You've been lied to. You're being manipulated. Your opinion - your vote, your support - is that important.
(You've been spied on. We repeat our admonition to get secure mail for all uses. Secure mail does not include mainstream mail. It does not include Gmail, or iCloud, or any member of PRISM. Correspondence should be like a sealed letter, not a postcard.)
We know by now how to sidestep the attempts at censorship. After all, we're deep in the biggest influence operation ever. People from all over are congregating at the "free sites" and sharing their experiences in trying to get the "unwashed" to at least look at and consider another narrative. Some ask their friends and families to at least give Oliver Stone's Ukraine on Fire a look.
Ordinary people go about their daily lives. Or try to. Forgetting that, all the while, the power elites in places like Washington spend their working days (and nights) trying to come up with further tactics and strategies to get more of what they want. And those ordinary folks find it surprising that, by the time they come home from work, things have moved on that much?
You've got family. You've got things close to home to think about. You have to rely on the people at the top doing their jobs properly. But they're not at all doing that. And that's a great hassle.
The first step out of any predicament is admitting there's a predicament.
The second step is fully assessing the predicament, studying it in detail. So you know what you have to correct. For as you worked all day with your mind on other things, the bad people achieved milestones in getting you still deeper in the shit.
The third step is figuring out what you want to do about it. Assessing the possibilities. Collectively, things work better.
You need people to talk to, to share ideas with. The bad people are playing games with your mind and you are going to need to talk with others so you can figure things out.
Never trust a politician or any public figure more than you need to. Use them - don't let them use you. When one of them goes off the rails, move on. And always keep an eye open for the next Pied Piper.
Do not trust your media. In a day when the encircled Empire of Lies is threatened like General Custer, an approximation of the truth is going to be difficult to find. Keep in mind that the objective of an IIO (information and influence operation) is not merely to feed you "fake news" but to get you to behave in the way the operators want. Consider the possibility that, if they got you to sever a life-long friendship over an election result, they might have already achieved their goal.
You the people - "we the people" - are the most powerful thing going. That's why they inundate you all day long with advertisements (propaganda). That's why there's a sensory assault going on all day long - billboards along the highways, jingles on the radio, incessant annoying adverts on YouTube, etc etc etc. They need we the people. Don't give them we the people.
The people behind these campaigns are not your friends. They are not people you can trust. Your friends and families are people you can trust.
Open the doors for freedom of speech. Contribute to discussions - never argue from positions where you are not prepared to consider new "evidence". Always view evidence critically. Never let your imagination get away from you. People who are only after the truth never argue anyway - they're not in that frame of mind and they only want to arrive at the truth.
Stay together. Stay strong. Bring the battle home. Get the bad people to expose themselves. Support people and movements that want to fight corruption. Use their power and influence to crush the bad ones.
And, if you keep at it, you will win. Because you're more determined. Because evil never had a future.
Just keep an eye out for the next Pied Piper. There'll always be someone who thinks it's possible to game the system. Build institutions that fight corruption on a systemic level. Then build further institutions that keep an eye on those institutions. Never give up. There's always someone somewhere who thinks...
Finally, life is supposed to be enjoyed, life is not supposed to be drudgery. Devote some time to making sure corruption hasn't crept in somewhere when you were working. Then use the other 98% of your time to enjoying your life and helping make the human world a better place for all.
It's easy, really.
PS. Sharon Tennison pointed this out almost forty years ago: that the US and Russia have so much to offer each other and the world.
The first thing Putin did when entering office, according to Vladimir Pozner, was apply for membership in NATO. (He wasn't the first - Gromyko did it in the 1950s. Averell Harriman shat a brick, rang home to Uncle Ike in a panic.)
The second thing Putin did was apply for membership in the EU. "But you're too big!" they told him.
Putin kept his cool. His patience formally ran out in 2007 when, on 10 February, he addressed the annual Munich Security Conference and called for a more honest approach in diplomacy and an end to the "unipolar world". Robert Gates, John McCain, and Joe Lieberman sat in the front row and studiously did not listen.
They're still not listening, not earnestly at any rate, but now it doesn't matter anymore.
Mariupol
Mariupol was going to be messy. That's the stronghold of the Azov Battalion, and Azov had civilians as human shields. They also shell people trying to flee through the Russian humanitarian corridors.
The overall goal is to demilitarise and denazify. And no one on the Russian side wants innocents to suffer - the whole idea is to rescue them, not run things like the US did in Iraq. So it takes time. And patience.
But reconstruction of the city has begun, according to RT.
The Empire of Lies is over. That empire is also in a cauldron of its own. And the tactic is the same. Sit tight and just wait. They'll crumble on their own. They'll implode. Big Tech, Big Media, Big Guy - just kick back and watch. Get the popcorn and enjoy.
Soon enough you'll see how totally they pulled the wool over your eyes. But good times are ahead.
Ben Wallace
Featured in the previous piece. Poor Benny.
https://duckduckgo.com/?ia=news&iar=news&q=Ben+Wallace
Eva Bartlett
Eva's on location in Volnovakha. So good to know. This area is free, so she can finally get there and help spread truth.
Smoothie
We always benefit by an update from Andrei.
Todays topic is "US Dollar and Kinzhal".
"On this day, 23 years ago, Hegemon together with its vassals attacked Yugoslavia /Serbia and Montenegro/ with of course false pretense, drunk of its power and might to go around the world slamming on the head anyone and everyone", writes a commenter.
Allan Holdsworth
This is Andrei's fav guitarist. Give it a listen.
https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/Allan_Holdsworth
Andrei adds that a war crimes tribunal is being set up in Crimea.
"You see the world changing at incredible speed."
"The world is now fully multipolar with Russia as one of the major poles."
Tulsi
"I am being shadow banned."
https://rumble.com/vye21s-i-am-being-shadow-banned.html
Of course she is. Thank you, Tulsi, you peach.
Vovan & Lexus
A protected copy of the Ben Wallace prank.
https://rumble.com/vyc3hz-prank-call-with-uk-defense-secretary-on-ukraine.-see-description.html
A new one coming soon with Priti Patel. Check the lovely flag arrangement in the background. Their IO steams ahead at full speed.
Serbia Supporting Russia
Not surprisingly.
(Note the message at the very bottom.)
Gonzalo
Gonzalo talks about everything. But Kharkov is under attack now, and Gonzalo said he'd check in every 12 hours.
Patrick Lancaster
Patrick is on location. He just evacuated his family. He’s reported from the sites of Nazi terror attacks and also spoken with many of the refugees. Click on the images to get to his channel.
Pepe
Pepe Escobar's been suspended by Twitter, something he thought would occur weeks ago. He'll be allowed back until he's 100% banned.
But here's the morning cuppa from Pepe. This makes for a great history lesson, likely beyond comprehension by most pointy heads. But it’s all there.
Make Nazism Great Again
http://thesaker.is/make-nazism-great-again/
All eyes are on Mariupol. As of Wednesday night, over 70% of residential areas were under control of Donetsk and Russian forces, while Russian Marines, Donetsk’s 107th batallion and Chechen Spetsnaz, led by the charismatic Adam Delimkhanov, had entered the Azov-Stal plant – the HQ of the neo-Nazi Azov batallion.
Azov was sent a last ultimatum: surrender until midnight – or else, as in a take no prisoners highway to hell.
That implies a major game-changer in the Ukrainian battlefield; Mariupol is finally about to be thoroughly denazified – as the Azov contingent long entrenched in the city and using civilians as human shields were their most hardened fighting force.
Meanwhile, echoes from the Empire of Lies all but gave the whole game away. There’s no intention whatsoever in Washington to facilitate a peace plan in Ukraine – and that explains Comedian Zelensky’s non-stop stalling tactics. The supreme target is regime change in Russia, and for that Totalen Krieg against Russia and all things Russian is warranted. Ukraine is just a pawn in the game – or worse, mere cannon fodder.
This also means that the 14,000 deaths in Donbass for the past 8 years should be directly attributed to the Exceptionalists. As for Ukrainian neo-Nazis of all stripes, they are as expendable as “moderate rebels” in Syria, be they al-Qaeda or Daesh-linked. Those that may eventually survive can always join the budding CIA-sponsored Neo-Nazi Inc. – the tawdry remix of the 1980s Jihad Inc. in Afghanistan. They will be properly “Kalibrated”.
The United States government openly cheerleading neo-Nazis in Ukraine is hardly a novelty, considering how it supported Hitler alongside England in 1933 for balance of power reasons.
In 1933, Roosevelt lent Hitler one billion gold dollars while England lent him two billion gold dollars. That should be multiplied 200 times to arrive at today’s fiat dollars.
Then this head-scratcher.
In 1941 Roosevelt wrote to Hitler that if he invaded Russia the US would side with Russia, and wrote Stalin that if Stalin invaded Germany the US would back Germany. Talk about a graphic illustration of Mackinderesque balance of power.
The US Deep State's embrace of the vilest elements of humanity: they have no code anymore. No respect.
It's over.