WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ewan:

It is fine for you to react that way. I have been bombarded with conspiracist tripe since the 1980s, and it does not stop. I estimate that less than 1% of it is valid, particularly in the way it is interpreted. There are real global conspiracies, and I have borne the brunt of them, but the conspiracist lens to view all events from is like a funhouse mirror, wildly distorting everything, and I am not sure that I ever saw anything actionable from that milieu.

The structuralists have their own problems, and it took me many years to understand their limitations. What I eventually realized was that both camps come from the victim’s perspective, not a creator’s perspective. The conspiracists don’t filter anything, while the structuralists filter everything, when it comes to alleged conspiratorial behavior. Both approaches have great limitations, if understanding how our world really works is the goal.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Current events are really distracting me from the work I need to do, and I am trying to ignore them if I can, with limited success, as they are so in my face.

Ed and Noam’s Propaganda Model is about the structural constraints around the American media, which makes it serve up propaganda instead of objective information that the electorate can use to make decisions. The propaganda is rarely lies of commission, but more of omission, leaving out information that would create a more balanced view of events. In this recent “pandemic,” I have yet to see a serious discussion in the American media for why the USA has by far the highest COVID body count on Earth and highest death rate among Western nations. Wouldn’t that be a reasonable discussion to have? The reason for those deaths seems to be two-fold:

• Americans are history’s fattest humans and have the worst health among industrial nations (and the largest medical bills by far), which is an amazing “achievement” for Fauci. About 80% of American COVID deaths have been of the obese, and probably 100% of the COVID-dead had metabolic disease from our junk food diets.
• Unlike the poor nations on Earth, which have usually fared quite well in this “pandemic,” the USA has not done anything for early treatment of COVID patients (and even attacked all early treatments, such as HCQ and IVM), which is surreal. The Fauci-led response was to do nothing until the patients were so ill that they needed hospitalization, and by then it was generally too late. Not only that, but the hospital treatments killed the patients. It is almost as if killing American patients was the goal all along.

There has been no discussion of these obvious facts in the American media, as it has been a drumbeat of attacks on the unvaccinated and COVID “misinformation,” as the propaganda and censorship reached unprecedented levels. This has been the Propaganda Model on steroids.

I don’t want to, but it looks like I am going to have to begin a Ukraine thread. Oh, have the people of that nation suffered greatly. In The Dawn of Everything, the authors wrote about the ancient settlements in today’s Ukraine that they called the world’s first cities. That region has been the site of many bloody invasions, of which Hitler’s was only the most recent.

What is not being discussed in the American media at all, and it has been so dramatic that sometimes it seems like I live on another planet, is that the USA mounted a coup in Ukraine in 2014, which is misnamed as the Ukrainian Revolution. The USA used neo-Nazis to overthrow the Ukrainian government, those neo-Nazis are prominent in Ukraine today, and the USA is openly supporting those neo-Nazis at the UN. It is incredible and indisputable, and there is total silence in the American media about that.

In all of the hysteria over Russian troops near Ukraine, I have yet to see the American media mention that an equal number of Ukrainian troops are at the border of Ukraine’s two easternmost provinces, poised to invade them. Those provinces are filled with ethnic Russians that those neo-Nazis began slaughtering after the coup. It is as if Hitler has been raised from the grave. The American media’s reporting is so lopsided as to be an obscene caricature of events. This is a nuclear power that the USA is rattling sabers at, as we threaten and provoke them at their border. It is Strangelovian.

Best,

Wade

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)

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Ed[...Lippmann's...]’s Propaganda Model is about the structural constraints around the American media, which makes it serve up propaganda instead of objective information that the electorate can use to make decisions. The propaganda is rarely lies of commission, but more of omission, leaving out information that would create a more balanced view of events.
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Lies of omission. So, so powerful in propaganda - in fact the perfect foundation for injecting false narratives. Just as accomplished artists have a command over not just their brush strokes, but also a command of canvas white space, to tell their story, the Empire's "news" propagandists use omission of truth as their canvas white space. My entire life, I've been brainwashed with propaganda about the US as thee preeminent shining beacon of democracy on planet Earth, all the while the US has an amazing - not quite hidden, but not overtly presented - list of nations that they have neutered militarily and economically, elections hacked, leaders assassinated, resources plundered, millions murdered or made refugees. Turns out the "shining beacon" was white phosphorus.

Calling Operation Mockingbird successful would be a vast understatement.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Dennis:

Our brainwashing began nearly in our cradles, and waking up from that is so hard to do. There are great incentives to stay asleep and play along, and great penalties for failing to. So, I actually am not too hard on my fellow Americans, as they sleepwalk through their lives. It is a normal human reaction to their conditioning.

I was Ed’s fanboy for good reason, and his analysis of the language of American propaganda was second to none, such as how the media uses the word “genocide.” He may have even been better than his pal Noam the linguist on that score. Brainwashing a supposedly free people is no easy trick. That you have awakened at all from the stupor is extraordinary, and happy to have you here, old buddy.

Best,

Wade

[Zamolxe]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
I have yet to see the American media mention that an equal number of Ukrainian troops are at the border of Ukraine’s two easternmost provinces, poised to invade them.

Could you post any evidence you have of this?

The russian build-up on their side of the border has been documented with hundreds if not thousands of satellite images, cellphone pictures and videos on tiktok and vkontakte (by russian citizens) in the last few months.
You can check just these 2 twitter accounts and go down the rabbit hole.

https://twitter.com/ELINTNews
https://twitter.com/COUPSURE

If "an equal number of Ukrainian troops are at the border of Ukraine’s two easternmost provinces", the internet would have an equal number of content regarding that deployment, correct?

Commercial and agricultural (SAR) satellites are available to anyone, even to russians. Tiktok is a chinese app and vkontakte is a russian app, so no meddling there. Eastern Ukraine is populated by a majority of russian ethnics. They would be incentivized to post this content.

Why are there hundreds of tiktok/vkontakte posts made by russian citizens in Russia showing the russian deployments, but none from Ukraine?

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Xam:

Pilger.

Enough said,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As a little coda to my reply to Xam, in Pilger’s article, he cited the recent vote at the UN to outlaw Nazi ideology, and every nation on Earth that voted, voted to outlaw Nazi ideology, with the exception of two nations: the USA and Ukraine. I just told my wife that, I had to repeat it to her disbelief, and she eventually replied with, “Nothing surprises me anymore.”

The USA hired all of the useful Nazis after World War II, and protected many thousands more, helping them get to South America, for instance, where they literally had Nazi celebrations.

This issue of the USA’s voting against outlawing Nazi ideology is no surprise to those who have followed the USA’s UN voting on humanitarian issues: we are the only nation on Earth that votes against them.

Best,

Wade

[Zamolxe]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
Hi Xam:

Pilger.

Enough said,

Wade

Hi Wade,

Found the quote inside the article:

The “massing” army we seldom hear about are the 13 Ukrainian army brigades laying siege to Donbass: an estimated 150,000 troops.

Is it "Enough said" just because Pilger is stating it? Should we not question anything just because Pilger said it?
Sorry, but I prefer a bit of critical thinking.

The entire Ukrainian army is around 200k military personel so 150k would mean it massed 75% of its troops on the borders of this tiny area:


Sorry, but that would be more than visible from satellite. That huge amount of troops and equipment in such a small area would make the region more crowded than a Tokyo subway.

Russia moved an estimated 150k soldiers into a much vaster area, as you can see from the following map. How would you explain that their deployment generated this

Posted by Zamolxe (here)
The russian build-up on their side of the border has been documented with hundreds if not thousands of satellite images, cellphone pictures and videos on tiktok and vkontakte (by russian citizens) in the last few months.

and the Ukrainian's didn't? Wouldn't we be basically seeing satellite images with Ukrainian camps "shoulder to shoulder"?



What do you think?

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Xam:

If you want to take on Pilger, be my guest, but can you do it someplace else?

Best,

Wade

[Zamolxe]

Hi Wade,

I just brought it up because you mentioned it in your post.

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
I have yet to see the American media mention that an equal number of Ukrainian troops are at the border of Ukraine’s two easternmost provinces, poised to invade them.

If your posts are not open to any discussion, I will leave the thread, didn't know it bothered you.

Just want to explain why I find this particularly important.

This is basically a neo-con warmongering talking point that is being used by the russians as a pretext to invade Ukraine and to "protect the people of Donbass".

As I have just shown, there is no evidence of this and this narrative seems to be completely manufactured. So it is akin to the WMD reports used by the US to invade Iraq.

We should be critical of warmongering false narratives wherever they come from.

But again, as this seems to be a safespace I will not go further.

Cheers!

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Xam:

I gave you my source, and yes, I am not really into debating Russian propaganda. Like Ed, Western propaganda is my focus, which is only ethical, as a Westerner. You definitely have a different set of problems in Romania, that is a scary part of the world to be in now, and you have my sympathies.

Bye,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

To my coda to my reply to Xam, this issue of the USA and Ukraine, standing alone on the world stage and defending Nazi ideology, is not an anomaly or coincidence. The PropOrNot smear campaign was launched from Ukraine, assisted by the CIA, and promoted by Washington Post, which was an assault on the USA’s independent media. What is happening in Ukraine is in ways similar to the Latin American “subfascist” regimes that the USA installed after overthrowing their governments.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

It is time to discuss mitochondria a little. This was spurred by today’s Mercola article, attached. I am not recommending any of the treatments in Mercola’s article, but want to discuss the mitochondria, health, and aging. I am seeing scientists and doctors come at the mitochondria from several different directions, and the messages are similar.

In my original big essay, I dealt with mitochondria a bit. Their development is considered the key event in the rise of complex cells, and they are likely the first organelles. They are the energy centers of complex life, and the human body is 10% mitochondria, by weight. Nick Lane has investigated mitochondria, free radicals, and aging. Robert Lustig has investigated processed food and metabolic disease, which is, you guessed it, focused on energy generation in the mitochondria. Another recent Mercola article, attached, dealt with fasting and autophagy.

My take on all of that is that how we generate our energy is arguably the key process in our bodies. As Lustig argued, processed food wrecks our metabolism, and all chronic diseases are symptoms of metabolic disease. All drugs and related treatments only suppress the symptoms, and do not deal with the cause of our diseases. Lustig argued that obesity was almost always a symptom of metabolic disease.

The cure is whole food, autophagy (fasting), exercise, and to avoid ingesting voluntary toxins, such as from smoking, alcohol, etc. Vaccination, fluoridation, drugs – these are all bad news for our health, as they are generally worthless, harmful, but lucrative interventions by the medical racket.

In that attached mitochondria article, or Lustig’s book, the numbers are the same: about 90% of Americans have unhealthy mitochondria. This is the root issue, and everything else is noise, health-wise. My guess is that 100% of American COVID deaths are of people with metabolic disease (80% of them were obese). You can’t outrun metabolic disease, drug it, etc. We just have to stop putting garbage into our bodies, but processed food is the final addiction, and I have almost never met an American who was willing to change his/her diet to get well, or give up obvious addictions such as smoking and drinking. They want a pill, a surgery, etc., in what I have called The March of the Lemmings.

The banned book that saved my father’s life more than 50 years ago had the same basic message about processed food. These recent mitochondrial investigations are merely explaining it at the subcellular level. I had my own revelations in recent years about how processed food was ruining my health, and I am in the process of getting my health to a level where it has not been in many years.

Updating my medical racket essay is on my list of things to do (a few years out, however), and Kennedy’s book will be the foundation of my writings on Medical Racket, 2.0, but metabolic disease, mitochondrial health, programmed cell death, and aging, will also have a place of prominence.

Best,

Wade

[avid]

Hi Wade, I live in area of beauty, natural watercourses, which had been selected by whomever to be an experimental area for fluoridation since the 70’s despite furious opposition. Since then, NW Cumbria has been an obesity and scholarly fiasco.
Now, under the auspices of ‘saving’ an endangered pearl mussel in a river, near the Sellafield nuclear disposal site, the Ennerdale natural water source has been ‘cut off’. Background info - burial of toxic nuclear waste in the vicinity the prime mover.
Since then a giant scar of new watercourse across the Lakes from Thirlmere costing billions has been cut, (see Google earth), and in April 80,000 households will now have new Thirlmere lake water. They are STILL fluoridating, despite all local councils objecting. Infuriating, who is backhanding even Cumbria County Council to still perpetuate poisoning us? Are we guinea-pigs? A travesty of injustice despite blatant support for this toxicity to be stopped. Sorry for venting here…, it’s all incredibly frustrating when folk say NO and are ignored.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Avid:

As I think you know, none of us lives in anything like a truly democratic system. It is national security states and their capitalist overlords. But they can put on a good show. I am going to try to keep this short. I have written about the illusion of retail politics for a long time. In our retail political systems, voting is largely a meaningless ritual. As Ed and Noam titled their landmark book, the media helps fabricate “consent” for elite activities, or at least the appearance of it.

In The Dawn of Everything, the authors noted how our retail political systems, as people get to vote for the corrupt politician of their choice, is a historical anomaly that does not deserve to survive. Even direct votes on issues, such as on fluoridation in your area, simply get shrugged off. The corrupt judicial system rarely provides anything like justice, and so on.

IMO, these are just more examples of what a world based on scarcity and fear looks like. The only possible cure that I know of is abundance, and only free energy can do that, which is why I do what I do.

Best,

Wade

[avid]

If only folk were as honest and proactive as you… sadly, there is a dearth of honesty and science in the politics of today, and probably henceforth in the current corrupt climate. 😢😢

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Avid:

I am a freak on special assignment, like the others in my pantheon. There are not many of us on the planet today. I don’t ask anybody to take wild rides like we did, but just sing.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am hard at work on essays. Since I put up my first website in 1996, I have taken reader feedback seriously. Relatively few have been serious readers, however, and I only took feedback seriously from those who truly tried to understand, not the trolls and other irrational critics. For those serious readers, I have always tried to make my work easier to understand. My work is wide-ranging, as comprehensive works can be, and covering the essential material without unnecessarily diving into rabbit holes is not an easy balance to maintain. I seem to have a knack for it, as I have been repeatedly told; otherwise, I would likely not be writing publicly at all.

Although world authorities have raved about my big essay, I have heard from many readers over the years that they were overwhelmed by the reading experience, particularly the scientific aspects of it. I have tried to keep it as easy as I could, by almost exclusively using popularized science for my references. Specialist literature can be a deep rabbit hole, and I have tried to avoid it in my work. Even works that purport to be popularized can be filled with jargon and only suitable for post-graduate study, and I use them sparingly. For almost everything that I am trying to impart to my readers in the scientific realm, popularized science is adequate.

Also, I try to use popularized academic literature in general, and tend to not use books and papers filled with specialist terminology. For almost all subjects that I deal with, good popularized works exist, and I’ll use those to the degree that I can. The popularized literature is also read by scientists and academics, as a way to keep up on those areas for non-specialists. Einstein enjoyed reading popularized science as a boy, and we live in a kind of golden age of popularized science today.

That said, I have studied several subjects far deeper than I present in my big essay, and deeper than I plan to present in the essay update. As I began updating my big essay, I began to realize that I was really going deep on subjects, deeper than many readers would likely want to go, at least in one sitting. So, I decided to break off certain subjects and provide them with their own essays. The gist of them will be in the big essay update, but those subjects deserved deeper treatments than I thought was appropriate for my big essay. Before I finish the essay update, which is more than a year away, I will be publishing ancillary essays. I am now envisioning a collection of essays that will comprise the material currently covered in my big essay. The big essay will still be the dominant one, but a host of ancillary essays will complement it, as my entire site does, to an extent.

Right now, I plan to have at least three ancillary essays, and so far I have:

• Receiving a Fair Hearing
• Humanity’s Epochal Transitions
• Scarcity, Violence, and Warfare

I just drafted the introduction to “Humanity’s Epochal Transitions,” which is below.

Best,

Wade


As I worked on updating my essay, “Energy and the Human Journey” (“EHJ”), I realized that I was packing so much information into that essay that it more resembled a series of textbooks rather than an essay. It was so dense with information, particularly in the scientific sections, that it left many readers by the wayside, readers who I thought could understand. Ever since I published my first website in 1996, I have been trying to make my work easier to digest for my readers. The entire point of my work is helping usher in what I have called the Fifth Epoch of the human journey, in which humanity, for the first time, uses abundant and harmlessly produced energy. It will be the biggest event in the human journey.

We currently live in what I call the Fourth Epoch, which fossil fuels made possible. Each previous Epoch was based on exploiting a new energy source. Those energy sources were:

• First Epoch - Tool-procured energy sources, from beyond the rainforest home of our evolutionary ancestors, which included scavenged animal carcasses, eventually hunted animals, and the control of fire was achieved, which was arguably the watershed moment in the human journey;
• Second Epoch - The human-usable energy captured from nearly all land-based biomes as behaviorally modern humans conquered Earth, particularly all of Earth’s easily-killed land animals, which were almost all driven to extinction;
• Third Epoch - The energy provided by domestic plants and animals, which allowed for large-scale sedentary societies, which in turn began razing Earth’s forests and from which civilizations arose;
• Fourth Epoch - The energy provided by fossil fuels, which began with coal and eventually included petroleum and methane.

The energy source for the Fifth Epoch is being exploited today, but is sequestered from the public’s awareness and use for reasons of earthly power.

Most of my studies since 2015 were focused on updating the human half of EHJ. The key ideas that I hoped to impart to my readers have been:

• The role that energy has played in our universe, particularly in the journey of life on Earth, including the human journey;
• The transformative potential of abundant and harmlessly produced energy, and the fact that the technology to accomplish it already exists on Earth;
• Why that technology is not available for public use, and how it can be.

I began studying for what became EHJ in 2007, and I developed my idea for Epochs of the human journey. It was not entirely original, as I got some ideas from other works, but what I call the Second and Fifth Epochs are my invention, and the First Epoch partly is. The Third and Fourth Epochs, in my conception, deal with the Domestication and Industrial Revolutions, and those are familiar concepts in academia and the popular culture. The First and Second Epochs are not defined in academia as I have done. Few people today take the Fifth Epoch concept seriously if they are even aware of it, usually relegating it to fantasy (as far as the technologies are concerned), paranoia (as far as the organized suppression is concerned), or hopelessness, for those who don’t believe that an independent effort has a chance of overcoming humanity’s inertia and the organized suppression.

This essay’s chief theme is how each new energy source was exploited, each of which had Epochal significance. Of humanity’s first four Epochs, only the last one happened during recorded history, and even for that one, the debates about the Industrial Revolution are fierce in academia, such as why it happened at all, why in England, and even if fossil fuels had anything to do with it. For events that happened before recorded history, for which we largely only have fossils and artifacts, the debates can range far wider and fiercer than today’s Industrial Revolution debates, which can make my writings on the Epochs seem like an exercise in folly.

However, I began groping toward these ideas as a teenager with my energy dreams, I think that the idea of Epochs of the human journey is valid, and I see my job as helping others understand that.

Before I wrote EHJ, I made a statement on the Epochs that, twelve years later, I doubt that I can improve upon:


“Each epoch of humanity’s past was initiated and sustained by achieving the social organization and technological prowess that enabled the exploitation of previously unexploitable energy resources.”


As I thought about the Epochs, what seemed the most important and interesting was how humanity achieved each of them. In my view, none of them were inevitable. In fact, for each Epoch, we have examples of peoples and species who did not achieve the breakthrough to the next Epoch, that next level of energy exploitation, and they generally lost out to those who did. The pristine instances of those events were the key ones, when the next Epoch was invented, even though the inventors had no idea that that was what they were doing.

With each Epoch, after the exploitation of the new energy source began, there were transformative effects and intensification, in a cycle of positive feedbacks, which eventually brought humanity to the brink of the next Epoch. While those dynamics are fascinating by themselves, and they are discussed in EHJ, this essay will take a deeper dive into the Epochal transitions. I do that for two reasons:

• I will explore the subject deeper than I deemed appropriate for EHJ;
• I believe that an essay that deals with the transitions will make their transformative nature more evident, what they had in common, maybe some ideas about achieving the transition to the Fifth Epoch will become clearer, and new insights might even arise from the study and discussion.

In any event, nothing like this essay has been written before, to my knowledge. I think it is important that this kind of discussion begins before it is too late for humanity to avoid the looming catastrophe and get over the hump to the Fifth Epoch.

[Spiral]

I'm really enjoying reading this thread, my time is limited so I try to use what I have to learn something, and this thread ( and your forum) are a goldmine.

I do have one cheeky comment though, about this,

the Industrial Revolution are fierce in academia, such as why it happened at all, why in England

I'd change that to Great Britain because an unbelievable number of revolutionary inventions were made by the Scots, and they quite rightly get a bit upset about this type of thing.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Spiral:

That gave me my laugh of the morning. My direct ancestor migrated from Scotland in the 1730s, so it is amusing to me to be accused to leaving out Scotland! The TV show Outlander is literally about my family, and I went to a Fraser Clan gathering as a child.

I write at length on the rise to the Industrial Revolution that England led, and yes, in the early days of it, England “united” to become Great Britain. Oh yes, we Scots don’t like being slighted in that grand narrative, but the Industrial Revolution really began in England. Darby and Newcomen were English. I can appreciate all of the nationalistic and imperial hairsplitting in the British Isles, but England led that show. I have written a bit on the English/Scottish battles, and Scotland’s role in coal mining. When I update my big essay, I may mention the Scots a little more, giving us our due.

One reason for that new essay is that I have done a great deal of study on the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions in recent years, and it won’t all comfortably fit in my essay update. Yes, the Scots had their increasing contributions to the affair. I did my best to keep it straight in my writings, with Great Britain, UK, British, English, and the like. I had a lot of practice for it while writing my American Empire essay, particularly the English chapter. I doubt that the Scots want any recognition for that one.

The innovations that led to the Industrial Revolution nearly all primarily happened in England. From the Game and Enclosure laws (which also displaced Scots) to resuming iron smelting in Sussex. Yes, the Scots came to the industrialization party early on, and Scottish philosophers, businessmen, and scientists made big contributions, but one of my favorite books on the Industrial Revolution is titled, “Energy and the English Industrial Revolution.” It began in England, and yes, the Scots were the earliest participants of what began in England. My upcoming essay extends the runway to the Industrial Revolution a fair bit, going back to Rome and the Ancient Greeks, really, who invented the watermill, which was a critical technology for early industrialization and the ramp up to it.

Ah, I am still chuckling as I write this.

Best,

Wade