"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -Einstein
“To prepare a full and complete account” As mentioned in the introduction, a nearly half-million dollar grant was paid to the University of Virginia by the Rockefeller Foundation to help cover the costs of developing the Covid Commission Planning Group (CCPG).1 A year later, the group grew some legs – and teeth. Philip Zelikow, who…
An Introduction In early 2021, The Rockefeller Foundation granted $417,000 over a period of four months to the University of Virginia “towards the costs of the Covid Commission Planning Group.”1 The aim of this group is purported to be to “preserve the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic” and to “prepare the way for a National…
*Originally published on grandtheftworld.com. “Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”-C.S. Lewis For context, I thought it might be helpful to start this post by letting you know that it is being written in the hours following the Canadian government’s militarized response to the…
*Originally published at Grand Theft World. “It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time – the mind, protecting its sanity – covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.”-Rose Kennedy Quotes like the one above, commonly made by individuals who…
*Originally published to grandtheftworld.com For those that don’t already know, the decade of the 1980s produced some of the best motion picture experiences in human history. Granted, motion pictures occupy an extremely small slice of the totality of known human history; and also granted, being a child growing up during that same decade may contribute…
*Originally published on grandtheftworld.com The end of the year is traditionally a time reserved for reflection. A time where we can look back upon the events of the previous twelve months, and try to glean at least a bit of wisdom from those events with the benefit of hindsight. That’s how I remember this time…
*Originally published to grandtheftworld.com December 20, 2021 “We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”…
Does it feel like a scene from the movie Groundhog Day to you yet? You remember that movie, right? Maybe you have even seen it recently. Bill Murray – hands down one of the greatest entertainers of any generation – plays a cynical weatherman from a local Pittsburgh station sent to cover the obligatory annual…
This is quite possibly the most difficult blog post I have had to write to date. Maybe that is as it should be. When I started this website almost a year ago, I had absolutely no clue what I was doing. I had never built a website before. I had never had any of my…
Welcome back, fearless readers! It has been an extraordinary couple of days in Covidland, hasn’t it? The homeland of Adolf Hitler is repeating the mistakes of its most famous son. The Constitution of the United States is under an assault that grows in intensity with each passing day. And the cognitive dissonance of the average…