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COVID, Capitalism, Friedrich and Boris

Guest Post by Colin Todhunter

“And thus it renders more and more evident the great central fact that the cause of the miserable condition of the working class is to be sought, not in these minor grievances, but in the capitalistic system itself.”
Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) (preface to the English Edition, p.36) 

The IMF and World Bank have for decades pushed a policy agenda based on cuts to public services, increases in taxes paid by the poorest and moves to undermine labour rights and protections.

IMF ‘structural adjustment’ policies have resulted in 52% of Africans lacking access to healthcare and 83% having no safety nets to fall back on if they lose their job or become sick. Even the IMF has shown that neoliberal policies fuel poverty and inequality.

In 2021, an Oxfam review of IMF COVID-19 loans showed that 33 African countries were encouraged to pursue austerity policies. The world’s poorest countries are due to pay $43 billion in debt repayments in 2022, which could otherwise cover the costs of their food imports.

Oxfam and Development Finance International (DFI) have also revealed that 43 out of 55 African Union member states face public expenditure cuts totalling $183 billion over the next five years.

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Building Roads While the World Wilts

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

As mentioned in an article last month, I have been helping out friends by driving a 10-speed triaxle dump truck (6AM to 6PM) 2 to 3 days a week this summer.

Using older but well-maintained dump trucks and newer state-of-the-art excavation equipment, six guys working full-time, plus me helping out part-time, are removing the concrete on a stretch of road and several streets in a small town located in an adjacent county. Additionally, we are coordinating with two road engineers, and conferring with local utility employees overseeing the project.  Our crew is handling the overall excavation, installation of underground drainage infrastructure, dumping the old concrete in designated land areas, hauling away dirt to two other locations, and hauling in rock from two separate quarries. All of this is being done in advance of a paving company’s final pouring of the concrete.

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Science versus Scientism (Part 1)

Guest Post by Dr. Robert Malone

More root cause analysis of the COVIDcrisis

“It’s very dangerous, Chuck, because a lot of what you’re seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science. Because all of the things that I have spoken about consistently from the very beginning have been fundamentally based on science. Sometimes those things were inconvenient truths for people, and there was pushback against me.

So if you are trying to get at me as a public health official and scientist, you’re really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you are attacking science. And anybody that looks at what is going on clearly sees that. You have to be asleep not to see that.”

NIH NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, quoted during a MSNBC/Chuck Todd “Meet The Press Daily” interview June 09, 2021. (Relevant Aside- Chuck Todd and MTP-Daily were dropped by MSNBC effective June 06, 2022. )

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3 COVID Stats — What They Tell Us and How They Divided Our World

Via The Defender

Rob Verkerk, Ph.D., co-director of Alliance for Health International, reflects on the pandemic and specifically on three statistics that he says created huge polarisation depending on their interpretation: the number of COVID-19 deaths, cases and adverse reactions to the vaccines.

 

covid world division feature

In the wake of the Better Way conference in Bath (U.K.), it’s been nothing short of mind-blowing sharing time over the last two weeks with fellow activists for better health systems, if that’s how we should refer to what we’re trying to co-create.

With some irony, it is the orchestrated, global deception and broad mismanagement of SARS-CoV-2 by health authorities that have brought so many of us together — groups of people from diverse backgrounds, including doctors, other health practitioners, scientists and lawyers — along with millions of others around the world.

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Covida Commedia

Off-Guardian

by John Griffin

The following represents over two years of careful research and close logical reasoning, brought to fruition in one middle-of-the-night conversation when, sleepless through worry over the future of civilization – tea and ginger biscuits to hand – Olivia and I turned to the only subject that never quite goes away: Covid.

“It’s got to be aliens.”

She looks at me. “What on earth are you on about?”

“That’s just it: not on Earth – out there!”

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Coincidence? The Stunning Similarities Between The Handling Of COVID And Monkeypox

Via The Blue State Conservative

There is a famous, old saying: history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

News from around the world has been gripped in a frenzy over the world’s first-ever global outbreak of monkeypox in mid-May. Interestingly enough, just one year ago, an international biosecurity conference in Munich, Germany, held a simulation about a “global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox” starting in mid-May 2022.

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How Virus Spending Became the New Virus

Via Brownstone Institute

By David Stockman

The retail sales report for March brought more evidence that Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan of last March, which came on top of the $4 trillion of stimmies that had previously been distributed, was one of the worst fiscal policy measures of all time.

Even as of February 2021, household bank accounts were bulging with cash owing to the tsunami of prior stimmies, as well as the forced sabbatical from normal consumer spending at closed restaurants, bars, movies, gyms, resorts, hotels and much more.

That is to say, the US economy was well below so-called potential GDP owing to a government ordered supply-side contraction, not feeble actual and potential “demand.” Accordingly, the massive debt-fueled distribution of yet a third round of free stuff was the straw that broke the inflationary camel’s back.

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DoD MASTERS TIME TRAVEL

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

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Pentagon Secretly Awarded ‘COVID-19 Research’ Contract to Ukraine 3 Months Before Pandemic Existed

DoD awarded Ukraine lab 'COVID research' contract three months before pandemic even existed

The United States Department of Defence (DOD) awarded a contract to a bio-lab in Ukraine for “COVID-19 Research” on the 12th November 2019 – three months before the pandemic officially existed.

According to newly released documents, the contract awarded to Labyrinth Global Health INC was part of a secretive ‘Biological threat reduction program in Ukraine’.

Coincidentally, Labyrinth Global Health has been collaborating with Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, and Ernest Wolfe’s Metabiota since its formation in 2017. Continue reading “DoD MASTERS TIME TRAVEL”

Covidians and the Coin Shortage

Via The Brownstone Institute

You have surely seen the signs. They are all over the country. “Please use exact change. We face a coin shortage. Thank you.”

The problem dates back two years now, and it’s only getting worse. Count this as among the collateral damage of the Covid response. It’s one that hits the working poor particularly hard.

Nearly a quarter of Americans are either unbanked and underbanked. They need change, not only for daily spending but also for laundry machines and many other uses. Also, many small businesses depend on cash payments. They are allergic to the high fees of financial intermediaries.

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AIDS-Like “Chronic Covid” is Taking Over Europe, Australia and NZ

Guest Post by Igor Chudov

The Boosted Cannot Clear Covid Easily and Keep Getting Reinfected

This article will explain exactly why endless Covid reinfections happen, and the dangerous consequences that they lead to, based on recent scientific advances.

What’s happening?

When Omicron appeared around December of last year, the powers-to-be in most Western countries found themselves in a situation of mass vaccine failure, where a Covid variant Omicron, about infectious as measles, was spreading like wildfire, while at the same time evading vaccine immunity.

So, the clever solution was to abolish containment altogether, wish “illness and death” on the unvaccinated people, and hope that the vaccinated world gains “herd immunity” while enjoying relatively low mortality.

Unfortunately for them and for us, things did not work out this way. Hospitals are overwhelmed by the vaccinated. Endless Covid short term reinfections, plaguing the UK and the rest of the Western world, are sliding towards “Chronic Covid”. Herd immunity is enjoyed only by unvaccinated countries.

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The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man: an occasional series

Guest Post by Alex Berenson

Only five months ago, Christina Pagel – a British academic and lockdown/vaccine lover – wrote this in Science magazine:

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Considerable protection against severe disease and death!

Boy howdy, that’s nice.

And the name of the magazine is Science, so it must be true. Science!

But now, alas, the Science has changed.

Here’s what Pagel wrote in today’s Guardian (a left-leaning British newspaper):

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Wait. Did you say no immunity against infection OR severe disease OR death? In a matter of months?

That makes the vaccines sound almost… worthless.

Anyhoo. I mean, who could have predicted this?

This has been The Pandemic’s Wrongest Man, an occasional series.

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Two Weeks To Flatten The World

Via Off-Guardian

“All this is a digression. The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men. How does one man assert his power over another? …By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating?
George Orwell, “1984”

“We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld, or CNN.“
B.W. Powe

COVID-19 has magically disappeared.

After more than two years of non-stop bombardment with Covid “news”, there has been none at all in mainstream headlines for over a week. The media giveth and the media taketh away.

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Fauci Finally Admits Natural Immunity

Via Brownstone Institute

Yes, Fauci has never worried about consistency or even contradicting himself one day to the next, often without explanation. Too often his doling out “the science” has felt like performance art. Still, the record is that Fauci and all his compatriots either downplayed or denied natural immunity for two years. That has been the source of vast confusion.

In fact, this might have been the most egregious science error of the entire pandemic. It amounted to giving the silent treatment to the most well-established point of cell biology that we have. It was taught to every generation from the 1920s until sometime in the new century when people stopped paying attention in 9th-grade biology class.

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GRADUALLY, THEN SUDDENLY

“How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Gradually, then suddenly”: How the Protecting Our Democracy Act addresses institutional decay | ACS

“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty.” – John Adams

Hemingway’s famous quote about going bankrupt connects with so many because it is true on a personal basis and a civilization basis. It applies to individuals and empires in decline – like the American democracy. John Adams realized two centuries ago democracy was no better than monarchy or aristocracy over the long haul. We were handed a Republic by Franklin and his fellow revolutionaries, but we failed to keep it almost from the very birth of this nation.

As we rush towards our World War 3 rendezvous with destiny, aided and abetted by politicians placed in power by globalist billionaires hellbent on the destruction of our way of life, so they own everything and you own nothing, I can’t help but ponder who is to blame and could we have avoided this dystopian outcome.

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