A Western Ship of Fools

Sailing on a Sea of Corruption

Why do you think Biden (et al) are so desperate to get more of our money to a failed proxy war in Ukraine? Think it might be the 10% for the big guy? I also heard much of the money comes back to DC to fund the Ukraine lobby, and therefore our representatives. Sounds about right. It is a similar phenomenon in Gaza with the Zionist literally owning the US government. Add in the utter incompetence of our administration from the top down. So here we are mired in unnecessary conflicts with no foreseeable escape. I thought Larry did a good job describing our predicament.

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We have been manipulated in many subtle ways to accept our situation. One of the biggest psyops in my lifetime was the COVID debacle. Dr John speaks with an Australian psychologist.
COVID Psychological Manipulation: Unpacked (1.3 hours)
Ros Nealon-Cook, a psychologist from Australia, had her license suspended for sounding the alarm about the harms to children from government pandemic policy. Ros has joined forces with a number health professionals from around the world who were similarly censored and silenced. Together, they have created The Cape Byron Lighthouse Declaration to raise awareness about the widespread propaganda and censorship of expert scientific opinion. You can read and sign the declaration here: www.lighthousedeclaration.world

I produced a documentary about the German Corona Expert Council and Corona measures regime, which was released in German three weeks ago. I synchronized the film in English because I believe that Germany should serve as a deterrent example. While Sweden, for example, took the path of sense of proportion and reason, Germany chose the path of escalation – the path of a crackdown on the basic rights of citizens, the path towards an irreversible division of society.
Full documentary here.

These same sort of manipulations are used to make us accept endless war, crumbling infrastructure, mass migrations, homelessness, and so on.

The narrative control is deep and intertwined.
Everything You Need to Know about the Government’s Mass Censorship Campaign (1 hour)

The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. "What I’m describing is military rule," says Mike Benz. "It’s the inversion of democracy."
At about the 30 min mark he suggests COVID and election fraud were the two most censored topics. He reminds me of Whitney Webb in terms of encyclopedic knowledge.
Foundation For Freedom Online

Chris Hedges: The Collapse of US Media is Accelerating Our Political Crisis
A third of all US newspapers have permanently closed, the industry is hemorrhaging reporters, and private equity and Big Tech are to blame.

From Censorship to Criminalizing Dissent (Jeffrey Tucker)

A major battle is brewing throughout the Western world over the basic principle of free speech. Is it going to be protected by law? It’s not entirely clear what the outcome will be. We seem to be on the precipice of a potential calamity if the courts don’t decide the right way. Even if we squeak out a victory, the question is already in play. Our free speech rights have never been more fragile. Turn your attention to France right now. In the dead of night, a new law slipped through the General Assembly that would make it a crime to criticize mRNA shots. Critics call it the Pfizer law. It calls for fines up to 45,000 euros and possibly three years in prison for debunking an approved medical treatment. Like all Western nations, criticism of the mRNA platform has already been subjected to vast social-media censorship. Even given this, there has been a major and global consumer turn against these shots. People are not convinced that they are necessary, safe, or effective. Still, government imposed mandates for everyone, billions of people worldwide.

How can you help but know the media is manipulated when they all read from the same script...
TV Liberals Repeat EXACT SAME SCRIPT To Defend Biden’s Dementia! (12-15 min)
Ever since the Hur Report came out, determining that Joe Biden could not be charged with criminal mishandling of classified documents because his memory is shot and no jury would convict, the liberal media class has closed ranks to defend the President and insist that he’s as sharp and incisive as ever, and allegations suggesting otherwise are all a right-wing plot.

"Tesla CEO Elon Musk has claimed that his foray into social media – buying the former Twitter (since renamed X) and trying to make it a bastion of free speech – made him and all of his businesses targets for constant attacks by governments and their censorship allies. “The public still doesn’t understand even a tiny fraction of the power of the censorship-government-industrial complex,” Musk said on Friday in a post on X. “As predicted, my companies and I came under relentless attack the moment the censorship of this platform was lifted. How far will they go to stop me?” The US billionaire made the comments in response to a post by podcast host David Sacks, who warned that “regime Democrats” are working every day to undermine Americans’ free-speech rights and freedom from political persecution."

"New reporting suggests the lengths the US deep state went to to undermine former US President Donald Trump. Since 2016, Democratic Party officials have accused former US President Donald Trump of illegally colluding with the Russian government as part of the discredited “Russiagate” narrative. Now, it appears such claims may represent a case of projection on the part of Trump’s critics. That’s the takeaway from a bombshell report by “Twitter Files” journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger this week that suggests that CIA officials under former US President Barack Obama worked through English-speaking intelligence partners to spy on Trump’s presidential campaign. The report alleges that the CIA under intelligence chief John Brennan worked with Five Eyes intelligence partners to circumvent legal restrictions against domestic spying by the agency. Five Eyes is an alliance of intelligence agencies in the United States, the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand."

"Three separate prosecutors reportedly met with White House aides before indicting former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden’s political opponent. The reported meetings suggest a coordinated attack against Biden’s 2024 rival. If coordination occurred, it lends credence to Trump’s belief that the indictments are election interference. The timing of the indictments are peculiar. After Trump announced a reelection bid against Biden, four indictments hit Trump in four separate jurisdictions, each following revelations about the Biden family business. In three cases, prosecutors reportedly met with the Biden administration before indicting Trump:
Alvin Bragg: New York – “Stormy Daniels” Case (state)
Jack Smith: Miami – “Documents” Case (federal)
Fani Willis: Fulton County, Georgia (state)"

The judgment against Trump (and his family and associates) was met with a level of unrestrained celebration by many in New York that bordered on the indecent. Attorney General Letitia James declared not only that Trump would be barred from doing business in New York for three years, but that the damages would come to roughly $460 million once interest was included.
...the court admitted that not a single dollar was lost by the banks from these dealings. Indeed, witnesses testified that they wanted to do more business with Trump, who was described as a “whale” client with high yield business opportunities.
...The impact on New York business is likely to be dire. New York is already viewed as a hostile business environment, with the top end of its tax base literally heading south as taxes and crime rises. This draconian award is only going to deepen concerns over the arbitrary application of the law

It's lawfare plain, simple, and obvious to anyone but those with severe TDS.

Meanwhile the Biden crime family isn't getting much press.
She’s EXPOSING the Bidens’ Ukraine corruption and massive COVER-UP (25 min)
Stunning new details have emerged in the Biden family corruption in Ukraine. Newly revealed audio recordings and documents provide supporting evidence implicating Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden and Secretary of state Antony Blinken in widespread corruption in Ukraine. Journalist and Attorney Simona Papadopoulos just broke this story and she joins us to discuss the details.
Documentation here

Crank up the propaganda machine!
Liberal financier George Soros has bought a major stake in the US’ second-largest radio company and could gain “effective control” of more than 220 stations across the country, the New York Post reported on Wednesday.
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Soros is an advocate for mass immigration to Western countries, European federalism, and economic and political liberalism. He was the largest donor of the 2022 US midterm election season, funneling $128 million to Democratic candidates and organizations.
The idea is to flood these stations with pro-dem nonsense in hopes it will swing the election.

Speed. . . and. . . Action (Jim Kunstler)
Have you noticed yet that America has turned into a Coen Brothers movie? Everywhere you look, you see madcap characters disgracing themselves while doing their bit to burn the whole country down. It’s a panoramic extravaganza of everything gone wrong, with slapstick overtones, driving toward an apocalyptic climax — civil war, nuclear war, economic collapse, maybe all three. And all because the people on-screen just can’t stop lying.

Axis of Resistance: from Donbass to Gaza (Pepe Escobar)
“Scratch the veneer of who’s in power in Kiev and Tel Aviv, and who pulls their strings, and you will find the same puppet masters controlling Ukraine, Israel, the US, the UK, and nearly all NATO members..”

Transcending Adveevka (Pepe Escobar)
In a very special conversation with Alexander Dugin (36 min), we both made it clear, directly and indirectly, that the working classes of Novorossiya are spiritual brothers of the oppressed in Palestine and Yemen. Yes, the Axis of Resistance in West Asia is mirrored by the Slavic Axis of Resistance in the black soil of the steppes. As much as Russia may have been drawn to a civilizational war against the collective West, that is also a spiritual war. The proxy war by the Hegemon against Russia in Ukraine is as much a geopolitical gamble as a war of Western nihilism against Russian Orthodoxy. I did mention the parallel between Orthodox Christianity and Shi’ism to a top commander; he may have been bemused, but he definitely got the message. After all, he must have instinctively noticed it was the rejected, harassed and bombed in Orthodox Christianity and Islam who have re-awakened the Orthodox and Islamic civilizations for a transcendental war of survival – supported by faith.

Jeffery Sachs had several interesting interviews this week
Giving a nice succinct (15 min) recount of our ongoing conflicts...
Jeffrey Sachs Tears Apart Biden's Ukraine/Israel Catastrophes
On and on the conflicts go...

Putin's message to the west
(30 min...the Alex's go on for another hour with Q&A, but the time with Jeffery is best)

I also enjoyed Jeff's discussion with the Judge on the CIA.
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: Does The CIA Destabilize the World?
(29 min) Article here.

This week I heard two excellent interviews with Chas Freeman. The first with an Asian view.
Israel REJECTS Hamas Deal w/Chas Freeman fmr US ambassador / Defense Dept (40 min)
The second focuses on NATO.
Cracks in the NATO Narratives and NATO Unity - Chas Freeman, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen (1.2 hours)

With all the censorship and manipulation it is nice to have trusted sources...
Kim Dotcom: Zelenskyy released a helpful guide on who to follow if you want to learn the truth about the failing US proxy war in Ukraine. He calls it pro-Russian disinformation but he’s just angry that these experts constantly reveal the truth about how badly Ukraine and the West are losing.

How interesting these are the people we watch and reference.

Of course going directly to the source is best...
Listening To What He Says
"He" of course, being Vladimir Putin, (and Lavrov and other Russian officials ...)

Throwing Good Money After Bad in Ukraine?
Ray McGovern and Lawrence Wilkerson argue the U.S. should accept that no amount of U.S. funding will change Russia’s will and means to prevail in Ukraine.

They Finally Killed Navalny ...The creation of this news item was suspiciously well timed ...

In a short period of time, within two hours (from 14:19), Western politicians and the media at their side were able, as it were, to obtain the results of a forensic examination that had not yet been carried out, conduct an investigation, blame Moscow and render a verdict. There is no other explanation other than the fact that all these reactions were prepared in advance. [..] “We might be able to believe in this incredible, miraculous speed if the whole world had not just watched the helpless ‘investigation’ of terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipeline that stretched out over many months and turned up empty,” the ministry added.

Alex does a good job discussing the death...
There is some suggestion this is yet another blood clot death (7 min) resulting from the mRNA vaccines.

Gaza and Western Asia...

ICJ Hearings to Examine 57 Years of Israeli Occupation of Palestine
"Decades of injustice will finally face scrutiny," said U.N. human rights official Francesca Albanese ahead of next week's Hague hearings on the legal consequences of Israel's illegal occupation.
These hearings and rulings at least bring global awareness.

Bombing Muslims for Peace (Bill Astore)

Right now, of course, the world is witnessing yet another U.S. bombing campaign, the latest in a series that seems all too predictable (and futile), meant to teach the restless rebels of Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and possibly even Iran a lesson when it comes to messing with the United States of America.
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Yes, America’s presidents, its bombers-in-chief, are indeed appeasers. Of course, they think they’re being strong when they’re blowing distant people to bits, but their actions invariably showcase a distinctive kind of weakness. They eternally seek to appease the military-industrial-congressional complex, aka the national (in)security state, a complex state-within-a-state with an unappeasable hunger for power, profit, and ever more destruction. They fail and fail and fail again in the Middle East, yet they’re incapable of not ordering more bombing, more droning, more killing there.

These endless war have real consequences...

Opinion: I’m an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn’t war — it was annihilation

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 133: Israel Cuts Electricity to Critical Nasser Hospital Patients, Forces Staff to Evacuate

How about a bit of possibly good news?
An overwhelming majority in the Australian parliament has voted to request that charges against Julian Assange be dropped and that he be allowed to return to his native country. The UK high court will hold hearings next week on whether Assange can continue to argue his case against extradition to the US, where he faces 175 years in prison.

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Control the Food, Control the People

Global Elites have DECLARED WAR on Farmers and Food Production (14 min)
Farmers in France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain are parking trucks and tractors in major cities in protest of regulations destroying their industry. In this video, Glenn Beck explains the real reason driving farmers to extreme protests. It all leads back to a potentially deadly redesign for how we get our food, and it’s laid out in documents from the European Commission. But this redesign doesn’t stop in Europe. Biden’s Build Back Better plan and the Inflation Reduction Act include actions that will impact farmers, ranchers, and grocery bill and food options for every American.

JRE What Happened With Farmer Protests In Europe? (8 min)

The great irony is that grazing animals can improve climate.
Roots So Deep: How can regenerative grazing benefit climate and biodiversity? (40 min)
The sound is lousy when he cuts to his film. He interviews several farmers including Teddy and Randy here nearby on the mountain. The team of scientists are comparing conventional vs regenerative practices. - Peter Byck, Professor of Practice, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures, Arizona State University
The data he provides is outstanding on a number of levels...not just carbon sequestration and water retention, but wildlife benefits and increased ecosystem diversity.

Cows in the Woods: What it Takes to Create a Silvopasture (6.7 min)

How do you transform land overgrown with invasive shrubs and weeds into a shade-dappled pasture perfect for managed grazing? Find out how Butler Grassfed Beef in Spring Green, Wis., created a silvopasture for its cows in a move that benefits farmers, water quality, our climate and our animals. Silvopasture is the practice of integrating trees & forage plants into livestock pastures. Keeping the farmland covered with perennial plants and trees holds carbon in the soil, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It also minimizes soil erosion and nutrient runoff, keeping nearby waterways healthier.

And for any homesteading nerds this is a fun - but long (2.7 hour)- interview with Joel Salatin by Justin Rhodes.
Joel Salatin on Breaking Out of Conventionality, Community Building, Alternate Food Systems
Joel is creating a MAG .. mutual assistance group within his community. Couldn't be a bad idea to get to know your neighbors and community members. I watched/listened in three doses and enjoyed it all.

And for your entertainment, a four star movie. Vivien Leigh and Simone Signoret headline a stellar cast in the acclaimed drama about German exiles who are not allowed to anchor at American ports.

It is 2.5 hours. We watched it over a couple of evenings.
Plot summary...1933: An ocean liner belonging to a second-rate German company is making a twenty-six day voyage from Veracruz, Mexico to Bremerhaven, Germany. Along the way it will stop in Cuba to pick up a large group of Spanish farm laborers who are being shipped home and who will be housed like cattle in steerage. There it will also pick up La Condesa, a Spanish countess. It will stop in Tenerife, where the farm workers will disembark and where La Condesa will be sent to a German-run prison for her "traitorous" activities in Cuba.

Well, I've certainly run on too long. Lots of stories I didn't get to cover, but maybe you can add them in the comments. Have a wonderful Sunday!