As we approach the end of 2021, the Sott.net team would like to wish all our readers a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Truly, a
happy new year! As depressing and foreboding as the general climate is right now, we remember that there is much to be thankful for, not least the friendships and fellowship we discovered and made along the way to building this global network of courageous truth-seekers!
It seems like an age ago now, but the year actually began with hope that the 2020 US presidential election could be 'un-rigged', until a bunch of naive 'revolutionaries' were led up the garden path and straight into the heart of Congress, a trap laid for them by Federal agents who used it to cement the regime's re-taking of the presidency, finally silence Donald Trump, and replace majority with 'minority rule'.
The US presidency has been restored to its purely ceremonial role (and the incumbent can't even carry that out half-decently), and since then everything has just gone downhill
real fast. It's a veritable 'sign of our time' that the 'will of the people' has been so thoroughly side-lined - and not just in the US, but right across the world. We all live under the planetary regime of 'Pandemia' now. And it feels like we're in the 'end game'.
The 3,000 or so super-rich who act as if they own this planet are going all-in with 'boosters', online censorship, mass surveillance, police checkpoints, outlawing protests, and generally doing everything they can to squeeze people and make them miserable. These tactics work rather well on those whose dependence on authority is paramount, but for the rest of us, we're at the point where our best hope is that this corrupt global regime will collapse under its own hubris.
As we warned at the outset of this madness, their efforts to tighten control over the human population under the guise of 'controlling the virus' runs a serious risk of fundamentally damaging the delicate global economic and social system. The supply chain issues - skyrocketing prices, labour shortages, scarcity of goods, etc - are not going to resolve themselves as long as the super-rich (and those who follow them) continue 'fixing' the problems they themselves created.
But it seems there's no disabusing them of their belief that they possess god-like powers. They are either ideologically 'possessed' - convinced that they are 'saving the world' - or perhaps the smarter ones privately acknowledge that they are wilfully destroying tens and possibly hundreds of millions of lives. Maybe it's both; maybe they really do believe that, in order to 'save the world' - from 'overpopulation' and 'limited resources', presumably - they must 'nudge' as many people as possible towards the precipice.
But not everyone is obeying. Massive protests against the growing totalitarianism have been taking place in cities large and small all over the world. Mostly ignored by the media, whenever they are reported, their scale is significantly downplayed. Anti-government protests have surely by now returned to, and exceeded, their late-2019 levels, but governments and the globalist cliques that run them don't care; they wishfully think they can succeed in instituting a slave planet by controlling everything and making everyone dependent on them.
As bleak as this oppressive situation is, take heart in the fact that a sizeable minority - perhaps as many as two billion people - have left (or never joined) the Covid Cult. In doing so they've ended - or are in the process of ending - their abusive relationship with government. Things are going to get a LOT stranger in the coming years as narratives and beliefs about the nature and functioning of reality continue coming apart at the seams.
Many will go mad and 'check out'. Many more will likely perish due to a devastating reduction in food production and energy supplies - which is the fault of feckless government, not the virus - just as extreme weather events have begun decimating crop harvests in earnest. Criminally negligent in their responsibility to actually solve any of these issues, governments instead appear to be 'leveraging' the crisis they created by methodically turning the screws so that 'the herd' voluntarily accepts depopulation.
When we began chronicling events and trends two decades ago, we did so on the hypothetical basis that the trajectory of civilization was downwards towards destruction,
a la Fall of Rome. This is no longer a fringe view. What's not generally known, however, is that the Roman Empire - following a period of rapidly deteriorating social, economic and environmental conditions (and insane leadership) -
ended suddenly.
Catastrophe awaits those who passively follow the crowd, but the future is not set in stone if you see what's going on and actively link up with others of like mind, strengthen your immune system against physical attack, and protect your psyche against lies. In all cases, knowledge is key.
There will likely be many twists and turns in the months and years ahead, so no matter how depressing the situation seems now, don't give up hope, because we don't intend to, and will be right here bringing you the knowledge and analysis necessary to navigate these times with grace, humor and - dare we say - even a little hootin' and hollerin'?
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Reader Comments
Peace and Happy Holidays to one and all.
BK
Peace and Happy Holidays to one and all and now I better get the hell out of here - there are puzzles to be solved and really I don't want to overstay my welcome in 2021....can't wait for 2022 and I'll be back then and hopefully not sooner....ha, ha.
BK
Thank you, commenters, for your intelligence, solidarity and wisdom.
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first thought was Jachin and Boaz with steps leading to Solomons temple.
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but yes, Fluck Joe Biden.
Merry Sol Invictus etc....and may the Yule father / Odin, reward you well.
Thanks SOTT staff for publishing alternative views from the worthless MSM.
and the life was the light of all people.
The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness did not overcome it.
-John 1:4-5
God bless you all and Merry Christmas!
RC
I can think of one contender that lifts me up, but that is personal. So, don't ask.
I can still name so God damned many songs from that summer. Baker Street; Stones Some Girls (saw them in Anaheim then etc) Joe Walsh, oh, you know. It was a time for the lucky, at least it appears so from this current perspective.
RC
*As I type, I wonder if he might have been 16. I guess kids took on 'adult' responsibilities when they should have back then.
RC
I noticed, after I began practicing Buddhism, that Christmas or the Winter Solstice took on added meaning for me. I began to feel that, with the darkest day of the year heralding the rebirth of light, our spirits were moved to renewal and rebirth...which came to mean "peace on Earth." What could humankind not accomplish if not bent toward war, domination, and misanthropy?
Here's my Christmas song contribution...which I mentioned earlier this year. Now, with CDs out, I note the song I tried to describe, sung by an old and relatively unknown R&B artist, I first heard on Norman Rockwell: A R&B Christmas. The song is "O Little Town of Bethlehem" which Johnny Adams sings with flat-out fervor and passion...as if heralding that peace must come to Earth.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!! [Link]
I detected a Southern* accent - yep. From LA. RIP.
*There's a black and a white such thing - get over it to folks who can't.
RC
WN3 infra: Yep. Christmas I guess is the modern 'celebration' of the solstice. *
I wish all a good one - a great one, nonstop.
RC
It be foolish to apply a universal law that depicted the essence of Christmas but Christmas has its roots and traditions, something that shouldnt be overlooked or forgotten.
I believe that those who get most out of Christmas, are those who connect to its magic, its history and intentions.
I'm Paganistic in my attitude and Christmas is a time of year when I celebrate all the success of the year before and it is a time to make readiness for the year ahead.
For those who have lost their connection to Christmas, I wish them all Good Seasons greetings and hope that their year ahead is a fruitful one.
(only sorry so many "sotters" have dropped dead during the last year due to sotts many anti-waxxing campains).
FWIW we had a pretty tight crew of biking friends (road and mtb) prior and through the madness. We were all very respectively fit for our various ages. Three of 7 got shanked over the past year. We now only have 4 riders. Each of the 3 damned souls complains of various new pains but all describe a complete lack of endurance. They get exhausted in 20-30 minutes whereas prior 4-5 hour intense rides were common.
Happy Kwanza to all!
Hang tough.
RC
So, I content myself with Christmas cat vids. Here's a cute ad from a few years ago. [Link]
(& ) (I.e., I love critters etc. and the feline that is here . . . is watching me so I better sign off now...)
RC
Peace and Happy Solstice - it is just about 4 days away.......
BK
Cat attic inspector: [Link] Bear. Send it downtown. [Link]
RC
Have great Xmas, if you know what I mean.
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Never stand down.
SOTTites are amazing minds...
Onward into the storms of life.
Without Risk there is no reward.
R.C.
Growing up here, all one ever heard on the radio was the next launch, and folks would all pull over to the side of the road as one, and get out or peer out of their cars at it.
Nowadays, they hardly advise anyone. I only caught this one because an old GF texted me.
RC
BTW, I've stolen your thank you form. Thanks.
It really was prettier than normal. It went towards around 80 degrees.
RC
RC
Finally, after over a month, my back is healing (severely pulled a muscle before Thanksgiving) enough to begin thinking about Christmas decorations tomorrow. So happy!! I'll try to put up some lights. Other neighbors' lights always cheer me. I've had every back massager/roller/thumper + every bath salt/oil/epsom salt mixture baths + lidocaine patches. Got a back brace four days ago and voilà! No pain.
Happy Winter Solstice tomorrow, everyone!!! The Season of Light!!
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Merry Christmas everyon3 ! May it be more like a Fight Club **it stirring year to come where NWO/WEF/UN/WHO/CDC/WAR Inc . get canceled!
No, it's not KLR but I'll add their latest also. [Link] Plus Otter needs a pet: [Link]
Many fun videos: [Link]
MC & HNY!
RC
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"Did your health decline?"
10/10!!! WATCH THIS FOLKS!!!!
He does a great Lou Gramm imitation.
RC