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Gurdjieff escaped the Russian Empire during the outbreak of mass madness otherwise known as the Great Russian Revolution. He lived and taught in France during the Nazi occupation. But the connection between Gurdjieff, the Fourth Way, and totalitarianism isn't much discussed, so on this episode of MindMatters we welcome back Alan Francis of the International School of the Fourth Way to discuss the place and function of the Work in the current rumblings of mass madness. Alan stresses the...

The news has been sprinkled with stories of late about people pushing back against the tyrannical vaccine mandates that are threatening the liberty of the citizens of planet earth. A number of lawsuits have been issued by workers banding together in multiple sectors, including LA firefighters, Los Alamos nuclear scientists and airline employees. Protests have erupted in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France and England. The LA county sheriff has refused to enforce the vaccine mandate, and a...

Before 'Zero Covid' surfaced as the apparent goal of governments in the 'War Against The Virus', 'Zero Carbon' had become their goal in the 'War Against Climate Change'. What is up with this strange 'zeroing in' on the primary carbon source for life on Earth, and an ubiquitous and statistically benign coronavirus? How and why did governments decide that completely eradicating man-made CO2 would 'make the world a better place'? Likewise with SARS-CoV-2, a virus that has likely by now infected...

Looking through the latest news, we can't help but notice the date October 15 being brought up repeatedly in the context of mandatory vaccinations. Italy's Green Pass is coming into force on October 15 and it's also the deadline for US Federal contract employees to get the vax, for example. But it's not just at the federal level - many states, counties, universities and employers have taken on this seemingly arbitrary date as the deadline for vaccination - the drop dead date, if you will. So...

Recent 'revelations' that Chinese authorities were buying up PCR tests months before the Wuhan Covid-19 outbreak have renewed interest in the China-lab leak theory and cemented Western suspicion that the Chinese Communist Party is responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic and covered up its origins. Meanwhile reports of the Chinese military conducting high numbers of flights in or near Taiwanese airspace has seen war rhetoric ramp up in Western media. Are 'we' on the cusp of WWIII with China?...

Wherein your MindMatters hosts share their brain thoughts on recent news and random things, like the death of Norm MacDonald, death itself, humor, Nicki Minaj, and why Klaus Schwab needs his own action figure. Running Time: 00:56:32 Download: MP3 — 51.8 MB

On September 24th a mysterious PDF was uploaded online that quickly went viral on social media. Dubbed "The Spartacus Letter", it's a document that outlines almost everything about Covid, from disease function and treatment to revealing the vast criminal conspiracy behind the Covid outbreak. The author of the paper is unknown (although the paper references 'we', indicating there is a group behind it). They make no claim as to their qualifications, although many commentators have said the...

It's full-steam ahead in the war against the virus! And the war to fix the climate. But mainly the other war! With the military literally leading the 'vaccine roll-out operation' in Australia, is it any wonder that country has been so ruthlessly successful in stamping out the virus? In this NewsReal, Joe and Niall discuss the latest moves by governments from New York to New South Wales to protect people against the deadly plague - and to prepare them for energy and food shortages. There are...

One voice that has been an island of sanity among the propaganda spewing scientists for the last year and a half has been that of John Ioannidis. A physician, scientist, researcher, Ioannidis is one of the most published and influential scientists in the world. Many laymen and scientists alike first discovered him from his influential 2005 paper "Why Most Published Research Findings are False", bringing attention to the fact that a significant amount of published medical research papers...

Since last week's NewsReal warning about the likelihood of economic 'collapse', government and media reports about such seem to have dramatically increased. Given low levels of trust in the media and government, this has in turn prompted a reaction of disbelief in the 'reality' of food and fuel shortages. This week, Joe and Niall return to the topic, clarifying that while 'perception manipulation' around shortages is taking place for political reasons, real world indicators do point to the...

Today on MindMatters we interview renowned American philosopher Nicholas Capaldi, author of numerous books, including The Art of Deception and the definitive biography of John Stuart Mill. Recently retired, Professor Capaldi reflects on his experiences teaching, the increasingly oppressive climate in American universities, the political philosophy of Mill, and why things have gotten so crazy in the West. Erudite and engaging, Capaldi takes us deep into the American political psyche with the...

Anyone watching any kind of alternative media for the last month and a half knows that Australia has lost it's freakin' mind. The country has gone into full fascist mode, 'because Coronavirus'. The military on the streets, sirens are blaring, the police are getting violent with protesters, strict stay-at-home orders are in full effect with restrictions getting tighter by the day. Thank God it's only over there... for now. All the signs point to this brand of fascism getting exported to other...

A steady trickle of media reports about shortages in food, energy and supplies, and increases in prices across the board, has recently become more of a gushing leak - a leak that threatens serious economic consequences for people everywhere. On this NewsReal, Joe and Niall take stock of such reports, track their likely origin to government lockdowns, and warn that things may come to a head very soon. In going along with officials' response to the pandemic, people traded temporary loss of...

Was the fall of Soviet communism 30 years ago a liberation, or just the replacement of one totalitarian ideology with another? Today on MindMatters we interview Polish philosopher Zbigniew Janowski about his recent book, Homo Americanus: The Rise of Totalitarian Democracy in America. In a quest to understand current trends in American society and politics, Professor Janowski revisited the classics: Dostoevsky, Zamyatin, Orwell, and especially Huxley. His collection of meditations on the...

On this episode of Objective:Health we talk about the latest news in Covid vaccine shenanigans. A study has come out showing natural immunity is 13 times stronger than immunity conferred by the Pfizer shot (so why are they pushing everyone to get vaccinated?). Another data analysis shows the US states that had the best uptake in vaccine compliance also had the greatest numbers of new cases. But that's probably just a coincidence. And a controversial article from Children's Health Defense...

Marking the 20th anniversary of the multi-site terror attack on September 11th, and with 'Islamist' terror attacks tapering off and the US pulling out of Afghanistan, it feels like the end of an era. Much of what is considered 'normal' today - not least, strict government controls on people's movements and transactions - would have been unthinkable before 9/11. The 'war on terror' may be gone, but it leaves behind a gargantuan global surveillance and control grid. On this NewsReal, Joe and...

On August 23, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US approved the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, the fastest approval in the agency's history. This means the shot is no longer only in use under the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and opens the door for vaccine mandates by employers, universities and the military, and gives doctors flexibility in using vaccinations for "off-label use," like giving booster shots. But the approval has been far from straight forward. Firstly, the FDA did...

Language. We use it to speak, obtain information and enrich our minds. We're immersed in it every day and would find it nearly impossible to communicate and exist in the ways that we're used to without it. And yet the use of language - and all its varied and nuanced components - are very largely taken for granted by us until we take a step or two back to think about how language works, how incredibly complex it is, what many languages have in common, what makes language successful (or not),...

The goalposts keep changing in the 'pandemic crisis'. From reassuring people that children are not at risk from Covid-19, governments have begun ignoring their own scientific advisors' advice to push for vaccinating children against Covid-19. In response to this, protests are intensifying in scale and scope as parents realize 'parental rights' no longer mean what they used to. On this NewsReal, Joe and Niall take stock of developments in 'Pandemia' this week, connecting the increasing...

With the rise of the dreaded Covid variants, the authorities have been screeching from the pulpit that everyone needs to be vaccinated to protect themselves, now more than ever. However, there is significant evidence that these variants have arisen specifically due to wide-scale vaccination events. Called 'leaky vaccines,' this possibility arises when the shots don't eradicate the disease in its entirety, but allow the virus to mutate into forms resistant to the vaccine. Indeed, some...

The mass evacuation operation of several tens of thousands of Westerners and Afghans was brutally interrupted this week by what the media reported was a 'double-suicide bombing'. 13 US soldiers, an unconfirmed number of Taliban, and dozens of Afghan civilians were killed. A group of dubious origin named 'ISIS-K', Western media reported, claimed responsibility for the attack. But the US military has since clarified that just one, not two, explosions took place, while some local eyewitness...

During the Cold War, the world's liberal democracies, like the USA, were widely perceived as the bastion of freedom, especially to those behind the Iron Curtain. But the past three decades have caused many to revise their views. With the rise of totalitarian thinking and practice in the West in those years, the question must be asked: what happened? Professor of Philosophy and conservative politician Ryszard Legutko pondered these questions in the 1990s and 2000s, culminating in his 2012...

The 'sudden collapse' of the US-installed regime in Kabul, sweeping the Taliban back into power in Afghanistan, brought the war in Afghanistan to a stunning end last week. The chaos at Kabul Airport as tens of thousands of Americans, other Western citizens, and Afghan allies attempt to flee the new regime is mirrored by chaos in the halls of power as the White House, US National Security State, and even the media struggle to explain what the heck just happened. In this NewsReal, Joe and...

Welcome to another 'In the News' episode of the Objective:Health show, where we look into the latest health headlines to give you the O:H take. On this week's show, we look at German pathologist Dr. Peter Schirmacher findings after doing autopsies on 40 patients who died within 2 weeks of getting the Covid shot. He concluded that 30-40% could be directly attributed to the "vaccines." He's not calling for anything drastic; simply asking for more autopsies of those who die shortly after...

Is the war in Afghanistan finally over? The US' longest war appears to be reaching its conclusion with the withdrawal of American forces, and the Taliban's rapid advance into Afghanistan's cities. Although it seems to have occurred 'overnight', this development has actually been in play since the Trump administration. Since the week before Western lockdowns began, funnily enough... In this NewsReal, Joe and Niall explain why the bizarre (mis)adventure of 'get Osama Bin Laden hiding out in...

For some it is the holiest book, they only one you'll ever need. For others it is a tool of conquering. Some find in it the loftiest values, others only the basest superstitions. Today on MindMatters we delve into this contradictory world of interpretations: religion as a source of extrinsic morality, or a call to the spark of divinity within, or somewhere in between. Perhaps, just like humanity, the Bible is multilevel in nature, with a little something for everyone, from saints to...

It's time for another 'In the News' edition of Objective:Health and today we're focusing on (surprise, surprise) the Covid agenda! On this episode we take a look at an article posted on Mercola.com where an interview with David E. Martin, Ph.D. who has been in the business of tracking patent applications and approvals since 1998 with his company M-Cam International Innovation Risk Management and has even monitored biological and chemical weapons treaty violations for the US government in...

Despite health authorities acknowledging that Covid vaccines prevent neither infection nor transmission, governments - again in 'lockstep' - last week announced that teenagers are next in line for them. Meanwhile major protests against the 'vaccine green pass' continue growing, and some local governments like Texas and Florida have vowed never to pass such laws. What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? We're surely going to found out soon enough! Also on this...

Does history really repeat? If so, how, and why? We discussed the "fourth turning" on a previous episode of MindMatters. According to Strauss and Howe, the United States has entered a time of crisis which could see societal collapse, revolution, or war. However, their theory has its problems. While suggestive on the descriptive level, it has not been scientifically supported. Enter Peter Turchin. Today we continue our discussion of historical cycles by looking at cliodynamics, a field of...

We're finally seeing some tangible pushback from the public at large about the draconian clamp-down on civil rights and freedoms! On July 24, around the world hundreds of thousands of people were on the streets for the 'World Wide Rally for Freedom,' as people fed up with the totalitarian measures enacted by the elites on the populace made their voices heard. Outside of this one day, there have been numerous additional protests popping up allover the world. Could this finally be the people...

In the face of growing mass demonstrations against government overreach, political authorities across the West this week DOUBLED-DOWN on their 'anti-pandemic measures' by announcing the return of mandatory facemask-wearing in public (the vaccinated included), and mandatory vaccines for all. Also this week, the US CDC acknowledged that the 'fully vaccinated' are just as likely to spread the virus (and come down with Covid-19) as the non-vaccinated. So... what's the point of the vaccines...

On this episode of Objective:Health we do another news roundup where we take a look at the latest health-related headlines making the rounds. This week we look into the summertime resurgence of what are normally winter illnesses, the population of France being overrun with heavy metals, high carbon dioxide levels in kids wearing masks and a truly stunning study that finds meat substitutes are not nutritionally equivalent to real meat (shocking!). We also talk about the latest lawsuit against...

Following the French government's announcement July 12th that all healthcare workers must accept an American-made mRNA jab by end September - and that everyone else would be financially and socially pressured into accepting one too - governments around the world have followed suit, in 'lockstep', it seems, with orders coming from God-knows-where. In reaction to this draconian move, mass protests have erupted everywhere, with the media either not reporting on them or misreporting their scale....

As things continue to get worse culturally and politically, it pays to ask oneself how far one will go. What are the limits to my obedience to authority? At what point do I become what I hate? To avoid becoming a monster, the first step is to draw some red lines: things we simply will not do. But will we actually stick to them, or simply go along with the crowd when the challenge proves too difficult? History is not flattering to our high ideals and self-images. When it comes down to it, the...

Every week it seems like more and more jaw-dropping news is coming out about Covid shots. On this episode of Objective:Health, we cover the latest news on the mRNA and other shots, including: Dr. Yeadon warning that children are 50 times more likely to die from the vaccines than from Covid; Mercola reporting that to prevent three deaths the Covid jab kills two; rare autoimmune hepatitis coming from the Covishield vaccine and a British report calling for an the end to the Covid vaccination...

Dystopian new laws coercing people to accept mRNA Covid jabs were announced by many Western government leaders this week. Will these actually become law? And will they be enforceable? In today's NewsReal podcast, live from 4pm CET / 10am US Eastern / 2pm UTC, Joe & Niall discuss the apparent 'quickening' towards totalitarianism - along with the extreme weather events in western Europe and elsewhere. Running Time: 01:30:30 Download: MP3 — 75.4 MB

Arthur Versluis, professor of religious studies at Michigan State University, is the author of many books and an expert on Western mysticism and esotericism, especially the Christian theosophic tradition. He's also an expert on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism, the subject of his excellent 2006 book, The New Inquisitions. Today on MindMatters we talk with Arthur about a range of subjects: totalitarianism, ponerology, gnosis, Christian mystics, decentralization, and the "mystical...

The effects of government lockdowns to counter the pundemic continue to reverberate across the globe. This week on NewsReal, Joe and Niall discuss the sharp rise in non-Covid illnesses as social distancing measures ease and seasonal viral transmission returns with a vengeance. In apparent response to this and other 'side-effects' of lockdowns, governments are responding with increasingly radical control measures. Media reports about food shortages and Covid vaccines becoming mandatory round...

Extreme avarice. Fratricide. Megalomania. Debauchery. Genocide. At the height of its power and influence ancient Rome was led by some truly crazy and terrifying people. Caligula and Nero come to mind as the most famous, but they had a lot of company: men (and women) whose unbridled ambition and wielding of power were employed to absolutely horrible and destructive effect. And even if they were assassinated (which was quite often the case!), another grossly incompetent and tyrannical...

Since the beginning of the mass vaccination campaign there have been a number of anecdotal stories of heart complications resulting from the shot. These were passed off in the media as isolated incidents, coincidences or just plain misinformation, as the public was continually gaslit about the incredible safety of the Covid vaccines. So at the end of June when the FDA announced that they would be adding a warning to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines of a rare heart inflammation side effect...

The Covid-19 pandemic, they told us, required that governments enforce unprecedented lockdowns and the effective shutting down of many aspects of normal life. But as things reopen and life returns to something like normal, what has the single greatest government intervention in people's lives cost society? On this NewsReal podcast, Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley discuss some of the effects of lockdowns and their tremendous toll on people's lives. Running Time: 01:37:20 Download: MP3 — 66.2 MB

Last month a Canadian cancer vaccine researcher Byram Brindle came forward to reveal some truly astounding news about the spike protein component of of the COVID-19 virus. "We made a big mistake. We didn't realize it until now," he is quoted as saying in an interview on "ON Point with Alex Pierson". In the interview, Brindle discusses peer reviewed research that give some truly stunning reasons behind vaccine side effects such as heart inflammation, vaccine-induced immune thrombotic...

China is almost universally blamed in the West for either causing the Covid-19 pandemic or scaring governments the world over into taking drastic counter-measures against it. With the 'China lab leak' narrative recently receiving a high-profile boost at the G7, NewsReal hosts Joe Quinn and Niall Bradley look back at the genesis of the strangest global crisis of all time. They also re-examine the Capitol Hill 'insurrection' in light of recent news that FBI informants and/or employees were...

As we continue to observe the ever-encroaching signs of 'woke' thinking, ideology, language, behavior, and political policy in western society we find it necessary to take a step back and ask ourselves: what is wokism actually a sign of? What undergirds it, stratifies it and gives its "power"? And more specifically, what are the underlying psychological conditions and deficiencies among so many - that make this virulent and dangerous movement what its come to be as we're seeing it today?...

"You're not a doctor!" How many times have we had this appeal to authority thrown in our faces when trying to make an argument against the dominant narrative of the day? The authoritarian mindset will only accept arguments, no matter how logical and well-reasoned, if they're coming from the mouth of a properly respected authority figure, like a doctor. This is why it is so valuable when doctors speak out against the narratives of the day. When an authority figure comes forward with narrative...

You'd have to have been living under a rock to not have heard about the infamous Fauci emails that have been allover the news cycle for the last few weeks. While many in the media refer to them as "leaks", they were actually obtained by BuzzFeed and the Washington Post, as well as the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), who filed freedom of information requests to receive internal government correspondence from Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and...

Germany has seen two totalitarian regimes in the 20th century: Nazism and communism in Eastern Germany. This gives many Germans unique insights into the workings of propaganda, mass-hypnosis and dictatorial policies. At the same time, we can witness a return of these blights in the form of medical tyranny, with most Germans - again - falling for the plot. In today's show, we talk to Sott.net editor Luke, a German who follows what's going on in the country of Goethe and Hitler, of Kant and...

The 're-organization' of the world's societies, cultures, economies and politics seem to be occurring at an ever rapid clip. Groups like the WEF, UNESCO, the WHO and other hugely influential and interconnected bodies all seem to be telling us, and the governments of the world, 'how it's going to be', and why it is 'all for our own good'. A relatively small group of individuals are actually redefining what healthy means, how we should think about money, food, technology, ideologies, the...

You may remember the names Hervé Seligmann and Haim Yativ from a show we published March 9 called 'Holocaust 2.0: Vaccine Deaths on the Rise in Multiple Countries,' where they studied the epidemiological data coming out of Israel to conclude that the Pfizer vaccine was, in fact, causing a momentous increase in deaths. Now they're back with a new study called 'Expert evaluation on adverse effects of the Pfizer-COVID-19 vaccination,' and it's another bombshell. The authors again take a look at...

What would it take for you to get one of the bounty of Covid vaccines on offer? A free burger and fries? A free beer or shot of your favourite booze? How about some weed? Or 10% off your meal at a restaurant? Or how about lifetime membership at a strip club? Or maybe a lottery ticket for a million dollar draw? What's that you say? None of these piddly bonuses are enough for you to compromise your right to bodily integrity and medical freedom? You don't think any of these cheap gifts are...