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GeoPolitics/Economics...Removing Theory from Conspiracies
The additional leverage – borrowed money flowing into the stock market – creates buying pressure and drives stock prices higher. Leverage is the great accelerator on the way up, but it’s also the great accelerator on the way down. Multi-month surges in margin debt, jumping from new high to new high, indicate excessive speculation and risk-taking and have invariably led to sharp selloffs:
The annotations in the chart:
March 2000 was the beginning of the Dotcom Bust, during which the S&P 500 fell by 50% and the Nasdaq by 78%.
July 2007 was just before the stock market started tuning into the beginning of the Financial Crisis, during which the S&P 500 fell by 56%.
May 2018 was followed by a 20% decline in the S&P 500 by late 2018.
October 2021 led to a 25% decline of the S&P 500.
March 2020 was the Covid crash, caused by investors’ reaction to the pandemic. At the time, leverage was relatively low and had been declining, which was a good thing and protected the market. If leverage had been spiking for five months from record to record before the pandemic, the sell-off would likely have been much more severe.
It never ceases to amaze us when people start talking about President Trump as though he is one of the “good guys”. He had a starring role in the COVID-19 Fraud and loves to “do business” with his corporate friends in the medico-pharmaceutical killing fields. However, could he now be on the right track with his recent criticism of Tylenol (aka paracetamol) and its link to autism?
Regardless of how autism is defined, it is clear that a large proportion of children in the present era are not healthy. The problem has become so big that governments such as the Trump administration are being forced to say something. But why is the issue of vaccines not being addressed as the main problem?
For most people, COVID-19 appeared to be a discrete event but those paying attention can appreciate that it is part of a continuousReal and Sickening agenda. In this video we explore the concept of “Cooling the Mark out”, notably mentioned by Dr Denis Rancourt in 2024, and how it relates to the wider scheme in motion. When it comes to certain aspects of this game, the show must go on even when the con is right out in the open…
For more coverage you can also read “The Trump Card” where Mike Stone further outlines the gambit, “played to protect Big Pharma, not expose it.”
Yesterday’s "standard of
care" is tomorrow’s horror story.
The history of medicine is a graveyard of once-trusted treatments.
Time and again, the medical establishment championed practices it would later abandon.
There were always dissenters warning about the dangers of such practices, but they were ignored, mocked, silenced, or otherwise sidelined—vindicated decades later, only after untold harm had already been done.
Keep that in mind the next time someone insists you “trust the experts.”
When you hear warnings about vaccines, statins, antibiotics, or other widely accepted treatments, remember: countless such treatments were once defended just as fiercely—until the dangers eventually became undeniable and the practice was quietly abandoned.
For centuries, doctors used mercury—and later arsenic—to treat syphilis and other ailments.
Some doctors warned about their toxicity, but the treatments remained entrenched in medical practice until the mid-20th century (1950's). Today, they’re recognized as dangerous poisons that caused more harm than the diseases they were meant to cure.
A number of doctors quickly observed dependency and warned against long-term use, but their concerns were largely ignored. The drug remained in common use until widespread addiction and abuse—becoming increasingly evident by the 1920s—forced the medical community to abandon it.
Radium and Radioactive Tonics
Early 20th century
Radium was promoted as a “miracle cure” and added to tonics, toothpaste, and cosmetics. Some doctors and health advocates endorsed it as revitalizing, but users—including industrialist Eben Byers—suffered severe poisoning. By the 1930s, the mounting evidence forced both the public and medical community to abandon these products.
Diethylstilbestrol (DES)
1940s–1970s
DES, a synthetic estrogen, was commonly prescribed to pregnant women to prevent miscarriage.
By the 1950s, research indicated that DES was ineffective for this purpose, and some doctors warned it could cause cancer and birth defects in children. These warnings were ignored as pharmaceutical companies and obstetric authorities continued promoting the drug. Widespread cases of harm eventually forced the medical community to abandon DES by the late 1970s.
Thalidomide
1950s–1960s
Thalidomide was prescribed to pregnant women for morning sickness, resulting in severe birth defects and infant deaths.
Early warnings from FDA reviewer Frances Kelsey and several European physicians were ignored, drowned out by marketing pressure and widespread hype. By the early 1960s, the mounting evidence of harm led authorities to withdraw Thalidomide, and doctors ceased prescribing it.”
Surgical Interventions
Bloodletting
Antiquity–19th century
Bloodletting—a procedure to drain blood to restore the body’s balance—remained standard practice for centuries, until the late 1800s, when enough doctors realized it often did more harm than good.
Lobotomy
1930s–1950s
Lobotomy, a surgical procedure severing connections in the brain, was used to treat severe mental illness. It caused permanent disability, personality changes, and thousands of deaths before being abandoned.
Some neurologists and psychiatrists condemned it from the start as crude and harmful, but mainstream psychiatry embraced it in search of “solutions.” Opposition gained traction in the 1950s as mounting horror stories made the risks impossible to ignore.
Research had linked smoking to cancer as early as the 1930s, but medical journals—often funded by tobacco companies—buried or ridiculed these findings. The medical establishment didn’t fully acknowledge the risks until the 1964 Surgeon General report, decades after doctors had already helped normalize smoking.
Sugar Over Fat
Mid–late 20th century
[ DYI Quick Comment: This attitude by Doctors remains today with HUGE emphasis on FAT and OMITS (never mentioned) sugar as the cause of heart disease and obesity. ]
Doctors promoted the idea that fat—not sugar—was the main cause of heart disease. The sugar industry heavily influenced this guidance by funding research and publications that downplayed sugar’s risks.
Those warning that sugar, not fat, was driving metabolic disease, were largely ignored until decades later.
Food Pyramid
1990s
The USDA food pyramid placed complex carbs—cereals, bread, pasta—at the base, labeling them as the “most important” foods to eat in large daily servings. This framework shaped the nutritional guidance doctors gave to patients.
Critics argued that the 1992 pyramid overemphasized refined carbs while underestimating fat and protein, but these warnings were sidelined to accommodate political pressure from the agriculture industry.
[ DYI Quick Comment: Back then "payoffs" were done the old fashion way with an envelope with $1,000 dollar bills inside! ]
Conclusion
History shows the medical establishment has been catastrophically wrong time and again.
When today’s “experts” insist that vaccines and other pharmaceutical products are “safe and effective”, remember: such confidence once surrounded lobotomies, thalidomide, and smoking.
Blind trust in doctors didn’t ensure safety then—and it won’t ensure safety now.
