Take Time To Be Grateful
Take Time to Be Grateful
Junious Ricardo Stanton
As we in
the United States pause to “celebrate” Thanksgiving a day officially set aside
by legislative decree to offer thanks to the Almighty for the blessings and
bounty we’ve experienced let us look beyond the superficialities of sports,
consumerism, the food and spending to focus on what really matters, being genuinely
thankful, grateful and appreciative.
Thanksgiving
is a day shrouded in myth and custom that during times of political agitation
and divisiveness, economic uncertainty, privation and growing wealth
disparities like we are experiencing today, can cause anxiety, uneasiness and
trepidation the very opposite of what this day is set aside for, being truly
grateful.
Despite the
manifold ills of society, the crass materialism, callousness and incivility
that abound, we can make a difference, we can make meaningful changes but not
in the way most think. Real transformation and change come from the inside out,
they are driven by an inner resolve, fortitude and action; not by being outer
directed and doing things like: voting, going to rallies and demonstrations.
Real change results from
determining to replace our current thoughts, values, priorities and behavior
with new ones which better reflect our broadening consciousness. It is fine to
have wants and dreams but we must ask ourselves are these desires in alignment
with our highest values, our best interests, are they moral, helpful and
positive; are they beneficial to ourselves and others?
On this day let us give thanks for
what we have, our untapped potential and the latent possibilities within
ourselves and determine to manifest them.
Thanksgiving is about recognizing our blessings, what we have,
recognizing who we are and realizing we all have many things to be thankful and
appreciative of and for!
We are alive and experiencing a
modicum of good health and sanity. Be thankful for this an build upon these to
improve and better ourselves. We have life animating us and we have gifts and
talents we have been given, inherited or cultivated we can share with the
world. Life in its essence is about sharing and serving others. We are not here
alone, neither are we here by accident, the universe, contrary to foolish
beliefs doesn’t work like that.
THE CREATOR creates with divine purpose,
divine intelligence and energy to imbue each of us with stunning talents and
abilities most of which we are still yet to cultivate and express. Be grateful
for what you have and make it a goal to develop and manifest even more than you
have already discovered, you are probably a multi-genius.
Our responsibility during this life
time is to use our gifts, talents, aptitudes and genius to benefit humanity,
ourselves and the world. Not all of us are going to be rich, famous or rich and
famous. Nevertheless, each of us can serve, all of us can help ourselves and
others navigate this world to make it a better place.
You say the world is too hard, there is too
much evil and hatred in it, I’m just one person. Yes, you are one person but
you are not impotent. You are more powerful than you realize. We don’t have to
directly call out or confront, ignorance and evil on every occasion, we can
counter balance them just by being our best selves, by being who and all THE
CREATOR intends of us to be! This is
enough!
Stop to take time to reflect on all
your blessings today and every day. No matter your station or situation in
life, you are blessed. Take time today to meditate on your blessings and think
about how you will use what you already have to better yourself and the world.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Desensitized, Dumbed Down and Discombobulated
Desensitized, Dumbed Down and Discombobulated
Junious Ricardo Stanton
By now most sane people have come
to the realization we live in a Kakistocracy, a nation ruled by the most venal,
immoral, ruthless, corrupt and psychopathic among us; and their influence is
desensitizing us to the suffering they are causing here and around the
globe. In order for the ruling class to
continue to rob, plunder and pillage the globe, they have to continue to dupe
us 24/7/365 and employ tactics to coerce us into acquiescing to their
tyrannical anti-life agendas. To be successful they must keep us
discombobulated, distracted, disoriented and dull. We are seeing this on full
display daily.
One of the ways demagogues
manipulate the masses is through fear, they play on our ignorance, using
negative emotions like guilt and shame to undermine our confidence in ourselves
and our capabilities. Through their media they control the discourse and the
narrative and they have created a falsified reality. They know a fearful and
frightened public is easily manipulated; the greater the fear the easier it is
to dupe and program humans to do their bidding. They also know they must use
every tool at their disposal to keep us divided, suspicious and antagonistic
towards each other and unaware of the ways we are being manipulated and played
by their lapdogs and lackies.
We are seeing this scenario played
out in so many ways and areas of our lives. For example, we are bombarded with nonstop
multifaceted stimuli, created and designed to agitate and divide us and
undermine any grass roots attempts at unification. All we are exposed to are
deeply partisan politics, ideological disputation and value conflicts designed
to foment discord to prevent us coming together to find common ground, discern
and evaluate our situation in ways that empower ourselves and stifle the ruling
elites’ hold on our lives. Their divide and rule tactics are working.
The ruling elites use advanced
technologies, mind control, their knowledge of human nature and their long
history of programming and influence to goad us to doing what they want us to
do, which is so often not in our best interests. They are using technology to
blur the lines and threshold between reality and illusion, truth and falsehood,
authenticity and fakery.
They program us using images, words
and emotional triggers they know will produce a predictable reaction. This is
called the problem-reaction-solution paradigm, a variation of the Hegelian Dialectic (thesis,
reaction, antithesis), whereby situations and circumstances are created or used
to incite a predictable response so those instigating the situation can then
offer their predetermined “solutions”.
For example, five years ago the
powers who shouldn’t be, invented what they called a “novel virus” aka SARS
COV-2 or COVID-19 to panic the world into mindlessly reacting in ways that
would result in them making massive profits, reconfiguring the world from what
we knew to a dystopian neo-feudal technocracy supposedly as their solution for
future pandemics. The real problem is, SAR-COV-2 proved not to be a lethal
natural virus for people who were healthy. In fact, COVID-19 had a 98% survival
rate for healthy people, the operative words here are healthy people. Most
American are not healthy and certain demographics like Native Americans and
Blacks have high levels of chronic conditions like obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular
issues, inflammation and cancer. The shots exacerbated these conditions and in
some cases triggered new illnesses.
It is a known fact fear and
hysteria prevent critical thinking and trigger the fight flight response. Major
hysteria was triggered by a global media campaign which hyped the virus and the
lie that only their mRNA inoculations offered viable treatment and cures.
However, the ineffectively tested
COVID mRNA “vaccines” did not work so well. There weren’t free safe or
effective! (Moderna had never created nor brought a pharmaceutical product to
market in its ten-year history! How was this allowed to happen?!) None of the mRNA shots stopped the spread of
the virus, they prevent subsequent variants from morphing or protect anyone
from them!
No one was allowed to question or
offer alternative treatment modalities. Alternative ideas were suppressed and
censored under threat of firing, loss of professional licensing and financial
support! Now studies are coming out that reveal alarming links between the mRNA
shots and neuropsychiatric disorders, cancer (breast, colorectal, gastric lung
prostate, thyroid and pancreatic) and a host of other chronic conditions yet
the American public is being kept in the dark about this!
As a result of the lies,
disinformation, censorship and suppression we are being desensitized, dumbed
down and discombobulated. COVID is merely one example of how we are being lied
to, duped, deluded and injured. People are apathetic about how we are being
treated. We are comatose and Zombie like
as we wander through a maze of lies and falsehoods. I could say the same thing
about Trump’s boneheaded tariffs or the real deal about inflation. Like I said
earlier we live in a kakistocracy.
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Unpleasant Truths
Unpleasant
Truths
Junious Ricardo Stanton
There are numerous
unpleasant truths Americans of all stripes, phenotypes and colors need to
confront and determine what, if anything, we can do to resolve them. What are
unpleasant truths you ask? Simply put, unpleasant truths are difficult and
uncomfortable facts which need to be acknowledged and addressed; by addressed,
I mean confronted and resolved. Failure to do so will result in conditions
worsening and potentially spiraling even more out of control with devastating
consequences!
The first
unpleasant truth we must acknowledge and confront is, America is a kakistocracy.
A kakistocracy is a country that is ruled by the most venal, immoral, depraved
and psychopathic personalities within it, who set a tone and tenor which
reflects their greed, corruption, depravity, mendacity and wanton disregard for
life.
We see it all around us, corruption
and decadence have become normal, tolerated and accepted aspects of American
life and culture. Through their ownership and control of state power, the
media, perception management, miseducation and propaganda apparatuses, the
ruling elites have created a nation of sheep, Zombies and automatons who
mindlessly do their bidding, acquiesce to their lies, buy into, mirror and
mimic their behavior and values. The moral rot is metastasizing rapidly to the
point of no return.
Take the ongoing
government shutdown for example; a very unpleasant truth is, the shutdown is adversely
impacting millions of Americans though disrupted or discontinued services, job
cuts, that the government and media euphemistically call: reductions in force,
downsizing or layoffs and these are negatively impacting millions. In the midst
of this, another unpleasant truth is, the money grubbing/bribe/grift taking
Congress critters are still getting paid, they have life time retirement benefits
and perks even during the government shutdown; unlike the government workers and
ordinary citizens who are being severely disadvantaged by their callousness and
insensitivity. To add insult to injury most of the so-called public
servants are twelve times wealthier than the average US family. How does this
happen?
Meanwhile citizens hard earned tax
dollars are sent around the globe to foreign countries to facilitate genocide,
ethnic cleansing, war, resource plunder and to prop up corrupt or cowered foreign
leaders. This is designed to keep the American Empire’s hegemonic ambitions
afloat and further enrich the plutocrats who run the system.
Another obvious hard truth is although Trump
campaigned as a “peace” president he is facilitating devastating wars by
funding them and by his narcistic bombast and bellicose threats. The funding of
these wars and covert actions is at the direct expense of the citizens and our crumbling domestic infrastructure. For example,
the US spent five billion dollars to undermine the duly elected Ukrainian
government in 2014. That money could have been used to improve mass
transportation, repair roads or underwrite health care and real education
programs here in the US! But the truth is the imperial hubris of the ruling
classes is a higher priority than benefitting the ordinary citizens of America!
The ongoing government shutdown is
part of a deliberate campaign to prepare and condition Americans to accept and
tolerate a government that is not responsive to their needs and priorities.
This is a precursor to a decline in our standard of living to third world
status! For example, the cancelling of numerous airplane flights is preparing
US citizens to accept they will not be able to fly on demand, go where they
choose when they choose and the experience of being inconvenienced and
powerless to do anything about it.
Another uncomfortable truth is,
inflation is at an all-time high, because of the massive increase of the US money
supply (M2) in circulation. The fact is trillions of dollars have been pumped
into circulation during the last few years, subsequently debasing the US dollars’
value. The dollar’s depreciation is the real reason consumer prices are rising
and items are more costly, due to government sanctioned counterfeiting. And Trump’s totally arbitrary universal tariffs
are exacerbating the situation.
While there are many other
unpleasant truths, the last one I’ll mention this time is; Trump sending state
National Guard troops into cities without the existence of a genuine emergency
or without being requested by states’ governors is totally unconstitutional! It
is designed to get Americans accustomed to unilateral authoritarian decisions that
place US troops on the streets of our cities based upon bogus threats or petty
political vendettas. In this regard the US is rapidly becoming a banana
republic that eschews morality and the rule of law!
These unpleasant truths need to be acknowledged,
addressed and resolved; the question is, will we?
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