prepareforchange--2020-08-18--Dollar’s Purchasing Power Drops to Lowest Ever. Inflation Heats Up, as Fed Wants, After Simultaneous

Dollar’s Purchasing Power Drops to Lowest Ever. Inflation Heats Up, as Fed Wants, After Simultaneous Supply Shock & Demand Shock

We ’ re not even thinking about thinking about ” slowing the decline of the dollar ’ s purchasing power — and thereby labor ’ s purchasing power .
A supply shock and a demand shock came together during the Pandemic , and it produced chaos in the pricing environment .
There was a sudden collapse in demand in some segments of the economy – restaurants , gasoline , jet fuel , for example – and a surge in demand in other segments , such as eating at home , and anything to do with ecommerce , including transportation services @ @ @ @ @ @ @ together with supply-chain interruptions and supply chains that were unprepared for the big shifts , leading to shortages in some parts of the economy – the supply shock .
There were empty shelves in stores , while product was piling up with no buyers in other parts of the economy .
The sectors surrounding gasoline , jet fuel , and diesel fuel – oil and gas drilling , equipment manufacturers , transportation services , refineries , etc .
– were thrown into turmoil as demand vanished , leading to a total collapse in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a bizarre moment in the history of the oil business , the price of the US benchmark crude WTI collapsed to negative - $ 37 a barrel .
Since then , the price of crude oil has risen sharply ( now at positive + $ 41 a barrel ) , as demand for gasoline has returned to near-normal while demand for jet fuel remains in collapse-mode , as people are driving to go on vacations , instead of flying , and as business travel is essentially shut down .
As a result , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the inflation data was going haywire , with some prices plunging and others spiking .
This is now being worked out of the system .
Energy prices are way up from March and April , but remain below last year .
Gasoline prices jumped by 12.6 % in June from May and by another 5.6 % in July from June , but are still down 20.2 % from July last year , according to the Consumer Price Index report this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics .
Electricity services rose 0.3 % @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the prior two months .
Prices of food eaten at home , after surging March through June during the shifts and the era of empty shelves , backtracked in July by 1.1 % from June , but were still up 4.6 % from last year .
More on the major categories in a moment .
Overall inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for urban consumers ( CPI-U ) jumped 0.6 % in July from June , after having jumped 0.6 % in June from May , wiping out the declines @ @ @ @ @ @ @ July 2019 , CPI was up 1.0 % , still held back by the 20.2 % year-over-year decline in energy prices .
The June and July month-to-month increases of 0.6 % each were the largest two since 2009 .
The CPI without food and energy also rose 0.6 % in July from June and was up 1.6 % from July last year .
When we say that the CPI in July rose 0.6 % from June , we mean that it rose from an index value of 257.2 to an index value of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ looks like progress , like something good has been happening , with a fairly consistent uptrend from the bottom left to the right top , sort of like a stock market chart , and the Fed and economists want this line , and lines of other inflation indices , to move up at a steeper angle , and they then take great pride in it when it does : But the Bureau of Labor Statistics also offers the corollary index , the “ Purchasing Power of the Consumer Dollar.
” And it just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ during the Financial Crisis , when consumers could actually buy a little more with their labor for a few quarters : When the Fed wants to increase consumer price inflation , it in effect wants to decrease the purchasing power of the consumer dollar .
Currently , the Fed is very impatient about chopping down the purchasing power of the dollar .
To communicate this , Fed Chair Jerome Powell keeps repeating so eloquently that the Fed isn ’ t “ even thinking about thinking about ” containing the decline of the dollar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up .
A decline in the purchasing power of the consumer dollar means a decline in the purchasing power of labor .
And consumers ( who are in their real life workers ) need a corresponding increase in wage inflation .
For employers that are able to raise prices , but don ’ t have to raise wages , it means “ cheaper labor ” – and for decades this has now been one of the big issues in the US economy among the lower 40 % of workers who provide this cheaper @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their living by working , consumer price inflation means the purchasing power of their labor gets whittled down .
Goods and services are more difficult to pay for , and their paycheck gets eaten up by rising costs , and there is less money left over to make mortgage payments and other debt payments .
Consumer price inflation , given the multi-decade wage environment , means the further impoverishment of the people in the lower income categories , and means – not easier .
These people want ( getting paid more for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ price inflation , but wage inflation is anathema to Corporate America and the Fed .
Rising prices make debt payments easier only for those who can raise prices : Businesses , particularly Corporate America where pricing power and debts are concentrated .
Here are the changes of the Consumer Price Index for the major categories .
The second column shows the relative weight of the line item in the overall CPI .
The biggie is “ services less energy services ” which weighs 59.6 % in the index .
It includes two sub-biggies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and owner ’ s equivalent of rent , which account for one-third of CPI , and “ medical care services , ” with a relative importance of 7.4 % in CPI .
The third column shows the change in prices in July compared to July last year .
The three columns on the right show month-to-month price changes , with the sixth column showing the current change in July from June ( if your smartphone clips the right part of the table and you don ’ t see six columns , turn your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : We at Prepare for Change ( PFC ) bring you information that is not offered by the mainstream news , and therefore may seem controversial .
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We’re not even thinking about thinking about” slowing the decline of the dollar’s purchasing power — and thereby labor’s purchasing power.
By Wolf Richter,
A supply shock and a demand shock came together during the Pandemic, and it produced chaos in the pricing environment. There was a sudden collapse in demand in some segments of the economy – restaurants, gasoline, jet fuel, for example – and a surge in demand in other segments, such as eating at home, and anything to do with ecommerce, including transportation services focused on it.
These shifts came together with supply-chain interruptions and supply chains that were unprepared for the big shifts, leading to shortages in some parts of the economy – the supply shock. There were empty shelves in stores, while product was piling up with no buyers in other parts of the economy.
The sectors surrounding gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel fuel – oil and gas drilling, equipment manufacturers, transportation services, refineries, etc. – were thrown into turmoil as demand vanished, leading to a total collapse in energy prices. In April, in a bizarre moment in the history of the oil business, the price of the US benchmark crude WTI collapsed to negative -$37 a barrel.
Since then, the price of crude oil has risen sharply (now at positive +$41 a barrel), as demand for gasoline has returned to near-normal while demand for jet fuel remains in collapse-mode, as people are driving to go on vacations, instead of flying, and as business travel is essentially shut down.
As a result, for a few months, all of the inflation data was going haywire, with some prices plunging and others spiking. This is now being worked out of the system.
Energy prices are way up from March and April, but remain below last year. Gasoline prices jumped by 12.6% in June from May and by another 5.6% in July from June, but are still down 20.2% from July last year, according to the Consumer Price Index report this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Electricity services rose 0.3% in July, after a sharp decline in the prior two months.
Prices of food eaten at home, after surging March through June during the shifts and the era of empty shelves, backtracked in July by 1.1% from June, but were still up 4.6% from last year. More on the major categories in a moment.
Overall inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for urban consumers (CPI-U) jumped 0.6% in July from June, after having jumped 0.6% in June from May, wiping out the declines in March through May. Compared to July 2019, CPI was up 1.0%, still held back by the 20.2% year-over-year decline in energy prices. The June and July month-to-month increases of 0.6% each were the largest two since 2009.
The CPI without food and energy also rose 0.6% in July from June and was up 1.6% from July last year.
When we say that the CPI in July rose 0.6% from June, we mean that it rose from an index value of 257.2 to an index value of 258.7. We get this chart that looks like progress, like something good has been happening, with a fairly consistent uptrend from the bottom left to the right top, sort of like a stock market chart, and the Fed and economists want this line, and lines of other inflation indices, to move up at a steeper angle, and they then take great pride in it when it does:
But the Bureau of Labor Statistics also offers the corollary index, the “Purchasing Power of the Consumer Dollar.” And it just hit a new all-time ever low . Note the purchasing power recovery during the Financial Crisis, when consumers could actually buy a little more with their labor for a few quarters:
When the Fed wants to increase consumer price inflation, it in effect wants to decrease the purchasing power of the consumer dollar .
Currently, the Fed is very impatient about chopping down the purchasing power of the dollar. To communicate this, Fed Chair Jerome Powell keeps repeating so eloquently that the Fed isn’t “even thinking about thinking about” containing the decline of the dollar’s purchasing power when it speeds up.
A decline in the purchasing power of the consumer dollar means a decline in the purchasing power of labor . And consumers (who are in their real life workers) need a corresponding increase in wage inflation.
For employers that are able to raise prices, but don’t have to raise wages, it means “cheaper labor” – and for decades this has now been one of the big issues in the US economy among the lower 40% of workers who provide this cheaper labor.
So for consumers who make their living by working, consumer price inflation means the purchasing power of their labor gets whittled down. Goods and services are more difficult to pay for, and their paycheck gets eaten up by rising costs, and there is less money left over to make mortgage payments and other debt payments.
Consumer price inflation, given the multi-decade wage environment, means the further impoverishment of the people in the lower income categories, and means making debt payments harder – not easier.
These people want wage inflation (getting paid more for the same work) to compensate them for price inflation, but wage inflation is anathema to Corporate America and the Fed.
Rising prices make debt payments easier only for those who can raise prices: Businesses, particularly Corporate America where pricing power and debts are concentrated.
Inflation by category.
Here are the changes of the Consumer Price Index for the major categories. The second column shows the relative weight of the line item in the overall CPI. The biggie is “services less energy services” which weighs 59.6% in the index. It includes two sub-biggies: “shelter” which includes rent and owner’s equivalent of rent, which account for one-third of CPI, and “medical care services,” with a relative importance of 7.4% in CPI.
The third column shows the change in prices in July compared to July last year. The three columns on the right show month-to-month price changes, with the sixth column showing the current change in July from June (if your smartphone clips the right part of the table and you don’t see six columns, turn your device in landscape position):
Expenditure category % weight % YOY July % Apr-May % May-Jun % Jun-Jul Food 14.3 4.1 0.7 0.6 -0.4 Food at home 8.0 4.6 1.0 0.7 -1.1 Cereals and bakery products 1.0 2.8 -0.2 0.4 -0.4 Meats, poultry, fish, eggs 1.9 8.4 3.7 2.0 -3.8 Dairy and related products 0.8 4.4 1.0 -0.4 -0.8 Fruits and vegetables 1.4 2.3 0.5 0.4 0.1 Nonalcoholic beverages 0.9 5.0 0.0 0.7 -0.5 Other food at home 2.0 3.9 0.0 0.2 -0.2 Food away from home 6.3 3.4 0.4 0.5 0.5 Energy 6.1 -11.2 -1.8 5.1 2.5 Energy commodities 2.9 -20.2 -3.5 11.7 5.3 Fuel oil 0.1 -27.2 -6.3 10.2 4.3 Motor fuel 2.8 -20.3 -3.5 12.0 5.5 Gasoline (all types) 2.7 -20.3 -3.5 12.3 5.6 Energy services 3.2 -0.1 -0.5 -0.2 0.0 Electricity 2.5 -0.1 -0.8 -0.3 0.3 Utility (piped) gas service 0.7 -0.3 0.8 0.0 -1.0 Other goods 20.7 -0.5 -0.2 0.2 0.7 Apparel 2.7 -6.5 -2.3 1.7 1.1 New vehicles 3.7 0.5 0.3 0.0 0.8 Used cars and trucks 2.5 -0.9 -0.4 -1.2 2.3 Medical care commodities 1.6 1.1 0.1 0.2 0.0 Alcoholic beverages 1.0 1.5 0.8 0.2 -0.3 Tobacco and smoking products 0.6 5.2 -0.2 1.1 0.8 Services less energy services 59.6 2.3 0.0 0.3 0.6 Shelter (rent & owner’s equivalent of rent) 33.5 2.3 0.2 0.1 0.2 Medical care services 7.4 5.9 0.6 0.5 0.5 Transportation services 5.0 -3.7 -3.6 2.1 3.6 Motor vehicle maintenance and repair 1.1 3.5 0.4 0.1 -0.1 Motor vehicle insurance 1.5 -1.9 -8.9 5.1 9.3 Airline fares 0.6 -23.7 -4.9 2.6 5.4
Source: https://wolfstreet.com
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prepareforchange--2020-08-18--Facebook Censored 100+ Million Coronavirus ‘Misinformation’ Posts in 3 Months

Tech giant Facebook has announced that it has removed a total of seven million posts about the Wuhan coronavirus between April and June 2020 for containing “ harmful ” virus misinformation .
The platform censored a further 98 million posts across its platforms with warning labels for being “ misleading.
” Reclaim The Net reports that Silicon Valley tech giant Facebook recently announced that it removed seven million posts about the Wuhan coronavirus between April and June 2020 for containing “ harmful ” misinformation .
Facebook also put warning labels on 98 million posts across both Facebook and Instagram during @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ misleading ” coronavirus content .
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg previously stated that the warning labels almost have the same effect as removing the posts as the warnings dissuade 95 percent of users from clicking through to the content .
Breitbart News reported in July that the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe censored a video initially livestreamed by Breitbart News of a press conference held in Washington D.C. by the group America ’ s Frontline Doctors and organized and sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots .
Rep. Ralph Norman ( R-SC ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the event shared their views on the coronavirus pandemic and the medical community ’ s treatment of the virus .
The video accumulated over 17 million views on Facebook within 8 hours and had 185,000 concurrent viewers at the time it was streamed .
On YouTube , a video from the event received 80,000 views before being removed by the platform for “ violating YouTube ’ s Community Guidelines.
” The event was hosted by the organization America ’ s Frontline Doctors , a group founded by Dr. Simone Gold , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ comprised of medical doctors .
The event ’ s information page , before it was censored by host Squarespace .
stated : “ If Americans continue to let so-called experts and media personalities make their decisions , the great American experiment of a Constitutional Republic with Representative Democracy , will cease.
” YouTube ’ s removal of the clip came shortly after Facebook removed the video from its platform , with Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone telling New York Times reported Kevin Roose that the video was removed “ for sharing false information about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : We at Prepare for Change ( PFC ) bring you information that is not offered by the mainstream news , and therefore may seem controversial .
The opinions , views , statements , and/or information we present are not necessarily promoted , endorsed , espoused , or agreed to by Prepare for Change , its leadership Council , members , those who work with PFC , or those who read its content .
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Please use discernment !
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By Lucas Nolan,
Tech giant Facebook has announced that it has removed a total of seven million posts about the Wuhan coronavirus between April and June 2020 for containing “harmful” virus misinformation. The platform censored a further 98 million posts across its platforms with warning labels for being “misleading.”
Reclaim The Net reports that Silicon Valley tech giant Facebook recently announced that it removed seven million posts about the Wuhan coronavirus between April and June 2020 for containing “harmful” misinformation. Facebook also put warning labels on 98 million posts across both Facebook and Instagram during the second quarter of 2020 for posting “misleading” coronavirus content.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg previously stated that the warning labels almost have the same effect as removing the posts as the warnings dissuade 95 percent of users from clicking through to the content.
Breitbart News reported in July that the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe censored a video initially livestreamed by Breitbart News of a press conference held in Washington D.C. by the group America’s Frontline Doctors and organized and sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots. Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) was featured at the event and doctors at the event shared their views on the coronavirus pandemic and the medical community’s treatment of the virus.
The video accumulated over 17 million views on Facebook within 8 hours and had 185,000 concurrent viewers at the time it was streamed. On YouTube, a video from the event received 80,000 views before being removed by the platform for “violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines.”
The event was hosted by the organization America’s Frontline Doctors, a group founded by Dr. Simone Gold, a board-certified physician and attorney, and is comprised of medical doctors. The event’s information page, before it was censored by host Squarespace. stated: “If Americans continue to let so-called experts and media personalities make their decisions, the great American experiment of a Constitutional Republic with Representative Democracy, will cease.”
YouTube’s removal of the clip came shortly after Facebook removed the video from its platform, with Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone telling New York Times reported Kevin Roose that the video was removed “for sharing false information about cures and treatments for COVID-19.”
Source: https://www.breitbart.com
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prepareforchange--2020-08-19--We Are All Being Cooked in the Soup Together

One of the recurring thought-forms that I hear repeated everywhere during these apocalyptic times is , “ We are all in this together.
” It is ironic that “ we are all in this together , ” and yet , our world feels anything but together , as it is in an incredibly polarized and dissociated state .
Our species is suffering from what Jung calls a “ sickness of dissociation , ” which is a state of fragmentation deep within the unconscious itself that has seemingly spilled outside of our skulls and , through psychic forces beyond our conscious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ polarizing collective events playing themselves out en masse on the world stage .
Our dissociation is not solely pathological , however , but is an expression of a deeper holistic process that is in the act of revealing itself .
To quote Jung , “ the sickness of dissociation in our world is at the same time a process of recovery , or rather , the climax of a period of pregnancy which heralds the throes of birth .
A time of dissociation … is simultaneously an age of rebirth.
” [ 1 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all in this together , ” it reminds me of an amazing paragraph that Jung wrote in the late 1950 ’ s that is as relevant today as it was then .
Here is an excerpt : “ We are in the soup that is going to be cooked for us , whether we claim to have invented it or not… .
We are threatened with universal genocide if we can not work out the way of salvation by a symbolic death.
” [ 2 ] In other words , we are fated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death if we don ’ t consciously go through a “ symbolic ” death .
What does Jung mean by this ?
We are all in the soup together , yet we are suffering from a sickness of dissociation , and we are needing to go through a symbolic death experience , while another part of us is being reborn !
What is going on here ?
Is what ’ s happening in our world meaningless chaos , or is there “ something deeper ” going on ?
The short answer : Our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death/rebirth experience – in symbolically dying to a part of ourselves that is no longer serving us , another part of us is being reborn .
As Jung points out , “ there are times [ and ours seems to be one of them ] when the spirit is completely darkened because it needs to be reborn.
” [ 3 ] We can deepen our understanding of the archetypal process of death and rebirth that we are living out by shedding light on a prototypical example of death and rebirth – i.e.
, @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s prevailing myth of the birth of God as a human being—the Christ event—psychologically , which is to say symbolically ( i.e.
, as if it is a dream of our species ) can help us gain some crucial insights into the deeper archetypal process that we are collectively enacting unconsciously on the world stage during these truly apocalyptic times .
The word “ apocalypse , ” etymologically speaking , refers to something previously hidden being unveiled and brought to light – in other words , something is being revealed to us during @ @ @ @ @ @ @ language , the apocalypse has to do with the Incarnation of God and the coming of the Messiah , psychologically speaking , the “ apocalypse ” means the momentous , world-shattering event of the coming of what Jung calls “ the Self ” ( the wholeness of our personality , i.e.
, the God within ) into conscious realization .
Instead of incarnating through one man , however , like God did over two thousand years ago through the individual person of Jesus , the divine is now incarnating through the unconscious psyche @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” Jung writes , “ wants to become man , ” and instead of choosing a pure , guiltless vessel , God has chosen , in Jung ’ s words , “ the creaturely man filled with darkness—the natural man who is tainted with original sin.
” [ 4 ] In that same amazing paragraph Jung writes , “ Through his further incarnation God becomes a fearful task for man , who must now find ways and means to unite the divine opposites in himself .
He is summoned… .
Christ has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his destiny , i.e.
, upon his self , as he was .
He did not carry his cross and suffer crucifixion so that we could escape.
” [ 5 ] In other words , regardless of our outer religious orientation , everyone of us is fated ( whether we like it or not ) to carry our cross—to consciously bear our shadow and suffer the tension of the opposites within us—just as Christ did .
And yet , something that we could not have created via the efforts of our own ego @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consciously bearing this creative tension .
In being “ summoned , ” like a healer , shaman or artist who is being called by their inner voice and sacred vocation , we are being subpoenaed by a higher power .
Whenever the archetype of the Self is constellated , due to the opposites intrinsic to the nature of this experience , we invariably feel a state of extreme conflict within us that is epitomized by the Christian symbol of the cross .
Viewed symbolically , Christ on the cross reveals to us that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to an ever-increasing awareness of a primordial conflict within our soul which necessarily involves a crucifixion of the ego .
To understand this conflict psychologically , we could say that the unconscious longs to reach the light of consciousness , while at the same time continually recoils against it , because it would rather remain unconscious .
In theological terms , to quote Jung , “ God wants to become man , but not quite.
” [ 6 ] The Self is made manifest—i.e.
, real in space and time—through consciously suffering the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where we begin to experience their synthesis and complementarity .
Jung comments , “ This condition of the crucifixion , then , is a symbolic expression for the state of extreme conflict , where one simply has to give up , where one no longer knows , where one almost loses one ’ s mind .
Out of that condition grows the thing which is really fought for … the birth of the self.
” [ 7 ] It is by going through an internal experience of what the historical crucifixion symbolizes that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ born through us .
Jung comments , “ One shouldn ’ t evade this conflict by escaping into a premature and anticipated state of redemption , otherwise one provokes it in the outside world .
And that is of the devil.
” [ 8 ] If we don ’ t deal with the source of the divine conflict within us , it will get projected outside of ourselves and dreamed up in the external world .
In other words , in our avoidance of dealing with the conflict within us , we are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ death and destruction that are playing out in the outer world .
Nature herself does not come to a permanent standstill when confronted with opposites – rather , she uses them to create , out of their very opposition , a synthesis , a new birth .
When Christ is nailed to the cross during the crucifixion , it symbolically represents that it is through the experience of being bound and severely limited in the space/time continuum that itself becomes the doorway through which we become introduced to the transcendent part of us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , our spiritual nature .
In other words , it is in experiencing our finite limitations to the max that becomes a doorway to the infinite part of ourselves .
Nothing so promotes the growth of consciousness as confronting the opposites within ourselves .
Holding the tension of the opposites that is inherent in the crucifixion experience invariably liberates us from holding and identifying with our fixed and cherished perspectives .
Helping us transcend the notion of a privileged and correct point of view , we become aperspectival in our viewpoint , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – a way of seeing which coincides with the meta-perspective of the Self .
The essence of the Christian gnosis—the Incarnation of God through humanity—can be best understood as humanity ’ s creative confrontation with the opposites and their synthesis in the Self .
The Self—which Jung equates with Christ—is present in everyone , but typically in an unconscious and unrealized condition .
Once we withdraw our projections and fixations upon an external historical or metaphysical figure , however , we can realize that the Self/Christ ( or whatever name we call it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s words , we then “ wake up the Christ within.
” [ 9 ] It is important to not get caught up in or overly react to the religious language ; the same ideas can be expressed psychologically .
Instead of using the term “ God , ” we can say “ the collective unconscious ; ” instead of “ Christ , ” we can say “ the Self.
” Instead of “ Incarnation , ” we can say “ integration of the unconscious ; ” instead of “ salvation , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ Crucifixion ” we can translate as “ realization of our wholeness.
” The mystery encoded within the Christ event is now to be found and consummated in and through humanity , who becomes its living carrier .
When seen symbolically , the events of Christ ’ s life are brought within the range of psychological experience through the unfoldment of the individuation process .
In that same amazing paragraph , Jung continues , “ The bill of the Christian era is presented to us : we are living in a world rent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we are confronted with the H-bomb and we have to face our own shadows… .
If God incarnates in the empirical man , man is confronted with the divine problem .
Being and remaining man he has to find an answer .
It is the question of the opposites , raised at the moment when God was declared to be good only .
Where then is his dark side ?
” [ 10 ] Our bill—our karma—has become due .
If we don ’ t acknowledge and pay our dues to the darkness @ @ @ @ @ @ @ repressed , it will take its due on its own terms , with a vengeance .
We are at the point of our evolution where we are fated to come to terms not just with our own personal shadow , but with the dark side of God , so to speak – i.e.
, with evil .
We can only escape an experience of the opposites by choosing to identify with the light and deny the darkness , as Jung reminds us , “ up to a certain point.
” We are living @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can no longer postpone facing and coming to terms with our darker half .
The cross is the symbol of the suffering Godhead that redeems humanity .
This suffering would not have occurred without darker forces seemingly opposed to God .
This is to say that the powers of evil play a crucial , mysterious and essential role in the redemption of humanity .
Jung continues , “ Christ is the model for the human answers and his symbol is the cross , the union of the opposites .
This will be the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must understand if he is to survive at all.
” [ 11 ] To quote Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton , “ every man is Christ on the Cross , whether he realizes it or not .
But we , if we are Christians [ and in the deeper symbolic sense we are all “ Christians ” ] , must learn to realize it.
” [ 12 ] Realizing we are Christ on the Cross re-contextualizes our suffering , transforming it from a deeply problematic personal situation to a more universal process @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It is important to distinguish our neurotic suffering—which is a result of our unconscious clinging and is totally unproductive—from the suffering which is “ sent by God ” ( as Christian mystics would say ) in order to purify us of our obscurations .
Our neurotic suffering blocks us from experiencing the divine , while the suffering that is a result of our participation in the archetypal process of crucifixion , through connecting us to the deeper passion that Christ went through , is the doorway introducing us to something beyond ourselves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ But there was a tendency to forget that the cross had a universal significance and application .
The Crucifixion awaits not only the individual man but also society as a whole , a State or a civilization.
” [ 13 ] In other words , it is not just individuals who are symbolically going through a crucifixion experience , but our global civilization as a whole .
The microcosm ( the individual ) and the macrocosm ( the collective ) , like iterations of the same fractal , are mirrored reflections of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whatever name we call it ) is incarnating through us—both individually and as a species—and it makes all the difference in the world whether we consciously realize this or not .
[ 14 ] If we remain unconscious when a living archetypal process is activated within us , this inner process will physically manifest itself externally in the outside world , where , as if by fate , it will get unconsciously dreamed up and acted out in a “ literal , ” concrete and oftentimes destructive way .
Instead of going through @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we then literally kill each other , as well as , ultimately , ourselves .
If we recognize , however , that we are being cast to play a role in a deeper cosmic process , instead of being destined to enact it unconsciously , and hence , destructively , we are able to consciously and creatively “ incarnate ” this archetypal process as individuation .
We , as a species , to quote Jung , have been “ drawn into the cycle of the death and rebirth of the gods.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ having become part of a deeper mythic , archetypal and alchemical process of transformation , we are going through a cosmic death-rebirth experience of a higher order .
Jung describes “ how the divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding and how man experiences it – as punishment , torment , death , and transfiguration.
” [ 16 ] This divinely-sponsored process is subjectively experienced by the human ego as torture .
[ 17 ] However , if we don ’ t personalize the experience , identify with it or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ danger—but allow this deeper process to refine us as it needs to , it can lead to a transfiguration of our very being .
Whether consciously or not , we are all in a state of grieving – the world we have known is dying .
In addition , our sense of who we think we are—imagining we exist as a separate self , alien to and apart from other separate selves as well as the rest of the universe—is an illusion whose expiration date has now been reached .
This illusion is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not recognized as illusory , can become reified and thereby become a lethal mirage .
Either our illusion expires , or we do .
As the poet Rumi would say , we need to “ die before we die.
” To step out of the illusion of thinking we exist as a separate self is to recognize—and be born into—our greater identity ( whether we call it the Self , Christ , Buddha , etc . )
, that includes and embraces everything under the sun .
The Self—who we actually are—is simultaneously @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , enhancing life beyond measure .
Connecting with the Self is not only our only hope in these dark times , it ’ s what everything that is happening in our world is potentially helping us to realize .
And yet , the way to ascend to the light of the Higher Self ( in Christian terminology , to attain The Resurrected Body ) —as Christ himself indicates via his descent to the underworld after his death on the cross—is by journeying through the darkness .
To quote Jung , “ God really @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he rends him asunder [ 18 ] … because he wants to become man , the uniting of his antinomy must take place in man.
” [ 19 ] Where else , after all , could the opposites intrinsic to God ’ s nature ( e.g.
, light and dark , good and evil ) attain unity except in the very vessel—humanity—that God has prepared just for this very purpose ?
Being cooked in the soup together , we are being immersed and baptized into a deeper cosmic process .
We are playing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of incarnation , an insight that renders meaning to our suffering and assists us in discovering our place in the world as well as helping us to find our very selves .

By Paul Levy:
One of the recurring thought-forms that I hear repeated everywhere during these apocalyptic times is, “We are all in this together.” It is ironic that “we are all in this together,” and yet, our world feels anything but together, as it is in an incredibly polarized and dissociated state. Our species is suffering from what Jung calls a “sickness of dissociation,” which is a state of fragmentation deep within the unconscious itself that has seemingly spilled outside of our skulls and, through psychic forces beyond our conscious awareness, has taken the form of polarizing collective events playing themselves out en masse on the world stage. Our dissociation is not solely pathological, however, but is an expression of a deeper holistic process that is in the act of revealing itself. To quote Jung, “the sickness of dissociation in our world is at the same time a process of recovery, or rather, the climax of a period of pregnancy which heralds the throes of birth. A time of dissociation … is simultaneously an age of rebirth.”[1]
Whenever I hear “We are all in this together,” it reminds me of an amazing paragraph that Jung wrote in the late 1950’s that is as relevant today as it was then. Here is an excerpt: “We are in the soup that is going to be cooked for us, whether we claim to have invented it or not…. We are threatened with universal genocide if we cannot work out the way of salvation by a symbolic death.”[2] In other words, we are fated to suffer an unconscious “literal” death if we don’t consciously go through a “symbolic” death. What does Jung mean by this?
We are all in the soup together, yet we are suffering from a sickness of dissociation, and we are needing to go through a symbolic death experience, while another part of us is being reborn! What is going on here? Is what’s happening in our world meaningless chaos, or is there “something deeper” going on? The short answer: Our species has gotten drafted into an archetypal death/rebirth experience – in symbolically dying to a part of ourselves that is no longer serving us, another part of us is being reborn. As Jung points out, “there are times [and ours seems to be one of them] when the spirit is completely darkened because it needs to be reborn.”[3]
We can deepen our understanding of the archetypal process of death and rebirth that we are living out by shedding light on a prototypical example of death and rebirth – i.e., The Incarnation. Contemplating the West’s prevailing myth of the birth of God as a human being—the Christ event—psychologically, which is to say symbolically (i.e., as if it is a dream of our species) can help us gain some crucial insights into the deeper archetypal process that we are collectively enacting unconsciously on the world stage during these truly apocalyptic times.
The word “apocalypse,” etymologically speaking, refers to something previously hidden being unveiled and brought to light – in other words, something is being revealed to us during these apocalyptic times. Whereas in religious language, the apocalypse has to do with the Incarnation of God and the coming of the Messiah, psychologically speaking, the “apocalypse” means the momentous, world-shattering event of the coming of what Jung calls “the Self” (the wholeness of our personality, i.e., the God within) into conscious realization. Instead of incarnating through one man, however, like God did over two thousand years ago through the individual person of Jesus, the divine is now incarnating through the unconscious psyche of all of humanity. “God,” Jung writes, “wants to become man,” and instead of choosing a pure, guiltless vessel, God has chosen, in Jung’s words, “the creaturely man filled with darkness—the natural man who is tainted with original sin.”[4]
In that same amazing paragraph Jung writes, “Through his further incarnation God becomes a fearful task for man, who must now find ways and means to unite the divine opposites in himself. He is summoned…. Christ has shown how everybody will be crucified upon his destiny, i.e., upon his self, as he was. He did not carry his cross and suffer crucifixion so that we could escape.”[5] In other words, regardless of our outer religious orientation, everyone of us is fated (whether we like it or not) to carry our cross—to consciously bear our shadow and suffer the tension of the opposites within us—just as Christ did. And yet, something that we could not have created via the efforts of our own ego can potentially emerge as a result of consciously bearing this creative tension.
In being “summoned,” like a healer, shaman or artist who is being called by their inner voice and sacred vocation, we are being subpoenaed by a higher power. Whenever the archetype of the Self is constellated, due to the opposites intrinsic to the nature of this experience, we invariably feel a state of extreme conflict within us that is epitomized by the Christian symbol of the cross. Viewed symbolically, Christ on the cross reveals to us that the development and differentiation of consciousness leads to an ever-increasing awareness of a primordial conflict within our soul which necessarily involves a crucifixion of the ego. To understand this conflict psychologically, we could say that the unconscious longs to reach the light of consciousness, while at the same time continually recoils against it, because it would rather remain unconscious. In theological terms, to quote Jung, “God wants to become man, but not quite.”[6]
The Self is made manifest—i.e., real in space and time—through consciously suffering the conflict between the opposites to the point where we begin to experience their synthesis and complementarity. Jung comments, “This condition of the crucifixion, then, is a symbolic expression for the state of extreme conflict, where one simply has to give up, where one no longer knows, where one almost loses one’s mind. Out of that condition grows the thing which is really fought for … the birth of the self.”[7] It is by going through an internal experience of what the historical crucifixion symbolizes that the divine holy and whole-making spirit gets born through us.
Jung comments, “One shouldn’t evade this conflict by escaping into a premature and anticipated state of redemption, otherwise one provokes it in the outside world. And that is of the devil.”[8] If we don’t deal with the source of the divine conflict within us, it will get projected outside of ourselves and dreamed up in the external world. In other words, in our avoidance of dealing with the conflict within us, we are unwittingly colluding with the darker forces of death and destruction that are playing out in the outer world.
Nature herself does not come to a permanent standstill when confronted with opposites – rather, she uses them to create, out of their very opposition, a synthesis, a new birth. When Christ is nailed to the cross during the crucifixion, it symbolically represents that it is through the experience of being bound and severely limited in the space/time continuum that itself becomes the doorway through which we become introduced to the transcendent part of us that is beyond the physical, i.e., our spiritual nature. In other words, it is in experiencing our finite limitations to the max that becomes a doorway to the infinite part of ourselves.
Nothing so promotes the growth of consciousness as confronting the opposites within ourselves. Holding the tension of the opposites that is inherent in the crucifixion experience invariably liberates us from holding and identifying with our fixed and cherished perspectives. Helping us transcend the notion of a privileged and correct point of view, we become aperspectival in our viewpoint, as we see the relativity of all viewpoints – a way of seeing which coincides with the meta-perspective of the Self.
The essence of the Christian gnosis—the Incarnation of God through humanity—can be best understood as humanity’s creative confrontation with the opposites and their synthesis in the Self. The Self—which Jung equates with Christ—is present in everyone, but typically in an unconscious and unrealized condition. Once we withdraw our projections and fixations upon an external historical or metaphysical figure, however, we can realize that the Self/Christ (or whatever name we call it) lives within us – in Jung’s words, we then “wake up the Christ within.”[9]
It is important to not get caught up in or overly react to the religious language; the same ideas can be expressed psychologically. Instead of using the term “God,” we can say “the collective unconscious;” instead of “Christ,” we can say “the Self.” Instead of “Incarnation,” we can say “integration of the unconscious;” instead of “salvation,” we can say “individuation.” “Crucifixion” we can translate as “realization of our wholeness.” The mystery encoded within the Christ event is now to be found and consummated in and through humanity, who becomes its living carrier. When seen symbolically, the events of Christ’s life are brought within the range of psychological experience through the unfoldment of the individuation process.
In that same amazing paragraph, Jung continues, “The bill of the Christian era is presented to us: we are living in a world rent in two from top to bottom; we are confronted with the H-bomb and we have to face our own shadows…. If God incarnates in the empirical man, man is confronted with the divine problem. Being and remaining man he has to find an answer. It is the question of the opposites, raised at the moment when God was declared to be good only. Where then is his dark side?”[10]
Our bill—our karma—has become due. If we don’t acknowledge and pay our dues to the darkness, like the return of the Freudian repressed, it will take its due on its own terms, with a vengeance. We are at the point of our evolution where we are fated to come to terms not just with our own personal shadow, but with the dark side of God, so to speak – i.e., with evil. We can only escape an experience of the opposites by choosing to identify with the light and deny the darkness, as Jung reminds us, “up to a certain point.” We are living through the time in history where we can no longer postpone facing and coming to terms with our darker half.
The cross is the symbol of the suffering Godhead that redeems humanity. This suffering would not have occurred without darker forces seemingly opposed to God. This is to say that the powers of evil play a crucial, mysterious and essential role in the redemption of humanity. Jung continues, “Christ is the model for the human answers and his symbol is the cross, the union of the opposites. This will be the fate of man, and this he must understand if he is to survive at all.”[11]
To quote Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton, “every man is Christ on the Cross, whether he realizes it or not. But we, if we are Christians [and in the deeper symbolic sense we are all “Christians”], must learn to realize it.”[12] Realizing we are Christ on the Cross re-contextualizes our suffering, transforming it from a deeply problematic personal situation to a more universal process in which we have all gotten enlisted. It is important to distinguish our neurotic suffering—which is a result of our unconscious clinging and is totally unproductive—from the suffering which is “sent by God” (as Christian mystics would say) in order to purify us of our obscurations. Our neurotic suffering blocks us from experiencing the divine, while the suffering that is a result of our participation in the archetypal process of crucifixion, through connecting us to the deeper passion that Christ went through, is the doorway introducing us to something beyond ourselves.
Russian philosopher Nicolas Berdyaev writes, “But there was a tendency to forget that the cross had a universal significance and application. The Crucifixion awaits not only the individual man but also society as a whole, a State or a civilization.”[13] In other words, it is not just individuals who are symbolically going through a crucifixion experience, but our global civilization as a whole. The microcosm (the individual) and the macrocosm (the collective), like iterations of the same fractal, are mirrored reflections of each other. The Self (or whatever name we call it) is incarnating through us—both individually and as a species—and it makes all the difference in the world whether we consciously realize this or not.[14]
If we remain unconscious when a living archetypal process is activated within us, this inner process will physically manifest itself externally in the outside world, where, as if by fate, it will get unconsciously dreamed up and acted out in a “literal,” concrete and oftentimes destructive way. Instead of going through an inner symbolic death, for example, we then literally kill each other, as well as, ultimately, ourselves. If we recognize, however, that we are being cast to play a role in a deeper cosmic process, instead of being destined to enact it unconsciously, and hence, destructively, we are able to consciously and creatively “incarnate” this archetypal process as individuation.
We, as a species, to quote Jung, have been “drawn into the cycle of the death and rebirth of the gods.”[15] In other words, having become part of a deeper mythic, archetypal and alchemical process of transformation, we are going through a cosmic death-rebirth experience of a higher order. Jung describes “how the divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding and how man experiences it – as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.”[16] This divinely-sponsored process is subjectively experienced by the human ego as torture.[17] However, if we don’t personalize the experience, identify with it or get stuck in its nightmarish aspect—a great danger—but allow this deeper process to refine us as it needs to, it can lead to a transfiguration of our very being.
Whether consciously or not, we are all in a state of grieving – the world we have known is dying. In addition, our sense of who we think we are—imagining we exist as a separate self, alien to and apart from other separate selves as well as the rest of the universe—is an illusion whose expiration date has now been reached. This illusion is like a non-existent mirage that, if not recognized as illusory, can become reified and thereby become a lethal mirage. Either our illusion expires, or we do. As the poet Rumi would say, we need to “die before we die.”
To step out of the illusion of thinking we exist as a separate self is to recognize—and be born into—our greater identity (whether we call it the Self, Christ, Buddha, etc.), that includes and embraces everything under the sun. The Self—who we actually are—is simultaneously the source and fruit of life itself, enhancing life beyond measure. Connecting with the Self is not only our only hope in these dark times, it’s what everything that is happening in our world is potentially helping us to realize. And yet, the way to ascend to the light of the Higher Self (in Christian terminology, to attain The Resurrected Body)—as Christ himself indicates via his descent to the underworld after his death on the cross—is by journeying through the darkness.
To quote Jung, “God really wants to become man, even if he rends him asunder[18] … because he wants to become man, the uniting of his antinomy must take place in man.”[19] Where else, after all, could the opposites intrinsic to God’s nature (e.g., light and dark, good and evil) attain unity except in the very vessel—humanity—that God has prepared just for this very purpose? Being cooked in the soup together, we are being immersed and baptized into a deeper cosmic process. We are playing a crucial role in the divine drama of incarnation, an insight that renders meaning to our suffering and assists us in discovering our place in the world as well as helping us to find our very selves.


prepareforchange--2020-08-19--Letters From Melbourne, a ‘Ghost Town Police State’ Under Brutal Covid Lockdown

The citizens of Australia ’ s second most populous city are suffering under the harshest lockdown conditions of all Western democracies .
Their voices need to be heard .
In the last several weeks , Melbourne has introduced shockingly draconian anti-Covid measures , imposed on the metropolis of some 5 million souls .
What tragedy was responsible for spurring officials to leap into action ?
To blame was a fractional uptick in the number of coronavirus deaths – seven to be exact , and all involving citizens above the age of 70 years old .
The media jumped on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” which brought the state death toll to 56 .
I repeat , 56 , and the overwhelming majority of those cases involved elderly people in nursing facilities , some of which are under investigation for their handling of patients .
While it goes without saying that elderly lives matter , do seven elderly deaths really warrant the shutdown of one of Australia ’ s busiest cities ?
Despite the extremely low death rate , Melbourne residents – or shall we call them what they really are , prisoners – must adhere to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than 5 kilometers ( 3.1 miles ) from their homes ; – No traveling to other states inside of the country ; – Those under house arrest are permitted to leave home for just one hour each day for exercise ; – Only one person is permitted to go shopping per family each day ; shopping is to be done within 5 kilometers from home ; – Unlike traditional prisons , visitations are not permitted to house arrestees ; – All school activities are to be conducted online ; – In the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ your demise if at all possible , otherwise , expect just 10 guests ; – Curfew in effect between 8 pm and 5 am .
These restrictions will be in place for ( at least ) six weeks .
Meanwhile , as to be expected , the authorities have been enthusiastic about meting out their street justice on people who allegedly violate the regime ’ s rules .
And not just on the street .
The police have been authorized to enter private residences without a warrant .
Shane Patton , Police Chief @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ there are consequences ” for not going along with the lockdown .
“ In the last week , we ’ ve seen a trend , an emergence , if you like , of groups of people , small groups , but nonetheless concerning groups , who classify themselves as ‘ sovereign citizens , ’ whatever that might mean , people who don ’ t think the law applies to them , ” Patton , wearing all black attire for the occasion , explained .
“ We ’ ve seen them at checkpoints…not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at least on three or four occasions in the last week , we ’ ve had to smash the windows of people in cars and pull them out of there… ” Needless to say , there have been other examples of people losing their patience with the lockdown conditions .
Local media reported that an unidentified 38-year-old Melbourne woman was arrested after “ repeatedly bashing a 26-year-old female police officer ’ s head against a concrete sidewalk.
” The police officer was reportedly attacked for asking the woman why she wasn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ week , a mother was fined $ 1,652 for breaking with regulations after she was tackled to the ground and handcuffed by three cops .
Her daughter filmed the incident , while begging the police , “ get off my mum , she ’ s in pain.
” An American acquaintance , who requested to remain anonymous , sent me the following message from Melbourne where he lives with his family : “ All three of my working kids are in enforced idleness – mandatory masks and , as you might expect in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ inadequate people , mask nazis are the new danger for sane citizens .
I was in Argentina in the 70s during the Dirty War and this is the closest I have felt to that kind of experience since those days .
Dark days indeed – and did I mention the press ?
They are specializing in singling out people who voice opposition and shaming them in really vile terms.
” Anika Stojkovski , a corporate compliance and governance consultant based in Melbourne , also offered her personal impressions on the situation .
“ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with all this and predicted what is happening now , ” Stojkovski told me via email .
“ I could tell they were lying.
” “ I really think there is more to it and it is all about total control and heading towards the agenda for us all to be vaccinated… [ Victorian Premier Dan ] Andrews says he wants every man , woman and child vaccinated .
There is no vaccine !
!
So will we be kept in isolation till when ?
” Speaking on the medical situation in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact that “ all consulting rooms in hospitals are closed , and all appointments are conducted by specialists by phone.
” “ This still doesn ’ t add up … they are not admitting to hospital for Covid unless severely ill with life threatening symptoms , while most people can not be tested for the virus without traveling beyond the 5-kilometer point.
” When I inquired if there was anything happening out of the ordinary in Australia aside from the pandemic , Stojkovski mentioned that the Australian federal government [ Canberra ] was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Victorian State Premier was making with China .
Our prime minster [ Scott Morrison ] said they were not in the national interest.
” In terms of geopolitical significance , this is huge .
Victoria is the only Australian state to formally sign on to the People Republic of China ’ s major foreign-policy initiative , the Belt and Road Initiative .
This contradicts the position of the federal government to not join the BRI as it raised serious geostrategic concerns .
According to a report by the Australian Institute of International Affairs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Victoria in an awkward position as Australia has formally signed onto the ‘ Blue Dot Network ’ with the US to assist in developing infrastructure in the Indo-Pacific region to counter the BRI.
” At the very least , the timing of an agreement between Victoria and communist China , happening just months before the economic shutdown of Melbourne over a minuscule increase in Covid deaths , which will halt , possibly indefinitely , China ’ s spread into a major Western economy , is astonishing .
Although it would be hard to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would certainly find the connection – involving as it does the momentous geopolitical battle between Beijing and Washington – worth examining in greater detail .
To that end , the media is already busy portraying anyone who questions the logic of the lockdowns with its favorite conversation stopping term , “ conspiracy theorist.
” Whatever the case may be , the alleged ‘ super spread ’ of Covid in Melbourne is already causing political fractures between Canberra and Victoria , in much the same way it is in the United States between the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the residents of Melbourne continue to suffer under a lockdown that appears more tenuous with each passing day .
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The citizens of Australia’s second most populous city are suffering under the harshest lockdown conditions of all Western democracies. Their voices need to be heard.
In the last several weeks, Melbourne has introduced shockingly draconian anti-Covid measures, imposed on the metropolis of some 5 million souls. What tragedy was responsible for spurring officials to leap into action? To blame was a fractional uptick in the number of coronavirus deaths – seven to be exact, and all involving citizens above the age of 70 years old.
The media jumped on the “new single-day record in Victoria,” which brought the state death toll to 56. I repeat, 56, and the overwhelming majority of those cases involved elderly people in nursing facilities, some of which are under investigation for their handling of patients. While it goes without saying that elderly lives matter, do seven elderly deaths really warrant the shutdown of one of Australia’s busiest cities?
Fascism is alive and well we see @VicGovAu. Dystopian hell in Melbourne Australia pic.twitter.com/U3bKb1Pihh — banthebbc (@banthebbc) August 7, 2020
Despite the extremely low death rate, Melbourne residents – or shall we call them what they really are, prisoners – must adhere to the following rules:
– No traveling more than 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) from their homes;
– No traveling to other states inside of the country;
– Those under house arrest are permitted to leave home for just one hour each day for exercise;
– Only one person is permitted to go shopping per family each day; shopping is to be done within 5 kilometers from home;
– Unlike traditional prisons, visitations are not permitted to house arrestees;
– All school activities are to be conducted online;
– All businesses, services and construction cancelled;
– Organized sport, forget it;
– In the case of funerals, try and delay your demise if at all possible, otherwise, expect just 10 guests;
– Ditto for weddings;
– Curfew in effect between 8 pm and 5 am.
These restrictions will be in place for (at least) six weeks.
Meanwhile, as to be expected, the authorities have been enthusiastic about meting out their street justice on people who allegedly violate the regime’s rules. And not just on the street. The police have been authorized to enter private residences without a warrant.
Shane Patton, Police Chief Commissioner of Victoria, told reporters that “there are consequences” for not going along with the lockdown.
“In the last week, we’ve seen a trend, an emergence, if you like, of groups of people, small groups, but nonetheless concerning groups, who classify themselves as ‘sovereign citizens,’ whatever that might mean, people who don’t think the law applies to them,” Patton, wearing all black attire for the occasion, explained. “We’ve seen them at checkpoints…not providing a name and address. And at least on three or four occasions in the last week, we’ve had to smash the windows of people in cars and pull them out of there…”
https://twitter.com/riseupmelbourne/status/1289150121460903937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1289150121460903937%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.strategic-culture.org%2Fnews%2F2020%2F08%2F12%2Fletters-from-melbourne-ghost-town-police-state-under-brutal-covid-lockdown%2F
Needless to say, there have been other examples of people losing their patience with the lockdown conditions. Local media reported that an unidentified 38-year-old Melbourne woman was arrested after “repeatedly bashing a 26-year-old female police officer’s head against a concrete sidewalk.” The police officer was reportedly attacked for asking the woman why she wasn’t wearing a mask.
In the same week, a mother was fined $1,652 for breaking with regulations after she was tackled to the ground and handcuffed by three cops. Her daughter filmed the incident, while begging the police, “get off my mum, she’s in pain.”
An American acquaintance, who requested to remain anonymous, sent me the following message from Melbourne where he lives with his family: “All three of my working kids are in enforced idleness – mandatory masks and, as you might expect in a place with its fair share of inadequate people, mask nazis are the new danger for sane citizens. I was in Argentina in the 70s during the Dirty War and this is the closest I have felt to that kind of experience since those days. Dark days indeed – and did I mention the press? They are specializing in singling out people who voice opposition and shaming them in really vile terms.”
Anika Stojkovski, a corporate compliance and governance consultant based in Melbourne, also offered her personal impressions on the situation.
“I sensed there was something very wrong with all this and predicted what is happening now,” Stojkovski told me via email. “I could tell they were lying.”
“I really think there is more to it and it is all about total control and heading towards the agenda for us all to be vaccinated… [Victorian Premier Dan] Andrews says he wants every man, woman and child vaccinated. There is no vaccine!! So will we be kept in isolation till when?”
Speaking on the medical situation in the city, Stojkovski was struck by the fact that “all consulting rooms in hospitals are closed, and all appointments are conducted by specialists by phone.”
“This still doesn’t add up … they are not admitting to hospital for Covid unless severely ill with life threatening symptoms, while most people cannot be tested for the virus without traveling beyond the 5-kilometer point.”
When I inquired if there was anything happening out of the ordinary in Australia aside from the pandemic, Stojkovski mentioned that the Australian federal government [Canberra] was “not happy with the contracts our Victorian State Premier was making with China. Our prime minster [Scott Morrison] said they were not in the national interest.”
In terms of geopolitical significance, this is huge. Victoria is the only Australian state to formally sign on to the People Republic of China’s major foreign-policy initiative, the Belt and Road Initiative. This contradicts the position of the federal government to not join the BRI as it raised serious geostrategic concerns. According to a report by the Australian Institute of International Affairs, the BRI Framework Agreement “places Victoria in an awkward position as Australia has formally signed onto the ‘Blue Dot Network’ with the US to assist in developing infrastructure in the Indo-Pacific region to counter the BRI.”
At the very least, the timing of an agreement between Victoria and communist China, happening just months before the economic shutdown of Melbourne over a minuscule increase in Covid deaths, which will halt, possibly indefinitely, China’s spread into a major Western economy, is astonishing. Although it would be hard to prove cause and effect, future historians would certainly find the connection – involving as it does the momentous geopolitical battle between Beijing and Washington – worth examining in greater detail. To that end, the media is already busy portraying anyone who questions the logic of the lockdowns with its favorite conversation stopping term, “conspiracy theorist.”
Whatever the case may be, the alleged ‘super spread’ of Covid in Melbourne is already causing political fractures between Canberra and Victoria, in much the same way it is in the United States between the Democrats and the Republicans. Meanwhile, the residents of Melbourne continue to suffer under a lockdown that appears more tenuous with each passing day.
Source: https://www.strategic-culture.org
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prepareforchange--2020-08-19--The Whore and The Remnant

The Whore and The Remnant

Oh , to be sure , the Church had enriched itself via improper means for centuries prior to Vatican II .
It had created monarchies and oppression , funded the Inquisition , dreamed up the concept of “ income taxes ” , and sold “ indulgences ” , twisted the meaning of “ commonwealth ” into The Holy Roman Empire , and committed many other atrocities and sins prior to Vatican II .
Despite all of this , at rock bottom , the Church still stood for something , still offered Catholics and other Christians a moral compass .
Prior @ @ @ @ @ @ @ knew that it was wrong to kill people , wrong to lie , cheat , or steal , wrong to break one ’ s word , wrong to cheat on one ’ s spouse , wrong to envy and covet– and certainly wrong to kill babies or teach that sodomy is “ okay ” .
You could go into any Roman Catholic Church in the world and find the same liturgy , the same Mass , the same common language — Latin , and if you asked a question about doctrine , you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Not so today .
In the almost sixty years since Vatican II , all that has eroded away .
Communion , where and when it is available , has become a solitary act .
People line up , six feet apart , not talking , not touching , not even looking at each other , march into an empty room , grab a packet of communion bread , and use their own hands to wolf it down in the parking lot .
All the evils which always plagued the Church continued to wheedle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without a common language and commitment to moral purpose , the Church strayed farther and farther away from its mission and became increasingly embroiled in its investments and in managing all the property that it “ received in trust ” .
The original Peter ’ s Pence was an income tax imposed in the 12th century to help defray the cost of the Crusades .
It was collected by the Inquisition on April 15th , just as it still is , today .
Only in addition to this “ secular tax ” , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Peter ’ s Pence on June 15th as a special offering to give the Pope funds to distribute to the victims of war , displacement , natural disasters , and disease .
The simple good faith honesty of spending the money on what they collected the money for , eluded these men .
They have become double-minded , saying one thing , and doing another .
And nobody at the Vatican even noticed .
They took it for granted that they would collect the money under False Pretenses , and spend it otherwise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Church leadership is standing silent .
Silent in the face of teaching sodomy in public schools .
Silent in the face of abortion .
Silent in the face of race riots .
Silent in the face of gay marriage .
Silent in the face of the gross mismanagement of the Municipal United States Congress .
Silent in the face of their own corruption .
No confession .
No repentance .
No condemnation of evil .
No resolve to do better .
For the Roman Catholic Church , that reality was borne home with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the secular world with its focus on money and property management and investments , “ mainstreaming ” and “ popular theology ” and “ do as you will ” has borne its fruits ever since .
Still , there will always be a remnant and that remnant will find leadership growing out of the stricken roots of the ancient Church .
The teachings of Jesus will endure all tests .
The Holy Spirit will win .
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By Anna Von Reitz,
Oh, to be sure, the Church had enriched itself via improper means for centuries prior to Vatican II. It had created monarchies and oppression, funded the Inquisition, dreamed up the concept of “income taxes”, and sold “indulgences”, twisted the meaning of “commonwealth” into The Holy Roman Empire, and committed many other atrocities and sins prior to Vatican II.
Despite all of this, at rock bottom, the Church still stood for something, still offered Catholics and other Christians a moral compass. Prior to Vatican II, the Church still knew that it was wrong to kill people, wrong to lie, cheat, or steal, wrong to break one’s word, wrong to cheat on one’s spouse, wrong to envy and covet– and certainly wrong to kill babies or teach that sodomy is “okay”.
You could go into any Roman Catholic Church in the world and find the same liturgy, the same Mass, the same common language — Latin, and if you asked a question about doctrine, you’d get the same answer. Not so today. In the almost sixty years since Vatican II, all that has eroded away.
Today, there is only the form of the liturgy and offices remaining, which gives an appearance of continuance much as the existence of court rules and procedures continues to give an “appearance” of justice.
Communion, where and when it is available, has become a solitary act. People line up, six feet apart, not talking, not touching, not even looking at each other, march into an empty room, grab a packet of communion bread, and use their own hands to wolf it down in the parking lot.
Somehow, this is supposed to bring comfort and spiritual solidarity?
All the evils which always plagued the Church continued to wheedle away, year after year, and without a common language and commitment to moral purpose, the Church strayed farther and farther away from its mission and became increasingly embroiled in its investments and in managing all the property that it “received in trust”.
A good example of the result is the recent Peter’s Pence Scandal.
The original Peter’s Pence was an income tax imposed in the 12th century to help defray the cost of the Crusades. It was collected by the Inquisition on April 15th, just as it still is, today. Only in addition to this “secular tax”, the Church also began collecting a new Peter’s Pence on June 15th as a special offering to give the Pope funds to distribute to the victims of war, displacement, natural disasters, and disease.
Faithful Catholics donated $500 million to this cause, and later found out that instead of using the money for disaster relief, the Pope and his consultants invested the money in things like luxury condos, new bank buildings, and Hollywood movie productions.
Questioned about this, the Church leadership bridled up and made excuses about being responsible to invest the money —- even though investment was never mentioned as any part of the purpose of the collection.
The simple good faith honesty of spending the money on what they collected the money for, eluded these men. They have become double-minded, saying one thing, and doing another. And nobody at the Vatican even noticed. They took it for granted that they would collect the money under False Pretenses, and spend it otherwise.
Since Vatican II, when the Church incorporated itself as part of the UN Corporation, such moral and fiscal turpitude has been the rule, not the exception.
Selling the body and blood of Jesus is the ultimate fornication of the Church. This is where the analogy of the “whore” comes in — the selling of the body for money.
But it is a body that is not theirs to sell.
As we all move forward the Church leadership is standing silent. Silent in the face of teaching sodomy in public schools. Silent in the face of abortion. Silent in the face of race riots. Silent in the face of gay marriage. Silent in the face of the gross mismanagement of the Municipal United States Congress. Silent in the face of their own corruption. No confession. No repentance. No condemnation of evil. No resolve to do better.
Certainly it is this final fact that yields condemnation, the point wherein we all condemn ourselves and find no escape for lack of repentance.
My husband and I have removed ourselves from association with any incorporated Church. We deem it impossible to be a pagan Christian, and similarly impossible to be an incorporated Church.
For the Roman Catholic Church, that reality was borne home with Vatican II. The resulting surrender to the secular world with its focus on money and property management and investments, “mainstreaming” and “popular theology” and “do as you will” has borne its fruits ever since.
Still, there will always be a remnant and that remnant will find leadership growing out of the stricken roots of the ancient Church. The teachings of Jesus will endure all tests. The Holy Spirit will win. In that we can all have faith and confidence, regardless of the failures of men and institutions.
So be of good cheer as we sit among the ruins and contemplate the folly that brought us to this point. The Church has failed. The Governments have failed.
We know how we got to this point:—in a word, incorporation.
We have allowed legal fiction entities to proliferate and promulgate without oversight, until the men running corporations — including incorporated churches — run roughshod over the people who granted these corporations the right to exist.
Yes, we know how we got here. The only question is— where to now? —————————- Source: www.annavonreitz.com
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