The United Arab Emirates and Jordan airdropped 25 tonnes of food and humanitarian supplies on Sunday. Israel has further announced daily pauses in its military strikes on Gaza and the opening of humanitarian corridors to facilitate UN aid deliveries.
The UN emergency relief chief, Tom Fletcher, has characterised the next few days as “make or break” for humanitarian agencies trying to reach more than two million Gazans facing “famine-like conditions”.
A third of Gazans have gone without food for several days and 90,000 women and children now require urgent care for acute malnutrition. Local health authorities have reported 147 deaths from starvation so far, 80% of whom are children.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed – without any evidence – “there is no starvation in Gaza”. This claim has been rejected by world leaders, including Netanyahu ally US President Donald Trump.
Famine expert Alex de Waal has called the famine in Gaza without precedent:
[…] there’s no case of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.
While the UN has welcomed the partial lifting of the blockade, the current aid being allowed into Gaza will not be enough to avert a wider catastrophe, due to the severity and depth of hunger in Gaza and the health needs of the people.
According to the UN World Food Programme, which has enough food stockpiled to feed all of Gaza for three months, only one thing will work:
An agreed ceasefire is the only way to reach everyone.
Airdrops a ‘distraction and a smokescreen’
Air-dropping food supplies is considered a last resort due to the undignified and unsafe manner in which the aid is delivered.
The Global Protection Cluster, a network of non-governmental organisations and UN agencies, shared a story from a mother in Al Karama, east of Gaza City, whose home was hit by an airdropped pallet, causing the roof to collapse:
Immediately following the impact, a group of people armed with knives rushed towards the house, while the mother locked herself and her children in the remaining room to protect her family. They did not receive any assistance and are fearful for their safety.
Air-dropped pallets of food are also inefficient compared with what can be delivered by road.
One truck can carry up to 20 tonnes of supplies. Trucks can also reach Gaza quickly if they are allowed to cross at the scale required. Aid agencies have repeatedly said they have the necessary aid and personnel sitting just one hour away at the border.
Given how ineffective the air drops have been – and will continue to be – the head of the UN Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine has called them a “distraction” and a “smokescreen”.
Malnourished women and children need specialised care
De Waal has also made clear how starvation differs from other war crimes – it takes weeks of denying aid for starvation to take hold.
For the 90,000 acutely malnourished women and children who require specialised and supplementary feeding, in addition to medical care, the type of food being air-dropped into Gaza will not help them. Malnourished children require nutritional screening and access to fortified pastes and baby food.
Gaza’s decimated health system is also not able to treat severely malnourished women and children, who are at risk of “refeeding syndrome” when they are provided with nutrients again. This can trigger a fatal metabolic response.
The UN has characterised the limited reopening of aid deliveries to Gaza as a potential “lifeline”, if it’s upheld and expanded.
According to Ciaran Donnelly from the International Rescue Committee, what’s needed is “tragically simple”: Israel must fully open the Gaza borders to allow aid and humanitarian personnel to flood in.
Israel must also guarantee safe conditions for the dignified distribution of aid that reaches everyone, including women, children, the elderly and people with disabilities. The level of hunger and insecurity mean these groups are at high risk of exclusion.
The people of Gaza have the world’s attention – for now. They have endured increasingly dehumanising conditions – including the risk of being shot trying to access aid – under the cover of war for more than 21 months.
Two leading Israeli human rights organisations have just publicly called Israel’s war on Gaza “a genocide”. This builds on mounting evidence compiled by the UN and other experts that supports the same conclusion, triggering the duty under international law for all states to act to prevent genocide.
These obligations require more than words – states must exercise their full diplomatic leverage to pressure Israel to let aid in at the scale required to avert famine. States must also pressure Israel to extend its military pauses into the only durable solution – a permanent ceasefire.
AI is definitely a fiasco on so many levels… however, if Christians are offended by mocking pictures of their Christ than they should be as loud of a voice as the Muslims are. Unfortunately, it has been known long before AI that pictures of the Christ have been mockingly portrayed even by some Christians themselves. Not to mention the many variations of what “he” supposedly looked like from looking distinctly Middle Eastern to becoming blonde haired and blue eyed.
Islam is a curious religion when it comes to depictions taken of them with cameras, paintings, etc. You would be hard pressed to see a Muslim hanging a depiction of Prophet Muhammed in their homes. It is seen as idol worship and is strictly forbidden. They do not take too kindly to being photographed as they feel being photographed captures the “soul”. Nowadays, especially with what is happening in Palestine, many Muslims are being depicted in film and pictures all across the internet. However, that does not mean that their reverence for their Prophet has diminished. Using Charlie Hebdo attack as a viable reason for refraining from depicting the Prophet Muhammad is a prime example of the inherent bias of AI and not an example of its knowledge or capability to process information outside of the propagandized perception of who and what the devotion a Muslim has for his Prophet and religion. I speak with authority on this issue having studied and practiced Islam for 15 years.
I am not too sure if AI is aware of this as it seems to heavily lean toward Western ideology, mores, values and customs… but even folks who are not Muslim do not like to have their picture taken for the same reason mentioned above. Some people cry out loudly about the agency that AI takes in depicting them in animations or pictorial renditions.
I really think that AI is simply ignorant because those who program it are ignorant. There are so many different cultures and perspectives in this world and unless AI is able to incorporate them into their data base, the distortions will prevail.
This is my commentary on the opening segment ( starts @ 5:00 to 19:52)of the Kim Iversen show where she interviews a former IDF soldier by the name of Adar Weinreb. I also shared my thoughts in brief with Ms. Iversen before making this post.
Israel is a tiny country, bent on building an empire called Greater Israel, and like all other Empires, they must manipulate, compromise, exploit, rape, pillage, steal, murder & torture in order to displace its inhabitants, obtain the land and the resources that were there before they arrived. They have to have some fundamental ideologyto support the righteousness of their claims to do what most would consider crimes against humanity.
When the Europeans came to the so-called “New World”, that is exactly what they did. Had they not done that there would be no United States of America today nor a Canada, Central and South America. Being a proud American and stating that you “love” your country most definitely must mean & should mean being proud of its history. However, when I hear people critique the foreign policies of the United States, I often wonder why they seem to always fall short of pointing to the very nature of the foreign policy that the United States was built on.
The only difference between what Israeli settlers and colonizers have done is the age in which it is being done. The same tactics, techniques and war crimes were committed by the initial Europeans of the so-called “New World”. North America & Central America were called Turtle Island before it was ravished.
Kim Iversen, mentioned that humans are migratory animals. This is true. However, if migration is for the purpose of Empire building then we have a serious problem. That’s because Empire building is ideologically prefaced on the fact that those whom they come in contact with are considered animals or sub-human savages. Therefore it would stand to reason that the migrants (colonizers) consider themselves superior to the indigenous that they come in contact with, thus, there is no crime against humanity, because the indigenous are not considered human.
Unfortunately, that is the nature of Empire. That is the nature of colonization.
Many of the first settlers were prisoners, vagabonds, and folks of ill repute. They were called explorers, given high praise, monetary assistance, monuments, history books, etc. yet they considered those they met here in the so-called “New World, sub-human savages. Then they went to Africa and kidnapped millions for their slave labor. These settlers were fortified by “their” fundamental ideology that gave them license to build their Empire from “Sea to Shining Sea”. They engaged in whatever they needed to do in order to have dominion over the territories they claimed to have discovered. Even if it meant warring against other European nations.
These territories existed long before their arrival and certainly had not been lost, found or discovered. But you won’t find this perspective taught in the history books. Instead you will find the promotion, propaganda and adulation along with national anthems, that perpetuate the righteousness of their quest in the west.
We cannot honestly point fingers at Israel for doing what its forbearers have done without acknowledging what happened in the so-called ‘New World”. Otherwise, we are being hypocritical. The avoidance of these facts around how the “New World” was colonized by foreigners claiming Manifest Destiny upon the land they colonized, only allows the same hubris from the Israelis when they say “from the river to the sea”.
The main reason that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is so tenable and almost impossible to resolve is because of the European history of colonization all over the Western Hemisphere and Africa. They are all complicit in ignoring the big elephant in the room, that is, their own complicity in their role as colonizers. What the narcissistic and impudent behavior of the Israeli government and its supporters is showing us, is the underbelly of the brutality of the conquest of other lands performed by their own European forbearers. Even to this very day, the citizens of these European nations along with the US & Canada are reaping the economic benefits of the atrocities that were hoisted upon the peoples in the so-called “New World”. There is blood on everybody’s hands, not just Bibi Netanyahu.
The ICC & the ICJ would have to list all the war crimes that many nations have committed and not simply point at Israel as if it is one rogue state amidst many others who have been the most moral. It is a subtle and on the other hand, a blatant hypocrisy.
The Balfour Declaration, which resulted in a significant upheaval in the lives of Palestinians, was issued on November 2, 1917. The declaration turned the Zionist aim of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine into a reality when Britain publicly pledged to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” there.
This Declaration was not an anomaly fashioned out of whole cloth with no predecessor nor did it establish a precedent describing how colonies should be established. It happened 300 years after Plymouth Rock was founded by the Pilgrims in December of 1620. The disenchanted Pilgrims wanted a new land where they could settle and have religious freedom. However, they did not go to a vacant land, they made their incursion into a populated land and settled there.
The Israeli Settlers are simply a reflection of the early settlers of the Western Hemisphere who claimed it was a ‘New World” that they had the right to explore, settle upon and displace the original inhabitants. In order to do this, they too, had to see these original inhabitants as savages or sub-human. The reflection in the mirror for the entire Western World is penetrating. The cognitive dissonance that the citizens of the Western World have about their own horrendous history of death, destruction, torture, murder, famine and disease of indigenous peoples of the lands they wished to conquer, is the handmaiden of Israeli hubris.
We can barely speak of the destruction of Western civilizations, if we wish to call it that, without reflecting on how Western civilizations were established in the first place. If we ignore the backs that were stood upon and subsequently broken so that the Western world could be prosperous, plentiful and mighty then we are summarily ignoring the fundamental onus that is on them and their forefathers.
Those who self-righteously reject what the Israelis and their government are doing are committing a major disservice to their argument against Israel by ignoring their own history. That is, they must admit in the most sincere and genuine way, that they too are guilty of war crimes of the past and the present. If they do not, then their rejections are simply blowing in the winds of historical rhymes. They are telling Israel to ignore what they’ve done to establish their great nations through rape, pillage, murder, torture, displacement and devastation, and pompously demanding that Israel follow the high moral ground that they themselves do not and did not stand on. In essence, they are telling Israel, “do as we say, not as we do”.
It stand to reason, that Israel will continue to reject their baseless requisitions. It stands to reason that Israel would have no desire to adhere to anything that the ICC or ICJ would throw at them. In fact, it actually makes sense that Israel would feel embolden to ignore what these petitioners are asking them because they obviously know that heretofore these petitioners have done the exact same thing in their quest to establish their own nations’ right to self-determination. They’ve had exemplary role models for centuries in advance of just how to establish dominion over territories that were inhabited before they arrived.
Quiet as it’s kept, colonialism is a form of terrorism if the colonizers are using war fare to invade another inhabited land for the express purpose of displacing the indigenous and seizing the resources they find there.
Today we call it Zionism. In the past it was called by many other names. History shows us that the results were the same no matter the terminology that was used. Colonizers came in all stripes with varying ideologies to support their claims and rights to another’s land, property and resources. The fundamental reality is that the invaders had one intrinsic ideology, and that was to conquer the land for the purpose of Empire building. PERIOD!
From Sea To Shining Sea In 1845, newspaper editor John O’Sullivan coined the term “Manifest Destiny” to describe the ideology of continental expansionism.Though the term was new, the ideas underlying it were much older, dating back to the first colonial contact between Europeans and Native Americans. The ideology that became known as Manifest Destiny included a belief in the inherent superiority of white Americans, as well as the conviction that they were destined by God to conquer the territories of North America, from sea to shining sea.The ideology of Manifest Destiny justified extreme measures to clear the native population from the land, including forced removal and violent extermination. For proponents of Manifest Destiny, the American Indians were mere impediments to the forward march of racial and technological progress, and they advocated pursuing a policy of Indian Removal.1
Yesteryear’s wars were fought with antiquated guns, bombs, bows and arrows, the Pony Express and Paul Revere.
Today’s wars are fought with AI targeted bunker buster bombs and social media. The only difference is the times and who’s doing the colonizing; the methodology is the same. Only when atonement & reparations are made to the indigenous of Turtle Island & the Enslaved Africans can there be genuine attrition for Israeli war crimes. Otherwise those in glass houses cannot throw stones and Israel can continue to ignore them while it continues to commit war crimes from the “River to the Sea”.
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Commentary: Featuring Reporting from the Last American Vagabond
While watching Ryan Cristian’s reporting on the sexual abuse perpetrated by IDF soldiers onto Palestinian detainees, many thoughts came to mind. Ryan reported on the many horrors Palestinians endure while in the Israeli Torture Prisons that have been equated to Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp Prison in Cuba.
If the IDF are raping male prisoners, doesn’t that indicate that they have homosexual ideations? I mean, when I think about it, a man has to have an erection in order to actually penetrate someone, correct. So, if they are sexually stimulated to the point of having an erection and then to proceed to the point of raping another man, wouldn’t that be considered a homosexual act?
Then, am I to conclude that in essence, to say they can rape “non-Jews” not exclusively, female “non-Jews” aren’t they essentially saying that homosexuality is allowed when it is being performed on or with a “non-Jew”? And if so.. who is actually raping these men? Homosexual IDF soldiers?
To take this construct further, are we to assume, that there are homosexuals in the IDF? And if so, and if they are raping men, then what about the wives, girlfriends & partners of these men? Or do they have female partners? And supposedly they do, or may not, are we looking at the spreading of STD’s among those who have been raped, as well as those who are raping, and including the other partners these rapists may have?
To go down this rabbit whole a bit deeper, are we seeing the spreading of sexually transmitted disease among the Israeli population that come into contact with these rapists? Is this some kind of secret health issue that is not spoken about openly?
Because seriously, we can see how repugnant the act of raping anyone is something to draw disgust. But if these rapists actually think that their behavior is only “torturing” their victims, we can certainly surmise that they are delusional.
Israel sees alarming rise in syphilis infection rates – Health Ministry Head of Belinson Hospital’s dermatology and venereal diseases department expresses concern over growing number of cases. By DR. ITAY GAL JANUARY 22, 2024 15:38 https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-783071
So, yeah, we are not just talking about torturing some nameless, hapless, defenseless Palestinian. We are talking about the long term ramification of these acts. These long term ramifications cannot and won’t be isolated within the confines of these torture prisons, but in my view, can and will impact on the entire Israeli society, or at least, anywhere these perpetrators roam.
It’s something to think about, especially if there is conscription for Israeli citizen with a few exceptions; upon reaching the age of 18 and are required to serve for at least 2 years.
Experts advise cautious approach to summer fun as drug-resistant STDs increase globally. Israel is among the many countries experiencing a dramatic increase in Sexually Transmitted Infections.
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Despite the “one drop,” multiracial, code-switching, garnering barely 1% of the vote, dropping out of a presidential election, freeing criminals, jailing innocents, debacle of a job as denied “border czar,” sleezily creeping up the slippery ladder to success, and the eerie cackling of a goose, what I want to explore with my readers is the so-called “black vote” and what and how it does or does not impact on who gets to be President of the USA.
It’s not like pandering to the African American community is a new thing heading into the 2024 election cycle. Simply put, this type of pandering goes back decades, particularly in areas where African American residents form a majority, and reached a fever pitch during Barack Obama’s presidential campaign with certain other candidates sprinkled in especially during the 20th century. What is most interesting to me in these days and times is how presidential candidates of all stripes will select a few high profile events, places and individuals to openly rally for the black vote.
The African American community is barely 15% (some say more) of the populace of the United States. And of course if there was a united voting block of individuals who identify as other than “white” that would indeed have a strong impact on the outcome of any presidential election. But the truth is that this “so-called” melting pot has not been able to merge these groups into a substantial voting block that would make even the slightest dint in the final presidential selection. The issues that swirl around all the other than “white” demographics make them hard pressed to find common ground. In fact, that common ground is hard to determine when you take into account the entire voting populace of the USA. More often than not, the voter votes against their interests rather than for them, as they are summarily divided on what their issues actually are and how any presidential candidate can effectively address them, much less do anything about them once in Office.
African American Suffrage In the USA: A Historical Perspective
The enslaved African American in the USA was denied the right to vote during their captivity for 300 years. After the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 (which freed up to 4 million enslaved Africans) was declared, the African American “males” voted in such numbers during the Reconstruction (1865-1877), installing individuals into various political offices in such numbers that have yet to be seen since.
During Reconstruction, the Republican Party in the South represented a coalition of African American people who made up the overwhelming majority of Republican voters in the region. Their vote literally set the Post Bellum South on fire, causing their former slave owner such duress they resorted to various methods to dissuade their former slaves from voting. Many southern states in 1865 and 1866 successfully enacted a series of laws known as the “black codes,” which were designed to restrict freed Black peoples’ activity and ensure their availability as a labor force. These “Jim Crow Laws” remained firmly in place for almost a century, but were finally abolished with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
After passing the Civil Rights Act (over Andrew Johnson’s veto), Republicans in Congress effectively took control of Reconstruction. The Reconstruction Act of 1867 required southern states to ratify the 14th Amendment—which granted “equal protection” of the Constitution to former enslaved people—and enact universal male suffrage before they could rejoin the Union.
The 15th Amendment, adopted in 1870, guaranteed that a citizen’s right to vote would not be denied “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” During this period of Radical Reconstruction (1867-1877), Black men won election to southern state governments and even to the U.S. Congress.
The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations targeted local Republican leaders, white and Black, and other African Americans who challenged white authority. Though federal legislation passed during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant in 1871 took aim at the Klan and others who attempted to interfere with Black suffrage and other political rights, white supremacy gradually reasserted its hold on the South after the early 1870s as support for Reconstruction waned….. By the end of 1876, the entire South was under Democratic control once again.
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Freed African Americans Were Primarily Republican
In today’s world it is truly ironic to see the Democratic Party as the party that gets the most votes from African Americans when the Republican Party initially held and support African American suffrage in the Post Bellum South. After a period of decline, white Protestant nativist groups revived the Klan in the early 20th century, burning crosses and staging rallies, parades and marches denouncing immigrants, Catholics, Jews, African Americans and organized labor. Members of the KKK went underground with adherents to its dictates taking several positions in various institutions such as the police and public office to name a few. They were/are so secretive due to their attire which included hooded masks and overt denial of their participation that it has become a commonly held secret that you “never know” who’s a Clansman.
Needless to say, their acts of terrorism that included lynchings, burning of crosses, bombing of homes of African Americans and their white supporters created a significant deterrent for the freedmen to muster the determination to fight against their oppressive and terrorizing tactics. The power of the so-called Black Vote became less and less significant. It took the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s to move the bar a little closer to inclusion in the voting process in the USA. Today we see more and more African American civil and social organizations rallying and encouraging the African American to get out “the vote” for candidates that appear to be concerned with their interests. From Ward Leaders, to City Councilmen, to State Representatives, to Senators to finally the POTUS as seen in the election of Barack Hussein Obama.
However, it is still increasingly clear, that the representation of the African American concerns in this country still remain primarily unattended to in a significant way. The collective issues around education, economics, housing, politics, health care and social programs are still highly in need of attention. 13% of voting age African Americans are imprisoned and those with felonies are denied the right to vote either in prison or upon their release.
In the 15 years between 1865 and 1880, at least 13 states — more than a third of the country’s 38 states — enacted broad felony disenfranchisement laws. The theory was simple — convict them of crimes, strip away the right to vote, imprison them, and lease them out as convict labor and Blacks would be returned to a condition as close to slavery as possible.
What is the result of this history? Black Americans of voting age are more than four times as likely to lose their voting rights than the rest of the adult population. One of every 13 Black adults is disenfranchised. In some states like Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and, until recently, Florida, one in five Blacks have been disenfranchised. In total, 2.2 million Black citizens are banned from voting. Thirty-eight percent of the disenfranchised population in America is Black. https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/racist-roots-denying-incarcerated-people-their-right-vote
The topic of using prisoners for slave labor is something that this article will not be addressing. But I am sure that the Democratic Presumptive Candidate for 2024 Presidential Election, Ms. Harris is fully aware of how that works. Anyone interested in looking into it a bit further can read an intriguing book called “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander.
Get the African American Voter to Vote
What I do wish to continue with is how the African American vote became something for candidates in the political sphere of influence to rally for. Considering the many hurdles the African American had to overcome to get the right to vote which was enshrined in the 15th Amendment of 1870, and the terrorism that ensued following the Radical Reconstruction Era; we can see that voting rights for African Americans post Civil war had to be fought for and some even died for, in order for their voices to be heard. We often here in the African American community the rallying cry of “You should vote because our ancestors fought and died for the right to vote.”
I have to admit here, that I have my own opinion about this rallying cry however this article is not the context in which I wish to convey my opinion on it. I simply want to discuss the why, what and how the African American vote impacts on the electoral process of electing a President in the USA. I want to explore the numerical value of their vote, the power that these numbers have and if these numbers really make a difference in the overall scheme of things. I want to look at the population of the African Americans in this country, the number of them that are of voting age, and how those numbers tip the scale to the right or to the left of the voting machine paradigm as it relates to electing a president. I want to examine the motives, however perceived or contrived, as to why Presidential candidates find it important to pander to the African American voter when in essence they know full well that the African American voting block does not bring the sizable amount of revenue to substantially promote or support a Presidential candidate.
This is reflective of the forerunners to Obama, like Jessie Jackson, and post Obama, Cornell West. With all the African American eligible voters, why were they not able to seal their election that would place them into the white house. My question is then, why do the other Presidential Candidates pander for the African American vote when individuals from the African American demographic were not able to do so, solely on their vote.
Does the African American voter vote “color” instead of issues? Is the African American vote based on personality, style, smooth talking, promissory notes made by a candidate, notwithstanding their ethnicity? Is the African American voter an informed voter, or are they simply lemmings who vote for the candidate who is pushed in front of them as a viable means to get their interest and concerns attended to? Or is the African American so happy to be allied with those who proport their vote really matters when in fact they know that they are more dependent on donor dollars, more than the African American voting block can ensure? How many African Americans who are eligible to vote, actually vote in numbers that make a difference in outcomes as it relates to determining who will be the next POTUS?
The number of Black Americans eligible to vote for president has reached a record 30 million in 2020, with more than one-third living in nine of the nation’s most competitive states – Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – a higher share than the 29% of all U.S. eligible voters who live in these states. Nationwide, Black eligible voters now make up 12.5% of the U.S. electorate, up from 11.5% in 2000.https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/.
These are some of the questions I wish to explore in this article. At risk of making this too long, I will break it down into several parts as I move through the topic of “Rallying the Black Vote.”
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Despite the “one drop,” multiracial, code-switching, garnering barely 1% of the vote, dropping out of a presidential election, freeing criminals, jailing innocents, debacle of a job as denied “border czar,” sleezily creeping up the slippery ladder to success, and the eerie cackling of a goose, what I want to explore with my readers is the so-called “black vote” and what and how it does or does not impact on who gets to be President of the USA.
It’s not like pandering to the African American community is a new thing heading into the 2024 election cycle. Simply put, this type of pandering goes back decades, particularly in areas where African American residents form a majority, and reached a fever pitch during Barack Obama’s presidential campaign with certain other candidates sprinkled in especially during the 20th century. What is most interesting to me in these days and times is how presidential candidates of all stripes will select a few high profile events, places and individuals to openly rally for the black vote.
The African American community is barely 15% (some say more) of the populace of the United States. And of course if there was a united voting block of individuals who identify as other than “white” that would indeed have a strong impact on the outcome of any presidential election. But the truth is that this “so-called” melting pot has not been able to merge these groups into a substantial voting block that would make even the slightest dint in the final presidential selection. The issues that swirl around all the other than “white” demographics make them hard pressed to find common ground. In fact, that common ground is hard to determine when you take into account the entire voting populace of the USA. More often than not, the voter votes against their interests rather than for them, as they are summarily divided on what their issues actually are and how any presidential candidate can effectively address them, much less do anything about them once in Office.
African American Suffrage In the USA: A Historical Perspective
The enslaved African American in the USA was denied the right to vote during their captivity for 300 years. After the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 (which freed up to 4 million enslaved Africans) was declared, the African American “males” voted in such numbers during the Reconstruction (1865-1877), installing individuals into various political offices in such numbers that have yet to be seen since.
During Reconstruction, the Republican Party in the South represented a coalition of African American people who made up the overwhelming majority of Republican voters in the region. Their vote literally set the Post Bellum South on fire, causing their former slave owner such duress they resorted to various methods to dissuade their former slaves from voting. Many southern states in 1865 and 1866 successfully enacted a series of laws known as the “black codes,” which were designed to restrict freed Black peoples’ activity and ensure their availability as a labor force. These “Jim Crow Laws” remained firmly in place for almost a century, but were finally abolished with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
After passing the Civil Rights Act (over Andrew Johnson’s veto), Republicans in Congress effectively took control of Reconstruction. The Reconstruction Act of 1867 required southern states to ratify the 14th Amendment—which granted “equal protection” of the Constitution to former enslaved people—and enact universal male suffrage before they could rejoin the Union.
The 15th Amendment, adopted in 1870, guaranteed that a citizen’s right to vote would not be denied “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” During this period of Radical Reconstruction (1867-1877), Black men won election to southern state governments and even to the U.S. Congress.
The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations targeted local Republican leaders, white and Black, and other African Americans who challenged white authority. Though federal legislation passed during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant in 1871 took aim at the Klan and others who attempted to interfere with Black suffrage and other political rights, white supremacy gradually reasserted its hold on the South after the early 1870s as support for Reconstruction waned….. By the end of 1876, the entire South was under Democratic control once again.
Freed African Americans Were Primarily Republican
In today’s world it is truly ironic to see the Democratic Party as the party that gets the most votes from African Americans when the Republican Party initially held and support African American suffrage in the Post Bellum South. After a period of decline, white Protestant nativist groups revived the Klan in the early 20th century, burning crosses and staging rallies, parades and marches denouncing immigrants, Catholics, Jews, African Americans and organized labor. Members of the KKK went underground with adherents to its dictates taking several positions in various institutions such as the police and public office to name a few. They were/are so secretive due to their attire which included hooded masks and overt denial of their participation that it has become a commonly held secret that you “never know” who’s a Clansman.
Needless to say, their acts of terrorism that included lynchings, burning of crosses, bombing of homes of African Americans and their white supporters created a significant deterrent for the freedmen to muster the determination to fight against their oppressive and terrorizing tactics. The power of the so-called Black Vote became less and less significant. It took the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s to move the bar a little closer to inclusion in the voting process in the USA. Today we see more and more African American civil and social organizations rallying and encouraging the African American to get out “the vote” for candidates that appear to be concerned with their interests. From Ward Leaders, to City Councilmen, to State Representatives, to Senators to finally the POTUS as seen in the election of Barack Hussein Obama.
However, it is still increasingly clear, that the representation of the African American concerns in this country still remain primarily unattended to in a significant way. The collective issues around education, economics, housing, politics, health care and social programs are still highly in need of attention. 13% of voting age African Americans are imprisoned and those with felonies are denied the right to vote either in prison or upon their release.
“In the 15 years between 1865 and 1880, at least 13 states — more than a third of the country’s 38 states — enacted broad felony disenfranchisement laws. The theory was simple — convict them of crimes, strip away the right to vote, imprison them, and lease them out as convict labor and Blacks would be returned to a condition as close to slavery as possible.
What is the result of this history? Black Americans of voting age are more than four times as likely to lose their voting rights than the rest of the adult population. One of every 13 Black adults is disenfranchised. In some states like Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and, until recently, Florida, one in five Blacks have been disenfranchised. In total, 2.2 million Black citizens are banned from voting. Thirty-eight percent of the disenfranchised population in America is Black. https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/racist-roots-denying-incarcerated-people-their-right-vote“
The topic of using prisoners for slave labor is something that this article will not be addressing. But I am sure that the Democratic Presumptive Candidate for 2024 Presidential Election, Ms. Harris is fully aware of how that works. Anyone interested in looking into it a bit further can read an intriguing book called “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander.
Get the African American Voter to Vote
What I do wish to continue with is how the African American vote became something for candidates in the political sphere of influence to rally for. Considering the many hurdles the African American had to overcome to get the right to vote which was enshrined in the 15th Amendment of 1870, and the terrorism that ensued following the Radical Reconstruction Era; we can see that voting rights for African Americans post Civil war had to be fought for and some even died for, in order for their voices to be heard. We often here in the African American community the rallying cry of “You should vote because our ancestors fought and died for the right to vote.”
I have to admit here, that I have my own opinion about this rallying cry however this article is not the context in which I wish to convey my opinion on it. I simply want to discuss the why, what and how the African American vote impacts on the electoral process of electing a President in the USA. I want to explore the numerical value of their vote, the power that these numbers have and if these numbers really make a difference in the overall scheme of things. I want to look at the population of the African Americans in this country, the number of them that are of voting age, and how those numbers tip the scale to the right or to the left of the voting machine paradigm as it relates to electing a president. I want to examine the motives, however perceived or contrived, as to why Presidential candidates find it important to pander to the African American voter when in essence they know full well that the African American voting block does not bring the sizable amount of revenue to substantially promote or support a Presidential candidate.
This is reflective of the forerunners to Obama, like Jessie Jackson, and post Obama, Cornell West. With all the African American eligible voters, why were they not able to seal their election that would place them into the white house. My question is then, why do the other Presidential Candidates pander for the African American vote when individuals from the African American demographic were not able to do so, solely on their vote.
Does the African American voter vote “color” instead of issues? Is the African American vote based on personality, style, smooth talking, promissory notes made by a candidate, notwithstanding their ethnicity? Is the African American voter an informed voter, or are they simply lemmings who vote for the candidate who is pushed in front of them as a viable means to get their interest and concerns attended to? Or is the African American so happy to be allied with those who proport their vote really matters when in fact they know that they are more dependent on donor dollars, more than the African American voting block can ensure? How many African Americans who are eligible to vote, actually vote in numbers that make a difference in outcomes as it relates to determining who will be the next POTUS?
The number of Black Americans eligible to vote for president has reached a record 30 million in 2020, with more than one-third living in nine of the nation’s most competitive states – Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – a higher share than the 29% of all U.S. eligible voters who live in these states. Nationwide, Black eligible voters now make up 12.5% of the U.S. electorate, up from 11.5% in 2000.https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/.
These are some of the questions I wish to explore in this article. At risk of making this too long, I will break it down into several parts as I move through the topic of “Rallying the Black Vote.”
Currently, I am not a paid subscriber to Jon Rappoport’s Substack, so I cannot post my contradiction to his supposition that he wrote here, 👇🏾
“Of course, black activists have been saying, for a long time, that one drop of black blood means you’re black. That’s an interesting off-the-cuff Black Power fairy tale.”
The “one drop” law was hoisted upon folks who were mixed during slavery in the US, and was not codified by “black activists” but was codified by the US government. From wikipedia (don’t give me the blues about Wikipedia).
“This concept became codified into the law of some U.S. states in the early 20th century.[4] It was associated with the principle of “invisible blackness”[5] that developed after the long history of racial interaction in the South, which had included the hardening of slavery as a racial caste system and later segregation. Before the rule was outlawed by the Supreme Court in the Loving v. Virginia decision of 1967, it was used to prevent interracial marriages and in general to deny rights and equal opportunities and uphold white supremacy.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
I would like to add that there has been much debate about this “so-called” law, and that is was mostly used by the Post Bellum South to reflect that a person with “one drop” of Black blood was no longer a pure blood. This law was racist and discriminatory against anyone who may have mixed heritage, particularly the blood of an African enslaved person. These individuals were summarily denied access that their pure blood ancestors had.
It was more of an insult, than anything Black Activists would want to ascribe to or even make a fairy tale about.
While I do appreciate much of what Mr. Rappoport writes and have been a long subscriber to his work before he came to substack, I must strongly disagree with his assertion that Black Activists had anything at all to do with codifying the “one drop” law. In fact, if they were to ascribe to this so-called fairy tale, it would be to say how powerful and dominate just one drop of African blood is!
However, most African American activists see it as it was initially enshrined; racist and not only towards anyone with the blood of Africans running thru their veins, but the blood of the Indigenous of this colony called the United States of America.
There have been some scholarly writing about whether or not certain US Presidents had “one drop” of black blood. One such writer comes to mind J.A. Rogers. https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/ja-rogers/224271/
Joel Augustus Rogers (September 6, 1880 – March 26, 1966) was a Jamaican-American author, journalist, and amateur historian who focused on the history of Africa; as well as the African diaspora. After settling in the United States in 1906, he lived in Chicago and then New York City. He became interested in the history of African Americans in the United States. His research spanned the academic fields of history, sociology and anthropology. He challenged prevailing ideas about scientific racism and the social construction of race, demonstrated the connections between civilizations, and traced achievements of ethnic Africans, including some with mixed European ancestry. He was one of the earliest popularizers of African and African-American history in the 20th century.[1] His book World’s Great Men of Color was recognized by John Henrik Clarke as being his greatest achievement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Augustus_Rogers
Of course some may say that his works were pure speculation but considering the times and sentiment of the societal, political and economical environment in which he wrote, one would do well, in my opinion, to note his works with an objective lens. His writings had a major impact on the movement against racial discrimination by offering alternative views as to what and who human beings really are. With that, the question of “The 5 Negro Presidents” was definitely couched within the realm of the “one drop” law. It clearly shows that if this law is to be recognized as a major distinction in racial identity, then surely one drop would make these 5 Presidents “Negro.”
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I find it ironic that there are still ‘so-called” political scholars, pundits, historians, educators and the like, who remain virtually ignorant of the racial climate that this colony called the USA, has perpetuated by the obstruction of the entire historical contribution of the African American. Since we certainly have not had a female president of the USA, we can summarily say that Ms. Kamala Harris may be the first Black Woman President. We can also say that should she be elected, it is her choice to decide how she wishes to ethnically categorize herself. This choice is now available to all since the “one drop” rule was outlawed by the Supreme court in 1967 a full 57 years ago. Slavery in the USA began with the Transatlantic Slave Trade in 1400’s. They were transported to mainland USA in 1638 so we are looking at over 300 years where this rule prevailed. One Drop and you’re black!
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The history of enslaved Africans in America shows us how this rule had pervasive racist implications. Names like Mullato, half-breed, colored, etc. became the instrument of racist stratification and in some cases even death.
I can not honestly blame anyone going thru the USA educational system for being ignorant of the true history of this country. This system does not expose its students to a full view of what actually happened in this country as it relates to the interactions between the European and the Enslaved African. Even sighting certain Hollyweird renditions of what it was like for the African to be enslaved in the USA leaves out many poignant and penetrating observations. The fact that one month out of the year is designated to “Black History” speaks volumes about the suppression of the information about the role, impact and contributions of the African in this country. So again, I cannot blame the ignorance of those who came through and graduated with high honors from this system.
My point is simply, before you report to your thousands and potentially millions of readers, that you make sure that you have taken the time to study the works of African American writers & scholars and in fact, other writers in the African-Diaspora, before you make claims in an authoritative manner.
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I tell you one thing, if this attempted assassination of Donald Trump didn’t do anything, it certainly shows just how easily folks can be herded into opposing streams of consciousness.
It is really tiresome to see the responses, the denials, the arguments, the speculations, the debates, the cultist adulations for their team leader, the abhorrent trashing of the other team’s leader and the decline of human sensibilities.
Everyone fighting amongst themselves and not even realizing that the boot on their neck is the same f’n boot!
So much for the true, genuine awakening. It’s has been co-opted, sabotaged, dismantled, rendered asunder, deconstructed and annihilated.
The sleeping giant briefly woke up, only to roll over, crashing the snooze button.
He is now having night terrors, fighting in his sleep with the so-called imagined mortal enemy who’s wearing the disguise of his next door neighbor.
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To be honest, I really don’t care about VP Kamala Harris’ background, her politics while in office, her dismal record as head of the Border Project, her estranged relationship with her father, her so called humble beginnings, her breaking the so-called glass ceiling by becoming the First female, Indian, Asian, African, Jamaican VP, her unnerving cackling as she spoke with former President Barack Obama about ice cream and pizza. I don’t care that they are upsetting the entire Democratic electoral process by pushing her in, with no debate as to whether or not someone else from the democratic party could challenge her. I don’t even care that she spent 3.5 years pretending that an obviously impaired Biden was just fine. No. I could care less about any of that.
What I care about is the travesty of positioning her as the uncontested Democratic Nominee for the next President of the United States. I care that she will be praised obnoxiously by a host of individuals and media outlets that heretofore questioned her abilities and who all pointed out their surprise when she barely got a vote during her own campaign for POTUS yet, she was appointed as Biden’s VP. I care that the USA citizens and individuals from around the globe will be once again, gaslighted, lock-step into “not believing their own eyes” for fear of being called racist or sexist, when in fact this actual appointment is racist and sexist in all its attempts to appear not to be. I care about the picture it’s actually painting for the entire world. And to me, that picture is racist and sexist and frankly it’s an insult to our intelligence, not that those who proceeded her were not as insulting.
“WASHINGTON ― The Democratic National Committee plans to plow ahead with a virtual nomination ahead of next month’s convention as Vice President Kamala Harris gathers the support she needs from party delegates to replace President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket.
A memo shared by the committee on Monday evening said the nominating process “must have an electronic voting component.” The purpose is to ensure that the Democratic nominee is on the ballot in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. and the party is united by the time of the convention, it says.
“Working with the Convention Rules Committee, the Democratic Party is prepared to shift the nominating portion of the Convention to an electronic format to ensure that our Democratic nominees for President and Vice President are certified before state ballot access deadlines,” the memo states.
“The in-person portion of the Convention in Chicago will then showcase the Party’s Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees and their winning agenda to rally voters and defeat Donald Trump in the fall,” it adds.”
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When I was 19 years old I entered the Miss Black Philadelphia pageant (preliminaries for Miss Black Pennsylvania that lead to Miss Black America). What I saw was not talent or even beauty in the winner. What I saw was someone who was able to sway the judges from behind the scenes to make them choose her instead of the most talented and most beautiful amongst us. The rumors in our dressing room swirled as we watched her become more and more favored by the judges. We spoke in hushed tones knowing exactly what she did to get the crown. We were not only disappointed for the one we all truly believed should have gotten it, but we were disappointed in what the “winner” did to get it.
After 3 hundred years of physical slavery and 1 hundred years of supposed freedom, the African in the diaspora has had to struggle hard in all endeavors to circumvent the dark shadow of being shiftless, lazy, uneducated and criminal. We have had to be 3 times better than our so-called “white” counterparts in almost every field of endeavor. We are subjected to racial overtones of our physical features, sexual prowess and mental abilities. We all knew and know that we have to work extra hard to prove ourselves as intelligent, competent, moral and conscientious human beings. We were the last hired and the first fired. We were the “step and fetch” folks for the entertainment of the so-called “whites” who always seemed to appear as better off or even having “white privilege”. It took decades for us to be treated equally in many fields of endeavor. While we were allowed to enter the sports arena, and allowed to become super-humans on sports teams and in entertainment, we were still bought and sold as if on the slavery auction blocks. (I will save my comments on Critical Race Theory for another post).
When it comes to the fields of science, math, astronomy, physics, medicine, etc. we continue to be marginalized. There had to be a month selected to be dedicated to Black history if there was to be any history taught in schools about the accomplishments of the African American in this country, the land of the free, home of the brave. The ignorance of the African American’s contribution to math, science, physics, medicine, etc., is wide spread. Their true accomplishments are hardly heard above a whisper, and in other corners are patently ignored in most K-12 curriculums.
The praise for African Americans is grand when they are involved in sports and entertainment, which to me is just an extension of the “Slavery mystique” and has little or nothing to do with who we are as a people, or quite frankly as human beings. The fundamental contribution that African Americans in this country as it relates to accomplishments other than sports and entertainment are summarily dismissed, hidden, ignore or devalued. I could go on and on about that, but let’s suffice it to say, that the African American in this country has been hard pressed on almost every level to prove themselves to be more than just a foot shuffling buffoon.
To me, it’s an insult to the entire African American Community who has struggled so hard to rise up in the ranks, to be given a “hand-picked” subservient Presidential candidate who will be hoisted upon the world as if this person actually achieved anything in their life worthwhile. Let alone be an example to other young African Americans. What is she really an example of? The youth won’t be exposed to any of this as her record will be and is being scrubbed from the internet. They will re-write history so as to create an imaginary false icon for the youth to pour adulations upon. The history, voices and accomplishments of other well deserving “women of color” will be overshadowed by a make-shift facade. A fantasy made out of whole cloth, that re-creates reality and viciously shuns all those who would contest it.
We saw and applauded the rise of Barack Hussein Obama to the status of POTUS. We heard him speak so eloquently that we became mesmerized by his loquacious gift and intelligence. Those of us in the know, knew he was selected, but at least he was somewhat “battle-tested” and only after he got into office did he show us he was just another page of the same playbook. But now they are openly and unabashedly giving us someone who by a long shot was not even voted for. Her record of popularity pales in the face of Obama’s.
What are we doing here? Are we perpetuating the same old “black female” is more powerful than her male counterpart? Are we catapulting her into the limelight so she can overshadow the accomplishments of the black man who preceded her? Does she simply get a pass because she is black (and a mixture of a host of other ethnicities) so she can pass the quota requirements?
Or is she simply the Teacher’s Pet??
How often in school did we have a serious problem with the “Teacher’s Pet?” The one who kissed the Teacher’s posterior to get a few extra grade points, along with other favors. How often did the rest of us scoff at that person for being a lackey lap-dog just for favors, when in reality they barely did any work. In fact, by being the teacher’s pet they got out of doing certain things we all had to do. They were often excused from having to put out as much effort as we did, and they often got grades they did not deserve. That did not make us happy with the pet nor the teacher as we saw this charade take place. Ironically, as children, we could see it, but it seems that today’s adults are so blind or maybe they are so easy to be manipulated that they don’t see how manipulative this whole thing is.
It’s worse than a quota vote, she’s not being challenged, she does not have to show her expertise or capabilities to handle the job of being POTUS, all she has to do is check the boxes, Black and Female. Surely if she were hired for any other position, she would at least have to pass a “smell test”. Even those African Americans in sports and Entertainment have a larger hurdle to overcome than simply being appointed. Some might say she has done so in her role as VP but are they truly being honest or just using that as an excuse to overlook the glaring evidence that even as VP she did not fulfill that role expertly.
Frankly, I am insulted as a African American Female in this country! I feel that every one of us should be. I also feel that every woman should be insulted as well.
In actuality, the exploitation of these two identifying features are in full display. It was once said, that the American voter, who tends to be primarily male, would never vote in a woman when Hillary Clinton was running. So, we are to believe that in a few short years, not only will they vote for a female but a woman of color?
It’s a blatant slap in the face and devaluing of our role in society. Instead of choosing a strong, vibrant, competent, intelligent candidate for the office of POTUS, they chose someone who is suspiciously malleable, proven by her blatant display of complicity in covering up for her President, Joe Biden. An act that should be brutally criticized as we all criticized the “Teacher’s Pet”. Instead, it will be forgotten, we will be censored, gaslighted, threatened, etc. and accused of being racist and sexist if we question this. And the teacher’s pet will just say we are all jealous because she won the prize.
Frankly I find it appalling that someone who aspires for this high office will not be challenged but shoe-horned in, and anyone who questions this selection/appointment is a self-hating, jealous, insecure, saboteur who doesn’t want the best for our country.
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Whether you like him or hate him, just imagine the worldwide reverberation of shock and awe that would have been a global spectacle, ran over and over and over again on social media if DJT’s head had been blown off???? We are talking about the supposed “could be” and “has been” the so-called Leader of the Free World and top leader of the so-called most powerful, most greatest, most everything country!
Imagine if children had been watching that on live TV, children from around the world, but especially those children who have been brainwashed to believe that the POTUS, past and present, are utterly protected. Imagine the psychological trauma that would have caused to even the least self-aware.
While people out there are saying “next time don’t miss” I wonder if they even remotely realized what this entire world would be like had that bullet reached its target and on live TV, folks from around the world saw DJT’s brains splatter all over the place.
Yes, this may seem like a hollyweird movie, but real life is real life, and to see in real time, someone’s brains splatter all over the place is nothing to take lightly.
I am not engaged in the 2 party illusion, but no matter what, DJT is a human being, and to see a human being go out like that, has to surely be the most horrific thing to witness, no matter who they are.
I was in 7th grade when JFK was assassinated. We did not have social media back then. We listened to the radio, and those of us who had TV’s, we could only rely on what the anchors told us, later on in the day. But I do remember the hush that fell over all of us in my classroom, when it was announced that JFK had been shot. Everything and everyone STOPPED!!
Today, we get to witness it in real time. That rally was broadcast live, who knows how many cell phones, camera men and press were all there taking pictures and video. We would have seen that fatal blow over and over again, like the attempted assassination, like the twin towers, just over and over and over again.
Finally, it is my deepest impression, that that almost catastrophic event, sent a HUGE MESSAGE to every single political leader with puppet strings attached to them…… and the message is… “THAT COULD HAVE BEEN YOU! SO YOU BETTER FALL IN LINE!”
While DJT may appear as a warrior to some, I would wager that he will definitely do exactly as he is told, should he re-president himself. Showing him a movie of a President being assassinated or an attempted assassination pales in the face of the real thing.
He now knows that someone could seriously take him out should the command come down. And that is very, very worrisome for what we are about to see DJT do if he is re-elected.
Okay, for folks who said there was no blood, in a flash I saw a cloth being placed on Trump’s ear. Here, in the video that Ryan is highlighting, I see it again. Ryan’s video starts at 1:40:47 in the Republic World video at this point 👇🏾
you can see the cloth clearly has blood on it. You have to slow it down to 0.5 speed to catch it because it moves quickly. Here’s the link to the photo on my google drive. You should be able to access it, if not, just send a request and I will release it to you.
I always see these types of events where SS fall short, fail or stand down as a message to EVERYONE in government. Like with JFK, who also had an attempt assassination on his life, they tell them to tow the line or with just one word, everything can go south and you could end up dead. These type of psyops have so many prongs to it. It’s not just to scare us, but to scare THEM too because surely the most protected folks on the planet should not be hit by some dumb lone gunman. It was allowed to happen to drive home a BIG FAT MESSAGE. Do it our way, or next time we won’t miss, and that means all of you because we are hired assassins, we don’t care who we take out. Stuff like folks jumping over the white house wall with a gun, driving their car thru barricades around the white house, assassinations of PRESIDENTS, and on and on. It’s a way to keep them all in line, ALL OF THEM. They all have paymasters.
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I am reposting an article and my video commentary on this article written by Mr. Steven Watts, University of Missouri-Columbia , via the “Conversation” It’s a compelling comparison between JFK and Donald Trump. I can’t help but wonder if Mr. Watts could have even foresaw that his comparison would include an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, especially since it had also been reported that there had been an attempted assassination of JFK by Richard Paul Pavlick before he was actually assassinated at Dealey Plaza, November 22, 1963.
Even at John F. Kennedy’s centennial on May 29, 2017, the 35th president remains an enigma. We still struggle to come to a clear consensus about a leader frozen in time – a man who, in our mind’s eye, is forever young and vigorous, cool and witty.
While historians have portrayed him as everything from a nascent social justice warrior to a proto-Reaganite, his political record actually offers little insight into his legacy. A standard “Cold War liberal,” he endorsed the basic tenets of the New Deal at home and projected a stern, anti-Communist foreign policy. In fact, from an ideological standpoint, he differed little from countless other elected officials in the moderate wing of the Democratic Party or the liberal wing of the Republican Party.
Much greater understanding comes from adopting an altogether different strategy: approaching Kennedy as a cultural figure. From the beginning of his career, JFK’s appeal was always more about image than ideology, the emotions he channeled than the policies he advanced.
Generating an enthusiasm more akin to that of a popular entertainer than a candidate for national office, he was arguably America’s first “modern” president. Many subsequent presidents would follow the template he created, from Republicans Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump to Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
A cultural icon
JFK pioneered the modern notion of the president as celebrity. The scion of a wealthy family, he became a national figure as a young congressman for his good looks, high-society diversions and status as an “eligible bachelor.”
He hobnobbed with Hollywood actors such as Frank Sinatra and Tony Curtis, hung out with models and befriended singers. He became a fixture in the big national magazines – Life, Look, Time, The Saturday Evening Post – which were more interested in his personal life than his political positions.
Later, Ronald Reagan, the movie actor turned politician, and Donald Trump, the tabloid fixture and star of “The Apprentice,” would translate their celebrity impulses into electoral success. Meanwhile, the saxophone-playing Bill Clinton and the smooth, “no drama” Obama – ever at ease on the talk show circuit – teased out variations of the celebrity role on the Democratic stage.
President Bill Clinton plays ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ on his saxophone during an episode of ‘The Arsenio Hall Show’ in 1992.AP Photo/Reed Saxon
After Kennedy, it was the candidate with the most celebrity appeal who often triumphed in the presidential sweepstakes.
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A master of the media
Kennedy also forged a new path with his skillful utilization of media technology. With his movie-star good looks, understated wit and graceful demeanor, he was a perfect fit for the new medium of television.
He was applauded for his televised speeches at the 1956 Democratic convention, and he later prevailed in the famous television debates of the 1960 presidential election. His televised presidential press conferences became media works of art as he deftly answered complex questions, handled reporters with aplomb and laced his responses with wit, quoting literary figures like the Frenchwoman Madame de Staël.
John F. Kennedy gave the first live televised presidential press conference in history on Jan. 25, 1961. AP
Two decades later, Reagan proved equally adept with television, using his acting skills to convey an earnest patriotism, while the lip-biting Clinton projected the natural empathy and communication skills of a born politician. Obama’s eloquence before the cameras became legendary, while he also became an early adopter of social media to reach and organize his followers.
Finally, JFK reshaped public leadership by exuding a powerful, masculine ideal. As I explore in my book, “JFK and the Masculine Mystique: Sex and Power on the New Frontier,” he emerged in a postwar era colored by mounting concern over the degeneration of the American male. Some blamed the shifting labor market for turning men from independent, manual laborers into corpulent, desk-bound drones within sprawling bureaucracies. Others pointed to suburban abundance for transforming men into diaper-changing denizens of the easy chair and backyard barbecue. And many thought that the advancement of women in the workplace would emasculate their male coworkers.
Enter Jack Kennedy, who promised a bracing revival of American manhood as youthful and vigorous, cool and sophisticated.
In his famous “New Frontier” speech, he announced that “young men are coming to power – men who are not bound by the traditions of the past – young men who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions.”
In a Sports Illustrated article titled “The Soft American,” he advocated a national physical fitness crusade. He endorsed a tough-minded realism to shape the counterinsurgency strategies that were deployed to combat Communism, and he embraced the buccaneering style of the CIA and the Green Berets. He championed the Mercury Seven astronauts as sturdy, courageous males who ventured out to conquer the new frontier of space.
JFK’s successors adopted many of these same masculine themes. Reagan positioned himself as a manly, tough-minded alternative to a weak, vacillating Jimmy Carter. Clinton presented himself as a pragmatic, assertive, virile young man whose hardscrabble road to success contrasted with the privileged, preppy George H.W. Bush. Obama impressed voters as a vigorous, athletic young man who scrimmaged with college basketball teams – a contrast to the cranky, geriatric John McCain and a stiff, pampered Mitt Romney.
More recently, of course, Trump’s outlandish masculinity appealed to many traditionalists unsettled by a wave of gender confusion, women in combat, weeping millennial “snowflakes” and declining numbers of physically challenging manufacturing jobs in the country’s post-industrial economy. No matter how crudely, the theatrically male businessman promised a remedy.
So as we look back at John F. Kennedy a century after his birth, it seems ever clearer that he ascended the national stage as our first modern president. Removed from an American political tradition of grassroots electioneering, sober-minded experience and bourgeois morality, this youthful, charismatic leader reflected a new political atmosphere that favored celebrity appeal, media savvy and masculine vigor. He was the first American president whose place in the cultural imagination dwarfed his political positions and policies. Just as style made the man with Kennedy, it also remade the American presidency. It continues to do so today.
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It’s been a while since we put our heads together to do a deep dive into what’s been happening in our world. As users of the I Ching (Ancient Chinese Oracle), we know that straight up, the I Ching don’t lie.
We’ve experienced it in our own lives and we have credible evidence that the I Ching can also point us towards events that are happening in our outer world.
We’ve looked at several events, The Mass Shooting at the Orlando Night Club. The Corona Virus so called pandemic. The deaths of George Floyd, Erick Garner, Prince and Ma’Khia Bryant as to the significance of their life beyond the media hype.
I have independently look into the events surrounding Dr. Sebi, Prince, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Michelle Obama, and a host of other events that seemed to have caused astonishment, concern, but mostly rivaling opinions of “What Really Happened and Why?”
We have seen over and over and over again, that the I Ching tends to steer us away from our “personal” opinions into a realm that is definitely beyond the veil. With that being said (oh how I wish I could coin another phrase, but so be it) I think it’s time to do another deep dive before the world gets away with us and we end up going down a deeper and deeper and deeper, rabbit hole.
Here are some topics that we will begin to cover as I am certainly open to many more.
Donald Trump’s Attempted Assassination
President Joe Biden, Health & Body Doubles
War in Gaza
War in Ukraine
Climate Change
WEF, World Economic Forum
Future of the Fiat Dollar
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Channeled on 6-10-2011 Today, I was extremely sleepy and so I took a very long nap in the middle of the afternoon. While sleeping it seemed I was getting information about the topic “Thoughts Are Things” but when I finally woke up, I could only remember a stream or two from the dream. I decided to approach getting more details by constructing a set of questions and allowing my inner voice to fill in the blanks for me.
Thoughts are things: In the Divine Frequency of Love and Light, we extend these questions in a humble ritual of seeking further knowledge, wisdom and clarity. We are grateful for your responses in advance, we thank you. We are certain that we will receive what is needed for us to receive in this time/space reality.
Q. Imagine: Thoughts are things. What does that mean? A. Everything that is seen or unseen, heard and unheard, felt and unfelt is a manifestation of THOUGHT. Simply put, the things that you manipulate in your world, all began with a thought, a vision, an image in the ethereal world or the ethereal dimension that surrounds your world, your reality. If you approach the THINGS that you utilize each day, from the tiniest to the largest and remind yourself, that it came to some entity in the form of a thought, picture or image, that was later made to manifest in 3d creation it will help to see how THOUGHTS become THINGS.
Now if you can extend that process to the Creation of the Universe, then you will be more able to see how the Universe started off as thought and then that thought became manifest in all of Creation.
Human beings on this planet limit themselves in the sight of Infinite Creation by becoming overwhelmed by its magnitude. However, if they would simply realize their own magnificence in the Creation it would be much easier for them to fathom their relationship with Infinite Creation, that began with THOUGHT.
Q. Does it mean they are tangible things that we can see, touch, taste and smell? A. Yes, they are all of these things and much more. Why do we say much more? Because in your reality, there is much more that is unseen than is seen due the frequency of the 3 density/frequency reality. Cultivation of SIGHT in the 3rd density/frequency requires time spent seeing past the physical reality.
Q. How do you spend time seeing past the physical reality? A. In the realization that all is consciousness, you will begin to approach all that you see as a manifestation of consciousness. Consciousness is not tangible in 3rd density reality. It is like the wind, the air, space. However, in 5th density and beyond the consciousness can be manipulated by thought and moved through stages of density from the concrete to the penetrable.
Q. Does it mean they are things that we can mold and shape to do our bidding? A. It means that if you penetrate the consciousness of a thing, then you can move that thing, mold it or shape it. It will not do your bidding without being united with you in your consciousness and then asked to achieve a certain outcome. This is not to say, that this manipulation cannot be done without the assistance of that which is being manipulated, it is just to say, it is a violation of the consciousness of the other, to manipulate it without permission. Example: you may want to move all of the furniture out of your house and take it to another house. If you ask the house you are removing the furniture from, if you ask the furniture that you are removing and then ask the new location to receive this shipment of furniture, you are in alignment with the consciousness of both houses and the furniture. If you do not, then you are out of alignment and various so-called mishaps may occur along the way. I.E. things may break, be lost, flat tire (of course you must ask the vehicle to cooperate with the move as well), etc. Many of you just assume that when these things happens it is because of carelessness or some various other reasons. However, if you take the time to acknowledge the consciousness of all you interact with, you may find some amazing results happening. The act of being conscious and sharing consciousness with the instruments in your world, will heighten your ability to manipulate these instruments provided you have made contact. How often, out of utter frustration, you start to talk to the instrument invoking its cooperation???
Q. Does it mean that they are the masters or we are the Creators? A. Thoughts and things cooperate and manifest creations, or phenomenon or as some may say, miracles. Miracles happen because there is no separation between thoughts and things, neither is Master or Creator without the other.
Q. Where are these thoughts? A. Thoughts are in the same place where things are. All thoughts are things all things are thoughts. So, you can see this further if you begin to see the “things” around you as “thoughts”. Thoughts + Things = Creations. Some Creations manifest in physicality others are non-physical. Example: the inventor or Magician as it were, or Creator may have had many thoughts about many things that they wanted to bring to physicality or instrumentation but did not. 3rd density reality, would assume that those thoughts/things no longer exist because there is no physical manifestation of them. However, since thoughts/things are limitless they can be perceived by another Magician/Creator who may then be able to manifest them in 3d physicality. This is the significator of 3d physicality. Thus the saying, “There is nothing new under the sun.”
impactful throughout person’s life in 3rd density physicality.
Dreams come from the realm of 4th & 5th density. Dreams can be manipulated in these densities if the dreamer makes intention to do so. This intention puts the dreamer in alignment with 4th-5th densities allowing the dreamer the ability to manipulate the unseen in 4th-5th density. Imagine, if you will, that a child can only perceive things from a certain perspective, that being thru the eyes of a child. Once the child becomes an adult, they are able to see beyond the child’s perspective and are able to manipulate the reality around the child, making the child think that the adult is “magical” when in fact, it is just that the child was not able to see what the adult could. The same thing applies to 3rd density reality, it cannot perceive what is happening in 4th-5th density reality, therefore, it will deny its existence, ignore it, etc. until such time as a nightmare awakens the individual and changes its life forever.
Q. Do they live in the ether or just in our heads? A. They live/exist everywhere. Ether is a term you use to explain the unseen. The unseen is only unseen due to your perspective and density. Beyond 3rd density physicality, many things are seen. Some of you speak of seeing auras, ghosts, ufo’s, deceased relatives, etc. While these entities cannot be physically perceived in 3rd density, they are perceived by the higher densities and can also be manipulated from the higher density realms. If you imagine that you are surrounded by things/thoughts by the instruments in your 3rd density vision, taken a step further, you are surrounded by things/thoughts that have no beginning and no end, they are infinite.
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Q. What is that place in the brain that holds thoughts? A. The brain does not house thoughts. It interprets the frequency of thoughts and therefore may be able to create images/things that these thoughts imply. And even in this case, due to the neurological character of this type of interpretation/communication between that which the brain receives as frequency impulses, the brain simply applies or extends impulses/frequencies that are/can be interpreted as thoughts.
Example, if a 3rd density individual is in a dangerous area, it may perceive the danger through a variety of frequency indicators that will alert the 3rd density individual that it is in danger. From there the 3rd density individual may use its ability to interpret/imagine what the danger is, and conclude any number of indicators that it will use to ascertain what exactly the danger is. In fact, if the thought/thing of danger had been left behind by another entity, and since thoughts/things are everywhere, the individual entering that time/space may feel it is directly related to them, when in fact, it was left behind by another. In this vein, it is extremely important to be able to sort through the frequency indicators to determine, which thoughts/things are self-generated or imposed by an outside source. In the case of a paranoid individual, it is quite possible, that if the frequency of another’s fears were arrested from the paranoid individual, they may indeed be cured of this and find the peace within that had been usurped by another’s thought/things.
The pineal gland in the brain, is the base or interpreter of these impulses. It can coordinate these impulses into a steady stream outward or it can send this information into the physical body, causing other neurological changes in the physical body, i.e. fright/flight syndrome.
Q. Is it a certain portion/segment of the brain? If you cut it out, would folks not be able to think? A. That is an interesting question. The assumption is that the brain is needed to think. Since thoughts are things and things are thoughts this implies a level of consciousness. Therefore, even an unconscious person or lobotomized person can employ the thought/thing processes in the brain. As stated, the brain receives frequency impulses. As long as there are frequency impulses, there is thinking. The idea, that the thinker need to be able to express what it is thinking is a misnomer. If the individual has made conscious connection with thoughts/things, then it can manipulate, move and change its reality as adeptly as another. Example, a lost individual thrust from a vehicle in a severe accident may be able to find their way “home” if enough thoughts/things were projected towards it and then direct that individual home. The individual, may awaken having no idea how he/she got there, but was manipulated through frequency/impulse control, presumably by their loved ones. This is a very fundamental example, but it is key in understanding, that the brain, while appearing inoperable is still able to receive frequency/impulses and respond to them by sending the information throughout the body, causing the body to respond without conscious effort on the part of the individual.
However, if the pineal gland is removed, many other functions of the body would shut down. The brain would continue to receive frequency/impulses but would have difficulty translating the information.
Q. Can thoughts be removed and replaced with other thoughts? A. Thoughts can be manipulated. They can be muted but never removed. When muted the other thoughts of another can take hold and become the indicators of the individual thought processes. For example, thoughts of fear can be muted and replaced with thoughts of love. While the thoughts of love may prevail, the thoughts of fear have not been erased or eradicated.
Q. Can we think more than one thought at a time? A. Another interesting question. In 3rd density reality, you have been taught that only one thing can occupy space at one time. Therefore, it is believed that no two things can exist simultaneously in the same space at the same time. What is left out of this equation is the fact that there are non-physical things that can exist all around the physicality at the same time. Inside and outside of the physicality. This idea gives 3rd density reality a linear vision of itself and its world. Creating a chasm between it and others. Thoughts are things, things are thoughts.. Just in that point, we see two things occupying the same time/space at the same time. The idea that only one can persists, removes the 3rd density individual from its Creator/Creative reality causing it to sink into a more concretized view of its reality.
For 3rd density physicality, it may appear that this is the way it is. But when 3rd density ascends to 4th-5th density reality, many thoughts/things happen all at the same time. Entities from the so-called unperceived realms exists in the same reality as 3rd density physicality. They simply are not perceived. The invasion that took place on your planet many thousands of years ago created this mindset because in order for the invaders to prevail, they had to remove those who were already here. Since this has happened over thousands upon thousands of years, it is written in the 3rd density conscript that no two things can occupy the same space at the same time. That is to say, that no two 3rd density objects can occupy the same space at the same time. The concept of infusion, emergence, singularity vs plurality, light vs dark, and other instances of domination over others has removed the idea of co-existence.
Third density reality is emptied from the realization that there are many things existing at the same time/space. That is the indicator of 3rd density reality. If it is physical, it is taking up physical space, therefore it cannot co-exist with another physical entity. There is no emergence, infusion or co-existence. There is only light or dark. In reality darkness is light and light is darkness, each containing the potentiality of the other. There is no light without darkness, there is no darkness without light. In the creation of this Universe it was not until there was the separation, light from dark, dark from light, that there was distinction. Before this distinction there was only VOID. Complete, united, full and always entirely itself. Within the void, the germination began. In the germination the rest of creation appeared, all from VOID.
So, yes, more than one thought can be perceived at one time. The perceiver can chose to entertain one thought or many thoughts. Singularity creates limitations on expansion. It also stresses linear thinking. Imagine, within a single seed is the potential of many expressions, leaf, stem, root, etc. If the single seed focuses solely on becoming a root, then the rest of the plant would not become. Creation is becoming and the ability to manipulate reality through thoughts/things manifestation all at once.
This is why human beings on your planet have difficulty with the idea of limitlessness, no time. You are trained that there is a beginning and an end, therefore you see progression of Creation as a singular occurrence, or an occurrence that comes step by step, in a linear fashion, one after the other. In fact, in the Universal sense, all things are at the same time happening together. Why? Because it is all Consciousness and Consciousness has no end no beginning. It is!! Always!! Forever!!
Q. If thoughts are ubiquitous, then where are they? A. Thoughts are everywhere, all at the same time, with no constraints on their whereaboutness. Again, your planet has many limitations as a 3rd density manifestation, therefore, its inhabitants are struck with the belief that if something is there, it should be perceived and have a place of dwelling. This is only true on 3rd density planets like yours and others in the Cosmos.
Q. Can someone steal your thoughts and save them or store them for themselves? A. This is impossible, for the simple reason that thoughts are everywhere, thus they cannot be stolen. They can be accessed. An individual can say, “I thought of that first.” But they are merely expressing that they came to mention those words before another. The thought/things exist, whether they are perceived or not perceived. It is Creation, it is boundless Creation, it is everywhere, where there is anything, at all. In fact, one person can have a thought/thing perception on one side of your planet (or off planet as it were) and another, from the opposite side of the planet can perceive it, can mention it, or can manifest it.
Reflect on this. There is a frequency that is surrounding your planet at this time. It is concerned with maintaining control over the masses. It has developed mind control techniques to capture thoughts/things in its frequency belt. It spreads these “captured” thoughts around your planet/globe. It releases it to be absorbed by your populous. Two things are being missed in this experiment. 1. Thoughts cannot be captured, therefore they are actually manipulating frequency in the outer fields, with the perception that they are capturing thoughts/things. 2. This manipulation is felt universally, since thoughts are everywhere. Then it is being perceived universally as an affront to the free will of the individuals of your planet who were given Free Will. The manipulators who secretly attempt to manipulate human beings on your planet are in full view of all others who can see their tricks.
In the mundane sense it may be perceived as though someone has stolen your thoughts, saved them or stored them for themselves. But in 3rd density reality, this is the only case where an individual can mistake this type of theft or forgery. Since all is everything, and everything is all, no one thought belongs to another as opposed to it belonging to someone else. What is true is the individual’s ability to receive the frequency impulse, transmute the frequency impulse and manifest that impulse into some physicality. In this way, it could be perceived as stolen, or stored, but this is a misnomer. How can anyone steal Creation?
Q. Is thinking a passive or active action? A. Thinking is whatever you want/wish it to be. If you choose to be active participant in your thoughts, then so be it. If you choose to watch your thoughts pass by without response or analysis, then so be it.
Q. What about positive thinking? A. Positive thinking is another very unrealistic prescription that has been put upon your peoples. What is that? How does that work? Too often your people are told to only think positive thoughts and then you will manage any life crisis that comes along. This leads you to polarization and away from balance. When you are in balance, you understand that positive and negative co-exist in the same reality. You cannot live a life devoid of negativity, nor can you live a life full of positivity. They react to and on one another. Since negativity is so prominent on your planet, many are feverishly attempting to change it, create balance, by ignoring it. Negativity is as much a part of Creation as Positivity. Polarization to either side is not balance. Both must be understood and functioning in a balanced way in order to achieve optimum success on one’s spiritual journey.
Q. What about visualizations? A. Visualizations are imaginings. Imaginings are things. Things are Creations. Creations are thoughts. However, visualization without the power to manifest the visualization in one’s existence is child’s play, as perceived by those in higher dimensions. If you are visualizing, but you are not doing it as a Creator, then you have an image. An image that may well be perceived by another, and manifested in their life, as they had the skills/tools to manifest it in physicality. So, what you want along with visualization is the complete process of thoughts + things= Creation. if you are Creating, you must see yourself as a Creator. If you see yourself as a Creator – you must see yourself as Co-Creating in the Creation process of the entire Universe, that has never stopped creating itself. You must see yourself as the Creator/Magician/Phenomenal Being that you are.
Seeing yourself at a new job, on vacation, in school, passing a major test, having five children, is a subjective visualization. Here you are not utilizing your innate Creative powers, but waiting for the vision to “show up” at your door. It will not simply show up, it must be commanded to manifest. The Word must be given, this will be! As Co-Creator with all of the Universe, this Visualization will manifest in this 3rd density reality. Now you are actively participating in the manifestation of this visualization. You are Co-Creating your reality. This is done with intense focus, and concentrated thought. However, desire is needed to manifest and must be clear and sure. Desire is the motivating energy behind the manifestation of a thought. Desire is the motivating force that empowers thought through to manifestation. Desire must be directly clearly upon the thought/thing with the intent to bring it to manifestation. Thus another element is added, intention. All of this removes you from a spectator to a Do-er, Creator, Co-Creator.
Many may visualize and wonder why nothing happens. There may be several reasons for this. 1. Lack of true desire or intent 2. Self-doubt or loathing 3. Karmic obstructions 4. Fear of success 5. Fear of responsibility
Q. What about visions? A. Visions are the manifestation of unseen reality into the 3rd density reality. An individual may “pick up” a vision in passing, or may be an adept at seeing into the other worlds. They may be portends of coming situations, or they may simply be the formation of a being/situation not seen by the physical eye. They may come in dreams, day dreams or during waking activities. Some may be called de ja vu.
Q. Dreams? A. Dreams are messengers from the soul, or they are the soul’s travel through the dimensions 4-5th. Dreams also travel across timelines. They have their own laws and do not subscribe to the laws of waking reality. Dreams are thoughts/things.
Q. Intuition? Are they thoughts? A. Intuition is also thought/things. They too are manifested from the frequency impulses coming into the pineal gland and are transmuted. They may be transmuted into images, feelings, perceptions, reactions and other impulses, stimulated by the reaction of the nervous system throughout the body.
Q. Can two people think the same thought at the same time? Or is it just an interpretation of sameness? A. Since thoughts are everywhere, two people can indeed have the same thought at the same time, in any locale. It is the perception of the thought, the transmuting of the thought and the manifestation of the thought into physicality or thing(s) that determines whether it was the same thought. For example, perception, conditioning and training can effect the manifestation or expression of the thought. While in its purity it is the same, coming through the lens of each individual determines the outcome of its manifestation/expression.
Q. How can one master their thinking? A. Mastering thinking takes conscious effort on the part of the Thinker. The thinker must know that its thoughts are things, and there is no separation between them. It must know that thoughts/things have always the potential to manifest as creations therefore it must be contemplated, “Is this thought/thing something that I wish to manifest/express?” If the answer is yes, than the thinker can go through the above mentioned steps to bring it to manifestation. If the answer is “no” then the thinker can decide to “mute” the thought/thing. One must remember that a muted thought/thing does not disappear. It is only inoperable in the reality of the said thinker. It can easily be “picked up” by another being or entity.
Q. What is the purpose of being a Master of your own thoughts? A. The purpose of Mastering your own thoughts is to exercise ones Divine Will Power and Creative Co-Creative ability. Third density beings are programmed to believe that everything around them was Created by an outside force or being or entity, or God as you use this term so loosely. A Master of His/Her thoughts realizes that they are in constant commune with the All and are constantly present in the Creative Co-Creative Consciousness process.
Q. How do thoughts become things? A. Thoughts do not become things, Thoughts are things, things are thoughts. If you wish to know how thoughts become things manifested in your 3rd density reality, then that is a different question and has been answered already. But to re-iterate.. it is through concentrated thought, intention, desire that thoughts become manifested things in the 3rd density physicality, like your car, your computer, your books, your buildings, etc. Each and all began as a thought, that manifested through concentrated thought, intention, desire into things in your 3rd density Physicality.
Unfortunately, being so locked into 3rd density physicality, it is hard for you to fathom something happening out of thin air, as it were, without some physical thing making it happen. That is what has retarded your growth on this planet in the realm of Thought Forms and Things Manifestations/Creations/Phenomenon. Third density was not given the sight to see beyond the physical. It was given the potential to see. This potential is there in deep meditation. Transcendence beyond the physical constraints connects the consciousness of the meditator to the world and universe and everything in it. It gives the meditator the tool needed to get a glimpse of how the Universe was Created and offers the meditator an opportunity to Create its own Universe. Or at best, understand more deeply the Universe that it already is.
Q. What about the thoughts a person had years ago? A. Thoughts that were perceived years ago, may manifest years later as tangible 3rd density things. And sometimes this may happen without the awareness of the Thinker. In a fit of passion the Thinker may have intended that its abuser burn in hell. Later in life, they may find that the hell manifested itself in the house of the abuser burning down to the ground while the abuser was inside. Here is where the danger lies.
Your planet was a thought in the Mind of the Creator Gods who consulted with one another as to how they would want to do this. When the regressive entities wanted to have a part in this process they were told they could not be a part of it. In essence, they were not allowed to project their thoughts into the plans of the initial Creator Gods. Crestfallen, these regressive entities devised a plan that would penetrate the initial Creation of your planet, and planted seed thoughts that would germinate over time, to create much of the chaos you see today. Because the initial planners were more focused on positive outcomes of their ingenious plan, they did not have a plan of how to work with predatory entities, regressives and the like. They seeded the planet and went on to other planets in their realms of Creation, leaving Earth with what you may call, a side-bar. Over time, those thoughts that were seeded into the Realm of Earth’s Creation began to grow, and overtime, they created opportunity for other regressive entities to implant their thoughts/things frequencies in the Realm of Earth’s Creation.
Earth was not a planet during that time as you know it today. Earth was of a much higher vibration but descended to lower more concrete vibration after the many invasions it was subjected to. It was the original plan for Earth to be a Beautiful Garden of Enjoyment for Stellar travelers over millions of years. But over time, it descended because of the regressive thoughts that were seeded into it. These thoughts provided the electromagnetic consequence for mind control and manipulation and ignorance of the life on this planet. Fortunately, in a short while this veil will be lifted, but the battle for the mind is very intense, and the thoughts of old are resurfacing to re-establish its dominion.
Q. What about implantation, voluntarily? A. Thoughts can be presented as implantations, however, they are merely catalysts for the thoughts that were already there, and muted. Since thoughts/things are everywhere, there is no new thought, there is only the replication of other thoughts. It is the consciousness of the individual who can remedy this situation. They can receive these thoughts and claim them as their own, or they can mute them, knowing they are there, but have decided not to participate in them.. During these times of mind control, it is very important to explore the thoughts as to their ability to move an individual forward. If these thoughts moves a person to action that is destructive then it is not of benefit to them. Thoughts that suggest physical action are lower level thoughts as they do not invite the individual to utilize its innate power of actualization and manifestation through thought. Again, we mention how one can have a thought in a fit of passion and walk away from it, never realizing that the potential for the manifestation is very, very high. For example, humans like to claim each other in fits of passion particularly while having sexual relations… Then after some time, especially if the relationship does not work out, they wonder why they are still so inexorably attached to the other person. Thoughts are things, things are thoughts.
Q. How does one use thoughts to change their reality? A. If you realize that thoughts are things and things are thoughts, then focus on changing these thoughts and having them manifest as Co-Creation in commune with all of Creation, the reality around the individual can change. However, it must be done clearly and succinctly for best results.
Q. How does one use thoughts to master their reality? A. This question has already been answered in the above transmission.
Q. How does one use thoughts to bring things they want or need to them? A. This question has also been answered. But we must add that caution as to what one may want or need be brought to them. In too many circumstances individuals in 3rd density are seeking material wealth and gain, and not realizing that this materialism is the major stumbling block for them to attain higher levels of consciousness. But again, the Master of His/Her thoughts will utilize their power for whatever benefit that is seen by them, for whatever manifestation that may come to them. Thus being the Master, makes one responsible for the outcome and/or manifestation of their own desires.
Q. What is concentrated thought? A. Concentrated thought is manipulation of various thoughts into one modality of expression. It is like pooling resources to one’s attempt towards manifestation. If this pooling is variable, then the thought is not concentrated but carries all manner of interferences that can compromise the desired effect.
Q. Is that possible to concentrate on one thing? A. Concentrating on one thing/thought is irrational. Because thoughts are things and things are thoughts, to choose one thing is to deny other things. It is best to compile many things into one thing, then to separate many things into counter or undermining modality. What we mean by this, is that it is foolish to believe that one thing exists without any other thing. All things/thoughts exist together. The focus of thoughts/things for manifestation is the initial intent. But one must understand that the manifestation may contain things that were not consciously perceived. Therefore, the manifestation/Creation will include many possibilities, many opportunities and many outcomes.
Third density physicality, wants to concentrate on burning a bush, but forgets that the burning of a bush will incite other reactions in the area or locale, i.e., a forest fire. Adding to this is the naivete that only one thing/thought exists. If in bringing something to manifestation with the intent to bring no harm, there is the benefit of conscious Creation without detrimental incidences happening, however, even in this, the detrimental incidences are there, whether perceived or not perceived. One cannot, does not exist without the other.
Q. What are counter thoughts? A. Counter thoughts are thoughts. In the perceiver they can be for the benefit of the perceiver or not. Example, a perceiver, may perceive the thought/thing to kill another. While in the midst of this thought another thought comes in to spare the person’s life. While it is contrast to the original thought, it in and of itself saves a life, therefore, counter thoughts can be seen as alternate thoughts/things for a particular reality at a particular time/space.
Q. Should one protect their thoughts? A. Since thoughts are things and things are thoughts, and thoughts/things are everywhere so to attempt to protect them may be futile. However, one can determine which thoughts/things one wishes to engage in and from there determine their impact or manifestation.
Q. Is that possible to be assailed by the thoughts of another? A. It is possible to have the thoughts/things of another to awaken latent/muted thoughts one has entertained in one’s one mind, heart, spirit. Thoughts/things are instruments, they have no value, positive or negative. They exist. They are everywhere. It is the individual who gives credence or difference to them. If other thoughts come into the mind of an individual, who feels they are not their own, they are correct, because thoughts/things do not belong to anyone. They are in existence and that is all. If the perceiver finds certain thoughts/things uncomfortable for them, they can simply mute them and enjoy other thoughts/things. However, they must remember that muted thoughts are not dead thoughts and that at any time, they may be awaken. In finality, it is the option of the individual to act upon these thoughts/things or refrain from acting on them. They exist, they are forever, they are everywhere. They are manifestations of consciousness.
Q. Does thinking require intelligence? A. No it does not. What is intelligence? The ability to understand difficult scientific principles, or the ability to understand a person’s connection to all things?? Third density individuals, place higher value on what an individual can regurgitate than in how an individual can connect to Infinite Consciousness. In connecting or being a part of Infinite Consciousness one is thinking. Whether they are graduates from an esteem college or university or a simple person living in a secluded village. What shows more intelligence, killing for the sake of conquest and dominance over others: or killing just enough to feed a family?
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Or is it the fact that when we are children growing up, we learn about the lies our parents told us from the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, and the Easter bunny, and so forth.
Do we as children, come to realize that we cannot trust anyone, not even our own parents?
Does Mass media have anything to do with perpetrating the lie, from the simple thing of misrepresenting the weather report?
What about the outside world, the governments that control and dominates its citizens?
Is it true that we should go on the green and stop on the red, when in fact, the color red is a hot color and has an effect on our adrenaline output.
Why do they tell us that green trees and grass have a calming effect yet demand that we be aggressive and race thru the green light? And why is this happening all over the globe?
Does changing the time on the clocks twice a year give us inkling that we may be being lied to because the time we see is not really the time that it is, and then again, what is time?
Does the idea of the rich get richer and the poor get poorer in a capitalistic world make sense to those who work really, really hard and still live from check to check, while the rich seem to do much of nothing?
Does the fact that we cannot chastise our children for fear of reprisal from the government, while the government can beat, rob, kill and steal from our children.
Does the notion that our water filled with fluoride is good for us and crops sprayed with pesticides and McDonald’s is healthy have anything to do with the fact that we’ve been lied to consistently.
Is it just that “one” lie or the many lies we live with day to day, causing cognitive dissonance that the “one” lie that causes a paradigm shift is so massive it has to be seen for what it is, a blatant lie.
Do we take the risk to discover all the other lies, lined up in history books, in magazines and even historical documents.. Or do we just say, that one lie is big enough and go on believing all the other lies?
Is this systemic to certain cultures, that is, those cultures that build trust in its members from childhood can pardon, tolerate and excuse mistakes or one simple lie, as opposed to cultures who start their youth off with a lie, or trauma, like circumcision for instance.
To insist that you are free but are locked into paying taxes, adhering to laws, some not even known till they are broken, and living under a chemical cloud that you have no control over, seems to be a big lie that everyone should pay attention to.
Is it okay to enforce laws that normalize abhorrent behavior? Or better yet, excuse those with white collars who participate in these behaviors, and in the same breath say, “liberty and justice for all”
Cultures that nurture fear, trauma, disappointment abandonment, deceit, etc, straight out the womb, are actually built on a web of lies, so I think from time to time that “one” lie may have an impact, then folks just go back to living in their delusions because the “real” lie is to preposterous to even be considered.
So I guess, I sorta answered my own question.
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