Rich Man's Trick

A resurgence of the 2014 JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick is making rounds as more "red pills" make their way into the dark abyss that is realizing most of us have been bot and sold since before our time.

Each time a new contrived crisis arises, skeptics (like myself) will begin highlighting inconsistencies in the narrative being crafted and look for signs that a racket is being formed. Each time this process commences, it introduces a new crop of people (usually young adults) for whom this is the first time they are struck with the idea that the government and other authority agencies may not be acting as honestly as they should, and may not be acting with their best interests in mind.

Looking into the current crisis, many will ask the next logical question - "If they're lying to me about this, what else are they lying about?".  This, ironically, creates a zombie effect on all previously known conspiracies as their minds try to grasp the vast expanse of fuckery that has shaped our history.

I say it's ironic, because I imagine there are some conspiracies that are - lets say resolved as quietly as possible - decades later through released documents and lawsuits that vindicate the generation that lived through the hell first-hand. Bringing these to light again years later creates an inflation of what I call "legitimized conspiracy capital".  The old tropes of "that only happened once!" or "that was how many years ago?!"  lose power as citation after citation mounts to a rapid indictment that of course this is just "War on Terror 2.0" or "9/11 all over again"

Which brings us to Rich Man's Trick - which bubbled up on social media recent as all this quarantine free time means lots of time to watch conspiracy documentaries.

But oddly enough, for a documentary that's now 6 years old, the reaction is... not what I was expecting.  It seemed to me, that this particular documentary had the brilliant effect of duping the viewer into an ideological illusion right before their very eyes. It regularly enjoys favorable reviews pretty much all around, with only a few "JFK theory purists" arguing against the JFK segments, but almost no one calling the entire piece out for what it more than likely really was: a piece as guilty of selective revelation it was purporting to admonish.

If you haven't seen it, and have the time (and mental fortitude) to watch three-and-a-half hours of depressing Orwellian expose, it actually really is a good documentary for a slice of the perspective it presents- and to that end I recommend it for introducing the viewers to, at the very least, a short order list shady characters and organizations that were often in our blind spots over the past two centuries.

Either way - try to apply the very same rules to it that it's attempting to teach you about doctored narratives. Scrutinize the entire piece on what it may very well really be:

A cleverly written piece of Communism propaganda or worse, just another CIA controlled expose designed to give the masses "something interesting to think about" that ultimately leads to contrived and controlled reaction.

Now, if you've seen it before, you might be thinking "Wait.. Communist propaganda?" Where was Karl Marx slipped in amidst what seems to be a grand tale about the sad fate of John F. Kennedy?.

Here's few clues to consider:

1. The film only ever even mentions Communism as the "real fear" that the rich are constantly defending against, but without speaking out against it as a core belief.
2. In its deep scope of history and revealing corruption, it spends almost no time talking about the Cold War.
3. It mentions Mao for a half a second related to some kind of "get more Asians to smoke" scheme, but avoids some juicy Sidney Rittenberg ties to molding Xi Jinping?
4. The only talks about Castro are in light of his ties to the CIA and the Bay of Pigs, but avoids the Cuban Missile Crisis and how Kennedy may have had back channels into Moscow.
5. So many opportunities to implicate ties to countries with communist regimes but it instead spends all of its time throwing everyone on the Allies side under the bus for their "wealth based ideologies" 

Weird right?  But what's one of the rules? Oh yeah: Keep a low profile

See, a documentary like this doesn't have to slip in a Karl Marx quote to lure you in, that would be too obvious. It simply needs to knock down all the other rackets - monarchies, capitalism, fanaticism - and leave you peering into an uncertain, an empty space to which there is the only remaining choice...

No no, not Communism - you aren't there yet - it has to lead you to Revolution, first.

So just like that, after reinforcing that the casino is rigged at all levels because they own the police, the military, the justice system, everything, that's when they slip in that call to action, right about that 3:22:22 mark.

"The only way to change our corrupt system is through revolution. Everyone has to sign up now to our revolution website. And then the people have to march on Washington" "And they need to kick him (Obama) and every other corrupt politician out and take power, genuinely, for the people's sake!"

But wait - I thought the problem was Ford? and Dupot? and Exon Mobile? the Rockafellers? the mob bosses out on the fringe? I thought the CIA would have run dry if only the customers didn't want that sweet, sweet cocaine and heroin?

The call to revolution is clever because it sets up a perfectly logical set of dominoes:

1. Remove the politicians that have been letting the fat cats get away with murder
2. Make those fat cats pay now that they can't hide behind the government
3. Redistribute the wealth and decide capitalism is too greedy for it's own good
4. And finally - figure out NEW rules s that will stop wealth consolidation from happening ever again....

The logical chain of events leads right down the same path that many countries have walked down before - and woe onto us if whoever leads us down that path turns out to be another Castro or Mao who flips the script on us when we get to step 4, right?

It may be a straw-man the film, nor Francis, were attempting to make. But even then it's a line of unintended consequence that could fuel a Sander's Supporter type mentality into a fools gold idea that Engineering of Consent isn't still alive and well in 2020.

You want a real revolution that doesn't require trying to take on mob families or devil worshiping lizard people head on?  Just stop buying dumb shit.

Become self sufficient. If you buy things, spend a little more on things that last 10 years rather than 6 months and upkeep them rather than throwing them away.

Save your money. Demand banks give us more than a pittance of a return on our savings accounts, accounts they leverage virtually to make money off of our money, or threaten to pull out.

Do things like this, and watch the rich choke on their lack of ROI without having to lift a single freedom-fighting-finger.

And when you suddenly find a new crop of shape shifting companies pretending to be ethical and Nazi-Mob-Free? Don't give them a single dollar until we trace their financials and company heads  back all the way up the chain.

And most importantly? Be ready to walk away. Abandon them completely the moment they sell out.

Could you imagine, when Facebook started undermining our digital privacy and practicing experimental censorship, if we all just collectively said  "turn that shit off or we're going back to MySpace?" That's the attitude you have to have with these people to shackle that contrived "invisible hand of the market" to our will as the workers who actually contribute value rather than simply bet on it. 

They're Painting the Roses Red

The paper below represents two months of sleepless nights and research early in the pandemic outbreak, when instinct told me there was more to the situation than a "natural" outbreak. The paper represents my held theories and evidence as of early May 2020, and no attempts will be made to "scrub" details or stances in light of new evidence. At some point I will instead likely do a retrospect once the dust settles on SARS-COV-2.

   

A question I'm often asked is what the implications of "lab created" means, in terms of who is responsible or at least, which levels of play need to be evaluated and regulated to prevent something like this from happening in the future. To this end, below is an exerpt from a broader research paper I put together which articulates the 3 key tiers of involvement, at least to my mind-

Three Levels of Inception 

I originally visualized them as the 3 heads of a hydra but it’s better to visualize it like spheres of layered truths/realities wherein different actors participate in each tier in a compartmentalized fashion and only a handful of individuals navigate between (Extractors)

The “Inception” concept is also a convenient analogy as the goal of each tier is to give the tier(s)below it compartmentalized autonomy, planting thoughts and beliefs into them so that one does not need a “conspiracy dependent on secrets” to drive progress forward, only protocols, funding,and goals to achieve. From there, the actors simply play their parts honestly and each tier above benefits from having access to any newfound information. (Similar to the ENRON model)

This paper, using the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic as a window into the realm of modern virology and immunology, only addresses a subset of 3 inception levels: 

N+2: The Government/Military Masquerading as both Science Research and Private Industry 

On this tier, the Military complex funds and peers into both the research and private industry cure manufacturers for potential strains that can be bifurcated and potentially further enhanced for bio-warfare. It would take, for example, little effort to pick up a strain like SARS-CoV-2 which is already highly communicable, and synthesize in high mortality aspects, and use them as potentially subversive “act of nature” tools to disrupt regimes rather than having to stage coups or attempt overt assassinations. The reason for playing both sides (as in helping private industry) is that should these bioweapons cause flare ups or collateral damage, it’s the private industries that come to the rescue to provide a “free market” solution to a “natural” problem that casts little suspicion on the military or government operating behind it. 

N+1: Private Industry Masquerading as Science Research 

On this tier, private companies like EcoHealth Alliance provide critical funding for scientific research on the tier below, but also leverage the research results to quickly patent potential outbreak strains and even vaccine and cure strategies to profit off of nature.This funded research is like a scouting program into the potential “futures” of the disease and cure dynamic, where strains like SARS-CoV-2, which are highly infectious, but low mortality, are viewed as gold mines for sustained vaccine profits. The problem with this,obviously, is that it incentivises treatment over permanent cure, and in more nefarious circles, incentivises engineering of similarly infectious but treatable viruses for which you already have a choice vaccine product to offer as the solution. 

N: Scientific Research

On this tier, virologists and other researchers study potential outbreaks from the wild with the genuine belief that they are helping mankind stay ahead of mother nature and prevent or control crossovers before they happen.

Other theories may [elude] to the idea that there are levels of inception above N+2 which include global elites bent on population control and other such nefarious goals, but again this body of work only seeks to focus on the 3 called out at this time as they have direct, verifiable linkage pertaining to the current epidemic and its potential origins. 

We do this to Ourselves...

Recently read an essay which attempts to warn the readers of the impending onslaught of government propaganda and consumer marketing that will barrage us into returning to the old way of life, and make us forget about any benefits we may have begun to observe about a slower paced, less environmentally impacting existence. 

Although I generally agree with the prophecies portrayed, I felt the piece lacked the culpability we have in the co-dependent relationship that is us vs them, and decided to post a follow up comment, which ended up becoming an essay in-it-of-itself, so I figured I might as well capture it here:

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The problem is herd mentality. We The People are one giant flock of birds that have been sitting on the wire for a month now, and when the signal to fly comes, when the storm blows over and the clear skies of normalcy beckon, the moment we see that initial wave of family and friends take to the skies in a mad rush to exorcise all this nervous energy, it’s going to be next to impossible to resist the urge to join in. We do this to ourselves, and we do so willingly because the one thing we as individuals in a population fear above all else, is being left behind, becoming irrelevant. 

The great myth is that Marketing is some kind of leash that leads us down paths we never wanted to take. The reality is that we’ve always been *looking* for those paths, Marketing just tries to convince you that Coke is better than Pepsi. How often have you heard the phrase “We realize that you have a lot of choices when it comes to _______, so we thank you for choosing us!”

Yes. The gas-lighting will be real. What’s realer is trying to ignore our own internal processes. 

Don’t believe me? Let’s talk masks. Right now, n95 masks and other respirators share one thing in common — they’re basic and unattractive. They were designed to perform a medical function. So the “mask market” pre-covid, was about as influential in our lives as the table saw market, or the mop bucket market.

All of that is about to change, and it starts the moment you encounter Sandra with her triple-knit lavender mask or Tom with his Tactical, 3d printed mask shell that makes him look like a spec-op agent out of The Division. 

By this time next year, we’ll be flashing Supreme and Adidas branded masks with Bluetooth Voice Clarity Enhancing technology, and featuring Hepa brand filters that block 78.9% more virus particles than those “basic” n59 respirators. 

You DO want to block 78.9% more virus particles, don’t you? Of course you do.

And that’s my point — we do this to ourselves. WE create new market vacuums in space and time that never existed before, and that is the fertile field those “evil” corporations seek to harvest in our mind-shares. Without our own neurosis-driven need to have a 1 up on everyone around us, the corporations simply have no ACE-2 receptors to exploit in us, as it were. 

I get it. Holding up a mirror is an extremely uncomfortable thing to do. I avoid it, too, especially when there are convenient scapegoats around. But self-examination is the only true salvation from all this. The only way to beat the game is to stop playing it, even if it means a departure from the people around you who need to keep playing it to escape themselves. 

You just gotta fortify your mind and try to — hold on, sorry I gotta run, everyone’s flying off and I don’t want to get held up in traffic. 

Political Lines Amidst a Pandemic

Guess it's been a hot minute since I've posted to ye ole blog. Lots has happened over the past year, but coming back here was an idea that popped up after my wife reviewed a post I made on Facebook in response to a divisive article that was posted by a friend.

The article, 'Jared Kushner makes coronavirus briefing appearance, draws backlash for 'our stockpile' comment', was met among friends with the usual for-or-against points that attribute the sum of the federal government response to the President and whether he's #mypresident or #notmrpresident.

I was tagged in to the conversation by another friend of mine who made the assumption that I was one of his "liberal friends".  Although I have never claimed to be either, the assumption may have seemed fair as I have been calling out other hypocritical behaviors Republicans appear to be quite guilty of when it comes to the also-current Oil Industry Crisis between Saudi Arabia and Russia, where Republicans conveniently forget about letting the "invisible hand of the free market" work things out on their own.

So before I commented on the Federal Stockpiles, I wanted to clear up confusions on my political position and remind folks that the only "us vs them" team I'm concerned with is the Government vs. The People.

This was my post, with only the most minor of spelling/grammatical corrections afforded. One last bit of context, when I was tagged in, my friend was also asking if he was a "colossal shithead" for wanting to defend his position :

I’m not a liberal. Not a conservative either. You’re not a shithead either. The issue is tying oneself too closely to politicians simply because they have a D or an R next to their name and you have a D or an R next to yours.

The issue is cognitive dissonance. It’s like when the “only 2 parties allowed” sat down at the draft they purposely decided to exchange 2-3 critical positions that make absolutely zero sense for the other side to have, just so it’s always a guaranteed shit-show when the family gets together to talk.

I post, speak, and comment to point out the hypocrisy that exists on both sides of the isle. I constantly remind family and friends that the shitty things we attribute to Mr Trump are some of the same shitty things that happened on Obama’s watch as well. Doing so rarely gets met with an objective admittance from the Left. Usually just name calling and excuses.

It’s an uncomfortable fact when people look back on H1N1 and realize that National Emergency (not to be confused with Public Health Emergency, which is declared by the Secretary of Public Health, not the president) wasn’t declared until October and after 1000 Americans had already died.

It’s an uncomfortable realization when you show people clips of that October time-frame where people were in lines for hours trying to get vaccinated even though the administration had months to mobilize and prepare between the public and national emergency states. Yet we sit here and call our current situation a delayed debacle as if it was the first ever, and when in truth it only took about 40 days and 1 death to declare Covid-19 a National emergency. 

You see, I do this on both sides because I have the pipe dream that everyone I care about will one day wake up and realize they don’t have to don the Dem or Rep team jersey featuring some of the ideological brand logos they believe in but also the giant kick-me sign on the back for the things they have to pretend to agree with and rationalize to fit in. 

The only teams we should care about are: The Elected Officials and The Rest of Us (aka We the People).

That means holding everyone in office equally and objectively accountable for in their actions and behaviors regardless of what camp they originated from.

Those aren’t Democrats OR Republicans. Those are Senators and Congressmen. That guy is a President. The moment they became those things, they became job functions entrusted to keep the interests, prosperity and safety of  everyone in this nation in mind.

With that perspective, it’s fairly obvious the dude we elected is, overall, a poor choice. Not poor, perhaps, from a “make shit happen now” perspective, but one where the ramifications of his actions will be carried by generations to come. But you know what? It’s not entirely his fault, just like it wasn’t entirely Obama’s fault then.

Given the fact that the president’s ability to MSH is almost entirely dependent on all of the other committees, agencies, and branches that support him, it’s painful to watch him take sole credit for the positive outcomes, while throwing other agencies and individuals under the bus for poor outcomes and negative consequences.

In short, if you're going to grandstand and say “I did that, you’re welcome”, you’ve also gotta be ready to say “I did that, I’m sorry”.

At Dell, I don’t just get measured on my outcomes. I get measured on “How Behaviors” deigned to stop people from becoming supreme assholes in a quest to make a name for themselves hiding behind achieved target goals. We have to consider a President's "How Behaviors" and stop giving him the "Yeah he's a dick, but..." pass. 

On the Stockpile- Also a dick move by the Feds to take this position. This is tantamount to sitting at a dinner table with all of your friends, agreeing to split the check, and then lambasting the ones who can’t afford their split when the check comes and “it’s way bigger than anyone could have imagined”.

At the dinner table (i.e. in the middle of the crisis) is NOT the time nor place to throw shade, or decide you’re only really wanting to help Billy because Bob was kind of a dick to you last week.  

I’m also extremely troubled by our carelessness as we high five him when he asks these falsely-provocative “Why the hell” questions without considering the risks.

“Why are we throwing away the masks” - Well, because this is the proper, reviewed, and accepted SOP that has been in place for decades as the safest way to deal with biological waste in a hospital setting to prevent cross contamination or reinfection.  The supplies that protect us in those risky contact situations are disposable BY DESIGN to ensure our safety!

It’s why swabs, needle tips, bags, gloves, masks, gowns and alll that other shit is meant to be collected and disposed of properly. Now you got a guy saying “Hey fuck all that smart shit, why are you throwing those away let’s save on supplies.” and people are like "Yeah! Cut that red tape Mr President!!"

But notice, the smart ones have to come in later and interpret this careless behavior to say “Well, I guess we could try to sanitize and reuse.. but it’s unproven and each time you do so, the mask degrades, and you risk not getting it all”. And the part no one wants to talk about: You better hope it actually gets done properly, and no one cuts corners or forgets to sanitize between patients.

Consider this: Would you reuse a condom? Up to 20 times? Or just grab another one to be real sure? I know what I'd do. 

“Hey let’s use all the drugs and see if they work” is also a bold move that brings with it high risks. The fallout is at least less than the PPE situation. The patient rolls the dice on dying to the virus or dying from liver failure right, what’s the difference? I get it. Give them the choice to use the experimental drugs or wait for the clinical trials on the correct drugs and call it a day.

But where we should care indirectly as a taxpayers is the liability when the law suits come from groups given ineffective or adverse medicine in this knee jerk “screw clinical trials” reaction.

It’s the public and legal amnesia that will arise months and years later when no one wants to remember the bold “people are dying!” sentiment and the narrative shifts to how “irresponsible” the administration was for allowing these treatments to go out unproven.

A crisis shows people’s true colors when the chips are down- and that’s the point of this article when it comes to the Stockpiles.

The message from the Feds to the rest of the States was made quite clear...

“We are here to ensure *our* masks are on first before assisting others”.