“Own Nothing and Be Happy”: The Great Reset’s Vision of the Future

 Authored by Colin Todhunter via Off-Guardian.org,

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, Switzerland, brings together international business and political leaders, economists and other high-profile individuals to discuss global issues.

Driven by the vision of its influential CEO Klaus Schwab, the WEF is the main driving force for the dystopian ‘great reset’, a tectonic shift that intends to change how we live, work and interact with each other.

The great reset entails a transformation of society resulting in permanent restrictions on fundamental liberties and mass surveillance as entire sectors are sacrificed to boost the monopoly and hegemony of pharmaceuticals corporations, high-tech/big data giants, Amazon, Google, major global chains, the digital payments sector, biotech concerns, etc.

Using COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions to push through this transformation, the great reset is being rolled out under the guise of a ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ in which older enterprises are to be driven to bankruptcy or absorbed into monopolies, effectively shutting down huge sections of the pre-COVID economy. Economies are being ‘restructured’ and many jobs will be carried out by AI-driven machines.

In a short video showcased on social media, the WEF predicts that by 2030, “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy.”

A happy smiling face is depicted while a drone delivers a product to a household, no doubt ordered online and packaged by a robot in a giant Amazon warehouse: ‘no humans were involved in manufacturing, packaging or delivering this product’; rest assured, it is virus- and bacteria-free – because even in 2030, they will need to keep the fear narrative alive and well to maintain full-spectrum dominance over the population.

The jobless (and there will be many) could be placed on some kind of universal basic income and have their debts (indebtedness and bankruptcy on a massive scale is the deliberate result of lockdowns and restrictions) written off in return for handing their assets to the state or more precisely the financial institutions helping to drive this great reset.

The WEF says the public will ‘rent’ everything they require: stripping the right of ownership under the guise of ‘sustainable consumption’ and ‘saving the planet’. Of course, the tiny elite who rolled out this great reset will own everything.

Hundreds of millions around the world deemed ‘surplus to requirements’ are to be robbed (are currently being robbed) of their livelihoods. Our every movement and purchase are to be monitored and our main dealings will be online.

The plan for individual citizens could reflect the strategy to be applied to nation states. For instance, World Bank Group President David Malpass has stated that poorer countries will be ‘helped’ to get back on their feet after the various lockdowns that have been implemented. This ‘help’ will be on condition that neoliberal reforms and the undermining of public services are implemented and become further embedded.

On 20 April, the Wall Street Journal ran the headline ‘IMF, World Bank Face Deluge of Aid Requests From Developing World‘. Scores of countries are asking for bailouts and loans from financial institutions with $1.2 trillion to lend. An ideal recipe for fuelling dependency.

In return for debt relief or ‘support’, global conglomerates along with the likes of Bill Gates will be able to further dictate national policies and hollow out the remnants of nation state sovereignty.

IDENTITY AND MEANING

What will happen to our social and personal identity? Is that to be eradicated in the quest to commodify and standardise human behaviour and everything we do?

The billionaire class who are pushing this agenda think they can own nature and all humans and can control both, whether through geoengineering the atmosphere, for example, genetically modifying soil microbes or doing a better job than nature by producing bio-synthesised fake food in a lab.

They think they can bring history to a close and reinvent the wheel by reshaping what it means to be human. And they think they can achieve this by 2030. It is a cold dystopian vision that wants to eradicate thousands of years of culture, tradition and practices virtually overnight.

And many of those cultures, traditions and practices relate to food and how we produce it and our deep-rooted connections to nature. Consider that many of the ancient rituals and celebrations of our forebears were built around stories and myths that helped them come to terms with some of the most basic issues of existence, from death to rebirth and fertility. These culturally embedded beliefs and practices served to sanctify their practical relationship with nature and its role in sustaining human life.

As agriculture became key to human survival, the planting and harvesting of crops and other seasonal activities associated with food production were central to these customs. Freyfaxi marks the beginning of the harvest in Norse paganism, for example, while Lammas or Lughnasadh is the celebration of the first harvest/grain harvest in Paganism.

Humans celebrated nature and the life it gave birth to. Ancient beliefs and rituals were imbued with hope and renewal and people had a necessary and immediate relationship with the sun, seeds, animals, wind, fire, soil and rain and the changing seasons that nourished and brought life. Our cultural and social relationships with agrarian production and associated deities had a sound practical base.

Prof Robert W Nicholls explains that the cults of Woden and Thor were superimposed on far older and better-rooted beliefs related to the sun and the earth, the crops and the animals and the rotation of the seasons between the light and warmth of summer and the cold and dark of winter.

We need look no further than India to appreciate the important relationship between culture, agriculture and ecology, not least the vital importance of the monsoon and seasonal planting and harvesting. Rural-based beliefs and rituals steeped in nature persist, even among urban Indians. These are bound to traditional knowledge systems where livelihoods, the seasons, food, cooking, processing, seed exchange, healthcare and the passing on of knowledge are all inter-related and form the essence of cultural diversity within India itself.

Although the industrial age resulted in a diminution of the connection between food and the natural environment as people moved to cities, traditional ‘food cultures’ – the practices, attitudes and beliefs surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of food – still thrive and highlight our ongoing connection to agriculture and nature.

‘HAND OF GOD’ IMPERIALISM

If we go back to the 1950s, it is interesting to note Union Carbide’s corporate narrative based on a series of images that depicted the company as a ‘hand of god’ coming out of the sky to ‘solve’ some of the issues facing humanity. One of the most famous images is of the hand pouring the firm’s agrochemicals on Indian soils as if traditional farming practices were somehow ‘backward’.

Despite well-publicised claims to the contrary, this chemical-driven approach did not lead to higher food production according to the paper New Histories of the Green Revolution written by Prof Glenn Stone. However, it has had long-term devastating ecological, social and economic consequences (see Vandana Shiva’s book The Violence of the Green Revolution and Bhaskar Save’s now famous and highly insightful open letter to Indian officials).

In the book Food and Cultural Studies’ (Bob Ashley et al), we see how, some years ago, a Coca Cola TV ad campaign sold its product to an audience which associated modernity with a sugary drink and depicted ancient Aboriginal beliefs as harmful, ignorant and outdated. Coke and not rain became the giver of life to the parched. This type of ideology forms part of a wider strategy to discredit traditional cultures and portray them as being deficient and in need of assistance from ‘god-like’ corporations.

What we are seeing in 2020, is an acceleration of such processes. In terms of food and agriculture, traditional farming in places like India will be under increasing pressure from the big-tech giants and agribusiness to open up to lab-grown food, GMOs, genetically engineered soil microbes, data harvesting tools and drones and other ‘disruptive’ technologies.

The great reset includes farmerless farms being manned by driverless machines, monitored by drones and doused with chemicals to produce commodity crops from patented GM seeds for industrial ‘biomatter’ to be processed and constituted into something resembling food. What will happen to the farmers?

Post-COVID, the World Bank talks about helping countries get back on track in return for structural reforms. Are tens of millions of smallholder farmers to be enticed from their land in return for individual debt relief and universal basic income? The displacement of these farmers and the subsequent destruction of rural communities and their cultures was something the Gates Foundation once called for and cynically termed “land mobility”.

Cut through the euphemisms and it is clear that Bill Gates – and the other incredibly rich individuals behind the great reset – is an old-fashioned colonialist who supports the time-honoured dispossessive strategies of imperialism, whether this involves mining, appropriating and commodifying farmer knowledge, accelerating the transfer of research and seeds to corporations or facilitating intellectual property piracy and seed monopolies created through IP laws and seed regulations.

In places like India – still an agrarian-based society – will the land of these already (prior to COVID) heavily indebted farmers then be handed over to the tech giants, the financial institutions and global agribusiness to churn out their high-tech, data-driven GM industrial sludge? Is this part of the ‘own nothing, be happy’ bland brave new world being promoted by the WEF?

With the link completely severed between food production, nature and culturally embedded beliefs that give meaning and expression to life, we will be left with the individual human who exists on lab-based food, who is reliant on income from the state and who is stripped of satisfying productive endeavour and genuine self-fulfilment.

Technocratic meddling has already destroyed or undermined cultural diversity, meaningful social connections and agrarian ecosystems that draw on centuries of traditional knowledge and are increasingly recognised as valid approaches to secure food security (for example, see Food Security and Traditional Knowledge in India in the Journal of South Asian Studies).

The massive technocratic transformation currently envisaged regards humans as commodities to be controlled and monitored just like the lifeless technological drones and AI being promoted.

But do not worry – you will be property-less and happy in your open prison of mass unemployment, state dependency, track and chip health passports, cashlessness, mass vaccination and dehumanisation.

Is This The End For Hedge Funds: Retail Investors Outperform "Smart Money" Ten-To-One

 From Zero Hedge:

After a dismal decade for hedge funds, 2020 was the year that may have sealed the fate of the (former) masters of the universe who once upon a time collected 2 and 20 to hedge against crashes and to outperform the market but now merely collect tens of million in fees to come up creative excuses for sucking.

Case in point: at the start of the year, the so-called "smart money" was massively long the same handful of stocks, only to watch mortified as their portfolios exploded in March with hedge funds forgetting to actually "hedge", and getting swept away with the market carnage. Then just as everyone flipped short in late March, the Fed launched the most batshit insane rescue of capital markets, which included injecting trillions in liquidity every single day and even buying junk bonds. Needless the say, the market ripped just as the hedge fund crew was short, leading to even more losses. Then around September, when hedge funds were doing what they do best - all jumping into the same handful of stocks - the rug was pulled from under them as the Nasdaq tumbled, quickly accumulating even more losses, and then, just two months later, the last nail in the coffin was hammered when momentum stocks - a perennial darling of those who supposedly collect millions to conduct in depth and extensive fundamental analysis but merely copycat each other's trades - suffered a 15 sigma crash, obliterating what little alpha hedge funds had generated in 2020.

Unfortunately it wasn't much, because after all that, with the S&P managing to eek out a modest 10% return this year as the Fed threw everything at the market in hopes of propping it up and pushing it higher, the HFR hedge fund index is just barely above 0.

Yet not everyone is sucking this year. The winners? Those who clearly got to benefit from a market that long ago stopped making any sense thanks to the Fed flipping fundamentals on their head, and actively buying risk assets and who knows what else in the open market.

Yes, we are talking about retail investors who are having the time of their life: as shown in the chart below, while the S&P is up 10%, and the average hedge fund is barely in the green, a basket of 50 most popular stocks held by the retail investing community is up a whopping 55% YTD.  This means that retail investors - some as young as 16 years old on Robinhood - are outperforming the best paid investors in the world ten to one!

And while retail investors may be delirious with their market profits this year, for hedge funds - especially those who are struggling to catch up to the S&P500 or worse, to turn green for the year - the drumbeat of death has never beat louder.

Why? Because in a year when volatility averaged well over 20, an amazing environment for professional traders, coupled with record wide dispersion between growth and value returns, hedge funds should be printing making money. Clearly, however, they are not and as Bloomberg reports, what few hedge fund clients remain are losing patience.

"This year separates the adults from the children," said Tim Ng, chief investment officer of Clearbrook Global Advisors, which invests in hedge funds. "If you are a fundamentally driven, bottoms-up securities manager across any asset class, this should have been the year when you did well. Everything you’ve wanted for years exists."

To be sure, there are the occasional winners, such as mega macro fund Brevan Howard Asset Management, tech-focused Coatue Management, and Boaz Weinstein's remarkable Saba Capital. But it is the losers such as Ray Dalio - who these days spends more time spewing trivial bullshit on twitter than investing - whose Bridgewater flagship fund fell 19% through Nov. 5, that are forcing investors to ask: If they couldn’t make money before and still can’t now, why keep them?

"It’s getting harder to have conviction in hedge funds," said Adam Taback, chief investment officer of Wells Fargo Private Wealth Management, another allocator. “Many have not protected enough on the downside and others haven’t provided enough upside.”

In short instead of hedging, "hedge funds" are doing precisely the opposite: they are losing money when stocks drop and barely making it when stocks surge. Then again, antihedge funds does not have quite that "fast-track to riches" sound to it, so we doubt it will be adopted.

"It’s survival of the fittest -a culling of the herd,” Ng said of the industry that counts more than 8,000 funds, and is about to be hit with a historic volley of redemption requests ahead of the new year.

Neil Datta, who runs the $10 billion multifamily office Forbes Family Trust, asks a question we have been asking since 2010: "Why pay 2-and-20 when they can’t produce returns when markets are volatile?" he said of the industry’s longtime fee standard, roughly 2% for management plus 20% of profits.

To this we would add what we first said in 2011: why pay any money manager when the Fed is now so deeply enmeshed with stocks, and so all-in risk assets, it has no choice but to step and bail out markets any time there is a modest correction.

And it does it for free, which is also why retail investors continue to blow out the "smart money."

Meanwhile, after complaining for a decade that either volatility or stock dispersion was too low, and that shorting was impossible in a market that only went up, hedge funds got just the environment they desired... and they imploded so spectacularly, when instead of single digit VIX, the "fear gauge" soared to Lehman levels. And a generation of millennial "traders" that had never seen a VIX above 20 was petrified, frozen for weeks, unsure what to do. Well, they won't have to worry much longer: soon they too will be out of a job.

That said, there is still some optimism for the hedge fund industry ahead, but it’s tempered: and hedge funds really need at least one year of outperforming the S&P unless they collectively throw in the towel on what has been the worst investment choice ever since this website triggered the expert network crackdown back in 2010.

"You should be moving back to a more security-selection-driven and less beta-driven environment,” said Taback, who expects the market tumult to persist. "It’s just hard because we all said the same thing last year and the year before that."

And while we wait (and wait, and wait) for hedge funds to prove they still need to exist in a centrally-planned, micromanaged world (and collected massive fees), here is the latest HSBC breakdown of the year's best (yes, there are still some) and worst performing hedge funds.

Michigan Election Fraud: Evidence of Wolverine State Chicanery During America’s 2020 Presidential Election

 From Zero Hedge:

Regardless of where one falls politically, the sanctity of the vote is a bedrock of a functioning representative democracy. Voters have to believe their vote matters. And that the vote is free, fair, and accurate.

The basic facts of the 2020 American Presidential election are concerning because mounting evidence indicates there’s been a concerted effort by state Democratic Parties to flip the election from President Donald Trump to former Vice President Joe Biden in a number of key swing states with the help of notoriously corrupt Democratic Party machines in at least five American cities — Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Atlanta.

Here are the basic facts of the case: On Election Night when America went to bed, President Trump had a commanding lead in virtually every swing state, as well as Virginia, which no one expected him to win.

However, when America woke up the next day, we found that he’d lost these leads, largely on the basis of mail-in ballots found in the middle of the night and out from under the watchful eye of legal election monitors.

What’s more, these massive caches of votes – almost all of which were for former Vice President Biden – came via large dumps primarily from the five aforementioned cities in states predominantly run by Democratic governors.

When one looks at the statistical likelihood of the reported turnout, the numbers are so improbable they’re more at home in a one-party state like Saddam Hussein’s Iraq or North Korea.

At the national level, there are some discrepancies worth looking at: Republicans won 28 of 29 competitive House seats and Democrats were unable to flip a single state legislature. Joe Biden secured a scant three of the so-called “Bellwether Districts” that almost always choose the winner, one of which was in Delaware. Judicial Watch found 353 counties in 29 different states who had higher than 100 percent turnout.

Evidence of chicanery has poured in from a variety of states — Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Texas, New Jersey, Nevada, and Arizona. This evidence could easily be dismissed as simply weird if one is being generous or naive.

However, it is our belief that this mountain of data, much of it dissolute and unconnected to one another, when taken in toto paints a clear picture of voter fraud on a scale so large that it is unthinkable that it happened in the United States.

Below we explore the details and the data of what happened in Michigan, nicknamed “The Wolverine State“, on Election Day, which had some of the most flagrant and sloppy irregularities of any of the swing states, largely centering around Wayne County, the place where Detroit is located – a city notorious for voting irregularities favoring Democrats. Elsewhere we explore similar efforts in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia.

All of the posts in this series will be updated as more credible information is uncovered.

Is Michigan the Most Corrupt State in America?

Michigan might take the dubious honor of having the most corrupt elections in America in 2020. As of November 9, the FBI has opened up two investigations into voter fraud in the state. Affidavits have been filed alleging a scheme to backdate mail-in ballots. It is the land of massive vote dumps that go 100 percent for Joe Biden (which the controlled media has attempted to retcon as a “glitch” or “clerical error”), of thousands of dead people voting, of United States Postal Service officials coercing postal employees into backdating the postmark on ballots. And, of course, remember that this is the state that was shut down by executive fiat by Gretchen Whitmer, who eventually had her executive overreach invalidated by the state Supreme Court.

A single computer “glitch” awarded 6,000 votes to Biden and the Democrats that were supposed to go to President Trump and other Republican candidates. With 47 Michigan counties using this software, similar glitches might yield a discrepancy of hundreds of thousands of ballots — or even more. Perhaps this “glitch” was one of the more innocuous ones. Another glitch returned a Republican incumbent to office after he “lost” to his Democratic challenger.

We use “glitch” in quotes because these types of things seem to be a running pattern in the state and appear to always benefit the Democrat candidate. One other, and far more important, example of this was the “glitch” that awarded 138,000-plus votes to Joe Biden. It was one of these monolithic vote dumps we keep talking about.

Over 138,000 votes tabulated and not a single one of them went for the President (or, for that matter, Jo Jorgensen or Howie Hawkins or Kanye West), a statistical impossibility. It was later corrected when hordes of Internet denizens found the vote dump and wondered how it was possible, even under the basic laws of statistics.

This is hardly the only example of “mistakes” benefitting Biden or suspicious reported totals in the State of Michigan. Take, for example, Antrim County, where President Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 30 points in 2016 but had now swung back to Biden by 29 points. County officials vowed to investigate what they called “skewed” results.

Even prior to the 2020 election back in October, city officials in Muskegon found that there were registration irregularities.

A suit has been filed in the state of Michigan based on a sworn affidavit from a Michigan poll worker — not an observer. Among other things, this suit alleges that poll workers processed ballots with missing signatures, coached voters on who to vote for (Joe Biden), and were instructed to backdate ballots.

How deep is the rabbit hole of “computer error” in Michigan? Sidney Powell, counsel for one General Michael Flynn, appeared on Lou Dobbs’ Fox Business News program and explained that she believes that programs like HAMMER or SCORECARD were used to change as much as 3 percent of the result. While this is merely speculation at this point, it is worth noting that Steve Bannon also floated this possibility on his show, War Room.

The final results of the city of Detroit are worth looking at: Joe Biden was able to receive a whopping 93 percent of the vote in a year when Donald Trump doubled his share of the vote among the black population. Again, this is a normal amount of the vote to receive if your name is Joseph Stalin or Saddam Hussein or Idi Amin. It is not normal by any standard in the United States, especially in large metropolitan areas.

For context: In 2016 Hillary Clinton received 519,00 votes in Wayne County. In 2012, Barack Obama received 595,000 votes. Joe Biden, one of the least exciting candidates in modern history, received 587,000 votes, despite there being fewer people in Wayne County. This despite significant minority turnout for Trump in 2020.

Somewhere between 69,000 and 115,000 voted for Joe Biden and no one else in the State of Michigan.

Such things don’t pass the smell test, much like the dramatic difference between the vote tallies in similar rural counties in Ohio and their Michigan counterparts. These were uncovered, once again, by the watchful eyes of citizen journalists and Twitter denizens, not the government officials who are supposed to be safeguarding our elections.

Michigan, like Wisconsin and other states that have seen electoral chicanery, prohibits the counting of mail-in ballots prior to Election Day. This is a convenient fact of life for those who want to steal an election. They can simply allow the votes to be counted, then tabulate how many they can fabricate for the purpose of putting their candidate over the top.

Florida does not have this feature and Donald Trump was able to win it comfortably. When Florida goes right, the upper Midwest generally does as well.  It is the true bellwether state, having selected every President since 1996. Indeed, 1996 is the only time it hasn’t since 1960.

As we mentioned, the dead seem to be voting in Michigan. One Twitter user kicked off a trend of people checking to see if their dead relatives had voted via absentee ballot in the state. Many users reported that, in fact, their relatives who had been dead for 20 years or so had somehow requested absentee ballots, then filled them in. This is not a case of someone who died during Coronavirus having their ballot received. This is about 118-year-olds voting. One enterprising individual was kind enough to compile an entire list of dead voters in Michigan in 2020. It is voluminous. The Michigan Secretary of State has stated that such ballots will be thrown out at counting — but are they? And how many are there?

Michigan is one of several states with a voluminous amount of ballots that went for Biden only — no one was interested in the down ticket races. Michigan found a difference of just 7,131 votes between Trump and GOP Senate candidate John James, but the difference between former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Gary Peters was a staggering 69,093. This was not the case in non-swing states.

Finally, there is the small matter of postal workers being ordered to backdate ballots so that they could be processed as if they were legitimate. This occurred both in Michigan and in Pennsylvania, according to whistleblowers working with James O’Keefe of Project Veritas. The Michigan whistleblower has not, at present time, been contacted by federal authorities, though the one in Wisconsin has been.

Watching Michigan Poll Watchers

Another dubious honor taken by the Wolverine State is being the most aggressive anti-poll watcher state. Poll watchers were denied access at a number of polling locations. Ballot counters boarded up windows and obscured them with pizza boxes when the poll watchers attempted to watch through windows.

Finally, a state health official was unleashed to use (what else?) public health concerns related to the Chinese Coronavirus to disperse the crowds. Most of this happened in Detroit, a city firmly under the control of a Democratic Party machine. Another viral video showed poll workers cheering every time a Republican was ejected. Poll workers then attempted to intimidate a woman who had been filming these events. At least one poll worker even bragged on Facebook about throwing out Trump ballots.

It’s no wonder the poll workers in Detroit don’t want to be watched. There are a number of highly egregious irregularities with regard to the handling and delivery of ballots in the state. One Twitter user documented the arrival of 130,000 ballots in the dead of night, all of which just so happened to be for former Vice President Biden.

Steven Crowder reported on strange behavior around polling stations where unmarked vans pull up, drop off boxes and suitcases of votes into secure areas, then disappear into the night. Perhaps the worst part of this is that the integrity of all of the votes of this district has now become compromised — it will be very difficult to tell the illegally dropped ballots from the legitimate ones. Chuck Woolery likewise reported on a 38,000 vote drop in Detroit in the dead of night.

Michigan is no stranger to getting ballot counts wrong when counting lots of mail-in ballots: In August 2020 it was found that 72 percent of all of Detroit’s absentee ballots were counted incorrectly. Whether this is an honest mistake or outright fraud is unimportant for our purposes. What is important is that, without independent auditing, we cannot trust the results of the election in Wayne County, Michigan.

All of these irregularities are even more damning in light of revelations that vote-counting machines in Michigan and several other states were connected to the Internet during the election. This means they are inherently insecure.

We did, however, get one piece of welcome news from the Mitten: The Attorney General of the state had to officially request that protesters stop telling poll workers to stick Sharpie markers up their butts. She later used her office to threaten citizen journalists documenting the election theft.

The Lawsuit: Michigan Voters Fight Back

A lawsuit was filed in the State of Michigan to protect the integrity of the vote. There are a number of shocking allegations in the lawsuit, testified to under sworn affidavits. You will be hearing a lot of talk in the coming weeks about how sworn affidavits aren’t evidence, but this is, strictly speaking, not true. These types of affidavits are used in court proceedings all the time.

Some of the allegations in the lawsuit include:

• Vote counters were instructed to not verify signatures.
• Vote counters were instructed to backdate mail-in ballots.
• Mail-in ballots were processed despite the fact that names did not appear on the qualified voter file (QVF).
• Mail-in ballots were altered to match a randomly selected name on the QVF who had not voted.
• False information was supplied to absentee ballots, including false birthdays, the most common of which was “01/01/1900.”
• Ballots were removed from their privacy envelopes before proper processing.
• Unsecured ballots with no chain of evidence were processed.
• Batches of unsecured and unsealed ballots were processed after the final vote tally was announced. At one oral count, 40,000 of these were all called for Joe Biden.
• Poll workers refused to record objections from poll watchers and had poll watchers removed without cause when they objected to ballots.
• Absentee ballots were duplicated by hand without verification that the ballots were being transcribed accurately by independent poll watchers.

One of the sworn affidavits in the suit corroborates stories of tens of thousands of unverified ballots showing up through unofficial channels in the dead of night. Additionally, Attorney General Bill Barr has begun an investigation into widespread voter fraud across the nation at the federal level.

Richard Pilger, director of the elections crimes branch in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, has resigned in protest, something he didn’t do when he was gladly helping Lois Lerner harass the Tea Party and other conservative organizations with the IRS.

Despite the claims that there is “no evidence” for voter fraud in the Wolverine state, Ronna McDaniel has presented 131 affidavits alleging over 5,000 individual actions of voter fraud.

Take Action Today and Save America

While all of this is a bit scary and disheartening, the fight is far from over. President Trump hasn’t given up the fight and Congressional Republicans are starting to fall in line to support him. A number of figures in conservative media are circling the wagons to denounce this obvious fraud.

That’s all great, but what can you do to stop the theft of the election and the end of the American republic that will result from it?

As it turns out, the average person can do quite a lot. First, you should call your elected representatives. That means calling your state rep, your state senator, your House Rep and your U.S. Senator. You should do this be they friend or foe — either way, they need to know that you insist on having every legal vote counted.

You should likewise insist on them telling you what concrete steps they are taking to ensure the integrity of the vote. Do not settle for boilerplate. A Twitter account has made what is actually a very good script for you to follow when you call in. Be firm, but polite.

The Michigan State Legislature is taking action to ensure the integrity of the vote there. However, they have to continue to feel the pressure from their constituents. Let them know that you’re not going to be satisfied with formalities and half-measures.

For those who want to take to the streets, there are opportunities for that as well. Stop The Steal is the movement dedicated to putting bodies in the streets of our nation’s state capitals to let our elected officials know that we are not going to stand for seeing our elections stolen in a manner befitting Zimbabwe. There are almost daily rallies at the state capitol building and the TFC Center in Detroit. What’s more, a nationwide rally in DC called the Million MAGA March is scheduled for November 14. The Democratic government of Washington, DC has responded with new COVID restrictions designed to cripple the march.

What can you do? Quite a lot. Nothing less than the future of the country is at stake. If they can steal this election, don’t expect another one to be free and fair. But do expect a lot of gun grabs and speech laws.

Michigan Election Fraud: Evidence of Wolverine State Chicanery During America’s 2020 Presidential Election by Ammo.com's lead writer, Sam Jacobs, originally appeared in Thought Grenades, the blog on LibertasBella.com