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Pentagon Confirms US Boots Are On The Ground In Ukraine (ZH)
Outrage Ensues After The Atlantic Suggests ‘Amnesty’ For Pandemic Authoritarians (ZH)
We Need Covid Accountability, Not Amnesty (QTR)
New World Order: The West Will Have To Live Within Its Means (Karaganov)
Zelensky ‘Nullified’ Grain Shipping Deal – Russian Duma Speaker (RT)
There Will Be No Deal – Zelensky Broke The Rules! (Milacic)
Russia Offers Alternative To Ukraine ‘Grain Deal’ (RT)
Russia Demands Black Sea Corridor Guarantees From Ukraine (RT)
Russia Responds To Kiev’s Nuclear Plant ‘Hypocrisy’ (RT)
Blue Checkers Revolt Over Musk’s Threatened Monthly Charge (Turley)
UK Households Face ‘Very, Very Hard’ Winter – National Grid (RT)
Cockamamie Story (Kunstler)
The Tale of Two Greedy Landlords (Catte Black)
Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy (Springer)
Fatal Flaw: 42% False Discovery Rate for SARS-CoV-2 nonQ-RT-PCR Test (PR)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“..this is the start of perhaps inevitable ‘mission creep’..”

Pentagon Confirms US Boots Are On The Ground In Ukraine (ZH)

Two bombshell reports by the Associated Press and Washington Post Monday and Tuesday have confirmed that the United States has boots on the ground in the Ukraine conflict. Crucially, these troops are performing tasks separate from mere embassy security. The American troops are said to be performing “inspections” of US weapon caches after last week the State Department and Pentagon unveiled a new plan to track US-supplied weapons in efforts to implement accountability for the billions of dollars worth of arms and ammunition transferred to Ukrainian forces since near the start of the war eight months ago.

“A small number of U.S. military forces inside Ukraine have recently begun doing onsite inspections to ensure that Ukrainian troops are properly accounting for the Western-provided weapons they receive, a senior U.S. defense official told Pentagon reporters Monday,” the AP/WaPo reporting revealed. A Pentagon briefing confirmed this “small” contingency of troops has been advised to not do inspections “close” to the front lines of fighting: The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide a military update, would not say where the inspections are taking place or how close to the battlefronts the U.S. troops are getting. The official said U.S. personnel can’t do inspections “close to the front lines,” but said they are going where security conditions allow.

There have already been “several inspections” overseen by U.S. Defense attache and a US Office of Defense Cooperation team based out of the Ukrainian capital. The report underscores that “U.S. President Joe Biden has ruled out any combat role for U.S. forces inside Ukraine.” However, what’s clear is that despite the White House’s ruling out of “combat” troops, this is the start of perhaps inevitable ‘mission creep’ – as has been seen in other conflict zones (such as Syria). If US troops are doing inspections of Ukrainian arms and ammo, and presumably Russia is currently targeting any and all Ukrainian military bases, this puts American troops and assets in Russia’s crosshairs, greatly increasing the possibility that the US and Russia could stumble into a direct shooting war.

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“Hey I’m sorry we scared the hell out of you & lied for years & persecuted & censored anyone who disagreed but there was an election going on & we really wanted to beat Donald Trump so it was important to radically politicize the science even if it destroyed your children’s lives.”

Outrage Ensues After The Atlantic Suggests ‘Amnesty’ For Pandemic Authoritarians (ZH)

The Atlantic has come under fire for suggesting that all the terrible pandemic-era decisions over lockdowns, school closures, masking, and punishing an entire class of people who questioned the efficacy and wisdom of taking a rushed, experimental vaccine – for a virus with a 99% survival rate in most, should all be water under the bridge. “We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID,” writes Brown Professor Emily Oster – a huge lockdown proponent, who now pleads from mercy from the once-shunned. “Let’s acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep uncertainty, and then try to work together to build back and move forward,” she continues. Except, they weren’t “in the dark” about Covid.


There were numerous sources pointing out the actual science that ran contrary to the mandate claims, and they were deliberately silenced by a vast media campaign. Evidence suggests that media platforms worked in tandem with Big Tech, the CDC and the Biden Administration. It was not a simple matter of overreaction, there was collusion to remove all counter-information. Nice try, Emily. As the Daily Sceptic’s Michael P. Senger puts it: “There’s a lot wrong here. First, no, you don’t get to advocate policies that do extraordinary harm to others, against their wishes, then say, “We didn’t know any better at the time!” Ignorance doesn’t work as an excuse when the policies involved abrogating your fellow citizens’ rights under an indefinite state of emergency, while censoring and cancelling those who weren’t as ignorant. The inevitable result would be a society in which ignorance and obedience to the opinion of the mob would be the only safe position.”

And look at that ratio: In one epic Twitter thread, Claremont Institute Senior Fellow Matthew J. Peterson (@docMJP) excoriates Oster’s entire premise; “Hey—sorry you lost your job b/c of the vax that doesn’t work and your grandmother died alone and you couldn’t have a funeral and your brother’s business was needlessly destroyed and your kids have weird heart problems—but let’s just admit we were all wrong and call a truce, eh? It’s too bad we shut the entire economy down & took on tyrannical powers that have never been used before in this country—looking back, you should have been able to go to church and use public parks while we let people riot in the streets—but it was a confusing time for everyone.

Hey I’m sorry we scared the hell out of you & lied for years & persecuted & censored anyone who disagreed but there was an election going on & we really wanted to beat Donald Trump so it was important to radically politicize the science even if it destroyed your children’s lives. OK, yes we said unvaccinated people should die & not get healthcare while never questioning Big Pharma once but we are compassionate people which is why even though we shut down the entire economy we also bankrupted the nation & caused inflation. You’re welcome! Let’s be friends.”As QTR’s Fringe Finance notes, Oster’s plea for the decency that her ilk failed to offer up to most Americans during the throws of the pandemic comes at a point where the Covid narrative has been all but lost by the Democrats and the mainstream media.

There have been several recent large wins for the unvaccinated who had the constitution and backbone to stand up for themselves throughout a year of being constantly berated and ferociously scorned as second class citizens.

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Starting with Emily Oster and the Atlantic..

We Need Covid Accountability, Not Amnesty (QTR)

And now Emily Oster has the gall to write a ho-hum style piece calling for “amnesty” with nary a worthy apology to be seen? Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice to see any common sense making its way through the cracks. I support the apologies to the unvaccinated and the court rulings because I think they are just. I haven’t been gloating about them because I’m over the topic in general and because I’m simply ready to move on and not dwell on it. But the same hubris and arrogance that caused all of this poor decision-making to begin with is still dripping off of The Atlantic’s latest “mea culpa”, which makes an attempt to rewrite history and trivializes the trauma many endured. “Some of these choices turned out better than others,” the article casually writes at one point.

At another point, like an alcoholic who can’t stop himself from taking another swig from the bottle, it begrudgingly has to make a perfunctory and obligatory reference to “misinformation”: We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty. We can leave out the willful purveyors of actual misinformation while forgiving the hard calls that people had no choice but to make with imperfect knowledge. Instead of an apology, we are left with this kumbaya moment: The standard saying is that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But dwelling on the mistakes of history can lead to a repetitive doom loop as well. Let’s acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep uncertainty, and then try to work together to build back and move forward.


The Atlantic article can lead me to only one conclusion: many of the left simply don’t know how to apologize. After all, it wasn’t enough to tell honest people that they were wrong during the course of the pandemic for decisions that turned out to be right, The Atlantic now wants to tell them they’re wrong again if they don’t forgive those who made their lives hell over the last two years. A little tip for The Atlantic: next time, write a piece focused on apologizing instead of issuing orders about exactly how, when and why people should be forgiving you. In case you didn’t notice, it was trying to micromanage other peoples’ lives that got you in this mess in the first place. Talk to us when you offer up accountability, not amnesty.

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Professor Sergey Karaganov, honorary chairman of Russia’s Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and academic supervisor at the School of International Economics and Foreign Affairs Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow

New World Order: The West Will Have To Live Within Its Means (Karaganov)

We are living in a dangerous period, on the brink of a full-fledged third world war that could end humanity’s existence. But if Russia wins, which is more than likely, and the hostilities do not escalate into a full-blown nuclear conflict, we should not look at the coming decades as a time of dangerous chaos (as most in the West are saying). We have been living in this period for a long time. It will be, if we choose a world of constructive creation and the attainment of freedom, justice and dignity by peoples and nations. The old system of institutions and regimes has already collapsed (freedom of trade and respect for private property). Meanwhile, institutions like the WTO, the World Bank the IMF, the OSCE and the EU are, I am afraid, reaching their last years.

New bodies are beginning to emerge to which the future belongs. They are the SCO, ASEAN+, the Organisation of African Unity and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The Asian Development Bank is already lending many times more than the World Bank. Not all new institutions will survive, and let us hope that a number of them will survive, especially in the UN system, which urgently needs reform to primarily represent the Global Majority in the secretariat, rather than the West. The main thing is to prevent a losing West from stalling history or derailing it through a world war. Not only Global Majority countries, but Western countries can live quite happily in this world.

The West will simply lose the opportunity to plunder the rest of the planet and it will have to shrink a bit. They will have to live within their means. I am afraid that this new world taking shape now will be created beyond my intellectual or physical life. But my young colleagues and certainly their children will see it. But this beautiful vision has to be fought for, first of all by preventing a third world war, because of the attempted revenge of the West. Again, it was in Europe that the first two world wars were unleashed. Russia is now fighting, among other things, to ensure that the prerequisites for a third are not ripe. But conflicts will occur in an era of rapid change. So the struggle for peace should be one of the main themes of our intellectual community and the world at large.

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Wonder how this will end.

Zelensky ‘Nullified’ Grain Shipping Deal – Russian Duma Speaker (RT)

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has rendered the internationally brokered grain shipping agreement void by using the safe passage in the Black Sea to strike Russian warships, Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, said. Moscow claims that Kiev dispatched attack drones via the route designated for grain vessels. “The resumption of the grain deal is impossible as long as the safe corridor is being used for terrorist attacks,” Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel on Tuesday. “With his actions, Zelensky has nullified all of the agreements that were brokered by Türkiye and the UN. ”The senior legislator said the use of the safe corridor for the attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is “unacceptable” and that the grain agreement “cannot exist on the old terms.”

Under the deal struck in July, the sides agreed to unblock the export of grain and other agricultural products from Ukrainian ports. Ukraine, a major producer, is among the vital suppliers of wheat, corn, and barley. On Saturday, Moscow accused Kiev of sending aerial and seaborne drones to strike warships in the city of Sevastopol in Crimea, which hosts a naval base. A minesweeper was damaged in the raid, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. The ministry claimed that the drones moved along the corridor set up for grain ships, and that one device may have been launched from a civilian vessel hired to transport grain. Moscow also said that a British Navy unit masterminded the attack. London has dismissed the accusation. Russia subsequently announced the closure of the corridor on Monday.

Zelensky accused Russia of blackmail and “deliberately exacerbating the food crisis.” Speaking to reporters on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that only 3-5% of grain that had been shipped through the safe corridor went to poorer countries. The UN, however, reported last month that 27% of the ships went to “low and lower-middle income countries” such as Egypt, Kenya, and Bangladesh. It said that 26% went to “upper-middle income countries” such as Türkiye and China, while 47% went to “high-income”nations such as Spain and Italy.

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“Western insurance companies, despite official permission, refused to insure cargoes of food and fertilizers from Russian ports under various pretexts.”

There Will Be No Deal – Zelensky Broke The Rules! (Milacic)

Just a few hours after the attack by sea “drones” on the ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in the early morning of October 29, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the suspension of the “grain deal” – an agreement that had been in force since July 22 of this year. The fact that Russian military claims that naval drones have passed through the territory included in the “grain deal”, where there is no Russian fleet – it only made that decision stronger! The “grain deal” allowed Kyiv to freely export grain from the Black Sea ports under the auspices of the UN, in exchange for some easing of sanctions against Russian exports of grain and fertilizers. Formally, this agreement was strictly humanitarian and its sole purpose was to provide grain to the countries of Africa and Southeast Asia, dependent on food imports.

During the passage of the Bosporus, ships traveling from Ukraine and back were examined by UN inspectors to exclude the possible import and export of prohibited goods. But the Kremlin did not receive its benefit from the deal … Ukraine, having unblocked the export of grain by sea, at the same time was able to unload land communications and receive a significant income from the export of agricultural products. In addition, its Western partners were once again able to resell Ukrainian grain, which, with the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, rose significantly in price. But Russia continued to face difficulties in securing the export of its grain. Western insurance companies, despite official permission, refused to insure cargoes of food and fertilizers from Russian ports under various pretexts.

At the same time, information was increasingly appearing in the media that American and European authorities were putting significant pressure on insurers. Naturally, Moscow was more and more dissatisfied with the terms of the deal concluded before November 19 and doubted the possibility of its extension. The attack on Sevastopol gave the Kremlin a great trump card – the deal was instantly suspended, although the Russian fleet did not suffer significant damage. The military response of Russia also followed very quickly, the communications center and the base of the special forces of the Ukrainian fleet in Ochakiv were destroyed. However, both the attack on the Russian base and the actual breach of the deal with Russian exports are just the tip of the iceberg.

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“Currently, Russia is “not ready to say” what conditions would have to be met for it to resume its participation in the deal.”

Russia Offers Alternative To Ukraine ‘Grain Deal’ (RT)

Russia is ready to provide poorer grain-importing nations with supplies from its own stocks to replace Ukrainian exports, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Monday. Earlier, Russia suspended its participation in the so-called “grain deal” with Ukraine following an attack on its navy base in Sevastopol. “We can guarantee the Russian side’s readiness to compensate for the missing [grain export] volumes from its own stocks,” Peskov said. Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said Moscow would continue to support African nations despite halting its compliance with the pact. The Kremlin spokesman also said only a tiny portion of all Ukrainian agricultural products exported under the deal were destined for the poorest nations anyway, while “not-so-poor nations located in Europe got the rest.”

Moscow also believes that the grain deal between Russia and Ukraine, which was reached in Istanbul with UN and Turkish mediation, is now in limbo for security reasons. “The deal could hardly be implemented when Russia says it cannot guarantee maritime security in the designated waters” of the Black Sea, Peskov said, adding that the implementation of the agreement is now “much more risky, dangerous and not guaranteed.” The Kremlin has not said the deal is dead altogether, however. Moscow is “still in contact” with other parties, including the UN and Türkiye, Peskov said. Currently, Russia is “not ready to say” what conditions would have to be met for it to resume its participation in the deal.

Under the agreement reached in July, Russia provided a secure “grain corridor” through the Black Sea waters to facilitate the exportation of Ukrainian agricultural products. The agreement was praised as critical for easing the global food crisis and helping the world’s poorest nations to avoid starvation. Last week’s decision by Russia to halt its compliance with the deal caused a grain price surge. Moscow suspended its participation in the deal last week after a massive drone attack on its naval base in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the naval drones launched as part of the attack used the grain corridor to reach their targets and one of them may even have been launched from a civilian vessel supposedly chartered to ship Ukrainian grain.

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“Moscow is now ready to supply African nations with “large volumes” of grain and fertilizers out of its own stocks for free..”

Russia Demands Black Sea Corridor Guarantees From Ukraine (RT)

Kiev should provide “real guarantees” that it would not use the Black Sea corridor created as part of an Istanbul grain deal in its military activities, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone conversation on Tuesday. The two were discussing the circumstances that could convince Moscow to return to its own commitments under the agreement. Russia indefinitely suspended its participation in the deal last week following a massive drone attack on its naval base in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. Some of the naval drones launched by Kiev allegedly used the Black Sea grain corridor’s security zone to close in on their targets, according to the Russian military.

“It is necessary to conduct a detailed investigation of … this incident, as well as to get real guarantees from Kiev that it would rigorously abide by the Istanbul agreements, including the non-use of the humanitarian corridor for military purposes,” the Russian president said, according to the Kremlin’s press release. Russia would only consider re-opening this corridor if that happened, Putin added. He also pointed out that the part of the deal that involved lifting restrictions on Russia’s own agricultural and fertilizer exports had never been implemented. The corridor was touted as a way to secure food supplies to the neediest nations as a matter of priority. But this goal has not been reached in the three months since the agreement was established, Putin noted. “Moscow is now ready to supply African nations with “large volumes” of grain and fertilizers out of its own stocks for free, the president confirmed.

The Russian military closed the Black Sea grain corridor on Monday, arguing that its security could not be guaranteed while Kiev used it for military purposes. Moscow had previously blamed Ukraine and UK Navy specialists for the attack on Sevastopol. London has dismissed the accusation. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the corridor would stay closed at least until all the circumstances of the attack were established. Russia has also repeatedly said that it has not left the deal entirely but only suspended its own commitments under the agreement. In the wake of Moscow’s decision, the UN insisted that “food must flow” regardless of the circumstances. Civilian vessels “can never be a military target or held hostage,” the UN coordinator for the Black Sea grain initiative, Amir Abdulla, said.

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“Ukrainian troops are shelling the region almost on a daily basis, threatening the lives and safety of people, but they keep silent about it, while expressing concerns about the fish..”

Russia Responds To Kiev’s Nuclear Plant ‘Hypocrisy’ (RT)

Kiev’s accusations that Moscow is responsible for an alleged environmental disaster at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant sound hypocritical, given that Ukraine has been constantly targeting the facility, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the administration of Russia’s Zaporozhye Region, said on Tuesday. His statement comes after the Ukrainian state-owned operator, Energoatom, claimed that Russian actions had led to a massive die-off of fish in the facility’s cooling pond.Rogov denounced Kiev’s accusations as the “wildest hypocrisy that knows no bounds.” “Ukrainian troops are shelling the region almost on a daily basis, threatening the lives and safety of people, but they keep silent about it, while expressing concerns about the fish,” he told RIA Novosti.

Moreover, he noted that the plant’s energy units had been shut down precisely because Kiev’s forces have been constantly targeting the area around the facility. On Monday, Ukraine’s Energoatom said that the shutdown of the plant’s energy units had resulted in a decrease in the water temperature in the cooling pond, which led to “mass fish death.” The fish had been “performing a sanitary function” by destroying the green algae and cleaning the cooling tubes of the turbine condenser, it said. However, Ukraine had gone to great lengths to paralyze the plant’s operations and prevent it from coming online again, according to Rogov.

The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, which is Europe’s largest, has been under Russian control since March. Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin officially placed the facility under Moscow’s management. The Russian leader signed the relevant order as Moscow was finalizing the accession of Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions, as well as the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, to Russia following referendums that overwhelmingly supported the move. Russia has on numerous occasions accused Ukraine of shelling the Zaporozhye facility, warning that the attacks could lead to a nuclear disaster. Kiev has denied the allegations, blaming Russia for the shelling instead.

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“Musk is looking for ways to reduce the dependency on advertisers and many of us would support that effort.”

Blue Checkers Revolt Over Musk’s Threatened Monthly Charge (Turley)

As a regular MSNBC pundit is calling for Elon Musk to be stripped of his citizenship for trying to reintroduce free speech protections to Twitter, the new owner is outraging blue checkers by suggesting a monthly charge for verified users. Figures like CNBC’s Jim Cramer declared: “I’m not paying them anything. They should pay me.” Some of us would be willing to pay an added monthly fee to support a true free speech alternative on social media if Musk keeps his word. Of course, for full disclosure, I would first have to get a blue check to get charged for a blue check. I have been barred from being verified for years by Twitter despite being a columnist for newspapers like USA Today and the Hill as well as a legal analyst for CBS, NBC, BBC, and now Fox over the last two decades.

I have been ranked in the top five law professors on Twitter, but I was still turned me down over a dozen times under multiple categories. I have previously joked about the bar on verification and I am not sure how much the blue check honestly does for individuals. Indeed, there are some advantages. I can presumably deny prior statements since they were made by an entirely unverified person using my name for over a decade. Yet, as a long-time critic of Twitter’s censorship system, there has been a long curiosity over the denial. Musk has indicated that he is now looking into such concerns and there may be greater transparency in the weeks to come. However, Musk is looking for ways to reduce the dependency on advertisers and many of us would support that effort.

Recently, General Motors suspended advertising on Twitter until it can evaluate the implications of Musk’s new policies. Some of us immediately criticized the action by GM over the move. The company had no problem with supporting Twitter when it was running one of the largest censorship systems in history — or supporting TikTok (which is Chinese owned and has been denounced for state control and access to data). Twitter has been denounced for years for its bias against conservative and dissenting voices, including presumably many GM customers on the right. None of that was a concern for GM but the pledge to restore free speech to Twitter warrants a suspension.

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“..rolling blackouts could happen during “those deepest darkest evenings in January and February..”

UK Households Face ‘Very, Very Hard’ Winter – National Grid (RT)

Many British households will struggle to pay energy bills this winter that could be double what they are accustomed to despite a government price cap, the National Grid’s CEO, John Pettigrew, has warned. In an interview with the Financial Times on Tuesday, he said he was “under no illusions” and that Brits would find the upcoming winter “financially very, very hard.” “Even with the [taxpayer-funded] price cap this is a doubling-up of what people are used to paying for their energy bills,” Pettigrew said, adding: “Therefore, inevitably there are going to be people who are going to struggle.” The British government has capped the unit cost of energy until April, meaning that an average household would pay about £2,500 ($2,885) over a year on average.

But last winter the equivalent amount was £1,277 ($1,474). Each household will also receive a £400 rebate on utility bills with additional means-tested payments through Social Security benefits. However, that will still be unable to make up the difference given the soaring energy prices. Pettigrew said the National Grid was working on a number of emergency plans to protect the UK against a shortfall of energy from Europe. Earlier, the grid operator’s boss warned that the country could face power cuts on “really cold” evenings this winter due to Europe’s continuing energy squeeze. He said that rolling blackouts could happen during “those deepest darkest evenings in January and February,” likely between 4pm to 7pm.


Such measures were “unlikely,” according to Pettigrew, who warned, however, that there were potential scenarios where Britain’s power generators would fail to secure sufficient supplies from Europe. Normally, during the coldest months and extreme weather events, the UK imports gas and electricity from continental Europe for its gas-fired power plants. However, this year European countries are themselves facing a severe energy crisis exacerbated by anti-Russian sanctions and a sharp decrease in Russian energy supplies.

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Top spot for craziest story.

Cockamamie Story (Kunstler)

So far, police have not disclosed how DePape journeyed from Berkeley to Pacific Heights at 2:00 o’clock in the morning, about fourteen miles. Did he walk from Berkeley across the Bay Bridge and then halfway across town? Mr. DePape is apparently also known to the police as a gay hustler, that is, a person who sells sex for money. Unless I’m mistaken, the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) has a detective department — experienced men and women who go around the city seeking clues, evidence, and testimony in order to make sense of perplexing crimes — and then solve them! Shall we assume they are on-the-job? Now, Paul Pelosi, 82, who made a $300-million fortune running a car service (also shrewd investments in real estate and the stock market), has been in quite a bit of trouble this year.

On May 28, 2022, he was arrested for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) in Napa (near a vineyard estate he owns with Nancy) when his 2021 Porsche crashed into a 2014 Jeep driven by one “John Doe” (as the police identified him). KGO-TV, ABC’s affiliate in the San Francisco area, said that there was a second person in the Porsche with Pelosi at the time of the accident. He has never been identified. In August, Mr. Pelosi was sentenced to five days in jail, a fine of roughly $7,000, a three-month drinking-and-driving course, eight hours of public service, and having an “interlock” device installed on his car that would require him to blow into an alcohol sensor before the engine can ignite. By any chance, were the Napa Police or the County Court contacted in the matter at some point by the US Capitol Police or the FBI? We may never know.

If David DePape didn’t walk fourteen miles from Berkeley to Pacific Heights, or take a cab (expensive), how did he get there? Here’s a theory: he rode the BART subway from Berkeley to the Church Street and Mission station in the city, a five-minute walk to the Castro, San Francisco’s fabled gay district. Sometime before 2:00 a.m. closing time, he met up in a bar there with Paul Pelosi, who drove DePape to the Pelosi house in a car not equipped with an interlock device. That is to say, David DePape was let into the house by Mr. Pelosi. The police and the news media have theorized that DePape broke into the place by smashing a glass door in back. Uh-huh…. Ask yourself: would there not be an alarm system at least on all the ground floor windows and doors in the house? Would there not be security cameras on the back side of the house — the side that burglars might prefer, if they could get over the wall?

Would the Speaker of the House, with a discretionary budget on top of a $300-million fortune, and in a time of epic political rancor, not have a team of security guards in place at her private home? Initial news media chatter had both DePape and Paul Pelosi dressed in their underwear, struggling over a hammer which turned out to belong to Mr. Pelosi. Not until the police entered the house did DePape wrest the hammer from Mr. Pelosi and commence to brain him with it. What does the arrest report actually say about the two men’s state-of-dress? It is not public information. How and why were the police just watching until DePape assaulted Mr. Pelosi — who was hospitalized afterward and had surgery on his cracked skull? (Uh, how did a blow that literally broke his skull not kill the elderly Mr. Pelosi?)

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“what would we do without the Banker to guide us!?”

The Tale of Two Greedy Landlords (Catte Black)

Once upon a time in a land far away and in a time of plenty there were two rich and prosperous Landlords who each owned large and spacious adjoining buildings wherein many people lived. The apartments were warm and comfortable and every week there was a market where grain was brought from Landlord B’s land and fruit and meat and vegetables from Landlord A’s. While wood from Landlord B’s copses kept the Communal Woodpile stocked with seasoned logs. Everyone was happy. The Landlords were both friends with a Banker. The Banker was richer than both the Landlords combined and in fact he owned their houses and their land and watched carefully what they did with them. And one day he invited them to a sumptuous dinner at his house and said “things could be better”.

“How could things be better, friend Banker?” asked Landlord B, “there is food in our granaries and money in our coffers, and everyone is happy”. “Your people are charged too little for too much luxury. They expect fuel for their stoves and food in their markets, and are never grateful enough to you for your kindness.” The two Landlords looked at each other and realized this might be true, for they rarely disagreed with the Banker. “Yes,” said Landlord A, sadly shaking his head, “our people are feckless children that never give enough thanks for our largesse, but alas, what can we do?”. “They need to be taught their place”, the Banker said. “They need to pay a proper price for what you provide and learn to be grateful. You should triple the price of food from your farms and fuel from the Communal Wood Pile”.

The two Landlords looked at each other in apprehension. They were greedy and liked the sound of this very much, but they were also cowards. “But”, said Landlord B, “but if we do that they may just become annoyed and might refuse to pay or break our windows or our bones and then we will be worse off not better!” This was true. And caused the Landlords to shake their heads regretfully. But the Banker was cleverer than either of them. He merely smiled. “They are children”, he said, “and children require stories in order to learn about life’s harsh truths. So, you will tell them a story”. The two Landlords looked at him, but did not understand.

“You will tell them there is a new and terrible plague which has broken the Supply Chain and consequently fuel and food are three times more expensive!” “But…but there is no new and terrible plague”, stammered Landlord A. “Of course there is”, smiled the Banker, “why else would hundreds of people be dying?” “But hundreds of people are not dying”, stammered Landlord B. “Of course they are,” smiled the Banker, “how could they not when there is a new and terrible plague?” They looked at him for a long time before gradual understanding dawned, and their puzzled frowns turned to smiles. “Of course!” they said in unison, “what would we do without the Banker to guide us!?”

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Pierre Kory, MD MPA @PierreKory:

A high quality Sociology journal finally publishes the truth about what happened in Medical Science during Covid.
Phenomenal paper.
Cue censorship by mass media and social media.
Hope Chief Twit starts making changes fast.

Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy (Springer)

Abstract: The emergence of COVID-19 has led to numerous controversies over COVID-related knowledge and policy. To counter the perceived threat from doctors and scientists who challenge the official position of governmental and intergovernmental health authorities, some supporters of this orthodoxy have moved to censor those who promote dissenting views. The aim of the present study is to explore the experiences and responses of highly accomplished doctors and research scientists from different countries who have been targets of suppression and/or censorship following their publications and statements in relation to COVID-19 that challenge official views.


Our findings point to the central role played by media organizations, and especially by information technology companies, in attempting to stifle debate over COVID-19 policy and measures. In the effort to silence alternative voices, widespread use was made not only of censorship, but of tactics of suppression that damaged the reputations and careers of dissenting doctors and scientists, regardless of their academic or medical status and regardless of their stature prior to expressing a contrary position. In place of open and fair discussion, censorship and suppression of scientific dissent has deleterious and far-reaching implications for medicine, science, and public health.

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Fatal Flaw: 42% False Discovery Rate for SARS-CoV-2 nonQ-RT-PCR Test (PR)

We have just published a new study that shows that nonQ-RT-PCR (non-quantitative RT-PCR testing as used to diagnose COVID-19 from 2020 to the present day suffers a flaw that ultimately draws into question all of what has been reported on COVID-19 by official channels, including the results of COVID-19. Specifically, assuming a 5% prevalence rate, the high false discovery rate (42%) of the use of nonQ-RT-PCR means


1. For every 50 true positives out of 1,000, a total of 86 people with or without SARS-CoV-2 infection or residual fragments will be reported. Of these, 36 of these will be false positives.
2. For every 50 true positives, 86 people without SARS-CoV-2 infection or residual fragments will be have to be isolated/quarantined. Of these, 36 will not be infected.
3. For every 50 true positives that are tested and found positive in-hospital, 86 people with or without SARS-CoV-2 infection or residual fragments will be told that they “have COVID-19”. If the 36 false positive patients are hospitalized with other COVID-19 patients, they will likely then contract a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
4. The number of “cases” via positive PCR has been overstated by a factor of 72% (the original post read “80:1” assuming a prevalence of 5%).
5. This is true for generic case reporting up until May 2021 when CDC decided to reduce the PCR cycle threshold value (Ct) for the vaccinated to less than 27, leaving the unvaccinated rate biased by high false discovery rate of arbitrarily high Ct, biasing all reported rates in these two groups favoring cases in the unvaccinated from that point on.
6. This +72% bias is true in any clinical trial or any study that used arbitrarily high Ct values, INCLUDING THE VACCINE STUDIES. As a direct result of this fatal flaw, combined with CDC’s gaff “PCR+ = COVID-19″? There are no credible COVID-19 vaccine trial data.

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  • #119975

    I’m not going to post the Pelosi & DePape trash on my own blog(s)…

    Ha ha, but TAE is enough of a dump to put it here…

    #119976
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @Dora

    Thanks for the link to Midwestern Doc.

    Do you get the same uneasy feeling when this doctor inveighs against The Cult that his/her proscription includes ascribing to “fundamental(s)” another soothing word, his word of choice?

    I do agree, although, that Walensky, Dave Tam, Fauci and especially Scott Gottlieb should be stripped of land, title and riches AND given to me, but let’s not be blind to the fact Authoritarian Followers constitute the primary problem for us all. None of those 4 people ever appeared to be particularly compelling, charismatic and persuasive to me. Hell, they didn’t even appear to believe their own bullshit.

    #119977
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    Greg Mannarino not only understands the role of central banks in lying to the populace and fostering devaluation of money, but he also understands the role of terror campaigns and fake vaccines, and delivers it all with humour.

    “Tell people the truth, they hate you more for it.”

    #119978
    Red
    Participant

    Here’s a thought, Putin is with the WEF and doing his part to help bring the west to heel. The WEF crowd knows the west’s population will resist the “you will own nothing and be Happy” narrative. The WEF fers are trying to implement social crediting systems just like the ones working now in China. The dots seem to align a bit too well. Putin’s Russia has the means to cripple the majority of the west and the sanctions are being applied at the behest of the EU. Seems like a chess move to me. Ask the Chinese if they like the social scoring system and I’m sure most would say they can’t complain. 😉

    #119979
    John Day
    Participant

    ‘Democracy Dies In Darkness’ – Unless You Want Pelosi Video Released
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pelosi-house-cameras-caught-break-capitol-police-werent-watching-feed

    #119980
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    ‘Limited nuclear war? Iran/Saudi/Russia. More military drills than ever. Droughts, floods and animal diseases. Food shortages. Electric car charging in Italy more expensive that gasoline. The perfect shit storm we’re in.

    #119981
    John Day
    Participant

    Sourced from Guardian UK, but still likely to be true:

    Jair Bolsonaro has reportedly thrown in the towel after his presidential election defeat in Brazil on Sunday, telling members of the supreme court: “It’s over.”

    He went silent for nearly two days after being beaten by the leftwing former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the vote. When Bolsonaro finally appeared before the cameras on Tuesday afternoon, he failed to explicitly concede defeat or congratulate his vanquisher.

    However, shortly after that appearance, he made his way to the supreme court where he met seven of its judges, including Edson Fachin, who later told journalists that Bolsonaro had indicated to them that he understood the writing was on the wall.
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/02/jair-bolsonaro-reportedly-accepts-defeat-brazil-election

    #119982
    John Day
    Participant

    RIM finally noticed that I made a “funny” 🙂

    ‘I’m not going to post the Pelosi & DePape trash on my own blog(s)…’

    “Ha ha, but TAE is enough of a dump to put it here…”

    #119983
    John Day
    Participant

    AFKTT , quoting V. Arnold:
    ‘‘As near as I can tell; critical thinking skills are lacking in 99 – 99.9% of all humans’
    In my experience it’s only 95%. I believe about one in twenty can think things out once they are given the correct information.”

    I had the same thought about the 5%, but more than that can figure it out.
    They are just afraid to act on it if it’s socially-suicidal.
    It bothers them, but they don’t act.

    #119985
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    ‘They are just afraid to act on it if it’s socially-suicidal.
    It bothers them, but they don’t act.’

    The controllers know that, of course. They know they can lie and bully and steal, and most people won’t fight back.

    I recall an incident at an organised dance. The announcer announced Swing Waltz (3/4) followed by Gypsy Tap (4/4).

    The vast majority of participants attempted to dance 3/4 steps to 4/4 music.

    I immediately recognised the music was out of order.

    That makes me ‘a bit weird’.

    I do know for certain that many people just do not see what I see -literally. Their eyes are defective and they struggle through life

    Many older people literally cannot hear properly because they spent time next to noisy machines without hearing protection.

    Sometimes, when having a conversation with people, one notices that the other person is not listening at all and is simply waiting for an opportunity to jump in with their own narrative.

    Add to that the fact that a lot of people cannot read. And the portion who can read and understand what they have erad is declining rapidly. 🙁

    As has been discussed here on numerous occasions, the near constant deluge of misinformation and just plain noise generated by governments (including so-called education institutions) and mainstream media deadens brains rather wonderfully.

    Many YouTube commentaries highlight the fact that it has all gone way past the point of much being salvaged from this mess.

    Another day of NATOstan governments making everything worse. 🙁

    #119986
    Polemos
    Participant

    my parents said know, 😉 I find spicy hot takes help move things, too.

    Dr D Rich —I didn’t get a chance earlier to say Thank You for the comment you directed to me earlier, but it has produced in me a lot of thought. You see precisely what my problem is, and thank you for encouraging me to think about overcoming aspects of the programming within me. Acting on it: this is my responsibility and comes at a prime time for it. So, Thank You.

    That said, I’m not sure what you’re talking about when you mentioned A Midwestern Doc’s term ‘fundamental(s)’ (or a term associated with that), but I’ve not read him closely though I am familiar enough to know who you’re talking about. Could you go into it?

    Red, your idea aligns in its own way with Redneck’s observation re: Putin’s (alleged?) hypochondria and the push to vaccinate Russians with a Spike-inducing vaccine system. That is, Russia still participates in its own version of motivating citizens to partake in a social version of civilizational apoptosis, programmed death of classes of citizens, while securing for itself a stake in the dawning of the New World to follow this present transition.
    —In trying to find out more about Sputnik V or the Gamaleya vaccine, I found this (two-year-old) article from Science.com:

    In a press release, the Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow said an interim analysis of a large-scale trial underway in Russia had found 92% efficacy for its “Sputnik V” vaccine. The release quoted the Russian minister of health saying the results demonstrate that Sputnik V “is an efficient solution to stop the spread of coronavirus infection.” Yet it also noted the review covered just 20 total COVID-19 cases in the vaccinated and placebo groups—far too few for the claim be convincing, experts inside and outside of Russia say.
    In contrast, they note, Pfizer and BioNTech analyzed 94 cases to make their efficacy claim, and other vaccinemakers plan to wait for at least 50 or more COVID-19 cases to accumulate in a trial to assess a candidate’s worth. “It’s very difficult to explain [the Gamaleya] announcement,” says Svetlana Zavidova, a Moscow-based lawyer who heads Russia’s Association of Clinical Trials Organizations and closely follows COVID-19 vaccine R&D in the country. “I’m afraid they looked at the results of Pfizer and added 2%.”
    The claims don’t pass “the smell test,” adds Wayne Koff, who heads the nonprofit Human Vaccines Project, which is attempting to improve the design of future vaccines. (The Gamaleya media contact on the press release did not reply to Science’s request for an interview.)
    [. . .]
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration “wouldn’t have accepted a report on 20 cases,” says John Moore, a vaccine researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College. He regards the announcement as “Putinology,” referring to the Russian president. “Why is Russia doing this?” Moore asks. “It’s the international vaccine race. They want to be seen to be keeping up with their competitors in other countries. It’s clearly a rushed out announcement. But it doesn’t mean it’s wrong.”

    —Two years later, as we know, the FDA approved the bivalent boosters on reports with 0 cases: or, no trials at all. Fascinating what two years can do.

    #119987
    zerosum
    Participant

    Freezing, starving hoard of people will be overwhelming the borders.
    Millions of Ukrainians refugees will invade and overwhelm the political/social/economic systems of NATO/UK/USA/CANADA.
    Start thinking about what to do to minimize the damaging changes.
    Canada announced that it will accept 500,000 immigrants/year.
    Will all the immigrants be from Ukraine? Mexico?

    #119988
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Germ said

    In the UK, candidates applying to nursing school still have to declare that they have been death vaxxed.

    Hong Kong is even worse. You have to wear a mask outside your home at all times. It is illegal for you to enter bars, restaurants, gyms, workplaces, supermarkets, etc unless you have been vaccinated.

    John Lee the new pretend leader of Hong Kong recently declared that the mask law will not be recinded until more under 5 year olds are vaccinated.

    Hong Kong government uses its puppets in Hong Kong University to use their reputations to back up all its policies. HKU never did any due diligence on the vaccine, never did any testing on masks, they just blindly followed the USA CDC guidelines: their reputations are now gone. With people dying of vaccination injury, the HKU is still recommending vaccination, as instructed by HK government. This is no mistake, it just shows us that any “science” from HKU is actually government policy and the “science” label is a fraud. The HK government is over six months behind the rest of the world and is still standing still. The change of puppet leader made no difference – we knew that was likely to be the case – as the stupidity and economic destruction continues. All their policies make me think of WEF.

    #119989
    John Day
    Participant

    @Polemos and Dr. D Rich: “A Midwestern Doctor” is a lady doctor, pronouns…(oh, you know)

    Polemos mentions “Russia still participates in its own version of motivating citizens to partake in a social version of civilizational apoptosis, programmed death of classes of citizens.”

    Somebody sent me a link to a site today that wondered if mother-earth, Gaia, was carrying out such an “apoptosis” upon her numerous and wayward kids, especially the Democrats.
    https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/the-acip-vote-as-pyroptosis-programmed

    The ACIP vote as pyroptosis — programmed cell death of the Democratic Party
    Gaia appears to want to rid the earth of progressive institutions, the question is why?

    My thoughts:
    I’m not sure of the provenance of these mass movements.

    Hubris is the classic Greek description of this sort of doubling-down, rather than looking at risks to self.

    Hubris is the “tragic flaw”. It can be translated as “vain pride”, but also as “an erection”.

    Masses of people, sharing a common view, which they reinforce within the identity group, are often “wrong” in history. When I look closely, it seems that these groups coalesce through a series of easy-decisions, which are not quite moral/right, and they are then trapped together in a wrong-position.

    Trapping large groups of people this way is what our owners do.

    Sometimes they are on the wrong-side-of-history.

    What will be the consequences this time. Early death? Sterility? Chronic autoimmune disease?

    Will there be a swing of those who have stood morally against the left-totalitarianism into right-totalitarianism? That is the biggest risk that I see. The fact that people have stood morally against the totalitarianism is important. This is a group taking a moral stand, something like 20% of American society at its core. That seems good, but this core may be sidelined and abandoned in a totalitarian swing to regain control of society at the elite level.

    We should see that, anticipate the counter-attack and be prepared to weather it.

    #119990
    aspnaz
    Participant

    Raúl Ilargi Meijer said

    The info is confusing at best. But Paypal was all Ebay at first.

    With such a confused history behind him, how do we determine whether Musk is a genuine entrepreneur, genuine businessman or a front man for somebody else?

    #119991
    aspnaz
    Participant

    AFKTT said

    The controllers know that, of course. They know they can lie and bully and steal, and most people won’t fight back.

    The reasons are explained by Jeff Schmidt … https://archive.org/details/jeff_schmidt_disciplined_minds.

    #119992
    oxymoron
    Participant
    #119993
    aspnaz
    Participant

    oxymoron said

    Climate getting nudge units

    Turning AGW into a religious belief where the existence of the God cannot be proven, it is a matter of faith. The technique of stressing people in order to manipulating them to find a solution, is similar to the methods used by the famous evangelical preachers to convert the sinners to Christianity. The method was to get the person to focus on all the sins they have committed in the past, digging back through all sorts of relationships and emotional garbage until the person is sufficiently stressed out and emotional to be willing to sign up to any solution. The solution being to become a Christian, get that free forgiveness, praise the lord and donate whatever money is in your pocket to the people who saved your soul.

    When you read the news these days it is worth keeping this technique in mind. Much of the news is filler material that is irrelevant, if you are feeling stressed about the news then just take a break and see how life feels without it. Alternatively, train yourself to look up from your laptop and see the real world, thereby establishing the distinction between the “news” and the real world in the same way that a game player distinguishes between the online video game and the real world. Stress makes people behave in ways that are not in their best self interests.

    #119994
    Maxwell Quest
    Participant

    UK based funeral director, John O’Looney, talks to Steven Crowder about the mysterious fibrous clots that embalmers are seeing in those dying from the mRNA shots.

    EXCLUSIVE: UNDERTAKER EXPLAINS “MYSTERIOUS” CLOTTING PHENOMENON!

    #119995
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    Oxy, from yesterday: thank you. You’re one of my favorites here and always will be. 🙂

    #119997
    slimyalligator
    Participant

    upstaterNY. My sympathies for your loss and thanks for your show of strength in tough times it encourages me.
    Thank you

    #119998
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    I have been well aware of New Zealand’s extreme vulnerability to disruption of its fuel import for more than 20 years.

    There is now speculation that the totalitarian fascist globalist government of Adern is on track to declare ‘an energy emergency’ and pull the rug from under most people’s feet whilst at the same time upping the level of tyranny and control.

    I’m sure we will know one way or another before the end of the year -either a slow grind down or a sudden jolt down

    Are we running out of diesel?

    #119999
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    #120000
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @Polemos
    “his/her” MidwestMD used/overused the word “fundamental”. For me that’s a “tell or tip-off” when its use as an adjective “tells” more about the author (you know, where the author positions herself) rather than illuminate her subject. her good destruction of COVID fanatics pathetic screed makes unnecessary adverbs and adjectives, well, unnecessary.

    I don’t see “your” problem, but I do hear the lyrical voice and formidable insight in your writing.
    I see, perhaps, the insurmountable difficulty in “surmounting” the array of Cults (COVID, Fauci/CDC/FDA, military, 12-step, Religion etc.) before us. I see the my two professions, military and medicine, overrun by personality-disordered leaders specifically selected for those same pathological traits (think Mitchell, Jessen, Tornberg, Ritchie all the torture advocates) and the process repeats without rinsing.

    I think the prospects are dismal. Just ask Joe Darby, Erhin Watada and John Murtha how life worked out for them after their principled stands.

    I think Will. Shakespeare nailed it best in Macbeth…my paraphrase, “Hell is empty [becoz] all the devils are here.”

    How do you fight that when our weak sisters and brothers too easily submit to the devils in charge, the bully pulpit or the bonafide threat of institutional violence?

    #120001
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Dr. D Rich,

    Curious as to why you included “12-step” groups into your “array of Cults“?

    Care to expand on your reasoning?

    #120002
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Susmarie108,

    My spiritual practice (which I need, as I fail regularly) includes asking The Infinite source (of Loving, Healing, & Creative Power) throughout my waking moments to be empowered in kindness, patience, tolerance & love towards my brothers & sisters, beginning with greeting my creator each day upon waking (among other things so that I may be aware of & act towards The Infinite’s Will).

    Some days I volunteer, some days I have to surrender (my EG0 is very active during sleep), but when I meet the Infinite’s children face-to-face (not just humans, either) I am instilled with enough kindness, patience, tolerance & love to be helpful (mostly)…

    I am surrounded by dehumanizers, at one level or another, plus I’m still undoing a childhood fractured by the toxic, abusive EG0centric CULTure I grew up in…But, I too have the ability (in the Now) to see & connect with that sweet light you mentioned, cutting through the layers of automaton EG0 that is often like a 10 foot thick wall…

    I see that I need to extend that awareness to the Internet as well, which I Now realize I have been failing, utterly 😐

    30+ years of trying to share what insight I have learned/gleaned about the bleak future where dehumanizers may become empowered to, and indeed are, become MUCH worse has left me more than a little jaded, unfortunately it comes out sideways online where there is no face-to-face, thus no sweet light to connect to…

    I will take your practice to heart, mantra, song, dance, art, nature are all tools I need in The Now to remove my focus off the dehumanizers 🙂

    It’s hard to LOVE the haters/dehumanizers. I’m not there yet. You?

    Some of the lesser haters/dehumanizers I am able/empowered to LOVE, in small doses…The rest I’m strengthened (face-to-face) to tolerate.

    All blessings,

    Gary

    #120003
    Afewknowthetruth
    Participant

    The next phase of escalation by NATO seems to be underway

    #120004
    Veracious Poet
    Participant

    Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you.

    Judging, in this context, is a spiritual condemnation, not per se a character assessment ~ Look up the Golden Rule for clarification & guidance…

    Society has a duty & a moral/spiritual obligation to protect the innocent from liars, cheats, thieves, murderers & rapists (this also includes moneychangers) ~ When a society FAILS to do so, it is by definition EVIL.

    #120042
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    @Veracious Poet and @Polemos et al

    Bion more than hints at the Industrialized phenomenon before us:

    Bion on role suction:
    ” Bion has described his experience as a group therapist when he “feels he is being manipulated so as to be playing a part, no matter how difficult to recognize, in somebody else’s phantasy…a temporary loss of insight, a sense of experiencing strong feelings, and at the same time a belief that their existence is quite adequately justified by the objective situation”.[9] Bion’s work has also been used to illustrate the part played by role suction in the selection of group leaders – dependent groups favouring narcissistic leaders, the fight/flight group paranoids”

    I think Bion is unfair to paranoids as the term is simply too pejorative, a condemnation. Bion’s paranoids are usually right about the vicious soullessness of their Narcissistic overlords. Imagine walking around all day unobstructed by the Narcissists/Psychopaths’ “Mask of Sanity”.

    I also recommend Eric Berne’s “Games People Play” (alcoholic games) for a window into the cultural/familial decades-long conditioning that a society subjects its members. Then regard how The Antithesis is accorded the most horrific treatment by other players in the game. What comes first, the behavior or the drinking?

    #120050
    Susmarie108
    Participant

    @VP/Gary: good of you to share the details of your personal practice, and the challenges maintaining one. I find myself in a similar place. We will overcome.

    Recently I have been contemplating HATE/HATERS with new focus. Why have they emerged in such large numbers? How did they get there? Note: I am not referring to TPTB at the very top, they are in a league of their own. Am thinking about those everyday former friends and associates who went off the cliff.

    I think you may have answered that question for me with this:

    “Society has a duty & a moral/spiritual obligation to protect the innocent from liars, cheats, thieves, murderers & rapists (this also includes moneychangers) ~ When a society FAILS to do so, it is by definition EVIL.”

    How convenient to shift blame from the social contract directly to your “brothers and sisters”. Since we are all responsible for society, the breaking of this “agreement” may go un-noticed and un-attended for years. Somehow we lost our place, our ROLE and responsibility in shepherding the way forward. The de-humanization of everything clearly enables HATE and makes it real. In fact, de-humanization creates/delivers an environment where only hate can survive. TPTB are counting on it to continue!

    The counterbalance is the Golden Rule. It brings HUMANITY back into focus. It starts with the individual, it is a bottom up movement, it is easy to understand and implement. Anyone can do it wherever they are. They don’t need special tools or practices. They just need to remember (ignite the Light of LOVE and take action).

    Be Golden.

    #120104
    Polemos
    Participant

    Dr D Rich, thank you again. I actually have read Games People Play, and my personal copy is somewhere around here amidst the stacks, piles, shelves. RD Laing’s Knots is also one I’ve spent time within, but it’s more like poetry. I’m not always sure what role I play, but I recognize how much online writing, here and elsewhere, has been a way to work through personal issues and figured other people operate in similar ways —for better or worse. (The comparison to group therapy is apt, yes)

    Speaking of, Veracious Poet, thank you for being open and giving context to where you’re coming from. Be well.

    John Day, I get uTobian’s emails because I’m a subscriber, so I noticed that one, too. It seemed, to me, a little hopeful: his audience largely wants for the Party to collapse from its internal contradictions, and it’s encouraging to believe our guiding divine Mother is the one doing the ripping. A slightly different kind of take might be Howard Bloom’s The Lucifer Principle: the internal dynamics of a social organism lead to these kinds of implosions because the overall evolutionary principle needs mitosis to continue its spreading, its growth. The Party isn’t dying: it’s rebirthing, budding new, slightly mutant variations. And thanks for the reminder that the lady is a she —so she says. 😉

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