CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Back in 1992 (Yes, 33 years ago!), I had a long conversation with a guy who seemed to have a lot of strange and paranoid views about all sorts of stuff. Most of what he was saying was new to me, but for some reason I found it all fascinating.

We had started off discussing performance enhancing drugs in cycling (PEDS), and then got onto a whole range of other topics. At that stage I had never even heard the term "conspiracy theorist" and it was more than a decade before I realised that discussion had sewn seeds in my mind that later took me down the same path.

How he knew so much back in 1992, in a largely pre-internet world, is beyond me. I was familiar with PEDS because I'd seen them first hand in cycling, and also because I'd read a lot about the history of the Tour de France, which is littered with thinly disguised references to drug use.

Some great undisguised quotes came from five times tour winner Jacques Anquetil (1957,61,62,63,& 64) who actually said all of the following:

"You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water"

 "You'd have to be an imbecile or hypocrite to imagine that a professional cyclist who rides 235 days a year can hold himself together without stimulants"

 "For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants"

"Leave me in peace, everybody takes dope"

 

 

Beyond that, the only "conspiracy" topic I knew much about was the dangers of "vaccines", mainly from having read a couple of books exposing what was really going on with those.

 

Here is a list of 37 books warning about the death jabs ("vaccines") published between 1889 and 1991.

 

 I did go on to read some more books about other "conspiracies", but it wasn't until I got an internet connection in 1998 that I really started looking into things myself and doing a bunch of research. 

 

In those relatively early days the internet was filled with good information, in a way that the controlled internet of 2025 is not. The key thing being that it was actually quite easy to find a lot of the information that is now so carefully buried in utter crap.

I started out pretty keen to share the information ("conspiracies") that I learned about, but over the years I learned just how many people not only don't want to question what they have been programed to believe, but also how angry they get about anyone discussing it.

So I have tended to share more stuff online than in person, but even so, during the giant covidhoax, as society completely split in two, I became increasingly antisocial, (and I wasn't very social to begin with). The sad truth is, I became quite repulsed by "normies" and wanted nothing more to do with them.

Over the past quarter of a century I've very seldom encountered anyone who I would consider "more of a conspiracy theorist" than myself. I'm used to people only going so far, and then drawing their line in the sand. For example they typically might be fully onboard with "covid is a giant scam", but they get a bit edgy with "lots of celebs are trannies".

Being a "conspiracy theorist" has at least two major drawbacks:

1. To a certain extent it limits your social circle to only about 20% of the population. In general society you have to button your lip, saying nothing that disagrees with the brainwashed normie's moronic delusions. Or you constantly create anger and enemies. So for an introvert like me it's easier to just avoid all social interaction.
 

2. The other less widely discussed one is that it can leave you in a negative and defeated mindset. Once you have repeatedly seen that the majority of the population are mind controlled sheeple, who will follow the herd every time, and seemingly never learn anything, it gets really hard to have a positive outlook. Which is unhealthy and dysfunctional.

 

In an attempt to reduce that, I have been drawing my own lines in the sand...

Last night I listened to a guy who has been down most of the same rabbit holes I have, talking about a bunch of them, and was surprised to realise that I've been deliberately drawing lines in the sand for some subjects myself. Sort of like a normie!

I don't disagree with most of what he said, because I know there is a strong basis to support it all, and he had clearly done the research. But if I constantly hold all those beliefs as certainties, it is going to mess my headspace up even more than I already have done.

One of my coping mechanisms is to say "yes I do think evil globalist powers are attempting to take over the entire world, with a specific plan to kill most of us and enslave the remainder" while at the same time saying "their plans (including Agenda 2030) are deeply flawed, and while they are very cunning, they are also deeply degenerate, and that will lead to their own downfall".

Much as I wish I had some sort of practical plan to defeat evil and create a better world, the truth is we are all at our own levels in this giant game, and while I have a pretty good track record with all this conspiracy stuff, if I don't hold some degree of positivity in mind, I'm not strong enough to deal with it all.

Yes, I think we are in deep shit and we have less than five years to turn this globalist plan around. And no, I don't think most normies are ever going to learn or resist anything.

But at the same time I can see that in order to defeat them it is essential that we first hold in mind that defeating them is actually possible. It's a difficult balancing act, but we can do it. 

Why are we being constantly spoon fed "end is nigh" programing, not just from the mainstream media, but possibly even more so by the so called "alternative" media? 

My feeling at this point is that personally I've been out of balance, too focused on how bad things are getting, and not seeing enough possibilities. So my best plan today is switch to a more positive focus. Writing this blog post is my first step. 

THAT WAS BIGTIME

It is increasingly looking like the crypto crash on Friday was one of the biggest financial heists ever pulled off.

The markets dropped by around US$20 billion in less than one day, and insider traders such as Blackrock essentially stole at least half of that, primarily from retail investors.

Donald Trump was certainly playing a front-line role in this massive financial crime, but big exchanges like Binance were a huge part of it as well. 

As expected, despite the scale of this crime being absolutely massive, the controlled internet is covering up what just happened very well, and is still at this stage managing to convince most people that all this was all just a bunch of random coincidences. 

Here is a new video from "Crossing the Rubicon" that covers it all very well: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4jAE4d88x0&t=301s

It will be interesting to see if the massive scope of this crime, clearly carried out by the US government under the control of their globalist controllers, is widely exposed, or swept under the rug. 

A HARD CRASH

The crypto crash on Friday was quite spectacular. Trump's handlers (Blackrock) roll out their orange puppet when they really want to shake up the markets.

The previous biggest crypto crash of all time took place in 2021, and it was a drop in market value of US$1.5 billion in 24 hours. This crash was approximately US$19 billion in 2 hours, so more than 10x the size in just 1/12 of the time.

Blackrock are manipulating the markets constantly,  which they can do easily because they own such a massive slice of cryptos that they can buy and sell large enough chunks of any coin they want to trade, and pretty much control the prices.

But every once in a while they want to really shake things up fast, and one of their tactics is to roll out Captain Chump for some WWF style theatrics. For the second time this year he did the "massive tariffs on China" call. It worked pretty well last time, but this time was even more spectacular.

And for their next shakeup they will probably use a variation of the "WW3" story again, because that is an old favourite that never seems to run out of steam.

As well as making all the usual gradual market gains from their manipulations, on Friday Trump/Blackrock raked in billions of dollars of rapid gains. This 12 minute video explains what has just taken place:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHslPspqoY

 

 

 

 

 

DO DRUGS GO WITH THAT BICYCLE?

DO DRUGS GO WITH THAT BICYCLE?

BACK IN THE 90’S WE WERE A BIT MORE HARDCORE

When a friend said she remembered Cuba Street, Wellington as being “bohemian” in 97, and I laughed and said that by 97 it had already become a safe space for office dwellers to visit and pretend they were living dangerously.

And then I dug out my “Cuba Street 92” calendar from my treasure trove – all of these photos are from that and were taken in 91. When we opened our bike shop “Cycle Services” in 1991, Cuba Street was not just where you went for a grunty coffee or some second hand stuff, it was also the first place to go to for drugs and prostitutes.

Now I’ll go on about drugs a bit here. I was new to all this scene, and to me “drugs” basically meant smoking some pot or maybe spotting some oil.

As a cyclist I was pretty familiar with ephedrine which was actually still legal in NZ in 91 and was very popular, used as a sort of everyday speed. When it was outlawed it just went underground like all the other drugs.

Most people use coffee for the same purpose now. And coffee in Cuba St was said to be some of the strongest in the world.

The first time I walked in on a drug deal my eyes nearly popped out of my head. A respectable looking man in a suit with a large brief case had it open and was discussing bulk pricing with a couple of our bike shop customers on the huge range of drugs that he had samples of.

Apart from pot, the popular one in Wellington in those days was acid. But you could buy anything you wanted really, including heroin. I was told the cocaine was a rip off in NZ, and that was why nobody here was much into it.

What Wellington was infamous for in 91 was glue sniffers. And sometimes Cuba St was like zombie dawn of the dead. Bloody glue sniffers everywhere, staggering about, holding their plastic bags and drooling.

Some of the people on the street were fairly tough, and just up the road was the BP’s (Black Power) who ran a tinny house ($20 foil wrapped servings of pretty average pot). But you didn’t take photos of the BP’s, you casually crossed the road when you saw them coming, so there are no photos of them here!

This was in the days before digital cameras, and mobile phones had only just come out. They cost $3000 and were the size of a brick. This next photo was taken in front of the second hand book shop next door to us (note our Cycles Peloton sign in the top left). And the poor guy in the photo was stabbed to death a few months later…

Our neighbours on the other side were Midnight Espresso, the legendary coffee shop, and this is a young Geoff Marsland (Havana Coffee Works) in our doorway

Although I did have a camera, I didn’t take many photos because buying film and developing it was expensive. Part of why I started taking thousands of photos when I got my first digital camera a decade later is because I knew just what I had missed getting photos of back in the early 90’s. And some of them would have been quite something.

I guess this is all looks like a window back to an old forgotten time now, but as a young and impressionable goober, this was the environment that shaped me. And even now I’m partly still a guy from old time Cuba St, rather than an over the hill computer addict.

When I hear millennials getting offended by lame bullshit I wish I could push a button and transplant them to Cuba Street in 91. It was an amazing place, but some of them might just have gotten their whingeing faggy heads smacked in…

Those were awesome times back in the days before computers.

And getting “offended” wasn’t that viable an option

All photos taken by Barry Thomas

A DOZEN MORE RANDOMS

  

Here are a dozen images  that caught my eye today, because why not?