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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE: “This is what the CIA is. This is what the CIA has always been. This is what Mike Pompeo said he wanted to help make the CIA ‘much more vicious.’ Appointing Gina Haspel as head of the agency is just putting an honest face on it.”
Yes. This happens because Americans worship the CIA. Hollywood has produced endless movies that glorify the CIA and FBI. Anglo-Americans love it.
And don’t forget James Bond of MI6, who heroically defeats minor villains so that bankers and arms merchants can continue to enslave the world. There have been 25 James Bond movies and counting.
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE: “The real currency of this world is not backed by gold, nor by oil, nor by bureaucratic fiat, nor even by direct military might. No, the real currency of this world is narrative, and the ability to control it.”
Exactly. All wars are ultimately fought for control of the mass mind. This is why oligarchs and “God’s Chosen People” always seek to own and control the corporate media outlets. Control the narrative, and you control the herd. As you stampede the herd to the slaughterhouse, they trample any mavericks that try to grow a brain.
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE: “Power only exists where it exists because of the stories that humans agree to tell one another. The idea that government operates a certain way, that money operates a certain way, these things are purely conceptual constructs that are only as true as people pretend they are.”
Exactly. This is why everyone is eager to denounce you as a “conspiracy theorist.” It’s an attempt to subordinate you. “You are outside. You are inferior. You are disease. You must be purged!”
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE: Everyone could agree tomorrow that Donald Glover is the undisputed King of America and the new official US currency is old America Online trial CDs if they wanted to, and since that was the new dominant narrative it would be the reality. Everyone could also agree to create a new system which benefits all of humanity instead of a few sociopathic plutocrats. The only thing keeping money and government moving in a way that benefits our current rulers is the fact that those rulers have been successful in controlling the narrative.”
Yes, and the rulers are successful because the masses want to be enslaved. The masses are trapped in a mental dungeon created by their own bickering. They can leave any time they wish, but they prefer to sit and blame each other.
Society’s rulers know that they cannot enslave people until the rulers first make people want to be enslaved. There are several ways to do this. For example, the rulers can make poor blacks the slaves of poor whites. In this way the poor whites will fight to keep their privileges as prison “trustees” over poor blacks. They will stomp the blacks, grovel to the rich, and will refuse to leave their prison even if the doors are thrown open.
Konrad: I pretty much agree with the things that you, Kaivey, and Tom Hickey say. My thing is that when I talk to people they seem to think that I am just someone to put up with and ignore. When I say things like you just wrote no body I talk with seems to believe it or really give a damn and if they do care then they are overwhelmed with it and just leave it their god to take care of. I suspect that we are screwed.
@ GLH: I get what you’re saying and yes, we are indeed screwed, because we insist on screwing ourselves.
The news is depressing. I handle it by drinking liquor (but only late at night and alone in my little cave behind a locked door) and by taking a satirical view of what’s happening.
I wish I knew how to embed comical political images in this reader comments sections. We’d have a lot of fun.
Sometimes comedy is our only salvation from despair.
Do you know what, Konrad, this has brought a lot despair too. What we read here us a lot of evil and it can get to you. I have days were I just look at Buddhist sites, or music, because I can't face anymore of it, but I don't want to let the bastards get away with it so I come back again.
I have read stuff I won't post here, but Paul Craig Roberts has touched on it, like the VIP paedophiles rings. And then Tom has put out stuff on how the CIA put drugs and guns into black communities to ensure they remain in the underclass spooking the whites into voting Republican. Now what if Russia did stuff like that, could you imagine the outcry?
The drug companies invented the depression is a physical illness due to low serotonin, but now millions are addicted to them. What they don't tell people is that the drugs can make depression worse in the end. They stop working and the brain has been changed. It's a con.
Bin Salmon murders his family members and tortures some to death, but he gets to dine with the Queen. And he murders millions in Yemen, but the media ignores it.
And so on.
And my friends think I exaggerate everything, and that I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist.
When PCR was saying that WW3 was close, everyone in the UK was blissfully unaware. I envied them.
KAIVEY WROTE: “My friends think I exaggerate everything, and that I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist.”
Godwin’s law is an Internet adage which asserts that, "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1.”
That is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) continues long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Adolf Hitler, at which point the accuser loses the argument.
The same rule applies if we substitute “conspiracy theory” for “Adolf Hitler.” If an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) continues long enough, sooner or later someone will accuse you of being a "conspiracy theorist," at which point the accuser loses the argument.
KAIVEY WROTE: “The drug companies invented the con that depression is a physical illness due to low serotonin, but now millions are addicted to them. What they don't tell people is that the drugs can make depression worse in the end. The drugs stop working and the brain has been changed. It's a con.”
Yes it’s a con. So are vaccines. Big Pharma is able to con the masses because most people in the lower classes imagine that their problems can be “cured” with magic potions.
Feeling down? Take this pill. Feeling cold? Take this injection to keep away the evil spirits. It’s snake oil, but it’s been approved by witch doctors in white lab coats -- i.e. the “experts.”
I mentioned the lower classes because rich people don't believe in magic potions. Rich people don't vaccinate their kids, or swallow Big Pharma's toxic pills.
I don't like to depress people, but Prof G A Fava warned the American Psychiatric Association way back in the 70's that antidepressant drugs seemed to be making people more prone to depression in the long run. He asked them to investigate it but they told him to bugger off, they're not interested. The medical writer and psychiatry critic, Robert Whitaker, has a copy of the letter and I have read it. Now, after all these years, Fava's fears have been proven correct.
Chronically depressed people is big business for the drug companies, especially when the drugs keep needing to be increased, and eventually people end up on polypharmacy.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE: “This is what the CIA is. This is what the CIA has always been. This is what Mike Pompeo said he wanted to help make the CIA ‘much more vicious.’ Appointing Gina Haspel as head of the agency is just putting an honest face on it.”
Yes. This happens because Americans worship the CIA. Hollywood has produced endless movies that glorify the CIA and FBI. Anglo-Americans love it.
And don’t forget James Bond of MI6, who heroically defeats minor villains so that bankers and arms merchants can continue to enslave the world. There have been 25 James Bond movies and counting.
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE: “The real currency of this world is not backed by gold, nor by oil, nor by bureaucratic fiat, nor even by direct military might. No, the real currency of this world is narrative, and the ability to control it.”
Exactly. All wars are ultimately fought for control of the mass mind. This is why oligarchs and “God’s Chosen People” always seek to own and control the corporate media outlets. Control the narrative, and you control the herd. As you stampede the herd to the slaughterhouse, they trample any mavericks that try to grow a brain.
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE: “Power only exists where it exists because of the stories that humans agree to tell one another. The idea that government operates a certain way, that money operates a certain way, these things are purely conceptual constructs that are only as true as people pretend they are.”
Exactly. This is why everyone is eager to denounce you as a “conspiracy theorist.” It’s an attempt to subordinate you. “You are outside. You are inferior. You are disease. You must be purged!”
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE: Everyone could agree tomorrow that Donald Glover is the undisputed King of America and the new official US currency is old America Online trial CDs if they wanted to, and since that was the new dominant narrative it would be the reality. Everyone could also agree to create a new system which benefits all of humanity instead of a few sociopathic plutocrats. The only thing keeping money and government moving in a way that benefits our current rulers is the fact that those rulers have been successful in controlling the narrative.”
Yes, and the rulers are successful because the masses want to be enslaved. The masses are trapped in a mental dungeon created by their own bickering. They can leave any time they wish, but they prefer to sit and blame each other.
Society’s rulers know that they cannot enslave people until the rulers first make people want to be enslaved. There are several ways to do this. For example, the rulers can make poor blacks the slaves of poor whites. In this way the poor whites will fight to keep their privileges as prison “trustees” over poor blacks. They will stomp the blacks, grovel to the rich, and will refuse to leave their prison even if the doors are thrown open.
Konrad: I pretty much agree with the things that you, Kaivey, and Tom Hickey say. My thing is that when I talk to people they seem to think that I am just someone to put up with and ignore. When I say things like you just wrote no body I talk with seems to believe it or really give a damn and if they do care then they are overwhelmed with it and just leave it their god to take care of. I suspect that we are screwed.
@ GLH: I get what you’re saying and yes, we are indeed screwed, because we insist on screwing ourselves.
The news is depressing. I handle it by drinking liquor (but only late at night and alone in my little cave behind a locked door) and by taking a satirical view of what’s happening.
I wish I knew how to embed comical political images in this reader comments sections. We’d have a lot of fun.
Sometimes comedy is our only salvation from despair.
Do you know what, Konrad, this has brought a lot despair too. What we read here us a lot of evil and it can get to you. I have days were I just look at Buddhist sites, or music, because I can't face anymore of it, but I don't want to let the bastards get away with it so I come back again.
I have read stuff I won't post here, but Paul Craig Roberts has touched on it, like the VIP paedophiles rings. And then Tom has put out stuff on how the CIA put drugs and guns into black communities to ensure they remain in the underclass spooking the whites into voting Republican. Now what if Russia did stuff like that, could you imagine the outcry?
The drug companies invented the depression is a physical illness due to low serotonin, but now millions are addicted to them. What they don't tell people is that the drugs can make depression worse in the end. They stop working and the brain has been changed. It's a con.
Bin Salmon murders his family members and tortures some to death, but he gets to dine with the Queen. And he murders millions in Yemen, but the media ignores it.
And so on.
And my friends think I exaggerate everything, and that I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist.
When PCR was saying that WW3 was close, everyone in the UK was blissfully unaware. I envied them.
It does get depressing.
KAIVEY WROTE: “My friends think I exaggerate everything, and that I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist.”
Godwin’s law is an Internet adage which asserts that, "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1.”
That is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) continues long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Adolf Hitler, at which point the accuser loses the argument.
The same rule applies if we substitute “conspiracy theory” for “Adolf Hitler.” If an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) continues long enough, sooner or later someone will accuse you of being a "conspiracy theorist," at which point the accuser loses the argument.
KAIVEY WROTE: “The drug companies invented the con that depression is a physical illness due to low serotonin, but now millions are addicted to them. What they don't tell people is that the drugs can make depression worse in the end. The drugs stop working and the brain has been changed. It's a con.”
Yes it’s a con. So are vaccines. Big Pharma is able to con the masses because most people in the lower classes imagine that their problems can be “cured” with magic potions.
Feeling down? Take this pill. Feeling cold? Take this injection to keep away the evil spirits. It’s snake oil, but it’s been approved by witch doctors in white lab coats -- i.e. the “experts.”
I mentioned the lower classes because rich people don't believe in magic potions. Rich people don't vaccinate their kids, or swallow Big Pharma's toxic pills.
I don't like to depress people, but Prof G A Fava warned the American Psychiatric Association way back in the 70's that antidepressant drugs seemed to be making people more prone to depression in the long run. He asked them to investigate it but they told him to bugger off, they're not interested. The medical writer and psychiatry critic, Robert Whitaker, has a copy of the letter and I have read it. Now, after all these years, Fava's fears have been proven correct.
Chronically depressed people is big business for the drug companies, especially when the drugs keep needing to be increased, and eventually people end up on polypharmacy.
http://survivingantidepressants.org/topic/519-papers-by-dr-ga-fava-long-time-critic-of-antidepressants/
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