As a term fake news has largely only been around since 2015. The left said that Donald Trump and his campaign was spreading fake news. Trump then turned it around and labelled the major news channels with it.

But the fact is that fake news has been around as long as news has been around.

Before it was called fake news, it was known by other names, such as propaganda. And since that term fell out of favor mostly around its use in in the first world war, it’s largely known as public relations or spin.

Of course, there are degrees of fake news. There are omissions. There are exaggerations. There are outright lies. Unfortunately, all of it stands against what journalism, what the fourth estate, should really be about.

This is an exaggeration. It is making news more so than reporting on it. What should have happened is that Cooper would be laughed out of the journalism business by his colleagues and the public after this stunt. But no. Instead he’s considered one of the most trustworthy leaders of a major news channel. Why is that? Keep reading for a strong clue…

Freedom of the press was a critically important part of the USA. That’s why it was the first amendment in the Bill of Rights. The press was there to keep government honest. To keep businesses honest. (To keep other journalists honest?) While there has always been fake news it has certainly accelerated in recent history for reasons that will become clear.

The problem is that the press is no longer honest by and large.

Why does this matter today? It’s extremely relevant.

For example, here is Sky News from Italy showing the pandemic inside the hospital aired March 19^th.

And here is CBS This Morning using that same footage to show the pandemic in New York City on March 25th.

Is that just lazy reporting and an honest mistake…or criminally deceptive to create hysteria?

In My Weird Journey Down the Rabbit Hole, I shared a similar use of Kentucky gun-range footage as the “slaughter in Syria”, from ABC News, the same people who said their story about Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t credibly enough to air.

What follows is a slice of history that you must understand in order to even conceive of what is happening today.

Edward Bernays, the father of propaganda (and nephew to Sigmund Freud) wrote this about the topic:

 “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of this country.”

…and…

“Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitude of history, but quite innocent of originals thought…It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion.”

No, it’s not an exaggeration. If you’re not familiar with Bernays, he was one of the greatest propagandists ever to live.

Bernays accomplished many things with propaganda such as getting women to smoke by calling them “liberty torches,” tapping into the burgeoning women’s movement.

Another of his more infamous propaganda campaigns was turning the democratically elected leader of Guatemala, Arbenz, into a communist threat to the USA. He did this on behalf of the CIA, the State Department and the business, United Fruit, which all had close ties. After the coup, we installed the military dictator Carlos Castillo Armas who led death squads against the people but supported US political and business interests.

This eight and a half minute video gives a quick overview.

This is not a conspiracy theory. It is public knowledge. You can find details about it in Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

Did you know that press connections are something the CIA has always been involved in?

Here’s a New York Times article from 1977. “In its persistent efforts to shape world opinion, the C.I.A. has been able to call upon a separate and far more extensive network of newspapers, news services, magazines, publishing houses, broadcasting stations and other entities over which it has at various times had some control.” https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propaganda-network-built-by-the-cia-a-worldwide-network.html

It’s a fascinating read…yet it is a limited hangout. Why? Because the CIA had connections into the New York Times!

The only reason they published anything was to attempt to control the narrative once this was leaked out. You see, around that time other information came out, including this article by Carl Bernstein, published in Rolling Stone in 1977 which discloses such and much more. I absolutely recommend reading this whole thing! But here are a few quotes: http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php

“In most instances, Agency files show, officials at the highest levels of the CIA usually director or deputy director) dealt personally with a single designated individual in the top management of the cooperating news organization.”

Understand that top management can kill or change stories done by the investigators themselves. It’s a powerful position to have influence over.

“During the 1976 investigation of the CIA by the Senate Intelligence Committee, chaired by Senator Frank Church, the dimensions of the Agency’s involvement with the press became apparent to several members of the panel, as well as to two or three investigators on the staff. But top officials of the CIA, including former directors William Colby and George Bush, persuaded the committee to restrict its inquiry into the matter and to deliberately misrepresent the actual scope of the activities in its final report. The multivolume report contains nine pages in which the use of journalists is discussed in deliberately vague and sometimes misleading terms.”

Here’s clips from those hearings.

“The Agency’s relationship with the [New York] Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. From 1950 to 1966, about ten CIA employees were provided Times cover under arrangements approved by the newspaper’s late publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. The cover arrangements were part of a general Times policy—set by Sulzberger—to provide assistance to the CIA whenever possible. Sulzberger was especially close to [CIA Director] Allen Dulles.”

All the News That’s Fit to Print

All the News That’s Approved By the CIA to Print

This was allegedly part of Operation Mockingbird. The only CIA document that exists that discusses Mockingbird shows that they wiretapped phones of journalists, but people talk about it being much more. https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/operationmockingbirdCIA.pdf

The propaganda even bleeds into Hollywood. “Are you an aspiring filmmaker who wants to produce a spy thriller? Well, you’re in luck because the CIA has a pile of script ideas lying around. Ironic, you say, that an organization known for secrecy is doling out helpful hints to Hollywood? The CIA doesn’t think so. For them it’s all about image control.” https://www.wired.com/2011/09/cia-pitches-hollywood/

I started this off talking about Anderson Cooper. Yep, he worked for the CIA. Whether or not that still occurs is speculation, of course…though there is the saying once CIA, always CIA. https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=15416

Take a look at this, potentially the most damning of all evidence. A CIA document from 1991, released in 2010, stated that the CIA’s public affairs office, “now has relationships with reporters from every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the nation. This has helped us turn some ‘intelligence failure’ stories into ‘intelligence success’ stories, and it has contributed to the accuracy of countless others. In many instances, we have persuaded reporters to postpone, change, hold, or even scrap stories.” https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005524009.pdf

EVERY…MAJOR…NEWS…SERVICE. Change or scrap stories. In an earlier post, I mentioned the news being weaponized against us. This is what I mean.

The CIA may not be able to get rid of every single damaging story out there. There certainly are good and true journalists and editors. But what if they could get rid of half the stories you didn’t want? What if they could spin the narrative in their favor 90% of the time? Do you see where this leads, especially when compounded over decades?

“The term ‘conspiracy theory’ did not exist as a phrase in everyday American conversation before 1964. The conspiracy-theory label entered the American lexicon of political speech as a catchall for criticism of the Warren Commission’s conclusion that President Kennedy was assassinated by a lone gunman with no assistance from, or foreknowledge by, any element of the United States government.” –  Lance deHaven-Smith

How did this term enter the lexicon? The CIA of course, through their propaganda assets (aka relationships with reporters.) https://steemit.com/history/@thelastheretik/cia-coined-and-weaponized-the-label-conspiracy-theory

You cannot possibly understand what is going on today if you do not understand history. And not the history they teach you in school (because history is written by the winner…or better explained, the winner’s propagandist).

And I have only just barely scratched the surface. This covers the CIA. That is a single agency (albeit certainly one of the biggest and most successful). Just how pervasive are these methods of influencing the news among government agencies, political parties, businesses and more?

Remember that the US government has classified its meetings for the coronavirus response. https://loganchristopher.com/this-is-not-a-black-swan-event/

And we have seen one example of the media feeding into the hysteria.

Let me be clear. I’m not saying CBS News did that as a result of CIA direction. But something fishy is going on and has been for a long, long time.

In future posts, I’ll share more recent examples, share a wide variety of tactics used, as well as discuss how this bleeds into the online world of big tech censorship which is clamping down tighter as we speak.

“This is a planned, organized partial shutdown of the U.S. economy in the second quarter. The overall goal is to keep everyone, households and businesses, whole… It is a huge shock and we are trying to cope with it and keep it under control.” – Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, James Bullard https://www.marketwatch.com/story/unemployment-could-reach-30-in-the-us-says-st-louis-feds-bullard-2020-03-22

Planned shutdown of the economy. (How far in advanced was it planned? Will they be able to “keep it under control”?)

What about a planned shutdown of the dollar itself?

As we entered into 2020, I was intrigued to see a number of people make predictions for the decade ahead. Today, I am going to make one such prediction.

The US dollar will not be relevant as a worldwide currency anymore. It might even be fully gone, except as a collector’s item by 2030. It might just happen much faster than that too.  

It’s may seem a bold prediction but there are reasons for it which we’ll cover today. Once again, I make the disclaimer that I am far from an economist. This stuff can be quite complicated, even purposefully made so. But I share what I’m seeing as clear as I can state it.

I came across the following image which stated, “Reserve currency status usually lasts about 100 years. The petrodollar certainly had a good ride last 100 years. At some point people just stop accepting them for goods (like oil, gold, food, houses etc).” https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1243115218043047938

No it’s not just the pandemic. The first hints of this were here the past few years as other countries made moves away from the dollar. “It is not only the Chinese that are starting to question the viability of the dollar. A report in 2010 by the United Nations called for the abandonment of the U.S. dollar as the single reserve currency…With more bilateral trade transactions bypassing the dollar, and the increasing internationalization of the Chinese financial system, the yuan is eventually going to give the dollar a run for its money.” https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-dollar-is-slowly-losing-its-status-as-the-primary-reserve-currency/

That’s one possibility. But my bet is that what succeeds the dollar will be some type of digital currency. (Actually the Chinese have a digital yuan which will likely be a strong play.) https://www.coindesk.com/prof-michael-sung-talks-about-the-rise-of-the-digital-yuan

As of right now, there are lots of cryptocurrencies out there. One or a few will come to ascendency. That’s a big topic we’ll be diving into soon, but first more about why the dollar is unsustainable.

Our entire money supply is based on debt. And in that way, it is a Ponzi scheme. The only way for the system to keep going is by adding more and more in. You need continual growth, or it collapses.

The Federal Reserve is the creator of this system. The common belief is that they’re there to make sure the system keeps running. But the fact is they are largely the problem themselves. They create bubbles and bursting by their manipulations of the markets.

What we have in 2020 is the biggest bubble ever created, now bursting.

And the Fed is making unprecedented moves in order to soften the landing. The thing is all these interventions, even if they work in the short term, simply cause bigger problems later on. To put it another way, part of the reason we’re in this mess is everything they did back in 2008! Hence the stimulus three times as big as the start of the prior bailout.

For example, companies learned that they could be too big to fail. Therefore it is in their interest to seek higher, riskier returns, knowing the that government would bail them out next time too. If our economic system does bounce back, it simply means a bigger bubble bursting later.

Unprecedented moves. That means never done before. (Once again, expect more unprecedented things to occur because this event is part of a massive transition. Unprecedented moves are the new normal for a while now. Get used to it.)

The national debt stands at $23.6 trillion right now, the highest it’s ever been. https://usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html

The US is essentially bankrupt.  We’re getting to the point that has occurred in many other countries where we won’t be able to pay even the interest on that debt. Not to mention other underfunded liabilities we have such as social security, Medicare, etc.

Do you know what makes up over 50% of the assets held by the US government?

Student loans. https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/commentaries/2020/03/16/the-fed-s-financial-accounts-what-is-uncle-sam-s-largest-asset

What happens when these stop getting paid? I’m not sure…but payments are suspended through September now. (These certainly made up their own bubble, and what happens to bubbles? They burst.)  https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/coronavirus-bill-ends-student-loan-payments-interest-6

Right now we’re printing money out of thin air. Many are calling it helicopter money. The $2 trillion bill,  Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), is just the start.

And of course, that is stuffed full of money to all kinds of businesses and pet projects, far more so than directly to people or necessary relief. Direct payments to people account for $290 billion or just about 14%.

It seems to me just a token gesture to try to satisfy people that the government is here to take care of us.

Meanwhile, there are provisions in the act to make the Federal Reserve LESS transparent about what it does. https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/if-getting-us-6-trillion-more-debt-doesnt-matter-then-why-not-350-trillion

They’re making daily $1 trillion loans to banks. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/federal-reserve-to-lend-additional-1-trillion-a-day-to-large-banks

The Federal Reserve now has a $5 Trillion balance sheet, the highest it’s ever been. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/federal-balance-sheet-tops-5-210123506.html

This balance sheet is swelling because the Fed is buying up all kinds of things it’s never done before. As of today, the Fed is even buying up exchange traded funds (ETFs). What the Fed is spending dwarfs the CARE Act. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-fed-is-going-to-buy-etfs-what-does-it-mean-2020-03-23

Most people don’t really understand inflation. One way of thinking about it is as an extra tax you don’t directly pay. If the government prints so much money that the money supply is twice as big, then any money you have is worth half as much.

Understand that the government just took on some massive liabilities in the expansion of 3.3 millions of Americans on unemployment. And this is just the first wave of unemployment. https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/record-xx-million-americans-just-filed-unemployment-benefits

Even if the virus disappears tomorrow (which will not happen), these people will not all immediately get their jobs back. These people then have less money, so they spend less, which means more layoffs will occur.

Virginia just issued a statewide stay-at-home order through June 10^th. https://www.richmond.com/special-report/coronavirus/update-northam-issues-statewide-stay-at-home-order-effective-through/article_67dbe141-da92-504b-b74d-e7c9ed8a118c.html

Ripples of impact.

Meanwhile, the government is going to be paying these people month after month for quite some time. This money comes from new money added by the stroke of a few keys, because we’re certainly not sitting on any cash reserves.

At best, it looks like we’re moving into strong inflation long term. I don’t know how bad it will get. Hyperinflation is usually defined as over 50% per month. It hopefully will not reach this rate. And it hopefully won’t be far worse, such as the rates of 30000% per month in Weimar Germany, or the freaking-insane-to-comprehend example of Hungary where prices doubled every 15 hours. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/061515/what-are-some-historic-examples-hyperinflation.asp

Many people just took a huge hit to their 401K with the stock market crash. The US Public Pension lost almost a trillion dollars, down 21% for the year. What was underfunded gets more underfunded. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-03-27/us-public-pension-funds-have-lost-1-trillion-recent-weeks

Recognize that even after recovery, with inflation coming all the savings you’ve made will become worth less and less.

It is a transfer of wealth. But unlike what many people are asking for from the rich to the poor, it is going in the opposite direction. Meanwhile the people are meant to be placated by the handouts from the government. (I found the joke funny that who knew Trump would be implementing many of Bernie Sanders ideas like universal basic income!?!)

The good news is there’s likely some time to position yourself for the transition. Diving into that you’ll see more proof that this was planned ahead of time. Maybe not the virus itself, but the economic transition.

Thank you to everyone that has responded to these emails.

The response from “I was Leaving California for Medical Freedom” was especially big and heartfelt. So again, thank you.

Doing this series is a LOT of work, but I’m finding it very rewarding to do so. I’ll be taking tomorrow off for a much needed break.

I have two big topics that I plan to cover in the coming week. One is the collapse of the dollar and the movement into digital currencies. The other is around fake news and censorship. Both of these are going to be multiple part series that I’ll probably jump back and forth between.

And there is still so much to cover besides that too!

I wanted to share the following message. I actually wrote this near the start of March. You know, before the coronavirus pandemic broke, events were canceled, nations were quarantined, markets collapsed.

I guess I was onto something…

How Fluid is your Reality?

Do you recognize that at least 50% of everything you believe is wrong? (I’m not saying I have it right, I’m saying this is true for everyone myself included!)

Think about the people living in the year 2320, how they’ll look back at you and I and laugh at the crazy things we believed. Just like we do now for those in the past or in other cultures. Those silly people, how could they believe such crap?

I ask, how fluid is your reality?

Can you see the perspectives of people completely different from you living today? (Or do you think everyone that doesn’t share your illustrious opinion is an idiot?)

Can you understand, truly wrap your heart and mind around, why someone with a different political stance has those beliefs?

Here’s a fun one…Can you wear the shoes of a conspiracy theorist for a month?

Do you challenge your beliefs by looking into the other side(s)…or do you simply except your echo chamber’s experts’ opinions uncritically?

Recognize that life is changing faster and faster.

There are several life-threatening possibilities on the horizon near and further.

Even if there are no catastrophes, there’s plenty of revolutions that will change daily life coming, for both good and ill. (Think about this, smart phones didn’t exist yet in 2005, the public internet until 1990.)

How will you adapt?

It helps if you’re not so rigid in your worldview.

How deep can you mine your beliefs to test bending and breaking them? Can you even try out altering those things that you don’t even think of as beliefs, instead just the…way…things…are.

Methinks that reality fluidity is a necessary skill set for navigating today.

As time progresses, we seem to be getting better quality data about what is really going on with the virus. So despite what the news is predominately catastrophizing about…

…The USA now being the epicenter of the coronavirus! https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-us-now-leads-the-world-in-confirmed-coronavirus-cases/ar-BB11LlDh

…With projections of 81,000 people dead! https://news.trust.org/item/20200326232240-2yx1f

I’m feeling a lot more relaxed about it for reasons I’ll share with you here. Even if it was indeed a weaponized virus, it doesn’t seem that effective!

Italy says that of those dying 99% of them had other illnesses. And the median age of the infected is 63 but 79.5 years for those who die. In addition, “All of Italy’s victims under 40 have been males with serious existing medical conditions.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says

While they say they haven’t peaked in Italy yet, there were “signs of a slowdown”. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-contagion-idUSKBN21E1U8

The epidemiologist Neil Ferguson modeled the virus and projected 2.2. million dead in the US and 500K in the UK. This information was widely reported by the media and used by governments. Yesterday, he announced that he drastically downgraded the prediction.

“Based on both those revised estimates and the lockdown measures taken by the British government, the epidemiologist predicts, hospitals will be just fine taking on COVID-19 patients and estimates 20,000 or far fewer people will die from the virus itself or from its agitation of other ailments.” https://www.dailywire.com/news/epidemiologist-behind-highly-cited-coronavirus-model-admits-he-was-wrong-drastically-revises-model

To be clear, while downgraded, he is giving credit to the quarantine and social distancing for the effects.

I found this page from a Swiss Doctor giving daily updates which has some great information. This is published on a website for Swiss Propaganda Research which “is an independent nonprofit research group investigating geopolitical propaganda in Swiss and international media.” https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/

I invite you to check out that page, but here are a few items of interest pulled from it. One of the things I was wondering about was how many deaths normally occurred in Italy as compared to what was happening now? The answer to that question is found here.

“According to the latest data published by the Italian Ministry of Health, overall mortality is now significantly higher in all age groups over 65 years of age, after having been below average due to the mild winter. Until March 14, overall mortality was still below the flu season of 2016/2017, but may have already exceeded it in the meantime. Most of this excess mortality currently comes from northern Italy. However, the exact role of Covid19, compared to other factors such as panic, healthcare collapse and the lockdown itself, is not yet clear.”

Look at this chart. While mortality is still trending up, it is less than other times in previous years where no lockdown was done.

“Sweden has so far pursued the most liberal strategy in dealing with Covid19, which is based on two principles: Risk groups are protected and people with flu symptoms stay at home. “If you follow these two rules, there is no need for further measures, the effect of which is only marginal anyway,” said chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell. Social and economic life will continue normally. The big rush to hospitals has so far failed to materialize, Tegnell said.”

“USA: Researcher Stephen McIntyre has evaluated the official data on deaths from pneumonia in the US. There are usually between 3000 and 5500 deaths per week and thus significantly more than the current figures for Covid19. The total number of deaths in the US is between 50,000 and 60,000 per week.”

Compare the above to the total death count of Covid-19 in the USA of 1304 at the time of writing.

“John Lee, Professor Emeritus of Pathology, argues that the particular way in which Covid-19 cases are registered leads to an overestimation of the risk posed by Covid19 compared to normal flu and cold cases.”

“A preliminary study by researchers at Stanford University showed that 20 to 25% of Covid19-positive patients tested additionally positive for other influenza or cold viruses.”

“A study from China in 2003 concluded that the probability of dying from SARS is 84% higher in people exposed to moderate air pollution than in patients from regions with clean air. The risk is even 200% higher among people from areas with heavily polluted air.”

This last bit is very interesting because the air pollution in places like Wuhan and northern Italy is some of the worst out there.

Meanwhile, there continues to be questions about accuracy of all the different forms of testing. “Spanish scientists said the rapid tests for coronavirus they reviewed were less than 30% accurate. The more established lab tests were about 84% accurate.” https://apnews.com/94d68c23955a4d7222f6b9cb47ea89cc

While I’m feeling good about the virus itself, make no mistake, that I’m not feeling super positive about the whole situation. (And that doesn’t mean you should throw caution to the wind or go coughing on food like some are doing.)

That’s because I don’t think the media, nor the government is going to lay off their actions anytime soon.

Even if the deaths aren’t any higher than normal pneumonia rates, the government will take credit for great success with the quarantine in the end.

I’m about 98% sure the length of the quarantine, where and how its enforced will continue to be extended and expanded.

But I do want to end on a positive note. I also want to share this from someone near where the breakout occurred…

“I am one of your subscribers. I am currently in China, in Hubei Province, 5 hours away from Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus breakout. We went into quarantine here in the city I am in, officially February 1st. It was something I have never experienced before. But, after roughly 45 days, the restrictions are being lifted in stages as the virus has been contained and is declining. I will say that it was never a human rights issue. It was for the good of all. The logistics that were put in place for the basics: food, water, safety, human communication (not isolation) was done efficiently and safely. For your readers, everything you said in your email, especially training at home, is very important. It will eventually pass. The key thing, and I admit I had some days where I was challenged with it as the weather was beautiful outside, is to take it one day at a time. That expression is used a lot, but now many people will experience it for real. Also, one’s patience will be put to the test too, especially if there are many members living together under one roof. One has to breathe deeply everyday as well in order to help with the stress. The key here is to follow the procedures put in place by the government and health officials. Or, just use plain common sense. I know that sometimes younger people think they are invincible. Not with this virus. It is dangerous so I would urge all of the “Supermen/Women” out there not to challenge it. Usually not a pleasant experience. One of my colleagues, age 51, died from it. Doctors on the front line, also paid for it with their lives. So, proper hygiene, good healthy eating, drinking a lot of water, exercise, visualization and positive thinking, staying connected with like-minded positive people, will get people through this. As my mother always tells us: “This too shall pass.”

Good luck to everyone who reads this. I survived by doing what I said above and following procedures. Now I can go outside freely again (wearing a mask)…Good Luck to everyone!!”

God speed,
Thomas

Although there will be a “new normal” when that occurs, let’s hope we get there sooner rather than later.

P.S. Yesterday’s email about surveillance started off talking about Edward Snowden. Well, he’s just come out saying pretty much the same thing. https://www.cnet.com/news/snowden-warns-government-surveillance-amid-covid-19-could-be-long-lasting/

In an earlier article, I mentioned Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed to the world that the NSA was spying on its own citizens through various technological platforms in 2013.

It shocked the world…but what was the result? We all knew that the government could be watching us, (remember, the conspiracy theorists were right about this one) but in the end the average citizen didn’t seem to care. Did you?

Perhaps it was the resigning to the fact that there wasn’t much you could do about it, short of disconnecting. Technological platforms are woven into our lives.

I mentioned this earlier as a possible limited hangout, that is a controlled leak of partial information. To be honest, I haven’t dived deeply into information surrounding that, so I don’t feel qualified to talk about it outside of it being a possibility.

One interesting point is the difference between the media treatment of Snowden as compared to Julian Assange of WikiLeaks. Snowden is living in Russia but does interviews with the likes of Joe Rogan and John Oliver. Meanwhile, Assange (an Australian citizen) is facing extradition to the USA to be tried for violating the US Espionage Act by releasing classified security information. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/assange-extradition-hearing-underway-london-200224082053667.html

I mention this all to say that the powers-that-be want greater surveillance (not to mention less transparency). Also recall that I said that this virus starting in China gave an example to the world of how to act, an example that the power-hungry would be jealous of.

Here’s an article from February 2018 in The Atlantic discussing China. “The country is racing to become the first to implement a pervasive system of algorithmic surveillance. Harnessing advances in artificial intelligence and data mining and storage to construct detailed profiles on all citizens, China’s communist party-state is developing a “citizen score” to incentivize “good” behavior. A vast accompanying network of surveillance cameras will constantly monitor citizens’ movements, purportedly to reduce crime and terrorism. While the expanding Orwellian eye may improve “public safety,” it poses a chilling new threat to civil liberties in a country that already has one of the most oppressive and controlling governments in the world.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/02/china-surveillance/552203/

There’s been much talk about how China rolled out their social credit score which was revealed in vivid detail the modern-day Twilight Zone like series, Black Mirror. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/on-demand/2017/12/15/black-mirror-coming-true-china-rating-affects-home-transport/

For all this, you can read the information two ways. There is the utopian outlook. Everything is done for the greater safety. Technology is used to enhance life for the good of the people.

Then there is the dystopian outlook. Everything is done for power, control and to further erode liberties, of course under the Trojan horse of doing good. (If it’s not abundantly clear, this is the view I take because of the widespread evidence of corruption in economics, politics, medicine that has been covered thus far.)

You can see how these two viewpoints are often used in the news. If it is here is it good. If it’s in the boogeyman countries such as China or Russia these actions are totalitarian. Funny how that works.

Power-hungry people have been jealous of China’s government control for quite some time. So now watch how this is rolling out in various places around the world in response to the coronavirus.

It Italy they used social media to track quarantining. “Ghost Data, a research group in Italy and the US, collected more than half a million Instagram posts in March, targeting regions in Italy where residents were supposed to be on lockdown. It provided those images and videos to LogoGrab, an image recognition company that can automatically identify people and places. The company found at least 33,120 people violated Italy’s quarantine orders.” https://www.cnet.com/news/governments-could-track-covid-19-lockdowns-through-social-media-posts/

It’s not just social media. Your phone has geo-location data always on. “The Guardian has learned that a senior official at GSMA, an international standard-setting body for the mobile phone industry, held discussions with at least one company that is capable of tracking individuals globally through their mobile devices, and discussed the possible creation of a global data-sharing system.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/25/mobile-phone-industry-explores-worldwide-tracking-of-users-coronavirus

A stronger seizure of power is happening in Israel. Notice how the use of tech goes along with reducing liberties. “Netanyahu and his surrogates have shut down the court system, approved the use of sophisticated phone-surveillance technology on the general public and temporarily suspended the activities of parliament. While Netanyahu has defended the moves as extraordinary steps in extraordinary times, his opponents accuse him of undermining Israel’s democratic foundations in a desperate bid to cement his grip on power and derail a looming criminal trial after coming up short in parliamentary elections this month.” https://apnews.com/9023e2a54c5d5b6b28969292cd55aeba

This is happening in the USA too. “The U.S. government is in active talks with Facebook, Google and a wide array of tech companies and health experts about how they can use location data gleaned from Americans’ phones to combat the novel coronavirus, including tracking whether people are keeping one another at safe distances to stem the outbreak.” https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/u-s-government-tech-industry-discussing-ways-to-harness-location-data-to-combat-coronavirus/

So they can track you down. But how will they enforce it? Drones of course! Here’s a video of a drone in Belgium telling people to quarantine.

They couldn’t happen here could it? Well, a police department in southern California has already purchased two Chinese drones to do this. “We have not traditionally mounted speakers to our drones, but … if we need to cover a large area to get an announcement out, or if there were a crowd somewhere that we needed to disperse, we could do it without getting police officers involved,” said Capt. Vern Sallee. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/california-police-to-use-chinese-made-patrol-drones-with-night-vision-cameras-during-coronavirus-lockdown

How about using your phone to ensure you follow the rules? In Poland, they’re using an app to take selfies to enforce quarantine. Otherwise you get a visit from the police. “The app uses geolocation and facial recognition allowing quarantined users to check-in with authorities to confirm they are indeed staying at home as required.” https://news.yahoo.com/selfie-app-keep-track-quarantined-poles-204858799.html

Honestly, this is the stuff that is not that bad, because it gets worse…

Many people still think we’re going to bounce back to normal in a few weeks. Nope. The future holds travel restrictions for some time at least in the more heavily hit areas such as New York. Right now, in some places you need to get the “green light” to travel.

“To get permission to leave China’s coronavirus epicenter and return to his job in Hong Kong, a Chinese banker needed two things: a letter from his company and a green health code from Alipay…The colored QR code, which is already deployed in over 200 cities, is obtained by entering information that includes name, national identity number, current location, recent travel history and ticking a box asking if the person has been in contact with an outpatient or anyone hospitalized in the last 14 days. Once everything is complete, a code is automatically generated. Each code is refreshed at midnight.” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/people-china-green-light-alibaba-091822087.html

That’s in your cellphone. But what if we could make sure that people always have it on them? That’s where under skin sensors come in. “[Biotech company Profusa announced Tuesday that it was initiating a DARPA-funded study to see whether its biosensor that it injects under the skin can help detect the flu up to three weeks early.” https://mashable.com/article/under-the-skin-sensor-flu-pandemic-coronavirus/   

And if we’re putting censors in why not just go one step further…invisible ink in vaccinations. “For the people overseeing nationwide vaccination initiatives in developing countries, keeping track of who had which vaccination and when can be a tough task. But researchers from MIT might have a solution: they’ve created an ink that can be safely embedded in the skin alongside the vaccine itself, and it’s only visible using a special smartphone camera app and filter.” https://futurism.com/neoscope/invisible-vaccine-ink-tattoos-kids

They’ve only had success in animals and cadavers so far. But this is coming. Understand what this means. They may not be able to make vaccines mandatory for every single person. But with your phone app or in your skin itself, they’ll be able to deny you traveling without the proper records and authorization.

Again, this all comes other the guise of good. And certainly some of it could be. But do you trust our governments and corporate partners with this kind of power?  It’s your call. I do not because of the evidence of past corruption.

Total surveillance of the population allows for total control. Welcome to the high tech version of 1984.

From what I’ve seen this is part of the agenda, whether we like it or not. Better to recognize the truth rather than stick you head in the ground.

And don’t think that these are limited time emergency measures. Once the power is taken, it is never given back.

In a future post I’ll detail how this even brings us closer to the world of pre-crime. Yes, pre-crime. Remember the Tom Cruise movie, Minority Report, based off a short story by Philip K. Dick? Where he was part of a police unit that arrested people before they did anything wrong because they “knew” it would happen? Steps have been laid for that already last year. But there’s more groundwork to cover first.

“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of Men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a Special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom.” – Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence and first Surgeon General of the United States

Too bad we didn’t heed his prescient advice! We’ve already failed there, but it is getting worse…

I was planning to leave California because they changed the laws here so that no child could go to school without getting vaccines. My plan was to move up to Oregon.

Most people aren’t aware of what’s been going with vaccines on because, unless you were involved in the fight, the media wouldn’t cover it (except to spread more of the message that vaccines are 100% safe and effective and antivaxxers are the problem).

And that is why I received a response like I got yesterday, “I can’t believe the shit you’re sending out now; you went from zero to batshit crazy in one email.”

I also got some positive responses like “DUDE WTF?!?!! Wow man I knew about the FDA/Big Pharma link but not the CDC link holy shit…Thanks for organizing and getting this valuable content out there.”

But mostly I got crickets. Lot less than I expected. I don’t know if I had people successfully stop and look at what I called 100% evidence that the CDC lies or not. If you missed that it’s at https://loganchristopher.com/where-theres-money-to-be-made/ and it’s important to read that before today’s message as it’s more on the same topic, specifically related to corona.

In case you didn’t know, the vaccine schedule has bloomed since you or I was a kid.

Big Pharma has been buying politicians for a long time. While still focused on the Federal level, they began to buy up state politicians. In California, Senator Richard Pan was their man.

Led by him, they were able to get rid of religious and philosophical exemptions in 2015. (SB-277) https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB277

Then they even restricted medical exemptions in 2019. (SB-276) https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB276

It used to be that a doctor could decide (along with you the parent) what was best for your child. Now, each case would go to a bureaucratic state board. In some cases if a child had a clear vaccine reaction, the doctor may recommend against further vaccination, but since that reaction was not on the state’s approved list of vaccine reactions, they would have to continue getting vaccinated resulting in more damage.

Even if you think that vaccines are the greatest invention ever, do you believe the government has a right to decide that you must be injected with pharmaceutical drugs?

Do you believe that when there is undeniable proof that government is in bed with these same individuals? That the revolving door operates?

I’d say few people do…unless we’re taught to greatly fear the unvaccinated…which has been an ongoing campaign.

Point number one on the Nuremberg Code is “The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.” And we’ve all been engaging in a massive experiment without informed consent.

A few days ago, I told my story about my weird journey down the rabbit hole. https://loganchristopher.com/my-weird-journey-down-the-rabbit-hole/

(It’s funny thinking about it. I haven’t gotten anyone pissed off at me for talking about banking corruption, or elite pedophiles, but I bring up vaccines and then I get it. This shows you the effectiveness of the propaganda campaign. In fact, I know someone that wished a baby would die of measles because the mother was a stupid anti-vaxxer. That’s the level of venom that is generated. That is polarization through propaganda.)

A big part of my journey, that I didn’t mention earlier, was deeply diving into research on vaccines.

Like other conspiracies I’d heard things before. But then I became a parent and it became necessary to deeply understand this area. I do now. I feel confident and will take on anyone that wants to debate this topic.

My amazing daughter Elka is now two years and one month old. She is vaccine free.  I am an anti-vaxxer and I’m proud of it (even though that is used as a derogatory propaganda term by the ignorant).

Understand that my aim was to keep her that way and I was prepared to uproot my life and move out of the state to do so. But then came the coronavirus…

Now I wonder if there’s any point in moving, because it seems like mandatory vaccines are coming for us all which brings us to current events.

If you missed the last post, again please go read it. Watch the two videos I link to there which gives you 100% proof that the CDC and the WHO are lying to you.

If they’re lying about vaccines, what else could they possibly be lying about?

Who (hint, hint) is largely “in charge” of the world-wide medical response?

So let’s look at some events that have occurred:

In July 2019, before the outbreak occurred, the CDC eliminated a position in China specifically intended to help detect disease outbreaks. “Bao-Ping Zhu, a Chinese American who served in that role, which was funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 2007 and 2011. “If someone had been there, public health officials and governments across the world could have moved much faster.”” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv/exclusive-u-s-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910S

Once the virus had gotten here in the US, the CDC blocked and FDA official from premises, further limiting our ability to test. When the FDA official did gain entry they found lab contamination. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/03/cdc-blocked-fda-official-premises-119684

In one of my first posts I talk about how the CDC bungled up testing here virtually ensuring the virus would spread. Here’s a good recap of that. “Rapid testing is crucial in the early stages of an outbreak…Yet health officials…confirmed to Kaiser Health News that they each initially got one test kit, calling into question whether they would have even stood a chance to contain the outbreaks that would emerge. They would soon discover that the tests they did receive were flawed, lacking critical components and delivering faulty results.”

CDC Coronavirus Testing Decision Likely To Haunt Nation For Months To Come

Oh and I just learned that the CDC has it’s own “intelligence” branch the EIS. https://www.cdc.gov/eis/

Briefly looking at their webpage I saw this video which had the following stated: “Shaping scientists and public health leaders for more than 65 years.”

That takes on an ominous tone when you know what the CDC had done. Here’s me conspiracy theorizing…it’s almost as if they wanted this event to occur!

There is a lot of talk about if we only had a vaccine for this. And so there is a rush to create one.

President Trump said he “asked the FDA to cut through the red tape and reduce regulatory barriers.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/03/18/coronavirus-senate-vote-expected-house-sick-leave-testing-bill/5076063002/

They’ve already skipped over animal testing in rushing this vaccine. One of many unprecedented moves being made in this time. Several companies are vying to be the ones that make it. I expect more “red tape” to be cut in order to make this happen faster. After all, the media is clamoring for it.

Coronavirus vaccine: when will it be ready? Asks The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/24/coronavirus-vaccine-when-will-it-be-ready-trials-cure-immunisation

MSN says the “Coronavirus vaccine must be affordable and accessible” https://www.msn.com/en-ca/finance/other/coronavirus-vaccine-must-be-affordable-and-accessible/ar-BB11B3nX

Johnson & Johnson CEO on potential coronavirus vaccine: ‘I think we’ll have important data by the end of the year’ https://www.foxnews.com/media/johnson-johnson-ceo-coronavirus-vaccine-data

“The coronavirus isn’t mutating quickly, suggesting a vaccine would offer lasting protection,” headlines the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/the-coronavirus-isnt-mutating-quickly-suggesting-a-vaccine-would-offer-lasting-protection/2020/03/24/406522d6-6dfd-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html

That’s interesting because today I also saw that “The Icelandic genetics company DeCode Genetics has tracked 40 mutations of coronavirus in Iceland. A probable scenario is that the virus develops to become more contagious, but less dangerous for those affected, says Danish virologist” https://www.information.dk/indland/2020/03/forskere-sporet-40-mutationer-coronavirus-alene-paa-island

These were all found by just searching under coronavirus vaccine news. Much more is available.

One company making a vaccine is Moderna. Theirs has already entered Phase 1 clinical trials with human volunteers. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04283461

Forgive me for diving into the science here, but I feel it is worth pointing out. “The primary objective is to evaluate the safety and reactogenicity of a 2-dose vaccination schedule of mRNA-1273, given 28 days apart, across 3 dosages in healthy adults… Forty-five subjects will be enrolled into one of three cohorts (25 microgram [mcg], 100 mcg, 250 mcg).”

Why is there no placebo group?

How do you evaluate safety and efficacy without the gold standard of a double-blind placebo-control?

The Ad5-nCoV vaccine is starting its phase 1 trial soon. Again there is low, middle and high doses but no placebo. https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/vaccines/ad5-ncov-covid-19-vaccine

Again, I am not against vaccines…if there is adequate science to prove its safety and efficacy. But the more I look, the less I trust vaccines.

Are they really going to cut the red tape on the brand new, never before used DNA plasmid vaccine by Inovio? https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/vaccines/ino-4700-mers-cov-vaccine-0

No matter the result, a vaccine will be lauded as the savior of us all. And of course, someone will profit in a huge way. Just imagine if your customer base was the whole entire world? This was originally posted on New York Times, but I found it on another website that doesn’t block you with a paywall. “Drug Companies Will Make a Killing From Coronavirus”

Drug Companies Will Make a Killing From Coronavirus

The writing is on the wall…

This is what they’ve wanted for a long time now. And they’ve told you as such if you’ve had ears to hear. You probably haven’t heard about the Adult Vaccine Access Coalition. This is a pharma front group. You can see their broad coalition includes Merck, GSK, Pfizer and other vaccine makers. https://adultvaccinesnow.org/about/

On their Mission page they state, “Yet adult vaccination rates remain unacceptably low, falling short of the Healthy People 2020 recommendations…In response, a diverse group of healthcare providers, vaccine makers, pharmacies, public health organizations, patient and consumer groups launched AVAC to make necessary policy changes to increase vaccination rates – to save lives and money.” https://adultvaccinesnow.org/our-mission/

Limited laws have been passed towards these aims. For instance, SB-792 in California made it so law “would prohibit a person from being employed or volunteering at a day care center or a family day care home if he or she has not been immunized against influenza, pertussis, and measles.” https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB792

Of course, it is shrouded in the good. That is how astro-turf organizations always work.

Make no mistake the CDC and the WHO want you vaccinated much more than you are. (Always back to their viewpoint that there is no health without vaccinations, there is no healthcare besides that from Big Pharma.)

Here’s is the CDC’s adult vaccine recommendation schedule. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/adult.html

Here’s is the WHO’s adult vaccine recommendation schedule. https://www.who.int/immunization/policy/Immunization_routine_table1.pdf

I ask, if you trust these people so much why aren’t you following their guidelines?

It’s not just in the USA. A man from Norway told me this law didn’t pass but I can’t seem to find anything besides this article to confirm or deny that. “Denmark’s parliament on Thursday night unanimously passed an emergency coronavirus law which gives health authorities powers to force testing, treatment and quarantine with the backing of the police…As well as enforcing quarantine measures, the law also allows the authorities to force people to be vaccinated, even though there is currently no vaccination for the virus.” https://www.thelocal.dk/20200313/denmark-passes-far-reaching-emergency-coronavirus-law

Oh yes, they’re coming for all of us. If we do not rise up and inform everyone as to this plan, mandatory vaccinations for everyone will be coming, possibly as early as the end of this year.

I’ve known this was their plan for a while. With the global pandemic they now have a very clear roadmap on how to get there. This subject then bleeds over into the surveillance state which is becoming stronger. Tomorrow we’ll dive into that.

Perverse financial incentives make the world go ‘round…and will continue to make it do so.

Forgive me for going back in time in what may seem as off-topic, but I assure you it is critically important and related to today’s events. I originally wrote part of this as an unreleased issue of Medical Monopoly Musings…

Have you heard about Susan Willey?

She becomes head of the FDA. During her time she allows rampant conflicts of interest in her agency.

The Office of Inspector General issued a withering report in 2009 stating they found “a systemic lack of oversight of the ethics program.” That the agency “did not ensure that financial disclosure forms were complete in 2007.” That they “did not identify or resolve potential conflicts of interest for 64 percent of special Government employees in 2007.”

During her time as director, a controversial drug is released, one that has such issues that Japan drops it from recommendations entirely (but is becoming even more recommended here in the USA.)

Susan is successful! Forbes names her the 24^th Most Powerful Woman in 2008. She receives the Surgeon General’s Medallion for “actions of exceptional achievement to the cause of public health and medicine.”

After her time as director of FDA ending in 2009, she moves on to pharmaceutical giant Merck, as president of the division that produces this controversial drug.

In case you don’t know much about Merck, they’re one of the biggest pharmaceutical giants. And since 2000, they’ve paid a total of $3.3 billion in penalties for their crimes including: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/merck

• $1.4 billion for off-label or unapproved promotions
• $818 million for fifteen violations making false claims
• $508 million for safety violations
• $345 million for two counts of bribery
• $36 million for price-fixing
• $500000 for breaking the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• $750000 for insider trading and securities fraud
• And much more

In her new cushy position there, it is estimated that Susan earns $2.5 million per year as an executive. Here are some of her Merck stock sales which are publicly available:

• Jan 2020 – $9.1M (Looks like she knew something! Did she simply witness what was going on…or was she tipped off like some of our senators told their donors?)
• Aug 2019 – $569K
• Nov 2018 – $1.9M
• May 2018 – $594K
• Nov 2016 – $3.5M
• May 2015 – $1.6M

Do you have a problem with this revolving door?

Is it very suspicious to say the least?

…Except I’ve lied to you…

Her name is not Susan Willey. Her name is Julie Gerberding.

She was not head of the FDA but the CDC.

Everything else is true.

The controversial drug was Gardasil, a vaccine. In fact, Merck makes the majority of vaccines on the CDC schedule.

Everyone knows that Big Pharma is made up of many crooks…but somehow NOT when it comes to vaccines. Why is that?

I know, I know I’m treading some crazy waters here. I’m sure I’ll see the unsubscribes spike. But please stick with me for just a little bit. If I’ve earned any of your trust thus far let me ask that you use it up here.

I’m going to show you undeniable proof that the CDC lies. Spend 7 minutes watching this video for that.

Here’s the link to the court document that lists the studies provided by the CDC as proof of their claims: https://www.icandecide.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Stipulation-and-Order-Fully-Executed.pdf

For fair and balanced reporting check out the CDC’s website, which provides some of these studies for you. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/autism.html (Notice the lack of clear and concise referencing of material.)

Please, anyone that thinks I’m anti-science, that I’m an idiot for falling prey to anti-vaxxer propaganda, please, please explain this to me.

You don’t need to read every page of the studies to find that what Del is saying is true. Those studies do not prove what was asked to be proved and you can see that from the titles alone.

The CDC’s mountain of evidence is little more than a molehill. Since when can science make a statement of causality between two things by studying other things? Tell me how science works like that?

Want some more? How about proof that the World Health Organization lies too? Here you can find their top scientists who met together recently and discussed just how much they lacked good safety science.

Look I don’t think that everyone at these organizations are bad. Almost everyone buys into this propaganda uncritically. Yesterday, I talked about deferring to experts. This has happened in this one area far more than most!

Everyone knows that vaccines are safe and effective because everyone knows that vaccines are safe and effective.

Trust in authority can and has been abused. Very badly.

I can point to lots more evidence about the problems with vaccines from VAERS to NVIC, not to mention tons of scientific research showing they DO have safety issues. But I chose to keep it brief above for a reason. THE ONLY THING YOU NEED TO KNOW IS THEY’RE LYING ABOUT SAFETY.

Once you get that you understand the house of cards falls. (This is also why people refuse to accept it. They’ve got to keep their worldview intact.)

The CDC is lying to you. The WHO is lying to you. Large foundations are lying to you. Your government is lying to you. Mass media is lying to you. Big tech is lying to you (by censoring people on this issue).

We’re told to believe women when they allege sexual abuse. But don’t you dare believe a woman that says her child transformed before her eyes right after vaccination. Yet, I’ve met mothers who’ve gone through this. I know a guy that got Guillain-Barré syndrome from a flu shot.

I’m not against vaccines in principle. But I am against bad science. I am against not doing science in the first place!

I am against mandating a one-size-fits-all solution in our world that supposedly moving towards personalized medicine.

I am against saying that the government has the right to inject something into my body, or my child’s body against my will based on fraud.

Mandatory vaccines are something these powerful people want. Not just in children…but in adults.

This pandemic has given the perfect excuse for that. We can already see it playing out. Tomorrow I’ll show you whats coming…

P.S. Here are the references regarding Julie Gerberding. I couldn’t post them in the appropriate places for my bait and switch which I felt was required on this topic. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Gerberding

https://wallmine.com/people/5297/julie-l-gerberding#complete-history

https://xconomy.com/national/2011/06/24/mercks-julie-gerberding-former-cdc-director-on-the-future-of-vaccines/

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/japanese-court-rules-against-journalist-hpv-vaccine-defamation-case

https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-04-07-00260.pdf

Politics is polarizing. It has gone exponential in the last six years or so. So much so that many people tuned it out. Fully justified…but also problematic.

While the best example, that’s not the only place that has seen dramatic increases in polarization.

We’re told to listen to the experts. Are you a virologist? Are you an epidemiologist? Are you an economist? No, then you shouldn’t be talking about this stuff.

Yet, the experts have lied to us over and over and over again.

Truthfully, we’re left on our own trying to figure it out ourselves…or grabbing onto whatever experts we decide are telling the best version of the truth.

I’m honored you’ve chosen me! 😉 But please note that I’m asking you to think for yourself, not automatically buy anything I say as gospel.

This is dizzying. Can you be an expert in everything? Absolutely not. Can you adequately wade through the BS put out by experts? It’s damn near impossible in in our world of hyper-specialization.

Because the truth is there are experts on both sides of any and every issue. Some experts are paraded as examples of the people that are right. They get endorsed by other experts!

But are they right? Meanwhile other experts are shunned and derided…by other experts.

We’ve got fact-checkers now, but who fact-checks them? Who watches the watchmen?

Watching the polarization play out on social media about the virus is fascinating.

Can you make sense of this thing?

There is tons of information to say that this virus is extremely serious.

There is tons of information to say that this virus is widely overblown.

Who do you believe?

Do you believe the experts because other experts say you should listen to them?

Do you strive to further validate your own viewpoint?

Do you ever attempt to falsify your own view by looking at the other side?

Again, I still have not made heads or tails of the virus itself. I see one thing that makes me believe its hype…then I read another that makes me take it more seriously.

For instance, there was this post that I originally saw on Medium. https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894

It has since been censored on Medium, but you can still find it here. (A website that was banned from Twitter completely recently because of questioning the official story.) https://www.zerohedge.com/health/covid-19-evidence-over-hysteria

They begin the article with a refutation of the article. Look at the article. Look at the refutation. Who do you believe? Just reading each thoroughly and seeking to understand them will probably take an hour. If you go and vet out the sources for yourself, even longer.

But is there a refutation of the refutation? I liked what one person on Twitter had to respond: “Does anyone have any facts to dispute the author or are we supposed to just defer to people claiming they know better?” Good question!

According to some scientists 99% of the people dying in Italy, now the hardest hit place, are those that are old (median age 79.5 years) and suffering from one or more other diseases. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says

That means this virus is all just a bunch of hoopla…but there’s also plenty of articles like these coming from doctors and the like saying it’s really bad. https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_701fcccc-6b7f-11ea-a78e-4b0eb098d207.html

Or this piece saying hospitals are overrun in Madrid, with people laying on hospital floors. https://nypost.com/2020/03/23/coronavirus-patients-spotted-lying-on-floor-at-overrun-madrid-hospital/

One thing is clear. We do not have good data from which to be making decisions. Ioannidas points that out in this article here. We are making economy shattering decisions based on bad and incomplete data.

A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data

“If we decide to jump off the cliff, we need some data to inform us about the rationale of such an action and the chances of landing somewhere safe.”

If you’re not familiar, Ioannidas is the guy that basically told us that at least 50% of science is wrong for a wide variety of reasons (difficulties replicating, peer review, p-hacking, etc.). But yet should we pause making decisions just because the data isn’t in? Another good question.

You can see this play out in the question of the origin of the virus. The virus is bioengineered weapon scream multiple countries leaders and even scientists! There are some unusual things that went on between biological weapons labs in several countries. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/did-china-steal-coronavirus-canada-and-weaponize-it

But in a new paper other expert scientists have said that it is natural. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9?sf231597135=1

In the abstract, “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.”

But if you actually read that article it seems to just be an opinion of these scientists that it can’t be manipulated because they would have done it differently. Of course, I’m not a geneticist or virologist so what do I know? Who am I to question their authority?

These scientists have received the official stamp of approval. They don’t explain its origin, but they do explain away the bioengineered theory.

One thing is pretty certain. The official story of it coming from bat soup in a Wuhan market falls apart quickly when you realize that many of the first patients didn’t go to that market. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30183-5/fulltext

And did you know it’s mutating and there are two viruses? https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaa036/5775463

That will trip up all of our stats and information about this thing even further…

The only thing I can say for sure is our information ecology is broken!

Watch out. That will be something that must get fixed from this whole situation. I just fear that it’ll take the form of Big Brother telling you everything you need to know. We need the one official world-wide agency to give us the truth.

If such an agency was in good hands that wouldn’t be a bad thing.

If such an agency was in bad hands then that would be a very, very bad thing.

The caveat here is that absolute power corrupts absolutely…so which side is more likely? Oh I guess I’m guilty of polarizing here.

That all being said, with persistent effort to dig through everything you can get to the truth. I think it may be too early to effectively do this with the virus. But we can look at some things this virus will lead to, by looking in the past. I’ve done so in one such area, which I’ll talk about tomorrow.

This is a weird post. It’s a bit personal story and a bit ramble, but I think it’ll help you to understand where I’m coming from in my coverage of the impacts of the coronavirus. Buckle in, we’re going for a strange ride…

Kevin wrote:

“I am loving your new e-mail updates. You are definitely feeling the right vibe from what is going on in the world today and I love that you don’t discount anything as a possiblity — after all, when you’ve been lied to so many times, you lose trust in ‘respected’ sources. I don’t know if you’ve been following these matters for a long time or if you’re just putting them together now, but I am impressed by your clarity, eloquence, and understanding of your own limitations — no one can be master of all studies, and I appreciate that you don’t pretend to know it all. I think you need to include a note in your e-mail updates at some point that there ARE things people can do to help themselves, but also to help the system too.”

Yesterday I covered some positive action steps people should be making, and plan to continue to do so. Today I will address how this is not my first rodeo.

I’ve dabbled in “conspiracy” stuff for years. Watched Ancient Aliens. Saw documentaries here and there. Heard people talk about 9/11.

Mostly, you just can’t get into the world of alternative health without stumbling across conspiracies! I found it all interesting for sure, but without digging deeply, I saw this stuff as possibly true. I was entertained by it. But I had my life to focus on. Kept my head down, built my businesses.

Then in May of 2019 I took DMT. For those not aware, this is toad medicine, sometimes called the Cadillac of psychedelics. It’s a short 15 minute-ish trip that involves blasting off this world into different dimensions. Here is an excerpt from what I wrote up after that experience.

After inhaling and laying back, as I began to launch into hyperspace, I could hear myself think “Oh sh!t, here we go!” It can be frightening. But I remembered to relax and surrender.⠀⠀

Surrender.⠀⠀

Faith.⠀⠀

Love.⠀⠀

These are the words that repeated like a mantra, over and over again. Those words…I know, it sounds trite. Just a jumble of new-age phrases.⠀⠀

But it wasn’t just words. These are WHERE I went. Surrendering to the unbelievable experience. Faith fulfilled. My ego obliterated as I merged with the entirety of the Loving Universe into pure white.⠀⠀

The complete and total, directly FELT experience of them. That is something different entirely than an intellectual thought or belief.⠀⠀

My intention going into this ceremony was to connect to God/Source. I know to many, especially with no comparable frame of reference, this may sound ridiculous. Even writing it here, part of me feels that, and wants to downplay what occurred. But that is to deny the reality of what happened.⠀⠀

Mission accomplished.⠀⠀

The experience itself was amazing…but truth was that was just the beginning. I was opened up. I was connected. In the coming days I got what could best be described as “downloads.” Although this calmed down since then, things have never been the same. Life changed.

A few days later, sitting at a seminar, one such download occurred where I felt I was to usher in the “New Health Paradigm.”

This launched me into a study of the current health system. I got into systems theory which really expanded my thinking toolset to see how the whole is greater (and acts differently than expected) than just the sum of the parts. I started digging deeper.

This in turn led to my Medical Monopoly Musings series which has been shown how health sciences are corrupted, the revolving door between regulatory agencies, government, lobbyists and businesses, and how these criminal enterprises get away with crime after crime after crime. http://healthsovereign.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/MedicalMonopolyMusings1-26ebook.pdf

Similar material I covered on the Health Sovereign podcast. https://healthsovereign.com/

A little while after the “activation” event, I noticed censorship playing out on the Big Tech platforms in bigger and bigger ways.

Google virtually wipes out alternative health sites from organic rankings. Not even just the so-called “crackpot” sites, but plenty that very clearly detail research on things such as vitamins, minerals and amino acids. My company, Lost Empire Herbs suffers because of it.

Meanwhile, Google’s parent company, Alphabet is partnering with pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline. Coincidence? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/aug/01/google-gsk-bioelectronic-medicines-verily-life-sciences-alphabet

Health is just a piece of the puzzle I’m exploring. For whatever reason, I’m consumed by the case of Jeffrey Epstein who was re-arrested early in July 2019. It’s so freaking big. It’s so freaking obvious. The “suicide” so obviously covered up that people are saying the conspiracy theorists are right about this one.

Prince Andrew (because pedophile Epstein is closely tied to British Royalty of course) mostly avoids scrutiny but does a horrible, easily falsifiable interview.

It’s clear that Epstein has intelligence connections. In the previous arrest where he got a “sweet-heart” deal, then prosecutor Acosta was told to lay off him for these reasons. Again, I refer you to the amazing work of Whitney Webb in exploring these and prior operations, like with Roy Cohn, mentor to our current president. https://www.mintpressnews.com/shocking-origins-jeffrey-epstein-blackmail-roy-cohn/260621/

CIA? Mossad? No one in the mainstream media is asking. Epstein’s very close friend Ghislaine Maxwell, who is credibly accused by the abused, has just disappeared, yet is now suing to get Epstein’s estate. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/18/jeffrey-epstein-procurer-ghislaine-maxwell-sues-estate.html

An ABC news video is leaked showing this story was pulled years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lfwkTsJGYA&feature=emb_logo

They claim the story, the sources weren’t credible enough. Yet this is the same news agency that used a video from a Kentucky gun range as “slaughter in Syria.” https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/10/14/abc_news_footage_of_slaughter_in_syria_is_actually_footage_from_a_kentucky_gun_range.html

Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico is never looked at by authorities.

Epstein had connections to President Trump, and much more so with former president Bill Clinton (who flew on Epstein’s private plane 26 times, including several times after dismissing secret service). He had connections to scientists, business owners, politicians and more.

Obviously with any rich and successful person you’ll know other rich and successful people. I’m not saying they’re all guilty of sick crimes. But shouldn’t these ties be further investigated? Especially those people that were connected to Epstein after his initial arrest many years back?

It is so obvious this is HUGE, but it is being swept under the rug. Successfully.

In digging into this I start following a number of alternative sources that cover this and much else. I start reading books about various conspiracies finding a lot of them are backed up by significant proof, meanwhile the cover-ups or those that simply dismiss them as “conspiracy theories” lack the same level of proof.

Based on what happened with Epstein, I read The Franklin Scandal, which I talked about earlier this year. https://loganchristopher.com/my-1-must-read-book-from-2019/

The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edwards Griffin details the banking cartel throughout history. It informs me that the economy is far more rigged than most believe. I just gave a small taste of this in my earlier emails.

I read Perfectibilists: The 18^th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati. The term Illuminati is thrown around very loosely, making it easy to dismiss as a “conspiracy theory”. But there was a real organization called the Illuminati and they did have power, heavily infiltrating the Freemasons, influencing even the French Revolution. What I learn here is how secret societies operate, through layers and compartmentalization. And later it all clicks for me when someone mentions intelligence agencies are largely the secret societies of today.

The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government by David Talbot details how such intelligence operates. Here we find how we protected Nazi war criminals (Operation Paperclip among others), ran experiments on our own citizens without consent (the well-known MK-Ultra where we dosed mental patients with LSD for 100 days straight while delivering electroshock therapy is just the tip of the iceberg), overthrew democratically elected governments to serve business and political interests, conducted assassinations and far more.

I’m struck by what former President Truman said of the CIA, an agency he created.  “Now, as nearly as I can make out, those fellows in the CIA don’t just report on wars and the like, they go out and make their own, and there’s nobody to keep track of what they’re up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they’ll have something to report on. They’ve become … it’s become a government all of its own and all secret. They don’t have to account to anybody. That’s a very dangerous thing in a democratic society, and it’s got to be put a stop to. The people have got a right to know what those birds are up to. And if I was back in the White House, people would know. You see, the way a free government works, there’s got to be a housecleaning every now and again, and I don’t care what branch of the government is involved. Somebody has to keep an eye on things.”

Have you heard of MKNAOMI? That one involved the use of biological agents. https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP01-01773R000100170001-5.pdf

I’m not saying every single thing from all these sources is right. But it looks like they’ve done their homework. When I go to check primary sources, I find it there. In many cases you can see it from declassified CIA documents themselves.

Do you think things have gotten better in abuse of powers since that time? Or worse?

The big picture was coming together.

(Also keep in mind I speed read. My speed for watching videos or listening to podcasts is 2.5x speed or more. I’ve been plowing through information in my attempts to get up to speed for ten months now. These days, with current events unfolding, I’m spending probably four or so hours a day pouring over up to date sources at that same speed. Tons of noise…striving to get to the signal. And then delivering it to you.)

And yet, the deeper down the rabbit hole you go, the darker it becomes.

You find out that charity organizations and foundations are often part of the crimes. This includes some of the biggest ones out there. The façade is reality for most. I was just beginning to expose this in the cancer industries in my medical monopoly writings before this mania started.

That, like a trojan horse, they often do very evil things under the guise of good.

The scope and connectivity of our world makes any form of sense-making tougher to do. Information is overwhelming by itself even without disinformation!

Are you familiar with the Koch Brothers, Charles and David? With a combined net worth of over $100 billion, these people wielded their influence in a complicated way. Just take a glimpse of what is known as the Kochtopus. http://kochcash.org/the-kochtopus/

See how that wealth reaches into media, fake grassroots movements, think tanks, congress, academy, lobbying, the court system and more. All for specific agendas to be fulfilled.

And the deeper you go down the rabbit hole the harder the proof is to come by.

Aliens, extradimensional entities, artificial intelligence, other far more advanced technology, even time travel! What I came to was the conclusion that if any one of these things existed than all bets were off in how the world actually worked.

You find that the government puts out intentional disinformation into these areas. You can do a lot with a $50 billion+ black budget!

That $50B+ is the black budget that’s disclosed. What about all the money the CIA and others have got from running drugs and other illegal operations? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/11485819/kill-messenger-gary-webb-true-story.html

Surely, you remember the leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden? They ran with the headlines the conspiracy theorists are right, the government has been spying on you! Nowadays, everyone know they’re spied on via their devices and no one cares.

Have you heard the story that Snowden was actually a CIA asset that was aiming to damage the NSA and/or deliver a limited hangout? (That’s an intelligence term. According to former special assistant to the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Victor Marchetti it is “spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further.”)

So was the official Snowden story real? Or was it a limited hangout? And if its real, that means that there is either misinformation or intentional disinformation to further muddy the waters about the topic.

You have no idea the size, scope and scale of these disinformation campaigns…especially inside of conspiracy circles.

Understand, there is general consensus reality in which we all operate.

And then there is a seedy underbelly to this whole world where backdoor deals are made for money and profit while people die. Where pedophiles use power to do their crimes and cover them up. Where virtually every big institution is corrupted (not fully but in limited compartments). Where some big name people we look up to and admire are, for all intents and purposes, evil.

It is dizzying.

I’ll admit. I swung into periods of depression, processing this information. At one point I felt like I broke my meaning making mechanism. But I kept bouncing back and kept moving forward.

I realized that no one, I mean no one including myself, really knew how the world operated. And yet we all act like do. We think that we have it down.

And now, with current events unfolding, I feel like all that was preparation for the time to come.

I feel like the world of conspiracy theory can drive you insane. But now that the world has gone insane think that’s the right way to be!

I realize this sounds like paranoid ravings to some. (It feels like that to me too!)

There’s a reason I stick to the stuff that is more provable. And when I am theorizing, I do my best to call it out. I look at what has happened before, seeing the pattern and then make judgments from that.

The reality as I see it is that criminal organizations aka cartels functionally run more of the world than most people imagine.

Complicated systems do explain a lot of what is going. But not everything. You have to add in conspiracies (defined as three or more people conspiring to do something illegal or harmful), which demonstrably exist, into the systems puzzle. That makes it even tougher to understand!

Layers and layers of conspiracies.

I have not yet figured out how the world actually works…though I’ve been trying hard.

What is absolutely clear to me in all this, regardless of whether the virus is a real worldwide threat or not, is that it plays right into the hands of certain conspiring groups.

This is one category of scenarios I see playing out…that most other people don’t seem to be seeing. I’m still working on sketching out all the possible scenarios and will certainly be sharing more on the lay of the land as I see it.

What happens when independent, freedom-loving Americans, refuse to quarantine?

What happens in a bank run?

What happens if food is not getting re-stocked on grocery shelves?

Things seem fine now but project out two months of continued quarantine and what might we see?

Civil unrest? Riots?

Any such groups of people then need to be squashed because they’re not properly social distancing!

It’s a slow roll-out. They hinted at things like quarantine in this same kind of way before it became official.  Two weeks back I told people we’re going under quarantine. I wasn’t 100% sure but I saw the strong possibility. People didn’t believe me. But here we are.

Now, California is saying martial law is on the table. https://www.fox5ny.com/news/california-preparing-for-worst-case-scenarios

Meanwhile, most other state’s governors are denying martial law is going to happen.

But just think this through. If the people rise up against restrictions, the military will need to be used. This becomes a further reinforcing loop.

I fear this is a powder keg that just might blow. The worse it gets, the worse it will get.

It’s hard to predict the systemic effects of one thing leading to another. Something that is clear is a few things that will make people go crazier:

• Not having money
• Not having food
• The effects of social isolation
• Rights being trampled
• Deaths

Just imagine if the internet did go down. What would people do? Idle hands…

News is best thought of a propaganda tool. For all intents and purposes the news has been weaponized against us. It is not to inform us so much as steer us in certain directions and not others. (Is that clear to everyone, or should I be showcasing examples to prove that out like I did with banker fraud?)

So I share the following stories not to drive fear but to let you know where this could lead. The news tells you the possible futures for those that have eyes to see, as agendas are hidden in plain sight. These are just sparks as of right now.

In the US, this was the first police and people clash over not following quarantining rules. https://www.wbrz.com/news/ohio-riot-breaks-out-following-university-s-announcement-of-temporary-closure-due-to-covid-19/

New Jersey man arrested for hosting a wedding because it had more than 50 people.

Coronavirus Latest: Lakewood Police Arrest Homeowner For Hosting Pop-up Wedding With More Than 50 People

People are facing arrest for breaking lockdown in New York. https://www.the-sun.com/news/551511/new-york-bar-restaurant-owners-arrested-coronavirus-lockdown/

In Kenya, a man beaten to death suspected of having virus. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8129791/Kenyan-man-beaten-death-mob-youths-suspected-having-coronavirus.html

I saw a video on Youtube of a person calling out treason, telling people to rise up in a call to arms, and if necessary, he would be the only one to do so. That video is no longer available.

Gun and ammo sales are soaring. Limits are being placed on these.  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/guns-and-ammunition-sales-soar-amid-coronavirus-panic-buying/ar-BB11nOvR

There’s fear of prison riots. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/fearing-outbreaks-riots-nations-prison-jail-wardens-scramble/story?id=69676840

And meanwhile teenagers are coughing on produce. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/trending-out-of-control-teens-coughing-on-grocery-store-produce

I remember seeing someone wearing a shirt that said, “The hardest part about the zombie apocalypse will be pretending I’m not excited.” There are plenty of people that are hoping for and will thrive on chaos.

Meanwhile, all these actions are “reasons” to clamp down tougher controls.

In the UK you can now be held for six weeks under new laws if suspected of being sick. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11208831/coronavirus-emergency-laws-revealed/

Stricter measures being called for in Italy where the death toll is the highest. https://www.wsj.com/articles/italy-records-worlds-highest-death-toll-from-coronavirus-11584727035

France deploys 100,000 police to enforce lockdown. https://news.trust.org/item/20200316205604-r3s2w

The Department of Justice is asking for the ability to detain people indefinitely under emergencies. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/21/doj-coronavirus-emergency-powers-140023

Governments and media appear to be looking to other parts of the world for examples of what to do. This becomes a further reinforcing loop.

You think things are already crazy here? I believe things are going to get stricter. And once again, Americans having a strong individual attitude, some will likely fight against this.

Let us not forget that this began in China. While mass media is babbling on about whether calling it the China virus is racist or not, two interesting points are clear to me:

First of all, there are valid reasons to NOT believe the statistics that came out from China’s government as far as infections and deaths. This was hugely problematic for informed decision making. Why would China’s government lie? Because they lie about many things (not that any other government doesn’t!).

Even now as they seem to be entering into recovery, there are reasons to question if it worked out as well as they say.

Did you know they welded people shut in buildings? https://www.bitchute.com/video/CrVk66F3VoEU/

That people appeared to be dropping dead on the street and riots occurred? Warning this video might be disturbing to you. https://www.bitchute.com/video/JhyZkbSfbQwf/

These videos were banned from the big tech social media giants. Censorship is a subject we will be discussing at length. Freedom of speech has been quietly but consistently eroded away from us in the US over the past few years and most people don’t have a clue because it happened in a subtle way.

(And *poof* just like that freedom of assembly is gone.)

Is the death rate far higher than China’s stats would have us believe? I guess we’re about to see in Italy, Spain and in the US.

The second and more troubling part was China’s response. That was shown to the world as the example of what to do in the fight against the coronavirus.

I highly doubt that any other government would be doing these quarantines if that had not happened in China first.

The fact is that governments love power. Once they have it, they will not relinquish it. As such, they’re all jealous of the surveillance and totalitarianism of China. What better way to move us all in that direction then to follow China’s lead?

Unforeseeable…or was it?

“The pandemic blanketed the planet…However, a few countries did fare better – China in particular. The Chinese government’s quick imposition and enforcement of mandatory quarantine for all citizens, as well as its instant and near-hermetic sealing off of all borders, save millions of lives, stopping the spread of the virus far earlier than in other countries and enabling a swifter post-pandemic recovery…Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight of citizens and their activities stuck and even intensified. In order to protect themselves from the spread of increasingly global problems – from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty – leaders around the world took a firmer grip on power.” This was an article titled Lock Step from Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development in May 2010. https://archive.org/details/pdfy-tNG7MjZUicS-wiJb/page/n17/mode/2up

Again, my aim is not to install fear, just preparedness and forward thinking. Do you remember way back on March 1^st, when no events were canceled, the stock market was doing great, sports still existed, and everything was normal?

No one, at least in the USA, was imagining where we would be at today.

So I ask you to just imagine a possible further escalation of things over the new few weeks and months.

People are scrambling for their jobs and business, for kids being out of school and the plummeting markets. They’re adjusting to the existing disruptions.

There’s a chance things will calm down from this point on, but I’m not betting on it. People’s worldviews have been disrupted and they’re trying to find solid footing…not recognizing that the earth is still shaking.

See where the ball is going not where it is at right now.

That’s a bummer message isn’t it? So, let’s be positive. What should you do?

Preparations. Food, water, supplies, as best as you can manage at this time. You don’t need to hoard ridiculous amounts of toilet paper but a month or few of food is not unwarranted.

Having some cash on hand is likely prudent as well for the reasons addressed earlier.

If you’re very well off, then I would take a look at not having over $250,000 at a single bank, the FDIC insurance amount. 

The time to get precious metals was earlier, but some might choose to get some now despite the rise. (More on cryptocurrencies in the future as well as that seems to be a big part of the agenda.)

Most importantly, now is a time to strengthen community ties. In physical real world space predominately. But this can also be done remotely as well to some degree.

One person following mentioned, “Please talk about Municipal Farming as a way to build community power, and give the military no reason to enter our community and calm the fear.”

It’s probably too late to start a garden if you haven’t already, but perhaps you can offer help to someone that has one.

Something to think about is if the SHTF truly, any extra supplies you have can be shared with those around you. That includes money. My wife just pre-paid her hairdresser to help her out.

Be good to people. Your neighbors are not the problem.

Lastly, don’t be a spark.

There’s a big problem with us all just rolling over and allowing the trampling of our freedoms, their further erosion away as is happening here. BUT any violence towards National Guard, police, or your fellow humans is the street is unwarranted.

If you have other helpful suggestions, I’m all ears.