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The Criminalization of Dissent

CJ Hopkins

One of the hallmarks of totalitarian systems is the criminalization of dissent. Not just the stigmatization of dissent or the demonization of dissent, but the formal criminalization of dissent, and any other type of opposition to the official ideology of the totalitarian system. Global capitalism has been inching its way toward this step for quite some time, and now, apparently, it is ready to take it.

Germany has been leading the way. For over a year, anyone questioning or protesting the “Covid emergency measures” or the official Covid-19 narrative has been demonized by the government and the media, and, sadly, but not completely unexpectedly, the majority of the German public. And now such dissent is officially “extremism.”

Yes, that’s right, in “New Normal” Germany, if you dissent from the official state ideology, you are now officially a dangerous “extremist.” The German Intelligence agency (the “BfV”) has even invented a new category of “extremists” in order to allow themselves to legally monitor anyone suspected of being “anti-democratic and/or delegitimizing the state in a way that endangers security,” like…you know, non-violently protesting, or speaking out against, or criticizing, or satirizing, the so-called “New Normal.”

Naturally, I’m a little worried, as I have engaged in most of these “extremist” activities.

My thoughtcrimes are just sitting there on the Internet waiting to be scrutinized by the BfV. They’re probably Google-translating this column right now, compiling a list of all the people reading it, and their Facebook friends and Twitter followers, and professional associates, and family members, and anyone any of the aforementioned people have potentially met with, or casually mentioned, who might have engaged in similar thoughtcrimes.

You probably think I’m joking, don’t you?

I’m not joking. Not even slightly. The Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution (“Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz”) is actively monitoring anyone questioning or challenging the official “New Normal” ideology…the “Covid Deniers,” the “conspiracy theorists,” the “anti-vaxxers,” the dreaded “Querdenkers” (i.e., people who “think outside the box”), and anyone else they feel like monitoring who has refused to join the Covidian Cult.

We’re now official enemies of the state, no different than any other “terrorists”…or, OK, technically, a little different.

As The New York Times reported last week (German Intelligence Puts Coronavirus Deniers Under Surveillance), “the danger from coronavirus deniers and conspiracy theorists does not fit the mold posed by the usual politically driven groups, including those on the far left and right, or by Islamic extremists.”

Still, according to the German Interior Ministry, we diabolical “Covid deniers,” “conspiracy theorists,” and “anti-vaxxers” have “targeted the state itself, its leaders, businesses, the press, and globalism,” and have “attacked police officers” and “defied civil authorities.”

Moreover, back in August of 2020, in a dress rehearsal for the “Storming of the Capitol,” “Covid-denying” insurrectionists “scaled the steps of Parliament” (i.e., the Reichstag).

Naturally, The Times neglects to mention that this so-called “Storming of the Reichstag” was performed by a small sub-group of protesters to whom the German authorities had granted a permit to assemble (apart from the main demonstration, which was massive and completely peaceful) on the steps of the Reichstag, which the German police had, for some reason, left totally unguarded.

In light of the background of the person the German authorities issued this “Steps-of-the-Reichstag” protest permit to — a known former-NPD functionary, in other words, a neo-Nazi — well, the whole thing seemed a bit questionable to me … but what do I know? I’m just a “conspiracy theorist.”

According to Al Jazeera, the German Interior Ministry explained that these querdenking “extremists encourage supporters to ignore official orders and challenge the state monopoly on the use of force.”

Seriously, can you imagine anything more dangerous? Mindlessly following orders and complying with the state’s monopoly on the use of force are the very cornerstones of modern democracy…or some sort of political system, anyway.

But, see, there I go, again “being anti-democratic” and “delegitimizing the state,” not to mention “relativizing the Holocaust” (also a criminal offense in Germany) by comparing one totalitarian system to another, as I have done repeatedly on social media, and in a column I published in November of 2020, when the parliament passed the “Infection Protection Act,” which bears no comparison whatsoever to the “Enabling Act of 1933.”

This isn’t just a German story, of course.

As I reported in a column in February, The “New Normal” War on Domestic Terror is a global war, and it’s just getting started. According to a Department of Homeland Security “National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin” (and the “liberal” corporate-media propaganda machine), “democracy” remains under imminent threat from these “ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority” and other such “grievances fueled by false narratives” including “anger over Covid-19 restrictions.”

These Covid-denying “violent extremists” have apparently joined forces with the “white-supremacist, Russia-backed, Trump-loving “Putin-Nazis” that terrorized “democracy” for the past four years, and almost overthrew the US government by sauntering around inside the US Capitol Building without permission, scuffling with police, attacking furniture, and generally acting rude and unruly. 

No, they didn’t actually kill anyone, as the corporate media all reported they did, but trespassing in a government building and putting your feet up on politicians’ desks is pretty much exactly the same as “terrorism.”

Or whatever. It’s not like the truth actually matters, not when you are whipping up mass hysteria over imaginary “Russian assets,” “white-supremacist militias,” “Covid-denying extremists,” “anti-vax terrorists,” and “apocalyptic plagues.”

When you’re rolling out a new official ideology — a pathologized-totalitarian ideology — and criminalizing all dissent, the point is not to appear to be factual. The point is just to terrorize the shit out of people.

As Hermann Goering famously explained regarding how to lead a country to war (and the principle holds true for any big transition, like the one we are experiencing currently):

[T]he people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

Go back and read those quotes from the German Interior Ministry and the DHS again slowly. The message they are sending is unmistakeably clear. It might not seem all that new, but it is. Yes, they have been telling us “we are being attacked” and denouncing critics, protesters, and dissidents for twenty years (i.e., since the War on Terror was launched in 2001, and for the last four years in their War on Populism), but this is a whole new level of it…a fusion of official narratives and their respective official enemies into a singular, aggregate official narrative in which dissent will no longer be permitted.

Instead, it will be criminalized, or it will be pathologized.

Seriously, go back and read those quotes again. Global capitalist governments and their corporate media mouthpieces are telling us, in no uncertain terms, that “objection to their authority” will no longer be tolerated, nor will dissent from their official narratives.

Such dissent will be deemed “dangerous” and above all “false.” It will not be engaged with or rationally debated. It will be erased from public view. There will be an inviolable, official “reality.” Any deviation from official “reality” or defiance of the “civil authorities” will be labelled “extremism,” and dealt with accordingly.

This is the essence of totalitarianism, the establishment of an inviolable official ideology and the criminalization of dissent. And that is what is happening, right now. A new official ideology is being established. Not a state ideology. A global ideology. The “New Normal” is that official ideology. Technically, it is an official post-ideology, an official “reality,” an axiomatic “fact,” which only “criminals” and “psychopaths” would deny.

I’ll be digging deeper into “New Normal” ideology and “pathologized totalitarianism” in my future columns, and…sorry, they probably won’t be very funny. For now I’ll leave you with two more quotes. The emphasis is mine, as ever.

Here’s California State Senator Richard Pan, author of an op-ed in the Washington Post: “Anti-vax extremism is akin to domestic terrorism,” quoted in the Los Angeles Times:

These extremists have not yet been held accountable, so they continue to escalate violence against the body public…We must now summon the political will to demand that domestic terrorists face consequences for their words and actions. Our democracy and our lives depend on it…They’ve been building alliances with white supremacists, conspiracy theorists and [others] on the far right…”

And here’s Peter Hotez in Nature magazine:

The United Nations and the highest levels of governments must take direct, even confrontational, approaches with Russia, and move to dismantle anti-vaccine groups in the United States. Efforts must expand into the realm of cybersecurity, law enforcement, public education and international relations. A high-level inter-agency task force reporting to the UN secretary-general could assess the full impact of anti-vaccine aggression, and propose tough, balanced measures. The task force should include experts who have tackled complex global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks and nuclear armament, because anti-science is now approaching similar levels of peril. It is becoming increasingly clear that advancing immunization requires a counter-offensive.”

We’ll be hearing a lot more rhetoric like this as this new, more totalitarian structure of global capitalism gradually develops … probably a good idea to listen carefully, and assume the New Normals mean exactly what they say.

CJ Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and political satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing and Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. His dystopian novel, Zone 23, is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. Volumes I and II of his Consent Factory Essays are published by Consent Factory Publishing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Content, Inc. He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org.

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Terry Silk
Terry Silk
May 10, 2021 9:18 AM

Hi another excellent article. Yesterday watched John Cullen doing his ‘bedtime stories’ and he reads the transcript from an FBI statement before the committee of appropriations in the US. Here is the link to Youtube. https://youtu.be/bFRlEmFxQrQ. Very interesting and if anybody doesn’t believe there’s a worldwide conspiracy they need to wake up and smell the BS.

Harryt Rogers
Harryt Rogers
May 10, 2021 8:53 AM

The original Definition of Fascism (bunch of sticks) is an Italian word. It was used by Mussolini as a metaphor to explain that a single stick can be broken easily however a bunch of sticks is much much stronger.

This idea was nothing new but Mussolini was a great orator as was Hitler. They both understood the weakness of the people who at that time (perhaps always) were looking for something or someone to blame for their current position.

Hitler used the unfairness of the Versailles Treaty and was very successful whilst also like Mussolini came up with a specific logo and uniform that the plebs could unite under.

Uniforms are very important in the indoctrination of youth. When young people feel they have no direction the easiest way to indoctrinate them is to make them part of a group hence a common form of dress that differentiates them from others.

Uniforms are critical throughout society for passing power to different sections of society. The real aim is to induce fear at the sight of a uniform. Its been happening since the caveman put on a bearskin rug.

Hitler also stole the salute that was originated by Mussolini. Notice all the hand signals that are used today to signify being part of a group culture. (eg. A raised fist).

Democracy, (Greek) was only for the privileged class when it was introduced.

The process of tyranny usually is slow in its instigation and all so called “left and right” leaders use the power of control. They all use the same rhetoric whether they are seen as left or right wing. (The definition of these terms for another time)

Don’t simply assume that any person who wants power will work for the good of the people and equally don’t assume that the people are “good” and will respond. Corruption is totally endemic in politics and has always been that way.

Always ask the question “Why is she or he doing this?”

wilmers31
wilmers31
May 10, 2021 6:38 AM

Germany, after the war, has bred people who were system conform and the very few who were not, were removed from society. Benno Ohnesorg was shot by police, others were imprisoned, died on the operation table, had their careers destroyed so they became insane – or had their inheritance stolen by the state which has happened to me.

After 1945 there was de-nazification in Germany. It was carried out by the allied forces. Every adult and near adult was taken in and questioned, by Americans in particular. They looked at those whose vest was not quite spotless with alertness.

One young journalist had written for the NS propaganda ministry. With a large young family he was putty in their hands. They arranged for a bank loan so he could create a newspaper, not in his hometown Berlin but in Munich where the Secr. Serv. was not too far. A willing informer who cannot get out and funds himself, that’s very practical. Bowing to power.

Another two were Helmut Kohl and Leo Kirch. One had a bit of a problem with a dodgy High School degree, the other was close to difficulties for stolen property. Both were willing informers, protected by the US, manipulating things for US ideology. When it looked shakey that Kohl would get the position that would lead to being Chancellor, the predecessor Rainer Barzel was paid a fantastic sum of money to vacate his position in favour of Kohl.

Democracy? Of course not, the US system had decided that Kohl must now get that position and bingo. Nobody protested, nobody said a word because the overlord had bred willing sheep and they had decided for Kohl.

Dissenters can never be outlawed completely. The worse the system gets, the more dissenters. I was system conform but when the Kohl Régime stole our land they changed me into a dissident.

Waldorf
Waldorf
May 11, 2021 9:17 AM
Reply to  wilmers31

Denazification was incomplete. For example, quite a lot of the judiciary, certainly in West Germany, were holdovers from the Third Reich. This left traces – for example, a lot of people sentenced to death and executed by Nazi courts were not rehabilitated until the 1990s.
The Cold War was a factor – ex-Nazi officials tended to be seen as reliably anti-Communist in the Western zones, and worth keeping in place.

falcemartello
falcemartello
May 9, 2021 4:30 AM

Buona Domenica and Happy Mothers day to all. Pace e Bene.
From 9/11 to this day western states have been njoying an epistemological control on what is and what isn’t. Truth is replaced with the illusion of truth. Bracket crepe fascism and the fictionalization of all aspects of western economies have reduced we the sheeple to simple minions and nats to our plutocratic class.Nihilism has replaced humanism hence shifting human contacts to selfies and the uberfication to all aspects of ones western lifestyle. “It’s all about me” culture. The largest wealth gap exceeding the Gilded age has no significance or importance in today’s day and age. The manipulation of thought and sentiment like the phrase that came from this scamdemic “I own nothing but I am happy” normalizing this expression with future generations. It’s all about me.
So the epistemological paradigm shift has been to normalize wealth gap and the ever increasing economic disparity between we the sheeple and our overlords
So the plutocrats and their puppets(Politicos,Health Care Officials and Economist) all play their part in criminalizing dissent and poverty. .
QUI TACET CONSENTIRE VIDETURE

Leo
Leo
May 8, 2021 4:41 PM

excellent article is much appreciated, because one who knows that the new normal is unnatural also looks for his peers to stay informed and know how to react. I got to the point of making the decision that requires leaving the city, with a son on the way in 10 years I do not want this technocracy to fall on him, I will move my things to the countryside, I will try not to depend so much on the system and I will share this with descendants. greetings from Argentina!

Harry Rogers
Harry Rogers
May 9, 2021 12:19 AM
Reply to  Leo

I dont think you will regret moving. It takes quite a while to wash away years of indoctrination but it is achievable. I wish you well.

Per/Norway
Per/Norway
May 7, 2021 9:21 PM

not just germany..
“”The Irish state has made it clear with actions in Athlone that they will misuse legislation to confiscate children of political dissidents”https://anti-empire.com/irishman-who-filmed-garda-disrupting-mass-finds-garda-at-end-of-his-bed-at-330am-and-his-kids-taken-away/

Harry Rogers
Harry Rogers
May 7, 2021 3:20 AM

 None of this is surprising if you have lived through the same processes which have happened throughout history. Sadly it’s the majority who either cowardly acquiesce to authority or come to the conclusion that its not worth the trouble to destroy their own lives for the benefit of others.

In peoples down time, the following books may be useful as they recount FIRST HAND the tragedy of what humans do to each other but also how they justify their actions.

A Short History Of Decay Emil Cioram
Hitlers Willing Executioners David Goldhagen
One David Karp
The Outsider Albert Camus
Hitlers Furies Wendy Lower
Hope Against Hope Nadezhda Mandelstam
How I Came to Know Fish Ota Pavel
Diary of A Man In Despair Friedrich Reck
Children of The Arbat Anatoly Rybakov
The Burning of The World Bela Zombory
The Smell Of Humans Erno Szep

Only a short list (hundreds more) because of attention span these days but if you read only one of these ir will give you more knowledge on what to expect from society.

martin
martin
May 7, 2021 6:36 AM
Reply to  Harry Rogers

Thank you Harry. Please post more. Reading may have been abolished, but most people never did read. Books actually are much easier to get now in hard copy or electronic for those that want them.

Harry Rogers
Harry Rogers
May 7, 2021 9:29 AM
Reply to  martin

Well Martin I hope people don’t get too depressed when they read some of these , personally it made me more enlightened. I didn’t find any solutions to the human condition but understood it much better… so to use a current example now happening in Myanmar , I expected it.

Anatomy of a Genocide: Death of Buczacz Omer Bartov
This Way For The Gas Chamber Ladies and Gentlemen Tadeusz Borowski
The Heart of A Dog Mikhail Bulgakov
The Village Ivan Bunin
The War With The Newts Karel Capek
Inside Italy Carlo Franzero
Fear Anatoly Rybakov
Destiny of A Revolution Victor Serge
The Cowards Joseh Skvorecky

I give no opinion on any of these books because many are written by the people who suffered and I felt duty bound to read their stories and humbled to even consider my own opinion. They speak for themselves often with very constrained emotions.

martin
martin
May 8, 2021 12:38 PM
Reply to  Harry Rogers

The Unwomanly Face of War by or compiled by Svetlana Alexievich is good.

And Quiet flows the Don made me laugh when the hero goes home to his wife after a tiring day shooting prisoners. Shokholov.

Harry Rogers
Harry Rogers
May 9, 2021 12:17 AM
Reply to  martin

Thanks Martin

Amphy64
Amphy64
Jun 16, 2021 10:37 PM
Reply to  Harry Rogers

My first time posting because I particularly wanted to suggest A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel. The revolutionaries’ stories are especially important to me, and a distinctive example because it shows how a government even with genuine good intentions can be overwhelmed in an emergency and end up stuck in a spiral of worsening decisions, with bad faith actors there to influence it -Mantel doesn’t make it clear but spies were involved-, and I’m not sure I’d have been against this so quickly without it. Of course you can then look to read some of their story in their own words -it’s why I learnt French but there’s a decent amount translated into English-, but this gives a context first.

Donald Duck
Donald Duck
May 7, 2021 3:08 PM
Reply to  Harry Rogers

Here’s some more:

The Fear of Freedom – Erich Fromm
The Mass Psychology of Fascism – Wilhelm Reich
Fascism and Big Business – Daniel Guerin
Mario and the Magician – Thomas Mann
We (my favourite) – Yevgeny Zamyatin
Burmese Days – George Orwell
The Rebel – Albert Camus
The Iron Heel and People of the Abyss – Jack London

There you go that should keep the brain ticking over.

2fat2surf
2fat2surf
May 8, 2021 2:01 PM
Reply to  Donald Duck

You folks keep bring up fascism all the time. Who the hell actually claims to be a fascist? Where can one go to join the local fascist party?. And most important who among the millions of people out there can even define what fascism is.

But I know what Bolshevism is and I can tell you right here. It is about one thing and one thing only, acquiring and keeping power no matter how murderous and ruthless you have to be.

It aint’ Fascists running things here in the US it’s Bolshies.

George Mc
George Mc
May 8, 2021 7:09 PM
Reply to  2fat2surf

You Yanks keep bring up Bolshevism all the time. Who the hell actually claims to be a Bolshevik? Where can one go to join the local Bolshevik party?. And most important who among the millions of people out there can even define what Bolshevism is?

(“acquiring and keeping power no matter how murderous and ruthless you have to be” can be applied to any sect no matter what they call themselves.)

Lizzyh7
Lizzyh7
May 9, 2021 6:27 PM
Reply to  2fat2surf

Huh, I wonder, do you realize you do the bidding of fascists when you insist on bringing up Bolshevism/communism as THE problem we are facing? It all sounds rather Cold Warrior to me, same old scary narrative of government alone being the problem, ignoring the corporate ownership elephant in the room. Our global owners do appreciate that diversion and since it is such an old one, it still works very well with a brainwashed public that only sees Big Brother but ignores his corporate masters pulling the strings. Bravo!

Waldorf
Waldorf
May 10, 2021 7:55 PM
Reply to  Lizzyh7

Quite a few Americans think it is “Bolshevik” if they are not being robbed blind by their health provider.

Malcolm Reynolds
Malcolm Reynolds
May 20, 2021 9:19 PM
Reply to  2fat2surf

Who the hell actually claims to be a fascist?”

The Nazis in the Democrat party vociferously deny they are, but they are.

Harryt Rogers
Harryt Rogers
May 10, 2021 8:27 AM
Reply to  Donald Duck

Thanks for that. Have read a couple of those.

Phillis Stein
Phillis Stein
May 12, 2021 3:07 PM
Reply to  Donald Duck

I have Erich Fromm’s book, I thought it was called Escape from Freedom, from memory.

Doctortrinate
Doctortrinate
May 6, 2021 8:26 PM

I care Nothing for officially misshapen opinion, I think them/it a grotesque rabble of blabbering slopsuckers, an obsolescent collective of anile swine…therfore, if refusing to slavishly follow their commiserable prattle is considered – dissension, then it with guiltless excitement and the greatest possible satisfaction that I volunteer my variance.

stu
stu
May 7, 2021 2:19 AM
Reply to  Doctortrinate

what a crock. the real threat to free speech are the non state actors, the violent cults, religious extremists, the gang stalkers, the zersetzung set…humans are a war virus trapped on an endless war planet and you’re too dumb to see it…

James Robertson
James Robertson
May 7, 2021 7:53 AM
Reply to  stu

Nice satire there. Especially funny when you tried to call other people too dumb!

Doctortrinate
Doctortrinate
May 7, 2021 11:14 PM
Reply to  stu

“humans are a war virus trapped on an endless war planet…”

and with your added insult, stunning supposition btw….You were reduced to that you claim to despise..

Malcolm Reynolds
Malcolm Reynolds
May 20, 2021 9:20 PM
Reply to  stu

You were in search of rabid fascist democrats and came up short in the intellect dept.

Ooink
Ooink
May 7, 2021 11:55 AM
Reply to  Doctortrinate

Nicely put, Doctortrinate. You certainly have a way with worms.

TFS
TFS
May 6, 2021 6:56 PM

Dissenters….yeah I know it, the Trump people….liars the lot of them, and Nazi to boot.

If I was a Democrat, seeing the Reps challenge the voting, I would say ‘Let’s get them there day in court’.The exceptional process will show them, their Rep leadership and World that they were incorrect and a simple process backed by the Dems would show them this.

So here we stand………….Reps and Dems facing off. What do we do?

  1. Send in the Military and bring about Democracy.
  2. Send in the UN, and even more scarier prospect

So what’s the issue with the Dems? Maybe all that’s different is that the Dems are the left handed cheek around the spinchter, called Washington.

TFS
TFS
May 7, 2021 9:13 AM
Reply to  TFS

Can’t help feeling the Dems have something to hide.

…..due to an alleged “significant security risk to law enforcement data utilized by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office as well as numerous federal agencies.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/arizona-elections-chief-alleges-problems-maricopa-county-audit-2020-election

Ernest Judd
Ernest Judd
May 8, 2021 11:35 PM
Reply to  TFS

Demoncraps are the “Bolshies” in U$A society.
They already have the Jewish Lobby parasitizing virtually every government agency from municipal to federal. Just like Canada, but much more transparent.

Kenneth Thorberg
Kenneth Thorberg
May 6, 2021 5:29 PM

I have to share this article which is about a meme that´s gone viral in Sweden. It gives the impression being announced from the official health authorities using their logo and the message below the picture translates ; “Official Health Authorities declares there is no need wearing a face mask when travelling alone in your car.”

And besides the logo reads ; ” Think logica l- Don´t be an idiot”

Meme uppmanar bilförare sluta använda munskydd när de kör ensamma – NewsVoice

J Burns
J Burns
May 6, 2021 1:58 PM

You might not be entirely accurate in the use of the term ‘capitalism’.

What you are describing is a type of feudalism which can take root inside a capitalist system just as it can a socialist one, or anything in between. What we have, growing in the West, looks like a political-economic pyramid scheme, run for the benefit of a governing / bureaucratic class, media owners, a technological ‘elite’, and small section of the middle classes at the expense (in terms of wealth and self-determination) of everyone else.

The base of this pyramid is supported by a far larger section of the middle classes, academics and media workers who have either become economically dependent upon its growth, or hope to benefit from it and climb to a higher position within it. These groups would suffer most – as with any pyramid scheme / feudal system – if it were to collapse, so they need to invest heavily in terms of career choices, time, belief and material wealth. The pyramid relies on a constant supply of these resources for fuel, until (as is the case with any pyramid scheme), it runs out of willing contributors.

The pyramid – encompassing and controlling mass-communication (at least the coherent sort) opportunistically utilises moral panic and fear in the form of a ‘narrative’ – a loosely chained set of relentlessly propagandised belief systems – for several purposes:

1. To keep the majority outside the pyramid distracted while their pockets are picked, their standards of living decreased, their lives controlled and their democratic agency diminished. The latter two phenomenon are as much a by-product of the anxiety of a group toward the threat of ‘outsiders’ as anything that suits its aims – they are likely counter productive in the long run and will lead to the pyramid’s eventual catastrophic collapse.

2. To distinguish members from outsiders. As members of the pyramid are difficult to define by outward characteristics, and loyalty to the pyramid must be demonstrated for economic / social advancement in the system, it uses adherence to the narrative to establish affiliation. Actual belief in the narrative is also unimportant, it acts only as a set of shibboleths; a badge of membership. This is why outsiders, though largely unaware of the existence of the pyramid beyond a feeling of separateness and disenfranchisement, often view its members as hypocrites. They sometimes lash out at this, which according to the narrative of the pyramid is ‘populism’, a term invariably used with a sneer.

The composition of the narrative is arbitrary, and necessarily mutates in order to maintain its effectiveness at providing distinguishing features. It is opportunistic as it tends to grab at any divisive or worrisome societal, environmental or political phenomena to form its component parts. Constants however are that it can confer an attractive sense of moral superiority upon adherents, conjure up the spectre of danger and threatening change everywhere possible, and present the solutions offered by the topmost members of the pyramid as the only viable responses. Whether the masses believe or not is immaterial – the distraction it creates in anxiety and conflict is enough to enable (1) which is the only important result. Another constant is the obsession in the narrative with poorly-defined concepts like ‘sustainability’, which may be psychological projection of the inner fears of members of the pyramid for its continued fragile existence.

Incoherence and rage sown outside the mainstream narrative, in the realms of new media and culture (‘messaging’; the ‘conversation’), helps the aims of the pyramid too – through contrast, it helps people find certainty and comfort within the safety of the narrative, which in turn keeps people usefully disoriented and fearful. It plants the seed of conflict and division where it can in these areas by reducing all discourse to bickering over semantics (by attempting to define the meaning of language), and privilege (by defining and dividing people between the extreme ends of the traditional political spectrum of left / right and leveraging envy and historic resentments). It champions any philosophy which incorporates subjectivity and relativism in order to reduce the inner world, and the opportunity within it for meaning and coherent reasoning.

These might sound like the rantings of a tinfoil-hatted, disaffected conspiracy theorist, and perhaps they are. However I’d argue that it doesn’t take a conspiracy to achieve this state of affairs, and that it is by no means new.

Firstly, no members of any pyramid scheme will ever admit – even to themselves – that they are part of a pyramid scheme. All that is required is a level of extreme corruption at the top of the pyramid with the unwitting complicity of those below. They might on some level know what they are part of, but once invested, must justify its continued growth and existence or lose heavily. This justification forms part of the narrative of the pyramid (for example, ‘saving the world’, ‘addressing historical injustice’, ‘protecting people’), so in a sense it is circular and self-perpetuating. This was likely the case in any historic feudal system until force was required to keep them in place. The justifications of the past might have centred on the idea that people needed the wisdom and guidance of kings (messengers and arbiters from God) and their consorts to protect them from themselves and others.

Secondly, in this sense, this phenomenon has existed since the dawn of time. It just rises to prominence under certain societal / economic conditions. The tools of modern communication and control are allowing the current pyramid seen in the West to grow to a previously unseen scale. It remains to be seen whether it will require force to be kept in place, but as this article indicates, it is looking that way.

Thirdly, in many parts of the world, similar pyramids have already become so vast and perilously close to collapse that they are easily identifiable. Look to the kleptomaniacal crony-capitalist oligarchy of Russia, or the increasingly paranoid and insecure dictatorship of the CCP. The circumstances of these nations merely gave them a head-start in establishing their feudal systems.

Laying this state of affairs at the feet of capitalism is like blaming the Chernobyl disaster on dodgy engineering alone. It might be more useful to look at the bigger picture..

Paul Vonharnish
Paul Vonharnish
May 6, 2021 2:50 PM
Reply to  J Burns

Hello J Burns: Excellent analysis of the “situation”. The differences between feudalism and capitalism are pretty thin, yet most civilians wrongly observe the situation as capitalism.

Feudal systems migrate private land ownership into the hands of an “elite” group of individuals, typically supported by militarized governments or oligarchies. How many civilians posses unencumbered title to their own land? Practically zero. It’s feudalism.
This lack of personal land ownership enslaves the public, and dictates the industrial imperative.

Capitalism only defines the terms of financial hierarchy and “property” management…

rubberheid
rubberheid
May 6, 2021 4:45 PM

spot on!

J Burns
J Burns
May 7, 2021 2:58 PM

Thanks Paul! I’ll put my hands up and admit that my use of the term ‘feudalism’ wasn’t very accurate, I just used it as shorthand for an exploitative hierarchical power structure (and grant there are other kinds too). Still, your point about the consequences of lack of land ownership is interesting. I guess ownership of property is a type of power exercised by the individual with consent of society (ie. society agrees not to take my stuff), and the essence of any system of governance is how that power is granted, traded, exercised or limited. If there’s a grain of truth in my rantings, property rights could be further eroded over time by stealth, subsumed by the needs of the largely unproductive political class, then in the future abolished by force in a push for stability if the ‘pyramid’ becomes too heavy to sustain itself. It’s perhaps more likely that long before this point, it will have toppled by either peaceful democratic, or violent undemocratic uprising against it (look at the political changes currently happening in the North of England for the former). Following this, society could have a whole other set of problems to deal with, including picking up the pieces of total economic collapse, and the possibility of disproportionate power held by extreme ideological fringes if previously disenfranchised people have already found refuge in those places.

Paul Vonharnish
Paul Vonharnish
May 7, 2021 10:59 PM
Reply to  J Burns

Hello J Burns: I think your use of the term feudalism was plenty accurate. Landless civilians have no personal stake in the outcomes of governance, because they own nothing but the shirts on their backs.

The feudal model was handed down from the first established city/states in Mesopotamia. Communal tithing and offerings to the temples became “normalized” and landowners eventually owed more and more of their seeds and produce to the demands of temple hierarchies. It indeed became a vast ponzi scheme based on common fears of famine.

The modus hasn’t changed for over 3500 years…

unwarranted smear
unwarranted smear
May 7, 2021 1:51 PM
Reply to  J Burns

Very unusual, a good analysis turns suddenly into a China smearing attempt.

J Burns
J Burns
May 7, 2021 9:38 PM

Not sure how this is smearing China? A country is not its government.

Thiekbalj
Thiekbalj
May 7, 2021 6:13 PM
Reply to  J Burns

One of the best comments I’ve read on off g. Since recently moving from a small city to rural area I notice many more that understand this pyramid dynamic. Capitalism has always been destined to consume itself; this new covid religion is so extreme I think many would be peasants in the ‘Smart City’ see the writing on the wall.

Jane
Jane
May 8, 2021 12:07 AM
Reply to  Thiekbalj

The covid cult is extreme.
Not sure what you mean by “smart peasants.” Citiy dwellers or rural dwellers?

mgeo
mgeo
May 6, 2021 9:10 AM

Totalitarianism is the establishment of an inviolable official ideology, interpretations of developments based on it, and the criminalization of dissent.

Jane
Jane
May 8, 2021 12:15 AM
Reply to  mgeo

interpretations of developments based on it”

Very important point. The ideology is transformed into “reality” by constant reinforcement whereby the cultic myth is used as established axiomatic fact—not requiring any proofs becuase “obvious” or treated as “obvious” and established–on which further arguments or just narratives are based. Thus the original weird idea becomes the basis for a growing edifice of a new “reality.”

Imagine if there were a fatal flaw in the equation 2+2=4. Or in the binary on/off idea of 1/0. None of our systems requiring any basic calculations would work. Engineering would not work. Buildings would just fall down if any materials could ever been transported to a building site in the first place! Native Americans didn’t need 2+2 = 4. They didn’t have the wheel. They hunted for meat and had the skills to support their way of life. Their social systems were built on their creation myths, and all was fine until Europeans came along with vastly advanced technology.

We now have frighteningly advanced technology, but crazy cultic myths are being introduced as the basis for our social system. Myths that don’t add up. Myths that say that 2+2=5.

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
May 6, 2021 7:31 AM

Maybe more people in Melbourne are finally waking up and going enough of this bullshit! Maybe? On the three trains I’ve caught today, a clear majority without a facemask, and on the bus on the way home, only one passenger out of ten people is wearing a mask.
Even the bus driver is maskless!
Welcome open defiance of the ridiculous mandatory mask rule on public transport here which has been going on for months and months.

Harold
Harold
May 6, 2021 8:16 AM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Let’s hope it’s infectious and catches on in Perth, seeing all the masked zombies, even those exercising alone in parks with no-one else around for over 100m, is driving me crazy.

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
May 6, 2021 8:55 AM
Reply to  Harold

I’m taking it as a positive Harold, tho I suspect if there’s some “cases” pop up in Melbourne, it will be back to nearly everyone wearing a mask again.

martin
martin
May 6, 2021 3:54 PM
Reply to  Harold

How many masks did you see once the regulations were lifted last time? None, or practically none. This suggests people wear them to conform with the regulations because they are law abiding, plus there are massive potential fines and you might be made an example of. Mostly people feel they are being socially responsible. There is no ‘covid’ here, even a single ‘case’ brings a lockdown and continues the State of Emergency. People here are not afraid of catching anything, it’s worth the inconvenience to live in a ‘covid’ free zone.

If the injections are enforced under the 2016 Health Act this will have general support. That’s the nightmare.

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Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
May 7, 2021 8:51 AM
Reply to  martin

Just out of curiosity, where are you Martin? I’ve had run ins with several of my (ex?) customers here in Melbourne about the vaccine passports.
They were completely in favour of “anti vaxxers” being banned from venues like pubs, restaurants and cinemas if they refused the jab. They obviously forgot their history.
I even said to two of them “do you remember what happened in Nazi Germany, do you remember the yellow star of David? Haven’t seen them since, and that was 6 weeks ago.

Harold
Harold
May 7, 2021 1:18 PM
Reply to  martin

Have to agree, but it’s an inconvenience that carries a greater threat to their health than the disease they’re supposedly trying to protect against for most people. I was looking at the mask mandate legislation yesterday, it’s authorised by the police commissioner in WA under state of emergency legislation, where as the eastern states seem to be health directives from the chief medical officer. If that doesn’t prove that WA is now a police state I don’t know what does.

martin
martin
May 8, 2021 2:16 AM
Reply to  Harold

Yes, and it’s the same State of Emergency that gives powers of forcible injection. It’s hard to believe the majority would support that but it would creep in, and would not be on the news. A few contacts tracked down here and there and suitably dealt with out of sight. Then a few more next ‘outbreak’.

This is feeding fear, mostly my own I know but however bad it may be in the UK there is a huge groundswell of opposition there underneath that I don’t see here in WA. I joke and say ‘once a prison colony, always a prison colony’ but my own grown up kids don’t get the humour. I think it’s the prosperity here that makes it like that. McGowan is the Lord Protector.

Watt
Watt
May 6, 2021 12:51 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Hey Gezzah,

Same in London. Mask wearing on the tube here has been almost total until recently. Not so good as round your way, but more mask free than ever before now, since this nonsense began, that is

All the best. Stay bright!.

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
May 6, 2021 1:00 PM
Reply to  Watt

Thanks Watt, you too. Have also noticed in the last few days, there’s hardly been any announcements over the PA system that facemasks are mandatory on all public transport, whereas not that long ago, every single train trip there was at least one announcement. Have a good day👍

Nick
Nick
May 7, 2021 8:45 AM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Went ice skating with the wife yesterday. A couple of younger kids were on with masks. Everyone was hesitant to go on,till i went on maskless. Suddenly, out of 50 people,only 3 had their masks on(although worringly they were teens). I understand how you feel,the elation from seeing bare faces was greater than the exercise rush.

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
May 7, 2021 9:17 AM
Reply to  Nick

Good on ya Nick👍 I really feel that others will lose their fear the more they see others (like us) defying the mandatory masks bollocks.
2 of the trains I got yesterday were out in the suburbs, and I do see a lot more maskless on public transport out in the ‘burbs than in or near the city.
The second morning train I got from a suburban station, well, at least 70 High School kids from two Catholic Colleges all got on at the same station. None of them wearing masks from what I saw, and it seemed like a majority of adult passengers were also maskless.

Nick
Nick
May 7, 2021 10:15 AM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Lets hope it keeps upsurging. It really is as simple as take the damn thing off. I now work from home as my work were enforcing mask wearing and i refused to wear it at work. Never have wore one.
In my day to day i drop links and info for people to look at..i never preach…just present alternatives such as informed consent with the jab(no one i speak to knew of yellow card and vaers.) Presenting the adverse reactions is best,as they are never reported and also the evidence this is a stage 3 experimental trial. Once people realise this,they realise the level of lies and can go down tje rabbit hole regarding pcr ct,actual ons adjusted mortality rate etc. If they know the list of side effects and how the jab could really hurt them,then self interest kicks in. Given the vaers and yellow card are gov sites,they won’t question validity either.
Anyway,best of luck brother,keep spreading the word.

Kenneth Thorberg
Kenneth Thorberg
May 6, 2021 5:15 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Congrats to sanity in Melbourne. The turning point among the masses is on the rise.

noseBag
noseBag
May 6, 2021 7:23 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Good to hear Gezzah, and good for your sanity, no doubt.

Niki
Niki
May 6, 2021 7:27 AM

I would like to raise the issue of NWO vs. Church/religion. (I don’t know if this was a subject in the past articles/comments)

The self-appointed Masters of the Universe, have all the tools and trolls in their possession to carry the transition into the NWO: the mass media, the education system, the technocracy within technology, science, medicine… you name it…

Looks to me that LGBTQ, transgender “trends”, abortion “rights”, cancel culture, ethnicity, social distancing, masking… are all about canceling Church and religion all together.

The First Commandment states: “You shall have no other gods before Me.” This single sentence opposes the Masters. Approximately 2.5 billion people know this. Is the Church and religion the main obstacle to the NWO Plan!?

We’ve heard/read/debated solutions with not much success. Can we cancel the Masters and their NWO by defending the Church and religion!? I’m simply looking for a solution…

PS. Funny… writing this reminded me of Hermann Hesse’s Demian:
“The bird fights his way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God’s name is Abraxas.”

rechenmacher
rechenmacher
May 6, 2021 8:49 AM
Reply to  Niki

Well spotted. The aim is to take away from the individual anything that could provide them with guidance and a sense of identity. Adherence to anything else but the regime is under attack: family, nation, church. Even sports. Just look at the line-up of football teams in Europe.

Victoria
Victoria
May 6, 2021 10:02 PM
Reply to  Niki

No, the Church (i.e. the institution) won’t save us. Their main interest is to preserve their riches, very much like the rest of the elites. Read this:

https://www.reutersevents.com/sustainability/lady-de-rothschilds-road-vatican

Niki
Niki
May 6, 2021 11:59 PM
Reply to  Victoria

WOW… Thank you Victoria! Nothing good will come from “the top”!
I was thinking more of the small, honest churches spread across the globe…
Looks like the “street fight” will be the only option…

Peter
Peter
May 7, 2021 4:32 AM
Reply to  Niki

Christianity and Islam are like Marxism creations of the banking caste. They are currently leading the sheeple along the path to lethal injection.

les online
les online
May 6, 2021 2:00 AM

How did this happen ? Who’s to blame ? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again, truth be told, if you’re looking for the guilty, you only need look into a mirror. I know you were afraid. Who wouldnt be ? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to capture your reason and rob you of your common sense… (Alan Moore – V for Victory)…

wardropper
wardropper
May 6, 2021 5:41 AM
Reply to  les online

Just remember that for decades they have been taking giant steps to make sure they are never held accountable.
Their financial non-liability for vaccine injuries and deaths is just one glaring example.

We must be bold and imaginative strategists if we are to circumvent and destroy their outrageous belief that they are invincible.

Watt
Watt
May 6, 2021 12:56 PM
Reply to  wardropper

Yup. Play them at their own game. Give them a cyber blackout to suck on. Loics r us! Which of these masters (parasites, rather) have gained a pass at a higher level Cisco bootcamp?

Irresponsible and proud
Irresponsible and proud
May 6, 2021 7:17 PM
Reply to  wardropper

We need civil disobedience.

Jane
Jane
May 8, 2021 12:23 AM
Reply to  les online

Speak for yourself!
I wasn’t afraid and I stated this straight out from the get-go. I said I would gladly be exposed to the virus and get sick and even die of it just to show that we have to accept risk and death if we want to LIVE. And not get swept up in hysterical fear.

No one understood what I was saying.

I am not afraid now, either. Not of the virus. I am afraid, though, of the madness and hysteria I see *growing* around me with the advents of the jabs, and the determination to bring “dissenters” to heel in any way possible, including psy-ops and force adn the promulgation of absurd arguments that sheeple keep spouting authoritatively.

CryptoKazar
CryptoKazar
May 6, 2021 12:01 AM

“criminalise” what do you mean criminalise, its legislative Law not common Law, You are a criminal if you violate someone else’s rights, ie you break common Law ! you are not a “criminal” for having an opinion, you’re not a “criminal” for not entering into a contract with the sate or anyone else, Just because some politician / despot scribbled it on headed note paper you were a bad person. Lets use the correct terminology please we don’t want to legitimise and embrace this false labelling of the entire population do we !

wardropper
wardropper
May 6, 2021 5:52 AM
Reply to  CryptoKazar

Of course they will simply say that ever since the Patriot Act, or its British equivalent, the law has meant only what they want it to mean.

Today, they can, and will, say you are a terrorist for having an opinion, and that definition will allow them deal with you as they see fit. That´s why they made the Patriot Act – ready for use in the 21st Century.

Our definitions will not be considered.

CryptoKazar
CryptoKazar
May 6, 2021 12:09 PM
Reply to  wardropper

With regards to common Law “terrorist” and “terrorism” are meaningless terms In English they simply mean to scare people to a high degree, they cant redefine the meaning of words, or add subjective views to common Law. Besides “terrorising” people is clearly what they do so if they change the Law (by which of course we mean Legislative/contract Law) They would be open to prosecution themselves. There is a reason why they haven’t implemented implemented any of this a long long time ago, because they cant ! This guff and thats all it is, is “oh no people are waking up to the big scam, what can we do ? I know scare them into silence, by pretending its now the Law to violate their rights, if they point out we’re Lying.
Its not and it never will be, they will be open to prosecution under common Law if they do, and common Law always takes precedence, Nuremberg trials following orders (legislative / contract Law) is no excuse for violating Human rights (common Law)

Its really very simple ! no matter how much they try and blag that their nonsensical crap trumps common Law. Or how much they try and obfuscate their Lies with Legal babble, its an conman’s trick, akin to writing a load of “mathematical garb” on a blackboard and telling everyone its proof that the explanation for gravity, is that things roll down hill, they hope to bedazzle those of limited intelligence with all the “maths” but the underlying truth is rolling down hill is what gravity does not HOW it does it, Its easy to see the absolute stupidity of their Lies, when you strip away the impressive sounding maths or Legalese

Watt
Watt
May 6, 2021 1:02 PM
Reply to  CryptoKazar

Indeed. I’ve been attending group meetings where coaching in practical applications of Common Law takes place, followed by numerous opportunities to put your new knowledge into practise. Inspiring and confidence building!

wardropper
wardropper
May 6, 2021 3:10 PM
Reply to  CryptoKazar

Of course they are meaningless terms, but their intended use of scaring people to a high degree is working.

The ‘authorities’ are not in the least interested in etymology – only in what works.

What we are up against is the sheer will-power of philistinism and the weaponized lust for control.

So, do we just tut-tut and continue to watch the BBC news, or do we try to discover whether we have any will-power left?

What you say about the nature of the systemic lies is clearly beyond dispute.

CryptoKazar
CryptoKazar
May 6, 2021 5:48 PM
Reply to  wardropper

Yes but the point is they are not “Legal” terms you cant be prosecuted under these “laws” its purely public perception and compliance via fear.
In the same way TV detector vans were not a thing, the idea they could detect people watching TV from afar and prosecute them for not having a TV licence, was a ridiculous Lie, it was designed purely to trick people into paying their licence fee, for fear of the non existent consequences !

Trying people for “hate crimes” or “free speech crimes” or labelling someone with a word and claiming that means they can send you to jail, is a LIE its about getting you to self censor for the fear of non existent consequences ! what do you suppose all those actors get up to when they’re not faking “terrorist” events and mass shootings ?

We cant talk about these alleged “Laws” as if they are real, going back to the TV licence example its like opposing the TV licence, but acting as if TV detector vans are real and all hope is lost, better pay up huh whilst moaning about it, reality they are not real don’t pay up ! if people understand these Laws are not real and have no legal basis, they wont be scared into complying will they.

Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
May 5, 2021 11:59 PM

Actually Herman Goring (much like Saddam Hussein) was speaking about the propaganda being foisted on the American people by the media and the USA Government regarding the alleged imminent invasion of the USA by German forces, in much the same way as Saddam was accused of planning an invasion of the USA.
 
As a scholar of western European history I am appalled and annoyed by the way key figures of the 1900 – 1945 period are misquoted.
 
You do not have to like the NAZI’s but do not fall into the same trap that is now being baited by those who despise scholarship, truth and freedom.

Dick
Dick
May 6, 2021 12:17 AM

Funny you mention Nazis. Been doing a lot of digging and correlating and I’m beginning to wonder how much of anything we are told as home truths are actually true. Getting very sceptical and suspicious. Henry Ford spotted the problem.

mgeo
mgeo
May 6, 2021 9:10 AM

Another important meme, often repeated here, is that Fascism is Nazism and nothing else.

NixonScraypes
NixonScraypes
May 6, 2021 5:23 PM
Reply to  mgeo

Not forgetting that Nazism was National Socialism.

Martin Usher
Martin Usher
May 6, 2021 9:53 PM
Reply to  NixonScraypes

The ‘socialism’ bit is a perversion of socialism proper. Nazism is interesting because its an example of a movement that developed its intellectual justification after the fact — unlike a lot of other ‘isms’ it didn’t start out as a philosophy before becoming a mass movement but ratheras a mass movement that then aquired a phiolosophical superstructure to give it a veneer of respectability. (The papers from that period are collected by also restricted only to ‘bona fide researchers’ so its difficult to see for yourself.)

The ‘socialst’ in the NSDAP referred to ‘national socialism’. Unlike regular socialism who’s adherents think that individual activity should be subservient to the goals of society as a whole national socialsm thinks that individual activity should be directed soley towards the interests of the state. That is, socialism for the state, not society. The difference can seem subtle unless you think in terms of the state being captured to serve the interests of a minority which it looks a lot like corporatism (or its more dressy kin, fascism).

(The Nazi party name came about by a bit of an accident. Hitler was always a right wing conformist and after WW1 he spent some time working for the Bavarian state goverment as an undercover agent tasked with infiltrating one of the plethora of small, fringe parties that had sprung up. The one he drew was the “German Workers Party”. This was not a socialist party and its founder’s ideas aligned with his own to the point that Hilter resigned his job and joined the party full-time, rapidly becoming its leader. This became the nucleus for the NSDAP, or as we know them, Nazis.)

NixonScraypes
NixonScraypes
May 7, 2021 12:14 PM
Reply to  Martin Usher

The national socialist democratic worker’s party. So that’s what right wing means eh? What ever it says on the label, it’s probably a can of worms. People will believe anything, even that utopian Marxist tosh. Even after 150 years of slaughter it’s still touted around here.

Jane
Jane
May 8, 2021 12:29 AM
Reply to  NixonScraypes

I think Martin is making some of this up on the fly.

Martin Usher
Martin Usher
May 5, 2021 11:54 PM

I’ve always found the German approach to organization a bit self-defeating. The Nazi era wasn’t unique, rather a rather nasty strain of nationalism found a particularly acceptable host in a society that regards organization and order as paramount. Its not surprising that after the Nazi era included a lot of organizational echoes of the Nazi era — its not “Nazi” but “German” and they resonate through history. (You’ve got the same kind of misundestanding between “Russian” and “Communism” — failure to separate one from the other causes all sorts of confusion, confusion that’s exploited by Cold Warriors who just can’t give it up and get a proper job.)

Its not surprising that after WW2 the modern German state should pass laws against Nazis and have enforcement organizations dedicated to rooting out Nazism. To me this is totally counterproductive, the cure ends up being worse than the disease. Take the ongoing ban against “Mien Kampf”, for example. This book is, we’re told, ‘turgid, unreadable’. Its not — at least not for a good part. Its readable and you’re seduced by arguments that sound quite reasonable, common sense, the sort of thing that wouldn’t be out of place in one of these Off-G pieces. But we all know just where that reasoning led so we’re prevented from reading it, it becomes an object of mystery, almost reverance for those inclined that way. I prefer the American tradition of ‘anything goes’ (with obvious exceptions) because sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Criminalizing dissent is counterproductive. I grew up in Britain which has a liberal tradition that actually disguses are very hard and compromising attitude to anything that threatens the status quo. Its just that the British ruling class learned years ago that there are much more effective ways to manage dissent than force (force being available if necessary, of course). That’s why nothing changes — you’re allowed your soapbox, your’re free to say whatever you want (but we’ll keep an ear open, just in case) and if there are signs that you might be starting to be effective we will deal with you, typically by infiltrating your organization and encouraging factionalism. There are signs that contemporary British culture might be losing the plot, resorting to cruder methods of managing popular opinion, but I would not bet against the system there. For all of you that reject the system, the virus, the whatever, be prepared for nothing to happen. Ever. Blacklists are very effective tools and they’re easier than ever to manage these days.

les online
les online
May 6, 2021 2:09 AM
Reply to  Martin Usher

yeh ! how does it go ? ‘everyone has the right to have an opinion (Be opinionated), but you’re in trouble if you act on it.’

Waldorf
Waldorf
May 6, 2021 3:47 PM
Reply to  les online

Today’s Morning Star has an article “Special Branch ‘kept tabs on journalists'”. It is talking about the 1970s but I doubt whether things changed later. A Richard Chessum exposed a police spy in the Troops Out Movement and the left group Big Flame. “Mr Chessum also told the enquiry that he feels he was frozen out of work for a period of five years as a result of police spying on his political activities. During that time he said he had applied for around 1,500 jobs but never received an interview.” I suspect he was blacklisted and police phoned potential employers.

Jane
Jane
May 8, 2021 12:30 AM
Reply to  Martin Usher

It’s Mein Kampf.

Jon Edall
Jon Edall
May 5, 2021 11:32 PM

We do not have “Global capitalism”. What we have is global cronyism. Big businesses in bed with governments and corruption all around. The furthest thing from a free market. Not to mention the welfare programs to quiet the grumbling masses paid for by unbound fiat currency printing. Capitalism… pft.

Irresponsible and proud
Irresponsible and proud
May 6, 2021 7:22 PM
Reply to  Jon Edall

“Big businesses in bed with governments and corruption all around.” So, capitalism.

TheBurningHouse
TheBurningHouse
May 5, 2021 11:03 PM

I got thrown out of three establishments for refusing to wear a mask last time I went into town, and I’ll do it again, proudly. I actually rather enjoy it, it’s fun because they can’t actually do anything to me. They think they have authority over me, but they don’t and it scares them when I let them know it. The best part is I got others to join me, I found support for my actions, which gives me hope for humanity and encourages me to continue expressing those things which I know I possess; inalienable rights.
It’s difficult to stand up to tyranny, but it’s more difficult to look yourself in the mirror if you don’t.

Sam - Admin2
Admin
Sam - Admin2
May 5, 2021 11:06 PM

Hear hear! Love your defiance. We need much, much more of this. Inspiring, thanks. A2

Rhisiart Gwilym
Rhisiart Gwilym
May 6, 2021 8:23 PM
Reply to  Sam - Admin2

Been refusing masks, distancing, house-arrest, the whole bloody stupid farce for months now. Virtually no confrontation from anyone. In the Co-op where I get the bulk of my groceries, half the staff are now unmasked. Plenty of shoppers still obeying the fool government order, but no-one looking very confident. I get a lot of glances which seem to say: “Well he’s a frail old man, and he doesn’t seem to care. Does he know something? Should I think about doing likewise…” Germinating seeds planted every time I go out; as also in my cannabis garden.

I mention that because I think it’s my two daily doses of canna-oil – by mouth – plus my 2-3 grams per day of slow-release vitamin C tabs, which keep me entirely untouched by any severe illness, even though I had the covid this time last year – as an extremely minor sense of being just a bit down, which scarpered after three days of thirty grams per day of C; mild, tasteless sodium ascorbate powder in water, sipped every little while, round the clock. Self-treated; no medics or medical services involved.

Reject the – wholly-unnecessary – fear, reject all the illegal obedience hoops, give the gangsters-on-the-make the finger every opportunity you can. And whatever you do, reject the unnecessary, useless, dangerous and untested poison-stabs!

Harold
Harold
May 6, 2021 8:21 AM

The bush fires that change the look of the environment start with a single spark, be that spark.

Antipropo
Antipropo
May 5, 2021 9:22 PM

The quote I think from Groucho Marx ‘ who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes’?
comes to mind. Not necessary to believe in conspiracy,just look at what has happened to our obviously naive, if not deluded belief that we had inviolable legal,civil and human rights. The obvious has been screaming at us from the outset with locking healthy people in their homes, repeated every time there is a “spike” or as in Australia “an outbreak” ONE PERSON in Sydney, population approaching 6 million is “and outbreak” with noise about “the possible need for yet another government imposed imprisonment of healthy people. Actually another example from some years ago was the WTO meeting, again in Sydney, where named individuals were banned from anywhere in the vicinity of the conference and protests were only permitted kilometres away.

jane randall
jane randall
May 5, 2021 7:08 PM

We are so fuckity fuck fucked….Thank you Off Guardian for continuing to be sane!

wardropper
wardropper
May 5, 2021 8:44 PM
Reply to  jane randall

We are being violated, and there have always been laws against that.
Let’s use those laws, or even make some new ones.

Don’t tell me nobody is able to do that.
There are exceptions to every rule – even a covid rule.

S Cooper
S Cooper
May 5, 2021 8:45 PM
Reply to  jane randall

“They are fucked. We aren’t.”
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“But no matter, they will soon be fertilizer.”
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Rhisiart Gwilym
Rhisiart Gwilym
May 6, 2021 8:27 PM
Reply to  S Cooper

FFS SCooper! DO something about your repeating groove! Have you no sense of originality at all?

Waldorf
Waldorf
May 5, 2021 6:36 PM

The Reichstag thing probably was a planned scenario. The German far right has so many Verfassungsschutz and other government moles in it that the state is sometimes accused of bankrolling the far right by the back door through paying these agents. Attempts to ban the NPD for example have been hampered by evidence that NPD activists were working for the state, and it was thus difficult to prove that particular NPD actions were not actually set in motion through them. The state does not like to ban itself, after all.
“An effort to outlaw the party failed in 2003, because the government had many informers and agents in the party, some in high position, who had written part of the material used against them.” (Wikipedia)

Peter Sky
Peter Sky
May 5, 2021 7:27 PM
Reply to  Waldorf

its not really even newsworthy. 50 people stood on some stairs outside a building for a few minutes.

Waldorf
Waldorf
May 5, 2021 8:07 PM
Reply to  Peter Sky

It isn’t but the media chose to make it so and were no doubt tipped off in advance, especially if as I suspect it was a set-up with the state mobilising some of its moles in the NPD.
In fact the whole scenario looks like Provocation 101. All the more likely because it would only take a few people to set something like that in operation.

Claret
Claret
May 5, 2021 8:41 PM
Reply to  Waldorf

‘All the more likely because it would only take a few people to set something like that in operation.’
….
Pretty much the same story with all those fake terror attacks in the last couple of decades.

Hele
Hele
May 5, 2021 6:30 PM

I can’t believe this is happening.It’s Chilling and demoralizing.I’m terrified.
It’s negligent. Orchestrated -for who knows how long-implemented in one short year.

wardropper
wardropper
May 5, 2021 6:54 PM
Reply to  Hele

And it’s all just waiting for one of the highest-ranking, most experienced and most respected people in the whole power structure to open his/her mouth, and say that after a whole year of intensive research into covid and the vested interests that are incestuously linked with it, they have come to the conclusion that fraud on an unbelievable and unprecedented global scale has been perpetrated upon the human race in the name of science.

That would start the ball rolling.

If I, on the other hand, were to open my mouth, I would never be heard, and my cat would be murdered as a warning to my family.

Even Dr. Wodarg, Dr. Fuellmich and Dr. Coleman would be brushed aside, since they are not Hollywood celebrities like Mr. Boris Johnson…

(According to Wikipedia, “Johnson was awarded an upper second-class degree, and was deeply unhappy that he did not receive a first.”)

Claret
Claret
May 5, 2021 8:34 PM
Reply to  wardropper

(According to Wikipedia, “Johnson was awarded an upper second-class degree, and was deeply unhappy that he did not receive a first.”)

Born in NYC. Turkish Grandad. 6 kids with 3 women. Fired from two bigshot jobs for basically telling lies. TV personality. Told lies about having covid to push the agenda, when he was more likely on paternity leave. Educated thug masquerading as a harmless upper middle-class dimwit. I despised Thatcher and her government at the time, but Johnson and his cronies….

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
May 6, 2021 7:53 AM
Reply to  Hele

Hele… I get where you’re coming from, and, yes, the agenda they want to impose via The Great Reset is horrific and terrifying. No one can deny that.
However, I refuse to live in fear because that’s exactly what the psychopaths want: all of us quaking in our boots and looking to the “authorities” to ‘save us’.
For months I struggled with this too, it all seemed like some surreal Kafkaesque nightmare. And then I let go of my fear. I stopped complying with the new normal fascism, and didn’t give a toss what anyone else thought. Right now I’m sitting on a bus without a facemask on, tho it does help that literally every other passenger is doing the same (except one)
The more you say No, the stronger you get. And I refuse to give up. I don’t care about the odds, I hold onto hope no matter what. And I also put my faith in the universe, in nature – in a spiritual way. Because I strongly believe having faith in something outside of ourselves is important. And I’m not talking about religion either.
Lastly, the “Covid Project” is apparently meant to finish on Mar 31st 2025 according to a leaked document from the World Bank.

Sophie - Admin1
Admin
Sophie - Admin1
May 6, 2021 8:04 AM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Never trust leaked documents! Mostly they are just a way of pushing agendas, or testing ideas with deniability.

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
May 6, 2021 8:50 AM

Okay, I hear you Sophie, however it did seem genuine. I would also argue however that the people behind the scamdemic are capable of absolutely anything, no matter how many people die. Their thirst for absolute power is unquenchable. I’m surprised by the downvotes by the way, as you were merely pointing something out that I should be aware of anyway.

CryptoKazar
CryptoKazar
May 7, 2021 12:09 AM

Exactly its the same with “declassified” documents which basically means, “we made some serious mistakes with our original Lie and people are starting to see through it, so here is some new footage or information we cooked up last week to try and cover the holes in the original story” It should really be obvious to everyone, considering the quality of the new information is so poor and devoid of sensation, it makes no sense why it would have been classified in the first place, and it essentially just reaffirms the original underlying Lie anyway

magumba
magumba
May 6, 2021 3:11 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

This agenda wasn’t expected to come fully to fruition until 2050 however due to impatience ,greed etc certain parties have pushed for it to be brought forward hence the situation we now find ourselves in (and look at the UK’s very sudden decision that petrol and diesel vehicles will be gone in approx 8 years) .

This is ‘their’ achilles heel the problem populations the world over now face is exposing that achilles heel and severing the tendon by whatever means are most efficient

The sooner it happens the sooner people stop dying needlessly from experimental medicine

Rhisiart Gwilym
Rhisiart Gwilym
May 6, 2021 8:37 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Right behind you Gezz. Keep sluggin’ bro! Like a good bulldog – never let go!

Joe F.
Joe F.
May 5, 2021 5:28 PM

Another excellent piece by C.J. Hopkins.

I wonder if anyone but me will mention how boring all of this is–I mean the takeover of democracies by a one-world so-called elite. I think the problem is that the elites themselves are so boring. Most of them are old, fat, excessively rich, not moderately interesting in any way. They want to remake the world in their own image–i.e., get rid of everything that’s vaguely interesting or entertaining.

Also, what could be more boring (in a dreary sense, I mean catatonically dull) than videos of police “clashing” with ordinary people doing things like having a music jam in public. It really is all very boring. I’m afraid all we can expect is further dullness, for the people taking over lack imagination. I believe that’s what they are suffering from and why they’re doing what they’re doing.

Saint Jimmy
Saint Jimmy
May 5, 2021 5:50 PM
Reply to  Joe F.

They want YOU to be a boring corporate drone.

Hele
Hele
May 5, 2021 6:32 PM
Reply to  Joe F.

They have taken all the colour out of life.

Claret
Claret
May 5, 2021 8:09 PM
Reply to  Hele

And the spontaneity and joy. It’s ok for the covidian followers, most of them were most likely safe, boring twohats before this nightmare began.

wardropper
wardropper
May 5, 2021 6:36 PM
Reply to  Joe F.

Afflicted people often behave like this.
They find it extremely annoying that others are not afflicted like they are.

Think of how often an alcoholic will say to somebody, “Can I get you a drink?
What? No?
You’re not one of those teeti-toti-tits, are you?…”

Now, it’s, “Can I get you a mask, a bottle of hand spirit and a place in the next vaccine queue?
What? No?
You’re not one of those boring anti-vaxxi people, are you?”

It’s hard to stick to principles these days, but we’d better do it anyway.

Claret
Claret
May 5, 2021 8:24 PM
Reply to  wardropper

‘Think of how often an alcoholic will say to somebody, “Can I get you a drink?
What? No?
You’re not one of those teeti-toti-tits, are you?…”’

Teeti-toti-tits. Lol.
I usually ask if they would like something else then. :o)

Claret
Claret
May 5, 2021 8:17 PM
Reply to  Joe F.

‘i.e., get rid of everything that’s vaguely interesting or entertaining.’

Maybe ‘they’ find social experiments and the power to control people interesting or entertaining? Which is how stalkers/sociopaths/narcissists get their dirty little kicks.

Paul Vonharnish
Paul Vonharnish
May 5, 2021 9:34 PM
Reply to  Joe F.

Hello Joe F. ‘I think the problem is that the elites themselves are so boring.’

You won’t be bored when some “official” asshat beats you with a stick and drags you out of your home. You obviously don’t get it.

MBJ
MBJ
May 6, 2021 12:51 PM
Reply to  Joe F.

Grey on the surface, technicolour decadence behind the scenes. Boring is not the problem, restless sensation seeking capitalism is.

George Mc
George Mc
May 5, 2021 4:41 PM

Whilst watching a David Icke video, I became intrigued by a report from a doctor by the name of Carrie Madej and attempted to find out more. Naturally the concerned guardians at google, have algorised their search engine to practically make direct access to Madej impossible. Amongst the first hits that come up are:

  • “Coronavirus: False and misleading claims about vaccines …”
  • “The QAnon Doctor Pushing Wild Conspiracies About the …”
  • “Enough To Make Scientists Cry!”

Thankfully Duckduckgo got me there.

But that’s when I thought I’d do an investigation into this media pogrom on free speech.
Consider Bitchute. Wiki shows the herding device fully:

BitChute is a video hosting service known for accommodating far-right individuals and conspiracy theorists, and for hosting hateful content.

In the article, the expression “far-right” appears 8 times. Whilst the word “hate” appears no less than 15 times.

I am confident that this example (Bitchute) is the merest tip of a slimy Lovecraftian iceberg whereby all free expression is being cordoned off into ghettos labelled “right”, “far right” and “hateful”. 

Speaking as someone who still considers himself “Left”, I know the powerful effect of this information management. And it certainly comes as a humbling experience to know that the actual right have indeed been spot on in their criticism of the “political correctness” manoeuvre as a devastatingly potent form of pedantic mind control. The more perceptive Left sites themselves acknowledged this – but unfortunately, they weren’t brave enough to fully face up to it for fear of being labelled “right” themselves. Such is the power of this “thought contamination” move.

wardropper
wardropper
May 5, 2021 7:02 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Just shows you how far-out an idiotic shill can be, in describing a far-left, concerned citizen such as myself – someone who is capable of critical thinking – as ‘far-right’

The only way to make sense of nonsense is to ignore it and let it suffocate.

magumba
magumba
May 6, 2021 3:17 PM
Reply to  wardropper

I keep saying it and i’m going to again….time to put your labels on hold for a while,the world now comprises ”them” and ”Us” you either want to defeat ”them” or you are part of the problem,the time for left/right/centric/whatever may come again in the future but not until ‘they’ have been dealt with

Your political stance means nothing anymore and vaccines don’t disciminate

Tony_0pmoc
Tony_0pmoc
May 5, 2021 4:38 PM

I swore I was never going to wear a face mask, and only have for 4 hours at my local hospital Accident and Emergency department, when I was in no position to argue.

What I find completely appalling is forcing children to wear face masks, sometimes even babies, and even worse most people are so brainwashed they accept it.

When are we going to fight back, against these monstrous psychopaths?

UK schoolgirl sues school trust over forced mask-wearing
https://www.sott.net/article/452157-UK-schoolgirl-sues-school-trust-over-forced-mask-wearing

I was once proud, but am now completely ashamed of My Country, especially Psychologists, Doctors, and Politicians.

99% of you (especially the ones who understand what is going on) have less than 0.1% Integrity. You might as well all Resign for the good that most of you do. In fact for all intents and purposes, you all ready have, and now work for The Death Squad.

(I exempt anyone from criticism who works in A&E the only remaining functional part of what used to be a Brilliant National Health Service)

Tony

Peter Sky
Peter Sky
May 5, 2021 7:18 PM
Reply to  Tony_0pmoc

Decision from Karlsruhe supports sensational judgment from Weimar, allegation of perversion of the law without foundation https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://2020news.de/beschluss-aus-karlsruhe-stuetzt-sensationsurteil-aus-weimar-rechtsbeugungsvorwurf-gegen-richter-ohne-grundlage/

magumba
magumba
May 6, 2021 3:23 PM
Reply to  Tony_0pmoc
Paul Vonharnish
Paul Vonharnish
May 5, 2021 3:48 PM

This video has been posted by other readers in the last few days. Thank you to Moneycircus and Claret for the link.

This video introduces us to the foundational tiers of global monopoly, and what persons (or royal families) that continue to dominate markets through investment or corporate ownership. Readers should take note. The top investors are known quantities…

I’ve done similar research over the years, and found the same names and companies time and time again. There are YouTube links as well as one from BitChute.

Monopoly: an overview of the Great Reset.
April 11, 2021
https://www.bitchute.com/video/MfO8ewOJyH7K/

Saint Jimmy
Saint Jimmy
May 5, 2021 4:40 PM

Great video. Yet some here still think there is “democracy” in the US, EU, and UK.

Tony_0pmoc
Tony_0pmoc
May 5, 2021 5:07 PM

I found the video completely boring. It wasn’t telling me, anything I didn’t know over 20 years ago. I am not suggesting it is not all true, and something I have disapproved of since I knew anything about anything.

Basically the video is Describing Monopoly Control of The Very Rich, devouring all small competition.. It is very close to both Communism (for the Very Rich), but much closer to Fascism, but now on a World Wide Basis, which has never happened before.

The only Resistance to it, is Girls like this, and if I was 50 years younger I would want to marry her too.

https://off-guardian.org/wp-content/medialibrary/nurse-who-asks-questions-on-hyde-park-violence.mp4?_=1

Tony

wardropper
wardropper
May 5, 2021 7:04 PM
Reply to  Tony_0pmoc

“I found the video completely boring”

Well, you would, wouldn’t you…?
But I suspect you have confused the fact that the content is so depressing with your own dismissive boredom.

tony_0pmoc
tony_0pmoc
May 5, 2021 8:17 PM
Reply to  wardropper

So have you got any solutions, before we both drop dead of old age?

wardropper
wardropper
May 6, 2021 3:14 PM
Reply to  tony_0pmoc

Being bored is a choice – at ANY age.

2fat2surf
2fat2surf
May 5, 2021 3:18 PM

Let me state for the record that it is my firm belief that “freedom of speech’ is absolute and should never, ever be infringed up on.

Well, that is except for one little thing, the history of WW2. Anyone who questions the conventional history of WW2 as defined by the MSM is a fascist, lying, Nazi loving, racist, just trying to stir up trouble criminal, and should be put in to a Super Max prison for as long as possible.

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 3:27 PM
Reply to  2fat2surf

I agree speech should be protected, but it gets a bit sticky when people use lies and inflammatory language to whip up others into a hate filled frenzy against a target group, Muslims, gays, blacks, the left, juden etc….

It is the fear of the speech that Hitlers used to target the Juden in Germany that makes some fearful of the idea of totally free speech.

I personally believe we should allow the freedom to be racist and challenge it head on. My worry is the far-right know they need free speech to incite hatred of others by their electorate and use it as their main route to power.

2fat2surf
2fat2surf
May 5, 2021 3:37 PM
Reply to  Mango Green

The thing is who determines what is a lie?
Regarding the history of WW2 it was written by the victors. That in itself should lead anyone with ability to think critically to question it.

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 3:56 PM
Reply to  2fat2surf

Rational discussion will determine what is a lie. the problem with banning free speech is that the lies don’t get challenged. We see that with Covid where all discussion is banned and the lies are protected.

2fat2surf
2fat2surf
May 5, 2021 4:02 PM
Reply to  Mango Green

I agree with you there.

Claret
Claret
May 5, 2021 5:02 PM
Reply to  2fat2surf

Yes and it is also illegal in some countries to ask ‘sensitive’ questions about some issues regarding WWII. Even pointing out blatant lies is met with outrage. Don’t mention the soap!

Peter
Peter
May 5, 2021 11:52 PM
Reply to  Claret

L*mpshad*s ?

Claret
Claret
May 6, 2021 5:00 PM
Reply to  Peter

Bone crushers?

Waldorf
Waldorf
May 10, 2021 8:28 PM
Reply to  2fat2surf

It takes a bit of looking but if you want history books glorifying the Waffen-SS, for example, you can find them.
I recall browsing in the English-language section of a bookshop in Athens, Greece, and there was a Canadian-published memoir about the Totenkopf division. No mention of killing POWs or civilians including Jews. No, they were just an elite military force saving us from the nasty Bolsheviks.
The Belgian Leon Degrelle went into exile in Franco’s Spain at the end of WW2. As far as he was concerned the Waffen-SS was about saving Western civilisation and he published at least one book making the claim.
If WW2 had gone the other way these views would have been mainstream rather than fringe, of course. But those books were written and even published.

Jane
Jane
May 8, 2021 12:44 AM
Reply to  Mango Green

You really think it is only the “far right” inciting hatred and working the public up into a frenzy?

What planet are you living on?

mgeo
mgeo
May 6, 2021 9:29 AM
Reply to  2fat2surf

Rewritten history applies to almost any major national or international development. E.g. rise of a dogma or industry, major change of government, or war. The propaganda (media and historical writers) serves the status quo. E.g., US history has buried the epic effort of the US people to end the invasion of Vietnam.

Grace Johns
Grace Johns
May 6, 2021 1:08 PM
Reply to  mgeo

And was that not accomplished in the main by the yoof who resisted and said ‘no’?
Where are the yoof of today? Glued to their phones, resistance (if they can work up the energy) entails posting a meme to Twatter.

2fat2surf
2fat2surf
May 6, 2021 2:29 PM
Reply to  Grace Johns

What caught the “yoofs” attention back then was the draft, not the plight of the poor Vietnamese who were being slaughtered like there was no tomorrow. And I certainly can’t blame them for using any reason to keep from being conscripted.

2fat2surf
2fat2surf
May 6, 2021 2:26 PM
Reply to  mgeo

I agree with you. My first post was, of course being a bit sarcastic. The idea that the history of WW2 should be off- limits is outrageous. And anyone that promotes such a thing is an enemy of the people.

Howard
Howard
May 5, 2021 3:15 PM

Let me say yet again what I have been saying almost from the moment I began talking: the entire blame can be laid at the doorstep of “ordinary” people.

The “ruling elites” are mere bit players, with walk-on roles, who literally “strut and fret their hour upon the stage and then are heard no more.” They make all the rules – that is, ALL THE RULES the people are clamoring for.

Let the people say “No,” and all the rules dissipate like a morning fog.

So if and when the storm troopers come for you, ask not who tolled the bell that brought them to your door.

Your neighbor did.

Marcello
Marcello
May 5, 2021 11:07 PM
Reply to  Howard

And there within lies the whole crux of the matter.
This will only stop when people have developed the moral integrity and courage to say NO.
But in order to get to that point would mean taking a few steps that land you outside social approval, outside that comfort zone.
Change, real change i will not come from guillotines a executing “those responsible”, if that was the case then the so call emancipation/freedom would be a deeply rooted ” ethic” in our societies.
If we examine all the great spiritual and social leaders that have stood out of the last say, 3,000 or so years, the issue are the same, as Bob Marley once said the only real revolution is in the mind,
So what does this say about our current population/civilization?
The majority of the Covidian sheep watch TV, that is a fact.
As the TV speaks, so the masses act. This shows an extraordinary level of passive metal laziness. So Western society has made huge strides materially, but the inner dimensions of creative independent thinking and feeling look like worm like visage of Darth Vader after the terrifying mask is taken off. We are seeing the fruit of this inner decay play itself out in these ” spiritual convulsions”.
To quote that poem by WB Yeates

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

In the end, it is all about us coming to terms with that ” neglected child” of the inner world, the world that is felt, the world that is not seen, the dimension that cannot be quantified by materialistic science and finally the world that if we lose connection with, we end up being mindless zombies of the Covidian Cult

Grace Johns
Grace Johns
May 6, 2021 1:12 PM
Reply to  Howard

Howard – I simply do not understand why millions of virile young men didn’t simply say ‘no’ to walking into machine gun hail in 1915. Patriotism fervor had worn off by then and most knew it was a shitshow. I find in my research that there was a resistance by French soldiers (not much written about the outcome of that unsurprisingly) but nothing from British men. Why?

magumba
magumba
May 6, 2021 3:35 PM
Reply to  Grace Johns

Because then as in 39-45 there was a very real threat that German would become the language of the UK .The threat was real,unlike today where the threat is implied most of the time

Jane
Jane
May 8, 2021 12:47 AM
Reply to  Grace Johns

Because they would have been thrown into the hoosgow and then shot at dawn as deserters/traitors/insubordination. You cannot walk away from the battlefield in time of war. I f you do you are a deserter and can be killed on sight. Also, you have no rights under the Geneva Conventions.

Waldorf
Waldorf
May 11, 2021 9:30 AM
Reply to  Grace Johns

Social pressures were intense, and the fervour on the home front had not worn off by 1915, although there was a certain numbing due to the fact that it was clear the war was not going to be over by Christmas.
1917 was a crucial year and also when unrest broke out in many militaries and the home front. Most crucially in Russia. But scores of French regiments were affected after the failed Nivelle offensive.
There was a localised British mutiny at the Etaples coastal centre, triggered by bullying military police – it was censored and many documents about it not released for 50 or more years, which suggests sensitivity. I would say the British army was better run than some of the others, and the UK more socially cohesive. The British were not entirely unaffected – in March 1918, when the Germans began their last wave of offensives, many encircled British troops in Gough’s Fifth Army gave up with little or no resistance in a way not seen in earlier years.

TFS
TFS
May 5, 2021 3:12 PM

I offer this little gem from the Slog (aka John Ward)

Determination of the Effectiveness of Chlorine Dioxide in the Treatment of COVID 19

or as some might remember ‘Donald Trump Odious suggestion that bleach works against Covid’

https://therealslog.com/2021/05/05/trumps-big-mistake-being-right/

link to the PDF is referenced in the piece.

swami
swami
May 5, 2021 4:38 PM
Reply to  TFS

how come deep state Donald got bs19 then?? he was taking daily wasnt he!
if it is so effective ? if you want to play the covid real game.

nondimenticare
nondimenticare
May 5, 2021 6:07 PM
Reply to  swami

No. Go to the original press conference. He was merely querying the proponent about the treatment.

swami
swami
May 5, 2021 8:02 PM
Reply to  nondimenticare

OW treatment for something that doesn’t exists
or rebranded flu. okey
i recall the dates very well just like his full moon harvest ritual fake diagnoses

swami
swami
May 5, 2021 8:08 PM
Reply to  swami

so he is really protected then as he also had Regeneron’s monoclonal antibody treatment another name for vaccine in October

i better rush out and get mine. as he needed two.i will get 3 to make sure i really really protected

he does tell people every time he is on air to go get the vaccine 

George Mc
George Mc
May 5, 2021 3:09 PM

Re: reports on the vaccine affecting menstrual cycles:

https://abc7news.com/covid-vaccine-menstrual-cycle-clinical-trials-and-side-effects-women/10557707/

“Kate Larsen: “Do you think the vaccine is harmful to women who are experiencing these cycle changes and does it affect fertility?”

Dr. Heather Huddleston: “No. So what I would say is that just in the same way that some women and men have had a sore arm, after the vaccine, or maybe felt tired, maybe had even a low grade fever, these are all things that people experienced in a very short term way after the vaccine. And within a few days, people are back to normal. That is a transient reaction to the vaccine. And it’s a representation of your immune system being activated. If, and it’s still a big if. But if these menstrual cycle changes are also sort of linked into that upregulation of the immune system that we’re seeing, then I would view that in the same way I would view a sore arm. It’s a nuisance, it’s troubling in that moment, but it’s not a representation of something that’s going to continue. It’s not a representation of any sort of permanent harm or damage. There is no reason to think there’s reason to be concerned over time, and there’s no reason to think that there’s any impact on fertility.”

The “if, and it’s still a big if” relates more to the following sentence than to previous ones. What kind of language is “sort of linked into”? And to suggest that changes in menstruation can be viewed in the same way as a sore arm seems astonishingly flippant. But obviously there are vested interests at stake here.

rob2
rob2
May 5, 2021 6:38 PM
Reply to  George Mc

“It’s a nuisance, it’s troubling in that moment, but it’s not a representation of something that’s going to continue.”

Well, in a sense, I guess this is right: I mean, once the “vaccine” triggers a miscarriage, obviously what’s done is done. Yawn.

Martha
Martha
May 5, 2021 8:23 PM
Reply to  George Mc

most telling phrase: “There’s no reason to think”. Who me? No, I’d never presume to think about anything beyond your completely reassuring word salad.

Vin
Vin
May 5, 2021 8:46 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Fist sized blood clots, periods lasting a month, the entire uterine wall sloughing away. Just a nuisance.

Jane
Jane
May 8, 2021 12:54 AM
Reply to  George Mc

“And it’s a representation of your immune system being activated. ”

IMO this is total bullshit. Our immune systems are miracles that operate to protect us without our even knowing what is going on. Innate immunity kicks in at the first sign of an interloper. We don’t know a thing about it. Then if we get symtoms anyhow and our body requires military backup, the adaptive immunie system launches reinforcements iwth heavy guns to gun down the invaders. We are sick and take extra special care of aourselves, get a lot of sleep, etc. to relieve other stress on the system.

The idea that our immune system is kind of like an outboard motor that you jerk into action by pulling a chain until it sputters into life and starts chugging away is risible. Most of the work done by our immune systems is NEVER NOTICED by us, the proud possessors of this magic immunity wand.

And now evil witches are coming along and wrecking our immune systems and telling us a fairy story about it becuase they can’t hide the damage. This idea of “upregulating” the immune system is damage control pure and simple.

dr death
dr death
May 5, 2021 2:59 PM

worth a look, of course it could all be ‘predictive programming’… and old so hardly ‘new’…

‘dr john coleman’… the commitee of 300

Pornography shall be promoted and be compulsory showing in every theater of cinema, including homosexual and lesbian pornography. The use of “recreational” drugs shall be compulsory, with each person allotted drug quotas which can be purchased at One World Government stores throughout the world. Mind control drugs will be expanded and usage become compulsory. Such mind control drugs shall be given in food and/or water supplies without the knowledge and/or consent of the people. Drug bars shall be set up, run by One World Government employees, where the slave-class shall be able to spend their free time. In this manner the non-elite masses will be reduced to the level and behavior of controlled animals with no will of their own and easily regimented and controlled.

At least 4 billion “useless eaters” shall be eliminated by the year 2050 by means of limited wars, organized epidemics of fatal rapid-acting diseases and starvation. Energy, food and water shall be kept at subsistence levels for the non-elite, starting with the White populations of Western Europe and North America and then spreading to other races. The population of Canada, Western Europe and the United States will be decimated more rapidly than on other continents, until the world’s population reaches a manageable level of 1 billion, of which 500 million will consist of Chinese and Japanese races, selected because they are people who have been regimented for centuries and who are accustomed to obeying authority without question.

All essential and non-essential pharmaceutical products, doctors, dentists and health care workers will be registered in the central computer data bank and no medicine or medical care will he prescribed without express permission of regional controllers responsible for each city, town and village.
The United States will be flooded by peoples of alien cultures who will eventually overwhelm White America, people with no concept of what the United States Constitution stands for and who will, in consequence, do nothing to defend it, and in whose minds the concept of liberty and justice is so weak as to matter little. FOOD and shelter shall be the main concern.

just conspiracy theories of course scribbled decades ago……

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 3:02 PM
Reply to  dr death

”Pornography shall be promoted and be compulsory showing in every theater of cinema, including homosexual and lesbian pornography.”

Things are looking up!

Kate
Kate
May 5, 2021 5:21 PM
Reply to  Mango Green

Only if you’ve been twisted by this culture.

Saint Jimmy
Saint Jimmy
May 5, 2021 5:52 PM
Reply to  Kate

He’s been twisted by something or someone.

Thom1111
Thom1111
May 5, 2021 6:31 PM
Reply to  Saint Jimmy

An obvious communist sympathizer

magumba
magumba
May 6, 2021 3:40 PM
Reply to  Thom1111

Wish they would hurry up with the drug bars,this prescription shit i get is nothing like the illegals i used to get,lets hope they dont adulter and generally fuck with the supplies when they open

That one thought alone has quite made my day

Peter
Peter
May 6, 2021 12:00 AM
Reply to  dr death

I think the Africans and the Indians and the Latin Americans will be decimated first. Possibly the Arabs and the Malays. The “whites” are almost as brainwashed and controlled as the Chinese and related cultures.

Big al
Big al
May 5, 2021 2:43 PM

Well, it doesn’t change my mind, so I guess that’s a problem isn’t it. Or maybe not, I know I’m certainly not alone. In fact, there are millions and millions of us. I’m guessing they’re not going to change most of our minds. Actually, we might be able to change more minds than they can. So instead of a problem, it’s an opportunity.

“Always look on the bright side of Life.”

JohnEss
JohnEss
May 5, 2021 2:52 PM
Reply to  Big al

Agreed.

Look at the pushback in the comments of the Sun and Daily Mail “readers”.

”We don’t need no vaccination
We don’t need no thought control”

The pond life is animated.

Saint Jimmy
Saint Jimmy
May 5, 2021 3:17 PM
Reply to  JohnEss

Don’t get your hopes up.

Kenneth Thorberg
Kenneth Thorberg
May 5, 2021 6:46 PM
Reply to  Saint Jimmy

Say WHAT ?

Edwige
Edwige
May 5, 2021 2:41 PM

Health DARPA on the way:

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/05/investigative-reports/this-biden-proposal-could-make-the-us-a-digital-dictatorship/

It’s a toss-up which part of this is most dangerous and insidious – on initial impressions it looks like SAFE-HOME probably deserves that award.

Any remaining Trump fans might notice that this is another Biden initiative that turns out to be something that Trump started.

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 2:50 PM
Reply to  Edwige

I find it incredible that people still believe that Trump and Biden are in anyway different from each other. They are both mascots for the same US military industrial complex. They are no more than actors.

Saint Jimmy
Saint Jimmy
May 5, 2021 2:52 PM
Reply to  Edwige

BOTH political parties in the US support this fascist shit. THEY ARE OWNED BY THE SAME PEOPLE.

I don’t know how many times I’ve said that to people. DEMOCRACY IS DEAD IN THE UNITED STATES. BIG MONEY KILLED IT OVER A TWO TO THREE DECADE PERIOD.

Sigh. There. I don’t like typing in all capital letters but I think most people just can’t accept this simple fact.

Howard
Howard
May 5, 2021 3:20 PM
Reply to  Saint Jimmy

It isn’t that people can’t accept it; but that it’s so obvious to anyone with a working brain that it becomes a case of stating the obvious.

Saint Jimmy
Saint Jimmy
May 5, 2021 3:23 PM
Reply to  Howard

Most Americans do not accept what I stated. Some agree with me but they are so stressed out and depressed simply by trying to survive and keep their meager possessions that they don’t care.

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 2:15 PM

My current view is that the vaccines are completely useless, and guard against nothing, except perhaps a few strains of flu. Because of this the governments are terrified that there is going to be a surge in the flu before the summer. Every day of lockdown is billions in profits for Amazon and large US corporations.

They are already planning for martial law again in the autumn, which will be provoked by the surge in the seasonal flu. Seasonal flu is now to be the catalyst for all lockdowns.
The lockdowns will end once, all small business is replaced by large US corporations and all activity occurs via US monitored internet media and we are watching US propaganda exports on Netflix et al. Google and Apple will be the CIA fronts for the implementation of a Chinese style social credit score system run by the CIA. This is a coup in every sense.
You better pray the US is brought down by a dollar collapse soon, if not, we are fucked under this cyclical tyranny for decades.

Our restaurants, our cinemas, our theaters, our bars, our clubs, our hospitals, our universities, are all going to be shut down during martial law next year, and travel made impossible. A US run fascist; GDR type state is being rolled out by the USA’s military industrial complex.

Wayne Vanderploeg
Wayne Vanderploeg
May 5, 2021 1:38 PM

I have been sending links to off-guardian articles preceded by short summaries to family members for months.

Some affiliated with the public sector have asked me to stop out of fear of the government. I have a sister who refuses my phone calls.

What Mr. Hopkins writes is more than spot on.

True totalitarianism.

Some people are afraid of the government.

Jacques
Jacques
May 5, 2021 1:49 PM

Where would that be, Wayne? Is your impression that what you’re describing is widespread?

I don’t sense just about any of this around here. People are putting up with the restrictions, yes, and there has been mild harassment of people who have voiced dissent, people are angry with the government, but fear? No.

Wayne Vanderploeg
Wayne Vanderploeg
May 7, 2021 5:36 PM
Reply to  Jacques

Most are afraid of the NSA, in general. Firefighters and police officers are especially troubled. Several nurses. A couple teachers. Depends on the state of residence too. The last stat I heard yesterday from an avid reader sister-in-law and nurse was that only a third of the U.S. is actually vaccinated and the authorities in concert with the MSM are to make up bigger numbers to encourage the rest of the population to get vaccinated. I did not ask where she got it from. A sister and her husband and my son and his wife are the only one’s I know of that have been. Dozens of others have not and will not. None of those in the public sector wants a permanent record of any kind that contains an opinion on the vaccine. Many are no longer on any kind of social network platform. As I said before, Yahoo has been filtering my emails for nearly a year without notification. I have to go back and search for strings to find my off guardian posts to see if I need to reply to any of them such as this one. Yahoo filters anything sent to me from off-guardian. And I receive no kind of notification as such.

Jane
Jane
May 8, 2021 1:02 AM

Yes, I think @Yahoo.com filters by content.
My server insists that they don’t, and it is just a coincidence that when I sent some particularly powerful material on the origin of the virus, both msn.com and Yahoo.com refused to deliver the email.

Loverat
Loverat
May 5, 2021 2:55 PM

That’s interesting. Lay out the content of your commentary to your sister previously and I can try it out.

Wayne Vanderploeg
Wayne Vanderploeg
May 7, 2021 5:40 PM
Reply to  Loverat

I am so dense sometimes…………My blood pressure just skyrocketed and my face is red from laughing……. I nagged her into finally taking a call but she refuses hear a word about the vaccines and conspiracies. Only bragging about grand kids was allowed.

Maxwell
Maxwell
May 5, 2021 1:23 PM

They are simply laying the groundwork for the inevitable social upheaval and dissent that will arise from the planned total collapse of the Western economies which is the essence of Operation Covidius.

The phony “war on terror” has outlived it’s usefulness as the returns on investment from the energy sector have diminished. A new external enemy had to be invented and here we are with The Invisible Virus as our next demon.

This collapse started in 2008 and attempts to salvage this Leviathan have been failures only delaying the inevitable. Here we were in 2019 and the crisis began to unravel again. There was a dramatic decrease in industrial production which showed up in the banking crisis of August of 2019- the so-called Repo crisis when suddenly banks started to refuse US sovereign debt instruments as collateral of overnight loans forcing the Federal Reserve to step in and basically print money to cover this massive shortage.

So by the time the “Corona virus” appeared the economy of the United States and many other Western countries were in full blown collapse. The European Central Bank is completely broke with trillions in pensions come due.

The “Corona Crisis” is used as a smokescreen by political leaders to mask what is actually going on. The economic destruction that it is being blamed for is absolutely extraordinary.

In the end “Covid” is an invention of Central Banks to be used for further centralization and control. Anyone who thinks any of this is about public health is a dim bulb and will likely go down, quickly or gradually, as they comply with these psychopaths and willingly inject poisonous immune destroying toxins into their bodies.

These governments know full well that “Covid” is being used as cover for crashing the economies in the Western world. There is not now and never has been a “pandemic”- that is all Kabuki theater to disguise the reality of this rapid economic decline brought on by the Ponzi Schemes of financial institutions over the past few decades.

Jacques
Jacques
May 5, 2021 1:57 PM
Reply to  Maxwell

“inevitable social upheaval”

Getting ready for that is probably the main objective. Considering such factors as the luxury people are used to thanks to cheap resources, the availability of slave labor, (the fast disappearing) social system, the upcoming loss of jobs (AI/robots), and all sorts of other phenomena that will make people worse off in every possible way and consequently pissed and prone to stage a neo-bolshevik revolution or who knows what – the populists have been working on that – this is a preemptive action aimed at putting the pesky populace on a leash, to cage them for the time when the shit really hits the fan.

CV-1984, vaccination, and all the other crap is just a smokescreen with some additional collateral benefits.

Saint Jimmy
Saint Jimmy
May 5, 2021 2:12 PM
Reply to  Maxwell

Yep.

McMurphy
McMurphy
May 5, 2021 2:13 PM
Reply to  Maxwell

Spot on Maxwell.
Investigative German journalist covers all of it in his analyses:

Thomas
Thomas
May 5, 2021 2:45 PM
Reply to  McMurphy

Thanks for the link.👍

Saint Jimmy
Saint Jimmy
May 5, 2021 3:15 PM
Reply to  McMurphy

This is very good. Never heard of this guy but I think he’s pretty close to the truth. There are other documents that hint at “scenarios” and “threats” and “futures” – intelligence assessments and other reports but many are not available to most people.

CryptoKazar
CryptoKazar
May 6, 2021 1:16 AM
Reply to  McMurphy

I take exception to the beginning of the video. The cold war was a LIE ! Wall street funded the bolshevik revolution, Zionism is Communism Karl Marx was third cousin of Nathan Rothschild say no more ! Various western corporations supplied the Bolsheviks with all the technology they needed to maintain their grip on power, and provided arms to both sides during the Korean and Vietnam wars, the self proclaimed “chosen people” having a whale of a time manufacturing fake opposing sides staffed at the top by useful idiot freemasons, brainwashing the population with the media they own into going to war and making a packet out of watching their pawns fight one another. The Politicians on both sides being paid handsomely for killing their own people.

Nuclear weapons (levelling whole cities by smashing two pieces of magic metal against one another) is equally a Lie, to persuade the citizens of their governments God like powers and make them live in fear, a fearful population is an obedient population.
Plenty of evidence you just have to look at what they present you with, with a critical instead of an unquestioning eye, Like the piles of TNT photographed at the trinity test site for “comparative purposes’ funny how theres no comparative footage of this “comparative test” or the fact Hiroshima looks IDENTICAL to all the other fire bombed, predominantly wooden Japanese cities, or the frail lime stone torii arch still standing directly under where they alleged the bomb had detonated, or the same alleged 20 witnesses of this alleged event being rolled out year after year for the cameras, or the years of now clearly forged test footage from the 50’s and 60’s of models being blown up or the clouds left completely unmolested by temperatures allegedly hotter than the surface of the sun, (The soviets were particularly bad at forging their test footage) or the footage of people practically skinny dipping in nuclear reactor tanks. Unless people understand the degree to which they have been Lied to then you’re never truly going to understand whats going on, with that understanding comes the realisation that those behind all this are not the invincible Gods they would have you believe.but in fact rather infantile “Journalists” of a particular religious persuasion

Claret
Claret
May 6, 2021 3:12 PM
Reply to  CryptoKazar

Some excellent info, insight, analysis can be found here:
The Nuke Hoax
http://cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=452&sid=4bdbeed1279dd9494b9e791592c1c17a

Jane
Jane
May 8, 2021 3:08 AM
Reply to  McMurphy

Brilliant. Thank you.

Jane
Jane
May 8, 2021 3:08 AM
Reply to  Jane

I mean, the video from Paul Schreyer. Must-see.

Jane
Jane
May 8, 2021 1:05 PM
Reply to  Jane

It is notable that, according to Schreyer’s presentation of the agendas of these pandemic gaming scenarios, there is no discussion of medical treatment at early stages of the appearance of symptoms. No plan for mobilizing healthcare entities to deal with the actual illness, and the ill.

The aim of these symposiums is to change the way countries are managed and governed, NOT to HEAL THE SICK.

That is sick sick sick.

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 2:30 PM
Reply to  Maxwell

” The European Central Bank is completely broke with trillions in pensions come due.”

Typical Neocon stooge trying to turn social programs into the enemy. You are a joke.

Don’t tell me the biggest problem in the USA is food stamps, not the USA’s massive military budget?

The only country with real debt emergency is the USA, the European central banks didn’t have a crisis in march 2020 like the USA did. when they made $9 trillions available. You are just trying to defect from the US crisis, which is very very real and made more desperate by a shift from the Dollar internationally. without the Dollar’s world reserve status, the USA is toast overnight, and their military power vanishes.

The Russians are swapping dollars for euros in international trade, up to 30% euros and down below 50% for dollars and falling. This an international trend and it is accelerating as the US cheapens their own currency with infinite printing.

The US will try to undermine the Euro soon as they tried in the Greek and Italian banking ‘crisis’, if the CIA can find time between Covid scams.

Saint Jimmy
Saint Jimmy
May 5, 2021 3:37 PM
Reply to  Mango Green

^IDIOT or TROLL…. Maybe both.

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 4:00 PM
Reply to  Saint Jimmy

Just say when you don’t understand a comment, nobody will think any less of you. It is important to learn.

Saint Jimmy
Saint Jimmy
May 5, 2021 4:30 PM
Reply to  Mango Green

I understand FAR more than you.

QuantumSingularity
QuantumSingularity
May 5, 2021 8:55 PM
Reply to  Saint Jimmy

I smell an Octypus.

jamie
jamie
May 5, 2021 2:32 PM
Reply to  Maxwell

Yep…

Tony
Tony
May 5, 2021 3:54 PM
Reply to  Maxwell

Jim Sinclair and Bill Holter said in an interview, in July 2019 with USA Watchdog, that econonic collapse was imminent. Holter also predicted that a false flag would be used as an excuse/cover for the collapse.

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
May 6, 2021 8:31 AM
Reply to  Maxwell

Truth. Brilliant comment Maxwell… about the last person left that I occasionally contact now still thinks there was a “pandemic” but that there has been an overreach by Govts in grabbing more power, and we all need to be careful about protecting our data and civil liberties!
They have been completely blind to what has been going on in the last 12 months.
I even sent them a link to the profound article ‘Klaus Schwab and his Great Fascist Reset’ and there was no response at all.
I sent other links from The Corbett Report, Wrench In The Gears blog (Alison McDowell) Wrong Kind of Green and even Offguardian, and were deemed “unsure about those sites”… “they seem like alt right echo chambers”!! Sigh.
I fully agree with you this has all been Kabuki Theatre, and the psychopaths via their media presstitutes have skillfully (unfortunately) and daily used a tidal wave of fear to drive this massive fraud.
https://winteroak.org.uk/2020/10/05/klaus-schwab-and-his-great-fascist-reset/

Jane
Jane
May 8, 2021 3:23 AM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Re “They have been completely blind to what has been going on in the last 12 months.
I even sent them a link to the profound article ‘Klaus Schwab and his Great Fascist Reset’ and there was no response at all.”

What I find hardest to understand is how well defended people are—as you describe. Even when y ou can see Schwab and Gates describing their plans on video, if you point this out people say that you are spouting conspiracy theories! WTF? These people are on the record! But the sheeple are so used to calling anything they don’t want to deal with a conspiracy theory that it is like verbal Valium, to make disappear anything they don’t want to see. Truly very, very strange.

One wonders whether they will even notice it when the disaster comes to its full fruition—who knows how long it will take.

Kalen
Kalen
May 5, 2021 1:22 PM

New Hippocratic Oath:

No matter what, do everything in your power to heal your patient, even if it kills him.

Democratic virtues:

in Germany we need GESTAPO to defend our precious democracy.

Saint Jimmy
Saint Jimmy
May 5, 2021 2:13 PM
Reply to  Kalen

You have a “democracy”? Amazing….

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 2:59 PM
Reply to  Saint Jimmy

There certainly has been functioning democracies around the world for a number of years, it is why you can read, and why you have healthcare. Don’t deny its success. There is no system better and nothing else can save us from the current trend towards tyranny.

Saint Jimmy
Saint Jimmy
May 5, 2021 3:19 PM
Reply to  Mango Green

That doesn’t make any sense.

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 3:30 PM
Reply to  Saint Jimmy

Whoosh!

Saint Jimmy
Saint Jimmy
May 5, 2021 3:35 PM
Reply to  Mango Green

Very few in the US have any kind of decent health care. Medical costs bankrupt millions of Americans. Also, within narrow limits, there have been NO appreciable changes to domestic economic policies in the US in over 30 years. The gap between the obscenely rich and everyone else has done nothing but grow and NO mainstream political party has done anything to reverse it. Foreign policy hasn’t changed at all – needless war after needless war, fake enemy and threat after fake enemy and threat…. etc.

You have to be a fucking moron to believe the US has ANY kind of democracy.

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 4:05 PM
Reply to  Saint Jimmy

You are very thick and you waste my time with your lack of understanding of everything. you are like a baby.

For something to be ‘the best’ it does not need to be perfect or need to work well everywhere. It just needs to be the best form of any political system available. Europe has demonstrated the success of Democracy when applied well.

Saint Jimmy
Saint Jimmy
May 5, 2021 4:32 PM
Reply to  Mango Green

Europe is degenerating rapidly. Has been for a couple of decades.

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 2:57 PM
Reply to  Kalen

Doctors have often been at the cutting edge of our genocides. The ‘Liverpool care path’ in the UK, voluntary euthanasia in Belgium, the contamination of blood plasma for hemophiliacs in France or complicity in the mass denial of medical treatment in the USA, the biggest genocide of them all.

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
May 5, 2021 1:18 PM

Excellent, albeit sobering peice CJ. Read it after watching an excellent video that Moneycircus posted yesterday ‘Monopoly – Follow the Money’. The bastards behind the scamdemic want it all. Everything.
A couple of weeks ago here in Melbourne, a lawyer, Serene Teffaha, who was working on class action lawsuits over the lockdowns last year in Melbourne had her legal licence revoked by the Victoria Legal Services Board.
If there was no political pressure from the State Govt in this vile and ominous decision, then I’m the Queen of Sheba.
Because if they are willing to do this to a lawyer, what of ordinary working class people?
And we have all seen the violence meted out to the so called “anti vaxxer conspiracy theorists” (as we’re derogatorily called) by the States hired thugs, namely the cops whether in Melbourne, the UK, The Netherlands, France, Germany, in fact literally everywhere.
And the censorship – off the charts. In fact, one is strongly reminded of history here
https://images.app.goo.gl/EZW4Zj5KLHY6R8427
And just to say, I absolutely reject the ‘new normal’ and everything it stands for, because I actually remember history, which it appears so many have sadly forgotten. I wonder how many of these people have read Hannah Arendt, or 1984 or watched Soylent Green or even realise what The Great Reset truly entails?

Maxwell
Maxwell
May 5, 2021 2:01 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Hi Gezzah,

Do you have the link to the “Monopoly- follow the money” video handy?

Claret
Claret
May 5, 2021 2:30 PM
Reply to  Maxwell

Monopoly – Follow The Money

JohnEss
JohnEss
May 5, 2021 3:04 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Gezzah.

A different perspective on the disbarment of Serene.

https://gumshoenews.com/2021/04/16/serene-teffahas-disbarment-is-beaut-now-we-can-disbar-the-bar/

JS

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
May 6, 2021 2:08 AM
Reply to  JohnEss

I’ve vaguely heard the name Gumshoe News somewhere, but never checked them out. Had no idea they covered the scamdemic and vaxx, or that they were an Australian site. Looks a good site. You would have heard of Tott News as well?
Will check it out properly when I get home as am working at present.
Have a groovy (sunny?) day👍

JohnEss
JohnEss
May 6, 2021 12:11 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Sorry for tardy reply.

Yes. I have put a few of my UK mates onto Tott News. It is excellent.

Not so sunny today, mate.

But “I got my mask to keep me warm…”

😎

Loverat
Loverat
May 5, 2021 3:43 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Gazza

Your use of the word ‘sobering’gave me the inspiration for the next instalment if comedy. I think you will like it. Old, for clean.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8XC3Hc-rAkk

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
May 6, 2021 10:01 AM
Reply to  Loverat

Thanks Loverat👍

aspnaz
aspnaz
May 5, 2021 1:11 PM

Covid is much more interesting when you look at the psychology behind the actions of the individuals involved, such as your manager, your doctor, your garbage collector, your plumber.

I must confess to being an aspiring amateur psycholgist: I refuse to do a uni course in a subject that I consider a hobby: I don’t want to be brainwashed or turned into a corporate drone.

Talking of corporate drones, it is amazing how the education of the corporate drone provides the perfect bahaviour for the oligarchs. The drone will implement whatever they are told, in the same way as they did with their supervisor when they got their degree. As Bob Dylan sang “You gotta serve somebody” and basically your choice is God or Mammon. What is so interesting about the drones is that their previous messages, such as “We are saving the earth”, that they formulate while travelling by private jet from London to New York, can be so easily converted into “We are in this together, get the vaccine.” Of course, they are all authoritarians, they would fire you rather than discuss flexing company policy for you.

It is easy to see that people like this are the prefects from school: the kids who were “friends” with the masters and mistresses, in other words the ass kisers. Amazing how this works through their lives: although so does the fascist element, their love for authoritarian control over their reports at work. It is almost as if they bully their reports as some way of getting back control of their lives. Of course, they all “express” as liberals and are as convincing as the rugby third row who now “expresses” as a teeny bopper.

Of course, these people are sold out to the oligarchs. Teir jobs are to forfeit their own individualism in return for being a suplicant to their corporate boss: all normals will forfeit their “individualism” but the lucky ones will have principles, truth, honesty as their master, not some scumbag like Gates.

I was watching them this morning, 8:30 am, after my run as I was walking home, they were walking into work in the financial district of Hong Kong: they reminded me of the last time I was in New Zealand, watching the cows walk into the milking shed: both are somehow programmed into this behaviour but they are so uncannily similar, it is spooky.

Hong Kong has an interesting population: the old have suffered or had family that have suffered, mostly during Mao’s various inept plans, including the cultural revolution, as a result they are very obedient and afraid of getting entangled with authority. The young are educated on the “exam results mean everything” philosophy of China. Exam results mean everything if you want a middle tier professional drone job, but if you want a decent job you will need to add the ass kissing and personal network.

The Chinese don’t understand this: the Chinese don’t do “professional” as a job, so as a systems analyst specialised in risk mathematics with over 40 years experience in this subject, you will never attend a design meeting, never attend a team meeting, never attend a project meeting, never attend any sort of meeting: you will receive your instructions by email with no discussion allowed: just do as you are told. And they want to take over the world? Don’t make me laugh!

You see, the leeway that most pros get in their jobs does not exist in China. As a result the Chinese do not have to think, they just obey. Even the ones with a first in mathematics from Cambridge will be told to obey, their opinion will not be sought. This is the culture: the manager loses face if the worker knows more about the subject, or comes up with a better idea, than the manager. The subtlety of work interactions is completely lost on the Chinese in China.

Of course, the Chinese in the USA can see the difference: they can work in the USA, do their stuff, be fully involved, feel they are part of something: they contribute ideas as well as the product. Not happening in China and the Chinese have no way to work out how to do it properly.

As a result, the corporate drones in Hong Kong all comply with the governments wishes: they wear masks all the time, … lots of other shite too. There are no exceptions because that is not how they are built, that is not how they are trained. Thinking for yourself is not the way to get a job in Hong Kong., it’s also not going to please your mum.

Saint Jimmy
Saint Jimmy
May 5, 2021 2:19 PM
Reply to  aspnaz

Don’t kid yourself. Americans are mostly conformist corporate drones, too.

zanpsa
zanpsa
May 5, 2021 3:22 PM
Reply to  aspnaz

Every one of your dumb posts ends up in a rant against China, Chinese people and Chinese culture. Did some Chinese woman spurn your interests, or is this just your day job?

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 4:10 PM
Reply to  zanpsa

China is the CIA’s current target. Hell hath no fury as an Empire scorned.

aspnaz
aspnaz
May 5, 2021 11:05 PM
Reply to  zanpsa

I live in China and Hong Kong, it is the world where I live, get it? It is also the ethnicity of my wife and, in part, my children.

You are obviously wannabe CIA, the way you reversed “aspnaz” to make your name: not very clever, not very imaginative … you are rather mundane.

Loverat
Loverat
May 5, 2021 3:40 PM
Reply to  aspnaz

Really insightful post. Thank you.

Moneycircus
Moneycircus
May 5, 2021 12:49 PM

Different versions of the gene jabs suspected. Who got the nice or the nasty?

You have to make an appointment in advance and give all your details. This does not happen with any other vaccine. The annual flu jab doesn’t care who you are. It seems with the Covid-19 shot there is a desire to ensure you get a specific batch.

This is not for testing or safety… After all, the placebo recipients in the brief joke of a trial have been jabbed so there is no control group, there is no monitoring or follow up with patients and most adverse reactions aren’t recorded on the VAERS. Moreover, people are encouraged to mix and match the gene jabs.

The most benign explanation is that the government wants to know who has died so that it can seize their assets and cancel their pension and benefits.

The French recently called a group of jabbees back to the clinic because they had accidentally jabbed all of them with saline. No one has explained how this happened.

Some years ago Time magazine admitted that German politicians were offered a safer version of a SARS jab.

George Mc
George Mc
May 5, 2021 2:43 PM
Reply to  Moneycircus

The unprecedented differentiation of the covid vaccines are an indication of the “market diversity” angle which is good for both business and media bluster. Consumer capitalism runs on demographic pseudo-controversies. And covid opens up whole new opportunities for these exciting money boosting ventures. And of course the more diversions there are for the media to exploit, the more they keep people split up and confused. Win/win for the big boys!

StartHere
StartHere
May 5, 2021 4:09 PM
Reply to  Moneycircus

Money,

that’s interesting – do you have a link re French jabbees..saline, please?

I have wondered about the “personalized” injections. Perhaps some are either “trial controls” (saline) or influencers (saline – HMtQ, Elton John).

Then again, more doomish interpretations go as far as population reduction, social control etc. Might be all of these.

I tend to dismiss the profit motive, they’re not broke.

rechenmacher
rechenmacher
May 6, 2021 9:45 AM
Reply to  StartHere

There was areport about 2 weeks ago of the same thing happening in Southern Germany. The paper (Stuttgarter Zeitung) ‘explained’ that the vaccine would have to be mixed with saline before being injected and a nurse had got it wrong and applied only the saline (a silly thing to claim, come to think of it). Now 45 patients needed to be called back and givven the proper shot. Ah, I thought, so they do apply saline when it fits their purposes.I had suspected this all along.

StartHere
StartHere
May 8, 2021 10:09 AM
Reply to  rechenmacher

Interesting – do you have a link to the Stuttgarter Zeitung item?

Jane
Jane
May 8, 2021 3:39 AM
Reply to  StartHere

Pfizer has hauled in billions from their jabs. The predict they will make $25 billion next year on the boosters. And haven’t they already gotten govt money (in the USA) to develop the jabs? And they have no liability?

Money is undoubtedly not the whole covid story, but what is the point of the Great Reset if Big Players don’t make Big Money from it? .

StartHere
StartHere
May 8, 2021 10:15 AM
Reply to  Jane

I think the point is to gain total control over everyone, to reset a collapsing economy to something like a new feudalism. And why not grab tons of money at the same time?

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 4:12 PM
Reply to  Moneycircus

I heard on the radio that the shots arrive at the doctors in the UK with a list of names to receive the vaccine.

mgeo
mgeo
May 6, 2021 12:46 PM
Reply to  Moneycircus

:- There were no trials on animals.
:- The past trials were designed, supplied and conducted by the promoter business, unsupervised. The control subjects got “safe” vaccines instead of saline. The govt. review was secretive.
:- The trials are not finished; the current “vaccination” is a global trial on the public.
:- The recording of resulting injury is deliberately incomplete.
:- Independent research shows that (a) PEG and the other lipid reaches every part of the body (b) the spike protein causes clots by damaging the lining of blood capillaries. Many researchers opine that the jab alters DNA.

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 12:46 PM

Faux Censorship is being used to define people, a message or groups as our ‘heroes’.
Facebook a wing of the CIA, can decide your ‘heroes’ and ‘freedom fighters’ for you by claiming to ban them, whilst really allowing them access to even their own media.

I can find a video by Alex Jones or Corbett in seconds, yet they pretend they are banned, of course they are not. Jones is a CIA disinformation troll, so he is being given credibility by his ‘soft banning’. If the CIA really wanted to ban him, then we would never hear from him again, like the real targets of their censorship.

Ian
Ian
May 5, 2021 1:30 PM
Reply to  Mango Green

Maybe you don’t quite understand how the NWO works, but if you’re interested just go into the street and see the sheeple wearing their masks, then read the science relative to viruses and masks.

Are you really advocating that Corbett should be made inaccessible by the PTB? Or, that an honest debate on Anti-Covid19 measures and “green passports” should not be permitted on MSM.

If you have an interest in Corbett, see his exposé on three dimensional chess, while you still are allowed to think at all.

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 1:50 PM
Reply to  Ian

I know Hitler sold his evidence free ‘International Juden conspiracy’ to his fearful and naive population, but I am surprised people are falling for the same crap a second time around, but as they say, ‘there’s nowt so queer as folk’. And finding idiots who fall for the NWO BS, seems easy for the CIA.

Edwige
Edwige
May 5, 2021 1:50 PM
Reply to  Mango Green

There are graduations on the road to censorship – it’s more subtle than you’re outright banned or you’re not.

I’ve seen enough on Youtube to know that manipulating recommendations and playlists is real as is tinkering with the numbers (both views and likes). Banning individual videos rather than whole channels is also a technique they’re using – with discovering the detailed reasons for the ban virtually impossible. BTW I would agree that being banned on Youtube is no guarantee that a channel isn’t controlled – it was done to Icke obviously both as a warning to others and as an attempt to restore his waning credibility.

They don’t mind dissent as long as it’s ghettoised i.e. where only the already converted are likely to find it.

If you want an example that some outright censorship is going on – all atempts to create a Wikipedia page for Michael Aquino keep on being deleted.

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 2:41 PM
Reply to  Edwige

It is not a case of degrees of banning, it is a question of who is banning and why.
The people banning are the CIA via their start-ups, Google, Facebook and twitter. When they ‘ban’ the far-right they are just trying to lend them credibility because a controlled opposition needs to look like an opposition.

There was NOTHING about trump that opposed the US military industrial Complex…ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. yet he was banned off twitter and turned into a hero by the same military industrial complex that control twitter.

Please don’t tell me the US corporate media and US oligarchs mega corporations are left wing in any real sense.

Howard
Howard
May 5, 2021 3:42 PM
Reply to  Mango Green

I think there’s a much bigger point to this targeted censorship. To paraphrase:

First they came for my YouTube video; then they came for the whole channel; then, once people got used to not seeing me, they came for my website. Then I was no more.

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 4:15 PM
Reply to  Howard

The biggest threat to the US military, neo Liberal machine and those who buy into the franchise, is socialism. no mystery there.

George Mc
George Mc
May 5, 2021 2:46 PM
Reply to  Mango Green

Going by your own logic, there can be no truly dissenting voices anywhere since the media would silence them. Unless we assume that some good stuff can get through (perhaps even accidentally), we are completely in the dark.

Mango Green
Mango Green
May 5, 2021 3:15 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Just realize, That I am the only voice I know saying that the biggest empire in the history of man, The USA, might be involved in a conspiracy that, at every level is assisting them in their aims & serving their interests, and which at every juncture crosses paths with their enterprises and state actors.

Don’t you think that a little odd? Even here I am attacked for stating, what I’m afraid to say, is the bleeding obvious.

The truth is so deeply hidden and buried, only very very few are able to present it. And the only reason I am not dead for saying it, is because I am a nobody and nobody reads my comments. If I were presenting my ideas to thousands on youtube I would be instantly banned and soon dead.

So all we see is mostly fake pantomime YES pointing us away from the real centers of power.

George Mc
George Mc
May 5, 2021 12:26 PM

The Wall Street Journal gets tetchy about Van’s latest. The overt holy censure on critiquing COVID gives way to the more traditional dismissal of unmanly whiners:

“The lyrics on “Latest Record Project” …are filled with bile, and much of his ire has a conspiratorial tone. For those who don’t get enough of people complaining about such things on social media platforms, now we have a Van Morrison album that lays out perceived injustices, large and small, in song.”

People complaining! Who ever heard of such a thing!

“Hearing his legendary tenor on clunky lines like “Can we say that you’re clinically insane / Can you still even use your brain” in “Psychoanalysts’ Ball” drives home just how trite these songs are.”

Are the lines “trite”? What does that even mean? The “clunky” is a clue. Van is being “insufficiently nuanced” and has simplified a complex….you know how it goes!

“As the album unwinds, Mr. Morrison asks “Where Have All the Rebels Gone?” (hint: you won’t find them behind computer screens)”

Ooh miaow! But in an age of enforced lockdowns, rebels have few options and the computer screen is one of them.

But challenging Van on the specific subject matter, i.e. THE FUCKING COVID BULL, is too risky. So best to wheel out a load of fancy terminology which just amounts to the content free aspect of a raspberry.

Ian
Ian
May 5, 2021 1:39 PM
Reply to  George Mc

“dis-dancing in the dark” or “memories of Alice and the Jab-or-walk” might be good titles?

Kenneth Thorberg
Kenneth Thorberg
May 5, 2021 9:59 PM
Reply to  George Mc

“Rebels have few options” ? He´s obviously talking about REAL rebels , and they don´t ask for permission.

Jacques
Jacques
May 5, 2021 12:12 PM

“Just thinking about totalitarian systems – the fact is they never last. Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Itally, Stalin’s Russia. They needed to keep up a continual level of crisis and fear, but that is difficult to maintain.”

I don’t know … The extent of totalitarianism is in the eye of the ol’ beholder, and I hate to break it out to you, but the societal system in a country like, say, the US can easily be described as totalitarian by somebody dedicated to true freedom. And I’m not talking about now, I’m talking about since a long time ago, as far as I can remember.

We live within the realm of what we’re able and allow ourselves to perceive, realize. If you truly look beyond the horizon, you can’t refer to the present-day society as being free. People are fucking slaves, subject to a script that just about everybody follows, subject to a myriad of fucking rules, most of them idiotic, to conventions imposed by pompous assholes, to this and that and the other fucking thing.

And fear? Fear is omnipresent in Western society. Everybody keeps their mouth shut so as not to hurt somebody’s frail feelings which in turn would reduce the person’s employability, marketability, resulting in ostracization, excommunication, if not worse.

So, totalitarianism has been alive and well with us throughout the times.

Now we have a unique vindow of opporzunity (Hi Klaus!) to realize that and to shoot for real FREEDOM!

Yay … Vive la LIBERTE … !

No poisoned needle for me
No poisoned needle for me
May 5, 2021 12:05 PM

Yeah, anybody resisting the psychotic new abnormal must be very very bad. George Orwell really knew what he was writhing about.

Edith
Edith
May 5, 2021 12:02 PM

Twitter is having fun with the gates asking for privacy at this time as they deal with their private lives….

yep the same people who want surveillance of all of us 24 hrs a day…no touch with reality…

Tim Drayton
Tim Drayton
May 5, 2021 1:51 PM
Reply to  Edith

What was the mantra again? ““I have no privacy, and life has never been better.” Man up to the world you’re creating, Billy. What was that? Only for the plebs? That’s OK then.

Jesper
Jesper
May 5, 2021 11:54 AM

Criminalisation of the truth. Will not work. The further we descend into hell the more people will wake up. The Dominating Power Scum cannot quell dissent, it will always linger no matter how hard they try.

Donald Duck
Donald Duck
May 5, 2021 11:47 AM

Just thinking about totalitarian systems – the fact is they never last. Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Itally, Stalin’s Russia. They needed to keep up a continual level of crisis and fear, but that is difficult to maintain. Moreover, They are not that bright, and they tend to verge on a form of collective schizophrenia which makes them do stupid things.

This is not to say that they cannot cause mayhem and chaos – they can and they do – but rationality wins in the end. Then the whole process starts all over again. The Golden Age of the system 1945 – 1975 petered out and began a period 1980 to about 2000 when democracy started to fail. Then came the period of oligarchy, insanity, war and destruction.

This seems to be the fate of all dispensations. Actually I’m frankly too old to care any more, but maybe I am being naive, I still believe in the human spirit.

Loverat
Loverat
May 5, 2021 1:27 PM
Reply to  Donald Duck

Excellent post. So right.

Moneycircus
Moneycircus
May 5, 2021 11:35 AM

Media Frenzy Around Gates Divorce Helps Distract From Bill’s Crimes, says Dr. Roy Schestowitz, posting May 4 at TechRights

http://techrights.org/videos/gates-distraction.webm

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Willem
Willem
May 5, 2021 11:56 AM
Reply to  Moneycircus

Why did they divorce now?

Could be coincidence, but now at a time when bill gates, our savior, is leading us the way?

I am not one of these people who blame game people who get a divorce. But many people do. Where there is smoke, there is fire, people think. I mean, if Gates was a saint, he should be able to get his marriage together. Apparently he is no saint. Like it or not: That is what people think, when other people divorce. The daily’s are filled with such stories of famous people falling from grace. It sells!

Now it certainly isn’t helpful for the Gates brand: the geeky computer wizard who started a philanthropic foundation with his wife in order to get rid of his money, now gets divorced (and still didn’t get rid of his money after all those years)

This really is a stain on his immaculate character.

Why would he stain himself now?
Or is this all in order to a larger plan of Bil the patsy (which I commented on below)

– now there is a nice conspiracy theory! But I would not call it that. I would call it a hypothesis, waiting to get unfold. I am patient.

Jesper
Jesper
May 5, 2021 12:03 PM
Reply to  Willem

Maybe he hasn’t pleased his masters?

Loverat
Loverat
May 5, 2021 1:38 PM
Reply to  Jesper

I’m not sure which out of the two is more evil. I always remember a TV clip of him rocking in his chair, refusing to answer interviewer’s questions I thought something was obviously wrong with him.

Her, as Anne Widdicombe said about Michael Howard, there is something of the night about her. Plenty of theories – one possible one, she’s divorcing him to avoid the retribution when their plans unravel. Not a nice thought, wondering if she will end up like Mussolini’s mistress. That must be a fear of all involved – that the masses will turn on them one day soon. No trials, just retribution, old style. Not something I endorse but imagine the anger when realisation kicks in.

Jesper
Jesper
May 5, 2021 2:51 PM
Reply to  Loverat

Behind every “great” man stands an even greater woman?

Howard
Howard
May 5, 2021 3:49 PM
Reply to  Loverat

I personally think it’s entirely a money issue. Their accountants must have shown them a way to increase their wealth by getting divorced. Period.

rubberheid
rubberheid
May 5, 2021 5:42 PM
Reply to  Willem

I want the null hypothesis! for covid and this barrage of shite that we endure and I have no patience for! I agree bill is too convenient a patsy in all this.

Jane
Jane
May 8, 2021 3:49 AM
Reply to  rubberheid

I think Bill has more than a touch of the autism.
I think his has been wound up by his parents.
They probably c hose Melinda for him so that he would appear normal.
Unfortunately, she doesn’t appear normal. Neither one of them does.

Her hands do look kind of meaty.