Bulletin N° 1012
“Full Metal Jacket”
https://www.123movie.lc/mov/full-metal-jacket-1987/watching/
(1:56:30)
In this much acclaimed 1987 anti-war film produced in the UK and
USA, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, a pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the
dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their
brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
The film features Adam Baldwin, Arliss
Howard, Dorian Harewood, Ed O'Ross,
John Terry, Kevyn Major Howard, Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, and Vincent
D'Onofrio
Subject: Whence monopoly capitalism, the ‘commercial impulse,’ the psy-ops, and the Experimental Vaccinations (EUA) in ‘Operation Warp Speed.'
Grenoble, December 3,
2021
Dear Colleagues and Friends of
CEIMSA,
Barrington
Moore Jr.’s early book, Social
Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the making of the
Modern World (1966) is a comparative
history that seeks to map the historical routes by which western nations became
modern industrial societies. The first part of this book, “Revolutionary
Origins of Capitalist Democracy” describes historic events in three countries:
England, France and the United States. Part Two, “Three Routes to the Modern World
in Asia,” analyses the origins of “the communist variant” in China, followed by
a study of “Asian Fascism” in Japan, and “the price of peaceful
change” in India. Finally, the author offers theoretical interpretations of these
different experiencesm explaining the formation of democracies and dictatorships.
In the first chapter
of this 1966 study, Moore examines “England and the contributions of violence to gradualism;” the four sections of this chapter combine to explain the emergence of "democracy"
in the first full-blown capitalist nation, and the cruel violence that this birth
entailed.
Moore introduces
this part of his study with the following problematic:
As one begins the story of the transition from the preindustrial to the modern world by examining the history of the first country to make the leap, one question comes to mind almost automatically. Why did the process of industrialization in England culminate in the establishment of a relatively free society?(p.3)
1. Aristocratic
Impulses behind the Transition to Capitalism in the Countryside.
In this first part,
Moore concludes his discussion of the role of the aristocracy at this
conjuncture of England’s early modern history with the following evaluation:
During the Eleven Years’ Tyranny [1629-1640], when Charles I ruled through Strafford and Laud without a Parliament, the attempt to apply benevolence may have been more vigorous. Such royal courts as the Star Chamber and the Court of Requests gave the peasant what protection he did obtain against eviction through enclosures.
At the same time the crown was not above lining its own pockets be fines in the attempt to enforce those policies. A vigorous enforcement was in any case beyond its reach. Unlike the French monarchy, the English crown had not been able to build up an effective administrative and legal machinery of its own that could force its will upon the countryside. Those who kept order in the countryside were generally members of the gentry, the very ones against whom the crown’s protective policies were directed. Thus the chief consequence of the crown’s policy was to antagonize those who upheld the right to do what one liked – and thought socially beneficial – with one’s own property. Royal policy tended to weld commercially minded elements in town and countryside, united by many other bonds as well, into a coherent opposition by the crown. In the agrarian sector, Stuart agrarian policy was definitely a failure and helped to precipitate the Civil War, a conflict ‘between individual rights and royal authority, conceived of as resting in the last resort, on a religious sanction.’ By this point it should be reasonably clear whose individual rights were at stake and that they were certainly not those of the mass of the peasantry, still the overwhelming bulk of England’s population.(pp.13-14)
2. Agrarian Aspects of the Civil War.
Here, the author
emphasizes the “commercial impulse” that existed among landed upper classes and
to a lesser extent among the yeomen, as part of the main force in opposition to
the King the guardians of the old order.
To perceive the magnitude of the Civil War’s accomplishments it is necessary to step back from the details and glance forward and backward. The proclaimed principle of capitalist society is that the unrestricted use of private property for personal enrichment necessarily produces through the mechanism of the market steadily increasing wealth and welfare for society as a whole. In England this spirit eventually triumphed by ‘legal’ and ‘peaceful’ methods, which, however, may have caused more real violence and suffering than the Civil War itself, during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries on the land as much as in the towns. While the original impulse toward capitalism may have come from the towns far back in the Middle Ages, it proceeded on the land as strongly as in the cities, receiving a perpetual draft from the towns that caused the flames devouring the old order to spread though the countryside. Both the capitalist principle and that of parliamentary democracy are directly antithetical to the ones they superseded and in large measure overcame during the Civil War: divinely supported authority in politics, and production for use rather than for individual profit in economics. Without the triumph of these principles in the seventeenth century it is hard to imagine how English society could have modernized peacefully – to the extent that it actually was peaceful – during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.(pp.20-21)
3. Enclosures and the Destruction of the Peasantry.
In this third part
of this historical examination of England, Moore looks at violence and the
different roles it has played in English history.
Revolutionary violence may contribute as much as peaceful reform to the establishment of a relatively free society and indeed was in England the prelude to a more peaceful transformation. But not all historically significant violence takes the form of revolution. A great deal may occur within the framework of legality, even a legality that is well along the road to Western constitutional democracy. Such were the enclosures that followed the Civil War and continued through the early Victorian era.(p.20)
Looking back over the enclosure movement as a whole and taking account of the results of modern research, it still seems plain enough that, together with the rise of industry, the enclosures greatly strengthened the larger landlords and broke the back of the English peasantry, eliminating them as a factor from British political life. From the standpoint of the issues discussed her, that is, after all, the decisive point. Furthermore, for the ‘surplus’ peasant it made little difference whether the pull from the towns or factories was more important that the push out of his rural world. In either case he was caught in the end between alternatives that meant degradation and suffering, compared with the traditional life of the village community. That the violence and coercion which produced these results took place over a long space of time, that it took place mainly within a framework of law and order and helped ultimately to establish democracy on a firmer footing, must not blind us to the fact that it was massive violence exercised by the upper classes against the lower.(pp.28-29)
4. Aristocratic Rule for Triumphant Capitalism.
In this final
section of chapter one, analyzing the evolution of English capitalism from the
17th century, Moore returns to the theme of the “commercial impulse”
that was uniquely evident among the landed aristocracy of England from the
beginning of the Stuart Monarchy.
The nineteenth century itself was the age of peaceful transformation when parliamentary democracy established itself firmly and broadened down from precedent to precedent. Before examining what part agrarian changes played in this process, it is well to pause briefly and consider in what ways the violence of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries – the first open and revolutionary, the second more concealed and legal but nonetheless violent for that- prepared the way for peaceful transition in the nineteenth. To break the connection between the two is to falsify history. To assert that the connection was somehow necessary and inevitable is to justify the present by the past with an argument that is impossible to prove. All that the social historian can do is point to a contingent connection among changes in the structure of society.
Perhaps the most important legacy of the violent past was the strengthening of Parliament at the expense of the king. The fact that Parliament existed meant that there was a flexible institution which constituted both an arena into which new social elements could be drawn as their demands arose and an institutional mechanism for settling peacefully conflicts of interest among these groups. If Parliament emerged from the Civil War mainly as an instrument of a commercially minded landed upper class, it was not just that and, as experience was to show, it could become a great deal more. The fact that this class had developed an economic base which had brought it into violent opposition to the crown before the Civil War had a great deal to do with the strengthening of Parliament. . . . The strong commercial tone in the life of the landed upper classes, both gentry and titled nobility, also meant that there was no very solid phalanx of aristocratic opposition to the advance of industry itself. Despite a good many expressions of contrary sentiment from their own members it is fair to say that the most influential sector of the landed upper classes acted as a political advance guard for commercial and industrial capitalism. This they continued to do in new ways during the nineteenth century.
The other main consequence was the destruction of the peasantry. Brutal and heartless though the conclusion appears, there are strong grounds for holding that this contribution to peaceful democratic change may have been just as important as the strengthening of Parliament. It meant that modernization could proceed in England without the huge reservoir of conservative and reactionary forces that existed at certain points in Germany and Japan, not to mention India. And it also of course meant that the possibility of peasant revolutions in the Russian and Chinese manner were taken off the historical agenda.(pp.29-30)
This commercial impulse
among the English aristocracy continued to thrive in context of modern
capitalist expansion.
There was some tendency toward the adoption of aristocratic traits by the commercial and industrial elite in England. All accounts of England prior to 1914, and to some extent even beyond that date, give the strong impression that rolling green acres and a county house were indispensable to political and social eminence. But from about the 1870s onward, landed estates became more and more symbols of status rather than the foundations of political power.
Partly because the end of the American Civil War and the rise of the steamship started to make American grain available” in Europe, an agricultural depression set in at this time, which seriously commenced to erode the economic base of the landed upper strata. Roughly the same thing happened in Germany, and once again it is instructive to view England against the German background. There the Junkers were able to use the state in the effort to preserve their position and also to form a united agricultural front with the peasant proprietors in the rest of Germany. At no point did Germany go through an experience comparable to the abolition of the Corn Laws. Instead, leading sectors of industry entered the marriage of iron and rye (fully consummated in the tariff of 1902), gaining as their part of the bargain a program of naval construction. The whole coalition of Junker, peasant, and industrial interests around a program of imperialism and reaction had disastrous results for German democracy. In England of the late nineteenth century, the combination failed to put in an appearance. Imperialist policies in England already had a long history behind them. They were an alternative, perhaps even an adjunct to free trade policies, rather than an altogether new social phenomenon arising out of advanced capitalism. In regard to agricultural problems, the Conservative governments of 1874-1879 took only small palliative measures, the Liberals from 1880 onward either let matters take their course or actively attack agrarian interests. By and large agriculture was allowed to shift for itself, that is, to commit decorous suicide with the help of a few rhetorical tears. This could scarcely have been allowed to happen except for the fact that by this time the English upper strata had largely ceased to be agrarian. The economic base had shifted to industry and trade. Disraeli and his successors showed that, with some reforms, a popular basis for conservatism could be maintained and sustained within a democratic context. There were still struggles to come, as in Lloyd George’s attack on titled landowners in his budget of 1909 and the constitutional crisis that grew out of it. But by this time, despite the furor, the agrarian problem and the question of the power of the landed aristocracy had receded into the background to give way to new questions, centering on ways to incorporate the industrial worker into the democratic consensus.(pp.37-39)
Moore concludes this
chapter with an observation on how the massive violence of early class warfare
in England contributed eventually, by the 19th century, to the gradual
evolution of institutions that accommodated the shifting interests of new political
alliances.
As one looks back over the nineteenth century, what factors stand out as responsible for England’s progress toward democracy? Those inherited from a violent past have already been mentioned: a relatively strong and independent Parliament, a commercial and industrial interest with its own economic base, no serious peasant problem. Other factors are specific to the nineteenth century itself. Governing in the context of rapidly growing industrial capitalism, the landed upper classes absorbed new elements into their ranks at the same time that they competed with them for popular support – or at the very least avoided serious defeat by well-timed concessions. This policy was necessary in the absence of any strong apparatus of repression. It was possible because the economic position of the governing classes eroded slowly and in a way that allowed them to shift from one economic base to another with only a minimum of difficulty. Finally, policies that were necessary as well as possible became facts because influential leaders saw and handled problems accurately enough and in time. There is no need to deny the historical significance of moderate and intelligent statesmen. But it is necessary to perceive the situation within which they worked, one created in large measure by men who were also intelligent but scarcely moderate.(p.39)
The 21 +
items below offer interpretations and analyses of events from the
Anglophone world that together form a Gestalt which might liberate us from further confusion and point to our mutual
dependence on one another in this time of extreme flux, greater class divisions, and growing
inequalities.
Sincerely,
Francis McCollum Feeley
--
Professeur honoraire de l'Université
Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur des
Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
a.
The Ministry of Propaganda Then and Now: Youtube Censorship
“Covid-19 Medical Misinformation Policy”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/youtube-tries-pick-up-where-dr-goebbels-left-off/5762956
+
The
Great Narrative And The Metaverse, Part 2:
Will
The Metaverse End Human Freedom?
by Derrick Broze
+
The
"Great Reset" or the "Great Pretext" … for Dystopia
https://www.globalresearch.ca/great-pretext-dystopia/5731643
by Diana Johnstone
+
“There’s Something Rotten in Denmark”: Frank Olson and the Macabre
Fate of a CIA Whistleblower in the Early Cold War
by Jeremy Kuzmarov
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b.
President
John F. Kennedy: His Life and Public Assassination
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56883.htm
by Edward Curtin
+
Did the CIA
kill JFK? Oliver Stone on his explosive new film
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/11/25/cia-kill-jfk-oliver-stone-film/
with Anya Parampil
(22:01)
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c.
Chris Hedges and Glenn Greenwald on the Second War on Terror
(Video)
(29:16)
+
Kenyan Families Say U.S. Government Fueling “War on Terror”
Disappearances and Killings, Demand Records
by Center
for Constitutional Rights
+
The Delusional Commitment to the Doctrine of “Full Spectrum
Dominance” is leading the U.S. and the World to
Disaster
by Ajamu Baraka
+
What Is France Hiding in the Sahel?
https://www.mintpressnews.com/france-hiding-sahel/278882/
by Clinton Nzala
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d.
Prestigious Weaponry Expert Censored After Demonstrating that a
Deadly Poison Gas Attack - Blamed on the Syrian Government - Was
Really
by Jeremy Kuzmarov
+
DoD In Botswana Before Omicron, Variant
Cardiac Cover Up
& Evidence Shows Omicron NOT More
Dangerous
by Ryan Cristián
(2:27:54)
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e.
Video: Digital Tyranny and the Rockefeller-Gates WHO "Vaxx
-Certificate
Passport": Towards a World War III Scenario
https://www.globalresearch.ca/worldwide-resistance-against-vaccine-covid-fraud/5755538
by Peter Koenig
+
Germany: Chief Medical Doctor of a Major Hospital Thomas Jendges
“Falls” from the Roof
of the Hospital
by Peter Koenig
+
Where the Rome-Paris Axis Is Taking Us
https://www.globalresearch.ca/where-rome-paris-axis-taking-us/5763147
by Manlio Dinucci
+
Rising Up Against COVID Inoculations
and the Health Pass
https://www.globalresearch.ca/rising-up-against-covid-inoculations-health-pass/5763103
by Stewart Brennan
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f.
Hapless Biden Administration Is Weimar Republic on Way to U.S.
Fascism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56878.htm
by Finian
Cunningham
+
Congress ‘Asleep at the Switch’ as Biden Continues Trump-Era Ploy
to Privatize Medicare
by Jake Johnson
+
Nurses unions around the world mobilize
against Big Pharma
https://therealnews.com/opinion-nurses-unions-around-the-world-mobilize-against-big-pharma
by Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla
+
Lancet Letter Demolishes Vaccination
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/lancet-article-demolishes-vaccination
by Igor Chudov
It reports that “vaccination does not even slow down the
pandemic.”
An amazing Lancet article “The epidemiological relevance of the COVID-19-vaccinated population is
increasing”
was just published.
The largest significance is that the
article WAS ALLOWED TO BE PUBLISHED BY LANCET. This means that the tide of
scientists being scared by government/globalists/Big Pharma
funding is turning, and the truth is coming out at the highest levels of
science such as the Lancet.
The article is great, but the things it
is saying are a regular subject of our discussion.
In the UK it was described that
secondary attack rates among household contacts exposed to fully vaccinated
index cases was similar to household contacts exposed to unvaccinated index
cases (25% for vaccinated vs 23% for unvaccinated).
12 of 31 infections in fully vaccinated
household contacts (39%) arose from fully vaccinated epidemiologically linked
index cases.
Peak viral load did not differ by
vaccination status or variant type
In Germany, the rate of symptomatic
COVID-19 cases among the fully vaccinated (“breakthrough infections”) is
reported weekly since 21. July 2021 and was 16.9% at that time among patients
of 60 years and older [[2]]. This proportion is increasing week by week and was
58.9% on 27.
In Israel a nosocomial
outbreak was reported involving 16 healthcare workers, 23 exposed patients and
two family members. The source was a fully vaccinated COVID-19 patient. The
vaccination rate was 96.2% among all exposed individuals (151 healthcare
workers and 97 patients). Fourteen fully vaccinated patients became severely
ill or died, the two unvaccinated patients developed mild disease
US Centres
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identifiesfour
of the top five counties with the highest percentage of fully vaccinated
population (99.9–84.3%) as “high” transmission counties
A similar situation was described for the UK. Between week 39 and 42, a total of
100.160 COVID-19 cases were reported among citizens of 60 years or older.
89.821 occurred among the fully vaccinated (89.7%), 3.395 among the
unvaccinated (3.4%) [[3]].
This reinforces my opinion that the
Covid Cult is coming apart at the seams and the failure of “Covid vaccines” is no longer a secret.
The key to any sort of narrative
revolution of information warfare is NOT to convince your crazy Fauci-worshipping neighbor. The point of it is to convince
decision makers and opinions makers that they are holding onto untenable
positions.
Please spread this article, or the
Lancet article with your own comments, as widely as possible. It will make it
increasingly impossible to ignore.
People who profess how ”they believe in
science” usually least understand science and can only understand Dr Leana Wen from China-sponsored
CNN or Dr Fauci, so doubtfully they can even
understand the text of the Lancet article. Please explain the meaning of this
article to them. Tell them “the biggest medical science magazine just published
an article saying vaccines are trash and do not even slow down the pandemic”.
If they show any interest, tell them
that hundreds of thousands of terrified people are desperately seeking to
get “un-vaccinated”.
Ask them why do they want increasingly frequent boosters.
___________________
Justin Hart @justin_hart
HAHAHAHAHAHA! We told you. Boosters in the UK will now
move from 6 months to 3 months.
November 29th 2021
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g.
Why It’s So Hard to Tax Billionaires
https://scheerpost.com/2021/11/17/why-its-so-hard-to-tax-billionaires/
by Christopher Orlet
+
The Jeffrey Epstein Cover Up: Pedophilia, Lies,
and Ghislaine Maxwell
https://scheerpost.com/2021/11/30/the-jeffrey-epstein-cover-up-pedophilia-lies-and-videotape/
by Nick Bryant
+
Maxwell
Trial: Testimony Of "Lolita Express" Pilot Continues Today
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/maxwell-trial-testimony-lolita-express-pilot-continues-today
by Tyler Durden
===========
h.
The Case for a Central Bank Digital
Currency
https://scheerpost.com/2021/11/20/theres-a-good-case-to-be-made-for-central-bank-digital-currencies/
by
Ellen Brown
+
Why
Inflation Is A Runaway Freight Train
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/why-inflation-runaway-freight-train
by Charles Hugh Smith
+
Will
Twitter Become An Ocean Of Suck?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/taibbi-will-twitter-become-ocean-suck
by Matt Taibbi
Jack Dorsey, the extend-o-bearded CEO who co-founded
Twitter and whose fame grew with that of his increasingly powerful platform
during the Trump years, resigned yesterday. His departure is the latest plot point in a
long-developing Internet tragicomedy, which has seen what was supposed to be a
historically democratizing technological tool transformed into a dystopian
force for censorship and control.
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i.
Israel / Palestine - This Needs To Be Heard
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56891.htm
with Russell
Brand
(1946)
Clarity
on the subject of Palestine, from Holocaust survivor Dr. Gabor Maté (on my podcast Under The
Skin) is the most beautiful and powerful testimony on this subject I’ve ever
heard.
+
World Misses Israeli Media's Hebrew-Language
Incitement Against Palestinians
by Miko Peled
+
Banning of Palestinian NGOs: How Israel Tries to Silence
Human Rights Defenders
by by Ramzy Baroud
and Romana Rubio
+
The “Seam Zone”: Israeli Officials Are Barring
Thousands of Palestinian Farmers from Their Land
by Jessica Buxbaum
+
The New Palestinian Movement
that Has Both Israel and the PA on Edge
https://www.mintpressnews.com/masar-badil-new-palestinian-movement-israel-pa-edge/279051/
by Masar Badil
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j.
The Science Is Clear: Higher COVID “Vaccine” Coverage Equals
Higher Excess Mortality
by Ethan Huff
+
31,014 Deaths 2,890,600 Injuries Following COVID Shots in European
Database of Adverse Reactions as Young,
Previously Healthy People Continue to Die
+
From: CJ Hopkins
[mailto:cjhopkins@substack.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 6:27 PM
Subject: Seasons Greetings from New Normal Germany!
So, I had a
little disagreement with Jillian C. York, Director for International Freedom of
Expression of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Berlin and several of her
many hacker-type Twitter followers yesterday, and today … well, it appears NortonLifeLock has blocked the Consent Factory blog and
slapped a big, red “dangerous webpage” warning label on it.
|
Seasons Greetings from New
Normal Germany!
So, I had a little disagreement with Jillian C. York, Director for
International Freedom of Expression of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in
Berlin and several of
her many hacker-type Twitter followers yesterday, and today … well, it
appears NortonLifeLock has blocked the Consent
Factory blog and slapped a big, red “dangerous webpage” warning label on it. (You
may not see it wherever you live, and you certainly won’t if you’re not using
Norton, but quite a lot of people do use Norton, so that’s kind of a problem
for an author like me.) Now, I’m sure this is (a) just a total
coincidence, because I know that no one at EFF, nor any of the hacker types
that piled in on my Twitter feed after Jillian singled me out for a Twitter
mobbing, would stoop so low as to engage in this type of scumbag behavior
(i.e., getting the Consent Factory blog flagged as “dangerous” website), and
(b) probably just an innocent mistake on the part of the NortonLifeLock
Corporation, which of course would never knowingly engage in any type of
malicious, defamatory action that would damage an author’s reputation and
livelihood (like, for example, as set forth in 28 U.S.C. § 4101). In any event, while I’m waiting for NortonLifeLock to get this “mistake” cleared up, let me
give you an update on the atmosphere here in New Normal Berlin, where “the
Unvaccinated” (and other political dissidents who refuse to conform to the
new official ideology) are effectively banned from human society (i.e.,
restaurants, cafes, cultural events, stores, etc., even public transport), so
we are pretty much under house arrest. OK, we’re still allowed to shop for
groceries, as long as we wear our medical-looking masks, and we’re allowed to
go out and walk around in the cold and the rain for as long as we can stand
it, so we’re technically not prisoners or anything. But it’s not exactly …
you know, festive. You’re wondering what the German on
that shop window says, aren’t you? It says, “UNVACCINATED UNWELCOME!” It’s a
familiar message here in Germany. Some of you might remember it from the
1930s, although it referred to a different group of people back then … Of course, it is totally
inappropriate, and wrong, and very, very bad (and, technically, a
crime here in New Normal Germany) to compare New Normal Germany to Nazi
Germany. I’m not doing that. I would never dream of doing that. Such
comparisons, apart from being illegal, are empirically (i.e., according to
“Science”) inaccurate. Just because New Normal Germany
projects a giant “VACCINATION = FREEDOM” message on an enormous TV tower or
two … … and hate-drunk New Normal German
fascists are going around spray-painting “GAS THE UNVACCINATED” in big red
letters on the walls of courtyards … … and New Normal goon squads are
raiding restaurants, bars, and even barber shops, “checking papers” and
otherwise hunting “the Unvaccinated” … 🇩🇪 3G controle bij een kapper in Hamburg🤦🤦
… that doesn’t mean that “conspiracy
theorists” like me are allowed to compare one form of totalitarianism to
another form of totalitarianism or point out the similarities and differences
between two forms of totalitarianism, or anything inappropriate like that. I am, however, allowed to post tweets
like this … OK, but just because I’m allowed to
post such tweets, that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea, given the fascistic
atmosphere here, currently. In fact, it prompted a lot of New Normals to spew mockery and insults at me in the replies,
including, notably, Jillian C. York, Director for International Freedom of
Expression of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Berlin, who, tweeting on
behalf of the entire city, informed me that I am unwelcome in Berlin, and
then proceeded to stalk me all day on Twitter. Also, being the Director for
International Freedom of Expression of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in
Berlin, and having 68,000 or so followers on Twitter, Jillian caused a number
of tech-community types and … well, hackers, to pile in and spew their
hate-drunk ridicule and insults at me, and just generally regard me as an
evil, life-threatening, disinformation-spreading, “unvaccinated” person with
a blog. And so, here I am today, sending this
out on Substack, because the Consent Factory blog
is allegedly a “dangerous webpage,” at least as far as NortonLifeLock
users are concerned. But, again, I’m sure I’m just being
paranoid, and this is just a coincidence … like all those heart attacks and
strokes, and the arrival of the dreaded OMICRON variant, and the Facebook
censorship I and many, many others have experienced, and the “warning” that Twitter
applies to every article published by OffGuardian … … all the
other coincidences that seem to be happening these days. Anyway, sorry to bother you will all
my personal drama, which probably has nothing to do with you, or the “news”
and “verified,” “reliable” information you are allowed to read by
unaccountable global corporations, which, after all, are not “censoring”
anyone, technically, and which certainly have no reason to try to shape and
police your worldview, or anything nefarious like that. Happy
holiday shopping … and all best from sunny New Normal Berlin,
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CJ Hopkins
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k.
https://z3news.com/w/big-pharma-hunts-down-dissenting-doctors/
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
(23:23)
+
“The
Great Conspiracy Debate on Grand Theft World” – with James Corbett, Richard
Grove, Tony Myers, Tim Pool and Luke Rudkowski
https://www.corbettreport.com/gtw-conspiracydebate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
with James Corbett
(1:08:46)
+
Dr. Mike Yeadon
Archives: “7 COVID LIES”
https://archives.simplelists.com/nfu/msg/18341004/
by Dr. Mike Yeadon
Dr. Yeadon takes apart the cluster of Big
Lies deployed against the whole wide world, to "keep us safe" Mark Crispin Miller.
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l.
Using the Climate Crisis: Whitney Webb
Discusses
Global Elites’ Takeover of Nature
by Mnar Adley
+
Is the Saintly World Wildlife Fund Really a Stalking Horse in the
Global South Colluding with Transnational
Corporate Interests?
by Michael Molitch-Hou
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m.
The Covid-19 Pandemic Does Not Exist
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-covid-19-pandemic-does-not-exist/5760903
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
There is much confusion and
disinformation regarding the nature of the so-called
Covid-19 “pandemic”.
The definition of a pandemic
is rarely mentioned by the governments and the corporate media.
What confirms the existence of a pandemic is not only the number of people
affected by Covid-19, but also reliable evidence of a disease
outbreak which is spreading over a wide geographic area “including
multiple countries or continents”
“A pandemic
is an epidemic that becomes very widespread and affects a whole
region, a continent, or the world” (Nature)
The above definition does not
in any way describe the alleged spread of SARS-CoV-2.
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The Next Threat: DNA Exploitation
https://www.minds.com/CorbettReport/blog/the-next-threat-dna-exploitation-1311870522341986318
by James Corbett
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Symptoms of the Omicron Variant Used
to Cover Up Effects of COVID Vaccines
https://www.globalresearch.ca/symptoms-omicron-variant-used-cover-up-effects-covid-vaccines/5763037
by Alberta Nationals
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New Variant Hysteria Comes from Same
Institution
that Popularized Lockdowns and Previous
COVID Scares
by Jordan Schachtel
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The New African Virus Mutation: Right on Time;
A Kindergarten Covert Op for the Ignorant
https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-african-virus-mutation-kindergarten-covert-op-ignorant/5763129
by Jon Rappoport
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Video: #Yes, It's a "Killer
Vaccine":
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-yes-its-a-killer-vaccine-michel-chossudovsky/5755179
with Michel Chossudovsky
(46:16)
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White America's Latest Fear Mongering
Code Language:
CRT and Wokeness
http://www.blackagendareport.com/white-americas-latest-fear-mongering-code-language-crt-and-wokeness
by Thad Baltimore
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Organizing Against Racism and Class
Oppression
http://www.blackagendareport.com/organizing-against-racism-and-class-oppression
with Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley
(1:01:17)
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BAR Book Forum: Caroline H. Yang’s
Book,
“The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery”
http://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-caroline-h-yangs-book-peculiar-afterlife-slavery
by Roberto Sirvent
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Revolutionary Front Seizes Haiti’s
Largest Fuel Terminal
as US Weighs Military Intervention
by Dan Cohen
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“Sandinistas Won a Landslide Victory Not Through Fraud But Because
They Uplifted Nicaragua’s Poor and Defeated Intervention Efforts Including
the 2018 U.S. Backed Coup
Attempt”
by Yader Lanuza
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1)
German
doctor murdered, brutally, a few days after showing that the "vaccines"
are full of tiny "razor blades" (i..e., graphene hydroxide) by Mark Crispin Miller (29 Nov 2021 12:51 EST)
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On Dr. Andreas Nock's discovery (which, among other things,
could explain why athletes in particular are keeling over during exercise):
https://odysee.com/@OzFlor:7/Noack:c
Dr. Nock's heartbroken partner breaks the awful news of his
(apparent) assassination:
https://odysee.com/@OzFlor:7/Noack:c
2)
"The
Left's COVID failure" by Mark Crispin Miller (29 Nov
2021 13:03 EST)
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Although they go too easy on the left, this is a
thoughtful indictment.
The Left’s Covid failure
Amplifying the crisis is no way to rebuild trust
BY TOBY GREEN AND THOMAS FAZI
UNHERD, NOVEMBER 23,2021
https://unherd.com/2021/11/the-lefts-covid-failure/
Throughout the various phases of the global pandemic,
people’s preferences in terms of epidemiological strategies have tended to
overlap closely with their political orientation. Ever since Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro expressed doubts
as to the wisdom of a lockdown strategy in March 2020, liberals and those on
the Left of the Western political spectrum, including most socialists, have
fallen over themselves to adhere in public to the lockdown strategy of pandemic
mitigation — and lately to the logic of vaccine passports. Now as countries
across Europe experiment with tighter restrictions of the unvaccinated,
Left-wing commentators — usually so vocal in the defence
of minorities suffering from discrimination — are notable for their silence.
As writers who have always positioned ourselves on the Left,
we are disturbed at this turn of events. Is there really no progressive
criticism to be made about the quarantining of healthy individuals, when the latest research suggests there is a vanishingly small
difference in terms of transmission between the vaccinated and the
unvaccinated? The Left’s response to Covid now
appears as part of a broader crisis in Left-wing politics and thought — one
which has been going on for three decades at least. So it’s important to
identify the process through which this has taken shape.
In the first phase of the pandemic — the lockdowns phase — it
was those leaning towards the cultural and economic right who were more likely
to emphasise the social, economic and psychological
damage resulting from lockdowns. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s initial lockdown scepticism made this position untenable for most of those
leaning towards the cultural and economic Left. Social media algorithms then
further fuelled this polarisation. Very quickly,
therefore, Western leftists embraced lockdown, seen as a “pro-life” and
“pro-collective” choice — a policy that, in theory, championed public health or
the collective right to health. Meanwhile any criticism of the lockdowns was
excoriated as a “right-wing”, “pro-economy” and “pro-individual” approach,
accused of prioritising “profit” and “business as
usual” over people’s lives.
In sum, decades of political polarisation
instantly politicised a public health issue, without
allowing any discussion as to what a coherent Left response would be. At the
same time, the Left’s position distanced it from any kind of working-class base,
since low-income workers were the most severely affected by the socio-economic
impacts of continued lockdown policies, and were also those most likely to be
out working while the laptop class benefitted from Zoom. These same political
fault lines emerged during the vaccine roll-out, and now during the Covid passports phase. Resistance associates with the
Right, while those on the mainstream Left are generally supportive of both
measures. Opposition is demonised as a confused
mixture of anti-science irrationalism and individualistic libertarianism.
But why has the mainstream Left ended up supporting
practically all Covid measures? How did such a
simplistic view of the relationship between health and the economy emerge, one
which makes a mockery of decades of (Left-leaning) social science research
showing just how closely wealth and health
outcomes are connected? Why did the Left ignore the massive increase in inequalities, the attack on the poor, on poor countries, on women and children, the cruel treatment of the elderly, and the huge increase in wealth for
the richest individuals and corporations resulting from these policies? How, in
relation to the development and roll-out of vaccines, did the Left end up
ridiculing the very notion that, given the money at stake, and when BioNTech, Moderna and Pfizer
currently make between them over US$1,000 per second from the Covid vaccines, there might be motivations from the vaccine manufacturers
other than “the public good” at play? And how is it possible that the Left,
often on the receiving end of state repression, today seems oblivious to the
worrying ethical and political implications of Covid
passports?
While the Cold War coincided with the era of decolonisation and the rise of a global anti-racist
politics, the end of the Cold War – alongside the symbolic triumph of decolonisation politics with the end of apartheid – ushered
in an existential crisis for Left-wing politics. The rise of neoliberal
economic hegemony, globalisation, and corporate
trans-nationalism, have all undermined the Left’s historic view
of the state as an engine of redistribution. Combined with this is the realisation
that, as the Brazilian theorist Roberto Mangabeira
Unger has argued, the Left has always prospered most
at times of great crisis — the Russian Revolution benefited from the World War
One, and welfare capitalism from the aftermath of the World War Two. This
history may partly explain the Left’s positioning today: amplifying the crisis
and prolonging it through never-ending restrictions may be seen by some as a
way to rebuild Left politics after decades of existential crisis.
The Left’s flawed understanding of the nature of neoliberalism may also have affected its response to the crisis. Most people on the Left believe that neoliberalism has involved a “retreat” or “hollowing out” of the state in favour of the market. Thus, they interpreted government activism throughout the pandemic as a welcome “return of the state”, one potentially capable, in their view, of eventually reversing neoliberalism’s allegedly anti-statist project. The problem with this argument, even accepting its dubious logic, is that neoliberalism hasn’t entailed a withering away of the state
. On the contrary, the size of the state as a percentage of GDP has continued to rise throughout the neoliberal era.This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Neoliberalism
relies on extensive state intervention just as much as “Keynesianism” did,
except that the state now intervenes almost exclusively to further the
interests of big capital – to police the working classes, bail out large banks
and firms that would otherwise go bankrupt, etc. Indeed, in many ways, capital
today is more dependent on the state than ever. As Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan note: “[A]s capitalism develops,
governments and large corporations become increasingly intertwined. … The
capitalist mode of power and the dominant-capital coalitions that rule it do
not require small governments. In fact, in many respects, they need larger
ones”. Neoliberalism today is more akin to a form
of state-monopoly capitalism – or corporatocracy
– than the kind of small-state free-market capitalism that it often claims to
be. This helps explain why it has produced increasingly powerful,
interventionist, and even authoritarian state apparatuses.
This in itself makes the Left’s cheering at a non-existent
“return of the state” embarrassingly naďve. And the worst part is that it has
made this mistake before. Even in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis,
many on the Left hailed large government deficits as “the return of Keynes” – when, in fact, those measures had very little to do
with Keynes, who counselled the use of government
spending to reach full employment, and instead were aimed at bolstering the culprits of
the crisis, the big banks. They were also followed by an unprecedented attack on welfare
systems and workers’ rights across Europe.
Something similar is happening today, as state contracts for Covid tests, PPE, vaccines, and now vaccine passport
technologies are parcelled out to transnational
corporations (often through shady deals that reek
of cronyism).
Meanwhile, citizens are having their lives and livelihoods upended by “the new
normal”. That the Left seems completely oblivious to this is particularly
puzzling. After all, the idea that governments tend to
exploit crises to further entrench the neoliberal agenda has been a staple of
much recent Left-wing literature. Pierre Dardot and
Christian Laval, for example, have argued that under neoliberalism,
crisis has become a “method of government”. More famously, in her 2007
book The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein explored the idea of
“disaster capitalism”. Her central thesis is that in moments of public fear and
disorientation it is easier to re-engineer societies: dramatic changes to the
existing economic order, which would normally be politically impossible, are
imposed in rapid-fire succession before the public has had time to understand what
is happening.
There’s a similar dynamic at play today. Take, for example,
the high-tech surveillance measures, digital IDs, crackdown on public
demonstrations and fast-tracking of laws introduced by governments to combat
the coronavirus outbreak. If recent history is
anything to go by, governments will surely find a way to make many of the
emergency rules permanent – just as they did with much post-9/11
anti-terrorist legislation. As Edward Snowden
noted: “When we see emergency measures passed, particularly today,
they tend to be sticky. The emergency tends to be expanded”. This confirms, too, the ideas on
the “state of exception” posited by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, who has nonetheless been vilified by the
mainstream Left for his anti-lockdown position.
Ultimately, any form of government action should be judged
for what it actually stands for. We support government intervention if it
serves to further the rights of workers and minorities, to create full
employment, to provide crucial public services, to rein in corporate power, to
correct the dysfunctionalities of markets, to take
control of crucial industries in the public interest. But in the past 18 months
we have witnessed the exact opposite: an unparalleled strengthening of
transnational corporate behemoths and their oligarchs at the expense of workers
and local businesses. A report last month based on Forbes data showed
that America’s billionaires alone have seen their wealth increase by US$2
trillion during the pandemic.
Another Left-wing fantasy that has been shuttered by reality
is the notion that the pandemic would usher in a new sense of collective
spirit, capable of
overcoming decades of neoliberal individualism. On the contrary, the pandemic
has fractured societies even more – between the vaccinated and the
unvaccinated, between those who can reap the benefits of smart working and
those who can’t. Moreover, a demos made up of traumatised
individuals, torn apart from their loved ones, made to fear one another as a
potential vectors of disease, terrified of physical contact – is hardly a good
breeding ground for collective solidarity.
But perhaps the Left’s response can be better understood in
individual rather than collective terms. Classic psychoanalytic theory has
posited a clear connection between pleasure and authority: the experience of
great pleasure (satiating the pleasure principle) can often be followed by a
desire for renewed authority and control manifested by the ego or “reality
principle”. This can
indeed produce a subverted form of pleasure. The last two decades of globalisation have seen a huge expansion of the “pleasure
of experience”, as shared by the increasingly transnational global liberal
class – many of whom, somewhat curiously in historical terms, identified
themselves as on the Left (and indeed increasingly usurped this position from
the traditional working-class constituencies of the Left). This mass increase
in pleasure and experience among the liberal class went with a growing
secularism and lack of any recognised moral
constraint or authority. From the perspective of psychoanalysis, the support
from this class for “Covid measures” is quite readily
explained in these terms: as the desired appearance of a coterie of restrictive
and authoritarian measures which can be imposed to curtail pleasure, within the
strictures of a moral code which steps in where one had previously been
lacking.
Another factor explaining the Left’s embrace of “Covid measures” is its blind faith in “science”. This has
its roots in the Left’s traditional faith in rationalism. However, one thing is believing in the undeniable virtues of the scientific
method – another is being completely oblivious to the way those in power
exploit “science” to further their agenda. Being able to appeal to “hard
scientific data” to justify one’s policy choices is an incredibly powerful tool
in the hands of governments – it is, in fact, the essence of technocracy. However,
this means carefully selecting the “science” that is supportive of your agenda
– and aggressively marginalising any alternative
views, regardless of their scientific value.
This has been happening for years in the realm of economics. Is it really that hard to believe
that such a corporate capture is happening today with regard to medical
science? Not according to John P. Ioannidis, professor of medicine and
epidemiology at Stanford University. Ioannidis made headlines in early 2021
when he published, with some colleagues of his, a paper claiming that there was no
practical difference in epidemiological terms between countries that had locked
down and those that hadn’t. The backlash against the paper – and against
Ioannidis in particular – was fierce, especially among his fellow scientists.
This explains his recent scathing denunciation of his own
profession. In an article entitled “How the Pandemic Is Changing the
Norms of Science”,
Ioannidis notes that most people – especially on the Left — seem to think that
science operates based on “the Mertonian norms of
communalism, universalism, disinterestedness, and organized skepticism”. But,
alas, that is not how the scientific community actually operates, Ioannidis
explains. With the pandemic, conflicts of corporate interest exploded – and yet
talking about them became anathema. He continues: “Consultants who made
millions of dollars from corporate and government consultation were given
prestigious positions, power, and public praise, while unconflicted
scientists who worked pro bono but dared to question dominant narratives were
smeared as being conflicted. Organized skepticism was seen as a threat to
public health. There was a clash between two schools of thought, authoritarian
public health versus science – and science lost”.
Ultimately, the Left’s blatant disregard and mockery of
people’s legitimate concerns (over lockdowns, vaccines or Covid
passports) is shameful. Not only are these concerns rooted in actual hardship
but they also stem from an understandable distrust of governments and
institutions that have been undeniably captured by corporate interests. Anyone
who favours a truly progressive-interventionist
state, as we do, needs to address these concerns – not dismiss them.
But where the Left’s response has been found most wanting is
on the world stage, in terms of the relationship of Covid
restrictions to deepening poverty in the Global South. Has it really nothing to
say about the enormous increase in child marriage, the collapse in schooling,
and the destruction of formal employment in Nigeria, where the State Statistics
agency suggests 20% of people lost their jobs during
the lockdowns? What
about the reality that the country with the highest Covid
mortality figures and excess death rate for 2020 was Peru – which had one of the world’s strictest
lockdowns? On all
this, it has been virtually silent. This position must be considered in
relation to the pre-eminence of nationalist politics on the world stage: the
electoral failure of Left internationalists such as Jeremy Corbyn
meant that broader global issues had little traction when considering a broader
Western Left response to Covid-19.
It is worth mentioning that there have been outliers on the
Left – radical-left and socialist movements that have come out against the
prevailing management of the pandemic. These include Black Lives Matter in New York, Left Lockdown Sceptics in the UK, the Chilean urban left, Wu Ming in Italy and not least the Social
Democrat-Green alliance which currently governs Sweden. But the full spectrum
of Left opinion was ignored, partly due to the small number of Left-wing media
outlets, but also due to the marginalisation of
dissenting opinions first and foremost by the mainstream Left.
Mainly, though, this has been a historic failure from the
Left, which will have disastrous consequences. Any form of popular dissent is
likely to be hegemonized once again by the (extreme) Right, poleaxing any chance the
Left has of winning round the voters it needs to overturn Right-wing hegemony.
Meanwhile, the Left holds on to a technocracy of experts severely undermined by
what is proving to be a catastrophic handling of the pandemic in terms of
social progressivism. As any kind of viable electable Left fades into the past,
the discussion and dissent at the heart of any true democratic process is
likely to fade with it.
3) South
African doctor who discovered "Omicron" says there's nothing to worry
about by Mark Crispin Miller (29 Nov 2021 15:13 EST)
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UPDATE: South African Doctor Who Discovered “Omicron”
Variant Says There’s Nothing to Worry About – Only
Mild Symptoms (VIDEO)
By Jim Hoft
Published November 28, 2021 at 12:00pm
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Comments
Dr Angelique Coetzee, the South African doctor who first
spotted the new Covid variant Omicron, appeared on
the BBC this weekend.
Dr. Coetzee says the patients seen so far have had “extremely
mild symptoms” – but more time is needed before we know the seriousness of the
disease for vulnerable people.
Click on the link for the rest.
(***)Russians
urged to "vaccinate" their cats by Mark Crispin Miller (29 Nov 2021 16:11 EST)
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So this is how it ends
Russians
urged to vax their cats
So this is how it ends
https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/russians-urged-to-vax-their-cats
Nov
29
Leave
our furry friends alone
If you had “insane Russian scientist says inject all the
cats” on your 2021 Bingo Card, congratulations:
They’ve gone too far
According to the expert, pets can be a source of coronavirus infection for their owners.
“There is evidence that cats can be sick with SARS-CoV. Dogs are sensitive to a certain extent,” Butenko clarified, adding that weasels can also get sick,
and there is also evidence that predatory animals (leopards, lions and tigers)
have become infected from people in zoos. The virologist noted that cats are
the only animals that need to be vaccinated in an urban setting.
The doctor believes that if you do not vaccinate the animal,
you need to carefully monitor so that it does not show symptoms of coronavirus infection.
Didn’t The Simpsons predict this?
Anyway, let’s see what they’re saying on the Russian Message
Boards:
Why do Russian people hate science?
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4) Dems deplored those
rushed "vaccines" until it was THEIR turn to lie about them by Mark Crispin Miller (29 Nov 2021 16:39 EST)
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GOP propaganda though it is, it makes an inarguable point
about the Democrats' outrageous double standard vis-a-vis the "safety and effectiveness" of those
"vaccines":
https://twitter.com/MahyarTousi/status/1464870780496494592?s=20
5) CORRECT
LINK to Dr. Noack's heartbroken partner reporting his
brutal murder by Mark Crispin Miller (29 Nov 2021 16:43 EST)
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https://www.bitchute.com/video/Nyr3Z1cuu8rE/
6) Stop
that program NOW! Jabs "dramatically increase" the risk of cardiac
inflammation, finds top cardiological journal by Mark Crispin Miller (29 Nov
2021 16:56 EST)
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Dr. Vernon Coleman on the findings, which MUST put an
IMMEDIATE stop to the "vaccination" program:
Abstract of the article in Circulation:
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.144.suppl_1.10712
Christine Marr, LMFT
917-547-4173 (mobile)
202-248-3818 (office)
https://www.dcholisticpsychotherapy.com
7) "This
is the largest experiment performed on human beings in the history of the
world": Dr. Robert Malone gives a brilliant interview by Mark Crispin Miller (29 Nov 2021 17:02 EST)
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Dr. Robert Malone: “This is the Largest Experiment Performed
on Human Beings in the History of the World.”
by Veronika Kyrylenko November
9, 2021
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