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Counterpropaganda's avatar

We took the liberty of translating this article into Spanish: https://counterpropaganda.substack.com/p/un-sistema-cerrado-todd-hayen

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Me 'n a Fenian's avatar

happy st paddy's. slainte! am i remiss in expecting an offering of words this evening?

peace

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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

Words? A new post? Tomorrow....

Had to put down our beloved Golden Retriever today...it has been a difficult day. Reminded of real life and how love is really the only truth in it. All the rest is distraction.

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Me 'n a Fenian's avatar

jeez that's hard. my sympathies. our chessy is 14 and has rough days. it approaches..... though 1 year old snodog could not be more stuffed with life. sadness and joy.

peace man

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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

Siberian Husky? That used to be “my breed” had about 6 of them in my day.

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Me 'n a Fenian's avatar

you had more than one? impressive. the intelligence juxtaposed against the wanton drama/imoronasie? the hair? the yap? that never stops? now, i do love the constant 'talking', but i found the first months a real challenge. as i'm writing the hobbit is trying to brush him. hilarious. need an audio reply slot to properly appreciate the fun.......... wheeeeeee! hahahaha lol.

take care.

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DT's avatar

“In few writers are Christian doctrine, experience and practice more happily balanced than John Newton. Few write with more simplicity, piety or power. Do not give yourselves up to party spirit. To live for a political party is unworthy of a man who professes to be a Christian.” Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)

My politics! (Letters of John Newton, 1778)

The whole system of my politics is summed up in this one verse, "The Lord reigns! Let the nations tremble!" Psalm 99:1

The times look awfully dark indeed; and as the clouds grow thicker — the stupidity of the nation seems proportionally to increase. If the Lord had not a remnant here, I would have very formidable apprehensions. But He loves His redeemed children; some are sighing and mourning before Him, and I am sure He hears their sighs, and sees their tears. I trust there is mercy in store for us at the bottom; but I expect a shaking time before things get into a right channel — before we are humbled, and are taught to give Him the glory.

The state of the nation, the state of the churches — both are deplorable! Those who should be praying — are disputing and fighting among themselves! Alas! how many professors are more concerned for the mistakes of government — than for their own sins!

Amazing grace! How sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now I see. None but He who made the world can make a Minister of the Gospel. If a young man has capacity, culture and application, it may make him a scholar, a philosopher, or an orator; but a true Minister must have certain principles, motives, feelings, and aims, which no industry or endeavors of men can either acquire or communicate. They must be given from above, or they cannot be received. I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master. We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to His glory and our own advantage. If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable." John Newton (1725-1807)

"Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns!" Revelation 19

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Dr. S. Ivory's avatar

The brains are long gone. Even if people drop dead in the immediate family, sheeple will not admit any connection. My father had a seizure three days after his booster, and ended up in the hospital for 5 weeks and then he died. No doctor, none of his grandchildren were willing to admit that there was the possibility of a connection. My daughter had a friend 32 years old drop dead of a heart attack, no reason, no connection made. These sheeple are Beyond stupid.

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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

I am so sorry about your father…my god that must be awful to deal with…

I actually think it is something beyond stupid…it is like Invasion of the Body Snatchers…something has been plucked out of these people’s brains.

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Yal NA's avatar

The take our eyes, our ears and our tongue, they want to take our legs and our stomach too, our sex organs as well. Now our brain. Bit by bit they take us over.

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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

Yep. Pretty soon they will be hunting us down for our literal organs...that will be our punishment for not getting vaccinated...our organs and our blood...literally.

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Ronnie's avatar

This terrifies me, but I do believe it will happen. It is like something from a sinister movie; it just can't be real -- but what doesn't feel like that these days?

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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

Well...it MAY not happen...all of this is very dynamic, events all along the way that could shift things radically. And some people will surely be able to protect themselves from the zombies.

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Ronnie's avatar

Yes, it MAY not happen... but it may. After seeing Trudeau get away with the Emergencies Act and now watching how he is set up to slide through another "inquiry" (re Chinese election interference) it is quite possible he will be in office until 2025. IF he is in office until then, he will have plenty of time to implement whatever agenda he wishes to.... beginning with censoring the internet in the very near future. Digital ID is to follow. Who can tell where things go after that. He did built COVID camps and instill vax passes.

Have you seen the new addition to the Income Tax forms this year? Benign.... for now. (IMO)

Q : "Do you authorize the CRA to provide my name and email address to the Government of Ontario for the purpose of being contacted or sent information about organ and tissue donation and to maintain the Organ and Tissue Donor Registry?"

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The Watchman's avatar

Great read, Todd. Linking once again @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

Thank you!!

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Mary R's avatar

Great article ! Can we please add the CBC to the list of mainstream media sources that is unreliable. They act of course as the public relations arm of the Liberal Government and Justin,s personal stenographers. Particularly troublesome as tax payers fund them to the tune of 1.3 billion dollars annually. My casual observations are that many independent news sources ( at least the ones I follow ) have seen dramatic increases in viewership / subscribers . Yes they are subject to censorship but many of the lead folks have found clever ways to manage this . At the same time a number of mainstream sources have experienced more than small drops in viewership. I think there is a growing ( albeit slow ) realization that mainstream news is agenda driven and untrustworthy.

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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

That would be nice, wouldn’t it? But that drop is probably due to shrews…I think sheep are sticking with the agenda.

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Darius's avatar

I lived in the USSR when it was on the last legs. I witnessed its fall. Soon after, back in Lithuania, I witnessed the birth of an independent media. They were brave journalists that went after corrupt politicians, police and organised crime. There were murders of journalists, bombs planted in the offices of newspapers. The new, independent media withstood the pressure. And then corporations moved in, bought the independent media and slowly but surly there was no independent media left.

The greed, corruption and apathy are universal. Sooner or later these sins take over. My fear is that alt media will sell out and will sing songs of their masters.

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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

Wow, what a story…when were you living in Russia? Obviously not during the revolution!!

It seems that the media is about the easiest thing to sell out…in a country like the US a free press is so ingrained in the country’s zeitgeist it took a while for it to crumble.

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Darius's avatar

Hey Todd, I am Lithuanian. We managed to get the independence back in 1990. You could say that Lithuania was the straw that broke the camel's back. After our overnight declaration of independence other Soviet republics followed suit. A year later Gorbachev sent tanks to take Lithuania back but he was too late, we knew what we want and lucky enough the USSR was on its last legs.

Today, the new generation forgot what it means to be free. They loved the lockdowns and masks on their faces while walking on the streets.

Humans have short memories and lack of self-responsibility.

Once free press, today it is the mouthpiece of neoliberal government that is ready to sell the freedom we got back to the highest bidder.

I don't live there anymore, I chose to live in the belly of the beast- The United Kingdom.

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Sylvia Shawcross's avatar

You know... we are on the same stream of consciousness i think. It's weird. Anyway, excellent article. I hold the MSM press more responsible for everything than any entity in this nightmare. They did not do their job. And worse.

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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

I have never experienced this "same stream of consciousness" thing to the degree I have experienced it over the past year, it IS weird. I just wrote down the title of a potential article, which I think it is a tad off the beaten path, and within minutes I scroll across a meme that illustrates the main point of the article..."Real truth cannot be told, it must be realized" the title of the article is "Bottom Up Decency"....I don't know if you will see the correlation but once you read the article you will. All these sorts of synchronicities are popping up everywhere...also with people..."great minds think alike."

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Sylvia Shawcross's avatar

yeah... its all very weird... maybe its AI directing our inclinations? Great minds think alike but fools seldom differ? Well that is what my mother would say.... lol

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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

We very well could be in the matrix....

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Sheila Dunphy's avatar

I personally believe we are drawing close to the end times where we will witness the World’s Kingdom & God’s Kingdom continue to sharply separate.

We know that we have God’s wisdom on our side & it says in the Bible that ‘strong delusions’ will affect those in the world’s kingdom.

Which we know who the world’s god is & that satan will show up as an Angel of light & fool many people.

I think we are witnessing the beginnings of strong delusions now.

Again this is my humble spiritual beliefs.

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Gwaihir's avatar

Balzac said "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime." William "Rosebud" Hearst knew the power of yellow journalism to create wealth, and the lesson has not been lost on predators like Bezos. Sadly, the Venn diagram overlap of common ground gets smaller every day as more and more people become cannon fodder for the propagandists. The ability to make informed decisions shrinks every day. People need quality information in order to make good decisions, but now they are spoon fed lies so their decisions are generally spectacularly wrong.

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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

A perfect point...I always reference back to Nazi German and Soviet Russia and how their propaganda machine led their march into totalitarianism. At the very least it keeps people perpetually confused. Russia had the advantage of supporting their arts...literature, music, art. Although they attempted to control it of course, great art always has a subjective element to it and "real" things seep out without "they" realizing it. I think the Nazi's did a better jub suppressing their artists...interested to think what other people think of this.

Read, or watch the weird Soviet movie, "Heart of a Dog" by Mikhail Bulgakov

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Freecus's avatar

The 'Overton Window' has existed for a very long time, we all need to question everything, but this can be unsettling & fear is the fuel of closed systems.

Fear can be displaced by one other emotion but many prefer their echo chambers.

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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

I am beginning to think it is not fear for most, it is apathy. Some people are horribly driven by fear...most of the people you still see in masks are driven by fear. And I think fear is the first step to apathy...once the fear gets people's attention, they then just follow the herd...they do what they need to do to stay on track with their basically uneventful lives with the prime directive of avoiding anything that disrupts them...no thinking allowed.

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Sheila Dunphy's avatar

I have been told by people who are into the New Age meditation religions that people should never talk about negative things because that draws negativity into your life?!?

That’s what the corrupt elite want, they want us to stick our heads in the sand, pretend that everything is fine & continue down the path to the destruction they have planned for us & our country in the near future?!

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Sheila Dunphy's avatar

Germany’s Klaus Schwab & his WEF (Nazism 2.0), has spent decades (since the 1970’s) placing their members in high places in governments worldwide for their plan of world domination & their OWO/NWO Regime.

They are behind the chaos & destruction of America & our Constitution & the targeting & censorship of Christians & Jews because we know the truth & won’t bow down to them or their evil agenda.

They promote the WHO, which is controlled by the CCP, and the UN which the majority were placed by the WEF or happy to partner with them to destroy America & Israel.

America & Israel were founded on Biblical principles & is why the Left Regime hates us the most.

We do not fear them regardless of what they say & do & we will not stay silent or bow down to them or their evil gods.

Forgive the long rant but this is the truth as I & many believe.

God bless you Todd for being brave enough to stand up & speak the truth & everyone that reads this & shares the truth you post.

🙏🏼🇺🇸🇮🇱🌍🌎🌏

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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

I am so happy you made this comment...you sum up so much here so succinctly...I agree with it all...thank you.

And thank you so much for the blessing...I need as much of that as I can get...God bless you too!!

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Sheila Dunphy's avatar

Thank you Todd for your comment of thanx & approval of my comment.

Sometimes I hesitate to comment because I don’t want to upset another writer’s followers if they happen to disagree but at the same time we should all share our thoughts & opinions because that’s how we learn & grow & debunk & support each other.

Love your articles.

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Abigail Starke's avatar

Why can’t reporters just report?

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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

Because of evil editors and media owners under the thumbs of the "elite"....we, the substack and alt news journalists, are the new breed (which used to include MSM journalists, as there have been many brave ones of the past) support them wherever you can! (you are now by reading this substack, and I am sure you read many others!!)

I think of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden and the ultimate sacrifice they have made.

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KW NORTON's avatar

Good points all. As you write the information flow is locked up tight by the media, by corporations and/or corporatists (Bezos), governments and institutions. Bezos, like Musk and other corporate hacks are also part of the "deep state". Mainstream media also has been made a part of this. What is interesting to me is how they all connect at the level of the unelected cheerleaders for all this at the level of the World Economic Forum. The tactics you cite are all part of the new planetary totalitarianism - the new Naziism. People seem to be averse to using this term but it is quite accurate.

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Todd Hayen, PhD, RP's avatar

Yeah, not sure why people are sensitive in citing Nazism in this discussion. It is a fascinating piece of history that describes so well humankind's propensity to readily get in line to oblivion.

I do often wonder how all this is organized...that's why I tend to think there is some central control higher up then KS and the WEF..Satan? Lizard people? Why not...however, it could all be a result of emergent property...which is equally mysterious...

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Sheila Dunphy's avatar

I believe satan is definitely controlling all the evil by using evil people in high places.

We’re warned about this happening especially the closer we get to the End Times.

My humble opinion is that satan knows his time is short & unfortunately the more our country kicks God out of everything, the more satan & his evil demons move in to take over whatever & whoever he can.

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KW NORTON's avatar

I think you are right that there are people overlording it over the WEF and clan. It seems to involve a great deal of pathological psychology. Psychological states seem so involved in totalitarianism - what ever the term used. It is difficult for people to understand just who they are fighting when the enemy is so diffuse and not effectively defined. We have to begin somewhere and our politicians seem to be little help. They like their political solutions.

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Madrigal-YYZ's avatar

If you want to go down a rather interesting rabbit hole, I stumbled across this substack a while ago. Not sure how much of this is true but it does provide a lot to ponder. Here is the address - https://prussiagate.substack.com/p/table-of-contents

Another great article, Todd.

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