Never mind that as a consequence of the lock down it is likely that MORE people are dying than would otherwise have done, due to a variety of problems, not least the shuttering of primary health care - and particularly in 'Covid-19 hot spots', like the UK. So a strange "war" is going on where people are forced to sit at home and binge-watch Netflix while being frightened into submission by the media's wildly exaggerated claims about dubiously-acquired case/death numbers, and while the elderly and the vulnerable pay the highest price. It seems then that when justified by "saving lives", you can get away with literally anything - like killing off a bunch of people. We shouldn't be surprised though, because in just the last 20 years, several wars led by Western governments that killed, literally, more than 1.5 million people, were justified by the need to 'save people'
At the end of the World War 2, the US dropped two nuclear bombs on Japanese cities - in Hiroshima and Nagasaki - killing approximately 200,000 civilians. Officially, it too was done "in order to save lives". Whatever immoral crimes against humanity are committed, it's rationalized as necessary for some greater good - even if that means blowing hundreds of thousands of people to pieces with weapons of mass destruction.
If people could be made to believe that nuking Japan was done in order to 'save lives', if people could be made to believe that invading and occupying Iraq and killing 1.5 million Iraqis was to 'save them', then surely it's not a big task to convince them that subjecting a third of the global population to home imprisonment and risking the destruction of the global economy, will also 'save lives'.
There are always fairy tales for children and hard truths for adults. The fairy tale is offered to make people feel comfortable and safe. Truth, on the other hand, is what it is - not something that can be shaped and distorted to produce 'the right feeling'. Adults who remain as children, believing in fairy tales, are dangerous because they take or support actions that can have very serious consequences for themselves and for society as a whole.
The truth about why the US vaporized two Japanese cities in 1945 isn't widely known. In reality WWII was already ending as Germany's defeat had been ensured by the Soviet Red Army in the battle of Berlin, and Japan was poised to surrender. The Japanese emperor had sent a telegram to the US suing for peace, and both countries knew the USSR would soon aid the US by attacking Japan.
"The war will end a year sooner now. Think of all the kids who won't be killed," President Truman had written to his wife after learning that the USSR had joined the war.
Dropping atomic bombs on Japan was unnecessary. They were developed and used to 'send a message' to the USSR: see what we have! As the head of the Manhattan Project, Lieutenant-General Leslie Groves, said: "There was never, from about two weeks from the time I took charge of this Project, any illusion on my part that Russia was our enemy, and the Project was conducted on that basis."
American elites weren't by then concerned about Japan; they were thinking ahead to the geopolitical after match with Russia - victorious in eastern Europe - and the new era that became 'the Cold War'. The fairy tale was that nuking Japan was about saving lives; the hard truth is that it was about power and control - of people, resources, and the planet itself.
The types of people who rule this world don't see the world and its inhabitants like most people do. For them, values like community, justice and honesty are alien concepts. Where they make claim to rule on the basis of such values, they do so only to manipulate the public and maintain their dominance. It's more like a useful PR trick: they perceive the world through the twisted lens of Game Theory, the mindset of a psychopath.
During WW2, Japan had a covert biological research program called Unit 731, which involved the most horrific experiments on (mostly Chinese) civilians and war prisoners - from injecting diseases disguised as vaccines into people to performing vivisections without anesthesia. 200,000 people are estimated to have died in these nightmare 'scientific experiments'.
Yet the people behind the program, so-called scientists and doctors, were never held to account for their crimes (in fact, many went on to become leading experts in various scientific and medical fields). Instead the US government arranged to purchase the data from the abominable experiments of these war criminals in order to continue their work.
Similarly, the US government at the time rescued prominent Nazi scientists in Operation Paperclip, when US military intelligence smuggled them across the Atlantic after the war and incorporated them into American scientific institutions. For example, German rocket scientist and SS-major Wernher Von Braun, who used Jews in concentration camps to build V2-rockets, became the director of NASA's Marshall Center and is today cited in US Air Force cadet training programs for his 'insightful commentary on the ethics of using nuclear weapons'.
The hard truth about the end of WW2 is that innocent civilians were sacrificed and war criminals rewarded because Western leaders cared more about 'sending messages' and diabolical 'scientific leverage' than human decency and moral values. These hidden and/or untold historical facts serve as 'glitches in the matrix'; they expose the naive but comforting nature of official accounts that have been laid down to keep people happily ignorant and uninterested about the more disturbing reality that lies underneath the surface. Most people accept this 'offer' and choose to stay 'plugged into the matrix', soothed and charmed by the lies and illusion.
What I'm getting at here is that everyone should, by now, be thinking hard about the reasons we've been given for why we have for the last two months been subjected to house arrest and stripped of our freedoms. Do you still believe it was about 'saving lives'?
The global economy is in free fall: 80 percent of the global workforce is partially or fully out of work. Over 30 million people have lost their jobs in six weeks in the United States alone. The UN has warned that hundred of thousands of children will die this year due to the lock-downs. Real scientific data has shown that covid-19 mortality is much lower than earlier estimates (see, for example, here, here, here and here), even though by now it's as if almost every affliction is being counted as 'Covid-19 deaths' - like dying from a drug overdose.
While some may claim so, this is very unlikely to be a case of the incompetency of world leaders. Rather, world leaders are obviously using the situation to their own advantage. Some of these people - like Bill Gates - mask themselves as 'philantropists' while using charity foundations to get huge tax cuts and direct money to insanely profitable business ventures like vaccines, and to increase their influence inside government health organizations. Third world nations are then used as guinea pigs, and no matter how many of those poor wretches are killed or disabled through these vaccine experiments, it's never enough to generate media attention in the West because that would ruin the fairy tale many desperately want to believe.
When I succeed in getting someone to notice that the covid-19 numbers don't add up to a pandemic worthy of trashing civilization, the next question I'm asked is: 'but why would they do this?'
I answer by asking them: does anyone think that mega-rich ruling elites with a proven track record of scaring or otherwise manipulating people to advance their wealth and control would have moral qualms about exaggerating the threat from a seasonal virus in order to advance existing and latent police state measures while making sh**loads of money from soon-to-be mandatory vaccines?
Governments are today literally releasing hardened criminals from jails while arresting law-abiding citizens for walking alone on beaches and in parks. Drones and phone apps are now used to track your every move. What next, a huge screen in your home with Big Brother making sure social distancing rules are being followed? (Actually, it won't even be that obvious. Alexa is already telling them exactly how you're feeling and what you're up to.)
Recall Unit 731. That is the kind of thing that emerges from the depths of the human psyche: pseudo-scientific 'medical' psychopathy that makes literal and absolute hell on Earth for anyone unfortunate enough to brush up against it. That's what we're capable of as a species, so people had better start using a little bit more of their intellect and their imagination to get past the implausible narrative that there's nothing to worry about how the 'Covid-19 pandemic' is developing.
As things stand, we are no better or wiser than generations and nations before us who swapped their freedom for false security. The arrogant belief that our 'modern democracy' is somehow immune to severe degradation and corruption will only accelerate this process.
We are essentially repeating past horrors. There's a socio-psychological feedback loop where 'good times' create weak men who yield to evil men who bring on societal collapse. People work hard, build societies and character, contemplate arts and philosophy, but slowly get accustomed to wealth and convenience, lose touch with their 'moral compass', argue with neighbours, envy brothers, and soon wage wars and wreck everything. Life starts over, but soon enough, the cycle repeats and most people are none the wiser.
As Polish psychiatrist Andrzej Łobaczewski writes in Political Ponerology:
During good times, people lose sight of the need for thinking, introspection, knowledge of others, and an understanding of life. When things are 'good,' people ask themselves whether it is worth it to ponder human nature and flaws in the personality (one's own, or that of another). In good times, entire generations can grow up with no understanding of the creative meaning of suffering since they have never experienced it themselves. When all the joys of life are there for the taking, mental effort to understand science and the laws of nature - to acquire knowledge that may not be directly related to accumulating stuff - seems like pointless labor. Being 'healthy minded,' and positive - a good sport with never a discouraging word - is seen as a good thing, and anyone who predicts dire consequences as the result of such insouciance is labeled a wet-blanket or a killjoy.Perhaps then it's pointless to worry about how to 'fix the world'. The problems that brought us to this impasse are apparently deeper than political corruption and the subversion of democracy by lunatics. Heck, 'fixing the world' and 'saving lives' are what got us into this mess in the first place. Something else is going on here - something which the pandemic and the lock down are 'covering up' for. I don't know what that something is - and I don't even know that the 'power behind the throne' know what it is - but my hunch tells me it's bigger than any of us can imagine.
Perception of the truth about reality, especially a real understanding of human nature in all it's ranges and permutations, ceases to be a virtue to be acquired. Thoughtful doubters are 'meddlers' who can't leave well enough alone. "Don't fix it if it ain't broke." This attitude leads to an impoverishment of psychological knowledge including the capacity to differentiate the properties of human nature and personality, and the ability to mold healthy minds creatively.
The cult of power thus supplants the mental and moral values so essential for maintaining peace by peaceful means. A nation's enrichment or involution as regards its psychological world-view could be considered an indicator of whether its future be good or bad.
During good times, the search for the meaning of life, the truth of our reality, becomes uncomfortable because it reveals inconvenient factors. Unconscious elimination of data which are, or appear to be, inexpedient, begins to be habitual, a custom accepted by entire societies. The result is that any thought processes based on such truncated information cannot bring correct conclusions. This then leads to substitution of convenient lies to the self to replace uncomfortable truths thereby approaching the boundaries of phenomena which should be viewed as psychopathological.
The Covid-19 fairy tale for children is that governments, however flawed, are responsible parents with people's best interests at heart. 'Stay home, stay safe, and wash your hands. We're all in this together!' The hard truth this global lock down brings home for real adults is that governments have become dangerously corrupt and pathological, and their many authoritarian followers are leading us all towards a potentially severe and really deadly global crisis.
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(Going out on some long limb here, but not ruling out anything) Or are we going to suddenly wake up one day and be introduced to some aliens who are the new 'owners' of Earth?
My third thought is that maybe there truly are some very idealogical, but very misguided people who really do think that they know what's best and can engineer some sort of Utopia if only they could get rid of the troublemakers. Just watch West World Season 3, and you can wrap your head around that idea.
*The oldest trope in modern film. (One bad example: Pelican Brief. Argh! Stupid.)
That's exactly what the 'war on drugs' has used as its meme, mantra, slogan and logo. It's no different here; NOT AT ALL!
The war on drugs took advantage of the idiot proles. I've said that since I was 14? 11? Maybe a few SOTT esque types might see that corellation and come arounmd on the inanity of the F*g drug war? THIS was what it was designed for!
1) BS use of statistics;
2) Falsely claiming 'science' supports their claims;
3) Rabidly accusing those who question their claims or science of being 'anti-science' / 'science deniers' / 'conspiracy theorists' (which such questioning is actually, the ultimate of science; and that BS defense is the lowest logical level - the ad hominem.); and,
4) Defending policies which time has proven as horrifically wrong and failed by saying "don't rock the boat', 'we had the best intentions', and all the same bullsh*t used to shut down debate since the dawn of time.
Only, nowadays, they've had an even stupider! proletariat to easily fool and get onboard; indeed, rabidly. Anyone who can't see the real time operation of that here is clueless!
R.C.
Now if we could only get the proles to drop the Netflix drool and pay attention!
still. i am not sure who to envy the most - or if i should better be just happy with my own situation.
who would you really prefere to be these days?
a politician, bill gates, the donald, a homeless, a person working from a home office, a pensionere, a billionare, a student (whoa, they know how to find fun anyways ), an entrepreneur, a stock-broker, a hvac-tec, a drummer, etc?
hmm. i have one friend who is a billionare. (friend of wife actually).
honestly, i think he is among the persons i have never envied.
(he/they allways have obligations. while i/we can allways give the fart/do whatever i/we want to do).
everyone can choose to toss google/huawei/vacchines/apple/windows/prophylactics/phone company/etc overbord, and start living. "off grid" or whatever.
just do it / stop complaining. i/we/you do not have to comply.
go out, roll over the partner, have fun!
a few others; [Link] [Link] and a niice one; [Link]
Brakar
We are here to learn to make peace with that, and just REMEMBER, BE, AND EXPERIMENT
if there was a riddle in there... you cracked it
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Actually, adorable! (I strongly detect that they have at least two daddies.)
R.C.
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Israel claims coronavirus ‘breakthrough’
The Israel Institute for Biological Research claims to have completed the development phase of a COVID-19 vaccine.
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The belief system, like marijuana is more dangerous than heroin, that 911 was committed by incredibly talented pilots with the incredible ability to bypass any and all security systems at the time, and that the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is an operational arm of the constitutional government of the United States of America, are reality, is just playing the same blame and fear game that COVID is.
Look at that picture. That is a MOAB bomb in it's fullest, backed up by sorties of B-17s carpet bombing the hell out of the place. Why in hell's name would 2 wholly different bombs be dropped in an attempt to "vaporize" a city or two? If the technology was there, and capable, then why 2 absolutely different bombs in size and stature? The picture is most likely "Big Boy", packed with explosives to make a very nice photo shoot.
The public was told that there would be a 500 (5000?) foot wide crater, and the land would be unlivable for hundreds of years. Guess what? Both cities are thriving places that people live in and have lived in since the apparent "vaporize" of the area,
No one questions it. It has to be true because there is video evidence, backed by scientists, that an atomic bomb was dropped on Japan.
No one questions it. It has to be true because there is video evidence that planes flew into the World Trade Center towers, and then each fell in an amazingly coincidental fashion to that of a designed demolition of every other building that was ever demolished with purpose.
If one backs up truth with former lies, then the recipient is left with lies. The investigation of lying and those that create those lies has to go back forever. It predates WWII and the apparent holocaust, the killing of millions of indigenous peoples to seize their lands, the self aggrandizement of Lords that own people and their offspring.
Did we drop the nukes on Japan?
This is shaping up to be like the moon landing situation.
So, before you say we didn't because of radiation and stuff like that, ask yourself what you know about it.
I am a former Navy nuclear weapons officer. That doesn't give me carte blanche to tell you anything, but I do have some experience. I have also lived in Japan. I have been to Hiroshima. It is interesting. I lived in Japan for a few years, but honestly I don't ever remember a Japanese person talking about Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
Then there are the Enola Gay people. Are they lying (possibly)?
I guess what I am saying is that unless you are the world master at radiation effects, don't go there.
Whatever, the "atomic cloud over Hiroshima" picture does not at all look like the usual nuclear mushroom cloud photos presented to us ...
Meanwhile for comparison, Tallboy Grand Slam size schematic: [Link]
R.C.
If you dig deeper, there are large holes in the story. As an official memorandum shows, at the end of december '44 the porject had run out of U235, with a capacity of a few pound per months. All had been converted to Pt, with no idea how to prime it properly.
The Evil Nazis surrendered, and magically, a few days later some hundred pound of highly enriched UF6 turned up, as well as the infrared ignition method for the Pt bomb.
Any idea why they bombed basically old-style cities with wooden buildings situated in a valley basin, instead of Tokyo ???
The phrase “social distancing” is bastardization of the English language. It doesn’t mean anything.
Those who use it to refer to a spatial or physical distance are either stupid (most people) or have other intentions.
I understand being socially distant. I can be in your face (1 inch away) and have no social connection whatsoever; but there is no quantitative metric for a social distance. How do you use a physical ruler that measures linear space to quantify a social distance? How does a 6-foot separation (or any distance) equate to a social distance? The term is as absurd as its use in today’s world in spite of the inane people telling you to maintain social distance.
Being socially distant is a statement about human relations, not spatial ones. To be sure, you can force a breakup of social structures by keeping people apart. But if that’s the rationale behind the need to keep your distance, then it has nothing to do with a virus and is ever so much more sinister since it appears to be intent on destroying society as it is.
Similarly, I've pointed out the absurdity of "self isolating.'
Yet as the article says, the Japanese from Unit 731 walked and the US actually paid for the records they had kept. These "scientists" were allowed to return to public life in Japan as teachers, doctors, researchers, etc. A few Japanese generals were executed as war criminals, but by and large the Japanese militarists were handled with kid gloves. Why did that happen?
(Not to beg the question, but is it really "right" for the winners of a war to then put the losers on trial? It didn't happen after WWI, nor after the American Civil War or the Spanish-American War or the Crimean War, etc.)
This sort of situation, if you will, seems cyclical, doesn't it? Even going back to the New Testament creation story in Genesis, you basically have a utopian paradise, someone comes along and causes an individual to be woken from their blissful state and see reality, and the whole thing falls apart. Then the human race, out of those ashes, spend quite a lot of time trying to 'rebuild' by idealizing some golden age and trying to return to it.
(I know this is WAY oversimplified) Maybe, just maybe, this is the natural outcome of things. It seems like humans rise from the ashes, there is a long period of building and cooperation based on shared struggles. Humans are entirely capable of making their own decisions and everyone should have the freedom to operate with as few restrictions as possible. And they are at this point capable of that because they have shared morals, sense of struggle, ethics, etc...Then at some point bad elements start to game the system and end up bringing to light problems and flaws with the current system. Then well meaning individuals (or diabolical ones with agendas) think they can do it better if they can only have control. We may or may not have some sort of hallucinated 'utopia' for a time. Eventually enough people wake up to the reality that this utopia isn't an actual utopia at all and take down that system. Sometimes a little more gradual with less destruction, sometimes abrupt with lots of death and ruin. Then out of those ashes, the process starts over again.
Bhagavad Gita
So my theory is that they're trying to keep human enslave even more before we find out that the Ice Age is a deadly reality. We are the lower layer of human race who will disappear again while the Elite top layer will survive but will still need some us to feed them and make them richer and stronger than before.
That's what I can understand from what's going on right now, timing is everything
There is definitely something more sinister behind the Covid-1984 debacle.
Welcome! We've ARRIVED!!
CV, as is the lockdown, is a detail an excuse an obstacle a fart. We, have let it happen by not taking care of proper business in the first place.
The real questions are.. how did we get here why did we get here and what do we do NOW.
The planets are driving BALANCE to our collective social and economic structures starting with our individual selves. CLEAN-UP and straightening out is underway.
Clean yourself UP, straighten yourself OUT and enjoy living, (not surviving) your life on Planet Earth aka Paradise.
Everyting else is tomorrow's food.
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(Tad long but informative)
BTW, I viewed the video, And what stuck in my mind - she described herself (and her kind) as analysts, not as prophets.This is more honest then anything "astrologist" I ever heard before.
Bridging with the Monty Python "larch" quote...
Loosing faith in humanity, day by day. Now, that outdoor sports are allowed again, I went to my archery club. Only to find out a senior member I had respected very much is fully gripped by corona fear. Quoting mass media "news" and "statistics" all the time ...
Or, you could take the more 'in your face' approach and put one of my copyrighted bumper stickers on your bow case or bow: R.C.
The world aint perfect so they say
* 19 boogeymen with toothpicks and tweezers took down 3 steel skyscrapers
* OBL wasa captured killed and dumped overboard some 15+ years after he died.
* The US was attacked in the gulf of Tonkin.
* Iraq had "weapons of Mass Destruction"
* Kennedy was killed by Oswald
*The invasion of Afghanistan was about 'freedom and Democracy'.
* The Patriot Act was about patriotism
* The Military Commissions Act was about due process.
* Dual National (Israeli's) in the US government is not treason.
* Israel is our ally.
* Russia influenced the election - via OUR electronic voting machines.
* Electronic voting machines are accurate and trustworthy.
* "We the People" elect the President of the US
* There is a difference between the one party system of Democrat/Republican
* add your own.
My point is I haven't watehed TeeVee for well over decade; with any regularity in well over 20 years. And this latest charade is already exposed as a sinister distraction for something even more draconian. It's just a dress rehearsal for something bigger; to see how the sheep handle being slaughtered.
The Georgia Guidestones [Link] tell us, in no uncertain terms, what their intentions are.
- Maintain population under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
By now, anyone who's going to wake up is at least aware of WTC-7.
The way I've called folks out is to say, R.C.
Indeed the laws of physics were cancelled on that day and haven't been reinstated yet. The sheep are fine with that because it's already been a generation from that time. The interest in the crime has dwindled and been overshadowed by a long list of fake events, fake news, celebrity nonsense, fancy tracking 'phones', and disgusting scandals that don't produce any justice. (i.e. Epstein).
Regarding the 'lockdown'; Although my company is still working as we make agriculture and electric components, I'm living my life the same way I did before. I don't wear a mask unless it's required in a store. But it's off immediately upon exiting. And I regularly convey my disgust with this situation with anyone I engage.
On the bright side, the expressway is all mine in the morning!
The same mythology applies to the alleged crash in the PA cornfield. There is only a lengthy, rather shallow ditch with burn marks around the edges of it, no seats, no bodies, etc.They said that the plane in PA flew into an "abandoned mine shaft." PS: for you doubters, cynics and mockers--there are many other "stories" about 911. These happen to be two that I remember.
Doubters and cynics? We all are; but reasonable ones.
As re 'mockers'? We tend to spit 'em and put 'em up on the 'barbie!
R.C.
Georgia family demands arrest after vigilantes shoot, kill son 'while jogging'
The parents of a black man slain in a pursuit by two white men armed with guns called for immediate arrests Wednesday as they faced the prospect of waiting a month or longer before a Georgia grand...Check it out.
R.C.
That can be seen in the fear of scientists (witches, alchemists) that the Nazis would make the atomic bomb first, and in the end it turned out they were far from it.
This ancient moral is seen very well in the spanish book, life is a dream:
RC
Of Treason by John Harington RC
Have considered the possibility that they did succeed, but sell it to the allies for their lives ?
Never wondered about the ridiculously small crater after the White Sand test ? (Which happened after the German surrender, btw.)
Or why they bombed smaller towns in valley basins, consisting of mainly traditional wooden buildings, instead of Tokyo ?