The COVID “cure” is worse than the disease.

Analysis of life-years lost in England shows a 76% increase in 2021 over 2020 because younger people are dying at much higher relative rates.

Some things are indisputable. Death is one of them.

Figure 1

It is an undeniable, incontrovertible fact that deaths in England in 2021 are higher than 2020 (Figure 1). 2020 was the year that COVID, the “deadliest pandemic since the Spanish flu”, hit our shores. Allegedly, it warranted an unprecedented grant of power to politicians and their small, unelected group of “experts”, to dictate every facet of our daily life in an attempt to defeat it.

2021 was the aftermath where we ended up with the collateral harm caused by the measures implemented by the government to thwart the virus.

In absolute terms, there were 570k deaths in 2020, of which 76k were within 28 days of a positive PCR test, “with COVID”. In 2021, there were 591k deaths, of which 73k were “with COVID”. So, 3k fewer “with COVID” deaths but 21k extra deaths overall.

Unfortunately, we have already demonstrated that the government measures played no part whatsoever in mitigating transmission or death. So, we’re just left with a comparison between who the virus killed and who the government killed. On face value, it looks like the government has already won and we’ve only had one year so far.

I say face value because absolute mortality, although absolute, is not the best measure when judging public health outcomes. I have done a quick bit of modelling to remove confounding of shifting demographics over time by estimating an expected level of mortality using a simple polynomial fit to the historic data.

I actually did this for each individual age group then aggregated the results so make it even more accurate. Against this baseline, we can see that 2020 resulted in 15% more deaths than expected but 2021 had 20% more, against a very slight decrease in expectations.

But there is no need to dwell on the limitations of that methodology because we should really be looking at life-years lost. Paraphrasing from Wikipedia’s Quality-Adjusted Life Year definition because I have not adjusted for “quality of life”, it represents:

a generic measure of quantity of life lived. It is used in economic evaluation to assess the value of medical interventions.

Figure 2

Using this more appropriate measure then (Figure 2), we can see that the situation is much worse than a 5% absolute increase in absolute deaths. Overall, there is a 76% increase in life-years lost in 2021 compared to 2020 but in relative terms, apart from the 65 to 69s, it gets progressively worse, the younger you go.

The reason for this is due to the fact that much younger people died in greater numbers in 2021. Let’s take a closer look at each age group in turn.


Aged Under 1

Figure 3

Figure 3 must surely strike everyone to the heart who isn’t completely consumed by the COVID psychosis. Baby deaths had fallen substantially between 2018 and 2020. I can’t think how babies could be affected by the non-pharmaceutical COVID interventions (positively or negatively) and they aren’t directly affected by COVID itself, so how can we explain the sudden reversal of this trend in 2021, a 17 point swing relative to the rough expectation from 2020?


Ages 1 to 4 and 5 to 9

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Figure 5

To compound the findings of baby mortality, we don’t see that pattern at all in the 1 to 9 year olds (Figures 4 and 5). I’m a big fan of Occam’s razor. 1 to 9 year olds were not vaccinated but babies born in 2021 to vaccinated mothers effectively were. What would be the implication of that?


Ages 10 to 19

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Figure 7

Just as troubling is the significant divergence between the 10 to 14 year olds and the 15 to 19 year olds in 2021 (Figures 6 and 7). Although there is obvious variance between the two cohorts in previous years, 2021 stands out after neither group is evidently affected in 2020 when COVID was rife. Again, considering Occam’s razor, 15 to 19 year olds were vaccinated in 2021, 10 to 14 year olds were not. What is the implication of that?


Ages 20 to 29

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Figure 9

Ages 20 to 29 present a bit of an enigma for me. Although higher in 2021, the 20 to 24 year olds have not suffered to anywhere near the same relative extent as the 25 to 29 year olds. Perhaps this can be explained by the same reason why the variation in 25 to 29s has always been higher. Perhaps the younger age group had paid attention to the plethora of vaccine adverse events and declined it when it was their turn?

Even so, the rise in 2021 is substantial. Whether we look at the vaccine again for this or consider the impact of the other interventions (denial of healthcare, increased stress, etc.) is moot. They are all government policy.


Ages 30 to 39

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Figure 11

Ages 30 to 39 (Figures 10 and 11) were clearly not affected by COVID in terms of mortality. Neither age group sits materially above expectation in 2020. Alas, the same cannot be said for 2021, showing marked increases above trend in both groups. Have they paid the price, doing the “right thing” for the “greater good”?


Ages 40 to 79

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Ages 40 to 79 (Figure 12) all show the same pattern – increased deaths in 2020 but more still in 2021, so I aggregated them. In life-years terms, it represents an 81% increase from 545k to 987k.


Ages 80+

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The only age group not to show a substantial increase in deaths in 2021 compared to 2020 is the over 80s (Figure 13). Both years show around 16% increase in deaths compared to the trend. In life-years terms we’re talking a modest 5% increase in 2021 relative to 2020.


The cure is already worse than the disease. The cure is a virus also known as totalitarian government. It’s spreading across Europe and will land on English shores soon if we do not stop it. The vanguard has been pushed back a couple of times but the Welsh and Scottish have already shown serious signs of weakness.

If you don’t want your children to grow up in a miserable, fascist state or worse still die in it, I suggest you start paying more attention to the data and less to the propaganda on the television. The government is not your friend and does not have your best interests at heart.

The Evil Ruling Elite Continue to Murder Children

Britain’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released data indicating that children who received the COVID-19 jabs have suffered a death rate 54 times greater than that of their un-jabbed counterparts.

Data from Britain’s Office for National Statistics show a stark increase in deaths among children both single- and double-jabbed compared to their un-jabbed counterparts.

In December, the ONS published age-standardized data on the mortality rates of individuals in 5-year age sets in Britain, grouped by their “vaccination” status for the COVID-19 shots. The data accounts for the period from January 1 to October 31, 2021.

The ONS tabulated “Monthly age-standardised mortality rates by age-group and vaccination status for deaths involving COVID-19, per 100,000 person-years” but presented the data only for ages 18 and over. However, the jabs are available to children as young as 12, and those children are allowed to receive the shot against their parents’ wishes. In limited cases, children as young as 5 have been given a reduced dosage of the shots.

Nevertheless, as noted by The Exposé, a separate table outlining “deaths and person-years by vaccination status” includes 5-year age groups from 10-years-old and up. From the data provided, a calculation of the mortality rate per 100,000 person-years can be made.

The rate per 100,000 person-years delineation is used in preference over the simpler 100,000 population calculation to better represent the mortality rates over a specific period of time, as people in one “vaccination” group – such as un-jabbed, single-jabbed, and double-jabbed – soon move into the next group.

Table 9 of the ONS report shows the “deaths and person-years by vaccination status and five-year age group” for the entire ten-month period. According to the report, the un-jabbed 10–14-year-old group represents 2,094,711 person-years, and the 15–19 age set 1,587,072 person-years over the same time.

Table 9, ONS Report

From the above table the 100,000 person-years calculation can be made, with the younger group coming out at 20.9 un-jabbed per 100,000 person-years and the older group at 15.9. Following this, the mortality rate per 100,000 person-years is worked out by dividing the number of deaths within each group by the 100,000 person-years calculation.

The result is that for the 10–14 year group, the un-jabbed mortality per 100,000 person-years is 4.6 while the un-jabbed mortality rate per 100,000 person-years for the 15–19 group is 10.1.

Using the same data set and calculation, the mortality rate for 10­–14-year-olds who received one dose of the jabs suffered a 45.1 per 100,000 person-years death rate, while 15–19-year-olds with one jab suffered 18.3 deaths per 100,00 person-years.

Table 9, ONS Report

Table 9, ONS Report

Among those who received two doses of the COVID jabs in both young age groups, the death rates were higher still, with 32.9 deaths per 100,000 person-years among the 15–19 age group and a staggering 238.4 deaths per 100,000 person-years among 10–14-year-olds in the U.K.

The data show a stark increase in deaths among children both single- and double-jabbed compared to their un-jabbed counterparts. For children aged 15–19, the risk of death increases by almost double if they take the first shot and by over three times if they take the second.

10–14-year-olds, on the other hand, run the risk of dying almost by a factor of ten following the first dose while the second dose brings a 51.8 times greater risk of death than if they had remained un-jabbed.

On average, it means that children between 10 and 19 years of age who had received at least one shot of the COVID jabs had a 3.7 times greater chance of dying between January and October last year.

Additionally, according to the ONS’ “five-year average weekly deaths by sex and age group” figures between 2015 and 2019 among children ages 10-14, recorded deaths have risen by 44 percent above the average in weekly figures provided by the ONS for 2021.

The JCVI, an independent adviser to the U.K. government on immunization programs, determined in a September 3 statement that the “available evidence indicates that the individual health benefits from COVID-19 vaccination are small in those aged 12 to 15 years.” They added that any benefit granted by the shots is only “marginally greater than the potential known harms,” while acknowledging that “there is considerable uncertainty regarding the magnitude of the potential harms.”

Given the uncertainty of risks involved with the COVID shots, the JCVI considered the benefits “too small to support advice on a universal programme of vaccination of otherwise healthy 12- to 15-year-old children at this time.”

Moreover, COVID shot trials have never produced evidence that the vaccines stop infection or transmission. They do not even claim to reduce hospitalization, but the measurement of success is in preventing severe symptoms of COVID-19 disease. Indeed, there is strong evidence that the “vaccinated” are just as likely to carry and transmit the virus as the unvaccinated.

Many Catholics and other Christians have rejected the currently available COVID inoculations because they were developed or tested using cell lines derived from aborted children.

Biden’s Insane ‘Russia False Flag’ Conspiracy Debunked

It is so rare to see an actual journalist rather than a regime stenographer in the US mainstream media that there really needs to be a federal “endangered species” protection designation. In this case it would be AP’s Matt Lee, their diplomatic affairs correspondent, who’s been around the block many times and whose reputation is that he takes no crap from flacks regardless of party. Imagine that!

So in today’s State Department brief, spokesman Ned Price was given the unenviable task of dressing up the Administration’s latest offering of bovine excrement and selling it as a gourmet dip. At issue was a “leaked” story in the Washington Post – ahem -that Russia is planning an elaborate video fabrication of a Ukrainian attack on eastern Ukraine to serve as a false flag to justify a Russian incursion into Ukraine.

This after a month or so of the US Administration insisting that a Russian invasion of Ukraine was “imminent.” It was a claim dramatically refuted by none other than the one political leader who on paper would benefit most from such a narrative –  the Ukrainian president himself – who told Biden on a phone call to go take his meds and stop fearmongering about a Russian invasion of Ukraine!

So a new threat needed to be cooked up in the bowels of Foggy Bottom and Langley.

Enter Ned Price from the State Department, who had the thankless task today of selling the hollow narrative that US intelligence had uncovered a fantastical plot by the Russians to bring in crisis actors and fake bodies to sell a false narrative to justify their no longer “imminent” invasion of Ukraine.

The whole thing is reminiscent of the Obama Administration’s absurd suggestion that the attack on the US CIA installation in Benghazi, Libya, was motivated by a laughable anti-Muslim video (instead of a US arms deal gone wrong, as Sen. Paul uncovered).

Price’s pathetic talking point was this: we are declassifying intelligence information that Russia is about to release a fake video of a Ukrainian attack on Donbas as a false flag to open the door to Russian involvement. 

Here’s a summary of what followed:

AP’s Matt Lee replied with a question any normal journalist would ask before our current era: “OK, but what evidence do you have that this is indeed the case?”

Ned: “Well that’s it – my ‘declassified’ claim that Russia is about to do it.”

Matt Lee: “Well, that’s not ‘declassified’ information, that’s just you claiming it. Surely you understand the difference. I mean, crisis actors, fake dead bodies – that’s Alex Jones territory.”

Ned: “You are a Russian propagandist.”

Yes this is the Reader’s Digest version, but essentially this is what took place in the extraordinary State Dept. briefing today. The US government’s position position is that if you ask for any evidence of a US government claim…you are a Putin agent!

Watch it here:

RPI friend, the analyst, Caitlin Johnstone also perfectly captures the absurdity of the Biden claims in this thread:

But as the bipartisan support for bovine excrement continues to pollute the barnyard, at least we can thank Matt Lee from otherwise odious AP for refusing to thrust his chip into the Biden dip…

YOU BECOME A DIGITAL FORM OF YOURSELF IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD OF THE INTERNET. WE ARE CREATING A DANGEROUS DIGITAL INVISABLE WORLD?

We all know that there is an invisible world and that today it is undeniably digital.

This invisible world is becoming both powerful and dangerous leading to digitalizing without a system of oversight of the way we operate in the world, resulting in not just hidden powers but a decoupling between human rights and democracy.

On one hand, digital democracy, or eDemocracy, uses the internet, social media, and technology to improve our democratic systems of governance. 

On the other with our electronic overlords, ( Smartphones, Pads, Apple watches, TV, Web Services), this world of invisibility is been driven by non-accountable, non-transparent commerce, operating profit-seeking algorithms, with self-learning data collection codes, that no one comprehends.

As our day-to-day lives are increasingly immersed in technology, it is easy to lose perspective on things that matter. 

The capitalist world of profit and power is disappearing underground.

New technologies – from social media and GPS systems to artificial intelligence and digital twins – make the planet we inhabit unrecognizable from even 20 years ago and it’s only going to get faster, changing how we live.

The rise of the sharing economy, online marketplaces, and digital platforms are shattering old barriers and reducing the distances between industries, societies, and places, all of which are without adequate regulations are vanishing from scrutiny and accountability. 

While it’s true that today, leaders need to deal with unprecedented changes and an unpredictable and challenging future due to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Climate change, and the covid pandemic they need to be more agile, to deal with sudden changes and challenges that any one of these will bring.  

Why?

Because the status quo as the inertia of past success can be crippling for the future.

The paradox of leadership lies in staying focused on the present, while also visualizing the future and creating a roadmap to reach it.

This is a major problem requiring Statmanship on a global scale.

Why is all of this happening now?

What’s interesting about this question is, there’s no answer to that question.

What I think is so true about that is, with technology even nonconformists are conforming.

Why?

Because these days it’s difficult to not see how real the invisible world is affecting our lives and the systems that govern life.

Today, with the covid pandemic’s we see it is very rare that you find someone that’s not influenced by anyone else.

You don’t have to be a digital native to behave like one.

It’s the invisible world we want to connect with in order to maintain the magic in life.

Why?

Because a world without emotions will be a sterile world.

Yes, the invisible world is real.

It is the limited life of a limited mind.

Increasingly, this limited value is delivered through new cross-sector, outcome-based propositions, rather than traditional sector-specific products and services.

We have all experienced trying to get to speak to a human to solve a problem with a service – press one press two – listen to music – you inquiry- will be answered – press 3 if – till you give up.

If you can spell it you can’t enter it. A society that is dependent on technology can create inequality.

To stop this invisible world people must take ownership of things as the digital world is not about technology, but people.

At a time when geopolitical tensions are on the rise are at their highest level this century.  And this turbulence is escalating.  Even nuclear non-proliferation can no longer be taken for granted.

At the same time, we see trade and technological conflicts that fracture world markets, undermine growth and widen inequalities.

And all the while, our planet is on fire.  The climate crisis rages on.

With Climate Change, we are risking a ‘great fracture’ between world powers, each with their own internet and AI strategy, as well as dominant currency, trade, and financial rules, and contradictory geopolitical and military views.

With dwindling natural resources, an unstable world climate, viruses on the rampart, not to mention the effects of pandemics on world trade, inequality, the world does not need politicians that do not think of the next election but statesmen of the next generation.      

 It is crucial to ensuring a united world.

Those yet to be connected remain cut off from the benefits of this new era and remain further behind. People need money to access the internet and buy the latest devices.

By 2050 there will be 9 billion people to feed, clothe, transport, employ and educate.

Maybe that’s not really bad when you think of what’s coming next. You couldn’t call it a fully digital world yet. It’s not even close.

However, there’s room to dream about building the world we want, instead of the one we’re turning into. 

As we pursue unlimited growth, our limitless consumption threatens to crowd out everything else on Earth. We are warming the climate, overspending our financial resources, requiring more fresh water than we have, increasing income inequality, diminishing other species, and triggering shockwaves whenever we can’t cope with a problem. Billions are committed to a growth-driven world economy.

Our world is full of screens. We keep them in our hands, purses, and pockets, next to our beds while we sleep, and surround ourselves with screens on our desks and countertops. Our TV sets are morphing into interactive screens as we put them online so they display everything for free.

What if that networked system brought everyone the world’s best services, resources, and knowledge-based on what we do, as a normal part of everyday life?

The top-down approach is no longer sustainable in the Economic/ Power/ or Democracy Capital Accountability. Leadership needs to be vigilant and create a long-term sustainable value proposition for all stakeholders.

The same technologies are giving rise to new business models, with organizations using digital to create and monetize new forms of value. Disruptions in the digital world occur at a phenomenal rate.

They have the power to impact the way entire industries operate reshaping entire industries with profit-seeking algorithms.

Although giving up your data was once an afterthought when gaining access to the newest internet services such as Facebook there aren’t many great options available to limit what is seen and known about you online.

YOU BECOME A DIGITAL FORM OF YOURSELF IN THE VIRTUAL WORLD OF THE INTERNET.  

How do we define what a digital human is?

Worthless, a form of entertainment to have conversations with yourself without being able to show emotion and behavior as a real human. 

So, is the invisible world the real world?

Hard to say, but I think it’s what makes the visible world worth living in.

When someone dies, the essence of that being merely inhabited that form – the life within the form was always invisible.

Digital leaders will have the power to shape the future of our world.

When we want to believe, there is still time to interrupt the announced disappearances of so many plant and animal species which, if we are not careful, will lead to our own end.

This situation cannot go on. It is our common duty to avoid it.

While risks intersect and technologies develop quickly, too often our institutions for governing international security remain reactive and slow-moving.

Totalitarianism Continues Unabated: Both in Plain Sight and in the Shadows

“The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man.”

The time has come to accept the fact that we are living in a period of extreme totalitarianism; in a society consumed by a totalitarian mindset. The driving force of all governing systems today is one of totalitarian rule, so what is totalitarianism?

Totalitarianism is a form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens. It is characterized by strong central rule that attempts to control and direct all aspects of individual life through coercion and repression. It does not permit individual freedom. Traditional social institutions and organizations are discouraged and suppressed, making people more willing to be merged into a single unified movement. Totalitarian states typically pursue a special goal to the exclusion of all others, with all resources directed toward its attainment, regardless of the cost.”

Totalitarianism can be thoroughly described as a concentration of power; either by an individual or a group seeking to hold power and control all from the center, with all else subordinate to that rule. That is exactly what globalism seeks to achieve, whether called globalism, the “Fourth Industrial Revolution,” the “Great Reset,” the “New World Order,” or the “New Normal” where the lives of all are controlled based on manipulation of all societal behavior, including social norms and ‘health,’ all for the lie called the public or common good. How could today’s world be described as anything other than one consumed by global totalitarianism? Given the scope of this takeover plot, the quest to claim a plan for ‘equality’ and ‘equitable’ outcomes, property redistribution, demanded global participation, the insanity of ‘sustainability,’ and total monetary and financial control by the few, it could indeed be called world communism.

With the advent of this fake crisis, and this fraudulent pandemic, came every aspect of tyranny possible, setting the stage for a world takeover of epoch proportion. Nothing about this was random, nothing was natural. This has been an openly admitted plan for decades, and as 2020 began, so did the final plot to capture humanity. The tool used to bring about the bogus initial ‘emergency,’ thus creating the “special goal to the exclusion of all others,” was the fake ‘virus pandemic,’ and that is still the case today; at least temporarily. All resources were concentrated, and directed toward this false flag deception, and the high cost to the people and their freedom was never once considered, at least not from any moral perspective; the harm was in fact intentional. The horrific results of this state coup have been extreme and without compassion, but the evil among us is wicked, and evil has no soul.

The state terror began in earnest in March of 2020, and has continued to advance since that time. The amount of government restriction, coercion, mandates, brutality, purposeful job loss, business closures, allowed criminal behavior, bio-weapon use, mass inflation, supply line disruption, murder of the elderly, threatening all children, and propaganda has been huge, and while some ‘allowed’ relief has occurred, (bread and circus expansion) the underlying tyranny continues in the same as well as different forms.

With this amount of totalitarian policy, and the continuous hypocrisy, lies, and depopulation efforts, one would think that most of the proletariat would have been exposed enough by now to this obvious fraud to have completely rejected all state orders, but that has never been the case. Yes, some pushback in the form of protest, talk, and the refusal by some to take the poisonous and deadly injection have been evident, but it seems this resistance is only at the margin. It has certainly not been a mass dissent or refusal to go along with the status quo. During all this, the mainstream media, as well as many alternative voices, have continued to support the main driving state narrative that something called ‘Covid-19’ actually exists. This has helped the state in its efforts to constantly push for additional mandates, travel restrictions, mask wearing, fake testing, and downright authoritarian oppression, especially in places like the West Coast, New York, and most large U.S. cities. Of course, the horrors going on in other parts of the world have been obvious, but this population has rarely considered anything outside this country, at least not on a mass scale, and that the implications of these global atrocities openly telegraph the pattern that exposes what will eventually occur in the U.S.

What is happening in Australia, Canada, Germany, Austria, and Israel, among other areas around the world, will very soon be common American policy as well, but few pay attention to this plotted and obvious direction of tyranny. Holding centers more properly called concentration camps, mandated testing and injection, house imprisonment falsely called quarantine, harassment, and the continued government and media plot to divide the country, are most definitely planned, and in fact, are happening more and more in some states. Supply line disruptions could certainly increase dramatically, causing food shortages, more inflation, goods and services scarcity, and more poverty. In addition, without enough pushback from large numbers, all who are currently unwilling to take a bioweapon shot could be heavily targeted by state enforcement thugs, face more job loss, get locked out of shopping for necessities, denied medical care, and carted off to concentration camps.

There is a solution to this probability of totalitarian rule, but it requires a concentrated individual effort on the part of many. Everyone it seems, wants an easy solution that requires someone else to do the heavy lifting. Most are not willing to take great risk, or any risk for that matter, for their own benefit or freedom, and expect things to magically work out. This collective ignorance, indifference, laziness, and cowardice are not only dangerous, but could lead to disaster and the destruction of humanity. While several good liberty-minded people are giving individual solutions which do offer an answer to those willing to do whatever it takes to survive as individuals, that will not stop the onslaught of tyranny over all that has consumed this country. The real solution requires large numbers of individuals to say no, to actively practice total disobedience, shun every order, and never comply with any state mandate. It has to be a collective effort, but only on an individual basis. In other words, many have to make the individual decision to fight back by dissent, and need to do so en masse. While this has to be a movement in concert with others, it can only be accomplished by individuals. Once any groupthink for the false purpose of faux safety or need for social acceptance is apparent, all efforts will fail, and slavery will be the result. This is not a contradiction; it is an absolute fact. Any who cannot understand that this is up to individuals are already lost, and unable to function in any free society.

If the destruction of life and family, the abuse and possible death of your children and grandchildren, the loss of everything of value in your lives, and an existence based on permanent bondage is to be avoided, then each individual has to make the decision to resist all forms of outside ‘authority,’ and to fight back against every single form of totalitarian rule. This does not mean that everyone has to participate, but large numbers of us must oppose the state.

Freedom lives only in the individual. Freedom is not based on ‘rights,’ because no man can give freedom to another, and no government can give or define any ‘rights’ of man. No paper drafted by any other, by any group, or any government has worth, because freedom can only be attained and held by each of us independently and individually. All freedom is inherent to humanity, but must be constantly defended and taken; never asked for, decided by fiat, or thought to exist due to the insanity of voting. Go forth, and claim your own liberty!

“All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy another’s desires.”

The Elite Truly Believe That Humans Are A Plague Upon The Earth – The only thing left to destroy in a world populated by elites alone, are other elites. “They need a new type of slavery”

With the UN World Food Program announcing that some 811 million people worldwide now face starvation, the ongoing debate about the real aims of the technocracy is profound. The question is whether their aim tends more towards major population reduction, or more towards a new type of slavery.

It appears that philosophical and long-term practical questions remain a mystery. We will argue that evil, not simply the influence of the base upon the superstructure, is at the core of this endeavor. We have defined evil as inflicting the highest degree of pain upon the greatest number of resisting subjects. In short, we have defined evil as sadism, inflicting evil because it brings satisfaction to those inflicting it.

Because evil is fundamentally a destructive force, it cannot create anything: nothing in it is truly novel nor of use to humanity. Its pleasures are short-lived and spurious. It is unsustainable, self-defeating, ultimately leading to self-destruction.

We have adequately assessed from any number of sources that nefarious interests are behind this process, who seek to make the process also about the exercise of power, in addition to several other aims (remaining in power, exercising power in ways consistent with their occult beliefs about evil, etc.). We understand that they are ‘evil’ because they involve a type of ‘power-over’ (as opposed to power-with/consent) which derives this power from fear-mongering and terrorism upon the population. Terrorism here is defined as the operationalized use of fear, pain, and other injury towards socio-political aims.

Had their plans not been rooted in evil, they would have used soft-power tactics like manufacturing consent, to arrive at their ends.

The aim of the Great Reset is to transition the ruling plutocratic oligarchy into a technocratic one. The basis of plutocracy is finance, and the introduction of AI and automation eliminates the basis for finance as the foundation of an economy of scale. This is because automation and deflation move in tandem, making new technologies net losers. Therefore a new paradigm accounting for this post-financial ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’, must be introduced.

But the ideology of the Great Reset is based within the old financialist paradigm, which is one of cost externalization. When human beings are no longer involved in the valorization process in the production of goods and services, then humanity itself is the cost that requires externalization – elimination.

But how it is that sadism became the occult religion of the ruling class, presents a “chicken-or-the-egg” type of question. That is, did the corporate ideology mutate into occult sadism, or did occult sadism find its expression through the corporate ideology? This question will no doubt form the basis of later inquiry.

We often defer to nefarious motivations or processes in terms of ‘greed’, or ‘self-interest’, ‘power obsession’ or the ‘crisis of capital accumulation’, ‘speculative bubbles’.

And these do not suffice in the final analysis, though they provide explanatory power. The problem arises in predictive power, because while we face a crisis of diminishing returns due to automation (as the increasing tendency towards net loss on new large capital investments), the real psychological needs that motivate the present plutocracy as a power-group are actually undermined in significant and sudden population reduction, or new post-coercive technologies that eliminate human agency. This may seem counter-intuitive, but in light of an understanding of the self-defeating nature of evil, we will explore this question.

When we map out the probabilities of three intersecting policy vectors, we can understand this question even better. Those policy vectors are a.) neuralink/AI/Neural Implants/magneto proteins and related transhumanism, b.) depopulation as part of stated Agenda 2030 goals, c.) automation/roboticization, 4IR, and IoT.

Neural Implants

The development and introduction of neural implantsmagneto proteins, etc., can go in any number of directions. Some types of these promise to give elites ‘super-human’ cognitive abilities. However, another very practical application is to mandate that these are used on the general populace as to handicap them or control their thoughts in some way.

In that sense, neural implants can work like pharmaceuticals are used in psychiatry. In the creation of this sort of Huxleyesque ‘Brave New World’, we can easily see the continuation of a paradigm already existing today. This is one where it is common-place to find various predictable depressions, anxieties, and neuroticisms caused by contemporary social conditions, but treated psychiatrically instead of resolved socio-economically.

Neural implants can also perform a similar function, but go even further. Beyond emotions or basic effect on the re-uptake of certain hormones like serotonin, etc.; neural implants can direct thoughts or change whole cognitive processes. Beyond feelings, drives, and impulses, neural implants promise to produce actual thoughts in the minds of the subject.

In between these two is a hybrid form – nanotech and chemogenetics working with optogenetics. Because the delivery system to the brain can be through injection, nanolipids and other compounds can come in the form of shots. These can be delivered as part of a required ‘vaccination’ regimen (insofar as that term has been redefined), as nanotech features already in the Covid-19 shot.

Therefore, such can be included – whether disclosed to the public or not – in required vaccinations.

The development of these would seem, however, to be a technology that would support slavery, but does not rule out genocide. Certainly the ability to control the thoughts of a population would greatly mitigate risk in the view of the state apparatus, especially as it moves towards genocide.

Depopulation: Myths vs. Facts

Population control and population reduction have long been policy at various institutions and think tanks committed to global governance, from the UN to the World Economic Forum. It was a part of the UN’s Millennium goals, and since the dawn of the 21st century, has been part of UN Agenda 2030.

It is important to now introduce a framework for understanding the problem of population in light of economic development. The long standing view is that economic development leads to population stagnation, even decline. The idea here is that education and urbanization are processes which lead towards better knowledge of basic family planning, in tandem with improved access to abortion and birth control.

The underlying postulate is that people naturally do not want to be burdened with children, that children are an affront to freedom in the abstract. The formula is that as people are better educated and have more meaningful work and interesting lives, they know both how to prevent pregnancy and also no longer have ‘primitive’ inclinations towards large family building.

This mythology was built up around a notion that people are fundamentally self-interested in the narrowest sense, to the exclusion of other desires, needs, and impulses. They are presented as the norm such to furthermore create a broader culture which opposes procreation.

Instead, the real mechanism pushing population stagnation in the 1st world are increased pressures of work, and increased costs of living. Rather than ascribing population stagnation to improved conditions of life, these are more related to austere conditions imposed by late modernity. The costs of property, of rents, of food, and also because of the decline in quality of goods through increased planned obsolescence, has placed more economic pressure on individuals and couples. It has led to the requirement that both members of a household are working full-time. And even with this, home ownership in cosmopolitan centers is practically impossible for most. Austerity has also led to stagnation in life expectancy.

This truth is exposed in actual policy papers like “New strategies for slowing population growth” (1995). Here, the doublespeak is evident, with easily decipherable phrases within it; “…reduce unwanted pregnancies by expanding services that promote reproductive choice and better health, to reduce the demand for large families by creating favorable conditions for small families…”. What could possibly be meant by ‘create favorable conditions for small families’?

Economic development does not reduce population, but if we add austerity and demanding and inflexible work obligations, then we land on an answer. Economic prosperity, as it has for time immemorial, promises to greatly increase the population in the absence of a program of population reduction. Because an organic 4IR not brought in by the technocracy would decrease work obligations and increase quality of life markers, we would expect a population boom.

Consequently, projections that that population will top off at just under 10 billion by the 2060’s are as erroneous as they are linear. Without a technocracy working to actively reduce population, as they believe, an economy based on automation and AI would see a population explosion.

Conclusion

It is still likely that the would-be technocrats have indeed thought out the end-game, and that there are any number of possibilities that will allow them to harvest sadistic pleasure as an exercise of absolute power, in perpetuity. This might mean increasing fear of extermination far beyond actual population reduction. It could mean maintaining many aspects of agency for the controlled population, so that their pains are internalized in multivariate and complex fashions, that include confused feelings of self-blame, identifying with the abuser, resentment, regret, and also violations of will and dignity. Again, if will is not a factor, then all of these potential arenas of psychological pain are not present.

To frame the following, it is fundamental to understand that in a post-labor civilization, the status of humanity no longer exists upon a metric of utility. Either civilization exists to improve the human condition, or to increase human suffering. There are no trade-offs or costs. Society is either good or evil.

But evil is short lived and short-sighted, and this is why: Sudden population reduction is a fire-cracker, it explodes just once. The pleasure in the process of eradicating billions of people, and the fear, pain, and suffering this would cause, within the span of a few short years, only gets to be enjoyed once. It’s a sacrificial ritual upon the altar of Moloch that can only be performed one time.

Likewise with post-coercive technologies: Without agency, controlling people serves no purpose in terms of violating their own will or desire. Causing pain on a subject that does not resist because he has no will, gives the sadist much less pleasure than would pain on a subject against their will.

Moreover, the position of being elite is relative to a number of factors such as distribution of wealth, power, and/or privilege, and the sheer numbers in terms of population, that one possesses these advantages over.

If there are only elites remaining, then they would have merely introduced a new kind of egalitarian society on the foundation of superabundance and a miniscule human population. If living conditions of an existing humanity can be greatly reduced, then the relative privilege and luxury enjoyed by the elites grows in that proportion.

Absent some radical life-extending technology, it is conceivable that science and technology have already reached the zenith point at which privilege and luxury cannot be furthered. A reasonable solution would be to reduce living conditions for others so as to enhance their own relative privilege. The greater number of people who live in reduced conditions, the more privileged one’s position of privilege actually is.

Likewise, it would seem that maintaining some human population as ‘possessions’ would serve to augment ownership over human beings, perhaps the most valuable type of possession because they are aware that they are owned – but only if that humiliates them. For what other purpose is there for slavery, in a world without human labor?

Does it have any meaning, or is any satisfaction achieved, by governing over people without the possibility to have the will to either consent, or conversely, resent the ruler? Here we can understand it along these lines: the possibility for agency means that governing can happen with their support, or against their will.

But neural implant control over cognitive processes, eliminates the possibility for will, which would deprive technocrats of the pleasure of ruling with or against the will of the ruled.

Therefore, the destructive evil framework of those behind the Great Reset is revealed. The use of strategy, planning, and cunning to achieve their desired result is prevalent. But have they examined the foundation of their desires? Do they understand what their victory would deliver to them?

The only thing left to destroy in a world populated by elites alone, are other elites. It would seem that the desire to dominate others does not simply come to an end on its own.

For these reasons, it is likely that some elites have seen the problem in this end game. This would explain the inter-elite conflict which we have explored previously, and will return to in the near future.

What happened to the mRNA ‘miracle’? With a reported 10 billion shots in arms, our mRNA “miracle” now seems rather… insignificant

With the initial roll out of the “the cure for COVID-19,” the “experts” assured us that these mRNA vaccines — a first of its kind platform developed and distributed to the masses by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna — were akin to a miracle cure. 

“Public health experts” in the form of government health bureaucrats and academics, in addition to a complete roster of corporate press stenographers, exclaimed that the United States and first mover Western nations had access to a technology that is far superior to the vaccines of the past. Not to worry, the cure was here, and the mRNA miracle would save us from the despair of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The remarkable story about how mRNA vaccines were made — that a group of scientists would labor in obscurity for so long in order to create this miracle — was incredibly inspirational.” #NYTLetters https://t.co/qFY6xmC7Er— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) January 22, 2022

The Vast Promise of mRNA Technology – WSJ
Deep dive into the miracle of mRNA https://t.co/fPMCuF1mIu— Thomas Heath (@addedvalueth) December 5, 2021

The COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is a modern miracle pic.twitter.com/ziixH0q8UU— Neal Rogers (@nealrogers) November 13, 2021

Everyone seemingly bought in, before this hardly tested, novel technology made its way into the arms of the masses. Stunning infographic videos were created to highlight how exactly this revolutionary technology, a “modern miracle,” would attack and destroy the virus, rendering it helpless to spread among populations that were mRNA vaccinated.

The mRNA superiority narrative continues to this day. At the end of 2021, Time Magazine honored the “vaccine pioneers” behind the mRNA platform as the magazine’s “Heroes of the Year.”

For Pfizer, BioNTech, and Moderna, this relentless praise and positive press was incredibly lucrative. mRNA orders from government customers were flying off the shelves, with countries buying up years worth of supplies in advance, leading to record revenue and profits. Everyone needed access to this “miracle cure,” and government customers were willing to pay big bucks for the supplies.

By all indications, these mRNA shots were a revolutionary game changer. Surely, the data would bear this out in emphatic fashion.

Well, we’re now over one full year into the deployment of the “miracle cure,” and countries that have bought mRNA vaccines in droves cannot demonstrate any discernible difference from nations that decided not to accommodate the mRNA hype.

It did not provide the sterilizing qualities touted by Big Pharma CEOs. Israel, which led the fastest and earliest deployment of mRNA shots, is now staring down an unprecedented 4th dose in a year’s time, and it currently has the highest COVID-19 case rate in the world. As Omicron becomes the world’s ultra dominant variant (with almost every sequenced case in the United States now being reported as Omicron), it is now not clear at all that the shots being sold by pharmaceutical companies provide any benefit at all for Omicron. After only one year, and now 2, 3 or 4 shots deep, depending on where you live, the “miracle cure” doesn’t seem to do anything at all to resolve the continuing virus problem.

On the world stage, the supposed advantage of mRNA is nowhere to be found. It’s very difficult to compare countries, given their different reporting methods. However, given the amazing hype surrounding it, mRNA should be standing out at least to a somewhat noticeable degree. Studies are continuing to reflect the reality that there is no relationship on a global level between particular “vaccinations” and positive outcomes related to COVID-19.

Many are not aware of the fact that China and India, the two biggest countries in the world by population, never adopted the mRNA technology. China is currently using inactivated virus vaccines, while India is mostly using a homemade version of the Astrazeneca viral vector formulation. 

Russia, the world’s 10th most populated country, has also balked on mRNA, and Moscow uses its own “Sputnik” viral vector shot.

There are also no discernible statistical differences between countries with a population that has widely accepted novel COVID-19 vaccinations, and nations where citizens have skipped the injection protocol entirely. 

Throughout the continent of Africa, hardly anyone at all is “vaccinated” with COVID-19 shots, and there remain no reports of a horrific plague making its way through the continent. In Nigeria, the 7th most populated country, only 2.5% of a 211 million strong population is “fully vaccinated.” 

One year into our vaccination campaign, with a reported 10 billion shots in arms, our mRNA “miracle” now seems rather… insignificant. Countries that said no to mRNA ended up with no worse issues than nations that financed tens of billions of dollars in endless supplies of mRNA shots on the backs of their taxpayers. One year into the deployment of this supposed groundbreaking technology, mRNA now seems more mirage than miracle.

All these “social and economic fires” are creating conflicts and unrest around the world, and all of them are fueling mistrust and people’s lost faith in institutions and their underlying values

“Foiled again!” rose the cry Friday from those expecting Russian President Vladimir Putin to step out of character and risk war, just as he finally succeeds in getting the U.S. to take Russia’s security concerns seriously – and even address them.

Russia’s continued troop reinforcements near Ukraine do not mean, ipso facto, that Russia intends to attack and/or invade and/or occupy Ukraine. They have been there; and NOT done that.

Memories are short, but the Russians strengthened their forces opposite Ukraine last spring and succeeded in getting President Joe Biden’s full attention. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, egged on by the crazies in Washington, had been threatening to “liberate” areas in Donetsk and Lugansk controlled by anti-coup regime, pro-Russian forces, and had also been asserting the right to take back Crimea.

Sudden Telephone Call

On April 13, Biden suddenly telephoned Putin; the White House explained that Biden expressed concern over the Russian military buildup near Ukraine and called on Putin “to de-escalate tensions.” Then, in a surprise move (and in an oh-by-the-way vein), Biden suggested a bilateral “summit meeting in a third country in the coming months to discuss the full range of issues facing the United States and Russia.”

That same day, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced that over the preceding three weeks Moscow had sent two armies and three airborne formations to western regions “as a response to the alliance’s [NATO’s] military activities threatening Russia.” NATO had been increasing the number of its own troops and maneuvers from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

On April 21, 2021, Putin chose to include in his annual address to the Federal Assembly a warning that Russia’s response to provocations from Ukraine “will be asymmetrical, swift, and tough” and that the provocateurs “will regret what they have done in a way they have not regretted anything for a long time.” Putting flesh on “asymmetrical,” Russian troops near Ukraine at that time were estimated to number about 100,000. Sound familiar?

On April 22, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced that the large military exercises near Ukraine had been completed and that he had ordered troops to return to their permanent bases by May 1. Shoigu added that the objectives of the deployment “have been fully achieved.” Indeed, the fire and fury in and around Ukraine attenuated – until the deja vu reprise this past fall.

When Will Troops ‘Achieve Objectives’ This Time?

How soon the current deployment of additional Russian forces near Ukraine will achieve its objective (which does NOT seem to be war) will depend on progress in the next steps agreed upon Friday by Blinken and Lavrov in Geneva. Blinken said: “Based on the conversations we’ve had – the extensive conversations – over the past week and today here in Geneva, I think there are grounds for and a means to address some of the mutual concerns we have about security.” He did not neglect to include, of course, the obligatory warning of “swift, severe sanctions” if Russia invades Ukraine. (Over the past several weeks, Washington has been overusing the subjunctive mood. Everything depends on that big IF.)

For his part, Lavrov said the ball is in Washington’s court, adding, “I can’t tell you if we’re on the right track or the wrong track. We’ll understand this when we receive the American response on paper to all the points in our proposal.” Blinken indicated he expected to share with Russia “our concerns and ideas in more detail and in writing next week,” and that he and Lavrov “had agreed to further discussions after that.”

Another Summit in the Works?

Oddly (and loosely following the pattern of last spring), both Blinken and Lavrov addressed the subject of a possible Biden-Putin summit, Blinken saying, “If we conclude and the Russians conclude that the best way to resolve things is through a further conversation between them, we’re certainly prepared to do that”.

Lavrov was more reserved: “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. President Putin is always ready for contacts with President Biden; it’s clear that these contacts need to be seriously prepared.”

UPDATED: How Many People Are the Vaccines Killing?

Please share this very important article with everyone you know. Also, please help save lives and send this article to hospitals, doctors’ surgeries, care homes, schools, newspapers, journalists, etc. 

No one knows how many people the vaccines are killing – or how many they will kill.

But although I haven’t seen the mainstream media mention most of these deaths, people have already died or been injured after being given the vaccine:

SHOCKING – The latest covid jab deaths and injuries from VAERS (infants, teenagers and young adults are dying after the vaccine)

openvaers.com covid data (it is estimated that only 1% of vaccine adverse events is reported)

Note: The following paragraph has now been added to the UK’s Pfizer analysis data print, “A report of a suspected ADR to the Yellow Card scheme does not necessarily mean that it was caused by the vaccine…” In my view, this is yet another attempt to draw attention away from the very real problems associated with the vaccines. We note that when patients die 60 days after a positive covid test, they are added to the covid death figures but if someone were to die 60 minutes after a covid vaccine, then it is just a coincidence.

PFIZER (UK data) – Some of the Injuries include: strokes, heart attacks, miscarriages, Bell’s Palsy, sepsis, paralysis, psychiatric disorders, blindness, deafness, shingles, alopecia and covid-19. (Please help save lives and send the link for the Pfizer data analysis print to schools and local newspapers)

Note: The following paragraph has now been added to the UK’s AstraZeneca analysis data print, “A report of a suspected ADR to the Yellow Card scheme does not necessarily mean that it was caused by the vaccine…” In my view, this is yet another attempt to draw attention away from the very real problems associated with the vaccines. We note that when patients die 60 days after a positive covid test, they are added to the covid death figures but if someone were to die 60 minutes after a covid vaccine, then it is just a coincidence.

ASTRAZENECA (UK data) – Some of the many injuries include: blindness, strokes, heart attacks, miscarriages, sepsis, paralysis, Bell’s Palsy, deafness, shingles, alopecia and covid-19. (Please help save lives and send the link for the AstraZeneca analysis data print to schools and local newspapers)

European database of suspected adverse drug reaction reports: ModernaPfizer-BiontechAstraZeneca and Janssen.

  • Derek Sloan MP raised concerns on covid-19 vaccine censorship of doctors and scientists (video – bitchute)
  • Moderna begins first human trials for flu shot based on new mRNA technology used to make the company’s covid-19 vaccine (article – Daily Mail)
  • The following is the FDA’s draft working list of possible covid vaccine side effects (see page 16 of document). This was published in October 2020 BEFORE the jab roll-out began.

Important note:
There have been reports in the press that the AstraZeneca vaccine is causing blood clots. This is true but so do ALL of the experimental vaccines being given allegedly to prevent covid-19. There have been many deaths, with more than 1,000 in the UK alone, and a vast number of adverse events. It is important to remember that these experimental vaccines which are being given to healthy people do not prevent covid-19 or stop it being passed on, and the risk of a young, healthy adult dying of covid-19 is extremely small.

Those are just some of the possible deaths and injuries that have followed vaccination.

I have no doubt that the authorities will claim that these deaths were coincidental.

And let us remember if a patient dies within 28 days of being tested positive for coronavirus (and the test doesn’t mean that the patient even has the disease since most tests are false positives) then the death will be listed as a covid-19 death and the patient will be said to have died ‘with’ covid-19. So by the same token, it is perfectly reasonable to say that if a patient dies or falls ill within 28 days of being vaccinated then the death or illness was related to the covid-19 vaccine.

Will the mainstream media ever start recording these deaths or illnesses? Or are journalists going to continue to promote the official government line – and to deny, distort or suppress the truth?

How many people have to die before the media wakes up?

Deaths Shortly After Covid Jab – Yet Another Coincidence

Other Important Covid Vaccine Information

Athletes and The Covid Vaccine

Was it the covid jab that caused the deaths and injuries of the following sportspeople? It’s obviously rare for young superfit athletes suddenly to develop heart problems, especially when many of them would have undergone extensive medical examinations during their careers.

Covid-19 Vaccine – Possible Vaccine Side Effects

The pro-vaxxers like to tell you that vaccines are perfectly safe and perfectly effective. Even when they wouldn’t be considered safe enough to use as oven cleaner, the fanatics enthuse about them. Young people and those who know little about medicine or science, talk about vaccines with reverence because they’ve been indoctrinated into believing the pro-vaccine lies.

And the pro-vaxxers are lying, of course.

Vaccines cause a lot of illness and quite a few deaths and they don’t always do what they’re supposed to do. Governments around the world have paid out many billions of dollars to patients who have been made ill by vaccines – or to the relatives of patients who were killed by a vaccine.

There are, for example, grave doubts about what the covid-19 vaccine actually does. Since the vaccine is a new type of vaccine and is being given before the usual tests and observations have been completed no one knows what will happen to the people who have the stuff injected into an arm.

What side effects will there be? How many will die?

Well, I don’t know and nor does anyone else.

What if a woman is pregnant when she has the vaccine or gets pregnant after being given the vaccine? The vaccine isn’t supposed to be given to pregnant women but not all pregnancies are planned.

Will the vaccine interfere with essential life-saving drugs? Many elderly patients already take a number of prescribed drugs. Will the vaccine interfere with them? No one knows. The covid-19 vaccine is the biggest experiment in history. And, unlike a proper clinical trial, it is largely unregulated. As with all vaccines most of the problems which develop will never be reported or recognised.

It is estimated that in the U.S., only 1 in 100 vaccine side effects is reported.

The best we have is a working list of possible adverse event outcomes which the FDA has published in the US. (Here is the link to the draft working list)

Since I believe everyone is entitled to know what side effects there could be with a heavily promoted vaccine, I’m going to read you the official list of possible side effects. This is, remember, not my list but a draft list compiled by the FDA – the Food and Drug Administration in the US.

  • Guillain-Barre syndrome
  • Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
  • Transverse myelitis
  • Encephalitis
  • Myelitis
  • Encephalomyelitis
  • Meningoencephalitis
  • Meningitis
  • Encephalopathy
  • Convulsions
  • Seizures
  • Stroke
  • Narcolepsy
  • Cataplexy
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack)
  • Myocarditis
  • Pericarditis
  • Autoimmune disease
  • Death
  • Pregnancy, Birth outcomes
  • Other acute demyelinating diseases
  • Non anaphylactic allergy reactions
  • Thromocytopenia
  • Disseminated intravascular coagulation
  • Venous thromboembolism
  • Arthritis
  • Arthralgia
  • Joint pain
  • Kawasaki disease
  • Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children
  • Vaccine enhanced disease

You aren’t necessarily going to get all of those or even any of them if you have the vaccine. But those are the possible side effects that the FDA has listed. They’re all unpleasant, most of them very serious and you can’t get more serious than death.

And if you are mad enough to have the vaccine then you and your doctor should keep a look out for the symptoms of all the diseases on the FDA’s list.

Your government won’t tell you about these dangers – they don’t believe in fully informed consent as far as vaccines are concerned.

Indeed, most governments are now doing everything they can to ensure that all criticisms of vaccines are banned. Depending on where you live it is, or soon will be, illegal even to mention that vaccines might not always work or might make you ill.

Finally, if your government really cared about you they would conduct a very simple, cheap trial.

They would keep a note of all the health problems affecting 20,000 patients who had the vaccine and compare that list with a list of all the health problems affecting 20,000 patients who didn’t have the vaccine in the same period. They make the comparisons every 3, 6 and 12 months.

Of course, they’d have to find some honest doctors to oversee the trial because it would be very easy to fiddle.

But it would give some very interesting results so I doubt if they’ll be doing it.

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America in Decline on Many Fronts: Our Political System Is Broken, Our Industrial Base Is Vanishing, Our Education System Is In Shambles There is no turning back now. The political extremes are going to war, and you will be dragged into it  

Ask just about anyone, and they’ll tell you that 2020 was a year of disasters. Many of those people will even go on to say that 2021 has been nothing more than a continuation of 2020.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has become old news, it’s still going on, with another upturn in infection rates as of this writing. There have been plenty of other things that have gone on since then, and we can expect more to come. Just how many we’re going to have to deal with at the same time is the question.

A number of things have become increasingly clear in the last couple of years, specifically when it comes to dealing with disasters:

  • Disasters tend to pile up; they aren’t polite enough to come one at a time
  • Most disasters sneak up on us, rather than hitting like an earthquake
  • Disasters can be hard to recognize, as they can look like everyday problems getting out of hand

So where are we going from here? There are a number of things going on, which I’m sure are going to cause us problems getting through to the end of the year and starting off next year.


Higher Heating Costs

Families already struggling financially are going to have a hard time this winter. They’ve already predicted a colder than normal winter and the current administration’s policies regarding the petroleum industry are just driving prices up.

While that’s most obvious at the gas pump, we’re also going to see it affect a lot of families in their home heating bills. Electric companies have to pass increased costs to the consumer so that they can still make a profit, and they will.

This will hit people with older heating systems the worst, especially those who still use oil-fired heating. That’s not a large percentage of the population, but it will also affect the cost of natural gas, which is currently the most common heating fuel.


Energy Shortages

Everyone still remembers the February Freeze earlier this year. Much of the problems that Texas in particular had during that time were due to problems with the Texas electrical grid; specifically an overdependence on wind energy and poor planning to protect natural gas from freezes.

While the Texas legislature made changes to energy policy, putting new regulations in place and replacing the entire energy commission, there hasn’t been enough time to put those changes into place. In other words, Texas is no more ready for another freeze, than it was a decade ago.

There’s already talk of rolling blackouts, just like California is having.


Widespread Shortages

Retailers are doing their best to hide it, but there are widespread shortages across the board. So many products either come from China or have components that come from China, that there are many products that just aren’t on the shelf. To hide this, retailers are spreading out the products that they do have, but it is obvious when you take the time to look at how limited the selection of common items has become.

These shortages aren’t going to go away until sometime next year. There isn’t just one thing that is causing the shortages and the various problems that are driving the shortages aren’t the type of things that can be solved overnight. Actions taken by the government, especially those included in the infrastructure bill, won’t make an impact for years.

Much of the supply shortage is due to the huge backlog of ships waiting to unload in California, at our busiest ports. That problem is exacerbated by recent laws passed in California, which make it illegal for independent truckers to operate in the state.

As a large portion of the trucking industry is composed of independent truckers, the only possible ways to fix that problem are either for the large trucking companies to send more of their trucks to California (which is problematic in its own right) or to repeal that law.


Food Shortages

The shortage of trucking, coupled with producers cutting back during the pandemic is going to result in continuing food shortages. If anything, we can expect things to get worse, before they get better, due to drought conditions affecting Southern California and other key areas.

While most of the areas that are being affected by drought aren’t farming areas, shortages in food tend to affect other areas of the agricultural industry as well.


Higher Overall Inflation

We’ve been seeing inflation all year and there’s no chance of it letting up. Not only has Congress already passed too many trillion-dollar-plus spending bills, but there are too many politicians in Washington that think that more of those spending bills will stop inflation. Obviously, they slept through the economics classes in college.

The inflation we’re seeing today is effectively the same as giving everyone a pay cut. According to economists, inflation has already eaten up all the government “stimulus” handouts given during COVID. So what did we gain? Now we’re saddled with inflation that’s not going to go away until at least 2024.


Gas Shortages

Everyone has noticed the higher gas prices at the pump, but few have yet noticed that we’re running into gas shortages. The last time we saw gas stations with signs out saying “Sorry, no gas” was in the 1970s, but we can expect to see them springing up again. I’ve already run into gas stations that were out of gas and I’m sure that I’m not the only one.

Why we are running into gas shortages is a bit complicated, but it is mostly due to changes made by the current administration, putting restrictions on the petroleum industry.

On top of that, foreign producers are tightening up on their own production, in an effort to drive wellhead prices up. Add that to the problems at the ports, and we had better make sure we fill up when we can.


Threats from China

President Biden recently had a meeting with the Chinese Prime Minister and if the reports I’m hearing are true, it didn’t go well. China has been becoming more and more aggressive in recent years and they are now hassling Taiwan regularly.

We need to stand strong for Taiwan, as we have mutual defense treaties in place with them; but it doesn’t look like that is happening. If China attacks, we may lose an important trading partner, increasing shortages.

On top of that, China has been generally aggressive in the South China Sea, claiming it as their territorial waters in contrary to international law. Their navy has been harassing ours, as well as threatening the other countries who have a claim there.

We can expect to see an increase in their aggressiveness at sea, including some physical attacks on ships and occupied islands.


Increased Problems at the Southern Border

The crisis at the southern border has been largely ignored by the mainstream press, but it is getting more serious by the day. As of this writing, more than 1.66 million people have crossed our southern border illegally this year. At least some of these people have a criminal background, as proven out by the fact that some have already committed crimes here in the United States.

Besides the risk of crime, there are other problems associated with allowing unchecked immigration. These people have to be transported, housed and fed, all of which is being paid for by the government. In other words, paid for by tax dollars. The president is also talking about giving those whose families were separated an unprecedented $450,000; in other words, paying them for breaking the law.

By the way, many of those families were separated by coyotes in Mexico, using those children to get others into the United States. When they were captured by the Border Patrol, the children who were not with their parents were separated from those using them, so that efforts could be made to get them back together with their families. I’d certainly like to know how that is our fault and why we should pay for it. All those payments are going to do is encourage more people to cross the border illegally.


Saber Rattling from North Korea

North Korea is getting bolder again, now that Trump is out of office. They are threatening both Japan and South Korea directly, both of whom are trade partners and with which we have mutual defense treaties. Even if Kim Jong-un can’t attack the United States directly, he can attack those two countries, dragging us into phase two of the Korean War.

In case anyone has forgotten, Kim Jong-un has threatened to attack the United States, using a high-altitude nuclear explosion to cause an EMP to disable our electrical grid. This threat was reported in their state newspaper, meaning that it is his official government policy.

While his missile program hasn’t yet reached the point where it can explode that nuke over the central United States, he’s getting closer. Just before Trump convinced him to shut down development, they test fired a rocket that would be able to reach California.


Another Surge of COVID Cases

As I stated in the beginning of this article, COVID is giving the world a Christmas present in the form of another surge of cases rising. While it is yet to be seen just how bad this surge is going to get, it seems that the vaccinations we currently have aren’t enough to stop this disease.

The current vaccination program has been highly controversial, with a lot of disinformation and very few facts being spread around. Even so, there are recent reports out of Europe, saying that 1/3 of the people hospitalized for COVID in recent months are vaccinated. If that’s the case, it seems that the vaccinations aren’t doing their job.