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I certainly believed the news and the government proclamations when I was much younger. If the government or the news said something, I assumed it was correct. But I don't believe them anymore. I have lost faith in the honesty and integrity of our government, especially the federal government. I started losing my faith in the government well before the covid scam but the covid scam absolutely sealed the deal. I now believe almost nothing that the government says about anything. It all seems to be a deliberate manipulation. The government routinely withholds information from us, exaggerates other information and blatantly lies to us. But it's not just the government that I have lost faith in. Our biggest institutions including large businesses, the legacy news, the medical establishment, universities and virtually all 3-letter agencies of the Federal government all actively cooperate in scams for some of that $9T government payout. It's a very sad state of affairs. I will extend what you said a bit further by saying nearly any conspiracy—past, present or future—not only seem possible they seem likely.

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You said exactly what I would have written. I can understand those in the 40 and under crowd who thought the Pandemic was real, because I was one of the people who wholeheartedly believed what they told us about 911 and the War on Terror when I was that age. It's just a time of life before one wises up by life experience for most people. Some people, like Mark, are blessed with a certain radar for BS.

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most of my friends are older than myself (66) but still fell into the hole wholeheartedly. And some are still going strong - running for the next jab. Playing roulette and not realizing it.

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roulette has better odds than the some going strong running for the next jab have. More than one injection and it's just a matter of time and not much of that from what I see.

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🎯👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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The ongoing covid scam has opened many eyes and ears that will no longer unquestioningly trust the government, media, politicians, or celebrity "influencers." That's probably the only good that's come out of the last 4 years.

In addition to the fallout you mentioned post 9/11, it also gave us the Dept. of Homeland Security, the TSA, and the Patriot Act.

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Well they're all controlled by the same people at the top so...

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Same people... from the bottom. They come from a hellish, amoral place.

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I don’t want to assume all here have gone down the rabbit hole of 9/11. If you haven’t, here are some resources:

https://www.ae911truth.org/

At 5 hours in length, this documentary asks more questions than it answers. It was my red pill moment on 9/11:

https://rumble.com/v12urxr-september-11-the-new-pearl-harbor.html

I’m now in the process of my red pill moment with Sandy Hook:

https://rumble.com/v4qs7zw-dear-wolfgang-exposing-the-truth-behind-sandy-hook-live-watch-event.html

Oh. And one more. The moon landing:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xciCJfbTvE4

Do I believe anything our government has ever told us or will ever tell us?

Not. A. Chance.

Edit - one more on JFK, Jr. - 6 mins (yep, I proudly wear my tin foil hat):

https://rumble.com/v1wd20c-one-for-the-history-books.html

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We have not had the country we thought we had for a very long time.

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Yup. The world's not ending...just the illusion.

We're just at a point in history where it's all being revealed.

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I hope so.

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Precisely!👍

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don't believe anything you've learned about ww2 in the government schools either.

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I had hoped you had a link to the German documentary I saw a year or 2 ago, where engineers came together and explained how 911 was not caused by the planes. Have not found it back, it was on YouTube. Only recently, because an estimated professor mentioned the fake moon landing, I started looking at it. I was a kid at the time and of course believed all that was on TV (like unfortunately most still do). I am not yet convinced one way or another, but rather go to the fake side now. Specially since I read in the Dutch files, that the so-called moon rocks they got were petrified wood. And that all the documents, films, calculations, Nasa had, are lost. Right.

Thankfully we now have computers and lots of people have documented on the covid scam. When it comes to viruses, I keep in the middle as well. I think some germ exists, prefer not to call it virus LOL, but that also your general health and the environment play crucial roles. I have fallen ill after close contact with sick people, but I also stayed healthy after visiting a family, all sick in bed. There goes - first time I probably either had never met that germ, and got sick, and then as a cleaning woman encountered all the germs in the world and did not get sick. To my knowledge I haven't had the covid yet - or it might have been the invisible one LOL

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Fake moon landing?

I prefer to show sceptics another view on the Apollo program to manifest its reality. Instead of "wrong looking" shadows of devices or astronauts on the moon surface etc., I recommend taking a look at technical documents that describe various system parts and how to operate them.

Go to https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/alsj-LMdocs.html

There you'll find, e.g., the operation manual for the LEM's computer, and how to write code for it. These 20 documents refer only to one part of the project (lander descent/ascent/flight navigation). Some thousand pages in sum. There are tons of documents for other Apollo hardware.

If you are an engineer, you can see clearly the content of the documents actually makes sense in what they describe, some refer to other subsystems, there are revisions with errata and the like. You can fake some minutes of video, but it's impossible to fake manuals on quite complex system elements that never existed (in case of a hoax) without ending up with a lot of bullsh*t. Do you think all that stuff was written by real engineers on Apollo tech they first had to fabulate somehow, only to make up for a perfect mimicry of the fake? That is far out of scope.

Okay, then one question is left: Say the whole Apollo hardware was invented, built and put together, but maybe they didn't really fly the missions? Hm. That would have turned out as an horrible lesson for the thousands of people who put 10 years of work into the Apollo project, just to be told near launch day that NASA decided to "fake" it. And all of them kept quiet about it without any expression of anger or discouragement? And don't forget: All of them were okay to repeat that circus 17 times? This sounds absurd.

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That's a savable link

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Thanks for these links--many thanks! esp. re Sandy Hook (and to think that I--purely from ignorance--used to think Alex Jones a kook!). Now hope to hear him with Tucker in Reading PA. Some years ago, a "Sandy Hook mother" came to our large suburban-Phila. school district, to address the whole district-wide faculty, with a very emotional Powerpoint and tear-dripping presentation. And I thought (not yet believing that SH was a sham--which conclusion I came to on my own, later)--so what are we supposed to do with all this emotion? Concluded that perhaps we teachers (so many of whom proudly consider selves "progressives") were being primed to be anti-2A? Ironic if so, as by 2018, my leftie asst. principal was broaching the idea of armed teachers.....Then came the school shooting where cops were told to "stand down" and it was a mother who had courage to run in and grab her kid. So--that to me was evidence of government choosing to sacrifice children for its own goal. And if that were so, then why might not Sandy Hook be another? And if that, why not the Twin Towers? It wasn't just New Yorkers who were terrified. I was in Heraklion (Crete) on 9/11. The store clerk had a TV on behind him--I could see images of the White House. In broken English the clerk advised us to go around the corner to a TV store, where goodness knows how many screens were displaying images of the attack. Back in Athens, a vendor who did not speak English was trying to express to me that he feared a world war (Crete had a USAF base officially closed in 1955, but I witnessed air force planes flying over the island 9/11 or 9/12--they must have come from some where)--all I caught was the word "polemos" which was vaguely familiar to me from when I actually studied/read ancient Greek--the word for "war". As in, polemic.

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Will be hearing Alex Jones with Tucker Monday eve--bought the tickets this morning!

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Yeah, everything is a lie, fraud and a scam. Impossible not to see that if you have even the smallest discernment. Once the lizards got the federal reserve, they had everything. Now we are seeing a culmination. It will still take a few years but the lizards think they have won.

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Since covid I have flipped totally from slightly sceptical trust to 100% distrust as a default when listening to anything the government or msm says.

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I'm shocked by how so many people that saw COVID as a hyped up scamdemic didn't see the obvious weirdness around 911!

I suppose it's because back then, the mass media was the popular source.

Anyway, yeah 911 was odd... They were running drills of hijacked planes on the same day... The coincidence that it's the same day of the "worst terrorist event ever".

What's even crazier about that event was how firefighters spoke about hearing explosions from under ground levels before the buildings started to collapse.

Obviously, the official investigation didn't take note of this....

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what I remember most was the constant repeating of the same old song, like they did with covid. On the wet market bla bla bla... that put up the first red flag for me. Then Alex Berenson mentioned how little people on that princess ship had died from the deadly virus, and I think it was him, too, who found out that someone went testing with cotton swabs, and how people died after it. And some other Stackers reported how the covid had broken out in Europe way earlier - like September, so the first Idea of the October military games being the spreader did not add up either (although lots of sick people after these military went back home)

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Thank you, Mark, for connecting those dots, seeing the parallels between 9/11 and the pandemania. From the hour that it happened, skeptical people exclaimed that steel-framed buildings just do not collapse into their own footprint without a demolition job. Even journalists had not been clued in as, on national TV, they exclaimed, "And we just heard another explosion from inside the World Trade Center," and they interviewed passersby who had also heard and discussed explosions. The talking points memo had apparently not yet arrived.

To me, 9/11 was an obvious scam from the beginning, to false flag for Mideast war and mega bucks for Dick Cheney and his ilk.

I think that awareness plus Fauci's many failed media attempts over the decades to stoke fear for flu shot sales, made the COVID scam even more obvious from the beginning.

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The "you're not a doctor" crowd is the worst. Bitch please. I don't need to be a doctor. Being a doctor, or having any "scientific knowledge" is no basis to abuse or infringe upon people in any form or fashion. Period. Notwithstanding any biological or physical reality or realness of any of the surrounding claims. It has to be said. Because that is ALWAYS used as a convenient excuse to become authoritarian scum, and that can NEVER be ok.

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Bitch please. Hahaha, I should have used that more often when I was accosted for the audacity of showing my free face.

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Thanks for posting another excellent essay, dear Mark.

One thing especially that struck me about the past few years, starting with the covid lockdowns, was how the incessant drumbeat of the "war on terrior" + let's-be-super-scared-of-islamo-fascists stories just kinda went... poof. (.. and remained on extra extra low volume in the shadows even after, oh yeah, even after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban... )

Do I wonder why? [insert here GIF of crocodile laughing]

But yeah, at the airport we still have to make the circus with our stuff, including handing over our bottles of water and manicure scissors.

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TB, be careful flying. Many passengers don't wear masks and they might be superspreaders.

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LOL. From what I've seen in airports of late, plenty of passengers are wearing masks— that tells me they're probably recently boosted and shedding all over the place. (Though who knows, maybe a mask is just handy cover for a missing front tooth.)

Call me "Fearless Flyer"

PS I note that the life-sized brachiosaurus in the O'Hare airport is no longer wearing its blue mask.

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Again, there has been NO proven human to human infection/contagion of this disease. NONE. It's easy to take the gov tack and accept that this disease and all disease can "spread" amongst humans. If that doesn't cause someone to abandon this entire contagion/virus model, nothing will.

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On a return flight from Kenya to the UK many years ago, Security confiscated my tweezers, which I’d mistakenly put in my hand baggage. My husband whispered to me that he’d planned to threaten the pilot “Take me to Cuba or I’ll pluck your eyebrows.” That at least made me less mad about losing a very good pair of tweezers.

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I was flying home to Canada years ago, starting in Kansas City to Chicago to Montreal to my final destination. I had a pair of nail clippers or very small scissors (I can't remember) in my carry on. They were discovered in Montreal by the uniformed thug. He said in a very loud voice "THESE ARE ILLEGAL!" I shrugged and said "If you say so". Funny though that they passed trough KC and Chicago undisovered.

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Tweezers?? For fucks sake!

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that laughing crocodile made my day LOL.

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Also lets not forget that the current ongoing Psyop of which Coronamania was and is a prong of is Anthropogenic Global Warming and the incessant overhyping of the weather.

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O God, don't get me going on that. 40+ year old scam there and still going 'rather' strong. Anyone needing help with destroying that narrative for themselves: Suspicious0bservers(dot)org - find the climate change movie/documentary.

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“Laying claim to peril allowed many to self-identify as potential victims and thereby added desired drama to their lives and provided an excuse to ‘work from home’ or avoid contact with unpreferred others.

“Potential victim hood” is a brilliant insight and perfectly captures the resistance to facts I came across on Facebook during the early days of the scamdemic. “I’m immunocompromised” or “I have a family member who is immunocompromised” were incessantly thrown at me as excuse for why we should destroy society.

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Yes, I heard the same thing. So many immunocompromised people.

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Immunocompromised.... with fluoride in the water, processed foods, GMOs, corn syrup, sugar, flu shots, poison jabs, mRNA and Lord knows what else. It's amazing there are people who are NOT immunocompromised anymore.

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I was shocked to learn during the scamdemic that, apparently, most of our population is "immunocompromised" - who knew? Is that just a more official sounding word for hypochondriac or germaphobe?

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This clip from “Moonstruck” kept going through my head when people, especially my 80 plus year old elderly uncle (who miraculously survived the Scamdemic and only passed away last month), yelled that we had to shut down society because people might die:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBWxqcvH7Dk

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Oh, thank you! I'd forgotten that line from that movie. How could I? It's classic...

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Classic! I did in fact repeatedly tell anyone and everyone, "We're all going to die!" because well, we are. So get on with living. The absolute narcissism on display, 'virtuously' and laughably covered up by pretending they wanted to protect Grandma, was sickening.

I should have just slapped them across the face and yelled, "Snap out of it!"

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Yes, and how many of these people did we see wearing masks in public prior to 2020? That's right - zero.

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Great work here, Mark! You know, the more I think about these two "disasters (both human-caused) the more I realize how vulnerable we all are to an incurious and controlled MEDIA. If I can only point one Finger, that's where I'm pointing it.

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"...the corruption of the priesthood occurred at the precise moment in which it changed from a minority organised to impart knowledge into a minority organised to withhold it.

The great danger of decadence in journalism is almost exactly the same. Journalism possesses in itself the potentiality of becoming one of the most frightful monstrosities and delusions that have ever cursed mankind.

This horrible transformation will occur at the exact instant at which journalists realise that they can become an aristocrat...." G.K. Chesterton

In other words, expecting journalists to report facts about people they run around with or who line their pockets, is like expecting a 3 year old to snitch on the Cookie Monster for stealing them cookies.

They can not be despised enough. I have enough loathe going on to float a battleship around.

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Floating battleship.... rich imagery!

Corruption of the priesthood, this is a quick read from Bella Dodd "School of Darkness"

The US is 100 years downstream of the communist infiltration to its institutions: government, education and the Catholic Church genus.cogia.net <- Free to read there.

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and some documentaries show how in the far east, the government is handing over the local government positions to baptist ministers. They come there to convert the people, forcefully almost, then the government dismisses the head of the community and gives his power to the pastor. The one I remember was on the border of Myanmar and Pakistan I think.

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Agree. We think alike

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just remarked on Jeff's Substack, that he is doing a better job than the letter words together. He is a lawyer but does the job of journalist pretty well, too.

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^^^^^THIS!!!^^^^^

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Did you see this interview Ryan?

https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/no-pandemic

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Reserve a pointy finger for the education/propaganda system, that creates the gullible consumers of mainstream media/government narratives. The public’s lack of critical thinking skills and lack of curiosity are the enablers of tyranny.

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Dee, I posted above in response to Ryan, that the communist infiltration started 100 years ago. Bella Dodd (ex-commie) revealed a lot of the gamebook in her brief text, "School of Darkness" which is free to read at genus.cogia.net

Schools, government and the church all weakened and dumbed down. Useful idiots bumped off.

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HAHAHA!!! Great "point" there Dee. Consider it reserved!

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Mark, as always , your reflections are spot on! I think the whole thing adds up to incremental audacity to see just how much they can actually get away with, and gauge just how much pushback to expect.

So far, sadly, there seems to be not enough to stop this train wreck that’s happening now. What does it take, I ask!!

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Withdrawal our consent. That's all it takes.

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I too tried to pass on information to my former friends but their comments will forever be seared in my brain, like "We love Dr. Fauci," "We trust the CDC," "We need to shame the unvaccinated," etc. They were in the tank and told me not to send them anything more because they wouldn't read it. Ok then.

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Closed minds. Brainwashed.

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Oh yeah. When I (R.N. for 35+ years) tried to speak with my sister (also a nurse, later in life) re: my research pertaining to my personal medical history and thus my "hesitancy"? Her hand went up in my face with: "No. I don't want to hear it. I don't do my own research, I'll leave that to the experts. I only care about what Dr. Fauci says". Wow! WOW!

A similar response from my 72 y.o. brother. He went to Woodstock in 1969, lived through oh, a few wars and assassinations? He bellowed: "SomeChick, I haven't been around ANY unvaccinated people!" and "The Science is Settled!" and (I love this one): "I don't think my government would LIE to me!" Let's not forget my brother-in-law yelling at me: "YOU MADE YOUR CHOICE!"

My sister, her virtuous fully vaccinated self, who encouraged her 20-something daughters/boyfriends to get the shots "so they can travel!" shrunk away from me as I moved closer to her with: "I don't feel comfortable around the Unvaccinated".

So many family and friend relationships ruined over coronomania. They were hypnotized/brainwashed by the TV and susceptible to mass formation psychosis. Sorry, that's not an excuse for their behavior and eager consumption of propaganda.

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Doctor Oshinskie - Great essay. This last four plus years has made me question everything. Once you begin to see the manipulation/propaganda/lies it’s impossible to unsee.

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Thanks, SF.

It really is that way now. Or maybe always and I didn't see it.

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"Sometimes, the media lies outright. More often, they withhold the truth and refuse to ask obvious questions." More people need to recognize this and take in any headlines through this filter. I've had a couple of friends remark about how "millions" of people died from covid!!! I said: No - millions of people may have been labeled as covid deaths but that is not the same as saying they died from covid (e.g. Shot in the chest + positive covid test = covid death!). I used to also passively take in and accept news headlines and believe what everyone around me believed. I was, however, skeptical of the medical community pre-covid after going deep in the rabbit hole on diet & nutrition for many years. Since covid, I've started looking into several other rabbit holes (9/11, Moon landing, etc) and I'm now of the opinion - Don't trust, verify! It's always wise to follow the money, power, and influence to get after the truth (often easier said than done). Always ask: "Cui bono?"

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7 WTC just fell down for no reason. That really didn't make sense to me at the time but as much as I didn't trust the government, I couldn't see how such a thing could be pulled off. Recently I watched a presentation by Dr. Judy Wood where she shows how the buildings turned to dust in midair and the steel is vaporized as it falls. Meanwhile people are seen walking around on debris that is obviously not hot enough to melt steel. She thinks some sort of directed energy weapon may have been used. I found her thesis compelling.

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I worked on 9/11 Truth for nearly a decade in the Boston area. I, too, found Dr. Wood's ideas very compelling. With a PhD in Materials Science, I afforded Dr. Wood the respect that someone in that field should get -- unless she somehow showed herself undeserving of it. IMO, she never did.

Well. Her treatment -- at the hands of other people involved in 9/11 Truth -- defies belief. For positing an idea that something unknown to most might have been used that day to disintegrate the Towers and "cook" over 1,000 cars blocks away, people attacked, insulted, vilified, name-called as "controlled opposition" (WTF???), and more. It disgusted me.

I soured on the movement and gradually exited. For me, the point was more about the destruction of liberty and its protections (4th Amendment, in particular) vs. the who, how, what of the event. Interesting, sure, but pales in comparison to the destruction of life and liberty.

When the "COVID" op started bubbling, I knew exactly what it was -- and I knew exactly how the "American" people would conduct themselves. For "safety's sake."

P.S. After Sep 11 and the Nov 2001 crash of American Flight 587 on Long Island, my husband and I still got on a plane to spend that Thanksgiving with friends -- in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I had my nail clippers stolen by a uniformed fellow American at JFK...For "safety's sake."

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After the failed collapse of 93 I believe the evidence shows multiple methods were used. They had to be sure this time.

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