>Amanda Sloat
Sure.
Jardine Matheson pays tribute to their corporate heritage with a subtle representation of the opium poppy.
Not that narcotics is a traditional cyclical industry, but traditional supply lines are vulnerable to disruption by law enforcement or by competitive commercial rivals - and it seems to happen in cycles.
28,000 year cycles in this case, when everything seems to go wrong at once, from minor inconveniences to catastrophic disruption of the international market in No 4 Heroin sourced in Asia, No 3, the less refined brown Mexican article is affected by the same mysterious ill chance.
Attempting to route around supply line problems and get the poison where it will do the most damage, America, the trafficers are forst to resort to more dangerous strategies to transport heroin or morphine base - even using the once "legitimate companies" bought with a century more of untaxed illicit profits from the opiate trade, Satan's cash cow.
And Tasmania…where most of the world's high thebaine opium poppies are grown, with government incentives, to supply oxycodone for sale to big Pharm companies who use both licit and illicit distributors.
The Tasmanian government offers fat incentive to farmer's who switch to poppy cultivation from other crops.
The use of an array of tactics to baffle the perception in conflict is not new, nor is the strategy confined to the human species.
Predators who exploit the perceptual deficiencies of prey are common in nature. As human hunters wear camouflage, spread scents and simulate game calls to imitate prey animals, Paussid beetles forge chemical signals, blinding ant species they prey on to their presence among them in the nest. One famous human group employed similar tactics. Hasan ibn Sabah’s Assassins.
Ibn Sabah allegedly learned his art of mind control from priests of the mysteries in Egypt, but whatever the origin of the tactics, the Assassins used hypnotic induction, symbolism, stage magic and drugs create a belief system which insured 100 % loyalty and instant compliance with leader’s instructions.
Nation state rulers have great difficulty securing large numbers of people willing to die on command. Hasan al Sabah’s Assassins prospered for 300 years and spread their agents through the middle east because they could create fanatically loyal adherents who would raise families, live amongst the opponent for 30 years, and remain ‘’’instantly obedient to leader’s orders – even when ordered to commit assassinations certain to result in capture and execution.’’’
Let us consider the bugs. Certain beetles are walking organic chem labs, they synthesize explosives, chemical warfare agents, sex changing molecules – they read and write the language of the victim's perceptions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle
"Ant-nest beetles (Paussus) are the quintessential Trojan horses of the insect world. They hack the complex communication system of ants, allowing them to blend into the ant society and be treated as royalty, all the while preying upon the ants and the ants' brood and duping the ants into rearing their young.
How would we transpose this pattern. To what other species might this apply?
…Here we present results of the first molecular-based phylogeny of ant-nest beetles, which reveals that this symbiosis has produced one of the most stunning examples of rapid adaptive radiation documented to date.
"A very successful strategy. "
Human beings perceive only a narrow band of visible light wave lengths and hear only a narrow range sound frequencies. Not one human in a million recognizes the large blind spot in the middle of our visual field until it is demonstrated. We never suspect our senses are not all there is, or other species could possibly take advantage of our limited perception. Tiny eye movements called saccade each take 100 ms, during which time we are blind, and our visual cortex supplies a matching image which we perceive as continuous.
No big deal, except that saccades are so frequent that 100 ms blindness per saccade sums to 4 hrs a day.
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Explosive-Adaptive-Radiation-and-Extreme-Phenotypic-Moore-Robertson/64f28dbf2f4c4ed67578ed3ac63a92da68c02801
https://www.britannica.com/science/blind-spot
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Believe we have more dements than shills today. Not that one excludes the other.
Ever been part of "the wave" at a sporting event? Stood up at a show or event and applauded because others were applauding without knowing much about who, or what the clapping was for?
It is trivial to exploit our human propensity for imitation, to go along with the crowd, and use this to propagate unconscious self-replicating social behaviors (fads, trends, crazes) in a culture for purposes of marketing or for social control.
It's common sense that such a phenomenon, ripe for exploitation, is being used by cultist pedovores interested in controlling human behavior – especially the for controlling the future evolution of social and economic systems.
Pop culture is not the organic phenomena it appears, but a curated artificial medium engineered to permit rapid introduction and transmission of contagious, conditioned behaviors like purchasing and to spread psychogenic illnesses, self-destructive sexual fetishes etc.
Cultures where commerce controls media content and where art is used to sell consumer goods also have the capacity to engineer psychological operations which induce delusions and powerful contagious mental illnesses or collective insanities.
Historical incidents and known forms of contagious psychogenic illnesses are described in "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24518
In recent years, we have seen mysterious maladies proliferate. Recently, American and European psychologists have been tracking the blue whale game, the Momo challenge, the gorilla glue challenge which use guided imagery, occult symbols sigils and glyphs to evoke a psychic dilemma which persuades victim to ice themselves or huff wasp spray. In addition to obvious mind traps like Momo and the Whale, there are similar cognitive exploits which are far more dangerous.
Rothko's basilisk is a logic trap to which a small segment of the population is especially vulnerable -
https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/rokos-basilisk-the-most-terrifying-thought-experiment-of-all-time.html
The evil clowns create both the pathology, “induced contagious, epidemic psychogenic illness” and the psyops which exploit it, constantly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Whale_Challenge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_Challenge_hoax
https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/louisiana-man-tries-gorilla-glue-challenge-with-a-cup-ends-up-in-hospital-7188330/
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notable
Especially the Yahoo Finance broke the EQ story. They must have a seismo watcher
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/magnitude-6-4-earthquake-strikes-203600159.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv_Griffin_Enterprises
He had one heir, supposedly a son.
https://teacherscollegesj.org/who-inherited-merv-griffins-estate/#: