How we're being pro-vaxxed into Ukraine
I'm double-shot vaccinated. And boosted. I feel the need to tell you that at the outset. Additionally, I want to say that I would love for my employer to mandate the vaccine for my colleagues. It's a clear matter of worker safety, as far as I'm concerned. Your rights end where the next person's begin. But here's where our autocratic government begins to struggle- with the first line item in its Constitution.
It begins with the reality that we have privatized our freedom of speech. And this is not a bug in the system, it's a feature. Big tech companies under the private control of billionaires-- and facing a constant barrage of hearings from a partisan Congress-- hold a tightening grip on our modern platforms of speech. Congressional reps are constantly putting their fingers on the scale in order to influence what should and should not be allowed on these platforms. It has become a pathology of American liberalism. You get a taste for that power of silencing someone and you only want more. It is not simply the "consequences" of speech, therefore, as they claim when they attempt to silence, it is government pressure being applied to Constitutionally-protected dissent.
I don't agree with everything Joe Rogan has said on his podcast. I don't agree with everything I've said on this blog. It's not the point. There is no greater threat to our democracy at this time than our government's attempt to define "misinformation." Its overreach explains why pitchforks are being sharpened. The party in charge of each of the presidency, the Senate, and the Congress is bleeding voters. The purported threat of "misinformation" capable of clouding our brain puts us under the protection of so-called "experts." Who are these experts? Well, in the case of Covid-19 and its spread, they are the medical professionals and the researchers-- and god bless 'em. But they are also the vaccine manufacturers at Big Pharma, the people whose advertisements sometimes seem to be the only ones sponsoring your favorite news programs. Before we privatized our freedom of speech, we privatized our public and personal health.
Our government does not care about your health. Let's just be clear about that. Vaccine policies and public health policies have not been different under a President Biden than they were under a President Trump. The same dance of school closings and re-openings has continued. The rhetoric might be different but the policies aren't. Dr. Anthony Fauci is still in charge. Biden can push out items he knows will be rejected, never seeing the light of day, and he can talk the talk they always talk, but trust me, if there wasn't a Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to absorb the liberal wrath for maintaining the status quo right down the line, there would be two others, or three others, or four, if need be. That's how it works. Fifteen years ago, we had the same Democratic control of both the executive and legislative branches-- for two years (like this time)-- and that time it was the lack of a "super-majority" that was to blame for why the Democratic president couldn't deliver on the change he promised. When you read the attacks on Manchin and Sinema from the other members of their Democratic caucus, please remember that it is entirely performative. It's Lee Harvey Oswald pushing "Fair Play for Cuba" in the French Quarter. They all got their payouts from the same donors. And those donors are getting exactly what they ordered.
If the Democratic Party really cared about the spread of Covid-19, or about your physical well-being beyond anything other than you as a medical "consumer," it would not be doing everything in its power to make sure that vaccines were unavailable in the Southern hemisphere-- in countries were Black and brown people live, incidentally. Instead, as those people die off at the fastest clips, Biden sides with Big Pharma to also protect the Pill Cartel--the one whose profit was created by taxpayer-funded research at the National Institute of Health-- against the existential threat of generic drugs. As a bonus to its stockholders, this leaves Covid free to more easily evolve into new strains in underprotected locales like South Africa, where the most recent one did, and where they can later return to us again and again and again, and force booster after booster after booster. Free shots!-- don't you know-- except for the money you already paid to develop the science and then the money you continue to pay to your government to reimburse Big Pharma for each biannual jab you endure.
What do you think the typical Intelligence agent does with his or her day? Does she wear a fedora and sniff around cafes in Prague? Does he go undercover in Damascus and try to infiltrate gangs of young Muslim political anger? No, he or she sits at a computer. The job of almost all of their agents is to sit at a desk and go digging online, seeking out already-existing distrust in American Power or perhaps just inventing it. They are literally agents of "misinformation." We know this because Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, both now mortal enemies of the intelligence state, leaked the facts of what they do to us.
What they don't seem to understand--politically-- is how transparent it all is to everyone without a still-festering Trump Derangement disease, the one that leads one to believe that a largely-ineffectual leader was a threat above par and one that now wholeheartedly embraces Dick Cheney, of all people. They, themselves, ignore the "experts" on climate change, as just one other example. Or on the nutritional science that says unequivocally that meat consumption is bad for one's health. It's only the vaccine deniers that get targeted for muzzling.
Joe Biden's family was up to his facelift in dirty dealings in Ukraine and in China-- not just his son, but his brother, too. The details have been outlined in this space a couple times, and the story has now been proven true in its entirety by Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger. The details were initially labeled as "misinformation" back when they threatened Joe's candidacy against Trump and the Cold Warriors' crusade against Vladimir Putin. These "experts" are the same ones we're now told we need to be listening to during the standoff with Russia over Ukraine. You don't even have to ask them. They'll promote it. MSNBC and CNN have hired them. They're retired ex-spooks (and sometimes not even retired ones), dozens of them, that now serve as on-air "national defense" experts, rattling the sabers for war with Russia in Eastern Europe. They are the war pigs that took us into Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, and also, for the sake of making the point, left those locations oh-for-three.
Obama vaguely stood up to the national defense "experts" before leaving office. He all but proclaimed that we have no vital national interest in Ukraine, a non-NATO country. But he was also punting. At the time, he assumed that Hillary Clinton would be taking over possession of the football. Obama had a short window where he could speak the actual truth that Americans have no stomach for such a war. The Deep State understands that reality still. Americans want to be at war with Russia like the CIA wants to be declared obsolete. Not only would it be an unacceptable cost in blood in a region of absolutely zero strategic importance to the United States people, we would fuck it up. We're terrible at war. We haven't won one in the age of television. Like every other conflict we stick our beak into, we would simply use our military and economic muscle to prop up a strongman obsequious to us who would proceed to corrupt and loot their government. We would lose yet another war "for the hearts and minds" of the people that we were pretending to assist. And this time, our opponent would have nukes. We would be at the end of our soft preseason schedule.
Don Draper couldn't sell this war with Ukraine. So what options are left for the pigs? Only their old playbook-- declaring treason by your opponents and then keep trying to flash those bona fides. See these stripes on my sleeve, this bird, I'm a military expert. Most importantly, they try also to suppress the mountains of conflicting information. Label it "misinformation." Damn that pesky First Amendment. We're not saying you can't disagree. We'll just pressure you off your platform if you don't toe the line. Your view is "harmful." See the parallels now with health information? If you can't, trust me that others easily can.
Now, when you have dimwits like Neil Young playing helpfully along, it helps to reinforce the required distraction. Neil Young doesn't want his musical songbook sharing a platform with the podcast of Joe Rogan because of Rogan having provided a platform, at times, for anti-vaccination advocates, or even just vaccine skeptics, as it were. Young is not exactly attacking Rogan. He's attacking Spotify, Rogan's digital platform. If it were an attack on Rogan, the rocker would simply say, "I'm not going to listen to him." He's not saying that. He's saying, "I don't want anyone to listen to him. It's either him or me." Rogan is not Young's competition. Gordon Lightfoot is. This is the dangerous idea. It fortifies-- to the tremendous benefit of American Power-- that private communication platforms should be controlled by the government. I don't agree with something-- so it shouldn't be heard at all. Fortunately for all of us, Spotify made the choice it did. Rogan's critics lie about his various positions on political and social matters. They often assign positions to him that have only been staked out by his generally free-thinking guests. They equate his platform with his endorsement, and, frankly, that makes them look like idiots incapable of residing in a free country. Is it just because I grew up with Phil Donahue casually on television that I'm capable of realizing, for example, that someone having the leader of the American Nazi Party on his or her show is not providing their political backing also? (Rogan, the supposed "right wing nut," incidentally, endorsed Bernie Sanders for president in 2020. None of the television news networks or largest newspapers in the country certainly came close to doing that.)
They hope to influence the people that are generally ignorant of the Rogan podcast, which-- no coincidence-- has often provided a platform also for critics of American foreign policy, such as Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and Tulsi Gabbard. The attacks on him are, you'll pardon the phrase, "misinformation." Rogan, at least, will occasionally admit he has been wrong about something. His opponents don't do this, as a rule.
The movement to silence is also a concentrated attack by dying media entities upon more resonant modern platforms like Spotify and Substack, which have no stockholders or advertisers to attack as surrogates. They're finding that it is much more difficult to pressure independent-thinking Americans directly than it is to pressure naturally-skittish ad execs.
Our government officials lie, and there is no more open secret than that one. Therefore, people also innately understand that when the hammer of censorship comes down, it must be connected to this trust deficit they have with their leaders. The greatest weapon Kennedy assassination "conspiracists" have ever had at their disposal, for example, was the laughable Warren Report. Americans are not ignorant of the fact that their government was overthrown in 1963. Read the surveys. They apparently just don't know what the hell to do about it. They would no longer tolerate an armed services draft, or believe military reports unquestioningly, not after Vietnam. The freedom of information in the press during that slaughter of humanity queered the warmongers' hustle. So the agents began embedding themselves with the enemy-- that is, with "the free press." As a result, almost the entirety of real journalism today has to be conducted illegally, like the work done by Julian Assange. The punishments for whistleblowing were made extreme because that was the greatest threat.
The medical community has largely had the science on their side in vaccinations, but they've already been proven wrong multiple times. Of course there's cause for fair examination and critique. Here, we're talking about the combined entities of the FDA, CDC, NIH, certainly the White House. At first, the spread of the virus was not thought to be airborne. Reports that the virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, were very officially labeled "misinformation" at one time. Now, the Biden administration admits that it's not so sure that hypothesis can be discounted. Candidate Biden, in July of 2020, went so far as to claim that you wouldn't get the virus if you were vaccinated. (And you thought his other promises were busts.) Making it worse, the good folks at Politifact later declared this whopper only "half true." Dr. Fauci, our point man with a stethoscope, has not only held three different public positions on the efficacy of masks, but he has essentially admitted that he lied to us about them at one point for our own good-- so that emergency workers could have less restricted access to them. He and the other "experts" have flip-flopped on the separate subjects of ventilators, cloth masks, lockdowns, and what constitutes "herd immunity." This is not to criticize their grasping or their efforts. It's to criticize their posturing and their arrogance.
I'm no medical expert, but I do consider myself an expert on the American people. I'm an insider. We're naturally skeptical, and rightfully so. Our government overthrew one of its most popular presidents. It lied its way into, through, and out of multiple wars of aggression and imperialism. That's the current threat to your public health-- a government that was already completely ill-suited to cope with any challenge that required truth and candidness. Americans hear the word "misinformation," and they instinctively know that what you really mean is "unofficial information." We're forced to sort new pieces of info today basically for ourselves and together with our fellow citizens, and this info comes at us relentlessly and often very persuasively. The anchor sitting at the news desk in front of the camera vouching for Pfizer and Moderna is the person that's still vouching for the expertise of the Iraq War neocons after this next commercial break. But go ahead and tell us again we're stupid. There's a mid-term coming in about nine months and there's going to have to be some new scapegoats.
posted by CM @ 10:57 AM
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