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Clif Notes of the Everything Grift
I have a bit of personal Thailand drama to report, which requires a clif notes backstory which I will get to. Apologies if my writing is a bit disjointed today. Sasha Latpova’s recent article had me thinking. A lot of substack writers have been doing phenomenal executive summaries. There’s a lot of grifting going on:
So how do you fake a pandemic grift, according to Sasha Latpova?
“Step 1: Poison a few people in a few geographic locations (“sentinel cases”) with a drug (chemical toxin or bio-toxin) that causes “highly morbid” central nervous system (CNS) effects . [I told you “covid” was a synthetic toxin, didn’t I?]
Step 2: Pretend it was “a bug, a virus modified with CRISPR Cas9” (what James means here is - “oops, forget what I just told you 45 seconds ago about A DRUG. I really-really mean a bioengineered GOF virus!!”)
Step 3: Use the “REAL BUG” - the Internet! Broadcast on social media that everyone is infected with a “highly lethal agent” that has “asymptomatic, prodromal effects” - anxiety, sleeplessness and worry. When you worry - those are the signs that you have a “lethal asymptomatic infection”. M-kay. That means the undergraduate students in a garage someplace released the bioweapon. Or it “leaked” from BSL4 facility in Wuhan (that sounds scarier, doesn’t it?), and it got to you all the way in Iowa. Believe!!!
Step 4: All hypochondriacs and “worried-well” run to their doctors and flood the hospital ERs, yay! Now we can get them with the fake PCR-remdesivir-ventilator protocol! and call it “covid”!
PS. For extra fun play a game of confusing messages and denial with CDC. Does this explain Fauci’s flip-flop on masks early on in 2020 - you bet it does!
There is a “step 0” that’s required for this plan to really work out - that is constant brainwashing of the masses, programming their brains to respond to some key trigger words in a predictable fashion.”
And from Coffee and Covid, the newest hype about Disease X:
As Jeff Childers writes:
“To set the table, here’s USA Today’s headline from two days ago:
Sometimes I wonder whether corporate media is really just trolling us. Does it reassure you that world leaders are focused on preventing a hypothetical pandemic? Does it make sense to spend billions of tax dollars getting ready to solve a problem that they admit “doesn’t exist?” Aren’t real pandemics enough for them? We literally just had one. Do we really need to spend real money preparing for fake pandemics now?
It’s for your own good!
According to USA Today, the “X” in Disease X is not actually generic, as in ‘Virus Brand X.’ The ‘X’ stands for “uneXpected,” meaning they are lavishing millions on swanky Davos seminars spending half days ‘working’ in five-star hotels planning for something unexpected. Think about that. In other words, they are getting ready for something they’ll never see coming.
Brilliant! That’s the logic. That’s where we’re at now. Our best and brightest.
And those people honestly believe they are smarter than everyone else. Which might be true in at least one sense: They figured out the grift before we did.
Over eleven X-Files story arc seasons, the elites and the deep state allied with UFO aliens over a dark plot to genetically hybridize humans using alien DNA, to turn people into alien slaves or dog-faced pony soldiers or something. In 2008’s “X-Files: I Want to Believe,” the government first released a deadly virus, call it Disease X, hyped the public’s fear, and then released a nanotech-based genetic vaccine in service of their nefarious plot, and to catch a few Benjamins in the process. I know, I know, that plot is too crazy to even make a movie about, what were they thinking, and so forth.
It’s become clearer than ever that public health is where intellectually-challenged people go when they are flunking out of medical school after failing organic chemistry for the third time. Public health is a safe landing spot for lazy, incompetent people or folks struggling with undiagnosed, low-functioning mental illnesses. Mental illnesses like OCDs, hypochondria, and germaphobia.
But the good thing is they still have to call you “doctor.”
The problem is that these public health morons — dummies who couldn’t hack basic biology, don’t cure patients, and don’t make or invent anything — now have got a taste of the bella vita, the good life. During the pandemic these introspective nerds were feted by media, raised up by politicians, hanging out with celebrities, and most important being draped with lavish budgets beyond their wildest dreams of avarice.
They don’t want to let it go, and who can blame them? They want to fly to Switzerland on private jets, guzzle champagne during the work day and toss back a couple dozen bacon-wrapped figs while waxing rhapsodically about the good ol’ lockdown days.
That’s why they need Disease X; they don’t have a real pandemic anymore. Letting them fearmonger us plays right into their grubby little self-important hands. My suggestion is: ignore Disease X.”
Pharma, of course, has it’s own handy playbook for news articles. In listening to the radio for the last several days I’ve noticed all of the ads seem to be for drugs, hospitals, or vaccines. This Brownstone article explains how they make these results look organic:
“Another less conspicuous tactic is to co-opt the news media to market your product for you. The process is quite straightforward and relatively cheap, as demonstrated in this local news article from the regional Bay Post/Moruya Examiner, ‘Festive warning as poll reveals lax COVID-19 attitudes.’
1. Pharma Pays for Market Research
2. Pharma Crafts Results Into Press Release Urging Take Up of the Target Product, Forwards to News Syndicator
Ideally, the press release does not appear on Pharma’s regular media page, as it’s important that this looks like organic news coming from a trusted news source, not the marketing campaign that it is.
3. News Syndicator Lightly Edits Press Release, Publishes as News
Quotes from experts obliquely recommending the product should be inserted. This can be done either at stage #2 or #3. Use framing as a device to minimise the appearance of experts and media being seen to overtly give health advice or push Pharma products. Frame low vaccination uptake as a problem, followed by experts calling on the public to ‘take precautions’ (i.e.: the solution), accompanied by images of vaccination (i.e.: precaution/solution).
4. Local News Outlets Republish Syndicated Article as Local News
Voila! A plethora of advertorials disguised as ‘local news’ for the small price of conducting a public poll. This format is adaptable to all major industries – Big Energy, Big Agriculture, Big Food, and so on. Like mRNA tech, just plug and play.”
Everything just seems like a grift. It all works so much better if it is subconscious.
So here’s my drama. Any advice is appreciated.
My husband is currently in a bit of pickle. After sleeping on it I figure my best bet is to alert anyone reading this as to what the situation is. Brother Tee, as some of you may know, basically stole everything of value from our bungalow by early September or so. It was over the course of several weeks and he provided cover stories at first: the motorbikes had been taken to be fixed, or some shady other person had probably grabbed such and such a thing. He had a new girlfriend at the time and I suspected that he was getting in over his head again with the Thai mafia. Hence he desperately needed money.
This is not a new story. Tee has been in and out of jail, mostly over his selling and possession of yaba, which I’ve gathered is like methamphetamine, more times than I care to document. Now I have never tried this substance (in the USA or Thailand, nor have I ever tried the chemical pharmaceutical equivalent in some ADHD medicine), much less had an addiction or interest in it. Of the three brothers Ka was and is the cleanest: Tee became a lifelong, heavy duty junkie, while my first husband Oh struggled with addiction, cleaned up his act completely after we married, then relapsed in 2018. Momma’s boy Ka, meanwhile, just never seemed to take to the stuff. I’m sometimes fascinated by the variations on addiction that play out in families.
The Clif notes version is that Tee is into some stuff which we absolutely have nothing to do with. But he discovered that Ka was staying in Thailand at the bungalow alone a few days ago and has shamelessly kidnapped my husband. They are staying in a row house near Patong or Phuket Town with bright pink interior walls. Ka has called me about 42 times in the last two days with the exact same story: he needs money now. I have sent Ka money before through Moneygram the in person cash pickup is a protection for him. My husband has been working some odd jobs and had a bit of money (around 1500 baht) so I’d have to assume that if he has absolutely none that what he had was taken from him.
I have no money to give my husband right now. I’ve also been burnt in the past by the gaping bottomless pit of addiction fueled mafia gangster spending. What’s fascinating and sad to me is that even if I had say $50 to throw them, the three of them (Brother Tee, Ka and unknown “friend” they are staying with) could earn that much, even in Thailand, by working for 1-2 days. Are they even planning on giving my husband 60 baht to take a bus back to the bungalow? This seems like a lot of effort for little potential gain. I live very close to the land and am the farthest thing from a “rich” farang.
Would you send Ka money if you were me? I have contacted a few people in the area such as Kuhn Chef and I am contemplating my next move. I’m open to suggestions!
The Clif notes version of our love story is this: in 2018 my husband Oh concluded that me and Ka were in love with each other, but that we would never act on it as long as he was alive. I’ve got to be one of relatively few people who has sometimes wondered if my first husband would still be alive if I had just slept with his brother before he died. Tee was in jail at the time of Oh’s death and at the time of my mother in law’s death, so I’m thinking he’s seeded a different story about these events. Stealing our fan and Ka’s last pair of shoes some months ago, leaving my husband walking to the store with me barefoot in order to buy a new pair of flip flops, just felt too petty vindictive to be a simple money thing. Maybe I’m overthinking it.
Have you seen this man? Yes Ka has his ID card: it’s just that he couldn’t find it, had it remade, then ended up with two of them. He wanted me to keep one copy with me when I left Thailand.
At least half of the reason I don’t want to be financially successful is because it ends up getting taken to fund shit I am opposed to:
Flat Earth does seem short on alternate astronomy…
Here’s hoping I don’t need to fly anywhere for the next little while. Then again I don’t even know where my husband is…
Does anyone have advice on my personl situation? Or did you just drop in for the memes?
No one knows the situation better and has more experience with all of it than you. If I were you, I'd be leaning heavily on my intuition right now.
Can we help you clarify the situation? I'm going to ask you a whole bunch of clarifying questions. Many of them are unthinkable. Many of them will seem outrageous. I don't know you, or your family, or the Thai culture. What you describe is clearly very very upsetting. It seems you are hoping for a good outcome. It seems terribly hard not to be able to trust and rely on your family! I will try to think with you about this situation. REMEMBER, though. I can't tell you what you should do.
THE QUESTION
Ka, your husband, has been "kidnapped by his brother Tee." Should you send him ransom money? Can you? Do you have $50 to send? Will that be enough? What you want to decide is should you send money to Ka?
FIRST: What happens to Ka if you don't send it? You didn't discuss this outcome. Does Tee harm Ka? Does Ka lose his job? (Is he unemployed.)
Further discussion: Why is Ka so eager to get money? It sounds like Tee is the one who really needs the money. Does Tee owe money to the Thai mafia? Will the mafia harm Tee if Ka doesn't pay Tee?
You say Tee kidnapped Ka. How does Tee prevent Ka from leaving?
You say Tee is an addict. You have given Tee money previously (I'm not rereading your post correct me if I'm wrong.) Tee has stolen possessions from you. Tee has lied to you and to Ka and to the mafia. The mafia is bad. Is Tee also "bad" (meaning untrustworthy)? I don't think Tee is uncomfortable with taking your money and lying and/or stealing. It seems he has done this before.
Tee wants to be able to do what he wants with no consequences or responsibilities. In fact he probably doesn't think of drugs and consequences in the same thought. Probably all he thinks is "I REALLY REALLY need to take drugs because I'm feeling bad" (unhappy victim) AND THEN "I REALLY REALLY need money to pay off my drug dealers or I will get hurt (unhappy victim) But he never puts drug use together with its consequences.
He has gotten in trouble with the Thai Mafia before. PREDICTION: Tee is an addict. He will be unable to control his addiction (based on past history). The Mafia will, therefore, always be a threat to you and Ka because of Tee.
Does Tee promise to reform? Does Ka hope Tee will behave and plead with you on Tee's behalf?
Is sending the money the end of the matter?
MY CONCLUSION
Tee is on a repetitive treadmill. Needs drug. Has no money. Borrows money from the Mafia (or steals from them. to get drugs) Mafia threatens him when he fails to repay them. He promises he will get the money. Eventually, he gets it from Ka--and then from you if Ka has no money. You are too scared of the Mafia to refuse him. He pays off the Mafia. NOW RETURN TO BEGINNING OF THIS PARAGRAPH AND KEEP REPEATING
You can't get Tee to stop. He and the Mafia are happy because they can rely on you and Ka to fund Tee's addiction. You are thinking Tee will say "That was a close call! I avoided the Mafia by the skin of my teeth. I'm ashamed that I lost control of my drug addiction. I'm ashamed that I put my brother and sister in law in peril. I am so grateful they bailed me out (again). I will never do anything like this again." (until next time)
Tee is deluded (majority of addicts are deluded). He will be happy and grateful that you bailed him out. WHEW! Need some drugs to celebrate! OR Need some drugs to feel better because of depression. Can't function without drugs. Jealous of you and Ka. You OWE him this money because he's an unhappy Mafia victim and life has dealt him a raw deal.
Ask your friends and relatives what they think. What does Ka say? Ask him if he is scared of the Mafia. Ask him if he thinks Tee will pay off the Mafia or spend your money on drugs. Ask him if he is free to leave. I don't think you can talk to Tee or the Mafia. They will do what they can to get more and more money from you. Maybe Tee has also managed to convince Ka that this time will go better.
I'm so sorry for everybody. I recently read a Meme which showed graffiti reading "Life is pain." Another graffiti artist appended, "AU CHOCOLAT." It now reads: "Life is pain AU CHOCOLAT."
Are you the golden goose, the horn of plenty, the magic fairy? Once they realize you will do everything possible to give them money, they will never stop. Do you agree?
Is Ka deluded? Is he able to think past this crisis? Do Tee and Ka think only in the short term (most addicts don't have long range plans--they are using drugs to cope in the short term.) In that case Ka is really upset that his brother is hurting (is Tee also going through withdrawal?). Maybe Ka feels responsible? Ask Ka why he thinks you should give Tee money. Because it worked so well previously?
Oh Amy, the only thing I believe is that you can't trust Tee or the Mafia. Use your money to help Ka leave Tee and separate himself from Tee who seems a bad influence.
I know that's what you're trying to do. One thing you could do is interview someone who knows the mafia to find out what is most likely to happen if Tee doesn't pay off his debt. No chance of treatment for Tee? Does Tee even WANT to get rehabilitated? Ka has known Tee longer than you have. Does he trust him?
You didn't mention this, but can you appeal to the police? Are they corrupt? If I were the police I would have trouble believing that a brother could kidnap his brother and demand ransom from his sister in law. The fact that Ka is demanding the money seems terribly suspicious. Do you ever talk to Tee? What does Tee tell you? Can you threaten Tee that you will have him arrested (possession of drugs) if he bothers you?
What do you think of risk/benefit ratio for mRNA Covid vaccines?
What do you think of risk/benefit ratio for eating a sugary donut one time? Or getting regular nights of sleep?
What do you think of risk/benefit ratio of paying ransom money to Tee?
What good thing (benefit) is likely to happen if you give Ka and Tee $50?
Tee and Ka will be happy.
Ka will return to you.
Tee will pay off his debt.
Tee will control his drug use or other expenses so he doesn't have to ask you for more money
What's the risk for giving Tee money?
You lose your money
Tee needs more money and kidnaps Ka again--and you are in the same situation again
What good thing (benefit) will happen from NOT giving Ka and Tee $50?
You won't lose your money.
Tee is less likely to ask you again for money.
What's the risk of NOT giving money to Ka and Tee?
You didn't save Ka and will feel guilty for not trusting him and his brother
The Mafia will harm Tee or Ka.
You have to face uncomfortable truths--can you trust your family?
Ka will never forgive you and you will experience severe marital conflict which is awful because you love your husband.
Whatever you decide to do--Thank you for your substack. Also: You seem like a wonderful person and wife.