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Thursday, June 01, 2023
NWO Covid Year 3 Part 14 - The Cleveland Clinic Study
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Remember when Biden and the media told you that if you took the MRNA vaccine you wouldn’t catch covid? Well take a look at this new peer-reviewed study from the Cleveland clinic
They’re talking about THIS:
Effectiveness of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Bivalent Vaccine
By Nabin K Shrestha, Patrick C Burke, Amy S Nowacki, James F Simon, Amanda Hagen, Steven M Gordon
doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad209
Background The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine protects against COVID-19.
Methods Employees of Cleveland Clinic in employment on the day the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine first became available to employees, were included. The cumulative incidence of COVID-19 was examined over the following weeks. Protection provided by vaccination (analyzed as a time-dependent covariate) was evaluated using Cox proportional hazards regression. The analysis was adjusted for the pandemic phase when the last prior COVID-19 episode occurred, and the number of prior vaccine doses received.
Results Among 51011 employees, 20689 (41%) had had a previous documented episode of COVID-19, and 42064 (83%) had received at least two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. COVID-19 occurred in 2452 (5%) during the study. Risk of COVID-19 increased with time since the most recent prior COVID-19 episode and with the number of vaccine doses previously received. In multivariable analysis, the bivalent vaccinated state was independently associated with lower risk of COVID-19 (HR, .70; 95% C.I., .61-.80), leading to an estimated vaccine effectiveness (VE) of 30% (95% CI, 20-39%). Compared to last exposure to SARS-CoV-2 within 90 days, last exposure 6-9 months previously was associated with twice the risk of COVID-19, and last exposure 9-12 months previously with 3.5 times the risk.
Conclusions The bivalent COVID-19 vaccine given to working-aged adults afforded modest protection overall against COVID-19, while the virus strains dominant in the community were those represented in the vaccine.
Summary Among 51011 working-aged Cleveland Clinic employees, the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster was 30% effective in preventing infection, during the time when the virus strains dominant in the community were represented in the vaccine.
Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
Funding Statement
This study did not receive any funding
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Effectiveness of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Bivalent Vaccine
By Nabin K Shrestha, Patrick C Burke, Amy S Nowacki, James F Simon, Amanda Hagen, Steven M Gordon
Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 10, Issue 6, June 2023, ofad209
April 19, 2023
Excerpt from the STUDY:
Ours is not the only study to find a possible association with more prior vaccine doses and higher risk of COVID-19.
During an Omicron wave in Iceland, individuals who had previously received ≥2 doses were found to have a higher odds of reinfection than those who had received <2 doses, in an unadjusted analysis [21].
A large study found, in an adjusted analysis, that those who had an Omicron variant infection after previously receiving 3 doses of vaccine had a higher risk of reinfection than those who had an Omicron variant infection after previously receiving 2 doses [22].
Another study found, in multivariable analysis, that receipt of 2 or 3 doses of am mRNA vaccine following prior COVID-19 was associated with a higher risk of reinfection than receipt of a single dose [7].
Immune imprinting from prior exposure to different antigens in a prior vaccine [22, 23] and class switch toward noninflammatory spike-specific immunoglobulin G4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination [24] have been suggested as possible mechanisms whereby prior vaccine may provide less protection than expected. We still have a lot to learn about protection from COVID-19 vaccination, and in addition to vaccine effectiveness, it is important to examine whether multiple vaccine doses given over time may not be having the beneficial effect that is generally assumed.
[7] Shrestha NK, Shrestha P, Burke PC, Nowacki AS, Terpeluk P, Gordon SM. Coronavirus disease 2019 vaccine boosting in previously infected or vaccinated individuals (COVID-19). Clin Infect Dis 2022; 75:216977. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] [WorldCat]
[21] EythorssonE, Runolfsdottir HL, Ingvarsson RF , Sigurdsson MI, Palsson R. Rate of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection during an Omicron wave in Iceland. JAMA Netw Open 2022; 5:e2225320. [Google Scholar] [WorldCat]
[22] Chemaitelly H, Ayoub HH, Tang P, et al. . COVID-19 primary series and booster vaccination and immune imprinting. medRxiv [Preprint: not peer reviewed]. 13 November 2022. [Web]
[23] Cao Y, Jian F, Wang J, et al. Imprinted SARS-CoV-2 humoral immunity induces convergent Omicron RBD evolution. Nature2023; 614:5219. [Google Scholar] [PubMed] [WorldCat]
[24] Irrgang P, Gerling J, Kocher K, et al. Class switch toward noninflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination. Sci Immunol 2023; 8:eade2798. [Google Scholar] [WorldCat]
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Cleveland Clinic Study Destroys Argument For Vax Mandates: Expert
Rising’s YouTube Channel
The Hill
June 1, 2023
“Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave interview Jacob Rich, a researcher at the CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE and a policy analyst at the Reason Foundation, about the Cleveland Clinic peer-reviewed study about the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines.
A study by The Cleveland Clinic found that both previous infection and vaccination provide substantial protection against COVID-19. Vaccination of previously infected individuals does not provide additional protection against COVID-19 for several months, but after that provides significant protection at least against symptomatic COVID-19.”
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Discrimination Of Anti-Vaccers In Florida Is Now Illegal
We were told - follow the science. But when we said, “Great, sure, show us the science,” companies court-sealed EVIDENCE and have been using legal means to withhold safety information... For example, it took NUMEROUS LEGAL DEMANDS, multiple appeals, and two lawsuits TO FORCE THE CDC TO HAND OVER the V-Safe DATA it said would be public ... Leaked information has been repeatedly censored. (Nothing says “safe and effective” quite like censorship eh?) ... The safety and efficacy of affordable, re-purposed generic drugs was covered up in an effort to push novel (profitable) mRNA gene therapy drugs while people died.
- Health Freedom Summit
We continue to hear from Dr. Fauci and the FDA that doctors should never use drugs like HCQ and Ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Instead, they advise experimental or toxic but profitable agents like Remdesivir. Later, we discover a corrupt alliance between Big Pharma and the FDA, CDC, and NIH.
- Truth, Lies and COVID Treatment, January, 2022
Minnesota nurses say that negative reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine are underreported as hospitals discourage their staff from recording them. Another nurse also said she got a concerning email from her hospital instructing her not to report whether or not new cases of the virus are occurring in patients who have been vaccinated. These reports that the COVID shot may be more dangerous than the public is led to believe came by way of a town hall hosted by Rep. Erik Mortensen.
- Minnesota Nurses Say Vaccine Injuries Likely Underreported, Alpha News, August 30, 2021
A woman who suffered severe nerve damage after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination and four others with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 vaccine injuries launched a lawsuit against President Joe Biden and his administration on May 22… Top government officials violated the plaintiffs rights to free speech and peaceful assembly when they pressured Big Tech companies to crack down on people sharing their experience after receiving the COVID-19 vaccines, BRIANNE DRESSEN, the woman, and the other plaintiffs say… Through threats, pressure, inducement, and coercion, Defendants now work in concert with social media companies to censor content the government deems ‘disinformation’, ‘misinformation’, and ‘malinformation’ - a feat that the government could never lawfully accomplish alone,” the 124-PAGE suit, filed in U.S. court in southern Texas, states.
- Vaccine Injured Fight Back
The nonprofit hospital suspended Bowden in November over what Bowden claims were disagreements over the way she treated COVID-19, particularly over her use of ivermectin, and her objections to Houston Methodist’s vaccine mandate, according to the complaint.
- Doctor Suspended From Houston Methodist Sues Hospital January, 2022
”The pandemic exposed the fact that many doctors no longer call the shots when it comes to treating patients, the COVID Cartel does. The COVID Cartel includes the Biden Administration, federal health agencies, Big PHARMA, mainstream media, and Big Tech… The Right to Treat Act would ensure that federal health agencies return to their proper functions of gathering and providing public health data and regulating drug safety not telling doctors how to practice medicine… Because federal health agencies sabotaged the early treatment of COVID-19 using widely available and safe generic drugs, an untold number of people needlessly died from COVID-19. Americans and doctors should have the freedom to use fully approved drugs without fear of reprisal. It’s time to once again let doctors be doctors and allow them to fully practice medicine.”
- Sen. Johnson Introduces Legislation to Reaffirm Doctors Right to Treat Patients without Interference from Federal Health Agencies, February, 2022---
Florida Expands Ban on Vaccination, Testing and Masking Mandates
National Law Review
May 26, 2023
On May 11, 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a “medical freedom” bill (SB 252), which amends and expands the existing Florida statute Section 381.00316, prohibiting businesses from requiring their customers and patrons to provide documentation of COVID-19 vaccination status. Under the amended law, businesses in Florida will be prohibited from discriminating in any way against a person (no longer just a customer or patron) based on vaccination status and from requiring face masks and COVID-19 tests. The new law goes into effect on June 1, 2023.
Notably, certain of the prohibitions in the new law are not limited to COVID-19 vaccines or response efforts. The vaccine provisions extend to all emergency use authorization vaccines and all messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines, and the masking/face covering limitations are also broadly drafted. As such, the restrictions enumerated below will be in place and may impact businesses response to any future pandemic or public health emergency should it occur.
Under the amended law, no business entity in Florida (as defined further below) may:
Require any person to provide any documentation certifying vaccination with a COVID-19 vaccine (or any other emergency use or mRNA vaccine) or post-infection recovery from COVID-19
Require a COVID-19 test to gain access to, entry upon, or service from the business operations in Florida or as a condition of contracting, hiring, promotion, or continued employment with the business entity
Discharge or refuse to hire a person; deprive or attempt to deprive a person of employment opportunities; adversely affect a person’s status as an employee or as an applicant for employment; or otherwise discriminate against a person based on knowledge or belief of the persons status relating to vaccination with COVID-19 vaccine (or any other emergency use or mRNA vaccine) or COVID-19 post-infection recovery, or a person’s failure to take a COVID-19 test
Require a person to wear a face mask, a face shield, or any other facial covering that covers the mouth and nose; or
Deny a person access to, entry upon, service from, or admission to such entity or otherwise discriminate against a person based on such persons refusal to wear a face mask, a face shield, or any other facial covering that covers the mouth and nose.
The amended statute defines “business entities” broadly as any form of corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, joint venture, business trust, or sole proprietorship that conducts business in Florida. The term also includes charitable organizations, not for profit corporations and all other businesses operating in Florida.
If a business entity requires a person to receive a vaccine other than a COVID-19, emergency use or mRNA vaccine, the business entity must provide for exemptions and reasonable accommodations.
Under the two exceptions written into the law, the face mask, face shield or any other facial covering restrictions may be maintained by: (1) health care providers and health care practitioners if they are in compliance with the standards to be developed by the Florida Department of Health (DOH) and Agency for Health Care Administration by July 1, 2023, and (2) business entities when a face mask, a face shield, or any other facial covering is required safety equipment in accordance with standards to be adopted by the Florida DOH, which the law directs to adopt emergency rules to develop such standards.
Employers who violate the amended law are subject to a fine up to $5,000 for each individual and separate violation. The amended law does not limit an aggrieved persons right to recover damages or other relief under any other applicable law.
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Democracy Hollowed Out Part 51 - The End of Free Speech That Will End America
[T]he 85-page briefing, titled THE GOOD CENSOR admits that Google and other tech platforms now control the majority of “online conversations” and have undertaken “a shift towards censorship” in response to unwelcome political events around the world.
- Democracy Hollowed Out Part 35 - Censorship, February 2023
Free speech and expression protect us from the most powerful actors on the planet: corporations, the State, and a growing plethora of international bodies. Ultimately, we need radically decentralised social media that is more immune to their capture. Our safety depends on it.
- Twitter Files and the Virality Project, March 2023
“The most effective way to counter the potential negative effects of hate speech is not through censorship, but rather through more speech,” SAYS FORMER AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU) PRESIDENT NADINE STROSSEN, noting that suppression and censorship often lead to more harm.
- Free Speech vs Hate Speech, May 2022
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‘The Official Truth’: The End of Free Speech That Will End America
By J.B. Shurk
Gatestone Institute
May 29, 2023
Summary
· [M]edia polling from Harvard-Harris showing that Americans hold almost diametrically opposing viewpoints from those that news corporations predominantly broadcast as the official “truth.”
· Americans have correctly concluded that [with the “Russia Hoax” and suppressing reported influence peddling in Hunter Biden’s laptop ] journalists and spies advanced a “fraud” on voters as part of an effort to censor a damaging story and “help Biden win.” Nevertheless, The New York Times and The Washington Post have yet to return the Pulitzer Prizes they received for reporting totally discredited “fake news.”
· “Under the current approach to journalism, it is the New York Times that receives a Pulitzer for a now debunked Russian collusion story rather than the New York Post for a now proven Hunter Biden laptop story.” - Professor Jonathan Turley, George Washington University Law School, Twitter, May 15, 2023.
· The government apparently took the public’s censorship concerns so seriously that it quietly moved on from the collapse of its plans for a “disinformation governance board” within the DHS and proceeded within the space of a month to create a new “disinformation” office known as the Foreign Malign Influence Center, which now operates from within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Although ostensibly geared toward countering information warfare arising from “foreign” threats, one of its principal objectives is to monitor and control “public opinion and behaviors.”
· As independent journalist Matt Taibbi concludes of the government’s resurrected Ministry of Truth: “It’s the basic rhetorical trick of the censorship age: raise a fuss about a foreign threat, using it as a battering ram to get everyone from Congress to the tech companies to submit to increased regulation and surveillance. Then, slowly, adjust your aim to domestic targets.”
· Democrat Senator Michael Bennet has already proposed a bill that would create a Federal Digital Platform Commission with “the authority to promulgate rules, impose civil penalties, hold hearings, conduct investigations, and support research.”
· Effectively, a small number of unelected commissioners would have de facto power to monitor and police online communication. Should any particular website or platform run afoul of the government’s First Amendment Star Chamber, it would immediately place itself within the commission’s crosshairs for greater oversight, regulation, and punishment.
· Will this new creation become an American KGB, Stasi or CCP empowered to target half the population for disagreeing with current government policies, promoting “wrongthink,” or merely going to church? Will a small secretive body decide which Americans are actually “domestic terrorists” in the making? US Attorney General Merrick Garland has gone after traditional Catholics who attend Latin mass, but why would government suspicions end with the Latin language? When small commissions exist to decide which Americans are the “enemy,” there is no telling who will be designated as a “threat” and punished next.
· It is not difficult to see the dangers that lie ahead. Now that the government has fully inserted itself into the news and information industry, the criminalization of free speech is a very real threat. This has always been a chief complaint against international institutions such as the World Economic Forum that spend a great deal of time, power, and money promoting the thoughts and opinions of an insular cabal of global leaders, while showing negligible respect for the personal rights and liberties of the billions of ordinary citizens they claim to represent.
· If Schwab’s online army were not execrable enough, advocates for free speech must also gird themselves for the repercussions of Elon Musk’s appointment of Linda Yaccarino, reportedly a “neo-liberal wokeist” with strong WEF affiliations, as the new CEO of Twitter.
· In an America now plagued with the stench of official “snitch lines,” censorship of certain presidential candidates, widespread online surveillance, a resurrected “disinformation governance board,” and increasingly frequent criminal prosecutions targeting Americans who exercise their free speech, the question is not whether what we inaudibly think or say in our sleep will someday be used against us, but rather how soon that day will come unless we stop it.
If legacy news corporations fail to report that large majorities of the American public now view their journalistic product as straight-up propaganda, does that make it any less true?
According to a SURVEY by Rasmussen Reports, 59% of likely voters in the United States view the corporate news media as “truly the enemy of the people.” This is a MAJORITY VIEW, held regardless of race: “58% of whites, 51% of black voters, and 68% of other minorities: - all agree that the mainstream media has become their “enemy.”
This scorching indictment of the Fourth Estate piggybacks similar POLLING from Harvard-Harris showing that Americans hold almost diametrically opposing viewpoints from those that news corporations predominantly broadcast as the official “truth.”
Are You Tired Of The Lies And Non-Stop Propaganda?
Drawing attention to the divergence between the public’s perceived reality and the news media’s prevailing “narratives,” independent journalist Glenn Greenwald DISSECTED the Harvard-Harris poll to highlight just how differently some of the most important issues of the last few years have been understood. While corporate news fixated on purported Trump-Russia collusion since 2016, majorities of Americans now SEE this story “as a hoax and a fraud.”
While the news media hid behind the Intelligence Community’s claims that Hunter Biden’s potentially incriminating laptop (allegedly containing evidence of his family’s influence-peddling) was a product of “RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION” and consequently enforced an information blackout on the explosive story during the final weeks of the 2020 presidential election, strong majorities of Americans currently believe the laptop’s contents are “real.” In other words, Americans have correctly concluded that journalists and spies advanced a “fraud” on voters as part of an effort to censor a damaging story and HELP BIDEN WIN”. Nevertheless, The New York Times and The Washington Post have yet to return the Pulitzer Prizes they received for reporting totally discredited “fake news.”
Similarly, majorities of Americans suspect that President Joe Biden has used the powers of his various offices to profit from INFLUENCE PEDDLING SCHEMES and that the FBI has intentionally refrained from investigating any possible Biden crimes. Huge majorities of Americans, in fact, seem not at all surprised to learn that the FBI has been caught ABUSING its own powers to influence elections, and are strongly convinced that “sweeping reform” is needed. Likewise, large majorities of Americans have “serious doubts about Biden’s mental fitness to be president” and suspect that others behind the scenes are “PUPPETEERS” running the nation.
Few, if any, of these poll results have been widely reported. In a seemingly-authoritarian disconnect with the American people, corporate news media continue to ignore the public’s majority opinion and instead “relentlessly advocate” those viewpoints that Americans “reject.” When journalists fail to investigate facts and deliberately distort stories so that they fit snugly within preconceived worldviews, reporters act as propagandists.
Constitutional law scholar JONATHAN TURLEY recently asked, “Do we have a de facto state media?” In answering his own question, he notes that the news blackout surrounding congressional investigations into Biden family members who have allegedly received more than TEN MILLION DOLLARS in suspicious payments from foreign entities “fits the past standards used to denounce RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA patterns and practices.” After Republican members of Congress traced funds to nine Biden family members “from corrupt figures in Romania, China, and other countries,” Turley writes, “The New Republic quickly ran a story HEADLINED ‘Republicans Finally Admit They Have No Incriminating Evidence on Joe Biden.’”
Excoriating the news media’s penchant for mindlessly embracing stories that hurt former President Donald Trump while simultaneously ignoring stories that might damage President Biden, Turley CONCLUDES:
“Under the current approach to journalism, it is the New York Times that receives a Pulitzer for a now debunked Russian collusion story rather than the New York Post for a now proven Hunter Biden laptop story.”
Americans now evidently view the major sources for their news and information as part of a larger political machine pushing particular points of view, unconstrained by any ethical obligation to report facts objectively or dispassionately seek truth. That Americans now see the news media in their country as serving a similar role as Pravda did for the Soviet Union’s Communist Party is a significant departure from the country’s historic embrace of free speech and traditional fondness for a skeptical, adversarial press.
Rather than taking a step back to consider the implications such a shift in public perception will have for America’s future stability, some officials appear even more committed to expanding government control over what can be said and debated online. After the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in the wake of public backlash over First Amendment concerns, halted its efforts to construct an official “DISINFORMATION GOVERNANCE BOARD” last year, the question remained whether other government attempts to silence or shape online information would rear their head. The wait for that answer did not take long.
The government apparently took the public’s censorship concerns so seriously that it quietly moved on from the collapse of its plans for a “disinformation governance board” within the DHS and proceeded WITHIN THE SPACE OF A MONTH to create a new “DISINFORMATION” office known as the Foreign Malign Influence Center, which now operates from within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Although ostensibly geared toward countering information warfare arising from “foreign” threats, one of its principal objectives is to monitor and control “PUBLIC OPINION AND BEHAVIORS”.
As independent journalist Matt Taibbi CONCLUDES of the government’s resurrected Ministry of Truth:
“It’s the basic rhetorical trick of the censorship age: raise a fuss about a foreign threat, using it as a battering ram to get everyone from Congress to the tech companies to submit to increased regulation and surveillance. Then, slowly, adjust your aim to domestic targets.”
If it were not jarring enough to learn that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has picked up the government’s speech police baton right where the DHS set it down, there is ample evidence to suggest that officials are eager to go much further in the near future. Democrat Senator Michael Bennet has already PROPOSED A BILL that would create a FEDERAL DIGITAL PLATFORM COMMISSION with “the authority to promulgate rules, impose civil penalties, hold hearings, conduct investigations, and support research.”
Filled with “disinformation” specialists empowered to create “enforceable behavioral codes” for online communication - and generously PAID FOR by the Biden Administration with taxpayers’ money - the SPECIAL COMMISSION would also “designate ‘systemically important digital platforms’ subject to extra oversight, reporting, and regulation” requirements. Effectively, a small number of unelected commissioners would have de facto power to monitor and police online communication. Should any particular website or platform run afoul of the government’s First Amendment Star Chamber, it would immediately place itself within the commission’s crosshairs for greater oversight, regulation, and punishment.
Will this new creation become an American KGB, Stasi or CCP - empowered to target half the population for disagreeing with current government policies, promoting “wrongthink,” or merely GOING TO CHURCH? Will a small secretive body decide which Americans are actually “domestic terrorists” in the making? US Attorney General Merrick Garland has gone after traditional Catholics who attend Latin mass, but why would government suspicions end with the Latin language? When small commissions exist to decide which Americans are the “enemy,” there is no telling who will be designated as a “threat” and punished next.
It is not difficult to see the dangers that lie ahead. Now that the government has fully inserted itself into the news and information industry, the criminalization of free speech is a very real threat. This has always been a chief complaint against international institutions such as the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM that spend a great deal of time, power, and money promoting the thoughts and opinions of an insular cabal of global leaders, while showing negligible respect for the personal rights and liberties of the billions of ordinary citizens they claim to represent.
WEF Chairman Klaus Schwab has gone so far as to hire hundreds of thousands of “INFORMATION WARRIORS” whose mission is to “control the Internet” by “policing social media,” eliminating dissent, disrupting the public square, and “covertly seed[ing] support” for the WEF’s “Great Reset.” If Schwab’s online army were not execrable enough, advocates for free speech must also gird themselves for the repercussions of Elon Musk’s appointment of Linda Yaccarino, reportedly a NEO-LIBERAL WOKEIST” with strong WEF affiliations, as the new CEO of Twitter.
Throughout much of the West, unfortunately, free speech has been only weakly protected when those with power find its defense inconvenient or messages a nuisance. It is therefore of little surprise to learn that French authorities are now prosecuting government protesters for “FLIPPING OFF” President Emmanuel Macron. It does not seem particularly astonishing that a German man has been sentenced to three years in prison for engaging in “pro-Russian” POLITICAL SPEECH regarding the war in Ukraine. It also no longer appears shocking to read that UK Technology and Science Secretary Michelle Donelan reportedly seeks to imprison social media executives who FAIL TO CENSOR ONLINE SPEECH that the government might subjectively adjudge “harmful.” Sadly, as Ireland continues to find new ways to punish citizens for expressing certain points of view, its movement toward criminalizing not just speech but also HATEFUL THOUGHTS should have been predictable.
From an American’s perspective, these overseas encroachments against free speech - especially within the borders of closely-allied lands - have seemed sinister yet entirely foreign. Now, however, what was once observed from some distance has made its way home; it feels as if a faraway communist enemy has finally stormed America’s beaches and come ashore in force.
Not a day seems to go by without some new battlefront opening up in the war on free speech and free thought. The Richard Stengel of the Council on Foreign Relations has been increasingly VOCAL about the importance of journalists and think tanks to act as “primary provocateurs” and “propagandists” who “HAVE TO” manipulate the American population and shape the public’s perception of world events. Senator Rand Paul has alleged that the DHS uses at least 12 SEPERATE PROGRAMS to “track what Americans say online,” as well as to engage in social media censorship.
As part of its efforts to silence dissenting arguments, the Biden administration is pursuing a policy that would make it UNLAWFUL TO USE DATA and datasets that reflect accurate information yet lead to “discriminatory outcomes” for “protected classes.” In other words, if the data is perceived to be “racist,” it must be expunged. At the same time, the Department of Justice has indicted four radical black leftists for having somehow “WEAPONIZED” their free speech rights in support of Russian “disinformation.” So, objective datasets can be deemed “discriminatory” against minorities, while actual discrimination against minorities’ free speech is excused when that speech contradicts official government policy.
Meanwhile, the DHS has been EXPOSED for paying tens of millions of dollars to third-party “anti-terrorism” programs that have not so coincidentally equated Christians, Republicans, and philosophical conservatives to Germany’s NAZI PARTY. Similarly, California Governor Gavin Newsom has set up a Soviet-style “SNITCH LINE” that encourages neighbors to report on each other’s public or private displays of “hate.”
Finally, ABC News proudly ADMITS that it has censored parts of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s interviews because some of his answers include “false claims about the COVID-19 vaccines.” Essentially, the corporate news media have deemed Kennedy’s viewpoints unworthy of being transmitted and heard, even though the 2024 presidential candidate is running a strong second behind Joe Biden in the Democrat primary, with around 20% support from the electorate.
Today, America’s mainstream news corporations are already viewed as processing plants that manufacture political propaganda. That is an unbelievably searing indictment of a once-vibrant free press in the United States. It is also, unfortunately, only the first heavy shoe to drop in the war against free speech. Many Chinese-Americans who survived the Cultural Revolution look around the country today and SEE SIMILARITIES everywhere. During that totalitarian “reign of terror,” everything a person did was monitored, including what was SAID WHILE ASLEEP.
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Documentaries - Never Again Is Now Global
Holocaust survivors, children of survivors and grandchildren - as well as German freedom fighters - express their shock at today’s fear-mongering and divisive dictates that are reminiscent of the prelude to the Holocaust.
[Episode 1. Here We Go Again On Steroids] The surviving generation of the Holocaust sounds the alarm on the weaponization of medicine. Is history repeating itself?
[Episode 2. Anyone Who Wants To Start A War Has To Lie] Once you see a lie, you can’t un-see it. Survivors and their descendants recognize the weapons of deception and fear mongering propaganda.
[Episode 3. Breaking The Veil Of The Real Conspirators] As patterns and parallels are identified, we begin to see the continuity of genocidal operations. The same powerful family dynasties and corporate entities behind it all, come into clearer view.
[Episode 4. This Time Around Were All Jews] Today’s false narrative, the suspension of freedom, coercive medical dictates, and violation of human rights are not limited to Jews. Today’s genocidal agenda targets the global human population.
[Episode 5. Never Give In - Never Give Up] The Holocaust was facilitated by sheep-like mass obedience to illegitimate authority. Those who resisted by falsifying their identity, by jumping off the trains to Auschwitz and joining the partisans - had a higher survival rate than those who obeyed!
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Sunday, May 28, 2023
Extinction Age Fascism
There can be no question that this is correct; since fascism is only a particular form of modern monopoly capitalism under certain conditions, and the whole of monopoly capitalism is in fact a fetter on the development of the productive forces, such that the most general characterization of monopoly capitalism is decaying capitalism, and increasingly decaying capitalism.
- The Question of Fascism and Capitalist Decay, Marxists Internet Archive, 2006
Fascism happens when a society falls into sudden, fresh poverty. In particular, when it holds debts it cant repay - and the result is widespread economic stagnation. A feeling of discontentment and hopelessness become pervasive. SOCIAL BONDS FRAY. Trust collapses. A society is hanging together by a thread. Elites, whose status and prestige will be lost if they admit they’ve mismanaged society, don’t - and so the VICIOUS CYCLE OF POVERTY AND DESPAIR SIMPLY THUNDERS ON.
Soon enough, in the vacuum, a DEMAGOGUE ARISES, who blames the economic woes of the true and the pure on those it’s easiest to scapegoat. Long-hated, powerless minorities. “We will be Great Again!” he cries. “All you must do is annihilate the subhumans.” His flock - long ignored and derided by elites as the cause of their own problems, now have someone else to blame, to demonize. Those who they’ve hated for generations, usually, anyways. Bang! The fascist spark is lit. The rest is history.
- Fascist Implosion, 2020---
You Call It “Florida,” I Call It “The Problem of Extinction Age Fascism”
What Do Politics Gone Haywire in an Age of Extinction Look Like? Take a Hard Look at Florida, and Then the World
By Umair Haque
Eudaimonia
May 27, 2028
America’s got a problem. A Ron DeSantis problem. And we need to talk about it. What do I mean by that? It’s not what you think. Well, it’s not just what you think, really. I mean it in a bigger way. If you wanted an example of what negative, ruinous politics look like DURING THE AGE OF EXTINCTION, take a hard look at Florida.
DeSantis’s abuses of power are by NOW WELL ESTABLISHED. A classic demagogue right down to, LOL, book bans. Criminalizing TEACHERS, DOCTORS, PARENTS. Attacking KIDS. Building parallel institutions - RECONSTRUCTING universities, CONSTRUCTING special police forces. The list goes on and on.
But the problem here is bigger than that. Much bigger.
DeSantis is 44 years old. He’s not going to win the next election. But he’s going to be around, a plague on America, for the next half a century. At some point, given enough backing from crackpot billionaires, a gullible media, and what we’re going to discuss next҅he very well could win. Imagine that something happens to Trump, who’s getting well up there in years. Whos the GOP front-runner then?
But it’s not even time scales that are the issue. It’s that DeSantis’s formula is working. It’s a template of regressive politics, modern day fascism, and it’s working all too well. Extinction Age fascism? Look no further than҅Florida.
HOW LONG DOES FLORIDA HAVE? Its anyone’s guess, given current rates of warming and sea level rise. Certainly, within the next decade or two, things will get difficult. Very, very difficult. Already, INSURING A HOME is problematic, expensive, if you can find someone to insure it at all.
And yet PEOPLE ARE FLOCKING TO FLORIDA. Why is that? Because of DeSantis’ formula. He’s cut taxes to the bone. Florida’s a handful of states with no state income tax.
Why does that work? Think about it. Time are tough. Incredibly tough. Real incomes are falling. Prices are SKYROCKETING. That, too, is an Extinction effect - climate change means we’re now running out of food, water, clean air, at a civilizational level, and so of course a relentless, never-ending inflationary wave is hitting us. That $5 or $10K you can save on state income tax? It’s a big deal, to most Americans. And so it’s not just people who are moving to Florida. It’s BUSINESSES, too. DeSantis knows he can attack Disney because, for example, plenty of hedge funds have moved in, as have health “insurers.”
DeSantis has made Florida economically attractive. At least in the short term. In an Age of Extinction, every penny you can save counts. Now, of course, it hardly takes a genius to see the problem that arises next: without a tax base, good luck having working infrastructure. And so Florida has some of the NATION’S WORST - from schools, to dams, to drinking water and so forth. But the long run doesn’t matter in this form of negative politics. It’s just about amassing power, now.
As people move to Florida, of course, there’s the threat of demographic change unseating a figure like a demagogue. But that threat’s often a hollow one, because - well, think about why those people moved there in the first place. For the short term gains. So if someone comes along and says, hey, I’m going to raise your taxes, so we can have decent infrastructure, and by the way, I’m going to undo all those book bans, how many votes are they really likely to garner?
This is how negative politics works. The economic short-termism goes hand in hand with the ... fascism, more or less. I don’t know what else, really, to call book bans, criminalizing teachers, “dont say gay,” and all the rest of it. It’s textbook neo-fascism, really, especially when you understand that the, uh, LOL, Nazis, BEGAN THEIR ATTACKS ON CIVIL SOCIETY IN MUCH THE SAME WAY.
So. Florida shows us a template of negative politics in the Age of Extinction. It goes like this. Hook people - who are growing poorer, fast, as inflation bites, and real incomes fall - with low, low taxes. Meanwhile, corrode institutions, norms, and values, scapegoat innocents, do the whole fascist shuffle down into the abyss. And trust that by and large, people will look the other way. After all, you’ve made a bargain with them: you;re going to give them those low taxes, and theyre going to let you do your thing.
Meanwhile, while this dance of folly goes on, nobody’s planning for the inevitable, which is, LOL, in a place like Florida, ALREADY HAPPENING. Good luck getting insurance on that new home. But what does it matter? Remember, youҒre just in it for the short term.
The effect of this kind of bargain on a society is inimical. Once youve hooked people, you amass power, and your ability to enact your regressive agenda only grows. The threat of demographic change isn’t much of a risk to you, the demagogue, because you know as long as you offer people the economics they want, they won’t challenge you much on social issues. So as people move in, and businesses do, you’re seen as more of a leader, you get more dark money, more influence, more airtime, and so on. You rise in stature and in power as a demagogue.
Does that make a little bit of sense? Let me try to put that in context. History’s not going to care very much about Florida, but those moments when it does remember it, it’s going to be to teach a lesson. Here was a place that was one of the most threatened by climate change. And instead of acting, in a positive way, a constructive one, it reacted. It chose negative politics. It was seduced by a demagogue, who used implosive economics to consolidate the political power to enact a regressive social agenda. It was consumed by hate, bigotry, rage, and supremacy, instead of doing anything - anything - about the threat that wasn’t just looming, but on its shores. And despite all that—people and businesses poured in.
All thats a warning. To the rest of us. About just how desperate and cruel and crazy these times really are. You’d think that all of that - all of it, from climate change to not being able to insure against it to the outright bigotry and hate - would stop people from heading to Florida’s shores, but you’d be wrong. History’s going to chuckle at that. It’s like watching people’s head straight into the maw of the dragon, into the jaws of the lion, into the cyclone. But this is where we are.
Now. The problem is that this formula, as insane as it is, works. You can see it working. People and businesses are pouring into Florida. Despite the risks and costs of - well - everything. And as it works, it’s likely to spread. That’s the real Ron DeSantis Problem. Not even really the man himself, as weird and creepy and gross as he is, not to mention his, LOL, friends. It’s that he’s cracked the code on a negative politics in the Age of Extinction.
So what happens if it does spread, the DeSantis formula? You see, it’s easy enough to see it doing just that. Demagogues across America, or even the world, LEARNING THAT THEY CAN LURE PEOPLE IN with an artificially sweet economic deal, using those population flows to consolidate power, using that power to advance ultra regressive, neo-fascist agendas, to please the fanatics and lunatics, who have now been given badges, guns, titles, powers of immunity, and to “investigate,” to punish, to criminalize.
Let me go back to the “artificially sweet economic deal” part, because it’s the linchpin of this mess. Contrast DeSantis with, for example, Biden. Biden’s INVESTING HEAVILY in making America a leader again, in clean manufacturing, energy, SEMICONDUCTORS. To do that, he’s raised taxes on the WEALTHY and on business. And nobody cares. Americans DON’T APPRECIATE IT ONE BIT. They like Biden about as much as they like a washed up celebrity - they’re by and large negative, verging on indifferent. Meanwhile DeSantis might earn scorn and ire - but in political terms, he’s doing pretty well. Not against Trump, but in the sense of having cracked a code, unearthed a formula, that consolidates his own power. His ability to abuse it.
That’s an artificially sweet economic deal, of course, because all Floridians are really doing - LOL, new ones and old ones - is deferring costs, which get more ruinous every day they’re put off. Insurance is hard to come by precisely because nobody much who’s thinking this through wants to pay the costs of what’s obviously on the way, from sea level rise to hurricanes to failing energy grids to heatwaves to ruined harvests.
Those costs will have to be paid, and at the point when they have to be, even in the extreme form of mega-weather, these population flows will probably reverse, fast. But by then, a figure like DeSantis will have leveraged his way to power at a national level as he’s doing now. The artificially sweet deal - it’s staggering costs will be paid by the average Joe and Jane, and its benefits reaped by demagogues.
Meanwhile, as all that happens, all those regressive policies will be solidified. Hey, I don’t like it, shrug, but wheee - I’m on my jet-ski!! I’m not paying any taxes!! Never mind reality’s going to come crashing down on this fantasy shortly. By then, the demagogues will be pushing this kind of hate and bigotry at a national level, because, like I said, the template works.
And that is the real problem here. Let me try to crystallize it as clearly as I can. We are now in the Age of Extinction. And something perverse is happening. Instead of the center rising, the far right is ascendant, even making inroads into Canada, Sweden, Finland, Italy, bastions of social democracy (well, maybe not anymore.) Why is that? DeSantis is the one who’s figured out the template and formula best and first. People are getting poorer. Hook them with an artificially sweet economic deal. Theyll look the other way while you do your dirty work. They might fret here and there, but nobody will seriously challenge you, because, well, that deal is just too sweet. Maybe a lot of those suckers will even get radicalized along the way, and end up hating all those “groomers” and “pedophiles.” Either way, you’re free to implode democracy. The danger is that the rest of these fanatics figure all this out, and start to copy DeSantis. Then we have a global negative politics in an Age of Extinction, and that is a very big deal indeed. So far, were not quite there - we just have angry people putting fairly incompetent demagogues into power. But DeSantis is way, way ahead of the rest of them - which is why he’s got all these new friends, like billionaires buying platforms for him to announce Presidential runs.
This is the trap politics in an Age of Extinction falls into. Is falling into. As people get poorer, theyre lured in with fantasies that nobody much will have to pay for anything, and things can go on as they were. Erasing your own tax base is one way to deal with the problem of permanently falling living standards thanks to climate change - but it’s not a very good one, because, LOL, it wonҒt work for very long. But itll work for long enough. Long enough for the demagogue. The lunatics and fanatics backing him. The bigots and supremacists who want to implode democracy. As people get poorer, they’re seduced like this - and ultimately, they turn on one another. In that process of implosion, demagogues surf the chaos, and peace, prosperity, nonviolence, equality, truth, liberty җ they all become distant memories.
The problem, in other words, isn’t just DeSantis. It’s the code he’s cracked, for a negative politics in an Age of Extinction. In any sane world? Florida’d be one of the world’s heaviest investors in figuring out how to develop, at light speed, everything from clean energy to green agriculture. But in this world? It’s one of the globe’s foremost laboratories for 21st century authoritarianism, for Extinction Age fascism, for demagoguery, lunacy, extremism, and folly. Think about that for a second, because history will, now and then, and chuckle. Those guys were facing all that - and they did what?
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