wakingtimes--2020-06-06--Peak Internet — The Censorship Bubble Is About to Burst

Peak Internet — The Censorship Bubble Is About to Burst Over the past year , I ’ ve written extensively about the initially creeping — and then sweeping — censorship occurring online .
Initially , the censorship vortex was on vaccines .
Social media platforms and Google all started suppressing and then outright banning content raising questions about vaccine safety .
I warned everyone that this would eventually spread to other topics that might threaten a corporate bottom line .
The only surprise was how quickly that happened .
Within months , Google started shadow banning and hiding holistic health @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its search results .
In August 2019 , I made the decision to leave Facebook due to its clear censoring of valid and truthful information .
One year from the time social media platforms began censoring vaccine information , they all started banning views on COVID-19 treatments that differ from that of the World Health Organization .
The Dangerous Suppression of Freedom of Speech YouTube ’ s CEO even went on the record stating they will block any video that goes against WHO guidance on the COVID-19 pandemic .
Shockingly , this includes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emergency care specialists and researchers who share their clinical experiences , recommendations and scientific findings .
Just one of countless examples was a May 17 , 2020 , Full Measure News report in which Sharyl Attkisson interviewed doctors reporting good results with hydroxychloroquine .
The segment also looked at the potential financial motives driving the mass media ’ s disdain for the drug , while promoting remdesivir and as-of-yet-unavailable vaccines .
Just the News , which reported the takedown of Full Measure ’ s video , writes : May 20 , 2020 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has signed an exclusivity contract with Spotify for his Joe Rogan Experience Podcast .
You can find the video here .
Rogan had reportedly asked Jones to make the announcement .
According to Rogan , the move is his way to strike back against YouTube censorship .
Granted , the $ 100 million paycheck from Spotify probably didn ’ t make it a particularly difficult decision .
It also turned out to be a stroke of genius for Spotify , the stock of which jumped 8.4 % , or more than $ 5 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ move on Twitter .
Jones was one of the first controversial figures to be banned from YouTube , which appears to be the reason he gave Jones the scoop .
The straw that broke the camel ’ s back , Rogan says , was YouTube ’ s decision to block differing opinions on COVID-19 , as he wanted to interview a variety of doctors and experts about it .
But even before the pandemic , Rogan had bristled against YouTube ’ s decision to demonetize or remove certain interviews .
Rogan told Jones @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ un-American ” and “ anti-human.
” Jones wonders if Rogan ’ s move is symbolic of “ peak internet.
” Possibly , it ’ s a sign that the censorship bubble is about to burst .
With 8.52 million subscribers as of May 27 , 2020 , Rogan is currently one of YouTube ’ s biggest channels .
His departure is predicted by many to be a serious blow to YouTube ’ s bottom line .
As noted by Bari Weiss in a New York Times op-ed , Rogan ’ s move @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and Rogan — and others like him — are “ the news ” now .
Spotify Censors Two of My Coronavirus Interviews Whether Spotify will in fact live up to the expectation of non-bias remains to be seen .
I for one have my doubts , as two of my coronavirus interviews have summarily been deleted off Spotify without recourse .
Spotify claims it only prohibits illegal content , hate content and infringing content .
My interviews about coronavirus with Brian Hoyer and Judy Mikovits , Ph.D. , clearly do not fall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Spotify removed them .
So , so much for being a platform for uncensored expression .
What ’ s worse , there is no way to dispute Spotify ’ s removal of these shows .
Like Rogan , I have taken my stand .
I put up a firewall to prevent Google from indexing my pages , and I will never conform to “ consensus reality ” just to get my Google ranking back .
I ’ ve also removed Facebook scripts .
It ’ s unfortunate , but the way it stands @ @ @ @ @ @ @ old-school and share information we find valuable through word-of-mouth , by text , email and private message .
As for content on this site , we have built in simple sharing tools at the top of each article so you can easily email or text interesting articles to your friends and family .
My information is here because all of you support and share it , and we can do this without Big Tech ’ s support .
In times like these , sharing information that is not readily available to all is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wherever and whenever possible , we must all fight against the oppression of censorship .
Democracy hangs in the balance .
Everyone must realize that without freedom of speech and opposing viewpoints , there can be no democracy .
Instead , what you have is a totalitarian regime .
As it stands , that regime is not even made up of elected officials but unelected individuals representing for-profit multinational corporations .
It ’ s time to break free .
To do that , consider these suggestions :

Peak Internet — The Censorship Bubble Is About to Burst
Dr. Mercola, Guest
Waking Times
Over the past year, I’ve written extensively about the initially creeping — and then sweeping — censorship occurring online. Initially, the censorship vortex was on vaccines. Social media platforms and Google all started suppressing and then outright banning content raising questions about vaccine safety.
I warned everyone that this would eventually spread to other topics that might threaten a corporate bottom line. The only surprise was how quickly that happened. Within months, Google started shadow banning and hiding holistic health sites, including this one, in its search results.
In August 2019, I made the decision to leave Facebook due to its clear censoring of valid and truthful information. One year from the time social media platforms began censoring vaccine information, they all started banning views on COVID-19 treatments that differ from that of the World Health Organization.
The Dangerous Suppression of Freedom of Speech
YouTube’s CEO even went on the record stating they will block any video that goes against WHO guidance on the COVID-19 pandemic. Shockingly, this includes videos and articles by medical doctors, emergency care specialists and researchers who share their clinical experiences, recommendations and scientific findings.
Just one of countless examples was a May 17, 2020, Full Measure News report in which Sharyl Attkisson interviewed doctors reporting good results with hydroxychloroquine. The segment also looked at the potential financial motives driving the mass media’s disdain for the drug, while promoting remdesivir and as-of-yet-unavailable vaccines.
Just the News, which reported the takedown of Full Measure’s video, writes:
“Dr. Jane Orient, the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons as well as a clinical lecturer at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, urged viewers to ‘look at the money’ when it comes to the two drugs.
‘There’s no big profits made in hydroxychloroquine,’ said Orient. ‘It’s very cheap, easy to manufacture, been around for 70 years. It’s generic.
Remdesivir is a new drug that could be very expensive and very lucrative if it’s ever approved. So I think we really do have to consider there’s some financial interest involved here’ …
‘These are organized efforts,’ [Attkisson] said, arguing that politically biased parties are behind efforts to remove or censor contrarian information on social media …
She noted recent efforts by Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, to pressure social media companies to censor and downgrade ‘harmful’ coronavirus-related material and push users instead toward information from the World Health Organization. ‘I don’t know why we’re allowing this,’ Attkisson said. ‘Nobody appointed Adam Schiff to police our content on social media.'”
Joe Rogan Ditches YouTube
May 20, 2020, Infowars host Alex Jones revealed Joe Rogan has signed an exclusivity contract with Spotify for his Joe Rogan Experience Podcast. You can find the video here. Rogan had reportedly asked Jones to make the announcement.
According to Rogan, the move is his way to strike back against YouTube censorship. Granted, the $100 million paycheck from Spotify probably didn’t make it a particularly difficult decision. It also turned out to be a stroke of genius for Spotify, the stock of which jumped 8.4%, or more than $5 billion dollars, after Rogan announced the move on Twitter.
Jones was one of the first controversial figures to be banned from YouTube, which appears to be the reason he gave Jones the scoop. The straw that broke the camel’s back, Rogan says, was YouTube’s decision to block differing opinions on COVID-19, as he wanted to interview a variety of doctors and experts about it.
But even before the pandemic, Rogan had bristled against YouTube’s decision to demonetize or remove certain interviews. Rogan told Jones he sees YouTube’s behavior as “un-American” and “anti-human.” Jones wonders if Rogan’s move is symbolic of “peak internet.” Possibly, it’s a sign that the censorship bubble is about to burst.
Rogan Rules New Media Landscape
With 8.52 million subscribers as of May 27, 2020, Rogan is currently one of YouTube’s biggest channels. His departure is predicted by many to be a serious blow to YouTube’s bottom line. As noted by Bari Weiss in a New York Times op-ed, Rogan’s move matters because the media landscape is changing, and Rogan — and others like him — are “the news” now.
“The timing of Rogan’s rise and the Old Guard’s disintegration is not coincidental,” Weiss writes. “His success was made possible, at least in part, by legacy media’s blind spots.
While GQ puts Pharrell gowned in a yellow sleeping bag on the cover of its ‘new masculinity’ issue (introduced by the editor explaining that the men’s magazine ‘isn’t really trying to be exclusively for or about men at all’), Joe Rogan swings kettlebells and bow-hunts elk.
Men are hungry. He’s serving steak, rare. Condé Nast, GQ’s publisher, has laid off some 100 employees since the pandemic began. Meantime, ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ has 190 million downloads a month.
His success signals a profound shift, or several of them — a shift in what people want to talk about, how they want to hear it, and who they want to hear it from.”
Geopolitical blogger Tom Luongo comments on Rogan’s appeal, saying:
“Rogan is an anomaly in podcasting, hell for that matter, all of media and gods bless him for it. Who else can get tens of millions of people to tune into him talking with someone for three hours? CNN can’t get people to watch them for five minutes in airports …
Rogan’s willingness to talk with and listen to anyone is his greatest asset. It is the key to his rise and his future success on Spotify, who desperately needs a big name to keep their business afloat.
Because in an age of endless spectacle and TV screens and websites crammed to the gills with graphics to distract you from the content, the simplicity of a conversation between two people who aren’t shouting at each other has become a welcome node of sanity …
Joe Rogan has now told the entire country that he’s had enough. And we needed someone like Joe to do this. That said, Rogan is only one half of the story, however. Because at the same time, one of these platforms needed to break away from the herd and welcome the dissenters.
For Spotify, Joe Rogan is the ‘killer app’ they needed to differentiate themselves as non-partisan and begin the exodus away from the big platforms who have become nothing but partisan.”
Spotify Censors Two of My Coronavirus Interviews
Whether Spotify will in fact live up to the expectation of non-bias remains to be seen. I for one have my doubts, as two of my coronavirus interviews have summarily been deleted off Spotify without recourse.
Spotify claims it only prohibits illegal content, hate content and infringing content. My interviews about coronavirus with Brian Hoyer and Judy Mikovits, Ph.D., clearly do not fall under any of these categories, yet Spotify removed them. So, so much for being a platform for uncensored expression. What’s worse, there is no way to dispute Spotify’s removal of these shows.
Censorship Threatens Health, Democracy and Freedom
Like Rogan, I have taken my stand. I put up a firewall to prevent Google from indexing my pages, and I will never conform to “consensus reality” just to get my Google ranking back. I’ve also removed Facebook scripts. It’s unfortunate, but the way it stands right now, we have to go old-school and share information we find valuable through word-of-mouth, by text, email and private message.
As for content on this site, we have built in simple sharing tools at the top of each article so you can easily email or text interesting articles to your friends and family.
My information is here because all of you support and share it, and we can do this without Big Tech’s support. In times like these, sharing information that is not readily available to all is nothing short of a revolutionary act.
Wherever and whenever possible, we must all fight against the oppression of censorship. Democracy hangs in the balance. Everyone must realize that without freedom of speech and opposing viewpoints, there can be no democracy. Instead, what you have is a totalitarian regime.
As it stands, that regime is not even made up of elected officials but unelected individuals representing for-profit multinational corporations. It’s time to break free. To do that, consider these suggestions:


wakingtimes--2020-06-08--Many American Police Are Trained in Israel Where Oppressive Tactics like Knee-On-Neck are Common

Many American Police Are Trained in Israel Where Oppressive Tactics like Knee-On-Neck are Common With protests and riots triggered by the murder of George Floyd spreading across America , it seems that some city governments are feeling threatened enough to consider serious reform to address rampant police abuse of power .
Calls to defund the police are growing louder , leading the LAPD and the NYPD to consider directing hundreds of millions of dollars away from police department budgets .
While measures like these certainly would be an interesting turning point for American policing , if nothing is done to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will still behave more like occupying armies rather than civil servants .
In 2018 , Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an article entitled , Durham , North Carolina Becomes First U.S. City to Bar Police From Training in Israel .
Calling it a “ slap at Israel , ” Haaretz noted that , “ the City Council in Durham , North Carolina , voted unanimously to bar its police department from taking part in “ military-style training ” programs abroad , ” also noting that Durham was the first U.S. city to officially ban @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to know that many U.S. police departments train with Israel police and security personnel .
Such cooperation with another ally nation shouldn ’ t ordinarily cause alarm , however , Israeli defense and police forces have an incredibly long record of human rights violations .
As noted by Jewish Voices for Peace , Israeli forces are themselves trained for counter-terrorism , military occupation , and strict population control .
All of this runs contrary to the classic American ideal of police officers having the role of preventing crime and serving the citizenry .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ Neta Golan , co-founder of International Solidarity Movement commented on how the tactic of pushing a knee into a detainees neck is a move seen quite often in the Israeli oppression of Palestinians .
“ When I saw the picture of killer cop Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd by leaning in on his neck with his knee as he cried for help and other cops watched , I remembered noticing when many Israeli soldiers began using this technique of leaning in on our chest and necks when we were protesting in the West @ @ @ @ @ @ @ started twisting and breaking fingers in a particular way around the same time .
It was clear they had undergone training for this .
They continue to use these tactics — two of my friends have had their necks broken but luckily survived — and it is clear that they [ Israel ] share these methods when they train police forces abroad in ‘ crowd control ’ in the US and other countries including Sudan and Brazil.
” ~Neta Golan Twitter user Bazal noted on May 30 , 2020 that the knee-on-neck tactic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ photos of Israeli security forces with knees on the necks of detainees .
The trend towards increasingly militarized and brutal policing in America has been accelerating for decades .
Police are trained to act as occupiers who conduct deadly no-knock raids in the name of the war on drugs , seize the assets of law-abiding citizens , surveil , entrap , and use oppressive tactics and technologies to protect the state from protestors and those seeking a redress of grievances .
If these fundamental issues are not addressed in a substantive way , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ divisive and hated occupying force in this once free country .
Isaac Davis is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com .
He is an outspoken advocate of liberty and of a voluntary society .
He is an avid reader of history and passionate about becoming self-sufficient to break free of the control matrix .
Follow him on Facebook , here .
This article ( Many American Police Are Trained in Israel Where Oppressive Tactics like Knee-On-Neck are Common ) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and WakingTimes.com .
It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution , author bio , and this copyright statement .

Many American Police Are Trained in Israel Where Oppressive Tactics like Knee-On-Neck are Common
Isaac Davis, Staff Writer
Waking Times
With protests and riots triggered by the murder of George Floyd spreading across America, it seems that some city governments are feeling threatened enough to consider serious reform to address rampant police abuse of power.
Calls to defund the police are growing louder, leading the LAPD and the NYPD to consider directing hundreds of millions of dollars away from police department budgets.
While measures like these certainly would be an interesting turning point for American policing, if nothing is done to address police training and mindset American cops will still behave more like occupying armies rather than civil servants.
In 2018, Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an article entitled, Durham, North Carolina Becomes First U.S. City to Bar Police From Training in Israel. Calling it a “slap at Israel,” Haaretz noted that, “the City Council in Durham, North Carolina, voted unanimously to bar its police department from taking part in “military-style training” programs abroad,” also noting that Durham was the first U.S. city to officially ban such training.
Americans may be surprised to know that many U.S. police departments train with Israel police and security personnel. Such cooperation with another ally nation shouldn’t ordinarily cause alarm, however, Israeli defense and police forces have an incredibly long record of human rights violations.
Amnesty International comments:
As noted by Jewish Voices for Peace, Israeli forces are themselves trained for counter-terrorism, military occupation, and strict population control. All of this runs contrary to the classic American ideal of police officers having the role of preventing crime and serving the citizenry.
“Exchanges between US police and the Israeli army promote a brutal military occupation as a positive model for community policing. Under the banner of “counter-terrorism” training, Israel is presenting lessons learned from 50 years of illegal military occupation over a Palestinian population deprived of human and civil rights…
Racial profiling, violent suppression of protest, massive surveillance, militarization of school security and the ongoing displacement of people from their homes are not lessons US law enforcement or US mayors should be bringing home.” [Source]
Regarding the killing of George Floyd, Neta Golan, co-founder of International Solidarity Movement commented on how the tactic of pushing a knee into a detainees neck is a move seen quite often in the Israeli oppression of Palestinians.
“When I saw the picture of killer cop Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd by leaning in on his neck with his knee as he cried for help and other cops watched, I remembered noticing when many Israeli soldiers began using this technique of leaning in on our chest and necks when we were protesting in the West Bank sometime in 2006. “They started twisting and breaking fingers in a particular way around the same time. It was clear they had undergone training for this. They continue to use these tactics — two of my friends have had their necks broken but luckily survived — and it is clear that they [Israel] share these methods when they train police forces abroad in ‘crowd control’ in the US and other countries including Sudan and Brazil.” ~Neta Golan
Twitter user Bazal noted on May 30, 2020 that the knee-on-neck tactic is used no Palestinans, posting 4 photos of Israeli security forces with knees on the necks of detainees.
Crazy how the same thing happens in Palestine but the world chooses to ignore it pic.twitter.com/8ATwWjy9q9 — Bazal (@Bazal02) May 30, 2020
The trend towards increasingly militarized and brutal policing in America has been accelerating for decades. Police are trained to act as occupiers who conduct deadly no-knock raids in the name of the war on drugs, seize the assets of law-abiding citizens, surveil, entrap, and use oppressive tactics and technologies to protect the state from protestors and those seeking a redress of grievances. If these fundamental issues are not addressed in a substantive way, American police will continue to be a divisive and hated occupying force in this once free country.
About the Author
Isaac Davis is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com. He is an outspoken advocate of liberty and of a voluntary society. He is an avid reader of history and passionate about becoming self-sufficient to break free of the control matrix. Follow him on Facebook, here.
This article (Many American Police Are Trained in Israel Where Oppressive Tactics like Knee-On-Neck are Common) was originally created and published by Waking Times and is published here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Isaac Davis and WakingTimes.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this copyright statement.


wakingtimes--2020-06-08--Looting and Destruction Will Not Force a Revolution, It Will Bring About a Massive Police State

Looting and Destruction Will Not Force a Revolution , It Will Bring About a Massive Police State There is something being concocted in the dens of power , far beyond the public eye , and it doesn ’ t bode well for the future of this country .
Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by political theater and public spectacle that they are oblivious to all else , you ’ d better beware .
Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows , speaks in a language of force , and rules by fiat , you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are never seen , heard or heeded by those elected to represent them , you ’ d better beware .
What is unfolding before us is not a revolution .
The looting , the burning , the rioting , the violence : this is an anti-revolution .
The protesters are playing right into the government ’ s hands , because the powers-that-be want this .
They want an excuse to lockdown the nation and throw the switch to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reason to make the police state stronger .
It ’ s happening faster than we can keep up .
The Justice Department is deploying federal prison riot teams to various cities .
More than half of the nation ’ s governors are calling on the National Guard to quell civil unrest .
Growing numbers of cities , having just barely emerged from a coronavirus lockdown , are once again being locked down , this time in response to the growing upheaval .
This is how it begins .
It ’ s that dystopian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which anticipates the need for the government to institute martial law ( use armed forces to solve domestic political and social problems ) in order to navigate a world bedeviled by “ criminal networks , ” “ substandard infrastructure , ” “ religious and ethnic tensions , ” “ impoverishment , slums , ” “ open landfills , over-burdened sewers , ” a “ growing mass of unemployed , ” and an urban landscape in which the prosperous economic elite must be protected from the impoverishment of the have nots .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ exactly where they want us : under their stamping boot , gasping for breath , desperate for freedom , grappling for some semblance of a future that does not resemble the totalitarian prison being erected around us .
This way lies certain tyranny .
For just one fleeting moment , “ we the people ” seemed united in our outrage over this latest killing of an unarmed man by a cop hyped up on his own authority and the power of his uniform .
Indeed , it didn ’ t take long—no surprise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , polarized by the misguided fury and senseless violence of mobs taking to the streets , reeking of madness and mayhem .
Deliberately or not , the rioters have directed our attention away from the government ’ s crimes and onto their own .
Don ’ t allow yourself to be so distracted .
Let ’ s not lose sight of what started all of this in the first place : the U.S. government .
More than terrorism , more than domestic extremism , more than gun violence and organized crime , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the government constitutes a greater menace to the life , liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us .
Case in point : George Floyd died at the hands of the American police state .
The callous , cold-blooded murder of the unarmed , 46-year-old black man by police is nothing new : for 8 minutes and 46 seconds , police knelt on Floyd ’ s neck while the man pleaded for his life , struggled to breathe , cried out @ @ @ @ @ @ @ passed out and died .
Floyd is yet another victim of a broken system of policing that has placed “ we the people ” at the mercy of militarized cops who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat , what constitutes resistance , and how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were appointed to “ serve and protect.
” Daily , Americans are being shot , stripped , searched , choked , beaten and tasered by police for little more than daring to frown , smile , question @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I ’ m talking about the growing numbers of unarmed people are who being shot and killed for just standing a certain way , or moving a certain way , or holding something—anything—that police could misinterpret to be a gun , or igniting some trigger-centric fear in a police officer ’ s mind that has nothing to do with an actual threat to their safety .
Killed by police for standing in a “ shooting stance.
” Killed for holding a cell phone .
Killed for holding a baseball bat .
Killed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for being a child in a car pursued by police .
Killed for approaching police while holding a metal spoon .
Killed for running in an aggressive manner while holding a tree branch .
Killed for crawling around naked .
Killed for hunching over in a defensive posture .
Killed because a police officer accidentally fired his gun instead of his taser .
Killed for wearing dark pants and a basketball jersey .
Killed for reaching for his license and registration during a traffic stop .
Killed for driving while deaf .
Killed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a shoehorn .
Killed for peeing outdoors .
Killed for having his car break down on the road .
Killed for holding a garden hose .
Now you can make all kinds of excuses to justify these shootings , and in fact that ’ s exactly what you ’ ll hear from politicians , police unions , law enforcement officials and individuals who are more than happy to march in lockstep with the police .
However , as these incidents make clear , the only truly compliant , submissive and obedient citizen in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Sad , isn ’ t it , how quickly we have gone from a nation of laws—where the least among us had just as much right to be treated with dignity and respect as the next person ( in principle , at least ) —to a nation of law enforcers ( revenue collectors with weapons ) who treat us all like suspects and criminals ?
This is not how you keep the peace .
This is not justice .
This is not even law and order .
This is certainly not freedom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Unfortunately , we are now being ruled by a government of psychopaths , scoundrels , spies , thugs , thieves , gangsters , ruffians , rapists , extortionists , bounty hunters , battle-ready warriors and cold-blooded killers who communicate using a language of force and oppression .
The facts speak for themselves .
We ’ re being ravaged by a government of ruffians , rapists and killers .
It ’ s not just the police shootings of unarmed citizens that are worrisome .
It ’ s the SWAT team raids gone wrong @ @ @ @ @ @ @ children terrorized and family pets killed .
It ’ s the roadside strip searches—in some cases , cavity searches of men and women alike carried out in full view of the public—in pursuit of drugs that are never found .
It ’ s the potentially lethal—and unwarranted—use of so-called “ nonlethal ” weapons such as tasers on children for “ mouthing off to a police officer .
For trying to run from the principal ’ s office .
For , at the age of 12 , getting into a fight with another girl.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ gunpoint by a government of soldiers—a standing army .
While Americans are being made to jump through an increasing number of hoops in order to exercise their Second Amendment right to own a gun , the government is arming its own civilian employees to the hilt with guns , ammunition and military-style equipment , authorizing them to make arrests , and training them in military tactics .
Among the agencies being supplied with night-vision equipment , body armor , hollow-point bullets , shotguns , drones , assault rifles and LP gas cannons are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Human Services , IRS , FDA , Small Business Administration , Social Security Administration , National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , Education Department , Energy Department , Bureau of Engraving and Printing and an assortment of public universities .
There are now reportedly more bureaucratic ( non-military ) government civilians armed with high-tech , deadly weapons than U.S. Marines .
That doesn ’ t even begin to touch on the government ’ s arsenal , the transformation of local police into extensions of the military , and the speed with which the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ law depending on the circumstances .
Clearly , the government is preparing for war—and a civil war , at that—and “ we the people ” are the perceived enemy .
We ’ re being taken advantage of by a government of scoundrels , idiots and cowards .
American satirist H.L .
Mencken calculated that “ Congress consists of one-third , more or less , scoundrels ; two-thirds , more or less , idiots ; and three-thirds , more or less , poltroons.
” By and large , Americans seem to agree .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spend a large chunk of their work hours fundraising , being feted by lobbyists , shuffling through a lucrative revolving door between public service and lobbying , and making themselves available to anyone with enough money to secure access to a congressional office , you ’ re in the clutches of a corrupt oligarchy .
Mind you , these same elected officials rarely read the legislation they ’ re enacting , nor do they seem capable of enacting much legislation that actually helps rather than hinders the plight of the American citizen .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ a government of greedy jailers .
We have become a carceral state , spending three times more on our prisons than on our schools and imprisoning close to a quarter of the world ’ s prisoners , despite the fact that crime is at an all-time low and the U.S. makes up only 5 % of the world ’ s population .
The rise of overcriminalization and profit-driven private prisons provides even greater incentives for locking up American citizens for such non-violent “ crimes ” as having an overgrown lawn .
As the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s contemporary system of policing , courts , imprisonment , and parole … makes money through asset forfeiture , lucrative public contracts from private service providers , and by directly extracting revenue and unpaid labor from populations of color and the poor .
In states and municipalities throughout the country , the criminal justice system defrays costs by forcing prisoners and their families to pay for punishment .
It also allows private service providers to charge outrageous fees for everyday needs such as telephone calls .
As a result people facing even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ trapped in a self-perpetuating cycle of debt , criminalization , and incarceration.
” We ’ re being spied on by a government of Peeping Toms .
The government , aided by its corporate allies , is watching everything you do , reading everything you write , listening to everything you say , and monitoring everything you spend .
Omnipresent surveillance is paving the way for government programs that profile citizens , document their behavior and attempt to predict what they might do in the future , whether it ’ s what they might @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or what kinds of crimes they might commit .
The impact of this far-reaching surveillance , according to Psychology Today , is “ reduced trust , increased conformity , and even diminished civic participation.
” As technology analyst Jillian C. York concludes , “ Mass surveillance without due process—whether undertaken by the government of Bahrain , Russia , the US , or anywhere in between—threatens to stifle and smother that dissent , leaving in its wake a populace cowed by fear.
” We ’ re being forced to surrender our freedoms—and those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , money launderers and professional pirates .
The American people have been repeatedly sold a bill of goods about how the government needs more money , more expansive powers , and more secrecy ( secret courts , secret budgets , secret military campaigns , secret surveillance ) in order to keep us safe .
Under the guise of fighting its wars on terror , drugs , domestic extremism , pandemics and civil unrest , the government has spent billions in taxpayer dollars on endless wars that have sown the seeds of blowback , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to a surveillance society , and militarized police that have turned communities into warzones .
We ’ re being robbed blind by a government of thieves .
Americans no longer have any real protection against government agents empowered to seize private property at will .
For instance , police agencies under the guise of asset forfeiture laws are taking property based on little more than a suspicion of criminal activity .
And we ’ re being forced to live in a perpetual state of emergency .
From 9/11 through the COVID-19 lockdowns and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the face of growing civil unrest , we have witnessed the rise of an “ emergency state ” that justifies all manner of government tyranny and power grabs in the so-called name of national security .
Whatever else it may be—a danger , a menace , a threat—the U.S. government is certainly not looking out for our best interests , nor is it in any way a friend to freedom .
When the government views itself as superior to the citizenry , when it no longer operates for the benefit of the people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ able to peacefully reform their government , when government officials cease to act like public servants , when elected officials no longer represent the will of the people , when the government routinely violates the rights of the people and perpetrates more violence against the citizenry than the criminal class , when government spending is unaccountable and unaccounted for , when the judiciary act as courts of order rather than justice , and when the government is no longer bound by the laws of the Constitution , then you no longer have a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the people and for the people.
” What we have is a government of wolves .
Our backs are against the proverbial wall .
The government and its cohorts have conspired to ensure that the only real recourse the American people have to express their displeasure with the government is through voting , which is no real recourse at all .
The penalties for civil disobedience , whistleblowing and rebellion are severe .
If you refuse to pay taxes for government programs you believe to be immoral or illegal , you will go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ overthrow the government—or any agency thereof—because you believe it has overstepped its reach , you will go to jail .
If you attempt to blow the whistle on government misconduct , there ’ s a pretty good chance you will go to jail .
For too long , the American people have obeyed the government ’ s dictates , no matter now extreme .
We have paid its taxes , penalties and fines , no matter how outrageous .
We have tolerated its indignities , insults and abuses , no matter how egregious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to its indiscretions and incompetence , no matter how imprudent .
We have held our silence in the face of its lawlessness , licentiousness and corruption , no matter how illicit .
How long we will continue to suffer depends on how much we ’ re willing to give up for the sake of freedom .
America ’ s founders provided us with a very specific explanation about the purpose of government and a roadmap for what to do when the government abuses its authority , ignores our objections , and establishes itself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between peaceful slavery ( in other words , maintaining the status quo in servitude to the police state ) and dangerous freedom .
That will mean carving out a path in which we begin to take ownership of our government , starting at the local level , challenging the status quo , and raising hell—nonviolently—whenever a government official steps out of line .
We can no longer maintain the illusion of freedom .
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America : The War on the American People , we are at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute , where this article ( Looting and Destruction Will Not Force a Revolution , It Will Bring About a Massive Police State ) was originally published .
He is the author of A Government of Wolves : The Emerging American Police State and The Change Manifesto .

Looting and Destruction Will Not Force a Revolution, It Will Bring About a Massive Police State
John W. Whitehead, Guest
Waking Times
“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you—pull your beard, flick your face—to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you.”—John Lennon
Brace yourselves.
There is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of this country.
Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by political theater and public spectacle that they are oblivious to all else, you’d better beware.
Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you’d better beware.
And anytime you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are never seen, heard or heeded by those elected to represent them, you’d better beware.
What is unfolding before us is not a revolution.
The looting, the burning, the rioting, the violence: this is an anti-revolution.
The protesters are playing right into the government’s hands, because the powers-that-be want this. They want an excuse to lockdown the nation and throw the switch to all-out martial law. They want a reason to make the police state stronger.
It’s happening faster than we can keep up.
The Justice Department is deploying federal prison riot teams to various cities. More than half of the nation’s governors are calling on the National Guard to quell civil unrest. Growing numbers of cities, having just barely emerged from a coronavirus lockdown, are once again being locked down, this time in response to the growing upheaval.
This is how it begins.
It’s that dystopian 2030 Pentagon training video all over again, which anticipates the need for the government to institute martial law (use armed forces to solve domestic political and social problems) in order to navigate a world bedeviled by “criminal networks,” “substandard infrastructure,” “religious and ethnic tensions,” “impoverishment, slums,” “open landfills, over-burdened sewers,” a “growing mass of unemployed,” and an urban landscape in which the prosperous economic elite must be protected from the impoverishment of the have nots.
We’re way ahead of schedule.
The architects of the police state have us exactly where they want us: under their stamping boot, gasping for breath, desperate for freedom, grappling for some semblance of a future that does not resemble the totalitarian prison being erected around us.
This way lies certain tyranny.
For just one fleeting moment, “we the people” seemed united in our outrage over this latest killing of an unarmed man by a cop hyped up on his own authority and the power of his uniform.
That unity didn’t last.
Indeed, it didn’t take long—no surprise there—for us to quickly become divided again, polarized by the misguided fury and senseless violence of mobs taking to the streets, reeking of madness and mayhem.
Deliberately or not, the rioters have directed our attention away from the government’s crimes and onto their own.
This is a distraction.
Don’t allow yourself to be so distracted.
Let’s not lose sight of what started all of this in the first place: the U.S. government.
More than terrorism, more than domestic extremism, more than gun violence and organized crime, the systemic violence being perpetrated by agents of the government constitutes a greater menace to the life, liberty and property of its citizens than any of the so-called dangers from which the government claims to protect us.
Case in point: George Floyd died at the hands of the American police state.
The callous, cold-blooded murder of the unarmed, 46-year-old black man by police is nothing new: for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, police knelt on Floyd’s neck while the man pleaded for his life, struggled to breathe, cried out for his dead mother, and finally passed out and died.
Floyd is yet another victim of a broken system of policing that has placed “we the people” at the mercy of militarized cops who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were appointed to “serve and protect.”
Daily, Americans are being shot, stripped, searched, choked, beaten and tasered by police for little more than daring to frown, smile, question, challenge an order or just exist.
I’m talking about the growing numbers of unarmed people are who being shot and killed for just standing a certain way, or moving a certain way, or holding something—anything—that police could misinterpret to be a gun, or igniting some trigger-centric fear in a police officer’s mind that has nothing to do with an actual threat to their safety.
Killed by police for standing in a “shooting stance.” Killed for holding a cell phone. Killed for holding a baseball bat. Killed for opening the front door. Killed for being a child in a car pursued by police. Killed for approaching police while holding a metal spoon. Killed for running in an aggressive manner while holding a tree branch. Killed for crawling around naked. Killed for hunching over in a defensive posture. Killed because a police officer accidentally fired his gun instead of his taser. Killed for wearing dark pants and a basketball jersey. Killed for reaching for his license and registration during a traffic stop. Killed for driving while deaf. Killed for being homeless. Killed for brandishing a shoehorn. Killed for peeing outdoors. Killed for having his car break down on the road. Killed for holding a garden hose.
Now you can make all kinds of excuses to justify these shootings, and in fact that’s exactly what you’ll hear from politicians, police unions, law enforcement officials and individuals who are more than happy to march in lockstep with the police. However, as these incidents make clear, the only truly compliant, submissive and obedient citizen in a police state is a dead one.
Sad, isn’t it, how quickly we have gone from a nation of laws—where the least among us had just as much right to be treated with dignity and respect as the next person (in principle, at least)—to a nation of law enforcers (revenue collectors with weapons) who treat us all like suspects and criminals?
This is not how you keep the peace.
This is not justice. This is not even law and order.
This is certainly not freedom. This is the illusion of freedom.
Unfortunately, we are now being ruled by a government of psychopaths, scoundrels, spies, thugs, thieves, gangsters, ruffians, rapists, extortionists, bounty hunters, battle-ready warriors and cold-blooded killers who communicate using a language of force and oppression.
The facts speak for themselves.
We’re being ravaged by a government of ruffians, rapists and killers. It’s not just the police shootings of unarmed citizens that are worrisome. It’s the SWAT team raids gone wrong that are leaving innocent citizens wounded, children terrorized and family pets killed. It’s the roadside strip searches—in some cases, cavity searches of men and women alike carried out in full view of the public—in pursuit of drugs that are never found. It’s the potentially lethal—and unwarranted—use of so-called “nonlethal” weapons such as tasers on children for “mouthing off to a police officer. For trying to run from the principal’s office. For, at the age of 12, getting into a fight with another girl.”
We’re being held at gunpoint by a government of soldiers—a standing army. While Americans are being made to jump through an increasing number of hoops in order to exercise their Second Amendment right to own a gun, the government is arming its own civilian employees to the hilt with guns, ammunition and military-style equipment, authorizing them to make arrests, and training them in military tactics. Among the agencies being supplied with night-vision equipment, body armor, hollow-point bullets, shotguns, drones, assault rifles and LP gas cannons are the Smithsonian, U.S. Mint, Health and Human Services, IRS, FDA, Small Business Administration, Social Security Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Education Department, Energy Department, Bureau of Engraving and Printing and an assortment of public universities. There are now reportedly more bureaucratic (non-military) government civilians armed with high-tech, deadly weapons than U.S. Marines. That doesn’t even begin to touch on the government’s arsenal, the transformation of local police into extensions of the military, and the speed with which the nation could be locked down under martial law depending on the circumstances. Clearly, the government is preparing for war—and a civil war, at that—and “we the people” are the perceived enemy.
We’re being taken advantage of by a government of scoundrels, idiots and cowards. American satirist H.L. Mencken calculated that “Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.” By and large, Americans seem to agree. When you’ve got government representatives who spend a large chunk of their work hours fundraising, being feted by lobbyists, shuffling through a lucrative revolving door between public service and lobbying, and making themselves available to anyone with enough money to secure access to a congressional office, you’re in the clutches of a corrupt oligarchy. Mind you, these same elected officials rarely read the legislation they’re enacting, nor do they seem capable of enacting much legislation that actually helps rather than hinders the plight of the American citizen.
We’re being locked up by a government of greedy jailers. We have become a carceral state, spending three times more on our prisons than on our schools and imprisoning close to a quarter of the world’s prisoners, despite the fact that crime is at an all-time low and the U.S. makes up only 5% of the world’s population. The rise of overcriminalization and profit-driven private prisons provides even greater incentives for locking up American citizens for such non-violent “crimes” as having an overgrown lawn. As the Boston Review points out, “America’s contemporary system of policing, courts, imprisonment, and parole … makes money through asset forfeiture, lucrative public contracts from private service providers, and by directly extracting revenue and unpaid labor from populations of color and the poor. In states and municipalities throughout the country, the criminal justice system defrays costs by forcing prisoners and their families to pay for punishment. It also allows private service providers to charge outrageous fees for everyday needs such as telephone calls. As a result people facing even minor criminal charges can easily find themselves trapped in a self-perpetuating cycle of debt, criminalization, and incarceration.”
We’re being spied on by a government of Peeping Toms. The government, aided by its corporate allies, is watching everything you do, reading everything you write, listening to everything you say, and monitoring everything you spend. Omnipresent surveillance is paving the way for government programs that profile citizens, document their behavior and attempt to predict what they might do in the future, whether it’s what they might buy, what politician they might support, or what kinds of crimes they might commit. The impact of this far-reaching surveillance, according to Psychology Today, is “reduced trust, increased conformity, and even diminished civic participation.” As technology analyst Jillian C. York concludes, “Mass surveillance without due process—whether undertaken by the government of Bahrain, Russia, the US, or anywhere in between—threatens to stifle and smother that dissent, leaving in its wake a populace cowed by fear.”
We’re being forced to surrender our freedoms—and those of our children—to a government of extortionists, money launderers and professional pirates. The American people have been repeatedly sold a bill of goods about how the government needs more money, more expansive powers, and more secrecy (secret courts, secret budgets, secret military campaigns, secret surveillance) in order to keep us safe. Under the guise of fighting its wars on terror, drugs, domestic extremism, pandemics and civil unrest, the government has spent billions in taxpayer dollars on endless wars that have sown the seeds of blowback, surveillance programs that have subjected all Americans to a surveillance society, and militarized police that have turned communities into warzones.
We’re being robbed blind by a government of thieves. Americans no longer have any real protection against government agents empowered to seize private property at will. For instance, police agencies under the guise of asset forfeiture laws are taking property based on little more than a suspicion of criminal activity.
And we’re being forced to live in a perpetual state of emergency. From 9/11 through the COVID-19 lockdowns and now the threat of martial law in the face of growing civil unrest, we have witnessed the rise of an “emergency state” that justifies all manner of government tyranny and power grabs in the so-called name of national security.
Whatever else it may be—a danger, a menace, a threat—the U.S. government is certainly not looking out for our best interests, nor is it in any way a friend to freedom.
When the government views itself as superior to the citizenry, when it no longer operates for the benefit of the people, when the people are no longer able to peacefully reform their government, when government officials cease to act like public servants, when elected officials no longer represent the will of the people, when the government routinely violates the rights of the people and perpetrates more violence against the citizenry than the criminal class, when government spending is unaccountable and unaccounted for, when the judiciary act as courts of order rather than justice, and when the government is no longer bound by the laws of the Constitution, then you no longer have a government “of the people, by the people and for the people.”
What we have is a government of wolves.
Our backs are against the proverbial wall.
The government and its cohorts have conspired to ensure that the only real recourse the American people have to express their displeasure with the government is through voting, which is no real recourse at all.
The penalties for civil disobedience, whistleblowing and rebellion are severe. If you refuse to pay taxes for government programs you believe to be immoral or illegal, you will go to jail. If you attempt to overthrow the government—or any agency thereof—because you believe it has overstepped its reach, you will go to jail. If you attempt to blow the whistle on government misconduct, there’s a pretty good chance you will go to jail.
For too long, the American people have obeyed the government’s dictates, no matter now extreme. We have paid its taxes, penalties and fines, no matter how outrageous. We have tolerated its indignities, insults and abuses, no matter how egregious. We have turned a blind eye to its indiscretions and incompetence, no matter how imprudent. We have held our silence in the face of its lawlessness, licentiousness and corruption, no matter how illicit.
We have suffered.
How long we will continue to suffer depends on how much we’re willing to give up for the sake of freedom.
America’s founders provided us with a very specific explanation about the purpose of government and a roadmap for what to do when the government abuses its authority, ignores our objections, and establishes itself as a tyrant.
We must choose between peaceful slavery (in other words, maintaining the status quo in servitude to the police state) and dangerous freedom. That will mean carving out a path in which we begin to take ownership of our government, starting at the local level, challenging the status quo, and raising hell—nonviolently—whenever a government official steps out of line.
We can no longer maintain the illusion of freedom.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, we are at our most vulnerable right now.
About the Author
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute, where this article (Looting and Destruction Will Not Force a Revolution, It Will Bring About a Massive Police State) was originally published. He is the author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State and The Change Manifesto.


wakingtimes--2020-06-08--In a World Where Truth Doesn’t Matter

In a World Where Truth Doesn’t Matter

This latest round of rapidly deployed , over-reaching control mechanisms by packs of free-roaming predators only serves as another wake up opportunity for mankind .
The collective consciousness of humanity has been radically shifted and will continue to do so rapidly .
It ’ s obviously very complex and operating on many levels .
Trying to define it at any given moment is like taking a snapshot of a raging river .
It ’ s just a moment in time of an ever flowing torrent of constant change .
We look for trends and patterns in life to gain perspective @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Most of humanity assumes that the source of this life ’ s complex social structure we experience as a “ livestream ” is fairly benign , with fairly trustworthy “ authorities ” managing the stream and its system of levees and spillways .
Until the flood comes — especially when there was no rain .
This oft repeated cycle of social control and its expansions and contractions is remarkable .
It appears there ’ s not a time in known history that humanity hasn ’ t been ruled and governed in some way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ form of predatory hierarchy .
We take it for granted , yet always long for freedom .
Why is that ?
It ’ s like we ’ re spilled Chinese checker marbles that inevitably fall into seemingly pre-determined holes we think we chose on some strange gameboard .
Don ’ t you find that strange ?
Do we really choose our places or is there some sort of cosmically driven force working through us , even despite our social programming ?
We don ’ t even know , yet we believe and act @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not really knowing what ’ s really going on .
The human societal world as we know it does not run on truth .
Relative truths , perhaps , but not foundational truth .
If it did there would be none of this nonsense since there would be nothing for it to manipulate .
You can call it deception if you like , but that ’ s being generous with the idea of intention .
It ’ s fabrications within fabrications in a fabric of illusion , easily steered by those willing to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the ongoing dilemma : Knowing the deep truth somewhere within us yet having that nagging sense of frustration and unfulfillment .
This all stems from the external .
As was wisely said , suffering comes from attachment .
Internal and external , when there ’ s really nothing to attach to .
It ’ s all an illusion , the false self and this whole drama we call life .
We get glimpses of the Truth through the illusion .
It ’ s a very personal experience .
Real truth , which some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intelligence or love , is beyond and separate from this illusory experience , all the while an innate part of this strange reality , being inclusive in the Universe of all that is .
The show or game we ’ re within appears to be an alive projection in what could be called a limited dimension within the entirety of the Cosmos .
There ’ s nothing innately wrong with it , it just is .
It ’ s ours to discover that and live free from it , yet a part of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we call it , is a “ persistent illusion ” as Einstein is reported to have said , How Does That Help Me ?
Maybe it won ’ t .
Clinging on to beliefs of any sort creates blindness .
Lower dimensional thought , if you will , can justify or negate anything it wants .
A closed system , and neatly bundled up into one little egoic package .
Until something happens , and your world falls apart .
Enter the reset we ’ re now experiencing .
Millions get their reset @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Near death experiences , rigorous study or disciplines , psychotropic experiences , serious illness or loss of loved ones , all have eventual beautiful outcomes , but never as we expected .
Really all it requires is some sincere openness and a hunger for what ’ s truly real and true and some determination and willingness to shed the pressures of conformity and acceptance by others .
It can be a long or short path , we ’ re each unique .
But with the blessing of inevitable death constantly standing at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it gnaws at every human soul .
It ’ s apparently designed that way , for lack of a better term .
Describing and analyzing things does not make the inevitable go away .
Then suddenly , as is happening on a global scale now , this confrontation with the meaning or essence of life itself comes front and center .
What is this miasma of fear but a fundamental fear of death and the unknown ?
Or much more profoundly , the fear of no self .
The fear of losing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hold on to , polish up and improve , or make something worthwhile out of .
Yeah it ’ s heavy stuff .
What else is there ?
If we haven ’ t tackled the big questions of life , how can we ever expect to operate consciously ?
I can only summarize this by saying perhaps the most profound truth to be found by each and every one of us that has been echoed through the ages ; What ’ s looking through you , and me , is what we ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you ’ re home free .
Individually .
The collective has to find it themselves , individually .
But Truth is contagious .
The morphic field of conscious awareness is shifting , but we must pass that ultimate threshold .
That ’ s true freedom and sovereignty .
The most any of us can do is be a signpost to the gateless gate that was there all the time .
No knowledge or worked up faith or belief required ; no saviors needed , no galactic intervention to “ save ” humanity , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change will do anything .
YOU are IT !
Anything short of fully waking up out of the dream won ’ t do squat .
If you ’ re worried about everything “ else ” out there you are sorely missing the point .
First things first .
You can track and fixate on it all you want but until you ’ re home free , a truly liberated being , it ’ s none of your business and the blind leading the blind will just continue to perpetuate .
Will you pay @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , including most of all your self and all its bullshit issues .
Why wait until you die to find out ?
The rest is illusion anyway .
There ’ s nothing to lose and everything to gain .
Zen Gardner is an impactful and controversial author and speaker with a piercing philosophical viewpoint .
His writings have been circulated to millions and his personal story has caused no small stir amongst the entrenched alternative pundits .
His book “ You Are The Awakening ” has met rave reviews and is available on @ @

In a World Where Truth Doesn’t Matter
Zen Gardener, Guest
Waking Times
This latest round of rapidly deployed, over-reaching control mechanisms by packs of free-roaming predators only serves as another wake up opportunity for mankind. The collective consciousness of humanity has been radically shifted and will continue to do so rapidly.
It’s obviously very complex and operating on many levels. Trying to define it at any given moment is like taking a snapshot of a raging river. It’s just a moment in time of an ever flowing torrent of constant change.
We look for trends and patterns in life to gain perspective and stay alert for perceived possibilities. Most of humanity assumes that the source of this life’s complex social structure we experience as a “livestream” is fairly benign, with fairly trustworthy “authorities” managing the stream and its system of levees and spillways.
Until the flood comes — especially when there was no rain.
This oft repeated cycle of social control and its expansions and contractions is remarkable. It appears there’s not a time in known history that humanity hasn’t been ruled and governed in some way, sometimes benignly but predominantly by some form of predatory hierarchy. We take it for granted, yet always long for freedom.
Why is that?
It’s like we’re spilled Chinese checker marbles that inevitably fall into seemingly pre-determined holes we think we chose on some strange gameboard. Don’t you find that strange? Do we really choose our places or is there some sort of cosmically driven force working through us, even despite our social programming? We don’t even know, yet we believe and act like we’re free agents, not really knowing what’s really going on.
Isn’t that stranger still?
Free Range Humanity
The human societal world as we know it does not run on truth. Relative truths, perhaps, but not foundational truth. If it did there would be none of this nonsense since there would be nothing for it to manipulate. You can call it deception if you like, but that’s being generous with the idea of intention. It’s fabrications within fabrications in a fabric of illusion, easily steered by those willing to play the role of controllers.
Hence the ongoing dilemma: Knowing the deep truth somewhere within us yet having that nagging sense of frustration and unfulfillment. This all stems from the external. As was wisely said, suffering comes from attachment. Internal and external, when there’s really nothing to attach to. It’s all an illusion, the false self and this whole drama we call life.
We get glimpses of the Truth through the illusion. It’s a very personal experience. Real truth, which some call the knowing of infinite consciousness, intelligence or love, is beyond and separate from this illusory experience, all the while an innate part of this strange reality, being inclusive in the Universe of all that is. The show or game we’re within appears to be an alive projection in what could be called a limited dimension within the entirety of the Cosmos.
There’s nothing innately wrong with it, it just is. It’s ours to discover that and live free from it, yet a part of if. This presupposed reality, as we call it, is a “persistent illusion” as Einstein is reported to have said,
How Does That Help Me?
Maybe it won’t. Clinging on to beliefs of any sort creates blindness. Lower dimensional thought, if you will, can justify or negate anything it wants. A closed system, and neatly bundled up into one little egoic package.
Until something happens, and your world falls apart.
Enter the reset we’re now experiencing. Millions get their reset awakening by other means than monolithic calamities. Near death experiences, rigorous study or disciplines, psychotropic experiences, serious illness or loss of loved ones, all have eventual beautiful outcomes, but never as we expected.
Really all it requires is some sincere openness and a hunger for what’s truly real and true and some determination and willingness to shed the pressures of conformity and acceptance by others. It can be a long or short path, we’re each unique. But with the blessing of inevitable death constantly standing at the ultimate door to the unknown, it gnaws at every human soul. It’s apparently designed that way, for lack of a better term. Describing and analyzing things does not make the inevitable go away.
And that’s a good thing.
Then suddenly, as is happening on a global scale now, this confrontation with the meaning or essence of life itself comes front and center. What is this miasma of fear but a fundamental fear of death and the unknown? Or much more profoundly, the fear of no self. The fear of losing the very thing we were taught incessantly to hold on to, polish up and improve, or make something worthwhile out of.
Yeah it’s heavy stuff. What else is there? If we haven’t tackled the big questions of life, how can we ever expect to operate consciously?
I can only summarize this by saying perhaps the most profound truth to be found by each and every one of us that has been echoed through the ages;
“What’s seeking is what you’re seeking for.”
What’s looking through you, and me, is what we’re looking for.
Find that and you’re home free. Individually. The collective has to find it themselves, individually.
But Truth is contagious. The morphic field of conscious awareness is shifting, but we must pass that ultimate threshold. That’s true freedom and sovereignty. The most any of us can do is be a signpost to the gateless gate that was there all the time. No knowledge or worked up faith or belief required; no saviors needed, no galactic intervention to “save” humanity, and certainly no political or otherwise structural change will do anything.
YOU are IT!
Anything short of fully waking up out of the dream won’t do squat. If you’re worried about everything “else” out there you are sorely missing the point. First things first. You can track and fixate on it all you want but until you’re home free, a truly liberated being, it’s none of your business and the blind leading the blind will just continue to perpetuate.
Will you pay the price? It only costs everything, including most of all your self and all its bullshit issues.
Why wait until you die to find out?
The rest is illusion anyway.
There’s nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Your call.
Love, Zen
About the Author
Zen Gardner is an impactful and controversial author and speaker with a piercing philosophical viewpoint. His writings have been circulated to millions and his personal story has caused no small stir amongst the entrenched alternative pundits. His book “You Are The Awakening” has met rave reviews and is available on amazon.com.