The Future - Leonard Cohen (1992)

"Give me absolute control
Over every living soul..

Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions
Won't be nothing (won't be)
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it has overturned the order of the soul

..There'll be the breaking of the ancient Western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms, there'll be fires on the road
And the white man dancing..

Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St. Paul
Give me Christ
Or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby: It is murder.."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WlbQRoz3o4

Puppets - Leonard Cohen
(poem by Leonard Cohen put to music by Adam Cohen and released in 2019)

"Another poem that we discussed for years—or, at least, for years he heard my disappointment with the fact that it had never been turned into song. He would chuckle and say, ‘Well, write something that makes sense musically around it, and I’d consider it.’ There is a ferocious boldness to the lyric and to the position of the narrator. And there’s a kind of steely, church-like quality to the arrangement. The lyric: ‘German puppets burned the Jews/Jewish puppets did not choose.’ To open a song that way is frighteningly bold, so the arrangement needed to be robust. And there’s this otherworldliness going through the entire thing. We recorded this German choir in Berlin, and then funny enough we ended up going to Montreal, to get the Jewish men’s choir that played such an important role on You Want It Darker. And so there’s literally a choir of Germans and a choir of Jews on the song blending together. The trick was to create something with as much evocation without going into sentimentality." - Adam Cohen

"Puppet Presidents command
Puppet troops to burn the land
Puppet fire, puppet flames
Feed on all the puppet names
Puppet lovers in their bliss
Turn away from all of this"

https://open.spotify.com/track/1n75ivYHU32BbZpA9TMT3o

Open Letter from the Children’s Covid Vaccines Advisory Group (CCVAG) to the JCVI: Pause vaccines for children pending urgent review

"Increase in all-cause mortality in males aged 15-19 requires immediate investigation"

Thursday, 10th February 2022, updated 13th February 2022

To:
Professor Wei, JCVI
Professor Sir Chris Whitty, CMO
Rt Hon Sajid Javid, Secretary of State, DHSC
cc Rt Hon Boris Johnson, Prime Minister
https://www.hartgroup.org/open-letter-to-the-jcvi-pause-vaccines-for-children-pending-urgent-review/

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FIRST WE TAKE (OTTAWA, THEN) MANHATTAN, THEN WE TAKE BERLIN!

"Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win
You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline
How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin
First we take [Ottawa, then] Manhattan, then we take Berlin.."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsvRcZiFj8g

Just over a year ago. Feb 5, 2021:

"NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc said on Friday it had withdrawn an application for emergency-use authorisation of its COVID-19 vaccine in India, after failing to meet the drug regulator's demand for a local safety and immunogenicity study."

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2A50GE

The following posts are about digital identity. [Published Oct 1, 2021, Morningstar, Twitter]

"By 2030, our goal is to enable access to digital identity for every person on the planet." — 2017 ID2020 Summit

2014: ID2020 public-private p'ship

2016: ID2020 Alliance: Accenture, Microsoft, Gavi, Rockefeller, IDEO

2021: ID2020 launches Good Health Pass

"Urgency - While standards-development processes typically move slowly, a cross-sector effort is urgently required to bring Good Health Pass solutions to market in 2021 and to scale globally – with the same urgency applied to vaccine development."

https://www.goodhealthpass.org/principles

"Yesterday's ID2020 is today's Good Health Pass, is tomorrows Digital Identity for All.

Freedom-As-A-Service

The COVID-19 vaccine certificate is the catalyst to drive, unify, & implement a fourth industrial revolution digital identity global infrastructure."

[photo: 2016]