Live With Intention
Live With Intention
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
On our
last episode I questioned what I could do to remedy an environment
where I don’t feel safe within an immoral hierarchical society.
Henry David Thoreau also wrestled with the same conundrum. The
nineteenth century naturalist, philosopher, pacifist and essayist
wrote an essay originally entitled Resistance to Civil Government
but was subsequently reprinted as On The Duty of Civil
Disobedience. In it Thoreau called for the withdrawal of support
for the US government by those who opposed slavery and war by not
paying taxes and being willing to go to prison for one’s moral and
ethical beliefs.
Not
merely content to write about it Thoreau did indeed go to jail for a
brief period, overnight, for not paying his poll taxes because he
opposed slavery, the Indian Removal Act and the war with Mexico. At
that time Thoreau was twenty-nine years old, slightly older than the
college students being arrested because they oppose Israeli genocide
and ethnic cleansing today.
By his
actions and writings Thoreau has impacted subsequent generations of
thinkers, activists and reformers such as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin
Luther King Jr. who adopted, adapted and expanded his tactics of
intentional nonviolent disobedience and non-compliance to challenge
and overcome existing oppressive racist and dehumanizing social
orders.
Thoreau’s
action brought attention to the causes he espoused even though he was
all by himself acting on his own. Thoreau showed one man acting with
intention purpose and conviction can make an impact. Thoreau was
willing to accept the consequences of his beliefs and actions.
Thoreau was livid when his great aunt paid his poll tax to bail him
out and he was released from jail.
In
many ways the students protesting the vicious Israeli onslaught
against Palestinians are reviving and carrying on Thoreau’s
tradition to standing up to and resisting war, human suffering
profiteering and settler genocide against indigenous people. I
applaud them for their idealism and for their willingness to take a
stand for right, justice and the sacredness of life especially in the
face of ubiquitous pro-Israeli propaganda, warmongering and attempts
to demonize them. Similarly Thoreau, Gandhi and King were castigated
and demonized for their pacifism.
We are
witnessing a classic appeal for heroic moral action despite the odds,
in spite of the power and influence of the misanthropes waging wars
for territorial expansion and racist ideologies. We all have a moral
obligation to take a side! There can be no neutrality on this issue.
It is cut and dry. King forthrightly called his active opposition to
the Vietnam War, a deeper calling to save the soul of America!
We
find ourselves at a similar predicament today. Will we passively
stand by and allow psychopaths, war profiteers, liars and murderers
to continue their slaughter of innocent men women and children? This
is an opportunity to restore spiritual, moral and ethical prominence
and balance in the face of escalating moral depravity, genocide,
apathy and insanity. Will we stiffen up, stand up, transform our
minds and energize our spirits to challenge the atrocities we are
witnessing, or will we remain silent and allow psychopaths to hurl us
into the abyss?! We have to make a decision, a conscious deliberate,
intentional choice.
The
overlords cannot arrest and jail all of us. We outnumber them at
least ten to one if not more. We don’t even have to physically
confront the powers that shouldn’t be, we can effectively act with
impact by using our pocketbooks and wallets! We can decide not to
support anyone, any elected official, any company, any corporation or
conglomerate who supports Israel, supplies them with aid comfort and
sustenance. This includes not supporting or consuming media in the
employ or ideological camp of the Zionists which in this case is
virtually every major media outlet.
This
is not about Israel’s right to exist they already exist and they
are not going anywhere. In fact their existence poses a threat to
world peace and security of the whole planet! Israel exists because
the US and other powerful actors support their territorial expansion,
their racist ideology and their genocide.
As I
said on our last episode I do not feel safe in this type of social
milieu, because the power imbalance and resources of the corporate
and special interest state can easily be focused on and target anyone
who stands up against evil. I am not a punk or a coward I just don’t
feel safe in a system where some lives are deemed far more valuable
and important than others, where genocide is condoned, tolerated,
justified and promoted! Unlike other global conflicts like South
Sudan, the Israeli aggression is on our faces.
We are
emerging from four years of constant, acute propagandizing,
intimidation and governmental overreach regarding a spurious pandemic
one supposedly caused by a novel virus that actually has a 98.9%
recovery and survival rate in healthy people, where the mitigation
strategies caused far more harm than the disease. All criticism and
contrary narratives to this virus mitigation campaign were vigorously
censored and suppressed by the government and corporate
infrastructure working in tandem and cahoots. All dissident was
demonized, intimidated and marginalized.
We are
witnessing this same thing with the Israeli assault on Gaza. The US
Congress just passed a bill defining antisemitism. It will be a short
jump to passing laws criminalizing anyone uttering any criticism of
Israel, especially considering the influence Zionists weld in the US.
Such a law was passed in France and Germany years ago. This will
mean the loss of funding for any non-profit, collage or university
and poses a direct threat to any individual who dares criticize the
Zionists. At UCLA, protesters were actually threatened with being
career white-balled by the Zionists! This is where we are headed.
What
can we do? Transform your mind, living with intention like Thoreau,
Gandhi and King is our best strategy. Make your life count for
something, make being alive a conscious mission. Refuse to be
brainwashed, do not accept, conform or comply with directives or
internalize immorality. It takes courage to change the world; we can
do it. We have to have the courage of our convictions but first we
have to create a powerful desire for peace, value the sacredness of
all life, what Martin Luther King Jr. called a revolution of values.
You/we can make a difference. Let’s make it happen.
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I Don't Feel Safe
I Don’t Feel Safe
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
The power dynamics and hierarchy in this country are truly
fascinating. In America the myths of egalitarianism, equal
opportunity and protection under the law still prevail; but in
reality they are just that; myths, or at best ideals. The United
States is a pluralistic society made up of diverse ethnic and
cultural groups and certain groups hold immense sway and influence
and can get their agendas accepted and executed while others can’t.
Originally at its founding White Anglo Saxon Protestants (WASPs) were
the dominant power group in America. Today this is not the case.
I saw a newscast the other day featuring a pro-Israeli US Jewish
student saying, “I don’t feel safe.” regarding the campus
protests, peace demonstrations and encampments on his school’s
public quad. The media was framing this as the justification for
police tearing down the student encampments, dispersing the
protesters and arresting those who resisted or refused to move.
Certainly every student should feel safe and secure on his or her
campus and public safety is a critically important component of life
not just on college or university campuses but everywhere throughout
our society. Public safety is the ideal rather than the reality of
many places and spaces in this country. Where were the interventions
by administrators, university and municipal police officers when
Islamophobia was rampant on campuses following 9-11 or what about the
fact many female students say they don’t feel safe on college
campuses with sexual assault being one of the leading reported (many
more go unreported) crimes on college and university campuses. Where
is the concern for the feelings and safety of students of color who
have to endure microaggression, insults, taunts and negative
attitudes about their very presence on many university campuses? I’m
sure they have voiced their insecurities, why hasn’t there been a
coordinated intervention to address their concerns and grievances
like we are witnessing against the peace demonstrations and
protesters?! Jewish people represent a small minority of the US
population yet they weld a disproportionate level of power as we are
currently witnessing.
I am well aware some people and groups are valued more highly in
this country than others. US history is replete with examples of
marginalized and discriminated individuals, groups and organizations,
who were deemed inferior and looked at as the bottom dwellers of the
social order; people who were viewed as “less than” or unwanted
trouble makers. None more so than those who push against the status
quo, speak out, dissent and resist policies and traditions they feel
are unjust, oppressive, discriminatory, racist, sexist or class/cast
based.
For example all a police officer has to say is, “I feared for my
life” and he or she will usually be exonerated if they use lethal
force against a suspect. Police officers hold a special place in the
social hierarchy. Indeed they are a vital cog in the social wheel
providing essential services but they are not more sacrosanct than
any other group.
The indigenous people of this nation rarely felt safe or secure as
the Europeans aggressively encroached upon and stole their lands,
made war and displaced them onto concentration camps called
“reservations” where they were made dependent upon their
tormentors.
Neither enslaved or free Blacks have never felt completely safe or
secure in this country. They never knew what mood or psychological
state whites would be in and as chattel and collateral Blacks could
be sold or traded at will or whim. Once emancipation came their lives
were still full of stress and trauma. This stress still exists today
as many urban communities are under siege by crime, drug abuse and
social dysfunction and income and wealth gaps remain insurmountable
for far too many. Truth be told many Black of all walks of life don’t
feel safe which is why our stress levels are so high.
US police departments have a sordid history of being the buffers
between enslaved persons (they were called militias or slave patrols
during the enslavement period), newly arrived immigrants (which is
why police departments were originally formed in cities like Boston,
New York and Philadelphia) and dissidents pushing for social change,
improved working or living conditions. The police motto “protect
and serve” referred primarily to the upper class Brahman types and
the prosperous middle class rather than the bottom dwellers. Police
were and are protecting the former from the latter.
The Pattyrollers, constables, militias and early police departments
didn’t respond or intervene on the behalf of enslaved persons,
early union organizers, social activists and dissidents when they
said “I don’t feel safe.” during their travails or when their
personal spaces were invaded or occupied by mobs.
In reality the police and militia operate at the behest of the upper
classes and executive branch not the public. Today we are witnessing
selective enforcement of public safety by higher education
administrators, mayors and law enforcement to address demonstrators
and protesters on college campuses while whole neighborhoods are
under siege with out of control crime, rampant drug abuse,
homelessness, social dysfunction and collapse.
How does this make any sense unless we take into consideration the
power dynamics and
hierarchical relationships
at work here, the reality
certain groups weld more power and influence than others. Alumni,
donors and contributors of these universities hold far more check
than conscientious students, protesting genocide, ethnic cleansing
and war profiteering.
Corporations, lobbyists and foreign governments have more influence
over federal, state, local government and university administrator
decisions than do idealistic students, peace loving residents or
concerned tax paying citizens. That’s
just the way it is.
Obviously this is a fact. Within this social context I don’t feel
safe. Yet saying this doesn’t bring relief to or for me like it
does for certain people and groups. No one is rushing to my aid. I
don’t feel government is on my side, I don’t feel this system is
looking out for my best interests like they do for the legacy media,
Big Pharma, the Military Industrial Technology Hydra or GloboCap.
What are my options, how do I create a safe environment for myself
and others within a social milieu that constantly demonstrates I
don’t except as a compliant consumer commodity and taxpayer?!
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Censorship Is Metastasizing
Censorship Is Metastasizing
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The First Amendment
to the US Constitution prohibits Congress from establishing a state
religion, prevents abridging the exercise of free speech, provides
for the freedom of the press, guarantees the right of peaceable
assembly and the petition of the government for redress of
grievances. This and the other early nine amendments are part of what
are refereed to as The Bill of Rights.
It’s ironic
because when these words were written and ratified the new nation
vigorously supported the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, profited
handsomely from enslavement although the word slavery is not in the
original wording and authorized a tax on “such persons” meaning
Africans imported into the this country. Generations have been
indoctrinated to believe this was the foundation of a society based
upon laws, freedom, opportunity and respect for human life and
dignity, alas nothing could be further from the truth.
I will not belabor
the hypocrisy of the Bill of Rights regarding the genocide against
indigenous people, the profitability of the economic engine of
slavery which drove the US economy or the numerous times the First
Amendment has been violated, set aside and suppressed since day one.
We are seeing this ongoing suppression play out in real time before
our eyes on a daily basis with the shut downs of college encampments,
the squelching of protests and the ignoring of petitions for redress
put forth by college students.
On another level we
have been experiencing increasingly virulent censorship for over four
years now, ever since the roll out of the COVID-19 Psyop.
Interestingly on October 18, 2019 in New York City a group of
globalist movers and shakers, individuals and corporate entities
like: the World Economic Forum, the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security,
NBC Universal, UPS, Johnson and Johnson and several others sponsored
a mock simulation role playing exercise simulating a global pandemic
caused a new virus deadlier and more lethal than any experienced ever
before, a fictional global extinction level plague!
Event 201
was one of numerous exercises held by the globalist cabal and Deep
State since 9-11; each and every one of them focused on pandemics
purportedly trying to determine which mitigation responses would be
best. Event 201 I believe was the globalists’ final
preparation before the global COVID Psyop was unleashed on the world.
I urge you to
research this event because it was more than just a training
exercise. When you read the policy recommendations and action items
you see it was a blueprint for what we are currently experiencing:
universal censorship, governmental overreach, escalating curtailment
of our rights and a reconfiguring of society to conform to an agenda
we the people have no hand or input formulating; all under the guise
of public health, safety and pandemic mitigation!
COVID was the exact
crisis these unelected billionaires and their underlings were
awaiting, the excuse they needed to implement their nefarious agenda
for a restructured world order just like 9-11 was their needed “Pearl
Harbor event” to jump start US hegemonic resources wars. To pull
this off they had to uniformly and directly control the flow of
information, using fear to deliberately alter our perceptions and
beliefs in order to manipulate us into succumbing and acquiescing to
their agenda. They foisted so called experts on us who pressed for
radical and dangerous remediation: global lock downs, untested
inoculations and the creation of a “new normal”. They had to
stifle what they called misinformation, meaning cognitive resistance
and rational objection to their lies, propaganda and disinformation
to suppress our natural hesitancy to their tyrannical policies and
treatments.
They needed to
suppress all dissent, hesitancy and alternative narratives about COVD
and how to treat it. They not only had to lock us down physically
and keep us isolated but also flood our minds with lies to block out
any ideas and treatments that did not conform to their agenda! They
did what my friend Catherine Austin Fitts calls, “treating us like
mushrooms, they keep us in the dark and feed us cow manure.”
All of us one level
or other have experienced some form of censorship, suppression,
intimidation and marginalization during these past four years. Anyone
who disagreed with questioned or rejected the “experts” narrative
was censored, demonized, ostracized, demonetized, or de-platformed on
social media. Fact checkers in the employ of the government and
corporations demonized anyone who made public statements that
disagreed with the accepted narratives. I have experienced
censorship with my blogs via shadow banning where the algorithms
filter my blog postingss so people using the major search engines
can’t find them unless they are specifically looking for them. Big
tech social media entities like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and Google
all censored and suppressed material on behalf of the government, Big
Pharma, Bill Gates and Fauci; they even de-platformed the President
of the United States! If they can censor and de-platform a sitting
president, what chance do the little guys have of fully exercising
their First Amendment rights?!
We are being
censored, denied information, propagandized and programmed not just
about COVID and the disastrous “mitigation responses” to a
supposedly novel virus that in actuality had a 98.9% recovery rate
for healthy people; that has inflected far more damage on us than the
so called virus itself. We are also lied to constantly about the
economy, inflation and the various conflicts and proxy wars the US is
waging and supporting around the world.
The US government’s
Censorship Industrial Complex attack on Tik-Tok is really about
suppression. Tik-Tok is a global phenomenon. When people started
posting videos opposing the Israeli genocide in Gaza and their posts
generated additional sympathetic posts, the powers that shouldn’t
be said this must stop!
The real issue
about the opposition to student campus protests is not about public
safety, access to campus or disrupting the education process, it is
about censorship and suppression. The Zionist lobby is determined to
shut down all public opposition to and condemnation of their
campaigns of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
This is why they
used their influence and pulled the strings of Congressional
representatives to get them to vilify the presidents of MIT, Harvard,
Penn and Columbia and pass a bill essentially defining criticism of
Israel as anti-Semitic. The bill could lead to loss of these schools’
federal funding! This is intimidation. We are on a steep downward
slop, this is in our face censorship and intimidation. This is a
complete abnegation of the First Amendment for all the world to see.
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What's The Lesson Here?
What’s The Lesson Here?
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
For the past
several weeks the media has focused on the protests and
demonstrations roiling on major university campuses across the
country. It started at Columbia University in New York City as did
the heavy handed university administrations’ calling the police to
arrest the students, punishing students for speaking out, encamping
on campus grounds and then demonizing them because they challenged
the status quo. Now police intervention, arrests and in a few cases
violence have occurred. Thankfully we have not seen the types of
student anarchy, government, police and military overreactions that
characterized the 1960’s, 70’s and beyond.
As the
demonstrations continued we saw the usual rationalization for the
police intervention: pubic safety, disruption of the educational
process, the protesters are anti-Semitic or anti-American, this is
the work of “outside agitators” etc. These are some of the same
threadbare ramblings that were used against union organizers, Civil
Rights activists, the peace and anti-war movements of the mid
twentieth century. Haven’t we learned anything from history? Is
this a case of “the more things change the more they remain the
same”? Apparently it is verboten to dissent, to be a free thinker,
a non-conformist or a pacifist in this country.
Nevertheless there
are a few bright examples where administrators actually took the time
to personally engage in dialogue with the students, face to face and
agree to work through some of the issues both sides feel are
important in an effort to deescalate the situation. Deals were struck
at Rutgers’ University’s New Brunswick campus and the University
of California at Riverside between administrators and students. There
was compromise on both sides, the students didn’t get all their
demands, the administrators gave in on a few issues and the
encampments on those campuses were disbanded without bloodshed or
continued acrimony and strife.
The young people
protesting and camping out are still idealistic they are unencumbered
by mortgages, onerous debt other than their student loans, family
obligations, soul crushing jobs or the need to conform and comply
like older folks. They have not been beaten down by the system to the
point they have become docile, passive, apathetic, numb and comatose,
alas that will come later. We should be grateful to them for standing
up, pushing back and having the courage to stand for something noble
rather than acquiescing to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Life is a school,
our choices and experiences are our teachers, providers of lessons to
be learned, situations to be mastered and personal and collective
evolution realized. If we fail to learn the lessons they come back to
us over and over again, often in another form to give us an
opportunity to get it right, mature and grow.
So what are the
lessons for us in this situation. First we should applaud the young
people for rejecting a narrative that rationalizes genocide, for
refusing to internalize a mindset that justifies war and profits from
war and human suffering. We should be proud these young people are
caring humanitarians and not mere Zombies who go along with the
proverbial okey-doke. Will we repeat the lessons of past generations
who ignored genocide and ethnic cleansing by early US settlers, or in
Germany and Rwanda?! There is an old saying, “fool me once shame on
you, fool me twice shame on me.” Will we allow the global overlords
and warmongers to fool us again?
We can open our
eyes and see history repeating itself and learn the lessons from our
past that tell us fascism, militarism and apathy destroy our souls
and set the table for even more atrocities now and in the future. We
can learn pretending not to know what is going on will lead to more
of the same as the attacks on peace metastasizes throughout the
nation.
We can acknowledge
and accept the reality our government is captured and under the
control of ruthless interlocking special interests cabals such as:
global capital, Big Pharma, the Military Industrial Intelligence
Technology Hydra, and the Zionist lobby all working in cahoots with
the conglomerate media against us. We can learn that the actions of
small groups can change things for the better after all; compared to
the masses, the oligarchical overlords are a small well organized and
resourced group who only succeed by keeping us unaware, divided and
constantly at each other's throats.
It has been stated
in so many ways over the years, evil can only prevail if good people
do nothing! This is true. It is important we contemplate all these
lessons, try to learn what they mean for us personally collectively
and as a species, otherwise we are already mentally and spiritually
dead, merely awaiting interment.
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Things That Make you Go Hmmm
Things That Make You Go Hmmm?
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
As the
demonstrations and protests for peace and against the Israeli
genocide in Gaza and the United States’ unconditional support of
this unjust war spread around the country and the world, it is
amazing to witness the contrasts and responses from US state and
local governments compared to their responses to other encampments
and activities.
I liken the current
campus activism to the student engagement in the 1960’s and 70’s
when campuses erupted against the war in Southeast Asia, the
opposition against military conscription and the support of the civil
rights movement, the 1990’s movement against South African
apartheid and the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement which spread
around the world like wildfire; how in each of those cases the powers
that be responded by unleashing the police, the National Guard and
COINTELPRO on the activists.
Similarly, the
crackdown by universities to the present demonstrations: calling the
police, threatening suspension and expulsion against young people
expressing their right to protests is quite telling. Contrast that
with how consumers are allowed to camp out for hours and days at an
Apple Store, at ticket agencies or stadiums to buy the latest gizmo,
concert tickets or sporting event. People camp out at NASCAR races
over the weekend and at concerts rarely are the police called to
break them up! Even more ominous the how the ruling class allows
open air drug and homeless encampments to persist and fester without
addressing the causes, providing relief or even dispersing the
campers.
Apologists for the
campus crackdowns say the students pose a risk to public safety, they
inhibit access to campus navigation, education and create sanitation
problems. This is a specious argument. The students are camping out
peacefully they are not preventing entrance or campus direction, they
are not trashing or despoiling the campus grounds, they are polite
and orderly. The rationale for the heavy handed responses by
university administrators doesn’t pass the smell test.
The fact of the
matter is, the current campus crackdowns are really about
discouraging dissent, stomping out challenges to the status quo and
preventing a counter narrative to the Zionist war crimes in
Palestine. The police bum rushes of the collages is reminiscent of
how the Obama administration shut down the Occupy Wall Street
demonstrators/protesters during the run up to the 2012
presidential election. The last thing Obama and the political class
wanted was students talking about class warfare and how Wall Street
global capital was making life miserable for the masses on Main
Street!
Thus far in 2024
police have not exerted excessive force like they did during the
60’s-70’s where students were murdered at Kent State in Ohio and
Jackson State in Mississippi, probably because many of the current
protesters are on Ivy League or upper class colleges rather than
working class public universities!
The police are
being sicced on college students by mayors at the behest of
university presidents while mayors around the nation, turn a blind
eye to the open air drug and homeless encampments in Philadelphia,
San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and other major cities that really
are public safety and health danger spots. Despite fervent pleas from
city residents and businesses to do something about the unsanitary
conditions and the open drug use and sales the mayors of these cities
are slow to respond.
What is the lesson
here? It is one of raw power, university presidents from many elite
schools have the support of their wealthy parents, donors and alumni
who contribute billions of dollars, the same thing is true at some of
these public colleges and university. These donors have influence and
mayors listen to them.
On the other hand
the cries of ordinary citizens and entrepreneurs who are tired of the
filth, the unsafe, squalid conditions and the debauchery of their
environments go unheeded. This contrast tells us all we need to know
about the power dynamics of this country.
Within this power
dynamic on a not so subtle level is the unprecedented influence of
the Zionist lobby. The Zionists say jump and the Congress critters
beholden to them for campaign funds (bribes) say “yes suh boss how
high”? The US Congress Critters are aggressively pouncing on and
denouncing university presidents claiming they tolerate antisemitism
on their campuses. In their mind any criticism of Israel equates to
antisemitism. It is well the best congress money can buy seeks to
protect Jewish students but what about all the females who don’t
feel safe on college campuses, (sexual assaults account for 21% of
all reported on campus crimes),
https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/campus-sexual-assault-statistics/#how-common-is-it,
what about people of color who experience micro aggression on a
constant basis, https://gitnux.org/microaggression-statistics/
what about all the homeless people suffering from economic
dislocation,
https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-homeless-people-are-in-the-us-what-does-the-data-miss/
where are the Congressional money grubers on these issues?!
This is another
example of the old adage money talks, bs walks. As this semester
winds down it will be interesting to see what transpires on these
campuses, will tensions abate or will this continue into the summer?
Time will tell. Things that make you go hmmm.
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