Food for Thought About Current Events
Food For Thought, About Current Events
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
The Chinese
have a saying, “May you live in interesting times.” These are indeed interesting
times when you consider and contemplate current events. For the past two and a
half years we have been inundated with massive propaganda, government and
corporate disinformation and lies about COVID-19 a supposedly lethal global
plague that actually has a 99% recovery rate if you are not immune system compromised,
chronically ill, morbidly obese or engaged in unhealthy lifestyle choices. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-cases/
But when these facts are raised we
are subjected to censorship, demonization, vitriol and ostracism. We have seen
or experienced censorship, suppression and we have either seen or personally
been deplatformed, demonetized and shadow banned from social media. The
president of the United
States was banned from social media in a
blatant violation of First Amendment rights but because it was Donald Trump
there was no fuss made about it.
A
philosopher, essayist, novelist and poet named Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de
Santayana y Borrás also known as George Satayana is best known for his quote,
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” We are seeing
this played out in front of us in the modern “breaking the buck” situation
featuring Kanye West (now calling himself Ye) and Kyrie Irving. Breaking the
Buck was a procedure used during enslavement to beat down, humiliate and serve
as a lesson to show what would happen to proud, strong willed, stubborn freedom
loving Black men. The owner, “master” or plantation overseer would viciously and
mercilessly beat, verbally abuse then sodomize the male in front of the whole
plantation! Think about that for a minute let it marinate in your mind; not
only was the Black man they called “a Buck” (a pejorative term) brutally beaten
and verbally abused he was publicly raped (sodomized) in front of the other
enslaved men, women and children!
While the oligarchs
and their minions no longer physically beat us, lock people in public stockades,
lynch or rape us in the literal sense, they do brutalize, sodomize and lynch us
socio-economically and politically. This is what the media did to Kanye West
and Kyrie Irving at the behest of their owners.
It has been interesting watching
the media talking heads and pundits vilify both men because of their comments,
beliefs and their stands on certain issues. The issue for me is not whether
they are correct or not, the issue is their right to think, say and opine is
being denied and they are being publicly punished for them.
Kanye and Kyrie are experiencing a
modern day breaking the Buck! They are being publicly vilified, demonized and
excoriated because of their stances on issues and topics. This is happening in
the supposed land of the free, the home of free speech and expression. It is eye
opening watching the white establishment go after them but it is even more disturbing
seeing handkerchief head Negroes follow suit. It is depressing watching the
shufflin’ scratchin’ House Negroes on HBO, ESPN and other cable outlets
pontificate and go after Kanye and Kyrie at the behest of the powers that be,
like the old day overseers.
We have seen this before in our
sojourn here in this country, it’s called breaking the Buck and it is used on
uncontrollable Blacks whether they are male or female. The powers that be ran
Ida Wells Barnett out of Memphis
Tennessee, a mob destroyed her
printing press and her newspaper office because she had the courage to conduct
investigative journalism that debunked their lies about Black men raping white
women. She proved it was a dastardly ruse, a vicious canard to justify their
lynching of Black men.
We saw what the government did to Callie House
for merely asking and campaigning for a pension for formally enslaved persons.
We know what they did to Marcus Garvey for daring to form a global mass movement
of uplift for Black people! We saw how the establishment went after Martin
Luther King Jr. when he opposed their racist imperialist war in Southeast Asia. I could go on but you get my drift.
We’ve seen how certain special
interests went after Minister Farrakhan, Professor Tony Martin, former Public
Enemy member Professor Griff, Aresnio Hall and Nick Cannon for uttering
verbiage they felt was offensive or hurtful. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have a problem with an ethnic or
special interest group trying to protect their public persona, image and reputation;
I think we should do this! My problem is
when we stand idly by and refuse to stand up to protect our own when these
groups attack, vilify or disparage them/us! It’s like the breaking the Buck
thing all over again. At some point in time we need to flex our muscles and stand
up for ourselves and our people!
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On another note despite massive and
ubiquitous censorship and suppression, the Truth is getting out. Robert Kennedy
Jr. wrote a best selling book called, The
Real Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on democracy and
Public Health that soared off the shelves despite being ignored and later
demonized by the Big Pharma, the Medical Industrial government media hydra. Good
for him!
The Stew Peters Network produced an
excellent documentary entitled Died
Suddenly. The corporate establishment media, those who even mention it are calling
it anti-vaxx disinformation and propaganda. I strongly urge you to see it for
yourself and make up your own mind about this important issue. You can watch it
for free at: https://rumble.com/embed/v1tq9de/
Investigative journalist Whitney
Webb has written an extensive expose of Jeffrey Epstein called One Nation Under Blackmail. It’s a two
volume set, over nine hundred pages long that reveals the nefarious connections
of sex trafficking, espionage, political extortion, and the nexus amongst
global intelligence agencies, governments, organized crime and how it impacts
us. I have not read it but I have seen her interviews, it is quite telling
informative and impressive. You can see one of her interviews at: https://www.corbettreport.com/webb-onenation/
Someone once said “To learn who
rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” food for
thought.
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Social Media Sets Us Up for Manipulation
Social Media Sets Us Up For Manipulation
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
Since its inception right after
WWII, psychologists have known television watching has deleterious impact on
our brains. “Broadcast television in the United States has a particular
frequency of flicker that cannot be seen, but which has an effect on brain
function. A number of studies that have measured brain wave activity in people
while they watch television noticed that the brain waves were similar to being
in a trance-like state, which is associated with a decreased function of the
cerebral cortex—the critical thinking part of the brain. When in this state for
several hours per day, it becomes more difficult to focus attention and control
impulses. The American
Academy of Pediatrics
recommends that children watch no more than two hours of television per day and
even more beneficial if reduced even further. Many health experts now encourage
parents to completely eliminate television for children under age seven, by
which time their brains have had the chance to develop a bit more.” Tele-Tubbies and Your Health Dr. Kevin O’Hara
D.C. https://oharachiro.com/effects-of-watching-too-much-television.html
This known fact is suppressed by the
telecommunications industry and the government because they use this technology
to brainwash and program us into: wanton consumerism, accepting their version
of reality and uncritically internalize messaging designed to entrain and
control us. Media manipulation and social engineering have increased with the
proliferation of digitized social media. In fact it has made the situation far
worse. “It has been more than a decade since
‘persuasive technologies’ and ‘nudging’ were first advanced as benign forms of
social control. The U.S. and
UK
governments established ‘Nudge Units’ that applied behavioral sciences in
diverse contexts to influence behavior at scale. At the same time,
companies such as Google and Facebook were exploring nearly identical ideas in
search of profit through attention capture and behavior modification, all in
pursuit of advertisement revenues. The alchemical wedding between psychology
and digital technology has resulted in a new kind of social reality in which
advanced techniques of coercion are a common part of everyday life…’Undue
influence’ is a legal term used to describe situations more commonly referred
to as ‘mind control’ or ‘brainwashing’. When individuals are under the spell of
truly coercive communication, they are not freely choosing their actions and
beliefs. We argue here that according to technical legal definitions provided
by psychologists, so-called ‘persuasive technologies’—especially social
media—have crossed the threshold from persuasion to coercion. Large segments of
the population are subjected to undue influence over their minds and
behaviors.” Social Media Enables Undo Influence https://consilienceproject.org/social-media-enables-undue-influence/
The miscreants who want to control
our thinking have moved far beyond the flickering lines of the television
screen to induce a trance state; they now know and employ technologies that
actually rewire our brains. “Heavy social media users perform worse on
cognitive tests, especially those that examine their attention and ability to
multitask. Compared to moderate to light social media users, heavy users need
to exert more effort to remain focused in the face of distraction. Researchers
hypothesize that since social media is easily accessible and competes for your
attention with the promise of perpetual new content, heavy social media users
become less able to ignore distraction in general. Not only does this lead to
poorer cognitive performance, but it shrinks parts of the brain associated with
maintaining attention. This ability of the brain to change is called neuroplasticity,
and it has a big effect on your attention and cognitive function. Beyond
lowering your ability to maintain your attention on any one selected topic,
social media makes you addicted to your screens. It provides immediate rewards
in the form of a dopamine release (the happy hormone) every time you post or
get a notification from the app. This constant barrage of shallow rewards
rewires your brain to want more of what caused that dopamine release, which
leads to social media addiction. Studies show that the brain scans of heavy
social media users look very similar to those addicted to drugs or gambling.”
https://neurogrow.com/what-social-media-does-to-your-brain/
Also, “The effects of screen time can have a
substantial negative impact on your kid’s brain. A recent study by the National Institutes of Health showed
that kids who spend more than two hours a day on screen time activities score
lower on language and thinking tests. And kids who spend more than seven hours
a day on screens show a thinning of the brain’s cortex, which manages critical
thinking and reasoning. Research shows what the adverse effects of too much
screen time look like. Brain scans show that internet-addicted teens have
shrunken gray matter, dictating critical processes like planning, empathy, and
impulse control. And those teens also show disconnected white matter, which
integrates different parts of the brain.” Brain Power How Screen Time Effects
Kids’ Brains
The Silicon
Valley creators and programmers of digital social media (who were
funded and financed by In-Q-Tel the CIA’s proprietary venture capital arm) knew
this would happen but they did it anyway! https://www.successpodcast.com/show-notes/2018/2/28/the-secret-that-silicon-valley-giants-dont-want-you-to-know-with-dr-adam.
They did it because these are tools they use to control and manipulate us! We
need to become aware and resist these technological Trojan Horses.
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The COVID Lockdowns Caused Massive Trauma and Disruption
The COVID Lockdowns Caused Massive Trauma and Disruption
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
“Using
other methods, several studies have also found little health benefit of closing
schools or businesses. Several studies find low COVID-19 transmission rates in
schools. Herby, Jonung, and Hanke’s (2022) metaanalysis finds that ‘lockdowns
in Europe and the United
States only reduced COVID-19 mortality by
0.2% on average.’ Mulligan (2021b) finds that in-person workplaces were often
safer, in terms of COVID transmission per person per hour, than households were
due to the additional prevention efforts made in workplaces. Several other
studies have found that efforts to reduce COVID mortality had costly unintended
consequences.” A Final Report on the States’ Response to COVID-19 National
Bureau of Economic Research https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29928/w29928.pdf
It should
be crystal clear by now that the polices put into place by most nations’ and
countries’ local governments rather than mitigating the spread of the so called
novel Coronavirus, had horrific consequences that will reverberate for years to
come. On every level public health, business, education, public safety you name
it, the over reaction, the societal lockdowns have had deleterious implications
for society as a whole. These policies in retrospect were boneheaded unwise
clearly not based on scientific data or precedent and in many cases was far
worse than the disease they purported to remedy. For example on the
psychological level mental health professionals are reporting a quantum
increase in pandemic related trauma. “Some mental health care advocates believe
the general population may be suffering from various levels of vicarious
traumatization, although strictly speaking this would not qualify for PTSD’s
Criterion A for trauma exposure. Along these lines, in August 2020 the CDC
published results of a large US
web-based survey of more than 5000 adults (Table),10 in which 40.9% endorsed at least 1 adverse
mental or behavioral health problem related to the pandemic. Symptoms of a
trauma- and stressor-related disorder were reported by 26.3%, symptoms of
anxiety or depression by 30.9%, substance use to cope by 13.3%, and serious
consideration of suicide in the prior days by 10.7%. Suicidal ideation was
significantly higher for younger respondents aged 18 to 24 years (25.5%),
minority groups (Hispanic individuals, 18.6%; Black individuals, 15.1%),
nonpaid caregivers for adults (30.7%), and essential workers (21.7%). The
authors stressed the need to identify at-risk individuals to develop policies
to address health inequities, and to increase resources for identifying mental
health problems and offering new treatment options, including telehealth
treatments.” Post COVID Stress Disorder: Another Emerging Consequence of the Global Pandemic Phebe Tucker,
MD, Christopher
S. Czapla, MD https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/post-covid-stress-disorder-emerging-consequence-global-pandemic
The
impact of the decision to shut down whole economies, keep people socially isolated,
ceasing community activities such as public religious services, weddings,
funerals, closing businesses and schools had a devastating affect on society. “As a massive public health campaign was launched aimed at
slowing the spread of the COVID-19 virus, scholars have outlined social and
behavioral evidence that help shape policies aimed at influencing human
behavior such as social distancing, staying at home, and hand washing (Bavel
et al., 2020). Many countries have taken lockdown measures to enforce this
behavior (Ren,
2020). At the same time, it now becomes clear that many of the measures
taken, are causing an immense humanitarian disaster and the cure seems to be
much worse than the disease (Rojas
et al., 2020; Zhang
et al., 2020). The myopic attendance to Covid-19/SARS-CoV-21 and disease control, has led to many consequences
that affect people’s mental and physical health and safety (Holmes
et al., 2020). For instance, early on in the crisis it was already
estimated that at least 100 million people will die from hunger due to the
lockdowns (Zetzsche,
2020), and as the lockdowns continue or even renewed in the upcoming times,
the costs in terms the socio economics could be very high. Several authors have
commented on the harms of non-evidence-based measures that many countries have
taken, on the basis of failed predictions on the severity of the problem.” For
The Greater Good? The Devastating Ripple Effects of the COVID Crisis Michaéla C.
Schippers https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577740/full
We
are seeing that the lockdowns severely set back students in all phases of
socialization and learning. “School closures may ultimately prove to be
the most costly policy decision of the pandemic era in both economic and
mortality terms. One study found that school closures at the end of the
previous 2019-2020 school year are associated with 13.8 million years of life
lost. An NIH analysis found that life expectancy for high school graduates is 4
to 6 years longer than high school dropouts. The OECD estimates that learning
losses from pandemic era school closures could cause a 3% decline in lifetime
earnings, and that a loss of just one third of a year of learning has a
long-term economic impact of $14 trillion. Unlike mortality or economic
outcomes, closing public schools was entirely under the control of
policymakers. Almost all private schools were open.” A Final Report On The
States Response To COVID-19 Phil Kerpen Stephen Moore Casey B. Mulligan
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29928/w29928.pdf
Studies
show the lockdowns had a deleterious effect on student learning across the
nation! “The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic
learning setbacks for America’s
children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities,
according to results of a national test that provide the sharpest look yet at
the scale of the crisis. Across the country, math scores saw their largest
decreases ever. Reading
scores dropped to 1992 levels. Nearly four in 10 eighth graders failed to grasp
basic math concepts. Not a single state saw a notable improvement in their
average test scores, with some simply treading water at best. Those are the
findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress — known as the
“nation’s report card” — which tested hundreds of thousands of fourth and
eighth graders across the country this year. It was the first time the test had
been given since 2019, and it’s seen as the first nationally representative
study of the pandemic’s impact on learning.” Thanks Fauci: Test Scores Show
Historic COVID Setbacks For Children Across All States https://www.technocracy.news/thanks-fauci-test-scores-show-historic-covid-setbacks-for-children-across-us/
It’s no secret; the facts are here
for all to see if you are willing to wake up from your stupor, the lockdowns
were a disaster! But you won’t hear the WHO, CDC, Fauci, Gates, Trump, Biden or
any of the other miscreants responsible for this devastation offer any
apologies, regrets nor will they be held accountable for the collective trauma
and suffering they have caused humanity!
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