Society's Child

The primary mechanism of your oppression is not hidden at all

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:01 UTC

I write a lot about government secrecy and the importance of whistleblowers, leakers and leak publishers, and for good reason: governments which can hide their wicked deeds from public accountability will do so whenever possible. It's impossible for the public to use democracy for ensuring their government behaves in the way they desire if they aren't allowed to be informed about what that behavior even is.

These things get lots of attention in conspiracy circles and dissident political factions. Quite a few eyes are fixed on the veil of government opacity and the persecution of those brave souls who try to shed light on what's going on behind it. Not enough eyes, but quite a few.

What gets less attention, much to our detriment, is the fact that the primary mechanism of our oppression and exploitation is happening right out in front of our faces.

Comment: See also: The Establishment Doesn't Fear Trump, And it Doesn't Fear Bernie. It Fears You

Oil prices see biggest January loss in 30 years

Julianne Geiger
Oil Price
Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:00 UTC

Crude oil prices slid a painful 15% in January — the biggest January slide since 1991 — as the coronavirus claims the death of 213 souls and counting.

After a couple weeks of continued slippage, the price of the Brent and WTI benchmarks were trading down 0.98% and 0.73% on the day, respectively, at 9:51 am as the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency.

While the WHO did not recommend any travel restrictions to China, the US State Department recommended no travel to China, and airlines have stopped flying to China, including Air France, British Airways, Lufthansa, Virgin Atlantic, Lion Air, and Seoul Air. Other airlines had reduced their flight schedules to China, including American, Delta, United, Finnair, Cathay Pacific, and Jetstar Asia.

Comment: See also:

Ice Age Farmer Report: CHINA: It's NOT About the Coronavirus -- It's About the FOOD

Ice Age Farmer
Sat, 01 Feb 2020 11:26 UTC

TRUTH is the real casualty of the Coronavirus outbreak -- find it here. What's the true agenda? The medical police state? The forced vaccinations? The damage to economy? Yes, AND...

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Zerohedge on their Twitter suspension

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 31 Jan 2020 19:57 UTC

First it was Facebook, then all of New Zealand; now Twitter has decided to suspend Zero Hedge.

Just as in the prior bans, which were eventually overturned, so in this case it is unclear what prompted Twitter's abrupt censorship: the only notification we received from twitter was the following:

Comment: Bloomberg reports that the suspension is permanent:

A Twitter spokesperson said in an email to Bloomberg that the @zerohedge account, which had more than 670,000 followers, "was permanently suspended for violating our platform manipulation policy."

In an email to Bloomberg from the author known as Durden, he said he believed the suspension was "unjustified, and likely motivated by reasons other than the stated ones."

"We are confident that we did not violate any of the stated Twitter terms: we neither incited harassment, nor did we 'dox' the public official, whose contact information is as of this moment listed on the Wuhan institute's website," he wrote in the email.

Almost half of cancer patients in the US deplete entire life assets by second year of treatment

Katy Kinner
WSWS
Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:22 UTC

After a colon cancer diagnosis, Deb Genetin, a 57-year-old resident of Springfield, Ohio, just outside Dayton, was denied a life-saving surgery at Mercy Health hospital because, in the words of the hospital, her "financing wasn't in place." Genetin has not had health insurance in 10 years and makes only $20,000 a year as an administrative assistant in a law firm.

Last month, Genetin told the Times-Reporter, "They never told me how much money they needed, how much money I had to come up with. It was just a 'No.'" Genetin had previously applied for financial aid through Mercy Health but was rejected. Genetin then sought cheaper care at Ohio Valley Surgical Hospital, where she received the necessary surgery.

While Genetin is currently cancer-free and now has health insurance, she is struggling to both meet her payments and pay off medical debt. "I had to drop my hours and my income to get [health insurance] and now I struggle to pay the house payment," she told reporters.

Genetin is one of thousands of cancer patients in the United States who struggle to afford adequate treatment. In the last decade, researchers and physicians have begun to further explore the patient-level financial and health consequences of high-cost cancer treatment.

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Coronavirus can be treated by cow urine, dung: Hindu Mahasabha president

India TV
Sat, 01 Feb 2020 21:57 UTC

As the coronavirus scare runs across the world with one confirmed case in India, Hindu Mahasabha has proposed bizarre treatment for the dreaded virus infection. Swami Chakrapani Maharaj, president of Hindu Mahasabha [political party], on Friday said cow urine and cow dung can be used for treating novel coronavirus disease. He also said that a special yagna will be performed to "kill the novel coronavirus and end its effects on the world".

"Consuming cow urine and cow dung will stop the effect of infectious coronavirus. A person who chants Om Namah Shivay and applies cow dung on body, will be saved. A special yagna ritual will soon be performed to kill coronavirus," said Chakrapani.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the new coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency after the death toll in China rose to 213 on Friday, with 9,692 confirmed cases in the country's 31 provincial-level regions.

Comment: This is one home remedy you may want to take with a grain of salt! Maybe stick with the vitamin C and sodium bicarbonate.

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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: New world begins as Grand Solar Minimum food shortages loom

Adapt 2030
Sat, 01 Feb 2020 19:06 UTC

As was forecast that about one year before global food shortages rocked the planet a purposeful implosion of the global economy would occur to stop people from moving to better food secure regions on the planet. Here we sit with a virus that will accomplish a full lock down of the entire globe and crash the global economy. A double layer of lock down so where you are stuck is where you stay. This is what you can expect moving forward with governmental control, the economy and your lives. Good luck in your preparations.

Comment: Related articles include:

David DuByne of Adapt 2030 recently had a two part discussion with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron, editors at SOTT.net and authors of Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World.

See here for Part 1 and Part 2.

Review of Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection. The book is available to purchase here.

Time to juggle the groceries: Looming paper bag shortage shows you can't save the planet by banning plastic ones

Martyn Andrews
RT
Sun, 02 Feb 2020 07:47 UTC

© Reuters / Soe Zeya Tun
A woman in Bangkok carries a shopping bag after Thailand government's ban of single-use plastic, January 2, 2020

The plastic bag has become anathema to the effort of saving Mother Nature from humans' toxic ways. But humans are now being blindsided by a shortage of paper bags - which have proven to be an even worse alternative.

With the old-fashioned single-use plastic bags sent to an extinction rebellion fiery hell, we are being told that the only way forward is recycling, and using environmentally-friendly alternatives made of paper, cotton, polyester or other suitable materials.

Seventy-four countries have banned single-use plastic bags made from low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plastic with varying degrees of enforcement, and 37 countries now impose a charge per bag. New York State will also join the full ban from March 1 this year, but as the need for paper bags increases, the retail industry is facing a volume crisis.

Sal Bonavita owns Key Food stores in the Bronx, he told the New York Post that because of the upcoming ban there is now a paper bag shortage, and that customers should bring reusable bags to his stores or face waddling home with groceries under their arms; "In the future I'm hoping to get some paper bags before March but I know I won't have enough."

According to the Earth Policy Institute approximately 2 million plastic bags are used every minute, but as the demand for paper bags soars, in return, this means that manufacturers are now worrying that there will not be enough available for up to five years.

New outbreak of BIRD FLU sees thousands of chickens culled in coronavirus-stricken China

RT
Sat, 01 Feb 2020 21:10 UTC

As China grapples with the rampant Wuhan coronavirus, another sickness has broken out in the country: the deadly H5N1 bird flu.

The outbreak took place at a farm near Shaoyang city, in China's central Hunan province, the country's Ministry of Agriculture announced on Saturday. 4,500 of the farm's 7,850 chickens have died from the illness, and local authorities have culled nearly 20,000 birds to contain its spread.

H5N1 is an avian flu virus that causes severe respiratory disease in birds, and is contagious to humans. No human victims have yet been reported, but the World Health Organization (WHO) states that more than 350 people have died from the virus since it first spread to humans in Hong Kong in the late 1990s.

H5N1 is a far deadlier virus to those who contract it. Nearly 60 percent of H5N1 patients die after contracting the sickness, compared to two percent of Wuhan coronavirus (2019 nCoV) patients thus far.

Comment: Could there be a repeat of the 2009 pandemic in the offing?

Smoking to be banned at all train stations, platforms in the Netherlands

Zack Newmark
NL Times
Thu, 30 Jan 2020 20:34 UTC

Train station smoking ban in Netherlands

Smoking will soon be forbidden at all train stations across the Netherlands, according to national railway NS. The organization is working with railroad infrastructure firm ProRail to expand the existing smoking ban to include platforms and other station facilities.

Smoking facilities on the platforms will be removed in October. ProRail previously said it would dismantle all areas where passengers may smoke by midway through 2021.

Tobacco products will also no longer be sold at NS-owned shops, namely Kiosk and StationsHuiskamer, beginning April 1. The tobacco ban will be in place at these 136 sales points. The NS holds the rights to several AH to Go franchises located at the train stations. In total, the NS operates about 270 shops.

"In addition, NS will no longer close new contracts with tenants who want to sell tobacco at the station," the NS said in a statement.

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Society's Child

The primary mechanism of your oppression is not hidden at all

Oil prices see biggest January loss in 30 years

Ice Age Farmer Report: CHINA: It's NOT About the Coronavirus -- It's About the FOOD

Zerohedge on their Twitter suspension

Almost half of cancer patients in the US deplete entire life assets by second year of treatment

Coronavirus can be treated by cow urine, dung: Hindu Mahasabha president

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: New world begins as Grand Solar Minimum food shortages loom

Time to juggle the groceries: Looming paper bag shortage shows you can't save the planet by banning plastic ones

New outbreak of BIRD FLU sees thousands of chickens culled in coronavirus-stricken China

Smoking to be banned at all train stations, platforms in the Netherlands

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