By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you. Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor…
– Ezekiel 28: 15-17
To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Originator of God’s creation. I know your deeds; you are neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were one or the other! So because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to vomit you out of My mouth! You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
– Revelation 3:14-17
It’s been said the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn’t exist. And, subsequently, perhaps the next greatest deception ever perpetrated on earth occurred when Fractional Reserve Banking was invented to create money out of nothing. Bubbles are created from thin air; as are the dreams of those who measure wealth by the fading fumes of fiat currency.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once said: “The facts of life are conservative.” By definition, “facts” are real. Therefore, Thatcher’s quote could also be translated as: The realities of life are conservative.
Typically, conservatives do, in fact, try to live according to values and principles that have sustained people through the centuries: by telling the truth, acting honestly, producing more than they spend, saving for a “rainy day”, living on a budget, and fairly giving back to their communities by paying taxes and practicing charity.
It should also be acknowledged that “old school” members of the U.S. Democratic Party, like those who would have supported John F. Kennedy six decades ago, would be considered as “conservative right-wingers” by those Americans embracing “woke” ideology today.
It’s been true throughout history that most of those who have upheld conservative values have believed in God, and the Devil, and that the conception of evil exists in reality. Even conservatives not as… shall we say…divinely inclined, will still acknowledge the hard realities of truth and falsehood as well as the manifestations of evil in human interaction.
But, what is evil, really? In nature, when a predator devours its prey, is that evil? No, of course not. That is merely nature – the cycle of life. Animals have no moral code, or value system, beyond survival. They cannot be judged or blamed for striving to survive. They are, after all, just animals.
What about humans? Well, that’s different. Humans have the ability to discern and overcome, their baser instincts. They have an innate consciousness that can comprehend the past, the present, and the future. Or, stated another way, human ideation transcends time. But that’s not all. Humans have the ability to pair both actual and imagined consequences to linear, and cyclical, time. This is called logic, or reason: If this, then that; or when this, then that.
Certainly, in ancient times, mankind’s ability to reason and apply logic was utilized in the pursuit of survival and self-defense. And, as history progressed, rocks and clubs gave way to catapults and edged weapons that were, eventually, upgraded into bombs and firearms.
In the earliest days, from the time of the first fires, there were those who most valued the means of war and plunder to survive and, obviously, there were others who more favored fairness, justness, and law as better ways to live, peaceably, with one another. And both war and peace have existed alternately, and simultaneously, in diverse places throughout history.
Furthermore, manifestations of good and evil have always coexisted in either circumstance of war or peace.
For example, fighting to defend innocents against a tyrannical aggressor is not evil, per se. But obsequiously accepting a peace accord with the same aggressor out of cowardice, apathy, sloth, greed, or even pragmatism, could be considered as evil by some.
But what if the tyrannical aggressor and the populations being infringed upon were all evil in different ways and varying degrees?
What then?
1 a : morally reprehensible : sinful, wicked an evil impulse b : arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct
2 a : inferior b : causing discomfort or repulsion : offensive c : disagreeable
3 a : causing harm : pernicious
Like a snake consuming its own tail, and expanding into a skin-tight balloon of its own digestive gases, the Creature from Jekyll Island has grown through the cannibalism of Fractional Reserve Banking. As a result, Americans have been consumed on their ancestral lands. The manufacturing capabilities of the United States have been decimated, as wars were funded around the globe, as the citizenry was dumbed down, as governmental welfare programs were expanded, and as the populace was lulled into deceptive dreams via the financial acquisition and consolidation of the nation’s media outlets and entertainment venues.
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Consequently, over the last several decades, Americans have abandoned their vigilance to the founding principles which once made America great. These principles included the affirmation of rights derived from natural law, discernment, modesty, wisdom, common sense, honesty, morality, self-reliance, equality of opportunity as opposed to equality of outcomes, fiscal responsibility, and limited government.
But, to the global financial elite vying for the downfall of the United States in order to establish a New World Order, the very survival of those administering the Great Reset Agenda is dependent upon the elimination of those who would fight to uphold conservative principles; ergo, history has rhymed once again as Marxism rears its ugly head.
And, during this Fourth Turning, there will be no compromise for those who will not compromise.
Therefore, pursuant to the above musings, here are some additional facts to consider:
A.) To ensure the survival and prosperity of the global financial elite, secret and outright warfare against populations around the world has been waged
B.) As a result of being willingly and slothfully deceived, morally depraved, or out of cowardice, apathy, greed, or pragmatism, the masses have mostly acquiesced to the societal aggressions perpetrated by the financial elite
C.) At the very least, the masses are deemed as useful and disposable, by the financial elite; and, at most, the masses are considered an outright threat from the Malthusian perspective of the eye peering from behind the top of the world’s economic pyramid
D.) Significant percentages of populations around the world, in their current status, will not survive the forthcoming economic and societal cataclysms brought on by the financial elite’s war to transition the world into a global technocratic dictatorship
E.) Once a global technocratic dictatorship has completely assumed power, it will be almost impossible to fight back effectively and win from a worldly survival standpoint; at least in the near term
F.) Given the course of global events, and especially in America over the past 62 years, it appears the global technocratic dictatorship has already fully completed its consolidation of power
G.) The global technocratic dictatorship will eventually collapse due to outside forces brought to bear from beyond the technocracy’s ever-tightening circle of control; and, as stated heretofore, because the realities of life are conservative
In every story, throughout history, there are heroes and villains and, today, these are determined by one’s worldview according to their placement on a spectrum of ideological extremes: Between viewing Survival of the Fittest and Nietzsche’s “Will to Power” as the highest ideals of The Collective… or… on the other side of the scale, those who would cling to eternal principles, like individual rights, truth, and liberty, even unto death. And then, in the middle, of course, are those floundering in the amorphous fog of relativism and apathy; blown about by the prevailing winds of time.
If the Devils that Don’t Exist in the Minds of Most can make people act upon deception, then the same devils will control the reality of those who remain asleep and dreaming:
Through the deception of endlessly printing paper currency, or by generating perceived wealth through digital bits, people believe they are rich when they are not.
Even though heart disease is more fatal to populations than Covid-19, the globalists are manipulating the fear of a virus, with a 99.8% survival rate, into a worldwide medical dictatorship. This is because pandemics are more effectively politicized by political leftists in order to steal elections, lock down societies, and coerce experimental medical procedures.
Accordingly, the World Health Organization (WHO) began public hearings on April 12, 2022 for a proposed global pandemic treaty. The plan, of course, is to annul national sovereignty and cancel democracy around the world. Therefore, the proposal being advanced by the WHO is not whether such an instrument should be implemented, but rather, what should be included in the forthcoming treaty.
Here is the exact question put forth by the WHO to start the “discussion” on this planned monstrosity:
What substantive elements do you think should be included in a new international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response?
In every deception devised by those facilitating the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset Agenda, the premises are always assumed so the outcome of any public discussion or debate is a fait accompli.
The same tactic has been used to frame the narratives on the January 6th “insurrection” and to propagandize the Russian “invasion” of Ukraine. Even though the insurrection was more of a small riot and the invasion is, instead, a tactical military operation specifically targeting neo-Nazis in Ukraine, it doesn’t matter: The premises have been established, the narratives propagandized, and the deceptions activated in the hive-mind of The Collective.
Now, it appears the January 6th and Ukraine war narratives are being combined to specifically target those in America and Europe who would oppose the New World Order. It is a de facto new war on terror; except, this time, the war is “domestic”:
While January 6th was used to equate support for former President Donald Trump with neo-Nazism and white supremacism, recent articles that have followed Russia’s recent military campaign against Ukraine deliberately link this “Putin as Hitler” narrative with US Republicans. US conservatives have long been the focus of “domestic terror” fear-mongering over the past several years (They are also, incidentally, the majority of gun owners).
…The coming “global white supremacist” terror threat, if we are to believe our unusually prescient intelligence officials, appears to be the “next thing” to befall the world as the Covid crisis wanes.
It also appears that the CIA has crowned itself the midwife and chosen Ukraine as the birthplace of this new “terror threat,” one which will create not only the next proxy war between US empire and its adversaries, but also the pretext to launch the “War on Domestic Terror” in North America and Europe…
The money changers took control in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve banking system. Since then, elite bankers have funded opposing sides at war around the globe as well as the government agencies that established the existing modern networks of surveillance and control worldwide. Power was consolidated through the Bretton Woods system which allowed elite bankers economic control over entire nations.
Two twentieth-century American presidents, Eisenhower and Kennedy, respectively, warned of a Military Industrial Complex that has operated at the whims of secret societies.
JFK was killed; Nixon shocked America into removing the USD from the gold standard and government agencies, behind-the-scenes, have facilitated world events as public consent is manufactured by the “mockingbird” media.
Premises are dictated today, in lieu of being debated, because the Devils that Don’t Exist in the Minds of Most own the corporations that are the mainstream media.
Kennedy was killed by a lone assassin, living fetuses in the womb are mere clumps of cells, computers were created by Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and not via government-funded operations, 911 occurred by Arabs with box-cutters, Saddam possessed WMD, TARP saved the economy, Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg and the not the CIA, a politician who had previously acknowledged his birth in Kenya was made U.S. President, Donald Trump surprised the establishment in 2016, media-driven Trump conspiracies were real and not reality-TV, COVID-19 derived from bats in a Chinese wet market, Big Pharma values health over profit, NIH Director Anthony Fauci genuinely cares about the well-being of Americans, the 2020 Presidential election was the most secure in history, January 6th was an “insurrection”, and the current conflict in Ukraine began in early 2022.
And for those who believe Trump can make America great again starting in 2024, or that Elon Musk will make Twitter a bona fide free speech platform, they should wake up and read the words of the late comedian George Carlin and the former musician Frank Zappa:
It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it… And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes every day. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
– George Carlin
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
– Frank Zappa
Carlin described what has been occurring for decades. Zappa foresaw what is happening now.
The objective of the Devil that Doesn’t Exist in the Minds of Most is global dominion, and nothing less. But for the political and economic “beast” behind the new religion to achieve that goal, it must first completely subjugate or destroy the final remnants of formerly free nations, the U.S. constitution, and liberty-minded citizens across the globe.
This means war is escalating in the American red states. It has been declared outright and will gain momentum in the 2022 Midterm Elections, if not before. Initially, attempts will be made to alter election outcomes in ways similar to what happened in the 2020 Presidential Election; and, if New World Order politicians are declared to be victorious, legitimately or illegally, tyranny will follow – exactly like what has occurred since 2020; particularly, as seen in blue-state districts.
But even if attempts fail to buy, or steal, red-state elections there will be other global measures in place and ready to launch such as the previously mentioned, and forthcoming, WHO pandemic treaty.
The objectives of the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” agenda are these: To install a worldwide technocracy through biosecurity measures, medical passports, digital currency, and a totalitarian social credit system; and the WHO pandemic treaty will likely serve as the framework for a high-tech communist control grid, right on schedule, before the next “plandemic”.
Yes, the same Devils that Don’t Exist in the Minds of Most have magically loaded trillions of unpayable debt onto taxpayers, funded wars around the globe, and bioengineered a virus that may have resulted in the death of someone you knew or loved… are now planning to evaluate, and control, you and your loved ones by a social and economic credit score.
Certainly, with any serious evaluation of the political, societal, medical, or economic metrics today, it will reveal collectivist tyranny as trending. Therefore, absent any viable national political leadership to uphold genuine conservative values, what can be done by those who would resist the New World Order?
Here are some ideas:
For those who haven’t done so yet, decide the most advantageous place to live before the real action starts, and move there. Or, as the realtors like to say: “Location. Location. Location.”
The word “courage” is said to derive from “encourage”. Perhaps, this is because courage is not typically innate… but, rather, instilled within us from others. With that in mind, it would be ideal to be surrounded by like-minded, and capable, friends and family in the coming days – along with access to water sources and the means to grow food. Even the art of sprouting can be mastered by those residing in urban areas
Consider transitioning fiat cash into real, useable goods now. Close out retirement accounts if necessary, since they will be worthless soon; and even if some value transfers into the new economic system, sooner or later, investors will be required to sell their body, soul, or both, to retrieve their hard-won treasure.
Purchase, and personally possess, some actual precious metals that have been refined by the fires of history.
Acquire the knowledge and means for self-defense, and offense, as well; because quite likely, when the time comes, some future decisions will need to be made under the threat of violence. For an honest realist in such circumstances, the choices may then involve the following four “F” scenarios below – and while understanding survival is never guaranteed: Death comes for everyone, in time.
1.) Flight (avoidance)
2.) Fifty-Fifty (agreement/bargaining)
3.) Fold (surrender)
4.) Fight (engagement)
Regarding # 1, there aren’t many places left to run; at least, not for long. Regarding # 2, those who smile at liars demean themselves… and in current world circumstances, many liars won’t negotiate when they believe they hold all the cards, so to speak; and, especially, while lying to themselves. Regarding # 3… well… this is not likely an option for many, if not most, who are now reading these words.
So that leaves # 4; and all the while trying hard not to be evil.
Food for thought.
#5 and the most important for the times ahead.
“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.”
John 3:5-7
150 some house republicans voted to send Ukraine $40 billion in aid. GAME-SET-MATCH! The United States is fucking OVER!!!! There is no turning back. Prepare accordingly… Chip
The government made a big hullabullu about saving the post office by funding 10 billion over 10 years while they spend 4 times in an instant to virtue signal and send money to their fellow thieves.
I really hoped to be born of the Spirit, but seem to have been instead born of humans. But I am aware that the human I was born, and remain, has the Spirit of God within it.
I was “born of the water” (I guess) when I was Baptized as an infant, thus being born twice in quick succession, once in sin, and then purified by the water.
Should I be baptized again? God knows I’ve sinned, and so do I.
There seem to be several ways, according to Jesus, that are each the only way to have a chance of eternal life with God. I’ve been working hard at loving God with all my heart and mind, and trying to love “my neighbor” as myself, trying a combination of works and faith…
Do you think being baptized again would help?
Wideguy;
Did you choose to be baptized?
As an infant, no.
Full immersion was Jesus’ route, and He was without sin.
Once as a child, Lutheran. Once as a teen, Greek Orthodox.
Would take volumes to chart my course. Looooong story. No different than anyone else i suppose, just details.
Due for my last one soon. NEVER going to be a vegetarian (knock on wood), struggle still with snuff, otherwise ‘clean’ for quite some time. Some ‘Different’ to me practices, like foot washing before Communion, But i have really taken a liking to 7th Day. Strictly by the Book.
Again, Doug Batchelor is phenomenal IMHO
Certainly couldn’t hurt, You are obviously sincere.
“…I’ve been working hard at loving God with all my heart and mind, and trying to love “my neighbor” as myself, trying a combination of works and faith…”
Works and faith. Can’t have one without the other. And the notable metric by which we can check our selves, according to the Bible, is this:
…are we increasing in faith? Are we making progress, as the Bible counts progress? Perfection can never be attained by man, but a man who works out his own salvation in fear and trembling is a man who is in motion toward the image of Christ.
ALL men are in motion. Some towards being remade in His image…
…the rest in that other direction.
Strive for increase in all that is good. No matter if progress is slow and no matter the occasional backsliding.
Always be fighting.
When I gained Faith in God, it was total, so I don’t understand what “increasing in faith” means.
I don’t expect to be remade in God’s image, that happened the first go-round. My hope is to be reunited with God.
Jesus talking to Nicodemus!!! “Born of Water” is not about a baptism. Read the context carefully and you will understand its talking about the natural birth -born of water, we are in a sack water before birth, a woman knows labor has started when the “water breaks”. Hope that helps. The conversation contrast the natural birth from a woman and the spiritual birth by the Holy Spirit.
Hi Wideguy. It sounds like you are sincerely reaching to know the true God through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. No church membership or good works will save you, only faith in the Lord Jesus as the sinless, perfect sacrifice for our sin according to God’s Word, the Bible.
May I make a suggestion? Read the Gospel of John and find a Bible teaching church where the pastor can visit with you about your questions and listen to what you are sharing from your heart. God loves you and wants you to inherit eternal life, and is certainly calling you.( See John 6:44). I am praying for you!
No Molly, I am not. To me Jesus is a prophet of God, and a special one, but that’s all.
How does it go? “Works without Faith are empty, Faith without works is dead”?
If you think faith alone is enough, good luck to you.
No, I am not an adherent of Islam.
Yes. ‘Infant baptism’ is nowhere to be found in the Bible, and CANNOT be ‘for the remission of sins’ , as babies cannot sin; they know not of right and wrong at that point.
Immersion baptism , for the remission of sins, is necessary. The Bible is clear on this , in spite of many claiming otherwise. [see Acts 2:38, Mark 16:16, 1 peter 3:21, Luke 3:3 and many more] The fact that you realise your mistakes, admit them, and are working towards righting yourself – as we all must do – shows sincerity and contriteness. Complete the task my friend!
I’ll think about it. It makes sense to me that it is necessary to realize your sins and admit them, and avoid repeating them, or falling into new ways of sin, but I’m not really convinced they will be washed away by total immersion in water.
When the weather warms up a bit, I’ll go down to the river and give it a try.
Good for you not being convinced cause its false doctrine. The only prerequisite to receive the Holy Spirit baptism is Rom: 10:9,10. You can look it up yourself. Praise the Lord!
That’s Paul speaking in Romans? I’d rather go by what Jesus said about it.
Wideguy,
You are defiantly on the narrow path brother…good for you buddy!
Acts 2:38
John water Baptized ppl for remission of sins before the Holy Spirit was available. Jesus never baptised anyone and the scripture is clear as to why. The day of Pentecost 3000 ppl were “Born Again” and received the Holy Spirit. Water Baptism had nothing to do with it. Peter was not speaking about the Jewish tradition of John the baptist. He was speaking to the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
John 1:33
And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Spirit.
Acts 1:5
For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days hence.
Acts 2:38Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
The scripture is clear about water baptism but your understanding of it is flawed due to false teaching and religious man made denominational doctrine. With all due respect you are in error Luke.
Is below what you are saying?
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” Is your faith in a physical act (being baptized) or in the finished work of Christ on the cross?”
Is this perhaps what luke2236 is referring to as far as “complete the task”?
https://www.gotquestions.org/baptism-Mark-16-16.html
I only use this as an example of understanding. The link references numerous other Bible verses on the matter.
Yes
The b a p t i s m you seeking is pictured as a resurrection which involves a death [ separation ].
I’ve noticed that the great delusion is upon us. The Lawlessness is loose upon the world.
2 Thessalonians 2:10:
They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
Don’t forget the entire chapter of Romans I
Romans 9 is often overlooked by pastors in sermons.
Psalm 31
This is my goto after Romans 8 31…
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2091&version=NIV
Praise the Lord for BibleGateway.
God’s grace, everlasting.
I wonder where you heard that ?
Geez RevTKS, that sounds exactly like something Satan would do, the creating a powerful delusion thing.
Well, all I get is the mouth breathers for responses…so that will all from me. Enjoy Stucky.
I hope you didn’t think I doubted that the Bible says God will try to delude everyone, but really, who could resist believing a delusion sent to them by God? Why would God do it, when Satan is already so capable of the same thing?
Thank You so very much for your efforts, Courage to put yourself out there for our enlightenment. Always spot on. May God shield and protect You. And also for a new bookmark,
https://thetollonline.com/
So much for paradise or a pot of gold at the end of the rocket thrust
It looks like the availability and price of diesel fuel could be what will cause the thousands of smaller cracks in the dam to finally burst wide open.
The only good news is we made it to spring still relatively intact.
If we make it to winter the energy and food availability and costs will make it a doosey!
My prediction for late 2022 and 2023.
PAIN.
Prepare while you still can.
Come quickly Lord Jesus.
There is only two ways out of our impending worldwide doom.
Up and out via rapture or death, the easier way, or
In and through, the really hard way.
Both require a personal saving relationship with Father God by grace through faith in His only begotten Son, Jesus.
Otherwise only judgement and eternal damnation awaits.
Heck of a chip shot there!
That looks pretty fake.
Can’t be. Everything on the internet is real.
Right, fantasy is a real thing, but it remains real fantasy.
Bible thumpers are out in force again…the platform is now a Bible study group and commenting is nothing more than out-scripturing each other.
“This means war is escalating in the American red states.”
Conservatives will be brought back in line via jingoism , because my country tis’ of thee… just as Lindbergh and the America First movement prior to entrance in WWII was. Bet on it.
Ecclesiastes 1:9
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
” It is now two years since this latest European war began. From that day in September, 1939, until the present moment, there has been an over-increasing effort to force the United States into the conflict.
That effort has been carried on by foreign interests, and by a small minority of our own people; but it has been so successful that, today, our country stands on the verge of war.”
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/americanfirst/speech.asp
And here we go again… All aboard for WWIII
Washington sought to portray a united front against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine Monday as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan measure to reboot the World War II-era “lend-lease” program, which helped defeat Nazi Germany, to bolster Kyiv and Eastern European allies.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/us/2022/05/09/biden-signs-ukraine-lend-lease-bill-in-rejoinder-to-putin.html
Same as it always was…
From the Preface
My reason for writing this book is very simple: I would like to keep the record straight. I want to put in permanent form. the full story of my experiences as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russians during the war, when I served for two crucial years, from May 1942 to Lune 1944, both at Newark Airport and at the big air base at Great Falls, Montana.
I went into the Army as a businessman in my forties and a veteran of World War I. From the first, as my story shows, I worked wholeheartedly on behalf of the Russians because, like everyone else, I considered it my duty to do so. That they were satisfied with my efforts is indicated by the fact that it was Colonel Kotikov, head of the Russian mission at Great Falls, who requested my promotion to Major.
But the tremendous volume of Lend-Lease material going through under “diplomatic immunity,” the infiltration of SOviet agents through the Pipeline, the shipments of non- supplies and even military secrets, were more than I could stomach. I finally protested through proper channels, first in Great Falls, and then in Washington; nothing happened. This was in 1944, while I was still in the Army.
https://archive.org/details/FromMajorJordansDiaries1952Signed/mode/2up?q=from+major+jordan%27s+diaries
“bipartisan measure to reboot the World War II-era”
I pledge allegiance to the Flag
of the Great Reset
and for the Oligarchy for which it stands:
one Corporatocracy under Central Control , incorrigible,
with servitude and complacency for all.
We have to fight to preserve muh democracy in the Ukraine…reeeeee
Chip Roy Goes NUCLEAR On The Huge $40 Billion Ukraine Bill
I would maybe make it complacency and servitude (that follows) but very good regardless.
I don’t know if corporatocracy is a real word. Spell checkers don’t seem to like it. I don’t care, I believe it’s real and can find a definition.
Might get you started…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy
Yup. Even Jim Hagedorn, (R MN-1) voted for the $40B to “Ukraine” – and he died in February. Now that’s one dedicated “public servant”.
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021145
Have they stopped trying or is this just what happens in an empire of lies?
When they think they have a real chance of seizing total power, they don’t see any need to try any longer to make their lies even halfway plausible.
Jeez, they don’t even care about reality or covering their tracks.
Hagedorn vote recorded as YEA – https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021145
Verification that he has no current replacement and maybe they just did a surrogate vote under Hagedorn name: “Since the state’s laws don’t allow for a temporary appointment in partisan elected positions” – https://marketrealist.com/p/who-will-replace-jim-hagedorn/
Special election set for August to fill vacant seat is August 9TH, 2022. – https://ballotpedia.org/Minnesota's_1st_Congressional_District_special_election,_2022
I visit OpenSecrets and GovTrack only some as in rarely. Added your link. Nice format. TY
This means the zionists had their claws deep in the US government before WWII, not after.
I can’t see that at all.
It has to do with the relationships at high levels and who was funding all sides of the war. I did not know there was this high degree of cooperation with USSR. You also have to understand the real history of WW2 is that it was instigated by the Soviets.
Ha ha.It looks to me as if the instigators were the French, who insisted on punishing Germany forever. That created a ready field for Hitler and National Socialist ideas.
Goes back to WWI — re: Conspiracy of Zion by Douglas Reed
Ecclesiastes
All is vanity
What is the definition of a “conservative” that will be “…brought back in line via jingoism…”?
You were in the Army in 1944? How old are you now?
I have often thought it would shave been a good idea to let the National Sociaislts and the Communists destroy each other.
Oh, sorry, you were citing a book… Just to comment, “diplomatic immunity” wasn’t involved with Lend Lease, Lend lease involved a couple of lies, that’s all, although it’s undeniable that FRR and his henchmen wanted to promote international socialism, probably imagining that they would be in charge.
Jingoism. Is that a Roaring 20’s dance? Kidding. Searched its definition and low and behold I cannot find anything on wiki pertaining to a dance.
There is an alternative definition of Evil – it is our unwillingness to fight back and defeat those people who are purposely doing us harm.
Evil exists because we meekly accept this harm, but when we fight back Evil becomes a great challenge to overcome and a unifying force. It is this collective docility and inertia through the moral codification of weakness that invites Evil into existence and it is the mistaken belief that Evil can be fought with magical incantations, rituals, or complained away that allows it to exist.
Only when one accepts violence as not only the logical solution to Evil, but also as the logical prophylactic can we eventually be free of Evil. And one cannot accept violence as the solution until it is absorbed into the moral codification and redefined as Good. There is no escaping Evil without embracing its methods. A moral life of subjugation is a slaves life.
Ice writes:
From my article above:
We are both correct, Ice. And perhaps timing is everything.
Agreed. I have this perpetual knot in my stomach that tells me at a visceral level that whatever is coming is unstoppable and we will not be able to Gandhi or Kumbaya our way out of it. This will be the third test. IQ test is finished. Test of Resolve is coming, probably next year. Test of Resolution will be the SHTF and our Judgement Day of personal character.
Come to find out, if one wants to fight with monsters one really does have to become a monster. And let that abyss stare back all it wants.
Yikes!
Acting the monster against monsters does not make you a monster. In fact, I think it makes you a hero. It’s never been easy to be a hero.
Sometimes combating small evils lets large evils succeed. At other times, perhaps focusing on what is seen as the Great Evil will allow a plethora of small evils to prosper. That makes it complicated, but it is certain that to do nothing to oppose evil is evil.
There are so many choices these days, it’s hard to know what exactly to do. For most everyone, acting locally is the best course o faction.
“Elon Musk will make Twitter a bona fide free speech platform” And he will…
Elon , the Snake delivers for Daddy Deep State … step right up and have your speech controlled, by U, once you are no longer anonymous.
I’ve never used Twitter, but know that I know it’s going to be worth $3/month, I’ll probably join up.
If You could please type slower, some of us don’t read so fast. Maybe a few spaces and perhaps a 😂 before the punchline would help?
I’ve always wondered about the Zappa quote where he states “they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater“. Does the blank brick wall represent that there was really nothing behind the illusion, or did it show where we would be lined up against and shot?
No emergency exit,(I think.)
Pretty certain it’s the Lubyanka option
Oh goody !
Yup, look for the pockmarks in the bricks….
I believe the latter, in time, NBerinKS. Hence my # 4 “F” above.
It wasn’t an illusion but rather a staged play and the play is over with no plan for a second run. That’s my interpretation.
I agree, not to say that people won’t get lined up against the wall. Also, the stage play doesn’t come to an end because it’s no longer profitable (the scams of the last 20 years have been great for the banksters and their puppets), but rather the fiat ponzi is about to come crashing down.
I need some context for that. My impression of Zappa was that he was often just trying to stir up shit and get people to think.
“many liars won’t negotiate when they believe they hold all the cards, so to speak; and, especially, while lying to themselves.”
it’s very difficult to convey how strong the grip is on those who believe their own lies, but in the end they’ve been willingly led to the lies. now they’re shackled by the father of lies, and therefore live in constant delusion.
there’s only freedom in Christ.
Revelation 3:19 has been incredibly important to me over the last few years,
and the discipline/refining is more and more welcomed as the years pass:
“Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.”
I believe this, too.
I’m just going to sit here in the suburbs of the sticks and wait for further instructions from I Am that I Am. I still have several cases of dry milk, which is reassuring to know now that I am a grandmother.
The times are such that we have never seen.
What can that possibly mean?
Hey Ghost/put that milk back, you will use it.
I don’t think the grid would survive a technocratic dictatorship. As soon as people have a motivation to bring it down, it is going to come down. It is very very fragile. Then poof: no more technocratic dictatorship.
The banksters have lost all reason. They have sown their own destruction already.
All PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) installed as a result of this recent ESG efficiency drive are compromised with back doors that can be fed fake operating data and therefore destroy the systems they are supposed to be controlling. They are all part of that Internet of Things and anyone with knowledge of those back doors can take the systems down while sipping a latte at Starbucks. I would bet that all these recent fires at food processing plants are Beta test practice runs.
Isn’t it interesting that one of the largest plc manufacturers is Crouzet, which is owned by The Carlyle Group?
@Ken31,
That is an idea, and a good call.
First great article Uncola
My Take: As bad as things are in the US and in the World but most importantly the US, People are not feeling the burn yet, they will. Social Engineers spend countless hours working on the human psyche. I think these tools are applied to the unsuspecting masses constantly. Cognitive dissonance is the perception of contradictory information relevant to a person’s actions, feelings, ideas and beliefs. When I think about the cultural deterioration occurring in real time right before our eyes, one would be hard pressed to convince me that it isn’t by design. Cognitive dissonance compounded with the human normalcy bias I believe is what creates the boogeyman that the TPTB use to keeps us at bay. Their power comes out of a willing compliance to tyrannical idealism from their lesser servants, being you and I. I have to believe, history being my guide, they will miss calculate at some impasse and an awakening will evolve. Like kept rage, the explosion of furry, hate and anger will be epic. It is my sense that they have already over played their hand. The repercussions of human manipulation is a dangerous thing. Humans unlike most animals are capable of incomprehensible cruelty especially when justified by a perceived righteous indignation. Evil as defined, is a human characteristic realized in one form or another. Evil almost always begets evil, it is a double edge sword so to speak. The TPTB are in fear for their lives, but the game must continue until the end, there is no other choice. They are on the loosing side and they know it, we are their Frankenstein. We will have little notice when the rage in the human psyche explodes in a collective. You are astute on option 4. It may become the only viable path towards survival.
Boogie, Yes, they’ve overplayed their hand, but it’s not yet realized. I’ve often said the real resistance will come from the left when nothing works and they realize they’ve been used and then cast aside by TPTB. They’re losers but won’t know it until their fake, magic world collapses under its own weight of lies. Then they’ll know they really have nothing left to lose.
I do agree, when this occurs it may breach the left-right paradigm. The left will be the catalysis for the explosive back lash that is inevitable.
a/k/a the Useful Idiots term that has been attributed to several Communist mad-men.
I don’t think TPTB are afraid for their lives…I believe they are so arrogant and feel
so superior to “us” that they feel confident and full of energy for their goals. No
matter, the less they fear, the more successful others can be.
You may be right, their actions say something different to me. They display a strange desperation, almost rushing at breakneck speed, as if they are running out of time.
I agree Susanna. I hear and read it a lot but I too believe the “chosen” ones are too self assured to fear anything. Lord knows they’ve succesfully gotten away with murder.
so far … or so they think!
We shall see!
Great job 7-Up.
I think that was a missive worthy of the great Jim Quinn, which is high praise indeed.
The 4th turning… and it’s far from over. But so far it looks like things are heading for disaster and dissolution. However don’t pay attention to the weak and cowardly… history is written by no more than 10 percent of the populace, so things may still turn around.
The deep state, having been around for centuries, always plays the same game – war whenever it’s time to move to a new bunch of hosts. These parasites are craving the Chinese model, democracy has had it’s chance. Rather, they’ve bled us dry and are looking for new suckers they can feed from… and Asia has such rich possibilities. Billions ready to borrow their way to prosperity, and who gets paid, the same bunch of predictors from whom we borrowed. Will history repeat?
History may not repeat but it certainly rhymes
Mark,
I agree, the parasite will be moving on.
To where?
Doug, Thank you again for another spot on and broad brushed, thoughtful essay. In article E. where you say that “resistance to the global technocracy will be nearly impossible”, I would like to respectfully make a distinction. At an individual level, yes; collectively no. It will not be impossible to resist. Many, if not most, individuals who resist will suffer to the fullest extent afforded by the global system and thus resistance may seem futile. However collapse of the global technocracy is inevitable not only due to resistance, but plain apathy and as you say in “G” reality is conservative and fact based. (ie., support systems for the technocracy will fail; things like food production, grid, and energy systems to name a few) .
People will not work if not allowed some degree of freedom and the fruits of their own labor. Remember what ultimately caused the downfall of the Soviet Union–millions of workers saying and believing “We pretend to work; they pretend to pay us”. Such a society just grinds down until nothing works. A global technocracy will be fragile and totally dependent on many systems interconnected and not existing in nature. Kinda begs the question: Is the digital world even real? and if so then how durable is it really.? We may be sure that as long as the world elite have technology they will use it to the max resulting in the demise and enslavement of most of mankind. The survivor/resistors will be forced to exist somewhere between the world of hunter/gatherers and 1850ish society. But a totalitarian technocracy will not survive long term in a world of hunter/gathers, local warlords, bandenkreig, and dead minions.
And, by the way in regards to option #4: To fight for one’s survival against evil is not evil. The problem with our current lack of resistance is that most people lack the spiritual discernment to label our current system as evil. Spiritual blindness results in a world where good and evil are confused and become interchangeable. Therein lies another whole essay or two, but I’ll stop here for now.
Exactly.
Well, next to the bubbles ~ which have everything in common with the insides of lassoos ~ “thin air” is very thick stuff indeed. Inflation may be the largest lasso, & it is a tax…fairly “giving” back to their communities? Gimme a break.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, “obtained” via political process is legitimate. So, what “conservatives” s(l)ave for is, same as the rest, the “reign-y daze.” (“Released” from Pharaoh-bondage, “the jews” got filled up with liberty right quick, & wanted to purge on back to slavery…the golden bulimia calf; ride ‘em, cowedboys….)
Duress invalidates. Coercion vacates. And internal-projected compulsion? Free Will-y can’t leave the low-lying sump.
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. ~ Ecclesiastes 7:4
The facts of life are tragic. And that Rube Goldberg biology is obviously strategic.
The greatest trick of the Devil is convincing Christians that he has waaaay way more power than he actually has. How a Christian can say “Christ in me! and in the next breath claim the Devil made them do this, that, or the other just blows my mind.
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From Satan to Federal Reserve in two sentences. That is one helluva smooth transition!!
Interesting perspectives, as usual, Stuckman, and an astute observation that ties in to the quotes at the top of the article, as well as the love of money as the root of all kinds of evil, etc.
The Bible says the borrower is servant to the lender and maybe that’s why money is so often tied to the Devil – because slavery is rooted in economics.
By the way, thanks for the prompt the other day. In some ways, I was surprised where this one went. But, then again, it is sort of the same as past articles, too. It can be hard to remain consistent without some similarities, but that’s just the nature of the beast
When you told me the general theme I certainly also wondered how you would attack it. Well, friend, it went EXACTLY as it should have. We expect nothing but great stuff from you … and you consistently deliver!
Thanks, Man. I really appreciate it
Saw this meme on another TBP thread and wanted it in this thread for posterity and future reference:
“the Devil made them do this”
I think the comment is just an old cliche carried over in time. No the devil did not make anyone do anything.
So I suppose the down voter thinks the devil made him/her do that? Lol. Ok. The devil influences and tempts man just as the link explains, yet, ultimately it’s man’s nature to choose whether to take that shot or multiple shots of whiskey or poke that tempting beautiful woman laying there outside of marriage. We’ve all done this so I’m not criticizing , only affirmatively pointing out again the devil “makes” us do nothing. Ah, to be younger again, the sexual revolution of the 60’s-70’s before responsibilities came about like marriage , raising kids, etc. etc. Anyone remember Dr. Ruth? I would not touch her with Joe Biden’s ***** ( not nice ). People really seemed tuned into her however with her advice about sex. Anyway, the devil does not not make anyone do a danged thing.
Free Will. Eternal blessing/bane.
In matters of humanistic “choice” like what professions to seek, what school to attend, what car to buy. etc.
These very questions are addressed in Mathew, Stucky. Jesus was constantly chastising people for that crap.
5.) Fuckit.
Good one! You still got it going on!
Stuck,
Re: F # 5
Yessir, which is sort of like #3 with attitude. But, then again, your # 5 could apply to 1, 2, and 4 as well?
And now you’ve made me think of two more:
6.) Fade (go grey)
7.) Faith (persevere to very end no matter what)
7
… let’s go bowling
Not being evil is a laudable goal. At a minimum, people should try to not be ridiculous:
“How about a little fire, Scarecrow?”
Great article, summing up our limited options.
I choose flight/chose it already. Not ideal, (50% cold season) and certainly
bad if we are rationing or are without power.
It seems the war against the American people is going full boar. The video of
the trans tattoo person does characterize a good measure of people. Children
going full obnoxious and rebellious. The greater threat are the sleepers that
want to be in full delusional mode searching for the status quo. They might
become quite angry that the “status quo” is gone, and a person is talking
about that.
For me, emotional preparedness is as important as any physical preparedness.
Knowing the basic outline of the “plan” we face, which includes as many people
dying earlier on, is helpful. Motto: Be awake not woke.
That thing, the pic , almost sounds like …
dont’ forget to vote harder. moar cowbell!
On May 22: WHO will have authority to lock down all of America
They can’t even control their weight or other such appetites. Good luck with that.
Great article, Doug.
Please, if you require banks to keep 100% of their deposits on hand, they will be unable to make any money, unless they charge for the service of keeping your money safe, in a safe depository.
This is not a plan with good results.
Isn’t fractional reserve banking a requirement, that is if you want to have banks that will loan you money, or pay you interest on your deposits.
Certainly you must agree that it’s not in fact fractional reserve banking, in itself, that is the problem.
The problem I see is banks captured by the government, banks that are not free and independent, banks that make their policy according to the wishes and demands of the government, banks that have to warp their business in order to comply with ‘regulations’.
Perhaps I misunderstand your opposition to fractional reserve banking. If so, please tell me where my error lies.
Rehypothecation would perhaps better suit your idea?
Fractional Reserve Banking turns dollars into debt. Every deposit forms a bubble blown up by the bank. I deposit $10 and the bank lends $90 to a business that pays its 10 employees who, in turn, each deposit $10 so the bank can lend $900 out to investors buying real estate and building new businesses. Sure, the expansion is great until the foreclosure.
Uncola, I have been constantly thinking about a monetary system the would limit inflation and reward savers, and the only one I can think of is 100% non fractional reserve banking that would lead to a steady deflationary environment.
-If everyone accepted this it would lead to steady continuous drops in price levels, but I don’t think the majority would like the way it makes them feel.
-It means the house you bought for $100,000 and would continually fall in nominal price, but rising in real value as deflation make the $ worth more. You may sell it 20 years later for only $80,000 at a “loss” but the $80,000 will buy equal or greater value home in an deflationary environment.
-Savers would get zero or very low interest as the deflationary environment acts like interest as the value of currency goes up steadily in real value.
-Workers have to accept NO pay increases as the deflationary environment essentially leads to higher real wages.
-New Hires would always have to accept less pay then current employees as employers adjust to lower selling prices in the deflationary environment.
-Governments would have to continuously LOWER nominal taxes to in a deflationary environment.
-If Governments simply created money, and did not tax anyone, then maybe a steady state of no inflation or deflation could be attained. This would require a TINY and 100% transparent government workforce that would only create new money for Bridges, Roads, Infrastructure, etc., not for bloated bureaucracies. In addition the the Government should only put these jobs out to bid to the private sector, and not create bloated DOT like agencies with ridiculous wages and pensions.
For this reason I can never see this being implemented in my life time at least. To many parasites living high on the hog in the current beast system…
L.T.L,
Interesting observations and speculations.
Ideally, a 100% Reserve Banking System would place the money supply in the hands of an elected government instead of bankers.
Obviously, it would require another elected, and less corrupt, government than what we have now.
Banks would charge for banking services and, potentially, profit off interest rate margins – all subject to the free market, of course, which would generate competition.
In economic retractions, prices could rise which would, in turn, cause banks to tighten credit supply. But, then, credit would increase as prices decrease – which isn’t much different than what occurs in our current system, except advocates argue that Full Reserve Banking would allow credit to be provided in a more balanced manner.
However, on other hand, critics claim the 100% Reserve System would create more volatility than FRB and so that is used to justify FRB.
In any event, the post-Great-Depression (circa 1930s) “Chicago Plan” never launched. Surprise, surprise.
Although I do not much trust Wikipedia, especially regarding “woke” political and Covid topics, I have no reason to doubt the chain of events described at this link right here that, strangely enough, mentions a 2012 IMF-published a paper which made a case to resurrect the “Chicago Plan” and describing many advantages such as LESS volatility than our current FRB system, less inflation, and decreased public and private debt.
But, obviously, it was a no go. Surprise. Surprise. Plus, the IMF? Yikes.
Anyway, when IMF Director Christine Lagarde was asked in 2019 about those crazy old dreams, she didn’t think “eliminating the role of private banks in the supply of broad money” was a “good idea”. Surprise. Surprise.
To be honest, even though TBP is an economic blog… writing about the minutia of financial topics doesn’t really appeal to me. After all, I am not Jim Quinn. Economic theory, statistics, charts, and graphs are, for the most part, out of my wheelhouse anyway. So I would rather write about the Devil and the end of the world as we know it and stuff like that.
I suppose it’s like the proverbial blind guys describing an elephant with their hands: The guy by the tail says the elephant is like a small snake, the guy at the legs says the elephant more resembles a tree trunk, and the guy at the snout says it’s like a big cobra spewing water. In other words, the Big Picture is a matter of one’s personal perspective, but when you add up all the descriptions here on TBP, perhaps accurate overall assessments can be made.
On wiki, it’s a quick reference. People have to decide whether the information is right or wrong or otherwise and the validity of the gobs of references given. If wiki is the most convenient that pops up first on a search, like , for Louis Zamperini, I check it out and if it satisfies my inquiry move on.
You, Sir, need to do the exercise, and, imagine a world with NO Usury! I am not going to spell it out for you, or anyone else, as it could pre-judge outcomes which I have not, myself, considered. However, with bible in hand and mind, that which I have considered predicts, at least, NO War, Poverty or non-remedial crimes, for starters. Consider it, please?
Thank you for your work.
Uncola.
“Ideally, a 100% Reserve Banking System would place the money supply in the hands of an elected government instead of bankers.”
Of course no government will ever exist that can be trusted with that, just as no private bank under government control can be trusted with control of the money supply.
If all the money is in the hands of government, interest rates will be of no interest to banks, who, under a 100% reserve requirement, won’t be allowed to loan money.
Essentially, money is the property of the people who earn it, and what they choose to do with it is their own business. If they choose to lend it, at interest, to willing borrowers, why should they not be permitted to do that? That’s certainly part of a free market.
The problem isn’t fractional reserve banking, or even bank notes, it’s fiat money made ‘legal tender’. The FDIC is also part of the problem.
The nation their, my, your, fathers conquered was Usury / Interest free!
The fact remains that if banks were required to keep 100% of their deposits on reserve, they would exist only as safe deposit boxes that we would have to pay to use.
Unless it is made illegal to loan money at interest, people will do just that, and other people will borrow from them.
Jefferson was right if he meant that using the power of government to make one private bank’s currency (bank notes) ‘legal tender’ would be dangerous to our liberty. Banks in themselves are a useful tool of progress. Possibly Jefferson had enough cash flow from his plantation that he never needed to borrow money to buy seed or farming implements, or a new mule when his only mule died just before spring plowing time, but not everybody was, or ever will be, in a situation like Jefferson’s.
Moriyah & Wideguy,
I appreciate the comments and both of your perspectives.
I once read a very convincing article that traced Fractional Reserve Baning all the way back to “differing weights and measures” of the Bible – with what began as dross metals.
Although Full Reserve Banking may have its detractions, we also must remain pragmatic in the sense we are no longer a 18th-century agrarian society bartering food and livestock and otherwise trading only with our neighbors, friends, and family.
I realize the government we have now is too corrupt too save and that’s why I stated that in my above comment as well as this:
If not for us, then maybe for our progeny one day – should any localities survive the oncoming onslaught.
Generally, my understanding of “usury”, by definition, involves excessively oppressive loans that immorally enrich the lender; and Bible referencing restricts “usury” in relation to the poor, extorting neighbors, not charging interest to our immediate family (i.e. “brother” as in Deuteronomy 23:19) while NOT condemning “interest” per se, as in Matthew 25:27 which says:
Beyond that, I find not much to argue about with y’all.
Clarification to this paragraph in my comment above:
With what began as the measuring of grain and produce, then into dross coins, and, then, eventually, Fractional Reserve Banking.
Your main error lies in thinking that lying can be justifiable in certain cases.
The ‘devil’ is your ego not a scary red monster with horns.
You can see only 1/10,000th of the photonic spectrum. You don’t know enough to label anything good or bad
Voltara,
That you means you can see only 1/10,000th of the photonic spectrum, too and that you don’t know enough to label anything good or bad, either.
So you liked my take on the devil, then, didn’t you?
You first need to understand what metaphysics means.
We’Re all American nobodies now. At this point it does begin to take on the life and feel of a bad simulation. A flat earth game board, played by lord knows who.
If Christians in the past did not fight for their beliefs, Christianity would not exist today. History is replete with pious men that not only prayed, but took action. They fought for their beliefs. Evil prospers when good men do nothing. Just quoting Scripture is like praying loudly outside the temple.
I believe Toecutter is saying faith without works is dead. Interesting perspective.
It’s always a matter of fight or run. As cooperation with evil or bargaining with evil is simply another way to run…to delay the inevitable. If you recognize what you were doing is evil that is.
Now, on thing I always keep meaning to write but never do is about the fourth book of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series called Wizard and glass. In its the Young Gunslinger, Roland,faces more experienced men and is greatly outnumbered. So he has to be smart. Stephen King creates the fictional game called castles. In the game there are safe places known as Hillocks where you can hide from the enemy enemies site. Of course you just can’t sit back there the whole game you must come out in order to advance and ultimately win. Come out too soon irremediably overwhelmed come out too late and you’re surrounded without hope. So it is all about timing. I have thought about that fictionsl game quite a bit of late. It’s not described in great detail… but i imagine it as some sort of cross between chess and capture the flag. With a western/medieval/scifi backdrop. That’s king for ya.
I am certainly no Warrior and certainly no hero I just have a different kind of pragmatism. I will probably wait until it is too late to leave safety that’s just the way I am. But we shall see.
I think very few of us know ourselves well enough to know how will react when Stakes are life and death. I am certainly in that category having never served or never faced anything that serious.
Ultimately, I think it unlikely that the elite will ever truly get a command-and-control digital tyranny infants infrastructure built. There’s just too much complexity involved. And we are already at the all-time historical Apex of complexity. Historically speaking collapse is the only way out. That said our so-called Elite can cause an awful lot of damage on their way down.
I can’t speak for others, but, from a very young age I looked danger in the face and, not quite, laughed. Not because it was funny but because there really was no choice. A machine gun in my face on Parliament Hill for protesting the Vietnam War while Ottawa was under Martial Law lock-down. A shotgun at my back while protesting the end of Free Enterprise in 1984. Yes, that 1984! Arrested too many times to remember just for speaking FREEly.
As they say: Free Speech isn’t FREE!
I would tend to agree with your conclusion.
It will, however, be messy.
The women and children WILL need assistance even if right now they think they only need their ‘dumb phone’.
How many people can you trust with YOUR life?
That is THE question to be answered ahead of time.
Self defense isn’t evil
Ignore all diversion tactics and propaganda and keep your eyes on the prize. The culling of the men behind the curtain who are weak shriveled shells of men without their details.
Good treatise Unkla, as usual.
Lord help us. Amen.
You have a … curious way of defining ‘pragmatism’ as pretty much unequivocally evil.
Pragmatism led to the Peace of Westphalia, ending the 100 Years War.
It wasn’t a high-flying moral endeavor, it was a dirty compromise that birthed “any outside attempt to change the boundary of a nation, constitutes an act of war.”
And lack of pragmatism led to the factual revocation of the Peace of Westphalia by the International Court of Justice in 2010, when it approved the secession of Kosovo from Serbia, by an outside power [the US].
‘No big deal’, you think?
Yeah, look at Poland making gestures to annex a Western piece of Ukraine. (Maybe then Germany can demand back Silesia from Poland?)
Next think about Habeas Corpus. Factually cancelled by the Bush Jr. administration…
So in summary the global technocratic dictatorship doesn’t want to build some consolidation of power, it wants to destroy everything that is hindering such. And if it succeeds there will be nothing left – with, or without nuclear war.
So maybe we need a bit more [reality-based] pragmatism, which is a sign of the acceptance of [uncurable] human imperfection.
M,
Definition of pragmatism
In no way did I define (as you say) “‘pragmatism’ as pretty much unequivocally evil.” On the contrary, I acknowledge in this article’s title my own pragmatism in light of our global circumstances.
Now, pragmatism can be evil OR it can be a response to evil. And that’s all I was saying over here.
Last week, Stucky, in an off-handed way, said I should write about Satan and the end-times, so I did. At the same time I also had in mind an article by Wes Rhinier over at the NC Renegades blog about “cowards in the mirror” – so, in part, this was my answer to that as well.
Therefore, I pragmatically began the article by discussing reason and logic and the considerations of consequences in time, the nature of evil, and, particularly, in the “pursuit of survival and self-defense”.
Honestly, this post was an exercise in applied logic (pragmatism) while trying not to be evil – hence my items A through G in the middle of the post and items 1 through 4 at the end.
I actually fully agree on G.
I felt that F was logically contradicting the later presented fact that the proposed global pandemic treaty is (still) a big thingy, but I didn’t want to nitpick.
And to me applied logic alone is not pragmatism, but psychopathy – but we hopefully mean the same here.
In other words pragmatism to me is exactly not to limit oneself to logic (even though logic is the main guiding light), but plan for the case that oneself got it completely wrong (“Plan B”), and even plan for the case where oneself is completely right but then still has to live together with a bunch of people who had got it completely wrong.
Jesus said; “He who has ears, let him hear. There is light within a man of light, and he lights up the whole world. If he does not shine, there is darkness.”
A bit of unsolicited advice. I like this fellow. His heart’s in the right place. Based on what he has written in the past, he’s out there “walking the walk” and personally fighting for truth, justice & the American way in his personal life. He is intelligent, reasonably well read, well spoken and respectful of other people. I would buy him a beer if we met.
And then I would tell him between drags on my cigarette, “Holy shit, buddy. Hire a fucking editor. I am 110% on your side. But I can’t take any more of these meandering streams of consciousness. Get a legal pad, a nice pen, and prepare an outline. Put down Roman numerals I, II and III. Open and close with good turns of a phrase. Type it in a word processor and use word count. You get 2k words, max. Write 5k and then print it out, get a red pen, and keep the good half. This is fucking redonkulus.
We await your treatises following those lines.
Anon,
I honestly appreciate the kind words and the critique. And, yes, I’d listen to all that over beers. Then, between drags on your second or third smoke, I’d say something like:
“Dude! You’re missing what I’m doing. If I was merely describing events and circumstances your methodology would be fine. Except that’s not my objective, per se. I’m prosecuting a case.”
“….For those who haven’t done so yet, decide the most advantageous place to live before the real action starts, and move there.”
How does one go about doing this? So many moving parts, I really struggle with this one.
You just do it. Pick your spot, pack and go.
If you really can’t figure out how to do it yourself, you should not bother. There will be plenty more challenges and if you are not up to sorting them out for yourself, moving won’t help.
Very helpful, thank you.
A place with a lot of snakes is always good.
“Fair taxes” … I literally quit reading, at that point.