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In a search of answers, I have been reflecting a lot on a phrase I transcribed into a notebook years ago from Martin Amis's Koba the Dread: " . . . a contagion of selective incuriosity, a mindgame begun in self-hypnosis and maintained by mass hysteria."
While not discounting the impact of short-term welfare payments (buying the people's freedom with their own money) I have gotten to thinking that the answer maybe includes, as a primary factor, something along the lines of mass hypnosis — the viral entrancement of entire populations.
© George Arbuthnott , Jonathan Calvert and David Collins
The evidence had been withheld from earlier proceedings of the legal case, prompting a judge to demand a full explanation from Ben Wallace, the defence secretary.
The cache of emails, notes and reports from inside the SAS — the like of which has never been seen before — reveal that special forces commanders were highly concerned about the killing of more than 33 people in the space of three months during night raids on their homes.
There was a particular pattern in which men were captured and then killed when the SAS sent them back into their houses at gunpoint. The Sunday Times has pieced together the disturbing evidence, which raises serious questions about whether war crimes have been covered up.
It is a trail that begins in the dead of night.
Comment: There was nothing 'rogue' about them. They were a death squad; their job was to terrorize people and keep the war going. This was 'unofficial-but-secretly-official' British (and thus NATO, American, and Western) military policy.
Best of the Web: America's Frontline Doctors silenced by social media: Website removed after viral video censored
Yet another censored video exposing the COVID charade. No big surprise... But then I tried to visit the organization's website and was met with the following message: "Website expired."
Their site is (was) hosted by SquareSpace. I have not yet found any explanation for the take-down. The hosting companies Acceptable Use Policy seems pretty reasonable. Nonetheless, point 3.1 is wide open for any sort of censorship, forbidding:
anything that's false, fraudulent, inaccurate or deceiving."
Comment:
- Doctors are not always right. But Twitter, Facebook & Google are pure evil for shutting down alternative voices on Covid
- Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter censor viral video of doctors' Capitol Hill coronavirus press conference
- Twitter YANKS doctor's fierce defense of HCQ as Covid-19 'cure' after Trump's retweet, as skeptics question her credentials
- Viral video of doctors countering Covid-19 narrative becomes victim of coordinated deletion
Have we lost our collective minds? Yes.
You may not be one of them. In fact, I'm guessing the people who actually take the time to read my blog posts are the few remaining who haven't been subsumed by the panic, but can we agree that most have? Jeffrey A. Tucker of the American Institute for Economic Research put it best in his excellent essay on July 10 titled, When will the Madness End?:
"I'm a practicing psychiatrist who specializes in anxiety disorders, paranoid delusions, and irrational fear. I've been treating this in individuals as a specialist. It's hard enough to contain these problems in normal times. What's happening now is a spread of this serious medical condition to the whole population. It can happen with anything but here we see a primal fear of disease turning into mass panic. It seems almost deliberate. It is tragic. Once this starts, it could take years to repair the psychological damage."
Best of the Web: Viral video of doctors countering Covid-19 narrative becomes victim of coordinated deletion
Facebook's Communication Director, Andy Stone, openly admitted to deleting the video. He says "we removed it for sharing false information about cures and treatments for COVID-19." However Andy Stone does not appear to have any medical credentials and he does not indicate what contrary information he has that proves the video is false information. In this case social media 'experts' outweigh the medical advice of actual doctors.
Comment: Far from being a soundbite moment as portrayed by the mainstream media, the group held a lengthy seminar detailing their research and conclusions. See for yourself:
Still think the government cares about you?
- Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter censor viral video of doctors' Capitol Hill coronavirus press conference
- Twitter YANKS doctor's fierce defense of HCQ as Covid-19 'cure' after Trump's retweet, as skeptics question her credentials
- Doctors are not always right. But Twitter, Facebook & Google are pure evil for shutting down alternative voices on Covid
Most of the U.S. complaints about China are long-standing, from the treatment of the Uighur minority and disputes over islands and maritime borders in the South China Sea to accusations of unfair trade practices and support for protests in Hong Kong. But the answer to the "Why now?" question seems obvious: the approaching U.S. election.
Danny Russel, who was Obama's top East Asia expert in the National Security Council and then at the State Department, told the BBC that the new tensions with China are partly an effort to divert attention from Trump's bungled response to the Covid-19 pandemic and his tanking poll numbers, and that this "has a wag the dog feel to it."
Meanwhile, Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden has been going toe-to-toe with Trump and Secretary Pompeo in a potentially dangerous "tough on China" contest, which could prove difficult for the winner to walk back after the election.
Portland is grappling with a surge in violent crime following the Black Lives Matter protests that have rocked the city following the death of George Floyd. There have been more killings in a single month than in the past three decades.
Portland has seen 63 shootings so far in July — a stark contrast to the 28 in July 2019.
The Oregonian reports that Portland police are now responding to 15 homicides — the most killings in one month than more than three decades. Police figures show an alarming rise in violent crimes including homicides, assaults, and burglaries.
Comment: See also:
- Why we should not save Portland, Seattle or any other liberal city that's collapsing into anarchy
- Sleepless in Seattle? Residents shred 'defund the police' as 'radical experiment' during City Council budget meeting
- Seattle City Council move to abolish police department with new bill
- Trump says fed agents to stay in Portland until police 'cleanup'
- 'Peaceful' Portland protesters burn Bible & flag, 24 hours after torching pig's head in cop hat
- Trump: Oregon officials will clear Portland's 'beehive of terrorists', will send National Guard if they don't
- "Simpothy McVeigh": Portland rioter ID'ed by grandma's review of vest she bought for him
- Portland hits feds with $500 fine every 15 minutes fence stands outside besieged courthouse
- Man knifed in the back at Portland protest: 'I was stabbed for being a conservative journalist'
Best of the Web: Why are liberal media outlets completely ignoring Epstein revelations involving Bill Clinton?
Left-wing media has failed to cover the Jeffrey Epstein court documents, alleging former President Bill Clinton of visiting the deceased child sex trafficker's "pedophile island" with two young girls present.
Ground News, a bias-checker that tracks partisanship in journalism and compares distribution across the political aisle, found that conservative media mainly reported on the Epstein Files, comprising 78% of the publications cited for their coverage.
Comment: See also:
- Ghislaine Maxwell trial: Unsealed documents reveal US president Bill Clinton attended Epstein's orgy island with teenage girls
- Explosive court documents that make Epstein allegations against Clinton, Dershowitz, Prince Andrew leave Trump unscathed
- Bill Clinton went to Jeffrey Epstein's island with 2 'young girls', Virginia Giuffre says
- How did Jeffrey Epstein make his fortune: An investigation
- Ghislaine Maxwell paid $25K to fake news purveyor Jacob Wohl to 'smear Epstein victims' and stall investigation
- Home of judge in Epstein-Deutsche Bank case shot up by gunman disguised as FedEx driver - Husband wounded, son killed - UPDATE: 'Suspect kills himself'
This, despite the fact that the WHO's June 5, 2020, guidance memo1 on face mask use states there's no direct evidence that universal masking of healthy people is an effective intervention against respiratory illnesses.
What's more, people are being urged to use cloth masks or bandanas (ostensibly to prevent shortages among health care staff), none of which conform to any kind of quality standards, and according to what little scientific evidence is available have been shown to provide only about half of what little protection you may get from a surgical mask.
Comment: Any government that was truly interested in the protection of their citizens would not make the wearing of masks mandatory. There is no evidence to back up their effectiveness and plenty of evidence showing their harm. It needs to be up to the individual to determine for themselves whether virtue signalling and showing compliance to the state is a worthy trade-off with decreasing one's oxygen levels.
See also:
- 'Masks are muzzles': Protesters rally outside BBC HQ & march to Downing Street after UK govt widens mask-wearing orders
- '24/7 COVID world': 'Nobody knows effectiveness of masks and vaccines, but wear it at home, take yearly vaccines' - CDC
- As Europe masks up, the Netherlands dithers
- Now masks are not enough! Fauci claims eye protection might be required for 'perfect' Covid-proofing
- "No proven effectiveness": Dutch government will NOT force public to wear masks - Minister for Medical care
- A classic fallacious argument: "If masks don't work, then why do surgeons wear them?"
- Woman caught on video macing couple for not wearing masks at dog park
- Illinois' governor Pritzker goes full Covid-19: 'People who do not wear masks are the enemy'
- Government-mandated masks and vaccines are unreasonable, unethical, unconstitutional, and unhealthy. I absolutely refuse to participate in either
Comment: Waters has exposed the outline of the psychological operation the elite are running on the world's population, fronted by puppets Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci. The isolation, social distance rules and interminable disruption of daily life is taking a severe toll on the world's mental health. This is by design. The population is being worn down so the Gates/Fauci vaccine will be accepted with a minimum of fuss, all in the name of getting back even a little of one's previous life. The more you know . . . .
- How to Create a Fake Pandemic
- Is the Coronavirus Scare a Psychological Operation?
- People are so spooked by the state-sanctioned Project Fear they believe TENS OF MILLIONS have died from Covid-19
- Almost 3 in 10 parents say social distancing is harming child's mental health: poll
- Leading scientist claims lockdown & quarantine is a "human catastrophe"
- Covid-19, The Great Reset and The New Normal
- Coronavirus 'Plandemic' - This IS the global reset
- Dr. Anthony Fauci plotted 'global vaccine action plan' with Bill Gates before pushing COVID panic and doubts about hydroxychloroquine treatments
- Trudeau: No return to 'normality' until coronavirus vaccine is available
- COVID-19: The Spearpoint For Rolling Out a 'New Era' of High-Risk, Genetically Engineered Vaccines
For more on Le Bon's book, The Crowd see:The Truth Perspective: Herd Behavior: What Gustav Le Bon's Classic Book Can Teach Us About 'The Crowd'