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School broke me at the age of 14. That was when I learned a lesson that wasn’t on the curriculum but ubiquitous: that the livelihood you needed to get you through was inevitably going TO BORE YOU TO DEATH! That was what the teachers taught me by their grudging presence every day. And, given the kind of society we had built, they were correct.

Consequently, the only things that were important, that WOULDN'T BORE YOU TO DEATH, were the little things you could indulge in from a sheltered corner.

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We've got that in common.

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I'll begin with my gripe: Why must Substack be so archaic and unwieldy in its mechanics? What a pain in the ass they have contrived going between the comments, additional comments, and then having to back pedal to regain the text page. (Prolly just another psy-op in a world now so completely riven with such. I give up.)

And now I've encountered another who has been Facebook-like 7-day banished from SS for Contrary-Think.

Taibbi seems to have found a more amenable reader-friendly platform with his Racket show so far, albeit he and his partner Walter Kirn are both so establishment hidebound they are quite entertaining in their public epiphanies whenever their individual or collective incandescent lightbulb(s) flare(s) up. Considering their wide-eyed wonder when exposed to the realities---the actual realities that we have known of for years now---and coming to consciousness ("We're not in Sasnak anymore, Toto,") it is worth the price of admission to see a couple vets actually getting a grip on "what's actually what.'

But I digress, I digress, I digress. Their good outweighs their naiveté.

Here. This:

https://gaiusbaltar.substack.com/p/why-is-the-west-so-weak-and-russia

Symbiotically complementary and synthesises well-enough with your topic du jour. In fact, must-read because. (And there is an addendum to the original at the bottom of that missive.)

I have not 'sourced' this feller with the fancy sounding Roman name as to background, but I did ask him for some details in hopes to discover his fount of seemingly well-founded perspective.

For who can you trust these days just based upon being a skilled wordslinger with a message that grooves so well? Who (or what) is behind the beguiling curtain of syntax and narrative? Just because it is amenable to my own critical thinking is no longer enough, alas. Agency and agencies...

Such has communication devolved thanks to these wicked pranksters of all stripes (and algorithms.) Gonzalo Lira being a most notorious / noxious example---my sole conclusion since April of 2022, my suspicions since March of that same year. Conclusions arrived at independent of Lira's arch-nemesis, Scott Ritter the Excitable. Marine. Period. Yet another doing much needed communicating in these, Our Times.

One other of interest to pass along, noted for its compelling research and most important interviews of significant persons, many now deceased, is the podcast Grand Theft World, the brainchild of one Richard Grove, whistleblower and self-described Forensic Historian, a claim I endorse whole-heartedly. He worked in one of the WTC towers, got caught in traffic, was late that day. He has compiled an amazing amount of material, well presented, entertaining too, on his multi-decadal journey down the rabbit hole. His sidekick Tony "Logic Professor," Meyer, tends to wrap himself around his own axle of pedantry, but that aside, I think it well worth exploring the show's Sunday evening (for me in Alaska) output. Many similar, related topics to this exceptional place you have provided, M.C.

Since I've climbed the tangent tree, I believe Christopher Bollyn deserves mention and support regarding what happened on September 11, 2001 too. He has paid a significant price for his investigative work's disclosures and I'll call him a noble man, yes I will. That's 'Bollyn,' not Bollen.

Had enough? Me too.

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Great feedback. I also find Substack limiting... probably not deliberate but it slow-walks the debate.

Commenting could easily be a right panel to the side of the content... for real-time interaction. They accepted my suggestion of the paywall (sorry, that was me) so maybe I can get some progress.

I'll get back to your substantive comments.

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"Corporations are the mechanism that turns this oil and steel, land and seed into product which simply provides cash flow for the wealthy. "

Astute observation. Everyone's got a boss looking over their shoulder. Why the top of the pyramid hides. and throws out proxies like hunters with duck decoys. Surrogate masters to fight against when you are not fighting each other. The decoys are rewarded pretty good if you have ever hung around with international bankers. But they can be shut down in the blink of an eye or have a mysterious accident.

I found school invigorating. In grade school I finished my lessons and did what I wanted. Read the encyclopedia if nothing else available. In college I majored in physics with like 10 in a class. To succeed at work just make your boss a hero. If you keep thinking how to improve things you will never be obsolete. Any job can be interesting if you try to constantly improve it rather than accept a rut.

To keep from getting bored, interact with people smarter or more creative than you are. Learn new things. Don't worry, everything has a steep learning curve and the first of anything is just for practice.

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Always seek out those who are sharper than ourselves... key to success.

The comment about cash flow is just to make a distinction between the worth of owning resources versus corporations. The former will always triumph.

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educere "to bring out, lead forth"

But we pour in and fence off. What schools do is the exact opposite of education.

The Prussians knew that and the rest of the world's power hungry lapped it up.

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All governments copied the Prussians exactly for the purpose of control. The Rockefellers, sponsors of Dewey and later of Gates, came from Frankfurt region, just 100 or so miles from the Rothschilds.

We are talking Germanic influence, above all.

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