Mar 05

In 1878 French government investors paid every French newspaper to promote construction of the Panama Canal

From the book “Famous Financial Fiascos” by John Train (1985):

The western world’s elites first began pondering the development of a canal across the Isthmas of Panama in the 1880s. It was the French government that initiated the project. (Later, the US government took the lead in the decades-long project.)

Train writes that the leading champion of the Canal idea “neglected to pay off the newspaper publishers and journalists, whose enthusiasm was linked to their subsidies.”

Thus, French (and the world’s) newspapers were less than supportive of the project. Many reported that the area was dangerous and disease-ridden. Investors were reluctant to buy into the idea.

Then, the developers traveled to Panama with their families for photo opportunities. Upon their return, they paid many thousands of francs to reporters to run favorable stories. “Faith was restored . . . helped this time by massive subsidies to the newspapers.”

But the dangers of Panama had yet to begin. “Workers and supervisors fell side by side: the death toll reached the tens of thousands (50,000 by some accounts), including two-thirds of all the Frenchmen who set foot on the Isthmas.”

The French developers paid massive bribes to French officials for their monopoly:

[A]t least 150 [French] senators and deputies, and almost every major paper in the country, had partaken of the torrent of bribes. Only a third of the money invested had gone into actual excavation; a third had gone into bribery and a third simply wasted. . . . Over a hundred parliamentarians were brought to trial, but a single poor naif who actually confessed was the only one found guilty.

Mar 02

First January 6 Trial Will be Held in Quasi-Secret, with Almost No Audience

Star Chamber Justice Returns to the Western World

Guy Reffitt didn’t even go inside the Capitol; he is on trial for protesting stolen 2020 election

Washington, D.C. March 1. Jan. 6, 2021 was a truly terrifying day for the US government. Americans who contested the November 2020 election dared to riot amid the government’ sacred marble Capitol for some four (4) hours!

The horror!

Now the first alleged rioter to face trial is being tried by a masked, mostly-Marxist jury in a Washington, D.C. courtroom.

In virtual secret.

According to Oregonian Ken Medenbach, who was thrown out of the courthouse for seeking to attend, the court is allowing just two (2) people in the audience: one mainstream ‘journalist’ and just one member of the community.

The Sixth Amendment requires that every accused defendant has a right to a public trial.

What are Guy Reffitt’s alleged crimes? He is accused of obstructing a government proceeding. By merely being present outside the US Capitol on January 6. Reffitt has been HELD WITHOUT BAIL in a DC jail for OVER A YEAR on grounds that he is too dangerous for pre-trial release.

The Eighth Amendment requires that every defendant is entitled to reasonable bail.

Katelyn Polantz, writing for the pro-government-extremist CNN, reports that “Judge Dabney Friedrich decided not to allow any members of the public to witness the evidence presentation in person at the historic trial that’s expected to last more than a week.” “Friedrich cited space concerns due to stringent coronavirus protocols at the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, designed to ensure that jurors and witnesses at trials are spread out from one another.” “The situation highlights an ongoing struggle in federal courtrooms, which never allow recordings of their proceedings to be broadcast widely, between the integrity of jury trials and court administrators’ attempts to prevent the spread of disease.”

According to the Gateway Pundit, “Despite never getting closer than 20 feet from officers at the Capitol, never entering the building, and only carrying a megaphone, Reffitt was arrested in a pre-dawn military-style raid on his home by FBI with guns pointed at his wife and kids.”

Feb 21

CDC promotes mask study with claims it proved masks work. But fine print says “Not statistically significant.” And underlying data show masks provide NO protection at all!

Imagine a study of people’s self-reported mask compliance compared to the same people’s rates of positive test reports. You can imagine that those who “test positive” for COVID-19 are likely to come up with an explanation of how they might have contracted the dreaded germ. Perhaps they might say they failed to properly social distance, or failed to wear their masks in every situation. Perhaps those who “test negative” for COVID-19 might be inclined to say they have properly complied with government COVID-19 protocols.
We can imagine other potential problems with such a study. Skeptics of the COVID-19 panic might be less likely to participate in the study at all. True believers, who are more likely to get tested in the first place, might be overrepresented.

But the CDC relied heavily on just such a questionable study to promote mask mandates. Despite the study specifically warning that the results were “not statistically significant.”

Beginning in September of 2021, every major mainstream media outlet trumpeted the flawed study as “proof” that masks—and therefore, mask mandates, work.

Nature reported that “Face masks for COVID pass their largest test yet:
A rigorous study finds that surgical masks are highly protective.” LiveScience ran the headline “Huge, gold-standard study shows unequivocally that surgical masks work to reduce coronavirus spread.” The Washington Post pronounced “We conducted the largest study on masks and covid-19: They work.” WebMD claimed “Large Study Confirms Masks Work to Limit COVID-19 Spread.” An ABC affiliate announced “Yale study of Bangladesh shows the ‘effectiveness of masks.'”

Steve Kirsch carefully examined the data behind the study. “When you actually look at the data, the study showed masks make NO difference.”

“The data makes it clear that virtually the entire mainstream medical community and mainstream media are spreading COVID misinformation and they need to be arrested by the DHS as domestic terrorists per their new guidelines.

These people are deluding the public into believing masks work, endangering lives.”

Feb 21

Governments worldwide are concealing health data so antivaxxers won’t announce it

You can’t make this stuff up.

Last week the government of Scotland admitted it was concealing true case counts and hospitalization data to perpetuate a positive narrative regarding COVID-19 vaccines. Scottish officials tacitly admitted that the true data would benefit “anti-vaxxers” and promote “vaccine hesitancy.”

And today the New York Times revealed that the same thing is happening in the U.S. “The agency [CDC] has been reluctant to make those figures public, the official said, because they might be misinterpreted as the vaccines being ineffective.”

Steve Kirsch writes “Let’s be clear. The CDC hid the data because the data proves they were lying to us. That’s the real reason.

If the data was favorable, I guarantee you, they would be releasing it.”

Feb 11

US Senators disclose newly discovered CIA program that is spying on Americans without warrant

A new (or newly discovered) CIA operation is secretly conducting warrantless surveillance domestically in the US.. U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Martin Heinrich alleged in a letter to intelligence officials that the CIA may be violating its charter.

“Officially, the CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) have a foreign surveillance mission and domestic spying is prohibited by the CIA’s 1947 charter.”

“But in 2013, a programme of data collection using extensive internet and phone surveillance by American intelligence was disclosed to the public by Edward Snowden, a CIA contractor-turned whistle-blower.”

“A Washington Post analysis of the Snowden leak found some 90% of those being monitored were ordinary Americans “caught in a net the National Security Agency had cast for somebody else”.

“Top officials had until then denied – and even lied under oath to Congress – that they were knowingly collecting such data.” “The programme, known as Prism, was later ruled unlawful by a US court.”

“Mr Wyden, of Oregon, and Mr Heinrich, of New Mexico, said the secret program is “entirely outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection.” See here.

Feb 09

The whole world was shocked when US military medical injuries exploded in 2021–so this week the US military changed its numbers!

Two weeks ago the whole world was shocked to see graphs showing that doctor visits within the US military increased 988% in the year 2021.

On February 1, 2022, US Senator Ron Johnson sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin outlining the startling increase in heart attacks, strokes and other medical emergencies experienced by US troops during 2021. The only likely cause of the increase is the vaccination mandate imposed by the Department of Defense in 2021. (The prior year–2020, the first year of the alleged COVID-19 pandemic–saw a slight DECREASE in medical visits by US troops.)

The data shocked the world. Although the mainstream media ignored the story, the news found wide circulation on independent news platforms.

But now the Pentagon has changed the numbers. The US military now claims the five previous years were plagued by a giant glitch.

“According to the Department of Defense, the actual number of doctor visits and ambulatory care in the military is at least TEN TIMES higher than was being reported since 2016!”

“What the US military is admitting is that their numbers were off by 18 million a year in the number of doctor visits.”

According to the Gateway Pundit, “[o]ne by one, the military public health officials have been adding back random numbers to the 2016 through 2020 codes.” “[T]hey have found that the numbers from 2016 through 2020 were “increased” exponentially to look as though 2021 was not an abnormal year.”

“This has been done without any transparency, any press release, any statement of narrative, and sloppily in a way that makes the already unbelievable narrative simply impossible to believe.”

“In addition to believing that every epidemiological report for five years was somehow completely tainted with false data — including during the first year of the pandemic itself — we would have to believe that the minute they discovered this from [Ohio attorney] Renz, they suddenly discovered the exact numbers. A five-year mistake fixed overnight!”

Feb 07

Even as US truck industry can’t find enough drivers, new draconian regulations impose more restrictions

US government regulations are crippling the ability of American industries to respond to supply shortages. There is a major shortage of truck drivers in the US; but new regulations will make it even HARDER for truck drivers to be obtain commercial driver licenses (CDLs).

Agweb.com reports that starting today, on February 7, 2022, new truck drivers must go through a GOVERNMENT-APPROVED training schools (costing thousands of dollars each) and submit to expansive government data-entry programs.

CDL-holding truckers are limited in the number of hours they can drive consecutively. Many observers believe this requirement is forcing truckers to drive faster and less safely on icy roads on some routes.

During the Obama Administration, Obama signed MAP21 (“Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act”), a plan to nudge America closer to mass government-controlled public transportation. In 2021, the states lost close to 100,000 class A CDL drivers. Under Trump, 1,000’s of trucking companies went out of business.

“If a farmer who is located in Ellendale, N.D., wants to drive their one ton pick-up with a flat bed trailer to pick up a new tractor for their farm in Omaha, Neb., they would be subject to regulations because they are outside the 150 miles from their operation and all federal transportation regulations would then apply, including needing a CDL to go get the new tractor in Nebraska,” says Krapu.

[photo courtesy of Debbie Westlake]

Jan 31

Leaked British documents show government paid influencers to promote lockdowns, attack vaxx critics

We’ve all been barraged with pro-lockdown, pro-mask, pro-vaxx messaging over the past two years. And we’ve watched as major mainstream platforms silence, shadow-ban and censor those who ask questions. How much of this is secretly being paid for by government agencies or Big Pharma?

Popular YouTube influencer Abigail Thorn, whose Philosophy Tube show has a million subscribers, was secretly paid to promote the British government’s COVID-19-panic “public health” agenda, according to whistleblowers.

Thorn and other popular influencers were reportedly recruited by the UK’s Royal Institution ”to counter growing opposition to UK gov’t Covid restrictions.” The project even had a name: “Challenging Pseudoscience.” Critics of government policies were portrayed as dangerous “superspreaders” of “disinformation.”

Massive amounts of cash were funneled to high profile media voices and influencers from the UK government’s Culture Recovery Fund earmarked for video production.

“Leaked files obtained by The Grayzone indicate that the Royal Institution has enlisted the services of Valent Projects, a “social change” communications firm founded by a public relations operative previously involved in the UK Foreign Office’s campaign for violent regime change in Syria. Valent has also been sponsored by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), a US intelligence cut-out, for a project aimed at “investigating disinformation.”

Soon YouTube began implementing a raft of stringent speech codes, it began amplifying channels such as “BreadTube” and pro-government influencers through its algorithm.

“All the key signs of infiltration are there,” Caleb Maupin said of BreadTube. “Since when does US mainstream media highlight the work of Marxist revolutionaries? Why are people who seem so unfamiliar with basic elements of socialist ideology suddenly elevated to the position of respected experts by the algorithms? Why do their foreign policy views seem to line up so closely with the US State Department? I have had no doubt they were being covertly supported by powerful entities with goals other than overthrowing capitalism.”

Amazingly, the “Challenging Pseudoscience” operation also featured one of the scientists at Wuhan lab, Peter Daszak. Daszak is a zoologist closely linked to Anthony Fauci. Daszak serves as president of the US-based NGO known as EcoHealth Alliance.

The leaked files indicate that the Royal Institution enlisted the services of Valent Projects, a communications firm which lists the Royal Institution on its website as a client. Valent Projects staffer Hamish Falconer has disclosed that the “exciting” Challenging Pseudoscience campaign has also received “generous support” from the Open Society Foundations of CIA-adjacent billionaire George Soros.

See here.

Jan 30

Chinese Totalitarianism Reaches New Heights

The news site DNYUZ is out with a harrowing expose on the present state of China. Many once-free societies such as Australia and Canada have transformed into prison states in the past 2 years. But China has transformed into a totalitarian slave prison.

“The foundation of the controls is the health code. The local authorities, working with tech companies, generate a user’s profile based on location, travel history, test results and other health data. The code’s color — green, yellow or red — determines whether the holder is allowed into buildings or public spaces. Its use is enforced by legions of local officials with the power to quarantine residents or restrict their movements.”

Chinese subjects are tracked via their apps throughout the day and night. The government knows where each subject is at all times.
“The Chinese Communist Party has found the best model for controlling people,” said one jailed critic in a telephone interview in December.

“A Covid cluster that rippled across Zhejiang Province in east China late last year began with a funeral. When one attendee, a health worker, tested positive in a routine test, 100 tracers sprang into action.”

“Using digital health code records, teams of tracers plotted out a network of people to test based on where the man had been: a restaurant, a mahjong parlor, card-playing rooms. Within a couple of weeks, they stopped the chain of infections in Hangzhou — in all, 29 people there were found to be infected.”

“The health code is essentially required, because without it, people cannot enter buildings, restaurants or even parks.” “In recent months, the authorities in various cities have expanded their definition of close contact to include people whose cellphone signals were recorded within as much as half a mile of an infected person.”

“China has mobilized 4.5 million so-called grid workers to fight the outbreak, according to state media — roughly one in every 250 adults. Under the grid management system, cities, villages and towns are divided into sections, sometimes of just a few blocks, which are then assigned to individual workers.”

“You never know if your planned itinerary will be canceled, or if your travel plans can be realized,” the article said.”

Jan 30

Secret German government intelligence agency discovered by Apple Airtags

German freedom activist Lilith Wittmann claims that she has uncovered how Germany’s little-known “Federal Telecommunications Service” is actually a cover for a secret intelligence agency.

Tech writer William Gallagher writes that Wittmann accidentally stumbled upon a secret federal agency that does not exist in public records.

Through calls to numbers which then quickly disappeared, IP searches, and driving to official buildings, Wittmann worked to track down the mysterious Bundesservice Telekommunikation, or Federal Telecommunications Service.

“She establishes multiple reasons to believe it is part of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI), and ultimately concludes that there are actually two “camouflage” authorities. Both are allegedly a secret part of an intelligence agency named the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.”

Using an AirTag
Wittmann simply sent a small device that regularly transmits its current position (a so-called AirTag) and see where it lands.”

“She sent a parcel with an AirTag and watched through Apple’s Find My system as it was delivered via the Berlin sorting center to a sorting office in Cologne-Ehrenfeld. And then appears at the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Cologne.”

“So an AirTag addressed to a telecommunications authority based in one part of Germany, ends up in the offices of an intelligence agency based in another part of the country.”

“[S]ubsequent government press conferences have denied that there is such a federal telecommunications service at all.”