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The Suspiciously Convenient Timing of Covid for the Davos Elite and the WEF's 'Great Reset'

Declining Faith in Institutions, Rising Populism as Elite Plan for “Fourth Industrial Revolution” going into 2020. Then Covid hits.

Covid sure came at a convenient time for the global elite elite, didn’t it?

Think about it: The age of information, social media, and the internet just rose in the past 30 years, with social media only exploding in the past 20 years. Not even two decades since the explosion of social media among the general population in 2005.

2008 was the first real economic crisis in the age of social media – of mass decentralized information flow between people, instantaneously, at virtually any distance.

In 2015/2016, we have the rise of populism:

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If you had to sum up 2016 in one word, you might choose “populism.”…

In fact, while definitions do vary, the core of populism is a concerted anti-establishment posture: It’s us (“the people”) vs. them (“the establishment”).

A distrust of the elite and pandering to the masses has been around before 2016, of course. So how did it come to dominate our understanding of the world over the past year?


Gee. How, or why, did populism, a “people” versus “establishment” mentality, rise in the collective consciousness? Perhaps greater awareness? Greater access to information on how the government and corporations are fucking over constituencies and populations?

I feel the populism trend to generally be indicative of rising awareness of reality – even if I disagree with many flavors of populism. There are many flavors. In the US, You had Bernie Sanders and Trump, opposites from a partisan perspective, but both populists, drawing their success on the rising appeal and demand of populism.

Trump, the Washington outsider using anti “deep-state” rhetoric, and Bernie Sanders, the socialist who wants to give everyone a living wage and healthcare in the world’s richest nation.

At the end of the day Bernie Bros and the MAGA crowd might be very different camps, with very different perceived solutions to the crises facing America, but they had common ground in recognition of general problems.. both camps feel that the ruling powers do not represent their interests, and they believe are even working against their interests. You don’t have to agree with someone’s solutions to a perceived problem to recognize common ground on a grievance.

It isn’t just economic factors, but both economic and cultural/social elements are at play in the general trend of populism, and populism can be stratified into various types(such as economic or cultural). The Conversation published an article in 2021 titled “Populism Erupts When People Feel Disconnected and Disrespected

In 2016, The Guardian published, “Us v Them: The Birth of Populism”


Populist campaigns and parties often function as warning signs of a political crisis. In both Europe and the US, populist movements have been most successful at times when people see the prevailing political norms – which are preserved and defended by the existing establishment – as being at odds with their own hopes, fears, and concerns. The populists express these neglected concerns and frame them in a politics that pits the people against an intransigent elite. By doing so, they become catalysts for political change.

Populist campaigns and parties, by nature, point to problems through demands that are unlikely to be realized in the present political circumstances… But they still point to tears in the fabric of accepted political wisdom.


To get an idea of the rising trend of populism, and how this was affecting the Davos globalists, let us look at a brief timeline of headlines about Davos in relation to populism from 2016-2020.


Read all of the headlines below chronologically and take note of the context of the timeline.

The timeline tells a story of rising populism – which challenges globalism. Thus the Davos elite explicitly feeling threatened by the trend.. . and feeling the need to front-run it by spoofing and infiltrating it. After all, The Davos elite are great at infiltrating. Don’t take it from me, take it from Klaus.

Klaus Schwab boasts of overthrowing world governments: “What we are very proud of right now is that we are infiltrating cabinets. More than half of Canada’s cabinet ministers are actually young global leaders of the World Economic Forum. This is true in Argentina and in France….like Trudeau[(like many others Merkel, Putin, Macron, Johnson, Musk, Zuckerberg, etc.)]” — Klaus Schwab: German economist, founder and permanent president of the World Economic Forum in Davos (since 1971)

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After years of the Davos crowd publicly fretting over the rise of populism, By 2019 you have Bolsonaro being “the face of populism at Davos” according to the New Tork Times, while WAPO was seen publishing “A Trumpless Davos Tries to Counter Populism”.


The same year, in 2019 Foreign Policy would publish Davos Has Learned to Fake PopulismForeign Policy would comment The world’s most powerful economic elites are using anti-globalist rhetoric to help turbocharge globalization—and enrich themselves.”……. Interesting


The Rise of Populism



  • 2016

  • 2017

    • NYTDavos Elites See an ‘Abyss’: The Populist Surge Upending the Status Quo

      • “The world order has been upended. As the United States retreats from the promise of free trade, China is taking up the mantle…

        Fear of the Populist ‘Threat’

        The religion of the global elite — free trade and open markets — is under attack, and there has been a lot of hand-wringing over what Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund has declared a “middle-class crisis.”

        …The biggest concern? Finding a way to make the people who are driving populist movements feel like they are part of the global economic pie that Davos participants have created and largely own.

    • Note how NYT says the religion of the global elite is “Free trade and open markets”. Meanwhile, Breitbart says that “more redistribution” is answer to scary populism. Are the globalists elite capitalists or communists?! The right calls them marxist, the left calls them capitalists. The truth is, the globalist mantra is somewhere in between, their ideology is conditional to who it applies too. I thought about subtitling this article “The Globalist Mantra: Free Markets for Me, Communism for Thee”

      I have refined the focus of this article, so I might save that for it’s own piece down the road. Nonetheless, the dynamic I just pointed out is deeply important, I believe. The globalists want total control and strong regulations for populations and domestic businesses, but freedom and lax regulations for themselves and their transnational corporations.

  • 2018

    • NYTPopulism Is Waning, Which Is Reason to Party in Davos

      • “This year the champagne may be flowing even more freely than usual in the Swiss Alps resort of Davos, owing to a turn in the global situation pleasing to the sorts of people who make the annual pilgrimage — heads of state, corporate chieftains and those who manage extraordinary piles of money.

        The last time these putative guardians of civilization convened for this festival of internationalist concern, they found themselves in an uncustomary position: in the cross hairs of a global insurrection.”

    • PoliticoDavos panel: Trump’s Record on Populist Promises ‘Quite Poor’

      ”President Donald Trump’s combative personal style has allowed him to retain firm grasp of the populist political movement he rode to power a year ago, but he’s delivered scant results to his own supporters, according to world leaders and political scientists on a panel Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos…

      This time, however, a year’s record in office suggests that Trump’s nationalist and anti-establishment rhetoric is less consequential than many Davos elites previously believed. He speaks to the grievances of his supporters, these observers said, but his policies — including a tax overhaul with benefits skewed toward wealthy Americans — have not addressed more enduring problems like rising inequality.

    • New RepublicAt Davos, Trump Became a Leader the Global 1% Can Learn to Love

      • “Trump might have campaigned as the enemy of the globalists, but his true nature now stands revealed: He is Davos Man incarnate.”

  • 2019

    • Foreign PolicyDavos Has Learned to Fake Populism

      • The world’s most powerful economic elites are using anti-globalist rhetoric to help turbocharge globalization—and enrich themselves

        • “Schwab, like the broader Davos set, is trying to adjust to the age of populism. But that’s not to suggest they’re surrendering to it. Quite the opposite: Schwab’s anti-globalist shift is a hijacking attempt. It shows how corporate elites are trying to accommodate nationalist populism while still maximizing their own personal gains—which, of course, come at the expense of the very masses they’re attempting to appeal to.”.

    • NYTBrazil’s Bolsonaro Is the Face of Populism at the Davos Forum

    • WAPOA Trumpless Davos Tries to Counter Populism

    • PoliticoDavos Elites Fear They’re on a Toboggan Ride to Hell

      • Populist movements around the world, left and right, disagree in detail but are united around one big idea: The political and economic elites running modern societies are very powerful people who know what they are doing.

        What they are doing is often bad—greedy, exploitative, short-sighted—but they are doing it with purpose and confident control.

    • APFacing Populist Assault, Global Elites Regroup in Davos

      • “In a report this month, Sterne noted that most major economies performed dramatically worse than expected after the 2007-2009 Great Recession….

        ‘There was genuine underperformance by the big institutions,’ he said. The result is a populist backlash. ‘If you don’t do anything about your failings, they can come back and bite you.’

  • 2020

    • Foreign PolicyThe Global Trust Crisis

      • ^Subtitled^ —“World leaders at venues like Davos need to start taking the public’s declining faith in institutions seriously—or face more upheaval to come”


The AP article, Facing Populist Assault, Global Elites Regroup in Davos, acknowledged that the global populist movement that culminated in 2016 was likely largely a delayed response to dissatisfactory economic conditions in the wake of 08’. The tea party’s momentary success, as well as the virality of the occupy Wall street movement, could be seen as foreshadowing later waves of populism in America.

Additionally, the article covering Davos 2019 acknowledged the reaction to globalism by developed nations:


A year after getting a standing ovation from the elites at Davos, French President Emmanuel Macron is sinking in the polls as he contends with “yellow vest” protesters who have taken to the streets to call for higher wages and fairer pensions. Nationalist political movements are gaining strength across Europe…

For most of the past quarter century, the worldview symbolized by the World Economic Forum — of ever-freer world trade and closer ties between countries — had dominated. Then came a backlash from Americans and Europeans whose jobs were threatened by low-wage competition from countries like China and who felt alienated at home by wealth inequality and immigration…

“The winners from globalization have had the megaphone,”
said Paul Sheard, a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. “The losers have been somewhat silent, but now are starting to express themselves through the ballot box and through the political process.”…

Globalization produced millions of “winners” over the years, but also “
has left certain people behind,” Schwab said at the Davos conference center, where his teams gave pre-event tours to delegations ahead of the formal start on Tuesday.

“In the age of social media, you cannot afford any more to leave anyone behind,” Schwab said.


“In the age of social media, you cannot afford any more to leave anyone behind,” Schwab said. What did he mean by this?

Conveniently during Davos in 2019, it was also reported “Imperial Scientists Present Vaccine Revolution to World Leaders at WEF in Davos”.

As the Imperial reported:


The academics from Imperial’s Network for Vaccine Research, joined leaders from the G20 and other countries, CEOs of multinationals, members of international organisations and other scientists at the WEF Annual Meeting.

The Imperial group lead an IdeasLab session titled ‘Developing a Vaccine Revolution’.

….Professor Robin Shattock, Head of Mucosal Infection and Immunity within the Department of Medicine, is working on the manufacturing of RNA vaccines to create quicker and more accessible responsiveness to outbreaks of known pathogens – such as flu, and unknown pathogens, called Disease X.

His team is improving the production system of vaccines to quickly provide tens of thousands of new vaccine doses within weeks of a new threat being identified. Currently, vaccines can take 10 years or more to develop….

The theme for this year’s WEF Annual Meeting is Globalization 4.0: Shaping a Global Architecture in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.


Covid would fill the role of the placeholder “disease X” a year later. The Davos elites just happened to start focusing on rapid vaccine development of diseases with the new technology of RNA vaccines, right before Covid hit.
Isn’t that just dandy?

And now, in August 2023, to come full circle 4 years later from Davos 2019, rapid development for vaccines for Disease X is back in focus as the Davos elite prepare for “the next pandemic” –
The Guardian published, New Vaccine Research Centre in UK to Help Scientists Prepare for ‘Disease X’.

Does that mean the “next pandemic” the elite keep warning us about will happen about a year from now?

The Imperial presentation at Davos, the goal of manufacturing vaccines in months when the standard was years, a decade, isn’t the only coincidence of 2019. As the “conspiracy theorists” pointed out, Event 201 was pretty suspect.


Recently Senator Ron Johnson said on record, “This is all pre-planned by an elite group of people. That’s what I’m talking about, event 201 that occurred in late 2019 prior to the rest of us knowing about this pandemic again… planned for our loss of freedom.”

They don’t want you to be made aware of the fact that the vaccines might have caused injuries, might’ve caused death. So many people just simply don’t want to admit they were wrong and they’re gonna do everything they can to make sure that they’re not proven wrong.”

The fact you have a sitting congressman, a senator no less, referencing Event 201, saying that an elite group of people intentionally created the pandemic shows you where we are at in terms of levels of distrust. Quite honestly, this blew me away, and is what inspired me to take this piece off the backburner and finish it – as that was essentially the thesis I was working up to. ….A few days after Johnson’s statement on Fox, as I am getting read to publish this piece, Tass published ”US Experts Study Over 2,500 Bats in Search for New Coronavirus Strains — Russian Military”.


“The fact that the [actual] pandemic unfolded exactly according to this scenario, as well as the implementation of EcoHealth Alliance’s projects, gives rise to questions as to whether COVID-19 was in fact an intentionally man-made disease and whether the US may have had a hand in this incident,” the head of the Russian Armed Forces’ NBC Protection Troops concluded.


Twilight Zone indeed…


Russian Ministry: ”We do not exclude the use by the United States of these so called defensive technologies for offensive purposes as well as for the purpose of global management by creating crisis situations of a biological nature”.

According to the Ministry, Washington has been amassing various pathogens from its direct involvement with various biolabs around the world, which they say are for research and preventative measures. But Russia’s Defense Ministry is not buying that. And they point out that whenever the Pentagon, for example, is interested in any pathogens, be it COVID-19 or avian influenza or the African swine flu, they later somehow end up becoming pandemic.

And who stands to benefit from this? As we’ve seen time and time again, it’s American pharmaceutical companies. And they point out, their findings Point out that, for example, that there is a possible collusion between Big Pharma and USAID via an intermediary company called Eco Health Alliance. Now, they have been studying the diversity of bat population since 2015, and they’ve also been looking at mechanisms how to transfer coronavirus strains from bats to humans. And we know that just two months before the world ever heard about COVID-19, there was an exercise conducted at the Johns Hopkins University in New York wherein that exercise entailed scientists transferring an unknown at the time strain of coronavirus from bats to humans via a pig.

There will be those, of course, who will say that these are just all conspiracy theories or Russian propaganda. But we are talking about specific examples, specific organizations. And let’s not forget that Washington has itself admitted that it does have biolabs, including in Ukraine. And again, let’s not forget just how terrified they were at one point in case their research there falls into the wrong hands and how catastrophic that may be if it falls into Russian hands. So what that research there was all about? Perhaps this is what we’re talking about.”


Event 201, which Senator Ron Johnson also referenced, per John Hopkins, was “hosted in collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation” in late 2019. It was a simulation of a coronavirus with eery parallels to what would follow just months later.


”The experts added a new layer of realism by reaching beyond government and NGOs to leaders in the private sector and business community. Participants included representatives from NBCUniversal, UPS, and Johnson & Johnson”

To recap, in the years leading up to 2020, economic conditions were declining, and populism was rising, which the internet and social media undoubtly played a large role in alongside declining economic conditions, and shifting culture. The Davos elite were publicly worrying about populism rising for years starting in 2016, which is also when they started feeling the need to police speech on social media. As the Guardian reported in an article titled, “The Worst Thing About Davos? The Masters of the Universe Think They are Do-Gooders”


“The pastry-munching crowds of Davos want to have their Swiss chocolate and eat it, too. And that is their fatal flaw. The supreme irony is that this event that claims to identify and analyze global trends – and which has, for years now, been fretting over the rise of what is inexactly termed “populism”, which threatens to consume the political order that has facilitated corporate capitalism’s postwar dominance – is itself one of the most perfect fuels on earth for populist anger. If the minds of Davos actually believed their own bullshit, they would shut the conference down immediately…

It is no exaggeration to say this monstrosity of opulence playing out amid the ominously reduced snowpack of the Alps is such a powerful symbol of all that is wrong with the neoliberal era of the world that it will help to bring about its own downfall.

It is a symbol of cloistered elites boldly pampering themselves as they lecture on the need for sustainability; it is a symbol of exclusivity draping itself in the language of democracy; it is a symbol of the unaccountable financiers and bureaucrats and intellectuals who went to the right schools and work for the right institutions and are therefore allowed to lock themselves in an impermeable bubble, gaze out in ignorance at a world whose problems they have never experienced, and prescribe a course of action that will, coincidentally, perpetuate the dominance they have enjoyed for generations.


So in 2019, after years of worrying about Populism, Davos 2019 is revolving around the 4th industrial revolution. Included in that, is the plan to use AI to manufacture vaccines at record breaking time for unknown future pandemics. Also, John Hopkins in partnership with the WEF, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and many other private institutions as well as some public….ran a pandemic simulation, Event 201, which, “dropped participants right in the midst of an uncontrolled coronavirus outbreak that was spreading like wildfire out of South America to wreak worldwide havoc. As fictional newscasters from “GNN” narrated, the immune-resistant virus (nicknamed CAPS) was crippling trade and travel, sending the global economy into freefall. Social media was rampant with rumors and misinformation, governments were collapsing, and citizens were revolting.”…

And then hit Covid a few months later. Conveniently.

Related 2020 Flashback: Bill Gates Predicted A Coronavirus-like Outbreak – Down To It Starting At A Chinese Market – In 2019 Netflix Documentary Show ‘The Next Pandemic’ [Episode]


– Bill Gates appeared in Netflix ‘Explained’ series to discuss risks of viral spread

– The billionaire said world is ill-prepared to deal with global pandemic

-Microsoft tycoon predicted virus outbreak would begin in wet market in China

In a 2019 Netflix documentary, billionaire Bill Gates predicted a killer virus could originate in China’s wet markets to rapidly infect the world


Of course, these pattern of coincidences made for lots of conspiracy theories, which had the corporate media up in arms to defend our benevolent overlords who would surely never plan such diabolically malicious actions, having broken from the pattern of history (so what if some of them, including Bill Gates, were hanging out with a known child sex trafficker, before and after he was convicted for such, get a grip!)

Bran Jenkins wrote for NBC:


“…Covid-19’s biggest political casualty might be governability. 

I expect that politics in the aftermath of the pandemic will increasingly be marked by defiance and intimidation…

Conspiracy theories [Like the Wuhan Lab leak, vaccines being harmful, lockdowns being harmful instead of beneficial, Ivermectin works, facemasks are useless, Fauci and gain of function research, etc, etc…] and bizarre beliefs flourished during previous pandemics; only in the current era, their rapid dissemination is facilitated by the internet…


Note: This article was published by NBC in Oct. of 2022.. And they are still trying to assert disinformation and “conspiracy theories” as a negative consequence from the pandemic – completely ignoring the fact that many of the “conspiracy theories” that were viciously censored and suppressed had already turned out to be true, or finally acknowledged by many to be upon emerging evidence.

Suddenly there was a crisis where misinformation resulting from social media could conveniently be sold to the world as dangerous and used to set a pretext for greater control of speech.

While on the surface, some of the effects of Covid might seem counter productive to the elite’s plans, such as continued economic and social deterioration. But impoverished people fighting each other facilitates the great-reset, and helps set a pretext for it.

Social Division helps divide and conquer, and while the average people and businesses experienced economic deterioration, corporations gained market share during the pandemic, largely as a result of the pandemic response by governments, leading to headlines such as the following from WAPO in July of 2020


The NBC article above does correctly point out that the rapid dissemination of information through the internet and social media is unique to this emerging time period – the era of mass information dissemination within a decentralized manner….

Then, after some scrolling, the NBC article comes to acknowledge the reality of Covid as a pretext for a trend towards authoritarianism across the world. Of course, government expanding its control over the internet, social media, and speech was a large part of the pandemic response. Conveniently.

The NBC article would note the expansion of government controlling what was “ordinarily personal space” for democracies (“democracies”) , while “authoritarian governments exploited the pandemic to tighten their control”.

While Americans lost faith in democracy, bureaucrats were expanding governmental powers – as they were around the world.


In another survey, the number of U.S. participants who considered democracy a bad way to run their country more than doubled from 10.5% in 2019 to 25.8% in 2021

The pandemic accelerated the erosion of democracy worldwide. Democratic governments imposed controls that intruded into ordinarily personal space, while authoritarian governments exploited the pandemic to tighten their control. …


Overall, trust in public institutions, which has been declining in America for some time, further eroded during the pandemic. In part, this reflects the difficulty authorities have in responding to major outbreaks of disease. Furthermore, the measures taken to combat the spread fueled opposing narratives of virility versus weakness, state sovereignty versus federal tyranny, corporeal autonomy versus health mandates. 

Covid Accelerated Pre-Existing Trends of Rising Distrust of Institutions, Political Unrest, Economic instability


Foreign Policy Published “The Global Trust Crisis” in January of 2020 while the Davos elite were meeting for their annual WEF event in Switzerland.

“World leaders at venues like Davos need to start taking the public’s declining faith in institutions seriously- or face more upheaval to come.”

In 2020 the frequency of protests and demonstrations experienced a lull as the world underwent lockdowns, before spiking in the later half of the year.

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This trend was largely incited by deteriorating economic conditions for the middle and lower class around the world. The World Bank published a piece in mid 2022 – “When the Debt Crises Hit, Don’t Simply Blame the Pandemic


In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, global debt has surged. Today, 58 percent of the world’s poorest countries are in debt distress or at high risk of it , and the danger is spreading to some middle-income countries as well. High inflation, rising interest rates, and slowing growth have set the stage for financial crises of the type that engulfed a series of developing economies in the early 1980s. 

But it would be a mistake to pin the blame on the pandemic should those crises arrive. The seeds were sown long before COVID-19. Between 2011 and 2019, public debt in a sample of 65 developing countries increased by 18 percent of GDP on average–and by much more in several cases. In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, debt increased by 27 percent of GDP on average.


As highlighted earlier, trust in the media has been on a steady decline since 1970. In contrast, rising civil unrest seems to be a shorter term trend, since 2008.

From this author’s perspective, both trends are partially correlated with deteriorating economic conditions for the average person.

For a brief hiatus Covid actually suspended an ongoing wave of populists protests, conveniently allowing world elite to enact unprecedented emergency powers and lockdowns restricting freedom of movement, assembly, protest, among other rights violations/state power-grabs such as expansion of censorship and the strengthening of police state apparatus via an increased focus on surveillance.


QZ reported in April of 2020 that the “Coronavirus has crippled global protest movements


Covid-19 has had this kind of chilling effect on opposition movements everywhere. The world is now a long way from 2019, which was dubbed the “year of street protest.”

“No one jumps on the barricades when they think the barricade might have a virus on it,” said Richard Gowan, the UN director at the International Crisis Group. “[Coronavirus is] a deterrent to protest and it may be giving some pretty authoritarian leaders a bit of respite in this context.”


Since the financial collapse of 08’, global unrest has been on a general incline. Populism wasn’t far behind.

In 2017, Reuters published an article in May titled: Davos Offers Unsettling Glimpse of New World Order, which painted a picture of rising economic and geopolitical instability around the globe in 2017.

Welcome to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos circa 2017. This is not a dream. It is, or may be, the new reality in a world shaken by economic and geo-political tremors not seen since the fall of the Berlin Wall, or possibly World War Two.

In past years, this annual gathering of leaders, CEOs and bankers in the Swiss Alps has had a glum undertone to it because of the succession of crises, mainly of a financial nature, rocking the globe.

But this year there was a sense that something far bigger is going on, a shifting of the tectonic plates of global politics that is breeding deep uncertainty and may herald a return to a rougher, tougher world defined by national self interest.


The “return to a rougher, tougher world defined by national self interest.” mentioned at the end of the excerpt above is likely referring to the rise of economic protectionism and the growing popularity of populism as a reaction to neoliberal globalism.


Boy, Coronavirus Sure Came At a Convenient Time for the Globalist Elite to Concentrate Power…


A publication titled “Pandemic and Social Protests: Cities as Flashpoints in the COVID-19 Era” described the rising trend of demonstrations in the 2011-2020 decade:


According to recent data of the Institute for Economics and Peace, the last decade (2011 – 2021) is notable for increased social unrest. The recession brought about by the global economic crisis of 2008 and the impact of austerity policies led citizens to the streets. As Figure 1 shows, the main expressions of social malaise occurred in 2011 with the wave of protests of the so-called Arab Spring, the Occupy movement, and the Indignados (15-M) movement in Spain. After 2012, these protest movements waned in intensity for different reasons. On the one hand, because they had achieved some of their goals, or because they had been suppressed by government forces. On the other hand, because they dispersed and evolved into other kinds of social movements (organisation of political platforms, social projects, neighbourhood activism, etcetera). A little later, demonstrations and protests increased again to reach a significant peak in 2016 and another in 2018-2019. Cities like Cairo, Beirut, Tunis, Khartoum, and Algiers recorded the highest numbers of protests in these years.

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The Guardian reported ahead of Davos in 2017 in an article titled “Rising inequality threatens world economy, says WEF:


The global risks report said Brexit, the US presidential election result and the referendum defeat suffered by former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi last month meant some people were now questioning whether “the west has reached a tipping point and might now embark on a period of deglobalisation”.

The US economist Dani Rodrik has coined the phrase “the globalisation trilemma” to capture the idea that countries cannot have democracy, national sovereignty and globalisation; they can only ever have two out of the three.

The WEF said recent events in Europe and the US suggested an “appetite for rebalancing towards democracy and national sovereignty”[and a populist rejection of globalization].

The WEF said it had been pointing out the dangers of rising inequality and political polarisation for more than a decade, but that the slow pace of recovery from the deep recession of 2008 had intensified income gaps within countries.

Emergency measures such as quantitative easing – the creation of money by central banks – had become permanent features of economic policy, and had exacerbated inequality by boosting the returns of those holding financial assets.

It added that the trends of recent years had come into sharp focus in 2016 with rising discontent and disaffection evident in the UK referendum and in the US with Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton.


Rising economic inequality, largely catalyzed by the 2008 crisis, was a major factor of growing discontent with globalization, and a major boon for the rise of populism.

Alain Berset said on day 2 of WEF’s 2023 Forum in Davos that the rise in populism is a result of growing inequality.

”All the fears expressed in 2012 under our meeting have come true. Inequality brings with it huge political and social collateral damage. And what we call populism is essentially a reaction to growing inequality

While populations were rallying around populism, the WEF was rallying around the 4th industrial revolution. The technologies and intentions of the 4IR increasingly make humans obsolete, and increase the ability for the ruling powers to control humans.

In an article from 2018 titled, “Why is populism suddenly all the rage?, the Guardian would report that The increasing popularity of the term is no coincidence. Populist parties have tripled their vote in Europe over the past 20 years. They are in government in 11 European countries. More than a quarter of Europeans voted populist in their last elections.”


Why? There is no easy answer to this question. Recent academic studies have shown that throughout the western world populist attitudes are widespread. Many citizens take the view that ordinary, virtuous people have been betrayed, neglected or exploited by a corrupt elite. Although citizens with strong populist attitudes do not necessarily vote for a populist party (in fact, many of them don’t), there are various circumstances that increase the likelihood that they will do so.

Recap: Social and political unrest is on the rise. Its been on the rise, for a decade before Covid. It is still approaching a climax/rising, and tensions are higher than ever. Distrust in institutions follows the same trend. While social and political unrest is rising.

Covid compounded the economic hardship and served to polarize the public, as resentment was cultivated between those who supported government lockdowns and mandates, and those who did not. As the Pulse reported, In the wake of institutions having sought to coerce a large portion of the public into submission to lockdowns, masks, vaccines—global trust in the media is now at all time lows. Mass censorship did not help.

Lets look at a brief timeline since 2020
2021


They Wouldn’t Need To Censor Us if They Weren’t Lying


The lies surrounding Covid have woken many up many more to the reality of how capable the legacy media is at lying, as is the government. Similarly, Covid facilitated the awareness in millions that much of corporate mainstream “journalism” is nothing more than government propaganda.

Many independent journalists have already directly faced censorship as the war on disinformation grew out of 2016, which marked the rise of the age of fact checkers and the war on misinformation.

[My articles covering the breaking OPCW leaks(2019) and Bolivia’s coup(2019), were removed by Facebook within hours – outright censored as “misinformation”]

My 2019 OPCW Leak article was published by The Mind Unleashed, who faced heavy censorship along with The Anti Media, which also faced extreme censorship.

Derrick Broze wrote an article for The Last American Vagabond in May 2020, featured below, appropriately reflecting on internet censorship as Covid took the world by storm, warning people to not trust the fact checkers, and to not rely on big tech for information as they were in bed with the fact checkers. Broze, like many other independent journalists, American or not, had been censored heavily for years leading up to Covid.

Ironically, Broze highlighted The Mind Unleashed (TMU) being labeled by Newsguard as Fake news
because of a story TMU wrote covering speculation that Covid could have been a bioweapon. Of course, that speculation has been validated and repeated by Congress years later.

Derrick Broze’s article was headlined, This is Why You Can’t Trust the Fact Checkers.”


Perhaps the most insidious method is the recent use of “fact checkers” to limit the reach of an outlet, or simply brand them with the fake news scarlet letter to discourage readers from engaging. This has been increasing in the last 2 years and I personally know of several remaining indy media outlets who have had to decide whether or not to run certain articles or video reports out of fear they might be censored or banned. Of course, with the algorithmic games being played by social media platforms, most outlets are reaching a tiny fraction of what they once were.

Case in point, The Mind Unleashed. I have been part of the TMU team on and off for the last year or so. In that time we have been struggling to reach a small fraction of our 9 million Facebook followers. Part of the reason we are struggling to reach people is because we have the dubious recognition of being labeled fake news by Facebook and affiliated fact checkers.

In a recent article published in Newsweek Espanol, in partnership with Newsguard, The Mind Unleashed is described as a “site that promises to ‘promote and inspire unconventional thinking,’ but is actually dedicated to publishing falsehoods.”.

The quote was in reference to a story TMU had written about the origins of COVID-19 and the potential for the virus to have been created as a bio weapon.

Newsguard is one of a number of “fact checker” services which has proliferated since the election of Donald Trump to U.S. President.


In the wake of the Twitter Files, Joe Martino, founder of Collective Evolution and The Pulse, and Jason Bassler, founder of The Free Thought Project and Police The Police, aired the podcast featured below. The two veteran independent journalists discuss their experiences and perspectives with the rise of fact-checking, demonetization, and censorship – Pre-covid

Broze would continue his article “This is Why You Can’t Trust the Fact Checkers”, pointing to Whitney Webb’s work on exposing Newsguard’s connections to the national security apparatus. He would point out that among Newsguard’s advisors are the first secretary of Homeland Security under George W. Bush, as well as Ret. General Michael Hayden who is a former CIA director, former NSA director, and principal at the Chertoff group, a security consultancy seeking to “advise corporate clients and governments, including foreign governments” on security matters that was co-founded by former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who also currently serves as the board chairman of major weapons manufacturer BAE systems..”

Broze would write:


“In a previous investigation, TLAV writer Whitney Webb exposed the neoconservative roots of the Newsguard team….

Newsguard started as a partnership between Steven Brill and Louis Gordon Crovitz, with Crovitz appearing to be the connection to the world of finance, media, and geopolitics. Crovitz held a number of positions at Dow Jones and at the Wall Street Journal, is a board member of Business Insider, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and claims to have been an ‘editor or contributor to books published by the American Enterprise Institute and Heritage Foundation.’

As Webb noted, ‘the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is one of the most influential neoconservative think tanks in the country and its ‘scholars,’ directors and fellows have included neoconservative figures like Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, John Bolton and Frederick Kagan.’


Broze would expand on the development of the era of Fact-checking, Contextualizing how in 2018 Facebook partnered with the Atlantic council for fact checking. The Atlantic council which has close ties with the US government, intelligence community, and NATO.


In January 2018, PropOrNot would be exposed for their connections to The Atlantic Council, a think tank with connections to the western Military-Industrial Complex. Coincidentally, in May 2018, Facebook announced a partnership with the Atlantic Council, which officially claims to provide a forum for international political, business, and intellectual leaders. The social media giant said the partnership was aimed at preventing Facebook from “being abused during elections.”

The press release promoted Facebook’s efforts to fight fake news by using artificial intelligence, as well as working with outside experts and governments…

The Atlantic Council receives funding from the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment, Cato Institute, Council on Foreign Relations, and the Rand Corporation, to name a few. In addition, various members of the Military-Industrial Complex are benefactors of the Atlantic Council, including Huntington Ingalls, the United States’ sole maker of aircraft carriers; Airbus, the plane manufacturer; Lockheed Martin, the shipbuilder and aviation company; and Raytheon, which makes missile systems. All of the companies have contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and offer financial support to the Atlantic Council. The Council also receives support from Chevron and the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Finally, the Atlantic Council receives direct financial support from the U.S. Departments of the Air Force, Army, Navy and Energy and from the U.S. Mission to NATO.

By October 2018 – only five months after the Atlantic Council partnership with Facebook – the social media giant announced they were unpublishing, or purging, over 500 pages and 200 accounts who are accused of spreading political spam. Several of these pages and writers were also removed from Twitter on the same day.

To give you an idea of what the ghouls over at the Atlantic Council are like — As I am polishing this piece, The Atlantic Council just published an article on August 16th declaring the US and its allies must be “situated to fight a two-front limited nuclear war in East Asia”.

While many understand that censorship started before Covid, many do not.
But it did. The “Censorship industrial complex”, as Michael Shellenberger deemed it in the Twitterfiles, did not appear overnight.

Broze would end his May 2020 article explaining why we shouldn’t trust fact checkers as the world heads into the pandemic, with clear hindsight and good foresight:


“Nearly 3 years later, we are still seeing the repercussions of the purge of independent media voices. In the wake of COVID-19 and calls for stemming the flow of “misinformation”, we will likely see more censorship and digital purging. Those who are attempting to stay informed and aware need to recognize that getting your news from Google, Facebook, YouTube, etc., will keep you trapped in a bubble of sanitized, state-approved information.”


Broze’s article couldn’t have aged better.

A month earlier, right as western media began paying attention to Covid, on April 1st 2020 Whitney Webb would publish “HOW THE US NATIONAL SECURITY STATE IS USING CORONAVIRUS TO FULFILL AN ORWELLIAN VISION


The FOIA document, obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), was produced by a little-known U.S. government organization called the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI). It was created by the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its official purpose is “to consider the methods and means necessary to advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and associated technologies to comprehensively address the national security and defense needs of the United States.”

The NSCAI is a key part of the government’s response to what is often referred to as the coming “fourth industrial revolution,” which has been described as “a revolution characterized by discontinuous technological development in areas like artificial intelligence (AI), big data, fifth-generation telecommunications networking (5G), nanotechnology and biotechnology, robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), and quantum computing.”…

The vice-chair of NSCAI, Robert Work – former Deputy Secretary of Defense and senior fellow at the hawkish Center for a New American Security (CNAS), described the commission’s purpose as determining “how the U.S. national security apparatus should approach artificial intelligence, including a focus on how the government can work with industry to compete with China’s ‘civil-military fusion’ concept.

…the three main groups represented within the NSCAI – the intelligence community, the Pentagon and Silicon Valley


Speaking of the National Security State and Big Tech fusing..

Google is filled with CIA agents. As per Mintpress news, NATIONAL SECURITY SEARCH ENGINE: GOOGLE’S RANKS ARE FILLED WITH CIA AGENTS


Facebook was (and still is) crawling with former (many of which are probably current) alphabet agency employees.

7/12/22 — MEET THE EX-CIA AGENTS DECIDING FACEBOOK’S CONTENT POLICY

12/2/22 — FBI Official Admits Agency Colluded Weekly With Facebook To Flag, Take Down Posts

12/9/22 —
Head Of Twitter’s Censorship Operation Was A Former FBI, CIA Operative

12/10/22 — TWITTER FILES PART 7: The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop



12/22/22 —- Spooks Infiltrate Silicon Valley: Facebook Is Riddled With Ex-CIA Agents – Including President’s Briefer Who Now Runs ‘Harmful Content’ Team – So Many Ex-FBI Work at Twitter

12/24/22
The Twitter Files Part 9: TWITTER AND “OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES”

1/03/23 — The Twitter Files: Twitter and the FBI “Belly Button” – Matt Taibbi


The GEC flagged accounts as “Russian personas and proxies” based on criteria like, “Describing the Coronavirus as an engineered bioweapon,” blaming “research conducted at the Wuhan institute,” and “attributing the appearance of the virus to the CIA.”…

Twitter was taking requests from every conceivable government body, beginning with the Senate Intel Committee (SSCI), which seemed to need reassurance Twitter was taking FBI direction. “


4/21/23 — Ex-CIA Chief Led Campaign to Smear Hunter Biden Laptop Story as Russian Disinfo

Do you get the point? The tech sector was one big alphabet soup. The government was using big tech companies by proxy to censor and control speech. And it wasn’t all a result of gross negligence and grand incompetence, where they actually thought they were preventing misinformation. Much of the censorship was outright lying and covering up what they knew to be factually true, or reasonable speculation/questions. From the lab leak theory to the Hunter Biden laptop.

7/20/23 — The FBI Told Twitter The Hunter Biden Laptop Story Was Real The Day The Story Broke, New Testimony Shows

The problem for the globalist elite was that with the rise of social media and the internet, they lost the ability to control the narrative. They were losing influence. Mainstream journalism was becoming relatively obsolete while citizen journalism alongside alternative and independent media was rapidly growing – threatening the legacy media.

Even before 2020 and Covid, the corporate media and government has been caught repeatedly coordinating disinformation campaigns, and then when the truth gets traction they cry “Russian disinformation” and “dangerous conspiracy theories” and censor that which challenges the official narrative.

Apr. 2018 — Surreal Video Compilation of Dozens of Local News Anchors Giving the Exact Same Warning About ‘Fake’ News


The video shows CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox affiliates sharing the exact message [about how disinformation is extremely dangerous to our democracy]. Sinclair’s aggregate televised reach covers about 40 percent of the U.S. Watch the surreal compilation above”


New York Times even published the headline Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script as a result of the clip above.


”The script came from Sinclair Broadcast Group, the country’s largest broadcaster, which owns or operates 193 television stations. The company is seeking a $3.9 billion deal to buy Tribune Media, a move that’s being held up by regulators over antitrust concerns.

Sinclair representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Monday. But Mr. Livingston told The Baltimore Sun that the script was meant to demonstrate Sinclair’s “commitment to reporting facts,” adding that false stories “can result in dangerous consequences,” referring to the Pizzagate conspiracy as an example.


Note: The NYT “debunking” article hyperlinked to “Pizzagate conspiracy”, cited by NYT, does not address much of the bulk of evidence and claims. It is very short, for a reason. Essentially cherry picking and a poor attempt to genuinely address the bulk of the evidence surrounding pizzagate.


Additional Note: Conveniently, John Podesta’s niece, Lesley Podesta, was on Twitter’s “Trust and Safety Team”, the ones that are responsible for “content moderation”/censorship. The Podesta leaks, which pizzagate spawned from, were the leaked emails of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager.


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Lesley Podesta appears to be John Podesta’s niece by her own admission.

@sourpatchlyds deleted her tweet later on, not sure why. perhaps it was just disinfo. The uncle tweet could have been a joke. There is no confirmation/proof of them being related. But no denial either. #Podesta

Neither the New York Post or The Post Millennial have retracted their stories calling her John Podesta’s niece

Wikileaks launched the DNC leaks earlier that year, and there are articles and think tank publications echoing the warning of “Russian disinformation” all though 2016 in what seems like a direct response to the series of Wikileaks DNC Leaks(June and July before DNC Convention) and Podesta leaks(October)..

The prominent RAND corporation (establishment neocon think tank) issued a report in September calling for fact checkers, and by December you had Facebook rolling out their mass factchecking

On October 7th, 2016 The first data dump of the Podesta leaks dropped

4 days later on Oct. 11th, The NYT ran the headline: John Podesta Says Russian Spies Hacked His Emails to Sway Election”.

The Guardian
would publish “Clinton Campaign Dubs Wikileaks ‘Russian Propaganda’ After Latest Hack”

Days after the Podesta Leaks, Politifact would publish a fact check: “Are the Clinton WikiLeaks emails doctored, or are they authentic?”


Hillary Clinton and her campaign have sought to cast doubt on the authenticity of thousands of emails leaked by WikiLeaks showing the inner workings of Clinton’s campaign.  

It’s not just that they came from Russian hackers in an attempt to meddle in the U.S. election.

But also that they might have been doctored.


A. There is no proof that it was Russian hackers.
B. They were authentic, which is why they wanted to censor them so bad (Think Hunter Biden Laptop). Even
Snopes fact-checked a Hillary Clinton connected news outlet trying to claim they were doctored [ironic].

It was a smear campaign. The legacy media realized they couldn’t fight the truth, they couldn’t discredit facts with facts, so went for just dismissing anything that made the establishment look bad as “Russian disinformation” or the like.

A month earlier
in Septermber of 2016, The major think tank RAND would publish, Russian Propaganda Is Pervasive, and America Is Behind the Power Curve in Countering It”


America is behind the power curve in countering Russian disinformation. U.S. leaders should raise public consciousness,..

As with human rights and religious freedom abuses, the Department of State could issue annual public reports on foreign government use of dishonest propaganda, naming and shaming outlets such as RT and Sputnik. The department could also fund independent organizations that raise awareness. A noteworthy one is stopfake.org, a community that checks facts and refutes disinformation about events in Ukraine.

U.S. public diplomacy is under-performing. In 2013 then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Congress that the Broadcasting Board of Governors — which oversees the Voice of America, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and other surrogate media — is “practically defunct.” Reforms in a bipartisan congressional bill could improve their operation.”


Radio Free Europe is known to have spawned from a CIA cutout, the National Committee for a Free Europe which was formed by notorious CIA director Allen Dulles..

Notice how not only does the RAND Report call for the government to create lists of what is acceptable media and what is not, but also for funding of more fact-checking and propaganda. Coincidentally, this type of media blacklist is what the Atlantic council-connected ProporNot list did a couple months later.


PropOrNot List Was Eventually Disowned, Discredited… But Not Before Doing Damage


In November of 2016, WAPO published ”Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread ‘Fake News’ During Election, Experts Say”


The Intercept reported on the matter promptly in “WASHINGTON POST DISGRACEFULLY PROMOTES A MCCARTHYITE BLACKLIST FROM A NEW, HIDDEN, AND VERY SHADY GROUP


In casting the group behind this website as “experts,” the Post described PropOrNot simply as “a nonpartisan collection of researchers with foreign policy, military and technology backgrounds.” Not one individual at the organization is named….

Included on this blacklist of supposed propaganda outlets are prominent independent left-wing news sites
such as Truthout, Naked Capitalism, Black Agenda Report, Consortium News, and Truthdig.

Also included are popular libertarian hubs such as Zero Hedge, Antiwar.com, and the Ron Paul Institute, along with the hugely influential right-wing website the Drudge Report and the publishing site WikiLeaks.


Not only were legitimate independent news organizations, many ran by American citizens, being labeled as Russian propaganda… but the Ron Paul Institute, a former senator’s think tank, was being labeled Russian propaganda…

And WeAreChange
, The first outlet I was published by. I still volunteer/contribute to the Telegram, feel free to join. While you’re at it, subscribe to the Newswire I help manage.



Also on the list were Antimedia and TheMindUnleashed,
whom published my articles on Bolivia and Syria (Both of which were censored by Facebook within hours of course]

Additionally, TheFreeThoughtProject and Police the Police, run by Jason Bassler. If you have been online for years you’ve almost certainly come encountered his content and memes at some point, despite Bassler and his organizations being incessantly targeted by the censorship industrial complex since 2016.


A month after this PropOrNot list was published, Facebook implemented mass fact-checking and labeling of “fake news”.


12/15/2016 —The Guardian: Facebook to Begin Flagging Fake News in Response to Mounting Criticism

”Disputed articles will be marked with the help of users and outside fact checkers amid widespread criticism that fake news influenced the US election”

12/15/2016 — The Verge — “Facebook partners with fact-checking organizations to begin flagging fake news”

The media really went into overdrive warning of Russian dis-info and fake news as a result of the series of DNC leaks in 2016, but it picked up pace at the end of the year. But the point of this article is to zoom out and look at the bigger picture. The era of social media and the internet was rapidly threatening the ruling powers grip of control by removing the reliance on centralized information streams and gatekeepers.

If the truth was allowed to flow freely, the ruling powers would not maintain consent. This is why Julian Assange is not free, and many of our rulers are.

Instead of relying on your local ABC/CNN/FOX/NBC/CNBC Owned broadcaster, or your similarly owned local radio station affiliate for information, people started to be able to go to the internet and search… not be spoonfed. And if people wanted to be spoonfed, they could follow independent or citizen journalists who keep a critical eye on things, rather than relying on massive media corporations. With social media, the barrier to access for publishing was removed, and anybody could transmit information, or analyze, or publish investigative journalism. And you could tune in to an information stream anytime, when you wanted, you wern’t restricted by which broadcasting and radio slots you were able to tune in during.

Information streams decentralized all over the world rapidly, and the narrative handlers and consent manufacturers started losing grip of the narrative and as a result, consent was being threatened. (not to say that uninformed consent is proper consent..)

In 2018 PBS published an articled titled “The long history of Russian disinformation targeting the U.S.”


From Pizzagate to George Soros conspiracies, “fake news” has become a noxious presence in public discourse, especially since the 2016 presidential election.
A recent New York Times video series explores the long history of Russian disinformation and its origins in what the Soviets dubbed “active measures.” Nick Schifrin speaks to Adam Ellick, who created the series, for more…

Nick Schifrin: So, there’s a lot of talk about Russian disinformation, of course, in 2016, even 2018,

Another conspiracy is, JFK was killed by the CIA, also created by…Soviet origin.


Obviously, Schifrin here is saying that the JFK/CIA conspiracy was created by the Russians…

The Intercept recently reported on newly declassified documents surrounding the JFK assassination in December in an article titled “LEE HARVEY OSWALD, THE CIA, AND LSD: NEW CLUES IN NEWLY DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS”
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The CIA’s role in Kennedy’s assassination remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of American history. A majority of Americans believe the president was killed as part of a conspiracy that went beyond Oswald, and roughly a third believe the CIA or elements within the CIA had a hand in it.


In contrast the batshit neolib assertions that the Russian’s are responsible for JFK assassination theories, the Vigilant Fox commented on the Epoch Times recent reporting in RFK Jr. Decries Biden Admin’s Withholding of Some JFK Assassination Records”


It’s Been Nearly 60 Years Since JFK’s Assassination

“It was legally supposed to have been declassified a long time ago,” attests Robert Kennedy Jr.

But the Federal government is STILL withholding information from we the people. What does it have to hide?


Tucker Carlson Reported on the matter in December of 2022; Tucker Carlson calls out former CIA Directors Mike Pompeo and John Brennan for blocking the release of documents that show the CIA was involved in the assassination of JFK.

12/15/22 — ”Tucker Carlson Claims Source Told Him CIA Was ‘Involved’ In JFK Assassination


Carlson blasted the release of thousands of new files related to the JFK assassination this week, nothing thousands of documents are still being withheld, blasting both former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden for not releasing all the files in accordance with 1992 legislation for everything to be released by 2017.

The Fox News host claimed he spoke to someone “deeply familiar” with the JFK-related materials not seen by the public:

Carlson, who earlier pointed to the CIA as an “obvious suspect” in Kennedy’s death, insisted his source “is not a conspiracy theorist.”

“This is someone with direct knowledge of the information that once again is being withheld from the American public,” he said. “And the answer we received was unequivocal. Yes, the CIA was involved in the assassination of the president.”


Tucker would recently have RFK on his show again, on August 14th, 2023:

8/14/23 — RFK Jr. Reveals to Tucker Carlson Who He Thinks Really Killed His Uncle

8/14/23 — RFK Jr. Unveils Mike Pompeo’s Chilling Confession About the CIA

“He … looked me dead in the eye, and he said, ‘The entire upper echelon of that agency [CIA] is made up of individuals who do not believe in the democratic institutions of the USA.’ That’s a quote.”

Its hard not to keep going on tangents when I am looking at old articles about misinformation and, thanks to the internet, many of the “conspiracy theories” that were once considered cooky and fringe are now mainstream, if not normalized and accepted. Besides, to reiterate the point above…if the CIA killing JFK is just a baseless conspiracy theory, why is the US STILL withholding information on it? Why?

12/6/22 — Axios – 70% of voters want JFK assassination records release, poll shows

So to return back to the point of declining trust in institutions, and even rising distrust, – these efforts by various alphabet agencies in alliance with big tech to censor “Russian misinformation”, and those who promote it, like the “conspiracy theory that the CIA killed JFK”

These efforts were a response to the truth growing too accessible, not Russian disinformation. A result of the internet and technology evolution happening too freely. The information flow, the sudden access to a whole world of new ideas and information by the average person, millions of new people that would never otherwise be in a position to talk, research, and connect to so effortlessly…

In December of 2016, after the Wikileaks drops, after the election, anonymous US officials would “leak” information to the Washington Post, NYT, and other outlets asserting that Russia was behind the DNC email leaks hacks. As Glenn Greenwald reported at the time, “Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence”. Of course, that evidence Greenwald and so many others wanted never came.

USA Today reported:


The fact-checking website Politifact says Hillary Clinton is correct when she says 17 federal intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia is behind the hacking.

“We have 17, 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyber attacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin. And they are designed to influence our election. I find that deeply disturbing,” Clinton said during Wednesday’s presidential debate in Las Vegas.

Trump pushed back, saying that Clinton and the United States had “no idea whether it is Russia, China or anybody else.”


Of course, the intelligence community lies all the time. We’ve destroyed countries and killed millions as a result of the American people putting too much stock in the intelligence community’s honesty and integrity (which is like putting stock in a serial murderer to not murder again). But that is the problem with a free internet – for the elite..

Before social media and the internet, the intelligence community could lie through their teeth, and the people paying attention and seeing their lies, couldn’t call them out. Want to demand evidence for the WMDs in 2003? Want to share a bit of information that throws into question the official narrative? Maybe you can get TV stations going to broadcast your message. Probably not. The radio stations likely aren’t either. This is where/when people would make political fliers and pamphlets and stickers to distribute in public to broadcast a grassroots message. Then suddenly, people are able to connect all over the country instantly, on their own time, at the press of a button, without even leaving their homes.

The aggregate information stream of society started decentralizing rapidly. And truths that were once easily covered up and swept under the rug, began to surface and gain discussion and attention, with the traditional gatekeepers being circumnavigated.

Over time, with the internet and social media, information began circulating more and more…information that was revealing to everybody that the government, and the powers that are ultimately in control of it, have been lying to them again and again. And again. And again. And again. Ad infinitum

There is a reason social media is the bane of the elite’s existence. As I am getting ready to publish this, on Aug. 16th as ReclaimTheNet reported, “Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Says He Would Ban Social Media, If Allowed To Be a Dictator”

Likewise, on the same day ReclaimTheNet also published “YouTube Greatly Expands Its Medical ‘Misinformation’ Policies” which discusses Youtube expanding “New rules, largely determined by the WHO.”

The US’s Jan 6th, and Brazil’s Jan 8th are good examples of where large segments of the population were rapidly losing faith in institutions, the media and governments .

I wrote a piece 2 months ago that compared Brazil’s Jan 8th to the US’ Jan 6th, but not like how most of the media did (incessantly). Instead, I compared the similarities in the holes in the official narratives:.

Namely, the events being known to the country’s intelligence community weeks in advance(and intel about the massive protest withheld from police, according to the capitol police chief), the on-scene capitol police forces allowing the protestors into the government buildings they would later be accused of forcefully overtaking, along with total vehement denial to acknowledge the grievances and concerns of millions of people the protestors are echoing. And, of course, social media censorship of the opposition party by the ruling party.

Although the censorship was more overt in Brazil’s case with the supreme court censoring opposition congressmen and media, the Biden admin has now acknowledged to have covered up the Hunter Biden Laptop leaks, putting pressure on social media tech giants to do so, among many other revelations from the twitter files and house oversight committee.

TOP 25 CENSORSHIP QUOTES (of 570) | A-Z Quotes

Since I wrote that article on Brazil 6th, just 2 months ago, the former DC capitol police chief, who was the police chief on Jan 6th. 2021, went on record in a National Pulse exclusive, stating, “Everything appears to be a cover up.” The National Pulse would report:


Having served as a police officer for over 30 years, including taking over as Chief of the United States Capitol Police in 2019, Sund explains the events leading up to January 6th, including prior to the incident at the Capitol itself, and the aftermath, appeared to be a “cover up.”

“Everything appears to be a cover up,” says the decorated police chief, explaining that most things to do with his department were political, specifically because he reported to politicians including then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. “Like I said, I’m not a conspiracy theorist,” Sund explains, “…but when you look at the information and intelligence they had, the military had, it’s all watered down. I’m not getting intelligence, I’m denied any support from National Guard in advance. I’m denied National Guard while we’re under attack, for 71 minutes…

The full interview has thus far been hidden from the public at the behest of Rupert Murdoch’s increasingly left-wing Fox News channel, which unceremoniously fired its prime time host Tucker Carlson allegedly as part of a private settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.


The support for the protestors by the armed services and police on January 8th, the protestors being allowed into the building, and the mobilization of unarmed protests being known to the government well in advance being turned into “Attacks on democracy” and treated like “insurrections” – points to as a form of a self-coup, also known as an a autogolpe.

A self-coup is a tactic that has been used by dictators and authoritarian governments many times throughout history to justify an expansion of power.

According to WAPO: “Between 1946 and 2022, an estimated 148 self-coup attempts took place, 110 in autocracies and 38 in democracies

Brazil’s Supreme Court outright censored popular opposition congressmen and political thought leaders, and then when Brazilians rose up to protest it at the capitol, planning for weeks in advance… rather than set up adequate barriers and control measures, they pretended to be caught off guard, many boots on the ground supported the protestors, and then when the protestors went inside – or were let inside, the buildings – protesting for auditable/open-source election software* …”aSsAulT oN dEmOcRaCy” and the government points and says “see! We need to expand our power”

The Spectator had concluded The truth About ‘Anti-Democratic’ Protests in Brazil by stating:


”To conclude, the latest events in Brasília are a result of a spontaneous reaction against an electoral process that millions of Brazilians perceive as being completely lacking in transparency and credibility. Amid allegations of massive electoral fraud, these concerned citizens have been protesting in their millions over hundreds of cities nationwide. The problem is that millions of Brazilians do not trust the Electoral Court and believe that such court is part of the electoral fraud scheme in this presidential election.”

The point is the media and government’s handlings, of both January 6th and January 8th for DC and Brazil, are great examples of double standards that exist for the framings of events, and how straw manning, demonizing demographics, lying by omission, and other actions by the establishment narrative handlers and institutions has has contributed to the declining trust in those institutions.

I want to state clearly, I think the proper course of action for Brazil is for the government to make the code open-source. If an audit proves there was no tampering—great. Then the country moves forward as is with increased unity. If tampering had occurred, then obviously a recount is needed. The institutions and media would surely try to dismiss my opinion as “supporting a coup”. But being in support of either side having legitimate power when the election is in question is a false dichotomy. Even the protestors weren’t demanding a transition of power. They were demanding the source code. And likewise, it was a demonstration, not an armed military coup like the recent events in Niger. In Latin America, military coups have played such an important role in history they have their own name, known as a Junta – a recent example of which is Bolivia.

We will come back to Musk in a bit.

The point of examining Brazil, and almost by proxy Jan 6th, is to A. give an example of why distrust in institutions is rising, and B. demonstrate how that leads to social unrest. And it also is a great way to show how American Media lies.


It is no wonder the partisan divide is polarizing in both countries. NPR published an article in May titled “There’s a toxic brew of mistrust toward U.S. institutions. It’s got real consequences” which is an interesting read that describes increasingly polarization along with mistrust in institutions.

When Jacinda Arden resigned as New Zealand’s prime minister, notoriously known around the world for her harsh enforcement of authoritarian Covid policies, many cheered and took it as another indication of the Covid narrative collapsing.

The clip above features New Zealand’s former prime minister arrogantly proclaiming the government to be the people’s “single source of truth”.

Crazy conspiracy theory here………… maybe there shouldn’t be a single source of truth? Maybe they’re just simply ISN’T.

It isn’t just politicians who have been wrong, of course. Pharmaceutical companies were essentially ground 0 for a lot of the lies that the world’s population were bombarded with.

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They have been wrong about a multitude of important, incessantly repeated narratives. From natural immunity to the effectiveness of the vaccines, to the statistics around covid deaths, breakthrough cases….

I mean on some level, we should pity the experts. As The Atlantic wrote, they have had a bad year”. (no seriously, that is a real article by The Atlantic)

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It is comical at this point. But the global elite want us to continue on allowing them to steer us to their “solutions” to the problems those beneath them face. They expect us to continue thinking they care. And the sad part is, when they use government as a proxy, many believe they do.

Brazil isn’t alone in hosting a large political minority that feels the levers and agencies of government have been weaponized against them politically”

This article will go on to discuss how declining trust in institutions and deteriorating economic conditions for the middle and low class are contributing to a rise in global unrest and populism—and will likely continue to do so. Additionally, it will explore the dynamics between economic populism/protectionism, globalism, Henry Kissinger and his protégée Klaus Schwab, the WEF, Covid, the timing of the pandemic, the Covid response, and consequences resulting from the Covid response in the context of the WEF’s globalist agenda.


Economies on the Decline—Distrust in Institutions + Social Unrest On the Rise


Joe Martino of The Pulse recently published a piece titled: “Loss of Faith in Societal Institutions: a Necessary Chaos” in which he summarized the reality of the blowback resulting from the Covid response by governments around the world:

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Billions of people witnessed the chaotic COVID moment largely manufactured by governments. These actions have sown a level of distrust so deep that latest Gallup polls indicate people’s trust in media, both television and newspapers, in the United States is at an all-time low.

To be clear, the loss of trust in mainstream media equates to a loss of trust in government because legacy media has just parroted what government has said without questioning or holding it to account. And since many in the general public knew government was wrong, the lack of trust in mainstream media = lack of trust in government.

There is a clear link/correlation between declining trust in institutions, and rising civil and social unrest. And the primary driver of declining trust is declining economic conditions. Notice the chart above in the Gallup poll starts in 1972. What happened in 1972?

Better question: What happened in 1971?

No seriously. What the F%@# happened in 1971!?


Economic Decline Leading to Declining Trust/Faith in Institutions


As CNBC wrote in a 2022 article titled, “Why American Wages Haven’t Grown Despite Increases in Productivity”:

”Wages in the U.S. have stagnated since the early 1970s. Between 1979 and 2020, workers’ wages grew by 17.5% while productivity grew over three times as fast at 61.8%.”

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I am asking rhetorically what happened in 1971. I could show you pages and pages of charts and infographics demonstrating a general decline in economic conditions for the average American since 1971, but there is an entire site dedicated to this.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

But here are a few.

TheMcgwire

Found of The Daily Psyop. Passionate about Foreign Policy. Have been actively involved in Independent Media since 2019.

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