Note too, that the rhetoric tends to be the same, regardless of who the would-be tyrants are. If only truth was as durable as the threadbare lies they spew out, time after time after time after time...
House Democrat leaders view House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), the leading candidate for Speaker of the House, as an “insurrectionist” and an “extremist extraordinaire.”
“House Republicans have selected as their nominee to be the Speaker of the people’s House the chairman of the chaos caucus, a defender in a dangerous way of dysfunction, and an extremist extraordinaire,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, (D-NY) said on Friday."
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction .. and the distinction between true and false .. no longer exist.”
The period since 9/11 has been one where our rulers continually demand loyalty tests.
US flags sprouted the day after 9/11. We were required to assert that the presence of WMDs (remember them?) required us to invade Iraq, which had no part in 9/11.
Fast forward to Russiagate, which demanded ritualistic expressions of hostility toward Russia for allegedly "meddling" in US elections.
Then the Floyd-BLM-transgender tsunami, which demands constant expressions of support for ideas that are transparently false.
Then Covid, which required entire nations to shut down in response to a flu-like virus that posed little risk to healthy people under 60.
We were forced to take untested and largely useless vaccines, hide our faces behind masks that offered no protection and stay indoors where the virus was sure to breed.
Then Ukraine. In the name of democracy we are forced to support a corrupt nation with no obvious strategic importance for us.
Now we must pledge fealty for Israel and support its expected attack on Gaza, never mind that collective punishment is a violation of international law.
Everything must be questioned at all times now. How many more blatant lies are required to be thrown into everyone's face before the masses realize that they are pawns on the chessboard, and are being played like a fiddle?
Most people don't pursue real change until the pain of the present becomes greater than the fear of the future. Sadly, we have a high tolerance for being lied to, especially when the price of speaking truth to power leaves one feeling like a nail in a room full of hammers.
A lot of people have beautiful plans they don't want to let go of. Admitting that our dollar will soon collapse, and all our major institutions are run by malevolent creeps would crush their dreams. (Those dreams that can never come true anyhow.)
Wow....your first sentence. So simple but so powerful. My wife and I have been discussing this topic about why so many people aren’t willing to admit the reality of the current situation. Those few words you wrote succinctly articulate it and no matter what we may try to say to open their eyes will make no difference. The only thing that will cause change for them is feeling pain.
To be wrong is a sort of mini-death in your conception of the world, the more dependent one is of the idea - how central it is to the individuals sense of who they are- the more like actual death it is.
This is the framework of reality, to be stripped of it is like being stripped of the world and have to rebuild it again. It is hard. May people will die before letting it happen.
I believe what you are describing is formalized as cognitive dissonance theory which postulates that an underlying psychological tension is created when an individual’s behavior is inconsistent with his or her thoughts and beliefs.
For us it took a truncated journey down the conveyor belt of the Cancer Industrial Complex in 2020 (pre-jab) to have the scales ripped from our eyes. I have had a lifelong close relationship with allopathic medicine due to an autoimmune disorder which I now believe is vaccine-related and pretty much just took whatever medicine they gave me. God is good in spite of ourselves and our circumstances and we are thankful that our eyes were open for the horror show that c-19 has exposed. It does mean reading books (hard copies so they can't be "disappeared") that we otherwise wouldn't and reading lots of Substack and the like so we can be better equipped for the slings and arrows that might come our way and justify our non-compliance with the latest thing.
I understand that many people will not see what has been done and what they have done in the light of truth as a matter of self preservation if nothing else. How is one to react if they now realize they have a potential ticking time bomb circulating in their body? How can they live with themselves if they forced employees, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandparents to do the same?
Humans have an amazing ability to dismiss their culpability in sinful actions. For the record, I am not immune to that either, though I am working on it.
I can tell you one of the things. Comfort and the illusion of security. I know someone who is gainfully employed, along with her spouse. They have millions in their retirement accounts and a very nice house in a tony neighborhood.
They can’t acknowledge the current state of affairs because if they do, they would have to admit that the prosperity they worked and sacrificed for cannot protect them or keep them safe and comfortable.
It’s a feeling of being adrift in the ocean in a teacup when you realize you can’t protect yourself from extreme discomfort and lack. That you have insufficient power to retain what you have.
Listen to the RED Button story of Catherine Austin Fitts (Solari.com) where she is talking to a church group concerned about the cultural destruction of their neighborhood and explains how drug money is deployed and is destroying their neighborhood and asks them how many would push the red button to stop it. None because it would effect their 401K retirement accounts. Says it all.
It's all true -- they're losing control and the only avenue left open to them is to tighten their grip even more. This Middle East situation could spiral out of control and provide the perfect excuse to crack down all sort of things. Censorship, banning political parties, controlling the media.....
Hopefully everybody sees through this BS excuse and understands this action for what it is — the first step in gaining ultimate control over podcasts/alternative news sources. First, government sets up a permission-based system — maybe even something that doesn’t even filter anybody out….yet. Then, government slowly tweaks the parameters of the requirements and/or the punishments for running afoul of the rules until the wrongthinkers lose their ability to speak on the internet to an interested audience. Once again, all completely legal and enabled by the licensing system.
And when you’re banned, do you think the government that just banned you will really be interested in hearing your appeal? (Those of us who were exiled from Twitter know exactly how this goes.)
When this happen, you have no rights.…and worse, you have no recourse — because the government that’s supposed to be protecting your rights is violating them instead. (If only somebody had seen this coming!)
And the Kuwait ambassador's daughter lying to Congress about Saddam's troops throwing babies out of incubators in Kuwait to get us to go to war. That was a lie too. So was the Gulf of Tonkin incident and Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
In WW1 and WW2, the government shut down amateur radio operators 'because of the emergency.' Because the hams might say something harmful to the war effort -- notably, something the government did not like. They were most worried about the existence of communications channels they did not control.
And they were none too eager to reinstate the hams, after the war was over. If there is a WW3, hams will be off the air, and this time I don't expect them to get their licenses back when it is over. No matter who wins.
I've been holding back from getting an amateur radio operators' license for this and related reasons. A license granted and endorsed by the undeniably criminal enterprise that is government should neither be acceptable nor fundamentally lawful nor legitimate authorization, and should not be accepted by a free people. The government has no verifiable and genuine endorsement by the governed, because the governed have not freely and voluntarily and without coercion chosen the government and then delegated to them the responsibilities the government assumes to possess.
So what do or should these licenses mean for us, as The People? We must crawl to the local government crime lords for the permission to operate a radio, let alone carry a firearm, the right and obligation of which was supposedly enshrined in the Second Amendment? We must ask and pay for the permission to travel and have granted a passport, when the freedom to roam is the most fundamental of human rights? We, The People, must finally cease this obsequious servility towards these criminals, grovelling to them for the permission to do what are our inalienable rights.
Thanks for the link. I didn't even think it were possible to make a defense of income tax, and yet there we have one, and a very good one. It turns out that I've been thinking about income tax in a too-narrow way. I've only looked at it as immoral government theft (and as it is presently enforced, it is), but it actually should be a good thing with respect to the clear distinction between income tax as defined in the 16th Amendment - an EXCISE on gains from certain federally-connected activities in which most Americans do not engage in meaningful (taxable) amounts, if at all - and how the IRS defines it in order to rob Americans.
Times are indeed different now than in earlier wars. Hams have historically been one of the more law-abiding groups, respectful of government authority. The policy reason to keep amateur radio is to provide communications in emergencies.
The Israeli govt is the scourge of the world. We are all Palestinians to them. That's all planned. They will lead the world into hell. My dad said this 40 years ago. They stole people's land and called it their own and will continue to do so.
Oh here we go, Another confused terrorist sympathizer. Turn the TV off. The Israeli govt are occupiers of that land, it's not theirs. No? What happened in 1948? Furthermore they aren't even jews they've hijacked them. You believe history on the world wars? JFK? 911? Corona? History is a pack of lies written about the dead- Volatire... and he's talking to you. Isreal was established so they could.rule the world. It's all theater. YAHOO wants 1.1M women, men and children to move out of Gaza? He's nuts and if you back him so are you. You're on the wrong side of history.
Everyone ELSE whose reading this take note. This fool says my dad doesn't know history. He says I need less coffee. Do you see how these epeople operate? Maybe you too? You verbalize your bias because you cannot engage in actual talk and facts. So you resort to responding with absolutely nothing that has anything to do with the subject at hand. Israel is a terrorist state. I've been to Gaza.ive seen the 4th world camps these terrorists put them in once they steal their land. They are animals and a disgrace to be called human. Yahoo should face a firing squad.
The Israelis that have authorized the larceny, pilferage, and theft of land, and those who have ordered atrocity against Palestinians, and even against the rest of the Israeli people, are not Semitic peoples. Hating them, then, is not Antisemitism.
hatred is normal to human beings, as is division. look at how many dialects of dutch are spoken in a tiny place like belgium.
we forget that the desire to ostracize and denigrate every possible form of otherness is part of human nature. liberality is a lovely ideal but very hard to sustain.
human beings invented civilization as a means of self-taming. it is the never ending project. both the worst and the best of our natures are fully human.
Sure, because all other political boundaries that exist dilineating the borders of all other countries came to be without even a hint of violence. For example, everyone knows the American Indians happily invited the British et al. to occupy the land they lived on.
Violence has long been the medium of exchange employed for civilization scale land acquisition. It ain't gonna change because a bunch of pearl clutching Karens start yelling, "No fair, No fair!"
This is ludicrous. Your comparing something on thr stone agree to something today. Have you been to Palestinian? If not. Stfu you have no idea because the TV told you.
Are you all the same people commenting under different names? I majored in History. Just not the BS revisionist history you did. Also, you've never been to Gaza nor seen the camps, so what do you know but what youre told? Is that all you got? I didn't study history?? That's your history lesson for us?
You've been to Gaza and seen the camps. So what? You think site seeing informs you on how it all happened? I've been to the hospital, doesn't make me a doctor.
You need to come up with some verifiable facts, not some, "I majored in history," credentialist appeal if you expect to get any traction.
These are "lies" because you don't believe the depravity to which humans can sink ? Or you feel that a specific cabal like Hamas who deals with their own homosexuals by throwing them off tops of buildings, could not possibly stoop to beheading the babies of a people whom they hate to death? In disbelieving everything, there is a danger in thinking the actual gun pointing at your head is made of plastic.
Such well-documented behavior has been going on for a very long time all over those parts of the less-developed world (i.e. Africa, Pakistan,India) where Muslims share a political space with other religions such as Christians , Hindus or Buddhists but they receive little to no reporting in the MSM. Why would Hamas terrorists (or freedom fighters if you prefer) be different?
The facts are what the establishment tells us they are. How much time have you spent in Palestine?been to the camps the Israelis put them in? The Israeli govt are animals
And many believe and buy the lies. Those people are the problem. Not so much the tyrants. Like this SCA clown on thai thread. No nothing more who believes they know what they're told is fact.
All too true. In an incredibly short span of time, progressives have turned American government into a banana republic. The party in power now arrests its way into total control, just as they do in the other banana republics, and the useful idiots are sure it's the best thing for us.
Yes, it's the Wizard of Oz, who turns out to be a regular guy with no powers whatsoever. And he tells Dorothey and the others that the power to achieve what they want has always been within themselves, and not within the power of some made-up wizard.
All the world is indeed a stage. But the truth cannot and will not be hidden forever. That this piece exists indicates the existence - and necessity - of The Great Awakening. As Churchill said of a similar dismal period, "These are not dark days; these are great days — the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race."
Re: your 'Trade Offer' meme in the article, my girlfriend was telling me about how her granddaughter (age 9) is not accepted by her classmates. She is a pretty good student I'm told. And her Mom & Grandma are contrarians.
This echoes my own school years where I just didn't fit in and questioned everything and everybody.
As Robert Frost once said, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." Truer words were never spoken.
Collectivism in all its forms - fascism, socialism, communism, progressivism - and the inevitable manifestation into statism, is the scourge of humanity.
We shall never be truly civilized until it is eradicated.
Divine rulers were replaced by divinely anointed rulers, which were in turn replaced by democracy, the god that failed*.
The mob apparently has an innate need to believe in something, and rulers, whether they wear a robe or a bear a sceptre, have always used it to get them to believe in nonsense.
All over the world, and all over Substack -- more and more authors and commenters are saying the same thing -- TS is about to HTF. Buckle up humans, it is about to get real.
Just spent the morning digging out the canned goods/dried food pantry, sifting and rotating, seeing what I have to replace...I was sorta ready by '20 and after the lockdowns went crazy buying more preservable food. It wouldn't be great chow or anything, but my son and I could hold out at least 6 months if not a year.
Tried that with our pet goat most appropriately dubbed Billy the Kid. He ‘shot’ the can right out of my hand so to speak. Deadly accurate with that...pistol of his. Put out Dad’s pipe once but that’s another story.
Don't know if you surf or ski, Gato, but you can't fight a killer wave or a loose slope; you gotta ride it, using it's own power to stay ahead and let it spend itself.
Pilots always try to avoid thunderstorms, but if you do penetrate one, it's generally best to keep going straight ahead, and avoid turning to try and get out. I can tell you, it is damn hard to do when you're getting the crap kicked out of the airplane.
In Australia yesterday, a majority of the country said no to the government's question about incorporating racial segregation into our constitution. Big biz, almost all the politicians and bureaucrats, the media and most of the inner city dwellers told the rest of us that we must vote yes if we didn't want to be considered racists/misinformed/stupid. At current count, over 60% of the country disobeyed. Feels good.
Maybe there’s some actual Crocodile Dundee left in the land down under? Been looking for traces of John Wayne up here but no joy yet, just lots of Samurai simulators wearing man buns aka saddle horns for their boyfriends.
Yeah, but just be aware there's a whole world of difference and a stark distinction between the metro-urban Aussie - the iPhone-toting, tattoo-festooned, man bun-coiffed, cosmetic-wearing, eyebrow-shaped, chest and armpit-depilated anon-i-sexuals - and the men and women on the land and in the outback.
So there is hope for Australia. Just change Aussie to American Redneck and you have described the still substantial reminder of the old American backbone. Now if y’all just had your high velocity lead injectors back.
Nothing was won nor lost by the result. In particular, nothing was won by the people nor especially by Australia's first nations. On the other hand, the government can leverage the result any which way it wants. For instance, Australians should next expect the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023 getting rammed through parliament (if it hasn't already been), as the government can now justify ratification by the No vote having carried in the 2023 Referendum since they will assert that, clearly, the result was due to all the misinformation, disinformation, or whatever, that circulated during the campaign that swayed the electorate.
By the way, the terms of the Voice Referendum were only with respect to whether or not to amend the Australian Constitution to establish an Indigenous Voice to parliament, whatever that means, but would not have a vote on laws. It's hard to see this as anything other than, as long-term activist and elder Gary Foley said, Aboriginal people are "being manoeuvred into a position of being complicit in the latest of a long line of cosmetic measures that will achieve nothing in the way of justice" for Aboriginal people. The Voice would have been an elected group charged with advocating Indigenous interests to Parliament, but they would have been nothing more than an advisory body to the colonial system that committed genocide and continues to commit atrocities.
Gomeroi man Ian Brown said he had no trust in a Voice to parliament because it would be “another formal process of government not listening to mob [Aboriginal communities]”.
If people don’t trust Voice, it’s because they don’t trust governments, said Meriki Onus, and this I also happen to believe, is the final word.
I agree - it was already a lose for everyone when they decided to have a referendum worded as it was, with no back up draft legislation to say how it would work. All that has happened is bad feeling and division. I don't think the voice group was going to be elected, was it? More of a selection process. https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2023/01/no-wonder-they-wont-detail-how-the-voice-will-work/
Also understandable that people don't trust governments - me neither, especially after the last few years (the only silver lining of the pandemic handling is clearer vision about some things). There already is an indigenous agency which has responsibility for listening, advising, monitoring indigenous issues (run by Indigenous ministers and CEO among others) - NIAA - but that hasn't reassured anyone. The apology didn't change anything, and neither would the voice. What a waste of time and money, all creating more distrust and hate.
"... the only silver lining of the pandemic handling is clearer vision about some things.."
Man-oh-man, how so very true! From soon after the start of the COVID-19 operation, not only due to the facts coming out, but more by the way government and authority behaved and the obvious scripted lies they told us and kept repeating, the spell the world had me under my whole life finally completely broke. I now (believe I can) see right through the vast deception, and I now cannot tolerate the very existence of government any longer. I stopped working to stop paying taxes. It's now either they all go or are taken out, or they'll need to take me out. (I know that the government will remain illegitimate and criminal far longer than I will remain solvent ...)
Yes, I retired too during the chaos. Heading out bush camping tomorrow for a week with dog and old man - I love being able to to do that whenever I want - it will probably be good for my general worrying nature to get away from tech and comms for a while and play ostrich.
(I am disturbed after a day of getting bombarded with shame and fuck Australia messages in the media - main and social. They may be in the minority on this but their opinions must be yelled at their stupid racist countrymen. aka us.)
It's absurd that they think the racist card can be pulled on the No vote. I realize it's the standard tactic of the 'progressive left,' but the mistrust of government is an almost insuperable factor, and this was underscored by the government completely botching the Yes campaign, the government officials' conceitedness, and the government propaganda trying to make it an either for-or-against Aboriginal Australian proposition.
On the other hand, the level of ignorance by a fraction of the Australian non-Aboriginal public and the widespread inability to even bother to understand what the referendum was ostensibly trying to establish (I'll leave aside for now the underlying, real purpose the government, and more importantly the government's globocap-oiler-banker-owner-investor bosses had in mind), there almost certainly was a racist factor at play, and the government's Yes-or-No / for-or-against gambit back-fired when the racists voted No because they thought they were sticking it to Aboriginal Australians. Queensland and South Australia, I'm talking to you.
Ah, not sure which SA or Qlders you are talking about, and will not get huffy just because I live in outback west Queensland! Ha! There are definitely some people who don't like the unfairness of government money being lavished on one race of people over another, but as most of the indigenous people in our little town either own businesses and are employers (usually pretty hard working ones too) or are employees of others I've not noticed any klan activity. Honest. There is a large amount of 'grudge factor' now, after being called so many names - we didn't have a single no poster in our town, because everyone knew it was just another rort, and Maranoa voted over 84% no. So 84% must be deplorable, evil, stupid racists?
However, this referendum HAS made obvious the need for an audit of how all the money is being spent. It obviously isn't going to where it is needed, and I strongly suspect that all the government and ngo programs (all the best paid people in our town) soak much of it up, paying for all those new prados, subsidized housing, big salaries and lots of paid leave. Small business owners find it hard to competel.
Don't get me wrong, a clear understanding of the terms of The Voice Referendum, and with genuine concern for Indigenous Australia at heart and a genuine desire for justice to be served, I believe the No choice was indeed the sensible one. For all the reasons stated above, The Voice Referendum was at best a sham, but in all likelihood a Trojan Horse policy. As you stated, there already are facilities in place and operating that perform the representation/advisory function which the claimed rationale for The Voice could only duplicate - but by creating more government. It would have been unnecessary at best, but in reality it would have created a special assembly for the indigenous — who in the future can be given a puppet leadership. They can effectively then be swept out of the way and their land and resources be “managed” or allocated by the State, through the Great Reset, to stakeholders or guardians.
But the government as well as the privileged city-careered highly urban mobile Aboriginal Australians employed in the government, the NGO programs, and the media (and the token indigenous appointments) - those whom activist and elder Gary Foley referred to as "Blak bourgeoisie" - all campaigned on the message that the "Yes" vote was a vote in favor of Aboriginal justice, while the "No" vote was racist. "Yes," being an amendment to the constitution it actually entailed, cannot be construed as justice, and "No," being no such amendment, cannot be twisted into some kind of a racist motive, of course, not even remotely so. But it was seen this way even by the poorly- or defectively-educated and uniformed Australians (there are lots of those, unfortunately), and those who have never examined their own unreasoning prejudices against Aborigines. These, and indeed all Australians, always should direct their hatred and anger towards the government, and certainly not towards Aboriginal Australians, or any other grouping of the people.
Nope, still a big fan of the Guillotine Reset of the French Revolution and its virtual elimination of the French bureaucracy along with the royals. (I wonder if any of those heads ever blinked when asked to do so?)
In all facets of life, we are being marketed to death. Everybody wants something for nothing. Ending all governments would be the best start for the needed chaos that would lead to a free and peaceful world. As long as there are governments, your slavery to the arrogant pukes of the world will never end. Even in death they make you vote for democrats and pay a death tax on your way to oblivion.
I had almost given up on the hope that other or more people would understand and agree to this.
Thank you for showing me that, while there are others who are able to and have grokked this, there is still hope for all of us, and there still is a point to hoping.
Fine, but hope alone is not a strategy in the face of the the global elites’ scams and schemes. Time for our own active, not passive, answers to these blatant depredations.
That certainly is the du jour adage, and it sure is a dandy.
So let's lay down a real plan, one that comprises, oh I dunno, let's say a revolt in the (extensively militarized) police forces, and the armed forces - land-sea-air - so that all their staggering weaponry and ordnance, and their organization and discipline and their unparalleled logistics chains and engineering support us, the people, instead of the government, and then let's make sure all the police and military counterparts in every other UN-aligned nation revolt against their own government paymasters, as well. We're going to have to work out how and with what we're going to pay them, of course, since the global banking and finance system is safeguarded and secured by the militaries, so when the militaries decide to turn against the governments, the banks and the currencies of the world will collapse, but that's okay and no-one will miss them, except that we won't know what to pay the police and militaries with any longer. But that's a detail we can sort out later. And let's not forget to include in the plan how we're going to usurp all the corporations and the international legal frameworks that protect and perpetuate them and give them the unassailable precedence over ordinary people, so that we can expropriate the wealth accumulated by the corporations into the hands of the corporate owners - whoever they are, because they're (i.e. the "elites") behind all the fuckery we've been put through and all the diabolical plans to murder most of us and enslave the rest - and then go after the wife/husband and kids of the corporate owners too, because they'll be the nominated beneficiaries of all that stolen loot, and they won't be happy that we took it all back from them, so we'd need to get rid of these people before they make plans against us. And while we're at it, we'll get rid of the corporate owners' grandchildren as well, for the same reasons, and the great grandchildren, and the uncles and aunts, and maybe even that skinny queer guy who grooms the family dogs. And, as we're rounding-up and shooting all these wicked people who've done so much evil, and as the world and all the systems they either directly created or sponsored the creation of, a worldwide network of interlocking systems and structures that have supported and nurtured the world population to grow to the present eight or so billions, when those systems and structures collapse and all the eight billion are left without food or water, and scuffles break out, and disease takes hold, and then billions and billions die, I'm sure we'll have a real plan for that too.
Of course, I write way too much. The point is this: we have few options, and they're all terrible, atrocious options.
1. We do nothing (which is not exactly, but almost all I see anyone - including me - doing about it), and the government effects their globocap-oiler-banker-owner-investor bosses' well-underway program of murdering most of us, and then re-engineering the surviving human beings into docile Borg drone slaves with cutting-edge neuromodulation techniques, putting their bodies on an Internet of Everything control grid, or
2. I don't know how, somehow, we overthrow all the governments, defeating all their militaries, and we eliminate the UN, WHO, BIS, IMF, etc., etc., and as a consequence, this takes down all the world's myriad highly-complex systems that have induced and have, until now, supported the eight billions of human beings on the planet, and in doing that, this collapses the entire world and brings starvation and disease and violence and death that effects a catastrophic human die-off.
3. I greatly encourage you to proffer your suggestion for 3.
It’s like the ending of The Truman Show when he sails into the wall of the film set. We’ve hit the wall.
in the end, the tricks are always the same.
The "treats" might be a little different this time around though...
Sad, but true, Ryan.
Note too, that the rhetoric tends to be the same, regardless of who the would-be tyrants are. If only truth was as durable as the threadbare lies they spew out, time after time after time after time...
Truth... the ability to discern right from wrong...is written on the hearts of ALL men. Romans 2
From Breitbart today: "
House Democrat leaders view House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), the leading candidate for Speaker of the House, as an “insurrectionist” and an “extremist extraordinaire.”
“House Republicans have selected as their nominee to be the Speaker of the people’s House the chairman of the chaos caucus, a defender in a dangerous way of dysfunction, and an extremist extraordinaire,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, (D-NY) said on Friday."
When Jim Jordan is derided as an “extremist” you know that politics has jumped the shark.
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True for most parasites, biological or social.
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction .. and the distinction between true and false .. no longer exist.”
~ Hannah Arendt
We're getting there.
We already are.
incidentally, she was born on this day, October 14
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Arendt is relevant today, frighteningly so.
The period since 9/11 has been one where our rulers continually demand loyalty tests.
US flags sprouted the day after 9/11. We were required to assert that the presence of WMDs (remember them?) required us to invade Iraq, which had no part in 9/11.
Fast forward to Russiagate, which demanded ritualistic expressions of hostility toward Russia for allegedly "meddling" in US elections.
Then the Floyd-BLM-transgender tsunami, which demands constant expressions of support for ideas that are transparently false.
Then Covid, which required entire nations to shut down in response to a flu-like virus that posed little risk to healthy people under 60.
We were forced to take untested and largely useless vaccines, hide our faces behind masks that offered no protection and stay indoors where the virus was sure to breed.
Then Ukraine. In the name of democracy we are forced to support a corrupt nation with no obvious strategic importance for us.
Now we must pledge fealty for Israel and support its expected attack on Gaza, never mind that collective punishment is a violation of international law.
Everything must be questioned at all times now. How many more blatant lies are required to be thrown into everyone's face before the masses realize that they are pawns on the chessboard, and are being played like a fiddle?
Most people don't pursue real change until the pain of the present becomes greater than the fear of the future. Sadly, we have a high tolerance for being lied to, especially when the price of speaking truth to power leaves one feeling like a nail in a room full of hammers.
We also have an extreme high tolerance for pain....it just hasn't gotten painful enough yet.
A lot of people have beautiful plans they don't want to let go of. Admitting that our dollar will soon collapse, and all our major institutions are run by malevolent creeps would crush their dreams. (Those dreams that can never come true anyhow.)
exactly. I was about to hand someone the hammer and the nails but you beat me to it. Someone is hitting the nails here!
Wow....your first sentence. So simple but so powerful. My wife and I have been discussing this topic about why so many people aren’t willing to admit the reality of the current situation. Those few words you wrote succinctly articulate it and no matter what we may try to say to open their eyes will make no difference. The only thing that will cause change for them is feeling pain.
To be wrong is a sort of mini-death in your conception of the world, the more dependent one is of the idea - how central it is to the individuals sense of who they are- the more like actual death it is.
This is the framework of reality, to be stripped of it is like being stripped of the world and have to rebuild it again. It is hard. May people will die before letting it happen.
I believe what you are describing is formalized as cognitive dissonance theory which postulates that an underlying psychological tension is created when an individual’s behavior is inconsistent with his or her thoughts and beliefs.
For us it took a truncated journey down the conveyor belt of the Cancer Industrial Complex in 2020 (pre-jab) to have the scales ripped from our eyes. I have had a lifelong close relationship with allopathic medicine due to an autoimmune disorder which I now believe is vaccine-related and pretty much just took whatever medicine they gave me. God is good in spite of ourselves and our circumstances and we are thankful that our eyes were open for the horror show that c-19 has exposed. It does mean reading books (hard copies so they can't be "disappeared") that we otherwise wouldn't and reading lots of Substack and the like so we can be better equipped for the slings and arrows that might come our way and justify our non-compliance with the latest thing.
I understand that many people will not see what has been done and what they have done in the light of truth as a matter of self preservation if nothing else. How is one to react if they now realize they have a potential ticking time bomb circulating in their body? How can they live with themselves if they forced employees, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandparents to do the same?
Humans have an amazing ability to dismiss their culpability in sinful actions. For the record, I am not immune to that either, though I am working on it.
I can tell you one of the things. Comfort and the illusion of security. I know someone who is gainfully employed, along with her spouse. They have millions in their retirement accounts and a very nice house in a tony neighborhood.
They can’t acknowledge the current state of affairs because if they do, they would have to admit that the prosperity they worked and sacrificed for cannot protect them or keep them safe and comfortable.
It’s a feeling of being adrift in the ocean in a teacup when you realize you can’t protect yourself from extreme discomfort and lack. That you have insufficient power to retain what you have.
Denial is easier to live with than reality.
Well explained! It is not that different from acknowledging and fighting an addiction, I've often thought.
Easier to say "I ain't got no monkey on my back! I can quit whenever I wanna!"
That last sentence rings loudly, except in the ears of the deaf.
Do you ever wonder how they are going to react when it collapses?
Sounds like my brother and his family.
Listen to the RED Button story of Catherine Austin Fitts (Solari.com) where she is talking to a church group concerned about the cultural destruction of their neighborhood and explains how drug money is deployed and is destroying their neighborhood and asks them how many would push the red button to stop it. None because it would effect their 401K retirement accounts. Says it all.
So much for their moral superiority of their religious convictions.
This is so on point, so germane!
Thank you, Your Majesty, for sharing such magisterial perspicacity!
The wall is so close now that one can see the countless pockmarks from the previous executions.
:=]]
It is past time to walk through the door in that wall.
Hell yeah! Bust it down into splinters!
It's all true -- they're losing control and the only avenue left open to them is to tighten their grip even more. This Middle East situation could spiral out of control and provide the perfect excuse to crack down all sort of things. Censorship, banning political parties, controlling the media.....
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/the-walls-are-closing-in-around-free
Hopefully everybody sees through this BS excuse and understands this action for what it is — the first step in gaining ultimate control over podcasts/alternative news sources. First, government sets up a permission-based system — maybe even something that doesn’t even filter anybody out….yet. Then, government slowly tweaks the parameters of the requirements and/or the punishments for running afoul of the rules until the wrongthinkers lose their ability to speak on the internet to an interested audience. Once again, all completely legal and enabled by the licensing system.
And when you’re banned, do you think the government that just banned you will really be interested in hearing your appeal? (Those of us who were exiled from Twitter know exactly how this goes.)
When this happen, you have no rights.…and worse, you have no recourse — because the government that’s supposed to be protecting your rights is violating them instead. (If only somebody had seen this coming!)
And the Kuwait ambassador's daughter lying to Congress about Saddam's troops throwing babies out of incubators in Kuwait to get us to go to war. That was a lie too. So was the Gulf of Tonkin incident and Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
All lies.so is this.
In WW1 and WW2, the government shut down amateur radio operators 'because of the emergency.' Because the hams might say something harmful to the war effort -- notably, something the government did not like. They were most worried about the existence of communications channels they did not control.
And they were none too eager to reinstate the hams, after the war was over. If there is a WW3, hams will be off the air, and this time I don't expect them to get their licenses back when it is over. No matter who wins.
I've been holding back from getting an amateur radio operators' license for this and related reasons. A license granted and endorsed by the undeniably criminal enterprise that is government should neither be acceptable nor fundamentally lawful nor legitimate authorization, and should not be accepted by a free people. The government has no verifiable and genuine endorsement by the governed, because the governed have not freely and voluntarily and without coercion chosen the government and then delegated to them the responsibilities the government assumes to possess.
So what do or should these licenses mean for us, as The People? We must crawl to the local government crime lords for the permission to operate a radio, let alone carry a firearm, the right and obligation of which was supposedly enshrined in the Second Amendment? We must ask and pay for the permission to travel and have granted a passport, when the freedom to roam is the most fundamental of human rights? We, The People, must finally cease this obsequious servility towards these criminals, grovelling to them for the permission to do what are our inalienable rights.
And stop sending them your property
https://dawnfrench.substack.com/p/the-fascinating-truth-about-the-16th
Thanks for the link. I didn't even think it were possible to make a defense of income tax, and yet there we have one, and a very good one. It turns out that I've been thinking about income tax in a too-narrow way. I've only looked at it as immoral government theft (and as it is presently enforced, it is), but it actually should be a good thing with respect to the clear distinction between income tax as defined in the 16th Amendment - an EXCISE on gains from certain federally-connected activities in which most Americans do not engage in meaningful (taxable) amounts, if at all - and how the IRS defines it in order to rob Americans.
Yeah, the narrative shop over at the office of naval intelligence didn’t want anyone with a radio finding out how much of the war was propaganda:
https://theresearchofmilesmathis.substack.com/p/wwii
https://theresearchofmilesmathis.substack.com/p/wwii-pacific-theatre
In that case, “License, license? You don’t need no stinking license!” 🏴☠️
Times are indeed different now than in earlier wars. Hams have historically been one of the more law-abiding groups, respectful of government authority. The policy reason to keep amateur radio is to provide communications in emergencies.
But things might change this time.
The Israeli govt is the scourge of the world. We are all Palestinians to them. That's all planned. They will lead the world into hell. My dad said this 40 years ago. They stole people's land and called it their own and will continue to do so.
your father was not well-read in history.
Oh here we go, Another confused terrorist sympathizer. Turn the TV off. The Israeli govt are occupiers of that land, it's not theirs. No? What happened in 1948? Furthermore they aren't even jews they've hijacked them. You believe history on the world wars? JFK? 911? Corona? History is a pack of lies written about the dead- Volatire... and he's talking to you. Isreal was established so they could.rule the world. It's all theater. YAHOO wants 1.1M women, men and children to move out of Gaza? He's nuts and if you back him so are you. You're on the wrong side of history.
you need either a really strong mug of tea or to cut down on the coffee.
Keep taking personal shots asshole. Ad homin attacks.
Standard, you got nothing else. Are you too a terrorist occupier? In spirit you are.
"...asshole. Ad homin..."
Oh my calloused feet, this is hilarious!
Uses an ad hominem, then complains about ad hominem.
I shall split my sides from laughing.
Everyone ELSE whose reading this take note. This fool says my dad doesn't know history. He says I need less coffee. Do you see how these epeople operate? Maybe you too? You verbalize your bias because you cannot engage in actual talk and facts. So you resort to responding with absolutely nothing that has anything to do with the subject at hand. Israel is a terrorist state. I've been to Gaza.ive seen the 4th world camps these terrorists put them in once they steal their land. They are animals and a disgrace to be called human. Yahoo should face a firing squad.
ginger tea might be best. reduces inflammation.
Antisemitism is a mental illness.
The Israelis that have authorized the larceny, pilferage, and theft of land, and those who have ordered atrocity against Palestinians, and even against the rest of the Israeli people, are not Semitic peoples. Hating them, then, is not Antisemitism.
I appreciate you being truthful about how you feel.
I appreciate your civility.
Winner
hatred is normal to human beings, as is division. look at how many dialects of dutch are spoken in a tiny place like belgium.
we forget that the desire to ostracize and denigrate every possible form of otherness is part of human nature. liberality is a lovely ideal but very hard to sustain.
Your problem is you confuse “subhuman” with “human.” Reading more won’t help. It is a matter of seeing and heart.
human beings invented civilization as a means of self-taming. it is the never ending project. both the worst and the best of our natures are fully human.
You're stupid
So ia being a brained washed idiot who knows nothing but what he's told while acting like he was there to witness it.
Sure, because all other political boundaries that exist dilineating the borders of all other countries came to be without even a hint of violence. For example, everyone knows the American Indians happily invited the British et al. to occupy the land they lived on.
Violence has long been the medium of exchange employed for civilization scale land acquisition. It ain't gonna change because a bunch of pearl clutching Karens start yelling, "No fair, No fair!"
This is ludicrous. Your comparing something on thr stone agree to something today. Have you been to Palestinian? If not. Stfu you have no idea because the TV told you.
Haven't studied much history, have you?
Are you all the same people commenting under different names? I majored in History. Just not the BS revisionist history you did. Also, you've never been to Gaza nor seen the camps, so what do you know but what youre told? Is that all you got? I didn't study history?? That's your history lesson for us?
You've been to Gaza and seen the camps. So what? You think site seeing informs you on how it all happened? I've been to the hospital, doesn't make me a doctor.
You need to come up with some verifiable facts, not some, "I majored in history," credentialist appeal if you expect to get any traction.
"they're losing control and the only avenue left open to them is to tighten their grip even more."
"...it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency, that the statutes of Directive 10-289 shall remain in effect."
https://youtu.be/AM0uIEfaNLw?si=ukDmn_X3d5Llb-i4
I'm expecting them to execute Directive 10-289 any minute now.
Yeah and most peopl3 are asleep or unknowingly backing the enemy like the SCA JDL clown.
The government is just your enemy and you are just their cash cow.
Hamas beheading babies.
German soldiers in WW1 bayoneting babie
Our rulers lie to us because we let them.
Covid showed that many of us want to be ordered around.
Our rulers are only to happy to oblige.
These are "lies" because you don't believe the depravity to which humans can sink ? Or you feel that a specific cabal like Hamas who deals with their own homosexuals by throwing them off tops of buildings, could not possibly stoop to beheading the babies of a people whom they hate to death? In disbelieving everything, there is a danger in thinking the actual gun pointing at your head is made of plastic.
It's a question of fact.
Either the beheading happened or it didn't.
So far there's no evidence.
"It's a question of facts"
All the facts have not yet been established. t would be more correct to say:- "So far, I haven't seen any evidence " .
Earlier, someone sent me this, which isn't visual evidence, just an admission by a Hamas "fighter" :-
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/10/hamas-jihadi-admits-that-he-and-his-cohorts-raped-tortured-and-beheaded-israeli-civilians-including-children
and among the comments, someone has posted additional sources of the same interview:
"A shorter version of it can be found here -
https://www.reddit.com/r/2ndYomKippurWar/comments/1770wd0/hamas_terrorist_admits_they_are_raping_g_babies/
or here https://www.instagram.com/p/CyV7iuJIN0S/
Such well-documented behavior has been going on for a very long time all over those parts of the less-developed world (i.e. Africa, Pakistan,India) where Muslims share a political space with other religions such as Christians , Hindus or Buddhists but they receive little to no reporting in the MSM. Why would Hamas terrorists (or freedom fighters if you prefer) be different?
The facts are what the establishment tells us they are. How much time have you spent in Palestine?been to the camps the Israelis put them in? The Israeli govt are animals
My comments keep getting deleted.
I'll try again.
You seem to want this story to be true.
Why?
Shut up
it takes practice to be good enough to behead grownups with the right panache.
of course it's true that muslims mostly behead their own. but not exclusively.
What's your point?
They don't have any. It's a fool.
http://mileswmathis.com/40babies.pdf
And many believe and buy the lies. Those people are the problem. Not so much the tyrants. Like this SCA clown on thai thread. No nothing more who believes they know what they're told is fact.
All too true. In an incredibly short span of time, progressives have turned American government into a banana republic. The party in power now arrests its way into total control, just as they do in the other banana republics, and the useful idiots are sure it's the best thing for us.
They've also shown us who's behind the curtain
Yes, it's the Wizard of Oz, who turns out to be a regular guy with no powers whatsoever. And he tells Dorothey and the others that the power to achieve what they want has always been within themselves, and not within the power of some made-up wizard.
Fool me once....
US/NATO & Israel emulating the Wizard these days. Shocker!
All the world is indeed a stage. But the truth cannot and will not be hidden forever. That this piece exists indicates the existence - and necessity - of The Great Awakening. As Churchill said of a similar dismal period, "These are not dark days; these are great days — the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race."
Re: your 'Trade Offer' meme in the article, my girlfriend was telling me about how her granddaughter (age 9) is not accepted by her classmates. She is a pretty good student I'm told. And her Mom & Grandma are contrarians.
This echoes my own school years where I just didn't fit in and questioned everything and everybody.
As Robert Frost once said, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." Truer words were never spoken.
Collectivism in all its forms - fascism, socialism, communism, progressivism - and the inevitable manifestation into statism, is the scourge of humanity.
We shall never be truly civilized until it is eradicated.
As long as there are lazy, untalented, envious people, socialism will always seem like a good idea to somebody.
before those we got those non-secular religions. this ain't no recent story.
Divine rulers were replaced by divinely anointed rulers, which were in turn replaced by democracy, the god that failed*.
The mob apparently has an innate need to believe in something, and rulers, whether they wear a robe or a bear a sceptre, have always used it to get them to believe in nonsense.
*H/T to Hans Hermann Hoppe
animal life shows the pack can get only so large before the alpha pair must kill or be killed by its own.
At least ten millennia of human affairs summed up in a single sentence.
Bravo.
You're on a roll.
There have been some really hot comments. This here is one of the hottest. My sincere compliments.
A more organized, efficient and brutal eradicator.
Always.
They eradicate the previous eradicator.
I hope we get some good music out of it.
Comment of the day....lolol
All over the world, and all over Substack -- more and more authors and commenters are saying the same thing -- TS is about to HTF. Buckle up humans, it is about to get real.
Just spent the morning digging out the canned goods/dried food pantry, sifting and rotating, seeing what I have to replace...I was sorta ready by '20 and after the lockdowns went crazy buying more preservable food. It wouldn't be great chow or anything, but my son and I could hold out at least 6 months if not a year.
Oh, I better put toilet paper on the list, LOL!
Save your corncobs.
Dammit, I'll have to get those back from the goats!
Offer them some tin cans in trade perhaps?
Tried that with our pet goat most appropriately dubbed Billy the Kid. He ‘shot’ the can right out of my hand so to speak. Deadly accurate with that...pistol of his. Put out Dad’s pipe once but that’s another story.
to be sure the apocalypse is always around the corner.
but this is an endless cycle and not a unique condition. we're just at a bad turning.
Today's deepwoods word of wisdom:
Don't know if you surf or ski, Gato, but you can't fight a killer wave or a loose slope; you gotta ride it, using it's own power to stay ahead and let it spend itself.
Swim with the current.
If you're going through Hell, keep in going.
The Drum Technique.
It seems there are many examples of this being good advice.
That's the way all swedish soliders, airmen and sailors are trained to think:
In a hard situation, "pannben framåt"; means literally "forehead forwards", idiomatically it means get stuck in and plow through, tough it out.
It's good advice.
Pilots always try to avoid thunderstorms, but if you do penetrate one, it's generally best to keep going straight ahead, and avoid turning to try and get out. I can tell you, it is damn hard to do when you're getting the crap kicked out of the airplane.
Amen to that! 😬
OMG, this is brilliant!
In Australia yesterday, a majority of the country said no to the government's question about incorporating racial segregation into our constitution. Big biz, almost all the politicians and bureaucrats, the media and most of the inner city dwellers told the rest of us that we must vote yes if we didn't want to be considered racists/misinformed/stupid. At current count, over 60% of the country disobeyed. Feels good.
Maybe there’s some actual Crocodile Dundee left in the land down under? Been looking for traces of John Wayne up here but no joy yet, just lots of Samurai simulators wearing man buns aka saddle horns for their boyfriends.
Yeah, but just be aware there's a whole world of difference and a stark distinction between the metro-urban Aussie - the iPhone-toting, tattoo-festooned, man bun-coiffed, cosmetic-wearing, eyebrow-shaped, chest and armpit-depilated anon-i-sexuals - and the men and women on the land and in the outback.
So there is hope for Australia. Just change Aussie to American Redneck and you have described the still substantial reminder of the old American backbone. Now if y’all just had your high velocity lead injectors back.
Yuck! Good luck with your search though!
Good summary of our battle and results here.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/10/14/aussie-deplorables-have-struck-a-blow-against-identity-politics/
Nothing was won nor lost by the result. In particular, nothing was won by the people nor especially by Australia's first nations. On the other hand, the government can leverage the result any which way it wants. For instance, Australians should next expect the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023 getting rammed through parliament (if it hasn't already been), as the government can now justify ratification by the No vote having carried in the 2023 Referendum since they will assert that, clearly, the result was due to all the misinformation, disinformation, or whatever, that circulated during the campaign that swayed the electorate.
By the way, the terms of the Voice Referendum were only with respect to whether or not to amend the Australian Constitution to establish an Indigenous Voice to parliament, whatever that means, but would not have a vote on laws. It's hard to see this as anything other than, as long-term activist and elder Gary Foley said, Aboriginal people are "being manoeuvred into a position of being complicit in the latest of a long line of cosmetic measures that will achieve nothing in the way of justice" for Aboriginal people. The Voice would have been an elected group charged with advocating Indigenous interests to Parliament, but they would have been nothing more than an advisory body to the colonial system that committed genocide and continues to commit atrocities.
Gomeroi man Ian Brown said he had no trust in a Voice to parliament because it would be “another formal process of government not listening to mob [Aboriginal communities]”.
If people don’t trust Voice, it’s because they don’t trust governments, said Meriki Onus, and this I also happen to believe, is the final word.
I agree - it was already a lose for everyone when they decided to have a referendum worded as it was, with no back up draft legislation to say how it would work. All that has happened is bad feeling and division. I don't think the voice group was going to be elected, was it? More of a selection process. https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2023/01/no-wonder-they-wont-detail-how-the-voice-will-work/
Also understandable that people don't trust governments - me neither, especially after the last few years (the only silver lining of the pandemic handling is clearer vision about some things). There already is an indigenous agency which has responsibility for listening, advising, monitoring indigenous issues (run by Indigenous ministers and CEO among others) - NIAA - but that hasn't reassured anyone. The apology didn't change anything, and neither would the voice. What a waste of time and money, all creating more distrust and hate.
Very well-said.
"... the only silver lining of the pandemic handling is clearer vision about some things.."
Man-oh-man, how so very true! From soon after the start of the COVID-19 operation, not only due to the facts coming out, but more by the way government and authority behaved and the obvious scripted lies they told us and kept repeating, the spell the world had me under my whole life finally completely broke. I now (believe I can) see right through the vast deception, and I now cannot tolerate the very existence of government any longer. I stopped working to stop paying taxes. It's now either they all go or are taken out, or they'll need to take me out. (I know that the government will remain illegitimate and criminal far longer than I will remain solvent ...)
Yes, I retired too during the chaos. Heading out bush camping tomorrow for a week with dog and old man - I love being able to to do that whenever I want - it will probably be good for my general worrying nature to get away from tech and comms for a while and play ostrich.
(I am disturbed after a day of getting bombarded with shame and fuck Australia messages in the media - main and social. They may be in the minority on this but their opinions must be yelled at their stupid racist countrymen. aka us.)
It's absurd that they think the racist card can be pulled on the No vote. I realize it's the standard tactic of the 'progressive left,' but the mistrust of government is an almost insuperable factor, and this was underscored by the government completely botching the Yes campaign, the government officials' conceitedness, and the government propaganda trying to make it an either for-or-against Aboriginal Australian proposition.
On the other hand, the level of ignorance by a fraction of the Australian non-Aboriginal public and the widespread inability to even bother to understand what the referendum was ostensibly trying to establish (I'll leave aside for now the underlying, real purpose the government, and more importantly the government's globocap-oiler-banker-owner-investor bosses had in mind), there almost certainly was a racist factor at play, and the government's Yes-or-No / for-or-against gambit back-fired when the racists voted No because they thought they were sticking it to Aboriginal Australians. Queensland and South Australia, I'm talking to you.
Ah, not sure which SA or Qlders you are talking about, and will not get huffy just because I live in outback west Queensland! Ha! There are definitely some people who don't like the unfairness of government money being lavished on one race of people over another, but as most of the indigenous people in our little town either own businesses and are employers (usually pretty hard working ones too) or are employees of others I've not noticed any klan activity. Honest. There is a large amount of 'grudge factor' now, after being called so many names - we didn't have a single no poster in our town, because everyone knew it was just another rort, and Maranoa voted over 84% no. So 84% must be deplorable, evil, stupid racists?
However, this referendum HAS made obvious the need for an audit of how all the money is being spent. It obviously isn't going to where it is needed, and I strongly suspect that all the government and ngo programs (all the best paid people in our town) soak much of it up, paying for all those new prados, subsidized housing, big salaries and lots of paid leave. Small business owners find it hard to competel.
Don't get me wrong, a clear understanding of the terms of The Voice Referendum, and with genuine concern for Indigenous Australia at heart and a genuine desire for justice to be served, I believe the No choice was indeed the sensible one. For all the reasons stated above, The Voice Referendum was at best a sham, but in all likelihood a Trojan Horse policy. As you stated, there already are facilities in place and operating that perform the representation/advisory function which the claimed rationale for The Voice could only duplicate - but by creating more government. It would have been unnecessary at best, but in reality it would have created a special assembly for the indigenous — who in the future can be given a puppet leadership. They can effectively then be swept out of the way and their land and resources be “managed” or allocated by the State, through the Great Reset, to stakeholders or guardians.
But the government as well as the privileged city-careered highly urban mobile Aboriginal Australians employed in the government, the NGO programs, and the media (and the token indigenous appointments) - those whom activist and elder Gary Foley referred to as "Blak bourgeoisie" - all campaigned on the message that the "Yes" vote was a vote in favor of Aboriginal justice, while the "No" vote was racist. "Yes," being an amendment to the constitution it actually entailed, cannot be construed as justice, and "No," being no such amendment, cannot be twisted into some kind of a racist motive, of course, not even remotely so. But it was seen this way even by the poorly- or defectively-educated and uniformed Australians (there are lots of those, unfortunately), and those who have never examined their own unreasoning prejudices against Aborigines. These, and indeed all Australians, always should direct their hatred and anger towards the government, and certainly not towards Aboriginal Australians, or any other grouping of the people.
“I am amazed at people's unwillingness to deviate from their original anchored position even if I drown you in evidence to the contrary." Gad Saad
I believe this condition is recognized and termed cognitive dissonance.
You'd think a marketing guy would have a better handle on human behavior.
The “system” can’t be fixed. Don’t be a martyr.
Maybe it's time for a new system.
Or one of the old ones.
I'll bet the best way is some compromise of both of those.
Have a great weekend!
Option B (new system) for a billion bucks, please
"for a billion bucks"
First Rule of Government Contracting: Why Buy One when you can Get Two for Twice the Money!
How many can I get for 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 times the money?
Less than four.
🤭
Deal.
Lmao! Well played Pi!
🤭
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Nope, still a big fan of the Guillotine Reset of the French Revolution and its virtual elimination of the French bureaucracy along with the royals. (I wonder if any of those heads ever blinked when asked to do so?)
Cesare Beccaria asked: you would trust who with this power?
I'm not inclined to prefer violence but tensions are very high.
Step One: invent new system.
Step two: . . .
Step three: profit!
That's the way it often feels to me, when I'm on a "If we did this instead, X would be fixed!"-bender.
It's a good thought. Many of the other new ways turned out not to be better.
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"The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe."
-Frank Zappa
I've meditated on this for over 48 hours, and I now am able to confirm that this is unequivocally, categorically true.
In all facets of life, we are being marketed to death. Everybody wants something for nothing. Ending all governments would be the best start for the needed chaos that would lead to a free and peaceful world. As long as there are governments, your slavery to the arrogant pukes of the world will never end. Even in death they make you vote for democrats and pay a death tax on your way to oblivion.
Indeed; our agency has been completely consumed by coerced conversion to childlike consumers by our captors.
Next stop crickets or cannibalism...oh the choices....;)
You have a real gift for alliteration (which is an art), well done!
Thx Rikard. That means a lot coming from a super smart guy like you.
Cheers buddy!
Thank you! Gonna show that "super smart" to the wife! Ever since she scored higher than me on an intelligence-test, she's been holding it over me!
(In a loving way, o'course!)
Oh, and cheers to you to! Loch Lomond down'a hatch and bedtime for me now.
I had almost given up on the hope that other or more people would understand and agree to this.
Thank you for showing me that, while there are others who are able to and have grokked this, there is still hope for all of us, and there still is a point to hoping.
Fine, but hope alone is not a strategy in the face of the the global elites’ scams and schemes. Time for our own active, not passive, answers to these blatant depredations.
"... hope alone is not a strategy... "
That certainly is the du jour adage, and it sure is a dandy.
So let's lay down a real plan, one that comprises, oh I dunno, let's say a revolt in the (extensively militarized) police forces, and the armed forces - land-sea-air - so that all their staggering weaponry and ordnance, and their organization and discipline and their unparalleled logistics chains and engineering support us, the people, instead of the government, and then let's make sure all the police and military counterparts in every other UN-aligned nation revolt against their own government paymasters, as well. We're going to have to work out how and with what we're going to pay them, of course, since the global banking and finance system is safeguarded and secured by the militaries, so when the militaries decide to turn against the governments, the banks and the currencies of the world will collapse, but that's okay and no-one will miss them, except that we won't know what to pay the police and militaries with any longer. But that's a detail we can sort out later. And let's not forget to include in the plan how we're going to usurp all the corporations and the international legal frameworks that protect and perpetuate them and give them the unassailable precedence over ordinary people, so that we can expropriate the wealth accumulated by the corporations into the hands of the corporate owners - whoever they are, because they're (i.e. the "elites") behind all the fuckery we've been put through and all the diabolical plans to murder most of us and enslave the rest - and then go after the wife/husband and kids of the corporate owners too, because they'll be the nominated beneficiaries of all that stolen loot, and they won't be happy that we took it all back from them, so we'd need to get rid of these people before they make plans against us. And while we're at it, we'll get rid of the corporate owners' grandchildren as well, for the same reasons, and the great grandchildren, and the uncles and aunts, and maybe even that skinny queer guy who grooms the family dogs. And, as we're rounding-up and shooting all these wicked people who've done so much evil, and as the world and all the systems they either directly created or sponsored the creation of, a worldwide network of interlocking systems and structures that have supported and nurtured the world population to grow to the present eight or so billions, when those systems and structures collapse and all the eight billion are left without food or water, and scuffles break out, and disease takes hold, and then billions and billions die, I'm sure we'll have a real plan for that too.
Sounds like hope has its work cut out for it doesn’t it?
Of course, I write way too much. The point is this: we have few options, and they're all terrible, atrocious options.
1. We do nothing (which is not exactly, but almost all I see anyone - including me - doing about it), and the government effects their globocap-oiler-banker-owner-investor bosses' well-underway program of murdering most of us, and then re-engineering the surviving human beings into docile Borg drone slaves with cutting-edge neuromodulation techniques, putting their bodies on an Internet of Everything control grid, or
2. I don't know how, somehow, we overthrow all the governments, defeating all their militaries, and we eliminate the UN, WHO, BIS, IMF, etc., etc., and as a consequence, this takes down all the world's myriad highly-complex systems that have induced and have, until now, supported the eight billions of human beings on the planet, and in doing that, this collapses the entire world and brings starvation and disease and violence and death that effects a catastrophic human die-off.
3. I greatly encourage you to proffer your suggestion for 3.
"It is bad enough to be governed by an aristocracy or a monarch whose executive power is dependent upon legend in the mass of the people;
it is humiliating enough to be thus governed through a sort of play-acting instead of enjoying the self-government of free men.
It is worse far to be governed by a clique of Professional Politicians bamboozling the multitude with a pretense of 'Democracy.'"
Hilaire Belloc, The Free Press (1918)