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The Great Nonsense of "The Great Reset"

Thomas DiLorenzo
Lew Rockwell
Sat, 27 Mar 2021 06:48 UTC
great reset
"The Great Reset" is the latest deceptive euphemism for totalitarian socialism that is being promoted by yet another group of wealthy corporate elitists who think they can centrally plan the entire world economy. They are essentially the ideological heirs of Frederick Engels and his intellectual puppet Karl Marx. "The Great Reset" follows in the rhetorical footsteps of such euphemisms for socialism as "economic democracy," "social justice," "liberation theology," "progressivism," "market socialism" (an oxymoron, like "jumbo shrimp" or "military intelligence"), "environmentalism," "fighting climate change," "sustainable development," and "green new deal," to mention just a few.

The main figure of this movement is wealthy German engineer Klaus Schwab, founder of the "World Economic Forum," who champions what he calls "transhumanism," the integration of nanotechnology into the human body so that humans can be controlled remotely by the state.[1] As Ron Paul has noted, "Included in Schwab's proposal for surveillance [of every citizen] is his idea to use brain scans and nanotechnology to predict, and if necessary, prevent, individuals' future behavior . This means that anyone whose brain is 'scanned' could have his . . . [constitutional] rights violated because a government bureaucrat determines the individual is going to commit a crime."[2]

Placed in the hands of politicians, this would create a level of totalitarianism the Soviets could only have dreamed of. In other words, Schwab is reminiscent of that famous twentieth-century German who also fantasized about creating a master race and ruling the world.

Comment: See also:

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Syringe

Moderna and mRNA vaccine research

A Political Junkie
Viable Opposition
Mon, 29 Mar 2021 06:00 UTC
moderna covid vaccine
© Getty Images
While Moderna continues the human-wide, government-promoted and mandated Phase 3 trials of its unprecedented mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine, the company appears to be putting significant effort into advancing its mRNA-based vaccine research inventory.

Here is how Moderna defines mRNA (messenger RNA):
"Messenger RNA, or mRNA, plays a fundamental role in human biology, transferring the instructions stored in DNA to make the proteins required in every living cell. mRNA provides instructions to cells to make protein. Moderna's approach is to use mRNA medicines to instruct a patient's own cells to produce proteins that could prevent, treat, or cure disease. We are also working to advance the development mRNA therapeutics that restore the activity of missing enzymes responsible for various rare diseases, such as methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) and propionic acidemia (PA)."
Messenger RNA vaccines are a completely new line of vaccines. Here is some background information on mRNA vaccines from Harvard Health Blog:

Comment: 2022 is also when Bill Gates says that the world will be 'back to normal'. See also:

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Target

The real reasons why millions of Americans will defy Covid mandates and vaccines

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Thu, 11 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
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I suspect a large portion of the public is at least partially aware when they are being pushed or lured into a specific way of thinking. We have certainly had enough experience with institutions trying to manage our thoughts over the years. Governments and mainstream media outlets in particular have made the manufacture of public consent their top priority. This is what they spend most of their time, money and energy on. All other issues are secondary.

The media does not objectively report facts and evidence, it spins information to plant an engineered narrative in the minds of its viewers. But the public is not as stupid as they seem to think. This is probably why trust in the media has plunged by 46% in the past ten years, hitting an all time low this year of 27%.

Except for pre-election season spikes, mainstream outlets from CNN to Fox to CBS to MSNBC are facing dismal audience numbers, with only around 2 million to 3 million prime time viewers. There are numerous YouTube commentators with bigger audiences than this. And, if you sift through the debris of MSM videos on YouTube, you'll find low hits and a majority of people that are visiting their channels just to make fun of them.

The MSM is now scrambling to explain their crumbling empire, as well as debating on ways to save it from oblivion. The power of the "Fourth Estate" is a facade, an illusion given form by smoke and mirrors. Bottom line: Nobody (except perhaps extreme leftists) likes the corporate media or activist journalists and propagandists.
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Sherlock

WHO claims coronavirus 'very likely' to have passed to humans from bats via 'unknown animal'

Samuel Lovett
Independent
Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:09 UTC
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© Associated Press
March 19, 2020, laboratory scientist Andrea Luquette cultures coronavirus to prepare for testing at U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick.
Coronavirus is "very likely" to have first passed from bats to humans via another animal, according to a World Health Organisation report on the origins of Covid-19.

A draft version of the study, which was obtained by the Associated Press, also concludes that it is "extremely unlikely" the virus was leaked from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where Covid-19 first emerged in late 2019.


Comment: Indeed. Because it didn't appear only in Wuhan. However that doesn't discount a laboratory elsewhere, with the US being at the forefront of such experimentation: Chinese Govt: 'Covid-19 began as multiple separate outbreaks globally, we were just the first to report'


It had been claimed that scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) were experimenting with a virus genetically similar to Sars-CoV-2 before it was leaked into the community.

Comment: As numerous other researchers have pointed out, the unusual nature of the coronavirus can only really be explained if the virus was constructed in a laboratory. And so the 'unknown animal' responsible for its appearance in humans was likely the persons in the lab who engineered it; even WHO representatives have admitted as much: Compelling Evidence That SARS-CoV-2 Was Man-Made

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Bizarro Earth

Michigan restaurant owner jailed after not following pandemic orders

Mike Brest
Washington Examiner
Sat, 20 Mar 2021 20:01 UTC
Marlena Pavlos-Hackney
© John Agar/AP
Marlena Pavlos-Hackney talks on a cell phone at her Holland restaurant, Marlena's Bistro & Pizzeria, on Thursday, March 18, 2021, in Holland, Mich. Michigan State Police arrested Pavlos-Hackney on Friday, March 19, 2021. State investigators say she ignored caps on restaurant capacity and wasn't enforcing mask rules. Her food license was suspended Jan. 20, but the eatery remained open.
A Michigan restaurant owner will remain in jail for up to three months after she allegedly refused to follow the state's coronavirus restrictions, as restaurants nationally continue to shutter during the pandemic.

Marlena Pavlos-Hackney, 55, the owner of Marlena's Bistro and Pizzeria, was arrested early Friday morning because she continued to willfully violate the coronavirus policies, the district attorney claimed. A warrant was issued for her arrest March 11.

She was taken into custody for an outstanding Ingraham County civil warrant for contempt of court.
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Bizarro Earth

Philippines locks down economic hub to fight COVID-19 surge


Channel News Asia
Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:51 UTC
Philippine COVID lockdown
© AFP/Jam STA ROSA
A previous months-long lockdown crippled the Philippine economy, cost millions of jobs and left many households hungry
More than 24 million people in the Philippines' economic hub entered a lockdown on Monday (Mar 29), as officials warned the week-long restrictions could be extended if coronavirus infections do not fall.

People have been ordered to stay home unless they are essential workers as Metro Manila - the national capital region - and four neighbouring provinces struggle to curb a surge that has strained hospitals.

Only hours into the latest lockdown imposed on the region - which accounts for around half of the country's economic activity - the health department's epidemiology chief Alethea de Guzman warned it could be prolonged to bring about a "sustained" drop.
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Wedding Rings

Trump crashes Mar-a-Lago wedding reception and gives impromptu speech

Cassandra Fairbanks
The Gateway Pundit
Sun, 28 Mar 2021 02:34 UTC
Trump
© Mandel Ngan/AFP
The Party Crasher
Former President Donald Trump crashed a wedding reception at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Saturday night. The lucky couple who received the surprise guest were John and Megan Arrigo.

Trump drew big laugher from the crowd as he took jabs at the current administration.

TMZ, who first obtained the video, used it to trash Trump for making it "all about him" — but anyone who is getting married at Mar-a-Lago is not going to be upset about the surprise appearance.

Trump lambasted Biden for his foreign policy/deals with China and Iran, the border crisis, and other shortcomings of the administration's first few months:
"Look, it's a disaster. It's a humanitarian disaster from their standpoint and it's going to destroy the country — and frankly the country can't afford it!"

Comment: Whatever Trump had, he's still got it. In this short stand-up, he likely said more than Biden did all week.

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Texas COVID numbers decrease 17 days after mask, other restrictions lifted

Caitlin McFall
Fox News
Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
GregAbbot
© Unknown
Texas Governor Greg Abbott
Just over two weeks after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lifted coronavirus mandates allowing businesses to operate at 100 percent capacity and made masks optional, the red state is still reporting decreases in cases and hospitalizations.

The governor championed his state's success in a Friday night tweet saying:
"Today Texas recorded the lowest 7-day COVID positivity rate since that data began being calculated: 5.43%. We also recorded the largest daily number of vaccines administered to Texans: 342,849. More Texans getting vaccines will keep down the positivity rate. Receiving the vaccine was 'always voluntary.'"
Texas reported 2,239 new infections Saturday, roughly 500 fewer cases on average from the previous week, according to data from the state's health department.

Biden slammed Abbott's decision -- which was shortly followed by similar mandate removals by Mississippi -- as "Neanderthal thinking." Biden told reporters from the White House earlier this month:
"We've been able to move that all the way up to the end of May to have enough [vaccines] for every American, to get every adult American to get a shot. The last thing we need is the Neanderthal thinking."

Comment: We shall see if this encouraging outcome is duplicated in other states. It would be helpful for statistical information to be separately factored on each component - especially the efficacy and rationale for a vaccine (given this flu is unremarkable and there are sudden deaths attributable). While masks are virally ineffective, they compromise the wearer. Losing the mask appears to have positive effects.


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Pistol

At least 30 shot over weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot's Chicago

AWR Hawkins
Breitbart
Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Lightfoot
© AP/Nam Y. Huh
1 Mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot
At least 30 people were shot, three fatally, over another deadly weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot's (D) Chicago.

Yesterday, Breitbart News noted some 20 people were shot in Chicago from Friday into Sunday morning alone. Those shooting victims included two fatalities.

On Monday morning ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times reported the number of individuals shot over the entire weekend had climbed to at least 30. And there was an additional fatality, which occurred late Sunday afternoon "in Logan Square on the Northwest Side." The fatality occurred just after 4:30 p.m. Sunday, when a 32-year-old man was shot multiple times. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

The Chicago Tribune observes 620 people were shot in Chicago January 1, 2021, through March 22, 2021, and that represents 159 more people than were shot during the same time last year as numbers show no sign of abatement.

Moreover, shootings on Chicago expressways are surging in 2021. WGNTV explained there were already 42 such shootings by March 5, 2021, and ABC 7 points out there was another expressway shooting Sunday night.

Sunday night's shooting occurred "on I-57 near 127th Street," and left four people injured.
About the Author:
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
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NPC

'Shocking' & 'racist': Politician in hot water over telling whites to 'be silent' when people of color discuss racism


RT
Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:47 UTC
Audrey Pulvar
© AFP / Patrick Kovarik
Audrey Pulvar
A black deputy mayor of Paris, Audrey Pulvar, has sparked controversy online after she said white people should remain "silent spectators" if they attend meetings where people of color discuss racism.

A former TV host and journalist, Pulvar, told the French BFM TV on Saturday that she was "not shocked" to hear that people of color hold meetings closed to the whites. The politician, who now serves as a deputy to the Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo, referred to a high-profile incident earlier this month, which saw the National Union of Students of France (UNEF) organizing meetings on racism that were off-limits to the whites.

Pulvar, herself a black person, said that "people who are discriminated against for the same reasons and who feel the same way need to meet together to discuss it." Still, she believes it would not be quite right to outright ban the white people from attending such meetings altogether.
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