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COVID-19 dress rehearsals and proof of the plan

<table><tbody><tr><td><table cellpadding="3" class="btrcontent" style="-moz-border-radius: 4px; -webkit-border-radius: 4px; background-color: white; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(173, 173, 173); font: 13px Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 6px; padding: 8px;"><tbody><tr><td><div style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;">Apr 14th 2021, 10:34, by Dr. Joseph Mercola </div> <div style="color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"> <h3>STORY AT-A-GLANCE</h3> <ul> <li>Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav warns that the global response to COVID-19 mirrors the tactics employed in Nazi Germany to segregate Jews and other undesirables, with the intent to commit mass genocide</li> <li>Pandemic measures rolled out for COVID-19 appear to be the culmination of decades of careful planning to radically and permanently alter the governance and social structures of the world</li> <li>Significant reductions in population through various means feature heavily in such plans, as do means to ensure obedience from the rest. As during the Nazi regime, the medical profession is again being enlisted to carry out dubious directives that benefit the global elite, not the people</li> <li>Hitler's "T4" program was an involuntary euthanasia campaign, where the incurably sick, physically and mentally handicapped, psychologically ill and elderly — all so-called "worthless eaters" — were murdered by the medical establishment</li> <li>Sharav warns that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed eugenics-driven public health policies in Western Europe and the United States, calling it "a chilling replay of T4." Government directives to put the sick in nursing homes condemned the elderly to death</li> </ul> https://articles.mercola.com/sites/mercola/special-content/truth-about-covid-index-tag.aspx In the featured video, German attorney and cofounder of the German Corona Extra-Parliamentary Inquiry Committee1,2,3 Dr. Reiner Fuellmich,4 interviews holocaust survivor Vera Sharav, a human rights advocate and founder of the Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP). In light of the rise of medical fascism guised as pandemic response, Sharav's warning to the world is extremely pertinent. She draws direct parallels between the global response to COVID-19 and the tactics employed in Nazi Germany to segregate Jews and other undesirables, with the intent to commit mass genocide. Indeed, when you look at history, pandemic exercises through the years and planning reports by globalist nongovernmental organizations, you get the distinct impression that the pandemic measures rolled out for COVID-19 are the culmination of decades of careful planning to radically and permanently <a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/10/28/the-great-reset.aspx">alter the governance and social structures of the world</a>. Disturbingly, significant <a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/03/13/oxford-astrazeneca-eugenics-links.aspx">reductions in population</a> through various means feature heavily in such plans. What's more, it's clear that the medical system has been used in the past to drive forward this New World Order/Great Reset agenda, and is now being used to implement the final stages of this plan. <aside class="takeaway tamiddle"><blockquote>Medical mandates, today, are a major step backwards toward a fascist dictatorship and genocide. Government dictates, medical intervention — these undermine our dignity as well as our freedom. ~ Vera Sharav</blockquote> </aside>As noted by EnergyTherapy.biz, which provides a transcript of the first seven minutes of Sharav's interview:5 "Whether people see the genocidal plans or not is largely down to their level of awareness, and whether they buy into mainstream propaganda …" "As a child survivor of the Nazi reign of terror, I learned indelible lessons about the nature of evil," Sharav says. "I know the consequences of being stigmatized and demonized as being a 'spreader' of disease. My perspective is informed by my experience, by the historical record, and by the empirical evidence." <h2>Where Are We Headed?</h2> As a Jew, Sharav was required to wear the yellow Star of David on her clothing at all times, so that she could be identified, segregated and discriminated against. By law, Jews were not allowed to engage in society like other Germans. They were barred from ordinary activities, including educational, religious and cultural gatherings. Their private property was impounded and they were forbidden to travel. "These painful memories from my childhood sensitized me to the threat posed by current restrictive government dictates," she says. "In 1776, Benjamin Rush, a doctor and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, foresaw the danger of medicine organizing as what he called 'an undercover dictatorship.' Under the Nazi Regime, moral norms were systematically obliterated. The medical profession and institutions were radically transformed, academic science, the military, industry and clinical medicine were tightly interwoven — as they are now. The Nazi system destroyed a social conscience in the name of 'public health.' Violations against individuals and classes of human beings were institutionalized. Eugenics driven public health policies replaced the physician's focus on the good of the individual. [The] German medical profession and institutions were perverted. Coercive public health policies violated individual civil and human rights. Criminal methods were used to enforce policy. Nazi propaganda used fear of infectious epidemics to demonize Jews as spreaders of disease; as a menace to public health. This is a hallmark of anti-Semitism, [to] blame the Jewish people for existential threats … Fear and propaganda were the psychological weapons the Nazis used to impose a genocidal regime. And today, some are beginning to understand why the German people didn't rise up. Fear kept them from doing the right thing. Medical mandates, today, are a major step backwards toward a fascist dictatorship and genocide. Government dictates, medical intervention — these undermine our dignity as well as our freedom. First it was vaccination mandates for children. Now it's for adults. The stark lesson of the Holocaust is that whenever doctors join forces with government and deviate from their personal, professional, clinical commitment to do no harm to the individual, medicine can then be perverted from a healing, humanitarian profession to a murderous apparatus … What sets the Holocaust apart from all other mass genocides is the pivotal role played by the entire medical establishment. Every step of the murderous process was endorsed by the academic, professional medical establishment. Medical doctors and prestigious medical societies and institutions lent the veneer of legitimacy to infanticide [and] mass murder of civilians. T4 was the first industrialized medical murder project in history. The first victims were disabled German infants and children under 3. They were identified by midwives, who reported their existence to the state. The next victims were the mentally ill, followed by the elderly in nursing homes. The murderous operations were methodical, and followed protocol very, very carefully." Disturbingly, and as mentioned earlier, the medical profession is again being enlisted to carry out dubious directives that will benefit the global elite while harming the people. The only difference, really, is that today, the agenda is being implemented worldwide. Sharav warns: "The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed eugenics-driven public health policies in Western Europe and the United States. This is a chilling replay of T4. Government directives to hospitalize [the sick] in nursing homes essentially condemned the elderly to death. In Europe and the U.S., hospitals were ordered NOT to treat, not to provide medical treatment, including oxygen, to elderly people in nursing homes … Before he issued the executive order that sent more than 15,000 human beings to death, Governor Cuomo of New York state predicted that the virus would be like 'fire through dry grass' in nursing homes." <h3>Hitler's T4 Program</h3> "T4" refers to Hitler's Aktion T4 involuntary euthanasia campaign,6 where the incurably sick, physically and mentally handicapped, psychologically ill and elderly — all so-called "worthless eaters" — were murdered by the medical establishment. An estimated 300,000 disabled people alone were killed under the T4 program,7 which was initiated in 1939.8 The organization in charge of the euthanasia program was the Reich Work Group of Sanatoriums and Nursing Homes, and the code name "T4" stands for Tiergarten 4, the street in Berlin where the headquarter of this organization was housed. To prisoners in Nazi work camps, the program was colloquially known as "Operation Invalid." Its official designation on paperwork was "Operation 14f13," or "Special Treatment 14f13." During the Holocaust, prisoners selected for this special treatment were simply told they were being sent to a "rest home." Some actually volunteered for the treatment, until rumors of what was really happening started leaking out. After the T4 program was officially ended in 1941,9 German doctors continued to be encouraged, and sometimes directed by the Nazi regime, to act on their own when it came to making life and death determinations. This became known as "wild euthanasia,"10 and continued until 1945.11 A psychiatrist offered the following testimony after the war:12 "In conversation with other participants in the program I learned that there would be no fuss if some physician or other in an institution stood ready to kill a patient by injection or overdose, if he was convinced that the patient's extinction was desirable." As explained by Sharav, T4 ended up being a testing grounds for lethal injections and pharmaceuticals. Not surprisingly, the corporate elite — including Standard Oil, IBM, Kodak, Ford, Coca-Cola, Nestle, IG Farben and Bayer — were the primary financial beneficiaries of the Nazi terror regime, which they all supported. In "<a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/04/08/how-did-ibm-enable-the-holocaust.aspx">IBM Colluded With Hitler, Now Makes Vaccine Passports</a>," I review the crucially central role IBM, specifically, played. Without IBM's technology, the Nazis would have been unable to efficiently identify, track, imprison and exterminate Jews. Today, the technology to identify and track down anyone or any group of individuals has exponentially improved. <h3>The Avian Flu Pandemic</h3> In 2006, there was another dress rehearsal for the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time, the avian flu emerged as a global pandemic, and public health officials advised the Bush Administration to implement quarantines, closures and measured lockdowns. Dr. Donald Henderson was the primary author of a report13 that in no uncertain terms dismissed the justifications for these, what he called "unscientific measures." He warned that using these kinds of measures could turn a manageable epidemic into a "catastrophe." At that time, these warnings did not fall on deaf ears, and quarantines, business closures and lockdowns were not implemented. During the COVID-19 pandemic, however, doctors and scientists who spoke out against COVID-19 pandemic measures and government dictates were simply <a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/04/05/freedom-of-speech-threatened-by-censorship-extremists.aspx">censored</a>, vilified and threatened with loss of livelihood. They've been roundly ignored by government leaders, and the virus has been continuously "exploited to <a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/09/19/government-using-fear-to-control.aspx">maintain a state of fear</a>," Sharav says. We can now see that <a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/03/24/global-lockdown.aspx">lockdowns</a> are a "very effective means for social control" and the transfer of wealth, she adds. Indeed, the corporate elite have profited immensely from the shutting down of small, private businesses, so, it would be naïve to ignore the financial incentives behind this tactic. In the case of Big Tech, the companies profiting from these draconian measures are also the ones censoring objections. Lockdowns have done nothing, however, to alter the course of the pandemic, just as Henderson warned. Instead, "people are being conditioned to submit passively to government dictates," Sharav says, and children, robbed of an education, are being "conditioned to distrust people." This, I believe, has been the true intention all along. "Mandatory masks are an insidious psychological weapon. They demean our dignity as free human beings. They do not work in this or any other epidemic. And, they are the symbolic equivalent of the yellow star." <h3>The SPARS Pandemic of 2025</h3> In a November 2020 article14 posted on The Last American Vagabond, Derrick Broze reviews a 2017 coronavirus pandemic simulation (the SPARS pandemic scenario) held by the Johns Hopkins Center of Health Security. There have been many such exercises. Most recently, there was <a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/03/30/bill-gates-event-201.aspx">Event 201</a>, organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in collaboration with Johns Hopkins and the World Economic Forum. That exercise took place in October 2019, just a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out. One of the many striking foreshadowings in that exercise was the radical crackdown on and censoring of "misinformation." As reported by Broze: "Event 201 simulated how the world would respond to a fictional coronavirus pandemic known as CAPS, which swept around the planet. The simulation imagined 65 million people dying, mass lock downs, quarantines, censorship of alternative viewpoints under the guise of fighting 'disinformation,' and even floated the idea of arresting people who question the pandemic narrative." Just two months earlier, in October 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), headed by Alex Azar, along with several national, state and local organizations, held a pandemic exercise known as Crimson Contagion. It simulated an outbreak of a novel avian influenza virus originating in China. A simulation called Clade X was held in May 2018. Here, the virus in question was a biological weapon released by a terrorist group. Requirements, should the President issue a federal quarantine order, were discussed. The federal government also ended up nationalizing the health care system in this exercise. Of these, the SPARS pandemic exercise held in 2017 is among the lesser-known, but like Event 201, it bears striking similarities to our current situation. Broze writes:15 "In October 2017, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security released their report,16,17 SPARS Pandemic, 2025-2028: A Futuristic Scenario for Public Health Risk Communicators. The report is written from the perspective of someone in 2030 who is looking back on a pandemic which swept around the world between 2025 and 2028. The document states that the creators identified major socioeconomic, demographic, technological, and environmental trends which they believe are likely to emerge during this period. The two trends they said are likely to influence public health emergencies are 'varying degrees of access to information technology' and increased 'fragmentation among populations along social, political, religious, ideological, and cultural lines' … Interestingly, the report notes that 'early case fatality estimates were inflated' with the CDC estimating SPARS case fatality rate of 4.7%, and the WHO saying 14-15% and over 50% for people over the age of 64. Later studies would provide a more accurate estimate of only 0.6%. This simulated scenario mimics what we have seen with COVID-19. The CDC and WHO both initially claimed the fatality rate was much higher before later admitting that the rate was below 1% … By time Thanksgiving and Black Friday arrived the transmission of SPARS accelerated due to asymptomatic individuals traveling … Much like in real life, the simulation states that the Department of Health and Human Services agreed to provide liability protection to the vaccine manufacturer … The simulation makes it clear that health officials have planned for potential vaccine injuries and the objection to vaccine mandates. In one section the report asks, 'How might federal health authorities respond to critics who propose that liability protection for SPARS vaccine manufacturers jeopardizes individual freedom and wellbeing?'" It would seem government officials and health authorities are simply ignoring that question by censoring it, and labeling anyone who raises questions about vaccine safety and the legality of vaccine passports as an enemy of the state. We're repeatedly told to simply "trust the experts," but as noted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in his <a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/04/12/technocracy-vs-democracy.aspx">foreword to my new book, "The Truth About COVID-19"</a>: "Such advice is both anti-democratic and anti-science. Science is dynamic. 'Experts' frequently differ on scientific questions and their opinions can vary in accordance with the demands of politics, power and financial self-interest. Nearly every lawsuit I have ever brought pitted highly credentialed experts from opposite sides against each other, with all of them swearing under oath to diametrically antithetical positions based on the same set of facts. Science is disagreement; the notion of scientific consensus is oxymoronic." <h3>How We Bought the Big Lie</h3> With hindsight being 20/20, we can now see just how the narrative around COVID-19 led us to where we are today, and it all began with a double dose of fearmongering. As noted by Jordan Schachtel in a recent article in The Dossier,18 the worldwide panic was set off with a series of "breathtaking, horrifying photos and videos coming out of Wuhan," of what appeared to be "an Ebola-like plague." He points to videos showing "citizens in business attire, out and about, seemingly going about their day, when suddenly, they were captured on film dropping like flies." Not long after that, Chinese authorities announced widespread lockdowns to stop the virus. "A few months later, Beijing announced that it had successfully stopped the virus dead in its tracks, but only through brutal suppression measures taken," Schachtel writes. "The message from the Chinese Communist Party was crystal-clear: countries around the world must lock down immediately, and indefinitely, in an attempt to stop this supposedly deadly plague from infecting your nation's population. The scare tactic worked. In a state of total panic, the overwhelming majority of the world followed the CCP's 'advice' on handling the virus." There's just one major problem. Nowhere — except for in those conveniently anonymous viral videos from Wuhan — were people dropping dead in the street. The illness simply doesn't work like that, and looking back, none of the initial footage makes any sense whatsoever, and couldn't possibly have had anything to do with COVID-19. "There is only one reasonable explanation for this — we got hoaxed by the Chinese government, and its disinformation operation continues to this day," Schachtel writes. "COVID-19 should be understood as a classic Soviet-style disinformation operation. In employing previous disinformation campaigns, the Chinese Communist Party has long reflected the Soviet playbook to perform its own deceptive practices. This graphic from The New York Times accurately summarizes the key ingredients within the Soviet-style playbook that makes for a successful disinformation campaign:" <img class="alignnone size-full" data-recalc-dims="1" height="350" loading="lazy" src="https://i1.wp.com/media.mercola.com/ImageServer/public/2021/April/7-commandments-of-fake-news.jpg?resize=700%2C350&ssl=1" width="700" /> In his article, Schachtel goes through each of these seven tactics, and how they've been implemented during this pandemic. If you're still unfamiliar with the Great Reset, you're probably wondering why anyone would ever go through all the trouble of faking a global pandemic. It seems too horrifically inhumane to even consider. Disturbingly, that's where the evidence takes you, and when you start to become more familiar with the contents of global plans and agendas, agreed to by most countries around the globe, you start to see how this pandemic is being used as a cover story to foist unpopular restrictions upon the global population. The end game, it would appear, is nothing short of a global takeover by technocratic globalists who seek to gain ownership of the world's assets, while stripping ownership rights and other basic freedoms from the rest of the people, who are looked upon as "excessive eaters" (to modify the term "useless eaters" used by the Nazis to describe undesirables that were to be killed to preserve resources for those actually "worthy" of life). <h3>COVID-19 — Cover for UN Agenda 2030</h3> In a February 2021 blog post,19 Henry Makow distills the message gleaned from a 2016 article by Alex Newman, titled "UN Agenda 2030: A Recipe for Global Socialism." In that article, Newman pointed out that, in 2015, "virtually every national government/dictatorship on the planet met at the 70th annual General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York to adopt a draconian 15-year master plan for the planet." The summit unanimously approved the plan, officially dubbed Agenda 2030, referring to it as a "Great Leap Forward," which just so happens to be an old campaign slogan of the Chinese Communist Party. The plan is composed of 17 sustainable development goals with 169 specific targets to be imposed across the globe. While "sustainable development" sounds like a perfectly reasonable goal, this noble sounding verbiage hides a hideous truth. These plans are not what they claim to be. As noted by Patrick Wood in "<a href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/08/30/patrick-wood-technocracy.aspx">The Pressing Dangers of Technocracy</a>," "sustainable development" is part and parcel of the technocratic plan for a Great Reset of the economic system: "Their vision for the future of society is this sustainable future where they will control all the resources and all the consumption. In other words, they will tell businesses what they're allowed to build and they will tell consumers what they're allowed to consume. Period, end of subject. You don't need to be involved in this. They figure this all out for you in advance. This is the science of social engineering. They have the science, you just have to follow and do what they tell you to do. It's very insidious. Of course, they have nice platitudes like we're going to eliminate poverty, we're going to have education for all, we're going to have jobs with dignity. That's all wonderful stuff, but when you get down to the bottom of their so-called sustainable development [and green deal] goals, you see [that] all you have to do to get those things is let us have all the control over the resources and the management of those resources on a global basis." Newman, in looking through the goals of Agenda 2030, had the same warning back in 2016. He wrote:20 "Perhaps the single most striking feature of Agenda 2030 is the practically undisguised roadmap to global socialism and corporatism/fascism. To begin with, consider the agenda's Goal 10, which calls on the UN, national governments, and every person on Earth to 'reduce inequality within and among countries.' To do that, the agreement continues, will 'only be possible if wealth is shared and income inequality is addressed' … Governments must also seize control of the means of production — either directly or through fascist-style mandates … In plain English, the Agenda 2030 document is claiming that today's 'consumption and production' patterns are unsustainable, so we'll need to get by with less." <h3>The Middle Class Are Now the 'Excessive Eaters'</h3> It's important to realize that the "unsustainable consumption" they're talking about is not the lavish, over-the-top consumption by the rich, but rather the everyday consumption of the middle-class. This includes: <ul> <li>High intake of meat, frozen food and "convenience" foods</li> <li>Ownership of motor vehicles</li> <li>Ownership of electrical appliances</li> <li>Home and workplace air-conditioning</li> <li>Suburban housing</li> </ul> In short, Agenda 2030 is aimed at reducing the middle-class' consumption of basic goods and energy, which includes limiting, with an eye toward eliminating, property rights and private ownership for future generations. If you were to draw yet another parallel to Hitler's T4 program, you could say the middle class of today has become "excessive eaters" slated for mass-reduction, as alluded to earlier. Agenda 2030 also details how the younger generation is to be indoctrinated into promoting the fulfillment of these goals. According to the agreement: "Children and young women and men are critical agents of change and will find in the new Goals a platform to channel their infinite capacities for activism into the creation of a better world … By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture's contribution to sustainable development." As noted by Newman: "Considering what the UN means by 'sustainable development' — population control, central planning, global governance, and more — the agenda for your children takes on an even more sinister tone … Throughout the agreement, the UN openly advocates the use of schools to indoctrinate all of humanity into a new set of values, attitudes, and beliefs in preparation for the new 'green' and 'sustainable' world order." <h3>Can You See the Plan Yet?</h3> Like mask wearing, lockdowns, and the yellow star before that, vaccine passports are the next step in the plan to identify undesirables so that they can be easily segregated and discriminated against. Ultimately, if the plan is allowed to unfurl in its totality, we may well live to see a time in which there will be a call for the incarceration and elimination of the unvaccinated altogether. This is the global genocide Sharav warns us about. We're on that path. The justification will be that unvaccinated individuals are too "unclean," too "unsafe" to freely participate in public society and must therefore be identified and shut out. In reality, it's really about identifying the noncompliant. The vaccine passport will readily identify those who are willing to go along with the technocratic takeover, and who aren't. Those unwilling to enter the new world of technocratic rule without a fuss are the ones that will need to be eliminated, and willingness to be a test subject for an unproven experimental treatment appears to be the litmus test. There will be other tests, however. Of this you can be sure. The requirement to obey, "or else," will only expand and get more restrictive. Absolute slavery is our future, if we allow it. <hr /> <hr /> <h2>'The Purge' by Big Tech targets conservatives, including us</h2> <h4>Just when we thought the Covid-19 lockdowns were ending and our ability to stay afloat was improving, censorship reared its ugly head.</h4> For the last few months, NOQ Report has appealed to our readers for assistance in staying afloat through Covid-19 lockdowns. The downturn in the economy has limited our ability to generate proper ad revenue just as our traffic was skyrocketing. We had our first sustained stretch of three months with over a million visitors in November, December, and January, but February saw a dip. It wasn't just the shortened month. We expected that. We also expected the continuation of dropping traffic from "woke" Big Tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter, but it has actually been much worse than anticipated. Our Twitter account was banned. One of our YouTube accounts was banned and another has been suspended. 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Apr 14th 2021, 10:34, by Dr. Joseph Mercola ...

The ersatz society: America gone wrong

<table><tbody><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 6px; line-height: 10px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px;"></td></tr><tr><td><table cellpadding="3" class="btrcontent" style="-moz-border-radius: 4px; -webkit-border-radius: 4px; background-color: white; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(173, 173, 173); font: 13px Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 6px; padding: 8px;"><tbody><tr><td><div style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;">Apr 14th 2021, 10:11, by David Ware </div> <div style="color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"> <h3>DEFINING OUR TERMS</h3> Ersatz refers to a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else. The ersatz version is not real or genuine. Perhaps in this day of artificial intelligence with computer generated images and voices, sometimes we're really not sure if we're talking to a human being or not. I literally asked a phone representative of a credit card company not long ago whether he was a real human being or a computer because his enunciation and diction were just more perfect than anyone I've ever heard. He assured me that he was perfectly human and that his wife was happy that he was. So I suppose, he really was human. Unless he was a perfectly programmed AI. Think about what I just said that sometimes that which is not real appears to be more perfect than what is real. People are human and we make mistakes. Computers sometimes also err and the results are exponentially worse. But sometimes the voices and images which they generate are better than what we mortals can come up with. So we live in a society where reality and pretense are sometimes indistinguishable to the naked eye or ear. This is compounded by deliberate attempts by our enemies to mislead us like lemmings over a cliff. <h3>IT WASN'T ALWAYS THIS WAY</h3> Our lives are very much a product of our times. If you or I had existed with exactly identical DNA, intellect and talents at the time our country was founded, the environment would very much have determined how we manifested these innate gifts from God. We are not even the greatest generation that won World War II and preserved our liberties. I'm only one generation removed from that era, whereas many of you are two or three. If you haven't already read my previous article about The Federalist Papers, you can view it here: <blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="vsbXdq2Emm"><a href="https://noqreport.com/2021/03/30/the-people-are-the-only-legitimate-fountain-of-power/">The people are the only legitimate fountain of power</a></blockquote> Let's review some of the most significant articulations from that first installment, then we will turn to subsequent writings. <h4>FEDERALIST NUMBER 15</h4> "Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint." Alexander Hamilton [Comment: Our Founders were under no illusions about how human nature will negatively impact any government, both by those who govern and those who are governed, no matter how assiduously we attempt to achieve perfection, which they fully understood to be unattainable.] <h4>FEDERALIST NUMBER 22</h4> "One of the weak sides of republics, among their numerous advantages, is that they afford too easy an inlet to foreign corruption." Alexander Hamilton [Comment: Foreign intrusion in our national affairs was something they fully anticipated and is not unique to the 21st Century.] <h4>FEDERALIST NUMBER 25</h4> "For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion." Alexander Hamilton [Comment: Madison, Hamilton and Jay warned their contemporaries about what we would call wolves in sheep's clothing.] <h4>FEDERALIST NUMBER 26</h4> "The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy." "It is impossible that the people could be long deceived…." Alexander Hamilton [Comment: This is where we should begin to consider how we have gone wrong. Why did these patriots of long-ago consider all their countrymen to be so perceptive and unable to be deceived? What has happened to that discernment over the course of well over two centuries?] <h4>FEDERALIST NUMBER 37</h4> "It is impossible for any man of candor to reflect on this circumstance without partaking of the astonishment. It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution." James Madison [Comment: The man who was the chief architect of the United States Constitution and our 4th President understood Divine Providence in a way that our present society has forsaken. I would conclude that candor and piety are the elements which we now lack that he so inherently recognized.] <h4>FEDERALIST NUMBER 40</h4> "The prudent inquiry, in all cases, ought surely to be, not so much FROM WHOM the advice comes, as whether the advice be GOOD." James Madison [Comment: Contrast these words to the tendency today to attack the messenger as a diversion or decoy to avoid addressing the substance of an issue. How many times does that happen in social media? How often do they just say a website is not credible without even once trying to refute that which was reported? That is the ultimate cop out of our age which are Founders would not have tolerated in their opponents.] <h4>FEDERALIST NUMBER 41</h4> "The choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT, good." James Madison [Comment: We are often confronted these days with what we refer to as the lesser of two evils. But, the problem is not only when one person or one side of an argument is inherently evil. Unless we do that which is the most we can under the circumstances, claiming that we will settle for nothing less than perfection, by default, we let our enemies impose something exponentially worse.] <h4>FEDERALIST NUMBER 48</h4> "The conclusion which I am warranted in drawing from these observations is, that a mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments, is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands." [Comment: Our Founders understood that putting something into writing does no good unless those in power abide by the Constitution. What we saw in our recent national American elections was that the Constitution did not fail, but those who had sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution failed in their duties. That applied to all three branches of our federal government: executive, legislative and judicial. We are a nation of laws, but laws mean nothing if they are ignored. We must respect them, abide by them and prosecute to the fullest extent those who disobey them and who dishonor all those who sacrificed their fortunes and even their lives to pass them down to us.] James Madison <h4>FEDERALIST NUMBER 49</h4> "But a nation of philosophers is as little to be expected as the philosophical race of kings wished for by Plato." James Madison or Alexander Hamilton [Comment: Those to whom we owe our freedom and our liberties had no delusions. They did think that Americans were intelligent and discerning. But they understood there were limits. I'm not sure they anticipated the atrophy of our national moral fabric however.] <h4>FEDERALIST NUMBER 51</h4> "But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?" [Comment: Government is not just an abstract concept. It exists only as it is applied by mortals of flesh and blood.] "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." [Comment: The first thing I notice here is that the recognition of Divine Power and Authority beyond this mortal sphere of human existence was so natural to our Founders, that they assumed it to be Universal. They didn't argue for the existence of angels. They expected their readers to stipulate that. So very different today as mankind has tried to elevate itself in blasphemy against our Creator. How can you inspire anyone to aspire to righteous governance, when they accept no higher authority than their own mind?] "It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part." [Comment: The concept of guarding society against the oppression of its rulers, whether explicit or implicit, pervades all the writings of those who gave us this Republic, which, as Benjamin Franklin expressed so cogently, they hoped we could keep.] Alexander Hamilton or James Madison <h4>FEDERALIST NUMBER 55</h4> "The present genius of the people of America…." [Comment: Taking time to read and absorb The Federalist Papers, one is struck with a recurring thread of respect for Americans to know and to do the right thing and not to be misled. So, how did we reach this point of the dumbing-down and functional illiteracy of so much of our society? I would submit that so much of it is due to being spoon-fed in snippets of information, some of which have to fit into 280 characters. Genius may be hereditary but it is nurtured by erudition. It is killed by hedonism, laziness and complacency.] "What change of circumstances, time, and a fuller population of our country may produce, requires a prophetic spirit to declare, which makes no part of my pretensions." [Comment: Yes, they were contrite enough to realize that they could not possibly look into the future and know what America would be like centuries later. But they gave us an exquisite system of governance and it is up to us to maintain it.] Alexander Hamilton or James Madison <h4>FEDERALIST NUMBER 57</h4> "Ingratitude is a common topic of declamation against human nature; and it must be confessed that instances of it are but too frequent and flagrant, both in public and in private life. But the universal and extreme indignation which it inspires is itself a proof of the energy and prevalence of the contrary sentiment." [Comment: One element of human nature that does not change with the seasons or the centuries is ingratitude. That, in my estimation, is the number one reason for today's ersatz society which is not even a vague shadow of that which was bestowed upon us by patriots who thought very deeply and who cared very deeply, not only for their contemporaries, but also for posterity. If we have never had to fight or defend our way of life, we simply do not place upon it the value which it deserves. We are easily led astray.] Alexander Hamilton or James Madison <h3>SO, WHAT HAS GONE WRONG?</h3> Nothing could ever have destroyed America when we were of one accord, but, our enemies today have mastered the technique of divide and conquer. America is crumbling from within. Patriotism is considered passé. Our country has lost the awareness of our unique role in human history and become just another nation as Barack Obama predicted. To him, that is a desirable state of affairs. Whether this degeneration and disintegration of the United States of America is inevitable, or whether it is reversible, only you and I can determine. Madison and Hamilton were born for their times. We were born for ours. What went wrong and led to this ersatz society today, is that we have forgotten who we are, history has been deliberately erased. I have always believed that the USA has a unique and vital role in human history. Our liberties, until recently, have been totally unprecedented. We must not let a plan-demic undermine the continuity that has sustained us. We do not have to all agree on everything. That is not possible. It wasn't even possible back in the 18th century. But, then, unlike now, they understood cause and effect. So many of us now simply exist without thinking about why we do what we do. <blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="GUnF2OIkyx"><a href="https://noqreport.com/2021/04/08/why-do-you-do-what-you-do/">Why do you do what you do?</a></blockquote> You may fail to recognize a piece of art as a counterfeit or phony unless you view it alongside the real thing. Unless we have an understanding of that which is real, we will always fall for an inferior ersatz substitute. The way to dispel the darkness is by turning on the light. Knowledge is the antidote to deception. <h3>IS THERE HOPE FOR AMERICA?</h3> Yes. You alone can replace despair with unbounded hope. 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Apr 14th 2021, 10:11, by David Ware D...

Big Tech: What little privacy you have is going away

<table><tbody><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 6px; line-height: 10px; padding-left: 1px; padding-right: 1px;"></td></tr><tr><td><table cellpadding="3" class="btrcontent" style="-moz-border-radius: 4px; -webkit-border-radius: 4px; background-color: white; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(173, 173, 173); font: 13px Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 6px; padding: 8px;"><tbody><tr><td><div style="color: #999999; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;">Apr 14th 2021, 09:43, by Jim Stroud </div> <div style="color: #494949; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"> I don't normally post press releases but when I do, its because I am gravely concerned. What follows is a February 22, 2021 <a href="https://news.microsoft.com/2021/02/22/technology-and-media-entities-join-forces-to-create-standards-group-aimed-at-building-trust-in-online-content/">press release posted on Microsoft's website</a>. I will embolden the bits that worry me and should worry you as well. Hat Tip to Dan Bongino who rang the alarm bell <a href="https://bongino.com/ep-1468-how-is-this-not-a-front-page-story" rel="noopener" target="_blank">on this one</a>. <h3 class="has-text-align-center">Technology and media entities join forces to create standards group aimed at building trust in online content</h3> Adobe, Arm, BBC, Intel, Microsoft and Truepic form coalition to develop end-to-end, open standard for tracing the origin and evolution of digital content SAN JOSE, Calif., and REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 22, 2021 — A group of influential technology and media companies has partnered to form the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a <a href="https://www.jointdevelopment.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Joint Development Foundation project</a> established to address the prevalence of disinformation, misinformation and online content fraud through developing technical standards for certifying the source and history or provenance of media content. Founding members Adobe, Arm, BBC, Intel, Microsoft and  Truepic seek to establish a standardized provenance solution with the goal of combating misleading content. C2PA member organizations will work together to develop content provenance specifications for common asset types and formats to enable publishers, creators and consumers to trace the origin and evolution of a piece of media, including images, videos, audio and documents. These technical specifications will include defining what information is associated with each type of asset, how that information is presented and stored, and how evidence of tampering can be identified. The C2PA's open standard will give platforms a method to preserve and read provenance-based digital content. Because an open standard can be adopted by any online platform, it is critical to scaling trust across the internet. In addition to the inclusion of varied media types at scale, C2PA is driving an end-to-end provenance experience from the capturing device to the information consumer. Collaboration with chipmakers, news organizations, and software and platform companies is critical to facilitate a comprehensive provenance standard and drive broad adoption across the content ecosystem. The formation of the C2PA brings together founding members of the Adobe-led <a href="https://contentauthenticity.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Content Authenticity Initiative</a> (CAI) and the Microsoft- and BBC-led <a href="https://www.originproject.info/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Project Origin</a>, unifying technical specifications under a single entity. The CAI is building a system to provide provenance and history for digital media, giving creators a tool to claim authorship and empowering consumers to evaluate whether what they are seeing is trustworthy. Project Origin has its roots in the production and distribution of news. The effort has focused on tackling disinformation in the digital news ecosystem by attaching signals to a piece of content to demonstrate its integrity and making this information available to those using it. With the foundation of the C2PA, technical standards will be unified while these two entities continue to pursue adoption, prototyping and education within their respective communities. Today's C2PA announcement builds on several recent advances in content provenance, including <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W3Om9Xbj2k&feature=youtu.be" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Project Origin</a>'s efforts to develop a pipeline for signaling, certification and tracking the history of news content; the <a href="https://contentauthenticity.org/case-study" rel="noopener" target="_blank">CAI</a>'s first-ever end-to-end demonstration of provenance for captured media online; and <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/truepic-breakthrough-charts-a-path-for-restoring-trust-in-photos-and-videos-at-internet-scale-301152998.html?tc=eml_cleartime" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Truepic</a>'s development of the first native integration of hardware-secured photo capture smartphone technology. Designing standards and technologies that can certify the source and provenance of online content is an important step forward in addressing rising concerns with the manipulation and manufacture of news and information. Companies interested in joining the C2PA can apply through <a href="mailto:membership@c2pa.org" rel="noopener" target="_blank">membership@c2pa.org</a>. ### END PRESS RELEASE ### <h3>So, what's so scary about that?</h3> Allum Bokhari did a GREAT analysis of what C2PA stands for over at BreitBart. Here is rather long quote but, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/02/25/bokhari-microsoft-and-friends-want-to-destroy-online-privacy/#" rel="noopener" target="_blank">please do read the original article here</a>. Put simply, the purpose of this organization is to devise a system whereby all content on the internet can be traced back to its author. The press release states that it will develop these specifications for "common asset types and formats," meaning videos, documents, audio, and images. Whether it's a meme, an audio remix, or a written article, the goal is to ensure that when content reaches the internet, it will come attached with a set of signals allowing its provenance — meaning authorship — can be detected. Consider the companies that have signed on to this initiative. Leading the pack is Microsoft, which operates Word, Paint, Notepad, Edge, and the Office Suite. If you create a .doc or a .jpg, a Microsoft service is probably involved in some capacity. Then there's Adobe, the company behind Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Premiere Pro, as well as several other market-leading applications for publishing photos, videos, and documents. There's also Truepic, a company that has developed technology to track the provenance of photos from the very moment they are captured on a smartphone. Finally, there's Intel, which dominates the market in laptop and desktop central processing units (CPUs). The CPU is responsible for processing virtually all information on computers. Whether you're typing a sentence or taking a screenshot, it's the CPU that is processing that data. Accessing the CPU is the ultimate form of digital surveillance. Even if you're disconnected from the internet, the CPU still sees what your computer is doing. The combination of these forces creates the potential to track and de-anonymize information from the moment it is created on a computer. Signals could be attached to information to ensure it is censored and suppressed wherever it travels online. Even if someone else is sharing the information, it could be suppressed simply because of its point of origin. And, of course, the signals could be used to identify the creators of dissident content. Okay, let me give you a few scenarios on what I think could happen: <ol> <li>CNN posts a story on President Biden that is highly favorable. You happen to know what CNN reported was not entirely true. You make a funny video debunking the story and share it with a few friends who share it with more friends and it goes viral. Someone in President Biden's cabinet discovers it, gets offended and traces the origin of the video to you. As a result, you are punished in some way. Maybe placed on a no-fly list. Maybe worse.</li> <li>Newsmax posts a story on President Biden that is factual but does not present him in a favorable light. Along with the news story is a photo that gets shared and posted online. Or at least, it was intended to be. The C2PA technology designates it as "hate speech" and whenever you try to post that image, it simply does not work on your website or could be seen in your browser.</li> <li>FOX News shares a podcast on its website that is downloaded by several thousand listeners before its declared misinformation by the C2PA. As such, when people try to play that podcast on their home computer it does not work. Maybe in its place is a calm message that says, "This info has been designated misinformation. Please consider getting your news from C2PA approved sources."</li> <li>One America News Network produces a series on Trump's 2024 election campaign and concludes that his polling numbers are at record highs. For whatever reason, the C2PA calls it fake news and with their technology, deletes it off all computers that have that specific information and any other data related to it.</li> <li>Trump supporters are labeled "domestic terrorists" by the national security services and anything connected to their activities is monitored; meaning anything digital (video, audio, photos, documents) can be tracked, traced to the original author or deleted outright. (Presumably without warning or permission because its being done to safeguard Americans from misleading information.) And since they can trace the IP addresses of CPUs, who's to say that said "domestic terrorists" would not get a friendly visit from federal agents?</li> </ol> In other words, this is a BIG deal. A very big deal. So, what should you do about it? I have a few ideas. <ul> <li> Look for alternative software that competes with the big tech giants. For example, there are 78 alternatives to Microsoft Word, 215 alternatives to Adobe Photoshop and 195 alternatives to Google Chrome. You can find them all on this website – <a href="https://alternativeto.net/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">AlternativeTo</a>.</li> <li>I would also call into radio talk shows and make your favorite talk radio and/or podcast personality know about this. Share with them this blog post and/or others that might be discussing it and ask them their thoughts on the matter.</li> <li>Finally, reach out to politicians and ask them if they feel its right for a few tech companies to have so much power. Ask them multiple times and continuously, all the way to the 2022 US House of Representatives and (if need be) the 2024 Presidential Election and every other election in between.</li> </ul> <h3>Take action now!</h3> It is far better to stop a tech tyranny nightmare before it starts than to challenge an entrenched monster later. … Wow! That was a long rant. I hope it makes a difference. Your actions will tell the tale. In the interim, here is more interesting reading in case I didn't give you enough. <ul> <li><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/democrats-ask-cable-tech-giants-about-disinformation-on-conservative-tv-channels" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Democrats Ask Cable, Tech Giants About "Disinformation" On Conservative TV Channels</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/feb/26/mcmorris-rodgers-effort-to-block-disinformation-re/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">McMorris Rodgers: Effort to block disinformation really tries to silence conservatives</a></li> <li><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/01/craig-newmark-disinformation-conservative-joe-bide/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">A Study Touted As A Blow To Conservatives' Complaints About Big Tech Censorship Was Funded By A Major Biden Donor</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-columnist-accurate-stories-right-wing-misinformation" rel="noopener" target="_blank">New York Times columnist blasted for claiming accurate stories are 'right-wing misinformation'</a></li> </ul> <hr /> <hr /> <h2>'The Purge' by Big Tech targets conservatives, including us</h2> <h4>Just when we thought the Covid-19 lockdowns were ending and our ability to stay afloat was improving, censorship reared its ugly head.</h4> For the last few months, NOQ Report has appealed to our readers for assistance in staying afloat through Covid-19 lockdowns. The downturn in the economy has limited our ability to generate proper ad revenue just as our traffic was skyrocketing. We had our first sustained stretch of three months with over a million visitors in November, December, and January, but February saw a dip. It wasn't just the shortened month. We expected that. We also expected the continuation of dropping traffic from "woke" Big Tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter, but it has actually been much worse than anticipated. Our Twitter account was banned. One of our YouTube accounts was banned and another has been suspended. Facebook "fact-checks" everything we post. Spotify canceled us. Why? Because we believe in the truth prevailing, and that means we will continue to discuss "taboo" topics. The 2020 presidential election was stolen. You can't say that on Big Tech platforms without risking cancelation, but we'd rather get cancelled for telling the truth rather than staying around to repeat mainstream media's lies. They have been covering it up since before the election and they've convinced the vast majority of conservative news outlets that they will be harmed if they continue to discuss voter fraud. We refuse to back down. The truth is the truth. The lies associated with Covid-19 are only slightly more prevalent than the suppression of valid scientific information that runs counter to the prescribed narrative. We should be allowed to ask questions about the vaccines, for example, as there is ample evidence for concern. One does not have to be an "anti-vaxxer" in order to want answers about vaccines that are still considered experimental and that have a track record in a short period of time of having side-effects. These questions are not allowed on Big Tech which is just another reason we are getting cancelled. There are more topics that they refuse to allow. In turn, we refuse to stop discussing them. This is why we desperately need your help. The best way NOQ Report readers can help is to donate. Our <a href="https://noqreport.givingfuel.com/noq-report">Giving Fuel page</a> makes it easy to donate one-time or monthly. Alternatively, you can <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=BJBTSXXH3MLUN&source=url">donate through PayPal</a> as well. We are on track to be short by about $5300 per month in order to maintain operations. The second way to help is to become a partner. We've strongly considered seeking angel investors in the past but because we were paying the bills, it didn't seem necessary. Now, we're struggling to pay the bills. We had 5,657,724 sessions on our website from November, 2020, through February, 2021. Our intention is to elevate that to higher levels this year by focusing on a strategy that relies on free speech rather than being beholden to progressive Big Tech companies. During that four-month stretch, Twitter and Facebook accounted for about 20% of our traffic. We are actively working on operating as if that traffic is zero, replacing it with platforms that operate more freely such as Gab, Parler, and others. While we were never as dependent on Big Tech as most conservative sites, we'd like to be completely free from them. That doesn't mean we will block them, but we refuse to be beholden to companies that absolutely despise us simply because of our political ideology. We're heading in the right direction and we believe we're ready talk to patriotic investors who want to not only "get in on the action" but more importantly who want to help America hear the truth. Interested investors should contact me directly with the contact button above. As the world spirals towards radical progressivism, the need for truthful journalism has never been greater. But in these times, we need as many conservative media voices as possible. <a href="https://noqreport.givingfuel.com/noq-report">Please help keep NOQ Report going</a>. 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news noq Big Tech: What little privacy you have is going away

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