Narrative Is Crumbling

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It ’ s difficult to understand what ’ s going on in the world .
It ’ s difficult to understand what ’ s going on in the world because powerful people actively manipulate public understanding of what ’ s going on in the world .
Powerful people actively manipulate public understanding of what ’ s going on in the world because if the public understood what ’ s going on in the world , they would rise up and use their strength of numbers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would rise up and use their strength of numbers to overthrow the powerful if they understood what ’ s going on in their world because then they would understand that the powerful have been exploiting , oppressing , robbing , cheating and deceiving them while destroying the ecosystem , stockpiling weapons of armageddon and waging endless wars , for no other reason than so that they can maintain and expand their power .
The public do not rise up and use their strength of numbers to overthrow the powerful because they have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The public have been successfully manipulated into not wanting to rise up and use their strength of numbers to overthrow the powerful due to the way the powerful have been able to shore up mainstream narrative control in the form of purchasing mass media outlets , funding think tanks , buying politicians , implementing government opacity , pushing internet censorship , and other forms of perception management .
The powerful use their control over mainstream narratives to ensure that enough members of the public believe they live in a free democracy where things @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s the best you could ask for , instead of in a corporatist oligarchy wherein the powerful exploit , oppress , rob , cheat and deceive them while destroying the ecosystem , stockpiling weapons of armageddon and waging endless wars .
As long as the powerful are able to exert control over mainstream narratives , there will never be enough members of the public willing to use their strength of numbers to shake off the powerful and create a healthy society .
The powerful will remain capable of exerting control over mainstream narratives @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its current unhealthy relationship with mental narrative .
A collective shift into a healthy relationship with mental narrative would mean thought becomes the useful tool we evolved it to be rather than this noisy , compulsive head-chatter which dominates our lives where we are driven by fear and attachment to imbue an endless string of mental stories with the power of belief .
If we had a healthy relationship with mental narrative we would naturally view stories about what ’ s going on in the world far more objectively , because rather than @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attachment we would have psychological space enough to look at them and critically examine whether or not they are useful tools for us to use in the present moment .
If humanity collectively made such a transition on a mass scale–a transition which sages across the millennia assure us humans are fully capable of–then humanity would become impossible to propagandize effectively .
If humanity becomes impossible to propagandize effectively , the lies will be impossible to conceal via mainstream narrative control , and humanity using the strength of its numbers to create a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ And the funny thing is , in a weird way from way out of left field that nobody could possibly have anticipated , humanity ’ s current relationship with mental narrative appears to be drawing to a close .
The narratives are breaking down .
People ’ s old ways of understanding what ’ s going on in the world just aren ’ t holding together anymore .
Trust in the mass media is at an all-time low , and it ’ s only getting lower .
People are more aware than ever @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or disinformation .
Deepfake technology will soon be so advanced and so accessible that nobody will even trust video anymore .
The leader of the most powerful country on earth speaks in a way that has no real relationship with facts or reality in any way , and people have just learned to roll with it .
Ordinary people are hurting financially but Wall Street is booming , a glaring plot hole in the story of the economy that ’ s only getting more pronounced .
The entire media class will now spend @ @ @ @ @ @ @ goose chase for Russian collusion and then act like it ’ s no big deal when the whole thing turned out to be completely baseless .
There ’ s a virus causing a massive disturbance in the entirety of human civilization with two wildly different narratives about it running simultaneously , and both sides are 100 percent convinced that all the facts have fully vindicated their position .
There are protests where people are becoming more and more aware that they are being fed empty narratives of approval and understanding while their core @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s a presidential election between two obvious dementia patients and the mass media are all pretending that ’ s fine and normal despite what people can see with their own eyes .
New cold war escalations between the US-centralized empire and the unabsorbed governments of China and Russia are going to cause the media airwaves around the planet to become saturated in ever-intensifying propaganda narratives which favor one side or the other and have no interest in honestly telling people the truth about what ’ s going on .
Now they ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ long do you think we can go on like this ?
How far do you think humanity ’ s relationship with narrative can be stretched before it snaps completely and forces a completely new way of being ?
How long before it becomes more and more common for people to begin looking to themselves as individuals to determine which narratives are useful to them instead of looking to establishment narrative managers like they used to ?
How long before people find themselves more and more often asking the question “ Is this true @ @ @ @ @ @ @ themselves more and more often asking the question “ What is truth ?
” How long before people find themselves more and more often asking the question “ What else have I been deceived about ?
” How long before people find themselves more and more often asking the question “ How else have I been deceiving myself ?
” The current strain that is being placed on our collective relationship with narrative is completely unsustainable .
This would be a bad thing if we ’ d had a healthy relationship with mental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; we have a profoundly unhealthy relationship with mental narrative which has left us susceptible to terrible abuses on a mass scale .
We are now , as a species , collectively squeezing ourselves out of our old unhealthy relationship with narrative .
It ’ s all crumbling to the ground .
This can not be a bad thing .
It could end up being very , very good .

Narrative Is Crumbling
Caitlin Johnstone, Guest
Waking Times
Narrative is crumbling.
It’s difficult to understand what’s going on in the world.
It’s difficult to understand what’s going on in the world because powerful people actively manipulate public understanding of what’s going on in the world.
Powerful people actively manipulate public understanding of what’s going on in the world because if the public understood what’s going on in the world, they would rise up and use their strength of numbers to overthrow the powerful.
The public would rise up and use their strength of numbers to overthrow the powerful if they understood what’s going on in their world because then they would understand that the powerful have been exploiting, oppressing, robbing, cheating and deceiving them while destroying the ecosystem, stockpiling weapons of armageddon and waging endless wars, for no other reason than so that they can maintain and expand their power.
The public do not rise up and use their strength of numbers to overthrow the powerful because they have been successfully manipulated into not wanting to.
Narrative is crumbling.
The public have been successfully manipulated into not wanting to rise up and use their strength of numbers to overthrow the powerful due to the way the powerful have been able to shore up mainstream narrative control in the form of purchasing mass media outlets, funding think tanks, buying politicians, implementing government opacity, pushing internet censorship, and other forms of perception management.
The powerful use their control over mainstream narratives to ensure that enough members of the public believe they live in a free democracy where things aren’t perfect but it’s the best you could ask for, instead of in a corporatist oligarchy wherein the powerful exploit, oppress, rob, cheat and deceive them while destroying the ecosystem, stockpiling weapons of armageddon and waging endless wars.
As long as the powerful are able to exert control over mainstream narratives, there will never be enough members of the public willing to use their strength of numbers to shake off the powerful and create a healthy society.
The powerful will remain capable of exerting control over mainstream narratives for as long as the public maintains its current unhealthy relationship with mental narrative.
Narrative is crumbling.
A collective shift into a healthy relationship with mental narrative would mean thought becomes the useful tool we evolved it to be rather than this noisy, compulsive head-chatter which dominates our lives where we are driven by fear and attachment to imbue an endless string of mental stories with the power of belief.
If we had a healthy relationship with mental narrative we would naturally view stories about what’s going on in the world far more objectively, because rather than glomming onto them out of fear and attachment we would have psychological space enough to look at them and critically examine whether or not they are useful tools for us to use in the present moment.
If humanity collectively made such a transition on a mass scale–a transition which sages across the millennia assure us humans are fully capable of–then humanity would become impossible to propagandize effectively.
If humanity becomes impossible to propagandize effectively, the lies will be impossible to conceal via mainstream narrative control, and humanity using the strength of its numbers to create a healthy society will become an inevitability.
And the funny thing is, in a weird way from way out of left field that nobody could possibly have anticipated, humanity’s current relationship with mental narrative appears to be drawing to a close.
Narrative is crumbling.
The narratives are breaking down.
People’s old ways of understanding what’s going on in the world just aren’t holding together anymore.
Trust in the mass media is at an all-time low, and it’s only getting lower.
People are more aware than ever that anything they see can be propaganda or disinformation.
Deepfake technology will soon be so advanced and so accessible that nobody will even trust video anymore.
The leader of the most powerful country on earth speaks in a way that has no real relationship with facts or reality in any way, and people have just learned to roll with it.
Ordinary people are hurting financially but Wall Street is booming, a glaring plot hole in the story of the economy that’s only getting more pronounced.
The entire media class will now spend years leading the public on a wild goose chase for Russian collusion and then act like it’s no big deal when the whole thing turned out to be completely baseless.
There’s a virus causing a massive disturbance in the entirety of human civilization with two wildly different narratives about it running simultaneously, and both sides are 100 percent convinced that all the facts have fully vindicated their position.
There are protests where people are becoming more and more aware that they are being fed empty narratives of approval and understanding while their core demands are going completely unaddressed.
There’s a presidential election between two obvious dementia patients and the mass media are all pretending that’s fine and normal despite what people can see with their own eyes.
New cold war escalations between the US-centralized empire and the unabsorbed governments of China and Russia are going to cause the media airwaves around the planet to become saturated in ever-intensifying propaganda narratives which favor one side or the other and have no interest in honestly telling people the truth about what’s going on.
Now they’re even babbling about UFOs.
Narrative is crumbling.
It’s all accelerating toward a white noise saturation point.
How long do you think we can go on like this?
How far do you think humanity’s relationship with narrative can be stretched before it snaps completely and forces a completely new way of being?
How long before it becomes more and more common for people to begin looking to themselves as individuals to determine which narratives are useful to them instead of looking to establishment narrative managers like they used to?
How long before people find themselves more and more often asking the question “Is this true?”
How long before people find themselves more and more often asking the question “What is truth?”
How long before people find themselves more and more often asking the question “What else have I been deceived about?”
How long before people find themselves more and more often asking the question “How else have I been deceiving myself?”
The current strain that is being placed on our collective relationship with narrative is completely unsustainable.
This would be a bad thing if we’d had a healthy relationship with mental narrative, but we don’t; we have a profoundly unhealthy relationship with mental narrative which has left us susceptible to terrible abuses on a mass scale.
We are now, as a species, collectively squeezing ourselves out of our old unhealthy relationship with narrative.
Narrative is crumbling.
It’s all crumbling to the ground.
This cannot be a bad thing.
It could end up being very, very good.


thewakingtimes--2020-10-21--Life Within The Matrix Is Our Future

Life Within The Matrix Is Our Future

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The question each of us needs to ask ourselves , and one another , is why do we get so much misinformation about Covid from public health authorities , political authorities , and press prostitutes ?
We get a lot of misinformation from health practioners , because they get the bogus information from health authorities and from researchers associated with Big Pharma .
But why do health authorities themselves lie to us ?
Take the issue of .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ majority of the world population , including health care providers , can not prevent the inhalation and exhalation of bacteria and viruses .
If a person wearing one of these masks is sick with a cold , flu , or Covid , the mask can prevent the person from sneezing and coughing on others , countertops , and fresh produce .
But the masks can not prevent the wearer from breathing in and exhaling out Covid , which is airborn and aerosol spread .
The only people who should be wearing one of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in public areas coughing and sneezing among other people .
To avoid the spread of the virus , infected people should stay at home .
If the masks people are wearing protected against bacteria , viruses , and other pathogens , there would be no point in N95 and higher rated masks .
Medical authorities know this , so why are people told , indeed forced , to wear ineffectual masks ?
This is an especially troubling question when experts unaffiliated with Big Pharma tell us that wearing a mask is dangerous as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2 intake .
This expert tells us that wearing a mask causes brain damage that can not be reversed .
Why do health authorities want to stunt children ’ s development and increase dementia among the elderly ?
This doctor tells us that mask wearing is increasing bacterial pneumonias .
Public health authorities know that the Covid death rate is .
Hospitals are economically incentivized to report all deaths as Covid deaths .
The CDC itself let the cat out of the bag when it reported that among the 200,000 US Covid deaths @ @ @ @ @ @ @ alone .
All others had in addition to Covid 2.6 fatal comorbidities .
Deaths are concentrated in an elderly population with comorbidities , and those infected , if they were and it wasn ’ t a false positive , could as easily have died from seasonal flu .
Perhaps without meaning to , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) seems to have confirmed that Covid is no more dangerous than flu .
So , why do public health authorities withhold this information from political authorities and the public , and why do @ @ @ @ @ @ @ information exists .
It just isn ’ t reported .
Public heath authorities also know that the number of Covid cases is vastly overstated , because the PCR test produces more false positives than correct positives .
An international group of lawyers has concluded based on evidence provided in expert testimony that the Covid Pandemic is an orchestration that has served powerful interests at the expense of the public ’ s health .
The doctors acknowledge that Covid itself is real , but the pandemic that has been built around it is not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are as corrupted as the media and democratic institutions , and that nothing will come of the lawyers ’ efforts .
Nevertheless , neither Americans nor other peoples need to cling to their gullibility and behave as sheep programmed by “ authorities ” who are serving every interest but public health .
As I have reported in previous columns , Covid is being used to serve many interests .
Among them , Covid is being used to complete the universal Police State by digitizing money .
Once electronic money takes the place of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your financial privacy and your control over your money and wealth will disappear .
The government will know every payment you make and receive , and your access to your own income and wealth can be curtailed at the whim of the government and those who control the digitized monetary system .
There will be no way that you can accumulate cash reserves as protection against your dispossession .
Private cryptocurrencies will be destroyed , and a black market fueled by gold and silver coins can be prevented by seizing gold and silver @ @ @ @ @ @ @ D. Roosevelt was able to take gold out of Americans ’ hands with the technology of the 1930s .
Today it would be a cinch .
Authorities have many Americans terrified of Covid infection .
People scared out of their minds can ’ t wait for the unneeded and insufficiently tested vaccine .
The HCQ/zinc cure works , but continues to be demonized by public health authorities in order to keep the market primed for a vaccine that contains elements we know not what .
Over the course of our history we Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the sake of political agendas .
The length of the list depends on how far you want to go back .
Let ’ s just start with the 20 years of the 21st century—September 11 , 2001 , Osama bin Laden and the Talliban , Saddam Hussein ’ s weapons of mass destruction , the endless lies about Gadaffi and Libya , Russian invasion of Ukraine , Assad ’ s use of chemical weapons , Russiagate , Impeachgate , Russian bounties to the Tallian to kill American soldiers , the lies about China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Deception .
How many lies do they have to be told before they begin to wonder ?
It is not entirely their fault .
The explanations given them are controlled and aligned with their innate biases .
Super patriots , for example , love to have enemies to denounce , and you can hear rightwing talk radio denouncing China , Russia , and Iran daily .
The left loves to hear confirmation of their belief in the evil that is America .
The left has glorified in the rioting , looting , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the fact that George Floyd died from an overdose of fentanyl .
The younger generations have never been taught how to think .
Instead , they are taught what to think .
You see the result in the majority white presence in Antifa and Black Lives Matter .
Throughout the Western world facts have given way to emotions .
The concept of independent truth itself has been lost .
Truth is whatever serves the agenda .
You can see this in Assange ’ s trial underway in a British court .
The Judge @ @ @ @ @ @ @ evidence , only in delivering the result demanded by the agenda .
Science itself is imperiled as there are only race and gender truths .
Media serves money and ideologies .
Universities and public schools are a great danger to the societies that host them .
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal .
He was columnist for Business Week , Scripps Howard News Service , and Creators Syndicate .
He has had many university appointments .
His internet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Roberts ’ latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost .

Life Within The Matrix Is Our Future
Paul Craig Roberts, Guest
Waking Times
The question each of us needs to ask ourselves, and one another, is why do we get so much misinformation about Covid from public health authorities, political authorities, and press prostitutes? We get a lot of misinformation from health practioners, because they get the bogus information from health authorities and from researchers associated with Big Pharma. But why do health authorities themselves lie to us?
Take the issue of masks . The masks being worn by the vast majority of the world population, including health care providers, cannot prevent the inhalation and exhalation of bacteria and viruses. If a person wearing one of these masks is sick with a cold, flu, or Covid, the mask can prevent the person from sneezing and coughing on others, countertops, and fresh produce. But the masks cannot prevent the wearer from breathing in and exhaling out Covid, which is airborn and aerosol spread. The only people who should be wearing one of these masks are people who are out in public areas coughing and sneezing among other people. To avoid the spread of the virus, infected people should stay at home.
If the masks people are wearing protected against bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens, there would be no point in N95 and higher rated masks. Medical authorities know this, so why are people told, indeed forced, to wear ineffectual masks?
This is an especially troubling question when experts unaffiliated with Big Pharma tell us that wearing a mask is dangerous as it reduces oxygen intake and increases CO 2 intake. This expert tells us that wearing a mask causes brain damage that cannot be reversed. Why do health authorities want to stunt children’s development and increase dementia among the elderly? This doctor tells us that mask wearing is increasing bacterial pneumonias.
Public health authorities know that the Covid death rate is greatly exaggerated . Hospitals are economically incentivized to report all deaths as Covid deaths. The CDC itself let the cat out of the bag when it reported that among the 200,000 US Covid deaths, only 9,000 were due to Covid alone. All others had in addition to Covid 2.6 fatal comorbidities. Deaths are concentrated in an elderly population with comorbidities, and those infected, if they were and it wasn’t a false positive, could as easily have died from seasonal flu.
Perhaps without meaning to, the World Health Organization (WHO) seems to have confirmed that Covid is no more dangerous than flu.
So, why do public health authorities withhold this information from political authorities and the public, and why do reporters not ferret it out? The information exists. It just isn’t reported.
Public heath authorities also know that the number of Covid cases is vastly overstated, because the PCR test produces more false positives than correct positives.
An international group of lawyers has concluded based on evidence provided in expert testimony that the Covid Pandemic is an orchestration that has served powerful interests at the expense of the public’s health. The doctors acknowledge that Covid itself is real, but the pandemic that has been built around it is not.
It is possible that the courts are as corrupted as the media and democratic institutions, and that nothing will come of the lawyers’ efforts. Nevertheless, neither Americans nor other peoples need to cling to their gullibility and behave as sheep programmed by “authorities” who are serving every interest but public health.
As I have reported in previous columns, Covid is being used to serve many interests.
Among them, Covid is being used to complete the universal Police State by digitizing money. Once electronic money takes the place of currency, checks, and coins, your financial privacy and your control over your money and wealth will disappear. The government will know every payment you make and receive, and your access to your own income and wealth can be curtailed at the whim of the government and those who control the digitized monetary system. There will be no way that you can accumulate cash reserves as protection against your dispossession.
Private cryptocurrencies will be destroyed, and a black market fueled by gold and silver coins can be prevented by seizing gold and silver holdings. The Great Liberal Hero Franklin D. Roosevelt was able to take gold out of Americans’ hands with the technology of the 1930s. Today it would be a cinch.
Authorities have many Americans terrified of Covid infection. People scared out of their minds can’t wait for the unneeded and insufficiently tested vaccine. The HCQ/zinc cure works, but continues to be demonized by public health authorities in order to keep the market primed for a vaccine that contains elements we know not what.
Over the course of our history we Americans have been deceived about many things for the sake of political agendas. The length of the list depends on how far you want to go back. Let’s just start with the 20 years of the 21st century—September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden and the Talliban, Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, the endless lies about Gadaffi and Libya, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Assad’s use of chemical weapons, Russiagate, Impeachgate, Russian bounties to the Tallian to kill American soldiers, the lies about China, Somalia, and now the Covid Deception.
Are Americans capable of learning? How many lies do they have to be told before they begin to wonder? It is not entirely their fault. The explanations given them are controlled and aligned with their innate biases. Super patriots, for example, love to have enemies to denounce, and you can hear rightwing talk radio denouncing China, Russia, and Iran daily. The left loves to hear confirmation of their belief in the evil that is America. The left has glorified in the rioting, looting, and destruction that resulted from press prostitutes withholding the fact that George Floyd died from an overdose of fentanyl.
The younger generations have never been taught how to think. Instead, they are taught what to think. You see the result in the majority white presence in Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
Throughout the Western world facts have given way to emotions. The concept of independent truth itself has been lost. Truth is whatever serves the agenda. You can see this in Assange’s trial underway in a British court. The Judge and prosecutor have no interest in any evidence, only in delivering the result demanded by the agenda.
Science itself is imperiled as there are only race and gender truths. Media serves money and ideologies. Universities and public schools are a great danger to the societies that host them.
About the Author
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts’ latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.


thewakingtimes--2020-10-21--Walmart’s Redesigned Airport-Style Stores Will Track Everyone

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What have corporations learned from the post 9/11 era ?
Apparently a lot .
Since 9/11 , airports in the U.S. and across the globe have been redesigned to make people feel safer and make it easier for authorities to ID and track airline passengers .
A Fast Company story reveals how Walmart is taking a cue from airport terminals by bringing the airport experience to every store .
“ Airports were a place that inspired us because , by nature , you don ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in airports , so you don ’ t know your way around .
But you need to get a lot of people somewhere in a timely fashion , ” Janey Whiteside , EVP and chief customer officer at Walmart said .
The article mentions how Walmart ’ s newly designed stores will inspire customers to use their cellphones to shop .
People walk around the store with a phone in their hand looking down and looking up , and we wanted to integrate those things , so when they look at their phone @ @ @ @ @ @ @ same thing ] in the store .
The video at the top of this story shows just how far corporations are willing to go to justify using the pandemic to ID and track customers .
The video begins by stating… ” Please protect yourself and others ” by using our “ Walmart Pay ” or “ Scan & Go ” apps .
Claiming that a Walmart app can magically protect customers from getting COVID is disingenuous and obscures the real reason why corporations want customers to use them .
A CNN article does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is redesigning their stores .
Besides using “ Walmart Pay ” to direct customers to the exact location of items inside the store , it has the added benefit of tracking customers ’ cell phones .

Walmart’s Redesigned Airport-Style Stores Will Track Everyone
MassPrivateI, Activist Post
Waking Times
What have corporations learned from the post 9/11 era? Apparently a lot.
Since 9/11, airports in the U.S. and across the globe have been redesigned to make people feel safer and make it easier for authorities to ID and track airline passengers.
A Fast Company story reveals how Walmart is taking a cue from airport terminals by bringing the airport experience to every store.
“Airports were a place that inspired us because, by nature, you don’t spend an awful amount of time in airports, so you don’t know your way around. But you need to get a lot of people somewhere in a timely fashion,” Janey Whiteside, EVP and chief customer officer at Walmart said.
The article mentions how Walmart’s newly designed stores will inspire customers to use their cellphones to shop.
People walk around the store with a phone in their hand looking down and looking up, and we wanted to integrate those things, so when they look at their phone they can look up at [the same thing] in the store.
The video at the top of this story shows just how far corporations are willing to go to justify using the pandemic to ID and track customers. The video begins by stating…”Please protect yourself and others” by using our “Walmart Pay” or “Scan & Go” apps.
Claiming that a Walmart app can magically protect customers from getting COVID is disingenuous and obscures the real reason why corporations want customers to use them.
A CNN article does a great job of explaining why Walmart is redesigning their stores.
In a push to get more people to download its app and use it while shopping , Walmart is encouraging shoppers to download it prior to entering to assist in navigating the store, search for more options online and pay once finished.
Besides using “Walmart Pay” to direct customers to the exact location of items inside the store, it has the added benefit of tracking customers’ cell phones.


thewakingtimes--2020-10-21--Left And Right Remain Silent As Trump Double’s Obama’s Deficit Record, Debt Soars Past $27 Trillion

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The fiscal 2020 budget shortfall totaled $ 3.13 trillion as the Trump administration added another $ 124.6 billion to the deficit in September , according to the latest Monthly Treasury Statement .
That more than doubles the previous record deficit of $ 1.4 trillion set during the Obama administration at the height of the Great Recession .
The fiscal year ended on Sept. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the year , falling slightly from $ 3.46 trillion in FY2019 to $ 3.42 trillion .
But total spending soared , coming in at $ 6.55 trillion .
That compares with $ 4.45 trillion spent in fiscal 2019 .
The national debt surged above $ 27 trillion on Oct. 1 , and it has grown by over $ 7 trillion since President Trump took office .
That equals $ 217,612 of debt for every American taxpayer .
When Trump moved into the White House in January 2017 , the debt stood at $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trillion in February 2019 .
That represented a $ 2.06 trillion increase in the debt in just over two years .
By November 2019 , the debt had eclipsed $ 23 trillion .
The debt-to-GDP ratio currently stands at 137.21 percent .
Despite the lack of concern in the mainstream , debt has consequences .
Studies have shown that a debt to GDP ratio over 90 percent retards economic growth by about 30 percent .
This throws cold water on the Republican mantra “ we can grow ourselves out of the debt.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in FY2020 came courtesy of the $ 2.2 trillion CARES Act .
But the Trump administration was already spending money at a near-record clip before the pandemic .
The coronavirus spending simply exacerbated an already out of control federal spending problem .
Last year , the Trump administration ran a $ 984 billion deficit .
At the time , it was the fifth-largest deficit in history .
This goes to show that the federal government had a major spending problem before the pandemic .
In fact , through the first two months of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 12 percent over 2019 ’ s huge Obama-like number and was on track to eclipse $ 1 trillion .
Prior to 2020 , the U.S. government had only run deficits over $ 1 trillion four times , all during the Great Recession .
We were approaching that number prior to the pandemic , despite what Trump kept calling “ the greatest economy in the history of America.
” No matter what happens in the 2020 election , the borrowing and spending will almost certainly continue unabated .
The Democrats have proposed another $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have pushed for a slightly lower number .
But as market analyst Peter Schiff said in a podcast , the Republicans have conceded the argument when it comes to a principled opposition to stimulus .
The debate has devolved to how much to spend and where to spend it .
“ I knew the Republicans lost the argument the minute they accepted the false doctrine that stimulus is good , ” Schiff said .
According to a recent CBO report , on the current trajectory , the size of the national debt will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. economy by 2050 .
It ’ s easy to simply shrug off the debt .
People have been warning about it for years .
But it ’ s not a problem until it is .
Debt is neither free nor is it irrelevant .
At some point , somebody has to pay for all this .
As the saying goes – there ’ s no such thing as a free lunch .
We are all on the hook for the massive bill .
We ( and our children and grandchildren ) will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ either through higher taxes or higher inflation – most likely both .
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Left And Right Remain Silent As Trump Double’s Obama’s Deficit Record, Debt Soars Past $27 Trillion
The Free Thought Project, Guest
Waking Times
The fiscal 2020 budget shortfall totaled $3.13 trillion as the Trump administration added another $124.6 billion to the deficit in September, according to the latest Monthly Treasury Statement.
That more than doubles the previous record deficit of $1.4 trillion set during the Obama administration at the height of the Great Recession.
The fiscal year ended on Sept. 30. Revenues were basically flat on the year, falling slightly from $3.46 trillion in FY2019 to $3.42 trillion. But total spending soared, coming in at $6.55 trillion. That compares with $4.45 trillion spent in fiscal 2019.
The national debt surged above $27 trillion on Oct. 1, and it has grown by over $7 trillion since President Trump took office. That equals $217,612 of debt for every American taxpayer.
When Trump moved into the White House in January 2017, the debt stood at $19.95 trillion. It topped $22 trillion in February 2019. That represented a $2.06 trillion increase in the debt in just over two years. By November 2019, the debt had eclipsed $23 trillion.
The debt-to-GDP ratio currently stands at 137.21 percent. Despite the lack of concern in the mainstream, debt has consequences. Studies have shown that a debt to GDP ratio over 90 percent retards economic growth by about 30 percent. This throws cold water on the Republican mantra “we can grow ourselves out of the debt.”
A big chunk of the excess spending in FY2020 came courtesy of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act. But the Trump administration was already spending money at a near-record clip before the pandemic. The coronavirus spending simply exacerbated an already out of control federal spending problem.
Last year, the Trump administration ran a $984 billion deficit. At the time, it was the fifth-largest deficit in history. This goes to show that the federal government had a major spending problem before the pandemic. In fact, through the first two months of fiscal 2020, the deficit was already 12 percent over 2019’s huge Obama-like number and was on track to eclipse $1 trillion. Prior to 2020, the U.S. government had only run deficits over $1 trillion four times, all during the Great Recession. We were approaching that number prior to the pandemic, despite what Trump kept calling “the greatest economy in the history of America.”
No matter what happens in the 2020 election, the borrowing and spending will almost certainly continue unabated. The Democrats have proposed another $3 trillion stimulus plan. The Republicans have pushed for a slightly lower number. But as market analyst Peter Schiff said in a podcast, the Republicans have conceded the argument when it comes to a principled opposition to stimulus. The debate has devolved to how much to spend and where to spend it. “I knew the Republicans lost the argument the minute they accepted the false doctrine that stimulus is good,” Schiff said.
Basically, were arguing the Democrats’ point that government spending helps the economy, that deficits don’t matter, that printing money doesn’t matter, that we can have all the government we want. We don’t even have to pay for it as long as the Federal Reserve prints the money. So, the minute they accepted the Democrats’ argument, they lost.”
According to a recent CBO report, on the current trajectory, the size of the national debt will be nearly double the size of the U.S. economy by 2050.
It’s easy to simply shrug off the debt. People have been warning about it for years. But it’s not a problem until it is. Debt is neither free nor is it irrelevant.
At some point, somebody has to pay for all this. As the saying goes – there’s no such thing as a free lunch. We are all on the hook for the massive bill. We (and our children and grandchildren) will pay for this down the road – either through higher taxes or higher inflation – most likely both.


thewakingtimes--2020-10-20--Court Records Show Google Gives Keyword Searches Of Innocent People To Cops

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Everyone reading this knows that there are few things on the internet more revealing than their internet search data .
It is for this reason that police must seek out a warrant for an actual suspect in order to obtain said data .
However , a recently unsealed court document found that government can request such data in reverse order by asking Google to disclose everyone who searched a keyword rather than for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spell it out more clearly , authorities can simply pick a search term and construct a warrant around it without anyone being accused of a crime or being a suspect in a crime , and then Google will simply hand over their data .
What could possibly go wrong ?
The court files in question that exposed this Orwellian nightmare are from the arrest of Michael Williams , an associate of singer and accused sex offender R. Kelly , for allegedly setting fire to a witness ’ car in Florida .
As CNET @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the IP addresses of people who searched for the arson victim ’ s address , which investigators tied to a phone number belonging to Williams .
Police then used the phone number records to pinpoint the location of Williams ’ device near the arson , according to court documents .
While this instance may not seem too intrusive to some , consider the fact of how easily the state was able to obtain search information on completely innocent people .
Naturally , Google , whose been ensnared in controversy after controversy , released @ @ @ @ @ @ @ privacy of its users — unless of course the government tells them to do otherwise .
The company then declined to disclose how many keyword warrants it received in the last three years .
So much for that transparency thing .
In Illinois , warrants like the one mentioned above have already been found by federal court to be a violation of the Fourth Amendment .
Authorities in Illinois simply told Google that they needed all the historical information about what devices were at certain locations and they received all of it — @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people who visited these same locations and google handed it over .
Luckily , there are still some members of government who see the ominous nature of police having such easy access to this data .
Todd Spodek , the attorney representing Williams , says he ’ s seen a bunch of these warrants over the years and worries that they could lead to the arrest of innocent people .
Indeed , the complete lack of probable cause in these warrants is shocking .
A tyrannical state who wanted to identify those who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over one of these keyword warrants to Google and entire activist populations could be categorical rooted out and subject to invasive searches , arrests , or worse .
While it is the state asking for this information , it is Google who is storing in such a way that creates a unique profile on billions of users .
In fact , they are actually building their system to facilitate this very thing .
As TFTP has reported , the information Facebook and other social media companies keep on its users is utterly mind-blowing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to liked posts , the social media giant is building profiles on billions .
However , this is nothing compared to what Google has .
Google knows where you ’ ve been Google stores your location ( if you have location tracking turned on ) every time you turn on your phone .
You can see a timeline of where you ’ ve been from the very first day you started using Google on your phone .
Click on this link to see your own data : google.com/maps/timeline ?
… Google knows everything @ @ @ @ @ @ @ deleted Google stores search history across all your devices .
That can mean that , even if you delete your search history and phone history on one device , it may still have data saved from other devices .
Click on this link to see your own data : myactivity.google.com/myactivity Google has an advertisement profile of you Google creates an advertisement profile based on your information , including your location , gender , age , hobbies , career , interests , relationship status , possible weight ( need to lose 10lb in one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on this link to see your own data : google.com/settings/ads/ Google knows all the apps you use Google stores information on every app and extension you use .
They know how often you use them , where you use them , and who you use them to interact with .
That means they know who you talk to on Facebook , what countries are you speaking with , what time you go to sleep .
Click on this link to see your own data : security.google.com/settings/secur… Google has all of your YouTube history @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , so they probably know whether you ’ re going to be a parent soon , if you ’ re a conservative , if you ’ re a progressive , if you ’ re Jewish , Christian , or Muslim , if you ’ re feeling depressed or suicidal , if you ’ re anorexic … Click on this link to see your own data : youtube.com/feed/history/s… The data Google has on you can fill millions of Word documents Google offers an option to download all of the data it stores about you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it and the file is 5.5GB big , which is roughly 3m Word documents .
This link includes your bookmarks , emails , contacts , your Google Drive files , all of the above information , your YouTube videos , the photos you ’ ve taken on your phone , the businesses you ’ ve bought from , the products you ’ ve bought through Google … They also have data from your calendar , your Google hangout sessions , your location history , the music you listen to , the Google books @ @ @ @ @ @ @ groups you ’ re in , the websites you ’ ve created , the phones you ’ ve owned , the pages you ’ ve shared , how many steps you walk in a day … Click on this link to see your own data : google.com/takeout Google knows every image you ’ ve ever downloaded and where you accessed them .
They also know what events you ’ ve attended and when—even when you don ’ t enter them in your own calendar .
What ’ s more , even if you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Google still has it !
But that ’ s not all .
They also have every email you ’ ve ever sent and received , including deleted ones and spam .
The have a record of every single website you ’ ve ever visited , every search you ’ ve ever done , every app you ’ ve ever used , and every news article you ’ ve ever read .
As web developer Dylan Curran , based in Waterford , Ireland , pointed out : If we continue to be okay with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , collecting every bit of our personal information , and using all of it against us in unconstitutional agreements with the government , the words “ freedom ” and “ privacy ” will become but a fleeting memory .
While you may think you have nothing to hide if you ’ ve done nothing wrong , it ’ s only a matter of time before someone deems your completely legal behavior a threat—and uses this massive spy tool to stop that threat .
Now for the solution .
Stop giving Google all these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s permissions and disable everything that may let Google collect your information .
Stop letting Google record you by disabling the voice recognition .
Use browsers like Firefox or TOR or Brave that don ’ t spy on you .
Use search engines like DuckDuckgo.com .
Use VPNs and quit paying for internet services that allow third-parties to collect your information .
Unless we reclaim our privacy now , we will be responsible for the insane information dystopia that we create .
Please share this article as Google will likely make sure it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its search engine .
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA .
This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state .
Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world .
Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project .
Follow @ MattAgorist on Twitter , Steemit , and now on Minds .
**This article ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Of Innocent People To Cops ) was originally published at The Free Thought Project and is re-posted here with permission .
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Court Records Show Google Gives Keyword Searches Of Innocent People To Cops
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project
Waking Times
Everyone reading this knows that there are few things on the internet more revealing than their internet search data. It is for this reason that police must seek out a warrant for an actual suspect in order to obtain said data. However, a recently unsealed court document found that government can request such data in reverse order by asking Google to disclose everyone who searched a keyword rather than for information on a known suspect.
To spell it out more clearly, authorities can simply pick a search term and construct a warrant around it without anyone being accused of a crime or being a suspect in a crime, and then Google will simply hand over their data. What could possibly go wrong?
The court files in question that exposed this Orwellian nightmare are from the arrest of Michael Williams, an associate of singer and accused sex offender R. Kelly, for allegedly setting fire to a witness’ car in Florida.
Authorities told Google that they needed information on all “users who had searched the address of the residence close in time to the arson.”
As CNET reports, documents showed that Google provided the IP addresses of people who searched for the arson victim’s address, which investigators tied to a phone number belonging to Williams. Police then used the phone number records to pinpoint the location of Williams’ device near the arson, according to court documents.
While this instance may not seem too intrusive to some, consider the fact of how easily the state was able to obtain search information on completely innocent people.
“This ‘keyword warrant’ evades the Fourth Amendment checks on police surveillance,” said Albert Fox Cahn, the executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. “When a court authorizes a data dump of every person who searched for a specific term or address, it’s likely unconstitutional.”
CNET reports:
The keyword warrants are similar to geofence warrants, in which police make requests to Google for data on all devices logged in at a specific area and time. Google received 15 times more geofence warrant requests in 2018 compared with 2017, and five times more in 2019 than 2018. The rise in reverse requests from police have troubled Google staffers, according to internal emails.
Naturally, Google, whose been ensnared in controversy after controversy, released a statement claiming that they protect the privacy of its users — unless of course the government tells them to do otherwise.
“We require a warrant and push to narrow the scope of these particular demands when overly broad, including by objecting in court when appropriate,” Google’s director of law enforcement and information security, Richard Salgado, said in a statement. “These data demands represent less than 1% of total warrants and a small fraction of the overall legal demands for user data that we currently receive.”
The company then declined to disclose how many keyword warrants it received in the last three years. So much for that transparency thing.
In Illinois, warrants like the one mentioned above have already been found by federal court to be a violation of the Fourth Amendment. Authorities in Illinois simply told Google that they needed all the historical information about what devices were at certain locations and they received all of it — including the data from the countless innocent people who visited these same locations and google handed it over. Luckily, there are still some members of government who see the ominous nature of police having such easy access to this data.
Todd Spodek, the attorney representing Williams, says he’s seen a bunch of these warrants over the years and worries that they could lead to the arrest of innocent people.
“Think of the ramifications in the future if everyone who searched something in the privacy of their own home was subject to interviews by federal agents,” Spodek said. “Someone could be interested in how people die a certain way or how drug deals are done, and it could be misconstrued or used improperly.”
Indeed, the complete lack of probable cause in these warrants is shocking. A tyrannical state who wanted to identify those who oppose it — peacefully — could turn over one of these keyword warrants to Google and entire activist populations could be categorical rooted out and subject to invasive searches, arrests, or worse.
While it is the state asking for this information, it is Google who is storing in such a way that creates a unique profile on billions of users.
“If Google stored data in a way that was truly de-identified, then they also couldn’t give it to the government,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s surveillance litigation director Jennifer Lynch said. “Google’s not setting up their system or changing their practices in a way that could prevent these kinds of searches.”
In fact, they are actually building their system to facilitate this very thing.
As TFTP has reported, the information Facebook and other social media companies keep on its users is utterly mind-blowing, consisting of everything from text messages to liked posts, the social media giant is building profiles on billions. However, this is nothing compared to what Google has.
Google knows where you’ve been
Google stores your location (if you have location tracking turned on) every time you turn on your phone. You can see a timeline of where you’ve been from the very first day you started using Google on your phone.
Click on this link to see your own data: google.com/maps/timeline?…
Google knows everything you’ve ever searched – and deleted
Google stores search history across all your devices. That can mean that, even if you delete your search history and phone history on one device, it may still have data saved from other devices.
Click on this link to see your own data: myactivity.google.com/myactivity
Google has an advertisement profile of you
Google creates an advertisement profile based on your information, including your location, gender, age, hobbies, career, interests, relationship status, possible weight (need to lose 10lb in one day?) and income.
Click on this link to see your own data: google.com/settings/ads/
Google knows all the apps you use
Google stores information on every app and extension you use. They know how often you use them, where you use them, and who you use them to interact with. That means they know who you talk to on Facebook, what countries are you speaking with, what time you go to sleep.
Click on this link to see your own data: security.google.com/settings/secur…
Google has all of your YouTube history
Google stores all of your YouTube history, so they probably know whether you’re going to be a parent soon, if you’re a conservative, if you’re a progressive, if you’re Jewish, Christian, or Muslim, if you’re feeling depressed or suicidal, if you’re anorexic …
Click on this link to see your own data: youtube.com/feed/history/s…
The data Google has on you can fill millions of Word documents
Google offers an option to download all of the data it stores about you. I’ve requested to download it and the file is 5.5GB big, which is roughly 3m Word documents.
Manage to gain access to someone’s Google account? Perfect, you have a diary of everything that person has done
This link includes your bookmarks, emails, contacts, your Google Drive files, all of the above information, your YouTube videos, the photos you’ve taken on your phone, the businesses you’ve bought from, the products you’ve bought through Google …
They also have data from your calendar, your Google hangout sessions, your location history, the music you listen to, the Google books you’ve purchased, the Google groups you’re in, the websites you’ve created, the phones you’ve owned, the pages you’ve shared, how many steps you walk in a day …
Click on this link to see your own data: google.com/takeout
Google knows every image you’ve ever downloaded and where you accessed them. They also know what events you’ve attended and when—even when you don’t enter them in your own calendar.
What’s more, even if you’ve deleted all this information, Google still has it!
But that’s not all. They also have every email you’ve ever sent and received, including deleted ones and spam. The have a record of every single website you’ve ever visited, every search you’ve ever done, every app you’ve ever used, and every news article you’ve ever read.
As web developer Dylan Curran, based in Waterford, Ireland, pointed out:
This information has millions of nefarious uses. You say you’re not a terrorist. Then how come you were googling Isis? Work at Google and you’re suspicious of your wife? Perfect, just look up her location and search history for the last 10 years. Manage to gain access to someone’s Google account? Perfect, you have a chronological diary of everything that person has done for the last 10 years. This is one of the craziest things about the modern age. We would never let the government or a corporation put cameras/microphones in our homes or location trackers on us. But we just went ahead and did it ourselves because – to hell with it! – I want to watch cute dog videos.
If we continue to be okay with unknown corporate entities watching our every move, collecting every bit of our personal information, and using all of it against us in unconstitutional agreements with the government, the words “freedom” and “privacy” will become but a fleeting memory.
While you may think you have nothing to hide if you’ve done nothing wrong, it’s only a matter of time before someone deems your completely legal behavior a threat—and uses this massive spy tool to stop that threat.
Now for the solution. Stop giving Google all these permissions, go through your device’s permissions and disable everything that may let Google collect your information. Stop letting Google record you by disabling the voice recognition. Use browsers like Firefox or TOR or Brave that don’t spy on you. Use search engines like DuckDuckgo.com. Use VPNs and quit paying for internet services that allow third-parties to collect your information.
Unless we reclaim our privacy now, we will be responsible for the insane information dystopia that we create. Please share this article as Google will likely make sure it does not make the front page of its search engine.
About the Author
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Minds.
**This article (Court Records Show Google Gives Keyword Searches Of Innocent People To Cops) was originally published at The Free Thought Project and is re-posted here with permission.**


thewakingtimes--2020-10-22--Don’t Vote For A Psychopath: Tyranny At The Hands Of A Psychopathic Government

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“ Politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths .
I think you would find no expert in the field of sociopathy/psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder who would dispute this… That a small minority of human beings literally have no conscience was and is a bitter pill for our society to swallow — but it does explain a great many things , shamelessly deceitful political behavior @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , clinical psychologist and former instructor at Harvard Medical School Twenty years ago , a newspaper headline asked the question : “ What ’ s the difference between a politician and a psychopath ?
” The answer , then and now , remains the same : None .
There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians .
Nor is there much of a difference between the havoc wreaked on innocent lives by uncaring , unfeeling , selfish , irresponsible , parasitic criminals and elected officials who lie to their constituents , trade political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ blind eye to the wishes of the electorate , cheat taxpayers out of hard-earned dollars , favor the corporate elite , entrench the military industrial complex , and spare little thought for the impact their thoughtless actions and hastily passed legislation might have on defenseless citizens .
Psychopaths and politicians both have a tendency to be selfish , callous , remorseless users of others , irresponsible , pathological liars , glib , con artists , lacking in remorse and shallow .
Charismatic politicians , like criminal psychopaths , exhibit a failure to accept @ @ @ @ @ @ @ high sense of self-worth , are chronically unstable , have socially deviant lifestyles , need constant stimulation , have parasitic lifestyles and possess unrealistic goals .
It doesn ’ t matter whether you ’ re talking about Democrats or Republicans .
Political psychopaths are all largely cut from the same pathological cloth , brimming with seemingly easy charm and boasting calculating minds .
Such leaders eventually create pathocracies : totalitarian societies bent on power , control , and destruction of both freedom in general and those who exercise their freedoms .
In other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ office is tantamount to national hara-kiri , the ritualized act of self-annihilation , self-destruction and suicide .
It signals the demise of democratic government and lays the groundwork for a totalitarian regime that is legalistic , militaristic , inflexible , intolerant and inhuman .
Incredibly , despite clear evidence of the damage that has already been inflicted on our nation and its citizens by a psychopathic government , voters continue to elect psychopaths to positions of power and influence .
Indeed , a study from Southern Methodist University found that Washington , DC—our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of power for our so-called representatives—ranks highest on the list of regions that are populated by psychopaths .
According to investigative journalist Zack Beauchamp , “ In 2012 , a group of psychologists evaluated every President from Washington to Bush II using ‘ psychopathy trait estimates derived from personality data completed by historical experts on each president.
’ They found that presidents tended to have the psychopath ’ s characteristic fearlessness and low anxiety levels — traits that appear to help Presidents , but also might cause them to make reckless decisions that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The willingness to prioritize power above all else , including the welfare of their fellow human beings , ruthlessness , callousness and an utter lack of conscience are among the defining traits of the sociopath .
When our own government no longer sees us as human beings with dignity and worth but as things to be manipulated , maneuvered , mined for data , manhandled by police , conned into believing it has our best interests at heart , mistreated , jailed if we dare step out of line , and then punished @ @ @ @ @ @ @ own up to its failings—we are no longer operating under a constitutional republic .
People don ’ t simply line up and salute .
It is through one ’ s own personal identification with a given leader , party or social order that they become agents of good or evil .
The goal of the modern corporate state is obvious : to promote , cultivate , and embed a sense of shared identification among its citizens .
To this end , “ we the people ” have become “ we the police state.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ thrall to a faceless , nameless , bureaucratic totalitarian government machine that relentlessly erodes our freedoms through countless laws , statutes , and prohibitions .
Any resistance to such regimes depends on the strength of opinions in the minds of those who choose to fight back .
What this means is that we the citizenry must be very careful that we are not manipulated into marching in lockstep with an oppressive regime .
But what does this really mean in practical terms ?
It means holding politicians accountable for their actions and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ means at our disposal : through investigative journalism ( what used to be referred to as the Fourth Estate ) that enlightens and informs , through whistleblower complaints that expose corruption , through lawsuits that challenge misconduct , and through protests and mass political action that remind the powers-that-be that “ we the people ” are the ones that call the shots .
Remember , education precedes action .
Citizens need to the do the hard work of educating themselves about what the government is doing and how to hold it accountable .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ exclusively in an echo chamber that is restricted to views with which you agree .
Expose yourself to multiple media sources , independent and mainstream , and think for yourself .
That said , if we allow the ballot box to become our only means of pushing back against the police state , the battle is already lost .
Resistance will require a citizenry willing to be active at the local level .
Yet as I point out in my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , if you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is crashing through your door , until your name is placed on a terror watch list , until you are reported for such outlawed activities as collecting rainwater or letting your children play outside unsupervised , then it will be too late .
This much I know : we are not faceless numbers .
We are not cogs in the machine .
We are not slaves .
We are human beings , and for the moment , we have the opportunity to remain free—that is , if we tirelessly advocate for our rights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the government to place us in chains .
The Founders understood that our freedoms do not flow from the government .
They were not given to us only to be taken away by the will of the State .
They are inherently ours .
In the same way , the government ’ s appointed purpose is not to threaten or undermine our freedoms , but to safeguard them .
Until we can get back to this way of thinking , until we can remind our fellow Americans what it really means to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ firm in the face of threats to our freedoms , we will continue to be treated like slaves in thrall to a bureaucratic police state run by political psychopaths .
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute , where this article ( Don ’ t Vote For A Psychopath : Tyranny At The Hands Of A Psychopathic Government ) was originally published .
He is the author of A Government of Wolves : The Emerging American Police State and The Change Manifesto .

Don’t Vote For A Psychopath: Tyranny At The Hands Of A Psychopathic Government
John W. Whitehead, Rutherford
Waking Times
“Politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths. I think you would find no expert in the field of sociopathy/psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder who would dispute this… That a small minority of human beings literally have no conscience was and is a bitter pill for our society to swallow — but it does explain a great many things, shamelessly deceitful political behavior being one.”—Dr. Martha Stout, clinical psychologist and former instructor at Harvard Medical School Twenty years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?”
The answer, then and now, remains the same: None.
There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians.
Nor is there much of a difference between the havoc wreaked on innocent lives by uncaring, unfeeling, selfish, irresponsible, parasitic criminals and elected officials who lie to their constituents, trade political favors for campaign contributions, turn a blind eye to the wishes of the electorate, cheat taxpayers out of hard-earned dollars, favor the corporate elite, entrench the military industrial complex, and spare little thought for the impact their thoughtless actions and hastily passed legislation might have on defenseless citizens.
Psychopaths and politicians both have a tendency to be selfish, callous, remorseless users of others, irresponsible, pathological liars, glib, con artists, lacking in remorse and shallow.
Charismatic politicians, like criminal psychopaths, exhibit a failure to accept responsibility for their actions, have a high sense of self-worth, are chronically unstable, have socially deviant lifestyles, need constant stimulation, have parasitic lifestyles and possess unrealistic goals.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about Democrats or Republicans.
Political psychopaths are all largely cut from the same pathological cloth, brimming with seemingly easy charm and boasting calculating minds. Such leaders eventually create pathocracies: totalitarian societies bent on power, control, and destruction of both freedom in general and those who exercise their freedoms.
Once psychopaths gain power, the result is usually some form of totalitarian government or a pathocracy. “At that point, the government operates against the interests of its own people except for favoring certain groups,” author James G. Long notes. “We are currently witnessing deliberate polarizations of American citizens, illegal actions, and massive and needless acquisition of debt. This is typical of psychopathic systems, and very similar things happened in the Soviet Union as it overextended and collapsed.”
In other words, electing a psychopath to public office is tantamount to national hara-kiri, the ritualized act of self-annihilation, self-destruction and suicide. It signals the demise of democratic government and lays the groundwork for a totalitarian regime that is legalistic, militaristic, inflexible, intolerant and inhuman.
Incredibly, despite clear evidence of the damage that has already been inflicted on our nation and its citizens by a psychopathic government, voters continue to elect psychopaths to positions of power and influence.
Indeed, a study from Southern Methodist University found that Washington, DC—our nation’s capital and the seat of power for our so-called representatives—ranks highest on the list of regions that are populated by psychopaths.
According to investigative journalist Zack Beauchamp, “In 2012, a group of psychologists evaluated every President from Washington to Bush II using ‘psychopathy trait estimates derived from personality data completed by historical experts on each president.’ They found that presidents tended to have the psychopath’s characteristic fearlessness and low anxiety levels — traits that appear to help Presidents, but also might cause them to make reckless decisions that hurt other people’s lives.”
The willingness to prioritize power above all else, including the welfare of their fellow human beings, ruthlessness, callousness and an utter lack of conscience are among the defining traits of the sociopath.
When our own government no longer sees us as human beings with dignity and worth but as things to be manipulated, maneuvered, mined for data, manhandled by police, conned into believing it has our best interests at heart, mistreated, jailed if we dare step out of line, and then punished unjustly without remorse—all the while refusing to own up to its failings—we are no longer operating under a constitutional republic.
Instead, what we are experiencing is a pathocracy: tyranny at the hands of a psychopathic government, which “operates against the interests of its own people except for favoring certain groups.” Worse, psychopathology is not confined to those in high positions of government. It can spread like a virus among the populace. As an academic study into pathocracy concluded, “[T]yranny does not flourish because perpetuators are helpless and ignorant of their actions. It flourishes because they actively identify with those who promote vicious acts as virtuous.”
People don’t simply line up and salute. It is through one’s own personal identification with a given leader, party or social order that they become agents of good or evil.
Much depends on how leaders “cultivate a sense of identification with their followers,” says Professor Alex Haslam. “I mean one pretty obvious thing is that leaders talk about ‘we’ rather than ‘I,’ and actually what leadership is about is cultivating this sense of shared identity about ‘we-ness’ and then getting people to want to act in terms of that ‘we-ness,’ to promote our collective interests. . . . [We] is the single word that has increased in the inaugural addresses over the last century . . . and the other one is ‘America.’”
The goal of the modern corporate state is obvious: to promote, cultivate, and embed a sense of shared identification among its citizens. To this end, “we the people” have become “we the police state.”
We are fast becoming slaves in thrall to a faceless, nameless, bureaucratic totalitarian government machine that relentlessly erodes our freedoms through countless laws, statutes, and prohibitions.
Any resistance to such regimes depends on the strength of opinions in the minds of those who choose to fight back. What this means is that we the citizenry must be very careful that we are not manipulated into marching in lockstep with an oppressive regime.
Writing for ThinkProgress, Beauchamp suggests that “one of the best cures to bad leaders may very well be political democracy.”
But what does this really mean in practical terms?
It means holding politicians accountable for their actions and the actions of their staff using every available means at our disposal: through investigative journalism (what used to be referred to as the Fourth Estate) that enlightens and informs, through whistleblower complaints that expose corruption, through lawsuits that challenge misconduct, and through protests and mass political action that remind the powers-that-be that “we the people” are the ones that call the shots.
Remember, education precedes action. Citizens need to the do the hard work of educating themselves about what the government is doing and how to hold it accountable. Don’t allow yourselves to exist exclusively in an echo chamber that is restricted to views with which you agree. Expose yourself to multiple media sources, independent and mainstream, and think for yourself.
For that matter, no matter what your political leanings might be, don’t allow your partisan bias to trump the principles that serve as the basis for our constitutional republic. As Beauchamp notes, “A system that actually holds people accountable to the broader conscience of society may be one of the best ways to keep conscienceless people in check.”
That said, if we allow the ballot box to become our only means of pushing back against the police state, the battle is already lost.
Resistance will require a citizenry willing to be active at the local level.
Yet as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, if you wait to act until the SWAT team is crashing through your door, until your name is placed on a terror watch list, until you are reported for such outlawed activities as collecting rainwater or letting your children play outside unsupervised, then it will be too late.
This much I know: we are not faceless numbers.
We are not cogs in the machine.
We are not slaves.
We are human beings, and for the moment, we have the opportunity to remain free—that is, if we tirelessly advocate for our rights and resist at every turn attempts by the government to place us in chains.
The Founders understood that our freedoms do not flow from the government. They were not given to us only to be taken away by the will of the State. They are inherently ours. In the same way, the government’s appointed purpose is not to threaten or undermine our freedoms, but to safeguard them.
Until we can get back to this way of thinking, until we can remind our fellow Americans what it really means to be free, and until we can stand firm in the face of threats to our freedoms, we will continue to be treated like slaves in thrall to a bureaucratic police state run by political psychopaths.
About the Author
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute, where this article (Don’t Vote For A Psychopath: Tyranny At The Hands Of A Psychopathic Government) was originally published. He is the author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State and The Change Manifesto.


thewakingtimes--2020-10-22--Scientists Discover New Organ In The Center Of The Human Head

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Medical researchers have made a shocking historical anatomical discovery by finding a new organ located at the center of the human head that has been lurking there all along .
The finding was reported in Radiotherapy and Oncology .
Researchers discovered the organ by accident thanks to doctors in the Netherlands , who were examining 100 patients for prostate cancer while performing an advanced type of scan called PSMA PET/CT .
This diagnostic process @ @ @ @ @ @ @ highlights tumors in the body .
However , in this case , the researchers found something else entirely , nestled in the rear of the nasopharynx .
The nasopharynx functions as an airway in the respiratory system .
Also contained within the nasopharynx are the adenoids , or pharyngeal tonsils .
The new organ looks to be a mysterious set of salivary glands that have been hidden inside the human head .
How this was discovered in 2020 , missed for centuries is unknown , but until now , the human body has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , submandibular , and sublingual glands .
Now , we can add a fourth located behind the nose and above the palate , close to the center of the human head .
“ The two new areas that lit up turned out to have other characteristics of salivary glands as well , ” said one of the first author of the study , oral surgeon Matthijs Valstar from the University of Amsterdam .
“ We call them tubarial glands , referring to their anatomical location [ above the torus tubarius ] .
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the PSMA PET/CT scans of all the 100 patients , revealing visible draining duct openings towards the nasopharyngeal wall .
It ’ s worth noting that there are an additional approximately 1,000 minor salivary glands situated throughout the oral cavity and the digestive tract .
Although , these are not seen without a microscope according to Scientific Alert .
The researchers suggest the organ is found at a poorly accessible anatomical location under the skull base , which explains why it has been missed all of these centuries .
The medical professionals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may have noticed the duct openings , but it ’ s unlikely they would have realized the structures were apart of a larger gland system .
But thanks to newer technology allowing advanced PSMA-PET/CT imaging techniques , seeing the macroscopical organ was possible .
The study needs to be replicated and validated .
However , pathologist said that the team may be on to something and if its real it could change the way we view diseases in that region of the skull .

Scientists Discover New Organ In The Center Of The Human Head
Danny Razor, The Mind Unleashed
Waking Times
Medical researchers have made a shocking historical anatomical discovery by finding a new organ located at the center of the human head that has been lurking there all along.
The finding was reported in Radiotherapy and Oncology. Researchers discovered the organ by accident thanks to doctors in the Netherlands, who were examining 100 patients for prostate cancer while performing an advanced type of scan called PSMA PET/CT. This diagnostic process when paired with injections of radioactive glucose highlights tumors in the body.
However, in this case, the researchers found something else entirely, nestled in the rear of the nasopharynx. The nasopharynx functions as an airway in the respiratory system. Also contained within the nasopharynx are the adenoids, or pharyngeal tonsils.
The new organ looks to be a mysterious set of salivary glands that have been hidden inside the human head. How this was discovered in 2020, missed for centuries is unknown, but until now, the human body has had three major salivary glands — parotid, submandibular, and sublingual glands.
“People have three sets of large salivary glands, but not there,” explains radiation oncologist Wouter Vogel from the Netherlands Cancer Institute. “As far as we knew, the only salivary or mucous glands in the nasopharynx are microscopically small, and up to 1,000 are evenly spread out throughout the mucosa. So, imagine our surprise when we found these.”
Now, we can add a fourth located behind the nose and above the palate, close to the center of the human head.
“The two new areas that lit up turned out to have other characteristics of salivary glands as well,” said one of the first author of the study, oral surgeon Matthijs Valstar from the University of Amsterdam. “We call them tubarial glands, referring to their anatomical location [above the torus tubarius].”
These tubarial glands were seen to exist in the PSMA PET/CT scans of all the 100 patients, revealing visible draining duct openings towards the nasopharyngeal wall.
“To our knowledge, this structure did not fit prior anatomical descriptions,” the researchers explained in their paper.
It’s worth noting that there are an additional approximately 1,000 minor salivary glands situated throughout the oral cavity and the digestive tract. Although, these are not seen without a microscope according to Scientific Alert.
The researchers suggest the organ is found at a poorly accessible anatomical location under the skull base, which explains why it has been missed all of these centuries. The medical professionals note that it’s possible they may have noticed the duct openings, but it’s unlikely they would have realized the structures were apart of a larger gland system. But thanks to newer technology allowing advanced PSMA-PET/CT imaging techniques, seeing the macroscopical organ was possible.
The study needs to be replicated and validated. However, pathologist said that the team may be on to something and if its real it could change the way we view diseases in that region of the skull.


thewakingtimes--2020-10-22--As Gov’t Puts Kids In Bubbles, Study Suggests Playing In The Dirt Boosts Immune Systems

As Gov ’ t Puts Kids In Bubbles , Study Suggests Playing In The Dirt Boosts Immune Systems Get the latest Waking Times articles delivered to your inbox .
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As more states and countries attempt to send children back to school amid the COVID-19 pandemic , we have seen some utterly horrifying scenarios .
Masked up and shielded children of all ages are being forced to stay behind plastic sheets , dividers , and some are even kept inside polyethylene cages with little to no evidence showing its effectiveness .
Depriving kids of crucial exposure to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just the psychological implications as a new study shows children ’ s immune systems appear to thrive when playing in the wild .
According to a new study in the October 16 issue of Science Advances , children who played in formerly gravel-covered urban day care center yards renovated with natural forest floor developed more diverse microbiomes ( gut and skin bacteria ) and signs of better-regulated immune systems within just one month .
The results were utterly astounding and show just how beneficial the act of being a kid and playing in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ examined 75 Finnish children between the ages of 3 and 5 who were all examined prior to the changes .
After only 28 days of playing on the forest floor instead of the sterilized gravel or concrete playgrounds , the children had significantly more diverse skin and gut bacteria and a stronger presence of anti-inflammatory proteins in their bodies than children in day care centers without the intervention .
In short , instead of putting kids in bubbles , we should probably let them play in the dirt .
As the American Association @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , city residents are not known for their flourishing gut microbiomes .
Frequent antibiotic use and exposure to urban pollutants are believed to take a toll on the structure of city dwellers ’ inner microbial communities .
Though researchers point out that the findings will require further research , this study suggests that simply being exposed to diverse microbiota from the outdoors is incredibly beneficial to building children ’ s resistance to infection .
To help urban children sustain health-supporting microbiota and to test their hypothesis , researchers at the University of Helsinki @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of them were given new yards and transformed into green oases consisting on topsoil and a rich spread of native vegetation .
Three other daycare centers took daily excursions to nearby forests .
The other urban daycare centers were were left unmodified .
When the 28 day experiment was complete researchers “ found that the microbiota of the children at standard day care centers that received the intervention shifted , becoming more like the microbiomes of children who attended the nature-oriented day care centers .
Children at the intervention centers had more diverse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after the trial , while the relative abundance of Clostridiales bacteria in their guts decreased and the diversity of Ruminococcaceae increased .
Similar changes were not observed in children at the standard , unmodified day care centers .
Finland is now developing techniques to provide more biodiversity at these urban environments to provide all children with the immune boosting benefits of playing in the dirt .
Sadly , man countries , including parts of the United States , are moving in the opposite direction .
Thanks to a now verifiably incorrect campaign of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ returning to school , there are still millions of school children in the US alone who have been locked in their apartments or houses with no outside contact or activity .
Mainstream media has even begun to admit just how wrong they were for waging this fear campaign and admit that schools are not the super-spreading pits of contagion they were made out to be .
Nevertheless , many are still arguing to keep schools entirely virtual until they are “ completely safe.
” Sadly , this approach ignores costs like the mental @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has on lower income children , and the “ toxic stress ” it causes for the young .
Early on in the pandemic it was clear that everyone , including scientists and doctors had no idea what to do .
Since then , however , we have empirical data that shows school is safe , not only for students but for staff as well .
If we couple the new study above and the potential benefits it could provide with the fact that children are being denied the ability to return to school @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pronged approach to harming children both psychologically as well as physically .
Something has to change .
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA .
This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state .
Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world .
Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project .
Follow @ MattAgorist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Minds .
**This article ( As Gov ’ t Puts Kids In Bubbles , Study Suggests Playing In The Dirt Boosts Immune Systems ) was originally published at The Free Thought Project and is re-posted here with permission .
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As Gov’t Puts Kids In Bubbles, Study Suggests Playing In The Dirt Boosts Immune Systems
Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project
Waking Times
As more states and countries attempt to send children back to school amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen some utterly horrifying scenarios. Masked up and shielded children of all ages are being forced to stay behind plastic sheets, dividers, and some are even kept inside polyethylene cages with little to no evidence showing its effectiveness. Depriving kids of crucial exposure to diverse bacteria may be far worse than just the psychological implications as a new study shows children’s immune systems appear to thrive when playing in the wild.
According to a new study in the October 16 issue of Science Advances, children who played in formerly gravel-covered urban day care center yards renovated with natural forest floor developed more diverse microbiomes (gut and skin bacteria) and signs of better-regulated immune systems within just one month.
The results were utterly astounding and show just how beneficial the act of being a kid and playing in the dirt can be. The study examined 75 Finnish children between the ages of 3 and 5 who were all examined prior to the changes. After only 28 days of playing on the forest floor instead of the sterilized gravel or concrete playgrounds, the children had significantly more diverse skin and gut bacteria and a stronger presence of anti-inflammatory proteins in their bodies than children in day care centers without the intervention.
In short, instead of putting kids in bubbles, we should probably let them play in the dirt.
“We were surprised that the findings were so clear even though we did not get as many participants as we had hoped,” said Aki Sinkkonen, a research scientist at the Natural Resources Institute Finland in Turku and an author of the study.
As the American Association for the Advancement of Science points out, city residents are not known for their flourishing gut microbiomes. Frequent antibiotic use and exposure to urban pollutants are believed to take a toll on the structure of city dwellers’ inner microbial communities.
Though researchers point out that the findings will require further research, this study suggests that simply being exposed to diverse microbiota from the outdoors is incredibly beneficial to building children’s resistance to infection.
AAAS reports:
Previous studies have also shown that urban populations, with their less diverse gut microbiota but greater exposure to pathogens, are more susceptible to immune-mediated diseases. While the prominent “biodiversity hypothesis” blames lack of exposure to diverse microbiota, scientists had yet to procure evidence to support this hypothesis. “I am interested in the synergy between biodiversity conservation and actions supporting human health,” said Sinkkonen. “We wanted to find new ways to help urban children sustain health-supporting microbiota.”
To help urban children sustain health-supporting microbiota and to test their hypothesis, researchers at the University of Helsinki worked with ten daycare centers. Four of them were given new yards and transformed into green oases consisting on topsoil and a rich spread of native vegetation. Three other daycare centers took daily excursions to nearby forests. The other urban daycare centers were were left unmodified.
When the 28 day experiment was complete researchers “found that the microbiota of the children at standard day care centers that received the intervention shifted, becoming more like the microbiomes of children who attended the nature-oriented day care centers. Children at the intervention centers had more diverse Proteobacterial and Gammaproteobacterial communities on their skin after the trial, while the relative abundance of Clostridiales bacteria in their guts decreased and the diversity of Ruminococcaceae increased. Similar changes were not observed in children at the standard, unmodified day care centers.
“Importantly, children at the intervention day care centers also developed a higher ratio of the anti-inflammatory protein IL-10 to the pro-inflammatory protein IL-17A, suggesting that playing in the forest dirt stimulated their immunoregulatory pathways. In contrast, children at standard centers without the intervention did not experience a similar immune boost.”
Imagine that.
Finland is now developing techniques to provide more biodiversity at these urban environments to provide all children with the immune boosting benefits of playing in the dirt.
Sadly, man countries, including parts of the United States, are moving in the opposite direction.
Thanks to a now verifiably incorrect campaign of fear waged by mainstream media over children returning to school, there are still millions of school children in the US alone who have been locked in their apartments or houses with no outside contact or activity.
Mainstream media has even begun to admit just how wrong they were for waging this fear campaign and admit that schools are not the super-spreading pits of contagion they were made out to be. Nevertheless, many are still arguing to keep schools entirely virtual until they are “completely safe.”
Sadly, this approach ignores costs like the mental health of children, the effects it has on lower income children, and the “toxic stress” it causes for the young. Early on in the pandemic it was clear that everyone, including scientists and doctors had no idea what to do. Since then, however, we have empirical data that shows school is safe, not only for students but for staff as well.
If we couple the new study above and the potential benefits it could provide with the fact that children are being denied the ability to return to school, the anti-openers are conducting a two pronged approach to harming children both psychologically as well as physically. Something has to change.
About the Author
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Agorist is also the Editor at Large at the Free Thought Project. Follow @MattAgorist on Twitter, Steemit, and now on Minds.
**This article (As Gov’t Puts Kids In Bubbles, Study Suggests Playing In The Dirt Boosts Immune Systems) was originally published at The Free Thought Project and is re-posted here with permission.**