https://files.libcom.org/files/Rad%20America%20V7%20I3.pdf

Underhanded History of the USA

Radical America - Volume 7 No.3

Thorkelson, Nick; O'Brien, Jim

Publisher: Horse's Mouth, Cambridge, USA

Year Published: 1973

Resource Type: Book

Attitude instead of education

Under the guise of courage against discrimination and racism, young people are being ideologically indoctrinated in our schools.

By Willy Meyer

[This article posted on is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.rubikon.news/artikel/haltung-statt-bildung.]

In the slipstream of the massive restrictions imposed on Germany's schools by the so-called Corona measures ordered by the education authorities, a trend is continuing that is about to turn the entire educational landscape upside down. Schools are increasingly providing less education; instead, they are promoting socially acceptable attitudes among the student body. Adolescents no longer learn to think for themselves, but rather to think the right thing - and that always means: what the elites and zeitgeist designers dictate.

Now my son's school can proudly call itself a "School without Racism - School with Courage. It is thus fully in line with the trend, because there are now a good 3,800 such schools with this designation throughout Germany, and thus about two million students attend such an institution.

Since 1992, the Aktion Courage e.V. association has been coordinating the "School without Racism - School with Courage" network throughout Germany with the intention of getting young people to take action against a wide range of discrimination. The network came into being as a result of the events in Hoyerswerder, Mölln and Solingen, and so "School without Racism - School with Courage" aims "at a discrimination-sensitive school culture and permanence in commitment."

Membership requires the active consent of at least 70 percent of the students, and often the student council already makes the application and takes the steps necessary for admission. At secondary schools, students at all levels must ask themselves whether they want to take a courageous and active stand against rejectionism, anti-Semitism, antiziganism, for a democratic school culture in which "every opinion counts," for flight and asylum, against homophobia and transphobia, against Islamism, classism, bullying, misanthropy, racism, with explicit reference to Article 1 of the German Constitution, as well as against right-wing extremism and sexism (1).

Ignorance does not protect against approval

As a rule, students of all ages are happy and enthusiastic to participate. However, if you ask them what they are going to do and what they are going to oppose, most of them look around perplexed, because most of them don't know what the terms mean. But they are prepared to vote yes so that their school can also become a "School without Racism - School with Courage". No one would seriously object to this.

However, one or the other may wonder at this point how the active commitment demanded by the network can look against the background of such vague hunches and fleeting half-knowledge. Still more surprised the pupils show up, if they are made attentive to it, against which such a positioning school is evenly not.

Attentive readers will already have noticed that students are supposed to become "discrimination-sensitive" against many things, but not against left-wing extremism.

This is missing from the network's long list, and one can well speculate as to why, since an important sponsor, the federal program "Democracy Live!" of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, is very much in favor of taking a critical and distanced look at both political extremes.

Social and emotional learning (SEL)

The goals and methods of the network "School without Racism - School with Courage" fit seamlessly into the goals of social and emotional learning (SEL), which is widely implemented in the curricula of the USA and elsewhere and is also propagated by UNESCO worldwide. SEL focuses in particular on skills that cannot be tested for mastery, but which have a far-reaching impact on social interaction and the development of the individual's personality, such as critical thinking, dealing with one's own feelings, conflict resolution, decision-making and teamwork.

In order to succeed, students must be trained in self-awareness and awareness of others, in decision-making, and in their social skills (2). This process is more likely to succeed the less it is imposed on students by teachers and the more it is brought to them by classmates and student bodies.

Like at my son's school, where the student council lobbied for membership in the "School without Racism - School with Courage" network. Successful.

A colorful diversity of agendas

Yet "School without Racism - School with Courage" is just one example from a colorful bouquet of similarly topical, "woke" issues. For example, there are a variety of environmental schools where students install solar panels on roofs, practice proper waste separation, and join many teachers in going to Fridays-for-future demos.

Other schools open unisex or diverse restrooms, adorn themselves with rainbow flags throughout June, and introduce the student body to the possibility of defining themselves as non-binary as early as grade 5.

Unforgettable the almost appealing letter of the Hamburg school senator to go on a Thursday morning to the demo for the Ukraine, for which the students at many schools made blue-yellow flags and clearly taking sides against the other side in class (3). And even if, as was recently the case on Bavarian radio, the overwhelming majority of the student body speaks out against gendering (4), the student bodies and the teaching staff demand precisely this skill with all due vigor.

It is obvious that with so much well-intentioned activism, some knowledge from other areas must fall by the wayside, and this is gladly accepted if in the end everyone just gets along and always knows exactly what the right thing to do is and then does it.

Separating waste, for example, and driving electric cars, living and experiencing gender fluidity as a social reality, taking action against the right with Antifa, and generally showing solidarity whenever it is particularly in demand.

What counts

"Every opinion counts" - this is a central point of every "School without Racism - School with Courage". Over the past two and a half years, those students whose opinions differed from the mainstream and who did not behave like the vast majority of their peers and their society would have been happy to invoke this. Certainly they would have been pleased to receive expressions of solidarity from fellow students or even teachers, and how urgently they wished to be treated with respect.

The spirit of the times, however, was not kind to them. "Don't play with the dirty kids, don't sing their songs," sang Franz-Josef Degenhardt in 1965. Those who swam against the zeitgeist have always had a hard time. For a brief moment, around 1970, schools in Germany opened up, became critically involved in social discourse, offered students space for free self-development and even gave them the professional and intellectual tools to do so - in the best case scenario, at least.

But that was before this time, when the good, well-intentioned, necessary approaches to change were taken over by the globally operating military-financial-digital complex into their own narrative and twisted to protect their own interests. This usurpation has come at a high price, that of the freedom and quality of life of the many who, instructed by the media or education, believe they are doing the right thing, but in doing so are feeding the wolves that eat the flock of sheep.

Young people really don't know what they're doing when they adopt all these hip attitudes that their own co-determination bodies, teachers, and the hidden intent underlying curricula teach them.

They are full of idealism - and feisty. With them, our society will change for good.

Sources and notes:

(1) https://www.schule-ohne-rassismus.org/mitmachen/courage-schule-werden/

(2) https://www.ncsl.org/research/education/social-emotional-learning.aspx

(3) https://taz.de/Schuelerprotest-gegen-Ukraine-Krieg/!5839244&searchframe=print/

(4) https://www.tichyseinblick.de/feuilleton/medien/bayrischer-rundfunk-gendern/

Willy Meyer, born in 1963, is a single father of two children and a teacher. He lives in Hamburg and has been involved locally in education and social change for two years.

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The dumbing down system

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Our daily poison

By contaminating his fellow world, man saws at the branch on which he sits.

By Felix Feistel

[This article posted on 9/30/2022 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.rubikon.news/artikel/unser-taglich-gift.]

Compared to human history as a whole, the chemical industry is not particularly old. Nevertheless, in the short time of its existence, it has covered the world with an inconceivable number of substances that have spread to all corners of the earth, harming and destroying people and nature. This flood creates a mass of diseases in humans and animals and makes the planet uninhabitable in the long term. It is impossible to eliminate all these substances ever again. Added to this are the many sources of radiation, of which the cell phone is only one. Both together result not only in themselves, but also in interaction with each other in a deadly and uncontrollable cocktail of poisons that threatens all our lives.

The death of fish in the Oder River has brought a problem back into people's awareness that had disappeared from the public focus for quite some time: the poisoning of our nature by industry. Already since July there were findings about a mysterious fish die-off in the Odra river, which could also be observed in Germany from August on. The cause of the fish kill is not yet known; the authorities merely state that it is a symptom of poisoning.

In the meantime, it has been reported that an increased amount of mercury could be measured in the Oder River, but Polish authorities deny that this is the reason for the fish deaths. Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki had said that the fish deaths were apparently caused by the discharge of a "huge amount" of chemical waste. The Polish government even offered a reward of 200,000 euros for finding the cause.

Once again, a large-scale environmental catastrophe is taking place, as has happened time and again since industrialization. After all, industry is the biggest environmental destroyer there is. Endless amounts of pollutants are released into nature in the form of wastewater, solids or exhaust gases, rarely disposed of, and even when they are, disposal is usually nothing more than helpless final dumping. In this way, toxins continue to accumulate in nature, contaminating soil, plants, animals, air and water. This is where the research findings of a group of scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) and the University of Stockholm fit in. They wanted to find out how many residues of perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl compounds PFAS are found in rainwater and surface waters as well as soils worldwide. The results are devastating.

The group examined only the four best-known substances in this group of substances and found residues that far exceeded any limit set in the U.S. or EU, even in remote areas such as the Tibetan Plateau. As a result, rainwater is considered harmful to health. Contrary to scientific expectations that the substances would be diluted in seawater to such an extent that they no longer pose a major risk, the residues found in rainwater show that they have instead entered the hydrological cycle.

They will not disappear from this cycle any time soon. This is because the substances of the PFAS class belong to the so-called perpetual chemicals, which are characterized by their high stability. They are widely used in industry, for example in the textile industry, in fire-fighting foam, impregnating agents and lubricants, and in Teflon. These substances are used wherever something needs to be made fireproof, water- or grease-repellent, or particularly slippery. The substances are also used in the ubiquitous masks and corona test kits that were forced on people as part of the corona ideology and now end up in the environment by the billions.

Yet they are of great concern to human health. They are triggers for various types of cancer and damage the liver. Many of the adverse health effects are not yet known at all, and interactions and cumulative accumulation with various other substances that humans ingest also pose an unmanageable risk. It is not without reason that the lifetime intake limits issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) range from 4 to 20 picograms (trillionths of a gram) per liter, depending on the substance. The amount of man-made chemicals produced and released into the environment is now so high that researchers warn that planetary limits may already be exceeded, making life on Earth impossible in the long term.

One of the biggest problems is also plastic, which continues to be produced in large quantities and leaks into the environment. This releases toxic substances such as hydrocarbons and plasticizers, which accumulate in nature. In addition, microplastics have already been detected in the blood and lungs of humans. A circumstance, which was rather aggravated or only brought about by the mask compulsion of the last two years.

But also the huge amounts of antibiotics, which are used in animal breeding or in health care, can be found in nature. Added to this are hormones or hormone-like substances that can be detected in drinking water, as well as the pesticides used in agriculture. These get into the food, soil and drinking water and accumulate there.

As early as the 1960s, Rachel Carson warned against the use of chemicals in agriculture in her book "Silent Spring." Pesticides are highly carcinogenic and harm the body in a variety of ways. They are so harmful that Carson compared them to radioactive radiation. The substances accumulate in people's fatty tissues, where they can often go undetected for years until they are released by stress, for example. Also, storage leads to cell and DNA damage, neurological disorders, cancer and other, diverse damage. Even then, she warned that different substances can react with each other and create quite unmanageable new toxins in the wild or in the human body.

The pesticides she described in her book are banned today, but they have been replaced by a whole new class of substances. The number of toxic chemicals that humans release into nature now numbers in the thousands, all with the potential to react with each other and combine to form new poisons. Even the chlorinated hydrocarbons to which Carson referred are very long-lived and may still be found in soil and water today.

Toxic tsunami

About 350,000 chemical substances are currently approved worldwide. And more are being added all the time. In the PFAS class alone, new so-called GenX substances are constantly being invented, mostly to replace the previous, already regulated substances and thus escape control. This is not a benefit for the environment and health, but - on the contrary - an additional major risk. By 2050, the number of chemicals is estimated to triple; since 1950, it has increased fiftyfold. Man is busily inventing ever new poisons to incorporate into his destructive industry.

The ETH Zurich study is proof that these are not just local problems. Once a toxic substance - such as PFAS - enters the hydrological cycle, it spreads across the globe via rain and air movement. A substance that is emitted in large quantities in the industrial regions of China, for example, can reach Europe, South America or Australia in this way and cause serious damage to people and nature there. But even discharging it into a river can transport toxins a long way and contaminate whole swaths of land, as can releasing exhaust gases into the air.

Transporting chemicals halfway around the world by human cargo also spreads poisons to all corners of the globe, as does the global sale of toxic products. Life on Earth is now characterized by contamination of insidious and catastrophic proportions. A tsunami of chemicals is pouring over the planet, with uncontrollable consequences that have been evident for a long time. From this point of view, it is little wonder that cancer is now the most widespread disease. In innumerable forms it occurs all over the world, and in the process is a testimony to the progressive poisoning of man.

Radiation

In addition to constant exposure to chemicals, there is also exposure to ionizing radiation, i.e. radioactive radiation, and non-ionizing radiation, i.e. electromagnetic radiation. The harmfulness of radioactive radiation is a well-known topic. Especially in today's times, when the danger of a nuclear war hangs over the world like a sword of Damocles, people are again painfully aware of this topic.

But not only a nuclear war is a source of radioactive radiation. We are also exposed to this radiation in varying degrees in the medical field, such as X-rays, therapies with radioactive agents, or in the form of residues from nuclear waste and nuclear reactor accidents such as in Chernobyl or Fukushima. The older ones will remember that the radioactive cloud that leaked from the reactor of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl reached southern Germany. Even today, people are advised against eating mushrooms from the Bavarian Forest.

In the course of the current Ukrainian war, Ukraine also repeatedly shelled the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. If the cooling system here were to be damaged, a meltdown could be triggered that would far eclipse that of Chernobyl.

Radiation in itself is a health hazard. But it also has an effect on the toxins stored in the body. Already Rachel Carson wrote in her work about studies in which it was observed that the studied pesticides changed under the influence of radioactive radiation, forming completely new substances. What can be observed in the laboratory also takes place in the human body as well as in the wild. It would be unthinkable what would happen if large amounts of radioactive material fell on a landscape contaminated by pesticides and other chemicals.

But perhaps not even a nuclear war or the super-GAU of a nuclear power plant are necessary for this. For man is in the process of enveloping the whole world in an electromagnetic mantle of radiation. This consists mainly of those frequencies that are necessary for mobile communications. In addition, there is WLAN and thus waves that can be found in almost every household. The authorities and the mobile communications industry repeatedly deny that electromagnetic fields have any harmful effects. There is indeed a heating effect when electromagnetic waves hit cells. But this effect is minimal and not harmful. In addition, there are the specified limit values that are supposed to minimize this effect.

However, the fact that this heating can be harmful is not even ruled out. After all, the brain is also heated in this way during a phone call. The limit value for this is supposed to be one degree Celsius, a temperature at which one commonly speaks of fever. In addition, there is an oxidative effect of the radiation, neuropsychiatric effects, DNA damage, and an excess of calcium in the cells. A carcinogenic effect could be proven in an Italian as well as in a US-American study. A comprehensive report by 29 scientists from ten countries summarizes thousands of studies that provide ample evidence of the many harmful effects of electromagnetic radiation. The World Health Organization (WHO) also classified electromagnetic radiation, such as mobile communications, as "possibly carcinogenic" back in 2011. This classification as "possibly" carcinogenic only took place because the mechanism by which electromagnetic radiation triggers cancer was not known at the time. That it causes cancer, on the other hand, was undisputed. An upgrade has therefore been underway for some time.

However, these studies can at most include the 4G standard in the area of mobile phone radiation. Although countless effects on the human body have been proven here - and the harmfulness of electromagnetic radiation is therefore obvious - work is now being done diligently to establish the next mobile communications standard, 5G, worldwide. This is not simply the next step in the expansion of mobile communications. It is a completely different technology that uses completely different frequencies.

Since the waves cannot cover such long distances as 4G, a forest of antennas has to be set up to transmit the signals. Up to 750,000 new transmission towers are needed to provide nationwide coverage in Germany alone. An inconceivable irradiation of the world! So far, there have been no studies on tolerability and health hazards. First long-term studies are not expected until 2037.

Numerous mysterious occurrences such as bird deaths, bee deaths, a change in plants in the vicinity of the antennas, but also changes in the blood count in the form of clumping, as is also known from the Corona "vaccines", or an increase in dementia diseases are declared to be the result of mobile phone radiation. Whether each of these phenomena in detail can actually be attributed to mobile radio is disputed. Of course, this is denied by authorities and mobile phone providers. And studies on this subject are also systematically suppressed.

But the suspicion alone should lead to extensive research on the subject before another mobile phone standard is established. More than 200 scientists and physicians have now launched an international call to immediately stop the expansion of 5G. The precautionary principle alone would require this. Informative on the subject of mobile communications is this 2019 lecture by Peter Hensinger.

If radioactive radiation can alter chemicals such as pesticides, it cannot be ruled out that the same applies to electromagnetic radiation. However, no research can be found on this. It is possible that a new risk is being created here, because countless chemicals are spread all over the world, including in rainwater.

Man is thus covering his habitat with a multitude of poisons to which he is exposed on a daily basis. He is turning the earth into a cocktail cup full of toxins that threaten the health of humans, animals and plants. So-called civilization diseases such as cancer, dementia or cardiovascular diseases may be only the visible consequences of this constant poisoning of our living space. They are certainly not the only ones. So those who are currently rightly protesting against forced deindustrialization should not fall into a false glorification of industry and prosperity. Because the current state of civilization makes people sick and weak and is capable of making human life on the planet completely impossible.

Felix Feistel, born in 1992, writes in many ways about the idiocy of this world and also against it. In a world reduced to numbers and data, which has always been alien to him, he searches for humanity and the meaning of life. He tries to use his powers and talents to create a world worth living in by opposing injustice and destruction. Despite the madness that is rampant everywhere, he is not ready to give up his belief in the goodness of man and his potential to transform the planet into a paradise. He is a member of the Rubicon Youth Editorial Board and writes for the Young Feathers column.

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The battle for the future

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17.09.2022 by Roland Rottenfußer, Jens Wernicke

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The Booster Tyranny

While most of the world has returned to normalcy, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants his citizens to get more booster shots.

From Rubicon's World Editor

[This article posted on 9/27/2022 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.rubikon.news/artikel/die-booster-tyrannei.]

You might think this news refers to Karl Lauterbach. After all, the German is considered pretty much the world's last witness to Corona's partout desire to impose a reprise of the measures terror on its population even next winter. In fact, however, it is a big country on the other side of the Atlantic that is at stake. Canada's head of government, Justin Trudeau, has apparently been thrown into a kind of power frenzy by the events of recent years. The virus is not yet finished with us, Trudeau orated. Another big wave is on the horizon for the winter. There is only one effective antidote against it: updated vaccinations. Once again, even the well-behaved vaccinated are suddenly confronted with the news that their immune protection has expired. How many injections one would have to have in the course of a lifetime - that remains unclear. Now, one could remain calm about Trudeau's behavioral problems and think to oneself, "Let him talk!" Unfortunately, however, particularly blackmailable groups of people - students, for example - could lose their career opportunities should they not submit to the vaccination requirement.

By Jeremy Harrigan

Thinking back to my childhood and all the shots I got as a kid, and then to my 20 years of service in the Army, I can recall some of the shots I got before my deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, including some booster shots I was told were necessary.

First, a quick review of the pill scene in the original 1999 film "The Matrix": Morpheus (Lawrence Fishburne) gives Neo (Keanu Reeves) the choice of taking the blue pill or the red pill. If Neo swallows the blue pill, he can wake up in his bed and believe whatever he wants about the world he lives in, and basically live his life as he sees fit, be a good citizen and a hard worker, and always give blind obedience to authority.

But if he swallows the red pill, the scales would fall from his eyes, and he would realize the truth that he was born into bondage, a slave to a system of tyranny and absolute control over people, embedded in a computer program that fakes a false reality - the Matrix. Out of curiosity, but also a leap of faith, Neo naturally takes the red pill and becomes a badass; you know the rest of the story if you've seen the movie and its sequels.

Sadly, so many people around the world want to keep taking the blue pill, or they just take it whether they even realize it or not. Sure, no government institutions or media are perfect, but they must be looking out for my welfare - they think - so I will continue to do as I am told; I am sure all will be well. Whether out of pride, arrogance or stubborn ignorance, they continue to fall for a fake and bury their heads in the sand as time marches on.

Having been educated about the greed and corruption of Big Pharma for over a decade now, especially when it comes to the push to vaccinate the world at large, this unbridled COVID amplification campaign seems to be gaining momentum. The other day I visited the coronavirus.house.gov press releases website and was struck by a statement from James E. Clyburn, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and chair of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, issued after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent coronavirus vaccines in single doses for use as boosters at least two months after the initial or booster vaccination for virtually all Americans 12 years of age and older by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). You can read the statement here. The narrative continues to be propagated, and drug companies continue to receive boisterous, effusive praise.

Summary of Key Points:

COVID-19 vaccine boosters have generated a lot of controversy. COVID-19 vaccine boosters have not yet been tested in humans, including mice. The expected harms of booster vaccinations likely outweigh any public health benefits. Prescribed booster vaccines do more harm than good.

Despite the narrative surrounding Clyburn's statement, which continues to brainwash blue-eyed America, I had to look twice and re-read the part where the FDA approves this new single-dose bivalent coronavirus vaccine for use as a booster at least two months after the initial or booster vaccination.

Are you kidding me? The booster vaccine I received two months ago is no longer valid, and now they're telling me I need another one? What the heck is going on here?

Most vaccinated people should have an easy time remembering whether they received the first vaccination or the first two vaccinations 4 to 6 weeks apart. But I suspect there are also those who wonder, "Wait a minute, how many booster shots have I gotten now, I've lost track." In Canada, health officials anticipate that Canadians will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 every 90 days. And so it goes on and on.

According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the booster protocol is in full swing. He told the CBC this week, "We don't have time for a clinical trial because we have to get the vaccine to market now," pointing out that about 400 Americans die every day from COVID-19 and thousands of people are in hospitals with the disease.

Dr. Harvey Risch, professor emeritus of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, called Fauci's remarks hypocritical because randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were required for the original vaccines when the virus' mortality rate was much higher. For the rest of Dr. Risch's response to Dr. Fauci, who joins other senior U.S. officials, including CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, see this page.

When will the world wake up and begin to recognize some very basic rational common sense arguments: If social distancing works, why do we need masks? If masks work, why do we need social distancing? If both social distancing and masks work, why do we need to be vaccinated?

If vaccines work, then why do we need the combination of social distancing and masks or, if the first two vaccines worked and were really that good, then why would anyone need booster shots even if they consider themselves a high-risk patient? And if my last booster vaccination worked enough into the pandemic that I recovered from the previous injection, why do I need another booster? And another one? And another one?

Voluntary booster shots are one thing, but when booster shots are overridden by regulations, as is currently the case on our college campuses, our young people are especially vulnerable. All young college students who consider themselves already fully vaccinated are at risk. They may feel compelled or directed to get a booster vaccination just to enroll and begin fall classes. This is a trap because there is no legal recourse for vaccinated young adults - the very people who will govern our country in generations to come. Other impacts of these regulations on our young people are also becoming clearer and will have lasting consequences.

In Canada, Justin Trudeau is threatening that the COVID tyranny will return this fall if booster vaccination compliance is not 90 percent. In other words, obey or be banned - again! Just before the end of summer, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is already threatening to reintroduce bans, mask requirements and "vaccine" requirements for Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) if enough Canadians don't volunteer for the latest booster shot. And he expects maximum compliance.

In a statement he gave to the press in what appeared to be a hospital-like room, Trudeau argued that COVID "is not done with us yet," even if the vast majority of the world is done with the virus. "We may want to be done with it, but it's still there," Trudeau explained. "And yes, we have a lot more tools, a lot more understanding, a lot more knowledge of how to protect ourselves and our loved ones. But we also know that with the onset of winter, as people are forced back into homes, there's a real risk of another serious wave of COVID." The only solution to this "potential wave," Trudeau said, "is to make sure everyone is up to date on their vaccinations, otherwise the provinces will have to make decisions about restrictions and regulations."

"The recommendation is that if you've had a dose within six months, you should be up to date on your vaccinations," Trudeau continued. "Anyone who hasn't been vaccinated in a while should keep in mind that new vaccines against Omicron are coming out this month that offer better protection, and everyone should get vaccinated."

"If we can get 80, 85, 90 percent of Canadians up to date on their vaccinations, we're going to have a much better winter and we're going to need a lot fewer restrictions and regulations that have been so problematic for everyone in recent years," he continued.

"But the government's job is to protect people and keep our health care systems from getting overburdened, and that's where it's going to help all of us if people choose to get their vaccinations up to date with these new vaccines."

You can see Trudeau saying these crazy things here:

The Freedom Convoy truckers' protest was when I started to get interested in what Justin Trudeau was saying, how he was acting, and the tyrannical decisions he was starting to make. Trudeau has been on an extreme bully trip in recent years, and he really seems to enjoy the fact that he can impose any scenario, no matter how nightmarish, without Canadians being able to do anything about it.

He invoked the Emergency Powers Act, passed by Parliament in 1988, and froze people's bank accounts, not just the truckers, but those who supported and helped the truckers. I would guess that Trudeau will meet resistance from the people if he feels that another round of pestilence is warranted. In the video above, Trudeau uses a mixture of wild hand gestures, frequent googly eyes, and spastic speech errors that show just how truly deranged this Manchurian Candidate with a dictator complex is becoming.

With the booster rollout already underway, we can expect the wheel of medical tyranny to be turned to maximum this fall and winter.

Perhaps this booster obsession will finally make the masses, who have willingly turned themselves in for the first two or three vaccinations, see the light, so that they will come to their senses and say, "Enough is enough - no boosters for me, something is wrong here."

By the way, we are no longer talking about booster shots. They are booster vaccines that you need eight weeks after your last vaccination, according to the White House statement. The FDA specifically refers to these products as "updated booster vaccines," but the corporate media likes to use the phrase recommended by noted immunologist and vaccinologist Dr. Karine Jean-Pierre, who currently serves as the chief spokesperson for the U.S. government.

Editorial Note: This post first appeared under the title "Booster Nations" on Robert Malone's blog. It was translated by the Rubicon volunteer translation team and proofread by the Rubicon volunteer proofreading team.

There is little point in stewing in one's own, albeit exquisite, juices. That's why Rubikon's world editorial team regularly collects and publishes voices from all over the world, primarily from the Anglo-American and Arab regions. What do critical contemporaries there think about geopolitical events? What ideas do they have for solving global problems? What developments are they observing that we in Europe may soon be facing as well? The view over the edge of the plate is also encouraging, because it makes clear: We are many, not alone!

You are not a sheep

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The way out of fear

Anger can help us move from immaturity to action.

By Andrea Wolf-Schuler

[This article posted on 10/1/2022 is translated from the German on the Internet, Der Ausweg aus der Angst.]

Emotions are integral to our experience of interacting with the world. Over the past two and a half years, one emotion has dominated events: fear. Humans strive to respond to a fear-inducing situation - failing to do so purposefully can paralyze them. We then need an "energy boost" and incentive to get up again. Here we want to show a possibility to draw this energy from another emotion - anger - and to direct it into a constructive direction, into a departure, instead of resigning in helplessness.

Fear

In 2020, the world was struck by fear of a virus and disease as the epitome of the threat of death, of a diffuse threat potentially lurking everywhere. Something fear-inducing, which we cannot (be-)grasp, is much more frightening and monstrous than a concrete object or a manageable fact.

Fear was stirred up and intensified by the media, as we have known at least since the so-called panic paper of the Ministry of the Interior (1); and used to justify measures that we would probably never have allowed so uncomplainingly without this fear. At the same time, appeals were made to our humanity, to our sense of responsibility towards the weaker, to our fundamental being as social beings and to our need for social recognition in a strong group.

And that was not enough, because alongside the fear of death or of the loss of physical integrity, other fears quickly joined in. Of social criticism. Of social exclusion. Of the loss of individual and social freedom. Of the loss of self-determination and - in a new context - of one's own integrity. Of the loss of material security, of the loss of one's job. Added this year: the fear of annihilation in a hybrid to nuclear war and the fear of impoverishment or of losing the fruits of lifelong labor through no fault of one's own.

These fears are directed toward threat scenarios of an uncertain future. They cannot be named or grasped, and it is therefore difficult to actively counter the fear. They are diffuse - and omnipresent. What's more, the probability of the feared event occurring cannot be verified.

In this stress situation, the supposed rescue was presented promptly in all cases:

Fear subject corona/death fear:

A test as a magic wand that makes the invisible threat visible Masks as a protection against one's own illness and to avoid becoming an angel of death unnoticed by others because of "symptomless illness" A "vaccination" as a miracle cure against the threat

Fear topic social position/group embedding:

Strengthening the sense of belonging and the associated security through public commitment to the ubiquitous group opinion and through clear demarcation from critical voices Use of critical voices as scapegoats including simple blame and categorization into the others (as the bad guys/guilty/perpetrators) versus one's own group (us as the good guys/innocent/victims)

Fear theme of threat of war/extinction:

Creating a self-esteem-serving narrative using emotion-triggering associations and demonstrating strength and agency (sanctions and arms deliveries) with reinforcement of group identification, polarization, and complexity reduction

In addition, the regression of the adult population was promoted: taking refuge in an infantile status and relinquishing personal responsibility to superior mother/father instances such as the state, government, media and experts, including unconditional trust in them, obediently following their instructions and worshiping proxy personalities such as Christian Drosten, Angela Merkel or Karl Lauterbach.

This also includes the reversal of responsibility with regard to the relationship of care between adults and children: On the grounds that the latter are a particularly insidious, potentially lethal threat to their elders due to their lack of symptoms, particularly strict measures were enforced for children. Mandatory masks, continuous testing and vaccinations were continued and propagated despite clear indications of their negative cost-benefit ratio.

Fear is an archaic emotion rooted in evolutionary biology, an impulse, an action-guiding reflex that, once evoked, triggers a cascade of bodily and thought processes that result in behavior and are intended to increase the probability of survival in a threatening situation. Fear does not primarily involve conscious thought, the processes of the neocortex, but triggers action in an immediate way.

There are three classic behavioral options in a threat situation recognized as such by the organism: fight or flight in the sense of activation and, as a last resort, "freezing" (playing dead). This is accompanied by a hormonal cascade, which activates the processes of the organism or reduces them to the vital minimum functions.

In an acute situation, this reaction makes sense. However, the damage outweighs when the anxiety and the accompanying reactions of the organism related to the stress system, body and psyche become chronic.

If there is no improvement despite the actions aimed at defending against the threat, a feeling of helplessness and hopelessness can result: The individual stops all actions in anticipation of what is now seen as inevitable.

Helplessness or anger

The feeling of helplessness stops actions that are directed towards a solution of the situation and a reduction of fear. We experience the same with people who try to question. I am thinking of a dear relative, who questions the sense of the measures, but still follows them, because: "I can't change anything".

This clearly illustrates the toxic-paralyzing effect of this feeling, especially combined with a conditioned powerlessness towards superior authorities. We know something similar from constellations of abuse or from the experience of injustice: helplessness leads to passive, sometimes also active submission and thus usually does not lead out of the situation but cements it.

Only when an activating element is added can this be broken. Such an activating element can be anger: Anger as energy that enables resistance and active action against the current situation to overcome it. This does not mean that any form of anger is always constructive; of course, destructiveness can also arise from anger. What is meant, therefore, is explicitly anger, which is used as an activating energy and leads to a critical evaluation of the situation and to the desire for change.

Important for its effect is its embedding and what it is used for.

In other words: Does it result in hatred or a desire for retribution against an external perpetrator or - if the latter seems intangible or overpowering - against a scapegoat? Or does it result in constructive, solution-oriented, liberating action?

If hardship and the acute experience of real existential threat due to massively rising prices increase, it can be assumed that the emotion of anger in the population will also increase.

A constructive path: departure

I see this as an opportunity if anger is used constructively, at least in the long term. For me, this also includes the sometimes painful questioning of old beliefs in confrontation with real experience.

Once again: If anger ends in aimless blind aggression, nothing is gained - anger then only represents another face of fear and reinforces it.

But there is a - constructive, healing - alternative: departure. Departure in this sense means taking responsibility oneself, becoming an adult. To get up again when one falls, to learn from mistakes. Asking yourself: What don't I want? And - much more important: What do I want? Independent of what is socially desirable, of the guidelines and expectations of others. It is essential to develop your own "vision". Even if this may seem illusory or naïve against the backdrop of conditioning into a narrow corridor of options for action that are set as realistic. For it is actually our perception of the world, our world of imagination, that sets the framework for what is imaginably possible and thus also for the goals we dare to set for ourselves.

It is important to ask ourselves about our own values and goals, regardless of the expectations of others or their criticism. And then to take the next step: to act in accordance with our values in the direction of our own goal.

We are only powerless as long as this is our conviction and determines our corridor of action. This is also our choice.

And yes, there are visionary concepts, there are experiences of possibilities beyond the usual. We just need to look for them, beyond the old plate, and exchange them constructively. In particular, we should learn something again that we have lost: to trust ourselves. And to go out from this self-confidence, without triple hedging. In the conviction that we can solve problems when they present themselves.

Naive or appropriate? - A reflection

This is where the manuscript had originally ended. I had submitted the text to a life-experienced friend - she liked it, except for the last paragraph. I would like to take up her criticism here, based on what is, in her own words, purposive pessimistic thinking.

She wrote:

"Because - going into action - that reminds me so of things like: It's up to you, not what can happen to you from the outside. If it goes wrong, YOU are to blame, because you have done nothing. I can't put it any better than that at the moment, unfortunately. It sounds to me like a kind of 'we can do it'. And then - a HOW is not implied. I would find that quite good. The doing and the departure are somehow too vague for me and of a naive 1970s/early 1980s enthusiasm. For me - mind you, just for me - it doesn't fit anymore."

She's right. Nor should we limit ourselves to platitudes, uplifting motivational phrases or even savior fantasies. The realistic prognosis for the near future of ordinary people in this country is frightening, yes. And even though I believe that the economic and social as well as emotional consequences will affect all but a few people, those who are already burdened today will pay first.

On the other hand, I cannot hide the fact that I have been asking myself for years how this self-destructive system can be stopped: A system that always aims at profit for a minority, at the expense of the majority. A system in the course of which destruction takes on ever more monstrous proportions: both the destruction on the outside - in the environment - and that on the inside - mental illness, traumatization, violence. And yes, I have concluded that only a massive cut can trigger a rethinking, and that this may have to be forced, because the profiteers in the nations conditioned on greed and exploitation will not approach this change voluntarily and will also not allow it without resistance - and with profiteers is also meant the citizen who is the beneficiary of this system, for whom the negative consequences of his actions are far away, not tangible and seemingly beyond his own responsibility.

I see the matter of coercion differently in the light of experience. Coercion and oppression do not lead to positive change in the long run. It is like treating symptoms under duress in therapy, which does nothing to change the cause, leads to symptom displacement, perpetuates the suffering, and secures the client for the treating therapist.

But if this break is there, I think it makes sense that we, the affected people, use the situation instead of leaving the action to those who apparently do not intend to put the needs and rights of people outside their community into the focus of their actions. At least not in a positive sense.

And before I act, it can be useful to reflect on one's own values and ideas, possibly even to recognize and dissolve old, limiting, destructive conditioning.

dissolve them. And yes, to develop positive visions - vision not in the sense of illusion, but of a constructive idea of path and goal directed towards the future. Because the question of the goal and the inclusion of reflected values prepare the framework in which actions take place. They thus point the way and widen the corridor of the possible.

And this frees us from helplessness, the absolute victim role, our own immaturity. Whereby such an assumption of responsibility is connected with effort, and also with the risk of making mistakes and experiencing setbacks. Are these experienced as defeats or as lessons to get up and do better, with more experience?

This is what I mean when I write about departure.

There are already many examples of concrete action. For example, networking and exchange is taking place at many levels (2, 3) and there are free offers of help (4, 5) and new, holistic alternatives to old institutions (6). These include support for local farmers, solidarity-based agriculture projects, freely accessible offers to strengthen resilience, but also regional and supraregional unions for joint protest as an aspect of living democracy (7) and simple neighborly help.

In short, a movement away from rigid centralized and externally controlled structures towards regional more flexible projects adapted to the local situation. At the same time, we are not dependent on our old environment, but thanks to modern technology can meet nationwide and across countries, exchange ideas, learn from each other, find models and role models (8).

In this sense: Let us use this situation, this "Window of Opportunity" ourselves, in our sense, consciously! Without guarantee of success and double security, but self-effective instead of helpless and networked instead of alone. Maybe this is then the revolution that is due - also positive for man and nature in the long run (9)?

Sources and notes:

(1) https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/blog/informationsfreiheit/das-interne-strategiepapier-des-innenministeriums-zur-corona-pandemie

(2) https://www.wir-vernetzen-uns.org/

(3) https://menschlich-werte-schaffen.de

(4) http://www.lebensmut-hotline.de/

(5) https://www.wir-vernetzen-uns.org/blog/index.php?blog-entry-list/19-kraftquelle/

(6) https://www.aerzte-hippokratischer-eid.de/

(7) https://leuchtturmard.de/

(8) For example, Vandana Shiva, see https://vandana-shiva.de/

(9) Albrecht Müller, Die Revolution ist fällig, Westend-Verlag, 2020. https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?page_id=64776

Note: I have explicitly refrained from referring to other publications as evidence for each statement - this has, with permission, been of no use for the past two and a half years. I appeal to the own perception and value the individual perception and imagination of everyone, to which, if it is firm enough, an argumentation with contrary foreign thoughts is not able to change anything. My text necessarily reflects an - my - individual world of imagination, as it applies to all results of individual, human thoughts.

Andrea Wolf-Schuler, born in 1979, studied prehistory and early history and then worked as an independent archaeologist on research projects in Bulgaria and Germany. In 2009, she began a second degree in psychology and then worked for several years as a ward psychologist attached to a clinic. Since 2021 she is an independent therapist and accompanies people on their way to self-responsibility, while she consciously turns away from rigid pigeonholing and hierarchical thinking towards an open, empathic cooperation.

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