It helps to use accurate language, not the words they apply to things.
We haven't been "locked down", we've been locked up, imprisoned, incarcerated.
Also, Russia didn't "just roll through Ukraine" in a vacuum. The west has been provoking Russia since Clinton & Putin took office.
When the USSR broke up, Yeltsin "gave away" to Ukraine significant portions of Russia. The people who inhabited those areas, since the US backed coup overthrew the Ukraine government & installed a puppet government in 2014, have been targeted by neo-nazis funded & trained by US tax dollars. Those neo-nazis have been embedded into the Nato-trained military. They have shelled the Donbass region with artillery, tortured & murdered Russians. They cut off Crimea from its natural water (the dam only just blown up in recent weeks).
The US & Nato pushed Russia too far. Evidence has emerged that they were planning a direct attack on Russia, to begin on March 18.
Absolutely correct. Our governments - with the help of the mainstream media - have been gaslighting us, controlling our perception and framing of what has been going on. Sometimes it is hard to discern exactly what is going on behind the scenes - but the results give us a clue. The pandemic narrative - including lockdowns, restrictions, mask-wearing, etc - has resulted in a huge shift of power, and of wealth, towards a small group of privileged people (the "elite"). And of course, the putting in place of more pervasive frameworks of control.
Most countries are using this period of lifting of restrictions to introduce even more restrictive legislation - in the UK, they are currently debating the new Online Security Bill, and in Australia, we also have similar federal legislation being rolled out, and at state level, Victoria and now Queensland have some sort of permanent pandemic legislation to enable those states to draw on emergency powers much more easily.
And with the war in Ukraine - whatever the rights and wrongs of it, and it is clear that people in the Donbas region have been suffering from Ukrainian attacks for 8 years now - there is no doubt that the West - NATO, the US, and allied countries - are gearing up for all-out war, with food shortages looming for most countries, and poor countries staring down the barrel at catastrophic disaster.
As with the pandemic narrative, they are trying to pretend that the reasons are benign, humanitarian, and for our safety and well-being. Yet it doesn't take very much thinking to realise that the outcome will be the exact opposite.
Yes, these people - or whoever or whatever controls them - are truly evil. And we have to hold onto whatever shred of goodness or decency or light that we can summon up.
I'm not a native English speaker so maybe I'm missing connotations of the expression "lockdown". I had never heard it before 2020, and I read it's actually prison terminology: when the prisoners get too unruly, everyone is confined to his cell for unspecified time.
It was not a concept of epidemiology. Which makes this word choice rather interesting.
You are correct, It was prison terminology until the 80s or 90s. Then they started "locking down" schools during mass shootings, if a shooter was at large, to keep the kids safe inside. So instead of containing a riot, it now also refers to locking a danger out.
And now they've extended it to locking a virus out. As if!
It's true because intellect cannot permanently master the animal nature. But what I think you miss is that the Lord quoted in the passage from Samuel is a human creation. "Hey--I'm the ruler you want! And you'll be sorry if you choose someone else..." Still a ruler; still a demand for a terrible conformity. The holy document of my people makes genocide legitimate when God says it's OK; makes the killing of those who step out of line legitimate; makes women subordinate and captive to bad marriages; was the basis of the witch-persecution craze that poisoned Europe and, briefly, America. The regulation of every detail of daily life, and the transgression of any which makes you a sinner--that's what we're seeing exactly right now, just from secular and not religious authorities.
The God of the Bible--or more accurately Torah--is a tribal god evolved in conception to be the only God. It always amazed me how so many people who claim to be followers of Christ are actually in temperament Old Testament Christians with the rigidity and cruelty that reflects.
It's my belief that our innate yearning towards a Higher Authority both enables us to sense the reality of the Unknowable Creator and leads us too often to envision that Creator in our own image and creates the uncontrollable desire to have tangible power like that.
We shouldn't want a theocracy. The people were required to tithe tangible goods to the Temple, weren't they? To offer burnt sacrifices of killed living creatures to please the nostrils of an incorporeal being? If we think the Scriptures are true, how can we choose which laws are outdated and which are eternal?
The hard lesson that generations always must relearn is that the work of establishing, maintaining and perpetuating Justice is never done. The Founders of this nation were astonishingly, astoundingly wise men in their vision, despite their human frailties. It's the Enlightenment that molded them.
But every system degrades over time and needs to be refreshed. The rationalism of Western European intellectualism became postmodernist bullshit. It's no accident that these idiot children today are pulling down statues of Jefferson and Washington, because they're incapable of separating, as it were, the divine from the profane.
As always a well-expressed comment. At some point I'd like to discuss this perspective on the Old Testament God. You're right, much of the Old Testament is brutal, and God on display can be savage. It can be hard to square the brutality of the Old Testament God with the love of Christ in the New Testament. Jesus came to fulfill the law and give us a new understanding of what God looks like. He came to abolish the old. So it's not up to us to choose which laws are outdated and eternal. That's Christ's role.
I'm not saying here and now we should want a theocracy. Our Founders here in the US created the most amazing system of government the world has ever known and gave us the space to work out what that means, over time, to improve the human condition. I'd like to keep this working as long as possible, because it's unlike anything in human history.
But yes, eventually each human system breaks and falls away, and that's the question we have to answer now. What is the next system? Is it this hellscape that those of us with eyes to see? See the comment from Amy in this thread, because I think she's pretty right on. And that's terrifying. Or are we going to fight for the system that's raised the condition of humanity out of the dark ages?
When I was traveling/living overseas in a conservative Muslim country, I was astonished by how many (relatively speaking in a largely illiterate nation) people of means sent their children to Catholic church schools. The schools were prohibited by law from proselytizing, so parents seeking the best education available weren't in the least concerned about their daughters learning from nuns. It was the rigor of the instruction that attracted them.
Parents need to start fighting much, much harder now, here, for schools to return to the basics of literacy and numeracy. For the use of classic children's books, where "diversity" was well explored in the form of animal characters. Children need to learn how to think.
For a couple of generations they've been indoctrinated out of thinking. And I'm sorry, but every religion demands not thinking. The gazillion sects derived from every scriptural faith come from the inability to stifle thought, so each new one arises when a powerful intellectual leader can't continue to stomach a particular doctrine but can't quite let go of the whole. And then creates a new orthodoxy.
Schools need to be the font of "Here are the tools. Now use them and think! Think about everything! What I the teacher think is irrelevant!"
I am not comfortable with the comment referenced but I'm here to express my own views and because every reader is free to do the same.
"the reality of the Unknowable Creator and leads us too often to envision that Creator in our own image and creates the uncontrollable desire to have tangible power like that." Yes!!
I was telling someone the same thing the other day, that historically people have been ruled over in one way or another. People like to be ruled in part because of their conditioning; being ruled over and following authority is a default position. We all started in this world helpless and following authorities through our childhood; parents, teachers, priests, extended family, adults and all kinds of roles. We needed kind enough and well-intentioned authority for our very psychological and physical survival. That psychological conditioning continues into our adulthood, and most all adults are psychologically children who developed the physical and cognitive capacity to do "adult things". This is the time to develop into true autonomous adult human beings, and to not act out our childhood fears and needs. It's a big ask, a big development.
It's so true, and I believe that over the past 20-30 years, there has been a very concerted effort in the US to strip adults of responsibility or to "nerf" them. We have a lot of "boys and girls that can shave", but fewer and fewer adults who can handle the realities, stresses, and decisions of life. Two to three entire generations that are happy and content to turn their responsibilities over to someone else, to outsource their pain and confusion to someone else in return for a pacifier. There have been too many sheep and not enough lions.
Yes! When on a flight over a year ago talking with someone about Covid they said ‘what are other countries doing?’ And I wanted to say ‘Other countries?! Who cares what other countries are doing! We are America! We are leaders of freedom and innovation! We don’t look at other countries to follow them!’
And yet we do. We have left God and looked around and desired to be like other countries that may appear to have things better but it’s all an illusion. Freedom and being ruled by God alone is the best place to be.
There is an evil predator globalist technocratic elite agenda of eugenics/depopulation/genocide using bioweapon poison jabs, war, EMF radiation, starvation and economic collapse - THE GREAT RESET/AGENDA 2030/4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION to get rid of billions of 'useless eaters' and to use nano tech to turn the survivors into ROBOTIZED COMPLIANT SLAVES! WAKE UP AND RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! These are psychopath megalomaniacs who want to play god by turning all life into digitized metaverse mechanistic synthetic biology to be manipulated by their AI algorithms. A more demonic sickening idea is nearly impossible to imagine!
APPALLED AND HORRIFIED AT INSANE TYRANNICAL PROTOCOLS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTH AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! REVERSE THIS NOW!
MAKE NY AND AMERICA 2019 AND FREE AGAIN!
NO, I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE MORONIC SCARIANT SHMARIANT! WAKE UP ALREADY!
TOTALLY CONDEMN BIDEN AND ALL OTHER POLS WHO HAVE NO POWER TO LAWLESSLY ACT LIKE AN EMPEROR OR DICTATOR AND DECREE JAB CROW 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' FASCIST SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION/APARTHEID VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE NUREMBERG CODES AND EVERY CIVIL RIGHT IMAGINABLE.
NO GREEN NEW DEALS OR BUILD BACK BETTER FROM THE CRIMINAL TECHNOCRAT TYRANTS KLAUS SCHWAB AND HIS CRONIES FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.
STOP THE TERRIBLE TYRANNY OF THE TECHNOCRATS GLOBAL AGENDA OF TOTAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL USING THE VIRUS AS EXCUSE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL!
NO MUZZLING STIFLING MASK MANDATES! NO FORCED VACCINES! END TORTUROUS DEVASTATING LOCK DOWNS NOW! I WANT MY LIFE BACK.
Me too Bill. Those of us with eyes to see need to scream this from the rooftops, relentlessly, even and especially when it seems like we're shouting into the wind.
Thanks! I didn't mean to insinuate the US is a democracy. It's a republic. It always frustrates me when someone talks about the US as a democracy, intentionally trying to downplay that we're a democratic republic. Two very different things coexisting together.
You probably did not insinuate. Keep seeing and hearing that we are a democracy lately!! Of course, many citizens think we are a democracy which annoys me lol.
Jordan Petersen has spoken to this. He wasn’t the first and he won’t be the last, as this has been happening for a long time, and will likely continue for an undetermined timeframe. It’s a ratchet. They push until they meet resistance. Then they back off, wait for you to forget or grow complacent, and then they push till resistance again. Thus increment, by increment, they advance their agendas.
It helps to use accurate language, not the words they apply to things.
We haven't been "locked down", we've been locked up, imprisoned, incarcerated.
Also, Russia didn't "just roll through Ukraine" in a vacuum. The west has been provoking Russia since Clinton & Putin took office.
When the USSR broke up, Yeltsin "gave away" to Ukraine significant portions of Russia. The people who inhabited those areas, since the US backed coup overthrew the Ukraine government & installed a puppet government in 2014, have been targeted by neo-nazis funded & trained by US tax dollars. Those neo-nazis have been embedded into the Nato-trained military. They have shelled the Donbass region with artillery, tortured & murdered Russians. They cut off Crimea from its natural water (the dam only just blown up in recent weeks).
The US & Nato pushed Russia too far. Evidence has emerged that they were planning a direct attack on Russia, to begin on March 18.
Thanks for the clarification Mary!! Good points.
Yes!!
Absolutely correct. Our governments - with the help of the mainstream media - have been gaslighting us, controlling our perception and framing of what has been going on. Sometimes it is hard to discern exactly what is going on behind the scenes - but the results give us a clue. The pandemic narrative - including lockdowns, restrictions, mask-wearing, etc - has resulted in a huge shift of power, and of wealth, towards a small group of privileged people (the "elite"). And of course, the putting in place of more pervasive frameworks of control.
Most countries are using this period of lifting of restrictions to introduce even more restrictive legislation - in the UK, they are currently debating the new Online Security Bill, and in Australia, we also have similar federal legislation being rolled out, and at state level, Victoria and now Queensland have some sort of permanent pandemic legislation to enable those states to draw on emergency powers much more easily.
And with the war in Ukraine - whatever the rights and wrongs of it, and it is clear that people in the Donbas region have been suffering from Ukrainian attacks for 8 years now - there is no doubt that the West - NATO, the US, and allied countries - are gearing up for all-out war, with food shortages looming for most countries, and poor countries staring down the barrel at catastrophic disaster.
As with the pandemic narrative, they are trying to pretend that the reasons are benign, humanitarian, and for our safety and well-being. Yet it doesn't take very much thinking to realise that the outcome will be the exact opposite.
Yes, these people - or whoever or whatever controls them - are truly evil. And we have to hold onto whatever shred of goodness or decency or light that we can summon up.
I'm not a native English speaker so maybe I'm missing connotations of the expression "lockdown". I had never heard it before 2020, and I read it's actually prison terminology: when the prisoners get too unruly, everyone is confined to his cell for unspecified time.
It was not a concept of epidemiology. Which makes this word choice rather interesting.
You are correct, It was prison terminology until the 80s or 90s. Then they started "locking down" schools during mass shootings, if a shooter was at large, to keep the kids safe inside. So instead of containing a riot, it now also refers to locking a danger out.
And now they've extended it to locking a virus out. As if!
Yes, most of this is true.
It's true because intellect cannot permanently master the animal nature. But what I think you miss is that the Lord quoted in the passage from Samuel is a human creation. "Hey--I'm the ruler you want! And you'll be sorry if you choose someone else..." Still a ruler; still a demand for a terrible conformity. The holy document of my people makes genocide legitimate when God says it's OK; makes the killing of those who step out of line legitimate; makes women subordinate and captive to bad marriages; was the basis of the witch-persecution craze that poisoned Europe and, briefly, America. The regulation of every detail of daily life, and the transgression of any which makes you a sinner--that's what we're seeing exactly right now, just from secular and not religious authorities.
The God of the Bible--or more accurately Torah--is a tribal god evolved in conception to be the only God. It always amazed me how so many people who claim to be followers of Christ are actually in temperament Old Testament Christians with the rigidity and cruelty that reflects.
It's my belief that our innate yearning towards a Higher Authority both enables us to sense the reality of the Unknowable Creator and leads us too often to envision that Creator in our own image and creates the uncontrollable desire to have tangible power like that.
We shouldn't want a theocracy. The people were required to tithe tangible goods to the Temple, weren't they? To offer burnt sacrifices of killed living creatures to please the nostrils of an incorporeal being? If we think the Scriptures are true, how can we choose which laws are outdated and which are eternal?
The hard lesson that generations always must relearn is that the work of establishing, maintaining and perpetuating Justice is never done. The Founders of this nation were astonishingly, astoundingly wise men in their vision, despite their human frailties. It's the Enlightenment that molded them.
But every system degrades over time and needs to be refreshed. The rationalism of Western European intellectualism became postmodernist bullshit. It's no accident that these idiot children today are pulling down statues of Jefferson and Washington, because they're incapable of separating, as it were, the divine from the profane.
As always a well-expressed comment. At some point I'd like to discuss this perspective on the Old Testament God. You're right, much of the Old Testament is brutal, and God on display can be savage. It can be hard to square the brutality of the Old Testament God with the love of Christ in the New Testament. Jesus came to fulfill the law and give us a new understanding of what God looks like. He came to abolish the old. So it's not up to us to choose which laws are outdated and eternal. That's Christ's role.
I'm not saying here and now we should want a theocracy. Our Founders here in the US created the most amazing system of government the world has ever known and gave us the space to work out what that means, over time, to improve the human condition. I'd like to keep this working as long as possible, because it's unlike anything in human history.
But yes, eventually each human system breaks and falls away, and that's the question we have to answer now. What is the next system? Is it this hellscape that those of us with eyes to see? See the comment from Amy in this thread, because I think she's pretty right on. And that's terrifying. Or are we going to fight for the system that's raised the condition of humanity out of the dark ages?
Amen.
When I was traveling/living overseas in a conservative Muslim country, I was astonished by how many (relatively speaking in a largely illiterate nation) people of means sent their children to Catholic church schools. The schools were prohibited by law from proselytizing, so parents seeking the best education available weren't in the least concerned about their daughters learning from nuns. It was the rigor of the instruction that attracted them.
Parents need to start fighting much, much harder now, here, for schools to return to the basics of literacy and numeracy. For the use of classic children's books, where "diversity" was well explored in the form of animal characters. Children need to learn how to think.
For a couple of generations they've been indoctrinated out of thinking. And I'm sorry, but every religion demands not thinking. The gazillion sects derived from every scriptural faith come from the inability to stifle thought, so each new one arises when a powerful intellectual leader can't continue to stomach a particular doctrine but can't quite let go of the whole. And then creates a new orthodoxy.
Schools need to be the font of "Here are the tools. Now use them and think! Think about everything! What I the teacher think is irrelevant!"
I am not comfortable with the comment referenced but I'm here to express my own views and because every reader is free to do the same.
"the reality of the Unknowable Creator and leads us too often to envision that Creator in our own image and creates the uncontrollable desire to have tangible power like that." Yes!!
The idiot children are taught by the Marxist teachers. Everything has been infiltrated and this has been carefully planned over 100 yrs ago.
Great post, thank you. 👍🏽💕
I was telling someone the same thing the other day, that historically people have been ruled over in one way or another. People like to be ruled in part because of their conditioning; being ruled over and following authority is a default position. We all started in this world helpless and following authorities through our childhood; parents, teachers, priests, extended family, adults and all kinds of roles. We needed kind enough and well-intentioned authority for our very psychological and physical survival. That psychological conditioning continues into our adulthood, and most all adults are psychologically children who developed the physical and cognitive capacity to do "adult things". This is the time to develop into true autonomous adult human beings, and to not act out our childhood fears and needs. It's a big ask, a big development.
It's so true, and I believe that over the past 20-30 years, there has been a very concerted effort in the US to strip adults of responsibility or to "nerf" them. We have a lot of "boys and girls that can shave", but fewer and fewer adults who can handle the realities, stresses, and decisions of life. Two to three entire generations that are happy and content to turn their responsibilities over to someone else, to outsource their pain and confusion to someone else in return for a pacifier. There have been too many sheep and not enough lions.
https://bherr.substack.com/p/why-are-most-people-cowards?s=w
Yes!
Yes! When on a flight over a year ago talking with someone about Covid they said ‘what are other countries doing?’ And I wanted to say ‘Other countries?! Who cares what other countries are doing! We are America! We are leaders of freedom and innovation! We don’t look at other countries to follow them!’
And yet we do. We have left God and looked around and desired to be like other countries that may appear to have things better but it’s all an illusion. Freedom and being ruled by God alone is the best place to be.
There is an evil predator globalist technocratic elite agenda of eugenics/depopulation/genocide using bioweapon poison jabs, war, EMF radiation, starvation and economic collapse - THE GREAT RESET/AGENDA 2030/4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION to get rid of billions of 'useless eaters' and to use nano tech to turn the survivors into ROBOTIZED COMPLIANT SLAVES! WAKE UP AND RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! These are psychopath megalomaniacs who want to play god by turning all life into digitized metaverse mechanistic synthetic biology to be manipulated by their AI algorithms. A more demonic sickening idea is nearly impossible to imagine!
APPALLED AND HORRIFIED AT INSANE TYRANNICAL PROTOCOLS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTH AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! REVERSE THIS NOW!
MAKE NY AND AMERICA 2019 AND FREE AGAIN!
NO, I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE MORONIC SCARIANT SHMARIANT! WAKE UP ALREADY!
TOTALLY CONDEMN BIDEN AND ALL OTHER POLS WHO HAVE NO POWER TO LAWLESSLY ACT LIKE AN EMPEROR OR DICTATOR AND DECREE JAB CROW 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' FASCIST SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION/APARTHEID VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE NUREMBERG CODES AND EVERY CIVIL RIGHT IMAGINABLE.
NO GREEN NEW DEALS OR BUILD BACK BETTER FROM THE CRIMINAL TECHNOCRAT TYRANTS KLAUS SCHWAB AND HIS CRONIES FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.
STOP THE TERRIBLE TYRANNY OF THE TECHNOCRATS GLOBAL AGENDA OF TOTAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL USING THE VIRUS AS EXCUSE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL!
NO MUZZLING STIFLING MASK MANDATES! NO FORCED VACCINES! END TORTUROUS DEVASTATING LOCK DOWNS NOW! I WANT MY LIFE BACK.
https://wrenchinthegears.com
http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2020/10/14/klaus-schwab-and-his-great-fascist-reset-an-overview/
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com
https://pandemicfacts.info
https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/covid-19-roadmap-12-step-plan-to-create-a-totalitarian-new-world-order-were-on-number-8-headed-towards-number-9/
https://questioningcovid.com
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1581-james-corbett-breaks-down-the-great-reset/
http://www.stopcp.com/GlobalResetPSYOP/GlobalResetPSYOPMindMap.html
https://everydayconcerned.net/2020/09/04/breaking-major-investigative-report-by-association-of-french-reserve-army-officers-finds-covid-19-pandemic-to-have-a-hidden-agenda-for-global-totalitarianism-nanotech-chipping-of-all-5g-irradia/
Pam Popper: https://makeamericansfreeagain.com
Del Bigtree: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/highwire
https://www.technocracy.news
Naomi Wolf: https://dailyclout.io
www.nojabforme.info
https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-must-awaken-from-corona-coma-reject-great-reset-robotic-technocracy-assert-common-humanity/5745213
I really wish you were wrong.
Me too Bill. Those of us with eyes to see need to scream this from the rooftops, relentlessly, even and especially when it seems like we're shouting into the wind.
Agree with you, sadly. They are far from done with enslaving us. Freedom is gone.
The U.S. is not a democracy - it's a Republic. At least it was supposed to be. Great writing, as always💞🙏
Thanks! I didn't mean to insinuate the US is a democracy. It's a republic. It always frustrates me when someone talks about the US as a democracy, intentionally trying to downplay that we're a democratic republic. Two very different things coexisting together.
You probably did not insinuate. Keep seeing and hearing that we are a democracy lately!! Of course, many citizens think we are a democracy which annoys me lol.
It's so annoying to hear!
Well done, thorough, and insightful.
Jordan Petersen has spoken to this. He wasn’t the first and he won’t be the last, as this has been happening for a long time, and will likely continue for an undetermined timeframe. It’s a ratchet. They push until they meet resistance. Then they back off, wait for you to forget or grow complacent, and then they push till resistance again. Thus increment, by increment, they advance their agendas.