Vigilant News

Eternal Vigilance is the price of liberty.

Ben Bartee

Technocracy 101: If Fed and CDC Are ‘Independent,’ Elections Mean Nothing

By ,

Ben Bartee,
June 22nd, 2022

Basic civics recap: the US president, per the Constitution, is the elected executive. That means he is tasked with executing government functions.

He is granted – again, through a theoretically democratic election process – the authority to dictate government activities within the confines of the laws. The legislative branch passes laws; the judicial branch vets them for constitutionality; the executive implements them.

The process, as designed, is not at all vague.

How odd, then, that the Biden White House press secretaries – first Jen Psaki and now the admitted diversity hire Karine Jean-Pierre – repeatedly undermine their own president’s executive authority.

Whenever they’re asked about Federal Reserve or CDC (Centers for Disease Control) policies — government agencies under the umbrella of executive authority — they refuse to give a straight answer on the grounds that the government body in question is “independent.”

“The Federal Reserve is independent. We leave them to make their own policy decisions. We do not get involved in that.”
-Karine Jean-Pierre, WH spokeswoman

The WH has the same hands-off approach to the dictates of the CDC and the shadowy, unelected “experts” who set its policies.

Here’s just one example (you can literally find one from every WH press conference), on the unscientific CDC “travel bans” from abroad last year despite COVID being already widespread in the US:

“Psaki: We are always going to be guided by our North Star — and that is the CDC and our health and medical experts.”
…
Reporter: The Delta variant is already dominant in the U.S., so how does keeping people from foreign countries out, like, protect people in the U.S.?
…
Psaki:  I’m not a doctor or a medical expert.  I think that that would best be posed to a member of the CDC… But I think their decision was made based on the fact that the Delta variant is more transmissible.”
–White House Press Briefing, July 26, 2021

And on the mask mandate issue – even after a federal court struck down the airline mask mandate – Psaki came out and publicly “disagreed” with the court’s decision because, she declared, the CDC is in charge:

“[The Department of Justice] indicated that they would appeal, not just because they think it’s entirely reasonable, of course, to have this additional time to look at it but because they think that for current and future public health crises, we want to preserve that authority for the CDC to have in the future.”
–White House Press Briefing, April 20, 2022

Consequential decisions with life or death implications are theirs, not your (theoretically) elected leaders’!

Who “they” are, exactly, remains unclear, as no one ever actually cites the specific “experts” referenced by name.

“Experts say“= “shut up and obey, ignorant serf. The Science© Gods run the show now. They speak through their conduit, His Grace Anthony Fauci.”

Turning off your mental faculties in blind submission symbolizes your good faith.

Psaki: ‘Sir Fauci of the independent NIH has decreed this duck is a cat. Jot that down, loyal subjects, for dissemination to the peasants.’

WH Press Corps: ‘Without delay, Slay Queen.’

—————–

This is fundamental stuff that can’t be lost on even the most distracted ADHD-afflicted voter.

If government agencies act independently — meaning elected leaders have no influence over their operations — then what’s the point of participation in elections?

Voting becomes ceremonial democratic ritual minus the actual democracy.

No one elected the CDC head to do anything. Ditto with DHS Secretary, the DOD Secretary, NIH Director Warlord Fauci, et al.

But it gets deeper. At least those department figureheads are appointed by a theoretically elected leader, so there’s arguably some tangential democratic tether connecting them to the will of the voters.

But what about the multinational Deep State — the real policy setters never discussed in the New York Times or on MSNCB — who linger in the shadows from administration to administration, who set policy priorities passed down from the international level?

 

“What we are very proud of, is that we penetrate the global cabinets of countries with our WEF Young Global Leaders.”

Top politicians are no longer selected by corrupt in-house Boss Hog-like political machines, which would be bad enough. The nomination process for American leadership is now offshored to a real-life technocratic Dr. Evil, headquartered overseas and adorned in menacing dystopian techno-garb like a Star Trek villain.

Musk: the president isn’t the president

I have long said that Biden is a disposable puppet president. Now, Elon Musk, who has much greater reach, has publicly agreed.

Lots of well-intentioned dissident commentators often repeat the rhetoric that “Biden did this,” “Biden did that.”

Biden doesn’t do anything. The most he can be said to do is to parrot his talking points on cue, but he barely ever makes it out of the basement for that. And when he does fumble through them, he’s barely coherent.

The implication of “Biden did that, what a bad guy” is that driving him out of office will solve anything. It won’t.

Getting rid of Biden, while a plus, will do nothing to cripple and usurp the Deep State power structure.

Once Biden inevitably goes, the technocratic ruling class will simply replace him with a new titular puppet. And the agenda will continue uninterrupted.

—————

Things might not be as hopeless as they might seem – if we take the right lessons.

Elections at the local level, for instance, to elect county commissioners who make practical decisions daily do count far more than national-level ones.

Decoupling from the multinational corporate technocracy isn’t going to be painless, but it’s doable with the proper paradigm shifts.

Globalization is the disease; localization is the cure.

Ben Bartee is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via Armageddon Prose, Substack, Patreon, Gab, and Twitter.

OpEd: If ‘Gun Control’ Doesn’t Disarm the Government, It Is Authoritarian Propaganda

By ,

By Ben Bartee – June 17, 2022
Originally published by the Daily Bell

Globalist and political opportunist Canadian PM Justin Trudeau recently announced across-the-board handgun sale bans for the entire nation.

The economic sanction should come as no surprise, since Trudeau has openly professed his deep admiration for the Chinese government specifically because of – not in spite of — its totalitarian nature. The authoritarian human rights trampling is the feature, not the bug.

The Canadian police and military that protect the politicians, though, will keep their guns. And they’ll certainly use them to enforce draconian COVID vaxx mandates or carbon lockdowns or whatever other social engineering program comes down the pike next.

The Biden/Harris administration has been looking north – and across the pond at the multinational WEF globalists who really run the show – for guidance.

9mm bullets – which law enforcement officers carry as their standard-issue ammo — are now “high caliber,” according to Joe Biden’s handlers who script his talking points. So you shouldn’t be allowed to have them.

——————————

Mao, Stalin, Hitler, and rest of the roster of infamous dictators of 20th-century have a few common threads. One is a central pillar of their respective governing principles: “gun control – for thee, not for me.”

Yes, above is an unhinged rant in classic Alex Jones fashion – that’s just what he does. But the bombastic delivery doesn’t detract from the salient point: when you allow a monopoly of power in the hands of a concentrated class of sociopathic political elites, what you get is dictatorship, and possibly genocide.

Between the Big Three alone, those dictators have literally hundreds of millions of civilian deaths – not to mention the military casualties of their various wars – on their bloody hands.

Mass murder isn’t restricted to so-called “communist” or “fascist” dictators. The “liberal” US government is historically murderous itself. As Martin Luther King Jr. noted, the US government is indisputably the biggest purveyor of violence in the post-WWII world.

Below is the infamous “Collateral Murder” video that put Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on the map and rendered him the #1 journalistic target of the US security state. It depicts US government personnel gunning down unarmed civilians on purpose and then mopping up first responders when they arrive on the scene:

Estimates put the civilian casualty death count in Iraq alone since the 2003 US invasion (based on WMD lies) at around 200,000. Some put the potential death count much higher, possibly exceeding a million.

Hundreds of thousands of innocent lives were lost – all justified by documented, premeditated government lies and war propaganda to feed the military-industrial complex war machine.

Internally, the largest federal policing agency, the Department of Homeland Security, buys bullets by the billions.

As a domestic law enforcement agency, not a foreign-facing military force, for whom do you suppose those billions of DHS bullets are intended?

——————–

Even if – out of either naivety or a sense of charity they don’t deserve — you don’t want to believe that government actors have evil intent, then consider their incompetence.

For example, during yet another recent mass shooting at a public school, the government proved its unwillingness to “protect and serve.”

A lone incel-type teenager with a single rifle and no body armor killed children one by one uninterrupted in an elementary school classroom. Meanwhile, 19 uniformed cowards with badges and guns and tactical body armor and all kinds of military gear sat on their hands in the hallway because they didn’t want to put themselves in harm’s way.

But the truth is even worse than that: the cops outside the school formed an exclusion zone and handcuffed one mother trying to go in to save her child.

The cowardice and moral depravity – not to mention the dereliction of duty – is almost inconceivable. It boggles the conscience.

This underscores the dark reality: police exist to protect the social and political order, not to serve the interests of average people. They are the Praetorian Guard of the ruling class.

The grassroots right, which unfortunately has traditionally licked the boots of the police, is slowly waking up to that reality as the national security state trains its sights on “domestic extremists” (code for “anyone not on board with the neoliberal multinational WEF model of governance”).

What transpired in Uvalde, and worse, will happen on a macro scale when the only lawful weapons carriers left are so-called law enforcement.

Sitting ducks: the corporate state’s wet dream

The central point can’t be emphasized strongly enough: the government doesn’t want to protect anyone but the elites who pull the strings behind the scenes. They want a submissive, complacent, defanged populace.

What they want is a pack of sitting ducks, unable to defend themselves, kept in a state of continual terror via the Permanent Emergency, waiting to be herded to and fro from crisis to crisis via trauma-based conditioning.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
-H.L. Mencken

Until the weaponized global corporate Deep State now pointing its guns at Americans’ heads is disarmed, no sane American should consider complying with unconstitutional gun bans – regardless of the proffered justification.

Ben Bartee is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via Armageddon Prose and/or Substack, Patreon, Gab, and Twitter.

Corporate-Sponsored, Transhumanist ‘Feminism’: The X-Factor in the Baby Formula Shortage

By ,

Ben Bartee,
June 16th, 2022

From the 10,000-foot view, corporate-sponsored Third Wave feminism is a much under-appreciated — but by no means the only — causal reason that American mothers can’t find the Chinese factory-produced GMO “baby formula”* feed that so many families rely on.

(*Clarification on the definition of “baby formula”: The commercially-produced stuff is mostly GMO corn and soy protein with a few industrial poorly-bioavailable “nutrients” sprinkled in. In the before-times, “baby formula” was called “breast milk.” In a better world, actually nutritious “baby formula” would also be possible to synthesize artificially.)

Yes, some women have legitimate medical reasons (not sociocultural ones, which are far more likely and which we’ll discuss here) that prevent them from breastfeeding. They need food desperately, and now can’t get it. No one should minimize that, or victim-blame.

And, yes, supply-chain disruptions induced by draconian COVID lockdowns — ironically and sadistically marketed as “Public Health©” measures — partially triggered the discrepancy in supply and demand. So did a shutdown of one of only a handful of formula-producing US factories by the FDA because they were allegedly producing toxic baby feed.

All granted.

But those factors alone don’t tell the whole story.

———————–

In her teary farewell performance, outgoing WH Spokescreature Jen Psaki talked as little as possible about the inability of Americans to feed their children with the GMO puree they depend on. In a sane world, with a functional government, making sure babies don’t starve to death would be priority #1 for the executive branch.

The ostensible purpose of the executive branch is to execute effective public policy. In other words, to set the necessary conditions that allow for material subsistence.

Psaki, though, preferred to deliver an Oscars-style speech thanking her sponsors for her position, and her new, even more lucrative position on MSNBC:

“You know, this is my last briefing… And I wanted to start with a series of thank yous. And I promised myself I wasn’t going to get emotional. Whew. Okay.”

Mothers in America can’t buy basic materials to feed their children and this shameless narcissist has the gall to take time out of her official briefing to congratulate herself on her “integrity” and “civility.”

When pressed gently on the baby formula crisis, Psaki offered a novel solution. Americans don’t actually need more baby food – they need to get it rationed to limit the filthy eaters from grubbing up too much sustenance:

“As it relates to baby formula, what we know is that we are certainly seeing, and we have seen, hoarding happen… That’s an issue where if there’s caps — and this is something we have been working to institute — on the number of containers that can be purchased, that will help.”
-WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki, May 13, 2022

We’ve reached literal Hunger Games-tier Kabuki Theater.

——————

How did this happen? As previously acknowledged, the two immediate and most obvious causal effects are supply chain breakdown and a Michigan factory – reliant, by the way, on trans-Pacific Chinese GMO agri-slop to operate — turning off the spigot.

But that’s a short-sighted assessment.

Third-wave corporate “intersectional” feminism contributes to millions of American mothers’ dependency on “baby formula.”

Feminism per se doesn’t have to be as toxic as its current manifestation.

Women should probably be allowed to vote if voting is how public decisions get made. Done. That was the First Wave.

And, okay, women should be able to work productively for decent pay without worrying about their bosses getting handsy with them. Sure. That, in a nutshell, was the Second Wave. Now employers have to pay women commensurately with men and they can’t fondle them next to the water cooler. Those are positive developments.

In these regards, Western institutions have done more to accommodate the desires of women for greater social power than any civilization in history.

————-

Of course, the “Social Progress©” didn’t stop there.

The corporate-sponsored Third Wave is not about equal rights for women. Its sole agenda, under the guise of “human rights,” is destroying the same Western society that nurtured earlier versions of the feminism movement. And not just annihilating Western society – but the essence of human biology itself.

Having a stable family is branded as something dirty, and harmful.

Childlessness, or dereliction of maternal duties, in contrast, is marketed as liberating and ultra-trendy. The model of virtue for women of the Western world is now intersectional Rosie the Riveter, jackhammering the Patriarchy into submission.

Careerism is celebrated and motherhood is denigrated.

As a consequence, fully one-fifth of American newborns get fed “formula” straightaway. Almost half are on “formula” after six months. That’s not accommodation for women with a medical or rare logistical issue who can’t breastfeed – that’s a social trend, a lifestyle.

——————

Cheerleading single parenthood — with mothers working dead-end near-minimum-wage jobs while the baby is God-knows-where in the back of some dank government care facility learning about preferred pronouns and sucking down Chinese GMO corn feed — doesn’t make women happier or more fulfilled.

All it does is further destabilize the foundational social structure of the West, drive intergenerational increases in mental illness, and bankroll the $55 billion “baby formula” industry.

————–

This baby formula thing didn’t have to become a national crisis. It’s, again, the culmination of decades of anti-human social engineering undertaken under the guise of “Progress©”.

If the social engineers could, at this current moment, rip babies from their mothers’ custody straight out of the womb to be programmed in government centers – or better yet, mechanically produced altogether absent human involvement Brave New World-style — they would.

At present, they understand that going full techno-fascist in the reproductive sphere would destabilize their social engineering project to turn a man into a machine.

But never conflate their current inability to execute their goals with their long-term commitment to meeting that vision.

Bill Gates and Co. are hard at work rendering biological motherhood, and, ultimately, biology itself, obsolete.