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Bill Gates buying up huge amount of farmland while 'Great Reset' tells Americans future is no private property

Paul Joseph watson
Summit News
Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC
Bill Gates
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Feudalism makes a roaring comeback in the name of progress.

While Americans are being told by 'Great Reset' technocrats that the future is one without private property, Bill Gates and other billionaires have been buying up huge amounts of farmland.

Indeed, Gates is now the biggest owner of farmland in America, according to a Forbes report.

"After years of reports that he was purchasing agricultural land in places like Florida and Washington, The Land Report revealed that Gates, who has a net worth of nearly $121 billion according to Forbes, has built up a massive farmland portfolio spanning 18 states."

"His largest holdings are in Louisiana (69,071 acres), Arkansas (47,927 acres) and Nebraska (20,588 acres). Additionally, he has a stake in 25,750 acres of transitional land on the west side of Phoenix, Arizona, which is being developed as a new suburb."

Gates now owns 242,000 acres of farmland across the U.S., mostly "through third-party entities by Cascade Investments, Gates' personal investment vehicle."
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Totalitarian purge: Pentagon watchdog to launch probe of 'white supremacists' in the military

Ellen Mitchell
The Hill
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:26 UTC
Trump protest
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Comment: Looks like the Pentagon is working to purge its forces of anyone who disagrees with its imperial/globalist/totalitarian mandates - and is doing so by labeling them as follows....


The Pentagon's internal watchdog announced Thursday that it will investigate whether the Department of Defense (DOD) has adequate procedures in place to prevent white supremacists and other extremists from joining and remaining in the military.

"Our objective is to determine the extent to which the DoD and the Military Services have implemented policy and procedures that prohibit active advocacy and active participation related to supremacist, extremist, or criminal gang doctrine, ideology, or causes by active duty military personnel," the Inspector General's office said.

The office plans to launch the probe this month, according to a letter sent to top Pentagon officials.

Following the announcement, acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller said the watchdog report "will be but one of many efforts" to provide transparency on the violent Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.

Comment: That the tell right there - just keep pounding away at the idea that any revelation or adherent of Truth that doesn't fit whatever the current PTB narrative is - must be a "conspiracy theory".

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The many occasions Joe Biden took credit for writing the draconian Patriot Act

Andrew Kaczynski
BuzzFeedNews
Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:19 UTC
Biden
© Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty Images
Joe Biden

Comment: The following puts the Dems' and intelligence agencies' and the military industrial complex's support of Biden in a whole new context doesn't it?


Biden has repeatedly claimed that a bill he wrote in 1994 was essentially the same as the 2001 Patriot Act.

If Vice President Joe Biden decides to enter the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, his past positions -- including on trade bills, the Iraq War, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, and changes to welfare -- are sure to draw the ire of the party's liberal base.

Much has already been made about Biden's instrumental role as a senator pushing through the 1994 crime bill -- "a bill that made the problem worse" according to former President Bill Clinton, who signed it into law.

Another potential sticking point for liberals: Biden not only voted for the 2001 Patriot Act, he, on many occasions, claimed credit for writing it.

"I drafted a terrorism bill after the Oklahoma City bombing," Biden was quoted as saying by the New Republic in 2001.

Comment: See also: Worth The Price? Joe Biden And The Launch of The Iraq War



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Caitlin Johnstone: Consent-manufacturing for Patriot Act II continues

Caitlin Johnson
RT
Fri, 15 Jan 2021 11:56 UTC
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© Сaitlin Johnstone
America is in chaos and the situation is ripe for the roll out of new authoritarian laws aimed at tackling the rise of 'domestic terrorism'. Never mind that these plans were being drafted well in advance of the Capitol riot.

It's been obvious for a long time that the best way to stop the rise of right-wing extremism in America that everyone's so worried about today is not to pass a bunch of authoritarian laws, but to reverse the policies of soul-crushing neoliberalism and domestic austerity which led to Donald Trump. Instead of doing this, the next president is already pushing a Patriot Act sequel and reducing the stimulus checks he'd promised the public before he's even been sworn in.

President-elect Biden promised unambiguously that if voters gave the Democratic Party control of the Senate by electing Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in Georgia earlier this month, checks of $2,000 would "go out the door immediately." Warnock blatantly campaigned on the promise of $2000 checks if elected, literally using pictures of checks with "$2000" written on them to do so. This was not an unclear promise by any stretch of the imagination, yet when Biden unveiled the "American Rescue Plan" on Thursday, the number 1400 was written where the number 2000 should have been.

Comment: So it seems that the far left may have outlived its usefulness to the Biden camp and Co., but that doesn't mean that the conservative 'pro-Trump' portion of the population isn't being targeted with the policies of demonization and of draconian 'domestic terrorism' legislation.

See: Americans are being divided as the war on 'domestic terror' expands

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Mexican president López Obrador: 'Pandemic lockdowns are the tactic of dictators. Democratic leaders, fundamentally, must guarantee liberty'


The Guardian
Wed, 02 Dec 2020 10:45 UTC
'The fundamental thing is to guarantee liberty,' says Mexican president when asked why he almost never wears a mask
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Mexicos's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador suggested on Wednesday that politicians who impose lockdowns or curfews to limit Covid-19 are acting like dictators.

The comments came as López Obrador once again fended off questions about why he almost never wears a face mask, saying it was a question of liberty.

The Mexican leader said pandemic measures that limit people's movements are "fashionable among authorities... who want to show they are heavy-handed, dictatorship.

"A lot of them are letting their authoritarian instincts show," he said, adding "the fundamental thing is to guarantee liberty."

Comment: Thank God for the nationalist populist leaders holding out against the global Branch Covidian Cult.

In hindsight, it's interesting how globalist outlets like The Economist immediately suspected AMLO of 'being Mexico's Trump', back before he had even won Mexico's presidential election. They were right!

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Berlin clinical data confirm Navalny had pancreatitis, diabetes, liver failure, staph infection, mild heart attack - no Novichok symptoms

John Helmer
johnhelmer.net
Fri, 15 Jan 2021 22:27 UTC
helmer
The German laboratory test results for Alexei Navalny, published by a group of doctors at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin last month, reveal a surprising number of medical symptoms, but they are not those of Novichok nerve agent poisoning as Navalny and his supporters in western governments have alleged.

Clinical doctors, toxicologists, and pharmacology experts outside Germany believe the test results which the Charité group released on December 22 reveal symptoms of acute pancreatitis, diabetes, liver failure, severe dehydration, muscular rigidity, as well as a serious bacterial infection, and a possible heart attack associated with his kidney problems. According to the experts, these are not recognisable symptoms of a nerve agent attack.

The German medical publication reports Navalny's "laboratory values on admission", and toxicology and pharmacology results "in blood and urine samples obtained on arrival of the patient of the patient at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (day 3)". Accordingly, the newly available data are evidence of the condition Navalny was in during his two-day treatment in Omsk Emergency Hospital No. 1 in Russia; and of the treatment he received there, as well as during his six-hour flight on a German medical evacuation aircraft from Omsk to Berlin.

The German doctors have also released a tabulation of their laboratory test results for Navalny during 33 days of his stay in the Charité hospital, and a subsequent visit to the hospital as an outpatient. The four data tables are described by the Germans as following "the supposed poisoning of the patient". The doctors don't wish to sign their names to this "supposing".
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What a China-style zero Covid strategy really means

Will Jones
Lockdown Sceptics
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 21:34 UTC
china flag lockdown
A Lockdown Sceptics reader has written to us deeply concerned about the adulation and copying of China's handling of the coronavirus by Western Governments. He should know. He has lived in China on and off since 2002 and owns a home and company there. While he has been shut out of the country since the start of the crisis, he is frequently in touch with people there and has a good idea what it is like right now.

Some politicians and journalists like to hold China up as a success story of the handling of the coronavirus crisis. They point to its low reported deaths, its almost non-existent cases and the impression that life is seemingly back to normal.

That is an incomplete picture. Life in China is not normal and the fight against Covid is not over by a long way.

The reality is that life in China has changed dramatically since the start of the coronavirus crisis, in three very significant ways.

1. Surveillance. Prior to the crisis, the population could move around freely without restriction. Now, you cannot enter most major public places like a station, an airport, a mall or any government building, without scanning a tracking app on your phone that clears you for entry with a green smiley face. Most residential compounds also require scanning to enter. So after you leave your home, you need to pass a scan to come back in.

This surveillance has been added to the financial surveillance that has been in place for the last few years. Every money transaction takes place with one of the two giant payment platforms, WePay or Alipay, and is linked to your ID number which the government tracks.

So the surveillance of the population is now total and absolute. The government knows everything that everyone is doing.
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Facebook played major role coordinating 'Capitol Riot' as Sandberg deflects blame

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 13 Jan 2021 22:25 UTC
Zuckerberg/Sandberg
© Unknown/KJN
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg • COO Sharyl Sandberg
Over the last week, Twitter alternative Parler was summarily executed by Amazon, which kicked the conservative social media platform off of its servers due to 'far-right' users coordinating last week's protest at the Capitol which turned into a riot after a small group split off, gained access to the Capitol building, and ran amok.

Now we learn that Facebook also had a giant role in coordinating the so-called 'Capitol Riots' which President Trump was just impeached over on Wednesday for allegedly inciting the incident.

According to the Washington Post, a "growing body of evidence shows that Facebook played a much larger role" than COO Sharyl Sandberg claimed in a Monday interview livestreamed by Reuters, in what the Post described as 'deflecting blame:'
"I think these events were largely organized on platforms that don't have our abilities to stop hate, don't have our standards and don't have our transparency."

She noted that last week the company took down content affiliated with the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory and the Proud Boys extremist group, as well as content affiliated with the pro-Trump "Stop the Steal" movement seeking to delegitimize election results. She said there was likely to be some content on Facebook because the company's enforcement was "never perfect." Au contraire Sharyl, it's far more than just 'some' content.
According to the Post, the hashtag #StopTheSteal was still widely in use as of Monday, when a search revealed that 128,000 people were talking about it, and in many cases using it to coordinate for the rally, according to Eric Feinberg, Vice President with the Coalition for a Safer Web.

Comment: Social media to achieve unlimited power status via its golden ring: The Biden Administration and the coup it managed to help create.

See also:

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Biden releases $1.9T coronavirus relief plan, includes $2K direct payments

Anders Hagstrom
Daily Caller
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 09:03 UTC
Biden
© Getty Images/Alex Wong
Former US VP Joe Biden
President-Elect Joe Biden on Thursday introduced a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan that includes $2,000 direct payments to Americans and mandates a $15 minimum wage.

The plan is Biden's first official pass at a coronavirus relief plan, adding an additional $1,400 to the existing $600 direct payments President Donald Trump signed in December.

Biden introduced the plan amid upheaval in Congress over Trump's second impeachment in the House of Representatives. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has shot down calls for a special Senate session to convict Trump prior to Biden's inauguration. Biden himself has also said he expects Congress to be ready to deliberate on his legislation when he takes office.

Comment: Regardless the numbers from Biden Fog, all the stimulus funding has to be borrowed, adding $27 trillion to the US national debt. At least interest rates have also tanked. Whew! Dodged one there!


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'I do not celebrate or feel pride': Twitter CEO defends Trump's permaban, but admits speech crackdown can 'destroy' open internet


RT
Thu, 14 Jan 2021 14:05 UTC
Dorsey
© Reuters/Anushree Fadnavis
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has stood by his platform's move to block President Donald Trump's account, while acknowledging that the arbitrary removal of content by Big Tech could spell the demise of online debate.

"I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump from Twitter," Dorsey tweeted on Wednesday, adding that the decision to boot the president off the platform was still "the right" one.

Comment: It is more likely the social media heads had considered a number of dates to pull the erasure trigger and chose the one with the biggest impact at the most crucial time for maximum effect on the Trump administration and the public - politically, socially and emotionally. Mass exodus from technopoly becomes 'the power' of the people.

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