Con Fusion

There are so many on going cons you can't keep up with them all. There really is a synergistic fusion among them. As Chris Hedges often says, the corporate capture is complete. As a result we are conned in so many domains and dimensions it is confusing...from the need for endless war to your need for ever more medicines...from "healthy foods" to the "green revolution" ... from endless currency creation to the great reset... and on and on. Today let's look at a small sampling, and perhaps you can add some I missed in the comments below.

From my view the biggest con forced upon us is the need for war. The US is entirely insane ginning up war with both Russia and China at the same time. Are we headed for nuclear annihilation in order to boost the profit of Raytheon, Boeing, and such? What threat do either of these countries really pose?

Perhaps a look at recent pasts invasions would be instructive. Here's a view from Africa before our Libyan invasion. (20 min)

Aaron nails our actions in Syria in 6 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9iqWnpBFZk&t=150s

Chris and Richard Falk talk about how the elites create war...from his 1968 trip to Hanoi to his experience as a UN human rights rapporteur in Palestine. Falk has also denounced what he calls “the global legalization of rogue behavior embedded in the UN Charter” which vests a right of veto in the five permanent members of the Security Council, the only organ within the UN system with the authority to reach binding decisions. (26 min)

Every war we've promoted in my life was triggered by false flags and misinformation... from WMD to faked gas attacks.

In case you were wondering how Europeans have health care, great trains and roads and good schools... The real figure for military spending by the US is 66.3% of the discretionary federal budget...

No wonder Americans aren’t freaking out about how much of their tax dollar goes to the military. They think it’s 16 cents of each dollar, when it’s really the percentage of the discretionary budget, which is that 66 cents on the dollar.

https://www.nationofchange.org/2017/03/27/real-figure-military-spending-...

And how is it spent? Here's a break down of US promotion of death and destruction
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2079489/dod-re...

How do we con our young people into joining the military to kill (mainly brown) people around the world? They target poor kids, use video games, ID politics, and cartoons to create another big con. (16 min)

The US military has come under fire recently for a new, aggressive recruitment campaign aimed at enticing Gen Z to enlist. In this episode, we'll take a look at some of the more predatory practices in this new propaganda campaign and discuss why it's happening.

Discovering many of my friends are caught in a Health Con

I think most of our c99 community well understands the nature of US war mongering. What really got me on this topic of con games happened during my recent trip to Florida with a crowd of my 60-70 year old peers. Almost all of them are worried about their cholesterol level and taking statins. Folks, for the most part this a another big con. Dr Paul Mason explains:

High LDL-C is inversely associated with mortality in most people over 60 years. This finding is inconsistent with the cholesterol hypothesis (ie, that cholesterol, particularly LDL-C, is inherently atherogenic). Since elderly people with high LDL-C live as long or longer than those with low LDL-C, our analysis provides reason to question the validity of the cholesterol hypothesis. Moreover, our study provides the rationale for a re-evaluation of guidelines recommending pharmacological reduction of LDL-C in the elderly as a component of cardiovascular disease prevention strategies.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27292972/
There were 68,000 people in the study from many countries. Don't fear LDL cholesterol if you're over sixty. The inverse relationship means the higher it is, the longer you'll live which was particularly true in Japan, and a common finding among the studies. Some studies found no difference in mortality based on cholesterol levels and therefore no benefit to the satins, the most prescribed drug in America. More here:

To comprehensively assess the relationship between LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) and overall and cardiovascular mortality among the elderly, this team gathered 19 studies containing 30 cohorts and 68,095 total participants. The relationship between LDL cholesterol and total mortality could be calculated in 28 cohorts, and between LDL cholesterol and cardiovascular mortality in nine cohorts

Here's an excellent and informative discussion of the various types of cholesterol, how they function, and how to interpret your blood test numbers (as well as the mode of action of satins to lower cholesterol).

Have you noticed your LDL cholesterol getting high? Maybe you saw your cholesterol levels spike after going on a low carb diet like Keto. Are you worried that your Doctor will tell you to get on statins? Here is what is happening in your body.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY48qLl9ZzE (28 min)

And one more powerful indictment from a couple of years ago describing the problems with western medicine.
Evidence Based Medicine Has Been Hijacked - Dr Aseem Malhotra, 2019 (35 min)

Sadly we are being told to eat the very things making us ill.

Contrary to what we’ve been told, industrial seed oils such as soybean, canola, and corn oils are not “heart healthy” or otherwise beneficial for our bodies and brains; in fact, plenty of research indicates that these oils are making us sick.

https://chriskresser.com/how-industrial-seed-oils-are-making-us-sick/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGnfXXIKZM (45 min - a good discussion)

However if you want a shorter version, try this 9 minute video.

Speaking of oil, US fracked oil is another huge con.

Now, not only is the U.S. shale oil industry failing financially and facing debts it likely can’t repay, but calls are growing for the new Biden administration to reinstate the crude oil export ban — which President Biden could do immediately under a national emergency declaration.

This would effectively put a limit on the U.S. fracking industry — and be a big step in reducing the industry’s contributions to climate change. It would also restrain the industry from simply producing as much oil as fast as possible, something investors have been lobbying for the last several years. That’s because this approach has led to the loss of over $340 billion since 2010. Investors hope imposing fiscal restraint on the U.S. fracking industry will result in companies producing less oil overall but finally producing some profits.
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The profits never materialized despite the record amounts of oil being produced and now it appears that most of the best U.S. shale oil deposits were drained in that effort. The U.S. exported approximately 3.6 billion barrels of crude oil from January 2016 to October 2020. To put that in perspective, that is slightly less than the 4.1 billion barrels that the U.S. is expected to produce in 2021
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Another of the main arguments industry consultants were making at the time for lifting the ban was that its removal was unlikely to have much of an impact on U.S. oil production. This claim was meant to deflect arguments from environmental groups such as the Sierra Club that lifting the ban would be bad for the climate (something that has proven to be true, especially when accounting for the U.S. fracking industry’s methane pollution).

https://www.desmog.com/2021/01/28/us-crude-oil-exports-hasten-demise-oil...

The Great American Oil Bust started in mid-2014, when the price of crude-oil benchmark WTI began its long decline from over $100 a barrel to, briefly, minus -$37 a barrel in April 2020. Bankruptcies of US companies in the oil and gas sector started piling up in 2015. In 2016, the total amount of debt listed in these filings hit $82 billion. Bankruptcy filings continued, with smaller dollar amounts of debt involved. In 2019, the shakeout got rougher.

And this year promises to be a banner year, as larger oil-and-gas companies with billions of dollars in debt collapsed, after having wobbled through the prior years of the oil bust.

The 44 bankruptcy filings in the first half of 2020 among US exploration and production companies (E&P), oilfield services companies (OFS), and “midstream” companies (gather, transport, process, and store oil and natural gas) involved $55 billion in debts
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Fracking has turned the US into the world’s largest producer of natural gas. The flow of cash into this sector has been epic. Chesapeake was on the forefront here, both in terms of boosting natural gas production and in terms of bamboozling investors into handing over billions of dollars that it then efficiently burned year after year.

The ensuing natural-gas glut has crushed the price of natural gas – despite enormous efforts and investments to export natural gas via pipelines to Mexico and via LNG export terminals to the rest of the world. But whenever there was new demand, it was out-powered by higher production as the cash kept pouring in, and the price continued to fall, currently at $1.83 per million Btu:

https://wolfstreet.com/2020/07/10/the-great-american-shale-oil-gas-massa...

Fracking’s supporters have pushed an environmental angle, insisting that natural gas can be a “bridge fuel,” a cheaper, cleaner option than coal before we have a large-scale transition to renewable energy. This claim has some merit, as natural gas does emit much less carbon dioxide than coal or oil. However, it is still a fossil fuel, adding harmful emissions while the climate crisis worsens. Moreover, fracking wells leak methane, a greenhouse gas more than 25 times more potent than CO2.

https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/05/12/fracking-101-what-you-should-k...

Not to mention the other forms of environmental impact...
https://earthjustice.org/features/petrochemicals-explainer

As you might imagine, the oil and gas lobbying sector is one of the most active lobbying groups. Lobbyist efforts have historically focused on promoting legislators with pro-energy views in the areas of fossil fuel production, commodity exploration, and extraction. As of March 2020, the top lobbying spenders in the industry were Chevron Corp, Koch Industries, and Exxon Mobil.

https://www.investopedia.com/investing/which-industry-spends-most-lobbyi...

And from the same source we're led (follow the money) to our next big con...

Spending $4.45 billion over the past 22 years, the pharmaceutical and health products industry has far outpaced all other industries in lobbying spending. It's important to note that this industry includes not only drug manufacturers, but also the sellers of medical products and nutritional and dietary supplements. From Jan. 2020 through March 2020, spending was topped by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and Pfizer Inc.

Overall, the industry is primarily concerned with "resisting government-run health care, ensuring a quicker approval process for drugs and products entering the market, and strengthening intellectual property protections.” In recent years, lobbying has focused more specifically “on the patent system, research funding, and Medicare.” As is to be expected, lobbying efforts reached a fever pitch in 2009, around the drafting of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and reported a high in 2017 with legislative enactments again focusing on changes to health care.

1,227 (62.9%)
The number of pharmaceutical/health product lobbyists in the United States and the percentage that are former government employees as of March 2020.

They influence everything from training doctors (how to use and profit from their script pad) to the dietary recommendations driving chronic illness.

All we've heard since the start of the pandemic is that vaccines are our way out. Interesting that the non profit Oxford AZ $10-12 total treatment costs still hasn't been approved in the US...despite millions of effective doses around the world.

I also find it interesting that experimental vaccines are approved when safe common off patent treatments are not. Prevention and treatments have been largely ignored unless they were still under patent. I continue to think the exclusion of ivermectin as standard of care for COVID is nothing short of murder.

Here's a 2.5 hour excellent discussion if you have an interest COVID, Ivermectin, and the Crime of the Century: DarkHorse Podcast with Pierre Kory & Bret Weinstein
Links to all the references below the clip.

For a shorter (20 min) listen here's another excellent expose of the effectiveness of ivermectin in COVID

As to the origin question we discussed last week, this was an excellent comment by pluto's republic. I replied I had seen an article that Sars-Cov-2 was in Spain in Early 2019. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-science-idUS...
And now the story is a study in preprint
https://www.ub.edu/web/ub/en/menu_eines/noticies/2020/06/042.html
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v1
John Campbell discusses the research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyhMoWDSZ7Y (15 min)

Chris takes apart the Falsie emails and tunes in on a meeting between industry and government representatives involved with the lab funding.

In this episode, I break down a very short window of time from Jan 31, 2020 to Feb 2 - 2020 when Fauci met with key representatives of the Wellcome Trust, WHO, NIH and senior private virologists. They presumably discussed prior and ongoing gain of function experiments on SARS CoV viruses as well as the lab leak origin theory that was worriedly gaining steam out in the public eye.
Mere days after this meeting a wall of scientific opinion coupled to air-tight media backing concluded that SARS-CoV-2 could not have come from a lab but must​ have been of natural origin.
We now know this was not based on science but was a predetermined conclusion in search of supporters and which made declarative statements that could not possibly have been grounded in actual science.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNxoVFZwMYw (39 min) Sources below the clip
I think it is clear something is being covered up...at a minimum, the US funding of gain of function research in Wuhan.

There's no doubt COVID has been a tool for TPTB. I'm not saying it was engineered and released to control us, but they let no crisis go unexploited.

Basing the US economy on fossil fuels with the petrodollar is coming to an end as we discussed a couple of weeks ago...largely because other countries are no longer trading in USD, which has been our hold over the world and gives of all our sanctions teeth.
Richard Wolff gives three examples that indicate the US's position of global power is changing, and its ability to influence global events is shrinking. (6 min)

The US dollar is crumbling...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS5dwtsD66Y (17 min)

In this video, I discuss the recent move by Russia to diversify its wealth fund away from US dollars and into other currencies and gold, and what it means for the US dollar financial system. The world is slowly moving away from the US dollar as the primary reserve asset, and the yuan and euro are the two chief competitors. That being said, fiat currencies will continue to be devalued and stores of value like gold and Bitcoin will continue to see inflows.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/03/russia-to-remove-dollar-assets-from-nati...
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-17988142

If you did want to hedge against the dollar, precious metals are an option. I found this interview interesting suggesting buying bars of metals is a better investment than coins. Really the opposite of what I thought.

Mark Yaxley, managing director of Strategic Wealth Preservation (SWP), a Cayman-based precious metals dealer and secure storage provider. Breaking down his approach to buying silver and gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkc44OKw2io (32 min)

The really big con...
Is the currency pipeline between the Federal Reserve and the corporate giants.

There are 3 giant financial companies that the global elite use to control 88 percent of the corporations that are currently listed on the S&P 500.
According to Wikipedia, BlackRock had $8.67 trillion in assets under management as of January 2021…
"BlackRock, Inc. is an American multinational investment management corporation based in New York City. Founded in 1988, initially as a risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, with $8.67 trillion in assets under management as of January 2021. citation needed BlackRock operates globally with 70 offices in 30 countries and clients in 100 countries."
According to Wikipedia, Vanguard had $6.2 trillion in assets under management as of January 2021…
"The Vanguard Group, Inc. is an American registered investment advisor based in Malvern, Pennsylvania with about $6.2 trillion in global assets under management, as of January 31, 2020. It is the largest provider of mutual funds and the second-largest provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the world after BlackRock’s iShares. In addition to mutual funds and ETFs, Vanguard offers brokerage services, variable and fixed annuities, educational account services, financial planning, asset management, and trust services. Several mutual funds managed by Vanguard are ranked at the top of the list of US mutual funds by assets under management." State Street held about 3.1 Trillion in assets under management

There are so many more ongoing cons. Wendy featured another of my favorite cons this week, the impossible burger. I'll counter with a healthy option...grass/pasture raised animals.

"A Regenerative Secret" pulls back the curtain on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) and the detrimental effects they have on our ecosystem. More importantly, the film features Dr. Allen Williams, Chief Ranching Officer for Joyce Farms, who offers a powerful alternative -- regenerative agriculture.

In fact animals can help restore the ecosystem and increase soil carbon. (17 min)

I wanted to wrap up this con fusing edition with a little humor, the five year anniversary shoot of the "Honest Government Ads" (17 min). Do you have a favorite ad they created? I think mine is We're Fucked. (2 min)

I hope you'll share your favorites cons in the comments below, or anything else on your mind. Have a good Sunday and watch out for all the cons!