Four Gitmo Detainees Released in Berghdahl Swap are Now Taliban Ministers for Afghan Government – Interim Government Will Be Officially Introduced on Sept 11th


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on September 7, 2021 | Sundance | 185 Comments

The official Taliban government of Afghanistan will be celebrated and introduced on September 11, 2021.    Four of the Afghanistan ministers appointed to government are former Gitmo detainees released during the Obama-era swap for captured U.S. service member Bowe Berghdahl, pictured below with new titles:

Afghanistan – […]  “The Islamic Emirate will take serious and effective steps towards protecting human rights, the rights of minorities as well as the rights of the underprivileged groups within the framework of the demands of the sacred religion of Islam,” reads the statement.

The new caretaker cabinet consists of the following people:

• Prime Minister (head of state): Mullah Hassan Akhund

• Deputy: Mullah Baradar

• Deputy: Mawlavi Hannafi

• Acting Minister of Defense: Mullah Yaqoub

• Acting Minister of Interior: Serajuddin Haqqani

• Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs: Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi

• Acting Minister of Finance: Mullah Hedayatullah Badri

• Acting Minister of Education: Mawlawi Noorullah Munir

• Acting Minister of Information and Culture: Mullah Khairullah Khairkhah

• Acting Minister of Economy: Qari Din Hanif

• Acting Minister of Hajj: Mawlawi Noor Mohammad Saqib

• Acting Minister of Justice: Abdul Hakim Sharie

• Acting Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs: Mullah Noorullah Noori

• Acting Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development: Mullah Mohammad Younus Akhundzada

• Acting Minister of Public Work: Mullah Abdul Manan Omari

• Acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum: Mullah Mohammad Esa Akhund

• Acting Minister of Water and Energy: Mullah Abdul Latif Mansoor

• Acting Minister of Civil Aviation and Transport: Mullah Hamidullah Akhundzada

• Acting Minister of Higher Education: Abdul Baqi Haqqani

• Acting Minister of Telecommunication: Najibullah Haqqani

• Acting Minister of Refugees: Khalilurahman Haqqani

• Acting Director of Intelligence: Abdul Haq Wasiq

• Acting Director of the Central Bank: Haji Mohammad Idris

• Acting Director of the Administrative Office of the President: Ahmad Jan Ahmady

• Acting Minister of Dawat-u-Ershad: Sheikh Mohammad Khalid

• Defense Deputy Minister: Mullah Mohammad Fazil

• Army Chief of Staff: Qari Fasihuddin

• Deputy Foreign Minister: Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai

• Deputy Interior Minister: Mawlawi Noor Jalal

• Deputy Information and Culture Minister: Zabihullah Mujahid

• First Deputy of Intelligence Department: Mullah Tajmir Javad

• Administrative Deputy of Intelligence Department: Mullah Rahmatullah Najeeb

• Deputy Interior Minister for Counter Narcotics: Mullah Abdulhaq Akhund

(SOURCE)

New South Wales, Australia, Premier Promises Freedom Once 70% Double-Vaxxed Status Achieved – However, Non Vaxxed Will Remain Locked-Down


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on September 7, 2021 | Sundance | 359 Comments

New South Wales, Australia – Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced that once the state achieves 70% double-vaccinated status, citizens within the region will be given some freedom from the lock-down situation. The details of the freedom will be announced later; however, only vaccinated people will be permitted to participate.

The announcement from NSW followed their release of the latest COVID stats showing eight people had died of “covid-related health issues” in the past 24 hours. Two men in their nineties, two people in their eighties and three people in their seventies, died in hospital. According to the Health Minister, all of them had “pre-existing medical issues and conditions.”

Following the nationwide standard, every citizen will be required to download their proof of vaccine into their personal “QR Code” on their phone. This digital identification will be scanned at the entrances of all businesses, offices, workplaces, and venues that require entry to participate in society. This process is called “check in”, and will be monitored by the national and state governing authority who will enforce protocols for tracking each individual citizen.

This ain’t a gag folks, this is the actual nuts-and-bolts of the new process that is being rolled-out right now throughout Australia. Premier Gladys Berejiklian held a press conference yesterday, where some of larger aspects to the programs were highlighted. If you are not paying attention, you had better perk up and start looking into what they are doing.  Once they implement this, we can expect to see these standards, rules and regulations imported into the U.S. during the Biden administration.   Australia & New Zealand look like the beta-test.

Currently, NSW along with all other states with significant populations are remaining in a fully locked-down status. This includes curfews on any activity outside the home that is approved as “essential’ by the state; a ban on any travel more than 5km from the home of the citizen, and a zero tolerance enforcement policy for infractions.

The announcement by Premier Berejiklian is almost identical to a previous conference from Victoria. In that announcement, Premier Daniel Andrews proclaimed that vaccinated citizens in the state of Victoria will be allowed out of lockdown in the near future. However, freedom as defined by access to medical treatment, the ability to work, shopping, attending events and engagement in the economy writ large, will not be permitted for any non-vaccinated citizen. Anyone who is not vaccinated will remain in locked-down isolation as enforced by the state.

Here is a brief 3.5 minute segment.  WATCH:

Here is the full press conference:

The justification for withholding access to life in Victoria and New South Wales is based on a premise that vaccinated people do not contract COVID, therefore the coronavirus is a “virus of the unvaccinated.” That statement is a completely false position. As seen in the U.S., and all other nations around the world, the vaccinated population contracts COVID in the same way as the non-vaccinated. Some studies have even shown the vaccinated population are susceptible to carrying higher loads of the virus than non-vaccinated individuals.

The vaccine provides zero-benefit from avoidance of the virus. Any claim to the contrary is totally devoid of reality, science or empirical evidence.

In some nations -like Israel- there is more than a 90% vaccinated status, and yet the COVID virus is still infecting, spiking and creating large issues with hospitalization for those at greatest risk. A large percentage of that Israeli population is now triple-vaxxed; and yet, the issues continue. Conversely, in Sweeden and parts of the U.S, the economy and society is largely open, and the variant viruses are running through the vaccinated and non-vaccinated population without a significantly disparate outcome.

Keep in mind, the survival rate from infection is stunningly disconnected from the severity of these mitigation efforts. The overall risks are very small except for those with pre-existing conditions that make them vulnerable to a respiratory virus.

Several weeks ago, I would have dismissed opinion that Australia and New Zealand were some sort of testing ground for the ability of a government to control the activity of the population. However, as I have watched the two nations conduct their COVID mitigation efforts; and contrast their claims against the reality of what is happening on the remaining parts of planet earth; I can no longer dismiss that theory…. in fact, I am becoming increasingly convinced that is exactly what is going on.

There is just no other way to explain the disconnect between: (1) what Australian political officials and state run health offices are saying; (2) the scale and scope of the totalitarian COVID mitigation efforts -writ large- they are executing; and (3) the reality of experiences in the rest of the civilized world.

The Australian government is not in an isolation bubble with the incapacity to see the world around them and communicate with other nations. They know what is happening around the world, and those worldwide events are completely contradictory from the decisions being made by the government officials down under.

What in happening in Australia and New Zealand for COVID mitigation is being done with intent and purpose; yet, it is devoid of sense when contrast against the rest of the world.

Therefore, if we accept these officials are not literally stupid people; and if we accept they possess a reasonable constitution; the only reconciliation of their conduct is that some guiding element is instructing them to conduct their national affairs as if the experiences of the rest of the world are non-existent. That would seem to affirm there is some sort of wide-spread social test happening down-under.

The most bizarre part of accepting the premise that Australia and New Zealand are testing grounds for government control in the 21st century, is then asking yourself how a nation of 25.5 million people cannot see their fishbowl of crazy. Surely they still have access to the world-wide internet, or do they? Are the Aussies and Kiwis able to use social media that connects them to other nations, or are there filters from Big Tech intended to support the government test? Are journalists in Australia not capable of seeing the rest of the world?

I am not asking these questions out of some intent to be provocative or snarky; I genuinely cannot fathom how 25 million people cannot see the disconnect between the rules and regulations put upon them by their government and then contrast those restrictions against the visible outcomes in the rest of the world.

Australia seems to have become this weirdly antonymous state like North Korea.

Here’s the previous press conference from Premier Daniel Andrews of Victoria. He is quite passionate about following through with the rules he outlines.

If you have the time to watch this, it is well worth it to gain a perspective on how the government is messaging to society with points about COVID that are completely and utterly false. Perhaps it’s not a lie if they convince themselves to believe it….  I have prompted the video to the Q&A Segment:

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is Following The Exact COVID Protocol Recommended By U.K. Senior Vaccinologist Sir Andrew Pollard


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on September 7, 2021 | Sundance | 299 Comments

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is continually under blistering attack from those who exploit the politics of COVID-19 without regard for health or safety.  However, as you will see below in comments delivered today by DeSantis and previous (non-criticized) opinion from the U.K. Vaccinologist in Great Britain, Sir Andrew Pollard, what the Florida governor is doing is EXACTLY what the Director of the U.K. Oxford Vaccine Group has recommended for all world leaders.

Evidence around the world is showing that vaccination will not stop the spread of COVID-19, and it will, as a result of a vaccinated approach, continually mutate into ever-changing variants.

Vaccinated persons and non-vaccinated persons can equally be exposed, equally be infected, and equally carry the virus and all the variants therein.  Thus the value of making a distinction between vaccinated and non-vaccinated persons, as determined by any policy that requires proof of vaccine, is -in fact- futile.  Vaccine passports are an exercise in manipulative political theater.

During statements today in Lakeland Florida {direct Rumble Link}, Ron DeSantis again repeated that vaccines have an effective and reasonable place in the overall effort to protect people from severe health crisis as a result of COVID-19 infection.  However, if the goal is to protect life and increase survival rates amid those who contract SARS-CoV-2 or variants therein, the vaccine itself does not provide that protection.  The DeSantis approach is to combine vaccination for the most vulnerable, with easy access to therapeutics and treatment for everyone – regardless of vaccinated status.  WATCH:

What Florida Governor Ron DeSantis outlines in that press conference and answer to questions, is exactly the approach recommended several months ago by Sir Andrew Pollard, the Senior U.K. Vaccinologist in Great Britain.

The commonsense therapeutic approach should be the primary focus, not vaccination, for ongoing healthcare systems as the COVID-19 variants will continue to evolve. DeSantis promotion of monoclonal antibody treatment is one highly effective tool to accomplish the goal of successful treatment and recovery.

Ultimately, the natural immunity process will be of greater overall benefit than vaccinations which will require continual boosters to deal with the ever-evolving variants (a similar approach to dealing with reoccurring and evolving flu strains).   Listen to the leading U.K. Vaccinologist in Great Britain, Sir Andrew Pollard, and contrast these recommendations with the approach the Florida Governor is taking  (SHORT VIDEO):

In essence, both Dr. Andrew Pollard (Director of the U.K. Oxford Vaccine Group) and Dr. Malone, a U.S. leading expert on pandemics, state that variants of the COVID-19 virus will continue to spread throughout the population regardless of vaccine status; and the virus will continue to evolve into more infectious but less deadly or pathogenic strains.

There simply is no way to vaccinate the population and stop the spread of COVID variants, because the vaccinated will contract and spread the virus just like the non-vaccinated. The vaccine approach should be targeted to the elderly and those most at risk from a respiratory virus.

The benefit of the vaccine should be weighed against the individual’s current health status. Elderly populations with lower immune responses should be the target for vaccination; they are the most at risk. However, younger -less at risk- individuals will likely benefit more from therapeutic treatment after exposure *if* they experience any symptoms at all.

The problem is, this commonsense approach is less favorable to the interests of the pharmaceutical industry and the healthcare systems that are controlled by the financial mechanisms inside the business of healthcare. Big Pharma would obviously make less money from a smaller target population for vaccination; ergo, the therapeutic approach is a threat to the preferred approach of those who operate the business model. This is the overarching political battle.

The influence of the pharmaceutical corporations, inside the institutions of government controlled healthcare on a global basis, is massive.  Their self-interest is the origin of the vaccinate push and vaccine narrative as the *only* and *best* solution.

Anyone who raises a question, challenges the approach, or stands in opposition to mandated mass vaccinations, then becomes a target to be isolated, marginalized, ridiculed and removed.

The COVID-19 virus is a politicized space where competing narratives are battling for position.  Most of the information now pushed by the media is done along these political lines.

Social changes, complete structural shifts amid a world of interconnected nations, under the guise of “Build Back Better” COVID-19 mitigation is the goal and aspiration of the political left on a national and global scale. COVID-19 is a virus, but also a very important political weapon, and we are discovering what the purpose of the hype is all about.  {GO DEEP}

There has been a great deal of discussion about the vitriolic, almost rabid disposition of people who are pushing the vaccination.

This should not be a surprise, although it might be disconcerting to find formerly reasonable people in your network, perhaps even in your family, now become seemingly unhinged if the subject arises.

It is demonstrably true, there has been a cleaving of our American population as the debate about the COVID vaccination rages on.  However, it is wise to consider the underlying psychology of a person who has been vaccinated, before engaging in an argument.

You may end up being entirely correct in your position; however, an intense or combative argument? At what cost?

A vaccinated person is, as a consequence of their decision, in an irreversible frame of mind.  Once the vaccination has been injected into a persons body, there is no turning back; the Rubicon has been crossed, the event horizon closes, there is no retreat.

Any conversation or debate about vaccine efficacy or long-term consequences with a person who has accepted the vaccine must be weighed accordingly.

The no-retreat baseline can, often does, form the origin of anger and vitriol, particularly in unstable leftists -who are, by nature of their ideology- professional blame-casters and prone to emotional responses as a matter of disposition.  Therefore, it is better to avoid the topic entirely (if possible) and retain your peace of mind.

Revelations over the past few years have led to the complete collapse of credibility for many institutions. The healthcare field is the latest example of a politically controlled ideological industry that can no longer be trusted to make decisions based on a detachment from their political interests.

The healthcare industry has joined the education system, the justice system (DOJ), law enforcement (FBI), the intelligence system, arts and entertainment, as well as many organizations now controlled through the prism of politics. Political ideology, as the determining factor of institutional behavior, has infected almost every facet of modern life; healthcare is no exception.

Given the nature of the metastatic corruption, very visible in multiple institutions, it is completely understandable that more people would not trust the National Institute of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or any other regulatory body or agency now vested in the COVID vaccine.

There is every reason not to trust the healthcare industry on the issue of vaccination(s). Indeed, their obtuse behavior, logical disconnect, false assertions and gross hypocrisy is more than enough to create doubt about the vaccine. Then overlay the lack of consequence for all known institutional corruption, and there’s even more reason to doubt them.

We should all cherish, respect and value the differences of opinion of this very personal issue.  Healthcare is a personal and private matter.  Other people have different factors, risk-factors and hundreds of considerations that guide or have guided their decision. We should all respect that; and we do not want to see ‘vaccination status‘ become a fragmentation problem for our CTH community.

We are all in the same foxhole.

Fauci Lied, People Died – New Documents Show Anthony Fauci Lied to Congress, U.S. Funded Gain of Function Research in Wuhan China That Created SARS-CoV-2


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on September 7, 2021 | Sundance | 541 Comments

…Fauci Lied, Thousands Died !

As you review the jaw-dropping information, previously suspected but now demonstrably proven, it is well worth re-evaluating the current position of Fauci.  Knowing he was intentionally and maliciously lying to everyone, how can anyone take anything he says -any advice at all- with any semblance of credibility.  His direct responsibility for killing thousands of people around the world, carries every motive to manipulate the truth, lie about everything else, and steer the global medical community in any direction; regardless of world-wide consequences for anyone, anywhere.

♦ As a result of a continued FOIA request, the progressive leftist outlet The Intercept has received 900 pages of internal documents from the National Institute of Health (NIH), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and communication with EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based health organization that used federal money to fund bat coronavirus research at the Chinese laboratory. [Documents in pdf Form Here]

Within the documents, there is specific evidence of a grant to EcoHealth Alliance, run by President Peter Daszak, to screen thousands of bat samples for novel coronaviruses.  Dr Anthony Fauci has repeatedly insisted that NIH funding of the Wuhan lab did not constitute “gain-of-function” research.  However, within the documents there is direct evidence Fauci has lied in his claims, including to congress.

Within the NIH communication and grant language to EcoHealth, you find this:  “further altering the mutant viruses”, the NIAID needs to be given a “detailed description of the proposed alterations and supporting evidence for the anticipated phenotypics characteristics of each virus.”  Richard H Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, said the documents  make it clear that Dr. Anthony Fauci has been “untruthful” about gain-of-function research.  As Ebright states, “The materials show that the 2014 and 2019 NIH grants to EcoHealth with subcontracts to WIV funded gain-of-function research as defined in federal policies in effect in 2014-2017 and potential pandemic pathogen enhancement as defined in federal policies in effect in 2017-present.”

Using his Twitter account to share the stunning information, Richard Ebright says: “The materials confirm the grants supported the construction–in Wuhan–of novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses that combined a spike gene from one coronavirus with genetic information from another coronavirus, and confirmed the resulting viruses could infect human cells.”

Further clarifying the information Ebright continues:

“The materials reveal that the resulting novel, laboratory-generated SARS-related coronaviruses also could infect mice engineered to display human receptors on cells (“humanized mice”).”

“The materials further reveal for the first time that one of the resulting novel, laboratory-generated SARS-related coronaviruses–one not been previously disclosed publicly–was more pathogenic to humanized mice than the starting virus from which it was constructed and thus not only was reasonably anticipated to exhibit enhanced pathogenicity, but, indeed, was *demonstrated* to exhibit enhanced pathogenicity.”

“The materials further reveal that the the grants also supported the construction–in Wuhan–of novel chimeric MERS-related coronaviruses that combined spike genes from one MERS-related coronavirus with genetic information from another MERS-related coronavirus.“

“The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH Director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement at WIV are untruthful.” (link)

Here is the embed of the released documentation:

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Australia Government Ignoring the Truckers


Armstrong Economics Blog/Australia & Oceania Re-Posted Sep 7, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The Premier Gladys Berejiklian of New South Wales in Australia will probably go down in history as one of the most tyrannical politicians of all time. She has decreed that vaccines are going to be mandatory to work despite the fact that all the evidence coming from Israel shows that the MAJORITY of people in the hospital have already been vaccinated. Moreover, Israel has also confirmed that the unvaccinated who have had COVID have 13x better immunity against the Delta mutation. Pfizer says that Israel paid a price for the early rollout. Health officials, and then Pfizer, said their data showed a dip in the vaccine’s protection around six months after receiving the second shot. There is concern that the vaccinated are not producing the natural antibodies and some fear that the vaccines may even make people more susceptible to various new strains of COVID that will inevitably appear going into 2022.

The protests by the Truckers in Australia are simply being ignored by the government. They will not address any concerns with respect to these vaccines going forward.

Will Canada Ditch Trudeau to Save the Nation from WEF?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Canada Re-Posted Sep 7, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

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Maxime Bernier is a Canadian businessman, lawyer, and politician who served as a cabinet minister of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and as Member of Parliament for Beauce from 2006 to 2019. He is the founder and current leader of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC). His platform is still within the current establishment of how to run a government. The PPC would eliminate the deficit by the end of a first mandate, by phasing out all pandemic spending programs, cutting corporate welfare, cutting $5 billion in foreign development aid, defunding the CBC to save $1 billion, and cutting equalization payments as well as funding for programs that fall within the responsibilities of provinces or cities.On taxation, he proposes to cut personal income taxes, corporate taxes. and the personal capital gains tax.

He wants to eliminate all multiculturalism funding and promote the integration of immigrants into Canadian society since there are already there. He would lower the total number of immigrants and refugees Canada accepts each year and accept a larger proportion of economic immigrants. The PPC would limit the number of immigrants accepted under the family reunification program. He also wants to fund police for background checks on immigrants. He also wants would-be immigrants to answer questions about “Canadian values and societal norms” in a face-to-face interview. OMG! The thought of actually screening an immigrant in person? This makes Trudeau’s buddies crazy. George Soros’s head spins counterclockwise and Klaus Schwabs spin clockwise. This would defeat their idea of the United Nation ruling the world and the elimination of borders.

The PPC wants to listen to scientists not 16-year-old girls for advice. The PPC believes there are “uncertainties over the scientific basis of global warming” and there is no reason for government interventions. After all, the UN would not allow any scientific opposition to speak at its conferences because climate change is the tool by which they are arguing that we need a one-world government to fight human activities on a global scale to save the planet. No single government can do this job, Everyone must surrender to the UN.

The PPC would withdraw from the Paris agreement and abandon “unrealistic” greenhouse gas emissions-reduction targets. Because of this, you can bet the international Deep State will be actively trying to defeat the PPC as they worked diligently to remove Trump. They gave us Biden. In a recent conversation with someone that runs a breakfast spot, the people would be complaining about everything Trump ever said or did. Now they are dead silent about Biden. The PPC would actually save Canada for a Trudeau victory will raise the stakes for Alberta to separate or die.

The PPC wants to go after BigTech which has been in cahoots with Trudeau who has sought to use regulation to curtail free expression on the internet. They also want to restore normalcy by repealing legislation adding gender identity to prohibited grounds of discrimination, and repeal a non-binding motion condemning Islamophobia. He wants to refine the vague definition of hate speech in the Criminal Code to explicitly advocating the use of force against identifiable groups or individuals based on protected criteria.

Then the PPC wants to approach COVID-19 rationally and scientifically, protecting the most vulnerable while rejecting “coercion and discrimination.” Historically, you quarantine the sick. When you restrict the entire population that is called tyranny. NEVER before in history has any such pandemic been politically used for political objectives that have nothing to do with the disease. Vaccines will ONLY eradicate a disease when it is like smallpox that was confined to humans. We cannot cure influenza or any coronavirus because it also exists in animals and will always mutate. One year we will have the bid flu and the next the swine flu. The ONLY way to cure COVID is to expel politics from health.

Canada is being controlled by the international foreign agenda. If the people really want to save their country, they better overthrow Trudeau.

Kamala Harris Will Campaign to Protect California Governor Gavin Newsom, Wednesday in San Francisco


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on September 6, 2021 | Sundance | 210 Comments

After assisting Joe Biden with the Afghanistan withdrawal plan; and after assisting Joe Biden with the southern border security plan; Kamala Harris takes her support network to California this Wednesday in an effort to support embattled Governor Gavin Newsom who is attempting to avoid a recall election September 14th.

(California) […] The former California senator will be the most high-profile surrogate to appear with Newsom, who was targeted by Republicans for recall early last year — an effort that gained steam because of anger among many Californians about his pandemic restrictions. (read more)

The White House occupant previously put Kamala Harris in charge of fixing the border crisis, a responsibility she is failing at miserably. Joe Biden also put Ms. Harris in charge of: immigration enforcement, increasing broadband access, black maternal mortality, racial inequality, women in the workforce, infrastructure spending, voting rights legislation and the Space Force.

Australian State Premier Announces All Non-Vaccinated Citizens Will Be Locked Out of Economy, Freedom Only Permitted to Vaccinated


Posted originally on the conservative tree house on September 6, 2021 | Sundance | 895 Comments

Apparently the internet has been turned off for people in Australia.  That is the only reasonable explanation for how their political leadership can keep claiming that vaccinated people cannot contract the COVID virus.

{Press Conference Video}.

This claim is empirically refuted by every other nation who is seeing vaccinated people contracting COVID and “some” being hospitalized regardless of their vaccine status.

On a weirdly positive note, it appears they have abandoned the regional Australian plan of “COVID-ZERO,” which was a plan to lock-down the entire nation, on a state-by-state basis, until they never had a single case of COVID and then re-open society.

They have abandoned that plan because it was abject nonsense from the outset; and reality showed the virus spreading despite their complete lock-down and quarantine protocols.  However, the latest COVID plan within the regional states is to use the enforcement of total vaccinated status before they will allow freedom.

In a press conference yesterday from Victoria, Premier Daniel Andrews proclaimed that vaccinated citizens in the state of Victoria will be allowed out of lockdown in the near future.  However, freedom as defined by access to medical treatment, the ability to work, shopping, attending events and engagement in the economy writ large, will not be permitted for any non-vaccinated citizen. Anyone who is not vaccinated will remain in locked-down isolation as enforced by the state.

Watch this segment to get a taste of the totalitarian propaganda.

The justification for withholding access to life in Victoria is based on a premise that vaccinated people do not contract COVID, therefore the coronavirus is a “virus of the unvaccinated.”  That statement is a completely false position.  As seen in the U.S., and all other nations around the world, the vaccinated population contracts COVID in the same way as the non-vaccinated.  Some studies have even shown the vaccinated population are susceptible to carrying higher loads of the virus than non-vaccinated individuals.

The vaccine provides zero-benefit from avoidance of the virus.  Any claim to the contrary is totally devoid of reality, science or empirical evidence.

In some nations -like Israel- there is more than a 90% vaccinated status, and yet the COVID virus is still infecting, spiking and creating large issues with hospitalization for those at greatest risk. A large percentage of that Israeli population is now triple-vaxxed; and yet the issues continue.   Conversely, in Sweeden and parts of the U.S, the economy and society is largely open, and the variant viruses are running through the vaccinated and non-vaccinated population without a significantly disparate outcome.

Keep in mind the survival rate from infection is stunningly disconnected from the severity of these mitigation efforts.  The overall risks are very small except for those with pre-existing conditions that make them vulnerable to a respiratory virus.

Several weeks ago, I would have dismissed opinion that Australia and New Zealand were some sort of testing ground for the ability of a government to control the activity of the population.  However, as I have watched the two nations conduct their COVID mitigation efforts; and contrast their claims against the reality of what is happening on the remaining parts of planet earth; I can no longer dismiss that theory…. in fact, I am becoming increasingly convinced that is exactly what is going on.

There is just no other way to explain the disconnect between: (1) what Australian political officials and state run health offices are saying; (2) the scale and scope of the totalitarian COVID mitigation efforts -writ large- they are executing; and (3) the reality of experiences in the rest of the civilized world.

The Australian government is not in an isolation bubble with the incapacity to see the world around them and communicate with other nations.  They know what is happening around the world, and those worldwide events are completely contradictory from the decisions being made by the government officials down under.

What in happening in Australia and New Zealand for COVID mitigation is being done with intent and purpose; yet, it is devoid of sense when contrast against the rest of the world.

Therefore, if we accept these officials are not literally stupid people; and if we accept they possess a reasonable constitution; the only reconciliation of their conduct is that some guiding element is instructing them to conduct their national affairs as if the experiences of the rest of the world are non-existent.  That would seem to affirm there is some sort of wide-spread social test happening down-under.

The most bizarre part of accepting the premise that Australia and New Zealand are testing grounds for government control in the 21st century, is then asking yourself how a nation of 25.5 million people cannot see their fishbowl of crazy.   Surely they still have access to the world-wide internet, or do they?  Are the Aussies and Kiwis able to use social media that connects them to other nations, or are there filters from Big Tech intended to support the government test?   Are journalists in Australia not capable of seeing the rest of the world?

I am not asking these questions out of some intent to be provocative or snarky; I genuinely cannot fathom how 25 million people cannot see the disconnect between the rules and regulations put upon them by their government and then contrast those restrictions against the visible outcomes in the rest of the world.

Australia seems to have become this weirdly antonymous state like North Korea.

Here’s the full press conference from Premier Daniel Andrews of Victoria.  He is quite passionate about following through with the rules he outlines.

If you have the time to watch this, it is well worth it to gain a perspective on how the government is messaging to society with points about COVID that are completely and utterly false.  Perhaps it’s not a lie if they convince themselves to believe it….

Tell me if what Daniel Andrews is describing is not exactly THIS PICTURE:

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Facebook World


Posted originally on GrrrGraphics.com SEP 5, 2021 AT 8:20 PM

The Mask Has Slipped

Guest post by Kent Heckenlively

It was a great honor to be asked by Ryan Hartwig to coauthor his book, Behind the Mask of Facebook.

As somebody who has written about corruption in Big Pharma and Big Tech one begins to have a sense of how great institutions find themselves drifting into corruption. I do not consider this to be a right vs. left debate, but essentially one between secrecy and transparency. In many ways I believe Fox News has become as corrupted as CNN, just as Republicans have become as complicit as the Democrats in supporting the corporate Deep State. Witness the twenty years of lies about Afghanistan told by both Republican and Democratic administrations and we can see how hollow our political discourse has become. Afghanistan fell to the Taliban in eleven days. It is a mistake to equate size with strength.

As I got into Ryan’s story I saw how many of Facebook’s initial aims were laudable. They wanted to keep images of cartel violence off the platform, as the drug cartels were using such images to terrify the local populations. Similarly, Facebook wanted to keep pornography and child exploitation off the platform. And there is always the challenging question of dealing with the relative freedom of the internet for people to engage in being their very worst selves. And yet, given the creep of this new intolerance of the part of the political left to avoid challenging ideas, it was perhaps inevitable that Facebook would try to tilt the political scales towards their preferred outcome.

We would do well to consider the character of Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who originally created Facebook to rank the attractiveness of the female students at Harvard University. All of us have our flaws, which is why we try to democratize our actions and invite opposing views to make sure we do not go too far astray. “With great power comes great responsibility,” is a line from a superhero movie, but it is relevant to all our lives.

I love the cartoon Ben has drawn as I believe it accurately depicts the high stakes of our current battle between internet freedom and oppression. It is my hope that this cartoon and book causes a reassessment in the hearts and minds of the Facebook executive team, holding up a mirror to the tyrants they have become.

All the best,

Kent Heckenlively

China v USA


Armstrong Economics Blog/China Re-Posted Sep 6, 2021 by Martin Armstrong

The new report on the origins of COVID will point the finger at a lab leak in Wuhan. China is getting its back up and warning this will only lead to racism in the United States. I fully agree with China, but I ADVISE that they investigate further. There was most likely a lab leak, but based on all the information I have, it was known at least from November 2019. I still maintain that this was no accident, and if we follow the money, we will see the real source and who was behind framing China.

If China actually deliberately released this on their own to disrupt the economy of the West, they certainly would have done so in North Carolina or Germany and then blamed them. You would not release it in your own country. Then there is no way China would have expected the West to completely quarantine the entire nation. You quarantine only the sick. Locking down the nation is tyranny. That has never been done in 6,000 years – not even the Communists did that.

This entire affair is becoming absurd trying to blame countries. It appears that this entire COVID was crafted to create international discord in hopes of forcing China and Russia to surrender their sovereignty to the Great Rest and the United Nations. Something just does not smell right here.

This is like trying to discredit a witness by asking him when was the last time he beat his wife. The topic is then all about such an event, which he will deny. If he tries to call his wife to testify he never touched her, the prosecutor will simply say, “Of course, she will say he never touched her for fear he will beat her again.” It is a no-win scenario. This is what they have done to China, and the only way out is not to claim racism or prejudice but to investigate your accusor. This was NOT the US government, but private sources that are benefiting from this entire COVID scam.

On December 30, Li Wenliang, a doctor outside of the Wuhan lab, died of COVID after treating people there who had contracted it from a local seafood market. CNN immediately painted him as being silenced and then claimed that COVID would have been under control had he not been silenced.

In a letter to the journal of Science, David Relman, a microbiologist at Stanford University, wrote, “This has nothing to do with fault or guilt.” Indeed, this May 2021 letter in the journal Science, signed by 18 scientists, called for a transparent investigation into all viable scenarios, which included the lab leak theory. The letter urged labs and health agencies to open their records to the public. “It’s just bigger than anyone [sic] scientist or institute or any one country — anybody anywhere who has data of this sort needs to put it out there,” Dr. Relman stated.

The World Health Organization, funded in large part by Bill Gates, immediately exonerated the lab. A US intelligence report identified three researchers at a Wuhan lab who sought treatment at a hospital after falling ill in November 2019. The Gates Foundation first bought a position in BioNTech, maker of vaccines, in September 2019. This was just two months ahead of the announcement that COVID was released in Wuhan in December 2019.

Our computer began picking up unusual movements in capital flow in August 2019. That unfolded as the Repo Crisis, where suddenly US banks were unwilling to lend to European banks overnight, forcing the Federal Reserve to step in and become a market-maker. I stood up at our World Economic Conference in 2019 to announce something strange was unfolding in the capital flows that began in August. Indeed, the market peaked on time, the crash was more akin to the Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) Crisis, and 2020 ended up producing a low from which we have swung back up to new highs, as was the case coming out of the LTCM Crisis.

Something is seriously wrong, and this is what our computer has been picking up. Fauci’s hidden emails, which the Biden Administration refuses to release, stated plainly that from the outset that this virus appears to have been “engineered,” which leaves simply two conclusions:

  1. Was it taken to the Wuhan lab and deliberately released?
  2. Was it taken to Wuhan and deliberately released so they would create a conflict between the West & China?

I do not believe this was pulled off by the US military, nor do I think this was deliberately leaked by China. Had this been a scheme of China, they would have leaked it to the USA, Britain, or Germany and blamed them. There is a PRIVATE organization behind this scam, and until we stop pointing fingers at governments, we will NEVER find the truth. It always comes down, even in a murder mystery or who-done-it film, to who had the motive.