Gerald Celente is an Italian guy from the Bronx. He was born in 1946, and like me, after doing hard time inside the System, the best he could come up with was to become his own publisher.

I really enjoyed his takes, one of which was (deep paraphrase ahead):

They told your dad he needed to build a bomb shelter, and they told you to practice hiding under your desk, from Russian bombs.

They didn’t do it because they thought these techniques would save your precious life (because in hindsight that was some seriously foolish crap, and you’d be dead anyway).

They did it to scare the everliving fuck out of you and thus make you a slave to fear.

And thence, to them.

It was no different with those masks we wore for a while to protect us from Chinese bugs.

It is no different right now when they tell you who you have to vote for. From fear.

It will not be any different during the next real or imagined crisis they come up with.

This is the truth of it, and that truth has ramifications.

Can you see what they are?

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Another, ’cause it’s just too good not to repeat.

Anti-semitic??

The Palestinians are the Semites, brah.

The ethnic cleansers in this case, since 1917, are Ashkenazis from Europe.

Where all the best colonizers come from, right? Ennit?

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One more. See the vid for the context.

“Ya little bastid. You think I’m telling you what I’m telling you because I want you to be like me? I want you to become Yourself“.

I had a father once.

I just wish to hell I’d had one who could say a thing like that, and mean it.