When I was a kid we had nuclear war drills, somehow going underneath our desks were supposed to keep us safe from the Russians and the nuclear bombs…
What is a lockdown drill and why are they teaching young children to lockdown in NYC??? Teaching them to comply, be obedient. This is sick.
·My kindergartener had a lockdown drill at school today.
She said they announced it loudly on the loudspeaker over and over. And the kids sat very quietly in their chairs (I guess the kindergarteners don’t learn to hide & fight yet).
Excerpts recorded during December 1, 2021 webinar – Dr. Naomi Wolf discusses vaccine mandates, recent judicial decisions and the global attempt to strip of us our liberties. Help us continue to bring you the truth, please donate to DailyClout.
COVID is the Pretext to Strip Us of Our Liberties, Globally
Urgent Call to Action: Tell OSHA to Permanently End Mandatory COVID Vaccine Rule for Employers
The deadline is Jan. 19 for posting a comment asking the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to permanently suspend its Emergency Temporary Standard requiring employers with more than 100 employees to comply with President Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate.
By Children's Health Defense Team
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on Nov. 16 suspended implementation and enforcement of its Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on mandatory COVID vaccination and testing in the workplace.
Under the ETS, employers with more than 100 employees were given until Jan. 4, 2022 to comply with President Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate.
However, a Nov. 12 ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals barred OSHA from enforcing the ETS “pending adequate judicial review” of a motion for permanent injunction.
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is calling on all scientists, citizens and medical experts to ask OSHA to permanently end the ETS. Submit your comment today via the federal eRulemaking portal.
Follow the instructions on the website for submitting comments. Be sure to include the docket number — Docket No. OSHA-2021-0007-0001 — at the top of your comments. (Click here to view comments posted by others.)
After you post your comment, share this link with friends and family.
In its 22-page ruling, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals called the Biden administration’s COVID vaccine mandate “fatally flawed” and said OSHA should “take no steps to implement or enforce the mandate until further court order.”
The court said the mandate fails to consider that the ongoing threat of COVID is more dangerous to some employees than others. These vaccines are experimental and potentially dangerous. According to the latest data released by the CDC, between Dec. 14, 2020, and Nov. 26, 2021, 927,740 reports of adverse events — including 19,532 reports of deaths — following COVID vaccines were submitted to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.
CHD believes it is critical that OSHA submit Environmental Impact Statements to the public on the safety, health and economic impact of its ETS.
Help stop OSHA’s ETS from becoming a final rule. Submit your comment today via the federal eRulemaking portal.
when the lie becomes an end unto itself
contempt for truth is the hallmark of contempt for the people
…the more soviet our media goes, the less credibility it will carry.
more potent still is the obvious and inescapable fact that anyone who would lie to you like this cannot possibly have any respect for you.
this is an act of contempt.
i suggest you return the favor.
Let’s You and Him Fight: Can We Overcome a Manipulated Conflict?
by Diane Perlman, PhD.
“Fear of the virus is more dangerous than the virus itself?” Mattias Desmet, psychologist, University of Ghent, Belgium
A New Level of Hostility
Many Americans, gripped by existential fear and anxiety, are experiencing a new, shocking degree of hostile intolerance towards people who question the dominant US Covid narrative.
Lifelong friends, relatives and colleagues, people loved and admired for years or decades are suddenly deemed to be ignorant, deluded, reckless and dangerous because of one opinion. Formerly decent people assume the right to be hostile, insulting and rejecting.
Almost everyone is gripped by fear of someone or something all the time. People are more dangerous when afraid. Fear shuts down higher level cognitive functions and people may regress to more primitive thoughts and emotions.
People are hardened in their continually polarizing belief systems. Many have absolute certainty about things they have never studied directly – even progressive intellectuals. They are sure that people who have studied in depth are completely wrong. Curiosity is dead. There is no complexity, nuance, dialogue or perspective taking.
How did it come to this? I do not think it has to be this way.
“It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final.”
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
I do not believe that this conflict is arising from within us. Emotions and beliefs are being successfully manipulated by forces who benefit from our fight. There is no inherent psychological necessity for most people to hold some specific beliefs. Under other circumstances people might be willing and even eager to revise their opinions with new factual information. They could shift their anger away from each other and direct it towards the actual source of our suffering.
Upon this gifted age in its dark hour,
Falls from the sky a meteoric shower
Of facts ... they lie unquestioned, uncombined.
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill
Is daily spun; but there exists no loom
To weave it into fabric. Edna St. Vincent Millay
In this article I will strive to analyze dynamics of fear and division, to get beyond dualistic “Us vs. Them” thinking to more accuracy, detail, diversity of views and reasons for them, to explore use of messaging and framing around Covid, and to describe two competing narratives, scientific foundations for beliefs and policies.
As a psychologist, my task is to make the unconscious conscious. As a political psychologist I aim to demystify and analyze the collective psyche.
Despite political differences we share common goals of health and freedom. I believe that there is a knowable underlying scientific reality that is in our mutual interest and benefit to understand. Demystifying the causes and methods fueling our polarization and understanding the dynamics is a prerequisite for healing and ultimately our survival.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.” – Rumi
Let’s explore ….
The Division of All Fears
Under the global shadow of Covid-19, in the US we have become divided over whether we are
· More afraid of Covid or more afraid of the “vaccines”
· Afraid of the “unvaccinated” or afraid of government control
· Afraid of reckless, anti-vax Republicans or afraid of authoritarian Democrats
· Afraid of freedom or afraid of the lockdown
· Disdainful of FOX News or contemptuous of MSNBC, CNN, NPR, etc.
· Supportive of mandates or afraid of surveillance
· In favor of media control or afraid of censorship
· Seen as the threat to existence or seen a threat to freedom
· Focused on only on victims of Covid or also on lockdown collateral damage victims suffering from anxiety, depression, suicide, financial destruction, educational setbacks, etc.
· Trusting of media and authorities (Gates, Fauci, WHO, CDC, FDA, NIH, NIAID, WEF, NPR, CNN, PBS, etc.) or distrusting of designated authorities with conflicts of interest
· Reliant on mainstream US media or seek out alternative sources of data around the world
· Accepting the dominant narrative or questioning the narrative
Divide and Conquer: “Let’s You and Him Fight”
Our cultural environment has degraded to a free-for-all in which people demonize, censor, punish and attack those with opposing beliefs. It feels like we are being pitted against each other by an outside force.
"I knew I couldn’t kill them. More powerful men than me have tried. But if I could get them to kill each other …". — Colonel Helmut Zemo, Captain America: Civil War
My fellow Baby Boomers might recall Eric Berne’s Games People Play, about patterns of social interaction called Transactional analysis (TA). “Let’s You and Him Fight” is one of the most destructive “games” used to manipulate others. The instigator benefits from manipulating parties to fight each other. The phrase is from the Popeye comic strip.
A group of “risk-averse” and “super responsible people” let their guard down enough to become unwitting vectors of COVID-19, showing just how vulnerable even vaccinated people remain to the virus when indoors and in groups.
(The media pitting the vaccinated who are super responsible people versus the ignorant, unclean, vaccine hesitant unvaccinated folks. In college, I did a study about a controversial topic. It was abortion. And for this independent study I was to study and do research how media (newspapers) depicted the topic. What I found was that it did not matter what newspaper across the country, every person who was pro-choice was quoted on the front page and depicted as a smart, responsible, professional person. And anyone who was against abortion was quoted in the back of the newspaper and depicted as a bunch of religious wing nuts. The same thing is happened today, if you are a pro-vaccine person you are depicted as super responsible and if you are against THIS PARTICULAR GENE THERAPY SHOT (not a vaccine despite being called that), you are an anti-vaxxer conspiratory theorist. No matter the facts including how there is now a pandemic of fully vaccinated people getting COVID).
Mystification
Conflict can be successfully incited through the process of mystification, explained by R.D. Laing as a “plausible misrepresentation" of reality. “By representing forms of exploitation as forms of benevolence, the exploiters bemuse the exploited into feeling at one with their exploiters, or into feeling gratitude for what (unrealized by them) is their exploitation, and, not least, into feeling bad or mad even to think of rebellion.”
Mystification maintains stereotyped roles and power relationships. It induces confusion, using false constructions to mask what a conflict is actually about. People may not feel confused. They often feel absolutely certain about their position.
Laing concluded that, “before enlightened action can be taken, the issues have to be demystified.”
Conflicts between groups are intensified by awareness of death which creates profound existential anxiety. Humans have a powerful need to find ways to protect themselves to ward off existential anxiety. Confronting people with their mortality increases fear and suspicion of outgroups, attachment to one’s ingroup, nationalism, prejudice, and support for violent solutions and greater attraction to charismatic leaders believed to protect them.
Techniques of magnifying fear, beyond the scope of this article, include inflating death rates from Covid by financially incentivizing hospitals to diagnose Covid and put people on ventilators, denying people of effective early treatments, hospital protocols, by listing causes of deaths from other conditions as Covid, and more.
Weaponizing Fear
We are being manipulated by fear which provokes people to regress to simplistic, concrete, black-and-white thinking. There is no discernment, no stratification of risk. Everything feels like a random crap shoot. Anyone can die, no matter how young and healthy. No matter the actual data. People are afraid of the wrong things. The media induces people to feel terrified, passive, helpless and hopelessly vulnerable, lacking in personal agency over their health. This magnifies feelings of being threatened by anyone who challenges the chosen narrative.
Some people adapt by self-censoring out of fear of rejection and punishment. Few risk speaking up. Many go along with the crowd. Their silence becomes part of the problem.
Somehow, areas of disagreement have become weaponized and artificially politicized to all or nothing terms, reduced to right/left, Republican/Democrat.
People jump to wild conclusions about what they think you think. If they know one thing about you, they make automatic, false, extrapolations with certainty about your religious, political, psychological attributes and influences.
This is all highly orchestrated and reinforced by media censorship and disinformation, including disinformation about disinformation. Each side sees disinformation on the other side, but not their own.
In a “psychological gain of function” manipulation, public discourse has been engineered to be more contagious and more lethal to the point of mass political hysteria. Belgian psychologist Mattias Desmet describes conditions producing mass hypnosis and mass formation. The four conditions are 1. Social isolation, 2. Meaninglessness, 3. Free-floating anxiety, and 4. Pent up, free-floating frustration and anger. Then the crisis, the pandemic, provides an answer to all of these. It produces an intense focus and meaning, a target for the frustration and rage and unifies one with other people aligned to eradicate the cause. This leads to what Desmet calls “mass formation” or “mass hypnosis.”
In addition to political hysteria and mass hypnosis, I diagnose a problem called “poor reality testing,” in which objective evaluation, judgment and perceptions of the world outside the ego or self and judgment of real, external factual events is colored by one’s emotions, fantasies and internal representations. It is also heavily colored by the media.
This fuels a collective cognitive disorder in which our impaired cognitive functions interfere with the normal functioning in society, and for which treatment is needed – i.e., political therapy.
This disorder does not arise solely within us, although we provide fertile ground for manipulation. It is deliberately and skillfully incited and brilliantly manipulated with billions in funding by Big Pharma and Big Tech, employing behavioral scientists to research and design techniques to infect our psyches, replicate, and infect each other.
Escalating Frames
A most common incitement of fear propagated 24/7 on mainstream media is fear of vaccine hesitancy. Bill Gates, asserting himself as our savior, incites global existential fear by insisting that the pandemic won’t end until everyone on the planet is injected with experimental mRNA and DNA technology, technically not “vaccines.”