By the late 3rd century AD, the Roman Empire was a shadow of its former self. Beleaguered by mass migration and invasions across its frontiers, vast resources had been poured into fighting off the invaders, while at the same time, endless civil wars had created an ongoing crisis of leadership. Rampant inflation had destroyed the currency. The solution came in the form of a vastly more complex state under the emperor Diocletian (AD 284–305). A ballooning bureaucracy presided over a welter of new laws that, among others, tried to fix prices, lock workers into their occupations and prevent movement, while levying crippling taxes.
With an already huge proportion of the city of Rome’s population dependent on state benefits – something that harked back over 400 years to when the wealthy had stolen land from free peasants, recently returned from war service, who then fled to the city in search of work and security – self-reliance and resilience had long been sapped.
This, in essence, is the thesis of Doug Casey, a veteran speculator and investor, whose theory that “wokeism will be the downfall of America” is covered in the Mail:
He told Dailymail.com that there are now seven clear signs that he believes show that Western civilization is facing an end.
He said: “I’m unhappy about Western civilisation winding down, because it’s by far the best civilisation in world history.
“In fact, it’s the only civilisation in world history that even matters, quite frankly.”
Casey believes that there are important lessons to be found in the fall of the Roman Empire, which occurred after the Romans expanded not only by sea but also by land, leaving the Empire facing excessive taxation and inflation.
Casey identifies the destruction of free thought as a key sign of the impending doom, as well as the dedication of those who believe in the state to coercion:
One of the warning signs is that Casey believes that free thought is central to Western civilisation, but is currently being washed away.
Casey said: “Free thought, which is actually unique to the West, that’s being washed away by cancel culture and political correctness and thought crimes.
“Free thought is being washed away, followed by free speech.”
Casey said that other warning signs include the decline of free markets: the fall of Rome saw growth in the state.
He said: “People who believe in the state believe in coercion, and they believe the government has a right to direct these things. That’s on the upsurge as well.”
Numbers bear out Casey’s ideas: over the past 100 years, the cost of government has gone from just 5 to 10% of GDP to 40% and even 60% in countries like France and Italy, according to Cambridge research.
Casey said that there are many parallels to the fall of Rome, where power became more and more centralised, and former soldiers became the recipients of welfare.
The Punic Wars of the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC were victories for Rome, won at enormous cost, but the consequences for ordinary farmers started the rot:
He said: “After wars, particularly the Punic Wars, the Yeoman farmers that went off to defend the interests of the Republic came home; their farms were in disrepair and bankrupt, so they’d have to move to the cities where they became recipients of welfare. There are a lot of parallels to that in the modern West.”
Casey identifies the destruction of rationality because it’s “too white”, and there are plenty of other consequences of that train of thought:
“A lot of these people in the world today hate progress because it leads naturally to inequality, because not everybody is as strong or as smart or as honest as other people, so they don’t like that – the idea of primacy that’s really been washed away. That’s the danger of this era of safe spaces.”
The erosion of the idea of property rights – in an era where everything from cars to smartphones are rented rather than owned – is another key sign, Casey warns.
He said: “You’ve heard this from the Davos people. You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy, and you’ll get a guaranteed annual income with three hots and a cot. So property rights are being washed away.”
Another sign is that cash is being abandoned.
Casey said: “Cash allows you to build wealth on your own, privately. And what seems to be on the runway are central bank digital currencies, CBDCs.
“If those are instituted, there will be zero privacy of what you own, what you buy, what you sell, everything will be known in a very powerful computer, especially with AI.
Power became more centralised and more Romans moved out of the Empire, leaving the Roman empire vulnerable to collapse.
Casey said: “It’s the second law of thermodynamics, everything winds down and becomes corrupt.”
Add on to that the collapse of the rule of law in the face of micro-regulations, and it’s hard to see what other direction Western civilisation is headed in. There is no end to doom-mongering these days, some of it absurdly negative, but Casey really does seem to have a point. The parallels are obvious. The sheer teetering complexity of Western civilisation has led to governments ceaselessly failing to deliver on ever more extravagant promises while presiding over enervated, demoralised and increasingly resourceless populations trapped by debt and incarcerated by laws that both crush and silence them. Free speech and free thought are becoming luxuries of the past.
Meanwhile, crime grows ever more out of control, the rich shore themselves up in enclaves and the state spends its time thinking of more taxes and more rules.
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WOW! Just WOW! Its taken two years but thank goodness the dam is finally bursting and this manufactured crisis can now be shown for what it is and hopefully the people responsible can be rounded up and dealt with.
Hold on a minute. Jeremy Hunt did his review of the handling of this, if only we’d locked down harder and earlier, this would never have happened.
Hancock in jail within 5 years was always my hopeful expectation. I think that the odds are shortening
He went on his London Run and people couldn’t even be bothered to throw bricks at him.
Doesn’t that sum it all up?
We’re better than that at least.
No, people like him need to be chased relentlessly and it takes years. Bricks will be the least of his worries.
I think that’s exactly why we’re in this mess. This game should have been stopped the minute it started.
No lobbied bricks are appropriate opening salvos for war criminals living free.
I would have loved to have held a massive sign up for him at the Marathon as he ran by:
“You can run, but you can’t hide”
Hunt was a the wheel back in 2013 when the NHS said it could not deal with a pandemic crisis . He did nothing.
Hunt was a principal advocate in the Commons of vaccinating children – he is a through and through Globalist.
Let us hope Hancock takes a few others with him.
When this is all finally over, we are going to be hunting down those responsible for the rest of our lives. It will take decades to bring them all to justice, just as it did with the Nuremberg trials.
For sure Chris… This whole globalist driven vaxx shit-show will eventually be proven maleficent via a Nuremberg 2.0 trial… As to the venerable Fauci, who’s deeply linked to Wuhan, EcoHealth and Gates… at last I smell blood.
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1480943104496652297?s=20
Too many medics and Govt ministers for over two years now have gone along and promoted this scamdemic farce… Post-mortem hard lessons regarding biochemistry, human physiology and emergent cellular systems will be better understood – albeit at great personal cost to those folk and families coerced and lied to becoming Pharma lab rats…
Talking of which it’s time to put TV mindfuck garbage breakfast shows like this permanently out of their misery… where’s the kill switch?
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1481222310489112580?s=20
And for any back-benchers still fence sitting time for a bitch-slap reality check…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8uPbCZnp2U
Well, Tony Blair the ‘war criminal’ has been openly swanning around all these years… oh, look! – he’s just gotten himself a knighthood!
“Hunting down”. How about hunting down Test & Trace headquarters? Anyone know where that is?
No-one is going to be “brought to trial”. There are no ‘lawyers’ coming to drag Boris and pals off to ‘Nuremburg 2’. This is just conspiracy fantasy nonsense, on a par with the nanobots-in-the-vaccines fairy tale stuff.
As I said, there’s Matt Hancock, allegedly a mass murderer, trotting along the streets of London, and nobody does anything to even arrest him.
Yet green foxie one… seems so many conspiracy’s turn into facts…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-11/repeat-booster-shots-risk-overloading-immune-system-ema-says
I’ve started reading conspiracy theories more than the mainstream news, as the end up being far more reliable over time.
“What they REALLY mean by “living with Covid”” –
https://off-guardian.org/2022/01/10/what-they-really-mean-by-living-with-covid/
Kit Knightly in OffGuardian on the threat of permanent interventions.
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Good article on off-guardian. It’s what I thought when things started to loosen. The loosening is too fast, opinions have been changed too quickly. Well, apart from in Scotland where I live. Nicola mustn’t have got the memo…
Beware the false dawn – the Welcome Trust and Gates Foundation are in league funding vaccines and “Global Health Technology” ( eg mRNA) and every element of the pandemic including $400 million from Welcome for Imperial College and Ferguson by the end of 2018. They are prime movers behind the Globalist Covid strategy.
Anything coming from them should be treated with care – the are one of the biggest players in the Globalist vaccination strategy .
Should our concern be what comes next in their plans for us?
I realise there is an uphill war that remains to be fought, but I feel *slightly* optimistic for the first time in probably a year.
I do believe that people are slowly, slowly, slowly waking.
I feel the same. Given the previous false hopes I think ‘slightly’ covers it at the moment.
I will become optimistic the day that unvaccinated people are allowed to enter (or return to) Britain without having to self-isolate for 10 days.
This crosses over with the insane Nut Nuts Zero Carbon Agenda and the madness of trying to close down travel for plebs -we are in fact at war on two fronts.
Also as the weather continues to get colder, how many will freeze for want of heating they cannot now afford?
If the Vax doesn’t get you, the cold will!
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/ Paul Homewood has been exposing all this for years . His site is a first class resource.
Instead of freezing in their own homes, these people can go round to their local MPs home to Stay Warm. Just barge in and say “I’m cold and it’s your fault!” and occupy their homes, and see how they like it.
Yes, exactly this. A dose of reality, instead of “I didn’t wear my face mask in Lidl, and it’s all over”.
And if “people are waking up” they will wake up to find themselves in a prison, with Boris and pals fully in control.
Where is the list of people who snitched on their neighbours during the ‘lockdowns’?
I think there’s a lot of buyer’s remorse to wade through first, and people are going to prove reluctant, I think.
I would point you to those who say they’ll buy a ticket to the Australian Open so they can boo Djokovic for being unjabbed, even though he’ll have antibodies from his previous bouts of covid.
‘How dare he be unjabbed…!’
Only catching SARS2 vaccinates you.
The jabs are not vaccines they are failed prophylactics.
Don’t relax – they will have a New Wave of something nasty on the way! This has been twenty years in the planning!
It will become a matter of stamina and endurance as the truth fight its way out of the swamp they have created to drown it.
Our biggest problem is still the craven sold -out Media .
You mean, like this:
https://www.thegatewaypunditDOTcom/2022/01/dr-robert-malone-fires-off-warning-shot-war-room-latest-disease-spreading-across-china-ebola-like-hemorrhagic-fever-virus-video/
Dr. Robert Malone Fires Off Warning Shot on The War Room: Latest Disease Spreading Across China an “Ebola-Like Hemorrhagic Fever Virus” (VIDEO)
I feel they want this, so that when they slap everyone down harder, the opposition will feel doubly defeated. I feel hopeful too, but a warning here to curb your enthusiasm. Make yourself emotionally ready for a new shit storm worse than February /March 2020. If it doesn’t come to pass, you’ll be that much stronger. Unfortunately, I feel that likelihood is just as likely as a successful fightback this year.
Make that man head of the WHO.
I hope you mean the Israeli epidimelogist and not Farrar?
No chance. He’s not alarmist enough.
Gates would veto the appointment – he now funds the WHO.
Exponential rise in cases of common sense in latest UK figures
The total number of cases detected has risen by 100%
The 7 day average is now 2
The R rate is 1
The number of hospitalisations is still 0, but Imperial College predict that it will rise to 2 as soon as the asylum are told to send out more people into the care of the community
Prof Qimron is 100% right.
What a disaster this is.
This disaster is yet to fully reveal itself as the immune systems of the Fully Jabbed (plus endless boosters) begin to collapse under the unequal struggle with the vax-generated millions/ billions of spike proteins – no doubt Big Pharma will be marketing products to keep people alive – the $$$$$$ just keep flowing!
Make people sick and then sell them products to keep them alive “Its nothing personal, just business”!
If the tide is turning – and that’s a big if – we will be told it is because lockdowns, jabs, distancing, masks and so on have all worked. There will be no contrition.
“It’s all thanks to the Vax, get your fourth booster (we have 200m doses to shift and Pfizer don’t offer returns)”.
Roll up roll up, don’t delay, get eight weeks free protection now, all stock must go.
See exposure of Pfizer’s failure to follow safety trial protocols and its dubious past history in Canadian video circulated by RFK Junior – a real shocker!
What they know full well is that spring/summer is coming and that it will be hard to push their vile policies down people’s throats during that seasons. So they are doing a retreat while planning to regroup and strike with double force next autumn/winter. Everything must be done now to prevent that from happening.
I thought the contract for Serco’s Test & Trace was already signed up to 2025? That takes us well beyond next winter!
And the Covid marshalls contracts, and more ‘vaccines’ have already been ordered, plus more LFTs and thousands more boxes of face masks Made in China.
I don’t think the seasons have anything to do with this. You have to pre-purchase your PCR/LFT tests for international travel the year round.
The point is they will go mostly quiet about these measures during spring/summer, and will then increase efforts to mandate them again toward end of year. Their plan is to train humanity into a repeated yearly acceptance of all this bs, to make these sales campaigns and freedom restrictions appear as normal and “obviously necessary” further down the road.
But they’re aware that they cannot just keep on feeding the bs during times when it appears completely incredible, as that would turn victims away from their ideology. Therefore they must deploy it in waves roughly correlated with the natural (and mostly harmless) waves of respiratory infections.
New “deadly virus” already in the labs? “Marburg” has been mentioned.
Exactly the entirety of the establishment will never admit they were wrong .
They cannot admit anything because an avalanche of legal proceedings would follow.
They were not wrong – what has happened was exactly what they planned. See Fauci’s suggestion in debate that a new ‘virus’ needed to be the means by which a mass vaccination experiment could take hold on the frightened population with the help of a media offensive. ( “The Real Anthony Fauci ” RFK Junior)
Okay correction , never admit it was a plandemic. Haven’t read Bobby’s book yet , still working my way through Pseudo Pandemic by Iain Davis .
Absolutely, although The Sunday Times had an article asking if we had done nothing about Covid, what would have happened? They asked loads of experts from all fields and the conclusion was…nothing much. All the deaths would have been compressed into a shorter time scale but basically we would have got through it quicker.
…and, of course, the deaths would not have been exceptional, and additional harms would not have accrued.
If we had stopped the fake Drosten PCR testing, Covid would have disappeared into the usual severe deadly seasonal Flu we have lived with for years.( see stats of Flu deaths from 2000 onwards to confirm)
Yes Lockdown etc also had the benefit of persuading the space giraffes not to invade!
I feel a great disturbance in the force, as if a million scientific voices cried out in anguish and where silenced… as their gravy train came off the tracks.
Apologies to George Lucas.
Lysenkoist, what they were doing was in no way scientific.
This is very encouraging but I would caution that it should be taken for what it is.
For 2 years it has been almost all one way traffic – lockdowns, measures, tests, jabs – and no dissent except for a few lone voices in the desert, like the DS.
It is clear now that there are voices calling for an end, but as far as I can see this just means the battle is finally on.
The people who have been promoting our current dystopia aren’t going to go away quietly. They are going to fight back, like that are doing with Boris Johnson’s 18 month old allegations, like the stooge from the WHO, and plenty more.
But I feel good, because the fight is finally on.
“The people who have been promoting our current dystopia aren’t going to go away quietly.”
‘Covid’ is very much a ‘protection racket’ – those running it aren’t going to loosen their grip. They have the money and the power to keep the scam going.
‘Covid’ is over only when we get back to a pre-March 2020 way of life, with no travel restrictions, no face masks, no ‘Covid vaccines’, no ‘Vaccine Passports’.
Personally, I can’t see all these governments giving all that up now. They have seen ‘The Resistance’ ie. the ‘Alpha Men Assembly’ punching empty cardboard boxes in a field, and know all they have to do is send in the Police to round them up if they want to. I bet they even had their mobile phones with them – so dead easy to track them and know who they are and where they live! Duh!
Pessimistic or realistic? The Scots haven’t toppled Sturgeon and Devi, the Welsh haven’t got rid of Drakeford, Boris has a garden party and continues to get away with it. Of course, if these people were to go, there could be someone worse to fill their shoes…! So… best to keep them right where they are…?
Yes, battle is on:
“It is not the end, nor even the beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the beginning”. ( Apologies to WSC)
( Apologies to WSC) . ..Oddly our current Prime Minister’s hero,except this incumbent strangely picked tyranny over freedom.
He’s Petain without the military experience.
Will be out there this Saturday protesting helping gather momentum to turn the tide
Now the Beeb will get that Springs harpy to fact-check the Wellcome Trust.
If so…they will not report what they find.
I wonder how much this sudden new-found pragmatism has to do with news of pending litigation seeping through?
I certainly bloody hope so, and looking forward to the deafening sound of multiple squeaky bums.
Dare I hope that some common sense is looming on the horizon
‘Common Sense’ has little to do with this diabolical Globalist plot, at least twenty years in the making brought to a head by the coming Banking Crisis and the demand for digital currencies controlled by the Central Banks to save their skins from a financial crisis they created!
Covid has always been just a means to an end – the end of western democracy and democratic freedoms!
I read an article defending unvaccinated in Berliner Zeitung. Probably the first such article in German MSM I’ve seen in 2 years – I was shocked it was allowed through censorship (although of course there was an annotation that it “does not reflect the editors’ opinion”). And they are retreating on the mandatory vaccination front as well (calling it a “delay”). Times are a-changing, but it is too early to claim victory.
I really do hope so.
I think Fauci emails and the DARPA paper released by Project Veritas is another huge news items from yesterday.
The worry is that there is continued scheming and that they are simply rearranging the chess pieces. Digital IDs and centrally state managed cryptocurrency is the real goal.
Yes, Fauci is at last feeling the heat – let us hope the fire takes!
Did no german in their government think “hey this all sounds a bit 1930s again?”
Hard to keep up an ’emergency’ for over 2 years, once that is declared over, the pharma groups are Liable
Covid: Seth Burke, 13, returns home after weeks in hospital – BBC News
Pro ‘vaccination’ piece from the BBC
Yep, I’m going to take vaccination advice from an obese teen with a life-long progressive condition.
I’m amazed they showed his photo, Sky’s latest trick has been to tell us “40 somethings” are seriously ill in hospital but “this one doesn’t want to be on camera”
….cos he’s the size of a house end I’ll bet.
Or the BBC
What else ? The BBC – also now known as “the Enemy”.
Pro ‘vaccination’ piece from the BBC…… I’m ashamed to say, I haven’t yet got around to cancelling my subscription.
All hail the Chief Investment Officer of the Wellcome Trust! He’s got the public good at heart. Of course he has. ROFL
The Wellcome Trust are the outfit that owns Britain’s largest marinas (Brighton, Chichester, and Port Solent). Presumably they want income from those sources this summer.
See Gates and Ferguson connections.
Yes.. the very name ‘Wellcome’ gives me a warm fuzzy glow inside..
When the fact that governments, at the behest of the pharmaceutical industry, suppressed and are still suppressing the early treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infected vulnerable patients ensuring that very many of them died, is widely broadcast in the media, then I will raise a glass to the end of this criminal madness.
Until then nothing will really change because, despite the best efforts of actual doctors and actual scientists, the media is still controlled by those who G.H.W. Bush could have included when he reputedly told Gore Vidal “if the people knew half the things we have done ‘in their name’, they would chase us down the street and hang us”.
Ivermectin banned by the Government – people who could have been treated with it have probably died as a result.
Does anyone care? The Japanese do -they allow its very effective use.
And we also need to hear the MSM say that mortality in the placebo group was lower than in the jabbed and thus all cause risk of being jabbed is higher.
They could add that this was covered up by the trial runners!
I’m sure there will be many here who have been following Alex Berenson in exile. It’s interesting because he seems to have also arrived at the conclusion that we’re reaching some kind of tipping point.
I will repeat my post of yesterday.
Kit Knightly has produced a very timely article in off-Guardian. Beware the ides of January ( sorry Billy Wagglestick)
https://off-guardian.org/2022/01/10/what-they-really-mean-by-living-with-covid/
An excellent analysis, thanks for the link!
Yes, I’ve read that. Excellent piece indeed. The message is most definitely.. be on your guard and do not trust those who were responsible for creating the mess we are in to get us out of it. They have an agenda..
A French citizen throws Emmanuel Macron’s words back at him:
Meanwhile, Macron himself makes the staggeringly offensive remark that we, the unvaccinated, are curtailing other people’s freedom! This guy has got it coming to him.
!940s Macron would’ve said the jews are cluttering up the train carriages
Nothing gets leaked and nothing appears in the MSM unless it is sanctioned by the dictatorship. It has always been the case
The party story is a clever tactic to distract attention away from the mass killings and give the dictatorship about a year in which to create a we won the covid war narrative
The Pig Dictators line is ‘we must await the result of the independent inquiry’ knowing full well he will be exonerated
In the meantime under the covering fire of the party story the tanks are being slipped into reverse gear and leaving the battlefield
Testing will be stopped, cycles reduced, deaths re calibrated, restrictions dropped. We will read stories about our brave NHS Tommies and their daring do fight against the killer virus.
We will get figures of how many children’s lives were saved, and we will be shown cute pictures of these children celebrating at the birthday parties they might never have had
Eastenders will portray the affable cockneys declare at the bar of the Queen Vic that The Pig Dictator is truly the new Churchill cor blimey. OBE’s and Knighthoods will be thrown about like confetti
The Mall will fill with flag waving jabbed Daily Mail readers as the they cheer the Pig Dictator and King Andrew on the balcony at Buck House
Victory Gin will flow
The Welcome trust? Sir Jeremy Farrar?….Up to their neck’s in the insidious GOF virus facilitated “Great Reset”.
Anything these filthy neo-fascist Eugenicist’s have to say comes with an agenda!
Too many “experts” to shake a stick at. Lots of worms turning, rats fighting in sacks and all the rest.
It would be good to think that these are Damascene moments, and not just flashes in the pan; and that they will penetrate to the dim recesses of the perverted politicians, unethical medical people and halfwit “modellers”. I have my doubts.
As long as there are vast sums of moolah on tap to “the right people”, together with all sorts of other goodies like knighthoods, consultancies, seats on boards, share options and overpaid sinecures, prising anything out of these people will be like getting a firearm out of Charlton Heston’s cold dead hand-difficult.
so many epidemiologists
turns out no-one can model epidemics
not one model has come close to modeling the different waves in different countries
sack them all
turns out we should
1 – have a decent plan (we had one)
2 – look at data, not models
3 – have some spare capacity that can be turned on (train up some of the army?)
4 – go about our normal lives – maybe modifying our own behaviour if we feel we need to
5 – don’t send infected people into care homes
Indeed.
And the spare capacity could be provided by volunteers from recently retired health professionals (say, people who retired within the last 3 years). Of course, they shouldn’t be made to jump through pointless training hoops (eg, equality and diversity training) or have to pay for their temporary re-registration!
Doesn’t matter, they are still forcing the vaxpass on us. That is what this is all about and that is why Boris is being removed. The Globalists need the mark of the beast on everyone, ready for Phase 2.
It does seem like a swift, efficient, clinical removal of a prime minister. Soon we shall find out.
As for Sue Gray’s “investigation”, according to the Independent
That is absolutely taking the mickey, given that we know that “personal phones” are used. This hardly qualifies as an “investigation”. She might as well write her conclusions before she starts.
Personal communication can be forced using a court mandated production order.
Does she have no legal training?
And using personal phones for work purposes? It’s illegal in the City so why not for civil servants and MPs?
once again the public sector held to much lower standards than the private sector!
Unfortunately Frank I think you’re right.. covid was always about vax passes morphing into digital ID..
Next step in plans to govern use of digital identities revealed – GOV.UK
UK digital identity & attributes trust framework: updated version – GOV.UK
Of course WHO doesn’t agree, they haven’t got all their ducks in a row yet to move on to the next phase. I reckon we’re at least 6 weeks ahead of their schedule and the case for continuing with health passports is falling apart at the seams, without them their whole plan is going to be so much harder to implement.
I am beginning to sleep better at night dreaming of how they are all panicking and of which rats may eventually emerge from the sack unscathed, in my dreams not many and we are waiting for them when they do.
Pleased to hear this, but sceptical it will end this year in UK.
Brazen pivotting contradicting all previous propaganda will be needed.
They will never admit lying, being wrong, or causing massive harm.
Ferguson’s modelling was outrageous, they are going to claim that the deaths were way below these predictions because of the precautions, same illogical reasoning that you would have been really ill if you hadn’t been jabbed
There is clearly a concerted effort to scale back the death message of COVID….for whatever reason.
All I can say is that if we manage to get through all of this, without much (any) testing, masking, jabbing etc. then we should be extremely proud of ourselves.
This site, from it’s Lockdown Sceptics beginnings, supported by the many commenters, has made me, ironically, even prouder to be British (and human!)
Well done everyone to date and I’ll see you all on the other side….I expect, if this does end, there will be a rather large DS gathering to celebrate. I reckon we could fill Wembley stadium ten times over.
Great work people!
WOW! Just WOW! There’s an amazing amount of naivety being shown in these comments.
Do people actually think this is all over? Good grief, they haven’t even got started yet. This so called change of heart is being put out by the very people controlling this covid 19 event. Do people think they are actually going to stop vaccines, and common-sense will prevail.. ???
As a couple have mentioned, the Vax Pass has not been dropped, far from it, its being prepared as we speak. Digital ID waiting in the wings. Across the Channel in France, unless a miracle happens the vax pass will be made law on Saturday 15th January.. Also in Europe they are gearing up for a massive cyber attack drill. Just by chance of course, nothing to worry about !!!
And of course the global economy is just fine. Booming in fact, it must be all the energy price hikes, and breaking supply chains that are giving it a boost, let alone a little local difficulty with the Ruskies.
I think people need to reel the hopium back in pretty quick. We’re in a war and the so called elite are playing a blinder with their multi-faceted tactics.
It does make me laugh after all that’s happened, people still believe in the lackeys that facilitated & manufactured this power grab, will put it right & give back what wasn’t theirs to take. & it’s astounding to me people think bozos is the lesser evil.
You’re right, the elite & their shills & stooges declared war on us on march 2020.
I think you are correct. The “pandemic” is now clearly over and even the most ardent COVIDian is going to struggle to revive it, but the same Establishment remains in charge.
But I think the plans for vaccine passports have taken a knock. I’m pretty sure that the intent was for the pandemic to last long enough to justify vaccine passport rollout everywhere for everything, and then once the pandemic ended people might continue with the passports having forgotten, goldfish-like, the reason they were brought in in the first place.
But omicron has rather scuppered that plan… too many people are going to be saying “hang on a minute, the virus has gone so why do we still need the passports (and vaccine boosters to infinity)”
So while I think you are correct, the celebrations are premature and we can’t relax until the likes of Gates and Fauci and Schwab and their organisations are broken apart, I do think they are currently losing.
Omicron has scuppered the plan, and none of their plans were fool and waterproof. The virus was not as potent as they hoped for right from the beginning, nor the people as compliant. Many of the main players had long been identified, and their attempts to shut down churches and hence prayer were only partially successful, and if anything aroused suspicion. Also some of their diktats were so obviously dumb that even dim people were suspicious.
Also human biology is massively complex, and has many self-righting mechanisms within that they never understood. Many billionaires think being rich makes them incredibly good and right and above the common herd; another error of judgement. I will not go into further detail since they may be taking notes for next time. I doubt whether humility and the hard discipline of structured learning will be accessible to them anyway. As for God and unfallen angels, they haven’t got a prayer… They will be outwitted in fairly short order each time.
Cyber attacks and Russia will be blamed for a shut down of the financial system and inability of people to access their bank accounts, savings etc. That will be a further push for the vax pass – now a green pass – a personal social credit conduit that the govt will generously top up with food credits… just to get you through the crisis of course. But in order to prevent black marketeering it will naturally need to be tied to your biological genetic identity. Just a little prick, you’ll hardly feel it. And if the refusniks don’t want food, that’s their tough luck.
If that were to happen, plenty of refuseniks will be taking the food, anyway! It won’t be theft if the alternative is starvation!
I think there’s a place between “it’s all over and the good guys won” and “they are Thanos-like supervillains who we can never possibly hope to defeat”, and that possibly the truth lives in that space.
Do not sound hopeless, and welcome any relaxation while pushing for more. Too many people wearing the de Bono “it’ll never work” hat on this forum. The major effect of that is to dispirit people when unless there is hope they will just become tired, depressed, and mope, and post complaining posts to the already convinced, which is far from the most useful thing they could be doing.
This will never happen because to admit failure is to admit guilt.
Whilst I hope this is going to result in a retreat, a crawling back under stones, I’m a bit
. The wondrous Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given funds to all these companies, and is of course the largest funder of the WHO. Not to mention money given to the BBC Media Action, NHS, and the Government for the clean energy technologies deal, which isn’t going away any day soon. I fear this is all part of the plan to keep working us from behind.
I’m just smelling a ‘huge’ great rat! A very coordinated rat at that..
So that’s where sausages come from
https://twitter.com/Coldwar_Steve/status/1481017021441662979?s=20
That’s horrible, I’m hoping my lunch doesn’t make a reappearance.
Calm rational discourse is not going to help at this point. That horse bolted long ago. This is now an infinite fear loop, recursively locked. All we can do is stand back. This thing is programmed to self-implode and nothing can avert what has been set in motion. Someone should make meme of Cortes setting fire to his ships, with the ships labelled 2019 and The Old Normal.
Most people will stack overflow.
A perceptible change in the gaslighting narrative….So they take their foot of the bullshit gas for a while, but the restrictions and the march towards financial collapse and programmable CBDC continues apace. All the while they are hoping the indoctrination of the brain dead will avert attention from the inevitable cytotixin induced mountain of death and disease that will inevitably arrive in the coming months and year’s!
Exactly right..
The evidence is growing that we have all been taken for several rides around the mulberry bush. I predict that other erstwhile allies of lockdown will start to jump ship soon.. It is a bit like those people who supported the Iraq war without hestitation and happily sign the Blair knighthood petition today, despite it having been clear at the time that the War had nothing to do with defeating Isis.
Blair won an election even after his Iraq lies were well known. You are correct, many of the same people ranting about him today happily voted for the monster, even when they knew he was a monster. All the doorstep NHS clappers will similarly claim they always complied reluctantly.
I never trusted him, and the death of Dr. David Kelly marked a watershed moment for me, which I think it did for many. Other things became clear at that time, and things I had thought were coincidence seemed not so much so. I doubted Robin Cook’s demise was completely proper, also, and, eventually, one or two others…
Not long after I came across ‘Bohemian Grove’ ritual, and spent hours over the next several weeks, on and off, trying to find ways in which it might be untrue or exaggerated, and went down each avenue, only to find none led out of it being true.. That shocked me to the core, and still does.
This will never be over for me until there’s complete acceptance of guilt by those who have wrecked 2 years of global life, as many hand wringing apologies that are necessary to satisfy me and punishments for those who are shown to have acted in self interest, through malice, for personal gain or through incompetence and stupidity especially when in public office.
There is no forgive and forget or an ah well that’s all over let’s move on now with a clean slate!
If the Israelis can still be hunting Nazi war criminals 70 years after the end of WW II then those to blame for this should never be allowed a normal life without looking over their shoulders.
I Hope for a Nuremburg 2.
However, TPTB won’t let go off their achievements without a fight.
It is crystal clear to me that the “elite” have declared war on us, it’s just a shame that humanity has bred so many sheep, but fear has always been their weapon of choice.
As long as they can dream of their next foreign holiday whilst polishing their shiny new SUV’s (bought on tick) they basically don’t give a shit about things like this that were perfectly obvious to me over 18 months ago.
Seemingly incapable of a shred of critical thought, – I mean why would they, we all trust the BBC don’t we?
Qimron’s statement is a really heartening indictment.
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/coronavirus/article-692169
A lockdown would not help to curb the Omicron wave, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday, as Israel registered a record 41,154 new daily cases.
“A lockdown would not help, it has not helped anywhere in the world,” Bennett said during a press conference.
road to Damascus is getting pretty crowded!
Not only have lockdowns failed, but also the ‘vaccines’!
and masks
and vax passes
and track and trace
and that stupid phone app (x 2)
Have just received yet another message from gp surgery saying they are short-staffed due to people having to isolate, for the firat time I’ve replied… Thanking them for letting me know and suggesting they stop testing so often.
Marvellous, Catee
Why not suggest that instead of isolating they work and only treat other people who’ve been properly vaccinated by catching SARS2?
No bloody way is the Wellcome Trust an ‘independent funder of medical research’.
Abso-bloody-lutely..
Zoe R is now 0.9
coming down linearly
in 6 months time everyone “will have been” a lockdown sceptic!
I’m feeling more optimistic (I’m generally optimistic anyway) – even though my daughter is off school for 10 days with clovid
This is fascinating, we’re seeing the grand psyops narrative shift in real-time. This is the tide going out before the tsunami. I predict that tsunami is cyber war and a “Western Spring” coming this spring/summer 2022.
My current thinking, which no doubt needs refining, I’d be interested to see if anyone agrees.
Firstly: the Trusted News Initiative is abandoning the covid narrative: there’s several MSM news reports already this week and more every hour:
1. Fauci concealed the lab leak https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1480909671082901504
2. Project Veritas releases military docs noting that Ivermectin works: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1480790099994431489
3. CDC admits 75% of covid deaths had 4+ comorbidities https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1480584475356512256
4. Wellcome Trust says it’s endemic: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/01/11/time-live-covid-treat-virus-like-common-cold-says-wellcome/
5. Too many other to list, I’m sure there will be many more this week and next
Secondly let’s think about where we currently stand:
1. The masses are tired of lockdowns and the virus panic has stopped working
2. Omicron occurred pre-winter when it was the final possible squeeze of the lemon to persuade the sheep to volunteer for another dose. Interestingly it had a genesis so far back in the SarsCoV2 evolution that given its extreme transmissibility it must have come from a lab. There’s nowhere on Earth so isolated that something this transmissible could possibly hide out for over a month let alone for years. So it was released deliberately to coincide with the growing awakening against this covid narrative
3. The vax mandates look set to fail in the Supreme Court (and that’s really the only place that matters). The EU and Australia/NZ etc will flail onwards but there will be no mandatory vaccinations. Who has been shot, is all who will be shot
4. It’s doubtful the masses will volunteer for another shot, summer’s coming in the Northern hemisphere and viruses naturally die down when UV is present and people get outside to exercise and make vitamin D.
5. A majority of people currently hold a valid vax pass: their usage has been adequately indoctrinated amongst the masses, and the machinery is in-place to use these to discriminate people in daily life
6. The vax passes remain valid for 9 months to cover the summer holiday season in the West, so the sheep aren’t rushing for a 4th shot yet and will worry about that after their holidays
… So now is the *critical* time to move the narrative to the next stage of diabolical control.
Let’s look around and see what’s happening… actually I’ve already found it for you:
+ Bloomberg yesterday: “EU to Stage Large-Scale Cyberattack Exercise on Supply Chains” “Simulation starting this week to explore supply chain attacks. Stress test comes amid concerns about Russian plans in Ukraine” (archived here to evade the paywall https://archive.fo/dVyxr)
+ Reuters Dec 9 2021 “EXCLUSIVE IMF, 10 countries simulate cyberattack on global financial system” (https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/exclusive-imf-10-countries-simulate-cyber-attack-global-financial-system-2021-12-09/)
+ The mainstay Cyber Polygon https://www.weforum.org/projects/cyber-polygon
+ The US-Russia diplomatic talks over Ukraine (https://news.yahoo.com/u-russia-engage-diplomatic-talks-234107398.html) are about to start. Incidentally, the the rather coincidentally timed civil unrest in Kazakhstan could have distracted Russian forces but that appears not to be the case (https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1480809870878470145).
The next stage involves **supply chain disruption, cyber warfare, and Russia**. Recall that we have vax passes and the widespread ability throughout the West to enact discrimination against people based on their vax-pass status. We’re headed for civil unrest, possibly civil war.
How could anyone be so evil as to want widespread civil unrest? Follow the money. All wars are bonkers wars, and war has the remarkably helpful effect of increasing inflation (which solves the otherwise impossible fiat debt problem) and reducing the population (importantly those already drawing or about to draw underfunded pensions). Hot war continues to be impossible, cold war is also impossible thanks to globalisation, so it has to be cyber war and civil unrest. I hope I’m wrong.
Good post.. you’ve said everything I wanted to say in my earlier post but was restricted by time. This war on us is only just beginning.
You told me a couple of days ago that I was being too pessimistic. Oh well, only another 10 years of this… we’ll just have to learn how to cope in isolation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai0MVYzGC4w
Has BJ quit yet?…Asking for a friend….
The WHO is a creature of Gates and GAVi – we must all remember that.
when the dust settles
1 – anyone that pushed for a lockdown – should be locked down
2 – anyone that demanded unvaxxed become second class citizens – should become second class citizens
karma innit
Oh look.. just in time.. swine flu’s breaking out in Italy and heading Westward..
Time to call in our ‘swine flu’ Imperial College’s Mr Fixit.. enter Neil Ferguson. We’re going to need someone of his calibre, with a good track record dealing with swine flu..
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/pig-ebola-outbreak-imminent-europe
Not to mention his exemplary record regarding Foot & Mouth. Speaking of which, I’d love to stick my boot into his gob.
Will this change the Agenda? No.
Let’s be honest, for the vast majority it has only ever been a cold.
if that!
The vast majority were asymptomatic and didn’t even get a sniffle. They did get a jab that will quite likely ruin their health though in the next decade.
There is an emphasis shift ongoing, without doubt. However, the bloodless psychopaths behind this are not done with us yet, by a long way.
Remember, beasts do not repent.
This all rather depends on what the purpose of the pandemic was. If the end goal was technocratic control of our lives (I’ve been arguing for some time that it wasn’t), then it’s going to fail. You can’t roll out a campaign based on lies and deception and expect it to stick; might work in the short term but can’t last. That’s what we’re seeing now as the narrative we’ve been decrying for two years finally unravels before our eyes. People are not (quite) that stupid, although the psychological damage inflicted on the more credulous members of society will take years to undo.
on you Mr Globalist.
If the end goal was a controlled demolition of the economy, then it might have already served this purpose. As inflation continues to climb the PTB now have the perfect cover story for economic/monetary collapse. Perhaps that’s all they needed, and in doing so, they may have created a vacuum for the sinister creeping technocratic authoritarianism we’ve been subjected to to slither its way into.
Although we have come to regard Big Pharma as our enemy, I believe it’s actually being thrown under the bus; once the true scale of this biological catastrophe comes to light, trust in allopathic medicine will be lost and the tsunami of lawsuits will break these seemingly invincible entities, whether they believe themselves above the law or not.
We should be wary of this period I think (we’ve got to; we’re sceptics). And look very carefully at the proposed solutions; Greeks bearing gifts and all that. We’ve got our
It’s hard to know the “purpose” through the “fog of war” as it were. All I can see is that, in under 2 years, large numbers of people have been successfully coerced into / convinced to show QR codes to enter buildings, coffee shops, stores etc. In some cases (like Italy) you need it to work.
For now, QR codes are given if you comply with a vaccine schedule, but this has the potential to be extended or changed.
Furthermore, the idea of the system “failing” depends on whether people will have a choice or not. In a sane world, people would vote these things out. We don’t live in a sane world.
My own personal view is, this is part of a prophetic play that has been going on since 9/11 and will start to culminate in the second half of this decade. We can’t change the overall flow of events, but I suspect we can shape / lessen their impact… so fighting back is worthwhile (from a spiritual point of view, certainly, but also from a material point of view).
Just a thought, but as a good percentage of globes countries now have “vax passports”, will England introduce said passports so that we can “align” ourselves with the practices of other nations, to allow great freedom of movement of course.
I don’t know how the UK can avoid ‘Vaxx Passes’ if there really is a ‘globalist elite’ pulling the strings. Every country in Europe seems to have Vaxx Passes. Britain is quite a small country compared to the rest of Europe, Russia, Canada, Australia, etc.
Brits are already using Vaxx Passes for travel abroad and back to the UK.
They’re a daft idea, especially if they are being used for a different reason. For decades, I have actually carried a record document alongside my British passport – for external use only. It’s a multi page A5 form marketed by one of the drugs firms, with a list of potential products etc. Started using it in 1996, on a trip to China via HK. I can’t remember when it was last used for any reason – maybe when I was temporarily in hosp in Karachi when I went down with a bug I caught there; not sure.
6 of the most vaccinated places on earth. Each currently enjoying all time high rates of infection. Ask your vaxxed zealot friends if the vaccine testing missed this what else might they have missed?
I hate to say this, but I’m not convinced Omicron should be treated like the common cold. My OH has been confirmed to have been infected with this latest variant, and is currently on a covid ward in hospital, on oxygen, dexamethasone, etc, and is seriously ill.
I, on the hand, caught it at the same time from my brother-in-law on Xmas day during a very, very brief visit (we literally stayed long enough to use the loo and leave again), and was never particularly ill.
MOH had been in bed for over a week/10 days, with a raised temperature, before falling whilst going to the bathroom and then being too weak to get up again, which was when I called the paramedics. MOH has been in hospital since Monday night.
My sister and brother-in-law have obviously both also had it, and the symptoms vary, e.g. my sister’s worse symptom was a very, very sore and swollen throat, as well as a raised temperature. My BiL has been bedridden for about ten days, temperature up to 102F, V&D, nausea, loss of appetite, exhaustion, etc.
We’re all in our sixties, so maybe it’s hit us harder, I don’t know. But a cold, it wasn’t, and MOH isn’t out of the woods yet. It’s been even bit as bad as Delta sounded.
For me, the flu was worse, but for the others it’s been on a par with flu, not a bad cold.
And it’s very infectious, bearing in mind that we’ve been in plenty of contact with other people for the last two years without picking up so much as a sniffle. Five minutes on Xmas day was enough to catch this latest version.
So be aware and warned.
I hope YOH is recuperating.
https://www.birpublications.org/doi/10.1259/bjrcr.20210139
Bilateral adrenal haemorrhage with renal infarction after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 AstraZeneca vaccinationTun Tha, Iana Martini, Elena Stefan and Sridhar Redla
published 10th January 2022
This is a paper that’s just been published describing a woman who’d received the AZ vaccine and then suffered from blood clots in various organs. She’s a friend of mine, who worked at the same hospital that I did, and we still keep in touch.
She’s one of the reasons we declined to get vaccinated.
The authors are at pains to say the blood clotting is incredibly rare. I don’t believe that, from everything I’ve heard over the last year, but unless someone does a proper audit, we’ll probably never know.
I recommend everyone to read Real Anthony Fauci by Bobby Kennedy Jr. On chapther 3 he explains how Ivermectin could have saved 80 percent of deaths Worldwide. This book have opened my eyes. I now know that, 90% of all medicine is not for anything else than profit for them. Low profit and effective medicines are bashed and marketed as ineffective because they go against their narrative and profit plans. One of them is wonder drug Ivermectin. I see that everyday people search for it but can’t find a place to obtain. You can get yours by visiting https://ivmpharmacy.com
So we have the Wellcome trust, “biggest independent funder of medical research”, LSHTM, Chatham House , the WHO all in the same article and we’re supposed to believe this really isn’t just the vested interests and associated nwo activists engaging in synchronised narrative changing .
gimme a break
Golly.
As if poor Boris wasn’t having enough little problems!
Mind you, I feel confident that he’ll get the BBC and Grauniad’s “chat fekkers” to demonstrate that Wellcome Trust, GlaxoSmithKlein, Qimron and the others mentioned in Will’s piece (the Dirty Stinking Backstabbers!) are all talking “Mumbo Jumbo”, to Boris’s entire satisfaction.
But I’m a little concerned about poor “Sir” Patrick Vallance.” After all he only had £600,000 worth of GlaxoSmithKlein shares at the start of this Ebola style Pingdemic. I do hope he doesn’t loose too much money, after all those intelligent and accurate graphs he waved about, these many months!
Looks like the Establishment is starting to run scared and is starting to backtrack on their Global Reset plans. I still believe they should all be tried in Nuremburg II type trials and severely punished to warn future elites that we will not endure their power grabs in the future.
Professor Qimron’s letter to the Israeli Health Minister should be copied and forwarded to the Health Ministers in all European countries, the USA, Canada and all other countries who mass vaxxed.
Not yet, but we will be doing for the flu and the common cold if you give the covid committee the chance.
At last!! A voice of common sense is being heard. I had this so-called virus in December 2019 and it was no worse that a severe case of flu. That was what my GP thought at the time and three months later told me it had to have been this new ‘covid’ thing. From that moment on, my suspicions were aroused and I started searching the web for all the information I could find. Within weeks, I was being called a conspiracist and told by all and sundry I was a scaremonger. I have never stopped my crusade against big pharma, big tech and corrupt governments, and never will, not until the sheeple realise what is going on beneath their very noses. Fauci is a reincarnation of Dr Mengele from the Nazi party. He helped develop the virus and deliberately masterminded the distribution around the world with the help of the CCP. The man is a mass murderer and will receive his punishment in due course
Are you sure it was caused by SARS-Cov-2? I had a respiratory infection around that time, which no one was interested in what the cause was. Much later on – quite recently – I shelled out for a T-spot test to see if there was any evidence that I had an infection by it back then. The result of that was that there is no record of it, so was probably something else. On the other hand, it’s almost certain that I’ve never had Covid-19 over the last two years – at least not to the extent that I can ‘remember’ it. Might have chucked it out with no real problem, perhaps (via innate immunity).