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We all have a purpose to serve in our lives, and taking time to restore your body, mind, and spirit is essential. Be happy and at peace. The world is the storm, and we must be the stillness within.

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Welcome back! I'm glad you got to focus on other things for a bit. I should do the same. This is one of the better pieces I wrote over the last 6 months. https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/sliding-doors

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You captured the milieu of the 90s, man! That is the way I felt in college, too. Man, they were good times.

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Brilliant as usual. <3 Hugs, friend.

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Thanks for sharing this link Toby. I missed this the first time, but now will share with family and friends.

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Missed you!

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Likewise. Mwah!

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Wow you’re back! So nice to see your name in the inbox! So wonderful that you took that time to “get away from it all” (Clownworld) and spend time in the real world. Honestly it’s been the same old gaslighting and corruption as far as the perpetrators are involved....though it seems the masses are awakening. I think one of the biggest things to catch up on are the Twitter Files, and Brad from Euphoric Recall has some great coverage on that front. (He’s a great Substacker to follow)

Pace yourself in catching up 🥰

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I’m glad you’re back 🥰 Important to step away for bits at a time to stay sane in this craziest of times. Hope all is well with you and your loved ones.

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I am not surprised to hear that your battery recharging involved music. My musical hero, Frank Zappa, said in his album Joe's Garage, Music is the Best. Welcome back!

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I was able to see Frank live at Shea theatre in Buffalo Ny. Probably the most unique show I ever attended. Very entertaining. Music helps me survive!!

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I replied to this yesterday, but you might have missed it. It wasn't linked to your reply. If you saw Frank in Oct of 1980, you should check out the 2CD Buffalo show. It is very good. And I highly recommend you go see Dweezil if you ever get the chance. What he is doing with his Dad's music is MAGICAL.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_(Frank_Zappa_album)

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I never had the chance to see him. But in an odd twist, I hung out with many of his band mates for a couple of decades. They too were inspired by him.

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Are you related to Sal Marquez? Which band mates do you know, if I may be a little nosy.

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Monica!! I was just thinking about you the other day and wondering how you were doing. I figured you were busy homesteading and canning for the Apocalypse ;-)

Since you asked and in the spirit of your New Year’s greeting, I’ll share the poem I published to inaugurate 2023 as the Year of Accountability:

• “Mistakes Were NOT Made: An Anthem for Justice” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-an-anthem)

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Hello again glad you are well! I'm still doing my substack thing I post memes about four times per week. I'm back in Thailand after staying in the USA for a few months still working on my husband's visa to come to America a three year long saga now. And we have no electricity..

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Monica returns! The day is better already!

😊

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Welcome back Monica, you have been missed!

This is my favourite recent post.

https://open.substack.com/pub/unbekoming/p/vaccination-the-best-of-all-possible?r=lo15j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Welcome back.

You will soon discover that 2023 is going to be the year when all is revealed and people are going to be quite unhappy (the truth will set you free but it's going to piss you off mightily first). Already the first 2.5 months have revealed EVERY SINGLE debunked conspiracy theory is, in fact, just the truth--a truth always greeted by some CNN talking head mumbling, "Well, gosh, let's move on, shall we?"

For those of us who knew what an incredible shiteshow government had brewed for us as far back as March 2020, well, none of the newly informed is going to give any credit or say sorry for being such a Karen.

But this isn't over; the detriments from this cluster-feck will take a decade to finally settle in. Perhaps even longer to tot up the real & tragic damages done to the innocents.

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Thanks Monica, I was wondering why I hadn't seen a post from your for so long just the other day. Glad you are back.

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I have wondered at times, I hope she is ok. Glad to hear you are.

I'm building an orchard and big garden this spring. Lots of young green things currently under lights.

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You are the smartest among us. I wish I had done that. Glad you're back.

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Hello writer.

Monica, I missed you.

I'm a no-virus person now. LOL!

I'm also a nuke-denialist now.

I won't bother you with either.

It's great to read you again.

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Hah!

What’s a nuke denialist? :)

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A person who believes that there were never any nuclear bombs.

I'm not a fanatic and I'm open to listening the other side.

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Thanks for explaining!

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Oh, oh. Some of us have witnessed the reality of nuclear bombs, studied the effects and tracked the circulation of their byproducts that circled the world.

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In case you want a well documented alternative view:

Hiroshima revisited, by Dr. Michael Palmer

https://archive.org/details/Hiroshima_revisited

See also this presentation:

https://odysee.com/@jermwarfare:2/Michael-Palmer:6

Question everything, bruh!

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Can't speak to the use of the bombs on Japan. I attended several of the Pacific series, Hardtack in person. I can assure you that there was significant radiation as measured by personal dosimetry. I can verify that the expected fission yield curves for the fission portions followed science in terms of ratios of the isotopes. Those fission products can be detected well after several years following the event corresponding to their decay characteristics. Every atmospheric nuclear event has been detected via those fission products and analyses used to separate one bomb from another based on suitable ratios. Many underground events have been detected via gas sample collection unique to nuclear events. An AF organization detected the first Soviet bomb many years before they were expected to be capable. Detection was via seismic along with air sampling of the created debris. I think that was in 1947 or so.

In a quick cursory look at the book reference I did see a citation to https://www.rerf.or.jp/library/scidata/scids/ds86/images/v1/data/Chapter6/Chapter6.pdf where post event radiation measurements were taken which contradict statements earlier in the book. Not sure what to make of that but the citation indicates fission products not expected from a conventional explosive. I did take a glace at the video but found it too tedious. My assessment based on the citation mentioned was that an actual atomic weapon was used. BTW, the fallout from Trinity can still be detected in NM by soil analysis. So even that part in the book suggesting Trinity was faked is nonsense. Also the claim that 100 tons on TNT was assembled and blown up prior to Trinity is simple nonsense. I have worked ground effects tests with such an amount in Colorado. That amount of TNT is nearly a years total production today and is quite hard to come by; likely even harder in 1945. That's why ANFO is almost always used except when particular characteristics of TNT are needed. They both produce explosions but at different rates depending on detonation methods.

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Thank you for your answer.

That's pretty difficult to understand.

The hand waving you did by using the word "nonsense" is very unconvincing, meaning that now I am more inclined to believe the opposite of your judgement.

I mean that if you are going to engage in rhetoric your should be careful about making small errors that add up against your case.

Questions:

1 From all your knowledge, are you sure nuclear weapons have been ever used by any party to attack a city with hundreds of thousands of civilians?

2 About this comment: "Detection was via seismic along with air sampling of the created debris"

How do you know the seismic data and the data from the air samples were not faked?

This is important. All frauds require faith from the victim to the liar. But you think you don't have faith in those seismic data and air sampling measurements. My question is: how do you know that those data are legitimate and correct, and not part of a lie?

If you make an emotional argument or an appeal to the received opinion of the majority of experts I am going to notice the fallacy. I ask for a more complicated fallacy to dissect, or for the truth.

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Congratulations Mister Spengler!

I once received a message from a guy who said he knew the Prince in Nigeria and he needed money to make a nuclear bomb. Maybe you two should talk about the decline of West Africa and the decline of West Europe and what to do about it.

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I like the Philistines better.

I tend to root for the underdog.

Must be my flawed edumacation.

There ain't no nukes, brah!

It's so much worse than that.

But 'tis a matter of taste.

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It is a joy to see you back, Monica!

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