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    Cosmic War
    ASSASSINATION BY LIGHTNING
    September 24, 2020 By JOSEPH P. FARRELL
    Lately, as you can tell, I've been blogging about Sudden Animal Deaths, the decline of insect populations, and so on. And I've been entertaining the idea for some time that these deaths might be due to the unintended consequences of increased environmental ambient electromagnetic radiation, or in some cases, as the deliberate result of the tests of electromagnetically based exotic weaponry. With respect to the latter hypothesis, I've entertained it with regard to the sudden deaths of whole flights of birds in mid-air, and - in an entirely different context - with respect to some of the anomalous photos and videos witnesses have gathered from fires in Australia and California. In regard to the latter, I've even gone so far as to suggest that the power grid itself might have been weaponized as the broadcast antenna for the fires by simply sending transients through the wires and into homes. With respect to the recent sudden death of a herd of elephants in Africa, I've entertained the idea of a lightning weapons test.

    Yea, I know all this sounds nutty, and it probably is.

    But the nuttiness isn't mine. It belongs to "them", you know, the guys that sit around and dream all this stuff up. "N." found this article and passed it along (our thanks!), and it's worth absorbing, because it's not coming from an "alternative media" source, but from Forbes magazine:

    When The CIA Considered Weaponizing Lightning

    Here's what has leaped out at me:

    Thunderbolts are traditionally the weapon of the gods, but in 1967 the CIA were wondering whether they, too, could call down bolts of lightning from the heavens at will.

    The idea is contained in a proposal from a scientist, sent to the CIA’s Deputy for Research ‘Special Activities’ and passed on to the chief of the Air Systems division. The scientist’s name has been redacted in the declassified document from the CIA’s archive, but the proposal mentions a previous discussion with the CIA, indicating they were being taken seriously.

    The guided lightning concept is based on the observation that lightning follows a path of ionized air known as a step leader. Once the leader stroke reaches the ground and makes a circuit, the lightning proper is formed and a current flow, typically around 300 million Volts at 30,000 Amps.

    The scientist suggests that artificial leaders could “cause discharges to occur when and where we want them.” The artificial leader would be a wire a few thousandths of an inch in diameter and several miles long. Wires would be inserted into storms by aircraft or rockets on a spool, and unrolled by a drogue parachute, and lightning would follow them down to the ground.

    “This method is possible because the main discharge will occur through ionized surrounding the wire,” notes the scientist. The wire, like the leader, is only needed to get the lightning going, and would still work even if it broke.

    Now let's dive into today's high octane speculation. If you've been following the phenomenon of "chemtrails" and the spraying being conducted, one of the things you'll have come across is the claim that much of the material being sprayed is particulate heavy metals. Sometimes the composition of this spray varies, but among the metals most often mentioned in this regard are aluminum, and barium. Sometimes there are others. In some examinations, the spraying began during the Reagan era as a secretive effort to increase the electrical conductivity of the atmosphere for his Strategic Defense Initiative project. This needed a "cover story," so in some versions, the spraying was being done to "save the environment" or to "combat climate change" (which explanation in itself is intriguing, because that implied the ability to manipulate weather on a planetary scale).

    As the article itself notes, the use of wires was intended to provide a channel for lightning to close the circuit between the atmosphere and the ground, but that it "would still work even if it broke." In other words, you do not need a long wire, but several short ones in close proximity to each other to provide a channel or circuit for the lightning. Like particulate aerosolized heavy metals...

    The next thing one needs is the ability to create the large charge differentials to be able to cause lightning to strike, otherwise that sheath of heavy metals might function to block such strikes like a big Faraday cage, though in my opinion this possibility is unlikely for a variety of reasons. In any case, one needs an ability to ionize the atmosphere sufficiently to build up these enormous charges, or to take a naturally occurring storm, and load more energy into it. Enter the ionosphere heaters like HAARP. Indeed, when this technology was being dreamed up and patented - incidentally, during Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative era - some of the uses claimed for it were weather modification and steering, missile defense, and some analysts also made good cases that it could be used to cause lightning strikes.

    In other words, the USA had, and has had, this capability since at least the 1980s, and probably now many other nations as well. Put the two together - the spraying and the heaters - and one would have the equivalent, perhaps, of the ability to bombard a region or area with lightning, a kind of "carpet bombing with lightning", and to coin a pun, a true and proper Blitz.

    Obviously, carpet bombing with lightning isn't exactly "assassination" in any classical sense. For that, one would need some means for precision strikes, not just an aerosolized region and lightning strikes to start forest fires. One would need some means to be able to dial someone up, or at least, locate them, and use whatever such device that might be providing that location, to pulse it and them.

    Yea... I know. It sounds nutty. And probably is.

    But... while you're reading this on your ipad, remember that the first two essential requirements have been around since the 1980s at least, and the weaponized lightning idea since at least 1967, if not long before that, with the lightning bolts of the gods, who may not have been gods at all, but just people with an extraordinarily sophisticated science. After all, the ability to call down lightning strikes at a specific point would certainly impress a bunch of hairless monkeys who were still using bows and arrows to accomplish their mischief.

    See you on the flip side...





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    goshawks says:
    September 25, 2020 at 12:45 am
    Interesting:
    https://www.zerohedge.com/technology...zz-earth-today
    “[Small near-Earth asteroid] 2020 SW, discovered by Catalina Sky Survey, is about 15 to 30 ft. wide… CNEOS expects the asteroid to zoom past Earth at a distance of about 13,000 miles over the Southeastern Pacific Ocean around 0712 ET on Thursday, Sept. 24.”

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    Sandygirl says:
    September 24, 2020 at 10:17 pm
    Aug. 12, 2016 · Greece’s Culture Ministry said Wednesday that the skeleton, probably of an adolescent boy, was found in the ash altar of The Temple of Zeus next to a man-made stone platform.
    Also found, what they believe to be a fulgurite, which is petrified lightning. Fulgurites also have fullerenes C60 and C70.
    Here’s a picture of a very cool fulgurite.
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Fulgur...edirect=mobile

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    Cosmic War
    ASSASSINATION BY LIGHTNING
    September 24, 2020 By JOSEPH P. FARRELL
    Lately, as you can tell, I've been blogging about Sudden Animal Deaths, the decline of insect populations, and so on. And I've been entertaining the idea for some time that these deaths might be due to the unintended consequences of increased environmental ambient electromagnetic radiation, or in some cases, as the deliberate result of the tests of electromagnetically based exotic weaponry. With respect to the latter hypothesis, I've entertained it with regard to the sudden deaths of whole flights of birds in mid-air, and - in an entirely different context - with respect to some of the anomalous photos and videos witnesses have gathered from fires in Australia and California. In regard to the latter, I've even gone so far as to suggest that the power grid itself might have been weaponized as the broadcast antenna for the fires by simply sending transients through the wires and into homes. With respect to the recent sudden death of a herd of elephants in Africa, I've entertained the idea of a lightning weapons test.

    Yea, I know all this sounds nutty, and it probably is.

    But the nuttiness isn't mine. It belongs to "them", you know, the guys that sit around and dream all this stuff up. "N." found this article and passed it along (our thanks!), and it's worth absorbing, because it's not coming from an "alternative media" source, but from Forbes magazine:

    When The CIA Considered Weaponizing Lightning

    Here's what has leaped out at me:

    Thunderbolts are traditionally the weapon of the gods, but in 1967 the CIA were wondering whether they, too, could call down bolts of lightning from the heavens at will.

    The idea is contained in a proposal from a scientist, sent to the CIA’s Deputy for Research ‘Special Activities’ and passed on to the chief of the Air Systems division. The scientist’s name has been redacted in the declassified document from the CIA’s archive, but the proposal mentions a previous discussion with the CIA, indicating they were being taken seriously.

    The guided lightning concept is based on the observation that lightning follows a path of ionized air known as a step leader. Once the leader stroke reaches the ground and makes a circuit, the lightning proper is formed and a current flow, typically around 300 million Volts at 30,000 Amps.

    The scientist suggests that artificial leaders could “cause discharges to occur when and where we want them.” The artificial leader would be a wire a few thousandths of an inch in diameter and several miles long. Wires would be inserted into storms by aircraft or rockets on a spool, and unrolled by a drogue parachute, and lightning would follow them down to the ground.

    “This method is possible because the main discharge will occur through ionized surrounding the wire,” notes the scientist. The wire, like the leader, is only needed to get the lightning going, and would still work even if it broke.

    Now let's dive into today's high octane speculation. If you've been following the phenomenon of "chemtrails" and the spraying being conducted, one of the things you'll have come across is the claim that much of the material being sprayed is particulate heavy metals. Sometimes the composition of this spray varies, but among the metals most often mentioned in this regard are aluminum, and barium. Sometimes there are others. In some examinations, the spraying began during the Reagan era as a secretive effort to increase the electrical conductivity of the atmosphere for his Strategic Defense Initiative project. This needed a "cover story," so in some versions, the spraying was being done to "save the environment" or to "combat climate change" (which explanation in itself is intriguing, because that implied the ability to manipulate weather on a planetary scale).

    As the article itself notes, the use of wires was intended to provide a channel for lightning to close the circuit between the atmosphere and the ground, but that it "would still work even if it broke." In other words, you do not need a long wire, but several short ones in close proximity to each other to provide a channel or circuit for the lightning. Like particulate aerosolized heavy metals...

    The next thing one needs is the ability to create the large charge differentials to be able to cause lightning to strike, otherwise that sheath of heavy metals might function to block such strikes like a big Faraday cage, though in my opinion this possibility is unlikely for a variety of reasons. In any case, one needs an ability to ionize the atmosphere sufficiently to build up these enormous charges, or to take a naturally occurring storm, and load more energy into it. Enter the ionosphere heaters like HAARP. Indeed, when this technology was being dreamed up and patented - incidentally, during Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative era - some of the uses claimed for it were weather modification and steering, missile defense, and some analysts also made good cases that it could be used to cause lightning strikes.

    In other words, the USA had, and has had, this capability since at least the 1980s, and probably now many other nations as well. Put the two together - the spraying and the heaters - and one would have the equivalent, perhaps, of the ability to bombard a region or area with lightning, a kind of "carpet bombing with lightning", and to coin a pun, a true and proper Blitz.

    Obviously, carpet bombing with lightning isn't exactly "assassination" in any classical sense. For that, one would need some means for precision strikes, not just an aerosolized region and lightning strikes to start forest fires. One would need some means to be able to dial someone up, or at least, locate them, and use whatever such device that might be providing that location, to pulse it and them.

    Yea... I know. It sounds nutty. And probably is.

    But... while you're reading this on your ipad, remember that the first two essential requirements have been around since the 1980s at least, and the weaponized lightning idea since at least 1967, if not long before that, with the lightning bolts of the gods, who may not have been gods at all, but just people with an extraordinarily sophisticated science. After all, the ability to call down lightning strikes at a specific point would certainly impress a bunch of hairless monkeys who were still using bows and arrows to accomplish their mischief.

    See you on the flip side...





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    goshawks says:
    September 25, 2020 at 12:45 am
    Interesting:
    https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/watch-live-school-bus-sized-asteroid-buzz-earth-today
    “[Small near-Earth asteroid] 2020 SW, discovered by Catalina Sky Survey, is about 15 to 30 ft. wide… CNEOS expects the asteroid to zoom past Earth at a distance of about 13,000 miles over the Southeastern Pacific Ocean around 0712 ET on Thursday, Sept. 24.”

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    Sandygirl says:
    September 24, 2020 at 10:17 pm
    Aug. 12, 2016 · Greece’s Culture Ministry said Wednesday that the skeleton, probably of an adolescent boy, was found in the ash altar of The Temple of Zeus next to a man-made stone platform.
    Also found, what they believe to be a fulgurite, which is petrified lightning. Fulgurites also have fullerenes C60 and C70.
    Here’s a picture of a very cool fulgurite.
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Fulgurite-with-4-crystal-pockets-Petrified-Lightning/254054929110?hash=item3b26da92d6:g:OewAAOSwF7lcMTj l&redirect=mobile

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    NASA’S CONTRACT FOR LUNAR 4G… AND A QUESTION
    October 23, 2020 By JOSEPH P. FARRELL
    So many people sent me this one that I had to blog about it, and interestingly enough, most of those who sent it were asking the same question I'm asking. The long and short of it is that NASA has just recently awarded a contract to Nokia to build a 4G network on the Moon:

    NASA grants $14M contract to build lunar 4G network

    NASA is launching a 4G phone network on the moon Nokia's lunar LTE network will allow astronauts to make calls, stream data and remote control robots

    Nokia wins NASA contract to put a 4G network on the moon. Yes, really.

    Let's concentrate on the last two articles, for they give a strong reason as to why NASA wants a 4G network on the Moon. From the second article, there's this:

    Finnish phone company Nokia has announced it's working with the US space administration to build a 4G LTE network for moonwalkers by late 2022. As well as voice communication and data transmission, the mobile network could power navigation, stream biometric data so controllers can keep an eye on each astronaut's health and fitness, and direct remote-control robots and sensors on the lunar surface.

    And from the last article, there's this:

    Nokia's research arm, Bell Labs, provided more details in a Twitter thread. The company intends for the network to support wireless operation of lunar rovers and navigation, as well as streaming video.

    In other words, the network is necessary for data streaming, and more importantly, controlling robots.

    I strongly suspect it's that "robot" angle that's the most important, especially since NASA's plans are to establish a permanent base on the Moon, and to construct that base one will have to have robots; robots to dig, robots to construct and fit things together, and presumably, robots to maintain aspects of the base, and that will require a communications network. NASA's plans here are not unusual, for the Russian space agency ROSCOSMOS has also suggested that robots would be needed to build and maintain such a base, again, implying a strong communications capability.

    One might even envision that NASA's thinking is here much in line with ROSCOSMOS in another respect, in that ROSCOSMOS proposed the idea of building such a base with robots prior to human occupation. In other words, a communications network would have to be established to the Earth, allowing for control of the robots doing the building, and it would have to handle multiple streams of data.

    In other words, the network would have to be a first priority and not a later one.

    But it raises a few questions too, not the least of which is... why 4G, and not 5G? After all, we're told that 5G can handle so much more data, is a lot faster, and so on.

    Well, I have a few high octane speculations about that, but they all come down to "airlessness", "microwaves", and "radiation hazards", which raises certain nasty questions about the latter's implementation "down here."

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    WE need more of your money to go to the moon .. Who ever has the tech becomes the tyrant in a Baal Gates / Bell labs / NASA / Oc-cult spear of Longinus kind of way. Sounds like the history of the ‘telecom’ industry, town cryer to telegraph to telephone to satellite systems. Privy Counsel to high frequency trading acquiring ill gotten gains – Moonacy is a cruel mistress .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGdJOZTSfYw

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    FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE INTO WHAT ISN’T TECHNICALLY CANNIBALISM
    November 25, 2020 By JOSEPH P. FARRELL
    WARNING: Prepare to be grossed out. In fact, if you're squeamish or have a weak tummy, or like me can't watch those "medical films", fictional or otherwise, of surgeries without being grossed out, you might want to skip this blog altogether.

    Ok... for those of you remaining, you might be aware that recently I've been noticing the new meme being driven into the public consciousness, the meme of "following the science." It's a scary meme, because following the science does not mean wrapping one's mind around the fundamentals of relativity theory or quantum mechanics. What it means is following the science when it is proposing massive policy agendas, you know, like mandatory nose-feeder bags to stop the spread of flu viruses(!), mandatory vaccines containing mitochondrial RNA components, mandatory carbon taxes to stop "climate change," mandatory collective farms because it's "more scientific", and so on. I think you get the idea, and I think you can readily see that "following the science" is really more about "following the scientism", the technocrat with a computer model, or a PhD in "Public Health Administration" rather than an actual practising physician, and so on. It's the Michael Bloomberg model of farming: there's nothing to it: dig a hole, insert seed, water said seed.

    With that in mind, do remember your friend's mom telling your friend not to pick his scabs and eat them (particularly in public)? Do you remember as a kid being grossed out by that kid during recess that would pick her nose and then very discretely (or sometimes not so discretely) pop it in her mouth? (See, I told you this was going to be gross). Well, if you do, then consider this choice little article shared by V.T.:

    Makers of grow-your-own human steaks say meal kit is not ‘technically’ cannibalism

    Now some time ago I blogged about the 3-D printing of cultured synthetic meat, and even about a restaurant (in Nuttyfornia, where else?) that was proposing to take DNA samples of famous people, culture them and 3D print them as "meat", and serve it to people as a kind of "designer cannibalism." One could have Wolf Blitzer blintzes, Nasty Piglosi potato pancakes, Feinstein falafal, Chuck Schumer sprouts or Madow meat loaf or Trump truffles, and so on.

    Well, for those worried about the "cannibalism" aspects of the new "technology," not to worry; there's a solution ready to hand! Just eat yourself:

    The saying “You are what you eat” may soon become a lot more literal.

    A “DIY meal kit” for growing steaks made from human cells was recently nominated for “design of the year” by the London-based Design Museum.

    Named the Ouroboros Steak after the circular symbol of a snake eating itself tail-first, the hypothetical kit would come with everything one needs to use their own cells to grow miniature human meat steaks.

    “People think that eating oneself is cannibalism, which technically this is not,” Grace Knight, one of the designers, told Dezeen magazine.

    Well, apparently Grace Knight didn't get the memo from her mom: picking your own nose and/or scabs and eating them isn't what nice civilized people do.

    They may be nice sources of "protein." And they may avoid all the nasty problems of eating other people in Blitzer blintzes, Piglosi potato pancakes, Feinstein falafal, Schumer sprouts or Madow meat loaf or Trump truffles, nasty problems like... oh, say, mad cow disease, kuru, and so on.

    It may not be cannibalism, but it is just plain gross.

    And one more thought: these people are just plain nuts, bonkers, insane... perhaps they've been eating themselves (and others) already...

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    …ABOUT THAT JOHNS HOPKINS COVID STUDY…
    December 2, 2020 By JOSEPH P. FARRELL
    This story was a bit of a surprise to me, because at initial glance when I read it, I could not figure out why so many people had spotted it and sent it along to me. But it didn't take long to figure out, once I read into the original article a ways.

    What I am talking about is that study by "Genevieve Briand, assistant program director of the Applied Economics master's degree program at Hopkins," that "crunched the numbers" relating to covid--19 deaths in the USA. She came to "certain conclusions" that were deleterious to the planscamdemic narrative (notice the presence of the word "delete" in "deleterious"; we'll get back to that tout suite as my little French grandmother used to say to me when I was a boy and she wanted me to do something, and to do it now), so within a matter of a few days, Johns Hopkins had deleted the study, taken it down, and offered "reasons" for doing so. Here's one article describing its "reasons" (this, again, was shared by many people):

    Johns Hopkins Study Saying COVID-19 Has 'Relatively No Effect on Deaths' in U.S. Spiked After Publication

    According to the article, Johns Hopkins offered the following "explanation":

    On Thursday, Johns Hopkins University explained that they deleted the article on the study because it “was being used to support false and dangerous inaccuracies about the impact of the pandemic.”

    What false and dangerous inaccuracies could those be?
    Well, here's another take:
    A few days ago Johns Hopkins published a study saying corona is nbd. They then deleted it. Read it here in its entirety.
    You'll note that this second article links the original study being referred to, as well as the entire text of Johns Hopkins' "explanation" for taking it down, which is here:
    A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19
    Yup, sure enough, right there is Johns Hopkins' "explanation":
    Editor’s Note: After The News-Letter published this article on Nov. 22, it was brought to our attention that our coverage of Genevieve Briand’s presentation “COVID-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Data” has been used to support dangerous inaccuracies that minimize the impact of the pandemic.

    We decided on Nov. 26 to retract this article to stop the spread of misinformation, as we noted on social media. However, it is our responsibility as journalists to provide a historical record. We have chosen to take down the article from our website, but it is available here as a PDF.

    In accordance with our standards for transparency, we are sharing with our readers how we came to this decision. The News-Letter is an editorially and financially independent, student-run publication. Our articles and content are not endorsed by the University or the School of Medicine, and our decision to retract this article was made independently.

    Briand’s study should not be used exclusively in understanding the impact of COVID-19, but should be taken in context with the countless other data published by Hopkins, the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

    As assistant director for the Master’s in Applied Economics program at Hopkins, Briand is neither a medical professional nor a disease researcher. At her talk, she herself stated that more research and data are needed to understand the effects of COVID-19 in the U.S.

    In other words, the article was (1) not an official study of the university, but one of its students, (2) was not the study of a "medical professional nor a disease researcher", and that leaves the conclusion that (3) her study was being "used to support dangerous inaccuracies that minimize the impact of the pandemic."

    But you'll note that the Newsletter itself states that it has been a publication of the Johns Hopkins' student association "since 1896." To my mind, that makes the original publication even more, not less, interesting, because it means that at least one student at that institution, namely Ms. Briand herself, was not asleep, and was simply following the numbers, and doing what any rational and reasonable person would do when examining them: "doubting the narrative".

    So let's return to the first article. What did she find?

    After retrieving data on the CDC website, Briand compiled a graph representing percentages of total deaths per age category from early February to early September, which includes the period from before COVID-19 was detected in the U.S. to after infection rates soared.

    Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19. Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups. However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.

    Having adopted the "using their own numbers" approach, Ms. Briand came to the following conclusion (which, let it be noted, is a conclusion many other researchers came to long ago:

    According to the study, “in contrast to most people’s assumptions, the number of deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming. In fact, it has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States.”

    Wait, what? Really?

    That’s what it says. And, it should come as no surprise that the study was deleted within days.

    Then there is this article: A few days ago Johns Hopkins published a study saying corona is nbd. They then deleted it. Read it here in its entirety

    This goes into greater depth about her method, and what she found:

    These data analyses suggest that in contrast to most people's assumptions, the number of deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming. In fact, it has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States.

    This comes as a shock to many people. How is it that the data lie so far from our perception?

    To answer that question, Briand shifted her focus to the deaths per causes ranging from 2014 to 2020. There is a sudden increase in deaths in 2020 due to COVID-19. This is no surprise because COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. in early 2020, and thus COVID-19-related deaths increased drastically afterward.

    Analysis of deaths per cause in 2018 revealed that the pattern of seasonal increase in the total number of deaths is a result of the rise in deaths by all causes, with the top three being heart disease, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia.

    "This is true every year. Every year in the U.S. when we observe the seasonal ups and downs, we have an increase of deaths due to all causes," Briand pointed out.

    When Briand looked at the 2020 data during that seasonal period, COVID-19-related deaths exceeded deaths from heart diseases. This was highly unusual since heart disease has always prevailed as the leading cause of deaths. However, when taking a closer look at the death numbers, she noted something strange. As Briand compared the number of deaths per cause during that period in 2020 to 2018, she noticed that instead of the expected drastic increase across all causes, there was a significant decrease in deaths due to heart disease. Even more surprising, as seen in the graph below, this sudden decline in deaths is observed for all other causes. (Emphasis added)

    In other words, the implication is that the covid numbers are being "doctored" (not to coin a pun) in order to blow the covid narrative into a planscamdemic, sort of like noticing that suddenly spiking numbers for Briben correlate oddly with falling numbers for Trump. Nope, nothing to see here, we're taking the study down because it needs further study (that will presumably agree with the predetermined narrative).

    All of which leads me to wonder - and doubtless many of you may be wondering too - whether or not Dominion software is being used not only to "count" votes, but to count covid deaths... Or as a friend of mine (K.M.) put it to me, Scorecard and Hammer, or "PROMIS 2.0". Information warfare anyone?

    I don't know about you, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised. The bottom line is, graph correlations do not prove manipulation of numbers (in either case), but they do give a reasonable basis to conclude that there may be a correlation, and that reasonable rational people are right to be suspicious.

    See you on the flip side...

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    I stopped at "assassination by lightening." Highly speculative if not downright hysterical conspiracy mongering. Farell's high octane nonsense doesn't pass the sniff test.

    But hey, that's just me. Maybe he does have all the answers and the Nazis did have flying saucers.

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    Pity for you as you may have been as surprised, by negating the silly and procuring the gems.

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    I guess I should cut him some slack for qualifying his "high octane" speculations, as just that. I have always been wary of him as a source of information, past or present and his calling out the election as fraudulent didn't help.

    How are you, anyway, Ainewa. How are things in New Zealand?

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    Joseph is jumping on the bandwagon, imo.

    The saddest thing for me to learn over these last several years is that the figures in the alternative community jump on the popular bandwagons as much as anyone else. Whatever the 'hot' story is, they go for it.

    Corey Goode was the first example for me, but not the first for most folks who have come through here.

    Turns out, being on the outside doesn't make folks any more credible.

    Sigh.

    I keep thinking of Joe from the Carolinas who made some excellent food forest videos. I learned about growing mushrooms, using swales, and much more. And he himself said that those videos get no traction.

    People want to hear about Corey Goode, and conspiracy theories about blood...not even going to give words to the idea.

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    Quote Originally posted by Octopus Garden View Post
    I guess I should cut him some slack for qualifying his "high octane" speculations, as just that. I have always been wary of him as a source of information, past or present and his calling out the election as fraudulent didn't help.

    How are you, anyway, Ainewa. How are things in New Zealand?
    NZ is like rest of world in wake up mode while starting to acknowledge there is now two or more narratives out there vying for space in here/their/mind. So am busy busy and in best happy space for yonks, hows you n Canada ?

    LOL DT heaven of a bandwagon

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