This is divide and conquer 101, the mechanism to achieve the WEF's 2030 goals of looting and destroying the USA in a blaze of hatred against one another so that we will own nothing (they will steel it all) and be happy (or else), and the enlightenment will be disintegrated (no more Constitution to stand in their way). We cannot let them get away with this:
Ten Ways the 1% Are Manipulating You Right Now and Turning Us Against One Another, by Unknown
1) The first manipulation is the illusion of choice. You think you have two parties representing different visions for America but both parties are funded by the same billionaires, vote for the same surveillance bills, approve the same defense budgets, and serve the same corporate interests. The choice you are given is which color tie the puppet wears, not who controls the strings.
2) The second manipulation is emotional hijacking. The news does not inform you, it activates you. Every story is framed to trigger fear or anger or disgust because those emotions bypass your rational thinking and make you easier to control. You are not watching journalism. You are being subjected to psychological operations designed to keep you in a constant state of agitation.
3) The third manipulation is tribal sorting. The algorithm learns what makes you angry and feeds you more of it until your entire worldview is shaped by outrage at the other side. You are sorted into a tribe not because you chose it but because keeping you tribal keeps you predictable and profitable.
4) The fourth manipulation is false scarcity. You are told resources are limited and the other tribe is taking what belongs to you. Immigrants are stealing your jobs. Welfare recipients are draining your taxes. The other party is destroying your healthcare. Meanwhile the billionaire class has more wealth than any humans in history and could solve most of these problems tomorrow if they wanted to.
5) The fifth manipulation is memory holing. Stories that threaten powerful interests get buried or forgotten within days. Exposed crimes result in no consequences. Historical context that would help you understand the present is never taught. You are kept in a perpetual present with no past to learn from and no future to plan for.
6) The sixth manipulation is controlled opposition. The voices you think are fighting for you are often funded by the same interests they pretend to oppose. The outrage merchant on your side of the aisle is playing a character designed to keep you engaged and angry and tuned in while nothing ever actually changes.
7) The seventh manipulation is the Overton window. The range of acceptable opinion is artificially narrowed so that anything outside it seems extreme. Ideas that were mainstream fifty years ago are now treated as radical. Ideas that serve elite interests are treated as moderate common sense. You are not choosing your beliefs from the full range of human thought. You are choosing from a menu they wrote.
8) The eighth manipulation is learned helplessness. You are shown so many problems with no solutions that you eventually give up and accept that nothing can change. This is intentional. A population that believes resistance is futile does not resist. They scroll and complain and feel superior for understanding how bad things are while doing absolutely nothing about it.
9) The ninth manipulation is identity capture. Your political affiliation becomes your identity, and any attack on your party feels like an attack on you personally. This makes you defend politicians and policies that harm you because admitting they are wrong would mean admitting you were wrong, and your ego will not allow that.
10) The tenth manipulation is the most insidious of all: you are manipulated into believing you are too smart to be manipulated. Every person reading this thinks the manipulations I described apply to other people, the stupid people, the brainwashed people on the other side. That certainty is itself a manipulation. The moment you believe you are immune is the moment you become most vulnerable.
Everything that happened to Alex Pretti was terrible. However, there is one fact, many reports have overlooked, that I think says more than just the story of an extra-judicial execution, that occurred at the spur of the moment. After Pretti was on the ground his gun was removed from his belt. Then the CBP person took a step and discharged Pretti’s gun. Right after that someone else shot Pretti ten times.
Does anyone else think that gunshot was a signal to the others that now it was time to kill Pretti because they can show his gun fired a shot to bolster their claim of self-defense?
So, perhaps not a tragic happenstance in the heat of the moment, but a pre-arranged setup for premeditated murder. They knew this was a possible scenario; the time and victim was the only unknown.
And I remember those courageous three civil rights champions.
We all need to step up, whether it is large or small acts, visible or behind the scenes. If we all do something to fight fascism and spread more good, it will have a ripple effect. It is the best way we can honor those like Alex, Renee, Andrew, Michael, James, and the countless others who have fought for dignity, equality, and freedom for all.
Shaun, This is beautifully poetic and is a most fitting eulogy for him. Thank you. And yes, we most certainly will remember, not just him but the others as well, even as we remember what people of color have always known and always proclaimed, "This is what a corrupt system always does!" God/Allah help us all! May we keep the vision alive of what we could be... together.
Thank you so much for this beautiful tribute to this good and so courageous man, Shaun, and also for bringing home to all who read this post exactly what a martyr is. Linking what is inherently courageous and noble, whether in the East or West, rather than the false East/West divisions and lies those in Power and their MSM continuously propagate.
Disgusting --- Trump's currect Gestapo: ICE has reached beyond depraved; Administrative Murder, the responsibility lies at the feet of the Executive Branch: a cesspool of human depravity !
He wasn't killed in the ME, or Europe, or Asia, or Latin America 'fighting for freedom and democracy' at the orders of a President or Congress.
But he fell in a battle FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY though America's media, and most politicians aren't brave enough to admit the truth despite saying those words when they were lies.
And we'll know America is finally living up to its fantasies about what it is when HIS, and all the rest of the dead individuals graves are the monuments to America, and all the Presidents graves abandoned to the winds of time.
For those congress and senate folks not going to run again, STEP DOWN RIGHT NOW❣️. Time for special elections to unblock the gridlock that keeps the LAW OF RIGHT ACTIONS locked up and locked down.
We the people insist and persist. Aho and so it is.
He is absolutely a martyr and should be treated as such.
This is divide and conquer 101, the mechanism to achieve the WEF's 2030 goals of looting and destroying the USA in a blaze of hatred against one another so that we will own nothing (they will steel it all) and be happy (or else), and the enlightenment will be disintegrated (no more Constitution to stand in their way). We cannot let them get away with this:
Ten Ways the 1% Are Manipulating You Right Now and Turning Us Against One Another, by Unknown
1) The first manipulation is the illusion of choice. You think you have two parties representing different visions for America but both parties are funded by the same billionaires, vote for the same surveillance bills, approve the same defense budgets, and serve the same corporate interests. The choice you are given is which color tie the puppet wears, not who controls the strings.
2) The second manipulation is emotional hijacking. The news does not inform you, it activates you. Every story is framed to trigger fear or anger or disgust because those emotions bypass your rational thinking and make you easier to control. You are not watching journalism. You are being subjected to psychological operations designed to keep you in a constant state of agitation.
3) The third manipulation is tribal sorting. The algorithm learns what makes you angry and feeds you more of it until your entire worldview is shaped by outrage at the other side. You are sorted into a tribe not because you chose it but because keeping you tribal keeps you predictable and profitable.
4) The fourth manipulation is false scarcity. You are told resources are limited and the other tribe is taking what belongs to you. Immigrants are stealing your jobs. Welfare recipients are draining your taxes. The other party is destroying your healthcare. Meanwhile the billionaire class has more wealth than any humans in history and could solve most of these problems tomorrow if they wanted to.
5) The fifth manipulation is memory holing. Stories that threaten powerful interests get buried or forgotten within days. Exposed crimes result in no consequences. Historical context that would help you understand the present is never taught. You are kept in a perpetual present with no past to learn from and no future to plan for.
6) The sixth manipulation is controlled opposition. The voices you think are fighting for you are often funded by the same interests they pretend to oppose. The outrage merchant on your side of the aisle is playing a character designed to keep you engaged and angry and tuned in while nothing ever actually changes.
7) The seventh manipulation is the Overton window. The range of acceptable opinion is artificially narrowed so that anything outside it seems extreme. Ideas that were mainstream fifty years ago are now treated as radical. Ideas that serve elite interests are treated as moderate common sense. You are not choosing your beliefs from the full range of human thought. You are choosing from a menu they wrote.
8) The eighth manipulation is learned helplessness. You are shown so many problems with no solutions that you eventually give up and accept that nothing can change. This is intentional. A population that believes resistance is futile does not resist. They scroll and complain and feel superior for understanding how bad things are while doing absolutely nothing about it.
9) The ninth manipulation is identity capture. Your political affiliation becomes your identity, and any attack on your party feels like an attack on you personally. This makes you defend politicians and policies that harm you because admitting they are wrong would mean admitting you were wrong, and your ego will not allow that.
10) The tenth manipulation is the most insidious of all: you are manipulated into believing you are too smart to be manipulated. Every person reading this thinks the manipulations I described apply to other people, the stupid people, the brainwashed people on the other side. That certainty is itself a manipulation. The moment you believe you are immune is the moment you become most vulnerable.
We've been here before.
History lesson.
Force the fight!
https://youtu.be/psC3YOKHLH8?si=1sEBg8Hr4nLTwmRe
Thanks Kat. Glad you shared this.
Everything that happened to Alex Pretti was terrible. However, there is one fact, many reports have overlooked, that I think says more than just the story of an extra-judicial execution, that occurred at the spur of the moment. After Pretti was on the ground his gun was removed from his belt. Then the CBP person took a step and discharged Pretti’s gun. Right after that someone else shot Pretti ten times.
Does anyone else think that gunshot was a signal to the others that now it was time to kill Pretti because they can show his gun fired a shot to bolster their claim of self-defense?
So, perhaps not a tragic happenstance in the heat of the moment, but a pre-arranged setup for premeditated murder. They knew this was a possible scenario; the time and victim was the only unknown.
Fascinating thought
Once more Gaza comes momentarily to Minneapolis and no one should be surprised at this.
In memory of Alex Pretti, martyr.
Absolutely David
Beautiful tribute to Alex Pretti, Shaun.
And I remember those courageous three civil rights champions.
We all need to step up, whether it is large or small acts, visible or behind the scenes. If we all do something to fight fascism and spread more good, it will have a ripple effect. It is the best way we can honor those like Alex, Renee, Andrew, Michael, James, and the countless others who have fought for dignity, equality, and freedom for all.
Absolutely Julie. Thank you.
This is so outrageous!
Indeed dear brother
Shaun, This is beautifully poetic and is a most fitting eulogy for him. Thank you. And yes, we most certainly will remember, not just him but the others as well, even as we remember what people of color have always known and always proclaimed, "This is what a corrupt system always does!" God/Allah help us all! May we keep the vision alive of what we could be... together.
Thank you so much Beverly.
Hey, Shaun. Thanks for spreading the word.
This is, in fact, a minor detail.. however when I checked, it appears this horror was carried out by CBP.
Same bird, just different feather.
You are right
Thank you so much for this beautiful tribute to this good and so courageous man, Shaun, and also for bringing home to all who read this post exactly what a martyr is. Linking what is inherently courageous and noble, whether in the East or West, rather than the false East/West divisions and lies those in Power and their MSM continuously propagate.
Thank you Liana.
Disgusting --- Trump's currect Gestapo: ICE has reached beyond depraved; Administrative Murder, the responsibility lies at the feet of the Executive Branch: a cesspool of human depravity !
Agreed
The real terrorist is in the White House. Now he's going to throw a woman under the bus to hope it deflects our righteous wrath. It won't.
Agreed.
He didn't wear a military uniform.
He wasn't killed in the ME, or Europe, or Asia, or Latin America 'fighting for freedom and democracy' at the orders of a President or Congress.
But he fell in a battle FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY though America's media, and most politicians aren't brave enough to admit the truth despite saying those words when they were lies.
And we'll know America is finally living up to its fantasies about what it is when HIS, and all the rest of the dead individuals graves are the monuments to America, and all the Presidents graves abandoned to the winds of time.
For those congress and senate folks not going to run again, STEP DOWN RIGHT NOW❣️. Time for special elections to unblock the gridlock that keeps the LAW OF RIGHT ACTIONS locked up and locked down.
We the people insist and persist. Aho and so it is.