PP NewsBrief: 2021-03-26

We need to begin to reclaim control over the institutions which have such oversized roles in our lives. As you read this people work tirelessly to see to it that you are dumb and docile. Let's stop them.

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UK government faces backlash after announcement of vaccine passport for pubs

"In 2004, Boris Johnson, now the UK’s Prime Minister, famously wrote:

“If I am ever asked, on the streets of London, or in any other venue, public or private, to produce my ID card as evidence that I am who I say I am, when I have done nothing wrong and when I am simply ambling along and breathing God’s fresh air like any other freeborn Englishman, then I will take that card out of my wallet and physically eat it in the presence of whatever emanation of the state has demanded that I produce it.

If I am incapable of consuming it whole, I will masticate the card to the point of illegibility. And if that fails, or if my teeth break with the effort, I will take out my penknife and cut it up in front of the officer concerned.”

Today, his words are different. At the same time several countries are rushing to create digital vaccine passports, Johnson has announced that pub owners and landlords can now legally demand proof of vaccination when pubs reopen next month.

The government had previously insisted that vaccine certificates would not be required domestically."

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It Is Time to Remove the Debt Barrier to Economic Growth

"Out of habit, American economists worry about federal debt. But federal debt can be redeemed by the Federal Reserve printing the money with which to retire the bonds.  The debt problem rests with individuals, companies, and state and local governments.  They have no printing press.

We have explained that the indebtedness of the population means there is little discretionary income with which to drive the economy.  The offshoring of middle class jobs lowered incomes, and after paying debt service—mortgage interest, car payments, credit card interest, student loan debt—Americans’ pockets are empty.  

This situation has been worsened by Covid lockdowns.  In the US the federal government has sent out a few Covid payments to help keep people’s heads above water as they face expenses without income.  The financial press refers to these Covid checks as “fiscal stimulus,” but there is no stimulus.  The Covid checks do not come close to replacing the missing wages, salaries and business profits from lockdowns.

Corporations have indebted themselves and impaired their capitalization by borrowing money with which to repurchase their stock. This has built up their debt in the face of stagnant or declining consumer discretionary income.  

We propose to deal with the debt crisis by forgiving debts as was done in ancient times.  Our basic premise is that  debts that cannot be paid won’t be. Widespread foreclosures and evictions would further worsen the distribution of income and wealth and further contrain the ability of the economy to grow.  Writing debt down to levels that can be serviced would clear the decks tor a real recovery.  Income that would be siphoned off in debt service would instead be available to purchase new goods and services.

A few economists muttered that we were overlooking the “moral hazzard” of absolving people of their debts.  But leaving the economy stagnated in debt is also a moral hazzard."

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Will the GOP Finally Turn from the Chamber Of Commerce?

"Georgia Republicans want to make their elections work better after the 2020 disaster. They’ve proposed sensible measures to eliminate no-excuse absentee ballots, remove dubious ballot drop-off boxes, and reform early voting times. This effort would restore trust in the election process and ensure every ballot is legitimate. But, for some strange reason, this legislation has drawn the ire of the state’s business community.

The Georgia Chamber of Commerce last week expressed its “concern and opposition” to these measures in an official statement endorsed by Home Depot and Coca-Cola, two major corporations based in the Peach State. Black Lives Matter, Stacey Abrams, and other left-wing activists are pressuring these corporations and others to do more to oppose these election reform laws. They’re running TV and newspaper ads to strongarm companies into doing their bidding, and there’s a good chance the corporations eventually will bend the knee. Few corporations nowadays can resist the woke mobs.

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Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a likely contender for president in 2024, has his own theory for this development.

“The Chamber is captured by its biggest multinational corporations, and they are more in support of those businesses than they are in support of open and competitive markets,” Cotton said in a fiery radio interview Tuesday with syndicated talk show host Hugh Hewitt. “I mean, the Chamber of Commerce long ago purged most, if not all, of its real Republicans in top ranks.”

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For years, the Chamber has pushed the GOP to embrace amnesty for illegal aliens and mass immigration. It spent over $50 million in 2013 to lobby for the Gang of Eight amnesty plan. In 2018, the group demanded an immediate amnesty for at least 1 million illegals and publicly rebuked any attempts to restrict migration. Last year, it sued the Trump Administration for halting most immigration to protect American jobs in a devastated economy.

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The Chamber recently praised Biden’s open borders initiatives that would undermine American sovereignty and American jobs. Its current immigration agenda expresses support for amnesty and the expansion of guest worker visas. This is a group that favors cheap foreign labor over the American worker.

The Chamber, of course, opposes trade protectionism to support American industry. It lambasted Trump for daring to impose tariffs on Communist China and renegotiate NAFTA. The business lobby believes we must depend on a hostile foreign power and allow our factories to go overseas for the sake of the almighty bottom line.

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If the GOP truly wants to put America First, it needs to put the Chamber of Commerce in its place."

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There is NO RIGHT TO CARRY arms in public, US appeals court says in controversial ruling on gun rights case

"Plaintiff George Young sued Hawaii in 2011, after he was denied a permit to carry a gun under state law and Hawaii County regulations. He argued that, as applied, the law effectively permitted only security guards to openly carry guns, which was violating the Second Amendment's prohibition on infringing “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.”

Four of the 11 judges sided with Young, saying that the Hawaii law and regulations “destroy the core right to carry a gun for self-defense outside the home and are unconstitutional under any level of scrutiny.”

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The majority argued that early American colonists brought with them “English sensibilities over the carrying of arms in public” and that technology has not changed that. Then as now, the “mere presence” of guns “presents a terror to the public” and the “widespread carrying of handguns would strongly suggest that state and local governments have lost control of our public areas,” they wrote."

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Amnesty International: Facebook Plan To Target Children “Incompatible With Human Rights”

"Facebook has let slip that it is launching an Instagram service for children under 13 years old, who are currently legally barred from using the platform. On Thursday, Instagram’s vice president of product told employees in a leaked communication that this was indeed the plan. Instagram’s boss, Adam Mosseri, confirmed the leak’s veracity to Buzzfeed News, telling them that his goal was to create a transparent and kid-friendly version of the popular photo-sharing app for children and pre-teens.

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“Facebook’s very business model is built on ubiquitous and constant surveillance – which is entirely incompatible with human rights. By making users sign up to the opaque terms and conditions of Instagram, Facebook will be able to harvest huge amounts of data about children and create invasive, granular profiles that can last the rest of their lives,” said Amnesty International in a statement, presenting Facebook’s plan as akin to foxes offering to guard the henhouse. Facebook itself “poses one of the biggest threats when it comes to children’s privacy,” the human rights organization added, claiming that children would inevitably be bombarded with targeted advertising, disinformation and incendiary content that is ubiquitous on its other platforms.

Other experts characterized the move as one that would normalize the idea that social connections exist to be monetized and legitimize the gathering of data on minors. Social media companies’ algorithms are expressly designed to keep users hooked and scrolling for more content. But an increasing body of research suggests that staring at a screen has negative health consequences, especially for children."

Like all peddlers of addictive substances they know that the youngest among us are the most vulnerable.

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Mixed Messaging and Silencing Campaign Fuel Vaccine Skepticism

"“There’s a 95 percent chance you will not get a symptomatic infection,” Fauci told Eugenio Derbez last week. “We are unsure right now what the protection is against infection because it’s conceivable you could get vaccinated, get exposed, get infected, not know it . . . but you could have virus in your nasal pharynx.”

Fauci continued spinning. Since no one knows whether the vaccine prevents transmission, Fauci warned, even vaccinated people must wear a mask if “they’re around people who are vulnerable to infection.” It will be at least a few more months before researchers know for certain the risk level of a vaccinated person infecting someone else, Fauci said.

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But his responses exposed the confusing, and frankly unconvincing, promotional campaign for COVID-19 vaccines. Americans generally understand vaccines to be a safeguard against getting a harmful virus, not an immunity booster to make the resultant disease more manageable. This is especially true of a highly contagious virus that can be lethal to the elderly, obese, or immuno-compromised. No one expected the vaccine merely would act as an injectable version of DayQuil or a vitamin pack but with unknown side effects.

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So assurances from federal health agencies that COVID vaccines are “safe and effective” shouldn’t be taken at face value. The bottom line is these vaccines are experimental. This is the first time mRNA vaccines have been administered to the general public—only about 75,000 people were involved in trials conducted by both Pfizer and Moderna, or .0002 percent of the U.S. population.

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Meanwhile, concerns about side effects are growing. Between December 2020 and this week, according to the HHS agency responsible for tracking severe reactions to immunizations, 1,913 people have died post-vaccine. Common side effects—especially after the second dose—include fever, headaches, severe fatigue, pain at the injection site, chills, and joint pain. A new study indicates another rare outcome is anaphylaxis, a potentially fatal allergic reaction."

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Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialisation of India

"JACAFRE was formed to resist the entry of foreign corporations like Walmart and Amazon into India’s e-commerce market. Its members represent more than 100 national groups, including major trade, workers and farmers organisations.

On 8 January 2021, JACAFRE published an open letter saying that the three new farm laws, passed by parliament in September 2020, centre on enabling and facilitating the unregulated corporatisation of agriculture value chains. This will effectively make farmers and small traders of agricultural produce become subservient to the interests of a few agrifood and e-commerce giants or will eradicate them completely.

The government is facilitating the dominance of giant corporations, not least through digital or e-commerce platforms, to control the entire value chain. The letter states that if the new farm laws are closely examined, it will be evident that unregulated digitalisation is an important aspect of them.

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It is a clear concern that India will cede control of its economy, politics and culture to these all-powerful, modern-day East India companies.

Of course, things have been moving in this direction for a long time, especially since India began capitulating to the tenets of neoliberalism in the early 1990s and all that entails, not least an increasing dependence on borrowing and foreign capital inflows and subservience to destructive World Bank-IMF economic directives.

But what we are currently witnessing with the three farm bills and the growing role of (foreign) e-commerce will bring about the ultimate knock-out blow to the peasantry and many small independent enterprises. This has been the objective of powerful players who have regarded India as the potential jewel in the crown of their corporate empires for a long time.

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Indian farmers are currently on the frontline against global capitalism and the colonial-style deindustrialisation of the economy. This is where ultimately the struggle for democracy and the future of India is taking place."

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Indian farmer’s agitation: Standing between past exploitation and future extermination

"India is being rocked by the farmers’ movement since last week of November’2020 when farmer contingents from northern states like Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh came in hundreds of thousands to the outskirts of New Delhi, India’s capital. By December’2020 more and more farmer and farmworker groups from other states like Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharastra joined the agitation around Delhi. Farmers unions want complete withdrawal of new 3 farm bills and BJP government denies. After some unruly incidents inside Delhi on the Republic Day (26th January 2021), to restrict movements of farmers and their tractors inside the capital, the government constructed permanent barricades on the highways that connect Delhi with neighbouring states. Farmers refuse to budge, and has been spreading their struggle to every nook and corner of the country.

Commentators from all sorts of background have written extensively within India and outside India on the farmers’ movement. However, I found most of them ignored presentation of reliable statistical data which could substantiate their hypothesis on the ongoing movement. This article attempts to bridge the gap convincingly.

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In a country like India, where majority of population live in rural regions, and rural economy is largely driven by agriculture and allied activities, well-being of the largest section of entire population depends on effective and efficient coordination of agriculture and related activities. Unfortunately, one of the most neglected sector of Indian economy has always been the sector of agriculture and allied activities. For the first time in history, the Census 2011 reported a decline in the population growth rate of rural India. Between Census 2001 and Census 2011, the number of (census towns increased from 1,362 to 3,894) which indicates that rural people are quitting farming and joining non-farm livelihoods. The current generation of rural people are moving away from the agriculture and allied sector. This trend temporarily got reversed during the covid-19 lockdown period when there was exodus of migrant people from industrial belts back their origin in rural regions. However, the overall decay of the agriculture and allied sector calls for immediate and appropriate attention by the government. The government wanted to ‘corporatize’ this sector as a magic potion to remove all ills at once! Hence the ruling party passed three farm bills, which are being staunchly opposed by the farming and allied community. This paper aims at the following:

• Dispelling the well-established myth that, the ‘agriculture and allied activities’ sector has a limited role in the economy because it contributes only 15% of India’s gross value added economic output (GVA)
• Establishing how most of the Indian rural population, in general, and agriculturists, in particular have been living in abject poverty for many decades
• Validating the fact that, the corporatisation of agriculture being implemented through the ‘three farm bills’ introduced recently by the government will push the agriculturists into further misery, while the corporates will enjoy tremendous growth in profit

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“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable”, was Adam Smith’s sincere sermon. But educated, elite, and aristocrat Indians (1% of population) who enthusiastically fill the roles of politicians, bureaucrats, and businessmen must be thinking otherwise, especially after 1991 economic liberalisation. Hence, an Indian commentator stated, “the worker is becoming impoverished absolutely, i.e. he is actually becoming poorer than before; he is compelled to live worse, to eat worse, to suffer hunger more, and to live in basements and attics.” Indian subcontinent witnessed such injustice and cruelty during the British imperialist era in the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century....

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The three farm bills that the Lok Sabha (house of commons at centre) passed last year during the covid lockdown period are the ‘Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill. The key features, and the objections from farmers are being noted below:

(1) The Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill:

The bill allows intra-state and inter-state trade in the agricultural produce of farmers, outside of market yards controlled by the market committees constituted under the APMC act of the respective States as well as other markets notified under the APMC act. Such trade may take place in places other than regulated trade areas, like farm-gates, warehouses, cold storages, processing factory etc.

To facilitate the direct and online sale of farm produces through the internet, an electronic trading and transaction platform may be set up. Such electronic platforms may be set up and operated by private companies, partnership companies or corporates as well as a farmer’s producer organisation or an agricultural cooperative.

The bill prohibits state governments from levying market tax (to operate APMC facilities), farmers won’t have to pay any cess for sale of their produce. Similarly, traders won’t have to pay levy or cess.

Main concern of farmers, and traders:

• Procurement by the central government agency at MSP will stop
• Mandi’s supported by state governments will not exist
• e-NAM electronic trading portal operated by the central government will cease to function

(2) The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill:

The bill supports ‘contract farming’ between a farmer and a buyer prior to any farming activity being carried out by the farmer. The farmers would be able to engage with primary traders (aggregators), wholesalers, food processing companies, retailers, exporters etc. even before the sowing of crops, with an assurance of price of produces. The price of additional quantity would be documented in the contract.

All disputes must first be referred to the conciliation Board for resolution. If, after thirty days, the dispute remains unresolved by the Board, the parties will approach the Sub-divisional Magistrate for a resolution.

Main concern of farmers, and traders:

• Under contract farming, the agreement will be prepared with heavy bias in favour of the corporates and private capital dictated by dominated by
• The marginal-small-medium farmers don’t have wherewithal to negotiate remunerative price with private capital
• After existing Mandi cease to function, and the farmers started contract farming with the corporate, the corporate will modify the contract to drive down the price of produces after 2-3 cropping seasons
• The marginal-small-medium farmers don’t have financial muscle to settle disputes in their favour while the corporates will gleefully manage the corrupt bureaucracy and judiciary to resolve any dispute in favour of capital

(3) The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill:

The Essential Commodities Act (1955) classified commodities like food products, and petroleum products as essential commodities – production, distribution, and commerce of such essential commodities may be regulated by the central government. The act provides authority to the central government to control the supply of certain food produces (including cereals, pulses, edible oils, potato, onion etc.) under specific circumstances like famine, war, extraordinary price rise etc. The newly introduced bill takes away cereals, pulses, edible oils, onion and potato from the list of essential commodities, and these commodities become deregulated.

Main concern of poor and lower middle class people:

• Essential food items will be stocked in huge quantities by the corporates to restrict ‘supply’ in the market; as a result retail price will shoot up enabling the corporates to earn windfall profits
• The traditional PDS that provides basic food-grains at cheap subsidized price to at least 800 million poor and middle class population will stop functioning

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Within 5 years of implementation of three farm bills, the application of standard concepts and theories of business economics and business management in corporatized agriculture would necessitate the following:

• Backward and forward integration of the value-chain – the corporate will buy out 100s of hectares of land for agriculture and livestock farming as backward integration simultaneously with opening up of 1000s of food retail stores as forward integration. The entire activities like tilling, sowing, harvesting, aggregating, food processing, storage, distribution would be covered by corporates with astronomical sum of investment
• Economics of scale – in order to minimise the total cost per item being sold, corporates would like to increase the size of operations which will bring down the overhead costs significantly. With limited levers for controlling the direct cost of production, reduction of overhead costs are always sought after. Thus, 50 – 100 hectare agriculture farms, stadium-sized cold storages, 1000-truck fleets would become the new norm
• Pursuit of endless accumulation of surplus – The entire business operation of agriculture farming and livestock farming will be driven by ‘profit’ through the accumulation of surplus. The cost of operation will be minimised through minimum pay to farm-workers, rationalisation of supply chain for procurement of inputs, long-term contracts with supplier of inputs and service providers. The revenue would be maximised by opening up tens of thousands of retail outlets to displace the millions of mom and pop stores, fruit and vegetable hawkers through whom majority of grocery, agriculture produces are sold to end customers currently
• Most of the existing entities in the value-chain would be redundant except their assets like land, buildings, factories, farm machineries, transport vehicles etc. There would be a steady transfer of assets at an abnormally low price from the current owners to the new owners i.e. corporates – this would be the largest ‘accumulation of capital by dispossession’ the world witnessed till date

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In June 2017, ‘All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee’ (AIKSCC) was formed with coming together of about 140 farmers union across the country to fight against the central government policies that have been increasingly pushing the peasants and farm workers to extreme poverty.

‘Samyukt Kisan Morcha’ (SKM) has been formed in November 2020 specifically to coordinate the farmers’ peaceful movement against the three farm bills introduced by the Modi government last year. AIKSCC acts as the backbone of SKM while there are another 3 dozens of other farmers’ and farm workers’ unions actively involved in this movement against the three farm bills.

After 11th round of discussions between the government and the leaders of farmers’ movement on 22nd January 2021, the negotiations broke down. Government ministry won’t withdraw the three farm bills while the farmers’ leaders won’t accept those three farm bills. Farmer union leaders across the country are very confident that, in the long run the BJP government must withdraw these bills. They, in fact, are campaigning in every state of India and appealing to the common citizens to defeat BJP in every election – whether it is an election for state government or an election for a city council, the farmer leadership is vocal that, the political base of BJP should be crushed.

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Already about 250 farmers died during the 4-month old agitation and demonstration. The farmers’ movement could have three possible ends with three different outcomes...

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...The third and last option entails the leadership of the movement to accept the ‘three Farm Bills’ as a fait accompli and more importantly, as the final step of steering the country towards a corporate-state. The result of such acceptance would be withering away of the final resistance to the creation of the corporate-state in India, which would permit the super-wealthy corporate families (of India, USA, west Europe) and their politician-bureaucrat lackeys in India to continue their exploitation at a greater rate than ever. Top 10% of population consisting of ‘upper middle’ and ‘opulent’ classes will reap the benefits of purportedly “good karma of past life” and balance 90% of population will be placed on the altar as sacrificial lamb due to allegedly “bad karma of past life”!

If the third option turns out to be the final outcome of the farmers’ movement, then it would be just a matter of time before the constitution of India gets amended to finally drop the semblance of a democratic secular welfare state."

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Mass Federalization: How Washington Is Bailing Out Failed States, Decapitating Competitive Ones, & Ending America As You Knew It

"An astonishingly sweeping, radical movement to level cities and states is underway, propping up the failures and pounding down those that have been successful. Most everything is being federalized. The role of cities and states as we have known them – as laboratories of democracy – is being eviscerated....

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The plan to federalize government is already moving and has three parts:

1. Flood every unit of local government with federal cash, irrespective of need, while prohibiting tax cuts, thereby bailing out failing states and cities.
2. Make that flood of federal money made regular and permanent.
3. Annul or override state laws that make certain states competitive, thereby eliminating their competitive advantages, and federalize elections to make it all permanent.

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The average American is no doubt unaware of how extreme all of this is, and how quickly it is moving. Polls say support for ARP is very high, probably because people are aware of little more than the checks now on their way to them. They’ve been bribed with their own money...

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Make no mistake about the historical gravity of what is taking place. States as the laboratories of democracy are being shut down and replaced with a national juggernaut more overbearing than most Americans have ever imagined.

It was Justice Louis D. Brandeis in 1932 who famously described the virtue of our system. “It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country,” he wrote. “To stay experimentation in things social and economic is a grave responsibility. Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation.”

Destruction of that right is precisely what is happening."

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Vaccine Passports, “Medical Martial Law” and the Stockholm Syndrome

"Almost one year ago, former President Trump declared a national emergency and the White House announced a 15-day plan to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Governments around the world either preceded the U.S. or soon followed with similar pronouncements. The upsurge in totalitarianism since these edicts were installed is mind-boggling.

Staying home, social distancing, and hand washing were the first steps in the slippery slope towards medical martial law. Then came the lockdowns and mandatory face mask policies. These were soon followed by pressure to take a COVID-19 test, contact tracing, and quarantines. Next were vaccines that were rushed to production, given only “emergency use authorization” by the FDA and still deemed experimental, having completely skipped long-term safety studies. Now, the threat of vaccine passports/certificates represents the next step towards complete tyranny and subjugation of the people.

All of these draconian measures have served as social engineering tools to get people used to having “experts” and government officials tell them what to do. In fact, you could argue that all of humanity (outside those in authority) has been slowly tortured over the past year. With staggering numbers of suicides and rising rates of substance abuse, many decided to just check out. The remaining masses have been subjected to classical conditioning like Pavlov’s dogs. During this “plandemic”, most people have been retrained to depend on authorities to tell them when they can go to work, visit loved ones, travel, go to church, hug someone or even shake their hand.

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Vaccine or “immunity” passports represent the final nail in the coffin of freedom. If the following headlines don’t get you angry, then you must be among those with Stockholm Syndrome who are unassumingly helping the elites erect a digital prison planet that will be extremely difficult to escape.

•    “The World Much Smaller for Those Without Vaccines”
•    “How to Reopen the Economy Safely? Immunity Passports.”
•    “Welcome to the New Normal, Let’s See Your Immunity Passport”
•    “Inside The Race To Create A Covid Passport And Change Travel As We Know It”

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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., an Israeli cybersecurity company, has implemented the vaccine apartheid system for its employees. If you are fully vaccinated, you get to enjoy company perks such as hair salon treatments, access to the on-site gym and play in game rooms that your unvaccinated peers can’t access. Without proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test, you can’t even eat with your co-workers, but must remain isolated at your desk. By April, those who can’t demonstrate vaccination proof will not even be allowed to enter the building!

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...Israel’s parliament joined action taken previously by the Spanish government in approving a law to create a registry of people who choose not to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The personal information of vaccine refusers will be shared with local and national authorities for at least the next three months.

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Through international coalitions like GAVI and COVAX, governments and Big Pharma have morphed into a singular medical gestapo cajoling all to take their vaccines through propaganda, extreme coercion tactics, and hiding factual information. Governments have completely sold out their populations to the larger agenda...

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The “debate” over whether to implement vaccine passports is happening all over the world. No matter what these passport apps are called, they will likely all be underpinned by a common software or framework that will enable them to “talk to each other” despite the country of origin. The leading developers of this technology include AOK Pass, Common Pass, the Vaccination Credential Initiative, Good Health Pass Collaborative, and the IATA Travel Pass.

What all of these companies, organizations, and initiatives have in common are their ties to the World Economic Forum, the digital transformation of society, and global governance. If you haven’t seen the documentary Decoding Davos: The Global Endgame, I suggest you do so soon. It provides a clear understanding of how this global think tank is manipulating the world into a “Great Reset” that promises strict control of all human life under new digital technology such as vaccine passports."

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Sitrep: The Unipolar moment is over; the Multipolar moment is here

"As geopolitical watchers and analysts, we’re always looking for the signals that frequently just go up in smoke.   This time however the signals from Russia and China are not going up in smoke but being presented in pictures in photo essays, and in clear language.  From the last few days we can learn a few things:

• China and Russia are friends and will remain friends and will work together where their interests coalesce.  Their interests coalesce right here in Lavrov’s words:  “….. architecture of international relations to be fair, democratic, capable of ensuring stability and based on broad interaction of states.”  If that statement confuses you, in short, it means right across our world.
• Sanctions will be removed as a weapon.
• The petrodollar is on its last legs.
• The clock for the final battle is ringing.  The only weapons remaining that will be allowed to the failing hegemon will be NATO (which, according to many of our serious analysts, is a paper tiger) and the ability to use nuclear and conventional weapons.  I will not comment on that as I am not qualified in the field.   The ability of the current and failing hegemon to do damage economically, is being curtailed.   We can look forward to a different economic reset, with countries taking their power back using their own currencies and other alternatives.   (This is not the reset from the WEF).  Then we will see what happens to the sphere of weapons because they may become a last resort."

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Where is GOP Outrage Over Justice Department’s Capitol Probe?

"A federal judge this week blasted a top Justice Department official for publicly bragging about the agency’s sprawling investigation into the January 6 Capitol melee. In an emergency hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta warned government prosecutors to keep quiet or face a gag order.

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“The Justice Department needs to understand that these types of public statements can jeopardize the integrity of a criminal case and affect the rights of the defendants,” Mehta said. (Sherwin reportedly is under internal investigation himself for giving the “60 Minutes” interview last week.) “No matter how much press attention this matter gets, it will be clear these defendants are entitled to a fair trial. The government, quite frankly in my view, should know better.”

The Obama-appointed judge, with those few sentences, said more to defend the rights of Trump-supporting protesters than the totality of Republican leadership in Washington, D.C.. Top Biden officials are accelerating the weaponization of powerful federal agencies against regular Americans...

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The same cabal that wielded its authority against the former president and his associates for more than four years has aimed its arsenal at hundreds of Trump supporters—yet the GOP remains silent.

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...many Americans—more than 300 have been arrested so far with promises of more to come—face spurious accusations that are destroying their lives.

Take, for example, the case of Jessica Watkins. The Ohio bar owner was arrested January 18 and initially charged with three counts related to her involvement in the Capitol breach.

She is one of the nearly 100 Americans that Michael Sherwin’s office detained prior to Inauguration Day in a display of what he called “shock and awe” to deter people from protesting Biden’s swearing-in ceremony on January 20. “It worked because we saw through media posts that people were afraid to come back to D.C. because…if we go there, we’re gonna get charged,” Sherwin boasted in his “60 Minutes” interview.

Watkins, a U.S. Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, has been behind bars ever since. As a member of the Oath Keepers, Watkins is one of ten people accused of concocting a “conspiracy” to halt the certification of the Electoral College, a task completed about 13 hours after the siege began on January 6....

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In a filing this week, prosecutors warned Watkins poses a danger to society since she allegedly holds “extremist and violent views regarding how to address what she believed to be a fraudulent election.”

Further, the government argued, Watkins also is a threat because the government successfully destroyed her business and her way of life, which prosecutors mocked. “[T]he dangerous nature and circumstances of the offense itself…remain acute concerns in a new world without her cherished firearms, her professional livelihood (the Jolly Roger bar), her personal hobby (leader of the Ohio Regulars militia), and that is now governed by a regime that she actually used violence against in order to preserve something as fundamental as her way of life.”

So, to summarize: The most powerful law enforcement agency in the world rounded up nonviolent veterans to intimidate other Americans planning to protest Joe Biden’s inauguration then held those Americans in jail for months, subsequently destroying their lives then used the fact the federal government destroyed these people’s lives as evidence they are a threat to society. Oh, and delayed the trial due to case overload the government itself created.

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The U.S. government now holds political prisoners in jail in the nation’s capital, and the party that purports to stand for freedom, liberty, and rule of law refuses to defend them."

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Danish health authority extends suspension of AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for 3 weeks

"Denmark’s health authority has confirmed the country is extending the temporary suspension of the use of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for three more weeks, as it can’t rule out a connection between the jab and blood clots.

Speaking at a press conference, the Danish Medicines Agency’s acting director of pharmacovigilance, Tanja Erichsen, said health officials were extending the prohibition on the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine over concerns about “presumed side effects”.

Denmark initially suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine on March 11 for precautionary reasons, alongside Norway and Iceland, due to fears about it causing blood clots. However, while Iceland has resumed inoculations using the pharmaceutical company’s vials, Denmark and Norway are still investigating.

“It can’t be ruled out that there is a connection between the vaccine and the very rare blood clot cases,” Erichsen said, warning that these are not “ordinary blood clots”."

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John Magufuli: Death of an African Freedom Fighter, Confronted Big Pharma and the Corrupt Covid Cabal

"On Wednesday March 17, the queasy, seemingly unreal news broke out of Tanzania: “We have lost our courageous leader, President John Magufuli, who has died from a heart illness,” said Tanzanian Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan, in a television broadcast that shocked the world and revealed the new Covid-Colonial order in no uncertain terms: No matter what Magufuli may have achieved for Tanzania, trying, for example, to protect her from Covid’s economic ravages, his “denialism” meant that the world, including Tanzania, was better off without him. So much for Black Lives Matter—none of its pieties would apply to Africa’s economic liberators.

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The hammering of the international media against Magufuli was a traumatic reenactment of how they maligned and attacked former South African President Thabo Mbeki 20 years ago, for stepping off the beaten pharmaceutical NGO path on HIV/AIDS.

Colonialism in Africa has been replaced by what I call “Virus Colonialism,” which demands that every nation fall in line with the WHO’s declared pandemics, from HIV to Covid. They must not question any facet of the so-called “science,” which occludes a vast array of incalculable injuries inflicted on Africa in the name of these putative viral emergencies. God forbid they themselves decide what their government health policies and priorities should be. Colonialism never dies; it just takes on new forms.

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While Mbeki invited 33 HIV experts to Pretoria in 2000, from both sides of the HIV causation and medication debate (and was forced to resign over it), Magufuli did something much simpler, but possibly even more provocative to the Globalist Colonial Powers. In early May, he stood before cameras and narrated the results of a Tanzanian government experiment that quite literally blew a hole in the hull of the entire Covid Propaganda Ship. He had understood that the PCR Covid “test” was creating the mass illusion of sickness and death to come, by counting “cases,” and decided to see just how reliable the test was. The results were as shocking as they were comical.

Speaking slowly and deliberately, Magufuli said: “We took samples from goats. We took samples from sheep. We took samples from a paw-paw. We even took samples from car oil.” He went on to say they had taken samples also from “other things” which included: jackfruit, a kware bird, and a rabbit. They gave all the non-human samples human names and ages, and this was the result he announced:

The car oil (named Jabil Hamza, male, 30) came back negative on the PCR test. The jackfruit (named Sara Samuel, 45,) was inconclusive. The paw-paw fruit, “We named it Elizabeth Ane,” he said. “The results of the paw-paw came back positive—that it has Corona. That means the liquid from the paw-paw is positive.” The bird sample was also positive, as was the goat sample.

Smiling in the sun, Magufuli said, displaying his subtle sense of humor: “That means all the paw-paws should be in isolation also.” He then wondered whether “…all the goats that we have here,” or at least the one which tested positive, “…should also be in isolation.”

He’d made his point, but he was also serious: He instructed the Tanzanian security forces to investigate what he saw as clear corruption with these so-called test kits. He understood that the test was the gateway for the overtaking, by WHO and its satellite forces, of Tanzania’s population, economy, civil liberties, and resources.

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Magufuli’s “paw-paw” video went viral on social media, among the ever-growing ranks of Covid “skeptics,” who’d understood that the PCR test, which its inventor Kary Mullis always stressed was not designed to identify “infection” with a virus, but could take any single molecule, and mass-amplify it, as one can cast shadows on a wall and make them appear fearsome.

A bio-tech illusion, used to collapse the economy and freedom of the entire world.

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May his eternal spirit protect Tanzania from the worthless PCR test, from Covid terror, lockdown, and all the internationally sanctioned plunders Magufuli gave his life to keep at bay.

That paw-paw, “Elizabeth Ane,” that goat, and that quail, with their positive Covid tests, will forever be a thorn in the side of the Covid industrial complex, thanks to the ingenuity and courage of John Pombe Magufuli.

Rest in Peace."

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Big White Lies

"A new poll of more than 1,000 registered voters released by Echelon Insights offers a startling glimpse into the psyche of Joe Biden supporters. Among Democrats, the top three issues over which they say they are “extremely” or “very concerned” are “Donald Trump supporters,” “white nationalism,” and “systemic racism.”

Among the actions Biden took during his first week in the White House was to rescind President Trump’s ban on critical race theory training in the federal government. We can now expect the cultural revolution to resume in the federal bureaucracy, a bureaucracy that will now explicitly demonize huge segments of what is (supposed to be) our country.

My purpose, however, is not to criticize our ruling regime. No, I’m here to criticize psychologically conquered white people and to denounce white liberal supremacy. The former constitute so much of the governing class within the Republican Party and the latter are at the top of every major U.S. institution, public and private. It is time to be critical of the innumerable half-truths and white lies that pass for discourse in our decadent age.

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Here we are, living in a country where whites (still the largest part of the population in the United States, but with a minority of the children under age 16) are rapidly becoming pariahs in their own country and in which “white” has become a kind of profanity. Why?

Because white Americans allowed it. Because white lies pay.

Try getting a job in the globalist occupation regime while openly rebuking its slogans about “white privilege.” See how quickly you are promoted when you argue explicitly that the founders were great men and builders of a great nation. You won’t get promoted, to say the least. Refuse to lie about your history and the history of your ancestors and you’ll run into a brick wall. It takes zero courage to denounce the white privilege boogeyman, but doing so carries great pecuniary benefits.

Because people are social creatures, too many either allow themselves to be silenced or simply regurgitate the required slogans of our new regime. To do otherwise not only means you will be shunned and canceled by leftists, but you’ll also have plenty of passenger-seat-conservatives piling on to spray gasoline into the public dumpster fire that is your cancellation as well.

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The ruling-class Left openly cultivates, promotes, and turns out their voting blocs. They are explicit in saying they need to increase the turnout of blacks, Hispanics, Asians, gays, and unmarried women. They work hard to do so. Then they reward their client base by doling out patronage. It’s that simple.

Do Republican leaders do anything similar for their demographic base? Of course not. Because deep down they believe what the ruling regime says about us. They’re ashamed of you because they value being seen as “non-racist” by those who detest us in order to get head pats from the ruling regime for being “good conservatives.” There is no length to which they will not go to avoid standing up for their, say it with me, white constituents.

Look at all of the Bushes, Romneys, McCains, Haleys, Kushners, and Rubios. Have any of them ever explicitly denounced the anti-white demagoguery from the culture or the ruling regime? Of course not.

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Republicans had a chance, yet again, to call out Democratic anti-white racism, but of course they waffled. So what do we get? A $1.9 trillion relief bill with specific portions handing out debt forgiveness explicitly to women and non-white farm owners. White males? Sorry, bigots. A provision inserted by Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) offers grants for restaurant owners in amounts up to $5 million per facility provided those facilities are run by women, veterans, or minorities. You’re a white male who isn’t a vet? No chance, oppressor.

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Why does this matter? It matters because a functioning multiracial America cannot exist with white liberal supremacy and a mass of psychologically conquered whites who accept such an illegitimate state of affairs predicated on detestable white lies.

As long as white Americans are willing to be participants in their own marginalization, as long as they allow their own identity to be weaponized against them, they’ll keep experiencing this intense frustration.

As I have written years ago, the arguments underpinning the current anti-white ideology in many ways mirror the anti-Semitic ideologies of the 19th century. What I haven’t written about is the parallel between the self-hating Jew and the self-hating white liberal. Otto Weininger, not exactly a proud Jew, commented on the curious tendency of assimilationist Jews to detest themselves in order to gain gentile acceptance.  He said:

"whosoever detests the Jewish character detests it first of all in himself. That he persecutes it in others is merely his attempt to separate himself in this way from what is Jewish. He strives to sever himself from it by locating it in his fellow-creatures, and so for a moment be able to imagine himself free of it. Hatred, like love, is a projected phenomenon: you hate that person who you feel reminds you unpleasantly of yourself."

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To Tell the Truth: The Lily Cites Statistics For Its Purpose To Stir Up Racial Tensions

"The Lily is a project of the Washington Post, publishing “critical stories about women and gender” geared toward a younger audience. A Tuesday piece from the outlet lamenting the supposed problem of too few Black women in state legislature seats manipulated statistics in a blatantly misleading manner in order to fit an otherwise patently incorrect narrative.

“‘The numbers are stark,’ one expert said,” reads the subtitle of the piece headlined “Black women were hailed after the 2020 election. They still make up less than 5 percent of all state legislators.”

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The sentence following the introduction of this figure is so poorly (or perhaps expertly) constructed that it is arguably a complete lie:

“That’s well below the nationwide share of the population Black women make up: 13 percent of all U.S. women.”

In order to properly evaluate the severity of the underrepresentation problem posed here by The Lily, the reader needs a vital piece of information: what percentage of the US population are Black women? In the above sentence, Lily reporter Anne Branigin sets the reader up to expect that exact critical piece of information. She even introduces it as exactly what a savvy reader would be looking for: “the nationwide share of the population Black women make up” — only to pull a switcheroo, providing a figure nearly *double* in size, and justifying the thought manipulation by use of the “women” qualifier at the end of the sentence.

The honest number to present here would have been 7.6%

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At one point, the piece points to Virginia as an example of being “close to parity in its statehouse,” because “Black women hold 8.57 percent of state legislature seats, while making up 10.36 percent of the state’s population.”

Upon crunching the numbers, one finds that in the same article, The Lily both asserts that in the state of Virginia a 2% gap is “close to parity,” but a 3% gap nationwide is “well below.”"

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Poll Shows Overwhelming Majority Support Voter ID Laws

"The latest poll by Rasmussen Reports indicates that three-fourths of all Americans support stricter voter ID laws, such as requirements to present photo identification before voting, as reported by Breitbart.

The poll shows that 75 percent of likely American voters are in favor of laws that require presenting some form of photo ID, such as a driver’s license; only 21 percent opposed such a proposal. Among the 75 percent, 89 percent of Republican voters approved of such a suggestion, along with 77 percent of independents, and 60 percent of Democrats. In addition, an overwhelming majority of black voters support voter ID, at 69 percent to 25 percent."

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Russia: vaccine passports could violate human rights

"Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is currently visiting China, expressed unease with the idea, as it might introduce new divisions among nations because of the way it is applied (none of these entities currently recognize vaccines produced by the other, as the basis for Covid passports.)

Lavrov advised “extra consideration,” recalling that vaccination is voluntary and that in mandating Covid passports, “We must prevent violations of human rights and the rights of a traveler in case such certificate is absent.”"

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The Reason Why NATO Demolished Libya Ten Years Ago

"Ten years ago, on March 19, 2011, US / NATO forces began the air-naval bombing of Libya. The war was directed by the United States, first through the Africa Command, then through NATO under US command. In seven months, the US / NATO air force carried out 30,000 missions, 10,000 were attack missions, with over 40,000 bombs and missiles. Italy – with Parliament multipartisan consent (Democratic Party in the front row) – participated in the war with seven air bases (Trapani, Pantelleria (Sicily), Gioia del Colle, Amendola (Puglia) Decimomannu (Sardenia), Aviano (Veneto), and with Tornado fighter-bombers, Eurofighters and others, as well as the Garibaldi aircraft carrier and other warships. Even before the air- naval offensive, tribal sectors, and Islamic groups hostile to the government had been financed and armed in Libya, and special forces, particularly Qatari, had infiltrated to ignite armed clashes inside the country.

In this way, the African State was demolished. As the World Bank documented in 2010, it maintained “high levels of economic growth” with an increase in GDP of 7.5% per year, and recorded “high indicators of human development” including universal access to primary and secondary education schools and, over 40%, to university education. Despite the disparities, the average standard of living in Libya was higher than in other African countries. About two million immigrants, mostly Africans, found work there. The Libyan State, which possessed the largest oil reserves in Africa plus other natural gas reserves, left limited profit margins to foreign companies. Thanks to energy exports, the Libyan trade balance was in surplus of 27 billion dollars a year. With these resources, the Libyan State had invested about 150 billion dollars abroad. Libyan investments in Africa were crucial to the African Union’s plan to create three financial organizations: the African Monetary Fund, based in Yaoundé (Cameroon); the African Central Bank, based in Abuja (Nigeria); the African Investment Bank, based in Tripoli. These bodies would serve to create a common market and a single currency for Africa."

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Fighting Woke Tyrants

"Early 20th-century political theorists Gaetano Mosca and Robert Michels devoted exhaustive studies to what became known as “the iron law of oligarchy.” They showed that even in parliamentary regimes (perhaps even particularly in such arrangements) well-organized minorities who understood how to take and wield power remained in command. American political analysts have built on these insights in a long succession of studies about “who rules.”

The question for me, as a scholar and citizen, is why this “slice of the population” has been able to gain such control, not only here but throughout the Anglosphere and in Western Europe. This group’s ideas seem weird and entail the debasement of the West’s core population, who are being urged or forced to submit to their own degradation and the canceling of their inherited culture and morality.

Although there are many variables that may have to be considered in looking at this situation, one thing seems painfully obvious: The opposition has not fought back effectively. It has not been resourceful or relentless enough and has even failed to exercise those limited powers at its disposal to keep the enemy in check.

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One should not be able to have it both ways. Republican virtue-signalers who readily endorsed the last presidential race and attacked Donald Trump for contesting it are now complaining about Democratic efforts to institutionalize certain voting irregularities. Why should those who readily accepted vote harvesting and the absence of voter identification in November complain about it now?

Republicans such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are now busily protesting practices they approved when Trump was the victim. Although H.R. 1 contains true enormities, such as nationalizing electoral procedures, one can still recognize in this proposed legislation dubious practices that McConnell and other Republican senators thought were fine in last November’s election. Would it be fair to ask for more foresight if one intends to thwart leftist attempts to turn the United States into a one-party dictatorship?"