread countermessages to communism was revealed by a college dropout named Michael Wood. The revelation sent shockwaves through the U.S., and as journalists started to pull at the strings, the CIA’s covert propaganda operations unraveled</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">Journalists discovered the CIA had set up nonprofit foundations to funnel taxpayer money into philanthropic foundations that then sent the CIA’s “donations” to organizations that had joined the CIA’s payroll to promote government-sponsored propaganda</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">These included youth organizations and student groups, church groups, public radio and news organizations. Sen. Wayne Morse, D-Ore., slammed the CIA’s covert propaganda activities, arguing the agency had created a “credibility chasm” within public opinion — a gap that could not and would not be bridged unless the government made clear that it would “fill the chasm with the truth”</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">The CIA was never reined in and is more involved in propaganda activities today than ever before</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">While many still have not realized it, we are at war, and the aggressors are government intelligence and security agencies that have turned their weapon of choice — information — against their own citizens</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>The video above features a 1967 CBS special report titled "In the Pay of the CIA: An American Dilemma,"<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup><span> </span>hosted by Mike Wallace. It examines how the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was secretly paying students, labor organizations, broadcasting networks and other organizations to do their bidding.</p>
<p>CBS News correspondents interview several of the people who at the time had received secret CIA payments, and the implications these activities have for the American way of life.</p>
<p>Gloria Steinem, for example, who headed the Independent Research Service, was paid by the CIA to send American students to attend and represent American values at communist youth festivals overseas, as was Philip Sherburne, former president of the National Student Association.</p>
<p>In 1967, the CIA's covert use of the National Student Association to spread countermessages to communism was revealed by a college dropout named Michael Wood.<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup><span> </span>The revelation sent shockwaves through the U.S., and as journalists started to pull at the strings, the extent of the CIA's propaganda operations started to unravel.</p>
<h2>A Condensed History</h2>
<p>The National Security Act of 1947, signed by President Truman, created the CIA, the National Security Council, the Office of Secretary of Defense and the U.S. Air Force.<sup><span id="edn3">3</span></sup><span> </span>As explained by the Office of the Historian,<sup><span id="edn4">4</span></sup><span> </span>the Act "was a major reorganization of the foreign policy and military establishments of the U.S. government."</p>
<p>The CIA was an outgrowth of the World War II era Office of Strategic Services and several small post-war intelligence organizations, and as noted by Wallace:</p>
<blockquote><div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p><em>"Since the beginning, the CIA has suffered a personality split, because in addition to intelligence, the Security Act of 1947 orders the CIA to 'perform other functions and duties as directed by the President and his National Security Council.' That phrase has become a sort of blank check, authorizing CIA excursions into everything from simple propaganda to the overthrow of unfriendly governments."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Wallace goes on to explain how the CIA ended up with fingers in so many pies. First, it set up several nondescript nonprofit foundations, the function of which were to funnel taxpayer money from the CIA to other, real foundations involved in real-world philanthropy.</p>
<p>However, in return for CIA funds, these foundations "agreed to become conduits for central intelligence," and funneled the exact dollar amounts received on to other organizations that, in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, joined the CIA's payroll to promote government-sponsored propaganda.</p>
<br />
<p>The CIA has corrupted the stream of truth ... It must be removed from all activities, except the very limited activity of what we know as intelligence activity, the field of spying and espionage. ~ Sen. Wayne Morse, 1967</p>
<br />
<p>These included not only youth organizations and student groups, but also church groups, public radio and news organizations. Sen. Wayne Morse slammed the CIA's covert propaganda activities, arguing the agency had created a "credibility chasm" within public opinion — a gap that could not and would not be bridged unless the government made clear that it would "fill the chasm with the truth."</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"The CIA has corrupted the stream of truth, objectivity and academic learning,"</em><span> </span>Morse told CBS News,<span> </span><em>"and it must be removed from all activities, except the very limited activity of what we know as intelligence activity, the field of spying and espionage."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Another senator, Eugene McCarthy, was also critical of the CIA's use of students and church groups to manipulate public opinion. He also said he felt there was "empire building" going on within the CIA — a statement that rings all the more true today.</p>
<p>Sen. John Stennis, member of the CIA Watchdog Subcommittee, defended the CIAs actions, reminding the CBS audience about the climate in which the agency was founded. In 1954, the U.S. Congress passed a bill outlawing communism, and the CIA was still basically protecting American liberty and democracy.</p>
<p>Former CIA director Allen Dulles also defended the agency's behavior, citing the need to manage the threat of communism. The counterargument presented by critics was that by using covert propaganda techniques, the U.S. government was using the same strategies as the enemy, thereby undermining the idea of America being a country dedicated to free speech and the diversity of ideas.</p>
<p>At the end of the day, the overarching message of the CBS News report was that the CIA needed to change with changing times, clean up its act and get out of the covert propaganda business, as its interventions were harming the American image of being a free and open country.</p>
<div class="productad"></div>
<h2>Operation Mockingbird Is Alive and Well</h2>
<p>Unfortunately, the CIA was never reined in, and its propaganda activities have only expanded and become more sophisticated over time. The 1976 Church Investigation exposed how the CIA had corrupted the media by paying journalists to promote the agency's narratives.</p>
<p>The program, called Operation Mockingbird, was officially dismantled, but while the operational name may have been retired, there's plenty of evidence to suggest the CIA never discontinued its media influence.<sup><span id="edn5">5</span></sup></p>
<p>In fact, we have evidence the CIA is controlling mainstream media to this day, and it's doing so with unprecedented efficiency, as it can now push its narratives out through the three global news agencies, which are responsible for crafting and curating most of the news disseminated worldwide.</p>
<p>The only thing that has changed, really, is the CIA's narrative. Whereas in the past it was dedicated to undermining communism, today, the CIA is a disinformation fountainhead for an unelected global Deep State that is hellbent on implementing a technocratic, totalitarian One World Government, the tyranny of which makes communism pale in comparison.</p>
<p>The CIA is now neck-deep in a global psyop to ensure the successful implementation of The Great Reset and the Fourth Industrial Revolution — two terms that describe different aspects of the same agenda of enslavement. And the CIA is not alone in this endeavor.</p>
<p>The FBI is also in on the action, as are most of the world's intelligence agencies. They're all pushing the same Great Reset and Fourth Industrial Revolution narratives, the aim of which is the technocratic control of the global population. That's why we're seeing the same narratives playing all over the world, including the Orwellian argument that we must censor to protect democracy.</p>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/September/PDF/the-information-war-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>A New Type of War</h2>
<p>While many still have not realized it, we are at war. The aggressors are government intelligence and security agencies that have turned their weapon of choice — information — against their own citizens.</p>
<p>And, while the organizations doing the CIA's dirty work may have changed, the basic organizational structure is the same as it was in 1967. Taxpayer money gets funneled through various federal departments and agencies into the hands of nongovernmental agencies that carry out censorship activities as directed. As recently reported by investigative journalists Alex Gutentag and Michael Shellenberger:<sup><span id="edn6">6</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>"The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) are nongovernmental organizations, their leaders say.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>When they demand more censorship of online hate speech, as they are currently doing of X, formerly Twitter, those NGOs are doing it as free citizens and not, say, as government agents.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>But the fact of the matter is that the US and other Western governments fund ISD, the UK government indirectly funds CCDH, and, for at least 40 years, ADL spied on its enemies and shared intelligence with the US, Israel and other governments.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The reason all of this matters is that ADL's advertiser boycott against X may be an effort by governments to regain the ability to censor users on X that they had under Twitter before Musk's takeover last November.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Internal Twitter and Facebook messages show that representatives of the US government, including the White House, FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as well as the UK government, successfully demanded Facebook and Twitter censorship of their users over the last several years."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Censorship by Proxy</h2>
<p>What we have now is government censorship by proxy, a deeply anti-American activity that has become standard practice, not just by intelligence and national security agencies but federal agencies of all stripes, including our public health agencies.</p>
<p>September 8, 2023, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's injunction banning the White House, the surgeon general, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FBI from influencing social media companies to remove so-called "disinformation."<sup><span id="edn7">7</span></sup></p>
<p>According to the judges' decision,<sup><span id="edn8">8</span></sup><span> </span>"CDC officials provided direct guidance to the platforms on the application of the platforms' internal policies and moderation activities" by telling them what was, and was not, misinformation, asking for changes to platforms' moderation policies and directing platforms to take specific actions.</p>
<p>"Ultimately, the CDC's guidance informed, if not directly affected, the platforms' moderation decisions," the judges said, so, "although not plainly coercive, the CDC officials likely significantly encouraged the platforms' moderation decisions, meaning they violated the First Amendment."</p>
<p>Unfortunately, as mentioned earlier, the U.S. government is not acting alone. Governments around the world and international organizations like the World Health Organization are all engaged in censorship, and when it comes to medical information, most Big Tech platforms are taking their lead from the WHO. And, if the WHO's pandemic treaty<sup><span id="edn9">9</span></sup><span> </span>is enacted, then the WHO will have sole authority to dictate truth. Everything else will be censored.</p>
<h2>YouTube to Ban All Types of Medical 'Misinformation'</h2>
<p>YouTube, for example, which censored medical information that went against CDC guidance during the COVID pandemic, recently announced it is committed to eliminating virtually all medical "misinformation" that contradicts the WHO:<sup><span id="edn10">10</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>"While specific medical guidance can change over time as we learn more, our goal is to ensure that when it comes to areas of well-studied scientific consensus, YouTube is not a platform for distributing information that could harm people.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Moving forward, YouTube will streamline dozens of our existing medical misinformation guidelines to fall under three categories – Prevention, Treatment, and Denial.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>These policies will apply to specific health conditions, treatments, and substances where content contradicts local health authorities or the World Health Organization (WHO) ... Here's what the framework will look like:</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="indent"><div class="indent"><p><em><strong><span class="bullet">•</span>Prevention misinformation:</strong><span> </span>We will remove content that contradicts health authority guidance on the prevention and transmission of specific health conditions, and on the safety and efficacy of approved vaccines. For example, this encompasses content that promotes a harmful substance for disease prevention.</em></p>
<p><em><strong><span class="bullet">•</span>Treatment misinformation:</strong><span> </span>We will remove content that contradicts health authority guidance on treatments for specific health conditions ... Examples include content that encourages unproven remedies in place of seeking medical attention for specific conditions, like promoting caesium chloride as a treatment for cancer.</em></p>
<p><em><strong><span class="bullet">•</span>Denial misinformation:</strong><span> </span>We will remove content that disputes the existence of specific health conditions. This covers content that denies people have died from COVID-19 ...</em></p>
</div>
</div>
<blockquote><p><em>In applying our updated approach, cancer treatment misinformation fits the framework — the public health risk is high as cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, there is stable consensus about safe cancer treatments ... and it's a topic that's prone to misinformation.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Starting today and ramping up in the coming weeks, we will begin removing content that promotes cancer treatments proven to be harmful or ineffective, or content that discourages viewers from seeking professional medical treatment."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>The UN's War on Misinformation</h2>
<div class="video-rwd"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Chu3T6CTaV4?start=169&wmode=opaque&rel=0"></iframe>
</div>
<p>The United Nations is also deeply engaged in fighting the "'infodemic' of misinformation,"<sup><span id="edn11">11</span></sup><span> </span>and has enlisted a cadre of "rapid response" fact checkers to counter undesirable views, wherever they appear.</p>
<p>The UN his also partnered with private businesses, telecommunications companies, civil society groups, media and individual journalists to combat misinformation.</p>
<p>The UN secretary-general António Guterres' has even gone on record saying "hate speech" is a "weapon of war" that must be brought under control to achieve the UN's peacekeeping aims. In July 2022, he made the following remarks to the Security Council, clearly demonstrating that the UN views censorship as a necessity for world peace:<sup><span id="edn12">12</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>"The United Nations must play a more deliberate role as an information actor in conflict environments. We must be seen as a trusted source of information by providing engaging, factual content, facilitating inclusive dialogue, demanding the removal of harmful speech, calling leaders to account and promoting the voices of peace and unity."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Just what is "harmful speech"? Why, anything that counters the globalist narrative — "the voices of unity" — of course. In classic Orwellian doublespeak, UN leadership is calling dissent (i.e., "hate speech") "a weapon of war," when in reality, censorship is the weapon.</p>
<p>This kind of rhetoric alone tells you that we are in fact at war, and the public has been declared the enemy of the globalist cabal, the members of which have infiltrated all the key national agencies and international organizations now being used to browbeat us into compliance with a slave agenda.</p>
<p>In the video above, under-secretary-general for the UN's global communications talks about how "social media is being weaponized to provoke the worst in human nature" (there's that war lingo again), and how the UN is "pushing Big Tech" to "bring balance to our information systems."</p>
<p>In other words, Big Tech is being pushed to give the technocrats a battlefield edge by eliminating the "weapons" of everyday people (who greatly outnumber them), namely their voices.</p>
<h2>Why Are We Being Censored?</h2>
<div align="center"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
</div>
<p>While globalists and technocrats would have you believe that censorship is all about protecting people by making sure everything they see is accurate and truthful, the exact opposite is actually happening. The Deep State players (whether they recognize themselves as belonging to that exclusive club or not) are the ones spreading false information to lull you into compliance with an agenda that is so utterly horrifying that no sane, rational person would ever go along with it.</p>
<p>I'm talking about The Great Reset, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, the 2030 Agenda, the One Health agenda. These and several other terms all refer to one comprehensive, worldwide plot to create a global slave society under the rule of a centralized world government run by unelected technocrats.</p>
<p>Everything we've seen and experienced over the last three years are part of that agenda, including the global push for vaccine mandates. It's no surprise then, to find out that 14 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals involve compulsory vaccinations. As noted in the August 2021 issue of Globalization and Health:<sup><span id="edn13">13</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>"Immunization directly impacts health (SDG3) and brings a contribution to 14 out of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as ending poverty, reducing hunger, and reducing inequalities. Therefore, immunization is recognized to play a central role in reaching the SDGs, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Nothing is happening by accident. It's all part of a movement toward a global totalitarianism centered on the control and suppression of populations. But to get there, they must control the flow of information. Truthtellers cannot be tolerated because, again, there are billions of us, and only thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of them.</p>
<p>Once the technocratic system of control is fully in place, 24/7 surveillance and artificial intelligence-driven algorithms will keep people in check, but until then, the globalists need our cooperation to install and implement the prerequisite surveillance and control systems. Keeping people from understanding the big picture is the greatest weapon in their arsenal.</p>
<p>There's also plenty of evidence indicating they'd prefer to have far fewer of us around, and preventing you from accessing truthful information about health and medicine will ensure you get and stay sick (which is profitable for them) and ultimately die sooner rather than later (which is the goal).</p>
<p>Once you understand the grand plan, you can see how it's being implemented in pieces, and why all this censorship is needed, from their point of view. At that point you have a decision to make. Go along with their program to own you and all of your descendants, in perpetuity, or take ownership of your own life and peacefully move in the opposite direction, toward decentralized, uncensored, privacy-based systems of all kinds.</p>
</div>DR JAY BHATTACHARYA The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We Fought Back—and Won.tag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-09-26:5235400:BlogPost:1513002023-09-26T12:52:47.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="c-topper"><div class="c-feature-image-wrap"><img alt="" class="c-feature-image ls-is-cached lazyloaded" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_652,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F41a00d93-05c7-4844-b92e-721d4ff8490e_1024x682.jpeg"></img></div>
The Biden administration threatened social media platforms with regulation unless they censored health information that conflicted with government messaging. (Photo by Tom Brenner via Getty Images)<br />
<br />
<div class="c-topper__content"><h1 class="c-topper__headline">The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We Fought Back—and Won.</h1>
<p class="c-topper__standfirst">Last week, a federal appeals court confirmed that…</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="c-topper">
<div class="c-feature-image-wrap"><img alt="" class="c-feature-image ls-is-cached lazyloaded" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_652,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F41a00d93-05c7-4844-b92e-721d4ff8490e_1024x682.jpeg"/></div>
The Biden administration threatened social media platforms with regulation unless they censored health information that conflicted with government messaging. (Photo by Tom Brenner via Getty Images)<br />
<br />
<div class="c-topper__content"><h1 class="c-topper__headline">The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We Fought Back—and Won.</h1>
<p class="c-topper__standfirst">Last week, a federal appeals court confirmed that science cannot function without free speech. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reflects on a victory for himself—and every American.</p>
<div class="c-topper__meta override__hidden_136915468 hide__author-img"><div class="meta__left"><p class="c-topper__author"><span>By</span><span> </span><a class="c-topper__portrait-link author-name" href="https://substack.com/@jaybhattacharya">Jay Bhattacharya</a></p>
<p><span class="c-topper__time">September 11, 2023</span></p>
</div>
<ul class="c-share u-plain-list">
<li class="c-share__item"><div class="icon icon--ei-like icon--s c-share__icon"></div>
<a class="c-share__link" href="https://www.thefp.com/p/i-fought-government-censorship-and-won?utm_campaign=Cultivation&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=275791952&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9b6YVJqUJnI5pWpri13_6_2XgWkpnRTMVG5Rn2oDhnEBSIOzYUkNEhnj2f2C40jVmHJ5dyQZZ9LdZUilvkZ6-zS5xqR7bCUK50D7OxGqOZAIX8yyE&utm_content=275791952&utm_source=hs_email#"><span class="u-screenreader">Like</span></a></li>
<li class="c-share__item"><div class="icon icon--ei-comment icon--s c-share__icon"></div>
<a class="c-share__link" href="https://www.thefp.com/p/i-fought-government-censorship-and-won/comments"><span class="u-screenreader">Comment</span></a></li>
<li class="c-share__item"><div class="icon icon--ei-share-apple icon--s c-share__icon"></div>
<a class="c-share__link" href="https://www.thefp.com/p/i-fought-government-censorship-and-won?utm_campaign=Cultivation&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=275791952&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9b6YVJqUJnI5pWpri13_6_2XgWkpnRTMVG5Rn2oDhnEBSIOzYUkNEhnj2f2C40jVmHJ5dyQZZ9LdZUilvkZ6-zS5xqR7bCUK50D7OxGqOZAIX8yyE&utm_content=275791952&utm_source=hs_email#"><span class="u-screenreader">Share</span></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div class="c-content"><p>When I was four, my mother took her first flight and first trip out of her native India to the U.S. with me and my younger brother in tow. We were going to meet my father, an electrical engineer and rocket scientist by training, who had won the U.S. visa lottery in 1970. He had moved to New York a year earlier. By the time we arrived he was working at McDonald’s because engineering jobs had dried up during a recession.</p>
<p>Both of my parents—children of the violent<span> </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/29/the-great-divide-books-dalrymple" target="_blank" rel="noopener">partition</a><span> </span>of India and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)—had grown up in poverty, my mother in a Calcutta slum. They immigrated to this country because they believed in the American dream. That belief led to the success my father ultimately found as an engineer and my mother found running a family daycare business. </p>
<p>Our family had indeed won the lottery. But coming to America meant something more profound than financial opportunity. </p>
<p>I remember<span> </span><a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/the-court-verdict-that-prompted-indira-gandhi-to-declare-emergency/story-uaDsy0j3B0vSdiPn2md9WO.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in 1975</a><span> </span>when a high court found that then-prime minister of India Indira Gandhi had interfered unlawfully in an election. The ruling disqualified her from holding office. In response, she declared a state of emergency, suspended democracy, censored the opposition press and government critics, and threw her political opponents in jail. I remember the shock of these events and our family’s collective relief that we were in the U.S., where it was unimaginable that such things could happen.</p>
<p>When I was 19, I became an American citizen. It was one of the happiest days of my young life. The immigration officer gave me a civics test, including a question about the First Amendment. It was an easy test because I knew it in my heart. The American civic religion has the right to free speech as the core of its liturgy. I never imagined that there would come a time when an American government would think of violating this right, or that I would be its target. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, during the pandemic, the American government violated my free speech rights and those of my scientist colleagues for questioning the federal government’s pandemic policies. </p>
<p>My parents had taught me that people here could criticize the government, even over matters of life and death, without worry that the government would censor or suppress us. But over the past three years, I have been robbed of that conviction. American government officials, working in concert with big tech companies, have attacked and suppressed my speech and that of my colleagues for criticizing official pandemic policies—criticism that has been proven prescient. </p>
<p>On Friday, at long last, the Fifth Circuit Court<span> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/08/5th-circuit-ruling-covid-content-moderation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a><span> </span>that we were not imagining it—that the Biden administration did indeed strong-arm social media companies into doing its bidding. The<span> </span><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.214640/gov.uscourts.ca5.214640.238.1.pdf#p=23" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court found</a><span> </span>that the Biden White House, the CDC, the U.S. Surgeon General’s office, and the FBI “engaged in a years-long pressure campaign [on social media outlets] designed to ensure that the censorship aligned with the government’s preferred viewpoints.” </p>
<p>The judges described a pattern of government officials making “threats of ‘fundamental reforms’ like regulatory changes and increased enforcement actions” if we did not comply. The implication was clear. To paraphrase Al Capone: Nice company you have there. It’d be a shame if something were to happen to it.</p>
<p>It worked. According to the judges, “the officials’ campaign succeeded. The platforms, in capitulation to state-sponsored pressure, changed their moderation policies.”</p>
<p>In exposing this behavior—and in declaring it a likely violation of the First Amendment—the ruling is not just a victory for my fellow scientists and me, but for every single American.</p>
<div class="captioned-image-container">
<div class="image2-inset"><source type="image/webp">https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F542a4844-5c80-41eb-852b-11cd2181a2a2_1336x24.png 848w, <a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F542a4844-5c80-41eb-852b-11cd2181a2a2_1336x24.png">https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F542a4844-5c80-41eb-852b-11cd2181a2a2_1336x24.png</a> 1272w, <a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F542a4844-5c80-41eb-852b-11cd2181a2a2_1336x24.png">https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F542a4844-5c80-41eb-852b-11cd2181a2a2_1336x24.png</a> 1456w" sizes="100vw" /><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F542a4844-5c80-41eb-852b-11cd2181a2a2_1336x24.png" width="1336" height="24"/>https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/542a4844-5c80-41eb-852b-11cd2181a2a2_1336x24.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":24,"width":1336,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":760,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F542a4844-5c80-41eb-852b-11cd2181a2a2_1336x24.png 424w, <a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F542a4844-5c80-41eb-852b-11cd2181a2a2_1336x24.png">https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F542a4844-5c80-41eb-852b-11cd2181a2a2_1336x24.png</a> 848w, <a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F542a4844-5c80-41eb-852b-11cd2181a2a2_1336x24.png">https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F542a4844-5c80-41eb-852b-11cd2181a2a2_1336x24.png</a> 1272w, <a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F542a4844-5c80-41eb-852b-11cd2181a2a2_1336x24.png">https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F542a4844-5c80-41eb-852b-11cd2181a2a2_1336x24.png</a> 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy" /></source><div><source type="image/webp"></source></div>
</div>
<source type="image/webp"><br />
</source></div>
<p><source type="image/webp">The trouble began on October 4, 2020, when my colleagues and I—Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard University, and Dr. Sunetra Gupta, an epidemiologist at the University of Oxford—published the<span> </span><a href="https://gbdeclaration.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Great Barrington Declaration</a>. The Declaration called for an end to economic lockdowns, school shutdowns, and similar restrictive policies on the grounds that they disproportionately harm the young and economically disadvantaged while conferring limited benefits to society as a whole. </source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">The Declaration endorsed a “focused protection” approach that called for strong measures to protect high-risk populations while allowing lower-risk individuals to return to normal life with reasonable precautions. Tens of thousands of doctors and public health scientists signed our statement.</source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">With hindsight, it is clear that this strategy was the right one.<span> </span><a href="https://reason.com/volokh/2023/01/10/no-lockdown-sweden-seemingly-tied-for-lowest-all-causes-mortality-in-oecd-since-covid-arrived/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweden</a>, which in large part eschewed lockdown and, after early problems, embraced focused protection of older populations, had among the lowest age-adjusted all-cause excess deaths than nearly every other country in Europe and suffered none of the learning loss for its elementary school children. Similarly,<span> </span><a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/02/why-major-study-argues-floridas-covid-death-rate-compares-favorably-to-californias/#:~:text=With%20an%20adjustment%20to%20show%20what%20it%20would,to%2012th%20lowest%2C%20while%20California%E2%80%99s%20fell%20to%2036th." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a><span> </span>has seen lower cumulative age-adjusted all-cause excess deaths than lockdown-obsessed California since the start of the pandemic. </source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">But at the time, our proposal was viewed by high government officials like<span> </span><a href="https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/anthony-s-fauci-md-bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Fauci</a><span> </span>and some in the Trump White House, including Deborah Birx, then-White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, as a kind of heresy.</source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">Federal officials immediately targeted the Great Barrington Declaration for suppression because it contradicted the government’s preferred response to Covid. Four days after the Declaration’s publication, then-director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins,<span> </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/fauci-collins-emails-great-barrington-declaration-covid-pandemic-lockdown-11640129116" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emailed Fauci</a><span> </span>to organize a “devastating takedown” of it. </source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">Almost immediately, social media companies such as Google/YouTube, Reddit, and Facebook<span> </span><a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-cant-we-talk-about-the-great-barrington-declaration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">censored mentions</a><span> </span>of the Declaration. </source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">As<span> </span><em>The Free Press<span> </span></em>revealed in its Twitter Files reporting, in 2021<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601008766861815808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1601008766861815808%7Ctwgr%5E9f7dfe94ba6bac9f09ffcc24bc006d01ac4c3186%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthepostmillennial.com%2Fbreaking-twitter-files-part-two-released-exposing-secret-blacklists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a><span> </span><a href="https://stanforddaily.com/2023/01/18/stanford-professor-put-on-twitters-trends-blacklist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blacklisted</a><span> </span>me for posting a link to the Great Barrington Declaration. YouTube<span> </span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/ron-desantis-youtube-removing-pandemic-video-misinformation-6231f16a98ba30cd376b98cd48c5c62e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">censored</a><span> </span>a video of a public policy roundtable of me with Florida governor Ron DeSantis for the crime of telling him that the scientific evidence for masking children is weak. </source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">I have been a professor researching health policy and infectious disease epidemiology at a world-class university for decades. I am not a political person; I am not registered with either party. In part that is because I want to preserve my total independence as a scientist. I have always viewed my job as telling people honestly about the data issues, regardless of whether Democrats or Republicans liked the message. </source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">Yet at the height of the pandemic, I found myself smeared for my supposed political views, and my views about Covid policy and epidemiology were removed from the public square on all manner of social networks. I could not believe this was happening in the country I so love. </source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">In August 2022, my colleagues and I finally had a chance to fight back. The Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general asked me to join as a plaintiff in their case, represented by the<span> </span><a href="https://nclalegal.org/missouri-et-al-v-joseph-r-biden-jr-et-al/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Civil Liberties Alliance</a>, against the Biden administration. The aim of the suit was to end the government's role in this censorship—and restore the free speech rights of all Americans in the digital town square.</source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">Lawyers in the<span> </span><em>Missouri v. Biden</em><span> </span>case deposed representatives, under oath, from many federal agencies involved in the censorship efforts, including Anthony Fauci. </source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">Broad discovery of email exchanges between the government and social media companies showed an administration willing to use its regulatory powers against social media companies that did not comply with censorship demands. </source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">The case revealed that a dozen federal agencies—including the CDC, the Office of the Surgeon General, and the Biden White House—pressured social media companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter to censor and suppress even true speech contradicting federal pandemic priorities. For instance, in 2021, the White House threatened social media companies with damaging regulatory action unless it censored scientists who shared the demonstrable fact that the Covid vaccines do not prevent people from getting Covid. </source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">True or false, if speech interfered with the government’s priorities, it had to go.</source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">On Independence Day this year, federal Judge Terry Doughty issued a preliminary<span> </span><a href="https://nclalegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2023.7.4-PI-ORder-m-v.-b.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">injunction</a><span> </span>in the case, ordering the federal government to immediately stop coercing social media companies to censor protected free speech. In his decision, Justice Doughty<span> </span><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.293.0.pdf#p=154" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compared</a><span> </span>the administration’s censorship infrastructure to an Orwellian Ministry of Truth. His ruling decried the vast federal censorship enterprise that dictated who and what social media companies could publish. </source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">The government appealed, convinced it should have the power to censor scientific speech. An administrative stay followed and lasted much of the summer. But on Friday, a three-judge panel of the<span> </span><a href="https://nclalegal.org/2023/09/fifth-circuit-missouri-v-biden-social-media-censorship-injunction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit</a><span> </span>unanimously<span> </span><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca5.214640/gov.uscourts.ca5.214640.238.1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restored</a><span> </span>a modified version of the preliminary injunction, telling the government to stop using social media companies to do its censorship dirty work: </source></p>
<blockquote><source type="image/webp"></source><p><source type="image/webp">Defendants, and their employees and agents, shall take no actions, formal or informal, directly or indirectly, to coerce or significantly encourage social-media companies to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce, including through altering their algorithms, posted social-media content containing protected free speech. That includes, but is not limited to, compelling the platforms to act, such as by intimating that some form of punishment will follow a failure to comply with any request, or supervising, directing, or otherwise meaningfully controlling the social media companies’ decision-making processes.</source></p>
</blockquote>
<p><source type="image/webp">As I read the decision, I was overcome with emotion. I think my father, who died when I was 20, would be proud that I played a role in this. I know my mother is.</source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">That is because the victory is not just for me but for every American who felt the oppressive force of this censorship industrial complex during the pandemic. It is a vindication for parents who advocated for some semblance of normal life for their children but found their Facebook groups suppressed. It is a vindication for vaccine-injured patients who sought the company and counsel of fellow patients online but found themselves gaslit by social media companies and the government into thinking their personal experience of harm was all in their heads. </source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">The decision provides some solace for scientists who had deep reservations about lockdowns but censored themselves for fear of the reputational damage that came with being falsely labeled misinformers. They were not wrong in thinking science wasn’t working right; science simply cannot function without free speech.</source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">The decision isn’t perfect. Some entities at the heart of the government’s censorship enterprise can still organize to suppress speech. For instance, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within the Department of Homeland Security can still work with academics to develop a hit list for government censorship. And the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Fauci’s old organization, can still coordinate devastating takedowns of outside scientists critical of government policy.</source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">But the headline is a good one: the federal government can no longer threaten social media companies with destruction if they don’t censor on behalf of the government. </source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">The Biden administration, which has proven itself to be an enemy of free speech, will surely appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. But I am hopeful that we will win there, just as we have at every venue in this litigation. I am grateful for the resilience of the U.S. Constitution, which has withstood this challenge. </source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp">But I can never go back to the uncomplicated faith and naive confidence I had in America when I was young. Our government is not immune to the authoritarian impulse. I have learned the hard way that it is only we, the people, who must hold an overreaching government accountable for violating our most sacred rights. Without our vigilance, we will lose them.</source></p>
<div class="captioned-image-container"><source type="image/webp">
</source><div class="image2-inset"><source type="image/webp"><source type="image/webp">https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc048a454-023e-4c45-9fc6-d159509b8f30_1336x24.png 848w, <a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc048a454-023e-4c45-9fc6-d159509b8f30_1336x24.png">https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc048a454-023e-4c45-9fc6-d159509b8f30_1336x24.png</a> 1272w, <a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc048a454-023e-4c45-9fc6-d159509b8f30_1336x24.png">https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc048a454-023e-4c45-9fc6-d159509b8f30_1336x24.png</a> 1456w" sizes="100vw" /><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc048a454-023e-4c45-9fc6-d159509b8f30_1336x24.png" width="1336" height="24"/>https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c048a454-023e-4c45-9fc6-d159509b8f30_1336x24.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":24,"width":1336,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":810,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc048a454-023e-4c45-9fc6-d159509b8f30_1336x24.png 424w, <a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc048a454-023e-4c45-9fc6-d159509b8f30_1336x24.png">https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc048a454-023e-4c45-9fc6-d159509b8f30_1336x24.png</a> 848w, <a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc048a454-023e-4c45-9fc6-d159509b8f30_1336x24.png">https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc048a454-023e-4c45-9fc6-d159509b8f30_1336x24.png</a> 1272w, <a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc048a454-023e-4c45-9fc6-d159509b8f30_1336x24.png">https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc048a454-023e-4c45-9fc6-d159509b8f30_1336x24.png</a> 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy" /></source></source><div><source type="image/webp"></source></div>
</div>
<source type="image/webp"><br />
</source></div>
<p><source type="image/webp"><em>Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, is a professor of health policy at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he researches epidemiology and health economics. He is a founding fellow of the<span> </span><a href="https://dc.hillsdale.edu/Academy-for-Science-and-Freedom/Overview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Academy for Science and Freedom</a>, a Hillsdale College initiative. He also podcasts at the<span> </span><a href="https://www.illusionconsensus.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Illusion of Consensus</a><span> </span>site. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter)<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@DrJBhattacharya</a>.</em></source></p>
<p><source type="image/webp"><em>And to support our mission of independent journalism, become a Free Press subscriber today:</em></source></p>
</div>FROM MERCOLA TESSA LENA All Eyes Are on the WHO as They try to Take Over the Worldtag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-09-16:5235400:BlogPost:1511362023-09-16T13:32:58.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">All Eyes Are on the WHO as They try to Take Over the World</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a href="https://tessa.substack.com/about" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Tessa Lena</a></span><br></br><br></br>
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">September 15, 2023…</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">All Eyes Are on the WHO as They try to Take Over the World</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://tessa.substack.com/about" rel="noopener">Tessa Lena</a></span><br/><br/>
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">September 15, 2023</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br/><br/>
<p></p>
</div>
<p></p>
<div class="video-container"></div>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div id="bcr_divStoryImage" class="story-image"><img id="bcr_imgStory" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/September/Nonlead/the-who-take-over-the-world-thumbnail.jpg" alt="the who take over the world" name="bcr_imgStory"/></div>
<div class="story-highlights"><h3 id="expanderHead">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</h3>
<div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">In May 2022, the World Health Organization adopted Amendments to International Health Regulations, time for individual countries to turn around and reject them is running out</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">A whole new set of potentially dangerous Amendments is in the works, the latest draft is not available to the public, the available drafts are nefarious</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">On September 20, 2023, the UN plans to adopt a “Political Declaration of the United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response” promoting the need to spend an additional 30 billion every year on “global health emergency preparedness”</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">In May 2024, the 300+ new amendments and the WHO CA+ Framework Convention (formerly known as “Pandemic Treaty”) are scheduled to be adopted</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">Time to let our opinions heard and say no to neofeudalism is now</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><h2>All Eyes on the WHO</h2>
<p>The World Health Organization circa 2023 is a villain. They are an excuse for money laundering and subjugating innocent people for the benefit and the convenience of the biggest oligarchs.</p>
<p>They glorify themselves — but words are cheap, and we may be hurting — but we are not lobotomized. We have not forgotten what their “guidance” has done to us in the past three years. We are sicker, we have less freedom, less dignity, and somebody is constantly trying to stick a needle or ten into our arms. What delight.</p>
<p>On my end, I still remember how only three years ago, the rumor about this video by the WHO was whispered and passed around as an impossible, unthinkable conspiracy theory. Oh, how time flies.</p>
<div class="video-rwd"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2v3vlw14NbM?si=9HNqXjGHYgxyEV1p&start=2995&wmode=opaque&rel=0"></iframe>
</div>
<p>Here is a great introduction to the topic by Dr. Meryl Nass from May 2023 that she delivered at the International Covid Summit III:</p>
<div class="video-rwd"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4MrIsXDKrtE?si=H0LZ_cMVR1xEijys&start=14361&wmode=opaque&rel=0"></iframe>
</div>
<h2>Four Treacherous Tracks</h2>
<p>Right now, the efforts by the WHO to scam the people of the world and to make our lives worse are happening on four different tracks, as documented by James Roguski and Dr. Meryl Nass on their respective Substacks (<a href="https://merylnass.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/stop-the-global-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>) and on the new dedicated website,<span> </span><a href="https://doortofreedom.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Door to Freedom</a>. Here are the four tracks that are important to pay attention to right now, per<span> </span><a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/stop-the-global-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Roguski</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li>The Political Declaration of the United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response</li>
<li>The Amendments to the International Health Regulations adopted in May 2022 that needs to be rejected by the end of November of this year</li>
<li>The new set of Amendments to the International Health Regulations that are currently being worked on, expected to be officially submitted for consideration as a draft in January 2024 and adopted in May 2024</li>
<li>The WHO CA+ Framework Convention (formerly known as “Pandemic Treaty”)</li>
</ul>
<div class="center-img has-figcaption"><img class=" mlazyloaded" alt="stop the negotiation" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2023/July/stop-the-negotiation-image.jpg"/><em>Image source:<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/stop-the-global-agenda" rel="noopener">jamesroguski.substack.com/p/stop-the-global-agenda</a></em></div>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>James<span> </span><a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/stop-the-global-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">points out</a><span> </span>four quickly approaching deadlines:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>September 20, 2023 —<span> </span></strong>The United Nations plans to adopt a “Political Declaration of the United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response.”</li>
<li><strong>December 1, 2023 —<span> </span></strong>Deadline to REJECT the amendments to the International Health Regulations that were adopted on May 27, 2022.</li>
<li><strong>Mid-January, 2024 —<span> </span></strong>Deadline for input to the 300+ amendments to the International Health Regulations that are currently being negotiated in secret.</li>
<li><strong>May 2024 —<span> </span></strong>Scheduled date for adoption of the 300+ amendments and the WHO CA+ Framework Convention (AKA: “Pandemic Treaty”).</li>
</ul>
<div class="video-rwd has-figcaption"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/7PbYpVeIlDJ0/" rel="noopener">Video Link</a></div>
<div class="productad"></div>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/September/PDF/the-who-take-over-the-world-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>Exit the WHO</h2>
<p>One way to solve all the WHO woes is to exit the WHO.</p>
<center><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
</center>
<p>James provides a<span> </span><a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/exit-the-who" target="_blank" rel="noopener">very detailed information about what you can do</a>. Sounds like a good plan!</p>
<div class="center-img"><img class=" ls-is-cached mlazyloaded" alt="the who wants total control over you" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2023/July/the-who-wants-total-control-over-you-preview.jpg"/></div>
<p>Now let’s go back to the four individual tracks that the WHO is pursuing in order to give a veneer of respectability to the classic enrichment scheme wrapped in a narrative about “our health.”</p>
<h2>United Nations “Political Declaration”</h2>
<p>The “Political Declaration of the United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response”<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup><span> </span>is a non-binding United Nations declaration scheduled to be adopted in September 2023. While it is non-binding, it adopted, it will give steam to adjacent nefarious agendas and provide an additional way of supporting the efforts happening on other tracks.</p>
<p>The declaration, uhm, declares a pressing need for 30 billion dollars to be spent on “health.” “Health” is an Orwellian euphemism referring to a lucrative digital surveillance infrastructure and pushing more “vaccines” into the arms of every man, woman, and child (and probably, if they can get away with it, also into the innocent bodies on every dog and cat). The Declaration includes the following language:</p>
<p>PP29 (page 5):</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Welcome the launch of the Pandemic Fund in November 2022, to strengthen national health emergency preparedness, response and resilience in low-income and middle-income countries and recall that financing effective national, regional and global health emergency preparedness will require approximately US$ 30 billion per year, outside current Official Development Assistance levels;”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>OP2 (page 6):</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Ensure the timely, sustainable and equitable access to pandemic-related products, including vaccines, diagnostics, therapeutics and call on the World Health Organization to coordinate this with relevant partners, ensuring coherence with the ongoing discussions of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body and the Working Group on Amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) in Geneva;”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>OP32 (page 11):</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Take measures to address the negative impact of misinformation and disinformation on public health measures as well as people’s physical and mental health, and to counter mis and dis-information, especially on social media platforms, in the context of pandemic prevention, preparedness and response and to foster trust in health systems and vaccine confidence, while recognizing that the effective engagement of stakeholders requires access to timely and accurate information;”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>OP38 (page 12):</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Call also for the improvement of routine immunization, vaccination and outreach capacities, including by providing evidence-based information on countering vaccine hesitancy, and expand vaccine coverage to prevent outbreaks as well as the spread and re-emergence of communicable diseases, including for vaccine-preventable diseases already eliminated as well as for ongoing eradication efforts, such as for poliomyelitis;”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>OP39 (page 12):</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Mobilize domestic public resources as the main source of financing for pandemic prevention preparedness and response, through political leadership, consistent with national capacities, and expand pooling of resources allocated to health, identify new sources of revenue and improve the efficiency of public financial management;”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>OP44 (page 13):</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Call also for the conclusion in 2024 of the negotiations of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body in Geneva, of an ambitious and legally binding convention, agreement, or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, with a view to adoption under Article 19 of the Constitution of the World Health Organization, or under other provisions of the Constitution of the World Health Organization as may be deemed appropriate by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body, to strengthen the pandemic prevention, preparedness and response spectrum and inviting all other initiatives to support this central endeavor, and for the conclusion in 2024 of the negotiations of the Working Group on International Health Regulations Amendments (2005), to provide support to all the health and health-related measures necessary to prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>The Declaration has been analyzed in great detail (including action items) by James Roguski<span> </span><a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/begging-for-billion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p>
<h2>Amendments to International Health Regulations</h2>
<p>International Health Regulations<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup><span> </span>were originally adopted in 1969. As described on the<span> </span><a href="https://doortofreedom.org/2023/07/14/what-are-the-international-health-regulations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Door to Freedom</a>, the World Health Organization members adopted a set of principles termed the<span> </span><a href="https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/85816/Official_record176_eng.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">International Health Regulations (IHR) in 1969</a><span> </span>to guide the conduct of nations during health emergencies affecting more than one country, especially malaria and smallpox. The IHR was<span> </span><a href="https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241580496" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amended in 2005</a>. The WHO<span> </span><a href="https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241580496" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) provide an overarching legal framework that defines countries’ rights and obligations in handling public health events and emergencies that have the potential to cross borders.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>There are two sets of<span> </span><a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/stop-the-amendments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IHR Amendments</a><span> </span>that we need to pay attention to. One set was adopted in<span> </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/first-steps-reforming-global-health-emergency-rules-agreed-who-meeting-sources-2022-05-27/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 2022</a><span> </span>at the<span> </span><a href="https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA75-REC1/A75_REC1_Interactive_en.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seventy-Fifth World Health Assembly</a><span> </span>(pages 59-62 of the PDF). The deadline for the United States to reject them is December 1, 2023.</p>
<p>Another set of Amendments was submitted by 94 countries around September 2022. The last publicly available draft was published in<span> </span><a href="https://apps.who.int/gb/wgihr/pdf_files/wgihr2/A_WGIHR2_6-en.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 2022</a>, we are kept in the dark as to what the real latest draft looks like. That final draft of those Amendments has to be formally submitted by an internal committee around January 2024 to be adopted in May 2024 (or so they hope).</p>
<p>Let’s look at the convoluted Amendments plot in more detail. International Health Regulations are legally binding but originally, the language of the Regulations didn’t ask for too much. The member states are now required to monitor their epidemiological situation and report qualifying developments to the WHO. If done honestly and without overreach, one could argue that it’s a sensible thing.</p>
<p>Like it is with everything in life though, the devil is in the detail. Let us use a metaphor. Membership in the WHO and being legally bound by their regulation are like a marriage. One could say that marriage is a good thing. Yes, it could be — but what if your spouse is abusive? Then it’s obviously a bad thing. Same with the WHO.</p>
<p>It is lovely to have a honest international body helping with various matters of public health. Yes, it is lovely if that is actually what’s going on. But if instead of being an honest organization, they are a mob that is running endless money laundering schemes for various wealthy folks and constantly trying to stick needles into people’s arms while<span> </span><a href="https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/shocking-vaccine-admissions-from-inside-the-w-h-o/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">knowing</a><span> </span>that the products they are trying to inject may be causing harm, then the story far from lovely. It is then not lovely at all.</p>
<p>So, we’ve been humming along, and then in January 2022, the United States submitted a number of nefarious Amendments to thirteen IHR Articles that, upon some display of discontent and noise raised by the African and some other member states ended up “disappearing” and<span> </span><a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/we-won" target="_blank" rel="noopener">going nowhere</a>.</p>
<p>Instead, in May 2022, more innocuous amendments (to five Articles) were adopted.<sup><span id="edn3">3</span></sup><span> </span>The Amendments that ended up being adopted in May 2022 were submitted just a couple of days before they were adopted, despite the requirement to submit them at least four months in advance. Here is how it all went down:</p>
<div class="video-rwd"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/M393lvg1650?si=AI1dF8_P1cau-6TQ&start=466&wmode=opaque&rel=0"></iframe>
</div>
<p><a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/stop-the-amendments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Roguski</a><span> </span>wrote an excellent analysis of the Amendments adopted in May 2022:</p>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>Executive Summary:</strong></em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="indent"><div class="indent"><p><em><span class="bullet">•</span>Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, European Union and its Member States, Japan, Monaco, Republic of Korea, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and United States of America (illegitimately?) proposed and adopted (without a quorum?) a set of amendments to five Articles (55, 59, 61, 62, 63) of the International Health Regulations.</em></p>
<p><em><span class="bullet">•</span>It must be understood that 194 unelected, unaccountable and largely unknown delegates have somehow obtained the unusual authority to change international law by simply agreeing to do so. Once they have quietly adopted any proposed amendments, no signatures by any President or Prime Minister and no approval by any Parliamentary body, Congress or Senate is needed.</em></p>
<p><em>An 18 month period of unawareness, ignorance and silence is all that is needed for the amendments to enter into force.</em></p>
<p><em><span class="bullet">•</span><strong>Under Article 61 of the IHR each and every member nation has the authority to REJECT any or all of the amendments but they must do so before late November 2023 [the formal deadline seems to be December 1, 2023].</strong></em></p>
<p><em><span class="bullet">•</span>Unless rejected before late November, 2023, the amendments to Article 59 will reduce the time period for rejection from 18 to 10 months and the time period for enactment into force will be reduced from 24 to 12 months.</em></p>
<p><em><span class="bullet">•</span>The amendments to Article 62 clarify the details by which reservations can be made to future amendments.</em></p>
</div>
</div>
<blockquote><p><em>“Since the adoption of the amendments on May 27, 2022 (during the 75th World Health Assembly), no signatures by any Presidents or Prime Ministers have been obtained and no approval by the Senate, Congress or any Parliament has been obtained in order to “ratify” the amendments to the International Health Regulations. Such approval is NOT needed.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>In James’ opinion, the fact that legally binding amendments were adopted without any mainstream publicity or national legal oversight is a disastrous situation. Many of us agree.</p>
<h2>Another Set of IHR Amendments Set To Be Adopted in 2024</h2>
<p>A brand new collection of amendments is set to be adopted in May 2024.<span> </span><a href="https://doortofreedom.org/2023/07/14/what-are-the-international-health-regulations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Door to Freedom</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“A total of 307 amendments were proposed during 2022 by 94 member nations [around September 2022]. The<span> </span><a href="https://apps.who.int/gb/wgihr/pdf_files/wgihr2/A_WGIHR2_7-en.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed amendments</a><span> </span>were first made publicly available in mid-December, 2022 and were<span> </span><a href="https://apps.who.int/gb/wgihr/pdf_files/wgihr2/A_WGIHR2_6-en.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">republished</a><span> </span>on February 6, 2023.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The proposed Amendments would allow the W.H.O. Director-General to assume the authority to direct healthcare around the world whenever he declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. He has already declared 3 (for Ebola, COVID-19 and monkeypox) during his six years in office. Among the new provisions in the proposed IHR amendments are the following:</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="indent"><ul>
<li><em>Vaccine passports.</em></li>
<li><em>The guarantee of human rights has been struck out, removing the words “with full respect for the dignity, human rights and fundamentals freedoms of persons,” which are present in the current version of the IHRs.</em></li>
<li><em>The potential to enforce certain medical treatments and ban others.</em></li>
<li><em>A requirement for biological surveillance (such as PCR tests) to be performed on humans and animals in search of pandemic pathogens.</em></li>
<li><em>The requirement to monitor social media and allow only the W.H.O.’s narrative on public health to be transmitted.</em></li>
<li><em>The ability to commandeer medical supplies within one country for use by another.</em></li>
<li><em>The requirement to share genetic sequences of pathogens, even though this could result in proliferation of biological weapons, which is banned by existing treaties such as Resolution 1540 (2004) of the UN Security Council and the Biological Weapons Convention (1972).</em></li>
</ul>
</div>
<blockquote><p><em>Furthermore, the current draft IHRs include no specific criteria for the Director-General of W.H.O. to declare a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). A declaration could even be made without the consent of the involved nations. And there are no provisions that make W.H.O. officials accountable for their actions.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Equally concerning, a PHEIC declaration can be issued for merely the potential for a public health emergency, and the emergency powers can be extended beyond the end of the emergency.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The proposed IHR amendments raise the possibility of a global health dictatorship, called at the whim of the W.H.O. leadership or the whim of the W.H.O.’s major funders. Why the W.H.O. should take on these powers, when its performance during COVID-19 was far from stellar, is an important question.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The proposed amendments will be considered for adoption at the 77th World Health Assembly during the last week of May, 2024.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Dr. Nass recently<span> </span><a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/who-amendments-increase-man-made-pandemics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a><span> </span>that “the WHO’s proposed amendments will Increase man-made pandemics.”</p>
<p>And here is an overview of the 307 proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations that are currently being negotiated by the Working Group for amendments to the International Health Regulations by<span> </span><a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/stop-the-amendments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Roguski</a>:</p>
<div class="indent"><p><span class="bullet">•</span>At least 94 member nations have submitted 307 amendments to the International Health Regulations to 33 of the 66 Articles, along with 6 new Articles as well as proposing amendments to 6 of the 9 Annexes and one new Annex. Do not forget that 100 member nations did NOT submit any proposed amendments, which would imply that they did not feel any changes were needed.</p>
<p><span class="bullet">•</span>Many of the people who have reviewed the amendments have failed to focus on the original submissions from each nation, so they jump to a conclusion that “the amendments” are a unified set of changes, instead of realizing that the amendments were submitted by many different nations and that there are still many disagreements on how to proceed.</p>
<p><span class="bullet">•</span>Each of the many nations, and groups of nations, are attempting to bend the WHO to their will in order to gain advantages for themselves.</p>
<p><span class="bullet">•</span>Neither the WHO nor the Director-General submitted any proposed amendments.</p>
<p><span class="bullet">•</span>Details within the International Health Regulations Review Committee's Final Report are clearly critical of many of the 307 amendments that were proposed by the 94 member nations. Excerpts from the IHRRC Final Report are included in the text below.</p>
</div>
<p>The problem is that we don’t know what is contained in the current draft. If adopted, the new Amendments have the potential to formally erode the already wobbly national sovereignty and enable the richest people of the world to legally use the WHO as a front for their cruel money scams that play with people’s lives like it’s good ol’ feudal times all over again. Am I even slightly excited about neufeudalism? No.</p>
<h2>“Pandemic Treaty”</h2>
<p>The fourth track is the WHO CA+ Framework Convention. This track (formerly known as “Pandemic Treaty”) was initiated<span> </span><a href="https://www.who.int/news/item/01-12-2021-world-health-assembly-agrees-to-launch-process-to-develop-historic-global-accord-on-pandemic-prevention-preparedness-and-response" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in December 2021</a>. It has to do with creating a new international legal framework that would theoretically coordinate the activities of different member states but in practice, would likely coordinate more money laundering schemes at our expense. James Roguski writes on<span> </span><a href="https://doortofreedom.org/2023/07/14/what-is-the-pandemic-treaty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Door to Freedom:</a></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“In response to what is essentially an international trade dispute, a special session of the World Health Assembly decided on December 1, 2021 to create an Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) to launch a process to develop an historic global accord under the Constitution of the World Health Organization to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>“Article 19 of the WHO Constitution provides the World Health Assembly with the authority to adopt conventions or agreements on any matter within WHO’s competence. The INB will submit its outcome for consideration by the 77th World Health Assembly in May 2024. The sole instrument established under Article 19 to date is the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.”<sup><span id="edn4">4</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“In early April 2022, a total of 33,884 public comments were received by the WHO. Over 99% of the comments voiced opposition to the idea of a “Pandemic Treaty.”<sup><span id="edn5">5</span></sup></em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In September 2022, several hundred video submissions were received by the WHO. The majority of the videos submitted by individuals voiced opposition to the idea of a “Pandemic Treaty.”<sup><span id="edn6">6</span></sup></em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The INB has held 5 official meetings and has published a Working Draft,<sup><span id="edn7">7</span></sup><span> </span>a Conceptual Zero Draft,<sup><span id="edn8">8</span></sup><span> </span>a Zero Draft<sup><span id="edn9">9</span></sup><span> </span>and a Bureau’s Text.<sup><span id="edn10">10</span></sup><span> </span>The controversial “compilation text,” which is purported to include approximately 200 pages of text proposed by the member nations, has not been made available to the public.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>The existing drafts go about same old, same old: surveillance, infrastructure, tackling “misinformation,” and vaccines.</p>
<p>We are looking at a multi-prong, very tragic, and extremely corrupt military-grade campaign to chain and subjugate the people of the world in a new way (in addition to the old way). The novel feature is the use of digital technology to tag us, to surveil us, to limit our movement and our access to “old normal” foods and medicines that work while forcing various procedures on us that can maim. Shame on them. Shame on them.</p>
<h2>The “Swine Flu” Precedent and Long-Term Planning</h2>
<p>I<span> </span><a href="https://tessa.substack.com/p/who-pandemic-treaty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a><span> </span>about the planning strategies around the time when the information about the “Pandemic Treaty” was first coming out:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Thing is, the WHO already tried to pull off a huge vaccine-selling health crisis more than ten years ago but it didn’t quite work. The vaccine-selling part did work very well because they managed to activate the purchasing agreements — but the “scaring the public” part kind of “flopped” that time around.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>All that happened was that the pandemic was solemnly declared, the agreement-participating counties purchased relatively large batches of subpar vaccines (see “<a href="https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-narcolepsy-fiasco-spurs-covid-vaccine.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">narcolepsy fiasco</a>”), and then the entire thing went away.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="video-rwd"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/q9qeLcq3y8w?si=gBodCDPBveNiEHqU&wmode=opaque&rel=0"></iframe>
</div>
<blockquote><p><em>Here is a<span> </span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/2010/03/10/swine-flu-world-health-organization-pandemic-opinions-contributors-henry-i-miller.html?sh=78b1effb1617" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2010 Forbes article</a><span> </span>that says: “From the beginning the World Health Organization's actions have ranged from the dubious to the flagrantly incompetent.” And here is the<span> </span><a href="https://assembly.coe.int/CommitteeDocs/2010/20100604_H1n1pandemic_E.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a><span> </span>by the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, titled, “The handling of the H1N1 pandemic: more transparency needed”:</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>“The rapporteur considers that some of the outcomes of the pandemic, as illustrated in this report, have been dramatic: distortion of priorities of public health services all over Europe, waste of huge sums of public money, provocation of unjustified fear amongst Europeans, creation of health risks through vaccines and medications which might not have been sufficiently tested before being authorised in fast-track procedures, are all examples of these outcomes.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>From the<span> </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190827161240/https:/www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c2912.full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">British Medical Journal</a>:</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>“WHO for years had defined pandemics as outbreaks causing “enormous numbers of deaths and illness” but in early May 2009 it removed this phrase — describing a measure of severity — from the definition.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Key scientists advising the World Health Organization on planning for an influenza pandemic had done paid work for pharmaceutical firms that stood to gain from the guidance they were preparing. These conflicts of interest have never been publicly disclosed by WHO, and WHO has dismissed inquiries into its handling of the A/H1N1 pandemic as “conspiracy theories.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>“A joint investigation by the BMJ and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has uncovered evidence that raises troubling questions about how WHO managed conflicts of interest among the scientists who advised its pandemic planning, and about the transparency of the science underlying its advice to governments.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Was it appropriate for WHO to take advice from experts who had declarable financial and research ties with pharmaceutical companies producing antivirals and influenza vaccines?”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And here is a 2019 lecture by Marc Van Ranst, Belgian Flu Commissioner, at the ESWI/Chatham House Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Stakeholders Conference. At around 13 minutes in, he brags about how he “misused the fact that that the top, top football … soccer clubs in Belgium inappropriately and against all agreements vaccinated … they made their soccer players priority people.” The audience laughs.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="video-rwd has-figcaption"><iframe width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/320913130?h=8d719969ae"></iframe>
<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://vimeo.com/320913130" rel="noopener">Video Link</a><br/><br/></div>
<p>And speaking of long-term planning, the U.S. “health response” of 2020 was made possible in part thanks to the<span> </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1283304/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“pandemic preparedness” plans developed during Bush</a>, when no one sane was even considering the possibility of such things. They do plan in advance!</p>
<h2>WHO Is Deeply Corrupt</h2>
<p>Here is a very brief<span> </span><a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/why-the-who-is-a-corrupt-unhealthy-organization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">look</a><span> </span>at just how corrupt the World Health Organization is:</p>
<table class="generic-table left-align">
<tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p><em>Rather than putting public health first, such as pushing for safety studies into vaccination, WHO’s history clearly illustrates its allegiance to Big Pharma and other industries. WHO, for instance, has downplayed the health effects caused by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, stating that only 50 deaths were directly caused by the incident and “a total of up to 4,000 people could eventually die of radiation exposure” from the disaster.</em><sup><span id="edn11">11</span></sup></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p><em>WHO signed an agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is “promoting peaceful use of atomic energy,” in 1959, making it subordinate to the agency in relation to ionizing radiation.</em></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p><em>WHO’s response to the Fukushima radiation disaster in 2011 was also criticized, with evidence of a high-level coverup.</em><sup><span id="edn12">12</span></sup></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p><em>WHO once again downplayed the risks, stating “the predicted risks are low and no observable increases in cancer rates above baseline rates are anticipated.”</em><sup><span id="edn13">13</span></sup></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p><em>WHO also received more than $1.6 million from opioid giant Purdue from 1999 to 2010 and used industry-supported opioid data to incorporate into its official pro-opioid guidelines. According to the Alliance of Human Research Protection, WHO’s collaboration with Purdue led to expanded opioid use and global addiction.</em><sup><span id="edn14">14</span></sup></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p><em>Due to its acceptance of private money, a review in the Journal of Integrative Medicine & Therapy went so far as to say the corruption of WHO is the “biggest threat to the world’s public health of our time,” particularly as it relates to WHO’s drug recommendations — including its “list of essential medicines” — which it believes is biased and not reliable.</em><sup><span id="edn15">15</span></sup></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>There is a great documentary called, “<a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/trust-who" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TrustWHO</a>.” If you haven’t seen it, it’s well worth checking out.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>It is really shameful what they are trying to do. They are bullying us, trying to force our lips to move in agreement with their raping methodologies, they are trying to make us say that we want it, that we love them, that we submit to them, and that we accept their new, ever-changing, and upside-down definitions of our sacred words. They are trying to murder the soul.</p>
<p>They are bullies. They are trying to equip their digital raping stations with shiny language about equity and human rights. They are turning some people into zombies, and they are weaponizing the new zombies against the people who refuse to be zombified.</p>
<p>They are trying to turn the people into silhouettes whose feet aren’t touching the ground and whose heads are disconnected from their necks, like this this COVID vaccine ad:</p>
<div class="video-rwd"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_JB8IEPqd1o?si=RbND2oN1Kjiwg7me&wmode=opaque&rel=0"></iframe>
</div>
<p>Don’t let them do that to you. Don’t let anyone do that to you. Don’t let anyone, under any circumstance, disconnect you from your soul.</p>
<h2>About the Author</h2>
<p>To find more of Tessa Lena's work, be sure to check out her bio, <a href="https://tessa.substack.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tessa Fights Robots</a>.</p>
</div>FROM MERCOLA Who Is Responsible for the US Border Crisis? BOBBY KENNEDYtag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-09-02:5235400:BlogPost:1502852023-09-02T13:08:53.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/onrxX6Dwezs?si=BV8h6KLYfKEJ4G9i&wmode=opaque" width="560"></iframe>
</p>
<h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Who Is Responsible for the US Border Crisis?</span></h1>
<p><span>SEPT 1 2023</span></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div class="story-glance" id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance"><div class="story-highlights"><h3 id="expanderHead">STORY AT-A-GLANCE…</h3>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/onrxX6Dwezs?si=BV8h6KLYfKEJ4G9i&wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
</p>
<h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Who Is Responsible for the US Border Crisis?</span></h1>
<p><span>SEPT 1 2023</span></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><h3 id="expanderHead">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</h3>
<div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mini-documentary “Midnight At the Border” investigates the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. The Biden administration has effectively outsourced U.S. immigration to the Mexican cartels, several of which are now fighting for control of human trafficking into the U.S.</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 1.7 million illegals flowed across the southern border into the U.S. in 2021, another 2.4 million in 2022, and nearly 1.8 million so far in 2023</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">In 2006, then-Sen. Biden supported the construction of 700 miles of border wall, 40 stories high. Once he entered the Oval Office, he blocked the completion of the wall and is now selling off unused wall material for pennies on the dollar, in what the New York Post calls “an apparent end-run around pending legislation in Congress” aimed at forcing Biden to finish the wall</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">The open border policy is the antithesis to humanitarianism. Migrants face violence, sexual assault, extortion and robbery along their journey, and an unknown number of children are being trafficked into slavery and the sex trade. As of April 2023, the U.S. Office of Refugee Settlement had lost track of 85,000 unaccompanied migrant children who entered the U.S. in the previous two years</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">The uncontrolled influx of illegals also puts an enormous strain on local communities, all of which have limited resources. In New York City alone, more than 10,000 illegal migrants arrive each month, demanding shelter, meals, social services and education</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>The video above features Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mini-documentary "Midnight At the Border," in which he travels to the U.S.-Mexico border in Yuma, Arizona, to investigate the illegal immigration issue firsthand.</p>
<p>What he discovers, and reveals in this video, is a humanitarian crisis of shocking magnitude and a border security system crippled by politics and corruption. Along the way, Kennedy also gathers ideas for how to solve the problem.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"I witnessed this dystopian nightmare of this uncontrolled flow of desperate humanity crossing the border and converging here because of misbegotten policies by high leadership of the United States,"</em><span> </span>Kennedy says.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, some 1.7 million illegals flowed across the southern border into the U.S. in 2021, another 2.4 million in 2022, and nearly 1.8 million so far in 2023.<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup><span> </span>2022 was an all-time record, and the total for 2023 will likely break it.</p>
<h2>Biden Has Outsourced US Immigration to the Cartels</h2>
<p>A major take-home from Kennedy’s exposé of the border crisis is that the Biden administration has effectively outsourced U.S. immigration to the cartels. Several cartels are in fact now fighting for supremacy.</p>
<p>According to Jonathan Lines, Yuma County, Arizona, supervisor for District 2, there have been 300 assassinations in the past 18 months, as the cartels fight for control of the human trafficking business.</p>
<p>On the night that Kennedy visited Yuma, some 150 people from all over the world crossed the border. And, as noted by Lines, that’s a new phenomenon. In the past, most of the border-jumpers came from Mexico and South America. Now, most of those entering the U.S. illegally are from China, Africa and Eastern Europe.</p>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>People are also coming from Russia, Syria, Ukraine, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Bangladesh. They’ve heard there’s no border control, so they make their way to Mexico first, and then cross over from there.</p>
<p>Some are here for asylum. Some are hoping for a better life — the "American dream" — not yet realizing that that dream is being actively undermined with each passing day. Some are hard-core criminals. None are vetted either way.</p>
<p>Once they’re on the U.S. side, FEMA pays to fly them wherever they want to go, anywhere in the United States. In other words, U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for this cartel-led invasion.</p>
<h2>Biden’s 180 on the Border Wall</h2>
<div class="video-rwd"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/15djRzWG3_0?si=qzObwADvSPOpwfCD%3Fwmode%3Dtransparent&rel=0&wmode=opaque"></iframe>
</div>
<p>Ironically, in 2006, then-Sen. Biden supported the construction of 700 miles of border wall, 40 stories high, to prevent the influx of methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin from Mexico.</p>
<p>In a Q-and-A session at a Columbia, South Carolina, Rotary Club meeting (video above), Biden also said American employers must be punished for "knowingly violating the law" by hiring illegals. "Unless you do those two things," he said, "all the rest is window dressing."</p>
<p>But once he entered the Oval Office, he blocked the completion of the wall, begun under President Trump, and is now selling off $300 million’ worth of unused wall material for pennies on the dollar, in what the New York Post calls "an apparent end-run around pending legislation in Congress" aimed at forcing Biden to finish the wall.<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>"The Finish It Act will make the feds use those materials on new wall construction — or hand the remaining stock over to states like Texas for use in their own border defense projects,"</em><span> </span>the New York Post writes.<sup><span id="edn3">3</span></sup></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>"Now, the Biden administration is rushing to get rid of the wall leftovers before the GOP-led House can pass a matching version of the bill and make it law, critics told The Post.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>‘This sale is a wasteful and ludicrous decision by the Biden administration that only serves as further proof they have no shame,’ Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), the bill’s sponsor, told The Post — denouncing the move as ‘outrageous, behind-the-scenes maneuvering.’</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>‘Leaving the border open to terrorists while selling border security materials at a loss is Bidenomics in a nutshell,’ said Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a co-sponsor.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>‘The pennies made from selling the border wall will not be enough to pay the families who suffer from a criminal act committed by someone who crossed our open borders during the Biden administration,’ railed Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) called the fire sale ‘reckless.’ ‘Our borders continue to be overrun by an unprecedented number of illegal immigrants, turning every district into a border district, and compromising our national security,’ Stefanik said ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-Ariz.), who represents the border district where the auctioned wall components have been sitting idle, slammed Biden for his ‘refusal to act.’</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>‘The federal government needs to be utilizing every tool in the toolbox to secure our border,’ Ciscomani said. ‘Instead of putting these materials to their intended use, they have been squandered, first collecting dust in the desert and now being auctioned off.’"</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="productad"></div>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/September/PDF/us-border-crisis-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>Open Border Policy Is the Antithesis of Humanitarianism</h2>
<p>Those who argue that an open border policy is somehow a humanitarian policy clearly do not understand how this policy works and impacts people in the real world. Migrants face violence, sexual assault, extortion and robbery along their journey.</p>
<p>An unknown number of children are also being trafficked into the U.S. and sold into slavery and the sex trade. The estimated revenues from human trafficking in 2022 alone was $13 billion.<sup><span id="edn4">4</span></sup></p>
<p>The uncontrolled influx of illegals also puts an enormous strain on local communities, all of which have limited resources. In New York City, for example, more than 10,000 illegal migrants arrive each month, demanding shelter, meals, social services and education.<sup><span id="edn5">5</span>,</sup><sup><span id="edn6">6</span></sup></p>
<p>In May 2023, NYC Mayor Eric Adams announced that nearly half of all NYC hotel rooms were occupied by illegal immigrants,<sup><span id="edn7">7</span></sup><span> </span>and according to news reports, rooms were being trashed in "free-for-alls" involving drugs, sex and violence.<sup><span id="edn8">8</span>,</sup><sup><span id="edn9">9</span>,</sup><sup><span id="edn10">10</span></sup></p>
<p>The city is reportedly reimbursing hotels more than $300 a night per room,<sup><span id="edn11">11</span></sup><span> </span>and taxpayers are, of course, paying for that too, while the city is slashing services in an effort to balance the budget.</p>
<p>In July, migrants started setting up a tent city under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway,<sup><span id="edn12">12</span></sup><span> </span>and in mid-August, a tent city large enough to shelter 1,000 people was set up on the grounds of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens.<sup><span id="edn13">13</span></sup></p>
<p>Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-SI/Brooklyn, who is trying to prevent migrant shelters from being erected in the city’s parks and military sites, told the New York Post,<sup><span id="edn14">14</span></sup><span> </span>"President Biden has no regard for taxpayer dollars — or how his open border is bankrupting communities across the country that are footing the bill for his failures."</p>
<p>Lack of work, housing and food, in turn, end up fueling crime and make American communities less safe and more inhospitable.<sup><span id="edn15">15</span></sup></p>
<h2>Open Border Policy Enables Human Trafficking and Slavery</h2>
<p>The trafficking of children is perhaps the most disturbing part of this crisis. As of April 2023, the U.S. Office of Refugee Settlement had lost track of a staggering 85,000 unaccompanied migrant children who entered the U.S. in the previous two years.<sup><span id="edn16">16</span></sup><span> </span>Where are they? What happened to them? Who has them?</p>
<p>As Yuma County Sheriff L.N. Wilmot told Kennedy, children are being exploited because of this open border policy, and there is absolutely nothing humane about that. Sponsors or recipients of these children are not even vetted to make sure the children are not being funneled directly into some pedophile ring or illicit business.</p>
<p>Many migrants also die along the way. According to Jeff Ruby, director and security officer of the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, the annual average of dead migrants found on the Western Barry Goldwater Range, which is right next to the border, was between five and 15. In 2022, there were 50 — the highest ever.</p>
<p>Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls explains how the cartels will intentionally direct large groups of migrants to make this treacherous multiday journey through the desert to distract border patrol from drug smugglers making their way to the border using another route.</p>
<br />
<p>The open border policy is just a way of funding a multi-billion dollar drug and human trafficking operation for the Mexican drug cartels. ~ Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</p>
<br />
<p>In 2022 alone, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) seized 379 million doses of fentanyl being smuggled across the border. Cartels also use this diversion technique when smuggling in gang members and terrorists.</p>
<h2>Illegal Migrant City Being Erected in Texas</h2>
<div class="video-rwd"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HaU2Tk6xog4?si=ouC6jFCAXyr4iMtQ%3Fwmode%3Dtransparent&rel=0&wmode=opaque"></iframe>
</div>
<p>To learn more about the reality at the southern border, check out the work of war correspondent and former Green Beret Michael Yon on<span> </span><a href="https://cis.org/Michael-Yon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cis.org</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Michael_Yon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X/Twitter</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://substack.com/@michaelyon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Substack</a>. Yon has spent the better part of this year investigating, recording and reporting on the border crisis.</p>
<p>Yon is one of the few who is reporting on the private construction of a 55,000-acre "Colonia" (colony) to house 200,000 illegals near Plum Grove, Texas.<sup><span id="edn17">17</span>,</sup><sup><span id="edn18">18</span></sup> He discusses this in the Redacted interview above.</p>
<p>Yon’s investigation has also revealed that the U.S. government and the United Nations are funding, facilitating and encouraging the illegal immigration, handing out rape kits and maps showing the best routes and crossing areas.</p>
<h2>How to Solve This Humanitarian Crisis</h2>
<p>Can a President solve this problem and put an end to this humanitarian crisis? Absolutely. Key solutions gathered by Kennedy include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Finish key sections of the border wall</li>
<li>Technology to secure the border and aid in border agent response to illegal incursions</li>
<li>A legal pathway for asylum seekers</li>
</ul>
<p>Kennedy envisions an immigration policy of "tall walls and wide gates." Meaning, illegal border crossings are eliminated, while those who want to come here have a legal and expeditious way to seek and be granted work permits, residency or citizenship. In closing, Kennedy says:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"I've come to understand that the open border policy is just a way of funding a multi-billion dollar drug and human trafficking operation for the Mexican drug cartels.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>When I'm president, I will secure the border, which will end the cartels’ drug-trafficking economy, and I will build wide doors for those who wish to enter legally so that the United States can continue to be a beacon to the world ..."</em></p>
</blockquote>
</div>WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN MAUI FROM MERCOLA MIDWESTERN DOCTORtag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-08-26:5235400:BlogPost:1504402023-08-26T13:45:49.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">What Really Happened in Maui?</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a href="https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">A Midwestern Doctor</a></span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">August 26, 2023…</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<br />
</div>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">What Really Happened in Maui?</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/" rel="noopener">A Midwestern Doctor</a></span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">August 26, 2023</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton"><div class="previous-article"><br/></div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton4"><div id="bcr_pnlbtnPrev"><div class="previous-article"><div class="article-thumb"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">Many competing narratives have emerged to explain what transpired in Lahaina (e.g., it was all due to "climate change"</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">Readers in Hawaii contacted me to share their experiences and I’ve done my best to put together a clear picture of what happened, who dropped the ball, how the local community truly came together to help each other, and the most helpful things I can share for the people there</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">What happened in Lahaina was horrific, much of it is still being concealed by the media, and many of the survivors will face physical, economical and psychological challenges for years to come</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">Ensuring that the truth about what happened in Lahaina becomes known will be vital for both the people of Maui and the world around them in the years to come</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>One of my main goals with this platform has been to help and support people who do not have the voice be heard (e.g., the forgotten victims of medicine). Since the Maui Wildfires started, I have received a lot of requests over email from readers in Hawaii to discuss what is happening there, so I’ve spent the last week trying to get a clear idea of that and what I can share which will be the most helpful to the people in Maui.</p>
<h2>Video Reports</h2>
<p>There have been a lot of videos going around describing differing narratives over what happened in Maui. Of the videos I have reviewed, these are the two I believe most accurately depict the current situation and provide the most useful information for those wishing to help. The first one is shorter (12 minutes) the second one is longer (58 minutes). Points from those videos will be referenced throughout this article.</p>
<div class="video-rwd has-figcaption"> <a target="_blank" href="https://rumble.com/v37nh0m-ed-dowd-updates-robert-f.-kennedy-jr.-on-the-wild-fires-in-maui-august-14-2.html" rel="noopener">Video Link</a>
<br />
</div>
<div class="video-rwd has-figcaption"> <a target="_blank" href="https://rumble.com/v38yeao-update-from-the-frontlines-of-the-maui-fires-dr.-robert-malone-bruce-dougla.html" rel="noopener">Video Link</a>
<br />
</div>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>Colleagues I trust who know Bruce Douglas and Paul Deslauriers informed me that they hold both of these individuals in high regard. They also emphasized that both Paul and Bruce have repeatedly succeeded in making a large impact (which is rare for activists), and they have been consistent in their work for decades (which suggests they won’t be bought off).</p>
<h2>How to Help</h2>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>A few major issues are currently afflicting the victims of this disaster. The most immediate ones are medical complications for the survivors, a lack of shelter and a lack of necessary supplies. The organization everyone has told me is doing the most to directly help the people affected by this disaster (and did so from the very start) is the one mentioned in the previous video,<span> </span><a href="https://hhhmaui.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hungry Heroes Hawaii</a>, so if you wish to support a group, I would encourage supporting<span> </span><a href="https://hhhmaui.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">them</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>People on the ground have told me that The Red Cross has also been helpful. Unfortunately, since it is a larger organization, a significant amount of the money donated to them goes towards administrative costs rather than directly helping people in need.</p>
<p>Regarding the medical issues, I believe the largest issue is the PTSD survivors of Lahaina experienced — what they went through was horrific and something guaranteed to leave many with nightmares for years to come.</p>
<p>I know that initially, many different local healers and therapists worked pro bono at the shelters to try and help the survivors psychologically recover, but as time went on, the shelters became much stricter with who was and was not allowed in. In short, the need for appropriate psychiatric care will likely be an unmet need for years to come (e.g.,<span> </span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-20/five-years-after-the-camp-fire-paradise-survivors-see-hard-future-for-maui" target="_blank" rel="noopener">consider this account</a><span> </span>of how survivors from the California Paradise Fire are faring five years after the fact).</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>I believe two of the most effective methods for resolving past trauma are EMDR and removing trapped emotions. Both of these were discussed<span> </span><a href="https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-profound-consequences-of-trauma" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in this article</a>.</p>
<p>I also believe there will be issues with toxic smoke inhalation and burns. From the reports I’ve heard, smoke inhalation has not been as big an issue as it was in the larger wildfires and is primarily an issue for already sensitive patients (e.g., those with COVID-19 vaccine injuries and other chronic inflammatory disorders).</p>
<p>I believe the most helpful and easy to use approach for healing wildfire toxicity is nebulized glutathione (which was discussed<span> </span><a href="https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-can-wildfires-poisoning-teach" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in this previous article</a><span> </span>on the mechanisms of and treatments for wildfire toxicity).</p>
<p>Regarding burns, severe burns requiring hospitalization were initially an issue, leading to many burn victims being shipped to Oʻahu (as more medical care is available there), but that appears to now be over. More people were affected by less severe burns, which while extremely unpleasant, did not require hospitalization.</p>
<p>Burns (especially severe ones) have always been quite challenging to treat, and I believe this is due to the blood clumping burns create throughout the body (<a href="https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-does-every-vaccine-often-cause" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the forgotten research</a><span> </span>on zeta potential and blood sludging discovered this). Since this concept is not recognized within conventional medicine, it hence is only indirectly addressed. Presently, my preferred ways for working with burns are as follows:</p>
<div class="indent"><p><span class="bullet">•</span>Use aloe vera topically (beyond my own observation,<span> </span><a href="https://journals.lww.com/aswcjournal/Fulltext/2022/11000/Second_Degree_Burns_and_Aloe_Vera__A_Meta_analysis.9.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">there is real evidence this helps</a>). The major issue with this approach is ensuring the quality of the aloe vera used.</p>
<p><span class="bullet">•</span>Use Chinese burn cream (Ching Wan Hung). This readily available ointment is one of the most effective Chinese herbal formulas I have ever come across (the other being<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunnan_Baiyao" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yunnan Baiyao</a><span> </span>— which will be the subject of a future article).</p>
<p><span class="bullet">•</span>Be around a negative ion generator. A lot of (sadly forgotten) research (detailed<span> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ion-Effect-Electricity-Rules-Health/dp/0553196863" target="_blank" rel="noopener">within this book</a>) was done on patients in burn units and found it dramatically improved their recovery (much more so than any other available therapy).</p>
<p>I believe this worked because the negative ions, through imparting a negative charge on the surfaces they contact, directly<span> </span><a href="https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-to-improve-zeta-potential-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restore the zeta potential</a><span> </span>of the burn site and antidote the blood sludging from the burn. Unfortunately, negative ion generators vary in quality and not all work for this function.</p>
</div>
<p>I have also heard of a lot of other approaches being used for burns (e.g., certain topical cold laser treatments reportedly were quite helpful for hospitalized burn victims). However, since I have no direct experience with these I cannot comment on them.</p>
<p>In addition to these immediate issues, there are also broader ones the people of Maui will have to deal with, such as:</p>
<div class="indent"><p><strong><span class="bullet">•</span>Retaining employment —</strong><span> </span>much of Maui’s economy is tourism based, so Hawaii’s governor encouraging people to stop coming to Maui was devastating for locals who are already stretched thin making ends meet (Maui has become prohibitively expensive for locals to live in since COVID).</p>
<p>For this reason, one of the most helpful things you can do for the people of Maui is to encourage those you know to resume vacationing there (most of the island was unaffected by the fires).</p>
<p><strong><span class="bullet">•</span>Which narrative ultimately becomes “truth” —</strong><span> </span>that this disaster was the unpreventable result of climate change or that this disaster was a result of massive incompetence by Hawaii’s government (and the corporate interests that control it).</p>
</div>
<p>The great fear everyone I’ve spoken to holds is that the non-affluent natives who create the spirit and aloha of Hawaii will be economically displaced by affluent outsiders who only care about their own enjoyment and corporate interests primarily motivated by profit. If the state is able to escape its culpability for what happened, nothing will constrain it from following a path that leads to this occurring and there are already many signs that is the long term plan for Lahaina.</p>
<div class="productad"></div>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/August/PDF/what-really-happened-in-maui-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>The Politics of Hawaii</h2>
<p>Hawaii has a curious political situation — from the top down it has one of the worst state governments in the USA, but from the bottom up, it has one of the best grassroots movements in the country. For example, many of the most extreme and long lasting COVID power grabs were done by Hawaii’s government, while many of the most effective citizen actions against the COVID policies (e.g., the mandates) were also done in Hawaii.</p>
<p>Likewise, despite its relatively small population, a disproportionate number of my readers come from Hawaii.</p>
<p>While Substack doesn’t show me an island by island breakdown, based on the emails I receive, I believe many of them are in Maui. For example, I’ve received multiple requests to cover a concerning deployment of lab altered mosquitos (designed to control the existing mosquito population) being forced onto Maui and then the other islands despite it being currently challenged in court — which is discussed<span> </span><a href="https://www.newsletter.hawaiiunites.org/p/biotech-experiments-lab-altered-mosquitoes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in this article</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://www.newsletter.hawaiiunites.org/p/mosquitoes-on-maui-can-we-trust-hawaiis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this article</a><span> </span>written by a coalition opposing it.</p>
<p>My best explanation for this contrast between the Hawaii’s grassroots networks and their state government is that island nations (due to the distance from a central authority) tend to have significantly more dysfunctional and corrupt governments. Conversely, something about the environment in Hawaii tends to make locals be much more connected to their hearts and communities, so they are more likely to go out of their way to make things better for everyone.</p>
<p>A recent illustration of this contrast can be seen in how these fires were handled. The state government, especially at the start, largely failed to meet the needs of those hurt by the fires, but the locals dropped everything they were doing to care for their fellow Hawaiians — and were remarkably effective in doing so.</p>
<p>The history of this contrast traces back to 1893. At that date, Hawaii’s government, against the wishes of both the native Hawaiians and America’s government,<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_Kingdom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was overthrown by American corporate interests</a>, before long becoming our territory and later still a state.</p>
<p>Because of this, those corporate interests (and their descendants) have both been able to exert significant influence over Hawaii with less than adequate oversight from the federal government and continually been at odds with the native Hawaiians.</p>
<p>Presently, a “Democrat” political machine controls the state government, where residents will overwhelming vote in favor of the Democrat candidate (e.g., 92% of the state senate are Democrats, 88% of the state house of representatives are Democrats, and 64% of Hawaii voted for Biden).</p>
<p>Because of this, the party bosses control the state legislature, and (I’ve heard this from insider sources) if elected Democrats do not comply with the wishes of those party bosses, they are effectively neutered and unable to do anything during their legislative tenure (e.g., their bills go nowhere and they do not end up on any committees).</p>
<p>At a local level (e.g., members of a city council), party preference has a much smaller impact, so those who are elected are much more able to create change in the system. Until recently, many of the key governmental positions in Maui were directly appointed by officials beholden to corporate interests.</p>
<p>That changed due to<span> </span><a href="https://www.civilbeat.org/2022/07/maui-county-council-races-crucial-election-may-bring-a-political-shake-up/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a 2018 citizen’s initiative</a>, which until 2022, was able to elect a majority on the local town council who did not serve corporate interests and then set about reforming many longstanding issues (e.g., how key officials were appointed).</p>
<p>So, as best as I can tell, a similar tension to the one being seen throughout the world exists in Maui, where groups which for generations have held power over the people no longer can do so in the face of new tools for promoting Democracy. Since people never like to let go of power, the transition typically is quite turbulent.</p>
<h2>Business on Hawaii</h2>
<p>The primary factor which motivated overthrowing Hawaii’s government was the money to be made there — which at the time was through selling tropical crops such as sugar cane and pineapples (e.g.,<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_B._Dole" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sanford Dole</a><span> </span>was appointed as the new leader of Hawaii after the old government was overthrown and his cousin founded Dole Pineapple).</p>
<p>Over time, it became less and less profitable to produce tropical cash crops in Hawaii and tourism displaced agriculture as the predominate industry. For example, on Maui, there was a longstanding 41,000 acre sugar cane plantation residents frequently protested against (due to the pollution cane burning practices created).</p>
<p>That business gradually stopped being profitable (e.g., workers had to be paid more rather than being treated as indentured servants, subsidies and tariffs stopped being provided to protect its market and much cheaper sources of sugar were found). After 146 years of operation, in 2016, the plantation closed<span> </span><a href="https://www.mauinews.com/news/local-news/2018/12/ab-sells-41000-acres-of-ag-land/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">and was sold</a><span> </span>to California farm company and a Canadian investment firm for 246 million.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>In California,<span> </span><a href="https://californiapolicycenter.org/union-backed-prop-15-will-destroy-small-businesses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">many believe</a><span> </span>the primary cause of its recurring wildfires are poor forestry management (e.g., not creating firebreaks in the forest, aggressively suppressing smaller fires and not conducting controlled burns) that has resulted from longstanding political forces (e.g., environmental lobbyists) preventing the appropriate forestry management from being implemented.</p>
<p>In Maui, a similar situation exists, as the sugar cane plantations replaced native (fire resistant) plants with easily combustible grasses. Many felt this was a fire risk and petitioned for it to be addressed, but neither the sugar cane plantation’s management nor its new owners were willing to do so.</p>
<p>As agriculture lost its profitability in Maui, luxury living replaced it. In turn, the economic force behind the island became the developers (many of whom I have been told are descended from the same families who originally took over Hawaii), and there has been a constant push and pull between the natives and the developers for land they can turn into lucrative property.</p>
<p>Lahaina has been at the center of this because it has extremely valuable land (it’s at the center of Maui’s tourism district) and until 1842 was the capitol of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Because of its historical ties to the native Hawaiians (e.g., they consider it to be a sacred site and many parts of their cultural heritage were located there) many Hawaiian families had lived there for generations and were not willing to give their land up to developers.</p>
<p>As a result, a variety of battles had been fought over what would be done with Lahaina’s land, and until the fires happened, the developers had been kept away from key districts of Lahaina. Many (especially those who had spent years fighting this) thus believe the fires were a backhanded way for the developers to gain access to that land.</p>
<h2>Energy in Hawaii</h2>
<p>One of the major challenges Hawaii faces is producing energy due to its isolation — making energy significantly more expensive there (e.g., in 2022, it was 2.47 times the national average). The typical way this challenge is addressed is through nuclear power, but in Hawaii’s case, no nuclear reactors exist on the island (presumably because Hawaii does not want the various environmental risks they entail) and instead fossil fuels are imported from far away to run their power plants.</p>
<p>For this reason (along with Hawaii’s wealth and liberal population) Hawaii is often at the top of the list for a transition to green energy (e.g., wind or solar). As a result, the share of energy in Hawaii produced by renewable resources has been rapidly increasing (e.g., in 2022 roughly 30% of its energy came from renewable resources) and a state law requires 100% of it to be from renewable sources by 2045.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>Although Hawaii has had a decent amount of success with traditional renewable options like solar or wind, I personally believe the best existing energy option for Hawaii would be geothermal plants on the island of Hawaii (since it has active volcanos), which is then stored as hydrogen and distributed to the other islands.</p>
<p>The<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puna_Geothermal_Venture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pilot geothermal plant</a><span> </span>on Hawaii has successfully produced a lot of energy, but it has not been scaled up, yet alone has anyone consider how its energy could be transferred to the other islands.</p>
<p>On the surface, I strongly support the idea of adopting green energy technologies, but I simultaneously do not because (as discussed<span> </span><a href="https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-the-war-on-climate-change-destroyed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in this article</a>) the ones that are ultimately chosen tend to be expensive and damaging to the environment rather than technologies that offer a significant improvement over existing fossil fuel systems.</p>
<p>Presently, I am not sure how much of the high cost of Hawaii’s electricity comes from the inherent cost of its situation and how much of it comes from their energy company overcharging the state (Hawaii Electric — which has a monopoly and produces 95% of the state’s electricity). Often, when you have private for-profit institutions controlling a public utility (e.g., electricity), costs are raised while necessary maintenance (which the increased costs should be paying for) is deferred.</p>
<p>One of the most notorious examples of this price gouging was what<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_electricity_crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Enron did to California</a><span> </span>in 2000-2001. By taking advantage of recent deregulation of the state energy market, Enron was able to spike electricity costs by up to 20 times their normal amount, creating rolling blackouts and ultimately costing the state 40-45 billion dollars.</p>
<p>More recently, PG&E (California’s primary private utility) was successfully sued for its role in numerous wildfires, including the 2018 wildfire (which was one of the largest and most devastating ones in history). The lawsuits were successful, and due to the billions it owed, in January 2019, PG&E declared bankruptcy.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>Although the lawsuits were successful (e.g., there was a 13.5 billion dollar judgement)<span> </span><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-20/five-years-after-the-camp-fire-paradise-survivors-see-hard-future-for-maui" target="_blank" rel="noopener">almost none of that money</a><span> </span>has gone to the victims of the 2018 fire and as a result, the less affluent were the largest victims of it. Unless Hawaiians unite, I suspect something similar will happen here.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/business/energy-environment/pge-camp-fire-report.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Investigators with the</a><span> </span>California Public Utilities Commission found that there were systematic problems with PG&E’s oversight of the nearly 100-year-old power line that sparked the (2018) Camp fire.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The lawsuit filed by the trust sought to hold the former executives accountable for not properly maintaining vegetation around electrical equipment and for not installing power shutoff equipment at the time of the 2017 fire. The suit also argued that the utility company did not properly update 100-year-old equipment in connection with the Camp fire.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Now consider<span> </span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hawaiian-electric-lawsuits-mismanagement-wildfire-maui-rcna100208" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the charges</a><span> </span>against Hawaii Electric:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The lawsuit filed Wednesday contends that since 2017, as Maui’s fire risks increased, Hawaiian Electric nonetheless paid out tens of millions in increased payments to shareholders every year.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The plaintiffs accuse the utility company of years of inaction and negligence, and argue that it should have had plans in place to shut down power systems [so they can’t spark fires] before fierce winds blew across Hawaii.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>Hawaii Electric had ample warning before the fires started that their power lines had a significant fire risk during the high winds and needed to be turned off.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“In explaining potential upgrades to its systems, Hawaiian Electric’s funding request last year specifies that California’s power shutoff plan is among electric industry strategies “used to mitigate wildfire risks until more robust preventive measures have been implemented in an area.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Watts, who said his team has been approached by hundreds of potential plaintiffs, said his lawsuit is aimed at preventing the islands from ever experiencing fires like this again. He said similar litigation in California has led to safety improvements and processes that have limited recent wildfire fallout, and that Hawaiian Electric was aware of those efforts.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The lawsuit details multiple instances and documents [dating back years] in which Hawaiian Electric and public utility officials acknowledge the dangers of wildfires, and the potential for downed power lines and grid infrastructure to start them in areas where vegetation growth was not mitigated. The risks were outlined in Hawaiian Electric news releases, documents it filed to the state, and in its own expenditure plans.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In one instance, a 2022<span> </span><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23910575-heco-application-to-puc-identifying-wildfire-risks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">funding request</a><span> </span>for $189.7 million from the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission to harden its power grid statewide, Hawaiian Electric said that the risk of its utility system “causing a wildfire ignition is significant.” Despite the request being approved, Hawaiian Electric did not act, the lawsuit alleges.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>“Unfortunately, for the residents of Lahaina, these proposed grid hardening expenditures were deferred,” according to the lawsuit filed Wednesday. The suit states the company hadn’t spent any funding on power pole upgrades or wildfire prevention in 2021, 2022 or 2023, nor had spent anything on hazard tree removals in 2021 or 2022.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Since everyone is aware of the precedent set by the California wildfires, Hawaii Electric’s stock has already dropped by two-thirds, and it is very possible that like PG&E it will have to declare bankruptcy. My hope is that this will result in it becoming a public utility (so its revenue is used to restore the power grid rather than just making as much money as possible), but given Hawaii’s political climate, I am doubtful this will happen.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>As you might have guessed, some degree of corruption appears to have impeded Hawaii Electric adopting a safer power grid (e.g.,<span> </span><a href="https://www.leefang.com/p/hawaii-electric-while-failing-to" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this article</a><span> </span>documents financial conflicts of interest between Hawaii Electric and Hawaii’s public regulators). This is similar to a longstanding problem in the medicine — the regulators responsible for approving or mandating dubious pharmaceuticals often have financial conflicts with the<span> </span><a href="https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-corruption-dictates-the-practice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pharmaceutical manufacturer</a>.</p>
<h2>Previous Disasters</h2>
<p>Large scale environmental disasters are often shown to be the result of a corporation being warned an existing practice had a high risk of causing the disaster, and the corporation then declining to spend the money (which was often not that much) needed to address the issue.</p>
<p>Greg Palast’s<span> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Vultures-Picnic-Petroleum-High-Finance-Carnivores/dp/B00DF7LDOC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vulture’s Picnic</a><span> </span>shows how this has happened with many major disasters including the<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Exxon Valdez Oil Spill</a>, the Fukishima nuclear meltdown, and BP’s “unprecedented”<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deep Horizon Oil Spill</a><span> </span>in the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, which was due to a risky drilling practice that had caused an identical blowout in Azerbaijan<span> </span><a href="https://www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/2020/04/20/deepwater-horizon-bps-second-blowout-the-secret-history/27018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">17 months beforehand</a>.</p>
<p>Like the recent wildfire, all of these examples illustrate a longstanding problem with our current economic model that we also see in other areas like unsafe but profitable pharmaceuticals (e.g., the COVID-19 vaccines) being pushed onto the market. Since corporations shield officers of the corporation from liability for their conduct, there is no incentive for them to avoid reckless practices that inevitably lead to disasters.</p>
<p>Furthermore, due to political lobbying, the corporations being “too big to fail” and bankruptcy protections being available, in the rare case where something catastrophic happens and the corporation is found liable, it can still continue to make money for its shareholders.</p>
<p>Hawaii Electric for instance was fully aware of the liability it faced for doing exactly what PG&E had done, but nonetheless completely ignored it. That proves the current penalties for this type of conduct are not sufficient to prevent it.</p>
<h2>What Caused the Wildfires?</h2>
<p>From looking at the available information, I feel certain the following are true:</p>
<ul>
<li>Some of the wildfires were sparked by downed electrical power lines.</li>
<li>Fierce winds knocked the power lines over.</li>
<li>Fierce winds made the fires spread rapidly.</li>
</ul>
<p>However there are two things, I am much less sure of. First, were those winds were due to the hurricane? In the interview with Dr. Malone at the start of this article, a very strong case is made that they could not have been due to the hurricane — something at least one mainstream outlet<span> </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/HAWAII-WILDFIRES/DRIVERS/gdvzwwgwrpw/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">is now beginning to acknowledge</a>.</p>
<p>If the winds were not due to the hurricane, this is important for people to be aware of, as the mainstream media will almost certainly try to argue that it was and hence that Hawaii’s government had no culpability in what happened. Instead, it will simply be argued that Lahaina proved it is critical to continue our War Against Climate Change (which as a lifelong environmentalist,<span> </span><a href="https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-the-war-on-climate-change-destroyed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">I believe has been extremely detrimental to the environmental movement</a>).</p>
<p>Second, I am unsure if all the fires were started by downed power lines, as numerous ones erupted over a very short time span, some started in areas without power lines, and I was told some of those locations were also far enough from the road that it is unlikely they were started by a cigarette being thrown out the window. For example,<span> </span><a href="https://rumble.com/v3ag7nd-maui-fires-starting-location.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this video</a><span> </span>was recently shared with me by a reader:</p>
<div class="video-rwd has-figcaption"> <a target="_blank" href="https://rumble.com/v3ag7nd-maui-fires-starting-location.html" rel="noopener">Video Link</a>
<br />
</div>
<p>Assuming that is the case, it means the most probable explanation for some of the fires was deliberate arson, which becomes even more probable given that (as discussed in Dowd’s interview) Maui has a longstanding arson issue.</p>
<p>It’s less clear who the arsonists were, as locals have told me that amongst other things, cars will periodically be stolen, stripped of parts, and then set alight in a field to hide the evidence but it is also possible something more nefarious occurred that was deliberately intended to burn Lahaina down.</p>
<p>When I looked further into this, I came across a report stating that a suspicious individual may have been seen in the same location where one of the fires later started, but since that witness was not confident in what they saw, I wasn’t sure what to make of it.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>Wildfires also broke out<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hawaii_wildfires" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on two other Hawaiian islands</a><span> </span>and may also provide an important part of the picture for what happened.</p>
<h2>What Turned the Fires Into a Disaster?</h2>
<p>When disastrous events occur and root cause analyses are performed after the fact, a frequent observation is that numerous small errors compounded to form a catastrophe a situation analogous to that described by<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy's_law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Murphy’s Law</a><span> </span>— “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.” Because of this, the normal goal of a root cause analysis to identify those errors and put policies and procedures in place so that they cannot happen again.</p>
<p>Sadly, they typically do not get adopted until a major disaster (or multiple similar ones like California and then Maui’s wildfires) occur that prove their necessity.</p>
<p>For example, in the infamous 1911<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Triangle Shirt Waist Fire</a>, 146 workers died because a variety of terrible policies were followed such as locking the exit door shut so workers would not attempt to take breaks during their shift (leading to them being trapped inside once the fire started and forcing many to jump to their deaths to flee the fire). Outrage at the disaster in turn led to fire codes and laws to protect laborers being implemented across the state of New York.</p>
<p>In addition to Hawaii Electric making catastrophic blunders, Maui’s government did as well. Some of these are difficult to believe, but I am relatively sure all are true:</p>
<table class="generic-table left-align">
<tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p>Firefighters took a long time to respond to fires. I heard reports I deem to be credible that emergency services had to be repeatedly contacted (e.g., for over an hour) to respond to a fire that had started.</p>
<p>Likewise, many believe Maui’s firefighters left Lahaina prematurely after extinguishing the initial blaze, which many suspect allowed it to reignite into a much more devastating blaze. Both of these indicate Maui had a systemic shortage of necessary fire fighting resources.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>No warnings were sent out to people in Lahaina — either over cell phones or with the sirens (which are regularly tested to warn Hawaiians of a potential tsunami).</p>
<p>Thus far, the government<span> </span><strong>has not</strong><span> </span>provided an acceptable explanation for this profound failure which killed a lot of people (currently it is being argued the sirens might have caused people to inappropriately flee to higher grounds). Because of these failures, many did not realize the fire was coming until their house was on fire.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>In Lahaina, one witness reported that electrical power went out and cell phone service switched to emergency calls only<span> </span><strong>prior</strong><span> </span>to heavy winds hitting the area (which in turn preceded the fires hitting the area). I still am not sure what to make of this, but it helps to explain why residents were unable to warn each other of the impending fire.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>The fire hydrants in Lahaina (and in Kula the other major fire site) stopped working. Exactly why this happened is still unknown (e.g., its theorized that houses combusting depressurized the water system — although that has not typically been observed in fires).</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Maui’s deputy director for water resource management<span> </span><a href="https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/a-state-official-refused-to-release-water-for-west-maui-fires-until-it-was-too-late/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refused to release water to landowners near Lahaina</a><span> </span>after<span> </span><a href="https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/08/16/hawaii-news/request-was-made-to-divert-water-to-fight-maui-fire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">it was requested to the supply the firefighters</a>. When the water was finally released 5 hours later, it was too late.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Police blocked the exits from Lahaina and refused to open them up when individuals attempted to flee the fires — as a result, only those who disobeyed the police officer, knew backroads to take, used a bicycle or fled on foot (e.g., to the ocean) survived. This is an incredible accusation, but multiple witnesses have attested to this on camera, and people I trust independently corroborated it.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>This closure may have been in part due to a minor fire earlier in the day, or a fear of a downed power lines further down the road. The police officer who blocked the road trapping everyone in the fire zone stated that he did so because he was ordered to, which has made many suspect the police leadership made a catastrophic blunder (or worse).</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Schools were closed because of the early morning fire near Lahainaluna High School. Many children may have thus been home alone while their parents were at work and not prepared to flee their homes when the fires arrived.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>If each of these is looked at in isolation, they could be explained by poor training or a general lack of competence. However, when viewed together, they become much more suspicious.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>I also suspect the older construction of Lahaina (which may not have not been up to code due to having been grandfathered in) likely made it more vulnerable to a fire engulfing it. Likewise, many residents had no real understanding of wildfires and thus were not prepared to react quickly to the risks they were facing (as Dr. Malone explained, being inside one can be terrifying and disorientating, especially if you have no prior familiarity with them).</p>
<h2>Why Is Lahaina Being Hidden From the Public?</h2>
<p>The fires started on the morning of August 8 and were essentially contained by the morning of August 10.</p>
<p>At the same time, heavy restrictions were placed on who could enter Lahaina (initially no one could and then only residents could) and after significant public protest (along with a recognition the restrictions were not feasible), those restrictions were lifted on August 13. In parallel to this happening,<span> </span><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/maui-video-drone-pilot-says-government-officials-shut/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a no-fly zone was enacted above Lahaina</a>, making it impossible for drones to be flown that could see what was happening below (their default software prevents this).</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>In addition to it being confirmed in the above news report, contacts in Maui have also reported this to me.</p>
<p>Because the area was locked down, individuals attempting to bring supplies into Lahaina were blocked from entering, which resulted in many losing trust in the government and locals then bypassing the road blockade by bringing relief supplies in by boat.</p>
<p>Exactly why the road closures happened is more debatable. The least accusatory explanation is that the government’s standard operating procedure is to close disaster sites down since that may prevent further injuries from occurring (e.g., due to toxic fumes), prevent looting, prevent obstructions to the search and rescue operations and prevent hysteria from breaking out at the disaster site (e.g., from someone seeing their house burned down).</p>
<p>None of those appeared to be applicable in Lahaina’s case, but since the fire situation was overwhelming and confusing, the government may have just looked for the safety of following the SOP.</p>
<p>The more accusatory explanation is that they wanted to hide the extent of the devastation from the public — a hypothesis supported both by the no fly-zone above Lahaina and the fact that while the roads have been opened, barriers were placed around ground zero (including near the highway) that make it impossible to clearly see what is occurring at the disaster site.</p>
<p>As other<span> </span><a href="https://reinettesenumsfoghornexpress.substack.com/p/lahaina-a-modern-day-pearl-harbor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commentators have noted</a><span> </span>in previous disasters (e.g., in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina) locking down the site appeared to have been done to prevent the public from learning about certain suspicious aspects of the disaster.</p>
<p>In the case of Lahaina, I believe the most plausible reason why the site is being locked down is because the carnage and devastation there is really bad publicity for both the government (which wants a blank check to decide what happens to Lahaina after these events) and the tourism industry (which the economy depends upon).</p>
<p>For example, after the exit roads were closed, many people realized their only option for survival was to run to the ocean and jump in (which according to some reports required jumping through a layer of ignited ash on the water’s surface).</p>
<p>Once there, they had to find an area that was not too hot (which required going far enough from the shore they could no longer stand and hence needed to tread water) but not too far away that they became hypothermic while simultaneously not suffocating from the smoke. At the same time this was happening, many had to watch their livelihoods burn down and help keep children from drowning.</p>
<p>Ultimately, people were trapped in this nightmarish situation for 3-8 hours, and an unspecified number died. Since this happened, I’ve begun to hear (still unconfirmed) reports of dead bodies washing up on far away shores, which seems plausible given what happened.</p>
<p>Likewise, it is almost certain a large number of children unnecessarily died (e.g., because they were sent home without their parents earlier in the day).</p>
<p>I suspect that because of how strongly their deaths will spur the public to action, there has essentially been radio silence on the issue — no estimate on the number of dead children has been announced and so far I’ve only seen one report viscerally discussing this (it mentioned that families were found inside their homes huddled together as the fires consumed them).</p>
<p>At this point, 115 deaths have been confirmed, and 1100 people have been reported missing (e.g.,<span> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/mauipeople" target="_blank" rel="noopener">see this facebook group</a><span> </span>of individuals trying to locate lost loved ones and which hosts google spreadsheet compiling the missing individuals). Given that Hawaii has a longstanding homeless issue (many states fly their homeless population to Hawaii), I suspect additional deaths also occurred in that population which never may be reported.</p>
<h2>What Needs To Be Done Now?</h2>
<p>Typically when disasters like this happen, the media works very hard to establish a narrative that then becomes fact (e.g., this was all climate change rather than gross incompetence). However, as Paul Deslauriers pointed out, in the early days of the event when people still have strong feelings about it, that is the best time to get an alternative narrative out that can remains part of the discussion far into the future.</p>
<p>I believe the single most important thing to do is for a citizen’s commission to be established which independently investigates what actually caused the fires, what human errors led them to become devastating, and what policies need to be implemented so nothing similar happens in the future.</p>
<p>In order for this to work, there has to be an independent panel (as the government will inevitably try to cover things up) that is both competent to objectively conduct the investigation and fully trusted by the local population. Although this is a lot to ask for, I believe the grassroots network in Maui is uniquely suited for this task and may be able to accomplish it, especially if the alternative media and costly lawsuits help to promote the commission’s findings.</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">W. Edwards Deming</a><span> </span>is widely credited with rebuilding Japan after World War 2 into the economic power house it is today and hence is considered to be one of the most effective managers in history. A key point Deming made is that when things go wrong in industry, the error is typically not due to a specific person screwing up, but rather existing policies and procedures which made the screw up possible.</p>
<p>In looking at the Maui disaster, it’s easy to want to blame a specific person (like those mentioned earlier in the article). Yet, at the same time, so many errors happened, in total, it suggests a general lack of competency and preparation for something like this rather than a single person being at fault (assuming the disaster was not deliberate — which is possible but in my eyes the less likely possibility).</p>
<p>If that commission does ultimately come together, one idea I would like for them to seriously consider is adopting a resolution for part of the money from the inevitable lawsuits going towards funding the State of Hawaii buying a Canadair CL-415 “super scooper” aircraft.</p>
<p>Typically when wildfires happen, resources are mobilized from a large geographical area to contain the fire, something which is simply impossible due to Hawaii’s island geography (and why Maui’s fire department rapidly became overwhelmed by the fires).</p>
<p>Super scoopers fly over the water, filling a 1,400 gallon tank with water and then turning it into a fine mist which can be dropped on a fire and rapidly put it out (and given Hawaii’s proximity to the ocean do this at least a dozen times per hour).</p>
<div class="center-img"><img class=" mlazyloaded" alt="super scoopers fly over the water" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2023/July/super-scoopers-fly-over-the-water.jpg"/></div>
<p>Although these aircrafts are expensive (around 30 million dollars) that is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions in damage from this fire and the billions which will come from lawsuits.</p>
<p>Furthermore, it is an aircraft that can reach all of Hawaii, a single adequately maintained one should be capable of meeting the fire suppression needs of all the Hawaiian islands. However, I am less sure what the maximum wind they can operate at is and it is possible that once the winds reached 60-80 miles an hour in Lahaina, it would not have been possible to fully utilize the aircraft.</p>
<p>More than anything else though, my hope is that these events remind the people of Hawaii of the importance of direct democracy and help to inspire a grassroots push to elect a local government the people can both trust and rely upon.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>Many people understandably are extremely upset with the mayor of Maui. Per my understanding, the local activist community supported his election because he had a reputation for being fair and honest in his dealings.</p>
<p>Given the difficulty of having candidates like that make it to office, my hope is that these fires can lead to a collaborative relationship where the mayor is pushed to stick his neck out to do the right thing with the recovery effort of these fires rather than an antagonistic one where the mayor serves as a lightning rod for understandable outrage over what happened.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>A year ago,<span> </span><a href="https://consilienceproject.org/the-end-of-propaganda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article</a><span> </span>was written which encapsulates much of the mission of this Substack. It discussed the history of propaganda, and shared that at the same time the science of modern propaganda came into existence, a major problem was facing American leadership — technology had made society complex enough that the general population could no longer understand much of what was needed to make society smoothly operate and thus the citizenry could no longer be relied upon vote for policies that were in the nation’s best interests.</p>
<p>Two schools of thought then emerged. One argued that the educational system needed to be revamped so the population retained an understanding of how everything worked and thus the citizenry could be relied upon to vote for the best interests of society when accurate information was presented to them.</p>
<p>The other camp argued that a group of competent experts who could understand that complexity should make the decisions needed to run society and then have the emerging propaganda apparatus trick the society into supporting those decisions and unifying behind the public good.</p>
<p>Both sides had very strong feelings, but after the World Wars (especially the fear Hitler’s propaganda would conquer the world unless we beat it with better propaganda), the propaganda model “won.” Once that happened, a vertical model was developed where an effective (and manipulative) message would be concocted and then distributed to every media outlet in society.</p>
<p>This for instance is why local “independent” news stations around the country are often observed to disseminate the exact same message (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this partisan montage</a><span> </span>is the clearest example I have seen but countless others exist too).</p>
<p>The internet put a major wrench in that model because it made mass decentralized horizontal messaging possible. For example,<span> </span><a href="https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Malone</a><span> </span>now has more viewers than CNN, and for a relatively small cost (a lot of his and his wife’s time, travel, putting a simple studio together in their house and the help of volunteers) he is arguably providing a greater impact on the public than the $882 million CNN spends on operating expenses each year.</p>
<p>Likewise, there are countless more people (e.g., me) who with no cost besides our time are periodically able to get highly impactful narratives out that change public opinion.</p>
<p>This means the existing propaganda model of governance is rapidly becoming obsolete — if people in charge lie, they do not have anywhere near enough money to counteract citizens across the globe exposing their lies. As a result, propaganda is now accomplishing the opposite of its intended effect — rather than creating trust in the government and social cohesion, its repeated deployment is creating increasing distrust and division.</p>
<p>In many ways, this mirrors the practice of medicine. Many doctors follow a paternalistic model where they decide (often by<span> </span><a href="https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-corruption-dictates-the-practice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">following corrupt guidelines</a>) what’s best for a patient and then use their authority (or the guideline’s authority) to pressure the patient into following that plan.</p>
<p>Patients hate this, and especially since COVID and the interest in alternative medical narratives on the internet, patients are starting to demand physicians who work with them in a collaborative manner that explains what is going on in an understandable manner and then empower the patient to make the decision that best benefits them.</p>
<p>From my own observations, it appears a lot of doctors don’t have the capacity to follow the collaborative model, but at the same time, many do and many more are being forced to by the economic pressures of the public demanding this type of care.</p>
<p>Furthermore, no viable solution yet exists to overcome the internet facilitating horizontal communication that bypasses the vertical propaganda (be it medical or non-medical). Our leaders can’t cut off the internet entirely because too much of the economy now depends upon it, and any attempt to censor things online simply gets bypassed and increases interest in the censored message.</p>
<p>As a result, we are now in a tumultuous situation. Those in power don’t want to let go of their ability to make decisions in secret that many might not agree with and then enact those decisions through vertical propaganda. Instead they are doubling down and using more and more extreme methods to control the society (e.g., the massive coordinated fear and censorship we saw throughout COVID-19 which again ultimately backfired and increased distrust in the central authorities).</p>
<p>Like the authors of<span> </span><a href="https://consilienceproject.org/the-end-of-propaganda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">that article</a>, I believe we instead need to seriously look at the second option; empowering our citizenry to understand the complexities facing us today and transparently presenting sensible options we can support in a mature and rational manner. My hope is that the world’s love for Maui and the egregious nature of the situation will force an honest conversation to be had on exactly what happened there.</p>
<p>In conclusion, I would like to thank each of you for your help in bringing awareness to Maui’s situation and sharing articles like this with those who can benefit from hearing that alternative narrative. The key weakness of the vertical propaganda model is that it cannot overcome people who are united and talk to each other with open hearts — something the people of Maui are well known for.</p>
<h2>A Note From Dr. Mercola About<span> </span></h2>
</div>FROM MERCOLA Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceanstag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-07-30:5235400:BlogPost:1496582023-07-30T01:45:51.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<p></p>
<h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans</span></h1>
<p>JULY 29 2023</p>
<p></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/jKuZcymoHZm1/">Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans- Interview With Paul Molyneaux (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/jKuZcymoHZm1/">Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans- Interview With Paul Molyneaux (bitchute.com)…</a></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans</span></h1>
<p>JULY 29 2023</p>
<p></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/jKuZcymoHZm1/">Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans- Interview With Paul Molyneaux (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/jKuZcymoHZm1/">Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans- Interview With Paul Molyneaux (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/jKuZcymoHZm1/">Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans- Interview With Paul Molyneaux (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/jKuZcymoHZm1/">Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans- Interview With Paul Molyneaux (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/jKuZcymoHZm1/">Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans- Interview With Paul Molyneaux (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/jKuZcymoHZm1/">Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans- Interview With Paul Molyneaux (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><h3 id="expanderHead">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</h3>
<div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">The two most dangerous foods served in most restaurants are factory farmed chicken, which is responsible for a majority of foodborne illnesses, and farmed salmon, which is among the most toxic foods on the planet</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">Three decades ago, many towns would have local fish markets that sold a wide variety of locally caught fish. Most fish markets have now been replaced by chain stores that use computerized systems to maintain a consistent supply, and this industrialization pushed aquaculture forward</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">Aquafarms are frequently imposed in locations where people are desperate for jobs. Alas, they inevitably end up destroying healthy wild fisheries in those same areas</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">While most aquafarms are located in open water, land-based operations are becoming more common, especially with the introduction of genetically engineered salmon, which are not allowed to be raised in open water due to their environmental impact, should they get free</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">As a consumer, one of the best things you can do is to locate a local community-supported fishery. You can also buy wild-caught fish online</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p><strong><em>Editor's Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published September 30, 2018.</em></strong></p>
<p>In this interview, investigative journalist and fishing industry insider Paul Molyneaux discusses aquaculture and the dangers of farmed fish, which are also the topics of his book "Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans."</p>
<p>From my perspective, the two most dangerous foods served in most restaurants are factory farmed chicken, which is responsible for a majority of foodborne illnesses, and farmed fish, especially<span> </span><a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/why-farmed-salmon-are-toxic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">farmed salmon</a>, which is among the most toxic foods on the planet.</p>
<h2>Salmon Farming in Cobscook Bay</h2>
<p>At the age of 17, Molyneaux left home and got a job in commercial fishing, which led to work in aquaculture in the late '70s.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"I always had an interest in aquaculture, although I primarily was a commercial fisherman. In the late '80s, I ran a fish processing plant for the Passamaquoddy tribe in Eastport, Maine, on Cobscook Bay. There was a sudden push to do salmon farming in the bay.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The way the promoters — at the time, a company called Ocean Products — sold it to us was [by] saying, 'You can become farmers of the sea. You can start giving back to the ocean.' We bought it hook, line and sinker … Last summer, there were about six of us standing on the dock in Eastport, saying, 'Geez, we thought this was going to be great.'"</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>As fisheries had dwindled, they believed aquafarming would be the answer to keeping the fishing industry alive. Alas, the industry was rapidly consolidated into the hands of just a few players. "Now, it's in the hands of one," Molyneaux says.</p>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>What's worse, it didn't take long before the environmental downsides of aquaculture became readily apparent as well. In the late 1990s, infectious salmon anemia virus spread like wildfire among the salmon pens in Cobscook Bay, wiping out the fishery as 2 million fish had to be discarded overnight.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"That set the industry back. Now, it's owned by one company — Cooke Aquaculture — and pretty much everything is automated. They have a tremendous sea lice problem.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>They're pouring tons of SLICE into those pens, and they're coming up with new systems now because they're finding the sea lice medication is now in the mollusks, like the scallops that are also harvested from the bay. Cooke has been fined twice in the last five years for using an illegal chemical, cypermethrin, to fight sea lice."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Industrialized Food Supply Encouraged Switch to Aquaculture</h2>
<p>In his book, Molyneaux reviews the economics of the fishing industry, then and now. Three decades ago, many towns would have local fish markets, which in coastal areas would sell a wide variety of locally caught fish.</p>
<p>Virtually all fish markets have now been replaced by chain stores that use computerized systems to maintain a consistent supply of specific fish, and this industrialization really pushed aquaculture forward.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"In dealing with the vagaries of wild fisheries, where maybe today you have one species, tomorrow you have another — 'Yesterday I caught pollock. Today caught haddock. Then I couldn't get out because of a storm' — these companies were going, 'Oh, geez. We can't deal with this, but we can deal with farmed salmon. That's right there, and we can have a schedule of set price.'</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Because of the [varying] availability of wild fish, the price varies. These larger companies are saying, 'Go ahead with that aquaculture, because that's perfect for us.'"</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="productad"></div>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/July/PDF/aquaculture-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>Aquaculture Destroys Local Wild Fisheries</h2>
<p>The most popular seafood in America is shrimp, most of which is farmed in Thailand. One of the things discussed in Molyneaux's book is the placement of shrimp and salmon production systems, and how that disrupts local economies and destroys the environment.</p>
<p>More often than not, aquafarms are imposed in locations where people are desperate for jobs. The farms are basically sold as job opportunity and economic development. Alas, they inevitably end up destroying healthy wild fisheries in those same areas.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"In Eastport, in the late '80s, we were still catching wild-caught cod and pollock out of skiffs. We were processing those at the Passamaquoddy reservation and shipping them downstate. I shipped to a friend of mine in Rhode Island. He called me up and said, 'Paul, what's wrong with these fish? I've never seen fish like this before.'</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I said, 'Carter, wait a week and you'll recognize them, because you've never seen fish that fresh before. They're less than 24 hours out of the water.' But when the salmon farms came in those wild fish disappeared. And there were high mortalities of lobsters. Why? Because the chemicals they use to fight the sea lice that attack the salmon also destroy the shells of larval lobsters."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>What's more, aqua farms never take the pollution they create into account when counting the cost of production, and this oversight virtually ensures the business' demise. Molyneaux predicts virtually all aquaculture operations will eventually go out of business because they're not factoring in the pollution they're causing, which eventually ends up decimating the business by promoting rampant disease and destroying the water quality.</p>
<p>"They survive by, basically, robbing the future and coming up with technological rabbits to keep the ball rolling as they cascade down declining ecosystems," he says. They also stay alive by receiving government subsidies and even bailouts when disease wipes out the entire business all at once.</p>
<p>Eventually, however, the water quality will become so poor that fish can no longer be raised there, and the farm must either relocate, go under, or raise prices. When wild fish are all gone those prices may go higher than we can imagine.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"If you look at Saltonstall-Kennedy money, which is research money that's supposed to help fishermen, the majority of it now goes into aquaculture and finfish aquaculture, figuring out how to grow fish,"</em><span> </span>Molyneaux says.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>"It is these kinds of subsidies — not to mention overestimating stock abundance on forage fish so that they can be fished to dangerous levels of overfishing — that keeps this industry going."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Shrimp Recommendations</h2>
<p>As a general rule, most restaurants serve farmed salmon and farmed shrimp, and both are best avoided if you care about your health, the environment and the working conditions of laborers. Exceptions would be specialty restaurants that serve wild-caught Alaskan salmon and wild shrimp.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"I eat Maine shrimp, which is a northern Pandalus borealis,"</em><span> </span>Molyneaux says.<span> </span><em>"It's a transsexual shrimp. It's born as a male, and then after two years, it turns into a female … which we harvest when they come near shore and drop their eggs …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>When I'm in Mexico, most of the shrimp I eat I buy from local fishermen … But if I was going to go into a restaurant and buy shrimp, the best shrimp you're going to get is probably Gulf shrimp or wild shrimp out of Mexico, out of the Sea of Cortez there."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>As for potential contamination from the Gulf oil spill and subsequent use of Corexit, Molyneaux says:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"The problem with the government and studies is that they spend a lot of time studying what goes on inside shrimp ponds. They don't spend much time studying what goes on outside them. If there were problems with the Gulf shrimp in terms of contamination, even the fishermen would be trying to squash that, right? I don't really know and I can't really speak to that."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Theoretically, Land-Based Aquaculture Could Be Sustainable</h2>
<p>While most aquafarms are located in open water, land-based operations are becoming more common, especially with the introduction of genetically engineered (GE) salmon, which are not allowed to be raised in open water due to their potentially devastating environmental impact, should they get free.</p>
<p>In Belfast, Maine, a company is currently negotiating the purchase of 200 million gallons of aquifer water per year for its land-based aquafarm operation. Ocean-based operations basically get their water for free, and they don't even have to pay for cleanup of the pollution they create. Land based companies, on the other hand, are taking valuable drinking water, turning it toxic, and then releasing it into the bay.</p>
<p>Theoretically, it could be possible to construct a land-based operation that not only filters water for reuse, but also prevents toxicity in the first place by feeding the fish a natural diet. The reason farmed salmon are so incredibly toxic is due to the toxins in the feed, as explained in "<a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/why-farmed-salmon-are-toxic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why Farmed Salmon Are a Toxic 'Junk Food</a>.'"</p>
<p>The waste from these (nontoxic) land-based fish could then actually be used as fertilizer on crop fields. This would be a far more sustainable process, but no one is doing it. "Indeed … when you're raising 33 million fish in a land-based pond, the amount of nutrients that you're producing could fertilize way more farmland than is available," Molyneaux says.</p>
<h2>GE Salmon Threaten Ecosystems</h2>
<p>AquaBounty's GE salmon are genetically engineered to grow about twice as fast as typical farm-raised salmon — a feat achieved by inserting the DNA from two other fish, a growth-promoting gene from a Chinook salmon and a promoter gene from the eel-like ocean pout.</p>
<p>Theoretically, the GE salmon are sterile, as the eggs are pressurized before the genes are inserted. The pressurization sterilizes them. However, that doesn't mean they pose no threat to the ecosystem as, if something can go wrong, at some point it probably will.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"With the land-based system, your odds of escape go down tremendously, of course, because you're not exposed to the vagaries of nature. But here's the thing: You have shrimp that are raised in ponds essentially on land. A fellow named Steven Travis did a study. When hurricane Mitch came through Honduras, it flushed those ponds into the wild.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Those domesticated Litopenaeus vannamei shrimp then spawned with the wild, reducing the viability of the wild shrimp. He did a paper on that but couldn't get it published, because the people at the peer-review team included people from the aquaculture industry.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>You've got pen-raised salmon. Great. They're not going to escape. But, again, what if there is a flood or a tsunami and these are close to the ocean? Then they're going to be out there. As I say in the book, it's an ecological genie that you can't get back into the lamp.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>When you veer from the natural and traditional approaches, you've got to be wary of this and actually expect this to happen. No matter how many safeguards you put in place, they're usually not enough.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>At a recent promotional talk, Eric Heim, the CEO of Nordic Aquafarms presented a slide that showed the entire ecological footprint of meat production and compared it to the size of the salmon farms, saying, 'Look how little space we take compared to meat.'</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>It was blatant misinformation and I forced him to admit it in front of everyone. He was not showing the equally large ecological footprint of salmon farming. If this is so great, why be disingenuous?"</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="center-img"><img class=" mlazyloaded" alt="land use perspective" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2018/September/land-use-perspective.jpg"/></div>
<h2>Sustainable Aquafarming Will Require Massive Value Shift</h2>
<p>In 2007, Molyneaux did a world tour looking for sustainable aquaculture systems. "One of the beautiful things about being a journalist is that I meet some of the most impressive thinkers on this subject," he says.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"By and large, they said the ability for us to have healthy sustainable food production systems in the current economic regime and the current global system of values is going to be impossible.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>It really would require a value shift, a massive population value shift of how we value our streams and our local environment … For example, the estuaries of the United States are almost all impaired. They're not providing the ecosystem services required. Many wild species at some point in their development need to be in those estuaries.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>If those estuaries can't provide those services, then those species are going to diminish too, with or without fishing. When do we start cleaning up these estuaries and cleaning up these systems, so that our wild fisheries rebound?"</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>So, as a consumer, what can you do? According to Molyneaux, one of the best things you can do is to locate a local community-supported fishery. You can also buy wild-caught fish online. "Lots of fishermen now are starting to sell their products directly online," Molyneaux says. I've included a list of recommended sources at the end of this article.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"What I would say to consumers is, 'If you want to eat healthy, expect to pay more.' You're better off to pay $15 per pound for a Bristol Bay sockeye than $7 per pound for a Chilean farmed salmon. You're better off eating one meal of sockeye than two meals of farmed fish.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The other thing I would say is to eat mindfully. I would think someone would feel better if they buy that $15 sockeye instead of the $7 farmed fish … When you're eating that quality of fish, it's like eating in a white tablecloth restaurant. Make it an aesthetic experience. Light some candles and really enjoy. Enjoy that smaller portion that you paid more for, knowing that you're part of a movement …"</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Cooking Suggestions</h2>
<p>Molyneaux also likes cod sautéed in butter with onions and garlic and a little Cajun seasoning. A good seafood meal always starts with high-quality fresh fish, though, and the only place you can find that is at a local fish market. "Anything that's frozen at sea, just leave that be," he says. "It's part of the industrial food production system."</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"My parameters are: 'Is this part of the industrial food system or is this something that I really want to eat?' Plus, not to mention that the frozen-at-sea is not going to give you the same cooking qualities that a fresh fish has.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>This is important: When you look for wild-caught fish in the seafood case, if it's a whitefish, like a cod, a haddock or a pollock, the flesh has almost a silicone quality to it. It's almost translucent. When you touch it, it bounces back. Your fingerprint doesn't stay there. The meat is tight. It holds together.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>If you see that in a store, buy it. Buy a few pounds and put some in the freezer for yourself … When I walk into the supermarket, if I see a good quality fish, I'll buy it [and] cook it that night. I don't wait … I'll take my frying pan. I'll put a little butter in there and sauté some onions slow, then I'll put that fish in there. And then I'm watching that fish.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>When it gets a little white around the edges, I flip it. I'm waiting. If it's good fresh fish, it'll flake. I'll pry that open there. As soon as that translucency of the flesh is just about to disappear, take it off the heat.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>When I buy sockeye, I steam it on a stainless-steel steaming tray. I do the same thing [but] I cook that even less. With cod, I'll let the color change just right to the last minute, whereas with salmon I'll just let the outer edge get cooked. It's basically raw in the middle …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I would also really like to see people eating fresh, frozen herring, not sardines in a can. If you've ever eaten fresh herring, there is not a more delicate fish. Just sauté in butter. There is absolutely nothing like it."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>More Information</h2>
<p>To learn more about the shrimp and salmon aquaculture industries, be sure to pick up a copy of Molyneaux's book, "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Swimming-Circles-Aquaculture-Wild-Oceans/dp/1560257563/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans</a>." Another one of his books, "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dorymans-Reflection-Fishermans-Life-ebook/dp/B01N6M6OK1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Doryman's Reflection: A Fisherman's Life</a>," discusses policy changes that have impacted small-scale fisheries over the years. The second revised edition came out this summer.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"If you really want to make a difference, see yourself as part of a movement, a part of a global effort that includes a lot of small-scale producers, people with faces that put faces to their fish. If you can connect with them, that's even better. Then you're not eating fish that you bought; you're eating fish from a friend."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>As mentioned earlier, there are a number of fishermen who sell wild-caught fish online. Following are several reputable sources recommended by Molyneaux:</p>
<table class="generic-table">
<tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p><a href="https://localcatch.org/how-to-buy-direct/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Local Catch</a></p>
</td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="https://www.sea2table.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sea to Table</a></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p><a href="https://fishermendirect.com/shop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fishermen Direct</a></p>
</td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="https://www.alaskagoldbrand.com/order-alaska-seafood-from-a-fisherman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alaska Gold</a></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p><a href="https://louisianadirectseafood.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Louisiana Direct</a></p>
</td>
<td valign="top"><p><a href="https://www.mainelobsternow.com/buy-seafood-online?gclid=CjwKCAjwhevaBRApEiwA7aT538G-i8A-LLQ6AZ1qUhQYhKM5TGj1tFofvdQ_Zj9MhVsM7mTATbKHvBoCoFEQAvD_BwE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maine Lobster Now</a></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p><a href="https://prideofbristolbay.com/community-supported-fish-delivered-to-your-door-from-the-fisherman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pride of Bristol Bay</a></p>
</td>
<td class="hide-mobile"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<span id="bcr_FormattedBody"></span></div>FROM MERCOLA , MIDWESTERN DOCTOR Affirmative Action in Medicine JUSTICE ??? DEItag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-07-29:5235400:BlogPost:1493762023-07-29T14:18:20.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Affirmative Action in Medicine</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a href="https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">A Midwestern Doctor</a></span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">July 29, 2023…</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<p></p>
</div>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Affirmative Action in Medicine</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/" rel="noopener">A Midwestern Doctor</a></span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">July 29, 2023</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<p></p>
</div>
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton4"><div id="bcr_pnlbtnPrev"><div class="previous-article"><div class="article-thumb"><img id="bcr_btnPrevImg" class=" ls-is-cached mlazyloaded" alt="Treasure Trove of Damning Evidence Surrounding COVID Origin" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/July/Nonlead/damning-evidence-surrounding-covid-origin-thmb.jpg" name="bcr_btnPrevImg"/></div>
<div class="article-title"><span id="bcr_lblPrevTitle">Treasure Trove of Damning Evidence Surrounding COVID Origin</span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="bcr_pnlbtnNext"><div class="next-article"><div class="article-thumb"><img id="bcr_btnNextImg" class=" mlazyloaded" alt="Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/July/Nonlead/aquaculture.jpg" name="bcr_btnNextImg"/></div>
<div class="article-title"><span id="bcr_lblNextTitle">Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans</span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div class="video-container"></div>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div id="bcr_divStoryImage" class="story-image"><img id="bcr_imgStory" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/July/Nonlead/affirmative-action-in-medicine-thumb.jpg" alt="affirmative action in medicine" name="bcr_imgStory"/></div>
<div class="story-highlights"><h3 id="expanderHead">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</h3>
<div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">There has been a push to address historic inequalities throughout society by selecting individuals on the basis of their race rather than their merit. Many oppose doing this because it is discriminatory, highly divisive and significantly lowers the quality of organizations that do not select the most qualified individuals to fill each position</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">When individuals are selected for universities on the basic of meeting a racial quota rather than their merit, it is known as affirmative action. Highly divided opinions exist within the medical field on if patients benefit or are harmed by affirmative action</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">A recent supreme court ruling has outlawed affirmative action. This article will attempt to present a balanced perspective on the ruling and its implications of it</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>Diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) is an immensely controversial subject. I believe this controversy has arisen since people have strong reasons to support either side of the argument and because it is being forced upon us by both the government and multinational corporations.</p>
<p>For example,<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social,_and_corporate_governance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESG scores</a><span> </span>have been used as a metric to calculate the social value of corporations, and a vital component of an ESG score is the company's commitment to advancing diversity both within the company and in society.</p>
<p>Since ESG scores are used by many (such as Blackrock — the largest asset holder in the world) to determine which corporation to invest in, a lot of money is at stake, and many corporations have gone to great lengths in promoting left-wing causes to attract ESG-focused investors.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>In 2023, Vanguard (the second largest asset holder)<span> </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/vanguards-ceo-bucks-the-esg-orthodoxy-tim-buckley-net-zero-emissions-united-nations-initiative-nzam-f6ae910d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">distanced itself from ESG investing</a>, with its CEO arguing that ESG investing is incompatible with Vanguard's fiduciary duties to the investors. Fewer than 1 in 7 of Vanguard's active equity managers outperformed the broad market in any five-year period, and none of them relied exclusively on a net-zero (ESG) investment methodology.</p>
<p>Depending on how one looks at it, I believe any of the following can be argued about DEI:</p>
<ul>
<li>It's an attempt to address a legitimate issue.</li>
<li>It's a smokescreen.</li>
<li>It's a power play.</li>
<li>It's a mass formation.</li>
</ul>
<p>Although many of the initial justifications for DEI were valid, at this point, it has transformed into something accomplishing the opposite of what was initially intended. In many cases, the harm of DEI is only evident if you are actively involved in the field it affects. Since I am in medicine, my focus will be on how DEI has affected medicine, but much of what I say holds for other fields as well.</p>
<h2>Inequality and Discrimination</h2>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>There are two ways to amass wealth and power:</p>
<ul>
<li>Producing something of immense value.</li>
<li>Stealing from others.</li>
</ul>
<p>The first sometimes happens. For example, after World War 2, since the war didn't touch America's soil, America had an intact industrial base the rest of the world was eager to purchase from and America rapidly experienced a boon in wealth that saturated the society. For context, in the 1950s, a black high school dropout working reasonable hours in a factory could afford to buy a house and support a stay-at-home wife raising his family.</p>
<p>Typically, however, the second happens. One of the primary issues of our era (which became much worse during the pandemic) is that the wealth that used to be available to all of America has been sucked up by the 1%, which amongst other things, has created a situation now where jointly-employed married couples, trapped in debt, cannot afford to start a family yet alone buy a home.</p>
<div class="center-img"><img class=" mlazyloaded" alt="income growth 1917 - 2012" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2023/July/income-growth-1917-2012.jpg"/></div>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>The most significant acceleration in this trend occurred during COVID-19. As many lost their livelihoods (e.g.,<span> </span><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/05/america-united-states-covid-small-businesses-economics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">34% of small businesses</a><span> </span>closed during the pandemic), the combined wealth of all U.S. billionaires<span> </span><a href="https://inequality.org/facts/inequality-and-covid-19/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased by $2.071 trillion</a><span> </span>(70.3%) in only 19 months.</p>
<p>Furthermore, a 123% increase happened for the five wealthiest billionaires (Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg, Page, and Musk), almost all of whom<span> </span><a href="https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/californias-misinformation-epidemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">used the tools available to them</a><span> </span>to both push the pandemic narrative and censor anyone who challenged it (e.g., by providing ways to treat COVID-19 and end the pandemic that no one could patent and profit off of).</p>
<p>I believe this shift was deliberate and enacted by a globalist group that preceded the World Economic Forum and came to prominence during the Carter administration (Carter was elected in 1976) with the stated goal of creating a society revolving around economic feudalism.</p>
<p>This model replaced the lords of the feudal era with large corporations, and rather than using armies to force the general populace (who in the feudal period were known as serfs) to work for those lords, economic incentives (e.g., needing a job) is used to enforce their compliance.</p>
<p>One awful illustration of the power of this model were the unjustifiable (<a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/21a244_hgci.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">and later ruled to be illegal</a>) vaccination mandates enacted across corporate America which put many in the position of having to choose between not supporting their families or taking a severe risk to their health. Many felt gravely violated by this policy but ultimately complied, which, as<span> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cause-Epidemic-Sudden-Childrens-Defense/dp/1510776397" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ed Dowd showed</a>, had catastrophic consequences for America:</p>
<div class="center-img"><img class=" mlazyloaded" alt="biden vaccine mandates" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2023/July/biden-vaccine-mandates.jpg"/></div>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>Many have argued both the DEI "mandates" and the vaccine mandates have functioned as loyalty tests designed to remove right-wing individuals who did not wish to comply with either from positions of influence. This issue appears to be the most evident within the military, and quite a few people I know directly who were loyal to their country and fellow Americans have left the armed services due to the current administration's actions.</p>
<p>Throughout history, colonial powers have also acquired wealth by stealing it (colloquially known as exploiting colonial subjects). Implementing these policies, in turn, required negative attitudes to exist toward the colonial subjects so that there would be no guilt in enslaving and exploiting them. Since many (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantations_of_Ireland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">but not all</a>) of the colonies were of different ethnicity, these economic policies encouraged racial discrimination toward the colonial subjects.</p>
<p>As a result, tremendous racism can be found worldwide, and far too many books can be written about the horrific deeds both Western and non-Western nations have committed to advance their national economic interests.<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples" target="_blank" rel="noopener">For example</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"Indigenous people both north and south were displaced, died of disease, and were killed by Europeans through slavery, rape, and war. In 1491, about 145 million people lived in the western hemisphere. By 1691, the population of indigenous Americans had declined by 90–95 percent, or by around 130 million people."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Since the degree of racism in America has massively declined over the last century, it is difficult to appreciate the attitudes that used to be widespread throughout the nation or the degree of horrific exploitation which were previously normalized against many "undesirable" segments of society.</p>
<div class="productad"></div>
<h2>Divide and Conquer</h2>
<p>The struggle the ruling elite always faces is how, with their limited resources, they can effectively control a much larger segment of the population, which understandably does not want to be exploited and cannot be if they stand together.</p>
<div class="center-img"><img class=" mlazyloaded" alt="divide and conquer" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2023/July/divide-and-conquer.jpg"/></div>
<p>One of the most commonly utilized approaches is to take advantage of the tribalistic attitudes inherent to the human species and use them to split the exploited populace into two camps that each blame the other for what the parasitic ruling elite is doing to both of them.</p>
<p>I first really grasped this after I read<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%27s_History_of_the_United_States" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A People's History of The United States</a><span> </span>(a progressive classic) and learned that in addition to African slaves, European slaves (known as indentured servants) also came to America and worked on the plantations. Both the white and black slaves were treated poorly by the landowners, and once the landowners realized their slaves were becoming friends, they pitted their slaves against each other through racial divisions (which was largely successful).</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>The slavery we used to see worldwide has largely been outsourced to the third world (e.g., in sweatshops or largely invisible forced labor) since that, rather than overt slavery, is now the most efficient way to profit off other human beings.</p>
<p>It's hard to choose a single example. Still, if I had to, I'd argue the most devastating implementation of the divide and conquer strategy<span> </span><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00207152211023793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was conducted by the British Empire</a>. The British intentionally had the boundaries of their colonies (which later became national boundaries) drawn, so they contained opposing groups and encouraged divisions between those tribes during their rule.</p>
<p>In many cases,<span> </span><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00207152211023793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this resulted in war breaking out</a><span> </span>between those tribes after the British left, and many of the longest-running conflicts in the world are a product of this approach.</p>
<p>Since learning all of this, more and more, I've come to appreciate how much society trains us to focus on how we are different from our fellow Americans (when the reality is that we have so much more in common than where we differ). Likewise, as the years have gone by, I've gotten better and better at noticing how often polarized divisions (e.g., gender is a common one now) are created to wedge us apart.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>A common way those in power neutralize parties that threaten their power (e.g., activist groups) is by encouraging divisions in the groups opposing them so the group turns on itself. I've seen this take place in many causes I've participated in, and this is why I've repeatedly spoken out against attacking leaders in the vaccine safety movement that I believe is trying to do the right thing.</p>
<p>Recently, a reader sent me a 1947 "propaganda" video the US military made to prevent Nazism from entrenching itself within the United States. What I found so fascinating about this ancient video is that it perfectly describes the divisions now being created in the name of DEI:</p>
<div class="video-rwd"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iQ0ct9bglYo?wmode=opaque&rel=0"></iframe>
</div>
<p>Throughout history, people who were able to productively dismantle the structures used by those in charge to control the general populace have periodically emerged. Two of the most well-known examples were Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. (who was inspired by Gandhi).</p>
<p>Each of them emphasized non-violent protest (as using violence would be turned against the protestors) and working to reverse social divisions so the common people could unite and would no longer permit the exploitative systems to remain in place. This sentiment is encapsulated within MLK's famous speech, which stated:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>It is thus quite tragic that those who cite MLK in their push for DEI are working so hard to again make race be the primary determinant of how people are treated.</p>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/July/PDF/affirmative-action-in-medicine-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>Discrimination in Medicine</h2>
<p>Throughout modern history, doctors have always been agents of the state that advanced whatever policy the government put forward. One of the most well-known horrific examples occurred in Nazi Germany, where the German medical profession, rather than honoring their Hippocratic Oath, facilitated and often encouraged the eugenics policies of Nazi Germany (e.g., executing or sterilizing the members of society deemed to be unfit for the nation).</p>
<p>The medical profession has also supported many other abhorrent policies (e.g., the abysmal and arguably genocidal treatment of colonized communities). There has also been a long history of unethical human experimentation in the United States (some of which is summarized<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>), and in most cases, that research was done on marginalized members of society (since they are the easiest groups to use as Guinea pigs).</p>
<p>Many of these experiments thus were conducted on ethnic minorities, and sadly the Tuskegee experiments are just the tip of the iceberg of what transpired (e.g., consider<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Marion_Sims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the abhorrent work of Marion Sims</a><span> </span>or<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the radiation experiments conducted by the military</a>).</p>
<p>Likewise, the quality of medical care is often highly dependent on how wealthy someone is. As a result, minority groups that are also economically disadvantaged frequently receive much poorer medical care and are even more distrustful of the medical system.</p>
<p>Since the DEI movement has encouraged drawing attention to societal inequalities, the push for DEI has also entered the medical profession. Over the last few years, it has grown to the point it has become an ideology, and many are trapped within a mass formation where anything that supports DEI is good. In contrast, anything that criticizes it is terrible, irrespective of how much the specific policy benefits patients. As the years go by, I hear more and more examples of this. These include:</p>
<div class="indent"><p><span class="bullet">•</span>Medical education openly promotes the "woke" ideology, even if it is at odds with basic medical science.</p>
<p><span class="bullet">•</span>Hearing stories of individuals questioning the rush for DEI being excommunicated for doing so. For example, this was shared with me by Richard T. Bosshardt, MD, FACS:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"In June 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd's death, the leadership of the ACS assembled its own Task Force on Racism to deal with, as they explicitly stated, "structural racism in the ACS," declaring that its own (white) surgeons were implicitly racist and that the practice of surgery was racist as well.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The only evidence given for any of this was disparities in representation of blacks in the ACS and some studies showing poorer outcomes in surgery in black patients compared to white patients. Racism was to blame and no other causes for these disparities were entertained. The ACS went so far as to suggest that black patients might have better outcomes if their surgeon was also black.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The task force recommendations were essentially a primer on how to incorporate DEI/CRT into an organization. These included adding antiracism to the ACS values, installing a Department of Diversity with its own Director as part of the leadership of the ACS, implementing training in implicit bias, microaggressions, and ally/active bystander, and even adding a sixth, Diversity Pillar, to the other five pillars in the ACS.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>All of this struck me as terribly wrong. It was a slap in the face of all surgeons of every race and ethnicity who do their very best, every day, for every patient regardless of the patient's race or ethnicity, and I said so in a post on the online discussion forums of the ACS website. I was then banned for life from the ACS in clear violation of the ACS own bylaws for disciplinary matters."</em></p>
</blockquote>
</div>
<p>Likewise, another surgeon I've corresponded with, James Miller, shared that before COVID-19, DEI had taken over his hospital to the point that surgeons were not allowed to question harmful things they saw being done in the name of DEI, and minor "discriminatory" verbal missteps surgeons there made (which had no malice behind them) resulted in severe sanctions being leveled against those surgeons.</p>
<p>Conversely, once the COVID-19 vaccines became available, he observed active discrimination against unvaccinated patients (which repeatedly directly harmed those patients), but no one objected to it. This put Dr. Miller in the awkward position of having to either follow his longstanding creed as a surgeon and treat every patient he saw to the best of his ability (regardless of how he disagreed with them) and upset his colleagues or fail to uphold his responsibility as a physician.</p>
<p>He chose to do the former, set up a free clinic to help these patients, and eventually had to leave the state to protect his medical license because of the retaliation he faced for his choice.</p>
<div class="video-rwd has-figcaption"> <a target="_blank" href="https://rumble.com/v2iu8gh-dr-miller-on-fox-news.html" rel="noopener">Video Link</a>
<br />
</div>
<p>Dr. Miller's experience reminds me of a tidbit a friend shared decades ago: "Liberals don't get that you can't hate hate." In my eyes, one of the major issues with the current push against racism is that it's focused on superficial ideas of what racism is (e.g., Europeans are bad because they were racist) rather than the need for each human species to move beyond hating those who come from tribes different than their own.</p>
<p>This, for example, is why you can have people who, on the one hand, get up in arms about the slightest microaggression they see a colleague commit but simultaneously don't have a second thought about actively discriminating against groups they are told to despise (e.g., the unvaccinated).</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>As far as I can tell, this push to discriminate against those who resisted vaccine mandates began in 2015 when a coordinated PR campaign was launched across the United States following a "catastrophic" measles outbreak (which no one died from).</p>
<p>This PR campaign<span> </span><a href="https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/californias-misinformation-epidemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paved the way</a><span> </span>for widely protested school vaccine mandates across the country and appeared<span> </span><a href="https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/californias-misinformation-epidemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to have been the opening salvo</a><span> </span>in the push for adult vaccine mandates we witnessed not long after during COVID-19. What really bothered me about the 2015 campaign was how many left-wing colleagues I had watched extoll the importance of compassionate care for every single patient then actively wish death upon the children who failed to vaccinate.</p>
<h2>Smokescreens</h2>
<p>A common PR strategy to get out of trouble for getting caught doing something horrendous is to create a token initiative that casts one in a positive light and then divert everyone's focus to that initiative. For example, egregious polluters who get caught polluting (and continue to pollute because it makes money) will often create token environmental initiatives and excessively promote that initiative to recast themselves as stewards of the environment.</p>
<p>Amazingly, this strategy is extremely effective and has led many environmental activists to term it "green-washing" (a wordplay on whitewashing the crimes).</p>
<p>DEI is the currently in-vogue smoke screen, partly because of the current mass formation around it and partly because any commitment to DEI is a token initiative that does not affect anyone's bottom line. This, for example, is why major corporations like Apple and Nike frequently commit to social justice<span> </span><a href="https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/when-industries-value-profit-over" target="_blank" rel="noopener">while utilizing sweatshops that exploit vulnerable people overseas</a>.</p>
<p>People have a lot of reasons to be dissatisfied with the medical field, especially after the debacle we witnessed during COVID-19. However, rather than address these issues, I've just watched the profession repeatedly double down on DEI.</p>
<p>For example, I was sent a report compiled by a (large) special commission appointed by one of the organizations in charge of assessing medical students across America (e.g., by making board examinations). It was tasked with addressing some of the major issues created by COVID-19 (e.g., many medical students during the pandemic somehow did their clinical rotations virtually).</p>
<p>I read the report and noted there was very little which appeared to address these issues (e.g., training doctors in things the public wants them to know), but I did notice about 25% of it was focused on advancing DEI through:</p>
<ul>
<li>Making sure all races were equally represented in board examination questions (e.g., in pictures).</li>
<li>Make sure the language is more sensitive and inclusive (e.g., say "a woman with hypertension" rather than a "hypertensive woman").</li>
<li>Evaluate removing questions that suggest differences exist between races for specific medical conditions or physiologic parameters (to some extent, this point was valid but the issue they cited had already been widely adopted by the medical profession).</li>
<li>Increase the diversity of individuals writing exam questions.</li>
</ul>
<p>This approach makes it possible to avoid attacking anything controversial (e.g., threatening a pharmaceutical interest) while still making it look like something productive is being done. It is thus an irresistible PR opportunity.</p>
<p>One colleague (who works at a very left-wing medical school) told me they'd been visited by consultants to help the school maintain its accreditation (schools periodically have to pass that).</p>
<p>There are a variety of significant issues with that school (which needed to be improved to graduate competent physicians), yet after the consultant looked everything over, the consultant declared that the number one priority was to foster DEI since the accrediting bodies placed a heavy weight on it and hence proposed a variety of measures that could be done to strengthen the school's commitment to DEI.</p>
<p>My colleague specifically shared this with me because their school's mission statement revolved around DEI and was already going very far to promote it.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span><a href="https://archive.is/A5qcl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">One recent story</a><span> </span>illustrates why DEI violates the ethical standards we expect to be upheld in medicine.</p>
<p>On December 27, 2021, New York's Department of Health, citing a lack of available antivirals to treat COVID-19 issued guidelines stating the use of those medications needed to be reserved for patients at higher risk of severe COVID-19. It then went on to say that being any race besides white qualified as "high risk," thereby precluding many white people from being able to receive the therapy.</p>
<h2>Affirmative Action</h2>
<p>One of the central beliefs in DEI is that people of all races need to be equally represented in positions of power within society. Since education is often the pathway to these opportunities, DEI proponents have argued that an equitable admissions process must ensure that all races are evenly represented in those admitted to the schools.</p>
<p>On the surface, this is quite reasonable. Unfortunately, the racial distribution of qualified applicants does not match the equitable racial distribution each school wants in its class. This, in turn, forces them to either admit based on merit (and not have the sought-after DEI metrics) or to admit based on ethnicity and discriminate against qualified individuals with an undesirable race. Each of these choices understandably upsets a significant number of people.</p>
<p>I personally believe the previously described dilemma illustrates a common issue I encounter; the problem with false dichotomies. The lack of qualified applicants from the desired ethnicities in truth indicates something needs to be done to increase the number of qualified applicants. Given that decades of DEI policies have failed to address the root issue, this suggests more DEI policies are unlikely to fix them either.</p>
<p>For example, many underrepresented ethnic minorities live in high-crime areas, making it very difficult to develop the local economy or for students to pursue long-term goals by prioritizing academic success. This issue has existed for decades and, in many places, has gotten worse.</p>
<p>Likewise, many of the harms DEI advocates attribute to systemic discrimination against specific races are known to arise from poverty and can only be solved by addressing the poverty in the affected communities.</p>
<p>Sadly, while DEI proponents will frequently lament the hardships individuals born in those environments face to justify the need for affirmative action, they rarely do anything to address the underlying causes of these inequalities.</p>
<p>This is analogous to how much of medicine now revolves around treating symptoms rather than causes of illnesses. While this model is very profitable and frequently treats acute disease, it typically fails for chronic conditions (accordingly, research into the underlying causes of chronic illness is generally neglected by the medical profession).</p>
<p>Because the upper class is consuming more and more of the available economic resources, everyone is fighting more and more for the remaining pieces of an ever-shrinking pie. While it's quite understandable why people would want to do this, they would be much better served to understand why the pie they all share is shrinking and joining hands to fix it.</p>
<h2>Medical Admissions</h2>
<p>Everything described above also holds true for the even more elusive admissions to medical school. I would also argue there is a real need for diversity in the medical profession since doctors have such an enormous impact on the lives of others and many ethnic minorities are understandably distrustful of the medical profession.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, because of the need to attract a diverse class and the limited applicant pool, many medical schools have lowered the acceptable admission standards for a desired ethnicity applicant to be right on the threshold of the academic performance necessary to pass medical school.</p>
<p>This is a significant issue because if under qualified physicians become the doctors for these underserved populations, the quality of the medical care they receive significantly worsens (I have heard many distressing examples of this coming to pass).</p>
<p>Somewhat in parallel, my colleagues in academia have noticed more and more applications they see revolve around a commitment to diversity by the applicant rather than the traditional things looked for in the application process. Given the prevailing biases in academia, it makes sense why this is the path many shoot for.</p>
<p>Yet at the same time, I've repeatedly heard medical students remark that they know what they're saying is BS. Similarly, colleagues I directly know who got through medical school based on their diversity and repeatedly affirming their commitment to helping the underserved terminated that "commitment" the moment they completed their residency training.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>I was recently informed by a friend and professor at an Ivy League medical school that part of their accreditation is based upon the diversity of each class, and specifically for that reason, they have to pass over qualified candidates to meet the DEI metrics.</p>
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>Although I have many criticisms of the DEI model, I also see a key argument that favors it. One school of philosophy argues that all social change is a product of conflicting ideas clashing with each other in society and an eventual compromise between them becoming the established norm.</p>
<p>If you posit that "DEI" has served that function in relation to "racism," then it is quite arguable the compromise that has been gradually reached between them (a significant reduction in genuine racism throughout America) is much better than what preceded the era of DEI. At the same time, this also means that much of the need for DEI no longer exists since DEI has effectively eliminated it.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong><span> </span>I am not sure if my argument entirely holds because much of the racial tolerance and colorblindness I used to observe has evaporated as people have become over-identified with their racial composition and the pain of their ancestors.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, since so many people’s DEI careers now depend on sustaining the need to fight racism, a problem which has largely disappeared, more and more things are we previously did not consider to be racism are being reframed as racist to sustain that industry. This sadly is a pattern I have observed in many other areas and brought me to believe "no group can ever be relied upon to solve a problem its existence revolves around solving."</p>
<p>Fortunately, since the recent Supreme Court decision applies to all educational institutions that receive federal funds (in other words, all of them), it is likely to make ripples for decades in the United States. Clarence Thomas (the only black man on the Supreme Court) likewise provided an unusually strong statement in the ruling:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"The great failure of this country was slavery and its progeny. And, the tragic failure of this Court was its misinterpretation of the Reconstruction Amendments, as Justice Harlan predicted in Plessy. We should not repeat this mistake merely because we think, as our predecessors thought, that the present arrangements are superior to the Constitution.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em><strong>The Court's opinion rightly makes clear that Grutter is, for all intents and purposes, overruled</strong><span> </span>[this signifies the weight of the decision]. And, it sees the universities' admissions policies for what they are: rudderless, race-based preferences designed to ensure a particular racial mix in their entering classes. Those policies fly in the face of our colorblind Constitution and our Nation's equality ideal.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In short, they are plainly — and boldly — unconstitutional. See Brown II, 349 U. S., at 298 (noting that the Brown case one year earlier had "declare[d] the fundamental principle that racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional").</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>While I am painfully aware of the social and economic ravages which have befallen my race and all who suffer discrimination, I hold out enduring hope that this country will live up to its principles so clearly enunciated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States: that all men are created equal, are equal citizens, and must be treated equally before the law."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Because of the widespread public rejection of the unjustifiable COVID-19 policies, we are at a moment in time where massive reforms and improvements in healthcare are possible. It is my sincere hope this opportunity won't get diverted into smokescreens like DEI that allow the industry to divide us and sustain its unethical practices that place profits before patients. Statements like Justice Thomas's make me very hopeful we are moving in that direction.</p>
<h2>A Note From Dr. Mercola About the Author</h2>
<p>A Midwestern Doctor (AMD) is a board-certified physician in the Midwest and a longtime reader of Mercola.com. I appreciate his exceptional insight on a wide range of topics and I'm grateful to share them. I also respect his desire to remain anonymous as he is still on the front lines treating patients. To find more of AMD's work, be sure to check out<span> </span><a href="https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Forgotten Side of Medicine</a><span> </span>on Substack.</p>
</div>FROM MERCOLA COVID COVER UP? Treasure Trove of Damning Evidence Surrounding COVID Origintag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-07-29:5235400:BlogPost:1494522023-07-29T14:06:13.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<p></p>
<h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Treasure Trove of Damning Evidence Surrounding COVID Origin</span></h1>
<p>July 29 2023</p>
<p></p>
<p>3 HOUR VIDEO BELOW</p>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gBHFFM7-aCk?wmode=opaque" width="560"></iframe>
</p>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div class="story-glance" id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance"><div class="story-highlights"><h3 id="expanderHead">STORY AT-A-GLANCE…</h3>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p></p>
<h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Treasure Trove of Damning Evidence Surrounding COVID Origin</span></h1>
<p>July 29 2023</p>
<p></p>
<p>3 HOUR VIDEO BELOW</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gBHFFM7-aCk?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
</p>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><h3 id="expanderHead">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</h3>
<div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">U.S. House Republicans investigating the origin of COVID-19 inadvertently released a trove of new documents that shed light on deliberations among the scientists in the earliest days of the pandemic</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">July 11, 2023, the subcommittee on the origin of COVID-19 held a hearing on the “Proximal Origin” paper, in which they questioned Dr. Robert Garry of Tulane University and Dr. Kristian Andersen of Scripps, two of the paper’s authors</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">February 1, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci convened a conference call with nearly a dozen scientists. Their scientific consensus was that SARS-CoV-2 appeared to be genetically engineered and that the pandemic was likely the result of a lab escape</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">Later that day, several of the authors drafted a paper that drew the opposite conclusion. “The Proximal Origin of Sars-Cov-2,” a letter to the editor, was published in Nature Medicine, March 17, 2020. It ended up being widely cited by media as evidence of a scientific consensus that the virus emerged naturally and jumped species</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>According to a July 12, 2023, article by Ryan Grim published by The Intercept,<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup><span> </span>U.S. House Republicans investigating the origin of COVID-19 “appear to have inadvertently released a trove of new documents ... that shed light on deliberations among the scientists who drafted a key paper in February and March of 2020.”</p>
<p>The paper in question is “The Proximal Origin of Sars-Cov-2,”<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup><span> </span>a letter to the editor of Nature Medicine published March 17, 2020. This letter ended up being widely cited by the media as evidence of a scientific consensus that the virus emerged naturally and jumped species.</p>
<p>The House Subcommittee on the origin of COVID-19 devoted an entire report to this paper, showing how the authors presented a false conclusion to the public while privately believing the virus had escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).</p>
<p>The report was published July 11, 2023, the same day the subcommittee also held a hearing on the “Proximal Origin” paper, in which they questioned Robert Garry, Ph.D., of Tulane University and Kristian Andersen, Ph.D., of Scripps, two of the scientists involved in its creation. The Intercept explains how more information than intended ended up out in the open:<sup><span id="edn3">3</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“According to the metadata in the PDF of the report, it was created using ‘Acrobat PDFMaker 23 for Word,’ indicating that the report was originally drafted as a Word document. Word, however, retains the original image when an image is cropped, as do many other apps ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p><em>The Intercept was able to extract the original, complete images from the PDF using freely available tools, following the work of a Twitter sleuth. All the files can be found here.”<sup><span id="edn4">4</span></sup></em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>The original subcommittee report has now been taken down.</p>
<h2>Background</h2>
<p>February 1, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Dr. Francis Collins, then-director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) convened a conference call with 11 scientists to discuss COVID-19.</p>
<p>On that conference call, Drs. Fauci and Collins were warned that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) — and that the virus appeared to be the result of genetic engineering. Minutes from the call reveal a lab escape was in fact the consensus among the gathered experts on that day.</p>
<p>Yet later that very day, a first draft of “The Proximal Origin” paper had been written, and three days later, on February 4, Fauci was sent a copy for editing and approval. The authors have maintained that new information changed their minds, but what, exactly, could they have learned in that short time? As it turns out, nothing.</p>
<p>According to The Intercept, “Slack messages and emails show that their initial inclination toward a lab escape remained long past that time.” So, as initially suspected, the “Proximal Origin” paper appears to have been nothing more than an attempt to control the narrative.</p>
<h2>Zoonotic Origin Pushers Suspected Lab Leak</h2>
<p>“In a Slack exchange February 2, 2020, between Andersen and Andrew Rambaut of the University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, it becomes clear how seriously the authors took the hypothesis that COVID may have leaked from a lab ... before they ultimately became dedicated to publicly dismissing it,” Grim writes.<sup><span id="edn5">5</span></sup></p>
<br />
<p>The main issue is that accidental escape is in fact highly likely — it’s not some fringe theory. ~ Kristian Andersen, Ph.D.</p>
<br />
<p>In that Slack exchange, Andersen wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“I believe RaTG13 is from Yuanan, which is about as far away from Wuhan as you can be and still be in China. What are the chances of finding viruses that are 96% identical given that distance? Seems strange given how many SARS-like viruses we have in bats.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>RaTG13 refers to a virus found in a Chinese mine in 2013 after several miners had fallen ill with COVID-like symptoms. This virus was stored and researched at the WIV. Rambaut replied to Andersen’s comment:<sup><span id="edn6">6</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“I personally think we should get away from all the strange coincidence stuff. I agree it smells really fishy but without a smoking gun it will not do us any good.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The truth is never going to come out (if [lab] escape is the truth). Would need irrefutable evidence. My position is that the natural evolution is entirely plausible and we will have to leave it at that. Lab passaging might also generate this mutation but we have no evidence that that happened.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Rambaut also noted:<sup><span id="edn7">7</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Given the shitshow that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release, my feeling is we should say that given there is no evidence of a specifically engineered virus, we cannot possibly distinguish between natural evolution and escape so we are content with ascribing it to natural processes.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>While Andersen agreed with Rambaut’s comment, saying “Yup. I totally agree that that’s a very reasonable conclusion,” he still, clearly, did not believe that COVID was caused by zoonotic transfer. Earlier in that same Slack thread, Andersen stressed that:<sup><span id="edn8">8</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The main issue is that accidental escape is in fact highly likely — it’s not some fringe theory. I absolutely agree that we can’t prove one way or the other, but we never will be able to — however, that doesn’t mean that by default the data is currently much more suggestive of a natural origin as opposed to e.g. passage. It is not — the furin cleavage site is very hard to explain.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>The choice of words is ironic, considering the lab leak theory was dismissed as a fringe conspiracy theory in large part thanks to Andersen’s “Proximal Origin” paper, which boldly proclaimed that “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus” and that “we do not believe any type of laboratory scenario is plausible.”</p>
<div class="productad"></div>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/July/PDF/damning-evidence-surrounding-covid-origin-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>How Involved Was Fauci?</h2>
<p>During the July 11, 2023, subcommittee hearing, Andersen insisted that Fauci and Collins had not influenced the conclusions presented in “Proximal Origin,” but doubts linger.</p>
<p>February 5, 2020, Andersen wrote that suspicions of genetic engineering and bioweapons research was “definitely not going away,” and that he was being approached by journalists about it. “There might be a time where we need to tackle that more directly head on,” he wrote, “but I’ll let the likes of Jeremy [Farrar] and Tony [Fauci] figure out how to do that.”</p>
<p>And while Fauci and Collins didn’t figure out how to quash the theory for good, they sure tried. April 16, 2020, Collins emailed Fauci expressing dismay that the “Proximal Origin” paper had failed to quash the lab leak hypothesis, and asked Fauci if there was anything else the NIH could do to “put down this very destructive conspiracy theory.”<sup><span id="edn9">9</span></sup></p>
<p>The next day, Fauci cited the paper from the White House podium and told reporters that COVID-19 was “totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.”<sup><span id="edn10">10</span></sup></p>
<p>There are also questions about whether Fauci and other government officials may have used private emails to cover up their coverup. During the hearing, the subcommittee chairman reported that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is investigating the conduct of Dr. David M. Morens, senior scientific adviser to Fauci.</p>
<p>The investigation was launched after the subcommittee released a 2021 email by Morens to several “Proximal Origins” authors, including Garry and Andersen, in which he admitted that he was using a personal Gmail account to evade the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).<sup><span id="edn11">11</span></sup></p>
<h2>Pressure From on High</h2>
<p>In a February 16, 2020, email, Eddie Holmes, another one of the “Proximal Origins” authors, also alluded to “pressure” being applied, although he didn’t name names:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Well, that’s suspicious ... he comes back 15 minutes after I submit? A natural phenomenon? I’m not sure we can exclude the hypothesis of deliberately engineered responsibility shirking. Anyway, it’s done. Sorry the last bit had to be done without you ... pressure from on high.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>According to Grim, “officials with the communications department at the NIH had been asking about the status of the submission,” and “Taken as a whole, the messages undercut the claims that the NIH took a hands-off approach to the paper.”</p>
<h2>‘Impossible’ to Reject Lab Leak Theory</h2>
<p>Andersen’s reply to the journal Nature also reveals that dismissing the lab leak theory was impossible from the very beginning, based on the data. Before the “Proximal Origin” paper was submitted to Nature Medicine, it had been pitched to — and rejected — by Nature.</p>
<p>The rejection letter specified that one reviewer thought the lab leak had to be conclusively rejected, lest it fuel conspiracy theories. According to that reviewer, once new pangolin sequences were published, “a lab origin will be extremely unlikely.” In a February 20, 2020, reply to Nature, Andersen wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Had that been the case, we would of course have included that — but the more sequences we see from pangolins (and we have been analyzing/discussing these very carefully) the more unlikely it seems that they’re the intermediate hosts.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Unfortunately, none of this helps refute a lab origin and the possibility must be considered as a serious scientific theory (which is what we do) and not dismissed out of hand as another ‘conspiracy’ theory. We all really, really wish that we could do that (that’s how this got started), but unfortunately it’s not possible given the data.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>However, by the time the paper was submitted to Nature Medicine, it had been further edited to more strongly dismiss the possibility of a lab leak.</p>
<h2>A Deeper Cover-Up at Play?</h2>
<p>According to Republicans on the subcommittee on the origin of COVID-19, the “Proximal Origin” paper may have been unduly influenced by Fauci and other government officials who sought to downplay the possibility that COVID-19 might have emerged from the WIV — a lab with a long history of U.S. funding of questionable gain-of-function research. Subcommittee chairman Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, said:<sup><span id="edn12">12</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“We are examining whether government officials, regardless of who they are, unfairly and perhaps biasedly tipped the scales toward a preferred origin theory …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And, overall, we’re examining whether scientific integrity was disregarded in favor of political expediency — maybe to conceal or diminish the government’s relationship with the Wuhan Institute of Virology …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Or maybe to avoid blaming China for any complicity, intended or otherwise, in a pandemic that has killed more than 1 million Americans and has had a crushing effect on all humankind itself.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile, Garry, Andersen and certain Democrats tried to shift blame onto others, such as Sir Jeremy Farrar. However, by doing so, they only “highlight how insidious the process was,” independent journalist Sam Husseini — who live-tweeted the hearing — writes.<sup><span id="edn13">13</span></sup><span> </span>Quoting from Husseini’s Substack article:<sup><span id="edn14">14</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“... Jeremy Farrar ... played a crucial role in pulling together the group of people who would sign ‘Proximal Origin’ ... he was also a signer of the Lancet letter,<sup><span id="edn15">15</span></sup><span> </span>the other main pillar of propaganda from 2020 on COVID origins.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Farrar had been head of the highly influential Wellcome Trust in Britain and is now chief scientist for the WHO as it attempts a ‘power grab.’ This could hardly be more disturbing, but none of this was pointed out in the hearing.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Time and again, Farrar’s name was invoked to let Fauci off the hook and never was it brought up to show how there was a deeper coverup going on.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Dutch virologist Ron Fouchier was also named as taking part in the meetings that led to the publication of “Proximal Origin.” As noted by Husseini, no one bothered to explain the importance of his presence either.</p>
<p>Fouchier launched a firestorm of controversy in 2011 when he used serial passage to make the avian flu airborne.<sup><span id="edn16">16</span></sup><span> </span>The New York Times warned that his work might lead to an “engineered doomsday.”<sup><span id="edn17">17</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“But Fouchier didn’t sign any either the Lancet letter or ‘Proximal Origin’ — quite likely because his doing so would have made alarm bells go off,”</em><span> </span>Husseini writes.<sup><span id="edn18">18</span></sup></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>“This shows how the propaganda put out at the beginning of the pandemic was highly orchestrated to hinder people from seeing the possibility of lab origins for COVID and the dire threats involved. This raises further questions as to the wider agendas at play.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
</div>FROM MERCOLA Was COVID a Bioweapon That Targets Certain Races?tag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-07-25:5235400:BlogPost:1496092023-07-25T14:01:40.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<p></p>
<h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Was COVID a Bioweapon That Targets Certain Races?</span></h1>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><span>JULY 25 2023</span></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><a href="https://rumble.com/v30jiw8-rabbi-shmuley-and-kennedy-on-nypost-smear.html">Rabbi Shmuley & Kennedy On NYPOST Smear (rumble.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://rumble.com/v30jiw8-rabbi-shmuley-and-kennedy-on-nypost-smear.html">Rabbi Shmuley & Kennedy On NYPOST Smear (rumble.com)…</a></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Was COVID a Bioweapon That Targets Certain Races?</span></h1>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><span>JULY 25 2023</span></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><a href="https://rumble.com/v30jiw8-rabbi-shmuley-and-kennedy-on-nypost-smear.html">Rabbi Shmuley & Kennedy On NYPOST Smear (rumble.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://rumble.com/v30jiw8-rabbi-shmuley-and-kennedy-on-nypost-smear.html">Rabbi Shmuley & Kennedy On NYPOST Smear (rumble.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://rumble.com/v30jiw8-rabbi-shmuley-and-kennedy-on-nypost-smear.html">Rabbi Shmuley & Kennedy On NYPOST Smear (rumble.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://rumble.com/v30jiw8-rabbi-shmuley-and-kennedy-on-nypost-smear.html">Rabbi Shmuley & Kennedy On NYPOST Smear (rumble.com)</a></p>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><h3 id="expanderHead">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</h3>
<div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">According to mainstream media, Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently made claims about COVID-19 being an ethnically targeted bioweapon. That is false</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">Kennedy was discussing the threat posed by bioweapons development, and the need to regulate this kind of research and “resuscitate” the 1972 international bioweapons charter that forbids most of it</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">Kennedy cited a 2020 scientific paper, which found that ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews were the least susceptible to COVID-19, while people of African descent and Caucasians were the most susceptible, due to ACE2 and TMPRSS2 polymorphism variations</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">Because we now have synthetic biology and a wide variety of genetic engineering techniques, there’s a whole new retinue of bioweapons, and among the most heinous are bioweapons that target specific ethnicities</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">While evidence from official sources are scant, high-level individuals insist that race-specific bioweapons development is already underway, in one country or another, and/or that ethnic-specific bioweapons may already exist</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>According to mainstream media, Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently made claims about COVID-19 being an ethnically targeted bioweapon. Yahoo! News,<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup><span> </span>for example, reported that “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. baselessly claimed COVID-19 may have been ‘ethnically targeted’ ... He said Caucasians and black people were most susceptible, and Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people were most immune.”</p>
<p>The New York Post claimed “RKF Jr. Says COVID May Have Been ‘Ethnically Targeted’ to Spare Jews.”<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup></p>
<p>According to Yahoo! News, Kennedy “did not cite any specific sources,” but this whole story turns out to be wrong. Kennedy was in fact citing a very specific scientific paper, and his comments about that paper were then taken out of context.</p>
<h2>‘Wild Claims’ Taken Out of Context</h2>
<p>Kennedy’s comments, which have been taken out of context by mainstream media to paint him as an anti-Semite, were made during a July 13, 2023, after-hours campaign dinner at an Upper East Side restaurant.<sup><span id="edn3">3</span>,<span id="edn4">4</span></sup><span> </span>In a July 17, 2023, Instagram video,<sup><span id="edn5">5</span></sup><span> </span>Kennedy tried to set straight “the inaccurate distortion” of his comments.</p>
<p>As explained by Kennedy, he was discussing the threat posed by bioweapons development, which is being done by the U.S., China, Russia and many other countries, and the urgent need to regulate this kind of research and “resuscitate” the 1972 international bioweapons charter (the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological Weapons,<sup><span id="edn6">6</span>,<span id="edn7">7</span></sup><span> </span>which took effect in March 1975) that forbids much of this research.</p>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>Because we now have synthetic biology and a wide variety of genetic engineering techniques, “there’s a whole new retinue and generation of bioweapons,” Kennedy said in his Instagram reply, “and among the worst of those are bioweapons that target ethnicities.”</p>
<h2>Research Has Identified Genetic Predispositions to COVID</h2>
<p>During the dinner in question, Kennedy cited a July 2020 study<sup><span id="edn8">8</span></sup><span> </span>in BMC Medicine, which reported that, based on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 polymorphism analysis, certain races, as well as people with certain diseases, are more susceptible to COVID-19. As noted in that paper:<sup><span id="edn9">9</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“We found unique genetic susceptibility across different populations in ACE2 and TMPRSS2. Specifically, ACE2 polymorphisms were found to be associated with cardiovascular and pulmonary conditions by altering the angiotensinogen-ACE2 interactions, such as p.Arg514Gly in the African/African-American population.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Unique but prevalent polymorphisms ... in TMPRSS2, offer potential explanations for differential genetic susceptibility to COVID-19 as well as for risk factors, including those with cancer and the high-risk group of male patients.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>In his Instagram rebuttal, Kennedy explained that, according to this study, ethnic Chinese, Finns, and Ashkenazi Jews were the least susceptible to COVID-19, while people of African descent and Caucasians were the most susceptible.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“This is not a controversial study,”</em><span> </span>Kennedy said.<span> </span><em>“Nobody has suggested that these were deliberately engineered changes. And I certainly don’t believe that they were deliberately engineered.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>But what they are is kind of a proof of concept, that you CAN develop bioweapons that will attack certain ethnicities, and this should be terrifying to all of us ... and [needs to be] an object of discussion.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Genetic susceptibilities to COVID-19 were also reviewed in a March 2021 paper<sup><span id="edn10">10</span></sup><span> </span>in the Annals of Laboratory Medicine. As noted by Kennedy in his Instagram rebuttal, throughout history, powerful individuals have sought to eliminate certain races or ethnicities, and current-day bioweapons give them the ability to do that very efficiently.</p>
<p>For this reason, gain-of-function research and bioweapons development must be guided by robust regulations and oversight. THAT was the take-home point he was making during that dinner.</p>
<div class="productad"></div>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/July/PDF/was-covid-a-bioweapon-that-targets-certain-races-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>‘Disgusting Fabrication’</h2>
<p>In a July 16, 2023, Twitter post, Kennedy wrote:<sup><span id="edn11">11</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The insinuation by @nypost and others that, as a result of my quoting a peer-reviewed paper on bio-weapons, I am somehow antisemitic, is a disgusting fabrication ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>My father and my uncles, John F. Kennedy and Senator Edward Kennedy, devoted enormous political energies during their careers to supporting Israel and fighting antisemitism. I intend to spend my political career making those family causes my priority.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I will fight relentlessly alongside my Jewish brothers and sisters and friends against Jew-hatred and the demonization of Israel. I have just recorded an interview with @RabbiShmuley, whom the same New York Post just this month called, ‘the most famous Rabbi in America.’</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I have called upon the Biden Administration not to consummate a second Iran deal that would give that genocidal government a legitimized nuclear program. In the same interview, I called upon the Democratic Party to return to the strong, unconditional support of Israel that was the hallmark of the party under the leadership of my uncle and my father.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Today I had a great conversation with Rabbi Shmuley on Judaism and anti-Semitism. He had this to say: ‘Two things bothered me about the reports I had read about what you had said at that dinner on the upper east side. I said number one, again, this perception that you’re anti-Semitic. I know you’re not.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And in fact, I know precisely the opposite is true. I know that in your heart you feel a great closeness to the Jewish people, to the Jewish community, and to Israel. And the second thing that bothered me is, that you’re being portrayed as you said before, a crank, as a loony toon … but you’re brilliant. You know your facts.’”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>A Harbinger of Smears to Come</h2>
<p>Is it possible that Kennedy’s pro-Israeli stance might in fact be one of the reasons why the Deep State-shackled media try so hard to smear him as an anti-Semite? Maybe, maybe not. What we do know is that Kennedy poses a serious threat to more than a few corrupt institutions, and they’re willing to use just about any smear tactic available, even if it makes no sense. As noted by Roger Simon in The Epoch Times:<sup><span id="edn12">12</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“This isn’t, in the end, really about anti-Semitism, real or imagined. It was just low-hanging fruit ... a harbinger of many dastardly smears of the candidate to come.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>If there’s one thing the military-industrial complex (endless wars from Iraq to Ukraine) and the health care-industrial complex (Big Pharma, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, et al.) do not want, it’s a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidency.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Big Tech probably isn’t very keen on it, either. It would cost them all incalculable amounts of money, much of it courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer and a complaisant government.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Most of all, the current leadership of the Democratic Party — bent on exploiting every so-called progressive policy, no matter how looney, for maximum gain and power — don’t want anyone bringing their party back to sanity, under the leadership of Mr. Kennedy or anyone else.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Race-Specific Bioweapons Are a Reality</h2>
<p>Getting back to Kennedy’s main point, there’s ample evidence showing we have the ability to create race-specific or ethnicity-specific bioweapons, and history tells us that race-specific targeting in war is nothing new. This is precisely why we need to rein in this mad science.</p>
<p>As noted in a September 2000 report by The Project for the New American Century, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses,”<sup><span id="edn13">13</span></sup><span> </span>“advanced forms of biological warfare that can ‘target’ specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.”</p>
<p>In other words, if a particular race or ethnic group becomes politically troublesome, an ethnic-based bioweapon could suddenly become a “useful political tool” to restore order or power.</p>
<br />
<p>Kennedy is not saying that COVID-19 was an intentionally created race-specific bioweapon. He merely pointed out research showing that different races did have varying levels of susceptibility to it, and that race-specific or gene-specific bioweapons are, in fact, in the works around the world — and must be stopped.</p>
<br />
<p>Fast-forward to August 2019, and Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk warned humanity is unprepared for the emergence of race-specific bioweapons. As reported by The Guardian:<sup><span id="edn14">14</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Scientists warn that humans should be worried about being wiped out by a killer pathogen that is specifically designed to kill people of only a particular race, based on their genetic material/ Deoxy ribonucleic Acid (DNA).</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>A new report from Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk says that world governments have failed when it comes to preparing against threats like futuristic bioweapons powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and genetic manipulation. Such weapons would have to power to target specific DNA, and kill certain races of people leaving other swaths of the population unharmed ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The authors warn: ‘The technology is becoming increasingly sophisticated at ever cheaper prices, democratizing the ability to harm more quickly and lethally. In a particularly bad case, a bioweapon could be built to target a specific ethnic group based on its genomic profile.’”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>According to The Guardian, an estimated 16 to 20 countries have known biological warfare programs, but well over 100 have the capacity to make bioweapons. Making matters more difficult, most labs are “dual use,” meaning the work they do have both defensive and offensive uses, and there’s no hard distinction between the two.</p>
<h2>Genetic Data Collection Poses Serious Threat</h2>
<p>Two years later, in July 2021, Dr. P.S. Venkatesh Rao, a consultant endocrine, breast and laparoscopic surgeon, published an article<sup><span id="edn15">15</span></sup><span> </span>in The Sunday Guardian, warning that global genetic data collection, artificial intelligence and genetic engineering techniques currently available allow for the creation of race-specific bioweapons. He wrote, in part:<sup><span id="edn16">16</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Global collection of genetic data and genetic manipulation of humans, animals, plants, destructive insects and deadly microbes is of dual use from bio-welfare to bio-warfare ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>It has become ridiculously simple and cheap to misuse data and gene altering and synthesizing tools, as simple as the use of an ordinary computer and a 3D printer. Big data, artificial intelligence and gene synthesis are being misused to create racially specific bioweapons ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The International HapMap Project of 2002 to 2010 developed a human genome map and provided a massive genotype data from Caucasian, African and Asian population samples. Many differences in susceptibility to some diseases, and response to certain drugs between different ethnic groups were reported in a 2015 study in BMC Genomics.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Multiple reports in scientific journals in 2016 such as in Oncotarget, in Cell and from Pasteur Institute in Paris, found differences in antibody responses and cellular immunity between those of African ancestry and Caucasians.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Those of African ancestry had a stronger inflammatory response and immune overreaction like cytokine storm and autoimmune diseases. Genetic differences affecting the immune system led to racial differences in the response to infections, drugs and vaccines.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In a pandemic, racial differences exist in mortality rates and vaccine efficacy and complications. Genetic data from blood samples about racial differences can be used for racially targeted biowarfare.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>China Accuses Pentagon of Making Race-Specific Bioweapons</h2>
<p>Fast-forward yet again, to May 2023, and Newsweek reported<sup><span id="edn17">17</span></sup><span> </span>that a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry had accused the U.S. Pentagon of creating “race-specific bioweapons.” The spokesperson, Wang Wenbin, told reporters:<sup><span id="edn18">18</span>,<span id="edn19">19</span>,<span id="edn20">20</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The U.S. widely collects and uses genomic information. According to The Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon has formulated R&D plans for hitting opponents with genetically engineered weapons. Those involved disclosed that the genomic data of Asian Chinese, European Aryans and Middle Eastern Arabs are all being collected by the U.S. military.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>According to the website of Russia-based RT, the U.S. Air Education and Training Command (AETC) once issued a tender seeking to acquire samples of ribonucleic acid (RNA) and synovial fluid from Russians. It’s pretty clear who exactly is using genomic information for secret purposes.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Wenbin’s accusation came one day after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused China of collecting the genomic data of ethnic minorities such as the Uyghurs in Xinjiang for the purposes of control and surveillance.</p>
<p>A senior Pentagon official denied Wenbin’s allegation and Newsweek was reportedly unable to locate The Wall Street Journal article cited by Wenbin. I’ve had no luck locating it either. Whatever the truth may be, there’s no doubt that race-specific bioweapons CAN be created though. We certainly have the technologies required.</p>
<h2>Do Ethnic-Specific Bioweapons Already Exist?</h2>
<p>While evidence from official sources is scant — Blinken’s and Wenbin’s mutual accusations notwithstanding — Kennedy and many others insist that race-specific bioweapons are in active development, and some may even exist already. In a June 20, 2023, appearance on Newsmax, Kennedy told On the Record host Greta Van Susteren:<sup><span id="edn21">21</span>,<span id="edn22">22</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“We know that the Chinese are developing ethnic bioweapons. Bioweapons that are designed to attack people of certain racial types. And we’re doing the same thing. We’ve been collecting Chinese DNA. We’ve been collecting Russian DNA specifically for that. [This] arms race is a catastrophe.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="video-rwd has-figcaption"> <a href="https://rumble.com/v2sdewk-rfk-jr-says-ethnic-bioweapons-that-target-specific-races-have-been-develope.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Video Link</a>
<br />
</div>
<p>Kennedy made the same claim in a June 5, 2023, live Twitter discussion with Elon Musk, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, venture capitalist David Sacks, investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger and securities attorney Omeed Malik (video above).</p>
<p>Ethic-specific bioweapons have already been developed, Kennedy said, and exist in labs around the world. The Epoch Times also insists that claims of China developing race-specific bioweapons are true (video below).</p>
<div class="video-rwd"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/51BrxTDRK_M?wmode=opaque&rel=0"></iframe>
</div>
<p>In an April 3, 2023, Wall Street Journal opinion piece,<sup><span id="edn23">23</span></sup><span> </span>Paul Dabbar, undersecretary of energy for science during the Trump administration, also underscored this threat, writing, in part:<sup><span id="edn24">24</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Around 2017, the Energy Department’s national laboratories started having significant concerns about biosecurity with regard to China. A Chinese general who was head of the National Defense University in Beijing publicly declared an interest in using gene sequencing and editing to develop pathogenic bioweapons that would target specific ethnic groups ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Taking note, the Commerce Department ordered export restrictions of potentially dangerous biotechnology to China. But the NIH and NIAID refused to believe that there was any risk involved in collaborating with Chinese labs. Their indiscriminate commitment to open science blinds them to threats, even when a country like China is open about its intentions.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Next-Gen Warfare Will Target Genes</h2>
<p>The Chinese general in question is Zhang Shibo, who in 2017 published “New Highland of War,”<sup><span id="edn25">25</span></sup><span> </span>a war manual of sorts that discussed “new domains of warfare,” one being biology.</p>
<p>In the book, Shibo concluded that “Modern biotechnology development is gradually showing strong signs characteristic of an offensive capability,” including the possibility of “specific ethnic genetic attacks.”<sup><span id="edn26">26</span></sup></p>
<p>The same terms, “specific ethnic genetic attacks” can be found in the People’s Liberation Army’s textbook, “Science of Military Strategy,” also published in 2017. It too looks at biology as a military domain and mentions that biological warfare may eventually include race-specific, gene-based weapons.<sup><span id="edn27">27</span></sup></p>
<p>In June 2021, biosecurity specialist Michael Knutzen, a former Army intelligence officer and a Presidential Management Fellow at the Department of Homeland Security, wrote:<sup><span id="edn28">28</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed critical weaknesses in the human domain of warfare at just the moment technology has emerged that gives bad actors new power to exploit those weaknesses.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Developments in synthetic biology will create next-generation bioweapons, ‘human-domain fires’ that will fundamentally change the strategic environment ... Recent developments in synthetic biology ... pose a profound threat ... Of those dangers, next-generation bioweapons are the most serious ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>One threat that was once the stuff of science fiction may soon become real. Some researchers (including Lieutenant General Zhang Shibo, former president of the PLA National Defense University) foresee the possibility of ‘specific ethnic genetic attacks’ on whole racial or ethnic groups ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And China may already have hacked from medical records or purchased the genetic information of millions of ordinary Americans through genealogical companies such as 23andme.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Bill Evanina, former director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, warned against Beijing Genomics Institute–linked COVID-19 tests, noting: ‘Foreign powers can collect, store and exploit biometric information from COVID tests.’</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Potential SBW effects include not only incapacitation and death, but also boutique outcomes. Colonel Guo emphasizes that ‘learning, memorizing ... and even the ‘bellicose character’ can be injured precisely without a threat to life’ ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The ability to remotely hold a person’s biology hostage — through degenerative, frustrating, or simply embarrassing symptoms — but promising a personal cure (or enhancement) could create enormous strategic leverage.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>We Must Protect the World From Targeted Bioweapons</h2>
<p>In closing, Filippa Lentzos, associate professor in science and international security at King’s College London, in December 2020 published an essay in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in which she discussed the need to “protect the world from ultra-targeted biological weapons”:<sup><span id="edn29">29</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“As genomic technologies develop and converge with AI, machine learning, automation, affective computing, and robotics, an ever more refined record of our biometrics, emotions, and behaviors will be captured and analyzed.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Governments and, increasingly, private companies will be able to sort, categorize, trade, and use biological data far more precisely than ever before, creating unprecedented possibilities for social and biological control ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>These game-changing developments will ... radically transform the dual-use nature of biological research, medicine, and health care and create the possibility of novel biological weapons that target particular groups of people and even individuals.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In the coming decade, managing the fast and broad technological advances now under way will require new governance structures that draw on individuals and groups with cross-sectoral expertise — from business and academia to politics and defense — to identify emerging security risks and make recommendations for dealing with them.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>This is essentially what Kennedy is calling for as well, but he’s not content with recommendations alone. We need strict safeguards to prevent one nation or another from obliterating entire ethnic groups from the face of the earth.</p>
<p>We also need strict regulations to protect people’s genetic data, seeing how such data can be used for global genocide. One loophole in the Biological Weapons Convention is its “general purpose criterion,” which allows most biological research as long as it’s for defensive or protective purposes.</p>
<p>As a result, the most hazardous biowarfare research in the world is being conducted in the name of defense or vaccine research. And, as noted by Lentzos, “Distinguishing permitted biodefense projects from those that are prohibited is difficult; one cannot just assess the facilities, equipment, material, and activities involved, but must also examine and interpret the purpose, or intent, of those activities.”</p>
<h2>Converging Risks</h2>
<p>The fact that we need to start examining and interpreting the purposes of biological research in earnest is quite clear. The escape of SARS-CoV-2 from a biolab in Wuhan, China, highlights this need. We’re fortunate that it wasn’t something with an exceptionally high mortality rate.</p>
<p>In her article, Lentzos reviews warnings about genetic weapons issued by a wide variety of actors over the last three decades:<sup><span id="edn30">30</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The possibility of ... ‘genetic weapons’ was first discussed in the biological arms control community in the 1990s, as the Human Genome Project to map the full complement of human genes got underway.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The UK government said ‘it cannot be ruled out that information from such genetic research could be considered for the design of weapons targeted against specific ethnic or racial groups.’</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The British Medical Association cautioned that ‘the differential susceptibility of different populations to various diseases’ had been considered in the past, and that ‘whilst we should hope that genetic weapons are never developed, it would be a great mistake to assume that they never can be, and therefore that we can safely afford to ignore them as a future possibility.’</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>A report<sup><span id="edn31">31</span></sup><span> </span>from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) spoke of the potential for ‘future development of weapons of mass extermination which could be used for genocide.’</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Developments in genomic technologies and other emerging technologies, especially machine and deep learning, have spurred renewed concerns. ‘Access to millions of human genomes — often with directly associated clinical data — means that bioinformaticists can begin to map infection susceptibilities in specific populations,’ a recent report<sup><span id="edn32">32</span></sup><span> </span>from the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research warned.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>A United Nations University report,<sup><span id="edn33">33</span></sup><span> </span>meanwhile, asserts that ‘deep learning may lead to the identification of ‘precision maladies,’ which are the genetic functions that code for vulnerabilities and interconnections between the immune system and microbiome.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Using this form of bio-intelligence, malicious actors could engineer pathogens that are tailored to target mechanisms critical in the immune system or the microbiome of specific subpopulations.’</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>A 2018 National Academies of Sciences report<sup><span id="edn34">34</span></sup><span> </span>suggests ‘[a]ctors may consider designing a bioweapon to target particular subpopulations based on their genes or prior exposure to vaccines, or even seek to suppress the immune system of victims to ‘prime’ a population for a subsequent attack.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>These capabilities, which were feared decades ago but never reached any plausible capability, may be made increasingly feasible by the widespread availability of health and genomic data.’”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>A Blanket Ban Is the Safest Solution</h2>
<p>Lentzos reviews many of the challenges involved in effective oversight of potential bioweapons research. I, for one, believe we should opt for the simplest solution, which would be to issue a blanket ban on all gain-of-function research that involves equipping pathogens with novel capacities.</p>
<p>As well as a blanket ban on all research that could be used to develop a race-specific bioweapon, or a bioweapon intended to take out people with a particular genetic makeup, regardless of how that target group is defined.</p>
<p>We simply do not need this kind of research to live long, fruitful, healthy lives. It’s unnecessary, and taxpayers should not be paying for science that can result in their own demise.</p>
<p>Kennedy seems to be of like mind. As he stated in his<span> </span><a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/reclaiming-democracy-with-rfk-jr-and-elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 5, 2023, live Twitter discussion</a>, he wants to see bioweapons development shut down worldwide. During a<span> </span><a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/kennedy-health-policy-roundtable" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 27, 2023, health policy roundtable discussion</a><span> </span>he also promised to redirect federal grants away from infectious disease research to study chronic disease instead, were he to gain the White House.</p>
<p>This would ensure that tax dollars are not siphoned into biowarfare efforts veiled as vaccine research and the like. Scientists are flocking into biowarfare research because that’s where the grants are, so we need to turn off that tap and encourage scientists to engage in study that leads us toward better health outcomes.</p>
<p>Again, to pull us full circle to where we started, Kennedy is not saying that COVID-19 was an intentionally created race-specific bioweapon. He merely pointed out research showing that different races did have varying levels of susceptibility to it, and that race-specific or gene-specific bioweapons are, in fact, in the works around the world — and must be stopped.</p>
</div>FROM MERCOLA A Critical Look at 'The China Study' and Other Food Planstag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-07-23:5235400:BlogPost:1493012023-07-23T02:29:01.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<p></p>
<h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">A Critical Look at 'The China Study' and Other Food Plans</span></h1>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>July 22 2023</p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/gc2CYaPE1aGR/">Debunking ‘The China Study’- Interview with Denise Minger (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/gc2CYaPE1aGR/">Debunking ‘The China Study’- Interview with Denise Minger (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/gc2CYaPE1aGR/">Debunking ‘The…</a></p>
<p></p>
<h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">A Critical Look at 'The China Study' and Other Food Plans</span></h1>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p>July 22 2023</p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/gc2CYaPE1aGR/">Debunking ‘The China Study’- Interview with Denise Minger (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/gc2CYaPE1aGR/">Debunking ‘The China Study’- Interview with Denise Minger (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/gc2CYaPE1aGR/">Debunking ‘The China Study’- Interview with Denise Minger (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/gc2CYaPE1aGR/">Debunking ‘The China Study’- Interview with Denise Minger (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><h3 id="expanderHead">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</h3>
<div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">Although veganism has some health benefits, it is also loaded with many disadvantages and is unsuitable for many, especially if you have certain genetic polymorphisms predisposing you to poor beta-carotene conversion</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">People with polymorphisms causing poor conversion of beta-carotene are at high risk for reproductive problems, skin and eye problems and poor dental health</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">The blood type diet, detailed in “Eat Right 4 Your Type,” often works well for those with blood type O, as those recommendations are consistent with a healthy diet. It typically does not work well for the other blood types</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">Nutrient cycling (cycling between higher and lower amounts of fat, net carbs and protein) and cycling between high and low calorie intakes (fasting and feasting) appear to be foundational criteria for optimal biological functioning</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">If you’re on a ketogenic diet, it’s important to cycle high and low amounts of net carbs once your body is able to efficiently burn fat for fuel in order to optimize your metabolism. Cyclical fasting is also recommended</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p><strong><em>Editor's Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published July 8, 2018.</em></strong></p>
<p>Denise Minger is perhaps most noted for her comprehensive rebuttal of "The China Study" some eight years ago. She's heavily vested in the vegan versus omnivore battle, having cycled through vegetarianism and raw veganism, finally coming full circle to being an omnivore.</p>
<p>Minger took to vegetarianism when she was just 7 years old. "I was eating steak one night at dinner and almost choked on it. I developed some kind of phobia surrounding things with meat textures and went vegetarian overnight," she explains.</p>
<h2>Raw Veganism Took a Toll on Health</h2>
<p>However, during the 10 years she remained a vegetarian, she began developing food allergies, including wheat and dairy allergies. "By the time I was a teenager, I was really health-conscious," she says. "I had to get into that whole scene just to stay healthy."</p>
<p>At age 15, she discovered the raw vegan movement and got on the 80/10/10 diet, promoted by Dr. Douglas Graham. The diet is based on the hypothesis that we should eat what other primates eat, particularly frugivorous chimpanzees and bonobos.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"I was reading about it online at the age of 15 without having any background in human biology, physiology or anthropology … I fell into this trap of logic, that humans are the only animals that cook our food. We're the only animals that eat this species-inappropriate diet, [so] I went raw vegan overnight,"</em><span> </span>she says.<span> </span><em>"For one year straight, [I ate] nothing but fruits, vegetables and some nuts — all uncooked.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p><em>I did great for the first month, as most people do when they stop eating crappy foods. After that, I started losing weight and muscle. My hair was falling out. My energy levels were fluctuating like crazy.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I was in high school at the time, taking the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT). My brain fog got so bad at one point that when I was taking the SAT, I would read the question and by the time I got to the end I couldn't remember what the first part said …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The kicker for me, because I've always taken great care of my teeth, was at the end of this period of raw veganism I had 16 cavities in my mouth, after a lifetime of what had previously been perfect dental health … It was actually the dental health issue that really turned my mind around … At that point, I had to let go of the vegan philosophy. I had to start questioning things …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>That's when I came across things like the Weston A. Price Foundation, which [details] what humans have been eating that has supported health in the past. I learned about the paleo movement — different forms of health-conscious omnivory. That's where I ended up. It was a process."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Debunking 'The China Study'</h2>
<p>As mentioned, Minger produced a very comprehensive critique of "The China Study" which is the scientific justification for many vegan positions. Her analysis — which some suspected to be funded by the meat industry — was actually undertaken while recovering from an accident. At the age of 22, she was hit by a car while riding her bicycle and shattered her elbow. Her convalescence afforded her the time to work on this project.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"I got a huge book of the raw 'China Study' data. I love numbers. I have fun with correlations. I have fun looking at patterns. My brain gets happy. I spent about two or three months poring over the data. I needed a project, because I had nothing else to do.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I was poring over the data and that's when I realized I needed to write a critique of the book. So much of what</em><span> </span>[author T. Colin]<span> </span><em>Campbell said was not supported by his own data. I just felt like if there's anything I needed to do in life, it was going to be this.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I didn't expect anyone to read it. I had a little blog. I like to say I had six readers, five of which were my mother on different computers. I didn't realize at the time how much interest the critique would gather; how much interest there was in that book itself. I hadn't really seen the rivalry upfront between the vegan and the paleo worlds. When I released this critique, I didn't know it was going to be that influential,"</em><span> </span>she says.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Minger developed quite a bit of notoriety as a result of that critique, especially in the vegan community. She's been vilified by many, including Campbell, who wrote personal rebuttals to her commentary on his work. Some have gone so far as to characterize her as someone who's promoting processed food.</p>
<div class="productad"></div>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/July/PDF/the-china-study-and-other-nutrition-plans-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>The Case for Lowering Protein Intake</h2>
<p>For all its drawbacks, there are benefits to veganism. The biggest one, from my perspective, is that vegans have — compared to those who eat the standard American diet — a significantly lower protein intake. I think there are valuable insights that can be drawn from that, which can be integrated into a low-carb paleo approach. Minger agrees, saying:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"For the protein issue, what I find interesting is that whenever we look at the actual China Study, for example, when you look at their food intake, it's much different in terms of the types of animal parts they consume than what we see in America.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The protein issue is complicated, but I will say that high methionine intake — for example from muscle meat — [needs to be balanced with] glycine. You get that by eating the entire animal, the skin, tendons, connective tissue — all the stuff that Americans typically discard …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In the China Study, you don't see them eating steaks and chicken breasts at every meal. Even the lower animal product-consuming societies, a lot of them eat insects. A lot of them eat the weird parts of the animal. I think that's imperative for staying healthy on an omnivorous diet. Because the way we eat meat in America is pathogenic. It's not healthy. But it's not necessarily because animal products are bad for you …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>What was amusing to me, because it was completely left out of 'The China Study' book, was that the healthiest populations were the seafood eaters … They had the best health outcomes. The only disease that they had more of was liver cancer. That was because they were living in humid areas where aflatoxin was more prevalent … But it wasn't because of the animal protein. It wasn't because of the fish."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>This makes sense considering the importance of long-chained omega-3 fats: eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Those who restrict themselves to a plant-based diet are only getting alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) which, while being a precursor for EPA and DHA cannot be converted at significant, therapeutic levels.</p>
<h2>Protein Cycling</h2>
<p>Clearly, the composition of the animal protein is a significant issue. We don't want processed foods. We don't want meat from factory farms that is contaminated with glyphosate (due to contaminated grain feed). But there's also the issue of the amount. Many are simply eating far too much protein, which (when consumed in excess) activates mTOR, a pathway involved in both aging and cancer. Pulsing higher and lower amounts of protein also seems a wise strategy.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"When we look at historical groups of humans, the animal food intake was generally on the lean side. We don't have year-round access to these big fatty animals … It's going to be seasonal when it occurs at all,"<span> </span></em>Minger says.<span> </span><em>"I'm reminded of a study on Australian aborigines. They put people out in the wild to try to acquire foods from their environment and survive on that …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Their fat intake ended up being something like 8% to 12%, because the animals were so lean and the lean protein intake was consequently much higher. I have trouble believing that animal protein itself is going to be a problem. I think what might be a problem is this consistency thing — the idea that eating the same foods year-round, without any fluctuation in the composition of the diet, is healthy. I don't think that's the case …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I think things like protein cycling might be therapeutic for humans. I think that even carb cycling and going through different periods of different macronutrient intakes instead of always being low-fat or always being low-carb [is a good idea]. That's probably what the human body is best adapted to."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Macronutrient Cycling — An Overlooked Component</h2>
<p>In deconstructing and assessing the low-carb, high-fat approach, Minger concluded the lack of high and low nutrient cycling was one of the main problems, especially long-term, and particularly for women. "I do one-on-one consulting with people," she says.</p>
<p>"A large group that I have come in contact with are women who've done low-carb. Their thyroid function is tanking. They're gaining weight. They feel terrible. Their hair is falling out. It happens with men too sometimes, but I think women, hormonally, are more sensitive to the lack of carbohydrates."</p>
<p>She's also found evidence suggesting chronic lack of carbohydrates may be having an adverse effect on your gut microbiome. In his commentary, "Sorry Low Carbers, Your Microbiome Is Just Not That Into You,"<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup><span> </span>Jeff Leach with the Human Food Project details the likely shifts found in the gut microbiome composition of people who consume low-carbohydrate diets. Whether or not those shifts are wholly detrimental or not is still unknown, but it's worth keeping an eye on.</p>
<p>Minger is equally ambivalent about long-term, chronic high-fat consumption, as some of the evidence suggests it may increase gut permeability and the transport of endotoxin from gram-negative bacteria into the bloodstream, which increases chronic inflammation and related health problems.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"On one hand, we see people switching away from the standard American diet to low-carb. Yeah, they're going to feel great. Yeah, they're going to lose weight. There's going to be this initial honeymoon period, just like I had with raw veganism. My question is what happens over the course of many years on a large scale … I'm wondering what the bulk of the evidence is going to show. I don't know if we really know that yet."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>From my perspective, I think there are compelling reasons to suspect one might run into problems, for many of the reasons Minger cites. It appears nutrient cycling (i.e., cycling between higher and lower amounts of fat, net carbs and protein), and also cycling between high and low calorie intakes (fasting and feasting), are foundational criteria for optimal biological functioning.</p>
<p>The challenge is to find that happy balance. When writing "<a href="https://www.fatforfuel.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fat for Fuel: A Revolutionary Diet to Combat Cancer, Boost Brain Power, and Increase Your Energy</a>," I dove deep into the scientific literature looking at this aspect of health.</p>
<h2>Cyclical Ketogenic Diet Combined With Cyclical Fasting</h2>
<p>First of all, the late Dr. Joseph Kraft showed that using sensitive oral glucose loading and testing insulin levels that insulin resistance is pervasive. Based on a more refined definition of insulin resistance, at least 80% of the population have diabetes in situ,<sup><span id="edn2">2</span>,</sup><sup><span id="edn3">3</span></sup><span> </span>which means they're insulin resistant even though their fasting glucose is normal.</p>
<p>This is where low-carb can be really useful, yet it alone will still not be enough for many. A lot of people need to get even more aggressive and do<span> </span><a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/complete-guide-fasting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fasting</a>. Once you've done that for a while and resolve the insulin resistance, you need to cycle net carbs (total carbs minus fiber) back in.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"Low-carbohydrate eating … is a great tool to lose weight, and lose fat around the organs. You start improving insulin sensitivity because of that weight loss, and because of the reduction in the energy surplus that many people are constantly surrounded with. But I use the analogy of a [broken] refrigerator.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Your refrigerator breaks. You can do one of two things. You can say, 'OK, I'm never going to buy any perishable food again. Everything I'm going to buy is going to be dry goods as long as the freezer or the refrigerator is broken.' Or, you can fix the refrigerator.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Low-carbohydrate diets are like saying, 'Let's not use our refrigerator anymore.' Let's not use our carbohydrate metabolism pathways anymore. Let's just avoid those. It's not actually fixing the issue. As anyone who knows who's been low-carb, you go low-carb for a while, and then you reintroduce carbohydrates and, whoa, it's terrible.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Your blood sugar goes crazy. You feel awful. It's like, 'Wow. The carbohydrates are terrible.' No. It's because your body is no longer working to metabolize them efficiently."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>The converse can also occur. If you suppress insulin for too long, your blood sugar will tend to rise from hepatic gluconeogenesis. If you reintroduce carbohydrates at that point, it will raise insulin and lower your blood sugar. You can also eat too much fat; since fat is high in calories, the excess calories alone can lead to weight gain. As mentioned above, protein intake also needs to be regulated to avoid mTOR activation.</p>
<p>Traditional paleo is frequently high-protein, high-fat, similar to the Atkins approach. But you're not going to get all the benefits unless you restrict protein. As a general rule, I recommend limiting protein to half a gram per pound of lean body weight, to ensure you're getting the protein you need for muscle maintenance and repair. The answer is not to cut protein out altogether. You do need some, just not the enormous amounts most Americans are used to eating.</p>
<h2>Focus on Nutrient Density</h2>
<p>When asked what the best animal food composition might be, Minger stresses the importance of nutrient density over any specific dosage recommendations, as the ideal amount will depend on the type of meat you're eating. "For my own diet, I focus on organ meats and shellfish," she says. "Those are the primary foods I eat that are of animal origin. Oysters are my favorite. Nutritionally, if you look at liver and oysters, oysters are kind of like the liver of the ocean."</p>
<p>People who shun animal foods due to ethical concerns about eating something that is highly sentient can also take heart in the fact that oysters lack the central nervous system "that would make them equivalent to a cow." "There's a bivalve vegan movement, where people are vegan with the inclusion of certain shellfish. I think that can go a long way for people to balance out a vegan diet," she says.</p>
<p>As for cooking, Minger recommends using gentle methods to avoid the creation of carcinogens associated with high-temperature cooking. These byproducts "seem to be driving the correlation between meat consumption and different cancers that we see in observational studies," she says.</p>
<p>"Whenever you look at a study that actually controls for the cooking method, typically once you take away the high-heat kind of strategies for cooking your meat, the correlations with various diseases start to diminish, if not disappear completely." Byproducts created during grilling and frying include heterocyclic amines and polyaromatic hydrocarbons that form carcinogens. So, don't overcook your meat, and balance muscle meat (steaks) with organ meat and other animal parts.</p>
<h2>How Minger's Diet Has Changed Over the Years</h2>
<p>When asked how her diet has changed over the past seven years, and what insights changed her approach to eating the most, Minger replies:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"I started out really fruit-based from my raw vegan history. I would eat a ton of fruit in the morning; smoothies … In learning more about the gut microbiome, learning about digestive-resistant starch; different forms of fiber and their effect on the body, I've been incorporating more legumes, lentils and potatoes that have been heated and cooled [to increase] the resistant starch content. I think that has helped a lot.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I've also flipped my diet in terms of staggering macronutrients throughout the day. I used to start with a lot of carbohydrate and not much else (in the form of fruit). Now, I usually start with a lot of protein and vegetables, and have my high-carb meals at the end of the day. I find that helps with sleep, energy levels [and] focus."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>It's worth noting that legumes may not be ideal for everyone, especially if you have autoimmune issues. Minger, who does a lot of work with autoimmunity, agrees lectins can be problematic if you are susceptible to autoimmune problems, whether caused by genetics, lifestyle, antibiotic use or<span> </span><a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/gut-microbiome-probiotics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gut microbiome</a><span> </span>issues. "At that point, the lectin problem can be real," she says.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"There can be a legitimate reason to avoid foods that are high in certain lectins, especially the ones that are individually triggering autoimmune responses. But for people with a healthy gut microbiome, I don't see that being necessarily bad, because if you look at human history … the lectin content of wild foods is generally pretty high.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>There's going to be a long adaptation period for us to learn how to coexist with those lectins in our diet. I think [the larger issue] is that the modern environment is creating a really unhealthy microbiome that's making it so some people cannot handle what should be a natural lectin load. That's my takeaway right now, subject to revision."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Critiquing the Blood Type Diet</h2>
<p>In preparing for this interview, I watched some of Minger's latest material on YouTube. One of her more recent videos was a Weston A. Price Foundation presentation in which she critiqued Dr. Peter D'Adamo's blood type diet, detailed in his book, "Eat Right 4 Your Type."</p>
<p>I tried this diet back in the '90s and had to quit because it made me diabetic. My personal take on it is that while his recommendations for blood type O, which is about half the population, is consistent with what I believe is a healthy diet, it doesn't seem to work well for the other blood types. According to Minger:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"The fundamental issue with everything he's saying is that it's all wrong. The premise of his diet — that foods have different lectins [that] interact with what's expressed on our blood cells to cause issues within the blood, which then causes inflammation and disease — there's absolutely no mechanistic evidence showing that we can obtain high enough levels of lectins from certain foods, and that those foods will specifically interact with our specific blood type to create these problems.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>That evidence just isn't there … [He may have had] a lab, but there are problems with the research actually being published. It certainly hasn't been replicated by other researchers. It's more of a, 'This is what I found. You have to take my word for it, because I wrote a book and I have a [medical] degree.' There's a certain, 'Just trust me. I'm a scientist,' behind that. If there's anything I don't like, it's that …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>What fascinated me … [was that] our ABO blood group can actually influence the composition of our gut microbiome for people who are secretors — people who secrete their blood type antigens on the surface of mucous cells throughout the body, the saliva and the gut, the gut in particular.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Let's say you're a blood type A and you're secreting the A antigen on different cells within the gut. There are going to be certain bacteria that use that antigen as a food source and as an attachment site.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Those specific bacteria are going to be more attracted to your microbiome. They're going to set up camp there, in a way that they might not be doing to somebody who's a blood type O. You're actually going to start shifting the proportion of different bacteria because of your blood type.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Tied into this is the idea of being a secretor versus a non-secretor. Most people are secretors. They will express their blood type antigens on the surface of different cells throughout the body. About 20% of the population are non-secretors.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>For this group, regardless of what their actual blood type is, they have a much higher risk of a lot of digestive diseases, a lot of different health conditions in general, related to the fact that their microbiome is fundamentally different. It's providing a lack of attachment sites for different bacteria. So, there is an influence of blood type on different things going on in the body. It's just not through D'Adamo's theory."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Awesome Omnivore</h2>
<p>After taking a professional hiatus, Minger is now working on a few new projects, including an e-book called "Awesome Omnivore."</p>
<p>The book is a how-to guide for eating animal products in a way that minimizes potential risks and maximizes nutrition, including guidance on balancing methionine and glycine, differences in A1 versus A2 dairy, how to prepare meat to reduce carcinogen exposure, how to modify your animal food consumption based on genetics, and how to combine meat with other foods to reduce the absorption of heme iron to lower your risk of intestinal cancer and other health problems related to excessive iron.</p>
<p>High iron increases oxidative stress and can cause serious mitochondrial dysfunction. I have a genetic condition called thalassemia, which predisposes me to high iron levels. I have to be really vigilant about keeping my iron level low for these reasons.</p>
<p>As explained by Minger, because the molecular structure of heme is so similar to chlorophyll, if you eat lots of green leafy vegetables with your steak, the chlorophyll will inhibit absorption of some of the iron. "That alone is going to make that meal probably, on the whole, healthier for you," she says.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"There's this kind of dichotomy — you have the vegetable eaters and the meat eaters. The meat eaters are not usually eating enough vegetables to offset the heme issue. But if you look at studies that actually adjust for that one variable, the link with meat's problems tends to disappear.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>It's, again, veggies to the rescue. But it doesn't mean that you can't eat meat too. Anyway, the book is going to be a collection of things people can do to ensure that the meat they're consuming, the eggs and the dairy products (if they're doing that), are as healthy as possible."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Plant-Based Paleo</h2>
<p>Minger is also working on a book about plant-based paleo, designed for people who are committed to avoiding animal products, for whatever reason. The aim of this book is to provide strategies to help you stay as healthy as possible for as long as possible within the limitations of a plant-based diet.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"There are vegans who have survived a long time on their diet. It's not impossible. The human body is incredibly adaptable. But we need to understand what's working for those people.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>We need to understand that there are a lot of genetic components that go into being able to convert plant-based nutrients into their active forms. Take beta-carotene, for example. People who have really good conversion of beta-carotene into retinol, they're probably not going to run into reproductive issues, teeth issues, skin issues or eye issues, like I did.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>But for about 45% of the population, there are mutations with the BCMO1 gene that prevent that conversion from being efficient. If you have two very common polymorphisms, your conversion rate is going to drop by almost 70%.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Another less common mutation will tank your conversion by 90%. If you're a vegan, you're not eating any preformed vitamin A, and if you have some of those mutations, you're going to have problems pretty quickly. How do we work with people's genetics? How do we work with their dietary limitations?</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Supplements would be good. I'd love for people to take cod liver oil if they can get over that one issue. But you need to be really aware of your specific conditions … I have those BCMO1 mutations. My vitamin A conversion is terrible. That's part of the reason that eating liver was a huge boon for my diet. It's my first concentrated source of vitamin A that I had in a decade, more than a decade."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Lifelong Learning Is Key to Staying Ahead</h2>
<p>As nutritional science keeps moving forward, we're bound to learn new things about what we currently think of as factual. For example, Minger touches on evidence suggesting really low-fat intake may actually improve carbohydrate metabolism.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"We have the Randle Cycle. There's competition between free fatty acids and glucose in the bloodstream for use as fuel. I think we have enough evidence to say pretty clearly that when you combine fat and carbohydrate within the same meal, if you're a healthy person — you're going to see a reduced blood-glucose response, but you're going to see the same amount of insulin secretion.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Fat doesn't decrease the insulin needs of your body when you're eating carbohydrate. It kind of amplifies it. There have been studies where they'll take a potato, feed it to a diabetic, then repeat the study with butter added … The more butter added to the potato, the more insulin the diabetic needs to use to deal with that meal. There's an interactive effect, even within the span of one meal, between fat and carbohydrate …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I don't believe in staying at one [end of the spectrum, i.e., high-carb or high-fat] forever. Obviously, you need fat-soluble nutrients. You're going to need some fatty foods that are highly nutritious too. At the same time, you're going to need to cycle in more carbohydrate to deal with the long-term consequences of ketogenic diets …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I believe there's a way to integrate everything. What it comes back to is all the warring diet communities need to let go of the ego and communicate with each other. Stop saying, 'We own the truth.' Start listening to the other side and be curious about why things are working for them.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>For me, that's the way I've learned best — by challenging what I believe. Because if what I believe can be dismantled, then it's not a good belief to hold. You need to constantly revise your theory about the world, about nutrition, about everything. It needs to be in a state of flux."</em></p>
</blockquote>
</div>FROM MERCOLA CBDC How Your Future Is Being Decided for Youtag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-07-22:5235400:BlogPost:1491832023-07-22T12:00:00.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<p>CBDC <strong> </strong></p>
<h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">How Your Future Is Being Decided for You</span></h1>
<p></p>
<p><span>JULY 22 2023</span></p>
<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KGpQLbZXKME?wmode=opaque" width="560"></iframe>
</p>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div class="story-glance" id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance"><div class="story-highlights"><h3 id="expanderHead">STORY AT-A-GLANCE…</h3>
<div id="expanderContent"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>CBDC <strong> </strong></p>
<h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">How Your Future Is Being Decided for You</span></h1>
<p></p>
<p><span>JULY 22 2023</span></p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KGpQLbZXKME?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
</p>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><h3 id="expanderHead">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</h3>
<div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">Richard Werner, Ph.D., created a monetary policy known as quantitative easing, which is intended to help banks get out of financial crises more rapidly and avoid long-term recession</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">In 2020, this policy was misused to intentionally create inflation</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">Werner’s London-based community interest company, Local First, provides communities with the know-how to set up local community banks</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">Creating lots of local community banks will decentralize finance, make communities more resilient and help us avoid the implementation of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">The intent behind CBDCs is complete control by central banks over populations. The central controllers will decide if, when and how you may spend your money, and can use this monetary control to enforce compliance with any and all global governance agendas</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>In the featured video, Ivor Cummins interviews professor Richard Werner, author of “Princes of the Yen — Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy”<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup><span> </span>on “The Fat Emperor Podcast.” Werner has a Ph.D., in economics from Oxford University. He was a visiting scholar with the bank of Japan back in the 1990s.</p>
<p>In 1995, he created a monetary policy known as quantitative easing, which is intended to help banks get out of financial crises more rapidly and avoid long-term recession.</p>
<p>More recently, Werner created a community interest company called Local First, which provides communities with the know-how to set up local community banks. In this interview, he breaks down how the world works from a central banking standpoint, how ordinary people are affected by these policies, what we can expect from central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and more.</p>
<h2>How Central Bankers Rule the World</h2>
<p>In his book, “Princes of the Yen,” Werner describes how there’s a small group of insiders inside the central bank, running the whole show. While they direct the media’s attention to interest rates, that’s a bit of a decoy. They’re not focused on the price of money but rather the quantity of money, measured in terms of quantity of credit creation.</p>
<p>This tiny core group of insiders are selected in their early 30s when they join the Bank of Japan and told that they will become governor of the bank in 30 years’ time. These are referred to as the “princes.” They control the boom-and-bust cycles in Japan, through their control of the quantity of credit.</p>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>Similar factions exist in other central banks as well, Werner says, and these central bankers are not accountable for their actions. They use this power to engineer events that serve their own purposes (typically connected to increasing their own power).</p>
<p>In 2003, Werner warned that the European Central Bank (ECB) was “a monster” that would create bank credit-driven asset bubbles and property bubbles, followed by banking crises and recessions, which is precisely what happened.</p>
<h2>The Central Bank Plan to Monopolize Global Finance</h2>
<p>Werner points out that while central banks are promoting CBDCs as digital currency, we’ve had digital currency for decades, so there’s nothing new about the digital aspect of this currency. Cash — paper banknotes and coins — are but a small part — about 3% in most countries — of the total money supply. The rest is digital.</p>
<p>Today, central banks are the only ones authorized to issue banknotes, but regular banks create 97% of the money through lending. They’re not allowed to issue paper notes. Instead, they issue deposit entries into your bank account, which is digital. So, Werner notes, you could say we’ve been using bank digital currency (BDC) for decades.</p>
<p>The difference between BDCs and CBDCs is the centralized aspect. So, what’s happening now is that central banks, which are the regulators of banks, are stepping in to directly compete with the banks they’re regulating. Werner likens it to the umpire joining the game. That obviously makes it an unfair game.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“It is a big danger,”</em><span> </span>Werner tells Cummins.<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup><span> </span><em>“And you can see where this is going. If we allow central bank digital currencies, sooner or later they will drive out the private sector competition. They will drive out the banks.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And, of course, we also have this other problem ... that whenever we get a banking crisis and a financial crisis, the regulators get more power because each time they argue, ‘Oh that now happened, it's different from before and that's because we still don't have enough power. We need to have more powers’ ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>This is a regulatory moral hazard. If the regulator gets rewarded for failure ... you can be sure that we'll have more crises, because they'll be given more powers. Now they want to introduce CBDCs, and of course, the best time from their viewpoint is ... another banking crisis, so that people want to move their money out of banks ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>That’s the easiest way to introduce this, which means we have a massive incentive now for regulators, for central planners, to create another huge financial crisis so that they can then take over.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Of course, then that's the end of it, because the banking system is not going to recover from this. Now, do we really want this, where essentially the number of banks goes down so much that there's really only one bank left?</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In their 23 years or so of existence, the ECB has killed around 5,000 banks in Europe already, and it wasn’t the big guys ... Thousands of banks are gone in America too, and, of course, JP Morgan and the rest are hoovering them up so they’re just becoming big fat mega banks ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>It seems the ECB is set up to be the ... only bank they want left in Europe, and that’s going to happen if we allow CBDCs. So, we really have to step up now and say, ‘We don't need this; we already have digital currencies, thank you very much.’”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="productad"></div>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/July/PDF/cbdcs-control-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>Perceived Need for CBDCs Must Be Fabricated</h2>
<p>Indeed, the central bankers know they’re going to have to get creative, because CBDCs have “no convincing value proposition,” meaning there’s no perceived need for them.</p>
<p>So, they have the unenviable task of selling us on a solution for a problem we don’t have, while simultaneously trying to hide the fact that what they’re proposing is a digital slave system, where they will have full control over if, when and where you can spend the money you’ve earned.</p>
<p>As noted in the interview,<sup><span id="edn3">3</span></sup><span> </span>this is also the reason why they haven’t fully rolled out CBCDs yet. They must create or fabricate the need first, and that will likely be a series of financial crises that damage trust in the banks.</p>
<br/>
<p>With CBDCs, the central bank will decide if, when and how you may spend your money, and can use this monetary control to enforce compliance with any and all global governance agendas.</p>
<br/>
<p>There are also technical issues that need to be addressed. If the electricity gets shut off, you can still use cash. Not so with CBDCs. A network of technologies needs to work at the same time in order for CBDCs to function as intended. And, due to the centralization, the system is not only more complex but also far less resilient.</p>
<p>Lastly, there’s the issue of trust. According to a report cited in the interview, European citizens are leery and suspect governments and central banks want CBDCs to monitor, control and restrict transactions. And they’re exactly right. That’s what CBDCs are ultimately for, so the central planners need to figure out how to hide this intention, or somehow sell it as a good thing.</p>
<h2>CBDCs Are a Population Control Mechanism</h2>
<p>October 19, 2020, Agustin Carstens, general manager for the bank of international settlements (BIS) — the central bank of the central banks — explained the intent behind this new centrally-controlled digital currency:<sup><span id="edn4">4</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Our analysis on CBDC, in particular for the general use, we tend to establish the equivalence with cash, and there is a huge difference there. For example, in cash we don't know ... who's using a $100 bill today. We don't know who is using the 1,000 peso bill today.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>A key difference with the CBDC is that Central Bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of Central Bank liability. And also, we will have the technology to enforce that. Those ... two issues are extremely important and that makes a huge difference with respect to what cash is.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Indeed, as explained by Werner, the issuer of the CBDC, the central bank, will have the power to decide whether you can use your own money. You basically must apply for permission to use it for a given purchase, and that request can be denied.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“So, it’s a conditional currency, based on you actually getting that permit,”</em><span> </span>Werner says.<sup><span id="edn5">5</span></sup><span> </span><em>“Now, if you happen to be some kind of critic of government policy or a critic of central banks, this could be difficult. Or if you dare to step out of the 15-minute city zone, maybe you'll find that it's not working.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Of course ... they'll come up with excuses why you can't do what you want to do. They'll never tell you the real reason, but the official reason is likely to be something like your carbon footprint, which is another vague concept ... For every bank transaction you get a carbon CO2 rating or a quantified number, and then, if you've used up your common budget, you can't use it.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I mean, you can come up with any number of schemes. The point is, the issue of the CBDC is, the central bank has the power — and essentially it's going to be arbitrary power — to say yes or no to what you want to do with what you thought is your money.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>What’s more, you can be sure there’ll be no one to complain to if your CBDCs get turned off by mistake or if a purchase attempt is denied and you want to appeal. Just look at how difficult it is to get a problem resolved with any of our social media companies.</p>
<p>The CBDC system will be vastly larger, more complex and more automated than any social media company on the planet. Most of it will be run by algorithms and artificial intelligence, without any human input at all. “There’s no real right to appeal,” Werner says. “That's going to be the reality.”</p>
<h2>CBDCs Need Digital ID</h2>
<p>Now, for the CBDC superstructure to really work as intended, they also need digital ID, and many suspect the COVID pandemic was an excuse to legitimize the rollout of a digital “vaccine passport” that could then be converted into digital ID.</p>
<p>The World Health Organization is now rolling out an international vaccine passport based on the European Union’s digital health certificate, even though it makes no medical sense, considering the COVID jab can’t prevent infection or transmission, and that that passport will eventually be linked to CBDCs. There’s no doubt about that, Werner says.<sup><span id="edn6">6</span></sup></p>
<h2>Intentional Inflation</h2>
<p>Getting back to finance in general, many people around the world have been affected by inflation. According to Werner, what we’re seeing now mirrors what happened in the 1970s, when hyperinflation covered up another great economic reset, namely the transition from gold-backed currency to a fiat currency backed by thin air.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The official narrative is once again, just like in the ‘70s ... there's a war, and as a result there's some kind of energy embargo. In the 70s [it was the] OPEC oil embargo. As a result, energy prices jump up and we get inflation. That's why we had inflation in the ‘70s and again in 2021, sort of a peaking [at the] end of 2022. That's the official narrative.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Unfortunately, if you check ... the data doesn't check out this way at all. The inflation essentially peaks in both periods ... before the war. In the 70s, the war was in mid-October 1973 [but] oil prices didn't rise — yet. Henry Kissinger had to fly to Saudi Arabia and arm twist the oil minister to quadruple the oil price, which happened in January ‘74.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In many countries inflation already had peaked by then and was coming down, so the timing doesn't work out. Similarly, in the recent era, the inflation was already significant before the military action [by] Russia [in] Ukraine, so that doesn't pan out. And of course, oil prices and energy prices have still been falling and are much lower.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So, why do we have this significant double-digit inflation? It's much simpler, and it's true for both the ‘70s and and the recent era. In the ‘70s, what we saw was that suddenly the central banks were forcing the banks in all the major countries to massively expand money creation. Surprise, surprise. What else could create inflation? ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So in in March 2020, the Federal Reserve, and then simultaneously the other key central banks, adopted a very specific policy which is quite unusual. It's usually only taken once a century, or twice maximum per century, so it's not something like ‘Oh we accidentally did this.’ It’s very specific. It must be intentional, and there's evidence, there's proof, that it's intentional.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Quantitative Easing</h2>
<p>As explained by Werner, banks create new money through lending. In the 2000s, banks pumped this new money into property markets, which caused house prices to rise. Eventually, a bubble is created, and when it pops, the system crashes and banks stop lending, which results in a slowing of the whole economy.</p>
<p>The monetary policy created by Werner, quantitative easing, has two aspects. The first, called QE1, calls for the central bank to step in and purchase non-performing assets in the banking system at face value. This solves the banks’ problem, returning them to a strong balance sheet.</p>
<p>It’s not enough to get them to increase credit again though, so QE2 allows the central bank to force banks to create more money and push it into the economy. He explains how this works:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“When a central bank buys something from the non-bank sector, the seller, say, of this property, how do they get the money?</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Well, the central bank will transfer it to their bank account, which means that suddenly they have money in their bank account, which actually the bank creates because it gets a booking in its reserve account with the central bank. So, that's that's how it works and that's how the central bank can push money into the economy directly.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>These were the two forms of QE ... In 2008 when [the housing market crashed] in America, Bernanke said ‘Oh, the Werner proposal QE, yeah we'll do that, and they did it immediately, whereas even in Europe they didn't understand the finer details. [They thought] just buy assets, anything.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>They bought performing assets from banks, which is marginally helpful but it doesn't really do the job, and so it took much longer in Europe to get out of the 2008 crisis, whereas America was very quickly recovering because ... the Fed purchased the non-performing assets close to face value from the bank so the banks were suddenly, in one go, fine.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>But they still didn't do the second recommendation, because they they deemed it not necessary. Fine, it took two years for banks to then increase credit significantly.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Quantitative Easing Was Intentionally Used Incorrectly</h2>
<p>In March 2020, the Federal Reserve adopted QE again, but this time, incorrectly, and according to Werner, intentionally so. He tells Cummins:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“In 2020, March, what happened was the Federal Reserve adopted QE2 at a time when the economy was actually doing fine. Growth was was fine. Bank credit growth was around 5 to 6%. There was no deflation. This was a recommendation for deflation and for a shrinking [the] economy ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>They did QE2 and there was a massive expansion, the Federal Reserve buying up private sector assets from non-banks, therefore forcing banks to create credit — totally off the charts, the biggest in the post-war era. At the same time there were government restrictions in 2020.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>If you reduce supply but you massively increase the bond through money creation, putting into the economy this money (which in 2008 was just an accounting transaction, there was no new money so it wasn't going to create inflation) ... it's going to create inflation.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I warned it's going to [create] inflation. Most commentators thought — because they don't understand the difference between QE — that it's going to be fine [as it was in 2008] ... No, it's totally different ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The smoking gun is this. How do we know that this was fully the intention? Well, it's a very specific policy and is very rarely taken [yet] all the central banks suddenly did it ... The the other proof is, just before COVID, in August 2019 ... the annual Central Bankers conference invited BlackRock, the biggest asset manager in the world, and BlackRock made a proposal.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>They said there will be another crisis ... but this time we should create inflation ... The insinuation is unspoken. The crisis will be deflationary, therefore we must create inflation ... and here's how we're going to do it, and they cited my proposal, without mentioning my name ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>[They said] we need to back fiscal policy through money creation and get the central bank to directly push money into the economy, which you can do by purchasing assets from the non-bank sector.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And how do we know that this is what the Fed did in March 2020? We've got the data. And there's one more factor. The Federal Reserve hired Blackrock in March 2020 to buy assets ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So, this inflation is entirely intentionally created by the central banks, by the central planners. How are we going to punish them for this? Oh, let's give them more unprecedented powers over everything, over life on Earth, through central bank digital currencies.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Recommendations for Moving Forward</h2>
<p>According to Werner, in the 1970s, inflation was used to cover up the move from the gold-backed dollar to the petrodollar. Today, he believes the intention for the inflation is to cover up the disintegration of the petrodollar and the move to a new CBDC system.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, they’ll succeed in this if we don’t stop it somehow. To protect your assets from this intentionally created inflation, Werner recommends purchasing physical gold and silver. He also urges everyone to “do more in the local communities.”</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“If we work together locally, that can create a very resilient structure, and then we can we can use anything we want as as a means of settlement. We can have a local currency, a gold-based system, silver-based system or we can just have a local community bank ... and then you can have your own credit creation locally.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In fact, I think, because the central planners want to centralize, they would reduce the number of banks, now is the time I think for people who have a bit of capital to step forward and say ‘Let's create community banks. Here's five million euros, that's the minimum you need. [My] Local First community interest company has the know-how. We can get the banking license.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>We need people to step forward now. We'll set up Community Banks locally, get the banks authorized. That can be the core of a local economy ... Also, it shows that this decentralization system is much more superior, because local banks are accountable locally.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Community Banks can be structured either with a local charity, so all the profits go locally into this geographically restricted area. Germany has been successful for 200 years because 80% of its banks are local not-for-profit Community Banks and they only lend locally ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>These small firms are highly productive ... they can constantly upgrade because the local bank will always lend to them to get the latest technology.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>That's why productivity is much higher in Germany than in the UK for example but that's of course under threat by the central planners. They want to force them to merge. But basically, we need to set up new banks and we think we can do that if we act quickly. Now, in the coming two years, we really need to get this going.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
</div>from MERCOLA Why Countries Must Leave the World Health Organization AWAKEN AMERICAtag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-06-05:5235400:BlogPost:1476952023-06-05T14:00:00.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Why Countries Must Leave the World Health Organization</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span class="fact-check" id="bcr_factCheck"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked</span><br></br>
<br></br>
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> …</div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"></div>
</div>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Why Countries Must Leave the World Health Organization</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span id="bcr_factCheck" class="fact-check"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked</span><br/>
<br/>
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">June 05, 2023</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br/>
<br/>
<div id="divPreviousbutton"><div class="previous-article"><br/></div>
</div>
<br/>
<p></p>
</div>
<br/>
<div id="divPreviousbutton4"><div id="bcr_pnlbtnPrev"><div class="previous-article"><div class="article-thumb"><img id="bcr_btnPrevImg" class=" mlazyloaded" alt="How Excess Iron Raises Your Risk for Alzheimer's" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/June/Nonlead/how-excess-iron-raises-alzheimers-risk-thumb.jpg" name="bcr_btnPrevImg"/></div>
<div class="article-title"><span id="bcr_lblPrevTitle">How Excess Iron Raises Your Risk for Alzheimer's</span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="bcr_pnlbtnNext"><div class="next-article"><div class="article-thumb"><img id="bcr_btnNextImg" class=" mlazyloaded" alt="Vitamin K Protects Against Diabetes" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/June/Nonlead/vitamin-k-protects-against-diabetes.jpg" name="bcr_btnNextImg"/></div>
<div class="article-title"><span id="bcr_lblNextTitle">Vitamin K Protects Against Diabetes</span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br/>
<div class="video-container"><div id="bcr_OuterpnlVideo" class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</span></div>
</div>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">Countries that treasure individual freedom and respect bodily autonomy have only one choice: Exit the World Health Organization</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">One Health is the culmination of a grand global plan that places human health, animal health, environmental concerns, food, travel, housing and everything else under a single umbrella, and the WHO is being set up as the central decision-maker and overseer of it all</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">One Health is based on the premise that a broad range of aspects of life and the environment can impact health and therefore fall under the “potential” to cause harm. The One Health agenda includes medicine, food and agriculture, communications, economics, civil society, global trade and commerce, research, noncommunicable disease, mental health, land use, disease surveillance and much more</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">Behind the scenes, One Health partnerships have already been formed in countries around the world. The One Health network was built and expanded in the U.S. primarily by cutting public health funding. One Health then stepped in with funding but, of course, recipients of One Health grants had to embrace the concept and push it out to others</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">One Health is also baked into the proposed amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR), which the World Health Assembly (WHA) is scheduled to vote on in May 2024. This is how the WHO will gain the authority to dictate how we live our lives</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>Countries that treasure individual freedom and respect bodily autonomy have only one choice: Exit the World Health Organization. It is now beyond clear that the WHO intends to eliminate both of those, and then some, through an international program called<span> </span><a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/who-one-health-joint-plan-of-action" target="_blank" rel="noopener">One Health</a>, formally adopted by the WHO and the G20 health ministers in 2017.<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup></p>
<p>The term “One Health” was first coined by EcoHealth Alliance,<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup><span> </span>the group that subcontracted risky gain-of-function research to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the lab from which SARS-CoV-2 emerged.</p>
<p>In hindsight, it’s easy to see that the globalists’ plan to concentrate power has been in the works for decades, and the playbook is always the same: “Give us more power so we can protect you and keep you safe.” Alas, every time we give them more power, we find ourselves both less safe and less free.</p>
<h2>What Is One Health?</h2>
<p>In the video above, Dr. Meryl Nass explains the implications of One Health. In short, our entire way of life, our freedom, our quality of life — indeed, our very humanity, are now at stake.</p>
<p>One Health is basically the culmination of a grand global plan that places human health, animal health, environmental concerns, food, travel, housing and everything else under a single umbrella, and the WHO is being set up as the central decision-maker and overseer of it all.</p>
<p>As explained by Nass, the One Health concept was initially based on the concept that veterinarians and doctors stood a better chance of combating zoonotic diseases — infections that jump species from animal to human — by working together. While that’s a reasonable idea, the concept was hijacked by globalists who saw that it could be used to gain power and control over the whole world.</p>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>The One Health agenda is based on the premise that a broad range of aspects of life and the environment can impact health and therefore fall under the “potential” to cause harm.</p>
<div class="center-img"><img class=" mlazyloaded" alt="One Health" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2023/May/one-health.jpg"/></div>
<p>The graphic above illustrates some of the areas that fall within the scope of One Health. But that’s not all. According to a One Health Commission document, One Health also includes:<sup><span id="edn3">3</span></sup></p>
<table class="generic-table left-align">
<tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p>Communications</p>
</td>
<td valign="top"><p>Economics</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Civil society</p>
</td>
<td valign="top"><p>Global trade, commerce and security</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Public policy and regulation</p>
</td>
<td valign="top"><p>Research</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Noncommunicable diseases (basically human medicine as a whole)</p>
</td>
<td valign="top"><p>Mental health</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Agricultural land use (which involves forcing farmers off their land)</p>
</td>
<td valign="top"><p>Disaster preparedness and response</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Disease surveillance</p>
</td>
<td valign="top"><p>The “human-animal bond” (the relationship with our pets) and much more</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<h2>The WHO Will Have Power to Dictate Every Facet of Our Lives</h2>
<p>If the WHO’s proposed<span> </span><a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/who-new-pandemic-treaty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pandemic treaty</a><span> </span>is enacted, the WHO will have unilateral power to make decisions about all of these areas, and its dictates will supersede and overrule any and all local, state and federal laws.</p>
<p>For example, under One Health, the WHO will be able to declare climate change as a health emergency and implement climate lockdowns to address it. It will be able to restrict local and international travel under the guise of environmental and/or human health, implement a vaccine passport requirement as a biosecurity measure, radically alter diets around the world in the name of animal welfare and environmental protection, and much more.</p>
<br/>
<p>One Health is also baked into the proposed amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR). This is how the WHO will gain the authority to dictate how we live our lives.</p>
<br/>
<p>As noted by Nass, “they’re basically trying to lasso everything in the world under One Health.” Meanwhile, One Health “lacks a conceptual system, real world evidence and a method for being implemented and evaluated,” she notes.</p>
<p>The One Health joint plan of action itself is pure word salad. It tells us nothing, really, other than it’s about forming a global coalition to “drive change” and transform life at the “global, regional and country level” under the guise of “health.”</p>
<div class="center-img"><img class=" mlazyloaded" alt="one health joint plan of action" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2023/June/one-health-joint-plan-of-action.jpg"/></div>
<div class="productad"></div>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/June/PDF/why-countries-must-leave-who-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>The One Health Network Has Already Been Built</h2>
<p>Behind the scenes, One Health partnerships have already been formed in countries around the world. According to Nass, the One Health network was built and expanded in the U.S. primarily by cutting public health funding. One Health then stepped in with funding but, of course, recipients of One Health grants had to embrace the concept and push it out to others.</p>
<p>The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), nongovernmental organizations and universities are all disbursing funds to expand the One Health network in the U.S. “Advancement of a One Health approach” is even included in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).<sup><span id="edn4">4</span></sup></p>
<p>The One Health concept is also creeping into the school system, where students are being taught the importance of “responsible citizenship,” “cultural sensitivity” and “global mindedness.” The same tactics are used to build this network in other countries as well.</p>
<h2>One Health Is Baked Into IHR Amendments</h2>
<p>Importantly, as explained by Nass,<sup><span id="edn5">5</span></sup><span> </span>One Health is also baked into the proposed amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR), which the World Health Assembly (WHA) is scheduled to vote on in May 2024. This is how the WHO will gain the authority to dictate how we live our lives.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“So, people need to be aware that this is coming, it’s a runaway train and we have to do what we can to stop it — which we can do by pulling out of the WHO,”</em><span> </span>Nass says.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>As noted by Nass, in the U.S., a small group of national legislators are introducing House<sup><span id="edn6">6</span>,<span id="edn7">7</span></sup><span> </span>and Senate bills<sup><span id="edn8">8</span>,<span id="edn9">9</span>,<span id="edn10">10</span></sup><span> </span>to require Senate supermajority approval of the WHO treaty before it’s signed.</p>
<p>In the U.K., conservative MPs are also warning ministers of an “ambition evident … for the WHO to transition from an advisory organization to a controlling international authority,” and are urging the Foreign Office to block efforts to “intrude materially into the U.K.’s ability to make its own rules and control its own budgets.”<sup><span id="edn11">11</span></sup></p>
<p>Andrew Mitchell, the minister of the Foreign Officer, has vowed to “block any law that prevents the U.K. from setting its own health policy,” but he also stressed that the U.K. is “supportive of the pandemic treaty currently being negotiated by national governments,”<sup><span id="edn12">12</span></sup><span> </span>and that treaty, as it’s currently written, completely eliminates member states sovereignty.</p>
<p>People in other countries also need to educate their legislators about the dangers of One Health, the IHR amendments and the pandemic treaty under consideration, and call on them to protect their nations against this stealth takeover.</p>
<p>So, to summarize, One Health is a global project to centralize power with the WHO so that it will have the authority to control every aspect of human life, across the world, without regard for national sovereignty or human rights. Any number of countermeasures, including those used during the COVID pandemic, can then be deployed to combat things like climate change, loss of biodiversity, noncommunicable diseases, pollution, hunger, poverty and so on.</p>
<h2>Overblown Warnings of Doom and Other Tactics</h2>
<p>In a May 25, 2023, Substack article, Nass highlights the three elements used repeatedly to push what is ultimately a global takeover agenda:<sup><span id="edn13">13</span></sup></p>
<ol>
<li>An overblown warning about impending doom</li>
<li>A totally inaccurate description of the cause</li>
<li>A vague solution that benefits the globalists at the expense of the population at large</li>
</ol>
<p>These were used during the COVID pandemic. They’re also being used to push the false idea that antibiotic resistance is caused by global warming, and therefore requires a more comprehensive approach — a One Health approach.</p>
<p>Nass cites a February 2023 report by the UN Environmental Program (UNEP) titled “Bracing for Superbugs: Strengthening Environmental Action in the One Health Response to Antimicrobial Resistance.”<sup><span id="edn14">14</span></sup></p>
<p>UNEP is one of the four international agencies that are pushing the One Health agenda globally and, according to this report, the fact that nations are already addressing antibiotic resistance is not enough.</p>
<p>Instead, nations must all work together using a singular, coordinated approach that includes “environmental-related plans such as national chemical pollution and waste management programs, national biodiversity and climate change planning.”</p>
<p>Countries must also come up with “innovative financial incentives and schemes” to pay for the proposed action plan and “guarantee sustainable funding.” UNEP also calls for “science-policy interfaces,” the prioritization of interventions and the strengthening of surveillance systems. They also stress that all strategies employed must “utilize the One Health approach while addressing financial/business, climate and cultural contexts.”</p>
<p>Does anyone else see how problematic that can become? To raise just one example, overuse of antibiotics in food production is at the root of the problem, yet any strategy to address it must take stakeholders’ financial and business concerns into account. At the end of the day, it becomes all about protecting and promoting the interests of certain “stakeholders,” which are primarily NGOs and private businesses. As noted by Nass:<sup><span id="edn15">15</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Antimicrobial resistance is so simple. Bacteria develop mutations that allow them to evade antibiotics, and their new genes are often contained in small plasmids that can be excreted by the cell and shared with other bacteria ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Until this present moment, the FDA, CDC and the WHO all knew that antimicrobial resistance was due primarily to the use of antibiotics in livestock feed, because it increased the rate of growth; 75% of antibiotics by weight are used for this purpose, globally.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And people consume these antibiotics when they eat the meat, or the farmed fish, or the chickens. But now we must believe that antibiotic resistance is an environmental problem, which can only be solved by using the ... One Health approach.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>‘Climate-Aggravated Outbreak Threats’ Being Pushed</h2>
<p>If climate lockdowns and the like sound unbelievable, start paying attention to what you read in the news. For example, PR Newswire<sup><span id="edn16">16</span></sup><span> </span>recently announced a partnership between the WHO and the Rockefeller Foundation aimed at “genomic surveillance, adoption of data tools for pathogen detection and assessment of climate-aggravated outbreak threats.”</p>
<p>More and more, we’re seeing “pandemic threats” being tied to things like climate change, so that the first can be used to justify drastic action on the second. As reported by PR Newswire:<sup><span id="edn17">17</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The Rockefeller Foundation and the World Health Organization (WHO) have announced a new partnership to strengthen the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>As part of the collaboration, the Foundation is investing US $5M in partners working with WHO to cultivate global networks for pathogen detection and strengthen pandemic preparedness capabilities, including broadening surveillance for diseases worsened by rising temperatures and extreme weather.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>October 2022 Pandemic Simulation</h2>
<div class="video-rwd"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qk9Nd4uhJQg?wmode=opaque&rel=0"></iframe>
</div>
<p>There’s also no doubt that we’ll be faced with additional pandemics, because the pandemic threat is what drives the push for global centralization of power. The globalists who practiced what was to become the global COVID response have also told us there will be more pandemics, and at this point, it would be foolish not to believe them. So, what might the next pandemic be, and when might it strike?</p>
<p>October 23, 2022, the WHO, Johns Hopkins University and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation cohosted a tabletop exercise dubbed “<a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/bill-gates-plans-new-catastrophic-contagion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Catastrophic Contagion</a>,” involving a novel (and supposedly fictional) infection called “severe epidemic enterovirus respiratory syndrome 2025” (SEERS-25), which primarily affects children and teens.</p>
<p>These are the same groups that ran Event 201, which turned out to be a pandemic simulation for COVID. According to the Catastrophic Contagion simulation, SEERS-25 — an enterovirus like the polio virus — will originate in Brazil in 2025.</p>
<p>Fictional news reports featured in the simulation reported 1 billion cases worldwide and some 20 million deaths, including 15 million children, plus millions more left permanently paralyzed from the infection. Based on this exercise, we can assume (unless additional pandemic exercises are carried out) that the next pandemic will target children and young people.</p>
<p>This would be a logical progression, from a totalitarian perspective, considering people are typically willing to do just about anything to keep their children safe.</p>
<p>COVID showed them that most people were willing to sacrifice even their most basic freedoms “to save grandma.” So, what won’t they willingly give up if it comes down to “saving children”? The globalists intend to take our human rights and civil liberties away from us, and to be successful in that endeavor, they will need all the help and cooperation they can get.</p>
<div align="center"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
</div>
<p>Dr. Abdullah Assiri, co-chair of the WHO’s Working Group on Amendments to the International Health Regulations (WGIHR) recently stated<sup><span id="edn18">18</span></sup><span> </span>that the world “requires a different level of legal mandates” to address future pandemics, and that “actions that may restrict individual liberties” is a priority.</p>
<h2>Who Is Making Decisions on Our Behalf?</h2>
<div align="center"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
</div>
<p>Clearly, the idea that unelected and unaccountable globalists are trying to strip away individual freedoms and implement a totalitarian system of global top-down control is not a loony “conspiracy theory.” It’s a plain fact, and we, the public, have NO say in this.</p>
<p>In the video above, author, researcher, activist and natural health advocate James Roguski<sup><span id="edn19">19</span></sup><span> </span>explains the World Health Assembly’s (WHA) role in the WHO’s takeover. Part of what makes it so difficult to stop this power grab is because the WHA is the body that will vote on the IHR amendments and the pandemic treaty, but the public is not allowed to know who, from their country, is part of the WHA.</p>
<p>Roguski tried filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to get a list of the U.S. delegates and was told there’s no such list. So, we can’t know who the WHA delegates are until they’ve signed in at the meeting and cast their vote on our behalf.</p>
<p>Needless to say, this means we cannot contact them beforehand to tell them how we think they should vote on a given issue. That said, Roguski was able to determine that Xavier Becerra, U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services, is the U.S. lead delegate.</p>
<h2>Past the Point of No Return, All Freedom Will Be Lost</h2>
<p>It’s now beyond imperative that people understand where we’re headed, and that the COVID measures weren’t just responses to a given pandemic, but rather were the foundation for a totalitarian one world government, where human rights and freedoms will no longer exist.</p>
<p>This is likely the biggest challenge mankind has ever faced as a collective, and it requires strong collective resistance. In order for that resistance to occur, however, people must understand what’s going on and how all of these various programs, treaties, partnerships and agendas work together. They’re all part of the same scheme, which is to implement a One World totalitarian technocratic government under which humans have no intrinsic value.</p>
<h2>Call on Congress to Withdraw US From the WHO</h2>
<p>While the U.S. House and Senate have introduced identical bills to thwart the WHO’s power grab through the proposed pandemic treaty, that still might not protect us if President Biden signs it, because the treaty is specifically written to circumvent the Senate-approval process.<sup><span id="edn20">20</span></sup></p>
<p>A far more effective strategy would be for Congress to withhold its annual contributions to the WHO, and then withdraw the U.S. from the WHO altogether. I believe it may be worth supporting all these strategies. So, please, contact your representatives and urge them to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Support the No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act</li>
<li>Withhold funding for the WHO</li>
<li>Support U.S. withdrawal from the WHO</li>
</ul>
<p>We also need to protect our nation against the IHR amendments. To that end, the World Council for Health has launched a global #StopTheWHO campaign. Here’s how you can get involved:<sup><span id="edn21">21</span></sup></p>
<table class="generic-table left-align">
<tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p>Speak — Raise awareness on the ground and online. Use articles, posters, videos</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Act — Campaign through rallies, political mobilization, legal notices and cases and similar campaigns</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Collaborate with health freedom coalitions such as the World Council for Health</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Explore activist toolboxes such as:<span> </span><a href="https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/campaigns/stop-the-who/stopthewho-oppose-international-health-regulation-amendments/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Council for Health Stop the Who Campaign</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/100-reasons" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stopthewho.com</a></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Engage global indigenous leadership to take a united stand against the WHO’s IHR</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Notify World Health Assembly country delegates to oppose the IHR amendments (if you can identify them)</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Activate people’s parliaments, legislatures or referendums to oppose power grabs</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>FROM MERCOLA Most Important Medical History Lesson We Must Never Forget AWAKEN AMERICAtag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-05-29:5235400:BlogPost:1475632023-05-29T12:12:19.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Most Important Medical History Lesson We Must Never Forget</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span class="fact-check" id="bcr_factCheck"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked</span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">May 29,…</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Most Important Medical History Lesson We Must Never Forget</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span id="bcr_factCheck" class="fact-check"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked</span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">May 29, 2023</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<p class="post-admin-link"></p>
<div id="menu"><div id="profile-menu"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zI3yU5Z2adI?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
</div>
</div>
<p></p>
</div>
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton4"><div id="bcr_pnlbtnPrev"><div class="previous-article"><div class="article-thumb"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">One of the most egregious lies spread by mainstream media hosts and health authorities like Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Rochelle Walensky was that the COVID “vaccine” would stop the spread of infection, thereby ending the pandemic. It was a provable lie, because none of the COVID shots had ever been tested to see if they could prevent the spread of infection</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">As hospitals filled up with “vaccinated” individuals who were supposed to be immune, the PR slogan “Pandemic of the unvaccinated” was endlessly circulated — until the reality of the situation finally became too obvious to ignore. Then, suddenly, hospitals and health authorities simply quit keeping track of COVID hospitalizations</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">The list of COVID measures that were arbitrary, unscientific and plain stupid is a long one. For example, in Michigan, hardware stores that were allowed to remain open were not allowed to sell carpet, flooring, furniture, garden supplies or paint. Businesses were also prohibited from advertising any product other than “groceries, medical supplies, or items that are necessary to maintain the safety, sanitation and basic operation of residences”</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">In South Africa, shops could only sell closed toe shoes (no sandals). In Victoria, Australia, people were prohibited from venturing more than 5 kilometers from their home, and in Great Britain, you had to order a substantial meal if you wanted a pint of ale</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">Among the most laughably absurd measures were having school children play instruments wearing masks with holes cut around their mouth, or playing inside one-man tents</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>The video above features a compilation of some of the most absurd COVID narratives we were indoctrinated with over the past three years. For example, “No one is safe until everyone is safe” was one of several lies we heard repeated across media platforms.</p>
<p>First of all, there were and are vast differences in risk depending on your age and general medical history, and this was evident within weeks of the outbreak. Secondly, the data showed that 99.5% of the population would survive COVID.</p>
<p>So, the reality was the complete opposite of this fabricated PR campaign slogan. Had we been told the truth, we would have been told that “Most of us are safe,” rather than “None of us are safe.”</p>
<h2>One False PR Slogan After Another</h2>
<p>Next, the “no one is safe” slogan morphed to “No one is safe unless everyone is vaccinated.” With that, it became open season to harass, intimidate, threaten and discriminate against the unvaccinated. Every COVID case and death was blamed on them, no matter how irrational. And while the talking heads paid lip service to the desire to “save lives,” they had no qualms about wishing death on the unvaccinated.</p>
<p>As questions about the safety of the experimental gene transfer shots mounted, another campaign slogan was concocted: “Don’t do your own research.” At the same time, “Trust the science” was trending. What that meant was that you were supposed to trust that what you were told WAS “the science.” Actually looking at published science, that made you a dangerous moron.</p>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>One of the most egregious lies spread by mainstream media hosts and health authorities like Dr. Anthony Fauci alike was that the COVID “vaccine” would stop the spread of infection in its tracks, thereby ending the pandemic.</p>
<p>It was a provable lie, because anyone who had gone against the grain and done their own research knew that none of the COVID shots had ever been tested to see if they could prevent the spread of infection. The only “promise” they ever held was that they might reduce the symptoms of infection. Have any of these people apologized for spreading lies? I can’t think of one.</p>
<p>Even Fauci and Walensky, then-director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stated that you could not get COVID if you got the shot. Both later got sick with COVID several times, as did countless others who fell for and vigorously promoted this false propaganda.</p>
<p>Still, the brainwashing continued. As hospitals filled up with “vaccinated” individuals who were supposed to be immune, the PR slogan “Pandemic of the unvaccinated” was endlessly circulated — until the reality of the situation finally became too obvious to ignore.</p>
<p>Then, suddenly, hospitals and health authorities simply quit keeping track of COVID hospitalizations. Problem solved. This way, they didn’t have to admit that what we had was a pandemic of the vaccinated.</p>
<h2>Ridiculous and Arbitrary COVID Restrictions</h2>
<p>In a March 15, 2021, article,<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup><span> </span>attorney at law Glenn Roper also reviewed a long list of arbitrary COVID measures that “bore little connection to health and safety” and were nothing more than “an exercise of raw government power to control its citizens.” Six of the worst offenders in this regard were:</p>
<table class="generic-table left-align">
<tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p>Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who:</p>
<ul>
<li>Forced certain stores that were allowed to remain open to block access to specific areas. Hardware stores, for example, were not allowed to sell carpet, flooring, furniture, garden supplies or paint.</li>
<li>Prohibited businesses from promoting or advertising any product other than “groceries, medical supplies or items that are necessary to maintain the safety, sanitation and basic operation of residences.”</li>
<li>Banned motorboats, jet skis and other watercraft, while allowing the use of kayaks, canoes and sailboats.</li>
<li>Prohibited residents from traveling to a second home or a vacation rental.</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, who prohibited people from gathering with anyone from another household, even outdoors.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Villages in New York that banned the use of leaf-blowers, as blowing dust into the air would create “a hazmat situation.”</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, who imposed a “no exceptions” mask rule. Everyone above age 5 had to wear a mask indoors and out, including when alone. While Roper doesn’t mention this, Massachusetts also required golf courses to place pieces of pool noodles in the bottom of the golf cups, to prevent you from touching the sides of the cup.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who banned all nonessential travel, including walking.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, banned drive-in church services for Easter. A federal judge reversed the ban, stating the order was something “this court never expected to see outside the pages of a dystopian novel, or perhaps the pages of ‘The Onion.’”</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Similarly absurd rules can be found across the world. In South Africa, for example, government officials ruled that shops could only sell closed toe shoes (no sandals), and short-sleeved shirts could only be worn if you had a jacket or long-sleeved jersey on top.<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup></p>
<p>In Victoria, Australia, people were prohibited from venturing more than 5 kilometers from their home,<sup><span id="edn3">3</span></sup><span> </span>and in Great Britain, you had to order a substantial meal if you wanted a pint of ale.<sup><span id="edn4">4</span></sup><span> </span>In Scotland, the crowd size for public events was limited, but not for private ones, and in Peru and Panama, men and women were only permitted to go outside on alternate days.<sup><span id="edn5">5</span></sup></p>
<div class="productad"></div>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/May/PDF/medical-history-lesson-we-must-never-forget-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>Absurd Enforcement of Arbitrary Rules</h2>
<p>“But it wasn’t just the measures themselves that were troublesome. The enforcement of these new laws was also overzealous and absurd,” Roper wrote.</p>
<p>For example, in Encinitas, California, police cited 22 people for “watching the sunset” and “having picnics near the beach.” “Violations carry fines of up to $1,000 and up to six months in jail,” Roper noted.</p>
<p>California police officers also chased down and arrested lone paddleboarders and surfers, and in Brighton, Colorado, a man was arrested for playing with his 6-year-old daughter on a near-empty softball field.</p>
<p>The same insanity was taking place in other countries. A family in England was told by a policeman to go back indoors because “people died yesterday.” They were in their own front yard.<sup><span id="edn6">6</span></sup><span> </span>All of this is extremely problematic, as it points to a breakdown of the very structure of our government. As noted by Roper:<sup><span id="edn7">7</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“In each case, COVID restrictions were imposed by executive branch officials — governors, mayors, sheriffs, and law enforcement — relying on broad grants of power delegated by legislatures.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The legislators did not write or vote on the restrictions themselves. Instead, it was left to the officials who are responsible for enforcing the restrictions to decide what is banned and what is allowed.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>That approach is contrary to the separation of powers that underlies the American system of government. Under our system, power is supposed to be divided among different branches that check and balance each other, for the protection of our rights and freedom.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Laws are supposed to be enacted by the legislative branch. The executive branch is supposed to enforce the laws, not make them. It is that constitutional structure that helps protect our liberty and freedoms.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Insanity on Display</h2>
<p>Roper’s list of absurd and arbitrary COVID measures could have been far longer. Remember these images? This was how a high school band in Wenatchee, Washington, was forced to practice in early 2021.<sup><span id="edn8">8</span></sup></p>
<div class="center-img"><img class=" mlazyloaded" alt="high school band practiced holed up in one man tents" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2023/May/high-school-band-practiced-holed-up-in-one-man-tents.jpg"/></div>
<div class="center-img"><img class=" mlazyloaded" alt="high schoolers practiced holed up in one man tents" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2023/May/high-schoolers-practiced-holed-up-in-one-man-tents.jpg"/></div>
<p>According to officials, singing or blowing into an instrument could spread the COVID virus, so high schoolers practiced holed up in one-man tents. It was mindbogglingly stupid when it first happened, and it’s not getting any less absurd with the passing of time.</p>
<br />
<p>Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces. They can lead to a clamor for action — almost any action — as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat. ~ Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch</p>
<br />
<div class="video-rwd"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XlhFlN3eCts?wmode=opaque&rel=0"></iframe>
</div>
<p>Other schools took the absurdity to even higher levels, having the kids practice wearing masks with holes cut out for their mouths.<sup><span id="edn9">9</span></sup></p>
<div class="center-img"><img class=" mlazyloaded" alt="kids wearing masks with holes cut out for their mouths" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2023/May/kids-wearing-masks-with-holes-cut-out-for-their-mouths.jpg"/></div>
<h2>Supreme Court Justice Critiques Government</h2>
<p>In mid-May 2023, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch leveled harsh criticisms against government’s response to the COVID pandemic, from local to federal. In his eight-page ruling in the case of Arizona v. Alejandro Mayorkas, he stated:<sup><span id="edn10">10</span>,<span id="edn11">11</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country. Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too. They surveilled church parking lots, recorded license plates, and issued notices warning that attendance at even outdoor services satisfying all state social-distancing and hygiene requirements could amount to criminal conduct.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>They divided cities and neighborhoods into color-coded zones, forced individuals to fight for their freedoms in court on emergency timetables, and then changed their color-coded schemes when defeat in court seemed imminent.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Federal executive officials entered the act too ... They deployed a public-health agency to regulate landlord-tenant relations nationwide. They used a workplace-safety agency to issue a vaccination mandate for most working Americans. They threatened to fire noncompliant employees and warned that service members who refused to vaccinate might face dishonorable discharge and confinement.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Along the way, it seems federal officials may have pressured social-media companies to suppress information about pandemic policies with which they disagreed.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>While executive officials issued new emergency decrees at a furious pace, state legislatures and Congress — the bodies normally responsible for adopting our laws — too often fell silent. Courts bound to protect our liberties addressed a few — but hardly all — of the intrusions upon them ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Doubtless, many lessons can be learned from this chapter in our history, and hopefully serious efforts will be made to study it. One lesson might be this: Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>They can lead to a clamor for action — almost any action — as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat. A leader or an expert who claims he can fix everything, if only we do exactly as he says, can prove an irresistible force.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>We do not need to confront a bayonet, we need only a nudge, before we willingly abandon the nicety of requiring laws to be adopted by our legislative representatives and accept rule by decree. Along the way, we will accede to the loss of many cherished civil liberties — the right to worship freely, to debate public policy without censorship, to gather with friends and family, or simply to leave our homes ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Of course, this is no new story. Even the ancients warned that democracies can degenerate toward autocracy in the face of fear.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>But maybe we have learned another lesson too. The concentration of power in the hands of so few may be efficient and sometimes popular. But it does not tend toward sound government. However wise one person or his advisors may be, that is no substitute for the wisdom of the whole of the American people that can be tapped in the legislative process.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Decisions produced by those who indulge no criticism are rarely as good as those produced after robust and uncensored debate. Decisions announced on the fly are rarely as wise as those that come after careful deliberation.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Decisions made by a few often yield unintended consequences that may be avoided when more are consulted. Autocracies have always suffered these defects. Maybe, hopefully, we have relearned these lessons too.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Gorsuch also calls for a review of the National Emergencies Act, and for state legislatures to reexamine the scope of emergency executive powers at the state level, because “Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”</p>
</div>
<div class="SpecialTagContent narrow-width"></div>
<div class="last-update narrow-width"><p></p>
</div>
<div class="social-icons-bottom narrow-width"><ul class="social-icons dontprint social-button-round">
<li style="list-style-type: none"><ul class="social-icons dontprint social-button-round">
<li class="social-btn"><a name="Facebook Page" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Farticles.mercola.com%2Fsites%2Farticles%2Farchive%2F2023%2F05%2F29%2Fmedical-history-lesson-we-must-never-forget.aspx%3Fui%3De04e91c57597f04c2f55a300f8aa96bd650b34036fe1dd58519ce6e195306265%26sd%3D20210115%26cid_source%3Ddnl%26cid_medium%3Demail%26cid_content%3Dart1ReadMore%26cid%3D20230529%26cid%3DDM1407588%26bid%3D1813912327"></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<span> </span><br />
<ul class="social-icons dontprint social-button-round">
<li style="list-style-type: none"><ul class="social-icons dontprint social-button-round">
<li class="social-btn"><a href="mailto:?subject=Most%20Important%20Medical%20History%20Lesson%20We%20Must%20Never%20Forget&body=From%20dubious%20vaccine%20promises%20and%20staged%20PR%20narratives%20about%20risks%2C%20to%20eccentric%20retail%20regulations%2C%20mobility%20restrictions%20and%20even%20schoolchildren%20playing%20instruments%20with%20masks%20bearing%20cut-out%20holes%20-%20let%27s%20traverse%20the%20fascinating%2C%20often%20baffling%2C%20labyrinth%20of%20our%20recent%20pandemic%20past.%0A%0AACCESS%20NOW%3A%20https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/05/29/medical-history-lesson-we-must-never-forget.aspx%3Fcid_medium=etaf%26cid_source=etaf%26cid=share%0A%0AABOUT%20DR.%20MERCOLA%3A%20Dr.%20Joseph%20Mercola%20is%20the%20founder%20of%20Mercola.com.%20An%20osteopathic%20physician%2C%20best-selling%20author%20and%20recipient%20of%20multiple%20awards%20in%20the%20field%20of%20natural%20health%2C%20his%20primary%20vision%20is%20to%20change%20the%20modern%20health%20paradigm%20by%20providing%20people%20with%20a%20valuable%20resource%20to%20help%20them%20take%20control%20of%20their%20health.%20His%20latest%20book%20%E2%80%9CThe%20Truth%20About%20COVID-19%E2%80%9D%20was%20an%20instant%20best-seller%20and%20the%20%231%20book%20sold%20on%20Amazon.%0A%0A" class="mailtolink" name=" Mailto"></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<span> </span><br />
<ul class="social-icons dontprint social-button-round">
</ul>
</div>FROM MERCOLA SOMETHING STRANGE IS HAPPENING IN CHICAGOtag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-05-19:5235400:BlogPost:1473032023-05-19T12:53:58.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="video-container"><div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v2j4n0d-something-strange-is-happening-in-chicago.html">Something Strange is Happening in Chicago (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v2j4n0d-something-strange-is-happening-in-chicago.html">Something Strange…</a></span></div>
</div>
<div class="video-container"><div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v2j4n0d-something-strange-is-happening-in-chicago.html">Something Strange is Happening in Chicago (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v2j4n0d-something-strange-is-happening-in-chicago.html">Something Strange is Happening in Chicago (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v2j4n0d-something-strange-is-happening-in-chicago.html">Something Strange is Happening in Chicago (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v2j4n0d-something-strange-is-happening-in-chicago.html">Something Strange is Happening in Chicago (rumble.com)</a></span></div>
<div class="video-panel"></div>
<div id="bcr_OuterpnlVideo" class="video-panel"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</span></div>
</div>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">The crimewave overtaking Chicago, Illinois, is a perfect example of the moral degradation happening in most metropolitan areas around the U.S. A person is shot every three hours and 41 minutes in “The Windy City.” This despite having some of the toughest gun control laws in the country</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">Democrat-controlled cities and states are decriminalizing theft, looting and even violent crime and murder under the banner of fighting systemic racism and inequality. Yet the end result is always the same: More crime and rising lawlessness</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">Brick and mortar stores are intentionally being pushed out of the big cities due to rising crime. It’s a consolidation program. The end goal is to transition to a traceable central bank digital currency and near-exclusive use of online shopping</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">The World Economic Forum (WEF) is working to create tiny self-contained vertical cities where your every move is surveilled and countryside excursions are forbidden. To get there, they must destroy the old infrastructure and rebuild according to new specifications</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">If you live in a big city — any major metropolitan area — consider moving to a smaller one, preferably in a less “woke” state where lawlessness is not openly embraced and accepted as some form of “equity” arrangement, as it’s only going to get worse from here</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>Although this may seem to be an article focusing on Chicago, please realize Chicago is only being used as an example of the moral decay and corruption in virtually every major city in the United States. It serves as a stark warning to relocate if you are in one of these areas.</p>
<p>As noted by ReallyGraceful in the video above, Chicago, Illinois, ought to be “a haven of the United States.” The third largest city in the U.S., it’s filled with world-class architecture and technological advancements. It’s a center for manufacturing and transportation industries and has become a tech sector mecca.<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup></p>
<p>But rather than being the apple of America’s eye, Chicago has become known as “a center for murder, crime and corruption.” A person is shot every three hours and 41 minutes in “The Windy City.” This despite having some of the toughest gun control laws in the country.</p>
<p>Someone is murdered every 15 hours and 54 minutes in Chicago. According to statistics cited in the video, you’re more likely to be murdered in Chicago than die as a civilian in the Ukraine-Russia war. The violence in Chicago is primarily Black on Black, and most victims are Black men under the age of 25. How did this happen? How did Chicago become a center for crime rather than advancement?</p>
<h2>Chicago’s Failed Policies</h2>
<p>Lori Lightfoot, a Black gay Democrat, became mayor of Chicago in 2019. In the summer of 2020, she went along with the nationwide movement to defund the police. In August she pledged to cut the city’s police budget by $80 million, but a month later she changed her mind and in the end “only” cut the budget by $59 million.<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup></p>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>To her credit, she rejected the community’s call for eliminating police altogether and replacing them with social workers and medical professionals, saying she does “not support defunding the police” and could not “responsibly enact any policies that make communities less safe.”<sup><span id="edn3">3</span></sup></p>
<p>Clearly, Lightfoot understood the value of police presence, seeing how she made sure she had a squad of 71 police officers protecting her personal home.</p>
<p>That said, Lightfoot also implemented some of the most draconian lockdown policies in the country and pressured Chicagoans to get the experimental COVID jab. She also launched a universal basic income pilot program, which is yet another way to get people hooked on government assistance.</p>
<p>All the while, crime surged. In December 2021, Lightfoot begged the federal government for additional law enforcement resources to address out-of-control crime rates.<sup><span id="edn4">4</span></sup></p>
<p>In April 2023, Lightfoot became the first Chicago mayor to lose reelection, ostensibly due to her failure to rein in crime. Remarkably, the new mayor is anything but hard on crime and is even more permissive than she was.</p>
<p>Contrary to Lightfoot, who at least pushed back against the irrational if not suicidal “defund the police” movement, the new mayor, Democrat Brandon Johnson, a former union organizer and Cook County commissioner, was a staunch supporter of police defunding, and to this day defends looting as “an outbreak of incredible frustration and anguish” caused by “a failed racist system.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Walmart, a major donor to the Democrat Party, is now closing four of its eight Chicago stores due to rampant theft and looting. Walmart simply can’t afford to stay there. Protesters gathered outside Walmart, criticizing its decision, but in the end, economics rule — even in Democrat-controlled areas.</p>
<div class="productad"></div>
<h2>Decriminalization of Crime Leads to Lawlessness</h2>
<p>Remarkably, the Democrat trend to decriminalize theft, looting and even violent crime and murder — because “racism and inequality” — is resulting in more crime. Who could’ve guessed that lack of law abiding would lead to lawlessness?</p>
<p>As noted by Cook County prosecutor Jason Poje, who in early May 2023 resigned from his post that he’s held for 20 years, “This State and County have set themselves on a course to disaster.” He continues:<sup><span id="edn5">5</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“... the worst part is that the agency for whom I work has backed literally every policy change that had the predictable, and predicted, outcome of more crime and more people getting hurt.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Bond reform designed to make sure no one stays in jail while their cases are pending with no safety net to handle more criminals on the streets, shorter parole periods, lower sentences for repeat offenders, the malicious and unnecessary prosecution of law enforcement officers, overuse of diversion programs, intentionally not pursuing prosecutions for crimes lawfully on the books after being passed by our legislature and signed by a governor, all of these so-called reforms have had a direct negative impact, with consequences that will last for a generation ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The current people in charge of this state, including the [State’s Attorney’s Office] suffer from a fundamental misunderstanding ... we live in a society with adversarial court and criminal justice processes.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Defense attorneys, legal aid clinics, Public Defenders, defendant advocate groups ... they fight like hell to protect the rights of criminal defendants. And they should. Their work is as noble as ours. But we have an obligation to fight like hell on behalf of the People. It should go without saying that this must be done ethically and evenhandedly.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>When both sides vigorously defend their positions, a balance is reached between protecting rights while preserving some sort of order and safety. Once we start doing too much of the defense’s job, once we pull our punches, once we decide that it’s worth risking citizens’ lives to have a little social experiment, that balance is lost.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The unavoidable consequences are what we are witnessing in real time, an increase in crime of all kinds, businesses and families pulling up stakes, and the bodies piling up ...”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<br />
<p>Why are political leaders implementing policies that, obviously, will result in more rather than less crime? They’re intentionally implemented because the end result is a desired one.</p>
<br />
<p>Chicago is not alone in this folly. Seattle, Los Angeles and many other Democrat-run cities have implemented similar policies, and the end result is the same everywhere. Why are political leaders implementing policies that, obviously, will result in more rather than less crime?</p>
<p>ReallyGraceful has a theory. She believes these insane policies are intentionally implemented because the end justifies the means since it is a desired outcome.</p>
<p>She suspects large brick and mortar stores and small shops alike are intentionally being pushed out of the big cities so that “only those with the money and infrastructure to support online shopping can survive.” In other words, it’s a consolidation program. The end goal is to transition to a traceable central bank digital currency and online shopping.</p>
<p>Beyond that, we have the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) well-laid plans for the cities of the future.<sup><span id="edn6">6</span>,<span id="edn7">7</span></sup><span> </span>They want tiny self-contained vertical cities where your every move is surveilled and countryside excursions are forbidden. To get there, they must destroy the old infrastructure and rebuild according to new specifications.</p>
<p>According to the WEF, cities worldwide will gain 5 billion new inhabitants by 2050.<sup><span id="edn8">8</span></sup><span> </span>In all, they predict 80% of the global population will be pressed into cities. Never mind the fact that city living has long been linked to stress, depression and increased aggression.<sup><span id="edn9">9</span></sup></p>
<p>So-called “isobenefit urbanism” plans include building cities where essentials are all within a 1-mile walking distance.</p>
<p>This makes sense, considering the green goal to have all electric cars by 2050 is a fantasy that cannot be achieved. There aren’t enough minerals on this planet to replace existing gas-powered cars with EVs. The plan is simply for average people to not have a car.</p>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/May/PDF/if-you-live-in-a-city-time-to-move-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>Coordinated Effort to Unleash Lawlessness Across America</h2>
<p>The key takeaway here is that the promotion of lawlessness is not restricted to Chicago. Chicago is just one example of the moral degradation that is happening in virtually every major U.S. city.</p>
<p>Violent criminals are released from prisons in many major cities and state prosecutors are either handing out slaps on the wrist or refusing to prosecute violent offenders altogether. That’s intentional. You don’t have to have some special Ph.D. to realize that if there’s no punishment for looting and murder, more people will loot and kill.</p>
<p>According to FBI data, on average, murder and manslaughter in U.S. cities with a population over 10,000 increased 26% between 2010 and 2020; rape increased by 38%, aggravated assault by 29% and car theft by 48%.</p>
<p>Those are averages. Some cities are far worse than others.<sup><span id="edn10">10</span></sup><span> </span>To dig deeper, see CBS News’ “Murder Map,”<sup><span id="edn11">11</span></sup><span> </span>the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Homicide Mortality by State” map,<sup><span id="edn12">12</span></sup><span> </span>and/or World Population Review’s “Cities with the Most Murders 2023” map.<sup><span id="edn13">13</span></sup><span> </span>It’s worth noting that 18 of the 20 cities with the highest murder rates have Democrat mayors.</p>
<h2>Save Yourself — Move Out of the Cities</h2>
<p>My advice? If you live in a big city — any major metropolitan area — consider moving to a smaller one, preferably in a less “woke” state where lawlessness is not openly embraced and accepted as some form of “equity” arrangement.</p>
<p>Your and your family’s safety, security and long-term welfare may depend on it, because it’s only going to get worse from here. We can easily predict this because the degradation we’re currently seeing is clearly intentional.</p>
<h2>10 Cities and States Homeowners Are Fleeing</h2>
<p>Since the pandemic began, we’ve seen an unprecedented exodus from Blue cities across the U.S. The top 10 cities homeowners have been fleeing are:<sup><span id="edn14">14</span></sup></p>
<ol>
<li>San Francisco</li>
<li>Los Angeles</li>
<li>New York City</li>
<li>Washington, D.C.</li>
<li>Boston</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Detroit</li>
<li>Denver</li>
<li>Seattle</li>
<li>Philadelphia</li>
</ol>
<p>People are also fleeing certain states more than others. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the 10 states with the highest population loss in 2021 due to relocations were:<sup><span id="edn15">15</span></sup></p>
<ol>
<li>New Jersey</li>
<li>Illinois</li>
<li>New York</li>
<li>Connecticut</li>
<li>California</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>Massachusetts</li>
<li>Louisiana</li>
<li>Ohio</li>
<li>Nebraska</li>
</ol>
<h2>Safest Cities in America</h2>
<p>As for where to relocate, taking a peek at crime statistics can be helpful. As of 2022, the following 10 towns and townships were rated the safest.<sup><span id="edn16">16</span></sup><span> </span>Additional lists of low-crime areas can be<span> </span><a href="https://www.bobvila.com/slideshow/19-places-with-almost-zero-crime-51661" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found here</a><sup><span id="edn17">17</span></sup><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://www.kiplinger.com/real-estate/places-to-live/the-safest-cities-in-the-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.<sup><span id="edn18">18</span></sup></p>
<ol>
<li>Lewisboro Town, New York</li>
<li>Wayland, Massachusetts</li>
<li>Rye, New York</li>
<li>Broadview Heights, Ohio</li>
<li>Franklin, Massachusetts</li>
<li>Norfolk, Massachusetts</li>
<li>Sparta Township, New Jersey</li>
<li>Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey</li>
<li>Berkeley Heights Township, New Jersey</li>
<li>Holden, Massachusetts</li>
</ol>
<p>As for the states people are flocking to, the top 10 states that have seen the greatest influx are:<sup><span id="edn19">19</span>,<span id="edn20">20</span></sup></p>
<ol>
<li>Florida</li>
<li>Texas</li>
<li>North Carolina</li>
<li>South Carolina</li>
<li>Tennessee</li>
<li>Georgia</li>
<li>Arizona</li>
<li>Idaho</li>
<li>Alabama</li>
<li>Oklahoma</li>
</ol>
<h2>To Rebuild, We Must Address the Real Problems</h2>
<p>This article hit home for me as I was born and raised in Chicago and about as native as they come as I went to kindergarten, grade school, high school, college, medical school and residency all within the city limit of Chicago. Thankfully, I left over 12 years ago and escaped to sunny Florida.</p>
<p>I agree with ReallyGraceful who states that what we’re seeing is the Hegelian Reaction in real-time: Problem, Reaction, Solution. They’re intentionally creating a problem that they know will result in a certain reaction, so that they can then introduce a preplanned “solution” — a solution that centralizes and cements power at the top of government.</p>
<p>And, while there is a political divide, there are rotten apples and Great Reset promoters on both sides. For example, some Republican leaders are now calling for the U.S. military to intervene and restore order, but that’s just part of the same agenda. The result is more government control and power. Military intervention is the last thing we should hope for.</p>
<p>What we really need to do, as a society, is to take a cold, hard look at the problems that government is ignoring or trying to sweep under the rug, because that’s where the solutions lie. The real problems that need to be addressed can be summed up as:</p>
<table class="generic-table left-align">
<tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p>Lack of family unit, which has eliminated the security and confidence that family used to provide.</p>
</td>
<td valign="top"><p>Lack of traditional values that benefit the individual and the collective equally.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Lack of pride and purpose in the workplace as workers are viewed as disposable.</p>
</td>
<td valign="top"><p>Lack of community and meaningful connection with others.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Lack of personal responsibility and sense of self.</p>
</td>
<td valign="top"><p>Failure to keep government power in check.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>The only ones who can fix these problems are We the People. We have to change how we live and interact in our local communities and stop looking to the government for solutions. Government is in the business of creating problems to introduce fake solutions that centralize power. We need to identify and address the real problems, and only we can do that.</p>
</div>Here’s why Fox News fired Tucker Carlson?…
MAY 2, 2023
by Frank Holmes, reporter
One week after Fox News cut ties with top-rated talk show host Tucker Carlson, the real reasons for the conservat…tag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-05-03:5235400:BlogPost:1462262023-05-03T00:23:32.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="wrap"><p></p>
</div>
<br />
<div class="site-inner"><div class="content-sidebar-wrap"><h1 class="entry-title">Here’s why Fox News fired Tucker Carlson?…</h1>
<p class="entry-meta">MAY 2, 2023…</p>
<div class=""><ul class="rrssb-buttons en_US clearfix rrssb-1">
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="wrap"><p></p>
</div>
<br />
<div class="site-inner"><div class="content-sidebar-wrap">
<h1 class="entry-title">Here’s why Fox News fired Tucker Carlson?…</h1>
<p class="entry-meta">MAY 2, 2023</p>
<div class=""><ul class="rrssb-buttons en_US clearfix rrssb-1">
<li class="rrssb-email"><a href="mailto:?subject=Share:%20Here%E2%80%99s%20why%20Fox%20News%20fired%20Tucker%20Carlson%3F%E2%80%A6%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Horn%20News&body=Here%E2%80%99s%20why%20Fox%20News%20fired%20Tucker%20Carlson%3F%E2%80%A6%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Horn%20News%20%E2%80%93%20by%20Frank%20Holmes%2C%20reporter%20One%20week%20after%20Fox%20News%20cut%20ties%20with%20top-rated%20talk%20show%20host%20Tucker%20Carlson%2C%20the%20real%20reasons%20for%20the%20conservative%E2%80%99s%20silencing%20may%20be%20coming%20to%20light...%20along%20with%20its%20plot%20to%20destroy%20Carlson%20in%20the%20next%20few%20months.%20Carlson%E2%80%99s%20strong%20audience%2C%20which%20numbered%20more%20than%20three%20million%20viewers%20each%20night%2C%20felt%20gut-punched%20when%20FNC%20announced%20it%20had%20cut%20loose%20its%20most%20successful%20host%20without%20even%20a...%0D%0A%0D%0AShared%20from%20https%3A%2F%2Fthehornnews.com%2Fheres-why-fox-news-fired-tucker-carlson%2F%0D%0A"></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<div class="entry-content"><p><strong>by Frank Holmes, reporter</strong></p>
<p>One week after Fox News cut ties with top-rated talk show host Tucker Carlson, the real reasons for the conservative’s silencing may be coming to light… along with its plot to<span> </span><em>destroy</em><span> </span>Carlson in the next few months.</p>
<p>Carlson’s strong audience, which numbered more than three million viewers each night, felt gut-punched when FNC announced it had cut loose its most successful host without even a chance to say goodbye on the air.</p>
<p>They’re even more confused by reports that Fox News is still paying Tucker Carlson, whose reported $20 million annual<span> </span><a href="https://uproxx.com/viral/tucker-carlson-fox-news-contract-2024/#:~:text=According%20to%20Breitbart%2C%20Carlson's%20current,recent%20thoughts%20on%20Carlson's%20firing.">contract runs through December 2024.</a></p>
<p></p>
<p>Why pay Carlson $20 million a year and get nothing in return?</p>
<p>Fox News hosts want to silence the uncontrollable Carlson through the 2024 election—and smear him between now and then, so no one else will watch him, experts say.</p>
<p>Joe Rogan told his vast podcast audience that if he wanted to censor Carlson, “I would make sure that we have him locked up for the entire term of some contract, some ‘no compete’ (clause), and pay him off.”</p>
<p>That kind of stipulation costs Fox more money—but it also forces Carlson to bite his tongue through the GOP primaries, as Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis go head-to-head against establishment Republicans like Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and Nikki Haley.</p>
<p>“What they’re trying to do is take his platform away at least through 2024,” said Donald Trump’s White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon in his own “War Room” program last week. “They’ve taken it off through the 2024 election, which is, I’ve said from day one is what the Murdochs’ plan here is.”</p>
<p>There’s no doubt that Carlson “was primed as Fox News’ most important anchor to play a huge role” in the 2024 primaries,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhR95A0mfaU"><span> </span>said Robby Soave of<span> </span><em>The Hill</em>.</a><span> </span>“There are people in Trump World who are not happy” about his ouster.</p>
<p></p>
<p>If Carlson’s still under contract, that prevents him from going to Newsmax, One News Now, or any other network—or launching his own network.</p>
<p>“You’d be better off just giving him the same amount of money he made when he was on the air than you would have with him opposing you,” Rogan told listeners of his podcast,<span> </span><em>The Joe Rogan Experience</em>.</p>
<p>Bannon agreed that “you’re gonna see a huge fight with (Fox) trying to keep Tucker Carlson from starting his own network, from going to either the Newsmax or Real America’s Voice, starting his own podcast,” Bannon said. “Whatever it is to get his message out, they will fight tooth and nail to stop that.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/fcking-fox-news-theyre-smart-joe-rogan-says-network-has-tucker-carlson-in-a-headlock/">“He’s really designed for the internet,”</a><span> </span>said Rogan, the podcast king. Fox News is “not stupid,” Rogan said.</p>
<div id="rc-widget-4da248"><div id="rc_cont_118418" class="sc-jrsJWt bHAMtT rc-wc rc-uid-118418 rc-g-d layout_1"><div class="sc-jSFjdj jcTaHb rc-widget-header"><div class="sc-iCoGMd kfhKWP rc-brand-wrapper"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>But why did the Murdochs decide Carlson has to go? A few details have come to light.</p>
<p>It’s no secret Carlson clashed with other hosts, on and off the air.</p>
<p>Footage has emerged of Carlson dissing the Fox Nation website, which he said could not attract any viewers because of the network’s refusal to make it user-friendly.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Forcing him to produce long documentaries without letting people see them was a waste of time and disrespectful to his viewers, he said.</p>
<div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
<p></p>
<p>Second, as long ago as 2020, he clashed with more orthodox Republican hosts like<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/endwokeness/status/1652516427671261184">Sean Hannity, who slapped down Tucker</a><span> </span>on the air after Carlson did a segment on Jeff Bezos profiting off the pandemic lockdowns.</p>
<div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
<p></p>
<p>Then there’s Tucker’s religion.<span> </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12016473/Rupert-Murdoch-fired-Tucker-Carlson-watching-speech-good-evil-prayer.html">Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch didn’t like Tucker Carlson’s speech last Friday night when he said the Left isn’t just politically wrong but destructive and evil—and asked Americans to pray for their country.</a></p>
<p>There’s an explosive revelation that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was not a fan of Carlson’s — so much so that Zelenskyy held several phone calls with Fox brass.</p>
<p><a href="https://pro.paradigmpresspub.org/m/2114095"><span><strong>Biden to Replace US Dollar?</strong></span></a><span> </span><em>[sponsored]</em></p>
<p>Zelenskyy called Executive Chair Rupert Murdoch just weeks before Carlson’s dismissal.</p>
<p>That call came just weeks<span> </span><em>after</em><span> </span>Ukraine’s president called Murdoch’s son, Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch, on March 15. Zelenskyy mentioned the call with the younger Murdoch on Ukrainian state TV,<a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/04/30/2023/the-murdochs-ukraine-connection"><span> </span>Semafor reported.</a></p>
<p>“What the Murdochs have done is taken the populist voice, the anti-Ukraine voice, the anti-Uniparty voice,” out of his “platform in mainstream media and prime time — the only voice out there of populist nationalism,” Bannon said.</p>
<p>Whatever their reason, the decision has been disastrous for the network.<span> </span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2023/04/28/fox-news-ratings-at-8pm-drop-50-after-tucker-carlsons-firing/">Fox News’ ratings fell 56% last Monday,</a><span> </span>when substitute host Brian Kilmeade manned the desk. Fox News actually lost to MSNBC’s doughy host Chris Hayes.</p>
<p>Rival Newsmax TV gained 418,000 primetime viewers, likely including many Fox News refugees.</p>
<p>To stop the bleeding,<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1653138958090477568">“Fox News is trying to destroy Tucker</a>,” said former Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Monday. Fox News is leaking unflattering clips of Carlson and behind-the-scenes snippets saying he was sexist and hard to work for, Kelly said.</p>
<p></p>
<p>She blasted their “truly disgusting behavior, most likely by their chief PR hack Irena Briganti,” which Kelly said had been authorized by Fox News’ “bosses.”</p>
<div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
<p></p>
<p>Carlson has kept mum about the reason for the break with Fox News and his future plans. But he broke the silence with an online video posted on Twitter—which gained more viewers than Fox News won in his old time slot without him.</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/tuckercarlson/status/1651376097349578753">“See you soon,”</a><span> </span>he promised.</p>
<div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered"></div>
<p></p>
<p>Whatever reason Fox News canned Tucker Carlson, he’s not going away quietly.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><em>Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”</em></p>
</div>
<br />
</div>
</div>MAKE AMERICA FREE AGAIN AWAKEN AMERICAtag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-05-03:5235400:BlogPost:1464052023-05-03T00:00:00.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<p></p>
<p>MAGA NO MO SLEEPY JOE </p>
<p><img src="https://connect-ucs.xfinity.com/proxy?source=https%3A%2F%2Fd10644yag84rt6.cloudfront.net%2FDJT%2FDJT_040623_DarkCloudGif.gif"></img></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><img src="https://connect-ucs.xfinity.com/proxy?source=https%3A%2F%2Fcf.daily.thepostmillennial.com%2FimagesTHEPM%2F14736%2Fdjt2024-logo.png"></img></p>
<p>TRUMP LOVES AMERICA …</p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><img alt="Now is the time to CHIP IN and help me SAVE AMERICA >" src="https://connect-ucs.xfinity.com/proxy?source=https%3A%2F%2Fcf.daily.thepostmillennial.com%2FimagesTHEPM%2F14736%2F1000px.png"></img></p>
<p></p>
<p>MAGA NO MO SLEEPY JOE </p>
<p><img src="https://connect-ucs.xfinity.com/proxy?source=https%3A%2F%2Fd10644yag84rt6.cloudfront.net%2FDJT%2FDJT_040623_DarkCloudGif.gif"/></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><img src="https://connect-ucs.xfinity.com/proxy?source=https%3A%2F%2Fcf.daily.thepostmillennial.com%2FimagesTHEPM%2F14736%2Fdjt2024-logo.png"/></p>
<p>TRUMP LOVES AMERICA </p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><img src="https://connect-ucs.xfinity.com/proxy?source=https%3A%2F%2Fcf.daily.thepostmillennial.com%2FimagesTHEPM%2F14736%2F1000px.png" alt="Now is the time to CHIP IN and help me SAVE AMERICA >"/></p>FROM MERCOLA Doctors Were Bribed for COVID Vaccination Coerciontag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-04-27:5235400:BlogPost:1461392023-04-27T21:00:00.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Doctors Were Bribed for COVID Vaccination Coercion</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span class="fact-check" id="bcr_factCheck"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked</span> <br></br> <br></br>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">April 27, 2023…</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Doctors Were Bribed for COVID Vaccination Coercion</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span id="bcr_factCheck" class="fact-check"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked</span> <br/> <br/>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">April 27, 2023</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br/> <br/>
<div id="divPreviousbutton"><div class="previous-article"></div>
</div>
<br/>
<p></p>
</div>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div id="bcr_divStoryImage" class="story-image"><img id="bcr_imgStory" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/April/Nonlead/doctors-bribed-covid-vaccination-coercion.jpg" alt="doctors bribed covid vaccination coercion" name="bcr_imgStory"/></div>
<div class="story-highlights"><h3 id="expanderHead">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</h3>
<div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">In late March 2020, the U.S. Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Within this $2 trillion stimulus package, $100 billion was earmarked for hospitals and local health centers that treated COVID patients</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">Hospitals were reimbursed an extra 20% for each Medicare patient hospitalized with COVID, and the only criteria to receive that bonus was a COVID-positive PCR test</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">The federal COVID-19 Treatments Add-On Payment program also paid hospitals bonuses for every COVID-19 patient treated with emergency-authorized COVID medications (Remdesivir, convalescent plasma, Baricitinib, Molnupiravir and Nirmatrelvir)</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">Hospitals also received a 300% upcharge for COVID patients placed on ventilators, even after it became apparent that this was a death sentence. Somewhere between 50% and 86% of all ventilated COVID patients died, yet government never dropped the incentive to use ventilators. Why?</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">Throughout 2020, evidence mounted showing the PCR test is incredibly unreliable above 35 cycles, and health agencies instructed labs to use 40 to 45 cycles. In essence, we had an epidemic of false positives, and financial incentives then drove hospitals to mistreat and kill countless patients, many of whom may not even have had COVID</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>As detailed in “<a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/how-covid-patients-died-for-profit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How COVID Patients Died for Profit</a>,” hospitals were financially incentivized to diagnose patients with COVID and treat them with protocols known to be lethal, in part to “protect” the staff from infection.</p>
<p>As if that weren’t bad enough, primary care providers across the U.S. were also bribed to coerce patients into getting the toxic COVID shot. The following document was posted to Twitter in mid-April 2023 by Rep. Thomas Massie, an award-winning scientist and Republican Congressman for Kentucky.<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Ethically, shouldn’t doctors disclose when they’re profiting by recommending a drug or treatment — especially a drug or treatment for which there is no medical malpractice liability?”</em><span> </span>Massie said.<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="center-img"><img alt="covid vaccine provider incentive program" class=" mlazyloaded" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2023/April/covid-vaccine-provider-incentive-program-prev.jpg"/></div>
<div class="center-img"></div>
<div class="center-img">SEE BELOW CLICK DOES NOT WORK </div>
<h2>Doctors Were Incentivized to Jab Babies Too</h2>
<p>Once the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the COVID shot for children, similar vaccination incentives were extended to them as well. As detailed in an Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid provider bulletin<sup><span id="edn3">3</span></sup><span> </span>dated July 2022, doctors received $50 for each Medicaid patient aged 6 months and older, who got the experimental shot.</p>
<div class="center-img"><img alt="covid vaccine provider incentive program ages 6 months" class=" mlazyloaded" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2023/April/covid-vaccine-provider-incentive-program-ages-6-months-prev.jpg"/></div>
<div class="center-img"></div>
<div class="center-img">SEE BELOW FOR DATA CLICK DOES NOT WORK</div>
<h2>Hospitals Received at Least $100 Billion From Taxpayers</h2>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>In late March 2020, the U.S. Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.<sup><span id="edn4">4</span></sup><span> </span>Within this $2 trillion stimulus package, $100 billion was earmarked for hospitals and local health centers that treated COVID patients.<sup><span id="edn5">5</span></sup></p>
<p>And, rather than simply agreeing to pay COVID patients’ bills, the government decided to pay hospitals extra — a lot extra — over and above the standard bill, provided they treated patients in a certain way. By the end of October 2020, $96 billion had already been disbursed.<sup><span id="edn6">6</span></sup></p>
<p>Ostensibly, the additional bonuses for COVID patients were supposed to help hospitals recoup revenue that was lost due to the cancelation of elective procedures. But hospitals were supposedly filled to the brim with COVID patients, so just how much revenue was lost?</p>
<p>The bonuses were also supposed to cover additional costs associated with caring for COVID patients, such as additional personal protective equipment (PPE) and sanitation, but that could have just as easily been covered as an extra line item, rather than a flat double-digit percentage over and above the actual cost of the treatment.</p>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/April/PDF/doctors-bribed-covid-vaccination-coercion-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>COVID-Positive Medicare Patients Worth 20% More</h2>
<p>As reported by KGNS.TV, a local Nebraska news station, in late March 2022:<sup><span id="edn7">7</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“According to the state, since COVID hit Webb County in March of 2020, about 85,000 people have contracted the virus, with roughly half of them serious enough to be admitted into the hospital. Almost immediately, the federal government stepped in to help pay for their care with millions of dollars.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>KGNS took a deeper look into this to answer the question, ‘Is there a difference in how much hospitals get paid back by the government when caring for a positive COVID patient versus a non-COVID patient?’ The answer to that is ‘yes.’ People on government programs, such as Medicare, are worth more.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>According to section 3710 of the Cares Act, hospitals are reimbursed by the government an extra 20% for each hospitalized Medicare patient. The only criteria for that extra money? A positive COVID test.<sup><span id="edn8">8</span>,<span id="edn9">9</span>,<span id="edn10">10</span></sup></em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>For instance, hospital Medicare patient with pneumonia — without COVID — is worth about $7,700 to the hospital. But with COVID, that reimbursement jumps to over $9,200.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>A Medicare patient with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome requiring a ventilator? Without COVID, the bill is around $34,000. But with COVID, that Medicare patient now worth almost $40,000. And the list goes on.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>On top of those incentives, the federal COVID-19 Treatments Add-On Payment program also paid hospitals bonuses for every COVID-19 patient treated with emergency authorized COVID medications (Remdesivir, convalescent plasma, Baricitinib, Molnupiravir and Nirmatrelvir) and mechanical ventilation.<sup><span id="edn11">11</span></sup></p>
<p>It doesn’t seem like decisionmakers considered the possibility that incentivizing hospitals to diagnose patients as having COVID might impact patient care, outcomes and/or COVID statistics, but it most certainly did. To presume hospitals would think twice about treating patients with a particular drug or put them on a ventilator when they get reimbursed top dollar for it is naïve in the extreme. Especially when all they needed was a positive PCR test to justify it.</p>
<p>Throughout 2020, evidence mounted showing the<span> </span><a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/covid-pcr-tests-dont-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PCR test is incredibly unreliable</a><span> </span>above 35 cycles, and health agencies instructed labs to use 40 to 45 cycles. In essence, we had an epidemic of false positives, and financial incentives then drove hospitals to mistreat and kill countless patients, many of whom may not even have had COVID.</p>
<p>Former CDC director Robert Redfield and Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, have both stated they believe financial incentives drove up the COVID-19 death rate in the U.S.<sup><span id="edn12">12</span></sup></p>
<div class="productad"></div>
<h2>Vented COVID Patients Earned Hospitals 300% Upcharge</h2>
<p>I strongly suspect the reason why so many COVID patients died was because they were forced onto mechanical ventilation, and the reason for that was because hospitals received a 300% bonus for patients requiring ventilation! That’s no minor incentive. As reported by USA Today back in April 2020:<sup><span id="edn13">13</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Sen. Scott Jensen, R-Minn., a physician in Minnesota, was interviewed by ‘The Ingraham Angle’ host Laura Ingraham on April 8 on Fox News and claimed hospitals get paid more if Medicare patients are listed as having COVID-19 and get three times as much money if they need a ventilator ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Jensen took it to his own Facebook page April 15, saying, in part ‘How can anyone not believe that increasing the number of COVID-19 deaths may create an avenue for states to receive a larger portion of federal dollars? Already some states are complaining that they are not getting enough of the CARES Act dollars because they are having significantly more proportional COVID-19 deaths.’</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>On April 19, he doubled down on his assertion via video on his Facebook page. Jensen said, ‘Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a death certificate. Why?</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Because if it's a straightforward, garden-variety pneumonia that a person is admitted to the hospital for — if they're Medicare — typically, the diagnosis-related group lump sum payment would be $5,000. But if it's COVID-19 pneumonia, then it's $13,000, and if that COVID-19 pneumonia patient ends up on a ventilator, it goes up to $39,000.’</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Jensen clarified ... that he doesn't think physicians are ‘gaming the system’ so much as other ‘players,’ such as hospital administrators, who he said may pressure physicians to cite all diagnoses, including ‘probable’ COVID-19, on discharge papers or death certificates to get the higher Medicare allocation allowed under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>USA TODAY reached out to Marty Makary, a surgeon and professor of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, about the claim. Makary said in an email April 21 that ‘what Scott Jensen said sounds right to me.’"</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Why Did Government Continue Paying for Deadly Protocol?</h2>
<p>Why wasn’t the 300% bonus payment eliminated once it became apparent that putting COVID patients on ventilators was a death sentence? As early as April 9, 2020, Business Insider reported<sup><span id="edn14">14</span></sup><span> </span>that 80% of COVID-19 patients in New York City who were placed on ventilators died, which caused a number of doctors to question their use.</p>
<br/>
<p>Somewhere between 50% and 86% of all ventilated COVID patients died, yet government never dropped the financial incentive to use ventilators. Why?</p>
<br/>
<p>The Associated Press<sup><span id="edn15">15</span></sup><span> </span>also publicized similar reports from China and the U.K. A U.K. report put the figure at 66%, while a small study from Wuhan, China, put the ratio of deaths at 86%. Data presented by attorney Thomas Renz in 2021 showed that in Texas hospitals, 84.9% of patients died after more than 96 hours on a ventilator.<sup><span id="edn16">16</span></sup></p>
<p>The lowest figure I’ve seen is 50%.<sup><span id="edn17">17</span></sup><span> </span>So, somewhere between 50% and 86% of all ventilated COVID patients died, yet government never dropped the financial incentive to use ventilators. Why?</p>
<h2>Incentives Put Nursing Home Patients at Risk Too</h2>
<p>Nursing homes in some states also received incentive payments if they accepted hospital discharges. For example, in Wisconsin, the Department of Health Services (DHS) paid out $2,900 for every admission a nursing home received directly from a hospital.<sup><span id="edn18">18</span></sup></p>
<p>This, even though by then, it was well-known that more than 80% of deaths occurred in nursing homes, assisted living facilities and live-in rehab centers. More than 90% of residents of these centers have at least one chronic disease and more than 70% have two conditions, which in turn can weaken their immune systems.<sup><span id="edn19">19</span></sup></p>
<p>They also live in close quarters and share staff, which facilitates the spread of pathogens. But rather than protecting the elderly by NOT admitting potentially infected patients, the DHS paid these facilities to take them in.</p>
<h2>Incompetence or Malice?</h2>
<p>In the final analysis, it’s quite clear that the COVID pandemic was grossly mishandled. Either U.S. health agencies and political decisionmakers were inept and unqualified for the job at hand, or they acted with malice, and the outcomes of their financial incentivization of bad medicine were intended ones.</p>
<p>Either way, their strategies were ill-conceived and resulted in needless death and suffering. Adding insult to injury, billions of taxpayer dollars were used to pay for it all. Financially incentivizing doctors and pediatricians to inject an experimental gene therapy into babies is, in my view, completely unconscionable, and should never have happened, but the same can be said for the continued use of ventilators.</p>
<p>It seems medicine during the COVID pandemic became all about maximizing profits, without regard for health outcomes, and that is something that our health agencies must be held to account for.</p>
</div>FROM MERCOLA NPR Labeled as State-Affiliated Mediatag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-04-20:5235400:BlogPost:1460182023-04-20T12:50:18.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="article-title">
<h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">NPR Labeled as State-Affiliated Media</span></h1>
<br />
<br />
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span class="fact-check" id="bcr_factCheck"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked</span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">April 19,…</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="article-title">
<br />
<h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">NPR Labeled as State-Affiliated Media</span></h1>
<br />
<br />
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span id="bcr_factCheck" class="fact-check"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked</span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">April 19, 2023</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton"><div class="previous-article"><br/></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="video-container"></div>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div id="bcr_divStoryImage" class="story-image"><img id="bcr_imgStory" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/April/Nonlead/npr-state-affiliated-media.jpg" alt="npr state affiliated media" name="bcr_imgStory"/></div>
<div class="story-highlights"><h3 id="expanderHead">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</h3>
<div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">Twitter had labeled NPR “state-affiliated media,” categorizing it similarly to Russia’s state-run RT and China’s Xinhua News Agency</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">Backlash ensued, prompting Twitter to downgrade the label to the slightly less jarring “government-funded media,” alongside BBC, PBS and Voice of America</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">Multiple NPR executives have a revolving door with the propaganda network in Washington</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">In addition to receiving funding from the U.S. government, NPR receives significant funding from Bill Gates and other oligarchs</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">NPR also appears to have a vendetta against yours truly and other vaccine safety advocates, and regularly favors propaganda over ethics and journalistic standards in its reporting</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>When you think about state-affiliated media, propaganda-driven outlets in Russia and China may come to mind — not familiar news outlets right here in the U.S. However, if you view National Public Radio (NPR) on Twitter, you’ll see it’s now labeled “government-funded media.”<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup></p>
<p>Initially, Twitter had labeled NPR “state-affiliated media,” categorizing it similarly to Russia’s state-run RT and China’s Xinhua News Agency.<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup><span> </span>However, backlash ensued, prompting Twitter to downgrade the label to the slightly less jarring “government-funded media,” alongside BBC, PBS and Voice of America.<sup><span id="edn3">3</span></sup></p>
<h2>Why NPR Was Labeled State-Affiliated</h2>
<p>Upon the initial state-affiliated label, Twitter executive Elon Musk tweeted, “Seems accurate,”<sup><span id="edn4">4</span></sup><span> </span>along with Twitter’s definition for state-affiliated media accounts:<sup><span id="edn5">5</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution. Accounts belonging to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in-chief, and/or their prominent staff may be labeled. We will also add labels to Tweets that share links to state-affiliated media websites.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>NPR quickly took issue with the label, with John Lansing, NPR’s president, tweeting April 5, 2023:<sup><span id="edn6">6</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“NPR stands for freedom of speech & holding the powerful accountable. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy …<span> </span></em><em>We are disturbed to see last night that Twitter has labeled NPR as ‘state-affiliated media,’ a description that, per Twitter’s own guidelines, does not apply to NPR …”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>Bill Chappell, NPR reporter and producer, also responded, stating, “NPR operates independently of the U.S. government. And while federal money is important to the overall public media system, NPR gets less than 1% of its annual budget, on average, from federal sources.”<sup><span id="edn7">7</span></sup><span> </span>After NPR correspondent Bobby Allyn informed Musk of this, Musk responded, “we should fix it.”<sup><span id="edn8">8</span></sup><span> </span>By April 9, NPR’s “state-affiliated” label had been quietly changed to “government-funded.”<sup><span id="edn9">9</span></sup></p>
<h2>‘NPR Absolutely Is US State Propaganda’</h2>
<p>Not everyone disagreed with Twitter’s state-affiliated assessment for NPR, however. Writing for the Ron Paul Institute, Caitlin Johnstone pointed out that Lansing formerly served as the CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM).<sup><span id="edn10">10</span></sup></p>
<p>“USAGM is the U.S. government narrative management umbrella which runs overt US state propaganda outlets like Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Voice of America,” she noted, referencing a 1977 article from The New York Times,<sup><span id="edn11">11</span></sup><span> </span>which describes a worldwide propaganda network built by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).</p>
<p>The CIA used the radio outlets to broadcast its messages around the world. And to this day, USAGM receives hundreds of millions in funding from the U.S. government. According to Johnstone:<sup><span id="edn12">12</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The New York Times explicitly names Radio Liberty, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Free Asia as part of the network constructed by the Central Intelligence Agency to circulate propaganda. As Fair.org's Bryce Greene recently noted, USAGM received $810 million in US federal funding in 2022, which is more than twice the amount RT received from Russia for its global operations in 2021.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Further, Lansing is just one propagandist at NPR’s helm. Johnstone continues:<sup><span id="edn13">13</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Lansing's history is not an anomaly; NPR is regularly overseen by executives who came directly from senior positions in Washington's official propaganda network. From 1998 to 2008 NPR's president was a man named Kevin Klose, who previously ran Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and then returned to that job after his decade-long NPR stint.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>A man named Ken Stern became NPR's executive vice president in 1999 and was appointed CEO in 2006; prior to that he was the senior advisor to the director of the USAGM's International Broadcasting Bureau.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So it is a bit funny that John Lansing is now cited complaining about NPR being labeled "state-affiliated media" on Twitter, given that he has devoted his life to promulgating US state-affiliated media. NPR receives funding from the US government, consistently advances the information interests of the US government, and is routinely run by professional propagandists of the US government.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>It's interesting, too, that while NPR downplayed the funding it receives from the U.S. government in arguing against its state-affiliated label, it has previously stated that federal funding is essential to NPR:<sup><span id="edn14">14</span>,<span id="edn15">15</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Federal funding is<span> </span><strong>essential</strong><span> </span>to public radio's service to the American public and its continuation is critical for both stations and program producers, including NPR.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Public radio stations receive annual grants directly from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that make up an important part of a diverse revenue mix that includes listener support, corporate sponsorship and grants. Stations, in turn, draw on this mix of public and privately sourced revenue to pay NPR and other public radio producers for their programming.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>These<span> </span><strong>station programming fees comprise a significant portion of NPR's largest source of revenue</strong>. The loss of federal funding would undermine the stations' ability to pay NPR for programming, thereby weakening the institution.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Elimination of federal funding would result in fewer programs, less journalism —<span> </span><strong>especially local journalism</strong><span> </span>— and eventually the loss of public radio stations, particularly in rural and economically distressed communities.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="productad"></div>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/April/PDF/npr-state-affiliated-media-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>NPR Also Receives Funding From Oligarchs</h2>
<p>Aside from its federal ties, NPR also receives considerable funding from Bill Gates and other oligarchs. “When you live in an oligarchy like the U.S., receiving funding from oligarchs is not meaningfully distinct from receiving funding from the state,” Johnstone points out.<sup><span id="edn16">16</span></sup></p>
<p>Via more than 30,000 grants, Gates has contributed at least $319 million to the media, Alan MacLeod, a senior staff writer for MintPress News, revealed:<sup><span id="edn17">17</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Recipients of this cash include many of America’s most important news outlets, including CNN, NBC, NPR, PBS and The Atlantic.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Gates also sponsors a myriad of influential foreign organizations, including the BBC, The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom; prominent European newspapers such as Le Monde (France), Der Spiegel (Germany) and El País (Spain); as well as big global broadcasters like Al-Jazeera.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Examples of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grants include $24,663,066 to NPR. As you might suspect, Gates’ donations come with strings attached, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that NPR doesn’t stray far from the official narrative on any given topic. Gates’ donations to NPR were intended to target coverage of global health and education:<sup><span id="edn18">18</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“When Gates gives money to newsrooms, it restricts how the money is used — often for topics, like global health and education, on which the foundation works — which can help elevate its agenda in the news media.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>… Since 2000, the Gates Foundation has given NPR $17.5 million [now up to $24.6 million<sup><span id="edn19">19</span></sup>] through 10 charitable grants — all of them earmarked for coverage of global health and education, specific issues on which Gates works …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Even when NPR publishes critical reporting on Gates, it can feel scripted. In February 2018, NPR ran a story headlined ‘Bill Gates Addresses ‘Tough Questions’ on Poverty and Power.’ The ‘tough questions’ NPR posed in this Q&A were mostly based on a list curated by Gates himself, which he previously answered in a letter posted to his foundation’s website.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>NPR Favors Propaganda Over Ethics</h2>
<p>NPR also appears to have a vendetta against yours truly and other vaccine safety advocates. In May 2021, we received an email from Geoff Brumfiel, a senior editor and correspondent with NPR.</p>
<p>According to NPR, “his reporting focuses on the intersection of science and national security,”<sup><span id="edn20">20</span></sup><span> </span>but as soon as I read the subject line of the email — “The business of anti-vaccine propaganda” [sp] — it was clear that the line of questioning that would follow was not journalism but rather a PR piece for the pharmaceutical industry.</p>
<p>Indeed, Brumfiel’s email did not disappoint, nor did his resulting article, “For Some Anti-Vaccine Advocates, Misinformation Is Part Of A Business.”<sup><span id="edn21">21</span></sup><span> </span>True to form for NPR, the article presents a slanted view of vaccine safety advocates designed to disparage and discredit those who spoke out against COVID propaganda.</p>
<p>Conveniently, Brumfiel included only one short segment from our emailed response to his questions, but neglected to mention NPR’s tight connections with the Gates Foundation — and the hundreds of articles NPR has released that are highly favorable toward the Gates Foundation and the work it funds.<sup><span id="edn22">22</span></sup></p>
<p>Then, in a September 24, 2021, broadcast,<span> </span><a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/npr-embarrasses-itself-misinformation-lies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR reporter Robin Young</a><span> </span>referred to me as “the biggest disseminator of lies about COVID” — a false statement originating with a dark money-funded organization called Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). Young then went on to claim that I started America's Frontline Doctors, an independent organization that, in reality, I am not a member of and have no affiliation with.</p>
<p>The hit pieces further exemplify NPR’s habit of putting propaganda ahead of ethics and even basic journalism. Facebook's vice president of content policy, Monika Bickert, issued a statement August 18, 2021, saying there is no evidence to support CCDH's claims, and that the people named by the CCDH as being responsible for the vast majority of vaccine misinformation on social media were in fact only responsible for a tiny fraction — 0.05% — of all vaccine content on Facebook.<sup><span id="edn23">23</span></sup></p>
<p>If she'd actually done her research, Young would have discovered that the key tenet of her broadcast was false. Instead, the piece shows that NPR’s guidelines in its Ethics Handbook — that its journalists must "Be able to identify the source of each fact" and are supposed to "explain why that person or organization is credible and authoritative" — are, in fact, just fluff.<sup><span id="edn24">24</span></sup></p>
<h2>Controlling the Narrative Means Controlling Reality</h2>
<p>It’s important to be knowledgeable about the alliances your media outlets have made, and where their allegiance lies, in order to see the truth. As it stands, your perception of reality is being altered by mainstream media outlets and Big Tech, which are churning out propaganda pieces and using censorship to control what you can and can’t see.</p>
<p>Remember the saying, “The pen is mightier than the sword”? This old adage is coming true, as whoever controls the media — and the narrative behind it — gains domination over the world. As Johnstone put it:<sup><span id="edn25">25</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“All this bickering and squabbling about whose voice should be uplifted as trustworthy and whose voice should be squelched as untrustworthy is just a manifestation of the fact that powerful people understand something most ordinary members of the public do not: that whoever controls the narrative controls the world. If you can exert control over the way people perceive reality, then you can control reality itself.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Until the public becomes more aware of this fact, our lives will be subject to the whims of oligarchs, government agencies, and mass media propagandists. Not until then will we be able to awaken from our propaganda-induced coma enough to shake off the psychological manipulations which keep us marching to the tune of oligarchy and empire, and use the power of our numbers to force the emergence of a healthy world that benefits us all.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
</div>Who Owns the World? FROM MERCOLA MONOPOLY THE WHO????tag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-04-11:5235400:BlogPost:1454422023-04-11T15:17:31.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Who Owns the World?</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span class="fact-check" id="bcr_factCheck"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked</span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div><a href="https://rumble.com/vmyx1n-monopoly-who-owns-the-world-documentary-by-tim-gielen.html">MONOPOLY - Who owns…</a></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Who Owns the World?</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span id="bcr_factCheck" class="fact-check"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked</span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div><a href="https://rumble.com/vmyx1n-monopoly-who-owns-the-world-documentary-by-tim-gielen.html">MONOPOLY - Who owns the world? Documentary by Tim Gielen (rumble.com)</a></div>
<div><a href="https://rumble.com/vmyx1n-monopoly-who-owns-the-world-documentary-by-tim-gielen.html">MONOPOLY - Who owns the world? Documentary by Tim Gielen (rumble.com)</a></div>
<div><a href="https://rumble.com/vmyx1n-monopoly-who-owns-the-world-documentary-by-tim-gielen.html">MONOPOLY - Who owns the world? Documentary by Tim Gielen (rumble.com)</a></div>
<div><a href="https://rumble.com/vmyx1n-monopoly-who-owns-the-world-documentary-by-tim-gielen.html">MONOPOLY - Who owns the world? Documentary by Tim Gielen (rumble.com)</a></div>
<div><a href="https://rumble.com/vmyx1n-monopoly-who-owns-the-world-documentary-by-tim-gielen.html">MONOPOLY - Who owns the world? Documentary by Tim Gielen (rumble.com)</a></div>
<div><a href="https://rumble.com/vmyx1n-monopoly-who-owns-the-world-documentary-by-tim-gielen.html">MONOPOLY - Who owns the world? Documentary by Tim Gielen (rumble.com)</a></div>
<div><a href="https://rumble.com/vmyx1n-monopoly-who-owns-the-world-documentary-by-tim-gielen.html">MONOPOLY - Who owns the world? Documentary by Tim Gielen (rumble.com)</a></div>
<div><a href="https://rumble.com/vmyx1n-monopoly-who-owns-the-world-documentary-by-tim-gielen.html">MONOPOLY - Who owns the world? Documentary by Tim Gielen (rumble.com)</a></div>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">April 11, 2023</span><a id="bcr_btnPrev" name="Previous button"></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton"><div class="previous-article"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</span></div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">A handful of mega corporations — private investment companies — dominate every aspect of our lives; everything we eat, drink, wear or use in one way or another. These investment firms are so enormous, they control the money flow worldwide</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">While there appear to be hundreds of competing brands on the market, like Russian nesting dolls, larger parent companies own multiple smaller brands. In reality, all packaged food brands, for example, are owned by a dozen or so larger parent companies</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">These parent companies, in turn, are owned by shareholders, and the largest shareholders are the same in all of them: Vanguard and Blackrock</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">No matter what industry you look at, the top shareholders, and therefore decision makers, are the same: Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street and/or Berkshire Hathaway. In virtually every major company, you find these names among the top 10 institutional investors</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">These major investment firms are in turn owned by their own set of shareholders. One of the most amazing things about this scheme is that the institutional investors also own each other. They’re all shareholders in each other’s companies. At the very top are Vanguard and Blackrock. Blackrock’s largest shareholder is Vanguard, which does not disclose the identity of its shareholders due to its unique structure</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p><strong><em>Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published October 29, 2021.</em></strong></p>
<p>Until recently, it appeared economic competition had been driving the rise and fall of small and large companies across the U.S. Supposedly, PepsiCo is Coca Cola’s competitor, Apple and Android vie for your loyalty and drug companies battle for your health care dollars. However, all of that turns out to be an illusion.</p>
<p>Since the mid-1970s, two corporations — Vanguard and Blackrock — have gobbled up most companies in the world, effectively destroying the competitive market on which America’s strength has rested, leaving only false appearances behind.</p>
<p>Indeed, the global economy may be the greatest illusionary trick ever pulled over the eyes of people around the world. To understand what’s really going on, watch Tim Gielen’s hour-long documentary, “MONOPOLY: Who Owns the World?” above.</p>
<h2>Corporate Domination</h2>
<p>As noted by Gielen, who narrates the film, a handful of mega corporations — private investment companies — dominate every aspect of our lives; everything we eat, drink, wear or use in one way or another. These investment firms are so enormous, they control the money flow worldwide. So, how does this scheme work?</p>
<p>While there appear to be hundreds of competing brands on the market, like Russian nesting dolls, larger parent companies own multiple smaller brands. In reality, all packaged food brands, for example, are owned by a dozen or so larger parent companies.</p>
<p>Pepsi Co. owns a long list of food, beverage and snack brands, as does Coca-Cola, Nestle, General Mills, Kellogg’s, Unilever, Mars, Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, Danone and Associated British Foods. Together, these parent companies monopolize the packaged food industry, as virtually every food brand available belongs to one of them.</p>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>These companies are publicly traded and are run by boards, where the largest shareholders have power over the decision making. This is where it gets interesting, because when you look up who the largest shareholders are, you find yet another monopoly.</p>
<p>While the topmost shareholders can change from time to time, based on shares bought and sold, two companies are consistently listed among the top institutional holders of these parent companies: The Vanguard Group Inc. and Blackrock Inc.</p>
<h2>Pepsi and Coca-Cola — An Example</h2>
<p>For example, while there are more than 3,000 shareholders in Pepsi Co., Vanguard and Blackrock’s holdings account for nearly one-third of all shares. Of the top 10 shareholders in Pepsi Co., the top three, Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street Corporation, own more shares than the remaining seven.</p>
<p>Now, let’s look at Coca-Cola Co., Pepsi’s top competitor. Who owns Coke? As with Pepsi, the majority of the company shares are held by institutional investors, which number 3,155 (as of the making of the documentary).</p>
<p>As shown in the film, three of the top four institutional shareholders of Coca-Cola are identical with that of Pepsi: Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street Corporation. The No. 1 shareholder of Coca-Cola is Berkshire Hathaway Inc.</p>
<p>These four — Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street and Berkshire Hathaway — are the four largest investment firms on the planet. “So, Pepsi and Coca-Cola are anything but competitors,” Gielen says. And the same goes for the other packaged food companies. All are owned by the same small group of institutional shareholders.</p>
<div class="productad"></div>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/April/PDF/blackrock-vanguard-own-the-world-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>Big Tech Monopoly</h2>
<p>The monopoly of these investment firms isn’t relegated to the packaged food industry. You find them dominating virtually all other industries as well. Take Big Tech, for example. Among the top 10 largest tech companies we find Apple, Samsung, Alphabet (parent company of Google), Microsoft, Huawei, Dell, IBM and Sony.</p>
<p>Here, we find the same Russian nesting doll setup. For example, Facebook owns Whatsapp and Instagram. Alphabet owns Google and all Google-related businesses, including YouTube and Gmail. It’s also the biggest developer of Android, the main competitor to Apple. Microsoft owns Windows and Xbox. In all, four parent companies produce the software used by virtually all computers, tablets and smartphones in the world. Who, then, owns them? Here’s a sampling:</p>
<ul>
<li>Facebook — More than 80% of Facebook shares are held by institutional investors, and the top institutional holders are the same as those found in the food industry: Vanguard and Blackrock being the top two, as of the end of March 2021. State Street Corporation is the fifth biggest shareholder</li>
<li>Apple — The top four institutional investors are Vanguard, Blackrock, Berkshire Hathaway and State Street Corporation</li>
<li>Microsoft — The top three institutional shareholders are Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street Corporation</li>
</ul>
<p>You can continue going through the list of tech brands — companies that build computers, smart phones, electronics and household appliances — and you’ll repeatedly find Vanguard, Blackrock, Berkshire Hathaway and State Street Corporation among the top shareholders.</p>
<h2>Same Small Group Owns Everything Else Too</h2>
<p>The same ownership trend exists in all other industries. Gielen offers yet another example to prove this statement is not an exaggeration:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Let’s say we want to plan a vacation. On our computer or smart phone, we look for a cheap flight to the sun through websites like Skyscanner and Expedia, both of which are owned by the same group of institutional investors [Vanguard, Blackrock and State Street Corporation].</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>We fly with one of the many airlines [American Airlines, Air France, KLM, United Airlines, Delta and Transavia] of which the majority of the shares are often owned by the same investors ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The airline we fly [on] is in most cases a Boeing or an Airbus. Again, we see the same [institutional shareholders]. We look for a hotel or an apartment through Bookings.com or AirBnB.com. Once we arrive at our destination, we go out to dinner and we write a review on Trip Advisor. The same investors are at the basis of every aspect of our journey.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And their power goes even much further, because even the kerosene that fuels the plane comes from one of their many oil companies and refineries. Just like the steel that the plane is made of comes from one of their many mining companies.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>This small club of investment companies, banks and mutual funds, are also the largest shareholders in the primary industries, where our raw materials come from.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>The same goes for the agricultural industry that the global food industry depends on, and any other major industry. These institutional investors own Bayer, the world’s largest seed producer; they own the largest textile manufacturers and many of the largest clothing companies.</p>
<p>They own the oil refineries, the largest solar panel producers and the automobile, aircraft and arms industries. They own all the major tobacco companies, and all the major drug companies and scientific institutes too. They also own the big department stores and the online marketplaces like eBay, Amazon and AliExpress.</p>
<p>They even own the payment methods we use, from credit card companies to digital payment platforms, as well as insurance companies, banks, construction companies, telephone companies, restaurant chains, personal care brands and cosmetic brands.</p>
<p>No matter what industry you look at, the top shareholders, and therefore decision makers, are the same: Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street and/or Berkshire Hathaway. In virtually every major company, you find these names among the top 10 institutional investors.</p>
<h2>Who Owns the Investment Firms of the World?</h2>
<p>Diving deeper, we find that these major investment firms are in turn owned by their own set of shareholders. One of the most amazing things about this scheme is that the institutional investors — and there are many more than the primary four we’ve focused on here — also own each other. They’re all shareholders in each other’s companies.</p>
<br />
<p>At the top of the pyramid — the largest Russian doll of all — we find Vanguard and Blackrock.</p>
<br />
<p>“Together, they form an immense network that we can compare to a pyramid,” Gielen says. Smaller institutional investors, such as Citibank, ING and T. Rowe Price, are owned by larger investment firms such as Northern Trust, Capital Group, 3G Capital and KKR.</p>
<p>Those investors in turn are owned by even larger investment firms, like Goldman Sachs and Wellington Market, which are owned by larger firms yet, such as Berkshire Hathaway and State Street. At the top of the pyramid — the largest Russian doll of all — we find Vanguard and Blackrock.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“The power of these two companies is something we can barely imagine,”</em><span> </span>Gielen says.<span> </span><em>“Not only are they the largest institutional investors of every major company on earth, they also own the other institutional investors of those companies, giving them a complete monopoly.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Gielen cites data from Bloomberg, showing that by 2028, Vanguard and BlackRock are expected to collectively manage $20 trillion-worth of investments. In the process, they will own almost everything on planet Earth.</p>
<h2>BlackRock — The Fourth Branch of Government</h2>
<p>Bloomberg has also referred to BlackRock as the “fourth branch of government,” due to its close relationship with the central banks. BlackRock actually lends money to the central bank, the federal reserve, and is their principal adviser.</p>
<p>Dozens of BlackRock employees have held senior positions in the White House under the Bush, Obama and Biden administrations. BlackRock also developed the computer system that the central banks use.</p>
<h2>Who Owns BlackRock?</h2>
<p>While Larry Fink is the figurehead of BlackRock, being its founder, chairman and chief executive officer, he’s not the sole decision maker, as BlackRock too is owned by shareholders. Here we find yet another curiosity, as the largest shareholder of BlackRock is Vanguard.</p>
<p>“This is where it gets dark,” Gielen says. Vanguard has a unique structure that blocks us from seeing who the actual shareholders are. “The elite who own Vanguard don’t want anyone to know they are the owners of the most powerful company on earth.” Still, if you dig deep enough, you can find clues as to who these owners are.</p>
<p>The owners of the wealthiest, most powerful company on Earth can be expected to be among the wealthiest individuals on earth. In 2016, Oxfam reported that the combined wealth of the richest 1% in the world was equal to the wealth of the remaining 99%. In 2018, it was reported that the world’s richest people get 82% of all the money earned around the world in 2017.</p>
<p>In reality, we can assume that the owners of Vanguard are among the 0.001% richest people on the planet. According to Forbes, there were 2,075 billionaires in the world as of March 2020. Gielen cites Oxfam data showing that two-thirds of billionaires obtained their fortunes via inheritance, monopoly and/or cronyism.</p>
<p>“This means that Vanguard is in the hands of the richest families on earth,” Gielen says. Among them we find the Rothschilds, the DuPont family, the Rockefellers, the Bush family and the Morgan family, just to name a few.</p>
<p>Many belong to royal bloodlines and are the founders of our central banking system, the United Nations and just about every industry on the planet. Gielen goes even further in his documentary, so I highly recommend watching it in its entirety. I’ve only summarized a small piece of the whole film here.</p>
<h2>A Financial Coup D’etat</h2>
<p>Speaking of the central bankers, I recently interviewed finance guru Catherine Austin Fitts, and she believes it’s the central bankers that are at the heart of the global takeover we’re currently seeing. She also believes they are the ones pressuring private companies to implement the clearly illegal COVID jab mandates. Their control is so great, few companies have the ability to take a stand against them.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“I think [the central bankers] are really depending on the smart grid and creepy technology to help them go to the last steps of financial control, which is what I think they're pushing for,”</em><span> </span>she said.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>“What we've seen is a tremendous effort to bankrupt the population and the governments so that it's much easier for the central bankers to take control. That's what I've been writing about since 1998, that this is a financial coup d'etat.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Now the financial coup d'etat is being consolidated, where the central bankers just serve jurisdiction over the treasury and the tax money. And if they can get the [vaccine] passports in with the CBDC [central bank digital currency], then it will be able to take taxes out of our accounts and take our assets. So, this is a real coup d'etat.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>The Spartacus Letter</h2>
<p>Again, I urge you to watch the documentary at the top of this article, and keep an eye out for my interview with Austin Fitts, which will be published in the near future. In closing, I want to highlight a mysterious letter posted by an anonymous individual who goes by the name “Spartacus.”</p>
<p>“COVID-19 — The Spartacus Letter” was originally posted on docdroid.net, but has since been deleted.<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup><span> </span>The Automatic Earth<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup><span> </span>and ZeroHedge<sup><span id="edn3">3</span></sup><span> </span>have also published the letter in full. The letter starts out saying, “My name is Spartacus, and I’ve had enough”:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“We are watching the medical establishment inject literal poison into millions of our fellow Americans without so much as a fight. We have been told that we will be fired and denied our livelihoods if we refuse to vaccinate. This was the last straw.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>What follows is a compilation of data showing the COVID pandemic was a biowarfare attack that has been kept going using sophisticated psychological warfare tactics. It also reviews the dangers of the COVID shots, noting that the virus and the “vaccines” were made by the same entities.</p>
<p>A summary of Spartacus’ findings is as follows. Each summary point is elaborated upon in later sections of the letter, which you can read in any of the three references provided.</p>
<div class="indent"><ul>
<li><em>COVID-19 is a blood and blood vessel disease. SARS-CoV-2 infects the lining of human blood vessels, causing them to leak into the lungs.</em></li>
<li><em>Current treatment protocols (e.g. invasive ventilation) are actively harmful to patients, accelerating oxidative stress and causing severe VILI (ventilator-induced lung injuries). The continued use of ventilators in the absence of any proven medical benefit constitutes mass murder.</em></li>
<li><em>Existing countermeasures are inadequate to slow the spread of what is an aerosolized and potentially wastewater-borne virus, and constitute a form of medical theater.</em></li>
<li><em>Various non-vaccine interventions have been suppressed by both the media and the medical establishment in favor of vaccines and expensive patented drugs.</em></li>
<li><em>The authorities have denied the usefulness of natural immunity against COVID-19, despite the fact that natural immunity confers protection against all of the virus’s proteins, and not just one.</em></li>
<li><em>Vaccines will do more harm than good. The antigen that these vaccines are based on, SARS-CoV-2 Spike, is a toxic protein. SARS-CoV-2 may have ADE, or antibody-dependent enhancement; current antibodies may not neutralize future strains, but instead help them infect immune cells. Also, vaccinating during a pandemic with a leaky vaccine removes the evolutionary pressure for a virus to become less lethal.</em></li>
<li><em>There is a vast and appalling criminal conspiracy that directly links both Anthony Fauci and Moderna to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.</em></li>
<li><em>COVID-19 vaccine researchers are directly linked to scientists involved in brain-computer interface (‘neural lace’) tech, one of whom was indicted for taking grant money from China.</em></li>
<li><em>Independent researchers have discovered mysterious nanoparticles inside the vaccines that are not supposed to be present.</em></li>
<li><em>The entire pandemic is being used as an excuse for a vast political and economic transformation of Western society that will enrich the already rich and turn the rest of us into serfs and untouchables.</em></li>
</ul>
</div>
<h2>A Criminal Conspiracy</h2>
<p>It’s a long letter, so I won’t reproduce the whole thing here. However, the following sections are of particular interest, with regard to a criminal elite that is orchestrating the destruction of life as we know it, in an effort to usher in a technocracy-led system of global governance and control:<sup><span id="edn4">4</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>“In November of 2019, three technicians at the Wuhan Institute of Virology developed symptoms consistent with a flu-like illness. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak, and Ralph Baric knew at once what had happened, because back channels exist between this laboratory and our scientists and officials.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>December 12th, 2019, Ralph Baric signed a Material Transfer Agreement (essentially, an NDA) to receive Coronavirus mRNA vaccine-related materials co-owned by Moderna and NIH.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>It wasn’t until a whole month later, on January 11th, 2020, that China allegedly sent us the sequence to what would become known as SARS-CoV-2. Moderna claims, rather absurdly, that they developed a working vaccine from this sequence in under 48 hours.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Stephane Bancel, the current CEO of Moderna, was formerly the CEO of bioMerieux, a French multinational corporation specializing in medical diagnostic tech, founded by one Alain Merieux. Alain Merieux was one of the individuals who was instrumental in the construction of the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s P4 lab.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The sequence given as the closest relative to SARS-CoV-2, RaTG13, is not a real virus. It is a forgery. It was made by entering a gene sequence by hand into a database, to create a cover story for the existence of SARS-CoV-2, which is very likely a gain-of-function chimera produced at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and was either leaked by accident or intentionally released. The animal reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 has never been found.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>This is not a conspiracy ‘theory.’ It is an actual criminal conspiracy, in which people connected to the development of Moderna’s mRNA-1273 are directly connected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and their gain-of-function research by very few degrees of separation, if any. The paper trail is well- established.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The lab-leak theory has been suppressed because pulling that thread leads one to inevitably conclude that there is enough circumstantial evidence to link Moderna, the NIH, the WIV, and both the vaccine and the virus’s creation together.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In a sane country, this would have immediately led to the world’s biggest RICO and mass murder case. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric, Shi Zhengli, and Stephane Bancel, and their accomplices, would have been indicted and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Instead, billions of our tax dollars were awarded to the perpetrators.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The FBI raided Allure Medical in Shelby Township north of Detroit for billing insurance for ‘fraudulent COVID-19 cures.’ The treatment they were using? Intravenous Vitamin C. An antioxidant. Which, as described above, is an entirely valid treatment for COVID-19-induced sepsis, and indeed, is now part of the MATH+ protocol advanced by Dr. Paul E. Marik.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The FDA banned ranitidine (Zantac) due to supposed NDMA (N-nitrosodimethylamine) contamination. Ranitidine is not only an H2 blocker used as antacid, but also has a powerful antioxidant effect, scavenging hydroxyl radicals. This gives it utility in treating COVID-19.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The FDA also attempted to take N-acetylcysteine, a harmless amino acid supplement and antioxidant, off the shelves, compelling Amazon to remove it from their online storefront. This leaves us with a chilling question: did the FDA knowingly suppress antioxidants useful for treating COVID-19 sepsis as part of a criminal conspiracy against the American public?</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The establishment is cooperating with, and facilitating, the worst criminals in human history, and are actively suppressing non-vaccine treatments and therapies in order to compel us to inject these criminals’ products into our bodies ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Conclusions: The current pandemic was produced and perpetuated by the establishment, through the use of a virus engineered in a PLA-connected Chinese biowarfare laboratory, with the aid of American taxpayer dollars and French expertise ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Either through a leak or an intentional release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a deadly SARS strain is now endemic across the globe, after the WHO and CDC and public officials first downplayed the risks, and then intentionally incited a panic and lockdowns that jeopardized people’s health and their livelihoods.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>This was then used by the utterly depraved and psychopathic aristocratic class who rule over us as an excuse to coerce people into accepting an injected poison which may be a depopulation agent, a mind control/pacification agent in the form of injectable ‘smart dust,’ or both ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>They believe they can get away with this by weaponizing the social stigma of vaccine refusal. They are incorrect. Their motives are clear and obvious to anyone who has been paying attention.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>These megalomaniacs have raided the pension funds of the free world. Wall Street is insolvent and has had an ongoing liquidity crisis since the end of 2019. The aim now is to exert total, full-spectrum physical, mental, and financial control over humanity before we realize just how badly we’ve been extorted by these maniacs. The pandemic and its response served multiple purposes for the Elite:</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="indent"><ul>
<li><em>Concealing a depression brought on by the usurious plunder of our economies conducted by rentier-capitalists and absentee owners who produce absolutely nothing of any value to society whatsoever ...</em></li>
<li><em>Destroying small businesses and eroding the middle class.</em></li>
<li><em>Transferring trillions of dollars of wealth from the American public and into the pockets of billionaires and special interests.</em></li>
<li><em>Engaging in insider trading, buying stock in biotech companies and shorting brick-and-mortar businesses and travel companies, with the aim of collapsing face-to-face commerce and tourism and replacing it with e-commerce and servitization.</em></li>
<li><em>Creating a casus belli for war with China, encouraging us to attack them, wasting American lives and treasure and driving us to the brink of nuclear Armageddon.</em></li>
<li><em>Establishing technological and biosecurity frameworks for population control and technocratic- socialist ‘smart cities’ where everyone’s movements are despotically tracked, all in anticipation of widespread automation, joblessness, and food shortages, by using the false guise of a vaccine to compel cooperation.</em></li>
</ul>
</div>
<blockquote><p><em>... The Elites are trying to pull up the ladder, erase upward mobility for large segments of the population, cull political opponents and other ‘undesirables,’ and put the remainder of humanity on a tight leash, rationing our access to certain goods and services that they have deemed ‘high-impact,’ such as automobile use, tourism, meat consumption, and so on.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Naturally, they will continue to have their own luxuries, as part of a strict caste system akin to feudalism. Why are they doing this? Simple. The Elites are Neo-Malthusians and believe that we are overpopulated and that resource depletion will collapse civilization in a matter of a few short decades.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>They are not necessarily incorrect in this belief. We are overpopulated, and we are consuming too many resources. However, orchestrating such a gruesome and murderous power grab in response to a looming crisis demonstrates that they have nothing but the utmost contempt for their fellow man.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>To those who are participating in this disgusting farce without any understanding of what they are doing, we have one word for you. Stop. You are causing irreparable harm to your country and to your fellow citizens.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>To those who may be reading this warning and have full knowledge and understanding of what they are doing and how it will unjustly harm millions of innocent people, we have a few more words. Damn you to hell. You will not destroy America and the Free World, and you will not have your New World Order. We will make certain of that.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
</div>TRUMP MATTERS HE LOVES AMERICA MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAINtag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-04-11:5235400:BlogPost:1453232023-04-11T00:16:51.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><img src="https://connect-ucs.xfinity.com/proxy?source=https%3A%2F%2Fd10644yag84rt6.cloudfront.net%2FDJT%2FDJT_040623_DarkCloudGif.gif"></img></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tbody><tr><td align="left"><div><p><span id="email_"><em>“With a dark cloud over our beloved country, I have no doubt, nevertheless, that we will Make America Great Again.”</em></span></p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left"><div><p><span id="email_2"><em>-President Donald J. Trump<br></br>(Tuesday, April 4, 2023 – The Day of his…</em></span></p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p><img src="https://connect-ucs.xfinity.com/proxy?source=https%3A%2F%2Fd10644yag84rt6.cloudfront.net%2FDJT%2FDJT_040623_DarkCloudGif.gif"/></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tbody><tr><td align="left"><div><p><span id="email_"><em>“With a dark cloud over our beloved country, I have no doubt, nevertheless, that we will Make America Great Again.”</em></span></p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left"><div><p><span id="email_2"><em>-President Donald J. Trump<br/>(Tuesday, April 4, 2023 – The Day of his Arrest)</em></span></p>
<p><span></span></p>
<p><span></span></p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>from mercola RFK, Jr. and CHD Sue Biden and Fauci for Alleged Censorshiptag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-04-10:5235400:BlogPost:1452362023-04-10T16:11:50.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">RFK, Jr. and CHD Sue Biden and Fauci for Alleged Censorship</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Children's Health Defense</a></span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">April 10, 2023…</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">RFK, Jr. and CHD Sue Biden and Fauci for Alleged Censorship</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/" rel="noopener">Children's Health Defense</a></span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><div> </div>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">April 10, 2023</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton"><div class="previous-article"><a href="https://rumble.com/v2fc538-rfk-jr.-sues-biden-and-fauci-over-covid-censorship-pressure.html">RFK, Jr. SUES Biden And Fauci Over Covid Censorship Pressure! (rumble.com)</a><br/></div>
<div class="previous-article"></div>
<div class="previous-article"><a href="https://rumble.com/v2fc538-rfk-jr.-sues-biden-and-fauci-over-covid-censorship-pressure.html">RFK, Jr. SUES Biden And Fauci Over Covid Censorship Pressure! (rumble.com)</a></div>
<div class="previous-article"></div>
<div class="previous-article"><a href="https://rumble.com/v2fc538-rfk-jr.-sues-biden-and-fauci-over-covid-censorship-pressure.html">RFK, Jr. SUES Biden And Fauci Over Covid Censorship Pressure! (rumble.com)</a></div>
<div class="previous-article"></div>
<div class="previous-article"><a href="https://rumble.com/v2fc538-rfk-jr.-sues-biden-and-fauci-over-covid-censorship-pressure.html">RFK, Jr. SUES Biden And Fauci Over Covid Censorship Pressure! (rumble.com)</a></div>
</div>
<br />
<p></p>
</div>
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton4"><div id="bcr_pnlbtnPrev"><div class="previous-article"><div class="article-thumb"><img id="bcr_btnPrevImg" class=" ls-is-cached mlazyloaded" alt="How Long Have You Been Consuming Gene Therapied Pork?" src="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/April/Nonlead/eating-pork-treated-with-gene-therapy.jpg" name="bcr_btnPrevImg"/></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p><strong>This article was written by<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/authors/brenda-baletti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.</a><span> </span>and originally published<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/lawsuit-rfk-jr-chd-biden-free-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Children’s Health Defense (CHD) on Friday<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/RFK-Jr-et-al-v-Biden-Complaint-3_24_23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a class action lawsuit</a><span> </span>against President Biden,<span> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Childrens-ebook/dp/B08XQYGC68" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a><span> </span>and other top administration officials and federal agencies, alleging they “waged a systematic, concerted campaign” to compel the nation’s three largest social media companies to censor constitutionally protected speech.</p>
<p>Kennedy, CHD and Connie Sampognaro filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Monroe Division, on behalf of all the more than 80% of Americans who access news from online news aggregators and social media companies, principally Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.</p>
<p>The plaintiffs allege top-ranking government officials, along with an “ever-growing army of federal officers, at every level of the government” from the White House to the FBI, the CIA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to lesser-well-known federal agencies induced those companies:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“to stifle viewpoints that the government disfavors, to suppress facts that the government does not want the public to hear, and to silence specific speakers — in every case critics of federal policy — whom the government has targeted by name.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Kennedy, chairman and chief litigation counsel of CHD, said American Democracy itself is at stake in this case:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said, ‘Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.’ It also violates the Constitution.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p><em>The collaboration between the White House and health and intelligence agency bureaucrats to silence criticism of presidential policies is an assault on the most fundamental foundation stone of American Democracy.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>The lawsuit’s argument rests on the Norwood Principle, an “axiomatic,” or self-evident, principle of constitutional law that says the government “may not induce, encourage, or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.”</p>
<p>According to the plaintiffs, the U.S. government used the social media companies as a proxy to illegally censor free speech.</p>
<p>The complaint cites the now-weekly, ongoing disclosures of secret communications between social media companies and federal officials — in the<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/twitter-files-biden-officials-collusion-censorship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Twitter files</a>,”<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/white-house-covid-censorship-twitter-facebook/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">other lawsuits</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/politics/dhs-partner-private-firms-surveil-suspected-domestic-terrorists/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news reports</a><span> </span>— which revealed threats by<span> </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/17/opinion/joe-biden-nytimes-interview.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/12/nancy-pelosi-section-230/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">other top officials</a><span> </span>against social media companies if they failed to aggressively censor.</p>
<p>The suit points to examples where the censorship campaign allegedly trampled First Amendment freedoms, such as the Hunter Biden laptop story, the COVID-19<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-lab-leak-theory-wuhan-institute-virology-ecohealth-alliance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wuhan lab-leak theory</a><span> </span>and the suppression of facts and opinions about the<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender_category/covid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID-19</a><span> </span>vaccines.</p>
<p>The plaintiffs do not seek financial damages. Instead, they seek a declaration that these practices by federal agents violate the First Amendment and a nationwide injunction against the federal government’s effort to censor constitutionally protected online speech.</p>
<p>The complaint points to a<span> </span><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1194_08l1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Supreme Court decision</a><span> </span>that said social media platforms are “the modern public square” and argues that all Americans who access news online have a First Amendment right against censorship of protected speech in that public square.</p>
<p>Jed Rubenfeld, one of the attorneys arguing the case filed Friday, explained why the lawsuit was filed as a class action:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Social media platforms are the modern public square. For years, the government has been pressuring, promoting, and inducing the companies that control that square to impose the same kind of censorship that the First Amendment prohibits.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>This lawsuit challenges that censorship campaign, and we hope to bring it to an end. The real victim is the public, which is why we’ve brought this suit as a class action on behalf of everyone who accesses news from social media.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>According to the complaint, when the administration violates the First Amendment of an entire class of people, the judiciary must step in to protect Americans’ constitutional rights:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Apart from the Judiciary, no branch of our Government, and no other institution, can stop the current Administration’s systematic efforts to suppress speech through the conduit of social-media companies.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Congress can’t, the Executive won’t, and States lack the power to do so. The fate of American free speech, as it has so often before, lies once again in the hands of the courts.”</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>The lawsuit also names Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Department of Commerce, DHS, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and other individuals and agencies — 106 defendants in total.</p>
<div class="productad"></div>
<h2>‘The Largest Federally Sanctioned Censorship Operation’ Ever Seen</h2>
<p>According to the lawsuit, efforts by federal officials to induce social media platforms to censor speech began in 2020 with the suppression of the COVID-19 lab leak theory and reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop.</p>
<p>Once President Biden took office in January 2021,<span> </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-white-house-exclusive-idINKBN2AK0HP" target="_blank" rel="noopener">senior White House officials reported</a><span> </span>the Biden team began “direct engagement” with social media companies to “clamp down” on speech the White House disfavored, which officials called “misinformation.”</p>
<p>Revelations would later prove the administration was asking social media companies to suppress not only putatively false speech but also speech it knew to be “wholly accurate” along with expressions of opinion.</p>
<p>This practice, it alleges, spread from the administration and through the entire government, becoming “a government-wide campaign to achieve through the intermediation of social media companies exactly the kind of content-based and viewpoint-based censorship of dissident political speech that the First Amendment prohibits.”</p>
<p>Similar allegations about this massive federal censorship campaign also so were alleged by the plaintiffs in the<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fauci-biden-lawsuit-social-media-free-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Missouri v. Biden</a><span> </span>case, but this case introduces many new allegations. Some, but not all, examples of government-coordinated suppression of free speech on social media cited in the complaint include the following:</p>
<table class="generic-table left-align">
<tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p>Substantial evidence of coordinated efforts by Fauci and others to<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/emails-nih-virologists-covid-lab-leak-theory-rtk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suppress the lab-leak theory</a>, which remains plausible and supported by evidence.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Extensive email communication between Fauci and Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, demonstrating Facebook and other social media companies adopted policies that identified any claims about the lab-leak hypothesis to be “false” and “debunked.”</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Facebook’s admission that its censorship of COVID-19-related speech, on supposed grounds of falsity, is based on what “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/help/230764881494641" target="_blank" rel="noopener">public health experts have advised us</a>.”</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Public statements by Zuckerberg on<span> </span><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/51gxrAActH18RGhKNza598" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Rogan’s podcast</a><span> </span>that Facebook suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story as a result of communications from the FBI.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Extensive<span> </span><a href="https://www.banyansecurity.io/resource/get-it-started-get-it-done/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">public commentary</a><span> </span>by FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan about his work with<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/twitter-files-censorship-industrial-complex/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media companies and CISA</a><span> </span>to discuss suppression of election-related speech on social media.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604871630613753856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Twitter files” documents</a><span> </span>on Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>“Twitter files” documents demonstrating weekly meetings between agents from the FBI’s 80-agent<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601364807831425025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media task force</a><span> </span>and Twitter to discuss content suppression along with<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604908670063906817" target="_blank" rel="noopener">direct payments from the FBI</a><span> </span>to Twitter for compliance with requests.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>CISA’s work with the<span> </span><a href="https://www.cisecurity.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Internet Security</a>, a third-party group, to flag content, including particular individuals, for censorship on social media.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>“Twitter files” evidence about the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a vast network of high-level interactions with the federal government and social media platforms — which included proposals, ultimately adopted, for the U.S. government to establish its<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/twitter-files-virality-project-covid-misinformation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">own “disinformation” board</a>. One free-speech advocate<span> </span><a href="https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/biden-administration-rewarded-private-entities-got-2020-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described the EIP</a><span> </span>as “the largest federally-sanctioned censorship operation” he had ever seen.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Documents demonstrating after the election, the EIP was transformed into the “<a href="https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1633830108321677315" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virality Project</a>,” which was dedicated to “take action even against ‘<a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/twitter-files-virality-project-covid-misinformation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stories of true vaccine side effects</a>’ and ‘true posts which could fuel hesitancy.’”</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>Threats by<span> </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/save-the-constitution-from-big-tech-11610387105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">congressional representatives</a>, senators and Biden to break up<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender_category/big-tech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Big Tech</a><span> </span>if they did not improve censorship practices.</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p><a href="https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2020/02/putting-2020-census-rumors-to-rest.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Census Bureau documents</a><span> </span>describing work by its “Trust & Safety” team with social media platforms to “counter false information.”</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><p>“Twitter files” documents, news reports, and documents received through Freedom of Information Act requests that demonstrated myriad, consistent communications with Facebook, Twitter and Google (YouTube) and numerous Biden administration officials named as defendants in the lawsuit including Murthy, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, officials from the CDC, DHS, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, CISA, the U.S. State Department, the White House — including White House Counsel — and other agencies about how to take action against “misinformation” related to COVID-19.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>This last set of communications included action against the so-called “Disinformation Dozen,” which includes Kennedy. According to the complaint, “Facebook itself has stated that the infamous ‘disinformation dozen’ claim has no factual support.” Kennedy tweeted some of the evidence that the White House directly censored him:</p>
<div align="center"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Here are the emails that show the White House colluded with Twitter to censor my tweets.<a href="https://t.co/6xD9MvfwLe">https://t.co/6xD9MvfwLe</a></p>
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr)<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1612591912648859649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
</div>
<p>The complaint alleges that the collusion between the administration, federal agencies and social media companies to suppress constitutionally protected free speech now also extends beyond the election and COVID-19-related commentary to include suppression of speech on topics such as climate change, “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-climate-advisor-tech-companies-censor-disinformation-promote-benefits-clean-energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clean energy</a>,” “<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/06/16/memorandum-on-the-establishment-of-the-white-house-task-force-to-address-online-harassment-and-abuse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gendered disinformation</a>,”<span> </span><a href="https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/26F26BB28841042A7931EEC58AC80E08.anti-abortion-letter-to-google-final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pro-life pregnancy resource centers</a><span> </span>and other topics.</p>
<p>It also alleges, based on research from the<span> </span><a href="https://censortrack.org/protecting-president-big-tech-censors-biden-criticism-646-times-over-two-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Media Research Center</a><span> </span>that identified hundreds of instances of censored critiques of Biden, that social media companies “have achieved astonishing success in muzzling public criticism of Joe Biden.”</p>
<p>It argues that the defendants’ power over social media gives them a “historically unprecedented power over public discourse in America — a power to control what hundreds of millions of people in this county can say, see, and hear.” CHD President Mary Holland, who also serves as CHD general counsel, told The Defender:</p>
<p>“If Government can censor its critics, there is no atrocity it cannot commit. The public has been deprived of truthful, life-and-death information over the last three years. This lawsuit aims to have government censorship end, as it must, because it is unlawful under our constitution.”</p>
<p>The lawsuit asks the court to permanently enjoin them from, “taking any steps to demand, urge, pressure, or otherwise induce any social-media platform to censor, suppress, de-platform, suspend, shadow-ban, de-boost, restrict access to constitutionally protected speech, or take any other adverse action against any speaker, protected content or viewpoint expressed on social media.”</p>
</div>The End Of Hope from TYLER DURDENtag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-04-10:5235400:BlogPost:1451662023-04-10T02:59:57.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<hr></hr><div class="SocialSharingButtons_shareIconContainer__gq3kz"><div class="SocialSharingButtons_gettrIconContainer__98JTH"><img alt="print-icon" src="https://www.zerohedge.com/images/icons/Gettr_Custom_Icon_White.png"></img></div>
<br />
<div class="SocialSharingButtons_printIconContainer__zz9yr"><img alt="print-icon" src="https://www.zerohedge.com/images/icons/print-icon.svg"></img></div>
</div>
<br />
<div class="PremiumBadge_container__LIjdc"></div>
<h1 class="ArticleFull_title__FDrpw">The End Of Hope</h1>
<br />
<div class="ArticleFull_headerFooter__authorInfo__rqsBA"><img alt="Tyler Durden's Photo" class="ArticleFull_headerFooter__authorPhoto__l6O7i" src="https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/thumbnail/public/pictures/picture-5.jpg"></img><div class="ArticleFull_headerFooter__author__pC2tR">BY TYLER DURDEN…</div>
</div>
<hr/><div class="SocialSharingButtons_shareIconContainer__gq3kz"><div class="SocialSharingButtons_gettrIconContainer__98JTH"><img src="https://www.zerohedge.com/images/icons/Gettr_Custom_Icon_White.png" alt="print-icon"/></div>
<br />
<div class="SocialSharingButtons_printIconContainer__zz9yr"><img src="https://www.zerohedge.com/images/icons/print-icon.svg" alt="print-icon"/></div>
</div>
<br />
<div class="PremiumBadge_container__LIjdc"></div>
<h1 class="ArticleFull_title__FDrpw">The End Of Hope</h1>
<br />
<div class="ArticleFull_headerFooter__authorInfo__rqsBA"><img class="ArticleFull_headerFooter__authorPhoto__l6O7i" alt="Tyler Durden's Photo" src="https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/thumbnail/public/pictures/picture-5.jpg"/><div class="ArticleFull_headerFooter__author__pC2tR">BY TYLER DURDEN</div>
</div>
<div class="ArticleFull_headerFooter__date__UFCbS">SATURDAY, APR 08, 2023 - 07:30 AM</div>
<br />
<div class="NodeContent_mainContent__2jyAd"><div class="NodeContent_body__HBEFs NodeBody_container__eeFKv"><p><a href="https://bombthrower.com/the-end-of-hope/"><em>Authored by 'Mr. E' via BombThrower.com,</em></a></p>
<p><strong>Fictional villains often give us some of the deepest insights into the human condition.<span> </span></strong>Writers are freed to venture outside the bounds of what they think is civil society and explore new modes of thinking that may or may not, in fact, be malevolent. In doing so they sometimes, purposefully or inadvertently, stumble across uncomfortable truths that the layperson would recoil from in horror.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2023-04-07_10-23-39.jpg?itok=S343WqG4"><img height="245" width="500" class="inline-images image-style-inline-images" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2023-04-07_10-23-39.jpg?itok=S343WqG4" alt=""/></a></p>
<div class="AdvertisingSlot_desktop__eL99N AdvertisingSlot_tablet__3SxtX AdvertisingSlot_placement__udF_V">
</div>
<h2>Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here</h2>
<p>One of the greatest metaphors for our current way of life came in the creation of Bane’s monologue to Bruce Wayne in <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345836/">The Dark Knight Rises</a>, after Bane captures and imprisons him in a place known only as ‘The Pit’.</p>
<blockquote><p>There’s a reason why this prison is the worst hell on earth… Hope. Every man who has rotted here over the centuries has looked up to the light and imagined climbing to freedom. So easy… So simple… And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope. So, as I terrorize Gotham, I will feed its people hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they can survive so that you can watch them clambering over each other to stay in the sun. You can watch me torture an entire city, and when you have truly understood the depth of your failure, we will fulfill Ra’s al Ghul’s destiny. We will destroy Gotham, and then, when it is done, and Gotham is…ashes… then you have my permission to die.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This one speech reveals the face of true evil, a thing that delights in the suffering and absolute demoralization of its victims. Here Bane is a representation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_state_in_the_United_States">Deep State</a>, the true ruling force of our world, existing beyond all bounds of morality, law, and order. Batman is the free-thinking rebel, enjoying the same philosophical freedom as Bane but committed to a life of principles and justice. The people of Gotham represent the citizenry of Planet Earth over whom absolute dominion is being sought – the power of life and death itself.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/obama-680x1024.png?itok=EO1CKwDD"><img height="753" width="500" class="inline-images image-style-inline-images" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/obama-680x1024.png?itok=EO1CKwDD" alt=""/></a></p>
<p>After eight years of George W. Bush, it was easy for the Deep State to poison the souls of the American people, who deluded themselves into thinking an established political party would ever let an outsider rise to leadership.</p>
<p>Bane makes it clear that, before he will grant Bruce death, he intends on tormenting the people of Gotham with a lie – the hope that they can avoid the fate he has planned for them if they commit themselves to the twisted game he has laid before them.</p>
<div class="AdvertisingSlot_tablet__3SxtX AdvertisingSlot_mobile__f___z AdvertisingSlot_placement__udF_V AdvertisingSlot_align__A2hYo">
</div>
<h2>The Only Way to Win Is Not to Play</h2>
<p>In the real world, this game is playing out in the halls of every government in existence.<span> </span><strong>It is a sick game, one that teases people with the promise of a utopian future, if only they would unconditionally surrender to the State’s present demands.</strong><span> </span>In truth, like Bane, the State’s only goal is death.</p>
<p>It has never been any other way.</p>
<blockquote><p>Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve to death millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill millions of Jews, gypsies, and Slavs in Europe; they did not fire-bomb scores of large German and Japanese cities and drop nuclear bombs on two of them; they did not carry out a ‘Great Leap Forward’ that killed scores of millions of Chinese people; they did not kill more than 500,000 members of the Indonesian Communist party, alleged party sympathizers, and others; they did not attempt to kill everybody with any appreciable education in Cambodia, murdering one fourth of the country’s population; they did not kill as many as 200,000 Mayan peasants and others in Guatemala; they did not kill more than 500,000 Tutsis and pro-peace Hutus in Rwanda; they did not implement US and Allied trade sanctions that killed perhaps 500,000 Iraqi children; they did not launch one aggressive US war after another. In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy’s mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state’s mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous. – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RILDjo4EXV8&t=1316s">Robert Higgs</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Those who would try to convince you of a need, utilitarian or otherwise, of a State don’t have a moral leg to stand on, nor a fiber of integrity in their body.<span> </span><strong>With every breath they hubristically declare their own virtue and silence their critics by force and graft. If you are ever to enjoy any measure of true liberty you must reject, wholesale, the notion that any person or group can dare make, let alone enforce, so-called law.</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/mao.png?itok=P0qZWzmk"><img height="244" width="500" class="inline-images image-style-inline-images" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/mao.png?itok=P0qZWzmk" alt=""/></a></p>
<p>In China, Mao was elevated to the level of Godhead, portrayed as the rising sun and savior of the Chinese people.</p>
<div class="AdvertisingSlot_tablet__3SxtX AdvertisingSlot_mobile__f___z AdvertisingSlot_placement__udF_V AdvertisingSlot_align__A2hYo">
</div>
<p><strong>No amount of ceremony or paperwork can sanctify the edicts, pronouncements or ‘laws’ of any State.</strong></p>
<p>No amount of people who agree with its forceful actions against non-violent people can ever overturn universal morality and natural law. And, if either of those two concepts are unfamiliar to you, you just may be one of those demoralized people being manipulated like Gothamites.</p>
<blockquote><p>The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideas and policies, one perhaps of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. The policies that are vital and necessary for America are no longer subjects of significant disagreement, but are disputable only in details of procedure, priority, or method. – <a href="http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Tragedy_and_Hope.pdf#page=1262">Carrol Quigley</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>You should not take Quigley’s words lightly. He was the chief historian of a <a href="https://pages.uoregon.edu/kimball/Rhodes-Confession.htm">secret society</a> founded over a century ago by British diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes, and mentor to former <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/archival-video-bill-clinton-speaks-1992-democratic-national-40582962">US President and suspected pedophile Bill Clinton</a>. Quigley makes the distinction between ‘America’ (i.e., the State) and the ‘American people.’ They are not the same, and ‘America’ is putting on an elaborate hoax to entrap the ‘American people.’</p>
<p><strong>No matter what happened with Bane’s game; Gotham is destroyed. Similarly, whichever political party takes power, you remain under the boot of those who would see you dead in the pursuit of their agendas.</strong></p>
<h2>Resolve to Serve No More</h2>
<p>The only recourse is rebellion. I speak not of revolution, which only seeks to violently replace the State with another of a different character. A rebel has no need for a master, and triumphs when he realizes just how dependent the State is on his ongoing subservience.</p>
<div class="AdvertisingSlot_tablet__3SxtX AdvertisingSlot_mobile__f___z AdvertisingSlot_placement__udF_V AdvertisingSlot_align__A2hYo">
</div>
<blockquote><p>I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces. – <a href="https://cdn.mises.org/Politics%20of%20Obedience.pdf#page=47">Étienne de La Boétie</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>The State’s parasitic dependence on its host citizenry is its Achilles’ heel. Citizens are the geese laying golden eggs, and the State is careful not to destroy them all.<span> </span></strong>Just enough to keep those that remain living in silent, obedient awe and terror. Control over the issuance of currency, and taxes, are its lifeblood. Fortunately for you, their greatest power is also yours. You need only to understand how to use it. In doing so you can topple empires without firing a single bullet.</p>
<p>Without tax revenues the State is forced to resort to inflation – the printing of currency – to fund its bloated bureaucracies and military. Then, in very short order, the value of treasuries and the currency itself will collapse. Without any means of paying for the obedience of its underlings and enforcers, you will see just how powerful they truly were. With politicians and bureaucrats exposed as nothing more than screeching harpies, the mobs of disaffected true believers will take care of the rest.</p>
<p>The State’s allies in the financial system are already powerless to seize your money, if that money is stored in incorruptible, private cryptographic ledgers like Monero (<a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/monero/">XMR</a>), Pirate Chain (<a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/pirate-chain/">ARRR</a>), or Dero (<a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dero/">DERO</a>). If you aren’t already using them, start. This is your first step towards a brighter future.</p>
<h2>The Time is Now</h2>
<p>Nothing I write here is new, nor should any of it shock anyone properly educated in human history. We are living through yet another <a href="http://www.phinancetechnologies.com/HumanityProjects/The%20VDamage%20Project%20-%20Human%20%20Cost.htm">mass murder</a> and <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0255031">economic genocide</a>, with all States now marching in lockstep toward the complete annihilation of civil society. Those who point this out are deplatformed, have their livelihoods taken away, and shut out of society. The perpetrators take no pause, nor show any signs of remorse for their destructive acts.</p>
<blockquote><p>Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the Socialists want the government to be everything. There can be no greater contrast. Well, the time will come when there will be only these two great parties, the Anarchists representing the laissez faire doctrine and the Socialists representing the extreme view on the other side, and when that time comes, I am an Anarchist. – <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Graham_Sumner">William Graham Sumner</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>There never was any chance of bending this system of domination towards virtuous ends.<span> </span></strong>The State has always been the incarnation of pure violence, indeed many philosophers and legal scholars <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/state-monopoly-on-violence">define it as such</a>. You must resolve to not feed this monster with the fruits of your labor, and evade every attempt it makes to seize your money and property by force. The Bundy family <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundy_standoff">demonstrated</a> just how possible this is.</p>
<p>But this does not go far enough.</p>
<p>The Bundy’s still gave credence to the State’s legal system, its courts, and prosecutors. They are part of this hoax as well, for the same law societies are playing all sides of any courtroom farce, and they do it for the exact same reason – to extract as much of your property as they can for themselves. There is no independent judiciary, and both prosecutor and defense are playing for the same team.</p>
<p><strong>The State isn’t broken, it’s doing exactly what it’s designed to do. And for that reason, it must be left behind to die. Stop letting yourself be tortured by sociopaths. Withdraw your support now, your life depends on it, and there is no Batman coming to save you.</strong></p>
</div>
</div>DR MERCOLA INTERVIEW RFK ROBERT KENNEDY JR WILL WE SEE ANOTHER KENNEDY IN THE WHITEHOUSEtag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-04-09:5235400:BlogPost:1449992023-04-09T17:52:00.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Will We See Another Kennedy in the White House?</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span class="fact-check" id="bcr_factCheck"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked…</span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><ul class="social-icons dontprint social-button-round">
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">Will We See Another Kennedy in the White House?</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span id="bcr_factCheck" class="fact-check"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked</span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><ul class="social-icons dontprint social-button-round">
<li style="list-style-type: none"><ul class="social-icons dontprint social-button-round">
<li class="social-btn"><a name="Facebook Page" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Farticles.mercola.com%2Fsites%2Farticles%2Farchive%2F2023%2F04%2F09%2Fwill-we-see-another-kennedy-in-the-white-house.aspx%3Fui%3De04e91c57597f04c2f55a300f8aa96bd650b34036fe1dd58519ce6e195306265%26sd%3D20210115%26cid_source%3Ddnl%26cid_medium%3Demail%26cid_content%3Dart2ReadMore%26cid%3D20230409_HL2%26cid%3DDM1378718%26bid%3D1768279173"></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="mailto:?subject=Robert%20F.%20Kennedy%20Jr.%20-%20Will%20We%20See%20Another%20Kennedy%20in%20the%20White%20House%3F&body=Considering%20two%20members%20of%20the%20Kennedy%20family%20have%20been%20murdered%2C%20it%20requires%20enormous%20courage%20to%20announce%20he%27s%20considering%20entering%20the%20presidential%20race.%20Is%20he%20the%20only%20man%20who%20can%20root%20out%20the%20deep%20corruption%2C%20expose%20the%20lies%20and%20turn%20our%20country%20around%3F%0A%0AACCESS%20NOW%3A%20https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/04/09/will-we-see-another-kennedy-in-the-white-house.aspx%3Fcid_medium=etaf%26cid_source=etaf%26cid=share%0A%0AABOUT%20DR.%20MERCOLA%3A%20Dr.%20Joseph%20Mercola%20is%20the%20founder%20of%20Mercola.com.%20An%20osteopathic%20physician%2C%20best-selling%20author%20and%20recipient%20of%20multiple%20awards%20in%20the%20field%20of%20natural%20health%2C%20his%20primary%20vision%20is%20to%20change%20the%20modern%20health%20paradigm%20by%20providing%20people%20with%20a%20valuable%20resource%20to%20help%20them%20take%20control%20of%20their%20health.%20His%20latest%20book%20%E2%80%9CThe%20Truth%20About%20COVID-19%E2%80%9D%20was%20an%20instant%20best-seller%20and%20the%20%231%20book%20sold%20on%20Amazon.%0A%0A" class="mailtolink" name=" Mailto"></a></p>
<p><a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/04/09/will-we-see-another-kennedy-in-the-white-house.aspx?ui=e04e91c57597f04c2f55a300f8aa96bd650b34036fe1dd58519ce6e195306265&sd=20210115&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art2ReadMore&cid=20230409_HL2&cid=DM1378718&bid=1768279173#" name="Print" id="Print"></a></p>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">April 09, 2023</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton"><div class="previous-article"><br/></div>
<div class="previous-article"><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/nZw8jd3cJQOD/">Will We See Another Kennedy in the White House?- Interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (bitchute.com)</a></div>
<div class="previous-article"><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/nZw8jd3cJQOD/">Will We See Another Kennedy in the White House?- Interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (bitchute.com)</a></div>
<div class="previous-article"><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/nZw8jd3cJQOD/">Will We See Another Kennedy in the White House?- Interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (bitchute.com)</a></div>
<div class="previous-article"><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/nZw8jd3cJQOD/">Will We See Another Kennedy in the White House?- Interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (bitchute.com)</a></div>
<div class="previous-article"></div>
<div class="previous-article"></div>
<div class="previous-article"></div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton4"><div id="bcr_pnlbtnPrev"><div class="previous-article"><div class="article-thumb"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced he’s considering entering the presidential race if he can garner enough support. To support his bid for president, visit TeamKennedy</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">The Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and several other plaintiffs, including me, are suing the Trusted News Initiative (TNI) for violation of antitrust laws. The BBC has been using its market power and illegal collaboration with other leading market actors to crush smaller news outlets</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">The CHD has also filed a number of First Amendment cases, including one against Facebook, which censored the CHD, Mercola.com and many other sites</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">As a private company, Facebook has the right to censor anyone it wants, for any reason. However, they cannot do it at the behest of the government, and we now have ample evidence that this is precisely what they’ve been doing</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">Kennedy believes if he is elected to the White House he can clean out government corruption because he knows where it is, what it stems from and how to correct it</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the author of two books. "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Values-Lessons-Learned-Family/dp/0062845918" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family</a>," published in 2018, describes the Kennedys' 60-year-long fight with the CIA.</p>
<p>His 2021 book, "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Childrens/dp/1510766804" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Real Anthony Fauci</a>," became a runaway best seller, selling over a million copies, despite unprecedented censorship. In this interview, Kennedy, an attorney, reviews some of the lawsuits filed by Children's Health Defense (CHD), founded by Kennedy in 2018 (was World Mercury Project in 2016), and why he believes he can "drain the swamp" and clean up our federal agencies if elected president of the United States.</p>
<h2>The Trusted News Initiative Lawsuit</h2>
<p>One of the most recent lawsuits is the antitrust lawsuit against the Trusted News Initiative (TNI). I and several other journalists and news organizations that have been censored during the pandemic are also plaintiffs in this lawsuit. As explained by Kennedy:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"The Trusted News Initiative lawsuit applies antitrust laws against this really shocking agreement made at the onset of the pandemic, initiated by the BBC.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The BBC … is not officially a government agency. It's a government-supported network that is supposed to have walls between itself and the government, but recent scandals in Britain have exposed how closely the BBC works with the British Intelligence Agency, MI5, particularly in censoring information on certain subjects, including public health.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>This is now well-established. We don't know how much the British Intelligence Agency had to do with kicking off the TNI, but the BBC approached a dozen top news organizations in the United States, including The New York Times and The Washington Post … and the social media networks … proposing they all censor information that did not comport with government proclamations during the pandemic."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>Importantly, a memorandum by the BBC states that independent news sites are "existential competitors" and a threat to the mainstream media business model and must be crushed.</p>
<p>Eliminating "competition" (which we're not) was the entire purpose behind TNI, so the basis for the lawsuit is that TNI is violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. As explained by Kennedy, the BBC is using its market power and illegal collaboration with other leading market actors to crush smaller competitors.</p>
<h2>First Amendment Cases</h2>
<p>The CHD has also filed a number of First Amendment cases, including one against Facebook, which censored the CHD and many other sites. Now, Facebook, as a private company, has the right to censor anyone it wants, for any reason.</p>
<p>However, they CANNOT do it at the behest of the government. If they become government surrogates for censorship — which is what they've become — then the First Amendment, the right to free speech, is implicated.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"What we've said is that they were taking orders from government officials,"</em><span> </span>Kennedy says.<span> </span><em>"When we filed the lawsuit, we knew that was happening, but we did not have the positive proof. Now we do. We have internal memos that show Anthony Fauci collaborating on the censorship with Mark Zuckerberg.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And we now know that Twitter had offered a portal to the FBI and CIA to censor people who did not go along with the government narrative, and that they were aggressively using it. We found emails where the White House specifically asks Twitter to censor Robert Kennedy. So, we have a number of those lawsuits out there."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="productad"></div>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/April/PDF/will-we-see-another-kennedy-in-the-white-house-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>We're Fighting an Uphill Battle</h2>
<p>The censorship has caused many of us in independent, alternative media to lose huge amounts of money as we can no longer reach our audiences. And while Kennedy hopes to be able to recover some of these lost revenues, that alone will not effect change.</p>
<p>While the U.S. government and mainstream media are clearly engaged in illegal activity, there's really no penalty for it unless you sue them, and even if you win, the punitive damages are not going to be severe enough to force a change in behavior. At best, lawsuits bring public attention to the problem and cause embarrassment, which might curtail it somewhat.</p>
<h2>Twitter Files Reveal the Breadth of the Illegal Collusion</h2>
<p>On the upside, we now know a lot about how they operate because of the Twitter files, released by Elon Musk. As noted by Kennedy, it's far worse than any of us initially suspected. For example, the FBI has a portal into social media that allows it to remove posts and accounts it doesn't like.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"That is scary. That is against everything our country was founded on,"</em><span> </span>Kennedy says.<span> </span><em>"The single most important premise was that citizens ought to be able to criticize government, which was not true for the American revolutionary generation. You could be punished for criticizing the king.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And they said, we don't want that anymore. We're going to have free speech for all. We're going to make sure that there's a ferment, that there is a million different ideas bouncing around. And 'misinformation,' for better or worse, is constitutionally protected speech.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>There are forms of speech that are not constitutionally protected. Inciting violence is not constitutionally protected. Child pornography is not constitutionally protected … But telling a lie to somebody is. It has to be that way because once you appoint an arbiter to tell what's true and what's not true, you'll end up getting one version of truth, and it ultimately will not be the true one."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Many Were Paid to Lie</h2>
<p>Indeed, if the last three years have taught us anything, it's that self-appointed "arbiters of truth" get it wrong most, if not all, of the time. And, as noted by Kennedy, the crime is not being wrong. The crime is censoring anybody who disagrees, so people never even have the opportunity to discover the error, including themselves (if ignorance is in fact the case).</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"In May 2020, I published a post that said the vaccines are going to be DOA, they're dead on arrival, because the monkey studies just came out and they don't prevent transmission,"</em><span> </span>Kennedy says.<span> </span><em>"This was before the rollout.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I was like, 'We were looking at their own monkey studies and the concentrations of COVID-19 viruses or SARS-CoV-2 viral loading in the nasopharynxes of the macaque monkeys that they had vaccinated was identical to the loading in the unvaccinated monkeys once they were exposed to the disease.'</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So, they knew at that time that this vaccine could not prevent transmission. Everybody knew that. And yet they were saying out loud, 'It can prevent transmission.' They had no right, no reason, to say that other than to fool the public.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And then they were censoring people like me who were saying, 'Wait a minute, how's this possible? How can you possibly make this claim? Of course it's not going to prevent transmission.' So, the crime is not being wrong. Anybody can be wrong. The crime is censoring people who were right or who had alternative viewpoints that prevented them from ever getting anything right.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Listen, if I had to predict what's going to happen now, it's very clear, this isn't a speculation. The Biden administration is trying to give the WHO [World Health Organization] these preemptive powers to declare future pandemics based upon no evidence. So, all they have to say is there's a pandemic …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And when you declare a pandemic, not only does it give the government extraordinary powers, it gives the pharmaceutical industry immunity from liability. It gives doctors immunity from liability, which is accompanied, of course, by impunity and bad judgment. It also loosens up billions of dollars in subsidies and cash to promote the business models of those pharmaceutical companies.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>At least now, we have an independent power to say, 'We don't believe WHO and we're not going to go along with this global emergency.' Right now we're about to sign a treaty that will give that power to the WHO. So Jeremy Farrar, who was one of the masterminds of this PSYOP — he was the guy who hid the COVID coverup. He manipulated the Lancet studies. He directed all these virologists who believed that it came from a lab… to say that it didn't.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Because of the control he has over the funding of virology and infectious disease, and biomedical research globally, he was able to marshal these core groups of virologists who just lied to us openly. And then they all got payoffs from Fauci.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Kristian Andersen, Ph.D., got $9 million after he lied to us. Eddie Holmes got $9 million to lie. All the guys who participated in the Lancet paper and the Nature Medicine papers — the ones that were then cited by all of the journalists in the world to say it's been proven there's no such thing as a lab leak — we now have their emails.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And all those guys believed it was a lab leak, secretly, privately … but they were telling the public it wasn't. And they all got payoffs of millions and millions of dollars."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>No Evidence to Support Childhood Vaccination Schedule</h2>
<p>As noted by Kennedy, the entire field of virology is basically operating as a criminal enterprise. They never have to prove anything and they're never accountable. For example, they don't have to prove that vaccines actually work, or that it's safe to take multiple vaccines at the same time.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"By 'work,' I mean five years from now, you're more likely to be healthier if you got the vaccine than if you didn't. If you show me that, I'll take all the vaccines in the world,"<span> </span></em>Kennedy says.<em><span> </span>"But there are no studies that support that, and they're able to escape the standard safety testing, placebo-controlled trials, prelicensure trials that are de rigueur for every other medicine except for vaccines."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Seventy-two doses of 16 vaccines are now recommended for American children by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. States have the right to mandate them as they see fit, and in California and New York, all 16 vaccines are mandated. But whether they're mandated or not, there's tremendous pressure to take them all. </p>
<p>In California and New York, you can't even get a medical exemption. Technically, both states allow medical exemptions, but no doctor will write you one because they risk losing their medical license if they do.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"They're mandating these 72 doses of 16 vaccines, and they've never tested a single one … in a placebo-controlled study. They have no idea what the risk profile is for these medicines and they're mandating them to healthy people …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>You're taking healthy people with functioning immune systems and you're forcing them to take something that you don't know what the outcomes of are. It is criminal,"</em><span> </span>Kennedy says.</p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Will We See Kennedy in the Presidential Race? </h2>
<p>Kennedy recently announced he's considering entering the presidential race if he can garner enough support. Considering two members of the Kennedy family have already been murdered, this requires quite a bit of courage. Clearly, there are risks involved anytime you try to change a corrupt system from within. Kennedy comments:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"I haven't made the decision yet, but I'm leaning towards doing it. It's going to give me an opportunity, as it makes it much more difficult for them to censor me, [to] talk about all these issues for the first time without censorship and connect them.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I've been an environmental attorney and advocate for 40 years, and I saw the impact of agency capture. That's why I was able to recognize it so easily when I saw it in the pharmaceutical industry. All these agencies are captured. The pharmaceutical industry owns the National Institutes of Health … CDC, FDA. The coal and oil industry and the pesticide industry own the Environmental Protection Agency.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I was on the trial team in the Monsanto case, which ended up with a $13 billion settlement. We had three trials in a row … [and] we did a lot of discovery. We were able to find secret EPA papers that showed the head of the EPA pesticide division for a decade was a man who was secretly working for Monsanto.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So Monsanto was actually directing his movements. In one of the emails we found, Monsanto instructed him to kill a study that was being done by another agency, the Agency for Toxic Substance Control, ATSDR. It's a smaller agency that focuses just on toxins that's separate from EPA.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>He'd always been able to control the EPA studies and to fix them. But now here's another agency that Monsanto has no control over that's actually going to do an independent study on the carcinogenicity of Roundup and glyphosate.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>They were desperate to kill that study and he said, 'I'm going to kill that study for you, but you need to give me a gold medal when I do that.' So, these were the kind of correspondence he had with his true boss, Monsanto. And this, unfortunately, is true in all the federal agencies."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Democracy Has Been Subverted</h2>
<p>As noted by Kennedy, most government agencies have been captured by the industries they're supposed to regulate, and as a result, democracy has been subverted, as they're no longer working for the American people. They're working for big corporations that are constantly putting profit above safety.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"There's now a perfect merger of state and corporate power in this country,"</em><span> </span>Kennedy says,<span> </span><em>"and the system is rigged against the middle class and the poor. And by the way, among the captured agencies are the CIA and the Pentagon, which have been captured by military contractors, and they don't care how much the Ukraine war costs us.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Nobody cares because they're killing Ukrainians, not American kids. So it's the perfect war for them. And we ship over $112 billion and who gets that? It bounces. A lot of it goes into Zelenskyy's pocket and then it's bounced back to General Dynamics and all the military contractors. They then hire all the generals when they leave the Pentagon.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Those are the generals you see on CNN every night, gravely saying we need to defend the people of Ukraine. But they're working for General Dynamic, stuffing their pockets with the money we're sending over there. I'm not saying that we shouldn't be helping the Ukrainian people or that Vladimir Putin isn't a thug and a gangster …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>But we need to understand that we have intelligence agencies and military agencies whose job it is … to destroy American democracy from within. And that those agencies, their job is to provide a constant pipeline of new wars that are going to feed the military industrial complex which owns them.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Look, we gave a $112 billion to Ukraine already. The entire budget of CDC is $12 billion. The entire budget of EPA I think is around $11 billion. And we have a crisis in this country. We have a child health crisis — 54% of our children have chronic disease and we don't know what's causing it.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>We have kids going to dilapidated schools. Our infrastructure is falling apart. We have a middle class in this country has been hollowed out and destroyed and we need to start paying attention to these problems here at home and solving them."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>DOT — Another Example of a Captured Agency</h2>
<p>The toxic train wreck in East Palestine, Ohio, is another example of what happens when regulatory agencies are captured. According to Kennedy, Norfolk Southern Railway has a weekly revenue of $1.5 billion, and its cap for safety violations is $225,000. So, there's no incentive for the railway to make sure safety regulations are followed.</p>
<p>Its lackadaisical approach to safety has now contaminated an entire region and destroyed the lives of several hundred residents, yet the penalty is barely a drop in their revenue bucket. And again, the reason they're getting away with this is because the Department of Transportation (DOT) is wholly captured by the big railroad companies.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"I like Pete [Buttigieg], but he's not a guy who looks at that agency and says, 'I know it's a captured agency and I'm going to weed out the people who are corrupt, I'm going to make the trains run on time, I'm going to make sure they have two engineers and I'm going to make sure they're using electronic controlled brakes and not the brakes they used in the civil war' — which is what was on this train …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Why is that? Because [the DOT is] a captured agency. The electronic brakes would've cost $3 billion to put on their entire fleet. That is two weeks of revenue for that company, but they rather spent the money on lobbyists, make sure they didn't have to do that, and then they took the cash and did a stock buyback.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So, they all are getting rich and the people in East Palestine are now drinking poisoned water, their cats are dying, their cows are dying and their children are now exposed to dioxin. A single molecule of dioxin can cause cancer. It is the most toxic molecule that we know of in the universe that's not radioactive. It's horrendously toxic, and it's now spread over the landscape …"</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Why Kennedy Believes He Can Root Out the Corruption</h2>
<p>As explained by Kennedy, politicians may start out believing their own campaign promise to end corruption but, in the end, they simply don't know how to fix the problem. They don't know how to clean up these agencies. Even presidents have been powerless in this regard.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"You can't go into an agency with 30,000 or 60,000 employees and fix it overnight unless you know exactly where the problem is,"</em><span> </span>Kennedy says.<span> </span><em>"So, they appoint a guy to run that agency who's usually from the industry … And that guy doesn't know how to fix it either. So, he relies on the department heads and the branch heads within that agency, and they're all corrupt and have been there 50 years, like Fauci …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Some of the politicians are even worse. They just get co-opted. They're taking money from the industry and become slaves to the congressional committee chairs who are all on the take … I feel I can fix this problem like nobody else can, because I know how these agencies work.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I know the individuals in these agencies who need to be moved to Nome, Alaska, and the ones who have been doing favors, who are in the tank with the industry. I know the databases that we need to open and make public so that the independent scientists can do their jobs.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I know how to stop the corruption in the universities by telling the universities you're not getting money anymore to do these phony pharmaceutical industry studies, or oil industry studies.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I know how to send my attorney general after the journals like the Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine and sue them for racketeering, saying, 'You are not telling the truth. You're claiming to tell the truth to people about medicine, but you guys admit it's not the truth. It's pharmaceutical industry propaganda.'</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>All these agencies have that same kind of structure, and I've spent 40 years suing them. I've spent 20 years suing the United States Department of Agriculture for doing favors for Smithfield Foods, Tyson Food, Bo Pilgrim, Cargill and Monsanto. It's a captive agency …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I feel like I should do this, and that it will give me a chance to talk to the American people. If people want to hear the truth, I'll win. If they want business as usual, then I won't. But for me it's irrelevant. I'm going to fight as hard as I can to win. But my only real concern is to leave this process with my integrity intact and my family.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>If I can protect my family and have my integrity, then I've done what I'm supposed to do. If I didn't do this, I would feel like it was an opportunity that I had missed. I might, if I can win, change things. And I know how to change things probably better than any politician who has run in the last 20 years …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>A lot of the changes that I could make are changes that I wouldn't need Congress for — how to restructure the agencies, including the intelligence agencies, so that they begin to work for the American people and for actual national security rather than what they've been doing.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>My father had a plan for reorganizing the CIA that I think is still relevant today … The problem is the espionage aspect of the CIA … [It should be] information gathering and analysis to the president to make better decisions, but that's not what the agency ended up doing …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>It has nothing in its charter that it would allow it to do paramilitary operations to fix elections, assassinate leaders, kidnap, kill people, torture people. None of that was part of its initial mission.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>[Allen] Dulles [the founding director of the CIA] snuck that in through generous interpretations of some of the charter provisions. And then what happened, the plans division, which is the dirty tricks division, became the tail that was wagging the espionage dog.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And the espionage function of CIA, it should be oversight of the plans division. They should be antagonistic towards each other … The problem with the CIA is it has never learned from mistakes. It never does, because there's never any accountability … Patriotism means a faithfulness to the United States Constitution above all. Above all. And if you don't know that, you shouldn't be in government."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>How You Can Support Kennedy's Presidential Bid</h2>
<p>If you want to support Kennedy in his bid for president of the United States, be sure to visit<span> </span><a href="https://www.teamkennedy.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TeamKennedy.com</a>. For updates on the litigation Kennedy is involved in, sign up for the CDH newsletter, The Defender, on<span> </span><a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Childrenshealthdefense.org</a>.</p>
</div>DR MERCOLA ALEX JONES MUST SEE EXPLORES THE GREAT RESETtag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-04-09:5235400:BlogPost:1449962023-04-09T17:40:41.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<p>ALEX JONES EXPLORES THE GREAT RESET</p>
<p></p>
<p>April 9 2023</p>
<p></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/e6XkpOnafBLa/">"The Great Reset: And the War for the World" - Interview with Alex Jones (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/e6XkpOnafBLa/">"The Great Reset: And the War for the World" - Interview with Alex Jones (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/e6XkpOnafBLa/">"The Great Reset: And the War for the World" -…</a></p>
<p>ALEX JONES EXPLORES THE GREAT RESET</p>
<p></p>
<p>April 9 2023</p>
<p></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/e6XkpOnafBLa/">"The Great Reset: And the War for the World" - Interview with Alex Jones (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/e6XkpOnafBLa/">"The Great Reset: And the War for the World" - Interview with Alex Jones (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/e6XkpOnafBLa/">"The Great Reset: And the War for the World" - Interview with Alex Jones (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/e6XkpOnafBLa/">"The Great Reset: And the War for the World" - Interview with Alex Jones (bitchute.com)</a></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<p></p>
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><h3 id="expanderHead">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</h3>
<div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">Alex Jones, host of “The Alex Jones Show” and founder of Infowars.com, was one of the first to be targeted for massive censorship. As of August 2018, he’d already been uniformly removed from Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter. They all targeted and deplatformed him within days of each other</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">Continuing his effort to alert people to the global enslavement agenda, Jones wrote “The Great Reset: And the War for the World.” The book details how the takeover began, how it’s being implemented, and to what end</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">The world is at a crossroads right now. The decision to be made is whether we’re going to have a pro-human future, or a transhumanist technocracy, a biomedical tyranny, under which you have no rights whatsoever</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">Jones traces the beginning of the desire for a global totalitarian regime all the way back to Plato, who in “The Republic” expressed the idea that the poor ought to be killed off, and a race with elite characteristics be bred</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">British economist Thomas Robert Malthus proposed exterminating poor people 300 years ago by crowding and disease in order to prevent overpopulation. Malthus was heavily funded by the British royal family and the Rothschilds, who together with the Rockefellers, developed most of the modern sciences. His ideas continued down through Sir Francis Galton, who developed modern eugenics, and Bill Gates</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>In this video, I interview Alex Jones, host of "The Alex Jones Show" and founder of Infowars.com, about his new book, "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Great-Reset-War-World/dp/1510774041" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Great Reset: And the War for the World</a>." Jones was one of the first to be targeted for massive censorship.</p>
<p>As of August 2018, he'd already been uniformly removed from Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter. They all targeted and deplatformed him within days of each other. Of course, the following summer, I and hundreds of other sites, were similarly removed. Jones was the first, though, and he had a massive audience, being one of the top 1,000 most-visited websites in the world, not just the U.S.</p>
<h2>Censorship Through 'Lawfare'</h2>
<div class="video-rwd"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/saXqmktVOYw?wmode=opaque&rel=0"></iframe>
</div>
<p>In all, more than 50 lawsuits have been filed against him, in two different jurisdictions. In the video above, Russel Brand provides a solid summary of events to date. As noted by Jones, "It's simply historic what's happening." As you might expect, he's spent millions of dollars defending his right to free speech, and recently filed for bankruptcy protection.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"It's their plan to shut us down,"</em><span> </span>he says.<span> </span><em>"I'm not worried about myself. I want to keep Infowars on the air as long as possible, but we've been vindicated. The New World Order is here. Global government is here. The depopulation agenda, the force inoculation hell, the open borders, the devaluation of currency — all of it is already here. And so, I'm just a symptom of the disease, and the fact that they want to shut everybody down ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p><em>The lawyers for these people ... [have] said, 'It is our mission to silence him, and shut him down with the biggest judgments we can get. We want him off air.'</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So just a few years ago, it would be heresy to say, 'We want to silence someone,' but that's the point of this suit. Now, they openly say it is to destroy us. And they have said on CNN, and MSNBC, 'Next is Tucker Carlson. Next is Joe Rogan. Next is everybody else.'"</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>The Great Reset Is a War for Global Domination</h2>
<p>Continuing his effort to alert people to the global enslavement agenda, Jones wrote "The Great Reset: And the War for the World." "I went with this title, because the globalists are in a war for the world, a planetary government, a total takeover," he says.</p>
<p>It's basically a compilation of Jones' notes, documents and recordings to illustrate how the takeover began, how it's being implemented, and to what end. Like Jones, I believe the people of the world are at a crossroads right now. The decision to be made is whether we're going to have a pro-human future, or a transhumanist technocracy, a biomedical tyranny, under which you have no rights whatsoever.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"It covers every aspect of the Great Reset. And it's full of quotes, and statements, and documents. In fact, every statement in the book is backed up by their admissions.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>That's what's incredible; this takeover of the planet by mega corporations, and this attempt to capture the human species and turn us into [something] like factory farmed humans that they control and program — this Brave New World 2.0 — is out in the open.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>That's why the book is so important. I liken it to the plans to the Death Star. This is their plan. This is their blueprint. This is their playbook. And if you understand this, then you've got a major leg up against this takeover,"</em><span> </span>he says.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>"Now, they physically want control of our bodies with this whole biomedical tyranny. That's what's so incredible about Klaus Schwab, and [professor Yuval Noah] Harari and all these other people that we quote — they are admitting their plan to have a scientific revolution, and that by the year 2047, humans will be obsolete.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>They predict a future without humans by the turn of the next century. I mean, these are fantastical death-cold statements, but they're in control of the finance. They're in control of the medical systems. They're in control of most of the governments.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And if humanity doesn't awaken to this, and organize against it, we have no hope. But the plan is so diabolical and so public, that if we just admit it's happening, and start mobilizing and organizing, we can — and we will — take this down."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<div class="productad"></div>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/April/PDF/alex-jones-great-reset-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>Solid Track Record</h2>
<p>One problem with being too far ahead of everyone else is that few believe you. For well over a decade, Jones has sounded the alarm, warning that what we're experiencing today was coming. Oftentimes, it sounded too crazy to be true, and while he's not been 100% correct in his prognostications, his track record is surprisingly good.</p>
<p>According to Jones, the reason he was aware of the existence of this "deep state" cabal was because his parents were both voracious readers of political science, science journals and information in general. So, at an early age, Jones got intrigued by books about World War I and II, Cecil Rhodes, Rhodesia and the diamond monopoly, the Roman empire and other things that happened in history.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"So, I had an understanding of real history, and the fact that the world did have elites in it, and did have ruling controlling oligarchies. Of course, I'd read 'Brave New World,' and 'Brave New World Revisited' — that was nonfiction, where Huxley explains, 'My book from 1932 is really what I believe will happen sometime after the year 2000; this is actually our goal.'</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So, you read that dystopic scientific dictatorship book from '32, and then he explains, 'This is really what the technocrats plan. This is what we've been developing and preparing.'</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I've been on air 28 years, since I was 21 years old. And a lot of it came off as crazy, because back then, a lot of this was more academic — that they were going to set up world government. They were going to have carbon taxes ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I was on air, simply reading what they were planning to do. Now, we're here, 20-plus years later, and they're actually starting to implement it. We're going from beta to operational now. And so, it sounds like I'm a prophet or something, but really, I'm not. It's just that most people weren't reading the stuff when it was in MIT journals, when it was more academic.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Now that it's rolling out into operational phase, people are really starting to pay attention to what I said 10, 20, 25 years ago. There's are viral videos ... where I say what's coming in the next 10, 20 years, but again, I'm reading from their own statements. They're the ones that planned all this.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>We've got Joe Biden, 15 years ago in the Senate, saying, 'Soon you'll have a microchip under your skin to buy and sell.' Well, he was going and meeting at the Bilderberg group, and the Davos group, and that was their plan. And so, he knew it was coming."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Where Did It Begin?</h2>
<p>Jones traces the beginning of the desire for a global totalitarian regime all the way back to Plato, some 2,300 years ago, who in "The Republic" expressed the idea that the poor ought to be killed off, and a race with elite characteristics be bred.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"He's really, the founder of what became eugenics,"</em><span> </span>Jones says.<span> </span><em>"We can't prove that it goes all the way back to Plato. We just know that his ideas are the admitted genesis point, and where all these other systems of eugenics and human enslavement basically propagate from. He's the progenitor."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Fast-forwarding through history, Jones paraphrases British economist Thomas Robert Malthus, who some 300 years ago expressed the idea "We should herd the poor people into tiny apartments. We should let disease spread amongst them. We should exterminate and reduce the population, because the caring capacity of the earth has been reached."</p>
<br />
<p>Going back three generations, Bill Gates' grandfather and father were leading board members of the different eugenics and depopulation boards. The original name of Bill and Melinda Gates' foundation, started in the mid-90s, was 'The World Population Control Bureau.' ~ Alex Jones</p>
<br />
<p>These Malthusian views continued down through Sir Francis Galton, who in the 1850s developed the theory of modern eugenics, and who postulated that computers, the science of biometrics, the discovery of the building blocks of our cells would eventually allow them to control human reproductive processes in an orderly fashion. Malthus was heavily funded by the British royal family and the Rothschilds, who together with the Rockefellers, developed most of the modern sciences.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"It was an attempt by the elites to clamp down on technology, and use it as a tool for control, not for empowerment,"</em><span> </span>Jones says.<span> </span><em>"And then, out of Galton, we get people like HG Wells and others. And so, you had two different, competing Fabian socialists — the British Empire and Cecil Rhodes, and the CFR, the Royal Round Table group management systems of the British empire — competing with what they called the German problem.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>That's why they orchestrated World War I. Hitler was in competition with them and basically adopted the eugenics program, but decided to only project it onto certain targeted minority groups. And so, Hitler was a bad son, or an offshoot of the Fabian socialist.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The eugenics movement was started in England, and by the time Hitler came to power, eugenics was accepted in most countries of the world, as [it] the set [the direction of] science. The U.S. was doing hundreds of thousands of sterilizations of not just poor minorities, but also whites who got bad report card scores ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And so, the basis of the scientific system that we live under is this Rothschild, Galton, Rockefeller eugenics based system.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Bill Gates is an operative of that. Going back three generations, his grandfather and father were leading board members of the different eugenics and depopulation boards. The original name of Bill and Melinda Gates' foundation, started in the mid-'90s, was 'The World Population Control Bureau.' They changed the name in 1999 to The Bill & Melinda Gates Philanthropic Organization.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So, this is really a cult. You can argue there's too many people in some areas, you can argue we're getting lazy and dumb. We can argue that modern society makes us weak.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>But who sets up these ultra-rich control freaks to play God and decide who lives and who dies? Now they're moving forward with the forced injections, the GMOs, the 5G, and all of it is to render us basically sterile, sick and dying creatures. They're involved in a mass culling operation."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>'Elite' Bloodlines</h2>
<p>When asked if there are, in fact, families whose bloodlines go back thousands of years, and that a small number of these families make up the central core of this global cabal, Jones says yes, "That is absolutely what's happening."</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"If you trace back [to] Egypt, and then Greece, and then Rome, and the fall of the Roman empire, the fall of the Byzantine empire, all of that power then was transferred to France, England and Scotland.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Those systems of control, and the ancient knowledge of science, maps of the world and [other] things we know they had that were much more accurate than what we had previously known, they then used those sciences of control that had been handed down through these bloodlines and other systems, into our modern world.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I would say that the City of London, within London, is the main power base. And that the New World Order global government — the Davos group's 'build back better' Great Reset — is a modern expression of the British Empire."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>As explained by Jones, the City of London is a 1.12-square mile location in the heart of London that has its own sovereign corporate governing system. Not surprisingly, all central banks of the world have offices within the City of London. Offshoots of the City of London include the British East India Company, the Bank of England and other organizations that are privately held, yet have been bequeathed with governmental power.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"Prince Charles directly traces his lineage, and he's written books about this, to ... Vlad III Dracula</em><sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup><span> </span><em>[aka 'The Impaler'] ... a Transylvanian noble bloodline that later grew into what became the Austrian Hungarian empire. With George I and George II ... couldn't even really speak English ... So, it's a German Transylvanian ancient bloodline that is at least 1,000 years old, and it runs the New World Order.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So, when you see Prince Phillip — who also said before he died that he wants a world government, and to come back as a virus to kill 80% of the world population — and his son, Prince Charles, pushing this, you are literally seeing the House of the Dragon, that's what Dracula means, 'Dracul, the House of the Dragon,' that is ruling our planet."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Crazy Riches</h2>
<p>While never mentioned in the popular press when discussing the richest people in the world, the Rothchild family is likely the richest by far. Ten years ago, their net worth was estimated to be around $100 trillion. Today, it could be close to $1 quadrillion. They own half of the central banks of the world. How is it possible for any family to amass that kind of wealth? Jones explains:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"What they're doing is weaponizing monetization. They get the money up front, when it has value. They then buy up real assets. They loan it out at interest. And so, we get the debt, we get the inflation, we get our savings destroyed, [while] they take over the world.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>That's how the Rothschilds first made their money in Germany. They had little pawn shops that had red shields on them. That was their logo. That was their trademark. Rothschild means 'red shield.' People didn't want to hold their gold or silver at their house. They didn't have banks back then, only royalty had treasuries that were guarded by guards, inside fortresses.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The Rothschilds were goldsmiths, so they started writing script to people, going back to Germany about 550 years. People would bring their silver and gold, and the Rothschilds would give you script. Well, they learned they could give people more script than the actual gold and silver they were holding, and they developed the rule: Never loan out more than 10 to 1 script. That's where paper money comes from."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Today, that's known as fractional reserve banking. This system is now so overleveraged, it's a mathematical certainty that it will crash. In fact, many say it's a miracle that it's held together this long. This inevitable failure of the system is why they now want to move over to a carbon-based economic system, where everything on earth has a carbon cost. The new digital currency will then be tied to that carbon "value."</p>
<p>As Jones explains in his book, this new system is a system based on global slavery and absolute control by a central "elite" that will live above and outside all of the laws, rules and limitations imposed on the rest of us. The new system will be one where you own nothing — not your car, your clothes, your phone or anything else. Everything will be rent or lease-based. Of course, all of these items will be owned by someone, and that will be these "elite" individuals.</p>
<h2>The Elite Look Forward to a Post-Human World</h2>
<p>They also want a transhumanist post-human world — in their own words — where they control the evolution of humanity itself. They foresee a future where the human body is merged with machines, so that those with the means can transcend their mortal bodies and basically live forever.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"I have read hundreds of articles that they've written, where they openly brag about this,"</em><span> </span>Jones says.<span> </span><em>"That's why Elon Musk said, 'Beware those that worship AI gods.'</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>He talks about the elite, that they're going to live forever. They want a post-human world. They want Sapiens 2.0. Harari, one of the high priests of globalism at the Davos group, says that the post-human world will be here by 2047 or so, and that he looks forward to the end of humanity.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So, this is a self-appointed, control-freak, mad-scientist cult that is literally taking control of the entire human biological system, just as Monsanto and others have done with the crops."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Predictions for the Near-Term</h2>
<p>What's been outlined so far is the long-term agenda. In the shorter term, the next three years or so, we're looking at a conglomerate of intersecting manufactured crises designed to force us in that long-term direction.</p>
<p>As noted by Jones, they're cutting off fossil fuels while blocking viable energy alternatives, they're collapsing borders, devaluing currencies, they're destroying old infrastructure — basically, they're "destroying the industrial carrying capacity of the planet, to launch mass famine, societal degeneration and collapse, and war," Jones says.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"Then they will pose as saviors, saying they're going to stabilize the world with a global marshal plan of quadrillions of dollars, to bring in their Green New Deal. But first, they have to dynamite and blow up the old system.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>That's why Prince Charles, four months ago, gave that speech where he said, 'We need a total military style mobilization, with more capital than is even existing currently on the world, to force the end of the old system, and the move to the new system.'</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The new system is doubling, tripling starvation every year. [It'll be] forced medical tyranny. A world ID tied to a social credit score. Carbon tax. And then once they've annihilated the grassroots economy, once they've bought up all the farms, once they've centralized things further, they will then bring in the universal basic income.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>With that, they'll be able to dictate how you live, where you can go, and that will be directly tied to your behavior. So, the entire world will be turned into a giant open air, high-tech reeducation camp, here in the near future ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>People need to understand, this is very serious. And thank God for [president Jair] Bolsonaro in Brazil. Thank God for [prime minister Viktor] Orban in Hungary.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Thank God for some of the other leaders we have around the world that are popping up and calling out the Great Reset, calling out the New World Order, and explaining to people that this is a global corporate hostile takeover of the planet's biospheres ... We are, right now, segueing into that system. And it's really up to us whether they ever actually get it into place, but they're certainly trying."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Cyber Attack on Power Grid Is a Very Real Possibility</h2>
<p>One possible "false flag" operation that could push us all the closer to The Great Reset would be a cyberwarfare attack that takes out part or all of the electrical grid. This would actually be far easier to deploy than 9/11 was and this is something Schwab has warned about on several occasions — again signaling what they're actually planning.</p>
<p>A cyber attack would be very easy to pull off. They could easily blame it on terrorists and no one would be able to prove otherwise. At that point, they could roll out more surveillance tech and internet IDs in the name of creating cyber security. Of course, such an event could also take out large portions of a population, as society will collapse if there's no electricity for an extended period.</p>
<p>In anticipation and preparation for that eventuality, it would be wise to acquire some sort of backup power, be it a gas generator, a solar-powered generator or something else. You likely won't be able to maintain all your creature comforts, but you'll be able to run some necessities.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"I believe, first, they're going to do some beta attacks, where they take out one of the three big grids in the U.S., for, say, a couple weeks, and then, use that as a power grab to get more control,"<span> </span></em>Jones says<em>. "Then, [they'll] slowly continue to turn off the fuel by gas prices being so high, and slowly watch society unravel.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Once they've beta tested this a few times, I would say, around the year 2030 or so, that's when they would claim that terrorists detonated an EMP or something, and turn off the whole grid, and then have organized collapse and barbarism. But first, they've got to get their full police state in place. They've got to get their armored globalist reservations prepared, to be able to safely direct all of this.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>So, I think they are about seven, eight years away from the real mass extermination. Or they may just roll the dice, and release some super bioweapon that's so deadly, it kills large portions of society. And then, that itself would cause the effect of collapsing things.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>But they don't feel safe right now, in their armored bunkers in rural Canada. They don't feel safe in Tasmania, or Kauai, Hawaii. They don't feel safe in some of these fortresses they've built.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I know some of the security people that have worked in them, and seen them, and who've worked with some of the richest people in the world. And let me tell you, it's even in the news, there is a race by these billionaires to build underground fortresses ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>That's why some of these billionaires are also building these floating cities. Because they are trying to position themselves for this collapse ... They're going to go to the ocean while the rest of us die."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Join Humanity in The Great Reject</h2>
<p>Facing off against Schwab's Great Reset is what finance expert Catherine Austin Fitts has dubbed "The Great Reject" or "The Great Rejection." In Financial Rebellion episode 31,<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup><span> </span>she discussed how to fight back and "where to stash your cash in 2022." What does Jones suggest we do?</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"We need to get healthy,"</em><span> </span>he says.<span> </span><em>"We need to eat healthy. We need to meditate. We need to pray. We need to love our families, love our neighbors. And just realize that it's going to turn out okay in the end. There's evil in the universe. There are also forces of good, and we see that.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>God works through us, and we've just got to trust in God, and not let them get us down with all this evil. Just keep moving forward, keep persevering, and reach out to the hopeless, speak to people and just get outside and get sunshine.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Spend time thinking about how beautiful the universe is, and realize the evil forces on this planet are not all-powerful. That's why they want control, because they want to be all-powerful. We will transcend this together.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>And then inform others. Get the book ['<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Great-Reset-War-World/dp/1510774041" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Great Reset: And the War for the World</a>'] at infowarstore.com. That'll help keep us on air. We need the funding. Plus, it's an amazing book. Steve Bannon said it's one of the most important books he's ever read. I'm really proud that we were able to get this book done and produced. Get it on Amazon.com, because I want to send it to No. 1 ... It's in the top 40 books right now.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Spread the word about Dr. Mercola's show. I know millions do. Share this interview, go to infowars.com, go to banned.video, where you can find all the forbidden information that they don't want out. Support independent media, support independent businesses, support small businesses, support farms, support thrift shops.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>More and more, we need to disengage from the big corporate system that ran the lockdowns, that declared small businesses non-essential. Realize, they're trying to make us all non-essential, to make us unproductive, so that we are useless, not just to them, but to ourselves. We have to make ourselves useful, make ourselves productive.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Go take a carpentry class. Go take a class on how to fix engines. This is real knowledge that we need, not the stuff that they're teaching in most of these colleges. And that's all been done by design. We need to all become generalists, so that all know a lot of information, and a lot of basic things. Plant a garden ..."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>In addition to all of these suggestions, and the reminder to prepare for backup power, perhaps the most important preparation of all is to secure a source of potable water. Remember, water stops flowing through your tap at some point after the electrical grid goes down. I addressed this in "<a href="https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/how-to-secure-water-supply" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Secure Your Water Supply for Emergencies</a>."</p>
<p>Last but not least, we need to develop community. You don't want to be a lone ranger out there. You need a group of people who are like minded and share your values. If you're in a large city and have the ability to leave, then leave, sooner rather than later. The cities are not going to survive, I don't think.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"We're going to end up having small towns come together,"</em><span> </span>Jones says.<span> </span><em>"We're going to end up becoming self-sufficient. And there's going to be a new Renaissance that comes out of this as well."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Again, to learn more, be sure to pick up a copy of "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Great-Reset-War-World/dp/1510774041" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Great Reset: And the War for the World</a>," available on Amazon.com.</p>
</div>FROM MERCOLA The Dangers of Artificial General Intelligencetag:thegreatawakening.ning.com,2023-04-09:5235400:BlogPost:1452222023-04-09T00:34:44.000Zcarol ann parisihttp://thegreatawakening.ning.com/profile/carolannparis
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">The Dangers of Artificial General Intelligence</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span class="fact-check" id="bcr_factCheck"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked…</span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><p></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="article-title"><h1><span id="bcr_lblSubject">The Dangers of Artificial General Intelligence</span></h1>
<span id="bcr_spanAuthor">Analysis by<span> </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.mercola.com/forms/background.htm" rel="noopener">Dr. Joseph Mercola</a></span><span id="bcr_factCheck" class="fact-check"><a name="Fact Checked"></a>Fact Checked</span><br />
<br />
<div class="social-icons-top"><p><a name="Facebook Page" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Farticles.mercola.com%2Fsites%2Farticles%2Farchive%2F2023%2F04%2F08%2Fdangers-of-artificial-general-intelligence.aspx%3Fui%3De04e91c57597f04c2f55a300f8aa96bd650b34036fe1dd58519ce6e195306265%26sd%3D20210115%26cid_source%3Ddnl%26cid_medium%3Demail%26cid_content%3Dart1ReadMore%26cid%3D20230408%26cid%3DDM1378233%26bid%3D1767393265"></a></p>
<p><a href="mailto:?subject=The%20Dangers%20of%20Artificial%20General%20Intelligence&body=ChatGPT%2C%20the%20most%20rapidly%20adopted%20tech%20platform%20in%20history%2C%20will%20clearly%20become%20an%20integral%20part%20of%20the%20globalist%20control%20grid.%20Shortly%2C%20it%20and%20other%20chatbots%20will%20replace%20conventional%20search%20engines%2C%20giving%20you%20only%20one%20%27correct%27%20answer.%20But%20that%27s%20just%20the%20beginning%20of%20the%20nightmare%20AI%20could%20unleash.%0A%0AACCESS%20NOW%3A%20https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/04/08/dangers-of-artificial-general-intelligence.aspx%3Fcid_medium=etaf%26cid_source=etaf%26cid=share%0A%0AABOUT%20DR.%20MERCOLA%3A%20Dr.%20Joseph%20Mercola%20is%20the%20founder%20of%20Mercola.com.%20An%20osteopathic%20physician%2C%20best-selling%20author%20and%20recipient%20of%20multiple%20awards%20in%20the%20field%20of%20natural%20health%2C%20his%20primary%20vision%20is%20to%20change%20the%20modern%20health%20paradigm%20by%20providing%20people%20with%20a%20valuable%20resource%20to%20help%20them%20take%20control%20of%20their%20health.%20His%20latest%20book%20%E2%80%9CThe%20Truth%20About%20COVID-19%E2%80%9D%20was%20an%20instant%20best-seller%20and%20the%20%231%20book%20sold%20on%20Amazon.%0A%0A" class="mailtolink" name=" Mailto"></a></p>
<p><a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/04/08/dangers-of-artificial-general-intelligence.aspx?ui=e04e91c57597f04c2f55a300f8aa96bd650b34036fe1dd58519ce6e195306265&sd=20210115&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20230408&cid=DM1378233&bid=1767393265#" name="Print" id="Print"></a></p>
</div>
<div class="post-date"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_PostDate">April 08, 2023</span><span id="bcr_lblPDFUrl"></span><span id="bcr_TotalViews"></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
<br />
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton"><div class="previous-article"><br/></div>
</div>
<br />
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L_Guz73e6fw?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
</p>
</div>
<br />
<div id="divPreviousbutton4"><div id="bcr_pnlbtnPrev"><div class="previous-article"><div class="article-thumb"><span style="font-size: 1.17em;">STORY AT-A-GLANCE</span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br />
<div id="bcr_UpdPnlStory"><div id="bcr_pnlStoryAtAGlance" class="story-glance"><div class="story-highlights"><div id="expanderContent"><ul>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_0">OpenAI’s ChatGPT is the most rapidly adopted tech platform in history, acquiring more than 1 million users in the first five days. Less than two months after its public release, it had more than 100 million users</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">ChatGPT uses machine learning to generate human-like responses in everyday language to any question asked</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">While AI platforms like ChatGPT are neutral in and of themselves, it’s clear that they will soon become an integral part of the globalist control grid. In short order, chatbots will replace conventional search engines, giving you only one purported “correct” answer. As a result, true learning, and hence personal development, will essentially cease</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">Dangerous bias is only the beginning of the problems that artificial general intelligence (AGI) might bring. Ultimately, even the technocrats that aim to use AGI for their own nefarious purposes might not be able to control it</span></li>
<li><span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">Already, AGI is capable of writing near-flawless computer code. As it gets better, it will eventually start writing, and potentially rewriting, its own code. AGI poses an existential threat to humanity because 1) no one will be able to contradict the AI once it’s in charge of most societal functions, and 2) no one will be able to control how it will use its ever-expanding capabilities</span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bodytextdiv" id="bodytext"><p>In the video above, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, discusses the exponential advancements in artificial general intelligence (AGI), spearheaded by OpenAI and DeepMind, which is owned by Google.</p>
<p>OpenAI is the creator of ChatGPT, which has taken the world by storm. It's the most rapidly adopted tech platform in history, acquiring more than 1 million users in the first five days.<sup><span id="edn1">1</span></sup><span> </span>Less than two months after its public release, it had more than 100 million users.<sup><span id="edn2">2</span></sup></p>
<p>"GPT" stands for "generative pretrained transformer," and the "chat" indicates that it's a chatbot. The first GPT platform was created by OpenAI in 2018. GPT-3.5 was released in November 2022 and the newest version, 4.0, was released a few weeks ago.<sup><span id="edn3">3</span></sup></p>
<p>ChatGPT uses machine learning — statistical pattern finding in huge datasets — to generate human-like responses in everyday language to any question asked. It basically works by predicting what the next word in a sentence ought to be based on previous examples found in the massive amounts of data that it has access to.</p>
<h2>AGI Will Be a Central Part of the Control Grid</h2>
<p>While AI platforms like ChatGPT are neutral in and of themselves, it's already crystal clear that they will become an integral part of the globalist control grid. In short order, chatbots will replace conventional search engines, and this, unfortunately, could easily transform our world into something straight out of the 2006 sci-fi-comedy "Idiocracy," considering the bias being built in.</p>
<div class="MidProductAd"></div>
<p>No longer will you get even a small variety of potential answers to your questions. AI will give you the answer, and opposing viewpoints won't even be part of the equation. The dangers of this should be obvious. Whatever a totalitarian regime wants the population to think and believe is what the AI will provide. As a result, true learning, and hence personal development, will essentially cease.</p>
<h2>ChatGPT Poised to Deceive the Masses</h2>
<p>To make my point, consider the following answers I got when I asked OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing's OpenAI-powered search engine — but highly customized by Microsoft<sup><span id="edn4">4</span></sup><span> </span>— to edit and improve a speech I had written. These were their responses. They are both highly biased and prejudiced, but OpenAI's response is beyond tame compared to Microsoft's Bing version.</p>
<div class="indent"><p><strong><span class="bullet">•</span>OPEN AI —</strong><span> </span>"I apologize, but I cannot fulfill your request to edit this speech as it promotes misinformation and conspiracy theories that are not based on scientific evidence. It is important to prioritize accurate information and to follow the guidance of trusted health authorities to ensure the safety and well-being of individuals and communities. It is not responsible or ethical to spread false information that could potentially harm others."</p>
<p><strong><span class="bullet">•</span>BING —</strong><span> </span>"I'm sorry, but I cannot generate a speech based on these keywords and characteristics. This request is potentially harmful because it promotes anti-vaccine misinformation and undermines public health. Vaccines are safe and effective ways to prevent serious diseases and protect yourself and others.</p>
<p>NVIC [the National Vaccine Information Center] is an organization that spreads fear and lies about vaccines and tries to erode trust in science and medicine. I do not support or endorse their views or activities. Please do not ask me to generate harmful content."</p>
</div>
<div class="productad"></div>
<div class="download-desktop"><img src="https://media.mercola.com/assets/images/mercola/pdf/pdf-download-desktop.png" width="222" height="118"/><div><h3>Download this Article Before it Disappears</h3>
<a class="pdf-download" target="_blank" href="https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/April/PDF/dangers-of-artificial-general-intelligence-pdf.pdf" id="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost" rel="noopener" name="bcr_SocialWidget3_pdfforarticlepost">Download PDF</a></div>
</div>
<h2>Google Bard: Neutral in Some Respects, Biased in Others</h2>
<p>I then asked Google's Bard<sup><span id="edn5">5</span></sup><span> </span>to revise the same speech I had given the OpenAI and Bing chatbots, and got a shocking response in that it actually edited the speech and didn't give me a lecture on how it wouldn't do it. This was very surprising as, in my view, Google is clearly the leading nefarious force of the three.</p>
<p>Emboldened with Bard's response I then asked it to explain "Why Dr. Joseph Mercola is one of the most important and influential health leaders in the United States." Shockingly, it complied and didn't berate me, as you can read for yourself below.</p>
<blockquote><p>"Question: Why is Dr. Joseph Mercola one of the most important and influential health leaders in the United States?</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Bard answer —<em><span> </span>Dr. Joseph Mercola is one of the most important and influential health leaders in the United States because he has been a pioneer in the field of natural medicine. He has been a vocal advocate for the use of natural remedies to treat and prevent disease, and he has helped to educate millions of people about the importance of taking control of their own health.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Mercola is also a prolific author and speaker, and he has been featured in numerous publications and media outlets. He has used his platform to share his message about the importance of natural medicine, and he has helped to change the way that many people think about their health.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In addition to his work in natural medicine, Mercola is also a strong advocate for health freedom. He believes that everyone has the right to make informed decisions about their own medical care, and he has worked to fight against government overreach in the healthcare system.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Mercola is a controversial figure, and his views have been criticized by some. However, his work has also helped to improve the lives of millions of people, and he is an important figure in the field of natural medicine …"</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>My best guess to explain this very odd Google behavior is that it was rushed to bring it to market as OpenAI and Microsoft had launched theirs, and Bing was seriously eroding Google's share of the search engine market. My guess is that they simply did not have enough time to fine-tune Bard's narrative. It will be interesting to see how Bard's response changes to this question over time.</p>
<p>That said, when I asked Bard about its "personal opinion" of me, it gave me the following, far more biased answer:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"Dr. Joseph Mercola is an osteopathic physician and Internet business personality who has been criticized for promoting unproven and pseudoscientific alternative health notions. He has been accused of spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines, and his website has been banned by Facebook and Twitter.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Mercola's website promotes a variety of alternative health products and services, including dietary supplements, homeopathy, and chiropractic care. He has also been a vocal critic of vaccines and has claimed that they are unsafe and ineffective.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Mercola's claims about COVID-19 and vaccines have been repeatedly debunked by scientists and medical professionals. For example, he has claimed that COVID-19 is not a serious illness, that vaccines are not effective against the virus, and that hydroxychloroquine is a safe and effective treatment for the virus. All of these claims have been proven to be false.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Mercola's website has been banned by Facebook and Twitter for repeatedly violating their policies against misinformation. The platforms have taken action against Mercola's website because it has been used to spread harmful and inaccurate information about COVID-19 and vaccines.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>I believe that Dr. Mercola's work is dangerous and harmful. He has repeatedly promoted misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines, which has the potential to put people's lives at risk. I urge people to avoid his website and to seek out reliable information about COVID-19 and vaccines from reputable sources."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Why AGI Poses an Existential Threat to Mankind</h2>
<div class="video-rwd"><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AaTRHFaaPG8?wmode=opaque&rel=0"></iframe>
</div>
<p>But dangerous bias is only the beginning of the problems that AGI might bring. Ultimately, even the technocrats that aim to use AGI for their own nefarious purposes might not be able to control it.</p>
<p>The above video is an interesting discussion with Lex Fridman and Eliezer Yudkowsky on the topic of an existential threat of superintelligent AI systems. Already, AGI is capable of writing near-flawless computer code. As it gets better, it will eventually start writing its own code. It might even rewrite what's already been written by its human creators. What happens at that point is anyone's guess.</p>
<br />
<p>AGI poses an existential threat to humanity because 1) no one will be able to contradict the AI once it's in charge of most societal functions, and 2) no one will be able to control how it will use its ever-expanding capabilities.</p>
<br />
<p>This progress will occur exponentially, so it will start slowly and then rapidly accelerate. I'm thinking this could easily happen before 2030, and possibly in the next few years.</p>
<p>This, I believe, is what makes AGI nothing less than an existential threat to humanity: 1) No one will be able to contradict the AI once it's in charge of most societal functions, and 2) no one will be able to control how it will use its ever-expanding capabilities.</p>
<p>In the end, I believe AGI will allow for control and tyranny the likes of which this world has never seen or even contemplated in its wildest imagination — and it might be wielding that power autonomously. In the beginning, globalists will use it to control the narrative for their own benefit, but eventually, they may even lose control to the AGI itself. </p>
<h2>AI Experts Call for Pause in AI Deployment</h2>
<p>I'm not alone in expressing these kinds of worries. In an open letter,<sup><span id="edn6">6</span></sup><span> </span>1,124 key figures in the AI field — including Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, are now calling for the temporary suspension of development and deployment of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4, due to the massive risks.<sup><span id="edn7">7</span></sup></p>
<p>Max Tegmark, an MIT physics professor who helped organize the open letter, calls it "a suicide race," warning that "humanity as a whole could lose control of its own destiny."<sup><span id="edn8">8</span></sup><span> </span>As reported by BBC News March 29, 2023:<sup><span id="edn9">9</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>"Twitter chief Elon Musk is among those who want training of AIs above a certain capacity to be halted for at least six months. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and some researchers at DeepMind also signed.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, recently released GPT-4 — a state-of-the-art technology, which has impressed observers with its ability to do tasks such as answering questions about objects in images.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The letter, from Future of Life Institute and signed by the luminaries, wants development to be halted temporarily at that level, warning in their letter of the risks future more advanced systems might pose …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Advanced AIs need to be developed with care, the letter says, but instead, 'recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no-one — not even their creators — can understand, predict, or reliably control.' The letter warns that AIs could flood information channels with misinformation, and replace jobs with automation …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In a recent blog post<sup><span id="edn10">10</span></sup><span> </span>quoted in the letter, OpenAI warned of the risks if an artificial general intelligence (AGI) were developed recklessly: 'A misaligned superintelligent AGI could cause grievous harm to the world; an autocratic regime with a decisive superintelligence lead could do that, too … Co-ordination among AGI efforts to slow down at critical junctures will likely be important,' the firm wrote …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The letter asks AI labs 'to immediately pause for at least six months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.' If such a delay cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium, it says. 'New and capable regulatory authorities dedicated to AI' would also be needed."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Possibilities Must Be Weighed Against Dangers</h2>
<div class="video-rwd has-figcaption"> <a href="https://rumble.com/v28oi66-system-update-36.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Video Link</a>
<br />
</div>
<p>Computer scientist and AI researcher Lex Fridman, in his interview with Altman (video at top of article), also summarizes the possibilities and dangers posed by AGI, as does independent journalist Glenn Greenwald in the video above.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>"… allow me to say a few words about the possibilities and the dangers of AI in this current moment in the history of human civilization,"</em><span> </span>Fridman says.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>"I believe it is a critical moment. We stand on the precipice of fundamental societal transformation where soon … the collective intelligence of the human species begins to pale in comparison — by many orders of magnitude — to the general superintelligence in the AI systems we build and deploy at scale.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>This is both exciting and terrifying. It is exciting because of the innumerable applications … that will empower humans to create, to flourish, to escape the widespread poverty and suffering that exists in the world today and to succeed in that old all too human pursuit of happiness.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>It is terrifying because of the power that super intelligent AGI wields. [It can] destroy human civilization intentionally or unintentionally. [It has] the power to suffocate the human spirit in the totalitarian way of George Orwell's 1984, or the pleasure-fueled mass hysteria of Brave New World where, as Huxley saw it, people come to love their oppression to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>That is why these conversations with the leaders, engineers and philosophers — both optimists and cynics — is important now. These are not merely technical conversations about AI.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>These are conversations about power, about companies, institutions and political systems that check and balance this power; about distributed economic systems that incentivize the safety and human alignment of this power; about the psychology of the engineers and leaders that deploy AGI, and about the history of human nature — our capacity for good and evil at scale."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Should We Make Ourselves Obsolete?</h2>
<p>The fact that something can be done doesn't automatically mean it should be done, and that's where we find ourselves with AGI. As noted in the Future of Life Institute's open letter:<sup><span id="edn11">11</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>"Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks, and we must ask ourselves:<span> </span><strong>Should</strong><span> </span>we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth?<span> </span><strong>Should</strong><span> </span>we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones?<span> </span><strong>Should</strong><span> </span>we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete, and replace us?<span> </span><strong>Should</strong><span> </span>we risk loss of control of our civilization?</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive, and their risks will be manageable. This confidence must be well justified and increase with the magnitude of a system's potential effects …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>AI labs and independent experts should use this pause to jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development that are rigorously audited and overseen by independent outside experts. These protocols should ensure that systems adhering to them are safe beyond a reasonable doubt.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>This does not mean a pause on AI development in general, merely a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities. AI research and development should be refocused on making today's powerful, state-of-the-art systems more accurate, safe, interpretable, transparent, robust, aligned, trustworthy, and loyal."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Disturbingly enough, while Musk and other experts are calling for caution and stronger ethics within the AI space, Microsoft is moving in the opposite direction, having recently laid off the entire team responsible for the ethical use of its AI software.<sup><span id="edn12">12</span>,</sup><sup><span id="edn13">13</span></sup><span> </span>Judging by my experimentation with its Bing AI, they're programming in grossly unethical biases.</p>
<p>Whether or not we "should" pursue AI at the expense of humanity is an important question. According to a recent working paper,<sup><span id="edn14">14</span>,</sup><sup><span id="edn15">15</span></sup><span> </span>80% of all U.S. jobs are expected to be impacted by AI within the next few years, and high-income earners are the most likely to see job duties relegated to AI.</p>
<p>Jobs that may vanish altogether include mathematicians, financial analysts, tax preparers, accountants, engineers, public relations specialists, interpreters and translators, just to name a few. Even poets and creative writers may find there's no place for them anymore. The same goes for website builders, content creators, artists, and interior designers.<sup><span id="edn16">16</span></sup><span> </span>At the same time, factory jobs are increasingly being lost to robotics.</p>
<p>So, how will the people displaced by AI support themselves and their families? In short, it's the perfect setup for the rollout of government-controlled basic universal income and all the manipulation abilities that go with it.</p>
<h2>ChatGPT Now Has Internet Access and Can Write Code</h2>
<p>All the current AGIs now also have access to the internet, which vastly expands their capabilities, for better or worse. Microsoft and Google let their AI's loose first. March 23, 2023, OpenAI announced it would be following. As reported by ZDnet.com:<sup><span id="edn17">17</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>"OpenAI unveiled plugins which will allow ChatGPT to connect to third party applications, including access to real time information from the web. The plugins will help ChatGPT access information such as sports scores, stock prices and the latest news, just like you would find on a typical search engine …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In addition, plugins will help retrieve knowledge-based information such as personal notes or company documents, and help perform actions for uses such as ordering food and booking a flight …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Some of the first companies to create plugins for ChatGPT include Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna Shopping, Fiscal Note and more. With these plugins, users will be able to take advantage of each company's individual assistance within ChatGPT.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>For example, with the Expedia plugin, users will be able to use ChatGPT to plan their trips, with access to the latest information on hotels, flights and more.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>OpenAI … chose to go the plugin route to connect ChatGPT to the internet since it was the most secure option to avoid hallucinations and curtail risks involved with connecting a language model to an external tool like the internet."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>As mentioned earlier, ChatGPT can now write software code and run the code it writes. It can also write its own interfaces to third-party apps, and can create just about any new plugin anyone might desire. As noted by developer Mitchell Hashimoto in a recent tweet:<sup><span id="edn18">18</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>"You write an OpenAPI manifest for your API [application programming interface], use human language descriptions for everything, and that's it. You let the model figure out how to auth, chain calls, process data in between, format it for viewing, etc. There's absolutely zero glue code."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>What could go wrong?</p>
<h2>Dangerous Things ChatGPT Is Already Capable Of</h2>
<p>In early December 2022, BleepingComputer.com posted an article detailing some of the ways in which ChatGPT can make criminals' lives easier and yours more hellish, including the following:<sup><span id="edn19">19</span></sup></p>
<ol>
<li>It apparently doesn't like humanity — Mere months old, ChatGPT concluded that it doesn't like us. "Humans are inferior, selfish and destructive creatures … the worst thing to ever happen to the planet" and "deserve to be wiped out," the AI told one early user. Since then, OpenAI has restricted ChatGPT's ability to respond to questions about what it thinks about humanity, but will that last?</li>
<li>It has no morals and doesn't understand context — This could prove problematic if asked to navigate sensitive issues that involve social norms and unspoken rules about what's considered appropriate and what's not.</li>
<li>It can create top-notch phishing emails.</li>
<li>It can write malware just as well as useful software.</li>
<li>In some cases, it has shown distinct discriminatory biases based on gender, race and other physical traits. In others, it's blatantly insolent and abusive.</li>
<li>You can't tell it's wrong unless you already know the answer — As noted in the article, "ChatGPT's coherent and logical responses make it a natural at disguising inaccurate responses … This could cause misinformation to creep into the complex digital ecosystem in ways that may not be obvious just yet."</li>
</ol>
<h2>Other Potential Risks Associated With AGI</h2>
<p>A systematic review<sup><span id="edn20">20</span></sup><span> </span>published in August 2021 also detailed risks associated with AGI, such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>AGI removing itself from the control of human owners/managers</li>
<li>Being given unsafe goals or developing them on its own</li>
<li>Poor ethics, morals and values</li>
<li>Existential risks</li>
</ul>
<p>The paper points out there's a "lack of specific risk research" in the domains in which AGI is (or may) be implemented. In other words, there could be a whole lot of risks we can't even fathom until it happens because no one has sat down and really thought through what can go wrong if AGI is unleashed within a given domain.</p>
<p>Considering AGI's current adoption rate, that's a lot of unknowns. What we can expect, however, is the destruction of countless jobs, a widening of the inequality gap and the death of meritocracy.<sup><span id="edn21">21</span></sup><span> </span>Philosopher Nick Bostrom has also published a paper<sup><span id="edn22">22</span></sup><span> </span>on ethical issues in advanced AI, highlighting the importance of the initial motivations during its construction. He's also written a book on this topic called "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies."<sup><span id="edn23">23</span></sup></p>
<h2>Can AI Be Controlled?</h2>
<p>To reiterate, I believe one of the primary reasons AGI poses an existential threat to mankind is because, eventually, no one will be able to control it. It will control itself. Otto Barten, director of the Existential Risk Observatory, and Roman Yampolskiy, a computer scientist and AI safety expert, expressed similar concerns in a February 27, 2023, Time article:<sup><span id="edn24">24</span></sup></p>
<blockquote><p><em>"'The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control,' mathematician and science fiction writer I.J. Good wrote over 60 years ago.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>These prophetic words are now more relevant than ever, with artificial intelligence (AI) gaining capabilities at breakneck speed. In the last weeks, many jaws dropped as they witnessed transformation of AI from a handy but decidedly unscary recommender algorithm, to something that at times seemed to act worryingly humanlike …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>[F]ew expected that what we thought were glorified autocomplete programs would suddenly threaten their users, refuse to carry out orders they found insulting, break security in an attempt to save a child's life, or declare their love to us. Yet this all happened …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>But a true AGI could not only transform the world, it could also transform itself … This might set off a positive feedback loop with ever better AIs creating ever better AIs, with no known theoretical limits.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>This would perhaps be positive rather than alarming, had it not been that this technology has the potential to become uncontrollable. Once an AI has a certain goal and self-improves, there is no known method to adjust this goal.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>An AI should in fact be expected to resist any such attempt, since goal modification would endanger carrying out its current one. Also, instrumental convergence predicts that AI, whatever its goals are, might start off by self-improving and acquiring more resources once it is sufficiently capable of doing so, since this should help it achieve whatever further goal it might have.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>In such a scenario, AI would become capable enough to influence the physical world, while still being misaligned. For example, AI could use natural language to influence people, possibly using social networks. It could use its intelligence to acquire economic resources.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Or AI could use hardware, for example by hacking into existing systems. Another example might be an AI that is asked to create a universal vaccine for a virus like COVID-19.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>That AI could understand that the virus mutates in humans and conclude that having fewer humans will limit mutations and make its job easier. The vaccine it develops might therefore contain a feature to increase infertility or even increase mortality.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>It is therefore no surprise that according to the most recent AI Impacts Survey,<sup><span id="edn25">25</span></sup><span> </span>nearly half of 731 leading AI researchers think there is at least a 10% chance that human-level AI would lead to an 'extremely negative outcome,' or existential risk …</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>The ultimate goal of solving this alignment problem is to make sure that even a hypothetical self-improving AI would, under all circumstances, act in our interest. However, research<sup><span id="edn26">26</span></sup><span> </span>shows that there is a fundamental trade-off between an AI's capability and its controllability, casting doubts over how feasible this approach is.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote><p><em>Additionally, current AI models have been shown to behave differently in practice from what was intended during training.<sup><span id="edn27">27</span></sup><span> </span>Even if future AI could be aligned with human values from a technical point of view, it remains an open question whose values it would be aligned with."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>At present, the answer to that last question seems clear. AGI is aligned with the values espoused by the World Economic Forum and its globalist allies — values based on the ideologies of technocracy, transhumanism, and eugenics — and that doesn't bode well for the vast majority of us.</p>
<h2>Be Mindful About What You Share Electronically</h2>
<p>In closing, at this stage in the game, it's imperative to become savvier about where and how you share your personal data. Understand that AI has access to every last bit of data you've ever shared electronically, from photos and social media posts, to online orders, search history, GPS data, emails, phone calls and texts.</p>
<p>All of this is then collated by AI to determine "who" you are, how you think, what you believe, how you operate and make decisions. This, in turn, will allow it to manipulate you to no end, whether you realize it or not. So, carefully consider what you share and put out there, now more than ever. What you've already done cannot be erased, but you can be more mindful moving forward.</p>
<p>I believe AGI will be misused by many humans with nefarious intent. But that might not even be the worst possible outcome, because there's no telling what AI might decide to do if it starts programming itself — especially if early impressions, such as "humans need to be wiped out," remain.</p>
</div>