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11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2:11-16)
The ministry of the Spirit
In verses 11-16 of the chapter, Paul focuses on the ministry performed by the Spirit.
The Spirit searches us… 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
Only you know what is going on within your personality. Others cannot truly know what is going on deep within you. Likewise, we cannot know the deep things of God on our own. The Holy Spirit, however, can (and does) reveal this to us. Through the Holy Spirit, we become sharers of the life of God.
Look back to verse 9 (the quote from Isaiah 64:4)… “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” But through the Holy Spirit we can see, hear, and receive the personality of God. The Spirit reveals to us the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.
This understanding is not a work that we can achieve through developing our own knowledge and wisdom. This understanding only comes through a revelation (revealing) of the Spirit of God.
Indwelling of the Holy Spirit
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
This wisdom comes by the Spirit who is from God, not from the spirit of this world. Since every believer has received, the Spirit who is from God, every believer has the access to this spiritual wisdom. This is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
In 1 Corinthians 6 Paul writes… Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? (1 Corinthians 6:19)
This does not mean every believer has equal spiritual wisdom. It does not mean we will understand all spiritual mysteries. It does mean every believer can understand the basics of the Christian message, which is unattainable (and undesirable) by human wisdom. The unbeliever does not have the Holy Spirit inside of him, and therefore cannot comprehend the mystery, the things of God. The ways of God are foolishness to the unbeliver.
To Timothy, Paul wrote… For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound [disciplined] mind. (2 Timothy 1:7)
Warren Wiersbe comments… We have a wealth of spiritual resources because the Spirit lives within us!
The Holy Spirit teaches
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
In John chapter 14, Jesus taught that… the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. (John 14:26)
Much of the life of a Christian is rejected by the world. Many of the foundational principles of the Christian faith are in direct conflict with the world. The world cannot (and doesn’t want to) teach us about spiritual things. We have to allow the Holy Spirit to teach us the spiritual things of God.
Warren Wiersbe writes… The successful Christian learns the vocabulary of the Spirit and makes use of it. He knows the meaning of justification, sanctification, adoption, propitiation, election, inspiration, and so forth. In understanding God’s vocabulary, we come to understand God’s Word and God’s will for our lives. If the engineering student can grasp the technical terms of chemistry, physics, or electronics, why should it be difficult for Christians, taught by the Spirit, to grasp the vocabulary of Christian truth?
We take the time to become knowledgeable and proficient in the vocabulary of our earthly professions. How much more important is it to become proficient in the vocabulary of or eternal identity?
Christians can relate to spiritual things… that unbelievers cannot relate to such as “Hating the sin without hating the sinner” and what “wordly love” is vs. “spiritual love”.
The Spirit discerns
14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.
The ancient Greek word for natural man is “psuchikos.” It describes the materialist, who lives as if there were nothing beyond this physical life. This is the kind of life common to all animals. The natural man is where we all start life, the life inherited from Adam. The natural man is unregenerate man, unsaved man. We have to deal with the material world, so there is nothing inherently sinful in “natural” life. God is not displeased when you have to eat and sleep and work. But life on this level is without spiritual insight: the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God.
Spiritual things seem foolishness to the natural man. Why waste time on “spiritual” things when you could be making money or having fun? The natural man doesn’t want the things of God because he regards them as foolishness. What is more, he can’t understand the things of God (even if he wanted to) because they are spiritually discerned. It would be wrong to expect the natural man to see and value spiritual things, just as it would be wrong to expect a corpse to see the material world.
The natural man is unsaved. Too many Christians still think like natural men, refusing to spiritually discern things. When our only concern is for “what works” or the “bottom line,” we are not spiritually discerning, and we are thinking like the natural man, even though we might be saved.
Paul is not saying that every Christian is above every criticism (after all, much of this letter is criticism). No natural man is equipped to judge a spiritual man. The spiritual man has understanding that the natural man does not have. The natural man has worldly wisdom. However, the spiritual man has worldly and spiritual wisdom.
16 For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
“Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or as His counselor has taught Him?” (Isaiah 40:13)
May you have the understanding of the spiritual man of God.
I may be more distraught than usual as I’m dealing with the illness of a beloved pet, but I think even if I were not I’d have to acknowledge that in the absence of any rational leadership things quickly are spinning apart here.
Even in the best, most efficient emergency room in the capital wait times to be seen — something that rarely took more than half an hour — now stretch to five hours. The stress of long hours and the vaccine mandate have caused many experienced nurses and technicians to quit and newer replacements take time to train, especially in the absence of more senior staff to do this. Veterinary hospitals as well are overwhelmed and understaffed. It’s not just here. I’m getting reports of medical care bottlenecks around the country — at least in big cities or nearby adjoining areas, and the reports blame staffing shortages — shortages largely due to vaccine mandates and job stress.
Grocery shelves are often empty in many parts of the country. We’re back to limits at some shops on essentials like water and paper goods, and building supply deliveries are unpredictable and delayed. Container ships line up at our ports with no means to unload and transport the goods where they are wanted. (I keep having daydreams of General Patton unclogging a similar wartime bottleneck by standing in the middle of the road and personally directing movement.) There are various explanations for the shipping snafus, and I don’t feel qualified to decide which of these is responsible. I have heard that the operators of the equipment are highly skilled and highly paid workers and are not easily replaced by, for example, military or National Guard troops. An engineer familiar with such things, says that is not true. The Wall Street Journal tweeted that “A pilot program offering 24-hour container operations at the Port of Long Beach hasn’t attracted any truckers more than two weeks since the extended hours began.” But a trucker there reported to a friend that the drivers aren’t coming because they do not get paid for loiter time and because the ports are not operating efficiently. Drivers may have to wait 12 hours to pick up a load. To make it even more complicated, many of the containers are reportedly “intermodal” which means the transfers need to be coordinated not only with the pickup but as well with the delivery at the other end. With truck drivers limited by federal standards to 11-hour workdays and a shortage of drivers, the problem — which impacts almost everything — seems to be getting worse. What matters to me is that there appears to be no federal office or officer with the capacity or will to help straighten out this logistical mess, a mess that to me does not seem utterly unsolvable with competent leadership.
A US Marine officer, Lt. Colonel Stuart Scheller, publicly criticized the Biden Administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan which left 13 servicemen and women dead at Kabul Airport.
He particularly targeted the top brass of the military, a military to which he devoted his energy and his life to serve, for their abysmal performance in the closing days of the Afghan withdrawal.
Scheller was relieved of his command shortly after he posted a video on Facebook demanding senior officers be held to account for their actions. In the video, Scheller said that he intended to resign his commission.
Mask and vaccine mandates are less politically damaging than they should be. Recent polls show that around 64% of Americans support mask mandates, although less than half view masks as effective. One in four view masks as hazardous and ineffective. Playing on COVID fears, Democrats are beating Republicans 45% to 33% on their handling of the COVID pandemic. John Q. Public views the party that called the pandemic a hoax, that played games with lockdowns, and that had plentiful hairdresser and French Laundry moments as they abused and made light of the pandemic, to be more trustworthy on the issue. Why, and what can be done to correct this?
The repetition of the big lie, suppression of facts and lack of personal experiences have skewed perceptions. Big Media and Big Tech have consummated an unholy alliance with Big Government to spread “fact checks” and disinformation masquerading as truth. If government disinformation is the problem, then privately spreading information is the solution.
A scientist colleague proclaimed, “I cannot believe how anti-science the Republicans are acting.” I corrected him, “the Republicans are the only ones following the science.” I informed him that the CDC’s studies showed that masks were ineffective, that other studies suggested masks would worsen the spread and severity of disease, and that Pfizer’s Phase II/III vaccine trials suggest that their vaccine will kill three healthy people through side effects to save one life from COVID (over six months, with declining efficacy). Meanwhile, there are multiple effective therapies, such as ivermectin, monoclonal antibodies, budesonide, vitamin D3, zinc, azithromycin, and hydroxychloroquine, which are inexpensive and can individually reduce deaths by over 80% and can be used in combination.
My niece is a car. She used to be a human being. We’re not supposed to talk about that anymore.
About a year ago, my sister Claire called and told me that she was tired of hand-sewing costumes for her oldest daughter, Alice. One day Alice would beg to be dressed as a school bus, the next a pickup truck, and the next, a sports car. She told her mom that she wished she were an automobile instead of a person. Claire was running out of material and patience.
At first, Alice’s behavior made sense to me. She’d loved to play with toy cars when she was little, and she had a wonderful imagination. I’ll admit that I was one of the family members who found her new hobby cute. Some thought it was just a phase and that we should humor her. Others tried to convince her that she couldn’t actually become a car. And some tried to bolster her self-esteem by reminding her that cars are cool, but so are twelve-year-old human girls.
My doubts began when Alice asked that her body be covered with metal. What about gymnastics? Claire asked. You wouldn’t be able to bend anymore. Alice started to cry. I don’t want to bend, she said. I want to zoom.
Claire reluctantly bought scraps from the junkyard and glued them onto her daughter each morning. Alice couldn’t walk as well when she had her panels on (as she called them), but she did seem to smile more. When Claire pulled off the panels before Alice’s bath one night, some skin came with them, and she bled. Alice said that the pain was worth it and that she wanted permanent parts installed.
There is a bunch of very interesting, (disturbing and frightening would be more appropriate adjectives if you have been so foolish as to have got the jab), concerning the fake vaccines that are being pushed so hard on Western populations. Soviet Men has a good piece up which quotes the Australian government’s own recently updated requirements regarding who must be vaxxed. They are damned by their own words.
I must add an important caveat to what follows:
I am not a doctor, nor am I a nurse and I have no medical qualifications whatsoever. I am also not a virologist, nor any type of scientist and nor do I have any scientific qualifications. As such, you may be reasonably confident that I am not under the pay of any government department or nefarious hidden entity that are pushing these poisons so hard on our peoples.
Okay, there’s a lot of stuff here so let’s get to the juicy details.
As essay on the subject of the vaccines was recently released by someone who chose the moniker of Spartacus. Miles Mathis has reposted the essay and as his site seems to be indestructible I will link to him. The document goes into great detail of how the vaccines are designed and what they are designed to achieve. It’s not too heavy reading if you have half a brain.
If someone is vaccinated with mRNA based on the Spike from the initial Wuhan strain of SARSCoV-2, and then they become infected with a future, mutated strain of the virus, they may become severely ill. In other words, it is possible for vaccines to sensitize someone to disease. There is a precedent for this in recent history. Sanof’s Dengvaxia vaccine for Dengue failed because it caused immune sensitization in people whose immune systems were Dengue-naive. In mice immunized against SARS-CoV and challenged with the virus, a close relative of SARSCoV-2, they developed immune sensitization, Th2 immunopathology, and eosinophil infltration in their lungs.
This is a bit more approachable and user friendly than the one by Spartacus. It also has a name attached to it, one Brendan Goodwin. Goodwin’s article outlines in detail the inherent toxicity of these shots.
Bridle highlights the following known and potential side effects. “Women have reported changes in menstruation after taking RNA vaccines.”
However, while the spike protein found in the virus is bad, the spike protein your body produces in response to the vaccine is far worse. Why? Because the synthetic RNA in the vaccine has been programmed to instruct your cells to produce an unnatural, genetically engineered spike protein.
Specific alterations make it far more toxic than that found on the virus itself as it is a disease-causing agent that demolishes innate immunity and exhausts your natural killer (NK) cells’ ability to determine which cells are infected and which aren’t.
White blood cells keep popping up in these reports. The issue where a body cannot produce white blood cells is the defining feature of AIDs. So let’s move now to a very short recording of a nurse going into detail of how the clot shots go about their grisly business.
How accurate is this information? Well, it’s better than anything that you are going to find on the approved media outlets. At this stage, the act of getting the shot puts you in the same boat as Hemingway. You know, that fateful morning when he came downstairs at his home, stuck his shotgun in his mouth and pulled the barrel with his big toe. Maybe not as grisly but about the same end result.
What the nurse says corresponds to what I have read and heard regarding people with very bad adverse reactions; the majority of them have occurred on the second shot rather than the first. Line up for booster number three, guys. Step right up.
It gives me no pleasure to say this. I feel no schadenfreude at being right, yet again. Most of those close to me have submitted to this poison despite my best efforts to dissuade them. These are population-killer poisons. That’s the sunny and bright version of things. The nastier side is that they are designed to put people into bondage, slaves to their next shot upon which their very lives depend. I was a big science fiction fan back in the day. As it turns out, the authors I enjoyed lacked sufficient imagination to really put down what a future dystopian nightmare would look like. Real life beats fiction every time.
Earlier this year I wrote about going back to the underground as regards to finding real churches and places of worship. Included in that article is a link to the list of Catholic churches in the Lux Vera world directory.
This week over at Father Z’s site came a suggestion to people to set up chapels and alters in their own homes.
As it happens, I have a whole room dedicated as a chapel. However, the attractive, abandoned piece of furniture I have would work very well. There are even additional hinges in the frame behind the doors so that the doors could be opened all the way, flat against the sides of the cabinet, instead of sticking out. I suppose the insides of the doors could be decorated with sacred images. The drawers would easily hold Roman vestments, since they are plenty wide and deep. Right now, I am cutting and staining boards to add as shelves to make it into a china cabinet.
I suspect that, before things get better, they will get worse.
I won’t go independent (I’ve seen way too much schism in that department), nor will I join the SSPX (as if they’d have me). I would instead retire, get a small house with my meager savings and hit the road in some area such as this one, going around celebrating Mass at people’s houses, all underground of course, keeping the Mass alive and waiting for better times. As a Society of Apostolic Life, we are very much working on each possibility and are planning how to fight like junkyard dogs, if needed. But more than anything, we trust our Lord 100% that He knew what He is doing when He permitted the Motu Proprio of this pope. Our Lord told us that there is only One Whom we should fear. And it isn’t the pope or some cardinal with a chip on his shoulder about tradition.
Seems like my earlier suggestion is now becoming reality for those who wish to escape the bondage that we are facing. The last eighteen months have not been a curse; rather, this time of disruption has been a blessing as it has provided us with the opportunity and motive to escape from the evils of modernity together with kindred souls. Five years ago a suggestion to go underground would have had you labeled as a kook. Now I am receiving emails on an almost daily basis asking me for advice on just this very subject, (I should set up a consultancy firm at this point).
What else needs to go underground apart from worship?
Schools. Our schools need to go underground. We must take back from the state the responsibility for our children. This is a marvelous opportunity for teachers who face being thrown out of the system to set something up themselves. An old fashioned one room school. Kids of all ages together and learning, helping each other, socialising across different age groups, praying together. Oh yes, any school that you would set up would have to be religious.
There’s an idea. You teachers should get together with those priests who seek to escape the system and set up something together.
The best part about this is that you would be part of a community. The parents of your charges would see you as an important part of their lives, not just some undignified babysitter as the teachers in the system are viewed today. What skills do those parents have? Are some of them farmers, growing their own food? Perhaps skilled tradesmen. Perhaps skilled warriors.
Here is a great article with many more ideas for how to go off grid, including in an electronic sense.
There is a lot of possibility here. But it is crucial to keep in mind one thing when doing this. The division of men and women. Equality, women’s rights and emancipation, “working together as a team”, all of this poisoned rubbish helped get us into this mess to begin with. So the women need to get with the program. Their own roles as the mothers and homemakers are critical. But in terms of public leadership and debate they need to shut their mouths, listen and follow their menfolk. That is a non-negotiable. And if a man in your community has a woman running off her mouth then it behooves the rest of you to take him aside and help him to get her under control. And if he can’t then they will have to leave. No exceptions.
If this doesn’t happen then your underground communities will fester and fail as the same issues that you sought to escape quickly manifest themselves once again. But do not fear having to confront your women; they will love you for it. Above all else, women desire a firm and guiding hand. So buckle up for the ride, boys. All your long dreamed of adventure stories are about to get real.
This is a compilation of articles on the Internet, that may be useful in the upcoming festivities.
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In the weeks after the 9/11 attacks, Americans came together in a spirit of grief, resolve and shared national pride. It didn’t last long, but this potent energy animated the US military’s mission and a new generation of recruits who signed up to ‘do their part’ in the wake of the tragedy.
Twenty years later, it is not the same military. As an institution, its impunity, hubris and access to unprecedented financial spoils have led to corruption and mediocrity at the top. The exploitation of all-volunteer forces to fight protracted wars of choice without proper care and attention to their consequences has left veterans jaded and skeptical of the value of their service in a system that continues to fail them. And without candor now about what went wrong, another 9/11 event could again trigger the same egregious policies, and the same mistakes.
However much it is denied, we still live in an imperial age, at least metaphorically. Just as the withdrawal from Afghanistan registers the momentary decline of the American empire, it registers the momentary rise of the Russian and Chinese ones. America failed in Afghanistan because its military, while capable of fighting high-tech wars on land and sea, could not fix complex Islamic societies on the ground. Indeed, Afghanistan demonstrated how the deterministic elements of geography, culture and ethnic and sectarian awareness can vanquish Western ideals of democracy and individual liberty.
It wasn’t nation-building per se that failed in Afghanistan; peaceful American and Soviet competition in bread-and-butter infrastructure development achieved much in Afghanistan in the mid-20th century. According to the Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, it was America’s emphasis on — and obsession with — electoral processes at the expense of such infrastructure and agricultural development that helped doom it in the early 21st century.
The 20th anniversary of 9/11 will come in a matter of days. It will be marked by the victory of the Taliban in Kabul and the humiliation of America.
The war in Afghanistan was one of the largest-ever undertakings of any major country, in any era. Adjusted for inflation, the Apollo Moon landing program cost the United States close to $300 billion. The Manhattan Project cost $30 billion. The Interstate Highway System, about $500 billion. Those three mammoth projects are dwarfed by the cost of 20 years fighting in Afghanistan, which will well exceed a trillion dollars when all is said and done. The amount spent on Afghan nation-building surpassed the cost of the Marshall Plan in 2014 and kept rising inexorably for seven years more. By the end of the Afghan war there were troops fighting in it who were born after it began. There are officers and diplomats and humanitarians who have expended whole careers on the Afghan effort. Two thousand three hundred and seventy-two American military personnel have been killed.
It was all for nothing. This summer, the Afghan army, trained at vast expense, collapsed in a month despite superior armament and superior numbers. The Afghan state, molded in the image and likeness of the American one, folded just as quickly.
‘Families marching five by five Hurrah! Hurrah! Families marching five by five Hurrah! Hurrah! Some people choose their family And they love each other so proudly And they all go marching in The Big Parade!’
In June, the Journal of Medical Ethics spelled out what it means in practice to teach children that family bonds are optional. If the world is to ‘take LGBT testimony seriously,’ argued Maura Priest, a bioethicist at the Arizona State University, then ‘parents should lose veto power over most transition-related pediatric care’.
In many states, this is already well-established. In 2015, Oregon passed a law giving minors the right to receive transgender medical interventions at taxpayers’ expense, and without their parents’ consent. In Washington State, minors age 13 and up can self-admit for mental health conditions and withhold records from parents for ‘sensitive’ conditions. Insurers in the state are required to cover care for ‘gender-affirming treatments’. And in April 2021, Washington State legislated to authorize school-based health centers whose services can be accessed without any parental involvement. Taken together, these ensure that medical interventions associated with trans identity can thus be accessed by any child over the age of 13 via a school-based clinic, covered by parents’ insurance, without any parental knowledge or consent.
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Google-owned YouTube said on Sept. 29 that it will ban all “harmful vaccine content” from its platform, including claims that vaccines are ineffective at reducing transmission of disease, prompting concerns that the firm will escalate censorship of dissenting viewpoints.
“We’ve steadily seen false claims about the coronavirus vaccines spill over into misinformation about vaccines in general, and we’re now at a point where it’s more important than ever to expand the work we started with COVID-19 to other vaccines,” YouTube wrote in a blog post.
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The touchy-feely version of Christianity, with its nauseating church guitars and flags of many different hues, is at heart a buffet Christianity. You pick the bits that you like and ignore the icky parts that could be somewhat inconvenient to your upwardly mobile status. In this postmodern church of niceness, emoting is the highest virtue, while shame and judgment are frowned upon, (but not in a judgmental manner). Everyone is accepted and everyone is forgiven, just for turning up, and even then you can probably forego that onerous obligation if you like. Why not? It’s your own Christianity, your buffet Christianity. Your spirituality is all about you, how it makes you feel, how it makes you happy, how it makes you into a god in your own eyes.
Io, io, io, io. The egoism knows no bounds.
The philosopher Edward Fraser has written an article on the out of fashion concept of suffering. The subject of suffering is one that dimwitted atheist types often return to for just one more gnaw of the bone that goes something along the lines of, if God were real then why would he allow all of this suffering?
Moreover, and as Remler discusses at length, we deserve to suffer for our sins. And this leads us to a further reason why there must be suffering in human life, which is that it serves as a punishment for sin. True, if we genuinely repent, God will preserve us from the eternal damnation we have merited. But we are not entirely “off the hook.” There is temporal punishment that must be paid for every single sin we commit, and our debt gets very high over the course of a lifetime.
I suffered a great deal when my wife divorced me. Yet when I examine my life and the often cavalier way in which I have used women for my own selfish purposes, then that suffering is justifiable punishment for my wrongdoing. And I am grateful for that suffering as it means that my burden of sin after I die will be lessened.
At the same time, “the advantages of present sufferings over future ones are great beyond measure,” for “in this life you can accomplish vastly more in a few hours than you could in Purgatory perhaps in ever so many years,” provided that you accept suffering in a penitential spirit, out of sorrow for sin and love of God, and in union with Christ’s suffering on the Cross.
Christ Himself, although he was spotless of sin, willingly suffered for our sins. His act saved us but it also set the expectation. This is real Christianity, the Christianity that preaches love and compassion but also judgment and suffering. As worthy Christians we must feel grateful for our suffering as it moves us closer to God.
But we do not only sin as individuals; we can also sin as communities, as cities and as nations. By remaining silent when evil is perpetrated in our lands we then condone such sinning by our failure to act. The lies that are being told now are but one example of this group sinning. A lie needs two players for it to work; the person who tells the lie and the person who believes it. You believe a lie by acting within the bounds of the lie. So for example, you may know that all of this Covid malarkey is utter nonsense, but when you go and get a PCR test so you can have that QR code on your phone which will let you go out to a nice restaurant, you are now a willing participant of the lie. You are the lie’s second half.
Which is a sin. The phrase ‘when good men remain silent’ is nonsensical. The act of remaining silent demonstrates that the man in question is not good. Imagine how long our current dire circumstances would last if every man today refused to participate further in the lies. They do it to us with our own acquiescence.
When contemplating how far our nations have fallen and how often we as individuals have been in lockstep with these fallen times so as not to upset our upwardly mobile status, then one can view our present circumstances under tyranny as justifiable punishment for our collective wrongdoing. We are being punished for the sinful ways of our societies, and as a result we must atone and suffer.
Yesterday I wrote a piece about not taking the black pill of despair. Readers left comments asking what could they do. There are many things that you not only can do but that you must do if our communities are going to emerge from these tumultuous times as God fearing nations once again. Remember, this is primarily a spiritual battle as opposed to a physical one. I have given you one example today, the example of not participating in the lies. That’s a big one. If you can all manage that then we will have come a long way.
Nearly 50k Medicare patients died soon after getting COVID shot: whistleblower
‘They are lying. There is no question they are lying,’ said Attorney Renz. ‘The mantra of ‘safe and effective’ must stop after today’s information.’Thomas Renzprivate
(LifeSiteNews) — A whistleblower has provided government data documenting 48,465 deaths within 14 days of COVID-19 vaccination among Medicare patients alone, according to medical freedom rights attorney Thomas Renz.
The announcement Saturday was made by the Ohio-based attorney, who remains involved in several major cases brought against federal agencies relating to fraud and violations of medical freedom rights.
In his presentation, Renz expressed his appreciation for whistleblowers who were coming forward to provide the public with such important information from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS). He described the CMS database as the largest available in the U.S. for the study of COVID-19 trends because it contains the data of approximately 59.4 million Medicare beneficiaries.
One slide showed that the number of “persons who died within 14 days of a COVID-19 vaccine” equated to 19,400 for those younger than 81 years old, and 28,065 for those 81 and over, totaling 48,465 deaths.
Traditional Americans (save for a very few wise men and women) have been born, raised, matured, and now retired in a very sheltered place.
One that did not demand tooth-and-claw struggle over anything, for all intents and purposes.
As a result, the trad American mindset is one designed for peacetime, prosperity, and propriety.
Born after 1970?
Even softer and more easily terrified, for the most part.
After the upcoming Fourth World War, we can Boomeryak about whether the peaceful America of 1945-1970 led inevitably to the slaughter of the Chinese wars of 2021-2030.
Assume anyone here survives those cataclysms.
In both essays above, TL advances the concept that as part of the war that has already been launched against us by enemies foreign and domestic, Americans should take every opportunity to rattle the cages of the Powers-That-Be, be those occasions by fair means (e.g., phone calls, letters, and traditional constituent behaviors) or foul.
If you ever believe and act upon one single thing you read here at the Mothership, get this straight in your hearts and minds:
Every single WRSA reader and associates represent the kind of people the new Chinese overlords will not tolerate.
You and yours are already involved in the worst war ever in the history of our species – a global war of existential extermination.
To have a chance of surviving this catastrophe, you must begin to think, train, act, and persevere as if you and your people were fighting for your very lives.
Because you are.
Whether you know it or not.
The Chinese overlords and their allies literally have no use for the current populations of not only North America, but Australia and New Zealand as well.
Hence their opening tactic of global mass attack via a low-lethality persistent engineered bioweapon.
With much more to come.
The Chinese are in an existential conflict with the Anglophone victors of WW2 for the arable land, fresh water, and mineral resources of the former British Empire.
They will not stop until they have achieved their goals – or died trying.
You must be ready, willing, and able to assess and use every tool and situation to defeat Xi and his people – be they Han or any other race, and be they PRC officials or Americans from your home town.
Your enemy understands his goals – and plans to achieve them by any means necessary.
“In these times, when ancient faiths are disappearing and governments are crumbling, when institutions are yielding to the tread of the mad hosts of disorder, let us take our stand on the side of orderly liberty, on the side of constitutional government.” Senator William E. Borah (R-Montana), 21 February 1919 [2]
“Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south — let all Americans — let all lovers of liberty everywhere — join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.” Abraham Lincoln, 16 October 1854 [3]
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On Sunday evening I recorded a podcast with The Great One over at the Cynical Libertarian Society; the episode will go up this Friday, so get your koalas tuned for that one, cobbers. At one point I took my interlocutor to task for his casual dismissal of an article that I wrote where I stated that people don’t want to believe the lies anymore.
Wishful thinking. The 97% will believe whatever the State, media, and corporations tell them to believe. The 97% wake up every day and stumble over their own feet rushing to get in line to participate in the lies.
I am spoiling this little part of the podcast somewhat by commenting on this topic, but I believe that it needs to be addressed. Desperately needs addressing, in fact, because we are becoming overwhelmed with despair porn. The black pilling is reaching veritable depths of despair mongering.
If the population of the United States where The Great One resides is around 300 million people, then a basic mathematical examination of this 97% figure without dividing the nation into adults and children, lefties and non-nutbags, citizens and legal invaders, and all the rest of it, will leave us with a number of around 9 million people.
So let’s halve that number right off the bat. And then let’s halve it again just to be on the safe side. And then round it down a bit. So we are left with two million people who don’t want to participate in the lies anymore. That’s two million additional people to all of us who have been preaching this stuff for some time now. I’m talking converted normies. People like Monica Smit in Australia who has just been released from cell 22 after she was jailed for political agitation.
You and I know we’re in a bloodless war, called psychological warfare. Our sacrifice might not be of the flesh, but more so of the mind. The way we will win is by keeping our minds strong, hopeful and positive. If we let them crush our soul or make us feel defeated, we’ll surely fail. Our number one weapon is courage of conviction, never forget that.
She is right. Giving in to despair would have been quite easy for Monica while she was luxuriating in her 3.5 x 3m cell. But she held off the black pill by her moral conviction and force of will. God hates despair. The Bible is filled with examples of those that preached despair and the bad ends that befell them. Despair is the easy way out. Despair is the wide road to perdition. Despair is thus hell on earth and it is in your own mind. It traps you there and turns you into a soulless automaton, not just useless to our side but a net liability.
The enemy wants us to give in to despair. That alone is reason to stand firm.
Now back to that little number of two million or so in the USA. How big is that number? How small is that number? Perhaps a comparison is in order. I have read that the Bolsheviks in 1917 numbered less than 20,000. Numbers can be deceiving. In war you must always conceal your numbers. Appear many when your forces are small and appear few when your numbers are large. Numbers are thus extremely important. It is easy to become self-isolated, to be but a single unit. But those single units are more than you can possibly believe.
What is needed now is courage from those single people, in all walks of life, in all the parts of our nations. The enemy has politicised everything so we must do the same. It is time to take a stand on everything. It is time to have quiet determination and solid courage. We must be patient and persevere, and not allow the physical and psychological weapons of the enemy to overcome us. But most of all, we must not give into despair, even when all seems lost and all hope is gone. Holding fast counts at those difficult moments, rather than when the going is easy and we have had it easy for a very long time.
So it’s time to earn those brownie points. One day at a time. The side of evil has not won. The battle is only just beginning.
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Stand firm on this passage from God’s word as we do spiritual battle to recover and rebuild our nation and world, and defeat the evil that seeks to destroy us.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand, 7 To execute vengeance on the nations And punishment on the peoples, 8 To bind their kings with chains And their nobles with fetters of iron, 9 To execute on them the judgment written; This is an honor for all His godly ones. Praise the Lord!
Prayer:
Lord, I praise you, and you alone are worthy of worship. No man or created thing is worthy, only you our creator. Your joy is my strength. My two-edged sword is your word, spoken and powerful, cutting to the boundary of joints and marrow, soul and spirit. I proclaim your truth and watch the evil shriek and cower before your power, binding the perpetrators of unspekable evil. Your judgment has been written of old; execute it swiftly today. My honor is to serve you, your Kindom and principles. You are worthy of all praise and glory!
We engage in spiritual warfare by first consulting the scriptures to learn what God thinks about himself, about us, our situation, and his adversaries, and what he is doing today and is planning to do. We come into agreement with what God thinks, and his plan, and ask him to do battle on our behalf in the ways he has stated. These prayers are intended to change situations in our natural world, but they also change our hearts as we come to know the heart of God. As we pray together to defeat the forces of evil, we become a closer knit family of God, intent on accomplishing his purposes and living in Christian community. Please join in this spiritual battle by praying the scripture above, out loud, confident that God hears us and loves us, his children.
The prayer above is only a suggestion. Pray as you are led by the spirit. No need for eloquence as our Father simply loves to hear the voices of his children as we bare our hearts to him.
Take time to read this passage in context, to get the bigger picture, by clicking on the link at the beginning of the passage. The Christian life is not all about spiritual warfare, and there is always a bigger picture!
Despite the coherence and sincerity of the undertaker, few are likely to take his account seriously. For decades Americans have been indoctrinated to regard all explanations contrary to official accounts as “conspiracy theory.” The CIA planted conspiracy theory on the media to discredit highly credible accounts of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination that rejected the official narrative, and since 1963 the presstitutes have used “conspiracy theory” to shut down all challenges to official narratives.
The consequence is that instead of thinking and considering alternative explanations, most people, at least initially, dismiss non-official explanations. People who know from lifelong experience that government always lies nevertheless always fall for the next lie.
Many Americans think that if the official narrative was not true, doctors would not go along with it. They believe this, because they mistakenly think that doctors are independent and in charge. As Dr. Ted Noel explains, that is not the case.
Fewer doctors are in independent practice. Most are employees of hospitals, large corporate practices, and clinics run by managers. These “health care providers” are run according to protocols handed down by NIH, CDC, FDA, WHO, and the American Medical Association, all of whom are influenced by Big Pharma.
The protocol for Covid treatment has been to deny treatment until the patient becomes ill in a life-threatening way and checks into a hospital. Inside the hospital the protocol is to deny patients safe and effective treatments with HCQ and Ivermectin. Many patients end up dead on ventilators.
The Covid protocol demonizes the known and safe treatments and does its best to prevent their use by private practices. According to reports, large pharmacy chains such as Walgreen and CVS refuse to fill doctor’s prescriptions for HCQ and Ivermectin for Covid treatment. Doctors who prescribe these cures are threatened by their medical associations with loss of medical license. If you read Dr. Noel’s explanation, you will understand that doctors are essentially helpless.
If you doubt that, consider the well-known medical and scientific authorities who have spoken out, with the result that they are censored, deplatformed, and accused by the presstitutes of “spreading Covid disinformation.”
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by Jeff Thompson
As if our food wasn’t already tainted enough, researchers are now working on putting mRNA vaccines in LETTUCE. UC-San Diego and Carnegie Mellon University are both currently involved in this research. And, they are doing so with Washington DC’s blessing.
Buy your garden seeds early, everybody. And get them from a source you can trust, like this one.
Can you put the mRNA dressing on the side, please?
The National Science Foundation is footing the bill for this research, having forked over half a million dollars in grant money towards the project of putting vaccines in lettuce.
According to associate professor of botany and plant sciences, Juan Pablo Giraldo, “Ideally, a single plant would produce enough mRNA to vaccinate a single person.” Giraldo went on to say, “We are testing this approach with spinach and lettuce and have long-term goals of people growing it in their gardens.”
So, one bowl full of salad will get mRNA into a host’s body.
WHAT.
THE.
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Not the tomatoes too!
Why do they want to put vaccines in lettuce?
Q: Why is there a need to start putting medical treatments into food?
A: To get those who would refuse the jab otherwise. The only explanation that makes sense is this technology can get mRNA into those who would otherwise not get it.
What other reason can there be? If anybody wants to get the job, they can easily do so at multiple locations throughout the country, and often for free. There’s simply no reason whatsoever to believe we need to start putting the mRNA into food. We do not need vaccines in lettuce, thanks.
Old McGates had a farm…
Guess who the largest owner of farmland in the US is?
Nobody else owns as much farmland as that man does. Will Gates back such technology? Given that he holds most food-producing plots throughout America, what do you think happens next?
Governments worldwide are currently upping the ante for getting the jab. Seemingly with a strange desire to get as many needles into as many arms as possible. Putting mRNA into lettuce seems to be nothing other than an underhanded scheme to violate peoples’ bodily integrity against their knowledge/will.
Can I see the ingredients list, please?
Will we be told that mRNA is in lettuce? I believe this is the next logical question to ask. And I think the answer is going to be a resounding ‘no.’ Just like Big Food stringently objected to GMOs being labeled as genetically modified, I imagine they’re not going to want you to know there are vaccines in your lettuce.
Did the CIA tell victims of MKULTRA they were giving them hallucinogens? No. The CIA gave those people drugs against their will and without their knowledge and then subjected them to various forms of torture.
Why would this be any different?
And even if there were a label listed on the lettuce containers stating ‘this is COVID lettuce,’ can we trust that others won’t feed it to us? “Oops, I forgot to mention it.”
If there’s one thing that we’ve learned about humanity at large over the past two years, it’s this: it is inherently wicked. Look around you to see what has happened. You will see people denied medical treatment because they “aren’t following the rules.” We’ve been encouraged to snitch on our family members. Sadly, we have even seen people being killed over the mask debate. Some of us have witnessed police beat a citizen into a bloody pulp for simply attempting to purchase groceries.
And what happens if you eat a salad for lunch every day? That’s a heck of a lot of mRNA vaccine you’re getting there. Can you OD on that stuff?
I’ll take mine with everything on it, except the mRNA
We should all be very concerned about this news. Whoever controls the food controls the people. However, I believe there are a few things you can do to fight against such injustice.
Be Loud: Awareness is crucial. By telling others as soon as possible, you can help raise the issue of coerced medical experimentation. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, not mRNA! Now is the time to be that squeaky wheel.
Become a producer: I highly recommend you begin growing your food. Especially lettuce and spinach. Learn what it takes. Experiment and navigate the learning curve now rather than later. We will likely see this technology used in virtually all foods in the future. Pull out of the system as early as you can.
Pass on the lettuce and spinach: Everywhere. I wouldn’t trust it. If you don’t know the farmer and the seeds he uses, I believe it is best to stay away from any lettuce and spinach that comes from a source you can’t entirely trust.
Vaccines in lettuce. I’m just shaking my head. If ever you needed another a reason to grow your own, this is it.
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Glenn Beck: Biden’s tax proposal targets bank accounts with more than $600. ‘That’s NOT for the wealthy. That’s for EVERYONE.’
On “Glenn TV” Wednesday, Glenn Beck said he’s just as nervous about America’s future today as he was in 2007, except this time it’s not just the economy he fears is near collapse. Inflation is out of control. You feel it every time you buy anything these days. And now, even with income tax, sales tax, property tax, death tax, capital gains tax, and ESG-related tax rate increases, the taxes you’re paying are no longer enough for the government. To ensure you’re paying your “fair share,” the Biden administration now wants to require banks to report aggregate transactions into and out of all personal and business bank accounts whose “inflows and outflows of an account total at least $600 in a year, or if the account has a fair market value of at least $600.”
Uncle Sam may turn into a “retirement robber baron” if Congressional Democrats get their way.
In a piece titled The Tax Man Cometh, Mike Shedlock covers a partial outline of various tax reforms that the Democrats are putting together in their “Tax Hike” plan.
The most relevant part of that outline for retirement savers was particularly alarming because it aims to close a “backdoor” Roth strategy for high-income earners (at first):
In order to close these so-called “back-door” Roth IRA strategies, the bill eliminates Roth conversions for both IRAs and employer-sponsored plans for single taxpayers (or taxpayers married filing separately) with taxable income over $400,000, married taxpayers filing jointly with taxable income over $450,000, and heads of households with taxable income over $425,000 (all indexed for inflation). This provision applies to distributions, transfers, and contributions made in taxable years beginning after December 31, 2031.
This blatant cash grab circumvents a retirement saving vehicle for people who earn more income than the standard IRS income limits of $140,000 for individuals and $208,000 for married joint filers.
That vehicle is known as a Mega Backdoor Roth IRA conversion. Its main benefit pretty much speaks for itself:
With this technique, high-income earners can still achieve tax-free earnings in a Roth IRA. And even for those that are able to contribute to a Roth, there are still contribution limits that curtail how much capital can be added to a Roth IRA in any given year.
Keep in mind that just because this proposed “cash grab” sets its limits to those savers that earn more than $400-450,000 now, doesn’t mean that limit couldn’t get ratcheted down at a later time. Or just anytime Congress needs another few billion dollars to build a bridge to nowhere.
Especially if tax-and-spend Democrats maintain their current political power beyond 2024.
There’s another part of this bill that casts vastly longer and more disturbing shadows…
Well, the initial Biden Tax Hike Bill included a very strange clause. The Wall Street Journal reported on this, and here’s a brief summary:
All financial institutions would be required to report on funds transferred into and out of all business and personal accounts (bank, loan and investment accounts) if total fund flows were greater than $600/year, or if the account held at least $600.
So, for example, if you had at least $600 in your bank account, the bank would be required to report the amounts of any debits or credits to that account to the IRS. If the debits and credits that flow through the account add up to at least $600 — including deposited paychecks or electronic payments through smartphone apps tied to the account — those totals would have to be reported, too.
What’s this all about? Well, the Treasury department claims it’s to help the IRS detect tax cheats, and the focus is on “higher earners who do not fully report their tax liabilities.”
If that was true, doesn’t $600 seem like an awfully low number? (I don’t know about you, but I spend more than that every month on groceries.) Basically this is an attempt to secure data on virtually every American’s financial transactions, and to co-opt banks and brokerage firms further into the effort.
And who stands to be punished most harshly by this legislation? Those who’ve been most successful in their retirement savings.
The legislation prohibits further contributions to a Roth or traditional IRA for a taxable year if the total value of an individual’s IRA and defined contribution retirement accounts generally exceed $10 million as of the end of the prior taxable year.
If your portfolio met those qualifications, you would be forced to take a 50% minimum distribution on any amount over $10 million, then pay taxes on that distribution.
That $10 million ceiling sounds generous. But keep in mind, that’s a completely arbitrary limit could also be ratcheted down at any time in the future.
If it’s one thing we can expect from our Congress, it’s the willingness to “redistribute” our wealth for their own political ends.
The bottom line: It looks like the Democratic-majority Congress have big plans for your retirement savings.
So what can we do about it?
How to ruin their plans for your retirement
Even though this attempted meddling with your retirement would make minor changes to Self-Directed IRAs, according to the Sovereign Man team, that is still a solid vehicle to consider for your retirement dollars:
A Self-Directed IRA owns one, and exactly one, asset: a limited liability company (LLC) that you manage. That’s why they are called “Self-Directed”. And through that LLC, you can invest your retirement savings in a wide array of assets — precious metals, real estate, cryptocurrency, private businesses*, and much more, in the U.S., or overseas.
The asterisk marks the main category of investments that would need to change if this legislation passes in its current form.
Self-directed retirement plans allow diversifying your savings into physical precious metals like gold and silver in addition to the universe of stocks, bonds, mutual funds and ETFs. Although physical precious metals, safely stored in a depository vault, seem to be a more challenging asset for an over-zealous government to seize compared to paper and digital assets.
Furthermore, physical precious metals stand up well against inflation, even nosebleed-high inflation. Precious metals are the go-to asset for Americans who consider themselves to be more prudent stewards of their savings than grasping politicians who’d use your life savings to fund a “Green New Deal.”
After 8 long years of ultra-loose monetary policy from the Federal Reserve, it’s no secret that inflation is primed to soar. If your IRA or 401(k) is exposed to this threat, it’s critical to act now! That’s why thousands of Americans are moving their retirement into a Gold IRA. Learn how you can too with a free info kit on gold from Birch Gold Group. It reveals the little-known IRS Tax Law to move your IRA or 401(k) into gold. Click here to get your free Info Kit on Gold.—————————————————– The corrupt establishment will do anything to suppress sites like the Burning Platform from revealing the truth. The corporate media does this by demonetizing sites like mine by blackballing the site from advertising revenue. If you get value from this site, please keep it running with a donation. [Burning Platform LLC – PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
We get a lot of e-mails and private messages along these lines “do you have a source for X?” or “can you point me to mask studies?” or “I know I saw a graph for mortality, but I can’t find it anymore”. And we understand, it’s been a long 18 months, and there are so many statistics and numbers to try and keep straight in your head.
So, to deal with all these requests, we decided to make a bullet-pointed and sourced list for all the key points. A one-stop-shop.
Here are key facts and sources about the alleged “pandemic”, that will help you get a grasp on what has happened to the world since January 2020, and help you enlighten any of your friends who might be still trapped in the New Normal fog (click links to skip):
1. The survival rate of “Covid” is over 99%. Government medical experts went out of their way to underline, from the beginning of the pandemic, that the vast majority of the population are not in any danger from Covid.https://www.youtube.com/embed/adj8MCsZKlg
Almost all studies on the infection-fatality ratio (IFR) of Covid have returned results between 0.04% and 0.5%. Meaning Covid’s survival rate is at least 99.5%.
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2. There has been NO unusual excess mortality. The press has called 2020 the UK’s “deadliest year since world war two”, but this is misleading because it ignores the massive increase in the population since that time. A more reasonable statistical measure of mortality is Age-Standardised Mortality Rate (ASMR):
By this measure, 2020 isn’t even the worst year for mortality since 2000, In fact since 1943 only 9 years have been better than 2020.
Similarly, in the US the ASMR for 2020 is only at 2004 levels:
For a detailed breakdown of how Covid affected mortality across Western Europe and the US click here. What increases in mortality we have seen could be attributable to non-Covid causes [facts 7, 9 & 19].
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3. “Covid death” counts are artificially inflated. Countries around the globe have been defining a “Covid death” as a “death by any cause within 28/30/60 days of a positive test”.
Removing any distinction between dying of Covid, and dying of something else after testing positive for Covid will naturally lead to over-counting of “Covid deaths”. British pathologist Dr John Lee was warning of this “substantial over-estimate” as early as last spring. Other mainstream sources have reported it, too.
Considering the huge percentage of “asymptomatic” Covid infections [14], the well-known prevalence of serious comorbidities [fact 4] and the potential for false-positive tests [fact 18], this renders the Covid death numbers an extremely unreliable statistic.
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4. The vast majority of covid deaths have serious comorbidities. In March 2020, the Italian government published statistics showing 99.2% of their “Covid deaths” had at least one serious comorbidity.
These included cancer, heart disease, dementia, Alzheimer’s, kidney failure and diabetes (among others). Over 50% of them had three or more serious pre-existing conditions.
5. Average age of “Covid death” is greater than the average life expectancy. The average age of a “Covid death” in the UK is 82.5 years. In Italy it’s 86. Germany, 83. Switzerland, 86. Canada, 86. The US, 78, Australia, 82.
As such, for most of the world, the “pandemic” has had little-to-no impact on life expectancy. Contrast this with the Spanish flu, which saw a 28% drop in life expectancy in the US in just over a year. [source]
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6. Covid mortality exactly mirrors the natural mortality curve.Statistical studies from the UK and India have shown that the curve for “Covid death” follows the curve for expected mortality almost exactly:
The small increase for some of the older age groups can be accounted for by other factors.[facts 7, 9 & 19]
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7. There has been a massive increase in the use of “unlawful” DNRs. Watchdogs and government agencies have reported huge increases in the use of Do Not Resuscitate Orders (DNRs) over the last twenty months.
In the UK there was an “unprecdented” rise in “illegal” DNRs for disabled people, GP surgeries sent out letters to non-terminal patients recommending they sign DNR orders, whilst other doctors signed “blanket DNRs” for entire nursing homes.
A study done by Sheffield Univerisity found over one-third of all “suspected” Covid patients had a DNR attached to their file within 24 hours of hospital admission.
Blanket use of coerced or illegal DNR orders could account for any increases in mortality in 2020/21.[Facts 2 & 6]
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PART II: LOCKDOWNS
8. Lockdowns do not prevent the spread of disease. There is little to no evidence lockdowns have any impact on limiting “Covid deaths”. If you compare regions that locked down to regions that did not, you can see no pattern at all.
“Covid deaths” in Florida (no lockdown) vs California (lockdown)
“Covid deaths” in Sweden (no lockdown) vs UK (lockdown)
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9. Lockdowns kill people. There is strong evidence that lockdowns – through social, economic and other public health damage – are deadlier than the “virus”.
Dr David Nabarro, World Health Organization special envoy for Covid-19 described lockdowns as a “global catastrophe” in October 2020:
We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of the virus[…] it seems we may have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition […] This is a terrible, ghastly global catastrophe.”
Unemployment, poverty, suicide, alcoholism, drug use and other social/mental health crises are spiking all over the world. While missed and delayed surgeries and screenings are going to see increased mortality from heart disease, cancer et al. in the near future.
The impact of lockdown would account for the small increases in excess mortality [Facts 2 & 6]
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10. Hospitals were never unusually over-burdened. the main argument used to defend lockdowns is that “flattening the curve” would prevent a rapid influx of cases and protect healthcare systems from collapse. But most healthcare systems were never close to collapse at all.
As part of their Covid policy, the NHS announced in Spring of 2020 that they would be “re-organizing hospital capacity in new ways to treat Covid and non-Covid patients separately” and that “as result hospitals will experience capacity pressures at lower overall occupancy rates than would previously have been the case.”
This means they removed thousands of beds. During an alleged deadly pandemic, they reduced the maximum occupancy of hospitals. Despite this, the NHS never felt pressure beyond your typical flu season, and at times actually had 4x more empty beds than normal.
11. PCR tests were not designed to diagnose illness. The Reverse-Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test is described in the media as the “gold standard” for Covid diagnosis. But the Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the process never intended it to be used as a diagnostic tool, and said so publicly:
PCR is just a process that allows you to make a whole lot of something out of something. It doesn’t tell you that you are sick, or that the thing that you ended up with was going to hurt you or anything like that.”
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12. PCR Tests have a history of being inaccurate and unreliable. The “gold standard” PCR tests for Covid are known to produce a lot of false-positive results, by reacting to DNA material that is not specific to Sars-Cov-2.
As early as February of 2020 experts were admitting the test was unreliable. Dr Wang Cheng, president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences told Chinese state television “The accuracy of the tests is only 30-50%”. The Australian government’s own website claimed“There is limited evidence available to assess the accuracy and clinical utility of available COVID-19 tests.” And a Portuguese court ruled that PCR tests were “unreliable” and should not be used for diagnosis.
You can read detailed breakdowns of the failings of PCR tests here, here and here.
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13. The CT values of the PCR tests are too high. PCR tests are run in cycles, the number of cycles you use to get your result is known as your “cycle threshold” or CT value. Kary Mullis said: “If you have to go more than 40 cycles[…]there is something seriously wrong with your PCR.”
Dr Juliet Morrison, virologist at the University of California, Riverside, told the New York Times: Any test with a cycle threshold above 35 is too sensitive…I’m shocked that people would think that 40 [cycles] could represent a positive…A more reasonable cutoff would be 30 to 35″.
In the same article Dr Michael Mina, of the Harvard School of Public Health, said the limit should be 30, and the author goes on to point out that reducing the CT from 40 to 30 would have reduced “covid cases” in some states by as much as 90%.
Based on what we know about the CT values, the majority of PCR test results are at best questionable.
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14. The World Health Organization (Twice) Admitted PCR tests produced false positives. In December 2020 WHO put out a briefing memo on the PCR process instructing labs to be wary of high CT values causing false positive results:
when specimens return a high Ct value, it means that many cycles were required to detect virus. In some circumstances, the distinction between background noise and actual presence of the target virus is difficult to ascertain.
Then, in January 2021, the WHO released another memo, this time warning that “asymptomatic” positive PCR tests should be re-tested because they might be false positives:
Where test results do not correspond with the clinical presentation, a new specimen should be taken and retested using the same or different NAT technology.
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15. The scientific basis for Covid tests is questionable. The genome of the Sars-Cov-2 virus was supposedly sequenced by Chinese scientists in December 2019, then published on January 10th 2020. Less than two weeks later, German virologists (Christian Drosten et al.) had allegedly used the genome to create assays for PCR tests.
They wrote a paper, Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR, which was submitted for publication on January 21st 2020, and then accepted on January 22nd. Meaning the paper was allegedly “peer-reviewed” in less than 24 hours. A process that typically takes weeks.
Since then, a consortium of over forty life scientists has petitioned for the withdrawal of the paper, writing a lengthy report detailing 10 major errors in the paper’s methodology.
They have also requested the release of the journal’s peer-review report, to prove the paper really did pass through the peer-review process. The journal has yet to comply.
The Corman-Drosten assays are the root of every Covid PCR test in the world. If the paper is questionable, every PCR test is also questionable.
It is literally impossible to tell the difference between an “asymptomatic case” and a false-positive test result.
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17. There is very little evidence supporting the alleged danger of “asymptomatic transmission”. In June 2020, Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said:
From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual,”
…limited evidence to suggest the importance of [asymptomatic] transmission. The role of asymptomatic or presymptomatic influenza-infected individuals in disease transmission may have been overestimated…”
Given the known flaws of the PCR tests, many “asymptomatic cases” may be false positives.[fact 14]
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PART V: VENTILATORS
18. Ventilation is NOT a treatment for respiratory viruses. Mechanical ventilation is not, and never has been, recommended treatment for respiratory infection of any kind. In the early days of the pandemic, many doctors came forward questioning the use of ventilators to treat “Covid”.
Writing in The Spectator, Dr Matt Strauss stated:
Ventilators do not cure any disease. They can fill your lungs with air when you find yourself unable to do so yourself. They are associated with lung diseases in the public’s consciousness, but this is not in fact their most common or most appropriate application.
German Pulmonologist Dr Thomas Voshaar, chairman of Association of Pneumatological Clinics said:
When we read the first studies and reports from China and Italy, we immediately asked ourselves why intubation was so common there. This contradicted our clinical experience with viral pneumonia.
Despite this, the WHO, CDC, ECDC and NHS all “recommended” Covid patients be ventilated instead of using non-invasive methods.
This was not a medical policy designed to best treat the patients, but rather to reduce the hypothetical spread of Covid by preventing patients from exhaling aerosol droplets.
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19. Ventilators killed people. Putting someone on a ventilator who is suffering from influenza, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or any other condition which restricts breathing or affects the lungs, will not alleviate any of those symptoms. In fact, it will almost certainly make it worse, and will kill many of them.
Mechanical ventilation is also damaging to the physical structure of the lungs, resulting in “ventilator-induced lung injury”, which can dramatically impact quality of life, and even result in death.
According to the “undercover nurse”, ventilators were being used so improperly in New York, they were destroying patients’ lungs:https://www.youtube.com/embed/UIDsKdeFOmQ
This policy was negligence at best, and potentially deliberate murder at worst. This misuse of ventilators could account for any increase in mortality in 2020/21 [Facts 2 & 6]
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PART VI: MASKS
20. Masks don’t work. At least a dozen scientific studies have shown that masks do nothing to stop the spread of respiratory viruses.
One meta-analysis published by the CDC in May 2020 found “no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks”.
Another study with over 8000 subjects found masks “did not seem to be effective against laboratory-confirmed viral respiratory infections nor against clinical respiratory infection.”
There are literally too many to quote them all, but you can read them: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Or read a summary by SPR here.
The WHO commissioned their own meta-analysis in the Lancet, but that study looked only at N95 masks and only in hospitals. [For full run down on the bad data in this study click here.]
Aside from scientific evidence, there’s plenty of real-world evidence that masks do nothing to halt the spread of disease.
For example, North Dakota and South Dakota had near-identical case figures, despite one having a mask-mandate and the other not:
21. Masks are bad for your health. Wearing a mask for long periods, wearing the same mask more than once, and other aspects of cloth masks can be bad for your health. A long study on the detrimental effects of mask-wearing was recently published by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Dr. James Meehan reported in August 2020 he was seeing increases in bacterial pneumonia, fungal infections, facial rashes .
Masks are also known to contain plastic microfibers, which damage the lungs when inhaled and may be potentially carcinogenic.
The report goes on to warn these masks (and other medical waste) will clog sewage and irrigation systems, which will have knock on effects on public health, irrigation and agriculture.
A study from the University of Swansea found “heavy metals and plastic fibres were released when throw-away masks were submerged in water.” These materials are toxic to both people and wildlife.
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PART VII: VACCINES
23. Covid “vaccines” are totally unprecedented. Before 2020 no successful vaccine against a human coronavirus had ever been developed. Since then we have allegedly made 20 of them in 18 months.
While traditional vaccines work by exposing the body to a weakened strain of the microorganism responsible for causing the disease, these new Covid vaccines are mRNA vaccines.
mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) vaccines theoretically work by injecting viral mRNA into the body, where it replicates inside your cells and encourages your body to recognise, and make antigens for, the “spike proteins” of the virus. They have been the subject of research since the 1990s, but before 2020 no mRNA vaccine was ever approved for use.
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24. Vaccines do not confer immunity or prevent transmission. It is readily admitted that Covid “vaccines” do not confer immunity from infection and do not prevent you from passing the disease onto others. Indeed, an article in the British Medical Journal highlighted that the vaccine studies were not designed to even try and assess if the “vaccines” limited transmission.
The vaccine manufacturers themselves, upon releasing the untested mRNA gene therapies, were quite clear their product’s “efficacy” was based on “reducing the severity of symptoms”.
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25. The vaccines were rushed and have unknown longterm effects. Vaccine development is a slow, laborious process. Usually, from development through testing and finally being approved for public use takes many years. The various vaccines for Covid were all developed and approved in less than a year. Obviously there can be no long-term safety data on chemicals which are less than a year old.
Pfizer even admit this is true in the leaked supply contract between the pharmaceutical giant, and the government of Albania:
the long-term effects and efficacy of the Vaccine are not currently known and that there may be adverse effects of the Vaccine that are not currently known
26. Vaccine manufacturers have been granted legal indemnity should they cause harm. The USA’s Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP) grants immunity until at least 2024.
The UK went even further, granting permanent legal indemnity to the government, and any employees thereof, for any harm done when a patient is being treated for Covid19 or “suspected Covid19”.
Again, the leaked Albanian contract suggests that Pfizer, at least, made this indemnity a standard demand of supplying Covid vaccines:
Purchaser hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Pfizer […] from and against any and all suits, claims, actions, demands, losses, damages, liabilities, settlements, penalties, fines, costs and expenses
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PART VIII: DECEPTION & FOREKNOWLEDGE
27. The EU was preparing “vaccine passports” at least a YEAR before the pandemic began. Proposed COVID countermeasures, presented to the public as improvised emergency measures, have existed since before the emergence of the disease.
These documents were combined into the 2019 “Vaccination Roadmap”, which (among other things) established a “feasibility study” on vaccine passports to begin in 2019 and finish in 2021:
This report’s final conclusions were released to the public in September 2019, just a month before Event 201 (below).
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28. A “training exercise” predicted the pandemic just weeks before it started. In October 2019 the World Economic Forum and Johns Hopkins University held Event 201. This was a training exercise based on a zoonotic coronavirus starting a worldwide pandemic. The exercise was sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and GAVI the vaccine alliance.
The exercise published its findings and recommendations in November 2019 as a “call to action”. One month later, China recorded their first case of “Covid”.
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29. Since the beginning of 2020, the Flu has “disappeared”. In the United States, since February 2020, influenza cases have allegedly dropped by over 98%.
Meanwhile, a new disease called “Covid”, which has identical symptoms and a similar mortality rate to influenza, is supposedly sweeping the globe.
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30. The elite have made fortunes during the pandemic. Since the beginning of lockdown the wealthiest people have become significantly wealthier. Forbes reported that 40 new billionaires have been created “fighting the coronavirus”, with 9 of them being vaccine manufacturers.
These are the vital facts of the pandemic, presented here as a resource to help formulate and support your arguments with friends or strangers. Thanks to all the researchers who have collated and collected this information over the last twenty months, especially Swiss Policy Research.
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There is a simple fact that must be understood when it comes to the fight for liberty: Such a fight cannot be won by lone individuals. Freedom requires organized resistance and it does not matter how many millions of people stand against an authoritarian regime, if they are completely isolated from each other they WILL lose. It’s a guarantee.
This is why a considerable portion of establishment money, energy and propaganda is directed at defusing or sabotaging any semblance of conservative organization. This includes engineering false flag events and creating potential terror attacks from thin air so that they can be blamed on constitutionally minded groups. The strategy is called “4th Generation Warfare” and it is not conspiracy theory, this is conspiracy fact.
For example, as we now know according to court documentation, the supposed scheme by a Michigan “militia” made up of anarchists to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer and “try her as a tyrant” was heavily infiltrated by at least a dozen FBI agents and informants. The group was so infiltrated, in fact, that the entire plot for the kidnapping was essentially planned out by the FBI. This is the very definition of a false flag. The corruption and entrapment involved in the operation was so egregious that even the leftist media has reported on it.
I recall a very similar situation occurred during the Malheur incident when Ammon Bundy (son of Cliven Bundy) and a group of patriots decided to annex the wildlife refuge and its obscure ranger buildings as a launching point for a revolution. Though I was a supporter of the efforts at Bundy Ranch, I was vehemently against Malheur because the whole situation seemed grossly suspect. The strategy made no sense, the rationale made no sense, the site of the standoff made no sense and the public optics were terrible. It was an anti-Bundy Ranch; a situation in which all of the dynamics were in favor of the feds and against the liberty movement.
And, not surprisingly, Malhuer had also been influenced and in some cases was arranged by federal informants and agents. These people were whispering in the ear of Ammon Bundy the entire time while the FBI authorized them to commit criminal acts. There were so many paid employees of the FBI at Malheur that jurors decided to drop all charges against most of the defendants involved.
And what about the latest “J6” rally in Washington DC, which was planned by a virtually unknown former Trump aid and was quickly exposed as a potential “honeypot” designed to lure in conservatives? The army of plain clothes undercover feds was so prevalent that riot cops accidentally arrested an armed FBI agent thinking he was a protester.
Now, there are many people in the alternative media that are breathing a sigh of relief that almost no one showed up for the J6 protest or “fell into the trap”. In fact, there were far more reporters and feds there than actual activists. However, I think we need to look at the bigger picture of why the government is staging such events in the first place, and it’s not just to entrap a few conservatives .
If you think about it, the entire strategy is high cost/minimum reward if we only look at it in terms of actual arrests. If the idea is to catch and prosecute patriots, then they could infiltrate groups and engineer criminal actions for decades and achieve little to nothing. Obviously, this is not the purpose of informants. Rather, the strategy is not to invade groups unnoticed; the strategy is to BE NOTICED, to make sure the whole of the liberty movement believe that if they ever try to organize in any way the feds will be there to set them up. In other words, the primary goal of the FBI is to instill paranoia and fear among patriots and ensure they never effectively organize to resist.
When we cheer the “failure” of J6, we need to keep in mind that the establishment does not care. Getting people to show up was not their main intent; making people afraid to show up for any other events in the future is what they want.
The issue presents a Catch-22. If conservatives organize there is the chance that some groups will be infiltrated or set up and used to make the entire movement look bad. If we don’t organize, then we have lost the fight. It will be over before it even truly begins (and no, the real fight has not started yet). So what is the solution?
I think it’s odd but maybe not surprising that the standoff at Bundy Ranch has been memory-holed by the media and is rarely mentioned even among conservative activists these days. Yet, it was probably one of the most successful patriot actions in the past couple of decades. There are a number of reasons for this:
1) The action was spontaneous, not pre-planned and was in response to criminal activity by the FBI (including assaulting women that were protesting and the use of sniper positions to surround the Bundy property similar to Ruby Ridge). The movement took action to remedy a government trespass rather than creating a standoff out of nothing.
2) There was no single person in charge. Groups showed up from all over the country; some of them squared away and some of them screw-ups. This might sound like a bad thing, but in terms of rebellion it is often better to avoid streamlined top-down leadership. Frankly, I am usually suspicious of anyone that tries to anoint themselves the “leader” of the liberty movement or the sole leader of a protest action. Cult of personality is the most useless thing I can think of when it comes to battling tyranny, and top-down leadership can be easily manipulated or controlled.
3) Because of the decentralized nature of the response to Bundy Ranch, the feds had no way to influence or predict the outcome, and they really hate that. Without informants in key positions, the feds did not have the ability to adapt to the quickly changing circumstances. Contrast this with Malheur, where the feds were basically in control from the very beginning. The site itself was so isolated and ill conceived that the FBI was able to dictate every movement of patriots in and out of the area. It was pointless for any militia to occupy it, but it was a great spot for the feds.
4) Patriots arrived at Bundy Ranch peacefully, but with the will to fight if necessary. The Bundy Ranch response had a clear objective – To stop the FBI from harming the Bundy family and to retrieve the stolen cattle if possible. Both of these objectives were accomplished and with no shots fired. A complete success. The group was motivated and unified by the objective, NOT a singular leadership. Without a clear objective there is no purpose to any action.
It is important to understand the difference between a Lexington Bridge moment and a Fort Sumter moment – During Lexington Bridge, the revolutionaries took action to stop a British detachment from arresting colonial leaders and confiscating rifles and powder stores. The British were in the midst of an undeniable attempt to disarm and snuff out the resistance. At Fort Sumter, the Confederate attack was in response to an attempted resupply of the fort itself; which made sense strategically but looked like an act of pure aggression to the wider public. The concept of states rights (more prominent in the minds of the confederates than the issue of slavery) fell by the wayside.
Eventually tyranny has to put boots on the ground. A totalitarian system can function for a time on color of law and implied threats, but it will crumble unless it is able to establish a physical presence of force. Once those jackboots touch soil in a visible way and the agents of the state try to expand oppressive measures, rebels then have a free hand to disrupt them or bring them down. But this only works if there are objectives and enough decentralization to prevent misdirection of the movement.
Some organization is essential. It cannot be avoided. All the “Gray Men” and secret squirrel preppers out there that think they are going to simply weather the storm in isolation and pop out of their bug-out locations to rebuild are suffering from serious delusions. I can’t help but think of that moment in ‘Lord Of The Rings’ when the Ents refuse to organize to fight against the invading orcs. Pippen suggests to Merry that the problem is too big for them and that they should go back to the Shire to wait out the war. Merry laments:
“The fires of Isengard will spread. And the woods of Tuckborough and Buckland will burn. And all that was once green and good in this world will be gone. There won’t be a Shire, Pippin.”
If this fight is not pursued now, there will be no world worth coming back to, even if one was able to successfully hide from it. There will be a “new world order” as the globalists like to call it. There will be nothing left of freedom.
So, organization must be accomplished, and it should be built at the local level. This is far more important than any dreams of a national organization, at least for now. There is no one we can trust to lead such a nationwide revolt, and that includes political leaders like Donald Trump.
Will federal intrusions happen? Of course, but at the local level it is much easier to vet people according to their behaviors and root out bad actors. Hold your local meetings to discuss current events and create a place for people to network and get to know each other. Talk to local businesses or your county sheriff to see where they stand on issues like the vaccine passports and Biden mandates. Put things in motion now or you will regret it later when your community is completely disjointed and paralyzed by fear during crisis or government subjugation.
And, what about the first guy at your meetings that starts talking about building bombs, drafting “kill lists” or kidnapping governors? Kick his ass out promptly and make sure everyone knows why you did it. Most likely he is a fed or he is on an informant payroll. As our national composure breaks down and the manure hits the fan, fed informants and agents will suddenly disappear from these groups without a trace. They are not going to stick around for what happens next; the government doesn’t pay them enough for that. And knowing who the patriots are will not help the federal government if the patriots are organized to defend themselves. This is the reality which they do not want us to wake up to.—————————————————– The corrupt establishment will do anything to suppress sites like the Burning Platform from revealing the truth. The corporate media does this by demonetizing sites like mine by blackballing the site from advertising revenue. If you get value from this site, please keep it running with a donation. [Burning Platform LLC – PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
Acts 16:26 “And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.”
In Chapter 16 of Acts, Paul and Silas are imprisoned under false charges while preaching in Macedonia. During the night they prayed and sung praises onto God which was heard by all of the prisoners. The earthquake sent from God was not to deliver Paul but to convert the jailor. Paul and Silas did not leave the jail but chose to stay, thus saving the jailor’s life.
We know that all who will live Godly lives will suffer persecution. Tribulation comes to all. Our attitude about the problem is what can free us from bonds. We must know that victory is only in Jesus Christ. We see the divine power of God in action here.
Earthquakes are God dealing with man. In this case, all the doors flew open. The bands breaking off were even more unusual.
These words jumped towards me from the screen. We are now in a real period of persecution and tribulation. The epicenter of this persecution at this moment is in Melbourne, Australia. Two days ago, the strongest earthquake on record struck Melbourne causing damage to buildings, but thankfully no deaths. Earthquakes in that part of the world are so rare as to be significant when they occur.
Earthquakes are God dealing with man.
The jailor goes on to ask of Paul what can he do to be saved.
Acts 16:31 “And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”
The message is that God is with the people of Melbourne, but only if they listen. They should not trust in their physical abilities to defeat the police of the state which persecute them. Rather, they should first trust in God. And it is that faith which will help them to convert to their side their persecutors.
In an interesting move, yesterday the leaders of the Victoria Police announced that within two weeks all police offices must be vaccinated themselves. Such a mandate seems insane to be ordered at this particular moment as it will only help to drive police onto the side of the people. But God uses the vessels that He has at His disposal.
The good citizens of Melbourne should not despair. Rather, they should know that they are at the epicenter of a spiritual earthquake. Depending on where each individual stands, this is either a great good fortune or a terrible turn of events. It is also a blessed opportunity to realign one’s principles, a helping push as it were.
The protests have continued today. But where are the men of God? Where are the priests, marching at the very front of the people, in the vanguard. They are nowhere to be seen of any denomination. Great spiritual forces are at play but all priests cower in fear. Is there one Godly priest in Melbourne? Is there one courageous man of God who will lead the way, cross held high in his hands?
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As with Robert Frost’s two paths diverging in the woods, the COVID pandemic has hit a fork in the road.
Back in 2020, when the virus first presented itself, anything could be forgiven. Trump could shoot hydroxychloroquine up his butt; Fauci could sneer at masks, then a week later demand that we wear 17 masks; governors could order everyone to stay home, while they cavorted at parties, restaurants, hair salons and protests.
The lies, hypocrisies and idiocies were all stuffed in our burlap bag, as we bounced along Coronavirus Road.
Then, in a triumph of Western medicine, A VACCINE APPEARED! That’s when our path in the woods diverged into the sane and insane.
It’s pretty clear now that the vaccines work, with few side effects — although our public health experts would really do us a solid if they’d stop lying about there being no side effects. At a minimum, the vaccines prevent serious illness and death. They’re even more effective than the flu vaccine, and that’s pretty good.
Between widespread natural infection — something else it would be nice if authorities would stop lying about — and mass vaccination, COVID IS NOW OVER. It wasn’t “the flu” in 2020, but it is in 2021.
Liberals sulked as people began getting vaccinated and living their lives again, but then seized on the delta variant to announce: Let’s lock down again!
The very people demanding that everyone get vaccinated are the same ones telling us vaccines don’t work all that well, so maybe we’d better just keep wearing masks, quarantining, working remotely and staying home from school.
Do the vaccines work or don’t they? If they work, we’ll thank you to stop bossing us around now.
Going further into crazy town, liberals decided to pretend that Anthony Fauci was not an escaped mental patient.
Our most visible “public health” authority continues to issue lunatic pronouncements like a third world despot: The vaccinated must wear masks! Children should be vaccinated! Even 2-year-olds need to be masked! Everybody has to get a third vaccine shot! (That last bright idea led a couple of experts from the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel to resign in protest, followed by the panel unanimously voting to recommend booster shots only in certain cases.)
Apart from just coming out and telling us he doesn’t believe the vaccines work, Fauci is telling us he doesn’t believe the vaccines work.
This is the nut, you will recall, who knowingly lied to the public at the outset of the pandemic for what he, Anthony Fauci, in his sole discretion, decided was a higher cause. Without a scintilla of scientific evidence one way or the other, he condescendingly announced that masks don’t work against COVID — simply for the greater good of preventing a mask shortage.
What if he considers it a greater good for Anthony Fauci to keep appearing on TV? Like an aging football star who dreams of being back in high school, Fauci longs to be in the spotlight.
Except we have vaccines now! So thanks, but we’ve heard enough from you, Fauci.
Also, we know things that we didn’t in 2020.
We now know, for example, that COVID is bad, but it’s not Ebola. Eighty-year-olds have survived it. Trump survived it. The 800-pound Chris Christie survived it. And that was before we had all the therapies we have now. Or, come to think of it, any idea what we were doing at all. (Remember the mad rush for ventilators?)
We know that cases are good; deaths are bad. The media frantically report “cases” only because their panic porn attracts readers, so who cares if it’s irrelevant?
As long as you don’t die, which would be bad, a COVID infection is nature’s vaccination shot! As multiple studies have shown, immunity from prior infection is stronger and more durable than that from vaccination.
Infections are especially good if you’re already vaccinated. Then you’ll have super-immunity. You won’t die of COVID — although you might die with COVID, especially if you’re old or sick or have just taken a massive dose of fentanyl.
Like George Floyd. Remember? He had COVID when he died. But unlike Floyd, the media will broadcast your death as a cautionary tale to again harangue us to wear masks and get vaccinated. How dare you not get a vaccine and put the vaccinated at risk!
But the vaccinated aren’t at risk. You know why? Because the vaccines work.
We also know that COVID poses virtually no risk to young people. We knew this early on, and for some reason ignored it, but by now the evidence is overwhelming.
Since COVID landed on our shores, 95% of dead the U.S. have been 50 or older. Nearly 80% of the dead were 65 or older — and not only are they heavily vaccinated, but they make up only 16% of the population. The 64.5% of the population under age 50 — in its entirety — has a 5% chance of dying from COVID.
Combine the minimal risk of death to young people — less than the flu during a normal flu season — with what we now know about the strong immunity from prior COVID infection, and, throughout 2020, we should have been putting little kids into giant, Japanese-size classrooms and encouraging young people to blow beer foam in one another’s faces, get drunk and make out with strangers. Our entire under-30 population would be immune.
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CEO of Moderna Says Even Young Will Need to Take Vaccine Booster Shots Indefinitely
The CEO of pharmaceutical giant Moderna says that even younger people will have to get vaccine booster shots at least once every three years, meaning that a two-tier society which punishes the unvaccinated could remain in place indefinitely.
According to Stephane Bancel, the pandemic will continue for at least another year, at which point there will be enough vaccine doses “so that everyone on this Earth can be vaccinated.”
A bombshell report has concluded that scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and their affiliated partners attempted to secure $14 million in funding from the Pentagon’s scientific arm DARPA to genetically alter viruses, including bat coronaviruses, and make them more infectious to humans…just 18 months prior to the subsequent outbreak and pandemic!
Biden Pushing For Dishonourable Discharges, Court Martials For Troops Who Refuse Vaccines
by Steve WatsonSeptember 23rd 2021, 6:31 amWhite House claims anything but dishonourable discharge for refusing vaccines would “detract from readiness and limit a commander’s options for enforcing good order and discipline.
The Biden administration is pushing for dishonourable discharges and even court martialing for troops who disobey orders to get COVID vaccines.
GOP Representative Mark Green of Tennessee proposed an amendment this week to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would prohibit “any discharge but honorable” for troops who refuse vaccines.
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HARD CORE PROOF: DONALD TRUMP IS A TRAITOR OF AMERICA
Submitted by mark
Yea, this is an hour…however it is more than worth the time. It is a gripping and revealing exposé by former staunch Trump supporters.
HARD CORE PROOF: DONALD TRUMP IS A TRAITOR OF AMERICA; False Flag Done on the American People
BY ADMIN · PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 22, 2021 · UPDATED SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Comment: He is a hard core ZIONIST and cabal member. They have video on him to force him to toe the line and he does as he is told: no taxes for life for wealthy cabal members, VAXXES for us proles, etc.
Trump works for super wealthy British Banksters & Empire period not You. Other countries use Ivermectin but not the leading criminals in the U.S.
Only five people had died from COVID—there was no statistical health threat.
Four months earlier, on Sep. 24, 2019, Trump issued Executive Order 13887 on pandemic speed scenarios describing COVID-19, uncannily; hindsight shows this COVID-19 madness was seemingly premeditated.
Azar backdated to Jan. 27, 2020—five days earlier—his one-sentence declaration. (Trollers are claiming this was a clerical error by $1,000 per hour corrupt attorneys—redundant, we know).
Azar was not following his WHO handlers since his U.N. WHO co-conspirators had not yet declared a “pandemic,” which they did later, on Mar. 11, 2020—six weeks later.
Azar and Trump evidently jumped the gun to protect their bio-nano-5G-chemical warfare super-spy-agent, Harvard-NIH Dr. Charles M. Lieber who had been indicted on Jan. 28, 2020—one day after the backdate.
On Feb. 13, 2020—two weeks later, Kristin Debord, PhD, Acting Director of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, made no mention of the COVID-19 “emergency” declaration in her presentation to the National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC). The CDC said the opposite: “The immediate risk in the United States is low at present.” No immediate risk, or pandemic? Contradictory official statements and pregnant silences are lies/fraud… by bureaucrats who nevertheless want to mass inject the public with untested cocktails using any deception that works.
Yet, just nine weeks later, Debord initiated Operation Warp Speed on Apr. 29, 2020—she went from no emergency to hair on fire. Government agencies cannot tie their shoes in nine weeks.
Tellingly, the FDA issued a deceptively worded warning on Apr. 10, 2020 against using IVERMECTIN to treat COVID—four weeks after secretly declaring the pandemic. (Note: The FDA had approved it for human use on Oct. 8, 1998. Japanese researchers call it a “wonder drug” and “astonishingly safe for human use”).[1]
Why did “You’re Fired!” Trump hire so many British Pilgrims Society globalists like Cohen, Mnuchin, Ross, Fauci, Birx, Tillerson, Pompeo, Devos, Haspel, Chao, Pence, Mattis, Votel, Milley, Barr, Sessions?
Was Trump duped, or in on the scam with Azar, Fauci, Gates?
Fraud always unwinds judgments and resulting actions as the fruit of a poisoned tree—backdating legal orders is not a clerical error, it is criminal. HHS lawyers were playing games with the American Republic.
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[1] Andy Crump, Satosjo Ōmura, ed. (Feb. 10, 2011). Ivermectin, ‘wonder drug’ from Japan: the human use perspective. Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and biological sciences, 87(2): 13–28. Reproduced for educational purposes only. Fair Use relied upon. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043740/#
A.D. Santin (Yale), D.E. Scheim, P.A. McCullough (TX A&M), M. Yagisawa (ICRC Kitasato Univ.), T.J. Borody (CDD Aus). (Aug. 03, 2021). Ivermectin: a multifaceted drug of Nobel prize-honoured distinction with indicated efficacy against a new global scourge, COVID-19, New Microbe and New Infect 2021; 43: 100924, Elsevier Ltd. Reproduced for educational purposes only. Fair Use relied upon. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8383101/pdf/main.pdf
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How Doctors Get Paid (Or, why they go along to get along)
I said paid, not laid. Treat a patient, enter shit in a computer, get paid. That’s about the extent my own knowledge regarding the matter. Holy crap, what a clueless Turd Of Paradise I am.
Ever heard of CMMS? Me neither.What a damned dystopian nightmare. Reading this article — by the same Dr. Noel I posted yesterday — is quite an eye-opening informative education. At least it will help you understand why they do the shit they do (like not prescribing Ivermectin). That’s NOT to excuse them, however. As Dr. Noel states in his closing sentence; — “It takes a spine of steel to stand up to the authoritarian orthodoxy.” Sadly, from what I read here and elsewhere, not 1 in 50 doctors has a “spine of steel” … or, any spine at all.
And what an “authoritarian orthodoxy” hell it is!! Doctors are no longer autonomous human beings. They are Automatons Of The State, robots dutifully doing what they are told, patient welfare be damned. Another Yuge win for the marvels of government involvement. It’s like this …
I’m not sure why anyone in their right mind would want to become a practicing physician these days. It’s now one of the most horrid professions in America.
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Why Do Doctors Go Along with COVID Panic Porn and CDC Prescriptions?
I recently had a conversation with a reasonably well-informed writer who simply missed the real reasons why most practicing physicians go along with the Fauci Fraud. As a public service, I will attempt to fill in a few gaps. But first, I must define the fraud. There are two basic legs to the fraud.
First is the idea that the Centers for Disease Control is in any way concerned with a mission related to its name. The failure of the CDC to endorse any treatment that did not emanate from its exalted halls should give us our first glint of clarity. There are literally millions of physicians around the world, and the great bulk of them truly wish to treat their patients well. Among those are thousands of researchers, a number far in excess of those at the CDC, the NIH, and other alphabet soup government agencies. The very idea that outside researchers are incapable of discovering anything useful without the help of the bureaucrats in D.C. is hubris of the highest order. And it prevents the CDC, the FDA, or any other such agency from considering the idea that maybe, just possibly, there might be intelligent life down here. Mount Olympus cannot be threatened.
The second leg of the fraud is less visible to the naked eye but much more powerful. If I wrote this before I retired, I would be called before the Board of my group and told in no uncertain terms to shut up. I might even be assessed a financial penalty with several zeroes after the one. That’s a serious impairment of my pursuit of happiness. The reason for my group’s dislike is more than the fact that I might be an irritant. They may actually agree with what I have to say. But they simply cannot afford for me to say it. That’s right: as a practicing physician in a group, my freedom of speech can become very expensive…to the group.
My group cared for patients of all descriptions, with roughly half of them on Medicare and another batch on Medicaid. Both programs are ultimately managed by the feds, one of the most humorless groups on the planet. They write a whole bunch of rules on how you have to document everything you do. If you didn’t document it correctly, it didn’t happen, and you won’t get paid. But that’s not the half of it.
Suppose you have one of those patients brought in by the ambulance from under the bridge. His only clothes are the ones he’s wearing, and he doesn’t have two nickels to rub together. It’s more than obvious that this surgery for bowel obstruction will be a charity case.
Before Medicare, you’d simply write it off as your good neighbor duty. Now you don’t get a choice. CMMS (the actual administrative agency) requires you to send a bill. Twice. Or maybe three times. Whatever it takes to turn the bill into bad debt. Then you have to send it to a collection agency. Your only alternative is for your group to bring it up in its Board meeting and declare it a write-off that gets noted in the minutes.
All this rigmarole serves no purpose, and you knew that before you got to this sentence. But CMMS has a sinister side. If you do the case for free (which you did before you spent that useless money on billing and collection), CMMS will define that as your “usual and customary” bill for an exploratory laparotomy. Since your U&C is now zero, you can’t ever bill more than that for an ex lap in the future.
But what does that have to do with ivermectin? I’m glad you asked.
U&C bills are just one of the hundreds of rules that CMMS enforces. Another is “Pay for Performance.” Basically, P-f-P requires you to check a host of boxes when taking care of patients. If you didn’t get that IV antibiotic in 20 minutes before the incision, you failed P-f-P and may not get paid. The hospital won’t get paid to take care of the patient if there’s a complication.
So let us suppose that you use ivermectin to treat a COVID patient as he arrives in the hospital. Ivermectin isn’t on the Medicare/Medicaid approved list of medications for COVID. Your hospital pharmacy will call you up and give you grief. After wasting a lot of time getting them to finally let you have it, you’ve had to cancel half of your office day. The next day, you’ll get a visit from a coder, who will tell you that you didn’t use the approved treatment protocol and put the hospital in jeopardy because you flunked P-f-P. By the way, that “coder” is the person who “helps” you use the proper ICD (billing) code for whatever the patient has in order for the hospital to make the most money. But that’s not the worst of it.
Because you flunked P-f-P, that waves a red flag in front of the CMMS bulls, and you’re about to get gored. They will wonder what other bad things you’ve done. As soon as they find one, it gets flagged as “Medicare fraud,” and they will bill you for twice what you got paid as a penalty. Can you guess how many other instances of fraud they’ll find if they look hard? Do you have to ask why my partners would get upset if I published while I was still in practice? By the way, CMMS can go two years back as they look for your crimes. They can ultimately take your house, your car, and your wife’s poodle while they’re at it.
Let’s change the scene. Suppose you’re in private practice. You can’t give ivermectin because the feds will key in on it if your patient’s on Medicare or Medicaid. So you decide to take care of him off the books. He pays you cash, and all is well. Not! You now took a private payment for Medicare-covered service. That will get you barred from seeing another Medicare patient for two years.
Let’s forget all the regulatory traps. You’re conscientious and try to do the best for your patients. But you’re busy, and you can’t keep up with the flood of papers on all the various COVID bits. So you wear a mask, have your patients wear masks, and do a lot of telemedicine. You keep up on the latest through Medscape and the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reporter. You should be good? Not! MMWR is put out by the CDC, and they won’t say the first good word about HCQ or ivermectin. Medscape is a little better, but not much. And all the specialty societies are toeing the line. Can we guess why?
Any doctor who actually reads the studies, or follows any of the protocols published by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, will see a lot of peer pressure to stop. The financial risks may be extreme. It takes a spine of steel to stand up to the authoritarian orthodoxy.
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Ted Noel, M.D. is a retired anesthesiologist/intensivist who posts on social media as DoctorTed and @vidzette.
Here is a doctor and chief RN in a US Department of Health & Human Services Hospital reporting that the official protocol is NOT to report adverse reactions to the vaccine, NOT to treat Covid patients with safe and effective Ivermectin, indeed, it is impermissible to do so and you are fired if you save lives with Ivermectin, and NOT to permit staff to refuse inoculation based on informed consent from seeing the deadly effects of the vaccine on patients.
In this video you can witness the doctor and nurses speaking about the evil of the Health & Human Services federal hospital intentionally killing people and preventing doctors and nurses from saving the lives of patients. This is not happening from incompetence and lack of knowledge. People are being systematically murdered, and Covid is being blamed. All adverse vaccine reactions are blamed on Covid, not on the vaccine, and this lie is used to justify not reporting the adverse event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obdI7tgKLtA You had better watch the brief video before it is taken down as “Covid disinformation.” It is a video of doctors and nurses on the front line discussing what they see and experience.
It has also emerged that the medical establishment arranged a “test” of HCQ’s effectiveness by waiting until patients were in the last stage of the disease before administering HCQ. They did this despite knowing that HCQ is effective in the early stages of Covid infection and arrests the progress of the infection. In the later stages of the disease, HCQ is not effective, or not nearly as effective.
Having rigged the test in this way over the dead bodies of betrayed patients, the medical establishment used the arranged failure of HCQ to prevent the use of Ivermectin, which is effective at all stages of the disease.
This is still the medical protocol in American hospitals despite the fact (1) that Ivermectin has cleared Covid from entire areas of India where it is used as a Covid preventative, (2) that the Tokyo Medical Association has recommended that Japanese doctors use Ivermection for the prevention and cure of Covid, (3) that large areas of Africa where Ivermectin is regularly used as a preventative and treatment for River Blindness have few Covid cases, (4) and that the vast majority of Americans who are cured of Covid by treatment are not cured in hospitals but by doctors in private practice administering HCQ and Ivermectin.
The evidence is overwhelming that the US medical, political, and media establishments are perfectly comfortable knowingly enforcing unscientific and counterfactual death policies on the American people.—————————————————– The corrupt establishment will do anything to suppress sites like the Burning Platform from revealing the truth. The corporate media does this by demonetizing sites like mine by blackballing the site from advertising revenue. If you get value from this site, please keep it running with a donation. [Burning Platform LLC – PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
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There are many shortcuts to fantasy, but there are no shortcuts to the scientific truth
This is yet another example of a professor who thinks he has a good understanding of how this pandemic is evolving and who is firmly convinced he can take advantage of Darwin’s law to put the blame for the catastrophic evolution of this pandemic on the unvaccinated. I am sure he didn’t read my contribution ‘Repetitio est mater studiorum’….
But once, again, let’s get started by assessing his experience in some of the fields that are critically important to understanding the evolutionary dynamics of this pandemic (according to some of the criteria I listed in my contribution ‘Separating the wheat from the chaff’).
Q: Does Goldman understand immunology? No
Q: Does Goldman understand vaccinology? No
So, why does he even try to tackle an issue as complex as a population-level interaction between the host immune system and a virus within the context of mass vaccination?
I’ve inserted my comments below (in italics) in the text of his article. Again, they should illustrate how uninformed, biased interpretations of the data can have a disastrous impact, not only in that they violate the science but also in that they lead to irrational social discrimination. Again, I doubt that Goldman is willing to engage in an open scientific debate on a public platform. He should, therefore, at least seriously consider withdrawing the nonsense he’s trying to sell as a science-based statement.
“How the unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated for COVID-19: A Darwinian perspective”
Imai et al. (1) have characterized yet another variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for COVID-19, this one originating in Brazil. The good news is that it appears that vaccines currently available are still expected to provide protection against this variant. However, what about the next variant, one we have not seen yet? Will we still be protected?
In 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species (2), in which he outlined the principles of natural selection and survival of the fittest. The world presently has the unwelcome opportunity to see the principles of evolution as enumerated by Darwin play out in real time, in the interactions of the human population with SARS-CoV-2. The world could have easily skipped this unpleasant lesson, had there not been such large numbers of the human population unwilling to be vaccinated against this disease.
Goldman doesn’t seem to realize that protection against disease has nothing to do with Darwin’s principles of natural selection and survival of the fittest. In case of viruses, the latter have to do with replication and transmission. So, what viruses care about is barriers that prevent them from replicating / transmitting, not from external influences that prevent them from being more or less pathogenic. This is to say that natural selection of viruses in the presence of neutralizing antibodies does not occur as a result of vaccine-mediated pressure on viral pathogenicity.
SARS-CoV-2 has shown that it can mutate into many variants of the original agent (3). An unvaccinated pool of individuals provides a reservoir for the virus to continue to grow and multiply, and therefore more opportunities for such variants to emerge.
As Goldman has no clue about immunology, he does not understand that the overall (i.e., population-level) immune status of the population constitutes the barrier that is critical to Darwin’s selection and survival of the fittest (as virus replication and transmission critically depends on the ‘resistance’ mounted by the host immune system). In addition, Goldman doesn’t seem to realize that more infectious variants were already circulating before mass vaccination started. So, when mass vaccination was initiated, the question that really mattered was to know which part of the population would give more infectious variants a competitive advantage. It seems logical that more infectious variants can only enjoy a competitive advantage on a background that exerts selective immune pressure on viral infectiousness, i.e. on spike protein (as the latter is responsible for viral infectiousness). When people get jabbed in large numbers with S(pike)-based vaccines, this undoubtedly leads to massive S-directed immune selection pressure in the vaccinated part of the population. In contrast, the unvaccinated do not provide such competitive advantage to more infectious variants as they eliminate Sars-CoV-2 lineages without exerting immune selection pressure on viral infectiousness (i.e., on spike protein). This is because unvaccinated either get asymptomatically infected, i.e., they overcome the infection thanks to their innate immunity, which is known to be multi-specific ( i.e., NOT variant-specific) or they contract symptomatic infection, which equally results in multi-variant-specific acquired immunity. In none of these cases does an unvaccinated person exert any immune selection pressure on viral infectiousness, i.e., on spike protein. The unvaccinated part of the population is, therefore, anything but a reservoir for the virus! On the contrary, their capacity to eliminate the virus in a non-selective manner will lead to a diminished concentration of more infectious immune escape variants in the unvaccinated population, and even in the overall population provided the unvaccinated part of the population represents a significant part of the overall population!(which is now increasingly becoming problematic). Goldman’s interpretation does not take into account that unvaccinated people do have protective immunity, either due to innate or naturally acquired immunity.
When this occurs within a background of a largely vaccinated population, natural selection will favor a variant that is resistant to the vaccine.
Yes, natural selection of more infectious variants happens within the vaccinated population, but not in the non-vaccinated population. This already explains why there was a fall in cases when the lockdown measures in the UK were abandoned and society opened up again. Opening-up society resulted in absorption of more infectious variants (i.e., the Delta variant) by non-vaccinated people. In this population, the Delta variant had no longer a competitive advantage (as unvaccinated individuals can effectively deal with ALL Sars-CoV-2 lineages). I am truly curious to hear whether Goldman has another explanation for the fast and spectacular drop in cases subsequent to the lifting of lockdown measures in July 2021.
So far, we have been lucky that the variants that have emerged can still be somewhat controlled by current vaccines, probably because these variants evolved in mostly unvaccinated populations and were not subject to selective pressure of having to grow in vaccinated hosts.
The more infectious variants that started circulating before mass vaccination had already been subject to S-directed immune selection pressure! How could one otherwise explain that all these variants developed mutations that were converging towards immunodominant domains in the S protein? As I’ve been explaining in one of my previous articles (https://trialsitenews.com/why-is-the-ongoing-mass-vaccination-experiment-driving-a-rapid-evolutionary-response-of-sars-cov-2/), this selection was most likely due to overcrowding (e.g., in favelas or slums in certain cities in Brazil or South-Africa) or possibly even due to prolonged infection-prevention measures in other regions (as prolonged infection-prevention measures lead to suppression of innate immunity and could now, indeed, provide a competitive advantage to more infectious variants).
Nevertheless, the Delta variant is exhibiting increased frequency of breakthrough infections among the vaccinated (4).
The real danger is a future variant, which will be the legacy of those people who are not getting vaccinated providing a breeding ground for the virus to continue to generate variants.
Shame on you, Goldman, for blaming the unvaccinated, whereas it is clear from my explanations above that you don’t understand at all why the unvaccinated are anything but a breeding ground for more infectious variants! Because of mass vaccination, there is now a large part of the population that exerts increasing S-directed immune selection pressure that provides more infectious variants to gain a strong competitive advantage and reproduce more effectively on a background of highly S-specific neutralizing antibodies. It’s obviously because of the profound lack of knowledge in immunology that some of the brightest minds can make some of the most stupid statements.
A variant could arise that is resistant to current vaccines, rendering those already vaccinated susceptible again.
Progress we have made in overcoming the pandemic will be lost. New vaccines will have to be developed. Lockdowns and masks will once again be required. Many more who are currently protected, especially among the vulnerable, will die.
Again, there is only one single culprit: MASS vaccination across all age groups during a pandemic of more infectious variants.Neither the vaccinated nor unvaccinated individuals are to be blamed. That is the biggest non-sense ever. It’s completely contradictory to what the science tells.
This dire prediction need not occur if universal vaccination is adopted, or mandated, to protect everyone, including those who are already vaccinated.
For lack of any fundamental knowledge in immunology, Goldman doesn’t understand that exactly the opposite applies!
Darwinian selection may also yet solve the problem with a much crueler calculus. The unvaccinated will either get sick and survive, and therefore be the equivalent of vaccinated, or they will die and therefore be removed as breeding grounds for the virus.
Again, a shame when an immunologically illiterate professor makes predictions about the outcome of this pandemic in ways that – for lack of immunological competence- completely misinterpret Darwin’s principles of natural selection. Why would the unvaccinated even survive if – according to Goldman – they’re not vaccinated and hence, not protected? It’s, of course, thanks to their innate immunity which they should try to boost and, more importantly, preserve by avoiding repeated exposure to the circulating (more infectious) variants. Deaths under the unvaccinated will not lead to diminished viral infectivity as the unvaccinated are not a breeding ground for more infectious variants. On the contrary, the unvaccinated are the only hope for the human population to build herd immunity, either by virtue of their innate immunity (if asymptomatically infected) or by virtue of their naturally acquired immunity (if symptomatically infected). Goldman should refrain from making erroneous and discriminating statements on matters he doesn’t understand and give the floor to medical doctors specialized in early treatment of Covid-19 cases.
The National Archives in the United Kingdom note that, in 1665, during the Black Death plague, “to prevent the disease spreading, a victim was locked in their house with their entire family, condemning them all to death” (5). Vaccinations offer a much more humane response to prevent spread of this disease. The path forward is in the hands of the unvaccinated, and in the political will of the authorities.
A completely misplaced brainwashing exercise from a professor who doesn’t understand the population-level interplay between the virus and its host. It should suffice to ask him how mass vaccination is going to tame the dramatic expansion of increasingly infectious viral variants as it is now generally acknowledged that mass vaccination will not enable herd immunity and as it is too well understood that no pandemic can be tamed without achieving herd immunity. The ‘more humane’ response, therefore, is to treat people at an early stage of the disease instead of preventing herd immunity from getting established. Boosters and/ or extending mass vaccination campaigns to younger age groups will only expedite the occurrence of viral resistance to the vaccines and cause substantial harm to both the unvaccinated and vaccinated.
The path forward is in the hands of the unvaccinated, and in the political will of the authorities
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The scribes over at PJ Media are sneering about the illegal rubes that their own Democrats are openly pushing over their broken border.
Haiti is a mess. Honduras is worse. Guatemala, Mexico, and Nicaragua are not found on my travel bucket list. These countries, as dangerous as they may be, all have one thing in common: Every one of them has had well over two hundred years to look at our “system” to see how and why it is superior to every other country’s, and then copy it.
It takes a special kind of arrogance as your nation implodes to blindly state that you have the best system, like ever, man.
A little while ago when Afghanistan finally regained its national autonomy, I wrote a piece asking the question if Americans even realised that they had lost a war. Based on the comments that piece received the answer was a resounding no. Americans have blind faith in whatever their nation does because that’s all that they have now. Even though its worth can be measured in the life span of a broken egg on a rock in the desert, they still cling to the notion that they have everything sorted out, if only they could go back to 1952.
Bullshit. American was broken from the start. Just take their much lauded constitution. The part I like the best is the line that goes something like, the freedom to pursue happiness. To be fair, not just Americans but a lot of people around the world think that that line is on par with anything written in the Bible. Which is ironic.
Because the idea of being free to pursue your own definition of happiness is literally demonic.
Who defines this happiness? I assume it is up to each individual, at least based on how the US constitution is worded. There is nothing attached to the idea of pursuing happiness as regards to moral limitations. Religion is not even in the picture as far as this happiness thing is concerned.
I bet trafficking underage children to sexual perverts gave Jeffery Epstein some degree of happiness. Just to name one single example over the last couple of hundred years. But even though I could choose from so many examples, let’s just stick with him to make the point. If trafficking children made Epstein happy then that’s A-Okay under the US constitution. He should be free to pursue his own version of happiness. After all, it’s left up to each and every individual to define what makes them happy, what gives them happiness.
Once again, it’s demonic. It’s something that a Satanist would come up with. Oh yeah, that’s right; your beloved George Washington was a high level Freemason. Which made him a high level Satanist. How many more of your founding fathers were Freemasons? Quite a number. And they sure did a number on you.
It took a bit of time but finally the evil energy of that document was fully released in the sixties. Do whatever makes you feel good, man. The lid came off the box. Your land of the free is the land of those who want no limits on their actions. Pursue your happiness. Well, talk about living in the material world. Forget about all that spiritual stuff, as long as it makes you happy, bro.
At its essence it is nihilism. Even worse is its chronic level of self-deception and self-delusion. There is no freedom involved in the pursuit of happiness because the foundation of such an undertaking is bound up in the follies of the world. You can never arrive, there is no end goal so to speak. Your pursuit will be endless and on the way you will lose your soul. Perhaps gradually but then all at once.
America has to die because it was founded on a lie. And an evil one at that. A great sabotage laid right from the beginning. And it has pulled in many countries after it, sucking them down into the great crushing, the overwhelming evil of pure capitalism. Australia is now the US on steroids but without any of the meagre protections thrown in that at least the Americans can still enjoy.
So you have a bunch of Haitians breaking down the doors. So what? I don’t see any Russians lining up to get in anymore. When are you guys going to understand that the 200 year party is over? And it’s already been over for much longer than you can even imagine. Gonna be one hell of a hangover.
The antiviral remdesivir treatment reduced the risk of hospitalization among COVID-19 patients when administered soon after they were diagnosed, according to a new study.
Researchers found that remdesivir cut the risk of hospitalization by 87 percent compared to a placebo that half of the study participants received.
A total of 562 patients, all deemed at high-risk from COVID-19, were enrolled in the trial.
New Proof Emerges of the Biden Family Emails: a Definitive Account of the CIA/Media/BigTech Fraud
An axis of the CIA, Big Tech and the DNC-allied wing of the corporate media spread an absolute lie in the weeks before the 2020 election. We now have definitive proof.
John MacArthur’s Church Publishes “COVID-19 Without Fear” Manifesto
While most of the world, particularly the lost and dying world, is living in extreme fear of a disease that carries with it the possibility of death, John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Church in Los Angeles wants us to know that born again believers have nothing to fear…[Continue Reading on Website]
One leftist Iowa school teacher is under fire after she was caught on video on an online forum bragging about the workaround she has found to teach students woke and divisive critical race theory (CRT) despite its ban in the state of Iowa.
Petra Lange, a high school teacher at West Des Moines’ Valley, participated in an “Online Youth Pushback Forum” to discuss “urban anti-racism education” which she believes must be taught in the classroom despite an Iowa law that prevents educators from teaching material that suggests the U.S. or state of Iowa is fundamentally or systemically racist or sexist.
Lange however, believes she’s found a “clever workaround” and shared it with the group to employ in their own classrooms.
Over at Dark Brightness, Weka posted a quote from Vox Day which he found on Social Galactic. My days of arguing on the internets ended many cigars ago, but I am thankful that this was posted as it is quite good.
The obvious counter to the pro-vaxx counter-rhetoric is also nuclear:
“I’m not unvaccinated, I’m PUREBLOOD.”
This is very good rhetoric which I plan to put to good use for as long as this madness lasts. How long could that be? Well, I’ve heard that it’s a total of seven shots.
William Tychonievich has posted a translation of a statement from a Greek Orthodox hieromonk on the fake vaccines. It is quite an illuminating read. Up to now we have been almost entirely focusing on the effect of these shots from a physical perspective. But there is also the spiritual side, which is vastly more important than any physical issues. This hieromonk got the first shot and in his testimony he relates how this affected his spiritual salvation. In short, it has been devastating for him.
Immediately after receiving the shot he felt unable to perform basic functions as a man of God, let alone in an official capacity. He was ashamed to wear his clerical headdress, among other personal crises.
The joy I used to feel at the divine service was lost. It was as if I were not entering the sanctuary of a holy church, but as if I had entered a room in a house. All these things surprised me, but at the time I did not believe they stemmed from the peck. I saw familiar parishioners turn their faces away from me. The next day, I found that my conscience was causing me terrible pain. It was as if I had been pierced in my heart with such pain as I had never felt before in my life.
Another hieromonk, an exorcist, had a conversation with a demon which confessed that it and its kind are behind the false vaccine.
The demon told him, “Those who have taken the peck cannot repent, because I am inside of them.”
The hieromonk asked, “How are you inside of them?”
The demon answered, “With the blood of the aborted fetuses.”
The demon is of course lying; repentance is always available to those who follow God. But with each successive shot, repentance becomes more challenging. The article continues until it comes to this gem:
To a faithful person of God, death does not exist. This is the reality. We have forgotten this, and we now fear death. Not only do we fear death, we also fear being fined, possible imprisonment, and prosecution. In NO case can a person call himself a Christian if he fears death. When a person is afraid to die, he becomes an idolater or an atheist. Instead, a Christian should long to die. The saints wanted to die. The reason that Christians truly want to pass away is so they can be fully united with the Lord they worship and love above all else. They want to go and are joyful when they are passing away. However, they never cause death to themselves — they do not commit suicide — but when the opportunity arises to become a martyr and confessor for Christ, they do this without fear of death.
We are so afraid of physical death today that we will do anything to put off the reckoning. But such actions only damn us further. We are here on this earth to learn, to grow and to contribute in a spiritual and physical sense. When our time is done then we can move on to the next stage. But only if we gladly participate in what is to come. If we claw at every extra breath in a pathetic and futile bid to stave off the inevitable, what are we really saying to God?
To me, it seems that we are declaring that we have no faith in Him. That we have no hope for salvation. But more than that, we are demonstrating that we are not fit to join Him in the great creating. We show a lack of courage and perseverance. And all the while we bathe ourselves in sin.
If you are struggling to resist the material pressures to conform, stand fast with the knowledge that you are pureblood. But not only pureblood in a physical but also in a spiritual form. If a devout priest’s spiritual strength can be so severely weakened by just one jab, how well would you or I be able to withstand? Those who are devout are in more danger than those wedded to the secular world as they have no conception of the spiritual battles at play when the venom enters their veins.
But we do. We know. So stay pureblood. Hold fast in your faith. And remember that the actions of our enemies limit them, not us.
Federal Reserve Chairman Powell and other members of the Fed have been using the term “transitory” to downplay the threat that the last 16 months of skyrocketing inflation would last.
But inflation has been sharply on the rise since March 2020, with only a minor pause toward the end of last year before rising even more sharply since January 2021. Two Fed officials dissented in June of this year, but Powell’s money-printing habit hasn’t slowed.
The “light at the end of the tunnel” for the Fed? A miniscule .1% (one tenth of one percent) down tick in the official monthly inflation report this August.
You can almost hear the relief in the Fed’s chatter… “See, we were right! It was only transitory inflation, and it’s already going down! There’s nothing to see here, move along, buy more stocks.”
Don’t crack open the champagne just yet.
Unfortunately for us, the Fed’s optimism seems misplaced. That 0.1% reduction in monthly official inflation leaves us with a 5.3% annual inflation rate, more than 2 1/2 times higher than the Fed’s official inflation target.
Inflation for businesses reached a year-over-year rate of 8.3% — the metric’s highest level since at least 2010.
On top of that, consumers are waking up to the reality that inflation won’t be “transitory,” but instead will likely stick around for a few years.
That’s because once inflation begins to gain velocity, it’s hard to stop. Inflation has serious momentum, just like a train. A fully-loaded modern freight train weighs tens of thousands of tons and needs over a mile to make an emergency stop. A controlled, safe stop takes much longer.
If inflation does hit 3%, it is more likely to go to 6% or higher, rather than back down to 2%. The process will feed on itself and be difficult to stop.
That’s darn near prophetic, isn’t it? Just to be clear, we haven’t seen 6% inflation (yet). Still, based on Jim’s thinking, if the Fed keeps printing money after inflation has already passed 5%, there’s a good chance the U.S. could see at least 10% “official” inflation before finally backing off.
Because that’s how long it takes for the train to slow down.
Wolf Richter used official Fed data to illustrate that most Americans think inflation will still be rising at a red hot clip of at least 4% three years from now, all the way out to 2024. And that same article also revealed that older Americans who were alive during the intense inflation of the 1970s think the future is much darker:
The people who went through the last bout of massive inflation as adults in the 1970s and early 1980s, the people who have actual experience with large-scale inflation and remember what it was like – the over 60 crowd – they expect inflation to hit 6.0% a year from now
Based on his Wikipedia page, Jim Rickards earned his college degree in 1973. Presumably, he remembers the economic malaise of the 1970s clearly…
If that plays out, it means the current trend isn’t letting up. It also means inflation won’t be cooling off any time soon. Which underscores the point that inflation isn’t any more transitory than our metaphorical train. It takes a long time to get up to speed, and even longer to slow down.
There’s a bigger problem, though.
Manufacturers see “raging inflation” of 20%
Producer prices, the inflationary pressures on manufacturers, is out of control. This needs a little explaining so you’ll see how it will affect the prices we pay in the near future.
Investopedia, offers a fairly simple explanation of inflation at the producer level (producer price inflation, or PPI) and how it’s different from consumer price inflation (CPI):
The PPI is somewhat similar to the CPI with the exception that it looks at rising prices from the perspective of the producer rather than the consumer. While the CPI looks at final prices realized by consumers, the PPI takes one step back and determines the change in output prices faced by producers. [emphasis added]
Here’s a brief example: The final price of a shirt you might consider buying has a lot of production price inflation (PPI) packed into it…
When a farmer pays more for their cotton seeds and fertilizer, he has to charge more for the cotton after it’s harvested. That means cotton mills pay more, so the finished fabric ends up costing more.
And that inflationary effect is additive.
The farmer doesn’t just buy cotton seeds and fertilizer, he also buys gas to run his tractor. He pays for tractor repairs, new tires, and utilities to run the farm (and has to make enough profit to feed his family).
The harvested cotton gets trucked to a cotton mill. Textile mills also have similar expenses: transportation, utilities, repairs, maintenance and worker pay.
From textile mill to garment factory, from garment factory to wholesaler, and wholesaler to retailer… Each step in the chain, from the cotton field to the clothes rack, has its own set of expenses.
This means every single element‘s price increase adds to the final retail price of the finished product.
That’s a non-technical overview of how you might end up paying $100 for a polo shirt at Target.
Now that you understand what PPI is all about, here’s where it stands today. Wolf Richter reported on this metric recently. Today’s PPI sits over three times its 10-year average, at a shocking 8.3%.
Here’s why understanding these inflationary pressures further up the price line is important:
Economists can also forecast the future movement of the finished goods index by monitoring the intermediate index, and the direction of the intermediate index can be determined by analyzing the crude index. Essentially, the data obtained from monitoring the downhill indicators, those focused on raw materials, can be used to forecast the uphill core indicators. The PPI of finished goods provides a sense of the expected CPI movement.
What this means for you and me: This is one of the best forecasts we have indicating future inflation headed our way.
Keep in mind, overall PPI is 8.3% now, which means we’re likely to pay higher prices as soon as businesses start passing on these increased costs.
What’s worse, those higher prices aren’t likely to come down anytime soon.
That’s because there’s raging hot 20% inflation further up the production pipeline headed our way in waves for the foreseeable future…
Stage 1 industries provide raw inputs like commodities (think crude oil, mineral ores and unprocessed foodstuffs): 21% inflation
Stage 2-4 involve processing, refining, and getting the raw materials into a usable form. Each step in the chain brings raw materials closer to use for construction or manufacturing: 21%, 20% and 12% inflation, respectively
Here’s the major takeaway: manufacturers are already paying much higher prices, and we can expect to see that reflected in the prices we pay for everything, every day.
If you thought 5.3% CPI inflation and the year-long rising trend that led up to it was bad, buckle up. This train isn’t anywhere near full speed yet, and Powell has been stoking the engine with trillions of dollars of paper money. Even if the Fed stopped today, it’ll still take this train an awfully long time to stop…
Is now the time to jump off the train, before it picks up any more speed?
Jump now, or ride to the end of the line?
If you’re concerned about the inflation we’re already seeing (let alone the inflation already on its way), it might be smart to get off the train. The faster it’s going, the more dangerous the leap will be…
Today, even though gasoline was $3.54/gallon last time I filled up the car, there’s still time to make a Plan B.
Examine your retirement savings with an eye toward your risk exposure. Consider safer investments, especially those with solid historical performance in high-inflation environments. If you haven’t already investigated self-directed retirement plans, you should know they enable you to diversify your savings into a wide variety of assets the Fed hates.
Especially physical precious metals like gold and silver. These are two safe-haven assets whose intrinsic value is not at the mercy of Powell’s inflationary agenda.
Whatever you decide, keep in mind that the inflation train isn’t even close to its full speed. As any seasoned trainhopper can warn you, the faster the train is going, the more dangerous the exit. The longer you wait, the harder it will be for you to leap off the train without getting injured. So please, make your plans accordingly.
With global tensions spiking, thousands of Americans are moving their IRA or 401(k) into an IRA backed by physical gold. Now, thanks to a little-known IRS Tax Law, you can too. Learn how with a free info kit on gold from Birch Gold Group. It reveals how physical precious metals can protect your savings, and how to open a Gold IRA. Click here to get your free Info Kit on Gold.—————————————————– The corrupt establishment will do anything to suppress sites like the Burning Platform from revealing the truth. The corporate media does this by demonetizing sites like mine by blackballing the site from advertising revenue. If you get value from this site, please keep it running with a donation. [Burning Platform LLC – PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
Federal Reserve Chairman Powell and other members of the Fed have been using the term “transitory” to downplay the threat that the last 16 months of skyrocketing inflation would last.
But inflation has been sharply on the rise since March 2020, with only a minor pause toward the end of last year before rising even more sharply since January 2021. Two Fed officials dissented in June of this year, but Powell’s money-printing habit hasn’t slowed.
The “light at the end of the tunnel” for the Fed? A miniscule .1% (one tenth of one percent) down tick in the official monthly inflation report this August.
You can almost hear the relief in the Fed’s chatter… “See, we were right! It was only transitory inflation, and it’s already going down! There’s nothing to see here, move along, buy more stocks.”
Don’t crack open the champagne just yet.
Unfortunately for us, the Fed’s optimism seems misplaced. That 0.1% reduction in monthly official inflation leaves us with a 5.3% annual inflation rate, more than 2 1/2 times higher than the Fed’s official inflation target.
Inflation for businesses reached a year-over-year rate of 8.3% — the metric’s highest level since at least 2010.
On top of that, consumers are waking up to the reality that inflation won’t be “transitory,” but instead will likely stick around for a few years.
That’s because once inflation begins to gain velocity, it’s hard to stop. Inflation has serious momentum, just like a train. A fully-loaded modern freight train weighs tens of thousands of tons and needs over a mile to make an emergency stop. A controlled, safe stop takes much longer.
If inflation does hit 3%, it is more likely to go to 6% or higher, rather than back down to 2%. The process will feed on itself and be difficult to stop.
That’s darn near prophetic, isn’t it? Just to be clear, we haven’t seen 6% inflation (yet). Still, based on Jim’s thinking, if the Fed keeps printing money after inflation has already passed 5%, there’s a good chance the U.S. could see at least 10% “official” inflation before finally backing off.
Because that’s how long it takes for the train to slow down.
Wolf Richter used official Fed data to illustrate that most Americans think inflation will still be rising at a red hot clip of at least 4% three years from now, all the way out to 2024. And that same article also revealed that older Americans who were alive during the intense inflation of the 1970s think the future is much darker:
The people who went through the last bout of massive inflation as adults in the 1970s and early 1980s, the people who have actual experience with large-scale inflation and remember what it was like – the over 60 crowd – they expect inflation to hit 6.0% a year from now
Based on his Wikipedia page, Jim Rickards earned his college degree in 1973. Presumably, he remembers the economic malaise of the 1970s clearly…
If that plays out, it means the current trend isn’t letting up. It also means inflation won’t be cooling off any time soon. Which underscores the point that inflation isn’t any more transitory than our metaphorical train. It takes a long time to get up to speed, and even longer to slow down.
There’s a bigger problem, though.
Manufacturers see “raging inflation” of 20%
Producer prices, the inflationary pressures on manufacturers, is out of control. This needs a little explaining so you’ll see how it will affect the prices we pay in the near future.
Investopedia, offers a fairly simple explanation of inflation at the producer level (producer price inflation, or PPI) and how it’s different from consumer price inflation (CPI):
The PPI is somewhat similar to the CPI with the exception that it looks at rising prices from the perspective of the producer rather than the consumer. While the CPI looks at final prices realized by consumers, the PPI takes one step back and determines the change in output prices faced by producers. [emphasis added]
Here’s a brief example: The final price of a shirt you might consider buying has a lot of production price inflation (PPI) packed into it…
When a farmer pays more for their cotton seeds and fertilizer, he has to charge more for the cotton after it’s harvested. That means cotton mills pay more, so the finished fabric ends up costing more.
And that inflationary effect is additive.
The farmer doesn’t just buy cotton seeds and fertilizer, he also buys gas to run his tractor. He pays for tractor repairs, new tires, and utilities to run the farm (and has to make enough profit to feed his family).
The harvested cotton gets trucked to a cotton mill. Textile mills also have similar expenses: transportation, utilities, repairs, maintenance and worker pay.
From textile mill to garment factory, from garment factory to wholesaler, and wholesaler to retailer… Each step in the chain, from the cotton field to the clothes rack, has its own set of expenses.
This means every single element‘s price increase adds to the final retail price of the finished product.
That’s a non-technical overview of how you might end up paying $100 for a polo shirt at Target.
Now that you understand what PPI is all about, here’s where it stands today. Wolf Richter reported on this metric recently. Today’s PPI sits over three times its 10-year average, at a shocking 8.3%.
Here’s why understanding these inflationary pressures further up the price line is important:
Economists can also forecast the future movement of the finished goods index by monitoring the intermediate index, and the direction of the intermediate index can be determined by analyzing the crude index. Essentially, the data obtained from monitoring the downhill indicators, those focused on raw materials, can be used to forecast the uphill core indicators. The PPI of finished goods provides a sense of the expected CPI movement.
What this means for you and me: This is one of the best forecasts we have indicating future inflation headed our way.
Keep in mind, overall PPI is 8.3% now, which means we’re likely to pay higher prices as soon as businesses start passing on these increased costs.
What’s worse, those higher prices aren’t likely to come down anytime soon.
That’s because there’s raging hot 20% inflation further up the production pipeline headed our way in waves for the foreseeable future…
Stage 1 industries provide raw inputs like commodities (think crude oil, mineral ores and unprocessed foodstuffs): 21% inflation
Stage 2-4 involve processing, refining, and getting the raw materials into a usable form. Each step in the chain brings raw materials closer to use for construction or manufacturing: 21%, 20% and 12% inflation, respectively
Here’s the major takeaway: manufacturers are already paying much higher prices, and we can expect to see that reflected in the prices we pay for everything, every day.
If you thought 5.3% CPI inflation and the year-long rising trend that led up to it was bad, buckle up. This train isn’t anywhere near full speed yet, and Powell has been stoking the engine with trillions of dollars of paper money. Even if the Fed stopped today, it’ll still take this train an awfully long time to stop…
Is now the time to jump off the train, before it picks up any more speed?
Jump now, or ride to the end of the line?
If you’re concerned about the inflation we’re already seeing (let alone the inflation already on its way), it might be smart to get off the train. The faster it’s going, the more dangerous the leap will be…
Today, even though gasoline was $3.54/gallon last time I filled up the car, there’s still time to make a Plan B.
Examine your retirement savings with an eye toward your risk exposure. Consider safer investments, especially those with solid historical performance in high-inflation environments. If you haven’t already investigated self-directed retirement plans, you should know they enable you to diversify your savings into a wide variety of assets the Fed hates.
Especially physical precious metals like gold and silver. These are two safe-haven assets whose intrinsic value is not at the mercy of Powell’s inflationary agenda.
Whatever you decide, keep in mind that the inflation train isn’t even close to its full speed. As any seasoned trainhopper can warn you, the faster the train is going, the more dangerous the exit. The longer you wait, the harder it will be for you to leap off the train without getting injured. So please, make your plans accordingly.
With global tensions spiking, thousands of Americans are moving their IRA or 401(k) into an IRA backed by physical gold. Now, thanks to a little-known IRS Tax Law, you can too. Learn how with a free info kit on gold from Birch Gold Group. It reveals how physical precious metals can protect your savings, and how to open a Gold IRA. Click here to get your free Info Kit on Gold.—————————————————– The corrupt establishment will do anything to suppress sites like the Burning Platform from revealing the truth. The corporate media does this by demonetizing sites like mine by blackballing the site from advertising revenue. If you get value from this site, please keep it running with a donation. [Burning Platform LLC – PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
In 2015 the law firm Perkins Coie, which also represented the Democratic National Committee, was hired by the Hillary Clinton Campaign. Early the following year it hired Fusion GPS to perform opposition research for the campaign. Fusion GPS provided the now-debunked Steele dossier that alleged Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. For the services performed during the campaign, the DNC paid the firm $5.6 million and the Clinton campaign paid them $3.6 million. Having the firm hire GPS Fusion meant that the connection would not be revealed through campaign financial disclosures but, in time, the connection was revealed, largely because of a defamation suit filed in Great Britain by Alfa Bank against Steele. In recent weeks, a key member of the firm, Mark Elias, who had been the Clinton campaign’s lawyer, left the firm and, this week, another member, Michael Sussman, was indicted by a federal grand jury called by Special Counsel John Durham of making a false statement to the FBI. Sussman pleaded not guilty.
Do not fear the uncertainty of America’s future. Rather, be excited for how we can create a better society. But first, we need for men to be men again. Worrying about safety is for woman and cowards. Get right with God (spiritual), then your mental, physical, and emotional needs will fall in line. Quit looking for the answers from strangers on the internet, they are not there. Go work out and contemplate our situation while you sweat and work. The pain will unlock areas of the brain and bring the answers you seek. Pain, deprivation, and suffering are the only tools you need to start your journey.
The time for hard minds and hard bodies, grounded in Christian principle has been here for some time. Now it is slapping us in the face and preying on our women and children. Work on becoming more stoic and faithful. Have hope. General Stonewall Jackson was able to stand like a stonewall despite the withering fire because of his faith in God. Get rid of all your material excess, it just weighs you down and you can’t bring it with you. Most importantly, do not be afraid because that is how a man is controlled. Get off the internet and get to work. There is much to be done. Raptor 2, out.
Do Not Be Anxious
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?[a] 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
34 “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Avenging 9/11 and preventing its recurrence was justification for putting enormous effort and money into unrelated or even counterproductive activities the ruling class sold to us as antiterrorism. By Angelo Codevilla
September 16, 2021
Twenty years after the U.S. government declared war on terrorism, it consummated its own defeat in Kabul and Washington, in a manner foreseeable, foreseen, and foreshadowed in 9/11’s immediate aftermath. Fixation on itself and unseriousness about war are the twin habits of heart and mind that disposed the ruling class to defeat. The practical explanation for why and how it accepted defeat is found in the overriding interest each part of the ruling class has in doing what it wants to do.
On the night of September 11, 2001, Muslim governments strictly forbade public celebrations of the carnage. The Palestinian Authority, anticipating that outraged Americans would destroy them to avenge the day’s events, even called the attacks al nachba—“the disaster.” But as the U.S. ruling class made clear that it was accepting defeat, the Muslim world’s media and streets celebrated.
Two decades later, after that defeat’s logic had worked its way through and transformed American life, and as the government’s self-humiliating exit from Afghanistan consummated it, much of mankind followed Muslim crowds in celebrating—including prominent Americans.
At the “War On Terror’s” end as at its beginning, the same authoritative Americans—including Republican President George W. Bush as well as leading Democrats—blamed fellow Americans at least as much as foreign powers for it.
Even the bravest of us rarely has the courage for what he knows…
NIETZSCHE
In his small, strange little book, Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche discussed the “problem of Socrates,” starting from the premise that “the great sages are declining types.” He suggested that Socrates and Plato were “symptoms of decay” and “agents of the dissolution of Greece.” In fact, he claimed they were “pseudo-Greek [and] anti-Greek.”[1] Of course, Nietzsche saw a parallel with modernity. He saw that modern thinkers have also proven to be declining types. In fact, our thinkers, our intellectuals, have busied themselves with destroying civilization through the “organization of political hatreds.”
Ministry of Manipulation: No Wonder Trust and Credibility Have Been Lost
Now that every financial game in America has been rigged to benefit the few at the expense of the many, trust and credibility has evaporated like an ice cube on a summer day in Death Valley.
Here is America in a nutshell: we no longer solve problems, we manipulate the narrative and then declare the problem has been solved. Actually solving problems is difficult and generally requires sacrifices that are proportionate to one’s wealth and power. But since America’s elite are no longer willing to sacrifice any of their vast power for the common good, sacrifice is out in America unless it can be dumped on wage earners. But unfortunately for America’s elite, four decades of hidden-by-manipulation sacrifices have stripmined average wage earners, and so they no longer have anything left to sacrifice.
Enter the Ministry of Manipulation, which adjusts the visible bits to align with the narrative that the problem has been fixed and the status quo is godlike in its technocratic powers. All this manipulation doesn’t actually solve the problems, it simply hides the decay behind gamed statistics, financial trickery and glossy PR. The problems fester until they break through the manipulated gloss and the public witnesses the breakdown of all the systems that were presented as rock-solid and forever
A 97% decline in Delhi cases with Ivermectin is decisive – period. It represents the last word in an epic struggle to save lives and preserve human rights. This graph symbolizes the victory of reason over corruption, good over evil, and right over wrong. It is as significant as David’s victory over Goliath. It is an absolute vindication of Ivermectin and early outpatient treatment. It is a clear refutation of the WHO, FDA, NIH, and CDC’s policies of “wait at home until you turn blue” before you get treatment.
Dr. Pierre Kory told the world on December 8, 2020, that Ivermectin “obliterates” this virus. Obliterate means to decimate, demolish, or annihilate. It means to eliminate or destroy all trace, indication, or significance.
After The New York Times published an article about the use of ivermectin to combat COVID-19, claiming that 70% of recent calls to the Mississippi poison control center were related to ivermectin, they were corrected by an investigative journalist who pointed out that the real figure was 2%, not 70%.
.The journalist, Mary Beth Pfeiffer, tweeted, “I contacted @nytimes & they corrected 8/25 Ivermectin article. ‘This article misstated the percentage of recent calls to the Mississippi poison control center related to Ivermectin. It was 2 percent, not 70 percent,’ says appended note. Sentence removed. Poof. But damage done…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Federal Bureau of Investigation is disappointed by the low attendance at the D.C. rally they organized for Trump supporters today.
In spite of the FBI’s best efforts to lure a bunch of angry MAGA insurrectionists to the Capitol this weekend, only a few hundred FBI agents dressed as MAGA insurrectionists showed up.
“Ivermectin! Get your hot, fresh Ivermectin HEEEERRRRE!” cried one agent selling bootleg Ivermectin tablets from Tractor Supply Company. Unfortunately, he only made a couple of sales to a few other FBI agents from other field offices he didn’t recognize.
“Greetings, fellow Trump supporters,” said another agent. “Let’s go insurrect the government, shall we, fellas? Maybe kidnap Gretchen Whitmer? Whadaya say boys? Say—I sure do love racism!” He was then immediately tackled by three other FBI agents who dragged him to an unmarked van.
Another field agent passed out flyers for a “Super Secret Satanic Pedophile Meeting”, but was sad to find there were no takers, except one lady named Hillaria Clintonania.
“Man, to put so much work into something, only to have it flop like this, it kind of hurts, you know?” said Agent Arlo Chitbag, who had organized the event. “No one even seemed interested in my ‘Make Your Own Pipe Bomb’ booth!”
The discouraged FBI agents will reportedly unwind this evening by spying on people through their webcams before attending their monthly Satanic pedophile meeting.—————————————————– The corrupt establishment will do anything to suppress sites like the Burning Platform from revealing the truth. The corporate media does this by demonetizing sites like mine by blackballing the site from advertising revenue. If you get value from this site, please keep it running with a donation. [Burning Platform LLC – PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
Our esteemed colleague “A Fool and His Party” posted this link yesterday. His comment was;
“So in the grand tradition of American ingenuity in the face of adversity, here comes someone down in Austin who has reverse engineered a religion which is based on resisting coercion. Looks like a fully developed religion to me…and they are offering exemption letters based on non coercion being a requirement of the religion.”
I don’t know if it’s legit (but, I hope it is!). Many moons ago some good Patriots formed the Church Of Monday Night Football (CMNF). A fine institution! But, I don’t believe the IRS recognized the cost of football tickets as a “charitable deduction“. By the way, CMNF still exists! You can read about their history (a short yet quite humorous read) HERE.
“Establishment Of Religion” is a religion light on “doctrine”. It kind of boils down to; 1) Thou shalt not threaten anyone, especially with your religion, and 2) Thou shalt not coerce. Wow! What a great religion! Where do I sign up??
Just as fish swim in a vast ocean unaware of a completely different world outside their environment, we, too, swim in a vast ocean. Unaware of the nature of our environment due to long immersion in it, we assume this is the way things ought to be, rather than just the way we’ve come to accept them.
The ocean we swim in is the ocean of coercion. Coercion of others, coercion of ourselves. Coercion by government, by industry, by social institutions and by other individuals. Gross coercion inflicted through brute violence, suppression, strong-arming, and physical intimidation. Subtler forms of coercion of shaming, guilting, and the ostracizing of others simply by reason of their holding a different opinion.
Coercion has become just about the only tool in the toolbox for getting things done these days. Threaten incarceration; threaten a lawsuit; threaten to take children from parents; threaten to deplatform you; threaten to force you to choose between your job and accepting the injection of a substance you believe will be harmful to you; threaten to withhold the rewards of family harmony or friendship’s quiet enjoyment.
How have we arrived at this state? While the individual always remains responsible for his or her own actions, there is no doubt a large measure of responsibility falls squarely on those in our social institutions: government, industry, entertainment and yes, even religion. Those who should be providing an example of reasonable and cooperative action based on honesty, true care for others and effective persuasion have plunged headlong into the trap of coercion to achieve their goals. They have been seduced by the lure of fast, tangible results they desire while ignoring the corrosive long-term effects such behavior from our cultural leaders will encourage among the general population.
They have failed. And I say again, they have failed. They have resorted to the most egregious forms of coercion of other societies while conditioning us to accept rank authoritarianism here at home in America. They are the antithesis of what we need today: a new model for the organization of society based on non-coercion, informed by transparent and full disclosure of all relevant facts, and animated by the voluntary association of like-minded people, while assuring those who peacefully disagree the same level of autonomy and freedom we demand.
The Comity has revealed through Prophet Charles King Jr. this new truth, which is really a very old truth we simply have forgotten for a time. We offer non-coercion of others, and will accept nothing less than the same for ourselves. We demand full disclosure of all facts relevant to our decision-making in every area of our life. Our beliefs require us to extend to others that same right, so that they may be fully informed and base their voluntary association, whether personal, commercial or other, within a context truthfully arrived at.
Establishment of Religion℠ is an underlying truth familiar to all of the great world religions. It says we cannot be fully human, and participate in healthy societies, until we have purged coercion of others from our character and resisted every effort to coerce us or others. As the servant of We the People, we do not ask government to grant the cessation of coercion; we confidently say we will not participate in the coercion they wish to promote. We do not petition industry, or entertainment, to do better in promoting the principle of peaceful cooperation. We simply will not support businesses that promote or glorify coercion or violence as legitimate behavior in anything other than appropriate self-defense.
When carefully examined, it can be shown everything from simple moral precepts such as, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” to the prohibitions of criminal law may usefully employ the principle of non-coercion. It is the Universal Solvent of human conflict and the sure path to a society that values productive cooperation, inclusiveness of alternate viewpoints, and the ratcheting down of violence of all types in our relationships with others.
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How Politicians Make Millions Off Our Corrupt Political System
Big Tech and Big Pharma give campaign money to politicians who in turn receive non-public information about the corporations which they use to enrich their personal stock portfolios. The lawmakers then have influence over legislation that affects the companies in which they’re personally invested.
Story at-a-glance:
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s wealth has increased from $41 million to nearly $115 million since 2004.
At issue isn’t the fact that politicians are multimillionaires — rather, as noted on a recent Twitter thread by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, it’s how they made their millions.
In the last two years, nearly 75% of Pelosi’s stock trades have involved Big Tech stocks, totaling over $33 million in trading.
The trading has occurred as major legislation was proposed, controlled by the Committees Pelosi oversees, that could reshape the future of the industry.
Pelosi’s five most-traded stocks in the last two years — Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Google — were those that stood to be most affected by pending legislation.
The system is corrupt, with most politicians not fighting for the public but, rather, looking out for their own self-interest and wealth accumulation.
Politicians receive very comfortable salaries. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, for instance, earns $223,500 a year, making her the third-highest-paid elected official in the U.S. Yet, since 2004, her wealth has increased from $41 million to nearly $115 million, according to OpenSecrets, which began tracking lawmakers’ personal finances that year.
She’s not alone in her wealth. Personal financial disclosures reveal that more than half of Congress members are millionaires, with a median net worth of just over $1 million. As is often the case, however, the top 10% of the lawmakers in terms of wealth are three times richer than the bottom 90%. Pelosi comes in as number 6 on a list of the wealthiest members of the 116th Congress.
At issue isn’t the fact that politicians are multimillionaires — rather, as noted on a recent Twitter thread by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald, it’s how they made their millions:
“If you think it’s fine and normal that the Speaker of the House’s personal wealth tripled to $115 million ever since financial disclosures were required (2004), that’s fine, but the issue is how that money was made. It was from companies directly affected by her actions.”
Politicians get rich from ‘lucky’ stock trading
In the last two years, nearly 75% of Pelosi’s stock trades have involved Big Tech stocks, totaling over $33 million in trading. “That has happened as major legislation is pending before the House, controlled by the committees Pelosi oversees, which could radically reshape the industry and laws that govern the very companies in which she and her husband most aggressively trade,” Greenwald wrote in a blog.
Pelosi’s most traded company was Apple, accounting for 17.7% of her trades. But unlike most people buying and selling Apple stock, Pelosi had the privilege of speaking privately with Apple CEO Tim Cook on at least one occasion to discuss the company’s standing and how it could be affected by pending bills relating to Silicon Valley reforms.
The call in question occurred just days after antitrust reform legislation was introduced. Big Tech pushed back, and Cook called Pelosi directly to voice his concerns. Pelosi, according to The New York Times, then asked him which measures he specifically objected to. Greenwald reported on the blatant conflict of interest:
“Sources who refused to be identified tried to convince the Times’ reporters that ‘Ms. Pelosi pushed back on Mr. Cook’s concerns about the bills.’ But in doing so, they confirmed the rather crucial fact that Pelosi was having personal, private conversations with the CEO of a company in which she and her husband were heavily invested and off of which they were making millions of dollars in personal wealth.
“And Pelosi, according to the report, asked Cook what changes were needed to avoid harming Apple and other Silicon Valley giants.”
Trading stocks in companies affected by pending legislation
Greenwald also revealed that Pelosi’s five most-traded stocks in the last two years — Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Google — were those that stood to be most affected by pending legislation, and not just any legislation, but legislation that she was working to negotiate and work through Congress.
Four of the companies — Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google — were directly identified by the House Antitrust Subcommittee as being monopolies, making their futures heavily dependent on the pending legislation. According to Greenwald:
“Beyond that, Google — one of the companies in which the Pelosis’ stock trades have made millions — is one of the top five donors to the House Speaker. The wealthy couple buys and sells in Google stock, making millions. She works on bills that directly affect the future trajectory of Google. And they lavish her campaign coffers with cash, a key source of her entrenched power.”
Meanwhile, Pelosi’s husband, Paul, purchased risky options in Alphabet, the parent company of Google, in February 2020, which he sold in June, netting more than $5 million in profits. The purchase was made, Greenwald wrote:
“… right before the market began plunging due to the COVID epidemic and right before the House, led by his wife, was set to introduce new legislation to regulate those same tech companies. Yet even as the prices in several of those companies plummeted, Paul Pelosi held onto them, only to sell them last June at a massive profit.”
He also cited two other “disturbing incidents” in which Paul Pelosi had impeccable timing with his investment decisions, including exercising nearly $2 million worth of Microsoft call options within two weeks of a Microsoft contract to supply the U.S. Army with augmented reality headsets. The other incident involved the purchase of about $1 million in Tesla stock after calls made prior to the government announcing incentives it would offer to promote the shift toward electric vehicles.
“In response to media inquiries,” Greenwald reported, “Pelosi denied that she is involved in or even has knowledge of her husband’s stock trading. There is, of course, no way to confirm or disprove that, but what is clear is that the vast wealth generated by those stock trades in companies Pelosi greatly affects — and about which she clearly has non-public information — directly enriches Pelosi herself.”
Suspicious COVID-related trading
Not every lawmaker had filed annual financial disclosures at the time of OpenSecrets’ latest report, including Sen. Kelly Loeffler, (R-Ga.), who has an estimated worth of over $500 million.
She and her husband, New York Stock Exchange chief executive Jeff Sprecher, came under fire for suspicious stock trades worth between $1.2 million and $3.1 million that occurred immediately after a “closed-door coronavirus briefing in late January” 2020. Among them:
Buying stock in an online travel booking site in February 2020, then selling it four days later, just before a ban on flights from Europe was publicly announced.
Purchasing stock in Citrix, which sells GoToMeeting teleworking software.
Loeffler denied using confidential information from her Senate duties to make a private profit but announced in April 2020 that she and her husband were liquidating their stock holdings and “moving into exchange-traded funds and mutual funds.” In other suspicious instances:
Sen. Richard Burr, (R-N.C.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who receives frequent briefings about potential U.S. threats, also dumped stock, including in hotel companies, worth up to $1.7 million in late January 2020.
“As Intel chairman,” Burr “got private briefings about coronavirus weeks ago,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D-N.Y.), tweeted at the time. “Burr knew how bad it would be. He told the truth to his wealthy donors while assuring the public that we were fine.” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-Calif.), and Sen. James Inhofe, (R-Okla.), also sold stock after Intelligence Committee briefings.
How is this legal?
Corruption runs deep in politics, with Big Tech and Big Pharma giving campaign money to politicians who in turn receive non-public information about the corporations that can be used to enrich their personal stock portfolios. The lawmakers then have influence over legislation that affects the companies in which they’re personally invested.
Politicians are supposed to be performing a public service, but once they’re out of the public eye, many go on to serve as lobbyists or work in the corporate world. This means that during their tenure, they don’t want to close doors that may help them once they’re no longer in politics.
The system is such that most politicians aren’t fighting for the public but, rather, are looking out for their own self-interest and wealth accumulation. Case in point: There were 1,502 pharmaceutical lobbyists in 2020, 63.91% of whom were former government employees.
A revolving door, in which government employees and former members of Congress take jobs with lobbying firms, is common among lobbyists, and the reverse also occurs, in which people from the private sector end up in government positions. How is this legal? As Greenwald explained, unless insider trading can be proven, this type of “lucky” trading that is building the wealth of numerous politicians will continue:
“While the trades cannot be declared illegal unless it can be proven that either Pelosi acted on non-public information — in which case it would be the felony of insider trading — the ethical stench is obvious.
“Just as was true when numerous Senators from both parties sold stocks in COVID-related industries before the pandemic began — raising questions about whether they had advance knowledge of what was coming through classified briefings — watching Nancy Pelosi’s wealth skyrocket by millions of dollars from trades in the very companies she is directly overseeing creates a sleazy appearance, to put that mildly.”
Politicians are in good company, as top health officials also cash in on stock options tied to the companies they oversee. For instance, Dr. Julie Gerberding — director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2002 until 2009, who after leaving the CDC became president of Merck’s vaccine division in January 2010 — sold half her Merck stock options for $9.11 million in January 2020.
In March 2020, a group of legislators introduced the Ban Conflicted Trading Act to “prohibit members of Congress and senior congressional staff from abusing their positions for personal financial gain through trading individual stocks and investments while in office or serving on corporate boards.”
“Members of Congress should not be allowed to buy and sell individual stock,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “We are here to serve the public, not to profiteer.” Senator Jeff Merkley, who introduced the Act to the Senate, added:
“Buying and selling stocks while making decisions that affect the stock’s value is inherently a conflict of interest. At best, it can seriously degrade public trust — as we are seeing today. At worst, it’s a blatant abuse of power.”
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With all the conspiracy theories that somehow the bankers are the real culprits in creating excess money supply, there has been an evolution in central banks that has finally crossed the line since 2019. The Federal Reserve was, once upon a time, responsible. The Fed was originally designed as an authority to create money, which was an elastic money supply. That made perfect sense when the Fed was designed in 1913.
Yes, the bankers owned the shares BECAUSE the Fed was actually designed to do what JP Morgan did in herding the bankers together to save the day during the Panic of 1907. Morgan convinced the bankers that if they did not chip in money to bail out the troubled banks, panic would unfold, and ALL the banks would be hit as a contagion. They listened and joined his effort to stem the Panic of 1907. The design of the Fed was to recreate what JP Morgan put together. The shareholders were the bankers because it was a bail-out fund for the bankers, and TAXPAYER money should not be used to bail out the bankers.
Democrat President Woodrow Wilson signed the 1913 Act, creating the Federal Reserve as well as the income tax. Wilson signed the Revenue Act of 1913, which lowered average tariff rates from 40 percent to 26 percent. It also established a one percent tax on income above $3,000 per year; the tax affected approximately three percent of the population. The Federal Reserve, as designed, was independent, and thus there was the Fed policy v fiscal policy set by Congress.
The elastic money was a brilliant idea where the Fed would buy-in corporate paper to provide lending of the last resort when the bankers could not lend due to the hoarding of cash in a crisis. The corporate paper was typically 90 days. When World War I came, Congress ordered the Fed to buy its paper because they would need to issue a lot of debt. They never returned the Fed to its original design to “stimulate” the economy by directly purchasing corporate paper to prevent companies from laying off employees. Therefore, the structural alteration of the Federal Reserve for World War I transformed the theory of Quantitative Easing into an INDIRECT stimulus rather than DIRECT. When the Fed bought only corporate paper, it directly stimulated the economy. When it was instructed only to buy only government paper, which the government NEVER pays off, any idea of the stimulus was wiped out, for at best, it became INDIRECT.
Then Roosevelt came, and he wanted to control everything. He seized the Federal Reserve and took the power of all the branches, and consolidated it into Washington. Section 203 of the Banking Act of 1935 changed the name of the “Federal Reserve Board” to the “Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.” Roosevelt’s Banking Act of 1935 also made major structural changes increasing the number of members of the Board appointed by the president from six to seven to ensure he now controlled the Fed. He created for himself the authority to designate one of the persons appointed as “chairman” of the Board and one as “vice-chairman” of the Board, each to serve in such role for a term of four years.
As I have explained in “Manipulating the World Economy,” there was a huge confrontation between the Federal Reserve and the White House. The Fed was directed during World War II to maintain par on US government bonds to fund the war. The Fed was ordered to engaging in what we call Quantitative Easing. Then the Korean War came, and the Fed rebelled. They refused to continue to engage in Quantitative Easing.
The Federal Reserve then stepped in to bail out Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, a failed hedge fund, because if it did not, it would have taken down Goldman Sachs. So instead of allowing that, they bailed out the hedge funds when they really had no authority to do so. That abuse of power led the Fed to then support the bankers who were engaged in manipulating markets to create guaranteed trades.
Then the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 took place when the bankers got AIG to guarantee their dodgy mortgage bank securities. When that all collapsed, the Federal Reserve again bailed out AIG, an insurance company that was operating from London, instead of the US banks. They claimed they did not have the authority to bail out Bear Stearns and LehmanBrothers, which were competitors of Goldman Sachs and investment banks. But they apparently had the authority to bail out an insurance company in London, which again saved Goldman Sachs.
The automated clearinghouse (ACH) system is changing to allow direct deposits from non-banks. On December 23, 2019, the Board approved modifications to the Federal Reserve Banks’ National Settlement Service and Fedwire Funds Service to support enhancements to the same-day ACH service. On September 25, 2020, the Board amended the implementation date for certain modifications. They are preparing for a digital currency, but this means two things. By this expansion, they are planning for the long-term for the elimination of public debt, in which case there will no longer be primary dealer banks, and hence no need to bail out the banks when they blow up on trading, assuming they will still be allowed to trade in the future.
Once the Fed moves to create its own digital currency, it is no longer the independent entity it was once supposed to be.
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