I just don’t understand what is happening in this country. We have the data yet the powers that be aren’t interested in incorporating those findings into their Covid decisions going forward. We learned, many months ago, from an American Insurance Company, that there was a 40% increase in all cause mortality since the Covid vaccine rolled out. More recently, the
I have captured the earlier comment by NCmom, as I receive an email whenever a comment is made, so I cut and pasted it and here it is again. I had provided a comment but that too was removed. IF this comment appears appropriately on the site, I will rewrite my comment. Thanks for your understanding.
NCmom
It’s about power not a virus. Control is much easier when demands are based on ideology and not objective truth. Covid is just the latest manifestation of centralizing government control over society via narrative. 1984 is playing out in front of our eyes and will continue to do so until public laws and policies become rooted in objective truth again. This administration wants policies rooted in whatever they say. It’s not just Covid. It’s ideological indoctrination of children. It’s in climate narrative that massively misrepresents the actual impact of IPCC estimates and demands rejection of clean and affordable energy like nuclear and natural gas instead opting for ecological destructive “renewables” that cannot power modern life. It’s in the narrative around Ukraine where we are supposed to ignore that Zelensky is an authoritarian and the Ukrainian government castrating captured Russian soldiers a war crime because we aren’t allowed to oppose Russia’s predictable (and preventable) invasion for what it is. No, our “leaders” demand we must lionize Zelensky as embracing an idealistic leadership style that he doesn’t actually embrace. If we don’t make up stuff to lionize an authoritarian people might be calling for peace and not to send tens of billions to the US military industrial complex to provide Ukraine with more weapons of death as we inch terrifyingly close to WW III and most of the world’s population turns their back in our neoliberal and neocon insistence on constant interference in global armed conflict that mostly just destroys live, societies, and spreads misery for over the last 2 decades. This is about the WEF’s long and clear goals to make western countries poorer. To destroy our once few societies just as they destroyed our once free economy. This is about hoping people own nothing by 2030 and demanding they be happy anyway. If you think it’s about a virus none of it makes sense, but that’s because it’s about controlling people and not a virus.
So, the government can be trusted to not lie about its war policies? I appreciate Tucker Carlson acting as a journalist rather than as a stenographer for the government when it comes to war and public health policy. In my opinion the US is responsible for engineering a coup d'etat in Ukraine in 2014, relying on Nazis to carry out the coup and to pressure the government to carry out anti-Russian policies advocated by the Nazis. There has been a civil war going on in East Ukraine since 2014, killing over 11,000 civilians and over 3,000 combatants in east Ukraine. Repressive measures taken against those who protested the coup included the herding of protesters into a trade union office building that was torched, burning to death over 40 people, others who survived after jumping out of windows were killed. Ethnic Russian in Ukraine lost their civil rights, have been denied pension payment. The Russian language was banned. The expression of "pro-Russian" views became a violation of the criminal code punishable by imprisonment. Since 2019 Zelenski has kept the leader of the most popular opposition party under house arrest for advocating "pro-Russian" policies. Since the Russian invasion, all opposition parties have been banned and the news media placed under the editorial control of the government. The government in Ukraine has been a puppet of the US and the ultra-nationalists and self-identified Nazis. The goal of the Biden administration is regime change in Russia. That was the point of using its influence over Ukraine's government to adopt a hostile attitude toward Russia and ethnic Russians. Ukraine was not formally admitted into NATO, but has been trained and equipped by NATO and conducted joint military exercises with NATO. The constitution of Ukraine was amended during the tenure of Zelenski to require the government to seek NATO membership. NATO membership has been an announced "red line" for the Russian government since 2008. In my opinion, Russia had no good options other than to militarily intervene. The US foreign policy establishment hopes that the combination of sanction and a large scale military operation will lead to a popular revolt and regime change in Russia.
I disagree completely about the Trump statement, and about Tucker Carlson. I am myself a libertarian socialist, and the libertarian part of that means that civil liberties are my primary value. Trump is perfectly entitled to think that Putin is a genius (and many share his opinion), as Carlson is entitled to inform the world about the US's support of neo-Nazis in Ukraine for the last eight years (and indeed that has been going on since WW2), as well as our biolabs there. You said it yourself--free speech is free speech, and if you don't believe in it for some, you've announced yourself as an authoritarian. You don't get to say "I don't believe in free speech for those who disagree with me, or those whose speech outrages me." If you don't agree, you are entitled to make an argument about how they are wrong. You are not entitled to silence them. Frankly, I'm sickened by your essay.
Tucker Carlson has been speaking out against the Covid insanity from the beginning, when other talking heads at his network remained silent or even furthered the mainstream narrative. Now he's saying something you disagree with and you want him censored? I'm a bit confused why you would call for that.
Same thing for Trump, he is expressing his opinion. You may disagree, I may disagree, but he and Carlson and all Americans have every right to express their opinions. What do we do when we disagree? We write, we speak, we try to have civli discussions. Maybe in those discussions, we will learn something new, or be exposed to an idea we hadn't considered before. Open minds are the way forward. Censorship is the stuff of totalitarian nightmares.
If we support censoring ideas and opinions that we don't agree with or even believe are dangerous, then we support censorship in general.
It appears that once again, NCmom's comment has been removed. Please know that I did not remove it. Perhaps there's a bug in her computer......I'm not an IT person so I can't offer any explanation. No other comments appear to have been removed except hers and then my initial reply to her comment. Again, I did NOT delete any comments.
I am always happy to respond to those with different opinions as long as it is done in a respectful manner. I'm sorry to see you go but perhaps you'd be better served on another platform. I thought we had some good discussions in the past but apparently it wasn't sufficient for you. I wish you good health and happiness.
I'm afraid that prior comments have been inappropriately removed for some bizarre reason. I want those who left comments, along with my responses, to understand that I did not remove their comments. I will notify substack about this hack of my site.
I don’t watch Tucker Carlson (or any MSM propaganda, for that matter), but calling for his silencing sets an extremely dangerous precedent.
We should have learned after two years of COVID censorship that those who define “misinformation” are the pathological liars attempting to suppress the truth (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/dispatches-from-the-new-normal-front), and it is necessary to allow all viewpoints so people can exercise their own critical thinking tools to assess the complexities and arrive at their own conclusions accordingly.
Permitting the state or *any* entity to define facts/truth and suppress “lies”/“misinformation” is a recipe for Orwellian totalitarianism, and we are already so far down that path, it is going to take a massive effort to overturn the tyrannical suppression of free speech already underway.
It also sounds like you are missing the nuances of the Ukraine situation and falling for the mainstream propaganda about the intentions and actions, which is surprising because you were able to see through the COVID propaganda and don’t appear to realize the same puppeteers are concocting the Ukraine narrative.
Regarding the Ukraine, the situation is far more complex than the propaganda portrays. We have two WEF dictators, one in the classic flavor and the other sitcom. Zelensky is the more easily controlled, and getting the Ukraine in the EU (not to mention NATO) will ultimately serve the WEF’s New World Tyranny goals. The historic corruption in the Ukraine had led to great suffering amongst its citizens, and many who identify as Russian hope for liberation, much as those suffering under Stalin hoped for liberation by the Nazis as Solzhenitsyn describes. Clearly neither is desirable, but there are nuances not being captured by the media (big surprise).
This analysis by The Good Citizen offers an excellent overview of the complexities:
So much more damning information has come out since I wrote that comment—and now Zalensky has gone full-on totalitarian dictator by combining all media outlets into one (Ministry of Truth, anyone?), censoring free speech, outlawing different political parties, etc. Although a US proxy and WEF puppet, he has become drunk on his power and is escalating the crisis, pushing the world closer to the brink of war. I would be very cautious about aligning with such a figure, particularly given the strong Nazi component in the Ukraine and their history of atrocities against those in the Donbass, etc. This is by no means a black-and-white situation and to view it as such is as dangerous as believing the globally coordinated COVID propaganda.
Dr Rabin, I appreciate you soliciting feedback on your free speech opinions. Although I disagree strongly with many of Tucker’s views, nobody on Main Stream Media does a better job of allowing unpopular facts to be heard. You may recall that he gave Rachel Maddie her start on MSNBC when he frequently invited her on at a time when her views were considered dissident and unpopular. Now Tucker brings on peoples like Arron Mate to discuss unknown facts about Ukraine. Our leaders who navigated us through our most dangerous times, like Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy always tried to understand what other actors were thinking. Now we only try to understand the world like it’s a comic book. We need voices like Mate, former CIA presidential briefer Ray McGovern and Professor Mearsheimer for context. Otherwise we will be as easily manipulated as we were before the Iraq invasion.
THE FIRST AMENDMENT. Free speech is critical to our freedom. How can you point out the lies about Covid that have been told the last two years and then want to shut down Tucker because you disagree with his opinions. I prefer to live in an America where I can hear both sides of a discussion and make up my own mind.
Nothing is a greater threat to truth than censorship. Although Jonathan Swift's words "Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it" may be true, the fact is that absent censorship, the truth does eventually catch up and overtake the lie. The desire you display to use government (or proxy actors closely aligned with government) to halt falsehood immediately echoes similarly unproductive desires to use government to end poverty. Interference with the free interaction of individuals destroys the incentive structure that would otherwise propel us to a better (but far from perfect) world. You have seen the consequences in the COVID context. The consequences will be the same here as this principle is universally applicable. If there was some omniscient arbitrator of truth then such intervention could be highly effective. But even if such a thing exists, such an arbitrator will never be the one to control the levers of censorship.
To me what makes the most sense is just the financial motives...at least, social security in the US...the pensioners the world about, who are not valued for much these days by the likes of the WEF, though Klaus should watch out there, maybe they will iceberg him too along the way.
Show where it says a human being is supposed to be a profit making venture? I thought the goal was to more or less break even, live simply as possible. I will never understand it either.
They are indifferent to the point of psychosis or they would not be able to do this. Passion only belongs to humans, in my mind. best-read Clif High today if you haven't yet it is very inspiring.
I have captured the earlier comment by NCmom, as I receive an email whenever a comment is made, so I cut and pasted it and here it is again. I had provided a comment but that too was removed. IF this comment appears appropriately on the site, I will rewrite my comment. Thanks for your understanding.
NCmom
It’s about power not a virus. Control is much easier when demands are based on ideology and not objective truth. Covid is just the latest manifestation of centralizing government control over society via narrative. 1984 is playing out in front of our eyes and will continue to do so until public laws and policies become rooted in objective truth again. This administration wants policies rooted in whatever they say. It’s not just Covid. It’s ideological indoctrination of children. It’s in climate narrative that massively misrepresents the actual impact of IPCC estimates and demands rejection of clean and affordable energy like nuclear and natural gas instead opting for ecological destructive “renewables” that cannot power modern life. It’s in the narrative around Ukraine where we are supposed to ignore that Zelensky is an authoritarian and the Ukrainian government castrating captured Russian soldiers a war crime because we aren’t allowed to oppose Russia’s predictable (and preventable) invasion for what it is. No, our “leaders” demand we must lionize Zelensky as embracing an idealistic leadership style that he doesn’t actually embrace. If we don’t make up stuff to lionize an authoritarian people might be calling for peace and not to send tens of billions to the US military industrial complex to provide Ukraine with more weapons of death as we inch terrifyingly close to WW III and most of the world’s population turns their back in our neoliberal and neocon insistence on constant interference in global armed conflict that mostly just destroys live, societies, and spreads misery for over the last 2 decades. This is about the WEF’s long and clear goals to make western countries poorer. To destroy our once few societies just as they destroyed our once free economy. This is about hoping people own nothing by 2030 and demanding they be happy anyway. If you think it’s about a virus none of it makes sense, but that’s because it’s about controlling people and not a virus.
So, the government can be trusted to not lie about its war policies? I appreciate Tucker Carlson acting as a journalist rather than as a stenographer for the government when it comes to war and public health policy. In my opinion the US is responsible for engineering a coup d'etat in Ukraine in 2014, relying on Nazis to carry out the coup and to pressure the government to carry out anti-Russian policies advocated by the Nazis. There has been a civil war going on in East Ukraine since 2014, killing over 11,000 civilians and over 3,000 combatants in east Ukraine. Repressive measures taken against those who protested the coup included the herding of protesters into a trade union office building that was torched, burning to death over 40 people, others who survived after jumping out of windows were killed. Ethnic Russian in Ukraine lost their civil rights, have been denied pension payment. The Russian language was banned. The expression of "pro-Russian" views became a violation of the criminal code punishable by imprisonment. Since 2019 Zelenski has kept the leader of the most popular opposition party under house arrest for advocating "pro-Russian" policies. Since the Russian invasion, all opposition parties have been banned and the news media placed under the editorial control of the government. The government in Ukraine has been a puppet of the US and the ultra-nationalists and self-identified Nazis. The goal of the Biden administration is regime change in Russia. That was the point of using its influence over Ukraine's government to adopt a hostile attitude toward Russia and ethnic Russians. Ukraine was not formally admitted into NATO, but has been trained and equipped by NATO and conducted joint military exercises with NATO. The constitution of Ukraine was amended during the tenure of Zelenski to require the government to seek NATO membership. NATO membership has been an announced "red line" for the Russian government since 2008. In my opinion, Russia had no good options other than to militarily intervene. The US foreign policy establishment hopes that the combination of sanction and a large scale military operation will lead to a popular revolt and regime change in Russia.
I disagree completely about the Trump statement, and about Tucker Carlson. I am myself a libertarian socialist, and the libertarian part of that means that civil liberties are my primary value. Trump is perfectly entitled to think that Putin is a genius (and many share his opinion), as Carlson is entitled to inform the world about the US's support of neo-Nazis in Ukraine for the last eight years (and indeed that has been going on since WW2), as well as our biolabs there. You said it yourself--free speech is free speech, and if you don't believe in it for some, you've announced yourself as an authoritarian. You don't get to say "I don't believe in free speech for those who disagree with me, or those whose speech outrages me." If you don't agree, you are entitled to make an argument about how they are wrong. You are not entitled to silence them. Frankly, I'm sickened by your essay.
Respectfully disagree.
Free speech is free speech.
Tucker Carlson has been speaking out against the Covid insanity from the beginning, when other talking heads at his network remained silent or even furthered the mainstream narrative. Now he's saying something you disagree with and you want him censored? I'm a bit confused why you would call for that.
Same thing for Trump, he is expressing his opinion. You may disagree, I may disagree, but he and Carlson and all Americans have every right to express their opinions. What do we do when we disagree? We write, we speak, we try to have civli discussions. Maybe in those discussions, we will learn something new, or be exposed to an idea we hadn't considered before. Open minds are the way forward. Censorship is the stuff of totalitarian nightmares.
If we support censoring ideas and opinions that we don't agree with or even believe are dangerous, then we support censorship in general.
It appears that once again, NCmom's comment has been removed. Please know that I did not remove it. Perhaps there's a bug in her computer......I'm not an IT person so I can't offer any explanation. No other comments appear to have been removed except hers and then my initial reply to her comment. Again, I did NOT delete any comments.
I am always happy to respond to those with different opinions as long as it is done in a respectful manner. I'm sorry to see you go but perhaps you'd be better served on another platform. I thought we had some good discussions in the past but apparently it wasn't sufficient for you. I wish you good health and happiness.
I'm afraid that prior comments have been inappropriately removed for some bizarre reason. I want those who left comments, along with my responses, to understand that I did not remove their comments. I will notify substack about this hack of my site.
I don’t watch Tucker Carlson (or any MSM propaganda, for that matter), but calling for his silencing sets an extremely dangerous precedent.
We should have learned after two years of COVID censorship that those who define “misinformation” are the pathological liars attempting to suppress the truth (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/dispatches-from-the-new-normal-front), and it is necessary to allow all viewpoints so people can exercise their own critical thinking tools to assess the complexities and arrive at their own conclusions accordingly.
Permitting the state or *any* entity to define facts/truth and suppress “lies”/“misinformation” is a recipe for Orwellian totalitarianism, and we are already so far down that path, it is going to take a massive effort to overturn the tyrannical suppression of free speech already underway.
It also sounds like you are missing the nuances of the Ukraine situation and falling for the mainstream propaganda about the intentions and actions, which is surprising because you were able to see through the COVID propaganda and don’t appear to realize the same puppeteers are concocting the Ukraine narrative.
As I encouraged Dr. Robert Malone (whose own views have since become more nuanced) in this comment (https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/get-prepared-for-2022/comment/5342096):
Regarding the Ukraine, the situation is far more complex than the propaganda portrays. We have two WEF dictators, one in the classic flavor and the other sitcom. Zelensky is the more easily controlled, and getting the Ukraine in the EU (not to mention NATO) will ultimately serve the WEF’s New World Tyranny goals. The historic corruption in the Ukraine had led to great suffering amongst its citizens, and many who identify as Russian hope for liberation, much as those suffering under Stalin hoped for liberation by the Nazis as Solzhenitsyn describes. Clearly neither is desirable, but there are nuances not being captured by the media (big surprise).
This analysis by The Good Citizen offers an excellent overview of the complexities:
https://thegoodcitizen.substack.com/p/ukraine-in-the-membrane
This Amazing Polly video from October 2019 is also highly illuminating:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/VHud_qBZrhM/
——
So much more damning information has come out since I wrote that comment—and now Zalensky has gone full-on totalitarian dictator by combining all media outlets into one (Ministry of Truth, anyone?), censoring free speech, outlawing different political parties, etc. Although a US proxy and WEF puppet, he has become drunk on his power and is escalating the crisis, pushing the world closer to the brink of war. I would be very cautious about aligning with such a figure, particularly given the strong Nazi component in the Ukraine and their history of atrocities against those in the Donbass, etc. This is by no means a black-and-white situation and to view it as such is as dangerous as believing the globally coordinated COVID propaganda.
Dr Rabin, I appreciate you soliciting feedback on your free speech opinions. Although I disagree strongly with many of Tucker’s views, nobody on Main Stream Media does a better job of allowing unpopular facts to be heard. You may recall that he gave Rachel Maddie her start on MSNBC when he frequently invited her on at a time when her views were considered dissident and unpopular. Now Tucker brings on peoples like Arron Mate to discuss unknown facts about Ukraine. Our leaders who navigated us through our most dangerous times, like Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy always tried to understand what other actors were thinking. Now we only try to understand the world like it’s a comic book. We need voices like Mate, former CIA presidential briefer Ray McGovern and Professor Mearsheimer for context. Otherwise we will be as easily manipulated as we were before the Iraq invasion.
THE FIRST AMENDMENT. Free speech is critical to our freedom. How can you point out the lies about Covid that have been told the last two years and then want to shut down Tucker because you disagree with his opinions. I prefer to live in an America where I can hear both sides of a discussion and make up my own mind.
Nothing is a greater threat to truth than censorship. Although Jonathan Swift's words "Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it" may be true, the fact is that absent censorship, the truth does eventually catch up and overtake the lie. The desire you display to use government (or proxy actors closely aligned with government) to halt falsehood immediately echoes similarly unproductive desires to use government to end poverty. Interference with the free interaction of individuals destroys the incentive structure that would otherwise propel us to a better (but far from perfect) world. You have seen the consequences in the COVID context. The consequences will be the same here as this principle is universally applicable. If there was some omniscient arbitrator of truth then such intervention could be highly effective. But even if such a thing exists, such an arbitrator will never be the one to control the levers of censorship.
To me what makes the most sense is just the financial motives...at least, social security in the US...the pensioners the world about, who are not valued for much these days by the likes of the WEF, though Klaus should watch out there, maybe they will iceberg him too along the way.
Show where it says a human being is supposed to be a profit making venture? I thought the goal was to more or less break even, live simply as possible. I will never understand it either.
They are indifferent to the point of psychosis or they would not be able to do this. Passion only belongs to humans, in my mind. best-read Clif High today if you haven't yet it is very inspiring.