Mainstream media may as well rename themselves to 'The National Enquirer' or 'Star Magazine', their credibility has sunk that low. Love the article, thanks.
Great thoughts. I was lied to about Vietnam as were most of the people of the world. I was 19 when they stuck their claws into me. I had no choice but to join the USAF or heaven forbid get drafted. The brass of the Air Force never lied to us about how great the conflict in Vietnam was. They would mention true facts but never caught them in a lie. No one at the base was happy about the was or being in the area of conflict in SEA. Later On, after 1968 tour, I found out LBJ lied to the American people to pull us deeper into our commitment to the war. I was very happy when he died. I grew up a Texan and before he murdered Kennedy to become the POTUS, I had grown a hatred for him and his lies.
I was 23 when I processed out of the service. I have spent a lifetime listening to media lies and the democratic lies. I have learned to be a skeptic really good for the remaining 55 years. Deep State appears to be in Deep Schitz due to their continual lies. The brainwashed people are starting to wake up. Only the most dedicated dimocrat has remained true to the Deep States' tripe they spouse all the time.
By the time Covid, the Vaccines and masks came along, I knew it was all a lie with the help of the WHO, CDC, AMA and many other organizations including the media on thevTV, Radio, newspapers, magazines and etc.
The more the drug companies hid deaths from the vax, the more the lie stunk.
I'm proud not to be a follower into the ditch of stupid - ignorant lies by all these organizations. If anyone does not believe me - go ahead wear that sanitary napkin across your nose and mouth. Also take all the vaxes they will allow including boosters - maybe the only side effects will be Bell Paulsey instead of sudden death.
A little while ago when the CV nonsense was still going strong, I saw an interview with Mike Rowe. As always, a very practical and reasonable man. They were talking about CV and rhe interviewer asked him when he thought it would end. MR paused and answered "it ends when people get bored of being terrorized." He was spot on and while this was directly in reference to the CV debacle, it is easily transferable to other areas within our culture.
Great article. One thing might be missing from your analysis: the liars are in "power," seemingly occupying the positions of power in our country, in the courts and in the media. The media liars are disguising themselves and hiding behind previously honored institutions like the NY Times. So in that situation, it doesn't matter what any individual does - whether you believe or not believe the fake news - for now, everyone is "subject" to these fools. The liars robbed us of our institutions and it will take a long time to recover them I fear, or to replace them with a totally different methodology for handling things like law and order, border policies, international relations, managed healthcare, media, trade, finance, taxation, etc. For example, most of us pay our taxes, despite the fact that there is fake news and a fake president. When does that screw turn?
I agree that the solution to propaganda and government manipulation and control is to demand proof before buying any story someone, the media, a government or political party is trying desperately for you and me to believe and accept. The more heinous and depraved, the more we must demand proof.
We should take a high-five in that these people (the Deep State) will spend billions and billions to make you and me believe their latest story. Without us buying into their BS, they can't wrap us and the world around their little finger. They consider us so important in their equations, they will do just about anything to make us believe. Just stop believing and active the cognitive area of your conscientiousness.
The new war weapons are not physical arms and bombs, it is about the control of individual minds to form a collective agreement around lies of propaganda. The defensive weapons is control of one's reaction to their latest attempt to get you and me to react with fear.
Great article. Just like solar flares are going to take out our communication this weekend…hmmm, but for some reason it won’t affect Starlink…if they cut off our communication, I can’t wait for their explaination as to why Starlink wasn’t affected.
OMG! I love this article title so so much! FAKE NEWS until PROVEN REAL! It should be that way with all of what the media tells us: FAKE UNTIL PROVEN REAL.
1) Lies > Fear > Incapacitated > Traumatized. I see so many warriors now who are traumatized. They stood tall through the fouryears, yet now cannot abide revisiting it. They have run out of energy and emotional stamina and want to move on. I get it. I was surprised to find that reaction in myself yesterday. I went to a local grocery store I had not been to for several years and as I walked through the portals all the memories unbiddenly flooded back: the Freedom Convoy on the wind-buffeted frozen highway a km away; the drastically reduced Produce Aisle; the anxiety I felt being a non-masker enduring the withering stares of others; the tape and arrows on the floor; the anger I felt knowing this was all shiznit. But now it is time for second-wind, and many are finding it difficult. We have been ground down, PTSD'eed; we feel like we don't have the strength to live in these lies.
2) You mentioned LifeLog and the transition to FB. Also TwiXter ++, and now Substack which surely is heavily monitored, especially the comboxes. At least a dozen times on TwiXter I've found a Community Note under one of my tweets. Really?? I'm a nobody. How much more so on Substacks where the combox is filled with free-flowing, well-developed thoughts? If we are being monitored (IF? Hah!) then they have the goods. But I suspect we know that and have adopted the Christian mantra: If there was active persecution of Christians, would they be knocking on your door? If not, you've done a P-poor job of it.
3) Given the proliferation of lies, fear mongering, gaslighting and cognitive dissonance, how many times have Substack readers/commenters and Rumble listeners wondered if we are being set up precisely to have our combox comments monitored in a dissident-comment-gathering op by the author of the Substack? It makes perfect sense. If I were DS I'd do that. Looking at it pragmatically, that's how far (short?) we have come. Now veee arrrr trrrrusteenk nobooddeee. Exactly where they would have us be. But, as referenced in #2, we are aware of this, and aware there has been and will be comment-gathering, so it is what it is. Either we are all in or we fail the "What did you do in the war, Daddy/Mommy" query.
4) Just sayin': Where are all the horrific war photos from Ukraine, Gaza, Israel? Citizen photos tell the stories now. People send out photos of their dinner plate, kitty cats and private parts. Why are we not viewing tens of thousands of photos of the horrors of war? Or am I just not seeing them?
This week I left a sort of "mocking" comment at our local TV station about their pathetic coverage and propaganda on their twitter site. The next day I had a big warning from twitter, had to go thru verification, etc. They had complained about me. How pathetic.
Erik…you are so right!! I’ve always had a questioning instinct, and although 9/11 did affect me for a while, it started bugging me, especially when I read a lot of so-called coincidences where key entities didn’t go to work…I worked for the AF, so when Rumsfeld stated the day before (9/10) he couldn’t account for 3 trillion dollars from DoD, I came back to that after a couple of months…then also remembered watching a high rise taken down using controlled demolition….too many similarities.
Your point is wonderful and I recommend all reading this take the distrusting approach, if you don’t already….it’s wonderful advice! ‘Eventually a liar paints themself into a corner from which they can’t escape.’ Yes, indeed!!
Good article. I’m right there with ya (believed 9/11, but not much since). I knew Covid was b.s. right from the get go, my biggest fear was mandatory vaccines & Covid passports (still a fear though!). Around 2012 is when I realized the media was completely full of shit…
Me too, made me furious people fell for it. But it was genius on their part. Both political sides fell for "get vaccinated". Conservatives lined up too. Many friends say they treat it. We stopped going.to The Palm Springs Film Festival because they required a vaccine passport. Go to hell and beyond.
Great article, just one thing jumped at me: I understand what you're saying with, 'Americans’ gullibility is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths.' but I have a problem with it. The political elite is responsible for those deaths, spending our money on the war machine. Yes, some were on board with the spend, but others weren't and the funds were going to go anyway. And you know Bidet is trying (or was?) to facilitate an unending spend to Ukraine that couldn't be dismantled by the next two presidents. And, of course, we must never forget the deep state is responsible for BILLIONS of deaths. God bless the dismantling of THAT machine!
If people haven’t already woken up to narcissistic behaviors by now, Erik’s examples are short versions of narcissistic abuse. I can consider many of the tactics in NA and they fit Deep State, if not any other group or org that wants to control for power greed and $$. Not to even mention NA in family dynamics and interpersonal relationships. The tactics to keep people off balance and in fear and anxiety keep them susceptible to being “guided” or controlled and not able to center themselves and think independently. As to it Deep State yelling abusive attacks that people are bigoted, biased, blah blah blah - aka, keeping others in defense mode, in fear and anxiety. NA abuse creates and feeds off fight flight or freeze, the adrenaline and cortisol dumps that fear causes courses thru the victims’ bodies and minds nonstop which harms mental and physical health. All the tactics: gaslighting, betrayal, no healthy boundaries, projection, triangulation, combined with physical emotional, psychological abuses (“has every one gone crazy?”) Flying monkeys all carrying out the work of the abusers which protects the abusers. Then the flying monkeys are triangulated and they take the fall for those truly in control and abusing. It’s all sick.
If anyone had broken out of a narcissist’s dynamics, whether family or individual, and gotten therapy they will learn how they found themselves in the situation in the first place. We all need to take personal responsibility for our own selves and listen to our own inner compass and/or higher power for what is right for ourselves. The abusive deep state govt isn’t going to do it for us. Unless one wants to remain a mushroom and be harvested and sold.
Outstanding, Erik! This one strikes to the heart of our real problem - believing the lies. The collective mind is ever so slowly, but clearly with momentum, moving toward the rejection of the deep state lies we’ve been conned with All Our Lives!! And the momentum is rising exponentially.
Liberals hate me when I wear this ""I identify as non Bidenary" shirt in front of them 👇 🤣
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Mainstream media may as well rename themselves to 'The National Enquirer' or 'Star Magazine', their credibility has sunk that low. Love the article, thanks.
Actually, the Natl Enquirer does have a lot of truth in it!😊
Great thoughts. I was lied to about Vietnam as were most of the people of the world. I was 19 when they stuck their claws into me. I had no choice but to join the USAF or heaven forbid get drafted. The brass of the Air Force never lied to us about how great the conflict in Vietnam was. They would mention true facts but never caught them in a lie. No one at the base was happy about the was or being in the area of conflict in SEA. Later On, after 1968 tour, I found out LBJ lied to the American people to pull us deeper into our commitment to the war. I was very happy when he died. I grew up a Texan and before he murdered Kennedy to become the POTUS, I had grown a hatred for him and his lies.
I was 23 when I processed out of the service. I have spent a lifetime listening to media lies and the democratic lies. I have learned to be a skeptic really good for the remaining 55 years. Deep State appears to be in Deep Schitz due to their continual lies. The brainwashed people are starting to wake up. Only the most dedicated dimocrat has remained true to the Deep States' tripe they spouse all the time.
By the time Covid, the Vaccines and masks came along, I knew it was all a lie with the help of the WHO, CDC, AMA and many other organizations including the media on thevTV, Radio, newspapers, magazines and etc.
The more the drug companies hid deaths from the vax, the more the lie stunk.
I'm proud not to be a follower into the ditch of stupid - ignorant lies by all these organizations. If anyone does not believe me - go ahead wear that sanitary napkin across your nose and mouth. Also take all the vaxes they will allow including boosters - maybe the only side effects will be Bell Paulsey instead of sudden death.
This re Vietnam from historian Joseph Pearce several months ago. My jaw dropped:
https://crisismagazine.com/opinion/jfks-other-assassination
A little while ago when the CV nonsense was still going strong, I saw an interview with Mike Rowe. As always, a very practical and reasonable man. They were talking about CV and rhe interviewer asked him when he thought it would end. MR paused and answered "it ends when people get bored of being terrorized." He was spot on and while this was directly in reference to the CV debacle, it is easily transferable to other areas within our culture.
Excellent read.
Great article. One thing might be missing from your analysis: the liars are in "power," seemingly occupying the positions of power in our country, in the courts and in the media. The media liars are disguising themselves and hiding behind previously honored institutions like the NY Times. So in that situation, it doesn't matter what any individual does - whether you believe or not believe the fake news - for now, everyone is "subject" to these fools. The liars robbed us of our institutions and it will take a long time to recover them I fear, or to replace them with a totally different methodology for handling things like law and order, border policies, international relations, managed healthcare, media, trade, finance, taxation, etc. For example, most of us pay our taxes, despite the fact that there is fake news and a fake president. When does that screw turn?
Soon, Julianne.
From your lips to God's ears!
I agree that the solution to propaganda and government manipulation and control is to demand proof before buying any story someone, the media, a government or political party is trying desperately for you and me to believe and accept. The more heinous and depraved, the more we must demand proof.
We should take a high-five in that these people (the Deep State) will spend billions and billions to make you and me believe their latest story. Without us buying into their BS, they can't wrap us and the world around their little finger. They consider us so important in their equations, they will do just about anything to make us believe. Just stop believing and active the cognitive area of your conscientiousness.
The new war weapons are not physical arms and bombs, it is about the control of individual minds to form a collective agreement around lies of propaganda. The defensive weapons is control of one's reaction to their latest attempt to get you and me to react with fear.
Great article. Just like solar flares are going to take out our communication this weekend…hmmm, but for some reason it won’t affect Starlink…if they cut off our communication, I can’t wait for their explaination as to why Starlink wasn’t affected.
" Spam and Twinkie-like expiration dates are now becoming dairy-like expiration dates." :-)
OMG! I love this article title so so much! FAKE NEWS until PROVEN REAL! It should be that way with all of what the media tells us: FAKE UNTIL PROVEN REAL.
First viruses: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-it-does-matter
Then spirituality: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-spiritual-perspective-of-reality-aa8
Fascinating - as always.
Just bouncing some thoughts off the article:
1) Lies > Fear > Incapacitated > Traumatized. I see so many warriors now who are traumatized. They stood tall through the fouryears, yet now cannot abide revisiting it. They have run out of energy and emotional stamina and want to move on. I get it. I was surprised to find that reaction in myself yesterday. I went to a local grocery store I had not been to for several years and as I walked through the portals all the memories unbiddenly flooded back: the Freedom Convoy on the wind-buffeted frozen highway a km away; the drastically reduced Produce Aisle; the anxiety I felt being a non-masker enduring the withering stares of others; the tape and arrows on the floor; the anger I felt knowing this was all shiznit. But now it is time for second-wind, and many are finding it difficult. We have been ground down, PTSD'eed; we feel like we don't have the strength to live in these lies.
2) You mentioned LifeLog and the transition to FB. Also TwiXter ++, and now Substack which surely is heavily monitored, especially the comboxes. At least a dozen times on TwiXter I've found a Community Note under one of my tweets. Really?? I'm a nobody. How much more so on Substacks where the combox is filled with free-flowing, well-developed thoughts? If we are being monitored (IF? Hah!) then they have the goods. But I suspect we know that and have adopted the Christian mantra: If there was active persecution of Christians, would they be knocking on your door? If not, you've done a P-poor job of it.
3) Given the proliferation of lies, fear mongering, gaslighting and cognitive dissonance, how many times have Substack readers/commenters and Rumble listeners wondered if we are being set up precisely to have our combox comments monitored in a dissident-comment-gathering op by the author of the Substack? It makes perfect sense. If I were DS I'd do that. Looking at it pragmatically, that's how far (short?) we have come. Now veee arrrr trrrrusteenk nobooddeee. Exactly where they would have us be. But, as referenced in #2, we are aware of this, and aware there has been and will be comment-gathering, so it is what it is. Either we are all in or we fail the "What did you do in the war, Daddy/Mommy" query.
4) Just sayin': Where are all the horrific war photos from Ukraine, Gaza, Israel? Citizen photos tell the stories now. People send out photos of their dinner plate, kitty cats and private parts. Why are we not viewing tens of thousands of photos of the horrors of war? Or am I just not seeing them?
100%
This week I left a sort of "mocking" comment at our local TV station about their pathetic coverage and propaganda on their twitter site. The next day I had a big warning from twitter, had to go thru verification, etc. They had complained about me. How pathetic.
Erik…you are so right!! I’ve always had a questioning instinct, and although 9/11 did affect me for a while, it started bugging me, especially when I read a lot of so-called coincidences where key entities didn’t go to work…I worked for the AF, so when Rumsfeld stated the day before (9/10) he couldn’t account for 3 trillion dollars from DoD, I came back to that after a couple of months…then also remembered watching a high rise taken down using controlled demolition….too many similarities.
Your point is wonderful and I recommend all reading this take the distrusting approach, if you don’t already….it’s wonderful advice! ‘Eventually a liar paints themself into a corner from which they can’t escape.’ Yes, indeed!!
Thank you, Erik, and God bless you.🙏🇺🇸🙏
Good article. I’m right there with ya (believed 9/11, but not much since). I knew Covid was b.s. right from the get go, my biggest fear was mandatory vaccines & Covid passports (still a fear though!). Around 2012 is when I realized the media was completely full of shit…
Me too, made me furious people fell for it. But it was genius on their part. Both political sides fell for "get vaccinated". Conservatives lined up too. Many friends say they treat it. We stopped going.to The Palm Springs Film Festival because they required a vaccine passport. Go to hell and beyond.
Great article, just one thing jumped at me: I understand what you're saying with, 'Americans’ gullibility is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths.' but I have a problem with it. The political elite is responsible for those deaths, spending our money on the war machine. Yes, some were on board with the spend, but others weren't and the funds were going to go anyway. And you know Bidet is trying (or was?) to facilitate an unending spend to Ukraine that couldn't be dismantled by the next two presidents. And, of course, we must never forget the deep state is responsible for BILLIONS of deaths. God bless the dismantling of THAT machine!
Agreed. Not all Americans have supported war.
If people haven’t already woken up to narcissistic behaviors by now, Erik’s examples are short versions of narcissistic abuse. I can consider many of the tactics in NA and they fit Deep State, if not any other group or org that wants to control for power greed and $$. Not to even mention NA in family dynamics and interpersonal relationships. The tactics to keep people off balance and in fear and anxiety keep them susceptible to being “guided” or controlled and not able to center themselves and think independently. As to it Deep State yelling abusive attacks that people are bigoted, biased, blah blah blah - aka, keeping others in defense mode, in fear and anxiety. NA abuse creates and feeds off fight flight or freeze, the adrenaline and cortisol dumps that fear causes courses thru the victims’ bodies and minds nonstop which harms mental and physical health. All the tactics: gaslighting, betrayal, no healthy boundaries, projection, triangulation, combined with physical emotional, psychological abuses (“has every one gone crazy?”) Flying monkeys all carrying out the work of the abusers which protects the abusers. Then the flying monkeys are triangulated and they take the fall for those truly in control and abusing. It’s all sick.
If anyone had broken out of a narcissist’s dynamics, whether family or individual, and gotten therapy they will learn how they found themselves in the situation in the first place. We all need to take personal responsibility for our own selves and listen to our own inner compass and/or higher power for what is right for ourselves. The abusive deep state govt isn’t going to do it for us. Unless one wants to remain a mushroom and be harvested and sold.
Totally agree Erik: "It really is that simple."
MSM = LIES.
We the People are the news now.
Investigate Operation Gladio.
God Wins!
God Bless!!!
Outstanding, Erik! This one strikes to the heart of our real problem - believing the lies. The collective mind is ever so slowly, but clearly with momentum, moving toward the rejection of the deep state lies we’ve been conned with All Our Lives!! And the momentum is rising exponentially.