PC Brigade Marches Towards A Life of Hard Knocks
By James Fitzgerald One of my favorite low-budget films from the 1980s was John Carpenter’s Escape from New York — an urban nightmare, where the imperial US is perpetually at war and the degeneracy of society results in a whole city being turned into a maximum security purgatory. Presumably the backstory involved protests that got out of control and which led to the annexation of New York’s Manhattan Island. There is a vicarious pleasure in watching characters navigating hellish dystopias — but the footage from the past week of American cities being trashed was gut wrenching. My exposure to these events came through social media and took the form of snippets of footage and photos and two-sentence commentaries. I didn’t look at a newspaper or switch on the TV, because I feel there would be no surprises in their coverage. What quickly became apparent was the incredulity and panic among…
Weeding Out Distractions & Maintaining Focus: 4 Key Focal Points
Those wishing to destroy America, take away our freedoms, and bring us to our knees, are carrying out multiple agendas simultaneously, while creating mass scale distractions as they change policies and legislation in the shadows. It is critical that people learn to weed out the distractions and maintain focus on the key areas in which they can take action. It’s very easy to get lost while following these distractions up stream, downstream, and around the bends, into a never-ending flow of disinformation that they dangle to intentionally suck you in. Controlling emotions while maintaining focus will cut a more concise path. Whereas it’s infuriating to witness the destruction, hear the lies, and feel this level of deception and betrayal, some of what is taking place is completely out of our control. This of course is not in reference to the nighttime protests that are providing cover for the riots. This…
Welcome To A World of Smoke & Mirrors
By James Fitzgerald The Great Awakening, eh? That term gets thrown about social media these days. First time I saw it, I immediately tried to place myself among it; as someone who might be more awakened; someone who has been exposed to more hidden narratives or whistleblowers, or who has met more central bankers and CEOs than most. That’s certainly how the ego complex would view it; as a tangible and competitive advantage. From a spiritual or even quantum perspective, the impulse to place myself in some kind of order of “awakeness” would seem pretty immature and parochial. Afterall it would involve weighing up other people’s “awakeness” to reach a conclusion about my own status. And, as a wise soul once said, “judge not others, lest ye be judged yourself.” So, with me more confused these days than awakened, let me share with you a few anecdotes about people and…
The Solution Has Always Been YOU
The solution, the angle, the edge that everyone’s looking for to beat this tyranny has been here all along. People are always seeking answers, solutions, laws, or someone to lead the way, when the reality is, the solution has always been simple. It doesn’t even require critical thinking, analysis, or research. It only requires a moral compass and integrity. The solution is YOU. This battle for our freedom is a battle within ourselves. The smokescreens have everyone believing it’s a battle of “us against them,” but when you pull on that thread until you can’t pull anymore, and you look in the mirror, at the core of this, it is about resolution within oneself. It is letting go of all outside noise, telling you what to do, how to do it, and what to believe in. It is getting to the root of what prevents you from standing up for…
Citizen Journalists Usher in A Changing of The Old Guard
By James Fitzgerald As I watch the hashtag “Obamagate” spiral upwards on social media – despite the hosts’ technical chicanery to the contrary – it really feels like the collective mind is fracturing into two distinct realities: one embracing the apparent clarity and diversity of revelations around their political and corporate controllers, and other the orthodox brigade who, if they look at all, are becoming irritated by the outrageous claims of this “right wing” and “lunatic fringe”. As a former journalist on national newspapers, I have been privy to the relaxed and comforting narratives about the world that pervade newsrooms. They are always quite simplistic and universally accepted across the MSM. It makes life easy, but dull. The only channels generally on view in newsrooms are the BBC and CNN. It is to these broadcasters that the news editors will look to check they haven’t missed a story before the…
