thelibertybeacon--2020-11-16--Superior Court Stops Newsom’s Unconstitional ‘Pandemic’ Laws in California

This past week , both New York and California took taken the initiative under the guise of COVID-19 to re-impose draconian lockdown measures going into the winter – despite the fact that hospitalizations and casualty numbers are at normal five year averages .
As Democrat governors move to centralize their power during the alleged ‘ pandemic ’ , higher courts are ruling against them .
Anti-lockdown decisions have been rendered in states like Pennsylvania , Michigan , Wisconsin , Ohio , and finally in California too .
However , ambitious California ’ s Gavin Newsom received a rude awakening after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ limiting the governor ’ s dictatorial and unconstitutional powers during what state officials are still claiming to be a ‘ pandemic.
’ SACRAMENTO , Calif. – A tentative State Superior Court ruling against California Governor Gavin Newsom was finalized on Friday .
A Northern California County judge decided Newsom overstepped his authority when he changed state law during the COVID-19 pandemic in violation of California ’ s constitution .
Sutter County Superior Court Judge Sarah Heckman made her tentative ruling the day before the election regarding one of Newsom ’ s executive orders @ @ @ @ @ @ @ officials to establish hundreds of locations statewide where voters could cast their ballots — something lawmakers would end up approving .
The lawsuit against the governor was brought on by Republican Assemblymen James Gallagher and Kevin Kiley , who released the following joint statement .
“ Today , the Court confirmed that Gavin Newsom does not rule California and that we are still a nation of laws .
California has not been well-served by one-man rule .
A return to representative government will be best for public health and the economy .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fundamental principle of our democracy and govern himself accordingly.
” The lawsuit challenged the governor ’ s executive order and what the assemblymen called an “ abuse of separation of powers.
” The judge ’ s ruling broadly barred Newsom “ from exercising any power under the California Emergency Services Act which amends , alters , or changes existing statutory law or makes new statutory law or legislative policy.
” The Republican assemblymen said the judge ’ s final ruling , through a permanent injunction , prevents the governor from unilaterally making these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ requested to delay the enforcement of the decision , but that request was denied .
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Superior Court Stops Newsom’s Unconstitional ‘Pandemic’ Laws in California
As Democrat governors move to centralize their power during the alleged ‘pandemic’, higher courts are ruling against them.
This past week, both New York and California took taken the initiative under the guise of COVID-19 to re-impose draconian lockdown measures going into the winter – despite the fact that hospitalizations and casualty numbers are at normal five year averages. As Democrat governors move to centralize their power during the alleged ‘pandemic’, higher courts are ruling against them. Anti-lockdown decisions have been rendered in states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and finally in California too.
However, ambitious California’s Gavin Newsom received a rude awakening after a high court judge upheld a ruling limiting the governor’s dictatorial and unconstitutional powers during what state officials are still claiming to be a ‘pandemic.’
KTVU reports…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A tentative State Superior Court ruling against California Governor Gavin Newsom was finalized on Friday.
A Northern California County judge decided Newsom overstepped his authority when he changed state law during the COVID-19 pandemic in violation of California’s constitution.
Sutter County Superior Court Judge Sarah Heckman made her tentative ruling the day before the election regarding one of Newsom’s executive orders from June. His order required election officials to establish hundreds of locations statewide where voters could cast their ballots — something lawmakers would end up approving.
The lawsuit against the governor was brought on by Republican Assemblymen James Gallagher and Kevin Kiley, who released the following joint statement.
“Today, the Court confirmed that Gavin Newsom does not rule California and that we are still a nation of laws. California has not been well-served by one-man rule. A return to representative government will be best for public health and the economy. The Governor must accept this ruling as a fundamental principle of our democracy and govern himself accordingly.”
The lawsuit challenged the governor’s executive order and what the assemblymen called an “abuse of separation of powers.”
The judge’s ruling broadly barred Newsom “from exercising any power under the California Emergency Services Act which amends, alters, or changes existing statutory law or makes new statutory law or legislative policy.”
The Republican assemblymen said the judge’s final ruling, through a permanent injunction, prevents the governor from unilaterally making these decisions, moving forward.
Newsom had requested to delay the enforcement of the decision, but that request was denied.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-11-16--KEN’S CORNER: Breaking the Power of the One Percent

KEN ’ S CORNER : Breaking the Power of the One Percent Goes to show … Every generation must fight for Liberty , because once lost , the powers will be very reluctant to give it back .
Here in America President Trump is virtually fighting for his life .
He is not capitulating… he knows that it took 120 years for the deep state to entrench itself , and that it virtually has the power to destroy not only The United States , but plunge the world into war .
They even have the ability to manufacture a vast @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without firing a shot , and actually profit from it .
Yea , I ’ m afraid , aren ’ t you ?
If you are not , ether you have your head buried in the sand , or the bravest of all , with a faith that isn ’ t bound by rewritten historical record , propaganda , or math .
I want truth above all , my Constitution and Civil Liberty are the only tools , or weapons I have to fight back .
I ’ m responsible for my life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ family .
I don ’ t want them to be slaves , with every decision they make preordained by an all seeing and manipulative eye .
Liberty .
Liberty from tyranny .
Give me liberty or give me death .
And I know that if they don ’ t fight for it too , they will be covered with that black velvet blanket of voluntary servitude , slavery of the spirit , and their future will not belong to them , just like me .
I ’ m trying , and have been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the push back , but I shiver in fear when I turn around and see that my footprints are being systematically covered up by an AI logarithm that has formulated my next hundred moves , in the twinkle of its eye .
So for a lesson , let ’ s focus on a slightly different paradigm here … a different place and time … Please continue reading , the attached article was originally written about eight years ago , but it ’ s timeless … How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact , it ’ s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice .
Sweden and Norway , for example , both experienced a major power shift in the 1930s after prolonged nonviolent struggle .
They “ fired ” the top 1 percent of people who set the direction for society and created the basis for something different .
Both countries had a history of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was in charge , hundreds of thousands of people emigrated to avoid starvation .
Under the leadership of the working class , however , both countries built robust and successful economies that nearly eliminated poverty , expanded free university education , abolished slums , provided excellent health care available to all as a matter of right and created a system of full employment .
Unlike the Norwegians , the Swedes didn ’ t find oil , but that didn ’ t stop them from building what the latest CIA World Factbook calls “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country is a utopia , as readers of the crime novels by Stieg Larsson , Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbro will know .
Critical left-wing authors such as these try to push Sweden and Norway to continue on the path toward more fully just societies .
However , as an American activist who first encountered Norway as a student in 1959 and learned some of its language and culture , the achievements I found amazed me .
I remember , for example , bicycling for hours through a small industrial city , looking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resisting the evidence of my eyes , I made up stories that “ accounted for ” the differences I saw : “ small country , ” “ homogeneous , ” “ a value consensus.
” I finally gave up imposing my frameworks on these countries and learned the real reason : their own histories .
Then I began to learn that the Swedes and Norwegians paid a price for their standards of living through nonviolent struggle .
There was a time when Scandinavian workers didn ’ t expect that the electoral arena could @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They realized that , with the 1 percent in charge , electoral “ democracy ” was stacked against them , so nonviolent direct action was needed to exert the power for change .
In both countries , the troops were called out to defend the 1 percent ; people died .
Award-winning Swedish filmmaker Bo Widerberg told the Swedish story vividly in Ådalen 31 , which depicts the strikers killed in 1931 and the sparking of a nationwide general strike .
( You can read more about this case in an entry by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Database . )
The Norwegians had a harder time organizing a cohesive people ’ s movement because Norway ’ s small population—about three million—was spread out over a territory the size of Britain .
People were divided by mountains and fjords , and they spoke regional dialects in isolated valleys .
In the nineteenth century , Norway was ruled by Denmark and then by Sweden ; in the context of Europe Norwegians were the “ country rubes , ” of little consequence .
Not until 1905 did Norway finally become independent .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they generally turned to Marxism , organizing for revolution as well as immediate gains .
They were overjoyed by the overthrow of the czar in Russia , and the Norwegian Labor Party joined the Communist International organized by Lenin .
Labor didn ’ t stay long , however .
One way in which most Norwegians parted ways with Leninist strategy was on the role of violence : Norwegians wanted to win their revolution through collective nonviolent struggle , along with establishing co-ops and using the electoral arena .
In the 1920s strikes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hammerfest formed a commune in 1921 , led by workers councils ; the army intervened to crush it .
The workers ’ response verged toward a national general strike .
The employers , backed by the state , beat back that strike , but workers erupted again in the ironworkers ’ strike of 1923–24 .
The Norwegian 1 percent decided not to rely simply on the army ; in 1926 they formed a social movement called the Patriotic League , recruiting mainly from the middle class .
By the 1930s , the League @ @ @ @ @ @ @ armed protection of strike breakers—this in a country of only 3 million !
The Labor Party , in the meantime , opened its membership to anyone , whether or not in a unionized workplace .
Middle-class Marxists and some reformers joined the party .
Many rural farm workers joined the Labor Party , as well as some small landholders .
Labor leadership understood that in a protracted struggle , constant outreach and organizing was needed to a nonviolent campaign .
In the midst of the growing polarization , Norway ’ s workers launched @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1928 .
The Depression hit bottom in 1931 .
More people were jobless there than in any other Nordic country .
Unlike in the U.S. , the Norwegian union movement kept the people thrown out of work as members , even though they couldn ’ t pay dues .
This decision paid off in mass mobilizations .
When the employers ’ federation locked employees out of the factories to try to force a reduction of wages , the workers fought back with massive demonstrations .
Many people then found that their mortgages were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) The Depression continued , and farmers were unable to keep up payment on their debts .
As turbulence hit the rural sector , crowds gathered nonviolently to prevent the eviction of families from their farms .
The Agrarian Party , which included larger farmers and had previously been allied with the Conservative Party , began to distance itself from the 1 percent ; some could see that the ability of the few to rule the many was in doubt .
By 1935 , Norway was on the brink .
The Conservative-led government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ percent became increasingly desperate as militancy grew among workers and farmers .
A complete overthrow might be just a couple years away , radical workers thought .
However , the misery of the poor became more urgent daily , and the Labor Party felt increasing pressure from its members to alleviate their suffering , which it could do only if it took charge of the government in a compromise agreement with the other side .
This it did .
In a compromise that allowed owners to retain the right to own and manage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the reins of government in coalition with the Agrarian Party .
They expanded the economy and started public works projects to head toward a policy of full employment that became the keystone of Norwegian economic policy .
Labor ’ s success and the continued militancy of workers enabled steady inroads against the privileges of the 1 percent , to the point that majority ownership of all large firms was taken by the public interest .
( There is an entry on this case as well at the Global Nonviolent Action Database . )
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ power to dominate the economy and society .
Not until three decades later could the Conservatives return to a governing coalition , having by then accepted the new rules of the game , including a high degree of public ownership of the means of production , extremely progressive taxation , strong business regulation for the public good and the virtual abolition of poverty .
When Conservatives eventually tried a fling with neoliberal policies , the economy generated a bubble and headed for disaster .
( Sound familiar ? )
Labor stepped in , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the top management , left the stockholders without a dime and refused to bail out any of the smaller banks .
The well-purged Norwegian financial sector was not one of those countries that lurched into crisis in 2008 ; carefully regulated and much of it publicly owned , the sector was solid .
Although Norwegians may not tell you about this the first time you meet them , the fact remains that their society ’ s high level of freedom and broadly-shared prosperity began when workers and farmers , along with middle class @ @ @ @ @ @ @ empowered the people to govern for the common good .
From the Author , Ken La Rive – We in the Liberty movement have been fighting to take back this country for less than a decade , peacefully and with the love of God and country in our hearts .
Our banner has been trampled on and displaced by a multitude of distractions , further eroding our nation and the cause for Liberty .
And so , as we are pulled by forces we can not fathom , powerful entities with unlimited resources @ @ @ @ @ @ @ printed out of thin air and put on our backs as debt , we must formulate the most pitiful of all questions any patriot might ask in the final hour : Are we going to fight for our master ’ s tyranny , or are we going to demand the return of our civil liberties and Constitution ?
Are we going to choose The Banner of Liberty , or the shackles of voluntary servitude ?
Will it be a war for corporate profit , or a war to regain our ability to self @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of our forefathers presented to us , their children , as a gift ?
I fear that decision is emanate .
I fear that any decision will be a hard one , but my greatest fear of all is that the decision has already been made for us .

KEN’S CORNER: Breaking the Power of the One Percent
Preface by TLB Contributing Writer: Ken LaRive
Goes to show … Every generation must fight for Liberty, because once lost, the powers will be very reluctant to give it back. Here in America President Trump spent his four years in office virtually fighting for his life. He did not quit… he knows that it took 120 years for the deep state to entrench itself, and that it virtually has the power to destroy not only The United States, but plunge the world into war (look around you today). They even have the ability to manufacture a vast devastation (say…a global pandemic), without firing a shot, and actually profit from it. Yea, I’m afraid, aren’t you? If you are not, ether you have your head buried in the sand, or you are the bravest of all, with a faith that isn’t bound by rewritten historical record, propaganda, or math.
I want truth above all, my Constitution and Civil Liberty are the only tools, or weapons I have to fight back. I’m responsible for my life and the future I hand to my family. I don’t want them to be slaves, with every decision they make preordained by an all seeing and manipulative eye. Liberty. Liberty from tyranny. Give me liberty or give me death.
And I know that if they don’t fight for it too, they will be covered with that black velvet blanket of voluntary servitude, slavery of the spirit, and their future will not belong to them, just like me. I’m trying, and have been for a long time. I see the push back, but I shiver in fear when I turn around and see that my footprints are being systematically covered up by an AI logarithm that has formulated my next hundred moves, in the twinkle of its eye.
So for a lesson, let’s focus on a slightly different paradigm here … a different place and time …
Excerpt from attached article: Although Norwegians may not tell you about this the first time you meet them, the fact remains that their society’s high level of freedom and broadly-shared prosperity began when workers and farmers, along with middle class allies, waged a nonviolent struggle that empowered the people to govern for the common good.
Please continue reading, the attached article was originally written over a decade ago, but the lessons we can glean from it … are timeless.
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How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’
While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice. Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a major power shift in the 1930s after prolonged nonviolent struggle. They “fired” the top 1 percent of people who set the direction for society and created the basis for something different.
Both countries had a history of horrendous poverty. When the 1 percent was in charge, hundreds of thousands of people emigrated to avoid starvation. Under the leadership of the working class, however, both countries built robust and successful economies that nearly eliminated poverty, expanded free university education, abolished slums, provided excellent health care available to all as a matter of right and created a system of full employment. Unlike the Norwegians, the Swedes didn’t find oil, but that didn’t stop them from building what the latest CIA World Factbook calls “an enviable standard of living.”
Neither country is a utopia, as readers of the crime novels by Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jo Nesbro will know. Critical left-wing authors such as these try to push Sweden and Norway to continue on the path toward more fully just societies. However, as an American activist who first encountered Norway as a student in 1959 and learned some of its language and culture, the achievements I found amazed me. I remember, for example, bicycling for hours through a small industrial city, looking in vain for substandard housing. Sometimes resisting the evidence of my eyes, I made up stories that “accounted for” the differences I saw: “small country,” “homogeneous,” “a value consensus.” I finally gave up imposing my frameworks on these countries and learned the real reason: their own histories.
Then I began to learn that the Swedes and Norwegians paid a price for their standards of living through nonviolent struggle. There was a time when Scandinavian workers didn’t expect that the electoral arena could deliver the change they believed in. They realized that, with the 1 percent in charge, electoral “democracy” was stacked against them, so nonviolent direct action was needed to exert the power for change.
In both countries, the troops were called out to defend the 1 percent; people died. Award-winning Swedish filmmaker Bo Widerberg told the Swedish story vividly in Ådalen 31, which depicts the strikers killed in 1931 and the sparking of a nationwide general strike. (You can read more about this case in an entry by Max Rennebohm in the Global Nonviolent Action Database.)
The Norwegians had a harder time organizing a cohesive people’s movement because Norway’s small population—about three million—was spread out over a territory the size of Britain. People were divided by mountains and fjords, and they spoke regional dialects in isolated valleys. In the nineteenth century, Norway was ruled by Denmark and then by Sweden; in the context of Europe Norwegians were the “country rubes,” of little consequence. Not until 1905 did Norway finally become independent.
When workers formed unions in the early 1900s, they generally turned to Marxism, organizing for revolution as well as immediate gains. They were overjoyed by the overthrow of the czar in Russia, and the Norwegian Labor Party joined the Communist International organized by Lenin. Labor didn’t stay long, however. One way in which most Norwegians parted ways with Leninist strategy was on the role of violence: Norwegians wanted to win their revolution through collective nonviolent struggle, along with establishing co-ops and using the electoral arena.
In the 1920s strikes increased in intensity. The town of Hammerfest formed a commune in 1921, led by workers councils; the army intervened to crush it. The workers’ response verged toward a national general strike. The employers, backed by the state, beat back that strike, but workers erupted again in the ironworkers’ strike of 1923–24.
The Norwegian 1 percent decided not to rely simply on the army; in 1926 they formed a social movement called the Patriotic League, recruiting mainly from the middle class. By the 1930s, the League included as many as 100,000 people for armed protection of strike breakers—this in a country of only 3 million!
The Labor Party, in the meantime, opened its membership to anyone, whether or not in a unionized workplace. Middle-class Marxists and some reformers joined the party. Many rural farm workers joined the Labor Party, as well as some small landholders. Labor leadership understood that in a protracted struggle, constant outreach and organizing was needed to a nonviolent campaign. In the midst of the growing polarization, Norway’s workers launched another wave of strikes and boycotts in 1928.
The Depression hit bottom in 1931. More people were jobless there than in any other Nordic country. Unlike in the U.S., the Norwegian union movement kept the people thrown out of work as members, even though they couldn’t pay dues. This decision paid off in mass mobilizations. When the employers’ federation locked employees out of the factories to try to force a reduction of wages, the workers fought back with massive demonstrations.
Many people then found that their mortgages were in jeopardy. (Sound familiar?) The Depression continued, and farmers were unable to keep up payment on their debts. As turbulence hit the rural sector, crowds gathered nonviolently to prevent the eviction of families from their farms. The Agrarian Party, which included larger farmers and had previously been allied with the Conservative Party, began to distance itself from the 1 percent; some could see that the ability of the few to rule the many was in doubt.
By 1935, Norway was on the brink. The Conservative-led government was losing legitimacy daily; the 1 percent became increasingly desperate as militancy grew among workers and farmers. A complete overthrow might be just a couple years away, radical workers thought. However, the misery of the poor became more urgent daily, and the Labor Party felt increasing pressure from its members to alleviate their suffering, which it could do only if it took charge of the government in a compromise agreement with the other side.
This it did. In a compromise that allowed owners to retain the right to own and manage their firms, Labor in 1935 took the reins of government in coalition with the Agrarian Party. They expanded the economy and started public works projects to head toward a policy of full employment that became the keystone of Norwegian economic policy. Labor’s success and the continued militancy of workers enabled steady inroads against the privileges of the 1 percent, to the point that majority ownership of all large firms was taken by the public interest. (There is an entry on this case as well at the Global Nonviolent Action Database.)
The 1 percent thereby lost its historic power to dominate the economy and society. Not until three decades later could the Conservatives return to a governing coalition, having by then accepted the new rules of the game, including a high degree of public ownership of the means of production, extremely progressive taxation, strong business regulation for the public good and the virtual abolition of poverty. When Conservatives eventually tried a fling with neoliberal policies, the economy generated a bubble and headed for disaster. (Sound familiar?)
Labor stepped in, seized the three largest banks, fired the top management, left the stockholders without a dime and refused to bail out any of the smaller banks. The well-purged Norwegian financial sector was not one of those countries that lurched into crisis in 2008; carefully regulated and much of it publicly owned, the sector was solid.
Although Norwegians may not tell you about this the first time you meet them, the fact remains that their society’s high level of freedom and broadly-shared prosperity began when workers and farmers, along with middle class allies, waged a nonviolent struggle that empowered the people to govern for the common good.
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About the attached articles Author: George Lakey is an activist sociologist & author who recently retired as professor at Swarthmore College. His most recent book is, “Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right and How We Can, Too“(Melville House, NY & London). He has led over 1500 social change workshops on five continents and led projects on local, national and international levels. His first time arrested was in the civil rights movement; recently he went to jail in the successful campaign to stop the nation’s seventh largest bank from financing mountaintop removal coal mining.
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From the Author, Ken La Rive – We in the Liberty movement have been fighting to take back this country for less than a decade, peacefully and with the love of God and country in our hearts. Our banner has been trampled on and displaced by a multitude of distractions, further eroding our nation and the cause for Liberty. And so, as we are pulled by forces we cannot fathom, powerful entities with unlimited resources stolen from our future, unaccountable trillions printed out of thin air and put on our backs as debt, we must formulate the most pitiful of all questions any patriot might ask in the final hour: Are we going to fight for our master’s tyranny, or are we going to demand the return of our civil liberties and Constitution? Are we going to choose The Banner of Liberty, or the shackles of voluntary servitude? Will it be a war for corporate profit, or a war to regain our ability to self govern, as the blood and toil of our forefathers presented to us, their children, as a gift? I fear that decision is emanate. I fear that any decision will be a hard one, but my greatest fear of all is that the decision has already been made for us.
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thelibertybeacon--2020-11-16--It’s a Coup … Just Say It !!!

It’s a Coup … Just Say It !!!

It ’ s a Coup .
Just Say It !
Political science types have a word for every happening .
One is the Overton Window .
Like lots of these terms , it is not too scientific , but it well describes things observed every day .
For instance , the idea that an eight-year-old boy decides to be a girl , because he feels like it , and is then medicated with hormone therapy to look as close to a girl as science enables was once a preposterous idea .
Then it was possible , then probable , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ now a girl , and if you use the wrong pronoun , you lose your job !
Meet the Overton Window : that period of time when something seemingly quite impossible becomes mainstream .
This is a game two can play .
Say it : “ This is not just election fraud , it is a coup.
” Say it , and it will start to sink in .
As it does , at least for you , your Overton Window opens up .
The impossibility that the election of the president of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overthrown by preprogrammed , organized election fraud — that a likely landslide was turned into a loss — happened .
You saw it .
That window is about to open up for our nation .
We are all accustomed to seeing tanks around a white palace and palm trees .
Lots of them .
The streets are quiet and the means of communication controlled by the new junta types .
There are corpulent generals with white uniforms and lots of medals .
That seems to be our picture .
This week may be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had a coup .
There , I said it again .
Not so startling after you read it a couple of times .
A modern-day coup , where Big Media , Big Tech , a political party , and likely the intelligence agencies gather to change vote counts , both electronically and physically , has much the same result without the tanks and fat generals in white uniforms .
The first result is that everyone , or about everyone knows it was a coup .
They don ’ t use that word as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Some stay silent in collaboration .
Some do not want to be singled out .
Some protest .
Many benefit .
Most just acquiesce .
Coups sound really cool to the people who instigate them — in this case , those noted above .
They justify it in their end-justifies-the-means minds and move on .
It works in third-world countries because for them , there is no tomorrow .
The armed forces just mandate compliance , and life moves on .
In a sophisticated society like ours , that is a little @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Overwhelming evidence has already come out about institutional voter fraud — for example , here and here .
You will see many more math geeks showing that there was massive voter fraud , and you will not see a single deeply researched math person saying their math is wrong .
That ’ s important .
OK , you met Overton above .
Meet Occam .
Occam ’ s razor is the name given to a critical thought shortcut , which dates back to the Middle Ages , saying that when you are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for which there are many causes , the simplest explanation is likely to be the correct one .
Our pal Occam describes how people come to reason through a problem .
Americans , particularly 71 million of them , see all the complicated stuff about voter fraud yet see that it isn ’ t that complicated at all .
Votes were stolen from Trump by many means .
They read articles like the two above .
Applying critical thought , let ’ s bring in another old , dead white guy , Bayes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had a thing or two to say about how people reason .
Bayes ’ s Theorem measured something like this : if someone knows something with incomplete information , when more information comes in , this happens .
“ This ” is how new info impacts the person ’ s conclusion .
Well , folks , let ’ s just sit down at the poker table with Occam , Overton , and Bayes .
Together they conclude that as more information appears about organized election fraud , people ’ s conclusions are likely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to “ election fraud ” to “ WTF , this was a coup !
” Some of us are already there .
Why is this important ?
As long as we continue to screw around , acting as though we are dealing with voter fraud rather than an organized coup , we are playing their game — the fat generals in Big Media and the coup-instigators .
When we start calling this event what it is , a coup , we impact everyone ’ s Overton Window .
Want to have great fun @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media types go wild when we say “ coup.
” When one is in the middle of a historic event , one does not know it .
Seems like just another day .
In hindsight , wow , I was there !
I saw our country fake the vote and put an early dementia patient in the president-elect column .
The question for us all is how this story ends .
We were there .
We were at the axis of history .
What did we do ?

It’s a Coup. Just Say It!
By: Jay Valentine
Political science types have a word for every happening. One is the Overton Window. Like lots of these terms, it is not too scientific, but it well describes things observed every day.
For instance, the idea that an eight-year-old boy decides to be a girl, because he feels like it, and is then medicated with hormone therapy to look as close to a girl as science enables was once a preposterous idea. Then it was possible, then probable, and now, voilà! A boy is now a girl, and if you use the wrong pronoun, you lose your job!
Meet the Overton Window: that period of time when something seemingly quite impossible becomes mainstream.
This is a game two can play.
Coup.
Say it: “This is not just election fraud, it is a coup.”
Say it, and it will start to sink in. As it does, at least for you, your Overton Window opens up. The impossibility that the election of the president of the United States of America can be overthrown by preprogrammed, organized election fraud — that a likely landslide was turned into a loss — happened. You saw it.
That window is about to open up for our nation.
What’s a coup feel like?
We are all accustomed to seeing tanks around a white palace and palm trees. Lots of them. The streets are quiet and the means of communication controlled by the new junta types. There are corpulent generals with white uniforms and lots of medals. That seems to be our picture.
This week may be the first time a sophisticated modern society had a coup. There, I said it again. Not so startling after you read it a couple of times.
A modern-day coup, where Big Media, Big Tech, a political party, and likely the intelligence agencies gather to change vote counts, both electronically and physically, has much the same result without the tanks and fat generals in white uniforms. The first result is that everyone, or about everyone knows it was a coup. They don’t use that word as it does have an edge to it.
Some stay silent in collaboration. Some do not want to be singled out. Some protest. Many benefit. Most just acquiesce.
We’ll see.
Coups sound really cool to the people who instigate them — in this case, those noted above. They justify it in their end-justifies-the-means minds and move on.
It works in third-world countries because for them, there is no tomorrow. The armed forces just mandate compliance, and life moves on.
In a sophisticated society like ours, that is a little stickier. Let’s go there.
Overwhelming evidence has already come out about institutional voter fraud — for example, here and here.
You will see many more math geeks showing that there was massive voter fraud, and you will not see a single deeply researched math person saying their math is wrong. That’s important.
OK, you met Overton above. Meet Occam.
Occam’s razor is the name given to a critical thought shortcut, which dates back to the Middle Ages, saying that when you are looking at a really complicated problem, for which there are many causes, the simplest explanation is likely to be the correct one.
Our pal Occam describes how people come to reason through a problem. Americans, particularly 71 million of them, see all the complicated stuff about voter fraud yet see that it isn’t that complicated at all. Votes were stolen from Trump by many means. They read articles like the two above.
Applying critical thought, let’s bring in another old, dead white guy, Bayes. Bayes was an 18th-century reverend who had a thing or two to say about how people reason. Bayes’s Theorem measured something like this: if someone knows something with incomplete information, when more information comes in, this happens. “This” is how new info impacts the person’s conclusion.
Well, folks, let’s just sit down at the poker table with Occam, Overton, and Bayes. Together they conclude that as more information appears about organized election fraud, people’s conclusions are likely to move from “election anecdotes” to “election fraud” to “WTF, this was a coup!”
Some of us are already there.
Why is this important?
As long as we continue to screw around, acting as though we are dealing with voter fraud rather than an organized coup, we are playing their game — the fat generals in Big Media and the coup-instigators. When we start calling this event what it is, a coup, we impact everyone’s Overton Window.
Want to have great fun? Just watch the Chris Wallace and media types go wild when we say “coup.”
When one is in the middle of a historic event, one does not know it. Seems like just another day. In hindsight, wow, I was there! I saw our country fake the vote and put an early dementia patient in the president-elect column.
The question for us all is how this story ends. We were there. We were at the axis of history.
What did we do?
It’s a coup.
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Why Do Most People Believe Propaganda and False Flag Attacks ?
In his 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World Carl Sagan lamented as follows : I have a foreboding of [ a ] time when… awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few , and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues ; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority ; when , clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes , our critical faculties in decline , unable to distinguish between what @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we slide , almost without noticing , back into superstition and darkness .
The dumbing down… is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media… but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance… .
The plain lesson is that study and learning – not just of science , but of anything – are avoidable , even undesirable .
We ’ ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements… profoundly depend on science and technology .
We have also arranged things so that almost no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a prescription for disaster .
We might get away with it for a while , but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces .
See The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark .
While it is 25 years since these words of Sagan ’ s were published a year before his death , one can only lament the ongoing decline of what might simply be labeled the capacity for critical thinking , whether in relation to society @ @ @ @ @ @ @ technology that so concerned Sagan .
At a time in human history when so much is at stake , why is it so difficult to engage most people in anything resembling a thoughtful investigation , consideration and analysis of what is taking place ?
Why is it that more people do not question what they are told , what they read and what they are shown ?
In short , why is it that most people do not seek out the evidence for themselves rather than simply believing what is presented to them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to this question might seem simple .
People are daily bombarded with ‘ information ’ , in various guises , and a lifetime of submissively accepting what they are told leaves few with any inclination , or energy , to question anything .
But let me offer a fuller explanation given the critical importance of this issue if we are to mobilize an effective response to the challenges confronting humanity .
So first : What is propaganda ?
A false flag attack ?
Why do most people simply believe what they are told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
And why are those who challenge the elite-driven narrative often labeled ‘ conspiracy theorists ’ or , depending on the issue , some other pejorative such as ‘ peddling debunked science ’ , ‘ anti-vaxxer ’ or ‘ anti-semitic ’ for example ?
Propaganda is the deliberate and systematic effort , using a variety of means , to manipulate people into believing and behaving in accordance with something that is not true .
For one comprehensive explanation of how this is done , see Trust Us , We ’ re Experts !
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Your Future , a book which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. observes ‘ shows how giant corporations employ sophisticated psychiatric techniques , unscrupulous public figures , junk science , tainted studies and clever PR mercenaries in a relentless effort to market products that routinely kill , maim , deform and poison consumers and our environment ’ .
See ‘ Trust Us , We ’ re Experts !
: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future ’ .
While some people argue that propaganda can be used for good , the fact is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appeal to people anyway , even if it is unpleasant .
This is because the truth is the only powerful place from which to start to address any circumstance , including unpleasant and difficult ones .
Propaganda is delivered by a variety of means .
Aside from that issued , in various ways , by governments and corporations , propaganda is delivered by education systems as ‘ knowledge ’ , by the corporate media as ‘ news ’ and by the entertainment industry as films , television programs , video games , music @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But all propaganda is designed to instill and reinforce a limited set of fears , approved beliefs and endorsed behaviours so that the ‘ individual ’ responds submissively within the carefully managed system of elite political , social and economic control .
For example , education is designed to teach the individual a limited range of technical functions intended to help create , maintain but essentially serve the emerging technocratic tyranny ( as it supersedes the existing version of industrial capitalism ) , make the individual a passive consumer and politically submissive , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of seeking out relevant evidence for themselves , critiquing society and responding powerfully does not develop .
See ‘ Do We Want School or Education ?
’ A false flag attack occurs when a government carries out a terror attack against its own population and then falsely blames an enemy to justify a political course of action , such as going to war against the country or countries it blames .
While , again , those who question false flag attacks are often denounced by elite propagandists as ‘ conspiracy theorists ’ , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attacks that have later been admitted is quite long .
For one list , see ‘ 53 Admitted False Flag Attacks ’ .
Of course , plenty of false flag attacks have not been admitted , even when the evidence is overwhelming , as in the case of 9/11 for example .
So Why Do Most People Believe Propaganda ?
In an early book on propaganda written in 1928 by Sigmund Freud ’ s nephew , Edward Bernays , he opened with this paragraph : As Bernays makes clear from the outset , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to do the bidding of others : clearly , a debased and cynical view of the human individual on which many of humanity ’ s less morally committed characters have capitalized since Bernays wrote the book .
For example , Joseph Goebbels , Nazi Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945 and an avid reader of Bernays ’ work , observed that ‘ Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
’ But to understand why the approach of Bernays and his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we need to consider why it is that most people are so gullible in the first place .
Why don ’ t more people ask deeper questions about what is taking place rather than simply accepting , without serious question , whatever is presented to them ( whether by parents , teachers , religious figures , doctors , propagandists , marketing agents , governments or the corporate media ) ?
The fundamental problem is simply this : parents , teachers , religious figures and other significant adults in the child ’ s life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the child not only behaves as directed by the adult but also that the child believes what the adult believes .
This latter point is easily overlooked but is actually the key issue .
Why ?
Because a child who does not believe what the adult believes might think and behave in a way that scares the adult .
And demanding obedience is essentially about eliminating beliefs ( and their consequent behaviours ) that would frighten the parent , teacher or other adult .
Parents require obedience virtually from the moment of birth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to stop them crying – see ‘ Comforting a Baby is Violent ’ – to punishing them for acting contrary to parental will once they start moving independently .
Of course , once the child starts to think or believe differently , especially if this ‘ difference ’ is too far from a belief of the child ’ s parents , teachers or religious leaders ( or a widely-accepted belief within their society ) , the child is quickly pulled back into line with some combination of inducements and/or violence .
See ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Despite legal conventions meaninglessly affirming versions of it – such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 18 declaring ‘ Everyone has the right to freedom of thought… ’ – the freedom to think for oneself is not a human right in any meaningful sense of the term and , even if it were , it would really only mean the freedom to think for oneself within certain clearly defined and narrow parameters .
And only if you are an adult .
This is why , for example , a child who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not emerge .
Such a possibility would be frightening to virtually every parent , so no child is given that option , let alone allowed the opportunity to come up with , consider and act on that option for themself .
Why ?
Because attendance at school , wherever it exists , is legally compulsory ( meaning punishment will be inflicted for failure to comply ) , and only the rarest parent has the vaguest concept of freedom themselves , let alone the courage to defend their child ’ s freedom , including @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the bulk of their time for the 8-13 years of ‘ school age ’ .
Consequently , the freedom to think for oneself and act accordingly is strangled at a very young age and certainly by the time a child is compelled to attend a prison for children , also known as ‘ school ’ .
As a result the child ’ s concept of freedom , should they ever come across the notion , can only be a parody of the real thing .
And the adult who emerges from this childhood @ @ @ @ @ @ @ might mean for the obvious reason that to be meaningfully understood , freedom must be experienced .
Of course , is it not just parental authority and school that denies any child the experience of liberty .
As Jean-Jacques Rousseau noted in his treatise The Social Contract in 1762 , ‘ Man is born free ; and everywhere he is in chains ’ .
Every institution in society is designed to circumscribe freedom , one way or another .
It is just that a childhood spent living under the control of their parents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all children devoid of the experience of freedom and so any subsequent limits are not even noticed .
In fact , they are expected and ‘ taken for granted ’ .
So with parents , teachers and religious figures endlessly inflicting ‘ visible ’ , ‘ invisible ’ and ‘ utterly invisible ’ violence on the child in the name of ‘ socialization ’ ( which includes requiring obedience under threat of violence for non-compliance ) , the child progressively and rapidly loses several innate capacities , notably including a sense of their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and feel for themselves , as well as conscience .
See ‘ Why Violence ?
’ and ‘ Fearless Psychology and Fearful Psychology : Principles and Practice ’ .
Anything that is too far from the dominant narrative simply becomes ‘ unthinkable ’ because the child ’ s innate capacity to perceive the truth is suppressed along with other mental capacities .
But soon it is not just parents , teachers and religious leaders that are the accepted ‘ authority figures ’ in the child ’ s life .
No longer able to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ teachers and religious figures because they have been terrorized out of doing so , the child has also unconsciously ‘ learned ’ that virtually any information with which they are presented must be true , even when the source is simply a government or corporate media outlet presenting elite propaganda .
For the vast bulk of adult humans , the idea of questioning a dominant narrative does not even occur to them and it is certainly not something they can do with any intelligence , persistent research effort or courage .
So just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels , was able to direct most Germans prior to and into World War II , it is quite straightforward for the global elite to be able to direct the bulk of the human population to believe , for example , that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the ‘ lone gunman ’ Lee Harvey Oswald , that the ‘ Gulf of Tonkin incident ’ justified the United States war on Vietnam , that a ‘ virus ’ labeled HIV caused a ‘ disease ’ labeled AIDS , that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the World Trade Center were destroyed by two aircraft flown by novice pilots into the top stories of the Twin Towers and justified the subsequently launched US ‘ War on Terror ’ , that a ‘ virus ’ labeled SARS-Cov-2 exists and causes a ‘ disease ’ labeled Covid-19 that has justified the destruction of everything from a range of human rights to the global economy while accelerating four distinct paths to human extinction , that we live in a democracy in which each adult has a say in how they are governed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being made to bring a greater degree of shared prosperity to the people of the world .
For just a taste of the extensive evidence to debunk each of these propaganda-driven delusions , see these respective analyses of what the evidence actually demonstrates : • On the Trail of the Assassins : One Man ’ s Quest to Solve the Murder of President Kennedy , • The Pentagon Papers , AIDS Inc. : Scandal of the Century , Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth , • ‘ Unmasking the Lies Around COVID-19 : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ , • ‘ The Elite ’ s COVID-19 Coup to Destroy Humanity that is also Fast-Tracking Four Paths to Human Extinction ’ , • ‘ America After the Election : A Few Hard Truths About the Things That Won ’ t Change ’ In essence : my point is that is it is not the power of the propaganda , increasingly sophisticated though it has become , that makes people believe it , but a ‘ socialization ’ model designed to produce submissively obedient ‘ individuals ’ who gullibly interpret what is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ experience ’ , in terms of the information or scenario ( that is , propaganda ) with which they are presented .
And because of the deeply-seated and unconscious fear of holding a divergent view , most people simply believe the widely-promulgated propaganda narrative with which they become familiar and , hence , comfortable .
Moreover , those who challenge the elite-driven narrative frighten them , particularly when elite agents in government and the corporate media label them ‘ conspiracy theorists ’ .
For one explanation of why the term ‘ conspiracy theorist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ elite orthodoxy , see ‘ In defence of conspiracy theories ( and why the term is a misnomer ) ’ .
And so this combination of dysfunctional parenting , education and religious exposure leaves the child devoid of their intuitive ‘ truth register ’ as well as the other mental faculties that would make them question explanations that obviously lack credibility while investigating and analyzing the evidence for themself .
In fact , the idea of doing so never even occurs to them .
Hence , a terrorized , gullible and easily manipulated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the elite intends , galvanizing an effective response by such people to the truth hidden behind the propaganda is very difficult .
There is no point hoping that the global elite will discontinue their use of propaganda to shape the course of human events .
This is largely because the global elite is insane .
See ‘ The Global Elite is Insane Revisited ’ .
Moreover , attempts to curb the use of propaganda must inevitably run into the institutions and organizations that the elite controls .
And while we can strategically resist @ @ @ @ @ @ @ powerful defence we have against elite propaganda is the human mind that can perceive and critique it .
Hence , as a priority , I would profoundly alter our parenting model to achieve this outcome .
See ‘ My Promise to Children ’ .
If you are uncertain of your own capacity to critique propaganda , you can expand your capacity to do so by feeling the fear ( to release it ) that limits your mental faculties .
See ‘ Putting Feelings First ’ .
If you are interested in planning or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ peace , environmental or social justice outcome ( particularly in relation to those issues that threaten human extinction ) , or to resist the elite coup currently taking place under cover of Covid-19 , you can read sets of strategic goals for doing so in Campaign Strategic Aims or Coup Strategic Aims .
Moreover , if you wish to tackle the environmental threats to human existence while also strengthening your self-reliant capacity to resist the latest elite onslaught to take ( much ) greater control of your life , consider participating in ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Earth ’ .
The greater your dependence on elite systems and processes of any kind , the less power you will have to resist as the noose tightens .
If you are interested in participating in the worldwide effort to resist elite and other violence , you are also welcome to sign the online pledge of ‘ The People ’ s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World ’ .
More simply , if you would like , you might consider committing to The Earth Pledge , documented here .
The world is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and requires enormous effort .
Propaganda is designed to give people information that is easy to understand ( and sometimes frightening ) while distracting them from the truth and offering a simple ‘ choice ’ ( or command ) designed to mobilize action in support of an elite-driven narrative .
For example , by telling people they are threatened by a virus , most will be scared into focusing their attention on the ‘ virus ’ .
They will pay no attention to the many more complex and dangerous things that are taking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ : a technocratic/transhumanist coup that is utterly transforming the very essence of human society , economy and even the human individual .
See ‘ Beware the Transhumanists : How “ Being Human ” is being Re-engineered by the Elite ’ s Covid-19 Coup ’ and ‘ Klaus Schwab and His Great Fascist Reset ’ .
Only a tiny proportion of the human population has even the vaguest idea of how the world actually works .
But not even a tiny proportion of these people recognize that terrorizing children into obedience is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the way that it does .
Unless we can mobilize greater recognition of our responsibility for giving the global elite the control over us that it has , and tackle this problem at its core – by fundamentally revising existing parenting and education models so that we produce powerful individuals – it will continue to be enormously difficult to mobilize sufficient strategic response to the challenges that confront humanity .
And while we are now fast-tracking four distinct paths to human extinction , there is an urgency about our predicament that accelerates @ @

Why Do Most People Believe Propaganda and False Flag Attacks?
By TLB Contributor, Robert J. Burrowes
In his 1995 book The Demon-Haunted World Carl Sagan lamented as follows:
I have a foreboding of [a] time when… awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down… is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media… but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance…. The plain lesson is that study and learning – not just of science, but of anything – are avoidable, even undesirable. We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements… profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. See The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.
While it is 25 years since these words of Sagan’s were published a year before his death, one can only lament the ongoing decline of what might simply be labeled the capacity for critical thinking, whether in relation to society and politics, or the science and technology that so concerned Sagan.
At a time in human history when so much is at stake, why is it so difficult to engage most people in anything resembling a thoughtful investigation, consideration and analysis of what is taking place? Why is it that more people do not question what they are told, what they read and what they are shown? In short, why is it that most people do not seek out the evidence for themselves rather than simply believing what is presented to them?
In one sense, the answer to this question might seem simple. People are daily bombarded with ‘information’, in various guises, and a lifetime of submissively accepting what they are told leaves few with any inclination, or energy, to question anything. But let me offer a fuller explanation given the critical importance of this issue if we are to mobilize an effective response to the challenges confronting humanity.
So first: What is propaganda? A false flag attack? Why do most people simply believe what they are told without investigating, carefully, for themselves? And why are those who challenge the elite-driven narrative often labeled ‘conspiracy theorists’ or, depending on the issue, some other pejorative such as ‘peddling debunked science’, ‘anti-vaxxer’ or ‘anti-semitic’ for example?
What is Propaganda?
Propaganda is the deliberate and systematic effort, using a variety of means, to manipulate people into believing and behaving in accordance with something that is not true. For one comprehensive explanation of how this is done, see Trust Us, We’re Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future, a book which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. observes ‘shows how giant corporations employ sophisticated psychiatric techniques, unscrupulous public figures, junk science, tainted studies and clever PR mercenaries in a relentless effort to market products that routinely kill, maim, deform and poison consumers and our environment’. See ‘Trust Us, We’re Experts!: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future’.
While some people argue that propaganda can be used for good, the fact is that something that is simply true should appeal to people anyway, even if it is unpleasant. This is because the truth is the only powerful place from which to start to address any circumstance, including unpleasant and difficult ones.
Propaganda is delivered by a variety of means. Aside from that issued, in various ways, by governments and corporations, propaganda is delivered by education systems as ‘knowledge’, by the corporate media as ‘news’ and by the entertainment industry as films, television programs, video games, music, literature and in other forms. But all propaganda is designed to instill and reinforce a limited set of fears, approved beliefs and endorsed behaviours so that the ‘individual’ responds submissively within the carefully managed system of elite political, social and economic control.
For example, education is designed to teach the individual a limited range of technical functions intended to help create, maintain but essentially serve the emerging technocratic tyranny (as it supersedes the existing version of industrial capitalism), make the individual a passive consumer and politically submissive, while ensuring that an intelligent mind capable of seeking out relevant evidence for themselves, critiquing society and responding powerfully does not develop. See ‘Do We Want School or Education?’
What is a False Flag Attack?
A false flag attack occurs when a government carries out a terror attack against its own population and then falsely blames an enemy to justify a political course of action, such as going to war against the country or countries it blames. While, again, those who question false flag attacks are often denounced by elite propagandists as ‘conspiracy theorists’, in fact the documentation of false flag attacks that have later been admitted is quite long. For one list, see ‘53 Admitted False Flag Attacks’. Of course, plenty of false flag attacks have not been admitted, even when the evidence is overwhelming, as in the case of 9/11 for example.
So Why Do Most People Believe Propaganda?
In an early book on propaganda written in 1928 by Sigmund Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays, he opened with this paragraph:
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. See Propaganda.
As Bernays makes clear from the outset, his preoccupation is the manipulation of people to do the bidding of others: clearly, a debased and cynical view of the human individual on which many of humanity’s less morally committed characters have capitalized since Bernays wrote the book.
For example, Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945 and an avid reader of Bernays’ work, observed that ‘Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.’
But to understand why the approach of Bernays and his disciples such as Goebbels even works, we need to consider why it is that most people are so gullible in the first place. Why don’t more people ask deeper questions about what is taking place rather than simply accepting, without serious question, whatever is presented to them (whether by parents, teachers, religious figures, doctors, propagandists, marketing agents, governments or the corporate media)?
The fundamental problem is simply this: parents, teachers, religious figures and other significant adults in the child’s life require obedience. And obedience means that the child not only behaves as directed by the adult but also that the child believes what the adult believes. This latter point is easily overlooked but is actually the key issue. Why? Because a child who does not believe what the adult believes might think and behave in a way that scares the adult. And demanding obedience is essentially about eliminating beliefs (and their consequent behaviours) that would frighten the parent, teacher or other adult.
Parents require obedience virtually from the moment of birth, doing everything from comforting a child to stop them crying – see ‘Comforting a Baby is Violent’ – to punishing them for acting contrary to parental will once they start moving independently. Of course, once the child starts to think or believe differently, especially if this ‘difference’ is too far from a belief of the child’s parents, teachers or religious leaders (or a widely-accepted belief within their society), the child is quickly pulled back into line with some combination of inducements and/or violence. See ‘Punishment is Violent and Counterproductive’.
Despite legal conventions meaninglessly affirming versions of it – such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 18 declaring ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of thought…’ – the freedom to think for oneself is not a human right in any meaningful sense of the term and, even if it were, it would really only mean the freedom to think for oneself within certain clearly defined and narrow parameters. And only if you are an adult.
This is why, for example, a child who decides not to go to school does not emerge. Such a possibility would be frightening to virtually every parent, so no child is given that option, let alone allowed the opportunity to come up with, consider and act on that option for themself. Why? Because attendance at school, wherever it exists, is legally compulsory (meaning punishment will be inflicted for failure to comply), and only the rarest parent has the vaguest concept of freedom themselves, let alone the courage to defend their child’s freedom, including the freedom to choose how they spend the bulk of their time for the 8-13 years of ‘school age’.
Consequently, the freedom to think for oneself and act accordingly is strangled at a very young age and certainly by the time a child is compelled to attend a prison for children, also known as ‘school’. As a result the child’s concept of freedom, should they ever come across the notion, can only be a parody of the real thing. And the adult who emerges from this childhood is simply incapable of comprehending what freedom might mean for the obvious reason that to be meaningfully understood, freedom must be experienced.
Of course, is it not just parental authority and school that denies any child the experience of liberty. As Jean-Jacques Rousseau noted in his treatise The Social Contract in 1762, ‘Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains’. Every institution in society is designed to circumscribe freedom, one way or another. It is just that a childhood spent living under the control of their parents and then teachers and religious figures leaves all children devoid of the experience of freedom and so any subsequent limits are not even noticed. In fact, they are expected and ‘taken for granted’.
So with parents, teachers and religious figures endlessly inflicting ‘visible’, ‘invisible’ and ‘utterly invisible’ violence on the child in the name of ‘socialization’ (which includes requiring obedience under threat of violence for non-compliance), the child progressively and rapidly loses several innate capacities, notably including a sense of their own Self-will, the capacities to think and feel for themselves, as well as conscience. See ‘Why Violence?’ and ‘Fearless Psychology and Fearful Psychology: Principles and Practice’. Anything that is too far from the dominant narrative simply becomes ‘unthinkable’ because the child’s innate capacity to perceive the truth is suppressed along with other mental capacities.
But soon it is not just parents, teachers and religious leaders that are the accepted ‘authority figures’ in the child’s life. No longer able to seriously question the imperatives of parents, teachers and religious figures because they have been terrorized out of doing so, the child has also unconsciously ‘learned’ that virtually any information with which they are presented must be true, even when the source is simply a government or corporate media outlet presenting elite propaganda. For the vast bulk of adult humans, the idea of questioning a dominant narrative does not even occur to them and it is certainly not something they can do with any intelligence, persistent research effort or courage.
So just as Hitler, ably supported by his Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, was able to direct most Germans prior to and into World War II, it is quite straightforward for the global elite to be able to direct the bulk of the human population to believe, for example, that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the ‘lone gunman’ Lee Harvey Oswald, that the ‘Gulf of Tonkin incident’ justified the United States war on Vietnam, that a ‘virus’ labeled HIV caused a ‘disease’ labeled AIDS, that the three buildings 1,2 and 7 of the World Trade Center were destroyed by two aircraft flown by novice pilots into the top stories of the Twin Towers and justified the subsequently launched US ‘War on Terror’, that a ‘virus’ labeled SARS-Cov-2 exists and causes a ‘disease’ labeled Covid-19 that has justified the destruction of everything from a range of human rights to the global economy while accelerating four distinct paths to human extinction, that we live in a democracy in which each adult has a say in how they are governed, or even that ongoing effort is being made to bring a greater degree of shared prosperity to the people of the world.
For just a taste of the extensive evidence to debunk each of these propaganda-driven delusions, see these respective analyses of what the evidence actually demonstrates:
In essence: my point is that is it is not the power of the propaganda, increasingly sophisticated though it has become, that makes people believe it, but a ‘socialization’ model designed to produce submissively obedient ‘individuals’ who gullibly interpret what is happening, and even their own ‘experience’, in terms of the information or scenario (that is, propaganda) with which they are presented. And because of the deeply-seated and unconscious fear of holding a divergent view, most people simply believe the widely-promulgated propaganda narrative with which they become familiar and, hence, comfortable. Moreover, those who challenge the elite-driven narrative frighten them, particularly when elite agents in government and the corporate media label them ‘conspiracy theorists’. For one explanation of why the term ‘conspiracy theorist’ emerged to denigrate those who challenge elite orthodoxy, see ‘In defence of conspiracy theories (and why the term is a misnomer)’.
And so this combination of dysfunctional parenting, education and religious exposure leaves the child devoid of their intuitive ‘truth register’ as well as the other mental faculties that would make them question explanations that obviously lack credibility while investigating and analyzing the evidence for themself. In fact, the idea of doing so never even occurs to them. Hence, a terrorized, gullible and easily manipulated individual enters adulthood. And, as the elite intends, galvanizing an effective response by such people to the truth hidden behind the propaganda is very difficult.
Resisting Propaganda
There is no point hoping that the global elite will discontinue their use of propaganda to shape the course of human events. This is largely because the global elite is insane. See ‘The Global Elite is Insane Revisited’. Moreover, attempts to curb the use of propaganda must inevitably run into the institutions and organizations that the elite controls. And while we can strategically resist these if we choose, the most powerful defence we have against elite propaganda is the human mind that can perceive and critique it. Hence, as a priority, I would profoundly alter our parenting model to achieve this outcome. See ‘My Promise to Children’.
If you are uncertain of your own capacity to critique propaganda, you can expand your capacity to do so by feeling the fear (to release it) that limits your mental faculties. See ‘Putting Feelings First’.
If you are interested in planning or participating in a strategy to achieve a peace, environmental or social justice outcome (particularly in relation to those issues that threaten human extinction), or to resist the elite coup currently taking place under cover of Covid-19, you can read sets of strategic goals for doing so in Campaign Strategic Aims or Coup Strategic Aims.
Moreover, if you wish to tackle the environmental threats to human existence while also strengthening your self-reliant capacity to resist the latest elite onslaught to take (much) greater control of your life, consider participating in ‘The Flame Tree Project to Save Life on Earth’. The greater your dependence on elite systems and processes of any kind, the less power you will have to resist as the noose tightens.
If you are interested in participating in the worldwide effort to resist elite and other violence, you are also welcome to sign the online pledge of ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’.
More simply, if you would like, you might consider committing to The Earth Pledge, documented here.
Conclusion
The world is complex: it is difficult to understand and requires enormous effort.
Propaganda is designed to give people information that is easy to understand (and sometimes frightening) while distracting them from the truth and offering a simple ‘choice’ (or command) designed to mobilize action in support of an elite-driven narrative.
For example, by telling people they are threatened by a virus, most will be scared into focusing their attention on the ‘virus’. They will pay no attention to the many more complex and dangerous things that are taking place under cover of the ‘virus’: a technocratic/transhumanist coup that is utterly transforming the very essence of human society, economy and even the human individual. See ‘Beware the Transhumanists: How “Being Human” is being Re-engineered by the Elite’s Covid-19 Coup’ and ‘Klaus Schwab and His Great Fascist Reset’.
Only a tiny proportion of the human population has even the vaguest idea of how the world actually works. But not even a tiny proportion of these people recognize that terrorizing children into obedience is the fundamental explanation of why the world works in the way that it does.
Unless we can mobilize greater recognition of our responsibility for giving the global elite the control over us that it has, and tackle this problem at its core – by fundamentally revising existing parenting and education models so that we produce powerful individuals – it will continue to be enormously difficult to mobilize sufficient strategic response to the challenges that confront humanity.
And while we are now fast-tracking four distinct paths to human extinction, there is an urgency about our predicament that accelerates daily.
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About the articles Author: Robert J. Burrowes has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of ‘Why Violence?’ His email address is [email protected] and his website is here. More articles by Robert Contact information: Robert J. Burrowes – P.O. Box 68 Daylesford Victoria 3460 – Australia – Email: [email protected]
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