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41. Paul Bois, “Joe Rogan: COVID Lockdowns ‘Irreversibly F***ed’ New York, Parts of Los Angeles,” The Daily Wire, May 11, 2021, https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-covid-lockdowns-irreversibly-fed-new-york-parts-of-los-angeles.
42. Nicholas Ballasy, “Restaurants Struggle to Rehire Workers Due to Unprecedented Pandemic Jobless Payments,” Just the News, April 27, 2021, https://justthenews.com/government/congress/restaurants-around-nation-struggle-rehire-workers-due-federal-pandemic-jobless.
43. Juliana Kaplan, “Workers Lost $3.7 Trillion in Earnings During the Pandemic. Women and Gen Z Saw the Biggest Loses,” Business Insider, January 25, 2021, https://www.businessinsider.com/workers-lost-37-trillion-in-earnings-during-the-pandemic-2021-1.
44. Juliana Kaplan, “Billionaires Made $3.9 Trillion during the Pandemic—Enough to Pay for Everyone’s Vaccine,” Business Insider, January 26, 2021, https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-made-39-trillion-during-the-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccines-2021-1?op=1.
45. “Mega-Rich Recoup COVID-Losses in Record-Time Yet Billions Will Live in Poverty for at Least a Decade,” Oxfam, January 24, 2021, https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/mega-rich-recoup-covid-losses-record-time-yet-billions-will-live-poverty-least-decade/.
46. Joel Kotkin, “Welcome to the End of Democracy,” The Spectator, January 8, 2022, https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/welcome-to-the-end-of-democracy.
47. Marc Morano, “Watch: Morano on Fox and Friends on Bill Gates Private Jet & COVID Lockdown Hypocrisy—‘Gates is #1 Carbon Footprint of All Celebrity Climate Activists’—$30K a Month Electricity Bill at His Home,” Climate Depot, January 10, 2021, https://www.climatedepot.com/2021/01/10/watch-morano-on-fox-and-friends-on-bill-gates-private-jet-covid-lockdown-hypocrisy-gates-is-1-carbon-footprint-of-all-celebrity-climate-activists-30k-a-month-electricity-bill-at-his-home/.
48. Bryan Walsh, “How Stalling Growth Hurts the Planet,” Axios, March 20, 2021, https://www.axios.com/2021/03/20/degrowth-economic-growth-climate-change-pandemic.
49. Willis Eschenbach, “The Real Cost of Lockdowns,” Watts Up With That?, September 1, 2020, https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/09/01/the-real-cost-of-lockdowns/?utm_source=whatfinger.
50. Marc Morano, Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse Than You Think (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2021).
51. Willis Eschenbach (@WEschenbach), “Show us a scientific study showing lockdowns saved the health system….,” Twitter, June 3, 2021, 6:56 p.m., https://twitter.com/WEschenbach/status/1400587241005535234.
52. Tom DeWeese, “Green New Deal Reveals the Naked Truth of Agenda 21,” American Policy Center, February 25, 2019, https://americanpolicy.org/2019/02/25/green-new-deal-reveals-the-naked-truth-of-agenda-21/.
53. Ibid.; see also “Resolution Adopted by the General Assembly on 25 September 2015,” United Nations General Assembly, September 25, 2015, https://www.un.org/ga/search/viewm_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/70/1.
54. DeWeese, “Green New Deal Reveals.”
55. “User Clip: Agenda 21—1992 Nancy Pelosi”, C-SPAN, October 2, 1992, https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4863326/user-clip-agenda-21-1992-nancy-pelosi.
56. DeWeese, “Green New Deal Reveals.”
57. James Glanz and Campbell Robertson, “Lockdown Delays Cost at Least 36,000 Lives, Data Show,” New York Times, May 20, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/us/coronavirus-distancing-deaths.html.
Chapter 10: Prominent Left-Wing Figures Dissent from the Great Reset
1. Marc Morano, “Update: Video: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wants to Jail His Political Opponents—Accuses Koch Brothers of ‘Treason’—‘They Ought to Be Serving Time for It,’ ” September 21, 2014, https://www.climatedepot.com/2014/09/21/robert-f-kennedy-jr-wants-to-jail-his-political-opponents-accuses-koch-brothers-of-treason-they-ought-to-be-serving-time-for-it/; Marc Morano, (@ClimateDepot), “My New Hero?!…,” (thread) Twitter, August 30, 2020, 10:18 a.m., https://twitter.com/ClimateDepot/status/1300075459976323073.
2. “Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Speaks at Berlin Rally for Freedom and Peace,” Children’s Health Defense, August 29, 2020, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-speaks-at-berlin-rally-for-freedom-and-peace/; Natural Health Media Project, “Bobby Kennedy to Berlin Freedom Rally: Ich bin ein Berliner!” Facebook, August 29, 2020, https://www.facebook.com/NaturalHealthMediaProject/photos/a.751078158385449/1587913198035270/?type=.
3. “Brave Vandana Shiva Speaks Out against the Great Reset,” Transcend Media Service, November 30, 2020, https://www.transcend.org/tms/2020/11/brave-vandana-shiva-speaks-out-against-the-great-reset/; Jeremy Loffredo, “World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ Plan for Big Foods Benefits Industry, Not People,” Navdanya International, November 10, 2020, https://navdanyainternational.org/world-economic-forums-great-reset-plan-for-big-food-benefits-industry-not-people/.
4. Russell Brand, “The Great Reset: Bill Gates & Farming—What’s Going On?,” YouTube, February 19, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg0c2x74mgU&t=1s.
5. Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot), “Not Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf. & yes, I prefer…,” Twitter, December 9, 2021, 8:08 p.m., https://twitter.com/ClimateDepot/status/1469111769784279041.
6. The Jimmy Dore Show, “Fauci Squirms over Lab Leak Questions,” YouTube, May 13, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Cxm4g_cKrY&t=1531s.
7. Jeremy Loffredo, “World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ Plan for Big Food Benefits Industry, Not People,” The Defender, November 11, 2020, https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/world-economic-forums-great-reset-plan-for-big-food-benefits-industry-not-people/.
8. “The Big Tech Takeover of Agriculture Is Dangerous,” Grain, February 5, 2021, https://grain.org/en/article/6613-the-big-tech-takeover-of-agriculture-is-dangerous.
9. Dr Naomi Wolf (@NaomiWolf), “If I’d known Biden was open to ‘lockdowns’…,” Twitter, November 8, 2020, 5:03 p.m., https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1325604856283869189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw (Twitter has deleted Wolf’s account, but this tweet is available at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20210313003057/https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1325604856283869189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw).
10. Naomi Wolf, “Fascism’s Step Ten: ‘Lockdown’ Is Not a ‘Quarantine,’ ” Wolf: Author and Journalist, October 3, 2020, https://web.archive.org/web/20210506060133/https://drnaomiwolf.com/lockdown-is-not-a-quarantine/.
11. Dr Naomi Wolf (@naomiwolf), “Of course. We all need to…,” (thread) Twitter, March 3, 2020, 7:23 a.m., https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1334518585520254976 (Twitter has deleted Wolf’s account, but this thread is available at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20210227105419/https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1334518585520254976).
12. Naomi Wolf, “What Are the Ten Steps to Fascism? How Did We Get Here?,” Wolf: Author and Journalist, September 22, 2020, https://web.archive.org/web/20220303173320/https://drnaomiwolf.com/ten-steps-to-fascism-updated/.
13. Daily Clout, “Are We at Step Ten of Dr Naomi Wolf’s Well-Known ‘Ten Steps’ to Fascism—Part 1,” YouTube, September 5, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9faeUObJwj4.
14. Virginia Kruta, “ ‘It Pains Me to Say This’: CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta Says Sen. Susan Collins Might Be Right to Question CDC,” The Daily Caller, May 12, 2021, https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/12/keilar-berman-cnn-dr-sanjay-gupta-susan-collins-cdc-masks-indoors-vaccinated-people/.
15. Matthew Dimitri (@themattdimitri), “Beck: Are you looking into…,” Twitter, April 23, 2020, 3:00 a.m., https://twitter.com/themattdimitri/status/1385488704941088774.
16. Roy Greenslade, “How Edward Snowden Led Journalist and Film-maker to Reveal NSA Secrets,” The Guardian, August 19, 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/19/edward-snowden-nsa-secrets-glenn-greenwald-laura-poitras.
17. Glenn Greenwald, “My Resignation from the Intercept,” Glenn Greenwald (Substack), October 29, 2020, https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept?s=r.
18. Ian Schwartz, “Glenn Greenwald: There Is an Addiction to Being Protected by the State, to Not Having a Return to Normal Life,” RealClear Politics, January 3, 2022, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/01/03/glenn_greenwald_there_is_an_addiction_to_being_protected_by_the_state_to_not_having_a_return_to_normal_life.html.
19. Blake Montgomery, “Van Morrison Is Releasing Songs Railing against COVID-19 Lockdowns,” The Daily Beast, September 18, 2020, https://www.thedailybeast.com/van-morrison-is-releasing-songs-railing-against-covid-19-lockdowns.
20. Jeremy Fuster, “Eric Clapton Sparks Backlash for New Anti-Lockdown Song with Van Morrison,” The Wrap, November 27, 2020, https://www.thewrap.com/eric-clapton-sparks-backlash-for-new-anti-lockdown-song-with-van-morrison/.
21. Mary Papenfuss, “ ‘This Has Gotta Stop’: Eric Clapton Releases Apparent Anti-Vax Anthem,” HuffPost, August 28, 2021, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eric-clapton-gotta-stop-anti-vaccination-anthem_n_612aa8cae4b0231e369c78d1.
22. Scarlett Howes, “Lockdown-Sceptic Rockstar Eric Clapton Blasts Vaccine Safety ‘Propaganda’ and Claims He Had a ‘Disastrous Reaction’ to AstraZeneca Covid Jab Which Made Him Fear He’d Never Play Again,” Daily Mail, May 15, 2021, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9583109/Eric-Clapton-hits-propaganda-vaccine-safety.html.
23. Joshua Q. Nelson, “Former Democrat Rubin on Why He Is Voting for Trump: ‘No Feeling of Patriotism’ on the Left Anymore,” Fox News, October 29, 2020, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dave-rubin-why-voting-trump-no-feeling-patriotism-left-biden.
24. Glenn Beck, “How COVID Masks Created a ‘Psychological Condition’ to Fear Others,” YouTube, May 14, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mON0CvDm0W8.
25. Claudia Assis, “Elon Musk on Donald Trump: ‘Just No,’ ” Market Watch, November 4, 2016, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-on-donald-trump-just-no-2016-11-04; Kevin Webb, “Tesla CEO Elon Musk Says He Supports Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang, Calling Universal Basic Income ‘Obviously Needed,’ ” Business Insider, August 10, 2019, https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-2020-election-endorsement-andrew-yang-president-2019-8.
26. Andrea Widburg, “Elon Musk, Having Taken the ‘Red Pill,’ Now Urges Others to Join Him,” American Thinker, May 18, 2020, https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/elon_musk_having_taken_the_red_pill_now_urges_others_to_join_him.html; Kari Paul, “Elon Musk Rails against ‘Facist’ Shelter-in-Place Orders in Tesla Earnings Call,” The Guardian, April 29, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/29/tesla-quarterly-earnings-coronavirus-shares.
27. Bill Bostock, “Elon Musk Called One of the World’s Top Lockdown Advocates an ‘Utter Tool’ Who Does ‘Absurdly Fake Science’ after He Was Caught Breaking His Own Rules to Meet His Lover,” Business Insider, May 6, 2020, https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-prof-neil-ferguson-resigned-moron-absurdly-fake-science-2020-5.
28. Joseph Curl, “Elon Musk: What I Find Most Surprising Is That CNN Still Exists,” The Daily Wire, April 17, 2020, https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-what-i-find-most-surprising-is-that-cnn-still-exists.
29. Grace Kay, “Elon Musk and Trump Praised the Canadian Vaccine Protest That the Police Say Spurred Investigations into ‘Threatening’ and “Illegal’ Behavior,” Business Insider, January 31, 2022, https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-donald-trump-praised-canadian-trucker-vaccine-mandate-protest-2022-1.
30. Widburg, “Elon Musk.”
31. JRE Clips, “Joe Rogan: I’ve Been Liberal My Whole Life,” YouTube, January 16, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ctTmQn8w7A.
32. Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders), “I think I’ll probably vote for Bernie…,” Twitter, January 23, 2020, 3:38 p.m., https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1220445820505546755.
33. Tyler Durden, “WEF ‘Infiltration’; Rogan Red-Pilled, Canadian MP Cut Off for Asking—Accused of Spreading ‘Disinformation,’ ” ZeroHedge, February 20, 2022, https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/wef-infiltration-rogan-redpilled-canadian-mp-cut-asking-accused-spreading-disinformation.
34. The Jimmy Dore Show, “Video: Trudeau & Cabinet Trained by Global Economic Cabal—Admits WEF Chairman,” YouTube, February 19, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJdHF7J_ZZM.
35. Fox News, “Comedian Tells Tucker Carlson His Take on Identity Politics,” YouTube, July 22, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR7nJutI5iI&t=65s.
36. Jenin Younes (@Leftylockdowns1), “Civil liberties attorney…,” (profile) Twitter, https://twitter.com/Leftylockdowns1 (Younes has updated her profile, but a screenshot is available on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Q9A1uziusgAJ:https://twitter.com/Leftylockdowns1%3Fref_src%3Dtwsrc%255Etfw%257Ctwcamp%255Etweetembed%257Ctwterm%255E1472239256382885891%257Ctwgr%255E%257Ctwcon%255Es1_%26ref_url%3D+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us).
37. Jenin Younes (@Leftylockdowns1), “How do people not see the dangers…,” Twitter, November 27, 2021, 9:58 p.m., https://twitter.com/Leftylockdowns1/status/1464790666525949957.
38. Jenin Younes (@Leftylockdowns1), “Yesterday someone I went to college with…,” Twitter, February 6, 2022, 2:00 p.m., https://twitter.com/Leftylockdowns1/status/1490400078846119939.
39. Russell Brand, “Russell Brand on Revolution: ‘We No Longer Have the Luxury of Tradition,’ ” New Statesman, October 24, 2013, https://www.newstatesman.com/uncategorized/2013/10/russell-brand-on-revolution.
40. Brackets in the original. “Russell Brand Attacks Capitalism,” The Socialist Party of Great Britain, December 2013, https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2013/no-1312-december-2013/russell-brand-attacks-capitalism/.
41. Russell Brand, “You Will Own Nothing & Be Happy,” YouTube, January 24, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOrS6buynAk&list=WL&index=9&t=1.
42. Russell Brand, “So, I’m Right-Wing Now?,” YouTube, February 8, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4e8lSQy64c.
43. Russell Brand, “WHAT?! The Great Reset Is NOT a Conspiracy!,” YouTube, January 30, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXTPzFSx6oI.
44. Cynthia McKinney (@cynthiamckinney), “WEF Puppets and Core Members are kooks…,” Twitter, February 21, 2022, 12:29 a.m., https://twitter.com/cynthiamckinney/status/1495631635819208712.
45. Cynthia McKinney (@cynthiamckinney), “Imagine you have an idea…,” Twitter, January 26, 2022, 10:27 a.m., https://twitter.com/cynthiamckinney/status/1486360186314969096.
46. Cynthia McKinney (@cynthiamckinney), “Weekend Watching: Aldous Huxley’s…,” Twitter, August 20, 2021, 7:01 p.m., https://twitter.com/cynthiamckinney/status/1428854707175428100.
47. The Hill, “Kim Iversen: ‘Leftugees’ Fly Blue States amid HORRIBLE Dem Policies, DIRE Need for Self-Reflection,” YouTube, December 14, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R9rbm6S0mQ&t=266s.
48. Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal), “Here is the Lockdown Left closing ranks with the imperial Trudeau regime…,” Twitter, February 14, 2022, 12:53 a.m., https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1493463361148923910.
49. The Jimmy Dore Show, “How Lockdowns Devastate You While Boosting Billionaires,” YouTube, December 5, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGdxfQe1yNM&t=3176s.
50. Stavroula Pabst and Max Blumenthal, “Flattening the Curve or Flattening the Global Poor? How Covid Lockdowns Obliterate Human Rights and Crush the Most Vulnerable,” The Grayzone, December 3, 2021, https://thegrayzone.com/2021/12/03/flattening-curve-global-poor-covid-lockdowns-human-rights-vulnerable/.
51. The Jimmy Dore Show, “How Lockdowns Devastate You.”
52. Tims Hains, “Joe Rogan to Bill Gates: ‘How Are You Giving Any Health Advice When You Look like That?,’ ” RealClear Politics, March 7, 2022, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/03/07/joe_rogan_to_bill_gates_how_are_you_giving_any_health_afvice_when_you_look_like_.html.
53. Timothy P. Carney, “Disparate Impact: Bill de Blasio’s Vaccine Passport Rule Is Racist according to the Left’s Definition,” Washington Examiner, August 3, 2021, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/disparate-impact-bill-de-blasio-s-vaccine-passport-rule-is-racist-according-to-the-left-s-definition/ar-AAMTHNV.
54. Caroline Downey, “After Altercation at Restaurant, Black Lives Matter Claims NYC Vaccine Mandate Is Being Weaponized,” National Review, September 20, 2021, https://www.nationalreview.com/news/after-altercation-at-restaurant-black-lives-matter-claims-nyc-vaccine-mandate-is-being-weaponized/.
55. Brigid Delaney, “The Pandemic Has Forced ‘Safe, Comfortable’ Australians to Confront Human Rights. So What’s Next?,” The Guardian, December 3, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/03/the-pandemic-has-forced-safe-comfortable-australians-to-confront-human-rights-so-whats-next.
56. Ibid.
57. Naomi Klein, “The Great Reset Conspiracy Smoothie,” The Intercept, December 8, 2020, https://theintercept.com/2020/12/08/great-reset-conspiracy/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=theintercept&fbclid=IwAR1v5OgWo7Xg620Y2dl669bn6rm8-Q5Nsd-9IImDqYJ5oBo7oSNTBmqq0as.
58. “ ‘The Great Reset’ Conspiracy Flourishes amid Continued Pandemic,” Anti-Defamation League, December 29, 2020, https://www.adl.org/blog/the-great-reset-conspiracy-flourishes-amid-continued-pandemic.
59. “What Is the Great Reset—and How Did It Get Hijacked by Conspiracy Theories?,” BBC News, June 24, 2021, https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-57532368.
60. Ibid.
61. World Economic Forum, “What is the Great Reset? | Davos Agenda 2021,” YouTube, January 25, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPYx12xJFUQ&t=44s.
62. Real Time with Bill Maher, “New Rule: Give It to Me Straight, Doc | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO),” YouTube, April 16, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp3gy_CLXho.
63. Ibid.; “Bill Maher’s Insightful and Funny Covid Monologue,” American Institute for Economic Research, April 17, 2021, https://www.aier.org/article/bill-mahers-insightful-and-funny-covid-monologue/.
