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You can drill down in the article above to the CDC page with a tool to see risk level in each county of the USA to see where CDC says no masks required. 

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-87d7bdc811ba6521e32017072d5ea180

(Masks never were needed for public health.  More harm than good.  Same with covid gene therapy aka “vaccines” and PCR tests.  But they made a few people billions of dollars and the fear they created made fools of billions of people.)

Caveat emptor anytime, everytime any government attempts to push anything on the people.

Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people”:

 First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.

Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.

The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.

This has been stated in many places. Here is an early one.

In other news..

CDC Tacitly Acknowledges Masking Speech Impediment

The Centers for Disease Control quietly updated its child development guidelines to reflect new reality.

Education / Thomas Gallatin / February 23, 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — or is that Centers for Destroyed Credibility? — recently changed its standards for early childhood development. Flying somewhat under the radar, a couple of weeks ago the CDC released an updated milestone checklist for children and included a link to a Pediatrics article that referenced a study for the changes. Notably, we can chalk up another one for the damage done by the COVID response.

One of the more troubling milestone changes was extending a child’s age for reaching expected speech and vocabulary ability. For example, the updated standard says children should speak at least 50 words at 30 months olds. The CDC’s previous standard was 50 words by 24 months. According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, a child at the age of two speaking less than 50 words is a cause for concern.

One of the study’s authors, Jennifer Zubler, noted that the reason changes to CDC standards were made was because the threshold of at least 75% of children reaching the milestone guidelines was not being met.

According to the study: “Application of the criteria established by the AAP working group and adding milestones for the 15- and 30-month health supervision visits resulted in a 26.4 percent reduction and 40.9 percent replacement of previous CDC milestones. One third of the retained milestones were transferred to different ages; 67.7 percent of those transferred were moved to older ages.”

This raises an obvious question: What’s the culprit behind this change in a child’s developmental expectation? The most likely answer appears to be COVID-related guidelines, specifically regarding mask wearing. The masking of not only children but of adults impacts and impedes a young child’s language development. Both speaking and reading abilities can be affected when a child cannot properly hear an adult whose face is covered, or see his or her mouth move to form words. This impediment of a mask on a small child likewise muffles his or her attempts at speech.

Millions of Americans have been outspokenly critical of the CDC’s masking guidelines for children in schools, and many of them are concerned specifically regarding child development. As the lockdowns proved to do little other than damage the economy, masking (which the CDC has admitted is of little value for stopping viral spread) of little children (who are the least threatened by COVID) has done little other than stunt their verbal development. It is indeed a travesty what has been imposed on children, all in the name of “safety.” In truth, it’s due to the self-interests and ambitions of those lusting for greater power.

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“There never was a green economy, nor a green industrial revolution to support it. The only sense in which this green economy existed was as a parasitic growth on other sectors’ vitality. It was never the source of real wealth creation itself.”

The UK’s green sector has not grown in nearly a decade.

BEN PILE

22nd February 2022

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published data earlier this month which showed that the UK’s ‘low-carbon and renewable-energy economy’ (LCREE) had not grown significantly between 2014 and 2020. This performance is a far cry from the promises of plentiful ‘green jobs’ and a ‘green industrial revolution’ that have echoed around Westminster for the past decade and more. It turns out that the much heralded green growth was nothing more than mould.

This news should surprise no one. As I have argued elsewhere on spiked, the green industrial revolution is a lie. Since the 2008 Climate Change Act, successive governments have embraced the fantasy of leading the world in the ‘transition’ to a low-carbon economy. And it’s all been to no avail. The rest of the world continues to increase its consumption of fossil fuels despite endless COP meetings, and Britain’s green industrial revolution stubbornly fails to materialise.

Back in 2009, the then Labour government, led by Gordon Brown, claimed the green economy was already thriving. He promised to add 400,000 new ‘green jobs’, taking the total number of people working in the green sector to 1.3million. These claims were based on proprietary data produced by an economic research company, which refused to share its data, as did the government even after freedom-of-information requests.

Even without access to the data, I was already able to point out in 2009 that growth in the ‘green economy’ is an illusion – or better still, an accountancy trick. The government was effectively compelling sectors of the economy, through a variety of green regulations, to ‘decarbonise’ their operations. It was then adding said sectors to the green economy and so the green economy appeared to be growing. This was happening even when the sectors in question had been harmed and diminished by the new regulations.

It took me until 2013 to obtain the data on which successive governments were basing their figures, policies and predictions. By then, it was being claimed that the ‘green economy’ was worth £122 billion. But it had only reached this size because the figure included sectors of the economy that simply do not qualify as ‘green’ in any meaningful sense. It even included the production, transportation and sale of liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas – otherwise known as fossil fuels – merely because such businesses were now subject to environmental regulation. My analysis at the time suggested that through such tricks, the government’s financial wizards had inflated the value of the ‘green economy’ by something in the region of 700 per cent.

In 2014, the ONS took responsibility for the annual measurements of LCREE sectors. Since then, the ONS has found ‘no significant change’ in ‘turnover in the UK low-carbon and renewable-energy economy’ (up to 2020). It also found that ’employment in the UK LCREE (in 2020) was estimated to be 207,800′ – that is 1,092,200 short of the number of jobs Gordon Brown had promised to create by 2017.

This is hardly the stuff of a green industrial revolution. Nevertheless, the drive to decarbonise the economy, pursued now in the shape of Net Zero, has continued to inform successive governments’ industrial and economic policy. Ministers still insist that decarbonisation presents a major economic ‘opportunity’ for the UK

The green dream threatens to turn into a nightmare the longer its advocates refuse to wake up to its manifest failure. That it has failed is no surprise. In truth, Britain did not even have sufficient industrial prowess to recycle its own waste plastic, let alone to become a world leader in producing wind turbines and solar panels. And environmentalism always was, at its core, hostile to both industry and economic growth.

There never was a green economy, nor a green industrial revolution to support it. The only sense in which this green economy existed was as a parasitic growth on other sectors’ vitality. It was never the source of real wealth creation itself.

By Robert Spencer: Wed Feb 23, 2022.

Read the original here: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/02/canada-votes-away-its-freedom-185-151-robert-spencer/

Hitler’s Enabling Act also went along party lines.

The death of freedom in Canada went by a party-line vote Monday evening, with the ruling Liberals and the far-Left New Democratic Party voting in favor of Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act, and the Conservatives voting against. The vote on Hitler’s Enabling Act, which ended the Weimar Republic, also went along party lines, although most of those who weren’t National Socialists were too intimidated by that point to do anything but go along. In Canada, none of the Liberals and New Democrats who voted for the Emergencies Act appear to have pondered the lessons of the Left’s history and how this whole thing can backfire on them so very easily.

Trudeau claims that he needs emergency powers to seize the bank accounts of his opponents and hound them in other extraconstitutional ways because even though the Freedom Convoy has dispersed, it could gather again any time, you see. Another threat to “our democracy,” as Leftists in both Canada and the United States refer to their hegemony, is just around the corner. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh claimed Monday that the Freedom Convoy “came here to overthrow a democratically elected government. It is a movement funded by foreign influence, and it is fed on disinformation. Its goal is to disrupt our democracy.”

If that reminds you of the Democrats’ rhetoric about their fictional Jan. 6 “insurrection,” that’s because Canada’s Liberals and the Democrats in the States are working from the same playbook: demonize their opposition as insurrectionists and restrict their activities accordingly.

Trudeau, meanwhile, keeps promising that this will soon be over: “There continues to be real concerns about the coming days, but we will continue to evaluate every single day whether or not it is time and we are able to lift this state of emergency.” Will you be surprised if he keeps on finding new reasons why the state of emergency simply has to continue for the welfare of all Canadians? I won’t either.

Trudeau also made one of the rare true statements of his mendacious political career when he said: “I can’t imagine anyone voting against this bill as expressing anything other than a deep mistrust in the government’s ability to keep Canadians safe at an extraordinarily important time.”

Well, yes, that’s right, Justin. Or more precisely, a vote against your invocation of the Emergencies Act expressed a deep mistrust in your government’s intentions, of the need for the Act at all, of your false characterizations of the Freedom Convoy, and more.

Nevertheless, Trudeau has won the day and can proceed to crush the truckers and their supporters, seizing all their assets until they cry “uncle” and submit to his hegemony, murmuring how much they love Big Brother. It’ll all be over soon and Canada will go back to normal, with the opposition to Trudeau’s regime now chastened and wiser, knowing that its opposition has to be toothless and ineffectual, à la Lindsay Graham and John McCain’s opposition to the Democrats in the States, or else Big Brother will have to punish them again.

The Left-fascists who are applauded these dark days in Canada, however, clearly don’t realize that they have authorized the use of a tool that can very easily be turned against them. Jagmeet Singh and the rest have probably never heard of Nikolai Bukharin, but they would be well-advised to study his life carefully now and ponder its lessons.

Bukharin, an early Bolshevik whom Lenin himself described as “the party favorite” and its “biggest theoretician,” was one of the architects of the Soviet Union, the dictatorship of the proletariat. But Bukharin was a true believer in Marxism, and so he actually thought that the state would wither away and the workers would rule in a truly just society, and so he missed Stalin’s maneuverings that placed him (Stalin) in a position of supreme and unchallengeable authority. Bukharin, as one of Stalin’s key rivals, was swept up in Stalin’s purges of the late 1930s, accused of all sorts of preposterous things, and finally executed.

Even as he was being dragged to his death, Bukharin was crying out, appealing to Stalin, certain that the whole thing had been a mistake, and that his comrade Stalin would ultimately rectify it. He was, of course, wrong. He didn’t realize that the authoritarian tools he had so unhesitatingly applied to others could be turned on him. Leftist revolutionaries always ultimately turn on one another; some of those who are thrilled that Trudeau is finally cracking down hard on those insufferable right-wingers will one day find that out.

Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 23 books including many bestsellers, such as The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), The Truth About Muhammad and The History of Jihad. His latest book is The Critical Qur’an. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.

Full disclosure: Bud has been a financial contributor to David Horowitz Freedom Center for many years. For Frontpage editor Jamie Glazov’s essay on David Horowitz’s life and work, click here.

Are you fed up with the unscientific and unconstitutional, illegal government overreach we in all countries have endured over the past two years?

[WASHINGTON, D.C. – Feb. 16, 2022] Project Veritas published Part Two of its series on the FDA on Wednesday night which featured FDA Executive Officer, Christopher Cole, speaking about the inner workings of the agency — including the FDA’s conflicts of interest, overspending, and why it’s hard for those within the agency to speak out on such abuses.  Here’s the undercover video:  https://youtu.be/ay2_AY9uyOU

Transcript from undercover video: (Please let me know in comments if you detect any errors in the transcript.)

• FDA Executive Officer, Christopher Cole: “The drug companies, the food companies, the vaccine companies. So, they pay us hundreds of millions of dollars a year to hire and keep the reviewers to approve their products.”

• Cole on FDA fees: “Congress approved user fees for [the] FDA. Basically, we charge the industry millions of dollars in order to hire more drug reviewers and vaccine reviewers which will speed up the approval process. So, they [pharmaceutical companies] make more money.”

• Cole: “They [FDA] tone down the impact of the user fees on their operations because they know they’re dependent on the drug companies, and the vaccine companies, and these other companies for their agency to operate.”

• Cole on blowing the whistle: “There’s not an incentive to speak out in government, surprisingly. You would think there would be, but there’s not. It’s better just to just not say anything and just ignore it.”

• Cole on retaliation in government: “You’ll be marked from getting other jobs because another office is not going to want to hire you if you’ve spoken out about something, right or wrong. They don’t look at what you’ve spoken out about.  They’re just not willing to- government’s about rocking the boat and they don’t want to- which is the problem I have with- one of the problems I have with government is, like, they don’t like people rocking the boat, for right or wrong, at all costs. They want to hire a safe person that can do the job but doesn’t necessarily- is a great hire.”

FDA OFFICIAL RESPONSE: “The person purportedly in the video does not work on vaccine matters and does not represent the views of the FDA nor does he speak on behalf of the agency. User fees provide instrumental funding for the FDA’s independent review of medical products that make a difference in the lives of all Americans, without compromising the agency’s commitment to scientific integrity, public health and regulatory standards, patient safety, and transparency.”

FDA and CDC are examples of captive agencies, beholden to those the agencies are legally required to regulate. This is institutionalized crime, obvious conflict of interests, under color of law.

Since our governments are now run by criminals, what is the point of laws? What is the point of legislatures, judges, police, or taxes?   

Elections are coming up.  The only way to end this “progressive” nightmare is to vote in and support candidates that are pro law-and-order including equal justice, rights and penalties for all…including elected officials and government employees such as CIA, FBI, EPA, CDC, FDA and their equivalents in your country. If you believe your country provides this, then please let me know and comment below. I and my readers would love to hear from you. Let me know if you wish remain anonymous.

This is from Cobb County, Georgia, USA where the Secretary of State is attempting to put voter registration in the cloud. Next will be ballots in the cloud.

If you agree with me that the U.S. 2020 election was stolen and completely corrupt, imagine what WILL happen when it all happens in the cloud.

Published: August 6, 2019.

My comments inserted below, and please read and share the original here: https://creativedestructionmedia.com/opinion/2019/08/06/putin-is-a-tyrant-but-western-progressives-are-destroying-civilization/

After observing the recent demonstrations in downtown Moscow by students against unfair municipal elections, and the rabid anti-Trump snarls of the corrupt American media, and the seditious political establishment against POTUS in the United States in the last week, I have come to the conclusion that although Putin is a tyrant intent on staying in power, the treasonous Left in the West is after nothing less than the destruction of civilization.

Putin has imprisoned thousands recently, beaten some, and some face long prison terms for inciting unlawful demonstrations. He may have even had Boris Nemptsov and others killed. He has threatened, invaded former Soviet satellites and territories in Russia’s ‘near abroad’.

However, what he has done well is champion the Russian nation and Russian civilization, with all its faults, and successes.

You cannot say that about the seditious media and Marxist pols in the United States and the West. They are literally destroying Western civilization. (Just ask the average German citizen that can’t leave their homes for fear or rape or violence) Western civilization has lifted the world out of poverty, spread freedom around the globe, increased life expectancy for billions, and pushed the human spirit to formerly unfathomable heights. This is the same civilization that has allowed ‘progressives’ to be ‘liberal’ (in the Marxist sense, not classical liberalism) in the first place.

The West allows gays to live their lives in peace where in Muslim countries they are thrown off rooftops. The West allows unbridled opportunity for those willing to work for success (key word ‘work’). The West allows you to be who you want to be, defend your own property, and seek life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Communism, Marxism, socialism, progressivism, are the exact opposite of all this.

[Bud: Simply put, communism, Marxism, socialism, progressivism mean more government is the solution to every problem. Therefore, they never let a crisis go to waste and they create crises for government to solve; examples are multitude. So-called “progressivism” and its woke culture of identity politics, epitomized by Barack Obama’s statement,”We are the ones we have been waiting for,” are culturally regressive, always resulting in tyrannies (Oh Canada!), economic slavery, war and more death. Bend the knee, they say they know what’s best, kiss the ring, obey, or be cancelled.]

Now the Left wants us to not bear children, descent into sexual perversion, destroy our children’s lives, stop defending our borders, spend ourselves into oblivion, forget our religious heritage, and erase our history.

200 million people died in the 20th century from the communist ideology. Hundreds of millions more will die if the Left is allowed to succeed in their current quest.

Communism is not about fairness; it always only about control in the end.

So I ask you, who is worse? Vladimir Putin or Bill De Blasio who allows a great city to become vermin infested with rolling blackouts during a massive heat wave? Vladimir Putin or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who wants to control your life, destroy commerce, even kill children after they are born? Who is worse, Vladimir Putin, or Hillary Clinton who wanted to corrupt our entire government and sell us out to the Chinese? Vladimir Putin or Barack Obama who used the awesome power of the American federal government against his political enemies?

I think the answer is obvious to these questions.

Americans need to realize what is going on. This current gun-control push (under the duress of dubious mass shootings) is not about guns; it is about control. They want to control everything you do. They cannot control you if you are armed.

[Bud: The current covid “crisis” is not about your health. The illegal immigration crisis on the U.S. border, the crises in Taiwan and Ukraine, the global warming /climate change fraud, the global government debt problem, all of these crises are designed to retain control of political and economic power. Uber-wealthy, ‘Global Reset’ elitists are ruthlessly protecting what they have; there are very few exceptions down through history, they will will do anything to prevent freedom for middle and lower classes because greater wealth and power in those classes enables them to buy political power just as uber-wealthy in every age have bought political power.]

I’m not supporting Vladimir Putin or his methods; I’m simply stating the obvious. Quoting the Bible, America needs to ‘take the log out of its own eye, before pointing out the speck in others’.

We have massive problems at home. We are facing a communist revolution, nothing less, just like Russia in 1917 that destroyed the tsarist system and replaced it with even more unimaginable evil under Lenin and Stalin, where entire civilizations were destroyed.

I know America won’t let that happen. There are too many patriots who value freedom and all it stands for.

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L Todd Wood, a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, flew special operations helicopters supporting SEAL Team 6, Delta Force and others. After leaving the military, he pursued his other passion, finance, spending 18 years on Wall Street trading emerging market debt, and later, writing. The first of his many thrillers is “Currency.” Todd has been a national security columnist for The Washington Times and contributed to One American News, Fox Business, Newsmax TV, Moscow Times, the New York Post, National Review, the Jerusalem Post, Zero Hedge and others. He is also founder/publisher of CDMedia and editor-in-chief of Tsarizm.com. For more information about L. Todd Wood, visit LToddWood.com.

By Dennis Prager

https://www.jewishworldreview.com/0222/prager022222.php

Oh Canada. Lots to make you proud. [satire]

‘Time for the protesters to hear our jackboots on the ground’: Royal Canadian Mounted Police in group chat allegedly celebrate violence against protesters

“the original “inventor” of mRNA and DNA vaccines.”

Dr. Malone’s bio is here: https://www.rwmalonemd.com/

Slowly but surely, citizens of the world are realizing that their governments are working against their interests, rights and freedom. Societies are beyond the point of no return.

The oppressors have committed monstrous crimes. Freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom of self defense, freedom of religion, freedom of association and assembly, and freedom to protest against government and demand redress from government, all of these must be respected by governments of the world. But this is not the elitist agenda. They would have you bend the knee.

Platonics and palliatives by World Economics Forum, UN, EU, US government, etc. are pablum for indoctrinated sheep. But, no more.

Multiple generations of humanity today are done, over with, flushing the ideological mantras of the baby boomer controlling elitists. Their lies are revealed to all observers.

Thanks to social media, you can know your oppressors and prosecute their crimes against humanity. If you open your eyes.