'It is time for small
businesses to accept that they have been targeted for
destruction.'
And this isn’t even the beginning of the list of troubles for small companies. I have to say, unless a large part of your business is handled online your chances of staying solvent are slim.
'Divide-and-conquer isn’t just useful because it prevents people from unifying against their oppressors, it also pours rocket fuel in the oppressors’ propaganda machine.'
Rather than lay out what he thinks are the best arguments for taking the vaccine as most of his peers have been doing, Olbermann instead spouts vituperations about what “cowards” and “snowflakes” unvaccinated people are.
“They’re afraid!” Olbermann screams over and over again, as though being afraid of something makes you some sort of monster. As though we’re not all afraid of something, whether it be the vaccine or the virus or being alone. This commonality should draw us closer together, but here it’s being used for partisan us-vs-them theatrics which drive us further apart.
'A Broad Alliance May Support the Common Goal of Weakening the Media'
By Ron Unz: A couple of years ago, I launched my Unz Review, providing a wide range of different alternative perspectives, the vast majority of them totally excluded from the mainstream media. I’ve also published a number of articles in my own American Pravda series, focusing on the suspicious lapses and lacunae in our media narratives.
The underlying political strategy behind these efforts may already be apparent, and I’ve sometimes suggested it here and there. But I finally decided I might as well explicitly outline the reasoning in a memo as provided below.
The Mainstream Media is the Crucial Opposing Force
Groups advocating policies opposed by the American establishment should recognize that the greatest obstacle they face is usually the mainstream media.
The Vaccinated Suffer from Increased Risk of Mortality compared to the Non-vaccinated
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: If you are unvaccinated with the Covid “vaccine” and value your health and life, remain unvaccinated. If you are vaccinated and have so far survived the double-jab do not take a booster if you value your health and your life. The alleged “vaccine” does not protect you. It makes you more susceptible to the virus and to its variants and it also causes serious and deadly side effects. - Those who trusted Fauci, the presstitutes and the medical establishment have paid for it with their health and with increased vulnerability.
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It has also promised that vaccination would achieve collective immunity, the end of the crisis and a return to normal life.
But the failure for 18 months of this so-called “health strategy” based on false simulations, innumerable lies, promises never kept, as well as the propaganda and fear campaign has become unbearable.
'The Parasitic Mind' author Gad Saad warned that if we don't put a stop to woke ideas, it will be a 'slow train ride to hell'
"Activate your inner honey badger!"
'We’re becoming a nation of totalitarian nitwits, speaking in a borrowed lexicon of mandatory phrases and smelling heresy in anyone who doesn’t. This cult reflex was bad during the Russiagate years, but it’s gone into overdrive since the arrival of COVID.'
"...There is a concern that this will cause long-term mutation effects, even cancer."
By Tyler Durden: As it turns out, all the scientists and doctors who insisted that Merck's "revolutionary" COVID drug molnupiravir is extremely safe weren't faithfully adhering to "the science" after all. Because according to a report published Thursday by Barron's, some scientists are worried that the drug - which purportedly cut hospitalizations in half during a study that was cut short - could cause cancer or birth defects.
So much for having a "strong safety profile," as Dr. Scott Gottlieb claimed in an interview on the day Merck first publicized the research.
It's perfectly understandable why Merck might choose to play down this safety risk: assuming it's approved, the drug is widely expected to be one of "the most lucrative drugs ever" - which is one reason why Merck's shares soared into double-digit territory after the announcement.
Pretending to fight bigotry against Jews, EU officials this week published a plan for censoring expressions of solidarity with Palestinians.
The strategy for combating anti-Semitism – as the plan was named – quickly won praise from pro-Israel lobby groups. That was predictable for a simple reason: the same lobby groups strongly influenced the plan’s contents.
The plan was nominally the work of the European Commission, the EU’s executive.
These proposals resemble recommendations made by pro-Israel groups in at least three policy papers issued over as many years. The only real difference is that some commitments made by EU officials are actually bolder and more explicit than what the lobby groups pressed for in those papers.
While many of the steps advocated in the plan may look laudable on
the surface, they cannot be divorced from how the EU has long allowed
Israel and its supporters to set the agenda on anti-Semitism.
If recent experience is anything to go by, the “Jewish organizations” joining the network for internet monitoring will not include Jews who speak out for Palestinian rights. The European Commission barred Jews unwilling to act as apologists for Israel from a working group that prepared the new plan.
The plan relies heavily on the definition of anti-Semitism approved by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. That definition conflates speaking the truth about Israel’s racism with hostility toward Jews.
Margaritis Schinas, a European Commission vice president, alleged this week that “anti-Semitism can often hide behind anti-Zionism.”
Thank you, Vice-President @MargSchinas, for your leadership in the fight against antisemitism and for standing shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish communities in Europe. pic.twitter.com/NElc1vXxd6
— Transatlantic Inst. (@AJCTAI) October 5, 2021
Zionism is the ideology underpinning the colonization of Palestine and the mass dispossession of Palestinians. Opposing that ideology is a duty for everyone who believes in basic tenets of justice and equality."Antisemitism can often hide behind antizionism"
— Belgian Friends of Israel (@BelgianFOI) October 5, 2021
Thank you EU VP @MargSchinas for your moral clarity in exposing those whose anti-Jewish racism is disguised by fetid demonisation of the Jewish state.
We look to Belgium PM @alexanderdecroo to show similar unequivocal leadership. pic.twitter.com/UYIm612DHA
Contrary to what Schinas claimed, anti-Semitism can seldom – if ever – hide behind anti-Zionism.
It is true that there are some anti-Jewish bigots – such as Ku Klux Klan veteran David Duke – who also pose as enemies of Zionism. But in such cases anti-Zionism is the skimpiest fig leaf imaginable.
If someone really hates Jews, it is extremely difficult – indeed almost impossible – to conceal that hatred behind opposition to Zionism.
The Palestine solidarity movement denounces Zionism as well as other forms of racism, including anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim bigotry.
Yet the pro-Israel lobby constantly seeks to cast aspersions on advocates for justice in Palestine.
That can be seen in a submission made by pro-Israel groups in June this year – when the new EU plan was being drafted. The submission claims that “anti-Semitism is found across society, manifesting itself in the most pernicious forms on the far-right, the far-left and among Islamist extremists.”
The jumbling of ideologies here is risible.
Palestine solidarity activists on the left are the polar opposites of neo-Nazis. The idea that they have a shared antipathy toward Jews doesn’t withstand scrutiny.
The undoubted intention of the pro-Israel lobby is to cast unwarranted aspersions on campaigners who see defeating Zionism as imperative because they are against racism in all its forms.
Shamefully – and not for the first time – EU officials are trying to lend credence to such smears. The EU’s coordinator against anti-Semitism Katharina von Schnurbein has repeatedly spread lies about Palestine solidarity campaigners while cheering on Israel’s crimes against humanity.
Perhaps the most significant sentence in the new plan reads: “Israel is a key partner for the European Union, including in the global fight against anti-Semitism.”
The EU will “seek to further reinforce” the “high-level seminar on racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism” that it hosts every year along with Israel. The focus will be on “operational follow-up,” according to the plan.
Those words are revealing.
By privileging Jews over people of other religions and ethnicities, Israel practices apartheid – as organizations such as B’Tselem and Human Rights Watch have belatedly accepted. To make Israel a key partner in a “global fight” against any form of bigotry is obscene.
The new EU plan cannot be taken at face value.
Its real objective does not appear to be the stamping out of prejudice against Jews in Europe. Its real objective is the appeasement of Israel.
“There is no decision about your life that they will not try to control...”
Authored by Steve Watson: Texas Senator Ted Cruz charged Wednesday that the COVID crisis has revealed the real character of politicians in power, calling them “jackbooted thugs” and warning that “There is no decision about your life that they will not try to control.”
Cruz made the comments during an interview with Sean Hannity, in which the Senator addressed the attempts of Biden’s Justice Department to paint up concerned parents in the U.S. as “domestic terrorists” for questioning vaccine mandates and radical critical race theory being made a part of their kids’ education curriculum.
Cruz urged that “In any crisis someone’s character is revealed, and COVID really has shown the character of the Democrats. They are authoritarians, they are jackbooted thugs. There is no decision about your life that they will not try to control whether that is a vaccine mandate, regardless of your choices.”
Academy of Ideas
"An age of cowards."
Corbett: Banks around the world are suffering IT-related disruptions; the Chinese Belt and Road is debt-trap diplomacy; and old Yellen is looking to get the IRS' mitts on every over $600.