COMMENTARY / OPINION
SATURDAY, APR 08, 2023 – 10:30 AM
Fictional villains often give us some of the deepest insights into the human condition. Writers are freed to venture outside the bounds of what they think is civil society and explore new modes of thinking that may or may not, in fact, be malevolent. In doing so they sometimes, purposefully or inadvertently, stumble across uncomfortable truths that the layperson would recoil from in horror.
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here
One of the greatest metaphors for our current way of life came in the creation of Bane’s monologue to Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises, after Bane captures and imprisons him in a place known only as ‘The Pit’.
There’s a reason why this prison is the worst hell on earth… Hope. Every man who has rotted here over the centuries has looked up to the light and imagined climbing to freedom. So easy… So simple… And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope. So, as I terrorize Gotham, I will feed its people hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they can survive so that you can watch them clambering over each other to stay in the sun. You can watch me torture an entire city, and when you have truly understood the depth of your failure, we will fulfill Ra’s al Ghul’s destiny. We will destroy Gotham, and then, when it is done, and Gotham is…ashes… then you have my permission to die.
This one speech reveals the face of true evil, a thing that delights in the suffering and absolute demoralization of its victims. Here Bane is a representation of the Deep State, the true ruling force of our world, existing beyond all bounds of morality, law, and order. Batman is the free-thinking rebel, enjoying the same philosophical freedom as Bane but committed to a life of principles and justice. The people of Gotham represent the citizenry of Planet Earth over whom absolute dominion is being sought – the power of life and death itself.
fter eight years of George W. Bush, it was easy for the Deep State to poison the souls of the American people, who deluded themselves into thinking an established political party would ever let an outsider rise to leadership.
Bane makes it clear that, before he will grant Bruce death, he intends on tormenting the people of Gotham with a lie – the hope that they can avoid the fate he has planned for them if they commit themselves to the twisted game he has laid before them.
The Only Way to Win Is Not to Play
In the real world, this game is playing out in the halls of every government in existence. It is a sick game, one that teases people with the promise of a utopian future, if only they would unconditionally surrender to the State’s present demands. In truth, like Bane, the State’s only goal is death.
It has never been any other way.
Passover’s revolt against the tyranny of Paganism Daniel Greenfield
The alternative to faith is slavery to the cults of the left.
(April 9, 2023 / JNS) – Over 3,000 years ago a slave revolt took place that has been repeated every year since. It was not just a rebellion against a long since vanished pharaoh whose dynasty and people have been consigned to dust along with his treasure cities that the Jewish slaves had labored over.
The revolutions of the past come and go. Nations rise and fall, and then fall further into the history books. Passover, however, was a remarkable revolt not just against an empire, but paganism, and it remains relevant even all these thousands of years later.
In a recent poll, only 39% said that religion was very important to them. That’s down from 62% a generation ago.
When faith in God leaves, what replaces it isn’t some abstraction of “reason”; it’s superstition (37% of adults under 30 believe in astrology), cults of personality, conspiracy theories and the conviction that we are now gods who can destroy the planet and change gender at will.
The story of Passover is a testament of faith: It’s the account of an absolutely degraded people still continuing to believe, for centuries and later millennia, that their salvation, passed down by tradition, would come from a God they had never seen or heard, but it’s also the revelation that slavery is not just physical, but also spiritual. Just as true liberation comes from God, true slavery comes when we abandon faith and degrade ourselves under the soulless tyranny of paganism.
What the heck is really going on? This explains it all. Tierney’s Real News
Dec 12, 2022 – SUNDANCE: Shortly after 9/11, Vice President Dick Cheney instructed the National Security State to view all Americans as potential threats.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was formed.
The DHS, ODNI, DOJ and FBI became the four pillars of a NEW institution. Atop these pillars is where you will find the Fourth Branch of Government – the Intelligence Branch.
After September 11, 2001, the US electronic surveillance system – that was originally created to monitor threats from abroad – was retooled to monitor threats inside our own country. That is when all of our electronic ‘metadata’ came under federal surveillance. That’s exactly what Edward Snowden tried to point out.
Later, Barack Obama and Eric Holder weaponized that national surveillance system so that their political opposition became the MAIN targets. I believe Obama hired Podesta to complete this task.
The preexisting Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ) were then repurposed to become two of the four pillars of the domestic national security apparatus: a domestic surveillance state.
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Why I Don’t Believe There Ever Was a Covid Virus By Dr Mike Yeadon
April 8, 2023 – I’ve grown increasingly frustrated about the way debate is controlled around the topic of origins of the alleged novel virus, SARS-CoV-2, and I have come to disbelieve it’s ever been in circulation, causing massive scale illness and death.
Concerningly, almost no one will entertain this possibility, despite the fact that molecular biology is the easiest discipline in which to cheat. That’s because you really cannot do it without computers, and sequencing requires complex algorithms and, importantly, assumptions. Tweaking algorithms and assumptions, you can hugely alter the conclusions.
This raises the question of why there is such an emphasis on the media storm around Fauci, Wuhan and a possible lab escape. After all, the ‘perpetrators’ have significant control over the media. There’s no independent journalism at present. It is not as though they need to embarrass the establishment. I put it to readers that they’ve chosen to do so.
So who do I mean by ‘they’ and ‘the perpetrators? There are a number of candidates competing for this position, with their drug company accomplices, several of whom are named in Paula Jardine’s excellent five-part series for TCW, Anatomy of the sinister Covid project. High on the list is the ‘enabling’ World Economic Forum and their many political acolytes including Justin Trudeau and Jacinda Ardern.
But that doesn’t answer the question why are they focusing on the genesis of the virus. In my view, they are doing their darnedest to make sure you regard this event exactly as they want you to. Specifically, that there was a novel virus.
I’m not alone in believing that myself at the beginning of the ‘pandemic’, but over time I’ve seen sufficient evidence to cast strong doubt on that idea. Additionally, when considered as part of a global coup d’état, I have put myself in the position of the most senior, hidden perpetrators. In a Q&A, they would learn that the effect of a released novel pathogen couldn’t be predicted accurately. It might burn out rapidly. Or it might turn out to be quite a lot more lethal than they’d expected, demolishing advanced civilisations. Those top decision-makers would, I submit, conclude that this natural risk is intolerable to them. They crave total control, and the wide range of possible outcomes from a deliberate release militates against this plan of action: ‘No, we’re not going to do this. Come back with a plan with very much reduced uncertainty on outcomes.’
The alternative I think they’ve used is to add one more lie to the tall stack of lies which has surrounded this entire affair. This lie is that there has ever been in circulation a novel respiratory virus which, crucially, caused massive-scale illness and deaths. In fact, there hasn’t.
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America’s Broken Health Care: Diagnosis and Prescription John Abramson
Author, Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on March 5, 2023, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on “Big Pharma.”
I developed a serious cardiac arrhythmia, ventricular tachycardia, seven years ago. It worsened over the past summer and early fall, and over the past six weeks I’ve had several ambulance rides and hospitalizations. And my experience through this illustrates the good side as well as the bad side of medicine today.
On the good side, I was fortunate to have the attention of two world-class doctors who spent six hours, one going inside my heart, the other coming through my chest wall to the outside of my heart, to map electrically the aberrant signals in my heart and to ablate them. Since then, I’ve not had a problem.
On the bad side, two days after the procedure, I was in the intensive care unit when a cardiologist came by on rounds. He advocates a wider use of cholesterol-lowering statin medications than I do, and he started to cite the literature about why I should be taking more cholesterol-lowering medicine than I already was. I asked him if he had read the studies underlying that literature, and of course he had. I then asked him if he understood that the endpoint of many of those studies wasn’t really appropriate to determine the benefit of statins, and he acknowledged there was some debate about that. Finally, I asked if he was aware that when peer-reviewed articles are published in medical journals—even the most reputable medical journals—the peer reviewers don’t have access to the actual data from the clinical trials being reviewed. And he answered, somewhat meekly, that yes, he was aware of that.
In other words, he was aware that his recommendation that I increase my use of statin drugs was based entirely on incompletely vetted commercially-sponsored and largely commercially-influenced medical journal articles. This gets to the heart of the problem of the commercial takeover of the medical knowledge that doctors believe in and implement.
But before continuing that thought, let me step back and explain why I begin from the assumption that U.S. health care is on the wrong track.
How the globalists take illogical concepts and turn them into pillars of our culture
“L. Goudsmit. Words matter. It is the obfuscation and perversion of words that people must pay attention to. In 2008, when Obama promised to transform the nation, he used the word “transform” in the Muslim tradition of taqiyyah – lying in the service of Islam. When a Muslim claims that Islam is a religion of peace, it means the world will be at peace when the whole world is Muslim. That is not how Americans understand the word “peace.” So it is with the word transform – the public did not understand in 2008, that Obama’s Marxist intentions were to collapse America from within. Marxists use word obfuscation to take concepts like freedom and peace and environmental protections, to seduce the public into accepting their destructive policies. The public hears the word freedom, peace, and environmental protection – and that is ALL they hear – they don’t read the fine print. They don’t recognize the huckster and his humanitarian hoax that presents destructive policies as altruistic and compassionate. BUYER BEWARE!”
An example from the UN Environment Program. The plan is laid out for embedding the idea that health and biodiversity are inextricably linked–to push the One Health agenda as outlined below. By MERYL NASS
It’s important to get a good grasp of how globalist organizations like the UN, WHO and World Economic Forum have taken concepts that everyone agrees on, such as the need to protect the environment, prevent species extinction, eat healthy food, and improve our agricultural practices and twisted them to usher in their own agenda.
Here is one example. Just a few years ago, the globalists decided that ‘biodiversity’ needed to be forcibly intertwined with health. By decree, biodiversity considerations were to be integrated into One Health. And the Conference of the Parties, in #1 below: “recognized the importance of ecosystem-based approaches for the delivery of multiple benefits to human health and well-being.” Hello?
“The Last War We Can Afford To Fight”: Tucker Carlson Sounds Alarm Over De-Dollarization, Slams Biden Admin For Pissing Off World [14:08] BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, APR 06, 2023 – As we’ve noted several times of late, a growing number of countries are threatening the US dollar’s status as the global reserve currency by conducting global trade without it – you know, the thing Saddam and Gaddafi threatened to do before they were ‘liberated’ from their mortal coils for other stated reasons.
Some recent headlines;
- “No Reason” For Malaysia To Rely On US Dollar, PM Warns As Yuan Influence Grows
- De-Dollarization Just Got Real
- Here Are 7 Signs That Global De-Dollarization Has Just Shifted Into Overdrive
- De-Dollarization Has Begun
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has picked up on this, big time, noting that the process began after the Biden administration started wielding the dollar as a political weapon by freezing US dollars held by Russians.
Carlson cites an article from the Daily Caller, in which authors E.J. Antoni and Peter St. Onge write:
DID YOU CATCH WHAT TRUMP JUST SAID?! [IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SHAM INDICTMENT.] [19:31 – 00:00 Trump’s words of hope; 03:09 Trump is our ONLY choice; 07:09 Trump’s sham indictment will fail before trial; 12:31 Trump issues somber warning. Did you catch it?] Black Conservative Patriot
April 5, 2023 – 00:00 Trump’s words of hope; 03:09 Trump is our ONLY choice; 07:09 Trump’s sham indictment will fail before trial; 12:31 Trump issues somber warning. Did you catch it?
