One of the themes of this age is the few people who have refused to be co-opted into supporting the deep state agenda. By that I mean that of the presidential administration, government security apparatus, health apparatus inside and outside government, media, education and academia. Robert F Kennedy could not be bought. Neither could the doctors and the medical Freedom movement – Robert Malone, Peter McCullough, Peter Breggin and many others. The free people who emerged from traditional media include Alex Berenson, Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi. Authors among them include Naomi Wolf, Celia Farber and Michael Nehls.
Tucker Carlson has a genius for finding these people. And now that he is on his own, he is free to call it as it is. Whatever else you can make up Tulsi Gabbard, you have to admire the fact that she has maintained her independence. Eleven years ago she was Nancy Pelosi's protégé, a rising star in the Democratic Party. Now she is considered as Donald Trump's running mate. What has she done? The most noticeable thing of all is she has maintained her integrity. She has been called a Russian agent by both Mitt Romney and leading Democrats. She has turned down their money. A delightful passage in her interview with Tucker is the part where she tells him she and her husband bought a house in an affordable section of Washington DC. What does that mean? She tells an anecdote that a takeout food outlet would not deliver to her neighborhood on the wrong side of the Anacostia River. Had she sold out she could have been living in a mansion. In another anecdote Mitt Romney absolutely refused to answer after she harshly pushed back against his calling her a Russian agent. She is a brigade commander in the Army reserve. If there were anything to substantiate the accusation, she says they should bring charges of treason. Otherwise shut up.
With regard to my own issue, the defense of Ukraine, I will observe that the people who are now seeking support for Ukraine did not do themselves any favors all those years they spent on the Russiagate bandwagon. Not only did they make an enemy of Trump, but they have made the American populace skeptical of all claims about Russian evils. In short, they cried wolf too often and now that there is an extremely menacing Russian wolf at the door many people are no longer listening.
Bret Weinstein has lamented that few journalists have the background to refute the disinformation coming out of the academia, the medical community and government agencies charged with medical oversight. He has often said that he feels forced to do so because though he has no background in journalism he does know biology. His latest post is a refutation of some nonsense coming from a PhD virologist out of Cornell. The Cornell virologist, Weinstein and the experts he asked to comment all have a deeper background than most of us. I am delighted at how well Weinstein and his buddies were able to make the issues comprehensible to me.
This brings home another truth. The medical Freedom community - Steve Kirsch, Aaron Kheriaty, Robert Malone, Peter McCullough and many many others – have been offering since the dawn of Covid 19 to debate anybody from the government agencies, academia or the pharmaceutical companies with regard to the safety and efficacy of the vaccines and the utility of the many draconian measures put in place in the name of Covid. Nobody has taken them up. The establishment has pointed to its vested authority and asked us to shut up and trust them. It is nice to see a refutation like this. I point to the fact that I have used a similar technique to refute Tucker himself when he was wrong about Colonel Macgregor and the Nova Kakhovka Dam. I would like to see the technique of juxtaposing opposing arguments used more often.
I did my own research on the background of Cindy Leifer, whose comments they were refuting. I could not find the exact piece, but here is something in the same vein. It appears on microbe TV, which makes a good number of posts every day that seem to support the government narratives. I am comfortable that what Weinberg presents are honest, well researched opinions on both sides. They are genuine arguments, nothing ad hominem about them. Both sides adhere to the protocols of science. Both sides cite numerous scientific papers from leading publications like those of Elsevier. We know that even these academic journals have been corrupted in part, but it is impressive the extent to which both sides referred to them. They are not totally corrupt.
Having mentioned The Indoctrinated Brain in several recent posts, it has been on my mind. This week I decided that the speech I had prepared for Toastmasters passing judgment on the way my former wife and her relatives made bad use of money was perhaps too personal. It makes more sense to talk about how memory works, and how and when it stops working. The topic involves me personally – at the age of 81 I experience more brain farts than I used to. As an instance, my proofreading of my last post was week. Whoops, weak. Moreover, instead of observing that the population pyramid will morph into a stovepipe, an obelisk would have captured the concept better. Here is America's present obelisk-shaped population pyramid. At any rate, here is my upcoming talk on The Indoctrinated Brain, which I am entitling for Toastmasters "Memory Loss – a View from the inside."
This morning I reread Roger Devlin's "Sexual Utopia in Power" which I reviewed a decade ago. I enjoyed the number of strong points he makes. I have extracted my notes with the intention of expanding on them, applying evolutionary explanations. The short story is that as Michael Nehls said in the context of memory, our species has evolved out of its environment of evolutionary adaptedness. We do not reproduce well in the situation in which we now find ourselves. A decade ago, Devlin cheered what he saw as an eminent economic collapse. This morning the canaries in my coal mine – Bitcoin and gold – are chirping loudly.
That's the news from Lake WeBeGone, where the strong man just wrested Marianna free of a protective grandmother so we could get some sunshine down on the neighborhood playground. She was of course very warmly dressed. And of course, as three-year-olds will, she jumped in every mud puddle along the way. Grandma doesn’t know.
Enjoyed your article Graham , very interesting period of your life most certainly that you are in !
All the best for you & your family .
God, I can't believe you drank the Kool-Aid too. About RussiaGate, you are completely wrong. It's still relevant and everything written in the Steele Dossier, except for one item, has proven to be true. The one thing that he got wrong was that he said Michael Cohan met some Russian types in Prague. Not true, apparently. There are still many items in the Steele Report which have not been proven correct or incorrect. But Steels himself said that he thought no more than 80% of the report would prove to be accurate.
As for RussiaGate itself, P:aul Manafort is all I have to say. How the fuck did he get to be Trump's campaign manager? Manafort has to be the most compromised crook in the Trump orbit. He was providing Oleg Deripaska private polling data which gave him details that the Russians could use to subvert American voters. He was also working with a known KGB agent who vanished into the darkness of Russia when scrutiny came looking. You tell me, was it nothing that the Campaign manager of the Trump Presidential Campaign was known to have Kremlin connections? And that he himself was the chief consultant to Victor Yanukovich who later fled into exile in Russia after the Ukrainian people drove him for office for a second time? Manafort's own children thought that he was involved in contract murders and other nefarious activities. So, there was nothing at all in Russia Gate, huh? You want to sweep that shit under the carpet? Manafort had dirty hands and He shook hands with Trump which makes him equally dirty, because he had to have known about Manafort's past.
And this is just what I remember about Manafort off the top of my head. There's a lot more If I want to dig deeper.
So what if they didn't find Trump's actual fingerprints on the murder weapon? He did it. He's corrupt, a liar, and a scumbag. I can't believe the shit that he gets away with in court. That fat prick should be locked up for the rest of his life. Yes, they're after him and yes he's guilty.
Even it Trump doesn't owe Putin something, he's still a puppet for the monster from Moscow. He practically fawned over Putin in some settings. Anybody who votes for that creep needs to see a psychiatrist because their brain has been stripped of its autobiographical memory.