#270: The Enhanced Global Corps of 2021?

[Only the names change, century on century]

Coloured Etching by C. Williams | 1806

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#269: “Extermination of Millions”

“Public opinion! I don’t know how sociologists define it, but it seems obvious to me that it can only consist of interacting individual opinions, freely expressed and independent of government or party opinion. So long as there is no independent public opinion in our country, there is no guarantee that the extermination of millions and millions for no good reason will not happen again, that it will not begin any night – perhaps this very night.”*

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*Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago as quoted at https://academyofideas.com/2021/11/mainstream-media-a-threat-to-freedom-and-sanity/

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ... (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) ... was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer, and political prisoner. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union (USSR), in particular the Gulag system. | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

#268: “A Covenant with Death”

15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:*

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*Old Testament | Isaiah 28:15 (Bold emphasis added.)

Isaiah was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named. ...
Within the text of the Book of Isaiah, Isaiah himself is referred to as "the prophet",[9] but the exact relationship between the Book of Isaiah and any such historical Isaiah is complicated. The traditional view is that all 66 chapters of the book of Isaiah were written by one man, Isaiah, possibly in two periods between 740 BC and c. 686 BC, separated by approximately 15 years, ...
The first verse of the Book of Isaiah states that Isaiah prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah (or Azariah), Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah (Isaiah 1:1). Uzziah's reign was 52 years in the middle of the 8th century BC, and Isaiah must have begun his ministry a few years before Uzziah's death, probably in the 740s BC. Isaiah lived until the fourteenth year of the reign of Hezekiah (who died 698 BC). He may have been contemporary for some years with Manasseh. Thus Isaiah may have prophesied for as long as 64 years.[10] [from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah]

#267: Conspiracy Fact - Human Radiation Experiments | 20th Century

Human Radiation
Experiments

“Researchers in the United States have performed thousands of human radiation experiments to determine the effects of atomic radiation and radioactive contamination on the human body, generally on people who were poor, sick, or powerless.[61] Most of these tests were performed, funded, or supervised by the United States military, Atomic Energy Commission, or various other U.S. federal government agencies.

“The experiments included a wide array of studies, involving things like feeding radioactive food to mentally disabled children or conscientious objectors, inserting radium rods into the noses of schoolchildren, deliberately releasing radioactive chemicals over U.S. and Canadian cities, measuring the health effects of radioactive fallout from nuclear bomb tests, injecting pregnant women and babies with radioactive chemicals, and irradiating the testicles of prison inmates, amongst other things.

“Much information about these programs was classified and kept secret. In 1986, the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce released a report entitled American Nuclear Guinea Pigs : Three Decades of Radiation Experiments on U.S. Citizens.[62] In the 1990s, Eileen Welsome's reports on radiation testing for The Albuquerque Tribune prompted the creation of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments by executive order of president Bill Clinton to monitor government tests; it published results in 1995. Welsome later wrote a book called The Plutonium Files.”*

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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States

#266: False Flag – Black Propaganda

Black Propaganda
Strategy

“Black propaganda is a form of propaganda intended to create the impression that it was created by those it is supposed to discredit. Black propaganda contrasts with grey propaganda, which does not identify its source, and white propaganda, which does not disguise its origins at all. It is typically used to vilify or embarrass the enemy through misrepresentation.[1]

“The major characteristic of black propaganda is that the audience are not aware that someone is influencing them, and do not feel that they are being pushed in a certain direction.[2] Black propaganda purports to emanate from a source other than the true source. This type of propaganda is associated with covert psychological operations.[3] Sometimes the source is concealed or credited to a false authority and spreads lies, fabrications, and deceptions. Black propaganda is the "big lie", including all types of creative deceit.[4] Black propaganda relies on the willingness of the receiver to accept the credibility of the source. If the creators or senders of the black propaganda message do not adequately understand their intended audience, the message may be misunderstood, seem suspicious, or fail altogether.[4]

“Governments conduct black propaganda for a few reasons. By disguising their direct involvement, a government may be more likely to succeed in convincing an otherwise unbelieving target audience. There are also diplomatic reasons behind the use of black propaganda. Black propaganda is necessary [???] to obfuscate a government's involvement in activities that may be detrimental to its foreign policies.”

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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_propaganda (Bold emphasis added.)

#265: A Word from 1606 AD ?

[Spoken by Edgar: legitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester and godson of King Lear]

The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say:
The oldest hath borne most; we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.*

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*Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare: The Complete Collection (pp. 4699-4700). Pandora's Box. Kindle Edition. (King Lear 5.3.299-302)

William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. ... He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

#264: Extrication from Totalitarian Systems

“….what else are parallel structures than an area where a different life can be lived, a life that is in harmony with its own aims and which in turn structures itself in harmony with those aims? . . .What else are those initial attempts at social self-organization than the efforts of a certain part of society…to rid itself of the self-sustaining aspects of totalitarianism and, thus, to extricate itself radically from its involvement in the … totalitarian system?”

[E.g., See https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/11/parallel-structures-new-hope.html]

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Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless as quoted (bold emphasis added) at https://academyofideas.com/2021/04/manufacturing-of-a-mass-psychosis-can-sanity-return-to-an-insane-world/

Václav Havel (... 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident,[1][2] who served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs. ... / His political activities brought him under the surveillance of the StB secret police, and he spent multiple periods as a political prisoner,[3] the longest of his imprisoned terms being nearly four years, between 1979 and 1983. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel

#263: Continuity of Government ??

Artist: Steve Breen*
[Steve Breen is not a “voice from the dust” but his cartoon is — from the dust of 2018.

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*Stephen Paul Breen (born April 26, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is a nationally syndicated cartoonist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning twice, in 1998 and 2009.  | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Breen

#262: Repeated Trajectory

The motto of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, a true manifestation of hope and faith at the beginning of the [French] Revolution, soon merely served to cover a legal justification of the sentiments of jealousy, cupidity, and hatred of superiors, the true motives of crowds unrestrained by discipline. This is why the Revolution so soon ended in disorder, violence, and anarchy.

From the moment when the Revolution descended from the middle to the lower classes of society, it ceased to be a domination of the instinctive by the rational, and became, on the contrary, the effort of the instinctive to overpower the rational.”*

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* Le Bon, Gustave. The Psychology of Revolution (pp. 41-42). . Kindle Edition.

Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (French: ... 7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a leading French polymath [a person of encyclopedic learning] whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, which is considered one of the seminal works of crowd psychology. | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Le_Bon

#261: From Whence: the Spirit of Fear?

7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.*

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*New Testament | 2 Timothy 1:7

The New Testament ... (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and the son of God Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity. The New Testament's background, the first division of the Christian Bible, is called the Old Testament, which is based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible; together they are regarded as sacred scripture by Christians. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament

#260: Conspiracy Fact – Plotting to Kill Jesus | circa 33 AD

3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.*

1 AFTER two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.**

1 NOW the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
2 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
3 ¶ Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
4 And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.
5 And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
6 And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude.***

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New Testament | Matthew 26:3-5
New Testament | Mark 14:1-2
New Testament | Luke 22:1-6

The New Testament  [ ... (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and the son of God Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity. The New Testament's background, the first division of the Christian Bible, is called the Old Testament, which is based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible; together they are regarded as sacred scripture by Christians.[1]
The New Testament is a collection of Christian texts originally written in the Koine Greek language, at different times by various authors. While the Old Testament canon varies somewhat between different Christian denominations, the 27-book canon of the New Testament has been almost universally recognized within Christianity since at least Late Antiquity. Thus, in almost all Christian traditions today, the New Testament consists of 27 books:
   4 canonical gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)
   The Acts of the Apostles
   14 Pauline epistles
   7 general epistles, and
   The Book of Revelation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament

#259: False Flag – Operation Trust - 1921-1926

Fake resistance group
set up by the Soviet Union
1921-1926

“Operation Trust ... was a counterintelligence operation of the State Political Directorate (GPU) of the Soviet Union. The operation, which was set up by GPU's predecessor Cheka, ran from 1921 to 1926, set up a fake anti-Bolshevik resistance organization, "Monarchist Union of Central Russia", MUCR ..., in order to help the OGPU identify real monarchists and anti-Bolsheviks.[2] The created front company was called the Moscow Municipal Credit Association.[3] / ...

MUCR kept the monarchist general Alexander Kutepov ... from active actions, as he was convinced to wait for the development of internal anti-Bolshevik forces.”*

[Could any of the alleged resistance (or extreme wing) organizations in various countries, including the USA be fake or infiltrated resistance, despite show-trial prosecutions?]

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*From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trust

#258: “The Most Oppressive”

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”*

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*"The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment" (1949), p. 292 sourced at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis

#257: “Quiet Men with White Collars”

“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.”*

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* 1961 Preface to“ The Screwtape Letters | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis (Bold emphasis added.)

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 ;– 22 November 1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis

#256: The Pandemic Hog(s) of 2021+ ?

[And every other national treasury:]

Author: John Wilson Bengough - 1885

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Date: 28 March 1885
Source: The Grip (via http://www.begbiecontestsociety.org/REBELLION.htm)
Author: John Wilson Bengough
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“John Wilson Bengough ... 7 April 1851 – 2 October 1923) was one of Canada's earliest cartoonists, as well as an editor, publisher, writer, poet, entertainer, and politician. Bengough is best remembered for his political cartoons in Grip, a satirical magazine he published and edited, which he modelled after the British humour magazine Punch. He published some cartoons under the pen name L. Côté.” from | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilson_Bengough

#255: No to All Injustice

“Your Yes to God demands your No to all injustice, to all evil, to all lies, to all oppression and violation of the weak and the poor, to all godlessness and mocking of the holy. Your Yes to God demands a brave No to everything that will ever hinder you from serving God alone, whether it be your profession, your property, your house, your honor before the world. Faith means decision.”*

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*"The Gift of Faith" (9 April 1938), in The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012), p. 203 https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and founding member of the Confessing Church. / ...
Apart from his theological writings, Bonhoeffer was known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship, including vocal opposition to Hitler's euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews.[2] He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and imprisoned at Tegel prison for one and a half years. Later, he was transferred to Flossenbürg concentration camp. After being accused of being associated with the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, he was quickly tried along with other accused plotters, including former members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office), and then hanged on 9 April 1945 as the Nazi regime was collapsing. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer

#254: Woe! Woe!

5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable. ---
9 ¶ The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves. ...
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.*

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*Old Testament | Isaiah 3:5, 9, 11 (Bold emphasis added.)

Isaiah was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named. ... Within the text of the Book of Isaiah, Isaiah himself is referred to as "the prophet",[9] but the exact relationship between the Book of Isaiah and any such historical Isaiah is complicated. The traditional view is that all 66 chapters of the book of Isaiah were written by one man, Isaiah, possibly in two periods between 740 BC and c. 686 BC, separated by approximately 15 years, ...
The first verse of the Book of Isaiah states that Isaiah prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah (or Azariah), Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah (Isaiah 1:1). Uzziah's reign was 52 years in the middle of the 8th century BC, and Isaiah must have begun his ministry a few years before Uzziah's death, probably in the 740s BC. Isaiah lived until the fourteenth year of the reign of Hezekiah (who died 698 BC). He may have been contemporary for some years with Manasseh. Thus Isaiah may have prophesied for as long as 64 years.[10] | From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah

#253: Conspiracy Fact – Secret Bio Experiments in U.S. Subways | 1966

U.S Army experiments with 
bio-agents in NY and
Chicago subways - 1966

“In 1966, the U.S. Army released Bacillus globigii into the tunnels of the New York City Subway system, as part of a field experiment called A Study of the Vulnerability of Subway Passengers in New York City to Covert Attack with Biological Agents.... The Chicago subway system was also subject to a similar experiment by the Army.”*

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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

#252: False Flag – Chief Priests & Elders Blame Jesus' Disciples

Attempted resurrection coverup
circa 33-34 AD

1 IN the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
9 ¶ And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.
10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
11 ¶ Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.
12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,
13 Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
14 And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.
15 So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.*

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*New Testament | Matthew 28:1-15 (Bold emphasis added.)

#251: Perpetual State of Apprehension

“[H]ow dangerous it is for a republic or a prince to keep the minds of their subjects in a state of apprehension by pains and penalties constantly suspended over their heads.”*

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*Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Complete Works of Niccolo Machiavelli: Thoughts of a Statesman, The Prince, The History of Florence, The Art of War, Diplomatic Missions, and Discources ... (6 Books With Active Table of Contents) (Kindle Locations 21740-21741). Kindle Edition.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ...; 3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was an Italian diplomat, philosopher, politician, historian and writer who lived during the Renaissance. He is best known for The Prince (Il Principe), written about 1513.[5] He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.[6] For many years he served as a senior official in the Florentine Republic with responsibilities in diplomatic and military affairs. He wrote comedies, carnival songs, and poetry. His personal correspondence is of high importance to historians and scholars.[7] He worked as secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli

For this blogger's view about ideas of expediency attributable to Machiavelli see: https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2014/02/niccolo-mockiavelli.html  |  Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ... (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) ... was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer, and political prisoner. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union (USSR), in particular the Gulag system. | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

#250: “To Do Evil”

“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.”*

“Ideology— that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others’ eyes, so that he won’t hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.”**

“Thanks to ideology, the twentieth century was fated to experience evildoing on a scale calculated in the millions. This cannot be denied, nor passed over, nor suppressed. How, then, do we dare insist that evildoers do not exist? And who was it that destroyed these millions?”***

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*Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.. The Gulag Archipelago (p. 93). Harper Perennial. Kindle Edition.
**Ibid (p. 94).
***Ibid (p. 94).

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ... (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) ... was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer, and political prisoner. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union (USSR), in particular the Gulag system. | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

#249: DNA Collection? | 2021

attributed to Lewis W. Hine | circa 1913 AD

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Description: Photograph from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)
Permission: Library of Congress statement : No known restrictions on publication
Date: 1913 or 1914 ?

Lewis Wickes Hine (September 26, 1874 – November 3, 1940) was an American sociologist and muckraker photographer. His photographs were instrumental in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States. |  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Hine

#248: “Civil Dissension”

“Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.”*

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*Shakespeare, William. Shakespeare: The Complete Collection (p. 1929). Pandora's Box. Kindle Edition. (1 Henry VI:3.1.72-3)

William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616)[a] was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. ... He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

#247: Failure to Warn

3 If when [the watchman] seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

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Old Testament | Ezekiel 33:3-6

#246: Conspiracy Fact - Spraying Bio Weapons | 1960s

U.S. Army secretly tests bio
warfare agents on its own
military personnel | 1960s

“From 1963 to 1969, as part of Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD), the U.S. Army performed tests which involved spraying several U.S. ships with various biological and chemical warfare agents, while thousands of U.S. military personnel were aboard the ships. The personnel were not notified of the tests, and were not given any protective clothing. Chemicals tested on the U.S. military personnel included the nerve gases VX and Sarin, toxic chemicals such as zinc cadmium sulfide and sulfur dioxide, and a variety of biological agents.”*

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*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

#245: False Flag: - Riocentro Attack | 1981

Brazilian army officers
attempt to frame 
left-wing guerrillas for an
 army bombing | 1981

"The Riocentro attack (Portuguese: Atentado do Riocentro) was an attempted terrorist attack that took place on the evening of 30 April 1981, during a May Day celebration concert at the Riocentro convention center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The bombing, carried out by officers of the Brazilian Army, was a false flag operation intended to frame left-wing guerrillas as violent and thereby halting the country's transition towards democracy. It ended up having the opposite effect, accelerating the end of Brazil's military regime, in power since 1964."*

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*From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riocentro_attack

#244: “Fatal Identity”

“It is not for nothing that our age cries out for the redeemer personality, for the one who can emancipate himself from the grip of the collective [psychosis] and save at least his own soul, who lights a beacon of hope for others, proclaiming that here is at least one man who has succeeded in extricating himself from the fatal identity with the group psyche.”*

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*Carl Jung, Civilization in Transition as quoted at https://academyofideas.com/2021/04/manufacturing-of-a-mass-psychosis-can-sanity-return-to-an-insane-world/

Carl Gustav Jung (... 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961), was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology[23] and religious studies. Jung worked as a research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler. During this time, he came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated, for a while, on a joint vision of human psychology.
Freud saw the younger Jung as the heir he had been seeking to take forward his "new science" of psychoanalysis and to this end secured his appointment as President of his newly founded International Psychoanalytical Association. Jung's research and personal vision, however, made it impossible for him to follow his older colleague's doctrine and a schism became inevitable. This division was personally painful for Jung and resulted in the establishment of Jung's analytical psychology as a comprehensive system separate from psychoanalysis.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung

#243: “External and Corrupting Factors”

“Justice, a proper control of our lives by what we know of truth, of wisdom, not by those external and corrupting factors of health, wealth, fame, or power, is the only “utopia” worth having.”

“... the point of seeking justice, [is] the most profitable, the most intrinsically satisfying activity of human beings in a polis.”

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Uemura, Joseph Norio. Uemura’s Reflections on the Mind of Plato (p. 99). Saga Egmont International. Kindle Edition.

Joseph Norio Uemura - “Age 89, of Burnsville, passed away March 3, 2016. ... Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Hamline University and retired United Methodist minister.” | from https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/126210/
Also see: https://www.apaonline.org/page/memorial_minutes2016#uemura
“His remarkable life had two major aspects. The first is recorded in words and visual images in his autobiography published under the title The Insatiable Search for Truth [IST] (edited by Steve LeBeau, Autobiography, Inc., Saint Paul, Minnesota, 2015). His account of the experience of the Japanese-Americans who suffered so much and so unjustly in the twentieth century ... The second aspect spawned his career as a professor of philosophy and a mentor to dozens of us who were fortunate to be his students.”

#242: Through the Wringer with the (Anti-)Trusts of 2021 ?

[Anti-Fossil Fuel | Anti-CO₂ | Anti-Meat | Anti-Private Property | Anti-Small Business | Anti-Freedom | etc., etc.]

Bob Satterfield (cartoonist) | 1904

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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Satterfield_cartoon_about_high_anthracite_prices.jpg
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File URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Satterfield_cartoon_about_high_anthracite_prices.jpg
Attribution: Bob Satterfield, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Description: Two trusts -- the meat trust and the anthracite coal trust, personified as charwomen -- put "the common people" through a wringer, to wring out even more money. "Ann" is "Anthracite".
Date: 8 August 1904
Source: The Tacoma Times (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1904-08-08/ed-1/seq-1)

Bob Satterfield (cartoonist) - “Robert William Satterfield (October 18, 1875 in Sharon, Pennsylvania– February 17, 1958 in Glendale, California),[1][2] also known as "Sat",[3] was an American cartoonist known for his editorial cartoons; he also created the comic strips The Family Next Door,[3] Oh Thunder,[4] and The Bicker Family;[5] as well as the daily panels Sat's Bear and Days We'll Never Forget, [3] as well as Bizzy Bear. ...

#241: Heavier and Heavier Burdens

“Rapidly multiplying dictatorial measures have continually tended to restrict individual liberties, and this in two ways. Regulations have been established every year in greater number, imposing a constraint on the citizen in matters in which his acts were formerly completely free, and forcing him to accomplish acts which he was formerly at liberty to accomplish or not to accomplish at will. At the same time heavier and heavier public, and especially local, burdens have still further restricted his liberty by diminishing the portion of his profits he can spend as he chooses, and by augmenting the portion which is taken from him to be spent according to the good pleasure of the public authorities.”*

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*Le Bon, Gustave. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (p. 153). Neeland Media LLC. Kindle Edition.

Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (French: ... 7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a leading French polymath [a person of encyclopedic learning] whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, which is considered one of the seminal works of crowd psychology. | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Le_Bon