Authored by Robert Gore via Straight Line Logic,

The alternative media is the media.

Donald Trump would not have won three elections without the alternative media (AM). The mainstream media (MSM) were almost uniformly opposed to his campaigns. He has made adroit use of social media site Twitter (now X) to bypass the MSM. However, not everyone is on X and in all three campaigns he received a crucial boost from the AM. They allowed his message to be conveyed to an ever-expanding audience and in many cases explicitly supported him.

Plenty of AM commentary has hailed the MSM’s dwindling patronage and its impending demise. The numbers are even worse than they look because the MSM’s viewers and readers skew towards the senior citizen set. It is losing people not just because of its manifest deficiencies; its audience is dying off. Younger generations don’t watch TV news or read The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or Washington Post. The Post’s owner Jeff Bezos recently noted his paper’s dwindling readership, credibility, and revenue. Put a toe tag on the MSM and slide its drawer closed. 

I come not to bury the MSM, but to praise the AM, remind readers of its vital role, and encourage them to support it.

People have turned to the AM because from its roiling cauldron of chaos, clashing opinions, tireless researchers, incisive analysts, idiosyncratic styles, competitive jockeying, backbiting, obnoxious self-promotion, and unwavering irreverence, truth tends to emerge. The AM can be likened to the ferment of true science (science didn’t used to have to have a true in front of it): assertions proposed, tested, rejected, accepted, refined, but never deemed ultimate truth.

Robert Gore, SLL, “Ants at the Picnic, Part One,” May 25, 2023

I said in Ants that: 

Bullets and blogs are the ants at the globalist picnic, and they may prove just as hard to eradicate. It’s not overstating the case to say that the AM has been the reason we haven’t had to resort to bullets . . . so far.

Consider the truths that have emerged from the AM.

Trump’s massive support in 2016. The campaign by a criminal camarilla to destroy him, which began before the election and lasted through two impeachments, the second one as he was leaving office. The Hunter Biden laptop and Biden family criminality stories, which, with the exception of the New York Post, were suppressed by the MSM. The rigged 2020 election. The iniquitous persecution and punishment of January 6 protestors. COVID hysteria, COVID tyranny, and unsafe and ineffective COVID vaccines, in many cases involuntarily administered. The Biden/Harris administration’s failed immigration, energy, economic, regulatory, and crime polices. Its botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, disastrous proxy war in Ukraine, and support for Israel’s odious war in the Middle East. Its censorship partnerships with big tech and social media. Biden’s senility and dementia. Harris’s political ineptitude and lack of intellectual firepower, excused away by her DEI bona fides. Philosophically repugnant and psychologically devastating woke, transgenderism, LGBTQ promotion, and other such nonsense, which served as cover for an attempted Maoist-style Cultural Revolution.

Countless articles, videos, podcasts, and X posts expose depredations, but special mention is due the memes that mercilessly mock their pompous, pretentious perpetrators. Recently, Haitian immigrant culinary practices and the tragic fate of Peanut and Fred evoked rage and a multitude of memes, putting additional wind in the the Trump campaign’s sails.

Trump and Vance won’t get a free pass from the AM. The true believers and the skeptics will continue the battle that has raged since Trump’s first neocon appointments in 2016, through Operation Warp Speed, and continues to this day. Controversy has been rekindled with Trump’s selection of chief of staff Susie Wiles, who’s being criticized for her drug industry ties. Such is the nature of nonstop intellectual ferment. Trump will make mistakes and perceived mistakes, and the AM won’t be shy about pointing them out.

The ruling caste will continue to stifle, censor, deplatform, and debank the AM. It would like to subject everything down to one-person blogs to the censorship regime masquerading as “fighting disinformation and misinformation” it’s already applying to social media. Europe is leading the way, but had Harris been elected, the U.S. would have been right behind. Trump has pledged to end the censorship already in place. We’ll see—don’t trust power no matter who holds it.

The AM has come into its own. Due to time constraints, I limit the number of articles and memes I put up every night to 15; many nights the worthwhile material I consider is double that. The AM is the media—the ruling caste and its minions will have to deal with it. Like everything that’s been worthwhile for the last few centuries, it’s a bottom-up phenomenon. Just as MAGA is much bigger than Trump, the AM is much bigger than Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and Elon Musk.

The AM is a dynamic ecosystem ranging from huge to tiny constituent elements. This overall system has become a bulwark against tyranny. People ask what they, as “mere” individuals, can do to fight tyranny. One thing most everyone can do is bolster this bulwark with financial support.

Rogan, Carlson, and Musk don’t need it, but there are many worthy AM sites that operate on a shoestring that undoubtedly do. This is not special pleading for SLL or any other site; it’s special pleading for the entire AM. Many sites have DONATE or CONTRIBUTE buttons, both of which are misnomers. The AM is not a charitable enterprise and fighting tyranny is not a charitable endeavor. The proper word is COMPENSATE for the hard work, dedication, and courage that go into so many sites; their proprietors deserve it. If you want to compensate SLL (the link is in the right-hand column here), I’ll welcome the money and thank you for it. If SLL isn’t your cup of tea, please hit the button at the sites that are.

If you decided not to get a potentially deadly COVID vaccine because of something you read in the AM, what’s that worth? If you’ve cheered because someone in the AM exposed the crimes of the people you despise, what’s that worth? If you’ve laughed to tears at spot-on memes, what’s that worth? If, after an inspiring article, video, or podcast, you found yourself believing that the march towards totalitarianism can be stopped, what’s that worth? Monthly compensation to the site(s) you value, even amounting to the cost of a coffee-house concoction, vitally reinforces a crucial front engaged in this desperate battle that must be won.

What’s your freedom worth? Without the AM, all you’ve got left are bullets.

US natural gas futures are up 2.5% in late afternoon trading, reaching $2.98 per mmBtu, driven by new forecasts showing a shift in cold weather from the West Coast to the East next week. This suggests households may crank up their thermostats for the first time this season as a proper chill sets in. 

Private weather forecaster BAMWX published a new mid-day GEFS run for late November that shows “massive cold trends” for the eastern half of the US. 

“The pattern supports the cold stretch and we have a better tap to cold air ahead,” BAMWX wrote on X, adding, “Could get pretty interesting for a time late month for wintry potential.” 

Massive colder trends on the mid-day GEFS run for late November. The pattern supports the cold stretch and we have a better tap to cold air ahead.

Could get pretty interesting for a time late month for wintry potential. #Energy #NatGas #OOTT $ng $ung pic.twitter.com/UpJ5pT44t8

— BAM Weather (BAMWX) (@bamwxcom) November 13, 2024

Meteorologist Ryan Kane wrote on X, “It’s safe to say next weeks ULL will be the big pattern changing system (Nov 20-23rd). Nice -EPO, +PNA & -NAO will all work to drive cold into the eastern half of CONUS.”

“Snow potential should come Thanksgiving week as the -NAO attempts to break down as the cold air is established,” Kane noted. 

It’s safe to say next weeks ULL will be the big pattern changing system (Nov 20-23rd). Nice -EPO, +PNA & -NAO will all work to drive cold into the eastern half of CONUS. Snow potential should come thanksgiving week as the -NAO attempts to break down as the cold air is established pic.twitter.com/thWrHJDSZZ

— Ryan Kane (@ryankanerWX) November 13, 2024

BAMWX said the pattern shift to much cooler temps in the interior Northeast could produce ripe conditions for snow next week. 

❄SNOW CHANCES ARRIVING AROUND THANKSGIVING?

For several days now, we’ve been mentioning the pattern changing with cooler temperatures arriving for the end of November/start of December.

With the cooler temperatures, comes the possibility of winter precipitation👀

Now… snow… pic.twitter.com/ZPQEy24iqB

— Kirk 🇺🇸 Hinz | BAM ⚡️Weather (@Met_khinz) November 12, 2024

Here’s what other meteorologists are saying…

Euro Ens (upgraded) showing a strong signal for wintery mischief here in the Mid Atlantic going into Thanksgiving week. 👇 It even has a little snow in the Baltimore Metro. Take that with a grain of rock salt, but all of the long-range modeling is seeing the cold air. Stay tuned pic.twitter.com/pwvsoKiJs7

— Tony Pann (@TonyPannWBAL) November 13, 2024

eye candy euro control with Thanksgiving week snowstorm in interior east pic.twitter.com/VYm3V0Vn6Q

— The American Storm (@BigJoeBastardi) November 8, 2024

Back to NatGas fundamentals, here’s the latest data (courtesy of Bloomberg):

Weather:

• Forecasts shifted cooler for parts of the West Coast with colder temperatures moving eastward later in the Nov. 18-22 period: Maxar

• See WHUT for a map of latest 6-10 day weather forecast: NOAA * Click here for two-week temperature forecasts for the US

Storage:

• Gas inventories probably rose 39 bcf last week, based on median of analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg

• Five-year average gas inventory change for week ended Nov. 8 is +29 bcf

• Stockpiles totaled 3.932 tcf as of Nov. 1, 5.8% above the five-year average

• EIA to report weekly storage data at 10:30am New York time on Thursday

Daily BNEF Gas Data:

• Lower-48 dry gas production on Wednesday ~100.4 bcf/day, or -5.2% y/y

• Lower-48 total gas demand ~81.7 bcf/day, or -3.1% y/y

• Dry gas exports to Mexico ~6.5 bcf/day, or -2% w/w

• Estimated gas flows to LNG export terminals ~13.7 bcf/day, or +1.5% w/w

Maybe a cold blast in the Northeast and other parts of the US will be the catalyst to push NatGas futures past the $3 mark, which has served as strong resistance for nearly two years.

In mid-August, the 208th edition of the Farmers’ Almanac published the “Wet Winter Whirlwind.” It noted, “There will be a lot of precipitation and storms”—all dependent on location.” 

And this: NatGas Bulls Rejoice: Colder Winter Lower 48 Forecasts May “Place Upward Pressure” On Prices

Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com,

• China’s weak oil demand has already thrown OPEC+ off track in its supply-management policies.

• Trump’s energy policies could create a new challenge for OPEC in 2025.

• Amidst further uncertainties about global oil supply and demand with President Trump, OPEC+ may have to tweak their production policy more often than they have intended.

The OPEC+ group has struggled to manage oil supply and prices this year.

First, there was overproduction from several members, undermining the cuts from the other producers in the pact.

Then came the summer and the first actual consumption data for the first and second quarters of the year, showing that China’s oil demand growth is nowhere near OPEC’s expectations.     

Toward the end of the year, just as the cartel and its allies announced they would postpone the start of the easing of the production cuts to January 2025, they now have the wildest card on the market of all—President-elect Donald Trump.

China’s weak oil demand has already thrown OPEC+ off track in its supply-management policies and continues to defy OPEC forecasts with underwhelming crude consumption and imports.

The group now has to contend with some policies President-elect Trump has promised to introduce, including easier permitting for fossil fuel projects, import tariffs, and a more rigid stance toward Iran.

China Weakness

China has already undermined the OPEC+ alliance’s policy. The group is cutting production, but demand has been weaker than expected amid slower Chinese economic growth, the property crisis undermining construction activities and diesel consumption, and the surge in electric vehicle (EV) sales and registrations of LNG-fueled trucks.

OPEC has been wrong-footed by the surge in electric mobility in China, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its World Energy Outlook 2024 report last month.

In October, OPEC cut its 2024 global oil demand forecast in the third consecutive monthly report, citing actual consumption data so far this year and expectations of slightly lower demand in some regions, including China.

In each report since August, OPEC has signaled that its estimates of Chinese oil demand growth were too optimistic when it published the first outlook for 2024 in July 2023.

Despite the optimistic long-term view, OPEC’s short-term demand outlook on China has been revised down, again.

Weaker-than-expected oil consumption in China and rising electric vehicle sales will continue to weigh on the world’s oil demand growth going forward, according to the IEA’s Executive Director, Fatih Birol.

“This year, global oil demand is very weak, much weaker than previous years, and we expect this will continue because of one word — China,” Birol told Bloomberg in an interview last month.

China’s official crude oil import data hasn’t been encouraging for OPEC, either. Although imports are not all the crude China consumes, the import trends in the world’s top crude importer have weighed on oil prices.

The latest Chinese data showed another month of lower crude oil imports compared to the same month of 2023.

In October, China imported 10.53 million bpd of crude oil, per data from the General Administration of Customs. This was the sixth consecutive month in which crude cargo arrivals have lagged behind the imports in the same months of 2023. And imports were 9% lower compared to October 2023 and 2% below the import level of 11.07 million bpd in September 2024.

Trump Uncertainties

Apart from China, OPEC+ will now have to navigate uncertainties and risks to oil demand and supply with the incoming American president.

President-elect Trump is expected to step up sanctions on Iran, an OPEC member exempted from the production cuts, which earlier this year saw its exports hitting a six-year high.

Lower Iranian supply could be bullish for oil prices if demand holds.

But other policies Trump has floated, such as 10% tariffs on all U.S. imports and a 60% tariff on imports from China, could undermine global economic growth, leading to lower global oil demand overall.

OPEC+ can ill-afford weak global oil demand growth if it wants to return 2.2 million bpd of supply to the market next year.

Tariffs could slow U.S. and global economic growth, reducing oil demand by as much as 500,000 bpd in 2025 – one-third of Wood Mackenzie’s current projection for global oil demand growth next year.

“This has the potential to soften oil prices by US$5 to US$7/bbl from current levels, assuming no other risks such as an escalation in Israel-Iran hostilities,” Simon Flowers, chairman and chief analyst at WoodMac wrote last week.

Despite the fact that the U.S. oil and gas industry got what it had wanted for four years – a president supportive of the sector – American production is unlikely to grow by much more than the current growth trajectory, analysts say.

That’s because the big public companies that dominate shale supply will continue to prefer returns to shareholders and capital discipline to “drill, baby, drill,” according to Wood Mackenzie and Rystad Energy.

Moreover, WoodMac’s Flowers said tariffs would likely expose U.S. producers and services companies to cost inflation.

“While the incoming administration will hold a more favourable view towards the oil and gas industry, ultimately the potential for production growth is going to be largely dictated by price,” Warren Patterson, head of commodities strategy at ING, says.

Amidst further uncertainties about global oil supply and demand with President Trump, OPEC+ may have to tweak their production policy more often than they have intended.

Republicans will maintain control of the House of Representatives by the thinnest of margins, NBC News projected Wednesday, handing President-elect Donald Trump and his party all the levers of power in Washington.

A Republican-controlled Congress will allow Trump to quickly fill out his Cabinet and other top administration roles and advance his agenda for at least the next two years.

Last week, Republicans flipped three Democratic Senate seats to win control of the upper chamber.

NBC News lays out how Republicans won the House…

Democrats had believed they were in a good position to win back the majority they lost just two years ago. They needed a net gain of only four seats to flip control of the House given that Republicans now hold 220 seats to the Democrats’ 212 – one of the smallest majorities in modern history.

But the two parties basically have fought to a draw in the House, preserving a status quo that favored Republicans.

In New York, Democrats were able to knock off a trio of vulnerable freshman GOP incumbents: Rep. Brandon Williams in the Syracuse region, Rep. Anthony D’Esposito on Long Island, and Rep. Marc Molinaro, whose district includes parts of the Hudson Valley and the Catskills. They were among the 18 GOP House districts that President Joe Biden carried in 2020.

Democratic challenger George Whitesides also ousted vulnerable GOP Rep. Mike Garcia in Southern California.

But Trump’s triumph – including wins in battlegrounds like Pennsylvania and Michigan where there were key House races – helped buoy GOP incumbents and new candidates in the places that mattered.

Two of the biggest GOP prizes came in the Keystone State.

Republicans unseated two vulnerable, veteran Democrats in neighboring districts in eastern Pennsylvania. GOP businessman Rob Bresnahan ousted six-term Rep. Matt Cartwright, a former member of leadership, in the 8th District, which Trump carried in 2020. In the neighboring 7th District based in Allentown, GOP state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie upset Democratic Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee.

Meanwhile, In the capital of Harrisburg, Democrats believed they had a good chance to knock off former Freedom Caucus Chairman Scott Perry, a Trump ally who played a role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election. But the six-term incumbent beat back a strong challenge from former local TV anchor Janelle Stelson, who attacked Perry on everything from the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and abortion rights to his votes on veterans issues.

Republicans also captured a Michigan seat that had been held by Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin, who successfully ran for an open Senate seat.

And GOP challenger Gabe Evans narrowly defeated freshman Rep. Yadira Caraveo, D-Colo., by less than 1 percentage point in a heavily Hispanic district north of Denver.

There are still six uncalled races:

“It is a beautiful morning in Washington. It is a new day in America,” a celebratory Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said on the steps of the Capitol, flanked by his leadership team, as the House returned to Washington on Tuesday.

“The sun is shining, and that is a reflection about how we all feel.”

So Trump takes the trifecta: A Popular (and Electoral) Vote victory for The White House, taking back the Senate, and holding The House.

A defeated special counsel Jack Smith and his team are planning to resign before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, the NY Times reports, citing a source familiar with the matter.

The news comes days after Smith moved to pause his J6 case against Donald Trump and vacate all remaining deadlines. According to the new report, Smith’s office has been looking at the best path forward in winding down its work on the two outstanding federal criminal cases against Trump – as the DOJ has a longstanding policy not to charge or prosecute a sitting president with a crime.

Smith’s departure is more of a “you can’t fire me, I quit!” after Trump vowed to fire him within “two seconds” of being sworn in.

“We got immunity at the Supreme Court. It’s so easy. I would fire him within two seconds. He’ll be one of the first things addressed,” Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt last month.

Department regulations require Smith to file a report summarizing his investigation and decisions – though it’s not clear how quickly he can finish his work – or whether it could be made public before President Biden leaves office – however several officials told the NY Times that he has no intention of lingering any longer than he has to, and has told career prosecutors and FBI agents who are not directly involved in the case that they can start planning their departures over the next few weeks.

On Friday, GOP lawmakers told DOJ officials to preserve all of their communications for investigators – who view Smith and crew as the embodiment of a Democratic effort to use lawfare as part of a weaponized Justice Department.

According to Smith, he needs until Dec. 2 to figure out how exactly to wind down his J6 case, as well as another case in which he charged Trump with mishandling classified national security documents after leaving office. The latter case was dismissed by Judge Aileen Cannon of the Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, FL – a decision which is currently under appeal in federal court in Atlanta.

Authored by Jake Morgan via The Epoch Times,

A federal judge sentenced Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to leaking classified U.S. military assessments about the war in Ukraine.

Teixeira, 22, agreed to plead guilty in March to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. In exchange for his guilty plea, the Department of Justice agreed to not charge Teixeira with Espionage Act violations. The plea agreement stipulated that Teixeira be imprisoned for between 11 years and 16 years and eight months, pay a $50,000 fine, and serve 36 months of supervised release following his prison term.

Judge Indira Talwani issued the 15-year sentence at a Nov. 12 court hearing.

Teixeira offered an apology before being sentenced.

“I wanted to say I’m sorry for all the harm that I brought and caused,” Texeira said.

“I understand all the responsibility and consequences fall upon my shoulders alone and accept whatever that will bring,” he added.

Prior to his sentencing, Teixeira’s attorneys described him as an autistic and isolated individual who spent most of his time online.

They said his actions, though criminal, were never meant to “harm the United States.”

Prosecutors countered that Teixeira didn’t suffer from any intellectual disability that would prevent him from knowing right from wrong. Prosecutors said Teixeira’s post-arrest diagnosis of “mild, high-functioning” autism was of “questionable relevance” to the proceedings.

Teixeira’s attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Epoch Times following the sentencing decision.

Investigators said Teixeira first typed out classified documents he had accessed and then began taking photographs of the files, which bore “SECRET” and “TOP SECRET” markings.

The documents eventually found their way to a Discord server, and then other platforms such as X, Telegram, and the 4Chan message board website.

Some of the documents posted online appeared to describe military equipment donated to Ukraine’s military by the United States and other nations. Other documents appeared to reference training timelines for Ukrainian forces and casualty assessments and equipment losses in its war with Russia.

The leak roiled U.S. efforts to bolster Ukraine. The Pentagon has taken some steps since the incident to tighten control over classified information.

Under the military justice system, Teixeira faces additional charges for defying lawful military orders and obstructing the initial leak investigation.

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute,

No matter how bad you think Covid policies were, they were intended to be worse. 

Consider the vaccine passports alone. Six cities were locked down to include only the vaccinated in public indoor places. They were New York City, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., and Seattle. The plan was to enforce this with a vaccine passport. It broke. Once the news leaked that the shot didn’t stop infection or transmission, the planners lost public support and the scheme collapsed. 

It was undoubtedly planned to be permanent and nationwide if not worldwide. Instead, the scheme had to be dialed back. 

Features of the CDC’s edicts did incredible damage. It imposed the rent moratorium. It decreed the ridiculous “six feet of distance” and mask mandates. It forced Plexiglas as the interface for commercial transactions. It implied that mail-in balloting must be the norm, which probably flipped the election. It delayed the reopening as long as possible. It was sadistic. 

Even with all that, worse was planned. On July 26, 2020, with the George Floyd riots having finally settled down, the CDC issued a plan for establishing nationwide quarantine camps. People were to be isolated, given only food and some cleaning supplies. They would be banned from participating in any religious services. The plan included contingencies for preventing suicide. There were no provisions made for any legal appeals or even the right to legal counsel. 

The plan’s authors were unnamed but included 26 footnotes. It was completely official. The document was only removed on about March 26, 2023. During the entire intervening time, the plan survived on the CDC’s public site with little to no public notice or controversy. 

It was called “Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings.” 

“This document presents considerations from the perspective of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) for implementing the shielding approach in humanitarian settings as outlined in guidance documents focused on camps, displaced populations and low-resource settings. This approach has never been documented and has raised questions and concerns among humanitarian partners who support response activities in these settings. The purpose of this document is to highlight potential implementation challenges of the shielding approach from CDC’s perspective and guide thinking around implementation in the absence of empirical data. Considerations are based on current evidence known about the transmission and severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and may need to be revised as more information becomes available.”

By absence of empirical data, the meaning is: nothing like this has ever been tried. The point of the document was to map out how it could be possible and alert authorities to possible pitfalls to be avoided. 

The meaning of “shielding” is “to reduce the number of severe Covid-19 cases by limiting contact between individuals at higher risk of developing severe disease (‘high-risk’) and the general population (‘low-risk’). High-risk individuals would be temporarily relocated to safe or ‘green zones’ established at the household, neighborhood, camp/sector, or community level depending on the context and setting. They would have minimal contact with family members and other low-risk residents.”

In other words, this is what used to be concentration camps. 

Who are these people who would be rounded up? They are “older adults and people of any age who have serious underlying medical conditions.” Who determines this? Public health authorities. The purpose? The CDC explains: “physically separating high-risk individuals from the general population” allows authorities “to prioritize the use of the limited available resources.” 

This sounds a lot like condemning people to death in the name of protecting them. 

The model establishes three levels.

First is the household level.

Here high-risk people are“physically isolated from other household members.” That alone is objectionable. Elders need people to take care of them. They need love and to be surrounded by family. The CDC should never imagine that it would intervene in households to force old people into separate places. 

The model jumps from households to the “neighborhood level.”

Here we have the same approach: forced separation of those deemed vulnerable. 

From there, the model jumps again to the “camp/sector level.”

Here it is different. “A group of shelters such as schools, community buildings within a camp/sector (max 50 high-risk individuals per single green zone) where high-risk individuals are physically isolated together. One entry point is used for exchange of food, supplies, etc. A meeting area is used for residents and visitors to interact while practicing physical distancing (2 meters). No movement into or outside the green zone.”

Yes, you read that correctly. The CDC is here proposing concentration camps for the sick or anyone they deem to be in danger of medically significant consequences of infection. 

Further: “to minimize external contact, each green zone should include able-bodied high-risk individuals capable of caring for residents who have disabilities or are less mobile. Otherwise, designate low-risk individuals for these tasks, preferably who have recovered from confirmed COVID-19 and are assumed to be immune.”

The plan says in passing, contradicting thousands of years of experience, “Currently, we do not know if prior infection confers immunity.” Therefore the only solution is to minimize all exposure throughout the whole population. Getting sick is criminalized. 

These camps require a “dedicated staff” to “monitor each green zone. Monitoring includes both adherence to protocols and potential adverse effects or outcomes due to isolation and stigma. It may be necessary to assign someone within the green zone, if feasible, to minimize movement in/out of green zones.”

The people housed in these camps need to have good explanations of why they are denied even basic religious freedom. The report explains:

“Proactive planning ahead of time, including strong community engagement and risk communication is needed to better understand the issues and concerns of restricting individuals from participating in communal practices because they are being shielded. Failure to do so could lead to both interpersonal and communal violence.”

Further, there must be some mechanisms to prohibit suicide:

Additional stress and worry are common during any epidemic and may be more pronounced with COVID-19 due to the novelty of the disease and increased fear of infection, increased childcare responsibilities due to school closures, and loss of livelihoods. Thus, in addition to the risk of stigmatization and feeling of isolation, this shielding approach may have an important psychological impact and may lead to significant emotional distress, exacerbate existing mental illness or contribute to anxiety, depression, helplessness, grief, substance abuse, or thoughts of suicide among those who are separated or have been left behind. Shielded individuals with concurrent severe mental health conditions should not be left alone. There must be a caregiver allocated to them to prevent further protection risks such as neglect and abuse.

The biggest risk, the document explains, is as follows: “While the shielding approach is not meant to be coercive, it may appear forced or be misunderstood in humanitarian settings.”

(It should go without saying but this “shielding” approach suggested here has nothing to do with focused protection of the Great Barrington Declaration. Focused protection specifically says: “schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.”)

In four years of research, and encountering truly shocking documents and evidence of what happened in the Covid years, this one certainly ranks up at the top of the list of totalitarian schemes for pathogenic control prior to vaccination. It is quite simply mind-blowing that such a scheme could ever be contemplated. 

Who wrote it? What kind of deep institutional pathology exists that enabled this to be contemplated? The CDC has 10,600 full-time employees and contractors and a budget of $11.5 billion. In light of this report, and everything else that has gone on there for four years, both numbers should be zero. 

Authored by Michael Washburn via The Epoch Times,

A witness in the trial of Daniel Penny, a former U.S. Marine who is facing charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide related to the death of Jordan Neely, took the stand on Nov. 12 to describe how he helped restrain Neely at the scene, and how he had initially lied to investigators out of fear that he might be held liable for the man’s death.

Eric Gonzalez, a 39-year-old groom manager at a casino, who spent his early years in the Dominican Republic before moving to New York, said he rides the subway every day.

His testimony overlapped significantly with, yet also departed in critical ways from, that of witnesses who were present when Neely, a mentally ill homeless man, provoked the confrontation that led to his demise on a Manhattan-bound F train on May 1, 2023.

After several days of testimony in which witness after witness described feeling terrified at Neely’s conduct, and suggested Penny had helped protect bystanders from a crazed man—Gonzalez expressed serious and ongoing fears he has about the potential consequences of having been involved in the incident.

In contrast to several witnesses on earlier days of the trial, who boarded the F train in Brooklyn or one of the first Manhattan stops on its uptown route, Gonzalez said that he entered the subway system that day at the Broadway-Lafayette station, one stop above Second Avenue, where witnesses are unanimous Neely boarded the train.

Gonzalez testified that he was on his way to a job site and was busy answering emails on his phone when the F train pulled into the station.

When the doors opened, people rushed out in a hurry, yet he still entered the train, where he soon saw two individuals on the floor, one of them holding down the other.

“Daniel Penny was holding down Jordan Neely. His legs were on his waist, and his arm around his neck,” Gonzalez stated.

“Everybody was frantic and saying, ‘Call the cops! Call the cops!’ And I see these two individuals on the floor, so I’m assuming one was trying to restrain the other until the cops came,” he said.

Gonzalez said he quickly “jumped in” to assist with restraining Neely. He waved his hand in front of Penny’s face, to let Penny know that he was there to help even though people still awaited the arrival of the police.

He also told Penny that he would grab Neely’s hands, to make things a bit easier for Penny.

“I didn’t think anything of it at the moment, I was just giving him an alternative. I meant, not completely let [Neely] go, but get your arm away from his neck,” Gonzalez said.

But even while prone and in a headlock, Neely was far from done resisting, and broke one of Gonzalez’s ribs in the struggle, the witness said.

The Recovery Position

Soon, when it appeared that Neely had finally passed out, Gonzalez said he tried to shake the prone man’s body and put Neely into a recovery position that Gonzalez had learned about from a health class.

At the time, Gonzalez said, he did not know that Neely would not survive the incident.

He continued on his commute to the job site he had set out for, and that evening saw news reports that mentioned Neely’s death and conveyed that the police were looking for a “Hispanic individual” captured in cell phone footage at the scene.

Gonzalez said he grew deeply afraid about what might happen to him. He used vacation days to avoid going to work and “went into hiding,” he recalled.

Eventually, he sought legal counsel and agreed to meet with an assistant district attorney.

But Gonzalez admitted that he gave the ADA a fake account of what had happened on May 1, 2023.

In this fictitious version, Gonzalez was already on the train when the incident began, Neely struck Gonzalez with his fist, and that was when Penny stepped in to restrain Neely.

A prosecutor asked Gonzalez why he had invented this false narrative.

“So that people could see that, in some sort of way, I was trying to justify my actions, for me having my hands on him,” Gonzalez said.

“Because [then] I wouldn’t be penalized for a person dying when I was there at the scene.”

Gonzalez said he knew the lie was up when investigators showed him a time-stamped photo of him swiping his Metrocard and moving through the turnstiles at Broadway-Lafayette.

In the face of this evidence, it was no longer possible to maintain he was already on the train before it arrived at that station.

Under questioning from defense lawyer Thomas Kenniff, Gonzalez acknowledged that he had received at least partial immunity from prosecution in return for sharing information about the incident.

Still, he was scared of possible legal consequences and actions that strangers might take outside legal channels.

“There’s all these protests going on. I’m scared for myself, I’m scared for my family. You don’t know what people are going to do,” he said.

Before the testimony got underway, a protest took place right outside the court building at 100 Centre Street, as a small crowd chanted Neely’s name.

During its cross-examination, the defense played footage from the scene of the incident and asked Gonzalez about a moment where he appeared to smile at the suggestion of another person present that he could face murder charges for his role in the incident.

The defense wanted to suggest that Gonzalez’s smile indicated the sheer implausibility of the notion that someone could face murder charges for what Gonzalez had done at the scene.

But Judge Maxwell Wiley sustained an objection from the prosecution.

“He denied smiling. Next question,” the judge said.

Yet defense lawyer Kenniff bore down on the idea that prosecutors were leaning on Gonzalez to go a certain way.

Besides Gonzalez, jurors heard the testimony of Derrick Clay, a barber who lives in Queens, and said he was taking the F train from East Broadway uptown when the incident began.

Unlike earlier eyewitnesses, Clay gave a much vaguer account of how the incident unfolded, attributing this largely to a crowded train where he couldn’t see much of what happened from his seat by the door leading to the next car.

Under sustained questioning from defense lawyer Kenniff, Clay acknowledged that Neely’s tone, which initially sounded “a little irate,” grew angrier and more aggressive as the incident developed.

The trial resumes on Nov. 14 with more witness testimony.

After Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives took hold across the country, influencing nearly every aspect of work, education, and daily life with what some have called the ‘woke mind virus,’ a significant shift appears to be underway to eliminate this dangerous Marxist ideology not only from corporate America but also from government institutions. 

Let’s begin with a report from Bloomberg earlier this month stating that Boeing had dismantled its DEI department amid cash pressures and financial turmoil resulting from an 8-week factory strike. 

Under new leadership, newly appointed CEO Kelly Ortberg dismantled DEI initiatives, recognizing that the Marxist culture in corporate America did not contribute to producing better commercial jets. Instead, quality control on Boeing’s production line suffered in the era of wokeism. 

City Journal’s Christopher Rufo interviewed a Boeing insider to understand the drastic shift at the company from wokeism culture to hiring on merit…

I interviewed a Boeing insider who explains why the new CEO abolished DEI. It’s simple: ideology doesn’t help build airplanes. Hopefully, more companies will follow.https://t.co/DCHIDS8ZtF pic.twitter.com/Q5HY1c2i6L

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) November 12, 2024

Here’s Rufo’s interview with the insider:

Christopher Rufo: Tell us what happened with DEI. It went from dominant to extinct in a very short period of time.

Insider: We are shifting from a company whose culture is simply the average of corporate America to a distinct and deliberate vision of leadership. Kelly Ortberg wants Boeing focused on being an airplane company with our own culture and vision. The resulting cash crunch from the strike accelerated this culture shift. When you start to focus on delivering value instead of preserving status, it becomes obvious what drives value, and it’s not DEI.

Rufo: This is happening shortly after the arrival of Ortberg as Boeing’s new CEO. Was this a decision that was made at the top? And if so, why did he make it?

Insider: Yes. Our CEO has always been fighting for efficiency, but the strike and associated cash crunch brought into focus what really drives production. Kelly is looking at every business and every process with fresh eyes, asking the basic question, “Does this help us build airplanes?” HR organizations like to make the argument that you need the right mix of skin color and gender preference to perform and innovate. But everyone who has had to build things knows that what really drives value is integrity, hard work, and technical expertise. This doesn’t mean that bias doesn’t exist and that we don’t need to fight it, but he [Kelly] gets that the best culture directly promotes values and results, not identity groups.

There is one additional factor: the new HR leadership under Kelly has a legal background from outside Boeing. Lawyers are more focused on managing risk and business value than classical HR leaders, who tend to focus on preserving their status in the global HR community.

Rufo: My sense is that many executives are not genuinely committed to DEI as an ideology—they simply want to build airplanes, create software, etc.—but feel social pressure to maintain these departments. Is that true at Boeing? And if so, when did the calculus change?

Insider: DEI is lazy thought leadership best practiced by companies in smooth waters with margins large enough to afford the associated inefficiency. That isn’t Boeing today. When the new boss prioritizes results over fitting in with other CEOs, it sends a strong signal to the culture and builds trust because employees know the rules and it’s clear how to succeed: through hard work and results. McKinsey’s now-debunked analysis was the standard driver in corporate boardrooms, but even if DEI has to defend itself on purely logical grounds, it doesn’t stand up. Boeing more than anything needs an aligned workforce focused on building airplanes, and it’s an easy decision to reject the divisive and U.S.-centric language of DEI in favor of a unified vision for a diverse, global company.

Rufo: Has there been a shift in the conversation or culture within the company?

Insider: Yes. Kelly’s focused question, “Does this help us build airplanes?” combined with the will to change and act, represents a real culture shift. In every big company, a lot of people just push legacy processes forward; you can’t do that when you face a real cash crunch. The furloughs and subsequent layoffs were sufficiently painful to drive a real reckoning that forced us to evaluate whether our actions were driving value or just tied to inertia.

Rufo: Will this improve Boeing’s ability to make airplanes and address some of the real problems at the company?

Insider: Hiring on merit while truly caring for people, regardless of arbitrary one-dimensional identity- or affinity-group labels, is the way to go. After all, people do not want to be beneficiaries of bias any more than they want to be victims of it. Getting past the sloppy wording of DEI to clear goals and criteria for success will help any organization.

Rufo: Do you expect that other companies will follow Boeing’s lead? How do you expect corporate America to look at DEI in the short and medium term?

Insider: Companies will follow Boeing and others’ lead as they acknowledge DEI’s flawed approach. DEI not only oversold imaginary return on investment that could not be measured or verified, but it did so at the cost of expending critical resources and tying up head count earmarked for DEI activities instead of activities that boost performance and capability. There is no way to keep production in focus while also allowing an externally focused bureaucracy with weak ideas to drive culture. In the near term, corporate America is increasingly aware that DEI does not mitigate or eliminate bias or the stereotypes that fuel it. Rather, DEI is simply transferring bias and stereotypes directed at one group to another group. Courageous leadership is finding its way back into the C-suites and finally forcing the logical audit of DEI rhetoric, narratives, and claims that was previously avoided.

The good news is that the days of DEI initiatives installing woke political officers within Boeing’s organization to achieve so-called ‘equity’ are over, as policies are now redirected toward making planes that actually fly once again. 

Corporate America must ask: How did the DEI scam manage to infiltrate companies, ultimately sacrificing efficiency and product quality?

Cough, cough, Larry Fink… 

Good news: “Backlash Is Real”: DEI Exodus Gains Steam Across Corporate America

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news,

Russia’s ban on propaganda promoting a ‘childless lifestyle’ across all forms of media has passed the State Duma in a bid to address the country’s “catastrophic” demographic decline.

The ban covers anti-natalist messaging in movies, television, advertising and social media, and will hand out fines up to €4,000 euros, with civil servants facing double the punishment if they violate the new law.

“Everything needs to be done to make sure that new generations of Russians grow up with a focus on traditional family values,” said Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin after the law was rubber stamped in the lower house of the Russian parliament.

The legislation also restricts the international adoption of Russian children in countries where transgender ideology is dominant, prohibiting them from being adopted by parents who live in places where gender reassignment via medical surgery or changing official documents is legal.

🚨🇷🇺RUSSIA BANS ‘PROPAGANDA’ OF CHILDLESS LIFESTYLES

Russian MPs have unanimously approved a law banning the promotion of childless lifestyles, framing it as a rejection of Western liberal values.

The legislation prohibits public content, including films and media, that… pic.twitter.com/5pXTjcRHFy

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 12, 2024

“It is extremely important to prevent any encroachment on the possible change of gender by any means in case of adoptions to other countries,” said Volodin.

President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov previously described Russia’s demographic peril as a “catastrophic” situation that must be tackled at the highest level of government.

Russia’s birth rate currently stands at just 1.49, well below the 2.1 per woman replacement rate.

Analysis by the Atlantic Council predicted Russia’s population could halve by 2100, with the UN forecasting a 17 per cent drop over the next 50 years.

Russia’s birth rate is currently at its lowest in a quarter of a century, a situation that has been exacerbated by mounting fatalities as a result of the war with Ukraine.

Unlike Russia, western European countries have chosen to embrace mass migration to address their demographic decline, while openly encouraging the native population to have fewer children in the name of solving ‘climate change’.

Legacy media outlets continually promote the benefits of avoiding children, scaring women that they’ll lose their ‘freedom’ and encouraging males to live as man-babies in a state of permanent adolescence.

This culminated earlier this year when Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker faced a sustained backlash for daring to suggest that women should aspire to be mothers and homemakers.

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