Oh boy, I have another long rant. I’m going to chime in with, “it takes two to Tango”. Every atrocity since the beginning of time had order givers and order followers. We seem to gloss over the “order followers”. As painful as it was for me to admit, order followers are MORE culpable than the order givers because it is the ACTIONS of the order followers that actually does the harm. The order givers are sitting back laughing at us because collectively WE are the ones doing the killing, destroying, and trampling on other’s rights while they reap the benefits. How many times are we going to keep falling for their bullshit? “Victims” don’t want to admit that they had a role to play in ALLOWING the dark times to occur. I am, by no means, a “religious” person, but I believe when these dark times occur, they are designed to test us spiritually. I think in order to get out of this “matrix” or whatever this hellhole realm is we need to pass the “test”. Are we going to live in fear and obey man’s arbitrary rules that smother our spirits or are we going to trust in God (aka Natural Law). I think Earth is like probation. God doesn’t want a bunch of spiritually shallow wusses in the next realm who think it’s ok to lie, cheat, steal, kill just because an asshole ordered them to. God doesn't want people on his team who use the excuse, "I was just following orders".
That is why the Bible has the phrase “do not fear” soooo many times. It’s pretty important. Fear and pride are the key to every sin. The word sin really just means, “to miss the mark”. It is my belief that this world will never improve until WE collectively admit the role WE played as order followers. I’ve been harping about personal responsibility in most of my comments. I was a cowardly order follower all my life…until “COVID”. For me, that was the lesson of “COVID”: will people take the WIDE path and blindly comply because that was the easy way out or will they take the NARROW path and have the courage to stand up for truth and say NO to tyranny, knowing they will face hardships? When people were asked why they wore masks or got the jab they use the lame excuse they were “forced” to or because they selfishly wanted “freedom” to travel, go out - petty material reasons. The blind compliers didn't give a damn that their compliance was actually harming the rest of our freedom. They only cared about not being inconvenienced. No one forced anyone to do anything; it was all a CHOICE. We ALL were faced with the pressure from illegal COVID "mandates". Had WE collectively supported everyone’s right of body autonomy and simply said NO from the beginning, “COVID” would have magically been cured overnight. I believe God (Natural Law) protects us when we stand up for truth. Had the people working in the concentration camps said “NO”, millions of people would not have been brutalized and killed. But during WWII and COVID the majority of people “missed the mark” and let fear guide their moral compass. So, now the cycle will continue, and we’ll face more dark times in the future until WE start taking personal responsibility.
Did Bill Gates or Fauci actually give anyone vaccines or deny service to people not wearing masks/vaxxed or beat people for not wearing masks or allowed vulnerable people die alone in nursing homes…? Nope, WE did those things to each other and the powers that shouldn’t be laughed at how horribly we treated each other. We were warned centuries ago what would happen to us when we abdicated our responsibility to self-govern ourselves to a “king”. But we didn’t listen and admit we were wrong and now look where we are. I’m not a Bible thumper, but the Bible and other sacred scriptures have so many valuable lessons when we read them as parables and not literally. We are currently living through everything in this passage from 1 Samuel 8:
But when they said, “Give us a king (aka government) to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so, he prayed to the LORD. 7 And the LORD told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me (aka Natural Law) as their king. 8 As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. 9 Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will claim as his rights.”
10 Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, “This is what the king (aka government) who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. 12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. 16 Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle[c] and donkeys he will take for his own use. 17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. 18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.”l
Thanks, Chris. Your comment the other day made me dig out something that appears in my first book:
In 1951, Guatemalan president Juan José Arévalo (whose term gave that country a ten-year respite from military rule during which he provoked U.S. ire by modeling his government "in many ways after the Roosevelt New Deal") stepped down to be replaced by his ill-fated successor and kindred spirit, Jacobo Arbenz. This to what Arévalo had to say about the aftermath of a war known as "good": "The arms of the Third Reich were broken and conquered ... but in the ideological dialogue ...the real winner was Hitler."
Evil goes wherever money grows.
Yes, that is something else to "never forget."
Another top shelf essay. This forces me work harder to find some esoteric topics!
Thank you! 🙃
The Nazis didn't lose WWII, they merely changed uniforms...
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Thanks Mickey.
Oh boy, I have another long rant. I’m going to chime in with, “it takes two to Tango”. Every atrocity since the beginning of time had order givers and order followers. We seem to gloss over the “order followers”. As painful as it was for me to admit, order followers are MORE culpable than the order givers because it is the ACTIONS of the order followers that actually does the harm. The order givers are sitting back laughing at us because collectively WE are the ones doing the killing, destroying, and trampling on other’s rights while they reap the benefits. How many times are we going to keep falling for their bullshit? “Victims” don’t want to admit that they had a role to play in ALLOWING the dark times to occur. I am, by no means, a “religious” person, but I believe when these dark times occur, they are designed to test us spiritually. I think in order to get out of this “matrix” or whatever this hellhole realm is we need to pass the “test”. Are we going to live in fear and obey man’s arbitrary rules that smother our spirits or are we going to trust in God (aka Natural Law). I think Earth is like probation. God doesn’t want a bunch of spiritually shallow wusses in the next realm who think it’s ok to lie, cheat, steal, kill just because an asshole ordered them to. God doesn't want people on his team who use the excuse, "I was just following orders".
That is why the Bible has the phrase “do not fear” soooo many times. It’s pretty important. Fear and pride are the key to every sin. The word sin really just means, “to miss the mark”. It is my belief that this world will never improve until WE collectively admit the role WE played as order followers. I’ve been harping about personal responsibility in most of my comments. I was a cowardly order follower all my life…until “COVID”. For me, that was the lesson of “COVID”: will people take the WIDE path and blindly comply because that was the easy way out or will they take the NARROW path and have the courage to stand up for truth and say NO to tyranny, knowing they will face hardships? When people were asked why they wore masks or got the jab they use the lame excuse they were “forced” to or because they selfishly wanted “freedom” to travel, go out - petty material reasons. The blind compliers didn't give a damn that their compliance was actually harming the rest of our freedom. They only cared about not being inconvenienced. No one forced anyone to do anything; it was all a CHOICE. We ALL were faced with the pressure from illegal COVID "mandates". Had WE collectively supported everyone’s right of body autonomy and simply said NO from the beginning, “COVID” would have magically been cured overnight. I believe God (Natural Law) protects us when we stand up for truth. Had the people working in the concentration camps said “NO”, millions of people would not have been brutalized and killed. But during WWII and COVID the majority of people “missed the mark” and let fear guide their moral compass. So, now the cycle will continue, and we’ll face more dark times in the future until WE start taking personal responsibility.
Did Bill Gates or Fauci actually give anyone vaccines or deny service to people not wearing masks/vaxxed or beat people for not wearing masks or allowed vulnerable people die alone in nursing homes…? Nope, WE did those things to each other and the powers that shouldn’t be laughed at how horribly we treated each other. We were warned centuries ago what would happen to us when we abdicated our responsibility to self-govern ourselves to a “king”. But we didn’t listen and admit we were wrong and now look where we are. I’m not a Bible thumper, but the Bible and other sacred scriptures have so many valuable lessons when we read them as parables and not literally. We are currently living through everything in this passage from 1 Samuel 8:
But when they said, “Give us a king (aka government) to lead us,” this displeased Samuel; so, he prayed to the LORD. 7 And the LORD told him: “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me (aka Natural Law) as their king. 8 As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. 9 Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will claim as his rights.”
10 Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king. 11 He said, “This is what the king (aka government) who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. 12 Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. 13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. 14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. 15 He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. 16 Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle[c] and donkeys he will take for his own use. 17 He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. 18 When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.”l
Thank you, Laura! 🙏
Came across this at CAM by Evan Reif; very good. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/02/03/how-a-network-of-nazi-propagandists-helped-lay-the-groundwork-for-the-war-in-ukraine/
Thanks, Chris. Your comment the other day made me dig out something that appears in my first book:
In 1951, Guatemalan president Juan José Arévalo (whose term gave that country a ten-year respite from military rule during which he provoked U.S. ire by modeling his government "in many ways after the Roosevelt New Deal") stepped down to be replaced by his ill-fated successor and kindred spirit, Jacobo Arbenz. This to what Arévalo had to say about the aftermath of a war known as "good": "The arms of the Third Reich were broken and conquered ... but in the ideological dialogue ...the real winner was Hitler."