In the latest editions of This Week in the New Normal, we mentioned a group of Members of the European Parliament who held a press conference where they opposed mandatory vaccination and the “Green Pass”. They are Members of the European Parliament (MEP) from different political parties, named Christine Anderson (Germany), Francesca Donato (Italy), Ivan Vilibor Sinčić (Croatia), and Cristian Terheş (Romania).
On the October 28th five of those same MEPs held another press conference, and while the whole thing is worth watching (embedded above), the highlight is definitely German MEP Christine Anderson who speaks for two of the truest minutes in the EU’s history and Romanian MEP Cristian Terheş, leader of the group, who minces no words condemning the hypocrisy of the tyranny within the people’s European Parliament itself:
Watch MEP Cristian Terheş displaying the blacked out pages of the contract between the Pharma and the EU Parliament. Transparency? No, criminal cover up by the People’s Representatives at the highest level:
Full Transcript (emphasis ours):
All through Europe, governments have gone to great length to get people vaccinated. We were promised the vaccinations will be a “game changer”, and it will restore our freedom…turns out none of that was true. It does not render you immune, you can still contract the virus and you can still be infectious.
The only thing this vaccine did for sure was to spill billions and billions of dollars in the pockets of pharmaceutical companies.
I voted against the digital green certificate back in April, unfortunately it was adopted nonetheless, and this just goes to show there is only a minority of MEPs who truly stand for European values. The majority of MEPs, for whatever reasons unbeknown to me, obviously support oppression of the people while claiming – shamelessly – to do it for the people’s own good.
But it is not the goal that renders a system oppressive it is always the methods by which the goal is pursued. Whenever a government claims to have the people’s interest at heart, you need to think again.
In the entire history of mankind there has never been a political elite sincerely concerned about the well-being of regular people. What makes any of us think that it is different now? If the age of enlightenment has brought forth anything then, certainly this: never take anything any government tells you at face value
Always question everything any government does or does not do. Always look for ulterior motives. And always ask cui bono?, who benefits?
Whenever a political elite pushes an agenda this hard, and resort to extortion and manipulation to get their way, you can almost always be sure your benefit is definitely not what they had at heart.
As far as I’m concerned, I will not be vaccinated with anything that has not been properly vetted and tested and has shown no sound scientific evidence that the benefits outweigh the disease itself in possible long-term side effects, which to this day we don’t know anything about.
I will not be reduced to a mere guinea pig by getting vaccinated with an experimental drug, and I will most assuredly not get vaccinated because my government tells me to and promises, in return, I will be granted freedom.
Let’s be clear about one thing: No one grants me freedom for I am a free person.
So, I dare the European Commission and the German government: Throw me in jail, lock me up and throw away the key for all I care. But you will never be able to coerce me into being vaccinated if I, the free citizen that I am, choose not to be vaccinated.
Details of AT&T Corporation’s ‘racial re-education program’ have leaked in which the company asserts “American racism is a uniquely white trait” and announces, “white people, you’re the problem.”
The documents were obtained by investigator and Critical Race Theory exposer-in-chief Christopher Rufo.
“CEO John Stankey launched the program last year and, subsequently, has told employees that private corporations such as AT&T have an “obligation to engage on this issue of racial injustice” and push for “systemic reforms in police departments across the country,”writes Rufo.
[ZH: Critical race theory is a Marxist-based philosophy that suggests society is a class struggle between oppressors and the oppressed, labeling white people as the oppressors and all other races as the oppressed.]
Predictably, the re-education program was launched in response to the police killing of career criminal, drug addict and arrest-resistor George Floyd.
“According to a senior employee, who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity, managers at AT&T are now assessed annually on diversity issues, with mandatory participation in programs such as discussion groups, book clubs, mentorship programs, and race reeducation exercises.”
White employees are mandated to confess their “systemic racism” and enjoyment of “white privilege” or face penalties (they’re so “privileged,” they get to enjoy one of America’s biggest corporations openly discriminating against them for their skin color).
White staffers are also asked to sign a loyalty pledge indicating their submission to the brainwashing while also vowing to ‘challenge others’ if they hear ‘hateful language’.
“If you don’t do it,” the senior employee says, “you’re [considered] a racist.”
On the first page of AT&T’s Listen Understand Act internal portal, the company encourages employees to study a resource called “White America, if you want to know who’s responsible for racism, look in the mirror.” The article claims that the United States is a “racist society” and lays out its thesis plainly:
“White people, you are the problem. Regardless of how much you say you detest racism, you are the sole reason it has flourished for centuries.”
The author, Dahleen Glanton, writes that “American racism is a uniquely white trait” and that “Black people cannot be racist.”
White women, she claims, “have been telling lies on black men since they were first brought to America in chains,” and, along with their white male counterparts, “enjoy the opportunities and privileges that white supremacy affords [them].”
Employees are also forced to take a ’21-Day Racial Equity Habit Challenge’ during which they have to perform yet more self-hating white guilt trips while also “promoting fashionable left-wing causes, including “reparations,” “defund police,” and “trans activism,” with further instruction to “follow, quote, repost, and retweet” organizations including the Transgender Training Institute and the National Center for Transgender Equality.”
This is yet another example of how institutionalized racism lives on, only its exclusive target is now white people.
It’s not only acceptable but openly encouraged, in the media, government, academia and within the corporate world, to discriminate against white people, particularly white men, because of their skin color.
As we highlighted yesterday, a sign that this may be starting to change is the fact that an executive who was fired for being a white male and replaced by two women, one of whom was black, was awarded a $10 million dollar discrimination payout.
Climate-change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton exposes what he sees as the myths about global warming and why he thinks pursuing net zero is a bad idea.
Lord Monckton is known as one of the world’s most vociferous climate-change sceptics. He has published many papers on the climate question and spoken extensively about the issue over the past 15 years. A policy adviser to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, he has worked as a journalist, and was the inventor of the mathematical puzzle Eternity.
Lord Monckton begins by pointing to areas where mainstream and climate sceptics agree. “Burning coal, oil and gas returns some CO2 to the atmosphere from which it originally came,” he says. “Some warming is likely to result. The world has warmed by about one degree in the 170 years since 1850. Some of that warming is attributable to us.”
However, he goes on, “There has been no global warming for seven and a half years.”This statement alone contradicts everything we see on the mainstream news, and also the increasingly wild apocalyptic pronouncements of the likes of Greta Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion.
To support his theory, Monckton evokes the past, arguing that we have experienced more extreme warming, even in recent times: “In the 40 years from 1694 to 1733, the Central England temperature record – the world’s oldest regional record – showed warming at a rate equivalent to 4.3 degrees per century. There has been no warming as fast as that anywhere in the world in recent decades.”
Moreover, he claims, “Deaths from adverse weather have been declining for a century, not least because warmer weather is better for life on Earth than colder. That applies even to polar bears: there are now seven or eight times as many as there were in the 1940s.” That’s certainly not what we hear from Sir David Attenborough on his much-fêted BBC wildlife programmes.
In fact, Lord Monckton suggests the stories we are fed about the rise in extreme-weather events are largely false. He states, “The imagined disasters from warmer worldwide weather are imaginary. Floods show no trend. The land area under drought has been declining for 30 years. Forest fires are less frequent and less severe than they used to be. Hurricane activity has shown no trend in a century.”
He is also not overly concerned about claims of rising sea levels, asserting, “Sea levels are rising at a rate equivalent to four inches per century – about half the 20th-century rate. Between 11,000 and 4,000 years ago, it rose 130 feet – equivalent to an annual rate more than five times the present rate. The Antarctic has actually cooled over the past 30 years, and the sea-ice extent there has grown, so there is little trend in global sea-ice extent. Northern-Hemisphere snow cover shows little change. Above all, the world has warmed at a rate one-third of what was originally predicted in 1990.”
So, I ask, if this is the case, why, in recent years, has UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson been converted from a climate-change sceptic to one of its leading cheerleaders? A dismissive Monckton responds, “Mr Johnson has allowed his current wife to sway him. Like most of the governing class, he altogether lacks sufficient intellect and knowledge even of elementary science and its language, mathematics, to be able to evaluate scientific information presented to him. He has been fooled. To lead the lemmings over the cliff is not to lead at all.”
He is sceptical that any good will come from next week’s COP26 meeting beyond a lot of hot air and photo opportunities. He says, “Boris Johnson and others will strut and fret their hour upon the photo op and then be heard no more. The pandemic greatly reduced economic activity, but the CO2 concentration in the air went up at exactly the same rate as before. They should remember King Canute, who set up his throne on the seashore, stretched out his hand and told the sea level not to rise. The sea paid no attention, and he got the royal tootsies wet.”
If Western leaders persist in their drive towards net-zero carbon emissions, he first points me to the costs involved, which are eye-watering. He tells me that, according to Britain’s grid operator, it will cost the UK $4.2 trillion to achieve Boris Johnson’s target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The UK emits only 1.2% of global emissions, but the international cost of abating the three degrees’ warming the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts the world will experience by 2100 will be $2.8 quadrillion, he says. And that, Monckton says, is “an immense cost.”
He believes that, even if the West does embark on the net-zero path, the results will be negligible. He says, “The economic damage from global-warming abatement is targeted only at the West, which accounts for just 20% of global emissions. Even if the whole of the West went net zero, which we won’t, the warming forestalled would be only 1/13 degree.” He claims the approach makes even less sense for the UK because it accounts for such a tiny percentage of global emissions. Indeed, the UK’s net zero would abate only 1/220 to 1/550 degree of global warming by 2050, by his calculations.
via There Is No Pandemic Breaking news. A Polish scientist claims that he obtained 5 vials of the PFIZER vaxx. He studied them under the microscope, submitted them to chemical analysis and found that a new aluminum-based life form is hatching from “eggs” in the Pfizer injections.
Stew Peters: “So, this has legs, and tails, and a head, and it moves, and it births, and it comes from an egg. And these are being injected into people.”
Ruby: “According to Dr. Zalewski, this is what he found.
Aluminum-based Parasites
The Stew Peters Show – aluminum-based parasites
Dr. Carrie Madej previously revealed her findings after examining the contents of the Moderna and J&J vials under a microscope. She found a “creature” in more than one vial which her instinct told her was “self-aware”. It had tentacles, and it lifted itself up off the glass of the microscope slide.
Dr. Franc Zalewski has now confirmed the presence of something “alive” in the “Covid” shots, but using Pfizer vials. A “living” entity is hatching, growing, and multiplying when it comes into contact with the right environment: warmth (of the human body) and graphene, that “nourishes the eggs”. The “eggs” might be injected in one shot; the “graphene” in another. See this: Dr. Carrie Madej Took a Look at the Moderna, Pfizer, and J&J Shot Contents Under a Microscope
These “parasites” are a new life form, obviously synthetic, artificial life, in this case based on aluminum.
Aluminum parasites? One-headed, three-tailed, self-aware aluminum-based parasites, to be more exact.
These entities, or “the thing” as the Polish scientist Dr. Franc Zalewski calls them, are made of aluminum, carbon and bromine (a correction has been made by the “Expanding Awareness Relations” web site, they say he means “boron“, not bromine.)
“Scientists have created the world’s first synthetic life form in a landmark experiment that paves the way for designer organisms that are built rather than evolved.”
Genetic entrepreneur Craig Venter explains how his team of researchers created a new life form – and what happens next. Video: Science guardian.co.uk
Admin for TINP notes that Dr. Zalewski’s “Thing”, as he calls it, in some of the Pfizer Covid-19 “injection” vials, that “hatches” from “eggs” and moves and grows and somehow reproduces when exposed to warmed-up graphene oxide … appears to be a further development of the synthetic life form innovated by Craig Venter in 2010.
Which would mean that these “Covid-19” shots containing synthetic aluminum-based parasitic life that lives off human warmth and feeds off injected graphene, were not whipped up at the last minute as an emergency response to an alleged pandemic in 2020.
These injections would appear to contain synthetic life, a phenomenon in development for over a decade.
And since these shots have zero medical or health benefit (they do not confer immunity or prevent transmission of anything and were not designed to do that) there is another agenda going on here that needs explanation.
In the video at top, Dr. Jane Ruby reports that Dr. Franc Zalewski obtained 5 vials of the Pfizer injection material, and tested them all.
Two of the 5 vials contained saline solution, basically the stuff you use with your contact lenses, salt water compatible with the human body. Those two vials therefore contained a placebo. So, Pfizer is deliberately including placebos among its shots, the contents of which are therefore not consistent.
Why the placebos?
The inclusion of saline placebo shots among the so-called Covid shots sold to the taxpayers by Pfizer, seems to back up John O’Looney, a UK funeral director. On a previous show with Stew Peters, O’Looney warned that the “Advocate” method was being used to spread these injections.
Looney said that if, on a tray of syringes, there were some that contained the chemicals causing the death and injury associated with the shots, but there also were other syringes with a placebo, i.e. saline, then those who got the placebo believing it was a “Covid-19” “vaccine”, would then preach to others that the vaxx was fine, and others should take it.
We now know that there is saline in two out of the five Pfizer vials obtained by Dr. Franc Zalewski. We therefore have evidence that the “advocate” method is indeed in play.
The plandemic conspirators don’t want to kill or maim everybody all at once, they want some of us to walk away to promote the shot; and come back another day for what will be the “kill shot”.
Those who received the saline in the first round would later be eliminated with the deadly chemical “booster”.
To finish, I’m going to borrow a few quotes from Dr. Franc Zalewski, courtesy of Expanding Awareness Relations. By “CV sample” is meant one or more of the Pfizer vials of so-called “Covid-19” “vaccine” obtained by Dr. Zalewski.
First CV Sample: “And here we can see a hole (because graphite tape used as a surface) I noticed a lot of crystals, but some so “aggressive” that even the graphite melted somewhat. And I thought I found something. Of course I conducted tests and it turned out to be salt; this fluid turned out to be a saline solution. Nothing else inside.
So I continued… So in the first sample there was nothing found, everything dried up, and even the salt couldn’t be noticed anymore… so the composition of the fluid varies.”
Second CV Sample: “In the second sample I found a lot of crystals. And here we can see the results: They consist of sodium (Na) and chloride (Cl). This is what we call regular cooking salt. So the fluid contains only a saline solution. But I was searching for something else, and as always I have found something. And I found this:
This is what I found: “The Thing”.
@1:12 (pic credited to Dr. Franc Zalewski)
Where is my marker? We need to write “that something” down with big and bold letters.
I continued my studies, and conducted tests. What is that thing? It seems to have a head and three legs. I conducted tests, of the head(1) and (2),(3),(4) and those are the results: It’s aluminum and carbon …excuse me, I got my tool.”
[Dr Franc Zalewski writes on presentation board]: “THE THING”
“The faint-hearted ones may leave the room.
No, without jokes.
The results of the following tests are: aluminum, bromine [reader corrects this term to mean boron], and carbon. That means that “something” has its legs in different colors. Here we have the test results of that “thing”. [holds a demonstration object] This is 1/10th of it. If the head here is 2mm, then the legs/tapes are 25m. The head 2mm, and the tapes 25m. Like that.”
@3:00 (pic credited to Dr. Franc Zalewski)
“And I’m thinking: “What kind of being is that?” Is “the thing” something like this creature with claws that kills people? Or something that is shown in “The Matrix” that flies, and has tentacles, and attaches itself to other things?
No.
“That thing” is this here.”
@3:50 (pic credited to Dr. Franc Zalewski)
“Here you have it on the photo. COVID-19 vaccines.
Welcome friends. This is “The Thing” which I tested in those samples.
Yes? Shocked?
“That thing” is being given to people in the vaccines, but in eggs. I was searching for its eggs. And they should have a suitable environment. If the injection is tested on a bare dish, nothing happens, and the eggs couldn’t be found. Perhaps they weren’t inside the injection, because some of them are pure saline solutions.
But if tested on a graphite tape… That’s why there’s graphene added inside the vaccines which nourishes the eggs.
And dear vaccinated ladies and gentlemen, you may faint now… Something like that is going to develop inside of you.
And the head is going to have 20 microns [µ], and the length 2.5mm (the tentacles).
This is a life form.
And now you should ask yourself… Too little? Coincidence… Franc just got it?… even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes…
I marked the vials number 1, 2, and 3. Only in the third one was “that thing” inside. And it grew/developed 4 days. Then it is put into a sputtering chamber. There the temperature is high, so that the graphite is sputtered, so the electric arc burns.
Another one! If it was only one… but here we can see another one… We can see the head and legs coming out of it. The scale is 30 microns [µ].
@6:30 & 6:35 (pics credited to Dr. Franc Zalewski)
“The thing” has found fertile ground. And here we have “that thing”, it’s smiling at us. Here is the head and here the tentacles. Here is another one, and the colorful tentacles. And it is made of aluminum and carbon. Do we know any aluminum-based lifeforms?
We do now. The majority of people already have it inside of their bodies. The majority that took it voluntarily…
I am very happy that we gathered here and that I could present to you “that thing”.
And again “the thing” inside of another sample. Is this a plant? Dust? “A being” given to people in eggs in a fertile/suitable environment. Somewhere close by there might be some sort of signal which caused that being to start living. Just as pinecone seeds won’t grow unless they will be in a suitable environment on fertile ground, the same “that thing” seems to not be moving. It may be dormant/sleeping.
Who is willing to have “that” inside of you?
Many of you have already chosen and received it… Welcome. I hope it won’t be activated.
Let us continue with the next tests and points. Here we have aluminum-based lifeforms. Do we know any aluminum-based lifeforms? I’m asking the smartest representatives of this world. Let them present it… but not in secret.
This is the end of a tentacle/leg. The way it is build, it’s not jagged. It is built like that. It ends with a paw… And it is made of aluminum. 100% aluminum. We now have aluminum-based beings which are inside of us. [Dr. Zalewski corrects himself at a later time claiming that the end of the tentacle is carbon-based instead of aluminum-based.]
Here we have 10 microns and this is the leg. The length of this beings’ leg is around 2.5mm.
This is only life… but different. Will it be benevolent?
Perhaps we should hang up a poster somewhere here… For everyone to surrender to euthanasia voluntarily?
The criminals of this world… you hear well…
Those are the results of the tests: It is made of carbon. Excuse me, I meant carbon, not aluminum, but the end is made of carbon only. I made a mistake.
This is the brand that is manufacturing this “healing potion” for our happiness and well-being. [shows slide of Pfizer vaccines]. This is from this brand.
And now it’s worth to ask, why some people get an injection with only a saline solution, and why some get something else – eggs.
But this is not for me to find out. I’m a seeker of the truth, but not of this world. This world, we have to realize, is almost already lost.
Just look at the statistics. How many people have already taken it.
Yes, we do have a lot of bacteria and viruses which we have to cope with. And we continue to live. But no one was giving them to us artificially. Now, the majority took it voluntarily.
Do you want to have a being like that inside of you? It has pretty colors, one can take care of it… But it hasn’t been created to just sit there and to do nothing. It also wants to live and multiply… you need to realize that.
And this is not a hedgehog and also not a sea urchin.”
The PCR Swabs are DNA Collectors
Zaluski analyzed the PCR testing swabs – they are DNA collectors he saysBlow-up shot of a PCR swab. @12:38 (pic credited to Dr. Franc Zalewski)
“This is a swab brush for collecting DNA samples. This is a little swab brush for swabbing samples from the mouth, or from the other side like in China. [TINP: He means that in China, the State imposes anal swabs.]
Why is the swab brush built like that? Each ending is melted/sealed. It’s not cut off, it’s melted. I have analyzed the ends, as well as the side walls. Here we have the side wall, and here is the melted end. The swab brush contains titanium, aluminum, and carbon.
You need to realize that this is about collecting DNA. I was on the airport… and as I was walking by there it was officially written: “Central DNA Database”. And there they are taking samples.
The swab test’s purpose is to collect DNA. Why do they need our DNA? I’m inviting you to find out. I’m joking, we won’t be taking a break now.
But who is interested in it? To those that are interested in it, I’m happy that you are here today. The room is filled but… There should have been one million of you here today.
But perhaps there? Behind the screen there will be one million of you, who will learn about all this.”
END OF TRANSCRIPT
About: “My name is Franc Zalewski, by profession I am a geologist, mineralogist but also an archaeologist, cosmologist, Egyptologist, fascinated by mathematics and by vocation I am a discoverer of truth in Poland and in the world.” – Franc Zalewski
TINP will take a guess as to why the PCR is really a DNA collection tool. (We know from its inventor, Kary Mullis, that it is not a diagnostic test.) They need our DNA to compare the alterations over time to see if and how our DNA is changing with the various injections. TINP is going to guess that these artificial aluminum-based life forms being injected into human beings are somehow a means (they hope) will begin the process of transforming human beings (those who survive the shots) into transhumans.
There is plenty of evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 have protection against reinfection, Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.) said.
“There’s ample scientific studies that show that natural immunity is absolutely one of the best things you could have—and some studies even show that it’s more effective [than vaccination],” Harshbarger said during a recent appearance on NTD’s “Capitol Report.”
Natural immunity refers to post-recovery antibodies that shield people against Covid reinfection which causes COVID-19.
Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.) is seen in an undated file photograph. (Courtesy of Rep. Diana Harshbarger’s Office)
Multiplestudies have indicated that natural immunity among past COVID-19 patients is strong and similar or superior to the protection from COVID-19 vaccines. Some experts have pushed for federal health officials to take natural immunity into account when issuing recommendations and rules. But federal authorities currently recommend virtually everybody get a vaccine, including the recovered, arguing the strong protection gets even better when those people have a jab.
Harshbarger, though, says a number of Americans object to getting a vaccine while pointing out that natural immunity to other diseases is accepted as an alternative to vaccination.
She and 10 other members of the House of Representatives late last week introduced the “Natural Immunity Is Real Act,” a companion to a Senate bill from Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska).
It would require federal agencies to “acknowledge, accept, and agree to truthfully present, natural immunity pertaining to COVID-19 pursuant to promulgating certain regulations.”
The congressmembers are presenting the bill as President Joe Biden’s administration works to finalize a regulation that would force private companies with over 100 employees to mandate presenting proof of COVID-19 vaccination or have staff members be tested weekly for the disease.
There is no opt-out for natural immunity.
Other mandates are already in place on the federal, state, and local level that have led to some Americans losing their jobs.
“I’ve read some of the studies that show that natural immunity, in a lot of ways, can be more effective. And I know there’s one study that shows that the percentage of protection is even better than two doses of the vaccine, in some cases. There is ample scientific data out there that show that. Think about it. We have immunity against measles, and smallpox, and they accept that. Why won’t they do it for COVID?” said Harshbarger, a licensed pharmacist since 1987.
“Too many medical leaders are refusing to publicly recognize what overwhelming data has already shown—protection afforded to individuals with natural immunity is real, robust and durable,” Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.) added in a written statement. “Denying science only contributes to existing confusion, misinformation, and mistrust among the American people. This bill helps restore trust and faith in the Public Health system, while maintaining our fight against COVID-19.”
The other co-sponsors are Reps. Jeff Van Drew (R-N.J.), Chris Stewart (R-Utah), Bill Posey (R-Fla.), Mary Miller (R-Ind.), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa), Dan Bishop (R-N.C.), Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), and Chip Roy (R-Texas).
The US president’s chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, is under fire for allegedly lying to Congress about how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded controversial research into bat coronaviruses in China, since the agency admitted to participating in gain-of-function virus research, contrary to Fauci’s earlier denial.
Aside from accusations of lying to the US Congress, Dr Anthony Fauci is now facing calls for his resignation and arrest over his alleged involvement in cruel experiments on beagle puppies which were said to have been infected with disease-causing parasites.
The calls have intensified with the emergence of a graphic video showing brutal scenes of puppies being fixated and tortured, with some of the clips showing the dogs’ bodies being removed and put into trash cans.
The chilling footage emerged shortly after the hashtag #ArrestFauci began flourishing on Twitter, being propelled to trends after the presidential medical adviser was accused by the non-profit organisation White Coat Waste Project of funding the cruel experiments with taxpayer dollars.
According to the non-profit, at least 44 beagle puppies were subject to tests of experimental drugs in a laboratory in Tunisia, North Africa. The dogs were reportedly “fed alive” to disease-carrying parasites, and the animals allegedly had their vocal chords removed in order not to disturb the researchers with barking.
In light of recent accusations of lying to Congress, when Fauci denied that his National Institutes of Health (NIH) participated in gain-of-function research into coronaviruses in Wuhan while the agency stated otherwise, netizens unleashed their condemnation of the presidential medical adviser.
One of the users who called for Fauci’s arrest and tagged the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) shared a screenshot saying that the organisation’s account blocked them.
When you tweet about #ArrestFauci and you tag PETA, this happens.
While Fauci denies ever lying to Congress, netizens are not the only ones calling for his arrest and/or resignation, as they have now been joined by some Republicans, among them Senator Rand Paul, who said that Fauci should be fired “just for lack of judgment if nothing else”.
Fauci, who is yet to comment on the puppy experiment allegations, remains adamant that he never lied to Congress, insisting that “neither I nor Dr Francis Collins, the director of the NIH, lied or misled about what we’ve done”. He also noted that it was “molecularly impossible for those viruses that were worked on to turn into SARS-CoV-2”.
An internist who looked at several COVID jabs under a microscope is sounding the alarm after her discovery of strange, unidentified objects in the shots, including metallic fragments, “graphene-like” structures in each jab, and a tentacled, moving organism-like creature in the Moderna jab.
Dr. Carrie Madej, who said she has examined the magnified contents of the Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson shots, found it “very upsetting” to see things in each jab that the manufacturers have not been forthright about — so upsetting that she said she cried after she verified with a second batch of shots what she had seen in the first.
She explained on the Stew Peters show that she was first asked by a local Georgia lab to examine under a microscope the contents of a “fresh” Moderna vial, which she verified was unaltered before being placed onto a glass slide under a compound microscope. “Nothing was added to the solution, nothing was diluted,” she said.
“First it looked just translucent. And then as time went on, over two hours, colors appeared. I had never seen anything like this. There wasn’t a chemical reaction happening. It was a brilliant blue, and royal purple, yellow, and sometimes green,” she said.
She later shared that when she asked nanotech engineers what the emerging brilliant colors might come from, the engineers said the “only thing they knew that could do that” was a white light, over time, causing a reaction on “a super-conducting material.” In this case, Madej noted, white light came from the microscope itself.
She pointed out that an example of a super-conducting substance would be “an injectable computing system.”
Madej went on, “These fibers were appearing more and more. Some of the fibers had a little cube structure on them, I’m not sure what that was. And also metallic fragments were in there. They were not metallic fragments I’m used to seeing.They were exotic. They were very opaque.”
In time, Madej said, “all the particulates, all these colors started moving to the edge” of the cover slide. “There was self-assembling going on, things were growing. They looked synthetic.”
Madej noticed something else quite strange: “There was one particular object or organism, I’m not sure what to call it, that had tentacles coming from it. It was able to lift itself up off of the glass slide. It appeared to be self-aware, or to be able to grow or move in space.”
She found it disturbing but said she thought, “Maybe that was a fluke in a way, maybe that was just that one vial.”
Some time later, the same lab obtained more vials from a different batch of Moderna shots, as well as a J&J vial. Madej was concerned to see the same things she had observed in the first vial.
“Another one of those tentacle-like structures appeared,” she said. “This was now completely under the cover slip, so there was no movement because it wasn’t on the edge, but I just couldn’t believe I saw another one. Same thing.” Madej also saw the “same colors” appear over time, as well as the fibers.
In the J&J vial, Madej said, there was “definitely a substance that looked like graphene. They all had graphene-like structures in there. Whether or not they were, I don’t have the capability of testing them in order to know at this lab, but that’s what they appeared to be.”
The vial’s contents also had “fatty substances, a sticky glue-like substance that would be considered a hydrogel in those, both of them.”
The J&J vial “also had colors appear.” “Their colors were different, like a fluorescent pastel kind of color. Again, a lot of synthetic structures in there as well.” Madej also noticed many “spherical ring structures” in the J&J contents.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before. They’re not supposed to be in these injections. What are they going to do to somebody? What are they going to do to a child? I started crying when I saw these the second time under a microscope, because it was confirmation of everything I saw the first time,” Madej said.
Madej again appeared on the Stew Peters show on October 20 to discuss her findings from a Pfizer jab vial as well as another J&J vial. “What I’m seeing in all of these manufacturers are synthetic substances, graphene-like, also these nano-carbon tubes,” Madej said.
“In this particular J&J” vial, Madej saw “round spheres, which were not air bubbles.” She continued, “There’s many of these rings, and as time went on they would get thinner and thinner and expand out and then finally extrude out some gelatinous material — I’m not sure what it was, but different kinds of things were inside these spheres. So they’re almost like a delivery structure, that’s what they were doing.”
On one of these rings, Madej saw what “looked like a translucent organism that went around, and back and forth.” Madej first “thought it was another water parasite,” but after continuing to observe its movements, “thought perhaps it was moving in a more robotic way.”
Madej saw the “same kind of synthetic things” in the Pfizer jab, as well as “something that looks similar to teslaphoresis. That’s when these little graphite-like black, metallic particles start to coalesce into strings, like a spider web. They do that through any external force — it could be light, it could be a magnetic force, it could be an impulse, like a frequency. Anyhow, all these little particles would then coalesce and form their own neural network, or their own fibers, or wires.”
Are the Moderna jab’s tentacled creatures ‘immortal’ hydra experiments?
Madej believes the tentacled entity she found in the Moderna jabs has a connection with the organism hydra vulgaris. “It is one of the model organisms that the transhumanists like to study and look at. They feel that this is an amazing organism for humanity,” said Madej, in part because “it’s immortal in the lab setting” and “continuously produces its own stem cells.”
“It never stops. You can chop it up into little bits, put it in a petri dish and it forms itself again and again,” she continued. “They’re thinking, wouldn’t this be great if we could put this inside of a human body’s genome, and then if your hand was chopped off by a trauma, you could grow a new hand.”
The other reason the transhumanists are interested in the hydra, said Madej, is that it “has its own neural network,” that looks like a human nerve, and when [gathered together] “can form a mesh network, they actually can communicate between each other, almost like if you had your own intranet inside your body.” She noted that then “something outward could affect it, like an impulse, a frequency, something from 5G, a light, a magnet. What if something influenced that communication network?”
On October 21, Karen Kingston pointed out on the Stew Peters show that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which owns a 50% stake in Moderna’s mRNA-1273 vaccine and it helped develop under the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, “has been sponsoring research on hydra for more than two decades.”
In fact, the NIH has an entire subsection of its website dedicated to the Hydra 2.0 Genome Project.
Kingston also pointed to a study that found that Hydra has “about the same number of genes as humans, sharing many of the same ones,” and that they also found in the Hydra genes “linked with Huntington’s disease” and with plaque formation seen in Alzheimer’s disease. She compared the symptoms associated with these diseases with those being experienced by some who have received the COVID jabs, such as body tremors, in those who have “lost control of their neurological system.”
She believes people are being injected through the COVID shots with “transgenic hydra,” which she describes as an organism with DNA from another organism incorporated into it.
Another doctor’s ‘delivery structure’ findings in Johnson & Johnson jab
Madej is not the first to observe metallic unidentified objects, graphene-like substances, self-assembling particles, and organism-like entities in the COVID jabs.
Dr. Jane Botha reported on the Stew Peters show on October 4 that when she put a drop from a J&J shot vial under the microscope and left the droplet uncovered, she saw “very symmetrical black discs” that “seem to be joined together,” by what Peters noted appeared to be metal connectors.
Botha did not know what to make of what she was seeing, but noted that they reflected light when observed under a dark field, and that they appeared to be “self-assembling.” She saw the same discs four different times, using four different droplets from the same vial.
When the sample dried, said Botha, she could no longer see the disc structures, but “black lines started to form.”
Botha was especially disturbed by what she found because when she viewed the jab fluid through a different microscope technique, more amorphous-looking “black structures” appeared to be “exactly the same structure” that she observed in the blood of her jabbed patients who were experiencing symptoms after the COVID shots. These symptoms included blood clots, shortness of breath, nerve pain, severe thrombosis, severe embolisms, and cognitive difficulties, including memory loss and depression.
Pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Jane Ruby shared on the Stew Peters show on October 6 that people have done “reverse searches” and have “put a lot of different science together to show that this is a technology that’s called micro-bubbles,” which she says is a delivery system used for the human body.
Ruby said Dr. Botha “is hypothesizing” that the reason she could no longer see the discs, but only black lines once the J&J jab sample dried up, is that “maybe they were programmed to break open” and “spill over their contents, their payload.”
This hypothesis would correspond with Dr. Madej’s observation in the J&J jab sample of “rings” that “as time went on they would get thinner and thinner and expand out and then finally extrude out some gelatinous material,” which she described as “almost like a delivery structure.”
The International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research has published an “overview” of “the concept of microbubble as a drug delivery system,” describing microbubbles as a “small spherical type of bubble” “capable of penetrating even into the smallest blood capillaries & releasing drugs or genes, incorporated on their surface, under the action of ultrasound.”
Repeated findings of graphene oxide-like substances in jabs
Others have observed substances in the COVID jabs that they believe to be graphene oxide, which has been shown in various experiments to have toxic effects.
The first such finding to come to prominence was the observation by Dr. Pablo Campra Madrid, published in the Spanish blog La Quinta Columna, that the contents of what was labeled as a Pfizer jab, as viewed under an electron microscope, “present[ed] a high similarity with images of graphene oxide from the literature obtained by the same TEM technique, with similar magnifications.”
They added that in both images “an intricate matrix or mesh of folded translucent flexible sheets can be observed.” The researchers concluded although the “microscopy does not provide conclusive evidence,” it “provides strong evidence for the probable presence of graphene derivatives.”
Graphene oxide, one of the many derivatives of graphene, is praised for qualities that lend themselves well to biomedical applications such as biosensors, drug delivery, and the transfer of genetic material. For example, the Science Advisory Board describes the design by researchers from the National Center for Neuroscience and Technology in China of a “hydrogel containing an RNA vaccine” that used graphene oxide, favored at least in part for its “high drug-loading efficiency” due to its “large surface area.”
In fact, a whole study has been dedicated to the “potential of graphene-based materials to combat COVID-19,” which states, “Graphene and graphene-related materials (GRMs) exhibit extraordinary physicochemical, electrical, optical, antiviral, antimicrobial, and other fascinating properties that warrant them as potential candidates for designing and development of high-performance components and devices required for COVID-19 pandemic and other futuristic calamities.”
Dr. Robert Young, a Ph.D. and naturopathic practitioner, has also examined each available COVID jab with microscopy and x-ray spectroscopy, finding objects in the Pfizer sample that bear similarity to images of graphene oxide. The microscope images and chemical/elemental content he found through x-ray spectroscopy lead him to believe the Pfizer jab contains graphene oxide.
Dr. Ruby has noted that various studies have found toxic effects of graphene oxide, including its tendency to lead to blood clotting.
A 2016 study titled “Toxicity of graphene-family nanoparticles: a general review of the origins and mechanisms has noted that “due to their nanosize, GFNs can reach deeper organs by passing through the normal physiological barriers,” such as “the blood-brain barrier and blood-placental barrier.”
The study found that “Graphene Oxide (GO) can result in acute inflammation response and chronic injury by interfering with the normal physiological functions of important organs.” “Many experiments have shown that GFNs have toxic side effects in many biological applications,” it concluded.
The Food and Drug Administration of Taiwan (TFDA)’s own official publication has also noted graphene oxide’s toxic effects.
It should be noted that the Graphene Flagship, funded by the European Union, has described one of the major developments of graphene usage as its contribution to 5G “transmitter and receivers”: “Ultra high capacity transmitter and receivers using graphene offer a unique solution to future 5G communications,” reads\ the 2018 development on the graphene timeline.
Graphene’s contribution to 5G “data transmitters and receivers” has also been discussed by the Estonian Public Broadcasting science news portal Novaator.
Iron Mask and Collar for Punishing Slaves, Brazil, 1817-1818″, Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora*
The image of Escrava Anastácia has been making many appearances in several recent anti-lockdown protests around the world. The way in which the likeness of this muzzled female Brazilian slave has been used to illustrate the various forms of pandemic population restrictions, particularly the mandatory wearing of face masks, has been criticized by various media outlets for its perceived cultural appropriation and irreverence to the historical suffering of black people. This article represents an opportunity to address this claim of cooptation and to explain the merits of illuminating the current health-driven limitations as indeed a form of enslavement.
Anastásia speaks in the silence after prayers, as if telepathically. I think I can make out of the sound of certain words… Anastácia’s silence says: “Speak for me!”
Escrava Anastácia is a folk saint venerated in Brazil, with a large number of devotees among Umbanda practitioners. She is also venerated by many black Brazilian Catholics, having an important shrine in the prominent church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black People in Salvador da Bahia, even though she has never been acknowledged or canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
The transhistorical muzzling of dissenters by tyrannical rules. Anti-lockdown protester in Melbourne, Australia on 2020 and Anastásia at the pillory on the 1990 Brazilian mini-series entitled “Escrava Anastásia”
Blessed Anastácia, How do free speech and academic freedom protect me from institutional retaliation as a result of questioning the mask mandates? You who come swiftly to the aid of all who speak courageously in the face of censorship and silencing, cover me!
Her hagiography includes multiple stories that emphasize the nobility of her character in spite of her discursive and physical muzzling by the oppressive power of the system of chattel slavery. In some stories she is the mixed-race child of an African princess and a slave trader who is fitted with a metal muzzle to prevent her from revealing the trader’s infidelity and the rape of her mother (Burdick 1998). In other stories, Anastácia is herself the victim of rape, or at least attempted rape, by a slave planter who also punishes and silences her with the metal contraption. In some versions of the story, the mistress of the plantation muzzles Anastásia to save herself from any public shame that could come about by the disclosure of her husband’s infidelity. In yet other variations of this story, the reasons for her muzzling involve the aid she provided to a runaway slave and her leadership in organizing a slave revolt.
In all of these narratives the muzzling seeks to silence her cries against injustice and a voice that leads to liberation.As a form of public shaming, it serves as a deterrent for those slaves in the plantation who could be inspired by Anastásia. Her martyrdom comes about either through starvation or from the tetanus produced by the metal as it rusted in her mouth. Her ability to perform miracles, even while muzzled, included healing her oppressors. This presents an idealized martyrdom, an admirable resilience as well as a moral impermeability to and an ultimate victory over the downpressure of slavery. Her compassion towards her persecutors as well as her alleged mixed-race background is seen by many devotees as a hopeful sign of racial reconciliation in Brazil and in all lands affected by the slave trade.
Blessed Anastácia, my co-workers, faculty and staff have reported me to the department Chair for sighting me in the building’s common areas without wearing a mask! Yeah, being good Pavlik Morozovs (Catriona 2005)! I haven’t experienced such a snitch culture since communist Cuba! Their concern for the “the lives of others”(Henckel 2006) is just too reminiscent of Eastern Bloc techniques of social control for me to continue to interact with them. You who were turned in by an informant at the plantation, have mercy on us!
Is the comparison between the coercive covid face-masking of anti-lockdown protesters and the muzzling of insurrected slaves impossible to make? Is the comparison between these two muzzled rebels an irredeemable anachronism?
The apparition of Anastásia at anti-lockdown rallies represents an opportunity to understand the current medical tyranny as a form of enslavement and to forge links of solidarity between communities whose freedom is threatened across all racial groups. The claim of cooptation deserves to be unpacked for a valid claim of cultural usurpation could easily work towards severing important alliances in a divide-and-conquer model. While there are clear specificities between the suffering of Africans under the system of chattel slavery and the deprivation of civil liberties endured by most citizens around the world during the current pandemic panic, Anastásia reminds us of certain transhistorical constants in the process of dehumanization and subjugation of populations through the gagging and muzzling of their bodies to quell their protestations. Let Anastásia speak for freedom today!
Blessed Anastácia, Whenever I speak about the irrationality of masks being able to filter viruses, I am quickly shut down by people who tell me that I am not a medical doctor and therefore have no right to speak on the topic! You who understood how despotic and coercive power works to silence dissenters, strengthen our resolve to boldly speak the truth in the midst of lies.
While it is outside the scope of this piece to discuss in detail the effectiveness of masks to prevent infection by airborne pathogens, I do want to stress that the data suggests that their use for this purpose is questionable. I would like direct those with a keen interest in “following the science” on masks to the latest WHO-funded study, published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, available on the CDC website proving that “face masks have not demonstrated protection against laboratory-confirmed influenza” (Xiao et al. 2020). The inefficacy of face masks to contain upper respiratory infections was the official policy of the WHO and the CDC prior to the current health panic(Molteni and Rogers 2020) and continues to be confirmed by ongoing research (Guerra and Guerra 2021).
Blessed Anastácia, I find myself unable to enter into supermarkets because of my refusal to wear a masks. You, whose mask prevented you from eating and ultimately died of starvation, have mercy on us!
The muzzling despotism of the plantocracy. What might the transmutation of the plantation and its subjugation strategies look like in the current period?
While the medical effectiveness of mask-wearing in the current pandemic cultural climate is dubious, the social and psychological elements of control enacted by compulsory masking are much clearer. What are the effects of masks on the psyche of those forced to live under the current medical tyranny? That the dictates on masks are coming not largely from immunologists but from what very well appear to be compromised behavioral psychologists such as Susan Michie, who is foretelling that we will be wearing masks forever (Stone 2021), forces us to consider that masks are less driven by health reasons and more by the malevolent use of Pavlovian and compliance studies knowledge to break down the psyches, dignity and integrity of individuals and the social coherence of societies, rendering both more susceptible to manipulation and reconfiguration according to norms conducive to their own subjugation. The mandatory use of face masks during the current health panic fashion the citizenry as slaves. As symbols of enslavement:
— Masks deprive us of oxygen. They produce hypoxia, leading us to a state of physical and mental weakness in which the population is more prone to ideological brainwashing and less capable of ascertaining the degree to which they are oppressed.
— Masks are symbols of submission. Their medical practicality is very questionable, yet people are forced to wear them. Despotism is established in the forced compliance of arbitrary rules. Caligula planned to make his horse a consul just because he could.
— Masks are the lurid fetish of power. Given that face masks feature prominently in bondage and sado-masochism (BDSM) role play, which is invested in master-slave dynamics, can we not see the powerful psychological element of subjugation that they represent for those who are forced to wear them? Can we consider the perverted delight that the sight of these mask wearers brings to the schemers of these policies?
— Along with lockdown, masks enforce the creation of a carceral culture. The terminology and aesthetics are borrowed from prisons, especially those in which torture features prominently. Recall the hooding of Abu Ghraib prison torture victims and the mouth covers on those at Guantánamo. If we can consider the historical transmutation of the slave plantation into the prison, we can perceive the persistent and insidious dehumanization of captive and enslaved populations through masking—a technique of domination aptly articulated in the title and text of Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks.
— Compulsory masking leads to the erasure of personhood and the homogenization of masses. The collectivized wearing of masks results in an enforced uniformity in which the individual cedes way to the nameless collectivity as the neo-meta-citizen.
— Masks are theatrical.They have been used for millennia for the investigation and recrafting of personhood. The very word “person” has an etymological source in the name for the masks used by actors in ancient Greek theatrical productions. As theatrical props, masks conceal and obfuscate our identities, rendering us alien to others and ourselves.
— Anthropologically, masks play a role in the crafting of liminal identities. As such, they are not in-and-for-themselves, but prepare the individual for their new roles in society. The masks shape the individuals’ subjectivities. They can be removed when their program has been assimilated by the newly recrafted individuals. However transitory the current regime of face masking might be, the population must face that we are being forced to undergo a rite of passage, a process of resocialization into the new normal.The more we accept that we are participating in the ritualization of our dispossession and enslavement by wearing the mask, the less able we will be able to don it.
— The masks are state insignia. They are a visible display of allegiance to the system of medicalizing technocratic control. Just as the red neckerchief of the communist pioneer youth movement publicly professed loyalty to the one party and the most supreme leader, the face mask is the symbol of political adherence to new normal, confirming conformance to “right thinking,” à la Mao Zedung.
— The deletion of facial expression inhibits non-verbal communication necessary for social organization that can lead to revolution. The masks seek to deactivate our revolutionary potential.
— Verbal muzzling: The masks reduce overall verbal output. Along with enforcement of (anti) social distancing, their usage foments the isolation of the individual and the atomization (Arendt 1951) of society into ineffective rebels, unable to consolidate into coherent units under a common discourse or banner.
— The associations that symbolically and functionally masks bear to muzzles speaks to the dehumanization and the domestication of the population under these directives.
— Just as masks function as liminal artifacts in rites of passage and as part of animal training, these covid mask are harbingers of further intrusions to our integrity. Wearing the masks is just one step away from receiving the shots, then accepting the vaccine passports and the implantable neural links until one’s original persona is buried by a cyborg. The masks function as an empirical compliance test for the projected acceptability of future corporeal technologies of control. Where will you draw the line?
— Masks promote a culture of fear. Each and every mask is a billboard advertising a state of emergency, putting individuals in a constant sympathetic nervous system fight-or-flight mode that reduces their field of possibility to focus on the presumed ever present threat of infection. Meanwhile, the oligarchical system of domination erodes our civil liberties across the world. Masks are part of the politics of subjugation through scaremongering.
— Masks are deterrents of solidarity. They promote the constant perception of your neighbor as a nameless pathogenic vector instead of your ally. The masks divide and conquer.
Anastácia’s silence says: “Occupy!” What does this mean, I ask. “Occupy the space that’s been allotted to you.” Does this mean to use my current position in academia as a platform from which to challenge the collective hysterical delusions of this political health panic? Anastácia enigmatically but firmly re-states: “Just occupy…”
Guantánamo prisoners. Non-US nationals held in extra-territorial detainment facilities for the purposes of strategically skirting around US constitutional guarantees, civil liberties and human rights. Notice how muzzling constitutes a trans-historical element in the dehumanization of captive populations.
Mainstream media reports have criticized the deployment of the effigy of Anastásia in lockdown rallies by categorizing them as instances of cultural appropriation (Villareal 2020, Da Costa 2020). No one is allowed to make use of the imagery of chattel slavery to describe the lockdown measures without being smeared as a racist, especially if they are white (Chesler 2021). Could it be that power chastises those who ask whether our current deprivations of liberties are akin to slavery because there is an element of truth of in the question?
This cultural appropriation argument presents Anastásia as having been hijacked and decontextualized by dominant social elements who do not have a stake in her politics of racial liberation. These reports focus on the whiteness of the protesters holding up the black slave’s image as evidence of something incongruous that speaks to co-optation and theft. However, none of these reports care to elaborate upon the hagiography of Anastásia to any significant depth or to unpack the symbolic layers that her life-work embodies. For articles that claim to care deeply about the misuses of Afro-diasporic lives, these omissions are nothing short of problematic.
Instead of using these instances to probe into the curious appearance of images of Brazilian folk Catholicism in the industrialized world and to inquire into the various forms that slavery might take, the authors essentialistically present the protesters as racists in order to avoid making the obvious correspondences between chattel slavery punishments and lockdown sanctions manifest.
Source: Thomas Branagan, The Penitential Tyrant; or, slave trader reformed (New York, 1807), p. 271.
Shouldn’t those who see the analogy as hyperbolic at the very least concede that the strategies of silencing in these two systems of oppression are uncannily similar? In order to circumvent the inconvenient presentation of the current medical tyranny as a revisitation of earlier generally condemned systems of control and to steer clear of the unflattering reflection of ourselves as slaves under this new system, the articles resort to a curious rhetorical strategy: they use an ad hominem attack that discredits the source of the argument by focusing on the ethnicity of the protester while at the same time never confronting the core of the argument presented. That the attack led to an apology by the California female protester makes me draw an even more powerful connection between Anastásia and her as pillared subjugated women, in spite of their racially different backgrounds.
In addition to shutting people up, masking has the effect of inducing and performing an identity of shame and punishment for a social trespass, displaying visibly the consequence of a guilty sentence as a deterrent for others who might dare to protest their silencing. The pressure experienced by the protester to apologize is analogous to the mandate to wear the covid mask and the slave muzzle. All have the purpose of silence dissent. The retraction of the accusation is evidence of the crime.
Anastásia says: “Take me with you!” “Where,” I ask? “To the protest in Trafalgar Square? Do you want to march down Oxford Street with the protesters on Saturday?” “In your heart,” she says. “In your heart…”
Indeed, there is a “Covidian Cult” (Hopkins 2020). I would like to add to the conversation instantiated by his provocative phrase by questioning the presumed negativity associated with this kind of religiosity. Within the study of religion, “cults” have been euphemistically rebranded “new religions” in order to be more relativistic and less judgmental, bowing perhaps to the exigencies of political correctness. Regardless of the term we choose to use, the role of ritual, dogma and the inquisitions and pillorying of those who, questioning covid orthodoxies, commit the sin of blasphemy, all display a drive that is concomitant with the most brutal aspects of religions across the centuries.
Yet, realizing the power of religious discourse, could we harness it to productive ends? Could we employ our judgement to become more cognizant of our own uses and abilities to deploy religious iconography towards the ideal of freedom?Can the cult of Anastásia overcome the Covidian cult? By asking these provocative questions I don’t intend for us to literally recreate the freedom movement as a new religion; instead, I urge us to realize the tremendous power that neo-religious performance, ritual and spectacle hold, the double-edged swordedness of it, our own incipient deployments of such iconographies and signal to our full use of the language of spirit, whose synonym is also freedom.
And for those of us among the freedom movement with some form of spiritual practice, especially those with a Christian formation, the biographical and visual portrait of the non-canonical Anastásia can help to illustrate what many of us feel: that there is a metaphysical element in all of this, that to say otherwise is to be “denying the demonic” (Curtin 2021) as it looks like we “wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12).
Anastásia says that when they shut you up, the power then flows through your hands. The power is not in the words; it’s in the action-inaction. What does she mean by working with the hands without doing? Truth cannot be impeded. It will polish rock. It will carve a big canyon. It will flow. When silenced, extend out your hands…
Effigy of Anastásia in her unofficial altar outside of the Church Our Lady of the Rosary of Black People in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.
Detractors of this equivalence I am making between the mechanisms of chattel slavery and the covid restrictions on civil liberties will point to the specificities of each system of domination and rely on the inexactness inherent in analogies to make their case. Anticipating such arguments, I will stress that slavery takes many different shapes in different spatial and temporal contexts.
If in the pre-industrial era, the shackles, balls and chains were made of iron, in a technological age marked by the invisible transmission of data across space, the mechanisms of enslavement become more evanescent, as thin as thread, as diaphanous as cloth. Lightweight as surgical masks might be, their weight on enlightened psyches can be felt just as heavy as Anastásia’s slave bit. Cloth can be as corrosive as rusting iron on the skin of the awakened whose conscience is cognizant of its suppressing and censoring intent.
Certainly, the chattel slavery endured by African-descent people in the early modern period is not exactly the same as the control over people’s bodies that the new normality seeks to impose. But if we fail to see the continuities and refuse to see beyond symptoms and surface, we deny ourselves the ability to perceive the transmutations and adaptations that slavery acquires in every age.
Those who refuse to see the current masks mandates as a technology of enslavement are deceived by camouflage. The chamaeleon-like nature of slavery is one of its enduring survival tricks.
So varied are the forms of slavery that its foremost theoretician is at great pains in providing a working definition of it. For Orlando Patterson, in his Slavery as Social Death, what makes chattel slavery singular is the concept of “social death” in which the enslaved is denied connection to a place of origin and to ascending and descending generations.
The black slave in the Early Modern Americas is a fractional, quasi/non/sub human without citizenship or family. It seems evident to me that the limitations of vocal and visual interactions of masks render analogous socially dead subjects. The erasure of half our faces produces a fractionalization of our subjectivities. It is an attempt against our sense of personhood and that of our neighbors’, who we are increasingly expected to consider potential threats to our health.
The imposition of this masking onto the population results in a uniformed and homogenized population, in which collectivities are visually and legally no longer a collection of individuals—for what else are individuals but selves who have enacted choice?—but instead indistinct masses, muzzled and compliant throngs. The muzzled are slaves for they have lost a part of their personhood.
It is common among these slaves to refuse to see their masks as reductions of their selfhood or as anything akin to slavery. It is embarrassing to see yourself when you have lost face. The darkness of the frightened-ostrich-head-in-the-hole is preferable. There are no so blind as those who will not see.
Most people who lived through the Early Modern period on both sides of the Atlantic rationalized slavery as natural condition.
Most regrettably, this ideology was instilled among the enslaved, leading many people of African descent to accept their bondage in New World plantations. This is why I am not surprised to see how most people around the world seem oblivious to their subjugation during the current regime of domination.
Shakespeare provides us with dramatization of just how this brainwashing occurs. In The Tempest (1611), Caliban is enslaved by Prospero through his incantations. Prospero uses magic charms to confuse and convince Caliban that his rightful station is that of a slave. When Caliban demands a rational explanation for his enslavement, Prospero guilt trips Caliban into believing that he attempted to rape Miranda, Prospero’s daughter.
A similar element of the discursive uses of the enslaving evil eye can be studied in Hegel’s “Discourse of the master and the slave” (1807) in which mythically, the slave is constituted as such as he loses the battle with the would-be-master. As the master spares the slave’s life in the duel, he convinces the slave that his life is no longer his own, that he has died to himself and must only live for the master. The role that guilt plays in suppressing the innate longing for freedom is echoed in the countless ways in which the current medicalized regime of power brainwashes the masses into accepting their endless confinements and sequestrations.
How many times have we heard the new normies decry the excesses of illegal mass gatherings and so called super-spreader events as the reason for the limitations on our civil liberties? Under this rhetoric, the population deserves lockdowns. They have brought it down upon themselves for having succumbed to the temptation of contact with the pathological dangersinherent in nature and their fellow human beings, seduced by the sunny weather into congregating in beaches and parks allegedly infested with pathogens.
Shakespeare’s Caliban and Hegel’s slave are manipulated through remorse for their putative moral inadequacies (attempted rape, pugilistic weakness) into believing that they are responsible for their current demotion in status and therefore must nobly endure the limitations that they have brought upon themselves. Anastásia’s informant and betrayer was one such slave who, having internalized the ideology of enslavement, signaled her virtue and allegiance to the system by turning her in for having helped a fugitive.
If through this analogy, the new normies function as brainwashed slaves, then those of us in the freedom movement can find inspiration in the figure of Anastásia who pointed towards the route to freedom, and ultimate identification in the figure of the maroon runaway slave.
The internalization of blame for their own suffering is the most important constitutive elements of the blindness that prevents many of our contemporaries from understanding the curtailment of our constitutional liberties as a form enslavement.
The ability to deconstruct and rebuff this false ascription of guilt is the foundation of our liberty. Our freedoms of expression, assembly and religion are not granted to us: they are inalienable. The transcending of this blinding, unfounded and debilitating guilt lie at the heart of the awakening of the currently sleeping masses. Understanding the current health scare as a delusion brought about by Prospero’s cheap tricks, the unreasonableness of the prison-derived concept of lockdowns and the psycho-socio-somatic masking that attempts to silence those who prophecy against medical tyranny and all tyrannies is the spirit of Anastásia today, alive in our midst.
Museum piece: Iron Mask in the collection of Michael & Ruby Doub.
It seems fitting that the Spanish language would use the same word to refer to a newly arrived slave as to a muzzle. The word “bozal” designates both a recently disembarked slave, one who was born in Africa as opposed to the “creole” slaves born in the New World colonies. That this same word should be used to refer to a certain kind of slave and to the muzzle worn by domestic animals like dogs signals to the historical use of these devices on these slaves who had had a taste of freedom, the ones who had memories of liberty in an ancestral land.
These bozal slaves were the most likely to lead rebellions, as the myths surrounding Anastásia illustrate. For speakers of a language in which the word for a kind of slave also indexes a mouth covering, this polysemy implies that at some subconscious level there is a realization that the politically-mandated mask is a symbol of their enslavement. Their laughter when confronted with this linguistic coincidence begs to be read as an evacuation of psychological anxiety and uncomfortable recognition. Regardless of the languages we may speak, many of us know and suspect that there is something performative in the wearing of the mask, that we are being coerced to take part in a bal masqué in which constitutive elements of our identity are being reshaped in ways that work against our best interests. Regardless of the language you speak, the message of Anastásia is intelligible to you as part of the conscious resistance.
You remember having run into the hills I signaled to you a few centuries ago, when we lived in Brazil, don’t you? At my prompting you are starting to remember that beautiful and prosperous colony of runaways, that Palenque in the cool and fertile tropical highlands, you helped to establish, from which you raided the Portuguese settlements and eventually secured the freedom of countless of our brethren? You remember. In my silence, remember. You are free. You are freedom!
Roberto Strongman is Associate Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His contact information and publications can be accessed through his webpage: https://www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu/people/roberto-strongman.
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Notes * Anastácia, tu que sofrestes a maldade dos senhores de Engenhoe foste uma das Mártires do Cativeiro; Sede-nos benfeitora nos momentos de Aflição e de Angustia .
Em Que nossos Corações sofrem as Amarguras da Má Sorte e dos rudes golpes do nosso destino.
Tu que és venerada por uma legião de devotos pelos milagres
que realizastes , ajuda-me neste instante de desespeiro e de afliçãoe de aperto,tirando-me desta situação desagradável por que passo .
Lembra-te da tua última existência terrena e saberás sentir e reconhecer minhas desventuras…Acendendo esta Vela para ti símbolo da minha FÉ e da minha Confiança permita-me fazer um pedido; trata-se do seguinte: (Expõem o problema , de saúde , financeiro, má situação; desajuste amoroso etc….) Se me Atenderes, prometo lembrar de ti com todo o respeito , veneração e carinho. Assim Espero .
Assim Seja…..
Anastásia, you who suffered the evil of the lords of plantationand were one of the martyrs of captivity, Become onto us a benefactress in times of affliction and anguish.
In our hearts that suffer the bitterness of bad fortunes and the harsh blows of our destiny,
You who are worshiped by a legion of devotees for your miracles.
Help me in this moment of despair, affliction and distress, taking me out of this unpleasant situation that I am now going through.
Remember your last earthly existence and you will know how to empathize and recognize my misfortunes… Lighting this Candle for you, symbol of my FAITH and my trust, allow me to make a request; it is about the following: (Expose the problem, health, financial, bad situation, love mismatch, etc….) If you tend to me, I promise to remember you with all respect, veneration and affection. I hope so .
It’s time to wake up and smell the plasma, as thermonuclear fusion energy inches closer and closer to reality.
In its quest to develop unlimited green energy, the EAST Fusion Facility in Heifei, China recently created a plasma gas that was heated to 120° million Celsius—that’s three-times hotter than the sun—and kept it there for 101 seconds before it dissipated, setting a new world record both for heat and duration.
“The breakthrough is significant progress, and the ultimate goal should be keeping the temperature at a stable level for a long time,” said Li Mao, director of physics at Southern University of Sci-Tech in Shenzhen.
The previous record was 50° million Celsius, held by the scientists working at the fusion reactor in South Korea.
Flying cars, jetpacks, bullet trains—there are a lot of classic Sci-fi tech landmarks that we’ve reached, but a nuclear fusion reactor, essentially an artificial sun, is currently just considered plausible.
Borrowing the physics from reactions in the center of the sun, a thermonuclear fusion reactor squeezes hydrogen into helium, creating a dream of unlimited green energy, as the amount of deuterium, a version of hydrogen, found in 1 liter of seawater could produce as much energy as 300 liters of gasoline.
The reason this puzzle of all puzzles is only plausible is that the sun gets to rely on its massive gravitational forces to smush atoms together, whereas down on Earth we have to use temperatures like the one EAST has reached.
The challenge that comes along with this necessity: How can you build a machine that can heat and contain matter in such extremes which doesn’t just use more energy than it generates?
The device these fusion reactors center around is called a tokamak, which is a donut-shaped tube coated in super magnets.
Many tokamaks exist on Earth, and different governments and scientific institutes are all grappling with how to actually sustain a plasma for days rather than seconds, and to somehow use very little energy to heat a machine to 120 million Celsius.
The flagship project is ITER, a collaboration between the EU, Russia, Japan, South Korea, India, and the U.S. Their tokamak is the size of a building, and contains 3,000 tons of magnets, 141 kilometers of cabling, and the world’s most sophisticated refrigeration system.
Other efforts include smaller fusion reactors from private firms in the U.S., at MIT, and the UK’s Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Tokamak Energy. These two have created ingenious superconducting tape to coil around powerful magnets, which create immense pressure in addition to heat, allowing for “portable” fusion reactors—ones that cost an iota of the ITER’s €20 billion upfront price tag.
The benefit to getting this problem solved is that essentially, the question of energy is solved. Oil, coal, and gas can stay in the ground, there would be no danger of another Fukushima or Chernobyl, and all the myriad of problems, inefficiencies, and costs currently inherent in common green energy forms could be forgotten.
The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in Heifei’s Chinese Academy of Sciences is proving that it’s possible to extend and intensify the effect, and that as long as the record for heat and duration can be continually surpassed, the dream of unlimited clean energy will survive.
This is the newest interview by Steve St. Angelo with Tom at Palisades Radio on how the world is heading towards the Energy Cliff. Steve does an excellent job of discussing these most critical energy issues that most tend to ignore. Most people have no idea how the Energy Cliff is impacting the global economy and their lives. Think about the scamdemic, population reduction and vaccines.
