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Pfizer’s CEO Dumps 62% Of His Stock On COVID Vaccine Announcement
The following sentence is taken from an article with the above title …
Bourla’s sale was conducted under Rule 10b5-1, established by the SEC, allowing the corporate insider to sell a predetermined number of shares at a predetermined time.A “rule” (of law) established by the SEC legally permits insider trading. Let me repeat, A “rule” (of law) established by the SEC legally permits insider trading.
Now, now we must adhere to and follow the rule of law. Puuhhh-llleeeaaassseee.
According to Investor.gov (if you require a belly laugh or two then this is the site for you) the mission of the SEC is to:
Protect investors
Maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets
Facilitate capital formationThey also, in their spare time, broker deals on bridges in Brooklyn.
See Harry Markopolos – No One Would Listen. From 1999 to 2008, Markopolos uncovered evidence that suggested that Bernie Madoff’s wealth management business was a huge Ponzi scheme. In 2000, 2001, and 2005, Markopolos alerted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of his views, supplying supporting documents, but each time the SEC ignored him or gave his evidence only a cursory investigation. from Tofel, Richard J. (March 8, 2010). “Shadowing a Swindler; Early on, he figured out what Bernard Madoff was up to”. Wall Street Journal Online.
“Listen—I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger.”
Republic, 338c“Thus, Socrates, injustice on a sufficiently large scale is a stronger, freer, and a more masterful thing than justice, and, as I said in the beginning, it is the advantage of the stronger that is the just, while the unjust is what profits man’s self and is for his advantage”. – Republic, 344c
Thrasymachus speaking in the RepublicI find it extremely telling that in the midst of “our most recent unpleasantness” there has been, as best I can ascertain, little or no discussion of social contract theory. Social Justice is at best an aberrant version of what currently passes for Social Contract Theory. I guess that in order to protect ourselves and ensure our safety that we should assume that we are in an Hobbesian State of Nature and prepare and act accordingly. Good luck to each and everyone of you.
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I can relate to Marilyn in the TV series “The Munsters”, the poor ugly duckling in the family. We are told to believe ideas that just aren’t so.
A simple perspective but useful. I’ve looked at say minimum liability insurance enforced by the “law” as extortion. I view getting pulled over for say not wearing a helmet and ticketed, as highway robbery. Taxes, extortion etc. I’ve viewed our “modern” environment from a purely medieval perspective for a long while and it has kept me out of trouble. Don’t go to the oppressors for redress, just try not to get oppressed as best as possible. People have fanciful ideas like justice, courts and rights. Rights are inherent, yet history has shown they are oft times gained or lost by the sword. Nothing about our civilization is civilized. Again a simple perspective.
… I agree Ken, however, the question is what does one do when one is unable to escape the oppression? We seem to be quickly approaching that time, if we are not in fact in that time already, when each and every individual will have to answer that question. And if we are honest with ourselves we must admit that there are only two possible answers to the question posed. Each answer will of course require action. One answer involves corners and various interpretations of the fetal position … I will leave it to every reader’s imagination to consider the action(s) that might be required by choosing the other possible answer.
I can only speak for my own situation and how I am dealing with it. It is a fluid situation, so planning gets chucked out the window, which doesn’t make things any easier. Right now I am laying low, conserving resources and waiting to see exactly how it unfolds. As it does I will have a better idea on what to do next, right now I don’t know what better course to take. If I was in a community of free minded folk, there would be more I could do. But I like most are surrounded by fools, and they in turn are the extension of the state. The only thing I’m looking for is that the state pushes just a little further than the fools can take, and they awaken in anger to the economic poverty that is going to pale in comparison to what they currently exist in. We have yet to see the damage that has been done just in this year alone, let alone the damage that they are going to implement through further lock downs etc. When enough people feel the oppression then we as one can stand, individually we are simply a casualty of history, if one chooses to fight alone. I as an individual refuse to consent to any of this fraud. And if people as a whole do not stand up, then I will be simply another casualty. It is not a pleasant nor easy choice to make, to walk away with no way of knowing what the future holds. Me, I’m pissed off because all I’ve mainly been able to accomplish in my life is survival, and that is not living nor life.
Well for me my sword is close by. Purely defensive mind you. And if the people continue to submit to the oppression, then I will have to re-evaluate my position. Until then, I have withdrawn from this fraud and refuse to be a part of it. The situation is way too fluid and to many variables in the air to do much more than that. It is not a very comfortable position to be in.
… It seems we need to not equivocate the “virus” to the oppression. The “virus’ may be a fraud, but the oppression is larger than the “virus” and is not a fraud. It appears that the “virus” is being incorporated into the oppression and is only one of a number of contributors to the oppression. Again, I wish to point out that we might be able to withdraw from the “virus” but we can not withdraw from the oppression.
IMHO, the possibilities aren’t binary, if for no other reason than that the situation is in such flux and could play out several different ways. The binary proposition being, if I understand correctly, that people can either (1) acquiesce to total oppression forever, or (2) take up arms offensively (and get mowed down or locked up by a vastly superior state military and technological apparatus). I don’t advocate either one.
On the societal scale, the most effective method the masses have is large-scale noncompliance. An ancillary tactic is creating as much of an administrative and legal burden for the system as possible.
On a personal scale, it’s important to become as flexible, resilient, and non-dependent on the system as possible (in terms of food, health, personal safety, local networks, etc.). In whatever little or big ways you can.
Even in the worst-case scenarios, there can be workarounds and forms of resistance, so that not 100% of everything is lost forever. Think the French Résistance during WWII or the black market and samizdat in the USSR.
Most important of all, whatever happens, is to never, ever stop believing you, or some members of a future generation, can eventually win.