High tech prison ???

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. - Richard Lovelace (no relation to Linda)

He may have been writing about the "15-minute city" concept. You can read about it here:

https://www.dezeen.com/2021/10/26/15-minute-city-carlos-moreno-obel-award/

Living up to its nickname The Mistake by the Lake, Cleveland, Ohio wants to become the first such city in the USA:

https://twitter.com/betterworld_24/status/1630131218380365826?s=20

Perhaps the city can afford to construct such a thing with taxpayer help, but not answered is the question "how will people afford to live in this newfangled prison?"

Possibly enacting a guaranteed income would help, but where would THAT money come from?

If you can spare the time, take a look at this background report:

https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-plan-to-wreck-america/

Once again, it's all just part of the great reset.

Secrets Take Precedence

Another ridiculous decision from "our" Supreme Court:

https://reason.com/2023/02/27/scotus-says-domestic-spying-is-too-secret-to-be-challenged-in-court/

No, the government should not be allowed to violate the constitution and then claim what they do is so secret the courts cannot review it. If that were permissible, why even have a constitution at all?

And maybe that's the point. The fix is in, every aspect of it can be ignored or violated at will ... until they finally flush it down the toilet. Just part of the great reset, I suppose.

And that's how government of the people, by the people, for the people, perished from the earth.

Update - 3/1/2023

Compare the above to this report about Western corporations spying for Iran:

https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/media-companies-of-3-countries-helped-iran-in-tracking-phones-of-protesters/

If the US government's direct and via corporation spying on us is a matter of state secrecy not subject to judicial review (according to SCOTUS), then why should we care if something similar happens to Iranian citizens?

Actually I DO care, since neither country should be engaged in such a thing and NO corporation should be helping them.

The Truth About Yugoslavia

According to Canadian peacekeepers, the official US story about what happened in Yugoslavia is pure fiction:

https://thegrayzone.com/2022/12/30/declassified-intelligence-files-bosnian-war/

Yes, Uncle Sam lied, bombed, destroyed, and killed his way to accomplish the destruction of the former sovereign nation of Yugoslavia.

Just like Iraq.

Just like Libya.

Just like Syria.

Just like Ukraine.

Face it, the US is evil. Period. Nothing about any of this is justifiable. It's all about money and power. And it has been for quite some time.

Are you willing to sacrifice our way of life and/or to die for this kind of crap? I'm not.

Disarming Our Troops ???

According to this report, the Pentagon wants to stop selling guns to US troops:

https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/pentagon-panel-recommends-gun-control-for-us-troops/

Is this really to keep them from committing suicide, or to make certain they cannot commit mutiny or insurrection? Impossible to tell for certain.

Wouldn't it be better to address the reasons they kill themselves in such high numbers?

[That would be a novel idea - addressing the causes instead of just the symptoms.]

What Did They Get Right ???

Here is a checklist of COVID-19 items. Did they get any of them right?

• Transmission of the disease - wrong
• Asymptomatic spread - wrong
• PCR testing - wrong
• Fatality rate - wrong
• Lockdowns - wrong
• Community triggers - wrong
• Business closures - wrong
• School closures - wrong
• Quarantining healthy people - wrong
• Impact on youth - wrong
• Hospital overload - wrong
• Plexiglass barriers - wrong
• Social distancing - wrong
• Outdoor spread - wrong
• Masks - wrong
• Variant impact - wrong
• Natural immunity - wrong
• Vaccine efficacy - wrong
• Vaccine injury - wrong

Source - https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1628862855566221313?s=20

So now we're supposed to give up our national sovereignty to the same pack of clowns?

https://jdrucker.substack.com/p/the-pandemic-treaty-is-far-worse

I DON'T THINK SO !!!

Time to shut these bums down ... and derail their "great reset", too.

Big Bang Is Big Baloney

"Our" latest extravagant space telescope is making startling discoveries:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/22/world/webb-telescope-massive-early-galaxies-scn/index.html

Note well that reports like this NEVER question the fundamental underlying theory ... that the universe started with a "big bang", prior to which there was nothing.

If massive, well-developed galaxies existed right after the "big bang", doesn't that at least suggest the possibility the universe had no beginning and that big bang is wrong?

I'm a fan of steady state, and I predict they'll eventually ditch big bang in favor of something which fits all the facts. And it won't be a theory which claims most of the energy and mass in the universe is "dark" or "invisible".

The Prince Of This World

According to this report, the Davos/WEF beast is telling world leaders what to do:

https://en-volve.com/2023/02/24/wef-orders-world-governments-to-begin-severely-rationing-meat-and-fuel-to-usher-in-the-great-reset/

Who gave them such power? I never voted for those guys, did you?

And why are we attacking Russia in Ukraine, when the only possible beneficiary for such a thing is this beast who wants to rule the world?

Wake up, people ... our world is being being destroyed, and our national "leaders" are doing NOTHING to help us. They're just doing what the beast wants them to do.

Derailment Foreknowledge ???

This is MORE than suspicious:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/cdc-alters-webpage-days-after-east-palestine-train-derailment-make-vinyl-chloride-look-less-toxic/5809583

It would make sense if ALL took place after the derailment, but NOT before. Very strange, to say the least.

Guns Vs. Butter

Some are claiming that US food production facilities are being sabotaged:

https://www.city-journal.org/whats-behind-rash-of-fires-at-us-food-processing-facilities

I don't know what's REALLY going on, but here's a related paradox:

Have you heard of a single similar event at a WEAPONS factory?

Granted, food factories have ignition sources and weapons factories probably take great care to prevent accidents, but statistically shouldn't we see at least SOME catastrophes at our bomb factories?

Hmmm ...

Scary AI ???

Are the nerds really this dumb?

"ChatGPT creator Sam Altman says the world may not be 'that far away from potentially scary' AI"

Source - https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-chatgpt-sam-altman-world-not-far-potentially-scary-ai-2023-2

It's ALREADY scary. And yet, the implication is he and his ilk will continue to create it.

"Regulation" will not make a bit of difference. What SHOULD be done is to outlaw this kind of research. But obviously that's not going to happen.

Dumb, dumb, dumb !!!

Biden's Power Grab

Here is a discussion of Biden's restructuring of the federal government:

https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/bidens-power-grab-executive-order-installs-equity-commissars-to-rule-the-bureaucracy-and-centralize-power/

Does anyone really think he is capable of coming up with this, considering his perpetually addled mental state?

This sounds more like something a "community organizer" (e.g., Obama ad-Dajjal) would concoct.

In any case, is it wise to politicize and weaponize EVERY aspect of government? We're about to discover the answer to that question.

Just Another Scam ???

Saw this ad yesterday for a promising venture:

AV's extensive deep dive examines how bold startups are developing technologies the world will require to head off global warming while creating entirely new markets revolving around decarbonization efforts. With carbon and emissions tech projected to grow from $905 billion to $1.4 trillion by 2027, decarbonization has the potential to become a cornerstone of the global economy.

Source - https://www.av.vc/blog/venture-deep-dives-decarbonization

Think about that for a bit - decarbonization will DESTROY the global economy, allegedly to allow something better to take its place. How can THAT be a "cornerstone" of anything other than a sham/scam economy?

Carbon is life. This whole thing fills me with dread.

Does Bad-jacketing Justify Police Violence ???

Here is a reporter's eyewitness account of some COVID protests:

https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/702271/Corona-Proteste-Die-Gewalt-ging-vor-allem-von-der-Polizei-aus [translation required]

Sound familiar? Reminds me of what happened to COVID protesters here, what Turdeau did to the truckers in Canada, and what Pelosi and company did to the mostly peaceful 1/6 protesters.

Western governments lie, and with the help of the MSM "justify" police violence against We the People, as well as wholesale violation of our civil liberties.

There are no "democracies" in the West; just corporate-supported technocracies.

Worst Ocean Polluters

This graphic shows the top ten polluters of plastic in the oceans:

Source - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/visualized-ocean-plastic-waste-pollution-by-country/

Yep, we're not the problem. But I doubt the Philippines will do the cleanup.

Enemy Of The State ???

Is this not the sort of bizarre outcome previously only found in a story by Franz Kafka?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chicago-dad-placed-watchlist-after-opposing-pornography-schools

Somehow, "our" government protects the perverts and pimps who are corrupting our children, while vilifying parents who try to protect them.

Yes, Satan rules the US, and "Joe Biden" is one of his helpers.

Pigs in Spain

Grain shipments from Ukraine fed pigs in Spain instead of going to starving people in Africa:

https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/grain-from-ukraine-went-to-pigs-in-spain-report/

Yet another example of US/UK/Ukraine lies.

What the hell good are we doing ANYWHERE in the world?

Sex Ed In Michigan

Another report about the hyper-sexualization of our children:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hyper-sexualization-students-parents-rein-rogue-sex-education-michigan-schools

Here's an important point made in the report:

"Those children are not the state’s property."

No, they're not. And it's past time for parents to force the perverts and pimps out of their local school systems.

Disaster In Ohio

The train derailment in Palestine, OH and subsequent bungled response is likely to contaminate the entire Ohio River basin:

Such large industrial/nuclear accidents are wreaking havoc on our planet:

• Chernobyl dumped radionuclides over Europe
• Fukushima produced a huge inventory of radioactive material which all will wind up in the Pacific Ocean
• An acid leak at a nuke plant in upstate New York eroded condenser tubes, and the resulting metal toxins were dumped into the lake
• The Deepwater Horizon oil spill released a huge amount of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico

In addition, long-term activities associated with mining, manufacturing, and waste disposal have been contaminating our air, water, and soil for generations.

Bottom line - humans are making this planet uninhabitable, at least for ourselves, most vertebrates, and quite a few other organisms.

Much is said about the "value" of human life, but if we're honest about our planetary impact, it's mostly negative. Highly negative.

Green washing just won't cut it. We MUST reduce our numbers, stop raping Mother Earth, and end ALL warfare activities. And EVERYONE in government and corporations who has been promoting and profiting from such activities MUST be forced from their positions of power and authority.

Our very lives depend on it.

Free Money In Chicago ???

It appears Chicago is trying a "guaranteed income" experiment:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/500-month-no-strings-chicago-124921326.html

Chicago's debt is over $79 billion. How can they afford to give more away?

Beats me.

High School Hell

A large number of HS girls have considered killing themselves:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/shocking-30-high-school-girls-seriously-considered-suicide-last-year

Meanwhile, the wife of California's governor is making big bucks from hawking "educational" materials:

Is there a connection here? If so, is it positive or negative?

By the way, the merger of government and corporate power is one of the classic definitions of fascism.

No More Mom And Dad

Here is the latest "advance" from the US military:

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/air-force-academy-tells-cadets-to-ditch-gendered-terms-like-mom-and-dad/

If your Mom and Dad are their latest targets, how did THAT happen?

Should "our" military even be involved in social engineering?

EV Minerals

Here is a good presentation of the state of obtaining minerals for EVs:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/how-mineral-supply-will-change-ev-forecasts/

Perhaps strip mining the planet to build EVs is a good idea, but maybe it isn't. The waste and byproducts generated by the effort may prove more damaging than burning fossil fuels.

And don't get me started about nuclear waste ...

Living By Lies

Here is an interesting take by Craig Murray on the official US story about what happened to the Nord Stream pipelines:

But what most worries me about the entire story is the unanimous complicity of the mainstream media in ignoring the completely obvious.

The media line, parroted here relentlessly by the BBC and corporate media, was  that the Russians had probably themselves blown up the pipeline on which they had expended such great resources and three decades of intense diplomatic activity, and which was to be the key to Russia’s single most valuable source of income for the next 40 years.

This was always quite literally incredible. You would have to be deranged to believe it.

It actually taught me not just that we truly are in the realm of totalitarianism and the Big Lie, but I learnt something very important about how the Big Lie works.

The secret is not that people genuinely believe an outrageous claim. The secret is that people do genuinely believe that they are in a battle of good against evil, and it is necessary to accept the narrative being promoted, in the interests of fighting evil.

Don’t question, just follow. If you do question, you are promoting evil.

I am sure that is how it works.

State and corporate stenographer journalists are actually intelligent individuals. If they thought about it, they would realise that the narrative that Russia blew up its own pipeline is obvious nonsense.

But they are convinced it is morally wrong to think about it.

Which is why none of them challenged the equally mad claims that Russia was repeatedly shelling its own forces occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, and indeed is why none of them challenged the utterly risible official version of the Skripal story.

Source - https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/02/sy-hersh-and-the-way-we-live-now/

I think he's right. What do YOU think?

Update - 2/15/2023

Subsequent revelations prove the US was plotting to start a war with Russia LONG before the Special Military Operation began. It's clear the blame for the war lies with the US, and it's unfortunate no one is able to bring the US to account WITHOUT going to war.

Why Was Shinzo Abe Murdered ???

Here is a discussion of why the Japanese former PM was murdered:

https://thesaker.is/why-shinzo-abe-was-assassinated-towards-a-united-states-of-europe-and-a-league-of-nations/

If accurate, it implies he was killed at the hands of (or at least with the approval of) the US.

Let's see ... blowing up pipelines, murdering generals and politicians, supporting dictators ... yep, the US is a terrorist state. Probably the WORST terrorist state on the planet.

And if you're one of those who thinks "my country, right or wrong", you need to ask yourself how its criminality benefits YOU. It doesn't, not in the slightest. And it harms millions, if not billions, of others.

Fantasy SDGs

The UN published these "sustainable development goals" for 2030:

Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Note that most, if not all, are for humans only. The rest of the animals and plants on the planet may or may not benefit from them. And if they don't, how can we survive?

Also note that the US and its vassals are pursuing hegemonic policies which are making most of these SDGs unobtainable.

Go figure!

How The US Destroyed Nord Stream

This latest report suggests the US and Norway committed an act of war against Germany and the rest of the NATO countries that depended on Russian natural gas. I think Seymour Hersh has just dropped an H-bomb on the entire US-Russia-Ukraine war narrative:

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

Perhaps the peoples of the EU will now recognize the US is NOT their friend. Quite the opposite. The US and its vassals have no problem screwing their former friends whenever it suits Uncle Sam's purposes.

A Prediction

One of the latest pharma schemes is to produce various antibodies in cows, which then will be harvested from their blood. Pretty neat, no?

But you may have noticed TPTB want to cull all the herds, allegedly to fight climate change. That probably means most of the remaining cows will be closely controlled by them and their corporations.

This will give them the opportunity to sell meat saturated with antibodies (and spike protein?) to the remaining population, ensuring they all get "vaxxed" whether they want to or not.

Never trust anyone who treats you as a commodity or lab rat.

The Impact Of AI

Here's a perspective we don't often hear:

Meanwhile, grasping onto my own balloon string for a final paragraph, one can argue the Fed is wrong on the payrolls front longer term because it doesn’t grasp the enormity of what is about to hit in terms of AI. Neither does the financial industry. As ChatGPT is rolled out as part of the Microsoft Office suite, a Bloomberg markets’ survey about the impact of AI yesterday saw two thirds of respondents say it would not replace their job. I would posit that the correlation between the people who said that and the people who are easily replaced by an AI is positive and high. Indeed, the impact will be felt across the entire services economy: and we don’t even need humans for their political biases anymore from what ChatGPT will and won’t write so far. Then again, as Twitter perhaps shows, only a core of white-collar workers are needed to actually run firms, and the rest can go help rebuild the UK or US army, or such-like. What an irony that would be: the people who patronisingly told blue-collar workers to ‘learn to code’ being told to become blue-collar workers, because that’s just progress.

Source - https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/sound-even-more-balloons-bursting

Would all y'all please wake up to the fact that AI cannot possibly be good for humanity?

How will the masses get fed when they have no income and TPTB control all the food resources?

Hint: A tax on billionaires is not the answer. Neither "Joe Biden" nor anyone else intends to feed us. Everything they are doing leads inexorably to our deaths.

Here We Go Again

In the video linked to this page, Holocaust survivors compare what is happening today to things which led to the Holocaust:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-never-again-now-global-part-1-here-we-go-again-steroids/5807394

If anyone knows the truth, they do. WHY are we ignoring their warnings?

Satan Rules The US

Satan walks boldly among us:

https://twitter.com/ada_lluch/status/1622430478144868353?s=20&t=tDswIOakYlZQ_0jmw5QEGQ

Ask yourself who controls the music industry, and you'll know who is behind such abominations. Ye tried to tell you, but most of you refused to listen.

Do you WANT your children to go to hell?

Carbon Credit System

Here is a good explanation of the "carbon credit" system scam:

https://twitter.com/chrissaccoccia1/status/1621967520419975170?s=20&t=0zTjmGkpgr65V_ce0aNSVw

At two tons per person per year, most of us will be confined to our dwellings ... which will not be comfortably heated or cooled. And many of us will be hungry.

Perhaps such a thing would be "equitable", but it won't stop the Davos/WEF beast from continuing to enjoy the good life at our expense.

Don't let this happen. It would be the end of civilization as we know it.

RBG ???

According to this report, a statue honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be erected in Texas:

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-02-05-pro-abortion-statue-late-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-texas.html

I'm sorry, but that doesn't look like her ... at ANY stage of her life.

Or did I miss something?

Microplastics

Human created plastic is now found just about everywhere:

https://www.rt.com/news/571000-microplastics-found-veins-tissue/

Since, as we know, the mRNA jabs are thought to cause blood clots, I'm wondering if anyone has investigated the role of microplastics in such adverse effects.

I mean, this stuff is so pervasive that just about ANY study is going to run into it, so can it really be ignored?

Cross Of Iron

During one of his early speeches to the nation in 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower listed five precepts which he claimed govern US conduct in world affairs:

First: No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy -- for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice.

Second: No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation -- but only in effective cooperation with fellow nations.

Third: Every nation's right to a form of government and an economic system of its own choosing is inalienable.

Fourth: Any nation's attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.

Fifth: A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments -- but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

Note well that current US foreign policy has distorted these precepts almost beyond recognition. Clearly we no longer care about the impact of our military adventures:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

"Our" government serves the interests of the "golden billion". The rest of us are just "useless people" who keep getting in the way. Keep that in mind when listening to the next State of the Union address.

The Stench Of Fascism

Here is an explanation of how fascism is destroying the US:

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-stench-of-fascism/

Note well that "Antifa" does not appear to be fighting ANY of this; in fact, they almost seem to support it.

We're in way over our heads, folks.

No, NOT A "Sputnik Moment"

You must have heard of the Chinese "spy balloons" by now. The latest incident is being called a "Sputnik moment":

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3842982-bidens-sputnik-moment-is-chinas-spy-balloon-political-warfare/

I think it's more of a U-2 spy plane moment.

Back in 1960, a U-2 flown by Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union. The incident wrecked a pending "summit" meeting between President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Krushchev:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident

While there are similarities and differences between the two incidents, the ultimate impact of both was to heighten tensions between two countries which really should be trying to make peace with each other. Obviously, someone didn't want peace then and doesn't want it now.

Big question not being asked is why these "spy balloons" (if that's what they are) are such a big deal. The US has over 100 military satellites in orbit, and other sovereign nations have their own. Why are our satellites "good" while theirs are "bad"? And why is the massive Israeli spying on the US not even ever mentioned in such discussions? What's THAT all about?

What's "bad" in my view is that we're clearly goading Russia, China, and Iran into a wider war, with NO effort being made to defuse the situation.

I think we should pause and reconsider what we're doing. Even if the US were to somehow "win" the current conflict there would be no tangible benefit to US citizens.

So why are we supporting this nonsense?

Update - 2/5/2023

Here is additional discussion:

https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-balloon-opportunism-and-hypocrisy/5807328

Pale Green Horse

According to "Joe Biden", there will be hunger in the US:

https://youtu.be/ZkYeOxWiVzs

But during his "famine" there appears to be a HUGE stockpile of food being squirreled underground in Missouri:

https://youtu.be/vvXtrFmOPq8

It's difficult to confirm any of this, but two things are certain - food prices are going up and the shortages are real.

What's going on? And why aren't the feds concerned?

News, Or Propaganda ???

The MSM wants to abandon objectivity:

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/02/01/objectivity-has-got-to-go-news-leaders-call-for-end-of-objective-journalism/

They've obviously been that way for some time, and it makes the "press" part of the First Amendment seem pointless.