Monday, December 26, 2016

Should We Listen?


When credible voices raise the same (déjà vu?) warning over a span of three-hundred plus years, should we take time to listen and investigate?

Are we reaping the consequences for not listening?


The Jesuit Order (Full Documentary) (Time 1:01:23) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSzJQN4-iM4&t=2135s

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Note: As we pursue truth in a world filled with errors and deceptions, all of us have mistaken beliefs or opinions in various degrees, thus it takes some discipline to not throw the baby out with the bathwater when we find ourselves offended. So concerning some possible interpretations of points 8 and 9 of the above presentation, remember how displeased the Lord was with Miriam and Aaron for criticizing Moses' marriage to an Ethiopian woman (Old Testament | Numbers 12:1-15). So if we reject everything a person says upon discovering something we perceive to be in error, we drastically limit the possibility of finding truth. Perhaps the best solution when confronting opinions and interpretations that offend is to peaceably stand for justice and equity. Most times, seeking truth seems like a “mining” operation where nuggets are chipped out from surrounding debris. We learn as we go—hopefully open, in all things, to God's justice and equity, however disrupting this might be to our own beliefs and biases.
And also remember God's words:
New Testament | John 3:16 ~ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
New Testament | 1 Timothy 2:4 ~ For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 26:33 ~ ... for [the Lord] doeth that which is good among the children of men; and he doeth nothing save it be plain unto the children of men; and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile.
Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 2:9 ~ Wherefore, he is the firstfruits unto God, inasmuch as he shall make intercession for all the children of men; and they that believe in him shall be saved.
Book of Mormon | Moroni 7:34 ~ And he hath said: Repent all ye ends of the earth, and come unto me, and be baptized in my name, and have faith in me, that ye may be saved.

Saturday, December 10, 2016

A Global Abomination


Wisdom is knowing how little we know.
~ Socrates ~

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin ~
[as in? “I know that can't be true.”]


The Darkest Secrets Revealed - Ole Dammegard & Carine Hutsebaud (Time: 54:34) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0-QGu8lOO4&t=4s

Review also (with discernment): Brice Taylor[1] & Ted Gunderson - MKULTRA Mind Control Revealed: The True Story (Time: 2.02.16) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb3KTQyP3zE

(If these videos are taken down or become dark because of censorship, use keyword searches to perhaps find them mirrored elsewhere.)
Of course, we must exercise discernment when listening to witnesses, but because their stories may sound unbelievable, it does not mean they are entirely false or fabricated.2 Do we think we are so advanced that we cannot have Caligulas, Neros, Herods, Atillas, Hitlers, et al. al. al. in our leadership? Do we not know that sexual addictions and perversities are some of the horrible, persistent déjà vus of every age? that the obsessive pursuit of power, privilege, and gain always becomes psychopathic?

When will we begin to explore the reality that pursuers of power, privilege, and gain have sold themselves into the abominations of old? When will we clue in that the majority of what the elite and powerful say cannot be trusted in any degree? that the “fake news” they are accusing citizen investigators with is, in large measure, horrible truth that will destroy their power, privilege, and gain? Can we not see that? The evidence is abundant if those who are charged with law and order will have the integrity and courage to look and act NOW.

If not, God help us all.

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1. (real name: Sue Ford; referred to in the O'Brien/Phillips book chapters noted in footnote 2 below)
2. Some testimony may be a mix of truths and falsehoods. Suggestibility can impact memory and recall of recovering DID survivors if therapy is mismanaged or corrupted, not to mention the possibility of M-K programmers using actors / impersonators during trauma to so conflate truth with error that all is rejected as false when recalled facts do not mesh with perceived reality upon investigation. As well, even after healing, personality traits, like narcissism or psychopathy, may emerge, again causing truth and error to so intertwine that all is rejected, instead of independently investigating each allegation. Strange how we can fragment and compartmentalize the human psyche, yet reject a witness's entire testimony—even those parts proven to be true if one or more fragments are proven to be false. So, for those reasons, and for others it seems that holding some information in limbo till it can be verified may be advisable. Yet when witnesses continue to surface over decades alleging similar practices of T-BMC, sometimes accompanied by documented evidence, then should we not do all we can to investigate and end such patterns and practices? (For some discussion on therapies, etc, see the Cathy O'Brien / Mark Phillips book, Access Denied For Reasons of National Security: Documented Journey from CIA Mind Control Slave to U.S. Government Whistleblower, particularly chapters 35 (Therapists' Mistakes) & 36 (Thanks for the False Memories).

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Thoughts Banging on My Forehead

(Being Wrong? Being Right? Being Aware? Being Open? Being ... ?)

Reality Check
Several things have been cycling through my mind since a recent Thanksgiving conversation—thoughts about world and spiritual conditions that I have been studying for decades (and which most of the people I know are not prepared to hear).

A friend spoke about transgender persons and his feelings of compassion for them, but I have wondered if understanding WHY our world is experiencing an explosion of gender rejection and of Dissociative Identity Disorders (DID) is even more vital than expressing compassion that does not explore cause. So I address the rest of this post to my friend.

Maybe you don't believe there is a cause, but would you if you knew there have been science and medical programs in place for over 60 years that experimented with dissociation and its usefulness to powers and governments. These were trauma-based mind control projects. One of the most “renowned” was the U.S.-based MKUltra project.1 (Please read the link. It is not too long.)

But even before MKUltra, others knew that trauma could cause dissociation between mind, body, feelings, and memory. Trauma has also been used by pedophile rings (which are rampant worldwide) to fragment children so that they lose the ability to recall repetitive mental, physical, and sexual abuse. Sometimes, fragmented personalities are programmed to adopt various ages and genders, with completely different tastes, preferences, behaviors, and skills; programmed to be unaware of alternate personalities; and to be controlled by handlers with trigger words or events.2 The traumas are often structured to be so fantastical that any inadvertent recall would not be believed; and when necessary, false reports are interspersed and conflated with truth in order to discredit any proceedings. Trauma sometimes begins when children are even infants. And sometimes the fragmentation just happens without an abuser intending it.

Over the years, experimental and other addict- or cult-based trauma programs have been inflicted upon many generations of families, and it is estimated that millions worldwide have become DID victims/DID perpetrators passing down through the generations.

Maybe you want to reject or dismiss all this, as so many do—some out of fear; some out of disbelief because they cannot or will not recognize the reality of such evil; some because the “I want—I think—I feel” mantra has replaced values and principles of empathy, compassion, humility, love, integrity, and truth. Too many say, “Live and let live” without seeming to care how many are not living, but suffering and dying because we live in fear or denial.

I don't know the space you are in right now, but it is highly unlikely that we will ever understand this present world without understanding the prevalence and purposes of trauma-based mind control. Yet, most people, including reporters, academics, pastors, politicians, and professionals of all stripes are utterly naive or dismissive about what has been repeatedly witnessed—the magnitude of mental, physical, spiritual, and sexual trauma that has been, and is still being deliberately inflicted worldwide for a variety of purposes.

As it is, we seem so inundated with opinions, theories, biases, feelings, and tolerances about everything while we ignore credible witnesses and therapists who know and have experienced the realities of T-BMC?

As well, we too often reject, in knee-jerk fashion, anything that is mocked as “conspiracy” when almost the entirety of world history is (by mere observation and study) a déjà vu of conspiracy upon conspiracy of those pursuing or protecting power, privilege, and gain?3

The consequences of trauma are beginning to reap their horrible harvest worldwide; and so few are prepared with the gifts and knowledge of healing,4 or with the power to prevent further horrors. I have wondered in recent months if your life experiences, your creative gifts, and your passion to know and understand things have been preparing you for a time when the consequences of deliberately inflicted trauma finally explode upon the world.

I know you are struggling with understanding this life experience. You are not alone. Thousands have struggled for years, including even Mother Teresa, but this I can witness for myself. In my own decades of searching for answers and understanding, I have listened to and read hundreds of theories and opinions, including from militant atheists like Richard Dawkins (scientist) and Sam Harris (philosopher / neuroscientist) and have found that the dogma, controls, and programming that many reject in religion are manifest in equal degree in nigh every sphere of human knowledge, especially science, medicine, and academics. Many highly educated professionals, in my experience and observation, seem as authoritarian-bound to their secular beliefs as believers are to their sects; and are just as hostile to anything that questions their theories, opinions, vested interests, or standard models. The history of scientific discovery tells that tale. Consider even the recent struggles of Vaxxed and of the Electric Universe/Plasma model; or of the tragedy surrounding Tesla's free energy. It is quite eye-opening to study how often in history, science has sold itself for power, prestige, and profit—YET we don't throw the babies out with the bathwater. Many honest scientists persist against great odds to “prove all things (eventually) and hold fast to that which is good [and true]” (1 Thess. 5:21). Should we do any less when pursing the truths of religion?

For years I demanded a rational God—one who made sense. He never conformed to my demands, so I kept studying and writing and here are two of my explorations that might help as we both try to avoid “being wrong” in the choices we are making.
God is Not Rational5
Man vs. God6
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1. MKUltra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra ;
see also Psychic Driving; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_driving ;
Unethical experimentation in the U.S.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States ;
Nazi experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation ;
Donald Ewen Cameron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ewen_Cameron (particualry see subhead: MKULTRA Subproject 68 near the bottom of the entry).
Explore also pizza-gate, pedo-gate, and on and on around the world of child- and human-trafficking.
2. Many have witnessed to some degree this kind of power used by hypnotists.
3. For example:

PizzaGate is just the tip of the ICEBERG -- Ole Dammegard (Time 44:54) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syPexcGrg_o&t=2s (First 9 minutes deals with JFK assassination information; thereafter with the tragedy of worldwide pedophilia rings.) If these sites disappear under the censorship of the powerful, seek out witnesses and the truth (of things as they really are) in whatever way you can.
4. Here is one man who was gifted in the art of healing: Derek Prince - Basics of Deliverance at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec_NgpvS2oshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjv-oVuOEeA (He has many other sermons of value that are easily accessible on the internet.)
5. at http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2013/11/god-is-not-rational.html
6. at http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2013/04/man-vs-god.html

Saturday, November 26, 2016

Offering Up the Children

by SMSmith

Once
Laid upon the altar of the world
The innocent child of the Hinnom wild
Killed amidst the groves.[1]

Now
Laid upon the altar of the world
The neglected child in pursuits reviled
For things laid up in store.
The ciphered child in perversities defiled
By addicts demeaning, ever demanding more.
And the embryo child in a world beguiled
By rights of all but those.

By Moloch's priests amidst pagan feasts
Laid upon the altars of the world.
In proxied price for the willful sin
Of an idolatrous kin
Who feign in sacrifice.

What of these groves and altars of the world?
And the plague-orphaned child abandoned while
We surfeit in ease
Bottom-line disease
Kill in war
Pursue self ever more.

How long, O humankind,
These groves and altars of the world?

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[1] Old Testament | Jeremiah 32:35, 19:5-6, 7:31; Isaiah 57:5
© 1987 by SMSmith. Some Rights Reserved. See Creative Commons License at bottom of this page.
Reposted here from http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2010/06/offering-up-children.html

Thursday, November 24, 2016

Offering Up the Children*?


Once again, we are confronted with information1 that most will refuse to investigate, if history is any measure. How long before we actually open our eyes, ears, minds, and hearts to end the abominations? How many more Gacys,2 Saviles,3 Sanduskys,4 Epsteins,5 Franklin Cover-ups,6 etc., etc., etc., do we insist on tolerating / ignoring / denying before we finally shout “ENOUGH!” and aggressively pursue the concentric web of abusers and killers as far in and out of the web as necessary to wipe this curse out of the land? Most of these pedophile psychopaths are not lone-wolfers. They run in secretive clubs of suppliers and suppliees; blackmailers and blackmailees composed in diabolic measure of politicians, moguls, and power-brokers of every stripe, even to the highest levels in déjà vu of other times and places.7

So if we think this latest beginning exposé of the criminal left means we don't need to look to the criminal right, then maybe in coming days we will be disabused of that naiveté when “right” secrets begin to filter and re-filter down the airwaves, too. LET NOT this so-called Pizzagate take its place beside the forgotten Franklin Cover-up, but let us finally acknowledge that the criminal corpus of the beast is one, even if the head manifests as two—left and right.

And as the latest guns (labelled “fake news”) are being rushed out to justify censoring damning exposés of the “high and mighty,”8 we may not have much more time for investigative, informative speech! What manufactured crisis, false flag, or orchestrated war will soon descend upon the world in order to bury in fear and chaos this pedo-gate, global horror? Yes, global because every nation has become complicit. So what choice do these psychopaths have in order to protect their positions of power and gain? Our choice as citizens is to repent of our own sins and then to stand united together against every corruption; and under no circumstance to let these pedo-horrors continue or be hidden again.

SO, even if our speech and freedoms are denied, LET US, like Old Testament Daniel, raise our voices in constant, urgent prayer, pleading that every soul (whether to the left or to the right) that is engaged in these evils will be brought to confession and repentance, and if not, to full exposure and accountability:
For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad. (New Testament | Mark 4:22)

Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops. (New Testament | Luke 12:3)
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* Offering Up the Children is the title of a poem written by this blogger in 1987 and first posted online in June 2010 at http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2010/06/offering-up-children.html

1. Watch and decide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNRFTHILY6o (9:31 min.); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_IijMef6hs (9:08 min.); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q2dC_BNciM (10:23 min.); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi6ryNOg8z0 (1.46.06 min.); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vj-xgem6ng (12:21 min.); and if these sites become banned (as “fake news”) despite thorough citizen investigation, search in other places for unfolding information. There are a growing number of sites though some have already been banned as power-brokers attempt to crush the wave that is flooding their way.
See also: “The Child Abuse Cover Up: A Police Whistleblower Speaks...” (Time: 1:01:36) [Alleging conspiracy at the highest levels to protect those who are abusing children] at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-yHHMhFWns ; Hampstead Case is VALIDATED: London Coven Convicted in Wales (Time: 58:59) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-yQF6b3Ppc
See also http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2016/09/no-such-thing-as-this.html ; http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2016/10/how-many-witnesses.html
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Sandusky
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_DeCamp (author of a book about the Franklin Coverup) ; Conspiracy Of Silence: Banned Discovery Channel Documentary (Time 2:43:14) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uBMXOsryd0 (Note: if this documentary goes dark as many exposé documentaries do, just do a search of “Franklin Coverup.”)
7http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2016/09/no-such-thing-as-this.html
8. For example, see how rapidly a “serious” journalistic paper can “investigate” an allegation of crime and declare it to be false without presenting any evidence of falseness: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/technology/fact-check-this-pizzeria-is-not-a-child-trafficking-site.html?_r=0 br />  And notice the influential Washington, D.C. ranking of the pizza owner!!! as stated in the article. (“Mr. Alefantis mingles with other Washington chefs and his establishment helped him to be named No. 49 in GQ magazine’s 50 most powerful people [!!!] in Washington in 2012.”) So where and how do some people get and keep such disproportionate power? Could this British interview give us some clues to investigate: “The Child Abuse Cover Up: A Police Whistleblower Speaks...” (Time: 1:01:36) [alleging conspiracy at the highest levels to protect those who are abusing children] at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-yHHMhFWns ?

Monday, November 7, 2016

The Beginning of Another Reich?


On this day before the final(?) “choice” for the next US president, a real déjà vu from 1930s Europe may be raising its ugly head. Whatever the outcome, HRC or DJT, it does not appear to bode well for the future, thus one wonders whether there might be some prophecy is this view:


Donald Trump and His Uncanny Resemblance to Horror |
The Closer with Keith Olbermann | GQ (Time: 8:13) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT90j5-1rXY
You may like Olbermann or you may detest him, but time will tell, whether he saw the future in the past; whether
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: (Old Testament | Ecclesiastes 1:9)
How long till our awakening? till we finally see and acknowledge how we have brought ourselves (by feeding on red AND blue lies) to this point-of-no-return to “greatness”—no matter the choice?

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

A Coming American Déjà Vu?


Circa 87 BC, a chief judge, governor, and prophet named Alma, lived and recorded his observations of a political event that occurred somewhere in the present-day Americas. These were his observations:1
Chapter 2
1 And it came to pass in the commencement of the fifth year of [the reign of the judges] there began to be a contention among the people; for a certain man, being called Amlici, [arose] being a very cunning man, yea, a wise man as to the wisdom of the world, ... —
2 Now this Amlici had, by his cunning, drawn away much people after him; even so much that they began to be very powerful; and they began to endeavor to establish Amlici to be a king over the people.
3 Now this was alarming to the people of the church, and also to all those who had not been drawn away after the persuasions of Amlici; for they knew that according to their law that such things must be established by the voice of the people.
4 Therefore, if it were possible that Amlici should gain the voice of the people, he, being a wicked man, would deprive them of their rights and privileges of the church; for it was his intent to destroy the church of God.
5 And it came to pass that the people assembled themselves together throughout all the land, every man according to his mind, whether it were for or against Amlici, in separate bodies, having much dispute and wonderful contentions one with another.
6 And thus they did assemble themselves together to cast in their voices concerning the matter; and they were laid before the judges.
7 And it came to pass that the voice of the people came against Amlici, that he was not made king over the people.
8 Now this did cause much joy in the hearts of those who were against him; but Amlici did stir up those who were in his favor to anger against those who were not in his favor.
9 And it came to pass that they gathered themselves together, and did consecrate Amlici to be their king.
10 Now when Amlici was made king over them he commanded them that they should take up arms against their brethren; and this he did that he might subject them to him. ...
12 Therefore the people ... were aware of the intent of the Amlicites, and therefore they did prepare to meet them; yea, they did arm themselves with swords, and with cimeters, and with bows, and with arrows, and with stones, and with slings, and with all manner of weapons of war, of every kind.
13 And thus they were prepared to meet the Amlicites at the time of their coming. And there were appointed captains, and higher captains, and chief captains, according to their numbers.
14 And it came to pass that Amlici did arm his men with all manner of weapons of war of every kind; and he also appointed rulers and leaders over his people, to lead them to war against their brethren.
15 And it came to pass that the Amlicites came upon the hill Amnihu, ... and there they began to make war ...
Chapter 3
1 ... —now the number of the slain were not numbered, because of the greatness of their number— ...
2 Now many women and children had been slain with the sword, and also many of their flocks and their herds; and also many of their fields of grain were destroyed, for they were trodden down by the hosts of men. ...
Chapter 4
1 Now it came to pass in the sixth year of the reign of the judges ... there were no contentions nor wars ...;
2 But the people were afflicted, yea, greatly afflicted for the loss of their brethren, and also for the loss of their flocks and herds, and also for the loss of their fields of grain, which were trodden under foot and destroyed ....
3 And so great were their afflictions that every soul had cause to mourn; and they believed that it was the judgments of God sent upon them because of their wickedness and their abominations; therefore they were awakened to a remembrance of their duty.
In the present political climate, do we see potential “American” parallels? And what about other parallels from history?

Are USians2 descending a wrong road and thinking that the fork ahead gives them a right choice?

Do Trumpers really think:
▪ that a corporate tyrant is, at heart, a freedom-loving constitutionalist?
▪ that this so-called “non-establishment,” outsider candidate is really “non-establishment” when his surrogates and advisers are deeply, far-right establishment?
▪ that a fight amongst GOP (& Dem) narcissists makes this “underdog” a good guy? (or is he really just the guy who is so self-absorbed and -deluded that he is his own cabal-of-one, totally unaware that he is being manipulated by a more cunning cabal?)
▪ that the enemy of all good cannot have a forked tongue (R&D)? a two-pronged approach? two candidates? two fronts? two scenarios? multiple options?
▪ that the exposures from WikiLeaks (deception, intimidation, corruption, manipulation, etc., etc.) cancel the flood (deception, intimidation, corruption, manipulation, etc., etc.) from this man's past and present (and juvenile mouth3)?
▪ that WOE is not in the works when seeing, we see not (what DJT does in real RECORDED time and space) and hearing, we hear not (what DJT really says and thinks from a place of self-delusion)?
Perhaps USians have come to this fake R&D choice-point (a PONR?4), because previous, genuine choices were botched (sometimes without consciousness) in déjà vu of every other great nation.

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1. See Book of Mormon | Alma, chapter 2-4 for the full text which can be found at https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm?lang=eng.
2. Since “American” has been co-opted by the United States (US) despite the equal rights of all North, Central, and South Americans, the citizens of the United States are herein being called USians in the spirit of equality with Brazilians, Canadians, Chileans, Hondurans, Mexicans, Venezuelans, etc., etc.
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS4Lw2yMmuA
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_no_return

Monday, October 10, 2016

Placebo?

Placebo
   “-- a fake treatment [using] an inactive substance like sugar, distilled water, or saline solution --”1
   -- “1 a pill, etc., containing no active substance, given to satisfy a patient or to serve as a control in an experiment ... 2 something said only to flatter or mollify.”2
Considering the recent sugar fraud,3 should we revisit all those science studies that used sugar as the placebo? that refined substance now revealed to be not-so-inactive?

And should we ask ourselves: What else in our cultural consumption4 do we consider as innocuous / inactive, when in consequence it is nothing of the sort? How many, for the sake of gain, are dispensing poisons in disguise?

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1. http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=31481
2. Collins Gage Canadian Paperback Dictionary © 2006 Nelson Education Ltd.
3. Discussed in a previous Déjà Vu ~ Times post at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2016/09/one-more-nail.html
4. —political, economic, social, religious, etc,—

Thursday, September 22, 2016

One More Nail?


One more nail in the coffin of scientific integrity?

How the sugar industry paid experts to downplay health risks (Time: 5:49) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylOpXKOJbOY


Sugar Industry Paid Scientists for Favourable Research (Time: 2:58 min) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRGx9FO6XSs

See also: ● Harvard study in 1960s cast doubt on sugar's role in heart disease, pointing finger at fat  ~ The Associated Press Posted: Sep 13, 2016 8:39 AM ET | Last Updated: Sep 13, 2016 8:39 AM ET at http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/sugar-harvard-conspiracy-1.3759582?cid=Watchdog+67
● CBC: AIH "Sugar Study" at minute 10:12 at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/psychiatric-challenge-sugar-study-catfish-from-the-sky-part-1-1.3760962
So why is it that more and more average Joes and Janes are distrusting science? Is it because our headlines—when truth finally makes it through the fog of money and power—reveal, déjà vu on déjà vu, how science has frequently sold itself (and most of humanity and Mother Earth) down the drain for various forms of drachma?

Here are just a few previous nails (many of which have been considered in other Déjà Vu ~ Times posts):
Vaccine protocols
»   http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/search/label/Vaccines
»   http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/search/label/Vaccines
»    Autism - Made in the U S A - (Time ~ 1:41:10) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwuyxyBUmwY
Geoengineering, etc.
»    http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/search/label/Geoengineering
»    Mining Science at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/mining-science-1.3502958
Psychotropic drugs
»    http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2015/01/washout.html
»    Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging - Full Movie (Documentary) (Time: 1:34:42) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk-ryvdWPgw
Food, Inc
»    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food,_Inc. »    Food, Inc. (2008 Documentary) (Time: 1:55:31) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t8eaVd-DPs
»    http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2012/10/some-choice.html
So next time we average J-Js are accused of being anti-science, conspiracy quacks, let us remind the uninformed—including the willfully blind and deaf1—that many scientists have demonstrated a susceptibility to conceal, distort, and outright lie in pursuit of prestige, power, money, or (perhaps most often) just plain survival.

Remind those too, who blindly trust in the lords of power and gain that science is a discipline of observation, testing, and “confirming déjà vus”!

In the meantime, while so many blind trustees wander down garden paths, perhaps we can take comfort in partial paraphrase of old Isaiah:
~ And in that day [a day of accountability] shall the deaf hear ... and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. ... For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: ... They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn [truth]. (Old Testament | Isaiah 29: 18, 20, 24)
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1. Old Testament Jeremiah 5:21 ~ Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

Friday, September 16, 2016

Strange Things?



Forget Mandela Effects, Think QUANTUM POLLUTION w/Anthony Patch ~ Kev Baker Show (Time: 1:42:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVCzq0TwQI0
How much do we know about what is really going on in our world? Has science become god? Do we care enough to question? to stand up against hubris and tyranny? Are we even conscious of strange things?

Monday, August 29, 2016

Look Out!!!

(Heads Up!)

Here's a recent CBCNews photo and headline (by Kyle Bakx/CBC):
LookUpBanff billboard promotes conspiracy theory about toxic chemtrails: Highway billboard promotes outlandish theory that government is sterilizing populace with sprayed chemicals
By Kyle Bakx, CBC News Posted: Aug 25, 2016 7:00 AM MT. Last Updated: Aug 26, 2016 7:40 AM MT
at
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/chemtrails-david-keith-geoengineering-lookupbanff-1.3733776?cmp=rss&CMP=news-digests-calgary
Now that the facts of geoengineering* are getting wider exposure (and can no longer be ignored), the BIG (and small1) guns are being positioned on the heights to “kill” the real story with denials, distortions, and mockery. And what is the real story? It is a story of power and gain.2 The quintessential déjà vu. Perhaps the oldest déjà vu in the world where those pursuing power and gain will always
1) conspire to achieve their own ends;
2) deny and mock the very idea of conspiracy; and
3) do anything and everything necessary to protect power and gain.3
Does the fact that we continue to fall for these denials make us one of the most unobservant, unscientific, historically unlearned of all the ages? Are we just pretending to be 21st Century sophisticates? And what do we call people who refuse to learn from experience, observation, and history?

Thus, the companion story for those who wish to learn from the past is to be on the “Look Out” for
▪ increasing numbers of industry spokesman, (paid or privileged, duped or deliberate) to deny the history of geoengineering and to praise its glorious future;4
▪ trusted “scientists” who sell science and soul to industry dictates and agendas;5
▪ trusted “journalists” who generate talking-point stories from industry scripts;6
▪ so-called “objective” reports that fail to acknowledge contrary facts, evidence, or credible witnesses;
▪ knee-jerk, emotional tirades against “conspiracy nuts” by those who are, or trust in, monetized spokesmen;
▪ extreme or faux activists spouting fringe or bizarre claims that can be easily mocked or debunked and then conflated with real facts and evidence;7
▪ the bottom-line paradigm that hooks into the nose;
▪ the money trail that leads to modus operandi;
▪ the psychopathy of power and gain.8
So perhaps it would be a good idea to quit trusting in compromised / corrupted voices and to do some personal observation and research. Perhaps one could begin with an honest study of the evidence at
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/
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* Also known in science reporting as weather modification, climate intervention, climate engineering or solar radiation management (SRM), but is mocked under the name “chemtrails” when trying to debunk so-called conspiracy theorists; however if one researches the science terms, one may discover that tinfoil hats are considerably more advanced than blinders and earplugs!
1. E.g., bloggers, journalists, pundits, commentators, dupes, etc., etc. who buy the BIG lies of Big Business—hook, line, and sinker.
2. A power-and-gain story as old as (if not older than) Biblical Cain.
3. http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2016/08/imagine.html
4. E.g., see the CBC Quirks and Quarks interview of January 30, 2016 rebroadcast August 6, 2016 (Time 18:09) at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/quirks-quarks-for-jan-30-2016-1.3425708/the-planet-remade-through-geoengineering-1.3425811  It seems that Oliver Morton is sadly uninformed or (more sadly) complicit when he presents geoengineering scenarios as in-the-future when they are already decades old in practice. The same applies to David Keith whose words and emotional POV seem to have been parroted by Mr. Bakx. How interesting that both Morton and Keith espouse “future” geoengineering technologies, yet utterly reject the idea that geoengineering have been in secret use for years!
5. E.g., the Ideas broadcast, Mining Science from March 24, 2016 (Time 53:59) at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/mining-science-1.3502958
6. Mr. Bakx' story seems to fit industry talking-points to a T+. See also, The REAL Truth Behind 'Chemtrails' published Aug 17, 2016 (Time 4:06) The Young Turks at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEii1_kEoZs
Then consider the insightful CBC Ideas presentation: Imprisoned by Profit: Media & Democracy from May 27, 2016 (Time 53:59) at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/imprisoned-by-profit-media-democracy-1.3601228
7. http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/
8. http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/05/a-plague-of-psychopaths.html
http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/search/label/Psychopathy
http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/12/without-conscience.html

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Bullies & Bravehearts


Once more we are witness to a “David & Goliath” encounter. In that ancient battle, those standing on the sidelines in the valley knew the outcome could change their lives forever. This 2016 incarnation reaches far beyond any valley or nation. It is global and has already had catastrophic impact.

So, if you don't think you have the time or energy to join the bravehearts, at least learn about them in their own words—NOT from the words of mammon-bloated bullies. Here is their story:


Caravan To Midnight - Episode 572 Vaxxed:
From Cover-Up to Catastrophe
(Time 1:38:39) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJxOkclawtc

(When videos are taken down or censored, search the title on YouTube to see if it had been mirrored somewhere else.)
You can listen to this while driving, waiting, eating, cooking, doing chores, or just lounging, but LISTEN*, please. The outcome of this battle may prove to be one of the pivot points of history.

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* Listen to the guests. You may not agree with the host's politics or views, but do not let that sidetrack your attention. If he becomes too distracting, there are many other places to hear this account. Just go to YouTube and search Vaxxed. You can also review:
http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2016/08/imagine.html or
http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2016/08/the-arm-of-flesh.html

Friday, August 12, 2016

Imagine?


If one were a psychopath/sociopath1—i.e., a PWOC2—whose raison d’être was to pursue power and gain, what would one be predisposed to do:
▪ lie?
▪ steal?
▪ cheat?
▪ distort?
▪ falsely accuse?
▪ malign?
▪ short change?
▪ manipulate mankind and markets?
▪ create profit-generating catastrophes?
▪ foment wars?
▪ externalize costs?
▪ convert (corrupt) a good into an evil?
▪ hire shills and trolls to front for one?
▪ etc., etc., etc.
But let us consider: corrupting a good into an evil.

A recent exposé of unconscionable corruption and fraud is profiled in Vaxxed3—a documentary that everyone should watch (as Robert De Niro encourages) so we can make up our own mind as to its credibility. Despite shills, trolls, and dupes maligning this film, it is NOT anti-vaccine. It presents as anti-corruption, anti-fraud, anti-abuse, anti-tyranny, anti-PWOCs; its concern: pro-health, pro-child, pro-family, pro-transparency, pro-choice, pro-safety, pro-uncorrupted science. It is a voice crying in the profit-driven wilderness against vaccine protocols that are:
▪ untested and unproven respecting the safety of vaccine mixtures;
▪ decades past due for review and exposure of timing and effectiveness;
▪ insufficiently and corruptly assessed by oversight bodies;
▪ in critical need of open, honest discussion;
▪ in dire need of punitive accountability.
So, how long till we clue in that mega-corps and their HyPEs4 who swim in psychopathic waters (who stand to lose massive amounts of “power and gain” if truth be told) cannot be trusted in any degree?

Can we not see the déjà vu?—that vaccine “science” has become a latter-day, oppressive tyranny like unto the days of Galileo?—blindly committed to its own preservation, gain, and status quo, whatever the cost to others?

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1. http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/05/a-plague-of-psychopaths.html
2. PWOC = a Person WithOut Conscience, which includes corporate (faux-)“persons” by so-called court decision. See also http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2011/02/econ-005-person.html ; http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/12/without-conscience.html
3. Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe (Time: 1hr. 35 min.) at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5562652/
4. HyPEs = Highly Paid Employees

ADDITIONAL VIEWS AND COMMENTARIES: As always, watch, listen, and learn with discernment.
● VAXXED Documentary Explored with Filmmakers on Antidote (Time: 50:58 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KrpK0rbl9w
● VAXXED DIRECTOR ANDREW WAKEFIELD BREAKS SILENCE ON VACCINE VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN AND CDC COVERUP (Time 12:49 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=titN2bZYlUU
● Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe (Time: 1:31:43) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gepyvumlS-8
● FULL Vaxxed Coast to Coast AM Interview Bigtree, Wakefield & Hooker (Time 1:18:39) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG6ZHT0L8rs
● Robert De Niro on Pulling 'Vaxxed' From Tribeca Film Festival (Time:5:01) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eHZVqDbdEc
● Robert De Niro, Tribeca and the censorship of the VAXXED documentary (Time: 26:35 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFAGViYJ_VI
● UN VAXXED A Docu Commentary for Robert De Niro (Time 1:26:04) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM_rTjKdegw

Saturday, August 6, 2016

Inevitable?


What happens when an economy (national or global) is based on a system that promotes psychopathic behaviors? If one doesn't believe that corporate capitalism favors psychopathy, one has not been reading headlines of late or one has a very short and selective memory.

Review:
▪  A Plague of Psychopaths? at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/05/a-plague-of-psychopaths.html
▪  Capital Punishment at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2015/10/capital-punishment.html
▪  Mayday? Mayday? Mayday! at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2015/05/mayday-mayday-mayday.html
▪  TransAlta Culpa (Again)? at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/08/transalta-culpa-again.html
▪  How Long Till We Get It??! at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2009/08/how-long-till-we-get-it.html
But there may be hope.

Read:
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason
Listen to:
The End of Capitalism a “CBC Ideas” podcast at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-end-of-capitalism-1.3334355 (Time 53:56 min.)
So, indeed—how long till we finally acknowledge that:
▪  capitalism's highest rewards go to people without conscience (PWOCs)?
▪  if we keep doing what we have been doing—pursuing power and gain at the expense of each other—we will not survive?
▪  what goes around, will come around?
So for those puzzling about how a corporate tyrant like Donald Trump* could rise politically as far as he has, perhaps we need only look at the system DT has used, abused, and profited from for decades.

Perhaps our love affair with corporatism has brought us to this inevitable, political choice! and the inevitable “impending doom” (whether right or left), unless we awake to the realities of our competitive, psychopathic system.

PS: Do not assume that Socialism is the only alternative. It is equally corrupt and bankrupt. There are other options that have been explored in other posts.

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* The pure face of corporate capitalism?
http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/search/label/Socialism
http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2009/12/economics-of-jesus.html
-- http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2013/12/gods-economy-christmas-perspective.html
-- http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/06/gods-economy-is-it-possible.html
-- http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2015/08/course-correction.html
or peruse the labels:
-- http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/search/label/EconomicsOfJesus
-- http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/search/label/God%27sEconomy
or Google: “gift economy”

Saturday, July 16, 2016

Area 25?


If you
▪ don’t know about “Area 25”;1

▪ are one (or know a loved one) who can’t “snap out” of melancholy or depression;

▪ are seeking greater understanding of mental illness and mental health;
these broadcasts  from “Ideas with Paul Kennedy” might prove enlightening and life-saving.
Wit's End, Part 1 (54 min.) at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/wit-s-end-part-1-1.3641153

Wit's End, Part 2 (54 min.) at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/wit-s-end-part-2-1.3654204

Note added October 28, 2016: Perhaps an “area” to consider more than the physical Area 25 is the spiritual area (arena) explored in a recent post, titled “We are Legion???” at http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2016/10/we-are-legion.html.

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1. “Area 25” is dealt with beginning circa minute 44:46 of Wit’s End, Part 2.

Thursday, June 16, 2016

“Imprisoned by Profit”


Recently, on “Ideas with Paul Kennedy,” the subject was “Imprisoned by Profit: Media and Democracy”1 which can be listened to here.2 In that episode, we are confronted with yet another voice crying in the wilderness of corporatism and bottom-line. But the story is not just about media. As we listen, we can hear the déjà vu in almost every arena that profit touches: science, education, business, medicine, health, construction, food, finance, fashion, employment, entertainment, religion, government contracts, etc., etc.

So let's ask ourselves: How many values and principles do we compromise or sacrifice outright for the sake of profit? Perhaps we should ask ourselves this question on a daily basis. Would that daily query change anything about the way we think and live?

How long before we recognize that the only way to truly be free from the corruptions of profit is to embrace the gift economy?3

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1. The discussion was with “world renowned Indian Journalist Palagummi Sainath ... [who] believes the media around the world is, for the most part, imprisoned by profiteering and political constraints.”
2. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/imprisoned-by-profit-media-democracy-1.3601228 (Time: 53:59 min.)
3. Gift economy: Google the term or begin here: http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2013/12/babylon-boomerang.html ; http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/06/gods-economy-is-it-possible.html ; http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2013/12/gods-economy-christmas-perspective.html


Monday, June 6, 2016

Fog of Stupidity?


Stupidity*
   noun
       - an idea, act, or expression that shows a lack of good sense or judgment


“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”
―Albert Einstein

“Human beings always[?] do the most intelligent thing … after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

Which brings us to 1) the bathroom uproar; and 2) to a tangentially-related matterthe US political landscape. First, let us consider

The Bathroom.

Here we are, living in a world of increasing violence toward and objectifying of women (the evidence fills our headlines1), yet we pretend that gender-neutral, multi-stall bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms will not attract the worst kind of deviants on the coattail of tolerance for transgender and gender-variant persons. There may be nothing to fear from the latter, but the former will not be long in abusing the naiveté and romanticism of the most liberal-minded. And do not misinterpret: I am not equating transgender with deviants. I use “deviant” to describe sociopaths/psychopaths of every gender (or variant) who live without conscience vis-à-vis their fellow human beings.

So, this open invitation may seem charitable and compassionate:
Please use the restroom that feels most comfortable to you
but in amended quote of Bertrand Russell:
“A [deviant] man's report of what a [tolerant] man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand [or justify].”2
The University of Toronto has already experienced such an “understanding.”
University of Toronto Dumps Transgender Bathrooms After Peeping Incidents3
So how about we actually:
▪ use our heads;
▪ consider centuries-long and current observations of human nature and gender-dynamics;4
▪ remember that the world is FAR from a level playing field of moral development;
▪ quit pretending that our “high-minded” solutions will change human nature;
▪ quit pretending that the “low-minded” are not part of this picture;
▪ inform ourselves about porn addiction statistics5 and the manifest dangers for others;
▪ admit how quickly memes6 (especially inappropriate ones) can become viral—like the recent obscene, public harassment of many female TV reporters;
▪ acknowledge that we are in the midst of a plague of psychopaths7 and sex-addicts who aren't going away any time soon;
▪ acknowledge that the increasing violence toward and objectifying of women (and increasingly children and men) does not bode well for sharing gender-neutral bathrooms (in their present or any multiple design) with strangers of the opposite sex;
▪ realize that genderless restrooms will not secure a safe, comfortable place for anyone because an open invitation allows everyone to be followed or confronted in any restroom by any bully or deviant;
▪ quit playing into the manipulations and machinations of social engineers;
▪ consider the safety, privacy, and feelings of EVERYONE.
Does this have to be so divisive and pandora-like? What is so intolerable about maintaining gender-specific, multi-stall washrooms for those who are OK being gender-specific as we seek to accommodate other needs by adding gender-neutral / family-friendly, lockable rooms for the private use of anyone who wishes to use them (including anyone gender-specific). Many sites already have these genderless, private facilities. But to pretend the entire, happy, costless solution is to rip the gender sign from the door (as Stephen Colbert did8) is to be naive at best and ____________ (?) at worst; or, in words from The Peter Principle:9
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” ―Laurence J. Peter
And to those who think that normalizing men in womens' restrooms does not compromise safety, feelings, and/or privacy, consider this:
if a woman walks into a womens'-designated restroom and finds a man (or men) out-of-place, she can rapidly exit and report it without feeling she is being intolerant or impolite;
compared to:
she walks into the only available restroom labelled gender-neutral and encounters the very same, but if her instincts warn of danger, she now battles with social expectations and judgments.
Don't we already have too many “polite,” scarred women who didn't heed instinct?

And what of a man's wish for privacy? Does he want some stranger with her 4-year old daughter barging past his urinal?

In fifty years, at some historical review—if we manage to survive this age of tolerating stupidity (as in geoengineering, CERN, HAARP, GMOs, psychotropics, corporatism, Objectivism, NINJ loans, fiat money, media-complicit propaganda, science-for-hire, etc., etc., etc.)—will our descendants label the first two decades of the twenty-first century as an age of full-blown idiot-savants?—the prelude to an age of darkness?

As we are out of space and time for topic #2, here are three brief questions for the “right” half of the entire wind-blasted, despoiled

US political landscape.

How in the world can citizens fantasize that this corporate tyrant (with his history, mendacity, and bully-posturing) will lift a finger to save anything of the Constitution or its Bill of Rights or to make America “great” again? If ever there was a time of “seeing they see not and hearing they hear not,” it must be this age of blind ambition (within and about both parties).

Has the face of Babylon ever been so transparent in any candidate, ever? But no! we remain fixated on Socialism as if that were the worst enemy!! Maybe we should take time to review what God had to say about each.10

It seems far too many don't care to honestly inform themselves about the truth of their tragic state of the Union, both to the right and to the left. Do we really think that a choice between two great evils is really a choice??

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*The “stupid” quotes are from http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/stupidity.html and http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/stupidity. Here are a few extra:
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. ―Albert Einstein
“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.” ―Jim Butcher, Vignette
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” ―George Carlin
“The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”―Harlan Ellison
“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” ―Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
“This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.” ―Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
“It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.” ―Franz Kafka
“The earth is a great piece of stupidity.” ―Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.” ―Napoleon Bonaparte
An American prophet even wrote this observation to a newspaper editor in 1833:
Mr. Editor:—Sir, … For some length of time I have been carefully viewing the state of things, as it now appears, throughout our Christian land; and have looked at it with feelings of the most painful anxiety. While upon one hand I behold the manifest withdrawal of God's Holy Spirit, and the veil of stupidity which seems to be drawn over the hearts of the people; upon the other hand, I behold the judgments of God that have swept, and are still sweeping hundreds and thousands of our race, and I fear unprepared, down to the shades of death. With this solemn and alarming fact before me, I am led to exclaim, "O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night." … I think that it is high time for a Christian world to awake out of sleep, and cry mightily to that God, day and night, … (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Deseret Book Co., 1976, 13.)
1. ▪ How Washington is trying to stop daily street harassment of women by Meagan Fitzpatrick, CBC News posted May 22, 2016, 5:00 AM ET at http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/women-harassment-washington-1.3587568?cmp=rss&cid=news-digests-canada-and-world-morning
▪ Catcalling happens to most women between the ages of 11 and 17 by Radhika Sanghani, 9:50 AM BST, 29 May 2015 at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11637697/Catcalling-Women-sexually-harassed-on-the-street-from-puberty.html
▪ BuzzFeed writer’s harassment just the latest example of why Twitter is broken for women by Shane Dingman - Technology Reporter, The Globe and Mail, Published Monday, Feb. 22, 2016 6:25 PM EST) at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/harassment-of-buzzfeeds-koul-shows-how-twitter-is-broken-for-women/article28845004/
▪ Harassment at work: 52% of women report bullying by Katrina Bishop, Wednesday, 2 Apr 2014 | 9:22 AM ET at http://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/02/harassment-at-work-50-of-women-report-bullying.html
▪ Workplace Sexual Harassment at http://www.aware.org.sg/training/wsh-site/14-statistics/
▪ Twitter Is Bringing In Reinforcements to Help Fix its Harassment Problem by Valentina Zarya, February 9, 2016, 1:34 PM EDT at http://fortune.com/2016/02/09/twitter-online-harassment/
▪ Sexual harassment toward female sports reporters is far too common at http://www.si.com/more-sports/2015/08/16/female-sports-reporters-sexual-harassment-norwood-teague-rio-olympics-ryan-seacrest
▪ Thousands protest violence against women in Argentina after 3 girls slain, The Associated Press, posted Jun 03, 2016 11:59 PM ET at http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/argentina-niunamenos-protests-violence-women-1.3616373?cmp=rss&cid=news-digests-canada-and-world-morning
See also footnote 4 below.
2. ORIGINAL QUOTE: “A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.” ―Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
3. ▪ University of Toronto Dumps Transgender Bathrooms After Peeping Incidents by Pardes Seleh at http://www.dailywire.com/news/330/university-toronto-dumps-transgender-bathrooms-pardes-seleh
▪ University Of Toronto Gender-Neutral Bathrooms Reduced After Voyeurism Reports, The Huffington Post Canada by Jessica Chin, posted 10/06/2015 5:43 pm EDT at http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/10/06/u-of-t-bathrooms-voyeurism_n_8253970.html
▪ See also: The Case Against Fully Shifting To Gender Neutral Bathrooms at http://socawlege.com/the-case-against-fully-shifting-to-gender-neutral-bathrooms/
4. ▪ Sexual assault in the United States military at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault_in_the_United_States_military
▪ Sexual assault in the Canadian Forces at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault_in_the_Canadian_Forces
▪ Military sex assault and misconduct investigations increase in 2015 by Murray Brewster, CBC News, posted May 24, 2016, 5:00 AM ET at http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-sex-assault-misconduct-canadian-forces-1.3592501?cmp=rss&cid=news-digests-canada-and-world-morning
▪ More women alleging harassment want to join lawsuit against RCMP by Natalie Clancy, CBC News, posted May 31, 2015, 2:00 PM PT at http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/more-women-alleging-harassment-want-to-join-lawsuit-against-rcmp-1.3089534
▪ RCMP's recent history of harassment, abuse and discrimination by John Paul Tasker, CBC News, posted Feb 18, 2016, 7:27 PM ET at http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-sexual-harassment-history-1.3453413
5. ▪ Internet pornography by the numbers; a significant threat to society at http://www.webroot.com/ca/en/home/resources/tips/digital-family-life/internet-pornography-by-the-numbers
“The societal costs of pornography are staggering. The financial cost to business productivity in the U.S. alone is estimated at $16.9 Billion annually; but the human toll, particularly among our youth and in our families, is far greater. ¶ According to Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D, psychologist and former Deputy Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary, “two recent reports, one by the American Psychological Association on hyper-sexualized girls, and the other by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy on the pornographic content of phone texting among teenagers, make clear that the digital revolution is being used by younger and younger children to dismantle the barriers that channel sexuality into family life. ¶ Pornography hurts adults, children, couples, families, and society. Among adolescents, pornography hinders the development of a healthy sexuality, and among adults, it distorts sexual attitudes and social realities. In families, pornography use leads to marital dissatisfaction, infidelity, separation, and divorce.”
▪ Pornography Statistics: Annual Report 2015 at http://www.covenanteyes.com/pornstats/
6. A meme is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme
7. Psychopaths: http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/10/public-enemy-1.html
http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/05/a-plague-of-psychopaths.html
http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/12/without-conscience.html
http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/12/the-pity-ploy.html
8. Colbert Tests Trump’s Claim About The Cost Of Gender Neutral Bathrooms at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/colbert-tests-trumps-claim-about-the-cost-of-gender-neutral-bathrooms_us_57471210e4b0dacf7ad41abf
9. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle ~ Quote: The Peter principle is a concept in management theory formulated by Laurence J. Peter in which the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate's performance in their current role, rather than on abilities relevant to the intended role. Thus, employees only stop being promoted once they can no longer perform effectively, and "managers rise to the level of their incompetence."
10. Do your own research, but you can begin here: http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/12/deception-inc.html ; or here http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/search/label/Socialism

Monday, May 23, 2016

The Truth about Ruth?

(and doubting Thomas!)

"Trudeau elbows MP" (Time 1:19 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqCY8cZGxc
Even when reasonable people watch the same video, opposing points of view emerge.1 Case in point is the Canadian House of Commons fracas of May 18, 2016. Here is how I see it:
Several NDP MPs were game-playing in the aisle of the House. The Conservative Party Whip, Gordon Brown, appeared to be “it”—lamely trying to breach a barricade of intentional NDP bodies while a wide aisle of open sailing lay to his left. But then, can we really fault him? for how—in the name of politics?!?—can we expect a conservative, right-wing Whip to look to the left when left-wingers are blockading his right?

In any event, our (ex-schoolteacher) Prime Minister lost his patience and inappropriately intervened to part the intransigent waters for the lackadaisical Whip, so to speak. Thinking perhaps to establish order, our PM ended up being disorderly himself and inadvertently elbowed a hovering NDP team-player, Ms Ruth Brosseau, in the chest. She reacted in pain (a very brief OWW—watch the video), but seemed to immediately recover in order to proclaim her injury.

Some have alleged her injury was on par with an equivalent male injury, but should one not ask: If such were the case, would she not have been clutching her injury instead of immediately gesticulating about it?

And how enlightening it might be to hear the exchange with her leader Thomas Mulcair which has been edited out of almost all the media coverage, but can be partly seen (but not heard) in the above video. The look on her face and backward glance as she strode from the chamber seems more of a “catch me if you can.” She did not appear in shock or trauma, but to be escalating the play-out of the game.

The game, it seemed was to create disorder, tension, and delay2 and when matters escalated beyond NDP's wildest imagination, the knee-jerk déjà vu was to point all four fingers at someone else, while trumpeting shock and awful outrage.
So this is why I am doubting Thomas as well as the “truth about Ruth.” Thomas' bulk was a large portion of the blockade. Did he add a nudge to the fracas as one viewer believes?3 Did his political instincts immediately recognize opportunity? a golden chance to escalate the accidental injury / offence from the briefest of OWs to dumping a load of “violence against women”; and thereafter trusting in the media  and the populous (via repetitive, edited clips) to run everything to its hypocritical end?

I am doubting Thomas too, because his verbal explosion seemed intent on escalating what His Leadership had provoked through his “school of fish” blockade. (This does not excuse our PM, but neither does our PM's action exonerate Mr. Mulcair and his milling colleagues.)

I am doubting the truth about Ruth as well. Her videoed behavior; her jovial participation in the blockade; her statement: "I am a tough woman, I know how to stand up and deal with situations, [...] I was just shocked ... I was overwhelmed,"4 seems theatrically overblown to maximize damage, especially considering her past employments as an assistant manager of a campus pub and later as a Pier 21 bartender.5

If she means that this accidental encounter in the House was more shocking and overwhelming that any pub or bar encounter, then the truth about Ruth is more about gaming than honesty.

Perhaps we shall know the full truth if we ever get unedited access to audible audio and to all angles of the entire kerfuffle. In the meantime, let us pray that all parties can be as forthcoming and apologetic as our PM.

(And by the way, I didn't vote Liberal or NDP. I voted for what I thought might be the lesser of three evils, but then again, how does one really know in these days of theatrics and gaming.)

P.S. Though I have never seen “Game of Thrones,” it seems more and more that the world's politicians are all playing that game—where opposing sides are each seeking to ascend on the one and to flush on the other. Oh, déjà vu!

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1. ▪ "Justin Trudeau's elbowing incident leaves House in an uproar" at http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-conservative-whip-1.3588407
▪ "What the prime minister did was supremely dumb, but so is the reaction - Michael's essay" at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/elbowgate-the-trump-effect-inattentional-deafness-gore-vidal-1.3589053/what-the-prime-minister-did-was-supremely-dumb-but-so-is-the-reaction-michael-s-essay-1.3589059
▪ "PM Trudeau grabs Conservative MP Gord Brown" (Time 3.22 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oG1Dw0B6S8
▪ "Trudeau in heated exchange on floor of the House of Commons" (Time 5:16 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg3f0Ae8V3o
2. "Elizabeth May calls Trudeau ‘elbowgate’ accidental, calls on parties to be ‘more mature’" (Time 3:02 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84iG8jgZExM
3. "Trudeau Elbows NDP member after being Nudged by Tom Mulcair into Brosseau" (Time 4:34 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb4u6Y957us
4. "Ruth Ellen Brosseau target of personal attacks since being elbowed by Trudeau" at http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/brosseau-trudeau-elbowing-attacks-1.3590066?cmp=rss&cid=news-digests-canada-and-world-morning
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellen_Brosseau

Monday, May 16, 2016

Are We Getting There?


Circa 7 to 5 BCE, two prophets, named Helaman and Samuel, lived and recorded their observations of the social, political, and religious affairs of a nation located somewhere in the present-day Americas. These were their observations:*
▪ contentions did increase, insomuch that there were wars throughout all the land among all the people ...
▪ it was this secret band of robbers who did carry on this work of destruction and wickedness. ...
▪ and there was a great famine upon the land, among all the people ...
▪ For the earth was smitten that it was dry, and did not yield forth grain in the season of grain; and the whole earth was smitten ... that they did perish by thousands ...
▪ [And it came to pass after a brief period of repentance, peace and prosperity], there began to be much strife. ...
▪ And it came to pass ... there were a certain number of the dissenters from the people being stirred up to anger ... therefore they commenced a war with their brethren.
▪ And they did commit murder and plunder; ... hiding themselves that they could not be discovered, receiving daily an addition to their numbers, inasmuch as there were dissenters that went forth unto them.
▪ And thus in time, yea, even in the space of not many years, they became an exceedingly great band of robbers; and they did search out all the secret plans ...;
▪ Now behold, these robbers did make great havoc, yea, even great destruction among the people ...
▪ And it came to pass that it was expedient that there should be a stop put to this work of destruction; therefore they sent an army of strong men into the wilderness and upon the mountains to search out this band of robbers, and to destroy them.
▪ But behold, it came to pass that in that same year they were driven back even into their own lands. ...
▪ And it came to pass ... they did go forth again against this band of robbers, and did destroy many; and they were also visited with much destruction. ...
▪ And the robbers did still increase and wax strong, insomuch that they did defy the whole armies ... and they did cause great fear to come unto the people upon all the face of the land.
▪ Yea, for they did visit many parts of the land, and did do great destruction unto them; yea, did kill many, and did carry away others captive into the wilderness, yea, and more especially their women and their children.
▪ Now this great evil, which came unto the people because of their iniquity, did stir them up again in remembrance of the Lord their God.
▪ And thus ended the eighty and first year of the reign of the judges.
▪ And in the eighty and second year they began again to forget the Lord their God. And in the eighty and third year they began to wax strong in iniquity. And in the eighty and fourth year they did not mend their ways.
▪ And it came to pass in the eighty and fifth year they did wax stronger and stronger in their pride, and in their wickedness; and thus they were ripening again for destruction.
▪ they do harden their hearts, and do forget the Lord their God, and do trample under their feet the Holy One—yea, and this because of their ease, and their exceedingly great prosperity. …
▪ O how foolish, and how vain, and how evil, and devilish, and how quick to do iniquity, and how slow to do good, are the children of men; yea, how quick to hearken unto the words of the evil one, and to set their hearts upon the vain things of the world! …
▪ Yea, how quick to be lifted up in pride; yea, how quick to boast, and do all manner of that which is iniquity; and how slow are they to remember the Lord their God, and to give ear unto his counsels, yea, how slow to walk in wisdom's paths! …
▪ they do not desire that the Lord their God, who hath created them, should rule and reign over them; notwithstanding his great goodness and his mercy towards them, they do set at naught his counsels, and they will not that he should be their guide. …
▪ they have set their hearts upon riches; …
▪ if a prophet come among you and declareth unto you the word of the Lord, which testifieth of your sins and iniquities, ye are angry with him, and cast him out and seek all manner of ways to destroy him; yea, you will say that he is a false prophet, and that he is a sinner, and of the devil, because he testifieth that your deeds are evil. …
▪ But behold, if a man shall come among you and shall say: Do this, and there is no iniquity; do that and ye shall not suffer; yea, he will say: Walk after the pride of your own hearts; yea, walk after the pride of your eyes, and do whatsoever your heart desireth—and if a man shall come among you and say this, ye will receive him, and say that he is a prophet. …
▪ Yea, ye will lift him up, and ye will give unto him of your substance; ye will give unto him of your gold, and of your silver, and ye will clothe him with costly apparel; and because he speaketh flattering words unto you, and he saith that all is well, then ye will not find fault with him. …
▪ the more part of the people remaining in their pride and wickedness, and the lesser part walking more circumspectly before God. …
▪ And there was but little alteration in the affairs of the people, save it were the people began to be more hardened in iniquity, and do more and more of that which was contrary to the commandments of God, …
▪ the people began to harden their hearts, all save it were the most believing part of them, … and began to depend upon their own strength and upon their own wisdom …
▪ And they began to reason and to contend among themselves, saying: …
▪ That it is not reasonable that such a being as a Christ shall come; …
▪ And many more things did the people imagine up in their hearts, which were foolish and vain; and they were much disturbed, for Satan did stir them up to do iniquity continually; yea, he did go about spreading rumors and contentions upon all the face of the land, that he might harden the hearts of the people against that which was good and against that which should come.
So, as we scan the landscape—from Brasília to Washington and back (and beyond)—here is the question: Are we on course for another “American” déjà vu?

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*See Book of Mormon | Helaman, chapters 11-16 for the full text which can be found at https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm?lang=eng.
Glenn Greenwald on the hypocrisy of Brazil's political crisis (Friday May 13, 2016; Time 10:31 min.) at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-285-trump-tabloids-greenwald-on-brazil-hamilton-s-gatekeeper-pr-stunts-gone-wrong-and-more-1.3580796/glenn-greenwald-on-the-hypocrisy-of-brazil-s-political-crisis-1.3580827
Review almost any US headline or news report or review: 1) Rose-Colored Specs? at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2015/03/rose-colored-specs.html ; 2) Faux-Rogue Repeat? at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2016/01/faux-rogue-repeat.html ; 3) Whitewash? at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/11/whitewash.html ; or 4) most of this whole, sad Déjà Vu~Times series.

 
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