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Once you start noticing this it drives you crazy. For instance, there’s been a recent effort by tye media and democrats to attack Thomas and Alito for financial conflict of interest, revolving around stuff like going on vacation with rich friends. Meanwhile, pharma companies sign multi-year, multi-million dollar contracts with *medical schools* and nobody bats an eye. I wrote about it here:

https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/02/big-pharma-is-unopposed-in-its-domination-of-medical-education/

As you can see in there, people used to care, media used to write big stories about it, then pharma spent even more money and much of it on media advertising, and poof, all the stories went away…

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INDEED! Heck, I go on vaca with rich friends and fam. I’m not rich, but they love me! I’d imagine darn near all of Alito’s pals are well to do. “GRILL HIM!” (Not!) Fauci’s in bed with dozens for far more than vaca $$. “LOOK AWAY! IT’S NONE of your BUSINESS!”

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I don't know what bad cat is talking about! It's all ethical! Nothing to see here! No ethical conflict, whatsoever! Mis/disinformation.! He's spreading vaccine hesitancy to report on this so irresponsibly!

So says Christine Grady, Chief Bioethicist at the NIH...and Anthony Fauci's wife:

https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/05/18/fauci-wife-authors-paper-supporting-vaccine-pressure-campaigns/

Writing papers about why everyone needs to take dangerous experimental biotech for protection against an illness most everyone, especially under 50, are at no risk of:

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057/s41271-022-00347-9.pdf

But her relationship with the CDC Director who makes millions of dollars from hawking dangerous experimental biotech to everyone, even those at literally zero risk of illness like under 18 is COMPLETELY ethical!:

https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a32715031/fauci-christine-grady-nih-covid/

They're just a happy couple helping Americans and the world, no ethical conflicts of interest, not even the appearance of any ethical conflicts of interest!:

https://youtu.be/pf2cVoP5mRs

And it's not just her, if you're thinking that because Fauci is her husband. She's backed up by one of the AMA's top ethicists! Big Pharma and Big Health's collaboration is Ethical!!

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/21/facebook-posts/Fact-check-Hospitals-COVID-19-payments/

"Julie Aultman, a member of the editorial board of the American Medical Association’s AMA Journal of Ethics, told PolitiFact it is "very unlikely that physicians or hospitals will falsify data or be motivated by money to do so." "There are strict policies for reporting and, quite frankly, healthcare workers are only focusing on helping their patients and doing as much as they can with little resources,""

So says Julie Aultman, prominent bioethicist for the AMA. So it must be true. No breach of ethics. Not even an appearance of an ethical conflict of interests.

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/editorial-board-and-staff

This is dangerous mis/disinformation vaccine hesitancy-instigating. How DARE everyone here question their efforts to save people! All of you must want people to DIE!

(sarc font for the really dense)

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they investigate YOU for going on holiday with rich people, but not the rich people that get paid millions of dollars taxed from people like you. That is justice for you.

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Béla Hamvas wrote in 'René Guénon and the Metaphysics of Society' (1942):

’A few more words about the present: today, according to Guénon, we are at the end of the Kali-yuga (dark age), when gold sinks into matter, […] becomes smeared with blood and soil, which means that power and spirit, hierarchy and order—broken and humiliated—dissolves. Nothing follows this era.

It is impossible to sink deeper.

This is the apocalypse—which is acknowledged by the Vedas, the Eddas, the Egyptians, the Chinese, and the New Testament.

Modern man doesn’t want to take this seriously – they say it’s fantasy, religion, vision. And by not believing what was known 10,000 years ago, they fulfil their fate.

[…] traditional knowledge sees that the situation cannot be saved and a big epoch has been concluded.'

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No, there were worse times, and this is just a cycle that we reach over and over. Life ain't no straight road. There is no "modern." There's just "now."

And I guess we got a little spoiled, that we forgot it, that we're not so special.

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And now descending into the Dark Ages….

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I saw info on Fauci's patents and royalty payments about 3 years ago. In a just world, he'd be hanged from the nearest lamp post...upside down...

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The world is inverted, everything has been turned upside down.

I sound like Zen master Flash, I'm out of here.

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No, I don't think so. I think we have hit the end of the (Kali Yuga) cycle (2020) and are moving unbelievably slowly in to the next one.

What we are going through now is the lowest, most godless, decompositional phase, past even the vultures eating the lifeless bodies (WW2), maybe it's the mummified/dried out stage where family members don't even mourn their loved ones anymore.

https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/59285.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Grim perhaps, but the darkest hour is before dawn. The old world is over. We have to let it go.

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I feel outrage and disappointment nearly every single day. Yet not a single person in my life seems to give a hoot. I will never understand and I will never forget.

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Your *will* will keep you alive and sane then. That's what they're aiming for. You're gold.

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I sound like fucking Pollyanna.

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Ppl are worried about trans rights and climate change. Yet their family and friends are being incapacitated by bs injections. It truly feels like we are living in an upside down world. “I should get out and socialize!” I tell myself. Ha!

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This has all been a thunderous learning experience in showing us what many....maybe even most people are really like, how they don't think or can't think except superficially. Be glad you are not like the oblivious masses.

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No, the bottom of the pit isn't mummification, it's cannibalism, and it is happening. We're there. And I pray more people pay attention to all the "wrongs," and are outraged, activated, and work at pulling us up and out of this pit of darkness.

Look deeply into human trafficking of all kinds, see the extent of the evil stalking us, from both the inside and the outside; it is stunning.

So wake up and pick a subject, and DO SOMETHING about it. That's the only way forward I can see.

Blessings to everyone doing this now!

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My question is what will the new world be? I fear the totalitarian overreach of i stitutions, and the soulless effect of AI.

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I couldn't say for certain on the immediate future but all societies boom/bust cycles and investments are drawn up by the stars. We're definitely moving in to Aquarius, and air-based themes are everywhere, so the new world will line up with them- part of which is humanitarianism. So I don't fear the future, but admittedly my perspective is far from 'normal'...

Totalitarian overreach has been in effect for the last hundred- arguably thousand years. It's already done, they're simply exposing it now.

'Robot' (the word) was made up a hundred years ago to describe a person who blindly performed physical tasks without using their soul (mind and heart).

If someone took the vax and felt bad about it (/regretted it and followed up with an investigation) they walk the right path of burgeoning consciousness. Those who double down are programmed with AI and the ego will destroy itself.

AI exists as a tool for our benefit, there is more than one meaning for every popular media meme. Fear has to be overcome to see the reality.

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For the last 80 years?

Maybe it's not inevitable, especially if We the Little People refuse to silently comply.

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The technology would not be as excellent as it is right now if they meant for nobody to get through but they need sane, conscious people, not sleepers, not nut-jobs who crack under pressure.

Yes, the government/pharma/Judeo-Christian system just shot up 2/3rds or more of their faithful death-pledgers. Yes, it's sick/criminally insane, but who would pay the slightest bit of attention if death wasn't staring them down?

Nothing can be understood unless the ancient traditional knowledge comes in to play. This is simply what happens in the Kali Yuga- a vast zodiacal cycle. Nothing new under the sun. 'Vanity, vanity, all is vanity...' The conscious kids'll be okay if they have faith and don't let the overseers drive them nuts.

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That’s why my motto, after traveling down numerous rabbit holes over the last 3 years, has become: #DoNotComply!

Gather around yourselves those of like mind and prepare. It’s going to be a rough ride, but I believe we will come out of this if we stick together.

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A Midwestern Doctor wrote an interesting Substack post the other day about the observed phenomenon of organ transplant recipients sometimes manifesting characteristics that seem to be coming from the donors of the transplanted organs. In ClownWorld the notion of “soul” has been passé for quite a few years in many circles, although the word is very commonly used without any kind of deep curiosity as to why it is so common. One of his stories involved a heart recipient that, before the surgery, was very undeveloped in drawing skills, but after receiving the heart of someone who had been much more developed in that area, spontaneously began producing art work that was far advanced beyond their previous level of development. So it made me think of humanity as a crew of souls that, like hermit crabs, try to find a shell that “they can work with” for the time being, expressing as best they can what they are moved to with whatever shell they “are dealt.”

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"hermit crabs, try to find a shell that “they can work with” for the time being" <GOLD STAR>

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Nice work as usual, doc.

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Thank you!

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yes

thanks from me too el gato

it's better than nice to read the comments hear in your kitten corner

thank you everyone here too you are keeping me sane

yep our collective job

now we clearly see the cataract just up ahead

is to get thru the really horrid hot war bio war bit

and

grow back better ;)

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Maybe Congress should get off their collective asses and pass some legislation banning this? But nah, why would they? I’m sure none of them trade on the inside info they get from NIH minions. How else could former non-practicing attorneys become millionaires?

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That is the problem. We keep looking to the sociopaths that we put in positions of leadership to fix the problems that they promoted for their own benefit. It's not gonna happen. Any real change is going to come from the bottom up.

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The sociopath will surround themselves with incompetent people who know their sinecure is directly tied to that sociopath staying in that job.

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My guess is RFK Jr. would work to ban this practice. He’s already said he will do an executive order first day to ban Pharma advertising on TV.

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The president has the authority to do that by fiat *how exactly*?

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Via executive order, he says.

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You misunderstand. Let me clarify.

Yes, of course the claim is "executive order", it's right there in the text. What I want to know is where is the slightest Constitutional warrant for such a claim?

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Probably in the same section that allows Biden to skirt the legislative and judicial branches of government. Or whoever the hell is running this country.

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Agree that RFK Jr would need to go through Congress. But he stated he’d do an exec order on day one.

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Pharma would sue based on 1st amendment infringement and then you can guess what happens next. Back in the tele.

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Ha ha- probably!

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The swamp is just too deep and powerful. Marjorie Green is an excellent example of this. First term in Congress she’s spitting QAnon stuff, saying Sandy Hook was a hoax, etc. Mind you she was elected by a landslide with these positions. She aligns herself with Nick Fuentes, even speaks at his AFPAC conference. I mean, she’s promoting Nicholas J. Fuentes the legend.

Fast forward two years, second term. TWO YEARS. She denounces Nick. She starts riding McCarthys stick. She flipped to an establishment lackey. In. Two. Years. She could have not possibly been more anti establishment when she was first elected. And it took two years for her to join the uniparty. DC has its ways. Same thing can be said for AOC on the left...basically the same thing.

No one has a chance against the system, it’s too big and too powerful. The only chance that I see is a Pinochet style military takeover followed by a hell of a lot of chopper rides. We seem to be lacking good candidates at the moment however.

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Why should we punish them when they're such shrewd investors?

Buy Low, Sell High - My Southside.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/05/28/jennifer-granholm-electric-bus-stock-proterra-inc-biden/7485178002/

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That Aesop quote reminds me of the Stalin (mis)quote:

“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” (https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0603/Political-misquotes-The-10-most-famous-things-never-actually-said/The-death-of-one-man-is-a-tragedy.-The-death-of-millions-is-a-statistic.-Josef-Stalin)

Something about the human brain causes empathy to decrease with scale rather than the inverse. The grander the deceit and the higher the death toll, the less people pay attention. But an anecdotal story about an individual suffering an injustice can get the world up in arms. I’m not saying the latter is bad; I’m just saying the numbness toward mass casualties and crimes by comparison is how atrocities become routine.

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"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."

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

Maybe that's why sometimes one person matters even more.

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I agree with you from the perspective of the individual versus the mob, certainly. To quote George Carlin:

“People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a ‘common purpose.’ ’Cause pretty soon they have little hats. And armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they're going to visit at 3 am. So, I dislike and despise groups of people but I love individuals. Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you’re really looking.”

That said, a million deaths represents a million individuals, so it is very different from a hypnotized mob mobilized to massacre those individuals.

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"Hey, Cedric? Bob? This guy doesn't want to wear the ribbon!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iV8X8ubGCc

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One death is a tragedy, a million a statistic.

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Yes, that's a more succinct translation of the misquote :-)

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Ha ... I didn’t see your initial post. Like minds I suppose.

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"The grander the deceit and the higher the death toll, the less people pay attention."

The Big Lie, in other words. Great comment, as usual.

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Thank you, John Cougar Misanthrope, and yup to the Big Lie.

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This is true because we are ‘persons’ and often relate to even non-human things in relationship mode.

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That makes sense, K2. A single person is concrete; a group of people is abstract and thus less relatable.

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"a group of people is abstract and thus less relatable"

This is why Intersectionality ultimately fails. "Groups" aren't monolithic.

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Exactly. Intersectionality is all about subsuming the individual into the collective to advance a socialist-style objective in the name of the “greater good” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-uk-government).

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Just say NO to Starnesville!

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Who is John Galt?

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"Intersectionality" what a lovely word! Thank you.

I am embarrassed to say that I had never come across this word before today.

What an oaf!

Now what baggage does 'Intersectionality' drag with it?

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All of the worst baggage of each splinter group.

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It is not, however, a great leap of intellect to recognize that each individual making up the collective statistic is a living, breathing human being with family, friends, dreams and ideas, with all the capacity you and your loved ones have for fear, pain, loss, and despair.

For me the callousness, or obliviousness of many towards the destruction we are witnessing is inexplicable.

I went through the turbulent 60s, as a child, and trust me, the youth of that time, and many adults were furious at the wrongs they were witnessing.

I believe that since that time intelligence agencies and others have intentionally -

Dumbed down American education.

Injured the entire child population with highly toxic and dangerous injections.

Morally injured our society in a host of ways, pornography, full term abortions, sexual abuse, children raised on violance, etc. Plus the worshipping of Mamon.

And finally, we are anesthetized.

Flouride + EMR + Heavy Metals.

Dulled. Drained. And Psy-Oped.

So, to wake up and shake it all off is very difficult. But worth the effort for then you can comprehend the importance of just holding awareness.

Mattias Desmet is the best voice imho explaining how to break through that trance so many are in currently.

We need to continue to tell the truth. No matter what.

Keep on keeping on. In the end, it works.

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I have wondered if Dunbar's number has changed with the introduction of social media. I know I feel connected with far more than 150 people, and I'm wondering if Substack has altered my brain to accommodate a higher number of meaningful relationships 🤔

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RFK, Jr. wrote about this in his book The Real Dr. Anthony Fauci.

I also read somewhere that Fauci, the highest paid Federal employee, received PPE funds for his San Francisco Italian restaurant.

Rich men north of Richmond.

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Wonder if his royalties led him to attack early treatment and advocate for unsafe and ineffective vaccines? No, actually I don’t wonder. I suspect with a strong dose of “probable cause”.

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First I heard of Fauci’s restaurant. I wonder what it is called? Is the food organic by any chance? LOL! Allowing one’s food to be prepared by Tony Fauci! The mind reels!!

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Apparently he is an investor (or was) in the Jackson Filmore Trattoria in SF which received over $100,000 in PPP money in April 2020 (per FOX).

It's just all so delicious.

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Fauci et al should be in jail. Buncha greedy bureaucrats and swamp creatures. Heck, for the beagles alone Fauci should have a place in the 7th rung of hell.

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Worked in DoD Acquisition for many years. We had to report every stock holding, every royalty, every source of income. And, these were held to be conflicts-of-interest in working with any company from which we received money. Recusal was the required practice. Hiding connections resulted in prosecution. The DoD rules should be applied at CDC, FDA, NIH, etc.

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And all other federal agencies.

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Honestly, until hearing about these criminals, I thought the same rules applied to all Federal employees. Everybody I met or worked with had the same or similar rules. In fact, we were basically told we couldn’t even allow them to buy us dinner. The rule was: No more than $20 worth in any one day, no more than $50 in a year from any prohibited source. Basically coffee and donuts at a meeting were the limit. Usually we threw in a $20 bill to repay that.

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The Dark Triad has made itself at home in a number of places. Pharma and those who work for them, our CDC, FDA, NIH, NIAID, etc., appear to be the most comfortable of all.

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I thought the same

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I guess FDA got some kind of special dispensation, because when I used to work for a different branch of Dept of Ag, we definitely had to follow those rules.

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Sing it with me: the rich men north of Richmond . . .

Once it’s in song, perhaps the collective consciousness will lead to what’s needed whether that be legislative action/inaction or revolution

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The corruption and absolute disregard for humanity...throughout the bureaucracy and government and now the judicial branch...I’m sitting in my backyard on a beautiful fall-ish morning wondering how we ever let it get this bad and is there anyway to course correct. I’ll be okay but my heart breaks for all our children and grandchildren. Talk about dropping the f-ing ball. 😞

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Young men in England are donning black baclavas and taking down surveillance cameras by the hundreds. Toxic Masculinity for the win! Barbies will start going for Kens sporting jewelry made from repurposed spy camera lenses.

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This is not really a new phenomenon (for certain values of "new" at least); the following article is datelined 20 years ago:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/sep/07/transport.ukcrime

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The entire enterprise on the Potomac is designed to use other people's money to generate profits for "decision makers." The WEF refers to these parasites as "stakeholders." Losses are foisted on the public while profits are retained by stakeholders. This was the entire action in 2008 with bank and wall street bailouts. The Tea Party arose to oppose this fact. The Sheeple were quickly told, by the criminal parasites, that what it really was was 'racism!!" This word is hypnotism to the Sheeple. They know it means they are safe, can continue pretending they are the good guys, and nothing will threaten them because "racism" is known to be fake and reassuring. The enemy of the Sheeple is reality. They will avoid it at all cost. They adore the Distractors who rescue them from truth.

Sheeple cannot face the reality that their parental substitutes, i.e. government, are malignant degenerates. To acknowledge this obvious fact means they cannot enjoy their lives, and all they have worked for is at risk. They therefore seek, like most, to appease the aggressor with the false hope they will go away or destroy someone else. The crocodile will eat them last.

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Yep. "Too Big To Fails" equals "Too Big To Exist", or at least it should.

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US elites are the most corrupt in the world, and the epicenter is the federal government itself. But the tendrils of corruption extend to virtually all corporate media and unelected licensing boards country-wide. The media have the chutzpah to accuse other countries of corruption while covering up corruption in the US.

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I dunno for sure, since I'm just a peasant & don't hang out w/ the so-called "US Elites" - but I am willing to bet a little of my currently worthless fiat dollars that the Rhadanite banksters in the City of London make them look like fucking boy scouts 😂

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The US is looking like late stage USSR combined with the worst features of 1990s Russia.

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As always, very well written, Gato!! I find it interesting that as time goes by, Fauxi looks more and more like an apex predator. His photos are starting to really creep me out...

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He is a profoundly dark soul, from all I have seen. The deaths of millions of people are largely due to his behavior. It's frankly horrific.

Read "The Real Anthony Fouci," you'll have quite the window into his soul, or rather the blank space it should be in!

We all need to become experts in Sociopathy, Psychopathy & Narcissism.

The numbers of people who fall into this Dark Triad is growing, rapidly, and if we are not all going to be their victims we better wake up, and remove them from power, rapidly!

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I have it but haven't read it yet. What I see when I look in his eyes: who or what he sold his soul to. I'm guessing Narcissism/Sociopathy. Psychopaths are born that way; sociopaths are made. My sister dated one. We spent 7.5 years in and out of family court so my sister wouldn't lose her daughter. He didn't want my niece but he wanted to hurt my sister as much as possible. The day he lost he stopped seeing or speaking to my niece.

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The federal government employees over 2 million bureaucrats across 400+ agencies. We’ve learned about NIH because of intrepid non-msm journalists and citizens digging into the scamdemic. How many other agencies are pulling this same kind of shit as they piss away trillions in tax dollars?

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Academia and climate change money pilfered from taxpayers is the same feedback loop!

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Here's a question: has there ever been a bureaucracy that wasn't A) self-serving and B) stupid and inefficient - any where, any time in history?

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"The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies."

- Conquest's 3rd Law of Politics

https://www.isegoria.net/2008/07/robert-conquests-three-laws-of-politics/

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Ah Yes indeed. And the 2nd (I think it's the 2nd) law explains so much of our 21st c. Western malaise: "any institution not explicitly conservative will eventually become left wing" (or words to that effect). By the way, I believe that what is widely known as Conquest's Law is actually O'Sullivan's Law.

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O'Sullivan's Law would properly attribute one of the sentiments. Namely that organizations taking money for doing nothing almost always end up becoming socialist. *shrugs*

Conquest bundled the three and adds a very important 1st Law - maybe should be the 0th Law: Everyone is conservative about what he knows best. It speaks to the motivations behind all policy.

We all are much more comfortable with what we know and are largely convinced that we've chosen this path because it's the most morally correct one.

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Yes, I think you're right about the Conquest bundling. I refer to O'Sullivan's Law in this recent post:

https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/mrs-thatcher-and-the-good-life

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Many, initially. Bureaucracy is kind of like having the genes for getting a huge pot-belly from being both gourmand and gourmet: you need to employ self-discipline, restraint and to continously work off your excess intake of food.

Sadly, what inevitably happens (and this is true for any bureaucracy, private or public, anytime and anywhere) is that the bureaucracy itself becomes its own goal, rather than it being a mechanism for actually getting things correctly allocated, monitored and executed.

Sort-of how the arteries of a fatty get clogged, to extend the metaphor.

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"Many initially" OK.... do you have a for instance?

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While others were asking different questions I kept asking myself who are these bureaucrats and what the hell is wrong with them? [DISCLAIMER: If you are one of those who likes to see this as a huge cabal of power mad evil doers, you will be disappointed.]

Then one day many years of zen and my dog dropped the answer on me. As is my habit, I got my pooch a nice big soupbone at the market. When I gave it to him he took it very happily, went to the corner of the kitchen where his food and water dishes are and began joyfully chewing away. I didn't have to explain to him what a bone is and-or what he should do with it. He knows how to be a dog. 😉🐾

Bureaucrats are people who don't know how to be human. (And lest anyone think I am picking on bureaucrats, they have LOTS of company: Nearly all religions and religious people, political parties and their people, cults, etc- I could go on and on.) Nearly all bureaucrats are very short sighted and extremely limited in outlook. Hence, they think the rest of us don't know how to be human either. This is also why they rely so heavily on manuals, regulations, rules, and the like. They are quite simply people who care more about words and numbers on a piece of paper than they do about real people in the real world. Most of them are easily duped and so are ripe to be used by those above them.

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Ultimately, no, not ever.

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"the NIH is a thieves forest where the public money they take from your taxes is used to fund research, but when the research proves fruitful the royalty payments therefrom often go not to the agency but to the individual staffers who were involved."

Welcome to the pharma criminal empire.

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