“You can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.”
—Étienne de La Boétie, “The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude”
While I agree the "power lies with the people," one issue you overlook is how fat, stupid, and lazy the First World is, and how bad things will have to get before they rise up and burn the WEF down.
Sri Lanka started at the bottom of the curve. It didn't take much for hunger to overcome their fear of gubmint repression.
I live in the Third World. I see first hand how little it takes for angry citizens to burn tires in the streets and call a general strike over some dumb gubmint policy that directly affects them...while the rich are more concerned that their yard man, making $15 a day, showed up to work late.
Yes, I am aware of that challenge, but the Dutch farmers are proving it can happen in more Westernized locales—just as it did in Canada and even America through the People’s Convoy. These beautiful examples of people joining together to shake off their shackles are inspiring others to do so around the world, from Australia to Europe and beyond. It may take more time, but the more buffered people are slowly waking up, and once we reach a critical mass, watch out.
They have to be very cautious about making their fascism visible via violence as it will spark an even Greater Awakening than the one already underway. That is why they have relied so heavily on mass hypnosis via psychological mechanisms—it’s far more effective when the tyranny is covert instead of overt.
At some point psychology will fail, and the only alternative is violence.
What if the Dutch farmers don't retreat?
What if The Netherlands does the same thing Trudeau did that drove a spike into the hearts of the truckers: shut off bank accounts, insurance, drivers licenses, cell phones, confiscate trucks, punish anyone helping (like shop owners selling the truckers food and drink), confiscate supplies brought in by outsiders, bring in external non-Canadian thugs as violent enforcers, and arrest and jail the leaders?
They cannot retreat one inch, or The People will begin massive, uncontrollable pushback.
The Overlords cannot...and I suggest will not...allow that to happen.
I hear what you are saying. But where the rubber meets the road, tactics and action matter more than strategy.
Even if they wind up retreating, what matters is they’ve injured the principle of authority in the public mind, and that process of dissolution is well-underway:
“The importance of the event [the storming of the Bastille] lay simply in the psychological fact that for the first time the people received an obvious proof of the weakness of an authority which had lately been formidable.
“When the principle of authority is injured in the public mind it dissolves very rapidly. What might not one demand of a king who could not defend his principal fortress against popular attacks? The master regarded as all-powerful had ceased to be so.
“The taking of the Bastille was the beginning of one of those phenomena of mental contagion which abound in the history of the Revolution. The foreign mercenary troops, although they could scarcely be interested in the movement, began to show symptoms of mutiny.”
It will be much harder to do a Canada on Dutch farmers. The Netherlands is a much smaller country, several neighbours, and no border controls (yes, they tried to bring this back in after several decades because of "corona" but it is not practical).
Nothing to stop a Dutch farmer buying a SIM card in Belgium or Germany or France, or lots of German tourists driving to NL with plenty of food supplies in their car (Germans do that, believe it or not, when driving on holiday), that just happen to disappear when stopping somewhere near farmers.
We also have lots and lots of banks in Europe, not just big 5 as in Canada.
I think it will actually be easier to organise supply chain for resisters in Europe than it was in Canada.
Exactly. In fact, I think they have gone way too far already. They would have been a lot better off if they would have given all of these printed trillions over the last few years to the people, keeping us fat and happy while they snuck in all of their systems of control and tyranny. What they have been doing is waking people up that I never thought I'd see snapped out of their slumber. Personally, I hope these monsters keep on pushing. It only serves to swell our ranks.
On top of this, wait till they figure out they've been poisoned. It's a witches brew. All of it. Maybe that's a silver lining? Maybe all the planets had to align for people to start waking up?
I've been waiting for 25 years! Can't come soon enough!
I think it's an emergent property - not just one single event/item.
Ask the Trump voters why they feel like they got cheated. It's not just because they think there was actual cheating. Which there most certainly was. It's more because their rights were not respected and they were shamed - and the entire System worked against them to squash their voice.
It's amazing how similar out thought processes are when it comes to our children. As it should be.
Hah! Nope, the fat and lazy are generally the ones who don't eat well already. The fat and the laziness are our adaptation for facing famine. Carry a supply of energy on you, and don't burn it up quickly. It's the trim, active, athletic types who will be pinched hardest, and react most dangerously.
I mow my own lawn but from talking to my neighbors (most of whom have never had a callous in their life), "yard men" make more like $15/hour these days.
OMG. Power to the People? ALL CHAOTIC REVOLUTIONS end in dictatorships of the right or left. In this case, as the Chinese Mafia, otherwise known as the CCP, will engineer the ascent of a Democratic Socialist promising reforms and the end of corruption, The CCP will soon own all of the natural resources and politicians. Where there are no guarantees of personal freedoms, democracy simply means mob rule which will be the case until the “elections” installing the Chinese Puppet.
The tyrants, philanthropaths, and colluders have already effected a revolution. The people are merely rising up to reclaim their liberties from those who have attempted to wrest them from us. The Canadian truckers proved that can be done peacefully and with immense love:
de La Boétie is saying we simply need to withdraw our support—in other words, become ungovernable—and rediscover the power of “NO!” That is entirely different from the scenario you described and is our only hope of escaping the dystopian one-world technocratic totalitarianism the tyrants are trying to force us into.
One way or another the people have to be ungovernable in order to vanquish totalitarian overlords. And there is no GUARANTEE of personal freedoms under any system. Guarantees are meaningless when they are ignored. Canadians, among others, have been finding that out with increasing regularity.
Why that sounds awful doc, sounds like we could lose our freedoms and be ruled over by assholes who don't respect our democratic ways or even basic decency!
Oh, wait... that's us now. What was your question again?
I should have been more clear...Purges that take folks to Reeducation camps if they're benevolent, or line up in front of a pit bybthe thousands if you don't.
I'm not counting the purges due to the jabbyjab. That's an ongoing issue.
This guy gets it, this isn't winning, this is losing. Not to mention the pain these people are going through. What was the first tenant of communism... I forget
Yes, but...This way leads to martyrdom. Not trying to inculcate fear but nor should we paint overly rosy pictures. We should be wide-eyed open to what we face.
Agreed, I don’t want anyone to self-immolate. The Canadian truckers handled their situation with dignity and withdrew before anyone was killed. Some consider that defeat, but they inspired similar movements around the world, and simply taking that step cracked the facade and opened the way for future freedom movements.
Fortunately, I believe TPTB learned their lessons from their 1960s assassination spree in that they now realize murdering key figures only creates martyrs and amplifies their messages. That’s why they’ve switched tactics to character assassination these days.
Well, look at how the early Christian martyrs spurred the growth of the Christian religion; and having that example, TPT(shouldn't)B still went on an assassination spree in the 60s.
I will not self-immolate but I am prepared to stand fast on the hill I've chosen, while praying it doesn't come to that. Love your work, btw. Discovered you on Lew Rockwell. Keep fighting the good fight!
Good points, and they sometimes do stupid things, as is evident from their clumsy implementation over the past two years. They started a worldwide forest fire of resistance that is growing exponentially with every totalitarian step.
Glad you found me on dear Lew. Thanks for standing firm, Don! 🛡🙌
Three WEF puppets down in one week. Who is next? God I miss Trump. Watched a video of him telling German delegates not to get too complacent with wind and solar energy. The German delegates sat and smirked and giggled at Trump’s warning. Guess whose gas taps get turned off tomorrow by Russia, while Russia does some “maintenance work” for ten days. The previous 2 1/2 years have been almost as entertaining as the men’s final today at Wimbledon.
But He was not eally all in on the globalist stuff. He was a conservative and nationalist in many ways. He was much more like a populist trump-like figure wasnt he.
Thats absolutely true. If Trump had stayed in power it’s very possible that there would’ve been the same level of hysteria and coercion employed and pushing the vaccine by the Republicans. I’m not trying to take a side here or play favorites. I take the Jeffersonian view and the libertarian due
Agreed. He made a honest mistake believing the medi-crats like Fauci but unlike Democrats, when data started coming in showing the experimental gene transfer therapy injections had little if any benefit, Big Pharma would have been on the defensive. What Warp Speed showed is that most govt red tape can be cut and things actually can get done. Draining the swamp will take decades if Americans and the world wake up and force globalists and massvaxists to go join the dinosaurs.
THAT would have been an interesting scenario to watch. All the liberal millies screaming about their body, their choice...and then to have SCOTUS do what they've been doing the past couple of months. I doubt the country would have survived.
Trump has not supported the forced mandate. He is still a big fan and even took the booster but stops short of forcing people to be injected. He also takes credit for its rapid creation.
It’s so ridiculous. If anyone “should” have died from the virus, it would have been trump. Overweight, older, ate poorly yet was out of the hospital in a few days. Yet none of the vaccine fanatics stop to think about this. He didn’t die and at that time there were no vaccines.
But abe and thay government severely restricted immigrated into japan . The Japanese culture and people arm much more ethnically uniform and guard there ethnic heritage very closely. By Western standards especially someone like me living in around New York City on my life as a third generation Jewish American Eyeview Japanese culture is actually very exclusionary and racist. But that is their right as self determining free people to be that way. So in that way they were very much conservatives and nationalists.
Being engaged in global trade and capitalism does not necessarily mean that you have to surrender national sovereignty. And Abe as far as I know, Was an advocate for retaining a strong japanese State
Shinzo helped Trump to cement an alliance against China (with the US, Australia and India, though Australia has buckled somewhat on this). While Japan didn't like it, they've continued it and are now helping provide expertise for military hardware for others, and continue to get cutting edge materials from the US. (money does talk, of course).
I didn't, and I doubt it. Hadn't guessed you (yet). I need a lot more time observing someone before I can guess their MBTI.
Husband and all serious long terms were INTPs. I needed a lot of freedom to think and move around. The absent-minded professor/zany engineer type was the only type to tolerate that. lol.
No surprise that you describe your wife as low maintenance. haha.
Not stalking, but we seem to be on a lot of the same stacks and your picture is instantly recognizable and your comments are witty. Lol, "Don" could be anybody and doesn't stand out. But of course you don't need to respond if I get on your nerves, lol. I'll be ok, there are lots of interesting people on here but you're my favorite right now. 😆😆
Haha yes, I'm not good at maintenance and am exactly the absent minded professor type. My wife has kept me grounded for 37 years on July 13th. She is my better 3/4ths!
But yeah. I already know everything about you. If you have a desk, it’s a mess. If you work from home on your computer, you get up at 11 AM, work till 11 PM, and never change out of your bathrobe. 50% chance the bathrobe still has crumbs on it from breakfast. When single, you Never get around to buying a vacuum cleaner, and instead of bothering to buy dishes, you just eat off of paper plates and use plastic cutlery.
Funny how "agricultural reforms" end up killing so many people and creating chaos. As if we didn't learn, or maybe they took their cues from, Maoist China and the cultural revolution, and the Cambodian killing fields?
From the manifesto:Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
Sri Lanka's government took the precious advices from the global star activist vandana shiva, she was very proud of that, that the country will be the first one in the world with organic agriculture....is amazing, everyone , all the people are hypnotized by this woman (even stupid me, years ago) ...till I found her a while ago, maybe six month ago (I showed that to my husband and he was realy surprised too) on the list of the members of club of rome, in all kind of other strange organizations and working with UN . Now I couldn't find her there, public, anymore, but as we know, nobody resign just like this from the club of rome.
How is she anti globalization and anti corporations if she is staying at the same table with them, I asked this question where I could and the result was that many articles about her "work" just vanished from internet.
She is also a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain’s Socialist Party’s think tank, member of the Executive Committee of the World Future Council.
Everything is possible if people rethink the unthinkable and take that stand for freedom. Perhaps the courage of the Sri Lankans will beget the courage of the people in other countries.
Crash the system. Let chaos reign. At some point, swoop in as a "savior." People will agree to anything so they can return to a semblance of normalcy. Order out of chaos.
Some time in the not-too-distant past I read an article on how "modern improvements" to rice paddy culture in Sri Lanka led to an absolute (but clearly not the absolute that was coming) disaster, because all those Ph.D. geniuses didn't understand the interrelatedness of ecology, and how them dumb water buffaloes with their clumsy footprints were just essential to, like, everything, including keeping down the mosquito population.
Turns out mechanical cultivation just can't do everything, and in fact does some things quite badly.
Just one piece of how they wrecked a country. Arthur C. Clarke must be heartbroken, somewhere.
One eye-opener of a novel I read as child was the full version of "Gulliver's Travels". Now, to an american as you and to most others too I'm sure, it's no revelation that Gulliver goes to more places than just Lilliput, but here both now and when I grew up most people only knows that part.
Anyway, engough waffling: when he's visiting Laputa and nearby places, he also visits a university. And here Swift really went to town mocking the special stupidity only possible in academia, be it social sciences or physics. Remember that part about the scientist trying to extract sunlight from cucumbers, or the one trying to use hogs for plowing fields, causing famine?
What's always humbling is to read something from, say, 2000 years ago, in translation of course so may lose a little of the force of the original, that nails what we are now, exactly.
Oh aye, I often recommend the Code of Hammurabi to anyone, left or right or doing the time warp again, who goes on about today's great freedom and range of rights/lack of same.
Or Roman, Greek, and other ancient sources of law and custom - the Egyptian Book of the Dead f.e., the Code is the most readily accessible though.
I mean, even their divorce proceedings are quite fair:
"137. If a man wish to separate from a woman who has borne him
children, or from his wife who has borne him children: then
he shall give that wife her dowry, and a part of the usufruct of
field, garden, and property, so that she can rear her children.
When she has brought up her children, a portion of all that
is given to the children, equal as that of one son, shall be
given to her. She may then marry the man of her heart."
A bit different from how it was done all over the western world up until recently, don't you think?
Or when Cicero is defending a man who tried to do murder by having a slave poison someone, and Cicero through sheer oratory and slander turns the court around to nearly convicting the intended victim instead. That's some powerful shyster-fu, that.
I can tell you it was a considerable shock to the system when I, who went to after-school Hebrew school classes a couple of times a week in the elementary grades, discovered that, like, the Babylonians had gotten there before us.
We weren't nothin' special at all, just part of the great continuum of thought that made that Crescent so Fertile. Just better PR. Heck of a crushing come-down.
I wonder when, exactly, that point was when we stopped our intellectual evolving and started the devolving part.
The divider is I argue whether leaders are forced to (or chooses to) deal with praciticalities, or if they opt for visions.
We can envision a perfect society and then using power try to force it into reality, and we will always fail as perfection is nothing but the ultimate stasis - what is perfect cannot change (however, what cannot change needs by no means be perfect).
Or we can discover a practical problem or a situation and think: "How to solve this?" In essence, they voluntarily subjugate themselves and their personal wishes and quirks under the demands of physical reality.
The opposite is the idealist insisting that people try to create the perfect society by behaving in such a way the idealist's idea actually functions. Which always leads to disaster.
As german chancellor Helmut Schmidt said: "Wer Visionen hat sollte sum Arzt gehen", meaning if you have visions, go see a doctor.
“It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.”
- G.K. Chesterton
"My own taste in murder has always been rather for the knife of Brutus, which strikes upwards, than for the knife of Nero, which struck down."
~ G. K. Chesterton
Well to each their own
Killing is a serious matter
Seeing how these dark twisted souls
Have generated mass genocide beyond anything ever witnessed
Well….
By rope knife by bare hands
Bullet
Buffet of choices to each their own
Shame you can kill them only once.
Perhaps since they want to kill us
Is now perfectly clear, this may change…????
Message goes to Dr Yeadon
Thanks for being so on the ball
Animated calling this genocide
Just that!! You are one of the voices
I listened to and just validated my
Darkest suspicions that my intuition
Was correct. Still we needed to hear
From voices yours that have been in
The belly of big pharma with first
Hand understanding of the science.
I spent 15 years on the street pedaling pharma, and learned
The game that way. You don’t mince
Words you cut to the chase
I never thought I’d be writing you
Directly but I get to say God Bless
And many thanks directly.
Your Courage and direct messaging
Is admired!!!
Two specific points of Thanks
Dr Yeadon:
Your comment on T cells recognizing new virus after 17 years. I remember reading that early on great reminder.
2. Variants 97% similar to original
Wuhan.
This is why I prefer slow roasting over a green wood fire.
Oh man, this is going on my fridge….maybe even a permanent tattoo across my forehead
Yes, and bureaucrats and bankersters. We must not forget the bureaucrats and the bankersters.
God I wish I wouldn't have missed this post.
Best ever Jim!
I think Gato may have a hard time putting the toothpaste back in the tube.
No wonder he lives on an island!
Never a paste to go tubin again
Once out my friend.
Boris's great-grandfather, for one.
Who is that person?
Ali Kemal -- https://www.executedtoday.com/2016/11/06/1922-ali-kemal/
Thank you. I had no idea that Boris Johnson’s great grandfather was lynched as a traitor to Turkey 100 years today.
From the sounds of it, I don't think this is gonna be a mostly peaceful spectator sport
Sri Lankans are proving once again that “The power of the people is stronger than the people in power!” ✊🖕🙌
Once again, I return to my beloved Étienne de La Boétie quote from my second essay (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/covid-is-over-if-you-want-it):
“You can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.”
—Étienne de La Boétie, “The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude”
While I agree the "power lies with the people," one issue you overlook is how fat, stupid, and lazy the First World is, and how bad things will have to get before they rise up and burn the WEF down.
Sri Lanka started at the bottom of the curve. It didn't take much for hunger to overcome their fear of gubmint repression.
I live in the Third World. I see first hand how little it takes for angry citizens to burn tires in the streets and call a general strike over some dumb gubmint policy that directly affects them...while the rich are more concerned that their yard man, making $15 a day, showed up to work late.
Yes, I am aware of that challenge, but the Dutch farmers are proving it can happen in more Westernized locales—just as it did in Canada and even America through the People’s Convoy. These beautiful examples of people joining together to shake off their shackles are inspiring others to do so around the world, from Australia to Europe and beyond. It may take more time, but the more buffered people are slowly waking up, and once we reach a critical mass, watch out.
I hope you are prescient, and I pray you are correct, but experience has made me a natural skeptic.
I expect the Dutch to literally bring out the Big Guns and wreak violent havoc on dissenting farmers.
Just as Klaus Schwab requires.
The Great Resetters cannot, and will not, allow their progress to be impeded. If one country in revolt wins a revolt, all others will.
I expect great bloodshed in the near future.
They have to be very cautious about making their fascism visible via violence as it will spark an even Greater Awakening than the one already underway. That is why they have relied so heavily on mass hypnosis via psychological mechanisms—it’s far more effective when the tyranny is covert instead of overt.
At some point psychology will fail, and the only alternative is violence.
What if the Dutch farmers don't retreat?
What if The Netherlands does the same thing Trudeau did that drove a spike into the hearts of the truckers: shut off bank accounts, insurance, drivers licenses, cell phones, confiscate trucks, punish anyone helping (like shop owners selling the truckers food and drink), confiscate supplies brought in by outsiders, bring in external non-Canadian thugs as violent enforcers, and arrest and jail the leaders?
They cannot retreat one inch, or The People will begin massive, uncontrollable pushback.
The Overlords cannot...and I suggest will not...allow that to happen.
I hear what you are saying. But where the rubber meets the road, tactics and action matter more than strategy.
Even if they wind up retreating, what matters is they’ve injured the principle of authority in the public mind, and that process of dissolution is well-underway:
“The importance of the event [the storming of the Bastille] lay simply in the psychological fact that for the first time the people received an obvious proof of the weakness of an authority which had lately been formidable.
“When the principle of authority is injured in the public mind it dissolves very rapidly. What might not one demand of a king who could not defend his principal fortress against popular attacks? The master regarded as all-powerful had ceased to be so.
“The taking of the Bastille was the beginning of one of those phenomena of mental contagion which abound in the history of the Revolution. The foreign mercenary troops, although they could scarcely be interested in the movement, began to show symptoms of mutiny.”
—Gustave Le Bon, “The Psychology of Revolution”
It will be much harder to do a Canada on Dutch farmers. The Netherlands is a much smaller country, several neighbours, and no border controls (yes, they tried to bring this back in after several decades because of "corona" but it is not practical).
Nothing to stop a Dutch farmer buying a SIM card in Belgium or Germany or France, or lots of German tourists driving to NL with plenty of food supplies in their car (Germans do that, believe it or not, when driving on holiday), that just happen to disappear when stopping somewhere near farmers.
We also have lots and lots of banks in Europe, not just big 5 as in Canada.
I think it will actually be easier to organise supply chain for resisters in Europe than it was in Canada.
Exactly. In fact, I think they have gone way too far already. They would have been a lot better off if they would have given all of these printed trillions over the last few years to the people, keeping us fat and happy while they snuck in all of their systems of control and tyranny. What they have been doing is waking people up that I never thought I'd see snapped out of their slumber. Personally, I hope these monsters keep on pushing. It only serves to swell our ranks.
💯 MAJOR tactical error on their part. No going back now.
I think they feel the systems are in place already. Or did you see a varied national response to the 'pandemic'?
It’s been working for them so far, I suspect they’re totally emboldened.
Push back Klaus and his
Minions will buckle.
Farmers have their land their soul their love their
Daily bread. A thief in the
WEF has an empty hollow
Greed. I say push back on the bullies. With fierce
Pride and purpose
I am with you.
I hope to see Schwab and his evil minions swing at the end of a noose.
Well it’s about time people stop
Allowing these tin pot tyrants to
Run amok without any accountability.
Including our own democratic and
Rhino pay to play to join the group
Of international terrorist. Time to
Assert what a true revolution of
World wide proportions looks
Like. In the Wild West they would
Be building gallows… treason in these
Parts is a hanging offense.
The list of violations is long
The headline reads for crimes
Against humanity:
Time the bullies tasted their own
Medicine. They will only stop
When stopped. Let Sri Lanka
Netherlands be examples to us
All.
👊
👊 back at ya! Love your writing btw
They don't have to fire a single shot, as we saw in Canada.
They resorted to seizing bank accounts
Instead.
Time has come
To stop playing victims
Slow to engage unless it’s a game of
Hockey.
Slow trains once on the warming
Gather momentum impossible to
Stop.
Trudeau needs to go!!!
He can biden and Newsome
And other tin pot tyrants to
A remote rocky island
That’s cold wet dark
And no heat
No under ground caves
No skates for their feet
Let them be cold wet hungry
As long as you have 10 days’ rice in your bag.
You mean *philanthropath* Gates :-)
• “Anatomy of a Philanthropath: Dreams of Democide & Dictatorship” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-philanthropath-dreams)
I can’t even watch him anymore
Especially considering the last 2 plus years ….perhaps
Stolen elections have consequences. Living in
A blue state in a red county
After gas has gone above
$5 bucks there is a tangible
Anger abrew.
I don't know. I have a lot of blue collar folks who work for me. They are ANGRY. And there are many more of them than the elites.
I'm so ready for this shit to go down. It just can't be ignored anymore.
On top of this, wait till they figure out they've been poisoned. It's a witches brew. All of it. Maybe that's a silver lining? Maybe all the planets had to align for people to start waking up?
I've been waiting for 25 years! Can't come soon enough!
You should read the piece in the Economist about how bad the lockdowns were for the children all across the world?
It's the obvious, but it's still disgusting.
That's my fuel. We can never forget and we must help our children understand.
I think it's an emergent property - not just one single event/item.
Ask the Trump voters why they feel like they got cheated. It's not just because they think there was actual cheating. Which there most certainly was. It's more because their rights were not respected and they were shamed - and the entire System worked against them to squash their voice.
It's amazing how similar out thought processes are when it comes to our children. As it should be.
There's no Goldilocks zone between an energy crunch and a financial crush.
Shits gettin' real Salty Dog. I can just feel it.
I know. I don't know what to do with myself.
The truth is this has to happen, or we will literally be held in bondage.
I'm actually happy I'm living through this period of history.
As you point out, all it takes is hunger. When the dollar collapses, watch how rapidly the gossamer veneer of civilization falls away.
3 meals away...as they say
Your choices will become:
1. Become a warlord.
2. Swear fealty to a warlord.
3. Resist all warlords (this is really #1, but without followers. It’s nearly impossible if you clearly command resources).
Agree
I'd have thought that the fat and lazy would be among the first to protest food shortages. Admittedly, they might be slow while going about it.
Hah! Nope, the fat and lazy are generally the ones who don't eat well already. The fat and the laziness are our adaptation for facing famine. Carry a supply of energy on you, and don't burn it up quickly. It's the trim, active, athletic types who will be pinched hardest, and react most dangerously.
I mow my own lawn but from talking to my neighbors (most of whom have never had a callous in their life), "yard men" make more like $15/hour these days.
Not where I live.
Maid and yardman are both around 900 pesos a day (@ 54.4).
OMG. Power to the People? ALL CHAOTIC REVOLUTIONS end in dictatorships of the right or left. In this case, as the Chinese Mafia, otherwise known as the CCP, will engineer the ascent of a Democratic Socialist promising reforms and the end of corruption, The CCP will soon own all of the natural resources and politicians. Where there are no guarantees of personal freedoms, democracy simply means mob rule which will be the case until the “elections” installing the Chinese Puppet.
The tyrants, philanthropaths, and colluders have already effected a revolution. The people are merely rising up to reclaim their liberties from those who have attempted to wrest them from us. The Canadian truckers proved that can be done peacefully and with immense love:
• “Profiles in Courage: The Canadian Truckers” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/profiles-in-courage-the-canadian)
de La Boétie is saying we simply need to withdraw our support—in other words, become ungovernable—and rediscover the power of “NO!” That is entirely different from the scenario you described and is our only hope of escaping the dystopian one-world technocratic totalitarianism the tyrants are trying to force us into.
One way or another the people have to be ungovernable in order to vanquish totalitarian overlords. And there is no GUARANTEE of personal freedoms under any system. Guarantees are meaningless when they are ignored. Canadians, among others, have been finding that out with increasing regularity.
Why that sounds awful doc, sounds like we could lose our freedoms and be ruled over by assholes who don't respect our democratic ways or even basic decency!
Oh, wait... that's us now. What was your question again?
😂👍
Yep spot on. …..but then we have the 2A yet, don’t we?
Perhaps the difference between a simple dictatorship, and one that starts with Purges.
Right now, we’re getting both:
• “Anatomy of a Philanthropath: Dreams of Democide & Dictatorship” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-philanthropath-dreams)
I should have been more clear...Purges that take folks to Reeducation camps if they're benevolent, or line up in front of a pit bybthe thousands if you don't.
I'm not counting the purges due to the jabbyjab. That's an ongoing issue.
Gotcha. I think that would be a severe strategic blunder if they flip the full-on fascism switch, though.
This guy gets it, this isn't winning, this is losing. Not to mention the pain these people are going through. What was the first tenant of communism... I forget
Clever
It is a rare pleasure to see someone quote Boétie. Cheers Margaret.
He is the original “become ungovernable” gato 😎
Many rare pleasures are in store for the one who follows the output of Ms. Margaret Anna Alice.
Only after everything collapsed, almost like a.... Reset. Might even say a great reset.
Yes, but...This way leads to martyrdom. Not trying to inculcate fear but nor should we paint overly rosy pictures. We should be wide-eyed open to what we face.
Agreed, I don’t want anyone to self-immolate. The Canadian truckers handled their situation with dignity and withdrew before anyone was killed. Some consider that defeat, but they inspired similar movements around the world, and simply taking that step cracked the facade and opened the way for future freedom movements.
Fortunately, I believe TPTB learned their lessons from their 1960s assassination spree in that they now realize murdering key figures only creates martyrs and amplifies their messages. That’s why they’ve switched tactics to character assassination these days.
Well, look at how the early Christian martyrs spurred the growth of the Christian religion; and having that example, TPT(shouldn't)B still went on an assassination spree in the 60s.
I will not self-immolate but I am prepared to stand fast on the hill I've chosen, while praying it doesn't come to that. Love your work, btw. Discovered you on Lew Rockwell. Keep fighting the good fight!
Good points, and they sometimes do stupid things, as is evident from their clumsy implementation over the past two years. They started a worldwide forest fire of resistance that is growing exponentially with every totalitarian step.
Glad you found me on dear Lew. Thanks for standing firm, Don! 🛡🙌
“Give me liberty, or give me death.” If you’re not willing to die for your freedom, you’re already a slave.
Three WEF puppets down in one week. Who is next? God I miss Trump. Watched a video of him telling German delegates not to get too complacent with wind and solar energy. The German delegates sat and smirked and giggled at Trump’s warning. Guess whose gas taps get turned off tomorrow by Russia, while Russia does some “maintenance work” for ten days. The previous 2 1/2 years have been almost as entertaining as the men’s final today at Wimbledon.
To be replaced by even less resistant wef stooges
Theres boris johnson, the sri lankan president and whos the third?
Former Japanese prime minister Abe
But He was not eally all in on the globalist stuff. He was a conservative and nationalist in many ways. He was much more like a populist trump-like figure wasnt he.
Let's not forget, it was originally 'Trump's' vaccine. Trump did Warp Speed. He is no savior, and neither is anyone else in power.
Thats absolutely true. If Trump had stayed in power it’s very possible that there would’ve been the same level of hysteria and coercion employed and pushing the vaccine by the Republicans. I’m not trying to take a side here or play favorites. I take the Jeffersonian view and the libertarian due
If Trump was president there would be no mandates, even if Trump wanted them. Suddenly CA and NY would be 'vax sanctuary' states.
Agreed. He made a honest mistake believing the medi-crats like Fauci but unlike Democrats, when data started coming in showing the experimental gene transfer therapy injections had little if any benefit, Big Pharma would have been on the defensive. What Warp Speed showed is that most govt red tape can be cut and things actually can get done. Draining the swamp will take decades if Americans and the world wake up and force globalists and massvaxists to go join the dinosaurs.
THAT would have been an interesting scenario to watch. All the liberal millies screaming about their body, their choice...and then to have SCOTUS do what they've been doing the past couple of months. I doubt the country would have survived.
He helped with the “vax”, but he never supported mandates.
Trump has not supported the forced mandate. He is still a big fan and even took the booster but stops short of forcing people to be injected. He also takes credit for its rapid creation.
It’s so ridiculous. If anyone “should” have died from the virus, it would have been trump. Overweight, older, ate poorly yet was out of the hospital in a few days. Yet none of the vaccine fanatics stop to think about this. He didn’t die and at that time there were no vaccines.
It wasn't rapidly created . . . it was rapidly approved. Rapidly, recklessly and murderously, in my opinion.
I DO NOT BELIEVE!!! ANY OF THEM TOOK IT!!!!
They are all in on it
But abe and thay government severely restricted immigrated into japan . The Japanese culture and people arm much more ethnically uniform and guard there ethnic heritage very closely. By Western standards especially someone like me living in around New York City on my life as a third generation Jewish American Eyeview Japanese culture is actually very exclusionary and racist. But that is their right as self determining free people to be that way. So in that way they were very much conservatives and nationalists.
Being engaged in global trade and capitalism does not necessarily mean that you have to surrender national sovereignty. And Abe as far as I know, Was an advocate for retaining a strong japanese State
From what I understand, Abe & Trump were good friends
Not according to the' Corbett Report.
Shinzo helped Trump to cement an alliance against China (with the US, Australia and India, though Australia has buckled somewhat on this). While Japan didn't like it, they've continued it and are now helping provide expertise for military hardware for others, and continue to get cutting edge materials from the US. (money does talk, of course).
Shinzo abe
Who are the other two?
Boris Johnson, Shinzo Abe
"Yes, it was."
"And what's the next part of your plan?"
"Crashing the planet, with no survivors."
More seriously though, it looks like this is all spinning out of control for the would-be controllers, and boy is the popcorn delicious.
Ah, yes, the classic INTJ bitter cynic doom mongering. Evil villains. Takes one to know one. 😂 Good thing we can also be starry-eyed idealists. 🤩
You didn't get the Bane reference? 😏
I always wanted to play villains in the school plays, too. ;)
Somehow I always got cast as the villain in school plays 🤷♂️
Strongly INTP here, as you probably had me pegged, lol. I suspect you may get as frustrated with my antics as I will get a chuckle out of yours.
Are you stalking me? lol
I didn't, and I doubt it. Hadn't guessed you (yet). I need a lot more time observing someone before I can guess their MBTI.
Husband and all serious long terms were INTPs. I needed a lot of freedom to think and move around. The absent-minded professor/zany engineer type was the only type to tolerate that. lol.
No surprise that you describe your wife as low maintenance. haha.
Not stalking, but we seem to be on a lot of the same stacks and your picture is instantly recognizable and your comments are witty. Lol, "Don" could be anybody and doesn't stand out. But of course you don't need to respond if I get on your nerves, lol. I'll be ok, there are lots of interesting people on here but you're my favorite right now. 😆😆
Haha yes, I'm not good at maintenance and am exactly the absent minded professor type. My wife has kept me grounded for 37 years on July 13th. She is my better 3/4ths!
It took a long string of rhetorical questioning but I’ll remember you now. 🤣
But yeah. I already know everything about you. If you have a desk, it’s a mess. If you work from home on your computer, you get up at 11 AM, work till 11 PM, and never change out of your bathrobe. 50% chance the bathrobe still has crumbs on it from breakfast. When single, you Never get around to buying a vacuum cleaner, and instead of bothering to buy dishes, you just eat off of paper plates and use plastic cutlery.
I got you pegged.
Funny how "agricultural reforms" end up killing so many people and creating chaos. As if we didn't learn, or maybe they took their cues from, Maoist China and the cultural revolution, and the Cambodian killing fields?
You don't think that's their explicit intent?
Circumstantially, from climate change to trans ideology and Covid, it is the weaponization of science as a means to a controlled depopulation regime.
From the manifesto:Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
due to the upcoming food shortages I have just ordered 2yrs supply of popcorn.
Sri Lanka's government took the precious advices from the global star activist vandana shiva, she was very proud of that, that the country will be the first one in the world with organic agriculture....is amazing, everyone , all the people are hypnotized by this woman (even stupid me, years ago) ...till I found her a while ago, maybe six month ago (I showed that to my husband and he was realy surprised too) on the list of the members of club of rome, in all kind of other strange organizations and working with UN . Now I couldn't find her there, public, anymore, but as we know, nobody resign just like this from the club of rome.
How is she anti globalization and anti corporations if she is staying at the same table with them, I asked this question where I could and the result was that many articles about her "work" just vanished from internet.
She is also a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain’s Socialist Party’s think tank, member of the Executive Committee of the World Future Council.
https://mobile.twitter.com/drvandanashiva/status/140334815675917517
https://www.clubofrome.org/impact-hubs/climate-emergency/open-letter-to-global-leaders-a-healthy-planet-for-healthy-people/
https://m.dw.com/en/avram-noam-chomsky-and-vandana-shiva-to-speak-at-the-2013-global-media-forum/a-16653066
Everything is possible if people rethink the unthinkable and take that stand for freedom. Perhaps the courage of the Sri Lankans will beget the courage of the people in other countries.
"is this all going according to plan?"
Yes. 110%
Crash the system. Let chaos reign. At some point, swoop in as a "savior." People will agree to anything so they can return to a semblance of normalcy. Order out of chaos.
Social credit score. Digital IDs. CBDCs.
Slavery by consent.
This. Bingo.
When you take away energy (ahem), take away food (ahem), take away housing (ahem)... only good things happen right?
LGB!
FJB
FJB!
Almost like you have to reset or something
Build Back Bolshevik!!
Comrade!
We are watching the Bond movies start to finish here at Casa Raptor. It is amazing how closely the WEF resembles the villains.
Sri Lanka is signal not noise.
Some time in the not-too-distant past I read an article on how "modern improvements" to rice paddy culture in Sri Lanka led to an absolute (but clearly not the absolute that was coming) disaster, because all those Ph.D. geniuses didn't understand the interrelatedness of ecology, and how them dumb water buffaloes with their clumsy footprints were just essential to, like, everything, including keeping down the mosquito population.
Turns out mechanical cultivation just can't do everything, and in fact does some things quite badly.
Just one piece of how they wrecked a country. Arthur C. Clarke must be heartbroken, somewhere.
One eye-opener of a novel I read as child was the full version of "Gulliver's Travels". Now, to an american as you and to most others too I'm sure, it's no revelation that Gulliver goes to more places than just Lilliput, but here both now and when I grew up most people only knows that part.
Anyway, engough waffling: when he's visiting Laputa and nearby places, he also visits a university. And here Swift really went to town mocking the special stupidity only possible in academia, be it social sciences or physics. Remember that part about the scientist trying to extract sunlight from cucumbers, or the one trying to use hogs for plowing fields, causing famine?
Nothing is new under the Sun, is it?
What's always humbling is to read something from, say, 2000 years ago, in translation of course so may lose a little of the force of the original, that nails what we are now, exactly.
Oh aye, I often recommend the Code of Hammurabi to anyone, left or right or doing the time warp again, who goes on about today's great freedom and range of rights/lack of same.
Or Roman, Greek, and other ancient sources of law and custom - the Egyptian Book of the Dead f.e., the Code is the most readily accessible though.
I mean, even their divorce proceedings are quite fair:
"137. If a man wish to separate from a woman who has borne him
children, or from his wife who has borne him children: then
he shall give that wife her dowry, and a part of the usufruct of
field, garden, and property, so that she can rear her children.
When she has brought up her children, a portion of all that
is given to the children, equal as that of one son, shall be
given to her. She may then marry the man of her heart."
A bit different from how it was done all over the western world up until recently, don't you think?
Or when Cicero is defending a man who tried to do murder by having a slave poison someone, and Cicero through sheer oratory and slander turns the court around to nearly convicting the intended victim instead. That's some powerful shyster-fu, that.
I can tell you it was a considerable shock to the system when I, who went to after-school Hebrew school classes a couple of times a week in the elementary grades, discovered that, like, the Babylonians had gotten there before us.
We weren't nothin' special at all, just part of the great continuum of thought that made that Crescent so Fertile. Just better PR. Heck of a crushing come-down.
I wonder when, exactly, that point was when we stopped our intellectual evolving and started the devolving part.
The divider is I argue whether leaders are forced to (or chooses to) deal with praciticalities, or if they opt for visions.
We can envision a perfect society and then using power try to force it into reality, and we will always fail as perfection is nothing but the ultimate stasis - what is perfect cannot change (however, what cannot change needs by no means be perfect).
Or we can discover a practical problem or a situation and think: "How to solve this?" In essence, they voluntarily subjugate themselves and their personal wishes and quirks under the demands of physical reality.
The opposite is the idealist insisting that people try to create the perfect society by behaving in such a way the idealist's idea actually functions. Which always leads to disaster.
As german chancellor Helmut Schmidt said: "Wer Visionen hat sollte sum Arzt gehen", meaning if you have visions, go see a doctor.
"...if you have visions, go see a doctor."
We didn't know how good we had it when the world had leaders like that.
It’s cyclic. I recommend “A Canticle for Leibowitz”.
Oh God. I read that when I was an adolescent. I remember not liking it very much...
Up next?
Scholz when tbe lights go out tomorrow?
Fingers crossed.
Wow, it looks sorta "insurrectionist-ish"
Good thing Nanny Pelosi and her dirtbag friends do not live there.
BLM and Antifa could add some serious damage too
The first of a series this year and next...
Please