In this post (https://mark-skidmore.com/2020/11/12/legislation-for-digital-money-and-digital-wallets/), I noted that the U.S. is preparing legislation to authorize the Federal Reserve to create digital wallets for U.S. citizens and disburse digital currencies via the digital wallets. This link (https://www.snb.ch/en/mmr/reference/pre_20201203/source/pre_20201203.en.pdf) will take you to a document showing that the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) and the Swiss National Bank (SNB) have successfully tested a digital currency proof of concept. The BIS coordinates the activity of central banks globally, including the Federal Reserve: The move to adopt digital currencies is a global effort. This link (https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606) will take you to a pending patent by Microsoft (patent 060606) that was submitted in March 2021, which links digital/cryptocurrency to bodily activity. Is the move by central banks to adopt digital currencies in any way related to Microsoft’s patent?
Record Numbers of Restaurants and Small Businesses Can’t Pay Rent in December
A record number of restaurants and small business say they will have trouble paying rent in December. The lock down policies are devastating small businesses and their families.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/record-61-restaurants-35-small-businesses-cant-pay-december-rent
Differential Effects of COVID-19 and the Pandemic Policy Response
Dr. Mercola offers a sobering but well documented assessment of the differential impacts of COVID-19 and the lock down policies. He then offers an assessment of how the crisis is being used to usher in the “Great Reset”, a vision of the future put forth by the influential World Economic Forum. This proposed “Great Reset” is oppressive–thinking about ways to push back is a worth your time and energy. https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/17/pandemic-wealth-inequality.aspx?ui=ec12f1e2a93cf9b59b74fab749d05eaa2e4505d9c85b509cbd585e7fa2e121d9&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20201217&mid=DM749867&rid=1036778379
How the Federal Reserve Boosts Asset Values During the Pandemic
This 28 minute video is a must watch for those who have wondered how it could be that with millions of people out of work and hundreds of thousands of small businesses being destroyed due to pandemic lock downs that the U.S. stock market could be at all time highs. My friend John Titus offers an excellent description of how the Federal Reserve created $2.7 trillion in new quantitative easing (electronic money printing) to purchase federal government debt while at the same time directing private banks to increase money supply by $2.7 trillion, which in turn is used to purchase equities. It is all so reassuring to see the stock market flying high (with the primary beneficiaries being the most wealthy), but how long can it last…is this activity in any way sustainable?
The Growing Risk of Eviction and Foreclosure in U.S. States
One of the consequences of COVID-19 lock down policies is a growing risk of homelessness in the United States and elsewhere. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 17 million adults are behind on their rent or mortgage. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-risk-of-eviction-and-foreclosure-in-u-s-states/
The Great Barrington Declaration
More than 50,000 medical and public health scientists and practitioners have signed this declaration: “As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection.” https://gbdeclaration.org/,
A Clear Assessment of COVID-19 by Professor Sucharit Bhakdi
In this interview, highly respected Dr. Bhakdi offers an excellent discussion of the COVID-19 lock downs, immune response, societal well-being, and the mRNA vaccine. Dr. Bhakdi (now retired) is one of Germany’s most widely cited scientists. https://www.bitchute.com/video/7XjXUGAvb0ZR/
U.S. M1 Money Supply Increases by More than 60% in 2020
Where is all the money flowing? Will it further support asset bubbles, leak out into economy to create significant inflation, or both? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1
COVID-19 Vaccine Risk Assessment
This 18 minute video by independent journalist Spiro Skouras offers a well-documented assessment of the risks associated with the first-ever mRNA vaccine that has never been administered to humans on a broad scale. This video will help you weigh the costs (risk of potentially severe health complications from the vaccine) against the benefits (a reduction in the symptoms of COVID-19). Keep in mind, at this point no one knows whether vaccine will prevent transmittal of the disease.
it is interesting to note that this forthcoming peer reviewed study in Elsevier’s International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents (impact factor ~4.5) is the first outpatient study of early antiviral (Hydroxychloroquine with zinc and azithromycin) treatment of COVID-19. While the control and treatment groups are somewhat small, results indicate that hospitalization rates and fatalities fall substantially with the treatment.
Treatment group hospitalizations: 4 of 144
Control group hospitalizations: 58 of 377
Treatment group fatalities: 1 of 144
Control group fatalities: 13 of 377
The differences were statistically significant. This type of treatment has been used to safely treat Malaria for 60 years, and the cost is low. Other studies are also showing that there are effective low cost treatments for COVID-19. We have effective treatments…why don’t we use them? I prefer the tested treatment to a largely untested experimental vaccine.
Will an Invisible Tattoo Be Required for Travel?
This article published by the BBC, offers a hint at the future of travel…that includes travellers being required to “present customs officers with an entrance visa and a vaccination record. That could be a paper card – or a tiny tattoo on their arm, invisible to the naked eye but readable by an infrared scanner.” Is this acceptable to you? If such a scenario is not acceptable, then we must be prepared to refuse it, even if such action comes at a high personal cost. By refusing, you will reduce revenues/profits so that such overreach will cost them a great deal too.