Where Is The Outrage?
Where’s The Outrage?
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Days ago feeble minded Joe Biden gave Ukraine the authorization to
launch US and Western long range missiles deep into Russian
territory! Immediately after receiving the go ahead the clown
masquerading as Ukraine’s president ordered the launching of US
and British missiles into Russian territory. Meanwhile Russia
president Vladimir Putin announced his new criteria for use of
nuclear weapons to defend his nation.
The US legacy media casually and nonchalantly mentioned dementia Joe
had given Volodymyr Zelenskyy the green light to escalate the war
against Russia and Ukraine had launched long range missiles into
Russian territory. There was no negative reaction whatsoever. No
Republicans, no librarians nor any Democrats lambasted Biden for his
fool-hearty decision. How is it America and its citizens are so
somnambulant, apathetic and uncaring? Are we so used to being
programmed, conditioned and brainwashed to acquiesce to this nation’s
role as the greatest purveyor of violence on this planet we have
become totally desensitized to killing, maiming, devastation and
destruction? Is America as immoral as the Nazis or ancient Rome?
It seems so. The optics in the media of the wanton bombing of
civilians in Gaza by Israeli forces; the killing and maiming of
innocent men, women and children was not a hot topic in the recent
presidential campaign because the Zionists weld so much power in the
US they were able to suppress any vigorous discussion. Look at how
successful they were in shutting down the campus protests last spring
and how presidents of major elite US universities were hauled before
Congress and excoriated and brow-beaten by legislators beholden to
AIPAC for bribes and donations. Freedom of speech and the right to
protest were effectively stifled right before our eyes.
Things are so bad during the recent presidential campaign no one
mentioned or protested the fact the US is sending billions of dollars
and equipment to Israel and Ukraine while US citizens simultaneously
suffering from the devastation of natural disasters right here at
home were ignored by this same government! What’s up with that?!
Where is the outrage, where is the strident denunciation of this
genocide, insanity and evil? Why aren’t people in the streets
protesting, boycotting and divesting? Are we this amoral, weak minded
and impotent we will sit back and wait hoping someone like Donald
Trump will magically come to save the day?
Guess what, Donald Trump is just as beholden to the Zionists as the
Democrats are,perhaps more so. Trump bombastically claims he will
resolve the situation in Ukraine within days of taking office. How
many sane people actually believe that, especially after the West has
crossed another one of Putin’s lines in the sand?
Even if Trump had the capacity to bring all parties together, now
that Zelenskyy is attacking Russia with the blessings of NATO this
presents a whole new dynamic. The world is in the beginning stages of
an escalating global conflagration as we speak! There are thousands
of North Korean troops fighting along side Russian troops in Ukraine.
American and Western contractors and military are directing the
logistics for the missile systems and using advanced technology the
Ukrainians do not possess to facilitate the missile attacks inside
Russia! Is is beyond just Russia trying to de-Nazify Ukraine, this is
a world war!
Meanwhile the legacy media is presenting US warmongers who are
telling the American public Putin is bluffing about using nuclear
weapons. They are cheering the use of NATO weapons against Russia as
if this is a video game or a fictitious action movie. This is insane.
What will it take for Americans to wake from their stupor and call
dementia Joe out for his irresponsible and reckless actions?! Why
aren’t more independent or alternative media outlets and
influencers raising this issue and demanding direct action against
the warmongers? Have we drank the Neocon’s Kool-Aide, do we think
Putin is bluffing, that he will not retaliate against NATO and the
US? Do we think there is time enough to sort all this out and hope
saner heads prevail?
Or are we in a daze, sleepwalking towards global annihilation as we
are being driven over the abyss by psychopaths, war profiteers and
warmongers? Only time will reveal the answers. In the meantime
people, please wake up!
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Election Postmortem
Election Postmortem
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
Now that the
election is over and the shock of Trump winning a convincing and
decisive victory has sunk in, it’s time to look back to see how
this happened and why the Deep State and its lackeys failed to stem
the tide of dissatisfaction and angst that was actively percolating
in the psyches of so many people. Looking at the election count map
the Democrats got walloped, only Harris’ win in states like
California and New York with their huge electoral votes staved off an
overwhelming landslide.
In many ways this
was not just a victory for Donald Trump and I’m no fan of Donald
Trump I voted for Jill Stein the Green Party Candidate. From my
perspective this is a greater win for the people who rejected the
weaponization of the law, the disingenuous tropes about Trump being a
Russian asset the blatant deplatforming of a sitting US president by
the social media monopolies and by voting for Trump people punched
holes in the lies about him being a “threat to democracy” by the
party and media who circumvented the direct involvement in the
democratic process altogether when they arbitrarily selected Kamala
Harris to be their candidate after unceremoniously kicking the senile
Joe Biden to the proverbial curb.
The system is set
up and rigged so there are no real choices within the two party
scheme. Look at how the Democrats repeatedly snuffed out or
suppressed potential candidates like Bernie Sanders and Robert
Kennedy Jr. Is that true democracy, of course not! It is hypocrisy at
its highest and the people realized it and rejected it
wholeheartedly.
As for the election
postmortem; aside from the blatant hypocrisy of the Democratic Party
elites arbitrarily selecting Kamala Harris as their candidate; the
lack of any accomplishments the Democrats could cite fatally damaged
Kamala Harris because nothing she said could offset the in your face
reality people were still trying to recover from the COVID
disruptions, they were struggling to cope with the constant rising
costs of living, the Biden administrations’ open support of Israeli
genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and Palestine and the fact her
administration was sending billions overseas to support a losing
effort in Ukraine but did nothing to help Americans suffering the
devastation of hurricanes and natural disasters here at home! These
issues overwhelmed her and she had no rebuttal for them.
Demographically
this was a gender, class, race and ethnicity and ideological
election. Kamala Harris lost because she failed to energize all the
demographics she needed to win the election: the traditional
stalwarts of the Democratic Party, males, especially Black and Latino
males and working class folks. She had Black females but like Hillary
Clinton she was unable to reach and convince the broad spectrum of
white women of all class and socioeconomic levels to vote for her!
Whining about sexism is a waste of time because Harris absolutely
failed to rally enough females to support her, the numbers don’t
lie.
Abortion,
reproductive rights and Roe v Wade animus was the main focus of her
campaign ads. While these were hot button emotional issues they were
not relevant or strong enough to turn the tide, they could not trump
(pardon the pun) the visceral issues of: inflation, anxiety driven by
an overall view America is heading in the wrong direction and the
fact there was major animus against the ruling elites and their
depictions of working class people.
The celebrities
Harris garnered were not germane because they did not address the
concerns of ordinary working class folks. What do billionaires like
Oprah Winfrey and multi millionaires like Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen
or Taylor Swift know about struggling to make ends meet?! They do not
empathize with the day to day struggles or the issues of the urban
poor, or suburban and rural folks. Nor could they nor did they
articulate any profound solutions to the challenges this nation
faces. Plus many of them were tainted by their association with Sean
“P Diddy” Combs.
As a former
prosecutor Harris lost credibility because she was unable to shake
her ties to the “defund the police” movement and mainly her
connections to Joe Biden and his policies. She never articulated the
ways and means beyond her shallow pandering to various constituencies
or elaborated on how she was going to actually do something about
rising prices, nor did she provide details on how she was going to
structure the tax credits or pay for all the things she was
promising.
To critical
thinkers she came across as shallow and disingenuous. Joe Biden was
an albatross around her neck because he was so unpopular and people
resented the fact Harris helped cover up his dementia and declining
physical health for three years!
The good news is,
the sun came up the next day. The election is behind us and now we
have to prepare for another Donald Trump administration. Trump has
consistently shown us who and what he is. He’s a blowhard, a bully,
a narcissist, a media creation who is not a moral man or a deep
thinker. While Trump did not start any new wars while he was
president, the fear is he will allow Israel to drag America and
possibly the world into a regional or global conflagration.
With the
Republicans controlling the White House and both houses of Congress
there will be few checks and balances to hinder him and the
Democratic Party is in such disarray now, they will not be able to
mount formidable or well structured opposition to him. Also most of
the court cases Trump is facing may melt away. All the Democrats and
Trump haters will be able to do is whine and call him names.
Trump was a pain in
the behind for the globalists because he started trade wars with
China, Canada, Mexico and the EU that shook and inconvenienced
globalization. He challenged the relevancy of NATO, he defunded the
World Health Organization and the Deep State is extremely leery of
him. Did he drain the swamp the last time? No! Will he drain it this
time, I doubt it. There have already been several attempts on his
life so time will tell what his actual legacy will be. The Chinese
have a saying, “may you live in interesting times”; we are indeed
living in interesting times.
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Now What?
Now What?
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The (s)election is
over, the votes have been cast, most of the votes have been counted
and a winner has been declared, named Donald J Trump. For many of his
followers this is great news, a huge victory, it’s an exoneration a
vindication a redemption of sorts. For them, their hero won and all
is right with the world. For the other side, it is the worst day
imaginable, they are having meltdowns and now they must eat all their
promises to emigrate to some other country as they commiserate,
awfulize and prognosticate about the future.
The advisors,
operatives, fixers, shills and “experts” have been paid, now its
off to the next circus/event. Some are in shock and disbelief over
the outcome. Bogus pollsters told them it would be tight race but
Harris had momentum. But the pollsters rarely talk to real people.
Large segments of the nation drank the media Kool-Aid and fixated on
“threats to our democracy” by the new Hitler. Others created and
crafted scenarios that defied common sense and reality to generate
hot button issues to encourage more women to vote for Harris. The
“strategists” learned from the Hillary debacle they needed women
to flood the voting both for their candidate. Alas it didn’t work.
There are as many
ways to see a thing as there are people to see it. Alas many are
seeing the world through a prism designed for them by the outsiders,
the oligarchs, their henchmen and women, the mind control apparatus,
the legacy and social media etc. Many were turned off by the
government’s heavy handed COVID response. People realized they were
being lied to by the media and politicians.
The election is
over, the sun still rose today, there was no monumental shift in
status or consciousness and for the most part things are pretty much
the same as they were the day before. A lot of pundits and so called
“experts” have egg on their faces and that’s a good thing.
Looking back and looking at today, has the election changed much of
anything for the better or worst? Has all the media and campaign
hyperbole and hysteria, the ad-hominem personal attacks and vitriolic
verbiage made America a better place? Did this election campaign
elevate the positive energy or intentions of us as a nation or has
the vibration and energy created by this campaign become more
acerbic? Will the sixty percent of Americans who admitted this
campaign cycle had a negative impact on their mental health get
better or will the fractious and divisive rhetoric continue well into
the post election era?
Where do we go from
here, what’s next? We are just coming out of a four year period of
divisive, disruptive, emotionally draining rhetoric and policies over
for many such as myself was a contrived “pandemic” whereby the
government, Big Pharma, the legacy and social Media, non-elected
experts and billionaires sought to re-engineer and reconfigure global
society around a “virus” that had a ninety-eight per cent
recovery rate for healthy people! They called it Operation Warp Speed
and The Great Reset. They were determined to build back better!
Look at the mess they made with that, who is going to be held
accountable?
What does it tell
you when the very people and “experts” who exhorted and mandated
folks to take untested mRNA shots, who said if you take the shot you
won’t get COVID like Fauci, Biden and others all got COVID several
times?!
The fact is too
many Americans are not healthy in mind body or spirit! The “pandemic”
hysteria acerbated this situation because the government’s
mitigation policies divided and fractured families, split friendships
and disrupted relationships as did the recent political campaign.
America has yet to recover from the so called COVID remediation
policies; there is still a bitter taste in people’s mouths about
that as the election results showed.
How do we regroup,
how do we emerge triumphant and begin to repair and mend the wounds
these events have caused. How do we emotionally divest from our
positions, attitudes and beliefs when it is clear holding onto them
will continue to damage us and further the disintegration of the
social fabric of families, friendships and society in general. And by
the way who benefits from this division and acrimony?
America has always
been divided along gender, class, race, color, ethnicity,
occupational status and ideological lines. In recent years it seems
these divisions have been exacerbated and manipulated by devious
operatives to further a nefarious agenda. It is not just about making
money off of human suffering, war, societal changes induced by
disruptive technology or a mindset favoring pharmaceuticals over
natural healing; it runs much deeper than that, it is an anti life
New World Order agenda and a total disregard for people’s values.
The election is
merely one symptom. The election is over, what are you/we going to
do now? No politician is going to save us even if he or she had the
capability, because evil forces who benefit from the chaos would step
in to eliminate him or her. We cannot cower in fear, we cannot allow
evil to win, so what do we do?
In short, we stand
up for higher principles, we exemplify truth, justice, peace and
sanity. We decide to act with integrity to our highest ideals no
matter what the oligarchs say or do! We resist, we absolutely
refuse to fall for the okey-doke and flim-flam! We vote with our
wallets and pocketbooks by our consumer choices. We refuse to support
entities who profit from war, ecocide and human debasement. Voting
is just one act you do on one day. Just as you voted for your
candidates by making a decisive commitment to get to the polls and
vote (or not), make the same commitment to live with intention and
peace!
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Strange Bedfellows
Strange Bedfellows
Junious Ricardo Stanton
They say politics makes for strange bedfellows meaning the quest for
power often unites the most disparate and unlikely individuals and
groups as allies in their quest for power. Total opposites,
antagonists and others find themselves linked in pursuit of their
goals for power. We are seeing this play out in the 2024 presidential
selection process. Donald Trump is heir to the new Republican Party I
say new party because the GOP of the Bu$h, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Colin
Powell global warmonger cabal has morphed into something different
and embraced Donald Trump a man who didn’t campaign on or promise
more wars, designate new global Islamic threats but turned inward and
offered hope to “Make America Great Again” a slogan he
plagiarized from Ronald Reagan.
In 2016 Trump was scoffed at and mocked because he said he wanted
to get along with other countries like Russia, China and North Korea,
establish robust trade with them and the rest of the global
community. For that he was demonized, derided and scorned by the
military industrial complex and their media stooges. Lies were told
and he was portrayed disingenuously as a flunky for Vladimir Putin
and Russia.
Meanwhile after decades of covering over his grift, corruption,
racism, sexism, his constant warmongering and the rapid decline of
his mental acuity and physical dexterity, Joe Biden was
unceremoniously kicked to the curb by the Democratic Party big wigs.
Kamala Harris was immediately elevated and thrust to the top of the
Democratic ticket but not through voter choice via primary elections,
local caucuses or any other forms of democratic engagement but by
pure fiat! The party shot callers put her up and that was that.
Despite the undemocratic way she was selected and foisted upon the
party and public, it is the Democrats constantly echoing the canard
“our democracy is at risk”. Their hypocrisy is boundless. They
must think the American public are stupid.
Political
campaigns are not immune from the culture wars and the growing
divides
and schisms
in America today. As the campaigns progressed there was much talk
about threats to democracy, Donald
Trump was cast as the new
Hitler and on and on. We saw a
push to line up endorsements to support each candidate. Celebrities
not known for civic activism, engagement or
geopolitical awareness like
Beyonce and Taylor Swift were lauded for supporting Kamala Harris.
Bruce Springsteen has come out in favor of Harris as have a host of
pop and Hip Hop artists and well known actors.
I’ve never been a fan of
celebrity endorsements because I don’t know how much celebrities
know about geopolitics and what is going on in the world. We need
well informed folks sharing information with us, not shallow
shills and compradors
selling us out to a political party or candidate.
Unions like the Teamsters and Firefighters who historically endorsed
candidates declined due to a split when the rank and file supported
Trump or Harris but the union leadership supported Harris or Trump.
An elitist newspaper like the Washington Post declined to endorse
either candidate which prompted its editor Robert Kagan a prominent
Neocon and key participant in the Project for the New American
Century to resign in protest. Wow, a warmonger who helped peddle
lies about Iraq’s nonexistent weapons of mass destruction and
influenced elected officials to invade Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and
Libya gets himself in a snit and quits because his newspaper doesn’t
want to go on record supporting Kamala Harris?!
The oddities keep piling up. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who was running
essentially as an independent because the Democratic Party, the party
of his father and two uncles but now the same party talking about
saving our democracy; froze him out of the primary process, just like
they did US Senator Bernie Sanders during the last election cycles!
Kennedy is best known as a critic of Anthony Fauci and the COVID
responses that have done so much to destabilize and wreck this
country. Kennedy worked hard to get on state wide ballots. He had a
large following but he subsequently dropped out of the race and
joined Donald Trump’s campaign. So did former Democratic
Congresswoman Telsi Gabbard a US National Guard Medic who was
deployed to active duty in Iraq. While in Congress Gabbard was an
outspoken critic of US foreign policy and the escalating wars the US
was sponsoring or engaged in. She joined the Republican Party and is
campaigning for Trump! Elon Musk the billionaire who owns Space X,
Tesla and X (formally Twitter) who exposed the blatant censorship the
former owners unleashed on Donald Trump and ordinary Americans when
he purchased the social media platform, is a heavy supporter of Trump
and his message of national self-sufficiency.
Meanwhile staunch liars and warmongers like: Dick Cheyney, John
Bolton, Michael Hayden John Negroponte and a host of the other
architects of the disastrous Global War on Terrorism and imperialist
resource wars that have kept the US embroiled in ongoing foreign wars
since 9-11, are all coming out in favor of Kamala Harris! Are you
kidding me?!
Stranger still is the fact the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris
have acknowledged and accepted their endorsements. What’s up with
that? What does this say about her as a potential president and the
prospects for peace?! Why aren’t more people asking her and
Democratic Party officials about this? Where is Bernie Sanders when
the nation needs him?
The somnambulance of the American people is astounding; we are
literally sleepwalking, being glibly led into more wars, economic
conflict and ruin while a dog and pony election show keeps us
distracted and unaware. We are being duped big time while people like
me warning about the nexus between strange bedfellows, national
priorities and policies goes unheeded.
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At The Crossroad
At The Crossroad
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
As we approach the last week in October 2024 the planet and humanity
finds itself at a proverbial crossroad and we have to make a
decisive choice, which way we will go. We find ourselves confronted
with a presidential election in the US, with wars escalating in
Eastern Europe and West Asia that could very easily spiral out of
control into major regional and or global conflagrations.
America has a direct hand in all of these conflicts; yet neither
major candidate in the US presidential race is addressing this
situation on meaningful levels and the comatose and somnambulant
American public seems okay with this! The US is supplying weapons,
logistics and tactical support to Ukraine and Israel in the hundreds
of billions of dollars killing millions of innocents while roads are
flooded and bridges are washed away here in America and the US
government seems powerless to assist.
We have misplaced our priorities. Our so called leaders are choosing
war profiteering thousands of miles away over peace and prosperity
here at home. Is it because we are so distracted by our gizmos and
gadgets, so focused on keeping up appearances, being superficial and
shallow we’ve failed to grasp the obvious; we are in the midst of a
societal collapse of Biblical proportions and we’re standing at the
precipice of all out global war? Has the corporatist mind control
apparatus successfully short circuited and neutralized our brains so
we no longer sense impending danger, we’ve lost grip of reality and
no longer realize self preservation is the first law of nature?
We find ourselves at a crossroad. What is a crossroad you ask? A
crossroad is where two or more roads intersect. Crossroads present
options for travelers to choose/decide which way they want to go.
Today we face an opportunity to choose which direction, which path we
will take. We have a choice. Which road will we take?
There is a myth about Robert Johnson a Mississippi Delta blues man
who wanted to be great and famous. According to the myth he went down
to the crossroad of routes sixty and forty in Mississippi where he
sold his soul to the devil in exchange for guitar proficiency and
fame. Have we like Robert Johnson in that tall tail sold our souls to
the devils of materialism, technology, hedonism and apathy at the
crossroad of modernity, morality and ethics? Have we abandoned or
ignored our souls for the flim-flam and okey-doke propagated by
psychotic overlords? Have we made the wrong the choices, taken the
wrong roads gotten lost and now face the dire consequences of our
foolish choices?
It’s time to reassess where we are, where we’re heading, which
direction we are going and whether or not those leading us are
qualified to do so? We have some deep and profound choices to make;
not just about who to vote for but about what type of society and
world we want to live in, what type of people we want to be, what
values we want to embrace and how we want to live!
We don’t have to go out like docile sheep. We are powerful beings.
We have agency and choice. We can choose which roads we want to
travel, the directions and destinations we want to go. We can choose
peace over war. We can choose life over murder. We can chose the
greatest good for the greatest number of us. We can choose nihilism
or we can choose Ubuntu- I am because we are, we are because I am.
Time is of the essence, we are at a crucial crossroad, which road do
we take?
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Living In A Conundrum
Living in A Conundrum
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The Chinese have a saying, “May you live in interesting times.”
Well, we’re certainly living in interesting times to say the least.
We are living in an Orwellian scenario where the world is upside
down, language has been weaponized in an effort to maintain and
reinforce the Bizzaro World reality we are living in. For example we
are told war is peace, invasion and genocide is defense, oligarchy
and plutocracy rule by the rich and powerful is democracy. We are
living in a dystopian nightmare.
We find ourselves in the midst of a conundrum, a puzzling situation
in which we are being gaslighted, deliberately confused, bamboozled
and deceived by the government, the mass media and even the
institutions we’ve relied upon in the past for truth and guidance
like religion and education. The plutocratic overlords are
successfully turning the world upside down. Their agenda of social
reengineering and global realignment is moving at an accelerated
pace. These misanthropes are not only attempting to reconfigure the
global economic and political system, they are aggressively working
to alter what it means to be human! The adverse consequences of their
arrogance and hubris are being experienced globally.
The healing profession is knowingly making us ill and killing us;
it’s called iatrogenic injury. The food industry is not providing
nourishing foodstuffs and the government allows them to create,
distribute and market harmful products, this is called regulatory
capture or institutional corruption. The politics and electoral
process is contaminated by lies, deceit and overly influenced by
bribery aka campaign contributions, “donations” and gifts. Our
organized religions have turned their backs on ethics and morality,
they tolerate or are openly engaged in activities which don’t
reflect their professed creeds, doctrines and dogma.
This upside down discombobulation is taking a heavy toll on our
mental, emotional, psychological as well as physical health and well
being. We have allowed self-styled experts, fakers, fraudsters and
con artists to sway us and drag us into an abyss of ignorance,
benightedness, vulgarity, decadence and debauchery. Their goal in
addition to making obscene profits is to reshape our values,
worldview and behaviors. We have been lied to incessantly by
advertisers, the government and the media in general which has
created an alternative reality that far too many of us internalize
and accept as our every day norm.
We are addicted to gizmos, gadgets and media that are literally
rewiring our brains, making us less competent, less interdependent
and divided. The great irony is “Social Media” has been
documented as making us less social, it is decreasing our social
skills and competencies, making us more isolated, mentally deficient
and less astute especially the younger demographics.
Our
options are being constricted,
the power elites
have manipulated us into a position of being so stupid (in a stupor)
we think choosing the lesser of two evils is a viable and
acceptable choice! Evil is
evil no matter what degree or level it presents
itself. This is the
conundrum we find ourselves in today.
How
do we pull ourselves back from the abyss? How
do we regain our mental
acuity, confidence,
decisiveness and self- determination. How
do we reverse the slide into insanity, decadence and Zombification?
Survival is the first law of
nature, but we are being
conditioned to suppress our innate desire to live lives of meaning
and purpose and acquiesce to
this dystopian hellscape?
How do we shake off our lethargy, arouse ourselves from our
somnambulance, energize and
invigorate ourselves and
reassert our agency? How do
we determine we are not going to go out like this?
First
we have to realize and
acknowledge the dire
state we are in and decide
to snap out of it. It
takes
courage to go against the
grain. Maya
Angelou said, “The greatest of all the virtues is courage. Because
without courage you cannot consistently practice all the other
virtues. You cannot be consistently loving, kind, forgiving and
compassionate without courage pushing you onward.” To that I add
you cannot live with purpose, intention and meaning in a society such
as this without courage. We have to have the courage of our
convictions. We have to generate the courage to live with intention,
live in peace, practice kindness and ethics Have the courage to be
all the CREATOR intends for you to be, to be authentic, live in
integrity to your purpose and
actualize your potential.
Courage will dissolve the conundrum and you will see clearly and act
in accordance to your values, purpose and intention.
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Blessed Are The Peacemakers
Blessed Are The Peacemakers
Junious
Ricardo Stanton
As the world
spirals towards war on multiple fronts: Eastern Europe, West Asia and
in the not too distant future Taiwan, it behooves us to think about
the alternative to global destruction. The only way the planet can
survive the madness metastasizing around the world is if more and
more of us make a genuine commitment to peace, true peace. Peace
depends upon one deciding to live a life dedicated to peace and
nonaggression. Peace begins and spreads one person at a time.
The plutocrats have
duped us into thinking peace is secured only by arming ourselves to
the teeth, possessing huge stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
That type of thinking is what drives and enriches the US Military
Industrial Complex. The military industrial complex thrives because
of the consciousness of the US misleadership, they love war because
war is profitable.
Looking at the
history of the United States through a filter of rationality and
truth, we realize this country loves war, it cannot be denied since
it has been at war with one tribe, group, nation state or other for
ninety-three percent of its existence! Let that marinate for a few
minuets, ninety-three percent of this nation’s existence has been
taking up arms and killing fellow humans!
Today there are
wars raging around the globe many we don’t know about because the
corporate mind control apparatus doesn’t cover them, places like
Sudan, Burkina Faso, Myanmar and Columbia just to name a few. War is
counterproductive, disastrous and rarely accomplishes anything
positive. In modern warfare it is the innocents who bare the brunt of
suffering and death, children, women and male noncombatants are the
ones displaced, maimed, wounded, traumatized and killed during these
conflicts. For what, mineral resources, geo-strategic positioning,
the egos and pride of warmongers, profiteering and money?
Life is precious,
sadly most of the world doesn’t even pay lip service to this fact.
Yeah they may say it on occasion but the actions of the oligarchs and
plutocrats who run multinational corporations and governments
demonstrates daily our lives do not count, we do not matter unless it
is profiting them!
In the cosmos peace
is preeminent. When we look into the heavens we do not see clashes of
worlds, eruptions of wanton violence and destruction, we see
expansion in an orderly harmonious fashion. The word universe
means one song. We are all linked together in a magnificent ecosystem
that blends spirit and the material. The ancients had a saying, “As
above so below” meaning on this physical plane, our personal
activities and interactions should mirror the peace, harmony and
orderliness of the universe. We have gotten away from this notion as
we push the limits of modernity and so called progress.
If we are to
prevent the annihilation of humanity we must return to thinking and
acting peacefully. Since peace is not a priority in America we have
to take the initiative to place real peace in the forefront of our
ideation and actions. What does peace mean to you? How much thought
have you actually given to what this world would be like if peace
permeated our conversations, discussions and activities? What is your
idea of peace collectively and personally? Is it the absence of
negative thoughts, hostility, is it compassion, empathy, tolerance
and non-violence?
You don’t have to
be a monk, a saint or a hermit to live a peaceful life. It doesn’t
mean you never get angry, it does mean you use restraint and
self-mastery. To be a peaceful person you just have to make a
commitment to being at peace in every situation. Is this possible?
Yes because others have done it. Yes because there are/were cultures
in human history around the world where peace self-knowledge and
self-mastery were encouraged and practiced. Ancient Egypt was such a
place, the Society of Friends is a group that promotes personal and
collective peace as are many mystical and metaphysical organizations.
Is everyone perfect? No. The goal is personal peace or equanimity
remaining calm, collected, focused and in control, even in the most
dire, stressful and trying situations.
Peace is not the
conscious suppression of one’s emotions. Peace is a state of mind,
a consciousness that allows one to tap into an inner reservoir of
clam even if you are a “type A” personality. Peace doesn’t mean
you allow folks to walk over you or exploit you. In fact it is the
opposite. During a tense situation remaining peaceful (full of peace)
is beneficial in practical ways. You will be more alert, more focused
and aware rather then uptight and overwhelmed by emotions, you will
be less apt to say the wrong thing to make the situation more
volatile. You will be in control of yourself which is all you can be
and do.
Am I suggesting you
become an evolved master in this lifetime? No, I am suggesting there
is another way to live rather than highly agitated, on edge, high
strung and emotionally discombobulated. Peace and calm generate good
health, you are not in constant fight/flight mode which saves your
vital organs and prevents the constant secretion of the fight flight
hormones cortisol, glucagon, epinephrine and norepinephrine.
You
are more balanced and in harmony within yourself. Peace generates
eustress the good/beneficial stress like when you are doing something
you really enjoy and you lose track of time.
Practice
deep breathing several times a day, calm your mind as you breathe
deeply, refrain from fighting the thoughts and images that pass
through your consciousness, remain quiet, observe them without
judgment or energizing them; stay serene. Practice this when you are
alone but also when you are out and about in the world, when you are
faced with stressful situations, events and people you might perceive
as threats. In the calmness you will realize usually they are not a
threat and
if they are you will be better prepared to deal with them.
There
are blessings attached to being peaceful: you are calmer, more
reserved, less agitated, you think more clearly and you act more
rationally than when you are not agitated. Good health is a
by-product of inner peace. Blessed are the peacemakers.
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