You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
Good luck, America, on ever recovering your independence. You are suffering under a monstrous deception, nearly unimaginable in scope, and you are not even aware of it. Liberty and justice for all is now but a slogan designed to keep you fooled. By celebrating your Independence Day every July 4th, you are simply reinforcing your brainwashing that you are an independent nation governed by your faithful politicians that act in your best interests. They do not. They are sociopaths, and they act in their own best interests at your expense, as sociopaths always do. They are the ones running the deception, expanding it, feeding it, sucking the life blood out of you as you lapse into delirious bliss.
Can you recognize the sociopath in the video below? They are found in all cultures, all religions, all governments, all militaries, and especially in all positions of power and control.
Apocalypto - Waterfall scene
So go ahead, America, pat yourselves on the back, revelling in your belief that you are the exceptional nation, land of the free, and home of the brave. For the most part, you are nothing but a gaggle of fools without an independent thought in your heads. There is no independence for you, no freedom, until you wake up and change your false beliefs. For it has been correctly written that none are more enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Victims of a shooting attack lay on the pavement outside La Belle Equipe restaurant in Paris Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. Well over 100 people were killed in Paris on Friday night, in a series of shootings and explosions.
I'm not even paying attention to the attack in Paris two days ago on
Friday the 13th, 2015. I'm not watching the constant coverage on TV
with angst and amazement. I'm not modifying my Facebook picture by
overlaying it with the French flag. I'm not grieving or clenching my
jaw in anger.
I'm not being manipulated.
Instead, I am
watching how the rest of the world is being deceived and manipulated. I
can see how our empathy is used against us. I can see how this
manipulation works every time, whether it be the sinking of the
Lusitania, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust Lie, the Murrah
Building bombing, 9/11, Sandy Hook, the Boston Marathon bombing, or any
other orchestrated drama. I can see why the ruling sociopaths think we
are stupid sheep, worthy of nothing more than to serve their needs and
desires until we outlive our usefulness.
Oh yeah, I can see the problem.
Humanity
has never known a solution, as far as I can tell. Organized sociopaths
have always ruled us. They have always fooled us with their
superficial charm, their clever lies, their chameleon-like adaptability,
their secrecy, their affected certainty, and their inherent selfishness
and arrogance. We are sucked into their game like moths attracted to a
flame. Because of our respective psychologies, they can't help playing
us, and we can't help being played. It's an eternal tango, with
sociopaths leading and non-sociopaths being spun, flipped, swung, slid,
and otherwise tossed about like sacks of grain.
Is there any
overcoming this broken record? Is this a dead-end skip which won't stop
repeating? Does an outside operator have to come into the room and
move the needle for us for the music to ever play again? And is there
an outside operator that even hears our predicament? Do we have to do
this ourselves by becoming self-aware, by understanding how we actually
work, and what makes us tick, and realizing that it is not the same for
sociopaths and saints?
Ya, like that's ever gonna happen...
"Look at me, America. Look at my concerned face. I practiced this face in the mirror for several minutes until I got it down pat. I can put on this face at a moment's notice now to show how much empathy I have for the victims of the sociopathic policy I help deliver. It's all an act, of course, because I don't feel empathy like the rest of you stupid sheep, but I'm the best damned actor since Ronald Reagan, and I'll fool around 80% of you all of the time. Pretty convincing face, huh. Yeah, I'm damn good. That's why they picked me for this job, because I follow orders and sell the deception so well. Fall for it, suckers! You know you love it! I'm your leader, worship me! Hail me! Admire me! Another Nobel Peace Prize to cap my unforgettable performance! Who da man! Who, who who!"
Do not touch your dial. There is nothing wrong with your set.
If you are given the following information on your evening "news" and are not outraged by the criminality and illegality of the actions you are shown, then your brainwashing is proceeding beautifully.
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. -- The target was a poultry farm that ISIS had turned into a staging area. It was located in Syria but the planning for this air strike and hundreds like it was carried out some 6,000 miles away at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina.
CBS News was given an inside look at the targeting center where intelligence analysts pour over satellite photos.
"In a way like a detective does, we put together the picture with all these bits of intelligence," said Staff Sergeant Penney.
In a typical week Penney and each of the other analysts investigate up to 20 different locations to find three legitimate targets.
"The ultimate intent is to build something that holds water that makes it to the end - that is strikeable," Penney told me.
It is a battle pitting the precision of American weapons against an enemy spread out across two countries.
"Precision is the ability to very specifically know the exact coordinates of any spot on the earth and to hit that spot down to let's say a foot," said Colonel Scott Murray, the chief intelligence officer for the air war.
Murray told us what it took to destroy a building ISIS was using as a weapons factory.
"It was quite the structure," said Murray. "It did take quite a few weapons to do it."
The first two hit and the building disappeared in a cloud of debris. But 18 more satellite guided bombs followed each with a delayed action fuse.
"It just allows the munition to penetrate deeper," said Murray.
The air campaign is an impressive display of American firepower, but is it winning the war against ISIS? Murray says the bombings have helped regain "approximately 700 square kilometers."
That's all in Iraq where ISIS still holds 55,000 square kilometers it seized from Iraqi and Kurdish forces. In Syria ISIS is still expanding.
"ISIL has great leeway in northeast Syria," explained Murray. "They're not opposed on the ground in that region."
In March, the U.S. military plans to start training a force of about 5,000 fighters to oppose ISIS on the ground in Syria. But Pentagon officials say it will be late this year or early next before they are capable of taking back lost ground. -- source
The United States has never declared war on Syria, nor does it have any reason to do so. We do not have the right to destroy their buildings or their chicken farms by blowing them to smithereens from an easy chair in South Carolina. If the Syrians were doing this kind of thing to us, would we find it perfectly acceptable? The in-your-face criminality and immorality of this behavior is obvious, so why would they rub our noses in it on the evening news?
Just checking to make sure we are anesthetized, mindless zombies.
Note that I don't watch TV, for I find it absurd to volunteer to be brainwashed. A friend turned on the news to check on the hyped-up east coast snowstorm, happened to see the report, and told me about it. I was so amazed that I immediately looked it up online.
Indeed. Aren't we all? That's the point. We were born into a Matrix of deception, subjected to non-stop programming and propaganda throughout our lives, and herded into positions of certainty regarding what is and isn't "true". How could we not be "full of shit"?
The quote in the title was delivered to me by the wife of a friend as we debated how President Marcos of the Philippines had become so rich. She believed the reports she had absorbed over time from the mainstream media, namely that Marcos had stolen his riches from the poor people of his country. I suggested a different story, an alternate possibility, that he had become rich via payoffs from other rich people for favors rendered. That's when my ideas were dismissed with the title quote.
I was not offended by her pronouncement. I'm no stranger to such dismissals, as can be witnessed in this forum's archives. Dismissals are to be expected by anyone who questions everything and dismisses nothing. Anyone searching for the real truth is going to face a boatload of dismissals. It is how the Matrix polices itself and maintains its deception.
I am pleased, in fact, that my friend's wife questioned my perspective. She should, and I hope she will research all sides of the story to weigh the evidence both pro and con on the issue. This is unlikely however, as most of us are too busy or too lazy or too sure of ourselves to bother. I am less pleased that she would so definitively dismiss my perspective without even investigating it. By doing so, she fails to question her own "facts" and her own beliefs about what is and isn't true.
She also fails to employ a little common sense. We live in a society of enormous wealth disparity. I have often discussed the existing wealth gap that continues to explode. We all see the stats (which must also be questioned) of how 10% of the population holds 90% of the wealth. In those circumstances, who among us gets rich by taking money from poor people? By definition, poor people have very little money. No, we typically get rich by taking money from rich people. How do you think American politicians become so rich? Isn't it through secret, under-the-table deals with "special interest groups"? How do you think "the money" exercises so much control over everything? "Special interest groups" and "the money" are just euphemisms for rich people. The rich people control us. We buy into that control by doing almost anything for money. When someone gets a lot of money in short order, you can be fairly sure that person is acting in synch with the desires of rich people who are paying him in some manner or another.
So, how did Ferdinand Marcos get rich?
In 1949, campaigning on promises to get veterans' benefits for two million Filipinos, Marcos ran as a Liberal Party candidate for a seat in the Philippine House of Representatives. He won with 70 percent of the vote. In less than a year he was worth a million dollars, mostly because of his American tobacco subsidies (financial assistance to grow tobacco), a huge cigarette smuggling operation, and his practice of pressuring Chinese businesses to cooperate with him. -- source
It sounds like he got rich the same way most U.S. politicians do. But wait, is that the entire story?
But in 1988, Roxas and the Golden Budha Corporation, which now held the ownership rights to the treasure Roxas claims was stolen from him, filed suit against Ferdinand and wife Imelda in a Hawaiian state court seeking damages for the theft and the surrounding human rights abuses committed against Roxas.
In 1992, Imelda Marcos claimed that Yamashita's gold accounted for the bulk of the wealth of her husband, Ferdinand Marcos.
All this led the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal to summarize the allegations leading to Roxas’ final judgment as follows: "The Yamashita Treasure was found by Roxas and stolen from Roxas by Marcos' men." -- source
Don't I often say the truth is stranger than fiction?
A species that can't learn faces either stagnation or extinction. Is humanity such a species?
A house divided cannot stand. The human house is divided. On one side we have the majority for whom empathy is an integral part of their being. They relate to other living things and recognize the diversity and equality common to all. They live and let live. They freely share the gift of life.
On the other side we have the minority for whom empathy is a missing part of their being. They only relate to other living things that also lack empathy. They do not recognize the diversity and equality common to all. They live and let die. They do not share the gift of life. Instead, they trade it like a commodity and horde it for themselves.
The empathetic humans I call People, and the non-empathetic humans I call Sociopaths. People pursue liberty and freedom for all, while Sociopaths pursue power and control over People.
Slavery and genocide are wrong. To those with empathy, these are self-evident truths. A spokesman for the People even said as much in a famous declaration:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
To those without empathy, slavery and genocide are their life's goal, the ultimate expression of power and control. A spokesman for the Sociopaths even said as much in a little-known document:
It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the automation of a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation systems (silent weapons) on a national or worldwide scale without implying extensive objectives of social control and destruction of human life, i.e., slavery and genocide.
This manual is in itself an analog declaration of intent. Such a writing must be secured from public scrutiny. Otherwise, it might be recognized as a technically formal declaration of domestic war.
If a house divided cannot stand, then stagnation is not the fate of humanity. Extinction is. Survival lies in a United People. Sociopaths must be exposed and dis-empowered. If the People fail to do this, all of humanity, both the People and the Sociopaths, will join countless other extinct species in the pages of history.
We know where we end if we do not unite. Who, what, when, where, and how do we begin?
It's that hallowed day when we confirm our gullibility, our stupidity, and our brainwashing. It's the day we believe is the beginning of hope and change, when in fact there will be no positive change (things will only get worse), and the hope is a cruel delusion. Every four years we are treated to this obscene circus of smiling liars, and every four years we have the proof that we were deceived and manipulated, and yet we come back for more with even greater enthusiasm. The insanity is simply startling, yet few can see it. Those that do, like George Carlin, are treated with disbelief (we laugh), derision, and ridicule.
Meanwhile, the real ruling sociopaths, behind the scenes in the darkest of shadows, consolidate their power and tighten their nooses around our necks, holding us hostage to their control systems of money, energy, and information.
None are more enslaved than those that falsely believe they are free.
The organized sociopaths running the world are great observers and quick learners. Of course, the lessons they take away from their learning experiences are very different from what a normal person would embrace. That's because sociopaths lack empathy, which changes their entire world view to something a normal person would find very disturbing. That's why sociopaths are so secretive and deceptive -- as a small minority, their survival amongst us caring, empathetic "normals" depends on keeping us "undisturbed".
It is clear that those running that world have multifaceted programs in place designed to "dumb us down". Well, maybe it's not so clear, since the programs are secretive and well disguised, but the evidence for them is substantial. For example, actor Tom Cruise's divorce details are considered important world news. Entertainment is big business designed to deliver mind-numbing distractions, like judging how well famous people can dance. The "war on drugs" is run by governments heavily involved in the clandestine production of those same drugs. Health care is focused on relieving symptoms, not curing illness, guaranteeing permanent customers of pharmaceutical products. Public education is primarily focused on turning out obedient workers. Why would sociopaths want dull-minded, dependent, obedient workers? Because sociopaths are parasites that live off the labor of others. If you think of the world as a stately Southern plantation from 1840, the sociopaths are the Master, government employees are the foremen that give the orders and keep the laborers in line, and the general population are the slaves that do the grunt work.
While researching the nuclear power industry and the nuclear weapons industry from which it sprang, I ran across the following example of "lessons sociopaths learn". I thought is was quite revealing, helping to explain the secrecy, the compartmentalization of specialized knowledge, the "dumbing down", and the other complex manipulations of normal people that sociopaths engineer.
The Y-12 electromagnetic plant units were initially operated by scientists from Berkeley to remove bugs and achieve a reasonable operating rate. They were then turned over to trained Tennessee Eastman operators who had only a high school education. Nichols compared unit production data, and pointed out to physicist Ernest Lawrence that the young "hillbilly" girl operators were outproducing his PhDs. They agreed to a production race and Lawrence lost, a morale boost for the Tennessee Eastman workers and supervisors. The girls were "trained like soldiers not to reason why", while "the scientists could not refrain from time-consuming investigation of the cause of even minor fluctuations of the dials". -- Source
"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace." -- Helen Keller
My purpose for blogging at all on the Internet is to document my learning processes. I do this for many reasons, some less than noble, and some quite noble. A less than noble reason is that I would like something of me to be left behind when I am gone (vanity). A more noble reason is to provide a public service, so that others can know what I know without putting so much time and effort into the journey. But then, time and effort may be an essential part of what gives knowledge its value. But then again, we don't want to have to continually reinvent the wheel.
I certainly don't have any illusions that my knowledge is superior in some way, given the ignorance that I have paved over to create the road that has led me here. "Here" may not be a worthy destination either, but life is not really about the destination. It is about the journey. I am building a road to make the journey easier for those that follow, if any should follow. If no one follows, I can at least take some pride in the quality of the road I built.
I mention this because my most recent learning experience is a discovery of startling clarification. It is somewhat equivalent to the Unified Field Theory that Einstein searched for -- a theory that connects the characteristics of the known universe together. Such a grand theory may be too much to hope for, but the beauty of other illuminating discoveries, like the relationship between electricity and magnetism, whets our appetite to search for even stronger interconnectedness.
I now see the connections between evil and empathy, conspiracies and disbelief, secret societies and denial, lies and manipulation, deception and emotion, politics and poison, and conscience and inhumanity. All are tied together by the competition between two kinds of human behavior: sociopathic and "normal". The sociopaths are a small percentage of humanity but dominate in positions of control due to their defective (antisocial) characteristics. In other words, the socially defective are in charge of shaping our society. "Normal" people are putty in their hands due to the ignorance normal people have of sociopathy. Ignorance may appear to be bliss, but the new knowledge I have gained makes it clear why ignorance leads to slavery in this lopsided environment, where sociopaths work cunningly to keep the normal people ignorant of the true masters.
The importance of this new knowledge is such that I want to spend some time emphasizing it. The understanding it brings feels like the discovery Helen Keller probably experienced with her teacher Annie Sullivan. A door was opened, and a stream of pure meaning brought light into a world of darkness. A person blind to the outside world became an expert observer of it, seeing more precisely than those with working eyes. We need that kind of vision if we are to reach our potential.
There's a war going on, with deadly serious consequences, and you are part of it. You are either directly engaged, or you are a pawn being manipulated by those who are. Humanity has recognized this conflict since its beginning, and powerful institutions, like religions and governments, have been created in humanity's defense. But this war is being lost, because those institutions, our defenses, have been compromised and corrupted by the enemy. What is this war? It is the battle of good versus evil. Why does it matter to you? Because the quality of your life, and maybe even your life itself, and the lives of all the people you care about, hang in the balance.
So, which side are you on?
To answer this question, we must define the sides. The dividing line between good and bad is the Golden Rule stated in its negative form -- "Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you." This simple maxim defines the floor for what is good and the ceiling for what is bad (think of the bad being down in the basement, and the good being on the main floor). Evil is simply bad taken to an extreme (think of a putrid sub-basement pit).
The founding fathers of the government of the United States drew a line in the sand dividing bad from evil when they wrote the Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Evil may be defined then by doing to others that which denies them their lives, their liberty, their ability to pursue happiness, or any of their other unalienable rights. Killing innocent people, like the United States is doing in Afghanistan and Iraq, is evil. Imprisoning innocent people, like the United States is doing in Guantanamo Bay and in other off-shore secret prisons, is evil. Forcing all Americans to labor many hours to finance these criminal activities, as the tax laws of the United States do, is evil. How is it that our government, originally designed to support the common good, could become an instrument of evil?
The Bible tells us how. "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil." (1 Timothy 6: 7-10) When a private organization controls the creation of money, evil will naturally congregate there, because money is the tool needed to convince good people to do evil things. In the United States, that private organization is the Federal Reserve, and it is the bastion of evil that clandestinely steers the government into directing Americans to do evil. Good American men and women serve as soldiers to defend our country, yet because they are trained to obey orders in the pursuit of their daily bread, they obediently invade sovereign countries and take innocent lives. Good American men and women serve our justice system, yet because they are paid and need to earn a living, they torture those labeled as enemies and deny them access to real justice. And good American men and women serve the IRS, yet because they are dependent on a paycheck, they consent to ruining the lives of others when commanded to do so. But is money all it takes to make good people serve evil?
No. Another ingredient is needed: deception. Just as a wolf in sheep's clothing gains the trust of its next victim, evil pretends to be as good and innocent as a country mom. Pleasant, smiling faces explain in soothing terms why bailouts, deficits, surveillance, new rules, more prisons, and more wars are necessary, and why you must pay for these things with another portion of your unalienable rights. The evil people must convince the good people that everyone is united in service to the common good. The soldiers are told that they are fighting to defend the freedoms of their loved ones. The police, jailers, and torturers are told that they are enforcing the laws necessary for civilization and harmony to exist. The civil servants that participate in stealing from the poor to give to the rich are told that fairness demands their actions. All are subjected to pervasive public propaganda designed to deceive and control. And it is working. Evil is winning. Can it be stopped?
In the battle of good versus evil, evil appears to be on the verge of winning. If you have been paying attention, you can feel it, even if you can't see it.
"You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad." -- Morpheus, from "The Matrix"
"We are, right now, on the precipice. We are teetering on the brink of one of these two realities. On one side lies salvation, and on the other, oblivion, while in our hands lies the choice. Look around you. This battle has been raging for many, many years. People are just kept distracted by design, so for the most part, they haven't yet noticed. Free yourself of the distraction though, and it becomes very obvious and quite plain to see."
And so I asked, can evil be stopped? I believe that if you understand the mechanism by which evil operates, and you stop the mechanism, evil will be stopped dead in its tracks. This does not eliminate evil, however. Evil always regroups, and like water seeking a crack to leak through, it will search for other mechanisms, other ways to gain strength and grow. But a properly constructed glass holds water quite handily, and evil can be similarly contained. We have learned that the current mechanism by which evil rules is through the creation of money by a private cartel, and through the control of information. Access to an unlimited supply of money provides the mechanism of control, and the ability to disseminate lies and suppress truth (financed by all that free money) provides the mechanism of deception. In a capitalistic world commanded by money, the heart of the beast is the central bank system where money is created out of thin air and used to purchase the cooperation of the masses. Remove the heart, and the beast dies. But for this to happen, more of us must know to recognize the beast, and know how it thrives. The beast, of course, will fill our ears with lies, and cover our eyes to the truth, and do everything it can to deny us this knowledge. Knowledge is power. It is our power. Uncover it, reclaim it, spread it, and wield it against evil!
"The truth will set you free. My friends, stop complying with this system. It's time to wake up."
