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We'll get to the gut punches first.

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Always look forward to your writings, makes me smile (even though aspects of what is happening is nothing to smile about). Understand you might not always want to comment in the chat, unless really feel the need to.

I hear Matt Taibbi has done a piece now on Ivermectin, which is appreciated by many 😊 and even a Joe Rogan ‘emergency’ podcast 😳

Just to mention in the UK the word is getting out. We have Oxford trials now beginning, but unfortunately they are subject to conflicts of interest and critics say designed to fail, or produce inferior results, due to type of data set of people, dosage and timeframe, but we also have lawyers requesting it be stopped because of this. There is an ex BBC contact who is asking for BBC whistleblowers and also now influencing contact with some BBC reporters, who have been reporting negatively and incorrectly on this subject (and others) nothing new of course ;) Not sure how much of an effect that will have. Excuse the witter on this, but just a bit involved with with it at the moment, pushing back amongst the noise of repetitive programming that’s being pumped out 😛.

Hope you are feeling much better.

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We need more of this! I too dropped all social media, Facebook Twitter and the news as it drove me crazy that everything was lie upon lie. I’m in one of the last “hot spots” in Ontario Canada, and I now go where I want and just walk into stores without any mask (asthma is my reason) but now instead of angry looks I’m getting appreciation and nods from others. We need to remember than many are just waiting until covid is over but they too do not believe the lies. I’m going to do more “shopping” visits to push back on the crazy narrative!

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Why I withdrew from social media. When language is exchanged for labeling, conversation becomes a sorting mechanism.

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Thanks CJ Hopkins, I've been following your writing for years now. Your thinking has informed mine profoundly. Unfortunately, I've become a misanthrop with those I interact with in person since they are all believers in the new normal. How can we fight? Is it a seige? Once movement becomes conditional on taking the injection I'll have no choice but to stay in my home until I die or until the system collapses. How can we fight this if facts and logic are disregarded?

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Don't be a misanthrope. Recognize we're all in the same boat. Jesus Christ tells us, who believe in Him, to love our enemies.

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From a recent tweet ... "Lately, I've been getting a lot of frustrated people asking me to tell them exactly how to fight the "New Normal." (1) any act of resistance, no matter how small, helps; (2) organized, publicized, non-violent civil disobedience."

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Hello, CJ. I was born under Soviet Union so I had a close look at the regime (and the will & curiosity to understand). The Soviet regime was quite primitive compared to the technological and psychological advances that the Western communist tyrants are able to use against unsuspecting nations. Add to that all the preparations they had made. Regular acts of resistance are not really feasible for common folks, people are limited in their ability to respond, they tend to focus more on how to adapt to the situation that how to defend. One cannot forget we're now still in the period of time when people desperately want to believe it's not going to get to the stage of full-blown totalitarianism. The solutions may not be simply reduced to common folk's resistance. There is natural hierarchy of all things, inluding executive power. So it's also about those who hold the higher power. This cannot be won without their participation. Not all of them are demoralised, some of them could act if the necessary pressure were put on them. These people may need to realise it's their duty to use their authority in order to try to put an and end to this nightmare. The irony is if they were able to come to the realisation today, this week, this month and act accordingly, this sad situation would eventually be over, probably in months or up to a year, not longer. It's still possible, but not at all easy to get their attention. So let's be more realistic. The people I'm talking about may not be aware at the moment how important some of their simple decisions may be for the future of mankind. But it will come to them. Hopefully it'll not be too late. Obviously it doesn't mean one just needs to sit down and wait. Although to be honest, it may turn out in the future that in some ways sitting through the current stage would have been a better way than say giving the tyrants many occassions to find justification to initiate violent oppression. This is difficult to judge, it's not black or white, these occassions may be also a blessing for many to find out they're not alone in this. One thing to remember: there are always counter-measures to put into motion. Whether in the field of diplomacy, or legal defence, or intellectual work, or psychological support, or business influence, etc.

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"One cannot forget we're now still in the period of time when people desperately want to believe it's not going to get to the stage of full-blown totalitarianism."

I can empathise, I was like this for a few weeks - wanting to believe it was just incompetence. But the cognitive dissonance to remain blind to it still now is off the charts.

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In the end "Freedom Trumps Socialism." But in the meanwhile the complete control is well underway, using an old but fanatical ideology, Marxism, wrapped in the Critical Race Theory.

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That is what has been happening to women attempting to speak out about “ gender identity” and protecting single-sex spaces.

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thank you. thank you. thank you. I'm finding it increasingly hard to listen to people endlessly trying to debate the "facts" when I have long suspected that this is bottom line insanity that is being promulgated. it is more recently that I'm discovering the faces behind the charade, thanks to Jennifer and a few others.

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Tour de force.

Thanks to Matt Taibbi, he introduced you to his audience (me). You are doing the heavy lifting. I don’t think Matt would dare be so sweeping in his critique. He holds to journalism.

Your stuff is absolutely delicious, I’m sharing it with lots of people. With your help I should be completely socially ostracized: lol.

Fuck-em!

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Just quick to say thanks to everyone for all the comments here, and on my earlier posts ... I try not to comment on my own posts, as I figure I've already had my say, but I appreciate yours!

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So I guess on the bright side, no nuclear holocaust with everyone on the same side. Don't want to be messing up utopia for our.masters. When the vax side effects start to really pile up in a couple years the war against the un people will start in earnest.

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Unfortunately I have come to the realization that this is true. It us not about facts ior nformation. You literally see all the tine the survivors of some poor victim of the vaccine parrot some version of how the deceased believed in vaccines and how we should all still go and get jabbed for everyone's safety. Once insanity takes hold there is no reasoning with it.

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"Normally, what’s required to get us to do so is a crisis, a war, a state of emergency, or … you know, a deadly global pandemic."

Or just a fake pandemic that the masses are tricked into thinking is deadly.

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I agree. I would be way less scared if there was a real pandemic. This fake one is a horror beyond anything I could have imagined.

It is an actual horror movie in real life.

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Another great essay CJ and I must agree this began 30 years ago now when the Soviet Union ceased to be and split up into pieces . I am 68 and live in England and well remember how we were proud to say we lived in a free society and what a shit system communism was . I no longer believe there was a Cold War it was all just theatre and both sides were made to believe they were on the lucky most fortunate side .I like your name of GloboCap and it has turned out to be much worse than any of the systems we humans have been treated to in modern history because it is SO totalitarian .

As FDR said, " When something big happens in politics you can be sure it has been planned that way" , or words to that effect. So , I would like to know were Brexit and the election of Donald Trump all part of this plan and what actually kicked it off ?Both happened in 2016 and for sure that was when truth and facts both died a death in the public arena . By the way I was pro Brexit and anti Hilary Clinton .

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It's an existential challenge. Freedom like a rhizome. Freedom that sees lines of flight and where to go next or stay. It's a weird time for not being mobile, so stay moving.

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Fantastic, albeit absolutely chilling, article. As a keen observer over the past 18 months, and like many here, having read and watched thousands of well-sourced articles and videos, I am stultified at the stubbornness of the masses to remain firm in their convictions that this is okay and restrictions will be lifted any day now.

It worries me immensely, and given the rapidity of the descent, I think it's timely for all of us to protect ourselves as best we can and, if you haven’t already done so, consider moving to a more secure email and VPN. We all know that big tech and government overreach is a dangerous pairing and, given their track record in censoring people and ruining lives over the last 18 months, I feel they will stop at nothing to find us, discredit us, and toss us aside, if not into 'facilities,' for merely doing what we are doing right now.

Here in Canada, the writing is very much on the wall, with vaccine passports arriving any day. It will be the final nail in the coffin of democracy.

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A neighbor, upon discovering I'd not been "vaccinated" and hearing my reasons for it, told me I was living in an alternate reality. Not caring what he thought - actually, he doesn't truly think - I replied that it was he who refused to see reality.

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Yes, indeed - it's shocking how people feel they have a right to delve into and comment on our most personal medical information now. Guess you won't be hanging out with him any time soon :-)

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