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https://merylnass.substack.com/p/from-national-security-to-biosecurity/comment/57082532

"A topic that is virtually never allowed to be addressed within the hallowed halls of academia is any suggestion that the official narrative of 9/11 may not be entirely true. Self-respecting professors will not only avoid this topic like the plague, but will also prohibit anyone from discussing it in their presence, as if fearing they could be stigmatized as a “conspiracy theorist” by association. Whenever I raised pesky questions about 9/11 with my ex-husband, a scientist and professor at a top-ranked university, his curt reply, “I don’t believe in conspiracy theories,” ended the conversation. Kind of a bizarre thing to say, coming from a scientist, isn’t it?

But if inquiring minds persist, what should a principled professor do? What would Johan Galtung do?

On February 17 this year, the visionary mediator, writer, researcher and father of Peace Studies, Johan Galtung, transitioned to the ancestors, prompting heartfelt accolades from many whose minds he ignited and lives he touched, including this one by my adopted Burmese brother, Zarni, who recently joined Galtung as another worthy nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Galtung’s consistent goal was positive peace, not just the absence of war but presence of dignity, uplift and self-determination for all people, where inevitable conflicts can be transformed creatively and nonviolently. Always practical, he issued these five commandments for conflict transformation:

Try to see a conflict from above: the actors, their goals, their pursuits, their clashes. Including you. You may need outside help.

Try to be evenhanded. Try to see yourself or the other side of yourself as clearly as you see the others. Again, you may need help.

The legitimacy test: be judgmental about goals and pursuits, ends and means, including your own. What is legitimate–legal, compatible with human rights, with basic human needs–what is not?

Look at all those legitimate goals and pursuits and put your joint creativity to work: what are the minimum changes needed for a compelling vision, with maximum accommodation of all legitimate goals?

Enact that vision. And if it does not work, back to No. 1. Try again. And again…and again… Perseverance is the key."

--from

The Johan Galtung Approach to Taboo Topics

https://propagandainfocus.com/the-johan-galtung-approach-to-taboo-topics/

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BTW...I've interviewed Johan Galtung twice! You can check the archive.

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May 30·edited May 30Liked by Geopolitics & Empire

Good interview. Worth noting that AmazingPolly used to (still does?) work for Media Matters (other oddnesses surround her as well) - so I'm not at all sure that she doesn't belong in camp 2 herself - or at least is a deep undercover infiltrator into camp 3.

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Thanks. I recently noticed oddities with "Polly"...I find it odd that she obsessively spends so much time attacking others...there's a place for that...but how much is too much? And multiple occasions where her accusations were sloppy and some basic facts were wrong, and she never corrected herself. And now she's pushing gnosticism which really bugs me...particularly because I think she had previously identified as Christian....

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I hadn't picked up on the Gnosticism angle - sort of stopped listening to Polly after uncovering a bunch of info (this link covers some of it pretty well: https://www.hopegirlblog.com/2024/03/19/full-disclosure-pollys-government-psyop/).

But I entirely agree that gnosticism is deeply concerning - it seems to be a common thread which runs through a lot of occult activity. And huge numbers of figures who would fall into the "approved alternative narrative" camp seem to have gnostic, or at least gnostic-influenced belief system connections (e.g. New Age, Scientology, ARE etc.).

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Yeah...it's unhinged behavior...but what is really strange...it seems as if chaos agents are fighting chaos agents...controlled opposition is fighting controlled opposition, lol...that is mind boggling...

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May 31·edited May 31Liked by Geopolitics & Empire

Some of it is very likely deliberate - establishing credibility in the same way as the chaos agents who "fight" the mainstream media. However some of it is likely accidental - the occult works through deception - convincing people to do something for a purported reason when the real reason is something else. So many of these agents are decieved - at least to some degree - about why they are doing what they are doing, who they work for, and who is on "their" team.

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My thoughts exactly! Some are compartmentalized...and also, let's not forget the simpleton grifters!

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Outstanding interview - thank you.

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Well, I'm tempted to ask... Is there any good news?... but more importantly... What are those of us to do who are cognizant of what is transpiring?

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I don't see much good news, sorry! (Apart from the good news that Jesus Christ brings us!). What to do? Don't have much to offer their either. We know the usual: do what you can where you're at. Apart from that, grab some popcorn and enjoy the show?

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And What a show it will be!

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May 24Liked by Geopolitics & Empire

Of the academic world he is one of the few "David versus Goliath" warriors out there. Great interview!

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These emergencies are artificially created by the pathocracy, because they know their time is ending. It is their last stand. They have accelerated it because they know they are losing.

People think Stalin and Mao were following solutions from Marx but Marx didn’t really have solutions because he died before he could come up with them. He was good at diagnosing problems though.

As Marx describes:

"One capitalist always kills many. Hand in hand with this centralisation, or this expropriation of many capitalists by few, develop, on an ever-extending scale, the cooperative form of the labour process, the conscious technical application of science, the methodical cultivation of the soil, the transformation of the instruments of labour into instruments of labour only usable in common, the economising of all means of production by their use as means of production of combined, socialised labour, the entanglement of all peoples in the net of the world market, and with this, the international character of the capitalistic regime."

The "socialised labor" and "instruments of labor only usable in common" described by Marx perfectly describe the internet/world wide web, which is the latest and highest expression of this process.

He observes:

"Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated."

So what has been happening with the capitalist meltdowns of 2001, 2008, and now is that this integument is bursting asunder. The captains of international finance capital have known since at least 1867 that such things happen on a regular basis. They know that these crises are getting worse because of the advanced nature of socialized labor. What they fear is that they as the expropriators will be expropriated. That's why they are literally eliminating workers and enslaving those remaining. They have done their best to hide themselves and their reasons, but things are becoming increasingly clear to people.

My opinion is that the perpetrators of this medical fraud and tyranny have known for generations that automation will make the vast majority idle, economically dependent, and looking for a way to change things, in other words, revolutionary.

They like us as sort of cute pets or farm animals, but revolution is an existential threat to them so they will do anything including perpetrate genocide to prevent it.

Things have come to a tipping point now with the internet and resulting financial chaos, so they know now this is their last chance at survival.

It is their emergency, not ours.

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The Covid insanity was unleashed because *the yellow vests were winning*.

I'm pleased to see David Hughes gets this.

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Insightful conversation. Thank you. Once society accepts the legitimacy of bogus wars based on big lies and legislation to be passed that is increasingly oppressive, an apparatus is put in place to label dissidents as terrorists and silence them. This is tragic and happening now. The whole system is predicated on deception and disguise. Blind allies and controlled oppositions are constantly created to distract and misdirect the masses. It is a military tactic that enables the war machine to keep the majority of the population in the dark about what is actually happening.

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Well said. This is why the truth must penetrate like an arrow, or perhaps a nuclear weapon, into the heart of a control system that is wholly premised on deception.

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