Monday, March 22, 2021

The Dark Winter is Over!

The only problem? 

There is a Dark Spring ahead.


It was the darkness before the dawn that never came and the Washington Compo$t gives you the inside story of how Trump’s denial, mismanagement, and magical thinking led to the pandemic’s dark winter -- even as Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser who had spent the early days of 2020 focused on other challenges in his overly large portfolio - including a Middle East peace plan and overseeing Trump's reelection campaign - was effective in helping cut through bureaucracy with a text or call.

Time to "build back better" as the guardians have beaten back another wave of record coronavirus infections during the dark winter:

"Are We Really Going To 'Build Back Better' After A "Dark Winter"?

by Tyler Durden
Monday, Dec 28, 2020

Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,

“It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”

- J.R.R. Tolkien

With all the talk about dark winters from Biden, Harris, Fauci, tyrannical Democrat governors, pandemic hysteria medical “experts”, and the corporate media paid to propagate the vital narrative, my mind was naturally drawn to the words of J.R.R. Tolkien and his Lord of the Rings trilogy. It is a story of good versus evil, with a foreboding mood of darkness and doom.

To those of us of a conspiratorial nature, according to those who conspired to overthrow a duly elected president for four years and are currently conspiring to steal the presidency through blatant election rigging and mail-in ballot fraud, we believe the darkness engulfing our nation has been initiated by the billionaire globalist evildoers marshaling dark forces in their Mordor on the Potomac.

The globalist elites, along with the Deep State and social media tyrants of Silicon Valley are rich, influential, and arrogant. They have stepped out from the shadows and are now blatantly flaunting their capture of our government, electoral systems, financial systems, mainstream media, social media, and medical complex.

They have gauged the intellectual, ethical, and mathematical aptitude of the masses and found them wanting. They have no fear of significant pushback as they commit treason by stealing a presidential election, trashing the Constitution, destroying small business owners, impoverishing what remains of the middle class, and imposing totalitarian restrictions upon a compliant obedient populace.

A nation once populated by independent minded, self-reliant, frontiersmen has rotted from within, as the country is now populated by millions of weak minded, submissive, docile sheep, allowing themselves to be bullied and propagandized into paralysis, while texting, tweeting and facebooking their every mindless thought to their followers.

Unless the Trump forces can prove fraud on a multi-state basis or are willing to take the drastic step of utilizing the September 12, 2018 Executive Order regarding foreign interference in elections as justification for using the Insurrection Act in overturning the fraudulent outcome of the election, the end of the nation as we know it will have arrived. Losing the two Senate runoff elections in Georgia would greatly accelerate the decline.

If more Americans had the ability and/or desire to think critically, rather than choosing to be willfully ignorant and entranced by their electronic gadgets, they would understand how they are being manipulated and played by global elites, corporate fascists, billionaire totalitarians, and a corporate media using a common narrative as propaganda to mold their minds and play upon their emotions. It is not a coincidence when common phrases and narratives are propagated by those pulling the strings behind the scenes of this Potemkin village of villainy.

It has never been more apparent than during this year of pandemic hysteria. Phrases like “dark winter”, “lockdown”, “build back better”, “we are all in this together” (we’re not), “flatten the curve”, “social distancing”, “stop the spread”, “self-quarantine”, “contact tracing”, “new normal”, “remote learning”, “black lives matter”, and of course “The Great Reset”, have been introduced into our vocabulary as a means of controlling, dehumanizing, and invoking fear among the population.

Biden’s handlers have had him fear mongering with the “Dark Winter” jargon since October, as their plan was to not pass a relief bill for poverty stricken unemployed workers and small businesses; ramp up testing to extraordinary levels using a PCR test guaranteed to produce millions of false positives; and classify the deaths of thousands of very old people as Covid deaths, no matter what they really died from; all to seize power over the government.

The propaganda of “Dark Winter” is designed to scare the population into submitting to lockdowns, canceling Thanksgiving and Christmas, begging for the Big Pharma vaccines, and allowing totalitarian mandates from Washington DC, state capitols, and localities to be executed without resistance. With the unceasing support of left-wing media outlets, the use of dire warnings by your overlords isn’t based upon facts, but a purposeful effort to appeal to the emotions of the non-critical thinking masses.

When doing a search regarding “Dark Winter” you find a conspiracy theorist bonanza. Operation Dark Winter was the code name for a bio-terrorist simulation conducted in June 2001 by John Hopkins, high-level government officials and the media regarding a widespread small-pox attack scenario. The similarities to the release of a virus from a Chinese bio-weapon lab in Wuhan are a little eerie.

The findings from this simulation should be familiar to anyone who has been paying attention for the last ten months. Dark Winter outlined the possible breakdown in essential institutions, resulting in a loss of confidence in government, followed by civil disorder, and a violation of democratic processes by authorities attempting to restore order. Shortages of vaccines and other drugs affected the response available to contain the epidemic, as well as the ability of political leaders to offer reassurance to the American people.

State government leaders wanted to invoke mandatory quarantining and border control. The lack of coordinated healthcare response exacerbated the fear of the population and overwhelmed the capacity in hospitals. The most pertinent finding from the simulation was information management would be the critical element in manipulating the crisis. They would need to manage the narrative to convince the population lockdowns, mandatory vaccinations, and disease containment measures were good for society, and most importantly, the government knew what was best.

It seems those who believe they know what is best for the world – Gates, Soros, Schwab, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Obama, Clinton, along with other Deep State operatives – have put these lessons to good use. They understand the power of Bernays’ propaganda techniques, combined with modern day technological algorithms and psychological manipulation, along with population dumbed down by decades of government school indoctrination where they were taught to feel rather than think.

They know if they can successfully market their desired narrative through plugging paid “expert” opinions, unceasing mainstream media messaging, social media promotion of the narrative and suppression of counter-narratives through censorship, and politicians mouthing what they are told to regurgitate by their puppeteer controllers, they will achieve their objectives.

You can even use their own technology to prove their duplicitous intentions. Google Trends reveals the phrase “Dark Winter” was virtually non-existent until October 2020. The Deep State public relations leeches running Biden’s campaign did some psychological testing on potential propaganda victims and found having Biden, his minions, and co-conspiratorial media utter this phrase thousands of times per day would invoke enough fear to convince the plebs to stay locked down, masked up, and pleading for the vaccine.

The message was designed to scare enough people into voting for Biden, that the election rigging wouldn’t seem as blatant as it became. The “Dark Winter” narrative peaked in the weeks following the election but is now being revived as part of the Big Government/Big Pharma marketing campaign to shame and fear the ignorant masses into compliantly getting injected with an experimental Big Pharma vaccine, with unknown long-term effects.

So, what is the ultimate purpose of this propaganda campaign? There are no coincidences when it comes to the narrative being utilized to manipulate the minds of the masses during this deliberately over-hyped pandemic. Is the virus real? Based on personal anecdotes of numerous people who have had this China flu, it most certainly makes some people extremely sick and contributes to the deaths of some people. Most people barely notice any symptoms.

People less than 70 years old and in relatively good health have a 99.7% chance of not dying from this flu. Even those over 70 have a 94.6% chance of surviving if they get this flu. This flu contributes to the deaths of the very old and very sick, probably shortening their lives by months, not years. Maybe that is why the study done by a doctor at Johns Hopkins showing no excess mortality in the U.S. during 2020, needed to be scrubbed, deleted and memory holed – it revealed the pandemic hysteria narrative to be false. Amazingly, reported flu cases are down 98%, with no deaths, and deaths from heart disease and other respiratory ailments have plummeted. What a coincidence.

Based on the positivity rate from the mass testing, it appears 10% of the population has had or has this flu. There have been 326,000 deaths classified as Covid since March. We know this is a grossly exaggerated number because the medical industrial complex is highly compensated by the government with your money to classify deaths as Covid. Actual data shows only 6% of the total deaths are from Covid alone.

Also, for those incapable of critical thinking, a case is not a sickness. Most people testing positive (due to faulty PCR tests) don’t know they even have this dreadful disease. And now that everyone entering a hospital for a procedure gets tested, a positive test means they are classified as a Covid hospitalization. The “masking saves lives” narrative is a complete and utter joke, as proved by any factual analysis – which will be immediately suppressed by Facebook, Twitter, and Google.

How many tik-tok nurse dance routines does it take for people to realize the “hospitals at capacity” narrative is bullshit? We also know for a fact over 40% of all deaths have occurred in long-term care facilities, thanks to best selling author on leadership and Emmy award winner Andrew Cuomo and his fellow left wing totalitarian governors – Newsom, Wolf, Murphy and Whitmer. As the election approached, the daily testing was ramped from 1 million to over 2 million because the “Resistance” needed cases to surge and make it appear the situation was getting dramatically worse to help steal the election.

All part of the plan, along with the necessity of mass mail-in ballot voting because it was too dangerous to stand in line at polling places, but perfectly safe to be in massive lines at Wal-Mart, Target and Costco. And now we have the full press “life-saving” vaccine marketing campaign, on par with the rollout of version 6,875 of the Apple iphone, designed to enrich Pfizer, Moderna, Astra Zeneca, and the other dozen Big Pharma mega-corporations and their billionaire benefactors.

The televised vaccine injections by politicians, Hollywood actors, Fauci, and other “important people” are broadcasted breathlessly by the vacuous bimbo and brainless male model talking heads on CNN, MSNBC and the other propaganda media to convince the ignorant masses they need to blindly comply to save themselves from a horrible disease with a 99.7% survival rate.

The concerted effort to scorn, ridicule, censor and disallow any discussion about the tremendous effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine + Zinc + Zpack in curing this virus is another example of the Big Pharma profits mantra as the dominant theme. This perfectly safe and effective treatment only costs a few bucks and doesn’t enrich the pandemia crowd, so it had to be squashed. How many people died because politicians banned this treatment until after the election?

Ivermectin, generally used to treat parasite infestations, has also proven to be highly effective in treating Covid-19, but you will never hear Fauci or a MSM talking head admit this is true. There are billions to be made. And if cases begin to peak, just announce a new “mutant” strain with no proof or data, and the fearful masses will again beg the government to keep them locked down. There is a population to control – and reduce.

They expect you to believe the 95% vaccine success rate after 9 months, when they haven’t achieved a 40% success rate with the annual flu after decades. And they absolutely know the long-term effects of a product they just produced with far less testing than has been done to test the safety of previous vaccines. Five years from now when negative impacts begin to reveal themselves, they will say “how could we have known?”.

And since the mega-corporation Pharma companies have been granted immunity from liability for their negligence, their hundreds of billions in profits will be safe. How long before Fauci is sitting on the Boards of Pfizer and Moderna, collecting six figure board fees? It is fascinating how the WHO suddenly changed their definition of herd immunity on their website to say that it can only be achieved through vaccinations, which is categorically untrue.

When you realize the breadth of this conspiracy of billionaire oligarchs, the UN, WHO, CDC, corrupt politicians, Big Pharma, the entire medical complex, corporate media, and feckless bureaucrats, to plunder the wealth of the masses and implement their command-and-control agenda, you might understand Mencken’s rage.

In Part Two of this article I will lay out Klaus Schwab’s master plan to reset the world in the warped vision of the globalist elites. In Part Three I will use the wisdom of J.R.R. Tolkien to try and map a path through these dark times.

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Related:

(PART TWO)

(PART THREE)

Also see:

World Health Organization Changes Definition of ‘Herd Immunity’ so It Can Only Occur with Vaccines


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Texas got a taste of it as the puzzle gets put together and the water runs out (that's why FEMA is there to help). 


They wanted to deport him to Mars, but you can't grow food on Mars with the electricity out and the National Guard going door-to-door in some areas to check on residents' welfare.

Talk about going into orbit, ju$t wait until the bills come due. There will be no one to re$cue you then so floor the pedal as the black ice melts and the waves rise as climate change increases flooding in the aftermath of winter.



Good thing it could never happen here, right?


It won't be like you can jet over to Denver (what event does that photo conjure up in your mind?) in a swimsuit as NASCAR belches its fumes (what's up with that? How does that keep the air cleaner?) and the world’s largest agricultural commodities trader, Cargill, has set a path to cut emissions from salmon farming and will work with customers to reduce the footprint of farmed salmon in the effort to target feed as global fish consumption is surging faster than that of beef, chicken, or pork, driven by an expanding and increasingly prosperous global population that recognizes the health benefits of eating seafood -- even if it is covered in oil and mutates (I feel safer already and have regained my appetite after it is cooked over an open fire).

Meanwhile, the Globe is Gung Ho on GE:

"Larry Culp is the GE CEO who would rather hang out on the factory floor" by Shirley Leung and Jon Chesto Boston Globe, March 20, 2021

In the long history of General Electric, its chief executives have come up through the ranks, and in modern memory embodied managerial archetypes tuned to their times: Jack Welch, the celebrity CEO who built a sprawling conglomerate, and Jeff Immelt, the torchbearer for digital transformation.

Then there’s Larry Culp.

He is an enigma to most people in Boston, even though he runs one of the world’s best-known companies. The 58-year-old doesn’t burnish his bold-names cred working the social circuit where other executives hobnob.

Instead Culp is a genuine throwback, a guy who got his start on the production line, in this case the family welding shop, and became an evangelist for the exacting Japanese philosophy centered around an unrelenting improvement in business practices — a philosophy that helped revolutionize the manufacturing world over the past half century.

It is called kaizen, and to learn about it, Culp became that rare Harvard MBA who chose to cut his teeth in business learning from the Japanese, but stabilizing a once-mighty company that had big ambitions when it moved to Boston in 2016 to be among the whiz kids with their laptops, sitting in coffee shops and soaking up visions for a day when software, not the heavy-metal hardware of trains, planes, and power plants, ruled the business universe masked a deeper need within GE. It had, in the view of many critics, become a bloated corporate behemoth that had lost its vaunted discipline and overindulged in deal making. Soon it would be hemorrhaging money and amputating entire divisions.

The troubles suggested that GE, whose roots run to inventor Thomas Edison, wasn’t so much in need of finding new ways to make money as getting back its manufacturing mojo.

If GE was going to survive and thrive in the Internet Age the way it had in the previous century, it needed a back-to-basics taskmaster, someone who could remind the company of how it once got so dominant — by making things well and making them efficiently.

The part, it would seem, was written for Culp.

Yet he fills his role without being a cyborg or grim disciplinarian at a company in the throes of billions of dollars in cost-cutting. Rather, Culp is what close friend Kevin Sharer called a “joyful warrior.”

“When I say ‘joyful,’ it’s a role model leader who, by his actions, words, and examples, leads and inspires people to do things they didn’t think were possible,” said Sharer, the former CEO of biotech behemoth Amgen. “When I say ‘warrior,’ the thing Larry is fighting is the past, the last decade of failure, and he’s fighting the status quo and the belief that things can’t change.”

I'm told he is NOT “all work and no play,” and that he is happy to be in Bo$ton among other things.


Well, at least you know who is Culp-able and who will have to step down when it all blows up in their faces.


"GE’s credit-market giant caps decade-long descent into obscurity" by Caleb Mutua Bloomberg News, March 11, 2021

Before the global financial crisis, General Electric and its finance unit were AAA rated darlings of corporate bond investors, who gobbled up tens of billions of dollars in debt offerings each year. That allowed the conglomerate to access cheap capital and build a financing behemoth that rivaled some of Wall Street’s largest banks.

With the $30 billion sale of its jet-leasing business Wednesday, General Electric is shaking off one of the last remaining vestiges of GE Capital, folding what’s left into its broader corporate balance sheet and marking an inauspicious end for what was once one of the biggest players in the investment-grade bond universe.

At their peak in 2006, General Electric and GE Capital issued over $60 billion of bonds, more than even Wall Street mainstays like Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

When the US housing market collapsed in 2008 and pushed Lehman Brothers into bankruptcy, General Electric’s standing quickly unraveled as worries emerged that it too would be toppled. The company lost its AAA rating in 2009, and tougher capital rules for large financial institutions suddenly became an albatross — along with its massively underfunded pension — that began a slow descent to the edge of junk.

General Electric is still far from out of the woods, market watchers say, and S&P Global Ratings put the firm’s BBB+ rating on watch for a downgrade Wednesday, but analysts also note the deal should ultimately help improve the risk outlook for a company that’s gone to great lengths to shed the remnants of the financial giant that nearly brought it down.

“Once, AAA rated GE was the corporate yield-curve benchmark, as they had liquid bonds at virtually every maturity,” Gregory Staples, head of fixed income for DWS North America, said via email. “It reminds me how radically the corporate landscape can change over time. GE has matured more bonds than most companies will ever issue.”

General Electric will receive $24 billion in cash plus a 46 percent equity stake in the combined entity after the sale of GE Capital Aviation Services to rival AerCap Holdings, according to a statement Wednesday.

It plans to use proceeds of the sale to cut debt by about $30 billion by the time the deal closes in about 9-12 months, for an expected total reduction of more than $70 billion since the end of 2018.

“This really marks the transformation of GE into a pure-play industrial,” chief executive Larry Culp said on Bloomberg TV Wednesday.

Since taking over in 2018, Culp has shed assets to slim down the unwieldy conglomerate, giving the stock a boost after hundreds of billions of dollars in market value were wiped away. He oversaw the company’s sale of its biopharma business to Danaher Corp. in 2019 for a total consideration of $21.4 billion to help pay down debt, as well as a pension freeze to shave billions of dollars off its shortfall.

S&P nonetheless put General Electric’s BBB+ rating on negative watch Wednesday given the consolidation of GE Capital’s financials. Moody’s Investors Service affirmed its equivalent Baa1 rating, while Fitch Ratings held steady one notch lower at BBB.

The company also remains dogged by past missteps.

In early 2018, about six months after Culp predecessor John Flannery took over from Jeffrey Immelt, GE disclosed a $6.2 billion charge related to an insurance portfolio of long-term care policies and said it would pay $15 billion over seven years to fill a shortfall in reserves.

“From an immediate impact on leverage perspective, we don’t necessarily see this as a big deleveraging move by GE, and the insurance liabilities do remain as a reminder of past sins,” Jesse Rosenthal, head of US financials at research firm CreditSights, said referring to Wednesday’s sale.

While General Electric continues to periodically tap the US high-grade bond market, including for $6 billion at the parent level last April, it’s a far cry from what it once was.

“This deal is basically the end of an era,” said David Knutson, head of credit research for the Americas at Schroder Investment Management. “GE’s financial division was like a virus that overtook the entire company so when the global financial crisis hit, it wasn’t really an industrial company.”

They will now turn to building giant wind turbine blades in northeast England, so let the $ub$idizing begin!


Time to power down myself.