Well said. We live in an upside down world. The terrorists are lauded as heroes and we are told that the peace loving freedom fighters are dangerous conspiracy theorists. John Lennon would now be called a domestic terrorist!
Mike, it's exactly what I do!😂 I fry the taters in the Olive Oil with a bit of garlic. Then I throw in the Kale and saute it mixing in the garlic. I serve it with baked Salmon or Chicken.
Bravo. Don't neglect pasta faggioli, or lentil soup, two of my favorites. I dropped my cholesterol 30 points solely with diet after I told some fool MD to shove his statins. Double bravo to your doc for his dietary rec.
6. That the only reason anyone could possibly be critical of the most dangerous impulses of the world’s most powerful and destructive government is if they are a secret agent working for the enemies of that government.
This one is my favorite. People who have known me for decades as a critic of U.S. foreign policies suddenly decided I had become Putin's mouthpiece. Or, alternatively, that I was parroting Tucker Carlson -- whose show I don't watch. I've even been warned that I risk losing my *standing in the community* for sounding like I might be parroting Tucker Carlson.
I often wonder why writers overseas (Caitlin) can go straight to the truth while at home in the US we keep dancing around it. Must be the pressures of Mob-think that keeps us from fully expressing ourselves. Thanks Caitlin for bringing us the unvarnished truth!
Americans on the whole don't travel unless it is in Coach Tours. Check into the best Hotels/herded to the best/awful restaurant/don't talk to the locals. Take 'selfies' showing how brave you were to travel to another country.
I have lived in Sri Lanka and now France......abysmal US Tourists.
We as individuals, as a society, as a culture, as a race of beings have been intentionally misinformed and mislead. We have been presented with a mirage that we have believed in and have run after.
This mirage can be summed up as ‘Western Civilization', beginning around a thousand years ago, although it's roots as a concept and philosophy go back even farther than that.
We have gone down the wrong road and the only thing that will save us from the natural consequences of our mistaken beliefs and ideas is for us to ‘turn around' and head back towards where we once belonged.
Even when we begin to see through the delusion that has been foisted on us, we have to realize how deeply the roots of this deception actually go.
We may recognize it and repudiate it with our conscious mind but it's influence reaches deeply into our subconscious and unconscious mind as well where it is difficult, if not entirely impossible for us to get at it on our own.
The limits of psychoanalysis are obvious. Whereas it's ability to shine a dim light on these depths are understood, it's ability to purify, illumine and actually heal what is lurking in these same depths are questionable at best.
The word, ‘repent’ means quite literally to ‘turn around' from the direction we are going in.
And the ‘Noetic Prayer of the mind in the heart’ is a method of contact and communication with the Creator of the Universe, who sees and has the ability to help us to uncover and change what is so deeply hidden within ourselves.
These two combined with the reception of the Sacraments provided for us in the Orthodox Church, which are the most powerful ‘Spiritual Medicine’ known to Man, work together synergistically as a course of therapy that has the ability to restore us entirely to our Original Blessed State and to raise us up from there into the gods we were meant to become from before the beginning of time.
You might have been 'intentionally misinformed' BUT while you ruled the world and could go shopping/not bother about politics/not vote you became complicit.
Oh, I agree! The word, 'complicity' comes from the same root as the word, 'accomplice' and we are all accomplices to the crimes that have been committed in our names, whether we agreed to them or not. We allowed for them to happen by our general lack of awareness of what was being done by our rulers.
Thus, the necessity of true repentance once we do wake up and find out, a true 'turning around' and heading in the other direction!
I am not sure if you can avoid a Civil War which fills me with horror because you all have so many guns.
The rich are NOT going to back down...they have had it too easy. The mainstream press are complicit.
I don't know what the end result will be but I hope the American people will 'wake up' and learn something.
The British never did and the follow the US like sheep.
My parents were part of the British Empire. IF my father was still alive and he could see the devastation in Britain he may have woken up BUT I doubt it. The British thought they could do without Europe....ha!
The direction that the world is headed in at the moment is towards a brick wall and it is unlikely that enough people are going to turn around in time to avoid the fate that they have created for themselves.
More than likely, it is only at the expense of the drastic reprecussions involved in the crash that a few people may come to their senses.
The thing that we have to realize is that the misdirection that we are suffering from goes much deeper than any sort of political/social/economic factors. Those elements are just the 'tip of the iceberg' and in fact, merely outer symptoms of a more serious disease.
It is the very nature of reality itself and the limits of our potential as Human Beings that we have been consistently mislead about.
Our entire worldview has been misrepresented to such an extent that we have lost touch almost entirely with what our real capabilities are.
What we need is a change of consciousness altogether and that is something that each of us can have, at any time, if we so desire...
We as individuals, and certain individuals of a like mind together, may be able to mitigate some of the worst concequences of the unavoidable difficulties ahead and some may be able to transcend them altogether, but this will demand the conscious and intentional practice of a genuine Spiritual Life.
I’ve always say we took a wrong turning when we stood on hind legs, and until humanity has it’s light bulb moment, we are drawn inevitably down the path of Nihilism
The direction that the world is headed in at the moment is towards a brick wall and it is unlikely that enough people are going to turn around in time to avoid the fate that they have created for themselves.
More than likely, it is only at the expense of the drastic reprecussions involved in the crash that a few people may come to their senses.
The thing that we have to realize is that the misdirection that we are suffering from goes much deeper than any sort of political/social/economic factors. Those elements are just the 'tip of the iceberg' and in fact, merely outer symptoms of a more serious disease.
It is the very nature of reality itself and the limits of our potential as Human Beings that we have been consistently mislead about.
Our entire worldview has been misrepresented to such an extent that we have lost touch almost entirely with what our real capabilities are.
If you have ever seen the movie, 'The Matrix', it provides a fairly good analogy of the 'prison for our mind' that I am describing here.
What we need is a change of consciousness altogether and that is something that each of us can have, at any time, if we so desire...
We as individuals, and certain individuals of a like mind together, may be able to mitigate some of the worst concequences of the unavoidable difficulties ahead and some may be able to transcend them altogether, but this will demand the conscious and intentional practice of a genuine Spiritual Life.
The expense of offense over defense in war is often cited as 3 to 1. Inevitably the US/western aggressive, offensive posture will bankrupt us, morally and financially, a case can be made it already has!
Spot on, thanks. Regarding #4, it's interesting that Rep lobbyists like Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove are freaking out about Kevin McCarthy's defenestration. Gaetz's bid to assert more power for the rank and file members, and therefore voters, obviously threatens the center of power and status quo.
That there's a war waged by a conspiracy of Jews on the oil and motor industries as well as on animal farmers livelihoods who should be allowed to pollute and destroy the environment and treat sentient beings as commodities, with no regulations at all, even if their products, such as dairy, are over produced, no longer wanted domestically, poured into the ground or sold to China (possibly not for much longer).
number 12
That this is far more worrying than the growing open acceptance of anti-semitic fascists in Western govenments.
Logical but 3rd party has never gone far and highly experienced electoral people have written a lot about the structural barriers in the USA system that makes 3 party success almost impossible. That's one spot where the existing duopoly conspire together to thwart 3rd party power. Easier (relatively speaking) to take over the Democratic Party.
The US has not had a real opposition party since its founding. The public is in zombieland so the state has free rein to do whatever it sees fit. With the duopoly working hand in glove with the MIC they are free to engage in coup d'etats, invasion and wars, all in the name of "Freedom".
Well said. We live in an upside down world. The terrorists are lauded as heroes and we are told that the peace loving freedom fighters are dangerous conspiracy theorists. John Lennon would now be called a domestic terrorist!
Never fear. You can get used to it. Or else.
That eating either Borscht or Wonton soup is a deeply unpatriotic act punishable under the Espionage Act.
Get yer freedom fries...
Not healthy. Boiled potatoes sauteed in olive oil is much better.
Ooooh, a little sauteed kale on top....we are making me hungry.
Mike, it's exactly what I do!😂 I fry the taters in the Olive Oil with a bit of garlic. Then I throw in the Kale and saute it mixing in the garlic. I serve it with baked Salmon or Chicken.
STOP ALREADY, IM STARVING!
😂😂😂😂😂
I love foreign cuisine. The Chinese, Vietnamese and Koreans make delicious healthy soups. Same for Eastern Europe.
Tonight I'm making an Italian Tomato Bake with Crusty Bread.
My vegan diet is Dr. ordered to fight my cancer. I won!!!
Bravo. Don't neglect pasta faggioli, or lentil soup, two of my favorites. I dropped my cholesterol 30 points solely with diet after I told some fool MD to shove his statins. Double bravo to your doc for his dietary rec.
Oh yes. I love "Poor Man's Linguine or Spaghetti" with olive oil and garlic. I like to toss in some Anchovies.
Do you post your recipes anywhere?
(Congratulations on your restored health.)
No. I get them from the net. Substack has hundreds of chefs and dieticians posting recipes.
🤣😂🤣😂 I make a damn good pot of Borsht and bought the ingredients last evening.
Off you go to MacDonalds.
Yes! all of you 'off you go to MacDonalds'. Stop Americanising Caitlin's Newsletter. This is not a recipe sharing site.
Oh no! I'm an adult exception to that. I'm aware of those countries, cultures, the damage my country and motherland have done to them.
Only RED borscht!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JpPTqDnUiRg&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thv11.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title
6. That the only reason anyone could possibly be critical of the most dangerous impulses of the world’s most powerful and destructive government is if they are a secret agent working for the enemies of that government.
This one is my favorite. People who have known me for decades as a critic of U.S. foreign policies suddenly decided I had become Putin's mouthpiece. Or, alternatively, that I was parroting Tucker Carlson -- whose show I don't watch. I've even been warned that I risk losing my *standing in the community* for sounding like I might be parroting Tucker Carlson.
Lisa. I will support you wherever you are from another who has been castigated/comments taken down from WAPO
I am Putin's mothpiece according to WAPO comments.!!!!
This is the USA
Thanks, Jenny. You can find me here: https://went2thebridge.substack.com
Not surprised you've written this in bold! Well done to the Caitlin Johnson entity for an excellent summary!
*Johnstone*
I often wonder why writers overseas (Caitlin) can go straight to the truth while at home in the US we keep dancing around it. Must be the pressures of Mob-think that keeps us from fully expressing ourselves. Thanks Caitlin for bringing us the unvarnished truth!
Bigger perspective.
Americans on the whole don't travel unless it is in Coach Tours. Check into the best Hotels/herded to the best/awful restaurant/don't talk to the locals. Take 'selfies' showing how brave you were to travel to another country.
I have lived in Sri Lanka and now France......abysmal US Tourists.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain...
https://youtu.be/YWyCCJ6B2WE?feature=shared
It's too bad that the 'man behind the curtain' that we have to deal with is not as bumbling and good intentioned as the Wizard of Oz!
We as individuals, as a society, as a culture, as a race of beings have been intentionally misinformed and mislead. We have been presented with a mirage that we have believed in and have run after.
This mirage can be summed up as ‘Western Civilization', beginning around a thousand years ago, although it's roots as a concept and philosophy go back even farther than that.
We have gone down the wrong road and the only thing that will save us from the natural consequences of our mistaken beliefs and ideas is for us to ‘turn around' and head back towards where we once belonged.
Even when we begin to see through the delusion that has been foisted on us, we have to realize how deeply the roots of this deception actually go.
We may recognize it and repudiate it with our conscious mind but it's influence reaches deeply into our subconscious and unconscious mind as well where it is difficult, if not entirely impossible for us to get at it on our own.
The limits of psychoanalysis are obvious. Whereas it's ability to shine a dim light on these depths are understood, it's ability to purify, illumine and actually heal what is lurking in these same depths are questionable at best.
The word, ‘repent’ means quite literally to ‘turn around' from the direction we are going in.
And the ‘Noetic Prayer of the mind in the heart’ is a method of contact and communication with the Creator of the Universe, who sees and has the ability to help us to uncover and change what is so deeply hidden within ourselves.
These two combined with the reception of the Sacraments provided for us in the Orthodox Church, which are the most powerful ‘Spiritual Medicine’ known to Man, work together synergistically as a course of therapy that has the ability to restore us entirely to our Original Blessed State and to raise us up from there into the gods we were meant to become from before the beginning of time.
youtu.be/IKJqecxswCA
You might have been 'intentionally misinformed' BUT while you ruled the world and could go shopping/not bother about politics/not vote you became complicit.
Every one of you are complicit.
NO excuses.
Oh, I agree! The word, 'complicity' comes from the same root as the word, 'accomplice' and we are all accomplices to the crimes that have been committed in our names, whether we agreed to them or not. We allowed for them to happen by our general lack of awareness of what was being done by our rulers.
Thus, the necessity of true repentance once we do wake up and find out, a true 'turning around' and heading in the other direction!
Hello Steven.
I am not sure if you can avoid a Civil War which fills me with horror because you all have so many guns.
The rich are NOT going to back down...they have had it too easy. The mainstream press are complicit.
I don't know what the end result will be but I hope the American people will 'wake up' and learn something.
The British never did and the follow the US like sheep.
My parents were part of the British Empire. IF my father was still alive and he could see the devastation in Britain he may have woken up BUT I doubt it. The British thought they could do without Europe....ha!
Be safe.
Jenny
Dear Jenny,
The direction that the world is headed in at the moment is towards a brick wall and it is unlikely that enough people are going to turn around in time to avoid the fate that they have created for themselves.
More than likely, it is only at the expense of the drastic reprecussions involved in the crash that a few people may come to their senses.
The thing that we have to realize is that the misdirection that we are suffering from goes much deeper than any sort of political/social/economic factors. Those elements are just the 'tip of the iceberg' and in fact, merely outer symptoms of a more serious disease.
It is the very nature of reality itself and the limits of our potential as Human Beings that we have been consistently mislead about.
Our entire worldview has been misrepresented to such an extent that we have lost touch almost entirely with what our real capabilities are.
What we need is a change of consciousness altogether and that is something that each of us can have, at any time, if we so desire...
We as individuals, and certain individuals of a like mind together, may be able to mitigate some of the worst concequences of the unavoidable difficulties ahead and some may be able to transcend them altogether, but this will demand the conscious and intentional practice of a genuine Spiritual Life.
I’ve always say we took a wrong turning when we stood on hind legs, and until humanity has it’s light bulb moment, we are drawn inevitably down the path of Nihilism
Jeano,
The direction that the world is headed in at the moment is towards a brick wall and it is unlikely that enough people are going to turn around in time to avoid the fate that they have created for themselves.
More than likely, it is only at the expense of the drastic reprecussions involved in the crash that a few people may come to their senses.
The thing that we have to realize is that the misdirection that we are suffering from goes much deeper than any sort of political/social/economic factors. Those elements are just the 'tip of the iceberg' and in fact, merely outer symptoms of a more serious disease.
It is the very nature of reality itself and the limits of our potential as Human Beings that we have been consistently mislead about.
Our entire worldview has been misrepresented to such an extent that we have lost touch almost entirely with what our real capabilities are.
If you have ever seen the movie, 'The Matrix', it provides a fairly good analogy of the 'prison for our mind' that I am describing here.
What we need is a change of consciousness altogether and that is something that each of us can have, at any time, if we so desire...
We as individuals, and certain individuals of a like mind together, may be able to mitigate some of the worst concequences of the unavoidable difficulties ahead and some may be able to transcend them altogether, but this will demand the conscious and intentional practice of a genuine Spiritual Life.
Spot on! Thank you.
Yes indeed, the domestic enemies of the US Constitution and the rule of law are far more virulent than the foreign enemies of the rule of law.
In regard to dumb things #1, I'm waiting for Russia and China to say 'the poor bastards have us surrounded!'
The expense of offense over defense in war is often cited as 3 to 1. Inevitably the US/western aggressive, offensive posture will bankrupt us, morally and financially, a case can be made it already has!
Spot on, thanks. Regarding #4, it's interesting that Rep lobbyists like Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove are freaking out about Kevin McCarthy's defenestration. Gaetz's bid to assert more power for the rank and file members, and therefore voters, obviously threatens the center of power and status quo.
Outstanding list. Sounds like many people care not a whit for others, but love money and power.
Pretty much nailed it! What to do about it?
Now we just need Bush Jr. reading them to a laugh track and...
Bah-dum-bump
9a. That disinformation is only disinformation when you don’t agree with the narrative managers.
number 11
That there's a war waged by a conspiracy of Jews on the oil and motor industries as well as on animal farmers livelihoods who should be allowed to pollute and destroy the environment and treat sentient beings as commodities, with no regulations at all, even if their products, such as dairy, are over produced, no longer wanted domestically, poured into the ground or sold to China (possibly not for much longer).
number 12
That this is far more worrying than the growing open acceptance of anti-semitic fascists in Western govenments.
Logical but 3rd party has never gone far and highly experienced electoral people have written a lot about the structural barriers in the USA system that makes 3 party success almost impossible. That's one spot where the existing duopoly conspire together to thwart 3rd party power. Easier (relatively speaking) to take over the Democratic Party.
The US has not had a real opposition party since its founding. The public is in zombieland so the state has free rein to do whatever it sees fit. With the duopoly working hand in glove with the MIC they are free to engage in coup d'etats, invasion and wars, all in the name of "Freedom".