She is a phenomenon. Amazingly active, dirt turned over and dug deeper than just about anyone else. She offers a deeply depressing survey of the dreadful realities behind the Permanent Bromide Flood which keeps most of us blind and anaesthetised most of the time. 100 minutes; worth the effort, if only for stark clarity of vision:
One hundred minutes is hard but Whitney Webb is one of the best investigative journoās ever. The only thing with her is she is so knowledgeable and has such a great recall of names and facts, that she can be hard to follow. Interesting that she says most of her researched stuff comes from senate and congressional hearings. As if we didnāt know that most politicians are in on the criminality!
Despite the high price, Iāve bitten the bullet and ordered her book (vol 1) and not from Amazon.
Thanks for posting @RhisiartGwilym
Right Pat! Whitney has only been on my radar for a shortish time, but Iāve come to see her as someone exceptional. Apart from the unwavering realism, she seems to be phenomenally hard-working: two kids, life in Chile under a particularly idiotic lockdown, one man gone, and his replacement exiled for much of the idiocy so that sheās had to do de-facto single parenting, and yet she floods out all this investigative-journalism work. Potent soul! Respect!
Thanks for the link @RhisiartGwilym, there is the rumble version for those who donāt like YT:
The one major takeaway for me is the answer to the question I have posed a few times in the past : whatever happened to the US mafia? One moment it was filling the papers every week, the next it just sort of disappeared! Who would have thought it just merged into the security state and continues to flourish today under that āpopular white hatā branding which is found in all western entertainment featuring any alphabet operations or operatives. ( Interesting that Google has a rebrand under its new Holding company entitled Alphabet Inc. - they hide in plain sight! )
Iām just starting Carroll Quigleyās Tragedy and Hope and dipping into Gerry Docherty and Jim Macgregorās Hidden History - the secret origins of the First World War - which are mind boggling to anyone who has little background knowledge of the Boer War and First World War apart from the usual jingoistic mainstream stuff. The ability of a few key actors outside constitutional parameters to dictate world events just over the last century and a half is frightening - particularly now ( as documented by many including Whitney Webb, Iain Davis and James Corbett) as we are reaching the Zenith of these evil forces!
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Whitney is always worth a listen. As has been pointed out, Whitney deals with complicated stuff, and more times than often does a good job of explaining it all with clarity.
Whatās happening in Ukraine is a good example of this.
I wonāt get into all that right now.
I will go into the two years of covid madness, when they brought in furlough schemes during the lockdowns (the lockdowns, by the way, were a deliberate destruction of the global economy). They paid a large percentage of the workforce to sit around on their arses and do nothing for months on end (they did this because otherwise they knew there would be massive civil unrest). This cost eye-watering amounts of money, printed out of nowhere.
Now theyāre saying that they canāt give workers a living wage, and youāve got to pay untenable cost of living prices. Ha! you canāt make this stuff up.
On top of this theyāve coerced a large percentage of people to take experimental jabs from totally corrupt big pharma companies. This is, without doubt, the biggest crime in modern history.
Andrew Brigin (MP for North West Leicester) brought in a debate about it in the House of Commons earlier this week. There were only about 8 MPs present. Brigin was quoting government figures with regard to vaccine death and injury. Earlier in the day he put this question directly to Richi Sunak, the creature who is the present PM (unelected, by the way). Sunak brushed the question aside, saying that the vaccines are safe and effective. One MP shouted out that Brigin was a ātin foil hatterāā¦
Hi @CJ1 . Carroll Quigley is a real eye opener for those that have not taken the red pill. Iāve tried, so far unsuccessfully, to get my daughter-in-law who is a history teacher and my grandson who is going to uni next year to study history, to read Quigley. Iād give them my copy of Hidden History for Christmas, if I thought they would read it!
Qudos to the guy for using his time to speak to an empty house and at least get it in Hansard and hence on the record. We pay those f****** to go to the house and ārepresentā us.
Andrew Brigin for PM? Clearly he could do a better job than the unelected selecta-PMettes that weāre suffering just now.
John Campbellās face after hearing that clip was a picture, wasnāt it. Virtually nothing to say. I think he represents a whole swathe of previously propa-hypnotised people who are slowly, uncomfortably, and in many cases very unwillingly, finding themselves forced to wake from the trance, and to realise just how royally - and lethally - weāve all been conned by the bunch of mass-killing criminals behind this conspiracy (fact!).
Absolutely right @RobG, and what struck me was the totally unbalanced way it was done, the more you earned the bigger the support! The whole house of Tories ( from all parties) fully supported this middle class mania! This same twisted mania can be seen in their complete failure to support energy poverty families whilst pursuing subs for house owners to get solar and batteries! at current temperatures the deaths from Tory policies must be going through the roof - but these will no doubt be passed off as a new covid strain!
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Iām having an interesting time during the current cold snap. I heat my (mercifully small volume) boat cabin with a wood stove. Often in the past, Iāve come aboard in freezing weather, when the stove has been out for a day or so, and the cabin internal thermometer is reading below zero. But ten minutes after lighting the stove, itās tropical below decks! 
Good stove! All stainless. My own design-and-build.
The point Iām trying to get to here is the interesting cat-and-mouse game that one starts to play - perforce - with the cold after one turns eighty.
The thing is: old bodies are unusually at risk from frost. Unless youāre multi-layer bundled up - as I always am in Winter, these days - you can find hyperthermia creeping up on you unnoticed in its early stages. You suddenly realise: āCrikey, Iām getting a bit ham-fisted and dozy. Oh shit! Itās the cold!ā Itās a bit like carbon-monoxide drowsiness creeping up on you - which Iāve also experienced in a friendās lethally ill-flued, gas-fire heated flatā¦
Thereās always this slim margin between realising in time, and unwittingly slipping past the point of no return, when your conscious awareness of things starts to falter, and you slide - without noticing! - into a quiet, terminal slip-down.
I think thatās whatās happening to oldies who live alone, without a younger person to notice and raise the alarm. And of course, these days, the multi-generational household, where the elders live in the same house as their children and grand-children, is now largely a thing of the past in spiritually-sick places like Britain.
On a more up-beat note, suddenly, in a rush, all organised on the run just yesterday, Iām going for one of those minor operations tomorrow where - astonishingly for one of my generation - they give you a little local anaesthetic, make a small slit in your femoral artery (that traditional target of the skilled stiletto fighter!), and slide a long snake-like tube into the artery, to start easing itās way gently up towards your heart or the immediate main vessels connecting to the heart. This snake not only has eyes in itās front end, that give surgeon and patient a real-time screen image of those interior places, but it also carries in its mouth a variety of cunning devices, which re-open clogged arteries; or which can even - really astonishingly - carry a replacement heart valve to replace an original thatās started to fray.
Apparently - just as all the good, over-taxed, under-paid and under-supported nurses are going on their well-deserved strike!! - this is what I shall be getting tomorrow; on forty-eight hours notice! LOL! Some multi-year waiting list, eh? I would call this an instance of coincidence magic. But thatās a different topic that - deo valente - Iāll come back to soon.
Hereās hoping my breathlessness when working hard goes away a bit after tomorrow, just as it used to be five years ago, when hard physical work was still easily doable. If you donāt hear from me for a couple of days, thatās because good friends have whisked me into their house for a bit of post-op watchfulness. If itās longer than that, assume thereās been a complication. The nurse whoās curating my case told me on the phone yesterday, rather sharply, that āno, you shouldnāt even think about going home on the busā as Iād suggested, because: āif you have an emergency bleed on the bus, you could collapse and die before help could arrive!ā
Why does that make me laugh? Weird, but it does. She was very emphatic about it!
I was also told to bring an overnight bag āin case we have to keep you in for observationā. So - quite an adventurous moment, it seems. Though friends and neighbours whoāve just had the same stent-fitting ops. say that itās usually a no-probs. breeze. Both I and my veteran complementary-medicine practitioner best-beloved are always eclectic about which health procedures we use, allopathic or other. Our practical rule is: if it works, and if we can be confident already that it does no harm, then use it!
Weāll seeā¦ 
Rhis, thereās a whole ball of wool to unpack here.
Mostly, of course, Iām sure it will all go well for you at the hospital. Itās all crap in the UK at the moment, but in many places you still get good treatment.
Let us know how it goes.
If it helps, you are in our love and best wishes.
And of course, never let the bastards grind you down.
I had a couple of stents put in 16 years ago using the same method hope all goes as well with your op.
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Thanks for your solidarity, friends. As a veteran practitioner of shamanic magic, I KNOW from long practical experience, that what goes on in peoplesā minds affects what happens in physical reality. Itās what practical white magic has always been about.
My approach these days is: first do the magic, then accept whatever comes, āche sera, seraā style, never worry, and deal with all upshots with as much grace as can be mustered. Makes life more serene! 
Great post telling us about your news, and thread too. All the best for a smooth visit.
Rhis, with regard to shamanic magic, I should have been dead at the age of 18 months Iāve told this story many times. As a young baby I spent six months in the tropical disease unit of Guys hospital, in London, hovering between life and death. I was given the Last Rites on two occasions (I believe thatās still a record for a young baby).
Iām one of those people who shouldnāt really be here.
But for some strange reason I am still here, more than 50 years later.
With regard to shamanic magic, I donāt pretend to understand it. Iāll just say that perhaps we both have it in various ways.
Iād conjecture, Rob, that someone amongst your relatives - quite probably your mam - was a potent natural shamanka (female shaman; often some of the most powerful).
Many are thus gifted; often, in our spiritually-denuded culture, without realising it very clearly. My ma used to say that she was āfeyā, meaning that she would have bouts of the second sight.
Shamanic, or maybe call them psi/paranormal, abilities are a natural, built-in part of our reality, and we ALL have them to some degree, Everyone of us sits somewhere on the standard bell-curve. Those who happen to have the gift in spades can, with encouragement and training, become remarkable practitioners.
Even if - like one of my neighbours - you only have a private confidence that itās always important to ālisten to your gutā, without any further encouragement from oneās society, one can, like her, teach oneself to make practical use of it.
Since with women, the basic drive to fight for their infants at all costs is one of the most powerful known, itās a good bet that your mam was maintaining a powerful determination to help you pull through; as, quite probably, were others of your immediate kin too. Thatās one of the irreplaceable benefits of having a live, active clan around your life.
Never doubt it for a moment: When you maintain within your mind a steadfast, unbudging āunbending intentā in the striking phrase of the Yaqui sorcerer don Juan Matus, as reported by Castaneda, be assured that this really will have a potent effect on the nitty-gritty of your physical reality.
Iāve been doing this stuff for going on sixty years now, and my track record of clear āhitsā is so long that Iām no longer able to entertain any doubts about it.
Even so, because close encounters with unmistakable, naked paranormal incidents are so perturbing for ALL of us, Iāve only ever witnessed a small handful of such strokes of magic as unequivocally miraculous incidents, mainly in Ken Batcheldorās (qv!) last sitter group: levitations, teleports and such. The rest have mostly been easily explained-away (for the faint of heart) instances of ācoincidence magicā - which nevertheless have always had this odd tendency to deliver exactly what I was intending, often in unexpected waysā¦
Are you out Rhis (and not just for good behaviour )? I hope it went well.
Briefly: the angiogram team, under this impressive surgeon, attempted a femoral (groin) artery catheter insertion to investigate the state of a heart valve, prior - Iām told - to me being sent up to a regional specialist unit to fit a new valve - with the same sort of keyhole surgery! Astonishing!
The surgeon got as far as my aorta, and then told me that it was so ācurly whirlyā - sic! - that he couldnāt force the catheter any further without risking artery damage. So they aborted it. Apparently, we all have individual variations in the way the arteries lie.
Re-scheduling for another approach through the wrist - radial - artery soon.
The whole unit in this hospital showed no sign of any under-funded, strike-hit chaos. All working well. Staff doing long hours non-stop, though. All pissed off with the damned āgovenmentā, and very glad of the universal support theyāre getting from we punters. The staffās main annoyance, with depleting value of their pay only second, was the chronic understaffing that they suffer. And too many āadminstratorā drones, of course.
My team in the angio unit included a South Asian lass, an oriental lass, a young Nigerian guy, and so on. The whole lot of them as quick and precise under the surgeonās lead as a well-experienced military special-ops team. Impressive! It was obvious that they were in the midst of an inherently dicey action where things can go wrong rather badly, and they were very alert for any such sign.
A good old friend took care of all shuttling transport, plus comfortable overnight stay in her house; beautifully done, and wonāt take any recompense, so we agreed on me doing āwhat goes around comes aroundā for other of our friends. And meantime, the pension money in my bank account keeps flooding in, unstoppably, like the Sorcererās Apprentice! (Mainly so positive because I donāt keep a car, I think. More for me to hand out as neededā¦! )
Iām so lucky. And so very many arenāt so privileged. See what I mean about the Pampered Twenty Percent?
Rhis, good to hear that itās going ok in these troubled times.
I donāt need to tell you that we are all just basically energy, without any real physicality.
Ok, we donāt need to get into all that at the moment, although itās a fascinating topic.
The main thing is that you get through your treatment and remain in your present existence a bit longer, because the world badly needs people like you at the moment.
If you fall off the perch Iāll be really pissed-off (we are all here for this precise moment in space and time).
Rhis, with regard to the shamanic stuff, itās a fascinating subject.
Get yourself well again and weāll have a conflab about it.
Again, I donāt want to bore people with this, but will just say that near-death experiences do give you a heightened sense of, I dunno, whatever.
Again, Iāve bored people on this board with some of the paranormal things Iāve experienced in my life.
Iāve no idea what itās all about, except to say that near-death experience does give you some kind of tune-in to it.
Not sure if this makes any senseā¦