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https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/03/22/who-is-shaking-the-jar/ A few weeks ago, I saw the above quote in Jeff Thomas’ article Learning from Ants, and it has been reverberating in my mind ever since. It is a perfect analogy for what has been happening in this country for years, with the jar lately being shaken at a rate faster than a Biden vote count increase at 3:00 am in a swing state. Everyone in this country, and the world, is at each other’s throats. Who is shaking the jar? Why are they shaking the jar? Why do they want us fighting each other? If they keep us focused on fighting each other, they believe we will not notice their reprehensible criminality, as they manipulate the masses through psychological engineering and the employment of propaganda techniques to push their desired narrative. https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/03/23/who-is-shaking-the-jar-part-2/ In Part 2 of this article, I will detail the extraordinary efforts by those in power to cover-up the ultimately fatal levels of debt endangering the American Empire, by creating trillions more in debt, and pondering what happens next on our road to perdition. https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/let-them-eat-woke-31706/ Let Them Eat Woke by Simon Black via Sovereign Man On October 6, 1789, a group of French peasants surrounded the country estate of King Louis XVI of France and demanded that he and his family relocate to Paris. The people were sick and tired of the king living the luxurious palace lifestyle at their expense. And, fearing what might happen if he refused, Louis consented to their demand. The French Revolution was already well underway at that point, sparked in large part by people’s disgust with their out-of-touch aristocracy. France had been rendered bankrupt by the late 1700s; decades of costly foreign wars, coupled with endless extravagances by the nobility, had completely depleted the treasury. The government’s solutions alternated between pretending their financial problems didn’t exist, to raising taxes at every possible turn. The nobles hardly noticed. They lived lavishly while passing on the inflation and tax increases to the peasants. French aristocrats were either completely clueless, or didn’t care one bit, that their policies were ruining people’s lives. The Queen, Marie Antoinette, is rumored to have summed up this attitude when she said “Let them eat cake”, in response to hearing how countless peasants were starving. Most likely that story is just urban legend. However there is plenty of historical evidence that she cared far more about her hair and royal gardens than any plight of the French people. Her lavish spending was so famous, in fact, that the French used to refer to her as “Madam Déficit”. And yet— the king, the queen, the nobles— they were the elites. They knew best, and they were in charge of making decisions for everyone else. You know the rest of the story: the royal couple eventually paid for their conceit with their heads. But that didn’t solve France’s problems. Soon a wave of radicals took over and formed a new elite (which became known as the Reign of Terror). And just like the old elite, they knew best, and they were in charge of making decisions for everyone else. This new elite encouraged the population to rat each other out for petty crimes. They printed stupifying quantities of paper money and engineered hyperinflation across the country. France’s revolutionary history is an incredible example of what happens when a tiny, out of touch group of elites manages to seize power and set the priorities for an entire nation. We’re experiencing a version of this today in the West. Prominent media personalities, politicians, tech companies, and self-absorbed social media celebrities, have appointed themselves our cultural nobility and seized the power to dictate just about everything, from how tax dollars are spent, to the words that we’re allowed to say, to how our children are to be educated. It’s astonishing how quickly it happened, and how much has changed. For example, it wasn’t that long ago that the entire purpose of the US military was to fight and win wars… and to be the most lethal fighting force in the history of the world. But today our new elites have changed the priorities. So now instead of the latest weaponry and unit readiness, senior military leaders brag about maternity flight suits, or reducing physical fitness standards in order to be more inclusive. Twenty years ago the military was about shock and awe. Today the priority has become diversity and inclusion. Here’s another example: once upon a time, politicians at least paid lip service to fiscal responsibility. In fact there were numerous government shutdowns and debt ceiling crises in the United States, i.e. political battles to prevent excessive spending, as recently as 2011, 2013, 2018, and 2019. Today, the new elites have changed the priorities. They tell us that the debt doesn’t matter, and the government can spend as much as it wants. And with every new massive spending bill, they’re emboldened to spend even more money. It’s been two weeks since the $1.9 trillion ‘Covid’ bill was passed, and they’re already planning a $3 trillion ‘infrastructure’ bill. Basic fiscal responsibility is simply no longer a priority. Then there’s education, which used to be about—you know—EDUCATION. But now that the new elites have taken control, teachers have kids praying to Aztec gods of human sacrifice in order to expunge their whiteness. Critical Race Theory abounds in schools to teach children they are either victims or oppressors. And the new elite tells us that grading students based on getting the right answer in math class is White supremacy. Then there’s the media— a once-trusted source of news and information. Today, under the new elites, the priority is no longer truth. It’s about force-feeding the narrative they want you to believe, whether about Covid, race, politics, climate change, or anything else. For example, when a deranged lunatic went on a rampage and killed eight people last week in Atlanta, six of whom were Asian, the media immediately reported that the shooting was due to White supremacy. Yet the FBI said there was no evidence to suggest a racial motivation, and even the killer himself stated that he was motivated by his sex addiction. But the media kept pounding the White Supremacy story anyhow. Yahoo News immediately told its audience in a reprinted article entitled “Whiteness is a Pandemic” that Whiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expectancies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people. . . Naturally this is considered to be perfectly acceptable content, and not racist in any way. In 18th century France, people were starving, but the elites who ruled them were so out of touch that the prevailing attitude was, let them eat cake! Today there’s a new elite that makes all the rules. They’ve completely corrupted western civilization. They are fanatics who embrace Marxism, violence, racism, and censorship. And like the French elites before them, they’re completely out of touch with how much they’re destroying the country and people’s lives. Let them eat woke! https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/us-democracy-is-a-facade-there-are-no-effective-constraints-on-elites-behavior/ US Democracy is a Façade: There Are No Effective Constraints on Elites’ Behavior by Ben Bartee via The Daily Bell “Do you remember ’36, we went our separate ways You fought for Stalin, I fought for freedom You believe in authority, I believe in myself I’m a molotov cocktail, you’re Dom Perignon” -Against Me How did the cat get so fat? When I was a public schoolboy, bright-eyed, we sang the anthem every day. I believed there was some entity, some unseen guardian angel, that made the literal and figurative trains run on time. I really believed there was some incorruptible backstop to prevent the bottom from falling out. It’s taken years of watching upper-crust decadence and depravity – in the vein of Caligula — to realize the truth: there is no bottom to the barrel. The elites just do what they want and if they decide they want to hurt you, either through malice or indifference or graft, they will. This is when “defenders of democracy” – increasingly, from the ostensible, self-positioned “left” — will jump in with the well-trodden refrain: “We choose our leaders to represent us – we have a choice!” You have no meaningful choice. As George Carlin, patron saint of calling out neoliberal bullshit, RIP, put it: “Americans are led to feel free through the exercise of meaningless choices. There are only two political parties. There is a reduction of the number of media companies. Banking has been reduced to only a handful of banks. Oil companies. These are important, and you’re given very little choice…. You know what your freedom of choice in America is? Paper or plastic.” High society is “a big club – and you ain’t in it.” Alas, if only such a bleak outlook were just one man’s opinion. Princeton Review performed an extensive quantitative, rigorously data-driven study to determine the essential, answer to the empirical question: does what you and your family want matter when it comes to policy? “When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organised interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it… average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence [over US policy].” –Princeton study, 2014 Bureaucratic palace intrigues aside, the reality is indeed so. The petty managers in each party are permitted to squabble over the trivial but their leash is short. The ruling class allows them leeway only to the extent that they never violate the golden rule: the servicing of power. In 2021 in the US, the primary role of national-level elected leaders is to service power for the crumbs the ruling classes drops from the table. Other professions operate on the same model. Nancy Pelosi, Slay Queen and aspiring ‘Pretty Woman’ – always eager to please her ruling-class masters. The truth diverges from the Mr. Smith Goes to Washington model of self-governance that we (victims of public education) are indoctrinated to accept as an immutable principle of American nature. The government lays it on thick in its “Civics Test” for immigrants seeking citizenship: “In the United States, the government gets its power to govern from the people. We have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Citizens in the United States shape their government and its policies, so they must learn about important public issues and get involved in their communities.” Some people – even moral, decent ones — believe this tripe, even at this late date. Reflexive parroting of the company line is the end-product of public school indoctrination, the war on consciousness waged against our psyches, neurotoxic chemicals in the water and food, and an endless discharge of propaganda via the corporate press. The ruling class maintains its perverted mythology to – in the words of Chris Hedges in his seminal essay Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction – buttress the subservience of the subjugated masses through careful propagandization intended to lure the target (you and your family) into a false sense of agency: “The fiction of democracy remains useful, not only for corporations, but for our bankrupt liberal class. If the fiction is seriously challenged, liberals will be forced to consider actual resistance, which will be neither pleasant nor easy. As long as a democratic facade exists, liberals can engage in an empty moral posturing that requires little sacrifice or commitment.” How apropos. The vestige of authority that the ruling class maintains is a façade predicated on the submission of the subjects it presides over; compliance implies consent. The oligarchs have no contingency that could overcome an iron resistance in a large enough swathe of the population – and, likely, the size of that insurgent swathe may not need be very immense. The exact figures vary, but roughly only 1/3 of the 18th-century American colonists actively challenged the tyrannical British Empire’s claims on the North American continent. No institutional norms are likely to constrain the march to despotism currently underway. As long as they control the military and police, kinetic warfare will not succeed. If ongoing trends of tech censorship continue, organizing resistance is a tall order. The only solution is mass-scale grassroots refusal. Reform is a foregone possibility. The only viable solution is a total global reset – just not the type envisioned by the technocrats at the World Economic Forum. When it’s practical, refuse dehumanizing mask mandates. Take every traffic ticket you get to trial (your Constitutional right to due process). Make your oppression as expensive and burdensome as possible to your masters. Throw monkey wrenches in the machinery. Break unlawful curfews and quarantines. In short, do not comply (DNC). Kill your masters.
