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Jan 9, 2023·edited Jan 9, 2023Liked by Mickey Z.

The "good old days" beliefs seem to have a protective function. It's highly stressful to be aware of something horrific and, at the same time, be unable to do much or anything at all about it. One way to cope is to shunt it off to the side; find a way to obscure or ignore it. The cognitive dissonance arising from that further reinforces the urgency of obscuring it. I've noticed college educated people are adept at doing that very thing, especially the PMC caste/class and their wannabes. They flood the media zone with their coping mechanisms, anxieties, denial strategies, and other assorted neuroses. Credulous people pick it up from there. When awareness finally does creep in, it's distressing. People cast around for something to soften it. The "good old days" offers an acceptable something. It's reinforced by a cultural disposition to accept a Fall from Grace narrative.

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It's easy to lose sight of that. As CAF's likes to say, the Great Poisoning has been going on a very long time, now it's just obvious to everyone but the zombies.

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Jan 9, 2023Liked by Mickey Z.

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A Living Venture

With An Out Standing Lecture.

Professor High Schooler

{Historian, etcetera.}

That's Latin Dr. Z.

JUST IN CASE

Ya didn't know.

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& non Whispers...

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All by design in pursuit of profit....once you see it, you can’t unsee it....and you are left wondering how pervasive it is....health, education, energy, finance, defense, etc.

Some republicans need to figure out that the Rockefeller model is not competition and free market. In many respects it is anti-capitalism and under the influence of that model of “success” erodes democracy and freedoms. And we are perilously close (if not already arrived) to giving the keys to our lives and further in TOTAL (digital slavery) to the predatory philanthropists and corporate oligarchy who have determined that they know “best.” Really, they know that claim to be what it truly is....a Trojan Horse that maintains and further secures their function and claim as our masters.

Meanwhile, the majority of Dems better grow a backbone and realize/admit that they are merely a pawn. They have been so eager to give a thumping to their competition that they sold their soul. Not a pretty sight, but there you have it.

And while the right and left are locked in their mortal debate and divide, fueled by the arrogance and hubris of each that blinds them to reality, the oligarchs and fin/tech elite are laughing all the way to the bank while preparing the next chapter in the age old story....How to lay claim to our lives in full and with a monopoly? While everyone continues to fret or debate COVID and the COVID vaccine

(which at this point serves as a red herring--yes, damage and harm has was and is real, but the waters are so muddied no clarity or justice will ever come of it, the masses no longer have an attention span or memory to allow accountability)..

the globalists are busy putting in place the infrastructure for the next stage of their worldwide coup with nearly a peep from the medical freedom warriors or others. They still don’t see or perhaps purposefully refuse to see that we are still heading towards the NWO that will maintain the overlords and subject us to the leftovers.

My theory at this point is they have the ability to bring us to our knees at any point, but they are not quite ready to do so....they still need to move a few pieces into place so the whole affair will be a fait a compli when the time is right. My research suggests they are in the move again, we are getting closer....meanwhile the COVID chronicles continue. Where and how they hit us next remains to be seen, but based on their business model and the digital prison I expect it could come from any sector.

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Jan 9, 2023·edited Jan 9, 2023Liked by Mickey Z.

Excellent reminder and post, Mickey. May I offer this must-see documentary, showing that they have really been at it for the past 100 years? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jqCXWdeRes

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As Joe Bageant said, "Everything in this country is a goddamn racket." Sums it up quite nicely!

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Good history lesson. Speaking about the good old days, I once read a book called "The Creature from Jekyll Island". Mind blowing! How banking, bankers came to be. How the Rothschild's started. How they and others financed BOTH SIDES in wars. Jekyll Island was the meeting of JPMorgan reps Henry Davidson, Charles Norton, and Benjamin Strong, Rothschild banking dynasty representative Paul Warburg, and of course Nelson Aldrich and Frank Vanderclip, who represented the Rockefeller financial empire. Created the National Reserve System which became the Federal Reserve. We got income tax and Senators got to get elected instead of appointed and pulled back by their respective states as per the Constitution.

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