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Pfizer market cap is $228bn today. It sounds a lot but it’s only 9% of the value of Apple. Why do we allow this relative minnow to do so much societal harm?

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Comparison to the largest corporation that ever existed may be misleading. Pharma is structured differently, with Pfizer taking a political and logistics role to stay distant from a lot of bleeding edge drug development, which may also be hit or miss to smaller bankruptcy.

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The comparison is definitely intended to be misleading. Asimov neatly sketched all this out in the Foundation. Funny how in the end, those who end up ruling, appear to be just small scale regenerative agriculturalists living amongst the ruins of former capital of the universe. They mastered the psy-op game.

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Mar 22, 2023·edited Mar 22, 2023Author

Thanks for that reminder!

The Foundation and the Second Foundation both had a leg up on an Empire that grew too political to allow for the actual continued accumulation of science and technology with good enough signal-to-noise ratio to result in continued economic growth. While I don't by into psychohistory/cliodynamics as true disciplines, that was one of the series I enjoyed most when I discovered science fiction while growing up.

Edit: I'm pinning the top comment because I think your Foundation reminder is a critical one.

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Too political? Do you mean too corrupt? I usually, appreciate my central nervous system. But then, sometimes, frequently, messages are relayed encouraging decadent actions. Much to the delight of the Gods of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamism.

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Mar 22, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

I'm not answering these questions flippantly. I've spent a lot of time thinking about these questions. This is the best I can come up with for now.

(Haven't read the full article yet, need to go to a meeting now, but those first questions really compelled me to comment :-)

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> How do we establish trust in experts?

We keep meticulous detailed records of their predictions.

> What is an expert, anyhow, and does the type of expertise matter?

Someone who truly understands "cause and effect" and is able to make accurate predictions based on their knowledge (and is able to explain it to others).

They gain "expert" status when many of their predictions turn out to be true.

> How do we keep from being fooled?

By keeping good records and reviewing them often.

> If we place proxy trust in experts for what we do not or cannot understand, how do we prevent ourselves from being manipulated?

Having open and transparent discussions on their predictions before they come to pass and after they come to pass.

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One of our great thinkers discovered the Gell-Mann Amnesia phenomenon. It is the antithesis of what you smartly wrote above. And it describes exactly why so many are fooled.

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/

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Thanks for the link. It does appear the phenomenon is based on an over-generalization fallacy.

I concur with Crichton that the nucleus of expertise hinges on correctly attributing "cause and effect".

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I think there is safety in unanimity, as discussed at https://acts15church.substack.com/p/righteous-government etc. That means all listening to all sides and all coming to agreement in due time. Etc.

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I will say that any real expert is never allowed to speak. Lynden Larouche is as close to being an economic expert as anyone in the last fifty years. The imprisoned him on phony charges because he was deemed dangerous to the big lie. Remember we are living in the matrix, so what is truth? It is what you hear from the persecuted not the official experts. If we do not question everything, then you remain in the matrix. Most people do not take the time to do any real research because it is hard, and sometimes leads in the wrong direction but if you persevere it will come. the truth will be verry different. Ye shall know the truth and the truth will piss you off. How many thinks Israel was founded by the remnants of Abraham, NONE and yet so many Americans who identify with Israel in this way are being led down the lemming path to the cliff, and on and on. The truth is a lonely hunter.

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Lyndon, I think. He was a self-proclaimed expert who seemed to have somewhat less expertise than he claimed. I favor Liz Harris and Rodger Mitchell as better experts at https://monetarysov.wordpress.com/ and https://mythfighter.com/. Mitchell is too conventionally liberal on politics, but he's good on economics, IMO. Harris was better, IMO. I copied her last blog post at https://ilki.substack.com/p/fiat-money-is-good.

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Excellentt essay. With HCQ, the prime movers in its removal from the list of drugs suitable for treating Covid-19 appear to be Gates and the Wellcome Trust (Jeremy Farrar, now chief scientist at the WHO), plus the WHO itself.

https://www.palmerfoundation.com.au/who-and-uk-trials-use-potentially-lethal-hydroxychloroquine-dose-according-to-who-consultant/

The British recovery trials fatally overdosed trial patients intentionally, far too late in the progression of the disease, in order to 'prove' that HCQ did not work and the FDA cited these results as 'scientific evidence' for revoking the EUA authorisation for HCQ.

"To sum up:

1. In the UK Recovery trial, and in WHO Solidarity trials, HCQ is used in a non-therapeutic, toxic and potentially lethal dose.

2. HCQ is furthermore being given, in clinical trials, too late in the disease course to determine its value against SARS-CoV-2.

3. Collection of limited safety data in the Solidarity trials serves to protect trial investigators and sponsors from disclosures of expected adverse drug effects, including death.

4. It appears that WHO has tried to hide information on the hydroxychloroquine doses used in its Solidarity trial. Fortunately, the information is discoverable from registries of its national trials.

5. The conclusions to be drawn are frightening:

a) WHO and other national health agencies, universities and charities have conducted large clinical trials that were designed so hydroxychloroquine would fail to show benefit in the treatment of Covid-19, perhaps to advantage much more expensive competitors and vaccines in development, which have been heavily supported by Solidarity and Recovery trial sponsors and WHO sponsors.

b) In so doing, these agencies and charities have de facto conspired to increase the number of deaths in these trials.

c) In so doing, they have conspired to deprive billions of people from potentially benefiting from a safe and inexpensive drug, when used properly, during a major pandemic. This might contribute to prolongation of the pandemic, massive economic losses and many increased cases and deaths."

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-revokes-emergency-use-authorization-chloroquine-and

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Excellent recap of the HCQ story. The early and seemingly desperate discrediting of HCQ was my clue that something was very rotten in the state of Denmark.

Thanks for this comment. Will bookmark it.

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Trump's therapeutic vax was HCQ. And some other things.

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Thanks for sharing, Jaime. I heard about this info, but I didn't know the details. That info is good evidence of conspiracy, so I'll reference it for legal activism for prosecuting the conspirators at https://covidandvaxfaqs.substack.com/archive.

(PS, your Substack looks good at https://jaimejessop.substack.com/archive.)

I made the post now at https://covidandvaxfaqs.substack.com/p/criminal-blocking-of-life-saving.

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Great link thanks. And great article Matthew.

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Not only have they conspired to deprive billions from benefiting from less expensive, safer drugs but deliberate coverup of info continues unabated. Former CDC Director Dr.Robert Redfield tells lawmakers on Capitol Hill there should be a moratorium on gain of function research. He served over 20 yrs as a US Army Phys, Chief of Dept of Retroviral Research at Walter Reed. We've been warning almost a decade of a bioengineered viral pandemic. Misuse by bad countries and bad people could kill most of us.

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A lot of people say "depopulation", but I don't think that's the primary goal. I think that power and high standard of living are the primary goals. And that's important to understand as a chief motivation in terms of creating mental models that allow for us to know what corners of the world most need researching into.

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"the murderous elites already have all the power and highest standard of living"

Deglobalization is happening, and it was understood that it would take place around now since the collapse of the mortgage bond market. Consumption will collapse in many areas of the world. Most of the Western Mandarins are in a position to maintain something close to the standards of living they've enjoyed so long as they can maintain economic hegemony through the U.S., which is the only nation with a navy that can police deep ocean traffic. The current World War E is that battle over the reserve currency and trade routes. That level of economic continuation is what opens more of the Mandarins up to the use of selective depopulation. Sure, there are eugenicists among them, but that's nothing like a unanimous ideological slant.

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That's exactly what they did. They were willing to kill people in fake trials and deprive billions of people of a potentially life-saving medicine in order to exclusively promote the 'vaccines' as the cure for the pandemic and the route back to 'normal'. We knew this as early as June 2020, just months into the pandemic, and 6 months before the first 'vaccines' were approved. As Matthew points out though, this deeply unsettling revelation has been effectively memory-holed.

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Re dumbing down the population: they also do it by saying if you do not have a degree in that field you may not have an opinion ( or cannot correctly do research)

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Anyone can read and do research. And probably learn more than in a propagandist institution.

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Fantastic article, the opening paragraph reminded me of this great clip of Carl Sagan at the start of this substack.

https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/peer-review

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I just listened to the Sagan video clip in your link. He made sense about the danger of science and tech being largely poorly understood by the public, but his own mainstream science views were just as wrong as are the public's. E.g., BILLIONS of years old sedimentary rock strata on Earth is unfounded. I show much evidence that those strata are only about 5,000 years old in my Substack, Cataclysmic Earth History, at https://cataclysmicearthhistory.substack.com/archive, especially at https://cataclysmicearthhistory.substack.com/p/226-dating-methods and https://cataclysmicearthhistory.substack.com/p/1.

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Yes it is a great clip, but I agree no one is an "authority", there are many theories out there.

Sagan assumes that a general decline of thinking presupposes a particular way of thinking. Sagan’s own assumptions and reasoning were at times overwrought.

Sagan’s own tendency to slip into dogmatic thinking:

Sagan splits his universe in two, into science and irrationality. “Truth” is only what can be experimentally proved, and “understanding” is only what fits into the logical straitjacket of a syllogism. This may work beautifully within the scope of questions that science can answer, but life is a far richer tapestry than the threads of scientific logic alone can weave. And it is myopic to define “reason” so narrowly that one can’t see the other threads.

The line between science and scientism is one that Sagan was prone to crossing. He was a smart guy and I enjoyed the fruit of his work, but I suspect Sagan at times “nervously clutched his crystal” in much the same way as many of the people he derided.

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Velikovsky was the only scientist who predicted that Venus would be very hot before it was known. He said it was incandescent in ancient times and it was because Venus was a new planet. Sagan and other mainstream scientists and journalists called Velikovsky a crackpot when the AAAS, under Margaret Mead as president, held a kangaroo court symposium to confront Velikovsky's theories of ancient cataclysms caused by close encounters between Earth, Venus and Mars. Mead was an early proponent of AGW and Sagan and others, when it was found in 1962 that Venus is extremely hot, argued that Venus' thick atmosphere acted like a greenhouse, whereas Velikovsky said it was hot because it was a new planet. So it looks to me like they held their kangaroo court because Velikovsky was gaining popularity among a lot of scientists and they didn't want scientists going against the AGW propaganda. I just discussed Velikovsky a little at https://cataclysmicearthhistory.substack.com/p/mathis-advanced-ancient-civilization.

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Mathew, read The Authoritarian Personality written after WWII where the predominantly Jewish Frankfurt School designs the plan to eliminate the Christian family with Eros and propaganda calling it fascist. More neutering of competition.

Disney came from the communist Hungarian Lucas using fantasy animal play in school to break down children's minds.

Also, the Jaffe memo in the 1960s (?) describing "population control" with promotion of homosexuality and other means to eliminate Eastern European family formation.

Likewise, E. Michael Jones' Slaughter of Cities where Catholic family areas in major cities like the Irish were targeted for break up of neighborhoods.

All designed to neuter.

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What are your sources, Skipper?

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See the sources named above. The Authoritarian Personality, Jaffe memo, Slaughter of Cities. Read them.

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Are they on your substack?

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Predominantly Khazarian Mafia who are not Jewish.

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Matthew, I have been an avid reader of many of your great articles (and have learnt an awful lot), but this is perhaps one of your greatest articles to date, I can't wait for part two, and this would make a great book... I was rivetted by the history lesson which seamlessly jumped into today's dystopian chaos... Fantastic work, thank you for all the hard efforts you put into each article, and the high quality of your output.

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Will part 2 explain exactly how to use tech to save humanity (and the biosphere)?

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Interesting slant on the origins of the word we use, propaganda.

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‘Propaganda’ is the future passive participle (aka the gerundive) of the Latin first conjugation verb ‘propagare’, which means to propagate/extend/enlarge/increase.

The gerundive implies necessity.

Thus, ‘propaganda’ means thing(s) needing to be/which should be/which ought to be/which must be propagated/extended/enlarged/increased.

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"How do we establish trust in experts?" - You DON'T.

There is no "Trust, Follow or Believe" in the scientific method. There are "Repeatability & Falsifiability". That comes down to predictions being correct repeatedly and stating what it would take for you to admit that you are wrong. Fauci, Ferguson, Drosten and all the other lackeys of the WHO have not called an infectious disease outbreak correctly in 2+ decades. They are ALWAYS on the high side by at least an order of magnitude.

The hiding of data must end immediately. Look at what we've discovered via court granted FOIA requests that the government and corporations tried to hide for decades.

May 2021 - Pfizer's bio-distribution (done in Japan) study showing that the toxic lipid nanoparticles go throughout your body and lodge in lots of organs.

April 2022 - Judicial watch got documents showing that natural immunity was superior in every category you can name (safety, efficacy, cost, variant coverage, durability).

March 2022/23 - The FDA took 108 days to approve Comirnaty then asked for 75 years to release it all. The judge was having none of it and we got it all in 2022/23. Among other vile stuff they tried to hide was the fact that they experimented on 34 children under 12 a full SEVEN months before they had any approval to do anything of the sort.

November 2022 - The CDC's V-Safe study (10 million subjects) showing a 7.7% serious adverse event rate. A "corporate person" named Oracle was managing the database for the CDC and was data mining the de-indentified data the whole time (legally) but us "people people" had to sue to get it released. The CDC is still refusing to release the free text field so back to court we go.

We can't give informed consent because information is being withheld and slowly being released by the courts. Those who took the injections just gave up their right to informed consent and agreed to livestock status over a disease with an IFR of 0.3% (CDC, May 2020).

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There is no reason why the scientific method need guide all our experiences. Game theory seems more appropriate for trust modeling.

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Why trust or do "trust modelling"? If I don't know which experts are correct I demand predictions from them all and see who is correct. Wash, rinse, repeat. All data, including raw, must be PUBLICLY available. That's the beauty of the scientific method. You don't need a PhD in the area being debated. You just need to demand predictions and falsifiable statements from each side.

"Trust, Follow & Believe" are faith based concepts. For scientific discussions they are pointless. Most people trusted their personal doctor. Look how that worked out. The sad fact is that you can't trust any institution as they are all susceptible to corruption. Almost 100% of politicians, media & businesses went along with literal war crimes being done. 99% of the medical profession. 95% of the unions. 90% of the religions. How do you "trust" anything in that environment?

Most people equate expertise with credentials and that's false. It's a good place to start but it's their predictions that matter. I really don't care if someone is self taught or academically taught. They follow the same rules as dictated by the scientific method or I have no use for them.

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Mar 23, 2023·edited Mar 23, 2023Author

I think we're talking past one another.

There are numerous branches of the tree of philosophy, and forms of knowledge generation. Science is a method for generating high quality subjective knowledge. But there is still the process of subjective judgment, to which we apply other methods. And for much of that form of knowledge generation, the scientific method need not be applied.

Game theory is the study of relationships between economic actors with self-interest, so trust in the quality of information streams is tested (as well as is possible) by game theory, by definition.

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Okay. That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. The testing of info streams quality would be the equivalent of predictions.

I view the situation in terms of criminal cartels warring. Not since the halcyon days of the East India Company has a drug cartel controlled the west this much. Historic, if somewhat psychotic, times LOL

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There is definitely some element of organized crime. Some of it looks like warring. Other aspects of it look like wide-scale cooperation and coordination.

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100% ... Exactly, well written, one of the best summations of this whole scenario we find ourselves in...

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Well done. One would think the low hanging fruit would be to stop the funding of medical advertising. I'm old enough to remember how hot the debate was back when they first suggested it. Allowing that probably accounts for most of the brainwashing of the US public into white coat and big pharma worship. Another low hanger is their influence in medical texts and schools. This is how we now have a dumbed down and captured medical profession. After that, stop congressional lobbying. I've been saying these things for decades, and the problem is in Congress and the people who elect them.

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It would definitely kill a lot of worthless media as well. Their golden goose would be gone. No more "Bought to you by Pfizer". The media's advertising income is somewhere between 25-33% from the pharma cartel. If an advertiser can take a quarter or third of your revenue and give it to your competition, how long are you going to be in business?

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Great and the kind of woke we need. ”Europe was the first Wild West”. Yes. Time to take a good hard look at deep history. It is all there in full technicolour.

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Good article... However there are a few things I like to add.

First is this...

Zeng He is valued by many Asian Nations to this day.

Zeng He told the Emperor that the outside world has nothing... so they burned the boats and closed China.

There is more... the Native Americans trace their genetics to China as they found 40.000 years ago in bones in America... the same DNA.

You will find Chinese DNA in the Inca Atztech right down to Argentina.

Christianity is Mind Control and you also find inside the Vatican proof of our Alien Ancestors as it is buried there.

The Chinese Language and writing System is Pictorial as our brain works with pictures and sound.

Our Writing system is mathematical as we are controlled by mathematics.

We are limited by mathematics.

True Intelligence comes from Intelligenz of feelings... instinct... emotional intelligence.

As for the Matrix...

STARLINK NEURAL LINK NEURAL LACE and OPEN AI.

https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/klaus-schwab-darpa-harvard-elon-musk

I warn people for a long time about this yet nobody picks it up.

They are building the Matrix around us, literally physically and technologically.

As for new technologies look no further than here.

https://fritzfreud.substack.com/p/the-invention-the-illuminati-does

Again they try to bury this and no one picks me up on this.

Yet no one can prove me wrong.

And if no one can prove me wrong... I am right!

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Mar 23, 2023·edited Mar 24, 2023

I'm not working off anecdotal evidence, I am repeating what many others smarter than me who know far more than I do from independently derived experience and with no identifiable reason for saying such a thing, do repeatedly say - that the military has been working with the aliens for decades.

This whole phenomenon is beyond strange. Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater, which is a goal of psyops and the common response of simple-minded binary thinkers.

You may have experience with a lower-level less successful government project. I am surprised that you believe that because it did not work in your experience, it cannot work. That's an error of faulty generalization. The government funds many projects which compete, some successful, some not. Those that are not successful become cover for those that are successful.

The CIA - a hard-headed government agency not easily fooled - has documented Uri Geller's paranormal perceptual ability as "unambiguously successful," despite Geller's many flops and modeling of underwear, neither which is dispositive. See here:

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110003-2.pdf

I'm not totally down yet with the military working alongside the aliens as being fact but the more I learn, the stronger that conclusion becomes. I am also finding disturbing information that the military is involved with the torture and mind control of American citizens on a widespread basis (estimated at 50,000 Targeted Individuals - google that) and this seems to parallel reports of what the aliens are doing.

It is possible that outer-space-aliens and UFOs do not exist and everything along those lines is a result of our military directing highly advanced secret technology against We the People for some reason. As a real-life example, focused directed energy beams can ionize nitrogen and oxygen atoms creating a 3D glow that pilots see and radar picks up as jumping around in the sky. Some speculate UFOs are a military psyop that will cumulate in a false Alien Invasion narrative. A counter-narrative might be that the aliens have already invaded us with genetic manipulation, so no need.

The alternative explanation is there are millions of psychologically tested and found normal people around the globe who are experiencing an interlocking extremely detailed mass psychosis repeated with consistent particulars that they consider a real experience and adamantly state actually happened, the telling of which causes them to lose their jobs, family, and friends, and be considered crazy by their community. I believe these people who relate their experiences because, if it happened to me, I surely would not say a word about it to anyone ever. as it would be crazy to do so.

Not sure which explanation is more likely but neither is good. That which we've always considered impossible is becoming possible. I've experienced non-ordinary events as have most people. I've concluded that what we believe to be impossible is not necessarily so. Everyone unable to think differently will be left behind.

The alien phenomena thing is the most worthwhile non-boring intellectual adventure. Like quantum theory relative to Newtonian physics, it leaves pedestrian thinkers behind.

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Excellent piece. The point that Pharma is the boat and not the Emperor is key.

Sasha Latypova’s research has established that the DOD was pulling the strings on the pandemic response (and the vaccines specifically), with Pharma essentially just acting as a front. That strongly suggests that the pandemic itself was a DOD operation. (For those unfamiliar with her work, I strongly recommend that you go over to her substack and check her out.)

Of course, the question is just kicked down the road a bit, since the question now becomes ‘who controls the DOD?’. But at least we are a bit closer to the culprit.

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People pull strings. Institutions are strings. Yes the DoD is engaged. Who in the DoD is driving engagement, amd why?

I called the Plandemonium a DoD operation since the beginning. But now that others are jumping on board, I see a need to sculp the meaning of such a tag line.

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Mar 22, 2023·edited Mar 22, 2023

Yes, indeed, on the question. Who?

As to your DOD attribution, you write on such a variety of topics that your early identification of their involvement must have slipped past me. What impresses me about Latypova’s analysis (and, to be fair, that of her colleague Katherine Watt [sp?]) is their deep dive into the contractual and legal underpinnings of the vaccine rollout.

As you know, she makes the case that since the pandemic came under the legal framework of an emergency response, the DOD had the ability to command a medical treatment that was not subject to the dictates of the three stage clinical trial protocols of the FDA. The corollary is that all of the clinical testing done by Pfizer and Moderna of their ‘vaccines’ was essentially Kabuki theater, since the DOD did not require it and no one was subject to any downside in the event that the shots were harmful. (Perhaps that explains the regulators' seemingly bizarre indifference to vaccine injury.)

This line of argument, of course, is a legal one and, while I follow it to some degree and think it reasonable, I am neither a lawyer nor have I examined the documents. So I take them at their word.

But her second principal finding is that the generally accepted story that Pfizer and Moderna a) created these vaccines in - literally - days and b) produce the vaccines themselves, is not true. The vaccines are produced by hundreds of companies, each doing a small part of the work, with still other companies doing the final packaging of the doses. The distribution of this work is international in scope and very involved and here Latypova's deep experience in the Pharma industry allows her to see this for what it is. To wit, logistical complexity of this scope requires very long lead times to put in place. Pharma knew this was coming, and for a while.

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Correction: "The corollary is that all of the clinical testing done by Pfizer and Moderna of their ‘vaccines’ was essentially Kabuki theater, since the DOD did not require it" This is false. It's Pfizer's argument, and it's a lie. It's one of the core arguments going on in the whistleblower fraud case against Pfizer being brought by Robert Barnes on Brook Jackson's behalf.

The contracts explicitly stated that Pfizer had to go through the FDA testing and pass. The judge himself even brought up that point before initial arguments in the hearings, according to Barnes when discussing what he could about the in-court oral arguments.

However, I agree that the testing and whatnot Pfizer/Moderna did IS kabuki theater. But that doesn't excuse them from their fraud.

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Yep

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I had read quite a while ago that William Rockefeller used to sell crude oil from Seneca, NY as a cure for cancer and probably other ailments and the public started calling Seneca oil snake oil. I guess both stories could be correct. But William was John D's dad and that seems likely how John D got the idea to make pharmaceuticals from petroleum, which could be sold for much higher prices than plain oil.

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They can cure cancer but cancer is more lucrative for them.

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I linked a JJ Couey Twitch post on purifying viruses last Dec, speaking of the hall of mirrors. The link is no longer active, but your chat with him about it is still on rumble. A lot of people linked his twitch post, but there is no indication why it is gone. Any idea?

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Does Twitch save videos? I have no idea. Probably better to ask him.

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Sorry to bother. I was having trouble figuring out how to contact him, but I think I finally figured it out.

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Try JJ's Gigaohm site archive that has more old content. https://gigaohmbiological.com/archive

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Thank you. I didn't know about that.

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