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Con Fusion

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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.

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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-...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

Has Big Pharma conned us about COVID?

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.

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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

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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!

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by our most respected and valued c99p member. So, if the cons fuse together, do they get so confused with each other, that the whole fusion is nothing more than con shebang gone crazy?

Unfortunately I am surrounded by con artists and they are totally confused. I am not confused. One day I put all the cons in a can and let them rot til the can explodes.

Thank you very much for the extensive and excellent work you do.

I looked for the worst beer but found only beer testers who talk in German. What is it about beer and the Americans? Black Elephant beer is supposedly good.
Prost

I like those con artists best, especially, Han van Meegeren.
[video:https://youtu.be/i8tf1KGzFnw]

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another type of con. I had several German biers I liked especially the dunkels. Been holding off on my beer and wine so far this month and going with one meal a day for a week or two to clean out a bit after our recent holiday.

Hope you are having a nice day. We expect a drizzle for most of the day. Perfect for the just planted sweet potato slips.

Have a good Sunday!

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Why is there a need to bribe people to get vaccinated? (17 min)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH5tQfwHW7w]

My favorite is de Blasio's free hamburger and fries for a jab. Oh boy, get a shot and food that is bad for you at the same time. Jeez, you can't make it up.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

@Lookout /https://youtu.be/rTVjnBo96Ug

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Here's the trick:
[video:URL]
Use the brackets [ with the word video and a colon. (video:) Then paste in the youtube, etc, web address and close with a bracket ].

Easy peasy.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

@Lookout @Lookout @Lookout @Lookout Other members have come to my aid and eventually I will get this right. I am grateful to you and Snoop and Wendy and jtC and Joe who have all helped me on this, for me, difficult process.

I promise I will get where I need to be. Less confident about exactly when.

easy-peasy describes somebody else entirely.

Here goes:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTVjnBo96Ug]

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@NYCVG ten more successful attempts and then maybe the celebration.

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@NYCVG

No need to delay, although I must admit repetition helps.

Well done!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Hey, some of the better people I know are ex-cons.
Slightly de-socialized, but effectually contemplative.

Enjoyed the We're F*cked vid. Tell it like it is.

Con fusing is the goal of multinationals and MSM.
Trick is to not bite on the bait. Use reason and your powers of
deduction to ascertain the truth of this ongoing con.

Thanks for the OT!

You have a good one Wink

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Our friend OPOL did time in an Alabama prison, as have other of my friends, on drug charges.

Whatta waste.

And yes critical thinking is needed.

Thanks for the visit and the howdy.

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@Lookout

Our friend OPOL did time in an Alabama prison, as have other of my friends, on drug charges.

Whatta waste.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgDV_R7Ibek]

Wink

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

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Recently an out of state disabled vet with a pot script stopped at an AL convenience store. A cop smelled pot and busted him. He was convicted and is in AL prison. More money is spent on our prisons than our schools. It is a shame.

Means more money for the private prisons, and gets poor, mainly black, people off the voting rolls. We have not come very far from the 50's I'm sad to say.

Thanks for the song.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn4h1Vms2zw&t=6s]

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Yes. We are. In all the ways mentioned and in multitudinous ways that are not mentioned.

The short film at the end of your essay makes the case so beautifully. We are fucked.

Our election process is fucked beyond repair and all the moaning about Voting Rights and "losing our democracy" are less about the salvation of our systems and more accurately are rituals performed after the death has ocurred. funerals.

My coverage of the NYC Mayoral Race is at an end. Andrew Yang will not win. The entire campaign process has been strictly controlled so that the ending is no longer in doubt.

"The NY Health Act would guarantee universal healthcare to all New Yorkers and replace the existing private insurance system. Of the top 4 candidates, Andrew Yang is the only one to pledge full support."

This quote from a pundit this morning explains, in accordance with Lookout's work this morning, the Why of the failure. Andrew Yang and his policies threaten the structure of our system.

How an inevitable result has been constructed will follow for anybody who might be interested.

Some of the guiding principles of how to bury a candidate who has enormous popular support will seem familiar.

#1 is Stop Legitimate Polling if you cannot get the results you need. NO large non-partisan Poll has been done in months. Instead release garbage polls and announce that other candidates are "pulling ahead." Stress the "Andrew Slipping" meme over and over.

#2 Include 8 candidates in all debates. 4 or 5 of these candidates have long been mathematically eliminated. Keeping them on the stage insures that the debates are boring and few people watch. The third and final debate in NYC takes place June 16 After Early Voting has been going on for 5 days.

#3 Report on an inflated number of Absentee Ballots. This increases the likelihood that #4 will be believable.
>#4 Announce that results in the NYC Mayoral Race will not be fully available until a month after Election Day on June 22.

NYC is, and will be, buried in a blizzard of Lies and Delays until the desired result is achieved.

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We live in a corporate oligarchy. We even have studies to prove it.
https://truthinmedia.com/princeton-study-declares-u-s-government-an-olig...

None the less I've appreciated your reporting on the race. NY, and NYC in particular, doesn't have fair elections and the 2016 primary proved that to me. The Clinton's and DNC put their hand on the scale to insure Bernie wouldn't carry NY. AL is no better.

Oh well, it is what it is. Take care and be well! Thanks for dropping by.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

@Lookout The weather is glorious. I am headed out to brunch. My balcony garden is lovely and my family are all healthy.

Have a good Sunday no matter what the truth about our state is.

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@NYCVG
It is gray with showers here, but did go down and tended the garden this AM. Gotta have rain and as summer comes on it tends to get dry as you know.

As I'm fond of saying, treasure every day.

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@NYCVG
Except for "Russian hackers fixed the election"

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

@The Voice In the Wilderness In the 2008 NYC (D) Primary in Harlem,NYC, Barack Obama did not get a single vote.

That's right. In the spritual capitol of Black culture, not one voter picked Barack Obama. Or more accurately, not one vote For Barack Obama was recorded and counted.

The same dude in charge then is part of Eric Adams campaign. You may have heard of this guy. Charlie Rangel, former NYC Congressman from Harlem.

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Obama got no votes from Harlem? Wouldn’t that have been big news at the time or was it and I’ve forgot?

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

@snoopydawg Bloomberg had a lot to say about it. "Disgrace" is what I recall.

I'll google it and see if anything remains.

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@snoopydawg https://gothamist.com/news/bloomberg-calls-undercounted-nyc-votes-an-out...

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"If you want to call it significant undercounting, I guess that's a euphemism for fraud."

Yes it is. Reading it didn’t ring any bells so I don’t think I did hear about it. So what happened in the end? Did Obama’s win stop the investigation into it? I’m not sure what to search for. But that it even happened and then it happened again sort of when Bernie supporters were kicked off the voting rolls or had their party affiliation changed on them. Next we had the Iowa debacle where it was rigged for Pete. Then we had basement Joe beating every candidate whilst he was still in his basement and video after video came out showing his mental health issues and then Obama got Pete and Amy to drop out, but Liz stayed in till after the California primary and then Clyborn (?) rigged the Pennsylvania primary and so Bernie just dropped out even though half the country hadn’t voted yet and then Biden won. Except that Trump says that he won and by golly if there weren’t a lot of hi jinx from democrat operatives before the election so who actually knows what the damn truth is or if voting even matters.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

@snoopydawg NYC itself is a sewer. That's why I am no longer documenting the Machine Macerates Yang narrative.

I will early vote on Saturday and report on that if there is anything interesting----doubtful.

Same as the month long wait for The Machine to get the result they are rigging.

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@NYCVG
Except for "Russian hackers fixed the election"

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

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As usual, a lot of content to go through and contemplate, even though some is SOS, some of us eld need the odd reminder or two as memory and/or focus slips and slides or things vanish into the maelstrom of tempus fugiting.

For the moment (now, as it were, and usually is) I'll just chime in with some musical programming for your great advert to be advertising for:

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

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@enhydra lutris

Here's one from today back atcha.
The Lucky One - Alison Krauss cover by Reina del Cid band
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gkrkjt86ow]

Have a good day!

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The whole "reward" for getting the "vaccine" makes me even more suspicious about why they want to change my RNA. I refuse to be a sheeple and get that damn emergency use protocol (not an actual vaccine, yet). I'll probably get fired from my job, but I'll scream discrimination, plus, them asking for my vaccine status is a violation of HIPPA. Anyone think of that? Not likely because everyone is just falling into line. These are interesting yet scary times.

Enjoy the day! Pleasantry

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

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are both Adenovirus based vaccines that have been used for quite awhile. However, there have been clotting and other rare issues with them as well.

Dr Kory who works in the ICU with COVID infection is just using ivermectin and hasn't been vaccinated.

Ivor Cumming explains the risks... in about 8 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiMAq9gwxpQ
I should have included it in the COVID con section above.

Take care and be happy. I don't think the jab will be mandatory, but no telling.

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whether to take any vaccine, if so, which vaccine what and whom to believe etc.

For the record however, they won't "replace your rna", they can't. You make tons of rna everyday, all kinds of rna, only a tiny portion is quasi-proprietary in that it is involved in cell division, the rest makes all kinds of proteins. They are all pretty unstable and short lived, so you churn them out as needed. The mrna based vaccines make a specific protein that is part of the virus so that your cells can learn to attack it by making antibodies that attack whatever that protein resides on.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

@Raggedy Ann unvaccinated, you must wear a mask.
However, no courtroom personnel has the right to ask you one way or another, due to HIPPA.
I fully expect lawsuits to be filed all over the country by people who have been fired for deciding to avoid the jab.
Hang in there, chica!

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@Raggedy Ann to your decision even though I made the opposite one.

This is not an approved vaccine. As you say, it is approved ONLY for emergency use.

I got the shot over with asap, which suits my psyche. Aware of the risks.

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Situation is different - according to some legal types - with things issued under EUA's (all of the currently available Covid 'vaccines') and ones that have been fully approved.

Some good resources at defendingtherepublic.org

Attorney Aaron Siri writing at Statnews

EUAs are clear: Getting these vaccines is voluntary
The same section of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that authorizes the FDA to grant emergency use authorization also requires the secretary of Health and Human Services to “ensure that individuals to whom the product is administered are informed … of the option to accept or refuse administration of the product.”

Likewise, the FDA’s guidance on emergency use authorization of medical products requires the FDA to “ensure that recipients are informed to the extent practicable given the applicable circumstances … That they have the option to accept or refuse the EUA product …”

Which would seem to be in keeping with the Nuremberg Code

Hope you will be continuing your Control Group status.

Houston Hospital Workers Suit

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@Blue Republic . Here's a video for you.
https://rumble.com/vhqjrb-critically-thinking-with-dr.-t-and-dr.-p-episo...

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Legend has it that the dock where he watched the tide roll away was right here in Sausalito.

Redding’s manager, Earl “Speedo” Sims, said that while staying at the houseboat, the singer had the genesis for “The Dock of the Bay.” He would repeat the lines “sittin’ in the morning sun, I’ll be sittin’ when the evening comes” over and over, and later add a direct mention of San Francisco in the second verse (“I left my home in Georgia / Headed for the Frisco Bay”).

I have sat on many docks in Sausalito and watched the tide roll away and roll in. A magical spot I'd love to return to some day.

On vax incentives: One answer

"I mean, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink," Last said. "And I don't think we ought to be paying people to drink. If they feel like they don't want the vaccine for whatever reason, then that's their choice. And beyond that, I don't think we ought to be handing out money to people."

Other answers:

"It just sends the wrong message because next time we have a problem, people are going to say, 'I'm not going to do that unless they pay me.'"

"incentivizing foot-dragging and rewarding procrastination."

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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@snoopydawg

while the party lasts. Same with pumping as much fuel as possible while we can.

Sitting on the dock of the bay sounds better to me.

Cedar Key FL has a large tidal flat along which is the largest shell mound left in the gulf.
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When the tide is out the roseated spoonbill browse around
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Filling up with the tide.
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Anyway a fun sitting on the dock memory for me.

So good to see you here and in the EB! Hope all is well.

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@snoopydawg @snoopydawg @snoopydawg https://youtu.be/rTVjnBo96Ug[

[videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTVjnBo96Ug]

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Every topic you mention is some hot button for me. I'll start with one thing that is sitting in my brain for a week and won't go away: so we have either built or invested in off shore labs (Black sites anyone?) but from what we've been able to piece together they are often in countries of our supposed enemies or impoverished countries where labor is cheap. We are told that China is a mortal enemy and we are planning war with them. But, oh wait, we are developing Bio-weapons (WMD?) in labs in that self same country???

Maybe our strategy is to use them by fragmenting the parts of the manipulations of biocides, so they only see parts of the desired outcomes?! The country which is masterful at reverse engineering? Someone explain this to me.

How are we going to break the lock the large investment firms have on our commerce, food, medical, news, politics...you name it?

The information this week on mega dairy farms is sickening. We have, maybe because of luck of geography in Burgundy and many adjacent regions, small farms which raise chickens, cows/beef, lambs, pigs, vegetables and fruits on small local farms. We can go to them directly, go to local weekly producers' markets where prices are lower than commercial stores or get the local egg guy's eggs at the box store for a one euro more. What can we get locally grown or made? Honey, confits/jellies such as current, blueberry, onion, figue; cheeses of unbelievable variety, sausages - same; the best hot dog relish ever; vinegars, oils (yes they push Colza, but we buy olive oil from the Mediterranean); vegetables with the dirt still on them; in December, little trucks run all over France delivering Oysters for Noël; fish in abundance (we were gifted with Trout from our own stream by a lovely fisherman this week); local lumber and iron works made to order if needed from local mills and artisan shops. It does go on.

This country has so many vestiges of local production, small industry, pastures which are marked by abundant and diverse hedgerows (bocages) and could easily be used in regenerative agriculture. Unfortunately, farmers big and small have become more reliant on Monsanto/Bayer methods - Jillets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) movement was made up of a large portion of farmers upset about Macron surcharging the use of diesel farmers rely on for farm equipment to spray, plant, harvest, haul. They don't realise how much more life they could live with regenerative ag and are resistant to change.

It is do disheartening to read and hear of Macron and his immediate predecessors bringing in the international corporations and selling off the commonwealth. It is scary and awful that someone at the political head of this fiercely independent country would be so quick to adopt US companies and wars which we seem to blindly follow into. Not sure what percentage of revenue is used for military, but lots of boots on the ground, and Mirages in the air.

And we build or fund similar labs on all sides of Russia. Proximity matters. I guess we could argue that the poor people of Bulgaria can't fight back if something leaks out, which apparently happens (frequency tbd) and has happened in the US.

Why did Obama shut US labs down (did he really?) in such a hurry. What prompted this scurrying around?

Spike protein stimulation from anti Covid shots is a wait and see proposition from what I can tell. We are in a huge stage two trial that will go on for some time. Along those lines, we got one of two orders we placed with a no rx pharmacy in Canada. Direct shipped Ivermectin from Hong Kong. We got it in ten days. We are diversifying orders but it looks like the source may be one and the same.

We went for a three mile walk in our area today, although it drizzled, it's warm. We got our two year old rubble pile made into a driveway with a circle turn around at the end. Now onto building raised garden beds and compost bins. It's been many, many years without a garden.
Homesteading in France...
[video:https://youtu.be/a0Th20LIP10]

We are getting a local version of Les Halles:
Our own butcher and his daughter doing well

Thank you so much for your information-filled OT and comments.
Edit to fix spelling and add video.

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@Dawn's Meta

We're pleased to have local grass fed meat and eggs. I buy organic grassfed whole milk at my local grocery...which is a fairly new option here. That's what I use to make yogurt.

I wish we would incentivize more local agriculture. At least some of the young folks are creating small scale farms.

As to the politics, we're caught in a global corporate cartel. Your homestead is the best antidote IMO. It is amazing how it evolves. Enjoy your journey.

Heard about some flooding in France. Hope you did get caught up in it.

Have a good one and thanks for the visit.

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@Lookout to be.

Funny enough almost all our milk and cream is irradiated for long shelf life. It's one of our goals to find local fresh cream.

We had eight inches of rain in May and June has already started with some pretty intense T-storms. Luckily our house sits one story up on a terrasse from the yard and the base of the wall the terrasse sits on is 1.6 meters above the banks of the petite rivière. Winter levels, but frogs and fish are still here. Might have wiped out a duck's nest. A Heron was walking down stream fishing the other day. But too far below our levels to even flood the yard. Now a nice warm up. Hopefully will get two 1 x 2 meter beds in and some starts from the nursery. Going to try deep bed permaculture.

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You say often very nice things about Germany, so I wonder when you have been in Germany the last time. Are your comments related to memories of times a while ago, or are they from more recent visits?

Just asking, hope you don't mind. I find Germany so different from the times I lived here, ie before reunification times. I wonder how recent your real life experiences in Germany are?

I was amused to learn that the term con has been derived of confidence. I have a lot of confidence in myself. I will call myself now the queen of confidence. /s

Have a nice remainder of a Sunday.

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@mimi

It was 2008, and it was a great trip. My Mom went with us to visit my sister in Vienna. We bought a Bavarian regional train pass and went to Ulm, Baden- Baden, and Uberlingin spending a couple of days at them all... during Xmas with the markets going and people out drinking Gluehwein. Let me tell you it is quite different than Alabama. Then it was on to Austria which we also enjoyed. On the way home we visited Regensburg which was also delightful before flying out of Munich.

So I have very fond memories of Germany.

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@Lookout
Can you imagine that I never was in Bavaria and don't know nothing about the Southern region you have been in?

All I know in Germany is Berlin (from the times there was still a wall, ie the seventies) and Hamburg (lived near Hamburg the first 18 years of my life in the fifties and sixties)

Everything else is like a foreign country to me.

hmm I want to go to film school and make a movie of my life. Smile Wish me luck, may be I am getting there.

Take care.

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@mimi

and honestly I prefer the smaller places where people seem more social and open. I once went to NYC hosted by AT&T and Bell labs during a technology workshop. Before letting out on our own they told us bumpkins, now don't look people in the eye and speak to them in the street, keep your eyes averted...especially from panhandlers.

As is often my nature, I spoke and looked at people and was greeted with welcome from most. Having a strong southern accent placed me as an novelty I guess. None the less it is a different vibe in the big city.

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@Lookout
to live in anymore. But I would commute just to go to classes. And just so you know the Bavarians and Germans in the southern regions are much more welcoming and socially open to foreigners. So, if you ever should visit the North, that's quite a different thing. You need to be born up there to 'get' their humor. I would think there is no chance you would like it like the South. I live like four minutes by car to the border between Hamburg and our most northern 'Land' (equivalent to a US state). Well, I don't want to soil my home state or my 'Free Hansestadt Hamburg', but they are a bit stiff or 'muffelig'(grumpily) ... at least so goes the saying. Unknw

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Lookout posted a link above, but I fear many will be daunted by the length (2:30) and will be tempted to find a Cliff Notes version. Please don’t do what Fauci did when he was sent a stark warning, with detailed evidence, from an infectious disease expert. He ignored it simply replied “It’s too long to read.”

The implications, past and future, of WHO and NIH refusing to consider adding Ivermectin to COVID-19 standard treatment protocols, citing a supposed lack of evidence of efficacy, points directly to a systemic failure that will continue to plague us going forward.

Hopefully the efforts of FLCCC and others who see the top down authoritarian directives that dismiss the deep reservoir of expertise of our physicians in favor of exclusively large double blind studies, like those paid for primarily by pharmaceutical giants, has already cost us very dearly.

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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."
- John Maynard Keynes

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@ovals49

I found it fascinating. As I suggested, nothing short of murder. Held hostage by big pharma.

Glad to "see" you this Sunday. Be well and have a good one!

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@Lookout
My earnest hope is that we, here in the US, will soon have an abundance of clinicians willing to write scrips for Ivermectin without fear of reprisals. In a sensible world it would be available OTC, like Tylenol, Mucinex and cold and flu remedies so that people could have it at home in the medicine cabinet for early interventions, for both prevention and treatment of milder cases that do not require hospitalization.

Sadly we are a very long way from vanquishing the “gravitational pull” that has skewed us away from anything that resembles sensible with regard to health care here in the US.

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- John Maynard Keynes

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@ovals49

Sadly we are a very long way from vanquishing the “gravitational pull” that has skewed us away from anything that resembles sensible with regard to health care here in the US.

For anyone who wants ivermectin, here's a list of Doctors who will help you...
https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/how-to-get-iverme...

All the best!

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@Lookout @Lookout I will make some calls Monday, see if I can get a supply of meds.
I checked on CDC recommendation for people with autoimmune diseases. They say take the jab, but there is no data on any side effects. Also, they invite such persons to sign up as part of the clinical trials to determine and report the side effects.

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@on the cusp
If fact I would not get a vaccine if I was highly allergic. The ivermectin has proven preventive for nurses in COVID wards.
Informed Consent: The Vaccine Safety Data You Need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1nf5Mb50eg - a little long at 45 min

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@Lookout I have allergies. Strange ones.
I wonder if all medical costs are free to people participating in the clinical trials?
Hmmm...
I will find 45 minutes to watch it and, again, thanks so much.

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@on the cusp

is confident it is preventative and uses it himself instead of getting a vaccine. Dr Merik was vaccinated but took ivermectin when he flew in a plane. He suggest using it as a preventative when in high risk situation like a crowded airplane.

Pretty good recommendations IMO.

Best of luck! Hope A & B are happy and well!

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@ovals49 is daunting, but very much worth the time. Thanks for the extra encouragement to watch.

Thanks for this as well;

The implications, past and future, of WHO and NIH refusing to consider adding Ivermectin to COVID-19 standard treatment protocols, citing a supposed lack of evidence of efficacy, points directly to a systemic failure that will continue to plague us going forward.
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I DID NOT SPEND ALL THOSE YEARS EARNING MY ACTUAL COLLEGE DEGREE IN SOCIAL STUDIES/POLI-SCI/HISTORY/PSYCHOLOGY/HUMANITIES JUST TO HAVE IT ALL NULLIFIED BY RICH FRAUDS, FAILED FRINGE CRAP FROM BEFORE I WAS BORN, AND THEIR RAINBOW-BROWNSHIRTS!

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/congratulations-elitists-liberals

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Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!

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@The Liberal Moonbat

I just finished his book Hate, Inc. Quite insightful progression of the evolution of journalism to the divisive voice it has today.

Thanks again I'll check it out.
Have a good one!

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@Lookout ...but I've been confused: Is it a book, a movie, a series of podcasts, what?

It would be nice if there were a single Michael Moore-style documentary I could just sit down and be done with after ~2 hours.

I've got a backlog of stuff like that to watch. I graduated from college at an incredibly bad time....

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WTF, double-post...?

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great roundup and all your work (once again). I've made it through both the Hedges interview (which was excellent) and the Kory interview (the long version) which should be mandatory viewing for anyone interested in our infamous pandemic. That should include a fair number of people.

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@randtntx

Glad you thought so too. Hope all is well in your world.
We've been catching the E. Texas rain remnants in spurts. Got over an inch last night in about 15 min. Newly planted sweet taters will appreciate it.

Good to "see" you this morning. Have a good one!

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