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July 3, 2023
Synergistic pairing of ivermectin and fenbendazole HIGHLY EFFECTIVE at preventing and treating cancer
Dr Eddy Betterman
During the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) “pandemic,” the powers that be made it a top priority to discourage and even prevent the general public from using ivermectin as a prophylactic, instead pushing masks and “vaccines.” Well now there is another use for ivermectin that is sure to put it right back in Big Pharma’s crosshairs, and it involves the treatment of cancer.
One of the “side effects” of taking ivermectin for COVID, it turns out, is that it also helps prevent cancer cells and tumors from forming. This could be very helpful for those dealing with the sudden onset of “turbo cancer,” a phenomenon that appeared not long after the launch of Operation Warp Speed.
If “fully vaccinated” people who got jabbed for COVID had easy access to ivermectin, many of them could potentially find relief and healing from it. And even better is the fact that fenbendazole, another anti-parasite drug, also works to fight against cancer.
“What would happen if one did a combination therapy for both the prevention and treatment of cancer using BOTH ivermectin and fenbendazole?” asks “2nd Smartest Guy in the World” on his Substack. “The synergistic pairing would be far more effective than just using one of these miraculous drugs.”
(Related: Gold standard medical science proves that ivermectin is a powerful remedy against COVID.)
Ivermectin and quercetin together fight prion diseasesWhen taken together, ivermectin and fenbendazole deliver a one-two punch to cancer. When combined with other anti-cancer nutrients such as quercetin, vitamins C and D, and curcumin, the effects are even more pronounced.
Preclinical studies show that both ivermectin and fenbendazole exhibit cytotoxic effects against cancer cells. The two drugs also inhibit the growth and spread of cancerous tumors.
“The mechanisms underlying these effects appear to involve disruption of critical cellular processes, leading to cancer cell death,” wrote Sid Belzberg in a paper cited by one of 2nd Smartest Guy in the World’s readers.
Both ivermectin and fenbendazole are off-patent drugs, meaning their original intended use as licensed has expired and they have become generics. This allows for many different generic drug manufacturers, including a slew of them across India, to produce them cheaply and abundantly.
United States regulators make it hard to access them without a prescription – unless you purchase the versions available for pets – but they are out there. And when combined with other anti-cancer vitamins and minerals they show incredible promise in cancer prevention and mitigation.
You will be hard-pressed to find much helpful information about these two drugs in the mainstream, though. Because they are off-patent, ivermectin and fenbendazole bring in minimal profits, which means pharmaceutical companies are not interested in promoting them or touting their benefits.
Belzberg makes the case for ivermectin and fenbendazole to be compounded with other complementary substances to create a synergistic anti-cancer concoction that is safe and effective for widespread use.
“Despite these challenges, the repurposing of these compounds carries potential advantages that justify further exploration,” Belzberg wrote. “Since the safety and pharmacokinetic profiles of these substances are well-known, their development as anticancer agents could be faster and less expensive than for new drugs.”
“Furthermore, the successful repurposing of these compounds could provide a cost-effective way to expand anticancer treatments, possibly improving patient outcomes while reducing healthcare costs.”
Another paper by Belzberg suggests that taking ivermectin with quercetin can synergistically fight prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs.
TSEs represent a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the misfolding of the prion protein, or PrP.
“The promise shown by ivermectin and quercetin in their potential anti-prion activities and their modulation of tauopathy offers an interesting avenue for further exploration,” he wrote.
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Ancient Indian Religions: Origins and Rise of Jainism
Episode 9 Origins and Rise of Jainism
A History of India
Michael Fisher (2016)
Film Review
The Jainist religion, which teaches absolute nonviolence towards all living beings, first arose in India, alongside Buddhism, around 500 BC. As northern Indian cities increased in their size and trade capacity, members of the Vaishya varna (responsible for agriculture, trade and other business pursuits) were using their knowledge of commerce to increase their wealth and power, while paying taxes and protection money to members of the Kshatriya (warrior) varna.* Growing dissatisfaction with their lower station under Hinduism made them especially open to new religions.
Southern India, where members of the top three varnas (Brahmin, Kshatriya and Vaishya) were very sparse; members of the lowest Shudras varna (artisans, laborers and servants); and women and outcasts were all strongly draw to new religions offering them more prestige.
Jainists believe there are are 8.4 million levels of life “monads” characteried by a life force (“jiva”) independent of the physical body. They also believe that 1) bad karma is created by violent thoughts and actions, leading to a lower level of rebirth and 2) austere living can ward off bad karma.
Mahavira (600-500 BC) is the founder of Jainism. Born into a Kshatriya family, he declined to follow his family’s Khatriya dharma, opting for austerity instead. He only ate a small amount of food without jiva (unsprouted grain). In addition, he strained all his drinking water and kept his mouth and nose covered to avoid inhaling small insects. Traditionally Jainist monks sweep the ground in front of them to avoid stepping on any insects. Jainists also forbid slaughtering livestock, fishing and animal sacrifice.
The five Jainist vows include
Live nonviolently.Avoid falsehood.Avoid theft.Avoid ostentatious pride in possession.Avoid unchastityMahavira lived 40 years as an ascetic and achieved nirvana by fasting and sitting motionless until his jiva left his physical body.
Both Jainism and Buddhism arose during a period of considerable political and economic growth. Both religions rejected the Veda and reached out to non-Sanskrit speaking people. The Jains fundamentally rejected the present world with its illusions of pleasure, viewing earthy existence as mere transition.
Jainism began in the central Gangetic Plain and migrated to the commercial centers in Rajasthan and Gujarat, where Jain merchants thrived. From there, it extended to south India to incorporate Dravidian speakers. Jain monks in south India remained closer to Mahavira’s original teachings and abandoned all clothing after he died. Southern Jainism doesn’t permit women to become nuns. Northern Jainists permit women to be nuns and wear simple unstitched white robes.
Chandra Gupta, founder of the Mauryan Dynasty (which created the first major Indian empire), converted to Jainism and eventually gave up his empire to starve himself to death.
At present approximately 5 million Indians (0.4% of the population) are Jainists and there are 1-2 million outside of Indian. Occasionally rich Jain merchants renounce their wealth to become ascetics and starve themselves to death.
*See The Vedic Origin of India’s Castes
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July 2, 2023
Age of Gender Dysphoria Diagnosis Dropping
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Indoctrination Working to Besiege Younger Persons with Gender Crisis
A physician e-mail from Medscape highlighted a paper by Sun et al on the dropping age of gender dysphoria in publicly available data. If gender dysphoria was an organic psychiatric illness, it would have steady epidemiological parameters. The enormous campaign for transgender acceptance, hypersexuality, and pornography introduced into schools appears to be working. As the data show, gender dysphoria is still largely a post-pubertal issue, however, the curves are reaching down to the pre-pubertal age groups.
Sun C, Xie H, Metsutnan V, et al The mean age of gender dysphoria diagnosis is decreasing General Psychiatry 2023;36:e100972. doi: 10.1136/gpsych-2022-100972
The authors readily acknowledge that social engineering of “gender fluidity” into the use of pronouns, school pornography, and social media campaigns is having an influence. Parents should pay attention to this trend. There is a clear attempt to create psychopathology in younger age groups were it did not exist in years before.
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Via https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/age-of-gender-dysphoria-diagnosis
Covid Vax: Findings Unprecedented that Just 5% of Batches Caused 100% of Deaths
Former Pfizer Vice-President Dr Mike Yeadon
The Expose
On October 31st we revealed how an investigation of data found in the USA’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) has revealed that extremely high numbers of adverse reactions and deaths have been reported against specific lot numbers of the Covid-19 vaccines several times, meaning deadly batches of the experimental injections have now been identified.
The investigation uncovered several shocking findings, including that 100% of deaths reported to VAERS as adverse reactions to the Covid-19 injections were caused by just 5% of the batches produced.
Dr Mike Yeadon, former Vice-President of Pfizer, has detailed his thoughts on the conclusions of the investigation of VAERS data below.
Read the full Investigation here
By Dr Mike Yeadon
This information about different safety profiles of different “lots” (batches of finished product of covid19 vaccines) is completely without precedent.
I’m thinking about it and I don’t yet have clear in my mind what the envelope of plausible / possible explanations are.
But the bottom line is that the majority of lots were associated with good short term safety, few hospitalisations & deaths, which is true for both the Pfizer & Moderna injections.
But in both cases, a small number of vaccine lots are associated with incredibly high rates of adverse events including deaths.
How can this possibly happen? Drug manufacturing is performed to exacting standards of control. The ‘active’ agent is made in batches. It cannot be guessed how many doses each batch makes, because no one has ever made commercial scale mRNA products before.
But each batch of what’s called “drug substance” is then used to formulate, fill, pack & label various lots of finished drug product.
Testing methods are developed for all of the manufacturing steps, together with standards for the results to be considered acceptable.
Something happened between drug substance & drug product which resulted in a small number of finished lots for distribution which were destined to kill huge numbers of people.
Possible explanations (not exhaustive):1. Errors made in the final steps of manufacturing which resulted in certain batches bring reasonably benign & others extraordinarily deadly. I just cannot imagine the kind of mistakes which could produce such radically different clinical profiles. For example, poor handling during shipping & storage prior to administration to people. Problem I have with this is that such handling errors (eg allowing temperate to rise way above limits defined in stability testing) usually result in drug product which doesn’t work properly, as it’s degraded, not in drug product that’s incredible dangerous.
2. At some point in manufacturing, someone or some entity actively modified what was being filled into vials, and it was this which resulted in extreme skew of clinical safety profile.
There has been so much truly awful behaviour of “elites” that I’m simply not willing (as I would have historically) to dismiss the possibility that this has been done on purpose.
What I do know, and this is a test of whether there’s the slightest sign of integrity from these companies as well as the regulatory agencies, is that all use of the affected produce must immediately cease, all batches of drug substance & lots of drug product should cease.
The materials should be recalled to a place of stable storage & an intense analytical investigation initiated.
Unless factors are found which adequately explain the huge differences in clinical adverse event profiles, administration to humans must not restart.
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Via https://expose-news.com/2021/11/01/dr-mike-yeadon-just-when-you-though-things-couldnt-get-any-worse/
Florida issues MALARIA alert as mosquitos emerge in Sunshine State
Dr Eddy Betterman
The Florida Department of Health has issued a statewide mosquito-borne illness alert after four people in Sarasota allegedly fell ill with malaria this week.
After the four Florida cases and another one out of Texas came to light, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning of its own – the first, in fact, to be issued for locally transmitted malaria in the United States since 2003.
All four of the people in Sarasota who were bitten by malaria-spreading mosquitoes have since recovered. All of them contracted P. vivax malaria, according to state health officials, which is said to be a less fatal strain.
Symptoms of malaria include headaches, nausea, vomiting, sweating, fever, and chills. Those who develop such symptoms unexpectedly are encouraged to seek medical help within 24 hours of onset.
The Florida Department of Health is also urging all residents across the state to take precautions whenever outdoors by using appropriate bug spray and avoiding mosquito-prone and mosquito-infested areas, especially at sunrise and in the evening when mosquitoes are most active.
(Related: Last fall, the bioweapons industry released genetically modified [GMO] mosquitoes into the wild that spread malaria-causing plasmodium parasites.)
Only mosquitoes can transmit malaria – people can’t spread it to other peopleAll five cases were locally transmitted, which is unusual in that most cases of malaria in the U.S. occur in people who recently traveled overseas, particularly to third-world countries in Africa, and became infected.
While it is good news that malaria does not transmit from person to person, authorities are concerned that infected mosquitoes will continue spreading it in the communities where it has been detected.
In both Sarasota and Manatee counties, officials and local partners will conduct both aerial and ground spraying operations to try to rid the area of malaria-spreading mosquitoes.
The Texas case was confirmed in Cameron County, which includes the city of Brownsville near the Mexican border, suggesting that perhaps the single case there occurred in an illegal alien or “migrant” crossing the border.
The CDC does not believe that the cases in Florida are related to the case in Texas as there is no definitive evidence linking them to one another.
Back in 2003, eight reported cases of mosquito-borne malaria were reported in Palm Beach County on the other side of Florida, this being just the second time in 20 years that local transmission of malaria has occurred in the U.S.
To prevent mosquitoes from infesting your property, officials suggest getting rid of all standing water in things like buckets and trash cans where mosquitoes love to breed. It is also advised to discard all refuse; regularly clean bird baths and pet bowls at least once a week; and maintain swimming pools.
To keep mosquitoes away from your body, apply mosquito repellant, preferably a natural variety containing oil of lemon eucalyptus and / or citronella. For children under age two, mosquito netting in particularly infested areas can provide protection.
“I hear hydroxychloroquine is a good remedy for malaria,” one commenter added. “I know many people who have used it. Will they let people use this common drug or force an inferior and much more expensive patented alternative?”
“What further draws suspicions about the entire gene-edited mosquito release in Florida is the fact that the Oxitec project is being supported by two highly controversial agencies – Gates Foundation and the Pentagon’s DARPA,” wrote another about how this sudden malaria outbreak could be a bioweapons operation.
Via https://dreddymd.com/2023/07/02/florida-issues-malaria-alert-as-mosquitos-emerge-in-sunshine-state/
July 1, 2023
Of Course Greta Met with Zelensky
By Caitlin Johnstone
Of course Greta Thunberg met with Zelensky. Of course she did. That was the only box left to check off in the most PR-intensive proxy war of all time. They got Bono. They got Mark Hamill and Sean Penn. They got appearances at the WEF, the New York Stock Exchange and the Grammys. They just needed Greta.
As with 2016 and 2020, by far the largest US election interference in 2024 will come not from Russia or China but from American oligarchs and empire managers. This is treated as fine and normal, because American oligarchs and empire managers are the nation’s real government. US election interference is an inside job.
We’ve been seeing this illustrated with RFK Jr’s censorship by Google-owned Youtube:
.@YouTube just pulled another of my videos, with former NY Post political reporter @al_guart. People made a big deal about Russia supposedly manipulating internet information to influence a Presidential election. Shouldn’t we be worried when giant tech corporations do the same?
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 27, 2023
We also saw it illustrated recently when Obama’s acting CIA director just casually admitted to using his intelligence connections to orchestrate a blatant psyop to manipulate the 2020 election using false information, and literally nothing happened. It was just accepted as fine and normal.
It’s only illegitimate election interference if unauthorized foreign powers do it or if ordinary Americans do it; when US oligarchs and empire managers do it it’s just the normal thing that’s supposed to happen.
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A 2014 study found that Americans have no idea how bad income inequality in their country really is; participants believed things are vastly more equal than they are. This is because western media never report on the class warfare that is being waged against the working class. The media are owned and controlled by extremely wealthy people who have a vested interest in keeping everyone from looking at class warfare, and the most influential media employees share this interest because their empire apologia has made them rich as well. That’s why they keep everyone focused on culture wars, irrelevant partisan spats, and other vapid nonsense.
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The US empire is like the mind of a highly dysfunctional person. There might be parts of it that sometimes say “I shouldn’t be like this, I should change,” but the way it’s wired points it toward destructive behavior. There are significant parts of the empire who are acutely aware that things like military overextension and ramping up aggressions against China run directly against its own interests, but because the forces which pilot the empire’s actions are pointed in that direction, it’s happening anyway. The empire keeps waging destruction the way an addict keeps using.
The reason you seldom see people change despite their stated intent to do so is because your behavior doesn’t change just because you know it should, it changes when you fix the underlying forces within yourself which drive that behavior. It’s the same with the US empire. The US empire is inseparable from the forces of neoliberal capitalism, war profiteering and unipolarism with which its true leadership has intertwined itself, so while the odd empire manager may say “end the wars” it never happens, because everything in it is oriented toward war.
This is the same reason we keep destroying our biosphere despite being acutely aware that we need it to survive. Every system we’ve set up to drive human behavior and organize human civilization is pointed toward ecocide, despite all the science saying that’s a bad thing to do.
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The Stupidest Revolt in History
By Dmitry Orlov
In its thousand-year history, Russia has seen many revolts and a couple of revolutions. There was the peasant war led by Stepan Razin, which lasted from 1667 to 1671. The rebellion was quashed by government troops and Razin was eventually captured and executed at the place of execution on Red Square in Moscow, called “lobnoe mesto”, which still stands. During his execution, the rebel kept his composure to the end and showed no sign of pain. The executioner first chopped off his limbs, one by one, then his head, then chopped his body into pieces and put them up on pikes, while his entrails were fed to the dogs.
Then there was the peasant war led by Yemelyan Pugachev, lasting from 1773 to 1775. It ended with an actual court trial, which, after interrogating Pugachev, rendered an official verdict, which read: “Yemel’ka Pugachev should be quartered, his head stuck on a stake, his body parts carried to the four gates of Moscow and placed on wheels, and then burned.” The sentence was carried out on January 21, 1775 at Bolotnaya Square.
Those two were proper rebellions, doomed from the start, to be sure, but not exactly stupid. There were some other rebellions too, but until last weekend the title holder of the stupidest Russian revolt ever went to the Decembrists. On December 26, 1825, an armed political demonstration took place on Senate Square in St. Petersburg. It became the largest political uprising of members of Russian nobility in the history of Russia. Its main goals were the overthrow of autocracy, the abolition of serfdom, the adoption of a constitution and the introduction of representative government. The leaders of the rebellion — members of the nobility and free-thinking members of secret societies — lied to the soldiers about the nature of their rebellion, marched them out and had them stand around in the cold. Then the soldiers got wind of what was happening, the meeting broke up and the leaders got arrested, interrogated, and eventually sentenced to internal exile.
During the interrogation, they were asked hard questions, such as “Who the hell filled your heads with these stupid ideas?” Ironically, their demands were eventually met: serfdom was abolished in 1861; the first Russian parliament — the Duma — was created by order of czar Nicholas II in 1905; and the first Russian constitution was created by the Soviet revolutionary government in 1918.
A considerable time later, thanks to the efforts of Lenin and his followers, who were looking for honorable historical antecedents to their great feat of shamefully surrendering to the enemy Russia’s great victories in World War I, triggering a full-on civil war that dragged on until 1923, and brainwashing an entire cohort of Marxist zealots that it then fell to Stalin to reign in using horribly repressive measures, the Decembrist rebellion was lauded as a precursor of the Great October Revolution of 1917. As a result, plenty of streets and squares in St. Petersburg and elsewhere are named after the Decembrists in general and their leaders individually, making a mountain out of what was, really a molehill of a monument to human stupidity that had stood unchallenged until last weekend.
then comes Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner PMC, a.k.a. “the musicians”. Private military companies played an important and necessary role in recent Russian history.
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The operation to force Kiev regime troops out of it became known as the Bakhmut meat-grinder. It was chosen specifically because there was no doubt that the Kiev regime would do its utmost to hold on to it, it being an important regional hub and its loss severely weakening the regime’s ability to resupply its troops and maneuver in the entire region. The super-dirty job of “grinding the meat” was given to Wagner PMC and its head Yevgeny Prigozhin, who recruited prison inmates for the job, promising amnesty to these bandits and cutthroats after their short tour of duty in absolute hell — should they survive. Indeed, the ones who had survived — about half of them, according to Prigozhin — were then released into the wild as promised, a few of them doing the stupid thing almost immediately and ending up back in jail where they started.
The object of the exercise was not just to capture Artyomovsk (that was more of a nice-to-have for Russia) but to deplete the Kiev’s regime mobilization potential. To this end, Prigozhin ordered that no prisoners be taken. Being a free agent not bound by any Geneva conventions, Prigozhin was free to do that without incurring the wrath of Russia’s Ministry of Defense, but the defense officials certainly hated him for it and such feelings were, I am sure, mutual.
And so, the hapless Ukie recruits — the ones without the wits to flee the country in time and without the money to pay off army recruiters — were forced to march forward and die at the hands of some of Russia’s most reprehensible miscreants, or they could attempt to retreat and get mowed down by the Kiev regime’s anti-retreat detachments that were dug in right behind them and stocked with vicious, swastika-tattooed, Mein Kampf-wielding Ukie Nazis. Drugged out of their minds on special preparations provided by the Americans, the poor Ukies marched to their death, zombie-like, feeling neither fear nor pain, crawling forward even when they could no longer walk. They died in numbers that would have thoroughly demoralized any army in the world — but not Prigozhin’s “musicians”!
First, it must be realized that Prigozhin had been fired. In accordance with an order issued by Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, all members of private military companies, euphemistically termed “volunteers”, are expected to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense by July 1; either that, or they become civilians. Apparently, Russia no longer has any super-dirty jobs like the Bakhmut meat-grinder and Russia’s army no longer has any reason to hide from its enemies; therefore, private military companies are to be disbanded. What, your Western intelligence people, military experts and journalists missed this incredibly pertinent fact? Perhaps you should fire them — like Shoigu fired Prigozhin.
Prigozhin certainly got the memo, but he didn’t want to go off quietly into the night. Instead, he resorted to a tactic that had been traditional among Russian bandits during the wild 1990s called “nayezd”: you show up to your enemy’s headquarters in force and heavily armed and present your demands as a dramatic way of starting the negotiation. Refusing to negotiate with terrorists and other namby-pamby rhetoric is then of no use: either you negotiate, or you die in a hail of bullets. An unnecessary death is a foolish death, and nobody wants to be remembered as a fool, so it is better to swallow your pride and negotiate even with the most despicable bandits.
But it’s not the 1990s and Putin is not the permanently drunk Boris Yeltsin. Putin called Prigozhin a traitor on national television, followed by a number of regional governors, followed by just about everyone else in public view. Many people remembered the traditional thing to be done to traitors in Russia: they are not to be shot (such a death is itself a sort of military honor); instead, they are to be hung by the neck until dead. But there is a moratorium on executions in effect in Russia, and many Russians took this opportunity to also reflect on this policy, thinking it overly vegetarian given the times.
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Prigozhin chose as the target for his “nayezd” the regional office of the Minstry of Defense headquarters in Rostov-on-Don, rolling into the city with tanks and armored personnel carriers. They found the building deserted and simply stood around, sometimes getting stuck as in the above photo. Meanwhile, another detachment was sent rolling down the highway north toward Moscow, greatly inconveniencing all the Russians driving toward their vacation spots in Crimea.
The rebel convoy got stuck when it ran out of fuel because the rebels’ fuel depot, located near Rostov, had been most thoughtfully set on fire beforehand. An uncomfortable standoff ensued, lasting some hours, with some fearless Rostov residents rubbernecking around corners while others (army veterans, mostly) marched right up to the musicians and described them to their faces using language so foul it could curdle milk. A few more people ventured forth to take photos, such as the one above, of a rebel tank stuck in the gates of the Rostov city circus.
It was all peaceably resolved by the end of Saturday, with Belarussian president Lukashenko agreeing to grant Prigozhin asylum and the “musicians” agreeing to return to their bases. Very little damage has been caused, considering what could have happened, and the “musicians”, who, in an echo of the Decembrist revolt, hadn’t been told what was really going on, are mostly going to be forgiven. Criminal charges against Prigozhin have been dropped and he is now free to form a new private military company in… Belarus.
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Via https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/7785c431-e41f-430d-b801-3a0605905468
The Unabomber Was a CIA Guinea Pig
Dr MercolaStory at-a-glanceTed Kaczynski [found dead in his prison cell on 6/10/23], better known as the Unabomber, earned notoriety for committing 16 bombings between 1978 and 1995Kaczynski was just 16 years old and already a student at Harvard University when he became part of the CIA’s top-secret MK-Ultra projectDescribing the CIA experiment, Kaczynski’s brother explained, “Every week for three years, someone met with him to verbally abuse him and humiliate him”Prior to his arrest, Kaczynski succeeded in getting The Washington Post and The New York Times to publish his 35,000-word manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future”Kaczynski’s manifesto, with its core premise of technology threatening to destroy the world and make humans its slaves, has struck a chord with a new generation of youth who have found themselves increasingly dependent on Big Tech and, now, AITed Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, earned notoriety for committing 16 bombings between 1978 and 1995. But before he turned violent, Kaczynski was used as a pawn by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which subjected him to cruel, mind-altering experiments.1
Kaczynski, then, could be described as a construct of the CIA, a product of its teachings. Three people lost their lives as a result of Kaczynski’s bombings, and 23 were injured, many seriously. He died in his North Carolina prison cell in June 2023, where he is said to have committed suicide.2
For some, his death puts to rest an era of terror that sowed fear into Americans. But many questions remain. Kaczynski’s homemade bombs were mailed to those he believed to be destroying society with technological advances,3 and the damage done to Kaczynski’s psyche by the CIA may never be fully known.
Unabomber Was Part of CIA’s MK-Ultra ProgramKaczynski was just 16 years old and already a student at Harvard University when he became part of the CIA’s top-secret MK-Ultra project. MK-Ultra involved mind control experiments, human torture and other medical studies, including how much LSD it would take to “shatter the mind and blast away consciousness.”4 According to Kaczynski’s brother, David Kaczynski:5
“The Harvard study my brother participated in was called “Multiform Assessments of Personality Development Among Gifted College Men.” It was overseen by the noted psychologist Henry Murray, who during WWII worked for the OSS [Office of Strategic Services] (which later became the CIA), where he developed methodologies for interrogating prisoners of war.
In his professional life, Murray was known for his brilliance and his grandiosity. In his personal life, according to his biographer, he displayed sadistic tendencies. His research on college men bears a certain resemblance to his research on prisoners of war. He was quite a big wheel in his day, perhaps as well known and influential in military and government circles as he was in academia.”
According to Jonathan Moreno, Ph.D., an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and a professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania,6 “The experiment Ted Kaczynski participated in at Harvard involved psychological torment and humiliation.”7
Moreno disclosed in a Psychology Today article that Murray, who conducted the three-year humiliation experiment, was a “close friend and colleague” of his father’s, although the Morenos weren’t aware of the trial. According to Moreno:8
Weekly Verbal Abuse and Humiliation“The Harvard study aimed at psychic deconstruction by humiliating undergraduates and thereby causing them to experience severe stress. Kaczynski’s anti-technological fixation and his critique itself had some roots in the Harvard curriculum, which emphasized the supposed objectivity of science compared with the subjectivity of ethics.”
Describing the CIA experiment, Kaczynski’s brother explained, “Every week for three years, someone met with him to verbally abuse him and humiliate him. He never told us about the experiments, but we noticed how he changed. He became harder, more defensive in his interactions with people.”9
After Harvard, Kaczynski received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan and went on to teach at the University of California, Berkeley, before largely disappearing from society.10 Prior to his arrest, he succeeded in getting The Washington Post and The New York Times to publish his 35,000-word manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future.” Moreno explained in 2012:11
“Kaczynski believes that the Industrial Revolution was the font of human enslavement. ‘The system does not and cannot exist to satisfy human needs,’ he wrote. ‘Instead, it is human behavior that has to be modified to fit the needs of the system.’ The only way out is to destroy the fruits of industrialization, to promote the return of ‘WILD nature,’ in spite of the potentially negative consequences of doing so, he wrote.”
Was Kaczynski’s terrorism the result of the CIA’s psychological torture? The world may never know. But in his book, “Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense,” Moreno states the psychological experiment could have left “deep scars.”12
Other Criminals Also Subjected to CIA TormentIn a review of “Mind Wars,” author and professional speaker Richard Thieme brings up another notable criminal who was subjected to CIA mind games — the late Donald DeFreeze, also known as Cinque, who led the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA).
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Was the Unabomber Mentally Ill?After his arrest, Kaczynski was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.15 His brother wrote:16
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Kaczynski, however, insisted he was not mentally ill and reportedly tried to fire his lawyers when they suggested using an insanity defense. He instead pleaded guilty and told Time magazine in 1999, “I’m confident that I’m sane. I don’t get delusions and so forth.”17
In a 2001 interview with Blackfoot Valley Dispatch, Kaczynski also describes his desire to live in the wild, which afforded him “certain satisfactions” like “personal freedom, independence, a certain element of adventure, a low-stress way of life.” It was a “crisis” that prompted him to leave society behind, he said.
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Kaczynski ‘Might Not Be Wrong’
Kaczynski’s manifesto, with its core premise of technology threatening to destroy the world and make humans its slaves, has struck a chord with a new generation of youth who have found themselves increasingly dependent on Big Tech and, now, AI.
Krystal Ball, host of “Breaking Points” with Krystal and Saagar, says in an episode titled, “Was Ted Kaczynski Right About Everything?”:20
“He also writes compellingly about the dangers of AI. He wrote, ‘A society in the problems that face it become more and more complex and as machines become more and more intelligent people will let machines make more and more of their decisions for them simply because machine-made decisions will bring better results than man-made ones.
Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control.”
Even Elon Musk tweeted about Kaczynski’s musings on technology’s dangers, “He might not be wrong.”21
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Others, including historian and journalist Oliver Bateman, have shared that many people share the same ideologies as Kaczynski, especially in their youth. “The young long for autonomy, to seize control in a world that often seems controlled by faceless entities and systems,” Bateman says.23 He, too, tested out life in a remote location in western Montana, but says he eventually “came to his senses” and returned to society:24
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A ‘Complicated Figure’Bateman suggests Kaczynski “never grew up” and didn’t learn to accept life’s disappointments. But Ball suggests the cogs in the machine are moving toward more empowerment and autonomy every day. Particularly since the pandemic, she says:25
“We’ve seen people move to find a quality of life, which more adequately nourishes their soul and their families. We have seen workers demanding accommodations for their new lifestyles rather than just sliding back into the old ways in which work life was everything.
We’ve seen historic support for worker-empowering labor movements and workers sparking grassroots movements to establish power and autonomy in their workplaces. These are all reformist attempts to reclaim the power that Ted argued the modern world had stripped from us all.
We should witness those attempts and we should be encouraged because for me personally I would like to find a way to promote human thriving and empowerment and protect the natural environment without having to give up antibiotics and air conditioning and maybe without indiscriminately murdering random people. So, Ted, complicated figure.”
The Unabomber’s story is, indeed, complex, and not confined to one person or event. Kaczynski’s brother explained, “My brother was a victim before he victimized others – and in this he is hardly unique.”
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Via https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/07/01/unabomber-mk-ultra-project-cia.aspx
The Rise of Woke Empire
Most gay folks remain unaware or unconcerned about the cynical weaponisation of their cause for ugly imperialist purposes.
By Marius Trotter
It’s not controversial to make the observation that American global hegemony is tottering, or at least in a serious crisis. But it is a dangerous illusion to make such a judgment too soon. In addition to its overwhelming military arsenal, the American Empire has another asset- its overwhelming cultural hegemony. Hollywood. Silicon Valley. Google. Facebook. Netflix. The force of cultural power is so great that tens of millions of people all over the world, even people whose countries have been devastated by US bombs and military coups, are hypnotized. Many will hand over their sovereignty, their culture, their history, their dignity to be part of the consumerist amusement park that’s being offered to them on their TV and iPhone screens. This power cannot be underestimated.
What the scholar Catherine Liu describes as “virtue hoarding”- the practice of the modern American professional managerial class to loudly broadcast its enlightened views on race, gender, and sexuality to justify its privileges over the ‘backward’ lower classes is something that the American Empire is planning to do on a large scale over the entire globe. This means that the United States will justify the right to dominate the world because it is morally superior due to its ‘progressive’ cultural liberalism. The Woke Man/Woman’s Burden.
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In 2020, what has been called the Great Awokening needs to be re considered in a new light. It was not a typical protest movement. Viewed in a different lens, it can be argued that the United States underwent perhaps the first internal ‘color revolution’ in its history. The playbook one has seen in Kyrgyzstan, in Lebanon, in Ukraine, in Venezuela, in Bolivia, and in Kazakhstan recently played out on America’s own streets. Color revolutions are not merely manufactured wholesale by the CIA or Western NGO’s out of whole cloth. Instead, such entities embed themselves into society, and when a crisis emerges from that society’s own internal contradictions, these organizations activate and steer the unrest in the direction US dominated corporate interests wish them to go. Organizations like the National Endowment for Democracy abroad, and the Ford Foundation at home, carry out parallel functions. Thus, regime change can be accomplished with a great deal of deniability.
This is what happened in the United States in the summer of 2020. Culturally liberal capital, especially the Big Tech oligarchs of Amazon, Twitter and Microsoft, immediately lined up behind the (originally spontaneous) mass street protests around George Floyd’s killing and poured tens of millions of dollars into Black Lives Matter. The purpose was twofold: reap a massive public relations coup by being seen on the ‘right side’ of a progressive cause, but also to use the protesters as foot soldiers to counteract Trump’s popular right-wing grassroots movement and drive Trump out of office. Trump represented the old way of doing Empire- overt right-wing nationalism, undisguised contempt for weaker nations, politically incorrect, xenophobic rhetoric. His crude bigotry was embarrassing to the professional managers of American Empire and threatened to undo decades of carefully cultivated US soft power. The suave sophisticates in Silicon Valley, in the drawing rooms of Langley, Virginia, and on Wall Street needed to remedy this.
A chaotic, undisciplined street movement, lacking strong leadership or a clear direction, quickly became molded by private capital in its own image.
[…]Biden’s coming to office inaugurated not just a new administration, but a new way of doing Empire. The CIA came out with a slick new recruiting video promoting its inclusivity of LGBT and saying that its mission was now ‘Intersectional’. Coups would now be about deconstructing white supremacy and heteropatriarchy.[…]
John Gray in the New Statesman describes this phenomenon thus bluntly: “Certain American thought has always tended to a certain solipsism, a trait that has become more prominent in recent times. If Fukuyama and his neoconservative allies believed the world was yearning to be remade on an imaginary American model, the woke movement believes ‘whiteness’ accounts for all the evils of modern societies”. In other words, Woke-ism is the new neo-conservatism.Facing a rising China and a resurgent Russia, the American ruling class needs a moralizing crusade to motivate its counter offensive against its enemies, both at home and abroad. Under the banners of Black Lives Matter, multi-colored Pride flags and trumpets announcing the correct gender pronouns, the guns of the American Empire will spread the creed of Woke Empire.
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‘Intersectionality’ is a different creature. Concepts like it arose entirely in the Ivy Leagues academia and reflect a distinctly upper middle-class morality. The formulation of these theories was in the 1980’s, as a reaction (and a capitulation) to the Reaganite counterrevolution which smashed the labor movement. Contrary to the claims of right-wing conspiracy theorists and left wingers alike, its links to actual Marxism are tenuous and in most cases nonexistent.
Kimberle Crenshaw, the dean of ‘intersectional’ theory, was always a liberal and never claimed to be a socialist of any sort. She was groomed for her position in academia by the Quill and Dagger Society at Cornell, an elite secret society heavily tied to the CIA (Paul Wolfowitz was one of its more prominent members). From 1913 and 1988 a member of this society was entering Congress every year. The cocoon of the heart of the Eastern establishment nurtured and rewarded the careers of these supposedly ‘radical’ theorists.
Why would the intelligence community and the corporate world be so comfortable with such theories? Because it tears the very heart out of any sort of egalitarian left from within. Intersectionality removes the centrality of class. Class struggle, and fights on the terrain of economic relations, are replaced with endless moralistic, individualistic struggle along cultural lines. Past revolutionaries always opposed racism and bigotry in all its forms of course, but it was always a component of an overall project for a socialist society. Without that overarching project it becomes a bourgeois philanthropic and evangelical enterprise, akin to the moral uplift projects of the Victorian British elite.
Like the war on terrorism, by waging wars on abstractions such as ‘racism’ and ‘patriarchy’, it’s a struggle that can never be won. And thus, is immensely profitable, for both the individuals who make careers off such a war and for institutions with a vested interest in diverting popular frustration and anger toward any struggle but class struggle. In the Great Awokening, we saw the rise of the new priesthood of this religion Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DeAngelo, and others. Kendi is directly on the payroll of the likes of (ex) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who gave Kendi a 10 million dollar donation to set up an indoctrination temple in Boston University.
This new religion is necessary because the old ways of managing the current American/Western order is falling apart at the seams. 40 years of hollowing out of the social state by neoliberalism has all come to a head in COVID, as the wealthiest society in human history allows a million of its people to succumb to a pandemic due to a lack of infrastructure to deal with a public health crisis. The much-vaunted middle class has collapsed in a heap. After generations of retreat and subservience, organized labor is fighting back finally, often over the protests of its own sellout union tops. Hundreds of thousands of workers went on strike in the United States in 2020 and 2021, the greatest strike wave in close to 50 years. Workers of all races, ethnicities, and sexes have no choice but to fight for safe workplaces, decent protective gear, rent control, universal healthcare, and decent wages.
In the New Gilded Age, the elite has no butter to give the masses. It has only austerity, repression, surveillance, and going along with that, a morality police staffed by its professional managerial elite.
We are already seeing woke ideology play out in the realm of workplace relations. ‘Racial sensitivity training sessions’ are being utilized by corporate management to spy on workers, sabotage union organizing drives, and provide a convenient pretext for the arbitrary firing of employees. There is an entire professional layer of the capitalist management structure (multibillion dollar industry) which not only makes its living off of ‘anti racism’ but which has no material incentive to actually solve the problem, and even has an interest in stoking the flames of division.
[…]Via https://www.midwesternmarx.com/articles/rise-of-woke-empire-by-marius-trotterUnderstanding the Wagner Private Military Company
By Larry Johnson
A Son of the American Revolution
There is a massive misunderstanding about the Wagner PMC. I want to try to clear up some of the confusion and erroneous assumptions.
First, Wagner PMC was created by the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence organization. Think of it as the CIA’s Special Activities Divsion (SAD) on steroids. It is a para military unit that carried out missions under the cover of a PMC but was controlled by the GRU. Wagner gave Russia the ability to carry out military missions without putting the reputation of the Russian military on the line. The military commanders of Wagner are former Spetznaz and conventional Russian military.
Second, Wagner PMC was a Russian military contractor, albeit “covert.” The cover was not robust but Wagner could project Russian military force without being overtly seen as a direct Russian operation.
Third, Prigozhin is the business CEO of Wagner. He has zero military experience but is an established contractor, just like Raytheon or General Dynamics in the United States. He handled (or mishandled) the money flowing to Wagner and probably spread the wealth among some commanders. The cash flow from Wagner added to Prigozhin’s wealth. It also fed his ego and provided him the illusion of being viewed in Russia an important military figure.
Fourth, Prigozhin reportedly cut a deal in 2018 with a Syrian war lord to capture a Conoco oil field in a portion of Kurd controlled territory, which was defended by a small group of U.S. Special Operations Forces. This was the Battle of Khashsam aka the Battle of Conoco:
The Battle of Khasham, also known as the Battle of Conoco Fields, was a military engagement of the Syrian civil war fought on 7 February 2018 near the towns of Khasham and Al Tabiyeh in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria. The Operation Inherent Resolve coalition delivered air and artillery strikes on Syrian Armed Forces and pro-government militias after they reportedly engaged a U.S. military and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) position in the region.
The United States explained the attack by stating that the pro-government forces had “initiated an unprovoked attack against well-established Syrian Democratic Forces headquarters” in the area, while coalition service members were “co-located with SDF partners during the attack 8 kilometers (5 mi) east of the agreed-upon Euphrates River de-confliction line”.[18][19][20] The Russian Ministry of Defence‘s statement, released on 8 February 2018, referred to the incident at the village of Salihiyah (located south of the SDF-held town of Abu Hamam in the Abu Kamal District) and said that it was caused by reconnaissance actions of Syrian militias that had not been cleared with the Russian operations command; the statement stressed that there were no Russian service members in the “designated district of the Deir ez-Zor province of Syria”
The United States, from its Joint Air Operations Center in Qatar, asked its Russian counter parts if there were any Russian personnel in the area, according to the New York Times:
American military officials repeatedly warned about the growing mass of troops. But Russian military officials said they had no control over the fighters assembling near the river — even though American surveillance equipment monitoring radio transmissions had revealed the ground force was speaking in Russian.
The documents described the fighters as a “pro-regime force,” loyal to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. It included some Syrian government soldiers and militias, but American military and intelligence officials have said a majority were private Russian paramilitary mercenaries — and most likely a part of the Wagner Group, a company often used by the Kremlin to carry out objectives that officials do not want to be connected to the Russian government.
“The Russian high command in Syria assured us it was not their people,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told senators in testimony last month. He said he directed Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “for the force, then, to be annihilated.”
This is the origin of Prigozhin’s anger with the Russian Ministry of Defense. Prigozhin, going rogue as part of a scheme to make some big money not tied to Wagner’s contract with the Russian MOD, authorized the attack and got burned.
This apparently was one of the motives for Prigozhin’s eventual meeting with Ukrainian and Western intelligence officers in Africa, which led to his harebrained scheme to take out the Defense Minister Shoigu and Chief of Staff of the Russian military, Gerasimov.
Apart from Prigozhin the other guilty party in the failed mutiny is the GRU or, more specifically, those GRU officers responsible for managing the PMC. It is highly likely that Prigozhin may have bribed his GRU handlers with some of the cash he earned on the side in order to get them to look the other way and allow him to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities. Those officers may be in more trouble than Prigozhin.
Wagner PMC is now consigned to history. It is kaput as a PMC. This explains why the MOD ended the contract with Wagner aka Prigozhin and established a deadline for moving the Wagner troops under the direct control of the Russian military.
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Via https://sonar21.com/understanding-the-wagner-private-military-company/
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