Lies My Gov't Told Me: And the Better Future Coming

by Robert W. Malone

During July of 2020, Yale University initiated a clinical trial (#NCT04460703) to develop and optimize means to psychologically manipulate people to overcome “vaccine hesitancy” to the COVID genetic vaccines via message control and content [307].

This interventional clinical trial, titled “Persuasive Messages for COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: a Randomized Controlled Trial, Part 1,” enrolled 4,000 human subjects aged eighteen and older and was designed to assess one primary and four secondary endpoints.

this study the funding sources have been carefully hidden behind a veil of academic research institutes that do not disclose their sources of funding,

Persuade others. This is a measure of a willingness to persuade others to take the COVID-19 vaccine. 3. Fear of those who have not been vaccinated. This is a measure of a comfort with an unvaccinated individual visiting an elderly friend after a vaccine becomes available. 4. Social judgment of those who do not vaccinate.

In other words, specific propaganda messaging was experimentally tested, conclusions drawn, and then these results were used to guide the subsequent federal US (and global) propaganda campaign to promote uptake of a poorly tested, unlicensed, experimental use authorized medical procedure and product.

The specific message tested was as follows: “COVID-19 is limiting many people’s ability to live their lives as they see fit. People have had to cancel weddings, not attend funerals, and halt other activities that are important in their daily lives. On

While you can’t do it alone, we can all keep our freedom by getting vaccinated.”

How COVID-19 is limiting people’s economic freedom, and by working together to get enough people vaccinated, society can preserve its economic freedom. “COVID-19

COVID-19 presents a real danger to one’s health, even if one is young and healthy. Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is the best way to prevent oneself from getting sick. “Stopping COVID-19 is important because it reduces the risk that you could get sick and die.

The best way to protect them is by getting vaccinated, and society must work together to get enough people vaccinated. Then it asks the participant to imagine the guilt they will feel if they don’t get vaccinated and spread the disease.

Then it asks the participant to imagine the embarrassment they will feel if they don’t get vaccinated and spread the disease. “Imagine how embarrassed and ashamed you will be if you choose not to get vaccinated and spread COVID-19 to someone you care about.”

+ “Imagine how angry you will be if you choose not to get vaccinated and spread COVID-19 to someone you care about.”

The people who reject getting vaccinated are typically ignorant or confused about the science. Not getting vaccinated will show people that you are probably the sort of person who doesn’t understand how infection spreads and who ignores or is confused about science.” 10.

But people who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 when there is a vaccine available because they don’t think they will get sick or aren’t worried about it aren’t brave, they are reckless.

Behavior Control of Civilians by Their Own Government Is the New Normal

When Biden decided by executive order to enforce mandates, which are political in nature (the science does not support mandates as the vaccines do not stop spread of the disease and may create vaccine escape mutants), then mandates became a censored topic.

When the government decided that they would not support the use of Ivermectin and HCQ, despite our laws that allow such usage, these also became censored topics and taboo to discuss. Messages about Ivermectin being dangerous horse-paste were planted thoughout the Internet and TV. These are examples of censorship and propaganda. Now,

Our politicians are being banned from free speech because big tech, working with the current Democratic administration, doesn’t like their messaging, their interference with the approved narrative.

This goes beyond censorship to use of the power of the state to eliminate opposition, and it is interfering with both our right to a free press and our elections. Articles

The link between governments and the media to control the population has become normalized.

One current example illustrating this involves the almost global acceptance of mask use by the general population over the past two years, despite ample evidence that surgical and cloth masks are basically ineffective [315–317

Data demonstrating lack of effectiveness of masks for preventing spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus were largely irrelevant, and either rejected or unable to be either published in the scientific literature or acknowledged by those who have become hypnotized by the mass formation process. Even the logic of masking children was accepted without question despite the clear and compelling evidence of harm.

Paul Joseph Goebbels was the chief German propagandist for the Nazi Party and was then promoted to the Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.

He was truly a master and arguably the creator of the concept that the State can control people by introducing propaganda into print and broadcast news (and moving pictures) to enable State-based control of entire populations. Goebbels’s

wicked brilliance was to exploit racism as a tool to promote German nationalism to the point of mobilizing a...

for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of The State.

“U.S. foreign policy,” Pinter said, is “best defined as follows: kiss my arse or I’ll kick your head in. It is as simple and as crude as that. What is interesting about it is that it’s so incredibly successful. It possesses the structures of disinformation, use of rhetoric, distortion of language, which are very persuasive, but are actually a pack of lies. It is very successful propaganda. They have the money, they have the technology, they have all the means to get away with it, and they do.”

Hitler’s Basic Principles (abstracted from Jowett & O’Donnell’s Propaganda and Persuasion • Avoid abstract ideas. Appeal to the emotions. • Constantly repeat just a few ideas. Use stereotyped phrases. • Give only one side of the argument. • Continuously criticize your opponents. • Pick out one special “enemy” for special vilification.

Whoever controls the narrative controls the world. Humans are storytelling creatures, so whoever can control the stories the humans are telling themselves about what’s going on in the world has a great deal of control over the humans.

It turns out that journalism has morphed into something new. That the teaching of journalism as a nonbiased exercise is no longer in vogue. Instead, what is often being taught is called “advocacy” journalism.

In the process, the news business, like higher education, is turning itself into another source of ideological conflict in American life—as if that’s what the country really needs today.”

The media cited Dr. Fauci as an unquestionable authority, and Dr. Fauci got his talking points from the media. Facebook censored mentions of the Great Barrington Declaration during this period. When the emails were discovered via FOIA, almost a year later, the Wall Street Journal wrote about the email content: “This is how groupthink works” [360].

By not documenting the pains caused by lockdowns, economists have served as apologists for draconian government responses.

Nevertheless, the economics profession will be haunted for a long time for our failure to speak up for the poor, the working class, the small businessmen, and the children who have borne the brunt of the lockdown-related collateral harms.

Economists also erred in closing ranks so quickly and so vociferously to build the ill-advised consensus on lockdowns. One economist even labeled—publicly—those who questioned the consensus as “liars, grifters, and sadists.”

Amidst such chilling edicts from the profession’s leaders, it is not surprising that the consensus on lockdowns has been challenged so rarely. Economists and others were intimidated against pointing out lockdown costs.

The attempts to stifle scientific debate on lockdowns have been costly but have come with one silver lining. The use of such underhanded tactics to support a consensus view is always an implicit admission that the arguments supporting the consensus are themselves understood to be too feeble to withstand closer scrutiny.

Economists’ silence on lockdown costs, in essence, gave others a carte blanche to ignore not just lockdown costs, but also the costs of other COVID policies such as school closures.

Once the aversion to pointing out the costs of COVID policies took hold among scientists, science came to be widely seen and misused as an authority [

To the dismay of many, the dismal science has had very little to say about how lockdowns have favored big business and what this will mean for market competition and consumer well-being in the years to come.

Economics should reinvigorate itself with a renewed emphasis on connecting with the lives of the poor both in rich countries and globally. Training in the profession should emphasize the value of empathy and intellectual humility over technique and even theory. The economics profession should celebrate empathy and intellectual humility as the hallmarks of a model economist.

This chapter was first published at The Brownstone Institute and is republished under a creative commons license agreement. The original article can be found at: https://brownstone.org/articles/the-silence-of-economists-about-lockdowns/

If you occasionally experience a vague sense that you are being intentionally controlled via indebtedness, you should probably listen to that internal voice.

To illustrate with examples from the present, the most common explanation for why physicians have not spoken up about the weaponization and manipulation of public health information and policies during the COVIDcrisis is that they are deeply indebted due to the loans taken out to enable their extended and expensive education and have no practical choice other than to comply with the mandates imposed on them by government, insurance agencies, and their host institutions (academic or private hospital chains). They have a profound financial conflict of interest—comply or go bankrupt.

In a quote that many will find oddly relevant to the COVIDcrisis, House Banking Committee Chairman Louis McFadden (D-NY) said of the Great Depression: It was no accident. It was a carefully contrived occurrence. . . . The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so they might emerge as rulers of us all. U.S. Congressman Louis McFadden, speaking about the 1929 Stock Market Crash.

Historian Carroll Quigley wrote in his epic book Tragedy and Hope that BIS was part of a plan: To create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole . . . to be controlled in a feudal-istic fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert by secret agreements [401].

Yes, they acknowledge that socialism has repeatedly failed, but that was only because there was not enough data, enough processing power, enough control of thought, speech, and behavior.

Maintaining the ruse of an official public health emergency has been necessary both to maintain power as well as US Government contract revenue for those corporations who have been making obscene profits from selling the “Emergency Use Authorized” medical countermeasures that have been allowed to bypass long-established regulatory, bioethical, and legal liability norms. A public-private partnership like nothing the US had ever seen before, making the War Profiteering against which Harry Truman had campaigned look like child’s play [415].

The more amiability and esprit de corps among the members of the policy making in-group, the more likely the group will fall into groupthink.

I suggest that it is really most productive and adaptive to frame this in a nonpartisan fashion. We’re all interested in government and effective governmental decision making, whether you’re left, right, center, up, or down. We all want good government. We want value for our money. And unfortunately, there is a historic tendency all too often repeated that those who don’t remember history are bound to repeat