What if government had not been collaborating with tech and media and just allowed the free flow of information? For four years‚ we’ve carried around a presumption that when lockdowns came‚ most people went along out of fear of the virus. Or maybe people were just intimidated by the propaganda‚ which was overwhelming. Then the “mass formation” (madness of crowds) kicked in and tossed out their wits in favor of following the myth to absurd extents.  That’s a conventional version of what happened.  And yet‚ we keep hearing of early voices of dissent at the time that didn’t get a hearing.  The problem of figuring out whether and to what extent people acquiesced to tyranny is an important one. It is complicated by accumulating evidence that the government worked with tech and media‚ and therefore with the main way people get their news‚ to actively suppress contrary voices‚ even when they came from recognized experts of great credibility.  Did you see the movie The Big Short? It is based on a book by Michael Lewis. Both celebrate short-selling contrarian Michael Burry of Scion Capital. Back in 2006‚ he began to see strange features of the housing bubble. These financial products called mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) packed highly-rated mortgage bonds with terribly-rated ones. The more he looked‚ the more he was convinced that a massive housing bust was on the way. Our fan-favorite Turbo Force Plus is now 40% off! See for yourself the delicious one-of-a-kind energy boost infowarriors CRAVE! He shorted the market‚ even going to the point of pushing various financial firms to create funds that did just that even when they didn’t previously exist. Very few believed there was a bubble in housing because all the experts‚ including the head of the central bank‚ said otherwise. The whole system was propping up a fake market.  Burry‚ who is a trained physician‚ believed it was going to fail. He had looked at the details instead of trusting the experts. And he turned out to be correct‚ perhaps early but correct eventually. The movie and book present him as a hero for being willing to go against the crowd and the experts both.  The lesson: we should all be more like Burry. Even since the telling of this story‚ he has been valorized as a person of great wisdom. Never trust the experts‚ the system‚ the conventional wisdom‚ the madness of crowds. Do your own research like Burry did!  When the lockdowns began in March 2020‚ it turns out that Dr. Burry joined Twitter solely for the purpose of denouncing what was going on. He sent emails too‚ to Bloomberg. Burry wrote them right away: Stay-at-home policies need not be universal. COVID-19 is a disease that is somewhat lethal for the obese‚ the very old‚ the already-sick. Public policies have no nuance because they want to maximize fear to enforce compliance. But universal stay-at-home policies devastate small and medium sized business and indirectly beat up women and children‚ kill and create drug addicts‚ engender suicides‚ and in general create tremendous misery and mental anguish. These secondary and tertiary effects are getting no play in the prevailing narratives. Among his statements on Twitter: Americans must not abide. Government restrictions are doing orders of magnitude more damage to the lives of Americans than COVID could ever have done on its own.Roughly 2.8 million people die in the US each year. The worst estimates for COVID would add less than 10% to that total. Consider this as the media implies Americans are dying at multiples of normal rates. Compassion is not incompatible with facts.Unconscionable. Let’s put today’s horrific jobless claims in perspective. This is not the virus. This is the response to the virus killing the US and global economy‚ with all accompanying human tragedy. I present America’s initial jobless claims over the decades.15 million mortgage defaults? An unemployment rate exceeding 10%? Social unrest can be expected as it passes 20%. Unthinkable in America. Just two months ago the economy was great. A virus shows up that kills less than 0.2%‚ and the government does THIS?COVID like all coronaviruses will not easily engender durable herd immunity‚ and vaccines will prove elusive. We must learn to live with it – which means universal treatment with available drugs and no hysteria‚ i.e. NO LOCKDOWN! He later took down the tweets and deleted his accounts‚ maybe out of despair of making any difference. We don’t know. Nor do we know how many retweets or likes he received or what the comments were‚ simply because they are no longer there. (If anyone can figure out how to find this‚ please let me know; I’ve checked every outlet.)  Given Burry’s status as a genuine contrarian expert‚ in the midst of a grotesque policy without precedent‚ you might have thought that the media would be all over him. He would be on all the talk shows. Experts would address his claims‚ refuting them or backing them.  What happened instead was: nothing.  In those days‚ I was desperate to find voices of disagreement. I really could not find any. I felt very alone. So too‚ as it turns out‚ did many others. There were many of us‚ as it turns out. We just couldn’t find each other. Or maybe certain algorithms were in place that prevented us from finding each other.  There seemed to be this strange trend alive at the time. The recognized experts of the past were all swept away. Many had their accounts deleted. They were replaced by new experts about whom we knew almost nothing or who had severely compromised reputations‚ like Anthony Fauci.  An example is Devi Sridhar‚ who advised the Scottish government. More than anyone else‚ she was granted astonishing amounts of airtime throughout the UK. She was a proponent of the idea of “Zero Covid” through lockdowns and‚ later‚ vaccines. She now admits that this was an error‚ that we do indeed need to live with the virus. But her book from that period she still promotes on all her social media accounts.  Did they have any track records we could check? How do we know these people are real experts? These were questions hardly anyone asked.  How is it that Sridhar was the go-to expert whereas other experts were throttled‚ blocked‚ denounced‚ canceled‚ and deleted? Perhaps because she worked for the Gates Foundation? It’s impossible not to become a conspiracy theorist to some extent as you look at this situation.  There is no reason to go all the way to October with the experts who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration. They faced extreme attacks. But really the attempts to curate the public mind and engineer a consensus began as soon as the lockdowns took effect.  The same agency that meddled so heavily in information curation was also the agency that broke up the workforce between essential and nonessential‚ and later on dismissed the risks of absentee ballots even though their internal memos reveal vast awareness. That would be the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA. Created in 2018 and practically invisible to most Americans‚ this small agency exercised enormous power over what we knew and what we heard.  Meanwhile‚ we’ve been hearing about many dissidents who were trying to speak out early on and could not get a hearing‚ many of whom now write for Brownstone now.  Think how different 2008 would have been with the same level of speech control. Markets would not have corrected toward reality so quickly. It’s one thing for a truth to be unpopular or unconventional; it’s something else to be actively suppressed.  Looking back‚ one really does wonder what the reality was in those early days after lockdown. No question that mass formation played a huge role. No question that people gave in and complied far more than they should have. But what if government had not been collaborating with tech and media and just allowed the free flow of information? Might the lockdowns have ended much sooner simply because people could have heard a different point of view? We’ll never know. This does serve as a cautionary note against a wholesale condemnation of the world for failing to stand up to tyranny. Maybe many people did stand up‚ in whatever limited way they could‚ but simply faced a system that prevented them from getting a hearing. 

Negotiations currently underway to create a number of military corridors in Europe as NATO seeks to create military equivalent of the Schengen zone The Netherlands‚ Germany and Poland have signed a declaration on the creation of a military corridor for the movement of military equipment‚ Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollong said on Wednesday. “We need a military Schengen to move military personnel and materiel more quickly and efficiently. This will make Europe stronger. We took an important step: Poland‚ Germany and the Netherlands signed a declaration to achieve a military corridor‚” Ollong wrote on X. For many years‚ leaders of NATO member states have been seeking to create a military equivalent of the Schengen zone‚ the report said‚ adding that negotiations are currently underway to create a number of military corridors in Europe. The report noted that currently‚ NATO cross-border exercises often require a large amount of paperwork‚ which can be critical in the event of a military crisis. The alliance is also reportedly disappointed with the bureaucracy associated with the rules for the use of the same equipment by the military of different countries.Introducing Next Level Foundational Energy from Dr. Jones Naturals starting at 30% off! This cutting-edge dietary supplement is designed to elevate your energy levels and support your overall well-being. Michael Yon joins Alex Jones to issue an emergency warning to those American and Texan patriots who wish to actively help protect the southern border.

Is it infrastructure sabotage season? On Tuesday night‚ a massive explosion was reported on part of a natural gas pipeline near the Texas-Oklahoma border.  Local media KVII-TV reports emergency responders from across the area‚ including the Booker Fire Department in neighboring Texas‚ responded to the pipeline fire near Laverne‚ Oklahoma‚ around 9:45 pm local time.  “Crews from several departments are staged at a safe distance until the gas can be turned off‚” Booker Fire Department said in an update.  Footage uploaded on social media shows the pipeline fire. Several media outlets have said flames reached as high as 500 feet.  🚨#UPDATE: Here is a Nest Cam video capturing the moment when the pipeline explosion initially occurred. pic.twitter.com/Fn71VUnz24URGENT! Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO! Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today!— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) January 31‚ 2024 Good question.   Is it infrastructure sabotage season? pic.twitter.com/Jqg0gESGr5— Marc 🇺🇸 (@gopher_marc) January 31‚ 2024 According to the fire department‚ the affected part of the NatGas pipeline must be depressurized before fire crews can combat the fire. US NatGas futures held steady around $2/MMBtu as the pipeline situation did not concern traders. Prices are under pressure on milder weather trends for the Lower 48 through the first half of February.  The cause of the pipeline fire remains unclear. Michael Yon joins Alex Jones to issue an emergency warning to those American and Texan patriots who wish to actively help protect the southern border.

YOU are the carbon the globalists want to reduce! Environmental lobbyist Donnachadh McCarthy told GB News Tuesday there’s a “moral issue” with having children because they contribute to increases in carbon. Of course‚ human beings are carbon-based lifeforms‚ so it’s clear WE are the carbon globalist eugenicists like McCarthy want to eliminate. This Eco lunatic says there's a "moral issue" with having kids because each will have a 500 ton carbon footprint. Meanwhile‚ global fertility rates are catastrophically collapsing. They HATE humanity. Their lives are miserable &; their agenda is 💀 Report: https://t.co/I3vfVi3M3Q pic.twitter.com/8C71q752c3— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) January 30‚ 2024 “There is a moral issue‚” McCarthy said of having children‚ explaining each person born is responsible for emitting “around 505 hundred tons of carbon over their lifetime.” “That’s equivalent to 1000 years of electricity for a household‚” he continued. “So each child has an impact and we’re saying one is great‚ two is plenty and three is selfish.”Introducing Next Level Foundational Energy from Dr. Jones Naturals starting at 30% off! This cutting-edge dietary supplement is designed to elevate your energy levels and support your overall well-being. Parenting coach Nicole Ratcliff responded to McCarthy‚ saying‚ “The idea that three [children] is selfish is shocking.” The environmental lobbyist later complained about how many airplane flights a child goes on throughout their lifetime while failing to mention the top carbon culprits are undoubtedly the world’s elite who fly in private jets around the globe and sail on oversized yachts. Continuing to nag about basically every living creature on God’s green Earth‚ McCarthy noted the average house pet canine has a large carbon footprint because they “eat a lot of meat.” See the full video below:

"The wall ends… you could simply walk around it. But if you don’t feel like walking around it‚ you could simply walk through this open gate right here." Infowars’ Chase Geiser reports from Eagle Pass‚ Texas‚ to cover the invasion at the Southern border and showcase how simple it is for illegals to enter the country. Why doesn’t @GregAbbott_TX close the gate? pic.twitter.com/rxU15xJDJH— Chase Geiser (@realchasegeiser) January 31‚ 2024 “Nobody’s bothering us! For all they know‚ we just crossed the border‚” said Geiser Wednesday‚ before pointing to the inadequate wall. “The wall ends‚ you could simply walk around it. But if you don’t feel like walking around it‚ you could simply walk through this open gate right here. Why doesn’t Greg Abbott close the gate?” “It’s amazing to me how asinine the argument is about whether or not barbed wire is going to be enough when there are so many leaks in this ship.” Catch up on Geiser’s border reports below:URGENT! Keep Alex Jones in the fight against the NWO! Please pray &; contribute at DefendJones.com today! I’m in Eagle Pass. Will be reporting for InfoWars from the frontline of the border invasion throughout the week. pic.twitter.com/pnszZeMobo— Chase Geiser (@realchasegeiser) January 30‚ 2024 We can argue all day about barbed wire‚ but what the InfoWars crew and I discovered today proves it’s going to take much more to stop the border invasion. pic.twitter.com/K5WqEiSDrs— Chase Geiser (@realchasegeiser) January 31‚ 2024 WATCH: Federal Provocateurs Identified By Texas Border Convoy Leader — CRITICAL INTEL SHARE NOW