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28.1.21

Q Drops The Ball

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 Q hasn't posted since 8 December 2020.  Donald Trump has (apparently) left office.  The Qult and Qvians are in disarray.  None of Q's predictions came trye and all the Q Proofs can be explained without Trump in the loop.  And, of course, folks are linking Q to a Russian op called Operation Trust.

So is this the end?

Producer Bernard Grover joins Jeff Rense on Rense Radio on 26 January 2021, to discuss where things stand and where the Q Phenomenon is going.

3.1.21

The State Of The Disunion

 

 


The reader may not be aware of this, but the American left and right are in the same box.

The Progressives are being shunned by the Democrats, and the Populists are being shunned by the right.  The reason is simple, but the mess commonly referred to as US politics is a hot mess.


The Democrats have been under seige by the Progressive left since the 1972 campaign of George McGovern.  The left has had an ongoing crush on Socialism for a long time, but the mass student movement in favor of McGovern was the first time that segment of  the Body Politic had discovered just how many people supported the ideology and the power they had to affect the nation.

It could be argued that FDR was the first Progressive/Socialist president, and it's a strong argument, but the ideological sentiments of the general public weren't quite there.  The Comunist/Socialist movement began in the 1920s in the US, but FDR cherry-picked the elements that would draw the widest public support for his campaign - Social Security, government spending on public works, price controls, etc.

By the 1972 election, the Progrssive/Socialist ideology had found a significant voice in the population at large.  They put up a strong challenge, but the entrenched American right won out and put Nixon in office, but the Progressives made in-roads in local and state offices and continued to build on it.

In 1976, widespread disgust with Nixon led to a backlash and a squeeker victory for Jimmy Carter.  Carter ws the classic "bleeding heart" liberal - emotional, sentimental and naive.  When he gave away the Panama Canal, the right was shaken out of their complacency, realizing that the left had no clue how to run a nation, and placing the nation's strategic interests in the hands of people who felt sorry for other nations was a direct line to ruin.

Sure enough, China bought the port concessions at both ends of the canal, but that's a different blog.

The backlash was palpable.  In 1980, Carter was trounced by Ronald Reagan, a kind of Pro-Freeper, who subscribed to free markets, minimal regulation and low taxes.  It worked.  The economy took off, millions made fortunes, but unchecked greed has its drawbacks.

The entrenched interests who had taken over the country in 1963, with the death of JFK, weren't happy.  And the Socialist left was getting ansy.

GHW Bush was granted a term in office to give lip service to the Reaganites, while the Bush crime family (intricately linked to the JFK assassination) had time to find a suitable guardian for their interests.  In stepped the Clintons.

Billary - for they cannot be separated, like the Katzenjammer Kids - were the perfect pair.  Bill was the mellow dude about town, while Hillary was the hardcore McGovernist.  Together they played both sides of the fence.  Bill attracted the lassaiz-faire right, while Hillary appealed to the radical left.  They were the transition couple, lulling the right into complacency, while sliding the Agenda under the RADAR.  Bill did what he was told as long as the trim and bud kept coming, and Hil injected her vitriol into the Body Politic.

It takes a lot of effort to stop a pendulum.  With Carter, it has swng to the left, and the momentum carried it all the way to Reagan, so Bush the Elder slowed it, the Clintons caught the left swing, and Shrub caught the right swing.  Altogether, they slowed the swing of the pendulum towards the nadir, where absolute destruction lay waiting.

In stepped Obama.  This piece of work was essentially the echo of Billary.  He was the mellow dude about town with a radical bent that would have made McGovern blush.  He almost stayed the pendulum, but there was a growing backlash in the form of Ross Perot/Ron Paul adherents who believed the Reagan Revolution had not gone far enough.  There was unfinished work, and this Obama dude was going the wrong way (compare election results for 2008 and 2012).

America was sliding back towards the right when the left put Hillary up for auction.  This panicked the right.  Rugged Individualism dies hard on the rocks of Socialism.

In steps Donald Trump.  Trump was a hold-over from the Reagan Revolution.  He was a self-made billioniare who was the symbol of 1980s Enlighened Greed.  He was the .Gordon Gekko prototype.  He was a marketing genius who had made his own name synonymous with luxury and had created a media empire from scratch.

But if Carter was the naive left, then Trump is ihe naive right.

The backlash against Trump was immediate, profound and relentless.  He was hounded from the moment he announced his campaign until he left office.  Hillary had been chosen to stop the pendulum, but Trump won, because no one but Trump had foreseen the vast, silent Populist masses that they thought they had silenced with Ron Paul, just as the right thought they had silenced the Progressives with McGovern.  Both were wildly wrong.


What has become glaringly clear in Election 2020, is that there are two competing ideologies that are diametrically opposed and will not be silenced - and are no longer willing to be marginalized.  The Estalishment, installed under Wilson, encouraged by FDR, glamorized by JFK, disheartened by Nixon/McGovern, energized by Reagan, placated by Clinton/Shrub/Obama have been finally pressed together like opposing magnetic poles, and they will fly apart against all efforts to confine them.

We are seeing a Revolutionary Civil War, unlike anything that has arisen before.  One might point to the Soviet Union, but the left in that case was exhausted and capitulated.  In the current case, there is an entrenched oligarchy that has played two camps against each other for decades, but have now lost control of both, and everyone loses.

Trump has likely lost, but a Harris administration - I mean Biden - is a disaster.  Think of the brilliant scene in John Carpenter's Dark Star, where a character gets into an existential argument with a bomb.  The bomb's entire raison d'etre is to explode, but because it can't be released from the bomb bay, the character desperately needs to talk it out of "becoming".

What's really going on in the US, is that the Establishment have put forth their preferred puppet, Kamala Harris.  They have disguised her as Joe Biden, who will be removed from office almost as fast as the echoes die down drom his Oath of Office.  Trump is waging a war against a foe he was ill prepared to handle.  In his inflated self-image, he thought he could negotiate his way out of anything, but he never met a foe such as the one he faces now.  It is a global interlinked cabal of mutally blackmailed Elitists who are scared to death they are going to be lamp-posted and their century-long effort to take over the world will be lost forever.

Talk about motivation.

How can we sum all this up neatly?  Well, America's genetic roots are a bunch of people who wanted to be left the hell alone.  They are pursued by people who have had and want to continue having control  over everything.  There are vast numbers of people on the ;leave me alone' side, and the US Constitution is in their favor.  There is vast wealth and ancient history in the other corner.  They are entrenched and intractible and have been at war for centuries.

There is a solution for the US, and it has succeeded elsewhere.   What remains is to determine the resolve of the independents and whther they are married to an abstraction or reality.

Stay tuned...



1.1.21

From Whence, Whither To?

 


Here, on the precipice of the Brave New World, we have reached a nexus in history as seems to happen every 500 years.  The Age of Exploration and the Renaissance was the last moment of choice, and the outcome of our current age will steer history for centuries to come.

There are three contexts which are in flux, as they always are at these nexus points - culture, reason and politics.  Within the context of culture, we find religion, art and education.  Under the topic of reason, we find science, health and philosophy.  The topic of politics encompasses law, social order and economics.

That culture is in turmoil is indisputable by even the most bovine character.  Religion of all flavors has been in decline for the last century.  Art has devolved from ascendant aesthetics to taping bananas to the wall.  Education, particularly in the West, is completely wrecked by any classical standard.

At the last nexus point, the Catholic Church dominated the West, and by extension of the Age of Exploration, much of the world.  In AD 1000, the Church declared dominion over the entire Earth in trust for the return of Christ.  This moment set up the following nexus, where the European powers were subservient to Rome, though in the 1500s, Martin Luther and Johannes Gutenberg were already planting the seeds that would flower in our current nexus. We now see the Church as a faded and corrupt relic of a day long past.  This is only one example, but the ability of religion to dominate and control culture is withering fast.

Art is quite nearly dead, and has been in the throes for a century.  For centuries, art was the elevation of raw materials to sublime beauty.  Canvas, pigment and stone were manipulated to draw out form, balance and harmony to transcend the materials used.  In the last nexus, art exploded in an orgy of creativity and new techniques that reformed the degraded culture in the Great Rebirth.  In our current nexus, we see herds of mindless sycophants applauding piles of garbage, a pair of glasses and regurgitated milk.  Even our newest art form - film/video/photography - has rotted and putrefied in less than a century, to the point it no longer elecates and educates, but dictates and castigates.  Art has crossed the line from the sublime to the propagandistic.  It has become a celebration of the ugly, the profane and the sacrelege. 

When it comes to education, it is nearly impossible to find an example of it anywhere in our nexus.  The very concept of teaching the tools of critical thinking is derided, and people with degrees in "education" are lauded while simultaneously being self-contradictory - how can one be "educated" in education?  Rote recital of doctrine has replaced logical inquiry at every level and in every college  The humanities are little more than ideological clap-trap, and the sciences have devolved to grant chasing.  One no longer learns to question assumptions, but to regurgitate them as Truth and never question them.  This is not education.  Reasoning with letters and numbers is derided as antiquated foolishness, while universities literally offer doctorates in foolishness.

As the culmination of culture, reason is a fundamental quality of civilazation.  That science, health and philosophy are the results of applying art, religion and education to the great questions of existence.  Science is supposed to seek fects in repeatable patterns that are free of bias and assumption.  This leads to greater health and logetivity, providing us with more time to pursue truth, and this, in turn, leads to philosophy, where facts are intrepreted for meaning within the randomness of the Universe.  Sciene, though, has been perverted into providing plausibility to stupidity, which undermines our health, and robs us of the search for meaning by corrupting facts and diverting our time to circular pursuits.

Take for example the scourge of our nexus point - the COVID pandemic.  The most profound assumption of this whole event is that viruses make us sick.  Rather than constantly examining the facts underlying the pandemic, science has been co-opted to uphold the dictates of organizations with agendas, the most crass of which is profit.  This undermines our health, not because we are getting sick from a virus, but because the reactions we are told to have are based on an incorrect assumption.  This culminates in a philosophy of humanity versus nature, rather than us against our selves, and so our search for truth is completely derailed by a simple, inccorect assumption.  How much different would our world be right this moment if we assumed that illness was not caused by the virus, but rather our body's response to its presence was making us sick?

At the apex of the foregoing sits politics.  How we conceive of and institute the legal, ordinal and economic structures of our civilization are completely dependent on our cultural and rational underpinnings.  What we call moral and acceptable is a function of our art, education and science.  Though all of these things may be categorized and typed, they are ultimately and completely dependent on each other to craft moral law, order and exchange.  Art determined harmony.  Harmony crafts fairness.  Fairness informs the law.  The law establishes order.  Order allows for exchange.  Exchange buys us health.  Health delivers philosophy.  Undermine any of these, and our world is thrown out of balance.  Undermine all of them and we arrive at a nexus point of choice.

At the last nexus 500 years ago, we chose the secular nation-state over genetic sovereigns; we chose capitalism and a vibrant middle class over command economies and rigid class systems; we chose free and open inquiry into the nature of the Universe over superstition and magic.  In other words, our species entered its puberty.  It is interesting that a debate now rages over puberty-arrestng drugs and gender fluidity, as a kind of metaphor for our civilization at large.

In our current nexus, we are faced with the ultimate choice - turn back to childhood, or proceed into adulthood.  Do we cling to Santa Claus and the Eater Bunny?  Or do we open our eyes to reality and responsibility?  In AD 1000, our species chose to turn back to childhood, and it was another 500 years before we finally accepted the inevitable.  Once again, we face reversing course and cowering in our myths and legends, or boldly and maturely stepping into our next stage of development.

We don't wake up one day and find that we are adults.  It is a process of develoment in which certain values and realities become inevitable.  In the same way, our species has been making a series of choices over the past century or so that have been leading us to a moment of critical choice.  It is not whether we wear a mask or a certain individual becomes president of a country tha tultimately matters.  It is rather that what we choose now will accelerate or inhibit our journey towards the inevitable.

That we will be forced eventually to mature as a species is inevitable.  When we will accept that reality and the responsibility that goes with it

We all know individuals who were responsible and mature at a young age, and others we generally refer to as "late bloomers".  This is the nature of our current nexus.  It is as simple, yet as complex as that.  Watching an individual mature at the gross scale seems fairly straight forward, but observing the process on the cellular level is mind-numbingly complex.  In either case, the process happens and only our understanding and appreciation of the process differes.

Like all adolescents, there are powerful forces pulling us in different directions.  Part of our species wants to remain in the familiar and carefree world of magic and fantasy, while the inexorable force of Nature herself is dragging us into the realm of adult responsibility and mature wisdom.  We are each a cell in the body politic, a neuron in the collective mind.  Consciously or not, we each are pushing or pulling, advancing or regressing

At some point, though, we must realize as a species that remaining forever children will be hazardous to our health.

This is the true Great Reset.