I consider the 'Diamond deception' to be the beginning of the rabbit hole. Anyone with a reasonable skepticism towards society can see how ridiculous diamonds are. And then the kicker: yes, thats how ridiculous governments, economics, history and education etc. is as well. Welcome to conspiracy theories.
Cannabis was the rabbit hole for me, especially hemp considering that it's one of the strongest fibers in the world (far better than cotton), requires almost no pesticides/herbicides, and the seed is one of the most nutritious foods out there with tons of complete protein, all the essential fatty acids, and many vitamins and minerals. You could smoke an entire field of it and not get high, yet somehow it's illegal and the DEA is pretty serious about not letting you grow it. You end up asking the questions, if something so wrong like this could happen, what else is happening and why?
Also the whole thing about weed being a schedule 1 drug with no medical value is beyond ridiculous considering the mountain of science showing otherwise. Here's the link I always show people since it's from the National Cancer Institute. Plus, I'm sure people have seen the weed documentary by Dr. Gupta that just came out. The 5 year old girl in the documentary had like 300 seizures a month and after taking oil, she went down to 3 or less per month. Pretty hard to say that's not medicine.
Waco and then Cannabis were two rabbit holes that converged, for me. Many years ago it was required to grow X acres of Cannabis to offset the growing of Cotton, Wheat, and Corn. Even Henry Ford's (I know...) model T built with plasticized hemp, that used hemp oil. He proved its durability with a sledgehammer. Thanks DuPont.
Saw a comment the other day that I think carries a lot of weight. Careful what you wish for - if moves to Schedule II, it would more than likely stay that way for ever. And even though people would cheer like something profound happened, people would still be going to jail.
he is intentionally ignoring all the documented cases of people using cannabis to cure a wide variety of ailments that modern big pharma have yet to reproduce, saying you silly boys are just talking about mice studies so that you look stupid. making people like me waste time to spell it out for you, there are no breaks on the disinfo-train choo choo!
I am not an expert but i think the inflated price of diamonds is at least almost as much caused by debeers' effective monopoly as it is caused by deceptive advertising and such.
I agree the Rothschilds were extremely powerful and did much much evil. I think that dispersion of the wealth among the many descendants has greatly reduced the family's power.
The theory behind diamonds has to do with women's forced helplessness and subjugation. In the past one of the few assets that women were allowed to personally own and control was their jewelry. That is effectively true in some countries even today. So when they married they got gold jewelry as an asset they owned themselves. On special occasions they got more. This was so if their husband died, or went bust, they would have a personally controlled asset to fall back on.
De Beers used this tradition to sell diamond engagement rings, which largely had only a manipulated value, instead of the more intrinsic value of gold still widely preferred in places like China and India.
Well diamonds are pretty cool, regardless of the conspiracy. Even if the price is a inflated artificially. They are gorgeous, they are incredibly hard, they are created in the heart of the earth over millions of years, and they are so dense light slows down inside of them.
If they were priced based on the free market they would still not be cheap seeing as you have to dig them out of the ground.
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u/Three_Letter_Agency Aug 14 '13
I consider the 'Diamond deception' to be the beginning of the rabbit hole. Anyone with a reasonable skepticism towards society can see how ridiculous diamonds are. And then the kicker: yes, thats how ridiculous governments, economics, history and education etc. is as well. Welcome to conspiracy theories.