There is a definite agenda in my opinion. Looking back and moving forward to present you can see the slow and steady nudge of where we find ourselves. Many are morally, ethically, spiritually bankrupt. And since the plandemic it has escalated. Trump is an easy target because 1) he does and says some weird questionable things and 2) because 'they' want us to find him to be an easy target. You have corrupt institutions and governments at all levels, the covid BS, the climate change BS, the mental illness, the drugs and excesses, the 'am I a male or a female or a little of both'? in the making, and the hypnotic trance of cellphones and devices all the while the mainstream media and institutions feed us this ballooned craziness every friggen hour. The world is mentally ill.
I hear that the Trump tariffs are to leverage national security concessions, e.g., better border enforcement to stem unvetted immigrants and fentanyl because both are harming the USA. Tariffs on bordering nations are paused while their response is evaluated.
I've heard the same national security priority for Greenland and the Panama canal. Apparently Panama has agreed to diminish the influence of communist China. I'd be unsurprised to learn that Denmark agreed to Western defense deals involving Greenland. Perplexity reports that while Denmark is a founding member of NATO, Denmark's role is limited. Trump might be seeking a greater mutual defense commitment from Denmark, commensurate with Denmark's control of Greenland, a strategic territory and resource asset.
Gaza appears another national security priority, e.g., to ensure that Iran loses regional influence and fails to acquire nuclear weapons. I was questioning why Trump would pressure Israel to relent with Hamas. Perhaps Trump and Netanyahu have a better plan to dethrone Hamas, a plan that might save blood and treasure, a plan that hinged on USA election results.
It surely is a buckle up, butter cup moment in history. We also have to know that one man or even a handful of men aren't going to protect us from the dark designs of other men. We must do what we can to impact our own fate. First is surrendering notions that we or any man is in control. God and God alone is.
Second is taking an active role in making our own lives and the lives of those closest to us and our community better, more resilient to outside forces and be the vision that others are drawn to, a competing vision of freedom and liberty that reminds others of the rights we are endowed with by our creator that no man can take from us. The whole "hearts yearning to be free" thing.
The past five years have called to question whether or not that inscription on the Statue of Liberty is still true. I would argue that it is, though what being free is has been made foggy for many. What can we do to make our idea of free stand out more clearly in the fog that more will be drawn back to it. Our challenge.
Re: tariffs
Lost in much of the rhetoric against the idea of tariffs is the fact that they do not exist in isolation. It isn't true the American consumers would pay more for imported items from other nations like Canada if tariffs are imposed. That's a static model of economy. In a dynamic model of economy other factors intervene. Like currency exchange rates. And that's where Americans have great advantage over Canadians. As tariffs are imposed the value of the US dollar goes up while the Canadian currency go down. Making Canadian goods less expensive. Add in the tariff pass-through and Americans end up paying the same as they were paying before, net outcome is a wash.
But for Canadians their prices would rise. The cost of US goods would go up AND the cost of Canadian retaliatory tariffs would be passed through. A tariff war would be disastrous for ordinary Canadians. In a dynamic economic model - which is the real world model. Not the "experts" in academic theoretical world static model - the model that's always wrong.
Which means Trump has a very strong hand and he knows it. Castreaux has a very weak hand but doesn't know it. This dynamic is how catastrophes are walked into. And Canadians would be wise to pressure their leaders to make the actually very reasonable concessions that Trump is asking for instead of reflexively opposing him. Unlike the global media and global TrumpHaters would have us believe so we push back against US tariffs and Trump's demands to stop Fentanyl and illegal immigration at the border Americans wouldn't feel a thing.
Thank you for this. Thanks for the explanation of tariffs in a dynamic economy. It is amazing to me how little most people know about most things...the Canadians I have spoken to about this don't know jack-shit about how it all works. Not a single one feels they should pressure Castreaux...all of their anger and hatred is levied against Trump first, and the US second.
I just heard two young Canadians tell me about a sporting event they just attended between a US team and a Canadian team, and how the whole stadium booed when they played the US national anthem. The company I was with when this story was told (all Canadians) were so thrilled. "Yes, Canadians are finally coming together and showing mutual support and hatred toward the US evil doers!! (Trump and the US).
That really upset me when I heard they booed the US national anthem. They sound like school kids. That is not showing Canadian support - that is showing ignorance. As a Canadian, I would have sung along with the American anthem.
Excellent, well-articulated, thought-provoking post, Todd.
For whatever it's worth, I'm NO fan of Trump...nor am I one of Biden, Harris, etc. I think they're all crooks and are puppets of the predator class. The next few years are going to be fascinating and troublesome.
It's hard to pin it on any one thing but the first thing that came to mind as I read your article is the lack of personal responsibility. My mind also went to lack of critical thinking, but I believe critical thinking is a key part of taking personal responsibility. Assigning blame can be a way of offloading personal responsibility and assigning blame to all the wrong things comes from a lack of critical thinking.
In an ideal world we wouldn't want elected and unelected bureaucrats making decisions for us. We wouldn't accept government indoctrination of our children, social engineering to effect equal outcomes, and all the other collectivist nonsense that's bringing down the west. But people have been trained to be taken care of and have abdicated personal responsibility, hence all of the crises you have listed.
It's so much easier to bleat "orange man bad" than to look at what role Canadians played in electing a government that has made this country unrecognizable. Dismantle the welfare state, make merit great again, teach personal responsibility in the home and in the schools, and maybe we have a chance. Keep up the finger pointing, expect the "experts" to know best and the government to keep us safe and it'll be a race to the bottom. Is the tide turning just a bit? Could we get the 30% non-compliance needed to derail the next scamdemic or equivalent? Perhaps in the US, but I'm not super hopeful about Canada.
I agree Canadasceptic. Today we don't encourage or even allow people to take personal responsibility for their actions and many are more than happy not to.
After reading a Nanos survey where 40% of Canadians are in favour of Mark Carney, the arch globalist, I said to myself “Oh Canada, what has become of thee”?. I have serious doubts about the tide turning in Canada. Far too many rely on government handouts and have done for years. The CPC needs to do a much better job of articulating it’s vision for the country but I think they are afraid to speak beyond the three or four pithy slogans they have as Trudeau and Co would they call them Trumpers.
I couldn't agree with you more. Canadians have no idea he's referred to as Mark Carnage in the UK after he helped destroy the country as the governor of the Bank of England. Canada is lost, though I can live a decent life here because my husband and I are 60 and we "made it" while Canada was still a going concern. However, we are permanent residents of Mexico and own a home there as part of our Plan B and diversification outside of Canada.
Nobody could be worse than Trudeau -- except maybe Jagmeet Singh -- but Poilievre was slow to speak out against the Covid crimes and waited until it was not quite so politically toxic to do so. But the bottom line is that I don't trust my fellow Canadians, a huge percentage of whom are employed directly or indirectly by government.
Too many in Canada are sucking on the government teat in one form or another. To quote Maggie Thatcher “socialism works well until you run out of other peoples money”. I question how long can Canada survive if our industrial base keeps getting cut while the size of government and the deficit keep getting increasing? Oh, I forgot. The economic genius we had for nine years told us that budgets balance themselves.
Part of the reason people are in favor of Mark Carney is most Canadians are watching the legacy media which are funded by the corporate media and the government. Look what happened during covid where the papers and television supported vaccinations and lock downs.
The pathological parent syndrome is definitely a huge part of this. People handing over their autonomy to the state, to mom and dad to take care of them because they are incapable, or simply do not want to bother, to take care of themselves.
You are right that this comes first, critical thinking goes into the dumpster next...if you never use your hands for anything, eventually they will whither away and fall off. If mom and dad take care of everything for you, your ability to take care of yourself, through critical thinking, whithers away.
Agree with your entire essay. We can do something about the last sentence. It WAS driving me crazy in 2020-2022. It felt eerily similar to the two years of my life after I read The Creature from Jekyll Island in 2004. We live in the "knowledge economy" where everyone thinks the know so much, but understand next to nothing. Of the thousands of people I've chatted with about monetary economics, big pharma, or our federal government as epic money laundering machine, I have awakened only one (confirmed). That's an abysmal record. So I stopped trying. I avoid going crazy by treating cocksure ignorance as comedy. I focus instead on actions I can take to insulate myself and family from the consequences. Most of my energy goes into building my local business and expanding my local network to include people who actually understand things and still believe "work" is a verb.
Like you, I gave up trying to flip sheep and got to work on my Plan B. Whatever life trajectory people are on it's theirs, and the odds of us interrupting it with facts they don't want to know is almost zero. If someone expresses doubts or opens the door then I will happily walk through, but I'm done trying to open closed minds. It's all about staying under the radar, protecting ourselves to the extent we can, and creating options.
Yes, trying to flip sheep is a futile activity. I never would have thought it would be this difficult, but it is impossible. Even when facts are right in front of them.
Sadly, I see anything horrendous in the OPEC region as being blamed on "the Jews", not "Palestine".
As to the overarching explanation, there are a theoretical and a pragmatic 'conspiratorial' underpinning to my views. The first is that of constructive empiricism: if one takes an entire set of data and constructs the simplest theory that accounts for all of it - no matter how outrageous! - it is likely to be correct. This is where atomic theory and all that come from (a set of seeming unrelated phenomena, in this case, 'tracks' of what may be surmised to be particles observed in a collider, that may be explained by a universe that is not directly observable but nonetheless accounts for data). The hugecrange of effects we ae seeing in every aspect of social existence are like these observed 'tracks', pointing to the only explanation that seems likely, the Globalist control and extermination agenda. Secondly, as to pragmatic real-world evidence, there is a study conducted by mathematicians from the Zurich Economics Institute which was pointed out to me by Karen Hudes, former legal counsel for the World Bank and whistleblower (in front of the European Parliament in 2008, since deceased under possibly mysterious circumstances). This study produced a mathematical model looking at the boards of directors of 40,000 MNCs, showing a clear Central Nexus of 147 entities which, at the time, could be seen to control 60% of the world's capital and upwards of 80% of the world's Capital flow. Since that time, due to covid and ensuing changes in the financial world, the same group seems to now have control of over 80% of the world's capital and pretty close to 100% of the world's Capital flow. Ergo, the idea of a global World Order is not only theoretically viable, but also experimentally demonstrable.
Sherlock Holmes outlined a very similar theory to Dr Watson in the Sign of Four. Watson he said, when you eliminate all other factors , whatever remains how much it may seem improbable has to be the truth.
I also forwarded this response to Naomi Wolf, making due reference to you,r Substack, name and article title, minus the sentence about Palestine. She wrote back right away
(!!!) to acknowledge this idea. I hope she follows up a bit, maybe with you ... wouldn't that be cool!
I used to have a dog that would look everywhere except where the squirrel was, probably because she was afraid to chase it. The same dog would hide under the bed anytime we cooked lamb, so she clearly had a lot of fear. That behaviour reminds me of most people. Fear and narrow mindedness are always a dangerous combination. And you are right, it does drive me crazy.
There is a definite agenda in my opinion. Looking back and moving forward to present you can see the slow and steady nudge of where we find ourselves. Many are morally, ethically, spiritually bankrupt. And since the plandemic it has escalated. Trump is an easy target because 1) he does and says some weird questionable things and 2) because 'they' want us to find him to be an easy target. You have corrupt institutions and governments at all levels, the covid BS, the climate change BS, the mental illness, the drugs and excesses, the 'am I a male or a female or a little of both'? in the making, and the hypnotic trance of cellphones and devices all the while the mainstream media and institutions feed us this ballooned craziness every friggen hour. The world is mentally ill.
I hear that the Trump tariffs are to leverage national security concessions, e.g., better border enforcement to stem unvetted immigrants and fentanyl because both are harming the USA. Tariffs on bordering nations are paused while their response is evaluated.
I've heard the same national security priority for Greenland and the Panama canal. Apparently Panama has agreed to diminish the influence of communist China. I'd be unsurprised to learn that Denmark agreed to Western defense deals involving Greenland. Perplexity reports that while Denmark is a founding member of NATO, Denmark's role is limited. Trump might be seeking a greater mutual defense commitment from Denmark, commensurate with Denmark's control of Greenland, a strategic territory and resource asset.
Gaza appears another national security priority, e.g., to ensure that Iran loses regional influence and fails to acquire nuclear weapons. I was questioning why Trump would pressure Israel to relent with Hamas. Perhaps Trump and Netanyahu have a better plan to dethrone Hamas, a plan that might save blood and treasure, a plan that hinged on USA election results.
It surely is a buckle up, butter cup moment in history. We also have to know that one man or even a handful of men aren't going to protect us from the dark designs of other men. We must do what we can to impact our own fate. First is surrendering notions that we or any man is in control. God and God alone is.
Second is taking an active role in making our own lives and the lives of those closest to us and our community better, more resilient to outside forces and be the vision that others are drawn to, a competing vision of freedom and liberty that reminds others of the rights we are endowed with by our creator that no man can take from us. The whole "hearts yearning to be free" thing.
The past five years have called to question whether or not that inscription on the Statue of Liberty is still true. I would argue that it is, though what being free is has been made foggy for many. What can we do to make our idea of free stand out more clearly in the fog that more will be drawn back to it. Our challenge.
Re: tariffs
Lost in much of the rhetoric against the idea of tariffs is the fact that they do not exist in isolation. It isn't true the American consumers would pay more for imported items from other nations like Canada if tariffs are imposed. That's a static model of economy. In a dynamic model of economy other factors intervene. Like currency exchange rates. And that's where Americans have great advantage over Canadians. As tariffs are imposed the value of the US dollar goes up while the Canadian currency go down. Making Canadian goods less expensive. Add in the tariff pass-through and Americans end up paying the same as they were paying before, net outcome is a wash.
But for Canadians their prices would rise. The cost of US goods would go up AND the cost of Canadian retaliatory tariffs would be passed through. A tariff war would be disastrous for ordinary Canadians. In a dynamic economic model - which is the real world model. Not the "experts" in academic theoretical world static model - the model that's always wrong.
Which means Trump has a very strong hand and he knows it. Castreaux has a very weak hand but doesn't know it. This dynamic is how catastrophes are walked into. And Canadians would be wise to pressure their leaders to make the actually very reasonable concessions that Trump is asking for instead of reflexively opposing him. Unlike the global media and global TrumpHaters would have us believe so we push back against US tariffs and Trump's demands to stop Fentanyl and illegal immigration at the border Americans wouldn't feel a thing.
Thank you for this. Thanks for the explanation of tariffs in a dynamic economy. It is amazing to me how little most people know about most things...the Canadians I have spoken to about this don't know jack-shit about how it all works. Not a single one feels they should pressure Castreaux...all of their anger and hatred is levied against Trump first, and the US second.
I just heard two young Canadians tell me about a sporting event they just attended between a US team and a Canadian team, and how the whole stadium booed when they played the US national anthem. The company I was with when this story was told (all Canadians) were so thrilled. "Yes, Canadians are finally coming together and showing mutual support and hatred toward the US evil doers!! (Trump and the US).
Are they nuts? So ignorant and arrogant.
That really upset me when I heard they booed the US national anthem. They sound like school kids. That is not showing Canadian support - that is showing ignorance. As a Canadian, I would have sung along with the American anthem.
Excellent, well-articulated, thought-provoking post, Todd.
For whatever it's worth, I'm NO fan of Trump...nor am I one of Biden, Harris, etc. I think they're all crooks and are puppets of the predator class. The next few years are going to be fascinating and troublesome.
That they are!!
i'm sure everyone has seen this but just encase......
https://www.bitchute.com/video/eI6kc8kB53Gx/
fascinating if true. especially the demise of his investigator attorney.
peace
Thanks for this...
:)
So true. The fact is that if they are allowed to come to power, they are part of the system.
But I know that God puts people in power. He knows them and what they will naturally do in any situation. So I sit back and watch and wonder.
The Bible says that even the angels wonder what will happen, so we’re in good company
Yes, ultimately, eventually, it will all go as it should...
Trump IS part of it, my dear "Dr. Doom".
Sad, but quite possibly true...why not? See my upcoming article "Bamboozled"
It's hard to pin it on any one thing but the first thing that came to mind as I read your article is the lack of personal responsibility. My mind also went to lack of critical thinking, but I believe critical thinking is a key part of taking personal responsibility. Assigning blame can be a way of offloading personal responsibility and assigning blame to all the wrong things comes from a lack of critical thinking.
In an ideal world we wouldn't want elected and unelected bureaucrats making decisions for us. We wouldn't accept government indoctrination of our children, social engineering to effect equal outcomes, and all the other collectivist nonsense that's bringing down the west. But people have been trained to be taken care of and have abdicated personal responsibility, hence all of the crises you have listed.
It's so much easier to bleat "orange man bad" than to look at what role Canadians played in electing a government that has made this country unrecognizable. Dismantle the welfare state, make merit great again, teach personal responsibility in the home and in the schools, and maybe we have a chance. Keep up the finger pointing, expect the "experts" to know best and the government to keep us safe and it'll be a race to the bottom. Is the tide turning just a bit? Could we get the 30% non-compliance needed to derail the next scamdemic or equivalent? Perhaps in the US, but I'm not super hopeful about Canada.
I agree Canadasceptic. Today we don't encourage or even allow people to take personal responsibility for their actions and many are more than happy not to.
After reading a Nanos survey where 40% of Canadians are in favour of Mark Carney, the arch globalist, I said to myself “Oh Canada, what has become of thee”?. I have serious doubts about the tide turning in Canada. Far too many rely on government handouts and have done for years. The CPC needs to do a much better job of articulating it’s vision for the country but I think they are afraid to speak beyond the three or four pithy slogans they have as Trudeau and Co would they call them Trumpers.
I couldn't agree with you more. Canadians have no idea he's referred to as Mark Carnage in the UK after he helped destroy the country as the governor of the Bank of England. Canada is lost, though I can live a decent life here because my husband and I are 60 and we "made it" while Canada was still a going concern. However, we are permanent residents of Mexico and own a home there as part of our Plan B and diversification outside of Canada.
Nobody could be worse than Trudeau -- except maybe Jagmeet Singh -- but Poilievre was slow to speak out against the Covid crimes and waited until it was not quite so politically toxic to do so. But the bottom line is that I don't trust my fellow Canadians, a huge percentage of whom are employed directly or indirectly by government.
Too many in Canada are sucking on the government teat in one form or another. To quote Maggie Thatcher “socialism works well until you run out of other peoples money”. I question how long can Canada survive if our industrial base keeps getting cut while the size of government and the deficit keep getting increasing? Oh, I forgot. The economic genius we had for nine years told us that budgets balance themselves.
Carnage is the word. :(
Part of the reason people are in favor of Mark Carney is most Canadians are watching the legacy media which are funded by the corporate media and the government. Look what happened during covid where the papers and television supported vaccinations and lock downs.
The pathological parent syndrome is definitely a huge part of this. People handing over their autonomy to the state, to mom and dad to take care of them because they are incapable, or simply do not want to bother, to take care of themselves.
You are right that this comes first, critical thinking goes into the dumpster next...if you never use your hands for anything, eventually they will whither away and fall off. If mom and dad take care of everything for you, your ability to take care of yourself, through critical thinking, whithers away.
Agree with your entire essay. We can do something about the last sentence. It WAS driving me crazy in 2020-2022. It felt eerily similar to the two years of my life after I read The Creature from Jekyll Island in 2004. We live in the "knowledge economy" where everyone thinks the know so much, but understand next to nothing. Of the thousands of people I've chatted with about monetary economics, big pharma, or our federal government as epic money laundering machine, I have awakened only one (confirmed). That's an abysmal record. So I stopped trying. I avoid going crazy by treating cocksure ignorance as comedy. I focus instead on actions I can take to insulate myself and family from the consequences. Most of my energy goes into building my local business and expanding my local network to include people who actually understand things and still believe "work" is a verb.
Like you, I gave up trying to flip sheep and got to work on my Plan B. Whatever life trajectory people are on it's theirs, and the odds of us interrupting it with facts they don't want to know is almost zero. If someone expresses doubts or opens the door then I will happily walk through, but I'm done trying to open closed minds. It's all about staying under the radar, protecting ourselves to the extent we can, and creating options.
Yes, trying to flip sheep is a futile activity. I never would have thought it would be this difficult, but it is impossible. Even when facts are right in front of them.
I also I'm recommending a video from the Solari folks, this one care of Children's Health defense, with Catherine Austin Fitts in conversation with Naomi Wolf about what's coming, and suggesting a more critical view of what Trump and Musk and friends are up to. https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/shows/good-morning-chd/doge-hijacks-the-us-treasury-payment-system-with-naomi-wolf/?utm_id
Sadly, I see anything horrendous in the OPEC region as being blamed on "the Jews", not "Palestine".
As to the overarching explanation, there are a theoretical and a pragmatic 'conspiratorial' underpinning to my views. The first is that of constructive empiricism: if one takes an entire set of data and constructs the simplest theory that accounts for all of it - no matter how outrageous! - it is likely to be correct. This is where atomic theory and all that come from (a set of seeming unrelated phenomena, in this case, 'tracks' of what may be surmised to be particles observed in a collider, that may be explained by a universe that is not directly observable but nonetheless accounts for data). The hugecrange of effects we ae seeing in every aspect of social existence are like these observed 'tracks', pointing to the only explanation that seems likely, the Globalist control and extermination agenda. Secondly, as to pragmatic real-world evidence, there is a study conducted by mathematicians from the Zurich Economics Institute which was pointed out to me by Karen Hudes, former legal counsel for the World Bank and whistleblower (in front of the European Parliament in 2008, since deceased under possibly mysterious circumstances). This study produced a mathematical model looking at the boards of directors of 40,000 MNCs, showing a clear Central Nexus of 147 entities which, at the time, could be seen to control 60% of the world's capital and upwards of 80% of the world's Capital flow. Since that time, due to covid and ensuing changes in the financial world, the same group seems to now have control of over 80% of the world's capital and pretty close to 100% of the world's Capital flow. Ergo, the idea of a global World Order is not only theoretically viable, but also experimentally demonstrable.
Sherlock Holmes outlined a very similar theory to Dr Watson in the Sign of Four. Watson he said, when you eliminate all other factors , whatever remains how much it may seem improbable has to be the truth.
Thank you for pointing that out regarding the blame to Palestine or Israel, I edited the article.
Fascinating stuff you posted here! Thank you...
I also forwarded this response to Naomi Wolf, making due reference to you,r Substack, name and article title, minus the sentence about Palestine. She wrote back right away
(!!!) to acknowledge this idea. I hope she follows up a bit, maybe with you ... wouldn't that be cool!
Wow! Yes, she is one of my favorites! Thank you so much for writing to her! That is great! Yes, I would love to get some of her subscribers!
What idea was it that she acknowledged?
Thanks again!
I used to have a dog that would look everywhere except where the squirrel was, probably because she was afraid to chase it. The same dog would hide under the bed anytime we cooked lamb, so she clearly had a lot of fear. That behaviour reminds me of most people. Fear and narrow mindedness are always a dangerous combination. And you are right, it does drive me crazy.
Funny about the dog...
here's a timely video from a guy who i've learned a great deal from over the last decade.
https://beta.solari.com/the-war-for-bankocracy/