Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By Obie Usategui —— Bio and Archives—April 24, 2020

Hi there, friends! At the outset, I hope that all of you reading this narrative find yourselves well. Above all, healthy and in good spirits, in spite of the ongoing disruptions at center stage of our lives which have ensued from the Coronavirus – COVID 19 pandemic.

The topic today is: How will this pandemic situation affect the economy and politics of the nation, notwithstanding the fact that both are interwoven to where one will inexorably affect the other? To this day, I cannot help but find subliminal issues which raise all kinds of questions in my mind regarding the timing of this pandemic attack.

As we all know, on February 26th, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first case of COVID-19, here in the U.S., in a patient from California with no travel history to an outbreak area nor contact with anyone diagnosed with the virus. Since then, as you well know, it has been a non-stop free-fall.

Other than the much-talked about impact that this pandemic will have on the nation in terms of deaths or otherwise people who are and will be infected with this virus, we may also presume this outbreak will probably end-up having as great or greater impact on our economy as it has on the overall death toll and healthcare issues.  By default it will also have a bearing on the nation’s politics, more so given the fact this is a presidential election year—question is: how much so?

First of all, in terms of economic impact, some experts concur on the fact that this Coronavirus / COVID-19, may end up affecting the nation even more so than did the ‘Great Depression” of the 1930s. I will preface, my assertions on how bad it really will be, by making sure I clarify beforehand the fact that I have always despised fearmongering. Matter of fact, historically, I am, as is our esteemed president Donald Trump, an optimist at heart. I have forever praised and seconded Franklin D. Roosevelt’s legendary words in his first inaugural address as president in 1932 when he said: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

Having said that, I do worry about the nation’s outcome from this pandemic chaos – economically speaking that is. At last count, there were something like 26.4 million Americans who have filed for unemployment – that amounts to more than 15% of the U.S. workforce. A Pew Research survey estimates 43% of households have been hit by a Coronavirus related job loss or pay cut. All leading economic indicators suggest that we are in for one of the worse economic crashes in the nation’s history. Ironically and paradoxically, this all comes at a time when our nation’s economy was booming like never before. Coincidentally, I may add, emphasize or question.

Understandably, with most of the nation being shut-down, there is a ripple effect which results in a negative economic flow under the present conditions—albeit one which carries on throughout the world as well. There are, as we all know, some industries which are bearing the brunt of the damage. All businesses which depended and/or derived their revenues from clustering people under one roof such as restaurants, airlines, cruise ships, sports venues, etc., are, for all practical purposes, out-of-business—at least temporarily, that is. Some of the larger entities, will hurt, but will somehow survive—vis-à-vis, others, many of the smaller businesses, will succumb and will never make it back.

Even businesses which have remained open are feeling the economic hurt that results from the nationwide lockdown whereby people are not spending money as they did before the pandemic. No matter which way we look at it, in the end, this crisis will have taken a huge toll on our economy and, while it is difficult to measure the damage in precise terms, we can safely predict this COVID-19 will prove to have a momentous impact on the global economy of the world and that of the United States as well. This being the case, one must also wonder, how will this whole thing affect the nation’s political situation considering the aforementioned entwinement?

My greatest fears, as always, are relative to the bad players both abroad and here at home. I look at it this way, besides China’s well-known responsibilities inherent in the outbreak of the pandemic, there is the inevitable dependency of the U.S. on China, one which we have incrementally allowed to develop over the past forty years since 1979 – a dependency which goes as far as having China, a Communist nation, bankrolling our ever-growing national debt, now more than ever before, considering our government is going full-out in trying to subsidize the nation’s negative cash-flow ensuing from the pandemic.

Just think about this for a moment. If the U.S., God forbid, were to ever go bankrupt, highly unlikely but not impossible, China would be [the] only country in the world with sufficient financial strength to bail us out, which, said another way means China would outright own us, and, by default we would be owned by a Communist regime, wouldn’t we?

For the sake of this narrative, I will not go on to discuss the many reasons on how we got to where we are. Suffice it to say, we have nobody to blame but ourselves and, in turn, on our collective greed over the years—not to mention the lack of foresight by many of our past presidents. The question now is, how will all this going on affect the nation’s politics? In the greater scope of things, my biggest fear lies on the fact that we are somewhat, if you really think about it, at the mercy of Communism, both from outside [China] as well as from within—the Socialist Democrats in the U.S.

Mark my words, no matter what, Democrats will find ways in which to blame our faltering economy on Donald Trump rather than on the virus itself, as well as they will try to shift the blame of the pandemic from China to Trump. It is already happening as many in the “fake-news”, have already begun to lay blame on Trump for all that is going wrong. As always, Democrats continue to switch blame by siding with the ‘bad guys’. What else is new?

I can virtually sense Democrats salivating at the thought of blaming Trump for the nation’s unemployment and economic stagnation. Watch how this line-of-reasoning becomes a mainstay issue in Biden’s presidential platform, which incidentally, has already started. And, going on past experience, I venture to say, many of the nation’s weak minds; the useful idiots; the naïve, the gullible, and the uninformed, will, no doubt, be swayed into actually believing it was Donald Trump’s fault somehow or another. To this universe of idiots, our obvious state of ‘unpreparedness’ for this pandemic, will be Donald Trump’s fault no matter what. How will that translate in the voting polls remains to be seen.

The Communist Democrats’ motif whereby “the end will always justify the means”, will have them blaming Trump for everything – from the lack of an anti-virus vaccine to the shortness of ventilators and hospital beds to our lack of testing capabilities and everything in between. And, to the corrupt elite of the Communist Democratic machine, from Bernie Sanders on down to Pelosi, Schumer, Cortez and Co., the nation’s chaos, believe it or not, comes as a sick and rather convenient state of affairs—a renewed hope for beating Trump in November. Ironically, as always, to all these Communist Democrats, their political ambitions keep-on taking precedence over the nation’s welfare, including the deaths of thousands of Americans. How is that for a presidential-aspiring Party made-up of political animals who could not care less for the loss of American lives?

I would like to end my dissertation today on a positive note and try to look through a glass half-full rather than half-empty —driven on by my hopes for the best. First and foremost, I trust that the vision of the American people will transcend the inherent evilness and moral turpitude of the Democratic propaganda machine, and go on to give credit to President Trump for the admirable way in which he has been handling this unexpected crisis in every which way you can think of. Doubt that many of the past-presidents would have ever come anywhere near as able in handling the crisis as has Donald Trump. Matter of fact, I tremble at the thought this all would have happened under the presidency of a Barack Obama, a Bernie Sanders or a Joe Biden – God forbid.

Again, I hope that American’s vision will preempt and forestall the ill intentions of Democrats and give Donald Trump, once more, their vote of approval and confidence by re-electing him in November, as he and he alone, as far as I am concerned, is the only one in our political universe nowadays capable of single-handedly navigating through these rough times and take us to a safe harbor once again. I think that this president’s innate savvy is our best chance to steadfastly come out of our present turmoil, both from a welfare and economic perspective. Moreover, I hope that we, as a people, have learned our lesson to never again, depend on world ‘globalism’ going forward. Our dependency on a foreign nation, more so on a Communist nation such as China, should come as a rude awakening to every single American of how vulnerable we really are in spite our apparent “exceptionalism.”

Notwithstanding the obvious sorrow inevitably associated with the death of human beings by a viral pathogen, the one big lesson we should all takeaway from this pandemic attack is to never ever again let ourselves be swayed into believing that the outsourcing of our supply chain can lead us to better things – it cannot. Once we are out of this crisis, we must, at once, put an end to our China dependency. We must find a way to re-finance our debt; we must safeguard our technologies by making sure no else in the world will have access to them; and, we must bring back the manufacturing of all products, specially those in the healthcare industry back to our beloved nation.

Finally, in the domestic arena, we must also come to terms with the reality that Democrats have all but promoted this pandemic as a viable alternative to try and destroy Donald Trump as a means of regaining power and continue with their unfinished crusade of turning the United States of America into the likes of another China. We can only do so by re-electing Donald Trump in November – our only chance, if you will, of coming out triumphant of our present chaos; our only chance and hope to come back stronger than ever before.

For the sake of a better future, I trust we have learned our lesson – China is our foe, not our friend, and so is the Democratic Party. I have said before and I will say it again, all things considered, this pandemic may not be, at the end of day, as coincidental as we all think it is. I pray to God to let us overcome the present pandemonium now afflicting our nation, which, started in China—the world’s bastion of Communism. May God bless us and may God save the United States of America.

Re-posted from the Canada Free Press By Mark Gray —— Bio and Archives—April 24, 2020

“We’re first corralled by fear, then penned by panic. Thus trapped, we’re sheared of wealth and freedom. It isn’t by mistake.”

We are living in dark times, our future threatened by growing social, psychological, and financial stress due to overwhelming fear of the COVID-19 virus. It’s easy to fall into the pits of despair when life is bleak and the future uncertain.

“We’re first corralled by fear, then penned by panic. Thus trapped, we’re sheared of wealth and freedom”

It’s said extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures and our governments have certainly taken extraordinary steps to combat the threat of COVID-19. We are living through the most oppressive non-wartime conditions of our lives and enormous psychological pressure is being applied to compel compliance. Hey, give up your rights and freedoms and accept financial ruin or you are responsible for killing your fellow citizens. Does this truth feel right to you?

Imagine, if you dare, the COVID-19 affair as a template for future government action, which as we see, is the wholesale curtailing and suppression of freedom. Justified or not, the fact our liberties are under assault can’t be denied. Whether COVID-19 is a natural born killer, or a lab created assassin, the lesson is that the threat of pandemic is enough for officials to suspend civil liberties and demand we accept unbearable social and economic harm.

If we are living through a war between good and evil, a battle between liberty and tyranny, on whose side is fear? Given what we are currently going through, what future has freedom in a perpetually fearful world? If you were on team tyranny, now knowing how powerfully effective fear is for controlling people, would you not weaponize it? Of course, you would.

Am I suggesting that fear has already been weaponized and that our ensuing panic has purpose? Yes, the game is the theft of our wealth and freedom in the form of taxes, aid, war, and lockdowns. However, it isn’t all gloom and doom, there is a brilliant light at the end of this disturbingly dark tunnel. The path won’t be easy, because the powerful never willingly give up power, but the struggle will be well worth the fight.

The great pandemic panic of 2020 has unleashed people’s inner tyrants, and some have embraced their newfound power with more vigour than others. Lord Acton’s adage, “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”, is playing out in real time. The intoxicating impact of power on the weak or corrupt is impossible to miss, proving why a free society needs a constitution that explicitly restricts it.

The “Karens” of the world have been emboldened beyond belief, their fear-fuelled sanctimony driving them to scream furiously at strangers who refuse to comply with draconian edicts. Or worse, to snitch on neighbours who dare to step outside to play with their children, or walk in a park, or disobey decrees in any way, shape, or form. “Karens”, although suffering from power fever, are mostly benign.

Politicians can do real harm, however, and they have leapt at the chance to play saviour. They moved rapidly to “stop the spread” of the virus, shutting down huge sections of the economy while declaring rule after rule. Piling on with arbitrary, and often contradictory, diktats.

And while there does seem to be a correlation between party/ideology (progressive) and the demand for full compliance of ridiculous rules, politicians of all stripes have acted in haste without ever questioning the need for draconian solutions.

Destroyed businesses, jobs, savings, and financial security

Here in Alberta, we’re told to stay away from the massive, and incredibly beautiful, 140,000 plus acre Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. This nonsense is presented as a common-sense solution. I have news, the 6-foot social distance rule is also pathetic, but the panic you see in people’s faces when you encroach inside that magic circle is palpable. How damaged is their psyche? How about our collective psyche?

Our leaders, after causing considerable financial harm in order to save us from COVID-19, are now throwing money at us to save us from the havoc they’ve caused. Where does this money come from? Their actions have destroyed businesses, jobs, savings, and financial security and then, to once more play the saviour, have decided we’ll all be better off being deeper in debt. And they expect thanks!

When you think about it, our “leaders” are misnamed, they’re really followers. The mainstream media pump out a continuous stream of panic porn as a signal for politicians to jump, and the greater the terror they’re able to twist out, the higher politicians leap. Right now, they’re pole vaulting.

We the people run nothing, we the sheeple bleat and take it. Hopefully, that is about to end.

The Great Awakening and exposing the mainstream media as the enemy

We’re told shutdowns, lockdowns, and banning all the things is necessary to save lives, that to disagree and disobey puts peoples’ lives in danger. In other words, it’s our civic duty to give up our rights. That smells wrong to a lot of people, so it’s no surprise groups are beginning to protest the loss of those rights.

Any objective observation of our world ends with the conclusion that liberty is under direct and sustained assault. Obviously, this situation didn’t develop overnight, which means we’ve been at war for a time without even knowing we were in a fight, which explains why we’re losing. As Sun Tzu said, “If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

The extraordinary totalitarian response to COVID-19 will cause people to question the direction we’re headed. As we tug on the threads of pandemic deceit, we will unravel the narrative and expose the mainstream media as the enemy. That knowledge, societal recognition of the enemy, is the beginning of the “Great Awakening”, the light that cracks the darkness.

We will know the enemy, and by learning the strategies, tactics and techniques used against us, we’ll better know ourselves. That, by Sun Tzu’s standards, is when we start winning.

Logical Chaos Plus Emotional Terror

We all understand that an ignorant and fearful populace is much easier to exploit and control than a knowledgeable and fearless one. So, for team tyranny, the fastest route to power is the ability to manufacture an ignorant and fearful people, and the only way to manage that is to control the message.

The strategy can be summed up as, “logical chaos plus emotional terror equals control”. Knowing the strategy allows us to identify the enemy’s tactics and techniques.

For example, censorship. It is now being sold as a crucial tool for weeding out misinformation. However, its sole purpose is to prevent people from learning facts that counter the narrative. As the narrative is built on deceit, censorship, by necessity, buries the truth. Censorship is tyranny, tyranny is evil, therefore, censorship is evil.

The media’s real goal is political action. They start with a claim, some version of we’re all going to die, then present it as fact until belief sets in. That “fact” then forms the basis for every discussion, allowing   them to push people and policy in a desired direction. The validity of the claim is never discussed.

We see this with COVID-19 coverage. It is becoming apparent that pandemic model death predictions were horror fiction because COVID-19’s actual mortality rate is tiny by comparison. Model predictions were hyperinflated by bogus mortality rate assumptions. The spurious predictions generated the fear that drove drastic, oppressive political action. We know the models were wrong, yet their failures remain unchallenged. Instead, they’re still treated as common knowledge. This is not an oversight, it’s a tactic.

What is the purpose of padding COVID-19 death counts other than to support the initial narrative? What is the rationale for attacking effective Hydroxychloroquine based treatments? Why the talk about recurrence except to sustain fear? Why the persistence we remain in isolation? Why the need to wait for vaccines except to maintain the new status quo? The game is all about ignorance and fear—ours.

Once we wake up to the reality of our enemy, we will apply our newfound knowledge to prior narratives like climate change (another model scam), gun control, and Trump (who knows the enemy) is a Russian asset. Our growing awareness that deceit, fear, and panic are purposeful tools used to strip us of wealth and freedom will destroy the last vestiges of trust we have in the media.

The media overreached and are about to lose their power. We should expect them to get nastier and meaner as that reality draws nearer. It will be the last proof we need of who they truly are.

Tyranny is about to lose its tongue.