Are you going to take the Central Bank Digital Currency, or be brave, have some balls and resist? Scary Variant incoming...get ready to mask up buttercup, and take another boo$ter.
Fear-mongering Is a Tool to Foster Obedience
Scary Story Below…
Eris is here. Like Santa Claws, except Eris is grasping at straws. I always knew I should have been a poet, or something like that.
EG.5.1. (Eris) has been considered a “variant of interest” since 9 August. According to the WHO, the phenotype does not differ fundamentally from other Omicron lineages and does not require special public health measures ...
For the once-duped-but-still-on-the-fence reading this stack, you might want to dust off your old masks and have them ready in pocket just in case, right? I mean, might as well take the proactive (read: sheep approach) and do the right thing again. At least the other deer in the headlight walking down the street won’t poop their pants when you walk by. How altruistic of you.
For everyone else who isn’t as easily fooled, hopefully the majority of you…it’s just fear mongering to take the new jab coming this fall. Roll up the sleeve for the win!
One of the greatest men of all time. He has the best accent too, aye!
Reality TV at it’s finest:
Oh yes, Britain’s Head Public Health Officer, now an executive at Moderna. Nah, never happened and has never happened in the past either. He was just the most qualified for the job, having put in measures to increase vaccine $uptake$ and all.
Anti-anxiety drugs cause brain damage, unemployment, and suicide…even if stopped
by James Corbett
corbettreport.com
August 20, 2023
Stop the presses! Here's my hot take for the day: CBDCs are a bad thing.
OK, maybe that take is not so hot. After all, I don't even need to spell out "Central Bank Digital Currencies" for my well-informed, switched-on readers to know what I'm talking about when I refer to CBDCs. And the idea that a digital form of programmable money with a central banker's on/off switch is a bad thing? Come on! Even the normiest of the normies can sense that.
But here's the hot part of my hot take: CBDCs are deeply unpopular with the general public and we have a chance of stopping them in their tracks.
At first glance, you might not think this is such a controversial statement, but really think about it for a minute.
If you listen to the stenographers and presstitutes of the establishment dinosaur media, you'll believe that CBDCs not only represent an exciting opportunity to bring our outdated paper money system into the digital age, but that they'll be bestowed on us by the benevolent central banker technocrats in the next year or two (if we're lucky!).
If you listen to the pundits in the alternative media, however, you'll believe that CBDCs not only represent the greatest threat to human freedom in our lifetime, but that they'll be forced upon us by the evil central bankster overlords in the next year or two (no matter what we do to fend them off).
Do you see the similarities in these two "competing" narratives? In both cases, you and your opinion about CBDCs are utterly irrelevant. It's a fait accompli. You can love 'em or hate 'em, embrace them or recoil from them, but whatever your position, you will be forced to use them.
But this just isn't true. In fact, we're already seeing a massive global pushback against the CBDC agenda. And this pushback is already causing the banksters to panic and to pull back on their grand plan for world domination.
Of course you're not hearing about this CBDC pushback in the establishment media. Why would they tout their masters' failures, after all?
But, weirdly enough, you're not hearing much about this pushback in the alt media either.
Let's correct that today, shall we?
Global Pushback
As we all know, when globalists are looking for a population to test out their latest technology of enslavement, they turn to Africa. From genetic manipulation to vaccine experiments to agricultural "revolution," there is no shortage of examples of pathocrats disguising their experiments in technocratic tyranny as philanthropic concern for the poor, beleaguered people of that continent. It's hardly surprising, then, that Africa is once again serving as a laboratory for the latest globalist technocrat pet project: digital money.
Accordingly, Nigeria became one of the first nation's in the world to adopt an official, national central bank digital currency when the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) launched the eNaira amid much fanfare in October 2021. Promoted with the slogan "Same Naira, more possibilities!" the bankster class collectively held its breath as it watched this trial run of digital money unfold before their eyes.
The early results of this experiment, however, were not promising for the money manipulators. Despite a massive push of the eNaira by the government and breathless coverage of its rollout in the establishment media, it was revealed one year after the digital currency's launch that a mere 0.5% of the population—one in every 200 people—had actually used it.
Not to be dissuaded, the CBN imposed new banking regulations last December, limiting cash withdrawals from ATMs to just ₦20,000 ($45) per day in a bid to increase adoption of the nation's CBDC.
The result? Again, utter failure. In fact, worse than utter failure. An actual uprising!
Nigerians took to the streets in February of this year to protest the cash restrictions and even attempted to storm the central bank.
CBN officials are now rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, upgrading the eNaira app to allow contactless payments, as if that was what was keeping people from using the banksters' new digital enslavement tokens. But, try as they might to cover it up, the results of this experiment in monetary manipulation are now clearly visible for all to see. The eNaira is a failure of such gargantuan proportions that it now serves as a cautionary tale to central bankers around the world about how pear-shaped things can get when a digital currency is shoved down an unwilling public's throat.
But it isn't just Nigeria where people are saying "no, thanks" to the banksters' digital money agenda.
In the European Union, protesters are already marching against the European Central Bank's (ECB) proposed "digital euro." In Croatia, for example, activists are warning that their government's adoption of the euro "will be followed by the introduction of a digital euro, and then you will have to kiss all the freedoms you know goodbye." In the Netherlands, meanwhile, demonstrators have staged rallies warning about the coming European CBDC and the ECB's plan "to control the spending habits of the population."
In Russia, too—where Putin has just signed the Central Bank of Russia's "digital Ruble" into law as an official national currency—people are already threatening to go Nigerian on their government. Recent polls show that a mere 6% of Russians are actually excited about their opportunity to use the new CBDC. This widespread distrust of the digital Ruble is reflected in the coverage of the currency in the nation's alternative news websites, which are filled with articles decrying the technocratic tyranny. One such article sums up the situation by noting that "we can only say that if citizens actively use non-cash transactions, then they themselves will enter the electronic banking concentration camp, seemingly completely voluntarily."
And how about in the bastion of liberty, the beacon on the hill, the good ol' US of A? Well, the grandstanding politicians—always eager to get in front of a parade and pretend they're leading it—are already introducing (and even passing) legislation to ensure CBDCs never sees the light of day in America.
Of course, readers of this column will know that these political promises aren't worth the paper they're written on. Nevertheless, the proposed legislation is important because it reflects two underlying realities. Firstly, it demonstrates that the American public is not on board with the CBDC agenda. And secondly, it signals to the Fed and other central banksters that they risk upsetting their whole rigged monetary system if they push this agenda too far and too fast.
Banksters Running Scared
Yes, it's safe to say that, on the CBDC issue at least, the momentum is not in the banksters' favour. In fact, things are so bad that the establishment is now beginning to contemplate whether the mad dash toward CBDCs might just wake up the public to the whole monetary scam.
In a revealing op-ed in The Financial Times last month, Brookings Senior Fellow Eswar Prasad warned, "Central banks must not be blind to the threats posed by CBDCs." After dutifully detailing all of the nifty features of programmable money that would-be world controllers can take advantage of ("imposing negative nominal interest rates to disincentivise saving," for example), he then cautions the central banksters that their pretense of "political neutrality" might be exposed for the self-evident sham that it is if central banks start meddling in people's everyday transactions.
Central banks could be viewed as political agents if their visibility into payment transactions is used for law enforcement or surveillance purposes. [. . .] Central banks already face threats to their independence, credibility and legitimacy. The more extensive the functionality of the money they issue, the greater the political pressures they will be exposed to. At a minimum, such innovations pose risks to the integrity of central bank money.
Oh, won't somebody think of the central banksters' credibility!?
And—wouldn't ya know it?!—just as Prasad and others are beginning to warn that the banksters might be pushing too far and too fast with this whole "programmable money" idea, it looks like the monetary mafia are now stepping back from the CBDC brink . . . at least publicly.
Just this past week, the Central Bank of Colombia issued a white paper on the "Expected Macroeconomic Effects of Issuing a Retail CBDC," which admits that if central banks push the cashless agenda too far and the situation "reaches a point where the use of cash is about to disappear, central bank money could lose its role as a monetary anchor for deposits and other forms of private money." Also this past week, the Bank of Canada issued a report on "Unmet Payment Needs and a Central Bank Digital Currency," which acknowledges that "consumers face few payment gaps or frictions and therefore might have relatively weak incentives to adopt and — especially — to use CBDC at scale."
In other words, central bankers are quietly admitting there are no real advantages to retail CBDCs and there are even potential downsides to their introduction.
Of course, as my astute readers will already know, this does not mean that the issue is settled, that the bankers have given up, and that the CBDC dream is officially done. No, it just means that they have to change tack and try to find other ways to cajole the public into the digital gulag. Perhaps this is why the central banking minions are now openly strategizing about how best to sell their digital money agenda to an unwilling public.
Take the Bank of Israel, for example. It just released a new white paper purporting to identify "Principles for creating 'Acceptance' and 'Network Effect' for the Digital Shekel," or, in plain English: "Ways to convince the rubes to use our virtual slave coins." The document considers ideas for leveraging the "Network Effect" to artificially stimulate adoption of the digital shekel. Naturally, the plan does not focus on ways to incentivize the use of CBDCs but rather on ways to enforce their acceptance, including obligating banks, payment providers and merchants to participate in the scheme or forcing the government to officially declare the digital shekel to be legal tender.
On its face, the fact that the banksters are now openly plotting how best to stuff digital money down the public's throat may be a worrying development.
But, upon further reflection, the fact that the banksters are now turning from the carrots of incentives and bonuses and discounts to the stick of government regulation and enforced adoption does not mean that the anti-CBDC movement is doomed to failure.
On the contrary. That the banksters are now actively engaged in a struggle against the general public is a sign that we are winning and that CBDCs are not inevitable.
Resistance is Fertile
I've made the point before, but it bears repeating: the constant stream of propaganda, conditioning and censorship that we are subjected to from governments, establishment institutions and their lapdog media is not a sign of their strength. It is a sign of their weakness.
The fact that they have to spend billions of dollars a year pumping lies and misinformation into the heads of the citizenry in order to keep people from seeing the truth is a tacit admission that our thoughts and opinions actually do matter. After all, why would they bother propagandizing to us at all if they didn't require our approval (or at least our docile apathy) to continue pursuing their agenda?
Similarly, the fact that the banksters are ramping up the next stage of their CBDC indoctrination operation—attempting to convince an increasingly skeptical public that a complete overhaul of the fabric of our monetary reality is somehow beneficial to Joe Sixpack and Jane Soccermom—is a tacit admission that we are the ones who decide whether CBDCs are implemented or not. They can tout the benefits of their digital slave tokens all they want, but if we refuse to use them, then the CBDC world order will not come to fruition.
The banksters, for one, are well aware of this fact. But are we aware of it?
I understand why this message—that pushback and protest do matter and that the globalist agenda is not inevitable—is such an unpopular one in the "alternative" media. If the message is simply: "Relax, everyone! The battle is over and CBDCs have been defeated! Now go back to sleep!" then it is indeed no different from enemy propaganda.
But that is not the message here. Instead, the message is that the public is—for the time being and until the propaganda machine kicks into high gear—overwhelmingly on our side. People DO NOT WANT programmable money and the vast majority see it for what it is: another trick on the part of the establishment to take more power and control away from every day people and put it in the hands of the banksters and their cronies.
That's why this is the time to seize the momentum of public opinion and steer it into actual productive activity. We can encourage Cash Friday awareness. We can build up local trading communities based on alternative and complementary currencies. We can introduce those around us to Agorist.Market. We can promote community currencies and precious metals and decentralized cryptos and barter circles and the million other forms of survival currency that clued-in Corbetteers have been researching for years.
The time has come to harvest those seeds you've been planting! The public is on our side!
Yes, your resistance and pushback do matter. It does make a difference. We do have a part to play in this. Now, let's go out there and put the final nail in the CBDC coffin.
What are we waiting for?
Eris vaccine marketing hits Germany, complete with panic about a nonexistent August "Covid wave" ripped from British and American headlines
We will not be free of the virus until we are free of the vaccinators.
The leftist taz newspaper on 17 August: New German Wave: The new Covid variant Eris has arrived in Germany. Concerns about a new wave are growing – but the country is not well prepared.
The pandemic is over, but the virus is still dangerous: Reports of the new variant EG.5.1. seem to confirm this analysis. EG.5.1. (Eris) has been considered a “variant of interest” since 9 August. According to the WHO, the phenotype does not differ fundamentally from other Omicron lineages and does not require special public health measures ...
With the announced end of the pandemic, virtually all mandated protective measures have been lifted in Germany. The most important instrument in the fight against Covid-19 is thus the immunisation of the population through infection or vaccination.
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Das Erste, state media, on 19 August: Covid Variant “Eris”: How Dangerous is the New Mutation EG.5?
The World Health Organisation WHO has upgraded the new Covid mutationEG.5. This variant, called “Eris,” now belongs to the “variants of interest.” …
As WHO Covid expert Maria Van Kerkhove explained in Geneva on Wednesday, more severe outcomes have not been observed with Eris, but vaccination confers less protection than with other virus variants. ...
Even though the new variant is unlikely to cause severe disease, the [German vaccine regulatory authority] STIKO still recommends getting vaccinated – above all to avoid possible long-term consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection and to protect employees in medical and nursing care.
n-tv, a subsidiary broadcaster of RTL, on 18 August: The Number of Coivd-19-Cases Continues to Rise.
The pharmaceutical company Moderna has announced that its updated Covid vaccine according to an initial study is effective against the Eris sub-variant. The company now expects to launch the new vaccine in time for the autumn vaccination season. Approval from vaccine regulators however is still pending.
Moderna, like vaccine manufacturers Novavax and Pfizer, has developed versions of its vaccines with Biontech SE that target Eris subvariants. Shortly before, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer had reported that its revised vaccine had been effective against Eris in a study with mice. …
Most recently, it was suspected that the cinema hype surrounding the feel-good film “Barbie” and the gloomy biopic “Oppenheimer” may have caused many infections. At the same time, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) recorded an increase in the number of reported Covid infections. Experts, however, see no reason for concern so far.
Frankfurter Rundschau, a regional Frankfurt paper, on 17 August: Covid comeback with “Eris”: First experts demand return to masking.
Is Covid on the attack again? There are indications that the virus is once on the rise once more. …
British doctors are already calling for a return to masking. [Relentless virus charlatan and deranged hypermasker] Trisha Greenhalgh suggests that, “in view of the spread of new variants,” masking in high-risk situations should be considered.
The [virus surveillance] of the Federal Ministry of Health shows that the numbers are also on the rise in Germany. … “Eris” is already responsible for every fourth corona infection, according to new figures from the RKI. “The number of Covid-19 cases reported to the RKI .. seems to be related to the increasing circulation of this ‘variant of interest’,” the Robert Koch Institute says.
The increase in the case numbers – at least in Great Britain – coincides with the opening of the blockbusters “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” in British cinemas, which has given rise to talk of the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon. It is well known that larger crowds in enclosed indoor spaces are associated with an increased risk of corona infection. So is it time for a mask renaissance?
In the USA, more and more voices calling for one. [Relentless virus pest] Eric Feigl-Ding … used the hashtag #MaskUp on Twitter to call once again for protecting oneself from Covid infections with masks. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach shared the post, warning that the latest Covid data from New York is “worrying.” …
“There is still a risk that a more dangerous variant will emerge, which could lead to a sudden increase in cases and deaths,” emphasises WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Not only adapted vaccines that take the new variants into account, but also wearing a mask would then help to protect oneself and others, Frankfurt virologist Martin Stürmer told Spiegel.
tagesschau, state media, on 17 August: Covid Case Numbers are Rising Again.
The number of laboratory-confirmed Corona cases in Germany is rising again - but at a relatively low level. This development has been ongoing for around a month, reports the Influenza Working Group at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) … According to the report, about 2,400 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were reported nationwide last week. This is more than double the number reported in the week ending 9 July, when there were about 1,000. …
According to the RKI report, the activity of acute respiratory diseases in general in the population was “at a low summer level.” … “Anyone with symptoms of an acute respiratory infection should stay at home for three to five days and until the symptoms have clearly improved,” advises the RKI. …
Despite all of this obnoxious verbiage, absolutely nothing of virological note is happening in Germany. Official Covid testing has been all but abolished here, forcing our journaloids to unearth statistics from RKI influenza surveillance – something they refused to do during the pandemic itself, because the flu people routinely posted data that undermined their panic narrative. Here, I’ve circled in red the scary RiSE iN InFEctiOnS from the latest RKI report that we’re meant to be worried about:
This microscopic uptick is dwarfed by the February/March wave that peaked between weeks 8 and 13. Our media luminaries took next to no notice of this frightening late-winter surge, and as I type this, Covid diagnoses have not even re-achieved their June levels. The difference between the state of things now and the state of things in February is not the unremarkable Eris variant. XBB was also debuting across Europe early this year, driving the post-February case peak, and nobody cared. The only thing that is different now, is the proximity of the autumnal vaccination liturgy and the prospect of new, updated vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna and Novavax. That is why we are hearing about variants and masks and Long Covid all over again. It is also why many of these articles contain buried within them somewhere the advice to line up for the shiny new anti-Covid juice this Fall. This whole thing is, very plainly, a psy-op, if a very low-effort one.
There are several patterns in the German reporting that are worth noting. First of all, the latest hysteria was unleashed on 17 August, prompted by a report on Eris from the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur. Particularly in the realm of routine reporting, the news agencies are a powerful coordinating force, and their influence here means that the full media panic machine is not engaged. We’re looking instead at pieces thrown together by low-level staff desperate to fill column inches. Second, all the German stories are firmly downstream from Anglophone sources, going so far as to recycle from British tabloids the improbable theory of a “Barbenheimer” wave (it is painful even to type this stupid word). Third, at least German health authorities – Karl Lauterbach excepted – resolutely refuse to provide virus doom quotes. Thus the Frankfurter Rundschau had to appropriate the tweets of Anglosphere mask hysterics like Greenhalgh and Feigl-Ding to make Eris sound scary.
I know there are rumours that American authorities are planning to bring back mask mandates and other restrictions in the coming months, and I’ll be honest: We should be so lucky. If the pandemicists try to kick up another round of non-pharmaceutical interventions this fall, they’ll be flirting with self destruction. There are important prerequisites for virus panic: You need a plausibly novel pathogen, the risk of which can be exaggerated. You need a prevailing sense of stability, with nothing else much going on, because the public health interventions themselves have to seem new. Risk, excitement and the prospect of a break from routine are important enticements. That’s all gone now. Covid is not a new scary virus anymore; nearly everyone has had personal experience with it. Solid majorities everywhere have learned to hate lockdowns, despise masking and avoid the mRNA vaccines. The pandemicists need a plausibly new virus to reopen the circus, and they need a lot of people to forget about what a misery the last pandemic response was. They’ll have another chance in ten or fifteen years, I’d guess. Then, it’ll be time to worry.
The grand theatrical performance of global politics and the orchestration of the actors and scripts. The difference, in this modern era, is that no one in the audience is watching the pantomime any longer; it is all too predictable.
WATCH:
TAKE HOME MESSAGE: Don’t be afraid to CALL out the truth!
Igor has written an extensive article—that I highly recommend—about the battle for the transparency of the brain. As a part of this battle, as discussed at a recent WEF panel, our overlords evidently plan to use their ability to read brain waves to enforce policies, such as, for example, the policy against office romance.
In this little “inspirational” animation that the nudge masters played at the panel, the lady in the cubicle thinks amorous thoughts about a co-worker—and immediately gets a pop-up on her computer warning her that office romance is strictly prohibited. Take that, conspiracy denialists!
In summary:
On 6 May 2021 The Lancet published a blatantly flawed study of the effectiveness of the Pfizer covid vaccine on the population of Israel, claiming it was 95% effective.
On 17 May 2021 we submitted a rapid response 250 word letter explaining why the study was flawed.
After an initial response saying they would ask the authors for a response to our letter we heard nothing until 20 months later.
On 8 January 2023 we got an email out of the blue from The Lancet Senior Editor Josefine Gibson apologising for never having got back to us about the letter, saying that they had asked the lead author Dr Sharon Alroy-Preis (SA-P) to respond to our letter but, because she did not provide any formal response, they have decided not to publish our letter.
We tweeted The Lancet's response and within 24 hours it got over one million impressions. We also published a substack article highlighting the fact we were now aware of additional problems with the paper relating to SA-P’s relationship with Pfizer.
On 10 January 2023 we got an unsolicited email from Josefine Gibson (which we can only assume was a result of the reputation hit they got from our tweet) saying “Thank you for bringing your letter from May 2021 back to our attention. We are looking into next steps and will get back to you as soon as we can.”
On 11 January 2023 (at 10:58) we sent an email to The Lancet's Editor-in-Chief Richard Horton directing him to our substack article (which highlighted these new problems relating to SA-P's relationship with Pfizer) stating that The Lancet was clearly taking a credibility hit surrounding the publication of the Israel-Pfizer study and its response to criticisms of it.
On 11 January 2023 (at 11:21) we got an email from Josefine Gibson apologising for the ‘sub standard experience’ we had with The Lancet. She said that, after discussing it with Horton, they were now inviting us to publish the original letter or an update to it, suggesting the update ‘reflect more current experience with the vaccine’.
On 12 January 2023 we submitted our updated letter (of an agreed 350 words).
On 13 January 2023 we got a response from Josefine Gibson saying they had decided against publishing the letter.
Here is the full narrative and January 2023 correspondence in date order (personal details redacted):
Crucial Facts About Your Metabolism
Story at-a-glance
Cortisol is primarily a rescue hormone. It's a glucocorticoid, so it increases your glucose level by shredding your muscle protein to produce glucose. Cortisol also accelerates the aging process and is implicated in most chronic diseases. It also uses your brain tissue to use amino acids to make glucose which contributes to brain atrophy and subsequent depression
Your mitochondria can only burn one fuel at a time — either fat or glucose — and there’s a stealth switch that controls which of these fuels your mitochondria will burn. This switch is known as the Randle cycle
Ideally, you want to metabolize (burn) glucose in your mitochondria, as this only generates 0.1% reactive oxygen species (ROS). This route also generates energy most efficiently, creating 36 to 38 adenosine triphosphates (ATP) for every molecule of glucose that is metabolized. For this to occur, you need to consume less than 30% of your calories as fat
When you consume significantly more than 30% fat, the switch changes to burn fat in your mitochondria. As a result, glucose then backs up into your bloodstream, raising your blood sugar. This is a major contributor to diabetes
When you lose muscle, your basal metabolic rate goes down, so it’s important to maintain muscle mass, because your muscle will burn fat even when you’re resting
In this interview, repeat guest Georgi Dinkov and I will again take a deep dive into the biochemistry of human metabolism. Dinkov is a student of the late Ray Peat, a biologist, thyroid expert and pioneer in prometabolic therapy and human metabolism.
Despite having a degree in computer science and having no formal academic training in health, Dinkov essentially has acquired a Ph.D. in molecular biology. After graduating from Georgetown University in 2002, Dinkov got a job as a programmer at the National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF).
There, he helped develop uniprot.org, a database of all known protein sequences. Surrounded by dozens of the brightest doctors and biochemists in the world, he developed an interest in biochemistry.
Clearing Up Confusion
I have long promoted a low-carb, high-fat diet for many years and have realized many are confused on the evolution of my recommendations. As I say in the interview, 95 to 97% of the population in the U.S. is metabolically inflexible and would likely benefit from a low-carb, high-fat keto approach with intermittent fasting.
However, once you have resolved your insulin resistance, which typically takes a few months but can take longer, and can optimally burn fat for fuel, it is very clear to me that you need to cycle carbs back into your diet. There are loads of questions about how this transition occurs, the timing of the transition, and the details of the cycling that need to be answered.
No one knows the answers, as the studies have not been done, but I am fairly convinced that many people will appear to do well in the long term on a low-carb, high-fat keto program like I did. However, I also believe they would do even better if they started to include more healthy carbs in their diet like I did. That does not mean processed foods or processed sugars, or virtually all grains and legumes. The ideal carbs are ripe fruits.
You should introduce carbs slowly and only after you have shifted your fat level down to 30%. This is easily calculated by using a free online program called Cronometer. If you still struggle with diabetes or obesity, then you can get your fat level down to 15 to 20% of your total calories.
Protein level should always remain the same and does not change from 0.7 to 1 gram protein/kg of lean body weight. So, if you are 20% body fat then you would multiply your body weight by 0.8 to get your lean body mass.
In my case, it took me about three to six months to go from 100 grams of carbs to 500 grams. The results for me were quite spectacular. I was already healthy, but it clearly improved my health even further as my body fat dropped from 15% to 12%, my inflammation decreased to radically low levels as my HS-CRP went from 0.8 to 0.18 which is almost below detection levels. Finally, even though I was not prediabetic as my blood sugar was in the low 90s, it dropped by 10 points to the low 80s.
The reason I made this shift is I was overwhelmed by the amount of strong scientific support for demonstrating that the ideal fuel in your mitochondria is indeed glucose, not fat. It has to do with decreasing reductive stress in your mitochondria which is a relatively unknown concept in molecular biology.
When implementing the transition to healthy carbs you need to be careful not to eat too many carbs as excess carbs will be shunted to glycolysis and into glucose into your blood and lead to an increased blood sugar. The more muscle mass you have and the more exercise you do, the more carbs you can eat.
I suspect most people could easily transition to 200 grams of carbs. I seem to do well with about 500 grams, mostly all fruit but do have white rice and red potatoes as well. You should see my shopping cart as every week it is loaded with about 60 pounds of fruit.
The Cortisol-Glucose Link
For example, Dinkov helped me understand the crucial role cortisol plays in glucose regulation. Cortisol is primarily a rescue hormone. It's a glucocorticoid, and as the name implies, it increases your glucose level, because if your glucose level drops too low, you will go into a hypoglycemic coma and can die.
As such, cortisol is a lifesaver. The downside is that it uses up vital protein to make glucose, so high cortisol takes a toll on your muscles. The reason anabolic steroids build muscle mass is because they’re anti-cortisol. You would've thought anabolic steroids would have some direct action on the muscles, but no, they primarily inhibit cortisol’s catabolic impact.
Cortisol uses muscle protein to produce glucose in your liver, so when your glucose level drops, cortisol rises and shreds muscle to produce glucose. This is one of the puzzle pieces that explains why you don’t want your glucose levels to be low over prolonged periods.
Cortisol also accelerates the aging process and is implicated in most chronic diseases. In the case of Addison’s disease (adrenal failure), the opposite is present: low cortisol. These patients are typically required to take cortisol injections on a regular basis. On the upside, this chronic cortisol deficiency tends to impart a youthfulness. In most other chronic conditions, high cortisol is part of the problem.
High Cortisol Speeds Aging
Dinkov comments:
“Studies as far back as the 1950s and 60s demonstrated that you can produce every single phenotype of aging if you inject cortisol, or at least create a state of relative glucocorticoid excess in the animal.
You can do that either by injecting synthetic or natural glucocorticoids, or by increasing the levels of natural anti-cortisol steroids in the body. Those are progesterone and DHEA, and in males testosterone and dihydrotestosterone.
It has been shown that cortisol levels do not decline with age unless you really have adrenal failure, while the levels of all these anti-cortisol, youth-promoting hormones decline with age. By the time you're 80, their levels are at about 20% of what they used to be when you were in your 20s.
So, really, what happens is that cortisol stays the same, but your relative state of cortisol increases because there's nothing to oppose the cortisol that is already there. Multiple intervention studies have demonstrated that if you administer agents that oppose cortisol, block it at the receptor level, or reduce its synthesis, you can achieve really good health results and also improve the way you look.
Anabolic steroids are probably the best known example. It's really a misnomer because they're not anabolic. They're actually anticatabolic. Muscle has one of the highest expressions of the glucocorticoid receptor, through which cortisol shreds the muscle. It binds the receptor and increases a number of different proteolytic fibers.”
High Cortisol Linked to Depression
Your gastrointestinal tract and brain also have high numbers of glucocorticoid receptors, so cortisol shreds brain tissue as well, causing brain atrophy and subsequent depression. Research has shown that people with depression have smaller brain volumes than people who don't have depression.
“Within 48 hours of the glucocorticoid blocker RU-486 being administered to people with clinical treatment-resistant depression, they experienced remission. So I think it's a very good argument that cortisol is catabolic to the brain, and clearly, if it's catabolic to the brain, it's probably not going to improve your mood. If anything, it's going to worsen it.”
Again, when your blood sugar level drops, that triggers your body to increase cortisol, which is the last thing you want if you struggle with depression or other chronic disease. Really, one of your primary goals in achieving optimal health is to limit the elevation of your cortisol. It’s far more destructive than having elevated blood sugar, which most focus on.
High Cortisol Is Far Worse Than High Blood Sugar
Many wear continuous glucose monitors that check your glucose level every five to 10 minutes. But high glucose is not the real danger here. Cortisol is, and it rises when glucose drops too low. As noted by Dinkov:
“All the drugs on the market, especially the more recent ones that lower HB A1C, the glycated hemoglobin, all of them increase mortality. So, clearly, messing directly with the levels of blood glucose, it's not something you want to do.
You may temporarily decrease the biomarker, the glycated hemoglobin, but it does not mean you're getting healthier. [These drugs] may lower your blood glucose, but they may kill you in the long run faster than the elevated glucose would've done by itself.”
Metformin is one classic example. Many are using this drug to lower their blood sugar. While it’s a natural product, and considered safe, it’s basically a mitochondrial toxin that will make your health decline in the long term.
All of that said, we’re NOT saying you should ignore elevated blood glucose. Absolutely not. But elevated glucose is a symptom that is best addressed indirectly. Once you address the foundational cause, it will normalize by itself. As a personal anecdote, when I first interviewed Dinkov, 70% to 80% of my diet was fat. Now, I’m down to 27% fat and 57% carbohydrates, and I’ve lost 5 pounds and my fasting blood sugar is down by 10 points.
So, it's not the carbohydrate ingestion that’s causing high blood sugar. It's what's happening at the mitochondrial level. To help you understand that, I created a graphic (below) because this science can get somewhat complex.
The Randle Cycle
Your mitochondria can only burn one fuel at a time — either fat or glucose. Fats are broken down in a process called beta oxidation into acetyl-CoA, which gets fed into the Krebs cycle. Carbs are broken down to pyruvate, which cannot enter the electron transport chain until it is converted to acetyl-CoA by pyruvate dehydrogenase.
The key here is that there’s a stealth switch that controls which of these fuels your mitochondria will burn. The switch has been given the name the Randle Cycle, but it is more helpful to visualize it as a railroad switch that changes the tracks of the train. The train can only travel down one track: not both. This is because only one type of fuel can be burned at a time.
In a best-case scenario, you will metabolize, or burn, glucose in your mitochondria without any reductive stress. When you do this, you will only generate 0.1% reactive oxygen species (ROS).
Not only does this route generate less ROS, but it also is incredibly efficient at energy production by creating 36 to 38 adenosine triphosphates (ATP) for every molecule of glucose that is metabolized. It will also generate metabolic water and carbon dioxide, which are also important for your health.
For this to occur, as indicated in the figure above, you will need to consume less than 30% of your calories as fat. When you consume significantly more than that amount, the switch changes to burn fat in your mitochondria and you will not be able to burn glucose until your fat decreases to less than 30% of calories.
When your fat intake is higher than 30%, pyruvate is inhibited and unable to readily convert the glucose metabolite, pyruvate, into acetyl-CoA to be shuttled into the mitochondria to burn as fuel.
Consequently, glucose can back up into your bloodstream, raising your blood sugar. What little glucose is burned for fuel is done through glycolysis, which is a primitive pathway that bacteria and cancer cells use, and it generates the powerful metabolic reductant lactate.
This can be a major contributor to diabetes. If you’re exercising, healthy and doing strict keto, overt diabetes is unlikely to develop, but more than likely you will have fasting glucose in the 90s, rather than the more optimal 80s.
Additionally, chronically oxidizing fats as your primary fuel will tend to increase your cortisol level, resulting in chronic inflammation, both of which accelerate the aging process due to excess ROS generated in the mitochondria that occurs from increased reductive stress as a result of oxidizing fat instead of sugar.
It is great that we have this glycolysis pathway, as you absolutely need it for quick fuel when you are activating your Type 2 muscle fibers. But if this is the primary way you burn glucose, you are in a catastrophic metabolic state because you’re creating loads of lactate as a waste product instead of healthy CO2 and metabolic water.
What’s more, you’re only generating two ATP for every molecule of glucose, which is 95% less energy. Lactate increases reductive stress, which causes reverse electron flow in the mitochondria and increases the ROS to 3% to 4%, which is 30 to 40 times more than when glucose is burned efficiently in the mitochondria at 0/1% ROS.
When Adding Carbs, Reduce Your Fat Intake
Ideally, it is best to lower your fat intake and replace those calories with healthy carbs like ripe fruit. You likely won’t optimize your mitochondrial function, though, until your fat level decreases to 30% of your total calories. So, hold off on making a final decision about whether this change is helping you or not until you get your fat level to 30% or lower.
This is easily calculated by using a free online program called Cronometer. If you still struggle with diabetes or obesity, then you may need to get your fat level down to 15% to 20% of your total calories.
Protein Versus Fat and Carb Requirements
Determining the ideal balance between carbs and fats is the primary challenge for most people. The level of protein is a bit simpler. It tends to be about 15% of daily calories and remains stable. A basic guideline for protein intake is somewhere between 0.7 grams and 1 gram per kilogram of lean body mass (not total weight).
The level of dietary fat you need will depend on your endocrine balance. If you’re diabetic, for example, you may need to go below 20% to avoid shutting down your glucose metabolism. Dinkov comments:
“If you look at older people, and sick people as well, they have metabolic inflexibility. So, if you give them a meal that's comprised of equal number of calories of carbs and fats, they're going to oxidize mostly the fats and the carbohydrates will go unmetabolized.
So, they'll raise their blood glucose and lactate. So, you need to play with the ratio, but I've noticed that between 15% and 20% is probably where most people in their current health state can metabolize the fat without causing problems through the Randle Cycle.
Most diabetics are overweight ... which means they have plenty of supply of fat. In fact, they have two sources of fat: one through the diet, and the second one from their fatty tissue, because there's always some lipolysis going on, which means shredding the fatty tissue and supplying the rest of the body with the fatty acids from a fatty tissue ...
In the rested state, your muscles actually prefer to oxidize mostly fat. So, if you have a decent amount of muscle mass, you can actually burn most of this fat through the baseline lipolysis by simply resting and preferably raising the amount of lean muscle mass you have. The ratio of lean muscle mass to total body weight is the primary determinant of your basal metabolic rate. So it's very important to not lose lean muscle mass ...
So, for diabetic people, it’s probably a good idea to lower the intake of fat from the diet because they already have a lot coming from their own bodies. In fact, there are many clinics around the world that treat and even cure Type 2 diabetes by putting diabetics on this really restrictive diet until they lose most of their fat and then suddenly the metabolism of glucose gets restarted.
I think this directly shows you that it wasn't the glucose that was fattening them up and causing the problems, rather they had too much fat in their bodies. Once you get rid of that fat, no matter how you do it ... the problems with metabolizing glucose disappear.”
Signs of Excessive Fat/Insufficient Carb Intake
As explained by Dinkov, one of the reasons why obese people who lose a lot of weight end up gaining it all back, even when they continue to diet and exercise, is because most of the weight lost is actually muscle mass. When you lose muscle, your basal metabolic rate decreases, meaning you need fewer calories to maintain your weight.
As a result, you must stay on an extremely low-calorie diet to maintain your weight. So, again, it’s crucial to maintain muscle mass, because your muscles will burn fat even when you’re resting. During activity, especially strenuous activity, your muscles will burn mostly glucose.
“I think the best way to gauge if you are eating too much fat is cognitive function,” Dinkov says. “If you're eating too much fat, to the point where you're interfering with glucose metabolism, you'll start getting brain fog. Your thinking process will slow. You'll start searching for words. Your reaction time and coordination time will decrease.
Sleep quality is another. Also, exercise capacity. If you're always catching your breath and you're feeling fatigued all the time, that is actually a great sign/symptom of elevated lactate. In fact, many different interventions that lower lactate are used as performance improving substances, such as vitamin B1 and niacinamide ...
I would say eat the more fat-heavy meals earlier in the day, for breakfast and maybe lunch, and then eat the more carb-heavy meals at night, because your brain and many of the other organs will really need that.
It's very common that if you don't consume sufficient amount of carbs before going to bed, you will have trouble sleeping ... I think one of the reasons for this is that, if you don't consume sufficient amount of glucose, you will raise cortisol at night, and cortisol is already higher at night than it should be.
The cortisol is lowest at around 3 or 4 p.m. and starts rising with the coming darkness. Cortisol is highest at around 6 to 8 a.m. in the morning. But if you don't consume a sufficient amount of carbs, that cortisol will be up to 40% higher.”
Clean Carbs
Of course, when we say “eat more carbs,” we don’t mean pizza and doughnuts or even ostensibly healthy grains like whole wheat. Healthy or “clean” carbs include foods like ripe fruit, raw honey and maple syrup. Tropical fruits such as papaya, watermelon, oranges and tangerines are preferable, as in addition to higher levels of fructose, they also contain flavonoids that help to digest the sugars. Ripe melon, apples, peaches, plums, pears and grapes are also good.
Now, you’ve probably heard me say that you shouldn’t eat anything at least three or four hours before bedtime to optimize autophagy. Dinkov’s research, however, dispels some of the concerns about eating (clean) carbs before bed.
“You do not want to mess with autophagy too much,” Dinkov says. “It has a lot of beneficial effects in terms of getting rid of dead or metabolically deranged tissue. However, if you do have an already present tumor, autophagy and AMPK can actually drastically increase its aggressiveness and promote metastasis.
But let's say you do want to increase autophagy. I think it's a bit of a myth that eating will somehow suppress autophagy and put it at a suboptimal level. Several studies demonstrate that several of the carbohydrates — including fructose and sucrose — are autophagy enhancers.
I would say, [eat healthy carbs] an hour before bed, because if you eat a meal that's too high in carbohydrates, there's the infamous fructose malabsorption. There's only a certain amount of carbohydrates that your gastrointestinal tract can absorb per unit of time.
So, you need about an hour or two before the meal, if it's composed of simple carbohydrates, to get these things into your bloodstream. At that point, you'll probably be very relaxed and naturally inclined to fall asleep.”
That fructose and sucrose enhance autophagy is probably news to most of you. It was to me. I personally eat a teaspoon of honey before I go to bed, which seems to be enough carbs to thwart an increase in cortisol and helps me get more deep sleep. So, to summarize, Dinkov suggests eating a small amount of healthy carbs, such as fruit, about an hour or two before bed to optimize sleep and, potentially, autophagy as well.
Serotonin Is Not Your Friend
Fruits to be consumed in small amounts include pineapple and bananas, as both contain serotonin. Bananas also contain tryptophan, which is used in the synthesis of serotonin.
While most people think of serotonin as a mood-booster, it’s actually one of your worst enemies. You do not want high levels of serotonin, because it’s an antimetabolite. This means it suppresses your body's ability to create energy in your mitochondria in the electron transport chain, so you become tired and fatigued, your metabolic rate slows and you gain weight.
“The amount of serotonin we need is really, really low,” Dinkov says. “The biggest role of serotonin is gastrointestinal motility. Any increase, even minor increase of serotonin, has been known since the 1920s to rapidly lead to fibrosis. The most successful antifibrotic drugs on the market currently are serotonin blockers.”
More Information
For more details on the topics summarized here, be sure to listen to the entire interview, and keep your eyes peeled for Part 2, which will follow shortly. Also check out Georgi’s blog at www.haidut.me or follow him on Twitter. He also has hundreds of videos on YouTube on a plethora of topics. A major sampling of Ray Peat’s work is also available for free on these two sites: wiki.chadnet.org/Ray-Peat and RayPeat.com.
Anti-anxiety drugs cause brain damage, unemployment, and suicide…even if stopped
Just a few minutes ago I posted about a study implicating serotonin (5-HT) and, by extension, SSRI drugs in brain atrophy and depression, especially in aging people. In clinical practice, while SSRI drugs are considered plenty “safe”, anti-anxiety drugs such as the popular benzodiazepines (e.g. Valium, Xanax, Klonopin, etc) are considered even “safer”, and this is why most of them do not have “blackbox warnings” on their label mandated by the FDA. This perceived “safety” of benzos (as they are commonly known) has led to them being prescribed to all age groups (even babies!) for all sorts of symptoms (often completely unrelated to anxiety), to the point that even the limitless greed of Big Pharma has acknowledged an epidemic of over-prescription. Hardly a day that goes by without some celebrity admitting on national TV an addiction to benzos, requiring formal hospitalization. Now, the study below demonstrates what we have all been suspecting for many years – i.e. there is nothing “safe” when it comes to benzos and they are capable of causing serious brain damage, which persists even after brief benzo usage and/or discontinuation, with the brain injury leading to negative outcomes later on such as job loss, social/relationship breakdown or even suicide. The study authors believe the incidence of these side effects of benzos is so high (about 1 in 5) that it warrants its own medical term – benzodiazepine induced neurological dysfunction (BIND). Worst of all, as the study itself states, BIND caused completely unrelated symptoms and health issues to appear – i.e. it generated multiple new serious disorders/conditions, while being only marginally effective at treating the relatively harmless one (anxiety) for which they were prescribed originally. Case in point – more than half of the study participants taking benzos reported contemplating or attempting suicide!
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285584
https://nypost.com/2023/06/30/popular-benzo-drugs-linked-to-suicide-brain-damage-study/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/993725
“…Benzodiazepine use and discontinuation is associated with nervous system injury and negative life effects that continue after discontinuation, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The study was published today in the journal PLOS One. “Despite the fact that benzodiazepines have been widely prescribed for decades, this survey presents significant new evidence that a subset of patients experience long-term neurological complications,” said Alexis Ritvo, M.D, M.P.H., an assistant professor in psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and medical director of the nonprofit Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices.“This should change how we think about benzodiazepines and how they are prescribed.” “Patients have been reporting long-term effects from benzodiazepines for over 60 years. I am one of those patients. ”
“…Symptoms were long-lasting, with 76.6% of all affirmative answers to symptom questions reporting the duration to be months or more than a year. The following ten symptoms persisted over a year in greater than half of respondents: low energy, difficulty focusing, memory loss, anxiety, insomnia, sensitivity to light and sounds, digestive problems, symptoms triggered by food and drink, muscle weakness and body pain. Particularly alarming, these symptoms were often reported as new and distinct from the symptoms for which benzodiazepines were originally prescribed. In addition, a majority of respondents reported prolonged negative life impacts in all areas, such as significantly damaged relationships, job loss and increased medical costs. Notably, 54.4% of the respondents reported suicidal thoughts or attempted suicide. BIND is thought to be a result of brain changes resulting from benzodiazepine exposure. A general review of the literature suggests that it occurs in roughly one in five long-term users. The risk factors for BIND are not known, and more research is needed to further define the condition, along with treatment options.”
What's the End Game for Cybercrimes and Ransomware Attacks?
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Over the past few years, a number of organizations have warned that the world is facing growing danger from hackers and cybercriminals, and could be facing a cyberattack large enough to take down our society as a whole
In June 2020, the World Economic Forum (WEF) warned that the world must prepare for an "inevitable global cyberattack," a "COVID-like global cyber pandemic that will spread faster and further than a biological virus, with an equal or greater economic impact"
In December 2021, a 10-nation exercise simulated a scenario in which a cyberattack brought down the financial system worldwide. Responses and solutions included emergency liquidity assistance to banks, a globally coordinated bank holiday (bank closure), debt repayment grace periods, and a "coordinated delinking from major currencies," meaning bank balances in USD, GBP and EUR were eliminated and replaced with a central bank digital currency (CBDC). In case of a real cyberattack on the financial system, we can therefore expect this to happen
At the end of 2020, hackers accessed the SolarWinds supply chain by delivering a backdoor malware through an infected SolarWind Orion software update. The malware infected the networks, systems and data of more than 30,000 public and private organizations, including local, state and federal agencies. It’s thought to be the largest and most devastating cyber breach to date
The end game of all these organized cyberthreats is to eliminate anonymity on the web under the auspices of "preventing cybercrime," and to impose extreme centralization of the internet for the purpose of information control
Over the past few years, several organizations have warned that the world is facing growing danger from hackers and cybercriminals and could be facing a cyberattack large enough to take down our society as a whole. An effective cyberattack could compromise any device and system connected to the internet, including but not limited to:
Life-saving medical devices
The internet of things (IoT) ecosystem (i.e., devices that run smart homes)
The internet of bodies (IoB) ecosystem
Global financial systems
Energy grids
Water treatment facilities
Government IT systems
Military and defense infrastructure
Warnings and Predictions of Internet Doom
In June 2020, the World Economic Forum warned1 that the world must prepare for an "inevitable global cyberattack," a "COVID-like global cyber pandemic that will spread faster and further than a biological virus, with an equal or greater economic impact."
"Our ‘new normal’ isn’t COVID-19 itself — it’s COVID-like incidents. And a cyber pandemic is probably as inevitable as a future disease pandemic," the WEF said.
In November 2020, the WEF followed up with a report co-created with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which warned that the global financial system is failing to keep up with the ever-growing list of cyberthreats and is ill-equipped to defend against large-scale cyberattacks.2
To address this problem, the report called for greater coordination between government and industry, and for nations to cooperate more directly and intimately, rather than drafting a new treaty on international cybercrime.
Similarly, in March 2021, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) predicted that a cyberattack on the global financial system is practically inevitable, with ransomware and other extortion attacks topping the list of hazards.3,4
Another major target for cybercriminals and ransomware hackers is the health care industry, which has seen the largest increase in attacks — about double that of other industries.5
What Simulations and Exercises Tell Us About the Plan
As in the biosecurity arena, a number of tabletop exercises have been held to simulate a massive cyberattack. One such exercise took place in early December 2021 in Israel.6 The simulation was based on a scenario in which a cyberattack brought down the financial system worldwide.
Participants included treasury officials from Israel, the U.S., the U.K., United Arab Emirates, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and Thailand, as well as representatives from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Bank of International Settlements (BIS).
Emergency responses presented during that exercise included emergency liquidity assistance to banks, a globally coordinated bank holiday (bank closure), debt repayment grace periods and SWAP/REPO agreements.
The response also included a "coordinated delinking from major currencies," meaning bank balances in USD, GBP and EUR were eliminated and replaced with a central bank digital currency (CBDC).7
So, in the case of a real cyberattack on the financial system, we can probably expect this swap to happen. It’s also possible that if the rollout of CBDCs fails, a catastrophic systemic attack on the banking system could be used to force the issue.
At the time, former Pfizer executive Mike Yeadon, Ph.D., said he believed the simulation was a front for a planned financial reset in which most people will lose all their financial assets, thereby bringing about the WEF’s promise that you will "own nothing" by 2030.8
Preparing for a cyber pandemic more destructive than COVID also took place during the Cyber Polygon exercises of 2020 and 2021. This is yet another annual event staged by the WEF.
In 2020, the simulation involved a cyberattack against the global financial system.9 The following year, participants simulated a targeted supply chain attack on a corporate ecosystem resulting in industry collapses, mass unemployment, widespread rioting and global lockdowns.10,11 Solution trends that emerged from those exercises include:12
A movement toward digital identity schemes, which the WEF has previously stated will determine "what products, services and information we can access — or, conversely, what is closed off to us"13
"Fake news" being recognized as a "digital pandemic" that people must be protected from
A recommendation to strengthen public-private partnerships and collaboration
A recommendation to increase consolidation of corporate and state resources
A recommendation to target cryptocurrencies, especially those offering transactional anonymity, and the infrastructure used by them.14 This, even though only 0.34% of cryptocurrency transactions in 2020 were tied to criminal activity, down from 2% in 201915
As you can see, the solutions presented by these unelected globalists always require more surveillance and greater public-private collaboration that blurs the line between elected and unelected decision-makers. In the end, unelected globalists are demanding — and getting — more and more power to make decisions for humanity.
Recent Cyberattacks Reveal the Scope of the Problem
Cyberattacks are clearly increasing and getting larger in scope. This should come as no surprise, as the world is becoming increasingly digitized — and connected digitally. Hacking health records, for example, was near-impossible in years past when paper records were kept, but with the introduction of digital health records and the sharing of those records across institutions, hacking has become a relatively simple, and profitable, affair.
The end game of all these organized cyberthreats is to eliminate anonymity on the web under the auspice of 'preventing cybercrime,' and impose extreme centralization of the internet for the purpose of information control.
Recent cyberattacks demonstrating the scope of the problem include:
• The 2016 Bangladesh Bank heist, where hackers absconded with $81 million in a matter of hours by targeting the bank’s SWIFT accounts (the international money transfer system banks use to transfer money between themselves). Hackers used the SWIFT credentials of employees at the Bangladesh Central Bank to request money transfers to bank accounts in the Philippines and other Asian banks.16
• In 2020, a ransomware attack resulted in BancoEstado, one of the biggest banks in Chile, to temporarily shut down all branches. In this case, the bank’s internal IT network was infected with the REvil ransomware originating from an infected Office file opened by an employee. The file installed a back door to the bank’s network, which the hackers then used to install the ransomware.17
• At the end of 2020, hackers accessed the SolarWinds supply chain by delivering a backdoor malware through an infected SolarWind Orion software update. The malware infected the networks, systems and data of more than 30,000 public and private organizations, including local, state and federal agencies. It’s thought to be the largest and most devastating cyber breach to date.18
• In early August 2023, California-based Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. had to shut down certain services, including outpatient medical imaging and blood draw services, after a cyber breach was detected. Some of its hospitals and clinics also had to revert to paper records as IT systems were shuttered.
• That same week, Pennsylvania-based Crozer Health also had to shut down its computer systems and close emergency rooms due to a system-wide ransomware attack.19,20
It experienced a similar attack in 2020,21 and apparently didn’t figure out how to prevent a repeat. According to cybersecurity experts, Crozer data was auctioned off in that 2020 attack after Crozer refused to pay the ransom.
Eliminating Online Anonymity Is the Endgame
So, where is all of this taking us? As explained by investigative journalist Whitney Webb in the short video at the top of this article, the end game is a) to eliminate anonymity on the web under the auspice of "preventing cybercrime" and b) to impose extreme centralization of the internet for the purpose of information control. She also wrote about this in a July 2021 article for The Last American Vagabond:22
"... there is a ... push by WEF partners to ‘tackle cybercrime’ that seeks to end privacy and the potential for anonymity on the internet in general, by linking government-issued IDs to internet access.
Such a policy would allow governments to surveil every piece of online content accessed as well as every post or comment authored by each citizen, supposedly to ensure that no citizen can engage in ‘criminal’ activity online.
Notably, the WEF Partnership against Cybercrime employs a very broad definition of what constitutes a ‘cybercriminal’ as they apply this label readily to those who post or host content deemed to be ‘disinformation’ that represents a threat to ‘democratic’ governments.
The WEF’s interest in criminalizing and censoring online content has been made evident by its recent creation of a new Global Coalition for Digital Safety to facilitate the increased regulation of online speech by both the public and private sectors."
Global Cyber Utility Will Usher in Unprecedented Surveillance
In her article,23 Webb goes on to review the roles of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and the WEF Partnership Against Cybercrime (WEF-PAC). Both are currently being positioned as a "main solution" to the catastrophic cyber pandemic predicted, by being set up as centers of global coordination of financial services and the protection thereof, with a "shared narrative" against cybercrime.
This new global "cyber utility" seeks to unite law enforcement agencies, cybersecurity firms, banks and other large corporations and "stakeholders" around the world under one umbrella to prevent cybercrime. For that to be feasible, WEF-PAC has noted that legislation may need to be revised to allow law enforcement agencies and government regulators to fuse their operations with the private sector, including entities they’re meant to oversee, regulate and prosecute for wrongdoing.
We’re already seeing this plan take shape, with the rapid consolidation of banks. The next step will be to merge the remaining banks with regulators and intelligence agencies, forming this new "cyber utility" entity.24 Webb continues:25
"Many organizations that are related to or are formally part of WEF-PAC are deeply invested in Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as well as efforts to digitalize and thus more easily control nearly every sector of the global economy and to regulate the internet.
Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that many of these groups may look to justify regulations and other measures that will advance these agendas in which they have long-term ‘strategic interests’ through the promotion of a ‘shared narrative’ that is deemed most palatable to the general public, but not necessarily based in fact ...
The considerable involvement of some of the most powerful corporations in the world from some of the most critical sectors that underpin the current economy, as well as non-profits that manage key internet, government and utility infrastructure in these organizations that comprise WEF-PAC is highly significant and also concerning for more than a few reasons.
Indeed, if all were to follow the call to form a ‘shared narrative,’ whether it is true or not, in pursuit of long-term ‘strategic interests,’ which the WEF and many of its partners directly relate to the rapid implementation of the 4th Industrial Revolution via the ‘Great Reset,’ the WEF-PAC global cyber utility could emerge sooner rather than later.
As evidenced by the architecture put forth by WEF-PAC, the power that organization would have over the public and private sectors is considerable.
Such an organization, once established, could usher in long-standing efforts to both require a digital ID to access and use the internet as well as eliminate the ability to conduct anonymous financial transactions. Both policies would advance the overarching goal of both the WEF and many corporations and governments to usher in a new age of unprecedented surveillance of ordinary citizens."
The Pandemic Planning Racket
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The biosecurity crisis needs to continue indefinitely because it’s the primary justification behind The Great Reset
In the fall of 2022, mainstream media started warning of a potential “tripledemic,” with COVID, seasonal influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) being in circulation at the same time. The sudden focus on RSV just so happened to coincide with announcements that RSV vaccines were being fast-tracked
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first-ever RSV vaccines in the summer of 2023 for seniors 60 years and older — one by Pfizer (Abrysvo) and one by GlaxoSmithKline (Arexvy). Both vaccines are recombinant subunit vaccines, and both manufacturers have reported Guillain-Barré syndrome as a side effect
As we’re heading into the fall of 2023, the “tripledemic” of COVID, RSV and influenza is again making headlines. A Google search for the key words “triple pandemic 2023” garnered a staggering 41.1 million articles, and as we saw all through the COVID pandemic, news agencies are using he exact same headlines and talking points. This is unequivocal evidence that the tripledemic narrative is being coordinated by a central source
For this fall, U.S. health officials recommend a flu vaccine for everyone 6 months old and older, an updated mRNA COVID-19 booster targeting the Omicron XBB.1.5 strain (specifics on who should get the shot and when are still undetermined) and an RSV vaccine for seniors 60 years old and older
In the fall of 2022, mainstream media started warning of a potential "tripledemic," with COVID,1 seasonal influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)2 being in circulation at the same time. Fear sells, they say, and that’s certainly the adage used by Big Pharma when it comes to vaccines.
The sudden focus on RSV in particular, which has been around for decades, just so happened to coincide with announcements that RSV vaccines were being fast-tracked — a risky venture if there ever was one, considering vaccine makers have been trying to bring an RSV vaccine to market for about 60 years, and couldn’t due to safety issues.
Not surprisingly, Pfizer and Moderna are also working on combination mRNA jabs for COVID, RSV and the flu,3 currently expected to hit the market in 2024 and/or 2025.4 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first-ever RSV vaccines in the summer of 2023 for seniors 60 years and older — one by Pfizer (Abrysvo)5 and one by GlaxoSmithKline (Arexvy).6
Both vaccines are recombinant subunit vaccines, meaning certain viral proteins are used to trigger an immune response,7 and both manufacturers have reported Guillain-Barré syndrome as a side effect of their shots.8
Pfizer’s RSV vaccine will likely cost somewhere between $180 and $270, while GSK intends on charging $200 to $295.9 GSK had initially announced a price tag of $148 per dose, but decided to double the price due to newer data suggesting effectiveness may carry into a second season.
Tripledemic Propaganda Continues
As we’re heading into the fall of 2023, the "tripledemic" of COVID, RSV and influenza is again making headlines. A Google search for the key words "triple pandemic 2023"10 garnered a staggering 41.2 million articles as of mid-August 2023.
Please remember that the above example is for illustration purposes only, and I strongly discourage you from ever using Google. But here is the REAL learning lesson. All you can use the total results in the search is for how common the term is. Google long ago stopped serving you all those 40 million results. Guess how many you can view? Only a mere 100.
That is an irrelevant point for keywords like triple pandemic of 2023, but it becomes enormously important to you and your family when you are seeking to do serious research on the internet. It is virtually impossible now that Google not only censors vital information about natural health, but they refuse to display anything but the first 100 results.
And, as we saw all through the COVID pandemic, news agencies are using he exact same headlines and talking points — unequivocal evidence that the tripledemic narrative is being coordinated by a central source.
As reported by CNN, August 10, 2023:11
"State and local health officials across the United States are bracing for a rise in respiratory illnesses this fall, and they are making plans to urge everyone who is eligible to get vaccinated against Covid-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus once those shots become available ...
On a national scale, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also is preparing for the threat of respiratory illnesses this fall. ‘Protecting against respiratory diseases this fall is a central focus for CDC.
Efforts will include preparing Americans for what to expect, helping them understand the risk for illness in their communities, and providing information on how they can protect themselves,’ spokesperson Kathleen Conley said in an email.
‘CDC will use every lever at its disposal to help people understand how they can protect themselves and their families from serious illness, including staying up to date on their vaccinations.’"
Three Shots Recommended for This Fall
For this fall, U.S. health officials recommend:
1. A flu vaccine for everyone 6 months old and older
2. An updated mRNA COVID-19 booster targeting the Omicron XBB.1.5 strain, even though this strain is already in the decline. Most of the COVID-19 cases in the U.S. and Canada are now caused by the Eris (EG.5)12 and BA.5 strains.13
In the U.S., specifics on who should get the shot and when are still undetermined as the FDA has yet to officially approve the updated booster. In Canada, the fall COVID booster is recommended for anyone aged 5 and older who got their last shot or had a COVID infection at least six months ago14
3. An RSV vaccine for seniors 60 years old and older
Not surprisingly, many are encouraging people to bundle all three injections into a single visit, even though there are no data whatsoever to support the claim that doing so is safe. Some doctors, though — such as Dr. William Schaffner in the CBS News report above — recommend getting the RSV vaccine separately.
No Need to Raise Alarm Bells
According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID-19 hospitalizations shot up by an average of 12.5% the week of July 23 through 29, 2023. Eighteen U.S. states saw COVID-related hospitalization rates rise by 20% or more.15
Approximately 54% of new cases in the U.S. are being attributed to a new Omicron subvariant called BA.5, while Eris (EG.5) accounts for an estimated 17.3%, an increase of 9.8% since early July.16 XBB.1.5, which the new COVID booster will target, makes up only 10.3% of cases.17 Advisory.com writes:18
"According to Stuart Turville, an associate professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, the EG.5 group of subvariants is ‘a little bit more slippery’ and ‘competitive’ compared to other current variants and is able to ‘navigate better the presence of antibodies’ from vaccines."
All of that said, hospitalization rates are nowhere near the peaks seen in previous years. For the week ending July 29, 2023, there were 9,056 new COVID-related hospitalizations nationwide, a far cry from the January 2022 peak of 150,000.
The biosecurity crisis needs to continue indefinitely because it’s the primary justification behind The Great Reset.
"It is ticking up a little bit, but it's not something that we need to raise any alarm bells over," David Dowdy, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health told Advisory.com.19
Fearmongering Is a Tool to Foster Obedience
It’s important to realize that the "threats" posed by COVID, flu and RSV are being magnified for a reason. The biosecurity crisis needs to continue indefinitely because it’s the primary justification behind The Great Reset. At regular intervals, there must be another Chicken Little warning that the sky is still falling and that we must not let down our guard.
At some stage, you must realize that the more you give in and obey, the more you must give in and obey. There really is no end to what they can and will take from you, and holding on to the belief that your government would never [fill in the blank] is becoming more dangerous by the day.
It’s also important to realize that your government isn’t the ultimate power. Our government officials take orders too, from what is often referred to as the deep state. It’s not a government at all, but a global, hidden power structure that is accountable to no one, while influencing and manipulating everyone to bring about a new world order.
In years past, this shadowy cabal of power brokers were referred to under the term the New World Order. In 2020, the World Economic Forum came out on the public stage and announced The Great Reset, which is nothing but the NWO rebranded.
In the video above, investigative journalist Harry Vox talks about disease outbreaks, quarantines and curfews being essential tools in the ruling class’ toolkit, and how these tools were planned to be used to usher in the next phase of control.
The interview, which took place in 2014, sounds more than a little prophetic today, as these three indispensable tools for totalitarian control have been part of our reality since 2020. In it, Vox also refers to "Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development,"20 a document by the Rockefeller Foundation, in which they laid out a "Lockstep" scenario, which details the global response to a fictional pandemic.
They’ve Already Told You What the End Game Is
While the name and origin of the virus differ, the scenario laid out in "Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development"21 closely matches what we’ve gone through in the era of COVID, especially its deadly effect on economies.
The scenario predicted international mobility coming to a screeching halt, debilitating industries, tourism and global supply chains. "Even locally, normally bustling shops and office buildings sat empty for months, devoid of both employees and customers," the document reads.
In the Rockefeller narrative, China is hailed for its rapid imposition of universal quarantines of all citizens which proved effective for curbing the spread of the virus. It’s important to note that universal quarantining — lockdowns of healthy people — has never ever been used in infectious disease control before, and there’s a reason for that. We already knew it wouldn’t work.
Many other nations where leaders "flexed their authority" and imposed severe restrictions on their citizens — "from the mandatory wearing of face masks to body-temperature checks at the entries of communal spaces like train stations and supermarkets" — also fared well, in this Rockefeller scenario.
Listen to the disbelief in the interviewer’s voice when he asks if Vox actually believes that such a thing could happen, that we would have to stand in line to get our temperature checked before entering a building.
Well, every single one of us has now had to do this, so we know it’s possible. And if that’s possible, why not the rest of the Lockstep plan, which tells us that: "Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight of citizens and their activities stuck, and even intensified."
Don’t Get Fooled Twice
We can no longer afford to disbelieve the lengths to which this globalist cabal can and will go to seize total control. They’ve already told us what the ultimate plan is — to use bioterrorism to take control of the world’s resources, wealth and people.
All we need to do is to believe it, and realize that the only thing giving them the power to impose their will is our fear. As long as we choose fear and demand our government keep us safe, they have every chance of winning.
Hopefully, a clear majority of people will have learned this lesson by now, and won’t fall for the same tricks again, even though they’ve upped the ante with a triple threat, rather than just one. Fear is a tool used to control you, but that only works if you buy into it, and by now it ought to be clear that the narrative around the need for vaccines is misleading at best.
Ditch the Fear and Just Take Control of Your Health
While influenza, RSV and COVID can be problematic and dangerous for certain high-risk individuals, the overall risks associated with them are negligible for most. Just think back on your life — how many times have you had a cold or flu? Are you still here? How many people do you know who died from a cold or flu?
At this point, most people have also had COVID, and are here to attest to its nonlethality. Unfortunately, those who have gotten several COVID shots are now in the high-risk category and may in fact experience more severe infection.
Keeping your immune system strong is the best way to protect yourself against all infections, and there are many effective ways to do that, such as optimizing optimizing your vitamin D level.
Higher levels of vitamin D have been shown to decrease your risk of developing a severe case of, and dying from, COVID-19. Vitamin D supplementation has also been shown to reduce your risk of colds22 and influenza,23,24 as it boosts your innate immunity.
Immune-boosting nutraceuticals such as vitamin C, quercetin with zinc and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) also belong in your medicine cabinet so you can start taking them at the very first signs of symptoms. Zinc is a potent broad-spectrum antiviral and quercetin helps transport it into the cell, where it’s needed. Vitamin C is also a premiere treatment for many infections and helps boost overall immune function.
NAC, meanwhile, is a precursor to reduced glutathione, which appears to play a crucial role in COVID-19 specifically. Benefits of NAC include inhibiting expression of proinflammatory cytokines, improving T cell response and inhibiting the hypercoagulation that can result in stroke and/or blood clots that impair the ability to exchange oxygen in the lungs.
- Sources and References
3 World Economic Forum, COVID-19: What’s Next? January 17, 2022, 6:25
13, 16, 17 Benzinga August 11, 2023
15, 18, 19 Advisory.com August 10, 2023, Updated August 11, 2023
20, 21 Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development