Fighting Propaganda

I used to get frustrated at times when talking to people about ugly truths that aren't commonly known; for instance GMO's, vaccines, or false flag terror. The facts are different from the hype and propaganda that most Americans take as the gospel truth. Facts are facts, I don't make them up. I discover them, or uncover them, because the truth is routinely covered up. There is always a downside to everything and yet, Americans are supremely naive about that. We just swallow whole anything we're told. If it's some expert, or some politician, or some talking head on a TV news channel, we shut down every brain cell connected with critical thinking and just accept the download like little robots. You can't tell people anything to save their lives, they just refuse to click in and hear it.

For me, hearing something once that goes against the grain is something I take note of. But when I hear it over and again I have to find out what the deal is. Is there a problem or isn't there? Who is saying these things and why? What are the facts?

I think that's where I'm in a minority. Most never get to that point. They're exposed to the same public media as I am, so they hear exactly the same things I hear. They see exactly the same newscasts, read exactly the same newspapers, and hear exactly the same speeches from the mouths of politicians. But when the anomalies start popping up, they just tune them out, as if they were not there.

I can't respect that and frankly it's led me to realize, and I'm sorry if this sounds offensive, it's not my intent, but what other conclusion can I draw... most people aren't very bright. Forget IQ tests, they're not a very good indicator of intelligence. Intelligence is not something you get in a classroom, you either have it and use it, or you have it and don't use it. Or you don't have it at all. I think it's unlikely that too many people don't have it at all, so it boils down to making a choice to use it or not use it. When tens of millions of people consistently choose to not use it, that is not an intelligent choice. It's not very bright at all. It's not even acting in one's own best interest to ignore what could be very critical information that could save your life, or your children's lives, or prevent disease, or stop the government from doing some unforgivable wrong.

If you ask people, would you choose to get sick? They'd say no. Would you choose to allow fraud to be perpetrated on us by government? Of course not. Would you choose to be informed about what you're eating and drinking when it's been tampered with and turned into something creepy? Of course. Then why do you refuse to make those choices every single time they come up? Why do you consistently opt to get sick, support the fraud, and keep eating toxic waste and feeding it to your kids? That's when they look at you and blink, and get this blank expression on their face. The little wheels in their head are turning and facts are having an arm wrestling match with the programming we all have so deeply embedded in our brains. And with far too few exceptions, the programming over rides tangible, provable reality, time after time after time.

Every time this happens their eyes glaze over a little, and they just change the subject. It's scary as hell to watch it. They often show a little hostility too, they will flat out tell you they don't like having their sacred belief systems poked with a stick. It is I who is threatening them, not the reality I'm trying to alert them to. I'm the one who's trying to ruin their comfortable routine. After all, if I'd just shut my mouth, they could go to Walmart and stop by McDonalds on the way home which would make their kids happy. They could plop down in front of the TV after wards and stay happily oblivious, and get their daily download from the media bath we love to soak in every single day of our lives.

It makes my skin crawl.

I don't get frustrated much anymore because I finally understand I can't do anything about it. If folks want to choose to poison their own children, I can only take the time and trouble to print off pages of personal first hand testimonies, make CD's, and urge them to take five minutes out of their lives to read about the other side of vaccines, and put an end to the continual trips to the pediatrician and all that suffering and expense. But am I helping? Nope. Not a damn bit. Am I trying? Damn straight. And I'll never stop trying. Why? Because I have to. I cannot adopt an attitude of "Oh well, I guess you're on your own Sparky. You're walking right over a cliff and I'm just going to stand here and watch". Not a cell in my body could stand still and do nothing to prevent another person from impending doom.

It's interesting too that what it would take to stop them is literally physically stopping them. Grabbing them and forcing them to get a grip. But that's illegal, and it's also pointless. It's like the old saying, "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink". I can bring people critical facts and information, but I can't make them think. But just like horses need water to survive, people need information critical to their lives in order to make intelligent choices for themselves and their communities, and frankly, some choices affect the world for a very long time. You have to keep leading those horses to water, and you have to keep putting the information in people's hands whether they decide to go for it or not.

The only risk I run is making people dread laying eyes on me, so I have to go slow, be unwavering, and keep my mouth shut no matter how stupid they're acting. And it's hard sometimes. But it is their life, not mine. I'm just sorry that so many people don't seem to recognize who their real friends are. I mean, why trust someone you've known for years, decades even, who you respect, like, and find very credible, who is concerned for your well-being and has nothing to gain by trying to influence you to make choices that could potentially benefit you; when you can just flick on the 6 o'clock news and let a perfect stranger who doesn't know you exist pump the daily download into your brain? Obviously they're a much better choice.

When people are no longer able to recognize who their friends are, it doesn't look good for us. And you know what? It doesn't look good for us. At least I'll go to my grave with a clear conscience, that's all I can take with me when I go. We've been lied to so much for so long it feels normal. That makes me mad enough to know I'll never stop trying to set things straight, as unlikely as it is I'll succeed. Every now and then, someone comes around and that makes every last bit of it worth it.

DEMOCRACY NOT! The Crisis of Global Media Propaganda

On March 21, 2007 Democracy Now's Amy Goodman gave the following short report at the start of this trusted, alternative news hour. At first listen it would easily slip into your brain unhindered and get swallowed whole without a single thought. But in this true crisis of truth in media, as painful as it is to face, we have to swallow the bitter pill of reality. Even our trusted non-corporate media is not always what it appears to be.

It's left gatekeeping. A controlled opposition. A way to keep the other side from ever achieving any significant success, and to keep them from hindering those in control in any meaningful way. And in this case it's been used for blatant shilling to push a government agenda, pushed sweetly down your throat without a struggle because of who is pushing it.

Here's the little report Amy gave today.

"Former Vice President Al Gore is heading to Capitol Hill today to testify before a pair of house and senate committees about global warming. Meanwhile, grass roots groups around the country are taking up the issue of global warming. Hundreds of environmentalists rallied in front of the capital Tuesday for the first ever climate crisis action day. In Massachusetts activists are walking across the state this week to raise awareness about global warming. In New Hampshire over 134 cities and towns have passed resolutions asking the federal government to address climate change and to develop research initiatives to create innovative energy technologies. And planning is underway for the first national day of climate action on April 14th. 950 events and rallies are already scheduled. Organizers are predicting that April 14th will be the country's largest grass roots environmental protest since Earth Day 1970."

Like wow, right? It sounds like this global warming thing is for real! Go environment! Happy happy, joy joy. Except... on just a little teeny closer bit of examination it doesn't hold up. Come with me while I pick it apart and see what you think for yourself.

Sentence One: This is the kicker, and the reason for the whole rest of the story.
"Former Vice President Al Gore is heading to capitol hill today to testify before a pair of house and senate committees about global warming."

You don't say. Why? Is he testifying under oath? Has he been called to give this testimony? Who's idea was this? Which committees will he be addressing? What are they trying to determine? Just what exactly is this about? Who is trying to achieve what?

What? No details? Oh shoot. Shucky darns. What's next?

"Meanwhile, grass roots groups around the country are taking up the issue of global warming."

Yeah? Nifty noodles. Which grass roots groups? Who are they? How do you know about them? Did they all contact you last night from all over the country to give you that one sentence update? "Yeah Amy, we're taking up the issue of global warming. Okay? Just wanted to let you know! 'K, bye." Where are they? How many are there? What is it they're doing in their "taking up" of these issues?

What? No details? I guess there's no info, we're just supposed to believe it because Amy said so. Well that's a good enough reason, right? Next...

"Hundreds of environmentalists rallied in front of the capital Tuesday for the first ever climate crisis action day."

Ooh, HUNDREDS of environmentalists! Hundreds! Environmentalists people! Not just your average Joe! They have titles, they are Environmentalists. What is an environmentalist anyway? What do they do exactly? How did they all manage to get together on a Tuesday, in the middle of the week, not on the weekend when real grass roots activists do their thing? Well obviously they are a higher class of grass roots, they're not just activists or protesters, they're "Environmentalists", there to promote "Climate Crisis Action Day", whatever that is. Not a very grass roots sounding name is it? I'm surprised it's not "Operation Climate Crisis Action Day." It's just kind of that obvious isn't it.

But that's not all!

"In Massachusetts activists are walking across the state this week to raise awareness about global warming."

They are? What activists? How many? Where exactly are they? Where are they starting, where are they ending, which direction are they heading in, generally? Is this a daily thing for the whole week? Can they make it across the whole state in a single week? What else are they doing besides walking? Who's involved? Who's paying for it? How do you know about this? Who contacted you with this "information"?

What?? No details? Again??? Geez this is getting ridiculous.

But there's more. Maybe the details are being saved for later, huh?

"In New Hampshire over 134 cities and towns have passed resolutions asking the federal government to address climate change and to develop research initiatives to create innovative energy technologies."

Jeepers, that's like, three states isn't it? Wow, like, is everybody involved with this but ME? I feel so stupid! 134 separate cities and towns, all of them, simultaneously, of their own accord, and no cheating either, they all came up with RESOLUTIONS. Yes they did! Isn't that something? And they all got down on their knees and respectfully asked, requested, very politely, that the federal government PLEASE OH PLEASE PLEASE! address the climate change, pretty please you government guys. And most of all, please please PLEASE tax us so that you can do some very important RESEARCH into "creative innovative energy technologies", and darn it, that's just the way we grass roots types talk. We do too! We always sound like corporate shills! Really!

I wonder why none of them mentioned how the DOD always snags all of the new alternative energy patents as soon as they're filed and slaps a gag order on the inventors and then throws the brilliant new alternative energy ideas into a deep dark dungeon so that Exxon and those people can retain their global wealth sucking monopoly on the world's energy needs? Because I just think stopping that crap would have to help. And it would cut down a lot on "research" funding too. But that's just me.

Last but not least by a long shot:

"And planning is underway for the first National Day of Climate Action on April 14th. 950 events and rallies are already scheduled. Organizers are predicting that April 14th will be the country's largest grass roots environmental protest since Earth Day 1970."

Wowee! That's HUGE! Well gee whiz, April 14th? The day before tax day? That's only three weeks from now isn't it? Kind of short notice don't you think? That's cutting it awful close for the kind of word-of-mouth information sharing that us grass roots types are stuck with. We usually don't get any big media attention when we need to rally the whole country to join us. It takes at least six months advance notice to be able to reach enough people to have just one decent turn out. I guess the "organizers" know what they're doing.

Just who are those amazing organizers anyway, who can schedule and coordinate 950 nationwide grass roots events and rallies, just like that! That's a LOT of work! How many people do they have working on this? We've never seen coordination like this for anti war protests or impeach bush demonstrations, and those are pretty darned critical things to millions of people. We could really use this kind of last minute kung fu coordination!

Imagine knowing such amazing grass rooters who can whip out a thousand damned nationwide events overnight on five cents and a shoe string! Do you think these whiz kids could whip up a National Anti Iraq War day? Or a National Justice Day? Or a National Fair Wages Day? I've got a whole list of "Days" we could really salivate over!!! How on earth did they manage it? Who ARE these people and why aren't they making themselves available to us for other incredibly urgent citizens movements?

Who' s doing this action day thing? Who's idea is it? What's the point of it? Who's paying for all of this? Who is calling Amy Goodman with no details whatsoever about it and getting her to relay this faceless, nameless, unsubstantiated "news"?

Who knows? There are no details, all right? You don't need no stinking details anyway, okay? Just believe it and shut up or else. YOU don't need to know who the organizers and planners are. YOU don't need to know who footed the bill for all of this stuff. YOU don't need to know who or where or how anybody or anything in this story came about. It's a god damned secret all right?!

Isn't all of this literally unsubstantiated "news" nothing more than blatant propaganda? A steaming pile of reeking bull doody? Is it really too much to ask to get some names and dates and organizational titles? Can we get some definitive data to check into these things? We got NO information at all about any of this stuff. Not a fricken detail about a single fricken thing. We can't check into any of it! The ONLY detail we got is the name of our dear, trusted, new friend, the "one of us" good guy, Al Gore. That's all we got.

All of this citizen activity would sure lend a lot of credence to Gore's congressional visit wouldn't it? It needs some credence after all. Why would congress need Gore to testify on environmental issues? He's not a scientist. What kind of input could he give that is critically necessary to congress?

Anyone listening to this little report would get the definite impression that people are everywhere all motivated and crying out for this "climate action" thing, which I've never even heard of until now. We'd think hundreds, even thousands of people are walking across their states, passing resolutions left and right, begging the government to get on board and to please tax us for more research dollars; and if you're not involved then you're just missing out on all of the for real and for true, honest, grass roots activism going on in this real and true, 100% honest "It's all your fault" global warming game. What's wrong with you?! It's the latest thing. Get on board! Hurry up! Believe it all! Believe every bit of it! It's just for sure true! Would we lie to you????

Um...yep.

At least when Amy forces herself to read this cointelpro tripe to her public she does it without a hint of support or enthusiasm. She probably doesn't like having to do it. She always gets this little smirk on her face, especially when it's pro bush lies. But the bottom line is, she DOES do it.

How much more of this kind of thing have we all swallowed without a clue? In this day and age it's just no longer possible to believe anything we hear on TV and we need to never forget that. Take it with a grain of salt, check the facts yourself and if nothing else, train yourself to notice obvious things like no details AT ALL. Because smart IS good.

Think or be eaten.