“Malcolm X and Edmund Burke shared an appreciation of this important insight, this painful truth--that the state wants men to be weak and timid, not strong and proud.” ~ Thomas Stephen Szasz
I would also add that the drugs are getting into the water we drink and the waters where fish and animals live ( and making them sick). Jeff Childers (Coffee and Covid)brought to my notice last week the story about fish of many different varieties and sizes along the entire peninsula of Florida having a strange spinning sickness. They swim in circles, sometimes bobbing their heads above the water, until they die. Very concerning.
I have an adult daughter who took 2 rounds of peptides from a “natural doctor”. It is (supposedly) different from the Pharma drugs in that it is bio identical and they could choose which peptides to use. But it really made her sick after the second round, and she stopped.
Though she has been pursuing health and healing from PCOS for a few years now, before she tried the peptides, the Lord has led her to begin eating fermented foods, kefir, kombucha, fasting, and following the Spirit of the Lord with anything He shows her to do. (always including repentance)🥰
I agree. Walks and lightening things up are a must. Enjoyed your poem Karen. There is a good recent interview on RFKJr. podcast, Why Ozempic Matters with Calley Means. Frightening, but informative info/interview.
Agree with you on everything but the idea that diet and exercise helps everyone to lose weight. There are multiple factors involved in such conditions such as age, menopause (and andropause) as well as pollutants in food and the environment (from the drug and chemical industries of course) called obesegens.
It's normal to add at least a pound a year starting in the 30's.
If you mean diet as in being on a diet I don't think that works. But eating a healthy diet and exercising is good for everyone yet this is not what our government encourages. It encourages dependence on drugs. To make a healthy lifestyle a lifelong habit is the best thing a person can do for themselves. That said, it does not promise anyone a perfect body, whatever that is, and people have all different body types, dependant on many variables. The problem is the image forced on people to conform to a certain ideal which is going to cost a lot of money and you will never achieve it so you will just feel worse about yourself.
A relatively banal example of how the worldly powers encourage drug use to keep humanity enslaved, helpless and defenseless. Banal maybe as compared to the Moloch that is global Big Pharma and their debilitating or even deadly potions. Let’s look at alcohol. Being immersed in a foreign culture for the first time naturally means countless impressions of the new, things in contrast to what is usual in your native culture. When I moved to Germany, one such thing was how remarkably inexpensive alcoholic beverages were as compared to prices in the U.S. (and still are today). Germany is famous for its beer, of course. There are brands of low quality, but not so many. Most German beers are excellent. The standard beer bottle holds 0.5 liter. When I arrived in 2001, I was amazed to see how cheap beer was. As I type this, am looking at a sale price offered by an online shop: 1 case of a first-rate German beer, that is 20 x 0.5 liter bottles (10 liters total). Price? 11.99 Euros (12.92 US dollars) = 1.29 US dollars per liter. Attractive price, no? Now bear in mind, inflation has hit Germany hard too. But hardly impacted the price of domestically produced alcohol (all of this applies to wine as well). Even more suspect are the very cheapest German beers. You find them on the bottom shelf in supermarkets, cans not bottles, also 0.5 liter. No-name brands. I have seen such beers priced at 0.39 Euro cents per 0.5 liter (0.42 US cents). If all of the aforementioned does not point to a weaponizing of alcoholic beverages to ensure that society’s most desperate will remain caged in their alcoholism … well, I’m open to other theories. This is my take. “Which is easier, to say to the sick of the palsy: Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say: Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.” — Mark 2:9
Tour de force! Absolutely brilliant, quite possibly best thing I've read on this platform since I joined in February. So many gems, I'd fill up the whole section to mention them all. How bout simply "nothing will ever be enough"? Couldn't count how many times I've grumbled those words in anger. Speaking of which, maybe I should take myself out for a stroll 🤣 We have become a sad species indeed. They may kill us all in the end ... but I'm gonna beat them to it and die first from laughing at their stupidity.
About willpower and weight loss. My niece by about age 40 balooned up to 297 lbs. Normal height for a woman. Did everything imaginable with her lifestyle to become that obese. Very depressed by this of course, and at some point she decides the only solution is to have gastric bypass surgery. That is, last I knew, the only form of such surgical procedures that is irreversible. It reduced her stomach capacity by approx. 70%, or so she said. Great. Doctor and "death care" professionals enthusiastically give her the green light, on one condition ... here's the killer ... she must first lose 20 pounds. She had this insane surgery because it was IMPOSSIBLE for her to lose weight, she insisted. But then she duly loses the 20 pounds. All systems go, off to the mutilation ward. Oh yeah, last time I saw her she had gained back significant weight, was nowhere near a good healthy weight. Is that not pitiful?
Wow, that is insane. I am so sorry. Sometimes all we can do is watch in frustration and sadness--and a whole lot of worry--from the sidelines. Very sad.
The night I heard she was going to do this to herself, I hardly slept. Felt it my obligation to at least try to reason with her. But I must honestly admit, by the time I finally drifted off to sleep, I decided to just let it go, to not make myself sick over it. That and I know my niece from the cradle, knew my words would mean nothing. So in that sense It was a postive thing for me, to just accept that sometimes it is futile, no matter how much you care for someone.
I wonder if she experienced some form of bullying or abuse before she went this way. I'm so sorry to hear this happened to her. It's very hard to let go.
My loved stepmother died at 89 (in 2014) after a lifetime of starving herself because ONE PERSON bullied her about being chubby. She was always a very tall (5'11") and very slim woman (maybe 108 lbs?) even around the time this comment was made.
She would not eat ANY FAT. Starving oneself like this is one of the things that leads to senility.
Thank you for your comment. I'm very sorry for your stepmother. My niece suffered a very hard thing at age 2, when her father abandoned her and my sister. I mean physically abandoned, gone from the scene. At age 2, old enough to walk and talk. As long as I live I will never forget her toddling over to me, arms raised, to tell me "My Daddy gone", her eyes expressing how puzzled she was. Both my father and my mother lost their mothers at that age. It is a devastating trauma (particularly loss of the mother) that shapes the rest of one's life. Something that cannot be repaired. Hard for me to even think about.
I'm so sad to hear this! The amount of damage inflicted by male abandonment is incalculable and has happened to all women (and a lot of men).
I guess my grandson was around 14 (now 23) when my son left his first family and the effect devastated his life and included a massive weight gain. Fortunately he lost it all after puberty.
And now my son (whom I GAVE UP for adoption but met when he was 17) is on the verge of leaving his second family and second child, my 9 yr old granddaughter!
Like your grandson, my neice also sought "love" through overeating. You know, the 1960s counterculture and the sexual revolution came along, so liberating, or so many of us believed, rid of all those "hangups"of prior generations. We were more advanced. I grew up Catholic, at a time when a divorce was a serious scandal. But then there was freedom. Divorce an everyday thing. Cannot tell you how long it took me to understand, after I put myself through life's wringer, a ton of self-inflicted harm to the soul, shameful things, that there were very good reasons for social mores and religious traditions that called for things like chastity until marriage, condemned promiscuity and many things. Ancient traditions. Understood that those people so long ago were not just "spoilsports" :) and prudish. They knew from hard experience that certain behaviors if widespread can actually destroy civilizations. But we humans are not great at learning from the past, are we? I admire your honesty and openness, and wish you and your loved ones all the best!
Forgot to mention that both of my parents died young and mum had died of a protracted breast cancer battle right before I had sex for the first time and forgot to use a condom! ARGH.
Just a little speculation/brainstorming. With Big Pharma so much in the news, recently stumbled on Novo Nordisk in context of obesity drugs. Was struck immediately by their logo, which is Apis, an ancient Egyptian bull deity. Started research on that but got sidetracked. The family that originally founded Novo Nordisk, I think it was, were connected with Egyptology, maybe collecting Egyptian antiquities, scholarship in the field. Seemingly they chose the bull deity because of its vitality and so on. Many tend to think of ancient Egypt as fascinating history, pyramids etc. all nice and harmless National Geographic fare. But among the ancient civilizations that were saturated in sorcery, curses, black magic and so on -- I don't think there was a one that surpassed Egypt. All this very tenuous, I realize. But as a devout Catholic, I take paganism, the demonic, magic (ALL magic is black magic) very seriously, consider them absolutely real and present dangers that I defend myself against, with my faith as armor. And symbols can exert remarkable power over human beings. Considering the Novo Nordisk track record, guess I'd feel better if they'd chosen a blossoming flower or a mighty tree of life as their logo. https://www.novonordisk.com/about/our-heritage.html
Fascinating formation, thank you! I am currently writing a series about my experiences living in Luxor, Egypt. I left about 6 months into the pandemic, under dangerous circumstances. It's true what you say. I lived within walking distance of the Valley of the Kings where most of the pharaohs were buried. Besides being ruled as a society by Islamism/Sharia Law, Egyptians still believe very strongly in magic and curses like the "evil eye". I will get into what I learned about it in my series. Love and Lies on the Nile https://khmezek.substack.com/s/love-and-lies-on-the-nile
Yes! I had looked at your other site online and noticed that you'd lived and worked in Egypt. Forgot that when I posted. I will very much be looking forward to that series. You weren't kidding when you said you are an adventurer :) -- hope you did not have to use your martial arts skills in earnest when you were in Egypt.
I made sure it never got that far. If it had, I would not be here today, I'd be at the bottom of the Nile, as one persona cannot physically stand against an entire culture and religion out to kill or "revert" all infidels. People in the west are very naive about this.
I wuz never a fan of lousy act-trice an' Ouja laydee Nancy Regan OR her "just say no" campaign (ugh)--'specially when our gubbamint wuz traffickin' drugs of all sorts behind the scenes--BUT there is indeed much ta say about Just Sayin' No. If someone's wartchin' their waistband, it should be "no thank ya" an' done. If they're at some pahrty (I've told my girls this) an' somebuddy offers 'em ANYTHING (drinks 'er worse), I tell 'em jes that--"Say No" (firmly).
Today too many are afraid ta say NO. Sometimes it comes with heat ('er lost chobs, lost appart-mints! we know this 1st hand) but literally all our fambly did wuz say NO. We blamed nobuddy fer the consequences of our decisions--sometimes it's a drag ta miss out on...income, classes, performances.... or dessert. But if the world warn't topsy turvy, EVERY chile would learn to JUST SAY NO! ('or neine, nix, or no thanks!)
ha ha, don't git me started on that one--some forgot'em but too many young'uns never got 'em in the first place ;-) (good postin' tho'--all these folks wantin' too easy answers / solutions...drugs is just one'a them...)
Powerful & informative article - thank you KH. I too, find walking extremely calming & soothing to my Soul. It helps me detach from the insanity & attach myself to Spirit & our Mother Earth ...
They aren't even pretending they are not trying to kill us anymore. Guess they figure if they throw enough ways to kill ourselves at us, they'll eventually get rid of all of us "extra mouths", as they refer to us.
Peter Kropotkin: “The most effective human and animal communities are essentially cooperative, rather than competitive.” Kropotkin based this classic on his observations of natural phenomena and history, forming a work of stunning and well-reasoned scholarship. Essential to the understanding of human evolution as well as social organization, it offers a powerful counterpoint to the tenets of Social Darwinism. It also cites persuasive evidence of human nature’s innate compatibility with anarchist society.—Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) : MUTUAL AID: A Factor of Evolution. www.doverpublications.com.
I would also add that the drugs are getting into the water we drink and the waters where fish and animals live ( and making them sick). Jeff Childers (Coffee and Covid)brought to my notice last week the story about fish of many different varieties and sizes along the entire peninsula of Florida having a strange spinning sickness. They swim in circles, sometimes bobbing their heads above the water, until they die. Very concerning.
It's out of control, like so many things.
Love the poem!
It was fun to write! Sometimes the things I write about get so crazy I just have to lighten it up a bit.
Fun and silliness are cathartic. I liked your rhymes.
I have an adult daughter who took 2 rounds of peptides from a “natural doctor”. It is (supposedly) different from the Pharma drugs in that it is bio identical and they could choose which peptides to use. But it really made her sick after the second round, and she stopped.
Though she has been pursuing health and healing from PCOS for a few years now, before she tried the peptides, the Lord has led her to begin eating fermented foods, kefir, kombucha, fasting, and following the Spirit of the Lord with anything He shows her to do. (always including repentance)🥰
Awesome poem! And article as well. As someone who has virtually never taken drugs of any kind, I'm just gobsmacked at these statistics.
Thank you! Yep, the statistics are pretty horrific.
I agree. Walks and lightening things up are a must. Enjoyed your poem Karen. There is a good recent interview on RFKJr. podcast, Why Ozempic Matters with Calley Means. Frightening, but informative info/interview.
Agree with you on everything but the idea that diet and exercise helps everyone to lose weight. There are multiple factors involved in such conditions such as age, menopause (and andropause) as well as pollutants in food and the environment (from the drug and chemical industries of course) called obesegens.
It's normal to add at least a pound a year starting in the 30's.
If you mean diet as in being on a diet I don't think that works. But eating a healthy diet and exercising is good for everyone yet this is not what our government encourages. It encourages dependence on drugs. To make a healthy lifestyle a lifelong habit is the best thing a person can do for themselves. That said, it does not promise anyone a perfect body, whatever that is, and people have all different body types, dependant on many variables. The problem is the image forced on people to conform to a certain ideal which is going to cost a lot of money and you will never achieve it so you will just feel worse about yourself.
A relatively banal example of how the worldly powers encourage drug use to keep humanity enslaved, helpless and defenseless. Banal maybe as compared to the Moloch that is global Big Pharma and their debilitating or even deadly potions. Let’s look at alcohol. Being immersed in a foreign culture for the first time naturally means countless impressions of the new, things in contrast to what is usual in your native culture. When I moved to Germany, one such thing was how remarkably inexpensive alcoholic beverages were as compared to prices in the U.S. (and still are today). Germany is famous for its beer, of course. There are brands of low quality, but not so many. Most German beers are excellent. The standard beer bottle holds 0.5 liter. When I arrived in 2001, I was amazed to see how cheap beer was. As I type this, am looking at a sale price offered by an online shop: 1 case of a first-rate German beer, that is 20 x 0.5 liter bottles (10 liters total). Price? 11.99 Euros (12.92 US dollars) = 1.29 US dollars per liter. Attractive price, no? Now bear in mind, inflation has hit Germany hard too. But hardly impacted the price of domestically produced alcohol (all of this applies to wine as well). Even more suspect are the very cheapest German beers. You find them on the bottom shelf in supermarkets, cans not bottles, also 0.5 liter. No-name brands. I have seen such beers priced at 0.39 Euro cents per 0.5 liter (0.42 US cents). If all of the aforementioned does not point to a weaponizing of alcoholic beverages to ensure that society’s most desperate will remain caged in their alcoholism … well, I’m open to other theories. This is my take. “Which is easier, to say to the sick of the palsy: Thy sins are forgiven thee; or to say: Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.” — Mark 2:9
Tour de force! Absolutely brilliant, quite possibly best thing I've read on this platform since I joined in February. So many gems, I'd fill up the whole section to mention them all. How bout simply "nothing will ever be enough"? Couldn't count how many times I've grumbled those words in anger. Speaking of which, maybe I should take myself out for a stroll 🤣 We have become a sad species indeed. They may kill us all in the end ... but I'm gonna beat them to it and die first from laughing at their stupidity.
Thank you!
About willpower and weight loss. My niece by about age 40 balooned up to 297 lbs. Normal height for a woman. Did everything imaginable with her lifestyle to become that obese. Very depressed by this of course, and at some point she decides the only solution is to have gastric bypass surgery. That is, last I knew, the only form of such surgical procedures that is irreversible. It reduced her stomach capacity by approx. 70%, or so she said. Great. Doctor and "death care" professionals enthusiastically give her the green light, on one condition ... here's the killer ... she must first lose 20 pounds. She had this insane surgery because it was IMPOSSIBLE for her to lose weight, she insisted. But then she duly loses the 20 pounds. All systems go, off to the mutilation ward. Oh yeah, last time I saw her she had gained back significant weight, was nowhere near a good healthy weight. Is that not pitiful?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric_bypass_surgery
Wow, that is insane. I am so sorry. Sometimes all we can do is watch in frustration and sadness--and a whole lot of worry--from the sidelines. Very sad.
The night I heard she was going to do this to herself, I hardly slept. Felt it my obligation to at least try to reason with her. But I must honestly admit, by the time I finally drifted off to sleep, I decided to just let it go, to not make myself sick over it. That and I know my niece from the cradle, knew my words would mean nothing. So in that sense It was a postive thing for me, to just accept that sometimes it is futile, no matter how much you care for someone.
Yes, this is what we must decide. Or we have no peace. Each person ultimately is responsible for themselves.
I wonder if she experienced some form of bullying or abuse before she went this way. I'm so sorry to hear this happened to her. It's very hard to let go.
My loved stepmother died at 89 (in 2014) after a lifetime of starving herself because ONE PERSON bullied her about being chubby. She was always a very tall (5'11") and very slim woman (maybe 108 lbs?) even around the time this comment was made.
She would not eat ANY FAT. Starving oneself like this is one of the things that leads to senility.
Thank you for your comment. I'm very sorry for your stepmother. My niece suffered a very hard thing at age 2, when her father abandoned her and my sister. I mean physically abandoned, gone from the scene. At age 2, old enough to walk and talk. As long as I live I will never forget her toddling over to me, arms raised, to tell me "My Daddy gone", her eyes expressing how puzzled she was. Both my father and my mother lost their mothers at that age. It is a devastating trauma (particularly loss of the mother) that shapes the rest of one's life. Something that cannot be repaired. Hard for me to even think about.
I'm so sad to hear this! The amount of damage inflicted by male abandonment is incalculable and has happened to all women (and a lot of men).
I guess my grandson was around 14 (now 23) when my son left his first family and the effect devastated his life and included a massive weight gain. Fortunately he lost it all after puberty.
And now my son (whom I GAVE UP for adoption but met when he was 17) is on the verge of leaving his second family and second child, my 9 yr old granddaughter!
WITAF!?!?! Life is so farked up for everyone! <3
Like your grandson, my neice also sought "love" through overeating. You know, the 1960s counterculture and the sexual revolution came along, so liberating, or so many of us believed, rid of all those "hangups"of prior generations. We were more advanced. I grew up Catholic, at a time when a divorce was a serious scandal. But then there was freedom. Divorce an everyday thing. Cannot tell you how long it took me to understand, after I put myself through life's wringer, a ton of self-inflicted harm to the soul, shameful things, that there were very good reasons for social mores and religious traditions that called for things like chastity until marriage, condemned promiscuity and many things. Ancient traditions. Understood that those people so long ago were not just "spoilsports" :) and prudish. They knew from hard experience that certain behaviors if widespread can actually destroy civilizations. But we humans are not great at learning from the past, are we? I admire your honesty and openness, and wish you and your loved ones all the best!
Forgot to mention that both of my parents died young and mum had died of a protracted breast cancer battle right before I had sex for the first time and forgot to use a condom! ARGH.
Just a little speculation/brainstorming. With Big Pharma so much in the news, recently stumbled on Novo Nordisk in context of obesity drugs. Was struck immediately by their logo, which is Apis, an ancient Egyptian bull deity. Started research on that but got sidetracked. The family that originally founded Novo Nordisk, I think it was, were connected with Egyptology, maybe collecting Egyptian antiquities, scholarship in the field. Seemingly they chose the bull deity because of its vitality and so on. Many tend to think of ancient Egypt as fascinating history, pyramids etc. all nice and harmless National Geographic fare. But among the ancient civilizations that were saturated in sorcery, curses, black magic and so on -- I don't think there was a one that surpassed Egypt. All this very tenuous, I realize. But as a devout Catholic, I take paganism, the demonic, magic (ALL magic is black magic) very seriously, consider them absolutely real and present dangers that I defend myself against, with my faith as armor. And symbols can exert remarkable power over human beings. Considering the Novo Nordisk track record, guess I'd feel better if they'd chosen a blossoming flower or a mighty tree of life as their logo. https://www.novonordisk.com/about/our-heritage.html
Fascinating formation, thank you! I am currently writing a series about my experiences living in Luxor, Egypt. I left about 6 months into the pandemic, under dangerous circumstances. It's true what you say. I lived within walking distance of the Valley of the Kings where most of the pharaohs were buried. Besides being ruled as a society by Islamism/Sharia Law, Egyptians still believe very strongly in magic and curses like the "evil eye". I will get into what I learned about it in my series. Love and Lies on the Nile https://khmezek.substack.com/s/love-and-lies-on-the-nile
Yes! I had looked at your other site online and noticed that you'd lived and worked in Egypt. Forgot that when I posted. I will very much be looking forward to that series. You weren't kidding when you said you are an adventurer :) -- hope you did not have to use your martial arts skills in earnest when you were in Egypt.
I made sure it never got that far. If it had, I would not be here today, I'd be at the bottom of the Nile, as one persona cannot physically stand against an entire culture and religion out to kill or "revert" all infidels. People in the west are very naive about this.
They sure are ... and somehow getting more naive about it every day.
I wuz never a fan of lousy act-trice an' Ouja laydee Nancy Regan OR her "just say no" campaign (ugh)--'specially when our gubbamint wuz traffickin' drugs of all sorts behind the scenes--BUT there is indeed much ta say about Just Sayin' No. If someone's wartchin' their waistband, it should be "no thank ya" an' done. If they're at some pahrty (I've told my girls this) an' somebuddy offers 'em ANYTHING (drinks 'er worse), I tell 'em jes that--"Say No" (firmly).
Today too many are afraid ta say NO. Sometimes it comes with heat ('er lost chobs, lost appart-mints! we know this 1st hand) but literally all our fambly did wuz say NO. We blamed nobuddy fer the consequences of our decisions--sometimes it's a drag ta miss out on...income, classes, performances.... or dessert. But if the world warn't topsy turvy, EVERY chile would learn to JUST SAY NO! ('or neine, nix, or no thanks!)
Exactly. No, thanks. Everybody's forgotten their manners too!
ha ha, don't git me started on that one--some forgot'em but too many young'uns never got 'em in the first place ;-) (good postin' tho'--all these folks wantin' too easy answers / solutions...drugs is just one'a them...)
Powerful & informative article - thank you KH. I too, find walking extremely calming & soothing to my Soul. It helps me detach from the insanity & attach myself to Spirit & our Mother Earth ...
They aren't even pretending they are not trying to kill us anymore. Guess they figure if they throw enough ways to kill ourselves at us, they'll eventually get rid of all of us "extra mouths", as they refer to us.
Really excellent piece, KHM! ✨
🙏
all this pharma expansion is predicated on a stable or growing population. considering what they manufacture, they should know better.
or maybe this is just a last-gasp scheme to draw in the most clueless contingent in the speculator class
Peter Kropotkin: “The most effective human and animal communities are essentially cooperative, rather than competitive.” Kropotkin based this classic on his observations of natural phenomena and history, forming a work of stunning and well-reasoned scholarship. Essential to the understanding of human evolution as well as social organization, it offers a powerful counterpoint to the tenets of Social Darwinism. It also cites persuasive evidence of human nature’s innate compatibility with anarchist society.—Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) : MUTUAL AID: A Factor of Evolution. www.doverpublications.com.