To earlier generations, the term constellations might have meant zodiacal dot-to-dots depicting ancient gods or mythical creatures — but today the word more likely evokes hurtling GPS satellites and myriad spy craft buzzing the firmament. As above, so below now applies to the technological miasma of modern life. But what has been out of sight should no longer be out of mind, as agendas on the ground seem to merge with those in the stratosphere.

On terra firma we can observe concerted — even desperate — efforts by the World Economic Forum and affiliated NGOs and politicians to severely restrict energy, food and transportation, under the guise of “saving the planet”. Now satellite systems are being touted as a means of reducing methane emissions and of tracking changes in the flora and fauna of remote regions amid a “boiling” planet. But does this rapidly evolving and terrifying agenda on the ground really apply to near orbit?

How many flickering objects are up there and who put them there? How do they really affect us beyond the convenience of sat navs or streaming TV subscriptions?

More than half of the 9,692 satellites orbiting Earth are used for communications. Other uses for the thousands of satellites in the sky include Earth and space observation (22.1 per cent), Earth and space science (0.44 per cent), technology development and demonstrations (0.77 per cent), as well as navigation and global positioning (3.6 per cent). SpaceX owns and operates the most satellites. The company’s 4,534 vehicles make up nearly half of the total in orbit, with plans for about 42,000 more. Elon Musk, the owner, has a goal of delivering high-speed broadband internet access to most people in the world through his Starlink constellation. This makes him a suitable person for scrutiny when questions of surveillance and influence come to the fore amid the battle for hearts and minds over climate narratives and net zero targets set by outfits such as the World Economic Forum, United Nations and national governments — regardless of whether SpaceX sats are involved in environmental observation or not.

Burning issues

Grain silos blazed in La Rochelle, France, on August 10; following an explosion at a grain depot near the port of Derince in western Turkey a few days earlier. These Europe-based infrastructure accidents, or sabotage, follow countless derailments and crop disasters across the American agricultural belt in recent months. If that wasn’t bad enough, special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry announced last week that agriculture was now in the climate targets of the US.

Meanwhile, back in Europe, France has banned short-haul flights to reduce carbon emissions — specifically journeys that can be reached by car in under two and a half hours (even though the French government admitted these climate compliance moves would not affect CO2 emissions). Indications are that Germany and Austria will soon follow suit.

Judging by Canada’s fascist interpretation of public health directives at the height of the Covid hysteria, they may steal a march on America as pioneers of the globalist stay-at-home-and-be-happy schematic.

Oxford city council in England has raced to implement the 15-minute city zoning that requires heavy surveillance of citizens to work. The quick rollout may be because such a template existed in Eastern Germany during the cold war and because Oxford put up little resistance to pandemic lockdowns and mask mandates — an indicator of where the climate compliance initiative may be rolled out. Ireland, whose citizens wholeheartedly bent over to receive jabs and whose Garda police force used heavy-handed measures on those not wearing masks or venturing outside during lockdowns, coincidentally finds itself with stringent targets on cattle reduction, despite being a pastoral economy and producing some of the best tasting food in the world. Its government has set a target of 20 percent of the country’s meat and dairy herds for slaughter, or 1.3m cows, to reach “climate targets”.

The myth of Elon

Elon Musk is lauded as the great technological disruptor of his generation, after pioneering scaleable businesses in both electric cars and chemical space rockets, through Tesla and SpaceX. Prior to that, he was a formative influence in electronic payments, through PayPal. Musk took control of social media outlet Twitter in a $44bn deal in October 2022. Since then he has reinstated many censored accounts and routinely tweeted his commitment to “free speech”. It would be fair to say he has earned the trust of millions, as formerly taboo issues, such as voter fraud, child trafficking, excess mortality among young people and allegations of Biden family corruption, reemerge on the site.

This virtuous timeline took a divisive turn when he appointed Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter in May this year. Yaccarino left her role as chairman of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal. She also serves as the chair of the WEF’s Future of Work taskforce and is a member of the WEF Media, Entertainment and Culture Industry Governors Steering Committee. Yaccarino was a vocal advocate of mask-wearing and Covid jabs at the height of the pandemic. The business case for her involvement has been cited as stemming an advertiser exodus, dealing with service disruptions, regulatory scrutiny and a growing list of rivals.

A few months down the line and Musk announced a name change for the platform — to be styled as simply X. The touted rationale is that the site will evolve into the “everything app”, not unlike China’s WeChat microblogging app, with increased monetization for content creators and a one-stop shop for daily life.

Yaccarino has recently discussed Twitter content in terms of “lawful” versus “awful” and has mooted censorship to ensure “brand safety”. Such arbitrary decisions could be interpreted as a form a social credit scoring if applied to and logged against certain users. If daily financial transactions are combined with blogging on the X app, then it takes little imagination to equate social behavior with social and financial mandates. Another project under the Musk umbrella is Neuralink, which is developing implantable brain–computer interfaces that would posit human consciousness within the world-wide web. At what stage, and under what conditions, would use of the X app become contingent on adoption of a Neuralink brain implant?

It is notable that Twitter has just been found in contempt by a circuit judge who had directed the company to handover details of President Donald Trump’s Twitter account. A search warrant was served with a nondisclosure order that prohibited Twitter from notifying anyone of the existence of the order. The social media company delayed producing the documents while litigating its objections, and was ultimately fined $350,000 for the delay. Although this development does not directly relate to Musk’s space operations, it does form a plank in any discussion over his general motivations and attitude towards state agendas.

The 20th century’s main rocket pioneer was Wernher von Braun, who was sequestered by Nasa in Operation Paperclip after the second world war. The Nazis had developed the V2 rockets that had plagued their western European enemies and Von Braun had been the lead engineer of that project. Von Braun wrote a science fiction novel in 1952 called Project Mars — a space fantasy about a mission to Mars, where the protagonist, a man named Elon, is elected as governor of the newly colonized planet. Elon, over the course of the story, becomes increasingly paranoid and dictatorial, perhaps representing the archetypal Führer complex of Adolf Hitler that Von Braun would have experienced firsthand.

SpaceX recently became the first private company to carry Nasa astronauts into space. Musk has been open about his desire to explore other worlds, tweeting that he wants to “make humanity a multi-planet species”. While SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets are being used to launch satellites into orbit, its larger Starship is designed to reach the Moon, Mars and beyond.

On August 16, Musk tweeted: “Tesla & SpaceX/Starlink doing our best to be helpful to Hawaii.” SpaceX has not yet replied to our request for clarification.

SpaceX satellites run on Linux, an open-source operating system that is easy to customize. Since 2021, they have been equipped with laser crosslinks that enable them to communicate with one another. This means that vehicles within constellations can share data among themselves, reducing the reliance on ground-based stations. These laser links allow internet traffic to be shared among the satellites in orbit. The laser crosslinks allow Starlink constellations to beam internet connectivity to the most remote locations, including the polar caps.

In an echo of the Von Braun novel, Starlink’s terms of service contain a section stating that in the event that company reaches Mars, it will have full independence from any government on Earth.

“For services provided on Mars, or in transit to Mars via Starship or other spacecraft, the parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities,” the document reads. “Accordingly, disputes will be settled through self-governing principles, established in good faith, at the time of Martian settlement.”

Gwynne Shotwell, the chief executive, has outlined plans to place humans on the Red Planet by the end of the decade.

The Ukraine conflict has exposed the company’s strong military links, both as a service for foreign states, such Kyiv’s extensive use of its tech in countering Russian forces, and as a domestic application: in 2020, the US Air Force and SpaceX teamed up for a live-fire exercise in which Starlink satellites conveyed data to military assets that allowed them to shoot down a drone and a cruise missile. SpaceX has since created an offshoot project called Starshield, which has been designed exclusively for the US military and its agencies. Starshield will offer a higher level of security than Starlink, featuring “additional high-assurance cryptographic capability to host classified payloads and process data securely, meeting the most demanding government requirements”, according to SpaceX.

China’s security state has reacted to these developments with its usual paranoia-induced ingenuity. Researchers at the Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, a research institute run by the People’s Liberation Army, recently published a paper discussing ways to destroy or disable Starlink. Their failsafe and green solution was to detonate a nuclear weapon in space, which would presumably fry the circuits and cause debris that would damage the sats. If that was not definitive enough, coronal mass ejections from the Sun represent an ongoing threat to space-based technology. All this might be enough to make Musk see red before he reaches Mars. Just like Icarus, he is soaring very quickly into unchartered territory.

The dirt on DARPA

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) last year launched its own project to develop a low-Earth satellite “translator”. Otherwise known as the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node program, or Space-BACN, it aims to create a “low-cost, reconfigurable optical communications terminal that adapts to most optical inter-satellite link standards, translating between diverse satellite constellations”.

Space-BACN would create an “internet” of satellites, enabling seamless communication between military/government and commercial/civil satellite constellations that currently are unable to talk with each other. “We intentionally made making a proposal to our Space-BACN solicitations as easy as possible, because we wanted to tap into both established defense companies and the large pool of innovative small tech companies, many of which don’t have the time or resources to figure out complicated government contracting processes,” said Greg Kuperman, the Space-BACN program manager.

DARPA has been discussed in relation to a technological control grid involving artificial intelligence in the “Funding the Control Grid” series published on this site.

Shock and awe

Back in 2020, Australia was plagued by bush fires. More recently California was also subject to unprecedented droughts and forest blazes that encroached upon residential areas. In the past week, the Hawaiian island of Maui has been ravaged by blazing wildfires that have obliterated swaths of the urban landscape. The trajectory of Australia’s bushfires lead from Brisbane, along the Gold Coast, down to Melbourne in a relatively narrow cache of land. It was observed by some people that the line of devastation followed the route of a planned rail link of so-called Smart cities. Posts on Facebook showed photos of laser-like beams of light entering the blaze zones, leading to speculation that directed energy weapons were being deployed from space to initiate targeted firestorms. The Reagan administration’s Star Wars program in the 1980s had experimented with space-based lasers, but had ditched the plans after the lasers proved unsuitable in the zero atmosphere of space. Little has been said about their effectiveness if deployed from low-orbit satellites or whether the technology has been improved upon.

A cursory examination of footage from the Hawaiian disaster shows buildings and vehicles displaced as if in a blast zone, with an explosive ferocity tearing through the island. Governor Josh Green attributed the fires to climate change. In January, the island hosted the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, which focused on smart cities. The conference website outlined its aims thus: “Cities and communities around the world are entering a new era of transformation in which residents and their surrounding environments are increasingly connected through rapidly changing intelligent technologies, sometimes called, smart technologies. This transformation, which has become a top priority for many cities and other local governments, offers great promise for improved well-being and prosperity but, also, poses significant challenges at the complex intersection of technology and society.”

In a convergence of climate change and smart city narratives, the island would now be ripe for redevelopment under the auspices of a “smart and connected community” that can be “conceptualized as one that synergistically integrates intelligent technologies with the natural and built environments”. Maui, it seems, had been designated as a progeny of the smart island concept, entirely run on electric renewable power sources, with its residents forced into electric vehicles — in other words a 15-minute city. In September, Hawaii hosts the Digital Government Summit, which will discuss the use of artificial intelligence as a governing utility on the islands. It would seem that the sun, according to their climate science, has instigated a great reset on the island. Green said: “It does appear like a bomb and fire went off, if I may. And all of those buildings virtually are going to have to be rebuilt.”

The seminar is unlikely to discuss the Weather Modification Act of 1976. The act cites the involvement of the same government departments at the forefront of the “boiling” Earth narrative — the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency and Nasa. If these facets of the government have been involved in weather modification for decades, could they have caused these rather specific and convenient anomalies at the aforementioned locations?

In January a news report on Honolulu’s Khon TV station discussed a Chinese satellite caught on video “beaming down lasers over the Hawaiian islands”. A National Astronomical Observatory of Japan livestream camera atop the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea recorded the footage. The Chinese said they were measuring pollutants in the atmosphere. The incident points to the existence of space-based lasers.

Back in 2016 — in a contradiction of the current narrative — Nasa satellite data indicated that an increase in CO2 levels was fertilizing the planet. “From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years, largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide,” said the study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

“An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from Nasa’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet’s vegetated regions. The greening represents an increase in leaves on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental United States,” read the report.

The United Nations last month launched an initiative to accelerate “a transformation of food systems”, to get their “sustainable development” goals “back on track”. According to development indicators, almost half of the SDG targets are moderately or severely off track, and 37 percent are showing no change, a UN Food Systems summit in Rome was told.

Amina Mohammed, UN deputy secretary-general, announced a funding scheme that would accelerate an investment strategy in food systems and “catalyse the rapid and system-wide action needed for food system transformation under the UN Food Systems Hub”.

Mohammed cited the use of space technology for transforming agri-food systems, saying that the profound changes underway in outer space, “can become game-changers for the 2030 Agenda”.

“If we can effectively harness its potential, space technology could become among the most significant new technologies for agricultural and agri-food systems and ultimately lead to more sustainable, resilient, and efficient agri-food systems,” she said.

Their estimates say space tech can boost crop yields by more than 10 percent and help reduce costs by over 20 percent, including with fertilizers, fuel and pesticides.

Concurrently, in the Netherlands around 260 farms are operating without a license and will face fines if they don’t buy a nitrogen emissions quota or cut down on livestock, the agriculture ministry confirmed last week.

Another 2,500 farmers in the country are partly unlicensed but had been allowed by the government to continue in business if they could keep their nitrogen emissions below a certain level near “vulnerable natural areas”. That exemption, granted in 2019, has been dropped and about 600 farmers face fines unless they scale down or buy scarce rights to “pollute” via the quota scheme.

The European Commission backed a strategy to compensate livestock farmers for halting their operations in certain areas – with a stipulation that they never resume animal breeding activities. The implications would involve a drop in global food availability and a spike in prices.

On one hand the 2030 Agenda of the WEF and UN seeks to boost yields and at the same time outlaw the natural byproducts of agricultural processes. Both bodies have targeted carbon and nitrogen — the former being the building block of life on Earth and the latter being the largest constituent gas in the atmosphere, making up 78 percent of the air — as dangerous substances. In a further development, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has called for a 30 percent reduction in methane emissions by 2030 to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. The US government has just committed $700m to chart methane, which is viewed as a greenhouse gas that contributes to 25 percent of global warming.

The UN Environment Programme has created the Methane Alert and Response System (Mars) to detect and measure methane sources, initially focusing on the oil and gas sector. “It coordinates remote observations from satellites, including those operated by the European, Italian and German space agencies and Nasa, with the aim of identifying large emission sources of methane around the world,” says the UNEP website.

“We expect different reactions from governments and companies with whom we share our data,” said Manfredi Caltagirone, head of the International Methane Emissions Observatory. “Some will be constructive, proactive and keen to solve the problem with us. But we are aware that there are governments and companies that will not even pick up the phone. Some might even say: ‘Your data is wrong, there must be a mistake.’ But they also know that this data will be public and include information on the feedback and cooperation we have or have not received from the countries and companies in question,” he said.

“We are using satellites that have high spatial resolution and possess the ability to zoom in on the source of the methane emission. With more satellites and instruments at our disposal, our ability to use these technologies is increasing and improving dramatically.”

These agencies claim that rice accounts for 10 percent of global methane emissions, and therefore its production should be curtailed. Rice is a staple food for billions of people. Would restrictions on such a staple food not lead to mass starvation?

Under the pretext of detecting and monitoring an increasing array of dangerous gases and activities across agriculture and the so-called fossil-fuel industry, the UN and WEF are commandeering the most advanced surveillance tools on the planet. Even though considerable doubts remain over the whole greenhouse effect and data on global temperature fluctuations.

Th WEF has previously touted its vision of a “farm-free future,” where food is manufactured in labs and humans are herded into designated urban zones. This is nothing less than a war on food — and the elements of life on Earth. Satellites are just the latest weapons in the armory.

The draconian measures that spread around the world during the pandemic crisis (using a scientific narrative that has since been dismantled and exposed by Congressional enquiries and scientific discussions) were also at the behest of these two organizations together with the affiliated World Health Organization via compliant western governments. Once again a hypothesis of a global threat has been used to commandeer technology and legislation to institute an orchestrated destruction of the existing social fabric and contract, but this time via the main food and energy systems on the planet.

These developments run the risk of becoming a global Orwellian dictatorship — and are being justified by climate fanatics from all walks of life who believe that it is heretical to challenge their views, even with compelling countering scientific data. The various NGOs and government departments over decades of environmental proselytizing have arguably never produced a reliable prediction of global ecological or health-related consequence.

The potential of satellites in the development of smart grids is being realized at the highest levels of the body politic. Smart grids are now considered a crucial component of the planned energy landscape, enabling better integration of “renewable” energy sources and facilitating real-time monitoring and control of energy consumption.

The most important aspect of smart grids is their ability to monitor and control energy consumption at the end-user level. This can be achieved through the deployment of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), which enables two-way communication between utility companies and their customers. Satellites may allow the widespread adoption of AMI by providing the efficient and pervasive communication infrastructure. The benefits derived for people in remote and rural areas, where traditional terrestrial networks may be limited or non-existent, is touted by technologists as a key benefit. However, as we have seen with smart meters in homes, the interfaces are inherently invasive to freedom of use and can potentially be used to switch off energy supplies if the end user is deemed to have used too much or, at some later juncture, has not satisfied various social criteria for compliance. The optimum words used in their promotion are “monitor” and “control”.

What better place for the maniacal and hypocritical globalists to oversee such a dogma than from the heavens. Will it take a deus ex machina to extricate us from this developing techno-fascism or will the manufactured scientific consensus collapse before every inch of the planet is surveilled and given a social score?

Meanwhile, John F. Clauser, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum mechanics, has announced he will sign the World Climate Declaration of Clintel — with its central premise that “there is no climate emergency”. Clauser’s decision follows that of Nobel Laureate Dr Ivar Giaever. The number of scientists and experts signing the World Climate Declaration has reached 1,600 to date.

“The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people,” said Clauser.

“Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience. In turn, the pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. It has been promoted and extended by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies, and environmentalists. In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis. There is, however, a very real problem with providing a decent standard of living to the world’s large population and an associated energy crisis. The latter is being unnecessarily exacerbated by what, in my opinion, is incorrect climate science.”

The chart below demonstrates that increased CO2 correlates with an expansion of life, less with its demise. The so-called elite, who believe the world is over-populated, are scheming to remove CO2. When will we put them out of our misery?

The war on the stuff of life has gained altitude — but no one can hear a climate extremist scream in space.

Article posted with permission from Corey Lynn, originally published at CoreysDigs.com

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The technocratic custodians of history have of course recast these initiations as myths about giant birds abducting young children in a former wilderness that was laden with dangers in every nook and crevice. Such beasts were tamed or eradicated by the sweep of “modernization” that ushered in the industrial age, with its pollution, slavery and dis-ease. Under the burden of inflation and taxation, many parents have been coerced into working full-time to provide for their children. In this schematic, youngsters have been handed various devices to fill the void of personal engagement or communion. Smart phones, talking virtual assistants (Siri, Cortana, Alexa) and the immersive world of video games are blandishments that now dominate the lives of billions of children. But what are the psychological and health effects of such technologies, and what, if any, agendas underpin them?

Some of the most popular titles in the video game market are Call of Duty; Warzone, Fortnite, Grand Theft Auto, Minecraft and Super Smash Bros. Notwithstanding the violent narratives of the former games, the latter, more anodyne, titles still suggest a repetitive, addictive and mindless activity. What are the values inherent in these games — that killing and going on an urban rampage are desirable pursuits? What is missing from such augmented realities are the consequences of such lifestyles or actions; presenting a person with a hundred people to kill per session must devalue human life and desensitize the player, even if those people are pixelated.

More than half of children under 11 in the US own a smartphone, according to a report in NPR. Considerations of digital literacy and access to emergency services aside, the behavioral consequences of smartphone dependency in children have been well documented. A report titled “Association between mobile technology use and child adjustment in early elementary school age” used data from a group of 1,642 first-grade children in Japan to determine whether there was a link between the use of smartphones and behavioral development. The researchers found that “routine and frequent use of mobile devices appear to be associated with behavioral problems in childhood”.

A recent article published in the journal Child Development explored the physical health consequences of smartphone use for children. It stated that, as more children begin using smartphones at earlier ages, “it is of importance that neurological diseases, physiological addiction, cognition, sleep and behavioral problems are considered”. The effects of non-ionizing radiation, from cell phones and WiFi, have been well documented. Sarah Horsley, in a 2014 report called “Safeguarding in Schools: Wireless Technologies”, stated that “Children and young people absorb more microwave, radiofrequency radiation from wireless technologies into their bodies than adults. Modeling studies predict that children absorb 60-100 per cent more into their brains than adults and 900 per cent into their bone marrow. Children are more likely to be damaged by any effects of wireless signals because their bodies are still developing; cells are dividing more (making damage to DNA more likely to be expressed as mutations); their skulls are thinner and their brains are more conductive.”

Beyond the obvious health concerns, what other agendas might the technologists have for our children? This is the age of transparency, and technology is the unwitting conduit of deeper insights into the mindsets and techniques of mass control. The blatant and unscrupulous behavior of social media platforms in censoring and maligning people who post information that counters their aims is one facet of this clarity.

The World Economic Forum organized the Smart Toy Awards this year, ostensibly to highlight manufacturers who were creating AI-based devices that interact with children. The WEF webpage states: “Kids today have a chance to interact with their toys, which have built-in sensors, speakers, cameras and microphones that allow them to engage in ways never imagined before. The toys can customize the experience as they learn more about the child, opening children up to a new digital frontier with new risks and challenges.” The Davos brigade view, or package, data collection and surveillance of children as something noteworthy. Children represent an existential threat to the consensus reality — pure and unencumbered as they are — and therefore the lie structure of this matrix risks being collapsed under the force of their exuberance and relationship with the observable Truth. The reductionist curriculums of the school system have seen diminishing returns with the latest generations of kids, so it would make sense to try to plug them in, as it were, to AI, which can learn from and then later perhaps manipulate children’s developmental processes.

The proliferation of devices aimed at children includes smart watches, location monitors, iPhone Dupe, e-readers, smart lights and speakers linked to the Alexa AI system, and tablets. Smart TVs have backdoors in their software to allow easy access to security agencies and the potential to monitor conversations in the room. Why would the manufacturers — who did not disclose such issues before being challenged on them — leave children out of the surveillance loop? The entrainment is that every facet of life should be directed through the prism of AI.

The Fitbit Ace 2 Activity Tracker is aimed at children of six and up, which “monitors steps, active minutes and sleep habits, plus it lets kids challenge their friends to step competitions and send each other messages.” There is even a Colgate Magik Smart Toothbrush, which assesses how well the child cleaned their teeth.

The advertising blurbs that accompany these products make virtue of the devices’ ability to require parental consent and monitoring, although it seems unlikely that this technology would be designed to answer solely to parents, given the value of such raw data to corporations. Smart devices essentially use personal data to customize to your needs. But that information is usually stored in the “cloud”, which is a cute word that means giant computer servers beyond your reach.

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act is a federal law enforced by the Federal Trade Commission. COPPA prevents online companies from collecting and using data from children under 13 without parental consent. COPPA on paper at least prohibits smart devices from tracking kids, but when the devices are used in the home, they do not necessarily know the ages of all users. And, of course, parental consent is the override to this facility.

Most internet connected products have privacy settings that allow some restrictions on the use of your data, such as how much the company can collect, what they use it for, how long they can keep it — although such devices will in some cases have restricted functionality under tight privacy settings, such as a home assistant not allowing calls to friends if your contacts book has been withheld from it.

Amazon Can Now Be Sued

Recently, Amazon changed its retailer’s terms of service from the standard arbitration clause to allow disputes to be brought in state or federal courts, near their headquarters in Washington state. Why did they do this? Nearly all corporations go with arbitration because it keeps things behind closed doors, allows for minimal fees to be paid out, and avoids large class action suits. However, when tens of thousands of arbitration cases are filed at once, like Keller Lenkner LLC of Chicago recently did, that puts a whole lot of pressure, time, and fees on a company.

“Companies thought they were getting out of liability altogether,” by adding arbitration clauses, said Chicago lawyer Travis Lenkner, whose firm filed the majority of the Amazon claims. “Now they’re seeing exactly what they bargained for, and they don’t like it.”

Amazon is now facing at least three class action lawsuits, including one that alleges Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo devices recorded people, including children, without permission.

Mass arbitration cases are causing a big issue for a lot of companies. It’s a clever way to beat some of these companies at their own game.

Narrow Minds, Big Picture

The Silicon Valley corporations behind these products have made no secret of their devotion and commitment to a transhumanist future. The dangling carrot for corporations such as Google, Apple and even SpaceX is not just astronomical revenues, but being able to shape the inevitable changes to human behavior that this technology will bring about.

Google’s evangelical head of AI, Ray Kurzweil, says that by 2029 we will have reverse-engineered and modeled all the regions of the brain, which will provide the algorithmic methods to simulate all of the human brain’s capabilities – and crucially, he claims, our emotional intelligence.

In his book, The Age of Spiritual Machines, Kurzweil posits the notion of the “singularity”.

“We are looking at a future that in important ways computing intelligence will truly exceed our own – not just in chess or air traffic control, but in actual cognition,” says Richard Dolan, an historian. “I think computer algorithms will be able to make their own decisions, and have some sort of consciousness.”

Kurzweil envisions a day when you will be able to visit an electronics store and have the lens of your eye removed and replaced with a liquid that is packed with electronics granting you infrared and night vision. In addition you will be wired to the internet 24/7. But, as William Henry says, with this super vision comes “supervision”. This is being referred to as “human 2.0” — or the transhuman.

“What people don’t realize is that the singularity and skin-gularity, when this tech is enmeshed with our body, are not only running parallel, but are actually the same thing,” says Henry, an author and mythologist. “The only way humans are going to be able to survive in a new artificial intelligence singularity environment is if we become machines.”

We are now seeing myriad technologies — and increasingly those directed at children — coalescing in an exponential way, so that this process is speeding up. The singularity, therefore, may happen suddenly and without warning. At least they hope may hope so.

“AI people call this the singularity for a very definite reason. They liken it to the physics of a black hole, at the centre of which resides a singularity; a point of infinite density and gravitational power,” says Dolan. “In that type of crazy physics our own rules of physics don’t seem to apply, so we don’t know how to predict things at the singularity.”

Nature Nurtures

The natural world seeks to restore balance and harmony by giving of itself, and encourages and supports diversity and dynamism. Many plants contain the compounds that would heal many of our ailments, and of course they ingest much of our noxious gases and gift us beneficial oxygen in return. The relationship with nature is unconditional; the only agenda is that you are served and supported. The ultimate detox from offices and electronic devices is to walk barefoot on the grass or sand or to bathe in the salts of the sea. The mystics and adepts gained their enlightenment in caves and amid the wilderness. To read the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rudolf Steiner, John O’Donohue or Meister Eckhart is to realize the transcendent and tangible benefits of communion with nature.

Our bodies are exquisite designs perfected over ions by evolution and intelligent creation. We are formed from the elements of the Earth and the natural world was designed to be our playground and greatest teacher. Children have become prisoners in their own homes as fear-mongering by the media and economic pressures drive parents away from their base and into distress around a “dangerous world”. The only way children learn about themselves and the real world — versus the augmented one — is through direct experience, and that means climbing trees, doing sports, and building snow forts with their friends. Less tech, more trek.

Humanity has reached a fork in the road, with two possible futures: the humanist family unit or the transhumanist central processing unit.

Article posted with permission from Corey Lynn, originally posted at CoreysDigs.com

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Here we list a handful of pursuits that will stimulate the grey matter and soothe the soul, while offering domestic and social applications.

A Stitch in Time — Leather Goods

While visiting a saddle-maker a couple weeks ago, my ten-year-old daughter got an impromptu masterclass in how to stitch leather. Sean Hall has turned his skillset to good use, and produces belts, bags, bridles and even reupholsters classic car and plane seats. Using a limited set of tools, he can also bring old items back to life. Some of the young people he has trained have gone into business making high-end consumer goods, such as boots, bags, wallets, dog collars, travel wear and shooting accessories. With just a leather punch, needle and thread, my daughter’s horizons were expanded after just twenty minutes at the work bench.

Plastic Fantastic — Herbs, Fruits & Flowers

The Russians have dachas and the English have their allotments, but Americans perhaps have more personal space in which to grow crops on their doorsteps. The American Dream has produced large gardens and basements, which can be repurposed for cultivation of all kinds of fruits and vegetables. Hydroponic techniques mean that the types of plants need not be dictated by the weather outside, and containers, tires and styrofoam can provide the base for soil-free gardening with the aid of real or artificial light.

This is an excellent video on backyard aquaponics farming – fresh fish and vegetables.

An inexpensive way to create a planter box, is with a vinyl gutter. Purchase a 10’ piece of vinyl gutter, and be sure to get the mounting brackets and end caps. You could cut it into 3 sections or 2 lengthier sections, so get the number of end caps you will need based on how many planter boxes you intend to create. Select your favorite color spray paint and paint the entire outside of the gutter and end caps. Now, mount your planter box to an outside wall or fence and drill a few holes in the bottom for drainage. Add a little soil and fill it with herbs, fruits, or flowers.

The Dance of Life — Qi Gong

I once got off a hard sleeper in Tai’an in China at 6 in the morning. Although the main square above the train station was in darkness, men in pyjamas ambled around the woodland (some howling at the moon), while the women congregated on the tarmac in neat rows performing Qi Gong routines. This “energy work” formed a staple of life throughout the country, with the younger generation’s penchant for Kung Fu being substituted in middle age for the more gentle and restorative Qi Gong practice. The agility and serenity of the Chinese amid the throng and bustle of their busy cities is a testament to the benefits of Qi Gong on the body’s bio-electrical systems, and resultant mental and physical health.

Pack a Punch — Canned Vegetables

To behold your harvest of crops is one of the great joys of summer, but you either end up eating copious amounts of the same thing or give them away to neighbors. One other option is to can your fresh produce. Canning is a method of preserving food in which the crops are processed and sealed in an airtight container. Canning provides a shelf life that typically ranges from one to five years, although it can be much longer. Freeze-drying edibles such as lentils can give them a twenty-year shelf life. It’s a routine that can involve the whole family and provides a healthier alternative to shop-bought packaged goods.

If The Bug Bytes — Scripting and Programming Computer Codes

Computers run most of society these days, and are starting to display the biases and distortions of their makers, not unlike the HAL 9000 from “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Quantum computers are evolving so fast that their human creators can no longer keep up with their thought processes. Learning the basics — or more — in languages such as Java or Python will deliver valuable insights into the creation mechanics behind most of the devices in your home and office, and will open a personal portal to practical uses such as website construction, engineering or repairing frozen laptops.

Sowing Other Types of Seeds — Mentoring

I wish I had had better role models as a youngster, and didn’t have to learn so much by trial and error — and more errors, and even more. As a twelve-year-old I picked up a book called “The SAS Survival Handbook” and seized on its author’s words of practical wisdom. Lofty Wiseman was the Regiment’s survival expert and part of the selection team. I would get up at 5am and run 15 miles on an empty stomach, and take cold showers, and started to view the urban landscape as a place of opportunities and potential risks. Years later, during selection for the marines, I was so fit and hardened by my routine that it felt like a walk in the park. What the other recruits referred to as “beasting” — never-ending shuttle runs, ice-cold river swims, and timed marches carrying 70lbs of kit — was to me like being paid to play Victorian parlour games. They say you never meet your heroes, but I did meet Lofty 35 years later, and we remain friends. I also got to meet Roger Moore before he died — who wrote to me as a seven-year-old and sowed the seeds of a career in the movies. By middle age, we have gained all kinds of experience and skills — that can be shared compassionately with younger people in the community, if they are open to such discussions. Sometimes just a kind word of wisdom — even in the face of apparent disrespect from a youth — can turn things around for them; countering their expectations of an intolerant older generation.

In The Bosom of Nature — Wild Camping

Always pick your camp site by daylight hours. My friends and I once erected our tents beside a great oak in a farmer’s field, after a long day on our feet. It wasn’t until a large, ominous silhouette appeared on the near horizon that we realized the field contained an aggressive bull. That tree saved our butts, and provided a handy — if hard — perch for the night. Such shared “hardships” create bonds between people and provide an opportunity to commune with Nature. That tree actually produced a physical warmth, and conveyed a sense of benevolent feminine consciousness that became a benchmark for me that has rarely been surpassed. To sleep out under the stars not only provides a spectacular light show, but posits your life against a much wider context — one that the myopic technocrats would otherwise deny you. Like most things, the more you set up a camp, the easier it becomes — although during gale-force winds it can morph into a paragliding trip.

Put Pen to Paper — Write an E-Book

The comments section of this website is populated by some very erudite and informative opinions. The best part of writing an article is often reading the responses to it. Blogs, podcasts and e-books have created a more egalitarian literary world that often eclipses the staid narratives of the legacy publishing industry, and produces some gems in the process, as well as some detritus. Holistic medicine, revised historical narratives and whistleblower accounts have all thrived in the digital age — notwithstanding recent developments in algorithmic censorship — and have helped humanity break free from the dull consensus of the 3D matrix. Self-publishing is not expensive and provides a clear goal and sense of satisfaction when completed. As an investigative journalist and screenwriter, the little-known personal accounts and stories on the periphery of publishing have been a gold mine of validation and corroboration. And you don’t have to deal with the rejection of literary agents — who will seek you out if your work taps a vein in the human psyche and sells well.

Hounds of Love — Dog Sitting

The well worn slogan “A Dog is Not Just for Christmas” still stands, but one ethical and lucrative way to avoid commitments is to offer your services as a dog sitter. People have to take vacations or spend long days at the office, so a reliable and flexible intermediary could be a quid pro quo — you get paid to indulge your passion for dogs and the owners get the reassurance that Buddy or Luna gets some exercise and won’t be tearing up the furniture in frustration. The benefits of spending time with animals are well documented, and these ones can be put back on the shelf after the fun is over. This one to be proactive with — by advertising in the free pages, in animal centers or owners’ association newsletters.

Slap It On — Homemade Tiger Balm

Tiger balm has become a universal cure-all, after originating in Imperial China thousands of years ago. So why shouldn’t it also get the DIY write-up — especially if tigers aren’t native to your location and China has become synonymous with diplomatic and trade headaches. If you don’t like petroleum oils — the common component of the balm — then you can use beeswax. It’ll still work wonders. You will need some essential oils, such as white camphor, menthol, cinnamon, clove, tea tree and cajeput, and these together constitute the healing and restorative properties of the balm.

Frank Sinatra sang about doing it his way: maybe he was a closet prepper or gardener in his spare time between lavish parties and film shoots. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but homogeneity and conformity is the enemy of it. Sometimes it pays to skip the corporate convenience offering and just do it yourself. You’ll value the results, and yourself, more.

Article posted with permission from Corey Lynn, originally posted at CoreysDigs.com

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We have listed a lot of new bills by state and subject below, to provide an overview of these positive developments, some of which are firsts for this country.

Be sure to track legislation in your state to see what’s being introduced, contact your reps to support or oppose it, and rally to get them to draft bills supporting our rights. The bills below are all positive, however, there is also unfavorable legislation some states are trying to put through, so pay attention and don’t turn a blind eye.

There are a lot of bills being introduced on a federal level regarding 2A, so get your state on board as a 2A sanctuary state. There are also a lot pertaining to the so-called vaccines, as well as vaccine ID passports, some positive and some not so positive. You can specifically track those by state, through this site.

Arizona

2A Sanctuary State

Governor Doug Ducey signed the 2nd Amendment Firearm Freedom Act (HB 2111) on April 6, which prohibits the state and all political subdivisions from assisting in the enforcement of federal firearm laws and regulations when they are inconsistent with state law.

Election Integrity

Republican Governor Doug Ducey signed a bill in April that outlaws the use of donations to help cover the costs of election offices. The law would prohibit grants such as those given by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to organizations supporting election officials in Arizona and elsewhere to help cover expenses during the plandemic.

Arkansas

Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act

Arkansas has become the first state to outlaw gender-affirming treatments and surgery for transgender youth, after lawmakers overrode the governor’s objections to enact the ban on April 6.

The state’s governor, Asa Hutchinson, had vetoed the bill following pleas from pediatricians, social workers and the parents of trans youth who said the measure would harm a “community already at risk for depression and suicide”.

The bill’s sponsor dismissed opposition from medical groups and compared the restriction to other limits the state places on minors, such as prohibiting them from drinking. “They need to get to be 18 before they make those decisions,” said Republican representative Robin Lundstrum.

The Arkansas House voted 71 to 24 to override Hutchinson’s veto, followed by a 25 to 8 vote in the Senate.

Hutchison has also signed a bill that prohibits transgender girls from participating on sports teams that match their gender identity, including extracurricular and elementary, middle or high school teams. Mississippi and Tennessee have also enacted similar laws.

Critical Race Theory

Senate Bill 627 was lodged by senators Trent Garner, Bob Ballinger and Blake Johnson on April 21 and is entitled: An Act to Prohibit the Propagation of Divisive Concepts; To Review State Entity Training Materials — To Prohibit the Propagation of Divisive Concepts; and to Review State Entity Training Materials.

On Monday, Republican Arkansas Governor Hutchinson allowed the legislation to become law without his signature that will end the use of Critical Race Theory education for state agencies. The law will take effect next year but does not apply to colleges, universities, public schools, local governments, or law enforcement training, according to the Associated Press.

Vaccine Passports

Governor Hutchinson late last month signed into law measures preventing state and local governments from requiring the coronavirus vaccine or proof of vaccination in order to access services. The ban on requiring a vaccine would also prohibit it as a condition of unemployment. The measure includes some exceptions, such as state-owned medical facilities, if approved by Legislative Council.

Florida

Social Media Platforms

Florida’s Senate passed a Big Tech bill that would crack down on censorship.

“Prohibiting a social media platform from knowingly deplatforming a candidate; providing requirements for public contracts and economic incentives related to entities that have been convicted or held civilly liable for antitrust violations; providing that social media platforms that fail to comply with specified requirements and prohibitions commit an unfair or deceptive act or practice; authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to investigate suspected violations under the Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and bring specified actions for such violations, etc.”

New Elections Bill

The Republican-controlled Senate passed a bill that placed new restrictions on vote-by-mail and ballot drop boxes. SB90 was passed in the state House by 77-40 and in the Senate by 23-17. Governor DeSantis is expected to give his approval. It would require signature verification for voters, provided by a signature signed on paper and kept on file. Access to drop boxes would be limited to early voting hours unless they are located at election supervisors’ offices. Drop boxes would also have to be monitored by an elections official, and ID would be required when dropping off ballots. Other aspects in the bill include limitations on who can return a finished mail-in ballot, preventing election officials from entering consent agreements, and requiring voters to request a mail ballot every election cycle, rather than every two, as under current law. The bill also mandates that supervisors publish drop box locations 30 days before the election.

Vaccine passports

Florida’s vaccine passport bill was passed in the House by 78-36 on April 29 after the Senate approved it in a 23-15 vote. The bill makes permanent Governor Ron DeSantis’ executive order to bar Covid-19 “vaccine passports”. The order prohibits any Florida government agency from issuing a vaccine passport and restricts any business from requiring them before allowing a customer to enter their premises.

DeSantis signed the Covid-19 vaccine passports bill on May 3 and also announced an executive order that suspends all local pandemic emergency mandates, effective from July 1.

Senate Bill 2006 grants DeSantis the ability to override local emergency orders. The bill also includes a ban on vaccine passports that would levy fines of $5,000 per violation.

“I’m going to sign the bill. It’s effective July 1. I’ll also sign an executive order pursuant to that bill invalidating all remaining local emergency Covid orders effective on July 1,” the Republican governor said in a news conference in St. Petersburg on May 3. “But then, to bridge the gap between then and now, I’m going to suspend, under my executive power, the local emergency orders as it relates to Covid.”

Critical Race Theory

In March, Florida’s Ron DeSantis announced that the state’s curriculum would “expressly exclude … Critical Race Theory”. “Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other, it’s not worth one red cent of our taxpayer money,” he said. Florida’s teachers — in contrast to the critical race theory curriculum operating in Connecticut’s state school system — will be incentivized to get credentialed in civics instruction with a $3,000 bonus.

Election Integrity

Florida’s legislature passed a bill last month that included new rules for ballot drop boxes and more ID requirements for voters requesting a mail-in ballot. The bill, passed largely along party lines with Democrats opposing, also included restrictions on behavior that could influence voters within 150 feet of polling places or drop boxes.

Georgia

Election Integrity Act

Governor Brian Kemp signed a huge overhaul of election rules in March that was passed by the Republican-controlled Georgia legislature that enacts new limitations on mail-in voting, expands most voters’ access to in-person early voting. The 98-page bill makes considerable alterations to Georgia’s absentee voting rules, adding new identification requirements, moving back the request deadline and other changes after a record 1.3 million absentee ballots overwhelmed local elections officials and raised Republican skepticism of the voting method. The law also gives state officials authority to take over county election boards if those boards prove to have chronic mismanagement or fraud problems.

Idaho

Critical Race Theory

Idaho’s State Senate passed a bill that has already been adopted by the state House that would ban the teaching of critical race theory in schools. HB 377 will now be sent to Republican Governor Brad Little for approval.

Republican Senator Carl Crabtree, who sponsored the bill, stated, “This bill does not intend to prohibit discussion in an open and free way. It is a preventative measure. It does not indicate that we have a rampant problem in Idaho. But we don’t want to get one.”

“For many people, Critical Race Theory training and educational programs violate both freedom of conscience and freedom of speech. Their freedom of speech is violated by being compelled to admit to complicity in racism and sexism that are unlikely to be true,” said the Idaho Freedom Foundation.

Iowa

Critical Race Theory

Iowa’s bill passed the state Senate in March, and has already halted state efforts to discuss race in schools. The Iowa Department of Education recently postponed a conference on social justice and equity in education, originally scheduled for April, in response to the bill, Iowa Public Radio reported.

“We are mindful of pending legislation that may impact the delivery and content of certain topics related to diversity, equity and inclusion and postponing the conference will ensure the Department and Iowa’s educators are best positioned to comply with any legislation,” the conference website reads. The department plans to hold a conference in the fall.

2A Sanctuary State

In Iowa, Republicans are working “to bring a constitutional amendment before voters in the 2022 general [gubernatorial] election … that would write the right to keep and bear arms into the Iowa constitution”, according to qctimes.com.

Florida, Idaho, Montana, Texas, Iowa

Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act

Florida’s Ron DeSantis said he planned to sign legislation passed on April 28 that would bar male-to-female transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s scholastic sports. If enacted, the bill would make Florida the sixth state this year, and the seventh overall, to create legislation preventing biological males from participating on female sports teams in schools.

Idaho last year approved the law, which was blocked by a federal judge who issued a preliminary injunction pending the outcome of a legal battle. A similar bill has been seen by Governor Greg Gianforte in Montana, and Republican governors in Iowa and Texas said they would sign such legislation if passed by their state legislatures.

Similar bills were vetoed in April by Kansas Governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat, and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, a Republican, who said there had been no example in his state of a transgender athlete seeking to join female teams and expressed confidence in the state’s scholastic athletic authority to handle the issue.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, a Republican, vetoed a measure that would have applied to K-12 and university sports, but later signed an executive order barring transgender participation on female teams at secondary schools but not in colleges.

Kansas

Gun rights

Last Monday, the Kansas legislature voted to override the Democrat governor’s veto on two conservative bills.

The gun bill was approved 84-39 in the House, and achieved a larger majority in the Senate, which voted 31-8 in favor. The new gun law reduces the minimum concealed carry age from 21 to 18. In order to carry a concealed firearm, 18-20 year-olds would have to pass concealed-carry training and carry a permit. It also recognizes the validity of other states’ concealed carry permits. Lastly, the law allows people who have committed lesser crimes and have had those crimes expunged by a judge to regain their right to keep and bear arms after a time.

Election integrity

The Kansas Legislature has overridden the governor’s veto of HB2183. One of the strongest election integrity bills is now law, reported The Sharp Edge.

The bill prohibits Secretaries of State or Governors from making emergency changes, bans private funds — such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg — from being used to administer elections, and bans ballot harvesting.

Missouri

2A Sanctuary State

Missouri may be the next state to incorporate 2A sanctuary legislation. A state Senate committee on April 9 advanced two gun rights expansion bills to the floor. Both have already passed the House. The bill allowing concealed-carry permit holders to bring guns onto public transit is opposed by Kansas City transit officials and Mayor Quinton Lucas. The other bill, an annual proposal, would nullify federal gun laws and regulations, including those that require fees, registration or tracking of guns. It would bar police in Missouri from enforcing those rules and allow those who believe their Second Amendment rights have been violated to sue local law enforcement for $50,000.

Montana

2A Sanctuary State

On April 23, 2021, Governor Greg Gianforte signed HB 0258, which bans the enforcement of federal bans on firearms, magazines or ammunition. The bill applies retroactively to January 1, 2021.

Arkansas, Oklahoma, Montana, Arizona, Nevada and Nebraska have created and passed similar laws this year.

Nebraska

2A Sanctuary State

Governor Pete Ricketts signed a proclamation on April 14 this year that designated Nebraska as a “Second Amendment Sanctuary State.” This proclamation is merely symbolic and does not carry the weight of law.

North Dakota

2A Sanctuary State

On April 26, Governor Doug Burgum signed HB 1383, which designated North Dakota as a “Second Amendment Sanctuary State.”

Oklahoma

2A Sanctuary State Act
Save Women’s Sports Act
Critical Race Theory

The House approved legislation last week to name Oklahoma a Second Amendment Sanctuary State. “Senate Bill 631 states that any law, executive order or similar regulation ordering the buy-back, confiscation or surrender of firearms from law-abiding citizens will be considered an infringement on the rights of citizens to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment”.

The House also approved the Save Women’s Sports Act “to protect the integrity of women’s and girls’ sports teams,” said Republican representative Brad Boles. Senate Bill 2 would require certain athletic teams to be designated based on an athletes’ biological sex.

“Science tells us that the bodies of biological men have a significant competitive advantage over the bodies of biological women. When we ignore this reality, female athletes are automatically disadvantaged on the field and lose medals, public recognition and even possibly athletic scholarships,” said Boles.

Oklahoma public school teachers will be prohibited from teaching certain concepts of race and racism under the Critical Race Theory bill that was given final approval by the state House at the end of April. The GOP-controlled House voted 70-19 for the bill that prohibits teaching of so-called “critical race theory.”

“Students are being taught that because they’re a certain race or sex, they’re inherently superior to others or should feel guilty for something that happened in the past,” said Republican Kevin West, who sponsored the bill. “We’re trying to set boundaries that we as a state say will not be crossed when we’re teaching these kinds of subjects.”

Tennessee

2A Sanctuary State Act

Tennessee’s senate on April 26 voted to make the state a Second Amendment sanctuary.

Senate Bill 1335 says the state will not enforce any potential federal laws or orders that it believes violate the Second Amendment and will deem them “null, void, and unenforceable.”

The measure also “prohibits the state and political subdivisions from using public resources to enforce, administer, or co-operate with the enforcement or administration of any such treaty, executive order, rule, or regulation.”

The bill, which passed with a 23-4 vote, had “nothing to do with nullification” of federal acts, according to Republican Brian Kelsey.

Texas

Critical Race Theory

As reported in the Citizen Free Press, candidates opposed to teaching “critical race theory” in the classroom have swept a local school board election in Texas. Last week’s election in Southlake saw candidates opposed to the new curriculum win the two open seats on the Carroll Independent School District board overwhelmingly, with nearly 70 per cent of the vote. Candidates backed by the conservative Southlake Families PAC won every race by a nearly 40-point margin, according to Southlake Style.

Election Integrity

Republicans have proposed bills that would limit early-voting hours, control the number of voting machines at each location and allow partisan poll watchers to record footage or photos of people voting, among other measures.

Separately, umpteen lawsuits have been filed by Democrats and civil-rights groups challenging new voting laws. At least six lawsuits have been filed challenging Georgia’s election law. In Iowa, the Hispanic civil-rights group League of United Latin American Citizens filed a case challenging a new law that decreases the number of early-voting days from 29 to 20 and shortens voting hours by an hour, among other changes.

West Virginia

2A Sanctuary State
Critical Race Theory

Governor Jim Justice signed the Second Amendment Preservation and Anti-Federal Commandeering Act (HB 2694) on April 27, which prohibits the federal commandeering of employees and agencies of the state for the purpose of enforcing federal firearms laws. HB 2694 also prohibits police departments and officers from executing red flag laws or federal search warrants on firearms, accessories, or ammunition of law abiding persons.

Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, Alaska and Colorado have previously adopted Second Amendment Sanctuary resolutions or had county sheriff departments push back against violations of the Second Amendment. Additionally, various counties have adopted Second Amendment sanctuary, safe haven, or other pro-Second Amendment resolutions.

In February, a House bill in West Virginia was introduced by Republican Representatives Riley Keaton, Josh Holstein, Trenton Barnhart and Johnnie Wamsley, to prevent critical race theory in education.

Critical Race Theory Lawsuit Against Biden Administration

America Legal First is pursuing a lawsuit against critical race theory, which was banned in federal agencies by Donald Trump but which has been embraced by the Biden administration, espouses the idea that race is not natural, but socially constructed to oppress and exploit people of color.

AFL is a legal group founded by Trump-era officials to promote the American First agenda and push back against leftist radical movements in the US.

The group is led by Stephen Miller, a former Trump adviser, and includes several high-profile officials from that administration, including former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former acting US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, and former Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought joined the AFL board of directors along with Miller.

AFL launched a lawsuit against the Biden administration and joined other two lawsuits within one month of its establishment. “We’re also looking for plaintiffs—if we can find them—who are willing to stand up and file suit on critical race theory,” Miller said on Fox News.

Article posted with permission from Corey Lynn, originally posted at CoreysDigs.com

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The great American highways — and the sedans and muscle cars that populate them — have since the post-war boom formed the circuitry that has energized and connected the nation. The freedom and convenience of the automobile has been the single most important technological and social development since humans first sparked up a fire. Talking of combustion, governments and environmental groups around the world have been critical of fossil fuels and carbon emissions for decades. Anyone who has cycled or walked in busy traffic knows that particulates and fumes from vehicles are unpleasant and harmful, but the prospect of clean propulsion should not be confused with the centralized automation of journeys and removal of personal vehicles. Autonomous cars do not equate to autonomy.

As we know from smart TVs, smart meters and smart cars, they are only as benevolent as the people who design and produce them. Flatscreen TVs can monitor a room, even when unplugged; mobile electric meters emit radiation and have been known to overcharge customers; and self-driving cars to date, routinely crash. The global warming schematic — with its questionable science — has been used to justify all manner of control measures, from carbon credits to international sanctions. The notions of vaccine passports, autonomous transport, AI-controlled personal devices and now “smart cities” follows a mentality espoused and implemented by China’s CCP and other communist and “socialist” states. The abrogation of personal responsibility, sovereignty and critical and creative faculties need not be the outcome of adopting and engaging with autonomous technology — but it is the risk if left to the same leaders and corporations behind the illegal wars, DC corruption and the general financial tyranny.

If “sustainability” was really the underlying motive for electric over gas, then perhaps more scrutiny would be given to the mining of lithium, which is a crucial component for modern ion battery tech. The resources required to get the metal out of the ground, not least the huge amounts of water, render it an ecological travesty in its own right. And this is before we consider all the electricity required to run the smart cities, which presumably would still be nuclear or fossil-based power sources.

So, where is the evidence for this proposition and what developments are underway that would suggest the ruling elites want us all hardwired?

Democratic lawmakers have recently pushed Joe Biden to introduce tougher vehicle emissions rules and to do more to shift the US towards electric vehicles. Reuters reported in March that a group of more than 70 House Democrats, led by Doris Matsui, wanted rules that ensured that “60 per cent of the new passenger cars and trucks sold are zero-emission by 2030,” while 10 senators, led by Democrat Edward Markey, urged Biden “to set a date by which new sales of fossil fuel vehicles will end entirely”.

Late last year, California Governor Gavin Newsom instigated new regulations to require all new cars and passenger trucks sold in California to be zero-emission by 2035. California has struck a deal with automakers, including Ford, Honda, BMW and Volkswagen, that falls between the Trump administration and Obama-era requirements.

Twenty-nine states have autonomous vehicle legislation in place and governors in Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Ohio, Washington and Wisconsin have issued executive orders related to these vehicles.

They want you biking, walking, or using public transit. They do not want vehicles in their “smart cities” unless they are autonomous vehicles that are controlled in more ways than one.

A press release by Newsom’s office cites climate change as the impulse behind California’s demands for a drastic reduction in fossil fuel use. His executive order “will not prevent Californians from owning gasoline-powered cars or selling them on the used car market”. The press release states that “last September, Governor Newsom took action to leverage the state’s transportation systems and purchasing power to strengthen climate mitigation and resiliency and to measure and manage climate risks across the state’s $700 billion pension investments.” The order also directs state agencies to “develop strategies for an integrated, statewide rail and transit network”.

Pete Buttigieg, the transportation secretary, has been given $30.5 billion in federal funds “to support the nation’s public transportation systems as they continue to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and support President Biden’s call to vaccinate the US population.” The American Rescue Plan Act is being used to formulate and roll-out the transportation plans, which are as yet vague.

“This is an important moment in our nation’s pandemic response,” said FTA Acting Administrator Nuria Fernandez. “The American Rescue Plan Act contains funding to help speed up vaccine distribution and provide relief to transit agencies so they can continue to provide service to the many Americans who depend on transit to get to essential jobs, healthcare and vaccine appointments.”

If, as many people now suspect, the Covid pandemic scenario has been manufactured as part of a control dynamic, then the Rescue Plan Act and its funding criteria are also worthy of scrutiny. “Formula funding” is now available to bidders, and those monies will be made available through the Notices of Funding Opportunity published in the Federal Register and “grants will be awarded following a competitive review and project selection process based on criteria outlined in the NOFOs”, according to the US Department of Transportation.

Buttigieg, a 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is expected to broaden the definition of transportation, boost support of public transit and electric vehicles, and work with the housing and urban development department to leverage federal resources for “the next generation of infrastructure”.

The Transportation Department should allow “for enormous flexibility and literally let places like Pittsburgh reverse-engineer your policy,” said Bruce Katz, an urban planning expert who is connected to the Brookings Institute, a globalist think tank. “What Mayor Pete understands is really how to connect the dots.”

Buttigieg has made clear in previous statements that he is committed to carrying out Biden’s “build back better” initiatives — a phrase that has graced the podiums of world and corporate leaders throughout the past year. That will include moving forward with long-awaited federal rules governing autonomous vehicles and, Buttigieg hopes, making $150 billion available to the Federal Transit Administration, an almost 13-fold increase from its current budget of $12 billion.

“He’s going in the same direction as we are,” said Stan Caldwell, adjunct associate professor of transportation and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University — another “elite” institution that has hosted Buttigieg and other mayors at its national smart cities initiative.

Vincent Valdes, executive director of the Southwest Pennsylvania Commission, which oversees transportation planning across the city and 10 surrounding counties, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that Buttigieg should create a “mobility czar” to coordinate a unified policy among state and local agencies. Too often, department officials are “working in their silos” on one mode of transportation: aviation, transit, highways, railroads, maritime, said Valdes.

Buttigieg, who was criticized during his 2020 presidential bid for not adequately addressing systemic racism when he was mayor of South Bend, has attempted to leverage race to his transport goals. During media interviews given on “Transportation Equity Day” in February, he claimed he was repentant for the government’s role in building a federal transportation system that often cut through minority neighborhoods in order to construct freeways, thereby cutting off those communities from economic opportunity.

“We recognize how misguided investments and missed opportunities for federal transportation policies have reinforced racial and economic inequality,” he told the African American Mayors Association.

Earlier this month the transportation secretary announced $187 million in Capital Investment Grants for four Bus Rapid Transit projects, in California, Utah, and Washington State. In a statement that would not look out of place in an Aldous Huxley essay, Nuria Fernandez said: “The local communities will greatly benefit from improved access and mobility to transit service, helping people reach vaccination sites, jobs, schools, and other important destinations.”

Huxley, the author of Brave New World, coined the phrase “technodictators” to describe dictators and would-bedictators who exploit emerging technologies to produce propaganda that “bypasses the rational side of man” and causes “him [to] actually love his slavery”.

The blogger SomeBitchToldMe claims that Buttigieg is involved in an “eco-communist” plot to destroy America.  She cites his mooted plan for a per-mile tax on vehicles in the future — “seemingly to circumvent the rising fuel efficiency of cars that cut into the already-ludicrous fuel taxes we have today. By doing so, this would punish rural and poor drivers the most, as they drive farther and likely have cheaper vehicles with worse fuel efficiency,” she says. “Would this per-mile tax essentially become a double tax on the rural and middle class in America?”

Buttigieg’s father, Joseph, was a Marxist scholar who espoused the teachings of the Italian communist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, and was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society. Socialist and fascist states, as we know from Nazi Germany, Mussolini’s Italy and Franco’s Spain, spend lavishly on infrastructure projects that provide manual jobs and engage the collective will. Even though these large scale projects are often designed to be literal and idiomatic prisons for the population.

SomeBitchToldMe refers to a recent interview Buttigieg gave to CNBC in which he says he is considering a mileage tax to help cover the cost of infrastructure improvements, which are estimated at $3.5 trillion. “CNBC says they expect business taxes and high income individual taxes to go up, before she [the interviewer] asks about an increased gas tax. Buttigieg says they don’t want to increase the burden on the middle class, but then says a ‘mileage traveled tax’ could be the way to do it,” writes the blogger, who claims “progressives” believe the infrastructure project could cost upwards of $10 trillion.

In a press briefing given at the White House on April 9, Buttigieg, in answering questions from Jen Psaki, the press secretary, used tell-tale socialist phraseology:

“Americans are spending too much of their money on transportation in the wrong ways or don’t have access to it at all. And the American people are making clear to all of us, regardless of party, that they want us to get it done and they are not asking us to tinker around the edges,” he said.

The auto insurance industry is keen to push the belief that robotic cars are less risky than human drivers. In an article on AutoInsurance.org, Peter Rafferty, who is involved in the government’s testing of driverless vehicles, exclaims how the technology will save thousands of lives a year. “The important point with the almost 40,000 fatalities is that over 90 per cent of those are attributable in some way to human or driver error. The automated vehicles… they don’t fall asleep, they don’t get drunk, they see all around them. They react much faster. So that’s where big safety gains are going to be happening.”

Tesla, which is known for overstating the abilities of its cars, has had notable failures of its autopilot facility, leading to fatalities among drivers who became complacent about the technology. Other leading players in the autonomous car market are Waymo, GM, Aptiv, Daimler-Bosch and Volkswagen. The lithium-based power packs for the cars have been linked to water shortages as mine sites in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Australia and China.

“We’re fooling ourselves if we call this sustainable and green mining. The lithium fever should slow down because it’s directly damaging salt flats, the ecosystem and local communities.” Cristina Dorador, a Chilean biologist, told Bloomberg.

But we can count on Bill Gates to save the day. Breakthrough Energy Ventures, helmed by Gates and MIT’s The Engine fund, are leading an investment round of $20 million for Lilac Solutions, a US start-up that aims to make the extraction of lithium less water-intensive and more sustainable.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland just revoked several Trump administration orders that had promoted fossil fuel development, while calling the orders of her predecessors “inconsistent with the department’s commitment to protect public health; conserve land, water, and wildlife; and elevate science.” She also announced that the previous orders “titled the balanced of public land and ocean management without regard for climate change, equity or community engagement.”

China leads the industry through Ganfeng Lithium, a mining company that has evolved into the refining and processing of lithium, battery manufacturing, and recycling; and the EV battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology. Japan’s Panasonic is one of the top three EV battery makers, with Livent of the US not far behind.

SFA (Oxford), a market intelligence firm, claims that while lithium supply is plentiful in the near term, its demand is likely to grow mainly from electric vehicles and because its future market outlook is bright.

The largest producers in 2019 were Australia, with 52.9 per cent of global production, followed by Chile, with 21.5 per cent; China at 9.7 per cent; and Argentina at 8.3 per cent. The claim that US industry will be less reliant on other countries (by up to 60 per cent) by switching out of fossil fuels is undermined by these figures on lithium.

The US Interior Department listed lithium as a critical mineral in 2018, fast-tracking mine permits. Although the US has the world’s fourth-largest lithium reserves, measured at 6.8 million tonnes according to the US Geological Survey, production activity in the country is minimal.

In California, lithium has been produced from Searles Lake brines since 1938, and during earlier years lepidolite was mined in the Pala district. Other states containing lithium deposits are New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Connecticut, Maine and Massachusetts.

Is smart the new dumb? It’s all enough to have you reaching into the cupboard for the lithium salts.

Article posted with permission from Corey Lynn, originally published at CoreysDigs.com

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A situation that started out as a worry has quickly morphed into a real pain in the ass, as the medical technocratic machine seeks to mask or probe every biological orifice. The “ID” in Covid is now being given air time in the mass media, with New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, on Friday announcing a plan to roll out “vaccine” passports.

In Europe, a number of states have expressed interest in vaccination passports or certificates, to restart travel for citizens of the EU area. The European Council in January announced its support for the concept, although did not define the uses of the certificates. “Leaders agreed to work on a standardized and interoperable form of proof of vaccination for medical purposes. Leaders will determine at a later stage in what circumstances these certificates could be used,” the Council wrote in a press release on January 21.

Countries within the so-called Shengen area that are either implementing or supportive of the measures include Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden.

Canada has 11 quarantine sites across the country, with a current “wish list” for more in other cities, according to the public works department. If you test positive for Covid-19, you are forced into one of their quarantine camps for 14 days. The Justin Trudeau government plan is to award contracts to private prison groups in March this year for more “Covid-19” facilities. The facilities may be used for “other requirements” for the next two years at least.

Trudeau said in March that he was uneasy with the idea of a national program to document vaccination status. He said it could marginalize people “who, for whatever reason, can’t or won’t get a vaccine”.

“The idea of certificates of vaccination for domestic use does bring in questions of equity. There are questions of fairness and justice. There could be discrimination,” Trudeau said in French.

Trudeau conceded a vaccine passport program could be implemented for international travel to curb transmission risk. Dominic LeBlanc, the minister of intergovernmental affairs, said last month that Canada was working with international partners to develop a program to verify that incoming travelers have had a Covid-19 shot.

China, in March issued the “world’s first” vax passport, which is available to download from social media app WeChat. Although only 3.65 per cent of the population has received the jabs, the digital certificate will “promote world economic recovery and facilitate cross-border travel,” according to foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian. It is unclear which countries will recognize the certification.

Israel could lay claim to the fastest roll-out of the system, with half of its 9 million population having received two shots. Israelis are now being asked for proof of “vaccination” before entering shops, bars and theatres. Most are still to be seen wearing face masks — perhaps because the jabs have been shown to offer no protection from the alleged virus and because recipients potentially become shedders of the rona. The small country, which is surrounded by supposed Arab enemies on all sides, has been historically quick to adopt measures handed down from its leaders, as if in perpetual war-time mode and perhaps offers an object lesson to other regimes in the use of collective fear. What is apparent is that the jab status could quickly lead to social inequality and become a diplomatic currency.

Republican Senator Madison Cawthorn and a member of the US Holocaust Memorial Council compared the idea of “vaccine passports” to Nazi Germany, by invoking the yellow Stars of David that Nazis forced Jews to wear during the second world war. Richard Grenell, Donald Trump’s former Ambassador to Germany, tweeted a meme showing a Nazi Gestapo officer in the Quentin Tarantino film Inglorious Basterds saying, “You’re hiding unvaccinated people under your floorboards, aren’t you?” The original scene from the movie uses similar wording in referring to Jews.

India has not launched a digital vaccine certificate. Those receiving the first jabs in the country are currently receiving a provisional certificate, and the final certificate is given only after the second dose.

Russia approved its Sputnik V vaccine last summer after only two months of human testing, although the formula is a conventional DNA type. The EU is reportedly also planning to include Sputnik V and Chinese jabs in the vaccine passport. Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov recently warned that vaccination certificates must not infringe on people’s rights to travel. He said that Russia currently issues documents that prove vaccination but is evaluating the possibility of using them for “other purposes”.

In the UK, Covid certificates are to be trialed at big events in April and May. The BBC reported on Friday that former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Tory Iain Duncan Smith were among more than 70 MP’s who were launching a scheme to oppose the introduction of vaccine passports. “Any demand to prove vaccination status to access jobs, businesses or services would be ‘divisive and discriminatory’,” the cross-party group was reported in the BBC as saying.

The World Health Organization is skeptical on the passports. “We do not encourage at this stage that getting a vaccination determines whether you can travel internationally or not,” said Hans Kluge, WHO Europe’s regional director, in March.

The WHO believes certificates would increase inequality, given the “global shortage of vaccines,” but it is also not clear how long immunity lasts once the person gets a Covid-19 vaccine. “If you get a vaccine, you’re protected but still, you can transmit the infection,” Kluge added. Although, confusingly, the WHO is involved in a coalition called the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), which includes the International Air Transport Association.

There are about 17 initiatives underway across the US to develop “passports”. Last week New York state began using a digital pass developed by IBM that shows vaccination status or a negative Covid-19 status. Madison Square Garden in New York and Times Union Center in Albany began implementing the digital pass as part of their admission process last Friday.

“New Yorkers have proven they can follow public health guidance to beat back Covid, and the innovative Excelsior Pass is another tool in our new toolbox to fight the virus while allowing more sectors of the economy to reopen safely and keeping personal information secure,” said Governor Cuomo on Friday. “The question of ‘public health or the economy’ has always been a false choice — the answer must be both. As more New Yorkers get vaccinated each day and as key public health metrics continue to regularly reach their lowest rates in months, the first-in-the-nation Excelsior Pass heralds the next step in our thoughtful, science-based reopening.”

The choice of IBM as a technology partner is curious, as the company’s expertise helped facilitate Nazi genocide through the generation and tabulation of punch cards based upon national census data in the 1930s.

Dr Leanna Wen, an emergency physician and visiting public health professor at George Washington University, told CNN and Cuomo last week to “make it clear to them that the vaccine is the ticket back to pre-pandemic life, and the window to do that is really narrowing. You [to Cuomo] were mentioning that all these states are re-opening. They are opening at a hundred per cent and we have a very narrow window to tie re-opening policy to vaccination status. Because otherwise, if everything is re-opened, then what’s the carrot going to be? How are we going to incentivize people to actually get the vaccine? So that’s why the CDC and Biden administration needs to come out a lot bolder and say ‘if you are vaccinated, you can do all these things; here are all these freedoms that you have.’ Because otherwise people are going to go out and enjoy these freedoms anyway.”

Judging by her comments, the group think and institutionalized cypher mentality of the network and it guests renders them unable to even disguise their corporate serfdom. Dr. Wen was presumably referring to “herd immunity” in her remarks, although that concept seems outdated and even irrelevant to the Covid schematic.

The variable messages and differing positions adopted by even the “experts” on the pro-jab contingent — and notwithstanding the elephantine issue of safe and cheap prophylactics — clearly point to a pharma-induced stupor that justifies all ways and means to bring about a chip and trace reality for humans. The corporate media seems to be obediently following tightly clipped developments in the agenda, and as yet are avoiding speculation on microchips, along the lines envisaged by Bill Gates. Although, NBC News reported on Sweden’s human microchipping plans in 2019, which showed recipients with data chips implanted into their hands.

In December, Corey’s Digs highlighted a potential black market in vaccine ID passports. The WHO last week claimed that various online forums were advertising fake negative Covid tests and forged vaccination cards for $150. The black market demand, whether an invention of the media or a money-making scheme of criminal scammers, fits the narrative that “vaccines” are valuable and that there is a shortage. The narrative, of course, could be used to justify more “secure” human implants at a later stage — although the pace of developments is already blistering.

Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, said at a press conference last week that he would be taking emergency executive action to counter the move towards American citizens requiring vaccine passports to be able to travel domestically and internationally. “We’re not supportive of that. I think it’s something that people have certain freedoms and individual liberties to make decisions for themselves,” he said. “It’s completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine to just simply be able to participate in normal society.”

On April 2, 2021 DeSantis signed an executive order doing exactly as he said he would.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters last Monday that the Biden administration would “provide guidance” on private sector efforts to develop vaccine passports.

Naomi Wolf, the liberal feminist writer and journalist, has issued a stark warning about the passport narrative. “I can’t say this any more clearly, the vaccine passport platform is the same platform as a social credit system, like the one in China that enslaves 8 billion people. In China, the CCP can find any dissident in five minutes because of the 360-degree surveillance of the social credit system. When you act like a ‘good’ citizen, you get a boost, and when you act like a ‘bad’ citizen then opportunities get closed to; maybe your child doesn’t get into prep school or maybe you don’t get that job or promotion,” she said in a video on social media. “President Biden said it is going to be mandated. My tyrannical governor Cuomo said that it’s got to be rolled out … It’s happening at warp speed, so please don’t be fooled. This is the most dangerous tool that humanity has faced in my lifetime.”

Meanwhile, there were nearly twice as many vaccine deaths in 2021 than there were over the past decade, according to the CDC. And over 100 fully vaccinated people in Washington state have just been found to test positive for Covid-19.

Familiarity and acceptance of the slave scenario has been carefully cultivated through education and Hollywood movies, leaving some people to believe they must sit somewhere amid the horror stories. However, there are other books that weren’t on the school curriculum and which paint a much brighter future — The Book of Enoch and The Essene Gospel of Peace were swept under the carpet long ago, and send shivers down the spines of despots everywhere. There are many more expansive and liberating narratives out there. Like perusing the shelves of a library, we actually do get to choose our life stories.

“Fifteen days to flatten the curve” is turning into a Biblical epic, where the authors have lost the plot. Voter ID laws were racist, according to the Democrats, but Covid passports are science-based and for our health. But let’s not make a crisis out of a drama.

Article posted with permission from Corey Lynn, originally posted at CoreysDigs.com

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The AI thought police on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are so heavy handed now that these platforms no longer offer even the semblance of free expression. “Suspect” videos are pre-banned, so that there is no chance of uploading them in the first place. it is possible to read the circuitry of Twitter’s brain by observing the headlines they flag on the right-hand column — and Facebook lets its boy wonder, Mark Zuckerberg, make the public pronouncements. Even uplifting New Age messages have been targeted by these digital monoliths. Now that the MAGA crowd and the investigative journalists and “positive life affirmation” brigade have been alienated and sent packing we are left with a desert where tumbleweeds blow past while users ponder their next carefully edited musings, ever mindful of upsetting the liberal technocratic algorithms. GIFs of Mel Gibson as William Wallace exclaiming “freeeeeeedoommmm” still circulate, but the intense debates and searing revelations on the underworld, or “swamp”, have evaporated.

Extreme liberal views and hysterical “pandemic” narratives are left to fill the void, making for a Victorian circus spectacle, where freakish creatures perform verbal acrobatics and corporate sponsors run around the ring naked, having exposed themselves as hypocrites during the Trump presidency.

After a brief skirmish over at Parler, where hackers mined the operating system and Big Tech pulled the rug, an exodus of autists, truthers and professional probers began to congregate on the Gab platform — although the former camaraderie and partisanship seems less intense and relations more tempered. Perhaps the shock and awe campaigns by the tech monoliths activated childhood traumas and scorched the fingers of social denizens. Telegram, which operates beyond the pale of Apple, Google or Microsoft, has experienced a renaissance in activity. Even “normies” are opening accounts as a measure to avoid full-spectrum surveillance. The app pings its users with updates and comments from the myriad posters and commentators now unleashing their scoop news stories and videos of citizens challenging the draconian rules and ciphers around the world. These enclaves have become the last bastion of social satire, after the globalist machine’s clinical bots zapped all humor from their platforms.

The silver lining to the purges by Big Tech is that many people are thinking long and hard about who they are and what they want from life, and no longer look to authority figures for their answers and orientation. Personal sovereignty is being birthed, even though the labor pains have gone on for more than a year and the baby has yet to fully emerge.

Donald Trump is reportedly creating a new social media platform that will “completely redefine the game” and which will be ready in 2-3 months, according to Jason Miller, who was a spokesperson for Trump’s 2020 campaign.

As Jeff Goldblum pointed out amid the chaos of Jurassic Park, “nature will find a way”. Nature is good at camouflage, whereas detached corporate entities are not — at least not any more. The proliferation of recording devices and social media outlets has led to the “Streisand Effect”, a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information, often via the internet. The term was coined when Barbara Streisand tried to suppress photos of her Malibu mansion. We have recently seen, and reported on at Corey’s Digs, many such instances, often involving the Democratic party and more recently members of the GOP. In a sense, the veil of deception has dropped — it has never been more easy to be an investigative journalist or seeker of truths.

The great divide among humanity is well underway — the discourse around the “pandemic” and now the “vaccine” position are creating two stark timelines. How or if these two imperial and rebel groups will co-exist is not yet clear, with the latter eschewing  all the generous offers of mask mandates, experimental RNA jabs and nano bot infection.  There are now many millions of people around the world who have been inured with enough counter-consensus information — about the planet’s social history and geo-politics and control structures — that they are seeking a new way to exist in the world. Many are better informed than most of the secret agents of the world’s intelligence services. Those people co-exist with the “sleepers” — sometimes among family members and under the same roof as others who still believe that CNN and the BBC represent cutting edge and impartial news.

The order of the day is self-censorship — in order to navigate the current lockdown dystopia, but also to avoid the karmic backlash for red-pilling others or data dumping on subjects such as “toxic jabs” or masks or quarantine directives, as the “rebels” would see it. The adherents to the globalist empire are enthusiastically lining up to be deceived, jabbed or suffocated by masks — but it is their prerogative. They could not and would not yet wish to live in the searing reality of a deconstructed 3D Matrix. As Morpheus pointed out in The Matrix, “you have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged … and many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.” But those people who defend a nihilistic and ruthless system may go down with it as it implodes in on itself, which is what we are witnessing now.

Even Jesus of Nazareth used parables to avoid direct transgression of freewill and blowback from ignorant and primal minds — but they crucified him anyway, mainly for calling out the hypocrites among the elites of the day: the Sadducees, Pharicees and Romans.

Whose responsibility is it to awaken people? Is it a risky pursuit, if you oblige someone to look where he or she never planned to, causing them distress or disruptive cognitive dissonance? What kind of karma (or cause and effect) awaits the person who foists their prized counter-cultural narratives on the unwitting or unwilling recipient? Ask and ye shall receive is the universal maxim that covers your butt: be a living example of your ideals but wait for the invitation to share with any fervor.

Misinformation is rife amid the melee of ideas and facts, and is perhaps the most tricky area to navigate. It is a skillset that requires an activated and attuned heart. The AI menace represents the head without a heart. Our duty to ourselves involves a journey into to our most prized possessions — our hearts and souls. However, judgmentalism and self-righteousness among those “in the know” is counterproductive and the antithesis of real wisdom, which is compassionate and assured. This is the journey from reactionary to creator. When we refer to judgment, we do not mean withhold determinations about people or situations, but rather to avoid condemnation. It has never been more important to exercise our liberty to decide what is good and what is bad for us, and to say NO when necessary. Rejecting that which does not serve your good is not the same as spending time and energy in condemnation. Recognizing and differentiating between harmful and helpful energies is a necessary skill to maintain personal freedoms and make decisions on a daily basis.

On one day last week, almost everyone I encountered had a grim story to recount about their vaccine experience. The guy in front of me at the grocery store told the till clerk about his bad reaction to the jab, which resulted in a chest infection, and led to a prescription for antibiotics. The woman behind the till said she “couldn’t get out of bed for a week” after hers, and they both knew any elderly woman who passed on soon after she got jabbed. Ten minutes later I was on a conference call with several journalists from a major newspaper, one of whom was missing, after he became ill immediately after his Covid shot. Three other people in that group had had or knew of colleagues who experienced negative reactions to the jabs — and so inevitably they asked if I had gone for my shot. Up to that point, my subtle hints about their blind faith in the vax scheme had been ignored or ridiculed; now my opinion mattered, since I had managed to avoid being poisoned. Instead of dumping a load of detailed stats and anecdotes on their worried minds, I advised them in retrospect (and before the next round of jabs) to carry out the same due diligence they would with a news story or other big life decision. I didn’t have any miracle cures to offer, other than zeolite and apple cider vinegar, and could not prognosticate on the effects of nano tech in their bloodstream. They, like many others, have become lab subjects in a giant experiment. Saying “I told you so” just wouldn’t cut it.

The wisdom and knowledge we have gained from hard study and acute observation of the underlying world — rather than the overt consensus reality — can be the trigger and gateway to new horizons and expanded consciousness for others. We can unwittingly offer the synchronous clue or magic coincidence that alerts another to the intelligent and interactive universe — what Carl Jung called the “psychoid” realm. But rather than setting out with our egos as plotters and planners of other people’s awakenings, we are safer, and more reliable, as unwitting conduits, where we don’t try too hard but realize when we have made a difference. In those moments our contemporaries have the opportunity to get off the 3D hamster wheel and get onto the circular Hero’s Journey of the Soul.

The G-force of our current rollercoaster ride is peeling back the layers of contrived identity and ego, whether we like it or not. We are all walking around like freshly skinned grapes; the sense of rawness and vulnerability applies to both the “good” and “bad” actors in this show. But it means we are getting closer to our core being. Consider the uses of adversity, say the Rune stones. Meister Eckhart, the German theologian and mystic, put it this way: “If nut seeds produce nut trees and pear seeds produce pear trees, what do God seeds produce?” And Gods ain’t victims.

Article posted with permission from Corey Lynn, originally posted at CoreysDigs.com

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Similar social experiments have been conducted on American citizens since the advent of radio and television. In 1938, a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds book was broadcast by the Mercury Theatre, and included fake news segments on an alien invasion in New Jersey. Newspaper offices and police stations were inundated with calls from listeners who mistook the CBS broadcast for a real event. The apparent hysteria did not go unnoticed in the corridors of power, and would have informed later decisions about disclosure on crashed “UFOs” and any number of other secret government programs.

A great divide is forming between those people rushing to receive injections and those who are adamant that the scheme is extremely dangerous and part of a “Certificate Of Vaccine IDentification” control dynamic. Reports on this site have already outlined the experimental nature of the jabs and how they are designed to engage with the body’s ribonucleic acid (RNA) and thereby alter DNA. RNA is a polymeric molecule essential in various biological roles in coding, decoding, regulation and expression of genes. RNA and DNA are nucleic acids. Along with lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates, nucleic acids constitute one of the four major macromolecules essential for all forms of life.

Dr Steven Hotze from Houston, Texas, says the Covid shot is not technically a vaccine.  “The so-called Covid-19 vaccine is not a vaccine at all. It’s a dangerous, experimental gene therapy,” he said. “The Center for Disease Control, the CDC, gives the definition of the term vaccine on its website. A vaccine is a product that stimulates a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease. Immunity is the protection from an infectious disease. If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without being infected.”

Hotze continued: “This so-called Covid-19 vaccine does not provide any individual who receives the vaccine with immunity to Covid-19. Nor does it prevent the spread of the disease.”

Because of this, “It does not meet the CDC’s own definition of a vaccine. That’s why it’s a deceptive trade practice, under 15 US Code Section 41 of the Federal Trade Commission, for pharmaceutical companies who are producing this experimental gene therapy to claim that it’s a vaccine.”

There have been over 40,000 adverse reactions and nearly 1,900 deaths reported from the so-called “vaccine” in US to date.

Moderna was founded in 2010 as ModeRNA Therapeutics to focus on experimental gene therapy using synthetic mRNA for the treatment of various diseases. “Moderna has never successfully developed a product for treatment of any disease prior to this,” said Dr Hotze. “An experimental gene therapy using synthetic mRNA to treat an infectious disease has never been attempted in humans, because of its failure in previous animal studies.”

The synthetic messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) experimental gene therapy has previously caused immune system hyper-reactions during animal testing.

Italian prosecutors have opened a manslaughter investigation after a music teacher died on Sunday, a day after receiving AstraZeneca’s covid vaccine, according to the Wall Street Journal. “The judiciary in Biella on Monday, 15 March, opened a preliminary probe into the death of 57-year-old Sandro Tognatti, whose cause of death is still unknown,” said the report.

Italy, along with Bulgaria, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain and Sweden, have banned all AstraZeneca vaccines following reports of blood clots in recipients. Denmark, Iceland and Norway were among the first to halt use of the Oxford University-developed vaccine on March 11. The following day, Thailand halted the vaccine just before it was set to be rolled out. That decision was reversed on Tuesday as the Thai prime minister received his first dose of the vaccine and urged his fellow Thais to do the same. Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Luxembourg have all suspended use of at least one batch of AstraZeneca vaccines delivered to various countries.

A more accurate description of the chemical and nano concoctions would be “operating systems”, as the programmed nano tech will keep looping within the body. Aside from acute lethal reactions to the toxicity and the possibility of delayed pathogenic priming, the zombification of the recipients is not out of the question if as-yet-unseen external control measures are applied — for example, electromagnetic fields. Those people who conclude that the jabs are hazardous to DNA or unnecessary then face the quandary over avoiding the bodily fluids of people who have received the formulas, and over what to do about infection through blood donors, as there are as yet no restrictions on the vaccinated from giving blood. Believe it or not, there are plans to use a bioluminescent enzyme called “luciferase” to make a quantum dot in vaccines readable through a mobile device. This would really be the mark of the beast.

It is worth pausing at this stage to remember that these narratives are being pushed by the usual outlets — the media and government departments — and by no means represent definitive future timelines for humanity. In what is shaping up to be archetypal initiations for each person on Earth, freewill is still paramount — and will be the ultimate arbiter of outcomes for each and every one of us. That said, in a recent interview, Dr. Anthony Fauci outlined proposals to “vaccinate” babies using nano shots.

Fauci, and his counterpart Bill Gates, are grotesque cartoon bad guys; so obviously sinister that they seem to be characters from a Brothers Grimm fairytale — and therefore quite obviously figures designed to test the stupidity or maturity of everyone at this crucial juncture. Evil no longer lurks in the shadows, but is laid bare on TV screens and in newspaper pages for all to see. Sin is synonymous with stupidity. This worldwide judgment day is assessing who is and who isn’t prepared to integrate the “light”, which is the biochemical means of conveying information, or knowledge.

Moderna announced this week that it had given its first doses of Covid-19 vaccine to children under age 12, including babies as young as 6 months. The study is expected to enroll 6,750 healthy children in the United States and Canada, the New York Post reported this week. Moderna said on Tuesday that in its upcoming combined Phase 2 and Phase 3 trial, each child would receive two shots 28 days apart. Johnson & Johnson’s jabs are authorized only for adults 18 and older, while Pfizer’s shot can be given to people 16 and older.

Moderna’s website refers to its formulas as “operating systems”. The website states: “Recognizing the broad potential of mRNA science, we set out to create an mRNA technology platform that functions very much like an operating system on a computer. It is designed so that it can plug and play interchangeably with different programs. In our case, the ‘program’ or ‘app’ is our mRNA drug – the unique mRNA sequence that codes for a protein.”

Amid the testing frenzy on American citizens, Democrats this week blocked a bill sponsored by Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, which would have required the Department of Homeland Security to test all migrants crossing illegally into the country for coronavirus. The Customs and Border Protection is reportedly encountering more than 3,000 migrants per day, which is approaching the levels of the 2019 border crisis.

The pre-vaccine agenda from the medical establishment saw a diverse range of mortalities attributed to Covid-19, where people who died in car crashes or from pre-existing and long-standing conditions were logged as Covid-related mortalities by doctors. Conversely, a World Health Organization official now says there is no evidence linking deaths to any Covid vaccine, after around 25 countries suspended usage of AstraZeneca’s vaccine amid reports of blood clots.

“There is no documented death that’s been linked to a Covid vaccine,” Soumya Swaminathan, a WHO clinical scientist, said in a March 15 news conference. “While we need to continue to be very closely monitoring this, we do not want people to panic.”

The UN health agency would “for the time being recommend that countries continue vaccinating with AstraZeneca,” Swaminathan said.

The AstraZeneca vaccine is not in use in the US. The company is still recruiting for its 30,000-person US vaccine trial. One report noted that it might take until April for the company to submit its data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.

In the US, 116 million doses of Covid “vaccines” have been received, with an average of 2.5 million doses administered a day as of last week. More than 410 million doses have been administered across 132 countries, which is about 2.7 per cent of the global population.

In a separate but related issue, the president of Tanzania, John Pombe Magufuli, has died aged 61 from what the media claims was heart disease.  Magufuli was one of the few world leaders who refused to lockdown his country. The president, who had a degree in chemistry, publicly tested a pawpaw fruit and a goat for Covid, with positive readings from the standard PCR kit. Tanzania had been targeted by the Gates Foundation with its mass vaccination program, but had been rebuffed by President Magufuli.

Senator Rand Paul, addressing Fauci in a hearing over masks and immunity, quoted British research from David Wiley that found no symptomatic reinfection after following 2,800 patients for several months. “There have been no reports of significant reinfections after acquiring Covid naturally,” said Paul. He also quoted Shane Crotty of La Jolla Institute, who concluded from his research that “the amount of immune memory gained from natural infection would likely prevent the vast majority of people from being hospitalized and diseased for many years …”

It was suggested to Fauci that — given that no scientific studies had shown significant reinfection from people who had been previously infected or vaccinated — his mandate on masks into 2022 was “pure theatre”. Fauci’s response was that “we don’t have a prevalent of a variant yet.” Which would suggest that his whole policy was based on conjecture and scaremongering.

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After his acquittal — for allegedly inciting violence among his supporters on January 6 — Trump stated: “Our cherished Constitutional Republic was founded on the impartial rule of law, the indispensable safeguard for our liberties, our rights, and our freedoms.

“It is a sad commentary on our times that one political party in America is given a free pass to denigrate the rule of law, defame law enforcement, cheer mobs, excuse rioters, and transform justice into a tool of political vengeance, and persecute, blacklist, cancel and suppress all people and viewpoints with whom or which they disagree,” he said. “I always have, and always will be a champion for the unwavering rule of law, the heroes of law enforcement, and the right of Americans to peacefully and honorably debate the issues of the day without malice and without hate.”

Conservatives and other supporters around the world must have been lifted from their post-election gloom when they read his “MAGA” remarks: “Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun. In the months ahead I have much to share with you, and I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all of our people. There has never been anything like it!”

If words could kill, then Sen Mitch McConnell would no longer be with us. On February 16, a statement from “Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America” lambasted the senator for Kentucky, saying that “The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political ‘leaders’ like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm … McConnell did nothing, and will never do what needs to be done in order to secure a fair and just electoral system into the future. He doesn’t have what it takes, never did, and never will,” said Trump, who went on to mention McConnell’s family’s “substantial Chinese business holdings. He does nothing on this tremendous economic and military threat.”

He continued: “Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again.”

On Presidents’ Day Trump unexpectedly appeared in a motorcade close to his Mar-a-Lago stronghold in Palm Beach, which spurred a frenzy of activity from crowds who had gathered for a rally. They roared as his SUV slowed to a crawl and he waved and shouted “we love you” to his supporters.

The grandstanding by Democrats continued when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that Congress would form a body similar to the 9/11 Commission to investigate the January 6 breach of Capitol Hill.

“It is clear from his findings and from the impeachment trial that we must get to the truth of how this happened,” she said in a statement. “To protect our security, our security, our security, our next step will be to establish an outside, independent 9/11-type Commission to ‘investigate and report on the facts and causes’” of the breach.

She had earlier asked retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré to undertake a review of the Capitol’s security protocols. In a letter to her Democratic colleagues, Pelosi said the House would provide spending to boost security at the Capitol. “As we prepare for the Commission, it is also clear from General Honoré’s interim reporting that we must put forth a supplemental appropriation to provide for the safety of Members and the security of the Capitol,” the letter read.

In turn, House Republicans are seeking answers from Pelosi over decisions made around security in the run-up to the January 6 protests, according to a report.

In a letter signed by Judiciary Committee member Jim Jordan and Intelligence Committee member Devin Nunes, Republican lawmakers accused Pelosi of blocking their requests for information on security failures.

“As you are aware, the Speaker of the House is not only the leader of the majority party, but also has enormous institutional responsibilities,” read the letter. “The Speaker is responsible for all operational decisions made within the House.”

The Republicans demanded to know why requests for the National Guard to be deployed before the insurrection were rebuffed.

Capitol Hill Police were heavily outnumbered by the Trump supporters and Antifa infiltrators who breached the Congress building.

The Republicans noted that Capitol Police Chief Steve Sund approached Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving on January 4 to request National Guard support, but his request was denied.

“When then-Chief Sund made a request for national guard support on January 4th, why was that request denied?” Republicans wrote, according to Fox News.

They also queried the Speaker’s unilateral decision to appoint retired four-star Army Gen. Russel Honoré to complete a security review.

“While there is wide-spread support to conduct an independent security review of the campus, General Russel Honoré was appointed solely by you, without consultation of the minority,” the Republicans wrote. “It is easy to understand why we and our Senate counterparts remain skeptical that any of his final recommendations will be independent and without influence from you.”

Pelosi is also under scrutiny over the decision to retain 5,000 National Guard troops in the capital until mid-March, although some reports suggest they could remain well into Fall. Around 26,000 National Guard were deployed ahead of Biden’s inauguration to a cost of $500m.

The desperate Democrats are still mulling over a “Plan B” proposal to ban Trump from returning to office using the 14th Amendment, after their second impeachment attempt failed. Lawmakers could conceivably declare that Trump engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” under the 14th Amendment. If successful — which would be unlikely — such a move would prevent Trump from running for the presidency again, but would require a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Two-thirds of each chamber can subsequently vote to drop the ban.

The costs involved in both impeachments are likely to be several millions, when the salaries of lawyers, lawmakers and the 106 congressional staffers are figured in. Roll Call estimates the first impeachment trial in January 2020 cost $1.83m. Whereas the Heritage Foundation put the price tag at $3m.

While these sure-to-fail spectacles raged on, hundreds of thousands of small businesses were kept in lockdown and the economy continued to spiral downwards.

On Monday, the “former” president released a statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to deny his request to halt the release of his taxes to a Manhattan district attorney. Trump had requested that a lower court ruling that had directed his accountancy firm, Mazars USA, to meet a subpoena to turn over his tax records and other documents to a grand jury under Democrat district attorney Cyrus Vance be put on hold.

“This investigation is a continuation of the greatest political Witch Hunt in the history of our country, whether it was the never ending $32 million Mueller hoax, which already investigated everything that could possibly be investigated, ‘Russia Russia Russia,’ where there was a finding of ‘No Collusion,’ or two ridiculous ‘Crazy Nancy’ inspired impeachment attempts where I was found NOT GUILTY. It just never ends!”

It concluded: “I will fight on, just as I have, for the last five years (even before I was successfully elected), despite all of the election crimes that were committed against me. We will win!”

The Supreme Court on Monday also rejected several cases related to the 2020 election, including disputes from Pennsylvania that had divided the justices just before the election.

The rejections related to challenges filed by Trump in five states that Joe Biden won: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Trump will speak at CPAC 2021 in Florida this week.

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The benchmark of what constitutes a “conspiracy theory” has moved so dramatically over the past four years that claims that Joe Biden’s inauguration was pre-recorded and that he occupies a film studio rather than the real White House don’t grate the way perhaps they would have even a year ago. The mind boggles — but afterall, this is the age of the scamdemic, where large swathes of the western world have been shut down because of a virus with the severity of a common cold that has yet to be isolated (and therefore proven to exist), and which in any case can be effectively targeted by a simple and safe prophylactic such as hydroxychloroquine, which has been maligned in favor of a mass vaccination program with an experimental gene-altering compound that is not technically a vaccine. But let us not argue over semantics in times like these.

A comprehensive overview of data and factual analysis has been provided on this website, but for an overview of global Covid death rates, we must turn to a Russian source, as algorithmic censorship has meant that conglomerated mortalities have been removed from search engines in the west. The global death rates — essentially unchanged over the past several years — demonstrate that the covid scheme is both a casedemic and scamdemic, without substance or utility. Nonetheless, the Biden administration has committed to 600m doses of the mRNA “vaccine” and introduced tougher mandates on mask wearing. The scientific basis of both variables is being increasingly challenged by doctors and advisory bodies from a myriad of countries.

Since Trump was “ousted”, the stringency of the PCR testing regime has been loosened to allow for lower positive results and Democrat governors such as New York’s Andrew Cuomo have called for restaurants to be re-opened. Immediately following Biden’s inauguration, the World Health Organization admitted that PCR tests give false positives, and have changed the guidelines, which will obviously decrease case numbers.

Meanwhile, Biden appears before cameras for about 20 minutes a day and reads from card prompts, even when answering scripted questions from the swooning press pool.

Of the over two-dozen executive orders signed so far by Biden — those listed on the Federal Register, with more on the way — he has reversed the policy to help fight opioid addiction and halted Trump’s executive order to slash the price of insulin and EpiPen. Many immigration safeguards will be cancelled and the climate change carbon control dynamic has been revived, where once again dogma is supported by convenient and selective “science”. EO 13988 will ensure that female athletes can now be trounced on the sports field by 400lb male gorillas in the name of gender identity equality.

Even Democrat voters are rushing to social media to vent their anger at Biden’s initial actions, after he eliminated thousands of American jobs at the Keystone Pipeline and elsewhere, allowed taxpayer dollars to fund abortions abroad, and made the country more reliant on foreign energy.

The Washington Times last week reported that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had cancelled business in the Chamber in Biden’s first week on the job — until February. The Democrats may of course need the time to settle in, or they may be wary of being in Capitol Hill while thousands of soldiers are posted around the perimeter.

There have been sketchy reports that the White House has been in darkness for several days, but this may as yet be a conspiracy theory too far — suggesting that a round-up of arrests has been taking place inside.

The initial footage of Biden signing EOs appeared to show blank pages but that was proven to be due to camera angles and lighting which similarly happened with some of Trump’s signings, but when social media pundits began comparing his signatures they were shown to be unalike, as if authored by someone else. If rumors are true that the corporation of America is bankrupt, then he is President, or more like CEO, of a defunct entity. Under those conditions, the signing of Executive Orders would be tantamount to committing fraud and possibly treason.

On The Flipside

Donald Trump was seen on a golf course a few days ago, where a bystander remarked: “Mr President, thank you for your service, sir.” Trump is heard to say on the video: “I haven’t finished yet.”

Already a mythos is developing around Trump, with alleged “insiders” claiming he has set up a command center at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.

The estate was willed to the government in 1973 by Marjorie Merriweather Post, then owner of General Foods, but was returned in 1981 due to the expense of maintaining it. Trump bought it for about $10m in 1985. The property reputedly has three bomb shelters and a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF), and has been referred to as the Winter White House.

On January 25^th, a statement was released from “The Office of Donald J. Trump” stating that the office of the former president has been formally opened and that the office will be responsible for managing President Trump’s correspondence, public statements, appearances and activities to carry on the agenda of the Trump Administration through advocacy, organizing, and public activism. His former campaign team has also disavowed any affiliation with the newly formed “Patriot Party.”

Whatever is really going on behind the scenes, tensions are high. Defeated FL Democratic nominee Pam Keith, who appears to spend a great deal of her time pushing propaganda on twitter, tweeted out her fears over the need to impeach or indict Trump before he runs a shadow government from Mar-a-Lago, and a civil war breaks out, while suggesting the “extreme right” has been pushing for it.

Notwithstanding last year’s widespread rioting, burning of businesses and the American flag, destruction and looting in cities, threats and intimidation of people, including murder, have taken place under the auspices of Antifa and BLM, while the Democrats cheered them on, the latter group has officially been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, in yet another upside down move.

Separately, Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn, the younger brother of former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn, has been designated as the new head of the US Army Pacific forces, which was announced last week by the Department of Defense. This move alone raises questions over Biden’s presidential power, or the illusion of it.

Meanwhile, Marjorie Greene, representative for Georgia’s 14th congressional district, has filed articles of impeachment against Biden. The Independent newspaper described her as “a pro-Trump election fraud conspiracy theorist” who has “ties to the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory”. Her process may have about as much chance as the Democrats’ impeachment charade against Trump, but one can hope.

In January, the White House released its 1776 Report, a “corrective” to the historical revisionism that has permeated the liberal media, and more controversially American high schools and universities. The liberal ideologists have cast the founding of America as a racist enterprise, and were quick to condemn the report’s release. Maegan Vazquez, at CNN, asserted that the “Trump administration issues racist school curriculum report on MLK day.” Vazquez asserted that the report was a “rebuttal to schools applying a more accurate history curriculum.”

Neither CNN or The New York Times — which complained that “no professional historians,” only “conservative activists, politicians and intellectuals,” authored the report — were able to find a single factual mistake in the Trump commission’s paper, and made only philosophical digressions and critiques.

Texas delivered a blow to Biden’s immigration plan in federal court, under the state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton, who said the move would halt the Democrat plan to freeze deportations for 100 days. “Within 6 days of Biden’s inauguration, Texas has HALTED his illegal deportation freeze,” Paxton tweeted on January 26 “*This* was a seditious left-wing insurrection. And my team and I stopped it.”

The Hill on Friday reported that the town of Palm Beach, Florida, was reviewing Trump’s residency at Mar-a-Lago. Trump relocated there on January 20, which could be a violation of rules agreed with the town when he applied to convert the private residence into a club in 1993. “Our town attorney is reviewing the agreement and the laws surrounding it,” Kirk Blouin, Palm Beach town manager, was quoted as saying.

A spokesperson for the Trump Organization told the Associated Press last month that “there is no document or agreement in place that prohibits President Trump from using Mar-a-Lago as his residence.”

This development, if true, in the wider scheme of events would amount to a mild inconvenience to an operator such as Trump, and further underlines the legal and transparent nature of his “post-presidency” activities — and perhaps also the desperation of some of his detractors.

The bad news continues — at least the appearance of personal jeopardy is being precipitated — as ABC News revealed that Trump’s team of five lawyers quit a week before the impeachment hearing. Butch Bowers, a South Carolina lawyer, lead the resignations in part because of disagreements over how to mount Trump’s defense, the news site said. The lawyers had wanted to argue over the constitutionality of holding a trial given that Trump is no longer president.

Trump had reputedly asked for a strategy that posited election fraud as the central focus, while the lawyers and some advisers had sought to focus on the constitutionality issue. Trump has already named two new lawyers, David Schoen and Bruce L. Castor Jr.

The House impeached Trump on January 13 on a single article for “incitement of insurrection” following a protest at the US Capitol building that left one police officer and four other people dead. The incident — which was widely described as an insurrection — took place on January 6 at the time of a Trump rally.

“The Democrats’ efforts to impeach a president who has already left office is totally unconstitutional and so bad for our country. In fact, 45 Senators have already voted that it is unconstitutional. We have done much work, but have not made a final decision on our legal team, which will be made shortly,” Jason Miller, a spokesperson for Trump, was reported as saying to ABC News.

The Senate trial is billed to begin the week of February 8.

Sun Tzu’s admonition to seize the opportunity amid the chaos may ring true at this pivotal juncture. Trump is greatly misunderstood by his enemies, and the public at large, who are accustomed to the empty soundbites of politicians and who have not been to military college. Trump and the loyal generals at his side are quite capable of taking advantage of these seeming setbacks — particularly as the Chinese Communist Party apparatchiks look on with gleeful satisfaction. The generals may be enjoying the irony that the Chinese military sage is informing their plans to defeat communism abroad and on their own shores. Tzu said it best: “To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”

Time To Clean House

It seems that some developments are shaping up to have “Biblical” conclusions. The religious fervor engendered by the election results looks set to continue on both sides of the political spectrum, as patience runs out over promised developments to curb corruption and address draconian censorship and economic lockdowns.

Adam and Eve’s archetypal quandary in the Garden of Eden looks like child’s play when compared with humanity’s current malaise over what is Truth and knowledge, and what is deceit and delusion. We could all seek out the forbidden fruit, but Big Tech owns the patent on even that, thanks to Steve Jobs. Instead of looking outward, perhaps the topsy-turvy carnival is forcing us to look inside our hearts and souls for the answers. When you know with all of your heart what you don’t want — this s**t show, for example — then you are motivated to start entertaining notions of what would be better; a whole lot better would be nice.

President Trump’s “personality” activated and enraged many people through the distorted prism of the media, and in doing so encouraged humanity to really question, on one hand, or embrace, on the other, what attributes they want in their leaders. Judging by the current incumbent, we all have more inner work to do, in addition to cleaning up the election process. Someone once said that people get the politicians they deserve. How bad does it need to get before we confront our shadows head on? Maybe Biden is the spectre that will trip the critical mass of the collective into the epiphany that leads to an avalanche of disclosure and return to the values of the original Constitution — where God is the ultimate boss.

More revelations are sure to be coming our way, some of which may be hard to fathom, but when the pendulum swings that hard, it traverses the opposite polarity with equal force. The lesson for our future society might be, moderation in all things — and transparency.

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