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Dean Scoville's avatar

At one time I wondered why some people were so determined to live off the grid. Now I know.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Hi Dean.

Odd, but prior to being fully awake and reading the X message, I was in the process of forgetting an early morning dream of living on a post-apocalyptic island south of Tokyo (Oshima) where I used to enjoy many a pleasant summer fishing. Now feeling like I am in the middle of a zombie apocalypse in The People's Democratic Republic of Japan Inc.

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Dean Scoville's avatar

Heh. Perhaps the predictive programming of The Walking Dead has its compensations.

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Steve Martin's avatar

🤣

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Tirion's avatar

Hmmm.... the DPRJ, Inc. Isn't that a subsidiary of The Federal Reserve?

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

Sympathies, Steve. When these things happen around here, and there are so many on so many levels, I just keep counting on the world ending (as we know it) before they come to fruition. Cheers!

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Steve Martin's avatar

Thanks Tereza. Though there have been a few dissident voices at first, I suppose we will soon have a flowering of anti-corporate, anti-totalitarian researchers and health workers similar to the likes Pierre Kory and the FLCCC. Just wondering how long they can hold out against the corporate government-backed juggernauts before it all collapses.

Cheers to you too, fellow corvid. Ha, one more and we would have a 'murder' on our hands. 😂

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

Haha, I wonder how many of our crowpatriots will get that joke?

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Steve Martin's avatar

😂

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Tirion's avatar

🤞🏻

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damon mcclure's avatar

F that mate, tbh f every injectable

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Steve Martin's avatar

Scary stuff coming down the pipe.

Looks like a cull to me.

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damon mcclure's avatar

I agree, what else can it be.

Seriously what else, nothing else makes sense mate

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Tirion's avatar

Many thanks for this interesting and useful post, Steve. It reminded me of this, which seems to be related but different:

"Japan Approves World's First 'Self-Amplifying' mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Without Published Efficacy Or Safety Data"

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/japan-approves-worlds-first-self-amplifying-mrna-covid-19-vaccine-without-published

Thanks also for the heads-up about DeepL and My Number Cards. I will investigate!

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Steve Martin's avatar

Hi Tirion,

Yeah, I remember seeing another source for that saRNA 'innovation' just a few days ago. It is difficult to not see this as a coordinated culling.

DeepL, with a bit of tweaking, seems to consistently beat out Google, but I LLM A.I.s are upping the game very fast. Scary fast, because it always seems that bad actors get their hands on new toys first.

Despite it all, cheers.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Just found my source about the saRNA ... "Lioness of Judah" substack. Prompted me to share her post with my comment in Facebook groups as follows ...

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/self-amplifying-mrna-vaccines-are?fbclid=IwAR1Xzpy7oUq2LxmygZuakyMuftlfEIbYDk3C43SaLCAhLtUxCQWJHa6oo2I

"The same country that is pushing "Society 5.0", plans for the infrastructure of Maui as a "Smart City" (Hitachi), "Plan 75" (award winning movie about culling the elderly), releasing tons of 'safely' radioactive water from Fukushima, mandatory "My Number" digital I.D.s next year ... is also the first to approve the manufacture of saRNA as a bioweapon ... uh ... "medical platform" ... that Kabuki-Show of Democracy ... the Japanese Corporate Nation-State. — steve

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Shit shit shit. Now I have to fight with the wife over flu shots for my kid. Maybe now that she just got the flu despite getting the flu shot I will have a bit more to work with, but I doubt it. Hopefully her new job will allow her to finally see the negative reports on her current company’s product. Not only is that not a bit of good news out there, more and more bad news is reported.

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

She opens none of the links I share with her. She does not trust anything that is not the official line.

Thanks anyway.

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Steve Martin's avatar

😕 Sad to hear that.

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Claudia's avatar

That's absolutely horrifying. I think the Deagle forecast for 2025 called for a 20% population reduction for Japan, but I wouldn't be surprised if that turned out to be far too low.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Hi Claudia.

Thanks for that heads up. Grim, but it makes perfectly perverse fiscal sense for the ruling class to gut the working-class population of Japan.

Fewer people, particularly retirees, means fewer paybacks for all the money those retirees had extracted from their salaries for retirement and health insurance ... and more money for corporate cronies.

And now the capital-rentier class is finding it increasingly more profitable to replace employees with automation and A.I.

Some might argue that too few consumers among the working class might detract from the lavish lifestyle of the ruling class, but I am guessing that non-human efficiencies of scale will counter much of that for a while.

Intuitively, I think there is a self destructive streak in those Cluster B types that make up the bulk of the ruling class, but I don't know what crisis will push them beyond the tipping point into the next collapse.

Some other flies in Japan's demographic ointment is the unequal distribution of population across the landscape, the bulk of whom are crammed into just a handful of metropolises. This is particularly dangerous because Japan is prone to natural disasters (typhoons and that tectonic Pacific ring-of-fire thingy), and is scarce in most natural resources.

The weekend traffic jams out of, and then back into Tokyo are of nearly L.A. scale ... and oil (power) is not going to get any cheaper. So a population drop would be of some benefit to the remainder.

There has been periodic talk of moving corporate headquarters outside of Tokyo to places like Nagoya or Sendai in an attempt to spread out the population a bit more evenly, with the supposition that this will make Japan more robust in times of localized crisis such as a natural disaster. But that talk has been going on for decades, and with no positive trend. Guessing corporate cronyism trumps anything that might be good for the quality and safety of the average working-class Japanese.

Just a few days ago, NHK aired a short segment about how Japan is so dependent on food imports, that a world-wide breakdown in logistics would leave the country on the brink of starvation in a couple of weeks. While there is some truth to it, knowing NHK and the ruling LDP, the sound byte was more likely a propaganda hit-piece, designed to stoke fear and a govern-me-harder-daddy mentality.

Too much to unpack in comments here, but my closest Japanese friends are not optimistic about the near future of Japan. Maybe because my friends are not of the ruling class? 🙃

Cheers Claudia.

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Claudia's avatar

I don't even know where to start, Steve. As bad as things are in Japan, I believe they are far worse in the Five Eyes Countries. We have been the grand experiment in manipulation, coercion, brute force.

I remember seeing the following documentary two years ago and finally understanding that AI had progressed the point that they finally no longer needed us useless eaters any more.

https://off-guardian.org/2021/01/21/watch-the-new-normal/

Now the WHO is preparing for the next plandemic, ready to strip us of all our rights, no matter where we live in the world. There will be fewer of us, which will make their job easier. My brother's toddlers are jabbed and boosted; I'm unvaxxed and fully expect to outlive the babies. I no longer grieve, because I believe they'll be better off dead.

I'm sorry, but I no longer have any hope for the future. I'm just doing to my best to appreciate and enjoy what remains of the old world before all traces disappear. It would be such a blessing not to know what's happened, what's happening, and what's about to happen.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Hello Claudia.

I agree with your assessment of the Five Eyes Countries compared to Japan ... mostly because unlike most of the West, the Japanese Corporate Nation-State has long since more successfully reduced most of the population to a culture that places unquestioned compliance to authority as the highest virtue. Only the truly best of the population can transcend the years of propaganda posing as 'education', 'news', and corporate culture ... and they pay a heavy price for it.

I just clicked the link, and seeing it is about an hour long, will not be able to get back to it until later tonight, Japan time. But I will watch it. Thanks for the heads up.

I am sorry to hear about your brother's kids. The same is for my sister and her trans-daughter, and all of my cousins. My mom died Sept 7 (my birthday), due to accelerated Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and total blindness ... but fully jabbed, and nobody in my immediate or extended family is even raising the correlation between her death and the fact that she was pumped full of spike proteins and who-knows-what. Ostracized for being a conspiracy theorist, I no longer even bring up the topic of public health during those few times I exchange a chat with my sister.

No need to apologize for being pessimistic. On the contrary ... you echo my deepest sentiment. With limited financial resources, I mentioned in another comment (to Guy) that I am a paid subscriber to only three substack writers ... The Radicalist, Margaret Anna Alice, and Tessa Lena. In thinking about why I am supporting them, I realized that the common thread is that they are the only three writers who can consistently counter my pessimistic view of what's coming.

Back in the day when Chomsky had most of his marbles, he gave an interesting speech at Chapel Hill ... https://chomsky.info/20100930/. I was less impressed with his opinion than I was with one of the sources he referred to ... the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr. The first three paragraphs gives the essence of Mayr's debate with Carl Sagan against the probability of human-like intelligence elsewhere in the universe. His argument was that the evolutionary record shows most species (beyond single celled creatures) have a shelf life of approximately 100,000 years ... and that human intelligence may prove to be nothing more than a lethal mutation of a social primate. A quote attributed to Mark Twain put it in a funnier way ... "The more I know about people, the better I like my dog." 😂

I can say that I have experienced unconditional love for a handful of people, but for most of my life, have been wrong in expecting most others to feel the same. Looking at the broad sweep of history, the rise and fall of empires — countless unnamed innocents as collateral damage, and only narcissistic god-kings remembered as the flow of 'history' — I am also not optimistic about our long term chances as a species.

But I do find solace in the values you express, and in ocassionally running across a like minded person as you. Knowing I will die soon enough, I only hope to go with the grace and dignity befitting a warrior fighting on behalf of Platonic ideals. Better that than living on, bowing and groveling at the metaphorical feet of Mammon and Moloch.

If nothing else, Claudia. Let's go down fighting the good fight, back-to-back, against dehumanization and totalitarianism. As much as I love dogs, I don't want to go out with a whimper. Better as a berserker, going down in flames and righteous fury.

A couple of death scenes I can only hope for in my wildest dreams ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM9a4Arjyaw&t=160s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU

And one more death scene (in two parts) in which I find some hope and solace. Even if we social primates cease to exist, life goes on. I really enjoy the company of a few crows who visit my veranda for treats every morning.

1 — Suicidal death ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_fQvavqEA

2 — Rebirth ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_C5NIUu6FM

(Somehow that soundtrack by Joan Baez reminds me of Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game".)

Cheers Claudia.

And thank you for the courage in sharing what few dare.

steve

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Tirion's avatar

🙌🏻

You reminded me of a friend of mine whose ambition it was to enter The Pearly Gates backwards at high speed and in a ball of flames!

Without wanting to add to the gloom necessarily, it's also, er, interesting to note that Edgar Cayce forecast that most of Japan would sink beneath the waves like Atlantis, sooner or later:

https://weeklytiger.wordpress.com/category/american-society/america-christian-nation/bible-prophecy-america-christian-nation/future-predictions-visions-prophecy/edgar-cayce-japan-sinks-prediction/

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Steve Martin's avatar

LOL, LOL, LOL.

😂. I think I like him already!

Oops ... should I have said 'her', or now with cultural atomization sewing the ground for a totalitarian re-set ... any of a number of new pronouns?

Cheers Tirion!

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Tirion's avatar

He's definitely a "He"!

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Guy Duperreault's avatar

Hola, Steve.

I hope the sleep was peaceful and you woke delighted with the great opportunity we have to face the behemoths with courage. We have unwittingly entered a giant opportunity be courageous! Amazing, just like I sometimes imagined when I was being predictively programmed in the fantasy sci-fi world.

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Steve Martin's avatar

LOL.

I still haven't figured out the source of your eternal optimism. But thanks for a much needed hit. Hmm ... ayahuasca? Or maybe an even more natural proxy? 😂

Cheers Guy!

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Guy Duperreault's avatar

Hola, Steve.

I'm not sure that it is optimism, per se. I watch the MBA-itis (one of the first serious woke groups, I now realise) proceed to gut government and business organisations and have them collapse. The ptb are doing almost exactly the same thing as the MBAs did when their plans were beginning to go off the rails. Total failure. So... we are definitely in for a rough ride. It is simply that the MBA-like plans of the ptb will collapse themselves too. Some of their actions are beginning to look like unplanned fear responses more than part of the 'great' big plan. Not that there aren't parts of the plans still moving as planned - Conspiracy Sarah and Sasha and Katherine are doing great work tracking that. So... rough times? Yup. And that is when we have the opportunity to be really courageous. Wonderful. The human spirit and body are resilient and powerful way beyond what the PTB can even imagine because they are acting from a place of weakness in perception, mind and body. Simply their energy is as inherently self-destructive as turbo cancer: yup, the cancer is super happy killing the host, unaware(?) that doing so is their own suicide. Fortunately, the body humanity has many many individual moving beings, and so unlike the single person, is much more able to thrive in even horrific circumstances.

No ayahuasca. Although I've recently explored the true amazing healing power of natural tobacco! OMG, has the Rockefeller medicine maligned and lied about what the indigenous here consider to be the most powerful, important and healing of plants: tobacco. I'll likely write about that in the not-to-distant future. It began with venom, and went from there, with some incredible synchronicities. Great power, amazement, opportunity and fun.

All the best!

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Steve Martin's avatar

Hi again Guy.

Yeah, I follow Sasha, C.S. and Katherine ... though was a bit disappointed Sasha's link a day or two ago about her slide-show presentation regarding mRNA in food and livestock is behind a pay wall I can't afford.

On a fixed limited income, I've only shelled out paid subscriptions to three ... Tessa Lena, Margarette Anna Alice, and The Radicalist ... and I can't even keep up with the reading and links of those three, much less others I follow.

At times, it is a thrilling ride. But at times, dizzying. Sage Hana continually helps me remember a construct from grad school days ... "tolerance for ambiguity". In my case, maybe a terminal case, hence the "at times" part of the joy ride.

But yeah, I agree completely with you in what I call a "Tower of Babel syndrome" in the evolution and inevitable fall of would-be god-kings and empires alike. I just don't want to be among the nameless millions of collateral damage in their game of thrones.

Just by chance (synchronicity?), I came upon a good podcast in my YouTube feed ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaFWP4E4rY

Ooops. 😂.

No, not that one. This one ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQmoQEeNYrs

Cheers Guy.

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Guy Duperreault's avatar

Hola, Steve, I enjoyed the video on 'accelerationalism'. I'd not heard this phrase before. Or if I had, it made no impact. It was interesting.

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Guy Duperreault's avatar

I understand about keeping up and limited resources. I am limited by money, too, for now. And I am not keeping up, as I'm setting up 2 courses - (8 week 2 x 2.5 hour sessions per week and 10 day intensive with 3 days of silence).

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Steve Martin's avatar

Good read! From the perspective of my past career as an applied linguist, I liked the last two paragraphs in particular.

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Guy Duperreault's avatar

Thank you Trion. I enjoyed the link and it has some worth and also contributed to the creation of a nice synchronicity around tobacco in combination with other 'medicinal' plants I'm learning about here in Mexico from indigenous people.

All the best.

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Francis Turner's avatar

I'll be honest, I'm not sure that the Flu vaccines have been particularly good for decades which is why I never bothered to get one.

So they are going to replace one vaccine which doesn't work with another one that doesn't work and has "died of suddenly" side-effects. Well I guess that's one way to cull the population.....

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Steve Martin's avatar

I hear you Francis. At a friend's request, I got my one and only 'normal' flu vaccine a couple of years before the plandemic. Never again.

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NJ Election Advisor's avatar

The nuts running the asylum

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:yulia:'s avatar

My heart hurts for the people of Japan. At least 50% of them masked up (small kids included) and can barely breath on the Tokyo tube... not only they eat all the soft plastics that leach into food, they sanitise the hell out of their guts and breath their own CO2 :((

Plus all the EMF and super harsh blue light around day and night.

I do wonder about their health span and will look into that.

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Steve Martin's avatar

Hi y:ulia:

Yeah. For a few years now, Japan has ranked high in longevity for both males and females, but simple stats can be deceiving. This says nothing about the quality of life. I agree with you in that the masks will probably have a significantly negative effect on both physical and emotional health ... and am cynical enough to believe that the policy makers know this.

Winter is coming on fast, so waiting for the propaganda blitz to come, re-imposition of NPIs, fake PCR tests, etc.

Despite it all, cheers.

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:yulia:'s avatar

Yes, that was my understanding as well - re longevity. Yet longevity does not equate health span (nor quantity of life as you say) - and we know that JP ranks high (one of the highest) on suicide rates.

The masks won't help with their issues in oral health either.

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Steve Martin's avatar

In complete agreement with you. I've often felt caught in something of a cross between the Cassandra Complex and Imposter Syndrome. So it is reassuring to find a like-minded soul now and then.

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Tirion's avatar

Yes, the policymakers knew it. Before covid, there was forty years' worth of research which not only showed that masks are useless for aerosolized viruses but also the harms that masks cause. Our rulers are anti-human :(

"When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals" (Ed Snowden).

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Tirion's avatar

Yes, I thought it was interesting that, apart from the Diamond Princess, covid only seemed to take off in Japan in the days and weeks after 5G first became operational in Japan on 31Mar20. Coincidence?

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Francis Turner's avatar

And next to this post in my substack inbox was this podcast on the mRNA vaccine contamination

https://www.illusionconsensus.com/p/episode-24-dr-kevin-mckernan-on-dna

Listening to it taught me a ton about how they make the mRNA vaccines (which is not at all how I thought they made them) and was fascinating to me because way back in the stone age of 2001-3 I worked for a company that used e.coli to make specific chemical products and pfizer / moderna use e.coli to make the mRNA

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