A few months later the same managers who suspended Olga made mask-wearing mandatory and become the mask-wearing police. A year later administrators began firing people who refused a COVID-19 vaccine despite growing concerns about the vaccines’ safety and efficacy.

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the depths of mismanagement, incompetence, greed, and utter stupidity that pervades the American medical establishment — what I call Corporate Medicine. Yet Corporate Medicine, with the help of the Corporate Media, is trying to wave it away: “a one-in-a-lifetime event” and “we did the best we could… without us, it would’ve been so much worse.”

Before recent history is whitewashed, my purpose here is to explain that COVID-19 demonstrates how healthcare operates every day, not just during a pandemic.

Just as other industries in the US are controlled by oligarchs connected to the federal government, so too is healthcare. Just as a revolving door swings between the SEC and big banks, and between the Pentagon and defense contractors, so too exists a revolving door between the NIH, FDA, CDC, and the oligopoly of hospital, insurance, and pharmaceutical companies. In fact, medicine has its own chapel within the so-called ‘Cathedral’, i.e. the network of institutions and cultural forces dictating conventional wisdom in America, to borrow a term from blogger Curtis Yarvin. Enlightened progressive physicians in academia, government, and ‘non-profits’ mutually empower each other and dictate a self-serving healthcare policy to those of us operating on the front lines.

What has become clear post-COVID is that the medical community (including individual clinicians) is subservient to the greater political Cathedral operating in the United States. There is a bottom-up problem with how physicians are selected and trained, and a top-down problem with the organizations that constitute Corporate Medicine.

Medical Education & Training: Failing Forward

Most of the American public admires and has faith in physicians. The general perception of doctors is that they are brilliant, selfless, hard-working people dedicated to healing their patients. I’m not here to bash all doctors (I am one after all), but the current caliber of the physician population is more uneven than one may assume. To become a physician, one must finish medical school, residency, and also in some cases, a fellowship. While originally rigorous and focused on patient care, the current motto for medical training is not the Hippocratic oath, but rather “We Fail Forward.”

People often assume that it’s difficult to get into medical school, and that while many aspire to become doctors, most do not succeed. That is no longer still true. US medical school acceptance rates vary from 2.2% to 27.1%, but that is from the side of the school. From the view of the applicant, the actual acceptance rate is 41.9%. With cheap government loans to fund numerous applications (an average of 17 per aspiring doctor), entering medical school begins to resemble the flip of a coin.

And if the coin flips the wrong way, there is always the Caribbean. If the dream of doctoring is too powerful to give up after 17 rejections, you can pack your bathing suit and head to Aruba. As of today, there are 26 offshore medical schools with deceptively American-sounding names like Georgetown American University (Grenada) and Metropolitan University College of Medicine (Antigua). Although most of those Caribbean institutions are for-profit, tuition is subsidized with the same federal student loans available for stateside institutions. Students graduate with the coveted MD degree and no mark of their sub-par Caribbean training.

Optimistic Boomers would probably object that “well, you still have to graduate medical school.” However, in our current system acceptance to medical school is the tightest funnel in the process of becoming a doctor. The unspoken incentive of every medical school (stateside or beachside) is for all students to graduate and match into a residency program. A single medical student failure risks the school’s accreditation, and consequently the associated laboratory and research programs at the entire institution that receive lucrative NIH grants. In other words, the primary goal of every medical school administrator is not training excellent doctors, but keeping the show on the road.

Although the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) makes it hard to decipher graduation rates, the data speaks for itself. Forget trying to figure out if your surgeon got a ‘D’ in their surgery rotation — medical school grades have been pass-fail for decades now. The most recent AAMC data (circa 2010) reports a four-year graduation rate of 82.5%, and an eight-year graduation rate of 96.6%, as some students take time off for research.

Soon to graduate medical students must choose a specialty so they can ‘match’ into a residency. Here too the incentive structure is malformed. Poorly performing students who once upon a time might have failed are now encouraged by medical school leadership to become primary care doctors. Primary care residencies like family medicine and pediatrics are easy to match into. Stellar students are encouraged to populate competitive (and lucrative) specialties such as interventional radiology, plastic surgery, and neurosurgery. You may go your entire life without needing a neurosurgeon, but at some point, you will likely receive primary care. Our perverted medical training system fills niche specialties with the best and brightest, and fills the specialties that see the most patients with a mixture of duds and idealists.

If you’re hoping that residency and fellowship will finally filter out any dangerous or bad doctors, your optimism is misplaced. Actual residency graduation rates are firewalled by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, but survey data from the AAMC shows that between 71-78% of medical school graduates completed residency within four years (note that many residencies are five or six years in length). The AAMC also reports that the number of residency programs in the US is increasing, demonstrating the push to graduate more residency-trained physicians. While medical schools’ fail-forward model is already concerning, post-residency the stakes become higher, as doctors now practice without any oversight, in an environment populated by healthcare administrators that rewards compliance over competence.

Hospitals: The Peter Principle

Between 1975-2010, the number of physicians in the US grew by 150% (in keeping with general population growth). Healthcare administrative positions grew by 3,200%, redefining the meaning of a top-heavy organization. And in accord with the Peter Principle, when this many people rise a level or two above their level of competence, things go wrong.

The COVID-19 pandemic put hospital incompetence on the front-page. Yet this was only the latest episode of hospitals’ ineptitude. During Hurricane Katrina, many hospitals in the New Orleans region completely failed to prepare for flooding and a resulting loss of power. This deadly oversight occurred despite having entire offices of hospital administrators assigned to disaster management. Yet somehow it never occurred to people employed full-time to think about ways things could go wrong in a flood zone to consider that low-lying hospital generators might flood and fail. Foreshadowing COVID-19, the H1N1 pandemic (aka swine flu) in 2009 exposed local hospital, state, and national medication, mask, and testing swab shortages. Despite after-action reports recommending measures that would’ve alleviated some early COVID-19 issues, nothing was done.

To ensure that a trusted physician in a white coat can represent them well at press conferences, the bloated hospital bureaucracy chooses the most compliant doctors to join their ranks. The usual move is to anoint a physician figurehead to the key Chief Email Officer (aka CEO) position. From a talent pool of doctors whose only leadership training is learning by counterexample come the Chief Medical Officers, and occasionally the Chief Financial Officers of your local hospital. That last position is truly a disaster, as doctors are notoriously naïve and ignorant of basic finance.

Rank-and-file doctors aren’t pushing back. The normal compliance ritual, besides now the COVID vaccination, is voting for their hospital in the annual US News and World Report rankings. Distrust those annual ‘Best Hospital’ rankings, which are medicine’s equivalent to Oscars, leading to hospitals unveiling self-congratulatory highway billboards celebrating “We’re #2 in Otolaryngology!” The rankings are built on shoddy US government quality rankings and physician surveys. Annual emails from the C-Suite issue the marching orders: 1) Fill out the damn survey, 2) Get a few of your colleagues to fill it out too, and 3) Of course you know that your institution is the best, right? In fact, some hospitals even employ teams of analysts entirely dedicated to gaming the annual US News and World Report rankings.

Highway billboard status secured, hospitals can turn to the only other thing they do well, which is price gouging everyone, living or dead. The most notorious is HCA, the largest for-profit hospital chain in the US (163 facilities and counting), with over $1 billion in profits in the first quarter of 2020 alone. Non-profit hospitals are no better. In return for giving up the capitalist dream of profits, those hospitals are subsidized to provide charity care to indigent patients. Charity care should mean billing discounts and/or flexible payment plans. In practice, charity care means hospitals chase after indigent patients with inflated bills devoid of any discounts.

The Cathedral runs constant cover for the hospital mafia. For-profit hospitals send their CEOs directly to Congress, for example former HCA CEO and now Florida Senator Rick Scott. Non-profit hospitals contribute $24 million yearly to the American Hospital Association, which lobbies Congress. In exchange for that investment, non-profit hospitals are handsomely rewarded with $30 billion in annual taxpayer subsidies.

Woke Medicine: The Cathedral’s Clinic

Even the most cynical citizens prior to COVID-19 did not think individual medical doctors would change practice based on politics. It turns out, however, that medical practitioners will literally subordinate patient health to sociopolitical goals. From our “healthcare heroes” on their social media platforms comes “guns are a public health problem,” fat acceptance (obesity is racist), silencing of the debate on transgender surgery for children, and drugs with (R) and (D) political affiliations (aka ivermectin and Remdesivir). Unfortunately, you can’t just ‘listen to your doctor’ anymore without skepticism, same as you would listen to Don Lemon or Rachel Maddow. Just as the Cathedral’s edicts trickle down to the Corporate Media and then the blue checks on Twitter, its medical edicts filter down to healthcare organizations and physicians.

Woke medicine is well characterized by the statements and actions of the American Medical Association (AMA). The AMA has been a progressive pit bull for over 150 years. Its love of government authority has historically included compulsory vaccination, from smallpox vaccines in 1899, to now COVID-19 vaccines. The Association has repeatedly pushed for gun control declaring “gun violence” a “public health emergency,” coupled with the cliché line of “commonsense reforms such as expanded background checks.” The “war on smoking” included supporting bans on tobacco advertising and increasing tobacco taxes. The AMA even has its own political action committee, the American Medical Political Action Committee (AMPAC). AMPAC pushed hard with the rest of the Cathedral for Obamacare, despite the fact that most physicians are either opposed to or ambivalent towards the Affordable Care Act. Aside from the AMA, perhaps the most destructive actions are being taken by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) with their push for gender reassignment surgery in children.

As organizations like the AMA and AAP run amok, the issues and advocacy filter down to individual physicians. Those physicians, blithely assured that they know what is best for the world, have become fanatically woke and narcissistic. In acts devoid of irony or self-awareness, doctors and nurses filmed TikTok with choreographed dances in their PPE in order to illustrate their devotion to caring for COVID-19 patients. Because, of course, nothing says “This disease is so terrible, and we’re totally overwhelmed” like turning the ICU into a scene from High School Musical. Despite, or because of how cringe this all is (imagine how a real physician from Doctors Without Borders feels watching these while treating outbreaks of Ebola, measles, and COVID-19 in a Congolese war zone), the media loves their new science apostles.

And apostles they are. If you get COVID and are unvaccinated, expect an uphill battle with conventional doctors at clinics and hospitals, and a lot of “I told you so.” If you want to be treated better, seek out a sane doctor who will boldly write an ivermectin prescription. As for vaccine injuries, I have not seen a single colleague reporting to VAERS, despite numerous patients with myocarditis, blood clots, and major neurologic issues. Yet there is no official edict or policy to whitewash vaccine injuries. In the Cathedral there doesn’t need to be direct coordination. My colleagues just know to dismiss the side effects of COVID vaccines, just as lemmings know to keep running off the cliff.

Government: Process-Based Organizations

Entire libraries could be filled on each individual government agency’s role in the Corporate Medicine cogwheel and the heinous role of big pharma and insurance giants. The TL:DR version is the people in charge and their corporate handlers are either sinister, greedy, completely inept, or all of three. Both the CDC and NIH grew out of the post-WWII baby boom in government bureaucracy — the CDC was established in 1946 and the NIH in 1947. CDC originally stood for Communicable Disease Center; however, its current name came about in 1970, and Prevention was added in 1992. The addition of Prevention officially extended the CDC’s reach far beyond fighting Ebola in the hot zone to current ‘threats’ such as tobacco smoke, obesity, chronic diseases, and workplace hazards (now to include brutish unvaccinated people running around offices). Suffice to say, the CDC, which has continually contradicted itself over the past eighteen months, is vastly exceeding its original charter.

The CDC issues statements, but it’s the NIH that actually does things. The NIH is also extremely well funded ($42 billion in 2020), and therefore more dangerous. The NIH conducts internal research at its hospital and laboratories in Bethesda, Maryland, and funds external research at American universities and indeed in Wuhan, China. But the EcoHealth Alliance adventure was not the NIH’s first rodeo. For that we would have to consider their work with the CIA in the ’60s and ’70s. For its MK-ULTRA program, the CIA funneled money to the NIH and its National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) via non-profit foundations under the guise of treating addiction, depression, and other mental health problems. NIMH performed ‘studies’ for MK-ULTRA and outsourced work via grants to academic institutions (including Harvard). Those studies involved recruiting both regular and troubled Americans to be unwitting recipients of LSD and other mind-altering substances, often given at astronomically high doses for prolonged periods of time. What little we know of that ‘research’ is that it did not advance mental health treatment and did not improve our national security. Replace CIA with Dr. Fauci, Harvard with UNC, non-profit foundations with EcoHealth Alliance, addiction with SARS, and LSD with genetically modified coronaviruses, and you see NIH history repeating itself.

Just as the NIH was delighted to serve as the CIA’s lapdog, the same goes with the FDA and big pharma. The scheme works like this: the FDA sets Kabuki theater rules for drug development and testing. Big pharma makes the drug and supplies it. The NIH and universities spend taxpayer dollars performing the FDA-required clinical trials. The trial data then goes back to big pharma’s statisticians for analysis, which the FDA reviews, and approves. Rinse and repeat. This cycle has been a constant source of heartburn for the small number of true research ethicists left and resulted in multiple declarations of highly effective drugs that were, in fact, not effective at all. Between 2000-2011, 102 drug trials were retracted, 73 for scientific misconduct and 29 for statistical or other reporting errors. Beyond drug approval, the FDA is supposed to be engaged in post-marketing surveillance of drug quality and efficacy. Yet as detailed in the page-turner Bottle of Lies, the FDA fails time and time again to prevent carcinogens from appearing in blood pressure and heartburn medications, pieces of stainless steel in Moderna vaccines, and bacteria in insulin.

Government public health defenders would probably cry at this point: “But we beat polio!” Except that it was the March of Dimes that beat polio. March of Dimes, a private foundation, organized a polio vaccine clinical trial with 1.8 million pediatric participants in the ’50s, funded by private donations. The organization (then called the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) then began a mass vaccination campaign. True, there was an early setback when a bad vaccine batch caused 250 cases of actual polio. But unlike today, March of Dimes was a mission-oriented organization aiming to improve society. Therefore, the problem was corrected, a better version of the vaccine was produced, and the campaign continued towards success. The last known case of polio in the US occurred in 1979.

The ‘Free Market’: Pharma Bro & the Oligopoly

The government and its bureaucrats (hoping to land cushy post-government jobs) facilitate consolidation into entities “too big to fail” and continually serve the whims of those ever-growing corporations. Big pharma and healthcare insurance are the equivalent of big banks circa 2008. Instead of subprime mortgages, here we have the drug class known as statins to illustrate how big pharma always gets what it wants. Statins are drugs that lower blood cholesterol levels; and one in four Americans have been prescribed a statin. That statistic reflects our obesity epidemic and the prescription-happy patterns of doctors. Why would you stop eating crap and start lifting weights when you can just pop a pill? And those statin pills generate $17.2 billion dollars ($7.6 billion from direct out-of-pocket consumer costs) to big pharma and its lobbyist friends.

“That’s money well-earned preventing heart attacks!”, Mr. Normie-con would probably interject. Never mind that statins don’t actually do that, as it takes 1,000 people each taking a statin for 5 years to prevent one heart attack. Not only that, but like COVID-19 vaccines, it turns out statins can be quite harmful. The ideal patient would take a statin and begin exercising vigorously to lose weight and get healthy. Except statins can cause something called rhabdomyolysis, where in response to exercise (or simply nothing at all) muscles break down and shed protein into the blood. The kidneys then attempt to filter the protein and are damaged (potentially irreversibly). That’s what statins do to the big muscles of the body, but they also have been linked to weakening of the most important muscle, the heart. Yet despite that, statins are blockbuster drugs with protected status by the FDA, and newer and more expensive brand-name statins continue to be approved to this day.

Also always approved by their friends in the government are the actions of insurance companies. BlueCross/BlueShield is one of the biggest government donors, with other major insurance companies not falling far behind. And these insurers love their government regulations! The US government has allowed them to eat little regional insurance companies alive, vertically integrate with hospitals and pharmacies, and outright collude with hospitals to set prices. In return, insurance companies occasionally rescue the government from its more embarrassing episodes – like when a subsidiary of United Health Group fixed the disastrous Obamacare website… for $2.2 billion.

The revolving door between insurance execs and government administrators (like United Health Group’s senior executive Andy Slavitt, who later became acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) allows healthcare insurers to rob Peter to pay Paul. In our ‘free market’ system, if you have good insurance, you’ll be charged more out of pocket. The best thing to do after a major surgery or ER visit is feign bankruptcy. I once had the pleasure of explaining to an economist that my hospital charges patients without insurance less than it bills to the do-gooder citizens with actual health insurance. The government passes a blind eye to this price discrimination, but they will be fully awake and active when insurance companies sometime in the future inevitably claim they need bailouts due to COVID-19, despite record profits.

Do these stories sound akin to the gross mismanagement and inefficiencies characteristic of Communist states? Does all this sound closer to a corrupt oligopoly than free-market capitalism? Until now this has been something out of sight and out of mind for most Americans, save those with unexpected catastrophic medical events. But like the financial crisis in 2008, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought medicine’s decay front and center into our everyday lives. And nowhere has that been more evil and more threatening to individual liberty than in the case of vaccines.

Vaccines: Jab or Job or Something Else

The propaganda for, and also pushback against COVID-19 vaccines tends to refer to those vaccines as one entity: “the shot,” “the jab”, or simply “the vaccine.” Yet not all COVID vaccines are equal, and they may not even be vaccines. Although the CDC has changed its definition of what a vaccine is, and surely the CDC, WHO, and various governments will continue to change their definition of what being fully vaccinated means, the original purpose of vaccines is clear. Vaccination is a means to prevent disease from happening at all by conferring immunity from infection. Edward Jenner, when developing the smallpox vaccine, was not trying to make smallpox infection ‘less deadly’. He was an innovator trying to prevent smallpox infection from ever taking hold in people’s bodies. Today, we don’t get smallpox but just get “less sick” or have “asymptomatic infections.” We don’t get smallpox at all. Smallpox has been eradicated from society — that is, except for vials stored at the trusty CDC.

In this sense, COVID vaccines aren’t really vaccines. They’re also not all equal. Traditional vaccines fall into two categories: protein-based and inactivated virus. That ‘OG’ technology is present in vaccines like those against diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTaP), and against mumps, measles, and rubella (MMR), respectively. However, Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca vaccines are neither protein-based nor inactivated virus vaccines. The first two are mRNA and the last two are adenovirus vector vaccines, and both are new vaccine technology and totally experimental. Anyone who isn’t deaf, dumb, or blind then must know that these new experiments have unusual and serious side effects.

If you believe the only COVID-19 vaccines out there are in one of these new experimental forms, from those four companies, you are mistaken. In the US and most of the Western World, this is true. However, in Russia, people can choose between four completely different vaccines. There is the Sputnik V and Sputnik Light, both adenovirus vector vaccines. There is also CoviVac and EpiVacCorona. CoviVac is an inactivated virus vaccine, and EpiVacCorona is a protein-based vaccine. The tour of enemies of the US foreign policy blob also leads us to China’s widely distributed vaccines: Sinovac, a protein-based vaccine, and Sinopharm, an inactivated virus vaccine.

Is this a case of a vaccine Cold War? Are we Westerners flexing our superior technology and the commies simply using old school methods in their backward ways? Doubtful. Was it faster to make mRNA and adenovirus vector vaccines? No. And as it turns out, there is a US company called Novavax desperately trying to get approval for a protein-based COVID vaccine, and a French company Valneva also struggling to obtain European government purchases for an inactivated virus vaccine. Yet curiously, the US government pulled funding from Novavax and the UK government canceled their order with Valneva. So why didn’t we ‘warp speed’ any traditional vaccines? Because the Cathedral, our Ruling Class, the Oligarchy, etc. said so.

No one had ever heard of Novavax or Valneva prior to the pandemic, and likely they are still unknown to the general public and to governments. But Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson are household names with enormous lobbying power. (Moderna, somehow, inserted themselves into this mix.) The main point is that, as big names in many a mutual fund, if Pfizer or Johnson & Johnson succeed, then all the fat cats win. Probably the best hope for Novavax and Valneva at this point is to be bought out by a big name with financial and political power.

The lack of vaccine choice (not just to get one or not, but if you want one what type) is only one symptom of medicine’s decay and of American and Western society’s general decline. Just as our rulers have created supply shortages, reduced the stock market to ride the whims of ten companies, and gutted small businesses in favor of Amazon, so too have our health options been whittled down to “jab or job.” Your BMI of 20 and deadlift of 405 pounds cannot grant you entry into a restaurant, but Pfizer can.

Conclusion: What Can We Do?

By now it should be clear that medicine is not an independent sector but rather a weapon the Cathedral wields to advance its political and economic goals. Many healthcare providers are now practicing medicine according to what is said on MSNBC and Twitter rather than using critical thinking. As a physician myself, I deliberately ignored the greater evils and had blinders on the thought patterns (or lack thereof) of many of my colleagues. That changed one day in early 2020 when I showed up to work wearing a self-purchased N95 mask. On balance I thought it seemed prudent to take precautions against an unknown and mysterious respiratory virus. Yet I was the only one wearing a mask out of thousands of hospital employees. In two hours I was threatened with job termination because my appearance was “distressing,” and told that if I was wearing a mask then “others will want one too.” That was my wake-up call — management would rather that me (and my family) get sick than sacrifice appearances.

After replying that I would happily work for said manager, but under no circumstances would I get sick or die for the sake of appearances, my journey was set. I kept my mask on, and kept my job — for the moment. The next year and a half of hearing and seeing “early intubation is best,” to “do anything but intubate,” and “Remdesivir is a miracle drug,” to “Remdesivir causes liver failure,” revealed the hive mentality of my medical colleagues. Now history is repeating itself, and I am one of the few unvaccinated physicians at my hospital. Everyone extols the benefits of these ‘vaccines’ but speaks in hushed tones about breakthrough infections. I’ve treated countless COVID patients by now and, in my view, the risks of the vaccine outweigh the possible benefits. As of this writing, it’s debatable what, if any, benefits there are. Thus my position remains the same. The major difference between then and now is that then it was easy to mouth off to a middle manager; now the Cathedral has flexed its muscle and Biden’s mandates will soon take my job and the jobs of tens of thousands of others.

As disheartening as it is to read all of this, the truth is also that there will not be a dramatic turnaround in 2022, or in 2024. The government and the oligopolies described here will not disappear just because there’s a new President or Congress. The Supreme Court won’t save us. The entire field of practicing doctors will not become based one day, when they finally pay off their student loans and start paying real taxes. This is our healthcare system: Corporate Medicine.

But that doesn’t mean that all hope is lost. If like me, you are a healthcare provider faced with losing your job, know your skills are transferable to the gig economy. You can provide expertise and value to your local community being a small business of one (house calls for working parents, concierge care, telemedicine, etc.). You could also try and skate by, Soviet-style, by getting a wink and a nod from your employer with a religious exemption — that may be a smaller percentage chance of victory, but worth a try. If you fall under the anticipated OSHA vaccine regulation for companies with 100 or more employees, try spinning off with your fellow critical thinkers into your own small business — likely those colleagues are the more free-thinking entrepreneurial types. The government is unimaginative, and we have many more options than they can envision.

Lastly, as someone who has witnessed all of this first hand, and as a physician, I feel compelled to offer some basic medical advice. Do not ever give in to something you feel is wrong for your health. There are many options to make a living, but you only have one body and one mind. The Cathedral may control government and many aspects of our lives, but you still control your health. Never sacrifice your health to Corporate Medicine and its apostles, no matter how severe the threat. Body and mind intact, we all can find another way.

Paracelsus is the pseudonym of a US-based practicing physician.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland this week added to the mounting evidence that such enforcement is also entirely selective, based on the political agenda of the government in power. At issue are thousands of parents stepping forward to question curriculum and policy decisions made by public school boards and administrators—an inconvenient truth for the progressive Left. 

Take for example the robust national conversation regarding the replacement of traditional education with race-based programming in the name of so-called “equity.” Parents across our country have had enough of schools conditioning children to see each other’s skin color first and foremost, categorizing everyone according to a hierarchy of racial privilege, and pitting different racial groups against each other. They have formed grassroots groups, spoken at school board meetings, and even run for school board positions. 

In response, teacher unions and school boards have spent the last six months flip-flopping between insistence that critical race theory either doesn’t exist or isn’t being implemented in k-12 schools. But they couldn’t hide from the truth. 

Countless articles and two landmark federal lawsuits exposed what parents already knew: administrators, accreditors, unions, and teachers are putting divisive and hateful ideology into practice and using our schools to create a generation of “social justice warriors.” Their goal is to undermine our constitutional republic. 

When this was exposed, the National School Board Association stepped in and demanded the Biden Administration to declare that parents speaking up for their children are “domestic terrorists.” A mere four days later, Garland ordered the FBI to take action to “protect” school board members, who are government officials, from parents disagreeing with school board policies ranging from mask mandates to the teaching of critical race theory in the nation’s public schools.  

The broad scope of Garland’s initial order unleashes the nation’s top law enforcement agency to root out parents who protest in the name of public safety: “The Department . . . is committed to using its authority and resources to discourage these threats, identify them when they occur, and prosecute them when appropriate.” 

This is a direct attack on the First Amendment rights of both parents and teachers. The unmistakable intent is to intimidate and silence. 

Iconic abolitionist speaker Frederick Douglass responded to a successful 1860 effort in Boston to shut down a public meeting to address the question of slavery. Douglass said, “There can be no right of speech where any man, however lifted up, or however humble, however young, or however old, is overawed by force, and compelled to suppress his honest sentiments.” He described constitutional free speech as “the dread of tyrants.”  

Our nation’s founders established the First Amendment in response to England’s repression of speech and to curb such tyranny in the future. They recognized that nowhere are the threats of censorship more dangerous than when a restriction prohibits public discourse on “the propriety of public measures and political opinions.” 

The First Amendment guarantees the right “. . . to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Public schools are arms of the government. The speed with which our government has moved from open public comment to cutting off parents and teachers when they speak at meetings, including calls to end public comment altogether, is startling. 

Make no mistake about it, the American culture war is real. This is not news. Garland’s order declares that in the coming days the federal government will develop new measures to report, assess, and respond to anything it deems is “intimidation” or “harassment.” Is the Biden Administration using its power selectively? Yes. Is it ignoring the Constitution? Yes. 

Garland’s order reinforces a point some on the Right have been arguing for decades: The most important battleground in the struggle to save our American republic is the public schools. To the courageous parents speaking up, criticizing, advocating, and going to court if necessary—you have rights, and you must protect them. Free speech is the dread of tyrants, so we cannot let tyranny win. (read more)

In the 1970s Shakur was a member of the Black Liberation Army, a group that robbed banks and murdered police officers to achieve a Marxist revolution. Shakur is still wanted for the 1973 murder of Werner Foerster, a New Jersey state trooper who stopped her for a broken taillight on her car, whereupon she pulled out a gun and shot him. The 34-year-old officer and Vietnam vet was lying wounded on the pavement pleading for his life when Shakur walked over and finished him off, execution-style. Foerster left behind a wife and two young children. Shakur was convicted of the murder but escaped from prison in 1979 with the help of left-wing terrorists, including Susan Rosenberg. With the help of Rosenberg and others, Shakur fled to Communist Cuba, where she has lived as a fugitive for nearly 40 years. After being pardoned by Bill Clinton, Rosenberg went on to become board vice chair of Thousand Currents, the left-wing nonprofit organization that served as Black Lives Matter’s fiscal sponsor from 2016 to 2020. 

The dedication page of Patrisse Cullors’s memoir, When They Call You a Terrorist, contains these lines written by Shakur, which allude to the most famous incitement from Marx’s Communist Manifesto:

It is our duty to fight for our freedom. 

It is our duty to win. 

We must love each other and support each other. 

We have nothing to lose but our chains.

These four sentences are chanted in unison at every meeting and rally of Black Lives Matter, accompanied by a tribute to the revolutionary mother.

After fleeing the United States, Shakur was given sanctuary courtesy of Cuba’s sadistic dictator Fidel Castro, who is also a Black Lives Matter icon. When Castro died in 2016, the leaders of Black Lives Matter released a statement titled, “Lessons from Fidel: Black Lives Matter and the Transition of El Comandante.” The opening paragraph reads: “We are feeling many things as we awaken to a world without Fidel Castro. There is an overwhelming sense of loss, complicated by fear and anxiety. Although no leader is without their flaws, we must push back against the rhetoric of the right and come to the defense of El Comandante. And there are lessons that we must revisit and heed as we pick up the mantle in changing our world, as we aspire to build a world rooted in a vision of freedom and the peace that only comes with justice. It is the lessons that we take from Fidel.”

The statement continues: “As a Black network committed to transformation, we are particularly grateful to Fidel for holding Mama Assata Shakur, who continues to inspire us. We are thankful that he provided a home for Brother Michael Finney, Ralph Goodwin, and Charles Hill [fugitive cop killers and airplane hijackers], asylum to Brother Huey P. Newton [former Black Panther Minister of Defense, drug addict, rapist, and killer], and sanctuary for so many other Black revolutionaries who were being persecuted by the American government during the Black Power era.” 

The statement closes with this pledge: “As Fidel ascends to the realm of the ancestors, we summon his guidance, strength, and power as we recommit ourselves to the struggle for universal freedom. Fidel Vive!” 

Black Lives Matter, Black Racists, and Anti-Semites 

If Black Lives Matter were a civil rights organization, one might reasonably expect its leaders to condemn or at least distance themselves from well-known race haters like Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton. But Black Lives Matter leaders embrace both of those demagogues. Black Lives Matter joined Farrakhan’s “Justice or Else” march in Washington on October 10, 2015, and chose Sharpton to give the eulogy at George Floyd’s memorial service, where he accused white America of having pressed its knee on black America’s neck for 401 years. 

In March 2018, Indiana Republican Congressman Todd Rokita introduced a resolution calling on the House of Representatives to condemn Farrakhan for a recent speech in which he had ranted, “White folks are going down. And Satan is going down. And Farrakhan, by God’s grace, has pulled the cover off of that Satanic Jew and I’m here to say your time is up, your world is through.” A demonstration was organized to oppose the congressional resolution condemning Farrakhan. Black Lives Matter was part of the protests, along with the New Black Panther Party and Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.

If Black Lives Matter were a civil rights organization, one would expect it to respect all ethnic groups, particularly Jews, who have made major contributions to the movement for civil rights and are the targets of far more “hate crimes” than any other religious group. But over the Shavuot festival on May 30, 2020, the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter carried out a violent pogrom in Fairfax, a Los Angeles community largely populated by orthodox Jews. The activists not only vandalized five synagogues and three Jewish schools but also looted most of the Jewish businesses along the main avenue, while chanting “Fuck the police and kill the Jews.”

Melina Abdullah, the leader of Black Lives Matter in Los Angeles, helped organize the pogrom. She explained the attack on the Jews this way: “We’ve been very deliberate in saying that the violence and pain and hurt that’s experienced on a daily basis by black folks at the hands of a repressive system should also be visited upon, to a degree, those who think that they can just retreat to white affluence.”

In August 2015, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors was one of more than a thousand black activists to sign a statement proclaiming “solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and commitment to the liberation of Palestine’s land and people.” Among the prominent signatories of the petition were communist apparatchik and Lenin Peace Prize winner Angela Davis, radical Hamas supporter Cornel West, and convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.

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At a July 1, 2020, demonstration in Washington, D.C.—an event that was billed as a rally supporting the Palestinian Authority’s “Day of Rage” against Israel—protesters repeatedly claimed that the Palestinian movement is “intrinsically tied to Black Lives Matter.” Chants alternated between “Black Lives Matter!” and “Palestinian Lives Matter!” Another popular chant was “Israel, we know you, you murder children, too.”

That same day, at a separate Black Lives Matter rally in Brooklyn involving several hundred people, its organizer, Nerdeen Kiswani, said, “The land that Israel exists on is still stolen. The 1948 lands are still stolen—Jaffa, Haifa, Tel Aviv . . . was stolen.” This is just more malevolent slander. Israel was created under the United Nations’ auspices on land that had previously been part of the Turkish empire for 400 years. The Turks are neither Arab nor Palestinian. In case the genocidal intentions of the Black Lives Matter demonstrators were missed, Kiswani said, “We don’t want to go just back to our homes in Gaza and the West Bank. We want all of it. We don’t want a fake Palestinian state that they give us while Israel still exists.”

Black Lives Matter’s Assault on the Nuclear Family 

In a document titled “What We Believe,” Black Lives Matter laid out a number of major principles for which it stands. Among the more noteworthy was this: “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.”

This is a profoundly significant facet of the Black Lives Matter agenda because by rejecting the nuclear family it rejects the single value that, if it were to be embraced, would offer black Americans the tools they most need in order to carve out for themselves a prosperous and fulfilling life. At present, the traditional two-parent family is a statistical rarity in the black community. Roughly 70 percent of black babies today are born to unmarried mothers in fatherless homes. This fact has a host of catastrophic implications for those youngsters. 

For example, father-absent families—black and white alike—generally occupy the bottom rung of our society’s economic ladder. Unwed mothers, regardless of their race, are much more likely to live in poverty than the average American. As Heritage Foundation research fellow Robert Rector has explained: “Out-of-wedlock childbearing and single parenthood are the principal causes of child poverty and welfare dependence in the U.S. . . . Children born out-of-wedlock to never-married women are poor 50 percent of the time. By contrast children born within a marriage which remains intact are poor 7 percent of the time. Thus, the absence of marriage increases the frequency of child poverty 700 percent.”

Children in single-parent households are raised not only with economic but also social and psychological disadvantages. For instance, they are much more likely than children from intact families to be abused or neglected, to struggle academically, to drop out of school, to have behavioral problems, to experience emotional disorders, to have a weak sense of right and wrong, and to be unable to delay gratification of their violent or sexual impulses. Conversely, they are much likelier to be sexually active as teens, to conceive children out-of-wedlock when they are teens or young adults, and to be on welfare when they reach adulthood.

In addition, growing up without a father is a far better forecaster of a boy’s future criminality than either race or poverty. Regardless of race, a large percentage of all rapists, adolescent murderers, young people in state reform institutions, and long-term adult prison inmates were raised in fatherless homes. As Rector notes, “Illegitimacy is a major factor in America’s crime problem. Lack of married parents, rather than race or poverty, is the principal factor in the crime rate.”

And yet, in spite of all this, Black Lives Matter holds the nuclear family in contempt. Why? Because Marxist ideology demands it. As California State University professor Richard Weikart has explained, Marx and Engels “usually wrote about the destruction, dissolution, and abolition of the family” as a natural outgrowth of “the abolition of private property and the introduction of socialism.” The goal is to replace all voluntary associations and non-governmental authorities with an all-powerful state. In late September 2020, in a propaganda effort to defuse the growing criticism it had been receiving for its hostility to the nuclear family—Black Lives Matter quietly, and without explanation, removed from its website all references to its anti-family creed. 

Black Lives Matter: A Revolutionary Insurrection 

Abolishing the nuclear family and supporting Islamic imperialism are not civil rights causes, and Black Lives Matter is not a civil rights organization. It is a revolutionary criminal movement whose goals are openly Marxist and communist. “We are trained Marxists,” Patrisse Cullors has proudly proclaimed, “We actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia [Garza], in particular, are trained organizers; we are trained Marxists. We are super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think what we really try to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black folks.” Similarly, Alicia Garza describes herself as a “queer social justice activist and Marxist.” The fact that Marx was a well-known racist and anti-Semite who once called the socialist Ferdinand LaSalle a “Jewish nigger” seems not to have registered on either woman’s radar.

With approximately 40 chapters of its own in the United States and abroad, Black Lives Matter is also the face of a coalition of radical groups that include the violent militia Antifa and numerous fronts for the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Freedom Road is a Marxist-Leninist coalition whose name is taken from the title of a famous novel by the American communist author Howard Fast. Other revolutionary groups in the coalition include the Advancement Project, the Movement Strategy Center, the Black Left Unity Network, Black Workers for Justice, the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Causa Justa/Just Cause, Hands Up United, Intelligent Mischief, the Organization for Black Struggle, the Revolutionary Student Coordinating Committee, Showing Up for Racial Justice, Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education, and the Labor/Community Strategy Center. The Labor/Community Strategy Center is headed by former Weather Underground terrorist Eric Mann. Mann was Patrisse Cullors’s ideological mentor.

Indoctrinating American Schoolchildren

Despite its embrace of black racists like Sharpton and Farrakhan, its support for Islamic terrorists abroad and violent anarchists at home, its criminal attacks on police, and its lack of respect for anyone who doesn’t agree with its extremist agenda, Black Lives Matter has been able to engage in a successful campaign, courtesy of the left-wing teachers’ unions, to indoctrinate k–12 schoolchildren to advance its revolutionary goals. 

In October 2016, teachers in Seattle organized a “Black Lives Matter at School Day.” When the National Education Association subsequently adopted a resolution endorsing that program, “Black Lives Matter at School Day” was expanded into a “Black Lives Matter at School National Week of Action.” That “Week of Action” was scheduled to be held annually in early February as part of Black History Month activities. In 2018, school districts in more than 20 major cities incorporated “Black Lives Matter at School Week” into their curricula. 

A key resource for these indoctrination sessions is a textbook titled Teaching for Black Lives, which opens with this sentence: “Black students’ minds and bodies are under attack.” It features stories on subjects such as “the continuing police murders of black people,” whose “lives are meaningless to the American Empire.” Its essays include “Rethinking Islamophobia: Combating Bigotry by Raising the Voices of Black Muslims”; “Plotting Inequalities, Building Resistance”; and “Racial Justice Is Not a Choice: White Supremacy, High-Stakes Testing, and the Punishment of Black and Brown Students.”

Even very young schoolchildren are targeted with Black Lives Matter gender propaganda in classrooms. An early childhood teacher’s guide emphasizes the importance of using “age-appropriate language” to help youngsters understand various concepts that are central to Black Lives Matter’s philosophy. For example, teachers are urged to cultivate “transgender arming” students by telling them, “Everybody has the right to choose their own gender by listening to their own heart and mind. Everyone gets to choose if they are a girl or a boy or both or neither or something else, and no one else gets to choose for them.” And to promote what the guide calls “the disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics and a return to the ‘collective village’ that takes care of each other,” teachers are instructed to say, “There are lots of different kinds of families; what makes a family is that it’s people who take care of each other; those people might be related, or maybe they choose to be family together and to take care of each other. Sometimes, when it’s lots of families together, it can be called a village.”

By 2020, “Black Lives Matter at School Week” was being observed by thousands of educators in public school districts across the United States.

Black Lives Matter’s Corporate Funders 

Despite its anti-capitalist, anti-family, anti-wealth, Antisemitic, anti-white and anti-American agenda, Black Lives Matter has received hundreds of millions of dollars from Democratic donors like George Soros, from America’s biggest businesses including Amazon, Gatorade, Microsoft, Nabisco, and Dropbox, from its wealthiest philanthropies such as the Ford and Kellogg Foundations, and from high-profile billionaires and centi-millionaires like Michael Jordan and LeBron James.

From 2016 to 2020, Black Lives Matter was a fiscally sponsored project of Thousand Currents, a California-based left-wing 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. As Robert Stilson of the Capital Research Center explains, a “fiscal sponsorship” arrangement means that an organization, like Black Lives Matter, “does not have its own IRS tax-exempt status but is operating as a ‘project’ of an organization that does.” In 2018 and 2019, respectively, Thousand Currents funneled $2,622,017 and $3,354,654 in donor-restricted assets to Black Lives Matter. 

The convicted terrorist Susan Rosenberg has served as a vice chair of the seven-member board of Thousand Currents. In the 1970s and ’80s Rosenberg was a member of the May 19th Communist Organization, which murdered a Brink’s guard and two police officers during a 1981 armored-car robbery in Rockland County, New York. One of the policemen, Waverly Brown, was the first black ever hired by the police force in the town of Nyack. The killings left nine young children without fathers. Rosenberg was also wanted in connection with the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur. When Rosenberg was arrested in 1984, she was in possession of 740 pounds of dynamite (the May 19th group had previously bombed the U.S. Capitol and other sites).

Convicted at trial, she was sentenced to 58 years in prison for her crimes but served only 16 because she was pardoned by President Clinton in 2001. On receiving her sentence, a defiant Rosenberg urged her comrades to join her in “rededicat[ing] ourselves to our revolutionary principles, to our commitment to continue to fight for the defeat of U.S. imperialism.”

Thousand Currents is only one avenue by which donors have been able to support Black Lives Matter and its agenda. Since July 2020, BLM’s new fiscal sponsor has been the Tides Center, a longtime funder of far-left causes and organizations. Moreover, when people click the “Donate” button on the Black Lives Matter website, they are redirected to a subdomain called ActBlue Charities. ActBlue describes itself as “a powerful online fundraising platform for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot, progressive organizations, and nonprofits.” As the site further explains, ActBlue “is available to Democratic candidates and committees, progressive organizations, and nonprofits that share our values for no cost besides a 3.95 percent processing fee on donations.” As of May 21, 2020, ActBlue had already given $119 million to the presidential campaign of Democrat Joe Biden—plus another $187 million to the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and $93 million to the Elizabeth Warren Presidential Exploratory Committee.

Black Lives Matter is already such a powerful force in the Democratic Party that Democratic governors and mayors across the country stood back and encouraged the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots—the largest and most destructive civil disorders in U.S. history—refusing to deploy the necessary law enforcement to end the violence and rejecting all federal offers of help until it was too late. At least 25 people, mostly black, lost their lives during the insurrections. 

Perpetuating Destructive Myths 

Each year, Democratic leaders observe the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death by repeating the falsehoods that led to the 2014 race riots in Ferguson, Missouri. On August 9, 2020, presidential candidate Joe Biden tweeted, “It’s been six years since Michael Brown’s life was taken in Ferguson—reigniting a movement. We must continue the work of tackling systemic racism and reforming policing.”

The year before, Biden’s soon-to-be vice president, Kamala Harris, said, “Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America. His tragic death sparked a desperately needed conversation and a nationwide movement. We must fight for stronger accountability and racial equity in our justice system.” Thirty-five minutes later, Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted, “5 years ago Michael Brown was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael was unarmed yet he was shot 6 times. I stand with activists and organizers who continue the fight for justice for Michael. We must confront systemic racism and police violence head on.”

All three made these statements knowing that the Obama-Biden Justice Department had conducted a thorough investigation of the shooting of Michael Brown, had refuted these claims, and had found his killing justified. Five black and two biracial eyewitnesses had testified to police, the FBI, and a grand jury that the much larger Brown was charging the officer despite being shot multiple times and ordered to stop. That three Democratic leaders would knowingly lie about this shooting with the intention of attacking police and supporting a violent criminal movement that played fast and loose with the truth, should be deeply disturbing to every American, black and white. 

Black Lives Matter is supported by the largest and most powerful coalition in American political history. What has made it so powerful is its central idea, which is embraced by the Democratic Party, the partisan media, and America’s academic and cultural elites: White America enslaved black America 400 years ago and has kept its knee firmly on black people’s necks ever since. These are transparent but frequently repeated racial lies. America is not 400 years old; it was black Africans who enslaved blacks and sold them to Europeans at slave auctions; white America abolished slavery at the cost of 350,000 mainly white lives and created the most equal and inclusive society on the face of the earth. Yet this sinister and powerful anti-American, anti-white meme of the Left has now become a currency of America’s public culture and is spread by America’s major educational and cultural institutions and its corporate elites.

Apple, for example, one of the world’s largest companies, has announced a program “to challenge systemic racism,” which it calls, “Taking Action on Racial Equity and Justice.” The program defines racism in these words: “Racism is the marginalization or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.”

In other words, racism is specific to white people who oppress “people of color”—90 percent of the world’s population. Blacks can’t be racist. The fact that America’s black communities are the most prosperous, free, and empowered black communities in the world—thanks in large part to its white majority—is invisible to the Apple creed. The fact that the Chinese have enslaved two million Uighur Muslims and are busily harvesting their body parts is also off Apple’s radar screen, since the business Apple does with China’s genocidal regime is too lucrative to pass up. Apple is not about to give up the billions of dollars it makes off the slave labor that China’s racist regime provides to make its products. The fact remains that the largest racist organization in America is a black church called the Nation of Islam, whose leader preaches that whites are morally and mentally inferior to black people and need to be exterminated. But this is also off the radar for Apple’s social justice executives and the “woke” chorus generally. 

Democrats who support and enable Black Lives Matter revolutionaries are constantly warning about “existential threats” to America such as “climate change.” But the movement that has coalesced behind the meme that America is a white supremacist nation conducting a genocidal war against blacks and all “people of color” is a far more palpable existential menace. 

Black Lives Matter is run by violent Marxists and anti-white racists whose mentality is that of a lynch mob with no regard for facts or the law. Their goals are the abolition of police, the dissolution of the family, and the dismantling of America’s constitutional order. Their oft-proclaimed concern for justice is nonexistent. The resources this organization has already accumulated and the political power it has amassed are disturbing, but there is some hope in the fact that these assets were achieved by a fraudulent public-relations campaign, which cannot be sustained once the facts are known. To the vast majority of white Americans, black lives do matter. To the vast majority of black Americans, as national polls attest, the lives of America’s law enforcement officers matter, too.

Do Black People Matter to Black Lives Matter? 

Americans, black and white, are already asking, “Are black lives really a concern to the leaders and activists of Black Lives Matter?” The decimation of urban police forces as a result of Black Lives Matter attacks has led to dramatic spikes in murders and other violent crimes committed against black citizens. A 2021 study of crime rates in 34 American cities concluded, “Homicide rates were higher during every month of 2020 relative to rates from the previous year.” The report summarizing the findings of this study described the 30 percent surge as “a large and troubling increase that has no modern precedent.” In cities like Chicago and Atlanta, the surge was well over 50 percent. As Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald wrote in January 2021, “The year 2020 likely saw the largest percentage increase in homicides in American history. Murder was up nearly 37 percent in a sample of 57 large and medium-size cities. Based on preliminary estimates, at least 2,000 more Americans, most of them black, were killed in 2020 than in 2019. . . . The local murder increases in 2020 were startling: 95 percent in Milwaukee, 78 percent in Louisville, Ky., 74 percent in Seattle, 72 percent in Minneapolis, 62 percent in New Orleans, and 58 percent in Atlanta.”

The blood of every victim of this surge in homicides can be attributed to the mendacious claims of Black Lives Matter, the incitements to violence by its activists, and the baseless attacks on police that accompanied them. 

So far, the 7,000-plus annual murders of blacks by other blacks haven’t attracted the slightest attention or concern from Black Lives Matter leaders and activists. So far, there have been no Black Lives Matter community projects to benefit disadvantaged black communities. Where are the hundreds of millions of dollars Black Lives Matter has collected being spent? There is no Black Lives Matter campaign to provide scholarships for inner city black children so their parents can get them out of failed public schools, which year-in and year-out fail to provide them with the skills they need in order to survive and flourish. In what way, then, do black lives actually matter to these “anti-racist” social justice warriors? In fact, they don’t. What matters to them is the anti-American revolution they are advancing and the fantasy world they think they will achieve by destroying the most equitable, inclusive, tolerant, and free society that has ever existed. (read more)

• A National teachers union training guides educators how to talk to parents about COVID-19 and instructs them to log their conversations into the Reach app 
• The Reach app was created by volunteers during AOC's 2018 campaign and has became a major tool in Democratic campaigns 
• The workshop is sponsored by vaccine equity group Made to Save, the National Educators Association (NEA), and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) 
• One slide reads: 'We are NOT telling people what to do or what they should think. We ARE listening to people and responding authentically to their concerns' 
• Another reads: 'You do NOT need to be a healthcare expert to have good conversations,' but instructs teachers to encourage people to get vaccinated
• Jennifer Mess, a drama teacher at a New Jersey public school blasted the workshop as 'a blatant effort to coerce, manipulate, and even track information'
• Republican New Jersey state Senator Holly Schepisi said the training 'is an unconscionable breach of privacy and ethics' and 'borders on criminal'
  

An overview of some World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders (2005-2021) and Global Leaders for Tomorrow (1993-2003) in politics and the media. The list is not exhaustive.

Sources: Global Leaders for Tomorrow and Young Global Leaders on WikiSpooks.

Politics and Policy

Jeffrey Zients (White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator since 2021, selected in 2003), Jeremy Howard (co-founder of lobby group “masks for all”, selected in 2013), California Governor Gavin Newsom (selected in 2005), Peter Buttigieg (selected in 2019, candidate for US President in 2020, US secretary of transportation since 2021), Chelsea Clinton (Clinton Foundation board member), Huma Abedin (Hillary Clinton aide, selected in 2012), Nikki Haley (US ambassador to the UN, 2017-2018), Samantha Power (US ambassador to the UN, 2013-2017, USAID Administrator since 2021), Ian Bremmer (founder of Eurasia Group), Bill Browder (initiator of the Magnitsky Act), Jonathan Soros (son of George Soros), Kenneth Roth (director of “Human Rights Watch” since 1993), Paul Krugman (economist, selected in 1995), Lawrence Summers (former World Bank Chief Economist, former US Treasury Secretary, former Harvard University President, selected in 1993), Alicia Garza (co-founder of Black Lives Matter, selected in 2020), Stéphane Bancel (Moderna CEO).

Media

CNN medical analyst Leana Wen (selected in 2018), CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, Covid Twitter personality Eric Feigl-Ding (a ‘WEF Global Shaper‘ since 2013), Andrew Ross Sorkin (New York Times financial columnist), Thomas Friedman (New York Times columnist, selected in 1995), George Stephanopoulos (ABC News, 1993), Lachlan Murdoch (CEO of Fox Corporation).

Technology and Social Media

Microsoft founder Bill Gates (1993), former Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer (2000-2014, selected in 1995), Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (1998), Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (2002/2005), former Google CEO Eric Schmidt (2001-2011, selected in 1997), Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales (2007), PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel (2007), eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar (1999), Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (2009), Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (2007).
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We have no documented proof, no documented evidence of asymptomatic spread occurring in any appreciable manner. I argue that the concept of asymptomatic spread for COVID-19 has been a falsehood and a means both to deceive and mislead then-President Trump and the nation and to drive fear and paranoia.

How did this issue of ‘asymptomatic spread’ come about? Spread of a pathogen will occur more surely when the carriers are sick with symptoms, especially if the symptoms function to expel the pathogen into the surrounding air. Having no symptoms or very mild symptoms reduces the risk of spread, and with no symptoms, spread is basically removed. This is the same for SARS-CoV-2 virus, and a recent BMJ publication pretty well concludes that asymptomatic COVID carriers are rarely the drivers they were thought to be.

This is basic immunology and should not be changed for SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19).  I also recognize that I must be careful not to claim ‘zero,’ for the evidence changes daily and rapidly, and absence of documented evidence is also not a reason to entirely rule out ‘asymptomatic spread.’ It just may not have been studied yet or documented optimally. But I am confident enough based on the existing literature to agree that ‘it is a dangerous assumption to believe that there is persuasive, scientific evidence of asymptomatic transmission’.

The basis for the societal lockdowns was that 40% to 50% of persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 could potentially spread it, even though asymptomatic. “But fears that the virus may be spread to a significant degree by asymptomatic carriers soon led government leaders to issue broad and lengthy stay-at-home orders and mask mandates out of concerns that anyone could be a silent spreader.” ‘Asymptomatic spread’ existence was a bogus claim by the administration and medical advisors meant to drive fear, and it continues to this day when they know they are deceiving the public.

A high-quality review study by Madewell, published in JAMA sought to estimate the secondary attack rate of SARS-CoV-2 in households and determine factors that modify this parameter. In addition, researchers sought to estimate the proportion of households with index cases that had any secondary transmission, and also compared the SARS-CoV-2 household secondary attack rate with that of other severe viruses and with that to close contacts for studies that reported the secondary attack rate for both close and household contacts.

The study was a meta-analysis of 54 studies with 77,758 participants. Secondary attack rates represented the spread to additional persons, and researchers found a 25-fold increased risk within households between symptomatic positive infected index persons versus asymptomatic infected index persons. “Household secondary attack rates were increased from symptomatic index cases (18.0%; 95% CI, 14.2%-22.1%) than from asymptomatic index cases (0.7%; 95% CI, 0%-4.9%)”. This study showed just how rare asymptomatic spread was within a confined household environment.

From the nearly 2 million children who were followed in school in Sweden, it was reported that with no mask mandates, there were zero deaths from Covid and only a few instances of transmission and minimal hospitalization.

In the UK, the “Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies” recommended that “[p]rioritizing rapid testing of symptomatic people is likely to have a greater impact on identifying positive cases and reducing transmission than frequent testing of asymptomatic people in an outbreak area.”

A study published in Nature found no instances of asymptomatic spread from positive asymptomatic cases among all 1,174 close contacts of the cases, based on a base sample of 10 million people. “There were no positive tests amongst 1,174 close contacts of asymptomatic cases”. AIER’s Zucker responded this way: “The conclusion is not that asymptomatic spread is rare or that the science is uncertain. The study revealed something that hardly ever happens in these kinds of studies. There was not one documented case. Forget rare. Forget even Fauci’s previous suggestion that asymptomatic transmission exists but not does drive the spread. Replace all that with: never. At least not in this study for 10,000,000.” (read more)

The Whole Big Picture

–The Two Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room

I present their data and conclusions, below. If you are considering getting a Covid vaccine, you should familiarize yourself with their findings before you roll up your sleeve. If you have already had the jab, I recommend you examine their findings in order to assess what may be in store for you. (read more)