Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom, 3/3/25
"Col. Douglas Macgregor:
Egypt Ready for War with Israel"
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Owen Jones, 3/3/25
"Israel Resumes Genocide In Gaza"
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So, we rise from the rubble...
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Monday, March 3, 2025
"How It Really Is"
“Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come, nor care beyond today.”
- Thomas Gray,
“Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”
"Keir Stamer's Coalition Of The Whimpering"
"Keir Stamer's Coalition Of The Whimpering"
European elites are pushing for a war they are not prepared to fight
against an enemy they cannot defeat without pushing the world
to the edge of nuclear armageddon. At that point, all bets are off.
by Leo Hohmann
"British Prime Minister Keir Starmer closed out what amounted to a war summit in London Sunday by pledging more billions for missiles to Ukraine and committing to British “boots on the ground and planes in the sky.” He called for a “coalition of the willing” to bolster his war effort against Russia. No longer satisfied to use Ukraine as a proxy, he now wants to sacrifice his own nation’s sons and daughters. If he and his evil twin in Paris can get their way, they will launch strikes against Russia, get their soldiers killed, then play the victim and hope this is enough to drag America into their self-provoked war with Russia. At that point, all bets are off and we launch recklessly into World War III.
Watch Starmer, below, addressing his fellow Europeans, saying they are doubling down on their support for Ukraine in its border war with Russia. Remember as you listen to Starmer’s rantings, Ukraine is not a NATO member, but the Euro-elites talk about the country as if it is, with no risk, even the risk of nuclear holocaust, being too high for the preservation of this one country’s borders. Ask yourself, why? Why is this country’s borders so sacred, when so many other countries around the world have ongoing border disputes and nobody cares?
Zelensky has previously said European partners would need to station 100,000 to 150,000 soldiers in Ukraine to effectively deter Russia. The U.S. has ruled out sending its own troops so that means Europe will have to go it alone. The U.K. and France are considering deploying a much smaller European-led peacekeeping force with up to 30,000 soldiers, the Telegraph reported. Apart from the U.K., Canada and France, other countries remain cautious about sending their troops to Ukraine, citing concerns over the escalation and limited military resources, according to the Washington Post.
Starmer said world leaders had agreed to keep military aid flowing to Ukraine, and to continue to help the country bolster its defense capabilities in the event of a peace deal. He also announced a new $3 billion loan for Ukraine backed by profits from frozen Russian assets, and $2 billion in export finance for the country to purchase missiles.
Hungary’s Viktor Orban, who seems to be Europe’s only sane leader, said Europe chose war instead of peace at the London summit, adding: “This is bad, dangerous and mistaken.” Slovakia’s Robert Fico has also announced he has opted his country out of Europe’s war plan.
Canada’s lame-duck prime minister, Justin Trudeau, of course, is all in. He said over the weekend that Canada would also commit troops to a military coalition if needed to keep the war going in Ukraine.
Not only do Britain, France and Canada not have sufficiently trained troops in sufficient numbers ready to go against Russia, but these countries also do not have the industrial capacity to churn out enough weapons and ammunition that such a fight would require. Remember, the Russians are outproducing NATO countries 3 to 1 on the production of the all-important 155mm shells so crucial to the meat-grinder war going on in Ukraine. They know they can’t go it alone, but they are calling Donald Trump’s bluff, trying to force his hand to join their war plan. But Trump made it pretty clear over the last couple of weeks that he doesn’t consider this Russia-Ukraine border war to be America’s fight. He wants it over.
In a post to Truth Social, Trump said Zelensky’s statement Monday to AP that the war could last a very long time, was “the worst statement that could have been made, and America will not put up with it for much longer. It is what I was saying, this guy doesn’t want there to be peace as long as he has America’s backing and, Europe, in the meeting they had with Zelensky, stated flatly they cannot do the job without the U.S. Probably not a good statement to have been made in terms of a show of strength against Russia. What are they Thinking?”
Donald Trump seems to be trying to realign the world by drawing Russia away from China and into the U.S. orbit. That, if he can pull it off, would be a monumental achievement, and one that would make the world a much safer place.
Russia never saw China as its natural ally. It was forced to explore that relationship by unrelenting lies and provocations from NATO, which has encircled Russia’s western flank over the last 20 years by allowing Romania, Poland, Finland, the Baltic nations and Sweden, among others, into its anti-Russia military alliance while at the same time offering membership to Ukraine. That sole act of courting Ukraine for NATO membership amounted to a declaration of war against Russia, but what the Europeans didn’t bank on was Donald Trump coming in and tearing up their plans for destabilizing Russia, fomenting a regime change and stealing its resources. That was always the plan, as evidenced by a June 23, 2022 congressional hearing titled “Decolonizing Russia: A Moral and Strategic Imperative.”
After the overthrow of the USSR, as reported by Ben Norton, the neoconservative operative and future Vice President Dick Cheney wanted to slice up Russia into several smaller countries. Former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski even published an article in elite Foreign Affairs magazine in 1997 proposing to create a “loosely confederated Russia – composed of a European Russia, a Siberian Republic, and a Far Eastern Republic.” They believe if they can just replace Putin and install a Western puppet, they’ll achieve this unrealistic pipe dream.
The June 23, 2022 hearing before Congress was organized by the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), known more commonly as the Helsinki Commission. You can listen and take in some of this organization’s Russophobic positions and distortions of history in the video below, taken directly from the June 2022 hearing."
These psychopaths are literally insane and determined to get us all killed...
"Modern “Public Health” is Based on Utilitarianism and Socialism"
Rachel Levine swearing in as
Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services
"Modern “Public Health” is Based on Utilitarianism and Socialism"
by Robert Malone, MD, MS
Excerpt: "Modern “Public Health” primarily focuses on disease prevention and treatment, rather than on health promotion. “Public Health” relies on top-down, centrally planned interventions imposed on populations rather than individually optimized health promotion and treatment decisions. The “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement strives to focus on health promotion rather than disease treatment. Success in this enormous transformational endeavor will require a re-examination of the organizational, cultural, and structural drivers that have led to the currently dominant focus on disease.
One simplistic argument is that this modern focus on disease is the consequence of “capitalism” and the profit motive (as embodied by “Big Pharma”) distorting what should be a public utility (“healthcare"). While the predatory nature of many large pharmaceutical firms and their marketing arms is self-evident, they have become adept at exploiting a niche, a business opportunity, that emerged consequent to fundamental political and sociological trends towards centralized planning based on utilitarianism and socialist theories.
Public Health, Utilitarianism, and Socialism: “Public Health” as defined by current Western two-year “Masters in Public Health” (MPH) training programs (that require no prior medical or biological training), theorizes that imposing healthcare management decisions on the population at large will achieve statistically optimal minimized average disease for all people.
In other words, Western “Public Health” is based on the political and sociological logic of both utilitarianism: the greatest good for the greatest number, and socialism: equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity, coupled with a form of medical authoritarianism in which “healthcare” interventions are imposed on the population in general, rather than developed and negotiated on an individual basis in a private physician-patient relationship.
Current western “Public Health” is characterized by a commitment to achieving equality of statistically optimized “minimal disease” outcomes across the overall population, rather than equality of opportunity to achieve health, and rather than optimizing health on a case-by-case basis for each individual citizen. As history has repeatedly demonstrated, when centralized planning and decision-making imposed on populations errs in assumptions or interventions, the consequences are typically catastrophic due mainly to the scale of the imposed mistake. This is one of the key truths illustrated by the COVID “pandemic” debacle.
The modern practice of “Public Health” relies on big data, and primarily involves statistically isolating and defining measurable medical signs and symptoms associated with existing “bad” public health, and then identifying interventions that are demonstrated to move population-based statistical parameters towards “good” public health. In many cases, “good” and “bad” are subjective, and often myopically lack broader context.
In modern practice, these subjective determinations are made by an “expert” elite (that typically benefits from the priorities it establishes), separate and isolated from the general population- typically in the “ivory towers” of the academy- rather than subjected to any public deliberative democratic process. There are no referendums on injecting fluoride into public water systems, discouraging a meat-based diet or substituting seed oils for animal fats. It is no wonder that one consequence of modern “Public Health” has been the rise of various “health” priesthoods, such as now exist in pediatrics, cardiology, infectious disease, and epidemiology. This is the direct consequence of the logic of centralized planning and socialist philosophy (ends justify the means!) infiltrating the entire US national and global (WHO) healthcare enterprise. Central planning requires an anointed expert elite to guide and justify centralized decision-making."
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Bill Bonner, "Land of Dreams and Shadows"
"Land of Dreams and Shadows"
by Bill Bonner
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland - "Narcotics won’t improve your world. But they can help you feel better about it. You nod off… even when they are cutting you open… and slide into your own dreamscape. Here at Bonner Private Research we cast our net far and wide to bring you the widest possible view of what is going on. Dan on the high plains of Wyoming…Tom in some woebegone village in India…And here we are in Johns Hopkins hospital, not exactly by choice but, whatever the motivation, it is a learning experience. Here’s what to expect…
You go into the hospital. You give your insurance info, your name and birthday. They put a plastic wristband on…and give you a badge. That allows you to go down the hall where the receptionist asks you for your name and date of birth. You are told to have a seat. “Someone will call for you.” Someone does call for you. You enter a smallish area. She scans your armband with an electronic device.
“Your name?” “You just called my name,” we answer. “Yeah, I know your name. I want to make sure you know your name.” “But I came when you called me.” “Never mind. But I’ve got some questions for you.” You are then required to sign several forms the gist of which is that you won’t light up a cigarette in the hospital, and that if anything bad happens to you while on hospital premises, it’s your own damned fault.
Along the road to the hospital, however, were several large billboards from law firms betting that it wouldn’t be your fault. “You deserve money. We collect $$millions$$ for our clients,” advertises one of them. Another: “Medical Malpractice? Know your rights. Get paid.”
But the questions are just beginning. Embarrassing questions - about bodily functions, medicines allergies, previous illnesses and accidents. All of this information has already been provided, more than once. But they want to be sure. When this interrogation is finished, we are told to return to the lobby, until “someone calls your name.” Again, after a brief wait, we are greeted by a neat person in a hospital uniform and a mask. This time, we are taken to a small room, curtained off, with a bed and many complex instruments in it.
“What is your name?” “William Bonner,” we answer. “Your birth date?” And then come the questions…health status…accidents, interventions…insurance carrier…etc. Have we had Covid shots? Do we get dizzy when we stand up too fast? Has any relative ever had cancer? The most important question was, “Can I see your insurance card?” And for good reason. The system is staggeringly expensive. The average health insurance for a family of 4 is said to be over $20,000. The medical care expenditure per person is over $14,500.
The US now ranks 46th in life expectancy…and every one of those 45 countries where people live longer, spends less than we do. We’ve tried some of them - in France, Ireland, and Argentina. The general service seems similar…at half the cost; but the US is said to have a high-tech edge.
Our visit to Johns Hopkins gave us an occasion to see for ourselves. There are scores of people in hospital get-ups…and scores of people who ask your name and age. When they aren’t asking questions, or actually helping a patient, they are usually making small talk with their colleagues.
Thanks to the complexity of treatments, insurance programs and Medicare/Medicaid, the healthcare industry requires not just doctors and nurses…but an army of administrators. Of the $5 trillion spent on medical services each year, at least 40% has little to do with taking care of patients.
At Johns Hopkins, the doctors, nurses and skilled assistants were pleasant and competent. But efficiency does not appear to be a major concern. There’s little price competition to drive cost cutting. We never knew what anything cost. We never had to make a decision that involved trade-offs or prices. We saw plenty of ads for lawyers eager to sue…but none offering lower cost service. And while there were no obvious efforts to cut costs, neither was much thought given to increasing revenues. We were never offered an ‘up-grade’ at a higher price. The food was free. No one solicited a charitable gift or offered a ‘frequent patient’ discount membership.
Nobody seemed to care. Including us. After all, the insurance company was paying. Why medical care is so inefficient and ineffective, we don’t know. But we can take a guess: the feds have gummed it up with regulations and subsidies. And if the new team - headed by RFK, Jr. - were serious about saving Americans $2 trillion, they’d begin by liberating the healthcare business. Whether that would result in lower prices and higher quality, we don’t know either. But it would be worth a try.
Our adventure at Johns Hopkins continued… We were getting pretty good at answering questions, asked by another nurse…an anesthesiologist…and the surgeons’ assistant. “What are you here for?” asked at least two of them. “What do you think we’re here for?” we replied.
“We just need to be sure that we have the right person and that he is capable of understanding what is happening to him.” “What is today’s date?” asked one. “Where are you?” Another handed us a piece of paper with a circle on it. “Draw a clock that says 11:30.” “AM or PM?” we asked.
Finally, we were laid out on the operating table…with a large robot, like a many-armed Hindu goddess, ready to go to work. The anesthesiologist administered his dose. Our eyes rolled backwards…we were getting drowsy, passing into the land of dreams and shadows. Then, the most remarkable thing happened. The top surgeon appeared. A tall man, dressed in a black cape with a black hood and a deep stentorian voice. He was carrying a scythe. His eyes were like burning coals…his touch as cold as dry ice. “What is your name,” he asked, sounding vaguely like Darth Vader. “Jack Jones,” we lied. “Oh… Must be some mistake. You’re not the one I’m looking for.”
Dan, I Allegedly, "5 Banks Shut Down – Coincidence or Warning?"
Full screen recommended.
Dan, I Allegedly, 3/3/25
"5 Banks Shut Down – Coincidence or Warning?"
"Are five bank shutdowns in one day just bad luck, or is this a serious warning sign for us all? In today’s video, I break down the recent “Black Friday of banking” and explain why I think these events are no coincidence. From payment delays affecting fixed-income individuals to critical warnings about being financially prepared, there’s a lot to unpack. Plus, I’m sharing why I believe these closures could be a test run for larger disruptions ahead. Let’s talk about what this could mean for your money and how you can protect yourself.
We also discuss some wild headlines, from massive recalls at Volkswagen and Audi to the struggles of fast-casual dining chains like Red Robin. And, of course, a little real-world advice on cash management, travel tips, and the importance of staying ready no matter what comes your way. I’m here to share insights, stories, and a little humor while covering topics that matter most to your financial health and peace of mind."
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Jim Kunstler, "Attitude Adjustment"
"Attitude Adjustment"
by Jim Kunstler
"A secularized, atheist leaning Europe that has forgotten its roots, has
demonstrated that it will NOT protect the personal freedoms of its citizenry.”
- Jim Shea
"See if you can get this straight: So, Kier Starmer says: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland wants to “put boots on the ground and planes in the air” in Ukraine so as to lead a “coalition of the willing” (NATO) against Russia. Sounds a little like the British PM is holding seances at No. Ten Downing Street to channel the spirits of bygone European leaders who launched doomed bear hunts into the vast and mysterious Eurasian east. (Who comes to mind?)
Why is Europe so avid for war? After eighty-odd years of serving as the world’s tourism theme park, languishing in their cafes, maybe they forgot what war is like. The New York Times reports: Ursula von der Leyen said the European Union would fortify Ukraine with economic and military aid, aiming to turn it into “a steel porcupine that is indigestible for potential invaders.” This requires you to fall for the fake idea that Russia seeks to invade western Europe. Notice how much the EU acts like America’s Democratic Party — projecting its own hostile fantasies on its adversaries.
Also, like our Democratic Party, Europe is sinking into oblivion. The animating ethos of the ruling parties in Germany and France is to punish their own citizens with censorship, tyranny, and sponsoring an alien invasion that aims to demolish European culture. Their economic wizards are taking the continent medieval, to a global backwater of defeated peasants eating bugs. I will boldly predict that the likes of Starmer, von der Leyen, and Friedrich Merz will be swept out of power by angry mobs before next Christmas.
In the meantime, Europe has made itself preposterous. Europe does not have the mojo to do a darned thing about Ukraine or Russia. The British army has 74,296 active-duty troops, comparable to Algeria. The UK’s North Sea oil production has declined by approximately 73-percent since 2000. Germany produces around 23,000 barrels-a-day, enough to meet two percent of its domestic oil demand. Anyway, exactly a year ago, Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared, “There will be no ground troops, no soldiers on Ukrainian soil sent there by European countries or NATO states.” So, who’s kidding whom?
Circumstances are driving the USA and Russia into an alliance of necessity. The immediate goal is to stop the insane war provoked by previous non-Trump administrations (and the EU) going back to George W. Bush, that repeatedly promoted “color revolutions” (regime change) in Ukraine so as to drag it into NATO — putting a hostile forward base on Russia’s “front porch.” The idea all along among the most fervidly delusional neocons has been to bust-up Russia in order to seize its oil and mineral assets.
That project never panned out because after a decade of post-Soviet chaos, Mr. Putin put his country back in order, turned it into what used to be the definition of a normal European nation and — too ironically even for Russian literature — made it a bastion for defending Western Civ while the other nations of Europe launched their campaign of collective suicide. History is ever a trickster and the zeitgeist is its consigliere.
Mr. Trump and his wingmen apparently recognize the obvious: that Ukraine is exactly what its name signifies in its Slavic root, Украина" (Ukraina): frontier, borderland, periphery, outskirts. Ukraine is on the edge of Russia. Most of all, it is geopolitically within Russia’s sphere-of-influence in the same way that Mexico is in ours, with similar implications for national defense as laid out explicitly in our Monroe Doctrine. Because Ukraine is mostly a flat plain, it has served historically as the doormat for invasions into Russia, so you may see why Russia was not comfortable with the prospect of NATO perched there, especially in a new age of drones and missiles.
As Europe now flounders impotently and wrecks itself, America and Russia are motivated to avoid being snookered into an unnecessary world war over Ukraine. Mr. Zelenskyy is but an anachronistic artifact of the color revolutions that finally sputtered out with “Joe Biden,” who was himself in the vanguard of a colossal money-grubbing operation in that sad-sack country. While much is already known about how that worked, a whole lot more is waiting to be revealed, including the degree of actual treason it entailed. People around “Joe Biden” will be going to jail over this, or worse.
I’d also venture to predict that W. Zelenskyy will before much longer get removed from his position by his own generals. Ukraine will return to its long-standing status as a borderland that poses no danger to the rest of the world. America and Russia will be poised to defend what remains of Western Civ from ambitious China. And Gawd help Europe if its insane national leaders revert to fighting among each other as they did for two thousand years before 1945, making a slaughterhouse of the region again.
Mr. Trump is correct to avoid getting dragged into that. We have enough on our own agenda for repairing the damage done to ourselves the past thirty years. The good news is that we’re beginning to get that done."
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Musical Interlude: Gary Jules, "Mad World"
Full screen recommended.
Gary Jules, "Mad World"
Look around... a mad world indeed.
"Alert! Globalists Want WW3 And The U.S. To Fight It; Ukraine Accepting Volunteers; Good Luck, Good Bye"
Jeremiah Babe, 3/2/25
"Alert! Globalists Want WW3 And The U.S. To Fight It;
Ukraine Accepting Volunteers; Good Luck, Good Bye"
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"Alert! Troops, 100 Taurus Missiles, Nuclear Shield! Europe Going To War With Russia!"
Canadian Prepper, 3/2/25
"Alert! Troops, 100 Taurus Missiles, Nuclear Shield!
Europe Going To War With Russia!"
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God help us...
"A Look to the Heavens"
"A star cluster around 2 million years young surrounded by natal clouds of dust and glowing gas, M16 is also known as The Eagle Nebula. This beautifully detailed image of the region adopts the colorful Hubble palette and includes cosmic sculptures made famous in Hubble Space Telescope close-ups of the starforming complex.
Described as elephant trunks or Pillars of Creation, dense, dusty columns rising near the center are light-years in length but are gravitationally contracting to form stars. Energetic radiation from the cluster stars erodes material near the tips, eventually exposing the embedded new stars. Extending from the ridge of bright emission left of center is another dusty starforming column known as the Fairy of Eagle Nebula. M16 lies about 7,000 light-years away, an easy target for binoculars or small telescopes in a nebula rich part of the sky toward the split constellation Serpens Cauda (the tail of the snake)."
The Poet: David Romano, "If Tomorrow Starts Without Me"
David Romano, "If Tomorrow Starts Without Me"
Read by Tom O'Bedlam
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"Dog's Last Day"
So sadly beautiful...
"The Donkey and the Meaning of Eternity"
"The Donkey and the Meaning of Eternity: Nobel-Winning
Spanish Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Love Letter to Life"
by Maria Popova
Excerpt: "Beneath our anxious quickenings, beneath our fanged fears, beneath the rusted armors of conviction, tenderness is what we long for - tenderness to salve our bruising contact with reality, to warm us awake from the frozen stupor of near-living. Tenderness is what permeates Platero and I (public library) by the Nobel-winning Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez (December 23, 1881–May 29, 1958) - part love letter to his beloved donkey, part journal of ecstatic delight in nature and humanity, part fairy tale for the lonely.
Living in his birthplace of Moguer - a small town in rural Andalusia - Jiménez began composing this uncommon posy of prose poems in 1907. Although it spans less than a year in his life with Platero, it took him a decade to publish it. At its heart is a simple truth: What and whom we love is a lens to focus our love of life itself.
The tenderness with which Jiménez regards Platero - whom he addresses by name over and over, like an incantation of love - is the tenderness of living with wonder and fragility. He celebrates Platero’s “big gleaming eyes, of a gentle firmness, in which the sun shines”; he reverences him as “friend to the old man and the child, to the stream and the butterfly, to the sun and the dog, to the flower and the moon, patient and pensive, melancholy and lovable, the Marcus Aurelius of the meadows.” He beckons him: “Come with me. I’ll teach you the flowers and the stars.”
And so he does: "Look, Platero, so many roses are falling everywhere: blue, pink, white, colorless roses… You’d think the sky was crumbling into roses… You’d think that from the seven galleries of Paradise roses were being thrown onto the earth… Platero, it seems, while the Angelus is ringing, that this life of ours is losing its everyday strength, and that a different strength from within, loftier, more constant, and purer, is causing everything, as if in fountain jets of grace… Your eyes, which you can’t see, Platero, and which you are mildly raising skyward, are two beautiful roses."
Together, poet and donkey traverse the Andalusian countryside in a state of rapturous harmony with each other and the living world: "Through the low-lying roads of summer, draped with tender honeysuckle, how sweetly we go! I read, or sing, or recite poetry to the sky. Platero nibbles the sparse grass of the shady banks, the dusty blossoms of the mallows, the yellow sorrel. He halts more than he walks. I let him.
[…]
Every so often Platero stops eating and looks at me. Every so often I stop reading and look at Platero."
There are echoes of Whitman in Jiménez’s exultations: "Before us are the fields, already green. Facing the immense, clear sky, of a blazing indigo, my eyes - so far from my ears! - open nobly, welcoming in its calm that indescribable placidity, that harmonious, divine serenity which dwells in the limitlessness of the horizon."
This longing for the infinite accompanies the young man and the old donkey as they cross the hills and valleys on their daily pilgrimages: "The evening extends beyond its normal limits, and the hour, infected with eternity, is infinite, peaceful, unfathomable."
Again and again, Platero’s presence magnifies the poet’s relishing of beauty, deepens his contact with the eternal: "I remain in ecstasy before the twilight. Platero, his black eyes scarlet with sunset, walks gently to a puddle of crimson, pink, and violet waters; he softly immerses his lips into the mirrors, which seem to liquefy as he touches them."
Punctuating these ecstasies are the inevitable spells of melancholy stemming from the fact that the price of being awake to life is being also awake to mortality. Aware that this enchanted life with his beloved Platero is only for the time being, Jiménez reaches into the sorrow of the future to consecrate it with joy: "Platero. I shall bury you at the foot of the large, round pine in the orchard at La Piña, which you like so much. You will remain alongside cheerful, serene life. The little boys will play and the little girls will sew beside you on their little low chairs. You will get to hear the verses that the solitude will inspire in me. You’ll hear the older girls singing when they wash clothes in the orange grove, and the sound of the waterwheel will be a joy and a solace to your eternal peace. And all year long the goldfinches, greenfinches, and vireos, in the perennial freshness of the treetop, will create for you a small musical ceiling between your tranquil slumber and Moguer’s infinite, ever-blue sky."
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"The World Is A Dangerous Place..."
"If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity."
- Albert Einstein
"Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it.
Right is right even if only you are doing it."
- Author Unknown
"The Crowd Never Thinks..."
“Nobody does. The crowd never thinks. People are only comfortable in
a pack, and they’re most comfortable in one that’s racing off a cliff.”
Deacon Bainbridge to Daniel Durand,
"The Golden Pinnacle," by Robert Gore
"A Primer For The Propagandized: Fear Is The Mind-Killer"
"A Primer For The Propagandized:
Fear Is The Mind-Killer"
by Margaret Anna Alice
“Those who can make people believe absurdities,
can make people commit atrocities.”
- Voltaire
"The noose is dangling gently around our necks. Every day, they cinch it tighter. By the time we realize it’s strangling us, it will be too late. Those who – gradually and gleefully – sacrifice their freedoms, their autonomy, their individuality, their livelihoods, and their relationships on the altar of the “common good” have forgotten this is the pattern followed by every totalitarian regime in history.
Everyone wonders how ordinary Germans could have been manipulated to participate or stand dumbstruck while their government was transformed into a genocidal juggernaut. This is how. Read Sebastian Haffner’s "Defying Hitler" memoir to see how this can happen anywhere - including here.
Everyone wonders how Russians could have permitted and even zealously reported fellow citizens for imprisonment and execution under "Article 58", the penal code invented to incarcerate anyone who dared express the slightest whisper of noncompliance under Stalin’s homicidal state. This is how. Read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s meticulously documented "The Gulag Archipelago" to witness this progression of authoritarian lunacy.
Everyone wonders how Hutus could have suddenly started axing their Tutsi neighbors to death after being inundated with waves of anti-Tutsi propaganda from "Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines." Read Philip Gourevitch’s "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda."
The list goes on. And on. And on. From Machiavelli’s "The Prince" to Étienne de la Boetie’s "The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude" to Edward Herman’s and Noam Chomsky’s "Manufacturing Consent" (and accompanying documentary) to BBC’s "The Century of the Self," mechanisms of mass control have been chronicled for millennia.
George Orwell wrote, "As far as the mass of the people go, the extraordinary swings of opinion which occur nowadays, the emotions which can be turned on and off like a tap, are the result of newspaper and radio hypnosis.”
Can you imagine what master propagandist Edward Bernays would have done with access to today’s mainstream media conglomerate combined with the global surveillance infrastructure of Big Tech? And you really think that’s not happening now - with another century of psychological, neurological, and technological research under their belts?
The present ability to curate reality and coerce obedience is unprecedented, far beyond what Orwell envisioned in "1984", Bradbury in "Fahrenheit 451", Huxley in "Brave New World," and Burgess in "A Clockwork Orange."
A textbook example of "Problem Reaction Solution", the current tsunami of worldwide hysteria is the latest and potentially most threatening example of mass control in history.
The recipe is simple. Take a naturally occurring phenomenon, say a seasonal virus, and exaggerate its threat far beyond every imagining - despite exhaustive evidence to the contrary. Suppress, silence, ostracize, and demonize every individual who dares present facts that expose the false mono-narrative.
Whip up a witches’ brew of anger, envy, and, most importantly, fear, escalating emotions to a boil so as to short-circuit our faculties of reason and logic.
Isolate us from one another, supplant real-world interactions with virtual feuds, label nonconformists as a threat to the group, and pump the public with a disinformation campaign designed to confuse and atomize. In essence, foster a cultlike mentality that shuts down thought to guarantee assent.
Cultivate and wield our cognitive biases - especially ingroup bias, conformity bias, and authority bias - against us in a comprehensive divide-and-conquer policy that keeps us too busy squabbling amongst each other to recognize and unite against those corralling us into a Matrix-like collective delusion that enables the powerful to extract our resources for their own gain.
This ideological mass psychosis is religion - not science. If this were about science, the Media–Pharmaceutical–Big-Tech complex would not be memory-holing every dissenting voice, vilifying every thought criminal, and censoring every legitimate inquiry in quest of the truth.
Mark Twain said, “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” He also said: “In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”
The next time you’re watching the news, reading a social media post, listening to a friend repeat a scripted talking point, pay attention. Learn to identify the earmarks of propaganda, the clickbait used to trigger your emotions, the mechanisms employed to engineer your cognitive biases.
Don’t let your pride prevent you from seeing - and admitting - the Emperor is naked. We are losing our last sliver of opportunity to resist authoritarianism. This is not a partisan issue. Those who wish to control us have made it such because disunited lemmings are easier to steer than independent, critical thinkers.
This is a human issue. This is about crushing the middle class - the backbone of a democratic republic - and transferring trillions from the middle and lower classes to the ruling plutocracy. This is about demolishing the foundations of a free society and building it back - not better, but better-controlled.
I will close by recommending a series of illuminating videos on menticide (“the systematic effort to undermine and destroy a person’s values and beliefs … to induce radically different ideas”) throughout history by "Academy of Ideas." This analysis of mass psychosis is nonpartisan and of value to every thinking human being.
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"Dare to question. Dare to disbelieve.
Dare to defy ideology in favor of science while you still can."
"It's Not A Lie If You Believe It" (Excerpt)
"It's Not A Lie If You Believe It" (Excerpt)
by Jim Quinn
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten,
the lie became the truth.” – George Orwell, "1984"
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical
point of view, is silence about truth.”
- Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World"
Excerpt: "I wish I could go through a day without having to reference Orwell and Huxley when observing how the ruling class is able to manipulate, subjugate, and propagandize the willfully ignorant masses through lies, deceptions, disinformation, and fear. But here we are, living through a dystopian nightmare blending the worst aspects of Orwell’s "1984" and Huxley’s "Brave New World."
It’s as if O’Brien and Mustapha Mond are running the show, using behavioral conditioning, restricting freedom of speech, adhering to a strict caste system, surveilling everything we say or do, using our fears to control us, utilizing propaganda to produce false narratives, and ultimately threatening to stomp a boot on our faces forever if we do not obey and conform. Virtually everything we are told by politicians, government bureaucrats, military brass, “esteemed” journalists, medical “experts”, bankers, and corporate executives is lies. They do not believe their lies, but they know it benefits themselves financially to lie, and as long as they work together, they know the ignorant masses will believe them.
George tells Jerry “It’s not a lie if you believe it” as he is going to take a lie detector test. I wonder how Fauci, Biden, Hillary, Obama, Comey, Wray, Pelosi, and the slew of other Deep State coup conspirators would fare on a lie detector test about Russiagate, Covidgate, J6 Insurrectiongate, and Vaccinegate. Based on the titanic volume of lies they have spewed over the last several years, I’m sure the machine would overheat and explode if hooked up to any of this traitorous vile scum.
The humorous phrase uttered by George Costanza on a sitcom twenty-seven years ago captures a significant kernel of truth about the mindset of the vast majority of non-critical thinking drones roaming the aisles of WalMarts and waiting in the drive-thru at McDonalds across our dystopian states of America. The lies run so deep you need hip-boots to wade through them on a daily basis. The reason our leaders lie is because we let them lie. The majority prefer comforting lies to unpleasant truths, because accepting unpleasant truths would require them to act and they prefer being distracted by trivialities like sports, reality TV, social media likes and otherwise being addicted to their technological gadgets."
Full, recommended must-read article is here:
"Exploring The Madness Of The System With Insights From Scott Adams And Elon Musk"
"Exploring The Madness Of The System With
Insights From Scott Adams And Elon Musk"
By CWR
"Ever felt like the more you understand about how things work, the more insane it all seems? Scott Adams recently touched on this, highlighting how the system protects itself by being so outrageously flawed that those who start to see through it are often labeled as crazy. It’s like stepping into a “crazy zone” where you realize that what you once thought was reality might just be a facade.
Elon Musk chimed in too, calling it a battle against the anti-civilizational woke mind virus. But here’s the thing - this battle isn’t about left or right; it’s about common sense. Musk outlined his centrist positions, from securing borders to addressing racism and responsible spending. These are ideas that resonate with many, regardless of political affiliation.
"Have you noticed the "system" protects itself by being so outrageously bad that by the time you understand what is happening it makes you look insane to people who haven't begun the journey to awareness? I recently evolved into the "crazy zone," in which I understand too much…"- Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) March 21, 2024
George Orwell nailed it! “In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.” -1984
- MichaelG (@Michael888G) March 21, 2024
This is a battle to the death with the anti-civilizational woke mind virus. My positions are centrist:
- Secure borders.
- Safe & clean cities.
- Don’t bankrupt America with spending.
- Racism against any race is wrong.
- No sterilization below age of consent.
Is this right-wing? t.co/QgRkoem2u4
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 21, 2024"
Greg Hunter, "Europe is Falling & Needs War with Russia"
"Europe is Falling & Needs War with Russia"
by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
"Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong is back with a new warning about war coming to Europe. You may have seen the heated exchange between President Trump and President Zelensky of Ukraine on Friday. If not, you should. Some of the Trump highlights are: “President Zelensky is not ready for peace. (Zelensky is) gambling with WWIII, and you either make a deal or we are out.” It looks like Zelensky intentionally started a fight with Trump in the White House. It also looks like every country in Europe is backing more war in Ukraine. And now, there is renewed talk of an EU army. Armstrong says, “Why? Because they all are facing the collapse of the European Union. The debt is just unbelievable. They never consolidated. Between Covid, Climate Change and sanctions on Russia, the German economy has shrunk 3% to 5%. The economic growth (of the EU) is appalling. Europe is falling, and this is why they need war. So, they are backing Zelensky.”
In a new report released yesterday, Armstrong lays out the case why war in Europe is coming and coming soon. Armstrong points out, “In this report, I gathered a bunch of headlines: London Financial Times, what’s the headline? ‘America is Now the Enemy of the West.’ This is why Trump is saying ‘We are out.’ Zelensky has admitted that 58% of the $350 billion the US gave him is missing. You cut the funding, and you are going to find out the truth. Trump should cut every single penny. Bring it all out. Zelensky is counting on Europe to replace the United States. This is why he’s so arrogant. Trump should get the hell out of NATO - ASAP.”
So, why are all these reports coming out in the last few months about gold coming to America from Europe? Armstrong says, “Last week, I was on the phone, and I can’t tell you how much, but when you are about to go into war, capital moves. Right now, I am concerned from about May 15th on. Our computer (Socrates) says Europe is going into war, and I put it into this report, Europe will lose. This is why the gold is coming to America.” Armstrong also contends you can forget about predictions of the US dollar collapsing anytime soon - it won’t. Armstrong says, “The Euro will become extinct.”
Armstrong also predicts, “I published what the computer “Socrates” put out on Ukraine. It’s a flatline, and I have never seen that on any other country. It’s a flatline. It’s going dead. That’s it.” Did the election of President Trump stop a thermonuclear exchange with Russia? Armstrong says, “Absolutely! You had Dick Cheney endorsing Kamala. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger were on the J6 Committee. Both of them are Neocons. Adam Kinzinger said ‘We could defeat Russia in three days.’ They put out nothing but propaganda all the time.” There is much more in the 70-minute in-depth interview.
Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he goes One-on-One with Martin Armstrong as he gives his analysis on war coming to the EU, which ties into Armstrong’s new report called “The Neocon Coup of Europe – Why Zelensky does not want Peace.”
Gregory Mannarino, "Markets, A Look Ahead: Alert! US Debt Crisis Is Rapidly Worsening, The Economy Is Failing"
Gregory Mannarino, 3/2/25
"Markets, A Look Ahead: Alert!
US Debt Crisis Is Rapidly Worsening, The Economy Is Failing"
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Market Gains, 3/2/25
"32,000 Workers Just Got Fired From Amazon"
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Dan, I Allegedly, "Big Bank Troubles Are Here - Is Your Bank Safe?"
Full screen recommended.
Dan, I Allegedly, 3/2/25
"Big Bank Troubles Are Here -
Is Your Bank Safe?"
"Banks are hiding nearly $500 BILLION in unrealized losses, and it’s time we talk about what this means for you and your money. In this video, I break down two shocking stories in the banking world – from the FDIC’s latest report on failing banks to a bizarre case of insider fraud where a bank employee forged signatures to steal over $1 million from the vault! Are these signs of more trouble ahead for the financial system? Let’s uncover the truth about what’s really happening.
We also dive into how interest rates, mortgages, and the current state of real estate are putting more pressure on banks. Remember the 2008 crisis? It feels like we’re heading down a similar path, and the numbers don’t lie. Plus, hear about layoffs at major companies like Flagstar Bank and Autodesk, and even the end of an era for Skype. So much is happening, and you don’t want to miss a minute of this!"
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Saturday, March 1, 2025
Jeremiah Babe, "Zelensky Reality Check: Kicked Out Of White House"
Jeremiah Babe, 3/1/25
"Zelensky Reality Check: Kicked Out Of White House"
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Musical Interlude: Melanie, "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"
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Melanie, "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)"
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