BTW, look at that picture from the actors in Twelve Angry Men. I recognize all of them. They either later became stars or had long and successful careers as character actors.
I think this was first a play that was adapted into a film. It actually seems like a play. It's rare that you see a movie or a play with so many strong or compelling characters.
Okay. Thanks for the info. It's like "Casablanca," which I think is the best screenplay ever. From what I've read, Casablanca's script was adapted from an un-produced play.
It only takes 3.5 percent of the population to act in an active and sustained way for governments to integrate that change or disintegrate entirely.
See Erica Chenoweth's 2013 Tedx Talk and page 676 of Feargus O'Connor's book 180 Degrees: Unlearn the Lies You've Been taught to believe.
THEY(THE HIERARCHY THAT EXPLOITS YOU) utterly fear unity and enlightenment in a population." Feargus O'Connor
The disgust we feel when we find out how badly we have been lied to is unifying.
"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are anger and courage. Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way they ought to be." -att. St. Augustine
One of my favorite books was by former Washington Post and Newsweek columnist Robert J. Samuelson. The title is "Untruth: How conventional wisdom is almost always wrong."
That book had a tremendous influence on me as its title explains just about everything. Almost every article or essay I write is trying to show or prove that some element of "conventional wisdom" is either wrong or at least dubious.
That one is still sitting on my shelf unread. Bought it in May. So much to read.
Check this passage from 180 Degrees: Unlearn the Lies You've Been Taught to Believe.
"To cling to the past is guaranteed suicide. To remain apathetic is assured enslavement. To learn the truth and then act on it is the only means of survival at this moment." Bill Cooper
If you go to Amazon, you might still be able to read my review of Samuelson's book - from 25 years ago! I don't think many people - or enough people - read the book.
This one sentence particularly resonates with me: “To remain apathetic is assured enslavement.” So many people seem to believe the opposite…that if they do nothing, ‘it’ll all just go away’.
I wake up sometimes from a deep sleep and feel like we are living in Germany in the 1930s. I'm going to keep talking to everyone whether they listen or not.
I think right now more than 3% are actively resisting the stupidity, but the 99% are all getting their news from the matrix so they don’t hear about the 3%.
According to a recent Rasmussen poll, a majority of the population now believes the vaccines are NOT "safe and effective" as 53 percent say they know people they think have been harmed or killed by these injections.
So, the "kooks" are not some fringe, wacko minority any more. Alas, this doesn't matter as 100 percent of the important truth-seeking organizations and "leaders" still think this (or act like they do).
We've got to get a majority of the people and organizations who actually matter to think like many of us do.
I'm actually surprised a pollster as well-known as Rasmussen even asked this question in a poll. He's the only well-known pollster who has ... and the MSM (of course) doesn't report on the findings of this particular poll question ... which is yet another "tell" about our captured MSM.
If an old dog like me can finally wake up and then wake others up you sure as heck can. Regardless whether we can though we have to try our best. Good on you for trying. Thank you for the effort and encouragement.
Good for you for figuring things out so long ago. I was slow but been reading everything I can find since 2020. There are multiple new things to me in this book but the most startling is the systemic pedophilia and satanic child abuse being covered up.
This post makes me yet more convinced that I am not wasting my time by posting daily memes which oppose the group-think narrative forced down our throats by the comically corrupt corporate media every day.
Tell them to watch "Twelve Angry Men" and think about the message/theme of that movie.
I just watched a great documentary on Netflix ("American Nightmare.") It's about a lady who was kidnapped in California and the police and FBI first were certain her boyfriend killed her. She then turned up alive and they were convinced she'd masterminded the whole bizarre plot just like the main character in "Gone Girl." But they were both telling the truth the whole time.
The press didn't believe them either ... One lady police detective from another police department finally proved she had been kidnapped (and raped) just like they both said all along. That one cop was the person who "changed the narrative" and "proved" the truth. So that's the type official we have to reach.
Just started watching that documentary. I remember this incident and at the time it was hard not to believe it was a hoax because that’s the narrative that was being pushed by the police and the press. Even the reporter in the documentary admits he fell for the hoax narrative. A great example of what you’re describing in your article
At least that reporter admitted he was wrong and feels bad about it. No reporter will do the same thing on Covid topics or any story they got completely wrong. Finish the documentary when you have time. It has a happy ending! Kind of. The guilty/incompetent cops weren't punished.
As someone who was in law enforcement for 33 years, those cops in Vallejo were an embarrassment. I’m surprised Detective Mustard wasn’t promoted to “Colonel Mustard.”
I'd like to tell them to watch that, but I've been ostracized by some to the point where they simply don't answer any email or call for me. All because of my memes, which challenge their dearly held hatred of anything which contradicts the corporate-leftist narrative.
I do think the tide is perceptibly turning though, and I hope that people who are standing up to speak the truth are the ones turning it.
Please keep doing what you are doing. My children refuse to speak to me because of my newly changed position on vaccines, among other reasons. I feel like the sacrifice is worth it. What kind of man would I be if I kept my mouth shut just to get along?
Your post makes me wonder if all our loved ones who abandoned us will change their thoughts IF the truth is ever definitively proven. If this happens to some families, that would be another great reason to expose the truth. It will repair rifts in families.
Mine too! I don't care. Even my best friend, who is now suffering from heart failure like symptoms, tachycardia, SOB and weakness. Had to quit her job and may need another heart surgery. Taking lots of meds...it'll suck you in!
This friend, unfortunately, has a daughter (a homeopathic dr) who still recommends it, along w her own dr. At this point, Dr's should know what is transpiring. Seems they ate now complicit if still pushing them
The ER doc in my family is a senior doc at a teaching hospital. He just had his booster + flu jab then recommended it to his 26 year old son over the mother's objections.
Who do you think the son was going to listen to? His dad the doctor, of course.
Now this son is suffering side effects.
No communcation with this doc any longer otherwise I would inquire how he's witnessing so many young people with serious conditions not normally associated with their age and still has no questions about the jab. He actually told me at the height of covid that he doesn't mind putting the unvaxxed on ventilators since, "We were causing the pandemic."
With all of the above, can one become more indoctrinated than this?
You have to realize that being right necessarily implies that a lot of your relatives and former friends should think you have lost your mind. Otherwise you would be part of the herd.
Unfortunately it is a necessary condition only. There is always the possibility that you have lost your mind and are not right.
This is the purpose of these substacks, to prove ourselves that we are in the former situation and not the latter.
Yes, it must be so. Seeing things differently from the corporate media which they all believe in does mean that I'm the one who is denying their reality. Their reality seems consistent in itself, because they never look beyond CNN, etc, which is 100% parroting the "safe and effective" message even now. They definitely do not read Substack.
Another great example of a few people bringing about sudden change is iNicolae Ceausescu, the former communist dictator of Romania, who was summarily executed shortly after a spontaneous riot during one of his speeches in a public square. If I remember correctly, one or two people started yelling from the crowd and he was completely overwhelmed by a stampede of people. Things can turn around quickly when enough people wake up. I remember feeling extremely discouraged when I realized my country wanted to send me to Vietnam to possibly die in a god forsaken jungle. Thankfully that war ended before I turned 18, but I never trusted out government from that moment forward. In retrospect, resisting all the garbage we’re dealing with right now has been easier. We will get through this.
I just watched a segment on the Romonov Dynasty that lasted so long. He lived in such luxury while the people were starving. He paid no mind.
It was said that he fled the palace and hid out. During this time he was hunted down and executed.
I was watching The Great Courses- Communism. Looks quite a lot like the playbook to bring in communism. For all those who do not understand the heavy hand of communism (and always a falibility), including the culling of the people to more manageable numbers- just enough to get the work done, I suggest doing some reading or even video watching of documentaries of true events- from reputable sources, of course.
"Not by strong armies or elephants are battles won, but by the Lord's decision for those who deserve it.."
If this experiment had added an actor who purported to be a subject expert - like, say, a doctor wearing a lab coat - I’m sure the group would have given even more weight to this alleged expert’s opinions and conclusions.
(This is why one conclusion of Event 201 brainstorming sessions identified the importance of getting doctors' groups to recommend "safe and effective" vaccines. Research had proven that doctors are the most-trusted professionals.)
That doctors are the most-trusted professionals needs some investigation in itself. It has always mystified me, given their absolutely abysmal track record.
I suppose the medical profession has been purposely promoted by some group to serve their purposes. Probably the pharmaceutical industry.
Thank you for all your work Bill - you are THE foremost researcher on early spread in my mind.
I served on a jury once when I was the lone hold out twice, and by the third deliberation the whole jury voted with me.
It was so weird - I knew the young man on trial was not guilty of what they were charging him with, and everyone else knew it too. But the prosecutor said we had to "Follow the letter of the law or be found in contempt of court".
Well, that scared me a lot because I knew "the letter of the law" conflicted with the truth, and that no matter what, I had to follow my conscience....… (I was threatened with some sort of dire punishment I can’t recall, for not following that “Letter” of that “Law”).
The funny thing is, the prosecutor had thought I was a shoe in for the prosecution because my identity was similar to the plaintiff - a mother of young boys.
To this day, I am thrilled about how I eventually swayed the entire rest of the jury (while being quite unsure of myself), because that young man went on to save a man's life here in our small town.
And that young man had been far from innocent of drinking too much and being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I believed him innocent of any serious crime when no one else did.
I have to credit my mother for teaching me to always stand my ground ESPECIALLY when all alone, and God for showing me that I never am.
Wow. What a story and thanks for the nice compliment.
Have you seen the Netflix documentary "American Nightmare?" I just watched it. It's terrifying. The local cops and the FBI accused two people of crimes they didn't commit. They thought a kidnapping and rape victim was emulating the character in "Gone Girl." Before that, they thought her boyfriend had murdered her.
Nobody paid any consequences for being completely wrong and for not going after the real rapist and kidnapper. One of the awful detectives was named "officer of the year."
Bottom-line: The cops and prosecutors do sometimes get it terribly wrong - and they never face any consequences. (The press also bought the lies).
We actually got to know the youngish prosecutor a few years later - and I could see then, how he could view a "case" as something to "win". He wasn't a bad guy, seemed to have some scruples... but he definitely could intimidate a juror, or two, or twelve(!)
Turned out he and the local public defender were BEST FRIENDS outside of court - played sports together, shared family get togethers etc.
We ended up liking them both, though the public defender wasn't quite the jock the prosecutor was.......interestingly, they both died within 5 years of each other before they reached their mid fifties.
I thought that was weird.
I read your account of "American Nightmare" on your post, thanks for writing about it. We gave up on Netflix 2 years ago - so I really appreciate people's synopses!
Thank you again for all your work, you are one of a handful I pay attention to.
One might think Netflix is another "woke" or politically-correct mega company and they might be, but the company has actually produced some really interesting and good documentaries.
Thanks again for the compliments and for reading my articles. I like the Reader Comments for fascinating posts like yours!
Thank you for this. At the risk of seeming like a pushy broad...can you please find out why us 20 percent ARE the way we are? Born that way? Trauma? I want to know why I am the way I am....its pretty lonely some days. Athough I am grateful I am not a herd follower, it seems to me that people who follow the herd have a worry free/anger free/let's just enjoy kinda life...and sometimes I am envious.
The author I reference in my article actually talks about this in his interview with Del Bigtree. He says there's a trait or a different, better-developed chemical (?) system in one tiny part of our brains. Per his theory (if I got it right), the mad scientists are trying to manipulate this feature with the dad-blasted vaccines.
For my part, I just think it's a lifetime of conditioning and self-education - and some genetics passed down from our parents.
In the past, I've taken a couple of these Internet personality/psychology quizzes. Not surprisingly, I'm the acute "contrarian" - which I think I was told puts me in about the 5 percent (not 20 percent) of the population. I remember one test that told me what Group I fell into and the response then told me, "This is good. This trait might not make you popular at parties .... but the world does need some contrarians."
How fascinating. thank you! I don't think I'm a rare contrarian...but sometimes I think I have Late Onset Oppostional Defiance Disorder :-)
I will definitely watch....I am so glad I didn't take the vax (wasn't gonna at any point (once I found out about the Mnra experiments that for 10 years, all the animals died). Which thanks to Dr. Lee Merritt, I learned early.
I was already primed as I work with vaccine injured kids...and knew that overall, vaccines will damage the young, so it makes sense they are also damaging us old people too.
For my part, I just trusted the Law of Opposite Effects. I knew that whatever the experts and officials said was the truth ... this was a lie. If they said this would "protect me" I knew the opposite must be true - this shot would/could "harm" me. I also knew it wouldn't even be "effective." I knew this because I knew the flu shots aren't effective.
Much of my writing benefits from this Law. I know what's not the truth by simply observing what the experts say is the truth. One also knows there must be a huge effort to cover-up the truth.
Well then I have to agree we need more contrarians! I think I will try to be one for a while and see what happens....I like the law of opposite effects as I find it to be similiar to the Law of Good Intentions (leading to hell).
At times, I feel the same. I think I was born this way. I was pretty ill and docile as a child, but still held my ground when I was right, even when coerced. Yes, I ruffle some feathers. I didn't know there was any other way to be until I saw so many seemingly afraid to even look for truth.
Lonely sometimes, yes. Depressing, yes. I do have strong emotions too, so it's hard to keep them in.check w things like we are facing today, or for me it is. I learn to meter reactions..lol, but true! You'll find who just can't talk about it and those who are curious. Then, the passionate about truth ones, who are the few.
I regularly hear that we were born for just these times and holding close to God will see us through. I believe that, and I want to.
I had sisters who wanted to dictate My life, as a sickly child, and I let them, until it seemed unreasonable for me. They couldn't understand my autonomy and new found self assertive, managing my own life me. Yes, they withdrew. A little name calling, a little testing, mostly silence, saying I am rude.
I don't mind. I live my life, not theirs.
I once heard a quote that I like to share "know who you are, or someone will tell you.." I don't know the author. It's true!
You hang in there. There seem to be just a few of us- find your people, who aren't always your family.
You know, I was picked on by my sisters also...I get it. Thanks for what you shared. Makes me feel a bit better....and yes, I feel I am holding closer to God nowadays, and I do hope I will live long enough to see all the old shibboleths broken.
So sorry for what is happening in Australia. We are in a worldwide battle for our souls. Amazing to be living now. I hope we are up to it. I pray for you and all of us.
This is great. I had forgotten about that experiment. It is hopeful and I do see things moving in that direction with much more awareness about WEF, WHO, Hollywood, deep state/MSM concerted lies, climate, etc.
What is also interesting is that not only are some us immune to propaganda, some of it outright disgusted me (think Steven Colbert and the vaccine diddies 🙄). I remember being shocked at the time about the censorship of Hunter’s laptop and the 51 intelligence officials that claimed it was Russian propaganda. And that Time Magazine article about them “fortifying” the election...that was basically a brag, victory lap, and admission of election interference. And, crickets. Nothing shocks me anymore though.
Great article. Thanks for what you are doing, Bill.
Thanks, Arden. Good anecdotes. One that stands out to me is how 100 percent of the MSM is covering up the fact "Joe Biden" has ever-worsening dementia. I also KNOW that every single person who works in the White House (and every politician in D.C. and probably the world) also knows this. And they all refuse to do anything or say anything about this.
When I say "100 percent of all important organizations are completely captured," I mean it.
Right. They have lost all credibility. Circus show, some say. Yes, I agree. The chaos any mayhem! Now, how much are we paying them? And life-long benefits? That needs to be rolled back-it attracts the thugs
If anyone knows what terrible cognitive issues Joe Biden's suffering from, it's his wife. I still remember about two years ago, Biden went to some leader summit in Europe. He then wondered off from the reception room and his wife found him not knowing where he was in some restaurant/bar. She grabbed his hand and brought him back to the group.
The White House staffers recruited the Easter Bunny to keep him from wandering off where he could be asked questions of reporters or citizens. The Easter Bunny pulled him back away from trouble/exposure.
It's a non-stop, 24-7 operation to protect him - involving hundreds of people!
I also saw those incidents (how many more that we haven’t seen?). I always wish there would be one solid week where no one escorts him on and off stage, or leads him around by the hand (literally!), or interrupt when he loses his train of thought…in other words, stops covering for him so that the country could see him as he really is. Which is our right, as he is the president. Won’t ever happen, of course.
This really bothers me. I'm sorry he has dementia, but what bothers me is nobody can talk about the obvious. The "watchdog press" doesn't even care that the man with nuclear bomb codes doesn't know where he is for stretches of time.
If they can't or won't report this "story," what other stories are they not reporting?
There's probably a lot of sayings and cliches that make this same point. The whole house of cards could crumble in a hurry if the right people did the right things.
The experiment also explains recent hostility toward whistle blowers. And why the holocaust and Armenian genocides started with killing intellectuals, the thought leaders.
Me too. I learned to love them in the 1970s watching the old Ted Turner Super Station black and white movies with my late father. He called them the "good old goodies."
Excellent commentary on the current situation. We all need to take our courage in both hands and risk being mocked, criticised, excluded etc but only the truth will set us all free. Speak up and sleep well knowing that you may have persuaded someone else to question the official narrative and the vested interests promoting it.
Yea! That's the most-plausible "cure" or "solution" ... if this happens. We're all just trying to influence people and organizations that possess the real influence ... and power.
Wonderful. Thank you Bill for putting into words what I have been feeling. My whole life. I always wondered why I never went along or had a desire to follow the masses of kids in school. I always did my own thing (I was not the paste eater in the corner, either) and didn't care what others thought. I think it was a rehearsal for The Big Show. And..thank you to my very skeptical dad who passed on an extra helping of the Foxtrot Yankee internal support system.
I was always the same way in school, Sadie. I asked questions in class, some that challenged what my teachers were saying. The thing is I never remember being rebuked for asking questions. My curiosity and contributions to classroom discussions were actually applauded or encouraged. "There's no such thing as a bad question" was what I was always taught.
Skip forward a couple of decades and I now know that this is no longer the case.
I should have asked a lot more questions ... earlier though. Many truisms I thought were true - I now know weren't.
I was a quiet and sickly child. I never asked questions...in grammar school.
When I did get to college I read outside of homework, I talked about the subject matter w others who might know, I was engaged. In class also. Not argumentative, but trying to get my question answered. I was told if I ever bring these questions up or talk about them at work I will be fired. It was about gmo foods and those papers written about the mrna and harm in them. Apparently, we, in Dietetics, wasn't suppose to question. The other students were graduating, I was the last. My instructor brought in the Chair head and they both grilled me, as I went to the Association to ask what else I can do with this unfinished degree. They reported it to the Chair and told her they could not do that. I was in trouble. Didn't scare me though..somehow. Just speak truth. I did get to finish the program. It pays to face the bullies. (They think) your power diminishes if you don't.
You made me just think it must be more nurture than nature. Neither hubby or I were go along with what everyone is doing people, and raised both kids to listen to their own guts, follow the beats of their own drummers as well, which they both did. It made for lonlier times for them in today's day and age, until they could find others more like them.
I did taste the paste..lol. When nobody was looking, to see what the fuss was all about. I once snagged a friend's cigarette while she and the gang went for a walk. I had to see why they all liked it. It was terrible! Then, I understood it wasn't for the taste
Read this post just after watching Javier Milei's address at Davos.
Has a Western leader offered such an unapologetic renunciation of collectivism and such a strong defense of free markets and liberty since Reagan/Thatcher?
BTW, look at that picture from the actors in Twelve Angry Men. I recognize all of them. They either later became stars or had long and successful careers as character actors.
Yes. Each and every actor in that movie was brilliant in the depiction of their character.
I think this was first a play that was adapted into a film. It actually seems like a play. It's rare that you see a movie or a play with so many strong or compelling characters.
Started as a teleplay in 1954, then was a play on broadway 50 years later. I’ve watched the movie numerous times.
Okay. Thanks for the info. It's like "Casablanca," which I think is the best screenplay ever. From what I've read, Casablanca's script was adapted from an un-produced play.
It only takes 3.5 percent of the population to act in an active and sustained way for governments to integrate that change or disintegrate entirely.
See Erica Chenoweth's 2013 Tedx Talk and page 676 of Feargus O'Connor's book 180 Degrees: Unlearn the Lies You've Been taught to believe.
THEY(THE HIERARCHY THAT EXPLOITS YOU) utterly fear unity and enlightenment in a population." Feargus O'Connor
The disgust we feel when we find out how badly we have been lied to is unifying.
"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are anger and courage. Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way they ought to be." -att. St. Augustine
Man, I like this.
180 Degrees: Unlearn The Lies You've Been Taught To Believe https://a.co/d/3fOucBd
One of my favorite books was by former Washington Post and Newsweek columnist Robert J. Samuelson. The title is "Untruth: How conventional wisdom is almost always wrong."
That book had a tremendous influence on me as its title explains just about everything. Almost every article or essay I write is trying to show or prove that some element of "conventional wisdom" is either wrong or at least dubious.
That one is still sitting on my shelf unread. Bought it in May. So much to read.
Check this passage from 180 Degrees: Unlearn the Lies You've Been Taught to Believe.
"To cling to the past is guaranteed suicide. To remain apathetic is assured enslavement. To learn the truth and then act on it is the only means of survival at this moment." Bill Cooper
Keep speaking out with all you've got Bill.
If you go to Amazon, you might still be able to read my review of Samuelson's book - from 25 years ago! I don't think many people - or enough people - read the book.
You are the fourth review here: https://www.amazon.com/Untruth-Conventional-Wisdom-Almost-Always/dp/0812991648/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1Z3DINLZ200HX&keywords=Robert+J.+Samuelson&qid=1705647353&sprefix=robert+j.+samuelson+%2Caps%2C137&sr=8-2
This one sentence particularly resonates with me: “To remain apathetic is assured enslavement.” So many people seem to believe the opposite…that if they do nothing, ‘it’ll all just go away’.
I wake up sometimes from a deep sleep and feel like we are living in Germany in the 1930s. I'm going to keep talking to everyone whether they listen or not.
I think right now more than 3% are actively resisting the stupidity, but the 99% are all getting their news from the matrix so they don’t hear about the 3%.
According to a recent Rasmussen poll, a majority of the population now believes the vaccines are NOT "safe and effective" as 53 percent say they know people they think have been harmed or killed by these injections.
So, the "kooks" are not some fringe, wacko minority any more. Alas, this doesn't matter as 100 percent of the important truth-seeking organizations and "leaders" still think this (or act like they do).
We've got to get a majority of the people and organizations who actually matter to think like many of us do.
Yes, but note this is an anonymous poll, so only a tiny percentage of this 53% are willing to speak out and resist, I’m afraid.
I'm actually surprised a pollster as well-known as Rasmussen even asked this question in a poll. He's the only well-known pollster who has ... and the MSM (of course) doesn't report on the findings of this particular poll question ... which is yet another "tell" about our captured MSM.
Send them to https://patrick.net/memes
Yes,I will send them there for sure!
I look forward to your emails and share regularly 🙌
Happy to hear that!
Thanks, I just ordered 180 Degrees: Unlearn The Lies You've Been Taught To Believe.
If an old dog like me can finally wake up and then wake others up you sure as heck can. Regardless whether we can though we have to try our best. Good on you for trying. Thank you for the effort and encouragement.
Thanks, but I have been pretty much awake on a wide variety of issues since 2007 :)
But I ordered the book, to make sure I don't miss any blind spots, and I am sure it will help with that. Or just verify that I got all bases covered.
Good for you for figuring things out so long ago. I was slow but been reading everything I can find since 2020. There are multiple new things to me in this book but the most startling is the systemic pedophilia and satanic child abuse being covered up.
Nick Bryant has covered this on https://www.franklinscandal.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/@nickbryant8580/.
I love St Augustines quote!
I’m part of that 20% and proud of it.
Me too. This study probably quantifies how many of "us" there are ... from a scientific study!
Thanks Bill!
This post makes me yet more convinced that I am not wasting my time by posting daily memes which oppose the group-think narrative forced down our throats by the comically corrupt corporate media every day.
Thank you for what you are doing. It's a team effort. Who knows which one of us will finally reach "the right person."
Thanks Bill, I can definitely use the encouragement, since a lot of my relatives and former friends think I have lost my mind.
Pretty sure I haven't though.
Tell them to watch "Twelve Angry Men" and think about the message/theme of that movie.
I just watched a great documentary on Netflix ("American Nightmare.") It's about a lady who was kidnapped in California and the police and FBI first were certain her boyfriend killed her. She then turned up alive and they were convinced she'd masterminded the whole bizarre plot just like the main character in "Gone Girl." But they were both telling the truth the whole time.
The press didn't believe them either ... One lady police detective from another police department finally proved she had been kidnapped (and raped) just like they both said all along. That one cop was the person who "changed the narrative" and "proved" the truth. So that's the type official we have to reach.
Just started watching that documentary. I remember this incident and at the time it was hard not to believe it was a hoax because that’s the narrative that was being pushed by the police and the press. Even the reporter in the documentary admits he fell for the hoax narrative. A great example of what you’re describing in your article
At least that reporter admitted he was wrong and feels bad about it. No reporter will do the same thing on Covid topics or any story they got completely wrong. Finish the documentary when you have time. It has a happy ending! Kind of. The guilty/incompetent cops weren't punished.
As someone who was in law enforcement for 33 years, those cops in Vallejo were an embarrassment. I’m surprised Detective Mustard wasn’t promoted to “Colonel Mustard.”
In the study.
With a wrench.
I'd like to tell them to watch that, but I've been ostracized by some to the point where they simply don't answer any email or call for me. All because of my memes, which challenge their dearly held hatred of anything which contradicts the corporate-leftist narrative.
I do think the tide is perceptibly turning though, and I hope that people who are standing up to speak the truth are the ones turning it.
Please keep doing what you are doing. My children refuse to speak to me because of my newly changed position on vaccines, among other reasons. I feel like the sacrifice is worth it. What kind of man would I be if I kept my mouth shut just to get along?
Your post makes me wonder if all our loved ones who abandoned us will change their thoughts IF the truth is ever definitively proven. If this happens to some families, that would be another great reason to expose the truth. It will repair rifts in families.
Mine too! I don't care. Even my best friend, who is now suffering from heart failure like symptoms, tachycardia, SOB and weakness. Had to quit her job and may need another heart surgery. Taking lots of meds...it'll suck you in!
This friend, unfortunately, has a daughter (a homeopathic dr) who still recommends it, along w her own dr. At this point, Dr's should know what is transpiring. Seems they ate now complicit if still pushing them
The ER doc in my family is a senior doc at a teaching hospital. He just had his booster + flu jab then recommended it to his 26 year old son over the mother's objections.
Who do you think the son was going to listen to? His dad the doctor, of course.
Now this son is suffering side effects.
No communcation with this doc any longer otherwise I would inquire how he's witnessing so many young people with serious conditions not normally associated with their age and still has no questions about the jab. He actually told me at the height of covid that he doesn't mind putting the unvaxxed on ventilators since, "We were causing the pandemic."
With all of the above, can one become more indoctrinated than this?
You have to realize that being right necessarily implies that a lot of your relatives and former friends should think you have lost your mind. Otherwise you would be part of the herd.
Unfortunately it is a necessary condition only. There is always the possibility that you have lost your mind and are not right.
This is the purpose of these substacks, to prove ourselves that we are in the former situation and not the latter.
Yes, it must be so. Seeing things differently from the corporate media which they all believe in does mean that I'm the one who is denying their reality. Their reality seems consistent in itself, because they never look beyond CNN, etc, which is 100% parroting the "safe and effective" message even now. They definitely do not read Substack.
You seem perfectly sane to me. :)
Another great example of a few people bringing about sudden change is iNicolae Ceausescu, the former communist dictator of Romania, who was summarily executed shortly after a spontaneous riot during one of his speeches in a public square. If I remember correctly, one or two people started yelling from the crowd and he was completely overwhelmed by a stampede of people. Things can turn around quickly when enough people wake up. I remember feeling extremely discouraged when I realized my country wanted to send me to Vietnam to possibly die in a god forsaken jungle. Thankfully that war ended before I turned 18, but I never trusted out government from that moment forward. In retrospect, resisting all the garbage we’re dealing with right now has been easier. We will get through this.
That's what I think all of our leaders - and Deep State leaders - fear - The Ceasescu fate. Mussolini too, right?
I just watched a segment on the Romonov Dynasty that lasted so long. He lived in such luxury while the people were starving. He paid no mind.
It was said that he fled the palace and hid out. During this time he was hunted down and executed.
I was watching The Great Courses- Communism. Looks quite a lot like the playbook to bring in communism. For all those who do not understand the heavy hand of communism (and always a falibility), including the culling of the people to more manageable numbers- just enough to get the work done, I suggest doing some reading or even video watching of documentaries of true events- from reputable sources, of course.
"Not by strong armies or elephants are battles won, but by the Lord's decision for those who deserve it.."
Cutting Room Floor text ...
If this experiment had added an actor who purported to be a subject expert - like, say, a doctor wearing a lab coat - I’m sure the group would have given even more weight to this alleged expert’s opinions and conclusions.
(This is why one conclusion of Event 201 brainstorming sessions identified the importance of getting doctors' groups to recommend "safe and effective" vaccines. Research had proven that doctors are the most-trusted professionals.)
That doctors are the most-trusted professionals needs some investigation in itself. It has always mystified me, given their absolutely abysmal track record.
I suppose the medical profession has been purposely promoted by some group to serve their purposes. Probably the pharmaceutical industry.
Medical Industrial Complex. Forf Industreeaw Rebowution
Maybe. But not anymore.
Thank you for all your work Bill - you are THE foremost researcher on early spread in my mind.
I served on a jury once when I was the lone hold out twice, and by the third deliberation the whole jury voted with me.
It was so weird - I knew the young man on trial was not guilty of what they were charging him with, and everyone else knew it too. But the prosecutor said we had to "Follow the letter of the law or be found in contempt of court".
Well, that scared me a lot because I knew "the letter of the law" conflicted with the truth, and that no matter what, I had to follow my conscience....… (I was threatened with some sort of dire punishment I can’t recall, for not following that “Letter” of that “Law”).
The funny thing is, the prosecutor had thought I was a shoe in for the prosecution because my identity was similar to the plaintiff - a mother of young boys.
To this day, I am thrilled about how I eventually swayed the entire rest of the jury (while being quite unsure of myself), because that young man went on to save a man's life here in our small town.
And that young man had been far from innocent of drinking too much and being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I believed him innocent of any serious crime when no one else did.
I have to credit my mother for teaching me to always stand my ground ESPECIALLY when all alone, and God for showing me that I never am.
Wow. What a story and thanks for the nice compliment.
Have you seen the Netflix documentary "American Nightmare?" I just watched it. It's terrifying. The local cops and the FBI accused two people of crimes they didn't commit. They thought a kidnapping and rape victim was emulating the character in "Gone Girl." Before that, they thought her boyfriend had murdered her.
Nobody paid any consequences for being completely wrong and for not going after the real rapist and kidnapper. One of the awful detectives was named "officer of the year."
Bottom-line: The cops and prosecutors do sometimes get it terribly wrong - and they never face any consequences. (The press also bought the lies).
We actually got to know the youngish prosecutor a few years later - and I could see then, how he could view a "case" as something to "win". He wasn't a bad guy, seemed to have some scruples... but he definitely could intimidate a juror, or two, or twelve(!)
Turned out he and the local public defender were BEST FRIENDS outside of court - played sports together, shared family get togethers etc.
We ended up liking them both, though the public defender wasn't quite the jock the prosecutor was.......interestingly, they both died within 5 years of each other before they reached their mid fifties.
I thought that was weird.
I read your account of "American Nightmare" on your post, thanks for writing about it. We gave up on Netflix 2 years ago - so I really appreciate people's synopses!
Thank you again for all your work, you are one of a handful I pay attention to.
One might think Netflix is another "woke" or politically-correct mega company and they might be, but the company has actually produced some really interesting and good documentaries.
Thanks again for the compliments and for reading my articles. I like the Reader Comments for fascinating posts like yours!
Excellent comment. Thanks for sharing, Jill.
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Thank you for this. At the risk of seeming like a pushy broad...can you please find out why us 20 percent ARE the way we are? Born that way? Trauma? I want to know why I am the way I am....its pretty lonely some days. Athough I am grateful I am not a herd follower, it seems to me that people who follow the herd have a worry free/anger free/let's just enjoy kinda life...and sometimes I am envious.
The author I reference in my article actually talks about this in his interview with Del Bigtree. He says there's a trait or a different, better-developed chemical (?) system in one tiny part of our brains. Per his theory (if I got it right), the mad scientists are trying to manipulate this feature with the dad-blasted vaccines.
For my part, I just think it's a lifetime of conditioning and self-education - and some genetics passed down from our parents.
In the past, I've taken a couple of these Internet personality/psychology quizzes. Not surprisingly, I'm the acute "contrarian" - which I think I was told puts me in about the 5 percent (not 20 percent) of the population. I remember one test that told me what Group I fell into and the response then told me, "This is good. This trait might not make you popular at parties .... but the world does need some contrarians."
How fascinating. thank you! I don't think I'm a rare contrarian...but sometimes I think I have Late Onset Oppostional Defiance Disorder :-)
I will definitely watch....I am so glad I didn't take the vax (wasn't gonna at any point (once I found out about the Mnra experiments that for 10 years, all the animals died). Which thanks to Dr. Lee Merritt, I learned early.
I was already primed as I work with vaccine injured kids...and knew that overall, vaccines will damage the young, so it makes sense they are also damaging us old people too.
For my part, I just trusted the Law of Opposite Effects. I knew that whatever the experts and officials said was the truth ... this was a lie. If they said this would "protect me" I knew the opposite must be true - this shot would/could "harm" me. I also knew it wouldn't even be "effective." I knew this because I knew the flu shots aren't effective.
Much of my writing benefits from this Law. I know what's not the truth by simply observing what the experts say is the truth. One also knows there must be a huge effort to cover-up the truth.
Well then I have to agree we need more contrarians! I think I will try to be one for a while and see what happens....I like the law of opposite effects as I find it to be similiar to the Law of Good Intentions (leading to hell).
Duchess, I feel the same.
At times, I feel the same. I think I was born this way. I was pretty ill and docile as a child, but still held my ground when I was right, even when coerced. Yes, I ruffle some feathers. I didn't know there was any other way to be until I saw so many seemingly afraid to even look for truth.
Lonely sometimes, yes. Depressing, yes. I do have strong emotions too, so it's hard to keep them in.check w things like we are facing today, or for me it is. I learn to meter reactions..lol, but true! You'll find who just can't talk about it and those who are curious. Then, the passionate about truth ones, who are the few.
I regularly hear that we were born for just these times and holding close to God will see us through. I believe that, and I want to.
I had sisters who wanted to dictate My life, as a sickly child, and I let them, until it seemed unreasonable for me. They couldn't understand my autonomy and new found self assertive, managing my own life me. Yes, they withdrew. A little name calling, a little testing, mostly silence, saying I am rude.
I don't mind. I live my life, not theirs.
I once heard a quote that I like to share "know who you are, or someone will tell you.." I don't know the author. It's true!
You hang in there. There seem to be just a few of us- find your people, who aren't always your family.
You know, I was picked on by my sisters also...I get it. Thanks for what you shared. Makes me feel a bit better....and yes, I feel I am holding closer to God nowadays, and I do hope I will live long enough to see all the old shibboleths broken.
See my post below. Largely NTs I think. Type is innate.
All I can think about was standing outside a packed graduation stadium with one other person, denied entry because I was not injected.
On that day it was not 20%. It was 0.04%.
Now, digital ID is in Australia supported by all the major food distributors. https://lettersfromaustralia.substack.com/p/digital-id-one-more-bar-of-the-control
I am the 0.04%.
Man. Well, that makes you even more special! Hang tough.
So sorry for what is happening in Australia. We are in a worldwide battle for our souls. Amazing to be living now. I hope we are up to it. I pray for you and all of us.
That's insanity beyond measure
This is great. I had forgotten about that experiment. It is hopeful and I do see things moving in that direction with much more awareness about WEF, WHO, Hollywood, deep state/MSM concerted lies, climate, etc.
What is also interesting is that not only are some us immune to propaganda, some of it outright disgusted me (think Steven Colbert and the vaccine diddies 🙄). I remember being shocked at the time about the censorship of Hunter’s laptop and the 51 intelligence officials that claimed it was Russian propaganda. And that Time Magazine article about them “fortifying” the election...that was basically a brag, victory lap, and admission of election interference. And, crickets. Nothing shocks me anymore though.
Great article. Thanks for what you are doing, Bill.
Thanks, Arden. Good anecdotes. One that stands out to me is how 100 percent of the MSM is covering up the fact "Joe Biden" has ever-worsening dementia. I also KNOW that every single person who works in the White House (and every politician in D.C. and probably the world) also knows this. And they all refuse to do anything or say anything about this.
When I say "100 percent of all important organizations are completely captured," I mean it.
Those in the MSM and White House have zero integrity. None. I doubt they know the meaning of the word.
They’ve clearly demonstrated this, over and over.
Right. They have lost all credibility. Circus show, some say. Yes, I agree. The chaos any mayhem! Now, how much are we paying them? And life-long benefits? That needs to be rolled back-it attracts the thugs
And watching Jill Biden is so disturbing. I guess because she’s closer to him than anyone. She sure is good at being a phony.
If anyone knows what terrible cognitive issues Joe Biden's suffering from, it's his wife. I still remember about two years ago, Biden went to some leader summit in Europe. He then wondered off from the reception room and his wife found him not knowing where he was in some restaurant/bar. She grabbed his hand and brought him back to the group.
The White House staffers recruited the Easter Bunny to keep him from wandering off where he could be asked questions of reporters or citizens. The Easter Bunny pulled him back away from trouble/exposure.
It's a non-stop, 24-7 operation to protect him - involving hundreds of people!
I also saw those incidents (how many more that we haven’t seen?). I always wish there would be one solid week where no one escorts him on and off stage, or leads him around by the hand (literally!), or interrupt when he loses his train of thought…in other words, stops covering for him so that the country could see him as he really is. Which is our right, as he is the president. Won’t ever happen, of course.
This really bothers me. I'm sorry he has dementia, but what bothers me is nobody can talk about the obvious. The "watchdog press" doesn't even care that the man with nuclear bomb codes doesn't know where he is for stretches of time.
If they can't or won't report this "story," what other stories are they not reporting?
Is "our president has dementia" not a story?
I am also reminded of this verse:
”Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.“
Ecclesiastes 4:12 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/ecc.4.12.NIV
There's probably a lot of sayings and cliches that make this same point. The whole house of cards could crumble in a hurry if the right people did the right things.
Thank you for rekindling my hope! ❤️🙏🏻✨
The experiment also explains recent hostility toward whistle blowers. And why the holocaust and Armenian genocides started with killing intellectuals, the thought leaders.
I write for the same reason:
https://open.substack.com/pub/thecriticalmiddle/p/letting-san-francisco-go-part-2
Pol Pot did the same in Cambodia.
Viva la 20%
If you want to watch 12 Angry Men, it's in the Internet Archives site:
https://archive.org/details/12AngryMen1957
And yes, I love old movies.
Me too. I learned to love them in the 1970s watching the old Ted Turner Super Station black and white movies with my late father. He called them the "good old goodies."
This might be my favorite Hank Fonda movie.
I was in America for some of that time - I loved that channel!
Thanks!
Excellent commentary on the current situation. We all need to take our courage in both hands and risk being mocked, criticised, excluded etc but only the truth will set us all free. Speak up and sleep well knowing that you may have persuaded someone else to question the official narrative and the vested interests promoting it.
Yea! That's the most-plausible "cure" or "solution" ... if this happens. We're all just trying to influence people and organizations that possess the real influence ... and power.
Wonderful. Thank you Bill for putting into words what I have been feeling. My whole life. I always wondered why I never went along or had a desire to follow the masses of kids in school. I always did my own thing (I was not the paste eater in the corner, either) and didn't care what others thought. I think it was a rehearsal for The Big Show. And..thank you to my very skeptical dad who passed on an extra helping of the Foxtrot Yankee internal support system.
I was always the same way in school, Sadie. I asked questions in class, some that challenged what my teachers were saying. The thing is I never remember being rebuked for asking questions. My curiosity and contributions to classroom discussions were actually applauded or encouraged. "There's no such thing as a bad question" was what I was always taught.
Skip forward a couple of decades and I now know that this is no longer the case.
I should have asked a lot more questions ... earlier though. Many truisms I thought were true - I now know weren't.
I was a quiet and sickly child. I never asked questions...in grammar school.
When I did get to college I read outside of homework, I talked about the subject matter w others who might know, I was engaged. In class also. Not argumentative, but trying to get my question answered. I was told if I ever bring these questions up or talk about them at work I will be fired. It was about gmo foods and those papers written about the mrna and harm in them. Apparently, we, in Dietetics, wasn't suppose to question. The other students were graduating, I was the last. My instructor brought in the Chair head and they both grilled me, as I went to the Association to ask what else I can do with this unfinished degree. They reported it to the Chair and told her they could not do that. I was in trouble. Didn't scare me though..somehow. Just speak truth. I did get to finish the program. It pays to face the bullies. (They think) your power diminishes if you don't.
You made me just think it must be more nurture than nature. Neither hubby or I were go along with what everyone is doing people, and raised both kids to listen to their own guts, follow the beats of their own drummers as well, which they both did. It made for lonlier times for them in today's day and age, until they could find others more like them.
Sounds like my neighbors. I always thought well of them, and their girls were so well adjusted.
I did taste the paste..lol. When nobody was looking, to see what the fuss was all about. I once snagged a friend's cigarette while she and the gang went for a walk. I had to see why they all liked it. It was terrible! Then, I understood it wasn't for the taste
Haha...Not even booze for the taste. I would drink for the way it made me feel, not because it was delish.
Read this post just after watching Javier Milei's address at Davos.
Has a Western leader offered such an unapologetic renunciation of collectivism and such a strong defense of free markets and liberty since Reagan/Thatcher?
https://youtu.be/y584SXZwhaQ?si=rofgC5wcaMLsiKXj
Maybe not. Maybe we should move to Argentina? Good luck to him.
I keep getting a site talking about housing loans..:(
Try this one. Start at the 4:00 mark.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Pfcd0gWNIog?si=-WfepiwJq7exISeQ