Gerard

Photographer, squirrel wizard.
It's all light of path's rich tapestry.

[Gerard @GChillcott]

@AA_Gabriel1111 The spiritual and the material go together, they are one. To consider one as better is simply a point of view. What you think of as a false world, a matrix, is not evil. God had His reasons for forgetting Himself. Remembrance, after all is joyful...

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1363, the English Parliament passed a law specifying, by social rank, how much meat you were allowed to eat.

Read that sentence again. Parliament. Passed a law. About how much meat you were allowed to eat. Based on what class you were born into.

The statute was 37 Edward III, c. 8. It declared that grooms and servants of lords, along with artisans and craftsmen, were permitted flesh or fish once a day. Once. The remainder of their food was to consist of milk, butter, cheese, and "other such victuals, according to their estate."

The phrasing is the part to pay attention to. According to their estate. The implication that meat consumption was a property of your social position rather than a feature of being a human animal with a digestive system that ran on it.

This was not a one-off. Edward II had issued a proclamation against the "outrageous and excessive multitude of meats and dishes" being consumed by the great men of the kingdom, which was followed by a series of regulations restricting what the lower orders could put on their tables. Edward III tried in 1336 to cap everyone at two courses per meal, two dishes per course. By 1363 the restriction was sharper and more specific. By the Tudor period the framework had matured into a full hierarchy: cardinals could be served nine dishes, dukes and earls seven, knights three, the rest of you whatever you could persuade to grow on the rocky strip of common still left unfenced.

The Catholic Church layered another restriction on top. Meat was forbidden for roughly a third of the calendar year. Lent, every Friday, vigils before major feasts, Ember Days. During Lent dairy and eggs were also forbidden, which meant the peasant who had no meat anyway was now also denied the butter from his own cow. The fish on Friday rule alone created an entire economy: salt cod from the North Atlantic, herring barrels from the Baltic, a Hanseatic trading network built on the religious obligation to not eat meat on a specific day of the week.

The justification was always moral. Excess. Gluttony. Spiritual purity. The danger of commoners adopting a diet inappropriate to their station.

The mechanism was control.

A medieval peasant who had unrestricted access to the protein and fat from a ruminant kept on common pasture was, within a generation, a peasant who was taller, stronger, and more independent than the system required him to be. The 1349 Statute of Labourers had already revealed what happened when working people were adequately fed. They demanded things. They withheld labour. They burned the Savoy Palace.

The sumptuary laws were the corrective. The fasting calendar was the corrective. The Forest Laws preventing him from hunting the game on the land he lived next to were the corrective.

Three different legal frameworks. Three different stated justifications. One actual outcome.

The poor ate less meat. The rich ate more meat. The arrangement held for six hundred years.

The current dietary guidelines telling you to eat less red meat are, structurally, the same instruction wearing a different coat.

The coat is new. The instruction is medieval.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

BERTRAND RUSSELL: “Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat. What he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.

And it was because of that hate element that his philosophy produced disaster.”

[Alan Watts @AlanWattsDaily]

Being enlightened—in the Buddhist sense of the word—is a sort of calamity, because you found out the ruse which you were playing on yourself: you found out that the universe is a system which creeps up on itself and says BOO! and then laughs at itself for jumping.

In other words, it is a self-surprising arrangement so as to avoid the monotony and boredom of knowing everything in advance. So you and I have all conspired with ourselves to pretend that we’re not really God—but of course we are! That’s perfectly obvious! We’re all apertures through which the universe is looking at itself.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«Stay focused on the problem, not the distractions»
https://t.co/p1etyoGqxz

[𝙰𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚗 @AAnon55]

Charlie Kirk’s Death Exposed the Biggest Scam in History.

Video by: Chase Hughes (@NCIUniversity)

[Gerard @GChillcott]

@MarkChangizi It's precisely the notion that there's someone in charge that causes all the problems...  God, the Devil... it doesn't matter who. As soon as you start thinking someone's in charge you become a jealous underling, and life becomes a fight instead of a wonder.

[Gerard @GChillcott]

@Rainmaker1973 Fear 😅

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

One of the most enlightening polls of 2020.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

I wrote about Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State here.

How Could We Have Been so Naive About Big Tech? https://t.co/UMTo3kDg2A via @epochtimes

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The way she folded him to be more travel friendly

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

The DOGE discoveries are not just about "wasted" taxpayer funds. The real story, the 5 alarm fire, is that USAID was literally funding an entirely hand crafted pseudo-reality. Not just in America but all over the world.

You were robbed to fund global psychological operations.

-Buying off media outlets
-Pushing advertiser Boycotts against X and Rumble as they attempted to decrease censorship
(AKA narrative control)
-Pushing war propaganda
-Funding opposition groups in foreign lands to foment revolutions
-Funding lawfare against the former president of the united states and his supporters
(I could go on for an hour)

People get caught up on the "$100K to study cocaines' impact on chihuahua" stories. That is not the headline here.

The headline here is:
The US government robbed you blind in an effort to control your mind

That's about as big as it gets.

[Shirion Collective @ShirionOrg]

🚨 U.S. Government Caught Funding “Large Scale Social Deception” Through Thomson Reuters Special Services

⚠️ Leaked Contract Reveals DHS-Backed Program to Manipulate Public Perception

📰 A newly uncovered federal contract shows that Thomson Reuters Special Services LLC (TRSS) was awarded over $9 million for a secretive program labeled “Active Social Engineering Defense (ASED) Large Scale Social Deception (LSD).”

The contract, issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), suggests the U.S. government is funding large-scale influence operations designed to shape public narratives.

ℹ️ What We Know So Far

This revelation follows previous concerns about Thomson Reuters’ deep ties to intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

TRSS, a subsidiary of the global news and data company, specializes in high-level analytics and surveillance tools, often used by government agencies for counterterrorism and national security purposes.

Public records show that TRSS has been involved in contracts with the U.S. government for years, providing intelligence solutions, predictive analytics, and data monitoring systems. However, this new contract, explicitly mentioning “Large Scale Social Deception,” marks a SCARY shift toward potential disinformation and psychological operations aimed at the public.

The “Active Social Engineering Defense” (ASED) component of the contract suggests efforts to counteract social engineering threats...typically referring to cybersecurity and misinformation threats from adversaries.

The “Large Scale Social Deception” (LSD) wording indicates an initiative that may involve coordinated narrative control, online influence campaigns, and mass persuasion tactics.

🔴 Why This Matters

Thomson Reuters, known as a major global media and information provider, is now confirmed to be engaged in government-funded programs that appear to involve intentional deception at scale.

If this program is actively operational, it could mean that information fed to the public...whether through traditional media, social networks, or other digital platforms...may be subject to manipulation without public knowledge. (Obviously)

The contract is officially categorized as a “definitive contract,” meaning it is not speculative but an active, fully executed agreement with funding in place.

Neither DHS nor Thomson Reuters has publicly commented on the nature or objectives of this contract, and further details remain classified.

The explicit phrasing suggests the program goes beyond simple defense mechanisms and into the realm of orchestrated public perception management.

With digital information warfare becoming a growing concern globally, and mainstream media distrust on the rise, the existence of a government-funded “social deception” initiative raises serious red flags about how narratives are shaped, who controls the flow of information, and whether the public is unknowingly subjected to manipulation.

➤ Follow @ShirionOrg now for breaking updates.

📸 Discovered by @PhilHollowayEsq and @SloanRachmuth

Tagging to inform:
@elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @HouseGOP @SenTedCruz
@SenatorCruz @EpochTimes @gatewaypundit @BreitbartNews @nypost @theblaze @DailyWireNews @RealClearNews @Newsmax @FoxNews @RSBNetwork @JudicialWatch @UncoverDC @charliekirk11 @JamesOKeefeIII @KimDotcom

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Shima Enaga (long-tailed tit) is a Japanese bird that resembles a fluffy cotton ball.

[Gerard @GChillcott]

@MorgothsReview Attenborough's documentaries are actually very good, as long as you watch them with the sound turned off.

[Titania McGrath @TitaniaMcGrath]

“Over 13,000 non-crime hate incidents have been recorded by UK police in the last year and a half. It is genuinely shocking that so many citizens have been not breaking the law and getting away with it.”

Read my latest article here…

https://t.co/LuGLaLyOxE

[Rebecca Tun @rebeccatun]

This is what @gchillcott Squirrel Wizard's profile pic looks like uncropped.
🐿️🐿️
Boobs wow. Who'd have guessed.

https://t.co/vpZT3jZW0q

[Gerard @GChillcott]

@theModelSociety @rebeccatun @EroticPrecision @YouTube Thank you so much! Well done for managing to hold out on YouTube for so long.