How The Conspiracy Works: The Letter Of The Law
Some recent articles by the Idaho Freedom Foundation have really provoked the ire of some in Boise by questioning socialist policies and practices at BSU. We urge you to visit their site, as there are several articles touching this subject. We agree with the IFF on these issues, and welcome the opportunity to point out one of the ways the conspiracy works, as made clear in the Idaho Press response, "More on 'Dreamers' and scholarships…", which includes a handy outline of the process. In short, if they can technically justify something, that makes it okay. I recommend reading the Idaho Press article to see the legal wrangling for yourself. This is where the intersection of lawyers and judges begins to bring us the corruption described in Alma 10, in the Book of Mormon. One of the primary issues in this discussion is that "illegal alien students (DACA students)" are receiving "Idaho resident tuition rates and Opportunity Scholarship dollars." As pointed out in the Idaho Press article, “Under federal law, DACA students are considered ‘lawfully present’ in Idaho." That is the letter of the law. The spirit of the law, however, is that publicly funded education belongs to those who have paid for it. It just makes sense. Don't get me wrong. I am not a supporter of public education in any way. We homeschool our children, and thank God every day for inspiring us to do so, back before "condom races" were a thing. But, that's middle school. This is college, which gets much worse. But I digress. Principles are what matter. Period. These scholarships were put in place under the principle that they would be made available to qualified residents who helped fund it, or whose families helped fund it, with their tax dollars. Now, we get school administrators shoveling our dollars out the door in the name of "social justice," trying to right phantasmic wrongs that our country's leftists imagine up. Do yourself a favor, Idaho. Take a stand. Demand that BSU–and every other educational institution in your state–cut the crap. Read the articles at IFF, and you will have a much better idea of what is going on, and what needs to be ended. "Social justice" is not education.
UN Goals Unveiled: Inclusive Cities and Communities–Leaving No One Behind
While this Thematic Session is similar to one we discussed previously ("Building Inclusive Communities Through Education"), you'll notice that the first was focused on brainwashing youth through government indoctrination, while this one is specifically about ways to force so-called equality onto our communities. Because they are dealing with adults who are capable of critical thinking, they have to take a different approach. Unfortunately, this approach is still fairly successful. This session's description is as follows: “"Sustainable Development Goal 11 strives to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. The reality is that livelihoods in cities and human settlements are being experienced in increasingly unequal ways, especially among women, female-headed households, youth, children, and other marginalized groups including: the poor; stigmatized ethnic groups; the LGBTQI community; the elderly, and people with disabilities. Join us in this Thematic Session if you care for matters such as: Equality and social cohesion, Participatory planning and governance, Place-making, communities and families, Gender responsive urban and territorial development, Slums and Informality, Urban regeneration, gentrification and livelihoods, Affordable Housing and Homelessness, Land tenure security, Basic services, Mobility systems to empower livelihoods, Accessibility, Safety in green and public spaces."” Equality for All-ity The theme of this session is reminiscent of George Bush's "No Child Left Behind," a program that many criticized as a "race to the bottom" because in order for everyone to pass, they were forced to lower the standards. Yay! No one is getting left behind anymore! Now we're all equally stupid! As you peruse the list of "marginalized groups," you will likely notice that the only group missing from this list is heterosexual White males. As mentioned in our discussion of "Building Inclusive Communities Through Education," what makes this approach so successful is that they are able to convince people that they are somehow looked down upon by others (whether or not it is true), and that they ought to seek legal and societal revenge. While some people do look down on others for various reasons including race, gender, and sexuality, these are "thought crimes," which is to say they are NON-crimes. If no action has been performed to violate another's life, liberty, or property, then there is nothing to punish. Sorry, honey, words don't qualify as actions. Lilith Complex As an example of how this plan works, let us look to feminism. Communists hate the family. They discussed early on how they would need to approach destroying America, the source of their greatest opposition, and decided that destroying the family would be a priority. They have approached this in various ways, including the promotion of everything other than monogamous heterosexuality, but one of the most effective has been to cause women to be disillusioned with their God-given roles in marriage and child-rearing. They began telling women that they were being treated as "second-class citizens," that they deserved more, that they were being excluded from the workforce and military, that male chivalry was actually condescension, and so on. This sort of preaching has promoted the increase we have seen in lesbianism, single-parent homes, divorce, child abandonment, and a host of other destructive practices. It has caused issues in the church with a violent denial of patriarchy, which is, we are told, the way things are run in Heaven. We are equal, but we have different roles to play so that everything can get accomplished. This also has scriptural parallels, as we can see in the following verses: And it came to pass that the Amalekites, because of their loss, were exceedingly angry. And when they saw that they could not seek revenge from the Nephites, they began to stir up the people in anger against their brethren, the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi; therefore they began again to destroy them. (Alma 27:2) Therefore it came to pass that king Laman began to stir up his people that they should contend with my people; therefore there began to be wars and contentions in the land. (Mosiah 9:13) The most poignant is probably Alma 43:6-8, which says: “And now, as the Amalekites were of a more wicked and murderous disposition than the Lamanites were, in and of themselves, therefore, Zerahemnah appointed chief captains over the Lamanites, and they were all Amalekites and Zoramites. Now this he did that he might preserve their hatred towards the Nephites, that he might bring them into subjection to the accomplishment of his designs. For behold, his designs were to stir up the Lamanites to anger against the Nephites; this he did that he might usurp great power over them, and also that he might gain power over the Nephites by bringing them into bondage.” The Power Of Hate Notice how Zarahemna started with those people who were filled with hatred, who were murderous and wicked, and used them to propagandize the rest of the people to stir them up to violence so that he could a) usurp power over his own people, and b) enslave his enemies. By that same token, Communist leaders from time past have gone on the record saying that they hate love and love hate, and that they want to teach their children to hate so that they can have power over their enemies. Are things coming together? There is truly nothing new under the sun. So this, literally, is all that this Thematic Session is about: making people feel "marginalized" and downtrodden, and convincing them that the UN loves them and will grant them power over those they perceive as their enemies. You can see this at work with the homosexual community. No Constitutional judge would ever force a person to bake a cake for anyone, period! Gay, straight, or just plan weird, it doesn't matter because we all have the God-given freedom of association. This UN movement is about, once again, removing our freedom and replacing it with government control.
Amazon has booted Black Lives Matter off its charity portal as BLM faces intense scrutiny over its opaque financing and missing $60 million in donations
What you need to know is that Amazon understood what they were funding. This is a public CYA move, now that this is going public.
How The Conspiracy Works: The Letter Of The Law
Some recent articles by the Idaho Freedom Foundation have really provoked the ire of some in Boise by questioning socialist policies and practices at BSU. We urge you to visit their site, as there are several articles touching this subject. We agree with the IFF on these issues, and welcome the opportunity to point out one of the ways the conspiracy works, as made clear in the Idaho Press response, "More on 'Dreamers' and scholarships…", which includes a handy outline of the process. In short, if they can technically justify something, that makes it okay. I recommend reading the Idaho Press article to see the legal wrangling for yourself. This is where the intersection of lawyers and judges begins to bring us the corruption described in Alma 10, in the Book of Mormon. One of the primary issues in this discussion is that "illegal alien students (DACA students)" are receiving "Idaho resident tuition rates and Opportunity Scholarship dollars." As pointed out in the Idaho Press article, “Under federal law, DACA students are considered ‘lawfully present’ in Idaho." That is the letter of the law. The spirit of the law, however, is that publicly funded education belongs to those who have paid for it. It just makes sense. Don't get me wrong. I am not a supporter of public education in any way. We homeschool our children, and thank God every day for inspiring us to do so, back before "condom races" were a thing. But, that's middle school. This is college, which gets much worse. But I digress. Principles are what matter. Period. These scholarships were put in place under the principle that they would be made available to qualified residents who helped fund it, or whose families helped fund it, with their tax dollars. Now, we get school administrators shoveling our dollars out the door in the name of "social justice," trying to right phantasmic wrongs that our country's leftists imagine up. Do yourself a favor, Idaho. Take a stand. Demand that BSU–and every other educational institution in your state–cut the crap. Read the articles at IFF, and you will have a much better idea of what is going on, and what needs to be ended. "Social justice" is not education.
UN Goals Unveiled: Local and Regional Governments Leading the Way to Sustainable Communities
Today, we will learn about how the UN has been involved in "Local and Regional Governments Leading the Way to Sustainable Communities". Once again, the carefully-chosen words make you feel all warm and tingly inside, but the truth will set you free from the touchy-feelies. As usual, let's kick this off with a reading of the UN text that's complete and utter nonsense, and then commence with the text that does make sense. Take it away, United Nations PR Department: “"Local and regional governments are leading the way to “Build Inclusive and Sustainable Communities.” As the closest government entity to their citizens, they are uniquely positioned to make a difference in people’s lives, while also being on the frontlines of responding to climate change and its impacts on communities. These local governments are making meaningful progress in reducing carbon emissions, becoming more resilient to a warming world, and improving air quality while doing so in an equitable manner to ensure the needs of their citizens are being met. Collaboration is the key to success. This Thematic Session will explore and emphasize the power of multi-stakeholder networks to share information and amplify impact. Concrete examples from several Utah communities will highlight how local governments and civil society organizations have worked together to craft programs, policies, and regulations to create more sustainable communities. Speakers will include senior-level city sustainability staff, a state representative, and local nonprofit partners. They will detail legislation that created a pathway for large-scale renewable energy development, electrified transportation initiatives, and community food production. Attend this session if you work for a municipal government; represent a civil society organization that is looking for examples on ways to collaborate with your local government; or have an interest in renewable energy, energy efficiency, improving air quality, electrified transportation, food security or equitable program design."” Lovely, isn't it? We at Defending Idaho are enormous fans and followers of Ezra Taft Benson, and promoters of the "Proper Role of Government" that he taught. The proper role of government actually only encompasses about fifteen principles, and "whatsoever is more or less than this, cometh of evil." (D&C 98:4-7) We don't have space here to recount all of the principles, but a) you can hear them for yourself here, and b) ain't none of this nonsense in it! Some people–mostly those who think of themselves as "social justice warriors"–seem to think that they know what is best for humanity, and that it is their personal duty to right every wrong they can imagine, no matter what anyone else thinks. (Do you know who Gavin Newsom is?) These people are dangerous with any sort of power or position because they don't care what you think (they think they know better, remember?), and they aren't afraid to pass garbage laws and craft "partnerships" under cover of darkness to get these things done. To be fair, many of these people do honestly believe they are doing the right thing, but that doesn't make their actions Constitutional or correct. In America, we elect people to represent the people, not to be their temporary mothers or dictatorial fathers. We also have a Constitution that outlines what the federal government can and cannot do. Local and state governments have their own constitutions and laws that are supposed to likewise constrain local and state representatives. The "social justice warriors," however, do not feel constrained. They have been taught in government indoctrination centers that the United Nations supersedes all other laws, because it is somehow a "greater good." We also need to point out, as we have before, that the United Nations' agendas are humanist agendas. That is, they believe that there is no God, so they have to step up and "save humanity" themselves. By taking away all of their freedoms. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will recognize this is Satan's plan. Familiarity with the scriptures can be enormously helpful in recognizing deception. For one thing, as the UN scaremongers try to convince us that we are going to run out of food and water, the Lord informs us that "the earth is full, and there is enough and to spare." (D&C 104:17) I live in an area where farmers are paid by the federal government to NOT grow anything on their farmland. And then they turn around and tell us that there are food shortages. Stupid much? With the government, you always have to know what both hands are doing. Now, in that same verse above, the Lord does say that "I… have given unto the children of men to be agents unto themselves." We still need to use our resources wisely, but everything will work out fine. No need for alarm. But if you believe something needs to change, you are to use persuasion and not force. Government is nothing but force. We are facing the use of force today precisely because their methods of persuasion were not… persuasive. People were seeing through their lies. So then they ran an end-run around us and took to brainwashing kids who don't know better and recruiting government officials who want to "change the world," even though that's not what we hired them to do. Look at the list of people who will be speaking at this Thematic Session. Some of the positions they hold are so far outside the proper role of government I don't know where to begin: • Vicki Bennett, Salt Lake City Sustainability Director • Representative Patrice Arent, Utah State Legislature • Luke Cartin, Park City Sustainability Manager, Salt Lake City • Supreet Gill, Salt Lake City Food Program Manager • Debbie Lyons, Salt Lake City Deputy Sustainability Director • Tyler Poulson, Salt Lake City Energy Program Manager • Sarah Wright, Director, Utah Clean Energy "Sustainability" managers and directors? This ridiculous buzzword simply means what I described above: that we are going to run out of stuff and we're all going to die unless we give up all of our freedoms to someone else who will be a benevolent dictator and take care of us! We haven't discussed too many specifics from the description this time. That's because the truth is more important, and when you understand the truth, you won't need anyone to explain why this is all wrong. We will, however, continue to dissect these things in future articles, so you can be informed and help to inform others. I do wish to point out, by the way, the use of the phrase "regional government." These are pseudo-governmental bodies that are unelected by–and unaccountable to–the people! We have learned of one such regional government that straddles Northern Utah and Southern Idaho. Yes, friends, here in Idaho. We've had the wool pulled over our eyes, and the freedom pulled out from under our feet. We will report on this in future articles, as well. I know we already linked to it above, but there really would be no better time than now to learn the Proper Role of Government. View it in the video above.
UN Goals Unveiled: Peaceful Societies–Recovering from Conflict and Nurturing Peace
Do people notice hypocrisy any more? When, for instance, millionaire Bernie Sanders trots around the world in his private jet pimping Socialism and chastising the rest of us for causing climate change… does anyone bat an eye? Ditto for Al Gore and many others. What's missing is critical thinking, a skill no longer taught in government indoctrination centers. What they do teach under that name is a form of "social justice" thinking and "values clarification" that is nothing more than humanistic brainwashing. In today's article we will learn about peace, love, and respect from the UN. What could go wrong? “"Peace is necessary for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and is a specific goal in itself. This session will focus on the interface between peace, justice and strong institutions (SDG 16) and Safe, Resilient, Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11).The last decade has been marked by increasing skepticism regarding the viability and effectiveness of multilateral approaches to peacebuilding. The Peaceful Societies Thematic Session will discuss how civil society organizations are integrating objective measures to achieve an inclusive and sustainable culture of peaceful coexistence in their local activities while respecting the integrity of nation states’ sovereign rights. Attend this thematic session if you are interested in: Human rights, Gender-based violence, Human trafficking, Family valued [sic], community building and inter-cultural understanding through arts and sports, Refugees and migrants, Arms flows, Access to information, Corruption"” Buzz Buzz Buzz Once again, we must separate fact from fiction, and rhetoric from reality. In this Thematic Session description, as in all the others, fine language and emotional buzzwords are used to appeal to the non-critical thinker. But that's not us. Let's take this thing apart, shall we? Let's start with the overall goal. The UN claims to be able to do something that has never been done in the history of the earth: bring peace to the world. On a similar note, here in Idaho we have signs all along the highway, with a picture of a seatbelt, proclaiming the slogan "Towards Zero Deaths." When I first saw these, I mentioned to my wife that "zero deaths" sounds like such a noble goal, but it is completely impossible without taking away our freedoms, because there is no freedom without risk! Likewise, there can never be absolute peace in the world without brainwashing a la 1984, and/or an absolute dictatorship that has removed all freedoms. This is the "peace" promised by Communism. Real world examples include China, North Korea, the Soviet Union, Vietnam, and Cuba. You murder everyone who could theoretically pose a threat, and then keep everyone else under your boot. Hooray for peace! The Definition Of A Nation In this description, they also complain about "increasing skepticism regarding the viability and effectiveness of multilateral approaches to peacebuilding." Multilateral, according to my dictionary, is defined as something "agreed upon or participated in by three or more parties, especially the governments of different countries". To understand why this is a concern, we must understand what a country is. At its most basic, we could use the definition espoused by radio host Michael Savage, who says that a country is defined by its "borders, language, and culture." This makes sense because at some point in time a group of people claimed an area of land, ie, established borders, in order to have a distinct culture. Over time their language became distinct, as well. And so you have a country. "We will no longer be governed by you," they said to their country of origin. "We will govern ourselves, instead!" This makes sense, as well, because a group only has the right to govern themselves, not anyone else. Each country has distinct borders, language, and culture, so their laws makes sense to them, but people in other areas may not understand why things are the way they are. They want to have things a different way. That's fine. Everyone should have the right to choose their own laws and leaders. Of course, many countries have NOT chosen their laws or leaders, but have instead had these things forced upon them, and this includes most of the countries in the United Nations. The same ones that want to "multilaterally" approach "peacebuilding." Now do you see the problem? If everyone minded their own business, we would all be much happier. “"Nothing in the Constitution nor in logic grants to the President of the United States or to Congress the power to influence the political life of other countries, to “uplift” their cultures, to bolster their economies, to feed their peoples or even to defend them against their enemies. This point was made clear by the wise father of our country, George Washington: "I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation has a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under them selves; and that if this country could, consistent with its engagements, maintain a strict neutrality and thereby preserve peace, it was bound to do so by motives of policy, interest, and every other consideration."" –Excerpt from United States Foreign Policy, by Ezra Taft Benson” I'm looking at you, America! A TSA/CPS Agent's Dream Job Of course, the United Nations also meddles everywhere, and that's just one point of irony. The other is that this Thematic Session is supposedly devoted to "Recovering from Conflict and Nurturing Peace" while the UN is anything but neutral when there is a conflict, and they bring anything but peace to the areas they infest! Taking another page out of 1984, the UN troops are referred to as "peacekeepers." But did you know that there is horrendous and widespread sexual abuse of women and children whenever they bring their "peace" into town? Here is an article from 2006 on the UN's own website, one from 2016 specifically mentioning "child rape" and discussing the 99 "allegations" from the year before (2015), and one from 2017 that points out that the "145 cases of [reported] sexual exploitation and abuse involving peacekeepers in 2016" came from "across all UN staff, not just peacekeepers." Well, that's comforting. This article, also from 2017, discusses many specific incidents, including "When at least 134 Sri Lankan peacekeepers were implicated in a child sex ring." This 2018 article informs us that "Few UN personnel have faced jail (the current number stands at 30), with even fewer being fined, demoted or removed from office." Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy. This is apparently how the UN "nurtures peace" in areas that are "recovering from conflict." Did I mention that we are talking about THE RAPE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN? Just wanted to throw that out there, as you ponder how seriously this is being taken by the UN. The articles linked to above are not exclusive, and this issue unfortunately did not begin in 2006. This Human Rights Watch article from 2016 is the first of these to mention that "Exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers and personnel has been reported since the 1990s." From the first 2017 article, above, we learn: “"The international body has also been accused of burying cases and failing to act promptly or transparently to incidents perpetrated by its troops."” Well, duh! It's the same problem with police in America, or the KGB in the Soviet Union! They see themselves as the top of the food chain! Who's going to stop them, other cops? Ha! Safeguarding Our Future We've all heard that "when the wicked rule the people mourn," (D&C 98:9, Prov. 29:2), but what should be of greater concern to us is the warning in the Book of Mormon that "ye cannot dethrone an iniquitous king save it be through much contention, and the shedding of much blood." (Mosiah 29:21) Who will you turn to when you are abused by a tyrannical world government? Where will you go? "The shedding of much blood," indeed. Oh, and in case you were wondering, "An AP investigation earlier this year found around 2,000 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse have been registered between 2005-2017." So there's really no reason people should be concerned about UN involvement in their area, is there? Notice that this number does not include anything from the 1990's up to 2005, nor explain why. We'll leave that to your imagination. Usurpation Of Delegated Authority Because a nation's borders keep their people safe, they are one of the top concerns of that nation's government. In America, this is one of the few Constitutional powers of the federal government–to protect our shared borders. Why would a nation care about the security of another nation's borders? It has nothing to do with them, especially when "protecting borders" means sending your own men and women to die. Yet, "The United Nations Charter gives the United Nations Security Council the power and responsibility to take collective action to maintain international peace and security." (United Nations peacekeeping", Wikipedia) This is the sovereign right of a nation, remember? If the UN was not already a de facto world government, why would they be involved? And why would nations let them? Yes, our birthright has been sold, America, and unfortunately we aren't the only ones. By now you should have a pretty good idea of the utter absurdity and hypocrisy of the United Nations condescending to tell the world how it might "have peace" and "recover from conflicts." As the John Birch Society has long urged, it's time to "Get the UN out of the US and get the US out of the UN!" We have a Constitution so that we can govern ourselves. UPDATE (2019-08-21): Please listen to the Defending Utah episode above! Ben touches on many other reasons the UN is not an entity of peace!
Lies, Big Lies, and COVID-19
Even though we are now several months into this whole Coronavirus/COVID-19 experience, it is still difficult to know what the truth is. About the virus itself, the response to the virus, future treatment options. While some things are still up in the air, there are several things we can be certain about, and they are discussed below. These are articles you probably have not seen before, and much of the information will be new to you. Please read them. They come from many different places, from mainstream news sources to the blogs of scientists. The main points are these, in no particular order: 1. The various responses to the Coronavirus all serve the agenda of the United Nations, of which the World Health organization (WHO) is a part. 2. These responses all serve to remove our freedoms and increase the surveillance state. 3. The testing and classification of who "has" COVID-19 is an unscientific farce. We have arbitrarily chosen to list these articles in chronological order. Each article is accompanied by our commentary, usually with a relevant quote from the article itself. We hope that the following will help you understand why so many people are a) refusing to wear a mask, and b) concerned about where this is all leading! Smartphone data reveal which Americans are social distancing (and not) March 24, 2020 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/24/social-distancing-maps-cellphone-location/ “If you have a smartphone, you’re probably contributing to a massive coronavirus surveillance system.” Interestingly, the Washington Post pointed out from the very beginning how this incident was immediately being used to thrust us all into the deep surveillance state. This was months before Apple and Google secretly installed contact tracing apps on our smartphones. Oh wait, it was just a "framework" for said apps to work? That's much better. 'Heartbreaking': Moms could be separated from their newborns under coronavirus guidelines March 26, 2020 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/03/26/pregnant-women-covid-19-could-separated-babies-birth/2907751001/ People said this would never happen. Guess what? It did. More than once. Here are some screenshots we received from People's Rights on June 10th: [1-People's Rights Text 01.jpg] The recipients responded immediately, and this follow-up text was sent about 3 hours later: [2-People's Rights Text 02.jpg] After about 5 hours total, the situation came to a positive conclusion: [3-People's Rights Text 03.jpg] Those parents were lucky enough to have a connection to the People's Rights group. Others are at least being threatened. The following was posted on Facebook within the past week: [4-St Luke's FB Msg.jpg] While the first story, with the text messages, above, had to do with a hospital in Washington State, this is in reference to St. Luke's Hospital, here in Boise, Idaho. COVID-19 Phone Location Tracking: Yes, It’s Happening Now—Here’s What You Should Know March 27, 2020 https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/27/covid-19-phone-location-tracking-its-moving-fast-this-is-whats-happening-now/ “ [T]here was an acknowledgement of this darker data mining in comments made by Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu on march 14. “All means will be used to fight the spread of the coronavirus,” he said, before referencing the use of the country’s counter-terror tech. “that until today I have refrained from using among the civilian population.”” Counter-terror technology will be used against the public… to fight coronavirus? That doesn't sound dystopian in any way, whatsoever, does it? PLEASE NOTE: We consider the following article to be the most important article on this page! If you do not read anything else, read this! Was the COVID-19 Test Meant to Detect a Virus? April 8, 2020 https://uncoverdc.com/2020/04/07/was-the-covid-19-test-meant-to-detect-a-virus/ We include here a collection of especially poignant statements from this article, but sincerely urge you to read it in its entirety! We apologize in advance for some of the language. ““What do we mean when we say a person “tests positive” for Covid-19? We don’t actually mean they have been found to “have” it. We’ve been hijacked by our technologies, but left illiterate about what they actually mean. In this case, I am in the rare position of having known, spent time with, and interviewed the inventor of the method used in the presently available Covid-19 tests, which is called PCR, (Polymerase Chain Reaction.)”” Note that PCR is the primary means of testing for coronavirus in use today. ““The number of “cases” is often a very big number, back-lit in red. Today for example, the number of “total cases,” in the US, according to Worldometer, is 309,728. The total death figure is 8,441. “Active cases,” is 286,546, of which 8,206 are “Serious, Critical.” The number of “new deaths” is 1,037, and the number of “total recovered” is 14,741. I’m not clear what an “active” case is. Does that mean fully symptomatic? Partially symptomatic? If the latter, it surely encompasses influenza/pneumonia, which has magically, as many have observed, dropped off a cliff for 2020.”” We often forget that definitions matter! Everyone keeps talking about "cases," and "spikes," without ever defining what they mean. In this situation, even the subtle nuances have vast consequences! ““Austrian MD Christian Fiala [wrote:] “during the first weeks most tests were done on sick people. Therefore, the percentage of positive tests was relatively high. But there are not so many sick people and with the general roll out of tests, the vast majority of those tested will be healthy. Consequently, the percentage of positive tests will be low, and most will be false positive. In other words, it is impossible to continue the increase of positive test results.”” Catch that? You probably need to read it again. “““You have to have a whopping amount of any organism to cause symptoms. Huge amounts of it,” Dr. David Rasnick, bio-chemist, protease developer, and former founder of an EM lab called Viral Forensics told me. “You don’t start with testing; you start with listening to the lungs. I’m skeptical that a PRC test is ever true. It’s a great scientific research tool. It’s a horrible tool for clinical medicine. 30% of your infected cells have been killed before you show symptoms. By the time you show symptoms…the dead cells are generating the symptoms.”” "I’m skeptical that a PRC test is ever true." Yes, he actually said that, and yes, that is, as we said earlier, the primary test being used for coronavirus today! “I asked Dr. Rasnick what advice he has for people who want to be tested for COVID-19. “Don’t do it, I say, when people ask me,” he replies. “No healthy person should be tested. It means nothing but it can destroy your life, make you absolutely miserable.”” To be clear, the PRC test was not meant to be used for its current task. Its results are extremely unreliable for this purpose. “… “Every time somebody takes a swab, a tissue sample of their DNA, it goes into a government database. It’s to track us,” says David Rasnick. “They’re not just looking for the virus. Please put that in your article.””” We had privately surmised that this might be the case, so we felt it important to include a scientist's comments on the matter. ““Yes, you read that right. Labs can manipulate how many 'cases’ of Covid-19 their country has.”” You'll have to read the article for the technical explanation of how this works, but it is apparently quite simple. “““There was a famous Chinese paper that estimated that if you’re testing asymptomatic people, up to 80% of positives could be false positive. That was kind of shocking, so shocking that PubMed had to withdraw the abstract even though the Chinese paper appears to still be published and available. I actually have a translation with a friend. I translated it into English and it’s a really, standard calculation of what they call positive predictive value. The abstract basically said that in asymptomatic populations, the chance of a positive coronavirus test being a true positive is only about 20%. 80% will be false positive.” “Doesn’t that mean the test means nothing?” I asked. “The Chinese analysis was a mathematical analysis, a standard, the standard analysis that’s been done a million times before. There’s no reason to withdraw the paper for any reason. There’s nothing dramatic about the paper. It’s a really boring analysis. It’s just that they did the standard analysis and said, in some populations, like they estimated 1% of people are actually infected in the population. You could have 80% false positive. Uh, they couldn’t do a real analysis of false positives in terms of determining whether a test is correct or not because that requires a gold standard and the only gold standard is purification of the virus. So, we get back to the fact that the virus is not being purified. If you could purify the virus, then you could take a hundred people who tested positive and you could search for the virus in them. And if you found the virus in 50 out of a hundred and not in the other 50, you could say that the test is only accurate 50% of the time. But we have no way to do that because we haven’t yet purified the virus. And I don’t think we ever will.””” "[W]e haven’t yet purified the virus." According to the article, this means that no one has actually isolated it yet, to pinpoint what it is exactly, and what gives it its own specific identity. Yep. ““Crowe described a case in the literature of a woman who had been in contact with a suspect case of Corona (in Wuhan) they believed was the index case. “She was important to the supposed chain of infection because of this. They tested her 18 times, different parts of the body, like nose, throat—different PCR tests. 18 different tests. And she tested negative every time. And then they—because of her epidemiological connection with the other cases, they said: “We consider her infected. So, they had 18 negative tests and they said she was infected.” “Now why was she important? Well there was only one other person who could have theoretically transmitted the virus if the original patient, outside the family was who they thought it was. But secondly, she had the same exact symptoms as everybody else. Right? So, four people in his family came down with fever and cough and headaches, fatigue and all these kinds of big symptoms. So, if she could get those symptoms without the virus, then you, you’ve got to say, well, why couldn’t everybody else’s symptoms be explained by whatever she had? I mean, maybe they, they ate some bad seafood or something and so they all got sick, but it had nothing to do with the coronavirus.”” So, it goes something like this: "Um, boss? 18 tests and no dice. What do we do?" "Well, without her the whole thing falls apart." "So…" "She's positive, of course! Lock her up!" ““Another interesting thing is that they did a lot of tests. The first person in the list of people tested, he was positive on three out of 11 tests. So again, they took nose and throat samples and you know, different methods and all this kind of stuff. And they got 11 separate tests and only three were positive. And of course, all you need to be considered infected is one positive test. They could test you 20 times and if you test positive once, then you’re infected. So, a positive test is meaningful. A negative test. It’s like, eh. Not so much.”” What kind of test comes back positive 3 out of 11 times? And what kind of doctor/scientists relies on such sketchy tests?!? US: Hospitals Get Paid $13K to List Patients as COVID-19 and $39K to Put Them on a Ventilator April 9, 2020 https://needtoknow.news/2020/04/us-hospitals-get-paid-13k-to-list-patients-as-covid-19-and-39k-to-put-them-on-a-ventilator “Republican state senator Scott Jensen, who is also a medical doctor, says the AMA is encouraging doctors to over-count coronavirus deaths. He revealed that “Medicare is determining that if you have a COVID-19 admission to the hospital you get $13,000. If that COVID-19 patient goes on a ventilator you get $39,000, three times as much.” Several days ago, he told local media he received a directive from the Minnesota Department of Health to list COVID-19 as the cause of death on death certificates even if patients were never tested for it. –G. Edward Griffin” This one is well-known by now, but we think it is entirely undervalued! Hospitals are businesses! This is a major conflict of interests! James Corbett also mentioned recently that putting someone on a ventilator is a serious medical intervention, and that, on a regular day, something on the order of 40% of people put on them die! But, oh, that was coronavirus. Governors of 10 States Will Require ‘Contact Tracing’ to Reopen April 15, 2020 https://needtoknow.news/2020/05/governors-of-10-states-will-require-contact-tracing-to-reopen If you look at the date, you will notice that this was already the language back when we were roughly a month into this whole debacle! It's almost as if it was previously decided. Dr. Ngozi Ezike | How COVID Deaths are Classified April 27, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw9Ci2PZKZg&feature=youtu.be “Everyone who is listed as a COVID death, doesn’t mean that was the cause of death, but that they had COVID at the time of death.” This is another one of those things most people (should) know about by now, but again is super important, as it means that the numbers being reported as "COVID deaths" are really, really not that. This also represents another conflict of interests, as there is big money for hospitals for reporting COVID deaths (this is discussed below). Gov. Little plans to distribute $300 million in cash grants to small businesses as state enters Stage 1 of reopening April 30, 2020 https://gov.idaho.gov/pressrelease/gov-little-plans-to-distribute-300-million-in-cash-grants-to-small-businesses-as-state-enters-stage-1-of-reopening/ Our "conservative" governor, here in Idaho, made sure to declare us to be in a state of "extreme emergency" right from the start, when we had exactly zero deaths, and only a small number of "cases". This assured him approximately $1.3 BILLION in federal funds. Declare non-existent pandemic. Check. Get loads of "free money." Check. Hooray for "redistributing the wealth!" New York Funeral Directors Say COVID-19 Deaths are Greatly Exaggerated April 30, 2020 https://needtoknow.news/2020/05/new-york-funeral-directors-say-covid-19-deaths-are-greatly-exaggerated/ “James O’Keefe of Project Veritas spoke to several funeral directors in New York who say the number of reported COVID-19 death is greatly exaggerated and that no one is testing. Funeral director Michael Lanza said that it was his opinion that NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is looking for federal funding and, the more COVID death certificate they can create, the more federal funds they receive.” -G. Edward Griffin” It is more than appropriate that this article follows the one above. The Farce and Diabolical Agenda of A “Universal Lockdown” May 1, 2020 https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-cruelty-universal-lockdown/5710798 “On January 30, WHO declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). At that time, there were only 150 known COVID-19 cases outside of China. No reason whatsoever to declare a pandemic.” Golly gee, it's almost like this was just an excuse for a planned incident…! Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Suggests People Who Promote Gatherings On Social Media Will Face Legal Action May 3, 2020 https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-suggests-people-who-promote-gatherings-on-social-media-will-face-legal-action “So, that means if you host a party, if you promote a party, if you go to a party, we’re not playing games, we mean business and we are going to shut this down one way or the other,” Lightfoot continued. “The time for educating people into compliance is over, don’t be stupid don’t come out, don’t advertise on social media, we’re watching you and we are going to take decisive action.”” This woman is an utter fool, as demonstrated by her recently recorded comments about wanting to hire city employees who pledge allegiance to the New World Order, but note the theme here: Stop thinking for yourselves! Big Brother knows what's best for you! Not only surveillance state, but promoting the police state, as well. * Fact-checking sites claim that the mayor's comments were somehow altered or taken out of context. We think the linked video makes it pretty clear that this is untrue. Tanzania suspends laboratory head after president questions coronavirus tests May 4, 2020 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tanzania/tanzania-suspends-laboratory-head-after-president-questions-coronavirus-tests-idUSKBN22G295 “Tanzania has suspended the head of its national health laboratory in charge of testing for the coronavirus and ordered an investigation, a day after President John Magufuli questioned the tests’ accuracy. Magufuli said on Sunday the imported test kits were faulty as they had returned positive results on a goat and a pawpaw — among several non-human samples submitted for testing, with technicians left deliberately unaware of their origins.” Oopsies. Well, that doesn't inspire trust in those tests, now, does it? Fever-detecting Drones and Other Intrusive Practices Grow Under COVID-19 May 4, 2020 https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/35634-fever-detecting-drones-and-other-intrusive-practices-grow-under-covid-19 “Fever-reading drones, thermal cameras, and other coronavirus policies are part of “a looming wave of intrusive technology and constitutionally questionable measures pushed by governments — from local to state to federal — under the mission of protecting a fearful community,”” Notice how fear-mongering plays into this. If they can keep you afraid, you won't fight them when they take away your freedoms. Whistleblower: CBS News Staged Fake COVID-19 Testing Line In Michigan May 6, 2020 https://needtoknow.news/2020/05/whistleblower-cbs-news-staged-fake-covid-19-testing-line-in-michigan “An insider came forward to Project Veritas with hidden camera recordings revealing how CBS News organized a fake coronavirus testing line at the Cherry Health facility in Grand Rapids, and used “fake patients” recruited from the medical staff to make the CBS news report look authentic. CBS denied staging the event and removed the Cherry Health portion from the piece.” -G. Edward Griffin” This was back when all the talk was still about "flattening the curve" (ie, keeping the hospitals from being overwhelmed with sick and dying), and all the mainstream media outlets were talking about huge lines for testing. All the while, emergency tents were being taken down because they never saw a single person. ’60 Minutes’ Exposes 1976 Swine Flu Hoax & Mass Vaccine Injuries That Followed May 7, 2020 https://needtoknow.news/2020/05/60-minutes-exposes-1976-swine-flu-hoax-mass-vaccine-injuries-that-followed/ “In 1976, the US government declared that everyone should take a vaccine to stop a national pandemic from the Swine flu. At that time, the US had a population of 218-million people, and 46-million took the vaccine. Four-thousand were injured by the vaccine and filed lawsuits for-$3.5 billion. Most of the claims were for neurological damage and death. According to 60 Minutes, the vaccine was never even tested, although the media propaganda proclaimed that it was safe and effective – and necessary to prevent the spread of a pandemic that never was.” -G. Edward Griffin” Sound familiar? We wonder why so many people are publicly declaring their opposition to this exact same scenario? It's almost like they don't want to repeat history, or something. Dr. Birx Reportedly Believes Coronavirus Death Toll Inflated By Up To 25% May 11, 2020 https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/11/doctor-deborah-birx-coronavirus-covid-19-death-toll-inflated-numbers-cases-cdc-white-house-meeting-report/ “Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force response coordinator, believes some official COVID-19 statistics like death tolls may be inflated by up to 25%, a new report states.” Again with the inflated death tolls. State to invest $7M in boosting contact tracing ability May 12, 2020 https://www.idahopress.com/coronavirus/state-to-invest-7m-in-boosting-contact-tracing-ability/article_6f1f4e8e-f0ae-5c92-bfbd-283f8f76de00.html Idaho will be spending $7 MILLION to track our every move. For a "pandemic" that still does not exist. CDC acknowledges mixing up coronavirus testing data May 21, 2020 https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/499085-cdc-acknowledges-mixing-up-coronavirus-testing-data What? The "professionals" at the CDC mixed up some unrelated and completely different data, and reported it as one number? That's hard to believe! (Note: We don't.) Also, other professionals also find it hard to believe, as evidenced by the quotes in the next article: ‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’ May 21, 2020 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/05/cdc-and-states-are-misreporting-covid-19-test-data-pennsylvania-georgia-texas/611935/ “The government’s disease-fighting agency is conflating viral and antibody tests, compromising a few crucial metrics that governors depend on to reopen their economies.” Remember that article with a ton of quotes, above? The one we said was super-important? Yeah, so that PRC test that was declared by its creator as unfit for medical diagnosis is the same one "that governors depend on to reopen their economies". That shouldn't concern you at all, though. Doctor Says COVID-19 Death Statistics are Criminally Fraudulent May 26, 2020 https://redpilluniversity.org/2020/05/27/doctor-says-covid-19-death-statistics-are-criminally-fraudulent/ “Dr. Pamela Popper, teacher and consultant in the field of nutrition-based medicine, reviews the COVID-19 death statistics and shows they are deliberately falsified to make the numbers larger than they really are.” "Deliberately." Before face masks, Americans went to war against seat belts May 26, 2020 https://www.businessinsider.com/when-americans-went-to-war-against-seat-belts-2020-5 This crappy article correctly identifies this as yet another step in the war of coercion versus liberty, and basically claims that since we allowed the federal government to take away our freedom previously, we should not have a problem with it now. Which, itself, is actually the problem. Oregon uses coronavirus data to make decisions about reopening. It refuses to release that data. June 3, 2020 https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/06/oregon-uses-coronavirus-data-to-make-decisions-about-reopening-it-refuses-to-release-that-data.html This is just like how NIST has still never released their data for calculating the collapse of WTC7, or Pelosi saying we could find out what was in the Obamacare bill after it had passed. Frankly, we don't trust anyone, especially not government. US company rolls out ‘health pass’ app to block ‘unhealthy’ users from airports, workplace June 4, 2020 https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/us-company-rolls-out-health-pass-app-to-block-unhealthy-users-from-airports-workplace “The 'health pass' service is being marketed for businesses to scan arriving employees at a workplace, giving them a passing or failing COVID-19 grade, which determines whether they can enter.” With tests that arbitrarily deem you positive or negative for coronavirus, now we have businesses and other locations who will use that to determine whether or not you have access to, say, your job. Choose not to comply with ridiculous mandates or policies because you now know how stupid this whole thing is? Too bad. You will be treated like a criminal. Didn't anyone else see that Black Mirror episode? French contact tracing app lays groundwork for ‘techno-police,’ group warns June 4, 2020 https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/french-contract-tracing-app-lays-groundwork-for-techno-police-group-warns “The app, called StopCovid, has raised a number of concerns regarding individual freedom and anonymity among both left-wing and right-wing citizens' rights groups.” Asymptomatic spread of coronavirus is ‘very rare,’ WHO says June 8, 2020 https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-coronavirus-patients-arent-spreading-new-infections-who-says.html What's "funny" is that the very next day, the WHO publicly denied this to be the case. Whew! That was a close one! If true, this would have meant an end to everything the UN has been able to convince people to implement so far. Think of all the Agenda 21/2030 goals they’ve suddenly been able to force on us that would no longer make any sense! Rights Suspended Under Martial Law and Active Duty Chapter of Idaho Code June 17, 2020 https://healthfreedomidaho.org/martial-law-rights-suspended/ This one will give you an overview of what dictatorial powers Governor Little has assumed while we are in a "state of emergency," and help to explain why he keeps extending it. It Finally Happened: Child Taken Due to COVID-19 June 17, 2020 https://parentalrights.org/it-finally-happened-child-taken-due-to-covid-19/ “Today in dependency court madness, LA County Dept. of Children and Family Services (DCFS) recommended that the court remove my client’s child from their physical custody after the parent tested positive for COVID-19. This is a non-offending parent. The judge ruled in favor of DCFS and detained.” As shown previously, these things are happening, but they aren't being made public! People's Rights got involved in the other case, which kept it from ending up on the news. Here, the individual's attorney is bringing it to light, although they are unable to provide details. Oregon health officials ‘have not seen any evidence’ of coronavirus spread at protests June 18, 2020 https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/06/oregon-health-officials-have-not-seen-any-evidence-of-coronavirus-spread-at-protests.html “[A]fter 21 days of statewide protests… some of them drawing thousands of participants, health officials know of only a handful of coronavirus patients who said they attended one.” For many people, this was when the silliness started to set in. You know, "as long as you are out being a Social Justice Warrior, you're magically protected from coronavirus!" Our Endless State of "Emergency" and De Facto Dictatorship June 25, 2020 https://mises.org/power-market/our-endless-state-emergency-and-de-facto-dictatorship “But even this highly moderate view of Hayek's would be an immense improvement from the current status quo, which is one in which governors can appoint themselves de facto dictators for an open-ended amount of time, and in which the only way of ending the one-man rule is for the legislature to take extraordinary measures.” This accurately describes what has happened here in Idaho. Modelers Were ‘Astronomically Wrong’ in COVID-19 Predictions, Says Leading Epidemiologist—and the World Is Paying the Price July 2, 2020 https://fee.org/articles/modelers-were-astronomically-wrong-in-covid-19-predictions-says-leading-epidemiologist-and-the-world-is-paying-the-price/ While this article isn't earth-shattering, it was a good excuse to post that title. The Recent Spikes in COVID-19 Cases Represents a Patently Fake Increase July 7, 2020 http://stateofthenation.co/?p=19396 “New definitions for designating Covid-19 cases have been distributed by the Department of State Health Services in Texas… In the new case definition contact tracing is included to report other people who were in contact with the one person who physically tested positive.” So, in Texas, "cases" now include anyone they can trace to a person who has tested positive, Whether or not they have been tested themselves, and whether or not they are sick. Makes sense… OPERATION COVID-19 is pushing Western Civilization into the Third World July 7, 2020 http://stateofthenation.co/?p=19415 Large and powerful organizations like the World Economic Forum are currently planning to use this “pandemic” as a way to push something called “The Great Reset,” about which they say: “”…the world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed. In short, we need a “Great Reset” of capitalism.”” This is another of the most important things we hope you will take away from this article. Globalists want to use it–and are using it!–to destroy everything we hold dear. My investigation of COVID-19 July 7, 2020 https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2020/07/07/my-investigation-of-covid-19/ “Drug companies make money on the vaccine and the drugs used to treat COVID-19 patients. State governments receive federal money to “fight the virus.” Researchers win promotions. Public health agencies obtain more funding, and more power. Financiers buy up devalued properties at bargain prices. At the top of the ladder, key plotters contrive selling the story of a new killer virus, because they intend to use it to lock down the planet. Why? Because they want to torpedo economies and move in on the wreckage and build a new economic, social, and political world order.” Jon Rappaport is a good journalist, but this is the most important quote from this article, and it belongs right here, beneath the article above. Should We Trust The Covid Tests? Jul7 8, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hac3ibzFf2E Many people do not know that former presidential candidate, Senator Ron Paul, is also a doctor. They discuss, among other things, the fact that a professional baseball player has received two positive and two negative test results within a period of 10 days. “[T]wo Texas counties are threatening felony charges against those with positive tests who do not stay home.” Does this make sense when “It’s No Longer a Felony to Knowingly Infect Someone with HIV-AIDS in California“? Well, it makes about as much sense as letting actual criminals out of jail because coronavirus, just to turn around and put people in jail because they violated lockdown orders by going to church. Politics Influences the Science of COVID-19 July 8, 2020 https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2020/07/08/politics-influences-the-science-of-covid-19/ “I’m writing here about two issues: (1) Numbers reported by CDC have been gamed to make it appear that America is in the second wave of a pandemic. Instead of reporting COVID deaths, they began reported COVID cases. Then they conflated recovered individuals (who test positive for antibodies) with current cases (who test positive for the active virus). No wonder numbers are rising! (2) A new report featured prominently in Nature purports to show that lockdowns have stemmed the spread of the virus and have saved lives. The article is by the same team whose flawed models produced apocalyptic predictions last March that justified lockdowns in Europe and the US.” Another good article that deserves a full read-through. 3 States Account for 42 Percent of All COVID-19 Deaths in America. Why? July 9, 2020 https://fee.org/articles/3-states-account-for-42-percent-of-all-covid-19-deaths-in-america-why/ “In some ways, COVID-19 data are like a Rorschach blot from which writers, politicians, and experts can glean whatever conclusions they wish to find.” These three states skew the numbers for the entire country. NBC Guest Doctor Who Was Suffering from Coronavirus in Hospital in TV Interviews — NEVER HAD CORONAVIRUS! July 10, 2020 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/wow-nbc-guest-doctor-suffering-coronavirus-hospital-tv-interviews-never-coronavirus-video/ “An NBC medical expert who was brought on air nearly a dozen times to detail his struggle with COVID-19 never had the virus, he revealed this week.” More shenanigans from the mainstream media, as they try to push the official narrative about coronavirus. And they wonder why people no longer trust them. Further Research The people over at FreedomMan.org have also assembled a bunch of articles on this topic, which you may find interesting: List of Fake News and Propaganda About COVID-19 https://freedomman.org/2020/fake-news-and-propaganda-about-covid-19/ Credits Coronavirus used in cover image: centennialco.gov
Amazon has booted Black Lives Matter off its charity portal as BLM faces intense scrutiny over its opaque financing and missing $60 million in donations
What you need to know is that Amazon understood what they were funding. This is a public CYA move, now that this is going public.
2020-12-21 Vaccination, Obfuscation, and Manipulation
In today's video: Do-It-Yourself COVID tests! Pretend vaccination on live TV! Facebook pretends to run VPN in order to steal your data! Zoom works with Communist China to censor live chats! The More Things Change, The More They Remain The Same! Please donate today! https://liberapay.com/defendingidaho/donate ============= FDA staff recommends watching for Bell’s palsy in Moderna and Pfizer vaccine recipients https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/15/fda-staff-recommends-watching-for-bells-palsy-in-moderna-and-pfizer-vaccine-recipients.html Suburban Hospital Temporarily Pauses Vaccinations ‘Out of Abundance of Caution' Following Adverse Reactions https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/suburban-hospital-suspends-covid-19-vaccinations-after-adverse-reactions/2398756/ Doctor Gets Vaccinated Live (Or Not) https://www.facebook.com/629166898/posts/10157583715236899/?app=fbl CDC PDF Listing Number of Health Impact Events https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-2020-12/slides-12-19/05-COVID-CLARK.pdf COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 21 December https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/12/covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic-21-december/ F.D.A. Authorizes the First At-Home Coronavirus Test https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/17/world/covid-19-coronavirus Deleted Klaus Schwab Tweet https://www.facebook.com/731551330/posts/10157340014926331/?app=fbl Klaus Schwab Twitter Account https://twitter.com/ProfKlausSchwab Twitter, Instagram censor video of airline kicking family off for child’s refusal to mask https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/twitter-instagram-censor-video-of-airline-kicking-family-off-for-childs-refusal-to-mask#When:20:50:00Z Corona Mask Mandates: Science or Political Dogma? https://www.globalresearch.ca/mask-mandates-science-political-dogma/5732682 AUSTRALIA SUES FACEBOOK OVER ONAVO VPN IT USED AS SPYWARE https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/12/18/australia-facebook-onavo JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CHARGES ZOOM WITH SUPPRESSING U.S. CALLS ABOUT TIANANMEN SQUARE, AT BEHEST OF CHINA https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/12/18/zoom-china Bonus: Should You Still Use Zoom? (Hint: Security is not the Issue Anymore) https://www.allthingssecured.com/tips/stop-using-zoom/ Bonus: Zoom reinstalling itself after a minute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AL28s9An5k Which Social Media Platform Can We Trust? https://defendingidaho.org/articles/42/which-social-media-platform-can-we-trust Hearing Without Listening https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2020/12/hearing-without-listening/ The H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating Data to Enrich Drug Companies https://www.globalresearch.ca/h1n1-swine-flu-pandemic-manipulating-data-enrich-drug-companies/5732700 The More Things Change, The More They Remain The Same https://www.navigationnorth.com/news/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-remain-the-same/ “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/111024-those-who-don-t-know-history-are-doomed-to-repeat-it Public school enrollments down as parents start noticing liberal propaganda https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/public-school-enrollments-down-as-parents-start-noticing-liberal-propaganda#When:11:00:00Z The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail (1999-09-01) by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/deliberate-dumbing-down/
Big Tech collusion with intelligence agencies has become a pillar of gov’t surveillance
We highly recommend you read the Social Engineering page of our Resources section: https://defendingidaho.org/social_engineering.
What's Wrong With Hate Crime Laws?
An Irish website recently posted a fantastic article, outlining why they oppose "hate crime" laws. We think they make excellent points, so we are re-publishing the article here, in its entirety: 10 reasons hate crime laws are terrifying nonsense Posted by John McGuirk | Nov 16, 2020 | Comment Ireland, Irish News On Friday, we reported on the contents of Fianna Fáil’s new Hate Crime Bill, which will be debated in the Seanad this week. Ahead of that debate, it is worth setting out for our readers why we at Gript believe hate crime laws are one of the worst ideas ever introduced by Irish politicians. Here are ten reasons why they should be opposed, at all cost: 1. They criminalise thought – unlike any other law Say what you want about hate speech laws, but they don’t criminalise thought. To fall foul of a hate speech law you have to actually say something and be heard say it. There must be actual evidence that you said the criminal thing. The same goes for pretty much every other crime. Not so with hate crime laws. The crime in a hate crime is not what you did, it is what you thought. To successfully prosecute a hate crime, you must prove that the person who committed the crime was motivated by hate. But only a particular kind of hate, because…. 2. Only some kinds of hate are illegal Imagine a situation where a husband finds out that his wife has been sleeping with another man. Imagine that the husband then seeks out that other man, and physically assaults him. What is the motive there? Is it jealousy? Or is it hate? It is perfectly possible that a spurned husband might be acting with malice, and out of hate. But under the law, that would not be a hate crime. It is only a hate crime if the victim is in a protected group. Paradoxically, if the husband beat up a racial minority and declared that he did so because he hated him for sleeping with his wife, that’s not a hate crime, even though the crime has been committed with hate in the attacker’s heart. It’s only a hate crime if your hate is directed at a specific group, not an individual. But on the other hand, if in the course of beating him up, he called him a racial slur, it would be a hate crime. Makes sense, right? 3. Hate is a feeling. What other feelings are criminal? Love. Hate. Jealousy. Anger. Lust. What do these have in common? They’re all feelings. Nearly every crime is motivated by feelings of some sort or other. Why are we only legislating to make one negative feeling criminal? If a corrupt politician is guilty of lining his pockets, why is that just “corruption” instead of, say, a “greed crime”? If a man is arrested for visiting prostitutes, why is that simply solicitation, instead of “lust crime?” Those concepts are absurd, of course. Nobody would ever introduce a “greed crime” law because the idea of criminalising feelings is nonsensical, even when they are negative feelings. So why are we trying to do it with hate? 4. No other crime is judged purely by motive Even in America, where they have first, second, and third degree murder, crimes are not ranked by motive. If you kill and dismember somebody because, like Hannibal Lecter, you’re a cannibal, then your cannibalism isn’t taken into account. You don’t get more time or less time than somebody who kills and dismembers a person because, say, they wanted to inherit the victim’s money. Greed or cannibalism – the motive doesn’t matter. Only what you did. The only time motive matters is if it is exculpatory – for example, the classic example of someone speeding to the hospital because there’s a woman in labour in the car. But there is no other crime where the motive itself is the crime. It is not a crime to want your parents to leave you all their money in their will. It’s only a crime if you forge their will before or after they die. In every other area of criminal law, the action, not the motive, is the crime. This has served us well for two thousand years. 5. They create protected classes of citizens Imagine two people, who have both had their legs broken with a sledgehammer. One is a little old lady who has been attacked by thugs who tortured her to get her to reveal the money she had under her mattress. The other is a gay man who’s been attacked by people who hate gay people. Both crimes are horrendous, but hate crime laws make it so that one of them has actually suffered a worse crime than the other. Is that true? Hate crime laws by definition elevate one group of victims above another, and make it so that one of those crimes carries an additional sentence. The little old lady, in this scenario, actually gets less justice because she’s not gay, or black, or a traveller, or whatever. Is that right? Of course, it’s not. 6. They require juries to breach the “reasonable doubt” standard Human beings are not mind readers. There is, simply, no scenario known to man where one person can be completely sure what another person was thinking at the time they committed a particular act. Hate crimes must be prosecuted purely on the basis of what somebody was thinking when they committed a particular crime. But a criminal conviction, in front of a jury, must meet the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard of proof. In what situation can there be no reasonable doubt about what somebody was thinking when they committed a crime? The reason that court cases proceed on the basis of physical, forensic, and expert evidence is that those things can be established beyond reasonable doubt. We can say for certain that person X was in a particular location at a particular time. We can say that their DNA is certainly at the crime scene. We can say that the crime was committed at a certain time. We can prove that somebody said something. All of those things are provable. It is impossible to prove what somebody was thinking at a particular time. A jury that says that they have no reasonable doubt about someone’s thoughts or motives is a jury that is lying. 7. They pre-judge the accused, and there is basically no possible defence Dear reader: Tell me, now, what the evidence is that you, reading this, do not hate Chinese people. Imagine you are in court, accused of a hate crime. You stand accused of holding hateful views about Chinese people. The evidence presented is that you had posted on facebook three times in 2011 about animal welfare abuse in China, and once, five years ago, you had referred to Chinese athletes as “Chinks” in a whatsapp conversation about the Olympics. The prosecution says this is evidence that you have prejudice against Chinese people. How do you disprove that? You basically end up like Father Ted, in front of the jury, desperately trying to prove that you are not a racist. But how do you do it? Have a think about that one, while you consider point 8: 8. They do nothing to actually prevent hate crimes Here’s the thing about most crimes: The people who commit them do not particularly expect to get caught. Be honest with yourself, dear reader: How many times have you personally broken the speed limit? Did the limit deter you, or did you think “it’s 1.30am, nobody’s on the road, doing 130kph instead of 120kph is worth the risk”. And that’s only a minor crime. Very few people who commit serious crime expect to get caught. And as such, the criminal penalties aren’t actually a deterrent. Making drug use illegal has not resulted in drug use becoming extinct. Similarly, you can’t legislate and criminalise racism and bigotry out of existence. Besides, hate crimes are already illegal. If you attack and injure somebody, then that is already a crime. If those crimes are still happening, then that suggests that the law has little deterrent effect as it is. Adding another sticker on to it is not going to have any impact. 9. They turn minority groups into victim classes, regardless of actual status Hate crime laws actually reinforce societal divisions by formalising in law the idea that some groups of people are in a victim class, while others are in an oppressor class. This is not true in practice, and the concept of such a demarcation risks undermining social cohesion. Try explaining to a poor homeless white person why the state is creating special crimes to protect the wealthy gay couple who live in the apartment block in the door of which the homeless person seeks shelter. The idea that somebody is more of a victim in society purely because of their gender identity, sexual orientation, skin colour, or religion completely ignores the competing socio-economic circumstances of people living in a country. In time, this will breed more resentment than it does tolerance. 10. They create a horrible precedent If “hate” itself is a crime, then what’s the argument for limiting “hate crimes” to simply acts of violence? Already we see moves to criminalise speech, and journalism, and words because they are hateful, even though they are inherently non-violent. But why stop at words? In fact, why stop at actions at all? What if inaction is perceived to be motivated by hate? For example, what about a teacher or a college lecturer who refuses to wear a rainbow pin on their collar during LGBTI awareness week? Surely a reasonable person can infer from that some level of opposition to the LGBTI cause, no? Does it rise to hate? Who knows, but surely it’s worthy of investigation? What about somebody who laughs at a racist joke? Obviously the person who tells the racist joke is guilty, in this new regime, of hate speech. But what about the person who finds it funny, and laughs? Are they not likely to come under suspicion, too? It all comes back, in the end, to point one: Hate crime laws are thought crime laws. They make thinking certain things, in some circumstances, criminally prosecutable. Once we open that door, and say that yes, some thoughts are criminal, we will find it very hard to close again. Original: https://gript.ie/10-reasons-hate-crime-laws-are-terrifying-nonsense/ The prophet Isaiah warned us that Satan seeks to "make a man an offender for a word." (Isa. 29:21) This has always been so, and it is even so now.