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When I ran for Congress (1996) one of my primary planks was to stop the export of jobs and factories to China. Certainly everyone wishes they had listened to my advice some 27 years later. So basically our corporations and legislators sold us out to China. Now we are in peril. Washington, in his farewell address, counseled WE THE PEOPLE, to avoid foreign entanglements. Obviously our corporations and legislators ignored the advice.

It is also very concerning that Russia, and the rest of the world are now silently rolling out a digital currency (CBDC). Even a secularist, such as myself, can see this as the "Mark of the Beast." Early literalist religions -- Islam, Christianity, Judaism -- pushed the idea the "god is watching" in order to control the masses. Today the global surveillance state is actually watching all that we do.

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We see the Russian rouble stronger than it has ever been in large part due to the competent leadership of Sergei Glazyev (see his speech on Sanctions and Sovereignty) who is in the process of organising a “new economic order…[which] will involve a creation of a new digital payment currency founded through an international agreement based on principles of transparency, fairness, goodwill, and efficiency” as he explained in an interview with Pepe Escobar for The Cradle.

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I wrote, at length against the adoption of digital currency as few essays back. Thankfully humans, throughout the planet, now see the problem. But our globalist governments seem intent on adopting it anyway. We are in need of a peaceful anti-globalist revolution.

The Global Quickening: The Escalating Clusterfuck of humanity by the Globalists

Why our primary goal must be a worldwide movement against Digital Currency

https://brucecain.substack.com/p/the-global-quickening-the-escalating

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I think the recent NYT piece on the masks fits right into your formula. It is not to be heralded. It is an attempt to throw a meatless bone at us to deflect their complicity in their crimes. Such attempts should not be rewarded. They should be derided for the nefarious deeds that they are.

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Feb 23, 2023·edited Feb 23, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

They also tried to blame everybody for the subprime mortgage crisis. when they weren't specifically blaming poor black people for buying houses during the Clinton Administration.

They didn't really convince many people with that argument but why not BS the public again and again since the people actually involved never get punished and the people who should be punished still make out like bandits. I mean, wasn't TARP grand?

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Amen to that. The corrupt shifting the onus onto the average person is nothing new, and is a sleight of hand (or mouth) that people fall for all the time.

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We need to become more matter of fact about corruption.

Corruption is similar to water - money always seeks the lowest level, the trick is to stop it early, so it does not destroy your building.

We act too much like we had a right to expect there would be no corruption. Instead we should recognize that whenever there is money involved, corruption is almost inevitable, you simply need to build in the safeguards to protect the house..

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Feb 23, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

Here in Danistan, where I live, the Premier has never apologised for shutting down churches or his continual abuse of the public during the fakedemic. He doesn't need to, because the people actually believed that they needed to be abused to stay safe. They recently re-elected him with a larger majority. The Premier of Danistan is a socialist with known links to China.

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Feb 23, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

A well written article. My feeling is that most Western governments are so corrupt and so indebted to BIG CORP. AND PHARMA that the only solution is to burn down the house and restart with community based leadership and government. For example take the recent resignation of Jacinta Adhern, departure of Angela Merkel and ousting of Scott Morrison. Replaced by different faces but following the same agendas of BIG CORP AND PHARMA.

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Feb 23, 2023·edited Feb 23, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

When you think about it, it is a brilliant method: Convince the majority that if you look at this or that, and it doesn't jive 110% with your messaged/implanted/propagandized point of view, the other part is fascist/communist/etc., even though most don't even know what these words mean.

Take "Anarchy": How many know, that it simply means "No Ruler" and not "Chaos". Words are very important, and we need to re-educate our fellow humans of their real meaning.

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Very interesting! Thanks for pulling back the curtain on this tactic.

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I’m convinced the root of the problem is firmly embedded in our original decision to let the government manage our money supply. That we allow the government to debase our wealth at their whims has lead to generational human abuse by elected charlatans and common criminals. The evidence? Look to see how many elected officials increase their net worth far faster than market investments could do for them.

Sadly, by listen to someone speak one cannot detect a different between honest people or slick con artists. It is only by their actions that we can find the truth..

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Feb 23, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

Excellent.

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Feb 23, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

Thank you for this discussion of what we can expect to do to counter the corruption of the last few years.

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There is plenty of blame/responsibility to go around, and many levels/types of causality at play. The causal chains run deep and wide and interact in many ways.

The lockdowns and all the rest didn’t emerge whole cloth from Zeus’s head. The conditions that made it possible to implement them for a compliant populace didn’t miraculously materialize in one crystalline moment.

https://russellmadden.substack.com/p/freedom-except-for?s=w

There is no either/or here. From individuals, to organizations, to national governments, the context that enabled these evils has been long established.

We should identify what is RIGHT and what SHOULD be done about this situation and these criminals, even if it’s not practical to jail them for the specific transgressions they committed. I’ll take the Al Capone tactic if that’s all that is available...

There SHOULD be Nuremberg-style trials and prosecutions. But those who would be responsible for them are generally the same ones who perpetrated the offenses, in the first place.

I’d be mightily surprised if much of anyone even loses his job, let alone spends time behind bars or dangles from a rope.

But that’s the world as it presently is. Maybe someday...

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Killing corruption is easy. It starts in the home.

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I LOL'd at "Fortunately for those of us in the developed world, while there are important exceptions, most of our officials tend to conduct themselves in a decent and honest manner."

I can't say I agree here. Its certainly true that most of our officials would be considered "good people" if one were to take cursory glance at their daily conduct. Unfortunately, within almost all of these officials lies a mini-tyrant who believes themeself superior to those that they serve and cravenly clings to whatever power that they hold over their fellow man. This is true from your neighborhood HOA all the way to the puppet master elites. Its a mass failing of character that is rooted in fear and hate rather than understanding and love.

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Corruption is in the West is negligent, according to the non-corrupted Western NGOs supposedly created to oversee the matter.

Thank goodness our billionaires are philanthropists and not oligarchs, like in the rest of the world...

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