Reader "Derek Domino" anonymously asks: (yes, that was the name used to send the question 🙂)

Dear [Committee]:  Are the PCR swabs, sterilized using Ethylene Oxide, safe? Thank you for your feedback. I'm due to have a test and I'm concerned about it but don't feel I can trust the Internet fact check sites.

My context: Nothing is "safe" if the negative thing arising out of it, happens to you. The rates of occurrence of negative things might be low, but bad outcomes always happen when > 100 million people are involved.

Is driving a car safe? Millions of people doing it daily, suggest it is. Ask the families and close friends of the 30-35,000 people who perish in motor vehicle related crashes in just the USA (it happens everywhere cars are used). I will go out on a limb and bet that group of people, family & friends of victims,  believe cars are dangerous. 

For anyone not immediately familiar with PCR, it is a polymerase chain reaction test performed to detect genetic material from a specific organism, such as a virus. The test detects the presence from the sample, and could also detect virus fragments after the infection ends; i.e. symptoms disappear and no more virus replication, discharge, emanation or exhalation occurs.

The Committee says:  This depends on frequency of exposure to ethylene oxide and cumulative amounts. If the small quantity used to sterilize a cotton swab is the extent of exposure, no harm will arise. Continued, ongoing exposure, such as in a chemical manufacturing environment, laboratory or production of the ethylene oxide itself, significantly increases the risk of cancer.  

The better and harmless method for sterilizing a swab is exposure to the ultraviolet C spectrum. This is known but more expensive, requiring use of a device to make the light, plus protection methods to safeguard humans from exposure to it. Insertion of an item to be sterilized inside a closed box where the light is contained inside, is safe.  

We suggest you make the process simple and inexpensive; bring your own small amount of vodka; dip the untreated swab into it, squeeze out excess with sterile gauze, then allow to dry. 

Before the post of the day (the headline above refers) here's an interesting, brief video. I must thank someone somewhere for suggesting this channel, Inspired. I pop in from time to time, to always interesting things. 

This video of 5½ minutes, which y'all will enjoy, offers its best starting at about 4 mins 30 seconds.    

A reader asks many good questions in the Comments, but the Q&A are better answered here.
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Q:             Roughly how long have the behind-the-scenes HCP's been successfully pushing their agenda?
C:             Since the middle of the Industrial Revolution, but the beginnings originated when global trade became more developed in the 18th century.

Q:             How was that handled prior to the technology of this century, and more so relevant to the past two+ decades where technology has really jumped?
C:             A very large question, the answer could take many roads to large destinations. To summarize, more slowly then more quickly as communications and media have increased both volume and velocity. Think of a falling tree; it uses ten or twelve seconds from beginning its descent until impact, but the majority of the trajectory requires only 1½ - 2 seconds.

Q:             Seems to me that, going back further [in time] people had to be more concerned about surviving, making food, staying warm / safe, not getting attached or killed by whatever (animals, other humans), and generally just trying to get by.
C:             Yes, a long time.

Q:             Globally intertwined economies didn't exist or certainly didn't matter much. The focus was on living and surviving. Did the "Industrial Revolution" bring about the existence of HCP's and desire for control, wealth, and influence?
C:             Accelerated it.

Q:             Or just a human nature thing that finally had the opportunity to exist as technology advanced?
C:             Yes, it is nature to organize into hierarchies and use methods & means to control them. Without the leadership, the hierarchy stops.

Q:             That said, it leads to another question..... given that people are how they are, is this just a repeat of things from previous "civilizations" on Earth? Meaning the reset that happened with Atlantis civilization imploding, or others prior to that?
C:             Yes, and mankind is not listening closely to many messages which warn of the same ends, even though the messages do not point to Atlantis, as almost no human believes in the existence of this former civilization. Nevertheless, the voices who decry large government, impositions of rules and pressure to be followed, are sounding a similar theme as was spoken and offered in the distant past.

Q:             Does society advance beyond just needing to live and survive daily, we get all full of ourselves, a small group of people try to control and rule others, shit gets sideways and all fucked up, things implode, reset, rinse and repeat?
C:             This has been the Earth human pattern. It is being broken now. Listen to whomever cries loudest and complains, and there you shall see the challenge.

Q:             Then circling back around to an item mentioned above... "The Shift"... and while having followed discussions on it on this website, I will admit I still can't grasp what all it would entail, at least in what's left of this limited lifetime, is The Shift our current name for a "reset" that is coming that will knock aside all the HCP-related drama?
C:             You will grasp it well when it grasps you. You are a human who likes and often requires your five physical senses triggered, stimulated or pricked before belief begins to form. The events which are reaching your senses are already happening, but the explanations are either not offered across-the-board or you doubt, or perhaps disbelieve them. Humans like to see ten elephants per day for ten continuous days before accepting the idea, elephants are present. That elephants have never been seen before, matters enormously to pattern loving, habit forming humans.
 
No, this is not a re-set. Human life patterns, means and ways are going to permanently change. The old patterns will not be re-set, but discarded.

Q:             I think the idea behind my questions is to 1) understand the process objectively so I can step back from being too emotionally caught up in it and just observe, and 2) feel like there is a path and that some of this insane drama and bullshit will be worked through relatively soon. Time is relative, and I'm pretty sure the inquiring minds that follow this website are looking to know if there's a chance for relief from this in our own current lifetimes, as compared to the next generations coming up.
C:             Be emotional about what you can control. Observe what you cannot. What you can learn and use for personal benefit from your observations, will come to you clearly and obviously. Invest emotions in what you can influence or manage, only. 
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A reader asks about it, after offering  good background:
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This New York Times article shows a map of the United States with colors that indicate what percentage of the population is behind on rent since the Covid-19 shut-downs.

The federal moratorium on evictions is set to expire soon.

Not only are these renters going to possibly be homeless, but the landlords may end up in foreclosure.

There was a federal fund that was supposed to assist with rent, but the article states that only HALF of the 6.2 Million households behind on rent are even eligible and the application process is onerous. So far, very little of the money put aside for assistance has been paid out.

And the article doesn't even touch on homeowners who are behind on their mortgages due to shut-downs.

QUESTION: The narrative has been that the shut-downs were necessary. Will mass evictions and foreclosures play out on such a scale that more people will realize that the shut-downs were too costly?

I mean, what is worse? Dying of Covid-19 or being homeless?
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I cannot read the article without subscribing (i.e. paying) so I have not. (I won't patronize the NYT. Too biased, slanted and hostile to objective journalism, although I do acknowledge many good exceptions occur, possibly in this case. Overall, it is a massive opinion board & a public relations agency for a major USA political party.
I support their activity one hundred percent, they are exercising a sacred right enshrined in the US Constitution.
I am exercising my same right to abstain.)

No matter, The Committee offers a reply from above human paywalls.

C:     It is far better to live than die. This you already know, we understand your ironic intent with the final comment, and we sympathize.

The federal government will now step in, to attempt to soften the blow. Landlords are a far easier political target than mortgage lenders.

Firstly, because much of residential dwelling mortgage activity involves debt re-sold to investors after being packaged into bonds. Halting foreclosures will significantly and negatively affect institutional investors, who have influence and clout well above landlords of residential dwellings. 

Secondly, mortgage lending is a vital component of any nation's economy; meddling with lender's abilities to foreclose overdue mortgages will cause a significant withdrawal of lending capacity. This will hurt the economy in material ways. 

Thirdly, a significant amount of residential dwelling mortgage debt is held by the US federal government already, making it easier to handle the foreclosure problem than it seems, if solely institutional investors not part of the USA's federal or state governments, are considered. 

Watch for more bailouts with newly printed money, and forgiveness, moratoriums and other measures on mortgages, in addition to leases and rentals.  

Some observers will see costs of restricting human activity as too high, who did not see things this way previously but the wide spread of opinions & viewpoints will continue. The federal government realizes that bailouts will be a political necessity. 

Before the subject of the day, an anonymous reader question
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Q:        Vitalik Buterin, genius founder of Ethereum. Is he actually human and will he change the world as we know?
C:        What’s the difference between being actually human or being human? Of course he is; everything and everybody changes the world.
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Update 10 Aug 2021 - Another reader asks: I was inspired by the Ethereum question the other day. The inventor of Bitcoin is said to have been Satoshi Nakamoto, but this is presumed to be a pseudonym and the identity of this mysterious inventor remains unknown to this day. Who really invented Bitcoin? Can The Committee shed any light on this? There is suspicion that it was Aussie academic Craig Wright.

Responds The Committee: Much light we can shed, however revelation of these details will spoil much fun, purpose & meaning for anyone involved. For entertainment derived from speculation, this would be interesting, however a more serious purpose prevents us. We shall say but this: many interested parties would like to discover then manipulate such inventor(s), that is certain, however human creation of value exchange media is a human process only humans should carry forth. Interference such as we might cause, cannot help anyone. 
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Another reader asks about the Subject Of The Day, Eugenics.

Defined as the selective breeding of humans and/or the destruction of the unfit, it has a long and controversial history. Apparently recent information on genetic modification and screening has caused a heated debate about whether these technologies should be called eugenics or not.

With the seemingly relentless coercive efforts to inject the mRNA genetic modification material into each and every human, one cannot help but ask if there is something more nefarious going on with the infamous "vaccine" other than increasing herd immunity:

C:        There is. Forcing people against their preferences and will, always for their and everyone's protection, is a significant and often, most effective tool used to oppress, dominate or subjugate for benefit of the protectors. Human history offers many examples.

Q:        Is the mRNA injection actually a planned eugenics program or a precursor to such a program?
C:        No, the vaccine is what it appears to be, however its release was planned to be used as a control technique, which unfolds now. As we said above, the foundation of the pressure now applied settles on protection, that you should do this for your own good. You should read or listen to this opinion, for your own good. You should ignore, dismiss or shout down that other opinion for your own good, it is wrong. It is misinformation. You should use this bank for your own good. You should pay those taxes for your own collective good.

Always will the protector be able to show some resulting protection, creating ability to confront resistance with demands for explanations of refusal.  

It is a precursor yes, but not to a eugenics program; the vaccine pressure is intended to soften up the world's populations into accepting many intrusions now resisted or rejected. The idea has already occurred to some political leaders to round up the unvaccinated and imprison them, at some point. The argument they have created —but not yet spoken— is to state how restrictions, home arrest and range of movement have not worked to the degree necessary. In other words, the new and unique method of quarantine for the healthy, along with the sick or infected, will evolve into the vaccinated versus unvaccinated and their forced detention and separation.

The practical problem is, the vaccination is not nearly as effective as believed; many recipients believe they are now immune, but they are not all. This makes it easy to blame unvaccinated people as the sole transmitters, which is not true.  

The objective is to increase power over the population, in general. This will allow many things accomplished, and for this reason it is done.  

Q:        If so, what would the desired results, outcome, or end game of this monstrously unethical program be?
C:        Control mankind.  

A reader's remarks expanded.
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As I understand it, the life force driving humans is our soul, the energy that comes in and chooses to inhabit our human form.
C:        Your soul does not drive you or any human; your soul is you. You do not choose to inhabit a human form, you remain who you are, expressed in a way, a manner & a body the group of you call human. It is only a costume, a suit & a disguise.

Unlike other creatures (that also have a life energy in them), we have that added bonus of a consciousness, which I guess is the primary reason our souls choose to experience physical (not energetic) life through inhabiting a human body.
C:        No, many forms of life on Earth have a consciousness. Humans cannot detect it easily and have developed the bad habit of labeling other humans with ability to detect it, as crazy. All souls incarnate for the experience yet you all remain completely energetic. The energy of the human body is seen easily in the nervous system, without which the body stops. The energy is inside the atoms of a human body, just as this energy is inside all atoms of everything.  

It's been said that the same pool of energetic life forms (souls) can also choose to inhabit other life forms in the universe, and do, and the information shared here indicates that those other life forms are what tweaked the DNA of the creatures we were to genetically engineer those 'improvements / upgrade' to our human function and design.
C:        Yes.

If I'm on track so far, let's keep going.
C:        Your train moves along.

If not, please offer up corrections to the information.
C:        We shall.

Assuming all is accurate so far....
C:        It is.

What was the life force piloting the early humans / homo sapiens / neanderthals?
C:        The same force which is you, you individually and you collectively. Do not confuse the actor with the role, the body with the costume, the disguise with the trickster.

Was it the same soul-consciousness that we have now? Souls from the universe piloting and inhabiting those life forms?
C:        Soul consciousness is redundant thus meaningless. Your soul is timeless and always the same.

Or something else?
C:        This comment comes from the human view. Well done, but we are sorry to inform you that you are much more than a human.  

If not the same, was it the engineered changes to humans that brought us up to the level where souls became attracted to the potential experiences to have on Earth as humans?
C:        No. Souls directed the changes before attraction would be possible, because we and you are and were and will always be attracted to what you now live and experience.

If yes, how did that come about? What made individual aspects of the collective soul energies out there decide to give it try?
C:        Even though we began our previous answer with a negative reply, we like the question. Collective soul energies mean nothing and you are not out there. We are not out there. You and I are here together. Anytime we communicate we are together with no distance or separation. Souls did not choose to give anything a try, souls chose to create what they did, in order to have it.        

I'm trying to imagine a scenario, from a human perspective, and keep it humorous as it relates to our own nature.....
C:        You perform the human perspective so well, you allow it to distort your thinking, and for this we congratulate you. This is what you intended, as do nearly all souls who incarnate as humans.  Let’s proceed to your scenario.
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Alien: I think we have this thing done. Check out the improvements! Look at 'em go! These creatures are waaaaaaaay better than they were previously.
C:        What extraterrestrial do you intend to invoke?

Energetic souls watching: Hmmm... that looks interesting.... who wants to pilot one of those things?

A soul stepping up: Here, hold my ethereal beer... I'm going in....
["Hold my beer" is as Texas as it gets folks, and risky. Anytime I might hear that, I clear out.]

The soul that stepped up: Guys, you really need to try this thing out.... you can do some pretty cool fucking stuff with these....it's a commitment though... once you're in, the challenge is to ride it out...

Other souls watching: Daaaammn.... that looks fun...

Alien (current physical life forms watching): Fuuuuuckkk... look what we did..... this could get interesting to watch....
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At what point did individualized energetic consciousness decide the human animals looked like a great experience to have and set the course for what we are today?
C:        When the Earth was created.

What is it that makes it attractive?
C:        Look around you and explain what exists on Earth that is not attractive. Then compare it to what is attractive, good looking or even beautiful, on a weighted average basis. We direct your humble host and scribe to portray scenes of Earth to display this, on this website.

Also, considering the statement that most souls never experience being in a physical life, or at least not experience a human physical life on earth, what makes it non-attractive for most?
C:        The anguish of free will.

Random thoughts on a Monday morning.... thank you all for indulging my questions.
C:        Your thoughts were not random, but we accept that you wish to label them as such. You channeled well. 

A nice, quick video of about 6 minutes. The many of you who have read The Alien Handbook already know what is explained here, and in better detail. Less than 200K years, but that doesn't matter much in this explanation. Neanderthal was one original humanoid version, intentionally upgraded to become homo sapiens. 

Fortunes in cookies were discussed here a few weeks ago; between then and now I had my favorite Vietnamese food and got a fortune cookie!

Phở (or pho) is a Vietnamese soup dish of broth, rice noodles, herbs and meat, usually beef phở bò and sometimes chicken phở gà. It is Vietnam's national dish and originated in the early 20th century in the northern region of the country. It has been popularized throughout the world by Vietnam War refugees, Texas the next largest USA concentration after California.

The message piqued my interest; how subjective is a closed mind compared to an open one? Who decides how far open or closed the mind's doors should be, to qualify as either? I ask The Committee to weigh in.