Propaganda Perpetuates the Pandemic and Censorship
https://rumble.com/vkppo0-covid-is-a-global-propaganda-operation.html

https://odysee.com/@PandemicParallaxView:6/2020-A-Propaganda-Masterpiece-Prof-Mark-Crispin-Miller-PonP-Episode17:3
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COVID-19 is the largest, most sophisticated propaganda operation in history. Psychological techniques were extensively used during 2020 to incite fear and panic in the population
Propaganda strategies were also used to get people to support and defend irrational COVID measures such as masking, isolation, social distancing, lockdowns and jab mandates
What made the COVID propaganda so much more effective than any previous propaganda operation is the fact that a virus is the perfect enemy. It’s invisible, could be carried by anyone, including those you love the most, and could “get” you anywhere
Classical rhetoric is about persuasion through argument. It appeals to logic. Propaganda, on the other hand, is a kind of subrational manipulation that appeals to our most basic instincts, such as fear. An informal definition of propaganda is “an organized attempt to get people to think or do something — or not think or do something”
The Great Lie is possible because the more divorced a lie is from reality, the more likely it is to succeed, as most people are reluctant to think that authority figures would lie and completely ignore reality

In the video above,1,2 initially published in August 2021, professor Piers Robinson, Ph.D. — co-director of the Organization for Propaganda Studies, whose research specialty is organized persuasive communication and contemporary propaganda — speaks to Asia Pacific Today about propaganda in the age of COVID.

As noted by Robinson, COVID-19 is unquestionably the largest, most sophisticated propaganda operation in history. Psychological techniques were extensively used during 2020 to incite fear and panic in the population, while other persuasion strategies were used to get people to support and defend COVID measures such as masking, isolation, social distancing, lockdowns and jab mandates.
The Propaganda War

Indeed, propaganda is what allowed for draconian and unscientific COVID measures to be implemented in the first place. Without propaganda and simultaneous censorship of opposing views, little of what we've been through would have been possible.

As noted by Robinson, while the use of state propaganda could initially be justified as a necessary means to achieve a public health objective — protecting people from COVID-related illness and death — it quickly became apparent that this was not the case, and likely never was.

Today, three years in, it's quite evident that COVID is a psychological operation. For example, since 2022 at the latest, COVID has been nothing more than another endemic respiratory infection, much like the common cold, yet the pandemic has not been declared "over."

We now also have clear evidence that the COVID jabs don't prevent infection or spread of the virus, which negates the entire premise for vaccine passports, yet they're being pushed anyway. In short, COVID-19 was (and still is) a means to an end; to suspend and strip us of Constitutional rights and civil liberties, and to further social, political and financial restructuring objectives outside democratic processes.
A Propaganda Masterpiece

https://expose-news.com/2022/12/28/aus-gov-divorced-from-reality-in-response/

Pfizer’s annual revenue is expected to reach $101.3 billion in 2022, thanks to its COVID jab, which doesn’t prevent infection or spread, and Paxlovid, an ineffective and dangerous COVID antiviral that causes rebound.

Pfizer got plenty of free help from the federal government, which bullied and harassed people into getting the shots, and implemented rules that ensure hospitals and pharmacies will only prescribe certain COVID drugs, Paxlovid being one of them.

The key to getting away with a really big lie is making it so divorced from reality that the listener will assume their own perception is flawed, and then repeating it over and over again. This strategy has been used to great effect over the past three years, resulting in a massive shift from fact-based public health orthodoxy to irrational fantasy-based dogma.

Centralized top-down health care is far more attractive to Big Pharma investors than patient-centered care. The primary obstacle to the corporatization and monetization of public health has been truth, and this obstacle was finally overcome during the COVID pandemic.

The Big Lies told during the pandemic work because they veer so sharply from the truth. This break from factual reality is what makes it so difficult to question them, because if you do, you’re now questioning the entire hierarchy of public health.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/11/22/pfizer-art-of-the-big-lie.aspx

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Is Inflation caused by the Federal Reserve Increasing the Money Supply?

Well maybe. I don't want to say straight-out, "no" or youn's won't listen to me anymore.

But first, we must divide up the question. I'll discuss the main point in some other post.
1. Temporary increases vs. permanent increases in money supply.
This is the temporary credit money vs. the permanent "hard money" question. It's not clear that the Federal Reserve has ever intentionally made any new hard money, as to quantity, as their target has always been interest rates--though perhaps they used to target current (i.e., temporary) money quantity--and not, or so it seems to this arm-chair expert, long-term permanent money quantity. Suppose now, this is the case. It may be we have no more money, excluding Treasury Notes, just in terms of Federal Reserve Notes and unborrowed money in Federal Reserve accounts--which corresponds one-to-one, by the way, with all un-borrowed money (in my reasoning)--than during the gold standard. Under the gold standard, the government could at least issue money, could it not, in some ratio to purchased gold. But if we have discontinued that system, by what means is money increased? Under the current system, without increasing money by buying gold and using that as an excuse to issue new currency, it would seem we likely have less Federal Reserve Notes and, permanent Federal Reserve Notes and non-borrowed balances than during the gold standard era as a ratio to the size of the economy, though the gold standard being the gold standard, that would be the case anyway if it still existed today. So how? Perhaps, bit, by bit, as seems to be needed in open-market operations. But whence the 31 trillion? And how much of that is held by the Federal Reserve, and hence actually "monetized?" Research alarm ringing here--I didn't do my research, don't know my... How much?

2. Major inflation vs. two percent "target" inflation.
Two percent:
Does the Fed cause the inflation or follow the inflation? My guess is contrary to what the Fed thinks, it is only following not altering the inflation rate. But if so, then why is it a constant two percent? Maybe my guess is wrong.
Mechanism
My working hypothesis is this insidious constant two percent inflation is the result of the constant accumulation of pricing power that accumulates in every trade between any two parties to trade: because while trade may be fair, no trade can ever be equal. Yet, why the two percent? Maybe I am wrong here? But explain the mechanism, then? Ok, ok, you say it is the Fed. "printing money." Yet is it the Fed. or the Treasury that "prints" money? It seems to be a combination, a two-stage process, for any long-term money "printing," with the control over and timing of each stage divorced one from the other.

The Treasury, stage one is responsible for ultra long term "money printing." I put money printing in quotes because we are not talking literally paper money. It prints money in the form of Treasury Notes--yet, yet--we can hardly say that anything, at stage one has happened yet, as it is but an exchange of extent money in the economy for savings accounts with the Treasury we call, Treasury Bonds, Notes, and Bills. The central bank is prohibited in participating directly in Treasury Auctions and all Treasury auction sales are to the public.

Stage Two: the Federal Reserve buys some Treasury Notes, Bonds, Bills, from the public in Open Market Operations. Yet the goal, generally, is not printing money, but, you know, Open Market Operations--fiddling around with interest rates such as the inter-bank lending rate between, private, Federal Reserve Member Banks and other Reserve account holders, if there are any--I think there are, for instance, Treasury auction Primary Dealers are mostly non-banks, and certainly their customers are.

Major Inflation:
It seems to be from very specific causes. And hence, one's first assumption is not from "printing money" in the abstract. This happened three times, four if you count since when--April of this year? But you can hardly count that since gas prices have gone down again and have returned to, compared to 2008 highs, mildly deflationary levels. Where's the two percent, or is that insidious two percent just some residual result of leaving the gold standard? Well, no, it's something that with a few short exceptions of zero average price changes, happened throughout the twentieth century outside of the major inflationary episodes. The nineteenth century was generally deflationary, no? Ok, those episodes: World War I: reversed after a price-stable roaring twenties during the Great Depression. World War II reversed the Great Depression price drop to the post World War I level. Then, when America went off the gold standard (all of you breathe a collective, "ah hah!), during the nineteen-seventies. Each of these episodes constituted a doubling of average prices. The Great Depression, a halving. Or so goes my analysis of some chart I found somewhere.

Boom Bust
What of boom bust? The booms of boom bust haven't generally been periods of large-scale inflation. Ok, please don't quote me this nonsense period we have been in, as obviously one can't make a rule out of pure bull. What there is in the boom bust is the "relative value story" of financial asset price increase, but not a general major price increase. You say, what about the boom time of World War II? I say: where's the bust part of the cycle after World War II? You say, ah, what about the Great Depression? It followed the boom of the roaring twenties, which followed the inflation of World War I. I say, but the chart I found somewhere says the ten year long Roaring Twenties, the actual contiguous time period to the G.D., it was a period of absolutely stable average prices. You say, what about the seventies? I say, that's not a boom bust cycle--where's the sudden financial crash? It just went on and on with stagnation, albeit one imagines with healthy wage increases--unlike the jobless "recoveries" that became famous later.

So we seek for the boom bust cycle elsewhere. I would argue the boom bust would happen anyway, but that the extremities, of this rolling, every growing in scale and intensity, boom bust is the result of deflationary credit bubbles. I think generally people would agree with that, although the truth may be somewhere else, someone might turn up and explain to me--I don't pretend to be an expert. But I think on top of that basic idea, there's the question of sectoral balances. Why does--my idea--the bust happen suddenly and at the height of the boom? Sectoral imbalances due to the high savings rate of the boom. And the high taxes paid by a booming economy. These two--in my current working hypothesis--albeit theorized here in my armchair.