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In his video, Gregg Braden says that there is a battle for our humanity and that we must claim our divinity in order to break free from the shackles of fear. He begins by discussing the ways in which our thoughts, beliefs, and bodies are being controlled by the mainstream media, the government, and corporations. He then goes on to talk about the transhuman agenda, which he believes is a movement to create a new species of human that is allegedly more perfect and efficient. Braden argues that this agenda is flawed because it is based on the belief that we are flawed creatures. He believes that we are not flawed, but rather that we are divine beings who have the potential to transcend our limitations.

Braden then discusses the importance of preserving our divinity in a technological world. He argues that we must be careful not to allow our technology to replace our biology, as this could lead to us losing our divinity. He also talks about the importance of being aware of the distorted science and false perceptions that are being used to keep us from realizing our divinity.

Braden also talks about the importance of embracing our divinity amidst the fear and uncertainty in the world. He argues that when we embrace our divinity, we will not live in fear. We can embrace our divinity simply by loving ourselves and others and being the best versions of ourselves.

Finally, he talks about a new world that is emerging and that we are all here for the show. Also, we can tackle climate change by working together as a global family.

Key Points

• There is a battle for our humanity.
• We must claim our divinity in order to break free from the shackles of fear.
• We must not to allow our technology to replace our biology.
• We must be aware of the distorted science and false perceptions that are keeping us in fear and being used to keep us from realizing our divinity.
• The false climate change narrative is designed to keep us in fear.
• We must embrace our divinity to overcome fear and uncertainty.
• When we are afraid, we are more likely to give away our power to others.
• We can win the battle for our humanness by living from a place of love, compassion, and understanding, and simply being the best versions of ourselves.
• We can overcome fear and tackle climate change by working together as a global family.
• A new world is emerging and we are here for the show.
• We can heal generational hurt by embracing our divinity.
• Epigenetics show that our genes are not fixed, but can be influenced by our thoughts, feelings, and environment.

TRANSCRIPT:

Greg Braden here. Over the last few days, I’ve had a lot of requests asking me to comment on a lot of things happening in the world today, everything from the war in Ukraine to climate change, to American politics, to global Politics to Donald Trump – I mean you name it. All of these are important and I don’t want to detract in any way from the significance of these events in our lives, because they’re real, they impact of our all of our lives.

My concern is that so many of the requests, the way they are being worded and the way they come to my office, some of them come to me directly. They tell me that many people are allowing these events to become diversions and distractions in their lives, diversions, and distractions that keep them from the focus of the really really big event that is happening in our lives and in our world today. And that’s what I want to talk to you about.

The Battle for Our Thoughts

You know, we all know, there’s a battle for our thoughts. That’s no secret! There are very few independent, mainstream media in the world today. American Media, all the different news networks and stations are owned by about six corporations that collaborate to create narratives and the languaging to support those narratives – down to the words and the phrases that we hear day in and day out.

I was in a hotel room recently. It had a television. I don’t have a television in my home and in Northern New Mexico – we can’t get a signal. But in the hotel, I was flipping through the channels, and I was just blown away at how similar the languaging was. I mean one topic would come up and they would be exactly the same words exactly the same phrases – whether it was liberal media or conservative media or what some people call publicly funded or independent media.

The Battle for Our Beliefs and Our Bodies

So we know there’s a battle for our thoughts and that’s no secret. There’s a battle for our beliefs, obviously. What do we believe about climate change? You know, is it real, is it not? Is it human-induced? Is it a natural rhythm of the Earth?  What do we believe about the origins of the universe, about the origins of our lives, of the human species?

There’s a battle for our bodies, and that has become very apparent over the last few years. What does it take to get healthy? What does it take to stay healthy? And where’s our relationship to our bodies in terms of society? Do we have the sovereign right to determine what goes into our bodies, or is it a community decision based on what’s best for the community? We haven’t answered that question, and it’s still an ongoing question. All these things are important.

The Battle for Our Humanness: The Transhuman Agenda

 But, there’s a deeper battle, an even deeper battle. There’s a battle for our very humanness, and I’ve talked about this on a number of our videos. There’s a battle for our biology that is going on right now. The movement that is called the transhuman movement has really brought this to the forefront: the belief that we are a flawed species, that by the nature of our existence, we are flawed.

And among those flaws are things like our emotions, the cloud, the logic and the choices and decisions we make. Even the way that we conceive life is considered in some scientific circles to be inefficient.

The Pursuit of Perfection: Whose Idea of Perfection Are We Using?

You know why risk a natural conception when you can gene engineer an embryo to be precisely the way that you want that in embryo to be – the perfection that you see.

And the question becomes, whose idea of perfection are we using? What eye color, what hair color, fast twitch muscles, slow twitch muscles for athletic performance, high IQ, low IQ.  All of that all of those things are happening and they’re all important. My concern is that even those have become a diversion to something that’s even deeper, and this is what I want to talk to you about right now.

Defining Divinity Beyond Religion: Transcending Perceived Human Limitations

It is a battle for your divinity. And I want to define divinity because many people link the word divinity with religion – in some respect. The very core of the definition of divinity simply says our ability to transcend perceived human limitations. That’s what divinity is. It has nothing to do with religion.I can see where religions would wrap their ideas, their dogma around this principle, because we are presented with religious figures that have done just that: that have transcended the perceived limitations.

Now think about this definition. First of all, transcend means not just to survive, not just to get by, but to thrive, to become more than the limitations that we have placed upon ourselves in the past. Perceived is just that as well. It doesn’t mean those limitations are real. It means it’s the way we feel about those limitations – the limitations that we have been programmed to accept. Our divinity is the part of us; it’s a part of you that has always been there. It cannot be taken from you. You cannot have your divinity taken from you.

Now, it doesn’t mean that you’re always in touch with your divinity, because you can deny your divinity through free will. Certainly, you have the right and you have the ability to deny the divine providence that lives within the cells of your body. This is the part of you that knows things without being taught: deep intuition. This is the part of you that draws from some mysterious and unseen source and brings forth into this world beauty and creations of music and art and sculpture and dance and movement and words, that writes the books, that creates the films and the movies, that share the ideas. That is all something beyond your biology.

The Importance of Preserving Your Divinity in a Technological World

Here’s the thing: you access your divinity through your biology, the DNA within your body, and the neurons in your heart that we now know are there since 1991, when they were discovered and the neurons in your brain. These are the antenna, if you will. You can think of them as a biological antenna that literally are tuning into a resonant field. They’re resonant antennae linking you to information, to energy that you then transceive into your creations in the world today.

Your divinity cannot be taken from you, but you can deny it. Also, your divinity can be can be masked through technology if you begin replacing your biology with synthetic materials, with polymers, with chemicals. If you begin replacing the systems of your body, the natural biology of your body, your immune system, for example, with artificial technology that tries to replicate your immune system, that will make it very difficult for you to access that information, to access your divinity in that way. It can be programmed out of you.

Distorted Science and False Perceptions Are Keeping You From Realizing Your Divinity

Society, your family, your beliefs, your culture, education, science that has been hijacked by other interests, science that has been hijacked by corporations, science, that’s been hijacked by religion, science that’s been hijacked by politics where data is cherry-picked and presented as authoritative, but it’s taken out of context. And you begin to believe and hinge your sense of self upon that false science or that distorted science. That can keep you from your divinity as well.

And the beauty of all the things I’m saying to you is that when you remove the lies and you remove the distortion and you remove the false perceptions, all that remains is your divinity. It’s not something that you have to chase and learn how to become, because it’s already you, it’s your nature. When you remove everything that’s not true, all that’s left is your divinity.

Embracing Your Divinity Amidst Fear and Uncertainty in the World

Now, why is this so important right now? And the reason is why I’m sharing this with you. All of those diversions that people are asking me to comment on. And once again, I do comment on some of those in the other videos. I’m not denying their significance and the role they play in our lives, I’m simply inviting you to have a perspective where those things out there in the world don’t distract you from the deep truth of who you are and the fact that there’s a battle for your divinity, because when you embrace your divinity, you will not live in the fear that makes you vulnerable to other people’s ideas about what your life should look like, what society should look like, and what the world should look like. And that’s exactly what’s happening right now.

How Fear and Giving Away Your Power Can Endanger Your Freedom

All of these things going on are creating fear and uncertainty in your life and in my life, we’re in this together. I’m part of this. They create fear and uncertainty. And if your sense of well-being is hinged upon the external world and that world is full of fear and uncertainty, that makes you vulnerable to other people’s ideas, because in your fear you will say just make it better. Just make it better.

And there is no shortage of organizations of technology of politics out there that are more than willing to come sweeping in to meet and honor your request. They say you want us to make it better, we’ve got a great deal for you. All you’ve got to do is give away some freedoms and we’re going to make your life very safe and very easy. We’ve seen this in history before. We’ve seen it for hundreds of years, and we’ve seen it in many, many nations. When we give our power away to those who promise US safety and protection, including our divinity, when we do that, that is the beginning of the end of the freedoms. That’s the beginning of the end of the dreams, of the visions of the kind of world that you and I know is possible.

Winning the Battle is Without a Fight as a Fully Empowered Human

Your divinity, the battle for your divinity, the beautiful thing about this is the way to win the battle is without a fight. You don’t have to fight for your divinity. By simply living the deep truth of who you are, by simply becoming the best version of yourself, you have won that battle without a fight, because you have become the very thing that the powers that be fear the most. You have become a fully empowered human. And in the presence of a fully empowered human, you are not susceptible to fear.

You will not be susceptible to the fear of a collapsing financial system, which is happening right now, a collapsing banking system that’s happening right now. You won’t be susceptible to the fear that is being lodged into your heart and your mind, or your hearts and your minds through the distortion and the lies about what’s happening in the climate. Yes, the climate is changing. As a geologist, I can tell you that. We’ve got all kinds of videos out there. And it’s not for the reasons you think. And it is not the most extreme that we’ve ever seen in the history of the world – far, far from it.

Adapting to Natural Rhythms: Overcoming Climate Change Challenges

The world has been in a much better place because of the climate changes that we’ve seen in the past. The problem is that we have built our lives assuming that climate is static. We have built in places and in ways that don’t work with the changing climate. So, as we begin to adapt to the natural rhythms, the climate becomes less of a problem for us. And I know that’s a very, very different way of thinking.

The Climate Change Narrative Is Designed to Keep Us All in Fear

Again now, check the playlist in this YouTube channel that’s called “Science, Policy, and Politics.“ So the videos are broken down. There are random videos that are posted daily, but there are also playlists. There’s a playlist. It’s called “Science, Policy, and Politics (SPP).” And you can go back and see the science of carbon dioxide. You can see, see the science of the temperatures. You can see the science of the rhythms from a geologic perspective. And it does not fit the narrative that you and I are being told today because the narrative that we’re being told today is designed to keep us in fear.

That’s only possible because we’ve forgotten who we are because we’ve lost our divinity. In the presence of our divinity, we have deep insight. We have intuition. We know what’s true for us. We know what’s true for our families. We know and trust in the intelligence of our bodies in the presence of contagions that are either natural or human design, which is precisely what you and I have been dealing with for the last few years.

We Are Dealing With An Artificial (Man-made) Contagion

In the scientific community, there’s no doubt that we’re dealing with an artificial contagion that was not a product of some random process in nature. The genetic maps actually show where the genes have been edited and where they’ve been changed. That’s no question in the scientific community; it’s not a problem in the scientific community. It’s a huge problem for politics. It’s a huge problem for international relations. And you and I are subject to all of that.

Overcoming Fear and Tackling Climate Change as a Global Family

So as we deal with this as a global family (and this is what we are), as we deal with this as brothers and sisters… Yes, we need to deal with what’s happening out there, but I’m going to invite you please bear in mind that you’re not what you’ve been told, you’re much more than you’ve been led to believe. All kinds of information, my work, and other people’s work out there are telling you that in so many different ways, it is all coming under this umbrella of your divinity, your ability to transcend perceived human limitations. And we begin to think and live from the perspective of our divinity and we lose our fear. This is what breaks the bonds and the shackles of fear that hold us captive. They keep us stuck in this, this ancient cycle of fear and control.

There’s a New World Emerging and You’re Here For the Show

I don’t know about you. I have thought about this a lot recently and we’ve talked about this. It’s no ordinary time in the history of our world, certainly in the history of our civilization, for many, many reasons. There’s a new world emerging. That world’s not here yet. And, if you’re living in this world right now, what that tells me is that you’re here for this very show. You’re here for the show of the new world. It also tells me that you’re probably thinking like I am in the following respect:

Let’s Not Carry the Hurt and Suffering From This World Into the New World

In the new world that’s emerging, we don’t want to carry the ancient hurt from the world that you and I have known in our lives. We don’t want to carry the suffering. We don’t want to carry the hate into that new world. For that hate and suffering and hurt to stop, it takes one generation. One generation has to heal the generational, hurt that precedes us for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of generations, thousands of years.

Healing Generational Hurt and Breaking the Cycle of Atrocities

That is our opportunity right now. The only way that we can heal the generational hurt and offer a new world to our children, where they don’t have to suffer, and they don’t have to succumb to the atrocities and the distortions that have created the world that you and I have known, the only way to do that is for you and I to come to terms with that – to heal it in our lifetimes.

And so people tell me all the time they say well, I’m too old to have children, so I’m not going affect that next generation. It goes beyond that. Certainly, it is possible to heal generational fear biologically so that when you conceive that the DNA is no longer predisposed to the fear from the previous generation, that’s epigenetics. That’s very well known.

Healing Generational Hurt by Accepting and Embracing Our Divinity

But even beyond that, in the field energetically, when we heal that hurt for ourselves and our families and our loved ones and our lives, what we’re doing is we’re actually creating a balance in resonance in the field so that the DNA, the antenna of the DNA, the antenna of the genes, the antenna of the neurons in our heart and our brain, those resonant antenna, we’re giving those antennas something new to tune into that transcends the hurt and the suffering of the past. And in this way, we have the opportunity to heal this generational hurt. We do this by accepting and embracing our divinity.

How to Love Yourself Enough and Live the Deep Truth of Your Divinity

So, once again, nothing to do with religion has all to do with accepting the deep truth of our existence and who we are – what it means to be fully human. And I think, perhaps, for the first time in a very long time, we’re discovering that for ourselves, The question is: do we love ourselves enough? Do we love ourselves enough? Do you love yourself enough to embrace your divinity and live the deep truth of your divinity in your everyday life?

And the answer to that question is in the choices that you make every moment of every day, in the way that you treat yourself, and the way that you treat other people, how you speak to them, how you honor them with kindness, how you honor them with truth, how you honor them with love.

Transcend the Battle for Your Humanness by Becoming the Best Version of Yourself

And that’s all I wanted to say to you today. So I want to thank you for taking a few moments. Sharing a little bit of your day with me today, I’m just going to invite you to think about this. Think about this as you go about your day. And ask yourself, how can I embrace the deep truth of my existence, my divinity and make someone else’s day a little bit better.

And I think, as you begin to answer that for yourself, what you find is the world around you begins to look very, very different. And this is how we transcend this battle, not fight, but how we transcend the battle for our humanness, the battle for our divinity, simply by becoming the best version of ourselves, so we can create the best world possible.

Thank you so much for sharing a part of your day with me have a beautiful rest of this day and I look forward to our next.

Gregg Braden

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for president in 2024 as a Democrat, according to a statement of candidacy filed with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday, April 5. Kennedy Jr. has a distinguished career as an environmental lawyer and has long been involved in public service and activism. He is a passionate advocate for children’s health and is the chair of the nonprofit group Children’s Health Defense. He has been a very vocal critic of the COVID-19 vaccines, the pharmaceutical industry, Anthony Fauci, and the lockdowns.

He is the son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated on his own campaign trail, and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, who was also assassinated in a sophisticated plot with multiple gunmen. Kennedy Jr. believes that there is no doubt that the CIA killed both his father and his uncle.

Kennedy’s candidacy for the presidency represents an exciting opportunity for the Democratic Party. His background and experience make him a strong candidate, and his commitment to public service and activism are sure to resonate with voters.

As the primary race heats up, his candidacy is sure to add energy and excitement to the race and could lead to meaningful discussions about the direction of the country and the role of government in promoting the public good.

The U.S. desperately needs a president with Kennedy Jr.’s knowledge, integrity, history of public service, and a burning desire to create a better world for our children and future generations.

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Gregg Braden joins John L. Petersen of the Arlington Institute for a discussion about the nonsensical demonization of carbon dioxide on the global stage.

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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”  – Martin Luther King, Jr. August 28, 1963

“I Have a Dream” is a 17-minute speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. The speech, delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters, on August 28, 1963 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.

Dr. King’s speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address. According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, “Dr. King had the power, the ability, and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a monumental area that will forever be recognized. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations.”

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Below is the full transcript of Dr. King’s famous speech:

“I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [Applause]

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.

But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with a new meaning, “My country, ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

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Important message by Ralph Smart about spiritual warfare, AI, and the great awakening – illustrated by After Skool.

Ralph Smart is a psychologist, author, counselor, alchemist, relationship guide and creator of the popular YouTube channel, “Infinite Waters”. To view more inspiring content from Ralph, check out his channel https://www.youtube.com/@InfiniteWate…

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After watching the convoy inquiry clown show and the inflammatory rhetoric and government propaganda by the media about the truckers and convoy supporters, I needed to channel my frustration into something creative. So I spent 13 hours yesterday making a short 30 documentary out of some of the footage I saved which I entitled:

THE TRUCKERS WERE RIGHT

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Watch Russell Brand and David Icke separately discuss the ramifications of the death of Queen Elizabeth and see which one resonates with you the most. First, here’s Russell Brand speaking about the queen in a very reverential manner:

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Now here’s David Icke telling it like it is:

Which message do you resonate with the most?

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Everything you ever wanted to know about 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.

Transcript:

On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men armed with boxcutters directed by a man on dialysis in a cave fortress halfway around the world using a satellite phone and a laptop directed the most sophisticated penetration of the most heavily-defended airspace in the world, overpowering the passengers and the military combat-trained pilots on 4 commercial aircraft before flying those planes wildly off course for over an hour without being molested by a single fighter interceptor.

These 19 hijackers, devout religious fundamentalists who liked to drink alcohol, snort cocaine, and live with pink-haired strippers, managed to knock down 3 buildings with 2 planes in New York, while in Washington a pilot who couldn’t handle a single engine Cessna was able to fly a 757 in an 8,000 foot descending 270 degree corskscrew turn to come exactly level with the ground, hitting the Pentagon in the budget analyst office where DoD staffers were working on the mystery of the 2.3 trillion dollars that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had announced “missing” from the Pentagon’s coffers in a press conference the day before, on September 10, 2001.

Luckily, the news anchors knew who did it within minutes, the pundits knew within hours, the Administration knew within the day, and the evidence literally fell into the FBI’s lap. But for some reason a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists demanded an investigation into the greatest attack on American soil in history.

The investigation was delayed, underfunded, set up to fail, a conflict of interest and a cover upfrom start to finish. It was based on testimony extracted through torture, the records of which were destroyed. It failed to mention the existence of WTC7, Able Danger, Ptech, Sibel Edmonds, OBL and the CIA, and the drills of hijacked aircraft being flown into buildings that were being simulated at the precise same time that those events were actually happening. It was lied to by the Pentagon, the CIA, the Bush Administration and as for Bush and Cheney…well, no one knows what they told it because they testified in secret, off the record, not under oath and behind closed doors.

It didn’t bother to look at who funded the attacks because that question is of “little practical significance“. Still, the 9/11 Commission did brilliantly, answering all of the questions the public had (except most of the victims’ family members’ questions) and pinned blame on all the people responsible (although no one so much as lost their job), determining the attacks were “a failure of imagination” because “I don’t think anyone could envision flying airplanes into buildings ” except the Pentagon and FEMA and NORAD and the NRO.

The DIA destroyed 2.5 TB of data on Able Danger, but that’s OK because it probably wasn’t important.

The SEC destroyed their records on the investigation into the insider trading before the attacks, but that’s OK because destroying the records of the largest investigation in SEC history is just part of routine record keeping.

NIST has classified the data that they used for their model of WTC7’s collapse, but that’s OK because knowing how they made their model of that collapse would “jeopardize public safety“.

The FBI has argued that all material related to their investigation of 9/11 should be kept secret from the public, but that’s OK because the FBI probably has nothing to hide.

This man never existed, nor is anything he had to say worthy of your attention, and if you say otherwise you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist and deserve to be shunned by all of humanity. Likewise him, him, him, and her. (and her and her and him).

Osama Bin Laden lived in a cave fortress in the hills of Afghanistan, but somehow got away. Then he was hiding out in Tora Bora but somehow got away. Then he lived in Abottabad for years, taunting the most comprehensive intelligence dragnet employing the most sophisticated technology in the history of the world for 10 years, releasing video after video with complete impunity (and getting younger and younger as he did so), before finally being found in a daring SEAL team raid which wasn’t recorded on video, in which he didn’t resist or use his wife as a human shield, and in which these crack special forces operatives panicked and killed this unarmed man, supposedly the best source of intelligence about those dastardly terrorists on the planet. Then they dumped his body in the ocean before telling anyone about it. Then a couple dozen of that team’s members died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

This is the story of 9/11, brought to you by the media which told you the hard truths about JFKand incubator babies and mobile production facilities and the rescue of Jessica Lynch.

If you have any questions about this story…you are a batshit, paranoid, tinfoil, dog-abusing baby-hater and will be reviled by everyone. If you love your country and/or freedom, happiness, rainbows, rock and roll, puppy dogs, apple pie and your grandma, you will never ever express doubts about any part of this story to anyone. Ever.

This has been a public service announcement by: the Friends of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DIA, SEC, MSM, White House, NIST, and the 9/11 Commission. Because Ignorance is Strength.

“How easy is it for you to shift your belief system from ‘I totally believe in my government to ‘Oh My God! What’s going on?’  That’s exactly where I went in all of this.” – Albert N. Stubblebine III

At the time of the interview, Albert N. Stubblebine III was a retired Major General in the United States Army. (Sadly, Albert passed away on February 6, 2017.) He was the commanding general of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command from 1981 to 1984.  In this compelling interview, Stubblemine reveals the following information (what he calls “dots”) about the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001:

• Stubblebine initially believed the official story regarding 9/11.
• Then, he saw the hole in the Pentagon. He can prove that the Pentagon was not hit by a Boeing 757. DOT.
• All of the sensors around the Pentagon were turned off except one. That one sensor captured an image of the object that hit the Pentagon.  It looked like a missile.  But, after he went public, the imagery was changed to look like a plane. DOT.
• The collapse of the twin towers was caused by controlled demolition – not the fuel from the airplane. DOT.
• Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the WTC complex, admitted that building 7, which was not hit by a plane and had only a small fire, was intentionally “pulled” – which is word used for controlled demolition.  DOT.
• All of the air defense systems around Washington DC were turned off that day. DOT.
• Also on 9/11, there was an exercise designed to mimic an attack on the towers by airplanes.  DOT.
• When you connect the DOTs, the picture says that what we were told by the media was not the real story.
• Stubblebine, visibly upset, describes how he felt when he realized the truth about his government after having a strong belief in his country since early childhood: “My belief system was so strong from age five when I could remember standing on a parade ground at attention with not anybody telling me to do that – at West Point.”

Below are some notes from the interview including a partial transcript. (Be sure to watch all the way to the end, where you can see the deep hurt on his face when he recalled the moment that he realized that his government, the government that he proudly served for over 30 years, was not what he thought was):

5:15 Stubblebine hears about the 9/11 attacks: “We’re at war.”

6:00 Stubblebine said there must have been intelligence information to know that an attack was coming and we didn’t see the signals.  Somebody missed it.

6:35 He initially believed that it was a terrorist attack done by other forces: “Not my government.”

7:45 Stubblebine then saw a photo of the Pentagon showing the hole in the Pentagon supposedly made by a Boeing 757.  “Something’s wrong. There is something wrong with this picture…”

8:30 “Well there was something wrong. And, so I analyzed it not just photographically, I did measurements… I checked the plane, the length of the nose, where the wings were… I took measurements of the Pentagon – the depth of the destruction in the Pentagon.”

9:05 “Conclusion: airplane did not make that hole.”

9:10” I went public at the time. I am the highest ranking officer, I believe, that has ever gone public… The official story was not true.”

9:25 “I was very careful to not say what it was because I couldn’t prove it. I was careful to say that it was not the airplane that did that, because I can prove that it was not the airplane.”

9:45 “In the hole, however, was a turbine that looked like a turbine from the missile… I can’t prove that, I don’t know. But there was something there that did not look like the engine from an airplane, but did look like a turbine from a missile.”

10:10 “Later I saw another photograph taken by one of the sensors on the outside of the Pentagon. Now, all of the sensors had been turned off, which is kind of interesting – isn’t it? That day, why would all of the sensors around the Pentagon be turned off? That’s strange. I don’t care what the excuse is.  That’s strange. There happened to be one that apparently did not get turned off. And in that picture, coming in, flying into the Pentagon, you see this object, and it obviously hits the Pentagon.  When you look at it, it does NOT look like an airplane.  Sometime later, after I’d gone public, that imagery was changed. It got a new suit around it that now looked like an airplane. But, when you take the suit off, it looks more like a missile – not like an airplane.”

11:30 “Let me go back to the next very important piece of information.  The amount of energy to melt the girders – the steel in the tower – cannot be gotten to a melt point with the fuel that was in the airplane.  Not possible!  So, any melting did not occur as a result of the hit from the airplane.  Point. I call it dot. OK?  DOT.”

12:10 “When you look at the tower coming down, what you see at each floor is successive puffs of smoke: puff, puff, puff, puff… all the way down. Where are the puffs of smoke coming from? Well, they claim that they are from the collapsing floors… No. No. No. Those puffs of smoke are controlled demolitions. That’s exactly what they are because that’s exactly how they work. And so, the fact that the airplane hit, it did, it did not cause that collapse of the building.  The collapse of the building was caused by controlled demolition.”

13:05 “Fact: Building 7 – Silverberg, I believe is the name of the owner…” (his name is actually Larry Silverstein), “…was on a video and you could see Building 7.  And, there was a fire in Building 7, there’s no doubt about that. No airplane hit it.  I assume that the fire came from some debris, but I’m not even sure of that.  But, in the lower right-hand corner of the building was a fire – not a very big fire. It didn’t appear to be out of control. It certainly was in a small part of the building.  But, then he is heard on the video and he says Pull it.  Then, the building collapsed. What does pull it mean?  Let me tell you.  That’s the order for controlled demolition.  That is the phraseology that’s used for blowing up something.”

CLN Editorial note: Stubblebine got mixed up with his facts regarding the Silverstein video, which you can see here.  The video is a PBS interview with Silverstein that was shot sometime after 9/11.   The footage of Building 7 going down is historical footage, not live during the interview.  Nonetheless, Silverstein does say that he gave the order to “pull it.”

15:00 All of the air defense systems in that part of the country had been turned off that day.  All of the air defense systems had been turned off… Why would you turn off all of the air defense systems on that particular day unless you knew that something was going to happen? It’s a dot.  It’s information. But, it’s strange that everything got turned off that day.  DOT.”

15:50 There was an exercise that was designed for the air defense systems that was an attack on the towers by airplanes.  Isn’t that strange that we had an exercise that mimicked what really happened?  Strange that we had planned an exercise that was exactly what happened. And, at the same time, the air defense systems were turned off.  Don’t you find that strange? I find that really strange?  DOT.  Just a piece of information.

16:50 “But how does it correlate with everything else? So, you see the dots.  You have all of these dots. They’re just bits of information.  But, that’s exactly how the intelligence world works.  You get a bit of information here. A bit here, and a bit here. And, pretty soon you’ve got a picture. To me, what does the picture say?  The picture says that what we heard and were told in the newspapers, the media, was not the real story. There’s enough doubt in the official story where the story is absolutely not consistent with what happened. They paint a different picture than the one that was given to the media.”

17:45 “How easy is it for you to shift your belief system from ‘I totally believe in my government to ‘Oh My God! What’s going on?’  That’s exactly where I went in all of this. Because my belief system was so strong from age five when I could remember standing on a parade ground at attention with not anybody telling me to do that – at West Point. I did it because I wanted to do it – because I believed! And then going to the military academy and serving, defending…

18:30 The real story was, I have a question I guess. The real story to me is: who was the real enemy? Who participated in this? Who planned this attack? Why was it planned? Were the real terrorists the people in Arab clothing? Or, were the real people that planned this the people sitting in the authority in the White House?

Physical Evidence and Eyewitness Testimony That A Missile Hit The Pentagon – NOT a Boeing 757

The following physical evidence and eyewitness testimony is presented in detail below, most of which is video footage:

1. Analysis of the physical damage to the Pentagon and lack of debris. You can’t fit a 125 foot wide Boeing 757 into a hole 16 feet wide.  The theory that the plane vaporized is idiotic.  And, what happened to the wings that allegedly sheared off?  DOT
2. The official story of how the plane arrived at the Pentagon by making a 270 degree turn at a speed of 800 kilometers per hour is absurd.  A Boeing 757 could not possibly perform that maneuver according to experts.   DOT
3. AA Flight 77 was lost from radar as early as 8:56 a.m. and then allegedly reappeared 36 minutes later at 9:32 am. According to Danielle O’Brien, an air traffic controller at Dulles International Airport, the plane that showed up on the radar was not Flight 77: “The speed, the maneuverability, the way that it turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that it was a military plane.”   DOT
4. No unknown aircraft are allowed within 50 miles of the Pentagon.  The Pentagon has its own anti-aircraft missiles that should have fired to protect the building. Only a military aircraft with a special IFF transponder (identifying it as a friend) would have been allowed to approach the Pentagon.   DOT
5. CNN reporter on the scene shortly after the impact saying that there was no evidence of a plane hitting the Pentagon.   DOT
6. Aerial footage showing no debris (confirming the report by the CNN reporter), plus more analysis showing the size of a Boeing 757 compared to the size of the hole in the Pentagon.  Recall also that the initial hole was only 16 feet wide and the CNN reporter said that the Pentagon structure did not collapse until about 45 minutes after impact.   DOT
7. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and 9/11 Commission Member Timothy Roemer both saying that a MISSILE was used on the Pentagon.   DOT
8. Analysis of the Pentagon video footage of the alleged Boeing 757 (it certainly doesn’t look like a Boeing 757) hitting the Pentagon that concludes it was faked.   DOT
9. A leaked video showing a missile hitting the Pentagon.   DOT
10. Expert testimony that a high radiation reading near Pentagon indicated that a “depleted uranium warhead may have been used”  DOT
11. Two witnesses who were at the Pentagon who said there was no debris or jet fuel, and another witness who “was convinced it was a missile. It came in so fast it sounded nothing like an airplane.” DOT
12. KEY POINT. Many people reported seeing a low-flying plane heading towards the Pentagon.  Thanks to a series of videotaped interviews with multiple witnesses by the Citizens Investigation Team, we find out that: (a) a plane did approach the Pentagon, but it was smaller than a Boeing 757, and it approached from a different angle than reported by the 9/11 commission; (b) the plane did not actually hit the Pentagon, but instead flew past the Pentagon at under 200 feet – immediately after the missile hit; (c) the downed flag poles at the Pentagon were staged, which was admitted by the taxi driver whose taxi was supposedly hit by one of the falling poles. DOT

Connecting the dots, a very clear picture emerges: (a) American Airlines Flight 77 (a Boeing 757) disappeared from radar and never re-appeared; (b) instead, a smaller military craft appeared on radar 36 minutes later that was capable of performing a difficult maneuver and could approach the Pentagon without being shot down; (c) a low-flying military craft approached the Pentagon but merely flew past the Pentagon immediately after the Pentagon was struck by a missile.

CNN Reporter: “There is NO Evidence of a Plane Having Crashed Anywhere Near the Pentagon”

Jamie Mcintyre, CNN’s senior Pentagon correspondent at the time, was at the Pentagon shortly after it was hit. Here’s what he reported:

“From my close-up inspection, there is no evidence of a plane having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon… The only pieces left that you can see are small enough that you could pick up in your hand. There are no large tail sections, wing sections, a fuselage, nothing like that anywhere around which would indicate that the entire plane crashed into the side of the Pentagon and then caused the side to collapse. Even though if you look at the pictures of the Pentagon you see that the floors have all collapsed, that didn’t happen immediately, it wasn’t until almost about forty-five minutes later that the structure was weakened enough that all of the floors collapsed.”

More Visual Evidence (Including Aerial Footage) Indicating That No Plane Hit the Pentagon on 9/11

In the video below, pay close attention to the aerial footage that begins at the 4:25 mark and especially the closeup shot at 4:50.  Where is the plane debris?  The footage shows exactly what McIntyre described: there was no plane debris.

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Leaked Footage of What Actually DID Hit the Pentagon

Undeniable Proof a Plane did NOT Hit the Pentagon on 9/11

(“National Security Alert – 9/11 Pentagon Event” originally released on 15 Jun 2009)

Citizen Investigation Team offers this compilation of independently verifiable evidence exposing the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon as a psychological black operation of deception. Consider this a non-violent call to action as everyone is encouraged to copy and distribute this conclusive evidence to media, political, and authority figures while first requesting, and then demanding a response. Inaction by authorities and media to this information amounts to a crime of obstruction of justice so it’s time they are held accountable. This is particularly the case as more innocents are slaughtered and additional billions of dollars are spent on a fraudulent “war on terror” perpetuated under any other name. Please visit CitizenInvestigationTeam.com for full resources and a step-by-step strategy as to how you can take action on this critical life or death information.

See ALL of the videos by the Citizen Investigation Team HERE.

Below are some of the key findings by the Citizen Investigation Team:

• We are shown images and animation of the path that the plane must have taken in order to knock over five light poles and damage the Pentagon in the manner that it did, which is the official story. The location of the downed light poles is important because it establishes the required location and trajectory of the plane down to the foot.
• Interviews with the first two witnesses (Edward Paik and Terry Morin), who were positioned on the south side of the Navy Annex (vantage point #1) as the plane flew over. Both Edward and Terry saw the plane fly directly over the Navy annex to the north of the “official” path.
• Of particular significance is the interview with Morin, an aviator and a program manager for SPARTA Inc at the Navy Annex. Initially, Morin was between the wings of the Navy annex, so he could only see the plane as it “flew over the top of me.” Morin than ran over to get a better view and watched the plane for 13-18 seconds. Morin, as an aviator, disputed the official report that the plane was flying 460 knots. Instead, Morin says that the plane was only flying at a speed of around 350 knots.
• Interviews with three witnesses who were at the CITGO gas station (vantage point #2) on 9/11 when a low-flying plane flew by.
• Robert Turcios, CITGO station employee, saw the plane on the north side of the station and initially thought the plane was going to crash onto the street between the station and the Pentagon, but saw the plane “lift and go up a little bit.” He did not see the plane hit the Pentagon.
• In addition, Pentagon Police officers Chadwick Brooks and William Lagasse each confirm that the low-flying plane flew by on the north side of the CITGO station.
• Morin and Lagasse independently draw a nearly identical, flight path lines showing an approach to the north of the CITGO station.
• Next, an interview with a witness who was located on the north side of the Navy Annex (vantage point # 3) on 9/11 is shown. William Middleton Sr., an Arlington Cemetery employee, said that he plane was coming straight down Southgate road on the north side of the Navy annex. Middleton also said that he could see the plane dropping in altitude and that it came so close to where he was standing that he could feel the heat from the plane. In addition, Middleton said that the plane was traveling at a “slow” rate of speed, corroborating what Terry Morin had said.
• After the interview with Middleton, interviews with Arlington Cemetery employees Darrell Stafford and Darius Prather, who was positioned at the Arlington Cemetery maintenance buildings (vantage point # 4) on 9/11 are shown. Both said that a plane was coming directly at them and that after barely clearing the Navy Annex building, the plane continued descending and at the same time was banking to the right. The banking of the plane to the right is irreconcilable with NTSB data, physical damage to the Pentagon, and the Pentagon security video.
• This video segment starts with an interview of another Arlington Cemetery employee, Donald Carter, who was also positioned at the Arlington Cemetery maintenance buildings (vantage point # 4) on 9/11. Carter’s testimony is similar to that of his co-workers, Stafford and Prather.
• Next, an interview with Sean Boger is shown. Boger, a heliport air traffic controller, was in the Pentagon heliport tower that is located directly in front of the Pentagon (vantage point # 5) on 9/11. Boger said: “I just happened to be looking out the window. And, as I was looking out the window, I could see a plane… The plane was coming directly at us… You know I fell to the ground and I covered my head.”
• Boger stated that he saw a plane come over the Navy Annex and bank right toward the Pentagon. Based on the amount of time he watched the plane after he first saw it, the plane was traveling significantly slower than 460 knots.
• From five vantage points, 13 eyewitnesses independently and unanimously confirm a north side approach. A drawing is shown depicting the paths drawn by the witnesses. The eyewitness testimony contradicts the official reports that are required to make the official story plausible.
• All of the eyewitnesses have worked in the area for many years and are therefore very familiar with the topology and landmarks. Since the release of their interviews in the public domain, all have been made aware of the implications yet stand by their stories as reported. None have claimed that their accounts have been misrepresented.
• Most of the witnesses could not see the alleged impact point due to the complex topography and landscape, and admit to running, dropping, or flinching for cover. This explains why they did not see the plane fly away and assumed that it had hit the Pentagon because of the explosion.
• The independent and unanimous placement of the plane on the north side and banking to the right amounts to proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the plane did fly away without hitting the building because the damage to the Pentagon required a south side approach.
• Although the witnesses presented so far did not see the plane fly away, some did (and are documented in the next video segment).
• Pentagon police officer Roosevelt Roberts Jr. saw the plane fly away immediately after the explosion. He was at the Pentagon south parking lot loading dock, only a few steps inside the building during the explosion. After hearing an explosion, he ran outside, looked up, and saw a plane flying around the south parking lot. Roosevelt describes seeing a commercial jet that was banking and flying away at less than 100 feet above the ground within 10 seconds after the explosion.
• Roosevelt could have only seen the same banking plane that all of the other witnesses reported seeing on the north side flight path.
• There is additional evidence that more people saw the plane continue past the Pentagon. Arlington National Cemetery employee Erik Dihle was officially recorded by the Center for Military History on December 13, 2001. Although he personally did not see the plane, he said the first thing that other people reported was that a bomb went off and that a jet flew by and kept on going:
• “A number of us were working building 123.  Right after the explosion… we got up and ran outside… Some people were yelling that a bomb had hit the Pentagon and a jet kept on going.”
• Multiple witnesses have testified to seeing a banking, low-flying plane approach the Pentagon from the north side of the former CITGO gas station. This means that the damaged light poles, of which one allegedly went through the windshield of a taxicab, had to have been staged. Although there are photos of a bent pole laying on the ground and a broken windshield, not a single photograph exists showing the 40-foot, 247-pound pole inside the cab.
• Taxi cab driver, Lloyde England, initially claimed that a silent stranger helped him remove the light pole from his car. A 247-pound light pole knocked over by a 90-ton Boeing 757 traveling 530 miles per hour certainly would have caused massive damage had it hit Lloyde’s taxi. However, the only visible damage to the taxi is the broken front windshield. Otherwise, the taxi was unscratched, which makes absolutely no sense.
• However, don’t forget that testimony from multiple witnesses has proven that none of the downed light poles could have been knocked over by the incoming plane. Therefore, the lack of damage to the taxi does make sense.
• After Lloyde was confronted with the information provided by the witnesses indicating a north side approach (and that therefore the downed light poles must have been staged), he had a very strange reaction. Lloyde then changed his story and refused to admit that his taxi was on the bridge next to the downed light pole, where it appears that photos of both Lloyde and the taxi were taken.
• Lloyde goes on to explain that history has nothing to do with the truth and that he was used by people who have money. He then essentially admits that the downed light pole was staged and pre-planned. But, he was cautious not to outright confess. He distanced himself from the planners while admitting that the staging was planned.

You Can’t Fit a Boeing 757 into Hole that is Only 16 Feet Wide

Watch this outstanding Italian documentary titled Zero: An Investigation into 9/11, which includes analysis by Stubblebine and addresses many of the serious problems with the official account of what happened at the Pentagon:

The discrepancies that are addressed in the above video include the following:

• There is no airplane debris visible anywhere in front of the Pentagon. Examples of what you would expect to see at a plane crash site are shown. Captain Russ Whittemberg, a pilot with over 30 years in military and civil aviation, said: “I have been at some accident investigation sites in the Air Force. And I have never come across any accident scene where there is no tell-tale evidence of the plane that crashed.”
• There is no evidence that either the airplane engines or the wings impacted the building. Instead, we are supposed to believe that the 38 meter (125 feet) wide Boeing 757 fit into a hole that is only 5 meters (16 feet) wide. We are supposed to believe that the wings folded up like those of a dragon fly and squeeze into the 5 meter wide hole.
• Major General Albert Stubblebine: “One of my experiences in the Army was being in charge of the Army’s Imagery Interpretation for Scientific and Technical Intelligence during the Cold War. I measured pieces of Soviet equipment from photographs. It was my job. I look at the hole in the Pentagon and I look at the size of an airplane that was supposed to have hit the Pentagon. And I said, ‘The plane does not fit in that hole’. So what did hit the Pentagon? What hit it? Where is it? What’s going on?”
• One theory is that the Boeing 757 was vaporized due to the speed and the force of the crash. The engines are made of a titanium steel alloy that would not vaporize unless they hit a temperature of 3,286 degrees Centigrade. That did not happen. Plus, the engines would have caused significant damage upon impact. Yet, there is no indication that the engines impacted the Pentagon.
• After a period of time, various photos of airplane debris began to appear in newspapers and on the web did not appear in any photos shown in the days following the event.
• The Pentagon had numerous cameras that had complete and separate recordings of the incident. The FBI was immediately on the scene and confiscated many video tapes from the Pentagon and nearby buildings. Yet only four videos were released after 2006 when FOIA requests compelled them to release them. Only two showed any useful information. But most experts believe the white image in the videos is too small to be a 757.
• The story of how the plane arrived at the Pentagon is absurd – by making a 270 degree turn at a speed of 800 kilometers per hour.

AA Flight 77 Was Lost From Radar For 36 Minutes, Then a Smaller Military Plane Appeared On Radar That Was NOT AA Flight 77

Please continue watching the next segment of the documentary Zero: An Investigation into 9/11:

• According to the official account, the Pentagon was struck by AA Flight 77, under the control of al-Qaeda hijacker Hani Hanjour. Hanjour was known as “a terrible pilot,”  who could not even fly a small airplane.
• An experienced pilot with thousands of hours would probably require 10-20 attempts to pull off the maneuver that was performed with the Boeing 757 on its way to the Pentagon. “You just can’t do that with one of those big airplanes.” –Robin Hordon, flight controller and flight instructor
• AA Flight 77 was lost from radar as early as 8:56 a.m. and then allegedly reappeared 36 minutes later at 9:32 am. According to Danielle O’Brien, an air traffic controller at Dulles International Airport, the plane that showed up on the radar was not Flight 77: “The speed, the maneuverability, the way that it turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that it was a military plane.”
• No unknown aircraft are allowed within 50 miles of the Pentagon.  The Pentagon has its own anti-aircraft missiles that should have fired to protect the building. Only a military aircraft with a special IFF transponder (identifying it as a friend) would be allowed to approach the Pentagon.
• The official report of the final half mile of Flight 77 before it allegedly hit the Pentagon is aerodynamically impossible. “I challenge any pilot, any pilot anywhere: give him a Boeing 757 and tell him to do 400 knots 20 feet above the ground for half a mile. CAN’T Do. It’s aerodynamically impossible.” – Nila Sagadevan, pilot and aeronautical engineer.
• The alleged hijackers had difficulty flying small aircraft, which means that there is a zero possibility that they could pull off an impossible maneuver on the first try.

Donald Rumsfeld said that a MISSILE was used to damage the Pentagon

If no plane hit the Pentagon, then what did? In an interview with Parade Magazine in October 2001 (of which a transcript was posted on the U.S. Department of Defense website, defense.gov), Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked “How did a war targeting civilians arrive on our homeland with seemingly no warning?” Rumsfeld replied:

“There were lots of warnings… It is a truth that a terrorist can attack any time, any place, using any technique and it’s physically impossible to defend at every time and every place against every conceivable technique. Here we’re talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filled with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center. The only way to deal with this problem is by taking the battle to the terrorists, wherever they are, and dealing with them.” [1]

Note that Rumsfeld indicated that both a plane and a missile were used on the Pentagon, which matches up perfectly with the evidence presented in the video, Undeniable Proof a Plane did NOT Hit the Pentagon on 9/11.

Timothy Roemer, Former 9/11 Commission Member, said that the Pentagon was “pried open by a MISSILE”

In an interview in September 2006 with CNN’s Miles O’Brien, former 9/11 Commissioner member, Timothy Roemer, says that a missile caused the damage to the Pentagon and then quickly corrects himself to line up with the official story.

O’Brien: “At any point during this day were you just, in a very base way, afraid?”

Roemer: “There was — there were many times, Miles, that you were afraid. You were — you were worried, especially when I was standing in front of the Pentagon that night, seeing one of our fortresses pried open by a missile, an airplane, thinking about the number of people that probably died on the plane and on the ground…”

Click on the link below to see the above exchange between O’Brien and Roemer:

Expert claims that a high radiation reading near Pentagon indicates that a “depleted uranium warhead may have been used”

The missile hypothesis is supported by physical evidence. Dr. Janette Sherman, a well-respected radiation expert, used a Geiger counter to measure radiation levels from about 12 miles downwind of the Pentagon shortly after the attack on 9/11. Sherman reported that the Geiger counter reading was extremely high, 8-10 times greater than normal. [2]

Although Sherman’s findings are not conclusive, Dr. Leuren Moret, formerly a scientist at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory, stated:

“I’m not an explosives or crash site expert, but I am highly knowledgeable in causes and effects related to nuclear radiation contamination. What happened at the Pentagon is highly suspicious, leading me to believe a missile with a depleted uranium warhead may have been used.” [3]

The missile theory was echoed by retired Army Maj. Doug Rokke, a PhD educational physics and former top military expert:

“When you look at the whole thing, especially the crash site void of airplane parts, the size of the hole left in the building and the fact the projectile’s impact penetrated numerous concrete walls, it looks like the work of a missile. And when you look at the damage, it was obviously a missile.” [4]

Pentagon Employee Witness Says There Was No Plane on 9-11-2001

April Gallop and her child survived the ‘impact’ at the Pentagon. She was a Pentagon employee who was inside the building sitting at a computer when the explosion occurred.  After escaping through a hole in the Pentagon wall she waited on the grass near the road before being taken to the Hospital. She did not see any plane debris or experience any jet fuel or any other evidence of a plane crash.

USAF Witness: There was “a strange lack of visible debris…moments after impact”

Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD, U.S. Air Force (retired) wrote that there was a lack of debris moments after impact. Kwiatkowski, who was an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel employed at the Pentagon on 9/11, was a contributor to a book titled 9/11 and American Empire Intellectuals Speak Out, in which she wrote that there was “a strange lack of visible debris on the Pentagon lawn, where I stood only moments after the impact. . . . I saw . . . no airplane metal or cargo debris.” [5]

Another Pentagon Witness: I was convinced it was a missile.

Lon Rains, who was an Editor for Space News at the time, happened to be driving his car near the Pentagon when it was hit by a missile on 9/11. In an article titled Eyewitness: The Pentagon, published on June 30, 2005, Rains wrote:

“That morning, like many others, the traffic slowed to a crawl just in front of the Pentagon. With the Pentagon to the left of my van at about 10 o’clock on the dial of a clock, I glanced at my watch to see if I was going to be late for my appointment. At that moment I heard a very loud, quick whooshing sound that began behind me and stopped suddenly in front of me and to my left. In fractions of a second I heard the impact and an explosion. The next thing I saw was the fireball. I was convinced it was a missile. It came in so fast it sounded nothing like an airplane.” [6]

Conclusion: The Pentagon was hit by a MISSILE, not hit by a plane

The lack of any evidence that a plane hit the Pentagon, eyewitness testimony of a banking, north side approach, eyewitnesses who saw a low-flying “jet” fly past the Pentagon that “kept on going,” plus Lloyde’s confession that the downed light pole was preplanned and staged all provide ample evidence proving that a Boeing 757 did not hit the Pentagon, but instead a smaller “jet” merely flew past the Pentagon immediately after it was hit by a missile in order to appear as though a plane did the damage.

References

[1] Secretary Rumsfeld Interview with Parade Magazine, News Transcript, October 12, 2001
https://web.archive.org/web/20041118063828/https://www.defense.gov/transcripts/2001/t11182001_t1012pm.html

[2] Greg Szymanski, Radiation Expert Claims High-Radiation Readings Near Pentagon After 9/11 Indicate Depleted Uranium Used; High-Ranking Army Officer Claims Missile Used at Pentagon, Not Commercial Airliner, August 18, 2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20060111183631/https://www.arcticbeacon.com/18-Aug-2005.html

[3] Ibid.

[4] Ibid.

[5] Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD, USAF (ret), 9/11 and American Empire Intellectuals Speak Out, Edited by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott, 2006

[6] Lon Rains, Eyewitness: The Pentagon, Space News, June 30, 2005
https://web.archive.org/web/20060210130450/https://www.space.com/news/rains_september11-1.html

Source: AE911Truth

On September 11, 2001, at 5:20 PM, the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed into its footprint, falling more than 100 feet at the rate of gravity for 2.5 seconds of its seven-second destruction.

The Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth are pleased to partner with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in releasing the final report of a four-year computer modeling study of WTC 7’s collapse conducted by researchers in the university’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

We invite you to read the report and to watch Dr. Leroy Hulsey’s presentation at the UAF campus, where he first announced his team’s findings:

Read more great articles at AE911.

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By Christine Hoeflich

I am very happy to share what I believe will fix the Gordian knot our country is in and save our country. I have transcribed a recent Tore Maras video (August 2, 2022, from 2hr:43 min on) and am sharing it below. Please read this as if your life and the lives of your children and grandchildren are on the line, as they are.

This also confirms what I’ve been sharing here on my blog. After you read Tore Maras’ message below, you may go here, to read a blog post that confirms what I’ve been saying here all along. (That you have a role in this awakening, and that it begins with you, at the individual and local level.)

So here is Tore, talking about how to save yourself, your family, your community and your country …

What will save you? Be the change you want to be and take hold of your damn counties because as they come down from the top, remember the top is the pyramid. The base is what holds it up. At the base, you’re the one there. And the minute you step out of line, that whole fvcking pyramid collapses. So when they come for you and your base is strong, your county is strong and you have taken back your county’s sovereignty, your city’s sovereignty, your state sovereignty, they can’t do anything. It’s bottom up, not top down.

And this is the problem, and this is why I have a problem with influence operations among influence operations giving you a leader when you don’t need one. All you need is each other. On a micro scale, you are the base of the pyramid. And if your base is strong and you own your base and you all say, look, I don’t give a shit. Okay. You identify as whatever the fvck you want. You have that right to identify as whatever the fvck you want, just like I do. So let’s all get together and remove these clowns and see, why are they spending so much money on this? Why are they getting federal dollars for this? Why are they doing this? Why are we supposed to be subscribing to some kind of idea when that’s not helping our community? Uh, we have potholes. Where’d that money go? Oh ya, oh ya, you know, it’s expensive …

Okay, you’re out. So let’s get into this… Why do we have potholes? Okay. Where was this money allocated? Where was it done? You know what? Fvck this. Federal government, you say I have debt. Fvck you. Come get it. I’m not giving you shit. Hey, people, we’re gonna be doing this tax. We’re gonna be doing it like that. Wait a minute, are we getting funds from the federal government for education? Are you guys okay with it? Are they forcing us? Are there any stipulations to get this money? Do we have to force CRT? Do we have to hire specific teachers? You know what, that’s not gonna work in our county. Bye! We’re gonna work amongst ourselves. This is how you make change!

When you realize that the words be the change you want to be are at the core of it. And so, as we sit here in a world of a Gordian knot, not being able to find the beginning or the end of the string to pull it, to get it loose, what do we do? We just say, fvck it. Fvck your knot; we don’t wanna play with your knot. We’re just gonna cut it up, and it’s over. And the way we can do it is two ways, a two-pronged approach. One, in your counties, you could get all these clowns removed in a heartbeat. And I am so jealous of people that live in counties that actually have people that are collectively together.

And how do you do that? Well, you need elections. So what do you do? Do what Texas did. Texas has literally done this. In five counties, I believe, and counting. Every single county, they filed contestation, do not use the machines. We are not using the machines. We are not using the machines. Huh? Oh, so that county’s not using them. So, they’re having fair elections; that county’s not using them. Wait a minute, how many counties do you have in your state? I have 88 in mine. If 88 of my counties refused on a county level to take those machines, Frank Larose can go blue in his face and he’s not gonna get shit done. He can’t force those machines … unless he can pull a federal law that says they’re actually federalized and they have to, uh-huh, but then he would have to declassify documents and then you have to question, why do we have classified documents when it comes to elections when it should be transparent? Go figure.

See, this is how you fix things. You don’t say, oh, we need to do this. No, you need to focus on what cuts the knot. Focus on the sword. That sword is saying, you know what? This knot is really fvcked up and nobody can solve it because you can’t untie it. So just get rid of it. How do you get rid of it? Cut it up. Say, fvck your knot. That’s how you do it. That’s how you move. That’s how you make change. Not what these influencers are telling you: Come vote, give us money, do this, do that, buy my shit, do this. No! It’s hey, get together, have some potlucks, work together. Let’s do this. I mean, I am actually very jealous because there are so many people astray that prescribe to all these ideologies; rather than see that they are the fvcking change they look to someone else to give them the change, or to take something completely broken.

It’s like one of those, you know, what is it? Those house shows where they flip houses and they take something completely fvcked up and they wanna rebuild it and they buy it for cheap. And then they see the foundation’s all shot. So then they gotta take it all down and redo it again. Why are you taking something that has corrupt foundations thinking that you can change that and make it better? Fvcking get rid of the Gordian knot! Cut it! That’s how you do it. That’s how you do it. Ah, that’s how you do it!

You stand up for yourself, with your neighbor that you may not like, that maybe is a “Joanna.” Didn’t they say that “Anna people,” people that end with Anne, like Dan, Anna, Joanne, I know all of them, have like a certain facial feature? Get with the people that you may not like. Look, you don’t have to like everybody, but you guys all have to agree that you have rights. And that is it…

What you need to be focusing on is getting to your counties. Some of you have charters within your counties that give you the right to remove people within like 10 days. And yet you’re sitting there with your thumbs up your ass; what do we do?

We should save the children. Sure. So you hang Epstein, you hang Weinstein. You hang, what? Hillary? Bill? Which one will satisfy you? Cause you know they’ve got people in the back doing the same-ass shit. I would just take ’em all out. Will you though, really? You’re gonna take out the thought of evil from people’s minds? No. You control how to do it. And I don’t know how many times I have to say it. You guys need each other, in person, to look at what you can do on your local level. (Big breath.) That’s all.

Because if you look at today, any climate, that’s it. I guess I wasn’t supposed to say that, I’m being choked up. I’ll keep my mouth shut now. So on that note, while you are dabbling in the land of confusion, embrace it. Say, all right, I’m in this knot. I’m this knot right now. I’m the knot. So how do I do it? Do I fail for so many years to untie this damn knot? Or do I just take my sword and say, fvck the knot. That’s where you need to sit on. Yes, this is a land of confusion, but in order to not be confused, I just cut the knot, and I focus on things that I can control. And I embrace those that I cannot. You can’t control what’s going on in the federal government. You can’t control what’s going on in Taiwan. You can’t control what’s going on in China. Once you control what you can, well, there you go. That’s your answer. That’s ALL you have to focus on. — End of Tore Maras excerpt

So yeah, local action and local responsibility, beginning with your own self.

That’s the attitude I had when this plandemic came about: Fvck your masks! Fvck your social distancing! Fvck your vakseens! Liars! I actually had a guy blast his megaphone at me at Costco, reminding me to social distance, to which I turned around and promptly showed him the finger. Perhaps, if only a few percentage of people had my point-of-view, my attitude, we would have never had to go through with this nonsense. (I usually am a polite person, and diplomatic. It’s just that I could not go along with the BS.)

But, as I’ve been saying for many years now, we need to learn certain things firsthand, so it is etched in our brains, so it is etched in our experiences. So it never, ever happens again. So your understanding will be deep. So your compassion and appreciation and joy will be deep, and real. There’s a good reason they call this the Great Awakening.

I encourage you all to get on Telegram and follow ToreSays+, and watch her videos on Rumble. There are ToreSays+ local and state groups working on projects (locally driven), such as what Texas has accomplished. Here is the link for her Rumble channel: Tore Says Show. Tore is also running for Ohio Secretary of State on the independent ticket. Please check her out.

I’m here to help people strengthen their connection with God, with their higher self, and develop their inner guidance. I blog about the spiritual awakening process and reduce people’s fear around that. But Tore has extraordinary, high-level understanding about our government, our past, and where we are headed. Because of her, our world is blessed.

You’ve got the key, the shortcut and the clarity now. Please share this post with your family, friends, wherever you can. Share your insights below, and get to work doing your part!

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“It will get faster now: the ending of everything which does not belong. Never give up. You are so needed!” ~ Oracle Girl, 9-July-2022

In the above video, Luke Rudkowski explains the larger revolt in Sri Lanka with thousands of people storming the government building and presidential palace

Coupled with the massive protests also in The Netherlands and Albania, this is a global uprising that even Newsweek is now recognizing.

Luke delves into how people all around the world are revolting against the elites, the green agenda, price hikes, the banking class and more. And why this is going to spread to many more places.

Likewise in today’s video, Luke covers the former Japanese prime minister being taken out and where things stand between Elon Musk and Twitter.

Source: The Rutherford Institute| John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead

Imagine living in a country where armed soldiers crash through doors to arrest and imprison citizens merely for criticizing government officials.

Imagine that in this very same country, you’re watched all the time and if you look even a little bit suspicious, the police stop and frisk you or pull you over to search you on the off chance you’re doing something illegal.

Keep in mind that if you have a firearm of any kind (or anything that resembled a firearm) while in this country, it may get you arrested and, in some circumstances, shot by police.

If you’re thinking this sounds like America today, you wouldn’t be far wrong.

However, the scenario described above took place more than 200 years ago, when American colonists suffered under Great Britain’s version of an early police state. It was only when the colonists finally got fed up with being silenced, censored, searched, frisked, threatened, and arrested that they finally revolted against the tyrant’s fetters.

No document better states their grievances than the Declaration of Independence, drafted by Thomas Jefferson.

A document seething with outrage over a government which had betrayed its citizens, the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, by 56 men who laid everything on the line, pledged it all—“our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor”—because they believed in a radical idea: that all people are created to be free.

Labeled traitors, these men were charged with treason, a crime punishable by death. For some, their acts of rebellion would cost them their homes and their fortunes. For others, it would be the ultimate price—their lives.

Yet even knowing the heavy price they might have to pay, these men dared to speak up when silence could not be tolerated. Even after they had won their independence from Great Britain, these new Americans worked to ensure that the rights they had risked their lives to secure would remain secure for future generations.

The result: our Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

Imagine the shock and outrage these 56 men would feel were they to discover that 246 years later, the government they had risked their lives to create has been transformed into a militaristic police state in which exercising one’s freedoms—at a minimum, merely questioning a government agent—is often viewed as a flagrant act of defiance.

In fact, had the Declaration of Independence been written today, it would have rendered its signers extremists or terrorists, resulting in them being placed on a government watch list, targeted for surveillance of their activities and correspondence, and potentially arrested, held indefinitely, stripped of their rights and labeled enemy combatants.

Read the Declaration of Independence again, and ask yourself if the list of complaints tallied by Jefferson don’t bear a startling resemblance to the abuses “we the people” are suffering at the hands of the American police state.

Here’s what the Declaration of Independence might look and sound like if it were written in the modern vernacular:

There comes a time when a populace must stand united and say “enough is enough” to the government’s abuses, even if it means getting rid of the political parties in power.

Believing that “we the people” have a natural and divine right to direct our own lives, here are truths about the power of the people and how we arrived at the decision to sever our ties to the government:

All people are created equal.

All people possess certain innate rights that no government or agency or individual can take away from them. Among these are the right to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The government’s job is to protect the people’s innate rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The government’s power comes from the will of the people.

Whenever any government abuses its power, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish that government and replace it with a new government that will respect and protect the rights of the people.

It is not wise to get rid of a government for minor transgressions. In fact, as history has shown, people resist change and are inclined to suffer all manner of abuses to which they have become accustomed.

However, when the people have been subjected to repeated abuses and power grabs, carried out with the purpose of establishing a tyrannical government, people have a right and duty to do away with that tyrannical government and to replace it with a new government that will protect and preserve their innate rights for their future wellbeing.

This is exactly the state of affairs we are under suffering under right now, which is why it is necessary that we change this imperial system of government.

The history of the present Imperial Government is a history of repeated abuses and power grabs, carried out with the intention of establishing absolute tyranny over the country.

To prove this, consider the following:

The government has, through its own negligence and arrogance, refused to adopt urgent and necessary laws for the good of the people.

The government has threatened to hold up critical laws unless the people agree to relinquish their right to be fully represented in the Legislature.

In order to expand its power and bring about compliance with its dictates, the government has made it nearly impossible for the people to make their views and needs heard by their representatives.

The government has repeatedly suppressed protests arising in response to its actions.

The government has obstructed justice by refusing to appoint judges who respect the Constitution and has instead made the courts march in lockstep with the government’s dictates.

The government has allowed its agents to harass the people, steal from them, jail them and even execute them.

The government has directed militarized government agents—a.k.a., a standing army—to police domestic affairs in peacetime.

The government has turned the country into a militarized police state.

The government has conspired to undermine the rule of law and the constitution in order to expand its own powers.

The government has allowed its militarized police to invade our homes and inflict violence on homeowners.

The government has failed to hold its agents accountable for wrongdoing and murder under the guise of “qualified immunity.”

The government has jeopardized our international trade agreements.

The government has overtaxed us without our permission.

The government has denied us due process and the right to a fair trial.

The government has engaged in extraordinary rendition.

The government has continued to expand its military empire in collusion with its corporate partners-in-crime and occupy foreign nations.

The government has eroded fundamental legal protections and destabilized the structure of government.

The government has not only declared its federal powers superior to those of the states but has also asserted its sovereign power over the rights of “we the people.”

The government has ceased to protect the people and instead waged domestic war against the people.

The government has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, and destroyed the lives of the people.

The government has employed private contractors and mercenaries to carry out acts of death, desolation and tyranny, totally unworthy of a civilized nation.

The government through its political propaganda has pitted its citizens against each other.

The government has stirred up civil unrest and laid the groundwork for martial law.

Repeatedly, we have asked the government to cease its abuses. Each time, the government has responded with more abuse.

An Imperial Ruler who acts like a tyrant is not fit to govern a free people.

We have repeatedly sounded the alarm to our fellow citizens about the government’s abuses. We have warned them about the government’s power grabs. We have appealed to their sense of justice. We have reminded them of our common bonds.

They have rejected our plea for justice and brotherhood. They are equally at fault for the injustices being carried out by the government.

Thus, for the reasons mentioned above, we the people of the united States of America declare ourselves free from the chains of an abusive government. Relying on God’s protection, we pledge to stand by this Declaration of Independence with our lives, our fortunes and our honor.

In the 246 years since early Americans first declared and eventually won their independence from Great Britain, “we the people” have managed to work ourselves right back under the tyrant’s thumb.

Only this time, the tyrant is one of our own making: the American Police State.

The abuses meted out by an imperial government and endured by the American people have not ended. They have merely evolved.

“We the people” are still being robbed blind by a government of thieves.

We are still being taken advantage of by a government of scoundrels, idiots and monsters.

We are still being locked up by a government of greedy jailers.

We are still being spied on by a government of Peeping Toms.

We are still being ravaged by a government of ruffians, rapists and killers.

We are still being forced to surrender our freedoms—and those of our children—to a government of extortionists, money launderers and corporate pirates.

And we are still being held at gunpoint by a government of soldiers: a standing army in the form of a militarized police.

Given the fact that we are a relatively young nation, it hasn’t taken very long for an authoritarian regime to creep into power.

Unfortunately, the bipartisan coup that laid siege to our nation did not happen overnight.

It snuck in under our radar, hiding behind the guise of national security, the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on immigration, political correctness, hate crimes and a host of other official-sounding programs aimed at expanding the government’s power at the expense of individual freedoms.

The building blocks for the bleak future we’re just now getting a foretaste of—police shootings of unarmed citizens, profit-driven prisons, weapons of compliance, a wall-to-wall surveillance state, pre-crime programs, a suspect society, school-to-prison pipelines, militarized police, overcriminalization, SWAT team raids, endless wars, etc.—were put in place by government officials we trusted to look out for our best interests.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, the problems we are facing will not be fixed overnight: that is the grim reality with which we must contend.

Yet that does not mean we should give up or give in or tune out. What we need to do is declare our independence from the tyranny of the American police state.

WC: 1772

ABOUT JOHN W. WHITEHEAD

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction novel, The Erik Blair Diaries. Whitehead can be contacted at staff@rutherford.org. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.

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“Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that relies on violence to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Given the profits made by arms manufacturers, the defense industry, gun dealers, and the lobbyists who represent them in Congress, it comes as no surprise that the culture of violence cannot be abstracted from either the culture of business or the corruption of politics.”—Professor Henry A. Giroux

We are caught in a vicious cycle.

With alarming regularity, the nation is being subjected to a heartbreaking spate of violence that terrorizes the populace, fractures communities, and gives the government greater justifications to crack down, lock down, and institute even more authoritarian policies for the so-called sake of national security without many objections from the citizenry.

Mass shootings have taken place in schools, on college campuses, movie theaters, nightclubs, grocery stores, concert venues, bars, workplaces, churches, on military bases, and in government offices. In almost every instance, the shooters were dressed in military-style gear and armed with military-style weapons.

Take the latest shooting that took place in Uvalde, Texas, when 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, wearing body armor and carrying a rifle, walked into Robb Elementary School and opened fire, leaving at least 19 children and two teachers dead.

This Uvalde shooting took place ten days after another 18-year-old man, heavily armed and wearing tactical gear (including a tactical helmet and plated armor), opened fire in a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y, killing 10 people.

In 2018, a 19-year-old former student armed with a gas mask, smoke grenades, magazines of ammunition, and an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle opened fire on students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., leaving 17 people dead.

Ten years ago, 20-year-old Adam Lanza—wearing body armor and black clothing, and armed with military-style weapons—opened fire on students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., leaving 26 dead. Prior to the shooting, Lanza reportedly spent his days “playing violent video games amid posters showcasing military equipment.”

According to an FBI report issued the day before the Uvalde shooting, these kinds of “active shooter attacks” have doubled in recent years.

As expected in the wake of such tragedies, there has been a vocal outcry for enacting more strident gun control measures, more mental health checks, and heightened security measures.

Yet surely there’s more to these shootings than just easy access to weapons and mental illness.

Ask yourself: Why do these mass shootings keep happening? Who are these shooters modeling themselves after? Where are they finding the inspiration for their weaponry and tactics? Whose stance and techniques are they mirroring?

When you start to connect the dots, they lead right back to the American police state and the war-drenched, violence-imbued, profit-driven military industrial complex, both of which continue to dominate, dictate and shape almost every aspect of our lives.

The United States is the number one consumer, exporter and perpetrator of violence and violent weapons in the world.

Violence has become America’s calling card.

We are a military culture engaged in continuous warfare.

We have been a nation at war for most of our existence.

We are a nation that makes a living from killing through defense contracts, weapons manufacturing and endless wars.

We are being fed a steady diet of violence through our entertainment, news, sports and politics.

All of the military equipment featured in blockbuster movies is provided—at taxpayer expense—in exchange for carefully placed promotional spots aimed at boosting civic pride in the military, recruiting for the military, and churning out profit-driven propaganda for the military industrial complex. Even reality TV shows have gotten in on the gig.

It’s estimated that U.S. military intelligence agencies (including the NSA) have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows.

Then there are the growing number of violent video games, a number of which are engineered by or created for the military as recruitment tools, which have accustomed players to interactive war play through military simulations and first-person shooter scenarios. As Esther J. Cepeda writes for The Washington Post, “Violent video games alone do not cause people to go off the rails, arm themselves and open fire on innocent people in public places. But there’s also no question that there is something wrong with a multibillion-dollar video game industry that sells to young men the ability to virtually assassinate a foe as an escape from real life.”

The media, eager to score higher ratings, has been equally complicit in making (real) war more palatable to the public by packaging it as TV friendly. The military has also been firmly entrenched in the nation’s sports spectacles, having co-opted football, basketball, even NASCAR, “tying the symbols of sports with the symbols of war.”

This is how you acclimate a population to war.

This is how you cultivate loyalty to a war machine.

This is how, to borrow from the subtitle to the 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, you teach a nation to “stop worrying and love the bomb.”

This is how you sustain the nation’s appetite for war.

As journalist David Sirota writes for Salon, to those who profit from war, it is “a ‘product’ to be sold via pop culture products that sanitize war and, in the process, boost recruitment numbers.”

No wonder entertainment violence is the hottest selling ticket at the box office. As professor Henry Giroux points out, “Popular culture not only trades in violence as entertainment, but also it delivers violence to a society addicted to a pleasure principle steeped in graphic and extreme images of human suffering, mayhem and torture.”

No wonder the government continues to whet the nation’s appetite for violence and war through paid propaganda programs (seeded throughout sports entertainment, Hollywood blockbusters and video games)—what professor Roger Stahl refers to as “militainment“—that glorify the military and serve as recruiting tools for America’s expanding military empire.

No wonder Americans from a very young age are being groomed to enlist as foot soldiers—even virtual ones—in America’s Army (coincidentally, that’s also the name of a first-person shooter video game that was produced by the military and used as a pivotal recruiting tool for 20 years).

Explorer scouts, for example, have been one of the most popular recruiting tools for the military and its civilian counterparts (law enforcement, Border Patrol, and the FBI). Writing for The Atlantic, a former Explorer scout described the highlight of the program: monthly weekend maneuvers with the National Guard where scouts “got to fire live rounds from M16s, M60 machine guns, and M203 grenade launchers… we would have urban firefights (shooting blanks, of course) in Combat Town, a warren of concrete buildings designed for just that purpose. The exercise always devolved into a free-for-all, with all of us weekend warriors emptying clip after clip of blanks until we couldn’t see past the end of our rifles for all the smoke in the air.”

No wonder America spends more money on war than the combined military budgets of China, Russia, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Saudi Arabia, India, Germany, Italy and Brazil. America polices the globe, with 800 military bases and troops stationed in 160 countries. Moreover, the war hawks have turned the American homeland into a quasi-battlefield with military gear, weapons and tactics. In turn, domestic police forces have become roving extensions of the military—a standing army.

You want to stop the gun violence?

• Stop the worship of violence that permeates our culture.
• Stop treating guns and war as entertainment fodder in movies, music, video games, toys, amusement parks, reality TV, sports and more.
• Stop distributing weapons of war (weapons that have no business being anywhere but on a battlefield) to the local police and transforming police into extensions of the military.
• Stop exposing young people to the military industrial complex’s pervasive propaganda.
• Stop falling for the military industrial complex’s psychological war games.

Salvador Ramos may have pulled the trigger that resulted in the mayhem in Uvalde, Tex., but something else is driving the madness.

We’ve got to do more than react in a knee-jerk fashion.

Those who want safety at all costs will clamor for more gun control measures, widespread mental health screening of the general population and greater scrutiny of military veterans, more threat assessments and behavioral sensing warnings, more CCTV cameras with facial recognition capabilities, more “See Something, Say Something” programs aimed at turning Americans into snitches and spies, more metal detectors and whole-body imaging devices at soft targets, more roaming squads of militarized police empowered to do random bag searches, more fusion centers to centralize and disseminate information to law enforcement agencies, and more surveillance of what Americans say and do, where they go, what they buy and how they spend their time.

Yet as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, all of these measures play into the government’s hands by locking down the nation without doing anything to address the underlying causes of this madness.

What we need is a thoughtful, measured, apolitical response to these shootings that takes aim at the violence plaguing our nation by lowering the levels of violence here and abroad, whether it’s violence we export to other countries, violence we glorify in entertainment, or violence we revel in when it’s leveled at our so-called enemies, politically or otherwise.

Our prolonged exposure to the toxic culture of the American police state is deadly.

ABOUT JOHN W. WHITEHEAD

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction novel, The Erik Blair Diaries. Whitehead can be contacted at staff@rutherford.org. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.