Rayshard Brooks: weer een gekleurde VS burger die om niets werd vermoord door de politie

Afgelopen vrijdag werd Rayshard Brooks terwijl hij wegrende van een politieagent, in de rug geschoten, hij zou een direct gevaar vormen voor de 2 agenten die hem aan een ademtest wilden onderwerpen, puur en alleen omdat hij 's morgens vroeg slapend werd aangetroffen op een parkeerterrein van een Wendy's filiaal.....

De agenten beweerden dat hij een direct gevaar vormde daar hij een taser van één van de agenten afnam en die tijdens zijn vlucht 'op hen richtte'. Weet niet hoe het met jou zit, maar als ik wegren en probeer een wapen te richten op degenen die achter me loopt, terwijl ik mijn ogen gericht moet houden op het vluchtpad en eventuele obstakels, is het praktisch onmogelijk iemand te treffen, althans met een pistool.... Een taser is bovendien een korte afstandswapen en anders dan bij een pistool moet je dan dichtbij iemand zijn om deze te kunnen raken, echter uit beelden blijkt dat Brooks te ver van de agenten verwijderd was om van een echte bedreiging te kunnen spreken..... Volgens de politie kon men Brooks niet laten lopen met een wapen (de taser) van de politie, terwijl je in de VS als particulier ook zo'n wapen kan en mag kopen......

Kortom de agent die Brooks vermoordde heeft dat doelbewust gedaan en heeft daarna geprobeerd om de taser als excuus te gebruiken voor het vermoorden van een gekleurde burger....... Kortom alweer een gekleurde burger om niets vermoord door de politie.......

Intussen is ten overvloede gebleken dat tijdens recente verkiezingen in de VS het de gekleurde burgers uitermate moeilijk werd gemaakt om te stemmen en velen daadwerkelijk hun stem niet konden uitbrengen.... 

Het hieronder opgenomen schrijven is een vraag om geld van Voter Suppression Alert, een onderdeel van Demand Progress.org, waarin wordt uitgelegd hoe de laatste verkiezing in Georgia is verlopen. Daarna een artikel van Caitlin Johnstone over de moord op Rayshard Brooks, waarin ook zij wijst op andere staten waar men het gekleurde mensen moeilijk, zo niet onmogelijk maakt om te stemmen (vergeet wat het stemmen betreft niet dat Trump een paar maanden geleden heeft gesteld dat wanneer iedere burger in de VS die mag stemmen en dat zou doen, de Republikeinen nooit weer aan de macht zullen komen....):

This is how Trump wins

Voter Suppression Alert <info@demandprogress.org>

Georgia's primary election on Tuesday was an absolute disaster.
Four-hour-long lines. Malfunctioning voting machines. Tens of thousands of absentee ballots “lost” in the mail.^1,2 It was so bad that there have been calls for United Nations elections monitors to step in.³

And as usual, these problems were worse in majority Black precincts.⁴
Georgia's voting disaster is being called a “giant warning siren” for what could happen in November.⁵ If Congress doesn't act now, millions of voters could be disenfranchised or forced to choose between their health and their civic duty.

Congress must pass national vote-by-mail IMMEDIATELY. Will you donate $5 to help Demand Progress rally grassroots pressure to pass a national vote-by-mail law?

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Once the coronavirus pandemic began, Georgia’s election officials asked voters repeatedly to request absentee ballots in order to alleviate pressure on understaffed polling places. The
voters complied with more than 1.5 million requests for mail-in ballots.⁶

But the state didn't hold up its end of the bargain. More than 60,000 people hadn't received their ballots by the last days before the day of the primary, and those who did were told to return the ballots in envelopes that didn't exist, along with other confusing instructions.^7,8

On the day of the election, the state implemented new voting machines in some districts—machines that experts said were not ready to be deployed—which immediately malfunctioned.⁹ Polling places in the Atlanta metro area—a section of Georgia that is predominantly people of color—were understaffed and unprepared for the people needing to vote in person, while polling places in whiter, richer areas had fewer problems.¹⁰ Social media was flooded with pictures of hours-long lines in the Atlanta area, while other places had no lines at all.¹¹

As former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said, “It is a disaster that was very preventable, emblematic of the deeply systemic issues” Georgia has.¹² But it's clear that Georgia's leadership has no interest in preventing these failures.

It's not just Georgia whose election suffered during the primary. In Pennsylvania, thousands of voters were sent the wrong ballot. Maryland had outdated registration lists. Washington, DC, wasn’t able to fulfill many absentee ballot requests and had fewer than 15% of its polling places open due to the coronavirus.¹³

Experts are predicting a second wave of the coronavirus in the fall, right around the general election.¹⁴ If we want every state to have the mandate and the resources for a successful vote-by-mail program and give everyone a chance to have their voices heard in November, Congress must pass a nationwide vote-by-mail law with the next coronavirus bill. More than 100,000 Demand Progress members have emailed Congress asking for a vote-by-mail law, and now we’re going to step up our campaign.

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Sources:
1. CNN, "'A giant warning siren': Concerns about November's election grow after Georgia's disastrous primary," June 11, 2020
2. 11 Alive, "What if you never got your absentee ballot? You've got options," June 8, 2020
3. Esquire, "Georgia Is Screaming Out for U.N. Election Monitors," June 9, 2020
4. NBC News, "Georgia election 'catastrophe' in largely minority areas sparks investigation," June 9, 2020
5. CNN, "'A giant warning siren': Concerns about November's election grow after Georgia's disastrous primary," June 11, 2020
6. The New York Times, "Beyond Georgia: A Warning for November as States Scramble to Expand Vote-by-Mail" June 11, 2020
7. Ibid.
8. Atlanta Journal Constitution, "Georgia absentee voting instructions to be corrected," April 28, 2020
9. The New York Times, "‘I Refuse Not to Be Heard’: Georgia in Uproar Over Voting Meltdown," June 11, 2020
10. Ibid.
11. Tweet by Brent Peabody, June 9, 2020
12. The New York Times, "‘I Refuse Not to Be Heard’: Georgia in Uproar Over Voting Meltdown," June 11, 2020
13. The New York Times, "Beyond Georgia: A Warning for November as States Scramble to Expand Vote-by-Mail" June 11, 2020
14. CNN, "Another wave of coronavirus will likely hit the US in the fall. Here's why and what we can do to stop it," May 2, 2020

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Terug naar de laatste politiemoord op Rayshard Brooks, een gekleurd VS burger (althans de laatste moord voor zover nu bekend is, voor hetzelfde geld heeft er alweer zo'n moord plaatsgevonden): één en ander geeft ook aan dat er opnieuw een reden is om verder over tasergebruik te spreken, blijkbaar vinden een groot aantal agenten in de VS dat de taser een dodelijk wapen is, dit vanwege negatieve ervaringen bij gebruik door de politie van dit martelwerktuig, alleen daarom al zou tasergebruik, ook in Nederland verboden moeten worden!!! (de politietop van New York heeft de taser jaren geleden al verboden!!)

Het volgende artikel werd geschreven door Caitlin Johnstone:

The Killing Of Rayshard Brooks Shows How Police “Reform” Is A Joke

by Caitlin Johnstone

A black man named Rayshard Brooks was recently killed by an Atlanta police officer who shot him in the back while he was attempting to run away.

Video footage from the police bodycam and a nearby witness makes it clear that Brooks resisted arrest after failing a breathalyzer test when police approached him sleeping in his car at a Wendy's parking lot, punching an officer and taking a taser the police had attempted to use on him before trying to flee the scene. Video footage from the parking lot makes it clear that Brooks was running away, and, without ceasing to run, pointed the taser at police behind him, at which point he was shot twice in the back by an officer named Garrett Rolfe.

Courtney Bryant ✔ @CourtneyDBryant

New video released by the GBI shows the moment #Atlanta police shot and killed #RayshardBrooks in the parking lot of a Wendy’s. Police say Rayshard Brooks grabbed a taser and pointed it at police before an officer fired shots.

11:19 PM - Jun 13, 2020

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(voor het zien van de video in dit bericht klik hier voor het origineel) 

There is no rational defense of this shooting. If someone is running away from you with a short-range weapon, it is literally impossible for them to pose an imminent threat to you. Just allowing Brooks to run out of the range of the taser, as he was already trying to do, would have nullified any potential threat to either of the two officers on the scene, because it would have been literally impossible for Brooks to tase them while continuing to run in the direction he was running.

This indisputable and self-evident fact hasn't stopped people from bleating moronic police apologia in my social media notifications since the shooting occurred.

• They claim Brooks could have tased an officer and taken his gun (again, let Brooks take himself out of taser range and there's exactly zero risk of this happening).
• They claim they couldn't just let a "dangerous" criminal run around with a police weapon (it's a taser; you can buy them at Walmart. What's he going to do? Go on a mass tasing rampage?).
• They claim the cop had to execute Brooks because he posed a "danger to society" (it is not a cop's job to act as judge, jury and executioner in determining whether someone poses a general threat to society; that's what the courts are for).
• They claim if you punch a cop you deserve whatever you get (believing, because they are authority-worshipping bootlickers, that a cop being punched is worse than a civilian being killed by gunfire).
• They claim if you don't follow police instructions then of course you're at risk of being killed (yes, police doing inexcusably brutal things is the problem that people are trying to address here).

Even leaving aside any debate about policing as it exists in America today, there was absolutely no excuse for Rolfe's behavior. They had all of Brooks' information. They had his car. They knew where he lives. They could have followed him in their car and called for backup. They could have gone in with backup to arrest him later.

But Rolfe decided to kill. After watching all these protests against police brutality raging throughout his country since the murder of George Floyd, after being confronted with with all the public outrage about police killing black men day after day in news headline after news headline, after his society forced him to contemplate police violence and his role in it, Garrett Rolfe still decided to kill. After all that, he watched a black man running away from him, posing no threat to him whatsoever, and he decided to kill.

The fact that cops are so thoroughly inoculated against public demand that they change their behavior makes a complete farce of the decoy police "reform" agenda that establishment narrative managers have been actively trying to corral the current protest movement into to kill their support for police abolishment.

Cenk Uygur ✔ @cenkuygur

Let me pick up on what @staceyabrams just said. #DefundThePolice slogan is being used to divide us. She called for transformation of police, that's much stronger than just reform but not distracting like defunding. #TransformThePolice is appealing to most people & sounds strong.

4,527     9:43 PM - Jun 14, 2020

There's a feud going on in America's new protest movement right now between those who wish to abolish, defund, dismantle, and/or disarm the police, and those who want to "reform" or "transform" the police. The former are actually pushing for a revolutionary change which actually pushes back against abusive power structures and calls for the creation of a radically different social paradigm, while the latter wants to keep policing institutions in their irredeemably corrupt state and add more funding for "de-escalation" training seminars where grown adults are told not to commit gratuitous acts of violence.

Training seminars which, it turns out, Officer Garrett Rolfe had just completed.

"According to the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, Rolfe had recently received use of force training," reports Atlanta news outlet AJC. "On April 24, he took a nine-hour course on de-escalation options, his record shows. And on Jan. 9, Rolfe was trained on the use of deadly force at the DeKalb County police academy."

And yet you've got fauxgressive establishment narrative managers like Cenk Uygur promoting the reform agenda and calling calls to defund the police "distracting".

I wrote the other day that "if these protests end it won’t be because tyrants in the Republican Party like Donald Trump and Tom Cotton succeeded in making the case for beating them into silence with the US military. It will be because liberal manipulators succeeded in co-opting and stagnating its momentum." This is exactly the sort of thing I was talking about.

Spectrum News NY1 ✔ @NY1

.@NYGovCuomo suggests protesters pack it up, in light of new reforms: "People are still out protesting. You don’t need to protest. You won. You won. You accomplished your goal. Society says, you’re right. The police need systemic reform.”

2,393     6:23 PM - Jun 13, 2020

People who claim these protests are the result of some kind of psyop often cite the fact that they're being supported by establishment liberals, mainstream media, and giant corporations, but this misses a very important distinction in the dynamic that is at play here. While it is true that these institutions have been expressing general support for the demonstrations and the idea that black lives matter, what absolutely none of them have been doing is supporting the defunding or abolishment of America's police force.  None of the empire's ruling elites support this.

The reason you are seeing manipulation and attempts at co-option in this new movement is because that is exactly what's happening. But it isn't what's driving the enthusiasm behind the demonstrations. Rather, you are seeing an attempted hijacking of an actual revolutionary agenda that actually challenges actual power institutions (including increasingly common attempts to manipulate the narrative by claiming demands to defund and abolish are actually just calls for reform).

The widespread call to abolish America's police state, an integral part of the glue which holds the US-centralized empire together, is revolutionary. It is not an exaggeration to say it's as interesting and exciting as seeing a mainstream call to end US imperialism, and it is just as threatening to establishment power structures. The call for "reform", in contrast, is just more milquetoast, Obamaesque fauxgressive verbiage designed to stagnate a real revolutionary change movement. It is as interesting and as threatening to establishment power structures as saying the US should push regime change in Syria rather than Iran.

Police abolishment advocates are pushing for something which would require the complete reconfiguration of power in society to accomplish, where the prison industrial complex and the war on drugs are ended and what we think of as policing can for example be mostly replaced by something more akin to social work. Police "reform" proponents are advancing a decoy agenda which people have been distracted by for generations while the police force has become increasingly militarized behind a veil of meaningless verbiage about community outreach and training programs.

austin walker ✔ @austin_walker

It's not just that Biden doesn't want to defund the police, per his spox, its that he believes cops just don't have enough resources for reform. Would be laughable if it wasn't so dire. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1270041926373462016 …

The Hill ✔ @thehill

JUST IN: Biden campaign opposes calls to "defund the police" http://hill.cm/GwVh39n

4,366      7:48 PM - Jun 8, 2020

This is where the real revolutionary energy is at in America right now, so it's no wonder establishment manipulators are doing everything they can to co-opt it into something innocuous which won't disturb actual power structures in the slightest. Obama made a whole political career out of telling leftwardly inclined Americans that they're getting what they want without actually giving it to them, and now we've got Democratic Party princeling Andrew Cuomo telling New York protesters "You don’t need to protest. You won. You won. 
You accomplished your goal. Society says, you’re right. The police need systemic reform.”

It's textbook liberal manipulation used to steer the revolutionary zeitgeist into an impotent conceptual tar pit for another few years while the prison bars are reinforced.

As I explained a while back in my article "How To Tell Real News From Useless Narrative Fluff", you can tell what's really going on by watching where the money is going, where the weapons are going, where the resources are going and where the people are going. You can see in these demands for dismantling the police state a bunch of people moving around demanding to drastically change all four of these things, and you can see from the liberal narrative managers an agenda to prevent any of those four things from actually changing. 
And if they win out, you will be able to watch the people, police, weapons and resources continue moving in more or less the exact same way they've been moving.

They're trying to replace a real revolutionary impulse with useless narrative fluff. They have learned that it is much easier to neuter such impulses with empty agreement and a bunch of insubstantial words than to tell them no and stomp them down. Hopefully, the people have learned this too.

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Zie ook:
'#ADEMBENEMEND: Nederlandse hiphopscene laat zich horen tegen racisme'

'BLM: Politie VS schiet, vermoordt en zet meer mensen gevangen dan andere ontwikkelde landen: 'de cijfers' van CNN, vooral schrikbarend als het om gekleurde mensen gaat'

'Trump en Fox zijn uit op een militaire coup' (o.a. over de bemoeienissen van Trump met de demonstraties tegen racistisch politie geweld)

'Black Lives Matter, maar niet voor BBC First: Midsomer Murders met racist John Nettles wordt gewoon uitgezonden'

'Leopold II en wit geweld in Congo: Geert Jan Hahn (BNR) weer eens uit de bocht: een beeld van 150 jaar geleden is het oudste beeld in België' 

'Vriendschappelijke en handelsrelaties met landen die minderheden vervolgen moeten worden gekapt'

'Militairen op de straten van Washington: VS op weg naar een burgeroorlog' 

'Obama en 'change' n.a.v. de moord op George Floyd: een ongelofelijke hypocriet aan het woord'  

'Brekend nieuws: militairen op straat in Washington!!' (minder brekend dan het aanvankelijk leek te zijn)

'Donald Trump geeft gekleurde burgers een schop na, mensen die al extra worden getroffen door COVID-19'

'VS politiegeweld tegen demonstranten is illegaal volgens internationale wetten: VN veroordeel dit geweld!!' 

'Black Lives Matter: een cartoon'

'Trump poseert met bijbel, waarvoor hij een vreedzame demonstratie met grof geweld middels traangas en rubberkogels uit elkaar heeft laten jagen'

'Politiemoord op George Floyd: de druppel die de emmer deed overlopen, waar tevens sociale achterstand een motivering is, zoals in Frankrijk, Chili en andere landen' 

'Anti-racisme demonstratie in Amsterdam reden voor hysterische ophef'

'Uitrusting Politie VS versus die van medisch hulpverleners' 

'Politie VS infiltreert protesten n.a.v. de dood van George Floyd en zet aan tot geweld' 

'George Floyd: de voortdurende politiemoorden op gekleurden in de VS: de witte overheersing met vervolging van gekleurden.....'

'Trump wil sociale media ontdoen van factcheckers die de Republikeinen de bel aanbinden vanwege nepnieuws en andere bagger'

Het label BLM (direct onder dit bericht) staat voor Black Lives Matter.

Russiagate hysterie na bezoek Trump aan Putin blijft groeien, zonder dat daarvoor een nanometer aan bewijs is geleverd.....

Zelfs in de rest van het westen dragen media en politiek hun steen bij, maar de hysterie in de VS na het bezoek van Trump aan Putin slaat alles. Men vergelijkt deze ontmoeting en het hele Russiagate gebeuren nu zelfs met de aanslagen van 911 en de aanval van Japan op Pearl Harbor tijdens WOII..... Terwijl dit hele Russiagate is gefundeerd op los zand, ofwel Russiagate is niet gefundeerd op werkelijke feiten en gebeurtenissen...... Voorts is het natuurlijk een gotspe om te stellen dat het inzetten op vreedzame banden met Rusland, is te vergelijken met grote aanslagen of zelfs zaken die in WOII plaatsvonden..!!

Er zijn zelfs 'journalisten' die beweren dat ze alle bewijzen hebben gezien, die zouden aantonen dat Rusland de VS presidentsverkiezingen in 2016 heeft gemanipuleerd, terwijl degenen die over deze zogenaamde bewijzen gaan, keer op keer stellen deze niet openbaar te kunnen maken vanwege de 'nationale veiligheid...' ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Bewijzen kunnen niet geheim zijn als je een ander land beschuldigt van dergelijke manipulaties, de inwoners van de VS (en de rest van de wereld) hebben alle recht dergelijke bewijzen te zien, bewijzen die allesbehalve een gevaar voor de staatsveiligheid zijn, daar ze niet bestaan. 

Echter, als bekend wordt dat de geheime diensten FBI, CIA en NSA alweer hebben gelogen, zou dat de geloofwaardigheid van deze leugen-instituties nog verder onderuit halen, uiteraard is dat een gevaar voor de topgraaiers van die diensten, graaiers en machtswellustelingen die deze leugens tot in het oneindige blijven herhalen......

Lees het volgende artikel van Caitlin Johnstone, mooier kan je het niet brengen (en geeft het door, tijd dat de reguliere media hun lezers/kijkers verliezen, zolang ze hun onafhankelijkheid hebben ingeleverd voor geldgewin en lobbyisme t.b.v. het ijskoude neoliberalisme en het militair-industrieel complex):

Russiagate Is Like 9/11, Except It’s Made of Pure Narrative

July 18, 2018 at 10:38 pm

Written by Caitlin Johnstone

(CJ Opinion) — The last few days have been truly amazing. I didn’t even write an article yesterday; I’ve just been staring transfixed by my social media feeds watching liberal Americans completely lose their minds. I can’t look away. It’s like watching a slow motion train wreck, and everyone on the train is being really homophobic.

I’ve been writing about Russiagate since it started, and I can honestly say this is the worst it’s ever been, by far. The most hysterical, the most shrill, the most emotional, the most cartoonishly over-the-top and hyperbolic. The fact that Trump met with Putin in private and then publicly expressed doubt about the establishment Russia narrative has sent some political factions of America into an emotional state that is indistinguishable from what you’d expect if Russia had bombed New York City. This despite the fact that the establishment Russia narrative consists of no actual, visible events whatsoever. It is made of pure narrative.

Michael Tracey

✔@mtracey

I don’t think the US media has ever been nuttier than they are right now. It would be comical if it wasn’t so dangerous. They are harming the national psyche in a profound way

4:57 AM - Jul 18, 2018

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I don’t even know where to start. Everyone has been completely mad across the entire spectrum of what passes for America’s political “left” today, from the usual suspects like Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and their indistinguishable Never-Trump Republican allies, all the way to supposedly progressive commentators like Cenk Uygur and Shaun King. Comparing this pure narrative non-event to Pearl Harbor is now commonplace and mainstream. I just watched a United States Senator named Richard Blumenthal stare right into the camera refer to the hypothetical possibility of future Russian cyber intrusions as “this 9/11 moment.”

“We are in a 9/11 national emergency because our country is under attack, literally,” Blumenthal told CNN while demanding a record of Trump’s meeting with Putin at the Helsinki summit. “That attack is ongoing and pervasive, verified by objective and verifiable evidence. Those words are, again, from the director of National Security. And this 9/11 moment demands that we do come together.”

Nothing about the establishment Russia narrative is in any way verifiable, and the only thing it has in common with 9/11 is the media coverage and widespread emotional response.

September 11 had actual video footage of falling towers. You could go visit New York City, look at the spot where those towers used to be, and see them not being there anymore. You could learn the names of the people who died and visit their graves and talk to their family members.

Exactly how it happened is a matter of some debate in many circles, but there is no question that it happened. There was an actual event that did happen in the real world, completely independent of any stories people tell about that event.

Russiagate is like 9/11, but with none of those things. It’s like if 9/11 had all the same widespread emotional responses, all the same nonstop mass media coverage, all the same punditry screaming war, war, war, except no actual event occurred. The towers were still there, everyone was still alive, and nothing actually happened apart from the narrative and the emotional responses to that narrative.

Russiagate is 9/11 minus 9/11.

This is what I’m talking about when I say that whoever controls the narrative controls the world. Whoever controls the stories that westerners are telling each other has the power to advance concrete agendas which reshape global geopolitics without any actual thing even happening. Simply by getting a few hand-picked intelligence agents to say something happened in a relatively confident way, you can get the entire media and political body advancing that narrative as unquestionable fact, and from there advance sanctions, new military operations, a far more aggressive Nuclear Posture Review, the casting out of diplomats, the arming of Ukraine, and ultimately shove Russia further and further off the world stage.

As we discussed last time, the current administration has actually been far more aggressive against Russia than the previous administration was, and has worked against Russian interests to a far greater extent. If they wanted to, the international alliance of plutocrats and intelligence/defense agencies could just as easily use their near-total control of the narrative to advance the story that Trump is a dangerous Russia hawk who is imperiling the entire world by inflicting insane escalations against a nuclear superpower. They could elicit the exact same panicked emotional response that they are eliciting right now using the exact same media and the exact same factual situation. They wouldn’t have to change a single thing except where they place their emphasis in telling the story. The known facts would all remain exactly as they are; all that would have to change is the narrative.

Public support for Russiagate depends on the fact that most people don’t recognize how pervasively their day-to-day experience is dominated by narrative. If you are intellectually honest with yourself, you will acknowledge that you think about Russia a lot more now than you did in 2015. Russia hasn’t changed any since 2015; all that has changed is the narrative that is being told about it. And yet now the mass media and a huge chunk of rank-and-file America now view it as a major threat and think about it constantly. All they had to do was talk about Russia constantly in a fearful and urgent way, and now US liberals are convinced that Vladimir Putin is an omnipotent world-dominating supervillain who has infiltrated the highest levels of the US government.

If humanity is to pull up and away from its current path toward either ecological disaster, nuclear armageddon or Orwellian dystopia, we are necessarily going to have to change our relationship with narrative. As long as the way we think, vote and organize can be controlled by the mere verbiage of the servants of power, our species will never be able to begin operating in a sane and wholesome way. If all it takes to make us act against our own interest is a few establishment lackeys speaking a few words in a confident tone of voice, if mere authoritative language can hypnotize us like a sorcerer casting spells, we are doomed to slavery and destruction.

So stop staring transfixed by the narratives, and begin looking at the behavior and motives of the people advancing them instead. Stop staring at the movie screen they’re constantly drawing your attention to, turn around in your theater seat, and look at the people who are running the projector. The way out of this mess is to begin ignoring the stories we’re being hypnotized with and start critically examining the people who are conducting the hypnosis. Ignore the stories and stare with piercing eyes at the storytellers. The difference between the official narrative and the actual reality of this world is the difference between fiction and fact. Evolve beyond.

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Zie ook: 'De Russiagate samenzweringstheorie dient de machthebbers.........' (zie ook de links in dat bericht)