Although I do agree with this headline, her forgiveness of one another doesn’t account for the lives lost, the jobs lost, the businesses destroyed, livelihoods, addictions, suicides, shaming to extremes I’ve never seen in my lifetime, and the outright denial, nor accountability from those that led us into this.
This was a MAJOR setback and saying, ‘I didn’t know’ was the same thing that the German’s in WWII said when it happened to the Jews. It wasn’t that they ‘didn’t know’, it was that they didn’t care to know. They didn’t care to look into it because they, themselves might get persecuted. The truth was always out there. Just like today
She ends the article by saying that ‘The standard saying is that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.’ I agree with this statement as well… unfortunately, most people never looked back in history to see that this had been done before, and before that, and before that. We’ve been warned that something like this would happen by President Eisenhower in 1961. I’ll let you do the research on that one. Again, unfortunately, most of you won’t.
I pray that we all learned something from this.
I pray that we CAN actually grow from this.
I want to leave you with this…
We are all mirrors of each other. When we are ‘against’ someone else we are really ‘against’ ourselves. Do unto others as you would have done unto you. That statement summerize it all.
Here is the link to the article so you can read this yourself.
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1. The world’s 10 richest men more than doubled their fortunes during COVID-19
The world’s 10 richest people (yep, they’re all men) more than doubled their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion — at a rate of $15,000 per second or $1.3 billion a day — during the first two years of the pandemic.
According to Forbes figures cited by Oxfam, those men are: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault and family, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Ballmer, and Warren Buffet.
2. If they lost 99.999% of their wealth tomorrow, they would still be richer than 99% of all the people on the planet
According to Oxfam International’s Executive Director Gabriela Bucher, if these 10 men were to lose 99.999% of their wealth right now, they would still be richer than 99% of all the people on the planet.
In fact, a 99% windfall tax on the wealth they’ve gained since the start of the pandemic could pay to make enough vaccines for the entire world, help fight climate change, and address universal health care and gender-based violence, while still leaving these men $8 billion better off than they were before the pandemic.3. They now have 6 times more wealth than the poorest 3.1 billion people
The 10 richest men in the world own more than the poorest 3.1 billion people. In fact, they have six times more wealth.
4. The incomes of 99% of humanity fell because of COVID-19
As a result of the pandemic, 99% of the world’s population are worse off because of lockdowns, lower international trade, less international tourism, and other factors.
5. 160 million more people have been forced into poverty
It is estimated that 160 million more people were living below the poverty line — defined by the World Bank as living on less than $5.50 (£4.02) in upper-middle-income countries — than would have been without the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.6. A new billionaire was minted every 26 hours since the pandemic began
The world’s small elite of 2,755 billionaires has seen its fortunes grow more during COVID-19 than they have in the whole of the last 14 years — 14 years that themselves were a bonanza for billionaire wealth. This is the biggest annual increase in billionaire wealth since records began.
7. Inequality contributes to the death of 1 person every 4 seconds
A lack of access to health care, gender-based violence, hunger, and climate collapse is contributing to the death of at least 21,000 people each day, or one person every four seconds. What’s even worse? Oxfam says that’s a conservative finding.
For those of you unfamiliar with this man he is the inventor of the mRNA and DNA vaccines. He holds several patents in the field of gene delivery, delivery formulations, and vaccines: including for fundamental DNA and RNA/mRNA vaccine technologies. With more than 100 scientific publications and over 12,000 citations of his work. He received his medical degree from the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Completed the Harvard Medical School Fellowship as a global clinical research scholar in 2016 and was scientifically trained at the University of California at Davis, the University of California at San Diego, and at the Salk Institute Molecular Biology and Virology Laboratories. There is much more than this. Here is the link to his webpage and CV for you to dig in yourself.
I’ve heard him speak in a few documentaries but honestly never followed him that closely until yesterday when I heard him on the Joe Rogan Podcast. Both he and Joe have received a vaccine at the beginning of the pandemic. When Joe got COVID after receiving his vaccine and used Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine to get over his battle, mainstream media went nuts on him. He became the ‘Horse Dewormer’ guy and was shunned as a conspiracy theorist. Right before this podcast episode Dr. Malone was kicked off of Twitter. No reason was given.
I will be the first to tell you that I lost many friends for my comments on Trump. I still stand by what I’ve said. I didn’t like him. I could go on a rant about why I don’t like him, but that isn’t the point I’m trying to make today. What I didn’t like was that he got kicked off of every social media platform. That is censorship. I didn’t serve as a United States Marine for Americans to lose their free speech. Regardless if I like what they say or not. That’s just not right.
Yesterday I made post about the Joe Rogan Podcast and his guest Dr. Robert Malone. Two people saw it. One liked it, and one didn’t. I was told that I was Shadow Banned. I’ve never experienced this. I’ve always posted things to create conversation, nothing more, nothing less. I’m always open to learning about things that I don’t know, especially when I’ve been confused or when things don’t add up.
None of this adds up to me unless you see where the money is going.
I’ve noticed that we are not trying to find preventative means. Staying inside, not exercising, social distancing are not preventative means. Why aren’t we doing what the Amish have done? Send out a person from their community to get the virus and give it to the rest of their community. They call this Herd Immunity. It works. Why aren’t we encouraging people to get into the gym, to eat right, to lose weight? Why are these not options? Why are people that go to the hospital get put on ventilators, equating a death sentence? Why are these not questions being asked in the media?
Probably my biggest question is why are we taking a vaccine that has no history, no real trials, and where they explicitly state that they are not libel if anything happens to you if you take the jab? Something doesn’t smell right to me. And the next big question I have for you… why would you put something in your body from companies that have a history of killing people and covering it up. Below I will leave you with a link to Pfizer’s lawsuit history.
Despite whatever my family and friends might think… I am not a Conspiracy Theorist. I am not Right Wing, nor Left Wing. I have voted predominantly Green Party most of my life. I am a United States Marine (There are no Ex-Marines.), and I’ve canvassed for GreenPeace, worked with Amnesty International, protested a War, and participated in a War. Subconsciously, I believe, I’ve put myself on both sides of the fence, mainly out of curiosity… or possibly naiveté. When somebody starts talking about ‘their’ party I blow them off like I would with somebody talking about ‘their’ team. I guess you could consider this my disclaimer or that you can’t label me that easily.
The Cancel Culture loves labels.
They love to say who is bad, or who is good when we should be taking each and every person on this planet on an individual basis. Contrary to popular belief… we are all individuals. Everybody has their own ideas, their own dreams, their own beliefs. Some of us were born middle class, some upper middle, some of us rich, and some of us in extreme poverty. Some have been on welfare in hard times only to rise above that, go to college and become successful entrepreneurs. Some have stayed on welfare because they never believed they were enough. Some struggle and work their whole lives. Some follow their dreams at all costs.
You can see that there are infinite variables that make up a human. So why then do we try to label people, or put others in a box of what we believe others should be?
F.E.A.R. (False Evidence Appearing Real)
We are afraid that if somebody isn’t on our team and we don’t gather enough people on our side that maybe the other side might be right? We are seeing this right now with vaccines. Half of the United States believes that the COVID-19 Vaccines are going to save us all, and that the unvaccinated are killing those who got vaccinated.
[I’m going to sidetrack here for a moment.]
When I was growing up, my Mother sent my brother and I to a Born Again Christian Camp called Word of Life. I remember the pressure at this camp to become ‘Born Again’. I succumbed to the pressure and got saved back then only to come home and find out that my team wasn’t that popular in my neighborhood. I ripped up my born again access card and never really looked back. I realized the implications at a young age of how teams work. It’s not that I wanted to be on the other team, it’s more the fact that my gut was telling me a different story. I realized that my gut feelings were what I needed to follow, not other people. This kind of made me an outsider, and contributed a lot to addiction and depression. Maybe I’ll write about that in the future, but right now I need to stay on track.
I see the Cancel Culture the same as when I went to Word of Life all those years ago. You just have to be on their team or you’re the problem. You’re the one creating all of the problems and once you agree with them then the world will turn correctly again.
Being on the winning team is an illusion.
I realized this when years later I found myself in other Countries. I saw really nice people with completely different beliefs. The Christians. The Jews. The Muslims. The Buddhists. The Hindu. All of them had their extremes. All of them had their different sects. I realized that they were all the same if you looked at the big picture. They all want to be loved. They all want their families to prosper. They all want to leave the world better than it was before they incarnated here. I would venture to say that people that don’t get the opportunity to experience other cultures are far more easily persuaded to join a team that thinks they are better than anybody else.
You can’t be objective in 280 characters.
We live in a world now where we don’t take the time to read past the headline. We base our opinions on headlines alone. Most of you that follow me know that one of my many hats that I’ve worn has been that of advertising. Shock value is huge in that industry. The more shocking, the more emotion. The more emotion, the more sales. Nobody remembers boring headlines. How many of you have read a headline and then read the whole article only to find out that the headline had nothing, or little to do with the actual content? Social media platforms have basically trained people to not take the time to look into things more deeply, and unfortunately it has created this culture that we live in now.
What is the solution?
Unfortunately, there isn’t an easy fix. It will take time and patience. It will take all of us collectively to slow down, take the time to understand each other, and be ok with somebody believing something else. A Conspiracy Theory is nothing more than people wanting the truth. When we’ve been lied to and deceived by Big Pharma, Corporations, Banks, Politicians, Social Media platforms, Lawyers, headlines… its human nature to want to see who is behind the curtain or as the band Zebra once wrote…
I started using facebook when I worked for Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. It was a tool that we used to get ‘likes’ for some of the advertising campaigns we were rolling out. I was amazed that it was actually working! I asked myself if maybe this might work for my music and it did! Wow! I was no longer a local musician, I was getting gigs around the country and eventually around the world. It was a blessing…
But somewhere along the line something changed. I believe it was the addiction to being ‘liked’. It was turning into the be all / end all for all of our news, all of our social interactions, and then eventually for our politics. Now it has turned brother against brother. This tool has now become an uncontrollable thorn in our side and will be the death of our species if we keep up this vitriol pitting one against the other.
I don’t care if you are vaxxed or not, if you are gay or straight, left wing or right wing. But, if you are one of those souls out there pushing an agenda or being self righteous I want nothing to do with you. As the Native Americans say, “Never judge a Man unless you’ve walked a mile in his moccasins.”
I challenge you to turn off Facebook, Instagram, Mainstream Media. Take it off of your phones. Yes, it’s a bit dull at first but then you start finding yourself productive in areas of your life that you ‘didn’t have time for’. It’s quite refreshing.
Of course this is easy for me to say and do because I was already in my 30’s when all of this transpired. I didn’t have a celphone until I was in my late 20’s / early 30’s. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be a kid today growing up with all of this bombarding you.
Here’s my bottom line. We are lied to every day. If you follow the money you will not like what you see. I guarantee it. Hospitals care more about the bottom line than people. Politicians care about the bottom line more than people. Big Pharma are the same people that got you addicted to opioids. They’ve paid millions in lawsuits but still the bottom line was greater than a life.
My bottom line is not money. I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life but putting money above people has never been, nor will it ever be my bottom line.
Below is a quote from somebody that I went to Agape with when I lived in LA. He is kind, generous, humble, and most of all… a humanitarian. He is now considered a conspiracy theorist. A term that I hate because it is a very gray area. It seems that you are a conspiracy theorist if you question ‘facts’ that have been put out on Facebook or mainstream media.
“We are so concerned about being ‘liked’ that it stops us from doing our greatest work. You have to agree with me for us to be friends now. You voted for the wrong person? You’re out. So, you protect those ‘like’s’ like you do your money in the bank. So it conditions them to be obedient instead of being brave enough to stand independently and say what’s true regardless if somebody likes it or dislikes it.”
I challenge you to listen to this podcast to the very end instead of just reading the headline and basing your opinion of it as hogwash. I bet 99% of you won’t watch it to the end. For those of you that do I want to hear your comments.
I’m watching the polarization of people who are vaccinated and those that are unvaccinated. I’m watching the social shaming, the hatred amongst families, the disrespect for other human beings in our lives. Is it social media doing this or are we really the virus that Mr. Smith called Morpheus in The Matrix? Are we really inbred with such hate that it trumps any love there might be lingering?
I know all too well how it feels to be called delusional or not ‘following the science’. This is nothing new to me. I’ve always followed my gut when it comes to the injustices around the world. I vote Green even when I’m told I’m throwing away my vote. I support kids like Greta Thunberg even though people say she has been bought and paid for. I follow Native American leaders in communities like Standing Rock even though some will say they are the ones in the wrong. So, yes… I’m used to the persecution. Im used to fighting this battle with the few.
Is it that difficult to see the bigger picture? Do you not see garbage cans flowing over and wondering where it will all go? Do you not see the barges off the coast of NYC filled with garbage? Do you not see the waste from Amazon, Walmart, Target, etc., or do you disregard it so that you have the comforts that you need?
Do you not see big Pharma killing people with prescription drugs as their profits soar? Do you not see these same companies pretending to be our saviors during this crisis?
Do you not see politicians becoming more powerful as we become weakened to their destructive growth? Do you not see them only bowing down to corporations for their money?
Do you feel like you don’t have a voice anymore?
Or is it that you really don’t care?
Keep pointing the finger at everyone except yourself. Keep up the hate. Keep ignoring the real issues and we will inevitably all perish. We won’t need to worry about a virus anymore.
There is a story told by a Native American Shaman about how the 4 leggeds were so fed up with the 2 leggeds disregard for anything that the four leggeds decided to wipe out the 2 leggeds with viruses so that they could finally have peace again. These viruses didn’t work because the 2 leggeds were very resourceful in saving themselves. The 4 leggeds.
Have the 4 leggeds finally found a virus to wipe us out? It’s possible.
The other possibility is that we could finally learn our lesson. We can finally see how our greed, our blatant disregard for our environment, our destructive behavior has made us creatures not worthy of living on this planet.
