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Buffalo_Ken's avatar

As Smedley Butler said: "War is a Racket"

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Freedom Fox's avatar

"Nothing personal, kid."

As they make nice (dis)honoring the dead they put in national cemeteries for personal profit on Memorial Day's.

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Buffalo_Ken's avatar

This is my homage to Smedley - an acronym puzzle of respect.

https://buffaloken.substack.com/p/an-anagram-puzzle

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OldSysEng's avatar

A trio of interesting books relating to national socialism history: Operation Papercllip, Family of Secrets (The Bush Dynasty...), IBM and the Holocaust. I haven't read the third one yet, as I am currently reading Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts".

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Freedom Fox's avatar

And knowing it's not even socialism, per se, they care about. It's control. Any system will do. As long as it maximizes profit. Human slavery has maximized the most profit of any system in history. The closest governing model to that they can get enough people to accept without successfully rebelling is their preferred system.

Socialism will do.

Fascism will do.

Marxism will do.

Communism will do.

Totalitarianism will do.

Transhumanism will do.

Freedom will not do.

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Nick's avatar

Maybe the word which describes it most precisely is "Centralism"? That way, there is no ideology involved, only method.

Centralism

noun | cen·​tral·​ism ˈsen-trə-ˌli-zəm

: the concentration of power and control in the central authority of an organization (such as a political or educational system)

In our case, the organization is a loose confederation of stateless pirates, like Carter Administration DOJ Nazi Hunter Prosecutor, John Loftus is quoted as saying. Sometimes they are cooperating, sometimes in-fighting internally.

The antidote is to de-centralize yourself, by becoming sovereign and knowledgeable on how to leave the existing systems, be it health, finances, email provider, work, computer operating system, food sources, etc. and become more self reliant.

Investigate and educate yourself in non-medicine based health, alternative currencies and barter, how to install Linux Mint on your PC, ditch or leave the Smartphone at home, pay cash in shops, grow your own food, get a chicken coop for eggs, start up small project for multiple small revenue streams, etc. Find local people who share these interests and passions, and educate each other. Each one, teach one.

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Freedom Fox's avatar

And all the yes to self-sufficiency! It's very hard in urban and suburban communities, especially HOA restricted ones. It's not as easy to move these days with high home prices and high interest rates, most are hunkering down until those improve. But when the goal of the powers that be is to have us being happy owning nothing by 2030 the current real estate market may be the feature, not a flaw, and unlikely to improve. Which makes the self-sufficiency thing that much harder.

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Nick's avatar

Yes, it's hard. but the way I see it, we need to focus on the areas where we CAN make a difference individually, by building community, decentralizing ourselves, etc.

Recommending people to move to the country side is all very well, but unrealistic for many, as is suggesting people emigrate to another country, when the problem is global.

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Freedom Fox's avatar

It does seem as though the ideological component of this global transformation doesn't fit cleanly. More of a technocratic bureaucratic centralized authoritarian transitioning to totalitarian governing model is emerging. How to name that which has never existed before in a way that captures its form/formlessness so that others will understand, and properly conveys the threat? We choose words, analogies that the most people already have a relationship with, baseline awareness to as shorthand to help others understand the parallels. But those fall short and lose their effectiveness when the attributes associated with previous constructs aren't present or are contracted. Linguistics. Has proven to be challenging. When the right word fits it will take off like wildfire.

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Nick's avatar

Yes, naming things is hard. Corpiratism (intended spelling, merger of corporations and piracy), Vaxxism, Coronism ...? But the current state of words and people's assigning of meaning is problematic. For example, when the Democratic Party is labeled as left/marxist/communist, while executing capitalist, monopolistic, world wide empire.

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Surak's avatar

That's the type of behavior that will get you targeted as a potential domestic terrorist. You could also include thinking for yourself, doing your own research, etc.

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OldSysEng's avatar

Yes, the common denominator is totalitarian control, to keep us in our place.

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Freedom Fox's avatar

"Human Rights!" the US government proclaims in We, The People's name. Fighting human trafficking, slavery, punishing long-dead slaveowners. While embracing human trafficking and slavery. Orwellian "Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength" Dystopian level stuff.

The strongest prison isn't concrete and steel, it's the human mind. They need mind-farkery to make us embrace our slavery.

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Goeff's avatar

You really know how to crank out the good stuff!

"Any system will do."

Yep.

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Buffalo_Ken's avatar

If you want to go down a rabbit hole - check out this place....

It is from the daughter of the man who spearheaded Operation Paperclip - I ain't kidding.

https://emsnews.wordpress.com/

Her name is Elaine - she is tough.

BK

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Dennis Sullivan's avatar

What about the Warburgs, Kuhn, Loeb financing Hitler

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Freedom Fox's avatar

Yes, a great many malevolents. This was focused on Delaware, Biden's realm, the multinational corporate hub that it is. Do they have a Delaware connection I should explore more?

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Navyo Ericsen's avatar

The Secret History of the 20th Century by Alexander Sachon has some great material on this topic.

https://thewisdomtradition.substack.com/p/the-secret-history-of-the-20th-century

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Dennis Sullivan's avatar

I don't know about delaware.

I read Pawns In The Game by William Guy Carr and he does a magnificent job explaining how the financiers since the 1770s brought about wars and revolutions.

I would think history majors have a lot on their hands.

I was a science major and had little history but have gone through hundreds of papers and many books on the financiers. They had and have their hands in all revolutions, wars, and all the terrible stuff going on in the USA.

I am my 70s and find current events the worst in my life.

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Navyo Ericsen's avatar

It's a year and a half later and I'm reading this for the umpteenth time. It never ceases to be fresh, even though the transcript is decades old. It's as if I have to be reminded constantly... The propaganda factor is so high, the hive-mind so controlled, so gullible to suggestion, even being in and around it here in London I have to stay calm and connected and maintain some sense of divine presence to keep sourcing the truth to live a based life outside of this engineered 'reality'.

So thanks, Fox. This is a keeper.

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Goeff's avatar

Here you go..."Our adversaries are not each other..."

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