Living 2019 on Purpose
Living 2019 On Purpose
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
As we enter the New Year, let’s
focus on ways to empower ourselves, enhance our health on a personal, community
and global level. As a people we need to be more conscious of our inner and
outer worlds and work towards being our truest and greatest selves in order to
turn this world around and make it a better place to live. The New Year is a
great opportunity to forge new life paths, life goals and work to improve
ourselves, our environment and the world.
We are all extensions of the
DIVINE, we are sparks from the GREAT I AM and as such we should live our lives
in full cognizance of this reality. As extensions of the DIVINE we have the
same essence and power as the CREATOR only in lesser amount. We have the power
of imagination, the ability to create in our mind’s eye images and scenarios we
want to make real and manifest in our lives. As such we have an obligation to
think good thoughts, envision positive outcomes, and generate positive energy
and emotions that influence our immediate surroundings and the people we
interact with.
The Life Force gives us the energy
and ability to move, do and accomplish what we will. Deeply embedded within our
personal Life Force/Energy is our destiny the reason we incarnated to this
plane. In 2019 let’s make it our purpose
to live on purpose in accordance with DIVINE LAW which is in our best interest
to do.
Our African ancestors understood
the universe was not random, that it was the result of DIVINE DESIGN,
INTELLIGENCE and INTENTION and everything in the universe is in DIVINE ORDER
(Ma’at) with a DIVINE PURPOSE. We are
because the UNIVERSE exists, the UNIVERSE exists because we are part of it
(Ubuntu). Traditional African philosophy posited that we all have a purpose and
mission when we incarnate on this plane and that our mission is an inextricable
part of our true self. “The DESTINY or SPIRTITUAL DOUBLE variously known as Ka
(ancient Egypt), Chi (Igbo of Nigeria) Ori (Yoruba of Nigeria) Kra (Asante of
Ghana), Kla (Ga of Ghana), Ehi (Bini of Nigeria) Se (Fon of Benin) Ido (Kuba of
Zaire) etc. … This self is central in that it is often associated with the
other selves that make up the person and also in that it appears to orientate
the whole person towards the fulfillment of his destiny or life purpose. It
takes part in choosing the individual’s destiny in the invisible realm before
the individual is born… Thus this is the aspect of the self around which other
aspects orientate themselves, since the person’s destiny and purpose represents
the direction in which aspects of the
person’s being must develop or evolve.” Person
Divinity and Nature A Modern View of the Person and the Cosmos In African
Thought Chukwunyere Kamalu page 53.
We are here for a reason, many
reasons actually. We are here to give experience to the CREATOR which is a noncorporal
SPIRIT, we are here to accomplish a life mission and destiny to make a positive
impact on our society and surroundings. One of the reasons we are so out of
sorts, agitated and frustrated is because we have not made contact with our
life purpose. Living in a barbaric aspiritual society, with a materialistic and
immoral focus does not help. So it is our duty and responsibility to, as our
ancestors said, “Know Thyself”.
In
traditional African society rituals and ceremonies helped the community
discern the life purpose of the new baby and it was the community’s
responsibility to support the child in this mission, reinforce and encourage
the child to be who they came here to be. For the most part these mechanisms
are not utilized for the masses in the West. The closest they come is using
occult means like Astrology, Numerology Palmistry etc to glean one’s life
purpose and aptitudes.
If we are to take our rightful
place in the UNIVERSE as sons and daughters of the MOST HIGH, we must be
cognizant of who we are and why we are here! There are many ways to accomplish
this, meditation, divination using a traditional African divination
process/system or obtaining a full Astrological chart interpretation.
Meditation is the easiest and simplest way.
So in 2019 practice quieting your
mind, engage in serious introspection to discern the VOICE of SPIRIT, your
Highest Self within you. Learn to distinguish it from the meandering mind
chatter we all have and the external voices of the world. Learn to trust it,
remember intuition is never wrong no matter how unusual the message, it is your
DIVINE SELF communicating with you for your best interests. Listen to it and
follow its guidance.
In 2019 give yourself and the world
the gift of your truest self, manifest your life mission and destiny. The
journey may not be easy, but it will be exciting and well worth it!
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The Thucydides Trap
Is The United States Approaching the
Thucydides Trap?
Junious Ricardo Stanton
“The
phrase ‘Thucydides’s Trap’ was coined by an American political scientist and
Harvard professor, Graham T. Allison, to describe the phenomena of a rising
power and an established dominant power almost always breaking into conflict.
He took the term from the writings of Thucydides who was writing on the state
of Greek affairs in The History
of the Peloponnesian War which describes a series of wars between Athens and Sparta that
changed the balance of power in Greece.”
https://www.quora.com/What-is-Thucydides’s-Trap
The politicians and the corporate
mind control apparatus program us to believe the United States is the good guys, the
exceptional and indispensible nation, the sole repository of morality and
goodness in the world. This is propaganda to brainwash the masses into
acquiescing to the American global empire and its plunder rape and degradation
of the people and the planet. The US currently has over eight hundred
military bases in seventy countries around the world and this doesn’t count
drone bases and covert operations run by the CIA and paid mercenaries.
The fact is for most of the world,
the US
is the major threat to world peace and stability, the major purveyor of
volatility and violence on the planet. A recent Pew
Research Center
survey of thirty countries indicated people around the world hold a very different
opinion of the US
than the mass mind control apparatus tells us. “Nevertheless, the proportion of
the public that views American power as a major threat to their country grew in
21 of the 30 nations between 2013 and 2017. The largest increases occurred in Spain (42 percentage points), Chile (34 points), and Turkey and Ghana (28 points each).
Just in the past year, perceptions of the U.S. as a major threat have increased by at
least 8 percentage points among several long-standing American allies, including
Australia (13 points) and
the UK
(11 points). Concern about U.S.
power is up 10 points in Canada,
Germany and Sweden, and 8 points in France and the Netherlands.” This survey saw an increased perception of the
US
as a threat to world peace compared to the survey taken in 2013!
People
should be concerned. The American Empire is in decline and fears losing its top
perch to a competing nation like China. The US is increasing bellicose, belligerent and
threatening to not only China
but Russia and Iran. Currently
the US is engaged in a full
fledged trade war with China,
is imposing sanctions (which are a form of economic intimidation and warfare)
on Russia, Iran and
threatening anyone who does not go along with their program of sanctions and
tariffs.
What we are
witnessing is what has been called the Thucydides Trap. What is that you
ask? Here is the historical background,
“The Thucydides Trap is a political metaphor, so in order to understand it we
need to look at its namesake. Thucydides was a 5th-century BCE Greek historian
and politician who wrote the most famous account of the Peloponnesian War.
Here's what he observed in the outbreak of the nearly 30-year conflict that
rocked the Greek city-states. Sparta was the
hegemony, or dominant power, of the Aegean. Athens, however, was growing so quickly that Sparta got spooked. They
worried that Athens
would soon become a real threat to their power, so they attacked preemptively.
And that's the trap. Athens' ambition and Sparta's fear of losing
power drew the two into conflict, even when no one expected it. When Sparta attacked Athens,
it forced the other Greek city-states to pick a side, and a massive Greek war
ensued that lasted for decades. Thucydides would later write that the entire
Peloponnesian War was due to '’the growth in power of Athens,
and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta.'’
In 2015,
Harvard political scientist and Professor Graham Allison identified
a scenario he calls the Thucydides Trap. Basically, the Thucydides
Trap says that as a rising power challenges the dominance of an established
power, that dominant power is likely to respond with violence. It's a model for
predicting when warfare is likely between two nations, but also a way to
propose alternative solutions meant to prevent warfare. After all, the whole
point of identifying a trap is to avoid it.”
https://study.com/academy/lesson/thucydides-trap-definition-theory-historical-examples.html
We
are seeing this scenario played out between the US
and China and to a lesser degree between the US and Russia. But China is the US’s main economic rival. China is the one on a fast pace to supplant the US as the
world’s largest economy. The US
is having conniptions and it is trying to assert itself to rebuff China. This is
really what Trump’s tariffs and trade war are all about. Based upon the
Thucydides Trap trade wars eventually become shooting wars. So given
the American Empire’s history of imperialist war and carnage including against
China (the second Opium War 1857-1859), prospects for peaceful coexistence do
not look good.
I learned a long time ago never let your
mouth write a check your behind can’t cash.
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Bizarro World
From the Ramparts
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
Bizarro
World
“We’ll know our
disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes
is false.” - William Casey former Director of CIA
We
live in a virtual Bizzaro World like in the old Superman comics where
Superman’s antagonist Bizarro, a Frankenstein like version of Superman, was
banished to Bizarro World a place where everything was the exact opposite of
our reality, up was down, first was last, good was bad, wrong was right, white
was black, logical was illogical, giving was taking, insanity was sane, liberty
was
tyranny
etc. In our version of Bizzaro World deceit is truth, exploitation is generosity,
oppression is freedom, genocide is life, war is peace and evil was
righteousness.
Examples of just how steeped in
Bizzaro World we are were put on vivid display this past week, when CNN fired
Marc Lamont Hill for speaking truth at the United Nations of all places and the
ruling class and media adulation following the death of past President George
H.W. Bush.
Marc Lamont Hill a university
professor, activist, author, scholar and entrepreneur was demonized and
vilified by miscreants who sicced the media hellhounds on Hill calling for him
to be terminated by Temple
University in addition to
his firing by CNN.
In an
article originally published in MintPress News
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-israel-lobby-groups-behind-the-political-lynching-of-marc-lamont-hill/252534/
the writer, Whitney Webb, identifies the organizations behind the character
assassination, vilification and media lynching of Marc Lamont Hill. The groups
cited in the article are attempting to silence Hill for speaking truth to power
exposing the harsh conditions, the vicious genocidal policies the Israelis employ
against the Palestinians and for daring to call for justice and mercy on their
behalf.
Hill has apologized for any
misinterpretation and misunderstanding his words may have caused but that is
not enough, the Zionists want his head on a platter. They have assailed Hill as
an anti-Semite, maliciously employing Bizzaro World illogic to twist Hill’s
call for “a free Palestine from the river to the
sea”, to claim Hill called for the destruction of Israel.
First of all their canard about Hill
being an anti-Semite is absurd since most people who call themselves Jews are
not Semites at all. Modern DNA analysis has proven most Ashkenazim Jews have no
genetic link or connection to the Biblical Hebrews!
https://theconversation.com/ashkenazic-jews-mysterious-origins-unravelled-by-scientists-thanks-to-ancient-dna-97962
Secondly, Hill was referring to the traditional boundaries and borders of
Palestine not insinuating
Israel should be obliterated! But
in Bizzaro World, deceit is truth and geo-political deception is fact. Hill is
what the oppressors and warmongers most fear, a brilliant conscious Black man
courageous enough to stand up for truth, righteousness and peace.
The second blatant example of
Bizarro World mendacity is the canonization of the war criminal, mass murderer,
fraudster and paragon of evil George Herbert Walker Bush as a hero, “humanitarian”
and “statesman” by the ruling class and their media.
The corporate media reflects the interests,
worldview, politics and policies of its owners and the corporate media is owned
by the same class of psychopaths the Bush family is part of. In a show of
bi-partisan mendacity and Bizzaro World illogic, George H.W. Bu$h was extolled
as a great humanitarian, statesman, father, grandfather and all around good
guy. Nowhere was it mentioned he was the scion of an upper crust family with
deep roots in what is now called the “Deep State”.
Bu$h’s grandfather Samuel Prescott Bu$h was
connected with the Rockefeller’s and became a railroad and steel executive. He
also helped the Remington Arms Company that the Pryor and Rockefeller families
held a large interest in, to gain a huge percentage of the contracts for the US
Army during WWI, after he was recommended by Wall Street financier Clarence
Dillon for appointment to the War Industries Board. In turn Samuel Bu$h made a
fortune from those business connections.
Samuel’s son Prescott, was a former
US Senator from Connecticut and an investment banker whose ambition of becoming
president were dashed when it was discovered he was the banker for Adolf Hitler
and the Nazis and his assets were seized under the Trading With the Enemy Act.
https://www.attackonamerica.net/george-w-bush/bushfamilyfundedhitler/
Prescott Bu$h was also
linked to the failed coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
https://harpers.org/blog/2007/07/1934-the-plot-against-america/
Prescott Bu$h left
Connecticut and relocated
in
Texas.
Political intrigue, war profiteering and brass knuckle politics run in the Bu$h
family.
George H.W. Bu$h like most
presidents before him led the US
into war based upon lies, propaganda and disinformation. Case in point, Saddam
Hussein was deliberately given false information by US Ambassador to Iraq April
Glaspie who told Hussein President George H.W. Bu$h had no problem with Hussein
going into Kuwait to stop Kuwait from using slant drilling to steal Iraqi oil.
Hussein invaded Kuwait
and Bu$h turned on him leading to the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqis. https://truthout.org/video/a-massive-us-propaganda-machine-bolstered-george-h-w-bushs-war-on-iraq/
I could go on and on but you get my
drift.
Don’t fall for Bizarro World
illogic and lies also known as the okey-doke.
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US Life Expectancy Rates Continue To Decline
From the Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
US Life Expectancy Rates Continue
to Decline
The US
Center for Disease Control just issued a report indicating life expectancy in
the United States
declined again in 2017. This is the third year in a row a decline has been
reported. Health officials are concerned about the trend and are attempting to
ascertain exactly why this is happening.
One cause is the rise of drug overdoses and
suicides fueled by growing pessimism, economic uncertainty and feelings of hopelessness.
“
NEW YORK (AP) — Suicides and drug overdoses pushed
up U.S. deaths last year, and drove a continuing decline in how long Americans
are expected to live. Overall, there were more than 2.8 million U.S. deaths in
2017, or nearly 70,000 more than the previous year, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention said Thursday. It was the most deaths in a single year
since the government began counting more than a century ago. The increase
partly reflects the nation’s growing and aging population. But it’s deaths in
younger age groups — particularly middle-aged people — that have had the
largest impact on calculations of life expectancy, experts said…CDC officials did
not speculate about what’s behind declining life expectancy, but Dr. William
Dietz, a disease prevention expert at George Washington University, sees a
sense of hopelessness. Financial struggles, a widening income gap and divisive
politics are all casting a pall over many Americans, he suggested. “I really do
believe that people are increasingly hopeless, and that that leads to drug use,
it leads potentially to suicide,” he said. VoteCast, a wide-ranging survey of
the electorate conducted by The Associated Press, found voters expressing
pessimistic views about the future: About half of voters nationwide said they
expect life in America
for the next generation to be worse than it is today. Nearly a quarter said
life would be better and about as many said it would be the same. VoteCast
surveyed more than 115,000 voters nationwide as Americans cast ballots in this
year’s midterm elections.” https://www.apnews.com/de57909c5bcc4162b122948539ed9c6a
Depressing
socio-economic conditions are being blamed for the rise in US suicides. “During
2000–2016, the suicide rate among the U.S. working age population (persons aged
16–64 years) increased 34%, from 12.9 per 100,000 population to 17.3 (
https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars).
To better understand suicide among different occupational groups and inform
suicide prevention efforts, CDC analyzed suicide deaths by Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC) major groups for decedents aged 16–64 years
from the 17 states participating in both the 2012 and 2015 National Violent
Death Reporting System (NVDRS) (
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/nvdrs).
The occupational group with the highest male suicide rate in 2012 and 2015 was
Construction and Extraction (43.6 and 53.2 per 100,000 civilian
noninstitutionalized working persons, respectively), whereas the group with the
highest female suicide rate was Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media
(11.7 [2012] and 15.6 [2015]). The largest suicide rate increase among males
from 2012 to 2015 (47%) occurred in the Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports,
and Media occupational group (26.9 to 39.7) and among females, in the Food
Preparation and Serving Related group, from 6.1 to 9.4 (54%). ”
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6745a1.htm?s_cid=mm6745a1_w
We do
not have to succumb to this trend. We are not powerless; we can impact the
quality and even the length of our lives. When we examine our people’s “lifestyles”
we realize we are contributing to our own ill health and premature death. It is
not about germs and bacteria. Good health is a holistically inclusive
process. Our health is based upon our mental, emotional, spiritual as well as
physical state. Our thinking and mental functioning impacts our wellbeing. If
we are constantly thinking, imagining and self-talking negativity, envisioning
and anticipating worst case scenarios this will impact your emotional state; your
emotional state in turn triggers hormones, enzymes and electro-chemical
reactions within your body that impact your heart rate which raises or lowers your
blood pressure and influences your autoimmune system’s ability to maintain an
optimal state of homeostasis and equilibrium.
Our African
ancestors were the first physicians/psychologists. They realized the importance
of maintaining spiritual and physical vitality. They studied themselves and
came to some very important conclusions about life, living, health and
wellbeing. For Africans health is an integrated systemic process: it is spiritual,
personal, social and environmental. Optimum health is generated through harmonious
living, harmonious relationships with THE CREATOR, one’s self, others and
nature.
Ancient Africans admonished living
a life of moral rectitude (Ma’at), so that one’s heart was light, guilt free,
and one’s relationships with others and nature was righteous. Read the 42
Declarations of Innocence which were the precursor to the Ten Commandments and
you will see just how deep and profound African culture was.
Keep it light, lighten up don’t allow the news
to depress you in fact turn it off. Don’t get caught up in the negativity
around you. Meditate and connect with
your DIVINE SELF, honor and venerate yourself, your ancestors and live a life
worthy of our heritage. These along with a healthy diet and always getting
ample sleep will enhance the quality of your life and lengthen it.
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