The Good Citizen

1. The 28th Amendment

This post sat incomplete collecting dust in my drafts folder since last spring. Given self-evident revelations about phony and rigged elections, and the global hierarchical nature of a psychopathic technocratic order's command and control structure that dominates national governance, it genuinely seemed wasteful to allocate time and attention to a Constitutional Amendment. However, given recent geopolitical events, and the exhausted patience of true "America First" patriots sick of seeing their tax dollars fund perpetual wars, it seemed somewhat relevant again.

As I've stated in numerous pieces over the past year, speculating about the structure of this global "cabal" no longer interests me. I've gone through many books about the Illuminati, Jesuits, Vaticano, Committee of 300, 12 Families, Bilderbergs, Freemasons, Rothschilds, Zionists, Satanists, Adam's Family, Dr. Seuss, you name it. Thanks to a cousin who worked for the Chilean Embassy to the Holy See, I've even been behind the Vatican's walls a few times to roam its streets and peek inside and whiff its sulfuric emitting halls.

Debating the legitimacy of various theories around secret societies, internationalists, bankers, specific races, religions, families, sects, cults, or hidden hands of shape-shifting interdimensional reptilians from planet Ork who brought the moon as a hollow container to carry out their operations of keeping humanity buried in low-frequency emotions for soul-sucking energy extraction, just seems like a waste of time. It often leaves people feeling…helpless, and I'd rather spend my time connecting historical and current events to the stated agendas (2021/2030), to offer some kind of prescription to mentally, and physically prepare for the future. Though I still believe geographic preparation will be the most essential—land, food, water, energy, and remote living in a nation that will leave you the f**k alone.

The only aspect that matters is acknowledging the existence of a "cabal" in the pursuit of individual psychological and spiritual liberation from its perceived omnipotence.

There are two kinds of slaves in this world.
The slave who sees his chains, and the slave who doesn't.
Which kind of slave will ever have the chance to cease being a slave?

A recent post by offers a worthwhile summary of the structural nature of this global hierarchy for those who still wonder why their government appears to want them aspirational enough to gain employment and be an active debt slave consumer, and obedient enough to pay taxes on time, but otherwise sick, slovenly, passive, ignorant, anxious, or dead.

The Neo-Feudal Review The global world order is centralized at levels above the nation-state Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles. - Ezra Pound In the 2022 Brazil presidential election Brazil's version of the deep state successfully rigged the election against popular populist Bolsonaro… Read more 8 days ago · 91 likes · 42 comments · Neoliberal Feudalism

One of the most effective tools of this "cabal" has historically been war and conflict, and it appears to be back on the docket for ushering in that long-planned one-world government. The wars of today, are not the conflicts of civilizations past. And the masses of debt slaves on the backs of whom these wars are engineered, are (maybe? finally?) waking up to the completely inorganic and manufactured nature of not just today's conflicts, but every conflict going back two centuries.

War has consistently sculpted the triumphs and sorrows of civilizations. Heraclitus, a pre-Socratic philosopher, once wrote with chilling clarity: "War is the father of all and king of all; and some he has made gods and some men, some slaves and some free." The dual nature of war—both creator and destroyer, anointing rulers and binding the subjugated, delineating the divine from the damned—was once a determinant of destiny.

As the chronicles of Greek history unfolded, Thucydides's observation that "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must," spoke to the inevitability of dominance and power on one side of the battle lines, and sacrifice and mourning on the other. The common man will suffer the ambitions and decisions of the powerful who impose harsh realities on the powerless, often young soldiers compelled to endure the brutal whims of their elders.

By the time Rome's vast empire ascended, the cause and consequence of war had evolved little, making observations of its thinkers on this topic no less profound. Cicero, reflecting on the state of the Republic during military crises, noted, "In times of war, the law falls silent." The moral and legal void that often accompanies war dispenses with the ethical and humane. The normal rules of conduct fall away under the pressing need of survival and victory, always in the name of our God(s).

Seneca the Younger echoed these concerns amidst Rome's imperial pursuits, questioning the collective moral compass of a civilization inured to violence: "We check manslaughter and isolated murders at home, but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples abroad?" In the name of conquest and enslavement, justifications could be fabricated to ignore ethics and morality outside its borders.

The societal and moral paradoxes war engenders have changed little since antiquity. As battles are fought remotely, and from the skies, with no formal declarations of war or discernable enemies, historical wisdom urging modern societies to scrutinize the justifications and consequences of their martial endeavors is ignored.

For the past few centuries, wars have been engineered not for merely remaking maps or conquering territories but for mass human sacrifice and capital investments, with bankers and industrial or weapons manufacturers playing both sides of a conflict, owning and controlling corrupted leaders (or opaque groups "ISIS" created to justify conflict) to such a degree that all the world watches and cheers their "side" while sending their children to the slaughter for something resembling a performative geopolitical stage drama.

In the twentieth century alone more than 50 million European and Slavic Christians were sent their slaughter, in engineered conflicts that could have been avoided. The string pullers laughed in the shadows in the aftermath of false flags, declarations of war, and victory, as they counted their loot, rubbing their hands with blood lust.

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The American empire, much like its ancient predecessors, continues to be characterized by a stark dichotomy between the powerful, who dictate wars and reap their profits, and the powerless, who fight and die in them.

The state leverages the poor and the unfortunate as instruments in the pursuit of geopolitical strategies crafted by and for the elite. These conflicts, sustained by a corporatocracy that expertly loots the treasury, and perpetuates a cycle of debt that ensnares even more citizens into economic servitude. Public servants, whose allegiances lie with corporate benefactors, facilitate this cycle, ensuring that the burdens of war and economic exploitation disproportionately fall on the less privileged.

I have struggled for years to think of a single military conflict that was just and organic, the product of true conflict left unresolved after dedicated and exhausted diplomatic efforts (not performative!) to avoid war. I could think of none. The declared defense of nations or peoples against belligerent drunken powers as the aggressor are the only examples that come to mind.

In addition to unjust wars for profit and to justify the printing of money to transfer to a tiny specific group of people, no sacrifices have been made by those who vote to start the money printers, to initiate those wars, whether those dollars are used in wars, proxy wars, or to subsidize another nation's conflicts. I checked the public record to see if a single Congressman or Senator's sons or daughters were ever sent to harm's way while their parent voted, and could not find a single case. Some have served in uniform and been deployed abroad, but none have ever been sent to the front lines to risk their lives.

What if, to declare war, authorize funding for conflict, direct or proxy, or another nation's wars or proxy wars (Ukraine & Israel) any legislator who approves the funding, in the immediate aftermath must be sent first to the front lines, including their immediate family members, even if the U.S. isn't directly involved militarily?

If a conflict is just, ethical, and worthy of the goals of "national defense" then these patriots must prove their claims through service. What greater proof than the willingness to vote to sacrifice one's life? They must also back up their votes by risking the lives of those most dear to them. For the first time in two centuries, public service would truly require patriotism and love of country.

Watch how fast no conflicts are justified, funded, or declared. Watch how urgently former enemies are coddled and diplomatically accosted.

See how quickly the U.S. makes friends where they've been accustomed to fabricating (including funding and training) antagonists!

Firstly, you'll find eight sections that constitute a rudimentary proposal for a 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution that would make all parties who profit from war (including legislators) think twice before funding, instigating, or manufacturing another conflict.

It would limit "defense" spending as a percentage of GDP, reduce the "defense" and "intellegence" apparti to 50% of current levels, and also prevent other nations from buying American politicians to loot the treasury and abuse its military powers. The proposal stipulates an independent non-partisan enforcement committee with DOJ-like powers, with no connections to any branches of government, and SCOTUS-like lifetime appointments to prevent private-public interference.

The justification for this amendment proposal follows with an incomplete list of U.S. military conflicts post-World War Two, including proxy wars, coups, and other foreign actions involving the U.S., mostly by indirect action, with a lack of authority by Presidents since no declaration of war was ever voted on by Congress as mandated by the United States Consitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 11.

Concluding this list is the amount of money spent on those conflicts and in the name of "national defense" with a special section dedicated to the one "important ally" that has looted more than its share from American taxpayers while offering absolutely nothing but headaches and guaranteed future conflicts in return.

Note that the last amendment to be proposed and ratified over three decades ago was for…drumroll…congressional compensation.

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution — "Ethical Conflict Amendment"

Preamble
Recognizing the profound responsibility of declaring and engaging in military conflict, and the inherent risks and sacrifices involved, this amendment seeks to ensure that those in positions of power within the United States government, defense contracting firms, lobbying entities, and intelligence agencies are directly accountable for decisions that deploy military capabilities and personnel. It is intended to bind the fates of decision-makers with those who serve on the front lines, thereby promoting a more judicious, ethical, and considered approach to military engagements.

Section 1. Definitions

1. Public Official: Any person elected or appointed to an official role within the legislative, executive, or judicial branches of the United States Government, including, but not limited to, members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President of the United States.

2. Defense Contractor: Any corporation or entity that enters into a contract with the United States Government to provide goods or services, including weapons and military equipment, to the United States Armed Forces or allied forces.

3. Lobbyist: Any individual who is employed by or works in representation of a corporation or entity, including defense contractors such as Boeing, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, etc., that attempts to influence legislative or executive action through direct interaction with government officials including but not limited to campaign contributions.

4. Intelligence Agency Employee: Any individual employed by an agency of the United States Government engaged in intelligence gathering, including but not limited to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

5. Immediate Family Members: The sons, daughters, grandsons, and granddaughters of any Public Official, Defense Contractor executive, Lobbyist, or Intelligence Agency Employee.

6. Basic Training: The initial military training program that all enlistees of the United States Armed Forces are required to complete.

Section 2. Selective Service and Basic Training Requirement

1. Registration Requirement:

   • All Immediate Family Members of Public Officials, Defense Contractor executives, Lobbyists, and Intelligence Agency Employees shall be required to register for the Selective Service System. Refusal to do so disqualifies individuals from office or employment

2. Training Requirement:

   • All Immediate Family Members as defined above shall undertake and complete Basic Training within the United States Armed Forces.

   • All executives of Defense Contractors, Lobbyists under the age of 55, and Board Members of such entities shall also complete Basic Training and be eligible for deployment.

Section 3. Deployment in Times of War

1. Mandatory Frontline Deployment:

   • In the event of a formal declaration of war by the United States Congress, all persons defined under Section 2, including Public Officials, Defense Contractor executives, Lobbyists, Intelligence Agency Employees, and their Immediate Family Members, shall be conscripted into the United States Armed Forces and deployed as part of the initial combatant forces, and be placed directly at the front lines of conflict.

   • This conscription and deployment shall prioritize these individuals ahead of all other members of the military reserves and general enlistees not covered under this amendment.

2. Proxy War Clause:

   • The provisions of this section shall extend to any military engagement deemed a proxy war, wherein the United States provides substantial funding and support, including but not limited to conflicts involving Israel and its neighbors or declared adversaries, and engagements such as the conflict in Ukraine.

   • In such cases, the groups of individuals specified in Section 2 shall constitute the initial combat forces deployed, thereby ensuring that those who advocate for or profit from such conflicts are also the most directly engaged in the hazards thereof.

Section 3.5 Israeli Sacrifice Clause

1. Aid Accountability:

   • Any current or former Public Officials, including members of Congress, Senators, and Presidents, who approve military or economic aid for Israel, as well as lobbyists representing Israeli interests directly or indirectly (such as members of AIPAC), shall be required to serve alongside the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the event of any military conflict in which the IDF is engaged. This includes conflicts within Israel, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Gaza, or other areas where IDF operations occur.

2. Mandatory Family Service:

   • Immediate family members, including sons, daughters, grandsons, and granddaughters of the individuals specified in subsection 1, shall also be conscripted as frontline combatants under the same conditions. Their deployment shall be immediate and directly to the front lines of action, and ensure active participation in combat roles to the fullest extent possible.

3. Dual Citizenship Clause:

   • Any individual holding dual citizenship with Israel who the Federal government employs, or an elected representative, including but not limited to the State Department, Defense Department, and intelligence agencies, must serve in a similar capacity as U.S. Public Officials and lobbyists in times of IDF conflicts, as outlined in this section.

4. Enforcement:

   • Failure to comply with the stipulations of this clause will result in the immediate imposition of the penalties outlined in Section 4 of this Amendment, including potential life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Section 3.6 Compensation During Deployment

1. Salary Forfeiture:

   • All individuals conscripted under this Amendment, including Public Officials, lobbyists, their immediate family members, and dual citizens employed by the Federal government, as described in previous sections, shall forgo any public service or private sector salaries during their period of military service in conflicts, whether these conflicts are undeclared, proxy, or not first specifically declared by other nations against the United States.

2. Military Compensation:

   • During their period of service, these individuals shall receive compensation equivalent to the current rate of service members in the U.S. military, pursuant to their corresponding military rank and time in service. This compensation structure ensures that while serving, their financial remuneration reflects that of professional soldiers, thereby aligning their economic experience with the typical burdens borne by military personnel.

3. Implementation:

   • The Department of Defense, in conjunction with the Treasury Department, shall implement and oversee the compensation adjustments as specified, ensuring that all individuals are fairly compensated according to military standards without disparity or exception.

Section 4. Penalties for Non-Compliance

1. Life Imprisonment:

   • Any Public Official, Defense Contractor executive, Lobbyist, Intelligence Agency Employee, or Immediate Family Member who refuses to comply with the requirements of this Amendment shall be subject to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

   • This penalty also applies to any person who attempts to assist another in evading the requirements of this Amendment, including falsifying records or providing false testimony.

Section 5. Ethical Oversight and Compliance

1. Creation of an Oversight Committee:

   • An Ethical Conflict Oversight Committee shall be established to monitor and ensure compliance with this amendment. The committee shall consist of members from the judicial branches, retired military officials, and civilian representatives. Committee appointments are for life and compensated at the rate of a Supreme Court Justice. Individuals will have no private or public conflicts of interest including but not limited to past employment with military or defense contractors, public service, elected office, political partisan participation, or declared party registration. All members will be rigorously tested for anti-partisanship, neutrality, ethics, and integrity. They will have the powers of the Attorney General of the United States to prosecute individuals in violation of this Amendment based on their investigations. Future appointments to the Committee will be made by the committee and not have any influence by or connection to the executive, judicial, or legislative branches of government.

2. Reporting and Transparency:

   • Regular reports shall be issued to the public detailing the compliance of all affected parties with the stipulations of this amendment.

   • Any attempts to evade or falsify compliance with this amendment by committee members shall be met with strict penalties, including immediate removal from and disqualification from any future governmental or military service, elimination of pension and benefits, and potential prosecution with penalties outlined in Section 4.

Section 6. Funding and Resource Allocation

1. Defense Budget Cap:

   • The annual budget for the Department of Defense shall not exceed 2% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the United States in any fiscal year.

2. Transparency and Accountability:

   • Detailed accounting of the Defense budget shall be made public, ensuring transparency down to the last dollar spent. All financial records shall be auditable and readily available for public scrutiny.

3. Personnel Limitations:

   • The number of employees within the Department of Defense and all intelligence agencies shall not exceed the current count minus 50% at the time of this amendment's ratification. Increases in personnel may be permitted only in times of war that have been declared against the United States by an external enemy.

4. Foreign Conflict Funding Restrictions:

   • Any financial aid provided for foreign conflicts must be sourced from the allocated 2% of GDP allocated for the annual national defense budget. Congress shall not vote on additional appropriations for such aid, nor shall funds be diverted from other departments or increased beyond the established cap unless an external enemy openly declares war against the United States, with the means and resources to commit hostilities. This does not apply to "terror" groups, non-state actors, or any other group that intelligence agencies proclaim to be external enemies that have declared war.

Section 7. Implementation

1. Regulations and Procedures:

   • The President, in conjunction with the Department of Defense, shall issue necessary regulations to enforce the provisions of this amendment within one year of its ratification. If the President refuses, the same penalty applies to the executive and his family in Section 4 of this Amendment.

2. Commencement:

   • The provisions of this amendment shall take effect immediately upon its ratification and shall apply to all qualifying individuals henceforth.

Section 8. Judicial Review

1. Supremacy of the Amendment:

   • This amendment is binding over any conflicting state or federal laws, and judicial review of this amendment shall be expedited by the Supreme Court to ensure its swift and uniform application.

   • Any Department of Justice employees refusing to enforce Section 4 of this Amendment shall be subject to the same penalties for non-compliance as the section implies.

   • Any Federal agencies refusing to enforce Section 4 of this Amendment shall be subject to the same penalties for non-compliance as this section implies.

This amendment aims to restore public trust and ensure the highest ethical standards govern the conduct of national defense and security policy by making those who decide or influence the decision to go to war also those who bear the highest burden of service. By directly linking the consequences of military actions to those in power, it is anticipated that the United States will engage in military conflicts only when absolutely necessary and with a clear ethical mandate. It will restore the concept of national defense.

The historical justification for a 28th Amendment:

Harry Truman (1945-1953)

Countries Involved: Greece, Philippines, Peru, China, Korea, Puerto Rico

• Greece (1947): Truman Doctrine led to U.S. involvement in Greek Civil War; significant military and economic assistance.

• Philippines (1948): Suppression of Huk rebellion; thousands of casualties.

• Peru (1948): CIA-supported coup; political destabilization.

• China (1949): Involvement in the Chinese Civil War; support for Nationalists.

• Korea (1950): Korean War begins, involving massive U.S. military intervention; over 36,000 American deaths, millions of Korean deaths, and significant economic cost.

• Puerto Rico (1950): Attempted suppression of nationalist uprisings; human rights issues highlighted.

Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961)

Countries Involved: Iran, Guatemala, Lebanon, China, Indonesia, Haiti, Ecuador, Salvador

• Iran (1953): CIA-led coup in Operation Ajax; long-term anti-American sentiment and destabilization.

• Guatemala (1954): CIA-led overthrow of elected government; ensuing civil war led to over 200,000 deaths over several decades.

• Lebanon (1958): Military intervention in civil conflict; relatively limited casualties but increased regional instability.

• China (1958): Involvement in Taiwan Straits Crises; brinkmanship with nuclear risks.

• Indonesia (1958): Secret bombings in support of rebels; thousands killed and failed policy outcomes.

• Haiti, Ecuador, Salvador (1959-1960): Various interventions and support for coups; long-term political repression in these countries.

John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)

Country Involved: Cuba

• Cuba (1961): Bay of Pigs Invasion; a failed attempt to overthrow Castro, about 100 killed and 1,200 captured, long-term embargo and hostility.

Lyndon Johnson (1963-1969)

Countries Involved: Laos, Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Cambodia, Guatemala

• Vietnam (1964-1973): Significant escalation of the war, over 58,000 American and an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths, massive financial cost ($168 billion in 1960s dollars).

• Laos and Cambodia (1964-1973): Secret bombing campaigns causing massive casualties and long-term unexploded ordnance issues.

• Dominican Republic (1965): Intervention in civil war; 3,000 deaths and criticism over interference.

• Guatemala (1966): Continued support for military regimes; contribution to civil conflict.

Richard Nixon (1969-1974)

Countries Involved: Cambodia, Laos, Nicaragua, Chile

• Cambodia and Laos (1970-1973): Extension of Vietnam War bombings; significant devastation; tens of thousands of civilians killed; and rise of Khmer Rouge.

• Nicaragua (1972): Support for Somoza regime; led to an oppressive government and civil war.

• Chile (1973): Supported coup against Allende; led to Pinochet's dictatorship and widespread human rights abuses including free one-way helicopter rides.

Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)

Countries Involved: Salvador, Nicaragua, Afghanistan

• Salvador (1980): Military aid during civil war; linked to human rights abuses.

• Nicaragua (1980-1990): Covert support for Contras; prolonged conflict and international condemnation.

• Afghanistan (1980-): Operation Cyclone to support Mujahideen against Soviets; long-term implications including rise of Taliban and al-Qaeda.

Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

Countries Involved: Afghanistan, Lebanon, Grenada, Libya, Iran, Nicaragua

• Afghanistan (1980s): Continued support for Mujahideen; significant impact on Soviet-Afghan war. No blowback at all was created later.

• Lebanon (1981-1984): Marine barracks bombing in 1983, 241 American servicemen killed. Mossad/Israel knew of this bombing in advance, including which truck was being loaded with explosives but gave no warning to the U.S.

• Grenada (1983): Invasion led to short conflict; political shift on the island.

• Libya (1986): Bombing in retaliation for Berlin discotheque bombing; civilian casualties.

• Iran (Iran-Contras): Illegal arms sales to fund Nicaraguan Contras; major scandal.

George Bush Sr. (1989-1993)

Countries Involved: Panama, Iraq, Somalia

• Panama (1989): Invasion to remove Noriega; approximately 500 civilian deaths. Noreiga was a cash recipient and facilitator involved in Bush Sr.'s cocaine and arms trafficking operations from Colombia and Nicaragua. He held the wealth of Colombian cartel leaders in his banks and knew too much about Bush Sr.'s crimes so he had to go.

• Iraq (1991): Gulf War; expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait, cost $61 billion, around 25,000 Iraqi casualties. Triggered by atrocity propaganda in front of Congress (babies in incubators being unplugged) to manufacture consent for war. The State Dept. signaled to Saddam they would do nothing if he sought oil compensation after accusations of oil theft, by invading Kuwait, to bait him into invading Kuwait.

• Somalia (1992): Humanitarian mission that became military; Battle of Mogadishu and subsequent withdrawal.

Bill Clinton (1993-2001)

Countries Involved: Haiti, Yugoslavia

• Haiti (1994): Operation Uphold Democracy to restore elected leader; minimal casualties but political instability continues today alongside casual cannibal BBQs.

• Yugoslavia (1999): NATO bombing during the Kosovo War; around 5000 civilian casualties, successful in terms of stopping ethnic cleansing but criticized for its indiscriminate bombing methods.

George Bush Jr. (2001-2009)

Countries Involved: Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, Somalia

• Afghanistan (2001): Invasion to remove Taliban; ongoing conflict, thousands of deaths, and over $2 trillion spent.

• Iraq (2003): Invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein; over 4,500 U.S. deaths, 200,000+ Iraqi deaths, and over $2 trillion spent, led to regional instability and rise of ISIS.

• Haiti and Somalia (2004-2010): Political interventions and anti-piracy operations; mixed outcomes.

Barack Obama (2009-2017)

Countries Involved (More Wars for Israel): Libya, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Ukraine

• Libya (2011): NATO intervention led to the overthrow of Gaddafi; subsequent civil war and instability. Today Libya is still an open breeding ground for slavery and human trafficking operations shutting immigrants on deadly voyages across the Mediterranean Sea.

• Iraq, Syria, Yemen (2014): Interventions against Mossad-CIA-created ISIS and support for Saudi-led coalition in Yemen; thousands of casualties and humanitarian crises including starvation from famine.

• Ukraine (2014): Maidan coup supported by State Dept. and CIA leads to the direct arming of Ukraine's military, including Neo-Nazi death squads to carry out ethnic cleansing of Russians in the east and south (14k), which will lead to war with Russia.

Donald Trump (2017-2021)

Country Involved: Syria, Iran, Israel

• Syria (2018): Airstrikes in response to chemical attacks; limited engagement but part of an ongoing PNAS agenda to wage wars for Israel. There were no chemical attacks by Assad, only CIA/MI6 performances of fake chemical attacks.

• Iran (2019): Orders the targeted assassination of an Iranian general in Iraq at the behest of his neocon cabinet, including his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his masters in Israel.

• Israel: Each year of his Presidency, Trump approves between $3.3 and $4 Billion in unconditional money to Israel, a nation with less than half the debt-to-GDP ratio as the United States.

Joe Biden (2021-2024)

Countries Involved: Ukraine, Israel, Yemen, Iran

• Ukraine (2022): Catastrophic unnecessary meat grinder (another million Slavic Christians sent to their slaughter…so far)

• Israel (2023): False flag Oct. 7 stand down (human sacrifice), for Israel-funded Hamas. At least 30k dead, but up to 50k…mostly civilians. Now the U.S. is funding both sides of another conflict by releasing Iranian funds while sending tens of billions to Israel, including $9 Billion to rebuild Gaza, probably as waterfront luxury condos for Jared Kushner and other Zionist rats.

• Yemen (2023): Continued economic embargo. Mass starvation.

The following is a rough estimate of how much the U.S. treasury has been looted on the backs of taxpayers to fund these (mostly) unnecessary wars, conflicts, coups, and proxy wars, many of the most recent for the benefit of only one nation—Israel.

Spending

1. Direct War Costs: These include specific appropriations for each conflict. For example, the Vietnam War, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and other smaller engagements.

2. Annual Defense Budgets: These encompass the regular appropriations for the Department of Defense, which include not only preparedness and personnel costs but also peacetime and strategic deterrence expenditures.

3. Adjustment for Inflation: Costs over the decades are adjusted to today's dollars using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to give a consistent financial measure across time.

Specific War Costs (Adjusted for Inflation)

1. Korean War (1950-1953): Originally cost about $30 billion, equivalent to approximately $341 billion today.

2. Vietnam War (1965-1973): Originally cost about $111 billion, equivalent to roughly $738 billion today.

3. Persian Gulf War (1991): Cost about $61 billion, which is about $115 billion today.

4. War in Afghanistan (2001-Present): Estimated to have cost over $4.26 trillion through 2021.

5. Iraq War (2003-2011): Estimated to have cost over $2.5 trillion including long-term veterans care.

Annual Defense Budgets

• From 1947 to 2021: The cumulative U.S. military spending in nominal terms has been over $18 trillion. Adjusting this figure for inflation provides a far higher value but is complex due to the varying rates of inflation across different years. A rough conservative estimate when adjusted to current dollars might exceed $30 trillion.

Combined Estimates

• Combining direct conflict costs with adjusted total military spending provides an approximate figure. For precision, calculations would typically use specific yearly CPI data, but broadly speaking:

  • Direct conflict costs (Korea, Vietnam, Gulf Wars, Afghanistan, Iraq): Approximately $10 trillion adjusted for inflation.

  • Total military budgets including peacetime and strategic expenditures: Approximately $25 trillion adjusted for inflation.

Total Estimated Cost

• Adding these together, the total U.S. expenditure on military and conflicts since the Truman administration could be estimated conservatively at around $35 trillion in today's dollars.

Spending For Israel Alone Harry Truman (1945-1953)

• $0.1 billion (mostly as loan guarantees and food aid)

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)

• $0.4 billion

John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)

• $0.6 billion

Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)

• $3.3 billion

Richard Nixon (1969-1974)

• $7.2 billion

Gerald Ford (1974-1977)

• $4.6 billion

Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)

• $21.3 billion (a significant increase due to the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty)

Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

• $29.7 billion (.6% of annual U.S. GDP was sent to a nation smaller than NYC)

George H.W. Bush (1989-1993)

• $18.2 billion

Bill Clinton (1993-2001)

• $32.5 billion

George W. Bush (2001-2009)

• $34.2 billion

Barack Obama (2009-2017)

• $33.4 billion (includes a 10-year Memorandum of Understanding totaling $38 billion starting in 2019, but annual disbursements remain consistent)

Donald Trump (2017-2021)

• $12.2 billion (as part of the ongoing $38 billion MOU signed under Obama)

Joe Biden (2021-present)

• Ongoing under the $38 billion MOU, with annual disbursements. Plus an additional $11 Billion from November; Plus a potential $14-19 Billion more sitting on Speaker Mike Johnson's desk.

TOTAL U.S. payments to Israel: $220.2 billion

For a nation smaller than NYC in population, and New Jersey in geography (for now).

Current Debt-to-GDP ratios of the United States and Israel:

No (s)elected representatives will dare criticize Israel or cut off the loot. Even if the United States cleaned up its act, restored its republic, withdrew its empire abroad, and focused on rooting out communist and globalist subversives, deporting 20 million illegals (never going to happen), and rehabilitating the homeland, the American people would still be hostages to a terrorist theocratic ethnostate of superior "Chosen People" that believes dangerous Old Testament fairy tales about red heifers and a third temple from a book of chaos and death which must be manifested (by them and their useful evangelical idiots) for their destiny.

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2. Androgycrats

Part 1: Ending The Agathakological Man

Greek ἀνδρόγῠνος (andrógunos), from ἀνήρ (anḗr, "man") +‎ γῠνή (gunḗ, "woman")

Note: This longer-than-normal sequel was going to be divided into a third part, but it works better as one.

Pain In the Brain

A recent study made headlines worldwide proclaiming that men's and women's brains work differently, just as honest psychologists and thoughtful wives and husbands suspected, for however long it has been since our species was bred here on earth. This was supposedly a "first-time" scientific discovery that perhaps shocked only those incapable of using theirs.

The study found that Artificial Intelligence can now distinguish male and female brain patterns and thoughts with 90% accuracy. The sex chromosomes we are born with help to determine the cocktail of hormones our brains are exposed to, particularly during early development, puberty, and aging. (Provided this exposure is not interrupted by demons posing as gender transition doctors and therapists who exploit mentally ill mothers with a penchant for child abuse)

Researchers have long struggled to connect sex to concrete differences in the human brain. That the technological capabilities to study these differences coincided with the ascension of militant feminism and a socially engineered war of the sexes didn't help matters. Political correctness and self-censorship in the academy may have prevented certain impermissible topics from important inquiry, foremost among these are race and sex differences, where taboos illicit an absence of both curiosity and funding.

The neuroscience community had largely considered any observed sex-associated differences in cognition and behavior in humans to be due to the effects of cultural influences. Researchers who did venture down this path grappled with charges of "neuro­sexism," or falling prey to embracing stereotypes or being too quick to interpret human sex differences as biological rather than what they absolutely must be without questioning—cultural.

Cultures are malleable. Societies can be reengineered. Biology not so much.

In a world of academic activists, the latter must be denied.

Advances in brain imaging technology showed decades ago profound evidence of neurobiological differences. Still, sociologists and psychologists refused to accept the evidence, preferring to feel smug in their denunciations of any research findings that challenged their political bias, while leveling accusations of bias and prejudice against their more courageous colleagues for daring any scientific undertaking.

Every few years the screeching of feminists against this subject comes in the form of an activist book by academic "scholars." The most recent iteration by British feminist neurologist (oxymoron?) Gina Rippon seeks to muddy the waters around conclusive research findings. Her book The Gendered Brain follows Angela Saini's 2017 Inferior and Cordelia Fine's 2010 Delusions of Gender in the latest faux-academic category of "neurosexism" which has obfuscated attempts to understand sex differences at the brain level.

It has all the cherry-picked wahhmen-as-victim-of-the-patriarchy slants to politically appeal to a feminist audience. Rippon begins with an 1895 quote from social psychologist Gustave Le Bon, who used his portable cephalometer to declare that women "represent the most inferior forms of human evolution." She even taps Google engineer James Damore who privately shared with co-workers the psycho-biological roots for the absence of women in tech and leadership roles. You might recall that sharing these milquetoast and widely-accepted psychological and biological facts cost Damore his job.

What do these female activist authors have in common?

They aim to blame society and culture for established neuro-biological gender differences and set out to distort sex, gender, and the biological roots of these differences as the product of "bad research," the fault of continued "stereotypes" in our "sexist society," which engenders…"neurosexism."

In other words, any findings by researchers must be the product of neurosexism and not scientific discovery. And those who set out to research this politically fraught topic had better watch out, lest they want to be accused by pseudoscientist feminist activists as "neurosexist!"

If we could simply reengineer society in such a way that Good Citizens don't notice any gender differences at all then we could all live in one brave new genderless utopia. Right?

Research into the psychological and behavioral differences between males and females provides a foundation for understanding how sex may influence certain traits, based on empirical studies that highlight average differences. These findings offer insights without suggesting "neurosexist" judgments about the behaviors or capabilities of either sex. The key point to remember when reading this compilation is not to make it personal as either a man or woman or assume personal anecdotal evidence disproves these "average differences."

(References & studies at the end.)

Neuroscience research reveals that the human brain exhibits sex-based anatomical and functional differences. For instance, adjusted for brain size, females' hippocampi, critical for learning and memory, are larger and function differently than those of males, whose amygdalas, crucial for emotion processing and memory, are larger and also function distinctively.

Studies, including a brain scan experiment of individuals viewing emotional content, showed sex-dependent activity in the amygdala, critical for emotional memory, highlighting implications for mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, which are more common in women while ASD and schizophrenia are more common in boys and men.

The two hemispheres of women's brains communicate more than men's, while male activity is more coordinated into local regions emphasizing the necessity of integrating sex differences in neurological research to better understand and treat psychological disorders. These and other neuro-biological differences also explain social and behavioral differences.

Men exhibit higher levels of physical aggression than women, though mostly toward other men. Women are more prone to passive-aggressive behavior, toward both men and women, the latter who instigate competitive desires which can manifest through "shade" formerly known as "gossip." This difference in aggression and passive-aggression is attributed to both biological influences, such as hormonal factors, and socialization process preferences.

In terms of risk-taking, men show a greater propensity for engaging in behaviors with potential negative outcomes. A meta-analysis by Byrnes et al. (1999) and research by Harris, Jenkins, and Glaser (2006) confirm men's higher likelihood to take physical and financial risks, linked to evolutionary and social factors, including competitiveness as a motivator for mate attraction.

Men's hyper-competitiveness, both physically and financially, is deeply rooted in psychobiological factors that are tied to evolutionary pressures. Historically, physical prowess was essential for male competition over resources and mates. In modern sedentary societies, while the physical aspect of competition has diminished, financial competition has emerged as a critical replacement, often reflecting an individual's ability to accumulate resources and secure a higher social status. This aligns with the concept of hypergamy, or the female preference for partners of higher socioeconomic status, a strategy that maximizes reproductive success and stability.

According to Buss and Schmitt's Sexual Strategies Theory (1993), men adapt their competitive strategies to meet female mate preferences, which historically favor resource-rich or high-status males capable of supporting offspring.

From an anecdotal ethnographic perspective how many "tech bros" are physically soft, even displaying effeminate traits who have no interest in physical dominance or even self-improvement but have amassed enough riches to have their pick of attractive females who otherwise would never give them the time of day?

Women report and exhibit higher levels of emotional expressivity, especially regarding sadness, fear, and empathy. Women also express a broader range of emotions more freely and have a heightened ability to recognize and respond to others' feelings. While these are important traits in understanding other humans' health and well-being (even suffering), they may not be the most effective for decision-making in leadership roles.

Case Study Sidebar

Two decades of Sweden's feminist governing policies destroyed that country. By taking "refugee" empathy to the level of submission in signaling their tolerance for and cultural acceptance of foreign and unassimilable newcomers the demographics of Sweden have changed forever. Sweden is essentially gone. They're just waiting for the sociocultural returns to come in over the next few decades. Imams in Malmö and Gothenburg openly boast that Sweden will be a Muslim-conquered nation within two generations. The effeminate men of certain political stripes (socialist-communist-liberal-green) and the cadre of feminists in local and national leadership roles were happy to surrender a nation once inhabited by savage Vikings.

This image of Swedish politicians in hijabs says everything. Imagine if Swedish Christian men asked Swedish women to be more chaste and modest in their attire and even to cover up their hair. There would be screeching accusations of misogyny and toxic masculinity perpetuating patriarchy that must be destroyed. They cannot logically see how they imported an actual patriarchic culture that they have already submitted to.

After two generations of replacing the native Swede with African and Arab-born "Swedes," the native Swedish women are (mostly) happy to submit to a foreign culture that treats women as submissives. The irony of this double standard is lost on their feminist and socialist (libtarded) brains. The problem is much larger than women, or neurobiological sex differences, as historically a nation's women are only as permissive as its men allow them to be. Worse still, a nation of people without morals, values, or convictions (God, country, family) can be manipulated to accept anything as a replacement.

Who else is behind the destruction of Sweden and other European nations? You'd better not notice Good Citizens, or you might lose your bank account.

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Communication styles also differ, with women using language more for social connection, while their conversational strategies often emphasize affiliation and support, contrasting with the more assertive, pointed, and independence-oriented communication observed in men.

Spatial abilities present an area where men typically outperform women, particularly in tasks requiring mental rotation and spatial navigation. Interest patterns between sexes show men gravitating more towards systems and things, while women prefer people and relational activities, as confirmed by Su, Rounds, and Armstrong (2009) and Lippa (1998). These distinctions are evident in educational and career choices affecting the distribution of sexes across fields, as mentioned by James Damore to his colleagues at Google.

Understanding the importance of empirical evidence in discussions about sex differences, helps us talk about them, rather than shy away from them for politically convenient reasons.

To sum up this entire non-debate, the differences in male and female brains are highly compatible and complementary when working together to optimize and extract each other's strengths. In short, women's brains are said to be wired for empathy and intuition, whereas male brains are more wired to be optimized for reason and action.

Thanks for keeping me going.

Weaponizing Weak Men

In Part One we explored the many endocrinological disrupters that have sent men's testosterone levels plummeting over the past fifty years. An area of further inquiry that is worth uncovering is the psycho-social effects of effeminate men, homosexuals, and transitioning men.

Do the estrogen/progesterone dominant transitory effects reflect in the behaviors of these semi-androgynous, homosexual, or post-transitioned males? In other words, do men who possess increasingly female endocrinological biomarkers, end up adopting more female-specific psychological and social traits?

How might this affect their decision-making process in leadership roles? How might this transformation at a larger scale alter the system structures that typically were influenced by male-dominated (high-T) psychological traits within those systems?

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3. 101 Steps to Enslave Humanity Part 2 (56-77)

Warning to Good Citizens: Do not share this series with others, it might make you look like a total nutjob. The most important thing today is that others view us in the blandest, most sterile, and safest light. That's the only way things will change for the better.

This is part two of a three-part series. Part One was published nearly 14 months ago.

Part 2: How we got here 21st century—Phases 3-6 (YOU ARE HERE)
Part 3: Where we're (likely) going (2024-2030)—Consolidating Phases 1-6 and implementing Phases 7 and 8.

This series was designed to put historical events and sociocultural phenomena into a structure that helps us understand how we arrived at the world we're living in. If for no other reason than to dispel the deception that we arrived here suddenly and without warning.

This list and organization of a hierarchy of influence over world events do not imply that everything that appears here was intentional or methodically planned out. The list is a mix of social and political events triggered partly by social engineering through government policy, sociocultural phenomenon through happenstance, and yes, bureaucratic failures through grotesque incompetence. I do not make an effort to distinguish which label applies to which events or phenomena, as many would be impossible to know.

This is by no means a comprehensive list. Any glaring omissions noticed by readers would be appreciated in the comments below and added post-publication with credit to the commenter. I did not include comprehensive in-post sources for every event, but it's all available online, as long as you don't use Google or DuckDuckGo. The only search engine that will provide the "old" internet is ironically a Russian search engine—yandex.com

Review Phases 1 and 2 (from Part I):

New Religions (Destroying humanity and our connection to the natural world)

• Scientism

  • An expert class (high priests) that determines selected truths to frame perceptions to alter human behavior

  • Dogmas like "Follow the Science" and "Trust the Science" or "The Science is Settled" and "Science Denier" to shame heretics

  • The expert class commands ritualistic behavior of the non-credentialed "useless eaters"

• Technological Solutionism

  • Artificial Intelligence (superior to humans)

  • Data Collection for Surveillance Capitalism (control humans)

  • Robotics and Automation to render human labor (existence) redundant

• Transhumanism (Eugenics Contd.)

  • Altering human DNA

  • Gender confusion and abolition for transformation

  • Destruction of the nuclear family and traditional parental roles

  • Continued abortion at all costs

  • Expand euthanasia programs and limit any barriers (See Canada)

  • Trojan horse injections (laced) posing as "medicine" "vaccines" or "anesthetics"

  • Announcing the 'end of humans' as an agenda

1. Laying the foundation for centralization through capturing governments, central banks, engineering wars, and buying academia, medicine, and science (1800-1970)

2. Continuing Eugenics for population control through climate hysteria, fifth-generational warfare, to prepare for the rise of transhumanism, Agenda 2021, and a one-world government (1970-2000)

PART 2 Phase 3: Surrender liberties for "safety" that only the state can provide from perceived threats (threats created by the state ie "terror" & "viruses") while continuing the psychological and bodily assault on humanity

56. The end of the Cold War leaves the MIC searching for new modes of manipulation and control over the American psyche and taxpayers' wallets. A series of false flag attacks throughout the 1990s brings the word "terror" to television screens programming American minds. World Trade Center bombing; Oklahoma City "Bombing"; USS Cole bombing. While Islamist terror groups attack Paris, France with subway bombings, Moscow, Russia with apartment bombings, and target U.S. service members stationed in the holy land, Saudi Arabia (Khobar Towers). Plane hijackings and embassy bombings are a regular occurrence around the world.

57. Epidemics of mental illnesses begin to rise concurrently with the pilfering desires of Big Pharma and the Psychiatric Industrial Complex to exploit the moods and emotions of the restless, passive citizen, and modern consumer. In 1988 the SSRI anti-depressant drug Prozac is launched. By the end of the century, tens of millions of people will be taking the drug to treat an arbitrary and oft-manufactured condition formerly known as the blues or sadness, now dubbed "depression." By 2022 the ten-year average in SSRI prescriptions will reach 130 million in the U.S. alone. Various studies have shown that SSRIs are no better than placebo and in the long term lead to worse outcomes. Seventy studies show SSRIs have horrible side effects and are ineffective because they do the opposite of what should be done. While one study found it aggravates the very thing it was prescribed to treat in many people—anxiety.

58. The century of the self has accelerated the conscious awareness of the hyperindividual whose 'inner self' gauges happiness through 'self-actualization' and positive reinforcement which is always just one life alteration away. Depression has become a mainstream diagnosis for psychologists, psychiatrists, and therapists with relief available in pill form. "Being cured" of depression is always one more therapy appointment away. Everything is made abstract including the "journey" or "process" a depressed individual must undertake to "do the work" to no longer "be depressed." The patient is conditioned to view positive outcomes in their life, not as happenstance or earned achievements, but as a result of the "work they do with their therapist" to reinforce the perceived success of therapy. Conversely, the patient is conditioned to view negative outcomes in their life as a sign that they must continue to see their therapist or even increase their frequency of visits. This will give rise to therapy culture across many other institutions including education through "Social Emotional Learning" and positive reinforcement. It will increase weakness and fragility by fostering an atmosphere of victimhood and learned helplessness. The destruction of the family and sexes continues unabated. While divorce rates finally plateau at the start of the century, the destruction of gender norms and traditional families accelerates. Women will eventually surpass men in college, many corporate careers, and earning power, destroying hard-wired traits that determine mate appeal and selection for females, further plummeting marriage and birth rates. While the great scam of feminism bonds women to corporations instead of men and families far past their fertile years denying their biological imperatives and leaving them with no mate appeal for men by their thirties and forties (the wall). By then, they finally realize that they made the wrong choice in a soulless corporation instead of rearing and raising human life to avoid becoming a despondent cat-lady.

59. Childhood disabilities like ADHD, Dyslexia, and Autism increase astronomically (1500% from 1988-2005) with many, especially Autism linked to childhood vaccine schedules. Many vaccines contain Thimerosal. First introduced by Eli Lilly and Company in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the company began selling it as a preservative in vaccines in the 1940s. Eli Lilly and Co. concluded thimerosal to be of "a very low order of toxicity for man," the company hired its own doctors to perform thimerosal experiments in Indianapolis City Hospital on meningitis patients during a severe outbreak in 1929. The company brochure quoted the "safety evidence" of this rigged study through 1990. Thimerosal contains 49.6 percent mercury by weight. Most countries eliminated thimerosal during the mid-1980s including the Soviet Union which was the first to do so in 1980. In 1977, a Russian study found that adults exposed to ethylmercury, the form of mercury in thimerosal, suffered brain damage. Studies on thimerosal poisoning also describe tubular necrosis and nervous system injury, including obtundation, coma, and death. The U.S. is still one of the only countries permitting Thimerosal as a vaccine preservative and also in dozens of other pharmaceutical products approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

    

    The efficacy of vaccines as legitimate "medicine" becomes gospel for the global technocratic order, which means they must never be questioned. All injectibles will serve as a trojan horse for their transhuman agenda.
    

60. The 2000 election and Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore plants the seeds that open the door to question the legitimacy of elections and "democracy" in America. While it's evident that domestic manipulation of elections has been ongoing for decades by the intelligence community, this election and case decided in one county in Florida (managed by former Bush campaign advisor as Sec. of State of Florida) plants the psychological seeds to establish the red-blue political divide to capture the attention of the American people so they are deeply emotionally invested in federal election outcomes. Believing the theatrical production that the two parties are different and oppositional and that politicians exist to serve their interests and improve their livelihoods makes citizens evermore dependent on the state. The rise of electronic voting, with machines connected to exterior networks makes the entire process a joke. Normalizing mail-in ballots, and eliminating voting ID requirements by labeling them "racist" renders all elections as "performative participatory democracy" with most outcomes predetermined. Across the pond, the European Union gets busy engineering its own style of "democracy" which more closely resembles liberal authoritarianism. Any referendum rejected by European voters, like the Treaty of Lisbon, is ignored by the European Commission and repackaged as a new treaty that will get shoved through, no matter the will or vote of any European nations. (Irish voters rejected the Treaty of Lisbon, and French voters rejected the EU constitution, yet both are pushed through anyway) Power is centralized and delivered from the top down. Smaller economies become beholden to larger dominant economies, for welfare and pensions. "Austerity" requires these "lazy" cultures to raise the retirement age and citizens forego returns from Ponzi schemes they paid into most of their lives through high taxes. By 2007 all internal European borders will be opened and no passport or identity document will be needed to travel anywhere inside the 27-nation Schengen Zone. Eliminating borders destroys the national identity (See Kalergi Plan), to move toward an open continent where the continued influx of tens of millions of third-world invaders (mostly men) can continue with aid from EU-funded NGOs. The European people continue to fund their replacements to this day, with some welfare states taxing workers over 50% to culturally and ethnically destroy themselves. Since the demented one was installed, nearly 10 million invaders have crossed the southern border, or have been flown to U.S. cities. In another four years nearly 15% of the U.S. population will be added with "tech visas" and invaders, mostly military aged, low-skilled, unemployable men. (See the Cloward-Piven strategy)

    

61. 2001 Rockefeller Foundation wargames bioterror—Operation Dark Winter—a simulation of weaponized smallpox "attack" in the United States. It takes place just two months before 9/11 on July 23. Two days later on July 25th Alex Jones warns his listeners and viewers, "Terrorism is the pretext the globalists will use to bring down America. If any terrorism comes, it will come from this government….we know the government is planning terrorism, we know Oklahoma City was government terrorism…if you do it we will know it was you, or if you let some terrorist group do it, like blow up the World Trade Center, we will know it was you."

62. Hollywood spreads the entertainment viruses (predictive programming) with global catastrophe and apocalyptic bioterror films like 12 Monkeys (1995). It will continue through the coming decades with films like Contagion, I am Legend, Children of Men, Carriers, The Happening, World War Z, and The Walking Dead which runs for an entire decade until the Covid plandemic and is the highest-rated on-demand TV show in the world beating out Game of Porns.

63. 9/11 — TRUTH The CIA/Mossad terrorize the American people and drag its allies into a decades-long campaign of pointless invasions, bombings, occupations, and operations in seven different countries causing the loss of millions of lives at the expense of over eight trillion dollars. The only nation to benefit from this is the nation that planned it—Israel. Five years earlier Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted in a book that the "American people need to wake up to the threat of militant Islam or militant Islam will bring down the World Trade Center." He openly brags about this admission in a TV interview after the attacks. By manipulating the American empire to work on its behalf, Zionists can continue to make the enemies of Israel the enemies of America so that the latter must always serve their interests.

64. On September 20, 2001, Bush announces his War on Terror which will cost millions of lives and $8 trillion, most of which is transferred from taxpayers to the Military Industrial Complex (defense contractors, including President Dick Cheney's Halliburton) to prosecute wars on the middle east nations that do not have IMF-controlled (Rothschild) central banks. The War on Terror has no honest national security goals or aims that benefit the American people or the planet. The war is designed to continue at all costs for gold pilfering, money laundering, central bank control, oil and energy expansion, opium trade, arms trafficking, and to continue bottomless funding (black budgets) for overseas coups, color revolutions, assassinations, terror funding, and conflict creation.

65. The expansion of Pentagon bioweapons research programs with dark money accelerates to a dozen nations including at least 24 bioweapons labs in Ukraine alone by 2020. Bioweapons first appear domestically as a psyop when the U.S. Government terrorizes its population with Anthrax originating from Fort Dietrick bio lab in Maryland, mailed to corporate journalists they know will amplify the psyop. The psyop began just one week after 9/11, with the subsequent investigation a coverup and setup. Planting the seeds of the word "Anthrax" was to prepare the American people for an invasion of Iraq that was years in the planning. In the weeks before the bombing of Iraq, the White House and corporate media created such a frenzy of fear around an "Anthrax attack in the form of a missile from Saddam Hussein" that Americans bought up all the duct tape from home improvement stores in a single weekend to "protect their homes" from such an attack. Saddam Hussein didn't even have missiles with a range that could strike Italy, or targeting systems that could distinguish Italy from Croatia.

66. George W. Bush telegraphs the invasion of Iraq with 9/11 anniversary speech mentioning Sadam Hussein for the first time, despite absolutely no connection to Iraq. U.S. "Shock and Awe" campaign of bombing Iraq begins six months later as corporate state media broadcast the spectacle with paid CIA correspondents glorifying the indiscriminate slaughter of Iraqi civilians as war porn on live TV 24-7. Patriotism is drummed up at the homeland with diabolical precepts like "You're either with America, or you're with the terrorists" and "We have to fight them over there so that we don't have to fight them here." It makes the Macarthy-era red scare look like the tea cups ride at Disneyland but most Americans are clueless as they follow their President's orders and "continue shopping." The U.S. openly engages in the torture of innocent prisoners with no official charges or evidence presented in a court of law. Bush administration attorneys label kidnapping and torture ops as the Orwellian, "extraordinary rendition." Prisoners are kept permanently in an overseas camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba where they are tortured around the clock with no legal recourse. Zero "actionable evidence" is obtained through torture, and to the contrary, it only produces made-up or false evidence.

67. Asian SARS-CoV-1 Plandemic doesn't go global—2003—despite coordinated media campaigns to scare the masses. The "virus" stays in Asia where the first 3G network rollouts occur…China, Hong Kong, Japan. The following "pandemics" have curious coincidences but don't take them seriously Good Citizens, because correlation doesn't equal causation.
    2003 — SARS 1 + 3G rollout
    2009 — Swine Flu + 4G rollout
    2020 — SARS 2 + 5G rollout

    

68. The housing bubble finally collapses in 2008, five years after the Bush Administration said it was essential that all Americans have the possibility of owning a home. Banks were happy to oblige by creating conditions for easy credit by destroying underwriting guidelines for mortgage applications. These toxic loans were bundled into worthless toxic securities that collapsed and created a global financial crisis. The intervention of Congressional and central bank bailouts increases moral hazards that still hamper markets today. Some have called government and Central Bank reactions to this event (TARP) the end of free market capitalism.

    

69. Rockefeller Foundation releases its famous "Operation Lock-Step" document in 2009. "Under the guise of a pandemic, we will create a global police state."

    

Phase 4: Surveillance Capitalism and The Frictionless Life—Selling slavery as convenience and comfort, through digital herding for managing minds to prepare them for remote access via frequency manipulation

70. Wilhelm Reich discovered this in the late 1940s. Reich worked on a project secretly for the CIA for over 5 years, from 1947-1952, to discover at what frequency wave the "human brain" would respond; he did so until he realized the CIA was planning to use this technology on the American public. Upon learning what his discovery meant, and how it was going to be used, he developed a second technology to combat the effects of thought manipulation used on the frequency waves he discovered. The first Direct Energy Weapons patent for controlling humans is filed in 2000. Many of these weapons are tested on T.I.s or targeted individuals who are harassed remotely by a dedicated team. Over the next decade dozens of more patents related to remote access for biotechnological manipulation of humans are filed. At present there is a convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, and human anatomy for the express goal of "seeding" humans with substances to illicit remote thought control, behavioral control, assassinations, etc. Population management/control through sudden "coincidences" and mass infertility appears to be a congruent aim or side effect of this ongoing experimentation.

71. The arrival of personal computing in the 1980s and the Internet a decade later unleashes a torrent of sociocultural and behavioral changes as the world moves from the physically anchored world to the virtual and ethereal. The rise of AI, robotics, and automation, portends the end of human labor and human connections to the material world, and the transference of human existence from the natural to the digital, artificial, "meta" worlds where humans are passive, subdued, disconnected from nature and each other severing psycho-social bonds of organization and unity. This is another step in the transhumanist agenda to implement a psycho-bio-evolutionary switch toward rewiring and reconditioning our species so humans can be micromanaged via remote technologies.

72. DARPA calls for an Internet white pages platform (Lifelog) that can monitor every American citizen in one place. Removes contract after Facebook is incorporated with VC funding from CIA fund In-Q-tel (Billions of people are still on Facebook, Meta-owned Instagram, Google-owned YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok. The U.S. version of TikTok is based on Oracle servers in Texas. Oracle is also another CIA-NSA cut-out for mass surveillance. Whenever a new application arises to offer privacy and encryption or alternative sources for information, like messaging app Signal and search engine DuckDuckGo, they are quickly taken over by the Intelligence agencies. In 2002, the NSA connects to AT&T ISP servers in the San Francisco building room 641A, at 611 Folsom Street. Mass digital surveillance is weaponized against citizens. The Internet becomes a tool for psychological control and manipulation of the masses for fifth-generation warfare against citizens. In June 2013 Edward Snowden blew the whistle on mass surveillance programs targeting all Americans and the collusion between private corporates and government spy agencies. The gamification of Frictionless Life aka "convenience" conditions masses for a social credit system that connects their entire life, online and offline to their income and ability to earn a living. As with most dystopian transitions, the beta testing began in China in 2018 where tens of millions of surveillance cameras monitor all citizens at all times in public, while in private all digital platforms (apps) monitor the most intimate details of their lives. It becomes effortless to allow humans to accept their chains, as everything is managed (surveillance) through their favorite toy, ironically dubbed the Smartphone. Billions accept this trojan horse device for its "convenience" and "connectivity." They permit it to control their lives while sharing every moment with the state and simultaneously believe that they are the ones in control. During the hoax pandemic, memes began to circulate that one group avoided the psyop and had no disruption from the media's mass fear campaign because they don't watch television—The Amish. The Amish also don't have digital "smartphone" chains. A ban was established in their community due to the Amish belief that it contrasts the spirit of humility, contributes to pride and individualism, is not a necessity, and is a link to the outside world. Another win for the Amish.

73. Klaus Schwab authors The Fourth Industrial Revolution, a book that embraces Global Technocracy (of which he is a major "stakeholder") that oversees a dystopian future of interconnected everything including humans. See my series below Remote Controlled Humans for all the details on this diabolical operation underway via injectible "medicine", chemtrails, and food. The entire hoax pandemic, for which there was no novel virus, is used as a mass testing operation so that individuals offer their bodies (and minds) willingly for experimentation, while around the globe the rollout of dangerous 5G towers and repeaters is masked by the "harm" of a non-existent virus.

    Why poison billions of people with Graphene Oxide nanoparticles through injectibles, testing swabs, masks, chemtrails, and the food supply?
    

Phase 5: Consolidating "Humans Are The Virus" via the Green Cult of Death—Global Communism masquerading as a collectivist sacrifice to "save the planet"

74. In 2004 Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth is released. The entire film is filled with convenient lies to schill for the Agenda 21/30 climate scam. His net worth before the film's release is ~$4 million. Ten years later? $200 million. Today he's worth $300 million. Here are 35 lies told in the film: Pacific Islands drowning, sea levels rising 6 meters caused by melting ice caps, thermohaline circulation stopping, CO2 driving warmer temperatures, snows of Kilimanjaro melting, lake Chad drying up, Hurricane Katrina "man-made" (possibly true through geoengineering and cloud seeding), polar bears will be extinct soon, coral reefs bleaching, exaggeration of ppmv CO2 effect on global temperature by 10x, Hurricane Caterina (Brazil) was "man-made", New record of Japanese typhoons, natural disaster insurance claims increasing, Mumbai is flooding, severe tornadoes increasing, arctic warming at the fastest rate in history, Greenland ice sheet unstable, Himalayan glacial melt stopping, Sahara desert drying, mountain glaciers disappearing around the world, Antarctic ice shelves "breaking up," Mosquitoes climbing to higher altitudes (thanks to Bill Gates' genetically modified altimeters?), tropical diseases "spreading" (not due to open borders), Carbon dioxide is "pollution," migratory birds cannot feed their young, and lastly that none of his "facts" are in dispute by anybody. "Trust the Science" durp durp. (Follow Tony Heller on YouTube for all the latest scams from the climate-cult-of-death)

75. Enslaving humanity wouldn't be complete without destroying economic production and freedom of movement—transportation. Regular UN climate summits like Cop 16 (2010), Cop 21 (2015), and the upcoming Cop 30 to be held next year in Brazil set out to plan energy transformations designed to intentionally destroy Western economies by transitioning to "Carbon-neutral" energy sources—wind, solar, biofuels. For transportation, this means banning internal combustion engines and mandating that all vehicles be electric (Coal powered) by a certain date—2030-2050. California is banning ICEs by 2035. A quarter of all auto sales last year in the state were EVs. In Norway nearly 80% of all new auto purchases were EVs last year…followed by Iceland, Sweden, and the Netherlands. EVs are one giant scam and if they aren't already, should be viewed as a public display of low IQ.

76. Alternative energy (Unsustainable for humanity) global transition for the global enslavement of mostly advanced Western societies. NONE of the climate agenda transitions apply to the biggest polluters India and China, or third-world countries, and that's how we know the real agenda. China is busy building new coal plants weekly. Alternative "Green" energy is fragile, full of fault points, horrific for the environment, water table, and wildlife, and cannot possibly replace a fraction of Western energy needs.

All of it is 100% economically unfeasible, and that's the point of it…to destroy economies and create a new feudal system. All the math(s) laid out in this excellent 4-part series.

Full Broadside "Clean Energy Transition" Part 1 Renewable, or 'clean', energy is all the rage nowadays. Dirty coal, greasy oil and smelly gas have got to go, or so we are told ad infinitum by goverments, mainstream media and 'climate action now' NGOs. These three fuels which represent the energy backbone of the modern, industrialised world are now wicked words. They are the "fossil fuels" of a fossil… Read more a year ago · 17 likes · 14 comments · JP

77. Under the pretense of "saving the planet," anything can be demonized as harmful, and outlawed or criminalized including self-sufficiency through gardening and small farming. Banning self-sufficiency, small farms, farming, concentrating all food production in a centralized top-down controlled Big Agriculture (LBJ: control the food supply and you control the world.) During World War 2, the British government introduced food rationing. Each citizen was given a booklet with coupons for food to ensure that an equal distribution of food met the needs of the people, yet they also encouraged people to grow their own food under a public campaign called "Dig For Victory." In the United States, the government runs similar public campaigns calling on Americans to plant "Victory Gardens." Today we are in a new state of war, declared by governments against their citizens so that they are dependent on the state's resources: capital, food, transportation, energy, medicine, retirement, nursing, defense, and education (Germany, Croatia, Greece, Bulgaria, and other states ban homeschooling).

Nowhere is the war on farmers hotter than in the European Union, where the EU approved 1.3 billion to buy out Dutch livestock farmers for "land conservation" due to nitrogen deposits. The earth's atmosphere is made up of 78% nitrogen, and the Netherlands is the second largest food producer per capita in the world. Soon they will outlaw the conservation of seeds, personal farming, gardening, and everything will need to be government-approved and triple-stamped by a panel of communist apparatchiks. Any farmer that doesn't comply will be shut down, bought out, denied subsidies, and imprisoned.

The Irish government wants to slaughter 200,000 dairy cows because of…cow farts.

By centralizing and controlling the food supply, global technocrats can achieve many other concurrent goals while simultaneously enslaving humanity.

Where have we seen all this before?

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

— Henry Kissinger
Burning in hell for eternity

Part 3: (78-101) coming sooner than 14 months from now.

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4. The Don Remains The Same

It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

―Mark Twain

Whenever the two parties of the Zionist Occupied Oligarchic Kakistocracy agree on anything, the American people should reflexively examine why, and follow the trail of corporate money and foreign influence peddling, often by dual passport holders with questionable loyalties. The compromised red-blue consensus will completely ignore their interests and be antithetical to "America First" so the people must always assume corporate bribery is at work, often in conjunction with foreign blackmail.

The fact there was no government shutdown last week imposed by Republicans in the house given the current final rotting stages of the collapsing Empire, signifies the Uniparty's consent to let the rot continue unabated. There was no meaningful effort to leverage budgetary power to demand a close to the southern border which nearly ten million illegals have crossed since the demented one was selected President.

Instead, the House passed a meaningless resolution this week condemning Biden for Causing the Worst Immigration-Border Security Crisis in American History. A symbolic vote for denunciation rooted in self-smug pageantry and pomp.

During the diapered puppet's comically ridiculous State of the Empire speech, there were only two moments that the highest opposition party leader Mike Johnson applauded: MOAR money for the Poison Dwarf laundermats of Ukraine to kill off whatever remaining Ukrainians under 50 can be kidnapped and sent to the Donbas meat grinders, and MOAR money for Israel to kill another 30,000 civilians in Gaza. Of the entire ninety minutes an old man screamed at the sky, the latter was enough to bring "the opposition" and Speaker Johnson to his feet for a standing ovation.

Think about that. Then think about it again. Then reread the first paragraph and think about it a third time.

It's not unusual given any visit by an Israeli politician to speak in the House usually garners between 20 and 30 unanimous standing ovations in 45 minutes. Nothing brings the parties together in the Kumbaya union like Israel, and whatever its criminals demand of the American treasury and arms industries.

Not to be outdone, the Orange Messiah revealed on his personal social media platform unironically named Truth Social (where you'll get banned for criticizing Israel) that he has learned jack shit the past few years in exile.

It's almost as if he goes out of his way to squander any sympathies garnered from his continued persecution by the permanent shadow government's system of selective justice. Assuming that persecution isn't planned because he's their next selection to maximize division and chaos and sell some big event to the red states like he did last time.

But how can a man who will never admit he was wrong ever change?

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5. E.V.irtue Signaling

See it's not just a car, it's a total image. An identity.

— Bill Paxton
True Lies

Every day billions of humans around the world make consumer decisions.

Some of those consumer decisions involve purchasing a motor vehicle.

And until recently the free market functioned as it should, without the government nudging the behavior of consumers with lies and tax incentives to be funded on the backs of hard-working Americans who were neither fooled nor nudged.

Consumers used to look at motor vehicles and make decisions based on metrics such as economics, practicality, utility, reliability, gas mileage, depreciation, and sometimes less important metrics like speed, fun, looks, and social status tied to brand identity.

Those going through a mid-life crisis may have made impulsive consumer choices, often influenced by vain metrics associated with sports cars and supercars, such as the power of a motor vehicle to serve as a "pussy magnet" because every middle-aged man is familiar with life's three certainties:

1. Death

2. Taxes

3. The vette gets em' wet.

Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by Mark Tarpenning and Martin Everhard. Elon Musk invested $6.5 million and appointed himself chairman of the board. A few years later he raised $30 million with help from the Google Founders. The investment came with the condition the he be named founder of the company. Then he proceeded to push out the founders, rewrote the history of the company to erase their names, and crowned himself the self-made "genius" behind the EV revolution.

This entire "revolution" is premised on the lie of "global warming" and "climate change." The farcical assumption rooted in doctored "science" that somehow anthropomorphic-caused increases in atmospheric Co2 levels will cause the planet to warm anywhere from 1-3 degrees Celsius by the end of this century. Co2, also known as the gas of life, increases vegetation and the "greening" of the planet, thereby enriching animal life. Presently Co2 levels are normal if not lower than the historical average.

For example, 65 million years ago they may have been as high as 1700ppm. While a million years ago they were still over 1000ppm, compared to today's figure of ~400ppm. At any rate, there is absolutely zero evidence that moderately increasing Co2 levels will cause any problems for humans, animals, or the planet, which is a complex self-correcting system that will see species come and go regardless of human behavior and is more affected by solar cycles than anything else.

Yet here we are with two or more generations brainwashed and indoctrinated into believing a psychological operation posing as a climate emergency which has given rise to brands like Tesla Motors.

Have consumers around the world been fooled into making many decisions about their lives, not just bodily autonomy, that give greater power to the states working for a global technocratic cabal while restricting their liberties and harming themselves physically and financially?

The answer appears to be a resounding Yes!

EVs, veganism, vaccines, paying for carbon credits. These are just the first of many scams that come to mind. While EVs are not the deadliest consumer choice one can make today, (unless you happen to be one of the hundreds of unlucky drivers trapped inside one after a crash as it spontaneously combusts and firefighters have to wait four days for the lithium batteries to burn themselves out before they can recover your charred remains) they are costly in more ways than boiling to death inside a white egg.

Of all the EVs to choose from Tesla is still the most popular brand maintaining a dominant share of the Western EV market.

What is a Tesla other than a glorified electric golf cart with an iPad that can be controlled remotely and monitored by the state at all times?

Are the government tax credits worth it? Does following anything the government "incentivizes" ever work out for the best interest of consumers or citizens?

Does it make sense to pay a $1000 monthly payment to Tesla Financial, plus nearly twice the national average for insurance, to wait an hour or longer at a Tesla charging station to "fill up" with what is often coal power?

Has Tesla become a consumer symbol of stupidity, depravity, and obnoxiousness in our twenty-first-century late-stage empire clown world?

These are important questions that Good Citizens need answers to, provided by someone who despite an unhealthy bias, will attempt to be objective.

The truth is, I'm revolted by the sight of these buzzing, humming, EMF toxic death traps for total state surveillance and control of individuals' liberties, and cannot comprehend why anyone would own one.

For now let's ignore the incredibly stupid high cost of the vehicles, the ridiculous price of repairs and battery replacement which has driven up insurance premiums, the ethical and moral considerations of children in Africa mining elements for those batteries, the lack of aesthetics, the very high levels of sperm and ovum destroying radiation frequencies in the cockpit, the consistently low consumer report ratings, and its dickhead owner (not founder)—the personification of the Dunning-Kruger effect who Blackrock and Vanguard made the richest man in the world (apart from the Rothschilds) by buying up Tesla stock so the market cap of this electric golf cart company was greater than ALL OTHER automobile manufactures combined, and who works for the global cabal of social engineers pushing everything around Agenda 2030—and let's just focus on those big three reasons consumers claim to buy a Tesla: practicality, cost savings, and "because it's environmentally friendly."

Against these three consumer reasons, we'll rate one of the most popular and simplest models of Tesla, a Standard Model 3, against a popular petrol-hybrid alternative.

For this side-by-side to be scientifically sound, we'll need a petrol car that is practical, cost-effective, and with a solid pedigree.

When I searched for my first car to buy out of college, just after landing my first "real job" I asked a mechanic friend what the most practical, reliable, and efficient car would be. When he probed for more specifics I replied, "good gas mileage, cheap to repair and maintain, and will go forever."

His answer?

"Toyota, or Honda. If you're looking for something that will go forever those Honda VTEC engines will do the job if you just maintain them consistently. Come to think of it, even if you don't maintain them consistently, they'll still go forever."

When I asked specifically how long "forever" was in car years he said he'd seen some in the shop with over 250k miles that weren't well maintained but were still going strong.

For this exercise, we'll use a mid-range model of the popular Honda Accord, and let's add the hybrid version to give the comparison some similarities.

We'll use the 2022 models of each car.

Tesla Model 3 Standard | Honda Accord Hybrid Practicality

There doesn't appear to be anything practical about paying $20,000 more for a rear-wheel drive electric car, that won't do well in any kind of perilous winter weather.

If the temperature drops below even 40F (5C) the range of the EV immediately goes down because the battery needs to allocate energy to keep itself functional. Most EVs are designed to boost their battery temperatures when the thermometer drops, and this comes from the battery itself, reducing range and extending charging times.

Now, let's assume the Tesla owner hasn't paid thousands more ($1500-$3000) to install a home charging station in his garage and is forced to use only public charging stations. How much time each year does the Honda Accord Hybrid owner save by filling up the "old fashioned" way at the gas station?

• For the Tesla Model 3:

  • Fill-up time: 30-50 minutes (30 - DC Fast charging only and depending on weather)

  • Frequency: 24 times per year (2 times per month)

  • Total yearly fill-up time = 50 minutes * 24

• For the Honda Accord:

  • Fill-up time: 5 minutes

  • Frequency: 24 times per year (2 times per month)

  • Total yearly fill-up time = 5 minutes * 24

The Honda Accord owner saves 18 hours per year compared to a Tesla Model 3 owner, based on filling up ONLY twice per month with the given fill-up times. ​In addition to the $20,000 in savings from the car price, the Honda owner has nearly one surplus day each year compared to the Telsa owner.

But this isn't really an apples-to-apples comparison. Since the Tesla's range is only 272 miles, and the average American drives 13,500 miles per year, the Tesla owner would need to fully charge their golf cart 4.2 times per month to match the same range as the Accord.

That means the Honda owner gains 1.5 days per year not wasting time at a public charging station over the Tesla owner IF no other Teslas are waiting around in line. In Oregon, California, and other communist blue states filled with half-wits who have fallen for the climate scam and the lies of its PT Barnum frontman, waiting times can often be hours.

What about cost savings, the second factor cited by Tesla owners in their consumer decision rankings?

Insurance is more for the Tesla. The cost of replacing those batteries after warranties expire is nearly prohibitive for insurance companies. A simple side-by-side quote from a prominent insurance company shows higher comprehensive and collision insurance for a middle-aged fully employed driver with excellent credit and a clean driving record.

What about the cost of "filling the tank" versus charging the battery on a more than generous 287-mile range per charge? Surely, the Tesla must beat the Honda in this category.

Oof.

• Tesla Model 3:

  • Cost to fully charge: $12

  • Range per full charge: 287 miles

  • Cost per mile: $\frac{$12}{287}$ miles

  • Cost per 1,000 miles: $12 / 287 \times 1000 = $41.81

• Honda Accord Hybrid:

  • Cost to fill the tank: $12.8 \times $3 = $38.4

  • Range per full tank: 608 miles

  • Cost per mile: $\frac{$38.4}{608}$ miles

  • Cost per 1,000 miles: $38.4 / 608 \times 1000 = $63.16

Tesla Model 3: $41.81

Honda Accord Hybrid: $63.16

• The savings per 1,000 miles driving the Tesla, compared to the Honda Accord Hybrid, is approximately $21.35.

• Annually, based on the average mileage of 13,500 miles, the savings amount to roughly $288.22.

• To accumulate $20,000 in savings at this annual rate would take approximately….

69.39 years

For shits and giggles let's use the popular Model X, with the cool gullwing doors.

• Tesla Model X:

  • Cost to fully charge: $18

  • Range per full charge: 330 miles

  • Cost per mile: $\frac{$18}{330}$ miles

  • Cost per 1,000 miles: $18 / 330\times 1000 = $54.55

• Honda Accord Hybrid:

  • Cost to fill the tank: 12.8 gal \times $3/gal = $38.4

  • Range per full tank: 608 miles

  • Cost per mile: $\frac{$38.4}{608}$ miles

  • Cost per 1,000 miles: $38.4 / 608 \times 1000 = $63.16

Tesla Model X: $54.55

Honda Accord Hybrid: $63.16

The crazy thing is that Model X costs an average of $40,000 more. The annual savings from driving the Tesla Model X instead of the Honda Accord Hybrid, based on 13,500 miles per year, is approximately $116.23. To save $40,000 by driving the Tesla Model X it would take approximately…

344.13 years

Congratulations Tesla X owners. You'll be better off than the Honda Accord Hybrid owner sometime around Easter of the year 2368.

Even if gas were $5 per gallon, the Accord would still offer greater savings on purchase price and insurance alone. If the purchase price difference is $20,000 from the Model 3, how many years would you need to own the Tesla at the average rate of 13,500 miles Americans drive to save on gas just to break even with the Honda Accord Hybrid?

With gasoline priced at $5 per gallon for the Honda Accord Hybrid:

• Tesla Model 3:

  • Cost per 1,000 miles: $62.72

• Honda Accord Hybrid (with gas at $5 per gallon):

  • Cost per 1,000 miles: $105.26

Based on the average annual mileage of 13,500 miles, driving a Tesla Model 3 instead of a Honda Accord Hybrid (with gas at $5 per gallon) would result in annual savings of approximately $574.29. To save $20,000 at this rate of savings, would take about 34.83 years, and this doesn't include the extra $34,000 in insurance premiums the Tesla owner would pay over that same time compared to the Accord Hybrid.

Let's summarize this consumer decision so far:

• higher insurance

• lose $20,000 immediately

• weather prohibitive

• lose 1.5 days per year

• get your nuts and jizzum constantly radiated

• all to save $288 per year on "gas"

What about those "environmentally friendly" claims Tesla owners use to justify their consumer decisions?

"Clean" Energy

An older study recently made headlines again. Since EVs weigh so much more than petrol cars they wear out their tire treads faster. The toxic chemicals released into the air are 400 times worse than petrol exhaust emissions. They probably don't tell bugmen buyers that on the Tesla lot.

The economics of the climate hoax require a great deal of thought, calculations, projections, and cutting through the bullshit. Thankfully Substack is full of thoughtful and talented people who have already done this work. The globalist ambition to transition to Net Zero (carbon neutral) energy production by 2050 is so economically and civilizationally unfeasible, that anytime anyone uses any of this technocratic jargon they should be immediately laughed out of any room.

Last spring I came across the fourth part of a series on the scam of Net Zero by who writes Bush Food Forager. It was a probing deep dive into the data and economics of a projected "clean energy transition" for Australia.

Full Broadside "Clean Energy Transition" Part 1 Renewable, or 'clean', energy is all the rage nowadays. Dirty coal, greasy oil and smelly gas have got to go, or so we are told ad infinitum by goverments, mainstream media and 'climate action now' NGOs. These three fuels which represent the energy backbone of the modern, industrialised world are now wicked words. They are the "fossil fuels" of a fossil… Read more a year ago · 13 likes · 7 comments · JP

It's in part three where he explores the replacement of all ICE's with EVs. He shows the energy calculations for ships, trains, and planes as well based on Simon Michaux's 2021 bombshell report that is 1000 pages long and 78MB as a PDF file.

Here we return to Simon Michaux's August 2021 report, "Assessment of the Extra Capacity Required of Alternative Energy Electrical Power Systems to Completely Replace Fossil Fuels," to explore a hypothetical transition of the entirety of the world's transportation infrastructure away from oil and gas to clean renewables. Taking the lead from Michaux, we will be exploring his Scenario A (replace all combustion engines with EVs), Scenario C (replace all combustion engines with hydrogen fuel cells) and Scenario D (replace fossil fuels with biofuels).

In part 3's EV section JP breaks down Michaux's report by total vehicles on earth and the amount of Li-Ion batters needed to transition the world's fleet of over 1.6 billion vehicles (2022). In 2018 it would have required 339 million tonnes of Lithium Ion batteries. Not only do the resource production and extraction capacities for this not exist in 2024, they will not even come close to existing by the end of the century.

The entire four-part series is well worth the read if you don't have the time to sift through a 1,000-page report. JP does an excellent job of pulling the main figures from the report and assembling them into a coherent and comprehensive summary that so thoroughly debunks the "clean energy" transition scam, you'd have to be an autistic Swedish teenage girl with abusive Marxist parents to buy into all this bullshit.

Since minerals that compose Li-Ion batters (lithium, cobalt, manganese, nickel, and graphite) require ICEs to mine and extract (when not using poor African children), the Co2 emissions to simply extract these elements, distribute them to factories, manufacture them for batteries, and distribute those to the assembly plants, a process known as Lifecycle Production, far exceed the first 3 years of ICE "dirty emissions" savings for every battery pack "mined and produced" and transported to the factory for its final installation into an EV assuming that EV is charged using neutral sources like hydroelectricity. If that EV is charged using coal power, there is no "dirty emissions" savings at all. Given the toxic emissions from tire tread wear of EVs are 400x worse than petrol emissions, it's all one grand delusion.

Enter Austrians

The consumer is the king... his majesty is sovereign in directing all economic activities. By his buying and abstention from buying, he decides about the income of the sellers and about the fate of the producers.

— Ludwig von Mises

In the discourse on economic philosophy, the Austrian School robustly champions the free market as a self-correcting mechanism, underscoring consumer choice as the driver shaping the future of businesses and industries. Figures such as Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and the precursory insights of Frédéric Bastiat, laid the foundation for a rich understanding of how individual preferences and entrepreneurial spirit naturally guide economic progress, negating the necessity for centralized control.

Within the frame of modern debates on government efforts to direct consumer behavior, particularly through tax credits for consumers or tax subsidies for producers of EVs, the Austrians would be horrified by the levels of omnipresent market manipulation.

Friedrich Hayek stressed that the price system was an essential medium for transmitting information, ensuring resources align with consumer demands. Hayek would view current government incentives as interventions that warp the critical signals of authentic price discovery, resulting in resource misallocation and potentially stifling innovation outside government preferences.

Ludwig von Mises, renowned for championing consumer sovereignty and the role of entrepreneurship, would argue that the market's voluntary choices should dictate industry success, including that of EVs, rather than government mandates for a fabricated climate emergency.

Mises might see current policies as an erosion of consumer sovereignty, where artificial incentives favor certain technologies, impairing the market's self-corrective capability and innovation according to true demand.

Frédéric Bastiat, an advocate for economic freedom and minimal government intervention, would perceive the push for EVs as an example of what he termed the "great fiction," where societal resources are misallocated through state action. Bastiat would warn against the unintended consequences of such policies, pointing to inefficiencies and societal resource misallocation.

The Austrian School championed the market's ability to self-regulate via supply and demand and enterprise successes driven by consumer choices, not by government decrees or global technocratic agendas.

A truly free market, unhampered by government interference (or Blackrock and Vanguard blackmail), is the optimal setting for discovering efficient and sustainable solutions to challenges, including environmental issues.

The absence of free market dynamics combined with the pervasive nudging of consumer behavior has ensured that the very thing those pushing EVs claim to want to reduce is only increased by their solution. The carbon "footprint" of the lifecycle of EV production, in addition to toxic emissions from tires, is far worse than the very "problem" they set out to solve with petrol emissions.

But when one understands that this "government intervention" was never about clean energy and always about controlling and monitoring citizens and their transportation liberties, then it makes perfect sense why they would want to tie them to their power grids in electric golf carts filled with computers that can be monitored and controlled remotely.

If any remnants of a free market still existed, their self-correcting nature would eventually kick in when businesses began to suffer losses. This would drive demand down, thereby increasing supply and forcing the EV market to correct prices.

It appears this may finally be happening. Ford has discontinued its march toward mass EV production as dealer lots fill up with unwanted EV trucks and cars.

It turns out that nobody wants to wait around charging an EV while on a business trip or holiday. Who could have seen this coming? Not Hertz.

If Hertz dumps all their EVs, that means 34,000 used Teslas will hit the secondhand market, further driving prices down. Who would want to pay $45,000 for a new Model 3, when they can have a slightly used one for half the price?*

*Assuming they don't read this piece and can't do simple side-by-side comparisons with a Honda Accord Hybrid.

Tesla Owners

The popular consumer products of any period often end up becoming historical placeholders, or visual signifiers for a decade and all its triumphs and travails.

For example, what would Gustave Caibaillot's Paris Street painting look like with douchey bugmen on electric scooters, and egg-shaped EVs in the cobblestone streets instead of couples walking with umbrellas and horse and buggy?

What would the film American Graffiti have looked like if all those guys were cruising Main Street of Anytown USA in the Tesla Model 3?

Would John Milner be revving his Telsa engine at the red light next Bob Falfa (Harrison Ford) revving his Chevy Volt engine?

Would it be cool to hear nothing at all when they both hold the brake pedal down while simultaneously tapping the accelerator?

EVs are spectacularly gay, and gay will never be cool.

What will future generations think of this brief experiment with nudging consumers toward electric vehicles that offered them no discernible benefits in any consumer categories (including "clean energy") over petrol or hybrid versions at substantially greater economic cost?

If future generations of men ever recover any healthy levels of testosterone what will they say when they learn that Dodge ditched their roaring V8 HEMI engine of pure American muscle for spontaneously combustible batteries?

They'll probably say what I've already said: EVs are spectacularly gay, and gay will never be cool.

In that sense, the Tesla is the perfect representation of the times we're living.

Gay.

Where we are.

Where we were.

Don't be gay

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6. GOP Herpes and The Next Fix

Unfortunately, we have made government the most attractive profession for criminals.

— Eustace Mullins

The rah-rah spectacle of red-blue domestic American Presidential politics is an expensive attention whore, that the majority of Americans cannot afford. She's a deceptive whore because the American people think she matters. They must continuously believe that this year she might finally provide a return on their investment; she might commit to improving their lives. And so every four years like clockwork millions keep giving her more and more of their time as an emotional investment.

Since departing the crumbling empire I've found that the best way to avoid losing valuable time and attention to such an expensive whore who will never satisfy is to predict what the selection script says, examine the probabilities of outcomes, choose the one that will maximize division and chaos, and then forget about it all, and use that surplus time to invest in myself.

A few factors inform this script prediction:

1. Which candidate will put Israel First

   1. This is usually 100% of the field

   2. Any candidate who doesn't put Israel first will never raise a penny and never make it on the ballot. Even if this candidate is a Semitic brown man of Lebanese origin, the media will smear this candidate as an anti-Semitic white supremacist

2. Which candidate is most compromised

   1. Potential pedo (showered with daughter, cannot resist sniffing kids any time they come near)

   2. Globalist agent (neocon warmongering sith lord)

   3. Corrupted by corporate or intel forces (see a.)

   4. Kenyan-born bottom bitch for a middle-linebacker wife with a penis

   5. Will work against the interests of the American people

   6. Is an orange plant, 3x bankrupted and bailed out by financial interests (with ties to No. 1) chosen to lure conservatives to go along with a hoax pandemic, nation-destroying lockdowns, iatrogenocide injections that he'll spend years bragging about

3. Which candidate will divide the nation most

   1. By race, sex, religion, income, cultural values

   2. Politically exacerbate the red-blue mirage to keep the masses investing their time and emotional energy into the scripted scam

Tuning out the spectacle is all easier said than done but it only requires one presumption, which happens to be the same required for ignoring the spectacle of the National Fugazi League…

It's all scripted and planned.

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7. Are You Ready For Some Fixedball?

The National Fugazi League reorganized itself over twenty years ago as an "entertainment league" consisting of individual profit-sharing franchises. The NFL has used this classification defense in official court documents against accusations of anti-trust violations. It openly came out and said it's simply "family entertainment" and not a competitive sports league. The only other "sport" that occupies this legal position is the WWE.

The only difference between the NFL and WWE is most people know that one is fixed and they don't care, and the other people don't want to know their sport is also fixed because they need to still care. Like the gambler chasing his losses at the blackjack table, these "fans" will keep throwing good money attention hours after a lifetime of bad attention choices. They cannot accept just how much of their money life was lost to something that was always fixed. At least at the blackjack table, the gambler still has a chance of winning.

These "fans" care deeply about their sportsball team. Who they draft, who they select at Quarterback, who they select as head coach, if they win or lose, and how they win or lose. They care about statistics, records, schemes, game plans, plays, routes, replays, flags, anthems, and which cheerleader's Instashame they're going to rub one out to on Sunday nights.

They devote hundreds if not thousands of hours of their lives caring deeply about a scripted entertainment league that hauls in $45 Billion per year and shares it equally among owners, which means owners don't really care if their team wins or loses because they share equally in all profits whether they win one game, or they win the Stupor Bowl.

Think of the Soviet Union of sportsball. A centralized planning committee will make decisions for the people league to maximize power and control profits and control, and the regional commissars franchises will make sure their citizens players and coaches do as they're paid.

Even the merchandise that is sold under the NFL banner, including jersey sales, team merchandise is shared equally with other franchises. If that drooling tongue-wagging hayseed QB from Kansas City's jersey sales makes fifty million in profits, they are split equally between all teams. Mr. Pfizer Jersey sales are split equally between all franchises, and other players will get their end-of-season bonuses from profit-sharing with the league in exchange for their silence about how fixed and fake the whole thing is. Players are heavily incentivized to play along with the scripted "family entertainment" and must sign a bulletproof legal contract—literally.

None of this could be possible without the referees who are also heavily incentivi$ed to make that crucial call in the fourth quarter to keep a team's drive alive so they win with that last-second field goal just as it was scripted up at NFL HQ in the Big Apple.

They don't need to script all plays or even all games, but they appear to script most games and rig most games. All they need to do is rig one play, on one drive for each team, each quarter or half to decide the outcome of games. It doesn't need to be every play, and that's what helps keep the illusion going for the 148 million people who tuned in to watch the Super Bowl, where Mr. Pfizer's team won again, and his sidekick Hayseed threw for 333 yards, at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas located at 3333 Al Davis Way.

Beyond the referees, coaches, and players all paid to play their roles in the scripted entertainment, there's no shortage of other tricks used to rig games including magnetic balls and special receiver gloves, magnetized uprights bringing the ball right towards them on that last-second field goal that a bonobo could make blindfolded but not a professional NFL kicker who makes 100 out of 100 in practice. On game day it goes… Doink!

In 2018, Dan Goodes, an employee (lawyer) of the NFL came forward to spill the beans. Maybe he had too many Bud Lights that day and decided to go for broke, but he came forward to reveal the previous year's Super Bowl was rigged, and all of it was scripted.

"This is the biggest scam in sports history," Goodes said in Minneapolis, according to reports. "The Super Bowl is already completely scripted out."

"How do I know it's scripted? I've read the damn thing."

"You need to understand the NFL is a $35 billion (2018) shared revenue corporation. Outcomes can't be left to chance. Total league revenues are shared equally by all franchises, so they don't care who wins or loses. Let me be perfectly clear here. It doesn't matter to the franchise owners. It doesn't matter to the players. But it matters to the league. Outcomes have been fixed to maximize profits ever since my early days here."

"The sad thing is that it's legal. Can you believe that? It's legal thanks to guys [entertainment laywers] like me."

Oopsie. It looks like the NFL called Ray Lewis and his buddies for some extracurricular work. Or maybe they told OJ Simpson that Dan Goodes was banging his girlfriend.

Just as Big Pharma will execute naturopathic and holistic doctors who refuse to play allopathic games with their patients' lives ahead of a planned hoax pandemic with no actual threat, the NFL will off anyone who gets out of line and jeopardizes their billion-dollar operation.

The NFL is so powerful that they were able to delete it from the Internet, all search engine results, and even the Internet Archive page which captured the New York Times article on February 3, 2018, but for some mysterious reason "lost" those two instances of capturing that URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/us/nfl-lawyer-execution.html

Can't have the masses knowing that their sportsball games are rigged. Apart from the $45 Billion annual scam, there are tens of billions more going through the betting houses where for some "mysterious" reason they always get the over/under correct within just a few points. This year's Super Bowl over/under was 47.5. The final score was 25-22.

As legalized gambling spreads across the nation, the bookmakers appear to know the final results in advance.

Before this century, the average margin of Super Bowl victory was 16 points. Since 2004, that magically dropped to less than a touchdown. Can't have the masses leave during a blowout victory and not watch those Super Bowl commercials of sacred rollerskating homosexuals and back alley thugs getting their feet washed by "Christians"—just as Jesus used to do.

As for the Taylor Swift psyop, it's not a "political operation" to get Biden selected again as the normies want you to believe. Think about it for one second. Just take one second to think critically and ask one simple question: Why do they need Taylor Swift for that when they already rig elections for whomever they want through computer-transferred votes, mail-in ballot dumps, and dead people voting?

People listen to operatives like Jack Posobiec, a former Naval intelligence officer, who is paid to make everything about the red team or blue team, when it's about bigger things, like team humanity versus team transhumanist depopulation death cult. If you're pushing the masses away from the transhumanist depopulation death cult as the culprit, you are working for the transhumanist depopulation death cult.

The Mr. Pfizer and Swifty psyop was about something so much more than "helping Joe Biden" in a selection they already control.

To see endless examples of the National Fugazi League's scripted "family entertainment" at work check out YouTube channel Jake The Asshole, who has been documenting this for years.

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8. Just The Tip, Baby

Just The Tip, Baby

She brings your food, tosses the oversized plate with enough calories to feed a small landscaping crew in front of you, and reaches into her apron to grab the check, and before you've even had a chance to grasp your napkin or silverware she says in that obnoxious voice specific only to the American food service industry where customer service is a disingenuous performance for greenback gratuity: "I'll be your cashier whenever you're ready."

The food might be cold, it might even be worms and crickets for all you know, but there it is, the check on the table before you've even tasted the food. The server wants you to vacuum up your plate and be on your way. There will be no room for dessert and she knows it, but it won't stop her from pretending she doesn't if you do finally finish and still asking if you've left any.

Between the mountain of food and whatever you manage to put away from its hillsides, she will come by no less than four times to ask how things are going, refilling your drinks as often as possible to keep you full, but she just wants to make sure you eat faster so that you can be on your way after you pay her the now customary 25% tip she's expecting.

When your ass is finally gone that table will be recycled before you even get to your car in the parking lot where you'll sit and open a belt loop and exhale that deep exhale of exhaustion that comes from eating too much shit too quickly.

New patrons will take your booth and she'll repeat the perverted "dining out" ritual with another family or couple who will be rushed to the 25% portion of the dance as quickly as possible, all because her boss pays her the federal minimum wage per hour.

Fast food used to be reserved for those slop chains where you pay for your food in advance and receive it on a plastic tray with a paper tray protector hiding smeared mustard or ketchup from a previous patron or in a warm bag to eat in your car at the parking lot at 3am after a night tearing up the town, or back in your tent along skid row.

At some point late last century, the sit-down restaurant experience shifted from patience and pleasure in enjoying one's meal with the company of friends or family to the servers needing to shuffle through as many hungry Hippos as possible to make rent.

Hey Buddy!

The American food service industry is a boot camp for American teenagers to learn about money, taxes, and economics since none of it is taught in Rockefeller schools. My boot camp came late after a six-year stint as a lifeguard.

At nineteen I dropped out of college and went to play bass guitar in a rock band with my brother, a guitarist and songwriter. Like all bands, at first, we sucked, but after a year we got tighter, and the songs got better. With every show we played things looked more promising.

To pay the bills I went to work as a barista for a flamboyant Italian (American) who owned a café that was the antithesis of fast-food coffee joints that were beginning to pop up here and there before they colonized every street corner of the world, like Starbucks.

We'll call this flamboyant American with a very Italian name, Enzo.

After playing a show until 2 am at downtown clubs I'd have to be up at 5 am and off to work to open Enzo's Cappuccino at 6 am. When I got there at quarter to six there were often regulars waiting in their cars. Though I wasn't supposed to let them inside until opening time I'd let them wait at booths until the first batch of coffee was brewed or whip up their favorite drink before moving on to the opening store list of a dozen or so things that needed to be done based on state restaurant rules and regulations.

Enzo would pop in around seven, and the cue was already out the door. From half past six until my shift ended in the afternoon it was relentless. Some mornings he'd come in more hungover than I was, and go straight to the back room and rip a line of cocaine before coming to help me trim the crowd down. Hung over he wouldn't say a word for hours. He'd sweat a lot and be silent until at least ten.

If he was in really bad shape his temper would flare and he'd throw jugs of milk or toss tin pots in the sink and yell the price of something I got wrong. The louder he yelled the more I screwed it up and the whole thing would deteriorate until I was embarrassed to be standing there in front of twenty customers. Then I'd explode and curse something at him and instead of getting angry, it might have been what he needed, because he'd laugh and we'd move on as if it never happened.

Enzo paid well for the time, $7 per hour, and with those weekday morning tips, it often went to double that. One morning I walked out with $85 in tips, which back then was enough for groceries, gas, and entertainment for the month, which mostly consisted of PBR tall boys in the can for $1 at the local dive bars. I easily made rent which was a $325/month studio in the popular 23rd area of Northwest Portland, before it became the cesspool it is today.

On the mornings when Enzo wasn't hung over life was great. I loved working with him. He'd come racing through the door with a smile on his face and say, "Hey Buddy!" and he went right to work on the espresso machine. We'd chat all morning and he'd charm the customers. Whenever we had a break we'd clean up and prepare for the next wave, and he'd tell me stories about the latest woman he was seeing, and how he'd sometimes bring them to the shop and they'd do their thing right behind the register atop the pastry counter. The guy would get creative and reach for the syrup bottles to pour on her and sometimes on himself. And that's how I'd remember them, not by names but by syrup flavors.

"You went out with Cherry last night?" I'd ask.

"No buddy, she's Hazelnut."

Some mornings I'd open shop and see syrup bottles on the counter and I'd have to put on the cleaning gloves and go to work making sure no customers got herpes with their hazelnut latte.

On other mornings we'd be out of whipped cream canisters, which was the job of the closer the night before to make two. And I'd know that Enzo had brought one of his ladies by after midnight for dessert.

He'd come in that morning knowing that I knew that he knew that I knew, and he'd simply hold a smile for ten seconds and ask, "What buddy?"

Things have changed a lot in the food service industry since I did my time at that boot camp slash brothel. Tips don't pay for rent. Wages suck beyond belief. Any states that are jacking up their minimum wage are passing that on to the consumer with higher menu prices, which means even fewer tips for workers who will sooner than later be replaced by robots, at least at the fast food joints.

In April California's minimum wage jumps to $20 per hour for FAST FOOD WORKERS, which will be passed on to consumers. A Big Mac will soon be $13. A cheeseburger will be $8. In the 1990s, if you needed a quick hangover cure lunch you could get two cheeseburgers for .99 cents. The loony tunes frontrunner to fill Diane Feinstein's coffin in the Senate wants to make things even worse for Californians.

With inflation still elevated, and since it's compounding, real wages are declining. People have maxed out their consumer credit limits and two-thirds of households have no savings at all. Delinquencies are going on ninety days or longer and will soon turn into defaults, which will ruin credit scores, further limiting the viable consumers in a debt-based consumer economy.

Beneath the top twenty percent of earners, Americans aren't even prepared for a $500 emergency. The number of TikTok car confessionals about inflation, cost of living, and government spending that cross my X feed are out of control, and some of them are people making six figures with no kids. Many people are just getting their first lesson in middle age on the evils of central banking, deficit spending, and money printing.

But Ukraine needs $60 Billion to finish off the last remaining men there and Israel's $205 Billion in foreign reserves aren't enough to keep slaughtering children in Gaza, so Americans are going to have to foot those bills, again.

This should help with inflation (wink wink).

The latest jobs report came out yesterday.

You wouldn't know that times are tough for the average American worker by reading the USSA Bureau of Labor Statistics.

It's all Soviet now.

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The State Planning Committee, better known by its Russian acronym Gosplan, was a central element of the Soviet Union's planned economy.

Today the United Socialist States of America has The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Department of Commerce, the United States Treasury, and the Federal Reserve to handle all economic central planning matters.

In an election year, and increasingly in non-election years, these agencies work for the executive branch and party apparatchiks to "manage" statistics to make the economy appear stronger than it is through phony jobs figures, suppressed inflation reports, and other statistical magic tricks like recategorizing metrics so that those that are positive are selected and those that are negative are ignored.

In January of 2023, the BLS reported half a million new jobs were "created" while in reality there were 2.5 million job losses. The bureau simply calculated part-time seasonal employment from the holidays as permanent job "creation" without noting those jobs would be gone by the end of the month they were reported.

According to Bloomberg, "The Labor Department also reclassified about 10% of employment into different industries in accordance with an update to the North American Industry Classification System."

GDP includes government job creation and government spending as part of "economic growth" which means for every positive basis point in GDP growth the government is taking on greater debt to prevent a recession, which was once considered two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. The government is spending its way to "economic success" with the Federal jobs sector now the largest employer in the world.

Millions of these jobs are not adding any economic production or real value to the economy. Paper pushers and bean counters who take a Federal salary and are guaranteed a pension after so many years of service are a net loss on the system. When the government is the largest "jobs producer" and not the private sector, how is this not Soviet?

The Gosplan was responsible for comprehensive national economic planning and management, aiming to coordinate the Soviet Union's economic development through the creation and implementation of five-year plans.

The Gosplan created an environment where the manipulation of statistics and the overstating of achievements became systemic. The political and economic incentives prioritized the fulfillment of the plan's quotas over accurate reporting and economic reality.

Central to the Soviet economic model was the achievement of specific, often ambitious production targets. These targets were critical for officials and managers at all levels to demonstrate loyalty and competence. Failing to meet these quotas could result in penalties, loss of privileges, or even more severe consequences. As a result, there was a strong incentive to report that targets had been met or exceeded, regardless of the actual production levels.

Economic growth figures and productivity metrics were often exaggerated to present a picture of continual progress and superiority of the socialist system. This was not only for domestic propaganda consumption but also for international prestige.

All of this led to widespread economic distortions, and inefficiencies, and ultimately contributed to the Soviet Union's downfall.

Can You Gig It?

Apart from thousands of new government jobs painting over the millions of private sector job losses happening, and the deletion of new unemployment beneficiaries, the BLS has taken to adding gig jobs as part of "job creation" statistics.

Retired men and women are taking on food delivery jobs because inflation is so bad and they can't keep up on a fixed pension. People who work full-time are taking on weekend and evening part-time gig jobs to make ends meet, and these jobs are being counted toward "official" figures. Nearly one-third of American workers over 40 are taking on extra work in the "gig economy."

Every month of positive jobs figures is exaggerated using part-time and gig economy jobs, while in the months following the job creation data is always revised downward. The downward revisions never get reported or make headlines.

"Every single month this year has seen its payroll numbers revised down. It's difficult to stress how unusual this is as it's so statistically unlikely. There is clearly something wrong with the estimations being done by President Joe Biden's Department of Labor," said EJ Antoni, an economist at the Heritage Foundation in that same piece for Bloomberg. Even the revisions downward later get "re-revised" again, and sometimes further downward than the initial revision.

Worse than the fudging of statistics and hiding the economic realities from the American people is that most new jobs added since the demented one took office went to foreign-born workers and illegals. While American citizens saw major losses.

Martin Armstrong of Armstrong Economics noted last month, "The agency initially cheered at the 3,140,000 new positions created in 2023, but later revised the figure down to 443,000. But wait, the BLS made another miscalculation in March to the tune of 306,000 jobs. This means that one-third of all new positions added in 2023 were a LIE."

It's the Gosplan, baby! Can you gig it?

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Tip Me Baby One More Time!

The crazy truth about the economic oddities of the past few years is how few Americans have been preparing for hardship or trouble, and want to continue to live a disproportionate lifestyle to their means, even if it requires paying for it later in excessive interest. Instant gratification culture has conditioned consumers to see no further than the next paycheck or credit card payment due date.

Holiday spending continued to increase by 3.1% last year, revealing that Americans just don't get it. When they should be tightening their waste belts, they are going into further debt to keep loosening them. With student loan payments coming due for credit reporting agencies in May, monthly car loans stretching toward 25% of net monthly income, and depleted savings zapped by high inflation, the American consooomer is in for a rude awakening, and the first people to feel this awakening will be in the service sector.

For those of you living outside the United States, it's now common to see obnoxious guilt-inducing screens everywhere you go, including the supermarket self-checkout line, because everybody wants your tip or your charity.

After doing the job that used to be done by a grocery store employee—ringing up your groceries and then bagging them, the first screen to pop up is often to donate to charity.

At coffee shops, cafes, juice bars, and anywhere you pop in for something food or drink-related, even if they were once considered "fast food" they want your tip, and they watch to see how much of your tip you give while preparing their spit your order.

Just the tip, baby.

The middle class is getting hammered thanks to deficit spending, and endless money printing by the Federal Reserve, a siphoning of wealth upwards.

In a consumer economy where debt is a new religion, inflation is out of control, and living beyond one's means is a birthright, when the inevitable next great recession comes it will be the tips that stop first.

I'm sorry sweetie, your service was great but we just paid $149 for wings, fries, Jalapeño poppers, and soda. We need your tip to fill the gas tank for the ride home and to refill our Ozempic prescriptions. It's just a tip, baby.

And they're already slowing down which means the recession has likely been ongoing but hidden with USSA gosplan parlour tricks.

Will the Department of Soviet Statistics show it in their next report?

It's an election year Jack! You can rig it! Shout out to new flock members for their kind words and support I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down

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9. The Joke's On Us

Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others.

― Fyodor Dostoevsky

Becoming a conspiracy theorist is not for everybody, though today it should be a primary pursuit for billions of Good Citizens who value their lives. It can be a stressor, and cause hardship that eventually progresses to seeing things that others cannot see, which may or may not be there. Like the kid who sees dead people in the movie The Sixth Sense, but without a dead man believing him there would have been no movie and he would have been all alone.

The stress comes from sharing this newfound vision, or this secret with others. People need a Bruce Willis to guide them in the process of seeing things and expressing what they see. Still, in a world where all the trusted guides have been captured by a controlled, laughable, alternative media hawking vitamin formulas, wellness scams, phony dream teams, and magic pillows, there are few options available. Certainly, no dead sherpas will materialize to help make the journey.

In this peculiar epoch being a "conspiracy theorist" is no longer a part-time hobby for self-amusement and pub fare chatter. Ditching the hobby for full-time post-doc level conspiracy theorizing is a matter of life and death. It will keep one skeptical, observant, healthy, wise, and with less likelihood of any sudden misfortunes befalling them. It will keep their instincts sharp and the batteries inside their bullshit detectors at full strength.

There's a joke in a comment section somewhere beneath a video of an undertaker describing the autopsies he's conducted for the past three years of unfortunate victims of vascular calamari caused by the things everyone knows are causing them, that goes like this: I used to be a conspiracy theorist. But now my pronouns are told/you/so.

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10. Digital Sea Scrolls

We build our legacy piece by piece, and maybe the whole world will remember you, or maybe only a few people, but you do what you can to still be around after you're gone.

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Do you think Substack as a platform, and all the words on all the newsletters will be around for historians to sift through in a thousand years?

Two thousand years?

Ten thousand?

Have you seen the state of Blogspot after twenty years? It looks like your uncle's 52' Chevy he left in the barn when the engine block crapped out in 64'.

What is twenty years on a two-thousand-year timeline of human history?

Not that history!

Perhaps some old server farm will be discovered in an abandoned AWS warehouse in the Utah desert, and an advanced species will power them up from their nuclear centrifuge flux capacitor zero gravity craft and migrate a yottabyte of data in two seconds to their reduced graphene oxide gray matter hard drives.

Hello World!

And what will they glean specifically from all that data apart from what they already knew of such a primitive species who thought they were the bee's knees?

Once they filter through all the pornography, shopping carts, lonely car confessionals, downward dog sunset pics, AI bots, and dancing nurses and doctors, they'll come to the good stuff that was created by humans, for the consumption of other humans through the written word.

And they'll learn that at one tiny pinpoint in history, on this timeline, in this dimension, some digital performers flocked to a platform called Substack to exhibit their best performances.

They'll discover that far too many of them wrote about all the clever tricks and tips others could utilize to grow their Substack newsletter that involved not-so-subtle digital nudging outside of the direct cyberbegging route.

They'll learn what motivated these performers through many confessionals about why each digital performer did what they did at the time.

They'll find that these performers sought to "create an audience" through their performances and to "build a brand" through the safety of repetition and the comfort of familiarity and that many performers did this through the direct mission statement and call to action of their audience, the most successful calls to action rooted in optimism and hope.

They'll quickly discover that the most popular performers rallied a tribe of like-minded strangers into a kind of cognitive hive, where their righteous cause was the pursuit of something greater than themselves that would mold the world in the image they believed needed it, in their quest to feel meaning and purpose.

And then they'll discover that the top-selling newsletter on this platform in this dimension was by Heather Cox Richardson and their alien brains will explode with confusion, and they'll look again at all those dusty server racks, and the fate of this bygone civilization will all make sense.

I've never written my Substack confessional, though no writer hides who they are in their writings. It all seeps out eventually.

And maybe by not writing it, I'm still writing it in this post.

Whatever this is, I do promise it will have a happy ending.

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