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The Most Important Topics of Our Time FROM MERCOLA SURVIVAL AWAKEN AMERICA!

The Most Important Topics of Our Time

Analysis by Dr. Joseph MercolaFact Checke



STORY AT-A-GLANCE
  • Supply chain disruptions causing food and energy shortages appear inevitable, as both industries are being intentionally targeted and dismantled under the guise of combating climate change, and global economic collapse is a mathematical certainty
  • The economic collapse will usher in programmable central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), which will be used to control your behavior and your health
  • The globalist cabal is also pursuing a one world totalitarian government through the World Health Organization, under the guise of global biosecurity
  • Inside the U.S., the transhumanist movement is fusing medicine with Silicon Valley and the national security state. There’s a concerted effort to frame transhumanism — which is really the new eugenics — as health care
  • People all over the world face a long list of growing crises. It’s important to understand these threats, and what you can do to prepare, resist and overcome them. Action items, solutions and guidance are presented for each

Children's Health Defense (CHD) is one of my favorite resources to keep current on everything COVID. They typically interview several experts every day and have amazing staff to compile the information in a useful format. I was excited when Polly Tommey from CHD told me that my interview with her earlier this year was the most viewed on their site. She invited me for another interview for the year in review.

So, with that background let me provide you with my view of the most important health stories of 2022.

People all over the world face a long list of growing crises, from food and energy shortages to worldwide tyranny and enslavement through programmable central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and the steady creation of a "one world government."

It is crucial to understand these threats and take action to prepare for, resist and overcome them. By learning about these issues and taking steps to protect ourselves, we can work together to create a more resilient future.

The Crisis: The World Health Organization's Pandemic Treaty

One of the most serious threats is the globalist cabal pursuit of a one world totalitarian government through the World Health Organization, under the guise of global biosecurity.

The WHO has drafted a global pandemic treaty on pandemic preparedness that would grant it absolute power over global biosecurity, such as the power to implement digital identities/vaccine passports, mandatory vaccinations, travel restrictions, standardized medical care and more. The treaty did not pass this year, but will most likely pass in 2023.

This treaty will change the global landscape and strip you of some of your most basic rights and freedoms. It's a direct attack on the sovereignty of its member states, as well as a direct attack on your bodily autonomy.

With this treaty in place, all member nations will be subject to the WHO's dictates. If the WHO says every person on the planet needs to have a vaccine passport and digital identity to ensure vaccination compliance, then that's what every country will be forced to implement, even if the people have rejected such plans using local democratic processes.

There's also reason to suspect the WHO intends to extend its sovereign leadership into the health care systems of every nation, eventually implementing a universal or "socialist-like" health care system as part of The Great Reset. WHO Director-General Tedros has previously stated that his "central priority" as director-general of the WHO is to push the world toward universal health coverage.1

And, considering the WHO changed its definition of "pandemic" to "a worldwide epidemic of a disease,"2 without the original specificity of severe illness that causes high morbidity,3,4 just about anything could be made to fit the pandemic criterion.

They could also declare a global pandemic for noninfectious threats, like global warming or even obesity. The declaration would allow them to circumvent all laws in place to preserve our freedom and implement tyrannical measures, like the lockdowns that were implemented in the COVID pandemic.

Action Item

Stopping this treaty will be quite difficult, as the World Health Assembly may or may not even accept public comment before making a decision. Your best bet right now is to sign up for the World Council for Health's (WCH) newsletter.

The last time the World Health Assembly met to discuss the treaty, the WCH issued links and instructions on how to submit your comment. You can subscribe at the bottom of this page, or on the WCH's home page. I and the CHD will also share details if they become available, so subscribing to our newsletters can give you a heads-up as well.

In the absence of instructions, you could reach out to your respective delegation and request that they oppose the treaty. A list of U.S. delegates can be found in James Roguski's Substack article, "Speaking Truth to Power."

For contact information for other nations' delegates, I would suggest contacting the regional office and ask for a list (see "Regions" in the blue section at the bottom of the World Health Assembly's webpage).

The Crisis: Normalizing Human Experimentation

One of the most egregious crimes against humanity occurred October 20, 2022, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) unanimously (15-0) voted to add unlicensed COVID-19 shots to the U.S. childhood, adolescent and adult vaccine schedules.5

By adding the shots to the vaccine schedule, the CDC is securing Pfizer's and Moderna's permanent liability shield so that no one can sue them for damages for injuries and deaths occurring as a result of the shots. It also opens the door for states to mandate the jab for school children.

The very same day, Pfizer announced it will raise the price on its COVID jab by about 400%,6 from $307 per jab to somewhere between $110 and $130 once the current U.S. purchase program expires.

Pfizer has forecasted expected revenues into the foreseeable future and they're not going to let real-world market demands dictate its revenue stream. Instead, they're going to make up the difference through price hikes which, ultimately, will be paid by government and insurance companies.

The unconscionable actions of the CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have also opened the door to make human experimentation the norm for future vaccines. The updated bivalent mRNA COVID shots, for example, were only tested on a few mice before they were authorized and released to the masses.

This is the new model for mRNA injection approvals, and it will spell disaster for humanity, especially if the WHO gets the power to dictate what we must take, and if international vaccine passports go through. At that point, humans become little more than experimental subjects for the transhumanist movement. They're literally charging us to gamble on our lives on their latest gene therapies.

The Crisis: Plunging Life Expectancy

US life expectancy has plummeted

Something extraordinarily odd happened in 2020 and 2021, something that shaved nearly three years off the life expectancy in the U.S.8 While media blames this drop on COVID-19 infection, that makes no sense, because the average age of those who died from COVID was about 85, well over the life expectancy in 2019.

No, this massive drop in life expectancy is due to younger people dying decades earlier than they should, and the only factor that can account for that is the mass injection of people with an experimental bioweapon — the COVID jabs.

Allopathic medicine has been a leading cause of death in the U.S. for over two decades.9,10,11 In future years, I believe the medical intervention sold as "COVID vaccines" will prove to be the No. 1 killer of Americans, and we're already seeing that trend.

Don't worry, if you understand the basics of health, you can easily avoid falling victim to this devious system. In this article, I will share the broad strokes you need to know to protect yourself and your family from the nefarious plans to take you out prematurely. By understanding these basics, you can take steps to improve your health and wellbeing, and to avoid falling prey to the harmful effects of this system.

The Crisis: The Fake 'Food Is Medicine' Agenda

Food and agriculture are also being overtaken and changed. The U.S. government has launched a "Food is Medicine" program,12,13 which is nothing but another way for the government to seize control of the population. Food as medicine will be used to get you into their control system, and keep you there. The goals behind this "food revolution" are to:14

1.Get as many people as possible into SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance) and WIC (women, infants and children) programs so that purchases and spending can be controlled through digital food tokens. Ultimately, everyone will be moved into a socialist food system based on government assistance tokens.

2.Integrate food and nutrition with health care so that food and health policies are under one umbrella. Food purchases and health records will be linked to your vaccine passport/digital identity.

3.Change food standards, food categories and nutrition. Traditional farming of grains and plants will be replaced with indoor vertical growing of patented GMO seeds, while animal farming will be regulated into oblivion in order to be replaced by insect farms (so-called micro livestock), gene-edited food and lab-grown meat.

The trap being laid out for us is that of a controlled socialist food system, where the state decides what you will eat. In the graphic below, included in a 2018 report15 by the Illinois Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Task Force, they show how they intend to control your "healthy eating token" usage through digital identity and digital currency.

healthy eating token

Over time, what's "healthy" will change as their control over agriculture and food manufacturing deepens. But government's healthy food recommendations will never be accurate and true. Need proof? Just look at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy's Food Compass,16,17 unveiled in late 2021 as the latest and greatest in nutritional science.

This tool is what will be used to guide health care and nutrition assistance programs in their selections. In this nutritional guidance tool, Lucky Charms, Frosted Mini Wheats, Honey Nut Cheerios, ice cream cones, chocolate covered almonds and almond M&Ms all have higher nutritional scores than cheddar cheese and ground beef.18

nutritional guidance tool

According to the Food Compass, you'll be healthier if you replace whole egg, cheddar cheese and ground beef with literal candy. Can there be any doubt that its purpose is to lead people away from wholesome natural foods, toward processed and genetically engineered junk foods?

And, considering how vaccines are being tied in with biosecurity and digital ID, it's not a far stretch to imagine that foods engineered to contain vaccines will be mandated through government food programs.

The Crisis: Food, Water and Energy Shortages

The world is facing a growing crisis of food and energy shortages, as well as widespread supply chain disruptions. In addition, both industries are being intentionally targeted and dismantled under the guise of combating climate change.

This is making it increasingly difficult for people to maintain food security, as inflation continues to rise. For example, on average, food prices in the United States were one-third higher in March 202119,20 than they were in March 2020. These challenges are only expected to worsen in the coming years.

Fertilizer prices are expected to double as a result of Russia's ban on fertilizer exports. For some farmers, that will be a death knell that causes them to go out of business. The rest will be forced to charge more for their commodities, resulting in skyrocketing food prices.

The climate has also been uncooperative, causing poor harvests around the world. China, for example, has reported it expects the lowest harvest yields in history this year, thanks to serious flooding of its farmland in the fall of 2021.21 And then there are the many mysterious fires that have destroyed major food distribution facilities around the world.

All of these factors will likely result in serious food shortages and famine around the world over the coming year. Availability of potable water is also diminishing, which will raise prices.

Action Item — Secure Your Water Supply

One of the most important preparations you can make is to secure a supply of potable water, as you can survive far longer without food than you can without water. An ideal system to consider, especially if you also have a garden, is to install a large cistern to collect rainwater.

Since I have a full acre of land that I grow food on, I have a 5,000-gallon cistern that collects rainwater from the gutters on my roof. This serves to augment my irrigation system but is also a large emergency source of water. Another strategy is to install a series of connected rain barrels to your gutters. If you live next to a river or pond or have a swimming pool, you may not need a cistern as you can simply filter the water from them.

I discuss this and other strategies in "How To Secure Your Water Supply For Emergencies." Also remember to stock up on means to purify less-than-ideal water sources. Examples include water purification tablets or drops, and/or independent water filtration systems.

There are portable inexpensive water filter pitchers like the Clearly Filtered Water Pitcher or Epic Nano Filter Pitcher, which can filter out pathogens and other impurities (meaning a filtration system that is not tied to the tap in your home, in case pumps go down and you have no tap water). Even a small survival water filtration system is better than nothing, as drinking contaminated water can result in serious illness and/or death.

Action Item — Stock Up on Shelf-Stable Foods

I recommend stocking up on healthy, nutritious foods that you eat on a regular basis anyway. That way, you can rotate your stock. In my view, animal protein would be one of the most important supplies to stock up on, which means you'll need extra freezer storage. It would likely make sense to get another freezer to store enough meat for three to six months.

The key to making this work is to have a backup power supply, as there is a high likelihood the grid will go down and you will lose your investment. The most economical way to stock up on meat would be to get ground bison, beef or lamb. Ground meat is less expensive, but more importantly, takes up the least amount of space in your freezer. Avoid pork and chicken due to high linoleic acid content.

Another option is canned beef, which has long shelf-life and doesn't require a freezer. Look for varieties that use salt as the only preservative. Canned wild Alaskan salmon, mackerel and sardines are also good options.

They contain healthy protein and fat while being low in toxic water pollutants and heavy metals. Just make sure they're canned in water, not oil, as you can be guaranteed that it'll be the worst oil possible. This is true even if it claims to be "olive oil." Other nutritious foods with long shelf-life include:

Tallow, ghee and coconut oil — These healthy fats are very low in linoleic acid (LA) and are ideal for cooking and remain stable even without refrigeration.

Organic beef broth and/or collagen powder — Beef broth is an ideal source of collagen, but organic grass fed collagen powder will stay fresh longer. Collagen is the most common and abundant of your body's proteins, and is required for bone health, tissue integrity and repair.

Whey protein — Whey protein is rich in leucine, which helps stimulate muscle protein synthesis, thereby promoting healthy muscle. Without a regular source of meat, it can be difficult to achieve enough leucine to maintain body protein from diet alone. Fortunately, whey can be easily stored and can serve as a resource to preserve your muscle mass.

Rice — Rice is a gluten-free staple that can be stored for long periods of time. Interestingly, white rice (my favorite is basmati) is far preferred over brown rice as the antinutrients in brown rice impair its role as a clean source of carbohydrates. Ideally, place the bag in a food-grade bucket together with an oxygen absorber or two, and make sure the lid is well-sealed.

Honey — In addition to being a natural sweetener, local unadulterated honey also has health benefits. For example, it's an effective cough medicine and can help combat respiratory infections and bacterial infections, including antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Macadamia nuts — Nuts are frequently recommended as a good source of fiber, protein and healthy fats that will stay fresh for a long time without refrigeration, provided they're in a sealed bag or container.

However, the reason why this is a terrible idea is that all nuts except macadamia are loaded with very high levels of the dangerous fat linoleic acid. So, storing any nuts would not be helpful, as you would only be able to have around five a day.

I also recommend stocking up on nutritional supplements such as beef organ complex, essential minerals, omega-3, vitamin K2, magnesium, vitamin B complex and astaxanthin. Having a backup supply of pharmaceutical grade methylene blue is also a good idea.

Action Item — Secure Backup Energy Supply

To prepare for eventual energy shortages, brownouts, rolling blackouts or a complete shutdown of the power grid, consider one or more power backups, such as gas-powered generators and/or solar generator kits such as Jackery or Inergy. Having backup power can prevent the loss of hundreds of dollars worth of food if your home loses electricity for more than a couple of days.

Scale up and diversify according to what you can afford. Ideally, you'd want more than one system. If all you have is a gas-powered generator, what will you do if there's a gas shortage and/or if the price skyrockets into double digits? On the other hand, what will you do if the weather is too overcast to recharge your solar battery?

You also need some way to cook water and food during a blackout. Here, options include (but are not limited to) solar cookers, which require neither electricity nor fire, small rocket stoves, propane-powered camping stoves and 12-volt pots and pans that you can plug into a backup battery.

The Crisis: Economic Collapse and Programmable Currencies

The fact that the world is heading toward total economic collapse is a mathematical certainty, and according to hedge fund "guru" and former BlackRock equity portfolio manager Edward Dowd, the collapse may begin in earnest before the end of 2024.

COVID provided cover for central banks and governments, allowing them to temporarily hide the reality that the financial system is crashing. The pandemic also allowed for the erection of a control system to shield governments and central banks from the fallout from collapsing food, energy and finance systems.

It allowed them to restrict travel and introduce digital IDs and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) by linking them together with vaccine passports. Secretly, behind the scenes, a social credit system like the one in China is also being built. Facial recognition and artificial intelligence (AI) are crucial components in this digital prison system, and both are being widely implemented and expanded around the world.

The march toward CBDCs in the U.S. started last month when the The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Innovation Center, or NYIC, announced that it would be launching a 12-week proof-of-concept pilot for a central bank digital currency, or CBDC.22

It seems like CBDCs are inevitable and will likely be mainstream in 2024. Initially they will be voluntary and strongly encouraged because of all the convenience they offer. You need to resist them as long as possible as capitulation into this system will mark the beginning of total electronic control into your digital prison.

The Plan Summarized

Ultimately, the plan is for everyone to have a digital identity, which will collect any and all information about you. It'll be tied to your vaccination status, medical records, financial accounts, education and work history, your carbon footprint and your social credit score.

digital identity

As shown in the graphic above, your digital identity will be required to unlock all aspects of life, from logging onto the internet to accessing social services, travel, food, shopping and financial services.

Anything you do in life will be reflected in your social credit score, and any aspect of your life can be used against you. Punishment for wrongthink, "bad behavior" or insufficient vaccinations can easily be meted out by automatic deduction of a fine from your bank account, a reduction in your social credit score, travel restrictions and much more.

Every aspect of your life will be monitored and controlled from the outside. For anyone who enjoys making their own decisions in life, programmable CBDCs are a death knell.

The currency will be programmable by the issuer, such as the central bank, a government agency or your employer. They can then decide when, how and on what you can spend your money. You also will not be able to save however you like, as some CBDCs may have expiration dates.

With CBDCs, You Lose Control of Your Health

CBDCs can also be programmed to only work for certain types of items, including certain types of food. If your health records indicate you have a health problem, your CBDCs can be programmed such that you cannot buy foods deemed unhealthy for you.

This could be anything from pizza and donuts to red meat, butter or raw milk. In this way, the globalist technocrats behind this system will have extreme, near-total control over your physical health.

The system will start by blocking junk food, but eventually it'll switch to natural whole foods, as those are the ones they actually are trying to get rid of. As I'll explain under the "food and medicine agenda" section below, they're trying to transition the population (with the exception of themselves) into an all-patented diet, devoid of natural whole foods.

Action Items: Safeguard Your Assets

The financial collapse will likely take many mainstream news readers by surprise, because legacy media are not telling the truth. Those of you following alternative sources have the benefit of being able to prepare by protecting your assets.

The risk of banks doing bail-ins where they seize all of your money to cover their losses is high, as is the risk of hyperinflation, which will eat through your savings, and the risk of a stock market crash. To safeguard and minimize the loss of your assets, you can:

Buy physical gold and silver.

Buy property.

Purchase crucial prepper items such as solar backup batteries, water catchment systems, long-term survival foods and seeds — things that can save your life in a grid-down, social unrest situation that may not be available later, or cost much more.

Since the economy is collapsing and inflation skyrocketing, your money is not doing you much good in the bank. You're losing purchasing power with each passing month, and a bank bail-in could wipe you out completely. So, if you need survival items, buying them now might be one of the better investment strategies out there.

"Invest" in tradeable goods.

Investigate alternative investment vehicles — For example, there's a new type of asset being developed on the stock exchange called Natural Asset Stocks, or Natural Asset Corporations. The government of Costa Rica, for example, is putting all government-owned forests and farmlands into a Natural Asset Corporation.

This is a type of stock different from anything we've seen so far. Basically, these stocks will allow fund managers, private investors and corporations to invest in natural assets. The part you end up owning is the ecosystem services of that land.

So, for example, you could own the environmental services resulting from the Billion Agave Project, which include carbon sequestration amounts and water savings. Over time, as the whole system matures and the soils are regenerated, your asset rises in value.

Other alternatives include gold and silver mining investments, and investment funds such as the one offered by Phinance Technologies, a global macro alternative investment firm founded by Edward Dowd, author of "Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022." These investments are based on reality trends Dowd sees coming as a result of the rising disability and death rates caused by the COVID jabs.

Action Items: Avoid the Digital ID and CBDC Traps

As for the CBDCs, the key is to refuse to sign up for it when it rolls out. The time to resist is right at the beginning, when adoption will be voluntary.

If adoption is poor, they'll have a very hard time bringing their enslavement through financial control plan to fruition. If a majority goes along with it, eventually the system will become mandatory, and you'll have little choice but to participate if you want to function in society.

Additionally, the international vaccine passport proposed at the 2022 G20 meeting is a central key in the effort to get everyone into the digital ID system. So, refusing to adopt vaccine passports is a crucial component of resistance to the digital prison system in its entirety.

You must also reject the vaccine passport unless you're willing to be a medical lab rat for the rest of your life. Hundreds of new vaccines, including many mRNA shots targeting common diseases are in the pipeline for 2030, and having an up-to-date vaccination status will be one of the requirements to maintaining a valid passport. Vaccine refusal can then be used to nullify or "lock" your digital ID, leaving you unable to do, go or buy anything. So, in summary, to avoid the digital prison:

Refuse to enter the coming CBDC system.

Refuse adoption of digital ID/vaccine passports.

Fight, on a local level, to prevent the expansion of facial recognition cameras and 5G.

"Starve the beast" by cutting back on your online usage, social media in particular. The war on "domestic terror," meaning the war on anyone who doesn't agree with a one world government, is waged using surveillance, profiling and AI.

So, avoid sharing your data by minimizing your presence online. Also minimize your use of any and all data-gathering devices, such as AI assistants, smart devices and wearables, all of which feed your personal data into the AI profiling system.

Action Items — Build Community and Parallel Financial Systems

In addition to those things, we also need to promote the development and adoption of alternative systems and communities, and parallel economies that do not rely on or require CBDCs and digital ID/vaccine passports to function. To that end:

Use more cash, as this will discourage stores from going all-digital.

Get out of the inner cities, where financial collapse will be felt the hardest and pose the greatest risks to personal safety.

Build community and local parallel economies.

Build your own knowledgebase on how to grow and raise food, even if you're not in a position to grow food right now. There are many free videos online that you can peruse. Ideally, download them so you can watch them offline, even if the internet goes down.

Books on homesteading and basic survival skills are also a valuable investment. "Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills" is one option.

As a general rule going forward, you'll want hard copies or copies on external hard drives of any information that you want to have access to in the future, as the internet is becoming increasingly scrubbed of important information. If using an external hard drive, make sure you store it in a faraday bag to protect the information from electromagnetic weapons.

Action Items — Take Control of Your Health NOW

One way to counter the fraudulent "Food is medicine initiative" and avoid becoming a statistic of early death is to take control of your own health and work to get as healthy as possible right now. In the longer term, you can also take steps to avoid relying on food assistance programs, which will always provide the least healthy options.

By taking control of your health and making informed choices about your diet, you can improve your overall wellbeing and protect yourself from the negative effects of this insidious agenda.

While optimizing your health is often thought of as something that is complicated, daunting, time-consuming, and expensive, I have good news for you. Simply implementing four key lifestyle strategies can set you on the right path:

1.Drastically limit your omega-6 linoleic acid (LA) intake — Excessive LA consumption is responsible for the vast majority of ill health and chronic disease. As consumption of vegetable oils and seed oils, the primary source of LA, has risen over the past 145 years, so have chronic disease rates.

vegetable oils consumption

LA is far more hazardous than sugar for Type 2 diabetes even.

sugar and vegetable oils consumption vs diabetes

LA causes excess oxidative stress resulting in mitochondrial dysfunction and radical loss of energy efficiency production. Excessive LA will also impair apoptosis (programmed cell death). As a result, dysfunctional cells are allowed to continue to grow, which can turn cancerous.

To minimize LA in your diet, avoid ALL processed foods, restaurant foods and condiments, virtually all seeds and nuts, most olive oil and avocado oils, and even organic chicken and pork. Of course, also do not use seed oils for cooking. Use tallow, ghee, butter, or coconut oil instead.

Ideally, consider cutting LA down to below 7 grams per day, which is close to what our ancestors used to eat. If you're not sure how much you're eating, enter your food intake into Cronometer — a free online nutrition tracker — and it will provide you with your total LA intake.

Cronometer will tell you how much omega-6 you're getting from your food down to the 10th of a gram, and you can assume 90% of that is LA as long as you accurately enter the food and weights. It will also instantly rank order the foods with the most LA so you can know the biggest offenders. Anything over a total of 10 grams of LA a day is likely to cause problems.

2.Compress your eating schedule — Time-restricted eating (TRE) is a simple yet profoundly effective way to improve your metabolic flexibility so that your body will be able to burn both carbs and fats for fuel. An estimated 90% of Americans eat across 12 hours, which is a recipe for metabolic disaster.

To turn your health around, eat all your meals for the day within a six- to eight-hour window and fast for the remaining 16 to 18 hours. Also, be sure to eat your last meal three to four hours before bed.

However, if you are not unlike the 19 out of 20 people in the US that are metabolically inflexible and you are insulin sensitive, then this would be a far too aggressive eating window. You should extend your window to 8 to 10 hours and even 12 hours in the summer.

If you are insulin sensitive and use a rigid TRE window your body will increase your cortisol levels to increase your glucose level. This will produce inflammation and tissue damage. So best to have a longer eating window if you are already healthy.

3.Build muscle and combat frailty using blood flow restriction (BFR) training — If you don't engage in resistance exercises, your risk of metabolic diseases goes up, as your muscle acts as a glucose sink. After meals, about 80% of glucose is deposited in your skeletal muscle.23,24 muscle is also the main energy user of fat in your body.25

Lack of muscle (sarcopenia) often leads to insulin resistance, frailty, poor outcomes in illness and disease, delayed recovery and a greater risk of surgical complications, drug toxicity, falls, disability and death. Skeletal muscle also plays a major role in your metabolism, circulation and cognition, and serve an important endocrine function.

BFR involves modifying the arterial inflow and venous outflow while you're working the muscle by placing an inflatable band around the extremity.26 It's a low-intensity resistance training, using weights that are just 20% to 35% of your one rep max. BFR works by tricking your body into believing that it's moving far heavier weights than you're actually using, generating compensatory metabolic responses and improved microcirculation.

With BFR training, you're able to significantly enhance your strength and muscle mass using a fraction of the weight typically used, in about half the time it would normally take. It's the best strategy I know of to increase muscle size, and it's safe to use for everyone, including the elderly.

I recommend using the KAATSU intermittent hypoxia system developed by Dr. Yoshiaki Sato. BFR can be done with restriction bands, but KAATSU uses a device that provides intermittent and not just constant pressure, which is far safer. For a limited time, you can get 10% off using this link, www.kaatsu.com/go/NVIC.

4.Get regular sun exposure — Aside from excessive LA intake, another major contributor to mitochondrial dysfunction is lack of sun exposure. UVB triggers vitamin D production in your skin, which helps ward off infections and promotes mitochondrial health and cell health in general.27,28

The near-infrared rays in sunlight also trigger melatonin production in your mitochondria.29 Melatonin is a master hormone,30 a potent antioxidant31 and antioxidant recycler,32 a master regulator of inflammation and cell death,33 and an important anticancer molecule.34

Near-infrared light also increases mitochondrial ATP production and autophagy, structures the water in your body, and triggers the conversion of retinol (vitamin A) to retinoids, which are crucial for immune function.

Action Item — Build Resilience Against Fear

The COVID plandemic was successfully implemented through fearmongering. Ditto for the rollout of the COVID jabs. Fear is the most potent weapon The Great Reset cabal has at its disposal, and we can expect them to use it again and again.

The antidote to fearmongering is education and sharing the truth with others, and the perfect antidote to fear itself is love. For nearly the past three years, mainstream media, celebrities, health officials, medical professionals, family and friends publicly condemned, mocked and threatened those who didn't agree with masking, social distancing, lockdowns and experimental injections.

Many of us still live with those scars. But we must not respond in kind as we move forward. If we want a more humane society, we must let our own humanity shine bright. If we say we stand for freedom and liberty, we must be consistent and not hypocritical.

At the end of the day, the solutions to all of the crises facing us really hinge on creating a new society. We need a reset, yes, but not The Great Reset advertised by the World Economic Forum and its derelict minions.

No, we need a reset in which the corrupting elements are cut out of the equation, and there's corruption absolutely everywhere. In the school system, our food system, financial system, the stock market, our regulatory agencies, all throughout government and our intelligence agencies. It's all rotten to the core. And we have but two choices: Accept the digital prison system handed down to us from the globalists, or rebuild our own parallel systems, outside of their control.

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Comment by carol ann parisi on February 12, 2023 at 3:55pm

Fall 2019
 

A group of billionaires and global elites, including Bill Gates, held an event called Event 201.

It was a ‘war game’ type event where they practiced what they would do if a global pandemic happened.

They laid out a plan for forced vaccinations and ID cards.

Of course, just a few months later we all know what happened when COVID-19 hit.  

Coincidence? Maybe.

Now fast-forward…

Spring 2022

Gates says: We’ll have another pandemic. It will be a different pathogen next t...

Is he planning for it, or planning it?

Either way, this quotes is raising the suspicion of patriots everywhere.

Remember what Gates said in a 2010 speech:

“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s heading up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower [world population] by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent.

That’s right, Bill and his elite cronies want to LOWER the world population.

What better way to do that than a contagious disease with mysterious origins?

Fortunately, there is one man who can help.

He’s a rogue Connecticut doctor who is part of the growing ‘medical underground’.  

He treated hundreds during the pandemic without hospitalizations and without vaccines.

His ‘gang of seven’ recipe can help almost anyone fight off or prevent an infection.

And these common nutrients are often just laying around the house.  

See how it works and how you can prepare for the next ‘plan-demic’ right here.



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2022 IL General Election Turnout Analysis

Election results are driven by two factors: affinity and propensity.

Affinity is how people feel about races and issues. In the case of a specific campaign, affinity is whether a voter prefers Candidate A or Candidate B. Part 1 of our 2022 Illinois General Election analysis focused on affinity, learning how people voted in the latest election and why.

Until now, though, we hadn’t been able to analyze the other half of the equation: propensity. Propensity is how likely a person is to take action on something. In the example above, propensity is whether that voter actually cast their ballot for their preferred candidate.

Many have already shared their opinions on how propensity, called “turnout” when referencing elections, impacted the 2022 Illinois General Election. But, until recently, we didn’t have any data to prove or disprove those theories. Did female turnout, especially young female turnout, drive this election as Illinois’ Speaker of the House claimed? Did Trump’s efforts to discredit the election process lead to some Republicans staying home, as many of us feared it might? Was minority turnout down significantly, as indicated by the weak results many pointed to in minority-majority Chicago wards?

Getting turnout data proved harder than expected. You can’t get the data statewide for still several more months, so we had to go to individual county & city election authorities, some of whom move more quickly than others, and a few who have head-scratchingly suspect data (we won’t name names). We then had to supplement the voter data with demographic information for each voter. Our poor data team needs a vacation after this project.

We’ve been able to successfully pull enough data for four separate buckets to allow us all to review how likely it was the average voter in various demographics voted in Chicago, suburban Cook County, the collar counties, and the rest of the state.

Once again, the results were fascinating. Click here to review the data yourself.Tell us what you see by connecting with us on social media and sharing your thoughts. Below is what we saw in the data.

Overall Turnout Was Down

The Illinois State Board of Elections recently announced statewide voter turnout was 51%, a 5% drop from four years ago (the last “like” election) and among the lowest turnout in the past 40 years. We saw that average in our data, too.

Despite all the energy and passion behind certain issues like abortion, crime, and the economy, voters were not motivated to go to the polls. Looking to Part 1 and Part 2 of our analysis gives some reasons why.

This -5% mark is our baseline. Meaning, if a specific demographic’s turnout drops 2% from 2018 to 2022, even though it’s a negative number, that’s actually better than average, while any drop more than 5% is worse than average.

Squint Just Right and You’ll See the Red Wave

Turnout among Republicans mostly held strong, especially outside Cook County. In the collar counties, Republican turnout was only down 4%, and in the rest of the state it was down just 2%. It did drop by 10% in suburban Cook County and 13% in Chicago.

This was nothing compared to the drop among Democrats. In their vote-rich base of Chicago, Democrats lost an astounding 22% of their voters in this past election. In suburban Cook County, they lost another 16%. It wasn’t nearly as bad in the other 101 counties, but still bad, as they lost 9% in the collars and 8% in the rest of the state. As a result, the vote share Democrats controlled in Illinois dropped 5%, a massive swing.

This election had all the makings of a red wave not because Republicans turned out, but because Democrats stayed home. In fact, some of us believe there actually was a red wave—it just crashed into a blue wave created by factors other than Dem turnout. More on that in Part 4, the final piece of our analysis.

Independents Were a Big Factor

Independent voters always play an outsized role in every election, despite being a very small portion of the overall vote. As “swing voters,” they determine any election in which one party is not able to achieve more than 50% of the vote with just their own voters. In 2022, this was even more the case.

While turnout dropped among Republicans and Democrats, turnout actually increased among independents. 6% more independents in Chicago voted in 2022 than in 2018. In the collar counties, the increase was 3%, and the increase was 5% in the rest of Illinois. Only suburban Cook County saw a slight decrease in independent voter participation, rounded to 0% (but actually -.48%), which is still better than the -5% turnout statewide.

As a result, the independent vote share increased nearly 3% from 2018 to 2022. To someone outside politics that may seem like a small number, but in campaigns that tiny number has a massive impact. This is a 30% increase in the number of persuadable swing voters you typically see in an election.

This crystalizes the problem for Republicans in 2022. Reaching the independent universe is difficult and expensive, because so few of these voters participate, so you end up having to contact huge numbers of people to find the handful who are actually going to vote. This takes significant resources—say, the funding to go up on broadcast & cable TV and dramatically increase your mail and digital advertising universes. Democrats had that funding in 2022—Republicans didn’t.

Female Turnout Did Not Rule This Election

Contrary to popular belief, and frankly shocking to me based on what I expected to see, females did not “show up in droves” to vote in this election. In fact, voter turnout among females dropped on average about 2% more than turnout among males.

In Chicago, female turnout was down 16% compared to male turnout being down 13%. In suburban Cook County, female turnout dropped 11% compared to 9% for males. The drop for females was just 5% in the collars but it was still less at 3% for males. And in the rest of Illinois, turnout dropped for females by 3% while it only dropped 1% for males. As a result, the vote share for females dropped in 2022 compared to 2018 by about 1%.

It’s noteworthy that female turnout still dominated male turnout, despite dropping in this election. Females made up 5% more of the vote share outside Cook County and 10% more in Cook County. So while the data disproves the idea that female turnout skyrocketed in this election, the data does not say that vote bloc is less important than it has always been, because more females vote than males.

There Was No Surge in Young Voter Turnout

While the drop in young voter turnout wasn’t as significant as it was for middle-aged voters, it was still more than the average, proving there was not a surge in young voter turnout in this election. Turnout among voters under 30 dropped 11% in Chicago, 8% in suburban Cook County, 3% in the collars, and slightly more than 0% (.1%) in the rest of the state.

Turnout dropped more among middle-aged voters, which is to be expected considering the overall turnout drop.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, since seniors are always a strong voting bloc, 65+ is the only age demographic that saw less than the average drop in voter turnout. It was down 7% in Cook County, down just 1% in the collar counties, and up 2% in the rest of Illinois. Seniors were 4% more of the electorate in 2022 than they were in 2018.

Overall, not much to analyze here, other than the fact that young voters aren’t what drove 2022’s election results.

Black and Hispanic Voters Showed Historically Low Turnout

Many already knew turnout among Black and Hispanic voters had to be down looking at the data from Election Day in wards and districts where voters in each demographic are the majority. Now that we have the turnout data, our assumptions have been proven accurate.

Black turnout was historically low in the 2022 General Election. Just 40% of Black voters in Cook County voted, a 19% drop in Chicago and a 15% drop in suburban Cook County. Just 37% of Black voters in the collar counties turned out, a 10% drop. And just 36% of Black voters in the rest of the state voted, a 6% drop compared to 2018. In total, Blacks comprised 2.5% less of the electorate in 2022 than they did in 2018.

Hispanic turnout, typically lower than Black turnout, saw drops nearly as large. Only 33% of Hispanics in Chicago voted, a 17% drop. That number was just 27% in suburban Cook County, a 13% drop from 2018. 30% of Hispanics in the collars voted, which is 7% lower than in 2018. And 35% of Hispanics in the rest of Illinois voted, which is 6% lower. In total, Hispanics made up 2% less of the electorate this election.

One election is not a trend. But these turnout statistics have to be very concerning for Democrats, since in Illinois they dominate both demographics.

Voter Interest Was Significantly Higher Outside Cook County

Voter turnout in Chicago was among the lowest in recent history. Only 46% of voters turned out in Chicago, a 14% drop from 2018. The drop was nearly as precipitous in suburban Cook County, where just 45% of voters cast their ballots, an 11% drop.

Meanwhile, turnout held relatively strong in the rest of the state. In the collar counties, turnout only dropped 4%, from 56% to 52%. Turnout barely dropped in the rest of Illinois, dropping 2%, from 56% to 54%.

This is yet another turnout result that favors Republicans. More voters outside Cook County and fewer voters inside Cook County should mean improved Republican electoral results. “Should,” being the operative word, since we all know November was not kind to the GOP in Illinois.

Comment by carol ann parisi on January 30, 2023 at 3:56pm

BY THE NUMBERS MESSAGING 

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2022 Illinois General Election Voter Survey Analysis

It’s a favorite pastime in Illinois. The polls close, and within minutes, Republican leaders, pundits, and consultants are already pointing fingers at who they blame for our party’s failures. (Let’s be honest: they usually start well before Election Day.)

There’s no data yet. It takes weeks, sometimes months, to get the data needed to accurately evaluate what actually happened in the election. But that doesn’t matter. These people made up their minds long ago—data is irrelevant.

But…uh…that’s clearly not working out too well for the Republican Party in Illinois.

So we decided it was time to do things a little differently. Cor is funding and leading a significant effort to gather data and research exactly what happened in the 2022 election so the Republican Party can make fact-based decisions on a path forward that might actually lead to some victories. Because why are we doing this if we’re not interested in, you know, winning?

This is a gigantic effort that will take time, and we intended to release all our findings at once after the effort was complete. But Republican organizations and leaders are already meeting to plot out plans for the next 2 years—before any data exists on which to make those decisions (don’t get us started)—so we’re moving more quickly to start getting this information out. Plus, it’s 2022, people’s attention spans rival that of Dug from Up (Squirrel!), so breaking it up into more manageable pieces is probably best.

In this first of four parts, we’re releasing the results from an in-depth statewide exit poll we took of Illinois voters asking what drove their votes and what might change their votes in the future. We surveyed over 1,000 confirmed 2022 General Election voters from November 15th – 18th using a combination of live, texting, web, and automated methods. As you can see from the demographics achieved in our poll, the results nearly exactly match the 2022 election results.

This Deep Blue State Is Neither Liberal nor Progressive

You’d think a state that votes as blue as Illinois would be quite liberal or progressive. But you’d be wrong.

Just 26% of voters in this last election identified as liberal, compared to 35% who identified as conservative. The big winner? “Moderate” at 39%.

You’re doubting these numbers. You’re not the only one—we did too. But we checked and re-checked the numbers. We even ran a follow up poll, changing the questions around, to verify. The data is accurate. And a bit mind-blowing.

This is a moderate state. A surprising 41% of Democrats identify as moderate, plus 61% of independents. 54% of Asians, 53% of African Americans, and 43% of Hispanics are moderate.

Yet Democrats dominate. What does this tell you? In Illinois, Democrats own the middle. While only 51% of Democrats identify as liberal, a whopping 79% of Republicans identify as conservative. And moderates break heavily towards Democrats, with 50% of moderates identifying as Democrat and only 17% as Republican. 35% of moderates voted straight Democrat in this last election while only 7% voted straight Republican.

That data says Illinois is not a lost cause for Republicans. It’s not far-left California or New York as some are claiming. If Republicans do a better job with working class, moderate voters, they can win.

The Top Issue of the 2022 Election: Threats to Democracy (Not Abortion)

We all missed this. I’ll admit it: I missed this. Some kudos to Emerson College who included “threats to democracy” in their list of issues when most of us didn’t, though even in their poll it came in a distant 2nd to the economy.

The top issue to Illinois voters in 2022 was threats to democracy (24%), followed closely by abortion (23%) and the economy (23%). Key demographics listed threats to democracy as their top issue: moderates (28%), over the economy (22%) and abortion (18%); and seniors (26%), again over the economy (22%) and abortion (21%).

When building out your issue focus as a party or candidate, you look for two things: emotional issues that can fire up your base, and persuasive issues that can win you votes.

For base issues, Democrats had the advantage in 2022: their emotional issue, abortion, performed much better with their voters (29%) than Republicans’ emotional issues, inflation and crime, performed with theirs (20% and 18% respectively). Abortion played especially well with Hispanics (33%) and Asians (31%).

For persuasive issues (issues that carry beyond each party’s base), Republicans actually had the advantage in 2022: their persuasive issue, the economy, performed better with independents (30%) and Democrats (12%) than the Democrats’ persuasive issue, threats to democracy, performed with independents (25%) and Republicans (6%). But Republicans didn’t use their persuasive message, while Democrats did—squandering this potential advantage.

So were Republicans wrong to focus on crime?

No, Crime Wasn’t a Loser for Republicans – The Messaging Was

In what turned out to be a stroke of genius, at the last minute we added a question to our survey asking voters if they had to choose between abortion and crime as the issue that most determined their vote in 2022, which would they choose? The result was nearly a tie: 51% for abortion, 49% for crime.

We’re not saying crime was a better issue than abortion, because the data doesn’t bear that out. But it also doesn’t align with the narrative that abortion was THE issue in 2022. For every demo that showed stronger support for abortion, like females (54%), Hispanics (67%), Asians (57%), and suburban voters (54%), there were nearly as many demographics that showed stronger support for crime, like African Americans (62%) and independents (58%). Among moderates, it was split, 51% abortion to 49% crime.

Using crime as an issue was a smart move by Republicans, because to get voters’ attention nowadays you have to actually be interesting, and let’s face it—the economy is boring to voters.

Where Republicans failed (including us) was in making crime THE issue instead of a gateway issue to voters’ real concerns. Crime was never THE issue: it was the 4th most important issue among even conservatives, let alone moderates and independents. But it could’ve served as an excellent emotional issue to gain attention to then paint Democrats as extreme, position Republicans as the more mainstream governing party, and address voters’ economic concerns. We didn’t do that.

By contrast, Illinois Democrats did it right: they used their emotional issue, abortion, to get voters’ attention and then flowed right into their most persuasive issue, painting Republicans as too extreme and a threat to democracy.

But, hey, Republicans have been bad at messaging since the 1980s and 90s. In fact, we still rely mostly on messaging from those decades. So it’s routine at this point. Maybe this time we’ll learn…

Republicans Ceded the Ground on “Extreme” and Shouldn’t Have

Where can Illinois Republicans improve their messaging? Well, let’s start here.

When asked which party is most extreme, nearly as many Illinois voters said Democrats were extreme (42%) as Republicans (43%). All saying Democrats are more extreme: Hispanics (42% to 39%), Whites (44% to 40%), independents (44% to 35%), and even suburban voters (42% to 41%).

That’s right—even after millions of dollars were spent painting Republicans as extremists while Republicans barely (if at all) fought back, voters are still nearly as likely to believe that Democrats are just as bad.

Independents tell this story best. When asked which party they trusted more to govern, they couldn’t choose between Republicans and Democrats (tied at 29%)—instead, they chose neither (37%). They overwhelmingly believe Illinois is on the wrong track (56% compared to 30% right direction).

Instead of constantly playing defense, it’s time to go on offense. Illinois Democrats hold extreme positions on many hot-button issues, yet Republicans seem to enjoy the Rocky strategy of getting pummeled round after round—without the Hollywood happy ending. And with the Democrats’ elected ranks moving further and further leftward, and their politicians feeling emboldened by record majorities in Springfield, Chicago, and many suburban counties, Republicans are sure to have excellent opportunities to paint our opposition as extreme, which by definition, makes us mainstream. We must capitalize on these opportunities.

Republicans Need to Get Back to Being the Governing Party

While Republicans underperformed expectations across the country, among Republicans who were successful, there was a clear picture of the type of Republican who won: governing Republicans. This has nothing to do with ideology. Conservative or moderate, voters want leaders who are the adults in the room, who lead pragmatically and get things done.

Unfortunately, Republicans have been unable to capitalize on this. It doesn’t help that the last time voters gave our party the opportunity to govern, Bruce Rauner and his administration spent four years trying desperately to convince voters our party had no idea what we were doing.

By contrast, Governor Pritzker has focused on getting state government running smoothly, and it’s worked. A 47% to 47% split in the right direction vs wrong track question may not seem great until you look at the trendline and realize this is the best IL has been viewed by voters in this category (by far) over the past decade.

The Republican strategy of screaming “the sky is falling” and “all is lost” is clearly not working. The voters in this state aren’t hyper-partisans or idealogues. They just want things to get done—they’re not interested in the drama and hyperbole. I can’t remember the last time Republicans proposed any sort of productive plan, policy, or initiative that would make people’s lives better in this state, other than simply saying no to bad ideas.

As a result, in Illinois, Republicans are decidedly not viewed as governing material. Voters trust Democrats to govern 49% to 34%. The numbers are worse with moderates, who trust Democrats over Republicans 56% to 21%. Among minorities, the numbers are even worse: African Americans (71% to 15%), Hispanics (56% to 17%), and Asians (51% to 6%).

Throughout the Illinois suburbs and beyond, there are conservative and Republican mayors earning high praise in their communities for leading, as clients in one village put it, by putting “people over politics.” Their communities are thriving and people are moving there to live, work, and raise their families. These are governing Republicans. That’s the model of a winning Republican candidate.

Candidates Need to Fit Their Districts

Both conservatives and moderates are going to like portions of this.

Conservatives will like this. Despite all the rhetoric to the contrary, Darren Bailey actually didn’t perform badly. His base performance nearly exactly matched Pritzker’s and he lost independents by just .67%. Despite being massively outspent and running a poor campaign, had this been a state with a balanced electorate, Bailey would’ve been within 1% of winning.

Moderates will like this. 38% of Illinois voters are more likely to vote for a Republican who is pro-choice, including 54% of Hispanics, 51% of Asians, 44% of independents, and 50% of moderates. 32% are more likely to vote for a Republican who opposes Trump, including 62% of Asians and 46% of moderates. 25% are more likely to vote for a Republican who supports gun control, including 38% of females and 45% of moderates.

Now what?

As a data guy, one thing that has always fascinated me is how misleading percentages and averages can be without context. Here’s a simple example. You ask a group of 10 people how much they liked the latest Star Wars trilogy on a scale of 1 to 5, and all of them give it a ranking of 3—that’s an average score of 3. If instead, half give it a perfect score of 5 and half the worst score of 1—that’s also an average score of 3. Each result is the same, yet those 3s couldn’t be more different.

Now take that dumb example and bring it to this context. We could look at the statewide averages and, as some are advocating, shift the entire Illinois Republican Party to the middle. But not only is this the lazy approach, it doesn’t reflect the data. There are clearly portions of this diverse state that want candidates more conservative than the average, just like there are portions of the state that want candidates more liberal than the average.

Instead of the above one-size-fits-all “or” approach, we could take a more dynamic “and” approach that welcomes all center-right viewpoints and supports candidates that best fit their districts and communities. That means conservatives in some districts and moderates in others.

It’s funny, I find myself often maligned by people in both factions of my party: moderates don’t like that I support conservatives in right-leaning districts, and conservatives don’t like that I support moderates in less conservative districts. But as this data proves, that’s the correct approach.

It’s time we stopped letting the politics of “or” divide us. Is this possible? The data says yes.

Republicans are not monolithic. Only 48% voted straight Republican in the last election compared to 68% of Democrats who voted straight ticket. Only 43% of conservatives voted straight Republican compared to 73% of liberals who voted straight Democrat. Statewide, Republicans are 15% more likely to vote for a Republican who is pro-choice and only 6% less likely to vote for a Republican who opposes Trump. There is clearly room in our party for different viewpoints, and as the party that champions individualism it’s time we stopped demanding our candidates conform to a single collective viewpoint.

Comment by carol ann parisi on January 30, 2023 at 3:56pm

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