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When I think of how dramatically my world view has been reshaped, even in just the past 10 years, I marvel. And there were periods where it was necessary to pace myself so as to not overload the psychic mechanism. I certainly understand how necessary denial is for those who are not ready to face reality head on. To suddenly realize that the world is not what you thought it was can be overwhelming to all but the strongest and most resilient.
Our imagination would have us believe that if taken aboard an alien craft for a quick tour of the solar system, we would immediately run home to start writing the next UFO best-seller. The reality, however, would be shock, inability to function, followed by years of psychic adjustment with mental, emotional, and relationship problems. “In that case, I’ll take ‘Denial and Projection’ for $500, Alex.” “It’s the DAILY DOUBLE!!”
Someone recently asked why I put so much effort into understanding what’s going on in the world, when there’s nothing I can really do about it anyway? Why not just do what makes you happy and ignore the rest? After thinking about it for a couple minutes, it came down to personal sovereignty and responsibility. I didn’t want to be anyone’s pawn, patsy, or cannon fodder. It’s MY job and MY responsibility to manage my own life and not pass this off to some other authority. And in order to do this effectively one must be informed and not an ignoramus. And to truly be informed one must dethrone the ego for truth. “Good trade!”, says ‘Wind in his Hair’.
Ilargi is right. We are seeing profound, world-changing events occurring right under our noses. We should take them seriously. With all of the insanity and lies flying about, hardly anything seems off-the-table anymore. Or has it always been this way and I am just now starting to notice?
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I was an early adopter of the horse paste strategy, and even experimented on myself before recommending it to others. As JD points out, when examining the concentration of ivermectin per tube, the dosage works out to be the same whether you are a horse or a human @ 0.2mg / Kg
6.08 g / tube x 1.87% Ivermectin / tube = 113.7 mg Ivermectin / tube
Each tube represents one treatment for a 1250 lb horse (or 568 Kg)
113.7 mg / 568 Kg = 0.2 mg / Kg dosage
This is precisely the same dosage as was recommended by FLCCC for treating their Covid patients. I remember worrying about how I was going to measure the correct amount of paste needed per dose only to be pleasantly surprised when the product arrived to find a clever weight scale built right onto the plunger.
Lots of good comments today… good chemistry.
I took the liberty of including a couple of [clarifications] that were inadvertently lost in the Russian to English translation:
“Unfortunately,” the diplomatic spokeswoman said, “the reality of our time has been the increased use of politically motivated unilateral measures by some Western states, mainly the US. We see the sanctions against Russia more and more as a ‘gesture of desperation’ due to the inability of elites [greedy oligarchic psychopaths] to accept the new realities, abandon their collective groupthink [total global hegemony], and recognize Russia’s right to determine its own development path and build relations with its partners.” – Maria Zakharova
I highly recommend Germ’s “They Don’t Want to See People Like Us” video. Like Mister Roboto, it’s not a site I would normally visit or pay attention to, but this interview was very well done and worth watching. Germ has had a very good batting average on this topic.
What I found particularly interesting was how each of these women, although healthcare workers themselves, now feel completely abandoned by the system they once served. This left them with only social media to tell their story, but in what has become all too familiar now, they found themselves censored for expressing information that didn’t align with the establishment narrative.
One could sense by their experience, that the medical field is so hierarchically driven, that anyone who doesn’t follow the company line is immediately singled out and punished. Consequently, because the Covid vaccines are being sold as “safe and effective”, vaccine casualties who seek medical care are considered radioactive, causing health care professionals to run for cover whenever they appear.
Just yesterday, my neighbor and I were commiserating about the health issues that accompany getting older. She shared that in the last week some serious bouts of disabling vertigo have plagued her. As we were exploring the possible causes around inner-ear issues like BPPV, she said that the last couple of onsets occurred after she had sat for a while reading. That’s when I got suspicious and asked if she had had both vaccinations already. “I had the second shot about a month ago”, she said. I told her that some strange neurological problems have been reported from the vaccines and that I would do a quick search for her when I went back inside.
The first thing I came across in my search was this New England Journal FAQ page listing vertigo as one of the delayed reactions being reported:
NEJM — Covid-19 Vaccine Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
“Similarly, many of us are hearing about delayed reactions of unclear significance — examples from my experience include diffuse rashes, vertigo, and late-onset discomfort at the injection site. In all these situations, the relationship to the vaccine is unknown, though plausibly connected (especially the injection-site discomfort).”
Next, I downloaded the VAERS database and shared with her all of the vertigo and dizziness entries it contained. Needless to say, she gained a new perspective on the Covid-19 vaccine initiative. For the first time she was willing to accept that her recent vertigo problem may be related to the vaccine, and was wondering how long the symptoms might last. I didn’t know what to tell her, but advised that she may want to file a VAERS report.
Thanks for your post on Dr. Hare’s study of sociopathy. It gave me more to chew on, and reminded me of a quote I read just this morning on The Burning Platform that I’d never seen before:
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not power that corrupts, but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” – Frank Herbert, Dune
When it comes to Wall Street’s ability to draw its own share of pathological personalities, I’m reminded of the famous response by the Willie Sutton when asked why he robbed banks. Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is.”
Your response had me riveted. I couldn’t agree more with your analysis.
I think what troubles me most as of late is that much of what I see does not appear to be the white noise of your everyday corruption for personal gain, even at the corporate level. I detect a very strong signal indicating a top-down (NATO) orchestration of pandemic policy. This signal clearly popped out of the noise when, after a couple of months, the pandemic was yanked from the control of the medical establishment into the arms of politicians, bureaucrats, and tech companies. Suddenly, as if the script was FedEx’d to everyone overnight, western nations (except Sweden) all singing the same song as to Covid policy.
Can this all be attributed to political opportunism and grandstanding? Does Big Pharma really have this long of reach and power?
It would be an improvement to blame this pandemic fiasco on incompetence or lack of imagination, but there is a growing chorus which believes that even darker forces are at work. How does one explain:
– A gain-of-function chimeric virus escaping from DOD funded lab?
– Refusal to halt international travel until the virus was already well established?
– The misuse of PCR testing to exaggerate case counts, promoting fear and panic?
– Forcing sick patients back into nursing homes to infect others?
– The suppression of effective Covid treatment protocols?
– While promoting $3000/pop remdesivir, which effectively does nothing?
– The push to institute a vaccine passport system?
– The interference of UN bureaucrats into doctor/patient treatment choices?
– The full-scale promotion of experimental mRNA vaccines having no history of success?
– The push to include children and pregnant women in the vaccine trials?
– The refusal to license vaccine tech for global access?
– Endless lockdowns unsupported by statistical data?
– The destruction of the small businesses to the benefit of multinationals?Looking at the whole enchilada, there appears more here than just Operation Warp Greed. In the background lurk the $Trillions pumped into the banking system, not to mention the WEF Great Reset agenda.
When it all unravels, there won’t be a carpet large enough to sweep all the collateral damage under. All the big players have blood on their hands. And with the active suppression of dissent, they can’t say that they were doing the best they could, following the experts, following orders, following the science. That’s when the Crimes Against Humanity trials start. That’s when all the evidence which has been withheld from the public is put on full display. That’s when you see the back-peddling, dancing, singing, and finger pointing reach a fever pitch. And finally, those who were once untouchable, protected, and secure in their positions of power are hung out to dry with new ropes.
“This is the fear porn we are fed all day, every day, by the BBC here in the UK”
As Yogi Berra would say, “It’s like Déjà vu all over again.”
The control of fossil fuels is a key component of the geopolitical hegemony game, so don’t expect anything but double-talk and promises from those who are tasked with moving the pieces on the global chessboard.
The older I get the more I realize that humanity is really just a species of semi-intelligent ape, the bulk of which are still struggling to find a foothold on the lower rungs of the mental plane. This point was driven home for me during a 30-hour shamanic journey I undertook several years ago. It takes perspective to understand your place in the grand scheme of things, like when meeting someone vastly superior to yourself.
And, yes, I am one of those semi-intelligent apes, who only started on the road to awareness after being clubbed and whipped by the consequences of my own stupidity. Before which time I was like most others, running on that hamster wheel trying to get ahead and thinking I had things figured out. It’s humbling to look back, but it enables me to see my own face on everyone I meet who has not yet broken free of the machine.
In this regard, Caitlin Johnstone is correct, it is a consciousness raising problem. But if all the others are anything like me, it will take a pretty big two-by-four across the head to get their attention.
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While I’m here, the comment section has been knocking it out of the park lately! My thanks to all.When I first saw Dmitry’s proposal of abandoning the Donbass to Ukraine (NATO really), my first thought was “Hell no!”. It would be like giving your money to the schoolyard bully expecting that in the future he would leave you alone. I think it’s time to stop coddling imperialism’s naked aggressions. By trying to appease the west’s attempts at global hegemony, it only makes an eventual hot war that much more certain.
I’m reminded of the scene from It’s A Wonderful Life, when George Bailey lets loose on the villain, Henry Potter, because his greed and lust for power could not be sated until he controlled every business in the little backwater of Bedford Falls, especially the measly little Bailey Building and Loan that competed with his bank:
Bailey: … Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you’re talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them work and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn’t think so. People were human beings to him, but to you, a warped, frustrated old man, they’re cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you’ll ever be.
Potter: I’m not interested in your book. I’m talkin’ about the Building and Loan.
Bailey: I know very well what you’re talking about. You’re talking about something you can’t get your fingers on, and it’s galling you. That’s what you’re talking about, I know. …
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There are still a few governments on the planet that operate outside the control of the US-centralized empire, and it’s galling the greedy Potters of Wall Street.
“They have also embraced other questionable beliefs, such as the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. The organization’s founder, Simone Gold, is a physician who was recently arrested as part of the coup attempt at the United States Capitol on January 6.”
I, too, didn’t make it very far into your posted article attacking the AFLDS before screeching to a halt. When it insisted on immediately referencing the establishment talking points about the stolen 2020 election and its resulting capitol protest, I knew that the authors were either paid propagandists or victims of their own echo-chamber profession. It had all the hallmarks of an establishment ‘hit piece’.
When it comes to the recent election, I would have no qualms about plopping down $100,000 betting that it was stolen. The evidence is overwhelming. As for the Jan 6th ‘coup attempt’, the claim is just too silly to merit rebuttal.
The content of the article was nothing different than might be seen on CNN or MSNBC, or for that matter, found on any of the establishment-controlled ‘fact-checking’ web sites like Snopes and Wikipedia.
Had an interesting conversation with a neighbor yesterday. When I expressed the thought that this new virus was here to stay, that it was already endemic, and because of globalism its strains would continue to circulate each year like the common cold, he replied that this was because of those stubborn anti-vax people who refuse to get vaccinated.
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I don’t know where he’s getting his information, most likely corporate media sources, but it appears that those who are currently resisting the whole vaccine campaign are already being set up to take the blame if covid persists. These PR strategists never miss a trick. When I then mentioned that there are reports coming in of fully vaccinated people catching covid anyway, he had no response.
The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. ― Malcolm X
“Still, a curious detail about a Czech girl in 2006 who was sent away from school because she was the only pupil without a measles vaccination, and therefore considered a threat to the others. But they were all vaccinated?!”
If one thinks logically then this makes no sense, but if one thinks like an authoritarian it makes perfect sense. Authoritarians are rules-based, one-size-fits-all thinkers. There can be no exceptions to the rule. Good Lord! If we allow exceptions then what comes next? Anarchy! Disorder! Chaos! And the loss of control, which must be maintained at all costs if society (and my position of power) is to be safe and secure. “I will have ORDER!!”, said Deloris Umbridge.
Mike Lindell (of MyPillow fame) presents more scientific proof of election fraud. Even though he can’t seem to shut up and listen to his guest and comes off sounding like a used-car salesman, it’s impossible to dismiss the data presented.
“Scientific Proof” Television Special on Election Fraud by Mike Lindell
I do disagree with his take on the matter, though, where he keeps claiming that the election was “attacked” by foreign actors (China). This is nonsense. If there’s anything we learned from Edward Snowden it was that our intel agencies have a tight lock on electronic surveillance around the globe. Imagine of how bad it could be, then assume that it’s really worse than that. There’s evidence that many of the IP addresses interacting with the voting machines originated from computers overseas. My assumption then is that these actors were all working for us, and on the payroll of our intelligence agencies.
The UK has become “A deranged totalitarian regime of medical malpractice terror.” – Oroboros
Priceless!
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A great rant by Charles Hoskinson. Definitely worth watching.“I’ve got a request in for Ivermectin quotes. I see they come in tablets of 3, 6, 12 or 18mg each. Any thoughts?”
AG, I ordered the 6mg tablets, as their smaller size makes it easier to fine-tune dosage according to one’s weight. Most people are capable (and willing) to cut a tablet in half if needed, but might balk if it requires more than that. This seemed like a good balance to me. On the other hand, if one gets 3mg tablets, it might be difficult to convince a 250lb person that they need to swallow 8 tablets to get the correct dosage. “Why so many? Are you sure about that?”
Wanted to add a nice image of Drax doing his invisible man thing, but could not get it to post no matter what I tried. Maybe I should have paid closer attention to all those posts earlier when the problem first started to occur. Seems like everyone else has already figured out the solution already.
“DeSantis Bans Vaccine Passports To Prevent Having Two Classes Of Citizens (RT)”
“Opposition Grows Against UK Vaccine Passports (R.)”See what happens when you try to implement plans of total social control too quickly and outright clumsily? People smell a rat and start to push back. Why are they in such a hurry for total domination anyway? Is it because the financial system is about to implode and they want it to be a controlled demolition which leaves their wealth and position intact? Or is it that without complete control of western populations they won’t be able to compete economically or militarily with China?
Either way they could learn something from Drax’s invisible man technique: by mastering the art of moving so slowly that your victim is never alerted to the danger.
Firstly, I enjoyed your response. I appreciate everyone on the TAE and try to read each comment with the anticipation of gaining new insight. As a loyal reader, I would like to comment more often, but there are many days when I either have nothing of substance to add, am too busy, or sidelined by health issues. And every now and then I feel motivated, only to get tied up in knots while trying to put my thoughts into words, and then reluctantly take it as a sign to STFU.
That said, I do not find Dr D. to be negative or depressing at all, for I find buried within his rants the solutions, sometimes hinted at, other times explicit. I like that he stays away from the long-winded, detailed, one-size-fits-all solutions that we sometimes see from other authors, who are certain they know the correct path out of the maze and want us to follow. Instead, he tends to hammer away on fundamentals, which I greatly appreciate.
I noticed this a while back, but today seems like as good a time as any to express this opinion on the writings of Dr. D. The only other writer I’ve come across that can describe the current human condition, both individually and socially, better than he is a little-known Swedish esoterician by the pseudonym of Laurency.
At least for me, a high level of wit and sarcasm (often appearing as exaggeration) are needed to convey ideas with any hope of penetrating our thick skulls and defensive egos; otherwise, they are easily shrugged off. If what he says “gets under your skin” I would say that his method is working. Whenever I read his comments, each idea rings like a find crystal wine glass.
Thanks for writing this piece, Ilargi. I’ve spent years trying to counter the idiocy parroted about Putin by those around me. Even alt-media writers will often begin an article with the qualifier: “I know that Putin is a murdering thug, but…”.
Yeah, they know this how? By years of brainwashing, that’s how. How many have taken the time to listen to the man? Understand what he’s done for the Russian people, after Yeltsin drank himself into a stupor as their state was picked apart by oligarchs like hyenas on a wounded animal?
I my opinion, he’s a first-class statesman who is guided by a set of moral principles, and there are few like him on the world stage today. But this opinion is unwelcome in the west, where false knowledge about the world is relentlessly implanted into weak and lazy minds by the corporate media. Everything they think they know about the man has been spoon fed to them by liars with an agenda.
Basseterre,
Don’t be too hard on yourself. In just two paragraphs you clarified the gist of Bossche’s article better than anything I’ve seen so far.
As I’ve come to expect on TAE, many great comments today. Dr. D was on fire and had me laughing with every sarcastic barb.
Enjoyed your “Crimes Against Humanity” focus. I’ve thought about this often as of late, and can’t help sensing that some sort of reckoning is near at hand for our pandemic conspirators. Covid seems to have expose the corruption of our WHO/medical/pharma system just as the 2020 election did for our electoral/judicial system. If the pandemic cure turns out to be worse than the virus, then there will be hell to pay. Many of us already know that this is the case, but the brainwashed public will jump on board if the experimental EUA vaccines begin to backfire.
“Boris Johnson Says UK ‘Legally’ Obtained Elgin Marbles, Won’t Return Them (RT)”
I can understand why the UK would resist returning the Elgin Marbles. It’s not so much about the Marbles as it is about all the other national looting that occurred during their years of empire. If they give back the Marbles, then who will be next at their door demanding the return of national treasures? Precedence is what the UK is protecting with its obstinance.
And can cultural treasures be isolated from actual treasures? What about all the gold and silver that were stolen from national treasuries in the last century? And how far back do we go? Will South American nations then want Spain to return all that was looted by their conquistadors in the 16th century?
“The White House – 425 watching now”
The most popular president since FDR! “10 million [votes] more than the previous record set by President Barack Obama in 2008.” Uh huh, sure.
“Covid Outbreak In BC Care Home Where Residents, Staff Already Vaccinated (CBC)”
With their death-grip (no pun intended) on media outlets I’m surprised that this story saw the light of day. Obviously, BC health staff need a three-day junket to NY for a Cuomo “How to Alter Covid Data and Get an Emmy” intensive.
“Censorship – Cancel Culture”
I watched the clip of Jimmy Dore’s interview with Hard Lens Media, who were shut down for a week by YouTube for unknown “policy” violations. Is it just me or did they both dance around the issue of YouTube censorship? Each kept insisting that this happened accidentally because of some algorithmic glitch. That it was unintentional. In other words, the decision to shut down Hard Lens Media was made by a computer and not some person in the morning staff meeting. And once this “mistake” is pointed out to YouTube they will quickly rectify it. Uh huh, sure.
After watching this display of pussyfootery, I couldn’t help feeling that self-censorship is in full swing for everyone who makes their living on YouTube.
Raider,
Apologize if multiple posts show up. Removed the link to see if this one will post…
Here’s a link with instructions: https://swprs.org/why-ivermectin-works-and-where-to-buy-it/
I went through the Indiamart website and dealt with the company below, using PayPal for payment:
Anil Gangwani (Director)
Kachhela Medex Private Limited
Shop No. 403, 4th Floor, Panjwani Market, Near Teen Nal Chowk, Gandhi Bagh
Nagpur – 440002, Maharashtra, IndiaCDC: Face Masks Have Negligible Impact On Coronavirus Numbers (OAN)
Stay-at-Home Policy Is A Case Of Exception Fallacy (Nature)
World On Brink Of Fourth Wave Of Coronavirus (Hill)
Dutch Virologist Asks Cabinet For More Guts: “Open Terraces And Gyms” (P.)
Pressure To Reopen Greek Society Mounts As Virus Holds (K.)
Leaving UK Now Requires A ‘Special Validation To Travel’ (Calder)Man, have I been experiencing a lot of peer pressure lately to get the Covid shot. The govt’s massive marketing campaign is stampeding the hypnotized herd into Big Pharma’s vaccine chute, and they are bewildered to see others standing on the sidelines not participating. “You have to get the shot if you want the pandemic to go away!”
Many thanks again to Dr. John Day for keeping us informed and prepared. I ordered my supply of the drug which-must-not-be-named, and feel more prepared. Now I can throw out my horse paste, since it is no longer needed. You didn’t hear it from me, but I could not in good conscience rest until my aged parents and other family members were provided with the same preparations as myself.
My parents, understandably, are quite confused. It doesn’t make sense to them that our government would condone the senseless murder of hundreds of thousands of people just so that pharma companies can sell profitable vaccines. For some reason they don’t remember Big Tobacco going down the rows of Congressmen handing out envelopes of cash before crucial legislative votes.
Here is a recent video from Dr. John Campbell which sheds more light on the efficacy of Ivermectin in fighting Covid. It’s based on a recent meta-analysis of all the available studies done around the world.
Dr Lawrie, Ivermectin video, Short Precise
What I’d like to know is when do the murder trials start? But I know that this is asking too much from a system that is already beyond redemption.
I see a strong alchemical influence in Grandville’s artwork.
As for Dr. Seuss’ Sneetches (actually humans), the story always reminded me that vanity was the most easily exploited weakness of humanity. We seem to come with a built-in need to be “special”, we crave “status”, and will do almost anything to rise above the clamoring hordes. Advertisers and marketers thrive on this. When the clever conman, Sylvester McMonkey McBean, arrived in town he saw a people ripe for the picking and then proceeded to extract every last dollar from them.
I noticed a similar theme in the Pixar movie, The Incredibles, where the arch-villain, Syndrome, was planning to sell all of his “super” technology to the world so that everyone could be “super” like Mr. Incredible, who had shunned him years before hurting his ego. This would level the playing field between those with special powers and those without, claiming: “When Everyone is Super, no one will be.”
Think of this when your wife pesters you for that Mercedes, BMW, or Tesla, which she just has to have in order to fit in with the other “cool” women.
“Why Do Democrats Pretend Andrew Cuomo Did a Good Job With COVID? (Slate)”
As one writer cleverly pointed out, Cuomo’s image as the ideal leader during the Covid hysteria was a carefully run PR campaign to make Trump look bad. A Covid savior was needed to create a contrast with the Covid devil, Trump. “See, here’s what real leadership looks like! That idiot in the White House is going to get us all killed!”
I looked all over, but couldn’t find the source article in order to link to it. Maybe, someone else will remember. For all I know it may have even been on TAE.
I remember my sister, who is a New Yorker, praising Cuomo’s handling of the pandemic to high heaven while blasting Trump in the leadup to the election. Her husband is a hard-of-hearing news junky, so I know that she is bombarded continually by TV pundit propaganda. So, I bit my lip and said nothing. One has to pick their battles, and I didn’t think it was worth it at the time. We all know that the messenger is shot first.
Anyway, now that Andrew Cuomo has served his purpose, and recently become a radioactive asset, I wouldn’t be surprised if they throw him to the wolves. Such is politics.
“Premeditated murder? That’s a big term, can you use it when deaths are the result of sheer incompetence?”
No, but if it were really due to incompetence, we could call it “negligent homicide”, which is still a crime, assuming one doesn’t have a government agency or corporation to hide behind.
It became clear as early as last spring that the pandemic had ceased to be a medical issue and was taken over by powerful political and financial forces. And about the same time, false or intentionally sabotaged medical studies started showing up in the top journals attacking the safety and effectiveness of HCQ therapy. Entire nations were ordered to cease and desist, going so far as to threaten the careers of medical personnel if they dared color outside the lines of the WHO authorities.
At the time it didn’t make any sense at all. Was everyone taking “crazy pills”? Was it a form of collective insanity? People were dying by the thousands, yet cheap, safe, and promising therapies were suddenly verboten.
When put into context, however, this behavior in not far-fetched. When a system has become thoroughly corrupted, has no checks on its abuse of power, no accountability, it can do as it pleases. Human beings then become expendable resources, objects of predation, or obstacles to be eliminated. They can be sent into the mines to die of black lung, killed by death squads in order to crush socialism, or mowed down in wars over resource control. Whatever it takes to increase wealth, power, and dominance.
Someone once said that those who seek power are exactly those who should be prevented from acquiring it. They are typically psychopaths, like Madeiline Albright, where the death of 500,000 Iraqi children was “worth it”. Or Jamie Dimon, doing “God’s work” by sucking up vast amounts of ill-gotten wealth. What is the saying, “Give a man a gun and he’ll rob a bank, give a man a bank and he can rob the world.”?
I see it all the time. People tend to believe that everyone is just like them: that they have the same priorities, principles, needs, and feelings. But they don’t! There are predatory psychopaths that crave power, that are never satisfied, that would kill an entire nation or a planet if it furthered their ambitions. These are those who currently rule over us.
“I can’t really tell if Dr. D is agreeing or disagreeing with the idea that overpopulation is a problem.”
I believe the point he was making is that birth rate is strongly correlated with poverty, so when income levels rise the birth rate falls – Japan being a good example of this.
I think we all agree that overpopulation and overconsumption are problems, but these are so multifaceted and complex that humanity is not capable of getting its head around them.
Overconsumption, at first glance, appears to be a cultural problem that is more easily solved. Native American tribes, for example, had a pretty harmonious relationship with nature. Buffalo herds were grateful that their hides and other body parts were not extracted by Walmart-sized processing plants and shipped worldwide. The problem of overconsumption has no chance until the profit motive of Capitalism is solved first, and this may only be investigated by those that are left to pick up the pieces after WW3.
Overpopulation, on the other hand, looks to be a harder nut to crack. We’re getting into biological issues, moral issues, nationalism (power in numbers), etc., and of course resource depletion – a complexity beyond belief. The “pill” has done wonders for sexual liberation without the nasty side effect of birth, but lower life forms have not been too thrilled with all the extra hormones that are being dumped into their ecosystems. There always seem to be three new problems created for every solution we put forth. Almost as if humanity did not have the capacity to understand how nature works. But I’m sure that scientists are working feverishly to come up with another one-size-fits-all solution – a new and more deadly pandemic or thermo-nuclear war for instance.
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Three cheers for Dr John Day!! I would trust him with my life. Wouldn’t you?
I can’t help thinking that all of the insanity that we are witnessing is connected: the repression of dissent, the internet censorship, the politicized pandemic, the stolen election, the consolidation of political and corporate power, the endless media lies – and all of it synchronized among the empire’s vassals.
If I were to guess, I’d say that a decision has been made at the top that democratic institutions are no longer conducive to the empire’s plans for global hegemony. Wasting time by attempting to educate the public and get their buy-in is just too clumsy and slow in today’s fast-paced and interconnected world, not to mention that there’s every possibility the general public will not agree with your plans and resist. Western leaders have seen what the Chinese have been able to accomplish with their top-down one-party dictatorship and wish to implement the same in the west. They see this as the only solution that has a chance of countering China’s attempts to overtake the current US centralized empire.
Dr D Rich,
Ditto on your points. I was planning to just listen and keep my yapper shut today, but you got to me with your final observation:
“And the entire madness had been perfectly inverted by the media and dominant political Liberal faction. The result is shared psychosis”
******* #OppositeLand *******
“They’re [the hedgefuks] also getting dragged out into the sunlight.” – Greenwald
Yes, this is the big win here, not that a group of organized retail investors drew Wall Street blood. It’s just one more corrupt elite institution exposed for what it truly is, standing in all its naked ugliness for the public to gawk at and ridicule.
“People have to go to jail, plain and simple.” – Dave Portnoy
Dave, Dave, I understand where you’re coming from, but haven’t you been paying attention? Only little people are inducted into the gulag system of for-profit prisons. Everyone in the “Big Club” has a Get-out-of-jail Free Card. Look inside of the game box for the instructions.
“Are there any plans to recuse herself [Yellen] from advising the President on GameStop and Robinhood situation?” – Reporter
Here we go again. More people thinking that everyone should play the game by the same set of rules. What don’t they understand about $800,000 speaking fees? Do they really think Janet Yellen is that entertaining a speaker? That she knows the location of Montezuma’s hidden treasure? No, this is protection money, bribery, corruption. It’s times like this when favors are called in for those exorbitant speaking fees. Watch The Godfather again for a refresher course.
You are one of the few that realize the war has already begun, that the Game Stop skirmish was in fact a deep penetration into the heart of the Wall Street Death Star. Do not let your frustration lead you to concede the field. Not unless you have other battlefields which are more productive and worthy.
As for being called a clueless idiot… well, I’ve known that for a long time now, so it only gave me a chuckle. I can’t hold a candle to the great men of the world and I know it. To think otherwise would be delusional. I think that Dr. D would agree that having the ego crushed and put in its place is a good thing. It’s no fun to be sure, but only then can the learning process truly begin, learning to live and work within natural law.
“The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.” – Socrates
This artist struck me as a softer version of Maxfield Parrish.
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To borrow from a recent thread:
“It’s possible we are in a completely fraudulent system.” – Dr. Burry, The Big Short (2015)
Yes, the financial system is a complete extractive fraud. This was made clear when not a single person was prosecuted for the 2008 financial crisis. Wall Street, the Fed, regulators, mortgage lenders, rating agencies, academia, and the media were all in bed together making money off their scams, skims, and cons.
After it all imploded, nobody went to jail. Zero. Zip. Nada. Nobody saw nothin’. Who could’ve knowed? Nope, no criminal negligence or malfeasance here!
And since all the media experts agreed that it was a rare convergence of a series of unfortunate events that were outside everyone’s control, all the big players got to keep their winnings. And just to make it perfectly clear who called the shots, they all rewarded themselves with bonuses, promotions, stock options, and complimentary media gigs to edify the lumpen.
What have we learned since then? That the banking/mortgage industry is not the only institution that went over to the Dark Side, and is protected by the media and courts. We see now that Big Tech has taken the plunge, along with our entire electoral system. The list grows longer each year… “It is a ponderous chain!”
After having seen the judicial system turn it’s back on the 2020 election fraud claims, even as the dump trucks were unloading their cargos of evidence on the courthouse steps, I don’t hold out much hope for Ilargi’s strategy of fighting Big Pharma at the bench.
Lately, I can’t help thinking that the pandemic is just the latest tool in a much larger (and darker) scheme of total global hegemony. Under this umbrella, Big Pharma is only happy to do it’s part by fleecing it’s victims and using western populations for its mRNA experiments.
The hot topic in my neighborhood: “Did you get your vaccine yet? No? You need to go to such-n-such a website and make a reservation. I’ll send you the link.” Later that day, “Oh, that site doesn’t work anymore, now it’s all being consolidated at another location. Etc. Etc.”
From what I’ve seen, the whole “vaccine” rollout process has been pure chaos since it started. Everyone in my circle who’s been “lucky’ enough to get one is showing off their band-aid like it was a gold star from teacher. When they ask me if I got mine yet I always respond that “I plan on being the last one in line.” “Why is that?”, they ask. “Because I’ve watched this whole pandemic process play out since last January, and I absolutely don’t trust Big Pharma and their so-called vaccines.” That’s when they get a most peculiar look on their face and I expect at any second Agent Smith is going to pop out of their skull and haul me off for interrogation.
How do you have a discussion with such people, who turn on the TV first thing in the morning to find out the reality-of-the-day and their role in it? What I’ve learned is that you don’t. Every time I make the attempt I’m reminded of Morpheus’ words to Neo during the “Red Dress” training program:
“You have to understand that most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.”
And as you are all aware by now, this problem exists in every topic that is a priority on the establishment’s domestic and foreign policy agenda. The public brainwashing is so intense that any dissent is looked upon as either a form of insanity or a personal attack.
“The bonds aren’t going down. They won’t move. It’s possible we are in a completely fraudulent system.” – Dr. Burry, The Big Short (2015)
The hits just keep on coming on TAE!
I remember laughing through the entire viewing of The Big Short, because already having done my homework there was nothing new, but it was a joy to see others catch up with Wall Street’s empire of fraud and present it on the big screen. My biggest laugh came during the line quoted by Dr. D above, when Burry was expressing his exasperation that the mortgage-backed bonds were increasing in price rather than decreasing, despite all the defaults that were occurring with greater frequency… just as they do in #OppositeLand.
It was then that he realized he was dealing with a completely fraudulent system. One that is manipulated by powerful men for their benefit. “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it!”
Two posts inspired me to comment today. The first was Dr. D’s Tatsuya Ishida cartoon of a future fascist dystopia, because that seems to be the direction in which we are heading. I see nothing that has hindered the consolidation of both power and wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Note how Trumpism, a poorly run attempt to reinvigorate American nationalism, was immediately under attack from day one and then crushed in a most brazen manner.
The second, was the post by Mr. House of the article: THE USA AND THE CRISIS: HOW AND WHY THE OLIGARCHS FIGHT TRUMPISM. This, from where I sit, appeared to give the best picture of where we are historically, and what forces are at play. Specifically, a cartel of transnational oligarchs representing international finance who are busy looting the globe.
I believe that the US has been under their control since WWII, and that Trump was merely a bump in the road which needed to be eliminated. He represented a reactionary movement to their neoliberal, globalist policies. That is why so much energy is currently being poured into destroying and discrediting his movement. That is why Silicon Valley oligarchs are busy purging the information landscape of Trumpism (aka nationalism), under the palatable guise of fighting hate speech.
I feel your pain. I too feel like a foreigner in my own country, and in my own circle. I don’t think the time is far off where Tatsuya Ishida’s cartoon will come to pass. But instead of flying robots, it will be like East Germany, where a propagandized populace will turn in their neighbor or family member for speaking against establishment policy. Then, it’ll be off to the reeducation camp or Gulag. But who needs a neighborhood snitch when there are millions terabytes of social media postings to sift through to identify anyone that has escaped their matrix of lies.
In the meantime, have a nice day!
