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From Dr. John McDougall: The McDougall NewsletterPotatoes Are Pillars of Worldwide NutritionPotatoes are so tied into human life and nutrition that one of the first toys to be advertised on TV and still popular after 50 years is “Mr. Potato Head.” With its “eyes” and round body shape the potato has been used to imitate the human form. But all fun aside, the potato has improved human health and nutrition, influenced wars, patterns of human migration, and the economy of many nations for hundreds of years. The potato is indigenous to various parts of South America; plants in a wild state have been found on the Peruvian coast, as well as on the mountainous lands of Central Chile and Argentina. The Spaniards are believed to have first brought potatoes from Quito, Ecuador to Europe in the early part of the sixteenth century. European immigrants introduced potatoes to North America throughout the 1600s, but they were not widely grown until 1719 in America.According to the USDA, potatoes are the most important vegetable in the United States. Over the past several decades, frozen potato consumption rose and fresh potato consumption declined. African-Americans eat more potato chips and French fries per capita than do other Americans. Seniors favor fresh and canned potatoes, while teenagers eat more chips and French fries than do other age groups.The Much Maligned PotatoA recent Time magazine article put potatoes on the level of bacon grease as far as your heart and health are concerned.1 “According to Meir Stampfer, a nutrition professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, the problem is potato starch. When you eat a potato and that starch hits the saliva in your mouth, its tightly bundled molecules immediately get turned into sugars, which make a beeline for the blood. ‘You ate a potato,’ says Stampfer, ‘but your body is getting pure glucose.’ The flood of blood sugar sets off a chain reaction. Insulin pours out of the pancreas. Triglycerides shoot up. HDL cholesterol takes a dive. ‘It's a perfect setup for heart disease and diabetes.’” “Experts” who make these statements show telescopic vision by latching onto one small quality of a food and blowing it into national headlines – ignoring the big picture and the truth. The focus for such statements made by Stampfer and others is a concept called the glycemic index (GI).Glycemic Index – of Questionable ImportanceThe concept of glycemic index was introduced by David Jenkins in the early 1980s (He was a recent guest on my TV Show, “McDougall, MD”). The glycemic index is a ranking based on the food’s immediate effect on blood glucose (blood sugar) levels. Carbohydrate foods that break down quickly during digestion have the highest glycemic indexes. The value is expressed as a percent comparison with the rise that occurs with white sugar or white bread. GI is influenced by starch structure (amylose versus amylopectin), fiber content, food processing, physical structure of the food, and other macronutrients in the meal. Low-GI foods lower glucose and insulin responses, improve lipid profiles, and increase insulin sensitivity. Thus, some researchers believe GI has an overwhelming influence on the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity.However, the use of GI as the sole criterion to pass judgment on a food as “good or bad” for you is wrong. There are many other qualities of a food that contribute to its nutritional value that must be taken into consideration before recommending or condemning a particular food. Based on GI, for example, whole wheat bread (GI=129) is worse for you than ice cream (GI = 51) and carrots (GI=131) are worse for you than sugar sweetened chocolate (GI=49).2A baked potato with a GI of 134 would be an unhealthier choice than a Mars candy bar at a GI of 97. Obviously, those who condemn unprocessed high glycemic index plant foods are overlooking some serious issues.One of the lowest glycemic index foods is the simple sugar fructose. The GI value is 29. Yet this food is simply empty calories with no protein, essential fat, vitamins, minerals, or dietary fiber. Of all the sugars, fructose is the one that raises cholesterol and triglycerides the most, and therefore would be considered one of the worst foods for people trying to prevent heart and other blood vessel diseases.3 Because of the contradictions and limitations surrounding the GI, the most recent position statement of the American Diabetic Association does not recommend using this concept in the treatment and prevention of diabetes and related complications.4 They state, “In subjects with type 2 diabetes, studies of 2–12 weeks duration comparing low glycemic index and high glycemic index diets report no consistent improvements in HbA1c, fructosamine, or insulin levels. The effects on lipids from low glycemic index diets compared with high glycemic index diets are mixed.”Another problem with following a low GI diet is the difficulty in finding the foods and preparing the meals so they continue to be low GI foods. Food preparation, cooking, and storage will change the GI of foods. Furthermore, it is virtually impossible to determine the GI of foods prepared outside the home. The data is conflicting and reports from different investigators reveal a sometimes-wide range of glycemic index values for certain foods. You could spend your whole day chasing after low GI foods that in the end will not make you a speck healthier and will make you a whole lot more confused, especially when you see the negative results from all your efforts.One of the common recommendations from “diet experts” who express concerns about the glycemic index of carbohydrate foods is for you to change to a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet. In last month’s issue of the McDougall Newsletter (February 2002) we discussed some of the dangers, including an increased risk of heart disease, kidney disease, and osteoporosis, of these kinds of nutritionally unbalanced diets.Chock Full of NutritionConsider that the primary purpose of eating is to obtain enough energy to function throughout the day, and the body’s preferred source of this energy is carbohydrate. Therefore, the foods that deliver the greatest amount of carbohydrate would logically be nutritionally superior and a high glycemic index food would be preferred. So why condemn a food for doing what it is supposed to do – provide efficient fuel for your body?There is much more to nutritionally packed potatoes than just calories. They have 2.5 grams of dietary fiber per potato. That translates into 50 grams for an active man and 37 grams for an active woman. The average American eats about 10 grams of dietary fiber daily. Ideally people on a healthy diet would eat 30 to 100 grams of fiber a day. Potatoes are very high in vitamin C, most B vitamins, potassium and other minerals. Just as important are the recognized health hazards you are avoiding with potatoes -- like sodium, cholesterol, and fat. Of the calories from potatoes, only 1% comes from fat, and these few fats are mostly the kind that we need, called essential fats.One important reason people think of potatoes as fattening and unhealthy is all the toppings poured over them, like high-fat gravies, bacon bits, cheese, sour cream, and butter. Fortunately, there are many healthy (no-cholesterol, low-fat) toppings that you can choose like chives, salsas, low-fat tofu sour cream, low-fat soy cheeses, low-fat salad dressings, soups, chilies, marinara, and bean sauces.Don’t confuse baked or boiled potatoes with American’s favorite forms of potatoes: French fries and potato chips. Cooking a nutritious food like potatoes in oil increases the percentage of fat from 1% to 36% for French fries, and up to 58% for potato chips. Often the fats used for cooking the potatoes are the most damaging forms: saturated and hydrogenated fats – linked closely with heart disease and cancer.There is no cholesterol in a potato and insignificant amounts of cholesterol-raising saturated fats. People in New Guinea living on diets consisting almost entirely of sweet potato tubers (with an even greater percentage of carbohydrate calories than white potatoes) and leaves have cholesterol levels on the average of 108 mg/dl.5 (Cholesterol levels below 150 mg/dl are associated with immunity from heart disease.) Heart disease is unknown in these people on their sweet potato diet. In animal experiments potatoes have been shown to have a particularly potent cholesterol lowering effect.6 Therefore, any expert who says potatoes will lead to heart disease ignores the scientific literature and common sense.Complete Nutrition and Protein from PotatoesPotatoes can provide complete nutrition for children and adults. Many populations, for example people in rural populations of Poland and Russia at the turn of the 19th century, have lived in very good health doing extremely hard work with the white potato serving as their primary source of nutrition.One landmark experiment carried out in 1925 on two healthy adults, a man 25 years old and a woman 28 years old, had them live on a diet primarily of white potatoes for 6 months (A few additional items of little nutritional value except for empty calories -- pure fats, a few fruits, coffee, and tea -- were supplemented in their diet).7 The report stated, “They did not tire of the uniform potato diet and there was no craving for change.” Even though they were both physically active (especially the man) they were described as, “…in good health on a diet in which the nitrogen (protein) was practically solely derived from the potato.”The potato is such a great source of nutrition that it can supply all of the essential protein and amino acids for young children in times of food shortage. Eleven Peruvian children, ages 8 months to 35 months, recovering from malnutrition, were fed diets where all of the protein and 75% of the calories came from potatoes. (Soybean-cottonseed oils and pure simple sugars, neither of which contain protein, vitamins, or minerals, provided some of the extra calories).8Studies during the experimental feeding showed this simple diet provided all the protein and essential amino acids to meet the needs of growing and small children.Eggs have been promoted for their "perfect pattern" of essential amino acids found in the protein. However, when volunteer subjects were fed different foods to determine the ability of humans to utilize various protein mixtures, investigators found that our bodies can more efficiently utilize the amino acids in a mixture of potatoes and eggs -- 36% better -- than those from eggs alone.9Potatoes Are Naturally SlimmingIn our society where over-nutrition is the problem, some experts consider a high glycemic index value for a food a fundamental health hazard. But they are mistaken – as you noticed above, the really fattening foods, like sugar, candy bars, and ice cream, are the ones with a low GI. The potato, with a high GI, does not deserve a reputation for being fattening, because as I will show, it is virtually impossible to consume too many calories from potatoes.One 5-ounce baked potato has 150 calories. An active man may burn 3000 calories a day and a woman 2300 calories a day. That means the man would have to eat 20 potatoes and the woman 15 potatoes or they would lose weight. That’s 5 to 7 large potatoes per meal, three times a day – a big dent in even the hardiest appetite – especially considering potatoes are among the most satisfying of all foods (see below).When it comes to the national health epidemic of obesity there are only three food issues to consider:1) Don’t Be Dense. Potatoes are at the bottom of the list of calorie dense foods, at one calorie per gram. By comparison, sugar, cheese, and beef are about 4 calories per gram and vegetable oils are 9 calories per gram.2) The Fat You Eat Is the Fat You Wear. Potatoes are 1% fat – so there are virtually no fat calories to wear. By comparison beef and cheese can be 70% fat and butter is 100% fat.3) Carbohydrate Satisfies the Hunger Drive. Potatoes are at the top of the carbohydrate list with about 90% of the calories from appetite-satisfying carbohydrates. Beef, fish, chicken, butter, and olive oil are a few examples of commonly consumed foods with no carbohydrates. Only 2% of the calories from cheese come from carbohydrates.One of the strongest risk factors for type II diabetes and heart disease is excess body fat. Therefore, any expert who says potatoes will lead to diabetes or obesity is ignoring the bulk of the scientific and nutrition literature. And they are ignoring an observation anyone can make: People living on diets high in starch (like Japanese and Chinese) are trim, young, and active people with very low rates of diabetes.Simply Satisfying SpudsThe reason I eat is to satisfy my powerful hunger drive. I can’t ever remember thinking about the glycemic index of my foods when I sat down to a meal. Just fill me up and get rid of those unpleasant hunger pangs so I can get on to my next project. In a recent experiment, 38 separate foods were fed to subjects and a rating of their level of satisfaction (satiety index) was determined every 15 minutes for 2 hours after the meal. The highest satiety index was produced by boiled white potatoes, which was seven times higher than the lowest index of croissants.10Potatoes were almost 5 times more satisfying than a Mars candy bar and twice as satisfying as beef or cheese. The main reasons for this high level of satisfaction were the low calorie density, the high carbohydrate, and low fat contents of the potato. Carbohydrate satisfies the hunger drive, whereas fat offers almost no satisfaction.Does It Make Sense?People in Peru, the potato capital of the world, have about one-quarter the death rate from heart disease of people in the USA. Obesity and diabetes are very rare, even today, in Peru. But things are changing. Fast food restaurants are encroaching on Peru’s major cities -- serving French fried potatoes, shakes, and burgers. Soon this potato-eating country will have an epidemic of diseases similar to those in the US. Why? Because they have abandoned their traditional foods, and especially the much maligned potato.When you read a sensational article in newspapers or magazines, like Time, ask yourself, “Does it make sense – based upon everything else I know?” The potato is a much loved, inexpensive, “comfort” food that continues to provide a large part of people’s nutritional needs worldwide. And the potato should continue to make up a large part of your diet. Based upon the facts, if famine struck and times were desperate, and I had to choose only one food to live on -- potatoes would keep me strong and healthy until the stock market’s Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 11,722.98 again.References:1) Horowitz J. 10 Foods that pack a wallop. Time January 21, 2002 pages 76-81.2) Foster-Powell K. International tables of glycemic index. Am J Clin Nutr. 1995 Oct;62(4):871S-890S.3) Hallfrisch J. Metabolic effects of dietary fructose. FASEB J. 1990 Jun;4(9):2652-60.4) Evidence-based nutrition principles and recommendations for the treatment and prevention of diabetes and related complications. Diabetes Care. 2002 Jan;25(1):202-12.5) Luyken R. Nutrition studies in New Guinea. Am J Clin Nutr 14:13-27, 1964.6) Morita T. Cholesterol-lowering effects of soybean, potato and rice proteins depend on their low methionine contents in rats fed a cholesterol-free purified diet. J Nutr. 1997 Mar;127(3):470-7.7) Kon S. XXXV. The value of whole potato in human nutrition. Biochemical J 22:258-260, 1928.8) Lopez de Romana G. Fasting and postprandial plasma free amino acids of infants and children consuming exclusively potato protein. J Nutr. 1981 Oct;111(10):1766-71.9) Kofranyi E. The minimum protein requirement of humans. Tested with mixtures of whole eggs plus potato and maize plus beans. Z. Physiol Chem 351 1485-1493, 1970.10) Holt S. A satiety index of common foods. Eur J Clin Nutr. 1995 Sep;49(9):675-90.©2002 John McDougall All Rights Reserved

What the Science Says About Mask-WearingWhy COVID-19 Cases Will Instantly DropAnalysis by Dr. Joseph MercolaFact CheckedFebruary 03, 2021STORY AT-A-GLANCE-One hour after Joe Biden’s inauguration, the World Health Organization lowered the recommended PCR cycle threshold (CT), which automatically guarantees that the number of “cases,” i.e., positive PCR test results, will plummet in the days and weeks to comeTests recommended by the WHO used to be set to 45 CTs, yet the scientific consensus has long been that anything over 35 CTs renders the test useless, as the accuracy will be a measly 3% — 97% are false positivesThe “casedemic” could not have been maintained were it not for the media, over which the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission wield significant influenceMost of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies, The Associated Press (AP), Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP)The key role played by these agencies means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. Governments, military and intelligence services also use these news agencies as multipliers to spread and reinforce their chosen narrativeCOVID-19 cases will drop like a rock from here on, and the reason for that is simple. One hour after Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th president of the United States, the World Health Organization suddenly and out of the blue lowered the recommended PCR cycle threshold (CT),1,2 which automatically guarantees that the number of “cases,” i.e., positive PCR test results, will plummet.For months, experts have warned that COVID-19 is not so much a viral pandemic as it is a “casedemic” or pandemic of false positive tests, and the thing that has kept this casedemic going this long is the fact that laboratories have been using excessively high CTs.3 I detailed this scheme in “COVID-19 Testing Scandal Deepens” and “Astonishing COVID-19 Testing Fraud Revealed.”Tests recommended by the World Health Organization used to be set to 45 cycles,4,5,6 yet the scientific consensus has long been that anything over 35 CTs renders the test useless,7,8,9 as the accuracy will be a measly 3% — 97% are false positives.10Why in the world did it take them this long to fix this well-recognized problem, which fueled the false idea that asymptomatic people posed a health threat and had to be quarantined? As reported by former Fortune 500 executive and health care professional Stacey Lennox in a PJ Media column:11“In August of last year, The New York Times published an article stating that as many as 90% of COVID-19 tests in three states were not indicative of active illness. In other words, they were picking up viral debris incapable of causing infection or being transmitted because the cycle threshold (Ct) of the PCR testing amplified the sample too many times …Shortly before the New York Times article was published, the CDC revised its COVID-19 test recommendations, saying that only symptomatic patients should be tested.The media went insane, and Dr. Fauci went all over television saying … ‘I am concerned about the interpretation of these recommendations and worried it will give people the incorrect assumption that asymptomatic spread is not of great concern. In fact it is.’The guidelines went back to testing everyone, all the time, with an oversensitive test. The idea that asymptomatic spread was a concern as of August was just one of many lies Dr. Fauci told …”Lower CT Results in Lower ‘Case’ LoadsThe WHO’s update, dated January 20, 2021, admits that a positive PCR test alone does not equal infection, that the “PCR threshold (CT) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load,” and that in cases where the patient’s symptoms do not correspond to the result of the test, they should be retested using the same or different test.In other words, if you don’t have symptoms, a positive test using a high CT is unlikely to indicate active infection. Most likely, you’re not infectious and will not get sick. Taking a patient’s symptoms into account should have been routine practice from the beginning, and lowering the CT count should have occurred months ago. It just didn’t fit the geopolitical narrative.January 7, 2021, the Kansas Department of Health also lowered the CT for its COVID-19 tests, from 42 to 35 CTs. While it’s unclear if private labs in the state followed suit and, if so, how many, the “case” trend in Kansas did start to drop, from a daily average of 2,752 on January 7 to 1,795 as of January 20.12 Indeed, Lennox’s prediction back in October 2020 is getting more prophetic by the day:13“Biden will issue national standards, like the plexiglass barriers in restaurants he spoke about during the debate, and pressure governors to implement mask mandates using the federal government’s financial leverage. Some hack at the CDC or FDA will issue new guidance lowering the Ct the labs use, and cases will magically start to fall.In reality, the change will only eliminate false positives, but most Americans won’t know that. Good old Uncle Joe will be the hero, even though it is Deep-State actors in the health bureaucracies who won’t solve a problem with testing they have been aware of for months.”Click here to learn moreUS Slated to Shape the Great ResetWhy did the WHO wait this long to correct the CT guidance? Is it really a coincidence that the updated guidance was issued on the day of Biden’s inauguration? Or is it just more evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic is a political chess piece, the aim of which is to guide the world’s population into a global economic and social “reset”?President Biden has a long history of supporting globalist agendas and the “New World Order,” which is the old term for what is now called the “Great Reset.” Clearly, Biden would be the preferred choice for the technocratic elite pushing this nefarious agenda to radically decrease personal liberties.As noted in an October 29, 2020, article on the World Economic Forum website,14 it is U.S. foreign policy that will shape the Great Reset. “The United States will need to set distinct priorities to ensure its foreign policy efforts can harness its capabilities to shape the global recovery,” the article states.While much of the discussion therein sounds benevolent and good to the untrained ear, those who have investigated the Great Reset plan and are familiar with the jargon and the real meaning behind the buzz words will be able to read the truth between the lines.Media Are Complicit in Creating the Fake Pandemic NarrativeJust how did the deep state technocracy fool the masses? In short, through their media accomplices. Without the mainstream media pumping out misleading if not flat-out false information on a daily basis (think nonstop tickertape with case and mortality data, for example), none of it would have been possible.A key player behind the Great Reset is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). As explained by Swiss Policy Research, “Largely unbeknownst to the general public, executives and top journalists of almost all major U.S. media outlets have long been members of the influential Council on Foreign Relations.”15Not to be confused with the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations or the European Council on Foreign Relations, CFR is a nonprofit think tank, the 5,000-plus members of which also include past and present presidents, politicians, secretaries of state, CIA directors, bankers, lawyers, academic professors and corporate leaders, just to name a few.16CFR also operates the David Rockefeller Studies Program, which in turn advises the White House on foreign policy matters. Overall, the CFR wields incredible power and influence over the U.S. White House and its policies. As reported by Swiss Policy Research:17“In his famous article about ‘The American Establishment,’ political columnist Richard H. Rovere noted: ‘The directors of the CFR make up a sort of Presidium for that part of the Establishment that guides our destiny as a nation …[I]t rarely fails to get one of its members, or at least one of its allies, into the White House. In fact, it generally is able to see to it that both nominees are men acceptable to it.’ It was not until the 2016 election that the Council couldn’t, apparently, prevail.”The Synchronization of Fake NewsCFR has two international affiliates: the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission. As explained by Swiss Policy Research, both of these groups were established by CFR leaders “to foster elite cooperation at the global level.”Well-known names in the Trilateral group’s U.S. branch include David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Michael Bloomberg and Google heavyweights Eric Schmidt and Susan Molinari, vice president for public policy at Google. Many of its board members are also members of The Aspen Institute, which grooms and mentors executives from around the world about the subtleties of globalization.Most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies … The key role played by these agencies means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world. ~ Swiss Policy ResearchAs you can see in the graphic below, major media are well represented in all three groups, which explains how a false narrative (whatever it might be) can be so widely coordinated and synchronized to the day, if not the hour.american empire and its mediaAs noted in the Swiss Policy Research post, “The Propaganda Multiplier”:18“It is one of the most important aspects of our media system, and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies [Associated Press (AP), Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP)] based in New York, London and Paris.The key role played by these agencies means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world.A study of the Syria war coverage by nine leading European newspapers clearly illustrates these issues: 78% of all articles were based in whole or in part on agency reports … 0% on investigative research. Moreover, 82% of all opinion pieces and interviews were in favor of a U.S. and NATO intervention, while propaganda was attributed exclusively to the opposite side.”The ‘Free Press’ Is Far From IndependentUntil or unless these news agencies send out a notice, national and local media are unlikely to report on an event. Even photos and videos are typically sourced directly from these global news agencies. This way, people hear, see and read the exact same message everywhere.“This dependency on the global agencies creates a striking similarity in international reporting: from Vienna to Washington, our media often report the same topics, using many of the same phrases – a phenomenon that would otherwise rather be associated with ‘controlled media’ in authoritarian states,” Swiss Policy Research writes.19Even media outlets that have foreign correspondents on their payroll do not expect those correspondents to conduct independent investigations. They too simply report whatever the Big Three news agencies want covered, and from the angle they want it covered. What you end up with is a sort of echo-chamber where only one view is presented.As one might expect, this setup makes for a perfect propaganda machine. As noted by Swiss Policy Research, “Due to the rather low journalistic performance of the mainstream media and their high dependence on a few news agencies, it is easy for interested parties to spread propaganda and disinformation in a supposedly respectable format to a worldwide audience.” Military and defense ministries are well aware of this and use it with regularity.Full Circle Back to the WHOWe’ve already mentioned three key organizations involved in creating and pushing the Great Reset agenda forward: the CFR, the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group. The WHO, which serves as the medical branch of the U.N., also plays a central role in the technocratic plan, which brings us full circle back to where we started this article.Its role in the Great Reset agenda is why I don’t believe it’s pure coincidence that the WHO’s sudden decision to change the way we diagnose COVID-19 cases coincided with the inauguration of President Biden. It’s simply too convenient. Another clue: One of the first things Biden did when he entered office was to rejoin the WHO.The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation became the WHO’s largest funder when the Trump administration, in mid-April 2020, halted funding until a White House review of the WHO’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic can be completed.20The GAVI Alliance — a partnership between Gates and Big Pharma with a stated aim of solving global health problems through vaccines — is also a top donor to the WHO, and one of the primary initiatives of the World Economic Forum,21 which we’ll review next.The World Economic ForumNo deep state organizational chart is complete without the World Economic Forum, which serves as the social and economic branch of the U.N. and is the organization that hosts the annual conference of billionaires at Davos, Switzerland.22The World Economic Forum was founded by Klaus Schwab, who also wrote the books “The Fourth Industrial Revolution” (2016), “Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution” (2018) and “COVID-19: The Great Reset.”The World Economic Forum is a conglomeration of the world’s largest and most powerful businesses, all of which are helping to further the technocratic agenda along. They include:Microsoft, which made Bill Gates a billionaireMasterCard, which is leading the globalist charge to develop digital IDs and banking servicesGoogle, the No. 1 Big Data collector in the world and a leader in artificial intelligence servicesFoundations started by the world’s wealthiest people, such as the Rockefeller foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies and George Soros’ Open Society FoundationWhen you peek behind the curtain at the World Economic Forum and the WHO, you find all the same wealthy individuals and their companies and foundations who, although they claim to be working for a more equitable society and healthier planet, are really only trying to centralize profit and power.Technocracy by Any Other Name Is Still TechnocracyMany of the terms we’ve heard more and more of from these and other organizations in recent years actually refer to technocracy under a different name. Examples include:The Great Reset23The Fourth Industrial Revolution24“Build Back Better”25Sustainable developmentAgenda 21The 2030 AgendaThe New Urban AgendaGreen economyThe green new dealThe Paris Climate Agreement and the global warming movement in generalAll of these refer to and are part of technocracy and its resource-based economics. Their common goal is to capture ownership of all the resources of the world for a small global elite group that has the know-how to program the computer systems that will ultimately dictate the lives of everyone.What they’re aiming for is really the ultimate form of totalitarianism. When they talk about “wealth redistribution,” what they’re actually referring to is the redistribution of resources from us to them, and that is precisely the kind of wealth transfer the COVID-19 “casedemic” facilitated.For nearly a year, we were snookered into thinking that millions would die unless we gave up all semblance of a normal life, when in fact faulty testing had been put into place that merely detects inactive viral particles that pose no threat to health. While small business owners were forced to sacrifice everything they owned, the rich gobbled up both the market share and property that they had to forfeit because of lost business.I don’t think it’s an overstatement to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has been the biggest false flag event in human history, cooked up by technocrats and implemented through their network of global organizations that influence — if not outright direct and control — politics, health, finance and media. As noted by Lennox in her January 20, 2021, article:26“What I have referred to as the ‘casedemic’ since September will be magically solved just in time for Joe Biden to look like a hero. For doing absolutely nothing. Do not tell me there is not a politicized deep state in our health agencies … Every business owner who has been ruined because of lockdowns due to a high number of ‘cases’ should be livid. Any parent whose child has lost a year of school should be furious. None of this was for your health.”+ Sources and ReferencesThe Great Reset and Build Back Better60% of Americans Will Be Obese by 2030BREAKINGNEWSEMAILARTICLETEXTARTICLENEXT ARTICLESubscribe to the FREE #1 Natural Health NewsletterEnter your email addressCONNECT WITH DR. MERCOLAMeWe Parler BitChuteDisclaimer: The entire contents of this website are based upon the opinions of Dr. Mercola, unless otherwise noted. Individual articles are based upon the opinions of the respective author, who retains copyright as marked. 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What the Science Says About Mask-WearingWhy COVID-19 Cases Will Instantly DropAnalysis by Dr. Joseph MercolaFact CheckedFebruary 03, 2021STORY AT-A-GLANCE-One hour after Joe Biden’s inauguration, the World Health Organization lowered the recommended PCR cycle threshold (CT), which automatically guarantees that the number of “cases,” i.e., positive PCR test results, will plummet in the days and weeks to comeTests recommended by the WHO used to be set to 45 CTs, yet the scientific consensus has long been that anything over 35 CTs renders the test useless, as the accuracy will be a measly 3% — 97% are false positivesThe “casedemic” could not have been maintained were it not for the media, over which the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission wield significant influenceMost of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies, The Associated Press (AP), Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP)The key role played by these agencies means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. Governments, military and intelligence services also use these news agencies as multipliers to spread and reinforce their chosen narrativeCOVID-19 cases will drop like a rock from here on, and the reason for that is simple. One hour after Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th president of the United States, the World Health Organization suddenly and out of the blue lowered the recommended PCR cycle threshold (CT),1,2 which automatically guarantees that the number of “cases,” i.e., positive PCR test results, will plummet.For months, experts have warned that COVID-19 is not so much a viral pandemic as it is a “casedemic” or pandemic of false positive tests, and the thing that has kept this casedemic going this long is the fact that laboratories have been using excessively high CTs.3 I detailed this scheme in “COVID-19 Testing Scandal Deepens” and “Astonishing COVID-19 Testing Fraud Revealed.”Tests recommended by the World Health Organization used to be set to 45 cycles,4,5,6 yet the scientific consensus has long been that anything over 35 CTs renders the test useless,7,8,9 as the accuracy will be a measly 3% — 97% are false positives.10Why in the world did it take them this long to fix this well-recognized problem, which fueled the false idea that asymptomatic people posed a health threat and had to be quarantined? As reported by former Fortune 500 executive and health care professional Stacey Lennox in a PJ Media column:11“In August of last year, The New York Times published an article stating that as many as 90% of COVID-19 tests in three states were not indicative of active illness. In other words, they were picking up viral debris incapable of causing infection or being transmitted because the cycle threshold (Ct) of the PCR testing amplified the sample too many times …Shortly before the New York Times article was published, the CDC revised its COVID-19 test recommendations, saying that only symptomatic patients should be tested.The media went insane, and Dr. Fauci went all over television saying … ‘I am concerned about the interpretation of these recommendations and worried it will give people the incorrect assumption that asymptomatic spread is not of great concern. In fact it is.’The guidelines went back to testing everyone, all the time, with an oversensitive test. The idea that asymptomatic spread was a concern as of August was just one of many lies Dr. Fauci told …”Lower CT Results in Lower ‘Case’ LoadsThe WHO’s update, dated January 20, 2021, admits that a positive PCR test alone does not equal infection, that the “PCR threshold (CT) needed to detect virus is inversely proportional to the patient’s viral load,” and that in cases where the patient’s symptoms do not correspond to the result of the test, they should be retested using the same or different test.In other words, if you don’t have symptoms, a positive test using a high CT is unlikely to indicate active infection. Most likely, you’re not infectious and will not get sick. Taking a patient’s symptoms into account should have been routine practice from the beginning, and lowering the CT count should have occurred months ago. It just didn’t fit the geopolitical narrative.January 7, 2021, the Kansas Department of Health also lowered the CT for its COVID-19 tests, from 42 to 35 CTs. While it’s unclear if private labs in the state followed suit and, if so, how many, the “case” trend in Kansas did start to drop, from a daily average of 2,752 on January 7 to 1,795 as of January 20.12 Indeed, Lennox’s prediction back in October 2020 is getting more prophetic by the day:13“Biden will issue national standards, like the plexiglass barriers in restaurants he spoke about during the debate, and pressure governors to implement mask mandates using the federal government’s financial leverage. Some hack at the CDC or FDA will issue new guidance lowering the Ct the labs use, and cases will magically start to fall.In reality, the change will only eliminate false positives, but most Americans won’t know that. Good old Uncle Joe will be the hero, even though it is Deep-State actors in the health bureaucracies who won’t solve a problem with testing they have been aware of for months.”Click here to learn moreUS Slated to Shape the Great ResetWhy did the WHO wait this long to correct the CT guidance? Is it really a coincidence that the updated guidance was issued on the day of Biden’s inauguration? Or is it just more evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic is a political chess piece, the aim of which is to guide the world’s population into a global economic and social “reset”?President Biden has a long history of supporting globalist agendas and the “New World Order,” which is the old term for what is now called the “Great Reset.” Clearly, Biden would be the preferred choice for the technocratic elite pushing this nefarious agenda to radically decrease personal liberties.As noted in an October 29, 2020, article on the World Economic Forum website,14 it is U.S. foreign policy that will shape the Great Reset. “The United States will need to set distinct priorities to ensure its foreign policy efforts can harness its capabilities to shape the global recovery,” the article states.While much of the discussion therein sounds benevolent and good to the untrained ear, those who have investigated the Great Reset plan and are familiar with the jargon and the real meaning behind the buzz words will be able to read the truth between the lines.Media Are Complicit in Creating the Fake Pandemic NarrativeJust how did the deep state technocracy fool the masses? In short, through their media accomplices. Without the mainstream media pumping out misleading if not flat-out false information on a daily basis (think nonstop tickertape with case and mortality data, for example), none of it would have been possible.A key player behind the Great Reset is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). As explained by Swiss Policy Research, “Largely unbeknownst to the general public, executives and top journalists of almost all major U.S. media outlets have long been members of the influential Council on Foreign Relations.”15Not to be confused with the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations or the European Council on Foreign Relations, CFR is a nonprofit think tank, the 5,000-plus members of which also include past and present presidents, politicians, secretaries of state, CIA directors, bankers, lawyers, academic professors and corporate leaders, just to name a few.16CFR also operates the David Rockefeller Studies Program, which in turn advises the White House on foreign policy matters. Overall, the CFR wields incredible power and influence over the U.S. White House and its policies. As reported by Swiss Policy Research:17“In his famous article about ‘The American Establishment,’ political columnist Richard H. Rovere noted: ‘The directors of the CFR make up a sort of Presidium for that part of the Establishment that guides our destiny as a nation …[I]t rarely fails to get one of its members, or at least one of its allies, into the White House. In fact, it generally is able to see to it that both nominees are men acceptable to it.’ It was not until the 2016 election that the Council couldn’t, apparently, prevail.”The Synchronization of Fake NewsCFR has two international affiliates: the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission. As explained by Swiss Policy Research, both of these groups were established by CFR leaders “to foster elite cooperation at the global level.”Well-known names in the Trilateral group’s U.S. branch include David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Michael Bloomberg and Google heavyweights Eric Schmidt and Susan Molinari, vice president for public policy at Google. Many of its board members are also members of The Aspen Institute, which grooms and mentors executives from around the world about the subtleties of globalization.Most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies … The key role played by these agencies means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world. ~ Swiss Policy ResearchAs you can see in the graphic below, major media are well represented in all three groups, which explains how a false narrative (whatever it might be) can be so widely coordinated and synchronized to the day, if not the hour.american empire and its mediaAs noted in the Swiss Policy Research post, “The Propaganda Multiplier”:18“It is one of the most important aspects of our media system, and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies [Associated Press (AP), Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP)] based in New York, London and Paris.The key role played by these agencies means Western media often report on the same topics, even using the same wording. In addition, governments, military and intelligence services use these global news agencies as multipliers to spread their messages around the world.A study of the Syria war coverage by nine leading European newspapers clearly illustrates these issues: 78% of all articles were based in whole or in part on agency reports … 0% on investigative research. Moreover, 82% of all opinion pieces and interviews were in favor of a U.S. and NATO intervention, while propaganda was attributed exclusively to the opposite side.”The ‘Free Press’ Is Far From IndependentUntil or unless these news agencies send out a notice, national and local media are unlikely to report on an event. Even photos and videos are typically sourced directly from these global news agencies. This way, people hear, see and read the exact same message everywhere.“This dependency on the global agencies creates a striking similarity in international reporting: from Vienna to Washington, our media often report the same topics, using many of the same phrases – a phenomenon that would otherwise rather be associated with ‘controlled media’ in authoritarian states,” Swiss Policy Research writes.19Even media outlets that have foreign correspondents on their payroll do not expect those correspondents to conduct independent investigations. They too simply report whatever the Big Three news agencies want covered, and from the angle they want it covered. What you end up with is a sort of echo-chamber where only one view is presented.As one might expect, this setup makes for a perfect propaganda machine. As noted by Swiss Policy Research, “Due to the rather low journalistic performance of the mainstream media and their high dependence on a few news agencies, it is easy for interested parties to spread propaganda and disinformation in a supposedly respectable format to a worldwide audience.” Military and defense ministries are well aware of this and use it with regularity.Full Circle Back to the WHOWe’ve already mentioned three key organizations involved in creating and pushing the Great Reset agenda forward: the CFR, the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group. The WHO, which serves as the medical branch of the U.N., also plays a central role in the technocratic plan, which brings us full circle back to where we started this article.Its role in the Great Reset agenda is why I don’t believe it’s pure coincidence that the WHO’s sudden decision to change the way we diagnose COVID-19 cases coincided with the inauguration of President Biden. It’s simply too convenient. Another clue: One of the first things Biden did when he entered office was to rejoin the WHO.The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation became the WHO’s largest funder when the Trump administration, in mid-April 2020, halted funding until a White House review of the WHO’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic can be completed.20The GAVI Alliance — a partnership between Gates and Big Pharma with a stated aim of solving global health problems through vaccines — is also a top donor to the WHO, and one of the primary initiatives of the World Economic Forum,21 which we’ll review next.The World Economic ForumNo deep state organizational chart is complete without the World Economic Forum, which serves as the social and economic branch of the U.N. and is the organization that hosts the annual conference of billionaires at Davos, Switzerland.22The World Economic Forum was founded by Klaus Schwab, who also wrote the books “The Fourth Industrial Revolution” (2016), “Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution” (2018) and “COVID-19: The Great Reset.”The World Economic Forum is a conglomeration of the world’s largest and most powerful businesses, all of which are helping to further the technocratic agenda along. They include:Microsoft, which made Bill Gates a billionaireMasterCard, which is leading the globalist charge to develop digital IDs and banking servicesGoogle, the No. 1 Big Data collector in the world and a leader in artificial intelligence servicesFoundations started by the world’s wealthiest people, such as the Rockefeller foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ford Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies and George Soros’ Open Society FoundationWhen you peek behind the curtain at the World Economic Forum and the WHO, you find all the same wealthy individuals and their companies and foundations who, although they claim to be working for a more equitable society and healthier planet, are really only trying to centralize profit and power.Technocracy by Any Other Name Is Still TechnocracyMany of the terms we’ve heard more and more of from these and other organizations in recent years actually refer to technocracy under a different name. Examples include:The Great Reset23The Fourth Industrial Revolution24“Build Back Better”25Sustainable developmentAgenda 21The 2030 AgendaThe New Urban AgendaGreen economyThe green new dealThe Paris Climate Agreement and the global warming movement in generalAll of these refer to and are part of technocracy and its resource-based economics. Their common goal is to capture ownership of all the resources of the world for a small global elite group that has the know-how to program the computer systems that will ultimately dictate the lives of everyone.What they’re aiming for is really the ultimate form of totalitarianism. When they talk about “wealth redistribution,” what they’re actually referring to is the redistribution of resources from us to them, and that is precisely the kind of wealth transfer the COVID-19 “casedemic” facilitated.For nearly a year, we were snookered into thinking that millions would die unless we gave up all semblance of a normal life, when in fact faulty testing had been put into place that merely detects inactive viral particles that pose no threat to health. While small business owners were forced to sacrifice everything they owned, the rich gobbled up both the market share and property that they had to forfeit because of lost business.I don’t think it’s an overstatement to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has been the biggest false flag event in human history, cooked up by technocrats and implemented through their network of global organizations that influence — if not outright direct and control — politics, health, finance and media. As noted by Lennox in her January 20, 2021, article:26“What I have referred to as the ‘casedemic’ since September will be magically solved just in time for Joe Biden to look like a hero. For doing absolutely nothing. Do not tell me there is not a politicized deep state in our health agencies … Every business owner who has been ruined because of lockdowns due to a high number of ‘cases’ should be livid. Any parent whose child has lost a year of school should be furious. None of this was for your health.”+ Sources and ReferencesThe Great Reset and Build Back Better60% of Americans Will Be Obese by 2030BREAKINGNEWSEMAILARTICLETEXTARTICLENEXT ARTICLESubscribe to the FREE #1 Natural Health NewsletterEnter your email addressCONNECT WITH DR. MERCOLAMeWe Parler BitChuteDisclaimer: The entire contents of this website are based upon the opinions of Dr. Mercola, unless otherwise noted. Individual articles are based upon the opinions of the respective author, who retains copyright as marked. 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