Important Stories Of The Day
Well, So Far--And With A Common Focus
The common focus is the global effort to control and subjugate normal people to the Great Reset. That effort emerges in various contexts—information control, economics, Covid Regime, Ukraine - Russia. The effort and the persons behind it emerges as conflict and resistance arise.
Let’s start with disinformation and censorship. Information control became an open priority with the rise of Trump and the subsequent rise of the Covid Regime. The Ukraine conflict, with it’s threat to global financial and economic control by Western elites, has further raised the stakes:
Don Surber is back to hard hitting journalism, after losing his way for a time in fake history—NYT calls for censorship:
Richard L. Hasen, author of Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics — and How to Cure It.
Hasen and NYT flat-out called for censorship.
Cheap speech is online journalism. Hasen smugly called NYT's garbage expensive speech. In this case, you don't get what you pay for because nothing stops the NYT from flat-out lying about Palin, Trump and anyone else it does not like.
Hasen wrote, "The rise of cheap speech poses special dangers for American democracy and for faith and confidence in American elections. To put the matter bluntly, if we had the polarized politics of today but the information technology of the 1950s, we almost certainly would not have seen the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, at the United States Capitol. Millions of Republican voters would probably not have believed the false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump and demanded from state legislatures new restrictive voting rules and fake election audits to counter phantom voter fraud."
So it’s a call for “faith” in our elections. None of that “trust but verify” stuff—it’s all on faith, now. Which may explain America’s low ranking—on a par with Mexico—in international election monitoring rankings. But just as non compos Zhou is good enough for you and me, so too are non compos elections.
Sad—DDG is protecting us from … what? Information!
Russian disinformation?
I wanted to post two Tweets from the Russian Embassy that demonstrate the fake news being propagated by Ukraine—about the maternity hospital. To do so violates “Twitter rules”. But here’s the photo of the model used for the “atrocity” propaganda. Being an expert in makeup no doubt came in handy:
If you’re looking for information you can trust regarding inflation and the US economy, the US government is probably not the place to go:
On the other hand, KD has a rundown on what it means:
As if the news you’re getting through the MSM isn’t bad enough:
Gasoline was only up 6.6% in the February index. Most of the damage had not yet been taken; that's in the last two weeks and will be in the next report. Groceries were up 1.4% on the month which annualizes to 18%, a figure that is worse than the early 1980s inflation and will flat-out ruin lower and middle-income Americans.
Shelter was the largest non-food and fuel increase, which also monkey-hammers modest-income persons.
Should Russia care? They’ve got to look out for themselves:
I don’t think he regards the US as a friendly country. This will hurt.
Here’s some information you can trust from a serous guy:
Here’s another quote from Lavrov after his meeting with Kuleba, the Ukraine foreign minister:
“We want a Ukraine that’s friendly and demilitarized, a Ukraine in which there isn’t a risk of the creation of another Nazi state, a Ukraine where there won’t be a ban on the Russian language, on Russian culture.”
Kuleba understands:
“The broad narrative he conveyed to me is that they will continue their aggression until Ukraine meets their demands, and the least of these demands is surrender.”
That seems to be a good place to start negotiations: mutual understanding.
Meanwhile, will the EU continue to allow itself to be held hostage by the US/Ukraine combination?
Tracey: Ukraine Is Trying To Goad The US Into World War III
Authored by Michael Tracey via mtracey.substack.com (emphasis ours),
The reason we know Ukrainian officials are trying to goad the US into war is because that’s exactly what they say they’re doing. There is no ambiguity here — at this very moment, a furious multi-front lobbying blitz is underway to solicit full-fledged US military intervention in Ukraine, and therefore open warfare against Russia. To put it bluntly, a foreign country’s representatives are doing all they possibly can to instigate the closest thing anyone on Earth has ever experienced to World War III.
That’s what happens when you hang with crazies.
Volkswagen CEO Warns Ukrainian War Could Be Worse For Europe Than COVID
No, this isn't an April Fool's joke.
Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess told the FT in an interview published Thursday that a prolonged war in Ukraine would be "very risky" for the European and German economies - and that it ultimately might be even worse for them than COVID.
According to the FT, Diess said the economic damage from the war could be "very much worse" than the pandemic.
This would inevitably lead to a lot of finger pointing. The blame game, and I’m up for it.
It’s your call whether to trust KD re Covid. In my experience he’s been pretty accurate, and certainly points people in a sensible direction when it comes to protecting themselves. Recall, in the penultimate post I cited IL stats—in the most recent period 67% of Covid deaths were “breakthroughs”. As John Tamny wrote, we need some studies on the relative differences between the injected and uninjected populations. Guess what? I bet the CDC has that data—but they don’t think you should see it. $64K question is: Will a GOP Congress show it to you? That’s the acid test, isn’t it?
Anyway, KD writes (in concluding part):
My best current guess and probably the last I'll publish (unless something radical happens) is that one in thirty people are flatly-screwed with either a permanent disability of some materiality or will be dead as a result, whether from an infection the jab potentiates or a direct morbidity caused by them.
Those odds suck by the way; nobody in their right mind would use any drug or other intervention with those sort of odds unless they had a terminal condition which, of course, can't be made worse.
There are a whole bunch of people running around with their hair on fire thinking there's a fix for what you did. There's isn't. If it turns out that the RNA encoding gets transcribed into your DNA (and there's evidence it might have) there's nothing you can do about that either.
Here's the money shot: Nearly every single thing you were told by Fauci, the NIH, CDC, Trump, Biden, all the so-called "public health" experts and your local doctors, nurses and hospitals was a lie. If you bought into it you were stupid and unfortunately stupid often has a price. This price may be your health or life and, having made the decisions there's not a damned thing you can do about it.
Thus absent some development that is really worth discussing this may be my last "Covid" entry on this blog.
Here’s an interesting item that tells you that people who run large enterprises are probably privy to information that you don’t get—although you’ve probably been morally certain about it for a long time if you’ve been paying attention: United Airlines is allowing people with med/religio exemptions to injections to return to work. We all know that wouldn’t be happening if those people were a danger to others. Next question: What about people who were injected? Chicago Teachers Union President Sharkey—whose been injected and boosted and never appears without a KN95 mask or whatever—tests positive for COVID-19 ...
Here are two things our rulers are struggling to keep out of public consciousness:
All the ‘experts’ were wrong on COVID. Now they’re forced to admit it
'That is the funny thing about truth, it likes to be set free, and you can't suppress it forever.'
Of course, there’s an obvious problem with that. What if they weren’t wrong, but simply lied to us? In many ways that seems the simpler and far more obvious explanation.
And the second thing, which also seems to explain so much:
By the way, we’re a 60-39 country today, according to Rasmussen. That’s measurable progress. Or as commenter ML said this morning, mieux vaut tard que jamais. Because no matter how bad things are, there’s always tomorrow.
I think at this point we have to assume that the government is always lying to us
about everything, medical, financial and political. Attempting to winnow the truth from amongst all the chaff is a almost a full time job.
Thx Mark for making the task a little easier.
Still smh
Mark, your post is chock full of a dizzying amount of concerning information. Thanks for all the work you do to keep your readers informed. Re: the bombing of the maternity hospital — I thought the claim was dubious as soon as I heard it. Is it truly propaganda or have I gone full conspiracy theorist? That picture of the “injured patient” makes me think my initial reaction was accurate.