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Greenwash: None Dare Call it Democracy

Pre-2020, the Gulf Islands between Victoria and Vancouver, BC took pride in holding one of the only Green Party ridings in Canada. Residents here shared a majority voice in advocating for wildlife and the environment.

What a difference a year makes.

Already suspect for the ties between “Green” policy and globalist control agendas under cover of a “climate emergency,” the Green Party has shown a shocking lack of leadership in health policy by backing the Big Pharma agenda under cover of a bogus pandemic.

Recently I sent a letter to my Green MP Elizabeth May with the subject “Please do everything you can to make sure the COVID-19 vaccine is purely voluntary” (never mind that it’s not even a vaccine but a genetic experiment). I had signed my name to a letter template citing the various risks and infringements posed by this historic, potentially genocidal scam.

I received a worse-than-form-letter reply from Elizabeth May’s office with the opening lines: “Thank you for writing to call for access to vaccines in developing nations. I agree that the pandemic will keep hurting us at home until we end it everywhere.” The letter ends with the equally inappropriate closing: “Thank you again for your advocacy. I would be happy to raise the issue of vaccine allocation with my caucus. It is an honour to serve as your Member of Parliament.”

Gaia only knows what leverage the globalists have over the hearts of our erstwhile green and democratic representatives in government. In the meantime we can nurse with nostalgia the promise the Greens once held for a sane, healthy, and natural world.

The Mind Virus that Ate the World

Columbus: “With fifty men we could enslave them all and cause them to do anything we desire.”

Remember what it was like to live by hunting and gathering and subsistence farming? Probably not.

The fingerprints of wetiko [AKA the mind virus]-like  beliefs can be traced at least as far back as the Neolithic revolution, when humans in the Fertile Crescent first learned to dominate their environment by what author Daniel Quinn calls “totalitarian agriculture” — i.e., settled agricultural practices that produce more food than is strictly needed for the population, and that see the destruction of any living entity that gets in the way of that (over-)production — be it other humans, ‘pests’ or the natural environment — as not only legitimate but moral. —Seeing Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition, by Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk (2016)

Unless we have gone to the far North or the Amazon, we have likely never encountered any society but our own global parasite known as neoliberal capitalism—the mind virus’s own self-perpetuating creation. Its single mission, it seems, is to conquer the natural world, demonstrating such with

its insatiable hunger for finite resources; its disregard for the pain of groups and cultures it consumes; its belief in consumption as savior; its overriding obsession with its own material growth; and its viral spread across the surface of the planet. It is wholly accurate to describe neoliberal capitalism as the primary cannibalizing force of life on this planet. It is not the only truth — capitalism has also facilitated an explosion of human life and ingenuity — but when taken as a whole, capitalism is certainly eating through the life-force of this planet in service of its own growth.

A commenter (Ray Songtree) on the above article warns of the future prospects of this dark force, which seems prophetic now five years later:

People infected with Wetiko call progress “Singularity.” They want one mind, one economy, one government, one purpose. The goal is one global slave state controlled, not by humans with hearts, but by artificial intelligence… default software connected to electric fences and armed drones. AI can never be self conscious, but it can be programmed to self replicate and defend itself.… What matters is whether you support local farmers or the bio-tech plague. Organic or Wetiko? What matters will be how you vote with your wallet and how soon you leave the city. Waking up will mean unplugging.

“I’d Love to Change the World”

We’ve got to get ourselves / Back to the garden. —Joni Mitchell, “Woodstock”

The lead single from the 1971 album by Ten Years After, A Space in Time, sums up the spirit of the age, among my generation. What became of this revolutionary impulse, which charged every aspect of cultural life? Did we change the world for the better? Did we diverge into individual paths of success as we each came to define it? Or did we simply give up?

What became of the nonviolent protest movement, active in every city and campus? Where do we stand today, fifty years after, with prospects for positive social change and a sustainable future?

Where once broad-based coalitions could move millions to take to the streets, now we are sedated and seduced by digital distraction; divided and subdued by fear and fake news; canceled by mandates, cowed by peer pressure, conned into submission.

Protest has been commandeered as a tool of power from the top, orchestrated to occupy the public space and weaponize demographics such as race or religion to divide and conquer. Whether in the USA or abroad, “nonviolent regime change” may be the favored contemporary brand, for PR effect; but the bottom line remains, “regime change.”

The US goal in the Arab Spring revolutions was to replace unpopular despotic dictators while taking care to maintain the autocratic US-friendly infrastructure that had brought them to power. All initially followed the nonviolent precepts [Gene] Sharp outlines in his 1994 book From Dictatorship to Democracy. (Gayle Kimball, “U.S. Government Influence on Global Uprisings”)

Following Sharp’s role in the ‘color’ revolutions in Eastern Europe and the attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002… in Libya, Syria and Yemen, the US and their allies were clearly prepared to introduce paid mercenaries when their Sharpian ‘revolutions’ failed to produce regime change” (Kimball).

Sharp the scholar, both prophetic and pragmatic, turned lackey of empire. With his “neoliberal nonviolence… he rationalized the weapons of the weak to advance the interests of the strong” (Marcie Smith). Bolivia serves as a more recent example of the color revolution model still in play. Not to mention establishment sponsorship of Antifa and Black Lives Matter, pushing the envelope of nonviolence so as to invite a violent response from their targets… and either way, to get the troublesome, unpredictable, and mostly uncooperative “president” out of the picture.

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Flashback to 1980, Gene Sharp was one of my guiding lights, in the theory and practice of nonviolent action for social change. His earlier masterwork, The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973) combed the annals of real history and compiled hundreds of successful tactics of nonviolent resistance and advocacy, and put forward strategic principles by which such movements succeed. He was a natural mentor to the disarmament and later environmental movement. Fast forward back to the future where we are now, and nonviolent struggle has been rebranded and repackaged as manufactured rebellion; staged and weaponized as a narrative device; and delivered as a species of fake news.

This manipulation of popular struggle, and of mass perception, takes place today in a context where “the news” has become just another program (and form of mental programming) competing for viewership. Control and consolidation of media networks and narratives mean power to define not only what is “newsworthy,” but what is truth itself.

Telling the mass media to “just do their jobs” and report the news is like bursting into a shoe factory yelling “Just do your jobs and start manufacturing dentures!” Their job is not to report the news, their job is to manipulate public perception for the benefit of the media-owning class.
—Caitlin Johnstone, “The Mass Media Will Never Regain the Public’s Trust”

While color revolutions are staged under global spotlights, genuine protests for anti-imperial causes are excluded from view: banned or disbanded, censored or spun, and if all else fails, ignored. True grassroots movements for freedom and accountability are kept in the wings of the stage, outside the circus tent of trick animals and human chimeras.

The other side of the Revolution—for the country dog instead of the town dog—was a more doable proposition: to tend one’s own garden. Woodstock symbolized a great paradigm shift: from the “American Dream” of endless consumption, to “the simple life,” returning “back to the land.” What became of that greener dream, for a generation and for the boomers who made it their guiding vision?

Simplify, simplify, simplify. —Thoreau, Walden

Well, we Boomers got older, one way or another, to the point where “Bed Bath & Beyond” kind of covers what’s left of our simple pleasures in life. Back then the main discovery was that simple living is no simple matter; it’s hard work living off the land and just as hard creating sustainable social community.

For the seeker of simplicity of any generation, it’s worth remembering that simplicity requires its own cultivation, its pruning of activity of body and mind to what is most vital. (Think “essential services,” but in a personal, fully informed consent kind of way).

A more natural life doesn’t necessarily mean we should all grub for insects and drink bark tea, after shooting all the deer and rabbits. It doesn’t mean working dawn to dusk behind a combine or tractor, shoveling shit and husking beans. Or it could, up to a point; but you have to respect your own limits—individual and collective, environmental, emotional, and spiritual.

What can be more simple than simplicity itself? Starting from scratch, and working back to balance.

To that end, I can recommend…

5 Simple Daily Practices for the Path Ahead

When I went to India the first time in 2008, I wasn’t looking for a guru. But one day I was playing flute by a river when I noticed a man washing clothes. I told him I hoped I wasn’t disturbing his peaceful day. He shook his head. “Not a problem.” It turned out he was a traveling cloth merchant, and we talked a bit about Indian spiritual practice. He shared with me these first two simple exercises, which I’ve done more or less consistently ever since. They are good minimal tuneups for body and mind.

1. Stretch. Before getting out of bed in the morning, lean over to touch your toes three times.
2. Sixty/forty breathing. One of the simplest forms of meditation is to focus on the breath. Easy enough, momentarily. Harder to sustain, with a restless wandering mind. Which is why this extended counting focus helps. Three rounds, and each round goes like this:

• Inhale, hold, and count to sixty (6 x 10).
• Exhale, hold, and count to forty (4 x 10).
• Take two normal breaths.

3. The Five Tibetans

For about the same dozen years I’ve been doing a daily series of exercises that are a cross between yoga poses and calisthenics. They are outlined in a slim book by Christopher Kilham, The Five Tibetans. The five poses/movements, each repeated twenty-one times, only take five minutes to complete. They provide not only a healthy stretch to all parts of the body, but also a cardo wakeup boost. I finish off with an extra 21 pushups (or 25, or whatever feels right for you). And instead of the full dizzying dervish spin of the Tibetans, I simply swing arms around while standing in place, twenty-one times, to loosen up after the pushups.

4. Twenty-minute sit

Last thing in the morning practice is the twenty-minute sit. The essence of meditation is simply “sitting quietly, doing nothing.” Of course, the mind wants to keep busy, so you can keep it quiet by the sixty/forty breathing exercise if needed. Or variations thereof. You can sip tea or even coffee if you like. You can sit in full lotus, half-lotus, a chair, a hammock, a morning bath. The key is to keep it simple, quieting body and mind, clearing and refreshing for a more open-ended future.

5. Walking in nature

Walking in nature is a good daily practice, at any time of day. Even in a city neighborhood, you can walk with awareness of the nature still around: sky (when free of chemtrails!), trees, birds, flowers, bees, grass. Better yet, find a trail through woods or by a lake or seashore. Again, focus on the breath… the simple joy of fully breathing, with live energy flowing through your whole body and being. Your space is open for untangling creative or personal dilemmas, or giving simple physical refreshment. It can be a “walking meditation” as you are able to still the mind and just be open, present… and free.

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image credits:

(feature) Shaman: Ricardo Chargingbear
Immunity: Jimbob
Hiraeth: facebook
Protest: David Molko, CTV
Sick/Healthy: Florida Civil Rights Coalition
Yoga: Nowick Gray
Tibetans: Christopher Kilham, Amazon
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See: Remembering Who We Are (part one)

Elect to govern yourself.

“Democracy” is a sacred cow in political discourse, unquestioned as a form of government that promises fairness, equality, justice for all. The US has championed that ideal above all other nations, but in its insatiable quest for power as a global empire, it shows how the word and concept have been perverted and inverted. Like “peace” and “freedom” (or the more recent co-opted idols, “diversity” and “science”) democracy is another casualty of Orwellian doublespeak. The classic example was the policy to burn Vietnamese villages in order to “save them from communism”—reminiscent of the original genocide based on the psychopathic motto, “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.”

Aside from the more blatant perversions of democracy, there is the more subtle masquerade of modern democracies purporting to represent the will of their populations. Pretending such freedom of choice happens once every four years or so, by voting for one of two, or at most a handful of hand-picked henchmen and handmaidens of the ruling elite. It’s an exercise in burying one’s head in the sand.

More insidious even than the hidden hand of corporate lobbying and deep state puppeteering, is the influence of mass media propaganda and censorship. Deprived of a free press and fully informed consent, the popular will loses its organic basis and becomes a manufactured commodity. Without free speech, there  is no democracy.

To return to its original meaning, democracy conjures notions of local and grassroots self-government by a people. More radical still, we might probe to the possibility where each person is a sovereign being, beholden to no ruler or collective authority. That possibility in turn brings us back to how we might truly evolve in harmony with each other, in self-governing cooperation.

The Perversion of Democracy: A Primer

Politically savvy individuals know that democracy has rarely existed and probably never outside small groups of humans who deliberately organize themselves to share power or grant it temporarily to one or a small number of people for a particular purpose. In most contexts, ‘democracy’ is simply a label used to deceive the unwary into believing that ordinary people have a say in how we are governed. But this has never been the case in any political framework on a larger scale. —Robert J. Burrowes

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” –Thomas Jefferson

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. —Ayn Rand

Half of the country lives in reality and the other half lives in a bubble world of fear and loathing handcrafted by the oligarch elites. One side plays by one set of rules, the other plays by no rules at all. —Andrew Torba, CEO, Gab.com

“The risk-benefit calculus is therefore clear: the experimental vaccines are needless, ineffective and dangerous. Actors authorizing, coercing or administering experimental COVID-19 vaccination are exposing populations and patients to serious, unnecessary, and unjustified medical risks.” Doctors for Covid Ethics

The experimental vaccine isn’t about health and it isn’t about politics. It’s about power. Power over your body. Power over your mind. Power over your soul. Resist. Keep the faith. We are children of God. After all: “my body, my choice,” right? —Andrew Torba, Gab

Without our obedience, the parasite class is currently nothing but a group of ineffectual, wannabe plutocrats, sat on piles of paper, created from nothing and worth nothing…. COVID 19 is nothing more than a casus belli for the Third World War. As the representatives of the State openly admit, that war is a hybrid war…. All is war and we are the enemy. The military objective is to grind us into docile and compliant slaves, serving the new normal State. —Iain Davis, “COVID World – Resist!”

The Roots of Anarchism

While the charade of supposedly democratic institutions hypnotizes the masses into sheeplike compliance, the word “anarchist” has been given a bad rap—the caricature of a bomb-throwing terrorist. I first encountered an opposite, positive vision of “Constructive Anarchism” in an off-campus college course (taught, it so happened, by the wife of legendary writer J. D. Salinger, but that’s another story). Delving into theory from over a century ago (Bakunin and Kropotkin), and contemporary discussions of land-based, cooperative living, the course helped us understand anarchism as an intentional form of self-government, with the advantage of being voluntary and consensual.

The working out of such arrangements is not written in stone, but rather depends on the historical context and the character of the people most involved. For example, the pirate colonies of the early seventeenth centuries had to grapple with the core issue of invested authority, even as they formed their own councils of decision making outside the established rule of law. The whole pirate tribe being by nature outlaws and renegades, yet there were gradations among them, breakaway factions who could not even abide the local replicas of the national governments they had fled, spurned, and plundered. (See The Devil’s Anarchy: The Sea Robberies of the Most Famous Pirate Claes G. Compaen & The Very Remarkable Travels of Jan Erasmus Reyning, Buccaneer, by Stephen Snelders.)

The rogues gallery of the high seas paints a bleak picture of human nature and of the state of the world in that era of supposed “Enlightenment.” On the underside of hotly contested oceanic imperial warfare, the pirates jammed their own survival plan forward, at the expense of the world’s seagoing powers. Then, loaded with silver coin but going hungry, they preyed on poor farmers and villagers, raiding peaceful coasts for meat and women.

Can we do better, when we choose to refuse stultifying obedience to idiot law and draconian enforcement? Let us hope our capacities have evolved enough in the three intervening centuries to create, together, humane and nonviolent alternatives to coercion.

Faced with escalating treacheries of inherited government, despite all promises to the contrary, we must admit that pirates in business suits have now taken over the ship of state. We are faced with a new existential choice and task and indeed sacred mission: to become meta-pirates.

To live and breathe and share and broadcast the truth, exposing first the lie that serves to justify: that we need or want the so-called security offered by the state. To launch then our houseboats of self-and convivial security, powered by positive human nature.

No flags flying.
Free again.
Humans without state.

Remember the Iron Curtain… Freedom for the taking, when enough rose up.

And what of the reality shows of the day, that others prefer to cling to: bourgeois dreams and bourgeois nightmares, as seen on TV?

Subvert them, don’t play along. Create alternatives.

What doesn’t change in a total reset is the pole star of loving kindness: “Good Wins” because we inhabit a universe whose physics seeks connection over compartmentalization. That this process of uprooting evil is “Biblical” is not just a metaphor: it traces its roots back through our “family feuds” as a species, all the way to our origins…. The best is yet to come, but to arrive there we may yet have to traverse the worst too. Be accountable for yourself; let others choose their own path. Self-care, self-compassion, and self-worth are the watchwords.
Believe in yourself. Reclaim your sovereignty. Demand your liberty.
—Martin Geddes, The Total Reset of Everything

The Rise of Populism

Anarcho-tyranny has taken over on behalf of the Globalist American Empire.…
If the American Populism movement is to be successful we need to operate a spiritually centralized, but materially decentralized movement. For peaceful secession to happen, which I believe is inevitable, we can’t have a centralized figurehead or group for the Globalist American Empire to isolate, target, and destroy. This must be a materially decentralized movement. –Andrew Torba, Gab

Anarchism in its contemporary incarnation is akin to the more widely recognized “populism.” And like its historical counterpart, populism is being widely tarred and feathered as a dangerous threat to the ruling world order by its power-mongers, plutocrats and ruling-class presstitutes. It is deemed “extremist” to advocate grassroots anything. Old-style “conservative” is now branded with the fringe label, “alt-right,” which in turn is lumped with “racist” and “Nazi.” By the anti-populist logic, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are “Russian asset” bedfellows because they espouse popular causes and rouse organic enthusiasm among large masses of actual humans. “We the people” is a phrase that will likely get you sent to a detention camp as an actual or potential “domestic terrorist.” In short, if you dare dissent, you are a threat to the establishment, the deep state, the status quo, national security, science and reason itself… target of the hollow shouts of a decaying empire, which now serves its new masters, the global technocrats.

Yet populism doesn’t cease being popular. The more the State clamps down, the more the wave of popular aspirations for self-government rolls on, building like a swell that crosses oceans and continents, bypassing censors and gatekeepers, defying lockdown orders, confronting police with common sense and moral courage.

The Threat of Transhumanism

The cutting edge of global control is no longer in the street, or even in the propagandized media—both fatally exposed for the abuse of truth and political fair play, for anyone who cares to see. The most existential threat to popular human will and freedom is taking place in the invisible realm of transhumanist technologies.

The misnamed vaccine has already turned half the world’s population into walking bioweapons, their cells reprogrammed to manufacture deadly and debilitating spike proteins. Meanwhile 5G installations on the ground and satellites in Earth orbit are ramping up to zap all of us with microwaves, with a range of harmful biological effects, plus a “smart” interface with the nanobots now implanted in our bodies and brains. This emergency on a mass scale supersedes the other radical changes being implemented from the top down, but dovetails with them in “The Great Reset.” Any who survive the genetic holocaust will be pre-groomed to take part as denatured citizens of the new fake democracy.

Programmed from inside and out, we are granted no choice but to vote our assent to the replacement of human social institutions with artificial “intelligence,” “autonomous” vehicles that make human autonomy obsolete, a cashless financial system subject to central control, and 24/7 surveillance and censorship that ensures continued lockdown of our innate human freedoms of movement, assembly, speech, and increasingly, thought itself.

Will what’s left of the human spirit be left to wither on the vine?

The question for regular people isn’t how to stop this technocratic revolution from taking place. Barring some circuit-frying electromagnetic pulse, that ship’s already sailed. The question is how to stay human in this emerging world. At what point are you just being stubborn? On the other hand, at what point have you sold your soul? —Joe Allen, “Scientists Are Mixing Human Body Parts With Robots And Monkeys. We Don’t Want To See What’s Next”

The Evolutionary Experiment

With the apparent success of the transformation underway, are we to give up all hope in the original ideals of democracy?

Are we already at the end of the evolutionary line for the self-governing individual human? As one such holdout for the old values, I cannot countenance such an end.

What we appear to be experiencing now is the junction in the collective mind that is forcing everyone to make a decision about what world to inhabit…. The Covid scamdemic and its accompanying RNA jab regime may well be a eugenicists’ wet dream, but the higher purpose may be that the laws of evolution are granting freewill exits based on who is, quite frankly, dumb enough to accept such pervasive and toxic cocktails into their bodies. —James Fitzgerald, What the Plandemic Can Do For Our Evolution

It may be that the willing sheep of the new pharma normal are voting themselves right out of the equation. Whether they will shed their weaponized spike proteins to doom all the rest of us remains to be seen.

As for that erstwhile bastion of democracy, the good old USA, it appears that the premise of a national democracy is on shaky ground. Given the fundamental difference between real democracy and its demonic doppelganger, a rending of that fabric may be in order:

My suspicion is that when all is said and done by the end of 2021 the US will essentially be split into two distinct nations: A leftist Marxist nation that continues to degrade into tyranny, and a conservative nation that people want to escape to so they can keep their liberties….

I think most conservatives learned their lesson on the futility of politics the last four years. The best possible outcome right now is that conservatives congregate, unify and organize from the local level to the state level to the point that we act as a deterrent to future tyranny….

At least we will be living among kindred spirits, and at least there will be a glimmer of hope for the world. Sometimes the greatest act of rebellion is to offer people an alternative, a place where the rules of tyrants hold no weight. Conservative states and counties are doing this today, and it is a beautiful thing.

—Brandon Smith, Red States Are Fighting Back Against The Reset – What Does This Mean For The Future?

For the rest of the world, the tensions are the same, especially under pressure from above to conform to a uniform vision, no exceptions. I cannot imagine how such a force, imposed by a billionaire elite, could hold power over all the rest for long, unless we are all literally dehumanized and depopulated in the process. Until then, may we be guided by the wisdom of our truth-keepers, such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. or Jon Rappoport, who sum up the final, perhaps age-long battle in both its necessary dimensions.

Kennedy paints a picture of a “band of brothers and sisters” fighting for survival. This is the anarchic, ad hoc cooperation of the pirates against the empire. The struggle is the life; but with Kennedy’s leftist pedigree, it implies the Marxist ideal where one day, after the revolution has achieved success, the state itself will “wither away.”

Rappoport comes at it from the right-hand side. Against all temptations of group fulfillment, he champions the bedrock value of individual, creative, self-governing freedom:

When all obsessive group-consciousness on Earth is finished, exhausted, when it admits defeat, then a different era will emerge. But for now, we are in the middle of the collective experiment….

How long until the collective age is over? A hundred years? A thousand years?

The answer is, as long as it takes for every human to realize that the experiment has failed, and why.

The why is clear—the individual has been overlooked. He has been demeaned. He has been grabbed up and drafted into groups. His creative power has been compromised in order to fit in.

The majority of the world still believes in this approach, as if from good groups will flow the ultimate and final solutions we have all been seeking.

This is sheer mind control, because good groups morph into evil, and vice versa, in the ongoing stage play called reality.

Ideals are twisted, infiltrators subvert plans, lessons are ignored, and the whole sorry mess repeats itself again.

What constituted a triumph of good over evil at one moment is guided into yet another collective, whose aims are “a better kind of control.”

The most deluded among us believe we are always on the cusp of a final breakthrough.

But there is no “we” to make the breakthrough.

It comes to every person on his own. And it does not arrive as the thrust of an external force, but from one’s own struggle, accompanied by insights for which there is no outside agency to lend confirmation.

If indeed it will take a thousand years to bring this collective illusion to a close, that is no cause for despondent reaction.

On the contrary, it is simply an understanding that all experiments come to an end, as does the method of thought on which they are based.

One or ten or a hundred collapses of civilization, and the resultant rebuilding, are not enough.

The pattern endures.

It can only dissolve when overwhelming numbers of individuals, each in his own way, absent self-deception, sees its bankruptcy.

The “we” and the “us” are merely postponements and cover stories splashed on the front pages of the mind.

Fighting for what is right, here and now, is vital. But it does not preclude the knowledge that, as long as people are fixated on groups as the Answer, the underlying problem will persist. —Jon Rappoport

Coda

On we go, you and I.
Where can we see eye to eye?

Namaste.

This article first appeared in The New Agora.