Thursday, September 26, 2024

Choosing the Lesser of Two Evils Is Still Choosing Evil

 

                             Choosing The Lesser of Two Evils Is Still Choosing Evil!

                                                     Junious Ricardo Stanton




We are at a crucial crossroad in this country. As we approach the upcoming presidential election, we are faced with a major conundrum; do we vote, who do we vote for, is voting relevant and will voting actually solve anything. I do believe voting in local elections is important because it decides local issues, helps citizens stay abreast of what is happening in their communities and provides a sense of empowerment and involvement. But as for the presidential election I think the American people deserve much better than what we are getting.

At this point we have a choice between two major parties neither of which has our best interests at heart. Neither party seeks to redress and resolve the myriad of challenges and issues facing this nation at this time. Neither party nor their candidates are telling the truth about inflation, its real causes and the only ways it can be mitigated. High prices and the exorbitant cost of living are not the causes of inflation they are the results, the consequences of policies enacted by the Federal Reserve Bank a private corporation in the US and the other central banks around the world.

When the Fed authorizes the US Treasury Department to print money (which is not backed by anything tangible or deemed valuable like gold, silver or platinum) the more money placed in circulation, the more the currency is devalued and debased. It now takes more dollars to buy the same products and services because the money is worth less! The Fed also determines and controls the prime interest rates, the cost of borrowing and lending money. When rates go up, loans cost more but the interest on savings decreases so there is an incentive to borrow at cheaper rates but a disincentive to save because the rates are so cheap! This is what has caused the massive increase rise in personal, corporate and government debt and the paucity of personal savings.

Is Donald Trump explaining this to his base? Does he offer a real plan to deal with this issue? Will he admit cutting taxes while increasing government spending and the money supply during his time in office did not work? Is Kamala Harris telling people her policies will do nothing to curtail the printing of massive amounts of US dollars which will further debase the currency and rob savers of the value of their savings and investments?

Neither of them mentions the Fed or the role it plays in US monetary policy in their speeches. This is because the banksters who control the system don’t want us to know the game they are playing on us. Are the “experts”, the teleprompter readers and elected officials sharing this information? No, they are not. They are gas lighting us, peddling BS and lying about everything. The powers that shouldn’t be are engaged in a massive campaign of censorship and suppression to keep the truth and any sane alternative narratives from reaching and resonating with the people.

Both political parties support war. How and why is it notions about peace are excluded from all discussions on current events by both candidates? How is it, if the US is the main purveyor of arms and violence in these conflicts, no one except college students are proposing or demanding that the US stop enabling genocide and war?! What’s up with that? And now the Zionists have pressured the government and colleges to shut down the protests and demonstrations and censor the college students. Is this democracy in action?!

As the wars in Europe and West Asia escalate, is either candidate mentioning the word peace? Is either candidate talking about ways to insure the US does not inadvertently (or on purpose) kick start a regional or global conflagration by supplying Israel and Ukraine with ever more lethal weapons and funding? Is the media explaining to the American people the potential consequences of our government’s actions as they arm, support and enable a totally corrupt Neo Nazi regime in Ukraine and Israel’s genocidal plan for ethnic cleansing and war in West Asia? Are we being informed about the potential for global conflagrations as these and other developments expand around the world?! The answer to these questions is a resounding no!

Not only is this irresponsible on the part of elected officials and the media it is also giving material aid and psychological support for war crimes, genocide and evil to the warmongers! Make no mistake this is evil. The vast majority of casualties in these conflicts are innocent children, women and men, who are noncombatants, who have not taken up arms for either side in these conflicts.

The war in Ukraine is the direct result of the United States spending $5 billion dollars to overthrow the duly elected government of Ukraine as part of an overarching plan by the US to bring NATO, it’s thug army, right up to the borders of Russia to intimidate Russia into cowering before the US and its lapdog vassals in Europe.

In the case of Israel their government despite its blatantly disingenuous propaganda seems to relish collateral damage as it expropriates more and more territory from the Palestinians. Look at a map of Israel in 1948, then look at a map of Israel now. The additional lands were not ceded peacefully they have been expropriated by endless wars, abject aggression and expropriation all a vital part of what the Zionists call “Greater Israel”. Their goal is for the boundaries of Israel to stretch from the Nile River in Africa to the Tigris- Euphrates in Mesopotamia!

The Zionist claim their god promised this land to them; like the Hebrews in the Bible (who are not the ancestors of the Ashkenazim Zionists). They say their god told them to forcibly and brutally seize it leaving nothing behind. The problem is the Zionists are not the descendants of the Hebrews, Israelites or Judeans, this is a scientific genetic fact! Their claims to that land are fraudulent and bogus.

I don’t know about you but to me this is evil, it is religious fanaticism, psychopathy and ethnic cleansing. Neither presidential candidate is standing up for true peace. Neither candidate has a vision of what peace would actually look like.

Why, because America loves war. This nation has been at war for ninety-three percent of its existence, two hundred twenty-two out of two hundred thirty-nine years! Think about this and remember this when you go into the voting both in November. Voting for the ”lesser of two evils” is still voting for evil! It’s time to break the cycle.


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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Eisenhower's Warning Has Fallen on Deaf Ears

 

                                        Eisenhower’s Warning Has Fallen on Deaf Ears

                                                         Junious Ricardo Stanton


In his farewell address to the nation delivered on January 17, 1961 outgoing President Dwight David Eisenhower specifically warned against what he called the acquisition of power by the Military Industrial Complex. He said, “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government. Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.”

Eisenhower was extremely prescient in his warning and insight. His experiences as a soldier, officer and Commander in Chief while observing the conditions of his country in 1961 shaped his farewell views. He knew first hand having served for decades as a soldier rising to the position of Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WWII the brutality and savagery of war. As Allied Commander Eisenhower authorized the relentless bombing of German civilians and he saw how the US unleashed atomic weapons on innocent Japanese civilians.

As president Eisenhower was privy to CIA plans to assassinate world leaders, destabilize countries and incite regime change around the world. He was well aware the upper echelons of the military, academia and Wall Street were colluding to make even more mischief around the world to expand the American Empire. He saw think tanks pushing pro-war policies under the guise of fighting communism, he knew the massive funds for research and technology being appropriated were designed to further a US imperialist agenda and he was well aware of the nexus between these initiatives and the plans the financial and corporate elites were hatching. He also knew the media was in on the shenanigans.

Eisenhower was fully aware of the adverse consequences that mindset would have on the American socio-economic-political system. He knew what was coming and he tried to warn us in his swansong. Sadly Eisenhower’s warning fell upon deaf ears and has over the years been drowned out by a chorus of warmongers, fear peddlers and demagogues cranking out jingoist Cold War propaganda to enrich and build the very entities Eishnhower was warning us about!

Eisenhower left office in 1961. The decade of the 1960’s was marked by the unbridled hubris, and arrogance of the US government and Military Industrial Political Complex who accelerated the escalation of US imperialism and neocolonialism around the world and a ruthless repression at home to counter opposition to the government’s pro-war policies. Eisenhower warned of the debilitating affect of the mentality behind the Military Industrial Complex “As we peer into society's future, we-you and I, and our government-must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering, for our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage.”

Unfortunately Eisenhower’s message has been submerged beneath a cacophony of boisterous propaganda clamoring for incessant wars, war profiteering and power. Eisenhower was correct he just didn’t foresee the Military Industrial Complex and the media merging and colluding to prevent his message from reaching and resonating with the people. So in the fall of 2024 we find ourselves experiencing the loss of what little morality the US has left, exchanging our humanity for war profits that only benefit a cabal of psychopaths, money grubbing warmongers and their flunkies.

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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

We Deserve Better

 

                                                           We Deserve Better

                                                          Junious Ricardo Stanton


Originally I decided not to watch the “Presidential Debate” last night because I knew it would be a political circus, a side show yet another indication the US was in deep degeneration. But like the proverbial moth to a flame I was drawn to it so my wife and I watched it anyway. However I did not watch it uncritically with passion or a partisan leaning towards one contestant over the other. I watched it critically and my take-away was, we deserve better as a nation, we as a people deserve much better than what was on display last night!

No one in their right mind would call what we saw that an actual debate. Anyone who grew up during the era where middle school, high school and college students actually were taught how to formally debate, anyone who knows the rules of debating knows what occurred last night was not a debate in any shape form or fashion! It wasn’t even an informal debate. While there were ground rules and both sides agreed to them, what we saw was was two adults trading sound bytes and talking points, personal attacks, vague rhetoric passing as policies and two so called moderators trying to keep control of the antics but who obviously favored Kamala Harris over Donald Trump. The moderators constantly “fact checked” Donald Trump but rarely did so to Harris. It was worse than a parody or a satire of American politics.

In a formal debate there is audience participation, members of the audience are allowed to ask questions and in some cases vote to determine who won the debate, or announce which team was most persuasive in their arguments. Obviously that did not happen last night since that was not the format for that “debate”. We the people will decide that on November the 5th, 2024.

In a formal debate there are two teams or two participants taking sides on a specific issue, one side argues in the affirmative the other side argues in opposition. The contestants are required to cite their reasons and back their assertions by supplying data, facts and logical arguments. There is usually a judge or moderator, the contestants are required to be civil, they are expected to do their homework to become knowledgeable about the topic or question and in some cases such as a debate class, they may be instructed to subsequently switch sides; those arguing in the affirmative then argue against and vice versa.

What we saw last night was not a debate, it was a circus. The moderators asked questions and neither participant answered them even when pressed by the moderator for a simple yes or no answer! In a formal debate the participants are expected to be civil and respectful towards their opponent, that was not the case last night; each called the other a liar, each made wild claims and engaged in Ad-hominem personal attacks on the other. To me it was reminiscent of a junior high or middle school election campaign for student government with each side promising longer recesses a better variety of deserts in the cafeteria or less homework, assertions everybody knows will not happen; or a campaign where one candidate makes bombastic claims and assertions too good to be true. That’s what last nigh was, that’s how bad it was.

Neither candidate offered any details on their “plans” and both made some outrageous and outlandish claims. Trump said he would end the wars in Gaza and Ukraine while he was president elect if he won because Putin and Zelenskyy feared and respected him. Kamala Harris promised government money for down payments for first time home buyers, child care tax credits for infants and an assortment of tax cuts and give-aways but provided no mention how she was going to pay for all of this or the impact her policies would have on the rapidly compounding government debt and interest payments! It was an insult to the collective intelligence of the American people!

As bad as the “debate” was, the post debate analysis was even more bizarre. Surrogates for the candidates made the rounds in the media spin room (I kid you not that is what the media called it a spin room) proclaiming with straight faces and righteous fervor their candidate won, their candidate was the most presidential, most believable etc. It was like an episode of the Twilight Zone or an issue in a Superman comic book about Bizzaro World.

Meanwhile the talking heads, teleprompter readers and “influencers” on the various cable news channels did the exact same thing shoveling their biases on their viewers. The only station/channel that exhibited even a modicum of objectivity was New Nation; meanwhile Fox, MSNBC, CNN, New Max and the over the air channels held onto their usual ideological biases trying to sell them as objective journalism and reporting.

It was bad, really really bad. We deserve better. We deserve better candidates, we deserve better campaigns and we definitely deserve better outcomes. Alas that pitiful display, that so called debate merely reflects the consciousness, the values, the incivility, partisanship, animus, fractiousness and mendacity of our society. We deserve better but in order to have better we must demand better, do and be better ourselves!


Thursday, September 05, 2024

Remaining Sane Amid Constant Gaslighting

 

                                          Remaining Sane Amid Constant Gaslighting

                                                        Junious Ricardo Stanton


Arthur Blair who wrote under the pseudonym George Orwell said, “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” Let that statement marinate in our psyche and consciousness for a while and make the connection to our current predicament. We are indeed living in a time of ubiquitous and intense deceit. Lies, disinformation and mendacity permeate our space and reality. It is everywhere: in advertising, in politics, in education, in government and even in religion or I might say especially in religion. The megalomaniacs who desire to control the whole planet and manipulate us use deceit, fear, and coercion to accomplish their nefarious goals and agenda.

This is menticide the deliberate destruction of our minds! We’ve experienced this on an ongoing basis during the past two decades. Classic examples of gaslighting and manipulation that can easily be singled out are the “official narratives” regarding: the 2000 presidential election, 9-11, WMDs, the 2008 financial implosion, the various pseudo-pandemics leading up to COVID-19 such as HIV/AIDS, the Bird Flu, Swine Flu, SARS, Mad Cow Disease, West Nile Virus, Monkey Pox to name a few, Operation Warp Speed, the 2020 election and of course the October 7th Hamas attacks (which was allowed to happen by Israeli security forces)!

The globalist oligarchs and their captured agencies and institutions such as: the World Economic Forum, the US FDA, the CDC, World Health Organization and the US military industrial security technology censorship apparatus are all in on these charades. As are the corporate media which they own and control as well as the bought and paid for politicians who are beholden to them for the bribes, better known as campaign contributions, insider trading tips and other perks they’ve exchanged for their souls.

There is an African proverb that says, “Truth is in the marketplace, is anyone buying?” Objective truth is always available but it is being vigorously suppressed and mangled via censorship and the bogus “fact checkers” in the employ of the oligarchs, their acolytes and minions. The deceit and mendacity are so ubiquitous almost everything mislabeled as news and reality are fake. We exist in it like fish in an aquarium totally oblivious to it, mostly unaware it is all around us.

So how do we adjust and adapt to living in a milieu such as this? How do we survive and function amid an environment of universal deceit? First, we have to recognize, realize and admit we are living in times of abject propaganda, deceit, mendacity and disinformation. We have to fully grasp there is an omnipresent war going on for our minds; that there are layers of propaganda and mind control similar to an onion. For example there are half-truths, lies of omission, out and out fabrications often simultaneously layered and embedded within complex psychological operations designed to distort reality, control our perceptions, undermine our will and volition by controlling the images, subliminal symbols and narratives to engineer a somnambulant, Zombie population. As far as the oligarchs are concerned for us, ignorance and discombobulation are bliss. They treat us like my friend Catherine Austin Fitts says like mushrooms, “keeping us in the dark and feeding us cow manure.”

This is part of their program to demoralize us. In this ignorant and deluded state we uncritically believe whatever they tell us, buy anything, eat or drink anything no matter how toxic it may be to our health, behave in ways that are self-destructive that enrich or accomplish the goals of our misanthropic ruling elites. This is the state most Americans and Westerners find themselves in today and most don’t realize it.

Our challenge is to be vigilant, discerning, skeptical, consciously examining everything we are told through a psychological filter of self-preservation by asking ourselves, is it in my best interests to internalize, accept or believe this? I know it seems taxing and daunting but we are innately equipped to do this. This is how we should be living anyway. This is what our minds are designed for, this is what intuition is for, to help us discern and navigate our lives in ways that enhance and benefit us rather than the misanthropes and miscreants who view us as “useless eaters”, mere commodities or consumption units.

We are not in this alone we have access to a Universal Higher Consciousness and humanity as our support we just have to find like minded people to form a conscious community of free thinkers, truth seekers and dissidents. We have the power of choice, we have agency, we can be self-determining, self-actualizing sentient beings or we can be Zombies, automatons and cannon fodder for the New World Order. These two choices are mutually exclusive, we can’t do both simultaneously nor is it wise to go back and forth; be one or the other!

I don’t know about you but I don’t plan to go out like that. I know I have a greater purpose for living than just being a mindless consumer, a target for harvesting DNA material or collateral for psychopaths. I do not intend to be one who uncritically lives life going along with the propaganda and insanity this ruthless cabal has in store for humanity. We all have to make a decision to take control of our minds, disengaged from the Matrix, think and act for ourselves. It will not be easy but the stakes are high and both the consequences and rewards are too great to abdicate our responsibilities! We can do it once we put our minds to it.


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