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Best of the Web: Chief UK Govt Advisor Dominic Cummings breaking lockdown reveals he doesn't actually believe Covid-19 is 'deadly killer'

Kit Knightly
Off Guardian
Tue, 26 May 2020 17:03 UTC
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Dominic Cummings and reporters strictly adhering to 2m social distancing guidelines
The debate today is whether Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson's Chief Advisor, should resign, or not. Whether he broke the lockdown rules, or even the law. Whether his trip was justified or if there was some perfidiousness behind it.

Mostly, they miss the vitally important point.

The same was true when Neil Ferguson - main author of the Imperial Model, and consequently the lockdown - was found to be breaking lockdown with his married girlfriend.

Comment: There seems to be a divide in the way the UK MSM is reporting this saga, some are branding this a partisan issue and a witch hunt, while others are calling out the elitism and hypocrisy.

However, they all ignore fundamental questions: Why are the PTB repeatedly breaking their own rules? Is it because there is no killer virus out there? Furthermore, if the lockdowns are not to protect us or the NHS, what are they for? Is it to gain more control and further their own agendas?

If more people would dare to ask these difficult questions, the public may be able to lead us out of the lockdown!

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Best of the Web: The Great UnReason of 2020: The 'curious, but quite authentic, inability to think'

Jack Kerwick
Frontpage Mag
Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00 UTC

Comment: ...hence Sott.net is 'the world for people who think'. Our relatively small readership is roughly how many out there can think!


Hannah Arendt.
Upon the Nazis' rise to power, Hannah Arendt, a Jewish woman who would go on to become a considerable 20th century philosopher, had to flee with her family from her native Germany.

Once the war was over and some prominent Nazis were brought to justice, Arendt attended the trial in Jerusalem of Adolph Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust.

The experience left an indelible impression upon her, one that would shape the trajectory of her philosophical thinking. What she observed was that, much to her surprise, Eichmann wasn't the incarnation of evil that she expected to encounter. His actions were monstrous, yes; but he was remarkably ordinary or "banal," to use Arendt's term of choice.

What struck Arendt was Eichmann's "curious, but authentic, inability to think."
"However monstrous the deeds were, the doer was neither monstrous nor demonic, and the only specific characteristic one could detect in his past as well as in his behavior during the trial and the preceding police examination was something entirely negative: it was not stupidity but a curious, quite authentic inability to think."
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Best of the Web: Bols-of-STEEL: As tyranny takes over under cover of Covid-19, Brazil's president urges citizens to arm themselves

Valeria Pacheco
Times of Israel
Sat, 23 May 2020 21:55 UTC

Comment: The following MSM report of what he said is - of course - skewed towards depicting Bolsonaro as a lunatic. But he's actually one of the few sane leaders on Earth; he called this scamdemic correctly at the start, and he is now calling for Brazilians to arm themselves as a preventative measure against other politicians and technocrats using Covid-19 to implement tyrannical schemes...


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Brazilians got a shocking look Friday at an expletive-laced meeting between President Jair Bolsonaro and his cabinet when a Supreme Court judge released a video at the center of an investigation targeting the far-right leader.

The April 22 cabinet meeting is under scrutiny by prosecutors probing allegations by former justice minister Sergio Moro that Bolsonaro tried to interfere in federal police investigations.

But it could prove just as damaging to Bolsonaro's 18-month-old government for other sordid details it contains.

They include the president using profanity to insult governors, the education minister calling to throw Supreme Court justices in jail and the environment minister urging the government to legalize mining and farming in the Amazon rainforest while the world is distracted by the coronavirus pandemic.

Warning: The below video contains inappropriate language


Comment: Apparently 2 hours of footage was 'released' (leaked, really, by his political opponents of course). It wasn't all 'ranting' - at one calmer point, Bolsonaro complained that he has struggled to govern because he doesn't know "where our boat is heading."

Leaders are caught between a rock and a hard place. While we few who see what's going on want to see leaders call out this BS for what it is, most of them - unlike Bolsonaro - are for now humoring the panicked herd rather than trying to 'snap them out of the spell'.

Ultimately, however, most of them will snap out of it, and then Bolsonaro's stance - assuming he in the meantime survives political battles against domestic rivals and from 'the international consortium' running this Corona World Order - will pay off for him.

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Best of the Web: The Authoritarian State's dream has come true thanks to the repulsive word 'lockdown'

Peter Hitchens
Daily Mail
Sat, 23 May 2020 17:41 UTC
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Police are pictured speaking to demonstrators in Hyde Park, London last week. We are learning, during this induction period, to do what we are told and to become obedient, servile citizens of a new authoritarian State
We will never get out of this now. It will go on for ever. We will not be free people again.

Even when we seem to be free we will be like prisoners on parole, who can be snatched back to their cells at a moment's notice.

I think I now understand why this period has come to be known by the repulsive word 'lockdown', an American term which describes the punishment of rioting convicts in a penitentiary, by confining them in their cells for long periods.

I hate this word, because it does not seem to me to be fitting to describe free people in a free country.

But we are no longer such people, or such a country. We have become muzzled, mouthless, voiceless, humiliated, regimented prisoners, shuffling about at the command of others, stopping when told to stop, moving when told to move, shouted at by jacks-in-office against whom we have no appeal.

Comment: Yup, the Corona World Order is here to stay.

It won't last long, thank God. A decade at most.

Full-blown pathocracy has nowhere to but down.

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Best of the Web: The Covid-19 brainwashing and new vocabulary: 12 Words and phrases I never want to hear again

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Thu, 21 May 2020 00:00 UTC
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Remember how after September 11th happened, there was that nasty bill that formed the TSA and authorized all sorts of surveillance against the American people and they called it, ironically, The Patriot Act?

Of course, we knew then that the bill was anything but patriotic, however, that didn't stop it from being passed and trampling all over the Constitution. The word "patriot" was perverted by those in power who wanted everyone to fall into lockstep with the unconstitutional searches at airports and many other invasions into our privacy.

Which brings us to another word that doesn't mean what people think it means - it was all done in the name of "security."

If you've been watching any type of media coverage or reading articles, you've probably seen or heard a plethora of words and phrases which are currently being perverted due to the coronavirus pandemic. I don't know about you, but if I never heard "safe" or "new normal" again, I'd be a much happier person.

Comment: Writer Mike Luongo agrees with James Corbett about not using the term 'contact tracing':
Contact Tracing? Really? That's the next big government program to push for total surveillance over our lives. Now the real fallout from the Coronapocalypse comes to light.

The very people who created a fake pandemic out of faulty statistics, media fear-pimping and the rankest of propaganda are now pushing the total surveillance state to protect us (them?) from the next crisis.

James Corbett from the Corbett Report just published an excellent video discussing 'contact tracing' as promulgated by (who else?) the Clinton Global Initiative to create an army of new Brown Shirts to assist our wise and benevolent leaders in managing us like livestock.

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James is urging us not to use their Orwellian term, and I agree with him. But the best way to do that is to make fun of it and them.

I propose just looking at them and saying, "Don't Trace Me, Bro."

As always when they want to herd us towards a terrible idea they first have to come up with a harmless sounding euphemism for it. Either that or just call it a war that we're going to fight and win together, you know, for kids!

But this was always the plan with this virus. We can speculate as to why this has been done, why it was directed from the commanding heights of our society but, in the end, that speculation is irrelevant.

This is happening, it's here and they are now working to square the circle. The goal is to finish off the last vestiges of anonymity and individuality started with the destruction of financial privacy during the Clinton Adminstration, which was wrapped in the classic government phrases "Know Your Customer" and "Anti-Money Laundering"

Now those sets of rules which got ramped up after 9/11 dominate the global financial landscape.


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Flashback Best of the Web: US flu season arrives earliest in 15 years, driven by unexpected virus

Mike Stobbe
Phys.org
Sat, 07 Dec 2019 21:50 UTC

Comment: Note the date this article was published. Could these have been Covid-19 cases? They apparently weren't testing, so we may never know, but the US joins the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Iran and Israel in reporting 'early', 'many' and/or 'strange' 'flu cases' back in December last year... concurrent with the Wuhan outbreak. I.e, it's already been and gone, so all of this lockdown malarkey is thoroughly useless.


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© CDCElectron microscopy of influenza virus.
The U.S. winter flu season is off to its earliest start in more than 15 years.

An early barrage of illness in the South has begun to spread more broadly, and there's a decent chance flu season could peak much earlier than normal, health officials say.

The last flu season to rev up this early was in 2003-2004 — a bad one. Some experts think the early start may mean a lot of suffering is in store, but others say it's too early to tell.

"It really depends on what viruses are circulating. There's not a predictable trend as far as if it's early it's going to be more severe, or later, less severe," said Scott Epperson, who tracks flu-like illnesses for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Comment: This, just after 2018 was dubbed as one of the worst flu seasons in the US in nine years, and the UK fared just as badly: NHS cuts and flu crisis push UK hospitals to the brink

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Best of the Web: Top 10 reasons to abandon 'Team Corona-Phobia'

Del Bigtree
The Highwire
Sat, 23 May 2020 10:45 UTC

Comment: ...also known as 'disembarking from the Coronavirus Cruise'.


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Do you know someone with Corona-Phobia? Someone who has an irrational fear of Coronavirus? Here are our top 10 reasons Del & The HighWire Team does not suffer from Corona-Phobia. Use these in Covid convos with your friends!

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Best of the Web: Did psychopath Rockefeller create the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918?

Dr. Gary G. Kohls, MD
Fort Russ News
Fri, 22 May 2020 00:00 UTC
Rockefeller Spanish Flu
It Started with the Rockefeller Institute's Crude Bacterial Meningitis Vaccination Experiment on US Troops. The 1918-19 bacterial vaccine experiment may have killed 50-100 million people. What if the story we have been told about this pandemic isn't true? What if, instead, the killer infection was neither the flu nor Spanish in origin?

Newly analyzed documents reveal that the "Spanish Flu" may have been a military vaccine experiment gone awry.

Summary

The reason modern technology has not been able to pinpoint the killer influenza strain from this pandemic is because influenza was not the killer.

More soldiers died during WWI from disease than from bullets.

The pandemic was not flu. An estimated 95% (or higher) of the deaths were caused by bacterial pneumonia, not an influenza virus.

The pandemic was not Spanish. The first cases of bacterial pneumonia in 1918 trace back to military bases, the first one in Fort Riley, Kansas.

From January 21 - June 4, 1918, an experimental bacterial meningitis vaccine cultured in horses by the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York was injected into soldiers at Fort Riley.

During the remainder of 1918 as those soldiers - often living and traveling under poor sanitary conditions - were sent to Europe to fight, they spread bacteria at every stop between Kansas and the frontline trenches in France.

Comment: History may not always repeat itself exactly, but sometimes it sure does rhyme!

See also: Vaccine not virus responsible for Spanish flu

As well as:

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Best of the Web: For resisting lockdown orders prohibiting religious services, Mississippi church is burned to the ground

Phil Helsel
NBC
Fri, 22 May 2020 21:50 UTC
"Bet you stay home now you hypokrits" was written in parking lot at church that had sued the city over its public health orders.
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said he's "heartbroken and furious" after a fire this week at a church that has challenged coronavirus restrictions. The fire is being investigated as arson.

The fire Wednesday in Holly Springs destroyed the First Pentecostal Church, and investigators found graffiti in the church parking lot that reads, "Bet you stay home now you hypokrits," NBC affiliate WMC of Memphis reported.

The church was "burned to the ground" and had been trying to open services, Reeves tweeted Thursday.

First Pentecostal filed a lawsuit last month against the city over its public health order on in-person worship services, the station reported.

Comment: It's said that crises don't change people; they reveal them.

Well, this 'scamdemic', so global and profound in its effects on everyone, is certainly revealing a lot of diabolical people who relish and thrive on the lies...

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Best of the Web: Tucker Carlson on New York Post calling for end to lockdown


Fox News
Fri, 22 May 2020 18:22 UTC
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New York Post cover for May 21, 2020
New York Post columnist David Marcus called out the risks of keeping New York City locked-down.


Comment: It's good to see the Controllers getting some pushback from national elites, but unfortunately it seems that nothing will convince them to change course.

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