Une jeune policière espagnole avait connu il y a quelques mois une grande notoriété sur les réseaux sociaux en apparaissant en uniforme pour lancer un appel à ses collègues français afin qu’ils cessent d’obéir à des règles injustes imposées par une dictature sanitaire. Cette jeune femme courageuse est la porte-parole du mouvement Police for Freedom qui s’est étendu dans plusieurs pays et rassemble des policiers et gendarmes qui ne veulent pas participer aux répressions contre la population ordonnées sous un prétexte sanitaire.
Au nom de Police for Freedom, elle a accepté de répondre à une demande d’interview de CIVITAS après avoir rencontré un émissaire de CIVITAS en séjour en Espagne. Elle y parle du développement du mouvement, de sa raison d’être, commente les tribunes des militaires français et souligne l’importance de médecins et scientifiques courageux tels que la généticienne Alexandra Henrion Caude et le Docteur Nicole Delépin
Précisons pour ceux qui s’interrogent encore sur la crédibilité des publications des e-mails de Fauci que ces 3 200 pages d’e-mails ont été obtenues à l’issue d’un procès que le site Buzzfeed a intenté pour faire respecter le « Freedom of Information Act ». Leur authenticité ne fait donc aucun doute même si certaines données jugées attentatoires à la vie privée ont été gommées. Les grands médias (CNN, AFP…) essaient de minimiser le scandale devenu mondial [1][2] qui les implique en partie.
Un nouveau gourou selon ses propres termes et la fabrication d’une secte
Le plus étrange pour nous, en France, est de découvrir le mythe FAUCI aux USA. 860 pages de courriels de Fauci montrent ce qu’il ressentait à propos du buzz sur son personnage au début de la pandémie : « Notre société est totalement folle » [3].
Le Washington Post a publié une partie des milliers de pages des courriels du Dr Anthony Fauci révélées par BuzzFeed. Les courriels révèlent que Fauci a été choqué par la fascination du public pour son personnage. Ils montrent également l’immense pression que Fauci a subie avec des demandes de conseils, d’interviews et de discussions.
En mars 2020, un collègue du National Institute of Health a envoyé à Fauci un article de The Post avec le titre : « Chaussettes Fauci, beignets Fauci, fan art Fauci : L’expert en coronavirus attire une secte. » « Vraiment surréaliste », a répondu Fauci. « J’espère que tout cela s’arrête bientôt. »
Dans un e-mail le mois suivant, Fauci a reçu une alerte Google News sur son nom qui comportait un article intitulé « ‘Cuomo Crush’ et ‘Fauci Fever’ – Sexualization of This Man Is a Real Thing on the Internet ». Il a ensuite transmis cet e-mail à quelqu’un avec le message : « Cela va vous épater. Notre société est totalement dingue ».
Ces informations ne nous paraissent pas anecdotiques, car depuis des mois, nous nous interrogeons sur le comportement de type sectaire des citoyens dans une bonne partie du monde et cherchons le ou les gourous… Il semble bien qu’aux USA, le Dr Fauci ait joué ce rôle probablement grâce à la presse et à son amour des médias (selon le président Trump). En juin 2020 nous écrivions, comparant la secte Covid en croissance à la secte des fidèles croyants aux extraterrestres.[4]
« Le masque et les extraterrestres attendant la soucoupe volante :
Nous avons rappelé l’expérience exposée par le Dr Willbourn sur son site. Il relate les travaux du psychologue Leon Festinger, qui « analysa les croyances d’une secte vénérant les extraterrestres dans les années 50, dont les membres croyaient qu’une soucoupe volante viendrait les chercher pour les sauver de l’apocalypse. Toutefois, après que les tremblements de terre et inondations catastrophiques qui devaient frapper les États-Unis ne se produisirent pas, et que leurs prédictions furent complètement discréditées, « les membres de la secte virent leur certitude se renforcer au sujet de ces prédictions apocalyptiques ».
Ce qui est fascinant ici est l’impossibilité pour les adeptes de renoncer à leurs croyances devant les preuves fournies par la réalité. Les soucoupes ne sont pas venues, ni l’apocalypse. Notre cerveau qui fonctionne curieusement veut croire aux informations initiales, coûte que coûte et contre toute évidence des « faits réels ».
Difficile d’imaginer que Jérôme Salomon ait pu devenir le gourou français néanmoins…
Les courriels sur la pandémie
BuzzFeed a également publié plus de 3 200 pages de courriels de Fauci de janvier à juin 2020, très instructifs sur le déroulement de la plandémie (plutôt que pandémie !).
Le 5 février, Howard Bauchner, rédacteur en chef du JAMA, a envoyé à Fauci un e-mail perplexe :
« Vous survivez – inquiet un peu de votre charge de travail. » « Je suis accroché là-dedans », répondit Fauci. « J’ai l’impression de retrouver l’internat et la résidence de première année où j’étais tous les deux soirs et tous les deux week-ends, et que je n’ai jamais quitté l’hôpital parce que les patients étaient trop malades. »
DÉIFICATION DE FAUCI ET ABORD DU SUJET PAR DES AMÉRICAINS
La déification du Dr Fauci aggrave une inquiétante tendance qui explique la facilité avec laquelle la population américaine a accepté l’inacceptable. L’article du Washington Post [5] en témoigne.
Le Dr Anthony Fauci, lors d’une audience du sous-comité des crédits du Sénat, le mercredi 26 mai 2021 a été ainsi interpellé, tout en rappelant que les Américains aiment bien l’homme providentiel sur son cheval blanc mais pas les retournements de veste trop fréquents.
« S’en tenant à la fatwa initiale de Fauci selon laquelle une intervention humaine dans l’origine du Covid était « extrêmement improbable », l’administration Biden a récemment mis fin à une enquête sur l’origine du virus. Le virus est né de la soupe de chauves-souris. C’est la version de la Chine et les États-Unis s’y tiennent. »
La déification du Dr Anthony Fauci a aggravé une tendance terrible : écrire sur la science avec un S majuscule, comme si c’était une autorité que personne n’a le droit de contester. Et encore aujourd’hui, il essaie d’imposer sa vision comme la seule véritable, malgré les révélations des e-mails. Il semble bien qu’en France le Pr Delfraissy fasse de même.
Le Dr Fauci a embrassé ce rôle d’oracle, éloignant les contradictions. Pourtant il a changé d’avis sur les masques, puis sur le financement du laboratoire de Wuhan et la recherche sur « le gain de fonction » du virus, puis sur l’origine naturelle ou non du SARS COV2. Après avoir nié officiellement toute manipulation humaine, il a lors d’un récent événement intitulé United Facts of America déclaré
« Non, en fait. Je n’en suis pas convaincu. Je pense que nous devrions continuer à enquêter sur ce qui s’est passé en Chine jusqu’à ce que nous continuions à découvrir — au mieux de nos capacités — ce qui s’est passé.
« Certes, les [responsables communistes qui n’osent rien dire d’autre] disent que probablement la pandémie est due à l’émergence d’un réservoir animal qui a ensuite infecté des individus, mais cela aurait pu être autre chose, et nous devons le découvrir. Donc, vous savez, c’est la raison pour laquelle j’ai dit que je suis parfaitement en faveur de toute enquête qui se penche sur l’origine du virus. »
Rappelons que le Dr Fauci est un des fonctionnaires les mieux payés d’Amérique, « plus que n’importe quel autre employé fédéral, même le président : 418 000 $ rien qu’en 2019 ».
La science n’est jamais établie. Cela nécessite une pensée critique, des questions et une volonté de rejeter la vérité d’hier basée sur les faits d’aujourd’hui, mais pas en prétendant qu’hier n’a jamais eu lieu. Dans ce devoir fondamental, le Dr Fauci a échoué.
Les Américains comme les Français vont devoir abandonner l’idée du surhomme ou du gourou que ne peut être un médecin et/ou un chercheur honnête et réfléchir par eux-mêmes.
Résumé de quelques informations sorties des mails étudiés.
Les mails du Dr Fauci concernant le coronavirus révèlent que :
Il savait depuis début 2020 que des séquences génétiques du coronavirus semblent modifiées et avait largement discuté du gain de fonction (augmentation de l’efficacité du virus) par la manipulation en laboratoire.
Il savait que la patiente en Allemagne publié par le Dr Drosten, conseiller très influent de la chancelière allemande, Mme Merkel et de l’OMS, était faussement asymptomatique. Mais y faire croire avec Drosten a permis d’imposer au monde la phobie des asymptomatiques, les fameux tests PCR et la distanciation sociale et donc la soumission des peuples apeurés et asservis.
Il a admis en privé que les masques ne sont pas efficaces[6]
Il savait que l’hydroxychloroquine était efficace comme les e-mails de février 2020 entre Fauci et Delfraissy le démontrent. [7]
Deux médecins les Dr Paul & Karyl Stanton ont averti Fauci que l’hydroxychloroquine est efficace pour les patients à risque contre le Covid-19, et lui ont demandé d’aider à financer une étude à ce sujet. Fauci l’a ignoré.
Quand Delfraissy lui avoue “J’ai une énorme pression politique pour autoriser l’hydroxychloroquine et la donner à tout le monde, mais je résiste” et qu’il précise qu’il voit un “léger signal positif HCQ » [8]. Fauci lui répond qu’il est dans la même situation et qu’il résiste lui aussi.
ET NOS JOURNALISTES DES MÉDIAS, comme sœur Anne, NE VOIENT TOUJOURS RIEN VENIR !
Silence de mort sur ce feuilleton américain Fauci qui enflamme les TV outre-atlantique. Combien de temps vont-ils tenir en glosant des heures sur une vraie ou fausse gifle sur Macron ? Pas grave. Pendant ce temps-là on écoule quelques fioles supplémentaires de ces pseudo-vaccins malgré la réticence de plus en plus marquée des citoyens français qui trouvent tout cela de plus en plus louche. Même dans les hôpitaux, les infirmières préposées au test PCR (qui n’est pas plus fiable qu’il y a 8 mois, et qui ruine la sécurité sociale [9] ) vous disent clairement : « ne me demandez pas ce que j’en pense, comme du masque… ».
Les mensonges de Fauci et de l’AFP sur l’origine du virus
En janvier 2020, l’Agence France Presse demande à Fauci son avis sur l’étude indienne du génome viral qui met en évidence les inserts HIV du coronavirus : « est-ce une coïncidence ? [10][11] Fauci répond : “comment remettre le diable dans sa boîte ? Dites-lui que l’étude n’est pas reviewée”.
Lee Brown dans un article du 4 juin 2021 [12] rapporte qu’une virologue chinoise affirme que les courriels de Fauci « confortent » ses allégations de fuite du laboratoire de Wuhan. La Docteur Li-Meng Yan a été l’une des premières à faire des recherches sur le coronavirus émergent et a précédemment révélé qu’elle avait été forcée de se cacher après avoir accusé Pékin de dissimulation. Alors que les dirigeants internationaux se concentrent enfin sur sa théorie de la fuite de laboratoire de Wuhan, la scientifique a déclaré à Newsmax que les e-mails de Fauci contenaient « beaucoup d’informations utiles » suggérant qu’il en savait toujours plus qu’il n’en a révélé.
« Ils vérifient mon travail depuis le tout début, et depuis janvier dernier, ces gens savent ce qui s’est passé, mais ils choisissent de le cacher pour protéger le Parti communiste chinois et pour leurs propres avantages », a insisté Yan à propos des documents publiés cette semaine.
« Il sait toutes ces choses », a-t-elle insisté à propos de Fauci et du travail de gain de fonction effectué par l’Institut de virologie de Wuhan au cœur de la ville où la pandémie est apparue pour la première fois.
Un courriel a montré que « le Dr Fauci, dès le 1er février de l’année dernière, a réalisé qu’il y aurait une expérience de gain de fonction impliquée dans l’apparition du virus Covid-19.
Yan aurait publié trois rapports sur les origines du coronavirus – deux l’année dernière et un en 2021. Dans le dernier, publié le 31 mars, elle a insisté sur le fait que le covid était « un produit du programme d’armes biologiques du gouvernement du Parti communiste chinois (PCC), dont le réseau comprend non seulement les scientifiques du PCC, mais aussi certains scientifiques et organisations étrangers ».
L’AFP qui depuis 18 mois déclare « fake » de nombreuses informations sur l’origine du covid savait aussi dès février 2020 que le virus avait été modifié par l’homme. Les e-mails de Fauci éclairent nos journaux.
Selon France soir [13] « L’AFP, le 31 janvier 2020, par le biais du journaliste Issam Ahmed, écrivait au Dr Barney Graham du NIH (National Health Institute) au sujet d’une demande assez urgente. Le journaliste demandait un avis sur une étude scientifique qui venait juste d’être publiée sur le serveur Biorxiv.org. L’article affirmait que le nouveau coronavirus comprenait quatre insertions similaires au VIH-1, et que ce n’est pas une coïncidence »
Le Dr Barney Graham, directeur adjoint du centre de recherche sur les vaccins, chef du laboratoire de pathogenèse virale a comme principaux domaines de recherche le développement de vaccins et d’anticorps monoclonaux pour Covid-19, RSV, grippe, EV-D68, Nipah, Zika, VIH, Ebola et d’autres agents pathogènes émergents viraux. Le Dr Graham est donc un expert et ne pouvait pas ne pas savoir puisque cette étude était publiée.
Quel rôle pour l’AFP ?
Ce qui semble étonnant, c’est que l’AFP n’ait pas fait mention de cette étude. Cette même AFP qui a attaqué le Pr Luc Montagnier et le mathématicien Jean-Claude Perez lors de leurs déclarations de mai 2020, puis lors d’un “AFP factuel” de Julie Charpentrat en août 2020.
Contactés par la rédaction de France-Soir, M. Ahmed et Mme Charpentrat n’ont pas répondu à l’heure où le journal a publié cet article.
France soir s’interroge sur le rôle de l’AFP tout au long de cette crise et des nombreux mensonges de cette agence au service des multinationales. Il n’y a qu’à relire les articles des décodeurs du décodage.
Qu’en termes galants ces choses-là sont dites et un peu hypocrites tout de même. Se rapprocher du langage autorisé pour survivre et ne pas contrarier Mme Bachelot ?
« Le rôle d’une agence de presse est de vérifier, de valider et d’informer en respect de la charte de Munich. L’AFP aurait-elle manqué à son devoir en jouant ainsi un rôle de désinformation important dans l’identification de l’origine du virus alors que l’information était disponible ? L’information s’est-elle perdue en route ou a-t-elle été enterrée ? »
Nous allons découvrir dans les prochaines semaines le nombre « d’erreurs » assénées par l’AFP Factuel depuis 18 mois et pouvons déjà relire de nombreux articles de France soir en un temps où la parole était plus libre.
Le coronavirus et les séquences communes avec le HIV
Ainsi le Pr Montagnier, prix Nobel et découvreur du virus du Sida a été sévèrement calomnié depuis plus d’un an pour avoir informé le monde de la réalité du virus qui enflammait le monde, ainsi que son partenaire le mathématicien Perez qui rappelle avoir informé le ministère de la Santé sur le caractère particulier du virus incriminé dans le covid-19 [14].
« Pour info nous avertissons par mail Olivier Véran du caractère MANIPULÉ de SARS-CoV-2 dès le 26 février 2020, mail resté sans réponse [15]. » JC Perez a donné les liens avec l’article soumis [16]. « J’y démontre comment 1 % du génome de covid-19 contient une zonesynthétique composée de 6 régions fonctionnelles HIV siv provenant de souches récentes fort diverses : Côte d’Ivoire, Netherlands, Russia, etc. » dixit Jean-claude Perez. Il poursuit : « C’est probablement une tentative de vaccin HIV échappée d’un laboratoire. Le risque possible serait que ce virus ARN devienne un rétrovirus car il en possède des fragments de matériel génétique ».
Fin : on ne saura jamais pourquoi ce PREPRINT a été supprimé le lendemain ».
Espérons qu’on le saura un jour !
La question suivante est bien évidemment pourquoi ces mails apparaissent maintenant et dans quels buts éventuels ? Nous y reviendrons.
Given the increasingly politicized interplay (cancer) of central bank policy and so-called free market price discovery, it’s becoming increasingly more important to track the actions of central bankers rather than just traditional market signals alone.
Like it or not, the Fed is the market.
Toward this end, we’ve had some substantive fun deciphering the past, current and future implications of “forward guidance” from our openly mis-guided crop of central bankers, most notably Greenspan, Bernanke and Powell.
But let’s not forget Janet Yellen.
As we see below, translating Yellen-speak into blunt speak tells us a heck of a lot about the future.
The Open and Obvious Debt Crisis
Back in 2018, Janet Yellen (former Fed Chairwoman and current Treasury Secretary, eh hmmm) along with Jason Furman (current Biden economic advisor) observed in a Washington Post Op-Ed that, “a U.S. debt crisis is coming, but don’t blame entitlements.”
As I like to say, “that’s rich.”
As in all things economic, the motives and thinking coming out of DC are largely political, which means they are self-serving, partisan and predominantly disastrous.
As for translating Yellen’s political-speak into honest English, the motives for this 2018 warning were two-fold: 1) Yellen and Furman were making a partisan attack on Trump’s then $1T budget proposal, and 2) Yellen actually believed what she said and that the US was indeed careening toward “a debt crisis.”
In fact, we were already in a debt crisis in 2018, a crisis which has simply risen to much higher orders of magnitude in the three short years since Yellen’s “warning” was made.
Stated otherwise, Yellen will get her debt crisis. It’s ticking right in front of her.
Tracking the Debt Trail
Ironically, the most obvious metrics of the current and ever-expanding debt crisis began just months after Yellen’s infamous Op-Ed.
In October of 2018, FX-hedged Treasuries went negative and Powell’s Fed began buying $60B worth of T-Bills/month without calling the same “QE” despite it being…well QE.
That pesky little debt crisis in 2018 then went parabolic a year later when the repo-spike of September 2019 forced the same Fed to crank out the money printers and once again fatten its increasingly overweight and embarrassing balance sheet.
Throughout this period, we consistently reminded investors that some of the best assets in a debt crisis are gold and silver to hedge against the growing and the impending currency debasement.
I also wrote that the volatility (VIX) trade, for those who know how to do it, would be effective in addressing the market volatility that always follows the political volatility (i.e., mistakes) which policy makers create/make in a debt crisis.
Speaking of gold and volatility, history reminds us of the kind of volatility that can occur in a sovereign debt crisis, with Weimar being the most obvious example, yet one for which no one, to their detriment, thinks is repeatable:
Translating Yellen Is Getting Quite Simple: Inflation Ahead
Looking forward, translating Yellen’s political-speak (as opposed to her former Fed-speak) is actually getting quite simple.
This year, she’s already confessed that she believes “we must re-orient our framing of fiscal policy.”
In plain English, that just means we can expect a lot more deficit spending to come from the Biden-Yellen tag-team in DC.
But this time, there’s an interesting twist to the nature and target of that spending, namely, there’s going to be trillions more of it, but it’s heading toward Main Street’s middle class not Wall Street’s upper class.
Regardless of one’s politics, math (thankfully) remains non-partisan.
We know, for example, that fiscal policy (however spent and wherever directed) will have a far greater impact on inflation than just more monetary policy alone.
This is because the deficit-spent money from fiscal stimulus goes directly into the real economy, unlike the fiat-created dollars of monetary stimulus which goes directly into the Fed’s balance sheet.
Extreme fiscal (deficit) spending under the “New Deal-like” Biden-Yellen administration is already multi-trillion in nature, and will continue to be as such going forward.
In short, get ready far more “fiscal stimulus,” more debt, and hence more inflation ahead.
Debt as a Growth Policy?
Needless to say, “debt as a growth policy” is an oxymoron. Once national debt to GDP ratios cross the 100% Rubicon, growth is mathematically stifled.
Does Yellen grasp this simple truth?
Like Yellen, I took basic math at Brown University, but I’m surprised to infer that perhaps she’s forgotten such classwork.
Did Yellen combine her math courses with some intro to mythical studies or fiction writing seminars?
Or maybe she snuck over to the RISD campus and gained some course credits in magic lessons, for when there’s more debt than dollars to pay it, she somehow feels that she can always return to her familiar money printer at the Eccles Building and magically create more and increasingly debased dollars to service the same.
Abra cadabra, right?
Well, not really.
Magical Money, Dying Money
The magical fantasy of such magical MMT “solutions” ignores one harsh yet simple reality: It’s a currency killer and openly dishonest illusion.
So, what’s a former Fed Chair and current political Treasury Secretary like Yellen to do in a world of delusion?
Simple, create more delusion.
The New Bretton Woods
With all the politico charm of a cozy bed-time story for America, Yellen is already telegraphing her next move with a warm and fuzzy nostalgia to the by-gone days of the 1940’s and the world’s then much-needed response to the horrors of World War 2 (no comparison at all to the fear-porn era of the COVID horrors)—namely Bretton Woods.
For those who forgot, the Bretton Woods meeting of 1944 is when America’s then gold-backed dollar became the new global currency under Uncle Sam’s military leadership and relative economic strength over the war-ravaged economies of Asia and Europe.
Well, Yellen is now thinking about a “New Bretton Woods” with her equally delusional, political and hence-self-serving cronies at the IMF.
She described these IMF get-togethers “as no less significant than the Bretton Woods meetings in 1944.”
That too is rich…
Translated into honest English, Yellen et al are trying to compare the death rate and economic destruction of the COVID crisis (made more so by policy reactions than daily viral threats) to the unimaginable economic, political and social horrors of the Second World War in which 85 million people perished and national economies simply vanished in the rubble.
That’s real horror, as any of us who know the survivors and victims of that period can attest.
Today, policy makers are trying to compare (or propagandize) the admittedly scary years of the COVID crisis (and its tragic 3.75M death toll) to the far more nightmarish and frankly unimaginable period of 1939-45 suffering and carnage.
Why?
Exploiting a Crisis. Hiding from Responsibility. Justifying Excess.
Well, as Churchill said around the same time, “never let a good crisis go to waste.”
In essence, the absolutely reckless authors of the biggest debt crisis in the history of the world PRE-COVID are now using this media-fired and politically-charged global flu as both the cause of, and pretext for, even more debt—all to be paid for with even more fake, fiat dollars.
Only now there’s a twist going forward.
Rather than create currencies out of thin air, the new global “leadership” and their private banking/independent policy makers at the debt-guilty IMF are going to create digital fake money out of thin air.
In short, more debt binges ahead, all likely to be paid for with more fake money ahead—but with far more digital CBDC panache.
Same Ol’ Same Ol’
Ultimately, however, what Yellen and the IMF Wunderkinder are proposing boils down to a distinction without a difference.
In short, their plan is nothing more than the same ol’ delusional, irresponsible and self-serving fantasy that a debt crisis can be solved with more debt.
So, what can we expect in the near-term in this backdrop of the absurd?
First, the direction ahead for Yellen is just as we’ve expected and warned, namely a weak USD policy to help soften the damage of a debt crisis (which she helped create) with increasingly inflated (over-created) and hence debased U.S. dollars.
Powell has so much as confessed to this policy of higher inflation “allowance” (as opposed to “targeting”) for the simple reason that inflation helps sovereigns like Uncle Sam dig out of debt holes created by current and prior “leadership” at the Fed and White House—debt holes which they conveniently blame on COVID rather than the bathroom mirror.
Secondly, we are seeing the slow move away from the USD’s “reserve status” as structured since Nixon welched “temporarily” in 1971 on the very gold standard created at Bretton Woods in 1944. That, however, will take years, not weeks.
Given the foregoing, we repeat our conviction that the current inflationary cycle, despite Fed-speak to the contrary, is going to be anything but “transitory.”
Inflation, Repressed Rates and More Currency Debasement Ahead
Given the foregoing and now undeniable debt crisis and openly telegraphed-changes to come (viz: inflation, currency debasement and artificial yield repression), the foreseeable future is plain to see for any who have eyes to see it.
As for rates and debt, former IMF Chief Economist, Olivier Blanchard, is as “insider” as insiders can get, and he’s no fool when it comes to bailing out his own past mistakes.
If debt is too high, then he knows it’s essential to keep the cost of that debt (interest rates) artificially stapled to the floor.
All Roads Lead to Gold
So, there you have it, straight from the horses’ mouths: Rising inflation and lowering bond yields—the ideal setting for gold in the years ahead.
Frankly, and sadly, bonds will be of little help in this new “ab-normal.” The grossly over-bought and grossly distorted (inflated) credit markets just aren’t the bonds our fathers and grandfathers bought for safety, yield or hedging.
Gold, however, accomplishes, hedging, safety and appreciation with far greater consistency than bonds.
Without exaggeration or echo-chamber bias, we stick to our conviction that all roads, policies and discussions turn back to physical gold and silver.
Again, and in short, the present is obvious: A Debt crisis beyond reason. And without precedent.
The future is no less obvious: More currency debasement, more pro-inflationary policies and more double-speaking politicos/financial foxes pretending to fix an economic henhouse which they’ve already raided/broken.
The Dollar’s Future
Given the harsh reality of our harsh debt crisis, the US is so thoroughly saturated in debt levels of its own making that equally grotesque levels of future spending will be the norm at the open and obvious expense of the currency.
This would explain why Russia plans to cut the USD holdings in its wealth fund to zero in favor of more euro’s and, you guessed it: Gold.
The harsh reality of harsh debt makes the path forward fairly predictable, to the extent anything is predictable.
The Cost of De-Levering
History confirms that when nations get too far (waaayyyyy tooooo far) over their skis in debt, the only way to get their debt-to-GDP levels below the deadly 100% marker (130% for the US today) is to “de-lever” their bloated balance sheet over a 5-10-year horizon.
Such deleveraging would require high-teens GDP growth acceleration against a US debt growth rate of 8.75% CAGR.
In our mind, the Yellen-telegraphed policy of “serial stimulus” ahead to achieve such growth and de-leveraging will likely be inflationary.
In such a tragic yet openly telegraphed setting, gold is prepared.
QUESTION: Regarding the G7, which committed us to more stimulus, I can totally see where this is going. You are the historian. Do you not think this is where we end up – capitatio-lugatio. Same exact pattern.
Anonymous
ANSWER: For those who are not familiar with capitatio-lugatio, this was the tax collection system developed by Diocletian (284-305AD), which determines the amount levied on agriculturally productive land. This was a major tax reform following the collapse of the Roman monetary system following the capture of Emperor Valerian I (253-260AD) by the Persians.
Most of the historical analysis is lacking mainly because they never saw the magnitude of the collapse in the monetary system. In the course of just 8.6 years following the capture of Valerian I in 260Ad and the assassination of his son Gallienus in 268AD, we can see the Antoninianuc, which was largely silver in 260AD, because just a debased coin that was simply bronze chemically plated with a thin coat of silver must like our clas coinage which began in 1965.
Inflation went nuts because once the people saw that Valerian I had been captured and turned into a slave, suddenly Romans saw themselves as vulnerable. This had profound implications for it was the primary reason Christianity soared. Diocletian began fierce persecutions of Christians under the theory that the gods were angry with Rome because they would not worship them so they were punishing Rome. That is why the persecutions took place.
Then because word spread that Valerian had been captured by the Persians in the East, suddenly all the barbarians in the North began to invade believing that Rome was then vulnerable. At the same time, there was a plague. Emperor Claudius II(268-270AD) had assassinated Gallienus but then died of the plague. They called him Gothicus because he defeated the Goth invasion which brought them all the way down to Milan. This led his successor Emperor Aurelian (270-275AD) to construct the wall around Rome which was not necessary previously. Additionally, it was Aurelian who sent in the Troops into Rome to do battle with the bureaucrats running the mint who were debasing the coinage, not by official decree, but they were robbing the silver for themselves. They were then plating the bronze coins with silver which previously had been a trick of counterfeiters.
Unfortunately, the Historia Augusta (HA) which is a collection of thirty biographies of Roman emperors, co-emperors, and usurpers in chronological order from Hadrian to Carus and his sons, stops just shy of Diocletian. As usual, this was claimed to be a fraud because some of the names of emperors nobody ever heard of. But when two coins were discovered in Egypt with the name of Saturninus, these historical accounts were proven to be authentic and this became the rarest of all Roman coin that is probably worth between $5 and $10 million today (one remains in the Louver).
Diocletian (284-305AD) was the great reformer. Diocletian completed the monetary reforms introduced by Aurelian in 274AD after he waged war on the corruption in the mint. In 286AD he began to try to fight inflation by reforming the coinage. The gold he raised the weight of the Aureus striking them at 60 to the pound raising that from 70 to the pound previously.
Diocletian then reintroduced silver coinage (argenteus) with weight and fitness which effectively reestablished the old standard from the time of Nero (54-68AD) who began the debasement.
Tetrachy
Diocletian then turned to political reform. He is also the first Emperor to actually retire and hand power to the next in line. There were 22/23 emperors/usurpers who followed Gallienus’ assassination in 268AD. Diocletian sought to end the constant waring and split the empire between East and West and appointed a co-emperor and each had a Caesar who was to be their successor. This political structure was called the Tetrarchy. This was set up in 293AD but it was most likely following his attempts to reform the empire alone which proved to be formidable.
Finally, about 297AD he introduced a reform of the bronze coinage which he reintroduced. However, his monetary reform failed to halt price inflation. People simply hoarded the new currency, especially silver. This had the opposite effect and inflation accelerated.
Meanwhile, corresponding with the introduction of bronze coinage in 297AD, we also see that Diocletian radically restructured the tax system, in an effort to re-establish economic stability. largely by changing the property tax base and strengthening the system of perception. However, the Diocletian tax reform was carried out as early as 287AD in hopes of suspending inflation. Diocletian attempted to gain control of the chaotic usurpations of nearly 23 emperors in the 26-year period before his reign by preventing travel as we see once again with the attempt to impose COVID Passports.
Indeed, if you were discharged from the Army you needed your papers which were really etched in bronze plates. Diocletian’s response to economic pressures and in order to protect the vital functions of the state, he restricted social and professional mobility ending the freedom of profession and the freedom of movement. Diocletian decreed that the peasants became tied to the land creating a form of serfdom. Workers in various trades such as a store-keeper, blacksmiths, public entertainers, and various bureaucrats all became occupations made hereditary. We find tomb markers depicting their trade in life.
Even soldiers’ children were forced to become soldiers regardless of their ability all because there was then an increase in trying to recruit soldiers. This made the draft really draconian.
Diocletian also took it upon himself to restructure society and tried to resurrect and preserve the ancient virtues. He sought to obligate children to feed their parents in old age which of course was a retirement directive. Parents were directed to treat their children justly. He also ordered that spouses should end adultery and respect the laws of marriage. In matters of law, children were not to bear witness against their fathers, or slaves against their masters. In respect to private property, he upheld a creditor’s rights but also insisted that contract clauses were to be protected. He also outlawed the use of torture if truth could be discovered otherwise and encouraged governors to be as autonomous as possible. The United States is proficient at torture and simply pretends that also long as a physical mark is not left of the body then it is not torture. Threats, isolated confinement, deprivation of heat, and waterboarding are not torture in the eyes of American judges. The corruption in American courts is no different than what Diocletian forbid.
Consequently, Diocletian imposed social changes that were more totalitarian in his effort to gain control of the economy. He this also create a uniform system of taxation throughout the empire. Rome did not have income taxes. Instead, Rome had a property tax, known as the annona, which Diocletian then based on the available labor and livestock (capita) as well as after the cultivated land (iugera) calculated by tax estimates (censitores). Therefore, the assessment of taxes was based on the categories of people and animals (caput) and land (iugum) combined with each other (which mainly affected the rural population) and also subjected Italy to direct taxation, which had not been the case before Diocletian. This became what people today are calling for as a wealth tax on everything you own, but on top of your income taxes.
This system combined two pre-existing taxes, the iugatio (affecting land rents) and capitatio (affecting individuals) failed to subdue the inflation in addition to the monetary reforms. According to this methodology, the complex of arable land was divided into the various regions, according to the type of crop and their yield, into fiscal units called iuga, while the population was instead divided into fiscal units called capita. The value assigned to iuga and capita was not fixed but varied according to the individual provinces and the needs of the state budget.
Consequently, Diocletian took into account the individual performance. While contemporary authors complained, such as Lucius C.Lactantius (c. 250–325AD) who was the first Christian writer in Latin to attempt a general account of the religious history of humanity and of Rome, we must take into account that the backdrop was also the end of freedom of movement, not just religious persecutions.
The amount of tax to be paid was initially determined every five years. However, this changed to then every 15 years in 312AD. Without question, the new tax system enabled steadily flowing income, especially for the eastern part of the empire which was more secure than the West which could be easily invaded by the Germanic tribes. Diocletian tax reform merged the land and personal taxes into this single tax, the capitatio-iugatio, which was a form of wealth tax rather than income for it was based on the factors of production: men, beasts, lands. Diocletian created a massive land register of the wealth of the entire Empire.
Eventually, the Persians admired the tax reforms of Diocletian and adopted a similar tax reform in the Sassanid Empire during the 6th century. However, since the capitatio-iugatio ended up tying the peasant to the land, contributing to the training of serfs, this created what seemed to emerge as the “norm” for when Rome fell in the West in 476AD, what emerged thereafter was serfdom as the normal state of society. We see this carry forward into the 14th century which took the Black Plague to bring to an end and for capitalism to reemerge. Under this system, land without peasant labor that remained uncultivated cannot be subject to tax for it produced nothing. Therefore, the Roman government under Diocletian set in motion a structural change in society that would prevail in itself for about 600 years. With the Black Plague and the loss of 50% of the population, landlords began to offer wages for peasants to work their land.
The failure of Diocletian’s monetary reforms to suppress inflation forced Diocletian to introduce wage and price controls. We see the very same mistake that is made in modern times by the hard-money people who assume that it is the lack of a backing of the currency that leads to inflation. Here we have a major monetary reform that failed despite the restoration of silver coinage and the increase in weight of the gold aureus. Clearly, the issue was not even the quality of the money. The most profound impact leading to inflation was the collapse in confidence in government and even the power of the Roman Empire to remain invulnerable.
The Romans used the reverse side of their coinage as newspapers. Here we have Diocletian striking a coin with Fortuna who is typically pictured as holding the ancho or rudder of a ship in one hand and the cornucopia in the other. This is typically the origin of the hope for good fortune meaning on a whim she can change the course of your life like turning a rudder on a ship or give you everything you ever dreamed of. Clearly, this is something intended to inspire confidence that the “luck” of Rome is changing.
Moneta holding scales in one hand and cornucopia in the other symbolized plenty. The Roman goddess Juno Moneta (Latin Iūno Monēta) is where we derive the word “money” and also the “mint” where the money was created and flows from. As the legend goes, the Gauls attempted to invade the city of Rome quietly but had frightened the sacred flock of geese who made a lot of noise at the Temple of Juno. This alerted the Romans to the surprise attack giving us the word “monere,“ meaning “to warn” in Latin. The Temple of Juno then became popularly known as the Temple of Juno Moneta. Since this is where the coins were minted, we now arrive at the word “money” that springs from the origin of this legend and place that was an ancient mint.
Our term, such as capital flow, emerges from the Latin word “currere” meaning “to run” or “to flow.” This is where the money flowed from and gives us the word “currency” meaning the “flow of money.” This is why Juno Moneta is pictured on Roman coins as holding the balance scales in one hand and a cornucopia in the other symbolizing endless bounty or wealth. This is the birth of the terms “money” and “currency.” Diocletian is clearly suggesting that the monetary reform will restore the confidence of the ages.
In 301AD, Diocletian attempted to control inflation by issuing a maximum price edict and salaries of workers which is the same reaction that was taken by President Richard Nixon following the collapse of Bretton Woods. Diocletian’s edict has survived and it shows the same attempt to regulated wages and prices as implemented in Babylon by the Hammurabi Legal Code of 1780BC. This complied with the ECM of 242 intervals of 8.6-years. We will find the many periods in time along the way that comply with this same frequency from Solon the Lawgiver of Athens to the fall of Athens to Sparta in 404BC.
Despite all the reform efforts, the Roman Empire was collapsing because the confidence just imploded. Even the Roman officials in the periphery provinces had begun to just rule on their own taking the spoils of taxation for themselves. With the collapse in confidence and Diocletian restriction of movement, shortages in supply added to the inflation. Innovation came to a halt and commerce began to stall much as we have witnessed with the lockdowns thanks to COVID. Video Player00:0001:18
Once again, as the confidence in governments is collapsing and the socialistic system of endless borrowing had met a brick wall thanks to Marco Draghi taking interest rates negative in 2014, we see a very similar situation developing. While the head of state may not have been captured by the Persians, the election of Donald Trump in 2016 represented to them a usurpation of power since he was a “populist” rather than a career politician. I am not being a Trump supporter nor partisan, Career politicians simply do not want any outsider playing in their backyard. It has nothing to do with what Trump said or did not say. He was just not one of them.
When we look closely at the events around Diocletian, we have a very similar crisis waiting for us. The social system is crashing for governments will be unable to continue to borrow at these absurd low levels of interest rates. They are cleverly planning their release of cryptocurrencies so all money can be traced and taxes collected. They too are seeking to create an identity-based accounting of all money. The cryptocurrency has been allowed to blossom with the end-game to simply seize everything and swap it for government cryptos.
Today, and in the 3rd century, people have been hoarding their money until Biden took office and inflation has begun to rise. This is why inflation did not appear despite the rising supply of money because people did not trust the future post-2008. The collapse in real estate back then really upset the average person who regarded that as their retirement. We find massive hoards of even debased coins from the 3rd century provide it was not even the metal content. With barbarians at the Gates, people simply did not spend money leading to deflation and the economic decline. When Diocletian came to power and introduced all of these reforms, that is when we begin to see inflation rise sharply.
Perhaps most important concerning Diocletian’s program of domestic reform, he clearly followed some of the leads of his predecessors who had made some tentative attempts in the same direction of reforms. The emperor Gallienus had excluded senators from the army and separated the control of the military from civil careers. The Senate had progressively been deprived of its privileges in an effort to reduce its power. Diocletian recognized this same trend and structurally arranged the government in such a manner that led toward the centralized control that put all powers at his disposal. We see the very same strategy to end democracy unfolding today.
Diocletian designated the consuls to watch over the affairs of the state and distanced the senators from any collaboration with respect to making the laws. Today, we have the structure of the European Union whereby the people can vote for the Parliament, but they have no power to create law – that is done by the Commission which never stands for election. Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum is pushing this very same structure to eliminate elections and reduce them at best to symbolic.
We also see that Diocletian used bureaucrats, unelected actors, as imperial counselors (consilia sacra) which he appointed to run specialized offices with their loyalties to his administration – not the senate. He expressly defined the power of the praetorian prefects (personal bodyguards to the emperor) and limited that for this is where often usurpers arose. The number of bureaucrats increased dramatically under Diocletian. Over the next 50 years, it would often be said that there were more people in government than there were paying taxes. This was the beginning of the bureaucracy and technocracy that was eventually overrun the empire and became excessive under Byzantium rule. This is once again emerging here in modern times as there is always an expansion of government for the more the economy declines, the more power they try to claim to maintain that power.
Diocletian even reorganized the army sending the local troops to the frontier and the main movable army was made domestic. He also increased the size of the army Troop strength was increased by a fourth (not multiplied by four as Lactantius claims). There too, Diocletian’s reforms became our norm whereby he exempted soldiers from duty after 20 years of service which became our standard for retirement into modern times.
It appears that these reforms did manage to create some short-term financial stability. However, the rise of Constantine I the Great following his father’s death, who was an heir in line for succession, led to the collapse of the political reforms. Constantine, which mother was a Christian, promoted Christianity for political purposes saying that there is one God and there should be one Emperor – in heaven as on earth. Video Player00:0001:28
History is repeating. The monetary reforms they have planned are slowly being leaked out drip by drip because they know they will never get the people to support it. This virus has been exploited for political gain to shut down the movement of the people as was the case with Diocletion. They are seeking to centralize power in a one-world government once again and the outcome of this will be the same – war. History repeats because human nature never changes and the idea which emerges are just like watching the same movie day after day
EDITORIAL: Which persona will Biden adopt when his budget is addressed by Congress?
President Joe Biden delivers a speech on the COVID-19 pandemic, in St Ives, Cornwall on June 10, 2021, ahead of the three-day G7 summit being held from 11-13 June. (photo: Brendan Smialowski / AFP/Getty)
Now that President Joe Biden has submitted his 2022 budget to Congress without the inclusion of Hyde Amendment language that sharply restricts federal taxpayers’ funding of abortion, his pro-abortion presidential credentials are established beyond any dispute.
This means that all Catholics are left to hope for, in terms of any faint residual fidelity to Church teachings on abortion Biden may have, is the possibility that he might avoid pressuring the trio of Catholic Democratic U.S. senators who still support the amendment to endorse his own egregious failure to respect religious freedom and pro-life Americans.
If Biden does back away from the issue and doesn’t twist the arms of Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Tim Kaine of Virginia and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, the Hyde Amendment language will likely be reinstated when the federal budget passes through the Senate, as noted in our article about this matter.
To put matters more colorfully, is there any chance that Biden might revert partway back to his earlier, more principled “Senator Jekyll” position of supporting this congressional amendment that protects pro-life Americans from being forced to participate in the funding of abortion? Or has he permanently transformed into “President Hyde,” with a political persona that is unalterably committed to unqualified support for the profound evil of legal abortion?
During his 36 years of service as a U.S. senator, Biden was never anything near a pro-life stalwart. Indeed, like the Democratic Party as a whole, over the course of his long political career, Biden has become steadily more accommodating of pro-abortion extremism, despite continuing claims that he remains “personally opposed” to abortion. But he did at least retain his stated support for the Hyde Amendment until he left the Senate in 2008, in keeping with a pledge in a 1994 letter to constituents that “I will continue to abide by the same principle that has guided me through my 21 years in the Senate: Those of us who are opposed to abortion should not be compelled to pay for them.” In fact, he maintained this position afterward throughout his eight years as vice president during Barack Obama’s presidency.
Unfortunately for the lives of unborn babies, Biden’s long-standing commitment to the principle that those who oppose abortion shouldn’t be forced to fund the life-destroying procedure was discarded — without any apparent regret — on the presidential campaign trail in June 2019, as soon as it became evident that a refusal to jettison his support for the amendment could cost him the Democratic nomination.
Rather than explain how this flagrantly hypocritical flip-flop could be squared with his alleged belief that “abortion is always wrong,” he resorted instead to the abortion lobby’s cynical talking point that restrictions on tax-funded abortions discriminate against economically disadvantaged minority women. It’s cynical because these are the very women who are already disproportionately targeted by Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. The rate of abortion for African American women, for example, is four times higher than for white women, according to Centers for Disease Control data. Biden also cannot justify his abandonment of principle on the grounds that the Hyde Amendment has made little difference in terms of the incidence of abortions. According to an analysis by the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute, the amendment saves the lives of more than 60,000 unborn babies each year, and its effectiveness in reducing abortions has been confirmed by more than 20 peer-reviewed academic studies. Abortion activists don’t dispute the validity of such assessments either; a 2009 study by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute found that it reduces the number of abortions among Medicaid recipients by 25%.
The intensity of the current attacks on the Hyde Amendment by the abortion lobby is further evidence of its effectiveness: If it didn’t reduce abortions, thereby reducing the abortion industry’s cash flow alongside of saving unborn babies’ lives, abortion activists would have no reason to oppose retention of the amendment so vociferously.
Another point to bear in mind is that the current Catholic occupant of the Oval Office is the first president since 1993 to deliver a proposed budget to Congress that didn’t include Hyde Amendment language. Despite being almost totally aligned with pro-abortion advocacy throughout his time in office, even President Obama never tried to do the same — despite the fact that, unlike Biden, Obama was not constrained by claims that he was “personally opposed” to abortion on the grounds of his religious faith.
Of course, it has now become obvious that Biden does not intend to allow his Catholic faith to inhibit him from directing his administration to promote abortion and other agendas that contradict Catholic beliefs; at the start of June, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights released a list documenting 32 actions since January that have significantly departed from Church teachings. In light of all of this, what reasons are there to think Biden might not aggressively push in the Senate for the eradication of the Hyde Amendment and that he might instead be content to see it survive?
Such hopes rest partly on the fact that he has avoided using the word “abortion” since his election, suggesting some hesitation on his part about seeming to be personally too wholeheartedly aboard the abortion-rights bandwagon. There’s also the fact that he has so much personal experience of how the Senate operates and might be disinclined because of that experience from trying to strong-arm Manchin, Kaine and Casey into closer alignment with the Democratic Party’s pro-abortion orthodoxy. And maybe he has even been paying a little bit of attention to the multitude of comments by prominent Church leaders in the U.S. calling him to account over his continued reception of Communion despite his frequent political breaches of fundamental Catholic moral teachings.
Admittedly, this doesn’t provide a lot of hope for a covert reemergence of Biden’s former “Senator Jekyll” persona, with respect to acknowledging the principle that Americans who oppose abortions “should not be compelled to pay for them,” as he said himself back in 1994. Still, any hope is better than none, given that “President Hyde” has abandoned any pretense for balance when it comes to protecting the unborn, the most vulnerable among us. Let us pray for the president and continue to press him with the truth.
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Sort byA popover with more user informationWe are in dark times. We have a President who only cares about appeasing the woke. We have a pope who will not use his authority appropriately. God help us. A dialog showing a permalink to the commentA popover with more user informationThe G-7 leaders have just agreed to push abortion world wide and to isolate those countries that would go against this. At least 4 of the leaders profess to be practicing Catholics. Francis has said abortion is really a bad thing. But when does he ever back up his words with actions. The early church excommunicated those who were apostates and refused to die for the church. Vatican II was a call to return to the origins of the Church. Yet we only seem to want to return to the origins when it doesn’t cost us anything. When is Francis going to act? Pius XII acted to save Jews. He ordered the church to go into action to save the lives of Jews who were in dire circumstances. I don’t think Pius would have permitted Catholic Leaders to continue to claim to be Catholic, and go to communion while helping the Germans exterminate Jews. Why does Francis and Cardinal Cupich, and Cardinal Tobin, and Cardinal Gregory think Catholic Politicians can support these modern extermination camps of abortion and continue to call themselves Catholic. This lacks all consistency and credibility. Don’t tell me your against Racism and then look the other way on abortion. A dialog showing a permalink to the commentA popover with more user informationOnly lightly mentioned here but , although carefully hidden from the camera, Biden always uses a teleprompter with words written by the man behind the curtain. This is easily seen when he stumbles over word with similar spellings and chooses the wrong one. I should imagine Dr. Jill re-reads the history of Edith Wilson regularly in order to be prepared.A dialog showing a permalink to the commentA popover with more user informationreply In reply to Donald LinkMr Biden clearly has experienced a decline in health but I think that assumption was exaggerated during the election. Time will tell. I’d rather have Mrs.Wilson in charge any day. :)A dialog showing a permalink to the commentA popover with more user informationThis is a Republic, where Biden was freely elected into office by the free will of the votes from citizens who could vote for anyone. The people voted Biden and his immoral people into offices, judgships, etc.
Biden is not a king nor a dictator. Neither was trump. They are a person who the people selected after knowing what their policies were beforehand.
The people allowed this to take place. Maybe not those here on this board specifically or directly, but we who are followers of Christ and the Church must make some difficult choices on what to do about this. Because doing nothing is not going to fix this. A dialog showing a permalink to the commentA popover with more user information(Edited)reply In reply to DpeatThe difference is that DJT was making the decisions. People knew that.
With Biden, his handlers are making the decisions and telling him both how and when to breathe.
Proof? Just a few weeks ago he said: « I can’t say too much or I am going to get into trouble. » A dialog showing a permalink to the commentA popover with more user informationreply In reply to CantorHi, Cantor. I agree with you, and I know you’ll agree that even so, it doesn’t stop the stench of the resulting increase in abortions and desecration of the Eucharist.A dialog showing a permalink to the commentA popover with more user informationreply In reply to BernieAgree Bernie. I only wish our Church Leaders would find their spine and be more forceful and speak with a unified voice concerning abortion and the Eucharist.A dialog showing a permalink to the commentA popover with more user informationreply In reply to CantorBiden ran his “campaign” from his bunker. We all knew he would not “lead”. We all knew it would be the people behind the curtain. Biden is a fraud and a liar and a killer. Trump made that clear, but even without him it was known through that communication device called the internet. It was clear. Apparently, the “majority” voted for him anyway.
We have a major issue either way. Either Biden was not elected by the majority of the people, but election fraud got him into office. Or the American people knew Biden had early dementia, hid answers through fraud or misrepresentation, hid in his basement, and knew the left minions would run the Oval Office and voted for him anyway.
To defeat abortion, and the other evils we see, the American people must be convinced it is evil. If that is possible since most have lost their conscience. Then biden, Pelosi, and all the rest will not be elected. Maybe then we can have a country worth dying for again.
I blame the bishops and church leaders for the last sixty years. and the fr carls or PF. And laziness of the lay has allowed this to multiply. This mess should never happen. I think Fixing this will be very costly. In lives and souls. A dialog showing a permalink to the commentA popover with more user informationreply In reply to Dpeat[« Apparently, the “majority” voted for him anyway. »]
Certainly the majority of « Catholic » voters.The same majority of Catholic voters who did the same for Obama/Biden. Twice. A dialog showing a permalink to the commentA popover with more user informationreply In reply to DpeatI agree with the points you make. The media and big tech actually did all Biden’s campaigning for him. A dialog showing a permalink to the commentA popover with more user informationreply In reply to CantorWhat network did you get this from?A dialog showing a permalink to the commentA popover with more user informationreply In reply to Will_KAll the majors carried that « live » during coverage by ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN and PBS. Those networks. Sorry if you missed it. A dialog showing a permalink to the commentA popover with more user informationI don’t care one darn iota what Biden says he “personally believes” about abortion. If it’s even true, it makes him a total hypocrite in leadership and a total coward in his lack of integrity. He’s leading the charge to INCREASE abortions when no law requires it.
He ran on a platform to unnecessarily expand abortions and he did it to get the Democratic nomination. Full, unqualified period. He has Cardinal Gregory’s public blessing to receive Holy Communion. In the cardinal’s eyes, and apparently in Biden’s, either: 1) abortion is NOT taking human life, or, 2) no Catholic should sweat the routine desecration of the Real Presence because it’s no big deal.
I’m not that great of a human being, but I love and adore Jesus in the Eucharist, and I pray if it ever came to it, I would have the grace to be martyred for my belief. It sickens me to see Jesus spit upon by the likes of Biden and Gregory.A dialog showing a permalink to the commentA popover with more user informationLet’s face it! From the viewpoint of an unborn child, the only viewpoint that really matters, BIden has ALWAYS BEEN A HYDE!
Marijuana Reality Check: Pot Gains Legal Ground in US
But Catholics continue to oppose its use, for reasons grounded in the Church’s moral and social justice teachings.
An activist holds a marijuana plant during the NYC Cannabis Parade & Rally in support of the legalization of marijuana for recreational and medical use, on May 1, 2021 in New York City. (photo: Angela Weiss / AFP/Getty)
Efforts to legalize recreational marijuana use are blazing across the country at an unprecedented pace, with Catholic moral theologians and policy experts struggling to stop the spread.
This year alone, state legislatures in New York, Virginia and New Mexico have legalized recreational marijuana usage, and legalization legislation is also under consideration in Delaware. The passages come on the heels of successful November 2020 ballot initiatives that legalized recreational use in Montana, Arizona, and New Jersey and South Dakota (though judges in the latter state have blocked the law from going into effect).
In total, recreational pot is now legal in 17 states plus the District of Columbia, an astounding development considering that the practice wasn’t legal in any state only nine years ago, before citizens in Colorado and Washington voted for it. Today, marijuana is legal for medical use in 19 additional states, and is completely illegal in only 14.
Efforts to legalize recreational pot are even picking up steam at the federal level. In December 2020, the House of Representatives passed the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, which aimed to legalize cannabis by removing it from the Controlled Substances Act. It was the first time either chamber of Congress had voted to legalize recreational marijuana.
Catholics have been chief among those opposed to legalizing recreational marijuana, grounded in the Church’s moral teaching.
Within a section on “Respect for the Dignity of Persons,” the Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “the use of drugs inflicts very grave damage on human health and life. Their use, except on strictly therapeutic grounds, is a grave offense” (2291).
Pope Francis has also spoken on the subject.
“No to every type of drug use; it is as simple as that,” he told an international gathering of drug enforcement agencies in June 2014. The Holy Father added that even narrowly limited attempts “to legalize so-called ‘recreational drugs’ are not only highly questionable from a legislative standpoint, but they fail to produce the desired effects.”
Regarding marijuana, Catholic moral theology is generally opposed to recreational use on the grounds that the practice willfully impedes and alters the mind in order to experience a pleasant, artificially generated state of mind, disconnected from reality. This, explains Dominican Father Aquinas Guilbeau, undermines human freedom and dignity by impairing the capacity for moral reasoning.
“When ‘high,’ the marijuana user does not maintain a sufficient grasp on the real to accomplish acts of friendship and justice,” says Father Guilbeau, a moral theologian at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. “He drifts instead into a kind of fantasy.”
Father Guilbeau distinguishes recreational marijuana usage from the casual consumption of alcohol, which he argues can be “governed by temperance” and also can help partakers engage more fully in reality.
“Whereas a glass of wine can enhance a fine meal, and scotch and a cigar can accompany deep philosophical discussion, marijuana” — because of the way the active ingredient, THC, interacts with the nervous system — “does not add to but distracts from both activities.”
While these dimensions of Catholic moral theology’s application to recreational pot are well-known, public policy advocates mostly stress a wide array of other concerns in their efforts to stop the practice’s legal expansion.
For instance, in Minnesota, the state Catholic conference opposed an attempt to legalize recreational marijuana not primarily by pointing to the moral dimensions of the individual user, but by emphasizing the potential impact on the common good and the vulnerable.
“A spirit of solidarity requires that we reject the wishes of a small segment of the population who may have the means to address the consequences of frequent marijuana use, and instead promote the common good,” said Ryan Hamilton, the Minnesota Catholic Conference’s associate director for public policy. “We don’t need another industry like Big Tobacco that preys on vice and targets youth, the poor, and those who bear the heavy cross of addiction.”
The MCC also rejects the line of argumentation that legalizing recreational marijuana is needed to end enforcement practices that disproportionately affect people of color, contributing to longstanding patterns of social and economic disadvantage. Hamilton says that avenues for reforming criminal justice for low-level drug offenses and even decriminalization can be pursued without “opening the door to a commercial cannabis industry.”
“Let’s promote real justice,” Hamilton says, “instead of propping up an industry that preys on youth, the poor, and persons of color, trapping them in cycles of addiction and poverty.”
Distance From Reality
The odds are stacked against those opposed to legalizing recreational marijuana. Significant shifts in American’s attitudes toward legalization are accompanying the ground the pro-legalization movement is gaining in the legal system.
Some suggest that greater levels of opposition to legalized recreational weed were simply linked to the fact that the practice was legal. But as social and legal stigma have declined, those who might have previously opposed legalization have less reason to do so.
John-Mark Miravalle, a theologian at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary, points to an underlying, more troubling explanation.
“We are getting progressively farther and farther from delighting in reality,” Miravalle said. “People are only finding delight in drugs and screens, which both, in different ways, distance us from reality.”
Thus, the carefree vibe of casual marijuana usage may be masking something far more sinister.
“Although popular depictions of [marijuana-induced] incapacity can be humorous, they are in fact tragic,” said Father Guilbeau. “Wise rulers know that society cannot thrive when significant numbers of its members cannot fulfill the basics of justice.”
Jonathan Liedl Jonathan Liedl lives and works in Minnesota’s Twin Cities. He has previously worked for the Minnesota Catholic Conference, Catholic Rural Life and EWTN. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and Arabic Studies from the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. in Catholic Studies from the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), and has studied sacred theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome
Les questions du jour : Le gouvernement américain peut-il se rendre encore plus indigne de confiance ? Est-il devenu l’ennemi du peuple ? Je me demande juste. Ce qui serait pire, en fait, c’est d’apprendre que la culture américaine est indigne de confiance, puisque la politique est en aval de la culture. Ce serait l’équivalent en grandeur nature d’une personnalité humaine en guerre contre elle-même, incapable de faire confiance à ses propres pensées et actions.
Ce qui explique peut-être l’apparente psychose qui fait rage dans notre société en ce moment. Les délires hallucinatoires du jour sont exactement ce que l’on attendrait d’une personnalité subissant une fracture de stress psychotique, comme le personnage de Norman Bates dans le film d’horreur classique d’Hitchcock, Psychose. Le pauvre Norman (ou « Mister Bates », comme Hitch le faisait appeler par les autres personnages) a pris la fâcheuse habitude de se déguiser en sa défunte mère et de tuer toute autre femme pour laquelle il avait des pensées impures. C’était la version des années 1960 du Transsexual Story Hour. Nous avons parcouru un long chemin, mon ami, depuis ces jours innocents.
De nos jours, une autre partie de la personnalité collective se désagrège soudainement : la science, ou La Science, comme le veut le jargon de nos jours. La Science est le système d’hypothèses et de preuves qui joue normalement le rôle de héros dans la tâche de déterminer la réalité, surtout en ce qui concerne les choses dangereuses pour l’humanité. La Science est censée être à l’origine de ce que nous savons de la pandémie de la Covid-19 qui a mis l’Amérique, et une grande partie du monde entier, sens dessus dessous. La Science est devenue si peu fiable qu’un grand nombre de personnes soupçonnent qu’elle leur a fait du tort l’année dernière.
Au début de la guerre contre la Covid-19, La Science a dit à ses soldats, les médecins, de fourrer des appareil respiratoire dans la gorge des patients. Oups, ça n’a pas très bien marché. La Science a dit à tout le monde d’oublier l’Ivermectin, l’hydroxychloroquine, le zinc et la vitamine D. La Science a dit au gouverneur de New York, Andrew Cuomo, de cacher les patients infectés par la Covid-19 dans des maisons de retraite. La Science a dit à tout le monde de ne pas s’embêter avec les masques, puis de porter absolument des masques, puis de ne pas porter de masques, puis de porter des doubles masques, puis de se faire vacciner et de porter des masques. Bon sang, que croire ? Certaines personnes ont commencé à penser que La Science ne disait que des conneries – ce qui est, avouons-le, une pensée dangereuse, et quelque chose que, Dieu merci, Facebook, Twitter et Google ont corrigé pour nous.
Une chose sur laquelle La Science est restée inflexible pendant toute une année, c’est que la Covid-19 ne provenait pas de l’Institut de virologie de Wuhan, en Chine, où, et vers lequel, il se trouve que l’un des chevaliers de La Science du gouvernement américain, le Dr Anthony Fauci, acheminait des subventions financées par le contribuable américain dans le but d’effectuer des recherches sur le gain de fonction des virus exotiques de type corona des chauves-souris. Bon sang, pourquoi faire ça ? (Le gain de fonction ne le rend-il pas plus mortel ?)
C’est soi-disant pour acquérir des connaissances afin que l’humanité soit prête à combattre l’émergence de virus mortels de chauve-souris qui parviendraient à se faufiler dans la population humaine à une date ultérieure. Ces choses peuvent arriver, vous savez. Nous avons déjà eu affaire à la grippe aviaire et à la grippe porcine, alors la grippe mortelle des chauves-souris n’est pas à exclure. Bien sûr, lorsque l’on joue avec des virus respiratoires mortels dans un laboratoire, l’un des dangers est que les travailleurs de laboratoire puissent inhaler un ou deux virus et être infectés par un spécimen que La Science a conçu pour être particulièrement gênant… mais cela était très peu probable, a soutenu le Dr Anthony Fauci, conseiller scientifique en chef du président.
Jusqu’à ce que, ce mois-ci, le Dr Fauci concède à une commission sénatoriale qu’une enquête était peut-être nécessaire pour déterminer si, par hasard, le virus de la Covid-19 s’est échappé du laboratoire de Wuhan – car il s’avère que le laboratoire de Wuhan était une opération tellement négligée que son niveau de sécurité était comparable à celui d’un cabinet de dentiste ordinaire. Il s’avère également, selon un rapport du Wall Street Journal de cette semaine, que trois employés du laboratoire de Wuhan ont effectivement dû être hospitalisés en novembre 2019, c’est-à-dire à peu près au moment où le virus s’est répandu parmi les civils de la ville de Wuhan, alors que les touristes et les travailleurs chinois étaient encore en train de parcourir le monde en avion par dizaines de milliers – ce qui amène à se demander si, par hasard, le PCC ne souhaitait pas que cela se produise ? ¿Quién sabe ?
Maintenant que des vaccins « sûrs et efficaces » sont disponibles contre la Covid-19, La Science exhorte tout le monde à les prendre, pronto, et le gouvernement aide à la distribution et au déploiement des vaccinations jusqu’à la limite de contraindre les citoyens à le faire en transformant les « hésitants au vaccin » en parias sociaux. Pas de repas au restaurant ou d’accès au stade pour vous, trolls de la science ! Comment cela fonctionne-t-il ? Selon le Dr Fauci et plusieurs autres chevaliers de La Science, plus de la moitié des membres de leur personnel se sont fait vacciner volontairement. Plus de la moitié ! C’est une preuve de confiance dans la science !
Peu importe que les vaccins déployés aient été exemptés des essais de sécurité normaux d’une durée de plusieurs années que La Science jugeait auparavant essentiels pour les nouveaux vaccins, et qu’ils aient bénéficié d’une protection spéciale contre les poursuites en cas de problème avec les vaccins. Et peu importe les étranges effets secondaires signalés, allant de problèmes de reproduction humaine à des caillots sanguins mortels. Et peu importe que, apparemment, un grand nombre de personnes ayant reçu le vaccin aient également contracté la Covid-19. Et peu importe que la présidente de la Chambre des représentants, Nancy Pelosi, continue à se promener dans son bureau en portant des masques de couleur coordonnée, bien qu’elle ait été vaccinée et qu’elle passe son temps avec des collègues qui sont tous vaccinés.
Nous attendons de voir comment les bêta-testeurs du vaccin s’en sortent sur une période un peu plus longue. …. Pendant ce temps, le prochain test de réalité national est en cours en Arizona et se prépare également dans l’État de Géorgie. Il s’agit de la science électorale, c’est-à-dire des hypothèses et des preuves de la manière dont les bulletins de vote sont déposés et dont les votes sont comptabilisés. Ce sont également des sujets que nos chevaliers de la gestion publique, comme le gouverneur de l’Arizona Doug Doucy et le gouverneur de la Géorgie Brian Kemp, ainsi que leurs secrétaires d’État Hobbs et Raffensperger, déclarent indignes d’être étudiés. Et pourtant, les enquêtes se poursuivent apparemment contre leur volonté et leur conviction, grâce au Sénat de l’Arizona et à certains juges de Géorgie. Nous attendons maintenant de voir à quel point la personnalité collective de l’Amérique deviendra plus psychotique à mesure que cette sale affaire progresse.
What is really going on behind these vaccines? I do not think that the politicians are part of a plot to reduce the world population. It is perhaps a way of tagging the sheep v wolves. Stalin killed tens of millions simply because they were seen as the resistance. Perhaps this is what they really are doing in their mind. They are probably getting kickbacks from the vaccine manufacturers. How in all reality can the United States give away 500 million doses of the vaccine when in fact the population is just over 300 million? That means they must have bought nearly 1 billion doses for what? Kickbacks? They sell this as their charity being a “donation” using other people’s money.
Career politicians are simply greedy corrupt people who love the power and endless money that flows into their pockets. This is why we cannot tolerate career politicians. Our real problem is their greed has gotten in the way of our health and their corrupt courts are ruling in their support. A federal judge has ruled that the Houston Hospital can force employees to be vaccinated. He is a total disgrace to what we pretend is the rule of law. I hope the employees quit and if I were in Houston, I would not allow any member of my family to go to that hospital. They are playing politics with the lives of patients and staff and should be shut down.
The world leaders are complicit in this entire scam for their greed has blinded them to the fact that this virus has more than a 99% survival rate. You have probably a greater risk of dying in a car crash. Macron said that Biden is “part of the club” at the G7. This is a very true statement for it reflects their dislike of Trump because he did not yield to their globalist agenda. This is really how they see themselves – the Demigods of the World.
Les épidémies virales sont en général caractérisées par des courbes d’évolution en cloche, avec le développement, le pic, puis la décroissance. Est-ce que la forme de la cloche permet de juger de l’efficacité d’un traitement ? La réponse est non, par contre le contenu : oui.
Voici 4 cloches épidémiques :
Si je vous dis que la première concerne un pays où rien n’a été fait, la seconde un pays qui a confiné sans traitement, la troisième un pays qui a traité précocement, la quatrième un pays qui a vacciné, vous vous dites que ce n’est pas possible, qu’il y a anguille sous cloche. Et pourtant ce sont bien des courbes réelles, qui permettent au premier de dire que quoi qu’on fasse, le résultat est le même, au second que le confinement marche, au troisième que le traitement précoce marche, au quatrième que c’est le vaccin qui a marché. Comment se faire une opinion avec ces différents sons de cloches ? Il faut savoir que deux cloches identiques n’ont jamais le même son.
Alors qui a tort, qui a raison ? Pour le savoir, il faut regarder ce qu’il y a dedans, car ce n’est pas la forme, mais ce qu’il y a sous la cloche qui est important. Petite démonstration avec deux gros Etats indiens, l’Uttar Pradesh et le Tamil Nadu.
Il y a 3 semaines, on vous montrait les courbes de ces deux Etats, le premier traitant à l’Ivermectine, le second ne traitant pas. Voici ces courbes, éloquentes. Le premier en avait terminé avec l’épidémie, alors que le second était en pleine crise, n’en voyant pas le bout. CQFD, l’ivermectine est le produit miracle qui a mis fin à cette vague, là où on traitait.
Maintenant, le 10 juin, on va vous dire que c’est faux. “Regardez, le Tamil Nadu est en train de régler le problème, sans un gramme d‘ivermectine, ce n’est donc pas l’ivermectine qui a réglé le problème dans l’Uttar Pradesh, car il s’est passé la même chose dans le Tamil Nadu. Vous n’auriez pas donné d’ivermectine au premier, l’évolution aurait été la même”. La preuve ? Voici les courbes mises à jour :
On a bientôt la même courbe pour les deux. Alors ? Déception pour l’ivermectine ? Non, le résultat reste indiscutable, car il ne faut pas regarder la forme de la courbe, qui effectivement avec le temps sera très souvent plus ou moins la même, mais il faut regarder ce qu’il y a dedans, c’est à dire les chiffres. La courbe peut faire illusion, pas les chiffres. Ces courbes doivent s’interpréter en regardant l’intensité, la durée, et rapporter à la population, et quand on compare les décès, tenir compte de l’âge médian et des conditions sanitaires.
Ces deux Etats sont parfaits pour comparer les résultats de politiques différentes. La population est identique, les conditions sanitaires peu éloignées, les populations sont importantes et significatives, 204,2 M pour l’Uttar Pradesh et 67,8 M pour le Tamil Nadu, et l’un a massivement traité, l’autre pas (sinon confinement). Conditions parfaites pour voir ce qui marche.
Superposons les 2 courbes, à échelle temps identique, et regardons les chiffres en les rapportant à population identique (Il s’agit ici du nombre de cas par jour, moyenne sur 7 jours) :
On constate que l’épidémie a commencé exactement en même temps, autour du premier avril. L’épidémie semble s’être développé plus vite dans l’Uttar Pradesh, mais ce n’est pas le cas : elle ne s’est pas développé plus vite (ascension de la courbe), car 3 fois plus peuplé, il est normal que le nombre de cas grimpe 3 fois plus vite.
Par contre en traitant, le premier a stoppé deux fois plus vite la croissance, les pics étant atteints le 24 avril pour l’Uttar Pradesh, le 21 mai pour le Tamil Nadu. Le premier a également eu 3 fois moins de cas. En effet, les pics sont identiques, autour de 37 000 cas, mais la population du premier étant trois fois plus importante, il aurait dû avoir trois fois plus de cas.
Enfin en ayant démarré tous deux le même jour, l’Uttar Pradesh avait réduit de 95% ses cas journaliers le 30 mai (1 850 cas/jour au lieu de 37 000), alors qu’à la même date, le Tamil Nadu en était à 29 000 cas/ 36 000, soit 12% de réduction. Au 10 juin le premier en est à 98% depuis quelques jours, le second en est à 50%. Au rythme actuel, cela devrait se terminer dernière semaine de juin, soit une évolution naturelle de 3 mois, contre 2 mois, et 3 fois moins de cas avec traitement.
Et si on prend comme échelle nombre de cas/million d’habitants, voici ce que cela donne : même ascension, pic 3 fois inférieur, vague terminée contre 50% encore à parcourir pour le dernier.
Et ce n’est pas tout, après la durée et le nombre de cas, regardons la gravité de l’épidémie, avec les décès :
Moyenne de 330 décès/jour au pic pour l’Uttar Pradesh, contre 480 décès/jour, soit 4,4 fois plus de décès à population égale au Tamil Nadu. Ce chiffre n’est pas anodin, et il était prévisible. Il est en effet très logique et cohérent puisque toutes les méta analyses depuis des mois montrent que l’ivermectine divise par 4 à 5 la mortalité. Ce qui est montré dans les études portant sur près de 20 000 cas, se vérifie sur une population de 272 millions d’habitants, 4 fois la France. Rappelez-vous la conclusion d’Andrew Hill dans son rapport pour l’OMS : mortalité réduite de 83%.
Petit exercice comparatif pour terminer, entre l’Inde, qui a traité (pas partout toutefois), et la France, qui a choisi l’option tout vaccins et confinement. Prenons comme un point de départ identique au 1er janvier, date des premiers vaccins. A cette date il y avait en France 195 nouveaux cas/jour par million d’habitants. A cette date l’Inde n’avait pas d’épidémie, 12 cas/jour par million. Faisons démarrer la comparaison avec une vague au même stade, j’ai positionné l’Inde avec 195 cas/jour avec la France à 195 cas/jour. C’est le point de départ des courbes, épidémie d’importance identique, l’un traite, l’autre pas. Au 20-25 février, l’Inde avait fini, nous nous montions encore (comme le Tamil Nadu).
Vous me direz, oui, mais l’Inde ne déclare pas tout. Je répondrai, d’une part qu’en comparant deux Etats indiens, le problème ne se pose pas, et d’autre part que c’est sans importance pour suivre l’évolution et comparer, si les conditions de recueil des données ne changent pas. Si c’est sous-estimé dans les mêmes proportions au départ, au pic, et à la fin, la courbe est la même. Démonstration : doublons les cas en Inde. On arrive à un pic égal en nombre de cas à la France, mais le résultat du traitement reste le même. En effet, si vous réduisez de 95% les cas avec le traitement, que ce soit sur 1 000, 10 000 ou 100 000 cas, 95% resteront toujours 95%, et la proportion de 4 fois moins de morts restera toujours la même, même s’il y a deux fois plus de morts.
Conclusion : que l’on compare l’Uttar Pradesh (ou un autre Etat qui a traité comme Goa ou Dehli) avec un autre Etat indien qui n’a pas traité, ou avec un autre pays, sous ivermectine + macrolide, l’épidémie cède le pas deux fois plus vite, avec quatre fois moins de morts. Ces chiffres, constatés grandeur nature, sont identiques à ceux des études publiées, les faits démontrant que les critiques de ces études sont mal fondées
The G7 meeting +1 (EU) met in Cornwall in southwest England. The London Financial Times, which has openly come out and advocated the Great Reset, reported that “Joe Biden has won support at the G7 summit for a ‘carry on spending’ plan, as western leaders rejected austerity in a post-Covid world and vowed to tackle inequality at home and abroad. Biden’s call for continued economic stimulus was backed by fellow leaders at the summit, in a gathering framed by leaders as the moment the west starts a fightback against an ascendant China.”
On Friday evening, the G7 leaders and partners traveled to the Eden Project, a futuristic environmental park, to meet Queen Elizabeth and other members of the royal family. The Eden Project is a futuristic view of a Green planet that is billing as connecting us with each other and the living world and this is the future they envision. It is located in Cornwall, UK, which is WHY this G7 meeting was staged at this location. There are massive Biomes housing the largest rainforest in captivity.
They have stated that this is “the moment and support the economy” and Mario Draghi, former head of the European Central Bank who destroyed the bonk market by moving to negative interest rates in 2014 which failed, is now Italy’s prime minister, said that “there is a compelling case for expansionary fiscal policy.” They have destroyed the financial economy with artificially low interest rates which means they can no longer borrow endlessly. Consequently, they have adopted Modern Monetary Theory arguing that they can now simply print money endlessly and any inflation is purely temporary due to the shortages caused by COVID.
The Federal Reserve has joined the party with its own propaganda saying in April that it will continue its ultra-low interest rate policies and bond-buying program, a sign that it wants to see more evidence of a strengthening economic recovery before it considers easing its support. The Fed continues to call inflation is just short-term and they are saying they will not yet intervene.
The absolute nonsense coming from the G7 is really amazing. Boris Johnson had the guts to claim that it was vital the pandemic did not cause a “lasting scar” of inequality claiming that the last big economic recession of 2008 saw a recovery that was not “uniform across all parts of society.” This is just such propaganda all intent upon ushering a new system of totalitarianism under the pretense of “equality” and fairness. Video Player00:0001:18
Their greatest fear is “populism” and they all keep trying so hard to stab Trump as if this were the assassination of Julius Caesar when the senators stabbed Caesar 23 times also claiming they were defending the Republic which was hopelessly corrupt and controlled by an oligarchy as we see once again today. That claimed that after four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, the G7 was suppressed in the division and now they are in harmony to change the world for the Great Reset. Boris Johnson even stabbed former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron’s policies of austerity calling them “a mistake.” The G7 thus concluded that they will commit to higher spending to “help” the developing world from a crisis they themselves have orchestrated. Of course, the G7 has also committed to funding for climate change.
This was all about justifying spending with artificially low-interest rates to create EQUALITY which is seriously calling into question that this all leads to only one place – totalitarianism.
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