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Best of the Web: Killing Us Softly: Klaus Schwab's "Great Narrative" For The Global Borg

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The sequel to his Great Reset is the Great Swindle

Every civilization is built upon layers of mythology. In his recently published book, The Great Narrative, the founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, promotes a new global mythos based on empathy and cooperation.

This is remarkable considering that five years ago, in The Fourth Industrial Revolution, he calmly explained that successful societies of the future would be "smart" termite colonies crawling with bipedal cyborgs. Then a year and a half ago, in The Great Reset, he declared that the COVID-19 pandemic "represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine and reset our world," making way for a polycentric technocracy — possibly run on a Chinese digital currency.

Because most of us don't want to become gene-edited, neuroenhanced, bionic welfare recipients put out of work by robots, and because his accent sounds like zee Stasi villain, Schwab has become a magnet for blame and popular hatred — a fascist to some, a communist to others, a technocratic mastermind to most.

Now, as if we all forgot our suspicions, he's calling for a new narrative, a great narrative, where all you need is love:

Comment: And now we're aware of yet a few more tools by which the Elite are attempting to corral and control Humanity. Its not enough that we've been locked down, mandated, poisoned, impoverished, isolated and divided against our fellow man - we will now be hacked such that one of our very most human features - empathy - will be identified, tweaked and turned against our own better natures; and against our own selves.

In another Elite circle we have NATO, whose aggressive tone in describing similar goals for control of thoughts and feelings, is no less monstrous:

Behind NATO's 'cognitive warfare': 'Battle for your brain' waged by Western militaries


Yoda

Best of the Web: Durham confirms Clinton campaign paid to 'infiltrate' Trump Tower, White House servers to link Trump to Russia

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© AP/Rick Bowmer/Fox News/Wikipedia/KJNUS Attorney John W. Huber • Hillary Clinton • US Attorney John Durham
'Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP's DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump.'

Lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a technology company to "infiltrate" servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an "inference" and "narrative" to bring to government agencies linking Donald Trump to Russia, a filing from Special Counsel John Durham says.

Durham filed a motion on Feb. 11 focused on potential conflicts of interest related to the representation of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who has been charged with making a false statement to a federal agent. Sussmann has pleaded not guilty.

Comment: Was Sussmann the first brick to crumble in Killary's bunker?



Red Flag

Best of the Web: No, the revolution isn't over: None of the fundamental drivers of "Wokeness" have relented

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“Long live the victory of Chairman Mao's revolutionary line!”
At least in the Boswash (the corridor of East Coast establishment power running from Boston to Washington), using January to make public predictions about the year ahead is an ironclad tradition. Usually these predictions end up being completely wrong, because no one here has any idea what they're talking about. I hope that holds true in my case, because I want to use my mandatory annual forecast to dump a few gallons of cold, contrarian water on what seems to have recently become a fashionable prediction: that the "woke" ideological revolution roiling the West has peaked and will soon be in full blown retreat.

Consider a handful of examples of this new genre: While a few of those examples are from earlier in 2021, this theme seems to have really emerged and begun to solidify into a consensus among more centrist types soon after the beginning of November 2021. That was when some conservative American politicians won or almost won a few special elections, in part by riding a popular backlash to Critical Race Theory in schools, and a number of local ballot measures to defund police departments failed around the country. Republicans, feeling especially good about their chances against a flailing Biden, started drooling over a "Red Wave" expected to sweep them back to power in the 2022 midterm elections. And now that private equity executive turned Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has personally won the culture war's Battle of Midway, the tide has turned and, aside from the occasional messy beachhead here or there, inevitable victory is now in sight, or something.

Attention

Best of the Web: Rogan debacle shows welding of media, government bureaucracy, big corporations, and banking together into a partisan weapon to punish dissenters

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Joe Rogan has found himself in the crosshairs of many of America's most powerful institutions. Although he has long been a thorn in the side of progressives who object to his free-wheeling conversations on America's most popular podcast, the latest controversy was kicked off by an open letter penned by 270 doctors, health care professionals, and academics who complained about interviews in which Rogan and his guests express skepticism about COVID vaccinations. The letter's authors demanded that Spotify "immediately establish a clear and public policy to moderate misinformation on its platform."

Although they represented a tiny portion of America's medical professionals, these public health activists were able to win widespread coverage from the mainstream news media, with only minor protest from conservative media, which pointed out that more than two-thirds of the letter's signatories were neither medical doctors nor doctors of osteopathic medicine.

This activist-media alliance soon won support from a third group: major celebrities. The countercultural musician Neil Young announced that he would be pulling all his music from the Spotify streaming service in protest of Rogan's presence there. Despite his longtime support for free expression and his own scientific skepticism — he dubbed his 2006 antiwar concerts the "Freedom of Speech Tour," and remains an ardent opponent of the use of GMOs in food — Young effortlessly slotted himself into the new progressive censorship machine. Soon after, singer Joni Mitchell and rock musician Nils Lofgren joined in.

Gold Seal

Best of the Web: The Great Covid Media Pivot Of 2022

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Now that the billions have been made, natural immunity and other "conspiracy theories" have magically become "fact checked" mainstream narrative

I started out 2022 by predicting that capitalism and common sense would catalyze a massive pivot in how the mainstream media reports on Covid.

I believed that the media would eventually start the process of pivoting from hysteria and that politicians, understanding full well that they can't get re-elected during mid-terms this year on a platform of locking people in their homes, would follow.

All I can say one month into the year is holy shit, does it look like I was right.

Syringe

Flashback Best of the Web: South Sudan confirms outbreak of vaccine-derived polio

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© Yasuoshi Chiba/AFPChild receiving polio vaccine
Health officials in South Sudan on Thursday confirmed a new outbreak of polio, just months after declaring the wild version of the deadly virus eradicated in Africa's youngest country.

The health ministry said 15 cases of vaccine-derived polio - a form of the illness which occurs in rare incidents when the weakened virus in the vaccine mutates - had been identified in the country's northwest.

"Yes, there is an outbreak of vaccine-derived polio, and the Ministry of Health and its partners are working on it, and I think it is under control," the ministry's director general for preventative health services, Dr John Pasquale Romunu, told reporters. "It has affected quite a number of counties and states."

On August 25, South Sudan was among four African nations to receive confirmation that wild poliovirus had been eradicated within their borders - allowing the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the entire continent free of the crippling disease. It was just the second time a deadly virus had been declared eradicated in Africa since smallpox 40 years earlier.

But the fanfare was short lived. Just two days later the UN confirmed that more than a dozen cases of vaccine-derived polio had sprung up in nine states across Sudan.

Comment: Polio from vaccines is not all that rare:

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Vader

Flashback Best of the Web: The insanity of Empire: CIA-armed militias are shooting at Pentagon-armed ones in Syria

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© Delil Souleiman / Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesCIA-armed militias are shooting at Pentagon-armed ones in Syria The Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces recently fought a CIA-armed militia. Such clashes have become routine.
Syrian militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter 5-year-old civil war.

The fighting has intensified over the past two months, as CIA-armed units and Pentagon-armed ones have repeatedly shot at each other as they have maneuvered through contested territory on the northern outskirts of Aleppo, U.S. officials and rebel leaders have confirmed.

In mid-February, a CIA-armed militia called Fursan al Haq, or Knights of Righteousness, was run out of the town of Marea, about 20 miles north of Aleppo, by Pentagon-backed Syrian Democratic Forces moving in from Kurdish-controlled areas to the east.

"Any faction that attacks us, regardless from where it gets its support, we will fight it," said Maj. Fares Bayoush, a leader of Fursan al Haq.

Comment: The 'reality creators' latest monstrosity seems to be getting away from them. All part of the plan?


Health

Best of the Web: Robert Malone: Regarding the defense medical epidemiological database data dump

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These are dangerous times, and we are in a 21st century global information war. Cannon balls are flying, and there are false flag operations and concern trollery to the left, right and center of us. And yet onward we ride. The light brigade.

Just to underscore the point, since the initial Joe Rogan hostage video dropped on Instagram, I have been on multiple media appearances that have approached this as yet another cancel culture skirmish. And as predicted, now we have a second Rogan hostage video. But I agree with Epoch times on this. The culture war aspect that has been so actively promoted is a distraction. This really has nothing to do with vaccines or vaccine safety, or vaccine mis/disinformation. It certainly has nothing to do with a commitment to truth. This is about money and power. Or money as an aspect of power. And it certainly has everything to do with totalitarianism and mass formation psychosis.

Having set the stage now, please note that there are more intrepid, highly credentialed physicians who are stepping into the fray with Epoch Times. The Epoch Times has previously been attacked by a concerted MSNBC and Rachel Maddow smear campaign. However, even the NY Times (in yet another smear piece) concedes that it is "one of the country's most powerful digital publishers" (#4 on the Apple app chart, and #2 behind Fox News for December 2021 conservative websites).

Comment: Even with all the qualifiers suggested above, this list is absolutely damning. Watch how the PTB will scramble to cover for it somehow (as mentioned above, they've already gone into full swing). But even if this list is only right by half, the implication against Covid vaccines is stunning (although not exactly unexpected).

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Brain

Best of the Web: The 'Science' of Manipulation: researchers craft messages of guilt, shame to foster vaccine compliance

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There's an entire field of research dedicated to developing messaging designed to persuade "vaccine-hesitant" individuals to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

None of the messaging examined by researchers involves conveying factual evidence that supports the claims — widely disseminated by Big Pharma, Big Media and public health agencies — that the vaccines are "safe" and "effective."

Researchers last month published the results of a clinical trial involving two survey experiments on how to manufacture consent for COVID vaccines.

The Yale-sponsored study, "Persuasive messaging to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake intentions," examined how different persuasive messages affected
  1. intentions to receive a COVID-19 vaccine,
  2. willingness to persuade friends and relatives to get the vaccine,
  3. fear of those who have not been vaccinated, and
  4. social judgment of people who choose not to vaccinate.

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Blue Planet

Best of the Web: Freedom Convoy movement spreads across the globe

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© Getty Images/Fiona GoodallPeople greet an anti-mandate convoy, Warkworth in Auckland, New Zealand
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Canada-inspired Freedom Convoy movement is gaining momentum, with trucker demonstrations kicking off in multiple countries.

Canada-style Freedom Convoy protests against Covid-19 limitations and mandatory vaccination spilled into additional countries over the weekend as the movement gained traction globally.

In Europe, where trucker convoys from multiple EU member states are expected to "besiege" Brussels on February 14, a major protest was held in Finland's capital, Helsinki.

Dozens of trucks and other vehicles partaking in Convoy Finland flooded the city on Saturday, with participants demanding an end to all coronavirus-related restrictions and the resignation of the government, as well as fuel-price cuts.