There’s only one plausible explanation for continuing silence on excess deaths: governments, media and regulators are frightened of what the research may uncover
During the pandemic, the challenge for each of us was to maintain critical distance: spurning both the tribalism of those insisting Covid was a hoax and the counter-tribalism of those who demanded complete acquiesence to a corporate-political agenda dictated by Big Pharma under the mantle of “Follow the science”.
Fear of living under Big Brother or of dying from plague drove many people not only into the arms of one of these two oppositional camps but fuelled a pandemic mania in which reason and compassion were replaced with either extreme cynicism or extreme compliance.
We are still living with the consequences.
There has been a spate of “excess deaths” over the past two years across the West – well above what would normally be expected – and yet this sustained trend is being universally ignored by governments, establishment media and medical bodies.
No one is protesting. The cult of compliance is still in the ascendant.
More on that in a moment.
But it is worth first revisiting briefly the climate of intolerance and willed ignorance that predominated at the height of the pandemic, as I documented in real time in a series of essays that upset more of my readers than any I had written before.
It was always unwarranted to press for vaccine mandates, if only because they violated the critically important principle of bodily autonomy.
But the demand became completely unhinged once it was clear – as it was much earlier than publicly let on by Big Pharma, the World Health Organisation and national regulators – that the vaccines were doing little to halt virus transmission.
Similarly, it was always unethical to insist that children should be routinely given the vaccine and boosters when it was evident that the virus posed no threat to the overwhelming majority of them – and all the more so given that the mRNA vaccines were based on a new technology whose development had been rushed through on an emergency licence.
By definition, no one could know the long-term effects of mRNA vaccines on humans because there had been no long-term studies.
Excess mortality in Finland, Norway, Denmark and UK. Look closely at the graphs. Not random change but manmade and caused by the horrific corona-crisis handling with ignorant lockdowns aso. Every number has a name #ExcessDeathspic.twitter.com/86Fo4fC4x4
The science was built on a wing and a prayer, which is part of the reason the Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisation, the British government’s official advisory body on vaccinations, demurred for so long, and despite huge political pressure, on recommending vaccination for children.
LIVE | Suspended eviction. The lawyer who defends @csonabat3 tells the people and groups mobilized this morning at the gates of the Albert Germans factory (San José) that he has received official notification of the suspension of the eviction “without a new date”
CSO Nabat 3 (former Fàbrica Albert Germans) was threatened with “administrative eviction” by the Hospitalet de Llobregat Council (Socialist Party PSC).”CSO Nabat 3 (formerly the Albert Germans Factory)
This is a rare type of ‘instant eviction’ that can only be used by the public administration.As far as we are concerned, the City Council is trying to evict us ex officio (without going through the courts 🏛) , violating the “guarantees” that a trial could provide.
The old textile factory from 1928, demolished and abandoned since 2007 and with municipal ownership since 2016, was recovered (squatted) in…
The massive arrival of African emigrants to European shores is a consequence of the disastrous policy of NATO and Brussels towards the Black Continent. The assassination of Gaddafi and the destruction of Libya in 2011 opened a Pandora’s box.
Brussels had to put a lot of money on the table for the fragile Libyan government to prevent emigrants from leaving for Europe, and the remedy turned out to be worse than the disease, as we explained in a previous post.
Now it does the same with Tunisia, which is a departure point for thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe. Under the impulse of the Italian fascist Meloni, Brussels will finance the government of Kaied Saied to control migratory flows in the Mediterranean and prevent them from reaching Europe.
Yesterday Ursula von der Leyen signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tunisian government for a “comprehensive strategic partnership” related to the fight against irregular immigration, the country’s economic development and renewable energy.
Von der Leyen has welcomed the signing of an agreement to “invest in shared prosperity”, referring to the “five pillars”, within which emigration control is included.
According to the UNHCR, 51,215 illegal immigrants arrived in Italy by sea this year, 150 percent more than the previous year. Almost half came from Tunisia and the other half from Libya. A thousand immigrants died or disappeared in the Mediterranean during that period.
But if Libya has turned emigrants into slaves, Tunisia is not going to do any better because in February its government condemned immigration and propagates openly racist discourse. The “hordes of immigrants” from sub-Saharan Africa may “change the demographic composition” of the country, says the government.
Brussels puts its favorite policy back into practice: leaving the fox in the care of the chickens. Why do they sign an agreement on emigration with a racist government?
As in the case of Libya, it is possible to even think much worse and conclude that what the European Union is financing is racism in North Africa, as a containment barrier against the arrival of emigrants.
Perhaps from now on the tomb of the emigrants will not be the waters of the Mediterranean, but the sandy roads of Tunisia, where many of them have been murdered.
Without going any further, last week there were clashes between immigrants and neighbors in Sfax, where the bodies of 13 immigrants appeared.
On July 3, there were also clashes in the same town, which resulted in the death of a resident. In retaliation, hundreds of them were expelled from the town and transferred to inhospitable areas on the borders with Libya and Algeria, without water, shelter or food. Among them were children and pregnant women.
La Unión Europea financia a Túnez para contener a los emigrantes
La llegada masiva de emigrantes africanos a las costas europeas es consecuencia de la desastrosa política de la OTAN y de Bruselas hacia el Continente Negro. El asesinato de Gadafi y la destrucción de Libia en 2011 abrieron la caja de Pandora.
Bruselas tuvo que poner mucho dinero encima de la mesa para que el frágil gobierno libio impidiera la salida de emigrantes hacia Europa, y el remedio resultó peor que la enfermedad, como ya expusimos en una entrada anterior.
Ahora hace lo mismo con Túnez, que es un punto de partida para miles de inmigrantes que cruzan el Mediterráneo hacia Europa. Bajo el impulso de la fascista italiana Meloni, Bruselas financiará al gobierno de Kaied Saied para controlar los flujos migratorios en el Mediterráneo e impedir que lleguen a Europa.
Ayer Ursula von der Leyen firmó con el gobierno de Túnez un memorando de entendimiento para una “asociación estratégica integral” relacionada con la lucha contra la inmigración irregular, el desarrollo económico del país y las energías renovables.
Von der Leyen se ha felicitado por la firma de un acuerdo para “invertir en la prosperidad compartida”, refiriéndose a los “cinco pilares”, dentro del cuando se incluye el control de la emigración.
Según el ACNUR, este año llegaron a Italia 51.215 inmigrantes ilegales por mar, un 150 por cien más que el año anterior. Casi la mitad procedían de Túnez y la otra mitad de Libia. Mil inmigrantes murieron o desaparecieron en el Mediterráneo durante ese período.
Pero si Libia ha convertido a los emigrantes en esclavos, Túnez no lo va a hacer mejor porque en febrero su gobierno condenó la inmigración y propaga un discurso abiertamente racista. Las “hordas de inmigrantes” procedentes del África subsahariana pueden “cambiar la composición demográfica” del país, dice el gobierno.
Bruselas vuelve a poner en práctica su política favorita: dejar al zorro al cuidado de las gallinas. ¿Por qué firman un acuerdo sobre emigración con un gobierno racista?
Como en el caso de Libia, es posible incluso pensar mucho peor y concluir que lo que está financiado la Unión Europea es el racismo en el norte de África, como barrera de contención contra la llegada de emigrantes.
Quizá a partir de ahora la tumba de los emigrantes no sean las aguas del Mediterráneo, sino los caminos arenosos de Túnez, donde muchos de ellos han sido asesinados.
Sin ir más lejos, la semana pasada se produjeron enfrentamientos entre inmigrantes y vecinos en Sfax, donde aparecieron los cadáveres de 13 emigrantes.
El 3 de julio también se produjeron enfrentamientos en la misma localidad, que se saldaron con la muerte de un residente. Como represalia, cientos de ellos fueron expulsados de la localidad y traladados a zonas inhóspitas en las fronteras con Libia y Argelia, sin agua, refugio ni alimentos. Entre ellos había niños y mujeres embarazadas.
Hey everyone, I’m Mnar Adley, founder and director of MintPress News and editor of our video project “Behind the Headlines.”
This decade has felt like a whirlwind, watching in real time the crackdown on independent journalism and alternative voices.
In the last year alone, MintPress was banned from PayPal with our balance seized, blocking donations to our website –and as leaked emails reveal, this took place with possible involvement of British intelligence and the U.S. government.
At the same time, GoFundMe took down our fundraisers and banned us from their platform.
Our journalists have been detained, interrogated, surveilled, canceled and lobbied against by national security agencies and special interest groups, including directly by the Israel lobby. Our Wikipedia page has been written and managed by a mafia of pro-NATO editors and Israeli lobby groups. This, in addition to aggressive algorithmic blacklisting by Google’s Project Owl…
LIVE | Suspended eviction. The lawyer who defends @csonabat3 tells the people and groups mobilized this morning at the gates of the Albert Germans factory (San José) that he has received official notification of the suspension of the eviction “without a new date”
CSO Nabat 3 (former Fàbrica Albert Germans) was threatened with “administrative eviction” by the Hospitalet de Llobregat Council (Socialist Party PSC).”CSO Nabat 3 (formerly the Albert Germans Factory)
This is a rare type of ‘instant eviction’ that can only be used by the public administration.As far as we are concerned, the City Council is trying to evict us ex officio (without going through the courts 🏛) , violating the “guarantees” that a trial could provide.
The old textile factory from 1928, demolished and abandoned since 2007 and with municipal ownership since 2016, was recovered (squatted) in August 2022 by a group of people who during almost some have dynamized the space with named activities.
They have gathered presentations, round tables, talks and concerts, there with assemblies of different collectives from the city: from the local PAH or the Antirepressive Platform of Barcelona, to the regional environmental platform SOS Baix Llobregat i l’Hospitalet.
In addition, they work weekly in a community vegetable plot in the gardens outside the factory, with the collaboration of several activists from the city.
Hospitalet is a large working class area joined onto Barcelona with a separate City Council making it the 4th or 5th biggest city in the Spanish State
📸 EN DIRECTE | Suspès el desallotjament. L'advocat que defensa el @csonabat3 comunica a la gent i col·lectius mobilitzats aquest matí a les portes de la fàbrica Albert Germans (Sant Josep) que ha rebut notificació oficial de la suspensió del llançament “sense nova data” pic.twitter.com/tjebbFd2Uj
Last week was a “watershed week”. And it seems that this one is also, – though for a largely different reason. The Ukraine-NATO thing is a mess. The Western media continues to religiously recite the story of Ukraine’s successful “counter-offensive”. But there’s whisper of dissension in NATO, and even some whispered criticism of Volodymyr Zelensky .
But really – the big watershed thing is global heating. At last, the media seems to be abandoning the pretense that global heating effects happen to hit one country, then another – sort of separately. It is becoming obvious that global heating is a global event – at least now enveloping the Northern part of the globe. (We in the cooler South are still comfortably preoccupied with sport, as the major event)
One of the most formative moments of my life was when I was running a small eco blog called Earth Mums in the mid-00s which focused on consumer solutions to the problem of environmental destruction.
Back then I still believed that while capitalism was driving the destruction of our biosphere, it could still be hacked into being part of the solution in some ways.
I got a call from a biofuels startup who saw my work with Earth Mums and wanted to hire me to write search engine-friendly articles to draw traffic to their website.
I went to their office for a meeting, and while I was waiting I listened to the three partners — real high-octane entrepreneur types — laughing and talking about the various business plates they were spinning.
One of them had apparently just come back from a consulting job for a product called Lectric Soda, which Earth Mums had a lot of affection for because it was an environmentally friendly household cleaning compound that you could buy for less than a dollar a bag.
“Don’t tell me, lemme guess: you told ’em to double the price?” asked one of the partners.
“I told ’em to quadruple it!” said the consultant guy.
I found it incredibly sleazy how they were making a product that could actually help make households a kinder to the environment less accessible while presenting themselves as eco warriors who want to save the planet.
I told them I charge way more than I knew they’d ever pay me for the job and got the hell out of there, but lo and behold I did see Lectric Soda shoot up in price fourfold shortly thereafter.
It left me so deflated and disheartened I wound up shutting down Earth Mums. I could see that these guys and people like them were going to turn consumer ecological responsibility into this trendy elite thing priced way out of range for normal people, and that’s exactly what ended up happening.
It wasn’t long before I saw the arrival of eco chic and Whole Foods and Tesla and the rest of this whole new luxury market designed to let rich people feel good about themselves while the world burns and create the illusion that we can profiteer our way out of our problems.
It was just such an in-your-face illustration of the problem. Lectric Soda wasn’t improved in quality, didn’t become harder to make or more difficult to obtain, the supply and demand remained the same; the price was changed because the market would bear it.
The hidden hand of the market was not going to magically restore the product to its “correct” value; the value of such products was going to be determined by the narrative manipulations of entrepreneurs, consultants, con-artists, marketeers and ad-men.
“Let the market decide” really means let the manipulators decide, because the markets are dominated by those who excel at manipulating.
We’re taught that letting the market decide means letting supply and demand take its natural course, as though we’re talking about ocean tides or seasons or something, but in reality both supply and demand are manipulated constantly with extreme aggression.
Manipulating the supply of diamonds. Manipulating the supply of housing.
Manipulating the supply of oil. Manipulating people into wanting things they’d never thought to want before through advertising.
Manipulating women into feeling bad about their bodies so they’ll buy your beauty products.
Manipulating people into paying $2000 for a $20 bag using branding.
Manipulating people into buying Listerine by inventing the word “halitosis” and convincing them to be worried about it.
Manipulating people into believing Beanie Babies were prized collectors items when they were just standard stuffed toys.
Capitalism gives us a civilization that is dominated by trickery. Those who get to the top are those who succeed in tricking as many people as possible.
Tricking them into paying more. Tricking them into buying your product and not someone else’s. Tricking people who actually produce something of value into making you their middle man who gets paid despite producing nothing. Tricking competitors into making the wrong move. Tricking people into asking their doctor about your extremely lucrative pharmaceutical product. Tricking people into buying or selling certain stocks or cryptocurrencies or NFTs. Tricking people by using the legal system and your team of lawyers who understand it better than normal people do. Tricking people into letting you privatize their own drinking water and then selling it back to them in bottles.
It’s a scam competition.
Whoever scams the best wins. How can you save the planet from destruction by human behavior when all of human behavior is driven by a bizarre scam competition? And the biggest scam of all is the narrative that this system is totally working and is entirely sustainable.
That’s the overarching scam holding all the other scams together.
Proponents of capitalism often decry socialism as a coercive system that people are forced to participate in, but what the hell do you call this?
Did any of us sign up to be thrown into the middle of a giant unending scam competition?
What if I don’t want to spend my whole life being subjected to people’s attempts to trick me? What if I don’t want to live in a society where everyone’s trying to trick and scam each other instead of collaborating toward the greater good of our world?
Guess what? I don’t consent to any of that. I am being coerced into this.
Whenever you talk about the destructiveness and depravity of capitalism online you’ll get people saying “Hurr hurr, and yet here you are participating in capitalism” like that’s an own instead of the exact problem that’s being discussed.
Yes! Yes I am coerced into participating in a capitalist society in order to pay the bills and stay alive. That’s the problem I’m trying to address here.
It’s like prisoners complaining about the prison system and being called hypocrites because they are in prison.
I’m convinced that this is a huge factor in the mental health crises our society is experiencing today.
We’re trapped in this system where we’re constantly being psychologically pummelled with an endless barrage of messaging trying to make us think and feel and desire and loathe specific things for no other reason than because it will make someone money.
How can mental health prevail in a civilization where everyone’s mind is continuously being yanked this way and that by mass-scale psychological manipulation?
Capitalism poisons our minds as much as it poisons our air and our water.
It’s already so, so bad and it’s set to get so, so much worse, and we’re so, so far from any real changes in our political status quo looking anywhere remotely achievable.
All we can do is keep drawing attention to this in as many ways as we can, and hoping enough people open their eyes and start to see what’s needed.
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