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Timely read for me. I just finished reading a woman’s Facebook page… she has 11,000 plus followers . Her post arguing why Trumps crimes should result in his EXECUTION has 3,000 plus shares. That is some serious brainwashing.

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Aug 13, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

"When a hundred stand together, all of them lose their minds and acquire different ones." Nietzsche

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All of these psychological plays and even mass hypnosis (forming) of crowds have been well thought through and planned by those "in charge of the world". They employ the very best mass psychologists and propagandists in the world to drive behavior. "Behavioral Science" has been applied en masse to commercial sales for most of a century. It is the morality of those "in charge" and their almost unmatched financial and political power through out history because of the current power of the technology that frighten me. I also never anticipated that the internet would become such a powerful weapon in the hands of these monsters. I should have. It was obvious in retrospect.

To experience my own 25 year old daughter who showed the reality of the panic, when she, impoverished by student loans, walked out wearing a scarf over her face and pulling her meager possessions in a rolling suitcase in April of 2020 because I had the audacity to host a small dinner during a "global pandemic". I was acting "against the rules" and she was furious. Her face was contorted in anger (and shame) and she said nothing despite me trying to appeal to her. She did not speak to me for more than 2 years after that. She even took one of the jabs DESPITE being a strict vegan. However, SOMETHING changed. She seems to have had a true change of heart. We finally met for lunch at a nice vietnamese place by the water 3 weeks ago. I was VERY careful not to bring up anything contentious about Covid or my Ex. HOWEVER, she brought up both topics and asked me what I had heard about the suppression of treatments (especially natural ones that I practice, such a zinc/quercetin, vitamin D at 4000 iu/day in oil, etc.) for Covid and the persecution of the doctors practicing those TRULY safe and effective treatments. So there IS HOPE! I had determined to live my life and to oppose the Cabal of "Masters of the Universe" who are waging an unprecedented war on us (Propaganda, biowar, and financial war) with anything and everything I can think of. If I did not KNOW that God was in ultimate charge and His Word would prevail I would have already despaired. Thank God that He is God and the Cabal (and I) are not.

So Satan has truly shown himself for anyone with eyes, but God is moving in a subtler way as He usually does to provide us with an opportunity to show Faith (and to learn it). The persecutions will continue and worsen and the War against us will continue and intensify. However, keep faith, pray for your families, friends and even your enemies (there is hope for even the worst monsters- E.g Fauci), but LIVE YOUR LIFE.

I have never been healthier and I help anyone who is open to understand how food can bring you health. Like the Covid Scam, there is a HUGE amount of misinformation out there. The Cholesterol scare frightened half the world for 60 years that cholesterol caused heart disease and the scare and the total rejection of even good fats, killed millions before their time. Total lies. The "autophagy diet" (Mercola) is wonderful! Replacing surplus protein, especially dairy (and of course the terrible "trans fats") with good fats such as avocado, cold water wild fish (Sardines, anchovy, mackerel, herring, salmon) and tree nuts (almonds, cashew, macadamia, hazelnuts, and pumpkin seeds) and flax/chia (lots of fiber) is a huge help. The other 2 actions that are necessary are: intermittent fasting (I am on my 16th hour right now) of at least 14 hours per day (e.g dont eat from 6pm until 8 or 9am at least), and sweating at least 3 times a week (preferably with exercise). Also, start each meal with fruit, and water, about 10 minutes before each meal (wait for the burp on an empty stomach) as this assists the digestion greatly and therefore GREATLY reduces the accumulation of toxins in the blood. Finally, get your nutritional levels checked! Vitamin D deficiency is a REAL epidemic especially in Canada where I live where for at least 8 months of the year because there is not enough UV (295-298 nm wavelength) radiation reaching the ground to generate vitamin D in the skin. The RDA of 1000 iu (25 MICROgrams!!!) is totally inadequate especially in those conditions. About 70% of Canadians (80+% of Canadians with dark skin) are deficient or seriously deficient in vitamin D by March of every year. I start taking 5000 iu of Vitamin D in cod liver oil starting in September of every year and I get my vitamin D checked every year! It is a HUGE problem and the NUMBER 1 reason why people died from Covid. Even really old people with adequate vitamin D usually recovered from Covid.

Also 25 mg of zinc (glycinate, gluconate, citrate, ascorbate or malate forms) every day with kelp for iodine and copper are also excellent. Quercetin is a "zinc ionophore" which transports zinc inside the cell to destroy viruses - not as good as Ivermectin but still excellent and EASILY available.

Finally, GET OUTSIDE EVERY DAY (even in the rain). LIVE YOUR LIFE AND THANK-GOD FOR EVERY DAY!

May you and your family be Blessed during these dark times and may you all see the Hope from God that He offers us freely,

Ian in vancouver

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Gustave Le Bon captured this phenomenon brilliantly:

“The sentiments and ideas of all the persons in the gathering take one and the same direction, and their conscious personality vanishes. A collective mind is formed, doubtless transitory, but presenting very clearly defined characteristics.”

“In a crowd every sentiment and act is contagious, and contagious to such a degree that an individual readily sacrifices his personal interest to the collective interest.”

“… an individual immersed for some length of time in a crowd in action soon finds himself—either in consequence of the magnetic influence given out by the crowd, or from some other cause of which we are ignorant—in a special state, which much resembles the state of fascination in which the hypnotised individual finds himself in the hands of the hypnotiser. The activity of the brain being paralysed in the case of the hypnotised subject, the latter becomes the slave of all the unconscious activities of his spinal cord, which the hypnotiser directs at will. The conscious personality has entirely vanished; will and discernment are lost. All feelings and thoughts are bent in the direction determined by the hypnotiser.

“Such also is approximately the state of the individual forming part of a psychological crowd. He is no longer conscious of his acts. In his case, as in the case of the hypnotised subject, at the same time that certain faculties are destroyed, others may be brought to a high degree of exaltation. Under the influence of a suggestion, he will undertake the accomplishment of certain acts with irresistible impetuosity.”

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Aug 13, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

You explain right here why crowds somewhat scare me. In a crowd, you can no longer think for yourself. That might also be why I stopped to go to church altogether now too. In the silence of home, one can think again. Turn off all music, noise, certainly TV if you have one, and listen to the silence. The older I get, the less noise I can have. And in these last 2 years, I have lost all patience to talk to people who live in lalaland. I let them be. And walk in the woods with the animals. Peace.

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Aug 13, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

"If war began, we would flatten the Communists in two weeks. We had superior weapons. And our experts were so smart, and in control."

This should have been a spoiler alert that leaders can be easily wrong...

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Aug 13, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I too attended Hard Days Night with my big stupid sister. She became a psycho instantly and didn't let up until it was over. I don't think I heard one song. Think about that. I remember I had a friend from 3rd grade in tow. My crazed sister was responsible for both of us. Think about that too. He and I tried screaming "shut up!" periodically to no avail. Talk about farting in a Cyclone. I really did want to hear the songs as I was not "in love" with Paul or Ringo. Corona mania is the same way. No matter how much you yell shut up, you'll never get those two years back.

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Aug 13, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Gee, Mark, you're old. 😉😊😋

Hated the Beatles. Hated their hair. Hated their songs. Could never figure out why the girls screamed.

I think I finally started liking some of their music after I had become a teenager.

However, I did love The Rolling Stones. It doesn't mean I would have screamed then. I still love The Rolling Stones. I did scream when I finally got to see them in concert. 🤗

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Aug 13, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

(warning: more of a rant....brought into view by coronamania...) A crowd of individuals brought to fear by morning-noon-night media is effective. Pfizer's advertising picked up the tab. The same people saying men can give birth were saying you MUST get the shot. For me, they're same level genius. Sadly, many MDs now in that camp too...most of them a flock of geese in formation....pathetic. Now you know the doctors you thought were brainiacs and trusted, now, not so much. Really makes you think about any contraindications on pharma products you might be recommended....is that all they are?..purveyors of the latest pharm products???

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Aug 13, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Beatlemania parallels to Coronamania - good analogy. Groupthink might be the number one factor in civilization’s rapid decline.

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Reading this raises the question if pop culture plays a part in driving the madness of crowds.

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While adults strongly warn their kids—or at least used to—against following the crowd, both kids and adults are very vulnerable to peer pressure.

Apparently, everybody failed DARE back in 5th grade.

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Great story and I agree fully that's why I was one of the odd ballz that never followed the crowd. Questions everything!

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Another great article Mark! Well done. Plus Brownstone too!

https://brownstone.org/articles/coronamania-foreshadowed-in-beatlemania/

Palus delenda est

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Aug 14, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Another great read, Mark! That bittersweet tongue-in-cheek ending made me think of my summer camp counselor who (needlessly) died in Nam.

Screaming girls? I had an unexpected afternoon off years ago and decided to watch the local first screening of “The Blair Witch Project.” Little did I know the theatre would be packed with teenage girls all screaming in unison, not out of any delirious cultish devotion but true terror. I nearly jumped out of my seat a few times - not because of the flick but the shrieks. 1999 sure seems like a long ways off now.

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Aug 13, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

If I were an MD.....by advice might sound like...Tell your brainwashed friends/patients...look, I can guarantee 100% freedom from vaccine injury, I can also guarantee 100% survival from the china virus, or no, let's make that 98.5% to be totally legit, the one thing I need you to do to experience my guarantee, is do not get the f'n shot, ever. And...if you want to cover the 1.5% risk I'm asking you to assume, follow the Dr. Z, Dr. McCullough, or Am. Frontline Doctor protocol if you experience x symptoms. Now go and enjoy your healthy life!! YOUR WELCOME.

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