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(Dude - I think you finally fully detonated your stack. Also - this is your best shit yet. It’s like jazz and chimichangas had a baby.

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I hadn’t generally interpreted stack detonating being a positive thing necessarily, but I guess you’re right detonations send things in both positive and negative directions, and this is good yes

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Shakes the fleas.

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In Palo Alto, Flurm, they call it " Creative Destruction".

Isn't it a bit odd that the Zohar and the Talmud go on about the same thing...

It's a funny old woild.

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In Bolshevik Russia, they just called them "Purges".

Narrator: "And now, Sage Hana will *Purge the Stack*.

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Now, it's just called "ethnic cleansing" or "relocation".

At least the old school mobsters had a code of ethics, which the new politician mobsters do not have.

They are both just following orders, and their victims probably deserved what they got anyway, in their view?

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Depending on the circumstances,

I've decided to call many of them

"Real Estate Events"...(Lahaina,HI/Gaza/Ukraine/E.Palestine,OH)

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Rumor has it, the hungry Black Rock has a near trillion dollar deal to "reconstruct"(occupy?...carpetbag?) Ukraine.

Wonder what Zelensky's got carved out of that.

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Some one said that "All of human history is an endless series of involuntary real estate transfers". I can't find the source of that statement now.

Add Israel itself to that list too. It's looking like Lebanon may be another one too.

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They have a whiteboard and they have people going along. No matter what.

Amy Sukawan has a follow up to your comment.

Bearing witness to this brutal testimony, she writes;

“My health has been terrible since I got those Covid shots. I got rheumatoid arthritis and a heart condition. My parents both got the vaccine and they died.”

“I understand.” The nurse said breezily. “But the US government says your wife must have the Covid vaccine. It is required by the US Embassy for her to go to the United States. We have Pfizer here she can get.”

Amy continues;

I want you to rewind that conversation in your head a few times. Make it make sense. Rewind it again. And again. The man said my parents are dead and I have been irreparably injured by this “vaccine.” The nurse said she understood and then explained why his wife needs to get the potentially lethal injection anyways. If that doesn’t summarize the just following orders banality of evil, I don’t know what does.

https://sukwan.substack.com/p/midweek-memes-b6a

And the beat goes on.

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Very provocative substack Sage - thank you for your hard work and pulling it all together. I used to be very into those abandoned mansions/buildings videos - there are SO many of them - it really makes you wonder WTF.... I've always found mobsters as boring as politicians - I don't understand anyone finding any of them charming in any way, shape or form - nice that you're connecting them - they ARE the very same animals, no doubt about it (no offence to animals). Somehow the low-life people always rise to the top because they have zero conscience, morals, soul or heart. I don't even care why/how they got that way. It makes me sick that they control so much and are hell bent on destruction and chaos. Making life miserable and tenuous for sane and beautiful people seems to be what lights them up if that is something that could be said about these demonic, evil, disgusting men.

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Watching the video of the youtube gangster (who knew?) I could not help but contrast it to the current "mob". Yuval Harari, for example. All the maleness has been taken out, sanitized, and yet they are still murdering people. That whole thing of "destroying toxic masculinity" I think is part of the why people like to see some men with guts. So these gangsters are attractive to them. And the media/film etc have glorified this group. Psyops all the way down. Gruesome stuff.

Now they kill people much more politely.

Another observation is that I never thought of mobsters as being Jewish. Jews were stereotyped as college professors, Marxists, or rich businessmen. The stereotype of a gangster is always of Italians, no other group. Of course, it was always there, but not as the stereotype.

Years ago I stayed at one of those resorts for about a week. Don't remember the name or where, but they were trying to keep it alive. I'm a boring Midwesterner, so not the typical visitor. I love the mountains and nature, etc., so that was my reason.

At the end where he suggests people give a thumbs up or subscribe to his channel was somehow hilarious. A tough guy asking you to "like" his video? 🤔🤔

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Well technically half the humanness was taken out

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Oh — And I’d only do this when its relevant — our experience with coxsackievirus: https://open.substack.com/pub/drflurmgooglybean/p/those-effing-coxsackies?r=r6d2x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

That the place was in New York hasn’t congealed into the brain vector though. Always has to be New York… 🤔🗽

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Always.

Cut to: 50 cities going up in flames.

God damn it! I jinxed it now.

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Damn Sage. I’ve been to Coxsachie. Definitely past its prime in late 70’s. All I remember is lots of woods. A roadside diner that was always packed for breakfast. No grits. Genesee beer and vaguely that apartment on the 2nd floor of a building downtown with a couple of nice young ladies. And did I say Genesee?

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Since I was looking, the New York Metro Death Outbreak of Spring 2020 did not extend to the Borscht Belt (but also not really neighboring counties either)

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That's the immune boosting properties of the polyphenols in the beets. I mean, there is no other explanation, right?

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The ruebens and pastrami were hellaciously good up that way.

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I must research and consider a pilgrimage once armageddon cools down.

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Make America Healthy Again

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🍒

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NYMDO was kept well below The Belt by early use of incisive measures which cut the virus' growth short & kept it from surging Northward...Public Health at its circumscribing best.

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It did creep into Jersey and maybe somewhere in front of David Letterman’s house though.

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I hear the orthodox community was having none of that shit. They were as ostracized as the Amish or various firefighter/police/nurse/trucker collectives. Maybe they got the twin towers “don’t go to work today” nod.

::wistfully recalls the days of tier two faux protests and social shunning…::

… “fauxtests”? 🤔

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fauxtexts?

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That community was the 2019 measles pandemic test run

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And/or the crazy antivaxer community that was made an example of JUST BEFORE that was really handy.

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Especially for a New Yorker President who almost enlisted RFKjr for oh wait…

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Minor incursions...not nearly Top Ten List material...no need to make a mountain out of a mohel-hill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF5F8Zy4xLw

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Essex County NJ was essentially the same scale by population as all 5 boroughs

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It got to Albany , fast

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Nearly undetectable from ACM by that point

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Sage, what a crescendo.

Diving into mob and Vegas and tech as you are, you must be eyeing Howard Hughes, no?

Also, I know you haz many tables. Wanted to reshare this link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment

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DOD, Howard Hughes and The Mob are all players in James Ellroy's "Underworld USA" trilogy: American Tabloid...The Cold Six Thousand...Blood's A Rover. JFK, MLK, RFK, Joe Kennedy, Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover, Sonny Liston (who owns a Vegas cab company), and a wide range of spooks, political fixers and other slimeballs round out the dramatis personae. If Joe Bob Briggs wrote crime fiction, Ellroy would have serious competition.

For all of the above (except Sonny Liston) but with humor, sex, the occult, occult sex and talking dolphins, the Illuminatus trilogy had it all made up & figured out back in 1975.

All 6 volumes are free downloads at oceanofpdf.com (use a VPN if you have one, just in case)

But, Frank...it's 93 in a dry heat...could be so much worse...like Savannah, Minneapolis, NYC, etc.

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Jeez, you always come with the goods! ::links added to the pile to dig into::

Hughes seems like one of those singular figures where a dozen massive cultural vectors intersect in one person, at one time. Ben Franklin was one. Musk is the current guy. Doesn’t happen that often.

When I learned about Hughes as a much younger person I thought “what a nut”. But now knowing how many things he had to balance to keep from getting whacked, it’s no wonder he wore tissue boxes as shoes and pissed into jars.

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As I recall, Hughes figures prominently in the middle book of Ellroy's trilogy...he might have been in the first one too, but no problem, Sal Mineo is featured. :-)

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Great post.

The beginning is super funny.

The it takes a dark turn, still fun.

I'm beginning to think your caps lock is not really stuck.

I don't know how I feel about this.

Against your thesis I have to say that the Mob is humble and meek compared with the State. The Mob knows when to stop, and they actually have a well develoed self-preservation instinct, unlike servants of the state and politicians.

Also, the Mob does not really allow fanatics and they don't want to become gods. They know their limits.

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Hi Rog! Thanks for being here. (No snark!)

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Sage, you’re relentless and I love you for it!

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. 💥

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I forgot to say: This is brilliant!!!

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Thank you, Katie. 🙃

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If you read Gus Russo's books you'll find out Estes Kefauver was a notorious philanderer and likely hopelessly blackmailed by the crooks we was "going after."

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"With apologies to Doc Malone, Sammy the Bull may actually be The Most Interesting Man in the World."

Bob is "The Most Interesting GNOME in the World."

ALL the Wee Folke will tell you dear, Sage:

There is NO comparison.

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😁

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If we could just compel the post office to alert the Kings County Sheriff to the criminality of the UN conspirators. I wonder why they call it Kings County. Bringing the post office into galactic compliance is the only way forward. We need to reach out to the inter-galactic post office and maybe they'll send us an envoy to help us become compliant. I'll bet James Corbett could help.

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It was just that much, you said about what a nice guy he was, dat made me wanna say, how much harda it was for me. I luv my job, but sumtimes it wears, it wears hard and I can't sleep too good. Don't mention it, to any body. Just my way of sayin thanks.

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In the UK we had "Indie Sage" it was supposed to be the better of the two sages , with the other one being the government health advisory body. If you haven't seen or heard of it, quite a good example of your tier two hypothesis/fact https://youtube.com/@indie_sage?si=laU2tz7iocn42iwX

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Sounds like Tess Lawries "World Council for Health" to give you an alternative to the WHO.

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