So, we rise from the rubble...
Friday, November 15, 2024
John Wilder, "Don’t Stop Now"
"Don’t Stop Now"
by John Wilder
"Certainly, the re-election of Donald J. Trump to the Presidency has been a remoralizing event. I know that many (me included) thought that the GloboLeftElite would do whatever was necessary to “fortify” the results so Trump couldn’t return to power. I think, in the end the real power that saved Trump was the power of his hair. I mean, like Hamlet said, let the best mane win.
I’m in hopes that he won’t let his worst impulses take this second term of his administration run into the problems of the first. Trump’s main flaw (not his mane flaw, which is flawless) is his desire to “make a deal”. Hell, his book was even titled, “The Art of the Deal”. That’s where he got his greatest successes, and that was the great flaw that was exploited and why we ended up sending billions to foreigners, yet still didn’t have adequate border coverage at the end of his administration.
So, now is not the time to give up – we must hold Trump accountable for the promises he made. He understands that he’s not our leader, that, rather, he jumped out in front of a parade that was already in motion and gave it a focus. When he gets off track, like when he praised himself for the Vaxx®, MAGA crowds booed him. And then he stopped talking about the Vaxx™, because he knew that wasn’t where the parade was headed.
We must remain vigilant. I do think that there is hope, since his near assassination, this has probably focused him like a laser on his own mortality. He knows he has four years to do what he has to do, and that’s it. Possibly only two: the mid-term elections may change the House, and turn his last two years into a gridlocked standstill.
Now, a gridlocked standstill is probably better than when congress is “doing” things and will probably lead to a dozen more impeachments for crimes like “breathing” and “sighing”, so the next two years is key.
The good news is that the GloboLeft is shell-shocked. They’ve created little echo chambers that made them get high on their own supply and think that a (possibly) drunken (allegedly) cocaine-using diversity hire anchor baby that achieved absolutely nothing, ever, that wasn’t given to her would be a good candidate. They were (and are) shocked. Good. The GloboLeft are shaken to the core, and we should make sure that it stays that way. If they think Trump is going to be bad, we should, at every instance, agree and amplify.
This isn’t spiking the ball. This is making them crazy. Oh, sure, they wouldn’t be the GloboLeft if they weren’t already crazy members of a death cult. But we want to amp it up. We want them to not be able to think straight. For the next two years. We want to hijack (whenever possible) their amygdalae (Anonymous Conservative talks about it at the LINK). If you work with one of these creatures, you can get them to go off at the slightest provocation.
Why? They’re already unstable. Don’t let them plan. Don’t give them their safe spaces. Don’t let up. They may be in HR. They may be community members. When they make accusations in public, or on Facebook™ or Reddit© or X®, they sound crazy. They will call you a Nazi. They will say that you are evil. They will sound unhinged. Good. They discredit themselves.
As long as the GloboLeft sounds like the unhinged death cult members that they are, they move the Overton Window our direction. Make them crazy. If you see a GloboLeftist flaking out at the supermarket, you can walk by and say, “This is MAGA country, missy.” That’s guaranteed to end up with a shrieking fit and a crazed post. If confronted, you can just say, “I was wondering where the pasta aisle was. Don’t have any idea why she reacted so.”
So, keep them busy. To the non-crazy normies, keep dropping redpills. One story I heard from about a normie was that she was concerned that Trump wanted to “drain the swamp”. When it was gently explained that “drain the swamp” actually referred to the corruption of the Deep State at Foggy Bottom, the response was, “Oh, I can see that.”
Never expect normies to know what’s actually going on, so don’t get complicated. Explaining basic economics might help. Might. Be reminded that these are the same people that didn’t know who was running for president, so, be gentle, and don’t start with weapons-grade redpills about deportation. Ease them into it. Help them draw conclusions. Point out how the mainstream media is lying or not covering the real news. And remember that X® is our friend right now – the closest we have to a mainstream news platform that isn’t censoring (much).
Don’t cede the Second Amendment. Ever. Not a single inch. Point out that the real killers aren’t law-abiding gun owners, but gangbangers mainly shooting gangbangers, and they’d have guns anyway when everyone else was disarmed. Point out that there is a correlation with more guns leading to less crime. Disarmed people are victims waiting for second responders – armed people are citizens who are the true first responders.
Don’t cede morality. The latest hilarity is the 4B movement, essentially women promising not to engage in random sex and rather wait until they’re in a committed relationship. They expected us to get mad, when in reality we say, “Awesome, welcome aboard! Nobody likes a tramp.”
Don’t cede love of your country, and don’t cede love of your nation. They’re not the same thing, but don’t give up either. Enjoy the win. Keep the steel in Trump’s spine. And don’t spike the football yet. It’s not even halftime. But for now? We didn’t win by a hair, we won by a whole headful. And you are needed."
Dan, I Allegedly, "A Bear Ate My Car - Wild Insurance Fraud"
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Dan, I Allegedly, AM 11/15/24
"A Bear Ate My Car - Wild Insurance Fraud"
"Today, we dive into the jaw-dropping bear costume scam that rocked Big Bear, California. Unbelievably, a group tried to outsmart the insurance world by faking a bear attack on their luxury car - but it all unraveled in the most bizarre way imaginable. It is wild the great lengths some folks will go to commit fraud and how they got caught red-handed with a bear suit and barbecue claws - the truth is stranger than fiction!"
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Bill Bonner, "It's a Dog's World Now"
"It's a Dog's World Now"
Their working days are over. They neither guard, nor hunt nor herd.
They have convinced humans that they should have pet dogs and
treat them like children. Meanwhile, real children are disappearing.
by Bill Bonner
"Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as
conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
- Ann Landers
Baltimore, Maryland - "Sitting next to us in a Bedford Street coffee shop was a large middle-aged woman with a small dog on a leash. “Here darling... have some of this.” She was feeding the dog a ham and cheese croissant... the same thing we had just bought, for $12.78.
Down the street came an oriental woman with a terrier on a leash. She marched along briskly, the dog keeping up. From the other direction came a man in a jogging outfit. He too had a dog on a leash, this one a Great Dane, who pulled him along. “No pets allowed,” said the sign on the door of the pastry shop. “Except personal support animals.” Inside, was a yellow lab, wagging its tail. On the other end of its leash was a couple, neither of whom showed any sign of impairment.
“I wish I was a rich man’s pet dog,” an old boss used to say. He was in charge of the painting crew for a small builder. One summer, he hired us to do the high trim work he no longer wanted to do. That was fifty years ago. And now, the world - or at least that part of the world represented by Brooklyn, New York - is full of them. Rich men’s pet dogs, that is. We spent last weekend in the city, where the canine kingdom has pulled off a remarkable triumph. Their working days are over. They neither guard, nor hunt nor herd. Instead, they have convinced humans that they should have pet dogs and treat them like children.
Meanwhile, real children are disappearing. Grosso modo, sub-Saharan African and Arab nations have the highest fertility rates; the average Nigerian woman has five children. East Asia has the lowest. In South Korea, for example, the statistical average for births per woman is 0.8. At that rate, the South Korean population will be cut in half by the end of the century. In neighboring Japan, the population has been falling for the last fifteen years and the president warns that the country “may not be able to sustain a functioning society.”
Europe and the US are somewhere between the extremes, but new births, to native-born women, are generally less than replacement level. Russia has a fertility rate of only 1.4 births per woman. This is so alarming that Russian lawmakers have proposed to ban night-time internet use. The fertility rate for New York State is 1.7 children per woman. That is already well below the 2.1 ‘replacement rate.’ But in the New York metro area, the rate is the lowest in the state.
And in the USA, guess how many net new jobs have been given to native-born Americans over the last five years. The answer is ‘zero.’ Not because there has been a shortage of jobs. In short supply instead were the ‘native-born Americans.’ The Wall Street Journal: "More women in the 35-to-44 age range across all races, income levels, employment statuses, regions and broad education groups aren’t having children, according to research by Luke Pardue at nonprofit policy forum the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.
Birthrates among 35- to 44-year-olds give demographers who study fertility an early look into millennials’ changing approach to parenthood. But these researchers also look closely at women over 40, reasoning that if a woman doesn’t have a child by then, she is more likely to remain childless." Walking around the streets of Brooklyn, we saw hundreds of young women of childbearing age. But few bearing children. We saw only one tiny baby... and he was carried by his father in a front-mounted holster.
“It’s a dogs’ world now,” says Elizabeth. The dogs are well fed. They’re given vaccines, supplements, and organic food. They are enrolled in training programs... and given emotional counseling when necessary. And they’ve even trained owners to trail behind them and pick up their poop. “Some people around here even arrange playdates for their dogs. ” explains our local source. “They take them to the parks where they meet up with their doggie friends. And they become so attached to their pooches that they can’t go anywhere without them. They put them in the shopping carts when they go to the food stores. They hold them in their laps at the theater. I even know one family that has a blind dog. They take him out for walks, guiding him so he doesn’t run into signs or trees. They are seeing-eye humans working for the dog.”
"The Great 'Splainin' Cometh"
"The Great 'Splainin' Cometh"
"The meltdown has gotten so heavy liberal bureaucrats are
ready to form antigovernment militias and fretting about black helicopters."
- Max Blumenthal
by Jim Kunstler
“Many Democrats were considering how to navigate a dark future, with the party unable to stop Mr. Trump from carrying out a right-wing transformation of American government. Others turned inward, searching for why the nation rejected them. They spoke about misinformation and the struggle to communicate the party’s vision in a diminished news environment inundated with right-wing propaganda” - The New York Times
"In July 27, 1794, the non-insane members of the Convention, or national legislative body in Paris, suddenly turned on the rabid Jacobin leader Maximillian Robespierre and overthrew his ruling tyrannical bunch - who had killed 40,000 of their fellow countrymen in the paranoid orgy known as The Reign of Terror. The next day, Robespierre rode the tumbrel to his own appointment with “the national razor” and the Thermidorian Reaction was on!
By the way, in one of their many acts disordering French society, the Jacobins had changed the calendar, renamed all the months, and changed the weeks from seven to ten days (to eliminate Sundays as a holy day of rest in their anti-church crusade). Thus, Thermidor, the month of mid-summer. This was but a small part of their proto-communist agenda, but you see in it the flavor of their radical extremism.
The Woke Democrats of recent times were our Jacobins, and the election of November 5, 2024, marks the kick-off of America’s Thermidorian Reaction. The crazies have been overthrown and our country awaits a restoration of norms in culture and law. No more sexualizing of children, no more flood of criminal mutts across the US border, no more furtive censorship of public speech, no more creative lawfare, no more women on the battlefield, no more “anti-racist” racism in the workplace, no more intel takeover of everyone’s private life... you get the picture.
Many abiding mysteries about how this happened - even of what exactly did happen - remain to be sorted out by law and by history. That is probably because so much of the Woke Revolution was provoked by state-of-the-art mind-f*ckery out of the giant intel blob’s psy-ops lab. This blob, you understand, had grown to be a colossal racketeering operation with many branches and ever-spreading roots, and it cast its spells over the populace to protect these interests - which, of course, involved huge revenue streams.
Perhaps its most potent spell was the manipulation of women’s emotion, harnessing female psychodrama as the propellant for mass social discord. In a nation of absent fathers, damaged children, and broken male-female relations, Donald Trump was painted as the ultimate archetypal tyrant Daddy figure to deflect the public’s attention from the actual tyranny growing under the US intel blob and its Globalist sidekicks. Case in point: RussiaGate, a long-running hysteria of fabricated accusations, a fabulous medley of scurrilous gossip, engineered at the highest levels of our government for the express purpose of wrecking Mr. Trump’s first term in office. “Witch hunt” was exactly the right term.
Many more psychodramas followed, all of them artificially cooked up by various branches of the blob: impeachments #1 and #2; the FBI-induced J-6 riot and the fake House J-6 inquiry that followed; the roll-out of DOJ-inspired fake criminal and civil cases that tied-up Mr. Trump in courtrooms through the year, and most especially the hostile news media’s presentation of all these things as one great big everlasting frenzy of on-screen women shrieking at the Daddy-figure, Donald Trump, like thirteen-year-old girls in fugues of hormonal disruption.
The voters, subject to years of trips laid on them, were eventually able to see through all this induced psychodrama as to how they were being manipulated, and on November 5, they finally revolted. Their quandary was probably epitomized by the absurdity of watching men in women’s sports - spiking volleyballs on the girls’ heads, bashing them on the lacrosse field, humiliating them in the swim lanes - and, more to the point, being helpless to do anything about it, because the officials in-charge under “Joe Biden” said it must be, no matter what you think and feel about what you are seeing.
The New York Times, your field-guide to blob-think, is warning its dwindling readership of psychodrama addicts that Donald Trump will now take out his “grievances” on the noble, self-sacrificing bureaucracy that manages things so well in this land. As usual, The Times misleads and misinforms. These are the grievances of the nation that has seen its law and its culture twisted into new orders of wickedness that leave daily life in the USA perverted, dishonored, and grotesquefied.
So now Mr. Trump has picked a cabinet that scares the blob to death - for good reason. They are aiming to systematically disarm and disassemble the blob. They are a team of serious and intelligent warriors and they mean business, in particular Gaetz, Gabbard, Kennedy, Ratcliffe, and Homan, with Elon and Vivek riding shotgun. (A new FBI Director has not yet been named.) You must wonder how the blob is planning to defend itself, for it surely will resist.
Many of us believe that the two recent assassination attempts against the now-President-elect were blob-sponsored operations. Everybody expects they’ll try again. But it’s possible that the American system still has enough mojo to self-correct. A whole lot of public officials have a whole lot of ‘splainin’ to do. It looks like they will be compelled to now, including the public health officers who brought us Covid-19 and the mandated, ineffective-and-harmful mRNA vaccines.
There’s every reason to believe that the ‘splainin’ can take place in correct proceedings according to law: hearings, grand juries, courts. We do have actual laws against racketeering, abuse of power, election fraud, bribery, malicious prosecution, sedition, treason, and conspiracy to commit all those crimes. Pay attention: all that is distinct from lawfare, which is making-up crimes, faking crimes, and faking procedure. You are going to see a demonstration of how law differs from lawfare. It ought to have a salutary effect on our national esprit. And that should motivate us to get on with the job of repairing the damage done to our country."
Thursday, November 14, 2024
Jeremiah Babe, "Markets Are Broken And Getting Worse"
Jeremiah Babe, 11/14
"Markets Are Broken And Getting Worse,
The Beginning Of Tough Times; Chicago In Shambles"
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Gerald Celente, "FED Head Says Economy Strong As Working Class Suffers"
Strong language alert!
Gerald Celente, 11/14/24
"FED Head Says Economy Strong
As Working Class Suffers"
"The Trends Journal is a weekly magazine analyzing global current events forming future trends. Our mission is to present Facts and Truth over fear and propaganda to help subscribers prepare for What’s Next in these increasingly turbulent times."
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Musical Interlude: Josh Groban, "Remember When It Rained"
Full screen recommended.
Josh Groban, "Remember When It Rained"
"A Look to the Heavens"
"The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most famous nebulae on the sky. It is visible as the dark indentation to the orange emission nebula at the far right of the featured picture. The horse-head feature is dark because it is really an opaque dust cloud that lies in front of the bright emission nebula. Like clouds in Earth's atmosphere, this cosmic cloud has assumed a recognizable shape by chance. After many thousands of years, the internal motions of the cloud will surely alter its appearance.
The emission nebula's orange color is caused by electrons recombining with protons to form hydrogen atoms. Toward the lower left of the image is the Flame Nebula, an orange-tinged nebula that also contains intricate filaments of dark dust. Two prominent reflection nebulas are visible: round IC 432 on the far left, and blue NGC 2023 just to the lower left of the Horsehead nebula. Each glows primarily by reflecting the light of their central star."
"Hope In a Time of Hopelessness"
"Hope In a Time of Hopelessness"
by Washingtons Blog
"Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage;
anger at the way things are, and courage
to see that they do not remain the way they are."
- Augustine of Hippo
"Several long-time activists have told me recently they are overwhelmed, worried, and think that we may be losing the struggle. One very smart friend asked me if there is any basis for hope.
Hope is an act of will, not a passive mood. Admittedly, things are easier when circumstances bring hope to us, and we can just receive the hopeful and inspiring news. But if we care about winning, we have to be able to decide to have hope even when outer circumstances aren't so positive.
I have children who are counting on me to leave them with a reasonably safe and sane planet. As I've said elsewhere, I care too much about my kids and my freedom to be afraid. I care enough about them that it gets my heart beating, connects me to something bigger than myself, and that gives me courage, even when the chips are down.
If I allowed myself to lose hope about exposing falsehoods, about protecting our freedom and building a hopeful future, I would be dropping the ball for my kids. I would be condemning them to a potentially very grey world where bigger and worse things may happen, where their liberties and joys are wholly stripped away, where every ounce of vitality is beholden to joyless and useless tasks.
Many of us may be motivated by other things besides kids, and only you can know what that is. But we each must dig down deep, and connect with our most powerful motivations to win the struggle for freedom and truth.
I don't know about you, but I don't have the luxury of giving up hope. When I get depressed, overwhelmed or exhausted by the stunning acts of savagery, treason, and disinformation carried out by the imperialists, or the willful ignorance of far too many Americans, I will myself into finding some reason to have hope. Because the struggle for life and liberty is too important for me to give up."
"America's Collapse: Economy & Endless Wars!"
Dialogue Works, 11/14/24
"Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson:
America's Collapse: Economy & Endless Wars!"
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"15 Reasons Americans Are Incredibly Angry About The State Of The U.S. Economy"
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Epic Economist, 11/14/24
"15 Reasons Americans Are Incredibly
Angry About The State Of The U.S. Economy"
"We have reached a very alarming turning point in American history. More than at any other moment in modern times, Americans are extremely angry about the state of the economy. The next Administration will inherit a country struggling with a deep consumer recession. We have come to learn that our government has piled up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world. Now, the foolish decisions of the past several years are catching up with us. The U.S. economy is experiencing structural failure, and the American people is dissatisfied with the direction our nation is going. They want answers. They want someone to fix things. They want life to go back to the way it used to be. But will that really happen? Or will people get even angrier? At this point, it’s anyones guess. Here follows '15 Reasons Are Incredibly Angry About The State Of The U.S. Economy.'"
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"Gaslighting: The Psychology Of Shaping Another's Reality"
"Gaslighting:
The Psychology Of Shaping Another's Reality"
by Cynthia Chung
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here.
I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
– Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
"We are living in a world where the degree of disinformation and outright lying has reached such a state of affairs that, possibly for the first time ever, we see the majority of the western world starting to question their own and surrounding level of sanity. The increasing frenzied distrust in everything “authoritative” mixed with the desperate incredulity that “everybody couldn’t possibly be in on it!” is slowly rocking many back and forth into a tighter and tighter straight jacket. “Question everything” has become the new motto, but are we capable of answering those questions? Presently the answer is a resounding no.
The social behaviorist sick joke of having made everyone obsessed with toilet paper of all things during the start of what was believed to be a time of crisis, is an example of how much control they have over that red button labelled “commence initiation of level 4 mass panic”. And can the people be blamed? After all, if we are being lied to, how can we possibly rally together and point the finger at the root of this tyranny, aren’t we at the point where it is everywhere?
As Goebbels infamously stated, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State [under fascism].”
And here we find ourselves today, at the brink of fascism. However, we have to first agree to forfeit our civil rights as a collective before fascism can completely dominate. That is, the big lie can only succeed if the majority fails to call it out, for if the majority were to recognize it for what it is, it would truly hold no power.
The Battle for Your Mind: “Politicians, Priests, and psychiatrists often face the same problem: how to find the most rapid and permanent means of changing a man’s belief. The problem of the doctor and his nervously ill patient, and that of the religious leader who sets out to gain and hold new converts, has now become the problem of whole groups of nations, who wish not only to confirm certain political beliefs within their boundaries, but to proselytize the outside world.”
– William Sargant “Battle of the Mind”
It had been commonly thought in the past, and not without basis, that tyranny could only exist on the condition that the people were kept illiterate and ignorant of their oppression. To recognize that one was “oppressed” meant they must first have an idea of what was “freedom”, and if one were allowed the “privilege” to learn how to read, this discovery was inevitable.
If education of the masses could turn the majority of a population literate, it was thought that the higher ideas, the sort of “dangerous ideas” that Mustapha Mond for instance expresses in “The Brave New World”, would quickly organize the masses and revolution against their “controllers” would be inevitable. In other words, knowledge is freedom, and you cannot enslave those who learn how to “think”. However, it hasn’t exactly played out that way has it?
The greater majority of us are free to read whatever we wish to, in terms of the once “forbidden books”, such as those listed by The Index Librorum Prohibitorum. We can read any of the writings that were banned in “The Brave New World”, notably the works of Shakespeare which were named as absolutely dangerous forms of “knowledge”. We are now very much free to “educate” ourselves on the very “ideas” that were recognized by tyrants of the past as the “antidote” to a life of slavery. And yet, today, the majority choose not to…
It is recognized, albeit superficially, that who controls the past, controls the present and thereby the future. George Orwell’s book “1984”, hammers this as the essential feature that allows the Big Brother apparatus to maintain absolute control over fear, perception and loyalty to the Party cause, and yet despite its popularity, there still remains a lack of interest in actually informing oneself about the past.
What does it matter anyway, if the past is controlled and rewritten to suit the present? As the Big Brother interrogator O’Brien states to Winston, “We, the Party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not? And thus, are free to rewrite it as we choose…”
Of course, we are not in the same situation as Winston…we are much better off. We can study and learn about the “past” if we so desire, unfortunately, it is a choice that many take for granted. In fact, many are probably not fully aware that presently there is a battle waging for who will “control the past” in a manner that is closely resembling a form of “memory wipe”.
William Sargant was a British psychiatrist and, one could say, effectively the Father of “mind control” in the West, with connections to British Intelligence and the Tavistock Institute, which would influence the CIA and American military via the program MK Ultra. Sargant was also an advisor for Ewen Cameron’s LSD “blank slate” work at McGill University, funded by the CIA.
Sargant accounts for his reason in studying and using forms of “mind control” on his patients, which were primarily British soldiers that were sent back from the battlefield during WWII with various forms of “psychosis”, as the only way to rehabilitate extreme forms of PTSD.
The other reason, was because the Soviets had apparently become “experts” in the field, and out of a need for national security, the British would thus in turn have to become experts as well…as a matter of self-defense of course.
The work of Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist, had succeeded in producing some disturbingly interesting insights into four primary forms of nervous systems in dogs, that were combinations of inhibitory and excitatory temperaments; “strong excitatory”, “balanced”, “passive” and “calm imperturbable”. Pavlov found that depending on the category of nervous system temperament the dog had, this in turn would dictate the form of “conditioning” that would work best to “reprogram behavior”. The relevance to “human conditioning” was not lost on anyone.
It was feared in the West, that such techniques would not only be used against their soldiers to invoke free-flowing uninhibited confessions to the enemy but that these soldiers could be sent back to their home countries, as zombified assassins and spies that could be set off with a simple code word. At least, these were the thriller stories and movies that were pumped into the population. How horrific indeed! That the enemy could apparently enter what was thought the only sacred ground to be our own…our very “minds”!
However, for those who were actually leading the field in mind control research, such as William Sargant, it was understood that this was not exactly how mind control worked. For one thing, the issue of “free will” was getting in the way.
No matter the length or degree of electro-shock, insulin “therapy”, tranquilizer cocktails, induced comas, sleep deprivation, starvation etc induced, it was discovered that if the subject had a “strong conviction” and “strong belief” in something, this could not be simply erased, it could not be written over with any arbitrary thing. Rather, the subject would have to have the illusion that their “conditioning” was in fact a “choice”. This was an extremely challenging task, and long term conversions (months to years) were rare.
However, Sargant saw an opening. It was understood that one could not create a new individual from scratch, however, with the right conditioning that was meant to lead to a physical breakdown using abnormal stress (effectively a reboot of the nervous system), one could increase the “suggestibility” markedly in their subjects. Sargant wrote in his “Battle of the Mind”: “Pavlov’s clinical descriptions of the ‘experimental neuroses’ which he could induce in dogs proved, in fact, to have a close correspondence with those war-neuroses which we were investigating at the time.”
In addition, Sargant found that a falsely implanted memory could help induce abnormal stress leading to emotional exhaustion and physical breakdown to invoke “suggestibility”. That is, one didn’t even need to have a “real stress” but an “imagined stress” would work just as effectively.
Sargant goes on to state in his book: “It is not surprising that the ordinary person, in general, is much more easily indoctrinated than the abnormal. A person is considered ‘ordinary’ or ‘normal’ by the community simply because he accepts most of its social standards and behavioural patterns; which means, in fact, that he is susceptible to suggestion and has been persuaded to go with the majority on most ordinary or extraordinary occasions.”
Sargant then goes over the phenomenon of the London Blitz, which was an eight month period of heavy bombing of London during WWII. During this period, in order to cope and stay “sane”, people rapidly became accustomed to the idea that their neighbors could be and were buried alive in bombed houses around them. The thought was “If I can’t do anything about it what use is it that I trouble myself over it?” The best “coping” was thus found to be those who accepted the new “environment” and just focused on “surviving”, and did not try to resist it.
Sargant remarks that it is this “adaptability” to a changing environment which is part of the “survival” instinct and is very strong in the “healthy” and “normal” individual who can learn to cope and thus continues to be “functional” despite an ever changing environment. It was thus our deeply programmed “survival instinct” that was found to be the key to the suggestibility of our minds. That the best “survivors” made for the best “brain-washing” in a sense.
Sargant quotes Hecker’s work, who was studying the dancing mania phenomenon that occurred during the Black Death, where Hecker observed that heightened suggestibility had the capability to cause a person to “embrace with equal force, reason and folly, good and evil, diminish the praise of virtue as well as the criminality of vice.”
And that such a state of mind was likened to the first efforts of the infant mind “this instinct of imitation when it exists in its highest degree, is also united a loss of all power over the will, which occurs as soon as the impression on the senses has become firmly established, producing a condition like that of small animals when they are fascinated by the look of a serpent.” I wonder if Sargant imagined himself the serpent…
Sargant does finally admit: “This does not mean that all persons can be genuinely indoctrinated by such means. Some will give only temporary submission to the demands made on them, and fight again when strength of body and mind returns. Others are saved by the supervention of madness. Or the will to resist may give way, but not the intellect itself.” But he comforts himself as a response to this stubborn resistance that “As mentioned in a previous context, the stake, the gallows, the firing squad, the prison, or the madhouse, are usually available for the failures.”
How to Resist the Deconstruction of Your Mind: “He whom the gods wish to destroy, they first of all drive mad.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Masque of Pandora”
For those who have not seen the 1944 psychological thriller “Gaslight” directed by George Cukor, I would highly recommend you do so since there is an invaluable lesson contained within, that is especially applicable to what I suspect many of us are experiencing nowadays.
The story starts with a 14 year old Paula (played by Ingrid Bergman) who is being taken to Italy after her Aunt Alice Alquist, a famous opera singer and caretaker of Paula, is found murdered in her home in London. Paula is the one who found the body, and horror stricken is never her old self again. Her Aunt was the only family Paula had left in her life. The decision is made to send her away from London to Italy to continue her studies to become a world-renowned opera singer like her Aunt Alice.
Years go by, Paula lives a very sheltered life and a heavy somberness is always present within her, she can never seem to feel any kind of happiness. During her singing studies she meets a mysterious man (her piano accompanist during her lessons) and falls deeply in love with him. However, she knows hardly anything about the man named Gregory.
Paula agrees to marry Gregory after a two week romance and is quickly convinced to move back into her Aunt’s house in London that was left abandoned all these years. As soon as she enters the house, the haunting of the night of the murder revisits her and she is consumed with panic and fear. Gregory tries to calm her and talks about the house needing just a little bit of air and sun, and then Paula comes across a letter written to her Aunt from a Sergis Bauer which confirms that he was in contact with Alice just a few days before her murder. At this finding, Gregory becomes bizarrely agitated and grabs the letter from Paula. He quickly tries to justify his anger blaming the letter for upsetting her. Gregory then decides to lock all of her Aunt’s belongings in the attic, to apparently spare Paula any further anguish.
It is at this point that Gregory starts to change his behavior dramatically. Always under the pretext for “Paula’s sake”, everything that is considered “upsetting” to Paula must be removed from her presence. And thus quickly the house is turned into a form of prison. Paula is told it is for her best not to leave the house unaccompanied, not to have visitors and that self-isolation is the best remedy for her “anxieties” which are getting worst. Paula is never strictly forbidden at the beginning but rather is told that she should obey these restrictions for her own good.
Before a walk, he gives as a gift a beautiful heirloom brooch that belonged to his mother. Because the pin needs replacing, he instructs Paula to keep it in her handbag, and then says rather out of context, “Don’t forget where you put it now Paula, I don’t want you losing it.” Paula remarks thinking the warning absurd, “Of course I won’t forget!” When they return from their walk, Gregory asks for the brooch, Paula searches in her handbag but it is not there.
It continues on like this, with Gregory giving warnings and reminders, seemingly to help Paula with her “forgetfulness” and “anxieties”. Paula starts to question her own judgement and sanity as these events become more and more frequent. She has no one else to talk to but Gregory, who is the only witness to these apparent mishaps. It gets to a point where completely nonsensical behavior is being attributed to Paula by Gregory. A painting is found missing on the wall one night. Gregory talks to Paula like she is a 5 year child and asks her to put it back. Paula insists she does not know who took it down. After her persistent passionate insistence that it was not her, she walks up the stairs almost like she were in a dream state and pulls the painting from behind a statue. Gregory asks why she lied, but Paula insists that she only thought to look there because that is where it was found the last two times this occurred.
For weeks now, Paula thinks she has been seeing things, the gas lights of the house dimming for no reason, she also hears footsteps above her bedroom. No one else seems to take notice. Paula is also told by Gregory that he found out that her mother, who passed away when she was very young, had actually gone insane and died in an asylum.
Despite Paula being reduced to a condition of an ongoing stupor, she decides one night to make a stand and regain control over her life. Paula is invited, by one of her Aunt Alice’s close friends Lady Dalroy, to attend a high society evening with musical performances. Recall that Paula’s life gravitated around music before her encounter with Gregory. Music was her life. Paula gets magnificently dressed up for the evening and on her way out tells Gregory that she is going to this event. Gregory tries to convince her that she is not well enough to attend such a social gathering, when Paula calmly insists that she is going and that this woman was a dear friend of her Aunt, Gregory answers that he refuses to accompany her (in those days that was a big deal). Paula accepts this and walks with a solid dignity, undeterred towards the horse carriage. In a very telling scene, Gregory is left momentarily by himself and panic stricken, his eyes bulging he snaps his cigar case shut and runs after Paula. He laughingly calls to her, “Paula, you did not think I was serious? I had no idea that this party meant so much to you. Wait, I will get ready.” As he is getting ready in front of the mirror, a devilish smirk appears.
Paula and Gregory show up to Lady Dalroy’s house late, the pianist is in the middle of the 1st movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #8 in C minor. They quickly are escorted to two empty seats. Paula is immediately immersed in the piece, and Gregory can see his control is slipping. After only a few minutes, he goes to look at his pocket watch but it is not in his pocket. He whispers into Paula’s ear, “My watch is missing”. Immediately, Paula looks like she is going to be sick. Gregory takes her handbag and Paula looks in horror as he pulls out his pocket watch, insinuating that Paula had put it there. She immediately starts losing control and has a very public emotional breakdown. Gregory takes her away, as he remarks to Lady Dalroy that this is why he didn’t want Paula coming in the first place.
When they arrive home, Paula has by now completely succumbed to the thought that she is indeed completely insane. Gregory says that it would be best if they go away somewhere for an indefinite period of time. We later find out that Gregory is intending on committing her to an asylum. Paula agrees to leave London with Gregory and leaves her fate entirely in his hands.
In the case of Paula it is clear. She has been suspecting that Gregory has something to do with her “situation” but he has very artfully created an environment where Paula herself doubts whether this is a matter of unfathomable villainy or whether she is indeed going mad. It is rather because she is not mad that she doubts herself, because there is seemingly no reason for why Gregory would put so much time and energy into making it look like she were mad, or at least so it first appears. But what if the purpose to her believing in her madness was simply a matter of who is in control?
Paula almost succeeds in gaining the upper-hand in this power-struggle, the evening she decided to go out on her own no matter what Gregory insisted was in her best interest. If she would have held her ground at Lady Dalroy’s house and simply replied, “I have no idea why your stupid watch ended up in my handbag and I could care less. Now stop interrupting this performance, you are making a scene!” Gregory’s spell would have been broken as simple as that. If he were to complain to others about the situation, they would also respond, “Who cares man, why are you so obsessed about your damn watch?”
We find ourselves today in a very similar situation to Paula. And the voice of Gregory is represented by the narrative of false news and the apocalyptic social behaviorist programming in our forms of entertainment. The things most people voluntarily subject themselves to on a daily, if not hourly, basis. Socially conditioning them, like a pack of salivating Pavlovian dogs, to think it is just a matter of time before the world ends and with a ring of their master’s bell…be at each other’s throats.
Paula ends up being saved in the end by a man named Joseph Cotten (a detective), who took notice and quickly discerned that something was amiss. In the end Gregory is arrested. It is revealed that Gregory is in fact Sergis Bauer. That he killed Alice Alquist and that he has returned to the scene of the crime after all these years in search for the famous jewels of the opera singer. The jewels were in fact rather worthless from the standpoint that they were too famous to be sold, however, Gregory never intended on selling these jewels but rather had become obsessed with the desire to merely possess them. That is, it is Gregory who has been entirely mad all this time.
A Gregory is absolutely dangerous. He would have been the end of Paula if nothing had intervened. However, the power that Gregory held was conditional to the degree that Paula allowed it to control her. Paula’s extreme deconstruction was thus entirely dependent on her choice to let the voice of Gregory in. That is, a Gregory is only dangerous if we allow ourselves to sleep walk into the nightmare he has constructed for us."
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
“It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – that’s all.”
– Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass"
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Full screen recommended.
Full Movie, "Gaslight"
Viktor Frankl, "Life Changing Quotes"
Full screen recommended.
Viktor Frankl, "Life Changing Quotes" ("Man's Search For Meaning")
"Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of the logotherapy method and is most notable for his best-selling book Man's Search for Meaning."
Freely download "Mans Search For Meaning", by Viktor Frankl, here:
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Highest recommendation:
"Few Things..."
"If your view of the world is that people use reason for their important decisions, you are setting yourself up for a life of frustration and confusion. You’ll find yourself continually debating people and never winning except in your own mind. Few things are as destructive and limiting as a worldview that assumes people are mostly rational."
- Scott Adams
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"Liberal Women..."
"Liberal women now say that their plan to protest Trump's re-election is to "seduce
MAGA husbands and break up marriages." Is this what we're calling neo-feminism?"
Hilarious reaction here:
"Ladies", look at yourselves! I hate to tell you - no I don't - not a
chance in Hell you'll be joining a sex strike, and this idea is even stupider...
- CP, lol
"No Real Hope..."
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“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Bill Bonner, "The Four Horsemen"
"The Four Horsemen"
Dollars are still strong and the ruling Establishment can
hand out trillions of them in giveaways, boondoggles, and bribes.
The public can still be exploited. The elites can still be enriched.
by Bill Bonner
"The plum falls from the tree when it is ready."
- A long-dead Chinese philosopher?
"We return to the question: What if Donald Trump really could turn things around? Recall that the Primary Political Trend in the US, at least since the end of the Carter Administration, has been toward more concentrated power in Washington, bigger deficits, more regulations, and more debt. More and more government led to less and less private economy - where real wealth is actually created - with generally lower GDP growth rates, a widening gap between rich and poor, and 90% of the population who have seen no real wage gains in half a century.
We believe this is just a part of a larger pattern, common to most governments. The elites get more and more power and are gradually corrupted by it. They become parasitic, shifting wealth to themselves and their fellow insiders. Stanford professor Walter Scheidel studied the phenomenon. He concluded that once the elites were firmly in control, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer until some disturbing event happened. War, revolution, government collapse and pandemics were what he listed as the ‘four horsemen of leveling.’
These things don’t happen when the voters want them to happen, however. The plum only falls when it is ripe. Apparently, the fruit is ripe in Argentina, where the new president Milei has already fired 30,000 government employees and is eliminating dozens of agencies. It was ripe for the Soviet Union in 1989, too, where they simply abolished the entire government. In both cases, the bloodsuckers fell off... giving the host public a chance to recover.
We’re not there yet... not in the US. We haven’t yet had the kind of runaway inflation that undermines the elites’ power. Dollars are still strong and the ruling Establishment can hand out trillions of them in giveaways, boondoggles, and bribes. The public can still be exploited, in other words; the elites can still be enriched.
But wouldn’t ‘reshoring’ industry, for example, bring back growth and good-paying jobs? Well... no. Both Argentina and the Soviet Union stifled imports. And the record is clear; protecting native industries is just another way to exploit the masses. It leaves them with inferior (uncompetitive) products at higher prices. Already, blocking Chinese EVs costs US consumers thousands of dollars while preventing them from getting the best quality/price deals on the market.
Herbert Hoover’s campaign manager, Reed Smoot, proved the point in the 1930s: protectionism doesn’t pay. Colleague Tom Dyson explains: “it’s a win for the special interests; a worldwide depression for everyone else.” Economist Thomas Sowell wrote the following on tariffs: "At any given time, a protective tariff or other import restriction may provide immediate relief to a particular industry and thus gain the political and financial support of corporations and labor unions in that industry. But, like many political benefits, it comes at the expense of others who may not be as organized, visible, or as vocal..."
It is undoubtedly true that some industries will be adversely affected by competing imported products, just as they are adversely affected by every other source of cheaper or better products, whether domestic or foreign. These other sources of greater efficiency are at work all the time, forcing industries to modernize, downsize or go out of business.
Yet, when this happens because of foreigners, it can be depicted politically as a case of our country versus theirs, when in fact it is the old story of domestic special interests versus consumers. And how about stopping the flow of money to Ukraine and Israel? Mr. Trump promised an end to the Ukrainian war ‘within 24 hours’ of his victory. It’s now been more than 200 hours. What gives?
And why can’t energy costs fall 30% to 50%? The Trump Team says it will make it easier to drill for oil. But how much easier would it have to be for the drillers to want to drill for half-priced oil? As the price goes down, so does the appetite for more holes. The only real reason to get rid of the regulations is to get an honest price, not necessarily a lower one.
And why can’t regulations be cut, so that the economy grows at 4% to 6%? For that matter, even at low GDP growth, why can’t a nation as rich as the US pay its own way... so there’s no need to add more debt?
Cut backs would definitely help GDP output. It’s obvious. But it was obvious 10... 20... 30 years ago too. And it never happened. Why? Because each rule... each job... each regulation... and each dollar of deficit is a pay-off to someone. And there’s nothing like the fear of losing it that focuses his attention. That’s what Elon Musk is about to discover: There is no ‘waste’ in Washington; the whole idea is to reshuffle money... not to spend it efficiently.
In his first term, Mr. Trump stuck with the Primary Political Trend. He did not ‘turn the economy around.’ GDP growth rates were actually lower - even before the Covid hit - than they had been under Obama. Nor did he curb the growth of spending and debt... or drain the swamp. And then when the Covid virus sent people into a tizzy The Donald lost consciousness too. He was on watch as the Fed doubled its balance sheet (‘printing’ money to buy federal debt) - adding more debt in a few months than had been accumulated in the previous hundred years.
Keep in mind, too, that Trump won by a small margin - only two out of every hundred voters. And many of those voters get ‘free stuff’ from the feds, too. They won’t be happy to see it cut. These people won’t be too sympathetic to the cause of ‘bringing manufacturing back home’ either, not after they see prices rise by 20%. The Argentine example shows us that a determined and disciplined ‘chainsaw’ candidate might turn things around. But not until the plum drops, and the Primary Political Trend has run its course."
Greg Hunter, AI in the Kill Chain Will End Up Getting You Killed"
"AI in the Kill Chain Will End Up Getting You Killed"
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
"Seven-time, best-selling financial author Jim Rickards predicted in July 2023 (when gold was trading in the $1,600 range) that the yellow metal would get a big boost. He was correct. In his new book called “Money GPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy,” Rickards lays out the case for AI-caused disasters in everything from finance to nuclear war. Rickards says, “About five stocks are upwards of 40% of the entire index. Almost all those gains are being driven by AIs: Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook/Meta and Google. We all know their names. The market is going higher on AI, and nobody wants to say anything negative on AI. I have studied this very closely, and there are these huge dangers for investors that they need to be aware of. Any crash is going to be worse because AI will be accelerating it.”
It gets worse with an AI driven world, especially when it comes to nuclear war. AI can and will accelerate that too. Rickards explains, “You can’t teach a computer common sense. You can teach it rules. You can make it go up the escalation ladder for war. A stock market crash is pretty bad, but nuclear annihilation is far worse. I am offering constructive advice in the book saying here’s the problem. Here’s how it works. Don’t put AI in the kill chain because you will end up getting killed.
Rickards is hoping Trump can deescalate the wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East. Even if Trump is able to turn down the volume on the war drums, the economy is already in big trouble. Rickards says, “The US economy is definitely in for slowing growth at best, and probably a recession in the next 9 months. Trump is going to get blamed for it because if you are President, you get blamed for whatever happens even though he has nothing to do with it. This recession is already happening. The stock market will draw down, and from there, I think it will come back. Trump’s policies are enacted. They get a tax bill through. They get tariffs up. They create high paying US jobs. They cut regulation. There are a lot of bullish things in the pipeline, but they take time to implement and take effect. In the meantime, we will have a rocky road.” There is much more in the 54-minute interview.
Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he goes One-on-One with Jim Rickards, seven-time, best-selling author, including his latest called “Money GPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy.”
Dan I Allegedly, "Is This the End of Homebuilding?"
Full screen recommended.
Dan I Allegedly, AM 11/14/24
"Is This the End of Homebuilding?"
"Discover the ugly truth behind the housing crisis in today's video on IAllegedly. As we dive into the staggering statistics, you'll be blown away by the surplus of homes on the market and the economic implications. With over 400,000 homes in various stages of construction, who will buy them? We'll explore the banking collapse, rising interest rates, and the financial strain affecting everyday Americans."
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Adventures With Danno, "Very Shocking Prices At Kroger, Here We Go"
Full screen recommended.
Adventures With Danno, 11/14/24
"Very Shocking Prices At Kroger, Here We Go"
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Jeremiah Babe, "Prepare For Internet Crash; Washington D.C. In Full Blown Panic"
Jeremiah Babe, 11/13/24
"Prepare For Internet Crash;
Washington D.C. In Full Blown Panic"
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Musical Interlude: Peder B. Helland, "Dance of Life"
Full screen a must for this beautiful video!
Peder B. Helland,
"Dance of Life •
Relaxing Fantasy Music for Relaxation & Meditation"
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