Monday, May 13, 2024

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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Wednesday, May 08, 2024

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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Thursday, May 02, 2024

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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