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Globalists Aim to Take Over Health Systems Worldwide

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Analysis by Dr. Joseph MercolaFact Checked

 
 
 

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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• The globalist cabal is planning to monopolize health systems worldwide through the creation of an international pandemic treaty that makes the World Health Organization the sole decision maker on pandemic matters
• The WHO may also be planning to seize power over health systems more broadly. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has stated that his “central priority” as director-general of the WHO is to push the world toward universal health coverage
• In the name of keeping everyone “safe” from infection, the globalist cabal has justified unprecedented attacks on democracy, civil liberties and personal freedoms, including the right to choose your own medical treatment. Now, the WHO is gearing up to make its pandemic leadership permanent, and to extend it into the health care systems of every nation. The idea is to implement universal health care organized by the WHO as part of the Great Reset
• If this treaty goes through, the WHO would have the power to call for mandatory vaccinations and health passports, and its decision would supersede national and state laws. Considering the WHO changed its definition of “pandemic” to “a worldwide epidemic of a disease,” removing the requirement of high morbidity, just about anything could be made to fit the pandemic criterion, including obesity
• The SMART Health Cards system is used by more than a dozen countries, 25 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.; the Australian Parliament is pushing a “Trusted Digital Identity Bill”; U.S. Congress is pushing the “Improving Digital Identity Act,” and the WHO has signed a deal with a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary to build the first global digital vaccine passport. All of these have one thing in common: the end goal, which is to expand them into a souped-up, global social credit system

The globalist cabal is planning to monopolize health systems worldwide, and that plan is already underway. In June 2021, Dr. Julie Gerberding wrote a Time article1 laying out the framework for an international pandemic-surveillance network, which would include threat prediction and preemption as well.

Gerberding served as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2002 until 2009.2 After leaving the CDC, she became the executive vice president of vaccines and then switched, years later, to strategic communications at Merck. This is particularly egregious as she was head of government's regulatory agency for vaccines and immediately took a job with one of the largest vaccine manufacturers in the world. Unethical in spades, but perfectly legal.

Gerberding's next spin through the revolving door was being named CEO of the Foundation of the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), March 1, 2022.3 Yesterday, I discussed the massive conflicts of interest at the FNIH, as its board is loaded with Big Pharma executives and even a representative of BlackRock, one of the top three largest investment firms in the world.

While Gerberding did not name the World Health Organization in her article, we now know that's the organization designated as the top-down ruler of all things related to pandemics. However, some of the statements that have been made suggest that, in time, the WHO may also seize power over health systems more broadly.

The Globalists' Next Move

In a February 18, 2022, article, Dr. Peter Breggin, author of "COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey,"4 warned that the next move in the globalists' war on humanity is to seize control over the health care systems of the entire world:5

"We have discovered the next move of the global predators — already in progress — in their escalating assaults against individual and political freedom. The next big assault on human freedom involves a legalized takeover of national healthcare systems by the World Health Organization (WHO).

This stealth attack — with its initial plans already backed by many nations — will begin full implementation in 2024 if it is not quickly recognized and fought! ... The Chinese Communist influence over WHO has been solid for more than a decade, and the party was able to install Tedros without any competition.

He became the first and only Director-General who is not a physician and instead is a communist politician. Now the Director-General of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus — known simply as Tedros — has unveiled plans to take charge of all global health.

While addressing the WHO Executive Committee on January 24, 2022, Director-General Tedros spelled out his global health plan, including his final priority for his enormous scheme: 'The fifth priority is to urgently strengthen WHO as the leading and directing authority on global health, at the center of the global health architecture.'

Tedros's closing words to his report to the executive committee are chilling in their grandiosity and echo Marxist exhortations to cheering mobs by a Stalin, Mao, or Xi Jinping: 'We are one world, we have one health, we are one WHO.' Tedros seeks to become super-Fauci for the world, and, like Fauci, he will do it on behalf of the global predators."

The Rise of Health Fascism

As explained by Breggin, the global health care takeover really began with Gates' Decade of Vaccines, announced in 2010 at the World Economic Forum's (WEF's) annual meeting in Davos. At that time, Gates installed Fauci on his vaccine advisory board, thereby guaranteeing his plans would receive support from the NIAID. Breggin continues:6

"A theme for the Decade of Vaccines was 'Public-Private Partnerships Drive Progress in Vaccine Development, Delivery' — essentially the precursor to the Great Reset establishing a world governance of public and private health united in the spirit of fascism.

By 2012, Gates achieved official UN approval for his scheme, establishing a broad network of global predators aimed at exploiting and dominating humanity through public health.

Communist China would play a prominent role through its control over the UN and WHO and through its close relationships with global predators like Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, Mike Bloomberg, Big Tech executives, and many other billionaires and world leaders.

A decade and more later, during COVID-19, WHO has proven its usefulness to the predators in orchestrating science, medicine, and public health in the suppression of human freedom and the generation of wealth and power for the globalists."

Under the guise of a global pandemic, the WHO, the WEF and all of its installed leaders in government and private business, were able to roll out a plan that has been decades in the making. The pandemic was a perfect cover. In the name of keeping everyone "safe" from infection, the globalists have justified unprecedented attacks on democracy, civil liberties and personal freedoms, including the right to choose your own medical treatment.

Now, the WHO is gearing up to make its pandemic leadership permanent, and to extend it into the health care systems of every nation. "The idea is 'the principle of health for all' — universal health care organized by WHO as part of the Great Reset," Breggin explains.

The International Pandemic Treaty

May 24, 2021, the European Council announced it supported the establishment of an international Pandemic Treaty, under which the WHO would have the power to replace the constitutions of individual nations with its own constitution under the banner of "pandemic prevention, preparedness and response."7

March 3, 2022, the Council authorized the opening of negotiations for an international agreement. The infographic below, sourced from the European Council's website,8 summarizes the process.

The WHO's World Health Assembly has also established an intergovernmental negotiating body (INB) for this purpose.9 March 1, 2022, the INB held its first meeting to draft and negotiate an international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response under the authority of the WHO.10

If this treaty goes through, the WHO would have the power to, for example, call for mandatory vaccinations and health passports, and its decision would supersede national and state laws.

But considering the WHO changed its definition of "pandemic" to "a worldwide epidemic of a disease,"11 without the original specificity of severe illness that causes high morbidity,12,13 just about anything could be made to fit the pandemic criterion, including obesity, which was designated as a disease in 201314 and occurs globally. Tedros has also gone on record stating that his "central priority" as director-general of the WHO is to push the world toward universal health coverage.15

"The world has already seen how any pandemic emergency, real or concocted, now or in the future, could then justify WHO taking over the entirety of government operations of sovereign nations, robbing all individuals of their freedoms, and fully crushing the democratic republics of the world," Breggin warns.16

"The spirit of Communism can be felt throughout the document. We are told that the 'purpose' of the new strategy will be 'guided by a spirit of solidarity, anchored in the principles of fairness, inclusion, and transparency.' Notice, as in all pronouncements by global predators; there is no mention of individual rights, political liberty, or national sovereignty.

The great engine of human progress, human freedom, will be replaced by the great destroyer of humanity, collectivism, under the rule of the elite. Tucked into the report were the real goals ... Here are three main purposes or goals of the proposed treaty:

1.response to any future pandemics, in particular by ensuring universal and equitable access to medical solutions, such as vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics

2.a stronger international health framework with the WHO as the coordinating authority on global health matters

3.the 'One Health' approach, connecting the health of humans, animals, and our planet

The report adds, 'More specifically, such an instrument can enhance international cooperation in a number of priority areas, such as surveillance, alerts, and response, but also in general trust in the international health system.' Clearly, they were building support for Tedros's January 24, 2022 announcement that WHO would take over the international health care system."

WHO Moves Ahead With Global Vaccine Passport Program

While countries around the world are now scrubbing their COVID measures, and many have announced they won't be pursuing vaccine passports after all, the vaccine passport program is still alive and well — under the direction of the WHO. As reported by Off-Guardian, March 1, 2022:17

"This week, while the eyes of the world are fixed on Ukraine and the next wave of propaganda, the World Health Organization is launching an initiative to create a 'trust network' on vaccination and international travel.

According to a report in Politico published last week, 'WHO making moves on international vaccine 'passport.'

The article quotes Brian Anderson, co-founder of the Vaccination Credential Initiative, which describes itself as 'a voluntary coalition of public and private organizations committed to empowering individuals with access to verifiable clinical information including a trustworthy and verifiable copy of their vaccination records in digital or paper form using open, interoperable standards.'

They are, to take the PR agency sheen off this phrase, a corporate/government joint project researching and promoting digital medical identification papers. In short, vaccine passports."

Members of the VCI, which was founded in January 2021, include Google, Amazon, insurance companies, hospitals, biosecurity firms and most of the major universities in the U.S. Its steering committee consists of representatives from Apple, Microsoft, the Mayo Clinic and the MITRE Corporation, a government-funded research organization.

As noted by Off-Guardian, the International Pandemic Treaty will undoubtedly include provisions on international vaccine certification. And why wouldn't it, seeing how a WHO-backed global health passport is already underway? While Off-Guardian predicted VCI's SMART Health Cards system might be chosen, the WHO has now signed a deal with a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary called T-Systems to build the first global digital vaccine passport.18 As reported by the Western Standard:19

"The WHO fully intends to provide support to its 194 member states to facilitate the implementation of the digital verification technology for countries' national and regional verification of vaccine status.

'COVID-19 affects everyone. Countries will therefore only emerge from the pandemic together. Vaccination certificates that are tamper-proof and digitally verifiable build trust. WHO is therefore supporting member states in building national and regional trust networks and verification technology.

The WHO's gateway service also serves as a bridge between regional systems. It can also be used as part of future vaccination campaigns and home-based records,' said Garrett Mehl, unit head of the WHO's Department of Digital Health and Innovation, on Deutsche Telekom's website."

SMART Health Cards and Digital Identity Are Tools of Tyranny

Already, the SMART Health Cards system is used by more than a dozen countries,20 25 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and D.C.21 The Australian Parliament is also paving the way to tyranny with its "Trusted Digital Identity Bill 2021,"22 and the U.S. Congress has its "Improving Digital Identity Act of 2021."23

All of these have one thing in common: the end goal, which is to expand them into a souped-up, global social credit system — one in which everything you do and say is monitored, recorded and assessed for threat value, and if you misbehave or engage in wrong-think, they have 101 ways to punish you and force you into compliance, from restricting your ability to travel to seizing your bank accounts.

Don't think for one second that government won't have access to or use your data against you for political purposes. As explained by Off-Guardian:24

"SMART Health Cards are run by VCI, which was created by the MITRE Corporation, which is funded by the United States government. If you give SMART access to your medical records, you'd better believe the U.S. government and its agencies will get their hands on them.

They might not have their own database, but they would have access to MITRE's database when and if they needed or wanted it. And so would Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft. That's how private-public partnerships work. Symbiosis.

Corporate giants serve as fronts for government programs and, in return, they get a big cut of the profits, bailouts if they're needed, and regulatory 'reforms' that cripple their smaller competitors ...

This allows the federal government 'truthfully' claim to not be implementing a federal passport system, or keeping a vaccination database, all the while they are sub-contracting tech giants to do it for them. This system of backdoor government surveillance via corporate veneer is already spreading across the U.S., and it looks like it will play some part in any future 'pandemic treaty' too."

Surgeon General Demands Hit List From Big Tech

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy also appears to be building a narrative to justify an international health authority. March 3, 2022, Murthy formally requested that all major tech platforms submit data on the scale of COVID-19 misinformation. This includes social networks, search engines, crowdsource platforms, e-commerce platforms and instant messaging systems. Thankfully, his request is not legally enforceable. As reported by The New York Times:25

"A request for information from the surgeon general's office demanded that tech platforms send data and analysis on the prevalence of COVID-19 misinformation on their sites, starting with common examples of vaccine misinformation documented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.26

The notice asks the companies to submit 'exactly how many users saw or may have been exposed to instances of Covid-19 misinformation,' as well as aggregate data on demographics that may have been disproportionately exposed to or affected by the misinformation.

The surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, also demanded information from the platforms about the major sources of Covid-19 misinformation, including those that engaged in the sale of unproven Covid-19 products, services and treatments ... The request for information is part of President Biden's COVID National Preparedness Plan27,28 ...

In addition to demanding misinformation data from the tech platforms, the surgeon general called on health care providers and the public to submit information about how COVID-19 misinformation has negatively influenced patients and communities."

As noted by Dr. Meryl Nass,29 "This is truly frightening. Misinformation (to be controlled via tech companies) is being treated as a crime, though never defined." Nass also highlights a new bill,30 introduced by two Democrat senators March 2, 2022, that would give tech companies "cover to censor and turn over private data to government." "In other words, Congress may 'legalize' censorship and criminalize First Amendment rights to freedom of speech," Nass says.

CDC Has Created Loads of Misinformation

The irony here is that the most of the CDC's answers to "COVID myths"31 are themselves misinformation. For example, the CDC claims it's a myth that natural immunity is better than the immunity you get from the COVID shot.

Yet you'd be hard-pressed to find scientific backing for that statement. They basically just made that up. It's a long-standing scientific fact that natural immunity is more robust and longer lasting than vaccine-induced immunity.

Before the pandemic, a 'vaccine' was 'a product that stimulates a person's immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease.' In 2021, the CDC changed that definition to 'a preparation that is used to stimulate the body's immune response against diseases,' effectively removing the need for a vaccine to produce immunity — the key thing a vaccine is supposed to do.

The CDC also claims it's a myth that mRNA shots are not vaccines. They say mRNA injections are vaccines because they trigger an immune response. What they don't admit is that they changed the definition of "vaccine" in the middle of the pandemic.32

Before the pandemic, a "vaccine" was "a product that stimulates a person's immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease." In the latter half of 2021, as the mRNA shots were nearing distribution, the CDC changed that definition to "a preparation that is used to stimulate the body's immune response against diseases," effectively removing the need for a vaccine to produce immunity — the key thing a vaccine is supposed to do.

Incidentally, the CDC's answer to this "myth" basically refutes its answer to the "myth" that vaccine immunity is better than natural immunity, since the COVID shots don't provide immunity at all. They only stimulate an immune response, which by the way, can be either beneficial or detrimental, depending on how your immune system is stimulated.

The CDC also still insists that the COVID jabs cannot change or interact with your DNA in any way, yet published research shows otherwise. Swedish research actually shows the Pfizer shot's mRNA incorporates into human DNA in as little as six hours.33

Murthy's unconstitutional request for data from tech companies on users who share information that violates the CDC narrative seems to be an effort to continue building justification for an international health authority with power to dictate truth around the world.

If there's only one narrative, across every country, disseminated from a single entity, then the truth will be whatever they say it is. Eventually, research won't even be published unless it conforms to the chosen narrative.

The WHO Is Totally Corrupt

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There are many reasons to reject the WHO as the sole arbiter of health facts. It's corrupt to the core, and has been for years.34

In the aftermath of the swine flu pandemic of 2009, the vaccine for which left many thousands injured, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) concluded that "the handling of the pandemic by the WHO, EU health agencies and national governments led to a 'waste of large sums of public money, and unjustified scares and fears about the health risks faced by the European public.'"35

Specifically, PACE concluded there was "overwhelming evidence that the seriousness of the pandemic was vastly overrated by WHO," and that the drug industry had influenced the organization's decision-making.

A joint investigation by the British Medical Journal and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ) also uncovered serious conflicts of interest between the WHO — which promoted the global vaccination agenda — and the drug companies that created those vaccines.36

The WHO has also been accused of massive money mismanagement, spending more on travel expenses each year — some $200 million in 2017 — than it does on some of the biggest public health problems, including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.37

By now, most people also know that the WHO has been bought and paid for by Bill Gates. He contributes more to the WHO's $4.84 billion biennial budget than every member-state government. The U.S. has historically been the top funder, but the combined contributions from the Gates Foundation and GAVI made Gates the unofficial top sponsor of the WHO as of 2018.

In the documentary "TrustWHO"38 (above), Lilian Franck reveals this and other clandestine influences that control the WHO, to the peril of public health. For example, we've seen that the WHO has strong allegiance to China, and shares China's ruthless suppression of counternarratives.

The WHO's investigation into COVID-19's origin was a fake from start to finish, and even before the COVID pandemic, the WHO had been in discussions with Facebook to "ensure people can access authoritative information on vaccines and reduce the spread of inaccuracies." Given the strong and ongoing evidence that WHO is heavily conflicted and controlled by industry, its usefulness as a guardian of public health needs to be seriously reevaluated.

The Plan for a Never-Ending Pandemic

While the White House has issued a plan to transition out of the pandemic,39,40 it seems more like a plan for a never-ending pandemic. As reported by STAT News:41

"The report plots a course to what its authors call the 'next normal' — living with the SARS-CoV-2 virus as a continuing threat that needs to be managed. Doing so will require improvements on a number of fronts, from better surveillance for COVID and other pathogens to keeping tabs on how taxed hospitals are; and from efforts to address the air quality in buildings to continued investment in antiviral drugs and better vaccines.

The authors also call for offering people sick with respiratory symptoms easy access to testing and, if they are positive for COVID or influenza, a quick prescription for the relevant antiviral drug ...

The report suggests the U.S. response to Covid-19 should transition from one directed solely at this single disease to one where prevention, mitigation, and treatment efforts are focused on COVID as one of a number of respiratory viruses, including influenza."

Part of the plan is to create a new post: deputy Assistant to the president for biosecurity within the National Security Council.42 The deputy assistant for biosecurity would be responsible for "monitoring, addressing, and coordinating responses to and communications about any biosecurity and pandemic threats."

Importantly, this post would also be responsible for coordinating "efforts to counter foreign and domestic sources of anti-science misinformation on vaccines and drugs." The COVID Roadmap also details strategies to improve documentation, monitoring and accountability for communication goals.

This includes monitoring "health iniquities" to "increase public accountability and support values that promote social well-being and health equity in infectious diseases." It sounds to me like a plan to promote propaganda that shames people who don't want to sacrifice their own health for "the greater good."

It also includes the establishment of "standards for streamlined clearance of health messages without political interference." Will the WHO be responsible for such standards? Probably.

The roadmap also specifies that tech platforms and legacy media are to be urged to "design mechanisms to detect, deflect and deny the posting of harmful and false advice that hurts public health." In other words, across the board censorship. If the WHO is given complete authority over health, censorship will be a given and science as we know it will basically cease to exist.

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Global trucker Convoy Protests Vaccine Mandates

 https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/02/10/trucker-convoys-protest-mandates.aspx?ui=  Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• The Canadian “Freedom Convoy” started pulling into Ottawa January 29, 2022, gathering in front of the Parliament building. They have vowed to stay put until the Canadian government agrees to roll back all federal mandates, including the vaccine mandate and the vaccine passport
• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tried to downplay the protest, referring to it as a “small fringe minority” of people “who hold unacceptable views” and don’t represent the views of Canadians
• As the convoy descended on Ottawa, Trudeau moved out of his residence and then claimed to have contracted COVID and that he would remain in isolation for a week
• Inspired and encouraged by the Canadian trucker movement, truckers in other countries are now organizing their own Freedom Convoys. In Europe, a European Freedom Convoy will meet up in Brussels, February 14, 2022, and remain there “until vaccination passports and associated restrictions are abolished” across the European Union
• Australia also organized a Freedom Convoy to gather outside the Parliament House in Canberra, starting January 31, 2022, and in the U.S., American truckers are planning a DC Freedom Convoy

Did you know there's a massive trucker convoy protesting COVID jab mandates in Ottawa, Canada? You're forgiven if you missed it, because this gigantic movement received very minimal coverage in the conventional press for the first week or so. Ditto for similar trucker protests forming in other countries, such as Australia and Germany.

The Canadian Freedom Convoy

The Canadian "Freedom Convoy" started pulling into Ottawa January 29, 2022, gathering in front of the Parliament building. According to The New York Times:1

"The convoy was organized in response to a regulation, implemented this month, that requires truckers returning from the United States to show proof of vaccination. But it recent days, it has broadened to include Canadians critical of pandemic restrictions in general, and of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...

Private cars and pickup trucks greatly outnumbered the heavy trucks that made up the convoy in its first days. Throughout Saturday, the vehicles clogged the streets in and around Parliament, most of them bearing flags or signs denouncing public health measures related to the pandemic.

Thousands of protesters on foot, many carrying handmade signs on hockey sticks, wandered through the parked vehicles and the slow-moving traffic or gathered on the lawn in front of Parliament ... Few people appeared to be following Ontario's rules requiring social distancing and masks at crowded, outdoor gatherings ...

Several Canadian news outlets reported that Mr. Trudeau and his family had been moved out of their official residence by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as a precaution."

Trudeau Shows His True Colors

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau initially tried to downplay the protest, referring to it as a "small fringe minority" of people "who hold unacceptable views" and don't represent the views of Canadians. It boggles the mind to think how rapidly our countries have spiraled into authoritarianism where the very idea of freedom is now "unacceptable."

We can't be surprised, however. It's no secret that the World Economic Forum, which is leading the technocratic takeover of the whole world, has penetrated the cabinet of Trudeau and many other countries. WEF head and founder Klaus Schwab admitted it in 2017.2

Once this "fringe minority" descended on Ottawa, however, Trudeau ran. Not only was he escorted out of his official residence, as reported by The New York Times, he's also said to have tested positive for COVID and will be in isolation for a week.3

Countless videos illustrate just how out of touch Trudeau's comments are, and that's putting it kindly. Along highways and overpasses, in the city and outside of it, Canadians have gathered in astounding numbers to cheer the truckers on, everywhere thanking them for taking up this peaceful fight for freedom.

While the actual number of trucks involved is still unknown, it seems reasonable to assume it's in the thousands. According to Local 12 News,4 the convoy could be a "world-record setter" in terms of its size — an estimated 70 kilometers or some 43.5 miles.

The truckers have vowed to stay put until the Canadian government agrees to roll back all federal mandates, including the vaccine mandate and the vaccine passport.5

Covert Surveillance Is Here

In the video above, Jimmy Dore plays an interview with Benjamin Dichter, one of the organizers of the Freedom Convoy, who describes how Canada has already rolled out previously unknown technology that scans and reads a trucker's passport and vaccine status on approach, without them actually having to show any papers or display their vaccine QR code on their phone.

Their cell phones pop up automatically on the border agent's screen as they approach the station, and the cell phone is automatically linked to the driver's passport and vaccine card, which are also displayed automatically.

So much for right to medical privacy! The secret surveillance and tracking we've been warning about is here, or at the least at the Canadian border. The question is, where else it might be deployed without our knowledge?

Google Runs Is Part and Parcel of the Surveillance State

For years, I've warned people about the creeping surveillance state, of which Google is a significant part. If you still haven't ditched Google products from your life (which include Android), now's a good time to start. In early 2020, I interviewed Robert Epstein, Ph.D., who for the last decade has helped expose Google's manipulative and deceptive practices. As noted by Epstein, Google's powers pose three very specific threats to society:

1.They're a surveillance agency with significant yet hidden surveillance powers — The Google search engine, Google Wallet, Google Docs, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Chrome browser, YouTube, Android phones, Google home devices like Nest and Google wearables like Fitbit are all surveillance platforms that work together.

Android cell phones, for example, which are a Google-owned operating system, can track you even when you're not connected to the internet, whether you have geo tracking enabled or not, and even if your phone is turned off.

As soon as you reconnect to the internet, all that information stored in your phone is sent to Google. So, even though you may think you've just spent the day incognito, the moment you reconnect, every step you've made is shared (provided you had your phone with you).

Google is also tracking your movements online even if you're not using their products, because most websites use Google Analytics, which tracks everything you do on a website. And, you have no way of knowing whether a website uses Google Analytics or not. The only way to protect yourself against this would be to use a VPN.

2.They're a censoring agency — Google has a unique ability to restrict or block access to websites across the internet, thus deciding what people can and cannot see. They even have the ability to block access to entire countries and the internet as a whole.

The most crushing problem with this kind of internet censorship is that you don't know what you don't know. If a certain type of information is removed from your search, and you don't know it should exist somewhere, you'll never go looking for it. And, when searching for information online, how would you know that certain websites or pages have been removed from the search results in the first place? The answer is, you don't.

For example, Google has been investing in DNA repositories for quite a long time, and are adding DNA information to our profiles. According to Epstein, Google has taken over the national DNA repository, but articles about that — which he has cited in his own writings — have all vanished.

3.They have the power to manipulate public opinion through search rankings and other means — In so doing, they have the ability to shape the opinions, beliefs, thoughts, attitudes, purchases, behavior and votes of billions of people, all without anyone realizing they're being manipulated. They don't even leave a paper trail for authorities to trace. As noted by Epstein:

"They're using new techniques of manipulation that have never existed before in human history and they are for the most part, subliminal … but they don't produce tiny shifts. They produce enormous shifts in people's thinking, very rapidly. Some of the techniques I've discovered are among the largest behavioral effects ever discovered in the behavioral sciences."

In his article6 "Seven Simple Steps Toward Online Privacy," Epstein outlines his recommendations for protecting your privacy while surfing the web, most of which don't cost anything.

Vaxxed or Unvaxxed — People Want Freedom

Now, don't get me wrong, I love Jimmy Dore as we both grew up in a poor neighborhood in Chicago and I love his humor. But for the record, while Dore tells his audience that the COVID jab will protect you from severe illness and death, I disagree. Mounting evidence suggests it might actually destroy your natural immune function, especially after the third dose.

Be that as it may, Dore rightfully states that being against mandates and vaccine passports isn't a cause restricted to the unvaccinated. He, Dichter and countless others who have received the jab did so because they wanted to protect themselves, but they're not willing to give up their freedoms and live in a totalitarian state.

A Political Tsunami

The good news is that, for whatever reason, the Canadian Freedom Convoy has captured the attention and hearts of the global population — even with mainstream media ignoring and/or minimizing it for days. As noted by Ron Paul in the Liberty Report above, it's turning into "a political tsunami."

Truck driver is one of the most common jobs in North America, and perhaps around the world, which might explain the wide appeal of this movement, and how news of it spread so rapidly and organically despite media blackouts and social media censorship. Another reason is probably because people recognize the leverage truckers as a group have.

For example, nearly 70% of all goods freight transported annually in the U.S. are delivered by truck.7 In Canada, that percentage is closer to 90%.8 When thousands of truck drivers stop delivering goods and instead honk their air horns outside a government building, the effects are bound to rapidly become noticeable in the form of empty shelves.

Anyone tired of living in Orwellian dystopia recognizes that this kind of leverage over the political class is far more significant than people marching in the streets with signs — which is what Europeans have been doing every weekend for months on end, to no avail.

The Rise of Global Freedom Convoys

Inspired and encouraged by the Canadian trucker movement, truckers in other countries are now organizing their own Freedom Convoys.9 In Europe, a European Freedom Convoy will meet up in Brussels, February 14, 2022, and remain there "until vaccination passports and associated restrictions are abolished" across the European Union.10,11

Australia also rapidly started organizing a Freedom Convoy to gather outside the Parliament House in Canberra, starting January 31, 2022.12,13 Within days, the Official Convoy to Canberra Facebook page had gathered 170,400 members.14 Facebook has now removed the group.

The government needs to really take a look at what the American people want. And they don't want mandates. ~ Jeremy Johnson, DC Freedom Convoy Coordinator

In the U.S., American truckers are planning a DC Freedom Convoy. Facebook was quick in deleting their page, though — a move its organizers blasted as "Censorship at its finest." As reported by Fox News:15

"The group, titled 'Convoy to D.C. 2022,' acted as a place for truckers to plan and coordinate their trek from California to Washington, D.C. Jeremy Johnson, who set up the Facebook group, said his personal account was also removed, prompting him to contact a civil rights attorney to discuss the next steps ...

[Mike] Landis, a trucker involved in the freedom convoy, told host Carley Shimkus that this movement is 'a long time coming.' He said Americans are tired of the 'government overreach' and criticized politicians for, as he believes, not following the Constitution.

'The presence of that amount of people that show that they are unhappy with what's going on is a good way to hopefully get their attention,' he said. Johnson and Brase anticipate a wide range of Americans, not only truckers, will come out to support their cause.

'This crosses all genders, all races, all sexual orientations, all occupations,' Brase said. 'Truckers might be standing up, but it's not about the truckers. It's about America.' The group's goal is to end vaccine mandates through peaceful protests. 'The government needs to really take a look at what the American people want,' Johnson said. 'And they don't want mandates.'"

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Federal Judges Slap Biden Administration

 

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Federal Judges Slap Down the Biden Administration—Hard

Rob Natelson

 

December 12, 2021 Updated: December 13, 2021

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The judges are finally doing their jobs again.

In August, I penned a column lamenting that in COVID-19 cases the courts seemed have gone AWOL. The sole exception was the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo (pdf), which blocked New York State closure rules discriminating against houses of worship

Otherwise, courts were deferring to government mandates, often relying on the old case of Jacobson v. Massachusetts (pdf) without regard to whether Jacobson was really a good authority for COVID-19 restrictions.

But now the federal judiciary is pushing back against the Biden administration’s contempt for liberty, the Constitution, and the rule of law.

On Aug. 26, the Supreme Court decided Alabama Association of Realtors v. Department of Health and Human Services (pdf). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), purportedly relying on a law that authorizes actions such as fumigation and disinfection, sought to re-write every residential lease in the country. The Supreme Court called the CDC’s interpretation of the law a “stretch” and struck down the agency’s order:

“[T]he Government’s read[ing] [of the statute] would give the CDC a breathtaking amount of authority. It is hard to see what measures this interpretation would place outside the CDC’s reach …. This claim of expansive authority … is unprecedented.”

The Administration Doubles Down on Dictatorship

The high court’s decision was a warning to the Biden administration. Yet the administration ignored it and doubled down. “The Big Guy” decided he knew best for the rest of us: Everyone had to be vaccinated. So the administration issued not one, but three vaccination mandates:

• The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) imposed a vaccination diktat on companies with more than 100 employees.
• The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a similar decree on health care providers.
• The Big Guy issued an executive order stating that the government would no longer contract with (or permit subcontracts to) companies with unvaccinated employees.

Just as the CDC had tried to convert a fumigation statute into power over residential leases, OSHA twisted a law directed at immediate job emergencies into a sweeping public health measure. CMS and the president likewise inflated administrative provisions into public health laws.

Each of these mandates purported to override state and local public health regulations.

The number of people affected shows how far the federal government now exceeds its constitutional limits. The OSHA mandate covered two thirds of the private sector workers in the country. The CMS decree affected 10.3 million people. The president’s executive order drew a bead on a fifth of the national workforce.

The administration’s apparent goal was to transfer public health policy from the states, where the Constitution places it, into the grip of Dictator Joe.

The Judicial Response

On Nov. 12, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit put a hold on the OSHA mandate. The case was BST Holdings v. OSHA (pdf). The judge writing the court’s opinion was Kurt D. Engelhardt.

On Nov. 30, a Louisiana federal court stayed the CMS order. The case was Louisiana v. Becerra (pdf). The jurist was Terry A. Doughty. The same day, a Kentucky federal judge stayed the executive order on federal contractors. The case was Kentucky v. Biden (pdf). The judge was Gregory F. Van Tatenhove.

Judge Tatenhove’s stay applied only to three states, but on Dec. 7, R. Stan Baker, a Georgia federal judge, made the stay national in scope. The case was Georgia v. Biden (pdf).

At least one decision has gone the other way. A Florida district court upheld the CMS mandate and on Dec. 6, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit affirmed (Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services (pdf)). But unlike the Fifth Circuit case, this decision was not unanimous: Judge Barbara Lagoa strongly dissented.

Aside from the 11th Circuit, all these courts found that the administration’s orders grossly exceeded the power Congress had given the executive branch.

Some of the judges expressed constitutional doubts as well. In the Fifth Circuit (OSHA) case, Judge Engelhardt pointed out (as I had in an earlier essay) that refusing to receive a vaccination is not the kind of “economic activity” the Supreme Court says can be reached under the Commerce Power. Judge Lagoa, writing in her 11th Circuit dissent, echoed that comment. In Kentucky, Judge Van Tatenhove added, “[T]here is a serious concern that Defendants have stepped into an area traditionally reserved to the States, and this provides an additional reason to temporarily enjoin the vaccine mandate.”

There’s a rule of constitutional law—known as the Major Questions Doctrine—that when Congress wishes to intrude on a matter of traditional state concern, Congress must do so in clear language. This is a very prominent rule studied in law school constitutional law courses. Of course, the Biden administration knew all about it, but chose to ignore it. Judges Engelhardt, Lagoa, and Doughty all criticized the administration for doing so.

The Judges Question the Administration’s Ethics

Typically, judges don’t accuse government actors of bad faith. But the Biden administration’s conduct was so egregious that several judges mentioned it. Judge Van Tatenhove pointed out that when Biden issued his executive order, he violated the Competition in Contracting Act. Judge Doughty observed that the administration had deliberately disregarded three specific legal requirements imposed by the Social Security Act. Judge Doughty explained how the CMS avoided giving legally required public notice:

“It took CMS almost two months, from September 9, 2021 to November 5, 2021, to prepare the interim final rule at issue. Evidently, the situation was not so urgent that notice and comment were not required. It took CMS longer to prepare the interim final rule without notice than it would have taken to comply with the notice and comment requirement.”

Several judges commented on the dishonesty of the administration’s legal defenses. Judge Van Tatenhove declared that “[I]t strains credulity that Congress intended … a procurement statute, to be the basis for promulgating a public health measure such as mandatory vaccination.” Judge Doughty found the CMS order “arbitrary and capricious.” In response to the CMS claim that its order was designed to increase efficiency, Judge Doughty labeled that a mere “pretext”—which means it was a lie.

Judge Engelhardt also responded to the administration’s dubious ethics. OSHA claimed it received power to impose vaccine mandates from an emergency shortcut designed for immediate workplace threats from previously unknown chemicals and similar substances. Judge Engelhardt noted that:

• This “emergency” had endured for nearly two years. When the administration finally decided to act, it took two months to do so. Obviously, the administration really didn’t believe there was an emergency. It merely said so to defend its overreach.
• “[C]ourts and the Agency have agreed for generations” that the emergency shortcut had to be “delicately exercised.” But “the Mandate is a one-size-fits-all sledgehammer that makes hardly any attempt to account for differences in workplaces (and workers) that have more than a little bearing on workers’ varying degrees of susceptibility to the supposedly ‘grave danger’ the Mandate purports to address.”
• OSHA previously had conceded it had no such authority.
• The “sledgehammer” was both “underinclusive” and “staggeringly overbroad,” violating yet another requirement of the statute.

Judge Engelhardt finished with these words:

“The Constitution vests a limited legislative power in Congress. For more than a century, Congress has routinely used this power to delegate policymaking specifics and technical details to executive agencies charged with effectuating policy principles Congress lays down. … But health agencies do not make housing policy, and occupational safety administrations do not make health policy. Cf. Ala. Ass’n of Realtors …. In seeking to do so here, OSHA runs afoul of the statute from which it draws its power and, likely, violates the constitutional structure that safeguards our collective liberty.”

These cases are extraordinary slap-downs of a sitting president. The slap downs are extraordinary not merely because the president lost, but because so many judges felt the need to highlight the Biden administration’s dishonesty and contempt for the rule of law.

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor, is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver.

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