On November 2nd, 2022 - 8 months ago - I wrote a piece making the same points as Swanson's essay - namely, that social media and the Internet, used like they SHOULD have been used - could and would have SAVED many lives.
I added a sentence after I sent article out to my subscribers. See the second sentence - I should have included this in my original column as it's one of Swanson's main points:
The opinions of those who believe the “experts” might be “ignorant” were censored or not allowed to reach large numbers of people. Because of this, “falsehoods” could NOT be “dispelled.”
Swanson points out such a surreal template is the exact opposite of real science, which exists to challenge dubious claims.
All one needs to do is look at the controversy that surrounded the film Vaxxed at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016 (Tribeca is about 10 blocks north of Wall St). It was pulled after being submitted by festival founder Robert DeNiro days before it was to be screened. Turns out that one of the festival’s chief sponsors was the Sloane Foundation who are knee deep in the Pharma Industry cartel and threatened to pull their “generous” support if the film wasn’t dismissed. Once again it’s money that matters and everything else, no matter how true or well documented, must be tossed away.
However, Andrew Wakefield (the filmaker) is a very clever, very psychopathic liar. Before you decide,, you should read Brian Deer's book, The Doctor That Fooled the World.
Have you seen his films like VAXXED or 1986 - The Act? Or listened to his side of the story? From my understanding Deer was brought on by Pharma thugs to put the finishing touches on destroying the medical career of one of Britain’s finest gastroenterologists just for suggesting that the link between MMR shot and autism should’ve been studied. They play very dirty. Vaccines are a big part of their greater agenda and anyone who stands in their way is a target. I think Wakefield is lucky to be alive.
Censorship absolutely killed and injured more people than covid.
Successful treatments such as HCQ, ivermectin, quercetin, Vitamin D were censored and falsely discredited. Liberal use of these in the early stages of covid would have saved 80-85% of covid deaths, and same percentage of hospitalizations.
Lockdowns caused MORE illnesses, MORE deaths and infinitely more economic suffering than did covid:
1) There have been more illnesses and deaths from undiagnosed and untreated worse diseases such as cancers, heart disease, lung disease, tuberculosis and others, than from covid. These undiagnosed and untreated diseases were a direct result of the fear and lockdowns surrounding covid. Tens of millions of people all over the world weren't treated for these deadly diseases because of all the attention on covid.
2) Every year, 3 Million children starve to death. Because of lockdowns, many millions MORE children have died of starvation, according to the UN, UNICEF and WHO. More children have starved to death than have died from covid - yet very little attention or government “mandates” are brought to bear on this issue.
3) Suicides skyrocketed as a result of lockdowns and isolation, to include teens. Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield: “But there has been another cost that we’ve seen, particularly in high schools. We’re seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from COVID. We’re seeing far greater deaths from drug overdose that are above excess than we are seeing deaths from COVID.”
4) Drug and alcohol abuse have also increased greatly, as have domestic abuse and violence.
5) Tens of thousands of elderly people in nursing homes have died prematurely from loneliness, because they haven’t been able to see their families.
And censorship of the deadly effects of mRNA products have disabled or killed tens of millions of people worldwide, mostly under the age of 60.
Thanks, Joseph. Great information. Everything you write is true. The scale of unnecessary deaths boggles the mind. It's too large for most people to wrap their heads around.
Right. There's a huge dichotomy between the WSJ op-ed section and news section. The WSJ does publish many excellent and important editorials and "guest" op-eds. Still, they haven't published nearly enough on all the Covid lies and scams. But this was an important one. I actually wrote my piece in hopes it might inspire the WSJ to keep publishing essays like this.
Bill, I have been thinking about something - please opine (and readers as well). I believe the DS will throw a Hail Mary in the form of 'throw Trump under the bus for the vax' before the next election. They created the problem and will pose as the saviours. I believe this is the only way the vax 'narrative' will be flipped and 'we' will 'get justice' but of course it will be pseudo-justice.
Here is why:
-The media is entirely controlled, yet cracks are appearing. Shows they are setting the stage for said bus-throwing. Also, the problem is too big. Too many people are sick and dying.
-The many videos of Democrats in 2020 saying "I'm not taking that dangerous, rushed Trumpcene!" They will conveniently refer back to this as "the initial assessment was correct."
-Trump himself talking about how he pressured the FDA to speed up/ignore safety procedures.
-Trump never backing down on the vaccine or disavowing it.
-Trump taking millions from Pfizer, Amgen, Dow etc. in campaign donations
-Edit: and how could I forget a public with TDS (now long-TDS). Everyone is primed to hate Trump. Will be very easy to flip dat hate switch again. To be honest, I am not sure how he has followers still given OWS which does not seem to be popular with his base but that's not my place to say. Just throwing ideas out there.
After all the above (and more) the schtick of "but I never mandated it" is not going to fly. Democrats etc. will say "but Trump said it was safe!"
I love a good "thought exercise" so, fwiw, here are my thoughts ...
I’ve always thought the vaccines (and the unnecessary and ridiculous lockdowns and NPIs) should be THE issues in the next presidential election. After all, these eviscerated our Bill of Rights and led to Holocaust-type casualties, not to mention flushing $6 trillion down the toilet.
However, the prevailing “narrative” tells me this is NOT the key issue for voters as Trump apparently is going to have a cake-walk to winning his re-match with “Joe Biden.” (And "exposing Covid truths" is not a part of Trump's election platform).
So if Trump is re-elected or “Biden” or his replacement (Gov. Newsome?), there will be no “Nuremberg” type tribunals to tell anyone the truths. (I doubt Trump would authorize a real investigation whose results would embarrass him … as well as almost everyone in Congress and really every important organization and "leader" in the world) ... So what I’d like to see happen ... won’t happen.
Of course, Trump can and does say he wasn’t for “mandatory” vaccines and there’s no doubt he was misled by his team of “trusted” public health advisors.
The bottom-line as I see it today is that all my writing trying to get at least ONE Covid scandal exposed …. is going to be for naught.
But you make a good point that the evidence of harm and the blowback against all the false Covid scandals is getting more conspicuous (despite the Herculean efforts of the Censorship Industrial Complex).
So I guess it’s at least possible "the narrative" that’s prevailed for 40 months could be nuked. If this happens and leads to other false narratives being exposed as criminal scams, ANYTHING is possible IMO - this includes the masses going for those proverbial pitch forks and possibly serious secession movements.
Those with “authority” will have been disgraced and presumably banished. The main goal of the Censorship Industrial Complex - to protect their sorry asses - will have … failed.
I also have come to believe our elections are completely rigged so it’s almost a given (to me) that Trump won’t be “allowed” to win. Nor will RFK, Jr. (DeSantis already seems to have been “neutralized.”)
As I keep writing, this will be the most significant presidential election in perhaps all of U.S. history.
But the outcome that really interests me is “Joe Biden” or his successor (if his dementia or myriad scandals get too large to keep ignoring) is elected. What will the people who think like us do then? Just shrug and take it? Will the majority of citizens simply “comply” or will they fight and “dissent” more forcefully?
I’m starting to think RFK, Jr. being elected might be the one thing that preserves the union and purges many of these rotten organizations. I think he’s gaining big-time grassroots momentum so I think it’s not out of the realm of possibility that he COULD prevail …. If elections were fair (but I don’t think they are).
Or: Trump wins and he does a better job of draining the swamp this time … but I don’t think this would include the prosecutions of any of the Covid criminals. All those obtuse and crooked "leaders" are safe and still sleeping like babies.
I also agree that the elections are theatre and you will probably see President Newsom. Clown world demands it.
I also think that if Trump wins it will be because the machine demands it. "I did Operation CBDC Speed faster than anyone else could have! I saved 20 million lives with central currency! Everyone would have starved without me! The Fed would have taken 5 years but I pushed them! But I never mandated the CBDC!"
Anyway, one of the reasons I have been thinking about this is because there is a scandal in Australia right now called 'Robodebt.' Essentially one side of government (Blue Team) set up a scheme whereby they incorrectly calculated welfare payments and low-income people were harassed so badly by the government to repay fake debt that many people committed suicide. The other side of government (Red Team) is now in power and it is politically convenient for them to go hard on Blue Team. However, this is only a tiny fraction of what was done to people under covid. Problem being, as you say, Red and Blue team both did it to us. Therefore, where will we get pseudo-justice?
I was just thinking that the best chance to see any movement on this would be the media and long-TDS. But it is a very, very long shot, I know.
Edit: Also this: "However, the prevailing “narrative” tells me this is NOT the key issue for voters as Trump apparently is going to have a cake-walk to winning his re-match with “Joe Biden.” (And "exposing Covid truths" is not a part of Trump's election platform)" makes me feel like I am living in a crazy movie.
Sounds like you have identified another scandal that no one else has with those suicides (and what probably contributed to their increase).
The Catch-22 is how do you expose the real scandals when all the people/organizations that are supposed to "investigate" these crimes are also captured ... and don't want them exposed?
We're going to need one "club member" (perhaps in the mainstream press?) who breaks ranks and does their most important job.
I think RFK, Jr. would make it a priority to expose and purge many of the Bad Actors in the Military Industrial Complex and the Science/Medicine/Big Pharma Industrial Complex ... if he was elected.
Heck, Ron Paul would have done the same thing. So anyone who starts to seriously challenge the Deep State becomes a "threat" to their "authority" (continued rule) ... and is not successful.
I will say some in the alternative media and Substack are "moving the needle," which makes me wonder what the Powers that Be have in store for these platforms (especially if they start to gain more traction with more people).
Oh I have a comment about Ron Paul - I think I mentioned it before. When he was having his very early Senate hearings about the US gain-of-function research (is the US doing it? Aren't they?) I sent him a lot of information about Australia's gain-of-function research and he never contacted me back. That doesn't mean that he didn't see it, but the people in the system never really want to go against the machine which is the DOD and Five Eyes. I mean, the last time we had a Prime Minister do that he was deposed - I have written about this.
I also haven't had any interest about this from the Brownstone Institute - Katherine Watt has written an article about this.
Her take "Brownstone Institute’s role is to protect the public health system and public health officials from public understanding of how HHS public health programs are actually just part of joint military operations with DoD."
The Robodebt is big news in Australia but only because it makes the Blue Team look bad.
Substack is toast. The writing is on the wall - if I have some time in the next few days I'll do a post about it. It doesn't look good Bill. Let's enjoy it while it lasts.
I've got a "work-around" idea that might save independent journalism ... and make a lot of money for someone.
I think Substack will become a target, but I also worry that most Substack authors aren't going to be able to make enough income to continue this important contrarian journalism. So most - who depend on income from their freelance type writing - will have to give up at some point.
I live on a very modest retirement income, but I also live very simply, 1) because I don't need much to be happy, and 2) I want to be able to support good writers out there, especially on SS.
Unfortunately, many people of all ages have the Napster mentality, that everything should be "free", and whine when it isn't. ME, I'm just loving soaking up all this exciting, patriotic, thought-provoking writing. And grateful to have access to such luxuries.
Reframing all debate onto a ‘globalist vs nationalist’ mindset is possibly powerful think reset ...eg the inconsistencies and hypocrisy of globalist greens is breathtaking..
I think at least there will be widespread, quiet noncompliance. I hope it's enough to prevent the next manufactured pandemic, which is looming in the near future.
Faucci and his gain of function project in the lab still doesn't exist in the mainstream media. The Dems are desparate that no Republican wins the next election for obvious reasons.
Censorship is the basis of The German Prussian Education System in the U.S. With No Independent Thinking And The Government Owns Your Children To Create A Slave Class - By Mag Bitter Truth https://bitchute.com/video/yyiUidMMSv3o/ -- Black Pilled! Everything You're Taught in Schools is a Lie + Flattening The Curve by Chief Justice https://bitchute.com/video/BO5zCXzPcwXI/
There is no Covid. That is an invention just like all the other lies that came afterward. There are a myriad of reasons people got sick during the "Covid" era--none having to do with the fairy tale of a specific pathogen. Most of it was repackaged flu or similar respiratory illness mostly found in the elderly who had pre-existing conditions to begin with. The "virus" has always been a cover story for environmental poisoning (especially air pollution) and iatrogenic treatment.
I read a version that Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute published in our "Brownstone Writers Group" email thread (Brett is also part of the Brownstone writing team). I couldn't copy and paste that version though. If I can figure out how to do it, I'll try to post the actual text in the Reader Comments.
In the wake of the 1986 Challenger space-shuttle explosion, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman knew that the truth would both fuel progress and soothe the nation’s sorrow. “For a successful technology,” he said, “reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
For three years, pandemic public relations mocked nature, generating fear, illness, inflation and excess death beyond what the virus caused. Digital censorship supercharged the effort to hide reality, but reality is getting its day in court.
On July 4, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty temporarily blocked numerous federal agencies and the White House from collaborating with social-media companies and third-party groups to censor speech.
Discovery in Missouri v. Biden exposed relationships among government agencies and social-media firms and revealed an additional layer of university centers and self-styled disinformation watchdogs and fact-checking outfits.
Elon Musk’s release of some of Twitter’s internal files revealed that up to 80 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were embedded with social-media companies. The agents mostly weren’t fighting terrorism but flagging wrongthink by American citizens, including eminent scientists who suggested different paths on Covid policy.
The results of these relationships? Twitter blacklisted Stanford physician and economist Jay Bhattacharya for showing Covid almost exclusively threatened the elderly, severely reducing the visibility of his tweets. When Stanford health policy scholar Scott Atlas began advising the White House, YouTube erased his most prominent video opposing lockdowns. Twitter banned Robert Malone, a pioneer of mRNA vaccine technology, for calling attention to the vaccines’ dangers. YouTube demonetized evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein, who suggested the virus might be engineered and predicted vaccine-evading variants. And those are only a few examples.
Social-media platforms were powerful tools for full-spectrum censorship, but they didn’t act alone. Medical schools, medical boards, science journals and legacy media sang from the same hymnal.
Legions of doctors stayed quiet after witnessing the demonization of their peers who challenged the Covid orthodoxy. A little censorship leads people to watch what they say. Millions of patients and citizens were deprived of important insights as a result.
Health authorities and TV doctors insisted young people were vulnerable, demanded toddlers wear masks, closed schools, beaches and parks, and were loath to contemplate crucial cost-benefit analysis. The economy? Mental health? Never heard of them.
These “experts” denied the protective effects of recovered immunity, a phenomenon we’ve known about since the Plague of Athens in 430 B.C. They effectively prohibited generic drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration, such as azithromycin and ivermectin, which low-income nations around the world were deploying successfully. They failed to appreciate the evolutionary dynamics of mass vaccination during a pandemic.
The U.S. government spent $6 trillion to buoy its shuttered economy, and most people got Covid anyway. Worst of all, the lockdowns and mandates resulted in unprecedented bad health outcomes for young and middle-aged people in rich countries.
Excess mortality in most high-income nations was worse in 2021 and 2022 than in 2020, the initial pandemic year. Many poorer nations with less government control seemed to fare better. Sweden, which didn’t have a lockdown, performed better than nearly every other advanced nation.
After navigating 2020 with relative success, young and middle-age healthy people in rich nations began dying in unprecedented numbers in 2021 and 2022. Health authorities haven’t focused enough on this cataclysm of premature death from non-Covid heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolisms, kidney failure and cancer.
Hiding these and other realities has become more difficult in the internet age. The information explosion has allowed more people to spot quickly the mistakes of officials and learn the truth. This has changed the relationship between the authorities and those they govern. Those in charge feel threatened.
Digital censorship is their response to this crisis of authority. True, misinformation is rampant online. But it was far worse before the internet, when myths could persist for centuries. New technologies allow us to compile data quickly, correct errors, find facts and dispel falsehoods. Science, supported by an open internet, is the process by which we reduce misinformation and approach the truth.
Artificial intelligence will improve our ability to sift, parse, edit, authenticate and organize information. When you hear calls to license or centralize control of AI, remember the hubris of Covid censorship.
“Attacks on me,” Dr. Anthony Fauci famously insisted, “quite frankly, are attacks on science.” Feynman would have been appalled. “Science,” he wisely noted, “is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
Mr. Swanson is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He writes the Infonomena newsletter on Substack.com.
A wonderful piece of writing and reminder of fault. Media didn’t act alone, all the medical operatives must be publicly identified as well. thank you Michael.
Fortunately Michael posted the entire essay above on Bills substack so it solve my Dilemma. My thanks to Bill and Michael. Usually Firefox is reliable however lately I have been having increasing problems with the internet.
On November 2nd, 2022 - 8 months ago - I wrote a piece making the same points as Swanson's essay - namely, that social media and the Internet, used like they SHOULD have been used - could and would have SAVED many lives.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/good-luck-to-elon-but-i-havent-forgotten?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
I added a sentence after I sent article out to my subscribers. See the second sentence - I should have included this in my original column as it's one of Swanson's main points:
The opinions of those who believe the “experts” might be “ignorant” were censored or not allowed to reach large numbers of people. Because of this, “falsehoods” could NOT be “dispelled.”
Swanson points out such a surreal template is the exact opposite of real science, which exists to challenge dubious claims.
I met Brett. He's a very good guy.
He said in a pretty short essay what I've been trying to say in much-longer articles.
The link to Brett's Substack is here: https://infonomena.substack.com/
All one needs to do is look at the controversy that surrounded the film Vaxxed at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016 (Tribeca is about 10 blocks north of Wall St). It was pulled after being submitted by festival founder Robert DeNiro days before it was to be screened. Turns out that one of the festival’s chief sponsors was the Sloane Foundation who are knee deep in the Pharma Industry cartel and threatened to pull their “generous” support if the film wasn’t dismissed. Once again it’s money that matters and everything else, no matter how true or well documented, must be tossed away.
Follow the money ... it always supports "The Current Thing."
However, Andrew Wakefield (the filmaker) is a very clever, very psychopathic liar. Before you decide,, you should read Brian Deer's book, The Doctor That Fooled the World.
https://briandeer.com
Have you seen his films like VAXXED or 1986 - The Act? Or listened to his side of the story? From my understanding Deer was brought on by Pharma thugs to put the finishing touches on destroying the medical career of one of Britain’s finest gastroenterologists just for suggesting that the link between MMR shot and autism should’ve been studied. They play very dirty. Vaccines are a big part of their greater agenda and anyone who stands in their way is a target. I think Wakefield is lucky to be alive.
Did you read Deers book? You say you want both sides, and yet you haven't read the Deer book??
I've listened to various speeches and presentations from Wakefield. And I've read some of Deer.
There were things that WKefield did that were gross, serious violations of medical ethics.
Paywall Bypass Link Here:
https://archive.li/2023.07.07-221936/https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/covid-censorship-proved-to-be-deadly-social-media-government-pandemic-health-697c32c4
Thank you, and I will save archive.li as another option for a possible paywall bypass.
Thanks, Michael! I hope a few people read the whole thing.
Censorship absolutely killed and injured more people than covid.
Successful treatments such as HCQ, ivermectin, quercetin, Vitamin D were censored and falsely discredited. Liberal use of these in the early stages of covid would have saved 80-85% of covid deaths, and same percentage of hospitalizations.
Lockdowns caused MORE illnesses, MORE deaths and infinitely more economic suffering than did covid:
1) There have been more illnesses and deaths from undiagnosed and untreated worse diseases such as cancers, heart disease, lung disease, tuberculosis and others, than from covid. These undiagnosed and untreated diseases were a direct result of the fear and lockdowns surrounding covid. Tens of millions of people all over the world weren't treated for these deadly diseases because of all the attention on covid.
2) Every year, 3 Million children starve to death. Because of lockdowns, many millions MORE children have died of starvation, according to the UN, UNICEF and WHO. More children have starved to death than have died from covid - yet very little attention or government “mandates” are brought to bear on this issue.
3) Suicides skyrocketed as a result of lockdowns and isolation, to include teens. Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield: “But there has been another cost that we’ve seen, particularly in high schools. We’re seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from COVID. We’re seeing far greater deaths from drug overdose that are above excess than we are seeing deaths from COVID.”
4) Drug and alcohol abuse have also increased greatly, as have domestic abuse and violence.
5) Tens of thousands of elderly people in nursing homes have died prematurely from loneliness, because they haven’t been able to see their families.
And censorship of the deadly effects of mRNA products have disabled or killed tens of millions of people worldwide, mostly under the age of 60.
Thanks, Joseph. Great information. Everything you write is true. The scale of unnecessary deaths boggles the mind. It's too large for most people to wrap their heads around.
Exactly right! 💯🎯
Certainly the WSJ isn’t as bad as the NYT but I don’t think of it as right-leaning, so it IS remarkable they published it.
Right. There's a huge dichotomy between the WSJ op-ed section and news section. The WSJ does publish many excellent and important editorials and "guest" op-eds. Still, they haven't published nearly enough on all the Covid lies and scams. But this was an important one. I actually wrote my piece in hopes it might inspire the WSJ to keep publishing essays like this.
I was able to access it, Bill. Really GREAT piece. Thx for bringing it to our attention
Thx Marnie!
Bill, I have been thinking about something - please opine (and readers as well). I believe the DS will throw a Hail Mary in the form of 'throw Trump under the bus for the vax' before the next election. They created the problem and will pose as the saviours. I believe this is the only way the vax 'narrative' will be flipped and 'we' will 'get justice' but of course it will be pseudo-justice.
Here is why:
-The media is entirely controlled, yet cracks are appearing. Shows they are setting the stage for said bus-throwing. Also, the problem is too big. Too many people are sick and dying.
-The many videos of Democrats in 2020 saying "I'm not taking that dangerous, rushed Trumpcene!" They will conveniently refer back to this as "the initial assessment was correct."
-Trump himself talking about how he pressured the FDA to speed up/ignore safety procedures.
-Trump himself saying "Pfizer said it wasn't part of Warp Speed but that was a misunderstanding" (para). Go to 1 min 58s https://www.c-span.org/video/?478093-1/president-trump-news-conference-covid-19-vaccine&vod=
-Trump never backing down on the vaccine or disavowing it.
-Trump taking millions from Pfizer, Amgen, Dow etc. in campaign donations
-Edit: and how could I forget a public with TDS (now long-TDS). Everyone is primed to hate Trump. Will be very easy to flip dat hate switch again. To be honest, I am not sure how he has followers still given OWS which does not seem to be popular with his base but that's not my place to say. Just throwing ideas out there.
After all the above (and more) the schtick of "but I never mandated it" is not going to fly. Democrats etc. will say "but Trump said it was safe!"
Thoughts?
I love a good "thought exercise" so, fwiw, here are my thoughts ...
I’ve always thought the vaccines (and the unnecessary and ridiculous lockdowns and NPIs) should be THE issues in the next presidential election. After all, these eviscerated our Bill of Rights and led to Holocaust-type casualties, not to mention flushing $6 trillion down the toilet.
However, the prevailing “narrative” tells me this is NOT the key issue for voters as Trump apparently is going to have a cake-walk to winning his re-match with “Joe Biden.” (And "exposing Covid truths" is not a part of Trump's election platform).
So if Trump is re-elected or “Biden” or his replacement (Gov. Newsome?), there will be no “Nuremberg” type tribunals to tell anyone the truths. (I doubt Trump would authorize a real investigation whose results would embarrass him … as well as almost everyone in Congress and really every important organization and "leader" in the world) ... So what I’d like to see happen ... won’t happen.
Of course, Trump can and does say he wasn’t for “mandatory” vaccines and there’s no doubt he was misled by his team of “trusted” public health advisors.
The bottom-line as I see it today is that all my writing trying to get at least ONE Covid scandal exposed …. is going to be for naught.
But you make a good point that the evidence of harm and the blowback against all the false Covid scandals is getting more conspicuous (despite the Herculean efforts of the Censorship Industrial Complex).
So I guess it’s at least possible "the narrative" that’s prevailed for 40 months could be nuked. If this happens and leads to other false narratives being exposed as criminal scams, ANYTHING is possible IMO - this includes the masses going for those proverbial pitch forks and possibly serious secession movements.
Those with “authority” will have been disgraced and presumably banished. The main goal of the Censorship Industrial Complex - to protect their sorry asses - will have … failed.
I also have come to believe our elections are completely rigged so it’s almost a given (to me) that Trump won’t be “allowed” to win. Nor will RFK, Jr. (DeSantis already seems to have been “neutralized.”)
As I keep writing, this will be the most significant presidential election in perhaps all of U.S. history.
But the outcome that really interests me is “Joe Biden” or his successor (if his dementia or myriad scandals get too large to keep ignoring) is elected. What will the people who think like us do then? Just shrug and take it? Will the majority of citizens simply “comply” or will they fight and “dissent” more forcefully?
I’m starting to think RFK, Jr. being elected might be the one thing that preserves the union and purges many of these rotten organizations. I think he’s gaining big-time grassroots momentum so I think it’s not out of the realm of possibility that he COULD prevail …. If elections were fair (but I don’t think they are).
Or: Trump wins and he does a better job of draining the swamp this time … but I don’t think this would include the prosecutions of any of the Covid criminals. All those obtuse and crooked "leaders" are safe and still sleeping like babies.
Yes, this is a good take.
I also agree that the elections are theatre and you will probably see President Newsom. Clown world demands it.
I also think that if Trump wins it will be because the machine demands it. "I did Operation CBDC Speed faster than anyone else could have! I saved 20 million lives with central currency! Everyone would have starved without me! The Fed would have taken 5 years but I pushed them! But I never mandated the CBDC!"
Anyway, one of the reasons I have been thinking about this is because there is a scandal in Australia right now called 'Robodebt.' Essentially one side of government (Blue Team) set up a scheme whereby they incorrectly calculated welfare payments and low-income people were harassed so badly by the government to repay fake debt that many people committed suicide. The other side of government (Red Team) is now in power and it is politically convenient for them to go hard on Blue Team. However, this is only a tiny fraction of what was done to people under covid. Problem being, as you say, Red and Blue team both did it to us. Therefore, where will we get pseudo-justice?
I was just thinking that the best chance to see any movement on this would be the media and long-TDS. But it is a very, very long shot, I know.
Edit: Also this: "However, the prevailing “narrative” tells me this is NOT the key issue for voters as Trump apparently is going to have a cake-walk to winning his re-match with “Joe Biden.” (And "exposing Covid truths" is not a part of Trump's election platform)" makes me feel like I am living in a crazy movie.
Sounds like you have identified another scandal that no one else has with those suicides (and what probably contributed to their increase).
The Catch-22 is how do you expose the real scandals when all the people/organizations that are supposed to "investigate" these crimes are also captured ... and don't want them exposed?
We're going to need one "club member" (perhaps in the mainstream press?) who breaks ranks and does their most important job.
I think RFK, Jr. would make it a priority to expose and purge many of the Bad Actors in the Military Industrial Complex and the Science/Medicine/Big Pharma Industrial Complex ... if he was elected.
Heck, Ron Paul would have done the same thing. So anyone who starts to seriously challenge the Deep State becomes a "threat" to their "authority" (continued rule) ... and is not successful.
I will say some in the alternative media and Substack are "moving the needle," which makes me wonder what the Powers that Be have in store for these platforms (especially if they start to gain more traction with more people).
Oh I have a comment about Ron Paul - I think I mentioned it before. When he was having his very early Senate hearings about the US gain-of-function research (is the US doing it? Aren't they?) I sent him a lot of information about Australia's gain-of-function research and he never contacted me back. That doesn't mean that he didn't see it, but the people in the system never really want to go against the machine which is the DOD and Five Eyes. I mean, the last time we had a Prime Minister do that he was deposed - I have written about this.
I also haven't had any interest about this from the Brownstone Institute - Katherine Watt has written an article about this.
Her take "Brownstone Institute’s role is to protect the public health system and public health officials from public understanding of how HHS public health programs are actually just part of joint military operations with DoD."
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/on-brownstone-coverage-of-global
Jeffrey Tucker has always considered himself the intellectually superior to everyone ... And it shows. Most tiresome.
The Robodebt is big news in Australia but only because it makes the Blue Team look bad.
Substack is toast. The writing is on the wall - if I have some time in the next few days I'll do a post about it. It doesn't look good Bill. Let's enjoy it while it lasts.
I've got a "work-around" idea that might save independent journalism ... and make a lot of money for someone.
I think Substack will become a target, but I also worry that most Substack authors aren't going to be able to make enough income to continue this important contrarian journalism. So most - who depend on income from their freelance type writing - will have to give up at some point.
I live on a very modest retirement income, but I also live very simply, 1) because I don't need much to be happy, and 2) I want to be able to support good writers out there, especially on SS.
Unfortunately, many people of all ages have the Napster mentality, that everything should be "free", and whine when it isn't. ME, I'm just loving soaking up all this exciting, patriotic, thought-provoking writing. And grateful to have access to such luxuries.
'Red and Blue team both did it to us.'
AKA the Uniparty.
I wish more people would recognize this fact, and it's disheartening to see so many commenters blaming one party or the other.
It is a partisan issue.
And one group is at fault.
But it's not Democrat/ Republican.
It's Globalist/ Nationalist.
Reframing all debate onto a ‘globalist vs nationalist’ mindset is possibly powerful think reset ...eg the inconsistencies and hypocrisy of globalist greens is breathtaking..
I don't disagree. I'm talking about people who blame Democrats or Republicans or socialists or whatever. They need to look at the bigger picture, IMO.
I think at least there will be widespread, quiet noncompliance. I hope it's enough to prevent the next manufactured pandemic, which is looming in the near future.
Faucci and his gain of function project in the lab still doesn't exist in the mainstream media. The Dems are desparate that no Republican wins the next election for obvious reasons.
They are also desperate one Democrat - RFK, Jr. - doesn't win ... for the same reasons.
Censorship is the basis of The German Prussian Education System in the U.S. With No Independent Thinking And The Government Owns Your Children To Create A Slave Class - By Mag Bitter Truth https://bitchute.com/video/yyiUidMMSv3o/ -- Black Pilled! Everything You're Taught in Schools is a Lie + Flattening The Curve by Chief Justice https://bitchute.com/video/BO5zCXzPcwXI/
The gas is running low.
That is so true and when will we see justice
There is no Covid. That is an invention just like all the other lies that came afterward. There are a myriad of reasons people got sick during the "Covid" era--none having to do with the fairy tale of a specific pathogen. Most of it was repackaged flu or similar respiratory illness mostly found in the elderly who had pre-existing conditions to begin with. The "virus" has always been a cover story for environmental poisoning (especially air pollution) and iatrogenic treatment.
Read Jon Rappoport's seminal blog: The Pandemic Pattern--How the Illusion is Built. https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2021/09/08/pandemic-pattern-how-illusion-is-built/
The theory that "Covid" was just "re-branded flu" interests me. That is, I think this is a possibility that should be (seriously) investigated.
Coronaviruses and influenza viruses are different animals. They may produce similar symptoms in humans, but they're not the same.
Hi Bill - could you copy and paste the WSJ article down under yours - for those who don't have a WSJ subscription?
I would love to have read his article but it was paywalled.
I’m headed to the library to read it in print!!
Thanks Bill and you too Mark for all of your valuable work that doesn’t get any where NEAR the attention it should.
Love the fact you still use the library, I do as well, And the wall street journal bastards don't get a dime
Here:
https://archive.li/2023.07.07-221936/https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/covid-censorship-proved-to-be-deadly-social-media-government-pandemic-health-697c32c4
Superb. Thank you.
I read a version that Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute published in our "Brownstone Writers Group" email thread (Brett is also part of the Brownstone writing team). I couldn't copy and paste that version though. If I can figure out how to do it, I'll try to post the actual text in the Reader Comments.
I have Jeffryy Tucker's list or articles up but none look like what Brett posted. Do you recall the headline?
See Michael's link above for full article.
I thank you and Bill but when I go to that link I get a Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP
No problem, I was curious to read the article and tried google searching for other publishers. It may turn up later as a free read somewhere.
Copy/paste:
In the wake of the 1986 Challenger space-shuttle explosion, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman knew that the truth would both fuel progress and soothe the nation’s sorrow. “For a successful technology,” he said, “reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
For three years, pandemic public relations mocked nature, generating fear, illness, inflation and excess death beyond what the virus caused. Digital censorship supercharged the effort to hide reality, but reality is getting its day in court.
On July 4, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty temporarily blocked numerous federal agencies and the White House from collaborating with social-media companies and third-party groups to censor speech.
Discovery in Missouri v. Biden exposed relationships among government agencies and social-media firms and revealed an additional layer of university centers and self-styled disinformation watchdogs and fact-checking outfits.
Elon Musk’s release of some of Twitter’s internal files revealed that up to 80 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were embedded with social-media companies. The agents mostly weren’t fighting terrorism but flagging wrongthink by American citizens, including eminent scientists who suggested different paths on Covid policy.
The results of these relationships? Twitter blacklisted Stanford physician and economist Jay Bhattacharya for showing Covid almost exclusively threatened the elderly, severely reducing the visibility of his tweets. When Stanford health policy scholar Scott Atlas began advising the White House, YouTube erased his most prominent video opposing lockdowns. Twitter banned Robert Malone, a pioneer of mRNA vaccine technology, for calling attention to the vaccines’ dangers. YouTube demonetized evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein, who suggested the virus might be engineered and predicted vaccine-evading variants. And those are only a few examples.
Social-media platforms were powerful tools for full-spectrum censorship, but they didn’t act alone. Medical schools, medical boards, science journals and legacy media sang from the same hymnal.
Legions of doctors stayed quiet after witnessing the demonization of their peers who challenged the Covid orthodoxy. A little censorship leads people to watch what they say. Millions of patients and citizens were deprived of important insights as a result.
Health authorities and TV doctors insisted young people were vulnerable, demanded toddlers wear masks, closed schools, beaches and parks, and were loath to contemplate crucial cost-benefit analysis. The economy? Mental health? Never heard of them.
These “experts” denied the protective effects of recovered immunity, a phenomenon we’ve known about since the Plague of Athens in 430 B.C. They effectively prohibited generic drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration, such as azithromycin and ivermectin, which low-income nations around the world were deploying successfully. They failed to appreciate the evolutionary dynamics of mass vaccination during a pandemic.
The U.S. government spent $6 trillion to buoy its shuttered economy, and most people got Covid anyway. Worst of all, the lockdowns and mandates resulted in unprecedented bad health outcomes for young and middle-aged people in rich countries.
Excess mortality in most high-income nations was worse in 2021 and 2022 than in 2020, the initial pandemic year. Many poorer nations with less government control seemed to fare better. Sweden, which didn’t have a lockdown, performed better than nearly every other advanced nation.
After navigating 2020 with relative success, young and middle-age healthy people in rich nations began dying in unprecedented numbers in 2021 and 2022. Health authorities haven’t focused enough on this cataclysm of premature death from non-Covid heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolisms, kidney failure and cancer.
Hiding these and other realities has become more difficult in the internet age. The information explosion has allowed more people to spot quickly the mistakes of officials and learn the truth. This has changed the relationship between the authorities and those they govern. Those in charge feel threatened.
Digital censorship is their response to this crisis of authority. True, misinformation is rampant online. But it was far worse before the internet, when myths could persist for centuries. New technologies allow us to compile data quickly, correct errors, find facts and dispel falsehoods. Science, supported by an open internet, is the process by which we reduce misinformation and approach the truth.
Artificial intelligence will improve our ability to sift, parse, edit, authenticate and organize information. When you hear calls to license or centralize control of AI, remember the hubris of Covid censorship.
“Attacks on me,” Dr. Anthony Fauci famously insisted, “quite frankly, are attacks on science.” Feynman would have been appalled. “Science,” he wisely noted, “is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
Mr. Swanson is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He writes the Infonomena newsletter on Substack.com.
Thanks again, Michael!
A wonderful piece of writing and reminder of fault. Media didn’t act alone, all the medical operatives must be publicly identified as well. thank you Michael.
Can always check paywalled links at archive sites and usually find someone posted link you can read.
https://archive.li/2023.07.07-221936/https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/covid-censorship-proved-to-be-deadly-social-media-government-pandemic-health-697c32c4
I thank you and Bill but when I go to that link I get a Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP
No problem, I was curious to read the article and tried google searching for other publishers. It may turn up later as a free read somewhere.
Did you try a different browser?
Fortunately Michael posted the entire essay above on Bills substack so it solve my Dilemma. My thanks to Bill and Michael. Usually Firefox is reliable however lately I have been having increasing problems with the internet.