PP NewsBrief: 2021-05-26

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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Alabama becomes latest US state to ban vaccine passports, as debate rages over mandating proof of Covid-19 status

"Republican Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill on Monday which prevents states and local governments from issuing documentation verifying vaccine status. The newly ratified law also ensures that people will not be denied entry to businesses, universities, schools and state institutions if they have not been vaccinated against Covid-19.

In a statement, Ivey said she was supportive of “a voluntary vaccine” and that her decision to sign the bill into law reflects her position on the public health issue. She added that she personally chose to receive the vaccine and encouraged Alabamians who haven’t gotten the shot to “roll up their sleeves.”

The legislation’s sponsor, Republican state Senator Arthur Orr, said he was prompted to take action after hearing stories about businesses that were refusing customers who had not been vaccinated. He said that allowing such policies to continue would lead to discrimination and “turn us into a two-tier society,” according to local media.

Additionally, the law requires universities and colleges to provide a religious or health exemption for any other vaccine that may be listed as required for enrollment."

One thing you'll note with these vaccine passport bans is that the Governor will always make sure to speak well of vaccines when discussing it. It's either ignorance or just plain failure to lead.

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Arizona fails to pass ban on Covid-19 vaccine passports

"Arizona officials have shot down a measure which would prohibit most third parties, such as businesses or public schools, from mandating Covid-19 vaccines.

The measure, House Bill 2190, failed to pass on a 16-13 vote, with Republican Sen. TJ Shope joining with Democrats in voting against the bill.

The measure prohibited third parties like schools and businesses from mandating vaccines, as well as inquiring whether someone is vaccinated. Health professionals and institutions would have been exempt from the rule, had it passed.

Violation of the rule would have meant a fine and possibly 30 days in prison."

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The Animating Spirit Of Ordered Liberty

"2020 was and continues to be a seminal precipice—a crisis—that could determine whether we, as a people, choose between the “animating spirit” of “Ordered Liberty,” and constitutional law represented by the People or Transnational Law and a move toward  Globalism and even Marxism, organized by the Coastal and big city Elites—Hollywood, academia, the Deep State, Big Government, to name a few. It is often said that “politics is downstream from culture,” and culturally, a fundamental choice is emerging; a choice between societal constructs based on the “rights of the individual,” and the other, a cultural shift that dogmatically prioritizes “the needs of the Collective.”

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It is important to note that MacGuffie and Stark posit that the period of the Seventh Crisis probably started around 2001 with 9/11. For them, the exact date is not important, but rather, as Stark explains, “The Seventh Crisis can be anything, we saw recently it could be a health thing, like with Covid. But it’s how do you face it…”

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The authors maintain that Ordered Liberty is not the same as Freedom. In fact, in a recent appearance on Episode 865 of Bannon’s War Room, Stark explains their perspective on Millennials and what they mean when they use the term “Ordered Liberty” and its partner term, “animating spirit.” Stark’s summary explanation below best captures the raison d’etre of their book:

“We believe that Ordered Liberty serves to be an “animating spirit” for the Millennial generation. We found that too many people our age, younger than us and GenX, have written off Millennials—have said that they’re too lazy, they’re brainwashed, they’re dumb, and we don’t buy that. We don’t buy ceding this entire generation to their enemies, to the people who want to destroy their prosperity, destroy their history, to destroy their country. …[ British Historian] Arnold Toynbee harkens back to this idea of an “animated spirit,” which he claims is picked up from a previous period.

And, the animating spirit that we focused on was one that was always within America’s history but has been lost. It has been forgotten about. And that is the whole concept of Ordered Liberty. To us, freedom is not the same as liberty. Freedom is the absence of responsibility. Charles Manson is free, he’s free to run in the desert and kill people and do whatever he wants because he’s under no law and under no order. But that’s hardly good.

So, what liberty does is liberty is the shouldering of responsibility. And liberty is shouldered in certain forms…Capitalism as opposed to Socialism..belief in traditional value systems, belief in Judeo-Christianity, belief in our own history, our own myths and our own heroes, a belief in our own nation as opposed to a kind of Globalist or TransNational view of things…the Millennial generation has been deliberately denuded of the type of critical thinking skills they need to fight and face the Seventh Crisis…and we want the Millennials to realize that, in order to face it, they have to take an inner spiritual experience and externalize it and turn the Seventh Crisis into a heroic experience… The fight is a heroic experience.

They have to get to their own…Warrior..their own Amazon and fight what’s coming against them. You look in the streets today, and you see BLM. You know what they want. They want to fight YOU. They don’t want to discuss it with you. They want to take things away from you. They don’t want to give you anything. They want to destroy what you have. So, if you are going to become a political warrior and defend what you have, you must have an animating spirit…

Ordered Liberty is that animating spirit. It defends freedom and allows the divine creative force of freedom to be protected from becoming license and anarchy and chaos. So, we are trying to get to those Millennials, and there are many of them…we owe it to them. Boomers have done a lot of damage to this country..professors and teachers who have stripped Millennials of their ability to critically think, forcing them into their devices, watching things online rather than living life in reality. We want them to take that out and bring it out into the fight.”

The title of the book, they state, “is taken from the central thesis of the book, ‘The Fourth Turning,’ written by William Strauss and Neil Howe in 1997…who view Anglo-American history through a generational lens [which] organizes Anglo American history into seven repeating cycles starting in the late Medieval, 15th century period.” Those cycles are each “referred to as [a] saeculum, a Roman term for a long human life…eighty to one hundred years.”

The Fourth Turning is a concept that speaks to an identifiable cycle with four phases within those saecula that reoccur in future saecula with remarkable predictability. In other words, four generations that span those 80-year spans unfold with their own characteristic phasic quality identified by four terms; the High, the Awakening, the Unraveling, the Crisis.

“Prophets [are] born in a High, Nomads in an Awakening, Heroes in an Unraveling and Artists in a Crisis,” MacGuffie and Stark explain. The Fourth Turning describes our current saeculum as the Millennial saeculum. The Millennial saeculum was preceded by the sixth Saeculum or “Great Power,” with its “Unraveling of the 1920s leading to the Crisis of the ’30s, [climaxing] with WWll.” Thus, the stage was set for the seventh, or Millennial, saeculum.

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The Great American Experiment, envisioned by the fathers of its Constitution, requires recognizing the roles we each play concerning the self-governance of our country. The Seventh Crisis is a book well worth reading. It can serve as a call to action to educate and inspire younger generations to carry forth the torch of Ordered Liberty guarded so well by the breathtakingly courageous generations who have come before."

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Video: Our Approach to Zionism

"Jewish Voice for Peace is guided by a vision of justice, equality and freedom for all people. We unequivocally oppose Zionism because it is counter to those ideals.

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Through study and action, through deep relationship with Palestinians fighting for their own liberation, and through our own understanding of Jewish safety and self determination, we have come to see that Zionism was a false and failed answer to the desperately real question many of our ancestors faced of how to protect Jewish lives from murderous antisemitism in Europe.

While it had many strains historically, the Zionism that took hold and stands today is a settler-colonial movement, establishing an apartheid state where Jews have more rights than others. Our own history teaches us how dangerous this can be.

Palestinian dispossession and occupation are by design. Zionism has meant profound trauma for generations, systematically separating Palestinians from their homes, land, and each other. Zionism, in practice, has resulted in massacres of Palestinian people, ancient villages and olive groves destroyed, families who live just a mile away from each other separated by checkpoints and walls, and children holding onto the keys of the homes from which their grandparents were forcibly exiled.

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In sharing our stories with one another, we see the ways Zionism has also harmed Jewish people. Many of us have learned from Zionism to treat our neighbors with suspicion, to forget the ways Jews built home and community wherever we found ourselves to be. Jewish people have had long and integrated histories in the Arab world and North Africa, living among and sharing community, language and custom with Muslims and Christians for thousands of years.

By creating a racist hierarchy with European Jews at the top, Zionism erased those histories and destroyed those communities and relationships....

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Zionist interpretations of history taught us that Jewish people are alone, that to remedy the harms of antisemitism we must think of ourselves as always under attack and that we cannot trust others. It teaches us fear, and that the best response to fear is a bigger gun, a taller wall, a more humiliating checkpoint.

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Zionism is a form of Jewish nationalism, and is the primary ideology that drove the establishment of Israel. Zionism began in the late 19th century in the context of a set of huge changes in political, cultural, social landscape of Jewish life in Europe, along with the general rise of nationalist movements and nation-state political forms. For Jews in Europe, this meant a sharp rise in violent antisemitism. Jewish people – even though they had lived in Europe for centuries – were fundamentally excluded from the ways European nations defined themselves. This resulted in violent, targeted, anti-Jewish massacres in Russia, known as pogroms; the development of anti-Jewish conspiracy theories like Protocols of the Elders of Zion; and the re-emergence of older antisemitic tropes, like blood libels, which claim that Jewish people use the blood of Christian children in rituals.

Some Jewish people responded to this antisemitism by attempting to assimilate into the European countries they lived in; this often proved impossible. Many Jewish people – over 2.5 million – left as refugees, coming to the United States or other parts of Europe. Others, most famously the Bund, rejected the concept of nationalism altogether or turned to revolutionary socialism. And some, notably Theodore Herzl, often seen as the founder of Zionism, thought that Jews themselves constituted a separate people, and should therefore have a state of their own. Herzl and other early Zionist thinkers were also very influenced by European settler colonial thinking, often explicitly making the case that a Jewish state in Palestine would be a European colony similar to the British presence in India.

It is important to note that people who consider themselves Zionist have different interpretations of what that label means in the present political moment, to them personally, and historically. Moreover, over time, multiple strains of Zionism have emerged, including political Zionism, religious Zionism, and cultural Zionism.

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While Zionism is often referred to as a movement of “Jewish self-determination,” the Zionist movement defined this term in a narrow political sense, rejecting the diaspora as inherently toxic and unhealthy for Jews. The Classical Zionist concept known as shlilat hagalut (“negation of the diaspora”), demeaned centuries of a rich Jewish spiritual and cultural history – often to the point of using anti-Semitic imagery. For instance, famed Zionist journalist/ writer Micah Josef Berdichevsky claimed diaspora Jews were “not a nation, not a people and not human.” Hebrew literary icon Yosef Hayyim Brenner called them “gypsies, filthy dogs and inhuman,” while Labor Zionist AD Gordon referred to diaspora Jews as “a parasitic people.”

Zionism, as a political ideology and as a movement, has always hierarchized Jews based on ethnicity and race, and has not equally benefited or been liberatory for all Jewish people in Israel. Zionism is and was an Ashkenazi-led movement that othered, marginalized and discriminated against Jews from across the Middle East and North Africa that it termed Mizrahim (the ‘Eastern Ones’)."

Yet another voice which is ultimately trapped in the outdated left/right paradigm. And highly fearful of a white nationalist sentiment which largely does not exist. It doesn't necessarily come through in the excerpts since I'll often attempt to excerpt a writer's stronger points rather than focusing on weaknesses.

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‘Comeback Cash’: Colorado launches $1 million Covid-19 ‘vaccine lottery’ modeled on successful Ohio initiative

"Dubbed ‘Colorado Comeback Cash’, the random drawings will be held weekly starting on June 4, with five winners set to take home $1 million each, the governor announced on Tuesday, adding that those aged 18 and older who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus will be entered into the contest automatically.

“That’s right, you can win $1 million and you might already be entered. Anybody who got the vaccine in Colorado, or who gets the vaccine, will be an automatic participant in not one, not two, not three, not four, but five drawings for $1 million,” Polis said while standing in front of an oversized check.

Participants only require one dose to be eligible, and while the lottery is restricted to adults, Polis said a program for “scholarship prizes” would soon be announced for those aged 12 to 17.

However, there is one catch: Lottery winners must agree to release their identities to the public, as “the purpose of the campaign is to encourage everyone to get vaccinated,” according to an official FAQ, which notes that personal immunization records would remain confidential."

Look, another clown. I wish Trump had proposed vaccine lotteries so the media would have piled so much hate on the idea that we'd never have to deal with it. Or maybe they'd just have been blatant hypocrites and gone ahead with it anyway.

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Vaccination segregation: Chicago restaurant separates customers by jab status, citing city’s Covid-19 rules

"A social experiment is underway in Chicago, where a restaurant is segregating customers by Covid-19 vaccination status. City guidelines say this is perfectly fine, says the owner, who chairs the Illinois Restaurant Association.

Moe’s Cantina pioneered the practice this past weekend, according to Chicago’s WBBM-TV. The restaurant was divided into an unrestricted, vaccinated section and another, where partitions and socially distanced tables remain.

“We decided to divide, and you’re free to come on this side, go to the bar. You can be pre-pandemic,” said the owner, Sam Sanchez.

Patrons will need to show proof of full vaccination to be issued with a pink bracelet and allowed into the unrestricted area.

Illinois – and Chicago in particular – have been under strict lockdown measures for over a year. Last week, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced relaxation of the restrictions, allowing establishments to operate as normal “if only vaccinated patrons and employees are allowed” inside.

Businesses open late and those with dance floors are also required to verify vaccination status of customers in order to reopen without restrictions.

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Over at Wrigley Field, the outdoor baseball stadium, the Chicago Cubs have set aside a separate section of the bleachers for vaccinated fans. They are also offering free food and drinks to fans who get the shot at a convention center nearby, according to a Chicago Tribune story shared by Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Illinois)."

Did you miss out on Jim Crow? Well here's a knockoff version that's perhaps based on even more ridiculousness than the original.

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Georgia Governor signs executive order banning state entities from requiring Covid-19 vaccine passports

"Kemp signed an executive order on Tuesday that blocks state government agencies, service providers and public schools from requiring vaccine passports. "While I continue to urge all Georgians to get vaccinated so we continue our momentum of putting the Covid-19 pandemic in the rearview, vaccination is a personal decision between each citizen and a medical professional – not the state government," the governor said.

The order bans all state entities from requiring proof of Covid-19 vaccination as a condition to enter a property, conduct business with an agency, receive services, be employed or enjoy any other rights or privileges. It also prohibits vaccine passports being required for entry into Georgia – a provision that could affect airlines and other transportation providers – and state agencies can't treat employees differently based on vaccination status.

Kemp stopped short of blocking private-sector businesses from requiring vaccine passports, but he ordered that no state health data be shared with public or private entities to facilitate a passport program."

Kemp should still walk into an alligator-infested swamp wearing a meat suit though.

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The Pandemic Virus that Doesn’t Exist

"...in the medical universe, there are actually several huge institutions that are based on nothing.

Here is one: PSYCHIATRY.

The official bible of the psychiatric profession, the DSM, lists, describes, and labels some 300 separate and distinct mental disorders.

If you plow through the bible, you will notice that NONE of these mental disorders has a defining laboratory test. No saliva, blood, hair, urine test. No brain scan. No genetic assay. NOTHING.

Yes, people have problems, troubles. People experience suffering and pain. But that is quite, quite different from arbitrarily carving up all that suffering into 300 academic and clinical categories called “mental disorders.”

And on top of the astonishing scientific con, the patients who are diagnosed are given toxic drugs, some of which push them over the edge into committing suicide and murder.

All based on a scientific nothing.

(A warning: Suddenly withdrawing from psychiatric drugs can be very dangerous, even life-threatening. Withdrawal should be done gradually, supervised by a caring professional who knows what he’s doing....)

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Here is one more newsflash: The so-called “chemical-imbalance” theory of mental illness is dead.

Dr. Ronald Pies, the editor-in-chief emeritus of the Psychiatric Times, laid the theory to rest in the July 11, 2011, issue of the Times with this staggering admission:

“In truth, the ‘chemical imbalance’ notion was always a kind of urban legend — never a theory seriously propounded by well-informed psychiatrists.”

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In his 2011 piece in Psychiatric Times, Dr. Pies tries to protect his colleagues in the psychiatric profession with this fatuous remark:

“In the past 30 years, I don’t believe I have ever heard a knowledgeable, well-trained psychiatrist make such a preposterous claim [about chemical imbalance in the brain], except perhaps to mock it…the ‘chemical imbalance’ image has been vigorously promoted by some pharmaceutical companies, often to the detriment of our patients’ understanding.”

Absurd. First of all, many psychiatrists have explained and do explain to their patients that the drugs are there to correct a chemical imbalance.

And second, if all well-trained psychiatrists have known, all along, that the chemical-imbalance theory is a fraud…

…then why on earth have they been prescribing tons of drugs to their patients…

…since those drugs are developed on the false premise that they correct a chemical imbalance?"

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Microsoft vs Indian Farmers: Agri-Stacking the System

"In April, the Indian government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft, allowing its local partner CropData to leverage a master database of farmers. The MoU seems to be part of the AgriStack policy initiative, which involves the roll out of ‘disruptive’ technologies and digital databases in the agricultural sector.

Based on press reports and government statements, Microsoft would help farmers with post- harvest management solutions by building a collaborative platform and capturing agriculture datasets such as crop yields, weather data, market demand and prices. In turn, this would create a farmer interface for ‘smart’ agriculture, including post-harvest management and distribution.

CropData will be granted access to a government database of 50 million farmers and their land records. As the database is developed, it will include farmers’ personal details, profile of land held (cadastral maps, farm size, land titles, local climatic and geographical conditions), production details (crops grown, production history, input history, quality of output, machinery in possession) and financial details (input costs, average return, credit history).

The stated aim is to use digital technology to improve financing, inputs, cultivation and supply and distribution.

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Such ‘data-driven agriculture’ is integral to the recent farm legislation which includes a proposal to create a digital profile of cultivators, their farm holdings, climatic conditions in an area, what is grown and average output.

Of course, many concerns have been raised about this, ranging from farmer displacement, the further exploitation of farmers through microfinance and the misuse of farmer’s data and increased algorithmic decision-making without accountability.

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The plan is that, as farmers lose access to land or can be identified as legal owners, predatory institutional investors and large agribusinesses will buy up and amalgamate holdings, facilitating the further roll out of high-input, corporate-dependent industrial agriculture – which has already helped fuel wide-scale financial distress among farmers and a deep-rooted agrarian and environmental crisis.

By harvesting (pirating) information – under the benign-sounding policy of data-driven agriculture – private corporations will be better placed to exploit farmers’ situations for their own ends: they will know more about their incomes and businesses than individual farmers themselves.

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There is the strong possibility that monopolistic corporate owned e-commerce ‘platforms’ will eventually control much of India’s economy given the current policy trajectory. From retail and logistics to cultivation, data certainly will be the ‘new oil’, giving power to platforms to dictate what needs to be manufactured and in what quantities.

Those farmers who remain in the system will be tied to contracts and told how much production is expected, how much rain is anticipated, what type of soil quality there is, what type of inputs are required and when the produce needs to be ready – and how much money they will receive.

Handing over all information about the sector to Microsoft and others places power in their hands – the power to shape the sector in their own image.

The data giants and e-commerce companies will not only control data about consumption but also hold data on production, logistics, who needs what, when they need it, who should produce it, who should move it and when it should be moved.

Bayer, Corteva, Syngenta and traditional agribusiness will work with Microsoft, Google and the big-tech giants to facilitate AI-driven farmerless farms and e-commerce retail dominated by the likes of Amazon and Walmart. A cartel of data owners, proprietary input suppliers and retail concerns at the commanding heights of the economy, peddling toxic industrial food and the devastating health impacts associated with it.

And elected representatives? Their role will be highly limited to technocratic overseers of these platforms and the artificial intelligence tools that plan and determine all of the above.

As for farmers, many if not most will be forced to leave the sector. Tens of millions unemployed and underemployed ‘collateral damage’ stripped of their means of production.

Centuries’ old knowledge of cultivation and cultural practices passed on down the generations – gone. The links between humans and the land reduced to an AI-driven technocratic dystopia in compliance with the tenets of neoliberal capitalism.

As it currently stands, AgriStack will help facilitate this end game."

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No Right To Try; No Right To Refuse

"In 2017 “Right to Try“ was required to give patients with life-threatening conditions access to certain treatments that have not yet been adequately tested and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), provided they are otherwise unable to participate in a clinical trial. As per Christina Sandefur, vice president of the Goldwater Institute, Right to Try, “Dying patients shouldn’t have to fight the federal government” for permission to save their own lives.

Today, it is widely expected that patients who are not sick consider Covid-19 vaccines that are not FDA approved or licensed but rather were authorized under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). Symptomless citizens are looking to governments to reserve their right to refuse treatment in the form of an emergency use vaccine.

Originally introduced by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) and signed by President Trump on May 30, 2018, Democrats Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Joe Donnelly of Indiana joined a slew of Republicans and Independent Angus King of Maine as original co-sponsors of the Right to Try bill, which passed 250-169. 228 of the ayes were Republican, with no Republican votes against.

With Trump’s vocal support came criticisms from Democrats and the establishment:

“The legislation… could expose critically ill patients to greater harm,” worried Democratic Rep. Frank Pallone.

Democratic Rep. Gene Green said the “legitimate frustrations with the current system… are not a good reason to remove the FDA from the process.”

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stated, “…Difficult decisions about individual treatment are best made by patients with the support and guidance of their treating physicians.”

Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE commented, “They could take a medication that could make them die faster or in a worse way… they might be losing valuable time with their families, or they might be missing out on palliative options.”

Peter Temin, Gray Professor Emeritus of Economics, MIT, wrote, “there is always a chance that any given drug will fail to cure a condition or will induce an adverse reaction… drugs that are not fully studied may lead to more adverse reactions.”

Years later, support for individual liberty and doctor/patient choice regarding the Covid vaccine and alternate therapeutic treatments are coming largely from the Right. They are pointing out that some of the same voices against the “Right to Try” are now in favor of making undertested vaccines mandatory and alternative treatments prohibited. They decry the hypocrisy that is consistent only in a principle that it’s the government’s body and the government’s choice."

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Gitmo’s oldest inmate approved for release after being held for 16 YEARS without charge

"An elderly man from Pakistan who has spent the better part of two decades imprisoned at the controversial US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has been cleared for release, his lawyer has said.

Saifullah Paracha has been imprisoned for more than 16 years on suspicion of having ties to Al-Qaeda. However, his captors never charged him with a crime.

Paracha was a wealthy businessman in Pakistan who owned property in New York City. But his life was turned upside down after US authorities alleged he was an Al-Qaeda “facilitator” who helped two conspirators in the September 11 terrorist attacks with a financial transaction. Paracha has maintained that he was unaware of their affiliation with the terrorist group. The US captured him in Thailand in 2003 and he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay a year later.

In November, his case was brought before a prisoner review board, his eighth appearance before the body. According to his lawyer, Shelby Sullivan-Bennis, the US military has now finally agreed to release him but did not give specific reasoning for the decision, stating only that Paracha is “not a continuing threat” to the United States. Two other men were also approved for release.

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However, the decision does not mean Paracha will be freed immediately. There are a number of hurdles that lie ahead, including the matter of where he will be repatriated to. Sullivan-Bennis said Pakistan was ready to accept him and that there were no impediments blocking his return.

Apart from being the oldest detainee, he is also one of the last remaining prisoners at Guantanamo. Currently, the facility holds 40 prisoners, down from a peak of almost 700 in 2003."

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Researchers Find 1,000 Different Proteins in AstraZeneca’s COVID Vaccine Linked to Deadly Blood Clots

"According to Prof. Andreas Greinacher, a blood expert from the University of Greifswald, the two viral vector vaccines contain genetically modified (GMO) cold viruses that, upon injection, trigger an autoimmune response.

Stray proteins, Greinacher says, along with a preservative used specifically in the AstraZeneca jab known as ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), are directly responsible for causing the blood clots, he says.

Greinacher and his team identified more than 1,000 human-derived cell proteins in the injections that they believe are getting into people’s bloodstreams and clamping onto a blood component known as platelet factor 4, or PF4, where they form complexes that activate the production of antibodies.

This then generates an inflammatory response throughout the body, as the immune system is tricked into believing that it has been infected with bacteria. The immune system then overreacts and goes nuts, essentially, causing deadly bleeding and clotting.

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Prof. John Kelton from McMaster University in Canada says he and his team have replicated and confirmed Greinacher’s findings, though they are unsure if his causal theory is accurate.

Greinacher, meanwhile, is hoping the two respective vaccine makers will cooperate in nailing down whether or not his causal theory is correct.

“We strongly support raising awareness of the signs and symptoms of this very rare event, and we are currently exploring a potential collaboration with Dr. Greinacher,” a J&J spokesperson is quoted as saying.

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Prof. Eric van Gorp from Erasmus University in the Netherlands also says that the flu-like symptoms many recipients of the vaccines experience post-injection could also be the result of autoimmune-provoking inflammation.

The reason why none of this has ever been reported in the past is because viral vector vaccine technology has never before been administered at scale. In other words, these shots, just like their mRNA counterparts, are entirely experimental.

The only viral vector vaccine that even comes close is the Ebola injection developed by J&J, which was only given to about 60,000 people as of last July."

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Public Schools: Designed to Fail

"Sending a child to school is a sacrifice of control, theoretically in exchange for a better experience than the parent can provide alone. Since students aren’t receiving that at school, parents are re-evaluating. But those who consider alternatives are often at odds with others, even their own parents—because community elders remember an American school that no longer exists.

For those without recent experience, it is assumed that parents still have two-way communication with teachers who are open and willing to receive feedback and discretion to implement it. Still, attitudes at the school have moved toward less consideration of parent choice and feedback. Entering a modern front office as a parent too often brings prejudicial contempt. Judgmental authorities there skeptically search for the ‘warning signs’ they are trained to find and tribally reinforce that attitude in the teacher’s lounges. Children need to be saved from their parents, you see—because parents aren’t certificating holding graduates of Topics in Child Behavioral Development for the Structurally Oppressed like teachers are.

In these conditions, schools suffer attrition. High achievement teachers, who are smart enough to prefer environments where they are allowed to teach children what children ought to learn, tend to leave their posts. Those who remain are of lower quality, lower aptitude, and lower intelligence. They trend ideological and idealistic, adopting a hero persona while not being accountable to any sort of quantifiable heroism. Overrepresented are the personalities with a mission to put their stamp on a child, and therefore the world....

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It isn’t universal. School workers are usually more or less cooperative and obedient to procedures designed by someone else—guidelines that are woven through their training. Many are totally unaware that rebellion would be either possible or necessary, and the rest is predictable human behavior. But some amount or combination of these problems and attitudes are sure to be present in the institution that teaches your child.

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...It can help to view the decades-long shift toward centralization, along with the corresponding decline in quality, as a multi-generational silent war based on age-old military strategy against the last bastion of individual freedom from the children up. Such an operation aims to undermine the natural cohesion borne of human cooperation in the freedom that we enjoy, and the reason for it being covert is the Second Amendment.

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We look back at a decades-long self-destructive downward spiral of schools and their teacher pools that have made them gradually less and less able to prepare students to properly raise the children that those same schools will fail to educate. So what can we as parents do? Not all of us can push back or vote with our feet. Not all neighborhoods have multiple options, and not all parents can afford to shop around. Even where we do have options, because consumers have largely abdicated their responsibility to assert consumer power to a vague notion of public trust, there is a lack of market force keeping private schools from following the path of public schools.

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...fortunately, we can expect that when teachers, counselors, and school nurses respond to a developing child’s off day with a psychological evaluation, diagnosis of ‘oppositional defiance disorder,’ and medication, it will create radicals out of parents who used to go along to get along, rather than creating more supporters for public school.

Many parents have seen these issues and have chosen to homeschool. Where others take responsibility on themselves to seek change from administrators, they are often viewed through the same lens as those homeschoolers—with preconceived stereotypes distorting what the status quo sees. But sometimes it works: parents are positively taking back control and challenging the schools and school boards, standing ground and reforming the government solution. And we can attempt to return sanity to schools from within by vetting and voting on school board candidates or by running for those positions ourselves, thereby being involved in choosing administrators and policies. Organizations exist to help, such as Asra Nomani’s Parents Defending Education, which empowers parents to follow in her footsteps to investigate the source of indoctrination in their community schools through FOIA requests.

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“Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about and having those strangers work on your child’s mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that?” ~ John Taylor Gatto"

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The Right of Revolution in the American Founding

"According to the American Declaration of Independence, people enter into political society for the sake of protecting their inalienable rights, which are otherwise insecure. The question then arises: what can the people do if the government betrays its trust, and violates their rights? The Declaration’s initial answer is “that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.”

The people create the government, but in so doing they do not forfeit their right to vindicate their own rights, even against the very government they created. Thus James Wilson asserted that the “vital principle” of America is “that the supreme or sovereign power of the society resides in the citizens at large; and that, therefore, they always retain the right of abolishing, altering, or amending their constitution.” This right supersedes the claims of the government to the loyalty and obedience of its subjects. Federalist 28 describes the right of revolution as “that original right of self-defence, which is paramount to all positive forms of government.”

This is, however, only the beginning of the story. The Declaration of Independence devotes more space to the right of revolution than to any other single concept. Equality and liberty are asserted, more or less without comment, but the right of revolution is explained in considerable detail, providing us with answers to a variety of critical questions about this “vital principle.” By what right can the people supplant the authority of their own government? How can they justify the risks inherent in a course as drastic as revolution? What circumstances justify revolution?

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...In 1774, the colonists were still attempting to work within the British system for redress of their grievances, and so they claimed the rights guaranteed to them as part of that system. They were seeking a political solution to a political dispute with Parliament. By 1776, however, the colonists had become revolutionaries, claiming the right to establish themselves as an independent nation. In so doing they cast aside British law and appealed exclusively to a higher law: the natural law.

The natural law, as America’s Founding Fathers understood it, is simply that portion of the law of God that could be discerned through unassisted reason, without reference to any particular revelation. Alexander Hamilton noted that the natural law was “an eternal and immutable law, which is, indispensably, obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any institution whatever.” The natural law is a standard of political right that transcends the constitutions and statutes of particular regimes. This means that it can be used as a basis for evaluating the actions of governments and rulers, and any such that violate the natural law are to that extent immoral and unjust.

The natural law provides a higher-law foundation for resistance to oppression, giving such resistance a moral validity that it could not possess otherwise....

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The existence of a natural right of revolution does not, however, mean that the exercise of this right is justified in every circumstance. The Declaration’s treatment of the right of revolution continues with the assertion that “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.” Revolution can have the most catastrophic consequences. One need only look to the other two great modern revolutions to witness this. The French Revolution moved from its moderate opening phase to the repression and mass murder of the Jacobins, and ultimately traded the Bourbon monarchy for Napoleon’s empire. The Revolution unleashed more than 20 years of constant warfare on Europe, killing millions in the process. The Russian Revolution swiftly descended into Bolshevik tyranny and the unending terror of Stalin’s regime.

The explosive danger of revolution, and the catastrophic effect a revolution can have on ordinary lives, thus require a high bar for the exercise of this right. The Declaration asserts that revolution is justified only “when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism”; in these circumstances, “it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”

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Even then, revolution may not be the appropriate response. The odds of success may be so doubtful, or the likelihood of increased human misery so great, that revolution should be avoided even though the technical right exists. Two years before Howard, John Tucker told his congregation that “tho’ it may not always be prudent and best, to resist such power, and submission may be yielded, yet that the people have a right to resist, is undeniable.” The ruler may be so powerful, or his opponents so weak, that an ill-conceived revolution may be doomed to failure and merely worsen the condition of the people. In such a case, the revolutionaries would be guilty of a great crime against those whom they sought to liberate.

Under the right circumstances, however, revolution is not only a right but a duty. When the train of abuses is long, and the people are clearly being crushed into servitude, and those who would resist have a reasonable chance of success, revolution becomes an obligation. In the aftermath of the battles at Lexington and Concord, the Second Continental Congress announced, in the language of duty, its intention to resist British oppression with armed force: “Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.” In America, in the mid-1770s, the right and the moment converged.

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...numerous important distinctions exist between the American Revolution on the one hand, and the French and Russian Revolutions on the other, which explain their different courses. By 1776, the American colonists had a century and a half of practice in the arts of self-government, whereas the French and Russian people, at the times of their respective revolutions, had been ruled by absolutist monarchies for centuries. They had little to no experience with self-government, and it showed. Gouverneur Morris, a member of the Constitutional Convention, had been in France at the outbreak of the revolution. He noted in his diary on October 21, 1789 that in Paris, “the pressure of incumbent despotism removed, every bad passion exerts itself.” The French people, recently freed from despotism, had no idea how to govern themselves, and the result was chaos and degradation.

By the time of the Declaration of Independence, the ideas of the American Revolution had been discussed, worked out, and diffused among the people for at least a decade. The Declaration of Independence was a new beginning for the colonists, to be sure, but it was also the culmination of years of political and social action, debate, and civic education in the first principles of justice. By contrast, the French and Russian Revolutions were sudden explosions that took nearly everyone by surprise. More importantly, the ideals of those revolutions had not penetrated their societies, as they had in America; they remained confined to a narrow intellectual or revolutionary class until after those revolutions had begun.

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The American Revolution was a true landmark in human history. It demonstrated to the world that a people can not only overthrow an existing regime but also successfully establish a free, peaceful, and functional government of their own. The American Revolution is no less a revolution for not having devolved into terror, war, and catastrophic social upheaval. Americans grounded their revolution in the eternal principles of natural law and natural right, and in so doing provided a roadmap for all who would reclaim the liberty that God has granted them, but which their government is systemically unable or unwilling to secure."

Principles & Morals can certainly help you achieve revolutions (and summon the courage necessary to attempt them) but they alone will not cut it. You must have the wisdom to know when to act and when to not. This can at times be a quite difficult task. Anger & rage at continued injustice can make even a wise individual less so.

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Cutting-edge ‘Trojan horse’ tech that makes cancer tumors destroy themselves may work to treat Covid-19 too

"Researchers at the University of Zurich have developed a technology that could not only cause cancer tumors to kill themselves, but could also potentially eradicate Covid-19 in people’s lungs.

The team used a modified adenovirus – a common type of respiratory virus that is often repurposed and used extensively in medical treatments as a delivery mechanism. The technology, known as SHielded, REtargeted ADenovirus (SHREAD), is akin to a Trojan horse in that it evades detection from the body’s own immune system and delivers genetic instructions for therapeutic antibodies directly into the tumor cells themselves.

The tumors then begin to mass produce their own doom in the form of antibody cells that eventually consume and eliminate the tumor, but with significantly lowered side effects compared to traditional cancer treatments.

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In laboratory tests on mice, the scientists tricked a cancer tumor into producing trastuzumab, a clinically approved breast cancer antibody. Furthermore, the tumor actually produced more of the antibody over time, accelerating its own demise. Concentrations of trastuzumab away from the tumor, in tissues and the bloodstream, were low, indicating the reduced potential for side effects, confirmed by high-resolution 3D imaging observations.

The cutting-edge technology could mark the arrival of a highly effective delivery system for powerful drugs that would otherwise inflict too much damage.

Adenovirus vectors are currently being deployed in the Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca and Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccines, but without the SHREAD technology. The Zurich researchers believe they could create an inhaled aerosol that could allow for targeted production of Covid-19 antibodies within the lung cells themselves."

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UK vaccine recipients were secretly surveilled

"The UK government tracked millions of people, without their knowledge, using their phones to gain insights into behavioral changes after vaccination, according to a new report. The government somehow insists the data collection was ethical and no privacy laws were broken.

A report by the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviors (SPI-B) admitted that government funded researchers tracked one in ten people via their phones in February, without the users’ knowledge or permission.

They used “cell phone mobility data for 10 percent of the British population,” and chose over 4,200 vaccinated individuals. They then focused on the vaccinated group, and tracked it through 40 “CDR [call data records] with corresponding location observation.” The data collected was used for behavioral analysis, looking at “gyration (radius of gyration on vaccination day), time (opening hours) and home (do they go home directly after vaccination).”

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The government insisted that the data collection did not break any privacy laws and was ethical.

“All the data sets used in this research are set out in the paper which makes clear that the mobile phone location data used is GDPR-compliant and has been provided from a company that collected, cleaned, and anonymized the data,” said a government spokesperson.

“The data is at cell tower rather than individual level and the researchers were granted access to the dataset under a research contract with ethical approval provided to the researchers from the University of Oxford, working on behalf of SPI-B”."

Sure, they're not implanting microchips with the vaccines (yet), but they're just using Big Data to accomplish the same thing.

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What Will We Lose?

"After sifting through all of the science-sourced “facts”, claims, death statistics, cases updates (so many, many cases) and the dire, ever grim projections from our modern-day high priests with their computer models it really just comes down to this question.

What will we lose?

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...The sheer magnitude of these changes, almost all entirely some kind of loss for the vast majority of us is truly staggering. Perhaps for the 1st time in a very long time, perhaps ever, the other majority, the world’s poorest citizens will finally see the rest of us experience real empathy, a genuine understanding of some of the challenges and daily injustices they have been forced to accept as a normal way of living.

The worst aspect of my personal situation so far is that my elderly mother has been basically imprisoned in a care facility for over a year, unable to see any family save for myself and my brother who have been permitted to be designated “essential caregivers” so that she may have a few visitors.

So far with this measure, our Ontario Government has not been heartless enough just yet to completely isolate the elderly but all other friends and family are forbidden to visit. The last time she was allowed outside, almost 8 months ago, she was in the presence of a “minder” who kept us 6 feet apart, masked and who afforded us no privacy. I will lose my mom soon, she may die alone, forcibly confined with simple pleasures like walks in a park, the chaotic, non-judgemental love of grandchildren with their extra exuberance on holidays and birthdays all but eliminated.

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I feel despair most days when I see my daughter, perched at the dining room table in front of a laptop ready to sign into virtual school, on her own and alone. Our wonderful, neighbourhood school sits shuttered while my daughter emulates the routine of an office worker at the age of 8. At the end of the day we can sometimes catch ourselves almost berating her like low level managerial assholes for not paying attention and fooling around during the day with the computer. For Christ sakes, what have we become as parents?

My 5 years old son cannot even last a 20 minute lesson online by himself. I initially felt frustrated that he could not persist in the same fashion the other young innocents can in these disembodied zoom classes but now I could be more accepting of this except that we both have to work during this “school time” and we need him to be occupied. Maybe this lack of digital “focus” speaks to how little screen time he had prior to this abomination of online “learning” or maybe it is simply because he is just 5 years old and he has no business being treated like this.

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At this point, I think only the naïve believe that our old lives are coming back. Perhaps that is why they are so willing, so adamant to get the jab. It is not really to save the lives of others or prevent the scourge of an infectious disease but because it mainly seems like most people just want to travel again or to have the chance to no longer have to hear or worry about covid constantly.

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So, how much will they really take from us in the months and years to come?

Let’s forget about PCR testing cycles, what constitutes a “case” vs. a clinical case, vaccine trials, if masks work or if lockdowns really achieve anything. These are all unnecessarily divisive discussions that, in the absence of any real or honest mainstream journalism, will never be permitted to be resolved in the public forum.

What we should really care about is that our children have been forbidden to interact with each other, to pursue hobbies, musical lessons, school clubs or just simple play-time with their peers. They are sent to school, when deemed “safe” based on the computer models, bound and gagged as invalids for up to 8 hours a day. Lunchtimes and playtimes are truncated, discouraged and replaced with silent lunches in front of a screen and ”socially distanced” outdoor play during shortened recess periods.

What will school look like in the years to come? What kind of digital ID’s will our children be forced to carry with them at all times and which big Tech conglomerate will collect, curate, market and disseminate all of their medical, scholarly and personal data?

What will replace all of the small restaurants, pubs and shops that have gone under? Will all of these beautiful brick and mortar establishments be bought up on the cheap by a large private equity firm that will offer the least equitable employment terms to desperate applicants?

At the moment I am not supposed to leave my neighbourhood limits. When will I be able to travel internationally and what risks must I accept with new vaccines and boosters to qualify to come and go and what private information must I sacrifice upon request to comply?

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What about my freedom, my right to refuse a hastily developed medical technology, one that has not been thoroughly tested but is still supposed to, guaranteed to (almost) provoke the appropriate immune response to a virus that poses almost no harm to me whatsoever?

What about unintended consequences? What happens to me if I suddenly develop any number of rare or debilitating health conditions in the future? My chances of catching covid-19 or experiencing ill effects from it are quite low so why can’t I be allowed to take this risk without being judged for doing so?

What happened to our acquired knowledge as a society as to how to behave when sick? This has served us well for thousands of years. When our amazing immune systems were fighting a significant illness, it was almost always obvious that the sick individual should be cared for but isolated and kept from others.

Why have we lost this trust in ourselves and in our own judgement? We are still permitted to raise our children (for now) but we are unable to properly assess our own health and infectivity as it may pertain to others at work or at school? Exercising our own good judgement is a critical aspect of a well functioning, civil society. Removing this right, this freedom of choice will only lead to a punitive, dystopian type of society, one that eagerly turns on each other rather than to help one another.

The optimists, those that believe in the system, the same system that has half the planet living in poverty mind you but don’t worry about that, just a minor flaw, they believe this fabulous system of democracy and commerce will deliver us the health outcome we all deserve. It will protect us and our weakest and all we need to do is take a shot, or two or three, every year and don’t mind the costs or how or to whom the money was distributed, it was necessary, it will be worth it.

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The rest of us, a small vocal minority or perhaps, hopefully a larger, mostly silent and dumbfounded mass of citizens will finally start taking stock of what we have lost and what we are truly at risk of losing.

It is hard to do. I still want the others to be right. I want the vaccine to be safe and effective. I want the sacrifice to be worth it. I want to travel and do all the things I imagined I would do with friends and family and at work. I want my kids to have these same options that I had. I want to believe that my government and our health officials are working with our best interests in mind while unaffected by conflicts of interest.

But the data says otherwise. This data that has always been there. That data that shows us that Covid is neither dangerous or all that contagious to anyone under the age of 70. The historical data that tells us that Influenza A and B and all the other sub-types could not possibly just disappear worldwide in the last twelve months. The data, all the data, these recent 12 months of newly acquired covid raw numbers from all over the world that does not lie…

So, the media does.

So do almost all Governments as well.

They have the full cooperation of all of the big tech companies for maximum efficacy. Information has never been more widely available but then immediately censored or “fact” checked. Prominent voices of reason, objectivity and truth are shadow banned or de-platformed. Even the miniscule, insignificant frustrated comments I make against my better judgement on our national news website are quickly and automatically deactivated within minutes of posting. I should know better than to waste the pixels, however temporary they might be.

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...I hope that as the weather warms, more and more people will see that it is possible to be outside and inside, to be together and to celebrate our lives, our professions and our passions together without shame or fear.

What else do we have to lose?"