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In his book As If We Were Grownups, author Jeff Golden’s
thoughtful assertion is that, ‘We consistently elect [political]
candidates who tell us what children would want to hear.
Children want to hear that everything is okay, that little is
required of them, that they can go out and play or watch TV,
and that they’ll be taken care of and protected. In exchange,
they are expected to be seen and not heard, to pay their taxes,
to take their flu shots, and to not question the authorities.’

Radio talk show host, Mike Rivero, sheds some light on why so many people are apathetic and complacent about changing their beliefs:
‘Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and
fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once
a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they
live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or
she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt gov-
ernment entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose
to do nothing is to surrender one’s self-image of standing for
principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that
choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the
critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not
to think at all.’

[…]

The specific intention of 9/11 was to terrorize the American
people into supporting the so-called “war on terror,” which
is a replacement for the cold war’s “war on communism.”
It’s a blank check for the US government and the American
military-industrial-complex to attack anyone, anywhere they
want, anytime they want – to support the empire.

— 9/11 truth activist Ken Jenkins

” The Truth is Not Enough: How to Overcome Emotional Barriers to 9/11 Truth — Global Outlook, 2009.

Aug 23

“A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies. And we are dying now.” The Rise of Gonzo Porn Is the Latest Sign of America’s Cultural Apocalypse — Chris Hedges

Aug 20

“In the contemporary United States, we are trapped in a … delusion. We are told that it is ‘realistic’ to yield to the absurd idea that the systems we live in are the only systems possible or acceptable based on the fact that some people like them and wish them to continue. But what if our current level of first world consumption is exhausting the ecological basis for life? Too bad. The only ‘realistic’ options are those that view this lifestyle as nonnegotiable. …What if the hierarchies our lives are based on are producing extreme material deprivation for the oppressed…? Too bad. The only ‘realistic’ options are those that view hierarchy as inevitable.” Robert Jensen — The Delusion Revolution | Adbusters

Aug 18

“the nation they (the founders) envisioned and created was a white supremacist nation. Meaning, it was founded on the notion that whites should rule, that whites had superior ability to rule, that the nation should be a white republic, and that people of color surely should not have equal rights with whites. That point is inarguable” Tim Wise — Fact-Checking and Correcting Rush Limbaugh (Or, Reflections on the Easiest Thing I’ll Do All Day)

Aug 11

“President Obama with his tenacious belief in looking forward, not backward, exemplifies a national mindset to avoid the painful search for truth and justice that could produce still more public disillusionment with government and feed the belief that American democracy is weak at best, and delusional at worst.” Dissident Voice : 9/11 Mind Swell

Aug 10

Aug 6

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter X

Aug 5

‘9/11 was an inside job’ - US poet JerryMazza RussiaToday August 02, 2009 | 911Blogger.com

Jul 21

“Despite the layers upon layers of justification Israel cites, there is only one reason it continues its heinous extermination of the Palestinian people — because it can. Because the United States supports such atrocity. Because the United States finances, arms and equips Israel, and — more important — protects it from having to account for any of its crimes. So, who’s to blame here?” By Sheila Samples : Information Clearing House - ICH

Jul 12

The Internet

“About 600 million years ago, the branch of fungi leading to animals evolved to capture nutrients by surrounding their food with cellular sacs — essentially primitive stomachs. As these organisms evolved, they developed outer layers of cells — skins, basically — to prevent moisture loss and as a barrier against infection. Their stomachs were confined within the skin. These were the earliest animals.

“I have long proposed that mycelia are the earth’s ‘natural Internet.’ … recently scientists in Great Britain have published papers about the ‘architecture’ of a mycelium — how it’s organized. They focused on the nodes of crossing, which are the branchings that allow the mycelium, when there is a breakage or an infection, to choose an alternate route and regrow. There’s no one specific point on the network that can shut the whole operation down. These nodes of crossing, those scientists found, conform to the same mathematical optimization curves that computer scientists have developed to optimize the Internet. Or, rather, I should say that the Internet conforms to the same optimization curves as the mycelium, since the mycelium came first.” - Paul Stamets

“It’s not an accident that the internet came into existence during the last hurrah of the age of cheap energy, the quarter century between 1980 and 2005 when the price of energy dropped to the lowest levels in human history. Only in a period where energy was quite literally too cheap to bother conserving could so energy-intensive an information network be constructed. The problem here, of course, is that the conditions that made the cheap abundant energy of that quarter century have already come to an end, and the economics of the internet take on a very different shape as energy becomes scarce and expensive again.” - John Michael Greer

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