Friday, October 2, 2020

'The Orwellian Nightmare Has Arrived In Full Force': Normalcy Will Not Return


CNN claims society will never go ‘back to normal’ and COVID-19 overreach is permanent

(Article by Shane Trejo republished from BigLeaguePolitics.com)


CNN has confirmed the obvious: the globalist elite never intend to return to normal and plan to make the Draconian measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic permanent.

CNN senior International correspondent Nick Paton Walsh wrote the article giving away the plot. The world will be forever changed because of COVID-19, a.k.a. the China plague, and freedom will never return.

“We are slowly learning if this year’s changes are permanent. If work — for the lucky among us — will remain from home. If we will visit the grocery store less but spend more. If we will find wearing a mask on the metro to be just part of life. If shaking hands and embracing will become less common,” Walsh wrote.


He wrote that anyone who doesn’t accept that these changes must be permanent and for the greater good is mentally ill.


Yet permanently severing ties with January is not necessarily a bad thing, psychologists say. The danger comes from hankering for normalcy again, rather than getting on with working out how to deal with whatever is ahead,” Walsh wrote.

“People who don’t adapt to change believe what they remember as “normal” will return, and delay modifying their daily routines or outlook. Those who refuse to wear masks may be guilty of normalcy bias,” he added.

“As with everything, we will find out just how resilient we are, and the future may seem normal again, however different it is,” Walsh concluded.


Big League Politics has reported on how the worst overreach from the pandemic is yet to come, with hellish Big Brother technology ready to be implemented throughout society:


The late plutocrat and engineer of globalism David Rockefeller once said at a United Nations dinner: “All we need is the right crisis and the people will accept the New World Order.”

With COVID-19, it seems that the right crisis has finally arrived to usher in the new era of globalism. The mass media is already priming the public for the new permanent changes to society that are all but inevitable at this point.

 

BBC News has laid out their grand vision of the Orwellian “new normal” of what the central planners and technocrats intend society to look like by 2022.

“It’s 2022 and you’ve just arrived at the travel destination of your dreams. As you get off the plane, a robot greets you with a red laser beam that remotely takes your temperature. You’re still half asleep after a long transoceanic flight, so your brain barely registers the robot’s complacent beep. You had just passed similar checks when boarding the plane hours ago so you have nothing to worry about and can just stroll to the next health checkpoint,” BBC reporter Lina Zeldovich wrote.

Zeldovich lays out the reality of endless health checks, breathalyzers with microchips in them, and microscopic ink tattoos to track vaccine compliance. All of this would be required in airports to travel, at first, and then be rolled out as mandatory to participate in normal functions of society.

She notes that the mark-of-the-beast vaccine tracking tattoo has already been tested on animals and corpses, thanks to the generous support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

“The macro-needles don’t leave scars and are less invasive than the regular needles – it’s like putting on a Band-Aid,” said researcher Ana Jaklenec of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It can even be done with a modified phone.”

 

The people will have to demand their freedom and revolt against this new normal in order for their liberties to return. With so many millions of poor saps throughout the world losing their souls to the mass hysteria, that is not likely. 

The Orwellian Nightmare has arrived in full force.


The 'New' Middle East And Iran's Preparations For War With Israel


ANALYSIS: The real new Middle East reality
Yochanan Visser



After the surprising peace deal between Israel and the Arab Gulf states United Arab Emirates and Bahrain one could say that the Middle East is now divided in two large competing blocks.

One block is consisting of mainly Sunni Arab states together with the Jewish state and is led by Saudi Arabia, Israel and Egypt while the other block consists of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and to a lesser degree Turkey that is increasingly cooperating with Iran despite the fact that Turkey is led by the Sunni Islamist regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iran by a Shiite clerical regime.


Both Turkey and Iran have regional aspirations and seek to dominate the Middle East while Iran is also trying to expand its influence elsewhere in the world as well in countries such as Afghanistan and even in southern America where it helps Venezuela to form a force similar to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

All this is meant to confront the ‘great Satan’ the United States and the ‘little Satan’ Israel and to realize the goal of the 1979 Islamic Revolution: turning the world into one big Islamic Imperium.

For this reason Hezbollah, Iran’s Lebanese proxy is also active in Europe where it was caught stockpiling ammonium nitrate in London and southern Germany and where Iranian plots were discovered to stage terror attacks in countries such as Denmark and the Netherlands.

Iran is also actively working to increase its sway over Iraq and Lebanon and to a lesser degree over Yemen where it supports the Ansar Allah, or Houthi militia, in its battle with the central government. Ansar Allah gets advanced missiles and other weaponry from Iran and with these arms it constantly tries to attack Saudi Arabia.

Iran’s battle with Saudi Arabia is, in fact, over control of the holy Muslim sites Mecca and Medina because the regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Al Khamenei sees itself as the true custodian of these holy places and regards the regime of King Salman and his son Mohammed Bin Salman as apostates.


Israel must disappear from the Middle East in the eyes of Iran and its many proxies. There simply can’t be a Jewish state on the territory of Dar Islam, the House of Islam.


Just last week Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu revealed three sites in neighborhoods in the Lebanese capital Beirut where Hezbollah is storing or manufacturing precision-guided-missiles (PGM’s) right next to a gas station and a factory abutting gas canisters.


These are , in fact, Iranian weapon depots, since Hezbollah is fully funded and armed by Iran and takes its orders from Tehran. Netanyahu accused the United Nations of passivity in light of these dangerous developments for Israel.

“Israel and states across the Arab world not only stand together in advancing peace. We stand together in confronting the greatest enemy of peace in the Middle East—Iran,” Netanyahu told the General Assembly of the United Nations


“Iran wantonly and repeatedly attacks its neighbors, and it’s terror proxies are directly involved in violence throughout the Middle East, including in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Gaza and of course, Lebanon,” the Israeli leader added before showing the Assembly a map of the area in the vicinity of the Rafiq Hariri International Airport in Beirut where Hezbollah stores GPM’s underneath civilian buildings.

According to Netanyahu the three missile sites in neighborhoods in Beirut could cause a similar disaster as the explosion in the port of Beirut two months ago.

Two of the civilian buildings in the Laylaki and Chouaifet neighborhoods in Beirut where Hezbollah stores and produces GPM’s house 120 families the Israeli leader revealed.

At the end of September, furthermore, another secret weapon depot of Hezbollah in the village of Ain Kana in southern Lebanon exploded but the international community, except for the US government doesn’t lift a finger to stop Hezbollah’s highly dangerous activities in Lebanon and elsewhere.


A high-ranking Israeli Defense Ministry official now says that it would take the Israeli army (IDF) months to clear out Hezbollah’s estimated 150.000 rockets and missiles in Lebanon. Former Israeli Air Force Chief and current Defense- Ministry director-general Amir Eshel said in Tel Aviv that it would take “not days or weeks, but months” before the IDF could restore order in core Hezbollah areas.

In a best-case scenario Israel could eliminate only 80 percent of Hezolllah’s rocket arsenal Eshel said while the Lebanese terror group would fire an estimated 30.000 rockets on Israel.

According to the Israeli Defense official only destroying Lebanon’s infrastructure would force Hezbollah to beg for a cease-fire.


The terror organization is more afraid of rebuilding again Lebanon’s infrastructure and the terror tunnels it constructed since 2007 than it is of conducting a prolonged war with Israel.

Then there is Iraq where Iran is actively working to drive the US army out of the country via the Shiite militias that it uses to attack American convoys. These attacks have increased significantly over the past period and the preferred method is using roadside bombs.

Iran is, furthermore, using the umbrella organization of predominantly Shiite militias al-Hashd al Sha’abi to constantly launch rockets at the US embassy in Baghdad’s Green Zone.

These attacks have already led to a withdrawal of American soldiers from Iraq and the US is now contemplating to relocate its embassy in the autonomous Kurdish zone in northern Iraq, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last week.

Analysts say that moving the US embassy from Baghdad to Irbil in Iraqi Kurdistan could be a dramatic strategic blunder that will further bolster Iran’s influence over Iraq.

Iran is pushing al-Hashd al-Sha’abi to increase its attacks on the Americans because it senses that this could cause a major change in it the long battle to drive the US army and other Western forces out of Iraq.


Iran furthermore is bolstering Syrian air defenses significantly and delivers sophisticated missile shields to the combined forces of the Syrian army and Shiite militias that it deployed in Syria to prepare for war against Israel.


One of these new air defenses is reportedly the Pavar-373 an advanced hybrid system based on the Russian S-300, which is capable of detecting and intercepting cruise missiles and stealth aircraft such as the F35 which is in the possession of the Israeli air force, it has a range of 250km and a radar range of 350km.

In addition, Iran is now also threatening to stage terror attacks in Bahrain and The United Arab Emirates over their peace deal with Israel.

This now is the other new reality in the Middle East that remains very unstable even after the euphoric joy over Israel’s peace agreements with two minor Arab Gulf States.


Things To Come And Stage Setting


Government investments in digital identity and biometrics programs progress around the world



Progress and plans for national digital identity systems and biometric e-government solutions have been announced around the world, including a $250 million investment by Australia’s government. Saudi government services, financial inclusion in the Philippines, a remote birth registration system in Pakistan, a public sector payroll clean-up in Kurdistan, and biometric voter verification in Kyrgyzstan are in the news.

Australia is planning to spend $250 million to upgrade its online services with biometric facial recognition for user authentication to access a range of services, Tech Times reports.


Services that facial recognition could be used to access include employment listings, voter registration, and financial filings such as bankruptcies, and Tech Times writes that Prime Minister Scott Morrison expressed hope the technology will make access easier and safer for businesses and individuals.


The $250 million is part of an overall $800 million investment in digital technologies intended to set up the full integration of the myGovID digital identity program and 14 additional services, such as receiving a tax filing number. The largest portion of the investment will go to a unified user interface for businesses.


There are currently 1.16 million businesses and 1.6 million people already using facial recognition to access services from among 70 offered online by the government.

Saudi Arabia issues 17M digital identities for government service access

Digital IDs have been issued to 17 million people in Saudi Arabia through the Interior Ministry’s Absher platform to help them access government services, according to Riyadh Express.

The government digital identity program provides access to 147 different platforms and service portals, granting online access to more than 200 services.

The Ministry of Interior heads Saudi Arabia’s Unified National Access Committee, which also includes representatives from several other government agencies.


Philippines biometric national digital ID to increase financial inclusion

The increased use of digital financial services in the Philippines is expected to persist beyond the country’s COVID-19 lockdowns, according to comments from a central bank representative reported by the Philippine Information Agency.

The comments were made by Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Assistant Governor Iluminada Sicat during a presentation to the 18th Development Policy Research Month (DPRM) virtual forum. The launch of the planned biometrics-backed national digital ID system, which is expected imminently, will further boost digital financial transactions, she suggests.


Sicat also noted that the 2019 Financial Inclusion Survey showed that while 69 percent of Filipinos own mobile phones, only 12 percent use them for financial transactions, and 7 out of 10 unbanked adults in the country has access to a mobile phone.


Pakistan telecom awarded for remote birth registration system

Telecom operators Telenor Pakistan has won for awards from the AD Stars 2020 competition, three of them for its digital birth registration program, The Nation reports.

Telenor received a ‘Gold’ award in the Innovative Use of Mobile Devices category, a ‘Bronze’ in the Human Rights category, and a ‘Crystal’ award for the Public Service and Awareness category.

The birth registration initiative has resulted in the registration of more than a million children in Pakistan, who gain legal identity. The project was launched in 2016 by Telenor Pakistan along with UNICEF and local authorities.


Kurdistan continues public sector biometric registration

The second phase of a biometric registration program for government employees has been announced by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Esta reports.

Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani announced the second phase, which is intended to deduplicate public payrolls to eliminate fraud, during a videoconference. An electronic payment system was launched by the government in 2016 to cut down on “ghost employees” drawing public salaries.

The biometric system indicates there are 1.2 million Kurdish employees, down from 1.4 million, though it is unclear if this refers only to government employees.


Kyrgyzstan set for second biometric vote

Kyrgyzstan’s 2015 elections were the first in the country largely seen as competitive, thanks to investments in biometric voter identification and automated ballot boxes. The next step is for the upcoming elections to combat vote-buying, include migrant workers and expatriates, support women and safe voting, UNDP Resident Representative Louise Chamberlain writes for Euractiv.

The country has the only parliamentary democracy in Central Asia, but past elections have suffered from depressed voter turnout due to exclusion, particularly of women, migrant workers and people with disabilities. Nearly 800,000 people in the country of 6.3 million were held out because they could not register their biometric data as required in 2017, and were therefore not included on the voter rolls. Registration rounds since have reduced the number by roughly half.



The elections will be held on October 4, with the Central Election Commission operating 2,475 polling stations.




Hundreds Of Quakes Rattle Southern California


Hundreds of earthquakes continue to rattle Southern California, USGS says

Mitchell Willetts, Don Sweeney

Wildfires Continue To Spread In Northern California, 100,000 More Evacuate, 3 Dead, 3.8 Million Acres Burned


3 dead, nearly 100 000 evacuate as two massive wildfires explode in Northern California





At least 3 people lost their lives while almost 100 000 have fled their homes as two out-of-control wildfires continue to rage in Northern California. As of Tuesday, September 29, 2020, the Glass Fire has consumed more than 18 000 ha (45 000 acres) of land and, while the Zogg Fire has burned 16 000 ha (40 000 acres), both are zero percent contained.

Some 1500 firefighters continue to battle the wildfires that have been ravaging Napa's famous wine region.

Some notable wineries, such as Chateau Boswell and a portion of 13th-century-style winery Castello di Amorosa have been lost to the blazes, which reached the fringes of Santa Rosa-- the biggest town in the neighboring Sonoma County.

"It's a complete, total loss," said Jim Sullivan, Castello di Amorosa's vice president of marketing and PR. 

Nearly 100 000 residents have been evacuated from towns, including the entirety of Calistoga, a wine tourism destination.

Meanwhile, the Zogg Fire killed at least three people further north and has razed 16 000 ha (40 000 acres) of land, also without containment in sight.

Both blazes exploded Sunday, September 27, rapidly spreading through dry vegetation triggered by high winds. Temperatures remain high in the area.

The new fires came during a record season as five of California's six biggest wildfires in history are currently scorching across 1.5 million ha (3.8 million acres) of land.

California is currently moving into the peak of the wildfire season.