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COVID-19PANDEMIC INJUSTICE
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The mass media have at times referred to COVID-19 as the great equalizer, but in
truth this Frankenvirus and the disastrous government responses to the epidemic
have fallen most heavily on the underclass—workers, small businesses, people of
color, the poor, as well as the powerless, children and youth.



SARS-CoV-2 is a highly transmissible biological trigger that, rather than
infecting, sickening, and killing healthy and unhealthy, young and old alike,
magnifies and exacerbates “pre-existing” medical conditions among the elderly
and the chronically ill, preventing the body’s natural defense systems from
fighting off the virus.

The chronic disease and comorbidities that underlie the hospitalizations and
deaths attributed to COVID-19 clearly affect the underclass and the powerless
far worse than others, and the countermeasures implemented to quell the outbreak
have been a phenomenal boon for wealthy billionaires while decimating the lives
of the overwhelming majority of the world.

Rather than addressing the underlying causes of the pandemic: reckless genetic
engineering experiments carried out in unregulated, accident-prone labs such as
the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and an epidemic of basically preventible and
often reversible chronic disease—obesity, diabetes, hypertension, liver disease,
lung disease—that underlie the hospitalizations and deaths triggered by
SARS-CoV-2, the authorities tell us the outbreak was natural and that only
lockdowns and vaccines can protect us. Rather than calling for focused, targeted
protection, preventive supplements, and therapies for those most vulnerable,
many of us have fallen into panic or guilt and become victimized by broad-stroke
lockdowns, lulled into submission by genetically engineered, rushed-to-market
vaccines that are neither properly safety-tested nor effective.

READ: COVID-19 Destroys the Weakest and Poorest
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GREENING THE DESERTAGAVE POWER
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OCA’s Mexico affiliate, Via Organica [[link removed]] , in a project sponsored by OCA and our sister project Regeneration International
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Guanajuato, in the semi-arid drylands of North Central Mexico.



Over the past several years we have been working with a group of innovative
small farmers and agronomists to develop a new system of organic and
regenerative desert agriculture and holistic livestock management, utilizing
native plants and trees (agave and mesquite).

We believe that Agave Power has the potential to revolutionize farming and
ranching in the arid and semi-arid farmlands and rangelands that constitute 40%
of the world’s lands. We believe that we can green the desert, eliminate rural
poverty, and sequester massive amounts of excess atmospheric CO2 both
aboveground and below ground with this Agave Power agroforestry system, which
builds upon native wisdom and small farmer innovation.

READ: Agave Power: Greening the Desert
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WATCH: The Billion Agave Project
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COVID-19WEAPONIZING CONSPIRACY THEORY

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Natural Health Advocate Nate Doromal explains how the perpetrators and
apologists for the “official” story on COVID-19 have weaponized the term
“conspiracy theory” to delegitimize and censor the views of dissident
scientists, investigators, and public interest organizations such as the OCA and
Dr. Mercola in regard to the origins, nature, virulence, prevention, and
treatment of COVID-19.

Since Covid-19 took over the daily news and media reporting earlier this year,
the term “conspiracy theory” has been used as a tool of censorship by the
mainstream media sources, enabling them to avoid looking at the true origins,
nature, and treatment of the pandemic. It is indeed true that we are living in
an “age of misinformation,” a time when it is legitimately hard to tell what
exactly is true and what isn’t. But during this time, how do we make sense of
the non-stop flood of contradictory Covid-19 information? And what do we make of
alleged Covid-19 conspiracies?

But seldom is it given thought that the term “conspiracy theorist” can become
weaponized; the charge becoming a means to stifle free inquiry into a topic. Who
decides what is valid information versus misinformation? And who decides what
distinguishes a conspiracy theory from real corruption?

READ: COVID-19 and 'Conspiracy Theory': Who Decides What's 'Misinformation'?
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Finally, President-Elect Biden has done something right!



His recent nomination of Representative Deb Haaland for Secretary of the
Interior is a beacon of hope for public lands, our climate, and Native
communities.

As an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, Rep. Haaland will make
history as the first Native American to lead a Cabinet agency.

Haaland has been a champion for public lands protection, climate action, free
speech, and the upholding of Native rights and heritage. Her voice will help
move our country towards the change, healing, and regeneration that is so
desperately needed.

"Growing up in my mother’s Pueblo household made me fierce. I’ll be fierce for
all of us, our planet, and all of our protected land. I am honored and ready to
serve” said Rep. Haaland.

READ: Biden Picks Deb Haaland as Interior Secretary
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Thank you to everyone who signed our petition to President-Elect Joe Biden
asking him not to put former Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) in charge of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture.



Heitkamp will not be Agriculture Secretary. Unfortunately, Biden has chosen the
only person who could be any worse: Tom Vilsack, Secretary in the Obama-Biden
Administration (2009-2017).

If you've followed our Millions Against Monsanto campaign since then, or if you
joined the movement through the March Against Monsanto, you know him as Mr.
Monsanto, the guy who put more GMOs into our food supply—along with all the
pesticides those GMOs were engineered to resist—than anyone on Earth.

Vilsack's misdeeds are too numerous to list in one action alert, so we'll be
bringing you a series of articles. Our first installment lists Vilsack's GMOs,
from Roundup Ready sugar beets to lab "meat"—16 in all!

READ: Back to the Future with Tom “Mr. Monsanto” Vilsack - Part I
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There are two schools of thought about what our post-pandemic world will look
like.



The defenders of the status quo can’t wait to get back to a “business-as-usual”
normal.

Then there are the optimists. Those who believe that if the pandemic has taught
us anything, it’s that normal wasn’t working—and that we have an unprecedented
opportunity to create something better.

We believe in, we hope for—we’re planning for—something better. We have to.

We have to believe that the pandemic has revealed, once and for all, that
corrupt capitalism and a government beholden to corporate interests and the
demands of the uber-wealthy is a recipe for a failed society.

But we also know that we are up against powerful forces—in the food industry,
the chemical industry, the fossil fuel industry, the insurance industry, the war
industry—that don’t want us to succeed.

This is no time for complacency. This is no time to coast, to take a
wait-and-see approach to the future.

Now is the time to work harder than ever for the change we want. Because there
are no guarantees.

As activist and author Noam Chomsky has pointed out:

“There is no way to predict. Those who have primary responsibility for the
multiple crises that imperil us today are hard at work, relentlessly, to ensure
that the system they created, and from which they have greatly benefited, will
endure — and in an even harsher form, with more intense surveillance and other
means of coercion and control.”

We need your financial support more than ever. If you’re in a position to help out, your donation today will be greatly
appreciated—and put to good use. Thank you!

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LITTLE BYTESESSENTIAL READING

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Will We Ever Learn the Truth About China and the Pandemic?
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Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance Has Hidden Almost $40 Million In Pentagon
Funding And Militarized Pandemic Science
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Bernie Sanders and Our Winter of Progressive Discontent
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A New Satellite Can Peer Inside Some Buildings, Day or Night
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If You Think Biden's Administration Will Rein in Big Tech, Think Again
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Mexico Proposes Phasing Out Roundup Pesticide by 2024
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AOC: Nancy Pelosi Needs To Go, but There's Nobody To Replace Her Yet
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