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This is important not just for DDT, but because the masses can’t understand that chemicals and toxins in their environment can and will just be RELABELED by the Label Monster as due to virus. Great info!

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I'm DDT

--Dr. David Thor

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LOL.

I don't want YOU sprayed on me, either.

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Oh come on. You know you want it.

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hahahaha

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Lmfao. Thank you for that

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😁

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FMI Re DDT and pesticides:

http://whale.to/vaccine/polio_ddt_h.html

Polio and DDT (whale.to)

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I have heard the same from other sources too. And to think how we all lined up at school for our polio vaccine (on a sugar lump!). I remember my mum being particularly keen on that one because she didn't want me to end up in an 'iron lung'. If only she knew. I am absolutely certain that my 5 year old vaccines ruined my health. I was never the same after them.

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Sugar lump's a nice detail. "Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down in the most delightful way."

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...without you noticing the nasty taste suggestive of poison...

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I am convinced that vaccines were the cause of my wife's demise. Autoimmune conditions are a known side effect of vaccines.

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I can remember kids getting back in line for another sugar lump or two. I remember thinking that is not a good idea.

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Seroulsy, on a lump of sugar was the only way they could convince my 6 year old self to take it. I hated shots and still do.

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Since 2020 I wondered if the polio vaccine, that I must have had around 6 years old, was the cause of a terrifying nightmare.

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impossible not to appreciate you and your work Sam .

Blessings and appreciation to you and yours from Sydney .

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Have read The Final Pandemic and it’s a great read. Highly recommended. It’s a much easier read than Virus Mania and a good way for people new to this whole issue to get clued up. I would still recommend Virus Mania though.

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Reading it now.

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My father, as a transport operator serving farms in then Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, would have facilitated the dumping of many tons of DDT, to help eradicate 'pests' spoiling the - tobacco crops. No doubt poisons to deal with tobacco mosaic 'virus' too.

We began to be aware that DDT thinned raptors' eggs (yes, that was the only admitted side effect ). Even so, my husband, a tobacco farmer, surreptitiously got hold of DDT and used it because, he said, "Nothing else works so well."

That excuse has rung in my head for decades, as has the seeing of the extraordinary lengths gone to to trap DOW chemicals over tobacco seed beds - and not let any out because it was lethal to - us. The dissonance of that behaviour never left me. Which is why I am revolted but unsurprised by the moral pus that can no longer hide its stench.

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So every time they poison us they invent a virus and subsequently a vaccine they can make money of …. This means that every time they invent a virus they surely have been poisoning us . A cover up that generates profit. The authorities that should protect us are in fact facilitating the crime .

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Democide, big pharma and depopulation are the reasons why the likes of Bill Gates, and others, have easy access to our western governments. Its sickening, but joins the dots.

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Your a champion Thank you

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Thank you so much.

Yet again , everywhere I turn, I only see more and more evidence, that the "One percenters", (The genetic psychopaths with no functioning amygdala, (and therefore no emotional regulation or even register), have been nurturing what I would call 'sociopaths', who are even more dangerous to society, because creating evil, is an investment in sadism, and a rewarding emotion for some.

True psychopaths, will calculate every morning, how to recieve their reward for the day, donning their carefully created "masks". Some however, may be 'disorganised' types, who end up in jails, as the classic, 'Hannibals'. The disorganised types, are decoys, for the one's fully in control of their daily 'reward', environments, whether as CEOs or just 'Liesure Facillitators', on remote paradise islands.

As such, they can be controlled in a reward oriented environment. Whereas their 'cultured seeds', (as in for example, Hamas societies or ISIL/ISIS societies, etc), DO have a 'husk', of an emotional faculty, which can be trained, simply.....to kill, on behalf of the 'bored' psychopaths.

This is my thesis at present, as a psychologist, and unfortunately, it seems a pretty good bet, from my point of view.

Comments please?

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Well, I doubt you're really interested in a dissenting comment if your livelihood is dependent on blaming the rich, but here goes:

As I endlessly re-iterate in Sam's basement, we do love blaming the one percent while continuing to vote in the goofy thing called democracy so we can have scapegoats to blame; we continue buying any old Chinese-made crap on Amazon that strikes our fancy; we continue to possess smartphones while pretending it's the bad people at the top who are at fault for our owning smartphones; we continue propping up the billionaires and cleaning their bathrooms and building their houses so we can grump about how sadistic they are; we continue pumping the energy of attention into the fools from D.C. to CDC; we continue pretending the poor innocent masses need to get educated: they just need one more piece of information about Bill Gates and then finally, finally they'll see the light.

Who wants to hear anything different?

We are the ones responsible. We made this mess. We keep making it. [try selling that idea on Substack]

It's so much easier to blame the one percent. I understood in 1963 how evil the one percent are. No wise person would think otherwise. So what?

It's getting the 99% to own up that's the trick.

Funny how I used to have half a million readers before I started talking about responsibility in 2008, and now I'm down to fifty.

I keep getting enthusiastic subscribers coming to me from Sam's basement. Then they find out that I'm calling them to responsibility instead of blaming the one percent, and they stop restacking, stop liking, and drift away.

Yet I'll say it again:

We, do, this.

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Spot on. Most people choose "easy". It's an unpopular truth.

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Hey Am-Solar, I've enjoyed fellow-traveling with you for a bit, but I always knew I'd have to break with you on the issue of whether we as the masses have the wit and strength to own up to our own power.

I think we have the power.

Most commenters at Sam's think we don't.

Funny thing is that I suspect that Sam herself knows we have the power, but if she were to admit it publicly she'd lose her audience. I was friends with Lew Rockwell (as David Thomson--Thor comes from erasing left, erasing Thomson from right to left!!!) in 2008, and he invited me to write whatever I wanted at his site. Adding my quarter-million readers at CounterPunch to this offer from Lew, that would be a half-million readers. But I liked him enough to decline, except for a couple of parting articles to show my colors. [Sam and Mark are still friends of Lew.] I knew that convincing the masses that we're responsible is a very hard sell. It's how I went from half a million readers in 2008 to essentially none now.

You think I couldn't easily get a thousand subscribers if I were to go along and say we don't have the power and those baddies at the top done us wrong? Raging's easy. But taking responsibility for our own power? Who among us will step up NOW at this decisive hour?

And no, the psychopaths are not in control because of money. Money exists only as a bit of light in a computer. It's just an idea. It takes us, the masses, to flesh it out. We don't have to. It's not [yet] China. No one makes us scrub the toilets of billionaires. No one forces us to own smartphones. No one forces us to build houses for billionaires. No one forces us to cover America in lawns instead of food gardens. No one forces the poor to ride on lawn tractors, as if to prove that they don't have to grow their own food. I am The Last Great American Hitch-Hiker, and I have seen it all. The supposedly poorest people in Tennessee along Back Valley Road (my usual walk in the old days humping the ridge to get on over to the pocket wilderness), lordalmighty did they actually love riding around on ride-around mowers, actual fricken ride-around mowers instead of planting food gardens. You think these "poorest of the poor" were forced by Bill Gates to sit in little chairs on riding mowers like they're the king of Timbuktu? They chose to spurn the wisdom of their own elders, who knew how easy it was to have a kitchen garden.

I expand my reasons for believing in our own power in another comment right here today, the one about my wife's grandparents who were tobacco farmers.

But here at the very end of the world, this is the one thing that matters: we, have, the, power. We hope some day you'll join us by recognizing your own power.

--david

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Our power resides in our choices—if and when we have them. I agree that while there are agencies, individuals and wealthy global manipulators influencing the masses, it is still an individual’s responsibility to observe, assess, and think critically (starting with one’s own beliefs). Besides the lack of authentic education, we have the mind-controlling and integrated neurological linking through electronics and graphene pollution (from jet-sprayed aerosols and injections). Regardless, we can still improve our minds and bodies with appropriate biochemistry. The main thing we can do is avoid toxicity and deficiencies. The most wholesome way for the human anatomy and physiology is to consume a raw, vegan, grain-free diet with appropriate combining and sequencing. This helps with bioavailability of the very nutritional requirements for our bodies.

G. Edward Griffin’s “World Without Cancer” (volumes I and II) is where I learned fifty years ago about the history of the allopathic corruption and is the primary reason for my studies in vaccinology. So, the Bailey’s are on the right path having been steered to awareness of allopathic inaccuracies.

The terrain, foundation of human illnesses can be the cause of most congestive dis-eases. And of course the consumption of species-specific milk (human but not cow, horse, goat, sheep, dog, mouse or any other mammal’s infant food is not at all the best for us. Once we use reason and facts that go beyond our propagandized, commercial misinformation from agencies; we will understand that social eating patterns and menus which include the consumption of corpses and other animal products (whatever they are named) are definitely not in our best interests. Internationally, “food guides” are where many societies, cultures and individuals can become stuck. Again, we must critique our own thinking and programming and hopefully continue to learn and practice healing. I have a wholistic library collected and read for over fifty years containing some of the most truthful books on nutrition. Terrain Therapy is absolutely not a book that I want to keep, much less share with those who are interested in a clean, environmentally responsible diet. The recipes (which anyone can make up through their influence from taste buds or culture) are not optimal for human anatomy and physiology.

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Hey me too! I was totally raised on Laetrile. Vitamin B17, in case other people read this note. I remember noticing with hilarity a couple of years back some chef making a big deal out of using just one apricot pit and treating it like it was a dangerous blowfish and I was like: bro, I can eat fifty of those in one day. Not saying I made a habit of it, but basically I'd be a bad victim in a murder mystery cuz I've trained like a king of old to be impervious to low or moderate doses of cyanide. As for cancer, my parents ate seeds and pits and lived to an average age of 95 and, more to the point, they were the only ones out of the seven siblings who never got cancer. (I mean, a cancer diagnosis. My own take is that all of us have cancer, and it's not the cancer per se that's the problem but what we do with it, but that's a whole nuther essay.) So cheers for Laetrile! --david thor

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When I lived in Canada over 30 years ago, I would have to refer my clients to USA sources of Laetrile and even apricot seeds in bulk. I don’t keep track of the restricted status these days; however, when I returned to the USA I stopped along the way at a watermelon stand where the apricot pits were sold in pound bags. After gorging on at least thirty I had to pull off the highway and find a place to vomit. I had to drink lots of water and keep a cooling band on my forehead while resting a short while. Hen I continued my journey with just a bit of loose stools for a bit.

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Not sure if you can see my five or ten other comments above-below today but many of them work to explain how we have the power and blaming the 1% is not enough. Not to mention my previous three-hundred comments under Sam's vids. Not to mention eight-hundred essays in the past year at Substack and Linked In.

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We're a couple of poor guys. I got a perch for now. Ironic that we're having this discussion, as if the elites would ever pay us any mind.

Despite what I say, you seem to think I don't understand how evil the one percent are or that I don't understand that they buy their way in the world. Of course they do. It's too obvious to need repetition. Of course a great many of the one percent are mass murderers. What else would they be?

I'm talking about us, not the richies. And you seem to think that if you can just explain further how evil the richies are, that somehow that lets us off the hook. If the richies are so bad--and obviously I agree they are--then why are we masses so eager to work for them and keep them rich? It's not like we're in China and we have no options. Everything you say about how powerful the rich are means just as equally that you're saying the poor are not powerful, that they're just pawns and playthings, so none of this is their fault nor (more interestingly) do they have any more opportunities for power. We're the power. I've spent many years at the side of the road, and I still say that.

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It was never somply 'money'!

It was always, 'rewsrd your first-born son......who carries your all-conquering, genes.

That is why the Yamanya Culture, spread west, from the Cuacases, and committed genocide, on European Y chromosome, farmers.

We are simply, 'trainned-killers', unless morally culturised.

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We're not indoctrinated. We choose to be indoctrinated.

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Sam? [a month later] You're either not reading your comments...or yourself.

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And that's how it ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.

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The only presence of Sam on this page is the upgrade appeal for money. Sad.

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I’ve been a naturopathic practitioner for over fifty-two years and certified as a hygienic nutritional consultant, iridologist, sclerologist, acupressure massage therapist, medical massage therapist, and have taught college-level “Health, Safety and Nutrition” classes and given many live presentations in Canada and USA (where I now live) always beginning lectures with topics as comparative anatomy and physiology; food combining and sequencing; cleansing and repair through diet and lifestyle patterns.

From one of my own teachers I learned that breastfeeding and the resulting nurturing, responsive interaction, love and respect, affection, and imprinting on the psyche from our very beginning will influence through the trust and consistency of true needs that are met can be stabilizing. When lacking, the tendencies to develop psychopathic, sociopathic or neurotic are set according to whether there is total absence (linked to psychopathy); insufficient duration (linked to sociopathy); and inconsistencies in trust and reliability of parental responsiveness (linked to neuroticism). La Leche League had this information at least 45 years ago.

My main field of study in university began in psychology and showed me that drugs were not used to address the ongoing toxicity and deficiency that a biologically harmful diet could create. So I incorporated nutritional healing into my wholistic practice.

Today’s extreme corruption is from non-nurturing controllers of the very resources which we need for survival.

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🙏. Yes, and thank you so much. As an 'institutionally-irreverend', psychologist, whose 'inner child' was numbed, as soon as I could motion, my pre-verbal , poutings......Why?

Those symbiotoc, narcissistic, control-freaks, (oh shit---my parents!), ensured that, in their parental environs, I would be , named and shamed, as the 'Black Sheep', just as a warning, to my other seven siblngs.

My other siblings, ( two of whom, I stepped in, to stop them being literally strangled, by my psych-narcissist), biological inseminator,.........then embarked on a lifelong endevour, to desecrate my very existence.

Said my sister five years ago, when I asked her, why I had been barred from every family function, for forty years?

She said, simply.....

"You caused us so much trouble"......

And yes, we call that interpersonal and trauma-soorced dynamic, "Stockholm Syndrome".

And yes, to any fellow survivors...their are now, recently, some Professional, survivors, like myself.

And, Bernadette, I would love to bathe in more of your accrued wisdom. Because those, with the genetically nurtured, "Warrior gene", 'the Yamabya Culture', and the immigrant hordes of chosen osychopaths, began their genocide on western Europe, 5,000 years ago.

They may have a head start....

But I'll challenge them, with all my faculties..!

Try Fb

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The "psychopaths in control" are the masses.

It's not a popular idea, to say the least. But it's our only survivable truth.

Anyone who has ever voted, bought a smartphone, built a mansion for a billionaire or cleaned his toilet, told the one percent how important they are, or (pretty much all of us) used the idea of a powerful elite as a scapegoat. Of course there's an evil cabal of psychopaths. Duh. The point doesn't need to be made endlessly. What do we need to know that Bill Gates is evil--more information? Anyone who is likely to do anything real or useful in the world already knows that scum floats. Endlessly re-iterating the evil of the obviously evil is our way of sidestepping the only thing that matters or could ever matter in all possible universes: I am the master. The ego endlessly attempts to sidestep that responsibility. Most people even in these comments are so far from wanting to assume the mantle of responsibility they can't even do it as a thought experiment. A simple thought experiment. I know why you're scared of it, you commenters beneath Sam. Do you? Imagine, if you dare, for just a moment, that you are the master. That there is no one else to blame for anything. I don't mean argue it pro or con as debatable (as is your wont!). Just try it as a thought experiment. What corollaries would follow in such a universe?

You can't do it, can you? You can't take five minutes to get beyond the endless monkey-mind chatter of blaming others. You just keep going back to the same stuck moment: but, but, but the bad guys ARE bad guys. As if that needs to be proven.

If you have even the slightest glimmer of understanding what I'm saying you would understand that necessarily the one who is most in need of this greatest of all truths is:

me.

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And yes...the 'Epitome',.....of a bored and cosmologically, useless....Psychopath.

God day sir....

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Ma completely understood the destruction caused by the arrival of DDT in Niagara's fruit belt in the 1940s. Yet I notice that the general tenor of comments here in the basement is that the masses three-quarters of a century on still [supposedly] need more information and have [supposedly] been duped and lack the capacity to understand what's going on. Any honest regular person who was close to the soil was never fooled by the scientists or by the rich. You just had to look at one bee spazzing to death to know. People in the comments think they're doing the masses a favor by saying how weak and dumb and "sheeple" they are and how they need to be protected. They aren't weak. They know what's going on, even if they haven't kept up on every last detail. The one percent aren't duping us. Stop trying to take the power away from us in the name of protecting us. Every time you proclaim the victim status of the people you are doing something hostile to the people and their autonomy. [edt: I was gonna tone this comment down but then it got two likes so I guess we're stuck with it.]

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Well there is a saying there is a blind boy at gate wanting that job working for the 1% if you don’t want it and they did open the border so no lack of replacements blind boys . Just hard to play a clean game in a controlled landscape. Any advice on how you don’t feed the beast ? I buy used cell phones and no other new things if I can buy them used.

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You're doing great. Even just getting the used cell phone is a huge, huge positive step for the world. Buying used is huge. People will want to minimize the value of that because it makes them look bad when they're ordering their ethics books on Amazon, but keep at it. You don't have to play a clean game, just cleaner. It's not about fighting the Beast, but playing. Playing for keeps. People are 99% self righteous so they think joking and playing are "lower," but it's not only the best thing in all situations in all parts of life, it's the only thing. The cosmos is a divine comedy. The Beast's main thing is mesmerizing, which is why jokes are by far the most powerful thing we can do in Beastworld. That and ignore the Boast (mis-spellings help break the power, too). If you're uncertain how to begin, begin with farting. Then pretend to look around and try to find out who farted. Looking just behind the Beast's shoulder is a hoot because it gets him [them] subliminally wondering who's there. I told God knows how many hundreds of men in Chicago and Toronto, men who were doing naughty things, that I slept with their mothers, and I got away with it because I had learned young how to dance with the best of those Beasts. That and sparring with a dad who was six-foot-seven. Big men, big systems, same idea. What's needed is not bluster, but sidling up and comically crazy and weirdly athletic yoga poses and comical somersaults and silly walks, good God I have so many tricks but one of my favorites in a tense confrontation with a hugely muscled man is to start yelling at a third person to bring them in on the action. A full spaz routine helps. Watching my nephew die of spasticity after a car crash gave me endless true-comedy death poses. I used them in fights. Well, fights, huh. Strongly insult a big man, talk about his mother, and take one step forward. I did that for seven years. But as the Apostle says, "we wrestle not." [King James Version] Always yell to pretend-people behind the bad guy, especially up at windows. A street confrontation is like radio: no dead air time! Every "fighting" and "self-defense" video I've seen on youtube is between eighty and a hundred-percent wrong, because they begin in dojos or police cars. They begin with confrontation. You can win a couple of fights like that, but not thousands. The real street is mine. I don't know anyone who has walked the night streets as much as me. From age sixteen. My bourgeois and professor friends never knew I had this whole side to me, so they could never figure out why I chose to leave the ivy league and go live (again) on the street. I offer respect at street corners at night, but disrespect in the day. A life-and-death fight is actually theater. Mega-drooling. Tardo talk. Repetition of mama mama. All the big men back off when you don't care and they know you're more than happy to die right now, right this minute. Even the armed ones aren't going to just gun down a retard in broad daylight. Anyway, don't get me started on streetfighting. I'm retired. Which is like retarded but with more gray hair. Cesar Milan would open the cages of the most vicious dog beasts and sit outside with his back to them and just ignore them. It was a game that changed their game. Notice how angry the people in Sam's comments section get at evil people at the "top," but there is no top unless they keep agreeing to prop it up there. There's no Fauci unless you agree that there needs to be a "head" of a goofy organization like the CDC or NIH or whatever (not worth remembering which). There is no Santa Klaus of the WEF unless lots of regular people agree to keep feeding him and taking his money. The bad guy at the pretend top isn't the problem, it's us. Even "bad" is just a provisional term, helpful heuristically but not helpful from higher cosmic vistas. Whenever we prop up the top, pretend it exists, or clean the bathroom of a supposed top, we're the bad guy. As for the landscape you asked about, the landscape was always controlled. More so now, but same principles of action apply. A couple thousand years ago direct confrontation might have had a certain value, but once you understand that the Beast is a full-scale juggernaut that only gets bigger when it eats you, you don't take it on frontally. Always cut the supply lines. The wisest and wiliest have always known that. Frontal resistance just adds power to the Beast. And overall, less energy about it all. You and the Beast will get together and laugh about all this in a thousand years. Take it all down a notch. And as for buying used, on behalf of the people of Planet Earth, I thank-you for your service, Keith. --dave

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Did I just spill some of my best moves to a guy on line?

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Keep with it, ole timer...the young cohorts of humanity, are incessantly proving to humanity....

That iphone use, as an iconic, force for good....

In the abscence of ppaternal nourishment, and validation,

Relegated your birth-right as a, child, to parental and 24 hour, live....

Dehumabization.

Hence the genesis, of, those institutionalised

and thoughtless, self-entitled...cretins.

Yes, the pawn defence......of

Justice-Lord Advocates, in Scotland.

Pray for us....

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I am in agreement. But in my opinion we must call out the culprits. The Jews. Unless we get focus on the basis of the problem, we will not achieve anything.

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Recent law C-63 320.1001 forbids me smiling at or even acknowledging this comment. As for your wife, dude, seriously sorry for your loss.

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In a related topic, I heard Dr Chaffee speak about the "prion disease"

BSE in cattle about a week ago on his podcast (interview with Victoria Ferraz). I don't know where he came across the evidence for his statements but they don't sound far-fetched. Apparently, there was a new chemical being used in germ warfare on those poor unsuspecting cows. One farmer was exempt from using it and performed a series of experiements to determine whether he could pass the disease to his untreated cows but none of his cattle became ill. According to Dr Chaffee, the results were never published, perhaps because a number of people associated with the story mysteriously passed away.

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In 1989, I saw the BBC Panorama documentary, on 'Mad Cow Disease' and BSE.

I immediately stopped my young family, from eating that Prion diseased, offal.

Now, thirty years later, I was fiagnosed suddenly, with PSP.

In my research I found that medical papers, aligning BSE, with Peripheral-Supra-Nuclear-Palsy, were stopped, twenty three years ago.

I now, am dying in great discomfort, from every imaginable organ failure, whilst simultaneously, trying to evade, hamas assasins, in a small oeripherary, EU culture.

Thank God, I have elite 'endurance' genes.

It has, so far...allowed me, to escape them.

So.."Death to all the 'Psychopaths, and indeed, "Death to all their progeny: The new kids on the block, the decoy, Sociopaths)!

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DDT is, in effect, a boomercide. The biggest cancer generation in history is a big DDT experiment.

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My first exposure to DDT was when I was four yrs old in Italy..... I found an empty can at my grandma's house and....hit my cousin over the head with it because he was chasing me and trying to get me in trouble...I got him back with the DDT can and didn't realize at that moment that my life would be forever changed.......I started fighting against GMOs, pesticides, herbicides, health and the like some 15 yrs later and haven't looked back.....

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"DDT did a job on me,

Now I am a real sicky,

Guess I'll have to break the news,

That I got no mind to lose."

--from "Teenage Lobotomy" by the Ramones

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Thank you

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Brilliant video. I kindly remind you of Dr. Mark's video on chicken broth. And cheers on his new essay. Thank you both for these beautiful presentations.

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My wife's maternal grandparents were tobacco farmers in Ridgetown, Ontario. My wife's mother grew up on that farm drenched in DDT. Go ahead and tell me the grandparents were duped by off-his-rocker fella or some evil cabal and they had no idea tobacco was bad, let alone putting killing stuff all over it. They could have grown a hundred fruits and vegetables like (for example) the average farm in upstate New York in 1900 that had 104 separate foods growing on it. But no, they wanted tobacco. They wanted cash, cash, cash instead of food. Did they spray DDT? Of course they did. Did the devil and Rocky Fella make them do it? No, they wanted to do it. We all love to say how innocent the masses are, as if we're too stupid or weak to be responsible for ourselves. There's a psychologist with a PhD right here in these comments blaming the 1% and doing so as a professional. Fact is that even if the grandparents cashing in on tobacco in the 1950s didn't know the phrase "endocrine disruptor," they knew very well that they were disrupting the cycle of life. You think you put poison on crops to kill stuff and you can't figure that out? How dumb do you think farmers are? They could SEE that the eagles were disappearing. How do we know they knew? Because a) they weren't idiots and b) they had a separate plot for food where they kept all poisons away (like many big-poison farmers here in Niagara now). I see endlessly in Sam's basement this tendency to blame the 1%. I know you mean well and you think the masses need to get "educated" as if they haven't a clue but what you're doing in effect is saying that the 99% are too foolish or powerless to control our own actions. My wife's across the room right now reading off the list of third-gen (i.e. my wife's generation, circa age sixty) horrors in the generations after DDT. Why only three generations? Because the horrors haven't started mass appearing in the fourth gen yet. We know all the usual suspects, the things having a go at reproduction, metabolism, the pineal gland, the thyroid and para-thyroid glands, ovaries in females, testes in males, yada yada. I've made over three-hundred comments in Sam's basement and they're mostly bolstering the same idea: we have power. We're not the dupes of the 1%. --david thor [edit, 24 hours later. Dude, when are you going to learn that no one's interested in anything but blaming the 1%? You implied here that regular people should be responsible for their actions. That's a no-go in Sam's comments basement, regardless of what Sam herself thinks.]

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The 1% ers.....have always known that the 99% ers......Just need 'disciplined' hand.

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