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-Land of the Free
Mass Formation Psychosis' Admittedly Used by Governments as Tool of Population Control
[Summit] In Canada, the military also admitted launching a psychological operations campaign against their own people in order to manipulate them into compliance with COVID-19 restrictions and mandates.

During his viral podcast with Joe Rogan after he was banned by Twitter, Malone explained how the global population was being manipulated into remaining in a constant state of hysterical anxiety via mass formation psychosis.

"What the heck happened to Germany in the 20s and 30s? Very intelligent, highly educated population, and they went barking mad. And how did that happen?" asked Malone.

"The answer is mass formation psychosis."

"When you have a society that has become decoupled from each other and has free-floating anxiety in a sense that things don’t make sense, we can’t understand it, and then their attention gets focused by a leader or series of events on one small point just like hypnosis, they literally become hypnotized and can be led anywhere," he added.

"And one of the aspects of that phenomenon is that the people that they identify as their leaders, the ones typically that come in and say you have this pain and I can solve it for you. I and I alone," Malone further explained, "Then they will follow that person. It doesn’t matter whether they lied to them or whatever. The data is irrelevant."

"We had all those conditions. If you remember back before 2019 everyone was complaining, the world doesn’t make sense and we are all isolated from each other."

"Then this thing happened, and everyone focused on it," stated Malone, noting, "That is how mass formation psychosis happens and that is what has happened here."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/05/2022 01:28 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is why I rely on CNN and the Atlanta Journal Constitution to get my news.

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/05/2022 1:44 Comments || Top||


#3  So... this Malone guy is an expert in all fields?

Or just a media darling on the right because he's saying things people want to hear?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 01/05/2022 11:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Just because it’s comforting to see a sensible response to the widespread and blatant propaganda published by our mainstream media:

Posted by: trailing wife || 01/05/2022 15:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Hold up - this interview - https://ncrenegade.com/dr-mattias-desmet-dr-robert-malone-dr-peter-mccullough-mass-formation-psychosis/
Posted by: newc || 01/05/2022 20:17 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Finnish Civil War in 1918 and Soviet Russia
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Oleg Airapetov

[Regnum] Finland was declared an independent republic on December 6, 1917. Already on December 31, the Leninist government recognized this independence. Almost immediately, in January 1918, Finland began its own civil war.
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Posted by: badanov || 01/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A fine history lesson. Thx, Badanov!
Posted by: borgboy || 01/05/2022 16:43 Comments || Top||


Economy
Nolte: Corporate Media Enabled Elizabeth Holmes' Fraud with Glowing Coverage
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/05/2022 10:25 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Manufacturing Activity Slumped to 11-month Low in December
[Breitbart] Growth in U.S. manufacturing in December was weaker than expected, slouching to its slowest pace since January of 2020, a survey of manufacturing executives indicated Tuesday.

The Institute for Supply Management said that its index of manufacturing activity fell to a reading of 58.7 in December, below the consensus forecast of 60.5 and 2.4 percentage points lower than the November reading.

The index is assembled from questionnaires sent out to purchasing managers at manufacturing businesses, giving rise to its name as the Purchasing Managers Index, or PMI. It is regarded as a reliable predictor of government reports on the economy, which frequently come out months later.

December’s reading was the worst since January 2021, when the index also read 58.7.

Both new orders and production were lower in December, although the greatest source of the slowdown is supply chain constraints.

“The U.S. manufacturing sector remains in a demand-driven, supply chain-constrained environment, with indications of improvements in labor resources and supplier delivery performance. Shortages of critical lowest-tier materials, high commodity prices and difficulties in transporting products continue to plague reliable consumption,” said ISM’s Timothy R. Fiore.

Supplier deliveries slowed further in December and customer inventories were still at levels considered too low. The prices paid by manufacturers for materials and components continued to rise, indicating ongoing supplier pricing power, but the pace of growth slowed in December.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/05/2022 09:55 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My local Kroger grocery was out of yellow onions today, which I don’t recall ever happening before. No idea if the problem is at the farmers’ end or the delivery chain.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/05/2022 15:47 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ Canary in the onion field
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/05/2022 17:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Biden blames Big Onion™

and not Outback
Posted by: Frank G || 01/05/2022 20:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Noticed toilet paper is disappearing from store shelves again.
Posted by: Clater Thelet2575 || 01/05/2022 21:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Huge holes in the shelves. Haven't seen this since the beginning of the coof virus. It seems to be more things and a lot longer than before.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/05/2022 22:59 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Covid is dead. Energy is the new crisis.
[Brain Porridge] This morning: Markets are welcoming victory versus COVID, but the next crisis is upon us: Energy instability. The consequences could be dramatic..

Back to the grindstone with a vengeance today — holidays are over and the Christmas decorations are back in their boxes. Time to get serious about 2022. Time to buy or time to sell?

I am unconvinced many market participants understand just how much the ground has shifted over the last quarter — particularly in relation to Energy pricing. The first few months of 2022 are going to be about the market learning what the new landscape looks like, and how it adapts to a new and changing economic reality. This new year is going to be fundamentally different and more challenging in terms of how to invest "smart" in a new and utterly changed financial market environment.

On the plus side, the outlook for 2022 has rosy overtones: Increasingly it looks like the back of Coronavirus has been broken. Infections of the new Omicron might be running out of control around the globe, but new variant hospitalisations and deaths are way down. The crisis is now coloured by issues such as the number of workers off sick — or more likely isolating at home with positive test results and minor symptoms. Official UK vaccine numbers (rather than dubious source material from the University of Facebook) show booster shots are 88% effective against Omicron, and the hospitalisation risk of the new variant is 1/3rd of the previous Delta.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/05/2022 02:09 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


#2  On to the next Narrative: Civil war looming!

Here are all the looney hysterics, ex-Right (neoconservative mainly) as well as lefty, who've begin pushing the new civil war Narrative recently (Michael Anton offers a brilliant analysis of their incoherent suppurations in Claremont's AmericanMind.org:

At The Atlantic:
Jeffrey Goldberg
David Brooks
Anne Applebaum
George Packer
Donald Kagan
Ed Kilgore
Marc Elias
Ibram Herbert92X Kendi

... and a slew of other OpEds such as Pravda's "Everyday is Jann 6 Now" designed to stir the Woke with harrowing tales of !ns-Erect!on by Les Deplorables

Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/05/2022 11:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Check oil stocks this week. A lot of investors apparently agree with the author.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 01/05/2022 13:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Nancy Pelosi expected to 'step down next year'
[MAIL] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to step down at the end of this Congress after nearly two decades in Democratic leadership, and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is the new favorite to lead the party.

While Jeffries, N.Y., chair of the House Democratic Caucus, is the favorite, the debate over who will succeed Pelosi, Calif., could lay to bare the deep divide between progressives and moderates.
I'll believe it when I sees it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/05/2022 02:29 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She needs to leave yesterday.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 || 01/05/2022 2:45 Comments || Top||

#2  ....She's not leaving until a Kansas farmhouse falls on her, a couple hundred little people show up to sing, and a Coroner avers that she is not only merely dead but truly most sincerely dead.

PS - just to be on the safe side, somebody make sure to grab her shoes.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/05/2022 7:20 Comments || Top||

#3  ^-- snark of the day. And so true...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/05/2022 9:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Would Nancy Pelosi melt away if her aides gave her a 'victory' Gatorade Bath for all her triumphs?
Posted by: magpie || 01/05/2022 12:52 Comments || Top||

#5  No - Botox has a half-life of 275 years
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/05/2022 13:19 Comments || Top||

#6  1 through the temple don't have half life
Posted by: Chris || 01/05/2022 22:42 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
History: Israel's Mossad bombed German, Swiss firms to stop Pakistani nukes - report
[Jpost]
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/05/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  German and Swiss firms were not alone with their dealings in that part of the world.

Meanwhile, fast forwarding to recent events back home, our own Dr Anthony Fauci stated in May of last year, that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) "has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology".

Quite enough pot stirring to go around, I'd say. Whipping the Mossad horse still remains popular.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/05/2022 1:13 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2022-01-05
  Government falls in Kazakhstan
Tue 2022-01-04
  Iran Vows Revenge unless Trump Tried for Soleimani Killing
Mon 2022-01-03
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  U.S. Navy Seizes $4 Million Worth of Heroin in Arabian Sea
Thu 2021-12-30
  Hezbollah deploys air defense systems in Syria's Qalamoun mountains
Wed 2021-12-29
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Tue 2021-12-28
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