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Sinéad O’Connor: A Troubled Soul With Immense Talent and Unbowed Spirit

Sinéad O’Connor (1966 -2023) – Photo by Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

CLN Editor Notes:

“Sinéad always spoke out against injustice. Sometimes she didn’t say something perfectly. Sometimes her message wasn’t always heard. But she never stopped trying. And I think that’s really the key takeaway: is that she never, ever, ever stopped trying. And, it’s not enough for us to now say that she was a brave warrior. We have to be brave warriors, and we have to have those conversations that she tried to spark from the very beginning of her career.” ~ Allyson McCabe, author of “Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters

The passing of a public figure has never before moved me to tears, but I sobbed when I heard that Sinéad O’Connor had died at the age of 56. I didn’t really know a whole lot about her other than her amazing voice, her mega-hit song, her shaved head, and her appearance on Saturday Night Live in which she tore up a photo of the pope. Still, I had this powerful feeling in my heart that an absolutely incredible human being had died and left a huge void. So, I decided to take a deep dive and find out as much as I could about her, some of which I share below.

In my research, I discovered that from the very beginning of Sinéad’s career up until her final public appearance, this quote from Allyson McCabe was spot on: “Sinéad always spoke out against injustice.” When she was presented with the inaugural award for Classic Irish Album at the RTÉ Choice Music Awards in March of this year, Sinéad said: “I dedicate this to each and every member of Ireland’s refugee community… You’re very welcome in Ireland. I love you very much and I wish you happiness.” Much of the world treats refugees as undesirable problems. Not Sinéad. She knows that they deserve love and happiness – just like every other person on the planet.  See HERE.

And here’s a great example from early in Sinéad’s career in which she not only reveals a horrible injustice (the cause of the great famine in Ireland during the years 1845-1852), but she also offers a brilliant solution on how the Irish people can heal their collective trauma. (Note that the worst year of the period was 1847, known as “Black ’47” – which Sinéad refers to in her absolutely brilliant song). Watch and appreciate this amazing woman:

As a result, some are now calling Sinéad a prophet – and I totally agree. Here’s the best video on YouTube that I found about Sinéad’s life and why she mattered: “A True Prophet”: Why Sinéad O’Connor Risked Her Career to Call Out Catholic Church. The above quote by Allyson McCabe is taken from this video, which is hosted by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. Rather than tell you about it, I highly suggest that you watch for yourself.

This video, which includes an interview with Una Mullally, a columnist for the Irish Times in Dublin, is also outstanding: Why Sinéad O’Connor’s Legacy Is Deeper Than Her Music. Una said:

“I think Sinéad O’Connor goes beyond music. As you say, she’s more of a cultural figure. She looms very large in the Irish psyche in terms of her activism, her politics, and her actions. And so, the loss is being felt really profoundly. It’s almost as though it’s a large political figure or even a spiritual figure who’s been lost. So, there have been vigils and gatherings, and people are extraordinarily upset. I don’t think I could really think of another person that this has happened within my lifetime.”

Sinéad’s most famous act of revealing injustice was when she took a mind-blowingly bold stance against child abuse in the Catholic Church on live television. On October 3, 1992, without regard to the impact on her career, she sang a cappella the song “War” (a song by Bob Marley that emphasizes social justice, racial equality, and global peace) live on SNL before millions of TV viewers.

But Sinéad didn’t sing “War” as it was written. Instead, she modified the song’s lyrics to serve as a protest against the sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church. She replaced mentions of “racism” with “child abuse” and “apartheid” with “in the Church. At the end of the song, Sinéad emphatically sang these lyrics that she added:

Children!
Children!
Fight!
We find it necessary.
We know we will win.
We have confidence in the victory of good over evil.

She then held up a photo of Pope John Paul II, tore it into pieces, and exclaimed: “Fight the real enemy!” (Watch HERE).

It took tremendous courage for Sinéad to do that. And she was widely ridiculed for it – by the press, celebs like Madonna and Joe Pesci, and of course, Catholic Church leaders – including Cardinal Bernard Law who was later exposed as being involved in the cover-up of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church in Boston (as depicted in the 2015 academy award winning film “Spotlight”). He resigned as Archbishop of Boston in 2002 due to the scandal.

Many members of the Catholic Church were outraged. In New York City, protesters transported a 30-ton steamroller to the Rockefeller Center and then proceeded to pulverize her cassette tapes.

Two weeks after her SNL performance, the audience attempted to boo Sinéad off the stage at a Bob Dylan tribute concert. But she stood tall amidst the loud booing for over 2 minutes before finally waving off the musicians, signaling that she no longer was going to sing the Bob Dylan song that she was scheduled to sing.  Instead, she again sang the song “War” a cappella to drive home her message. Watch her incredible bravery HERE. Kris Kristofferson, who introduced and supported Sinéad at the concert with a hug and words of encouragement (“Don’t let the bastards get you down”), gave one of the best tributes to her with the release of his song Sister Sinéad“, which appeared on his 2009 album titled “Closer to the Bone.” Be sure to check it out. Here’s my favorite lyric:

It’s askin’ for trouble to stick out your neck
In terms of a target a big silhouette
But some candles flicker and some candles fade
And some burn as true as my sister Sinéad

History has proven that Sinéad’s criticisms of the church were spot on. Just hours after her death was announced, an American group named Catholics for Choice called her a prophetic heroine “unafraid to demand justice for victims of clerical sexual abuse, challenge patriarchy, and speak truth to power — even when her voice was a lonely one and it cost her dearly to do so.”

Be sure to read this outstanding article about, among other things, how Sinéad’s traumatic real-life experiences led to her courageous stance on the SNL stage and throughout her entire life: “Sinead O’Connor Condemned Church Abuse Early. America Didn’t Listen.

Do yourself a favor and WATCH THIS absolutely wonderful 2-minute video that was posted in 2017, in which another famous Irish singer, Imelda May, describes the first time she met Sinéad and what an incredibly kind and sensitive soul Sinéad was. Imelda also noted that it was Sinéad’s idea for the two of them to sing a duet together, of which Imelda fondly recalled: “I think that’s probably one of the most heartfelt songs I’ve ever performed with somebody, for sure. The two of us, it’s just magic for me.” So now, you really must watch THIS fabulous duet that Imelda spoke about, titled “Every Night About This Time.”

THIS LIVE PERFORMANCE wonderfully captures the beauty and purity of Sinead’s voice as she sings a capella an incredibly beautiful song that she wrote titled “In This Heart” (which was featured on the hit series “Peaky Blinders” – see HERE). Also, be sure to listen to Sinéad’s most recently published recording HERE. After hearing Sinéad sing this hauntingly beautiful, 90-second theme song for Outlander titled “The Skye Boat Song,” a friend of mine observed: “She conveys so much emotion in her voice. Whatever the message, it’s always more than words if she sings it!”

To get a feeling for just how beloved Sinéad is in her home country, watch this 2-minute video titled “She was fierce in the best sort of way: Dubliners turn out to pay tribute to Sinéad O’Connor“. My favorite quote from the video (in addition to the one in the video’s title) is: “I don’t think I’ve ever cried so much for a stranger, but I think she held bits of generations of this nation in her heart. She was saying things before we could say them.”

Finally, watch THIS touching video clip from Sinéad’s funeral in the Irish town of Bray where thousands of adoring fans flocked to pay their respects. Several residents who had the good fortune to meet her are interviewed.

Thank you, Sinéad, for being a shining beacon of transformation and a heartfelt inspiration to all of us. May your music eternally resonate, uplifting us to stand up and voice our truths against injustice, and celebrate our true selves. This music video, in which you remind us to love ourselves, depicts how I will remember you – a radiant light, overflowing with love, joy, and wisdom:

RIP beautiful soul. I am really glad that you are reunited with your beloved son.

Sinéad O’Connor: A Troubled Soul With Immense Talent and Unbowed Spirit

Written by: Adam Behr, Newcastle University

Few artists have straddled the boundaries between acclaim, controversy and public affection as effectively as Sinéad O’Connor who died yesterday at the age of 56.

Her status as a household name belied a comparatively brief commercial peak in the early 1990s, thanks to her mesmerizing interpretation of Prince’s Nothing Compares 2 U. But she was never in any danger of being relegated to being a one-hit-wonder.

O’Connor’s life and career were characterized by irregularity and a sense of being at odds with her surroundings. Her childhood was fraught. After her parents separated when she was young, O’Connor lived mostly with her mother, who she claimed was abusive, and involved her in shoplifting and fraudulent charity collecting.

Truancy and crime led to a spell in the Catholic church-run Grianán Training Centre, a harsh rehabilitation centre associated with the infamous Magdalene Laundries. Although traumatic, the center provided her with an entry into music when a teacher asked her to sing at a wedding, which led to encounters with musicians who encouraged her to write lyrics and pursue the guitar.

Adversity infused her music with a punk spirit, an oppositional attitude that was writ large throughout the rest of her career. By the time her mother died in a car crash when O’Connor was 18 years old, the singer was well on her way. She had dropped out of school and formed a band called Ton Ton Macoute – with typically spiky attitude – a name derived from a mythical Haitian bogeyman, and also the dictator Papa Doc Duvalier’s feared secret police.

A distinctive template as a singer-songwriter

Having captured the attention of former U2 label boss Fachtna O’Ceallaigh, and collaborated with The Edge on a song for the film Captive, her solo career began in grand style with The Lion and the Cobra in 1987. A gold record in the UK, US, Canada and the Netherlands – featuring the Top 40 single Mandinka – it marked out her image and distinctive voice, clear and pure, but never demure.

Her trademark cropped hair and forthright bearing set her apart from prevailing female singer-songwriters. Shunning both overtly sexualized imagery and quirky hippie-chick vibes, O’Connor’s aesthetic was blunt and raw, although the clarity of her voice gave it commercial traction.

This reached a pinnacle on her next album, 1990’s I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got – a multi-platinum worldwide number one that featured her best-known recording, Nothing Compares 2 U which she made completely her own. Propelled by a stark video in unflinching close-up, tears running down her face, it made her an international star. But O’Connor’s predilection for musical exploration, political confrontation and emotional honesty meant that her mainstream career quickly self-combusted.

Despite the success of her early recordings, she took a counter-intuitive turn on her next album, 1992’s Am I Not Your Girl?, which featured lush versions of jazz standards. While her voice was more than up to the task of interpreting the classics she had grown up with, the departure from her previous work saw a critical and commercial step down from the trailblazing success of her previous album. More significantly, she used her promotional activity in America to showcase her status as a protest singer rather than a pop star.

Given the centrality of her personal, and musical, voice to her career, it’s perhaps apt that two of her most notable live performances are both a cappella and confrontational. An appearance on TV show Saturday Night Live in October 1992 saw her drop the planned performances of standards from the album and replace them with a version of Bob Marley’s War. She wanted to re-tool it as a protest against child abuse in the Catholic church, and the cover-up that followed. The change of song was agreed by the show’s producers.

What they hadn’t planned on was for O’Connor to tear up a picture of the Pope at the denouement of the performance. The subsequent furor was swift and intense. O’Connor was vilified in the press, and the NBC network received over 4,000 complaints. Two weeks later, at a star-studded tribute to Bob Dylan, she was booed by the crowd and stopped the band to shout another rendition of War before leaving the stage in tears, comforted by Kris Kristofferson.

Watch Sinéad’s compassionate response when asked: “How were you treated when you said ‘Fight the real enemy’ and you ripped up the picture of the pope? How were you treated after?”:

Unbowed and iconic

Even if her career never quite acquired equilibrium, O’Connor the artist remained unbowed and exploratory. Taking lessons in Italian bel canto singing, her subsequent seven albums tacked across genres – reggae, hip-hop, rock, soul, and folk – placing her voice at the centre of original material and distinctive interpretations of an eclectic range of artists from Curtis Mayfield to Kurt Cobain.

Her later releases were stronger on critical acclaim than commercial clout, and her well-publicized mental health difficulties led to hiatuses in her music. Ever the controversialist, she continued to weigh in on points of principle, such as her critique of Miley Cyrus over the sexualized video for Wrecking Ball, and the subsequent public spat.

Despite these gaps, and the personal tragedies like her son’s suicide in 2022, O’Connor’s fierce adherence to her principles of self-expression saw her win considerable public affection. She was, of course, vindicated over her accusations of abuse in the Catholic church. But her uneven approach to public life – announcements of retirement followed by retractions, a spell as a “priest” followed by her conversion to Islam (she went by the name Shuhada’ Sadaqat from 2019) – did little to dim her appeal in the long term.

Ultimately despite her difficulties, or even because of them, she exemplified what it was to be an icon. Her visual distinctiveness, determination and refusal to meet the mainstream halfway mean that her instantly recognisable voice cut through the shifts and uncertainty of her personal life and public debate. In the end, nothing quite compares to her.The Conversation

Adam Behr, Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.




“Sound Of Freedom” – Honest Review and the DEEPER RABBIT HOLE | Luke Rudkowski (WeAreChange.org)

"Sound of Freedom" Honest Review

Source: WeAreChange

Video Summary

Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange.org provides an honest review of the movie “Sound of Freedom,” which sheds light on the disturbing reality of child trafficking and exploitation while facing unjustified criticism from the corporate media.

  • 00:00 🎥 Luke Rudkowski highly praises the movie “Sound of Freedom” for its emotional portrayal of child trafficking. behavior. Despite being unjustly and falsely criticized by the corporate media, the film has grossed over $14.2 million and is gaining popularity through viral marketing, resulting in packed theaters and difficulty getting tickets. Luke called it is the movie of the year or even the decade.
  • 03:44 🎥 “Sound of Freedom” has been unfairly criticized for its alleged links to Q Anon and government conspiracies as it has absolutely NOTHING to do with either, but it actually sheds light on real events of child trafficking and exploitation, showcasing a government agent’s heroic efforts to save children and the positive changes in Homeland Security regulations.
  • 05:56 🎥 “Sound Of Freedom” is being attacked by the corporate media and Hollywood, but it is dominating box offices and resonating with audiences due to its refreshing lack of woke messaging.
  • 08:19 🎥 “Sound of Freedom” is an emotionally gripping movie that exposes the evilness of powerful institutions. It is recommended by both Mel Gibson and Tony Robbins, who have been heavily criticized by the establishment and media. Luke suggests that you be sure to watch the end credits for an important message, plus the option to get free tickets from someone else.
  • 10:26 🚨 Human trafficking, particularly of children, is a disturbing problem that powerful institutions and the media have tried to normalize (Luke provides numerous examples), but the movie “Sound of Freedom” exposes the grotesque activities and efforts to rebrand and excuse this behavior, while neglecting to address the involvement of more powerful institutions in obstructing justice or participating in cover-ups.
  • 15:00 🔍 Epstein’s alleged suicide, mishandling of the case, and suspicious deaths are discussed by Luke, shedding light on the global child trafficking industry.
  • 18:14 🎥 Luke provides a mild criticism of the movie for lacking depth and including an exaggerated action scene at the end, but admires the real-life hero and plans to interview him, while acknowledging the emotionally heavy and controversial nature of the video and suggests ways to cope with the anxiety it may cause.
  • 20:33 🎥 “Sound Of Freedom” is praised as a masterpiece with incredible acting and a compelling storyline, but criticized for virtue signaling and excessive jungle scenes, ultimately receiving a 9.7 out of 10 by Luke. He says it is a must-watch.



Triumph for ‘Sound of Freedom’ As It Becomes Top Grossing July 4th Movie

Angel Studios’ “Sound of Freedom” (a heartrending film about the child sex trade) took the top spot in sales on July 4th, surpassing Disney’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”

The film starring Jim Caviezel is based on the incredible true story of former federal agent, Tim Ballard, and his mission to save children from human trafficking. On its first day, the film took the number one spot at the box office, grossing over $14 million through “pay it forward” and direct box office sales.

The film reportedly earned nearly all of its budget back on its opening day.

“Sound of Freedom” is a deeply touching film that shakes you to your core, while also showing that there are incredibly good and strong-willed people out there. The acting and directing are top-notch, and those who watch it will feel changed by the time the credits roll.

Despite the large turnouts and audiences giving the movie a 100% score on movie rating site Rotten Tomatoes, mainstream media is ignoring the film. It’s up to everyone who cares about the welfare of children to spread the word about this important film.

Here’s the trailer for “Sound of Freedom”:

And here’s more footage of the film plus an important message from Jim Caviezel including the groundbreaking “Pay It Forward” option:

And here’s a terrific interview with Jim Caviezel in which he criticizes the media for hiding the truth about sex trafficking, calls for whistleblowers to come forward, and emphasizes the need to protect children and secure the border:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMeC1Sn8324

Right now, the “Sound of Freedom” is only available to watch in theatres.




Understanding the Illusory Nature of Reality and the Reason for Suffering: Yogananda’s Insights and Personal Experiences

In chapter 30 of “The Autobiography of a Yogi” (see an excerpt below plus a video of the entire chapter 30 being read aloud), Paramahansa Yogananda says that the world is an illusion (Maya) and suggests that the universe is like a motion picture that is projected onto the screen of man’s consciousness. In addition, he says that just as a cinema audience can see that all screen images are appearing through one imageless beam of light, the colorful universal drama is similarly issuing from the single white light of a Cosmic Source.

In Hindu philosophy, the term Maya is a Sanskrit word that can be translated as “illusion” or “deception.” However, the concept of Maya is not limited to Hinduism. Similar ideas can be found in other philosophical and spiritual traditions, such as Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism, although the interpretations and explanations vary.

Regarding the reason for suffering, Yogananda says that the good and evil of Maya must both exist because without suffering humans would not be motivated to seek a higher reality beyond the physical world.

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At the end of the chapter, Yogananda shares several powerful personal experiences that demonstrate the illusionary nature of reality, including an experience where he saw his body as a cosmic beam of light and realized that the essence of all “physical” objects is light.

Overall, Yogananda’s exploration of the nature of reality in this chapter is a thought-provoking reflection on the illusory nature of the physical world and the importance of spiritual wisdom in understanding the true nature of existence.

Excerpt from “Autobiography of a Yogi”, Ch. 30: The Law of Miracles

The ancient Vedic scriptures declare that the physical world operates under one fundamental law of Maya, the principle of relativity and duality. God, the Sole Life, is an Absolute Unity; He cannot appear as the separate and diverse manifestations of a creation except under a false or unreal veil. That cosmic illusion is Maya. Every great scientific discovery of modern times has served as a confirmation of this simple pronouncement of the rishis…

To surmount Maya was the task assigned to the human race by the millennial prophets. To rise above the duality of creation and perceive the unity of the Creator was conceived of as man’s highest goal…

The lifelike images of the motion picture illustrate many truths concerning creation. The Cosmic Director has written His own plays and assembled tremendous casts for the pageant of the centuries. From the dark booth of eternity, He pours His creative beam through the films of successive ages, and the pictures are thrown on the screen of space.

Just as the motion-picture images appear to be real, but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusive seeming. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture, temporarily true to five sense perceptions as the scenes are cast on the screen of man’s consciousness by the infinite creative beam.

A cinema audience can look up and see that all screen images are appearing through the instrumentality of one imageless beam of light. The colorful universal drama is similarly issuing from the single white light of a Cosmic Source. With inconceivable ingenuity God is staging entertainment for His human children, making them actors as well as audiences in His planetary theater.

One day I entered a motion picture house to view a newsreel of the European battlefields. World War I was still being waged in the West; the newsreel recorded the carnage with such realism that I left the theater with a troubled heart.

“Lord,” I prayed, “why dost Thou permit such suffering?”

To my intense surprise, an instant answer came in the form of a vision of the actual European battlefields. The horror of the struggle, filled with the dead and dying, far surpassed in ferocity any representation of the newsreel.

“Look intently!” A gentle voice spoke to my inner consciousness. “You will see that these scenes now being enacted in France are nothing but a play of chiaroscuro. They are the cosmic motion picture, as real and as unreal as the theater newsreel you have just seen—a play within a play.”

My heart was still not comforted. The divine voice went on: “Creation is light and shadow both, else no picture is possible. The good and evil of Maya must ever alternate in supremacy. If joy were ceaseless here in this world, would man ever seek another? Without suffering he scarcely cares to recall that he has forsaken his eternal home. Pain is a prod to remembrance. The way of escape is through wisdom! The tragedy of death is unreal; those who shudder at it are like an ignorant actor who dies of fright on the stage when nothing more is fired at him than a blank cartridge. My sons are the children of light; they will not sleep forever in delusion.”

Although I had read scriptural accounts of Maya, they had not given me the deep insight that came with the personal visions and their accompanying words of consolation. One’s values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture, and that not in it, but beyond it, lies his own reality.

As I finished writing this chapter, I sat on my bed in the lotus posture. My room was dimly lit by two shaded lamps. Lifting my gaze, I noticed that the ceiling was dotted with small mustard-colored lights, scintillating and quivering with a radium-like luster. Myriads of penciled rays, like sheets of rain, gathered into a transparent shaft and poured silently upon me.

At once my physical body lost its grossness and became metamorphosed into astral texture. I felt a floating sensation as, barely touching the bed, the weightless body shifted slightly and alternately to left and right. I looked around the room; the furniture and walls were as usual, but the little mass of light had so multiplied that the ceiling was invisible. I was wonder-struck.

“This is the cosmic motion picture mechanism.” A voice spoke as though from within the light. “Shedding its beam on the white screen of your bed sheets, it is producing the picture of your body. Behold, your form is nothing but light!”

I gazed at my arms and moved them back and forth, yet could not feel their weight. An ecstatic joy overwhelmed me. This cosmic stem of light, blossoming as my body, seemed a divine replica of the light beams streaming out of the projection booth in a cinema house and manifesting as pictures on the screen.

For a long time, I experienced this motion picture of my body in the dimly lighted theater of my own bedroom. Despite the many visions I have had, none was ever more singular. As my illusion of a solid body was completely dissipated, and my realization deepened that the essence of all objects is light, I looked up to the throbbing stream of lifetrons and spoke entreatingly.

“Divine Light, please withdraw this, my humble bodily picture, into Thyself, even as Elijah was drawn up to heaven by a flame.”

This prayer was evidently startling; the beam disappeared. My body resumed its normal weight and sank on the bed; the swarm of dazzling ceiling lights flickered and vanished. My time to leave this earth had apparently not arrived.

“Besides,” I thought philosophically, “the prophet Elijah might well be displeased at my presumption!”




WATCH & SHARE: Plandemic 3 – The Great Awakening | Plus List of Key Quotes

In this third and vitally important installment of the ‘Plandemic’ series, acclaimed filmmaker Mikki Willis delves into the psychological and ideological roots of the skulduggery that has been unmistakable since March 2020 and in the works for many decades. Willis investigates the chief decision-makers behind the tyrannical pandemic policies, unveiling an intricate web of power and influence.

A central figure in this film is American author and broadcaster, G. Edward Griffin, an unwavering sentinel who has dedicated his career to warning America of the threats to our Constitutional Republic by fanatical collectivist ideologues. The documentary brilliantly captures Griffin’s foresight by incorporating footage from a lecture he gave in 1969, an incredibly prophetic message describing a future that aligns disturbingly well with today’s realities.

The film spotlights villainous figures such as Klaus Schwab and his followers at the World Economic Forum (WEF), to whom Schwab proudly proclaimed: “The future is built by us!” Shockingly, it’s a dystopian future that they want, as evidenced by what the WEF’s chief science advisor, Yuval Noah Harari, insanely declared:

“Today we have the technology to hack human beings on a massive scale. And by this I mean that if you have enough data and you have enough computing power, you can understand people better than they understand themselves and then you can manipulate them in ways which were previously impossible. You know, the whole idea that humans have this soul or spirit and they have free will – THAT’S OVER! Now how exactly will the future masters of the planet look like? This will be decided by the people who own the data.”

The film shows how Schwab and his minions view China as their shining example of what they want to impose on the rest of the world. A handful of individuals who left China for America, poignantly share their nightmarish experiences and why they are so grateful to now reside in the U.S. and live the American dream. Then last thing the want is to see the U.S. and the rest of the world become like China, while being ruled by a tyrannical, one-world regime.

‘The Great Awakening’ emphasizes the pivotal role of the U.S. Constitution as the most successful model of limited government, serving for the past 230 years as a beacon of hope for the world and a significant impediment to global aspirations of power.

‘The Great Awakening’ concludes with ways that we can stop the totalitarian takeover of the planet, and invites each of us to get involved. Perhaps the most straightforward and optimal advice came from the late Dr. Zev Zelenko, who said:

“Just say no. Rise up in a nonviolent way. They can’t imprison everyone. They can’t fire everyone. But they can fire individuals that are separated and don’t work together and give in to the fear.”

Mikki Willis and his team have painstakingly crafted this documentary, making it free and easily accessible to anyone with an internet connection. The film is a compelling and must-see viewing for those who seek to understand the genesis and complexities of our current global situation.

Please share this documentary widely.

Key Quotes from the Film

[00:06:00] G. EDWARD GRIFFIN (from his 1969 lecture):

We’re going to examine, in quite a bit of detail, the communist theory and practice of revolution, particularly as applied to the United States. Now this will not be something dreamed up out of thin air. This will be the strategy as taught by them and advocated by them in their own manuals, in their textbooks, and in their schools.

The new program of the Communist Party on this subject has this to say: the term socialism describes but the first stage of a new society that in its full development is called communism. Socialism is a transitional stage.

[00:09:09] Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau’s Response to the Trucker Strike

Trudeau: The federal government has invoked the emergencies act.

Trudeau spokeswoman: As of today, the bank or other financial service provider will be able to immediately freeze or suspend an account (of a protestor) without a court order

Another official: If you are involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges.

Trudeau: Protests, public protests are an important part of making sure we’re getting messages out there. But using protests to demand changes to public policy is something that I think is worrisome.

[00:11:51] Trudeau Admires China the Most of All the Countries in the World

Trudeau was asked which country he most admired and referred to China:

“The level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them…

Joe Biden also applauds China: I applaud China for stepping up. Escuse me, I applaud Canada. You can tell what I’m thinking.

[00:12:55] Many World Leaders parrot the same message: the pandemic crisis offers a great opportunity

Trudeau: This pandemic has provided an opportunity

Biden: Here we are right now with an economic crisis but with an incredible opportunity.

Netherlands Prime Minister, Mark Rutte: Certainly a major crisis but it also offers a unique opportunity

Prince Charles: Unprecedented opportunity to rethink and reset

IMF Official: A great opportunity for reset

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern: An opportunity for a reset.

Mikki: It’s almost as if they all attended the same school of thought and studied under the same professor.

[00:13:47] Klaus Schwab and World Economic Forum (WEF) Is Introduced

Klaus Schwab: Some people would say this revolution is characterized by the fight of robots against human beings and we will win this fight.

[00:16:10] Klaus Schwab to WEF attendees:

The future is built by us.

[00:16:53] Klaus Schwab:

Nobody will be safe if not everybody is vaccinated.

[00:17:37] In 2014 Klaus Schwab calls for a great reset: “We need a great reset.”

Mikki Willis: In 2014 Klaus Schwab called for the great reset, which he positioned as the solution to the world’s most urgent issues.

[00:18:05] David E. Martin:

When they say you’ll be happy, what they mean is you’ll be enslaved. That’s why they’re talking about a great reset.

[00:19:10] Mikki Willis:

Like most globalists, Schwab regards communist China as a shining model of how he intends to transform the world.

[00:19:55] Klaus Schwab calls China a model country, but you have to take it a step further

Schwab: I think China’s a whole model for many countries, but you have to go one step further: it’s a systemic transformation of the world. Artificial intelligence, the metaverse, synthetic biology. Our life in 10 years from now we’ll be completely different and who masters those technologies will be the masters of the world.

[00:20:36] Yuval Noah Harari (WEF’s scientific advisor):

Science is replacing evolution by natural selection with evolution by intelligent design. Not the intelligent design of some God above the clouds, but our intelligent design and the intelligent design of our clouds: the IBM cloud, the Microsoft cloud. These are the new driving forces of evolution. Today we have the technology to hack human beings on a massive scale. And by this, I mean that if you have enough data and you have enough computing power, you can understand people better than they understand themselves and then you can manipulate them in ways which were previously impossible. You know the whole idea that humans have this soul or spirit and they have free will – THAT’S OVER! Now how exactly will the future masters of the planet look like? This will be decided by the people who own the data.

[00:22:15] Yuval Noah Harrari:

Data is the most important asset in the world. Those who control the data, control the future not just of humanity but the future of life itself.

[00:22:28] Social Credit System in China

Newscaster: Everywhere she goes oh young how you is followed what she buys how she behaves is tracked and scored to show how responsible and trustworthy she is. It’s called the social credit system. A person’s reputation is scored on a scale of 3:50 to 9:50. It’s big data meets Big Brother – expanding how the government monitors, understands and ultimately controls its 1.4 billion citizens. A good score brings benefits, but people with low scores lose rights.

[00:24:45] Mikki Willis: How does a handful of autocrats gain total control over a population of 1.4 billion?

[00:24:55] Prof. Mattias Desmet (author: The Psychology of Totalitarianism):

I have two Master’s Degrees – one in clinical psychology, and one in statistics. And at the beginning of the crisis, I started to study the statistics a little bit. The initial mathematical models and the initial statistics all had dramatically overrated the dangerousness of the virus. That was the moment when I started to think how it was possible – that an entire society and an entire population was in the grip of a narrative which in many respects was blatantly wrong. After a few months, it became clear to me that the only mechanism that could explain what was happening in society was what is usually referred to as mass formation.

Mass formation is identical to hypnosis and this term refers to a specific kind of group formation which has very special characteristic effects at the level of individual mental functioning. One of these effects is that an individual who is in the grip of mass formation typically lose every capacity to take a critical distance from what they believe in, from what the group believes in.

[00:26:10] Mikki Willis: You would think it would be people with lower IQ that would be more susceptible to this. But it seems to be the other way around. Are you seeing this?

[00:26:19] Mark McDonald M.D. (author, The United States of Fear):

I have seen this and it does seem to be predicted by educational status and IQ… People who are highly intelligent tend to go and get a lot of degrees. Those people have spent so many years in institutions to get those degrees that they have developed a trust and confidence in not only the educational institutions but those that support them, which are largely government bodies. And so they start from the place of if it’s told by the university, by the government, it’s probably going to be true… So I think that there’s a disconnect between people who are smart and have lots of degrees with actual reality, with the lived experience of nature, of life – that you don’t see with people who are actually working with their hands outdoors all of the time.

[00:28:11] Dr. Zev Zelenko:

The real pandemic here is the psychological warfare that’s being waged on every single human being. See, if you take the human being and you put them in a chronic fear state, you couple that with human isolation, what happens is they psychologically decompensate and live in such emotional pain that they will gravitate in an irrational way to anything that you promise them will alleviate that pain.

[00:28:40] Prof. Mattias Desmet:

Once people feel disconnected from their environment they will typically start to experience a lack of meaning making in life. And under these conditions, if a narrative is distributed through the mass media indicating an object of anxiety and a strategy to deal with this object of anxiety, they suddenly connect to one small object of fear (for instance the coronavirus) and afterward people don’t feel lonely anymore. They feel connected again…

A new kind of social bond is highly problematic just because the connections between the individuals even deteriorate more and the bond between the individual and collective becomes stronger and stronger and stronger, which make them willing to sacrifice everything for the collective – its health its wealth the future of its children everything.

Something else that is a characteristic of individuals in mass formation is that they become radically intolerant of dissonant voices.

[00:30:35] Prof. Mattias Desmet:

People who do not go along with the masses are stigmatized. And in the end the masses are inclined to destroy the people who do not go along with them. And they do so as if it is an ethical duty to do so.

[00:30:50] JP Sears:

Getting good people to do bad things, harmful things, while thinking they’re good things is a dangerous place to be – because it looks great, you feel great, while you’re being used.

[00:31:05] Dr. Robert Malone:

They will sacrifice themselves and they see it as a virtue because it demonstrates their complete obedience to the cult, to the group, to perform ritualistic behavior which causes them harm.

[00:33:48] Mark McDonald M.D:

China shaved the heads of women, put them all in unattractive, asexual clothes, and did the same thing for the men. This technique has been used in the 20th century by every totalitarian regime.

[00:34:00] Lily Tang Williams (who left China for the U.S.):

Mao wanted to create a genderless society. That’s why girls like me cannot wear beautiful clothes and cannot do makeup. We have to just look like boys: unisex, no gender.

[00:34:10] Mark McDonald M.D:

They asexualize the population so that there’s no more desire, no more bipolarity of male and female. Everybody looks like an automaton. And then what do they do? Rather than turning towards one another, they turn towards the state.

[00:36:17] News report

The US Defense Department says as many as three million [Chinese] are being forcibly detained in reeducation and forced labor camps.

[00:36:26] BBC News

China calls them thought transformation camps built to prevent extremism from spreading but reports indicate they’re more like prisons.

[00:36:26] Crystal Chen (who left China for the U.S.):

When I was detained in the detention center I was handcuffed and hung over a radiator pipe with my toes barely touching the ground and I was hung over there for three days. The CCP guards brought 4 male detainees into my cell and began one of the worst experiences of torture. I was on the brink of death, so I realized I could do nothing but turn to my belief. So I pray to be saved. Moments later, one of the four male detainees suddenly fainted on the floor which interrupted the torture.

[00:37:40] Minghui Wang (who left China for the U.S.):

I left China because my parents were heavily persecuted for their practice of Falun Gong. From age 1 to age 5 my grandparents were taking care of me because my parents were always inside some dark cells being tortured. My first clear memory of my mother I was brought to a brainwashing center and saw her being tied up to a chair with people behind her guarding her and she had a very thick plastic tube inserted into her nose and she was being forced fed at the time. She just looked like she was in so much pain and I was five at the time. That was it’s just very traumatizing. My school principal actually came to me several times and told me not to be a part of my parents and to report any activity that my parents would do. They’re installing all the lies and hatred into the younger generation.

[00:40:11]Bill Maher:

Yesterday I asked ChatGPT if there are any similarities between today’s woke revolution and Chairman Mao’s cultural revolution of the 1960s and it wrote back: how long do you have?

[00:40:30] G. Edward Griffin:

We recognize that government is absolutely necessary for an orderly society. But following the dictum that government like fire is both beneficial and dangerous, we believe in the concept of limited government. And we believe that the constitutional Republic created by our founding fathers is the best form of limited government that has yet been devised by man. A Republic is a limited democracy. It’s a form of government based upon the principle of limited majority rule, limited so that the minority even a minority of on can be protected against the whims and passions of the majority. Now, democracy is a form of government based upon the principle of majority rule. It’s easy to understand, easy to sell to the masses, and I might add deadly.

[00:42:25] Tricia Lindsay (civil rights attorney):

We have unalienable rights just by virtue of being human. And so their primary responsibility as the government is to protect those rights.

[00:42:58] G. Edward Griffin:

And how do you protect the minority from the majority? You write down a set of rules on a piece of paper. You say: this we can do, that we cannot. At the top of the paper you write the word constitution and then everyone agrees to follow the rules no matter what the temptation. And when you’re finished you’ve created a constitutional Republic.

[00:43:20] Mikki Willis:

It was Thomas Jefferson who said: “The Republic is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”

[00:43:32] G. Edward Griffin:

Now we hear a lot of talk today about right-wingers, left-wingers, extremists, and moderates. The political spectrum concept, if it has any meaning at all, is a measurement scale showing all the variations in government. Now the extremists at the zero end would be those who advocate no government at all: the anarchists. The extremists at the other end would be those who advocate total government and who are they? Well, the communists of course, but also the Nazis, the fascists. No matter what they may call themselves, if they advocate total government control over the people they are all, by definition, totalitarians.

The debate is not between conservatives and liberals. It goes back in history long before those words were ever invented. The opposing points of view properly are identified as individualism versus collectivism. The individuals believe that the rights of the individual must not be obliterated by the desires of the collective or the group.

The collectivist, on the other hand, believes that the group is more important than the single person within it and that the individual must be sacrificed if necessary for the greater good of the greater number.

The individualists believe that every man has a personal and direct responsibility to provide first for himself, next for his family, and then for those outside his family who may be in need. The collectivist on the other hand declares that the individual is not personally responsible for charity or raising his own children, providing for his aging parents, or even providing for himself for that matter. This is a group function of the state, of government itself.

[00:45:35] Mikki Willis:

Collectivism on an international level is essentially known as globalism, which is often promoted as a framework for unity and sustainability. Under the guise of philanthropy, the leaders of the globalist movement leverage every possible crisis to advance their plan to replace national sovereignty with a one-world government.

[00:46:05] Mikk Willis:

It is the globalists who are behind the destructive new methods of control like ESG the acronym for environmental social governance. Similar to China’s social credit score, ESG is a ranking system that tracks a company or country’s carbon footprint as well as its commitment to diversity and inclusion. A low ESG score can lead to severe consequences including reputational damage, legal and regulatory actions and loss of investors and bank credit lines. Within the last decade numerous nations and thousands of major brands have been coerced to adapt to the ESG program and today many of them are paying the price. In 2018 the World Economic Forum published an article on its website entitled “How we will make Sri Lanka rich by 2025.” That article was removed once it became known that food prices in Sri Lanka had nearly doubled and that millions of their citizens were facing starvation.

[00:47:10] Kim Iversen:

Now what caused this? Farmers protested and asked the government to work with them on slowly improving farming practices to be more environmentally friendly rather than implementing harsh bans. But the government was more interested in maintaining a high ESG score with its creditors like BlackRock. As a result food production dropped drastically with farmers expecting crop losses of 85%. The country had to begin spending money on importing food when it was previously self-sufficient. Sri Lanka is a cautionary tale. What’s happening there could be a foreshadowing of what’s in store for us if we don’t take heed and learn some lessons.

[00:47:45] Mikki Willis:

The Dutch government was one of the first to sign on to the ESG system. Dutch farmers pleaded that the rush to adapt to extreme new regulations would result in the destruction of the country’s food supply. The Netherlands is the second largest agriculture exporter in the world earning the title of the tiny country that feeds the world. A collapse of their system could flicker a global food crisis. Yet the Netherlands’ Prime Minister continued to persecute Dutch farmers until they were forced to revolt.

[00:48:22] Klaus Schwab:

Where do you find still such a Prime Minister in the world? You find it in the Netherlands and it’s Mark Rutte.

[00:48:32] Josh Phillips, Crossroads:

And remember too the Netherlands is the pilot program of the World Food hubs and the World Economic Forum has assigned to the Netherlands what they call this global secretariat – using, ironically, a communist term for it.

[00:48:45] SkyNews in Australia:

Klaus Schwab’s golden pinup boy, Prime Minister Mark Rutte, is busy fulfilling the agenda from the World Economic Forum’s great reset by turfing farmers off their own land.

[00:48:58] Mark Rutte, Netherlands Prime Minister: Perhaps the most important lesson I’ve learned in my years as Prime Minister in one of the world’s most outward-looking trading countries is that national interests are often best served by international corporations.

[00:49:50] The Kwak Brothers:

If you think about what created wealthy people wealthy throughout the many years of our human history that’s the ownership of land and you have governments right now they’re looking to take ownership of real estate. And it’s happening everywhere and you have this movement of individuals kind of going like hey like people should never profit off of real estate. And unfortunately if that ideology is what the government is using to take control. If we look at data from 2001 to 2015, there is a slow and steady the trend towards more corporations owning single family homes apartments office spaces and less and less individuals actually owning real estate. The Backstone group actually recently raised a record of $50 billion to take homes from American families.

[00:50:30] Mikki Willis: During the pandemic, when all people were ordered to lock down indoors, why did governments around the world make exceptions for mass protests. We’ve all heard the term fire sale. In this case it’s not a metaphor. When the community is damaged by protests the value of local properties upon it investors then gobble up the devalued real estate for pennies on the dollar in many cases the leaders of the decimated communities receive kickbacks for allowing this transfer of wealth.

[00:51:50] Mikki Willis:

In his communist manifesto, Karl Marx wrote the theory of communism may be summed up in a single sentence: “Abolition of private property.”

[00:53:00] G. Edward Griffin:

In 1943 the following directive was issued from the party headquarters to all communists in the United States. It read, “When certain obstructionists become too irritating, label them as Fascist or Nazi or Anti-Semitic. In the public mind, constantly associate those who oppose us with those names which already have a bad smell. The association will, after enough repetition, become fact in the public mind.”

[00:53:55] ???

Name-calling is their number one bullying tactic and they apply it unremittingly to anyone who questions their dogma or says something they find unacceptable or offensive.

[00:54:07] G. Edward Griffin:

As early as 1928 the communists declared that the racial differences among our people constituted the weakest and most vulnerable point in our social fabric. By constantly probing and straining at this one spot, they calculated that eventually the cloth could be torn apart and that Americans could be divided weakened, and perhaps even set against each other in open combat. they said in no unmistakable terms that the negro people because of their social status and their predominant working class composition, offered greater revolutionary possibilities than any other cross-section of the population.

[00:54:51] G. Edward Griffin:

The communists call not only for extensive chaos within the cities, but the plan is also for raging fires from one city to the next. The average American may say, soft and decadent, when he sees billows of black smoke rising from one horizon to the other at night, the only light he has to see by is the flickering red from flames leaping into the sky, he’ll become paralyzed with fear and panic and do nothing to interfere with the guerrilla bands as they strike at the community’s power centers. To justify violence they have to be able to claim that they’re liberating people and if people are to be liberated then it’s necessary to go through the motions at least of pretending that they have a right to form a nation of their own. The Communist Party called for their liberation to break away from the United States and to set up their own nation within our borders.

[00:56:03] G. Edward Griffin:

To take the United States, all of the United States, it’ll be necessary they say to involve white people as well as black. And in general to escalate their revolution in America from race war to class war.

Now when they talk about pressure from above, they mean using their people and their influence within the very government marked for takeover – to bring forward official recommendations for legislation. The recommendations of course are offered supposedly as solutions to national problems but when passed into law they’re only the real effect is to vastly increase the power of government and to move the country that much closer toward the ultimate goal.

The pressure from below then involves using their influence over the various mass membership organizations of the country to create the appearance of great popular support for these recommendations. Of course, the members of those organizations must never suspect that they’re being used to promote the communist program.

Now the silent majority, the average person, is caught right in the middle. He looks above and sees a highly respected spokesman for the government calling for socialist legislation. He looks below and sees mobs of demonstrators shouting for the same thing. He says to himself, has everyone gone crazy or is it me? Now he’s still in the majority of course, but he doesn’t know it. He thinks he’s helplessly outnumbered and he bows to what he thinks is the democratic will of the majority.

[00:58:22] G. Edward Griffin:

We mustn’t kid ourselves into thinking that the communists have placed their agitators only into the black communities. They’re working both sides of the street. They want hatred, violence and bloodshed between the races and they don’t care how they get it or whom they use – even children if necessary.

[00:59:05] G. Edward Griffin:

You may have wondered why the Communist Party has been a staunch supporter of the drive to place a black studies curriculum into our high schools and colleges. The reason becomes obvious the minute you take a look at the textbooks and the study guides.

[00:59:21] Asra Nomani (Virginia parent against critical race theory being taught in schools):

Schools are now radicalizing our kids. I mean this is the volume of the book from critical race theory and it literally says here whiteness is a bad deal and it has a symbol of Satan.

[00:59:45] Ajua Mason (member of Texas Board of Education):

Not only is it in the schools but it’s in the workplace. It’s throughout society and is destroying this country.

[00:59:51] Black woman at school board mtg:

If this continues, we will look back and be responsible for the dismantling of the greatest country in the world by reverting to teaching hate and that race is a determining factor on where your destiny lies.

[01:00:26] RT News:

Education authorities in the United States are asking the government to use anti-terror laws and involve the FBI against parents who protest against the way their children are being taught.

[01:00:38] Congressman Hawley:

It identifies no fewer than 13 possible federal crimes including making annoying phone calls. How about this one: they could be prosecuted for using the Internet in a way that might cause emotional distress.

[01:00:38] Tucker Carlson:

Over the weekend Democrats voted to ban gendered language in house rules. That means no more terms like father or mother.

[01:01:01] Congressman Jason Smith, ranking member:

Is the administration’s official policy to replace the term woman with birthing people?

[01:01:13] Senator James Lankford:

You shifted from, in places, from using the term mother to birthing people.

[01:01:18] Honorable ???:

Again, we’re trying to be precise in the language that’s used

[01:01:18] Senator James Lankford:

Mom’s a pretty good word.

[01:01:23] Woman on TicTok:

I’m not a birth person, I’m a mother.

[01:01:26] Question to Supreme Court Nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson:

Can you provide a definition for the word woman?

[01:01:31] Ketanji Brown Jackson:

Can I provide a definition? I can’t.

Q. You can’t?

[01:01:38] Ketanji Brown Jackson:

Not in this context. I’m not a biologist.

Q. Is the word woman so unclear and controversial that you can’t give me a definition?

[01:01:47] Question to Aimee Arrambide, a pro-abortion activist:

Do you believe that men can become pregnant and have abortions?

[01:01:47] Aimee Arrambide:

Yes.

[01:01:54] Woman on TicTok:

Literally, everything that was fought for women’s rights is going straight down the drain.

[01:02:00] Rizza Islam:

This environment that has been created and corrupted and manipulated does not respect women, does not respect children, does not respect men. It cares nothing for families. So that’s why they have to attack mother and remove father, because she’s going to protect that child, he’s going to protect that woman, and they both are going to protect society.

[01:02:20] Brian Echevarria (Parent):

When you talk about a parent-child relationship you’re talking about something primal, that is in the heart of the liberal, not the Marxists, that’s in the heart of the person who’s conservative, and they’re pushing the boundaries on something that they cannot control.

[01:02:43] TV News:

Washington state is on track to lawfully take transgender support children away from parents who oppose transitioning treatment.

[01:02:52] Tricia Lindsay:

That is against the Constitution. The only time a parent loses their rights is if there’s an extreme circumstance.

[01:02:57] Vanesssa (aka “Gothix”):

It’s severing the bond between the parent and the child.

[01:03:00] Tricia Lindsay:

What they’re doing is they’re dividing families to take control of the children.

[01:03:04] Vanesssa (aka “Gothix”)

The biggest defense against communism is the nuclear family.

[01:03:09] Mikki Willis:

In chapter two of his Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx wrote: “Abolition of the family! .. The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course.”

[01:03:09] Public comment by a black gentleman:

We’re here today to represent the millions of Black Americans who disagree with the black lives matter movement. If you go to the Black Lives Matter website it says that: “We disrupt the nuclear family.” That’s my wife. This is our four children. Why would you disrupt the nuclear family?

[01:03:40] G, Edward Griffin:

Because the real objective is to remove the family as a possible alternate source of guidance and support. All totalitarian regimes strive to destroy the close-knit family in order to remove any loyalties that might be higher than to the state itself.

[01:03:55] Mark McDonald M.D.:

What I have seen over the years in my practice is a steady decline in the expression of healthy masculinity and healthy femininity. The separation between the male and the female is almost complete now, and it’s due specifically to the ongoing attacks against masculinity and the degradation of femininity. And if our family structure is lost in the next generation, what do we have left? We’re just a bunch of listless individuals living our lives out, virtually behind a computer screen and following the orders of the government.

[01:04:29] Patrisse Cullors (co-founder, Black Lives Matter)

I came in the movement at 17 ½, so I have like just a knack for knowing how to organize young people. I was at our publications table today and I was speaking to this young person. And he grabbed the book and he said: “This is like Mao’s Red Book.” And I was like man that’s what I was thinking. And it was just really cool to hear him make that connection. Like, how about you buy like 10 to 15 of these books and you all have like a youth organizing group where you talk about it, and you really try to engage this. We need to build off of this.

We actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia [Garza], in particular, we are trained Marxists.

[01:05:13] Alicia Garza (co-founder, Black Lives Matter)

I do believe in Marxism. It’s a philosophy I learned early on in my organizing career.

[01:05:17] Rebel News:

Investigations into the black lives matter organization has revealed links to groups that are pro-communist China. The self-proclaimed Marxist Black Lives Matter co-founder, Alicia Garza, also owns the Black Futures Lab project. Yet all would be lost for the black future lab if not for the Chinese Progressive Association. Donations to the Black Futures Lab don’t go directly to the foundation itself. The Chinese Progressive Association gets them instead.

[01:05:44] Mikki Willis:

Through forensic investigations, we now know that the 2020 BLM fiery, but mostly peaceful protests, were organized and partially funded through a network of pro-communist organizations. One of the groups is the US-based Liberation Road, which was founded by a faction of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Liberation Road is allied with the new communist movement and has direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party. The San Francisco, based communist rooted, Chinese Progressive Association formed a sister company called Asians For Black Lives to serve as a bridge between BLM and the Chinese Communist Party.

[01:06:27] Joe Biden:

I spent a lot of time with President Xi. He’s deadly earnest about becoming the most significant, consequential nation in the world.

[01:06:48] Mikki Willis:

When we speak of China it’s important to distinguish between the people and their oppressive government. And while the Communist Party of China is undoubtedly America’s greatest foreign adversary, it’s crucial to recognize that the most urgent threat to the future of the United States resides within its own borders.

[01:07:09] G. Edward Griffin:

We’re so used to thinking in terms of the old-fashioned concepts of warfare, we’ve failed to realize that the favorite weapons of communist conquest are instead propaganda. 

[01:07:17] Rand Paul:

Do you know who the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world is? The U.S. government.

[01:07:23] G. Edward Griffin:

A slanted view of history.

[01:07:26]

Nikole Hannah-Jones, creator of ‘The 1619 Project’:

History has been written to tell us this certain story. The 1619 project is trying to reframe that story.

[01:07:31] Black gentleman:

What these people are doing is subverting young black minds to think that Revolutionary War was fought in order to preserve slavery. And it’s based on something that simply isn’t true.

[01:07:39] G. Edward Griffin: The tactics of internal subversion

[01:07:39] Young woman:

I thought that America was racist. I thought it was patriarchal. I thought our capitalist society was just a means of exploiting people. And I thought all these things because that is what I was told.

[01:07:55] G. Edward Griffin:

The preaching of hatred to incite civil disorder.

[01:07:59] Chuck Schumer:

I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released a whirlwind and you will pay the price.

[01:08:06] CBS News:

A California man is facing federal charges for the attempted murder of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

[01:08:12] G. Edward Griffin:

Treason, blackmail, the smear

[01:08:15] Vice News:

This is the first time Assange is being questioned over the rape allegations.

[01:08:20] ??? TV News

The LA Times ran an article calling Larry Elder a black, white supremacist.

[01:08:24] G. Edward Griffin:

All committed by soldiers who wear no uniform and who claim to be loyal citizens of the target country marked for conquest from within.

[01:08:33] G. Edward Griffin:

World War III that rages around us right now is a political war, an economic war, a psychological war, a spiritual war. As a matter of fact, the bomb, as a psychological weapon, is being dropped on the American people every single day.

[01:08:52] News Montage:

You probably assume you’re safe. That could be a deadly mistake.

Bracing for food shortages, labor shortages, shipping delays, supply chain disruption, a new coronavirus variant, ultra transmissible… It could kill you.

Surging crime, acts of terrorism, domestic terrorism, mass shootings…

Nuclear conflict, World War III, Vladimir Putin, Russia…

Environmental doom, fires, storms, deadly floods.

Greta Thunberg: I don’t want you to be hopeful.

Joe Biden: Science tells us we have nine years

This storm will kill you

Greta Thunberg: I want you to panic.

It is promoting fear.

It will kill your children. It will kill your pets… unless you get lucky.

The world is a very terrifying place.

Greta Thunberg: I want you to feel the fear that I do every day.

[01:09:38] Mikki Willis:

Walk me through, if you would, what happens scientifically inside our minds when we’re in a state of fear. And then how that affects our external choices and the direction of our lives.

[01:09:51] Mark McDonald M.D:

This is well known and well researched in the psychological literature and the psychiatric literature – that when someone is afraid, when someone is in a state of fear, that person cannot think rationally. You resort back to a more primitive way of making decisions, which is highly emotionally driven. And when you’re placed in a chronic state of fear, as we have been, you end up in what I would call a traumatized state – meaning that you’re not just momentarily scared, you are frozen. You have seen your ability to think critically suspended.

[01:10:22] David E. Martin:

The issue is not about COVID or vaccines or anything else. It’s not that. That is the polarizing impulse that gives rise to our general sense of ill-at-ease, which then amplifies our willingness to fall for reflexive classifications like race, or, you know, the isms that we want to fight about. The more we can distract people by creating the illusion that says everything is fearful, the more we can manipulate the population.

[01:10:55] Mark McDonald M.D.:

We were groomed for decades to be fearful, whether it was drop and cover (we must be ready all the time if the atomic bomb explodes) to protect against the threat of nuclear annihilation. Or more recently, the impending ecological collapse of our planet in 12 years that AOC and Greta Thunberg keep warning us about.

AOC: the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.

Greta Thunberg: How dare you?

[01:11:18] Mark McDonald M.D.:

All of these fears are grounded to some degree in reality. They’re not completely invented, but they are exaggerated so greatly that we cannot actually reason through them anymore.

[01:11:32] Zuby:

When people are afraid they won’t just accept authoritarianism, they’ll demand it. They will demand it. Somebody do something. Somebody take charge and tell me what to do – like where do I stand, where do I walk, what do we do, what are the rules. And again people in power always use that right? They say never let a good crisis go to waste. We can take this and we can now enact policies that normally we wouldn’t be able to get away.

[01:11:55] Yuval Noah Harari:

Maybe in a couple of decades when people look back, the thing they will remember from the COVID crisis: this was the moment that we agreed to be surveyed all the time.

[01:12:20] Prof. Mattias Desmet:

The leaders of the people who pronounce the narrative in public space usually are hypnotized themselves. They believe they need to reshape society to be able to deal with the challenges society faces. And they believe so fanatically and that ideology that they think it’s justified to manipulate and cheat and to use all kinds of narratives to convince people to go along with that ideology.

[01:12:43] News montage: Freedoms taken from the Unvaxxed

Andrew Cuomo (N.Y. governor): We’re going to go visit mom. I’m going to bring the whole family to see mom. No!

Lori Lightfoot (Chicago Mayor): We will shut you down. We will cite you and if we need to we will arrest you. And we will take you to jail.

Jacinda Ardern (New Zealand Prime Minister): You either get your test done and make sure you’re cleared or we will keep you in a facility longer.

Tony Blair (British Prime Minister): It’s gonna be very hard for people to do a lot of normal life unless they can prove their vaccination status.

Anthony Fauci: Such as you’re not going to work in this particular agency or institution. You’re not going to be able to go to this College of this university. Once we start doing that, you will see more and more people willingly get vaccinated.

[01:13:24] Mikki Willis

If the fear of losing your job, your friends, your family, and your future isn’t enough to coerce you into submission, perhaps these incentives will entice you to willingly comply…

[01:13:34] News montage: Incentives to Get the Jab

Everything from cash prizes to college scholarships

Now offering kids 12 and up limited edition Avengers comic books

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[01:15:42] Carl Jung Quote

“The State takes the place of God… the socialist dictatorships are religion and State slavery is a form of worship.” ~ Carl Jung (1961)

[01:16:05] G. Edward Griffin:

There was a time, and not too long ago I think, when we could have pulled ourselves out of this without too great a sacrifice on the part of anyone. But we didn’t. Instead, we slept. Everywhere I look, I see men and women who know that communists are making headway in this country. They know that something must be done and that someone must stand up to them. But they themselves do nothing. They remain silent because they’re afraid that if they speak out, it’ll be bad for business. They may lose a client. They may even lose their jobs. Or perhaps they’re receiving a regular government check and already are too dependent upon some of the very people and programs they know they should oppose.

We have now passed the point of painless solutions and parlor patriotism. Well, all right, so what do we do about it? What are the countermeasures that need to be taken and where do we begin? Before we finally win this battle, and I should hasten to say that there’s no doubt in my mind that we’re going to win, I’m increasingly convinced of this.

But before we finally do see victory, we must carry the truth to every man, woman, and child in America. I have no idea what each of you is going to do in the critical days that lie ahead. It may be much, it may be little, it may be nothing at all. I don’t know – only you can answer that question. But ladies and gentlemen, whatever it is you decide to do for your country, do it soon. Do it now. Every minute that you delay further will add dearly to the price of ultimate victory.

[01:18:06] Mikki Willis:

Mr. Griffin, that was over 50 years ago (1969). Where are we now?

[01:18:11] G. Edward Griffin:

Hearing that phrase after all these years is kind of a shocker because I didn’t realize, really at the time, how accurate it was going to be. But we’re in the middle of it now, and so the ultimate victory is still ahead of us.

[01:18:25] Mikki Willis:

How did you know way back then what would be happening today?

[01:18:30] G. Edward Griffin:

It’s a long story of course but I did take a fascinating tour of the communist bookstore in Los Angeles when I was very very young. I was working for an insurance company I was Mr. Corporate America you know. That was the period when the hippie you know image was pretty popular and a lot of these guys in that bookstore were in that uniform. And I think they felt that was a potential recruit you know.

[01:18:30] G. Edward Griffin:

They invited me to come to their study groups, they called them. They were really the recruiting funnel you know. And I didn’t have to pretend to be interested because I was interested. I wanted to see what these guys were up to. In the course the more I read, the more I realized that these guys were deadly serious. And so my crusader gene said hey buddy you better stop worrying about the corporate ladder and making money and looking good and start doing something about it. And I’m glad I did because after that point my life had a meaning and had had a purpose – more than just self-centered.

[01:20:04] Mikki Willis:

Who are some of the key figures behind this agenda?

[01:20:07] G. Edward Griffin:

I’m not sure we can name names. We know that there are layers and layers of control and influence, sort of pyramidal in form. At the bottom level of course, is all the common people. Most of them don’t even know what’s going on. It used to be that an invader could come in with the superior army and people resent it but they obey, because if they don’t they get killed.

Now if they want to conquer people in this environment they have to do it through the mind. And of course today after all the technology that we have and the control over the communications and the images and the school system and media, they have absolute control over the funnel of information that comes to the average person.

And the average person, if they’re not aware that there’s a real war going on for their mind, they will be helpless. And as long as people are on the edge of fear, they’re willing to give up their liberties and pay lots and lots in taxes (Bernie Sanders: a tax on carbon).

And as I passed through that idea, in my view, the enemy is in a category called collectivism. And that’s the word that applies to all of these things socialism, communism, fascism, Nazism – all of these things are merely variants of collectivism. That is the philosophy based on the assumption that the group is more important than the individual and that the individual must be sacrificed,if necessary, for the greater good of the greater number. That’s the trick that you’re doing this for society.

[01:21:38] Montage: Doing Things for the Great Good

Anthony Fauci: Obviously you don’t like to tell people what to do. But sometimes, for the good of society, that’s necessary.

Don Lemon: We have to start doing things for the greater good of society and not for idiots who think that they can do their own research.

Priest: But it’s not about me and my right to choose. It’s about how I love my neighbor.

Rachel Maddow: You are not doing this for yourself. If you are at all like me, your own health, your own risk is not a big rational driver of all of your actions.

[01:22:07] G. Edward Griffin:

They trick us into thinking that if you act in your own self-interest, that somehow you are selfish. And nothing could be further from the truth. Those of us who discovered this trick, long ago we realize that enlightened self-interest comes into play. If you are acting out of self-interest, you soon discover that the best way to benefit yourself is to help other people. It does come back.

[01:22:35] Mikki Willis:

The question is how do we turn the ship around?

[01:22:38] G. Edward Griffin:

I think that the path to political hell in America has been voting for the lesser of two evils. They create conflict because conflict creates fear and confusion and out of that chaos. People are not too analytical, they just struggle for some quick answer which is what we’re going to vote for. That’s usually the answer that’s offered to them. They think that if you just vote for somebody, the right person, everything will go away.

You cannot wait until the list of candidates that’s published and you see which one am I going to choose? You know by that time the game is over. All those candidates have been selected before you’re even aware. You’ve got to get into politics at the local level so you have some influence in which candidates are selected. And that starts at the grassroots level. You don’t come in at the top, you come in at the bottom. If we do that job, we will influence both political parties, just like our opponents do now.

[01:23:36] Mark McDonald M.D.: There is actually a way forward and a way out. But it’s going to require work. And it’s also going to require that we acknowledge that we have wronged ourselves, that we are part of this problem. It’s not the government that caused this. The government facilitated it. What caused it was our being asleep at the wheel. Without taking accountability, we cannot move forward.

[01:23:59] Rizza Islam:

The masses of humanity have been slapped awake in a very short period of time to where now it has created a domino effect of awareness all across the planet. People cannot go back into the matrix now. They can’t. A lot of people are trying to and they can’t.

[01:24:18] Tricia Lindsay:

We have the right as citizens in this country to abolish government and create a new one. And that is the authority that has been given to us. It is written in our documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Declaration of Human Rights. We have indelible rights and the basis of those rights are our freedoms. And if we don’t have that, we don’t have life. And so we have to awaken, we have to arise, we have to fight.

[01:24:48] Col Allen B. West:

The natural rights of every individual is life liberty and property. And establishing a country on a premise that had never been established before, that the individual is sovereign because their rights are endowed to them by a sovereign God.

[01:25:22] Vanessa (aka “Gothix”):

We’re all fighting with each other. And the way that we combat that is doing the opposite of what these war overlords want us to do, which is fight with each other. We should be learning how to forgive and inviting other people to the table, even if we disagree with them. And extending grace to one another, even if we know that they’ve done something that we totally disagree with. Because that’s how we ultimately are going to heal as the nation is understanding that we all come from different walks of life and we are all live here together. Let’s start talking.

[01:26:00] The Kwak Brothers:

The only real problem that’s existed in the world is division. It’s that people are not getting in rooms willing to speak with one another, see each other’s hearts, and get to know: hey what do you believe, what do I believe? And is there a way we can actually work together to solve these problems? And I’m willing to bet that most of the Gen. X’ers would say yes. That’s what we’re going through right now. And that’s why I’m glad we’re at the age that we are because we can be leaders of that conversation.

[01:26:25] JP Sears:

When I started to realize like wow freedom’s a polarizing concept for some reason. I thought this was America. Is this America? It is? Okay. The world’s different than I thought. So my fear was: I could lose everything. I could lose my audience. I could lose my business. But I knew, especially having a son come into the world, I am imprinting something on his beautiful, innocent, fragile psyche and heart. I’m imprinting the man that I am or I’m imprinting the hollow shell of the man that I refused to be. And I knew in that moment I’m willing to risk losing everything to do that. I would rather pick up cans on the side of the highway to feed my family than to live out of alignment with my truth and betray my son.

[01:27:16] Dr. Zev Zelenko:

Just say no. Rise up in a nonviolent way. They can’t imprison everyone. They can’t fire everyone. But they can fire individuals that are separated and don’t work together and give in to the fear. And don’t sacrifice your future for few conveniences now in the present. You should sacrifice maybe the present conveniences so that you’re going to have a future.

01:27:41] Ajua Mason:

The media has done a good job at stripping from us our ability to think on our own and for ourselves. If we can get back to that, I think that we can build a stronger America.

[01:27:55] Dr. Robert Malone:

In my opinion, the first step you have to take is you have to get out from under the control mechanisms. And that means, blow up your TV, don’t listen to the fear porn, and set yourself free of debt which is what controls you and controls everything around you. It is the weapon that is used.

[01:28:20] Mattais Desmet:

The most important thing is always that the dissonant voices continue to speak out. And, also extremely important, that they don’t start to form a mass or a crowd themselves, because that happens very easily as well, happens very easily. Once a large scale mass formation starts, the people who do not go along with them feel threatened and they can start to form a mass themselves. So it’s extremely important not to form a mass ourselves. That means to form a group, a coherent group, and that what unifies this group should in the first place be the fact that everybody who belongs to the group can have his own opinion and can speak in his own way.

[01:29:43] G. Edward Griffin:

Hardship strengthens us. We wouldn’t have had the American Revolution and the beta model for the American constitution, the beta model of the Republic of the modern world, unless the tyranny of King George had been unbearable. All the good things in life usually are the result of some kind of a rebound against something that’s very not good at all. Very painful.

[01:30:22] G. Edward Griffin:

You know, in a philosophical sense, we should be thankful for this movement that’s happening in spite of the fact that it’s a tragedy and it’s hurting people and all that. But without it, we might just go right along in that pot and be boiled in time. But now, the frog is jumping out. And we have a chance coming up here now to create a new vision, and it’s going to be great.

[01:30:46] Mattais Desmet:

It’s a bit cynical, but this could be good news: that mass formation and totalitarianism always destroys itself in a relatively short time span. And the most important thing of course is that you have to make sure that the system does not destroy you before it destroys itself.

[01:31:04] G. Edward Griffin:

Throughout history, it was always a very small minority. History has always been written by the 1% of the population. 15% of the population create history and they follow the leadership, the thought leadership of 1%. But that 15% altogether is what changes history. So all you have to do is reach 15% of the population. I think today, after all this time, we have more than 15%. We just have to get them together so they realize that they’re not alone. And that’s our task right now.

[01:31:40] Zuby:

I don’t think our societies have taken the moment to look up and actually see and appreciate how much progress has been made in the past century. On so many different levels, we have made incredible progress. Like what we’ve got here is actually great. It’s imperfect and we should still be making tweaks carefully to try to make it better. And I think that’s where so much of that self-hatred or hatred of the nation or hatred of the other or whatever comes from: this lack of perspective and gratitude and inability to take a moment. Chill out on the activism, and go wait actually OK we we’ve achieved a very unique and special point in history and let’s be careful with that.

[01:32:26] Mikki Willis:

On that note, as a man who’s traveled the world, have you experienced any nation that has course-corrected beyond their sins more than the US?

[01:32:36] Zuby:

No.

[01:32:38] Lily Tang Williams:

It’s sad to see Americans who live in a free country, born as Americans, and do not recognize their privileges. You’re born American – a free country. You have never suffered starvation. And you need to go to other countries to find out why all the immigrants, millions, millions of them want to come here.

[01:34:10] G. Edward Griffin:

The defectors here that are speaking out against the Communist Party in China are risking their lives. And our government is not interested in listening to them or helping them in any way.

[01:34:35] Winston Liu:

I have been in America for 10 years. I saw a lot of Americans with a wonderful heart. America is a beacon of freedom. I’m happy living in this land, to practice my religion, and to have a peaceful life. That’s my hope.

[01:34:57] Lily Tang Williams:

America is the last stand on Earth for freedom. If we lose this country, the world will be a very dark place. I have three children in this country. I want to protect their American dream, so here I am, you know.

[01:35:29] Mikki Willis:

I’ve noticed that every time you speak about America, your eyes fill with tears.

[01:35:32] Lily Tang Williams:

I do love this country. No place to go. And I just hope people can hear my stories. For the past five years, I’ve been saying the same thing. I have no political agenda here. I just want to live the American dream and my children live the American dream. Sorry about that. It’s time to ask questions. It’s time to wake up.

[01:36:24] Mikki Willis:

We’ve been brought together in this moment to face the urgent choice between dehumanization and rehumanization. Dehumanization requires us to do nothing – nothing other than to allow that process to continue to the point of no return. Rehumanization, on the other hand, requires action. One action: to remember, just remember what we knew as children when everything was possible before our attention was captured, before the conditioning set in, before our nature was denied. There’s nothing new we have to learn. All we have to do is to remember.

 

[01:37:12] David E. Martin:

And then take the hand of that memory and go out and stand on ground, not concrete, not asphalt. Stand on the ground. And see if you can feel the heartbeat of a universe that conspired to give you life, so you once again can feel the joy of being completely human. And then never forget that moment.

[01:37:51] Mikki Willis:

This is the moment for us to activate our innate ability to create solutions that can only happen through the awareness of symbiosis, defined as a mutually beneficial relationship between different groups. All of life depends on relationships. Every living thing is in communication: from the stars to the planets, the Earth, the planets, the elements, the insects, the animals, the humans, and every cell within us. Real change out there begins with real change inside. 

[01:38:30] G. Edward Griffin:

As Americans today, we are truly a privileged people in a privileged land. But with our blessings come responsibilities. And with responsibilities come risks. The challenge of our time is that we must accept both the responsibilities of our blessings and the risks involved in defending them for ourselves and for future generations. And we must do this without hesitation if we are to be worthy benefactors of that precious heritage of freedom passed on to us through the epic sacrifices of those who have gone before. Now that is not flag waving and it is not cliched patriotism. That’s a simple statement of the obligations of citizenship in this glorious land, our land, which with God’s help we shall preserve.




Watch This Incredibly Important Speech: Tulsi Gabbard Testifies on the Weaponization of Federal Government

Source: Tulsi Gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard delivers a brilliant speech regarding the Weaponization of the Federal Government during a House Subcommittee meeting.




Rep. Nancy Mace Grills Twitter Exec About Censoring Top Doctors and CDC Data During Congressional Oversight Hearing

Source: Congresswoman Nancy Mace

Watch Congresswoman Nancy Mace grill a Twitter exec about censoring top doctors and CDC data during a Congressional oversight hearing.

TRANSCRIPT:

Congresswoman Nancy Mace (CNM): Thank you, Mr Chairman. The Twitter fires files were not just about Hunter Biden’s. Laptop Twitter files make it apparent Twitter worked overtime to suppress accurate Covid information. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford, who once tweeted an article he wrote about natural immunity. Thanks to Elon Musk’s release of the Twitter Files, we learned some of his tweets were tagged with the label of Trends Blacklist.

Apparently, the views of a Stanford doctor are disinformation to you people. I, along with many Americans, have long-term effects from Covid. Not only was I a long hauler, but I have effects from the vaccine. It wasn’t the first shot, but it was the second shot that I now developed asthma that has never gone away since I had the second shot.

I have tremors in my left hand. And I have the occasional heart pain that no doctor can explain, and I’ve had a battery of tests. I find it extremely alarming Twitter’s unfettered censorship spread into medical fields and affected millions of Americans by suppressing expert opinions from doctors and censoring those who disagree with the CDC.

I have great regrets about getting the shot because of the health issues that I now have that I don’t think are ever going to go away. And I know that I’m not the only American who has those kinds of concerns.

Another example of what Twitter has done to censor folks is from Dr. Martin Kulldorff, a Harvard educated epidemiologist, who once tweeted: Covid vaccines are important for high-risk people and their caretakers. Those with prior natural infection do not need it, nor do children.

The Twitter files reveal this tweet was deemed false information because it ran contrary to the CDC. So my first question this morning of Ms. Gadde. May I ask of you: where did you go to medical school?

Ms. Gadde (MG): I did not go to medical school.

CNM: I’m sorry?

MG: I did not go to medical school.

CNM: That’s what I thought. Why do you think you or anyone else at Twitter had the medical expertise to censor a doctor’s expert opinion?

MG: Our policies regarding Covid were designed to protect individuals. We were seeing…

CNM: You guys censored Harvard-educated doctors, Stanford-educated doctors, doctors that are educated in the best places in the world and you silenced those voices. My next question is: did the U.S. government… Excuse me, I have another chart I want to show you Ms. Gadde. I have another tweet by someone with a following of a full 18,000 followers. This person put a chart from the CDC on Twitter. It’s the CDC’s own data. So it’s accurate by your standards, and you all labeled this as misleading. You’re not a doctor right, Ms. Gadde?

MG: No, I’m not.

CNM: Okay. What makes you think you or anyone else of Twitter have the medical expertise to censor actual accurate CDC data?

MG: I’m not familiar with these particular situations.

CNM: Yeah, I’m sure you’re not, but this is what Twitter did – they labeled this as inaccurate. It is the government’s own data, It’s ridiculous that we’re even having to have this conversation today. It’s not just about the laptop. This is about medical advice that expert doctors were trying to give Americans because social media companies like Twitter were silencing their voices. I have another question, my last one for you, Ms. Gadde. Did the U.S. government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to pressure Twitter to moderate or censor certain tweets? Yes or no?

MG: We have a program.

CNM: Did the U.S. government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to censor or moderate certain tweets? Yes or no?

MG: We receive legal demands to remove content from the platform from the U.S. government and governments all around the world. Those are published on a third-party website and anyone can review.

CNM: Thank God for Matt Taibbi. Thank God for Elon Musk for allowing to show us and the world that Twitter was basically a subsidiary of the FBI, censoring real medical voices with real expertise that put real Americans’ lives in danger because they didn’t have that information. I also want to thank one of my colleagues, Ro Khanna, because as it turns out censorship isn’t just an important issue to conservatives. Some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, like Ro, found this censorship very concerning and even wrote to you and the folks at Twitter that he was concerned about the first amendment being censored. So I want to thank him for speaking up and speaking out about this issue because this should not be a partisan issue. This should be an issue that’s an American issue.

CNM: Mr. Chairman, I would like to enter into the record, I ask unanimous consent, to enter into the record a Wall Street Journal article from December 9, 2022, by Justin Hart entitled, “The Twitter Blacklisting of Jay Bhattacharya” into the record, please, Mr. Chairman.

Chairman: Without objection, so ordered.

CNM: Thank you and I yield back.




“Brainwashed” | Tom MacDonald (Must See Music Video)

Source: Tom MacDonald

“Brainwashed” is an awesome music video by Tom MacDonald that brilliantly addresses the division that we are witnessing in our world. Watch more great videos by Tom MacDonald on his YouTube channel HERE.

Lyrics

Half the country fell asleep, but they scream, “Woke”
We’re distracted by vaccines and TV shows
Politics, celebrity, gossip, popular neat quotes
Black lives, white lives, which lives mean most?
We only dedicate one day to remember our fallen soldiers
The men and women who died young
But if you come out the closet as Caitlyn Jenner
You’re a hero and you get a whole pride month
The most dangerous pandemic’s propaganda from these clowns
Only mask that’s gonna save us is duct tape on they mouths
Don’t speak, we don’t need to defund police
Need to defund the media who lies through they teeth, like
Big pharma doesn’t cure you, dog
‘Cause every patient that gets cured is a customer lost
And big oil runs the world, the only wars that get fought
Are with the countries who have natural resources they want
Heard ’em claimin’ if a white man braids his hair
And likes rap, he’s appropriatin’ culture
But if a white man acts too white, he’s white trash
He’s a racist, he’s a bigot, he’s a monster

Let’s just have the conversation
Not every Liberal is dumb, not all Republicans are racist
The government wants everybody fighting with their neighbors
‘Cause they know that if we get along, we’ll probably go against ’em

They can’t stop us
‘Cause we’re ready to fight
Try to brainwash us
But we won’t let freedom die
The whole world’s brainwashed
Everybody pick a team, start a riot in the streets
The whole world’s brainwashed
It’s us against them, it ain’t you against me

How did monkeys become people and people turned into sheep?
They put fluoride in the water that’s keeping us all asleep
Claim they want what’s best for us, I find that hard to believe
‘Cause they been selling us cigarettes since we was 18
Fake news, fake woke, distract, and divide
You’re either right or you’re left or you’re black or you’re white
Big tech don’t need a microchip to hack in your life
‘Cause the phone inside your pocket is a trackin’ device
And I don’t know what I’m more sick of
Rappers or Joe Biden lookin’ like he ate a hundred Xanax for dinner
‘Cause censorin’ the president and kicking him off Twitter
Is a bigger threat to freedom than foreign ballistic missiles
You don’t trust the police or the government
But you want people givin’ up their right to own a firearm
Why would you be comfortable if police and the government
The only people on the planet with the right to buy a gun?
White privilege gettin’ amplified to reinforce the vision
It convinces white people that they’re favored by their skin
And black people gettin’ angry ’cause they’re told they’re treated different
So the conflict is between us and never with the system

Let’s just have the conversation
Not every Liberal is dumb, not all Republicans are racist
The government wants everybody fighting with their neighbors
‘Cause they know that if we get along, we’ll probably go against ’em

They can’t stop us
‘Cause we’re ready to fight
Try to brainwash us
But we won’t let freedom die
The whole world’s brainwashed
Everybody pick a team, start a riot in the streets
The whole world’s brainwashed
It’s us against them, it ain’t you against me

Step one, train the people only to consume
Step two, infiltrate adults with the news
Step three, indoctrinate the children through the schools
And the music and the apps on the phones that they use
Step four, separate the right from the left
Step five, separate the white from the black
Step six, separate the rich from the poor
Use religion and equality to separate ’em more
Step seven, fabricate a problem made of lies
Step eight, put it on the news every night
Step nine, when people start to fight and divide
Take control, this is called situational design

They can’t stop us
‘Cause we’re ready to fight
Try to brainwash us
But we won’t let freedom die
The whole world’s brainwashed
Everybody pick a team, start a riot in the streets
The whole world’s brainwashed
It’s us against them, it ain’t you against me




17 Incredibly Beautiful Songs Guaranteed to Raise Your Vibration

Below are 17 incredibly beautiful songs (plus 4 bonus songs) that are guaranteed to raise your vibration and put a smile on your face. I’ve listened to each of these amazing songs many, many times, and I return to them whenever I need a vibrational boost.

1. “You Raise Me Up” | Josh Groban with the African Children’s Choir


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2. “What a Wonderful World” | Okaïdi & Playing for Change


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3. “Canto Della Terra” (Earth’s Song) | Sarah Brightman with Alessandro Safina


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4. “When You Believe” | Whitney Houston & Mariah Carey

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5. “Somewhere over the Rainbow” | Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole


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6. “Celebration” (Kool and The Gang) | Playing For Change


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7. “Shower The People” | James Taylor


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8. “Peace Train” | Playing For Change with Yusuf / Cat Stevens


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9. “Annie’s Song” | John Denver


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10. “Bridge over Troubled Water” | Simon and Garfunkel


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11. “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out” | Yusuf / Cat Stevens


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12. “Don’t Worry Be Happy” | Playing For Change


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13. “Peace” | Ajeet Kaur


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14. “United” | Playing For Change


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15. “Imagine” | Julian Lennon with Nuno Bettencourt


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16. “Lokah Samasta” | Deva Premal & Miten with Manose


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17. “Song for a Pure Heart” | Mei-lan Maurits


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Bonus Songs

18. “Give a Little Love” | Noah and the Whale


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19. “Dream Of The Blue Whale” | Anders Holte


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20. “All You Need Is Love” | The Beatles


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21. “It’s In Every One of Us” | David Pomeranz




“Peace Train” featuring Yusuf / Cat Stevens | Playing For Change | Song Around The World

Source: Playing For Change

Peace Train” – Yusuf / Cat Stevens’ timeless anthem of hope and unity – was originally released on the classic album ‘Teaser and the Firecat’ in 1971 and was Stevens’ first US Top 10 hit, reaching number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

This Song Around The World version features more than 25 musicians from 12 countries and unites Yusuf / Cat Stevens, singing and playing a beautiful white piano in a tranquil open air setting in Istanbul, Turkey, with musicians such as five time Grammy Award winning blues/americana artist Keb’ Mo’; Grammy nominated Senegalese artist Baaba Maal; Silkroad’s Rhiannon Giddens—also a Grammy Award winner; Ghassan Birumi playing the oud in Ramallah, Palestine; musicians from the Silkroad Ensemble in Rhinebeck, New York; Pat Simmons (The Doobie Brothers) and James “Hutch” Hutchinson (bass player with Bonnie Raitt) performing in Maui, Hawaii; and bringing together conflict regions with Tushar Lall playing the harmonium in Delhi, India, and Joshua Amjad playing the Kartaal in Karachi, Pakistan.

“Peace Train” Lyrics by Yusuf / Cat Stevens

Now I’ve been happy lately
Thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be
Something good has begun

Oh, I’ve been smiling lately
Dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be
Someday it’s going to come

‘Cause I’m on the edge of darkness
There ride the Peace Train
Oh, Peace Train take this country
Come take me home again

Now I’ve been smiling lately,
Thinkin’ about the good things to come
And I believe it could be,
Something good has begun

Oh Peace Train sounding louder
Glide on the Peace Train
Come on now Peace Train
Yes, Peace Train holy roller

Everyone jump upon the Peace Train
Come on now, Peace Train

Get your bags together,
Go bring your good friends, too
‘Cause it’s getting nearer,
It soon will be with you

Now come and join the living,
It’s not so far from you
And it’s getting nearer,
Soon it will all be true

Oh Peace Train sounding louder
Glide on the Peace Train
Come on now Peace Train
Peace Train

Now I’ve been crying lately,
Thinkin’ about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating,
Why can’t we live in bliss

‘Cause out on the edge of darkness,
There rides a Peace Train
Oh Peace Train take this country,
Come take me home again

Oh Peace Train sounding louder
Glide on the Peace Train
Come on now, Peace Train
Yes, Peace Train holy roller

Everyone jump upon the Peace Train
Come on, come on, come on
Yes, come on, peace train
Yes, it’s the peace train

Come on now, peace train
Oh, peace train




CIA Admits Feeding Americans False Info About Ukraine | Ron Paul

By Ron Paul | ronpaulinstitute.org

Late last year, a Gallup poll showed that Americans’ trust in the mainstream media has fallen to its second-lowest level on record. Only seven percent of Americans responded that they have a “great deal” of trust in the media.

That loss of trust has been well-earned by the mainstream media, and it explains the massive growth of independent media and alternative voices on social media. The response to the rise of independent media voices has been a rush to “cancel” any voice outside the accepted mainstream narrative.

Citizens of the Soviet Union would read manipulated media like Pravda not because the regime reported facts, but because the truth was hidden between the lines of what was reported and what was not reported. That seems to be where we are in the US today.

Last week an extraordinary article appeared in, of all places, NBC News, reporting that the US intelligence community is knowingly feeding information it does not believe accurate to the US mainstream media for the American audience to consume.

In other words, the article reports that the US “deep state” admits to being actively engaged in lying to the American people in the hopes that it can manipulate public opinion

According to the NBC News article, “multiple US officials acknowledged that the US has used information as a weapon even when confidence in the accuracy of the information wasn’t high. Sometimes it has used low-confidence intelligence for deterrent effect…”

Readers will recall the shocking headlines that Russia was prepared to use chemical weapons in Ukraine, that China would be providing military equipment to Russia, that Russian President Putin was being fed misinformation by his advisors and more.

All of these were churned out by the CIA to be repeated in the American media even though they were known to be false. It was all about, as one intelligence officer said in the article, “trying to get inside Putin’s head.”

That may have been the goal, but what the CIA actually did was get inside America’s head with false information meant to shape public perception of the conflict. They lied to propagandize us in favor of the Biden Administration’s narrative.

Those pushing the “Russiagate” hoax through the Trump years claimed that the goal of “Russian disinformation” was to undermine Americans’ trust in our government, media, and other institutions. Isn’t it ironic that the CIA itself has done more than the Russians to undermine Americans’ faith in the media by feeding false stories to establish a particular narrative among the American people?

After the Bay of Pigs disaster, President Kennedy has been quoted as wanting “to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.” That didn’t work out too well for him. As Senate Majority Chuck Schumer famously told Rachel Maddow in 2020, responding to the-President Trump’s criticism of the CIA, “let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”

As more information about the activities of the US Intelligence Community in trying to bring down Trump come out, it appears that, for once, Schumer was right.

It’s time to revisit President Kennedy’s post-Bay of Pigs wish. The CIA using lies to propagandize the American people toward war with Russia is just one of thousands of reasons to scatter a million pieces of that agency to the wind.

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Peace Within Me, Peace Surrounds Me, Peace From Me, Let There Be Peace | Ajeet Kaur [MUSIC VIDEO]

Source: Spirit Voyage

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” ~ Dalai Lama XIV

Watch this most beautiful music video with Ajeet Kaur and imagine peace in the world: Peace within me, peace surrounds me, peace from me, by thy grace let there be peace.

In this video, come with sacred chant artist Ajeet Kaur on a journey to India and chant along with her to the soundtrack of “Peace” from her album At the Temple Door featuring Todd Boston, Snatam Kaur, Sukhmani Kaur Rayat and Ram Dass Khalsa. Wash away your worries and find the peace within through this mantra to experience our connection to each other and the divine. Filmed on location in Rishikesh, India.

Lyrics

Peace within me

Peace surrounding me

Peace from me

By thy grace let there be peace

Ek Ong Kar Sat Nam Siri Wahe Guru (One creator created this creation. Truth is His Name. Great beyond description is His Infinite Wisdom)




YOU Have Been LIED To About Why the Ukraine War Began | Russell Brand

Source: Russell Brand

Russell Brand explains how a US-backed, far right–led revolution in Ukraine helped to bring us to the situation we find ourselves in today with regard to the Russian invasion. #RussiaWar #UkraineWar

References:

Calling Russia’s Attack ‘Unprovoked’ Lets US Off the Hook

What You Should Really Know About Ukraine

A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War




A Prayer for Peace – Make Me an Instrument (Prayer of St. Francis) – Mei-lan

Source: Mei Ian

Let’s unite our voices and our hearts in a prayer for peace. 🙏
Sending comfort and strength to all in need.

All my love,
~Mei-lan

Prayer of St. Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.




Solfeggio Frequencies For Healing Your Mind, Body and Spirit

Solfeggio frequencies

Solfeggio frequencies have been used in Gregorian chants for hundreds of years and the tones have been proven to heal the mind, body and soul healing. Solfeggio tones penetrate the subconscious deeply, awaken the soul’s potential, break unhealthy patterns and can repair the DNA. All of the Solfeggio frequencies correspond with a note on the musical scale system, a color and a chakra center. When listening to these tones over time, the mind, body and spirit slowly begin to recharge and heal themselves. It is quite possible to use these frequencies as a healing practice and for self-care.

The Sacred 6 Tones

UT – 396 Hz – Corresponds with the Root chakra and liberates one from guilt and fear. The color is red.

RE – 417 Hz: Corresponds with the Sacral chakra and helps undo situations and facilitates change. The color is orange.

MI – 528 Hz: Corresponds with the Solar Plexus and brings about transformation and miracles and repairs the DNA. The color is yellow.

FA – 639 Hz: Corresponds with the Heart Chakra and assists with connection/relationships. The color is green.

SOL – 741 Hz: Corresponds with the Throat chakra and solves problems and issues through communication and personal expression. The color is blue.

LA – 852 Hz: Corresponds to the Third Eye and Crown chakras and awakens intuition and returns everything to spiritual order. The color is indigo.

There are many different variations of the Solfeggio meditations that are available to listen to. Creating sacred space as you listen to these types of meditations will help you feel the benefits of these positive frequencies. Here is a sampling of these sacred and ancient tones 

Blessings and Light,

Laurie Barraco

Laurie Barraco

Laurie Barraco

Laurie Barraco is a professional intuitive counselor, medium, author, recording artist, teacher and the owner of The Mystical Moon, a healing center in Fort Myers, Florida. Laurie offers readings, courses and healing products through The Mystical Moon Online Store. You can connect with her at The Mystical Moon Facebook Page.

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