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Global Narrative Breakdown
As the
corona virus crisis unfolds, an army of conspiracy theorists has emerged, producing a dizzying amount of colourful viral narratives. The mainstream media is responding aggressively, with an onslaught of critical coverage about how "the alternative media and crazy conspiracy theorists are putting all our health in danger". Yet on closer examination, the mainstream's responds is as primitive and manipulative as the narratives of conspiracy theorist they critique.
While they might appear like enemies engaged in a war over the sovereignty of interpretation of reality, in actuality the mainstream media and conspiracy theorists have a complex, interdependent relationship. Regardless of who's "truth" is "righter", both are in effect collaboratively poisoning an already highly in-transparent media and communications environment, contributing to a global narrative breakdown.
Currently billions of peoples are assaulted with overwhelming amounts of "information", "truths" and "opinions", presented by experts, politicians, oligarchs and conspiracy theorists. In such an environment, where all signals are lost in an ocean of noise, shared narratives (right/wrong, etc.) quickly collapse and large-scale developments can happen silently, unnoticed by most.
A global narrative collapse is especially dangerous in a time where there is no shortage of actual"conspiracy facts", mostly ignored in the public discourse. For examples: How the USA and EU are pumping uncounted trillions into the world economy (mostly reaching super elites, cementing totalitarian control structures) - or the accelerating global oil crash (oil is in 85% of stuff we consume) - or the bifurcation of global infrastructure (china/russia are launching their own internet and digital currencies) - or the ongoing collapse of capitalism and rebirth as the "fourth industrial rei...volution" - or the radical expansion of computational surveillance and policing (Dictators with A.I's don't care if you "have nothing to hide", they care about power) and the creation of global DNA databases.
In the shadow of the the corona virus dominating the global media cycle for month, such projects ("conspiracy facts") are accelerating and reaching maturity. Its effect will be felt for decades to come (unlike this virus). Yet instead of informing the public about such urgent matters, who does the global mainstream media choose to constantly ridicule and critique? A wide range of incoherent conspiracy theorists - mixing up everything from biowarfare, killer beams, space aliens and Jesus Christ into one crazy story.
What is at play here are political attack tactics, known at least since Machiavelli: "Gaslighting", "Fog of war" and "Flooding the zone": Providing experts, idiots, crazies and disinfo agents a megaphone, so they can pump out wast amounts of confusing and contradictory information, frequently attacking the integrity of those making counter-claims, and occasionally injecting conspiracy theories. Within such a media environment, all serious discussion about "conspiracy facts" will be inevitably confused with far-out garbage - to be disagreed by any half way thinking person. We now have a global media environment in which very large-scale developments ("conspiracy facts") can happen silently, unnoticed by most.
But hey, back to the program: Switch off your brain immediately and just PANIC! So that nobody dears to even ask critical question when conspiratorial scenarios like the post-democratic police state emerges in full force. Now smile, go wash your hands and enjoy the breakdown of the global narrative and rise of the global grid.
#Media #Narrative #InfoSec #Health #Cryptocracy #Ideas #fnord #Comment
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Testing for dna…er… I mean, corona virus - by gizadeathstar
"However, that raises another less-obvious but still-implied question, and hence our high octane speculation of the day. The coupling of testing with sequencing companies suggests the possibility that the tests could include a covert DNA sampling itself, building up a large database. Indeed, perhaps the sequencing expertise was needed in a certain way, for if one suspected biowarfare were being carried out, one would want sample of patients' DNA to see what, if any, might be genetic markers for people taken ill with the virus. And that possibility suggests in turn yet another possibility. Perhaps, just perhaps, one of the objectives of the whole plandemic is to create a climate of opinion for massive testing (voluntary or otherwise), because the designers of the operation are looking for some particular "group" of "someones" not otherwise visible to the naked eye, but only detectable through genetic sequencing."
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Moscow To Launch Mandatory Surveillance App To Track Residents In Coronavirus Lockdown (npr.org)
City authorities in Moscow are rolling out new digital "social monitoring" tools targeting the public, after what officials say were constant violations of the city's quarantine imposed this week to fight the spread of the new coronavirus. Under restrictions in place since Monday, most of the city's 12 million residents must remain indoors, barring a few exceptions. But starting Thursday, Muscovites will have their movements tracked through a mandatory app required on their smartphones. Don't have one? The city says it will lend out devices.
"One thing is clear," wrote Leonid Volkov, a chief strategist of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, on his Telegram channel. "The coronavirus will eventually leave but this digital concentration camp will remain."
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The Global Grid
Global Grid The Global Grid is a digital representation of 85% human beings of planet earth - their vital signs, communications, infrastructure and energy flows over time. The Girds foundation is Identity, a universally unique identifier for all things and life-forms. Identity bifurcates into a myriad of applications: centralized digital currency & taxation, computational economics & social credit systems - surveillance, policing & access control - public health, life-sciences, social engineering, etc.
"The Girds foundation is Identity", keep that in mind when you follow the news. All Biometrics are good (sensor-fusion), but DNA is best. Hence when you see the roll-out of medical testing across a few billion people, consider the possibility that the tests could include a covert DNA sampling itself, building up a very large database. What the Chinese call "the internet of life".
"The Quantization of Reality is a Totalitarian Fallacy. Let Go or Be Dragged."
- Samim
universally unique identifier "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth. The named is the mother of ten thousand things. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery."
- Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 1
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Company aims to monetise China’s social credit system (SCMP)
China is developing a controversial social credit system of rewards and punishments meant to encourage people and businesses to abide by rules and to promote integrity and trustworthiness in society at large. The government aims to have it in place by 2020, and so far its most visible applications include a ban on people from booking express trains or flights if they appear on various “blacklists”. While there are still many questions about how the system will be implemented, at least one company is setting its sights on making money out of social credit.
#China #Economics #Business #Technology #InfoSec #Cryptocracy
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Pro Tip: Make it a mental habit, to remove the nation-state as primary power centre, when trying to make sense of geo-politics. All the relevant actors fully globalized decades ago, the rest is by and large just fun and games for the confused masses.
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CBS News Caught Using Footage from an Italian Hospital to Describe Conditions in New York
“It was an editing mistake. We took immediate steps to remove it from all platforms and shows,” a CBS spokesperson said. [...] Sky News’s segment shows the same hospital that CBS News aired just days later. CBS News aired the misleading footage as Cuomo was bashing FEMA for the apparent lack of ventilators, suggesting that the video was of a New York hospital.
Counting deaths involving the coronavirus (Office of National Statistics)
According to the ONS blog even cases where it was merely suspected that the deceased had Covid-19 will now be included in the Covid-19 death stats. Given Covid-19 has some generic symptoms, that will include people who don't even have it.
Covid19 yet to impact Europe’s overall mortality (off-guardian)
Year-to-date statistics show excess mortality lower than previous years
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Twitter removes tweets by Brazil, Venezuela presidents for violating COVID-19 content rules
#Comment: Earlier today, Twitter deleted Bolsonaro tweets.
Yesterday, Facebook deleted the Brazilian president’s video because it contained disinformation.
This is a defining moment: companies willing to shut down "disinfo" from world leaders if they have the World Health Organization to back them up on what counts as harmful. A highly comedic development, given the WHO is a deeply corrupt organisation under the control of few cryptocrats.
Ultimately, this is just yet another distraction from the main show: The collapse of the pax americana global petrodollar empire of mass consumer capitalism - which is desperately trying to save itself with ever more violent full spectrum dominance tactics against everybody (from psyops and economic warfare to assassination and nuclear escalation). The corona plandemic won't change the course of this collapse, likely even accelerate it.
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Acclaimed mainstream scientists (Oxford, Standford, MaxPlank, Marie Curie, etc.) speaking up against the corona crisis handling and hysteria.
- 12 Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic (off-guardian)
- 10 more Experts Criticising the Coronavirus Panic (off-guardian)
- Perspectives on the Pandemic (off-guardian)
- Why this Nobel laureate predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery (LATimes)
- Wolfgang Wodarg: Corona viruses are not the problem - stay calm
- Corona-Krise: Offener Brief an die Bundeskanzlerin von Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi
- Renowned German mathematician and professor of statistics slams dramatization of Covid-19
- 12 Experts Questioning the Coronavirus Panic (off-guardian)
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Recent Corona Testing Reliability Weirdness
- Health Ministry delays test results, amid reports patients given false diagnoses (Time of Israel)
- Are coronavirus tests flawed? (BBC)
- Finnish health boss questions WHO coronavirus testing advice (Reuters)
- COVID-19 testing protocol changes, raising concerns about tracking virus in NC (WRAL)
- Why a wave of at-home coronavirus tests is dividing global regulators (Bloomberg)
- 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says (Bloomberg)
- Coronavirus: pathogen could have been spreading in humans for decades, study says (SCMP)
- Coronavirus: Irreführung bei den Fallzahlen nun belegt (KenFM)
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Jeff Bezos sold $3.4bn of Amazon stock just before Covid-19 collapse (Guardian)
Millions of people across the world have lost their jobs, and trillions of dollars have been wiped off the value of stock markets. But not everyone has lost out. Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest person, is $5.5bn (£4.3bn) richer today than he was at the start of the year. His paper fortune, held mostly in Amazon shares, rose by $3.9bn on Thursday alone to $120bn – enough to buy 188,000 standard gold bars. Bezos, 56, benefited this week from the best three-day stock market rally since 1933 helping Amazon’s share price to recover almost all of its losses this month to trade at about $1,920, though that was slightly down on their peak of $2,170 in February. Bezos owns about 12% of Amazon’s shares.
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Bill Gates Wants Socialist Medicine to Combat Coronavirus — Without the Socialists (jacobinmag)
Bill Gates says the private sector is ill-prepared to respond to pandemics and that governments need to ratchet up their spending by the billions and take charge. Too bad he’s still opposing the democratic-socialist movements that could do just that.
Bill Gates, the CIA, Jacques Attali ... they had warned of a global epidemic (leparisien) (English translation)
The risk of a new pandemic has been mentioned many times over the past fifteen years. And some projections are cause for concern.
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Mobile phone industry explores worldwide tracking of users (Guardian)
The mobile phone industry has explored the creation of a global data-sharing system that could track individuals around the world, as part of an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19. The Guardian has learned that a senior official at GSMA, held discussions with at least one company that is capable of tracking individuals globally through their mobile devices, and discussed the possible creation of a global data-sharing system.
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The secret WHO chief is Bill Gates (Die Zeit, 2017 - DE Only)
The most important organization in world health, the WHO, has a problem: it is broke and therefore dependent on donations. Does it lose independence?
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UK coronavirus mass home testing to be made available ‘within days’ (Guardian)
Thousands of 15-minute home tests for coronavirus will be delivered by Amazon to people self-isolating with symptoms or will go on sale on the high street within days, according to Public Health England (PHE), in a move that could restore many people’s lives to a semblance of pre-lockdown normality.
Amazon, Owned by World's Richest Man, Soliciting Public Donations To Pay Workers' Sick Leave (popular.info)
In response to the pandemic, Amazon said it would provide two weeks of sick leave to "all Amazon employees diagnosed with COVID-19 or placed into quarantine." Amazon's large contract workforce, which delivers packages and performs other critical tasks, is in even worse shape. Amazon is not providing any sick leave at all for these workers, even if they test positive for COVID-19. Instead, these workers must apply to the "Amazon Relief Fund" and apply for a grant to cover their sick leave.
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Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) News
Could Central Bank Digital Currencies Ever Replace Fiat Money? (Beincrypto)
Cryptocurrencies are defying the age-old monopoly of central banks on issuing currency. A central-bank digital currency is backed by a reserve bank and can be used as a means of payment and unit of account. Central banks have been waking up to the idea of CBDC now more than ever.
Digital Pound Could Present ‘Challenges’ for UK, Says Mark Carney (Coindesk)
The outgoing governor of the Bank of England (BoE) has highlighted the potential risks to monetary governance if a central bank digital currency were to be launched in the U.K.
Carney sees big challenges as BoE eyes 'digital banknotes' (Reuters)
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England must tread carefully to avoid financial stability dangers if it creates a digital equivalent to its existing banknotes, Governor Mark Carney said on Thursday.
Mark Carney concerned about financial stability risks of introducing digital currency (thelogic)
The outgoing Bank of England governor said a government-backed digital coin would to be "very carefully designed" if it is introduced.
What China’s Cyber-Cash Advantage Means for the Global Economy (insead)
The rise of cryptocurrency could threaten the dominance of the US dollar and cost the United States trillions in increased debt financing charges.
China's central bank is one step closer to issuing its digital currency - report (The Block)
The People’s Bank of China is said to have moved one step closer to issuing digital yuan. A Global Times report on Tuesday, citing “industry insiders,” said the central bank appears to have completed the development of digital currency’s basic function. The PBoC is now reportedly drafting relevant laws to circulate its digital currency
Central Bank Digital Currency ‘Incredibly Rich Area’ Says IMF (bitcoinist)
Tao Zhang, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has made a strong argument for the development of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDCs). He asserts that as a new asset class they hold tremendous promise, notably for the developing world.
IMF Weighs the Pros and Cons of a Central Bank Digital Currency (cointelegraph)
In a recent keynote speech to the London School of Economics, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Managing Director, Tao Zhang, briefed the positives and negatives of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Zhang pointed toward greater efficiency and lower costs associated with a CBDC. “In some countries, the cost of managing cash can be very high on account of geography, and access to the payments system may not be available to the unbanked, rural, or poorer population,” he said in the Feb. 28 speech, which hit the web on March 19.
Deputy Managing Director Tao Zhang’s Keynote Address on Central Bank Digital Currency (IMF)
This afternoon, we’re going to take up a topic that everybody seems to be talking about these days – namely, central bank digital currency (or “CBDC” for short). This is a “widely accessible, digital form of fiat money that can be legal tender,” and a recent BIS survey of central banks shows that 80 percent were exploring CBDC.
G7 Working Group on Stablecoins - Investigating the impact of global stablecoins (BIS)
Stablecoins have many of the features of cryptoassets but seek to stabilise the price of the “coin” by linking its value to that of a pool of assets. Therefore, stablecoins might be more capable of serving as a means of payment and store of value, and they could potentially contribute to the development of global payment arrangements that are faster, cheaper and more inclusive than present arrangements. That said, stablecoins are just one of many initiatives that seek to address existing challenges in the payment system and, being a nascent technology, they are largely untested.
4 Reasons Central Banks Should Launch Retail Digital Currencies (Coindesk)
Financial stability is about preventing the financial system from becoming unstable and thus causing financial distress for consumers. Unlike cash and reserves, a retail CBDC will allow a central bank to become the lender of last resort for households and small businesses rather than for billionaires and banks. In a financial crisis, this will allow the central bank to bail out consumers instead of corporations, which in turn will reduce the incentives for mega corporations to borrow too much. That, in turn, will reduce aggregate national debt and improve financial stability.
A central bank will issue a consumer-ready digital currency within five years (omfif)
73% of central bank survey respondents would require retail CBDCs to be available under all circumstances and for all types of payments where cash is currently used.
Coronavirus: SF businesses decline cash, fearing it could spread the virus (sfchronicle)
More and more businesses are turning away from cash, fearing that the virus could be sitting on banknotes and coins, as it changes hands from person to person in everyday transactions. “Looking at the situation with COVID-19 getting worse, we decided to switch,” said Eileen Rinaldo, owner of Ritual Coffee. “Cash is notoriously covered with germs, and it’s a matter of eliminating that point of contact.”
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Recent Corona News
- IBM, Amazon, Google and Microsoft partner with White House to provide compute resources for COVID-19 research (Techcrunch)
- Business unusual: Time for tech to move fast and fix things (aljazeera)
- China’s factories work 24/7 to build medical ventilators for Milan, New York amid spreading global Covid-19 pandemic (SCMP)
- Coronavirus Stimulus Offered By House Financial Services Committee Creates New Digital Dollar (Forbes)
- Am Telefon zur Corona-Virologie: Karin Mölling (KenFM, Excellent DE Only Interview)
- Corona virus COVID-19- hype and hysteria? Demystification of the nightmare! (Interview with Prof. Dr. med. Sucharit Bhakdi)
- Italian professor repeats warning coronavirus may have spread outside China last year (SCMP)
- Satellite images show resurgence of air pollution over China (ctvnews)
- Traffic and Pollution Plummet as U.S. Cities Shut Down for Coronavirus (NYTimes)
- Older people would rather die than let Covid-19 harm US economy – Texas official (Guardian)
- Warmer Weather May Slow, but Not Halt, Coronavirus (NYTimes)
- India to be under complete lockdown for 21 days starting midnight: Narendra Modi (econtimes)
- Why are the infection rates so high in Italy? (fefe)
- Canadian doctor who works in Gaza makes 3D-printed face shields for COVID-19 (cbc)
- German Government Corona Hackaton
- Coronavirus Treatment Developed by Gilead Sciences Granted “Rare Disease” Status, Potentially Limiting Affordability (intercept)
- The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is “Agenda ID2020” (globalresearch)
- Welcome to the Virosphere (NYTimes)
- Afro-Jazz-Star Dibango ist tot: Makossa-König und Saxo-Genie (SZ)
- Last groups of Russian medical experts arrive in Italy (TASS)
- Russia sends aid to Italy to cope with COVID-19 and backs NATO dialogue (TASS)
- Russia helps Italy to fight coronavirus without any strings attached — Kremlin (TASS)
- Antibiotic resistance: the hidden threat lurking behind Covid-19 (Stat News)
- Statistikprobleme beim Coronavirus - Die große Meldelücke (Spiegel)
EU Shrugs Off US Sanctions, Gives Millions In Coronavirus Aid To Iran (ZeroHedge)
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We're Living in 12 Monkeys - Documentary by Truthstream Media
#Technology #Documentary #Cryptocracy #Augmentation #Politics #ALife
