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It’s uncanny how obscenely they are lying.
Yes, the politics and the media have always been for sale—but today, to my senses, the scale and the confidence of lying can be only compared to my early childhood and the stories of saintly little Lenin and the mighty communist party. It’s obscene.
I believe that the super mighty conspiratorial “they” are the major investors in BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street who control every big company in every big industry and who seem to have our governments—with the stolen pension funds and collapsing currencies—by the balls, so the governments just do whatever they are told to do to maximize the investments for those people, which explains the total lack of commonsense logic in the actions of governments in the past two years. The logic is very much there if the goal is to maximize BlackRock investments and solidify the power of the few over the world’s “resources.”
By the way, I am at peace with knowing that I will never know most of their faces or last names because my competition with them is on the spiritual level, not on the level of financial dealings. They represent a particular energy, and it’s that energy that we are up against, not so much individual people. I believe that this battle is best fought by building our entire lives from a place of love and spiritual clarity—and that’s what I am trying to do, while standing with both of my feet on the ground of joy and dignity.
Those “they” are a tiny and mighty minority, and they are human beings with emotional desires and business goals, not a corporate abstraction. Human and subjective like all of us, they are just extra powerful and extra ruthless due to being drunk on near unlimited power. Their degree of relating to the rest of humanity could be at the level of how much the shareholder in an exterminator company relates to the ants and the rats. Not much soul there.
The rest of it is regular human stuff: fragmentation, greed, cluelessness, arrogance, and weakness of character.
(By the way, underneath all this crap, once the generational trauma and the individual weakness of character are overcome, most people are breathtakingly beautiful. As in, so beautiful I just want to scream from awe. It’s my recent discovery under the pressure of everything. The potential for beauty and happiness in this world is unlimited. Earth is generous. Nature is stunning. We are born with a tremendous potential for love. We just gotta remember our souls, and stop believing the thieves and the liars and screwing things up. That is true. This world is so painful because not too many people are interested in overcoming bad habits, and it is as simple as that.)
We can’t underestimate the role of subjective choices in human history. It’s all been subjective since the dawn of humanity. World-shaping wars have been won and lost due to psychological hangups and sexual whims. Religious reforms have occurred because some king out somewhere woke up one morning and decided that he knew God better than others. Everything in the world is subjective, even “systemic issues,” which really are just hardened collective habits. Which is why I believe very strongly that by making individual choices from a pure heart, we end up changing the course history and healing the world, whether we see the results right away or not. Life is beautiful.
But speaking of BlackRock, who are not beautiful, here’s an excerpt from an article called, “How a Company Called BlackRock Shapes Your News, Your Life, Our Future”:
Who controls the corporations who control our news? A helpful index was just compiled—not by mainstream media, but by Harvard researchers exploring media’s future. Skimming the list, I see two names again and again: BlackRock Fund Advisors and Vanguard Group.
BlackRock and Vanguard are two of the Big Three (every industry is clumping) passive fund asset management firms. The third, State Street, is owned by BlackRock. Whose largest shareholder is Vanguard.
Together, BlackRock and Vanguard own:
• Eighteen percent of Fox.
• Sixteen percent of CBS, and therefore also of Sixty Minutes.
• Thirteen percent of Comcast, which owns NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, and the Sky media group.
• Twelve percent of CNN.
• Twelve percent of Disney, which owns ABC and FiveThirtyEight.
• Between ten and fourteen percent of Gannett, which owns more than 250 Gannett daily newspapers plus USA Today.
• Ten percent of the Sinclair local television news, which controls seventy-two percent of U.S. households’ local TV.
• A large unspecified chunk of Graham Media Group, which owns Slate and Foreign Policy.
Do you think that if a human being who is addicted to power and shielded from immediate punishment due to controlling most aspects of modern society, has a significant share in CNN and simultaneously, has a significant share in, say, Pfizer, and in Google and Twitter… do you think the person is going to sit on the opportunity to use CNN to aggressively push Pfizer products, and use Google and Twitter to censor opponents and competition? Do we are living in such a pure world? And do you think that the very corporate entities who have in the past lied and cheated and murdered to stay in control and make more money, have now repented and reformed and suddenly care about our health? What reformed them?!!!
More on media. Here’s a Columbia Journalism Review story called, “Journalism’s Gates Keepers” about the influence of everyone’s favorite William on the media:
I recently examined nearly twenty thousand charitable grants the Gates Foundation had made through the end of June and found more than $250 million going toward journalism. Recipients included news operations like the BBC, NBC, Al Jazeera, ProPublica, National Journal, The Guardian, Univision, Medium, the Financial Times, The Atlantic, the Texas Tribune, Gannett, Washington Monthly, Le Monde, and the Center for Investigative Reporting; charitable organizations affiliated with news outlets, like BBC Media Action and the New York Times’ Neediest Cases Fund; media companies such as Participant, whose documentary Waiting for “Superman” supports Gates’s agenda on charter schools; journalistic organizations such as the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the National Press Foundation, and the International Center for Journalists; and a variety of other groups creating news content or working on journalism, such as the Leo Burnett Company, an ad agency that Gates commissioned to create a “news site” to promote the success of aid groups. In some cases, recipients say they distributed part of the funding as subgrants to other journalistic organizations—which makes it difficult to see the full picture of Gates’s funding into the fourth estate.
In other words, the investors are really in this together (with each other), and…
It’s obscene.
We are asked to live in a reality that’s completely manufactured—and to act like slaves and snitches.
Nonsense reigns.
Scientific standards have been banished, and honest doctors, censored.
Signal jamming is so heavy that it works like magic, and a lot of people have succumbed because they don’t yet know that believing liars can potentially harm them more than having to live with an uncomfortable truth.
Wherever I look, from horizon to horizon, I see lies.
From A to Z, lies.
This list of lies, conflicts of interest, and scientific absurdities is very incomplete. But I gotta stop somewhere so that this story doesn’t go forever and ever.
Pravda lives, though
As a person who was born in the Soviet Union and actually remembers Pravda, I am rubbing my eyes over the media coverage of today. It’s surreal and frankly insulting.
As far as I am concerned, the only discernible difference between Pravda and CNN (as an example of a mainstream media outlet) is that the CNN coverage is sparkled with glitter—which oozes a comforting bourgeois feeling, making it easier to inject complete fabrications into people’s minds—while Pravda was unapologetically unreadable. (Who could possibly care about the completion of a five year plan at a plant in Siberia?!!).
Pravda preached upon the already subdued and captured. CNN, on the other hand, is in the process of subduing, since these are the times we are in—and they are just doing what the investors and the advertisers are telling them to do. They are one big infomercial for BlackRock that pretends to be news. That, by the way, applies also to their make-believe competitors, Fox.
In fact, the starting point for this article was a cab drive with radio on. No idea what station it was but it was clearly sponsored by Pfizer because everything was about the joy of vaccines. Thing is, I knew that what the radio was telling me was bold propagandistic drivel, for the lack of a better term. It was simply untrue. But they used a number of very effective sensory tricks, and as I listened, I observed the hypnosis.
I knew with total factual certainty they were lying through their teeth—and yet I wanted to think they were right.
I recognized the specific media tricks—and yet, I wanted to think they were right.
They made it easy to not actively think—and not thinking is a relief for a mind under pressure.
They offered a “community” of “like-minded people,” an imaginary “we.”
The drivel was delivered in an everyday tone that was designed to pass through the sensory gate without a lubricant. That tone was the secret sauce of the weapon. That, plus repeating the lie a million times.
They obsessively mocked the cartoonish subhuman: the enemy, the stupid, uneducated, Trump-loving, racist anti-vaxxer, who was much like the “Jew” of the Nazi or the “capitalist” of my childhood in Moscow. Subhuman. Not good. Not to be trusted.
I had to unglue the poison from my brain once I got out of the car. It was toxic as hell. I was stunned by how effective it was. Poor people!!!
They are lying, and they are indecent. It’s time we shake them off our system like leeches, and think for ourselves, with our hearts. Our hearts are much better guides than the liars.
(Here is my old speech on the subject, it still stands.)
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