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Patrick Tracey's avatar

As an ex lawyer and ex MoD Officer in Parliamentary and Plans I had to burnout from compromising my own integrity before I had my own personal awakening. Some people have no idea how the game is rigged but many have a pretty good idea but choose the ‘ignorance is bliss route’. The millions that lived in plandemic fear are now captivated by the proxy war in the Ukraine (which they couldn’t find on a map) or Royal pageantry that should be confined to the history books. In reference to the Roman Pretorian Guard ‘who watches the watchers’, Those like Caitlin and other truth seekers do. There is no division of power, those who play the game are rewarded with meaningless titles and finances such as the most Senior police officer in the London Met being a Dame and the Leader of the so called Opposition being a knight of the realm. The rot is so deep and the flock shepherded by wolves who don’t even bother to wear sheeps clothing anymore. What sickens me most is not only do those in power want to abuse it but they want to be seen doing it and getting away with it.

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The Inquisitive Inquisitor's avatar

****The millions that lived in plandemic fear are now captivated by the proxy war in the Ukraine (which they couldn’t find on a map) or Royal pageantry that should be confined to the history books.****

Are you describing the Chinese here? China is not referring to the pandemic as the plandemic and yet it fears the pandemic and has taken the appropriate steps to avoid it destroying their country. Steps, I'll remind you, America and Russia have not taken. In regard to the pandemic, Russia and America stand in stark contrast to China.

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Scott William James Wright's avatar

WOW! - Brilliantly summarized and elegantly concise. I am also sickened by the blatant animus - I am convinced it is purposeful = to subconsciously notify the populace of our poisoned hierarchy and instill a type of societal paralysis resulting in status quo.

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Patrick Tracey's avatar

Talking to my son at Uni about this very topic. He came up with an interesting comparison -

in Stockholm Syndrome individuals cling to their abuser no matter what they do. He said apply this on a national scale and you have millions of victims clinging to an abusive government no matter the evil they do. A fresh interesting take worthy of consideration I believe along with group think and collective consciousness. Thoughts?

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Kandy W.'s avatar

Do people listen to you more because you have some experience from the inside of the belly of the beast? As long as there are those of us willing to speak truth to power, I am holding out hope for a mass awakening to the truth.

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Patrick Tracey's avatar

I don’t often tell people what I used to do. I was a naive young man headhunted at Uni and gently eased in before ending up in Westminster and indeed ‘in the belly of the beast. I thought I was doing the right thing. No change from inside is not possible. Sections work like terrorists in small ‘cells’, discussing work only in small groups. So you have a rough idea of what others are doing but no detail. Part of me wants nothing to do with it anymore but part of me wants to speak out. The Ukraine was one of my areas and I have had to step away from it as the misinformation and disinformation is just too much. Just look at what happened in 2014 and you will see how long this BS has being going on.

The vast majority of people aren’t interested anyway. Many (as Jack Nicholson once said “ The truth? You couldn’t handle the truth!”

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Kandy W.'s avatar

Wow, that is hard. I agree with you that change from the inside is not possible. There is a spark within me, though, that does burn with hope that if people can wake up and remove themselves from these corrupt systems as much as possible and speak up about them, then others can as well. I don't know how many people it will take, but I will keep speaking out until my last breath. I will not cower before the beast. I don't remember where I heard this, but it was "I will not stay silent so you can stay comfortable." I think we have to make people extremely uncomfortable.

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Fraoch's avatar

Dinnae haud yer breath.

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Patrick Tracey's avatar

Only around politicians and MS reporters. I can’t stand the stench.

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anti-republocrat's avatar

Saleha Mohsin tweeted, "US sanctions have ... punished ordinary Russians more than Putin or his allies." Well, Putin's allies are now 80% of the Russian people, but even the 20% of "ordinary Russians" who aren't wildly approving of Putin are not suffering like people in the Empire. They have plenty of fuel and food. Forcing Russia to defend itself, then levying self-destructive sanctions against Russia was a disaster for the West that continues to mount with each passing day that NATO doesn't say, "Uncle," and negotiate with Russia in good faith agreeing to verification, and stop poking the panda.

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The Inquisitive Inquisitor's avatar

****Putin's allies are now 80% of the Russian people.****

Yeah, and my dog is my ally. Twenty years of Putin rule has taken its toll. Putin has not only made Russia color revolution proof, he's made Russia revolution proof. At the same time, he has made Russia extremely vulnerable to a takeover by outside forces once he perishes. The Russian population no longer has a backbone. Putin has neutered them.

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anti-republocrat's avatar

Typical partisan Democrat/neocon delusions. Why isn't Ukraine in Moscow? Why is the ruble the strongest currency in the world? Why did "revolutions" fail in both Belarus and Kazakhstan? Why are the vast majority of countries ignoring the latest attempts to sanction Russia? Why is Biden begging Venezuela, Iran and now Saudi Arabia for oil? You probably think Russia is a gas station masquerading as country! SMH.

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The Inquisitive Inquisitor's avatar

I always laugh when I see videos of current day Russia. ALL the vehicles are foreign as are so many things. So little of Russia is "in house." So yeah, it's a rentier state that has spent the wealth it has stolen from its cowed unwashed on real estate in London and elsewhere to include Miami as well as a substantial ongoing investment in military weaponry and upgrading its nuclear arsenal.

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anti-republocrat's avatar

Obviously you're correct because you get your information from the same sources who thought sanctions would bring Russia to its knees.

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flipshod's avatar

The US Freedom of Information Act sounds so good but points to the problem you describe. Why should citizens have to ask for this information? If a request results in some information suddenly becoming "free", the next question should be about how quickly we remove and punish the people who were hiding it in the first place.

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JackSirius's avatar

So true. While we focus on the evil of propaganda, propaganda's essential evil twin of secrecy escapes our attention. We too often forget that without secrecy, there can be no propaganda.

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Doris Wrench Eisler's avatar

The citizens of Cuba, Venezuela and Russia do not turn on their government, that is why phoney US surrogates like Juan Guaido have to be invented and propped up like dummies, or they'd fall over into the gutter. These countries, with high general levels of free education - it's not like the populace are kept ignorant - are the true democracies, and that's why the relentless targeting of them by the US and West : they are bad examples. We don't like to characterize as fascist oligarchies the countries parading as democracies: but what the hell else are they?

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Kandy W.'s avatar

Corrupt, authoritarian corpocracies. Run for the corporations and elite, by the corporations and elite, for the corporations and elite, on the backs and hard work of ordinary people. When will we stop propping up these systems and these so-called self-appointed elites?

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The Inquisitive Inquisitor's avatar

So let me ask you. Do you have any understanding of the phrase "power vacuum?"

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The Inquisitive Inquisitor's avatar

Watch 1420. Russia's population is so cowed, they could never revolt. Putin has full spectrum dominance in this regard and it's why sanctions will never work and the experts know it. If the West wants regime change in Russia, it will have to directly do it and not rely on proxies. No suitable proxies exist.

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George Cornell's avatar

They also lie by omission. I know this thread is about war. Sorry but it’s driving me nuts.

When Cuban longevity passed that of the US a couple years ago? Not in the MSM. This month Chinese longevity passed the US. Where did you see that?

https://www.worlddata.info/life-expectancy.php#by-population

This despite having embargoed the Cubans till they went blind and not only having addicted the Chinese to to tobacco, but selling it to them long after they knew it was poisonous.

The biggest fraudsters the world has ever known.

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Kandy W.'s avatar

Yes, the health of Americans is atrocious, and no wonder. Pumped with chemicals, GMOs, pharmaceuticals, and propaganda, we are the sickest nation on Earth in every way: physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. We are bankrupt, morally and financially. It is really sad. As someone who lives in the US, I have to go out of my way to learn truth and take care of my health.

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JackSirius's avatar

I live in a city in which the groundwater (aka “drinking water”) has been contaminated with PFAS by the local military bases. PFAS, commonly found in firefighting foams for aircraft (which has been sprayed into the environment at every Air Force base and probably every airport in the country), fire resistant clothing (often baby’s sleepwear), is one of the most toxic chemicals known: the EPA has determined there is no safe amount. Even two parts per TRILLION is toxic. Also, it is a “forever chemical,” meaning it never degrades, but continuously accumulates in the environment. It is estimated that over 110 million Americans have PFAS in their drinking water (and studies will no doubt prove it is ubiquitous in our food supply, too). So the EPA now brags that as part of the recent infrastructure bill, $1 billion is available in grants for PFAS remediation nationwide. Compare that $1 billion dollars to the $54 billion the US has given Ukraine in military assistance just since March. What further proof do we need that the official policy of the United States is to sicken and kill its own citizens?

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George Cornell's avatar

And the $21 trillion pissed away on Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan?

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George Cornell's avatar

Wish you the best.

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Carina Malatesta's avatar

Children should be allowed to be children and not subjected to the twisted ass sexuality of western regimes. BDSM and fetishes have nothing to do with being gay etc. Stay off the kids and let them keep their innocence as long as possible.

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Kandy W.'s avatar

You are exactly right. There is a sick agenda to corrupt the younger generations. It falls on each and every parent to care for their children and guard them against the agenda in whatever ways they can.

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The Inquisitive Inquisitor's avatar

Yes, I agree, and if a 16 year old girl is raped by a Proud Boy, she should be forced to carry the rape child to term and denied an abortion.

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Carina Malatesta's avatar

I don't agree with that. I never said anything like that.

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The Inquisitive Inquisitor's avatar

But many who hew to critical views about "twisted ass sexuality" do, including the Proud Boys. It does require you to uniquely articulate yourself so as to differentiate yourself from that abominable pack of cretins. A constant caveating, if you will.

I happen to share the misgivings about all this transgender bullshit, but my sentiment and intent is a far cry from the sentiment and intent of the Proud Boys and Matt Walsh, both of whom support the draconian legislation that's been rolled out lately related to abortion.

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Carina Malatesta's avatar

Proud boys and Matt Walsh must be a US thing. I've heard of Proud boys but not really familiar with them and I have never heard of Matt Walsh. I am of the opinion that US hates genetic women and it is spreading it's ideology to other nations.

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The Inquisitive Inquisitor's avatar

Yes, there are different ways to hate and America hates women just as much as Iran and Saudi Arabia and Russia and China hate women. They each deliver that hatred in different ways, but hatred it is. A cogent argument can be made that the transgender movement is yet another manifestation of hatred of women.

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Carina Malatesta's avatar

I don't know that Russia and China hate women. I'd have to look into it. Saudi Barbaria I agree with. Iran does not hate women I know that. They are protective of their women, big difference. I do agree with you on the transgender movement being another manifestation of hatred towards genetic women. I don't think it is fair at all for them to be allowed to compete with genetic women in sports. Every single woman of the year this year used to be a male.

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GadflyBytes's avatar

McFaul has been an imperialist wanker masquerading as a democratic crusader for decades. One could say he’s rather significantly culpable in fomenting this very complicated conflict with Russia. His biggest fault however seems to be his lack of self awareness, as it’s conceivable that he actually sees himself as some kind of freedom fighting advocate. This means that he is delusional to a spectacular degree and allowing him to have any influence on further foreign policy decisions is criminal, at worst, or fantastical, at best.

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june tenth's avatar

Putin liberating Crimea from the nazies on zionist payrolls is "annexation" to go to WWIII for.

Occupation is bad except when Israhell and the US/UK bomb and occupy.

Not all Jews are blood suckers but all Germans are bad.

the US provoked Japan before Pearl Harbor but it is a secret and thus never happened.

---- inspired by McFaul

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The Inquisitive Inquisitor's avatar

I remember how Stalin liberated Poland from the Nazis with the Katyn Massacre.

https://incendiaryishka.substack.com/p/thats-russians-for-you

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june tenth's avatar

soros opened human society by sucking UK, South Korea, and others dry a few decades ago. with that money, he bought himself the democratic party, poland, ukraine, etc.

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The Inquisitive Inquisitor's avatar

South Korea seems to be holding its own economically as far as I can see. Especially compared to its neighbor North Korea. The UK, London at least, is owned by Russian billionaires so if Soros sucked the UK dry, Russia filled it right back up with rivers of ordinary Russians' blood sweat and tears.

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Scott William James Wright's avatar

Very interesting - I would also suggest that the "selling of hope & change" like Obama's campaign and many other Politicians is definitely a Freudian slip admitting that American Exceptionalism is untrue - this forces the populace into entrenchment (us/them). They are required for survival to go along with the purveyors of this hope. For a more descriptive metaphor, I like what Jimmy Dore says "Americans are like the children of abusive alcoholic parents - they never get mad at their abusers - only at those who point out the abuse"

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Beli Tsari's avatar

Bottom-line: Liberals, especially "journalists" and ALL dissidents are despised. In the States, that translates into authoritarian suppression of poor, "minority" or any victims of Catastrophe Capitalism's feeding frenzies, scrambling for survival, as we're re-re-infected with cascading PASC damage (CDC classifies preexisting comorbidities & psychosomatic malingering & trolling psychopaths refer to as plandemic?) With every single WEF, Atlantic Council, Bellingcat, CFR, AIPAC trope invariably proving TREMENDOUSLY false, intentionally blatant BS & media by, for, about and solely from the perspective of our boss, landlord, creditors or those who took any choice we'd ever had and monitized liquidation of our "value" as labor units. Poor workers can either walk into cranked-up OathKeeper cops, III% company thugs or Boogaloo Boi agents-provacateurs... OR watch viral phone videos of the best and brightest getting mowed-down by depleted uranium slugs from rotary cannons, drink ethanol spiked Slurpees & eat Spicy Velveeta nachos?

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Deena Stryker's avatar

Hi Catelin, Please explain the quote below. I've been writing about The Big Picture for forty years, and its meaning escapes me: "Mainstream western proponents of "democratic socialism" never call for an end to imperialism because they are fully aware that their version of "socialism" is entirely dependent upon imperialist domination and exploitation."

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Feral Finster's avatar

The Empire is concerned that its sanctions against Russia are hurting the West more than they hurt Russia.

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The Inquisitive Inquisitor's avatar

Phil Mickelson and Greg Norman are all for the sanctions. It's what has allowed them to get even richer than they already were considering Saudi Arabia has used the surge in oil profits to fund the LIV project. Quite literally people will starve because of Ukraine's grain deficiency and Saudi Arabia and Greg Norman and Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson will prosper and are prospering. From starving mouths to their deep gold pockets.

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The Inquisitive Inquisitor's avatar

****The US empire doesn't use sanctions to punish leaders, it uses them to foment unrest and hopefully spark a coup or civil war.****

Certainly this has been the strategy in other affairs, but not this one. If you dig on this, you soon enough realize that the experts agree that this would not work with Putin's Russia. So, the question then is, or now is, why the f*ck do it at all if they know it wouldn't have this historical effect? I don't know the answer but it is a question that deserves an answer.

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TomLaney's avatar

KEEP ON FIGHTING CAITLIN!!!

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The Inquisitive Inquisitor's avatar

The Unz Review should be renamed "Da Jews."

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denmla's avatar

da angloz-zaxons and zioz are better.. msm should be zizi-sexons!.... excrement topped with diarrhea !

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DONALD G TIPON's avatar

We may not know if humanity will survive. But there should be no mystery about which policies are best for survival. A team of people is stronger than a single person. When teams of people compete, the team with the best organization wins. The qualities that make a powerful team are mutual respect, trust, and beneficial exchanges that increase the power of the team. Deception, fear, and harmful exchanges weaken members and the group. For more detail, see my article: https://fixyourthink.com/blog/team-power/

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