Information, Permaculture, and Cooties

Part One - Background and Betrayals

Thank you, with astounding amounts of information vying for your limited time and sacred attention, for reading my Substack.

I’ll do my best to balance responsibly sourced, relevant info with respect for your finite time. Still, there’s a dilemma when aiming to be both concise and rooted. The point of this effort is to encourage discernment with information - looking down at its roots and looking back at its track record. To make that case honorably takes time, and links. (Perhaps too many links, but good ones.)

For thousands of hours over the last four years, I’ve researched and learned from sources who earned my trust. Some of the info gathered can help navigate these unstable, confusing times … if met with willingness to be curious.

The abilities to be curious, and hold nuance, are slipping away. I invite you to help bring them back. Even if - especially if - you feel we are on the precipice of something dangerously authoritarian.

Note - March 2025 - This article began last year, and (way too many!) writing-and-research-hours ago. Changes are happening faster than ever, and people are understandably scared. While fear is the easiest way to manipulate, and much info is distorted to incite panic at Every Single Thing, there are also serious concerns raised by sources with integrity and good track records.

I added updates in attempt to bring nuance to some current issues. To offer context, which is different than support.

Then the article became way too long and crowded, so I split it into two parts.

Besides a short note below on freedom of speech and mutual hypocrisy, and a bit at the end, most thoughts on present times will be in Part Two. This, Part One, is more about the background from which current events have sprung. Betrayals of the past five years, which are inseparable from present circumstances.

Update, March 14 - There’s loads of selective outrage and selective empathy - on both sides. Many on the right who were angry at years of government censorship are now fine with the Trump administration threatening and deporting foreign-born students without clarity on if they actually committed crimes and using AI to comb through social media posts looking for “Wrongspeak”.

Meanwhile, the left, furious at the government overreach of 2025, enthusiastically supported censorship, ending careers of truth tellers, and denying due process and humane treatment to protestors - including the wrongly accused, under Biden.

Thankfully, there are some who stand up for free speech consistently.

Sometimes things are more complex than they seem at first, with everyone rushing to agree with their respective “teams”.

But, regardless of the individual actions or affiliations of Mahmoud Khalil, or any specific people, as of now I agree with this from one of the few well-known journalists who has not sold his soul, Matt Taibbi, who also stands up for free speech consistently -

“The problem is Trump officials pledging to throw masses of people out of the country for offenses not yet committed and on vague pretexts like being “aligned with Hamas.” . . .

This use of vague language mixed with speech-code concepts is similar to the techniques employed by the politicians Trump and Vance ran against or criticized last year, like Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, Britain’s Keir Starmer or the censorship zealots at the Barack Obama-created Global Engagement Center. The cultural targets are different, but both sides would be embarrassed to realize how nearly identical their arguments justifying their crackdowns are.” - Matt Taibbi, “If Trump Blows it on Speech, the World is Screwed”

Taibbi and Greenwald didn’t ignore, support, or take part in the destructive, divisive abuses of power of the Biden years. They actively exposed censorship networks, warmongers, and narrative lies. That gives them credibility when they call out abuses of power now.

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Information, Permaculture, and Cooties

Part One, Background and Betrayals

I’ve been involved in grassroots activism on the left for much of the past two decades. I still believe that government and media have a responsibility to be honest, the revolving door between regulators and industry leads to corruption (whether in fossil fuels or pharma), and informed consent is essential - from food to wireless radiation to medical products.

I still think wars should be avoided if at all possible, and the massive military budget could be cut and put to much better use. Soil, water, and air should not be poisoned, and people deserve respect and acceptance as they are.

These last few years have felt like a twilight zone. The supposedly open-minded, inclusive left has inverted into pro-censorship, pro-war, dehumanizing groupthink. Reflexively siding with corrupt, lying “experts” who refuse debate, the left has mocked the severely injured, and tried to destroy the reputations, lives and families of those who disagree with them.

(I really want to get beyond categorization by “left” / “right”. They’re narrow frames - labels that mean less with each sputter of the gaslighting narrative, and every bridge-building alliance meeting in common ground. But, for now, I feel those terms are necessary.)

The left proclaims itself the side of empathy and compassion, yet assumes all disagreements are rooted in hatred, bigotry, selfishness, and / or the well-meaning ignorant falling prey to “misinformation”. There’s zero curiosity to look deeper - and an automatic, creepy, anger at anyone who challenges, even questions, the narrative.

This experience, of astonishingly hypocritical intolerance, is shared by almost everyone who has spoken of feeling like the left left us.

Yes, I’m aware there’s also unreliable info, and hypocrisy, and intolerance, on the right. And at this moment, the “right” seems to have more power than the “left”. (Because of the tremendous gaslighting and censorship the left has done when they were in power, which has cost the most valuable currency - trust).

This piece is more critical of the information ecosystem of the left, not because it’s the only info-ecosystem deserving of criticism, but because it was the left who controlled the toxic official narrative that betrayed everyone and led us to betray ourselves and each other. It was the government and media apparatus of the left which silenced those we most needed to hear.

"The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department" - Thomas Sowell

While emphasizing diversity and inclusion, there was no tolerance for diversity of thought.

This resulted in a tremendous rupture of humanity itself.

We all will be wiser when we notice the track records of where we get information from.

Only then can we make sense of overwhelming events from solid ground and true discernment.

Sadly, but surely, the official narrative has been shaped by a flow of information that manipulates by fear and is poisoned upstream, with a dismal, embarrassing track record. A narrative that has betrayed us in horrendous ways.

Among the few things I’m certain of, and I’m not the only one, is that these betrayals are massive enough that no real healing, unity, understanding, constructive building, or even effective opposition, can happen unless they’re reckoned with.

Necessary Reminder - This is not about blindly supporting everything the official narrative of the left is against.

It’s about re-assessing whether we’re consuming news distilled with integrity, or being led around by a narrative that’s gotten way more wrong than it’s gotten right.

*Besides being disorienting and exhausting, this makes it harder to discern what actually deserves scrutiny, vigilance, and opposition.*

Permaculture Principles and Information Ecosystems

“Permaculture, short for permanent agriculture, is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems¹. The goal is to create systems that have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems¹. Permaculture can be used to design human habitats that work with nature². It is based on systems thinking and design principles that can be applied to any field².”

That. Makes. Sense. Natural wisdom applicable to multiple realms, from agriculture to social to business and beyond.

Slower and wiser than typical land (or business, etc.) cultivation, permaculture begins with observation. Assessment. Getting to know an area or situation as fully as possible before proceeding and planting seeds.

Yet some who apply this principle sincerely and brilliantly to agricultural and social systems haven’t assessed the quality of the information they consume. They likely think they have, maybe checking if info is repeated in multiple, familiar sources before trusting it. Or, as I used to, misplacing checking Google / Wikipedia and “fact-checkers” for due diligence in verifying information.

But reliance on what flows from the narratives’ polluted headwaters that have gotten nearly every major thing wrong, means there’s something missing in that assessment.

This Media Generation Is Not Normal—Recent "Journalism" Atrocities Summarised

Observation

If a plot of land had been a toxic waste dump, good judgement would be to not plant food crops there, at least not without serious soil remediation, followed by thorough testing.

If an alcoholic who begins heavy drinking before noon most (but not all) days offered to give your kids a ride home from school, hopefully you’d say no.

If a restaurant had a comfortable atmosphere but such negligent food safety that they well earned a reputation of food-poisoning-roulette, would you trust eating there?

And yet … good people intending to be informed of current events, some who in turn inform others, continue to trust “news” sources that invert the truth and dismiss, insult, and censor those who have gotten most everything right.

Our Sense Un-Making Institutions

How Dare You Believe Your Eyes

“How dare you dare to mention? How dare you believe your eyes? How dare you even question? Two plus two is five.” - Tennessee Jet

I could cite thousands of examples of media gaslighting. In an exercise of profound restraint, I’ll select only two. In both cases, from the vantage point of 2025¹, we can retrace these lines-of-information and see that -

• What was said was known at the time to be false.

• It was repeated over and over, and over and over, from multiple sources.

• It was repeated by those who either knew it was false and were lying, knew something was off but prioritized upholding the narrative over seeking and telling the truth, or sincerely believed what was easily proven false with basic due diligence in reporting. The first two possibilities show a lack of integrity: the third, a lack of skill in evaluating information.

If it seems unnecessary to be dwelling on events of the past when so much is happening right now - these two betrayals were massive. The second, deeper, betrayal ruptured much of the world. Like an ignored infection, the wound worsens each day that passes without reckoning and accountability.

It’s impossible to understand, or coherently respond to, current events if we don’t face the past five insane years of a bullshit-drenched narrative that distorted, divided, persecuted truthtellers, and had no problem with firing employees - employees who remain disrespected and forgotten while politicians make shows of empathy for the recently fired. (Please don’t misunderstand - the recently fired deserve empathy also. But context is necessary.)

The “censorship industrial complex” has been wounded but continues on. This web of groups makes sure every media outlet says the same things, refuses to say the same things, and amplifies or vilifies the same people. It’s not a conspiracy theory, really. The forensics of these networks are being exposed right now. Politicians across the west continue to use the same talking points, word for word.

The media is willing to throw anyone under the bus - except for the structure of the narrative itself.

Update - April / May 2025

My intent with this article was to say that if a “news” source has been dreadfully wrong in the past, about things where the truth was clear if willing to look outside the narrative, it means they prioritize loyalty to a narrative over authentic truth seeking, and they don’t deserve trust. I still believe this to be true.

Yet now, I find myself (skeptically) considering and citing the mainstream media (sometimes), and being met with (understandable but frustrating) automatic disbelief / dismissal from people jaded after being constantly lied to for many years.

Now that Trump is president, the narrative spinners are no longer covering for everything the administration does, they’re flooding the news with every reason (true, semi-true, or not true) to oppose what comes from the White House. (While not alerting us to the most dangerous threats, which proceed regardless of if the red or blue team is technically in power.)

Within the tangle of distortions, inversions, and exaggerations that declare every action the definitive end of democracy, are - from what I can tell so far - some things that actually are as horrific as the media claims them to be. Like sending planeloads of human beings to a torturous confinement center in El Salvador when, supposedly, 75% of the Venezuelan immigrants don’t have criminal records. (I also do my realistic best to follow information as far down to the roots as I can before forming strong opinions, and I’ve seen no substantive rebuttals to the tragic-if-true claim that 75% of the Venezuelan immigrants flown to hell don’t have criminal records or credible gang connections.)

Seeing right-leaning media dismiss human beings thrown into CECOT as only definite gang members being imprisoned, or illegal migrants being “deported”, is as maddening as years of seeing left-leaning media dismiss the vaccine injured as “rare”, or anxious, confused sufferers of “functional neurological disorder”. More on this in my second article, Context, Catastrophes, and Selective Empathy.

Seeking out objective, non-partisan journalists with good track records (like Glenn Greenwald, Redacted News, Jimmy Dore, or the Independent Media Alliance / Last American Vagabond), is super helpful when looking for news not clouded by either pro-Trump bias nor the bias that frantically declares every move as the end of democracy while leaving out context. As Glenn Greenwald says, “one of the biggest gifts that they give to Trump is that they seem incapable, ever, of criticizing him without using maximalist language. . . And that creates the Boy Who Cries Wolf syndrome. . . the problem is that if you call everything he does fascist or a threat to democracy, all the times he really does do those things, people will tune out that rhetoric.”

Sorry for the detour from the past to the present. I still maintain that observing track records is essential to assessment, and assessment is essential to wise consumption of information. Just with the caveats to remain curious, see patterns, adapt to circumstances, and hold multiple truths at the same time. Being adaptable / flexible rather than rigid is another principle of permaculture.

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(This point is made more concisely by CJ Hopkins, American playwright & sharp-witted political satirist living in Germany, who was prosecuted in a ludicrous, Kafka-esque charade, for the cover art of his own book, yet it was really to silence his and others’ criticisms of Germany, and the rest of the West’s, march toward totalitarianism in current times.

In explaining “The Enemy of My Enemy is Not My Friend”, in reference to the Alternative für Deutschland political party, he says, “just because the BfV (Germany’s domestic Intelligence Service) and the other German authorities are a bunch of liars and fascists, that doesn’t mean that everything they say is a lie”

That’s basically how I feel about the mainstream media at this current moment. They are bullshitting, agenda-driven, untrustworthy liars - yet that doesn’t mean everything they say is a lie.

OK … back to the recent past …

Examples of two particularly egregious betrayals of public trust. Narratives that were known to be false at the time yet were clung to with vicious certainty.

It’s essential to remember what just happened, so we can develop wiser discernment now, and so betrayals of the scale we just endured never happen again.

1. “Sharp as a Tack”

June 27, 2024, Heather Cox Richardson, after the Biden - Trump debate (words hers, bold mine) -

“Biden needed to demonstrate that his mental capacity is strong in order to push back on the Republicans’ insistence that he is incapable of being president. That, he did, thoroughly. Biden began with a weak start but hit his stride as the evening wore on. Indeed, he covered his bases too thoroughly, listing the many accomplishments of his administration in such a hurry that he was sometimes hard to understand.

That’s not ideal, but as Monique Pressley put it, “The proof of Biden’s ability to run the country is the fact that he is running it. Successfully. Not a debate performance against a pathological lying sociopath.”

This post got over 6,000 likes - as many of her posts still do.

I wasn’t impressed with Trump’s debate performance that night, I didn't expect to be. The Bad Man's statements included, as HCR said, “lies and rambling non-sequiturs”. But that’s irrelevant to the fact that the sitting President of the United States was already clearly mentally incapable of being president, while running to hold office for another four years.

Biden had been not of sound mind, already, for years. That’s the purpose of the 25th Amendment - and the entire info-ecosystem on the left was lying, and/or unable to interpret reality - insisting Biden was just fine. “Sharp as a Tack.” “Best Biden Ever.”

Anyone following Joe Biden as closely as Heather Cox Richardson and others who constantly praised him - really, anyone who had listened to more than a few curated seconds of Biden over the last several years through their own discernment, had an abundance of evidence that he was seriously mentally compromised. And that he was not, by any stretch, “running the country”.

Do Not Forget About the Potemkin Presidency

Quote from the Euphoric Recall article (now paywalled - writers need to make a living, too!) -

“Joe Biden was not actually in charge of his own presidency. Staff meetings, including the rare cabinet meetings (there were only seven), were staged to make it appear as if the president were making decisions. Biden had to ask his staff for permission to take questions at public appearances, and often wasn’t permitted to play-act as president on “bad days.” Meetings with world leaders were cancelled so that our babbling Lear could go to bed early. Donor questions were scripted. Teleprompters were required for small events in private homes. Aides hid information from him.”

The links are to mainstream media sources (some paywalled), that finally sorta-admitted, after years of gaslighting, and no apologies, that the U.S. president being not of sound mind was the reality, not “right-wing mis/disinformation.”

While Biden’s aides were hiding information from him, the media hid info from us - about our country not having a functioning president. They pretended a man with painfully obvious cognitive decline deserved our trust then and for another four years.

Meanwhile, they were ruthlessly sabotaging the candidacies of RFK, Jr and Marianne Williamson.

Repeating their stale, overused script, they shunned those who stated the obvious as “right-wing disinformation spreaders.”

Search terms were bought, like “Biden” + “Senile”, so those who doubted Biden’s mental state would have cookies put on their devices, and then be shown videos of him speaking coherently.

I’ve never met Heather Cox Richardson, and I can’t say for sure if she knows the media she cites as sources is a cesspool of deceptive propaganda. But it’s hard to believe she doesn’t know. She makes millions of dollars a year exploiting hatred of a certain person, and looking through her past Substacks shows she repeats whatever the narrative says, perhaps getting some things right along the way, but has gotten plenty wrong. Yet good people hang on her every word to tell them how to think about politics - and about half of the country. (And some of those people, I know for sure, are coming from an honest place, trying to be informed, stuck in a narrative bubble that can’t evaluate how wrong it’s been, because the narrative never admits being wrong about the heaviest things.)

“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain’t so - Mark Twain

If they lied about the US not having a functioning president, what else are they capable of lying about?

Everything. That’s why assessing the track records, and transparency, of news sources is so important. Narrative-regurgitators occasionally get things right amidst the bullshit (bullshit has no relation to truth, and sometimes contains truth), but since there are options to get news from places that haven’t lied for five + years, why waste time with those who have?

Having been mostly correct in the past doesn’t mean they’ll get everything right in the future, but some have shown a strong history of being correct plus impeccable, pragmatic, well-sourced due diligence in distilling info within their expertise. Having left a trail of errors and deferment to the narrative’s go-to captured experts is a strong indication that a source is not reliable.

2. Deeper Betrayal - Treatable Since Day One

“Between both of us now, we are close to 5,000 positive patients we have seen and treated. Our death rate is 2 out of those 5,000, and both of those patients did not get the full treatment.”
– Dr. Brian Tyson, urgent care, Imperial Valley, California (2021)

There’s a saying, “If it must not be, it cannot be”. The minds of most humans cannot comprehend some levels of evil.

We know there’s cruelty out there, and, sure, companies put “profit over people”. We understand the powerful often don’t care about the average person. We know that the human population contains psychopaths.

But to grasp that an entire system, consisting of multiple entities, organizations, and countries, went far beyond “profits over people” and into crimes against humanity … towards their own people …

No. That’s too painful and reality-shattering to consider. So, no matter what compelling evidence piles up … it is not let in.

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Hypothetically, if there was a new, contagious, viral disease breaking out across the world, with the potential to kill the most vulnerable and leave others seriously ill long after the acute phase … A disease where the press breathlessly counts deaths, warns of crowded hospitals, and supposedly empathizes with essential workers and grieving families … If that were to happen, and if there were known, safe treatments we all could have on hand that would make infection less likely, and, if sick, could inhibit viral replication and heal the inflammation / coagulation before they progressed to life-threatening … Surely, we would be told that?

“Under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), when the Secretary of HHS declares that an emergency use authorization is appropriate, FDA may authorize unapproved medical products or unapproved uses of approved medical products to be used in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions caused by CBRN threat agents when certain criteria are met, including there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives.” - FDA.Gov (link to original source)

If viable early treatment for COVID-19 was recognized, the law would not permit rushing a vaccine under Emergency Use Authorization.

This is not speculation, conspiracy, guessing, or taking the word of some random podcaster. This is clearly stated on the FDA’s website.

Perhaps you feel sure, still, in 2025, that the COVID shots did far more good than harm, and it would have been irresponsible to promote early treatment because it would lower vaccinations.

What about the ~year that vaccines were not available, yet people were still getting sick, some dying, and nearly everyone scared?

Please Watch This Film - EpidemicOfFraud.com

It’s free to watch, no registration, just click “play”.

A former CNN editor and Hollywood director / producer documented what happened in early COVID, when there were no vaccines, but there WAS treatment.

This is not about minimizing COVID-19 - at all. It’s about recognizing it was Treatable From Day One. If anything, from the frame of seeing COVID as potentially dreadful and deadly, and wanting to protect the vulnerable, the more criminal it is to have thwarted access to viable, repurposed, off-label, safe-at-correct-doses treatments.

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If you find this section too long … I could have made it shorter. I could have shared the most potent three or four links and left it at that, saving time for us all - especially me, takes way longer to write than to read!

But the narrative is so powerful, and by now folks have been exposed to gaslighting about this subject for five years. There are kernels of truth in the (misused and manipulated) advice to be skeptical of what’s said on the internet, and yes, there’s speculation and distortions among some who challenge the COVID narrative - there’s even a vocal minority who are certain viruses don’t exist (but those are not the sources I trust).

I’m asking readers to take a leap of faith and be curious about something that may be reality-shattering to let in. And then to go beyond faith to hard data and follow it all the way down.

No one should believe anything - especially on medical topics - without information that shows where it comes from and makes sense down to the roots, and up to the headwaters. The mainstream narrative on controversial medical topics is a tangle of captured sources citing themselves, constantly misdirecting.

I’m sorry if this comes across as info-overload. There’s plenty I’ve left out. The case that COVID treatments work and have been sabotaged is able to be backed up with astounding amounts of solid evidence. So, I’d rather this be too long than too short.

It was known from at least 2005 that, as this study says, “Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread” (referring to SARS-CoV-1, the first SARS).

As the film Epidemic of Fraud describes, it was known for hundreds of years that medicines derived from the Chinchona tree have multiple potent uses.

When SARS-CoV-2 began spreading around the world, some doctors had the wisdom to look “in the pantry”. And to share what was working. Since at least February 2020, it was known that Hydroxychloroquine, best taken with zinc, was a powerful tool to treat COVID-19 early. The article below from Rounding the Earth chronicles research and conversation among the medical community very early in 2020 … of which the American press had no interest.

The American press, in unison, were silent about this simple early treatment option until March 19, 2020, when The Bad Man spoke the word, “Hydroxychloroquine”. Then, instead of curiosity about a potential lifeline for the millions they were terrifying 24/7, “The press descended on Trump in a frenzy as if he had suggested hope in treating patients with arsenic.”

The Curious Calm Before the Storm

But … Dangerous! Killed People!

“OK, maybe HCQ has some antiviral activity, but didn’t it kill people in clinical trials??”

Yes, it did. Or, if accurate history matters, it was the massive overdosing of HCQ in multiple clinical trials that killed people.

The recommended dose of HCQ for COVID is 200 milligrams twice a day for 5 - 10 days, early in disease progression. Sometimes it’s given at 400 mg twice a day for the first two days. In the infamous “Recovery Trial”, hospitalized patients, already past the point where HCQ could do much good, received 2.4 grams in the first 24 hours.

HCQ is safe at the recommended dosage, and it’s known to be toxic at very high doses. While the CDC, etc., were pretending HCQ was harmful for COVID, it remained on the CDC’s website for guidance on malaria. They said Hydroxychloroquine "can be safely taken by pregnant women and nursing mothers..." Only "when it is used at higher doses for many years, a rare eye condition called retinopathy has occurred."

Following Information to Its Roots

For every “study” showing that HCQ was dangerous and / or ineffective, if the info is followed down, instead of “science-by-press-release” taken at face value, it leads to scientific fraud.

There are so many pieces to the Hydroxychloroquine sabotage. Fifty-eight of those pieces are meticulously documented in this article, by a doctor who, unlike our “public health officials”, actually treated COVID-19 patients. (And for decades prior to COVID was an acknowledged expert on engineered biological pathogens. She was on Democracy Now! multiple times, most recently in 2008.)

"How a false hydroxychloroquine narrative was created, and more"--republishing because we must never forget this evidence of a terrible crime

The scale of this betrayal is impossible to fathom. Yet it is documented, it is real, it is criminal, and it happened.

And it must be remembered. At COVID’s five-year-anniversary, memorials are mourning the dead - but not realizing they didn’t have to die - and the virus could likely have been eradicated from Earth if prevention and early treatment was widely used in the beginning.

The documentary Epidemic Of Fraud bears witness to these crimes². A one-hour discussion with the filmmaker is here.

It must be remembered. As the left struggles with what to do now, complicity in the tragic response to COVID-19 is a shadow beneath everything.

Activists write and speak about standing up for truth and for the vulnerable. About countering lies. But without realizing, painful as it is, that we served a toxic, lying narrative which used the vulnerable as points of manipulation, then discarded, even mocked them, when they most needed help …

With that piece still missing, everything done since that inflection point is wounded, fractured …

There is a spiritual, and practical, longing for what actually happened to be understood.

Data was manufactured. Consent, and reality itself, was manufactured. Catastrophically, hatred was manufactured.

And also, compassion was twisted. The kindest, most generous and loving person I know (who I hope reads this) remembers early COVID warnings to not stock up on HCQ, because it was needed for autoimmune patients and, supposedly, there would be shortages. How could people in good conscience hoard “just-in-case kits”, if it meant sick people would have worsening lupus, or more agony from painful rheumatoid arthritis?

But, in the ecosystem not curated by official distortions, HCQ is a very easy, cheap drug to make. Honest doctors have said production could easily have been increased to ensure everyone had access and autoimmune patients had no risk of running out.

There were also multiple anomalies, including a fire at the world’s second largest HCQ raw material supplier. Perhaps that’s just a coincidence, but it’s among at least fifty-seven other actions that, together, show a coordinated effort to sabotage treatment that worked. We don’t need to speculate about motive, what’s clear is it happened.

And, while there isn’t time nor room to include all I’d like to in this article, something similar is happening now. Viable treatments for disease are being slandered in the media, yet anyone who listens to the doctors actually using the treatments, and those who bear witness to the results, sees a different story than the media spin. More on this in Part Two.

Timeline Fracture, Five Years Later …

“And the scariest part? This isn't just about COVID. This is now the model for shaping public perception on every issue. We don't just live in an era of misinformation. We live in an era where entire realities are constructed and assigned to us, and stepping outside of them comes at a personal and social cost. It's not just that people were manipulated. It's that they were placed inside an entirely different timeline - one where dissent itself is unthinkable. . .

This timeline fracturing represents reality engineering's ultimate achievement - not just controlling information, but creating entirely separate perceptual worlds where the same events have fundamentally different meanings. When reality itself becomes a manufactured product, traditional concepts of truth and evidence no longer function as social anchors. . .

A Call for Real Justice

To those who now post about the next trending cause while pretending the last few years never happened: Your performative activism has been exposed for what it always was - a social fashion accessory, discarded the moment real courage was required. You've lost all credibility to speak about inclusion, justice, or human rights. You didn't just observe discrimination - you celebrated it. You didn't just ignore medical coercion - you demanded it. You didn't just witness the silencing of the injured - you actively participated in it.” - Joshua Stylman

Empty Gestures

While Joshua Stylman speaks for millions who see the left’s current protests in context of the tyranny (and firings, exclusion, intolerance, denial of due process, etc, etc.) that the left demanded until a moment ago, it’s also true that some fighting now are not doing so for fashion, they’re doing so because they truly believe we’re facing terrible danger.

Maybe we are facing terrible danger. Maybe the systems of control and suppression of speech that were going full speed ahead under the previous administration are proceeding under this one also, just with different targets.

Even so, and especially so - the rupture in humanity inflicted by the COVID response needs to be reckoned with.

To those who are willing to look at the other timeline … to take the heavy step of allowing yourself to wonder if betrayal at this scale could be possible, instead of closing down the moment it’s mentioned …

There are good people to learn from, who have gone through the data and earned trust, whose integrity you can feel … who’ve left a trail of being right, not wrong, about almost everything …. there are brilliant doctors and scientists and data geniuses and journalists … and meticulous researchers who explain how, when, where, and by whom we all were betrayed. No speculation, no rabbit holes, are needed. The info is overflowing by now, well above the surface.

To Honor the Dead, the Grieving, and Honest History

May it be accurately remembered - If not for the deadly combination of blocking prevention and early treatment, plus hospital protocols that pushed toxic, kidney-and-liver-damaging Remdesivir, and forbade the right to try with simple, far safer medicines, most (perhaps not all, but Certainly Most) of those who perished from COVID-19 Would Not Have Died.

These crimes are squirming towards the Memory Hole, and history must be recorded honestly.

It’s a betrayal of incomprehensible proportions to withhold treatments that work, design (or just fabricate) studies to show harm, flood them through the media, insult patients and doctors, and come after doctors’ licenses and board certifications for the “crime” of treating patients.

As Dr. Richard Urso explains in this excellent, long-but-well-worth-the-time roundtable, even lacking guidance from on high about early treatment, some doctors adapted to assess the patient in front of them, and, as is the practice of medicine, they figured out how to treat viral replication, inflammation, and coagulation.

(A shorter, thirty-eight minute highlight version of that five-hour roundtable is here.)

Instead of Wondering What There Was to Learn, They Looked for Dirt and Found “Demon Sperm”

Among the many physicians around the world successfully treating COVID-19, one group of doctors came to Washington, DC in July, 2020 for a (sparsely attended) press conference.

With no curiosity (“Hmm, maybe the healthcare workers we clap for at 7pm would rather have knowledge of how to prevent COVID, and a just-in-case kit if they or their family get sick?”), the media did what they do best - politicize it, call them “conspiracy theorists”, and associate them and all COVID doctors with Trump. Then, in case that’s not enough, find the strangest headline possible about one of the doctors, Dr. Stella Immanuel from Cameroon (who, OK, I wouldn’t want as my gynecologist), to further denigrate the preposterous idea of daring to treat sick patients when official guidance says do nothing until their oxygen gets dangerously low, then poison them in the hospital.

“Trump’s New Favorite Covid Doctor Believes in Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and Hydroxychloroquine”, warned the CIA-connected propaganda rag virtuous beacon of truth, The Daily Beast, in July 2020. As if there were only two people on the planet who believed HCQ treats COVID - Dr. Demon Sperm and The Bad Man.

Plenty of others ran with “Demon Sperm!” also. Rolling Stone, NYT, WaPo, Daily Kos, The New Yorker, NY Magazine, CNN, MSNBC, etc. They all repeat the same, misdirecting, disingenuous, propaganda.

Once it’s clear how blatantly, obviously, cruelly, the narrative was twisted to discredit COVID treatments and doctors, and - same script across the world - demanded waiting for vaccines while early treatment was working … there’s no way around facing that we have all been betrayed.

Those of early awareness took a lot of shit for trying to warn people. Friendships, relationships, families were ruptured. I betrayed myself and others, stuck in a smug-liberal-narrative bubble and dismissing info I’ll always regret not listening to sooner. I may have thought I was curious for a few moments, but not curious enough to wonder if “fact checkers” and search engines were part of the problem.

Any association of anything with The Bad Man, and there was nothing else I needed to know. Or so I thought. I betrayed my loved ones whom I could have reached early enough to give them info on COVID treatments before the next level of the narrative, with its manufactured hatred, kicked into next gear.

This insightful piece by Diane Perlman - beautiful soul, liberal peace activist and psychologist - explores the tragedies of the COVID response through the lens of betrayal.

BETRAYAL ALL THE WAY DOWN

Cooties!! (Eeeew!!)

“All that is necessary is to spread the news that certain influencers have cooties, and that anyone who listens to them will be shunned and ridiculed. It’s a tactic right out your junior high school playground, but it works.” - Josh Mitteldorf

“I watched these, but knew something was wrong so I checked rumble.com and it's a very conservative, far right website where Trump has invested and uses it for his truth social, I think he may have started rumble. Some of its investors and followers are J D Vance, Jim Jordan and other far right people. I would never believe a word on this website. Please don't send me anything more from rumble.” - My Mom (in response to this montage by Matt Orfalea, all taken directly from the mainstream media Mom trusted.)

Josh Mitteldorf’s “cooties” analogy is, sadly, perfect. (I highly recommend his Substack, a beautiful blend of insightful, heart-centered writings on science, mysticism, censorship, COVID, and more).

My mind used to be wired in the same way. All it took was associating something with the right wing, or The Bad Man, and I immediately assumed it wasn’t info worth listening to. Like a cognitive allergic reaction.

The tactic of “cooties” was used by the media, politicians, and progressive groups, like MoveOn / Daily Kos, etc., in a spree of coordinated messaging connecting treating the disease they demanded we be scared of with “the right wing”, “Republicans”, “Trump”, “conspiracy theorists” and “COVID deniers” (as if actual COVID “deniers” would be treating COVID patients).

The same was done to anyone doubting that COVID’s origin was a bat and a pangolin walking into a wet market … it was done to the vaccine injured … to anyone questioning any part of the official narrative about anything, including topics I want to go into but don’t have room / time for here.

The liberal tribe has, religiously, believed that anything and everyone associated with the right wing (unless they show sufficiently intense Trump-hate, like the pompous, often wrong Lincoln Project), are inferior, ignorant, and, of course, racist.

This assumption is automatic. It’s not a nuanced thought process that admits there’s racism and ignorance - as well as valid perspectives - on both the left and right, with different appearances. It can’t admit that sometimes often “racist” is an overused, groundless assumption.

As Tom Hanks humiliated himself for the second time on Saturday Night Live to remind us - we’ve been trained to assume every Trump supporter is a racist idiot.

And when well-trained to feel instant disgust at anything right wing / Trump-adjacent, it’s remarkably easy to get people to turn away from whatever the narrative wants us to turn away from.

There’s something particularly deceitful about an information machine that censors certain topics completely from mainstream platforms, like COVID treatments or vaccine injury, driving them to other platforms like Rumble, and then ensures people like Mom trying to learn about Rumble (or any censored topic) are disgusted by a barrage of associations they’d see as negative.

Contagious Cooties

“The dismay of the Left in reaction to my ‘talking to Tucker Carlson’ horrified me because talking to people with whom I don’t agree, is one of the main ways I have ever learned anything, or, I believe, that anyone has ever learned anything. And it horrified me also because I would have gladly brought my urgently important, indeed lifesaving information, to CNN and MSNBC, as usual — to all these self-proclaimed ‘feminists’ — but they were having none of it.

Above all it horrified me because the Left thus had departed from the post-Enlightenment metric of “is it true?” to return to a pre-rational metric of ‘is this within our tribe and according to our rituals and our cult?’” - Naomi Wolf, PhD (about presenting information early on that has been proven accurate).

Continuing to smother any chance of sprouts of inquisitiveness, the narrative, controlled by the left, shut out anyone - even liberals like Naomi Wolf and Dr. Pierre Kory - bringing truth about COVID treatments or vaccine harms. Then, when only conservatives bothered to listen to them, the narrative said, “Eeew! They talked to conservatives! Conservatives have cooties, so they do too!”

This guilt-by-association is a low tactic. It’s used to avoid listening, it refuses to engage with substance. It’s an especially slimy tactic when it poisons something inherently not political and denies medical informed consent.

While there are many different medicines effective for treating COVID (more info at C19early.org - this site is awesome), the one that got the most attention, after Hydroxychloroquine, was Ivermectin. Ivermectin is as much “horse dewormer”³ as water is “firefighting liquid”, or antibiotics are “dog medicine”.

But it sure made for the degrading headlines they love!

This typical mess of propaganda gaslighting is from Vanity Fair, 2021 -

“Republicans Bravely Defend Americans’ Rights to Treat COVID With Horse Dewormer”

The subheadline says, “Rather than focusing on promoting safe, effective vaccines, Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul are taking aim at the FDA for warning against using ivermectin.”

They connect a known-for-decades-to-be-safe human medication with “Republicans”, “Ron Johnson”, “Rand Paul”, and of course “Horse Dewormer”. Four negative associations packed into two sentences. In the liberal narrative bubble, Republicans aren’t humans who may have different ideas, Republicans (unless they publicly denounce and despise Trump with all their being), are despicable, inferior, and dangerous. In other words, they have cooties.

And in the next level of gaslighting accomplished in Vanity Fair’s two sentences, they declare the vaccine safe and effective, when there was already, by August 2021, clarity that they were not effective, nor were they technically vaccines. And even if there had not been ample info attesting to how unsafe they are, they couldn’t possibly have been studied for enough time to declare them safe.

But no need to think that deeply, just laugh at the horse paste eating fools.

I could write a whole book on the sabotage of Ivermectin, although it’s already been written, and this article is too long as it is.

Much honest info about Ivermectin’s efficacy for COVID-19, how studies showing low efficacy were clearly designed to fail, and the tragic deception of conflating a Nobel Prize winning human medicine with “horse goo”, as Jimmy Kimmel sneered, can be found here, here, here, here, and here (12-minute film).

As Dr. Meryl Nass details here, the media went into coordinated overdrive to spread fear of Ivermectin, including manipulating data, and just making stuff up.

“I had seven COVID patients, including a 31-year-old woman. I was not allowed to treat these people. I had to stand by idly. I had to stand by idly, watching these people die.” - Tearful testimony from (former) ICU doctor Paul Marik. He was prohibited from treating patients, despite having had a 50% lower mortality rate than his ICU colleagues.

Dr. Marik, Dr. Pierre Kory, and colleagues around the world, through practice and research, figured out how to treat late-stage COVID. They were surprised to be thanked with insults, attacks, and rigged studies, learning firsthand the corruption of medical-knowledge-gatekeepers.

Dr. Kory used to be firmly on the left, trusting the NY Times, and internalizing the “cooties” mindset so much that he “used to not want to be in the same room with Republicans.”

Dr. Kory’s Substack is a treasure trove of solid info, including on tactics used against Ivermectin, how studies were designed to fail, and how every step of the “Disinformation Playbook” was used. (Search his Substack for “Disinformation”.)

“Wait! Doctors Marik, Kory, and Nass are mis/disinformation spreaders themselves! It says so on the internet! Why should they be trusted?”

They should be trusted because their information can be followed all the way down, and they take the time to show that. They should be trusted because what they’ve said, and done, stood the test of time and was correct all along. Their integrity is as clear, to those who can see it, as the lack of integrity of their critics.

No one is above criticism when it’s valid, but the negative press about these doctors recycles the same unsupported claims. People see that Dr. Nass’ license was suspended for “spreading misinformation”, and don’t understand the backstory. These allegations are meant to scare other doctors from speaking and fuel hit pieces to deter everyone from listening to the doctors who do speak out. There’s a superficial debate about if misinformation is protected speech, but in reality, there was no misinformation spread, only true information uncomfortable to the narrative, the charges were dropped, and Dr. Nass exposed the corrupt idiocy of the Maine Medical Board.

Writers of hit pieces are nowhere near qualified to poison the reputation of doctors who are infinitely more knowledgeable. But such is the sorry state of the narrative bubble.

Voila! the HIT Piece

Beware the Wikipedia (etc) Trap

“The more political the topic, the less reliable is Wikipedia” - Mathew Crawford

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia … What a great idea! Except when Wikipedia (and Google, other search engines, and “fact checkers”), end up purposely misleading.

Sure, there’s truth among the many negative Wikipedia pages. But for the most part, being associated with “misinformation” by the narrative gatekeepers is a reason to listen to someone in their own words enough to get a good sense of them before passing judgement.

When it comes to controversial topics, Wikipedia is a curiosity killer. It’s a cooties dispenser. A narrative construction that assures any effort to consider listening ends before it starts.

These two excellent articles explore the forensics of Wikipedia edits:

“If you look at the Wikipedia entries of any senior scientist, clinician or ‘influencer’ who has talked positively about early covid treatments or who has raised legitimate concerns about the vaccine efficacy or safety, you will discover that they have been delegitimized and labelled as promoters of ‘misinformation’. Their entries have also been heavily edited to downplay their credentials and research record. In many cases there are blatant lies and critical omissions made to frame these people as untrustworthy oddballs.

. . . Not only do they insert complete lies, but they then delete any attempts to correct the lies and are able to block all attempts by others to provide corrections.”

- Mathematician Norman Fenton, “How Wikipedia Defames and Delegitimizes Anybody Raising Concerns Against the WHO Narrative on Covid”

This next dive into Wikipedia-land is from a medical doctor frustrated that Wiki editors consider a “fact check” from a former Teen Vogue / Star Tribune writer as more reliable evidence than the experience of doctors studying and using the medicine in question. He may be referring to the same computer programmer, non-MD senior editor as Norman Fenton was.

Before COVID, Dr. Hope was familiar with Ivermectin as a repurposed medicine, having healed a friend from cancer. (Yes, Ivermectin has multiple mechanisms of action against cancer also.) If not for being steeped in a liberal bubble that spent years demonizing this amazing medicine, Mom may have been open to trying it.

“I became a Wiki editor a couple of weeks ago. Anyone can edit Wikipedia provided they follow the rules. One should not use primary sources. Instead, secondary sources are preferred. . .

Unfortunately, this means that published peer-reviewed medical journal articles will sometimes NOT be allowed, which means you, the reader, will likely get inaccurate or ONLY politically correct information. . .

Wikipedia cites an AP Fact Check article by a journalist, Ms. Beatrice Dupuy, who is not a medical professional to my knowledge. She has never served as a medical director of Critical Care or Pulmonary Medicine (as Dr. Kory has). I believe she has written for StarTribune and TeenVogue Magazine in the past.

However, she is somehow sufficiently competent to call Dr. Kory's testimony “false.” . . .

What is truly troubling is that the Wikipedia editor considers this type of “fact check” by a non-physician a reliable source.

When I first saw Dr. Kory's Wiki page, it read as follows:

“During his (Pierre Kory’s) testimony in December 2020, Kory erroneously claimed that the antiparasitic medication ivermectin was a ‘wonder drug’ with ‘miraculous effectiveness’ against COVID-19.[1]”

Since this was written in December 2020, MUCH MORE EVIDENCE has been published beyond Ms. Dupuy’s disputed fact check issued by the AP on December 11, 2020. We now have over 61 studies involving 19,432 patients via 578 authors. (This was July of 2021)

https://ivmmeta.com/

That is more than a mountain of evidence. It is more like an encyclopedia of data comprising volumes and volumes of evidence. Included are 32 randomized controlled trials. Because many cancer drugs are FDA approved without a SINGLE randomized controlled trial, and many drugs are approved with less than 3,000 patients studied, the double standard is laughable.

Therefore, I changed “erroneous” to “controversial,” which is a more accurate adjective. I also added the newly published peer-reviewed medical journal studies by Dr. Kory and Dr. Lawrie. . .

the senior editor “reverted” my edits, which is a polite way of saying he undid them. This senior editor describes himself as a retired computer scientist, and there is no indication of any medical training . . .

- Justus R. Hope, MD, “Wikipedia and a Pint of Gin” (as in, "Wikipedia is NOT reliable, and their information should be taken with a grain of salt and perhaps a pint of gin as well.")

It’s not just Wikipedia, it’s the entire narrative - multiple, global information streams flowing from the same toxic, polluted, unreliable headwaters. With perfectly gaslighting names, like “fact check” and “Trusted News Initiative”

A disturbing trend with all medical topics - Narrative believers dismiss anything not said by a medical doctor in a relevant field, not seeing (or not wanting to see), that there are doctors in relevant fields presenting other info, it’s just not being heard, and much of what they’re trusting comes from laughably unqualified gatekeepers, like Teen Vogue writers or “fact-checkers” or computer programmers behind the scenes.

Narrative-enforcing articles recycle the same “dial-a-quote experts”, not because they’re honest sources, but because they have credentials and are willing to say whatever the story wants them to say, regardless of truth.

“When a fact-checker cites another fact-checker who cites a "trusted source" that's funded by the same entities funding the fact-checkers, the pattern becomes clear. The truth isn't in any individual claim - it's in recognizing how the claims work together to create a closed system of artificial reality.” - Joshua Stylman, in this excellent article that covers, with receipts, almost everything I’ve struggled to communicate for years.

A Call for Discernment, Nuance, and Pattern Recognition

As news comes faster than anyone can keep up with, it behooves us all to re-assess who we trust for information. If we trust news from the same places that lied about Biden’s mental state, or made “horse dewormer” jokes, we’re going to continue to be lied to.

That said, there are (some) news sites who saw through the lies and censorship of the last few years but now show their blind spots as they seem supportive of 100% of what comes from the current administration.

It’s not as simple as 100% of everything one side does is terrible and must be fought, while 100% of everything the other side does is deserving of enthusiastic support. This goes both ways. Democrats think anyone supporting even 5% of what Trump does is hateful and / or delusional, meanwhile most of the left is so loyal to their narrative that they support a bloody, impossible-to-win war, on the side of actual Nazis.

As Joshua Stylman says, two things can be true at the same time. It’s more important than ever to resist partisan tribalism and cultivate the ability to hold nuance.

“This isn't about picking teams - it's about recognizing patterns. The ultimate form of control isn't hiding truth - it's shaping how we process truth when it emerges. That's why pattern recognition matters more than ever. . .

Two things can be simultaneously true - this is the heart of pattern recognition: We're watching real exposures of taxpayer-funded horrors play out in real time, AND we must remain vigilant about what system replaces the one being dismantled. The key isn't picking sides but developing the capacity to recognize and resist all forms of manipulation - even those that appear as liberation.” - Joshua Stylman

Honest News and “Hypoallergenic” Substacks

Fortunately, there are ethical, honest sources for news - general, international, and medical - who are capable of nuance. Who saw through the bullshit narrative for all (or at least most), of the last few years and are also skeptical of those in power now.

The Substacks in my recommended section are sources I trust for integrity and due diligence in the areas they cover. Also, they’re (almost all) either currently on the left, formerly on the left, equally distrusting of both right and left wings of politics, and / or from such solid pragmatic, spiritual, medical / scientific places that it’s beyond political sides. The few who are more likely to express a fondness for the right wing used to be firmly on the left.

I purposely recommended mainly left-leaning (and beyond political) sources - admittedly giving into the same divisive “cooties” impulse I criticize. There are some right-leaning Substacks (no, not “far-alt-ultra-MAGA-right”, whatever that means), that I’d like to recommend but am holding off from for now. I remember how impossible it once was for me to take seriously anything not from the left. So, I’m trying to meet folks where they are, and also to show that there’s plenty of not-right-wing sources who smell the narrative’s bullshit.

Update: I added a few new recommendations that are exceptional for the heart and/ or humor they bring. Heart and humor are healing forces direly needed right now. It’s also important to see that non-left sources include good, wise, relatable, empathic, caring humans. What a sad state humanity has become, certain that everyone and everything on the “other side” is crazy and wrong.

Ethical Journalists and Some non-Substack Recommendations

Most Substack articles by doctors and scientists, who have other sources of income, are free to read. (Midwestern Doctor has a mix of free and paid articles, understandable given the immense amount of research and time put into her posts, and still a good amount are free.)

But full-time journalists, who cover more broad topics, need to charge for their efforts. Matt Taibbi’s Substack is here, some articles are unlocked, but most, beyond the intro, are for paid subscribers. Well worth the $5 / month if you can afford it.

Michael Shellenberger and his team share brief intros of articles for free, but the bulk of all articles are locked for paid subscribers.

Glenn Greenwald’s channel is here. His shows are free to watch, with an option to support him (and his many rescued dogs) on Locals.

I also recommend Jimmy Dore, on YouTube, for honest news with humor. He’s another leftie who hasn’t changed his liberal values while the world turned upside down.

And Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity is a great information scout with a fine-tuned bullshit detector. He “doesn’t do left / right”, he’s concerned with integrity, honesty, and resilience. His YouTube channel is here. Some content is free, some not.

If these folks express understanding of, or even (gasp!) support for, something Trump does, it’s not from loyal adoration of Mr. T, it’s from understanding the issue at hand.

And, if something Trump & co does that is truly deserving of criticism, journalists like Shellenberger / Taibbi / Greenwald / Dore, are likely to call them out on it - from a clear-eyed, non-TDS-fueled-rageful-insanity perspective. I finally became a paying subscriber to Public News because of this article.

I want to stay informed of Trump’s abuses of power from sources who weren’t blind to or complicit in the insane march to totalitarianism of the left, here and in Europe / Canada / Australia / New Zealand / Brazil.

Why Trump Must Protect Free Speech, Privacy, And The Separation Of Powers

“Over the last two and a half years, the two of us have written and published hundreds of articles and testified before Congress on multiple occasions about the clear violations of the spirit and letter of the Constitution by former President Joe Biden and other Democratic leaders. We exposed a sweeping effort by former and current officials with the CIA, FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and its intermediary organizations to construct a Censorship Industrial Complex to censor President Donald Trump and millions of his supporters.

We documented that Democrats and Democrat-appointed judges were abusing the justice system in an unconstitutional effort to incarcerate Trump or otherwise prevent him from running for office. And we published extensively on efforts by Democrats, Europeans, and Brazilians to engage in mass surveillance of social media accounts and text messaging apps to search for disfavored speech.

In addition, we have repeatedly defended Trump and the Trump administration from false and malicious claims that they have violated the Constitution or undermined democratic norms any more than Democrats. We showed that Trump and Republican demands for censorship have paled against the totalitarian weaponization by Democrats of the Intelligence Community to spy on the Trump campaign, spread disinformation, interfere in elections, and create a global Censorship Industrial Complex. We repeatedly pointed out that between 2017 and 2021, the Trump administration obeyed court orders, consistent with the clear requirement under the Constitution that it do so . . .

Few formerly Left-wing journalists and commentators have done more to recognize and document the Left’s descent into totalitarianism and irrationality. We have made the case that, given Democrats’ many failures and abuses of power, Trump’s victory was a moral win, not just an electoral one.

Given all of this, we believe it is necessary to speak out against the Trump Administration’s recent violations of the spirit and, and perhaps the letter, of the United States Constitution with regards to free speech, privacy, and the separation of powers. . . “ - Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag

More than ever, it’s imperative to be alert and engaged without reverting to all-good-or-all-bad interpretations that can’t hold nuance.

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If you’ve read this to the end, thank you! I know it’s a lot to take in. Respectful comments / questions are welcome. Please understand if I’m slow to reply.

To reclaim our relationship to reality itself, to begin to understand this moment, we must understand the webs of manufactured information that disguised itself as consensus-based reality.

I’m working on a Part Two that goes more into current topics. Please subscribe to get future articles by email.

1. Although while these events were happening, plenty were speaking up. They were censored, insulted as “conspiracy theorists”, and drowned out by propaganda. We don’t really need the vantage point of 2025 to unpack these betrayals. But by now, the proof is indisputable.

2. It’s interesting to notice some familiar faces in the film, from 2020 to 2025. Some of the senators who spoke most sensibly then have been correct on COVID ever since. The same “news” anchor who fawned over “The Science” personified in Dr. Anthony Fauci has made ridiculous recent comments, like blaming the Holocaust on freedom of speech.

3. To whatever extent people were ingesting made-for-horses-or-sheep-dewormer, risking toxicity and overdosing, it was because the powers that shouldn’t be made it hard to access the human medicine that the doctors recommended.