Substack Roundup #1

A Collection of Writers Deserving Wider Readership

There’s a dizzying array of good things to read on Substack these days. Here’s a roundup of some smaller newsletters I’ve not linked before that I believe deserve wider readership, and which you may wish to add to your list.

In Clown World - Honk, Elena writes about freedom in the covid pandemic from an Israeli perspective. Apparently, there is a trucker convoy in Israel. Read all about it.

Insights from Beyond the Grave by Joel Smalley: Pro bono COVID data analysis for legal challenges and independent media seeking the truth

The Naked Emperor’s Newsletter - “Analysing the facts to come to my own conclusions. Looking to be challenged to expand my knowledge. If you disagree, follow me, I don’t want an echo chamber.”

Marc Girardot’s Covid Myth Buster Series

Guttermouth of Shouting From The Gutter writes about the agonizing ordeal with her dad after he got his covid shot in The Father Person. She has an extremely entertaining and boisterous style which should not be missed, but the post itself is heartwrenching.

In Illusions Destroyed, Mello B.33 asks a serious of very tough questions: what would you sacrifice in your life to be free?

Margaret Anna Alice Through the Looking Glass specializes in writing letters to governing bodies and politicians. Read them all, and perhaps make use of some practically.

I found David Thunder on Twitter many moons ago before he was banished on Twitter and YouTube, as well as from local and regional newspapers (!) Before then, I’d subscribed to his newsletter The Freedom Blog. He is a lecturer of political philosophy at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.

Colleen Huber NMD writes The Defeat of COVID. This post was particularly good:

The medical freedom movement, a grassroots view: We the people are at the heart of the medical freedom movement. Charismatic orators will come and go, but this movement remains steadfastly at the grassroots.

Visceral Adventure is written by a pal in one of my Telegram groups who lives in Chicago:

This week feels catalytic. There is so much happening all at once and I keep getting pulled in a million directions when all I want to do is go to Indiana with my kids and eat at a crappy Cracker Barrel where no one is gonna ask us for vax passes. Actually, that’s exactly what we did yesterday.

And…

I want to dig into so much and tell you how I see the Canadian Convoy, both from a political and philosophical standpoint, and the rest of the revolutionary acts around the world, and Trudeau and Castro and Macron (real life historical drama!), and the ever changing headlines, and Epstein and Maxwell, and the free fall of the dollar, and AIDS (yes, AIDS), and about how I see it all connect and played out on a multilevel game of Star Trek chess. But I haven’t even been able to get this post out, and now there’s news about a Durham report and holy moly are things about to get even more bizarre! I might not be allowed to go to a movie, here in Chicago at the moment, but who needs the movies, when we have a full on real life thriller all around us! What a world!

Over at Thought Lab, another Telegram acquaintance Kalev was asked by his MD wife “What would convince you to get vaccinated for covid-19?” and he turns his answer into his first Substack.

In Fractal Sovereignty, Citizen Doctor offers wisdom in Truckers and Stackers. This is the direction in which I agree we should head, and fast:

Authorities expect protests, marches and occupations and are ready to give themselves emergency powers, declare martial law, and deploy militarized SWAT teams with “non-lethal” weapons like LRAD whenever the natives become restless. Why play into their strength, if there is a better way?

Decentralized peaceful grassroots activism, in accordance with Fractal Sovereignty, bypasses mechanisms of suppression that authorities have spent billions on, rendering them useless. It is entirely peaceful and legal, and most importantly it is so dispersed as to be invisible to authorities until they have already lost. There is no centralized target to strike. It is the withdrawal of support, the refusal to actively participate in a system that exploits and enslaves.

One example of decentralized activism is the silver stacking movement, which has its current online headquarters at WallStreetSilver subreddit. (Don’t worry, they will not be deterred if Reddit censors them.) At this moment, 180,000 silverbacks, as they call themselves, plus a great many more throughout the world, have come together from all walks of life in a common cause, which is twofold:

1. Store their personal wealth in a real physical asset in their possession to protect and provide for their families as the legacy financial system implodes.
   

2. Hasten that implosion by depleting the silver stockpiles used to prop up the corrupt central bank system, which debases the population’s currency while transferring wealth to their cronies, multiplying their power and dominance over society.

I’m sure it’s not lost on my readership that there is a similar strategy among bitcoin and other cryptocurrency stackers.

Citizen Doctor continues:

A comparable strategy for the Canadian truckers would have been to simply stop delivering products. Their country would quickly come to a standstill; they would be dealing from a position of great strength. Granted, authorities might try to force them to work, like slaves, but would they be able to track down and coerce every trucker in a country the size of Canada? I suppose it’s possible, but wouldn’t this decentralized strategy be worth a try before putting one’s livelihood, health, freedom, children, pets and even their lives at risk?

Lies are Unbekoming has been a particular favorite of mine for some time. Probably because it is written by an Aussie, it has not yet been distributed through the Northern Hemisphere social networks yet. In Is this a War?, the author writes:

I’ve been wondering for quite some time about whether we are in a War and the resolution of my thoughts on the subject has recently improved.

Oddly enough, I have some standing on the subject.

I lived in Iraq between 1981 to 1991, a period that covered almost all of the Iraq/Iran War and all of the Gulf War, the original, not the sequels.

It was an old school type of war, with two parties fighting over territory and trying to redraw a border. A lot of people died over 8 years and the border stayed the same. But weapons were sold, and internal power was consolidated.

That’s really what war is about, territory. You have something that I want, and I will fight you for it.

So, if this is a war, who are the warring parties and what is the fight over?

The war is between “the state” and “the citizen”. The latter is YOU and ME and it’s easy enough to understand (sort of), but THE STATE is not straightforward anymore and I’ll cover that later.

The border between these two parties is being redrawn. The relationship between the State and the Citizen is being RESET.

When you hear about The Great Reset, that is what “Reset” really means.

Think back to your life, last year in Feb 2020. Think back to how you thought, what you did, what degree of intrusion the State had in your life and what level of control you had over your life and choices.

In Feb 2020 there was a border, a fairly large circle that you stood in the centre of. Everything within that circle was your domain, your freedoms, and your sovereignty.

Now, reflect on your life today, but more importantly reflect on the size of that circle. It obviously is much, much smaller today. The border between you and the State has been Reset.

…

It is worth noting, that if you have surrendered your bodily sovereignty to the State, and there is no longer a border between you and the State, what would you ever say no to in the future. If you were not prepared to stand up for your bodily sovereignty, what would you ever stand up for?

But as a friend of mine said the other day, people just don’t know. They haven’t spent the time (for some hundreds of hours) necessary to figure out what is true and what is a lie.

• They think the jab is safe (without understanding the meaning of the word).
  

• They think it is effective (that it will protect them from getting Covid or giving it to parents, grandparents and others).
  

• They think the State is truthful (why would they lie?).
  

• They think the disease is exceptionally deadly (because they were told it is).
  

• They think that masks work (when hazmat suits are necessary to protect against respiratory viruses).
  

• They think that lockdowns work and are worth the cost.
  

• They think that social distancing works.
  

• They think that healthy people can spread the deadly disease.
  

• They think that test results are real.
  

• They think that contact tracing works (so they keep checking in, even when nobody is watching or cares).
  

And they think many other things that all form the framework for the biggest lie ever told to the world.

You need a lot of time to dismantle each one of these falsehoods and unravel the matrix that has been built.

I now would add another leg to this line of thinking.

• They think there is no war.
  

This is a vital point, and I draw on my time in Iraq to understand it.

We knew there was a war. We knew who the warring parties were. We knew there was a border being fought over. We knew that our wants and needs needed to recalibrate to the reality of the war we were in. I don’t remember anyone ever complaining about missing out on all of life’s “nice to haves”. Our wants had recalibrated very tightly around our needs, there wasn’t a gap really. If we and our loved ones were fed and safe for the night and we had a job in the morning that allowed us to be fed and safe for the night, then we were generally happy. To survive war, you need to recalibrate psychologically to it. Of all my friends during those years, I don’t remember any of them being depressed. They had psychologically adapted to the reality of war, and to a climate of having and doing less. Within that recalibration, we were content.

We bunkered down and got through it.

The Iraq-Iran War went on for 8 years. Early on people thought it would be over in a few months, that was just normal human optimism. But after a couple of years most understood that thinking in terms of timeframes just created false hope and wasn’t helpful to having a robust and resilient War mindset. So, we accepted that it would be a long war and stopped trying to guess it’s end. Basically, for our own psychological well-being we settled in for the long haul.

I recommend that you do the same here, start settling in for the long haul. This War is not ending any time soon.

Learn to live with less.