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I have to say that I am honestly quite shocked that this is the least popular article that I've ever published. Perhaps I need to write out the long form article of the story?

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It’s lonely at the top, heh.

Is the buzz on self-replicating vaccines something they are doing? Sounds like the ultimate way to kill off most of the human race, but you know, grain of salt.

A story is circulating hyping that Japan has approved a self-replicating vaccine. Tainted with Alex Jones, but I would like your analysis, even if consists of breaking down propaganda..

https://t.me/NewResistance/32009

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Sep 6·edited Sep 6Liked by Mathew Crawford

National divorce: my understanding of what this means is that the Sovereign Republics of US corporation would peacefully divide in several Nations.

For example, in the North people there is a culture of mass hatred and fear of fierarms. People should not have firearms, only the police and the military should. That's a deeply held belief of many Americans in the North East. People from Pennsylvania or Massachusetts go one step further, and they criticize people from Colorado, Nevada or Idaho who teach their adolescent children how to shoot firearms. Not only handguns, but even long-range sniper rifles with suppressors and even RPGs (anti-tank weapons.) Si vis pacem para bellum.

So in 2024, a 16 year old girl from the North East will be told to allow herself to be raped if she is attacked, but people from the realist states would tell their 16 year old girls to fight back and shoot to kill. This extreme contrast proves there are extreme differences in culture and way of life.

My question to you: from the standpoint of a strategist who works for the continuity and survival of the Thalassocratic Empire, is the eventual National Divorce of the States a good idea, or a bad idea at the same level as losing Taiwan to China or Gibraltar to Spain?

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Excellent and challenging question. All I can say for the moment is that I'll think it through more.

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My opinion about Europe: European countries should escape the death cult of the EU and follow the example of the BRICS. Forget entangling alliances, and focus in economic growth, cheap energy and national culture.

So, totally different from a national divorce.

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I think the BRICS core is even more deeply cultified, but seemingly functional because it is united as such.

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Interesting. Maybe it will become more obvious as years pass, like it happens with other cults. So far, I have seen healthy self-interest. Or it looks healthy to me. But this too can be propaganda.

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Since you seem to be so actively self-aware on these sorts of problems, I will give a friendly challenge: build graphs like the ones I do for any nation that you think is "getting it right", and track the pasts of the current leadership. For example, "Who is Modi?" Oh, he is from the BJP Party, which is a party *also* promoted by the Nehru-Gandhi family, which is even more theosophical ("integralism") than the old "Congress Party of the Theosophists".

https://embed.kumu.io/c6c7ac3da72114a23f9cbbe5fa582210

Do not trust any pundit's opinion (mine or anyone else's). Sometimes a commentator may be correct, of course, though there are many wrong interpretations for each right one, and you have to zoom in and back out many times to test a good model.

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one interesting factoid you missed in this most interesting analysis is that Nick Sand, the famed acid chemist who produced the Orange Sunshine of the 60s, along with the nortorious Owsley Stanely, known as Bear, was busted in 1975. Sand escaped and fled the country. For a few years he changed his identify to some indian name, (i could find this detail) and hid out in Puna as a close associate of Rajneesh. After a few years Sand returned, to Canada and resumed his psychedelic drug manufacturing... making huge amounts of very pure MDMA and LSD.... busted again, he was given a short sentence by Canadian government, then extradicted to the US who at first sentenced him to 39 years, for the original offense, plus the escape. But Sands lawyers pulled off a miracle and the charges were dropped. testifying in his defense were British royals, Amanda Feilding, San Francisco DA and other notables.....Also, in your podcast about this with Cynthia Chung you said it was Michael Murphy who got into Rajneesh, a cofounder of Esalen. Wrong, it was Dick Price. You should run your stuff past me before you publish. I could help you....

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Thank you for the additional information. Next time I work on that graph, I'll add some names. I'll be curious to see if the drugs connect back to McGill, which appears more and more in my information gathering to be the center of MK ULTRA in Canada.

Oops on Murphy vs. Price. I've created 1500 graphs in the past 11 months, soaking up these topics, so I'm going to stumble on trivia here or there while recalling from among many thousands of facts in real time. Please be forgiving. It's not like I named Roger Ebert. ;-p

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yes, McGill. you might want to read this. I can put you in touch with the author. http://www.anndiamond.ca/bkcertaingirl.html

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I have listened to one of her interviews. I'm aware of the Cohen/Jagger story (just included it in an article a few minutes ago oddly enough). I'd be happy to talk with her.

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